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The BEN. E. BUSSELL) Editor and Proprietor* “Hen Shall the Prose the People’s Bights Maintain* Unewed by Influence and Unbribed by Gain.” TEEMS; (2.00 Per Annum. 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