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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S. D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors.
CEDAItTOWN, GEORGIA, MONDAY, APRIL U), 1876.
VOL. II. NO. 43.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Ah execution quite out of the usual
order of legal destruction in thin
try in announced to Jake place at Salt
Lake on the 22d of June. A murderer
in to lw idiot inMend of hanged, the laws
of the territory |rarmitting the ghantly
choice between these methods of making
hin exit. Tho rille team may yet dis
play* the rope, anil with marksmen who
understand their business we shall not
be under the necessity of adopting Mr.
Murwood’n horihle improvement in
Tin: French hygiene commission has
made a report to the Paris municipality
in iexpect to cremations The report sets
forth that if the system of common
craves is lobe continued cremation would
offer grrat sanitary advantage,
com mission foresees, however, that legis*
lalive olwtacles would arise, its the do
slruction of Ixxlies would prevent the
detection of certain crimes. If adopted,
the commission thinks cremation should
Is* made optional, and nil autopsy should
ls> made in every case where it is
sorted to.
Tiip. first pun* glucose made in this
country is being manufactured at the
glucose works in this city. The demand
for the article by confectioners nlohe, in
the United States, is immense
sources of supply heretofore have lieen
l'ranee and Germany, where glucose
made from potatoes. Here it is the |i
duct of corn wlndly. It is pleasing to
the taste as honey. The product!'
grajs’! sugar and glucose o|rans a lie
partment for Iowa corn. The capacity of
the works here is MM) bushels per day.
This branch of manufacture bids fair to
become of iinmeiiHc inijsirtaiieo to the
state nnd country.—/favfn/*trt (fuwa)
( iazctle.
Tiip. French miniatcruf marine rejsirta
a gradual falling off in (lie sardine fishe
ries, owing to the inadequate sujqily of
bait, tho roe of codfish fmfli the A inert
can fishorio* having heretofore lraen retted
on for that purposo. it has been found,
however, that grnssliojqters jioiiiiilcd into
a pnsto imitate the roe so cxnetly that
tho most knowing of the sardines cannot
distinguish the difference; and accord
ingly the FreuPh government has im
ported large quantities «f ihe insects
from Algeria iif.jvrdvr to try the^ngw
ball off a largo scale. Should the exper
iment prove an ton l try success the grass
hojqicr jinddem which has so puzzled
the western agrieiilturisl may Ik* coiishl
ered solved.
Tiik I/oiidon Daily (News jiuhlislu^
the following synopsis of tho annual pro
duce of gold and silver from all sources
for the bust twenty-five years
quinquennial average |>rod nation of gold
from 1852 to 1850 wns £29,»00,(KM) j from
1 W»7 to 18(11, £2-1,<100,000; from 1802 to
1800, £22,700,000; from 1807 to 1871,
£28,000,0(8); and from 1871 to 1870. £20,-
100,(MM), thus showing a steady decrease,
whilo the opposite i« the case with silver,
viz.: 1802-’50, £8,100,(MM); I857-T»l, £8,.
2(M),(MM); 1802-’00, £9,9(M),(HH); 1807-71,
£10,000,000; and 1871 70, £18,IKK),000.
The News attributes the groat fall in
silver, which amounts to thrcc|rancQ
in the nipee, or aliout twelve jrar cent,
in India, to its increasing •lisiise, while
the reverse holds giswl for gold.
Mn. Disraeli, who is admitted hy
Englishmen to Ira one of the most effec
tive parliamentary s|*eakers of the last
two generations, has one |>eruliarily that
might Is* imitated with advantage by the
legislators of this country. Hy far the
larger projmrtion of his sjiccchcx, includ
ing many of the more brilliant, have not
exceeded twenty minutes' duration. It
has lraen ascertained that, the Old Testa
ment was written with 5,012 words, that
Milton used only 8,(MM) words for the
making of his poems, and that Slinks
pearo employed only 15,000. Tho moral
of these figures is that if there are, com
paratively speaking, ho few words in the
Fnglish language, a man who talks for
two hours on a single subject falls under
the grave suspicion of vain rejictition,
not to say causeless rankling.
North Carolina claims not only that
a jxirtion of her people adopted the first
declaration of independence of Great
Britain, over a year lraforc the famous
declaration of the colonial congress, hut
that the first victorious fight of the revo
lution was fought ami won by North
Carolinians on North Carolina soil. This
was the battle of Moore’s creek, fought
on the 27th of February, 177(1. The
royal forces engaged in this battle were
mostly Scotch Highlanders who hail set
tled in North Carolina, ami who had for
their leaders chieftains who fought in the
bloody battle of Culloden. They were
commissioned by Jonah Martin, the royal
governor of North Carolina, and directed
to put down the “rebels nnd traitors"
who had raised the standard of revolt.
They numbered about 1,600, while the
whigs numbered 1,000. The tones were
utterly routed. In 18/>7 the anniversary
of this battle was celebrated. In 1850 a
monument was erected; and this year
the centennial was celebrated withnpjiro-
printe ceremonies.
LATEST NEWS.
NOI'TM ANII WIST.
Additional telegnuna from Fort Fet-
lerinnn state that General ('rook's vl
over Cruiy Horse was a complete one
tlmt ninny of the Indinns who escaped
starve, ns nlMhcir provisions, ammunition
etc., were destroyed.
The im|NMtcbincnt articles preferred
against Governor Ames in thu Mississippi
legislature have been withdrawn, Ante
signed his office nnd U mice more a private
citizen. President Stone of thu senate has
been recognized ns acting governor.
