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A 22 021JYBY A2 TA W,
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i. Morrell.
SAll*taction guaranteed in both Work and Pricea.
jan.Mf ;
COBB, ERWIN A COBB,
attorneys at law,
ATHENS, GA.
i itfice in the Drupree Building.
G. I). HILL,
AT1021JYEY AT ZAW,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Vrompt attention given to all bnaineea and the aarne
peri fully »olicUd. Janll-lv
They waitod there, by tbs pasture bare—
Dapple, and Dour, and Dan,
6o I afip the bar, in the well-worn peato,
And drop them one by one;
Bat 1 do not go, at 1 always go,
To tee the milkiug done.
1 lean my cheek on the paitare ban,
And watch the atan come oat;
Perhaps they will miss me, np at the honte,
And wander wbat 1 am about;
Bat Pro somethin? to think of here to-night
While I watch the stars come onL
Last night when I came for the beauties,
Willie was walking with me.
And he asked me if I thought ever
A former’s wife I could be ;
For I am a city girl, you know,
And a former’s son is be.
Willie wear, home-span trowsen,
And snob a ooarae straw hat!
But the face that looks from nnder the rim,
la handsome and bnve, for all that;
And hia eyes, they look at roe so queer
That my heart goes pit-s-pat.
Every night, when the work Is dons,
We art in the twilight gray—
Willis and I, in the ivied porch,
And ting the boon away;
I think it’s better than opera,
Or theatre, any day.
He said last night, the summer
Is brighter because I am here,
That his work wss never to easy
As it is when I am near—
And he said—bat there, I won’t tell,
Saoh words are too sacred and dear.
How pare is the breath of the clover,
That comet from the meadows mown 1
How holy the sky ahovs me,
With tLc twinkling lights foil sown!
No wonder that Willie is better
Than men who live in town.
So I think I will stay in the country,
With Dolly, and Dapple, and Dun;
Perhaps in the for, sweet summers,
They would know should I foil to come,
In the dewy eve, to the pasture bars,
To drop them, one bv one.
POPE BARROW,
ATTOTIJYEY A2 Z/ADTy
ATHENS, GA.
office in Mr. J. II. Newton’* new building.
jan4.lv.
AUGUST DORR,
iMEll CHANT TAILOR,
ljironrsn or Fix* Cunns asp Dorsxucs,
|i ATS, READY-MADE CLOTHING, AND GENTS’
FURNISHING GOODS,
febU.Sm. 222 Broad 8treet, Augusta, Gm.
W. R. LITTLE,
\t t o r ney al Jjair,
CABNESVILLE, GA.
PATRIOTIC LETTER
FROM
HON. B. H. HILL TO HON. H. H.
CARLTON.
UR. IIILL’s VIEWS ON STATE AID TO RAROADS
—THE RULE AND THE EXCEPTION—MARI
ETTA AND NORTH GEORGIA HOAD—WHAT
TIIK PEOPLE HAVE DONE—WHAT THESTATB
SHOULD DO—PRIVATE CAPITAL EXHAUSTED
—THE STATE CAN LOSE NOTHING—THE
STATE WILL GAIN MUCH—THE HOPE OF THE
SOUTH—WHAT NORTHERN MEN SAY—“THE
STATE I I.OVK AND THE PEOPLE I SERVE.”
[From Dsily Chronicle and Sentinel, Feb. 9th.]
Hon. II. II. Carlton's Letter.
House of Representatives,
Atlanta, Feb. 7, 187(5.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
Enclosed please find letter which I have
this day received from the Hon. B. H. Hill.
Will you please do me the favor and Mr.
Hill the honor and justice to give this pa
triotic letter space in your valuable coltuns.
Very respectfully and truly,
II. H. Carlton.
'swig aw inu iu cosjr
reach of railroads. It is astonishing to what
an extent the characters of our people, as a
civilized people have been misunderstood by
the masses of the country. They have been
taught by a licentious press, in the pay of
miserable demagogues, to regard us as bru*
tal and cruel, and as having no regard for
what are called “human rights.”
These false impressions cannot last The
masses of the Northern people are not only
willing to know the truth concerning us, but
they will be really glad to know it, and this
knowledge will bring great numbers of the
best of the laboring classes to settle among
us. I could say much on this suhject that
would be interesting which I have learned
in the last three weeks; but I am not writ
ing a political letter.
The Northeastern Road must a! o he
built, but I am glad to lean that the present
legislation is sufficient for that. There
ought also to be a branch from either the
Air Line or the Marietta Road to Dahlonega,
hut these branches will follow if the main
line is secured. Now, my dear Doctor, I
know you love Georgia, and will do all you
can to promote her prosperity. Mark what
I tell you, there is honor, wealth and power
for our glorious old State in the work to
which I now call your attention. Don’t be
afraid. In five years, every man who helps
in this work will have cause to rejoice.
Every dollar so applied will come back to
the State bringing a troop for its companions.
