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ijllijay Courier,
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J C. ALLEN,
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NEWS SUMMARY.
TNK ■OITII.
Bob Toodlea has married Marine
Noodle*, in Musoogee, a.
A Texan hat contrived a machine for
taking wood on trains without their stopping.
Captain McNally, the celebrated Texas
•rout, was but twenty-right when he died.
Diphtheria in a malignant form has
made its appearance along the Tennessee
border in Lee county, Va.
The Tredegar works, at Richmond, Va.,
are building three hundred ours for the
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Une.
Five persons have been hanged in
Abbeville, 8. C., duriae the past four years,
and still the murderers follow their business.
The Marietta (Ga.) Journal says that
German millet is '-sing used as rice in lower
Georgia. The husks are removed and the
grain is palatable food.
Dr. Kenilworth, a celebrated physi
cian of Jacksonville, has given one hundred
dollars toward the trial of Col. Hardee’s
theory of concussion, as destractive ot the
germs of disease.
Jacksonville has formed a military
cordon around the city to prevent the ingress
of refugees from Fernandina. The military
and fire companies have volunteered to do
this service.
The city attorney of Galveston has
given it as his opinion that the city is not
liable for $2,2;0 worth of scrip issued to pay
the expenses of entertaining the Kansas
delegation in 1875.
A colossal statue of the late Andrew
Johnson is to be set up as a monument to
his memory near his olu Tennessee home. It
is of white marble, and is being carved in
Philadelphia.
Hon. M. J. Crawford and Miss Salmon,
of Cartersville, Ga., were riding in a buggv
a few days since. Miss Selmon raised her
parasol suddenly, and the horses ran away,
throwing both out. He was killed instantly,
his neck being broken, and she was fatally
injured.
The New Orleans Picayune says John
vv esley Hardin, the Texas desperado, is a
very finely organised person. One of his
victims he killed for snoring. He did not
like to be disturbed in his sleep, so he arose
in the Bilent night and slew the enorer.
The Danville Express*lcams that Col.
8. Samuel and Representative Barnes
have sold their large estate in Charlotte
county, Va. (Barnesville), comprising be
tween 7,000 and 8,000 acres, to a Philadelphia
Catholic) colony. The sum realised from
this sale is $71,000.
A Corpus Christie special says: Asa
bridal party were returning last evening
from church, Mexican men drove up near
them iu a carriage and opened fire upon men,
women and Children with six-shooters. One
of the groomsmen was stiot through the baek
and will die. The groom fled.
The Vicksburg Herald states that the
S tamers near that city are suffering from the
epredations of thieves, who steal their cot
ton in the seed and take it to the city, where
it is eagerly purchased by parties who ought
to know better thau to encourage the thieves.
Under the Moffat bell-punch in Vir
ginia saloons, the price of liquor has gone
up, but the law really seems to be enforced.
The penalties are severe. A failure to tnrn
the orauk entails a fine of from S2O to SIOO
for the first offence, and forfeiture of Jisense
for the second.
Steamboat navigation of the Suwannee
river, Florida, has been resumed after a long
suspension. This is one of the bodies of
water that would be utilised in the construc
tion of the proposed Atlantic and Gulf ship
canal, and the extent of its nnvigable ca
pacity is an interesting question.
A young fellow in love with a widow
Sot so jealous at n hall in Houston, Texas,
le other night, that he got a license and a
fireacher, anu, going to the widow’s home a
ittle before day, informed her that she must
marry him iustanter or lie would make a
lead mine of the other fellow, She married
him.
The statistician of the department of
agriculture at Washington reports the con
dition of the cotton crop the first week in
September as averaging the surne as at the
qame time last year. The worm is repotted
in all the gulf states, but has done but little
damage, except in Texas and several parishes
in Louisiana.
The Savannah News says, outside of
any special call, Savannah has gone to the
relief of Fernandina. Her physicians and
nurses only await the demand when they
will be forthgoing. The disease is epidemic
in Fernandina, and it is the grand self-sacri
fice that prompts the departure of phvsiciana
and nurses to our afflicted sister city.
The Lancaster (S. C.) Ledger says “we
learn that Ezekiel Mayhew, a colored man
with some little education, and formerly a
school teacher in Cane creek township, left
for Liberia on Monday last. As we under
stand, he is sent out to view the promised
land, and is to return and report his observ
ations by the first of next year.”
The Asheville (N. G.) Pioneer says
that last week, while a number of colored
persons, both male and female, were digging
tor medical roots in the Bee Tree range of
Craggy mouutain, one of their number,
named Elvira Seneca, better known as Yira
Lytic, was struck by a rattlesnake upon her
right leg, just below the knee. She died,
leaving four destitute children.
The Charlotte (N. C.) Observer savs
it is a surprising fact that there were four
mortgages upon crops of 1878 lately recorded
in the office of the register of deeds. The
crops, of course, will not be put into the
ground until next spring. It is a bad show
ing for the farmers that they should be mort
gaging that which they themselves have not,
and will not have for twelve months, to se
cure supplies for the present.