Columbus, Ga., claims the jiosition of
the I SI well of thu south. She is now
■ling 55,000 spindles nnd 1,000 looms, besides
ninny iron nud other industrial enterprise
Thu city wiih destroyed in 1850, nnd all the!
have hccu replaced siuce with souther
Money.
The hog cholera is In coming a matter
of serious concern out west, thu terrlldu
ages of tliu disensu rendering it a subject of
grave consideration alike for produce
consumer. The Illinois state hoard of ngri-
enlture has just taken steps to gather nil the
information possUde as to the nature and
noises of the disease, and the various :
ods of Ircnting it, for the information of
breeder* and others who are experimenting
the hope of finding a remedy for the mal
ady, or a preventive.
General Merritt, just returned from
his cnvu’ry rninmnnd in the lllaek Hills, has
been interviewed,nnd says, iu brief, that the
gold exeitemeut is nil awful delusion;
people are there already than could
find remunerative digging under any cironm-
stances; that In-yond l/irnmic thu ndvciltiir-
; on an Indian reservation, have no
protection; that produce is high and hun
dreds w ill lie very likely to starve to dentil
this very spring; that the snow is still dr
the ground and the streams frozen oi
with ice so thick that they wilt not tlmw till
June; that going to the lllaek Hills at nil is
u preposterous folly, and that the working
up of the excitement iu order !o tempt peo
ple w ho have failed in cities to go into it ns
a forlorn hope is “nil Infamous trafllc."
General Merritt nays he met ns many return-
going—miserable, hungry, disap
pointed creatures.
KANT.
11. I*. lingers, receiving teller of the
Fulton bank, Brooklyn, linsabsconded, being
a defaulter to tho extent of twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
Thomas W. l'ijicr, formerly sexton of
Die Warren street church, Boston, nnd eon-
■d“Of the murder of Mabel fining, hi
-tmlMIng «>n the lIHd of May Iasi, bun
been soulAUM-d to be hanged. ,
llywlcck's famous stallion, llumole-
loilian, died at Chester, N. J., Sunday night,
d about 28 years, lie was nlre of the
st noted and rnliinhlo trotting stock in the
roitKION.
Fifty thousand dollars
covered from the wreck
iir Heldller.
d Die German
Customer—* 1 What did yon think of
the bishop’s sermon on Sunday, Mr
Wigs by • Hairdresser—“Well, really,
sir, then* was a gent a -citin’ in fron to’
me as ’nd ins ’air parted that crooked
that I couldn’t 'car a word !”
Many lives were loftt hy a recent ter-
rilde railroad calamity nt III, France, caused
hy the breaking of a bridge. Thirty bodies
have already been recovered.
The I/mdon Times’ Berlin Hjicciul says
it two mure HI. Petersburg journals—the
(Joins and Dm Vrdonioiti—assure Die n
Helavoniaiis that although Russia is hardly
ii position to succor them immediately,
she will neither coerce hy violent in ensures,
low another power to coerce them,
neournged by this, the smith Helavoninns
is expected, keep up the existing rev-
olulionnry spirit until it ends iu Dll) annihi
lation of the sick man.
Telegrnphid advices from Mexico indi
te a crisis lit Malninorns. The Mexican
ucrnl summoned the iin-rclmiitx of that
ity to liis office and gavo them to understand
that they would lie forced to cmuc down
ith $.'100,000, to put the city in a state of dc-
against tho revolutionists, who lire ap
proaching it, ten thousand strong. One
chant was thrown into prison for non-
pliiuice. American merchants there
e been so enormously taxed Dint they
have been compelled to resort to an appeal
o the I’nilcd States consul for protection.
The siuation in Mexico is becoming seriously
interesting.
Amid the Herzegovina l mu hies, a new
complication has arisen in Turkey. Hith
erto Die Christian subjects of the hiiILuii
have been exempt from militury duty, hut
required to pay a special tux iih an equivalent*
The war spirit is up among tiie Christians,
nud they now refuse to pay the tn/, offering
their military services in lien. The patri
arch of Constanlinople is reprdsanled iu en
couraging this change of front on Die part
of his spiritual (lock, who l»rt«e their demand
on a recent proclamation of the porta, prom
ising (Item perfect equality with Mohamme
dans. The Turkish government will not
listen to the change, because it dare not
trust Christians iu the army, and the latter
w ill have a chance to fight the tax-colletorv,
if not the rebels,
The I/mdon Times hopes that the
ministry may yet he better advised than to
persist in recommending to the queen the
assumption of empress of India. It de
clares it inis been unfcigiiedly alarmed by
the rapid decline in the authority and repu
tation of the government since the begin
ning of the present session. It does' not
pretend to any special affection for the min
istry, hut it cannot help seeing that the op
position is thoroughly disorganized, and that
the energies of the other members are ex
hausted, while the younger men are chiefly
remarkable for an immaturity of mind which
threatens never to ripen, and Die attempt to
form a government out of such materials
would threaten mischief to the country.
Even those who think its fears fanciful nnd
overstrained must hesitate to push this new
title forward when they understand that it
does in fact provoke discontent.
niMRLLAXRora.
Gen. Sherman has made up hi« mind
to return to Washington, and make it the
nrmy headquarters. -Secretary of war, Judge
Tuft, bus rcqiisted this, and Sherman
plies.
