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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
W.'a". mIksCHALK,} and Proprietors.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
SOUTH.
Lavins, the Yicksburger local who
killed Calkin, has been acquitted.
The entire loss by the explosion of
the Crescent City will foot up nearly three
hundred thousand.
Cas Matlock, the Red creek murderer,
lias been sentenced to be hanged on the 26th
of May, at Little Rock.
Jesse James, an old and prominent
citizen of Saline county, Ark., was accidently
shot and killed on Saturday last while out
hunting.
John Franklin, a colored waiter at
the Worsham house, Memphis, was fatally
stabbed on the 28th, by Sam Fidnav, the
steward. Fidnay has not yet been arrested.
The land owners of Texas are taking
measures to crush out the cattle owners who
own little or no land. Immense pastures are
being fenced in, and there will soon bo no open
prairie for cattle.
Capt. Goad, agent of the Mississippi
valley transportation company, has returned
from the wreck of the Crescent City, and re
ports that 6he can be raised when the water
falls ten feet.
At Vicksburg, on the 27tb, Thomas
Calkin, an ex-policeman, attacked J. W. La
vins, local editor of the Yicksburger, cutting
him in the neck with a knife. Lavins then
shot Calkin twice, killing him instantly.
Thomas D. Grundy, sheriff of Mc-
Cracken county, Ky., has instituted suit against
the Louisvilie Commercial for damages of
$25,000. The Commercial stated that Grundy
was intoxicated while taking a batch of pris
oners to the penitentiary.
A colored man died in Ramsey, Ky.,
a few days ago, who was probably the giant
of Kentucky. His name was Louis Johnson,
but more generally known as “Big Footed
Louis.” He was seven feet high, two and a
half feet across the shoulders, and his feet
touched the tape strings at fifteen inches.
The people of Memphis have contrib
uted thirteen thousand dollars to the endow
ment of the Vanderbilt university. In addi
tion to this, Gen. N. B. Forrest has transferred
to the secretary, Dr. Young, five thousand
five hundred dollars of the capital stock of
the Selma and Memphis railroad for the bene
fit of the university.
Col. Robert J. Miller, a prominent
lawyer of Vicksburg, was shot and fatally
wounded there by W. R Spears, also a lawyer,
who drove up to Miller’s office in a carriage
and sent the driver up for him. Just then
Miller came down street, and Spears called to
him. When Miller approached the carriage,
Spears fired, hitting him in the forehead. Mil
ler fell, and Spears fired four other shots into
his body. Spears was taken to jail amid great
excitement and threats of violence.
The eteamboat Sam J. Hale, from
Cincinnati for Now Orleans, burst a steam
pipe a hundred and twenty-five miles ■ above
Metfiphis. The following are the casualties.
F. Wagner, second engineer, slightly scalded;
Richard Leonard, deckhand, severely, since
died ; Frank Stewart, deckhand, badly: John
Johnson, deckhand, lost overboard; Chase
Jones, colored, fireman, killed. Capt. J. L.
Carter made a narrow escape but was unin
jured. The City of Vicksburg overtook the
Hale floating down, and towed her to the
bank. The Hale is uninjured save the bursted
pipe.
The cause of direct trade with Eu
rope is at last receiving practical encourage
ment and assuming a feasible shape. The
Charleston chamber of commerce has taken
the matter in hand and inaugurated a move
ment that bids fair to be crowned with success,
and requires only the co-operation of the inte
rior cities to make the achievement certain.
The Charleston chamber of commerce in
prosecution of its enterprising plan has dep
utized a special commissioner in the person of
Mr. J. Adger Smyth to visit the cities of the
south and west, including Augusta, Atlanta,
Chattanooga, Nashville, Louisville, etc., to in
duce the business men of those cities to or
der all their foreign goods direct through
Charleston and thus afford freight that will
pay for the establishment of a line of steam
ers every two weeks.
A special from Helena, Ark., says the
tow-boat Crescent City, from New Orleans for
St. Louis, with a tow of five freight barges,
one fuel barge and a trading boat laden with
thirteen tons of sugar, blew up at the foot of
Montezuma island, ten miles below Memphis.
Every part of the boat was blown into atoms
and she sunk in three minutes. The barges
were all consumed bv fire. The following is
a li3t of the lost: Capt. James Dawson,
Mate Henry Gesrier Pilot John A Strauder
and wife, Pilot ,Wm. Mundy, Watchman Dan
Mettle, cabin-boy unknown, three colored fire
man. Wounded: George VanHainten, pilot,
leg dislocated; Patrick Bacon, second engi
neer, bruised ; Wm. Dunn, second cook, scald
ed ; Peter Hall, proprietor of trading boat,
badly bruised; his familv all saved. The
steamer Phil Allen arrived at the scene a few
moments after the explosion and rendered as
sistance. The Crescent City is owned by the
Mississippi Valley Transportation company.
\ allied at $70,000, Jno. Ostrander and wife,
who were lost, leave six children, who‘are in
bt. Louis. His wife had accompanied him on
a pleasure trip.
FOREIGN-.
There have been heavy losses on both
sides in the battles before Bilboa. Santander
is crowded with wounded from the republican
ranks.
Ten hundred and fifty-six bales of
cotton have been landed at Elsenore from the
ship Charles A. Farwell, stranded on a voyage
from Savannah to Renot.
The Faraday, built especially for lay
ing cables, will begin on the 15th of April to
take on board the cable to be laid direct from
Great Britain to the United States.
The report that Henri Rochefort and
1 asclial Gransort have escaped from New
Caledonia is confirmed. A dispatch from
Melbourne says that they, with Gourd and
Bourillerer, two other convicts, arrived at New
Castine.
A dispatch received by boat from
Havana says it is reported there that the Span
iards lost very heavily in the battle at Quhsi
mo Clara, near Puerto Principe. The Cubans
remained in possession of the field at night,
the killed and wounded falling into their
hands.
Marshall Jewell, United States min
ister at St. Petersburg, has signed a declara
tion respecting trade- narks, giving American
manufacturers equal i ghts with those of
Russia. Ibis is the first treaty signed in both
the Russian and English languages.
