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THINGS IN GENERAL.
—Failures in England continue.
—Know Nothingism has broken out in
Connecticut.
—New Orleans now claims a popula-
f 205,000.
—The population of the globe is put
dawn at 5,320,000,000.
—A census, just taken, gives New York
city 1,050,000 inhabitants.
—North Carolina ships annually 15,-
000 barrels of dried blackberries.
—Children are dying in New York
city at the rate of one hundred a day.
—The Khedive of Egypt is actively
pushing forward his enterprise in Af
rica.
--The whole country has received a
superabundance of rain, except the peo
ple of Charleston.
—Suspicious. No application for a
patent has been filed by Keely, and not
so much as a caveat issued.
—Forty years ago there were only two
architects in New York. Now there are
not less than five hundred.
—This is a hard year on newspapers.
Since the first of January 3G5 journals
have suspended publication.
—The White Sulphur Springs Hotel,
Va., will be pulled down next year. It
cost $1,200,000, and hasn’t paid.
—Moulton, it is said, will shortly make
an effort to secure Beecher’s indictment
and trial on the charge of perjury.
—Sea serpents appear to be about as
plentiful this season as mad dogs. The
latest specimen was seen off Swampscott.
—Counterfeit nickle coins are said to
be plenty. They are of genuine metal,
but weigh a trifle less than those made
by Uncle Sam.
—This will b§ an unusual month, in
that there will be two moons, making it
the most moonshiny month known for
seventeen years.
—The Adventists bring us the intelli
gence that the world is to come to an end
on the 19th of next month. Nonsense.
The earth is too wet to burn.
—All the ex-Presidents of the United
States are now dead, and only two of the
ex-Vice Presidents survive—HannibaU
Hamlin and Schuyler Colfax.
—A Michigan mechanic has invented
a cut-off saw which revolves around the
log, and is claimed to be a great im
provement upon anything now in use.
—They had an extra scene at a Lynch
burg hanging on Friday. The victim
three times caught the platform with his
feet, but was finally kicked off by the
Sheriff.
—Parson Brownlow, the life long polit
ical antagonist of Andrew Johnson, in
speaking of the deceased, says that “ in
one respect, at leart, ex-President John
son was a model statesman: he was hon
est.”
—The widow of Stonewall Jackson,
now a resident of Charlotte, N. C., lias
received $5,000 in part payment of the
bequest of SIO,OOO made her. The re
mainder is in litigation, but is regarded
as “ good.”
A Richmond, Ya., music dealer an
nounced that he will receive Confederate
money in payment for goods, and only a
few days ago he sold a piece of sheet
music to a lady customer far $2„612 in
that currency.
—Johnson is the third President whose
remains are in Tennessee, and there is a
project to bury him with the others in
Nashville, and erect a grand monument;
but his family prefer a simpler grave in
East Tennessee.
—During a recent tornado in Minne
sota,a couple of sheep were carried fully a
mile and landed in a tree top, and were
found pinned together by a board that
had been driven through the bodies of
the poor animals.
—There are over 2,700 varieties of ap
ices known by over 1,800 names, 2,200 of
pears, 200 of cherries, 150 of plums, 300
of our native grapes, 50 of currants, 80 of
raspberries, and 30 of blackberries, accor
ding to a counting of somebody.
—A Norwich woman was attacted to a
well the other day by the screams of her
little girl, who had fallen in, and though
she pulled her up in the bucket twice,
the child lost her hold both times, and
was finally drowned before her mother’s
eyes.
—Sixteen thousand eight hundred and
eighty-nine persons were banished from
Russia to Siberia between May and Oc
tober last ; 1,080 women and children
over fifteen years of age, while 1,269
young children voluntarily accompanied
the exiles.
—Jefferson Davis, Alexander H. Ste
phens and all the ex-oliieers and soldiers
and sailors of the Confederate army and
navy have been given a general invita
tion to attend a national re-union of ex-
Federal soldiers, soon to be held at Cald
well, Ohio.
