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BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1875.
NUMBER 35.
TIMELY topics.
government has forwarded 2,000
vc,l Springfield rifles to the state
0 f Texa« for militia purposes
‘fiiihle use on the Mexican border.
orT one hundred and thirty bodies
recovered from the wreck of
filler, including the I*onbardt
j] T of Angnsta.Oa.
^Knoxville end Charleston Rail road
\^ n finally disposed ef to Maj.
( o'ConDor <fc Co., the difficulties
, t p wav of the pnrchase having been
tfactorily settled.
riationel debt is 02,131,000,000 ;
)?t ,j of state debts; *89^000,000;
^ debts, *180,000,000; city and
; /.ts, $070,000,000; total, *3,271,-
ln principal objeetof Vice-President
trip to the south at this time
a: d to be to visit the spot at Austin,
jm, where his only son, an officer in
regular army, died. _
According to a recent report from
headquarters, over 1,700 men
deserted within the last ten
onths, being a proportion of one in
A. J. Alexander, of Woodbnm Farm,
v., has sold to Mr. Fox, of England,
e 24th Dube of Airdrie and the 20th
nchess of Airdrie at $30,000 for the
Got. Robert M. and Stephen A.
wolass, sons of the labs Stephen A.
onglasa, receive an award for 1,457
Jos of cotton, or about *259,400,
ized in the state of Mississippi on the
sternal plantation.
The terrible fires which have been
eeping whole districts in Pennsylva-
ia arc attributed to the great drontb,
rising from the reckless felling of tim-
er, which diminishes the rainfall and
l«H8 an inviting field for the flames.
iirAiN' has settled damages for the
light pnt upon the Mecklenburg brig
iiistav. She managed to scrape up
17,000 to fork over to the German
ir.baasndor at Madrid. The flag stands
01, and the Deutech goose hangs high
roltvmuch everywhere nowadays.
The luxury of calling a lawyer a shy
er in St. Louis is so cheap that no
aspapor need practice self denial or
inomy in this regard. The Republi-
i lias just been assessed one cent
nages as tne result of a protracted
si suit.
io woman can wake up at 2 o’clock
the morning and listen to the oease-
i crowing of a dozen neighboring
sters without an emotion of thank-
iicrs to a merciful and all-wise Provi
so for denying man both the genius
l the inclination to crow.
sow it is Queen Victoria who is again
eateued with assassination. O’Gon-
r, who, some time since, made an
empt to shoot her, was found stand-
: in the identical spot, the other day,
icie the former affair took place, ob-
■ving the queen. Of coarse he was
eked off to the insane asylnm.
Merchants of New York city com-
»in that their expenses have been in-
(ased by from $500 to 6,000 in con-
lnence of the double postage on third
iss mail matter. The board of trade
ve appointed a committee to collect
o facts and take measures to obtain a
peal of the law by the next congress.
There is a noticeable falling off in
»importation of iron, according to
? ent commercial statistics. Seven
udred and fifty thousand tons were
(ported from England alone in 1871.
is imports of this year will hardly
eeed one hundred thousand, and this
crease has been gradually effected.
Prop. L. H. Jenkins, superintendent
the deaf and dumb asylnm atOlatbe,
m&as, and others, have tested tbel
lalities of grasshoppers as an article
food, and pronounce them, after be-
g boiled in water to clean them, and
ied in butter, to be quite palatable,
id even good eating, like small fish.
The girls of Warsaw, Ky., have nnan-
lonsly resolved to pnrchase no dry
hxIs costing more than twenty-five
fits per yard for tod space of one year,
ere is a woman’s reform movement
hioh, if carried into effect throughout
ie entire Bonth, would do more to cure
leills of short crops and high rates
tan any plan we have yet seen sug-
they oould name. The newly obtained
privilege is expected to yield some
highly interesting results.
One of the most recent of the sick
ening St. Louis sensations is that which
tells of the discovery of the putrefy
ing body of a small-pox patient in the
bottom of a well, from which a num
ber of families had been getting water
for Borne time. Strange to say, the
people did not detect any peculiarity in
the taste of the beverage. They will
henceforth be proof against the small
pox.
A young man leftWalla-Walla several
weeks since for the purpose of making
a general tonr of Northern 'California.
Before starting, he solemnly promised
bis friends to write back all the par
ticulars of the country. But one letter
has been received from him, containing
two lines, which says: “ The girls are
all from Boston, and whisky is twenty-
five cents a drink.”