The good will be returned “pressed down,
shaken together and running over.”
I have not been informed what measures
or proposition (if any) have been presented
to the General Assembly on this subject.
My mind voluntarily turned to work this
evening, and my interest is so awakened in
its behalf, and in behalf of the whole State
on aecount of it, that I could not retire un
til I wrote you this letter. And I close it
feeling I have discharged one more duty
to the State I love and to the people I'serve.
With high regards, I am Your friend.
[ Signed ] Benj. H. Hill.
J. S. DORTCH,
Attorney al hair,
CABNESVILLE, 8 A.
• A G. McCURRY,
./ TT O II .V JE r .< T i. -* If,
HARTWELL, GEORGIA.
kll.l. give utrict peraonxl attention to all buaineaa en
isled to hi, ear*. Aug. 4—40—ly.
M. Jackson. L. W. Thomas
JACKSON A THOMAS,
Attorneys at Law,
Athens, Georgia.
JOHN W. OWEN,
Attorney at Law,
toccoa nmr, oa.
I 'V»ll practice in all the countie* of the Western Cir-
pit, Hart and Madison of the Northern Circuit. Will
e Uncial atteuion to all claim* entruated to hi* care,
P. fi. THOMPSON,
Attorney at Law,
cial attention paid to criminal practice. For refer-
* app.v to Kx. Gov. T. 11. Watta and Hon. David
pton, 5j,nt*omery Ala. Office over Barry’a Store,
Feb. S—tC
FRANK HARRALSON,
ATTORNEY AT W,
CLEVELAND, GA.
6'-l practice iu the countiea of White, Union, Lnm-
, Town,, and Fanning, and the Supreme Court at
Will give .pedal a * ” * , ‘ l
pled t.» hi, c
to all claim* ra
il 1878—41—tf.
E. SCHAEFER,
COTTON B UYER,
TOOCOA CITY, OA.
[lig!ie«i Col, 1‘ric. paid foe Cottoo.
*Gin, ,-id Free,.
Agent for Win
oetSOsrti.
E.
A. WILLIAMSON,
PRACTICAL
[atciimaker and jeweller,
|lh. King’, Drug Store, Broad Street, Athena, Ga.
1 *urk done in a enperior manner and warranted to
** satisfaction. Jan. 3— tf.
A. A. WINN,
-With-
100VER, STUBBS & CO.,
Cotton Kactors,
—And—
general Commission Merchants,
Savannah, Ga.
Tie,. Rope and other euppliea furnished.
. hberal eaah advances made on consignment* for
“ r •‘“proeot to Liverpool or NortLern porta.
May S0-tf.
AVERY AND ULE STABLE.
r-m Baggies and Horses for Hire.
terms reasonable
,,1TEIIEAD ’ Washington, Wilke, Co., Ga.
MEDICAL NOTICE.
^•■citation of many of my former petrona, I
a^tioo of Medicine
1 will pay eepecial attention to the dia-
™ ,to u>d Children, and the Cbronio DUeaaes
WM. KING, M. D
"* 'nt-u-iy,
K A GARDNER,
“ tera and General Jobbers,
xnlaa to the oitixrn of Athena
rwemi Location, two doors east of
^ h rh„^„^
March id. 18T8-ly.
Miss C. Potts,
s ^^°^ a Ll Q Dressmaker
j J° T " Uairanlty Baak.)
& street ' • - ” Athens.
^ *'***•• tad her Iritnda
^A8H r °NABLE styles.
t boaineaa, she fteU ■ore of
May 14, 1S78—28-tf.
Hon. B. II. Hill’s Letter.
, House of Representatives,
Washington, D. C., Feb. 4, 1876.
Hon. II. II. Carlton, House of Represent
tatives, Atlanta, Ga.:
My Dear Sir—I write this letter from a
sense of duty to the people of Georgia, and
address it to you because you are the repre
sentative from the county of my residence.
As a general proposition, I have opposed
indiscriminate State aid to railroads. The
abuso of the system has justly made it un
popular. But there are exceptions to all
rules, and the exceptions usually stand
on the same basis of wisdom with the
rule. Indiscriminate aid to corporations
impoverishes, ami oppresses the people, but
the exceptions are cases where a wise and
prudent aid will enrich the State—and les
sen the burdens of the people. Precisely
such an exception is that to which I now
call vour attention. The present session of
the Legislature should not adjourn without
extending such aid as will ensure the com
pletion of the Marietta and 'North Georgia
Railroad to the State line, or at least to Mor-
S tnton in the county of Fannin. In the
ret place the people of the counties through
which the road will run have shown the will
to do all they are able to do to complete the
work, and no people have struggled more
nobly to accomplish it. This is conclusive
proof that private capital would build the
road if the private capital existed, aud es
tablishes the fact that it must be a desirable
enterprise. In the second place the amuuut
of aid needed to enable these struggling peo
ple to accomplish the task, will be small
when compared to amounts usualy demand
ed for like enterprises. I doubt whether as
much work hns ever been done with so small
means as has already been done on this road,
and this will give assurance that the aid ex
tended by the State will be honestly and eco
nomically applied. Again ; in no event can
the State posssibly lose one dollar. Suppose
the State shall appropriate a given sum to
ensure the road’s completion, 1 venture now
to put on record my conviction that in less
than five years the additional taxes raised
upon the great increase of wealth and popu
lation in that portion of the State, will return
to the Treasury a sum annually equal to the
whole sum appropriated, and in ten years
the sum so returned will annually double the
sum so appropriated. Or, suppose the State
shall endorse the bonds of the Company.
