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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S, D. WIKLE & CO,. Pronriotors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1S77.
VOL ill. NO. 33.
NEWS SUMMARY.
I a municipal corporation, nml iin individual*,
' exceed any I have seen for the variety and | die debate
i extent of their noble charities.”
nibor ot the joint coininittce then opened
hare not he
inf tho oat crop in Georgia
•n materiality lujurod byjtho cold
outhei
Methodizl
house, at Nashville, is said to 1
distress.
The lion crop of south
heavier this veur than it I
publishing
• in financial
Thor
( >rlen
'a a move in the Georgin lcgisln-
■duce the salaries of their supreme
d'.rcs from i 1,000 to >3,0(10 p»r
cur loads of cattle arc scut every
a average, from Nashville to New
shcrc they arc preferred to Texas
Virginia has a uutional hank capital of
$3,.'*00,01.3 and pay* an internal revenue of
$7,313,7*11. The six New England state*
have a national blinking capital of $100,517,*
The factory at t'olumbii*, (In., last
year roiiHUiued a daily average of l»,.30S
pounds of cotton, and .3,*30 yards of sheet
ing I total cotton, 715,002 pounds; sheet
ii>ir. 1,315.3*-) yard*; shirting, 500,•!('7 yards,
Tho cot tint factory at AugUHta, On.,
cleared within the lust six months, a little
r $13,
Tl.ii fat
. take
imrkc
i the production of coll
tilar hill introduced
■ pro
i the Vir
any person
jpdltv ot carrying concealed deadly
n* shall he fine*! in the discretion of a
not exceeding $20—one half to go to
former and shall likewise forfeit to
tinner his weapon, ill default of which
oinniitled to jail by the justice for one
Ml
til the i
thai
uhc paid or dellvo
0; loss in taxable
internal improvc-
• lividciitls nud IioiiiIh frt
Mrs. Mary Connor, of Memphis, a well
known, hard working, honest woinnn, while
carrying aome things home on a wheel-bar*
row, bt*t Friday night, wm I. ru tally iumium!-
niited by nn unknown man. As she passed
along Washington street, near Market, and
within a few stepa of a dozen or more nu n
the murderer Stepped up behind her, seized
her hy the ludr, drew her head hack nml out
her throat. He ran into a lumber house mid
thence into a dark bayou, mid was gone.
The affair is shrouded
('harlrston Ne\ys
The house no t again at 7'_- o’clock, with
Mr. Hooker (Miss.) in the chair as speaker
pro tcm. The llrst speech was made by
Caldwell, of Tennesve, who advocated the
hill. He was followed hy Stevenson, of lilt*
uoia, nud Caulfield, of Illinois, also in sup
port of the hill. Tho house, at eleven o’elock
adjourned till to-morrow at ten o'clock.
Tho house on tho 2fltli, wan called to
order at ten o'clock, when hut few members
were presect. Discussion of tho electoral
hill was at once resumed. At four o'clock
the time for general debate having closed,
production of tho United , Mr. Payne rose to move the previous quo*-
2,030,(KM) tons. : lion. Before making the motion, however,
2,20(1,581 tons, j he allowed to ho road the amendment which
t'OHKHIN.
President Diaz has banished the no
torious bandit Cortina from Mexico.
A cable apccinl -viys tho (lernutn gov
ernment possesses ample proofs of the exist'
face of a large monastic conspiracy in
Franco to endeavor to gain power in that
country for purposes hostile to Germany.
niNCKI.I.AM'.Ot'N.
Tilt, pig
States for 1876 is estimated at
In 187'* the production was
When 1875 opened the stock ou hand was : Mr. Hopkins proposed to oiler, tho most im-
estimated at 7lvi,iMK> ton*, and this had been 1 l'" r,l, ” , !><dtit being to refer to the commis-
. , i shm nil the testimouv taken hv the commit*
rr.lucr.UI Mu, olrrr ,.I the yrttr t„ about „UUI,or iHttittr.' Mr. I'ttyt'ttt rrnt.,',1 It,
allow the amendment to he ottered,and moved
| the previous question. Tho previous question
ended, and the main question order-
*t of New York city has in-
Ml,000 since 1SGO, and is steadily
It now amount* to iiliout one
id fifty dollnrs for every man,
l child living within the corpora*
The r
of :
oil, Mr. Payne having the final hour
the debate yielded a portion of his time to
Mr. Walker, of Virginia, who declared that
mild give the bill his cordial support.
' ' ‘ closed and the speaker
*7,000,(XM).per annum.
Pauline Eileen sued her first husband, w(i
Baron Von Rhode, who is married to another 1 ciciten
woman, nml obtained n decree of divorce j plated,
front him, whereupon aim remarried. This | ls, I.