Dio Lewis declares that he refuses to
lease a hotel of his “ except on condi
tion that wine and brandy are excluded
from the cooking,” He is qui*„ right
in this. We never see a parcel of men,
women and children go reeling and
staggering from the dining-room of a
hotel where wtee and brandy are used
in cookirg without shedding tears of
blood and experiencing emotions of the
soul which can be soothed and quelled
only by a Bourbon cocktail or a glass
or two of beer.—Exchange.
The Cheyenne leader evidently .lacks
confidence in the veracity of Red Cloud.
It says : “ Prof. Marsh may or may not
be as good a * fossil sharp’ as he is a
jndge of the veracity of an Indian, but
he is making himself ridiculous in try
ing to impress npon those who will con
sent to be so bored by him that Red
Cloud is a truthful, reliable man. We,
in Wyoming, know this distinguished
Indian to be a treacherous murderer
and a treaty-breaker, and a harborer of
Indian murderers and thieves.
The surveying party sent out by thei
Government to locate the line of the
proposed ship canal across the Isthmus
of Panama, having completed the work,
have returned. The expedition was
subjected to numerous hardships and
dangers to health, bat no loss of life
among the officers or men. The earliest
estimate, *56,000,000 for the comple
tion of the work, is not now regarded
as sufficient. The Napipe Atratro route
is the shortest, but requires five and a
half miles tunneling.
John H. Stiner, an aeronaut, who is
said to possess the experience of 315
ascensions, is now in Chicago, in charge
of a mammoth balloon capable of hold
ing 100,000 cubic feet of gas and sup
porting a weight of three tons. He in
tends making a trial trip to Philadel
phia Jnne 19, preliminary to an attempt
to cross the Atlantio in August. On
the latter trip a full rigged boat 32 feet
long is to be taken among the luggage
for use in emergencies. The expenses
are borne by a party of scientific gen
tlemen.)
Condition of the European Crops.
The accounts from Europe come
down to the beginning of this month
and are full of interest in view of the
prevailing uncertainty as to the pros
pect of the coming harvest, on which
the generally depressed trade of the
world so greatly depends. Up to the
last week of April the weather in nearly
every important grain-growing country
had been exceptionally unfavorable to
vegetation; and it was dear that the
continuance a few days longer of cold
winds and ungenial skies would have
caused a general failure of the cereal
crops. Just at this crisis, however, the
weather on both sides the Atlantio ap
pears to have taken a milder turn, and
though not positively favorable to
growth has since been sufficiently mod
erated to avert injurious effects to the
crops. In trance, Germany, Austria
and Hungary, the condition of the
wheat crop is generally satisfactory ;
and in those countries where maize is
BETTER THU GOLD.
Better than gr&nAear, better than mid.
Than rank and title a thoneand fold,
la a healthy body, a mind at eaae,
Ard simple pleasnres that always please:
A heart that can feel for a neighbor's woe,
And share his joys with a venial glow,
With sympathies large enough to enfold
All men as brothers, la better than gold.
Better than gold is a conscience clear.
Though toiling for bread In an humble sphere;
Doubly bleat with content and health.
Untried by the lost of cares of wealth.
Lowly living and lofty thought
A dora and ennob’e a poor man’s cot;
For man and morals, or Nature’* plan,
Are the genuine test of a gentleman.
Better than gold ** the sweet repose
Of the sons of toll when their labors dose;
Be M er than gold is the poor man’s sleep,
And the halm that drops on his slumbers deep
Bring sleeping draughts to the downy bed.
Where lnxnry pillows his aching head;
His simpler opiate labor deems
A shorter road to the land of dreams.
Better than gold is a thinking mind
That in-tbe realm of boofcrcan find
A treasure surpassing Australian ore.
And live with the great and good of yore.
The sage’s lore and the poet’s lay.
The glories of empires past away;
The world’s great drama will thus unfold
And yield a pleasure better than gold.
Better ihan gold is a peaceful home,
Where all the fireside charities come;
The shrine of love and the heaven of life,
Hallowed by mo'her. or sister or wife.
However humble the home may he.
Or tried by sorrow with heaven’s decree,
The blessings that never were bought or sold,
And center there, are better than gold.
WON BY CARDS.
cultivated, the prospect of that crop
also appears to be good. Over large
areas, however, the rye crop is an utter
failure; and rape has also suffered very
severely. On the whole, we must con
clude that, if we have average gram
crops this year, it can be only through
very favorable weather between now
and July and August, and. m any event,
the harvest can hardly fail to be a late
■N. Y. Bulletin.
The Care of Chickens.