Fred. Douglass says that his sth of
July speech was misconstrued when it is
understood as advice to colored men to
leave the Republican party. He says he
thinks any man ought to know that he
wouldn’t give such advice in the present
condition of the Democracy.
—lt will be remembered that the heirs
of Stephen Griffith, the Indiana mau
who deeded all his property to the Al
mighty, ou a promise made in times of
adversity, brought suit to set aside the
will. The case has been before Tipton,,
at Bloomington, Illinois, and has just
reached a decision in favor of Gie contes
ting heirs. O
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20, 1875.
DEVILTRIES.
—At what time of day was Adam born ?
A little before Eve.
—Tweed and Beecher j& the last Presi
dential ticket proposed.
—Snoring is now politely described as
indulging in sheet music.
—The new’ style of pantaloons this fall
w’ill be large enough to tie back.
—The only men who don’t get out of
patients in warm weather—doctors.
—Who shall he Georgia’s next Gov
ernor? Whoever is elected, of course.
—A bereaved Wisconsin father says
he w’ould rather have lost SSO than that
boy.
—A new paper is to be started at Eli
jah, Ga. They will trv to keep it from
goißg up.
—A stranger got a free dinner of Mur
phy, this week, by claiming to be Thom
as Jefferson.
—A tramp, who was required to pay for
his dinner by cutting wood, walked off
with the axe.
—How do we know’ there is a laundry
in heaven? Because there must be a
place to do. up Abraham’s bosom.
—A Virginia horse committed suicide
the other day. In most parts of the
world suicide is committed only by asses.
—Don’t use soap. A Brooklyn editor
says that it communicates disease by be
ing made of fat taken from dead dogs and
cats.
—A Wolfskin man has got a centen
nial hen. That is, he says, as near as he
can recollect, she laid an egg about 100
years ago.
—“ Our inside contains to-day,” says a
country editor, “ ‘Dyspepsia,’ ‘-Cooked
Whiskey,’ ‘A Chinese Restaurant,’ and
various other interesting articles.”
—The Columbus Journal, describing
an Ohio politician, says; “He is an
honest man by profession, and he earns
his bread by the sweat of his jaw .”
—A man, speaking of the perform
ance of his village choir, says that “ it is
like driftwood in a stream; it drags on
the bars, but don’t amount to a dam.”
—ln large letters on the fencing of a
New York burying ground is inscribed
the following notice : “ Use Green’s Au
gust Flower Syrup if you want to keep
out of here.”
—The boy that goes swimming near
the road with nothing to conceal his na
kedness but aivart on his back, is reques
ted either to discontinue the practice or
change front.
—A Summer street young man and a
fascinating widow with whom he is on
terms of intimacy, are both eating brim
stone. It is said that in time they hope
to make a match.
—Brigham Young has just finished
reading the report of the Beecher trial,
and is trying to kick himself for his folly
in going off to Utah when he could have
accomplished so much more in the East.
—“ Take one pill five times a day” was
the directions the doctor left; and after
that boy took the first one he wanted to
,know of his mother how she expected to
get hold of it for him to take four times
more.
—They killed a book agent at Creston
two w’eeks ago, and they had to run over
him with nine freight cars to do it. Peo
ple who can’t afford to keep a fast freight
train in the house are still at the book
agent’s mercy.
—An editor having asked an Illinois
granger for crop news, received this an
swer : “ And now the reaper reapeth, the
mower ino.weth, and the little bumblebee
getteth up the busy granger’s trouser’s
leg aud bumbleth.”
—A Bostonian, who did Mount "Wash
ington on foot last year, says that he has
got as ravenous as a raven among the
raviues, and sat down in one of the gor
geous gorges and gorged himself.
—The New York Mail calls the Cohoes
man, who hasn’t spoken to his wife in
twelve years, au old fool." This is too
severe. How does that paper know but
that the man is only holding back be
cause he was never properly introduced
to her ?
—ln a recent scandal case in Smith
county, Kansas, a lady witness declined
to answer a question, and the attorney
demanded her reason. “ Because it is
not fit to tell decent people.” “ O, well,”
said the lawyer, “just walk up here and
tell it to the Judge.”