The Asheville (N. C.) Pioneer says
that at the last term of the court Alexander
Shaft was tried and convicted of fornica
tion and adultery, and sentenced by Judge
Furches to six months' imprisonment in the
county jail. At lhe first meeting of the
board of county commissioners thereafter,
on application of Shaft's wife, he was hired
ont to her at $5 per month.
The Galveston News says that the
question of prohibition continues to be a
leading issue in some of the northwestern
counties, where the local option law is still
before the the people. The papers quote a
sentence from the charge of Judge Clark to
the grand jury of Hopkins county, as fol
lows: You may visit the graves of criminals,
and with propriety might write above the
remains of ninety-nine on* of every hun
dred : A bottle of whisky; a deck of cards;
a six-shooter: a violent death : eternal rain.
The following is the estimated damage
by the late cyclone aronnd Galveston : The
government works in Balvar channel, in
cluding a portion of the fleet, $75,000; the
Galveston, Houston and Henderson railroad,
loss of track and bay bridge, $20,000; Golf of
Colorado and Santa Fe railroad, loss of track
and bridge, $z0,000; cotton presses, $18,500;
uncompleted Cuiidines in the citv $21,500;
bath houses on the beach, *3,500’; twenty
small schooners capsized, $5,000; private
buildinzs and propertv, SIO,OOO. Total
$132,000. '
niMII.MITOS.
Both houses of congress are nearly
ready for occupancy. The ventilation of
both has been materially improved.
THE ELLIJAY COURIER.
VOLUME 11.
There la not the slightest apprehension
felt by the department of state ot aay carious
difficulty with the Dias government, which
is only to* anxious to msintala friendly
relations with us.
Thirty temporary clerks ware dropped
from the treasury department last week, and
fifty more will be discharged at the end of
this month.
The freedmen’a bureau commissioners
say they have enough to pay a 10 per cent,
divided to depositors, but not enough to pay
a dividend of 20 per cent. If they could pay
a dividend of 20 per cent, they would imme
diately declare it, but it is extremely doubt
ful if the declaration of a 10 per cent divi
dend would be judicious. This they say is
well known to alt except the smaller de
positors
The secretary of tha interior has given
a decision that when a homestead oiaimant’s
land has become valueless for farming pur
poses by reason ef overflow or backwater of
a river, he will be allowed to make another
entry, with credit for lees and commissions.
In the event of anew entry, he will be re
quired to show compliance with the law, as
though he had made no previous entry.
Special revenue agents of the internal
revenue bureau have been engaged in ex
aminations in various parts of the Union,
particnlarly in the sontnern states, to ascer
tain and report as to the locality and condi
tion of titles, values, etc., of the large amount
of real estate whioh kas been acquired by
the government through violntious of the
revenue laws by owners of the property.
The aggregate value of this real estate is set
at high figures, and the objeot of this inves
tigation is to enable the government to
ascertain its value and condition, prepara
tory to offering it for sale.
PCIWOXAUTIKS.
Theodore Thomas coueiders Beethoven
the boss oomposer.
James Gordon Bennet is on his way
home and may be expected shortly.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has at last
got tired of trying to compromise with the
holders of her property in New Orleans, and
is now going for them to the full extent of
the law.
Alexander H. Stephens is at Catoosa
Spriugs, Georgia, He will make the jour
ney to Washington by easy stages, visiting
friends on the way. He will find the cars
easier than stages.
Edmund de Rothschild is about to
marry Mile. Adelaide de Rothschild, the
(laughter of Baron Willy de Rothschild, of
Frankfort. Edmund de Rothschild’s father,
Baron James da Rothschild, married his own
niece, Bette, the daughter of Baron Solomon
de Rotnechifd. ner brother’s daughter mar
ried Baron Willy de Rothichild, and now her
son is going to marry Boron Willy's daugh
ter. This system of intermarriage is likely
to give the family more money than brains.
There is a tempest in a teapot at Salt
Lake city, caused by the public knowledge
ot the fact that John W. Young intends to be
sealed to a Miss Cobb, a voluptnons looking
girl of sixteen, a stepdaughter of his father,
and granddaughter of Mis. Augustus LA'obb,
one of Brigham’s mistresses, known in Mor
mondom as the woman who desired to be
sealed to Jesus Christ. The contemplated
eeremony has caused John W. Young’s wife
to desert him aud return to her father, a Mr.
Canfield, who is a railroad engineer, living
in Philadelphia.
It would seem that the Nez Perces de
mon is hardly of so somber a hue as he is gen
erally painted: A letter from Montana gives
an unexpected example of their clemency.
A council of five debated for some time on
the question of the release of several prison
ers in their possession, and at last, bv a ma
jority of one, decided to let them go! Fear
ing that they would regret their deaision
White Bird, the chief, said to the trembling
captives: “ You go quick --go by this trail—
don’t stop to camp or eat oe-water your po
nies—don’tgo up the river—hurry to the Hot
Springs arid join your people there—get
away—hurrv!’ He then gave them some
bread and matches and guided them a mile
from the camp.