A correspondent of the Country Gen
ie San Francisco jockey club has a
xmanza for four-mile races, as it
s $30,000 in gold as premiums for
ur-mile-and-repeat race, to be run
November. Of this sum the first
e will receive *15,000, the second
00, the third *5,000, and the fourth
00. Special expenses will be
wed to all horses coming from
ope or east of the Rocky mountains.
ardinal Manning has prevailed up-
he Pope to allow English historians
earch the private archives of the
icon for historical information,
berto none but ecclesiastics have
a allowed to have access to these
uious manuscripts, Proteetantsjbeing
dly able to see a single document
tleman gives the following excellent di
rections for the management of young
^Last^vear I raised seven hundred
ohickens very successfully, losing very
few To prevent chickens from getting
lousy, I dust the hen and nest at the
time of setting, and again m ten days
afterwards, thoroughly with sulphur.
This will keep lice from the hen, and
when the young chickens are two days
old I grease their heads with a mixture
of one part sulphur to three of lard, and
repeat this if any lice appear after-
ward- T feed sulphur twice a week in
their feed, about one ounce to two
quarts of meal. I always use small
yards to raise chickens in, and never
allow the grass to get tall enongh to
wet their bodies. One hundred in each
yard is enough. I shut each hen and
brood in her coop for three or four
davs, and then let her have the whole
yard. The chickens in each yard "1
eat together after they are sl owed to
run. and this eaves considerable time.
The hen ehonld run with her chickens
about seven weeks. I do not make the
chicken yards and coope rat proof, un
less rats are plenty, for the broods need
the fresh air.
“ For Christine.”
“ For Christine ! ” the stranger' re
peated. as he took his place at the table,
while the old woman, with a ringing
laugh, shuffled the cards once more,
and again the game went on.
It was a wild, wierd scene, which per
haps could not have been witnessed in
any other part of the globe.
A group of men, in every description
of dress, numbering no less than a
hundred, stood looking on—some in
silence, some uttering oaths and bandy
ing coarse jokes, as they watched
Madame Dnpray, the wickedest woman
in the colonies, fleece her last victim.
Two weeks before, she had announced
that she should set her daughter up to
be played for. If the man lost he was
to pay Madame one hundred pounds; if
he won—Christine was to pass into his
hands, the Madame’s control over her
at an end!
This was Madame’s latest desperate
game, and in- anticipation of this she
had kept her daughter in seclusion.
Only a few had ever looked upon her
face, and those few raved so about her
beauty that it inflamed the hearts of
their comrades.
To-night she had stood before them.
Never had their eyes fallen on such
loveliness. Madame arrayed her in
costly robes ; but even though she had
been clad in rags, her rich, radiant,
dnpky beauty would have bewildered
the eye.
Her beauty infatuated the beholder,
and one by one the men advanced, and
flung down tbeir one hundred pound
stake, and one by one they arose, de
feated, while Madame’s servant swept
the gold away.
Some risked, but the game went on ;
others played game after game, until
their pockets were cleaned out, before
they would give np.
Madame was exultant; she was reap
ing a rich harvest to-night. What a
lucky thought it had been.
Her skill in cards was something
almost infernal, as many poor fellows
could attest to their sorrow. Hardly a
miner, with his bag of gold, came
down from the mountains whom the
Madame did not lure into her den ; and
once in the fascination would be so
strong that, when they went out, they
did so ruined. Some had retrieved
their fortunes ; otters “had gone to
the dogs ” and many a poor fellow had
filled a suicide’s grave.
To-night but few had intended to
play when they entered, but now the
last victim was sitting down. He kept
his hat slouched over his eyes; no one
knew him. He had dropped in to look
on • he had no intention to have any
thing to do with this "hellish game,”
as he called it.
Madame played like one possessed,
but her good luck was leaving her. .She
laid down no card her opponent could
not defeat; and, as the game processed,
stillness reigned, every sound died cut
—all were absorbed in seeing if,' in
deed, Christine Dnpray was to be won
tonight.
One card more! Madame threw the
pack on the floor in a rage, and the
stranger arose, saying:
“ Christine is mine 1”
A wild, deafening cry arose; though
defeated themselves, the men were glad
that some one had won her—Madame
could not play that game over.
The stranger advanced to Christine
he saw the wild look of affright in her
beautiful, dusky eyes, and his voice in
tuitively became softer, as he said :
“ Get. vour hat. This is no place for
you. You will be safer with me than
here,” glancing around upon the rough,
wild group.
As one in a dream she obeyed- him,
and the men parted to let them pass
out. Madame said no word of adiea to
her daughter; she only muttered curses
upon the fellow whose skill was greater
than her own.
The stranger took the girl to a hotel
and early next morning he took her “ to
parts unknown” to those who had tried
to win her; but in reality, only to place
her in a good boarding-school in one of
toe'eities. .
