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■■ - GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL. W. ADDISON KNOWLES, Prop’r. VOLUME XI—NO. 20. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. pimaSTimsh I DRUGS, lIIIICIS AND CHEMICALS. Paints,Oils, Colors, Brushes. GOODS constantly arriving. Large J-’ stock WINDOW GLASS, all sizes 6xlo to 30x80. Full assortment LAMPS, CHIMNEYS. CHANDELIERS, LANT ERNS, TOILET SOAPS, PERFUMERY, POMADES, etc., etc. Tlie best Garden Seeds, ONION SETS. POTATOES, &c., for this climate from Robt. Buist, Philadelphia, 10c papers sold at 5c strictly—warranted freak and genuine, crop 1882. FINEST SUGARS in town. SMOKING and CHEWING TOBACCO. t&tgF Physician’s Prescriptions care fully comjwmnded and dispensed, JNO. A. GRIFFIN, OLIVERS QUICK RELIEF WILL CURE Colics, Tootliache, Colic in horses Coughs, Earache, Insect Stings. Colds, Headache, Bites of insects Croup, lilieumajism, Catarrh,and pain Cram)*, Neuralgia, in man or beast. Prepared by MAYS & CO., Atlanta, Ga, Sold by J. A. Griffln, Greenesboro. mar 23 83 DRESS MAKING! BY MRS. A.G. HARRIS, RECENTLY OF ATLANTA, At the STATIIAM HOTEL BUILDING oyer Dr. Walker's Drug Store. Prices low. Prompt attention given to all orders and satisfaction guaranteed. upr2o S3 GEORGIA RAILROAD. SCHEDULE. to: Georgia Railroad, Cos. ) Office General Manager, > Augusta, April 28th, ’82.) C COMMENCING SUNDAY, tlie29th insl. > the following Passenger Schedule will be operated: FAST LIUBI NO. 27. ’WKST IJAII.Y. j NO. 28. EAST DAIt.Y. I.vi, \uimaia.7:Jflam.-i.La O-so j Ar Gr'nsbo’ 5:26 p m “ Gr'nslio’lo:ls “ | “ Athens... 8:25 “ Ar Atlanta 1:00 pm | “ Augusta 8:10 “ NO. 1 WEST — DAILY. NO. 2 EAST—DAIt.Y. Lv AngustatO 30 a m Lv Atlanta 825 a m “ Macon.. 705 “ “ G’boro’. 12 0!) p m “ Mil'dge. 910 “ Ar Athens 505 pm “ Cainak.l2 29 “ Ar Wash’t. 255 “ “ Wash’t.ll 20 “ “Catnak. 157 “ “ Athens. 905 “ Mil'dge. 449 “ Ar G'boro'. 215 p m “ Macon .0 45 “ Ar Atlanta. 550 p m Ar Augusta 355 p m SO. 3 WEST — DAILY. SO. 4 EAST — DAILY. Lv Augusts.!) 00 p m Lv Atlanta.B BO p m Ar G’boro’.. 144a rn Ar G'buro' 140 a m Ar Atlanta.. 640 “ Ar Augusta 6 20a tn C-rSUPEKB IMPROVED SLEEPERS TO AUGUSTA & ATLANTA. Train No. 27 will stop at and receive passengers to and from the following points only: Belair, Bcrzclia, Harlem, Thomson, Camak, Orawfordvillc, Union Point, Greenosboro. Madison, Rutledge, Social Circle, Covington, Conyers, Stone Mountain and Decatur. Train No. 28 will stop at, and receive pas sengers to and from the folllowing stations, only, Bcrzclia, Harlem, Dearing, Thomson, Camak, Crawfordville, Union Point, Greenesboro, Madison, Rutledge, Social Circle, Covington, Conyers, Stone Mountain and Decatur. The Fast Line lias Through Sleeper from Atlanta te Charleston and connects for all points West and Northwest, East and South east. E. R. DORSEY, General Passenger Agent Jxo. W. Green, Gen’l Manager, WM, E. BENSON, MERCHANTTAILOR AND DEALER IN BITS ME nffISDK CIOS. 743 Broad Streel, Augusta, * Ga. e*T have a lull line of SPRING PAT TERNS. including the latest and most fash ionable styles, and I guarantee entire satis faction. I make Wedding Suits a specialty. Give me a call meh. 2nd, 83. WOMAN. How Shall She Preserve Her Health and Beauty ? One who has loDg investigated this sub ject gives the result, and is happy to say that it is found in “Woman’s Best Friend.” It is adapted especially to that great central, all-controlling orgao, the womb, correcting Its disorders, a caring any irregularity of •.he “menses, or courses. ’ Dr. J Brad j field's Female Regulator acts like a charm ! in whites, and in sudden or gradual check ing, or in entire stoppage of the “monthly courses,” from cold, meutal trouble or like causes, by restoring the natural discharge in every instance. Iu chronic cases, ho often resulting In ulceration, falling of the womb, its action is prompt amWeeisivp, saving the constitution from numherleas evils and pre- i mature decay. Prepared by Dr. J Brad field, Atlanta. Ga. Price, trial size, 75 cts; I large size $1.50. For sale by all druggists. : my 11 83 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. ORDINARY’S NOTICES. William K. Mullins and Robert. L. Mc- Whorter Administrators of the Estate of William N. Williams and Thomas M. Bry an, Administrators of the Estate of James 11. Hart—apply foi Letters of Dismission from said Estates and such Letters will lie granted on the first Monday in June next unless good