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VOLUME 4.
BAlNBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 22 1875.
NUMBER 41.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Ctbttb Field wants the modtest ram
0 f ten million dollars from the British
government for his Paeifie cable, and
the probabilities are that he will get it
gooner or later.
The United States has now become
the greatest silver producing oonntry in
the world, taking precedence of even
Mexico, which has heretofore been sup*
posed to furnish two-thirds of the total
Mppiy-
A writer in Jsiacxwood’s Magazine
conclusively calculates that if the pub
lic debt of the civilised world goes on
increasing at its present rate,"in a qnar
•er of a century the entire evenqes of
iltho nations will be iosuffictart to
0 the interest thereon.
Fop. some reason, best known to them
wives, the English riflemen will not let
the American team compete for the
Eicho shield at Wimbledon. The dis
patch says they are willing to have a
Rpecial match, to be shot between the
Americans and eight selected from the
three English teams.
It is feared that the new direct
oable is a failnre. Though some time
has elapsed since its completion was
announced, it cannot be learned that
any signals have been transmitted.
This would prove a great misfortune, as
the other can hardly do more than half
the business offered.
The government of the little kingdom
of Greece, being without money, has
hit upon an excellent means of defray
ing the expenses of its foreign diplo
matic service. It has sent a letter to
each of its legations abroad, informing
the heads of those legations that they
are at liberty to continue to manage
affairs as heretofore, provided they do
1 at their own expense !
tiiKNcn journalists maintain that
[England must raise a bigger army if
phe wants** to exert any influenoe in
European affairs. A hundred thousand
alar troops are a mere bagatelle
ompared with the immense armies of
i present day. England is too near
he continent, they think, to be indif-
F n *t to complications in European
wiitics.
Another American shootist is loose
[in England. We refer to Bogardus, of
niinois, the champion pigeon slayer.
Re yesterday beat an unhappy English
man matched to shoot with him, and
low, of comae, he challenges all Eng-
aud, twirling his double-barreled shot-
in the face and rubbing it nnder
he nose, as it were, of John Bull. We
fish Bogardus would come home. He
rather rubbing it in.—Ctwetnnatf
Commercial.
Tiie Qnelphs and (Jhibbelines of the
CluTokee nation have succeeded in get-
ug up twenty-seven murder oases,
Ibioh were recently tried before the
|nited States district oonit at Fort
aith, Ark. As a result of the trial,
Ivon of the semi-oivilized will be
knged in a batch on the third day of
h’tcmber. This will be the largest
jholeeale hanging since the execution
the thirty-three Sionx Indians at
laukato, Minn., in 1862.
I t he reoent abrogation of three
[tides of the constitution of the Ger-
bu empire which brings the Roman
[tholic church in Germany in oom
ete subjection to the government, and
1 seve nty of the Falok laws passed
J1873 are showing results in the flight
[German ecclesiastics to the United
ates. The telegraph announces the
ival in New York of a large number
[priests and nuns, who propose to
Re in Illinois, where Bismarck and
k Falck can not curtail their ecelesi-
[lical freedom. The Prussian eocleei-
■'cal bills, in effect, banish every
[*man Catholic from Germany.
The ravages of the small-^ox are in-
SID g in New York, and it is also re
led that there is greater danger than
this summer of a visitation of
How fever. This disease is said to be
Sing with great virulence throughout
“ West Indies, and many cases have
“ taken to Key West, Fla. The
has been peculiarly adapted to
^Pfead of yellow fever in Cuba, as
r e have been cone of the nsnai cold,
gales called “ Northers," which
i ®°ted as a cheek to the spread of
•seaee. Vessels are now dne at
t ork from ports where yellow fever
[uown to be raging.
® an Francisco Chronicle predicts
peavy Italian immigration into the
[ States, and a consequent aooee-
to the number of organ-grinders
| plaster-oaat venders. Hitherto the
have been pouring into Uruguay
t e Argentine Republic, the Italian
I ation there now numbering a half
. 011 uorrls, and constituting the rf>i«t
uess element. The nn—ttl«d state
i, *’ however, in theeq countries,
| the emigrants to torn their at-
J° n to the United States. And the
unicle «tes the fact toatan Italian
8 has recently been buying large
" °* in California for his ooun-
tten *° Bottle upon during M»i« yew.
postoffioe department is much
in **** B7Bt0m ot demanding
[P'opayment of newspaper postage,
and will, at the beginning of the nest
congress, at once endeavor to secure
the repeal of the law in relation
postage on transient matter in the
mails. The law regulating the pay
ment of postage, will, however, be re
tained. It has been fonnd that, al
though the rate has been reduced, the
department now receives as much ss it
did when it had a higher rate, but oil
looted the postage at the office of de
livery, which leads to the melancholy
conclusion that some of the postmas
ters are not as pure and honest in the
discharge of their duty as they should
be.