He paid for a year’s tuition in ad
vance. He gave them bis address,
wished them to write twice a year and
inform him of her progress ; and then,
bidding the girl to keep to herself all
of her history, he took his departure. f
Four years passed away, Christine s
beautv had increased, not diminished.
She had not looked upon her guardian s
face (for as such she spoke of her own
er). but be was ever in her mind, asso
ciated with that awful night Even
now, all the swarm of wild faces swam
before her vision and made her sick at
heart From the little, ignorant, four-
t-een-year-old child, she had developed
into a glowing, educated, refined young
lady of eighteen, snd now a letter came
addressed to herself. It read :
“It is four years since I saw you.
Your school days are drawing to a close.
I am coming to ask you to be my wife,
and go with me to a home of your own.
There was no word tiuA d» belonged
to him, nothing that indicated his own
ership of her, but shflib’toik back from
the letter with affright She oould not
meet this man ! She dare not meet
him I What must she do ?
She went out into the open air. At a
little distance she oould see a steamer at
the wharf, almost ready to leave for the
Australian shore. A wild • thought to
escape came into her mind. She had
been kept with money which she had
made but little use of. Ferhaps she
had enough now to take bmMhr away.
She returned to the school^secured her
money and jewelry, and hastened to tee
boat. ■’
She had just time to write a note
before the plank was pulled in, and
amid the cheers and qood-bjes the
boat started on her io-jypey. She
irarehased a ticket, raakmg«Sn excuse
I'or coming so late that she had just
received a letter which gammoned her
to England.
Two days later Mr. Hardcliffe made
his appearance at the school and asked
for his ward, Christine. The matron
handed him a sealed envelope. It con
tained the note she had scribbled on
the moment of her departure. She
wrote:
“ I cannot stay to meet you. I am
now on board the Eagle, and before you
get this will be far away. I am not
going out of ingratitude. I remember
what you have done for me; you rescued
me from degradation worse than death,
and have given me an education which
but few in this country received. And
now out of the goodness of your heart,
not knowing how else to dispose of me,
you are willing to marry me rather than
allow me*to be cast on the world friend
less. Such an act I cannot permit.
You shall not be bound to Christine
Dnpray, daughter of the ‘ wickedest
woman in the colonies,’ The blight
would be fatal to us both. I leave roy
thanks, and Christine will pray for yon
as long as the breath of life is in her
body. Farewell, forever.”
He reread the note, and then turned
to the preceptress, who was standing
nervously awaiting him to speak.
“ My protege has gone to England,”
he said, quietly. “ She could not wait
to consult me. I hope she had money
enough to defray her expenses.”
The woman breathed more freely.
She had expected a scene—expected to
be upbraided for not keeping a stricter
watch over her pupil.
“I think she had,” she answered.
“ You were very liberal in your allow
ance of spending money, and Miss
Christine was very careful; she never
frittered it away as other girls do.”
“ Have you any bill against me ?” he
queried.
“None whatever.”
“ Then good day !” and he was gone.
Six years later.
JOHK JOKES AKD I
BTcmma. Aim.
We had* tiff: “ John Jones,” said T,
“Yon shouid'nt leave yenr cow at large!”
“You maid your fence!” wae hie reply;
And so ran charge and counter-charge.
A trifling thing; the cow had cropped
Some blades of grass, some beads of grain;
And yet far this a friend I dropped.
And wrought for both A pain
I knew that I had played the fool,
Yet thrust my better thoneht aside;
And when my blood bad time to cool.
Became a greater fool through pride.
Upon two boners a shadow sate;
Two cordial wives grew shy and cool;
Two broods of children learned to hate,
Two parties grew in church and school.
John Jones’s pew was next to mine;
What pleasant greetings passed between!
As sacred as tbe bread and wine
Had oar communing friendship been.
Oft had onr voice* swelled the song;
Oft bad we bowed In afloat -prayer.
And shared the worship of the throng
Who sat in heavenly places there.
But bow Bhall souls in exile sing
The Lord’s sweet song 7 The holy notes
Of fellowship, and joy, and peace,
And pardon, stack in both onr throats.;
Some lessened relish for all good,
Made life for both to deaden down;
And nature darkened to her mood,
And answered back our settled, frown.
One summer eve I sat and smoked;
Good Doctor DeAne came riding by;
He said, in voice a little choked,
“ John Jones is hurt, snd like to die.”
A sudden fire shot through my brain.
And burned, like tow, the sophist lies;
And on roy heart a sudden pain .
Fell, like a bolt from bidden skies.
I stumbled o’er tbe threshold where
Mv shadow bad not passed for years;
I felt a shudder in the hand
A woman gave me through her tears.