The amount of capital invested, and the
value of the road when built, will more than
secure the State against possible loss, aud
the same result in the way of increased taxes
mentioned above would also follow. Every
dollar thus applied will be returned ten fold
to the present generation, and to the future
generations of our people a thousand fold.
Even then upon the mere question of a
money investment, every suggestion of pru
dence and wisdom favors the proposition.
But the half has not been told. , We must
recover our material power. Our people
must get up from their proverty. There
are but two ways to do it First, we must
multiply our industries; and, secondly, we
must raise our own supplies of every kind
possible, and make cotton exclusively a sur
plus crop. We shall be forever poor and
finally helpless if we.heed not those two things.
With railroad facilities through North Geor
gia, we shall develop a field for multiplied
industries, not surpassed on thi’ continent.
The active appropriation by skilled labor
of this portion of Georgia, will add to the
value of every acre of laud in the State,
and will increase the profits of every buxi
nes*. Such a region iu a Northern State
would be permeated by railroads in twelve
months. Then again the addition to our
population would add so greatly to our polit
ical power. Since the debate on the amnes
ty bill, I have been the recipient of letters
in great quantities from every State in the
Umon. Quite a number of the writers ex
press a great desire to move to Georgia, aud
the occupations.they wish to follow point to
North Georgia as the region that will admit
Extracts from Washington City corre
spondence Telegraph and Messenger:
Josh Bilungs.—This “antoosin cuss”
made fun at Lincoln Hall last night to an
audience that came with their mouths
plainly prepared for a series of grins and
guffaws. • Notwithstanding other attrac
tions, among them a sumptuous spread by
Boss” Shepherd, at which Grant and some
six hundred other snobs did honor to the
great developer, Josh had a good audience,
which broke into a ripple of cacliination
when a side door opened and in sneaked a
tall, unshaved, cadaverous-looking, long
haired, spectacled, bent-up chap, looking as
though he had stolen the book he carried
nnder his arm, and everybody knew at
once that Josh had arrived'. Without any
introduction lie rose up, rolled up his eye
balls, stretched out his neck, plunged both
hands into his pockets and let himself loose.
He was dressed in black to his chin, wore a
narrow white collar without any neck-tie,
and looked ns if he had just come from the
funeral of his last relative, and had brought
the ritual of the burial rite with him; but
when he opened ' his mouth the audience
began to titter and finally wound tip with
a regular guffaw. Josh never smiled once,
however, and for more than an hour kept
the mouths of the audience on the stretch.
He is undoubtedly a decided success in his
“ pccooliar” line, and if he gets down South,
you may say to your renders that it will
pav to hear him.
fedwin Booth lias lately made a pretty
comfort blc contract with Manager Ford
of this city and Baltimore. He is to receive
8600 per night, for fifty nights. One of the
terms is that he (Booth) is never to do any
night travel, and is never to leave a stop
ping place botnre 11a. m., unless he chooses
to do so. This would seem to leave little
margin of profit for the manag r, but he
calculates upon netting at least 85,000.
Boo h will make no contract, on any terms,
to play in this city, on account of it painful
associations, nor will he play on Friday
night, because it was on that night that ins
brother killed Lincoln. He is very popu
lar, however, with Washington play-goers,
who always attend in large numbers at
Baltimore whenever he is billed in that
city.
Washington is getting its handkerchiefs
and lachrymal ducts ready for the coming
of that eminent humbug, Hammond, the
professional revivalist, who will descend
u]>on the people next Saturday night. He
will hold two or three meetings daily for
three weeks, and doubtless leave with his
pockets comfortably flush. R.
Aatoaiahlar Coincidences. If Nothing
Authenticated Stories or Xarrelions Vis
ions—Phenomena that have Baaed the
Most Skilful „and Intelligent or Savants.
[Extract from N«w York Ban.)
Dr. Hibbert has sliown that spectriea are
nothing more than ideas or the recollected
images of the mind, which, in certain states
ot bodily indisposition have been rendered
mftre vivid than actual impressions, and that
pictures of the “ mind’s eye” are more vivid
than the pictures of the body’s eire. Sir
David Brewster, ia bit “ Natural Magic,”
goes further than this, and shows that the
“ mind’s eye” is actually the body’s eye, and
that the retina is-tbe%6m>j6f tablet on
which both dasns of Impresrious are pain
ted, are by means of which they receive their
visual existance under the same optical laws.