The Duke of Edinburgh and his Rus
sian bride had a rousing public reception on
their arrival in London, last week. Notwith
standing a blinding snow-storm, the streets
were jammed with spectators from Padding
ton station to Buckingham palace, to witness
the royal cortege pass, and not since the
thanksgiving over the recovery of the Prince
of Wales, has the city witnessed snch a pop
ular demonstration.
In the French assembly, M. Dabircll
a monarchist, moved that the assembly take a
vote on the first day of July to decide the fu
ture form of government of France. He urged
that it was impossible to make a constitution
without first settling the question whether
France was to be a monarchy or republic. The
motion caused great excitement in the cham
ber. A heated debate ensued. Duke de Bro
glie spoke against ther motion and it was ob
jected to by 339 to 250.
The Great Eastern will start in Au
gust to lay the Portuguese telegraph cable
mus until a final decree, that was no reason
for interference in eqianity by injunction. 3.
Tnat though the court might enjoin a state
officer from doing injury to third persons un
an unconstituticnol state law, a suit
against a state officer to enforce acontrat of
the state was either a suit against the state,
which could not be entertained, or a suit
against nominal parties without interest,
and should be dismissed. The restrain
from St. Vincent, Cape Verde islands, to Per
nambuco, Brazil.
A letter from India says more excite
ment prevails in the streets of Bombay now
than has been seen since the mutiny of 1857.
Some of the lower classes, Arab and African
Mussulmans, made attacks on the Parsees
entering their houses and committing every
kind of depredations. In the attacks many
on both sides are reported to have been killed.
The city authorities seem scarcely equal to
the emergency and the troops in the city are
not in sufficient numbers to preserve order.
The cause of the Mussulman’s hostility to the-
Parsees is that one of the latter wrote a book
on various religions in which something was
said against the character of Mohamet.
GENERAL.
The president has sent the nomina
tion to the senate of Daniel B. Cliffe, collector
of internal revenue for the fifth district of
Tennessee.
The house judiciary committee have
decided that no provision should be made out
of the Geneva award for reimbursing insur
ance companies for any losses under policies
insuring vessels destroyed by confederate
cruisers.
The committee on elections have fin
ished examination of the case of Pinchback
against Sheridan, for a seat from Louisiana,
and it is understood will report next week
that the record evidence on which both claim
ants rest their respective cases has not ena
bled the committee to decide between them.
The Farragut prize money is to be
paid without further delay, the prize list hav
ing been forwarded to the fourth auditor. The
total amount of prize money proper is $530,-
000, and $200,000 additional bounty for the
destruction of confederate vessels. The num
ber of United States ships taking part in the
engagements is forty-four, and the number of
officers and men sharing in the prize awards
is between twenty-five hundred and three
thousand. Tire Farragut estate will receive
one-twentieth of the whole amount, or about
$35,000. The three division commanders will
receive one-fifteenth each, and all the other
officers in proportion.
The naval drill at Key West is over.
The orders have been issued for the immedi
ate dispersion of the fleet. Admiral Case will
transfer his flag from 'the Wabash to the
Franklin. The Wyoming and Wachusett will
exchange crews. The Shenandoah and Ticon
deroga are ordered to New York, the Wyoming
to Washington, and the Wabash to Boston.
•Admiral Case will proceed to the European
station with the Franklin, Juniata, Alaska and
Congress. The Lancaster is to return to Bra
zil as soon as ready, and the crews of all
homeward bound vessels except the Ticonder
oga are to be discharged.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the senate, on the 24th, a petition
of citizens of Indiana and Kentucky was pre
sented, asking that the law of congress rela
tive to bridges over the Ohio river be amen
ded so as to require that bridges over that
river shall have 400 feet spans and a draw of
160 feet At the expiration of the morning
hour the senato laid aside, informally, the
bill to equalize the currency, and took up the
new financial bill reported by Mi. Sherman
from the committee on finance*. The provis
ions of the bill were explained by Mr. Sher
man, and the discussion thereon continued
till the hour of adjournment.
In the house, on the 24th, the Geor
gia contested election case came up, and, after
a three hours’ discussion, the minority resolu
tion that Rawls, the sitting member, was en
titled to his seat, was rejected—77 to 133—and
the majority resolution, declaring Sloan, the
contestant, entitled to the seat, was adopted
by 135 to 74 A memorial was presented
from workingmen of New York, signed by
20,000 persons, in favor of an eight-hour law,
and for the removal of the supervising archi
tect The house then proceeded to the dis
cussion of the bill to regulate inter-state rail
road commerce, and soon after adjourned.
In the senate, on the 25tb, a petition
was presented signed by fifty-one iron, coal
and other companies of Ohio, asking for
more currency, and that free banking be au
thorized The committee on Indian affairs
on house bill authorizing
the secretary of the interior to use certain
unexpended balances for the removal of the
Kickapoo and other Indians to Indian terri
tory, and the bill was passsed The senate
resumed consideration of the bill to provide
for the redemption and re-issue of United
States notes, and for free banking, which was
discussed until the hour for adjournment.
In the house, on the 25th, the time
was mostly taken up in the discussion of the
bill to regulate inter-state commerce, without
coming to a final vote.
In the senate, on the 26th, a petition
was presented from Fitzhugh Lee for the re
moval of his political disability House bill
appropriating $30,000 for the improvement of
the mouth of the Mississippi was passed.... A
bill was introduced to enable the people of
New Mexico to form a constitution and state
government, and providing for the admission
of such state to the union House bill con
cerning the practice in territorial courts, and
appeals therefrom, was taken up, and au
amendment providing that the provisions of
the bill should not apply to cases in the Su
preme court, where a record has already been
rtiled, was agreed to, and the bill passed
The judiciary committee reported unfavora
bly on the bill to remove the disabilities of
John G. Cabell, of Texas, he having recently
received the nomination for a state office
The senate resumed consideration of the bill
to provide for the redemption and re-issue of
United States notes and free banking An
amendment to strike out the whole of the first
.'.ection of the enacting clause, and insert that
tae maximum amount of United States notes
for cir-nlation is hereby fixed at $400,000,000,
was adopted—3l to 26—and the senate ad
journed.