O’Donovan Busan informs a reporter
that there is now no Fenian iiiovemeiit «
foot, hut that money is rained to keep up
system of *• skirmishing.’’ "It would be in
teresting,” says the New York Herald,
know what share of this 'skirmish’ fund
goes to Mr. Uclmunico.”
CO N G11E88IONAL
NMNATK
In the senate, on tho‘27th, Mr. Hpo
ccr, from the committee on District of (’
lutnhia, reported hack the petition of c<
ored citizens, praying that Die 1-lth of April
he set opart as a holiday for government
ployes, favorably, accompanied with a joint
resolution providing that all persons employ
ed iu the various departments in Washing
ton ho granted a holiday oil the 1-lth of
April, 187t), to attend to the unveiling of the
Lincoln monument, in l.iuenln park, Wash
ington. Passed. The senate then proceeded
to thu consideration of the consular and di
plomatic bill. The question was taken
the first amendment proposed by the sen
nmuiUtco,nn follows: For salaries of cnvi
xtraordiunry and ministers plenipotenlii.. .
to Great Britain, France. Germany and Bus
sin, fixed hy the house at $14,050, committee
moved to strike out “$11,050” and insert
$17,570,” and the senate ngreed
It. * —
- jsloi
adjourned
lii the senate, on tho 28th, Mr. Ed
munda called up Die hill
Hholfon, of Mississippi, of political disabili
ties imposed hy the fourteenth aiurndment
Die constitution. Passed. Mr. Frcllug-
huysen called up Die senate hill of the IJltli
lo amend the Hlh section of Ihe net to e
tahlisli judicial courts of the United State
approved September 24. 1"81». A debate
ensued, lint the morning hour expiring, Die
hill w ent over, nud tilts glialr laid before Ihe
senate Ihe consular and diplomatic Mil ns
Die regular order. The question recurring
restoring Italy, which was stricken out
hy the house, on a nay and yea vote It was
stored. The next HiiiQiiuincut, restoring
vcrul ports which had been stricken out
hy the house, was taken up. Messrs. Slier-
man and Hamlin urged Die necessity of
forming to existing litw, nud spoke ngaiusl
nil principle of engrafting new laws
upon appropriation hills; pending which
t into
session, and
>u adjourned.
In.tho* Minnie, on tho 2S)th, Mr. Alli-
ii,|rnni Die committee on Indian allairs,
reported favorably nil senate hill In author-
tnry of the interior to deposit iu
|hu Uliilod Slates treasury all sums now held
by him, or which ho may hereafter reee
trustee of tho various Indian tribes
■otiiit of Die redemption ef United Stales
bonds or other stock and securities belong
ing to the Indian trust funds. The hill
also provides that Dio United Ala tea shall
puy five per cent, per annum interest
^Spirals*di I‘mined, Ttv» scii
ronslderntion of the consular nnd
liplmnntic hill. Mr. Wallace spoke in op.
position to Dm restoration rtf appropriations
cut down hy the house. Tho soiinle then
proceeded to ronsider the ainendinenls pro
posed hy the ooiniiiltleo oil approprinlions,
ere agreed lo. The hill wan
i a yea and nay vote—85 to 17.
(In i
;p< .
h-ged frauds in the recent elections of
Mississippi wns taken up, and inndc the un
finished business. The senate went into ex-
utivc session, and adjourned.
In tin* Honntrt, on tho 80th, Mr. Hto-
‘■twin presented a memorial from (he legis
lature of Kentucky, asking congress to Like
setion in -relation to the rase of K. 0.
mden. Referred. Mr. Stevenson pro
fited a inciunrinl from citizens asking that
Newport, Ky
Du-barracks and
which it is proposed to move to ('nluinhiis!
Ohio, he restored to Newport, Ky. Ilufc
Afte- “ ’ ' '- ■*
. . , (I.
the morning hiisine
lor k up Mr. Morion's Mississippi resolutions
and Mr. Bayard spoke in opposition. Other
remarks were made, nnd without action the
senate adjourned.
In the senate, oil the -'llHt, hills, jieli-
Dolls, elo., having hern ‘presented and re
ferred, the senate look up the Mississippi
resolution of Mr. Morion and Mr. Ilrucc began
Ills speech. He said Dint iu 1M7.1 Ihe repub
licans curried Mississippi hy twenty thousand
majority, and last fall the democrats claimed
to have carried the state hy thirty thousand,
a reputed gain of fifty thousand. Why this
change in the popular vote? The evidence
will show that iu ninny parts of the stale
violence ami intimidation were used,and wlmt
was known as the White league were instru
mental in much of this class of outrage. Mr.
Key was glad the late war was fought out
ami over with. He spoke highly of Die col
ored people, and their fidelity to the whites
during tiic war, mid the people of hin state
was willing to protect them and aid them.
Mr. Freliugliuyseii said when the right of
suffrage had been conferred on mi individual,
he ought to have that right guaranteed to
him, mnl should be protected in the right,
lie claimed that in this country, of all others,
Die voter should he protected in his right to
vote, mid that congress had Dm power to
protect him nnd to pnss this resolution and
raise this committee for this purpose. Mr.
Bayard further opposed the appointment of
Ihe committee. The question recurred on
the adoption of the preamble, and it wns
adopted—27 to ID. The senate then adjourned
till Monday.
IfOUNK.