objections are filed. Jesse P. Wilson, Admininistrator of the Estate of Willian T. Doster and John M. Chapman, deceased, applies for Letters of Dismission from said administrations, and suc'a Letters will be granted on the first Monday in July next, unless good objec tions are filed. JOEL P. THORNTON, Ordinary. March 17th, 1883. SPECIAL LOCALS —Sweeps, scrapes and scooper steel just received by C. A. Davis & Cos. —Tax off Tobacco, cigars and snnff—pri ces all reduced by C. A. Davis & Cos. —The handsomest Parasols and best Um brellas can be had of C. A. Davis & Cos. —E. B. Moylan. Sr., Savannah, Ga., says: “I have been troubled with my blood, and after using Brown's Iron Bitters, am much improved.” Black Alpaca Sacks and Frocks. Fancy Alpacas, Sursuckers, Drop D’Ete Sacks and Erocks to arrive. Alpaca Vests, White Vests, White Ties, Fifth Aveuue Scarfs at C. A. Davis & Co’s. —Y’ott can buy nice muslins at 5c yard of C. A. Davis & Cos. —Keep medicine on hand in lime of need, and always have a box of Gilder’s Liver Pills ready. —Rufflers, Tuckers, Corders, flemmers, Shuttles, Bobbins for Singer Sewing Ma chines cheap at C. A. Davis & Co’s. AtTorsTA, January 10. 1883. Allow me to say that your ’ll. H. P. far suspasses any Liver Medicine I have ever used. It promotes health, digestion, and purifies the blood. No family should be without it. M. Newsome. —J. W. Swann : “I grow ns fine apples as anyone in the county. I bought my trees of tlie Rochester Nursery.”—O. T. Hightower, Agent, Greenesboro’, Ga. —All kinds Shoemakers Findings: Sole Leather, Upper Leather, Shoe Tin end, Ready made Uppers. Ready rut Soli’s, Kip Skins, Calf Skins, Lining Skins at C. A. Davis & Go’s. Waldo P Wilson, Darlot, Ga.,savs: “Brown’s Iron Bitters cured my mother of dyspepsia when all other remedies failed.” Remember that- every rash subscriber' to the Homr Journal is entitled to a copy of “Kendall's Trends on the Morsennd Ili" Diseases” free. If you have not paid up your subscription do so at once and secure this valuable work. Besides our large stock of Fine Cloth* in*, we have just received from New York, a large lot Job Clothing at about j to A price. Um'S’S tfooils —tb(4 POMS Will BUT.: prise you. —C. A. Davis & Cos. J Wlmt Coo. A. Hall says • 1 1 have gath ered peaches from m3’ ■ .roh-v.l from 12 to 14 ounces; trees bought from Rochester Nursery. O T Hightower, Agt.. Greenesboro’, Ga. i W. M. TAPPAN. O. W. TAPI’AN. W. M. TAPPAN & SON, —DEALERS IN General Merchandise, WHITE PLAINS, GA., OFFER FIVE HUNDRED BUSHELS first-class rust-proof oats for sale. Haiman s single-foot Plow Stocks (to close out) at $1.50. Hainmn’s (wood and iron beam) double ! foot stoeks, .$3. Lot of empty kerosene and syrup barrels. Lot of six finger Turkey-wing Grain Cra dles, just in. Lot of Scoville Hoes No. 1,2, and 3, and handles for same. Lot of No. 1 and 2 Garden Hoes with handles. Lot Standard seamless Bags. Fresh lot of Rice and fresh roasted Pea nuts, just in. Lot of Gents’ Si raw, Wool and Fur Ilats, nobby styles, just in. Another case of full-weight, solid as wire Brogans, just in. Gents’ Ready-made Shirts, full line, and prices range from 35c to $1.75. Gents’ Unlaundriod Shirts, “O. K.," good as the Pearl. Price sl. Full line of Cottonades. Price, from 10c to 27c per yard. Big drive in Clothing. Pants from 50c to $lO. Coats 500 up. Heavy discounts on broken and unmatched suits. We are closing out a lot of Coats at about half value. We offer a large lot of scalloped and plain GraniteßowlsandfiatDisl.es at “marked down" prices. Cheaper now than ever. Two pairs Fairbanks Scales for sale low. One No 7 Stove for sale low to close out the lot. One No. 6 Stove for sale low to close out the lot. Lot of the celebrated Diamond Dyes to arrive next week. COME TD WHITE PLAINS! Come to our store and price our goods. You will find them right down in the bot tom notch. We welcome all, and will do our best to please. Respectfully, W. M. Tappan & Son, may 4 83 . WHITE PLAINS. GA. One fine Jersey Cow, with young calf, for sale by Geoige W Taopan, White Plains. E. J. HICKEY, Fashionable Hair Dressing Saloon! No. 212 Bth Jackson Street, rear of E. R. Schneider’s, AUGUSTA, - - - QA. Hair cutting, Shaving. Shampooing, and Dyeing in the most artistic style. Manufacturer of the Excelsior Hair Re newer and Dandruf Eradicator. Razors Concaved and sharpened on shortest notice. A fine lot of Canary Birds kept constantly on hand. Orders by mail promptly atten ded to. Don’t