The debate
nouueed that the
on the final pussnge of the hill
The clerk proceeded to call the names of
(intense interest and
I. finally the eolllit was com-
tlm result was announced ns yens
Adjourned.
divo
ide.l to h*
■eguln
i let the first husband com
d. She claims slut paid he
lie original suit Ihlrly-liv
Icnjlhoi
through tliei
A.lvc
The
r mill
In the senate on the 20lh, at the ex
piration of the morning hour, on motion of
senator Edmunds, tho hill reported hy the
special committee in regard to the count of
tin- electoral vote was taken up. Petiliona
favoring woman Mill'rngo were presented hy
half the senate. The M-uate then went into
| executive session, and soon after adjourned
‘‘('nil the south Mn,i * Monday,
als cheaper than the I It MlO HOIIIlto oil tllO 22d, senator llngy
introdiieed a hill to organize tho territory of
(ikahaiua, and for tho bettor protection of
the Indians therein. Referred. Senator
Wright called up the house bill to amend
Mi-lion one of the act o( May I "J, 1HH, for a
I to tho state of town for the
or a railroad in said state,
which was amended an• 1 passed. Senator
is ollen nud anxiously
m of fact bearing ou tho question i
lulling and holding. Here are twi
undue to southern muuufnetiire
•y is being put in the third cotton
i'd and operated hy tin
nil.I ! "1 11
of ('.limn. I Wiwi™
other two of tho company; i
to milking checks nnd stripe
000spindles, eight hundred
hundred and sixty carding
i large ns
ill he dr
, will have
the house of representatives ns heretofore,
mid everything pretending to he a eorIifictile
is opened hy the president of theseunteand
handed to the tellers,of xvldoh there are four,
two from each house, the certificates being
opened In alphabetieal order of the states,
beginning with tho letter A.
Fourth—When a certificate hns been read
the president of the senate calls for objec
tions, which must he in writing nnd argiied
hy at least one senator and one representa
tive, whether there he only one or two re
turns from the state,in tho ease of which oh*
jeetiou is made.
Fifth—If there is only one return, the sen
ate withdraws nnd the objections are consid
ered in the following manner:
I. The presiding ottieeis state tho objec
tions, and each senator itnd representative
may sneak ten minutes amt not oftoucr than
once, lint the main question shall ho pi
ler two hours’ debate.
II. A recess may ho taken until touo’olock
next day, pending the oensldcration of any
objection, and the houso may tnuisaot leg
islative business while waiting the notion of
the other on objections.
III. When tho two house*hitvovoted thoy
Immediately meet again, and the presiding
officers announce their decisions.
IV. If both concur in tho objection it is
sustained, and if they disagree It In
ruled.
.Sixth — 1 f there are two returns the c..,„
lions are referred to a commission, whose
composition and mode of notion nro thus
stated ;
I. Each of the houses elect five members
by a viva voce vote on January 30, and the
associate justices of the supreme court as
signed to the following district*, first (jus-
Hoc UlWord), third (justice Strong), eighth
(justice Miller), nml ninth (justice Field),
choose u fifth justice, who with themselves
w ill form part of the commission.
II. The oldest justice (Clifford) presides
over the commission nud administers a spec
ial oath to its members to impartially exam
ine and to consider all questions.
III. It is not in tho power of either lions
to diHsoIvu the commission or withdraw any
of its members, hilt they fill vnenueiescaused
hy the death or inability to nctof any of tltei
respective members, and the romaiiiing Jus
tices in the same manner replace any of tho
justices if a vacancy arises among them from
the s
IV. Tho commission is given the same
powers, now possessed by tho two houacMiiut-
lug separately or together, to decide upon
the electoral votes, nud submits its decision
hi writing to ilie two houses, xvhivli thcru
upon meet again in joint session.
V. The counting of the votes proceed in
........... conformity with llie decision of tillsooninils-
krill introduced a hill granting a pension j «lon. unless, upon ohieetion mad* |o it in
the
ido
i I’. Ilia
the late tmijor-i
. Referred. Senator ('
luoed a hill to provide
io pro
oaths •
f the Augusta i
•nipany
the
the
id to l.e
cron ri»n.)
the distribution of axvards made unde
j convention between the United States nnd
Mexico under the convention of July 1, IM7 I.
Referred, Consideration was resumed ot
tin- bill in regard to counting the electoral
j vote,.senator Morion taking the lloor in op*
; position. Senator Frcliuchuysi-u followed
| in nn aide speech in favor of the hill. A
long discussion followed on the subject of
pnrlieiimted in hy senators
| two per cent, dividend xva* declared-
ton in i 11 h are not many of them doing as well | '*
as (lint. During Hint time the. factory made 1 !
116,900 yards of goods, childly for southern • v
consumption. Two swallow n do hot make ,i j |*
s<imiiier, hut the signs of a change are worth j
; Slier
Edmunds and otlie
i in- taller gentleman iuniated that a vote
should be taken to-morrow. Senator Cam-
cron tlcuiMiucod Ho- bill as a democratic
Tililon president, ^.hiring
C( >N( M * KSSIONAL
r of an rally veto m
wage. AdjnurnelJ?
In the senate on tho 23d, coiiHidr
; tiou was resumed of unfinished business, I
hill in regard to counting the electoral vo
nud Mr. Hhernmn spoke In opposition to
| Mr. ('oakling followed Mr. Hhernmn
and read in tho nlphnhollcnl order of states,
when object ion is made to the vote of any
state, no other cortillonto is opened until tho
objections urn noted upon nnd finally dis
posed of,
Eighth —While in joint session no debate
is permitted, nud no motion, except to with
draw, allowed. Debate can only ho had in
separate session, already specified, and ml-
inurnment only us provided when the two
houses are considering objection*.
