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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIZZY, AlRRIL 16, 1875.
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Hawkins & Hawkins,
attorneys at law,
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aTTONEY AT JL.A.W.
AMhltltiUd. O KO1UH A.
r lLL i'i*c.io* >n the Counties or Macon,
ipuiy, M-uley, Webster, munteraud Lee
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Office
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B. P. HOLLIS,
toruoy »t Zjawi
YtfEIUCCA, GEORGIA.
)ffi* in Hawkins’ BoiWing, Cotton
JanM».
.„.XN PONT. J. H. MCCLESKKY.
Fort & McOleskey,
Uhrnrn* ut hmc and Solicitor* in Equity
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
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:he SUtf, and in tho District
>1 tlio United
the conn tie* of the South-
inn given to cesee in Bank-
Kc-bnrapert rick itt end King’s
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MERREL CALLAWAY,
Attorney at Law,
AMERICUS, GA.
«r0iS’.- over Kendrick A Wheatley's Store.
Guerry & Son,
Attorney* ext Xmw
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0MCIT0RS IN EQUITY
America*. Orergit,
rjTlLTi practice in the Snperior Conrte ol
»» 8'untcr, hchley. Macon, Dooly, Lee. Ter-
'*11, Webater and Marion conntiee; li
«apremc Court *f Georgia end in tho C
'tatt* Couite at Savannah,
office over C. W. Felder end Son corner
Umar Mreot and Cotton Avenue.
Dr. V. A. GREENE,
j aerve those desiring his P.t
IcMioual Services me hrreto'ere, end solicHe i
continuance of their — *
Dr. W. J. REESE,
VENDERS hla Professional Services to the
* people of Americas end vicinity.
% good STOCK of DJUJGS, togeth-
■UhGtRDEv SEEDS,
*. SlieSeld A Co He would like ti
1 friends at his Store.
Ho.. Ha. Next door I
MISCELLANEOUS.
DESERTED.
H.old! to eold !’ end the night looks down
On e tbiv’ring form in e fettered gown.
t lone, lone, lorn heart, end e pair of
a miseries ;
e told,
Abrim with life’s ke<
Kin on kin
Bj the flakes at
Kin on kiss—
But oh! so cold;
Even the touch that ought to bless.
" wretchedness.
Mocketb the wsnd’r
How can the loved in the lend of the light
Peer through the diamal deeps of night.
With never & star to bresk the gloom.
Or sweep one cloud from the path of doom!
Flake on flake.
O’er vale and hill,
Flake on flake,
With toneh so chill,
WUb touch that sinks like the shaft of bate.
Deep in the heart so desolate.
,ir ^ 1 L’°.f 0,d! v *" d ruddj flare
Of lifhte tint flint in the front, nir
Readme each fehn that fulls tinon
A hapless, hotnelees. friendless one;
Drop by drop
Or the blood-red enow.
Drop by drop
In the cup of woe—
The chalice filled for want’s pale bride,
A pauper’s least for a Christmas tide.
Joy sails out on the winter’s wings,
And tuned for self is Ihe lay she rings.
Its echoes drift with the icy air,
And mock the sufferer's piteous prayer;
Ware on wave
With the night wind strong,
Wave on wave
Of the bitter song.
That float where the sails of hope are furled.
And crowns the wounds of a heartless world.
•Cold! so cold 1” Not the cutting blast
Nor the frosty cloak of the night cloud eaat,
Rat the cramped, unpitying hearts that beat
The rhyme of life in the thronging street.
Throb oti throb
With the chime of pelf.
Throb on throb
To the throb of self.
But not one pulse to the measure sweet,
times the lore at the mercy seat.
form
That braved Ihe thrusts of the cruel atorm.
Fold on fold
Is the mantle white,
Fold on fold
’Neath the eyes of night;
met hers whieberer wsy she looked.
More especially did they hauot the page
she tried in Tain to rend, and moved in
her pencil's wake when she tamed to
writing for relict Not that the cared
for their owner. Oh, never • particle.
Any time since her fifteenth birthday,
she bad but to say, “I love you,” to
make Tommy the happiest of men. Yet
•be never did say it—never Intended
sayiog it. True, life waa unsatisfactory.
One dream after another faded;' still
there was a hope of her becoming some*
thing, being somebody; tied to Tommy,
that was gone. As Mrs. Whittlesy, her
days would be bounded on the east by
breakfast, south by dinner, north by sup
per, and west by a basket of undarned
stockings.
W as there ever—no, there never was
—such impudence ? Tommy Whittlesy
and one, two, three, fonr’feminine Whit
tle**, walking in upon l»er seclusion
quite as a matter of coarse. Yet, no,
not altogether so- Tommy swayed awk
wardly from side to side an instanMhen,
with a lift of the hat and a scrape meant
for a bow, turned as red as the Giant of
Battles, and dropped upon the other
bench, also upon her shawl.
“This is Miss Denver, children,” and
Tommy almost stammered in hla embar
rassment- “Como and apeak to the lady.”
To rise and leave would be an ac
knowledgment of weakness; so, out
wardly cool, yet inwardly borning, Me
linda kept tier text, turning her attention
to the .children. A pink-dressed brood,
each one a tri^ overgrown, like their
father, staring at her with his eyes, and
making not the slightest pretence of
—N. F. Evening Mail.