Ralph Waldo Emerson twenty years
ago addressed a literary society at Middle
bury, Vermont, dnring commencement, and
when he ended, the president called upon a
clergyman to conclude the service with
prayer. A Massachusetts minister answered
the request as follows: “We beseech thee,
O Lord, to deliver us from ever hearing any
more such transcendental nonsense as that
we have just listened to from this sacred
desk.” After the benedietion Mr. Emerson
asked his next neighbor the name of the
officiating clergyman, and, when falteringly
answered, with gentle simplicity, remarked:
“He seemed a very conscientious, plain-
Epoken aian,” an- went his peaceful way.
rOBEISN.
Nearly all th# regiments in the British
service are going to have new helmets. They
will be more or less similar to those of the
German troops.
Queen Victoria will, it is reported, go
to Berlin shortly to witness the marriage of
her grand-danghter, PrinceßS Charlotte, to
the Prince of Meningen.
A dispatch from Stanley, the American
explorer, dated Emborama, in Congo, west
coast of Africa, August 10, states that he has
completely navigated the Lsalaba, and suc
ceeded in proving it to be identical with the
Congo.
The chief raw material wealth of
northern Mexico is the mines, more espe
cially the silver mines, whiolf never have
had a fair chance of development under the
so-called governments, Spanish and Dative,
which have oursed and crushed the volcanic
nation since the flag of Castile first glittered
on her shores.
Mr. E. W. Blyden, the new Librian
embassador to England, is the first minister
ever accredited to that country by a negro
state. He is of pure negro blood, aud was
educated chiefly in Liberia. He has excel
lent ability, has been a professor in the col
lege of Liberia, has contributed very clever
articles to Fraser and has served in the Li
berian government. He has just been re
ceived by Lord Derby.
THE WAI.
Chefvet Pasha, the leader in the Bul
garian massacres, has been sent to command
Osman Pasha’s reserves at Orkanich, and
guard his communications; probably, also,
with the view of keeping an eye on Servia.
The battle reported at Duborik, in
which the Russians were said to have been
defeated, must have been, if it all. a vil
lage five miles northwest of Vatza, on the
Rahova road. Reporta say Osman Pasha has
a fortified position almost impregnable, nat
urally, at Vatza, on which he will retire if
driven from Plevna. Anyhow, the Rouma
nian attempt to cut his communication seems
to have failed.
imCELLAitZOUK.
Experiment* with electric light* lately
took place at Cronstadt The apparatus was
fixed on board the Peter the Great, and was
of such intensity that unall print could be
read on a vessel moored four cables off. It
is contemplated to furnish all the forta at
I Cronstadt with this light.
i Frank Leslie, the NewY.-.rk publisher,
1 lias gone into bankruptcy. Canse—unfor
tunate real estate speculations. His various
j publications will he continued without
l change.
“ Error Ceases to be Dangerous When Reason is Left Free to Combat It.”—Jefferson.
ELLIJAY, GEORGIA, OCTOBER I*2* 1877.
Sitting Bull is said to be encamped at
Polat Hone Buttas, one hundred and twenty
miles from Fort Walsh, on British territory,
and has no intention of going upon the war
path.
A California paper describes “ the
latest thing out ” as anew horse-shoe made
out of three thicknesses of rawhide, com
pressed together by heavy pressure. It is
said to last longer, weighs only one-fonrth as
much os the common shoes, never splits the
hoof, and has no bad influence on the foot.
It is so elastic that the horse’s step is never
uncertain.
Masked men boarded the U. and P.
train near Big Springs, and at the pistol
point got away with $60,000. A reward of
SIO,OOO ia offered for the robbers. The pas
sengers in the coaches were also visited and
relieved of their oash and valuables. The
plunder taken from tha passengers is stated
to be $1,300 in cash, fonr gold watohes and
a tioket to Chicago.
James Newby, a negro newsboy, who
went abroad Irom New London, Conn., with
Moody and San key, studied for the church
of England ministry at London, passed an
examination before the bishops, which
prompted the bishop of London to say, “ I
would to God all our clergymen were like
this young man.” Newby has since sailed
for Africa to be assistant to Bishop Crowthef.
An artesian well, sunk by D. B.
Lowell in Nevada, on Eei river island, at
the depth of one hundred and twenty feet,
struck a current of gas which, when ignited,
sent np a flftne Jet thirty-six feet high. A
strong wind failed to blow it oat, and an
eight hours’s rain did not extinguish it In
the night a newspaper conld be read by its
light one hundred feet away.
American beef is seeking other chan
nels of transportation to Europe. A line Of
steamers is ndw in operation between Mar
seilles, France, and the river Plata, in South
America, for the purpose of carrying frozen
fresh meat. There are two methods of re
ducing the temperature on these steamers.
One by the evaporation of ammonia, the
other by the ventilization of ether. By the
former process the temperature can be made
so low that the meat becomes sheeted with
ice.
WHQOM AND I’HI RrIIM.
Thirty Chinese merchants in San
Francisco have united ih an appeal to the
hoard of education to have "public schools
opened for the instruction of Chinese youth.