In the house, on the 26th, a bill was
introduced to reduce the army. It proposes
to leave the cavalry and artillery at the pres
ent force, bnt to reduce the infantry’ by five
regiments A resolution was adopted that
inquiry be made into charges against officers
of the United States courts in the middle dis
trict of Alabama, and the southern district of
Illinois, for not making returns of fees re
ceived, with power to send for persons and
papers The bill to regulate commerce by
railroads among the several states was passed
l2l to 116. It enacts that all railroad lines
carrying freight and passengers between dif
ferent states, whether owned by one or various
corporations, shall be regarded as employed in
commerce amoDgst the several states, and
shall be liable for any violation of this act.
They are forbidden to charge more than a fair
and reasonable rate for transportation of
freight or passengers. Such rate is to be as
certained and fixed by the board of railroad
commissioners, to be appointed by the presi
dent, to be residents of each of the nine ju
dicial districts of the United States. They are
to be disinterested persons, and not to have
any interest in stocks, bonds, or property of
any railroad or any transportation comp iny.
This board is to institute a thorough investi
gation and inquiry into the rates aud toll and
compensation charged for transporting
freights and passengers over each of such
lines of railroad, and into the reasonableness
thereof, and is, as soon as practicable after
such investigation and inquiry, to prepare for
the owners or operators of each of such lines
a schedule of reasonable maximum rates for
charges for transportation of passengers and
cars on and over such lines respectively. This
schedule is to be duly authenticated by the
board of commissioners, and to be printed
and kept posted up in each of the offices and
depot of such railroad company, corporation,
or person. They may, from time to time and
so often as circumstances may require, change
and revise the schedule, and shall give notice
of such changes and revisions in the same
manner The house proceeded to the con
sideration of the bill to amend the several
acts relating to the currency, and the estab
lishment of free banking, which was contin
ued to the hour of adjournment.
In the senate, on the 27th, bills to re
move the political disabilities of Thos. Hardi
man. of Georgia, and Wm. L. Cabell, of Texas,
were taken up and passed... .A resolution was
agreed to, instructing the; secretary of w?r
to transmit to the senate a report of the board
of engineers who made the examination for
the bridge over the Mississippi river at St
Louis A bill was introduced to authorize
the settlement of accounts between the Atlan
tic and Great Western railroal compauv of
Georgia, and the United States, upon the
same basis on which similar accounts were set
tled with Tennessee railroads The commit;
tee on public lands reported, with an amend
ment, the bill to confirm the purchase of a
portion of the site at Fort Hudson, Nashville,
Tenn, and provide for the donation of the same
to Fisk university for educational purposes,
which was placed on the calendar... .The sen
ate resumed consideration of the bill te pro
vide for the redemption and re-issue of Uni
ted States notes, and for free banking. Ad
journed.
In the house, on the 27th, a number
of private bills were reported from various
committees, and referred to the committee
of the whole... .Senate bill removing the po
litical disabilities of Wm. L. Cabell, of Texas,
was passed The house resumed considera
tion of the bill to amend several acts providing
national currency, aud to establish free bank
ing. Adjourned.
In the senate, on the 30th, the chair
presented sundry resolutions from the Wiscon
sin legislature in regard to the improvement
of the Mississippi liver and tributaries, and
for increasing mail facilities in that state, and
for the improvement of the Wisconsin river.
... .The senate resumed consideration of the
bill to provide for the resumption and re-is
sue of United States notes, and for free bank
ing. An amendment to redeem United States
notes in coin or interest-bearing notes in 1876
was rejected, together with several other
amendments, and without making further pro
gress on the bill the senate adjourned
In the house, on the 30th, a bill was
introduced for the construction of the Port
land, Dallas and Salt Lake railroad, and the
performance of all government service free
of charge. The bill continues in force the
appropriation made in the river and harbor
bill of the 3rd of March, 1873, for the pay
ment of debts of the Louisville and Portland
canal company and makes it permanently ap
plicable for the same. The second section au
thorizes the secretary of the treasury to take
posse.-sion of the canal and all its property
subject to mortgage securing bo ids, and the
secretary is to pay for stock held by the direc
tors, with six per cent, interest since the 9th
of February, 1864, and is to collect any mon
ey due to or held for the company by its dii ec
tors or trustees, and by any person whatever.
The third section provides that the canal shall
be held for the common use and benefit of all
people, free of tolls and charges, except Buch
as are necessary to pay current expenses and
to keep the canal in repair; the tolls for the
present year are to be 10 cents per ton on
steam vessels, and 5 cents on other vessels.
An Important Vote.
Next to the financial problem, the
most important matter before congress
is that of transportation, and on this
the house has reached a decision, by
passing the bill of Mr. McCrary to
“ regulate commerce by railroad among
the several states,” by a vote of 121 to
116.
The bill which has been thus sanc
tioned by one branch of congress is
without a precedent in our legislation.
Until recently, the constitutional power
of congress to regulate commerce be
tween the states was one of no practical
value, and it was consequently but lit
tle discussed ; and of course, but few
of our public men held any decided
views regarding it. But. for several
years past, this matter has been rapidly
coming to the foreground in our af
fairs. The grain production of the
west, more than keeping pace with the
means of transportation to the sea
board, made the problem presented of
immediate and pressing consequence.
The necessities of producers naturally
hastened and extended the organization
of the granges, which, in its turn, led
to an active and sympathetic warfare
upon what were deemed railroad extor
tions. Such a contest as this could not
be kept out of congress.
The bill provides for the appoint
ment by the president of nine railroad
commissioners, who are given the pow
er of fixing the maximum rates of
charges for the transportation of freight
and passengers over all lines of rail
roads extending into or through two
or more states. The penalties for any
violation of these rates are severe and
ample. Power is given the commission
ers to inflict them. It was supposed,
that the corporations would seek to
evade the act by the plea that a rail
road, bolding its franchise from a state,
could not possibly extend beyond state
limits, so that, in fact, there is no such
thing as inter-state lines of railroads.