Iii the house, on the 27lh, Mr. Pnyira
moved to stipend the rules mid pass his hill
to provide for the gradual resumption of
specie payment. The first section of the
hill directs the secretary of the treasury to
set aside nnd retain in coin each year, until
United States notes shall he appreciated to
par with gold, an amount equal to .1 per
cent, u! outstanding legal tenders or legal
tender notes, to he held as a resumption
fund for the redemption of such legal tender
notes, provided that such coin set aside and
retained shall he counted as part of the sink
ing fund. The second section requires na
tional banks to set aside mid retain from
coin received by them ns interest on bonds
deposited as security for their circulation,
amount equal to .1 per
lion, such coin to he co
jegal money reserve. The third section .
peals so much of the resumption net of Jan
uary 1 1. 1875, as provides for the redemption
of legal tender notes to the amount of 80 n
The motion was defeated—81 to 150.
The house then went into committee of the
whole on the hill providing for the deficiency
the bill and amendments, with the unde,
standing that n five minutes’ debate will he
allowed iu the house nnd a vote taken oil
earth amendment. IIousu then adjourned.
In the house, on the 28th. Mr. Holman
offered a resolution fixing the compensation
of witnesses summoned hcfni'O the Iioiihc
committee nt two dollars per day nud milg
age of five rents per mile. Referred. Mr,
Hoar introduced a bill to permit the impor
tation, free of duly, of hooks printed In :«nv
foreign language.' Referred. Mr. Gordon
offered n resolution directing the judiciary
committee to inquire into the expedience of
preventing the use of the United States
mails in earryiug lottery advertisements.
Adopted. Mr. Atkins, from thu conference
committee on the hill In supply the defi
ciency nt the Red Cloud (monk) agency,
made a report Dint the house should concur
in the senate amendment increasing the
a m on ill from $100,000 lo $150,0(10. Agreed
to. The house then took up Ihe hill re
ported from the committee on commerce to
•"liond Dip law for Die regulation of steam
ssels. The hill went over. Adjourned.
In tho house, on tho 2'.)th, Mr. Banks
from tho committee mi rules, nqmrted a
olution fixing tho compensation m wlliuw -
sumnionrd to appear before Die committee
of Die house at three dollars per day, and
allowing five cents per mile mileage. Adopt-
" Hr. Thomas, from Die committee on
•••»>•» '"“I means, reported a bill providing
Dint nil unused stnmpH shall Do redeemed
when properly presented. Passed.
Iliieluinl, from (he committee on wavi
means, reported a hill niiDiorizhig tho
retnn of the treasury lo convert into
pons the five percent, registered bonds neces
sary to puy the judgments of Die Alabama
elniniN commission. Passed. -The house
then,ns regular order of business, consld
ered the hill regulating the pnv and allow
nnccH «if "Hirers of Die army. Hie hill is
ake effect on Die 1st of July’,next, Mr.
Garfield sent to th-i clerk’s desk, and had
rend an extract from Die testimony of Majm
General Hancock before the eommitloo ad
verse to the proposed reductions, nml with-
out any further debate tho hill passed—1 11
In til. Ihe house then proceed to the con
sideration of the hill appropriating $1(1.1,000
tor Ihe Iniieau of printing and ingruving of
the treasury, and providing for the issue of
silver colli in the place of fractional cur
rency. \urinus propositions were made in
regard to mileage. Mr. Foster moved lo
abolish It altogether. In.the course ol (lie
discussion mi the mileage question, in
which many members Joined, Mr. Page
moved an amendment providing *
Die pay of any member elected U> till a vn-
curacy shall begin from the dato.of his eloo-
Don. Agreed lo. The house then went into
committee of Ihu tho legislative
!""' Ju.ll.Unl ii|>|>r«.|.riiilInn I,ill, III,, ,,ut'»lI,,11
being on several nmeiidinenls to the Item of
salary of senators. The first tuite w
Die amendment reducing Die salary of
tors to $.1,000. Rejected, All the amend
ments to the mileage Rem were rejected, iu-
eluding Mr. Foster’s. Without disposing of
•he hill tho committee - * ■' •
djourned.
In lira limiHO, on the JJOth, Mr. Bur
It'lgli, from the committee <m naval iiflHIrs,
reported a hill directing lira nnvnl estimates
to he tirade hi detail, under Die various heads
of expenditure. After discussion Die hill
passed. Mr. Faulkner, f om tho cnmmiltc
on foreign affairs, reported u resolution d.
reeling Ura eommlllcc on fnruMfi affairs to
Inquire if there was uny conllirMf construe-
Don- between Groat DritniuL.njtihu United
Slates in regard lo the axtradlfifeu treaty of
■18-12, nud what Jgxjidatjpji, if ail 1 ,-
to remove any dUTiouflJnp tinrWffi
said treaty. Adopted. Mr. Kid Jit presented
articles !<» be adopted and presented to ||u
senate in maintenance and support of Dir
impeachment, for high crimes and inisdo-
meniiors In office, of Win. W. Belknap, bite
secretory of war, which were recommitted
and ordered printed, with the umlerstading
they would be called for on Saturday next
The impeachment articles lire five In' mini
her, and arc worded iu usual legal phrase
ology, olio being largely a repetition of thi
mlmr. The committed also report the fol
O
lowing resolution: That seven managers he
appointed, hy hullo!, lo eotiduel the im
peaehinent exhibited against Win. W. Bel
knnp, Into secretary of war of the United
States. The house then resumed eonsideni-
Don of the Mil appropriating $1(1.1,000 for
deficiency iu the printing mpl engraving
ireau of the Iressurv department, ami for
e issue of silver coin in plncu of fractional
irrenev. The nineudineiil of Mr. Willis, to
...Jd to Mr. Holman's amendment a proviso
that if silver bullion is not presented for
coinage in sufficient quantity to meet tho de
mand, tho treasury may purchase silver Mil
lion for purposes of coinage, was agreed to.