When he no more the pulse could feel,
I saw the doctor turn away;
Some mighty impulse made me kneel
Beside the bed as if to pray.
Yet not the Maker’s name I called ,
Ab one who plunges ’neath the wave,
A swimmer strong snd unappalled,
Intent a drowning life to save;
So all my soul’s up-gathered dowers,
In anguish of desire intense,
Sent that departing one a cry
That leaped the abyss of broken sense.
Back to the dim eye came a ray.
O’er the white face a faint smile shone ;
I felt, as ’twere a spirits touch,
The stiffened fingers press my ow i.
O, resurrection power of God,
Which wrought that miracle of pain
From buried hearts tore off the shroud,
And made dear friendship live again.
Beside one grave two households stood
And, weeping, beara the pastor say,
“ That out of death He bringeth life.
And out of darkness cometh day.” ’
Was I chief mourner in the train 7
Ah, who could guess of all the throng
The strange, sweet comfort in the pain
Of one who mourns forgiven wrong 7
A Curious Show.
Trjilned Broncho*-Intelligent Goat*—
’The Kdncated Elk-And the Promising
Buffalo Calf.
Out in Denver there is an exhibition
now being given which is of more than
usual interest, showing as it does the
_ wonderful capabilities hilherto lying
Guy Hardcliffe had succeeded in the dormant, and now brought out by
i‘noa Lownnfl liia fvxnaftt&tion. stf urild ATiimftlfl. from
mines beyond his wildest expectation.
Almost ait the last moment, when his
courage was beginning to fail, he had
struck noon such a streak of gold, in
Golden Gulch, that his fortune was
made in a few days. Then word came
to him that his uncle was dead, and he
came into the Hardcliffe property and
title.
He sailed for England, and went to
his new home. Everything was strange
to him. The customs of his country,
the stillness of his new life—everything
was dull—and he gave up, and went to
Paris, to see if he could there be
amused for a little while.
Mademoiselle Santelli was advertised,
and many were flocking to see her. She
was the new caniatrice ahont whom all
the men were going crazy. Her beauty
and her voice were raved about, until
Guy Hardcliffe determined to go, and
see her for himself.
Once in the building, he was spell
bound. In the beautiful creature,
whose glowing loveliness infatuated all
who went to see or hear her, he recog
nized the girl won by a game of cards
—Christine Dnpray!
He watched, he listened, and in that
hour he felt his doom sealed. No
woman had ever thrilled him as this
woman did; no woman had ever seemed
the same.
He made no remarks, but asked his
friend her history.
“She came from Australia,’ his
friend said—an orphan, alone. Her
voice, on shipboard attracted the atten
tion of old Mezzo, and he engaged her
to go to Italy and have her talents
educated. She did so, and when he
introduced her into the public she was
immediately successful. Men were
moil about her,” he continued, “ wher
ever she went,” and Mezzo’s widowed
sister traveled with her, and took care
of her, and no one could say a word
derogatory to her.”
Hardcliffe listened like one in a
dream.
“Introduce me,” he said.
When brought in close oontact with
her. he admired her even more deeply
than when she was on the stage; but to
him, as to the rest, she maintained the
coldest politeness. He knew that she
did not recognize him, for he h*d
changed his appearance, and his true
pame she had never known.
Day by day he haunted her, _ and
when she was about to leave Paris he
suddenly became frenzied, and told her
he could not live longer without her.
She listened to liiw torrent of words
with trembling lips.
“Do not say more,” she pleaded.
“You do not know what you ask, I
shall never marry.”
“Why not?”
“My’past,” she said, quietly—“1
cannot reveal it, and it forbids such a
thing.”
He approached nearer.
« Christine,” he said softly—" Chris
tine, I know it all, and there w nothing
in it that should separate us.”
“ You—you ’’—she faltered—." were
thee”—
“ The man who vo^ you. Christine,
let me win yon again.
And he did. He never regretted hav
ing won Christine for his wife from
“the wickedest woman in the colo
nies,” who confessed at the last
moment that she was not her
own daughter, but only an adopted
child.
Water containing about seven
of salt in each pint, is, when used con
tinuously, a poison to the weaker forms
of vegetation.
skilled training, of wild animals, from
which nothing of the kind could reason
ably be expected. The following from
the Denver Tribune will give our read
ers some idea of what these animals can
do, and of what we may expect in the
future i .
The elk, an animal from which noth
ing has ever before been expected, ex
cept, indeed, tender steaks and juicy
roasts, has been trained to do some of
the finest jumping ever witnessed, and
to perform many interesting tricks.