forget the place. Ho tf, HU DISHY* Opposite Globe Hotel, Jackson Street, nov. 10th, ’B2. DEVOTF.D TO TIIE GENERAL RE OF TLIE PEOPLE. GREENESBORO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY)MORNING, MAY 18,1888. SELECTED POETRY. FOREVER. BY MRS. MARY MATES DODGF. Though tangled hard life’s knot may be, And wearily we rue it. Tlie silent touch of Father Time Some day will sure undo it. Then, darling, wait: Nothing is late In tlie light that shines forever. We faint at heart, a friend is gone; We chafe at tlie world’s harsh drilling; We tremble at sorrow on every side. At Hie myriad ways of killing. Y’et say we all. If a sparrow fall, The Lord keepetb count forever. He keepeth count. We come, we go, Speculate, toil, and falter. But tlie measures to each of weal or woe, God only can giye or alter. He sendeth light, He sendeth night, And change goes on forever. \\ liy not take life with cheerful trust With faith in (lie strength of weakness? The slenderest daisy rears its head Witli courage, yet with meekness. A sunny face Until holy grace To woo the sun forever. For ever and ever, my darling, yes— Goodness and love nre undying; Only the trouble and enresof earth Arc winged from tlie filjt for Hying. Our way we plough In the furrow “now;” But after the tilling and growing, tlie sheaf; Soil for the root, lint tlie sun for tlie leaf Ami God keepeth watch forever. MASSACRE OF ALAMO. ACCOUNT OF THAT AWFUL BUTCH SRY. A RECITAL OF A DREADFUL BLOODSHED —THRUSTING SWORDS THROUGH DY ING MEN—LIVING MEN THROWN INTO THE FLAMES. By IF. V. Zube.r, of lola, Grimes County. This sketch is an account of the burning of tlie bodies of the heroes of the Alamo, after the storming of that fortress by the forces of Santa Anna, on the 6th of March, 1836, and includes the murder of Col. James Bowie. The facts were re lated to me bv tlie Mexican fifer, Apolinario Saldigna, who was then but sixteen years old, and who was an eye witness of the scene. He was knottn in Texas by a contrac tion of hitf’Cbristiiju nayne, Polin, pronouucoct Poleeri, accenting the .yitauie. i anew him dur ing several years, and feel that. I can safely voueli for him as a truth ful boy. AFTER THE MASSACRE. After the fort (the celebrated church of the Alamo at Ban Anto nio) bad been stormed and ail of its defenders bad been reported to have been slain, and when the Mexican assailants had been re called from within the walls, Santa Anna, accompanied by bis staff, en tered the fortress. Polin, being a fifer, and therefore a privileged person, and possibly the more so on account of his tender age, by permission entered with them. He desired to see all that was to be seen; and for this purpose ho kept himself near to his General-in- Chief. Santa Anna had ordered that no corpses should be disturb ed till after he should have looked upon them all, and seen how every man had fallen. He had employed three or four citizens of San Anto nio to enter with him, and to point out to him the bodies of several distinguished Texans. The principle corpses that Santa Anna desired to see were those of Colonel W. Barret Travis, Col. James Bowie, and another man, whose name Poliu could not re member. I asked Polin if the oth er man’s name was Crockett, to which he replied, “May be so; I can’t remember.” On entering the fort, the eyes of the conquerors were greeted by a scene which Polin could not well describe. The bodies of the Texans lay as they had falloD, and many of them were covered by those of Mexicans who had fallen upon them. The close of the struggle seemed to have been a hand-to hand engagement, and the number of slain Mexicans exceeded that of the Texans. The ground was cov ered by the bodies of the slain. Santa Anna and suit, for a time wandered from one apartment of the fortress to another, stepping over and upon the dead, ard seem ingly enjoying this scene of human butchery. After a general reeonnoitering of the premises, the dictator was con ducted to the body of Col. Travis. After viewine his form and features for a few moments, Santa Anna thrust his sword through the dead man’s body, and turned away. He was then conducted to the body of the man whose name Polin could j not remember. This man lay with his face upward, and his body was 1 covered by those Mexicans who had fallen upon him. His face was florid, like that of a living man,! and he looked like a healthy man asleep. Santa Anna also! viewed him for a fey moments, thrust his sword through