Mr. Reagan again ollercd his aiiiciidiiiciil
milking silver a legal tender lo the amount
of fiftv •lollura. It was adopted; and with
out disposing of tho hill, the house ad
journed.
In the Iioiihc, on tho 31hI, Mr. Wood,
from lira commilUiu of ways and means, re
ported a hill for the sepnrntc entry of express
pmkngen contained iu one importation,
ssed. Mr. Morrison, from tho committee
ways and ineaiis, reported a lull to define
lax on fermented or limit liquors. It
provides that nothing contained in section
.I.127 of the revised statutes shall he strued
to authorize mnowmieiit on the quality of the
material used far the purpose of producing
fermented or malt liquors, nnd that Die quail-
Dty of the material used shall not he evi-
for the purpose of taxalion; hut Dial
.... ,.ix on all beer, lager beer, ale, porter
nnd other similar fermented liquors shall be
paid os provided iu Unit section, and not
otherwise, provided Dial lira net shall not
apply to eases of frninh IWcd. Mr.Tucker,
from the same committee, reported a hill to
authorize the commissioner of internal rev-
in designate and fix points at which
- tors and supervisors of revenue shall
hold their office, rarae.l. The. house then
proceeded to take n vote on the Mil impro
priating $15.1,000 for the deficiency in the
treasury printing bureau, and for lira issue of
subsidiary silver coin. The hill was passed
— 122 to 100. The following is the text of
the bill: There be and hereby isappropi iab d
out of any money in the treasury not other
wise appropriated, Die sum of $163,000 to
provide for engraving, printing and other
rases of making ami issuing United States
That (he secretary of I In; treasury is
hereby directed lo issue* silver coins of thc
Unlted States of the denomination of ten,
twenty, twenty-five and fifty cents of stand
ard value in redemption of an equal amount
■of fractional currency, whether Ihe same he
now iu the treasury awaiting redemption, or
whether it may he presented for redemption ;
nnd the secretary of the treasury may, under
the regulations of Do; treasury department,
provided for such redemption, i*sue, hy sub
stitution at the regular sub-treasury and pub
lic depositories of the United Stales, until
the whole amount of fractional currency out
standing shall he redeemed. That the silver
eoiiu of the United States of the denomina
tion of one dollar shall he a legal-lender at
their nominal value for any amount not ex
ceeding fifty dollars in any one payment,
and silver coins of the United States of de
nominations of less than one dcdlar shall he
a legal-tender nt their nominal value for any
amount not exceeding twenty-five dollars in
payment. Adjourned.
ire glad to silenco one: slander
igainst Gen. Hchenck. It is thix Htory
tliat Ira came away from England with
out wailing upon tin- queen and making
his official adicttH. He mot her majesty
while he waH Htrcaking it down to tb"e
iliij>. “ By-by, Vicky,” lie said, cliceri-
y. “ I’m o. j). h. “ Well, so long,
iMibby," tho dear old girl replied, and
they parted friendn.
b u layer for each day,
Before me now.
1 hey. ns I turn tticm Idly o'er, display
A rlldiou lii’iv. nnd there u flower, amt—I
A broken row.
•TIs -tnld Dint, In the early year* of Earth,
Era mini had weigh'd the worth of iiiiin.n
Of wondrous light
In gentler kind hud hi
..innr so (lore* a glare t...
Were lost from sight.
Hut, niter mini laid drunk the draft ot pnln,
Amt (ell (lie |iiik>Ioii at a aew-lsiru woe,
The slur went oat.
l-ueh ray Hint luul Is on hid itoln forth lignin,
Amt Isniit)- more than one enn over know
Hlione round atsiut.
Within the sky n slur like tills hns died,
Whose glenni hud plert-cd Ihe very soul of i
And It wus thou :
Uni II llitx |•emu unto thy loss replied—
11 (lam eiihnm-ed Die loro 1 hut wns to tm -
TIIK BRITISH 1>KAll.
•I 'tin l*itnl Amo i'x lira Tomim nl We«l
■•ilnnlci* Ablra.r.
John Until writ cm front London to the
New York Tribune : 1 do nut remember
who it in lliitldefiiu'Hglory iih being killed
in buttle and having oiic’h name niiH-
Hpelled iu the nexvH|m|K. , rH, Worst: still
to bnvo it miss) ’lied on a monument!
Bliigllold, and not Bringlield, as (lie in
scription lias it, was tho'name of tho gal
lant colonel:
“ Equerry to bis Koval lliulmesao
Prince George of Denmark, nide-tie-enmp
and geiilloniini of tho Horse to bis Grace
ye Duke of Marlborough (yo vlotoriotiH
general of her in'ijesty'H forces beyond ye
Hen) who. while Ito was liemounting liis
Isinl, u|xm a fresh Horse, bis former
fuyliog under hint, bad liis bead fatally
shot! by u Cannon Ball in yc Battell of
ItnmolicHou Wednesday ye 12th day of
May in ye year of our I<ortl 170(1 anil of
bin Age 50."
It may jilensc the Hmitlis (lie world
er to know Mint the Bight Honorable
Anne, countess dowager of Glnurieknrd,
was once a Smith—“oldOBt daughter of
John Smltli, J'ktq.," even, who 1ms a
lK'iuitiful monument all lo himself over
in Hie south aisle.