The buffalo calf has been in training
only a short time, and does not come
out strong yet. His intelligence and
ambition have not yet been sufficiently
aroused. He do*>s, however, obey the
word of command, and will run around
the ring to order, and lie down when
told—if he happens to feel like it.
The wonderful thing about the exhi
bition is, that Bartholomew will con
trol and direct nine horses, two goats
and a buffalo calf, put them through a
great variety movements, and make
them perform many wonderful tricks,
simply by tbe word of command, never
touching them, and having not even a
halter on teem.
He will stand in tee center of tee
ring and call to a horse standing with
tee others, by tee side of tee tent, to
come to him, and tee animal, will re
spond with tee alacrity of a democratic
voter invited to take a drink. And the
horses have been trained to do various
things ; will raise the lids of boxes with
their noses, and take out any article
found therein; have been taught to
distinguish colors, and will, as directed,
select a red, white or blue flag, and
carry the same to their master. They will
step to music, mark time, and waltz,
keeping perfect time. Bartholomew ex
pests to pnt teem through the gallop
shortly. Two of them have been train
ed to take positions on opposite ends of
a long plank, placed over a block three
or four feet high, and there will see
saw with as much grace, and seemingly
with as much zest, as two truant school
boys. They will roll barrels, fire pis
tols, and imitate man in almost every-
thing except talking, drinking whisky,
and playing poker. .
The two goats will jump upon their
respective horses, and the horses gallop
rapidly around the ring, will turn
aionnd and change horses, as readily as
independent newspapers change position
or parties.
The most wonderful thing'is tee drill.
Bartholomew will call his nine horses
out by name, make them take their posi
tion according, to size, and teen make
them march by company front, m
platoon, and in file, make teem wheel
and countermarch, and make them
move in quick step and double quick.
He will teach them the manual of arms
and the artillery practice next. And to
wind up, one acts as orderly-sergeant
and dismisses tee rest. It must be re
membered that through all this the am
mala are all loose, not a rope or halter
on any of teem, and are managed en
tirely by word of command. At the
command “ come-here, “go get teat,
“march,” and so on, they start as
promptly as a small boy in a well-ref
lated family, when his stem parent tells
him to go after »U "!“!£. ,
wood or a pail of water. If Baitoolo-
mew should tell one of hm horses to
climb a pressed pels, we beheveteean-
imal would at least make tee attempt.
As this exhibition goes east, the people
will learn that rich essays, magnificent
mining'acbemes. big beets, enormous
turnips and large stones, are not tee
only wonderful things that come from
, tee Rocky Mountain region
The Cotton Outlook.
The Memphis cotton ^change mop
report for May, just published, gives
the following aggregate from 166 re
sponses from West Tennessee, North
Mississippi, North Alabama and Arkan
sas, north of the Arkansas river.
1. All answer that ootton planting is
completed, save replanting.
2. Tbe acreage—There has been 2£
per oent Iqss acreage planted in ootton
than last year.
3. Stands—95 report good stands of
the ootton planting; 7e, report lacking
11 per cent, of an average, 2 5 of which
will be replanted.
4. Weather—The weather thus far
has been more favorable in that there
has been leas rain, but less favorable in
that it has been too oold. The average
is much more favorable than last year.
~ 5. Labor—94 report a very material
improvement in the morale of labor; 31
report a moderate improvement; 36 no
change, and 5 report not so good.
6. Cotton Btands—115 answer that
ootton stands were obtained earlier this
year than last; 10 report about the same
timfi; 41 report later, averaging six days
earlier.
7. Work stock—22 report work stock
in better condition than the past two
seasons ; 52 same condition ; 92 report
not so good. The general tone of onr
correspondent indicates fully 10 per
cent, worse condition.
8. Condition of cotton orops—45 re
port it in very good condition; 79 in
average condition; 42 report not in so
good condition as 1874 ; 69 report tee
plant suffering seriously from oold
weather.
9. Commercial fertilizers—The uni
form answer is none used.
CORN AND SMALL GRAIN.
10. Com crops—122 report oom
f lanting complete; 44 not completed.
ncrease of acreage 12 per oent. Ninety-
eight report the crop in superior con
dition ; 52 average, and 16 in bad con
dition.
11. Small grains—83 report the con
dition of growing small grain in supe
rior condition; 59 good; 8 moderate,
with but one reported in had condition;
16 in bottom lands report none sown.
Jay Cooke’s Million-doUar Palace.
The sale of Jay Cooke’s million-
dollar oonntry-seat, “Ogoutz,” near
Philadelphia, was postponed on Tues
day, as no bid was made, tee auctioneer
started at one million and getting down
to *350,009, no one offering to buy at
that figure. “ Ogoutz ” is one of tee
most beautiful places on tee continent.