death of General F. P. Blair,
ih occurred last week, was not un
expected. He had been in ill health
for two years, and was recently- sup
posed to have reoeived some benefit
from transfusion of blood, but his
friends had little hope of his ultimate
recovery. As a soldier be made con
siderable reputation during the war,
and was the democratic candidate for
the Vice-Presidenoy in 1868 on the
ticket with Horatio Seymour. He fig
ured little in polities afterward, tbongh
he appeared in the Cincinnati conven
tion of 1872 to nominate Horace
Greeley. At the time of his death, he
was state insnranoe commissioner of
Missouri.
The American rifle team will prob
ably shoot at Wimbledon range, near
London, before their return. If they
succeed there as at Dollymount, there
will be a growl from John Bnll, for he
hates to be beaten. Wimbledon was
established about fifteen yean ago*
and at the grand opening Queen Vic
toria fired the first shot, and put her
bullet through the bnll’s eye at 400
yards. Bnt then any woman could
have done the same thing, as the qneen
sat cosily in a luxurious arm chair, and
pnlled a silver oord which pulled
rifle trigger, sixty yards off, the rifle
itself having been sighted for her and
fixed immovably in a vise for this
especial oocasion.
The Texans of the border will cer
tainly enjoy a brie! respite from deso
lating cattle raids just now while the
Mexicans on the Bio Grande are at
loggerheads about the arrest and incar
ceration of Cortina. The dispatches
indioate a high degree 'of excitement in
Matamoras, which doubtless extends
measurably throughout the state of
Tamaulipas. The capture of their
leader is regarded is an undue inter
ruption to their smuggling operations
by the people of Matamoras and vicin
ity, and President Lerdo evidently has
an insurrection on hiB hands which will
require the presence of more troops.
Matamoras, where the troubles now
oenter, is immediately opposite Browns
ville, Texas, and oontains a population
of about 12,000. As an effort will be
made to earry Cortina to Vera Cruz, a
conflict between the oitizens and the
Mexican troops is probable.
Dispatches from the Black Hills
geological expedition indioate that near
Harney’s Peak gold has really been
fonnd in paying quantities. The cor
respondent of the New York Tribune
aooompanying the expedition writes
that, after the party entered the unex
plored region from the east, they strnck
a granite formation and gold-bearing
quartz, besides finding gold in flakes in
the gulches. Prof. Jenny, Lieut. Mor
ton and Br. Lane, of the government
expedition, are said to be satisfied that
gold exists there. Whether it will be
fonnd in sufficient quantities to fill the
pockets of the thousands who are wait
ing to crowd into the hills, makes no
difference. The people will go, in spite
of restrictions, and possess the land on
the mere intimation that gold is there.
If Gen. Cnstar had never rambled in
that vicinity, the Indians to-day might
be resting in secure possession of this
refreshing and rich oasis.
Coffee as a Disinfectant.—Experi
ments have shown that coffee iaa power
ful disinfectant. We have seen it
stated that a room in whioh meat in an
advanoed state of decomposition has
been kept for some time, was instantly
deprived of all smell on an open coffee
roaster being carried through it, con
taining a pound of offee newly roasted.
In another room, exposed to the efflu
vium occasioned by the clearing oat a
manure pit, so thst sulphuretted hydro
gen ammonia in great quantities
could be chemically detected, the stench
was completely removed in half a
minute, on the employment of three
onsoes of fresh roasted ooffee, while
the other parts of the house were per
manently cleared of the same smell by
Kai'ng simply traversed with the coffee
roaster although the cleansing of the
pit continued for several hours after.
The best mode of using the coffee as a
disinfectant is to drew the raw bean
pound it in a mortar, and then mart the
powder on a moderately heated iron
plate, until it assume a uark brown tint,
when it is fit for use. Then sprinkle it
in sinks or cesspools, or lay it on a
ilate in the room which yon wish to
iave purified.
—Our riflemen did not figure to so
good advantage in the contest for the
all-Ireland challenge shield, as in the
international match. In the former
only four of each team were engaged.
It seems more and more probable that
the su coees of onr team last Tuesday is
dne to the equality of capacity of the
members. As s whole, the team will
be hard to beat, bnt there are four or
five Irish marksmen who are fnlly tl e
equals of onr best.—New York Tribune.
A htotdked tears ago.
wl «T e ’ Where are all the bird* that ran*
A hundred Tears a*o?
The flowers that all in beauty »P*aog
A hundred year* aeo ?
The Hps that smiled.