To meet this plea the following section
was placed in the bill :
“ That in all cases where two or more
persons, companies, or corporations
unite together for the purpose of trans
porting freight or passengers over sev
eral lines of railroad from a place in
one state to a place in another state, the
several lines thus operated together
shall be treated, for all the purposes of
this act, as one line ; and each and ev
ery of such persons, companies, and
corporations shall be bound by the pro
visions of this act, and liable for any
violation tb ereof. And in all cases where
several lines of railways are united, or
connected together, and engaged in car
rying freight or passengers into or
through two or more states, by a con
tinuous route, whether under one man
agement or not, it shall not be lawful
for them, or any of them, to evade the
operation of this act by any form of con
tract designed for that purpose ; and it
shall be competent in all suits brought
under this act to show that the defend
ant was in fact, when the alleged extor
tion occurred, engaged in operating a
part of a continuous line of inter-state
commerce; and upon such fact being
made to appear such defendant shall be
held subject to the provisons of this
act, whatever the character or form of
the contract between such defendant
and the shipper may have been.”
If this bill becomes a law, and is en
forced, the commissioners will fix the
charge for every passenger and every
pound of freight passing beyond state
limits over a continuous line, whether
managed by one corporation or a dozen.
The New Cable Steamer.
The screw steamer Faraday, which is
designed entirely for cable work, al
though only of four or five thousand
tons, has as much cable room as the
Great Eastern. There are several points
’of novel tv in the construction of this
vessel. She is made perfectly symme
trical fore and aft, with a rudder at each
end, so as to move in either direction
with equal ease aud accuracy. This is
of the utmost importance* for cable
work, as it enables the cable to be
picked up with the least possible expen
diture of trouble and time ; the whole
of the paying-out machinery becoming
in a few moments paying-in machinery.
She has no keel at the bottom, but two
bilge-keels, or keels running along the
sides, so that the i ross-seetion is very
nearly rectangular. This arrangement
diminishes the rolling very considerable,
and allows more room for tanks. She
is driven by to in screws, whose axes
converge; the object of this is to ob
tain greater turning power when the
screws are driven opposite ways, which
is possible, as their engines are inde
pendent. The axes of the screws would
pass the centre of gravity of the ship
at a distance of twenty-seven feet. In
this way the head of the ship can be
kept to the wind when she has no way on.
The woman’s whisky war has actually
diminished the sale of liquors in Ohio
and Indiana to such an extent that the
revenue in these states for February
was less by $300,000 than it was the
previous month. This is a proof that
the efforts of the women have accom
plished something more than the exas
peration of the rnmsellers. There is a
general desire on the part of consum
ers of cigars that a similar crusad
should be begun against tobacco. It
could hardly fail to arrest to some ex
tent the consumption of the weed, and
hence to reduce the present high price
of cigars, to the delight of confirmed
and hardened smokers.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1874.
WELCOME TO ROYALTY.
BY TENNYSON.
I.
The son of him with whom we strove for power—
Whose will is lord thro’ all his world-domain—
Who made the serf a man, and burst his chain—
Has given our prince his own imperial flower,
Alexandrowna.
And welcome, Russian flower, a people’s pride,
To Britain, when her flowers begin to blow!
From love to love, from home to home you go,
From mother to mot tier, stately bride,
Marie Alexandrowna.'
n.
The golden news along the steppes is blown,
And at thy name the Tarter tents are stirred;
Elbnrz and all the Caucasus have heard ;
And all the sultry palms of India known,
Alexandrowna.
The voices of onr universal sea
On capes of Afric a3 on cliffs of Kent,
The Maoris and that isle of continent,
And loyal pines of Canada murmur thee,
Marie Alexandrowna!
m.
Fair empires branching, both, in lusty life! —
Yet Harold’s England fell to Norman swords;
Yet thine own land has bow’d to Tartar hordes
Since English Harold gave its throne a wife,
Alexandrowna! *
For thrones and peoples are as waifs that swing.
And float or fall, in endless ebb and flow ;
But who love best have best the grace to know
That love by right divine is deathless king.
Marie Alexandrowna!
IV.
And Love has led thee to the stranger land, ’
Where men are bold and strongly say their say—
Se, empire upon empire smiles to-day,
As thou with thy young lover hand in hand,
Alexandrowna!
So now the fuller life is in the west,
Whose hand at home was gracious to thy poor ; ’
Thy name was blest within the narrow door ;
Here also, Marie, shall thy name be blest,
Marie Alexandrowna!
v.
Shall fears and jealous hatreds flame again ?
Or at thy coming, princess, everywhere,
The blue heaven break, aud some diviner air
Breathe thro’ the world and change the hearts of
men,
Alexandrowna 7
But hearts that change not, love that can not cease,
And peace be yours, the peace of boul in soul!
Aud howsoever this wild world may roll,
Between your peoples truth and manful peace,
Alfred—Alexandrowna!
RETIRING FROM BUSINESS.
BY BREff HARTE.
What the colonel’s business was no
body knew, nor did any one care par
ticularly. He purchased for cash only,
and he never grumbled at the price of
anything that he wanted ; who could
ask more than that ?
Curious people occasionally wondered
hew, when it had been fully two jears
since the colonel, with evey one else,
abandoned Duck creek to the Cliinese,
he managed to spend money freely, and
to lose considerable at cards and horse
races. In fact, the keeper of that one
of the two Challenge Hill saloons
which the colonel did not patronize was
heard to absent-mindedly wonder
whether the colonel hadn’t a money
mill somewhere where he turned out
double eagles and “slugs” (the coast
name for fifty dollar gold pieces).
When so important a personage as a
bar-keeper indulged publicly in an idea,
the inhabitants of Challenge Hill, like
good Californians everywhere, consid
ered themselves in duty bound to give
it grave consideration, so for a few days
certain industrious professional gentle
men, who won money of the colonel,
carefully weighed some of the bright
est pieces and tested them with acids,
and fasted them and sawed them in
two, and retried them and melted them
up and had the lumps assayed.