—An Irishman attending a Quaker
meeting heard a friend make the follow
ing announcement: “ Brethren and sis
ters, I am going to marry a daughter
of the Lord. “Och,”said Pat, “faith
an’ it’ll be a long time before you see
your father-in-law.”
—A man in Paris, who has been sen
tenced to’ the guillotine, advertises that
he will allow anybody to take his place
who is CHrious to know how any one
feels when his head is cut off. We should
think that the rush for the place would
be absolutely prodigious.
—A negro, being asked what he was
in jail for, said it was for borrowing mon
ey.” “ But,” said the questioner, “ they
don’t put? people in jail for borrowing
money.” “ Yes,” said ihe darkey, “but
I had to knock the man down free or fo’
times before he would lend it to me.”
—Danbury has the champion patient
boy. He comes from a chronically bor
rowing family. The other day he went
to a neighbor’s for a cup of sour milk.
“I haven’t got anything but sweet milk,”
said the woman, pettishly. “ I’ll wait
till it sours,” said the obliging youth,
sinking into a chair.
* SWEETMEATS,
—Academy of Design—a young lady’s
boarding school.
—Paradoxical, but true. The more
the girls are pinned back the more for
ward they seem:
—lts awful jolly to see a lady with a
pin-back caught in a shower. The dress
hangs so limp, and—.
—“ Who can sound the depths of a
woman’s love?” Anybody can. It is
just as deep as a man’s pocket.
—“ Mamma I’ll go to church to-day,
Although this is a ’wilter;
I’ll not pin back my dress so tight,
And go without my tilter.”
—When a Detroit girl wants to see
how her new pull-back dress looks from
a distance she hangs it over a pair of
tongs.
—“Six feet in his stockings !” exclaim
ed Mrs. Partington. “ Why, Ike has on
ly two in his, and I can’t never keep ’em
darned at that I”
—lf a young lady pinned back like
they do now had appeared in our streets
ten years ago, she would have been hiss
ed off the streets.
—A Nevada woman has a pair of
gloves and pair of shoes made from the
hide of a Pawnee Indian, and she says
she’ll never wear any other kind.
—lf the man who says that fashions
were invented to cover up some imper
fection docs not tell us what imperfec
tion low neck dresses covers up, we shall
bust.
—Little Alice Oates will get her di
vorce and then Tracy will conclude that
he was a Tight-ass when he smashed her
watch aud spanked her with a rubber
overshoe.
—A western editor insists that he wrote
the word “ trousseau” as plain as a pike
staff in connection with certain bridal
presents. The printer, however, vulgar
ly put it “ trousers.”
—“ Lizzie, aren’t you going to church
this morning?” “No, dear, the pews
are so narrow you know, and I couldn’t
think of going without my bustle,” and
she did not go.
—He was a mean man who, when ask
ed for his money or life, requested the
burglar to take the life of his wife, as she
could not possibly stand it if he died, but
he could worry along without her.
—“ Man,” says Victor Hugo, “ was the
conundrum of the eighteenth century ;
woman is the conundrum of the nine
teenth century.” We can’t guess her, but
we will never give her up—no, never !
—A young lady of Cornwall, N. Y.,
ran a needle into her chest. The same
needle,very much rusted, after remaining
in her body sixteen years, came out a
few days ago just above the ankle-bone.
—A woman, ninety years old, at the
Hospitable of Incurables in Paris, has
“cut a complete fourth set of teeth ; the
third set having appeared at the age of
sixty-three,and the second at forty-seven.
—A lady living near Troy has a piece
of soap supposed to be a hundred years
old. Isn’t it astonishing how long some
people can keep soap in the house, aud
never feel the slightest temptation to use
it.
—That “ pin-back” feature of the latest
ladies’ dress-fashions is abominable. It
makes the dear angels look as if the for
mer fashions of hoops and bustles had
suddenly busted, leaving the collapsed
remnants—behind I
—William White sued a New York
railroad fourteen years ago for SI,OOO
damages for killing his wife, but, getting
tired, he took SSO, the other dav, and
and called it square. His second wife
used the money to get her a silk dress.