The exes that wild
In Sashes thone
Soft eyes upon:
Where, O where are lip* and eyes.
The> maiden’s smile*, the lover’s sighs,
That lived so long ago ?
Who peopled an the eltv streets
A nnodrr d years mgo ?
Who BJled the cfau’eh with faces meek.
A hundred yean ago?
The e nee ring tale
Of sister frail;
The plot that worked
A brother’s hnrt •
Where. O where are plots and sneer*.
The pom- man's hope*, the rich mai 1 * ban,
That lived ao long ago?
Captain Eads and His Jettiss
110,000 feel of width over the bar would
| raise the water in the new momentarily,
and greatly increase the current, giving
it also a greatly increased carrying or
or Boonring power whieh would rapidly
eat down the hill between the artifiria)
jetties and Urns lower the water above,
diminish this suddenly increased cur-
[ rent, and finally, when the kill was eat
through, and sixty feet of depth scoured
out, we should have at tike end of the
jetties a current almost as great as the 1
now running seven and a half miles
above the bar, which current is about
thirty per cent more rapid than that at
the bar. The permanent elevation of
the flood line at the upper end of the
jetties would by this transformation
eoaroely amount to two flashes, after the
hill or bar would *e cartway. At the
most rapid rate that man could bnild the
... , tnpiu nw uistnuo OUUId DUliO the
. .f h L ei P. tCTe8t by extensive jetties, it would be impossible to raise
i t0 4116 water at their upper ends suffirientl-
*°. r opting the month of to eause any backing up of the water i
the Mississippi increases as the work the pass b/ which it wonld flow int
progresses. Tbe bi ief exnlanation he I the other passes, as some have Bnononcd
tww-i nlTi BJ8te T?’ - whioh we find “ By this process it would seem tffthe
< ^ 1 ? an9 Beyrew, presents the bar would reform, in tbe coarse of time,
matter id a dearer light than we have *ff*r tha * u * •
... light than we have after the jetties are built farther ont in
hitherto seen it presented. Its leading the g.ilf, bnt Oapt. Eads meets this
1 ex ?™ u, . Rt, . on \ point also. We alV says he, know that
The months of the Mississippi are it now keeps the rjaspectfnl of
j n *u a ^° nt 8xty into seven and one-third miles from where
he Gulf, and their progress oontmnes the natnral jetties are 1,500 feet wide
aaot OD F!S« en ^uI«r , ?“ 11 ^"b^Ud the channel sixty feet deep. Wffl
Capt. Eads declares to prevail. He any one presume to say that the bar will
overturns the theory of some that the reform nearer than that distance from
chief portion of the sedimentary matter an ontlet of the same width’and depth
volume of
one-:
_ tb&
f the
deep, and as
it would
transported by the river is poshed along | and discharging the
the bottom, and maintains thst the sand water ? As the water
and earthly matter of the river are ear- third ftwm the
ned in suspension, and that the magni- potmd. jffijjtjfir. or *’ :
tnde of the burden thus carried is pro- nesrlV
portioned to tbe velocity of the stieam. | man wtihHl have done
A cup of the water dipped from the take the river 178 yean to do, we may
b l^^’ WBnffi T nt ^-proof of safely infer that it would require at
?" loD * “ .* “®*es «* least 178 years for the river to fill up
ward it:holds this matter in snspenmog. the gulf seven and one-third miles dis
tba rarrent is slackened will tant to the height of fifteen feet and
TZZSSI “ tor « l ,”S i’ *!> 0
hter ones still farther. Accidental cut conditions existed. Bnt. he asks
oanses may show that the water is some-1 is it not plain to any man of common
times charged with a less or greater sense thst the same conditions would
quantity o* sediment than is dne to a not exist? The hill forty-five feet high,
given depth, and velocity; bnt every against which the river is to-day dis-
apparent exoephon to the law that all charging at the southwest pass, and
alluvial streams carrv their sediment in which is absolutely necessary to enable
exact proportion to their velocity, nod- the river to advaase its banks into the
ifled by the depth of the stream, can be sea, would be forever gone, and with it
easily reconciled, he says, with the | all power on the part of the river to re
law, It is this law which gives
the stream tbe power to regulate
the size of its channel to suit its
own wants. Where it is still too
small for the flood the current is accel
form this earth'
ables it to fight
ward into the gulf. Its channel, which
is now defined twenty miles out from
the southwest pass, would flow twice or
erated, it soours up a bigger burden thrice as far in all probability, for the
there, and soon makes the requisite river wffl flow through salt water as
room for itself. If tbe channel at easily as it does through banks of earth,
another place is too large, the current it is not deadened in its enrrint by
is there slackened, and the exoess of entering the sea, but by encountering
“ dropped until the channel is the hill at the mouth of the river,
diminished rad the current restored. This reasoning appears sound, at
When the channel is large enongK the least so far as he claims that it would
scour Ceases. When it » sufficiently take nearly two hundred years for the
reduced in size the depositing action bar to reform below the present one:
oeases. The bend caves in because the and, if this is true, his plan is well
uver channel atyive is too large. The worth the outlay required to test it
slack current has in the meantime been
depositing its exoess of load, forming Fish Culture on the Farm
sandbars in flood-time. In the bend m » , , .