Dr. G. F. COOPER,
If ill irtre fch
KNXIllK TIME
Tot a* Tract ice of Medicine, and solicits » hhare
® pobUc patronage. (Jails left at the Drop
Stare : >r Pr. R. f. Eldridg*. or hM reaMowa
the Ft male College, will receive prompt
Dr J. B HINKLE. '
Physician and Surgoon.
fJU-Ls | e ft at tho Drug Store or Dr. E. J. El
y wdgoorat hin rbsidence (in front of Col
"R**veil*), will receive promptluAteftb
Dr. S."b.HAWKINS.
W * WPICR at Dr. Bdridce’e Drug 8tor*.
.. Ke.ihnce neir tbe Method!ft Church.
* fas vices fazam tender the good people ol
»"*ncu8 and country generally.
Dr. W. M. HARDWICK
milNu resumed the rraettee of Medicine.
** “uersLis eerviceeto bia old friends and
i,J" 3 ? ,nJ to tho paving pnbho gen^rxily.
^ulattenttmwiU be given to all Chrome
“^.particularly thoeeof female*. He will
P^vcnbe Tor and treat ordinary c*eee at hie
OMoe at tbe Drug Store ot Davenp
C l t j I lte,:<lonco —RtatavUle street, og
Dr. B J. HEAD,
WHO MELINDA MARRIED
“So you’re back agaluTffttb your old
employers, and at g> first-class salary.
I’m very glad, I assure you,- and so will
my husband bo when I tell him. Sorry
you can’t stay to tea with us oAeoeoot
of tho children. How old is your eldest,
Tommy ?”
“Let me see.” The individual ad
dressed balanced bia hat between hia
k net son both little fingers, and carefully
studied its interior, as though the infor
mation he sought lurked somewhere un
der the liniog. A great, blonde-bearded
man, but he always was and always
would be Tommy. Never being able to
rid himself of a certain awkward bash
fulness, nor ever having lost the big, in
nocent eyes, honest month and ruddy
complexion that made hitn look like an
overgrown schoolboy. “Amanda’s eleven
this J une. Lucy was nine in February
Melinda seven, and Yinnie—that’s the
baby my wife left, yon know—will be
three to-morrow.”
‘‘All girls V*
“Yes ma’am, all girls.”
“How long since you left the city ?”
“Let mo see,” and Tommy again con
sulted his hat. “I left the spring I was
twenty-one, didn't I ? Well, I’ve been
away thirteen years. I married Aman
da White just six mouths after I left”
“She made a good wile, didn’t she ?”
“The very best; but, then, it wasn’t
as though I’d married Melinda ”
“No I suppose not; and yet, Tom
my, I tell you, as I’ve always told you,
Melinda’s not altogether worthy of yon.
Not that she isn’t good-principled, warm
hearted, and all that, but her views of
life are false.”
’Then there is no chance for me.
Is anybody else in tho way ?”
“Nobody, and never has been, except
ing the girl herself. To my certain
knowledge, she’s bad but one offer besides
yours. That was from old Mr. Hulks,
the great shipper. 1 thought Melinda
would tear hia eyes out. So, you see,
1’t marry merely for money.”
I, you think there’s no chance for
[ daren't ask her. yon know; she
said tbe last time—when 1 came on
after Amanda died, you remember—that
if ever I did it again, she’d never apeak
‘Saying that she meant it, best not to
venture. Let matters take their course.
Sec her as often as possible, but keep a
certain distance. Maybe things will
work around somehow. She’s got in
with a new set lately—clever people—
but they have a fancy they’ve discov
ered a new way to put the world to
rights, and are the ones to do it. It’s
all well enough, I suppose. Amuse*
nnd don’t hurt anybody, but I’m
S** •»« will give —.
hi* profewum, and therefor) feel* **■
taif. K *ving eatlafaction. He ha*» for many
y^btie the atody and treatment or chronic
a *ptcialty, perticn arly thoee dieeaaes
to females, and ctain to have ditcov-
re medio, and treatment peculiarly ad«pt-
the tnre of ibis cUm of diaeMe.
aS* «tbe Drug atore of Dr. W. J. Beeae. -
tU 00 ’be Kaat aide of public rqoare, in
kkSjf ,onner, y occa Ph < i by Mrs. McCree
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out of patience, for all. See here, Tom
my, I’ve an ides. She visits the Park
tbe day the society meets—that’s to
morrow—to commune with nature, she
says. I know her favorite spot; she’s
always alone; you go tlere, take the
children, and get somewhere neat her.”
“Take the children ! I’d frighten her
miles and miles away.”
“No, you wouldn’t. The more I re
fleet on this plan the belter I like it.
Ask for a half-holiday, gather up your
gttla, and go.”
The day was all that could be desired.
A May-blue sky, with a drift of clouds
like {departing snow across it; warm,
peuejrating sunbeams; soft airs, alive
with children’s voices and bird-warblings.
Yet could not my heroine find herself in
harmony with the scene. She succeeded
in securing her favorite seat in the Park,
a niche on the billyde, with an interlao-
ine of boughs, and glimpses of rock and
river. It contained only two settees
Melinda met Tommy Whittlesy just
“Who fastened your clothes?” she
asked, seeing that Amsuda’s and Lacy’s
button began too soon and ended too
«.
“The woman we board with.”
“You’re plenty big enough to fasten
them for each other. Come here, both t f
you.”
After having straightened their backs,
Luey afterward expn sied it, she dis
missed^ Amanda with, “Now look after
your little sister* and turn your toea out.