him, and tnrned away. "t The one who hadxomo. to point out certain bodies, made a long but unsuccessful search for the body of Col. Bowie, and reported to Santa Anna that it could be found. Then a detail of Mexican sol diers came into the fort. They were commanded -M%wo officers, a captain and c * ! Jhior officer, whose title Polin ci'iwn* not explain to me ; but whom \fOJnli for con venience call the They were both quite y<£|§* men, very fair, very handsounWnnl so nearly alike in complexion forwi, size anil features, that Potr H&fcd them to be brot hers; tJjeca > . ■;. iip. pareutly a little olie jphae the oth er. Polin did n0,.1n member to have ever seen theJj before, was confident that he saw them afterward, and he 1 not learn their names. K Nf After the enthis detail, Santa Anna and nA'suit retired; but the two officers, with their de tail, remained within. The two kept themselves close together, side by side. Polin was desirous to know what was to he done, and remained with the detail ; and to enable himself to s. o all that was to be seen, he kept himself near the two officers, uevei losing sight of them. BURNING THUqBODIES. As soon as the dictator and suit had retired, the detail began to bring them together, and lay them iu a pile. 1 bad learned from oth er prisoners that tHe Mexicans, at the same time, performed the ad ditional work of rifling the pocket* of the slain Texans. The two officersGtook a stand, about the centre of {lie main area. The first corpse was brought aud laid as the captain directed. This formed a nucleus for the pile. The bodies were brought successively, each by four men, and dropped near the captain’s feet. Iu imita tion of his general, the captain viewed the bodies of each Texan for a few moments ; then THRUST BIS SWORD THROUGH HIM, and then, by a ino|on of his sword, directed the who had brought him, to)- him upon thspilo whhv ■w_A.Uk "■■- stantlyL oiief<.i. Wtren the Texans had all heeu thrown upon the pile, four soldiers walked around it; each carrying - a can of camphine, from which he spurted the liquid upon the pile. This process was continued until the bodies were thoroughly wetted. Then a match was thrown upon the pile, and the combustible fluid instantly sent up a flame, to an immense height. While the fluid was being thrown upon the pile, four soldiers brought a cot, on which lay a sick man, and set it down by the captain ; and one of them remarked: “Here, cap tain, is a man who is not dead.” “Why is he not dead ?” said the captain. “We found him in a room by himself,” said the soldier. “He seems to be very sick and, I sur>- pose, he was not able to fight, jmd was placed there by his compan ions, to be iu a safe place and out of the way.”. The captain gave the sick nan a searching look, and said : “I think I have seen this man before.” The lieutenant re plied, “I think I have, too,” and, stooping dovvu, he examed his fea tures closely. Then, raising him self up, ho addressed the captain. “He is no other than the INFAMOUS BOWIE !” The captain then also stooped, gazed intently ou the sick man’s face, assumed an erect position, and confirmed the conviction of the lieutenant. The captain then looked fiercely upon the sick man, find said: “How is it, Bowie, that you have been found bidden in a room by your self ; and have not died fightiug, like your companions?” To which Bowie replied in good Castilliun : “I should certainly have done so ; but you see that 1 am sick, and cannot get off this cot.” “Ah, Bowie,” said the captain, “you have come to a fearful end—and well do you deserve it. As an immigrant to Mexico you havo taken an oath, before God, to support the Mexican Government; but now you are vi olating that oath by fighting ag ainst the very Government which you have sworn to support. But tips perjury, common to all of your rebellious countrymen, is not your only offense. You have married a respectable Mexican lady, and are fightiug against hor countrymen. Thus you have not only perjured yourself, bul you have also betray ed your own family.” “I did,” said Bowie, “take an oath to support the Constitution of Mexico ; and in defense of that Constitution am I now fighting. You took the same oath, when you accepted your commission in the array ; and you are now violating that oath, and betraying the trust of your countrymen, by fighting nil- j der a faithless tyrant for the de- j strnction of that constitution, and for.the ruin of your people’s liber- j