the channel is too contracted and the To raise fish as a market crop may be
current is there made too rapid for its P^p“teble in some cases near cities, and
reduoed load, and it therefore scours up . ? r ? t * 4e f e J® DO nal ®x*l supply in the
the deficiency ont of the bottom and bnt, generally, attempts to
side of the bend, this action being re- make “° n ®y by fish-growing have
versed in low water. The wide-shoal Pf° ved [~ T ?? e8 ’ Tl* 18 18 reason why
places then constitute dams, over whioh “ere should not be a fish pond on
the reduced stream flows with increased ®T e! 7 far “ to yield and always access!
current, causing channels to be cut , ° 8n PP*y °J wholesome food for the
down through the bars and the matter ‘ anu rL 40 4a8e 4 be place, m part, of the
soonred ont from them is deposited in } n0 Titable bacon, and save some of the
the enlarged bends below. He applies narde ? rn ?d cash which now goes to
this law to the advanoe of the sonth- • onr dlfi tont smoke-houses in the west.
A GREAT PROJECT.
"he did not knov
He said that “he
Kwl*lal*{ tlie Greatest ot Samly Deserts
-Weavers ef the Sahant-The
lemaeaatabe TaraeS lata the Desert.
standing with others looking at the
na, whan
be
bpy
working of a firs engine,
notioed a pretty looking little
A railway between Alg^ta ’rad Sene-1 near ; . He ,radd « ,1 7
gal, via Timbnctoo, ap^ars a startling
(Ste&jTblSidiraiht teTteetaS flnttS
it into lu. lilU. Ti<«u<i. byto*
realizing what he had done. That in
neeeeeary to the inflnence of the Latin
within a minute. The boy was a pretty
| child and that was what attracted him
rases. M. Soleillst started on an expo- Sthe h
dition from Algiers in Deoember. 1872.
his intention Ming to reach St. Louis^ n
Benegal, via Thnbnetee, hot owing to
the opposition of an insurgent chief, he him , w “, ,or
route had never before been trod by
Europeans. He declares it a mistake to 11, , « .
imagine the Sahara a long, oontinnons
tract of land. He fpnnd along a great I the murder of the arms girl.
part of tbe way a fertile soil, prodne I When asked about the cirenmstanoes
ing both an African and a European I of his killing tbe little girl in Sonth
flora, inolnding oereals, whieh are grown Boston, he said that “ that morning his
in gardens, bnt have to eontend with a mother and brother were away or en-
dry climate. At one point, however, he gaged, and he was obliged to attend to
and his fonr companions had to die- the periodical store. He sat reading
mount to make a track for their ani- awhile when a pretty little girl, whom
male, and at another the plain was oov- I he had never seen before, oame in end
ered by stones of different colors, one I asked for some papers. As soon as she
tint succeeding another: | spike this terrible feeling all through
He believes the donee are not formed him, with the flattering in his head,
rby the action of the wind, bnt are rocks oame over him, and he replied, “they’re
Mteoompoeed by atmospheric agencies, down cellar." Unsuspectingly she open-
ITils is shown by their variety of height ed the door and passed down the stairs,
and form, and by the undoubted dura- Pomeroy immediately following, draw-
bility for at least several oentnries of at ing bis knife as he went. As soon as
least one of these dunes. He was the bottom was reached he placed his
struck in traversing the fandy regions left hand over her month, drew her head
with the sharp outline of distant objects, back toward bis shoulder, and with the
and with the oolora of oertein stars, knife in his light hand ont her throat
which bad the same tints to the naked and she was dead in a minute. Hot
eye as they present throngh a telescope, three minntee had expired from the
He speaks sangninely of the inteUi- time he first laid eyes on the little girl
genes of the Berbers and their capability before she was dead,
of being civilized. The Mussulman a dime novel reader."
h ™T2f 8 £ ^f 88 ! 11 ***®** Pomeroy has been a close reader of
^ jad * eS ° f dram nove.s and yellow-oovered litera-
questions of morality, and exoommum- tare antil , u OD J e of the ge nUeman
punishment | fi tated in his argument before the conn
cation is the severest
known, while the most heinous offence
is marriage with foreign women, a prej
udice he attributes to a Jewish tribe
converted to Mohammedanism, whieh
he thinks probably settled there before
the Christian era.