The result was a compile vindica
tion of the colonel, and a loss of con
siderable custom to the indiscreet bar
keeper.
The colonel was as good natured a man
as had ever been known at Challenge
Hill, but, being mortal, the colonel had
his occasional times of despondency,
and one of them occurred after a series
of races in which he had staked his all
on his own bay mare Tipsie, and had
lost.
Looking reproachfully at his beloved
animal failed to heal the aching void of
his pockets, and drinking deeply, swear
ing eloquently, and glaring defiantly at
all mankind were equally unproductive
of coin.
The boys at the saloon sympathized
most feelingly with the colonel; they
were unceasing in their invitations to
drink, and they even exhibited consid
erable Christian forbearance when the
colonel savagely dissented with every
one who advanced any proposition, no
matter how incontrovertable.
But unappreciated sympathy grows
decidedly tiresome to the given, and it
was with a feeliDg of relief that the
boys saw the colonel stride out of the
saloon, mount Tipsie, and gallop furi
ously away.
Riding on horseback has always been
considered an excellent sort of exercise,
and fast riding is universally admitted
to be one of the most healthful and
delightful means of exhilaration in the
world.
But when a man is so absorbed in his
exercise that he will not stop to speak
to a friend, and when his exhilaration is
so complete that he turns his eyes from
well-meaning thumbs pointing signifi
cantly into doorways through which a
man has olten passed while seeking
bracing influences, it is but natural that
people should express some wonder.
The colonel was well known at Toddy
Flat, Cone Hand, Blazers, Murderer’s
Bar, and several other villages through
which he passed, aud as no one had
been seen to precede him, betting men
were seen offering odds that the colonel
was running away from somebody.
Strictly speaking they were wrong,
but they won all the money that had
been staked against them, for within
half an hour’s time there passed over
the same road an anxious-looking in
dividual, who reined up in front of the
principal saloon of each place, and
asked if the colonel had passed.
Had the gallant colonel known that
he was followed, and by whom, there
would have been an extra election held
at the latter place very shortly after,
for the pursuer was the constable of
Challenge Hill, and for constables and
all officers of the law the colonel pos
sessed hatred’of unspeakable intensity.
On galloped the colonel, following
the stage road, which threaded the old
mining-camps on Duck creek ; but sud
denly he turned abruptly out of the
road, and urged his horse through the
young pines and bushes, which grew
thickly by the road, while the constable
galloped rapidly on to the next camp.
There seemed to be no path through
the thicket into which the colonel had
turned, but Tipsie walked between the
trees and bushes as if they were the
familiar objects of her own stable-yard.
Suddenly, a voice from the bushes
shouted : “ What’s up ?”
“ Business—that’s what,” replied the
colonel.
“ It’s time,” replied the voice, and its
owner—a bearded six-footer—emerged
from the bushes, and stroked Tipsie’s
nose with the freedom of an old ac
quaintance. “We ain’t had a nip since
last“night, an’ thar’ aint’ a cracker or a
handful of flour in the shanty. The
old gal go back on yer ?”
“Yes,” replied the colonel, ruefully,
“ lost ev’ry blasted race. ’Twasn’t her
fault, bless her—she done her level
best. Ev’rybody to home?”
“ You bet,” said the man. “All ben
a prayin’ for yer ter turn up with the
rocks, an’ somethin’ with more color
than spring water. Come on.”
The man led the way and Tipsie and
the colonel followed, and the trio sud
denly found themselves before a small
log hut, in front of which sat three sol
emn, disconsolate-looking individuals
who looked appealingly at the colonel.
“ Mac ’ll tell yer how ’twas, fellers,”
said the colonel, meekly, “while I picket
the mare. ”
The colonel was absent but a very
few moments, but when he returned
each of the four was attired in pistols
and knife, while Mac was distributing
some dominoes, made from a rather
dirty flour bag.
“ ’Taint so late as all that, is it ?” in
quired the colonel.
“ Better be an hour ahead than mis
in this ’ere night,” said one of the four
“ I ain’t been so thirsty since I come
’round the Horn, in ’SO, an’ we run
short of water. Somebody ’ll get hurt
if there ain’t no bitters on the old con
cem—they will, or my name ain’t Per
kins.”
“Don’t count yonr chickens ’fore
they’re hatcheJ, Perky,” said one of
the party, as he adjusted the domino
under the rim of his hat. “ S’posiu’
ther’ shud be too many fur ns ?”
“Siddy, stiddy, Cranks!” remon
strated the colonel. “ Nobody ever gits
along ef they ’low ’emselves to be
skeered.”
“Fact,” chimed in the smallest and
thinest man of the party. “ The Bible
says somethin’ mighty hot ’bout that. I
disremember dzackly how it goes ; but
I’ve heerd Parson Buzzy, down in
Maine, preach a rippin’ old sermon
form that text meny a time. The old
man never thort what a comfort them
sermons wus a goin’ to be to a road
agent, though. That time we stopped
Slim Mike’s stage, an’ he didn’t hev no
more manners than to draw on me, them
sermons wuz a perfect blessin’ to me—
the thought of ’em cleared my head as
quick as a cocktail. An’ —”
“I don’t want to disturb Logroller’s
pious strain,” interrupted the colonel,
“ but as it’s Old Black that’s a drivin’
to-day instead of Slim Mike, an’ as Old
Black oilers makes his time, liedn’t wo
better vamose ? ”
The door of the shanty was hastily
closed and the men filed through the
thicket until near the road, when they
marched rapidly on in parallel lines
with it. After about half an hour,
Perkins, who was leading, halted and
wiped his perspiring brow with his
shirt sleeve.
“ Fur enough from home now,” said
he. “ ’TJaint no use bein’ a gentleman
ef yer have to work too hard.”