• Iusno Newton's monument occupicH
a loll compartment of lira orgnu-Hurcon—
that of Stanho|H! occupying another oi
(lie right, ill Hie nave. The pliilosophe
presented ine.umhpnt, slightly rained
no arm, as he muy have lain under
the tree when watching the fall of tho
apple which—if there ho anything in tho
|Hqmlar account ol the discovery of grav
itation—wiih indeed “the fruit ot the
tree of knowledge." All tho UovIcoh
(lie monument do not please me,illustra
tive though (hey urn meant to hn of his
discoveries and achievements. Weighing
the sun hy a steel-yard strikoH me ns
neither “ Uijd" nor “ striking." That he
never did, and what he really did wnH
much mure difficult. He got at the
heavenlv bodies without stairs, and
wulgiiod them in hand without the ah!
of halances! No feeling of 'levity conitJM
over you as 7011 stand by fcbo grave of
fm' Who discovered the MW b
And Ihe grave Is immediately inTronto?
the luomitnont, n conspicuous sisit, ro-
jM'atedly rofttsed to different norilemen,
who had asked for it. On tho stone
alsive is written : “ Hie ilejHiHittim qnod
morlalo fnit Isaacl Nowloni.” Near to
Newton’s grave lie two Hcotsinen, Robert
Htepbcnsoii—to whose memory a window
of stained glass lias lately been given:
and L'olln Gmupbell (Lonl L'lyde). Amt
yet anotlier Hoot, who went where en
gineering lias not to lltiH |»criod petto-
trated, and carried peace into Africa
further than Olydc did war into India,
rests near. “ Brought by faithful hands
land and sea," after years of weary
travel, undertaken to “evangelize tho na
tive races, to exnlnru tho undiscovered
eciets, to alHilish the desolating slave
trade of central Africa,” David Living
stone, “missionary, traveler, philaulhron-
ist," sleeps lieneath this black marble
slab: bis tqiilajili closes with lira last
words lie wrote—a quotation from bis
Master: “ Other sheep 1 have which are
not of this fold ; them also I must bring,
and they shall bear my voice."
The accompanying Latin verses front
Lucan, though written to describe the
desire of Julius Ltesar to penetrate one
vail which then, as now, bung over lira
sources of tho Nile, accurately cmlxxiicH
tiie aspirations of the later Livingstone:
“ Ho great is my love of truth Unit
ere is nothing I would rather know
than tho causes of tho river that have
laid itid through so many ages."
This insignificant tablet, whereon a
simple name and dales only are written,
is to Henry Wharton, an eminent then
logian, who died in 1019, age 31—the
most voluminous writer of liis years in
the world. Ho it gin’s. Hu who writes
the most is the least written about.
Tho monument to lira “most valuable
memory ” of William Longrovo, “sett
iiji by Henrietta, Dutchess of Marl
borolijijj, as a mark how dearly she re-
mlx’rs the happiness, and honor site
njoyed in the sincere frieiidshiji of so
worthy and honest a man," caused a
g(xxl (leal of talk at one time. Harah,
mother of llcnrittlla, uncoiiijiromising
dowager that she was. made no irancs of
letting off her opinion of it. “ Ifnjqii-
iickh, perluipH; honor she can not say."
There was no need of jierpctiinting such
scandal in stone, mid considering the
niitoriousncsH of the alliance, tin: ill-
rijition had more ajqirojirialcly been
written iu brass.
The first wife of Hir Haniucl Marland
lias two inscriptions 0)1 her back, one in
Hebrew, anotlier for tlra benefit, proba
bly, of those who do not read Hebrew
fluently—in Greek. Not lobe jinrtial,
the same widower a few years after fires
both barrels of ids (or some one else’s)
erudition over a second wife (who lias
ly brought to bay near by),
giving tho parting shots this time in
Hebrew and Ethiopia. All may not lx:
111>in Hebrew, lie reasoned, perliaji.s; some
may not rend Greek, but surely none can
ignorant of Ethiopia.
Now you see our country on the walls
for the first time, 'l ira province of Mas-
liusetts bay erects, by order of general
court, a memorial to I/m 1 Howe, who
b march to Ticonderogn in 1758.
the century this same Massa
il usetts, then a state, wns imlorluiialely
II as unwisely called upon to furnish
material lor monuments. And a re
miniscence of our great struggle with tlra
mother country we find in this monu
ment to Andre, “ beloved nnd esteemed
by the army in which be served and la
men ted even by bis foes." It has a
mournful interest to many, for all are
retirement ns gavo hor great opportuiiilys
for Bending and Botiection which she
made use of to tho Wisest purposes ol
Improvement in Knowledge and Bo
ligion. Djxm other subjects she ventured
far out of tho common way of thinking,
bat in Beligious matters she made the
lloiv Hcriplttres, in which she was well
Skilled, the Buie and Guidoofhor Faith
and Action, Esteeming it more safe to
rely ti|H)ii the jilaiti word of God Hutu to
in into any freedoms of thought up
void'd Truths. The great share of T11
allowed to the Llosot xvnH not perceived
in her (economy, for hIio luul always a
well ordered nnd well instructed family
from tho happy Influence ns well of her
t«inpor and conduct as of her uniform
and Exemplary Christian life, it pleased
(hid to bless Iter with 11 considerable es
tate, which with a liberal hand, guided
by Wisdom nud Piety, she imployed to
bis glory and the good of her mdgiilxirs.