What’s that on jout dress V to the third
girl, who singularly enough.reminded her
ofher own child-self. “I don’t know.”
‘‘It’s a shame to have that pretty suit
.polled. I wonder if ammonia won't
take it out ? What’s your name V*
“Melinda Denver Whittlesy.”
Melinda senior actually flushed. “My
me’a Melinda Peuver; did you know
? Keep your fingers out of your
mouth !” and the sharpness of the tones
betrayed unusual emotion of some sort
Very shortly tbe oldest girls strayed
way Melinda said at once she must
go, but taking Vinnic. who had got
something in her shoe, delayed her.
There proved to be nothing m that tiny
pink boot. A hole in her stocking,
throogh which peepejl a toe as pink,
caused . the. difficulty. Miss Denver
rubbed the little foot, aud was so long
getting on the p : nk book that the blonde,
baby-head nodded against her breast, and
at length found itself cradled there.
While Melina sat there with Tom-
iv’s youngest in her arms, and the man
himself opposite, there came upon her a
feeling that just such a scene was en
acted once before- It was like the turn*
ing back of a leaf and finding the same
passage, word for word, upon it. She
was almost tempted to speak to her com
panion, and ask him about it, when all
of a sodden there was a flatter of pink
dresses, and Amanda and Lucy appeared
before them breathless.
“Is Melinda here?”
She was not, that was quite certain
Tommy took himself off, listening to
their hurried explanations as be went,
and the only woman in the world he ever
loved waa left alone with his baby.
The trio returned without the miss-
o one. Thoaght there was a chance
of finding her there. Their united voices
arousing Vinnie, Melinda gave her into
Tommy’s arms.
‘♦I’ll go and see what I can do,” she
said, with the mien of a conqueror.
Children, you come right along with
_ae. You're to tell me just where you
went, and when you mimed her. Tommy,
you stay about here, there’s a probability
ofher finding her way back.”
Having issued her orders—short, sharp,
decisive—Melinda hurried away; to be
met by Tommy half an hour later, com
pletely crest-fallen. Her seareh had fail
ed. Tommy looked ready to drop;^ the
gwls sobbed bitterly; declaring “Sl’liu”
was drowned in the river; while Melinda
•canned the horizon for a guard whom
ahe had not already consulted.
Suddenly a voice: “Madam, there'
little lost girl at tbe mansion, dressed
like these; is she yours?”
“Yes, thank yon, sir,” replied Miss
Denver, promptly, and headed the pa
that went toward the place indicated
fast as feet could carry them.
“We all go the same wsy,” said Me
linda, holding fast her namesake's hand,
“and may as well start home at once.”
“One word, Melinda. When the gen
tleman asked was this your liulegiri.you
said yes; is she ?”
“Of course,” replied Miss Denver, her
cheeks in a blaze. “These children need
somebody to take care of them, and I’m
one to do it.”
‘Melinda Denver—excuse me, Mrs.
Whittlesy. I should say—I’m surprised;
completely so J” and the light of the new
society shook^ her. head aadly. “ Yon
told me again and again you never meant
to marry that man.”
“I haven’t married him. I’ve married
the children; that’s all.”
Still, Tommy looks as radiant as if H
sre himself.
A Pew Funny fancies.
A school in Vermont is presided over
by & cross-eyed teacher. A few days ago
he called out: “Tiat boy I am looking
at will step oat on the floor.” Immedi
ately twenty-seven lads walked out in
front of the astonished pedagogue.
An old edition of Morse’s Geography
says: “Albany has foar hundred dwell
ing houses and twenty-four hundred in
habitants, all standing with their gable
ends to the street.”
A Kentucky young lady, who prom
ised her grandfather never to marry a
certain young man on the face of the
earth, went throogh the interesting cere
mony in the Mammoth Cave.
In alluding to the marriage ’ of Mr.
Lorenzo Day to Miss Martha Weeks, the
following verse is sang by a mischievous
poet:
“A Day is made, a Week is lost.
Bat tfcM should net complain;
There’ll eooa be little days enough
Te make the neek again.”
A widow, being cautioned by her min
ister about flirting, said that she knew
it was wrong for matrons and wives
to flirt, bat she had the Bible for her
authority. It said, “ Widow’s mite.”
She was flirting awfully at the last ac
counts; her pastor acknowledged that
“widow’s might.”
“I see very little of you ” said an
old gentleman at a Louiaville ball to a
vouug lady whom he had not met in a
long time before. “I know it,” was tbe
artless reply, “bul mother would not al
low me to wear a very lcw-necked dress
tr-wight, the weatb«r is so cold.”
I6T A bridegroom in Indisna, at the
conclusion of the marriage ceremony,
stepped gracefully forward and requested
the clergyman to give out tbe hymn:
“This is the way I long have sought.”
©ST What will a woman do, says a
Brooklyn paper, for the man she loves ?
“Her hand «n tbe firet to reach and drag
The bottle from the shelf
'll is your corue, dear John,’ she said,
And drank it up herself.'
J6T A woman in New Hampshire
had an accurate print of a juniper tree
printed on her thigh by a flash of light
ning. The editor who chronicled the
event has had a lively time explaining
to his wife how he discovered the item.
fiST A country pastor said to one of
his feminine congregation, “Are you hsp-.
py ?” “Yes, sir,” she replied; “1 feel as
though I were in Beelzebub's bosom.