Ninth Nothing in the net is
garilcd ns impairing or nffcoting any right
under tho constitution or laws to aticKtlmt
the right or title of whoever shnlf be de
clared president hy proceeding in Ihu
t:
Another Egyptian Treasure.
Homo twenty years ago a Mr.
Harris went with his daughter
A. O.
Miss
eigh
Courier: Tin
d* harbor on Saturday Inst were
y-fivc in number, of which t’urei
'hips, eight ships, fifty-one harks
; propriation
(•ill the com
committee i
twelve brig
were under the flag of the United
thirty-ono of Great Britain, fifteen o
way, eight of Spain, five of German;
of Russia ami one of Hweden. Twent
loading for Liverpool, seven for the
neat, four for Havre, four for Bare
two for the United Kingdom,one for A
dnm. ami the balance for domestic po
plication of tho vnlunMo trade j '-Ibkihle person
spoke in favor of the hill. Messrs. Boutwell.
rhristinney and Wallace were appointed
members of thu conference committee on Hie
revision of tin- statutes. After executive
session the senate adjourned.
* , 1 n tho M-rmto III] tlie ‘iHli, M r. Wrijjlit.
and Mr. Willis spoke at length, from llio committee on claims reported fa-
f'r- W"M.'.pp.'i h the Huhlm 1 V .,n. lllv .i.nute I o oilenil hr two run,'
as postponed to nIUw the house to go into I , . . . . .
imitiilh'i. ot the whole mi Hi,. Indian I "m ni'l tim.UhHiih n miiitliern nliduu noin-
Without disposing of the j mi**lon. I’lnceil on calendar. Gonsldenu
id the house nil- j tiou was then resumed of unfinished liusi-
In the liotiHo on tin- 20th, eonsldorn-
oii was resumed of the resolutions reported
run the eoinmittee. on privileges relative to j
of the house in counting (lie i
In the house on the 22d, hills were in-
nluceu: By Mr. Frye, to establish a court
- the trim of eonti sted elections for ofiices
president and vice-president. It provide*
may bo contested hy any
ness—the bill in regard to counting the elec
toral vote. Mr. Conkliug who was entitled
> the lloor, not having arrived, recess xva*
l ! Helium Harris, on it lour to Egypt,
found under tlio lloor of an old tomh
Thebes a largo roll of papyrim cover
with inxcrlptioiiH. It wax olio hundred
and thirty-nine feet hy Hixtccn and a half
inches broad, and looked something like
a stair eiirpet. Mr. JlnrriH hoilght it at
a comparatively small price. .Miss Holima
Harris felt convinced that it waa a treas-
me, and to make stiro against accidents
she set herself to the immense work of
tracing sign and letter on it upon paper
of equal extent. She Hucccodcd in mak
ing nfac rimilr. of it. Her fattier died and
the lady took a house at Koiimel Dyk,
A few years ago an oxplo-
> Ims
es for
that »
blent, and that the court for such
i ..-..-it elections shall consist of the chief-
p.irl of her merchant* to utilize the ndv.m- justice of the supreme court, nnd six judge-
loves of direct railroad communication with | >f the circuit court*, to he selected by the
Chicago, wc may mention that that citv re- 1 « hief-iustiec. By Mr. Caulfield, to regulate
ceived the past yea
corn—nil increase of
taken for ten minutes, when f»n senate re- | Alexandria „
assemhlcil, Mr. Conkliug not having yet nr- 1 sion occurred in the house, which
rived. Mr. Hargent then t"ok the lloor and ,|„ r( ,,| fragments. Of its contents the
ll,|. lloor. Till. (Il l,III I, (toil! liy I limrmr-il, till- |iiipyriln nml Minn Hollmn
Mn
! lull and Mcsi
trie previnu* year. I
commands the hog*, I
118 -barrel* of pork
reliable
* ninny voted nnv who were
> the bill. At four o'clock a. m
as still speaking and thu prospee
Whyte
ork. It i'
. . .! the ilf*po*ltiou of troop* in the District of
bushel* of copunbirt. R v m,. Hayler, to leform the
K*) bushels over civil service. Adjourned.
tin- corn, she j The house on the 23d, considered the
lie shipped 51.», ; resolution* reported on hy the committee on
year and - •-,<*!♦'» j privileges, and was addressed hy Mr. Heelye.
r. her produce p| )C house judiciary committee unanimously
o/sK)— $2,tKNi ( fKK» I resolved that artiefes of impenchment ought
She has hand- not be preferred against George M. Robeson,
, . secretary of Hie nax’y. Mr. Cox, ehnirman
■ 1 ' * >ous. i n f jj ic committee on election frauds in New
(’apt. I'nw- York, submitted a report ill regard to the hill: Yeas-Messrs. Alcorn, Allison, Bar-
the represent*- i “Ib-ued tampering with Mr. Hewitt’s mail in ! num, Bayard, Bogy, Bnoth, Boutwell, Burn-
nv org'ni.ed ' i the New York postofliee. It completely e\- side, Chaffee, Cliristianey, Cockrell, Conk-
“• > ir.*n.z• in onera f C „ poktinaster James anil Ills sul/ordi- ’ ling, • ooper. < rugin, Davis, Dawes, Dennis.