Her domestic expenses were numnged
with a decency nnd Dignity suitaiilo to
her Fortuno, but with a Frugality that
made her Iiicomo abound to all projicr
objects of Charity, to the relief of Ihe
necessitous, the iueouragumeut of lira
I ml uni rimis, and Instruction of tiie Igno
rant. Hlio distributed not only with
chonrftilncHH but with Joy, which upon
some occasions of raising and refreshing
the spirit of the Alllicted she could nut
refrain from breaking forth into tears
flowing from a heart thoroughly elleeled
with comjmsslon ami Bcnvvolcucc: Thus
did many of hor good works whilo slra
lived go up as a memorial before God,
and some she left to follow her. She
dy'd Ian 2.1, J72I17, in tho 57th year ol
Age." Tills monument explains why
people ride so much iu hansoms nowa
days instead of driving about in their
carriages. In K;82 Thomas Thymic, Esq,
was shot in Ids own coach hy three him.
assassins, while driving through l»nll
Mall. Tho rttory is (aid with every ef
cumstniitinlity in sculpture. Tho jxior
gentleman flits in liis coach, nnd you see
tho nssasiins firing their bluuderbusscM
iu ut tho window, whilo tho conclmtan
whips up bin horses. The murder was
ho grave of trnc «l homo— tho instigation of it—to
ot' gravity. jxflo ho
familiar with tho story. Many wantu mo-
mento, too, and the head of Washington,
broken oil' and carried away hy visitors,
lias been three limes renewed. Boys of
the nation find it easier to get abend of
Washington now limn did tho men of
1770.
All my life long I've keen looking for
a jHirfect woman ; now when I find one
she’s dead. Just my luck I But tho
brief and feeble tribute to the departed
worth which I find on hor tomb shall go
imperishably on reeonl in these classic
columns:
“To the Memory of Mrs. ICathariun
Bovey, Whose Person and Understanding
won't! have lieeoino Lite highest Banke
in Female Life, and whose vivacity
wou’d have recommended Her in our
Ix'st conversation, But hy judgment as
well as hy Inclination she obese such a
I don't know hut ho is buried in Hie ab
bey, teo.
Anotlier reminder of our rebellious
country. “William Wragg, Esq.,” of
Boutli Carolina, when tlra colonies re
volted, took part with good King George,
and sailed lor England, but was wrecked
and lost off tlra coast of Holland. It
couldn’t have gone inttcli woiso with him
bad Ira stayed in Hontli Carolina till
now—unless, indeed, Ira bad bought tho
Ixmds of lira slate; Janiinrysaud Jitlys,
for intance.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
“PM too jxior to take a imfer.” If
you are, you should be indicted by the
grand jury for obtaining n family under
false jircU'iiHcs.
Tiikrr is n town in Maine whrei, after
three days’ hard work, tlra citizens raised
soventy-two cents for tlra widow of a man
who was accidentally killed.
Tiik kangaroo has been Introduced on
several large estates in France, nnd Ih
now hunted in Unit country nit game. It
readily mlnjibt itself to the climate.
Turkey 1ms fit teen immense ships of
war which exist, nearly two millions of
dollars apiece. Their solo duty is to fire
salutes when tlra Sultan goes to tho
most] no.
Can you sec mo,'dearest?" said a
Chicago man to his dying wife. “Tell me,
cati you see me?” “ No," rho faintly
whiHjxjrcd, “but I can smell your
breath."
While nu Iown woman was struggling
in the water, and likely lo drown, Iter
husband veiled out: “New iHinnet—
swim for life I" and slra kicked out and
safely readied the shore.
WnAT Is editorial courtesy ? Wliy.it
is when an editor is caught stealing
cliickeitH nt midnight and Ids brother
editora kindly ulludo to lira matter nH a
strange freak of a somnambulist.
Charlotte, North Carolina, Iihh bad
an olopoment, in which the bridegroom
was sixty and tho bride thirty. 'J lie fa
ther of tho bride tried tods: presenl. at
the ceremony with a pitchfork, but took
(lie wrong road.
The peculiar bent of tlra German
mind is shown by tlra fact Mint out of
tho twelve thousand five hundred nnd
sixteen hooks jmhlished in Germany in
1875, only nine hundred wore devoted to
fiction and tlra drama.
h lightning into (he i
, they It
deed I it's nloel"
Lenllet after lunflet vanished in a trice.
By Bit* Unto lira sun came, to chase away tlra
shower.
There were ull the fourteen hugs, hut who
could find Ihe flower?
Into it Die arenlnres went: now it wns in
(fir w—'
Fourteen little fat htign sitting 011 a stein!
Tiik debating societies of Hontli Caro
lina have been offered tho following pro-
idem hy tlra Abbeville Press: “Which
S llie best wav to got news—by lxirrow-
g your neighbor's paper, or subscribing
on timo without any intention of paying
for it?"
Molikre was asked tiie reason-why,
in ccrtuin countries, tlra king may .ajK —
sumo the crown at fourteen yearn of iwe
nd cag pot marry before eighteen# “It
wnyf.fniWrryln,. g« if 2
dom.”
Judge Uttild’H ( barge to the Grand
Jury.