ties. The perjury and* treachery ! are not mine but yours.” A HORRIBLE RECITAL. The captaiu indignantly ordered j Bowie to shut his mouth. “I shall j never shut my mouth for your like,” said Bowie, “while I have a ; tongue to speak.” “I soon re lieve you of that,” sgiidflb/eaptain. Then be caused four of his min ions to hold the sick man, while a j fifth, with a strap knife split his \ mouth, on each side, to the ramus ;of the *jaw, then took hold of his ■ tongue, drew as much of it as ho ‘ coil’d bf tween the teeth, out ofjiis Tmouth, cut IE of!anTTthrew it upon” the pilo of dead men. Then in 1 obedience to a motion of the cap jtaiu’s s wordy the four soldiers who ; held hitn, lifted the writhing body | of the mutilated, bleeding, tortured | invalid from his cot, and pitched | him alive upon the funeral pile. At that moment the match was thrown upon the pile. The com jlmstible fluid instantly sent up a | flame to an amazing height. The j sudden generation of a great heat ! drove all the soldiers back to the 'wall. The two officers, pale as corpses, stood gazing at the IMMENSE COLUMN OF FIRE, ! and trembling from head to foot,” I as if they would break asunder at every joint. Polin stood between ! them, and saw and heard the lieu | tenant whisper, in a faltering aud broken articulation. “It takes him —up—to God.” Polio believed that the lieuten ant alluded to the ascension, upon the wings of that flame, of Bowie’s soul to that God, who would sure ly award due vengeance to his fiendish murderers. Not being able to fully compre hend the .great combustibility of the campbene, Polin also believed that the sodden elevation of that great-pillar of lire was an indica tion of God’s hot displeasure to ward those torturing murderers. Ho further believed that the two officers were of the same opinion, and thus he accounted for their great agitation. And lie thought that (ho same idea pervaded the whuh/ilotail, as everv man appear ed to 1i '• Fviryl. * rpj(v<] . lEo/a time, Polin stooiJamazed; expecting every moment that the earth would open a chasm through which every man in the fort would drop into perdition. .Terrified by this conviction, he left the fort as speedily as possible. • On a subsequent day Polin en ! tered the fort again. It was then I cleansed, and it seemed to be a j comfortable place. But in a con spicuous place, in the main area, lie'saw the one relic of the great victory, a pile of charred fragments of human bones. DI I>N’T UKK HIS GAIT. “I am back again from Jasper's stormy shore,’ said Bill Grant, as he laid his quilt from oil' his broad shoulders, ‘and it is my opinion that, in sound judgment, and right down sharp* sense, woman is far superior to the monarch man.’ ‘Why so?’ wo inquired. ‘Well, you see, in the past two years, I have made more brick, and been refused by more women, than any ten men in Georgia. I thought I had the tiling dead until last night, when I asked a well-to-do widow if she could warm over a few of her buried affections and make room enough in her heart for a second husband. She said she would never marry another man unless she liked the way he walked. ‘William,’ she sweetly said, ‘the moon is up, the night is clear ; now come out and get into the road and step toward town, and if I admire the style of your gait I will call yon back and marry you, promising to cook for your brick-yard crowd all the days of my life. Remember if you stop or look back before I call you, you are never to darken my door again.’ ‘Thinking I had a soft thiug of it I went into the road, threw m3 7 head back, placed ray arms ’a-kim boo,’ and promenaded up the road. I continued to walk, thinking sure ly she would call me back. Well, you see I entered the road to walk for a wife. Why do you suppose she failed to call me back ?’ ‘Couldn’t see your style,’ said we. ‘Hanged if Judge Banks didn’t say the same thing when I told him about it just to da)', and mv opinion is, she did’nt intend to call me back from the beginning. You see that walk the little widow put on me, convinced me of the supe riority of her sox over my own.’ —Printers make no end of mon ey, and some of them save it. Af ter old John Russell died in a New York hospital, last week, it was discovered that he had forty thou sand dollars in the bank aud no kinfolk to claim it. STEPHENS AND GRANT. HOW THE COMMONER WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE EX-PRESIDENT. Mr. Crawford of the Sunday Her ald relates the following as the late Alexander Stephen’s estimate of Grant: “I shall never forget my first interview with Grant. It was when I came up in 1864 with th® peace commission from Itichmond. I had been readiug a great deal about Grant iu all our papers dur ing the war. I had read of him as “Butcher Grant” so long that that involuntary idea became pretty firmly established in my mind. I could not get out of my head a pict ure of a coarse, boorish, brutal man. Ww4®d~-Mjih ns. a_leadiif"-otK<?er of Lee’s staff. He was in full uniform, well gotten up for a visit of extreme ceremony. When we reached Grant’s headquarters it was nearly night. We had beeu passed by the sentinels with a great deal of cere mony. We thought wheu we reach ed Grant’s headquarters to find a great military scene. I expected to find Grant, the then commander of an army of a million men, in a splended position, surrounded by all the display that great military power makes possible. But what was my surprise, when I reached the headquarters, to find only a log hoffse, with not- even a sentry in front of it. I doubted if this could be Grant’s headquarters. It was now nearly night. I advanc ed with my party antfr knocked. There was no servant, even, in at tendance to announce callers. The door was opened by a plain medi nm-sized man in civilan’s clothes. He held a lighted lamp in his hand. I said: “I wish to see General Grant.” “I am General Grant,” he said in tlie simplest possible way. Will you not walk in, gentlemen ?” We walked in and were seated by him. He was alone in tho room. From the first he evinced the great est possible interest iu the object of our mission. I observed him closely during the hour we were with him. Grant’s simplicity and modesty were objects of most pro found admiration. I noticed also when orderlies came iu to receive orders that these were given in an :r.i;..i v*| voice. Tliere vrws notli ing of tins commander in his direc tions. usuirfry eetMiludfeU an order with the words “go quickly,” delivered in a conversational tone. When our first consultation en ded, Grant insisted upon onr sleep ing upon his headquarters boat. We asked where the boat was. In stead of summoning and Orderly or a servant Grant said : “I will go with you myself.” The night had now become very dark. We came out of the log house and went stumbling along after Grant, who skipped ahead with the lightness and agility of a boy. Ev ery uovv and then he would meet a sentinel. To his call of “Who goes there?” Grant replied, “The gen eral of the army.” He conducted us personally lo the boat, and as signed us to state rooms. I think oue on the best traits of his char acter was the great anxiety shown by him, on this occasion, to further the interests of peace. Instead of finding him hard and uncomprom ising, he was ready to make every concession in the interests of this peace. The next morning when I awoke and had dressed, I went out npou the deck of the vessel, and there I saw Grant running along ou the bank, jumping like a boy. as he waived a dispatch iu his hand. I soon found out that this was a dis patch from Lincoln, agreeing to re ceive the commission. Stanton had opposed it, but Grant’s influence had been strong enough to overrule Stanton. “That the commission finally failed iu accomplishing its mission,” said Mr. Stephens, “I credit entirely to Mr. Stanton’s op position.” ; —“No, George,” she said, as she ,waved her bronze bangs over the ! back gate, “I can feel that I can : never lovo you with that clinging ; theatre ticket affection which char laeterized my matinee efforts dur jing the mid-winter.” “Why - , oh, ! why,” remarked George, “do you : cast a shadow athward my heart ? Is there no hurnaD condition upon i which I may build a glimmering jhope?” “Stay,” said she, biting off more chewing-gum than she could conveniently chew, “Stay'— there is one condition upon which my yearning heart will go out to you as sweetly and softly as a baud of wayward dudes went into a grat uitous lunch hall” “Name it,” ex citedly murmered George, as a per ceptible quiver shot through his hat-vack frame, “and I will perform it though it should take to the ice— cremator}’ for all summer.” “You have anticipated rav fond hearts darling wish !” said the emotional creature and then wound herself around George’s watch chain cov eted vest and weeped, TERMSS2 OO per Annum, in Advance. WHOLE NUMBER 620, the sLater Ft Nif. Governor Colquitt has recently returned