The American home missionary society
reports its treasury to be "behind” to the
extent of $40,000. About 400 missionaries are
dependent on the receipts for their support.
Bishop Simpson’s long-promised Cyclo
pedia of Methodism has got on to the ex
tent of one hundred and sixty royal octnvo
pages In print, and the whole book, which
will have 1,000 pages, will be ready next
sping.
There is to be a southern educational
convention in Atlanta on the seventh of No
vember, for “ the purpose of considering the
difficulties of the educational situation, and
of devising the most effective means of sur
mounting them, and establishing in every
southern state a wise and efficient system of
public education.”
THE GRAND REPUBLIC.
Details or the Drandenr and Capacity of
tile Lout Streamer.
The loss by fire of that pride and won
der of the western waters—the steamer
Grand Republic—the grandest craft that
ever plied the Mississippi, continue* to
be a leading topic of interest among our
people.
The magnificent vessel will never he
likely to have her counterpart in point
of grandeur, size and elegance for a gen
eration, and perhaps never again as long
as the western rivers are navigated. The
cause and incidents of her destruction
will, therefore, be a matter of interest
to the people here, where the fine vessel
may be considered to have partially be
longed, as she was destined to boa New
Orleans and Memphis packet during the
cotton carrying season.
A man named John Prather, who was
the boat’s watchman, reports that about
half-past 11 o’clock, last Wednesday
night, he was on the lower deck of the
Grand Republic, and smelling smoke, he
went up stairs, and found that it was
rolling through the panels and flooring
of the bridal chamber in the ladies’ cabin,
from whence the flames speedily broke
through. In less than ten minutes the
whole cabin and upper works were one
mass of furious flames, and to keep from
being roasted alive he had to get ashore
as rapidly a* possible, losing a trunk full
of clothes. The engineer and carpenter,
also, lost their baggage. The vessel was
totally destroyed, and the wreck sunk iu
a very brief space of time. There had
been no fire on the boat, except under
the nigger boiler, and this had all been
dout before dark. The watchman
no knowledge of any fire being about
the ladies’ cabin, and he could not give
any reason as to how it originated there.
The boat’s seven new steel boilers had
been tested during the day. She had
just come off the docks and was to have
started south on the 6th day of October.
The gorgeous vessel was fitted out with
all modern improvements and inventions,
fire alarms, soundings and speaking
trumpets, wire tiller ropes, wire befi
cords and complete steering outfit. It is
estimated by experts that this nonpareil
steamer could not be duplicated in even
these times of depression and cheapness
for $250,000. The original cost of the
first boat was over $300,000, and the
various alterations to machinery and
hull, together with the new hull de
stroyed, was in all over half a million
dollars. To such a public spirited com
mander as is Gapt. Thorwegan, who
solely owned the splendid craft, the loss
falls heavily, and the sympathy of a large
number of iriends i* extended him.—
Mcmpkii Avalanche.
A Singular Fact.
A correspondent of the London notes
and queries quotes from Burckharrdt a
curious fact in connection with Egyptian
art. The author says: Araong~the in
numerable paintings and sculptures in
the temples and tombs of Egypt, I never
met with a single representation of a
camel. At Thebes, in the highest of the
tombs, on the side of the Djebil Habow,
called Abd el Gome, which has not, I
believe, been mentioned by former trav
elers, or by the French in their great
work, t found all the domestic animals
of the Egyptians represented together in
one large painting upon a wall, forming
the most interesting work of the kind
which I saw in Egypt. A shepherd con
ducts the whole herd into the presence
of his master, who inspects them, while
r slave is noting them down. Yet even
here I looked in vain for the camel.
WIUX TNI urr* HA VI au*Mß
AWAY.
WbM the taisU here rolled In splendor
From the beauty ol the hlUe,
And the sunshine, warm end tender,
Falls in kttote on the HIU,
We may read Lore's shining letter
In the rainbow of the spray;
Ws shall know each other better
When the mlats hate cleared away.
We shall know ss we ere known,
Newer more to wslk alone,
In the dawning of the morning.
When the mists nave cleared away.
If we err In human blindneas.
And forget that we are dust,
Ii we miss the law of kindness,
When we struggle to be lust.
Snowy winds of peace shall ootei
All the pains that cloud oar day,
When the weary watch is owee,
And the mists hare cleared away.
We shall know as we are kaowa,
Newer more to walk alone,
In the dawning of the morning,
When the mlata hawe cleared away.
When the silwery mis'a hawe wetjed ns
From the faces of our own,
Ott we deem their lowe has failed i:a,
And we tread our path alons:A
We should aeethem near and truiw,
We would trust them day by day,
Neither lowe or blame unduly,
If the mists hawe cleared awaw.
We shall know as we are kaowa,
Newer more te walk alone,
in the dawning of the morning,
When the mists hawe cleared aaray.
When the mists hawe risen abowe as,
As our Father knows His own,
Face to face with those that lowe ns,
We shall kaow as we are known ;
Jzowe beyond the orient meadows
Floats the golden fringe of day;
Heart to heart wo bide the chadews,
1111 the mists hawe cleared away.