He thinks that this is not only true in the
case of spectral illusions, but that it holds
good of all ideas recalled by the memory or
created by the imagination, and that it may
be regarded as the fundamental law in the
science of pneumatology.
Robert Dale Owen in his “Footfalls on the
Boundary of Another World,” tells a mar
vellous story ot coincidences that one can
hardly believe were brought about by* no
other agency titan chance. Mr. Owen says
that the story was communicated to him in
July, 1859, by Capt. J. S. Clarke of the
schooner John Hallock, then lying at Rut
gers slip, who had it direct from Mr. Bruce
himself. He adds that the Johu Hallock
was then trading between New York and
Santiage, Cuba.
Mr. Robert Bruce, bom at Torbay, iu the
south of England, and there bred up to a sea
faring life, in 1828, when about 30 years old,
was first mate on a bark trading between
Liverpool and St. John, N. B. On one of
her voyages bound westward, being then five
or six weeks out and having neared the
eastern portion of the banks of Newfound
land, the Captain and mate had been on
deck at neon, taking an observation of the
sun ; after which they both descended to cal
culate their day’s work. The cabin, a small
one, was immediately at the stem ot the
vessel, and the short stairway descending to
it ran athwaruhips. Immediately opposite
to this stairway, just beyond a small square
lauding, was the mate’s state room; and
from that landing there were two doors,
close to each other, the one opening alt into
the cabin, the other fronting the stairway
into the state room. ..
THE VISION.
The desk was in the forward part of the
room, close to the door; so that auy one sit
ting at it and looking over his shoulder could
see into the cabin. The mate, absorbed in
his calculations, which did not result as he
expected, varying considerably from the
dead reckoning, had not noticed the captain’s
motions. Having completed his calcula
tions, he called out, without lookiac around,
I make our latitude and longitude so and
Can that be right?- How is yours?”
As there was no reply, he repeated his ques
tion, glancing over his shoulder and seeing,
as he thought, the Captain busy writing on
his slate. .Still no answer. Thereupon he
arose; and, as he fronted the cabin door,
Ilarrls-lsnu.
An emigration agent accosted an old
negro in Columbus the other day : “ I say,
old man, don’t you want to make some
money ?” “ Dat’s jest what I’m a sarchin’
roun’ fer boss. 1 hongry right now.”
“Well, in Missippi, the planters are paying
mighty high prices for good work hands,
and if you .” “ Hole on dar, boss Jes
wait I’m a Middle Georgia nigge
done been out dar. I’m a good wuk hand,
too. I wuk my seif, out dar, an’ den turn
ronn’ an’ wuk myself back agin’, an’ right
here I’m gwine ter stay, if de Lord spars
me. When I dies I wants ter have a belly
spang full o’ bread an’ meat, an* I wants ter
be berried in a seminary whar I’m ’quainted
wid de folks. You hecred my horn!”
A Georgia editor remarks: “Lendus
your ears.” Hanged if we know what he
wants with anybody else’s whenjiis own
are as big as door mats.
General Young is invited to deliver the
address before the Florida State Fair Asso
ciation.
Mr. Charles Herbst has brought the
Macon library at once to his feet. The
institution is out of debt, and has several
hundred dollars in the treasury.
The Hinesville Gazette says that there
seems to be a perfect exodus of people
from the interior in Bulloch, Tattnall and
Montgomery to the coast of Bryan, liberty
and McIntosh. Every week some one
passes with his goods aud chattels, seeking
home «n the islands or main along the
coast. The attractions arc the mild cli
mate, the fertile soil and the abundance of
fish and game.—Savannah News.
the figure he had mistaken for the Captain
raised its head and disclosed to the astonished
mate the features of an entire stranger.
Bruce was not a coward; but, as he, met that
fixed gaze looking upon him in grave silence,
and became assured that it was no one whom
he bad ever seen, it was too much for him;
he rushed up to the deck in such evident
alarm that it instantly attracted she Cap
tain’s attention. “ Why, Mr. Bruce,” said
the latter. “ what in the world is the matter
with you ?”
The matter, sir ? Who is that, fU your
desk ?”
“ No one, that I know of.”
“But there is sir; there’s a stranger
there." ..
A stranger! Why, man, you must be
dreaming. Yon must have seen the steward
there or the second mate. Who else would
venture down without orders ?”
“ But sir, he was sitting in your arm
chair, fronting the door, writing on your
slate. Then he looked up full in my face;
and, if ever I saw a man plainly and dis
tinctly in this world, I saw him.”
Him! Who?”
God knows, sir; I don’t. I saw a man,
and a man I never in my life saw before.
" You must be going crazy, Mr. Bruce.
A stranger, and we nearly six weeks out 1”
“ I know, sir but then I saw him.”
“ Go down and see who it is.”
Bruce hesitated. “I never was
believer in ghosts,” he said, “ but, if the
truth must be told, sir, I’d rather not face it
alone.”