“Not in Beelzebub’s!” “Well, some of
tbe patriarchs; 1 don’t care which!” ,
A few weeks since a Chicago
drummer saw a young lady plowing a
field in Illinois. He stopped to ask:
When do yon begin cradling ?” “Not
ill heads are better filled than yoora,”
was the sententious reply. The young
man rode on.
An old clergyman, spying a boy
creeping through a fence exclaimed:
“What! crawling through a fence!
Pigs do that.” “Yes,” retorted the boy,
and old hugs go along tbe street.”
as he was leaving the afternoon previous.
. gomehow those big, reproachful eyes
“Felt Goot.”
Carl Werner tailed grandly out, made
low bow, aud while a broad smile
played over his fat face, he asked:
' Is dete any ehargeou me?”
Yes, sir—a charge of drunkenness,is
it true ?”
I gaunot dell a lie—der sharge is
right.”
It waa a pretty bad case, the officer
says.”
“I know it vhas. I fall down on de
sidevalk—I schlip down on de road—I
git struck on dvr head by a dutnbler.”
•What excuso have you for such con
duct ?”
■Noodinga.
‘Well, if I let you off will you prom
ise to bo more careful iu tbe future ?”
I shall makedat bromise, and treat
to lager and cigars.”
Never mind the treat,
but look out for me if you come here
again."
Aa he was the last man, the boys fell
hehiud him, and march* d and sung—
L'nd I never vaa here pefore,
Und I never vas here pefore,
Und you can shast pet
—Detroit Free Fret*.
“Pats on to Shun ’Em.”
[From th* Houston Telegraph.]
The following rich thing was sent in
to ns by u gentleman who has preserved
it for more than average lifetime. Twen
ty years ago it was considered one of the
test things of itaTkind floating around in
the press, slways excepting, of course,
the celebrated sermon upon the text,
“And he played opon a harp of a thou
sand strings.” If you are eerily gulled,
read, “Aud he passed on to Shun 'em.”
If you are a greenhorn and much in
clined to snap at every bait that the can
ning in this world hold out to yon, tend
and profit by “Aud he passed on to Shun
’em. Here it is:
A HARD 8HELL SERMON.
“Aud he patted on to Shun 'em. ”
Tbe words of mv text, my hearers,
you will find in II Kings, iv, chapter
verse—“And he passed on to Shun
’em.” . '
Take to heart the kwon of our text
and when temptations try you and evils
be in wait to ensnare you, “pass on to
Shun ’em ”
When jou see men of wrath fighting
and breaking heads and sticks, and hear
them cursing and swearing—mind the
words of my text, and “pass on to Shun
’em.”
And oh! my bearers, if you should
come into our little town, and behold a
row of nice little offices with tii^signs
on tbe doors of each, and hear men
talking of attachments without affection,
and sequestrations without quiet—ah—
and seize—-yours and never theirs—ah
—it will be to your interest to mind the
words of the prophet, and “pass on ' lo
Shun ’em.”
And if you go around where the mer
chants are—ah—and they rush out and
shake hands with you, and are especi
ally anxious to learn the condition of
your wife’s health aud the children’s
and the worms and the crops, ant} offer
to sell you a little bill of goods a good
deal lower than their cost, ou account of
their love for you and each, ah—“pass
on to Shnn 'em.”
And if you should happen to go
around the corner and see men drinking
beer, that will bring them to a bier, and
a gin-sling down, the strongest, and
smashers that will smash a man’s fortune
faster than commission merchants who
advance supplies on the last crop—ah—
oh—oh, “pass on to Shun ’em.”
But oh! my hearers! If you should
go down to New York—that modern
Sodom and Gomortah—ah—and when
gas lights are flashing and glimmering,
and cabs are dashiag along the streets—
and obliging drivers are offering to carry
you where only steamboat captains and
the first gentlemen go—ah—and Broad
way b on a rip and a roar—ah—and tbe
brass hands are crashing music from the
balconies—and men iu little holes are
ready to sell you tickets to go and see
the Black Crook dance with nothing to
wear—and make spectacles of themselves
—ah-^—oh, my friend*, “pass on to Shun
An 1 ob! if later in the evening, with
very particular- friend, you go up
urs into a most splendidly furnished
room—ah—and see the supper table
spread with delicacies from every coun
try—aud tea, ducks and eaijie, yaller
legged pheasants, and all that fish, flesh
and fowl can afford—and champaign and
brandy aud Burgundy and Chateau La-
fitte, older than Waterloo—and nothing
to pay and all free—and a nice gentle
man with tings on his fingers, and a dia
mond breast-pin, playing with little
spotted pasteboards, and another turn
ing a machine and dropping in a little
ball that rclls round and round and stops
on the eagle bird and oftener don’t—and
where the players generally put down
than they take up—and men some
times win, bat mostly don’t—ah—ob,
pass on to Shun 'em.”
And in conclusion, my friends, |rh ei >
the world, the flesh, and the devil--ah—
wait for yon, “pass on to Shun
I TERMS:
J. Two Dollars a Year
I PAYABLE DT ADVANCE.
Number 9.
A Spoiled Boy.
Who was he ? He was Adouijah, one
of David’s sons. How was he spoiled?
By having hb own way, and not being
corrected by his father when lie did
wrong. The record b ‘II is father dis-*
pleased him not at any time, in saying,
Why hast thon done so ?” How do y<
kuow that he was spoiled ? His condu
shows it; he was puffed up with vanity
aod pnde, was headstrong, aud disobe
dient, aud profligate. He aspired after
the throne; said, “1 will be king, and
prepare him chariots, aud horsemen, and
fifty men to run before him,” and treated
hb royal parent with contempt.' To what
end did he come? To no good end.