“Safe enough, I reckon,” replied the
colonel. “ We’ll do the usual; I’ll
halt ’em. Logroller, ’tend to the dri
ver ; Cranks takes the boot, an’ Mack
an’ Perk takes right and left. An’—l
know it’s tough—but consid’rin’ hew
everlastin’, eternally hard up we are, I
reckon we’ll hev to ask contributions
from the ladies! too, ef there’s any
aboard—eh, boys ? ”
“ Reckon so,’’replied Logroller with a
chuckle that seemed to inspire even his
blank domino with a merry wrinkle or
two. “ What’s the use of women’s
rights ef they don’t ever hev a chance
of exercisin’ ’em ? Heven’ ther purses
borrowed ’ud shown’en the hull doc
taine in a bran new light.”
“ They’er treacherous critters, women
is,” remarked Cranks; “some of ’em
might put a knife into a feller while he
wuz pologizin’.”
“Ef you're afeard ov’em,” said Per
kins, “you ken go back an’ clean up
the shanty.”
“ Reminds me ov what the Bible sez,”
said Logroller ; “ ‘ ther’s a lion on the
trail; I’ll be chawed up, sez the lazy
galoot,’ or words to that effect.”
“ Come, come boys,” interposed the
colonel, “ don’t mix religion an’ biz
ness. They don’t mix no more than—
Hello, thar’s the crack of Old Black’s
whip ! Pick yer bushes—quick ! All
jump when I whistle ! ”
Each man secreted himself near the
roadside. The stage came swinging
aloner handsomely; the inside passengers
were laughing heartily about something,
and old Black was just giving a delicate
touch to the flank of the off-leader,
when the colonel gave a shrill, quick
whistle, and five men sprang into the
road.
The horses stopped as suddenly as if
it were a matter of common occurrence.
Old Black dropped the reins, crossed
his legs, and stared into the sky, and
the passengers all put out their heads
with a rapidity equalled only by that
with which they withdrew them as they
saw the dominoes and revolvers of the
road agents.
“Seems to be something the matter,
gentlemen,” said the colonel blandly, as
he opened the door. “Won’t you
please get out ? Don’t trouble ’your
selves to draw, ’cos my friend here’s got
his weapon cocked an’ his fingers are
rather nervous. Ain’t got a han’kerchef,
hev yer ? ” asked the colonel of the first
passenger who descended from the
stage. “Hev? Well, now that’s
lucky. Just put yer hands behind yer,
please—so—that’s it.” And the unfor
tunate man was securely bound in an
instant.
Tlie remaining passengers were treated
with similar courtesy, and the - colonel
and his friends examined the pockets of
the captives. Old Black remained un
molested, for who ever heard of a stage
driver having money ?
“Boys,” said the colonel, calling his
brother agents aside and comparing re
ceipts, “’taint much of a haul; but
there’s only one woman, an’ she’s old
enough to be a feller’s grandmother.
Better let her alone, eh ? ”
“Like enough she’ll pan out more’n
all the rest of the stage put together,”
growled Cranks, carefully testing the
thickness of the case of a gold watch.
“Jest like the low-lived deceitfulness
of some folks to hire au old woman to
kerry their money so it’d go safe. Mab
be what she’s got haint nothin’ to some
folks thet’s got hosses thet ken win ’em
money at races, but—”
The colonel abruptly ended the con
versation and approached the stage.
The colonel was very chivalrous, but
Cranks’ sarcastic reference to Tipsie
needed avenging, and as he could not
consistently with business arrangements
put an end to Cranks, the old lady would
have to suffer.
“I beg yer parding, ma’am,” said the
colonel, raising his hat politely with one
hand while he opened the coach door
with the other, “ but we’re takin’ up a
collection fur some deservin’ object.
We wuz a-goin’ to make the gentlemen
fork over the hull amount, but ez they
hain’t got enough, we’ll hev t.o bother
you."
The old lady trembled, felt for her
pocket-book, and raised her veil. The
colonel looked mto her face, slammed
the stage door, and sitting down on one
of the wheels, stared vacantly into
space.
“Nothing?” queried Perkins, in a
whisper and with a face full of genuine
sympathy.
“No—yes,” said the colonel dreamily.
“ That is, untie ’em, and let the stage
go ahead,” he continued, springing to
his feet. “ I'll hurry back to the cab
in. ” And the colonel dashed into the
bushes and left his followers so pa a
lyzed with astonishment that Old Black
afterwards remarked that “ef ther’d
been anybody to hold the bosses he
could hev cleaned out the hull crowd
with his whip.”
The passengers, now relieved of their
weapons, were unbound, allowed to en
ter the stage, and the door was slam
med, upon which Old Black picked up
his reins as coolly as if he had laid them
down at a station while horses were be
ing changed ; th n he cracked his whip
and the stage rolled off, while the col
onel’s party hastened back to their hut,
fondly inspecting as they went certain
flasks they had obtained while transact
ing their business with the occupants of
the stage.
Great was the surprise of the road
agents as they entered their hut, for
there stood the colonel in a clean white
shirt and in a suit of clothing made up
from the limited spare wardrobes of the
other members of the gang.
But the suspicious Cranks speedily
subordinated his wonder to his pru
dence, as laying on the table a watch,
two pistols, a pocket-book and a heavy
purse he exclaimed :
“Come, colonel, bizness before pleas
ure ; let’s divide an’ scatter. Ef any
body should hear about it, an’ find our
trail, an’ ketch us with the traps in our
possession they might—”
“ Divide yerselves!” said the colonel
with abruptness and a great oath. “I
don’t want none of it.”
“Colonel,” said Perkins, removing
h’S own domino and looking anxiously
into the leader’s face, “be you sick?
Here’s some bully brandy I found in
one of the passengers’ pockets.”
“I hain’t nothin’,” replied the col
onel, with averted eyes. “I’m goin’,
and I’m a retirin’ from this bizness for
ever.”
“Ain’t a-goin’ to turn evidence?”
cried Cranks, g. asping the pistol on the
table.