°P Inc Rsrrata-; j„ the matter ind declares that no : Edmunds, Frclinghuyscn, Oolcltliwaite.Gor-
sen, marks the lieginnlng of such tampering has been done. I’rintcd and 1 don, Howe, .rohnstou, Jones (Fla.), Jones
important cnicrnri-e A recommitted. Adjourne I. i Nev.), Kelly, Kernan, SleCrecrv,McDonald,
„ s „ t „ml ,1„. '-arj. j In (be Iioiim on the 21th, conhldernlirm sStJCurr’
able th*! company to do the j wg* resumed of the resolutions reported by I Hharon, .St«veus*ui,'Teller, Thtiriuon, Will-
tlie govern- the committee on privileges, and xva* n,|. j lace, Whyte, Wimlom, Withern, Wright
•I* , .. I NnVM—Bfh
lied for several hours.
In the HonaU) on the 25th, tho debate
in the senate on the bill reported by the se
lect committee in regard to counting the
electoral vote was continued all night, Mr.
Morten continuing his argument, The fol
lowing i« the vote in detail on the electoral
ovenicnt* at the mouth
i enterprise that stands
id can oiicced without
val enterprise
run the government. If this enterprise j
im ts with nny opposition we propose to
ilreused hy Mr. McDill (Iowa) in fovor of the
resolutions submitted by the minority of the
on its own merits eoinmittee. Mr. Payne, from the committee
, ... ‘ | on banking and currency, reported a bill to
•reaking up »")' amend existing laws in regard to national
iving any subsidy j gold hank*. He explained the object of the
on (Wh
Hainilto
, Bruce. -
Hamlin, Ingalls, Mitchell, Mo
themselves against xvhat we
most important improvement
valley—the opening of the Mi*
bill to be to allow these hank**
notes to the amount of ninety pi
illation,
no array ,j n j re those hank*
ider the | with the assistant
per cent.
iHsippi r
* and Cou ricr: A pri-
, Patterson, -Sargent, .Sliernmn, West—17.
Adjourned.
In the Honnte on the 2(5th, it xva*
! gold i agreed, as reported Gy the judiciary com
mittee last si-Hsion, to create, a sinking fund
for the settlement of the indebtedness of the
asnrer at Man Francisco | Pacific railroad companies, should he taken
up at the expiration of the session to-day, il
thus becoming the unfinished busincaa at the
leting. Morning having expired,
Charleston X
vatc letter from J
has moved to Sax'annah since the epidemic,
to hi* friend* in Golnmbu*, Gh., gives tne
following interesting account of xvhat our
afflicted sifter city has done to relieve her
destitute poor. It i* a record of which the
citisens may beproud: “The late epidem-
detnjilion fund. The bill was passed. Mr.
Lamar from the Pacific railroad committee
reported hack favorably senate bill extend-
fH?v!
eight years the time foi
lion of the nortbe.’ii Pacific railroad.'
Holimm iiih'Ic a point of order, that u
Mr.
the rules the bill r
sideration In committee of the whole, bias-
it involved the disposition of an
i laid
■ailed up the petition of the
democratic presidential electors of Florida,
recently presented by him, asking that their
votes he counted as the true return, and ad-
dressed the senate at length in regard to the
recent election in that state. He argued
that the Tildcn electors were legally elected,
I had been deprived of their rights by the
U„l. -he house . meJ.ce from The pre»Ment ' ,u ( e , T >r ' 1 ' " llk ' h , '"' 1 "" i 1 !' 1 ';
in reward to the n-e ot troop, it the late '7'* 1 '"'thorilv enrl no power to po beliinrl
rc rn.de Urn pr'ovi.ion. foror|.han children j t! ec V.? n ' V " r, * in * ,, ) r P™"” 1 "' ln ’‘ Mo,play, j "" ,h ‘ colll,IJr Atl-
, , . , ' , Mr. Wood then onered bis resolution that i '
and tor w,dorr, necei-ary, and nobly has , he nre Si , B e he referred to . .elect commit- 1 "-~ J
Savannah met the emergency. She has ** tee of eleveu to inquire whether there had THE ELECTORAL BILL.
tabliihed one asylum for orphan boys and been any exercise of authority not warrant-
two f„, orphan girU, end two widow.' home. wh°'=h rte^.rMldinT'lr" jSltWe! ! T "' » r **■• B ‘' 1 - » »•-—* the Ee»--t-.
for the needy and deserving poor; also '* | *pom*ible, with jiower to send for persons ! After an all night session devoted to
home for the liomelesf, where all who need j and papers. The resolution was then I debate, the senate on the twenty-fifth
food may go and get a meal, nnd where ! adopted—yeas 134, nays 75. House ad- rmased the joint committee’s electoral
ytturig women out of employment may finil | j‘- arncd * ^ j will by the overwhelming vote of 47 to
a temporary home until a situation can he! liouse on the 25th Mr. Payre , ]<—more than two-thirds,
secured. This last named institute is kept j moved to go to husineHson the speaker’* ta- j On the 20th the house passed the bill
up by public and private charities, nnd the i hie, Hie order Ic ing to refer the bill to a joint! by a vote of 191 to 80.