Such self-oonoeited, arrogant, wicked
boys never come to a good end He died
the ignominious death of a traitor. He
was executed. Matthew Henry comment
ing on the course of thb wicked boy,
says: “He in return made a fool of hb
BriNMUi cs Woman’* Hoxh*tt.—Gen
eral Spinner, in the course of a recent
interview, said in answer to a question
as to whether there bad not b**n steal
ing in tbe Treasury; “Yes Beeently
there hs» been money stolen *n the
National Bunk Redemption Agency.
When Mr. Graves (who is in charge)
fonnd out he had a thief with Inm, he
earefnlly investigated, and laid traps to
catch him. He came to me one day,
and raid he had a clew. I said, 1 ‘Well,
what is it ?’ He raid he anspected one
or two women. I shook my head, and
said, you are wrong. A woman won t
steal. If they do steal, they won’t take
over $1 or 82. because, as Isold before,
they haven’t the nerve.
Telecraapbic News.
W-sniKO-ros, April 7.—Tte Court of
Claims baa just decided that full pardon
and amnesty to those concerned in the
<ate war, while it blots ont or throws into
oblivion all personal offences, doos not
restore the proceeds placed in the Treas
ury from confiscated property Rold.
“The word ‘pardon’ must,” tbe court'
a«ya, “be construed according to its
ntaning as found in English statute law.
It the time of tbe formation of tho Con
stitution, the king bad no power to re
store estates, except those in which he
might be personally interested; besides,
be proceeds of the confiscated property
has been covered in the Treasury. It
could not be drawn therefrom .except by
virtue of n law txused iu conformity
with the Constitution.
Philadelphia, April 7.—The first reg.
iment of National Guards bus been or
dered to Hazleton. Genet&l Osborne, at
Hazleton, asks for these troops.
Philadelphia, April 7.—The First
regiment, 350 men,‘ with twenty rounds
of ammunition and three days’cooked
rations, left on a special train and will
reach Hazleton at 9 o'clock to-night. The
cause of the movement has not trans
pired.
Hazleton, April 7. —Two regiments of
infantry and one of artillery are expect
ed to night.
New York, April 7.—Tbe Dana libel
se came up. but was adjourned lo to
morrow.
-Omaha. April 7.—The Republicans
have elected tbe Mayor, and the Demo-
Tats have elected the Police Judge.
London, April 7.—The greater portion
l to-day’s session was occupied in a
debato ou the right.of women to vote for
member? of Parliament. Smollett said
the movement originated with turbnleu*.
women in America. If tho bill passed it
would enfrmchise women who gained
iheir livelihood by immorality. Upon a
li vision the House refused to order the
in second reading by a vote of 152
to 187—Disraeli voting with tbe ma
jority.
San Francisco, April 8.—Giant pow
der, stored iu a frame building,exploded,
crushing tbe walls and hoistaways of tbe
bonded warehouse corner of Spear and
Harrison streets. Also crushing the
walls of another warebtuse. A ntfmber
of frame buildings occupied os saloons
and dwellings were blown to pieces. In
a few minutes the whole muss was in
dimes. A number of men, women and
children were crushed by the falling
bouses, and some perished in tbe flamoj.
The loss in the warehouse is half a mil
lion. The fire is nuder control. The
search for the bodies is pushed os fast as
the flames permit. Three lave been
taken out. *
Providence, April 8.—Leppit, Bap-
ported by the Liquor Dealers’ League,
7,084; Hazard, Independent Republi
can. supported by the Prohibitionists,
7.5G0; Cutler, Democrat. 4.345. No
election by the people. The Governor
ship depends upon supplemental elec-
to the Legislature. The law, how
. shuts Cutler out from tho contest
before the Legislature.
Atlanta, April 8.— Senator Gordon
declines to allow his name to bo used as
candidate for the nomination for Vice
President.
father. Became he was old and confined
to his bed, he thought that no notice w:
to be taken of him, and tlierefore exalted
himself and said: ‘I will be king.’ Chil
dren that are indulged learn to' be promt
and ambitious., and that is the ruin of a
great many young people.”
Aod we regret to be forced to add.
that, in our judgment, it is the rain of
as many young people now as it waa in
the days of Kiog David, and in the sev
enteenth century when good Matthew
Henry flourished. “A child left to him
self brings hia parents to shame,” has
been true in all past generations and ia
true now.—Southern Churchman.
The Season why Men will not Marry.
Says a Nt-w York paper:
New York ia crowded with rich unmar
ried men, afraid of the expense of sup
porting thtse gilded butterflies. There ia
a bachelor at the Sixth Avenue Hotel,
whose income is 820,000 a year, and still
he sajs he can’t afford to get married.
He’s a proud fellow, and aaye, at. a single
man, he can have tbe best horses, best
rooms and best box at the opera.
‘If I should get married,” he said, “
would have to stint myself or overdrn
my income.”
'How is that?” asked a friend.
'Well, now, come into the parlor and
I’ll show yon. You see, ladies are ex
travagant nowadays. They dress ho
much more thania Europe. I mean they
don’t wear such rich diamonds like the
women of F*orenoe and Milan, but they
wear such rich dresses, lace*, shawls and
furs. Now, I’m proud, and I would not
want my wife to be out-dressed, so I have
to keep out of the marriage business.”