We shall know as we are kaowa,
Newer more to walk alone,
When the day ol light Is dawning,
A nd the mists hawe cleared a tray.
‘ FIGHTING IN SHIPKA. PASS.
Ttgeron*! Vferk-Snleinaa Pa*ba IM*
reetlog m Battle.
At the entrance of the pass the road
was wide enough, but as we advanced it
narrowed, and noon the defile reared its
rocky sides in perpendicular masses high
above our heads and close up to the nar
row causeway on both sides. On turn
ing one of the curves of the road a loud
report was heard in front, followed by
another, and the order was given to cloee
up and quicken the pace, the reverbera
tion of the guns rolling like thunder,
growing louder as we advanced. We
hurrietf forward, passed another curve
descend* l ' donl ! dty, ascender’ -t *
passe'" jrn
the
vallt
Abo
eminenr
tion of
hkri. W g°awa?oHlC f
which, with the aid'ot T#y
could plainly distinguish the Ri
ef Bt. Andrew. Along its front
slopes of the hills, and covered by M.
brushwood, could be seed the .constalG
flecking of smoke, which indicated a rifle
fusilade. About a quarter of a mile on
this side could also be seen, by the
ascending columns of smoke, accompanied
with continual flashes, the artillery of
Suleiman making a vain effort to silence
the fire of the fort, while slanting up the
hill could be seen the puff of the rifle
discharged as its Moslem owner (distin
guished by his Ted fez) worked slowly,
upward and onward, to gain a position
dominating the fort.
When we got well up to the front and
the solid shot from the fort began play
ing baseball, with none of us willing to act
as catcher, a Turkish officer, followed by
a single orderly, rode rapidly up, ana,
casting a quick, scrutinizing glaDce at
our force as it moved past, halted our
regiment and one battery of artillery.
Ho was an ordinary-looking Turk, about
forty years of age, sinewy, but with an
unusually sharp, bright expression of
countenance. Beckoning Selim Bey
toward him, who approached very re
spectfully, he appeared to give him some
hurried orders, as I could see him ges
ticulating toward the guns and pointing
up the slope, now dotted along nearly to
the summit with a fringe of smoke.
Selim saluted and turned away as the
horseman did the same, galloping back
to the front; and soon the subject of the
conversation was developed. The regi
ment was ordered to follow the skir
mishers up to the mountain side, get the
guns up with them in the beet way they
could, and to lose no opportunity to
open fire on the fort. This was no joke
of an order, I assure you, to get a battery
of six guns and all its belongings up the
slope ot a mountain for about six hun
dred feet, with no road, over rocks and
fallen trees, etc. However, with the
Turks there is no demur; everything is
“ please God,” or “ Insballah,” and soon
half the regiment was engaged in straight
ing out a sort of path, while the other
laid itself out to assist the horses and
artillerymen in pushing the pieces up
the hill. By ten o’clock that night we
had them in position and a decent little
earthwork scraped up in front while all
we waited for was sufficient daylight to
open fire.
While the men were straightening
matters, I asked the colonel who was that
officer who cave directions to him about
the guns. Selim answered that he was
Suleiman Pasha. I was surprised, for I
expected to seen the general surrounded
by a brilliant staff; however, I had seen
Suleiman, and that was enough for me.
Wrapping my rubber blanket about
me, I “ turned in ” on a lee side of a
rock, and soon fell asleep, regardless of
scorpions or centipede, and while thus
engaged soon fancied myself on Washing
ton street, somewhere in the vicinity of
Old South. A crash and roar, as if the
steeple of the venerable meeting-house
had fallen upon me, brought me to my
leet with a bound and broke the charm.
I was not ia Boston ; quite the contrary,
I was on the Balkans, and not more than
twelve yards from me was a twelve
pound battery blazing away like fury,
the men stripped off and working away
like devils. Along, down in front and
beyond the thicket was a perfect blaze of
fire, as the Turkish riflemen kept ad
vancing and firing, under cover, while in
tha valley and on the opposite slope the
Turks were moving and firing in the
Hame way. It was now broad daylight
(3 a. m.) and the Russian fort could be
plainly seen, as it bleached forth shot and
shell upon the assailants, and their in
fantry replied vigorously <ll along their
position, doing dreadful work among the
advancing Turks ; and tliffy would have
hail it all their own way Were it not for
the fortnight of Suleiman, who directed
our battery to be placed in its oommand
jag position. Our fire being so plung
ing and direct, necessarily drove the
Russian gunners from that side of the
fort opposite to the side that engaged us,
and the nearest side being unable to
sufficiently elevate, LM to endure our
cannonade, but revenged themselves as
Well as they could upon those showing
themselves in the valley.
This “sort of thing” went on in the
same manner for three dayß and nights,
Suleiman continually working his bat
teries upward on both sides, covering all
new movements from the old positions,
till he conceived everything to be com-
Slete, when, on the morning of the fourth
ay, the valley sounded with the shouts
of “ Allah” as the Turks rushed to the
assault. Madly they dashed farward,
but as heroically were they dashed back.