Come, come, man. Go down at once,
and don't make a fool of yourself before the
crew.”
“ I hope you’ve always found me willing
to do what’s reasonable,” Bruce replied,
changing color; “ but if it’s all the same to
you, sir, Fd rather we should go down to
gether.”
SOMETHING TO BE EXPLAINED.
The Captain descended the stairs, and
the mate followed him. Nobody in the cab
in I They examined the rooms. Not a soul
to be found f
“Well, Mr. Bruce,” sain the Captain,
did not I tell you you had been dream
ing?”
“It’s all very well to say so, sir; but if I
did’nt see that man writing on your slate,
may I never see my home and family
again I” _
“Ah! writing on the slate 1 Then it
should be there still,” aud the Captain took
up the s’ate.
“ My God!” he exclaimed, “ here’s »me-
thing sure enough 1 Is that your writing,
Mr. Bruce?”
The mate took the date; and there, in
plain legible characters, were the words,
“ Steer to nor’west."
“ Have you been trifling with'fee, dr?”
inquired the Captain, sternly.
“On my .word as a man, dr,” replied
Bruce, “ I know no more of this matter than
you do. I liave told yoa the exact truth*
The Captain sat down ait bis desk in deep
thought, the date before him. At,la*t, turn
ing • the date over and pushing it toward
Bruce, he said. *’ Write down, ’Steer to
nor’west.’”
The mate complied; and the Captain, af,
ter narrowly comparing the handwriting,
said. “Mr. Brucergo and tell the second
mate to come down here." . He came; and.
at the Captain’s request he also wrote the
words* 8o did the steward. So, in succes
sion, did evety man of the crew who could
write at all. But not one resembled, in any
After the
The Cincinnati 8outoeiw.—Colum
bus, O., February 9.—In the Senate today
a bill was passed to allow Cincinnati to issue
six million dollars of bonds to complete the
Southern railroad.
The Chicago Liter-Ocean says that there is
an old threadbare, snuff colored, thin-locked,
spindle-shanked, pepper-and-sault, weazened,
rum-drinking fossil, bidden away somewhere -
in Washington, who has written more Con- degree, the mysterious writing,
gressional speeches than all the members of crew bad retired, the Captain sat deep in
the present House put together. | thought. “ " ^
“ Well, we’ll see. Go on deck and give
the course nor’west. And, Mr. Bruce,” he
added, as the mate arose to go, “ have a
lookout aloft, and let it be a hand you can
depend ou.”
A DISCOVERY.
At about 8 o’clock the lookout reported an
iceberg nearly ahead, and shortly afterward
what he thought was a vessel close to it As
they approached, the Captain’s glass dis
closed the fact that it was a dismantled ship,
apparently frozen to the ice, aud many hu
man beings on it. Shortly afterward they
hove to, and senfcout the boats to the relief
the sufferers. It proved to be a vessel fr jm
Quebec, bound to Liverpool, with passen
gers.
As one of the meu who had been brought
away in the third boat that had reached the
wreck was ascending the ship’s side, the
mate, catching a glimpse of his face, started
back in consideration. It was the very face
that he saw three or four hours before, look
ing up at him from the Captain’s desk.
The exhausted crew and famished passen
gers having been cared for, the mate called
the Captain aside. “ It seems that was not
a ghost I saw to-day^ sir; the man’s alive. 1
“ What do you mean? Who’s alive.”
“ Why, sir, one of the passengers we have
just saved is the same man I saw writing on
your slate at noon. I would swear to it in a
court of justice,”
Upon my word, Mr. Bruce.” replied
the Captain,•“ this gets more and more sin
gular. Let us gojand see this man.”
Thy found him in conversation with the
Captain of the rescued ship. They both
stepped forward, and expressed in the war
mest terms their gratitude for deliverance
from a horrible fate—slow death by expo
sure and starralion. The Captain replied
that he had done only what ha was certain
they would have done for him under the
same circumstances, and asked them both
to step down iuto the cabin. Then turning
to the passenger, he said: “I hope, sir,
;rou will not think*I am trifling with you;
hut I would be much obliged if you would
write a few words on this slate,” and he
handed him the state, with that side up oa
which the mysterious writing was not “I
will do anything you ask,” replied the pas
senger; “but what shall I write ?”
“Suppose you write ‘Steer nor’west.’"
The passenger cheerfully complied. The
Captain took up the slate aod examined it
closely; then, stepping aside so as to conceal
the slate from the passenger, he turned it
aud gave it to'him again with the other side
up.
You sav that is your handwriting?*’
said he.
“I need not say so,” rejoined the other,
looking at it, “for you saw me write it.”
“And this ?” said the captain, turning the
slate over.
The man looked first at one side of the
slate, then at the uther, puzzled. At last,
“What is the meaning of this?*’ said he.
“I wrote only one ot these. Who wrote the
other ?”