“Do yon see that lady there?” he said,
pointing to a fashionable caller.
“Yea.”
“Well, she had on a 8400 panniered,
attaued, polonaised. brown gros grain
dress, and I wear a SCO coat. She wears
a 81.200 camel’s bair shawl and a 8500
act of fable, while I wear a 870 o
She wears a 870 bonnet, while I
$8 bat. 8he wears $200 worth of ap
plique and point aquille, while I wear a
$6 shirt. Her shoes cc»t $15 and mine
$12. Her ordinary morning jewelry,
which is changed every year, not count
ing diamonds, cost 8400, mine cost 80.
“Well, how does it foot up? ’
“Why, the clothes she has on coat
$2,225, and mine cost 8206. and that
only one of her dozen outfits, while I have
—say three. The fact is," said he, grow
ing earnest, “I couldn’t begin to live in
a brownstoue front with that woman and
keep up appearanoM to match—carriage#,
church, dinners, opera, sod beside—
$20,000. Fd have to beoome a second-
rate man, and live in an eighteen foot
bouse, or withdraw over to Second ave
nue, and tbat l’il Lo hanged if Ido.”
and he slung his fist down into a nice silk
hat in the excess of his earnestness.
Bio Fees.—Yesterday iu conversation
une one remarked tbat Gen. Toombs
*vcr crosses a court house door for less
than five thousand dollars. When Judge
Lochrane replied that there was nothing
strange about that I wouldn’t take any
case for a smaller fee than ten thousand
dollars. This caused the crowd to dis-
lfgal fees, and it was fouud that sev
eral large fees had been paid Atlanta law
yers since the war. Mr. Hill, iu the cel
ebrated Metcalf case, received a hundred
thousand dollats fee. Judgo Lochrane a
lee of forty thousand dollars ia the Bruns
wick and Albany case. Mr. Hill received
a fee of twenty-five thousand dollars for
his management of Kimball’s ease. Judge
Lochrane received fifteen thousand dol-
os a feo from Mrs. Kimball in the
Kimball House case.
In addition to these cases there is a
se now pending between Henry Clews
& Co. vs. the Cherokee railroad, involv
ing two hundred and seventy-five thou
sand dollars, in which the fees will be
large. It is raid that Judge Lochrane’i
fee, as attorney for Clews, will be twenty-
five thousand dollars. Tbe cose will come
np in the Chancery Court on the 7th of
this month, before Judge L. N. Whittle,
auditor. The counsel for Clew- are Judge
Lochrane, of Atlauta, Col. AmosT. Aker-
man, of CartersviUe, and John E. Ward,
of New York. Hon. B. H. Hill, of At
lanta, Judge Jackson, ot Macon, Col.
Abner Johnson, of CartersviUe, and
Judge Lyon, of Albany, represent the
Cherokee railroad,—Allan fa Herald.
A HEROIC ACT. +
BROTHER OF MBS. JEFFERSON DAVIS JUS-
CTES A DISABLED STEAMSHIP WITH ALL
ON BOARD, FROM IMMINENT PERIL,
AT THE RISK OF HIS OWN LIFE.
The Astoria* (Oregon), of tbe date ot
February 23d, contains an account of tbt
rescue of too steamship Los Angeles
plying between San Francisco and Vic
toria.
It will give the many friends of Capt
Jeff. Howell, formerly of New Orleans,
sincere pleasure to read of hia gallan'
and noble bearing in the face of almos*
ertain death, aud to know that by at
act of danutless heroism be sncceedrd it
rescuing large numbers of human being*-
from watery graves, and in taking steam
SAFE ARRIVAL OF DISABLED STEAMER
ANGELES AT ASTORIA.
Shortly.after tbe Attorian went to pre»
law evening, a small boat arrived her*
bringing Capt. Jeff Howell, a passenger
from ihe ill«fatad steamer. Los Angeles.
Mr. Horace Bronghton. second officer ol
the steamer, and four seamen, in searcL
of ast-Ltunce to rescue imperilled lives
then dashing at the mercy waves just off
Tillamook head. Wo had not sufficient
i* then to seek information of tht
at, but this afternoon we have full
particulars from the many grateful hearti-
on board, as the steam tag Astoria ar
rived here at 12:30, with the disabled
ship in tow.
The steamship Los Angeles, Captain
Scholl, of Goodall & Nelson’s line, left
San Francisco for Victoria under favor
able circumstances at noon on Saturday,
February 20th. All went well until the
following Tuesday evening about 7:30
o’clock, when the propeller ceased ir&
evolutions, the helm refused to do it*
duty, and no human sgcncy coaid b»
brought to bear to dispel the dissonrag
ing forebodings which pressed npon
those on board. Tossed about by the
waves without a sign of release from their
agonizing situation, they Sighted tbe
steamer from \storiu, but too far distant
to be attracted, aud it was not until Capt
Jeff Howell, a uoble-hearted aud heroic
geutlemau, who was on board ns a pas
enger, volunteered to take his chances
of life or death iu his effort to make the
land and reach this port, where it was
known aid would be rendered imme
diately.
Accordingly Captain Howell, Horace
Broughton, second officer of tho Los
A geles, and four seamen—Jas. Karney,
Thomas Baker, George Joues and Ben.
Baker—took to the ship's small boat and
pulled for Tillamook Head, landing od
Wednesday afternoon near the month of
Elk creok. Thursday morning they pro
ceeded to Astoria, reaching there about
6 a. m., and within three hours of tha'
time joyful shouts ascended from the
deck of tho Los Angeles. A steamer is
imingl They are saved.