Again and again they sprang forward,
only to meet the same fate, our artillery
in the meantime, from its commanding
position, spreading death everywhere in
the Russian batteries and ranks. Finally,
Suleiman reluctantly gave the order to
desist; he found that the position was
inassaitable by storm, and therefore must
be taken or turned in some other way.
For this purpose he withdrew the in
fantry from the main valley to more
sheltered quarters in the ravines* and
pushed his troops on the heights forward;
so as to pas? by and overreach or outflank
the Russian position.— Boston I'rai'eltn
tetter.
The Progress or Turkey.
It is thought by many that there has
been no progress in Turkey. Without
expressing any opinion, we cad state a
few facts which, being facts, can not be
contradicted. At the time of Suleiman
the Magnificent, Turkey was, on the
whole, very little, if stall, behind Europe.
The horrors of the Inquisition and of St.
Bartholomew, the cruelty of Philip 11.
and Henry VIII., fully equalled any
thing of the sort in Turkey at that time.
Since that period Christendom has ad
vanced in the arts and sciences beyond
Turkey; while the appalling borrors of
the French revolution, the commune,
the Cuban war, American slavery and
the Russian knout, and many other in
stances too common, too awful and too
recent to be forgotten, have Bhown its
i ’ ' T * •X) much of the tiger blood
7 nature to enable us to
'demning Turkish atro
{e fighting to preserve
•steuce. But granting
>' of the Greek revolu
"Orpnletflv distanced
that time
.social changes
, most of them
iX MA('V.„SS
key before it
Ferns’*' > „ u ..ristendom, hns
mammedans, and a
u .J.rminn ,>ey accept any faith
he ci !Ai 10 NJi actually protected in
it. Sucu ... ..te toleration exists else
where only in Great Britain, the United
States, and Germany, and one or two of
the minor states of Europe. Numerous
periodicals have been established in Con
stantinople, Smyrna, and elsewhere, and
the censorship of the press ii less oppres
sive than in France.
Numerous works have been printed,
and scholars like Achmet Vefik Pasha
would be creditaule to any people. Mil
itary and medical colleges, and numerous
universities and educational institutions,
supported by the government or by pri
vate enterprises, have been founded,
while the circulation of the bible and
religious works of every manner of belief
is carried on throughout the empire with
jierfect freedom. The array and navy
are organized and armed entirely upon
European modes, with the exception of
the irregular soldiery, and many of the
officers and members of the government
have been educated abroad. The slave
trade in women has been practically
Abolished, and there is a strong tendency
to introduce reforms in the garb and regu
lations of the harem itself. And, to
crown all, a legislative body has been
organized, and Moslem and Christian
have been placed on an equality. These
and numerous ether reforms have all
been accomplished within forty years,
and naturally met with opposition from
the conservatives, while the brevity of the
time that has since elapsed does not allow
us yet fully to judge of the possible re
sults. But it is only fair to the Turks to
allow them credit for the reforms they
have attempted to accomplish, and for
the fact that if some of these reforms had
depended upon the fanaticism of the
native Christians, little would have been
done in this direction.— S. O. W. Ben
jamin in Harper'> Magazine.
Sage Maternal Counsels.
“ Eliza,” said a fond mother to her
offspring on Saturday, as that offspring
was about going forth in tow of a young
man who worships the very sidewalk she
walks, “ Eliza, go to the bread-box and
eat a good big crust of bread before you
fo out.” “ Why, maw,” replied the
lushing girl, “ I dont’t feel the least bit
hungry. We’ve only just had tea.”
“I know it. but you will be hungrv be
fore you get back, and when Adolphus
takes you into a restaurant you’ll eat ice
cream, and sponge-cake and ham sand
wiches, and oysters enough to scare him
out of a year’s growth. Ypu silly girls
don’t think of this, but we experienced
women do. I was once young and giddy
myself, and but for sixty-five cents’ worth
of maccaroons—a cake for which I have
ever since entertained the most profound
contempt—your paw would have been a
congressman, with an aquiline nose and
Hyperion’s curls. Beware how you sit
down on the budding flame of Cupid. Of
cout>e, Adolphus will spend the money
you save him on billards and things, but
tha* makes no difference. When he asks
you to go in and have some oysters, even
if you aie hungry, don’t. Say you do not
approve of girls wasting the money of
their futurehusbandson idle trifles, when
it might be applied toward furnishing a
house. Point out that for the eoat of an
oyster stew you might purchase a couple
ot towels; now that toweling is so cheap,
and that a saddle-rock roast is the equiv
alent uf a siher fork—plated, of course,
but not easily distinguished from solid
silver—or a glass sugar bowl. Thisalways
takes the young men ; it sets them to
thinkingorliouHekeepiugand matrimony;
it make? them believe that you are the
incarnation of economy, and would make
NUMBER 43.
an excellent wife ; and an they often ut
things which give you a hold oyer them,
or are effective before a jury." Elixa
treasured up these sagacious counsels of
the authoress of her being, and acted
upon them with such earnestness and
effect that when she came home she was
an engaged woman.— Chicago Tribune.