“That is more than I can tell you, sir.
My mate here says you wrote it, sitting at
desk, at noon to-day.”
A DR AM.
The Captain of the wreck and passonger
looked at each other, exchanging glances
of intelligence and surprise; and tlio former
asked the latter: “Did you dream that
you wrote on this slate ?•’
“ No, sir, not that I remember.’
“ You speak of dreaming,” said the Cap
tain of the bark. “ What was this gentle
inan about at noon to-day ?”
“ Captain,” rejoined the other, “ tlie
whole thing is most mysterious, and I had
intended to speak to yon about it as soon
as we got a little quiet. This gentleman
(pointing to the passenger) being much
exhausted, fell into a heavy sleep, or what
seemed sleep, some time before noon. After
an hour or more he awoke, and said: “Cap
tain, we shall be relieved this very day.”
When I asked him what reason he had for
saying so, he replied that he had dreamed
that lie was on board a bark, and that she
was coming to our rescue. He described
her appearance and rig, and, to our utter
astonishment, when yonr vessel hovered in
sight, she corresponded exactly to his de
scription of her. We had not thought
much of what be had said, yet still we
hoped there might be something in it, for
drowning men, you know, will catch at
straws. As it has turned out, I cannot
doubt that it was all arranged, in some in
comprehensible way, by an overruling
Providence, so that we might be saved.”
“ I got the impression that the bark I
saw in my dream was going to rescue us,”
said the passenger, “but how that impres
sion came, I cannot tell. Everything here
on board seems to me quite familiar; yet I
am very sure that I waa never in your ves
sel before. It is all a puzzle to me.
A MESSAGE FROM A WIFE.
Jqng Stilling, in his “ Theorie der Geixtcr-
knnde,” tells of a remarkable story that
was told by a German who had emigrated
to the United States, and had been for
many year* manager of some mills on the
Delaware. The events are said to have
occurred between 1750 and 1760. There
Uved at that time, near Philadelphia, lonely
and retired, a bcncvolen. and pious man,
who was suspected ot having some occult
power of disclosing hidden events. A sea
Captain had been long absent, and no let
ter bad been received from him. His wife,
who Uved ucar this man, and who bad be
oorae alarmed and anxious, was advised to
consult him. Having beard her story, he
made her wait a little and he would bring
her an answer. Thereupon, he went into
another room, shutting the door; and there
lie stayed so long that, moTed by curioeky,
die looked through an aperture in the door
to ascertain what he was abort
him lying motionless on a sola, she quickly
returned to her place. Soon lie canto out,
and told the woman that her husband was
at that time in London, in a certain coffee
house which he named, and that he would
he had not written to her; and she went
home somewhat re-assured. When her
husband did return, they found, on compar
ing notes, that everything she had been
told was strictly true. But the strangest
part of the story remains. When she took
ner husband to see the seer, he started
back in surprise, and afterward told his
wife that ou a certain day (the same on
which she had consulted the seer) he was
in a coffee house in London (the same that
had been named to her), and that this very
man had there accosted him, and had told
him that his wife was in great anxiety
about him; that then the sea Captain had
repUed. informing the stranger why his re
turn had been delayed and why he had not
written, whereupon, the man tamed away,
and be lost right of him in the crowd. :
GENERAL NEWS.
Mrs. M. A. N. Pollard, wife of the Con
federate historian, is in California, and
proposes soon to give readings there.
The net expenditures for. the last fiscal
year, exclusive of interest on the public
debt, are reported by the Secretary of the
Treasury to be $171,529,848 27.
Dka : h in Congress.—The death of Hod.
Henry H. Starkweather, the solitary Re
publican member of the House of Repre
sentatives from Connecticut, is announced.
In France the postal cards appear in great
variety because it is legal for any man to
make his own, the payment being by an ad
hesive stamp. The result is that some are
ornamented with elaborate designs on card
board of various colors and materials.
Reverdy Johnson, the distinguished states
man and* jurist, was found dead on the 10
inst. at 8:15, in the grounds surrounding
the Executive Mansion at Aunapolis. Mr,
Johnson was the guest of Governor Carroll
and (fined this afternoon with other gentle
men at the Executive Mansion. He was
found dead in the yard by a servant.
According to the Almanach de Gotha the
subjects of Queen Victoria, exclusive of
those in the British Islands, number 203,-
000,000. Ot these there are upward of __
5,000,000 in America, n«riy 2,300,000 in beA“From.OTt Wrat" were’ afraicfhe would
Australia, etc., nearly 2,000,000 in Africa, carry them around without their knowing It.
!ZS£0® m Europe, and u> Asia near- ( The Ume when , mn ' u fu „ y rcaJize3 that
woman’s sphere should be enlarged, is when
The Centennial Legion.—The Now I he finds that his washerman has mistaken
Blaine is getting fat.
The Rothschilds are estimated to be worth
$3,300,000,000.
Wet stems of wiltiog flowers in hot wa
ter, so os to restore the flowers.