He fonnd no dangerous animal in the
Sahara, the ostrich and tbe gazelle be
ing the largest of the fanna. His ex
pedition was ill-timed on aooount of an
insurrection against the emperor of
Morrooco having broken out, bnt he
proposes to make a second attempt to
reach Senegal, and he suggests that
French consuls or residents should be
stationed along tbe route as foci ot
commerce and civilization, for the in
habitants ate sedentary and. hfcve
oil, “his brain was turned, and his
highest ambition was to be the ' Texas
Jack’ of Sonth Boston.’’
DOLLYMOUNT.
The Victory ot the American Team la
Ireland—And Now tor Another at Wim
bledon.
From the N. T. Sob, (one SO.
Both at the Creedmoor shooting last
year and now at Dollymount the langes
were the same—800,900 and 1,000 yards;
the targets six feet by twelve in size,
with a oenter six feet by six, and * bull's
eye three feet by three. A shot in the
bull’s eye counts four; in the oenter
adopted division of jalmr,'' and tftough | t £ re ®» in the onter * that anywhere
slavery exists, this mast be regarded as I ® ls ® on the Ur 8 et ’ *»°- The teams are
an initial step in advspoement
It may be added ikii an Italian ex-
jedition, got np by private individuals,
ias arrived at Tnnis for the purpose of
ascertaining the feasibility of turning
the waters of the Mediterranean into
the Tunisian Sahara, a project advocated
each of six men; each man has fifteen
shots at each range, forty-five in alL
The highest possible team score is
1,080.
At Creedmoor, tbe total of th i Ameri-
| cans was 934, that of the Irish, 931—
tons made np : At 800 yards, Americans,
west bar.
On the bar tbe water is on an average
fifteen feet deep, and throughout the
pass not less than sixty feet; and the
bottom is therefore forty-five feet higher
On numerous farms,’’ the New
York Times says, “ spring brooks and
small streams or rivers, may be utilized
for this purpose. On many others,
springs of pure cold water rise and
on the bar than it is at the foot of the ? ow ov ® r . surface, losing themselves
lass where nature has completed her in a disagreeable, if not injonou6
; ettifs, between whioh the river flows in 1 8wam P or quagmire, which is trodden
a magnificent ohannel of almost uniform by stock, or wallowed in by bogs to
width and great depth. The hill forty- thelr “V 1 * “ d their ow P er 8 l 088 *,
five feet high begins to rise jnst where man y other farms again, at certain
the banks of the pass begin to widen sea8ons °f the year, temporary water
on* to the sea, and between these two ^orees are filled, and pass luge quan-
points the river builds its jetties. The “?■ °* s ™ r to nreTB ® r 1 “ e8 » mt °
iill against which the river is beating V 110 * 1 . ^“PP® 8 ™. By simple or
checks the velocity of the stream which cheaply constructed dams, , these tem-
is flowing down with the load of sedi-1 streams of water might be re
flowing <
ment due to its speed. Checking the
velocity means dropping the excess of
load. The current on the sides is more
sluggish than in the central channel,
and hence they are gradnlly bnilt up to
the snrfacei, teA# 8 continual dro
strained, and made to yield a permanent
Bupplj of stock water, and afford facili
ties for the produetion of an ample
supply of fish. Trout, bass, perch, and
pike, all of whioh are excellent and
valuable fish, might be raised in ponds
tne suriaoe, and us ocntmuai dropping
of sediment oaHisir margins gradually 4 hns prepared, whde the homely, but
narrows them in until they become so
steep that no more deposit will rest upon
them. When thus narrowed in they are I
completed and are of the width of the j
ohannel above.
Now let ns note the effect upon tbe
not unsavory oat fish, the carp, and
other second-rate fish, will live and
thrive in sneh a pond as might not
unworthily be termed a mnd hole.”
The beautiful spotted brook trout re
quires conditions not always attainable
bar of this building up and narrowing “P nt ® a fiP'T.ellyor sandy bot-
in of these incipient bulks. The bar is *? )m ’ and a temperature not over sixty
to-day about seven and one-third miles degree 8 ““ summer, bnt “ bass, and
from where the month of the pass be- ^ flourish under less tavonbte
gins to widen. When Talcot surveyed dreonwtanees than front. They will
it in 1838-thirty-seven years ago-the “®t object to rn muddy bottom, nor to
bar was seven and one-toird miles from ™ ter who8e temperature fora part of
the narrow part of the pass, bnt the ^e year may nae above sixty degrees,
pass has by this narrowing, in process to 'nteoat any carroni passing
of time, been gradually oonoentrating a I throngh it for some time. Temporary
more rapid current against the bar, and Btr ®““5 “ a ^ ^ \ or these fish,
this increased soonring power has OT t or ponds in which there is only spring
ont tbe hill on the upper side and trans- w !^ er enough to supply toe evaporation
ported the material over its crest, rad I ^ m « et * ktar need *- A considerable
dropped it on the seaward side of it.