* a committee, xvhich had come from the senate, First—It i* a temporary measure designed
1 to the committee on counting the electoral f, . ,r ,h,: "J. , l UC8ti 1 on " ,,l 1 iss,, ‘ :
. the present coinplicatiou onlv, and not in-
, vole. This was agree*! toby unanimous aH u ril j e to govern fiiturc electoral
i cin-ent. The bill was referred to the coin- j count*.
: mittec on electoral vote, ami was imruedi- ; •••c-inil—The time for beginning the elec-
| ately reported back by Mr. Payne, chairman | toral count h changed from February 1-4 to
five hundred dolla:
for distribution among the needy. A
vs after Mr. Corley had entered on his
he mayor of Havannah sent him n alieck
; hundred dollars, to be used amongst
xr of his church. He saps in his let-
rhe people here, a* churches, and
> houses meet in the hall of
If. Tho great Egyptian nrohtoolo
gist, M. lirugscli Boy. examined tho papy
rus nml tulil the Kliedivo of ita great
value, and tho Fgyptlnn govoriiment
offered the Hum of £2,000 for it. But
Miss Harris would not part with it. Sho
brought it to England, xvlion tho British
museum purchased it for n larger sum.
and from that time to this Dr. Birch ami
his corps of Egyptologists have Ik*cii de
ciphering it, while serines have been en
gaged in copying'it. It has now lxien
printed—in a suflicient numlxcr to supply
the musciiniH of Europe, and of America,
if they want it—with accompanying
translations of the text and learned notes
thereon.
It proves to Ik* a complete record of
the life and works of Barneses III., and
a statement of the condition of things at
Thebes 3,000 years ago. We learn from
it what the Thehans saw and heard at
church nnd what they had for dinner,
such as fish, water-fowl, pigeons, -oil,
bread and wine. We are introduced to
the beauties of Rameses’s harem. Much
of the record i- remarkably realistic, but
it is somewhat confusing to find that
among these realistic portions is an ac
count ol how Kameses III. went to hell
and there played at draughts with Isis
for the golden kerchief, which ho won.
Moreover tho last five sections of the
scroll consist of an address—a sort of
valedictory—uttered from |the same re
gion (Hades) by the monarch, in which
he recites the great victories he has
achieved, the hundreds of thousands of
cattle he has bestowed on the temples,
the slaves he has presented them, and
implores them to be loyv.l to his succes
sor, Barneses IV. Kuch a mixture of
jMjssihle fart, and certain fable may puzzle
any one who tries to bring actual history
out of thu papyrus; but one thincstands
out dear—tne character of Barneses
himself. The half million head of cattle
he claims to have bestowed on the gods
may be as mythical as bis game of
draughts with Isis, the Egyptian Proser
pine, but whether in hell or earth the
sultanic self satisfaction of Ramoses III.
is unquestionable.
There is a statue of George III. in the
Guildhall, with an inscription placed
there during his lifetime by aldermanic
courtiers, in which the characteristics
of tho angel Gabriel are attributed to
him, with a few of the selectest attrib
utes of the seven sages. The poor king
was mad at the time and England was
ground under the heel of the prince
regent; nevertheless the true portrait of
the king and his times may be derived
therefrom by one who can read between
the lines.—M. J). Conway*h fatter to Cin
cinnati Commercial.
SOUTHERN HOMES.
IitlrllltreiM-r, nmrxnlcniH* and Iniliinti-.v
of Nouiliri-n Wottinii—■Iokiimi In iin*
Nontli l'M|)i-«*t«*ntlonn hut Pinttj.
In reply Io a very hard criticism upon
southern homos ana womon, a correspond
ent writes in the New York Times:
Onoof the dwellers in a southern homo
would like to say a few words to her
northern neighbors in reply to the strict
ures ol your correspondent on "South
ern Homes.” Sho must begin bystatiiig
that circumstances and opportunity have
enabled her to sco a good deni of tho
world—of social life at home, north and
south, nml abroad, of aooinl life in its
highest conditions, ns well as in its
healthier, happier, middlo state. With
Northern homos she is Intimately ac
quainted, nnd has for many years enjoyed'
tho greater prlvllogo of Intimacy In En-
glish .ionics; in Franco, Switzerland nml
Holland sho had like privileges, to a less
extent, to study the habits of the people,
particularly of tho women, l’erhaps
those opportunities may justify u dweller
in .a southern homo of expressing her
opinion of these homos and tho women
who make them, the class with which
tho Times' correspondent seems ho well
acquainted.