Capt. Howell applied to Capts. Flavol
and Woss immediately on reachiug here,
and steam was soon raised on the Astoria
for their trip of mercy to drooping spir
its, many of whom had given np all hope
of rescue. The Astoria reached the dis
abled steamer at half past niue o’clock,
p. M., and took her in tow and proceeded
to Astoria, lying off the baT until this
morning, arriving here safely, as above
stated.
The passengers on the Los Angeles,
mindful of the deep seme of gratitude
they owe to Capt Howell, for the hero
ism be has displayed in their behalf, ten
der him their heartfelt thankfulness in
the following
RESOLUTIONS I
Whereas, Captain Jeff. Howell, by
noble deeds of daring, succeeded in
reaching Astoria, after we lad supposed
be had lost his own life in the vain en
deavor to save us from a terrible death;
therefore
Besolred, Tfcat we return our thanks
to the Giver of all good for sparing the life
uoble benefactor, thus enabling
General Gordon aid the Vice Presi
dency.
A reporter of the Atlanta Herald in
terviewed General Gordon, and, in reply
to the question, “Will you allow the oae
of your uamu io connection with the
Vice-Presidency ?” The General re
plied .
*■“1 will not, uuder any set of circum
stances. Even if I were nominated, I
should withdraw my name. My reasons
for this statement, to-day-mode public
tor the first time, are that I believe tbat
a Southern mau on the ticket would
weaken ir. And as much as poisons!
ioabition might tempt me to yield to the
partial suggestions of my friends,I would
uot, for all the honors io the gift of the
Americas people, feel that I had been
the means of driving one man from the
support of that ticket on whose success
depends the future peace and prosperity
of zny country.' I have bat one object
—that is, the re-establishment of har
mony, of good will, and of good gov*
ernmeut. To this end all things vise.,
•ball be seedbdary.
“I have had letters from committees,
from friends and from sympathisers, ask
ing me to allow tbe use of my name in
■ his conr cction. I now give them,
through you, my authorized and unalter
able answer. .We occupy to-day very
much the position assigned in the East,
afterwards, when a horse would shy
around a bash, tho rider would ask if be
taw a uiebard; and mothers frightened
‘heir babes into quiet by telling them
Richard was coming. Jnat so these
Radicals are attempting to frighten the
North by constantly harrowing them
with a rebel’s ghost This will not have
its effect long with people of 6ensein any
section, however. Yet so powerful is
this feeling at present that no Southern
man who has his country’s good at heart
will allow himself plaoed in any poaitiou
calculated to keep alive these hurtful
passions. ”
CIVIL EIGHTS IN CHAEL0TTE.
A NEGRO SENT SOPTH '
MANUFACTURE
OUTRAGE*—A CROWD ORDERS 1
(Ch&rlctto Observer.]
A negro man, accompanied by hia wife
and child, reached this city on tbe ten
o’clock train Tuesday night from Rich
mond, and registered at the Central Ho
tel as J. W. Shaw, residence not given.
Ho demanded and was shown to n room,
and when supper was announced, he and
hia wife entered tbe dining room and
look their seats at the table. In the
meantime it had been rumored about that
a negro, acting under instructions from
Washington, had demanded accommoda
tions at the hotel, and an excited crowd
of somo forty or fifty white men assem
bled in front of tbe Central. Tbe pro
prietor, to avoid n difficulty, barred the
front entrance to the dining room of the
hotel, but tho crowd having found ia- -
gress by tho back, way (through the
Eitcben) and entering the dining room,
ordered him to leave. The negro ap
peared very much frightened, and will
ingly consented to obey orders. He was
allowed to see tbe proprietor and have
the money refunded which he nad pre
viously paid. Rather than see him spend
the night on the streets, the colored
bead-waiter at tho Central offered him
the hospitalities of his house, which was
gratefully accepted. The negro repre-
Retolted. That the action of Captain
Howell in this matter entitles him to onr
most sincere gratitado, and tbat we here
by pledge and express to him tbat thank
fuluess of banian hearts which is more
precious than gold, more enduring than
diamonds, in the tender regard which we
bear for him, and shall ever hold toward
bin), so long as memory shall dwell within
i sacred tabernacle.
seuted tbat he was from
y, on his way to take charge of a school
Charleston, S. G. He confessed to
the head-waiter, at whose honsehe staid,
that in stopping at the firat-claa hotels,
be was acting under the advice of colored
Congressman Elliott, of South Carolina,
who thought that the civil rights law
train, and ordered the conductor to turn
down hia seat,and to do several other little
things, which be conld easily have done
himself. This insolent “0. R.” bad his
comb cut when he reached this city, and
we have no apologies to make for the in
dignation of those citizens who ordered
him from the hotel, in fact, it will be
late in the day when the Observer ad
vises its readers to eat any more dirt,
much less to express a fondness for it.