In proof of the narrowing in of this I
unfinished part of tbe pass, he refers to
the fact that five miles above the bar of
of food may be gathered from
the offal of the farm for these fish, and
in a short time inseeta and worms will
aocnmnlate in the pond, which will
Talcot, the pate is now only about 1,6001 temishfood. TbeneoeeeuiT labor rad
feet wide, Whereas it wte 2,500 feet “ 80 “i a L"i the
wide whem Talcot surveyed it Colonel pt fish,
Lang’s map of 1857 shows the width to P*” 11 ! ont
have been three-eighths of a mile greater ^ ow 14 may he readfly undertakra to m-
Pilot Town, about six miles^above d “f? *“ me ” *? ^ezpenment. It is
the bar, than it is to-day. It is evident I Medful to foUow nature’s ways as near
that the river is building at the south-j aa P9“ 1 J > te fo memo raacews, and it is
west pass parallel jetties about 1,5001 ti** 1 ®** 4 part of the profit that a
feet apart, and that it preserves a depth 5j*£P 0, jflj*P*® a tenn frD furnish a
between them of at least sixty feet of I omm4 “* resesvoir of stock water m sea
water. Is it not evident that the hill or | 8008 "hen water m scarce,
bar is an absolute necessity in this —TheNi nnhaokman has oneemore
natural jetty work, without vhiohthe LometotheSirfaon He drove ,
river oould not throw down ito sedimrat eoapto to a olergymsn’s honse, officiated
on its tiro ineqnent jetties? At the M “best man” for tbe bridegroom,
rate the river is building at this pass, it j drove the pair back to their hotel, and
wonld take 178 yeera to bnild its jetties then esHeaupon the clergyman to di
seven and one third miles, or from [ vide the fee with him.
where they are completed ont to the
crest of tkic bar. If man were to extend
two artificial jetties ont suddenly seven
and one-third miles between the present
narrow terminus of the fin
and the crest of
—The Tennessee river went through
the strange freak of rising some
eighteen inches and then ebbing and
flowing like the ooean for about four
tbe bar, and ef the I hoars, st London, Tenn., the other day,
width, say 1,500 feet, it is evident I and nobody ovi tell what was tbe matter
this sodden contraction of the present 1 with it.
by M. de Lessepe before the French 325 ; Irish, 317; 900 yards, Americans,
academy of soienoes last autumn. The 310; Irish, 315; 1,000 yards, Americans,
-question at issue is whether the lake or 298; Irish, 303.
sehonts were connected in classioal This affords ns ground for comparison
times by a canal with the Gulf of Gabes, with the shots at Dollymount yes'erdav,
from which they are now separated by an when the total was: Americans, 967;
isthmus twenty-one kilometres broad. Irish, 929—tons made: At 800 yards.
The explorers will take the levels of the Americans made 337. toe Irish, 388;
these lakes and ascertain whether a 1900 yards, Americans 327, Irish 292:
canal is practicable. It would be a
great advantage to Algeria by opening
np toe province of Constantine to trade.
Tbe Bey of Tunnis has shown great
courtesy to the explorers, and placed an
escort at their service. It may be re-
1.000 yards, Americans 303, Irish 299
Therefore the Americans best tbeir
former scores heavily in each case—12,
17. and 5 points reer-eetively. The Irish
gained heavily at 800 yards, 21 point*—
lost 23 points st 900 yards, and at 1,000
membered that an expedition assisted vards lost 4. The Americans beat toe
by toe French government is about to Irish by 38 points, and- tbeir Creedmoor
cross Africa obliquely from Congo to [ score by 33 points; toe Irish fell behind
Nubia.
BOSTON’S BOY FIEND.
Tbe ItlasMchBaetts Connell Soy Re But
Swing— Par* lenlora ot Die Horrible
Atrocities—^What Cam* ot Reading
Dim* Novel*.
Boston Correspondence of tie N. T. Herald.
The council yesterday, by a vote of
five to fonr, authorized toe governor of
Massachusetts to israe his warrant for
T^.n”"°°“°°r " U “ > b °7
heir Creedmoor performance 2 points.
The American shooting was indeed
splendid, and the Irish compared favor
ably with the best shooting st Wimble
don, the great English rifle range.