“ I’m a-gain’to make a lead mine of
you ef you don’t take that back! ”
roared the colonel, with a bound, which
caused Cranks to drop the pistol and re
tire precipitately forward, apologizing
as he went. “I’m going to ’tend to my
own bizness, an’ that’s enough to keep
any man bizzy. Somebody lend me
fifty till I see him agin. ”
Perk ns pressed the money into the
colonel’s hand, and within two minutes
the colonel was on Tipsie’s back and
galloping on in the direction the stage
had taken.
He overtook it, he passed it, and still
he galloped on.
The people at Mud Gulch knew the
colonel well, and made it a. rule never
to be astonished at anything he did, but
they made an exception to the rule
when the colonel canvassed the princi
pal bar-rooms for men who wished to
purchase a horse ; and when a gambler
who was flush obtained Tipsie in ex-
change for twenty slugs—duly a thou
sand dollars, when the colonel had al
ways said that there wasn’t gold enough
on top of the ground to buy her—Mud
Gu'ch experienced a decided sensation.
One or two enterprising persons
speedily discovered that the colonel
was not in a communicative mood ; so
every one retired to his favorite saloon
and bet according to hia own opinion of
the colonel’s motives and actions.
But when the colonel, after remain
ing in a barber shop for half an hour,
emerged with his face clean shaven and
his hair neatly trimmed and parted,
betting was so wild that a cool-headed
sporting man speedily made a fortune
by betting against every theory that
was advanced.
Then the colonel made a tour of the
stores and fitted himself with anew
suit of clothes, carefully eschewing all
of the generous patterns and pronoun
ced colors so dear to the average miner.
He bought anew hat and put on a pair
of boots, pruned his finger nails, and,
stranger than all, he mildly declined all
invitations to drink.
As the colonel stood in the door of
the principal saloon, where the stage al
ways stopped, the Challenge Hill con
stable was seen to approach the colonel
and tap him on the shoulder, upon
which all men who bet that the colonel
was dodging somebody claimed the
stakes. But those who stood near the
colonel heard the constable say :
“ Colonel, I take it all back, an’ I own
up fair an’ square. When I seed you
git out of Challenge Hill it came to me
all of a sudden that you might be in
the road agent business, so I follered
you—duty you know. But when I seed
you sell Tipsie I knowed I was on the
wrong trail. I wouldn’t suspect you
now if all the stages in the state wnz
robbed; and I’ll give you satisfaction
any way you want it.”
“ It’s all right,” said the colonel with
a smile. The constable afterward said
that nobody had any idea of how curi
ously the colonel smiled when his beard
was off. “Give this fifty to Jim Per
kins fust time yer see him. I’m leavin’
the state.”
Suddenly the stage pulled up at the
door with a crash, and the male passen
gers hurried into the saloon in a state
of utter indignation and impeenniosity.
The story of the robbery attracted
everybody, and during the excitement
the colonel slipped out quietly and
opened the door of the stage. The old
lady started and cried :
“George!”
And the colonel, jumping into the
stage and putting his arm tenderly
about the trembling form of the old
lady, exclaimed :
“ Mother!”
Rhymes of the Woman’s Crusade.
The woman’s movement has brought
out the poets. There is one specimen
which concludes :
When this whisky war is over,
We’ll all get drunk again.
The Brooklyn Argus man’s attempt is
in this way :
Ohio’s ransom speeds apace—
Is daily growing surer.
Since woman's dulcet voice essayed
The piaise of Aqua Pura.
Proud state! a pitying nation prays
For some assuring token ;
Thy nose bleached to its native hue—
Thy whisky vessels broken.
Rev. Thomas K. Beecher thinks that
religion suffers about as much as the
liquor business by the sidewalk prayer
meetings. “The specially bad feat
ure,” says Mr. Beecher, “ is the prosti
tution of prayer; making of it a side
walk pastime.” And then he asks how
the following would do as an additional
stanza to Montgomery’s hymn :
Prayer is the Buckeye woman’s dodge
To stop the rnm-shop-door,
They hear her prayer and run away,
And never drink no more.
The Courier-Journal sings : “ Oh,
woman! in our hours of ease, you
know we’ll do wbate’er you please;
we’ll promise to renounce the sin of
Bourbon, brandy, rum and gin, and go
so far as to refrain (except when temp
ted) from champagne; bnt have
some mercy, do, my dear, and leave,
oh ! leave us lager beer.”
What will not a woman do, says a
Brooklyn paper, for the man she loves ?
Her hand was the first to reach and drag
The bottle from the shelf—
“lt is your curse, dear John, ” she said,
And drank it up herself.
This frpm the Commercial Advertiser,
New York :
There was a refoimer named Lewis ;
Christened Dio (my narrative true is),
Who led a crusade.
Providing folks paid
Fifty dollars to “ see ” Dio Lewis.
Another warbles:
I saw the tear drop on her nose,
Pi ismatic glories shed ;
I saw the bow of anguish bend
O’er her curl-tangled head.
I saw (he conflict of her soul
The pain that wrung her brow;
“Take back the bottle, John," Bhe sobbed,
“I cannot smash it now.”
“ Old Hickory.”
A correspondent of the Jackson (Miss.
News tells how Gen. Jackson got his
title of “Old Hickory.” He says he
gotjthe story from Capt. William Allen,
a neighbor of the general, and who
messed with him during the Creek war.
During the campaign the soldiers were
moving rapidly to surprise the Indians,
and were w thout tents. A cold March
rain came on, mingled with sleet, which
lasted for several days. Gen. Jackson
got a severe cold, but did not complain,
as be tried to sleep in a muddy bottom
among the half-frozen soldiers. Capt
Allen and his brotlif r John cut down a
stout hickory tree, peeled off the bark
and made a covering for the general,
who was with difficulty persuaded to
crawl into it. The next morning a
drunken citizen entered the camp, and
seeing the tent, kicked it over. As
Jackson crawled from the ruins, the
toper cried: “Hello, Old Hickory!
come out of your bark, and jine us in a
drink. ”
Goat's milk is said to make the
cheeks look red and peachy, but a goat’s
head will do the same thing, if the ani
mal has a fair run of ten feet.