•^.Tbe Prussian government has
complained in a note to Belginm of the
encouragement given by the Belgian cler-
— gy to recalcitrant German Catholics, and
steals any UjBjr : 4 TS£$i also of the alleged complicity of Belgians
K".'" J* 101 W «“"*■
flr
A Recreant Bridegroom —The At
lanta Constitution relates tbe following
A case of remarkable disappearance
of a bridegroom occurred in Forsyth
county a few days ago. Tbe gentleman
is a Mr M*nt Jones, and the fair object
of his affections is a Miss Sallie Harris, a
young lady of excellent family and some
eighteen or twenty years of age. Both
are well known in the county. Joues
had been paying Miss Harris consider
able attention for some time. At length
they became engaged, and were to hl*e
been married last Suuday. The mar
riage was to have been celebrated at a
place known as the Crora Roads, about a
mile from the lady’s house. On account
of the impossibility of procuring a li
cense on the Sabbath, tbe ceremony was
pat off until the next night, and the
place changed to tbe house - of a mau
named Mr. Noah Bias, who resided
about a mile and a half from the Cross
Roads. The party, iududing the magis
trate who was to perform the ceremoLj,
all assembled there, while the bridegroom
went off after the license. Ho never
came beck. Tbe crowd waited for him
until 11 o’clock and then broke up. Tbe
young lady bore her loes with great com
posure, and took part iu the dance with
which they passed the hours pleasantly
away. No reason is ku *— ‘ l - —
markable conduct of tho
he is much condemned.
The German Empire is displaying
m hand very freely now-a-days.
Political arrests are becoming unpleas
antly numerous. Tbe Frankfort Gatette
thus enumerates the work of this nature
l the short month of February:
Seven bishops and fifty prists arrested,
vo priests seized in their churches; a
military force was necessary to prevent
the people from rescuing their pastors;
all the priests, save two, Tesidiug in the
seminary at Fulda expelled; a fine of
81.720 imposed upon a priest for exer
cising bis functions as i
mg been deposed by
communities of teaching nans suppressed
and banished; several schoolmasters for
bidden to exercise their calling; thirty-
six journalists punished by fine or itc-
prixmment, among them Herr Meyer, of
tho Chemnitz Free Press, sentenced to
twenty-one and a half months imprison
ment ior’ speaking disrespectfully of
Prince Bismark; the editor of the Ger
mania sentenced to two mouths; the edi
tors of the Frankfort Gazelle, of the
Dresden Volktboie, and of the Poson
Hunger, all sentenced to various terms of
imprisonment. One writer asked what
should be tbe proper peualty for calling
Prince Bismarck “a scamp,” imprisoned
for two. months, thirty-five of the citizens
of Dreihausen sentenced to terms of '
S risonment varying from t wo to fourteen
ays for expressing sentiments disrespect
ful to Bismarck ; a social democrat, sen
tenced to seventy-five da jr imprisonment
for speaking disrespectfully of the em
press, aud son on.
Beechei declined tbe proffered
Bible IQ taking the oath as a witness in
Lis own esse. Counsel for Tilton insisted
that he be required to kiss tbe book, but
Beecher refused, and raised his liand.in-
stead. He said that that was the New
England form to which he was
The American Cardinal’s Robe
of state.
Tbe arrival of the papal messenger in
New York with the cardinal’s cap for
Archbishop McCloskey is announced by
telegraph. The New York Herald of
Sunday gives the following description
of the new cardinal’s costume and state
carriage:
Tbe election and confirmation of Arch
bishop McCloskey as cardinal necessita
ted action in the way of preparing tbe
oostome of designation for the position,
and, as no previous occasion had arisen
for such a costume this side of the At
lantic, considerable doubt was entertain
ed whether the requisite materials could
be obtained without a special order be
ing despatched to Europe. The dress of
a cardinal is peculiar, both in style and
texture, and the difficulty^that was ex
pected greatly perplexed those who had
the matter in charge. According to the
official programme, the robes of a cardi
nal are composed of three separate and
distinct pieces—the cassock, the mantel-
letta, or fall cape, and the masetta, or
short cape, all. when worn, ossnming the
shape and having the appearance of a
■inale carment. These three articles are
: a peculiar and Tcry.rich and
costly fabric, technically denominated
Siciuenne silk, which usually manufac
tured by fifty inches in width, in order
to avoid unsightly seams in tbe garments.
*0fc- This is rather saucy talk from an
organ. Says the Washington Chronicle :
The senatorial excursion party has been
abandoned. The Mexican
main undisturbed,
and sadly the Ucitec
patch will soon be t
1, aud her polite
way to the Navy
itiugthechief office
next. Mr. Secretary?’’
The Chronicle must have
arnment printing lately.
1^. Theie is enough ol heroism and
nervo in the wsy of a Tennessee locomo
tive engineer met his death to temper
with sympathy the judgment which his
foolhardiness deserves. He was employed
on tho Georgia and East Tennessee rail
road, and was cautiously working his way
over the track with a passenger train just
after the recent floods bad subsided. Ho
reached Sweetwater creek, over which a
temporary bridge had been thrown to re
place tho one washed away by the swollen
waters. It seemed insecure, and he fear
ed to risk his train and hia passet
creasing it; so, uncoupling his
mimm
■■■■■
“cardinal color."
The rep when made np Is lined
thronghont with rich gros grain silk of
the same shade. Fortunately it was dis
covered tin t a Broadway linn bad in
store tho needed materials. When the
goods camo to be examined it wan found
that there was just sufficient tf* make
Cardinal McClosky’a robes, neither more
nor less, and so tho minds of all con
cerned were eased on tho question
delivered to hia emim
are very rich in appearauce,
silk is interwoven with tbe finest
of lamb's wool, which gives it a
among such fabrics,
skirt, surmounted by
. a costume both rich
so that when Cardinal
i the berretla and as-
‘ of his high office
in tho precise dress s*
_____ _ . greftta
it occasions.