An English book tries to prove that State
aid to paupers really produces pauperism.
The Prussian government compels bakers
to keep their bread at least one day before
selling.
Our late Minister to Pern had so littlrf to
do that he went into business in Lima as a
pawnbroker.
President Hill, formerly of Harvard, says
that a child should cot be taught to reason
until it is twelve years.
California’s Senate wants a law providing
thateveiy article in a newspaper shall be
aigneiNtith the name of the writer.
A Reading canary sings “Home, Sweet
Home,” which it learned from a musical box
and which it thought came from another
canary that it saw in a mirror.
A beautiful and aristocratic Louisville
girl of seventeen, smokes a short black clay
pipe filled with the strongest plug tobacco.
She imitates Carlyle.
A St. Louis womau tried to commit sui
cide by taking a dose of pins, evidently
thinking she’d want them to pin back her
angel overskirt in the other world.
It was Prince John Van Buren who, boing
stopped by highwaymen one night in the
City Hall Park, * said, “Gentlemen, I
haven’t got any money, but I’ll give you my
note for three months.”
American industry triumphs. A Michi
gan town last season shipped sixty tons of
limburger cheese, which was so loud that
people along the railroad thought it was
hurrahing for the Centennial.
A poor family, of Bangor, Me., applied
to a charitable society for clothes. The
next day the whole family dressed up, went
down town aud got their pictures taken.
On Wednesday morning Theodore Tilton
occupied General Banks' scat in the House
of Representatives; and several sleepy mem-
York Times says there has been introdneed his stockings for his shirt bosom and starch-
into the Senate by Senator Robertson a peti- ed them accordingly,
tinn from the Washington Light Infantry, For young men about to marry. Marry
of Charleston, S. C., and the Clinch Rifles, on February 29, and you will only have to
of Georgia, elaborately gotten up, accom- give anniversary presents once in four years,
panted by letters of recommendation from But to enjoy a golden wedding a couple
the Governor of South Carolina and the would have to live 200 years.
Governor of Georgia, asking that the Secre- Jame3 Part0 who married his 8tep .
tary of War bo directed to issue to those da ht ot knowing tha t he violated a
companies 240 stand of new 8pnngfield M^chusetts law, will, if refused a
breech-load mg rifles to use in attending the act 0 fL^; g i a ture sanctioning
??L e £ n,al ^' ebrat, ° n “ Pb,1 « d * l P h '*’ J" 1 -* have the ceremony repeated
4, 1876. These are two companies of what - *
. :™-„.t a,\AJ »i*. said a rich heiress to
the thirteen original States of the Union, v 50 . “r® 10 “
and are the offspring of the Centennial cele-1
btation
ment was
some Federal officers for the organization of
such a military display.
Gloomy State of Affairs in Havana,
an Irish gentleman
“What would
;rB31nrwLro~ra^: I- takeme for then?” “For gtter or
ras made by Fit* Hugh Lee and I™®- re P 1,ed th ® 8on of the Emera,d
lufaval ndinAM frtl> tlia nxndniVatmn rtf I *8lC,
Donna Lulalia Guillen Is the oldest lady
in California. She has lived 140 years, and
not satisfied with that, has recently moved
—Private letters from Havana, up to the t0 Sa n Jose Valley for her healthl If she
15th of December, state that the receipts of a ^nt anywhere, send her to the Centennial,
the treasury are not equal to the demand* Aq American in Liver pool said :-“I’ve
made upon it. Inconsequence of thw the : ked >em wher0 th t theJr barber
troops inthe field had not received their N. They told me there was one on tho
foT A °,u ob ? r .\ ^‘® troo P* ,n . tb ® opposite side of tho square. They call this
son and thec.v.l 8erv.ce are only partmUy ^ hote , ^ ia a ^.try,
paid to July, and the contractors for military ... - , • *» 1
supplies had received nothing, and had rep- th “ u 1 * sn 1 „
resented to Conde De Valmweda that they Dr- Von Bulow said in Chicago :-“I tell
should cease to furnish provisions unless they y 0 * 1 l ^ e only reason why I play Beethoveni
were soon paid. It is also represented that Schumann, Mendelssohn and nil three, is be-
the erowdea hospitals were in a state 0 f «use the gigantic ignoramus with the mevit-
penury and almost of abandonment, and *1*1® glass the German music teacher
that the condition of the treasury was such, ,n America—has intepretedso many of these
by reason of want of method and order, and ^ r d 'y* 1 ™ u ! d ~ther from tho.ee play
of dishonesty of the public service, that ex- Wagner and Liszt.
treme discouragement prevailed at Havana. Gen. Robert E. Lee wrote in 1867.—“I
■*** believe every one who has investigated tho
Several papers in the State are suggesting afflictions of the federal prisoners of the
General Lawton as a suitable candidate for opinion that they were incident to their con-
Governor. A writer in the Griffin News, dition as prisoners as war, and to the dis
noticing this movement, expresses the opins tressed state of the whole Southern country;
ion that he is “an aristocrat of the first wa- and I fear they were fully shared by the
ter. and the masses in their severe distress Confederate prisoners in federal prisons.”