—Anna Dickenson is to go upon the
stage, and it is said that she will open in
San Francisco in the play of“ Mazeppa.”
If there is any society there for preven
tion of cruelty to animals, we trust thev
will have a cushion placed upon the
horse’s back before Anna is tied on.
—“ Let me kiss you for your mother ?”
Said a swell, too free of speech,
To au unprotected maiden,
Whom he met upon the beach.
“ Let me thrash you for my father!”
Was tae maiden’s quick reply,
As, with ready sun-umbrella.
She chastised him, hip and thigh.
—A young lady lectured on “ Dress
Reform,” in Springfield recently, and
was “ pulled back” to such an extent
that when she attempted to sit down at
the conclusion of her discourse she fail
ed to reach the chair by over six inches.
She seemed to rest that way, however,
just as well.
—lf men are the salt of the earth, wo
men are the sugar. Salt is a necessity,
sugar a luxury. Vicious men are the
saltpetre, hard, stern men, the roek salt,
nice family men, the table salt; old
maids are the brown sugar; pretty girls
the fine pulverized white sugar. We’ll
take sugar in our’n.
___ —They’re getting tighter every day.
Not that they are not pretty ; not at all,
that you know'. But really, in about two
weeks, at this rate, they’li have to get
one skirt made for each —each—well,
each limb, if they want to walk at all.
And—ah ! who knows but that is the
way they propose to attain pantaloons?
Is there strategy here ?
—“ Oh, yes, gimme ten cents worth of
hair pins,” added an up-river farmer, as
he was about to leave a store, and, while
they were being handed down, he contin
ued: “It’s h’ar piu.s to-day, and rib
bons to morrow, and a tooth brush next
day. The gal is always wanting some j
flim-flam thing, and I shouldn’t be sur
prised if she'd some day get up and want |
me to bring home one of them combs !
with a braas back.” I
A STRANGE ELOPEMENT
A Long Island Heiress Running Away
With a Colored Servant —A Charm to
Catch Young Girls—The Lovers Arrested.
[From the New York Sun.J
Mrs. Broueher, a widow, of Dear Park,
Long Island, adopted a little girl several
years ago and educated her. The girl is
now about seventeen y**ars old, and was
to have inherited nearly all of Mrs.
Broucher’s real and personal estate, esti
mated at $40,000.
Mrs. Broueher employed a young col
ored man named Chauncey Brewster.
He has a lighter complexion and straigh
ter hair than most negroes, and is consid
ered hrndsome. Last Saturday night she
discharged him, paying him $4.50 that
she owed him ; and this was all the mon
ey he had.
On Saturdav f night the girl started for
church, accompanied by another girl.
They were going to different churches,
and seperated after they had gone a short
distance together, Miss Broueher did
not reach the church. On the way she
met Brewster, the colored boy, and they
talked a few minutes. That night she
did not go home, nor the next day, and
on Tuesday Mrs. Broueher learned that
her adopted daughter had eloped with
Brewster, and they were living with
a colored family named Jackson, in Ami
tyville.
Brewster and the gfrl was found in
Jackson’s house, and were taken before
Justice Cooper. Brewster said that on
Sunday night they walked from Babylon
to Amityville. It rained hard, and thev
were wet through. He went to his
mother’s house, but she refused to receive
the girl, and they staid under a tree until
3 o’clock in the morning. Then they
saw a light in Jackson’s house and went
in.
Brewster’s defence was that the girl
went with him of her own will. The tes
timony brought out a supposed charm
that the Babylon negroes have to catch
girls with. They take a four ounce bottle,
put in nine pins and ten needles, some
of their own and the girls hair, and till
it with water on the first day of each
month. Brewster, it was charged, had
used this charm on the girl; and his bot
tle was shown in court. A negro em
ployed by Mr. Southard found a similar
one in one of liis wagons, he said, and his
black boy told him what it was for. The
boy, when put upon the stand, denied
this. Other witnesses testified that they
had seen the girl run up to Brewster, in
the house, and kiss him.