Planters in nnto-bollum times, (It i.s
useless to speak of plantation homes since
tho war, beenuso thoy linvo virtually
ceased to exist), had almost always two
homes, a necessity as well as a luxury,on
account of tho general unhenlthiness in
summer of that part of tho country best
adapted for the growth of rice ami cot
ton. The plantation houses, as a rule,
in Georgia, were large and rambling,
xvithout modern improvements,and with
no pro tension to arch 1 tee. turn! beauty,
ami without line furniture; there was,
however, good, often elegant, table ap
pointments, nml a great deal of old-fash
ioned plate. A large portion was seen in
the north soon after the war; tho remain
der saved has boon sold niece hy piece us
necessity compelled. Thera was also
plenty of stable room, ami ovory facility
tor a largo-hoar tod hospitality; for in those
(lavs people visited their Blonds, with
children, servants, and horses; this was
the custom of tin country. Tho summer
homes were always more or less pretty,
without protonHion, and never without
flowers, which all sou thorn women love
woll enough to cultivate with their own
hands, nnd who understand it thoroughly,
many sending annually to various
florists in the north for additions to
their greonliouses instead of sanding to
Franco for fine drosses ami bonnets. Tho
summer homes were rarely carpeted, and
the floors, "dry rubbed” daily, were so
polished as to require caro and habit to
avoid slipping; the extensive galleries
scrupulously scoured; tho bcd-lincn
washed In pure spring water, of which
there is so great an abundance, smelling
sweet of old-fashioned lavohdor, the fa
vorite porfuine of tho linen press. Now
these "lazy, dirty women, had, with
i'(.;nro ami management of their $wo
homes, a great deal to do, besides; they
Ixmght, cut and arranged all tho cloth
ing for the plantation "hands,” taught
their seamstress, trained their cooks—no
easy chance of a good cook hy oflbrina
high wages. These cureless mothers had
to teach tliolr daughters before thoy were
wives. Tho writer being without these
domestic accomplishments when first
called to niuuugo her own home, having
been educated at tho north, was stimu
lated to competition by tempting deli
cacies sent, her in a time of sickness,
made by tho hands of her kind neighbors
nml friends. These "lazy, selfish”
southern women are singularly active
and devoted to tho Hick and Hufloring.
Boil thorn It vines, like English, are per
manent, descending from father to son;
they aro loved and livod in, or rather
were before the war and poverty wrench
ed them away. The love of flowers is
universal; the writer has a friend now
threc-scoro and ten, who, at no hour of
the day, 1h over seen without her dainty
little hoquetof holiotrope, scarlet gera
nium, nml tho like, in the bosom of her
ureas, glowing amid its dorp black, like
the hope of heaven from out her deep
sorrow ; this lady is exceptional, not in
her tastes, hut tho means left her to in
dulge thorn. In short, the dweller in a
southern homo for tho greater part of
her life can testify by knowledge, hy
comparison, to the intelligence, active
benevolence, and industry of southern
women. Reduced hy a sudden over
whelming blow from aflliience to jMjver-
ty, they perform the menial offices ne
cessary to the cornJort of their families
with a cheerful fortitude which should
command the respect and admiration of
all generous minds. This is the testi
ly of one wit hout pro udicenml with-
favor, who feels capable of judging,
and who also fools impelled to lift up
her voice against tho ignorance whieli
stigmatizes southern women as "igno
rant,” "lazy,” and "selfish,” living in
homes of "squalor, untidiness ami pover
ty.” To the last charge, in many, very
many instances, they plead guilty.
The Cotton Mupply.
Tho next in importance to tho A merl
in crop as regards quantity is the sup
ply from the East Indies. Europe used
to receive thence on an average 1,500,000
bales a year; last season tlie imports
were only 1,200,000 bales. The cause is
to he found in the extension of local
mills (during the last twelve months
they consumed 230,000 hales Bombay
cotton), in the almost entire cessation of
shipments from Calcutta and in the
largely increased culture and export of
wheat. The same causes still prevail,and
are further aggravated this year by the
partial failure of the crops in the south
ern provinces, which have their outlet at
Bombay, and also of the Madras crops.
Another falling off is predicted of 150,-
000 to 200,000 oales in the receipt* from
the East Indies, although, as is reported,
the exports from Bombay for tne first
half year ending the thirtieth of June
may provo littlo short of those during
tho same period in 1870, because with
the full yield in the three principal dis
tricts the lailure in tne southern
provinces will not tell on the shipments
from Bombay until after the monsoon.
The Bombay hales weigh about threo
hundred pounds, the Madras and Bengal
al>out three hundred pounds.
The Egyptian crop, like our own, hns
been marketed unusually early. From
first of October to twenty-fifth of No
vember, receipts in Alexandria were 1,-
20-1040 cantars against 857,000 and 8-43,-
000 cantars the two preceding years,
showing an excess of 370,000 cantars
(05,000 bales) over those in 1875. On
tho twentieth of December tho excess
had been reduced to 140,000 cantars,and
it was expected that it would disappear
with tho first week in January, when a
continued falling off would leave the
crop 50,000 to 00,000 bines short of that
of last year, namely 410,000 to 420,000
bales of six hundred pounds each,against
408,000 and 437,000 bales in 1885-70 nml
1874-5. From the other Mediterranean
ports tho imports have remained singu
larly stationary, amounting to about
100,000 halos of throe hundred nnd eigh
ty pounds each, and this will probably
lie the supply of tho season.
The Brazils, which supplied Europe
ill tho years 1871 to 1874 Inclusive on an
average with 7(50,000 bales a year, sent
550,000 hales in 1875, ami last year only
405,000 hales. As the low prices rilling
must havo prevented an extended
growth nn increase can hardly bo ex
pected. The bales weigh, however, only
one hundred and sixty pounds, nml 25,-
000 to 50,000 bales more or less aro of
little consequence.