The great banker lavished his money
npon it, and gathered everything beau
tiful in art which his money could
buy. The mansion itself is 400 feet by
157 feet in dimensions, four stories
high, with towers, the whole being con
structed of granite and iron. Conser
vatories. fountains, exquisite works of
art and tropical piantr adorn it, making
FACTS AND FANCIES.
—America has imported *100,000
worth of dogs, mostly pointer* and set
ters, during the Iasi two years.
—In Germany there are nearly one
fllion more women than men, and
ivea do not lift the hair of husbands
so readily as in countries where the
supply of the sex is more limited.
—When a woman is care-laden and
heavy-hearted, nothing shakes the me
grims out of her quicker than for a
couple of ladies to stop in front of tee
house long enough for her to examine
the trimmings on their bonnets.
—Lewis remarks that most any wo
man can sit down gracefully in a street
oar, but not one in a hundred can de
scend from the back end .of a buggy
when the horffs is running away, with
out feeling that she’s going to overdo
tee thing.
—If properly gathered and preserved
beans will retain vitality 2 y a; cab
bage, 4; carrot 3; sweet corn, 2; en
cumbers, 10; lettuce, 8; melon,- 10;
onion, 1; parsnip, 1; peas, 2; radish,
3 ; squash, 10; tomato, 7; turnips, 4.
“ Then you won’t lend me that dime
novel, eh ?” inquired one boy of another
in the postoffioe on Saturday. “ No, I
won’t.” “All right, then; next time
our chimney burns you shan’t come into
the yard and holler.”
—The Louisville Courier-Journal, in
reply to tee pathetic question of a
woman, “How shall I keep my hus
band at home in the evening ? ” says it
can be done easily enough by open
ing a first-class beer garden in the
back yard.
—The newest seaside umbrellas are
intended to shelter an entire family, if
we are to jndge from the sine. They
areabont the dimensions of a “side
show tent” belonging to a circus, and
have a pole ten feet high to stick in the
sand, and they form a canvas house.
—Weston is still walking. The an
nouncement calls up once more a feel
ing of grtteful appreciation of the
Swinburman assurance, “ That no life
lives forever; teat dead men rise _ up
never; that even tee weariest river
winds somewhere safe to sea.”
—Rich uncle: “ My nephew, I have
an income of eighty thousand francs, a
touoh of liver oomplaint, and no chil
dren. For these reasons I do not doubt
that you will read this, my advice, with
profound attention.”
—An Arkansas youth oame to his
father aHd said: “Dad, they ain’t
knives ennff to sot the table.” Dad—
“Whar’s big butch, little butch, tee
case, cob-handle, granny’s knife, and
tee one I handled yesterday? That’s
enuff to sot any gentleman’s table,
without you’ve lost ’em.”
—The English traveling public ar
enraptured with tee Pullman sleeping-
mtu The Railway, ‘ 3 *
a veritable palace of tee place. Billiard
rooms, bath-rooms and every known
luxury are among the appurtenances,
while the park surrounding the palace,
of immense extent, Is laid out in ex
quisite style. While Jay Cooke lived
here he as a princely entertainer, and
tee house was full of distinguished
visitors continually. No one could live
in such a place without a fortune equal
to that of Jay Cooke ; and when it is
remembered that he commenced the
construction of this palace in 1864, just
four years after he ventured, in an hum
ble way into tee banking business in
Philadelphia, some idea may be formed
of his vast success as an accredited
agent for the sale of government bonds
and as a railroad speculator. “Ogoutz”
will never pay the trustees of the es
tate of Jay Cooke a moiety of the cost.
Whoever pays tee *350,000, however,
will have an elephant worth a million,
of course, but difficult to handle. The
*350,000 last named by the auctioneer
included the pictures, cestly wines and
all tee other appurtenances.
Great Guns.