V —. Bulq. yd, -M|-**A.yW
ton takes a pardonable pride in clean linen, th,D .S
is neat as to his dress generally, and bears “® 19 th ® 8 ’“ and ^ a ^^® ea ^-J h f
himself as a gentleman ia M companies 19 on ® of ‘. h ® fir8t ‘ h '“8 8
and on all occfons, is evidence otaristocra- 8 ® m ® °"“ a *°? de jf? I l f “
cy, He, Lawton is an aristocrat ot the n ? an *„J|Y^® n ,s v '® , ?
biuret blood. We may add that it is a pity chiselled it is a magnet to any man of taste.
Georgia has not more such aristocrats and While we are having a snowless winter,
fewer vulgar demagogues and pot-house the South of Europe has had an experience
politicians.—Chronicle and SentinaL of the other extreme. On tho 10th inst.,
— there was snow a foot deep in Madrid, a
The Deepest Sea Soundings yet affected circumstance almost unprecedented, and it
by the Challenger, were obtained last year wa * still snowing. At the same date the
inthe abysses of New Guinea, where the town of Mende, in the department of Lozere,
lead struck bottom at the great depth of France, was completely surrounded by it,
4,575 fathoms, or 27,450 feet. an d all access had been cut off for three
Makino Centennial Rates.—Louis- P 1 *-”’ . , , — ...
vii.Le, February 9.-The Convention of! Her ® u an ? t \ ie f 8to 7 from Washington:
General Railroad Ticket Agents of America There is a rebel door-keeper whose duty it
begun its session here to-day. It was called >* to hoist the flag over the House, which
together to adopt tho rates to be charged dreignatre whether that bodj is in session,
during the Centennial session. Nearly all The memories of the glonous past are so
the pnncipal roads in America are represen- overmastering to this fisjthful devotee of the
ted, and one hundred agents were in atten- lostcause thathe will not raise the flag in
dance. It is thought a reduction of 25 per pe«®“ 5 ‘ hat ^7 » performed by • negro
cent from the regular rates will be made. at . ten a When tt comre to lows
—-— enng the flag the Confederate performs that
The New York Fire.— $3,000,000 proud and grateful office himself. The sobs
Loss.—New York. February 9.—Addi- ject is said to worry the Speaker,
tional and late details of the fire hit night A letter from St. Petersburg, in tho Bor-
PTS***® ® W8: Eesh* r ’ ten Zetitung, says tho Russian government
& Co., $1,000,000—insured for about half 1 decided to increase the strength of tho
that amount in one hundred and fifty com- a rmy and navy contingent this year by 30,-
panira: Cartin, Brundette 4 Co., from qoq men> co that it will now consist of 180,
$400,000 to $450,000—insurance, $395,000, qqo men instead of 150,000, as fixed daring
Snideker, Wttroas 4 Boynton, clothing, I ^ but five years. The number of men
$120,000; _ I entitled to claim exemntion in Poland, ow-
E. L. Merrifield, Continental Hotel, $30,-1 [ng to the superior education of the people,
000: . . . . s 4AA is so large that in 1874-aevend of them had
The lore on the buildings is fixedat $400,- to ^ pangj to to the army, although they
000. Several days will be required to seen- were Wally exempt.
nSl**? .1 e i erm *l n ~,; t n,«,^ r i« A*. Chinese doctor says that Americans
non OOO* xnd foil 1 insurance at ^ tevand thereby lore the flavor, while
and lb ® ,otal ,D8ur * nc ® ,t the Chinese make it by infusion. They
®£,uuu,uw. , I plaoe a small quantity of tea leaves in a
A lady in Paris is introducing a new fash- bow), poor boiling water npon it. and then
km in regard to furniture. She ia having all cover the bowl. The strength of the tea
her chain, sofas, and even her earriagea depends on the Ume the tea Is allowed to
stuffed with aromatic herbs, which fill the draw. “And,” said The speaker, “when
air with an agreeable botnottoo powerful making an infusion do not boil the water
perfume. The fashion is derived from the hastily at first Milk or sugar should never
Eastern nations, and prevails extensively be used with tea.”—N.^Y. Herald.
over a c maidarabie part of Asia. “See here, conductor,' uhy don’t you have
“Shrinkage’’ in thePalmetto State, a fire in this car?” “ Well, you see, one of
Reduction of expenses in State Government, the directors is a clothing roan, and another
will reduce salaries from $190,600 to $118,-1 ia a doctor, and another is a drug store keep-
“Could any one have been stowed soon return. He also stated the reasons
iHl
66b; Legislative expenses from $128,000 to er, and another runs a tombstone factory,
$64,000. We congratulate our friends “across and you know in this world people must
— ” I • live and let live.’”
the river.”