The constant doclino on tho value has
had the same effect on the import from
the West Indies, Peru, ole.; 210,000
hales wore received in 1871, 113,000 bales
In I885,aml last season only 08,000 bales;
thoy woigh about two hundred pounds.
^ From tho nbovo it will appear that
Europo, according to trustworthy ad
vices, will probably receive about 150,-
000 to 200,00 bales East India ami 50,-
000 to 00,000 Egyptian cotton less than
hist season, equal In weight to 180,000 to
250,000 bales American cotton.--New
York Emnintj Poet,
School Statistics.
We havo received a pamphlet contain
ing an abstract of tho annual roport of
the United StntoH commissioner of edu
cation, from which wo derive much in
formation. Tho total numbor of teachors
reported in the. public schools is 202,202.
But, large as this number is, it is 100,000
short of the number required to the en
tire school population reported, allowing
forty scholars on an average to the
teacher. In the southern slates more
men are employed than women ; in tho
northern and central states, more womon
than inon ; tho excess of womon touchers
is much the greatest in Now England,
especially in Massachusetts, whore some
me already beginning to think that the
Interests of education have suffered hy
tho too exclusive surrender of tIn-
work of primary instruction to one sex.
In MassacliuscttH there arc 1,1 (51) men and
8,047 womon teachers. In Alabama,
Delaware, Kentucky, Nevada and Texas
the same salaries arc paid for the same
work to men and women teachers. The
nvurngo monthly compensation of teach
ers in Illinois, male, $48.21, and femalo,
♦48.||2; in Michigan it is, male, $51.45,
female, $15.50 ; in Iowa, male, $215.08,
female, $28,33; In Wisconsin, male,
$43.50, female, $27.15; in Indiana, mule,
$05, female, 40. Illinois returns an in
crease of 10,135 in school population, of
13,001 in school enrollment, of four hun;
dred and eighty-nine in tho number of
touchers, nnd ot seventeen in Ihonumbor
of school-houses. But tho receipts for
schools woro less by $33,038, and too ex
nonditiiros hy $47(5.483 than in 1871.
Two kindergarten roport one hundred
and nine children. Tho state normal
university and fivo other normal schools
had 1,141 normal pupils and graduated
one hundred and five. In the one hun
dred and sixteen public high schools
there were about A,480 students, who
with 2,(535 in business colleges, 2.785 in
private academies, and 3,193 under hoc
ondary training elsewhere, make 12,080
academic students. Bix institutions for
superior instruction of women report
three hundred and forty-eight coleglatc
students, with two hundred unclassified;
twenty-four colleges and universities,
1,(190 collegiates; two schools of science,
four hundred and thirteen. Thirteen
seminaries report four hundred and
eighty-six students of theology; four law
schools, one hundred and oiglity-threo
legal ones; six schools of medicine, fivo
hundred and seventy-six; and ton special
schools, 1,919.
Icebergs or Hie Antarctic.
Hir (’. Wyville Thompson recently
gave a lecture in Glasgow upon tho pecu
liarities in the physical conditions of the
Antarctic regions. In the months of
.fununry and February, 1874, the Chal
lenger was cruising in Antarctic waters,
1 tho observations made at that time
furnished the shaker with the material
for his address. Tho peculiar conforma
tion of the icebergs filling the sea south
of latitude sixty degrees was the subject
of particular discussion. The bergs en
countered hv the Challenger were uni
versally table-topped nnd perfectly flat,
with a covering or dazzling white snow.
Home of the larger ones were one or two
miles in length, and had evidently pre
served their original position. The aver
age height of these bergs was about two
hundred feet. Their sides were blue, the
pale tint of tho upper part deepening
gradual I v to the lierg was seen to bo
traversed with a delicate ruling of faint
blue lines, separated more widely as they
neared the top.
Hir Wyville deems the evidence nearly
conclusive that these icebergs have their
origin on land which is conpsrativcly
low and flat, and bordered for a consider
able distance hy shallow water. "I con
ceive,” he says, "that the upper part of
one of these iceberjgs, including hy far
the greater part of its base, and culmi
nating in the portion exposed above the
surface of the sea, was formed by the
piling up of successive layers of snow
during tne period, amounting, perhaps,
to centuries, during which the ice-cap
was slowly forcing itself over the low
land nnd out to sen, over tho long extent
of g -Title slope, until it reached a depth
considerably beyond two hundred fath
oms. The lower specific weight of the
ice then caused an upward strain, which
at length overcome tho [cohesion of the
mass, and portions were rent off and
floated away. If this be the true history
of tho formation of these icebergs, tho
absence of all land dohris in the portion
exposed above the surface of tho sea is
readily understood. If any such exist,
it must ho confined to the lower part of
the berg—to that part which has moved
upon the floor of the ice' ** “*
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Tills 1h jKisltively the latest: I would
I woro a school inarm and among tho
school inarms bund, with a small boy
stretched across my knee and a ruler in
my baud.
That Hioux Indian talked sarcastical
ly enough to tho government official:
“ Why don’t white man put Injun ou
wheels, like bravo at tobacco storo, so ho
can ho wheeled around qnsy?”