Wo givo below an extract from the
charge of ids honor, .fudge Guild, to the
grand jury of tho present term of the
circuit wm rt:
to charge you upon a high
misdemeanor which is so common in lira
land, and which it is now your high duty
to notice, and bring tlra oflendcrH In jus
tice, .Whosoever they may^io. I allude
lo lira vicious linhil of carrying about
lira jtorson concealed wcnjHinH. Moro
than half lira linmicidcH which occur
grow out of this debased practice. When
I was a Ixiy, lira “ bullies " of ono creek
would meet those of another creek iijxiii
the muster ground, a ring would be
formed, and a fair light was luul; no con
cealed weapon was drawn and a citizen
slain ; all lueir inusoles were brought into
jilay, which ended in a knock-down and
occasional bile—no ono slain. But,
.V, tbo desjierndo, with his pistols
buckled around him, seeks Ids victim, in
stills an unarmed man sensitive of his
honor, and if he make an effort lo rcqiel
tlra insult, lira jdslol is drawn, a new
grave is made and a helpless widow and
orjdianH arc left lo mourn the loss of hus
band and father. This evil practice is
of lira off-shoots of laziness, and in-
lisjxisition lo jmrsiic some virlttotiH nud
lattdabie emjdoyinent which xvill always
secure a reasonable living and bring
home to a young man an honest reputa
tion. WJtenovor young men depart from
this laudable course, jmt on and wear
broad-cloth, silks, kid-gloves and “ pru
nellas," attend it|X)n gambling houses and
sahxmH nnd idle away their precious time,
v arc sure to fall into vicious habits:
It characters as those who loiter about
whisky shops and attend regularly tt|xm
gambling
graced if t
they have never “ killed their
they arm themselves with the
deadly jilstol and seek an occasion iu
which to use it, that they may Ihj lion
ized by lira gentler sex, thinking it will
give them jxxdtlon or caste with them,
wlio in every ago have appreciated
bravery—but tiie bravery displayed by
men should lie courage exhibited in de
fense of their country and not tlra bully-
ism of the murderer. Wo arc fallen ujxm
«»il times—carrying pistols—dress and
parade—giving entertainments attended
with the extraordinary exjrandilures,
such as no honest calling can afford. Too
much extravagance and too. little work
are the, fruitful causes of most of the
evils of our time. Genuine mirth and
virtue are undergoing a decay; in the
cities especially, they are stifled and lie-
coming extinct. In this train of vicious
habits is this disreputable practice of
carrying concealed weapons. Tlra juries
of the country and a virtuous public
11 tiincut should banish this habit from
ie land ns they have driven dueling
and tlra bowio knife beyond the borders
civilization.
Tiik Kearney (Nebraska) Press argues
in favor of domesticating tlra buffalo,
and says: “Tito animal can easily lie
tamed nnd made to do good servieo in
the harness ; that while his tail is not so
bandy to twist, in every other reaped,
size, strength, get-up and style, Ira is
vastly sujierior to the domestic ox."
“Children.” said a country minister,
ddrcssiiig u oununy-schoot, “ why nro
wo like flower!? What do we have that
llowers bnvo? M And 11 small boy in tlra
infants’ class, whose breath smelled of
vermifuge, rose up and made reply,
“ Worms," and lira minister crept under
lira |iu1|dl chair to hide bis emotion.
When tlra great Mohammed found a
poet of tliat day making rhymes upon
him, be said to Ali, tiie first of the faith
ful, “Take tbo rascal away and cut out
bis tongue." Tlra wise Ali handed lira
1 >oot it purse of gold. “This," said Ira
“<), thou rogue who mockest tlra |iro|ih-
et, this is the only way to cut out thy
tongue I"
Till! latest tiling in soap for use in
hotel lavatories is to grind it to powder
and jdace it in a small metal urn with a
perforated bottom. To do this you first
wot your hands, move a slide in lira bot
tom of lira urn, when down comes it
shower of soiiji sufficient in quantity to
cleanse the bauds of any one, except a
cabinet officer.
The Black Hillh Htory, Briefly
Told.—Unless emigrants tiro jirepared
to go to work cutting timlier and tilling
tlra ground, and to assume lira other
trials and pains of a pioneer life to eke
out an existence, they should take warn
ing from tlra experience of a man writ
ing from Luster Lity, in the Black Hills.
Ho finds that claim owners are anxious
lo trade off their claims for flour and
bacon, and tliat the miners were earning
at most from fifty cents to one dollar a
day.—Chicago Tribune.,
The Centennial Show.
The New York Mail says of the com
ing Philadelphia exposition:
(July a fifty cent note will Ira received
for admission. No change will lx* re
ccivcd, made or given by tlra holiest
men at lira door.
The queen’s picttires aro to bo guard
ed day and night by a squad o jxilicc-
men. They are said to lx*, heavily in
sured in eight different English com
panies.
Tho parties who got lira catalogue
have a big bonanza. Tlra advertise
ments will pay nearly seventy-four Mum-
sand dollars, and tliis is exclusive of tlra
sale of the book «it lira grounds.
There nro now some doubts ns to
whether everything will Ira ready at lira
ajipointed timo. These doubts are al
most Wholly confined to disinterested
spectators.
It is feared that there will Ira too
many Ices exacted on the grounds, nnd
Mint foreigners will have barely enough
left to pay their hotel bills nnd get
home.
A Philadelphia paper says “a jxilito
justice will sit on the grounds continu
ally." Why not let him up now and
then to exercise his legs and relieve tho
grounds? #
Givo tbo hotel keejrars n wide berth.
They have made up their mind to
swindle you. and they will if they pos
sible can. Go to a hording house, or,
better still, visit some relative.