A IUKING ROBBERY.
Ktpjro. Train an the Vnloa mettle Malt
way Captarml l.v Thirteen Waeheil
Nra.-lllily-flTfiThoaaiiad IMI
- ■ Wold Coin Taken
from Iho IxiiffM
tkr.
The Cheyenne east-bound passenger
train was stopped and robbed by thirteen
•naked men at Big Springs, Neb. on the
night of the 18th. The robbers first took
possession of the station at the springs,
destroying all the telegraph instruments
and compelling the agent to hang out a
red light. When the train stopped, the
robbers took possession, putting the train
and passengers under guard. Theexpress
car was broken into, and the Bate robbed
of about $76,000. The passengers were
also robbed. To delay the train reaching
the next station and the alarm beiug
given, the fire in the locomotive wna wet
down. A freight train overtaking the
express, its engine went to Ogallala, from
which point a report of the robbery was
made. The robbers are believed to have
gone north. The railway company offers
a reward of $5,000 for the arrest of the
thieves.
SIXTY THOUSAND DOI.LAR* HOLD OOfN
TAKEN.
The train arrived at Big Springs about
10 p. m. The express car was entered
by naif a dozen masked men with drawn
revolvers, who threatened to shoot mes
senger Miller, and compelled him to un
lock the sate, containing SCO,OOO in gold
coin, and succeeded in eweaning with the
whole amount. A telegraph operator at
the station was compelled to break his
instruments to prevent his reporting the
occurrence. About a dozen men were
in the party. They went northward,
but this is believed to be a feint, and it
is suspected that tlieir ultimate destina
tion is southward. E. Mnrsman, super
intendent ol the Union Pacific express,
offers SIO,OOO reward for the capture of
tbo parties and for .the return of the
money. P,o rain, of said reward will be
paid for the return of a portion of the
money or the capture of any of the men.
PARTICULARS OK THE ROBUERY.
Big Springs, the station where Uio rob
bery of the express train was committed,
is a water station one hundred and sixty
two miles east of Cheyenne. There are
only one or two houses beside the station.
The robbers rode to the station in the
evening, and took possession of every
thing, tearing the telegraph instrument
out and throwing it away. A red light
was then hung out to stop the train,
which readied there about eleven o’clock.
Oil the conductor stepping off to see wbat
was wanted, he was confronted bv men
armed with revolvers, who ordered him to
throw up his hands. The engineer and
firemen were secured, and a guard placed
at the end-coach door. Tho station agent
was compelled to knock on the express
doer, and, on its Itcing opened for him,
the robbers rushed in, overpowering mes
senger Miller, and taking possession of
the car. They secured $65,000 in coin,
and about SSOO in currency, from the
express car. Tim through safe, which is
stationary and has a combination lock,
lltey left undisturbed. It contained a
very large sum of money. The passengers
in the coaches were then visited, and re
lieved of cash and valuables. The plunder
taken from the passengers is stated to be
SI,BOO in cash, four gold watches, and a
ticket to Chicago. One man, named
Morris, lost a gold watch and S4BO in
money. The arrival of a freight train
evidently interfered with their plans;
for, after putting out the fire in the loco
motive of the express, they mounted and
rode away without disturbing the oc
cupants of the slceping-car. The
Union Pacific railway company offer a
reward of SIO,OOO for the arrest of the
thieves and the recovery of the money,
a pro rota of reward t he paid for the
recovery, and a portion of the money for
the capture of any of the robbers. The
sheriffs of the surrounding counties and
the commanding officers of military posts
throughout, Nebraska and Wyoming,
and along the Union Pacific railway, have
been notified of the robbery, and’every
thing possible will be done to effect
arrests.
Light TB. Bacteria.
Messrs. Downes and Blunt have i>een
engaged for some time in investigations
upon the influence of light upon the
development of bacteria, as bearing more
particularly upon the researches of the
late papers of Tyndall, Bastian, and
others. Among the provisional condu
sions reached by them were that light is
inimical to the development of bacteria,
and that, under favorable conditions, it
may prevent it entirely, or at least re
tard it. The direct insulation, however,
is necessary for the production of the full
effect of th<' light. The conditions tend
ing to neutralize the action of light are
the same as are known to favor tne pro
cess of fermentation and putrefaction,
but the fitness of the solution to serve as
a nidus is not destroyed by insulation.
The anthors claim, as their discovery,
that light is absolutely inimical to the
production of bacteria.-- Harper’s Weekly.
Temper.
A cheerful temper in a house is like
perpetual sunshine, gladdening and en
livening every one, in the presence of
which you forget your troubles and
would be ashamed to remember your
annoyance; but a bad temper spoils
everything. OfTense taken at airy noth
ings, impatience under unavoidable wor
ries, mail things/ made into great ones
by the magni ying powers of suspicion,
sullenness, irritability, ill-bumor—who
can say that all this has no irfluenoe?
You might as well deny the stinging
power of a midge or the penetrating
quality of dust as deny the depressing
effect of ill-humer wherever it is found,
and the corresponding good influence of
sweet temper. Also, tne imitation of
either the one or the other, as it may
1 chance which rules, is very sure to break
out in the yonnger and weaker of the
family
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At all time* confidence and truth are
better preventive* o jealousy than oon
cealment.