Lazinicks is not always ovonly dis
tributed over a fellow. You may have
known a great many lazy people, but
did you ever know anybody who didn’t
use IiIh mouth enough?
It 1h the right of every domestic ani
mal to have good food, good air,and good
shelter from tho wonthor, nnd it pays
their ownors, in every way, to furnish
them.
Contentment is not a brawler, nor
disturber of tho ponce, but should tho
shorin'want him fora purpose, ho would
sooner look for him in the pqor man’s
cottage, t han ill tho rich man’s palace.
Miss Coleman is tho richost lady in
Washington, and ono of the wealthiest in
the country. The greatest part of her
princely income Is derived from coal, and
nor mines in Pennsylvania arc said to ho
inexhaustible.
The Moors, after occupying Spain
ovorsovon hundred years, and milking it
during the middle ages the homo of agri
culture, as other arts and scionces, were
expelled in 1492. tho same year Colum
bus discovered tlio now world.
When some one asked Choate how ho
was going to avoid tho force of some very
ugly facts, and how ho expected to shu-t
tho eyes of tho jury to it, he replied,
"Why, sir, i shall jump them right over
The ieo crop is enormous this season,
and suggests tho probability that the.
consumption of water in a liquid stale
iioxlmimmcr will bo proportionately less.
"If wo can havo cheap ice,” said a man
with a blossom on his nose, "wo don’t
really need any water.”
"Tiui , i,ETH,”said thedoctorscntentioiiH-
ly. Tho husband of u year rushed out
on the hack porch, thought upon his
slender income, glared upon the snow-
clad yard and exclaimed with a wild,
mocking laugh : "Bon-struck in Janu
ary.”
Leaning over tho gate last week, says
"llohokuH,” I saw approaching a pretty
girl that I had not seen ho fore in threo
years. I exclaimed: "Well, Mollie, I’m
so glad to sco you that I’ve half mind to
embrace you.” Drawing herself up to
full height, the ready answer whh : “Hir,
do you take me for an opportunity?”
Pineapple shirts nnd coats will soon
appear in the market. Tho pineapple is
cultivated extensively in the East Indies,
where tho leaves arc converted into a
kind of wadding used for upholstering
purposes instead of hair, and Into a sort
of fiunuol, of which substantial coats
and shirts arc made.
A Rome miss of seven summers 1ms
concluded to maray a big man for lior
first husband and a little one for tho sec
ond, so that she can cut;tho clothes of
the flrHl down and make them over for
his HticccHsqr. Thus tho hard tiiuos
force home lessons of rigid economy
and practical sense upon tender child
hood.
One of the most noteworthy provis
ions made hy cardinal Anlonclli in his
will 1h in regard to his servants. It is
arranged that those who had served him
twenty-five years shall havo their wages
continued to them for tho rest of their
lives; those who Imd been with him fif
teen years shall have two-thirds of their
wages; and other servants one-third.
When King Theodore, of Abyssinia,
committed suicide, the English officers
found and brought away a little hoy,
the son and heir of the dead king. Tho
lad haslheon educated in England, in fact
tho queen hits in a manner adopted him.
Tho prince of Abyssinia is now at Rugby,
visits tho royal household during his
holidays, and is studious hut not Hinart.
The Commodore and Ham Harger.
One of Commodore Vanderbilt’s asso
ciates in his various railway enterprises
is Ham Barger, a wag as well as a director,
At one of tlie meetings tho commodore
said he didn’t see how it was that Jay
Gould gotutall thofactsand figuresaliout
New York Central.
"I’ll toll you how you can prevent his
knowing any thing about your roads,” said
Ham.
"How?” asked tho commodore.
"Elect him a director, was tho reply.
The autocratic fashion in which the old
man managed the road is well known.
A speculator wished Ham to induce
the commodore to go into an operation in
the street.
"If tlio commodore will take a hand
! can make, a million, without the pos
sibility of losing a dollar,” said the hope
ful operator.
"No danger of loss?” said Ham.
"None at all, and sure to mako all tho
money we want,” was the reply.
"Well, f don’t know about tho old
man,” [said Ham, "hut, if you feel so
sure about the tiling, I have no doubt
I might get his son Cornelius to join
you.”
Ham got word one evening while at
dinner that the commodore would like to
sec him. Hastily partaking of a littlo
food he repaired to the. old gentleman'll
residence, forgetting in his hurry to put
a cigar in his pocket. After the busi
ness was finished Ham said : "Commo
dore, you brought me away from my
dinner in such a hurry that I didn’t get
my smoke I l believe I would like to
try a cigar.” (Tho commodore was
smoking a delightfully fragrant Hava
na).
"All right, Sam,” he replied, "you will
find a match on the mantel piece.” Sam
smoked when ho got home.
The bearish Twenty-third street party
weroheavlly short of Central. The com
modore waa buying all any one wanted to
sell at constantly advancing figures. Ham
happened in at the beer garden, and of
course the talk waa of the commodore’s
im roll uses. "I tell you,” said one of tho
I,mins, more savage than tlie rest, “tho
old niiiii ought to Ikj taken caro of; hu has
lost liis head.”
“I don’t see any ono that 1 suspect of
having found it,” was Ham’s quiet re
mark, and nothing more was said on that,
subject,