Though beaten they maintained a high
reputation, and justified their former
title to the Eioho shield, the chief
Wimbledon prize. They had exhausted
to tbe American team pre
vious to the match, and they gave nn-
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Tub c»*«™ Dove.—
Mybiril lot loooe in ftr-off sUas,
whan haet'ning fondly borne, *
Ne’er stoopa to earth bar wing, nor fitee
Wham idle wtrMers roam.
But high too shoots through air and light,
Above aB low delay.
Where nothing earthly bounds bar flight,
Nor shadow dims her way. |
Bo grant me. Uod, from ovary earn
And stain of paation free.
Aloft through virtna’a purer air.
To hold my oonna to thee!
No sm to elood, no lore to atay
My aonl as home the springe;—
Thv aonahine on her Joyful way,
Thy freedom on bar wings.
—Tha oidcatiqurnaliat i
the Cleveland Iffain Dealer rams np his :
experience as follows: “ No aum can
keep habitual oompany with a eoekroaeh
and be eheerfnL”
—At Middletown, Del., an immense
peach refrigerator is to be bnilt. Capable
of holding 200,000 baskets of frnit,
whioh the projector guarantees to keep
by a peculiar freezing prooees for mx
months.
—The first female lawyer admitted to
the bar of Ohio has proved a dismal
leral failnre. The baby is doing well
however, and if the oUenta can wait,
their eases may possibly come around
all right.
—After all toe street-oar conductors
who have committed suicide because
their honesty was doubted, the New
York companies now find that they have
saved over s million dollars by the use
of the bell-pnnefa.
Mxlican Flag.—
Time Fleedom* topside gtest big hill
Splead out him pidgin-lag on wing,
Him lip-bang-slam blue night-dless spile,
And bull clowd tip-top fleeoeman bling.
On Hang, Olalk stleet.
•Fleedom alia earn hin-la Chinee; alia same,
make whstpleasee.
—The present ntye in Paris for floral
decorations as a part of female embel
lishment is suah, tost to look at some of
the ladies as they move along, one would
imagine that they had poked their head
and waist throngh a bed of garden flow
ers, and were bearing off toe spoils over
half their persons.
—Honey comes originally from toe
roots of plants, and undergoes processes
daring the formation of the flower, and
that whioh is gathered np by the bees
is an exoess, and not essential to tbe
development of toe fruit or flower. If
not saved by toe bee it wonld waste its
sweetness on the desert air.
If Mr Lov*.—
If my lova smile:'
Bo twinkle stars, throngh nights by moons
made gold;
So landecopes beam ’neath summer suns un
rolled.
If my love laugh:
No play in song glad wavte alongwhite sands ;
' * ‘ • thlEolb
ian bands.
The facts of the two murders com
mitted by this boy are only too well
known. For months an immense press
ure has been brought to bear on the
governor and members of the oonneQ,
by parties in favor of meeting out to
Pomeroy the full extent of toe law—
L e, hanging instead of commutation
of sentence to imprisonment for life.
Delegation after delegation of ladies
(mothers hi nearly all oases) have waited
upon members of toe council at
their homes, offioes, on toe street,
at the hotels while dining, and
in stores when making necessary
purchases have they been besieged
by ladies as soon as recognized as i
bers of the governor’s oonnoQ, to
their votes in favor of hanging when
ever his ease should come before the
cents when they retired victors
the field.
Dollymount, the range, is on a sandy
island in Dublin bay, about three
miles from toe city, called the North
Ball. It is part of toe bar at the month
of the Liffey, a stream famous in Irish
history. The oelebratod battle of Cion-
tarf, fought by Brian Born, the re-
nouned chief, against the invading
Danes, before William the conqueror’s
time, occurred on its banks. It
fit plao* for toe friendly contest be-
tw< cd the riflemen of tbe New Amerioa
and Old Ireland.