Measure not men by Sundays, with
out regarding what they do all the week
after.
Thf. origin of half the “ first loves ”
of young hearts is Ignorance, and their
death blow experience.
Fashion is very weil while one is
young and in health ; but of what use is
it in old agt,-nnd sickness.
Thebe is but one worse reception of
a compliment than a calm silence, and
that is to request its repetition.
Men are born with two eyes, but
with one tongue, in order that they
should see twice as much as tfley say.
One of the most popular eating
houses in Japan is owned by a woman,
and.has accommodations lor two thousand
customers at once.. The " bill of fare ”
includes about tweuty different dishes.
No meat is served, but fowls are cooked
in various waya. Tbe restaurant looks
most attractive at night, when tbe rows
of lanterns under the eaves, and the
illuminations of the whole building show
ing through panes of colored glass,
present a very gay appearance.
The l,ondon Lancet calls attention
to Die danger there ia of the spread of
infectious diseases by means of laundries.
A visit to tiie homes of several washer
women revealed many painful facte. In
one instance, where sinail-pox was in the
house,blankets were washed and returned
to a gentleman’s house, aud table cloths
and napkins to the keeper of a restau
rant. “ Thus," remarks the Lancet.
“ even at our meals, if we escape being
)K>isoned by our cink, we may catch
small-pox from the table linen."
While the emperors of Germany
and Austria were visiting at Itclii, a
lady desired to present the former with a
costly bouquet, but her courage failed
her at the last moment, and she begged
an oflicnr in Prussian uniform to perform
the office for her. He at once complied,
gave Emperor William the present, and
returned to express his majesty’s thanks
to the fair donor, who was rather sur
prineW to net thin Piumivti BUIIT ofDuor
enter the emperor's carriage and take a
seat beside him. On asking who he was,
she discovered that it was the emperor of
Austria in Prussian uniform.
It would conduce greatly to the
comlort of citizens generally if our muni
cipal government could in some respects
imitate that of some foreign cities. A
visitor in Paris thus writes: “There
•re no drunkards here. Rum and rum
shops in New York are the principal
causes of crime, filling our prisons and
poor-houses, and adding ten-folds to our
taxes. We have been in Paris three
weeks, and have not seen a man drunk,
or even under the influence of liquor;
we have not met a beggar or a tramp.
Beggars and tramps are taken care of by
the government, and will be in the
United States when they have been
endured long enough. Very little strong
liquor is drunk here, except by lor
eigneis. The people drink the light
French wine; it satisfies, and create* no
tnorbid appetite for more.”
Plevna.
A correspondent who waa present at
the battle of Plevna, telegraphing from
Bucharest, Sept. 17, says:
The Russian-Roumanian army haa
abandoned uow even a pretence of pros
ecuting the attempt against Plevna, and
fallen back into poaitionsoccupied before
the commencement of the bombardment.
The field artillery still remains in some
of the positions of the bombardment. It
is announced that a third renewal is in
tended on the arrival of the imperial
guard in a fortnight. I have great doubt
whether another attempt will be made,
and very much stronger doubt if it can
be made to succeed. The Turks are bet
ter soldieis individually than the Rus
sians. Of that, after seeing not a few
battles, I stand assured. The strategy ol
both, perhaps, is equally bad, but as re
gards both major and minor tactics, the
Turks are simply immeasurably supe
rior. They are Detter armed than the
Russians, both in great and small ama-
They have engineers who can design
admirable defensive positions. Russian
engineers seem incapable of repairing a
a hole in a bridge. The Turks seem as
well provisioned as the Russians, and are
flushed with success. The Russians are
depressed by failure after failure, nor
is this all that impairs the Rus
sian soldiers’ dash that is becoming im
paired. My reluctant personal observa
tion of war can testify that there is no
braver man than the Russian soldier, but
a brave soldier cannot continually face
more than fair chances of war. The
Russian is called on to face these, and
dangers in addition, which appeal with
infinitely greater intensity of horror to
his imagination. He knows if he but
receives a bullet in the ankle joint, when
he is in front of an unsuccessful attack,
the chances are that he will die the death
of torture, humiliation and mutilation.
No moral courage, no mental hardihood
can stand against this horrible conscious
ness, and in the attack of the 11th inst..
I distinctly observed his reluctance to
begin the storming.
The Pacific Mammoth CaTe.
We learn that the immense under
ground recess recently discovered in Jo
sephine county has been more thoroughly
explored. It has been found to be over
five miles in extent, and tbe exploration
is not yet completed. The stalacite for
mation overhead is said to be unique,
being similar to that in other caves of
1 which more is known. A party will
i shortly make a thorough investigation of
this mammoth cave. -JarktoneiUt (Ore
' yon) Sentinel.
Sora frequent the Virginia marshes
about first Beptembrr, and leave about
the time of frost. Nearly ail of those
offered in the market are killed with
l | addles at night.