It was thought by our government,
not long ago, that a 15 inch cast iron
gun, able to throw a 500 lbs. ball a dis
tance of three miles, was about as big
a thing in tee way of armament as
would ever be wanted. • And so the
forts in New York harbor and other
places were supplied with them at great
expense. The visitor at Forts Hamil
ton and Tompkins, down tee bay, will
see long rows of these grim monsters,
arranged in battle line, vainly waiting
for employment against floating ene
mies. Compared with more recent
guns they are now mere pigmies, of no
sort of consequence, and the qmcker
they are broken up and removed tee
Mr. Menelaus, new president of the
Iron and Steel Institute, England,
gays: “Mr. Longsden informs me
that they are making at Essen, at the
present time, 14 inch guns of steel,
which weigh, when finished, 57£ tuns,
carrying a shot of 9 cwt. 9} English
miles, using a charge of 210 lbs. of
gunpowder. They are about to make
steel guns of tee following capacities
and weights: 15f inch bore, 30 feet
long, weighing 82 tuns, using 300 lbs.
of powder, with a shell of 1,500 lbs.
weight; guns of 18 inch bore, 32 feet 6
inches long, weighing 125 tuns, using
440 lbs. of powder, with % shell of
2,280 lbs. weight. Mr. Longsden de
murely adds: • It is calculated, for
the present, that theee guns will be
heavy enough to destroy any armor a
ship can carry.’ In gloating over the
destructive properties of these weapons,
he is leaving out of his calculation,
perhaps, tee flash of lightning ships
which Mr. Reed is about to build, and
which may, under smart management,
be able to get out of the way of such a
conspicuous object as a shell weighing
over a tun, even when fired with^about
a quarter of a tun of gunpowder, ”
After reading Sherman’s book and
the violent comments upon it, one
might suppose that all military achieve
ments are mete matters erf accident,
■nrt tnai no particular person is enti
tled to any great amount of credit for
winning a battle. Von Moltke himself
is said to have been a little surprised at
the victories won by the Germans.
Who knows but the good time is close
at Land when the military hero is to be
politely conducted to the back scat
reserved for him by an improved civili
zation?
that th^nexTimpfovement ih ior-
eign railway travel will be the intro
duction of our sixty-seat passenger cars
in place of the sixty-seat boxes now m
use, and that when adopted they will be
as highly commended as are tee Bleep
ers, which have been liberally patron
ized in America for over fifteen years.
—The people on tee ooast of Corn
wall, off which the Schiller was wreck
ed, have long had a bad reputation as
wreckers. When a ship was seen off
the rooks, on a Sunday, the minister
would give them a holiday. One of
their principal men, several years ago,
was charged with having tied up the
leg of an ass, hung a lantern round its
neck, and driven it by night along the
cliffs, so that its halting motion would
imitate the plunging of a vessel under
sail, and thus tempt ships to run in
where they would suppose was sea-
room, and drive them to destruction.
The inhabitants areas inhospitable as
their rodcs.
—The cure for this sleepless condi
tion is simple, although tee treatment
must be radical. The first essential is
to abandon the particular class of brain
exercise which has induced or attended
npon tee difficulty. The next thing is,
give up coffee, tea, tobacco, and all
stimulants. To use any fonn of alcohol
in such a case may do smcide. Finally
live out of doors, exercise daily till you
are tired out, and tnen go to bed u a
quiet, well-aired, cool room. Ir
month you will be well, and may go
in tbe old brain-wearing, destructive
way, if you have not learned the leeson
of prudence by suffering.—HalVs Jour
nal of Health.
—Yesterday afternoon a roan who had
been beaten in a law-suit stood kt tee
comer of Griswold street Mid Justice
alley, and cursed high and low. ne
was spouting away in vehement tones,
when a lawyer asked : “ Are von gear
ing at anybody in particular /, «o,
blast you, no!” ripped the man.
" Well, it is too bad to have all that
wasted. I wish you would use a few of
tee biggest and best oaths on Hannibal
Hamlin, the man who raised tee retee
onpoetage.” The man gave it to Ham
lin right and left for eleven minutes,
and then the police interfered.—Detroit
Free Press.
—Every duty brings its peculiar de
light. every denial its appropriate
compensation, every thought its recom
pense, every love its elysmm, every
irms its crown; pay goes withDerfom-
ance as effect with cause. M«umees
overreaches itself; vice vitiates whoever
indulges in it; tee wicked wrong their
own souls; generosity greatens; _ virtue
exalts; charity transfigures, and holi
ness is the essence of angelhood. God
does not require us to live on credit;
he pays us what we cam as we earn it,
good or evil, heaven or hell, according
to our choice.—Charles Mildmay.
—Steps are being taken by several of
the states and kingdoms of Europe to
effect an extensive substitution of gold
for silver in current use as a circulating
Tnodinm There has been recently is-
gued in Germany, 1,114,000 marks m
gold coin, and a still greater amount is
to be put in circulation. A mark is
equivalent to about twenty-four-oeuta.
Belgium is putting out gold coin at the
rate of 50.000,000 francs annually. In
Holland *130.000,000 gold coin is
needed, and franco imported last year
431.064,909 francs’ worth of gold more
tii«n the exported. Of course each
movements will materially affect the
relative market value of gold and silver
in the markets of the