The qualities required in these long
range rifle sho's are endurance, steadi
ness of nerve and careful calculation of
the varvirg windage Tbe contest
lasts for several boom; tbe men are
council for final disposition. Hearing* kept np at high nervous tension by toe
to tiie public have been given at toe excitement of competition and the sym-
staie noose before the governor and | path’tic par isauship of the vast crowd
council on toe qneetion of commutation o' witnesses. On'y tbe strongest self-
ana most able arguments I control, evenness of poise and rigidity
of sentence, i
have been made, on both sides, and y<
ter ay toe decision was made. In
of this, I am committing no breaeh of
confidence when I write yon of
facte connected with this case. Ji
Pomeroy is a moral monstrosity. He
murdered two small children for no
cause whatever. He did not rob them
of r>-nsc4e can hope to win even a decent
[ sneoess. The positions assumed by tbe
different men are many and frequently
ao. using—all, however, depending on
[ the one principle of the effort of tbe
[ man to find as many points of support
for his body on toe unyielding ground
ai he can secure, and at the same time
of mwm a pin; be bad no quarrel I to bring tin rear or peep sight of his
with them, whereby his passions might rifle aa done to his eye as possible,
have been excited; he suffered no re-1 The target at three great distances
vengeful feelings towards tbe parents of I looks of about the sins of say one inch
the victims. Hie children and their by half aa inch at three yards length
tamiltas were perfect strangers to him. from the eye. To put shot after shot in
No cause for three maiden are known. I tbe boll’s eye— a jnrt appreciable Mack
spot -at 809, 900 and1,000 yards, and to
He was visited at toe jail where he I keep np the ire through forty-Aus con-
has been confined since his conviction secu'ive shots, is to test the endurance
by members of the council, who con- and steadiness of the marksman to a
versed with him on tiie subject of hi* I marvelous degree.
They found him to be aa mi- The faet that the American team never
usually bright and intelligent lad; his fired at long ranges until last rammer,
answers wen given with promptness I though their opponents have ’been in
«nd deeisinri; there was no wavering or practice for ten years, gives added merit
hesitation in them, bnt right to the I to their victory. They have put them-
mint. When asked bow many murders selves at the head of all longraage rifle
te had committed his quick reply was, | shots. Next month they will have i
Two, sir r He was' asked why ha I opportunity to cany off tha el
killed the little boy, and replied that | pfonship from Wimbledon Hkewiaa,
wivttdi
So harps of leaves laugh ’neath
If mj love speak: |
So ring the many voices of the woods,
That cheer alike sunshine and solitudes.
If my love blush:
So morning flushes up the dimpled skies;
So eve’s carnation with the twilight dies.
If my lova weep:
So fall the crvstal tears of night in dew.
Skies weep that earth may bloom more fair
and naw..
If mv love love:
So bliss leape gladly from blest heart to heart;
Nor life nor death shall And onr souls apart.
—The Prince of Wales, tired of tiie
dnll routine of English public dinners,
with tbe same bills of fare, to® mono
tonous toasts and prolix speeches, in
troduced smoking into the programme.
He set the fashion at tbe last dinner of
the Agriculturists, lighting hie cigar
almost ss soon as tbe feasting was over.
Of ootme, he did not leek a following,
and soon tbe prinoe’s party were whif
fing away contentedly, and proof against
the stnpidsst speeches that could be
made. Henceforth toe postprandial
cigar will be a feature of English public
dinners
—Atthe Central market yesterdays
long-haired mao mounted a box and
oommenoed : “ My friends, who bath
redness of eyes? The drunkard. Who
hath woe ? Tbe drunkard. The Lord
sent na pare cold water. There’s noth
ing like w At that moment a boy
who was throwing water from the gar
den-hose used around there aeeidentiv
turned the stream against the stranger's
buck, and be jumped down and said it
was a ease of aesanlt, and ran after a
warrant. He said that no limn an bring
eonld throw erid water over him with
out being made to suffer for it.—Detroit
Tree Prett.
—“ Is this the post-office T inquired
a stranger tbe other day ss he approach
ed the stamp clerk’s window. “It is,”
was tbe reply. “ And yon have stamps
here T' “ Yea, sir," “ Will yon be so
kind as to please sell me one?” “I
will.” “I'm very sorry to have to
bother yon," continued the stranger
while toe deck was touring off the
stamp, “boil want to send aletter out,
and I hope you’ll excuse me." “That’s
all right,” replied the elerk. “ Yes, I
believe it is all right,” said the stranger.
“I’m a thousand tunes obliged for your
courtesy, and now I want to beg one
more favor. Gan I mail this letter
here?” “Why of course.” “Oaal?
Here, give me your hand,-young man!
I’ve lived around and about for over
forty yean, end I’ve semi hard tizseu.
I amt need to this sort o’ kindness, it
goes right to my heart!”—Free Pres*.
Postal Prints.
The law went into effect Thursday
placing the fere on
decs as follows:
On orders not exceeding $15,10 <
On orders over flfi and not exceeding
880, Ifieenta.
On adders over 830 and not wrosadrng
840, 20 cents.
On orders over 840 end not at needing
860,25 oenta.
Postage on printed matter and mer
chandise, one emit for every ounce, er
fraction thereof, up to foot pounds.
The fee for rsgiriBring 1 tiers will
shortly be increased from eight to tea
eenta, in addition to the regular post
age.
Postage n letters to Greet Britain, -
IUMI pOMMROU,
Italy and Ito-
sd to a
standard rata of five cento to
half ounce or 1
By
who have business st the