A Curious Snake Story.— South
Hadley, Mass., has a curious snake story,
Thomas Judd telling it; “On my way
to the Falls Wednesday morning,” he
says, “ I noticed two young men watch
ing something in the road intently, and
when I came up to them they pointed to
what seemed to be a very small snake,
about two feet long and about three
eighths of an inch in diameter. The
forward end had two branches some six
inches long each, but there was nothing
at the end like a respectable head, the
ends having the appearance of having
been cut square off; the tail tapered off as
a tail should. The whole was in motion,
moving forward very slowly, say a foot
in fifteen minutes. On a closer examina
tion I found that his snakeship was made
up of myriads of very small worms, not
more than one-fourth of an inch long, and
in diameter about the size of a pin’ but
all firmly woven together that they might
be moved up or sideways without disturb
ing the appearance of the snake, or sep
arating it at all. The snake was round,
and maintained its size until off for the
tail ; in detaching a worm from the main
body it was so small as to be just discern
ible with the naked eye. Thinking that
should the little worms grow to any con
siderable size they would make a pretty
large, or that, should they eventually
separate and spread themselves over the
farmers’ fields, they would carry destruc
tion, I advised the young men to get a
flat stick and smash the whole concern,
which they did. Can any of your readers
tell what species of worms his snakeship
was made up of?”
A Monstrous Snake. —ls now terri
fying the people that dwell about Hall’s
Springs in the vicinity of Baltimore. The
lowest estimate of the dimensions of his
snakeship is 15 feet in length, 8 inches
in diameter and 2 feet in circumference.
Others make him vastly larger than this.
His “track” has been measured, and been
found to be from 111 to 15 wide, and his
capacity for swallowing is said to be
equal to the gulping of a calf 4 or 5 weeks
old, ora well grown boy or girl of 10 to
12 years, though we do not understand
that he has been put to the actual test of
either calf or child. The snake has a
“ den” in a cave on Mr. J. F. Lee’s
place, and that gentleman has offered a
reward of SSOO for the capture of the
snake alive, or $25 to any one who will
kill it. As everybody who has seen the
reptile thus far, is reported to have incon
tinently fled, with terror of its horrid
proportions, there does not seem to be
much reason to anticipate early intelli
gence of either its capture or death.
—Mr. Higgins put a lightning-rod on
the barii of Mr. Hart in New Jersey, and
was to wait three months for the pay.
Before the expiration of that time a
straggling flash of lightning stumbled
over the barn and reduced it to ashes.
When Mr. Higgins called for his money,
and asked permission to put a lightning
rod on the new barn, Mr. Hart brought
out his gun, and Mr. Higgins went away
with a large dose of shot which Mr. Hait
had administered by hypodermic injec
tion. Thus the difficulty was satisfactori
ly settled at once, while some men would
have been fooling about the thing for
months.
■! —a
The meaning of the name of Califor
nia, is the hot country.
VOL. I--N0.46.
NEGRO BARBARITY.
Human Sacrifices on the West Coast of
Africa.
[From the Manchester Guardian.]
In a former letter I gave some account
of the miseries inflicted by the Kings of
Dahomey in this part of Africa, and es
pecially by their annual raids upon the
town of Abbeokuta, which does a large
trade with 'Lagos. I find, however, that
cruelties and horrors quite equal to those
of Dahomey or Ashante continue to be
perpetrated at a native town within easy
reach of Lagos. Porto Novo is situated,
on one of the arms of the lagoon that
stretches in three different directions,
converging at Lagos. The Portuguese
give it this name when it was one
of their large slave-trading towns. It
then came under a kind of French pro
tectorate of a somewhat vague descrip
tion ; but in December, 1864, the French
Admiral informed the Administrator of
Lagos that the protectorate was at au.