from New York. While i there he attended the meeting of ; the trustees of tlie Slater fund, as !he is one of the trustees. There | was a full attendance of trustees, j Dr. Haygood was present and made his report as superintendent of the j fund. A son of Mr. Slater was present. As is genially known the “Slater fund” is a million dollars, douated by a generous northerner, i Mr. John F. Slater, to aid in the j education of the negroes in the | south. The money is invested id ■ securities which pay about $60,000 , a year.. Yesterday Governor Col j quitt was asked what was the re- I suit of the recent meeting and what | general policy the trustees Would ; adopt in using the moans at their j disposal. Said he: “A great work is befoie ns, and we cannot determine at once ex actly what will be the fixed policy in distributing the money. We aro compelled to proceed tentatively for a while. Still we are going ahead at once in order to get on the light line at once.” *> “How much does the board pro* - : pose to use iu educating the ne groes this year?” “Thirty thousand dollars." “How is it to be distributed?’' "On that point there were scinet interesting discussions in the board. Dr. Haygood reported that there are in the south about seventy in stitutions to educate colored peo ple but that only a few of tnem combine practical industrial lustra tions with theoretical branches of education. Dr. Haygood made a very strong address to the board in which, after reviewing the con dition and the tendeucy of the ne- groes in matters of education, he concluded that the mere imitative acquisition of reading, writing anil arithmetic would bo comparatively worth little to the negro without a practical education to put their education to use. The board, af ter carefully considering the ques tion resolved in the first place ‘to confine its aids to such schools as are best fitted to prepare young colored men and women to become Vu \\ic‘u I Ituc f 111 U’Aivr words, to institutions in which col- Ui’ocl. teacUai-s Are trained v In thiW way, unquestionably, a much lar ger number can be benefited by this charity than if it were fritted away upon one or more elementa ry schools of the common order. Iu the second place the board di rected ‘that institutions which give instruction in,© trade aud other' manual occupations bo carefully- sought out and preferred in appro priations from this fund, and that, so far as practicable, the scholars receiving aid from this foundation shall be trained to some manual occupation simultaneously witln their mental aud moral instruc tion.’ The effect will be not only to. benefit institutions which already cultivate these useful features, but also to induce others to follow their example iu order to commend themselves to the trustees of the Slater fund for a similar appro priation. Aud the third place, the board res. lived to proceed experi mentally for some time yet, and to spend only a part of the reveuaea. of the fund, accumulating the rest for future use when they will be still better advised as to how it may be most advantageously em ployed.” “Where will you find the color ed schools in the south that come up to the requirmeuts of the board, in the present experiment ?” “The school that has done most in this practical line is at Hamp ton, Virginia. Recently dark Uni versity, of Atlanta, has done welt in this line, aud will do move. There are various other schools that havo agreed with the board in thinking the practical training of the negro ought to progress with his theoret ical education.” From what the governor says it is to be supposed that Dr. Hay-? good made a most favorable im* pression on the board by bis busi ness-like views and his thorough grasp of the situation. ’He will go to work at once to find what schools are entitled to aid under the con ditions given aud when the aid is given he will carefully observe the effects of the very important ex periment now to be tried. —On 342 railway lines an aggre gate of 11,343 miles was construc ted in 1882, or about 2,000 miles more than iu 1881, which exceeded any previous year by 2,000 miles. The construction is divided as fol lows : Five Now England States, 53J miles; four Middle States, 1,- 315£ miles; five Middle Western States, 2,077 J miles; eleven South ern States, 1,490.1 miles ; four in Missouri river belt, 2,003 * miles ; five In Kansas belt, 3,1571 miles i five in Colorado bolt, 1,165 miles ; six; in Pacific belt, 1,030 miles.