end. The native King, therefore, reigns
very much as he chooses. The conse
quence of this is that not only African;
slavery in all its worst forms continues,,
but also the hideous systems of human,
sacrifices. Uuusual attention has lately
been drawn to this by the King’s having
held a specially brutal sacrifice in public,
in order to pay some compliment to his
deceased mother. Two men, two women
and a cow were all hung up in public
and burned alive by fire being placed
beneath them. There arc large French
and other European factories there, and
missionaries also, but none of them dare
interfere; and so the hideous brutality
goes on—not often in so public a man
ner, but unhappy victims are constantly
being sacrificed in private during the
night, And this is a king with whom,
the administrators of Lagos are on the
moat friendly terms, as there is a very
large trade done between their respec
tive towns. One would have thought
that when every human feeling had been
outraged : even in a country so acccus
tomed to horrors, by such an occurrence,
the power of the British flag would have
been exercised by immediately sending
a strong and decided intimation that
such proceedings must cease, or that
England could no longer remain on terms
of friendship with such a power.
A RUSSIAN TRAGEDY. .
On.e of the most revolting scenes re
corded in the annals of modern execu
tions took place on the 15th of May in.
the Russian city of Mohileff. Six months
before an altercation had occurred at the
dinner table of the Hotel de l’Europe, in
the same place, between two officers of
the Second Regiment of the Imperial
Foot Guards, Colonel Rampos Sojinok
and Lieutenant Prizzik. The latter, it
appears, was engaged to be married to
the daughter of the landlord of the above
named hotel, Anna Mirasky. He wr%
fondly attached to the handsome girl,
and looked upon all attempts on the part
of his comrades to dirt with her with un
disguised jealousy. On the 3d of De
cember, 1874, Colonel Sojinok had drunk
considerable before going to dinner. At
the table he offered loudly to bet that
for the sum often thousand dollars
Mirasky would sell her virtue to him.
Lieutenant Prizzik, her affianced lover,
was not present, but a note which the
girl immediately addressed tohimbrought
him in a few minutes to the spot. No
sooner had he heard what the Colonel
had said about Anna than he seized a
cane and administered a terrible castiga
tion to the foul-mouthed scoundrel. The
Colonel tried to parry the blows, but the.
Lieutenant did not cease belaboring him,
until his face presented a sickening ap-.
pearauce. It was one mass of bruises.
The nose of the Colonel was broken, and
his front teeth were knocked out. The
cries of the chastised officer brought the
police to the spot. Prizzik was arrested
and taken to the military prison. Next
day he was court-martialed by a military
commission, consisting exclusively of
friends of Colonel Sojionox. The trial
lasted two hours, at the end of which the.
President of the court said to Prizzik :
“ The Court unanimously finds you guil
ty. It sentences you to be ignominiously
expelled from the army, and then suffer
death by powder and lead.” From this
sentence the doomed man appealed to
the Czar. Anna Mirasky, his fiuancee,
went herself to St. Petersburg and threw
herself on her knees before the Emperor
Alexander 11. The latter was deeply
moved by the tearful appeals of the un
fortunate girl, and he promised to take
the ease under careful consideration.
Over five weary months passed, during
which time Prizzik, loaded with chains,
languished in jail. On the 14th of May,
at length, the military Governor of Mo
hileff received orders to have Prizzik ex--
ecuted. At daybreak on the following
morning the doomed lover was led out.
Two burly corporals immediately fell up
on him and tore his uniform from his
back. They then repeatedly struck him
and spit in his face. Staggering under
the blows, he was tied to the stake, and
the death warrant read to him. He
cursed the Czar loudly for his injustice,
but the roll of drums drowned his voice.
Six soldiers were drawn up in a line be-'
fore him. They fired three volleys, but
not a bullet hit him. Such an ordeal
was too much for the nerves of the poor,
young fellow. He begged piteously that
an end might be put to his anguish. The
fourth and fifth volleys resulted in his
receiving seven wounds. He was still
conscious, and writhing in indescribable
agouy T . Then a corporal ran up to him*
and, putting his musket against his tem
ple, blew out his brains. It was loudlpr
asserted in Mohileff that the first two vol
ley .-i were fired with blank cartridges in
order to prolong the prisoner’s agony.
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