OUR VESUVIUS.
A Scientist's Views on tke Rambling
Phenomenon.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald, under date of March 28th, thus
speaks of the great North Carolina
upheaval:
L ist night there was a succession of
terrific shocks on the sides of Bald
Mountain, accompanied by a sharp
thunder storm. Simultaneously with
the thunder, quick and loud reports
could be heard from the mountain sides.
I stopped at the house of an old farmer,
who welcomed me, and said . that he
would like to have a hundred in the
house, as the mountain had scared him
nearly out of his life. During the
night, when the rumbling was at its
height he got up, and assembling his
family around him, held a family pray
er-meeting. The whole neighborhood
was aroused in like manner. The shak
ing of the earth was quite perceptible,
and it was almost impossible to sleep.
As yet no one has been able to give any
definite account of the source of the
convul ion.
I started up the mountain this morn
ing at seven o’clock, and had ridden
over three-quarters of a mile when a
sudden shock occurred, which so terri
fied my horse that he became unmanage
able. He ran me against a tree, and
unhorsing me, left me on the ground so
much bruised in the left side and leg
that I was unable to remount. I have
a guide who will go up with me if I am
able, when I shall send full and definite
information.
After sixteen days of prayer-meet’ng
during which the people left their cattle
and crops to take care of themselves,
they seem now awaiting some terrible
calamity, and in many instances their
anxiety is really distressing. Nearly
200 converts to religion are reported.
Friday afternoon I found myself able
to make the ascent of Stone mountain,
which is now established as the seat ot
the most serious disturbance. Stone
mountain is of the same range as the
Bald mountain, lying seven miles north
east, and the shocks have extended be
tween the two. With a guide I crossed
Stone mountain, and at one minute past
four I experienced quite a shock, which
frightened my horse and guide so much
that both seemed about to leave me.
Descending upon the southern side, I
made the circuit of the Knots and join
ed a party of students, professors and.
reporters at the Widow Nan’s, on the
north side of the mountain. Here we
experienced a second shock, which shook
preacher Logan off a rail fence upon
which he was sitting, and a ladder,
which was resting against the side of
the house, was thrown down. Great
excitement prevailed among the people,
and some forty-four candidates for bap
tism on the following Sunday began to
be douced at once, despite the cold and
rain.
Friday evening the party separated,
in order to get accommodation at the
different farmhouses, with the stipula
tiou that we should meet the following
morning at Chimney Rock, to interview
Professor Dupree, professor of natural
science, Wafford college, Spartanburg,
South Carolina. Saturday morning we
met the professor, and after going
through a portion of Bald mountain
with him, held a private interview at
Justiss’ tavern. The people had heard
of the contemplated interview, and
gathered from far and wide about the
hotel. It was impossible to keep them
out of the room. He said :
“ I have examined into the nature of
these noises, and my questions have
been made with regard to the leading
facts stated bv the people, as connected
with the broad theory of volcanic move
ments. The noises beard on the moun
tain are common to both earthquakes
and volcanic movements.
“As far as I have heard, the explo
sive noises that havo begun these rum
blings are characteristic of volcanic
movements. The limited area of the
noise and shocks seems also to favor
volcanic movements. This does not em
brace more than ten or twelve miles.
All shocks have been between two large
rivers, the Broad and Catawba, both of
which head from these mountains..
“If this was an earthquake wave, it
would not be so limited in its area, and
as a volcanic movement would be ex
tending at so great a distance from the
sea, the question remains to be decided.
May not this be an earthquake wave,
limited in its area by the two large riv
ers bounding it?”
Brother Logan here asked the pro
fessor if he thonght there was any
danger, to which there was a negi tive
reply. The preacher said that after the
shock at widow Nan’s and the sudden
departure of the newspaper man and
the scientists, the people had become
more demoralized than ever, and that,
as he had to preach to them on the fol
lowing day, he wished to have it from
our own lips that we were not scared end
that there was no danger. We gave him
ample assnrance and 'left at nightfall
for Bald mountain, to observe as to the
reported bright lights to be seen there
upon. Wo saw a bright haze through
the mist, but being unable to trace it to
its source, attributed it to atmospheric
influences.
An Editor Who is Deaf.
We thonght everybody in the state
knew that we were deaf, but once in a
while we find one who is not aware of
the fact. A female book-peddler came
to the office the other day. She wished
to dispose of a book. She was alone in
this world, and had no one to whom she
could turn for sympathy or assistance;
hence we should buy her book. She
was unmarried, and had no manly heart
into which she could pour her sufferings,
therefore we ought to invest in her
book. She had received a liberal edu
cation, and could talk French like a na
tive ; we could not, in consequence,
pay her less than $2 for a book. We
had listened attentively, and here broke
in with: “Whatdidyousay? We’re deaf.
She started in a loud voice, and went
through her rigmarole. When she had
finished, we went and got a roll of pa
per and made it into a speaking-trum
pet, placed one end to our ear and told
her to proceed. She commenced : “ I
am alone in the world—” “It doesn’t
make the slightest difference to us. We
are a husband and father. Bigamy is
not allowed in this state. We are not
eligible to proposals.” “Oh, what a
fool the man is,” she said in a low tone ;
then at the top of her voice, “ I don’t
want to marry you, I want to sell-a
--b-o-o-k.” This last sentence was
howled. “We don’t want a cook,” we
remarked blandly; “ our wife does the
cooking, and she wouldn’t allow as good
looking a woman as you to stay in the
house five minutes. She is very jeal
ous.” She looked at us in despair.
Gathering her robes about her, giving
us a glance of contempt, she exclaimed.
“I do believe that if a 300-pounder
were let off alongside that deaf fool’s
head, he’d think somebody was knock
ing at the door.” You should have
heard her slam the door when she went
out. We heard that.— /Santa Clara
{Cal.) Echo.
War’s Waste.
Give me the money that has been
spent in war, and I will purchase every
foot of land upon the globe. I will
clothe every man, woman and child in
an attire of which kings and queens
might be proud. I will build a school
house on every hillside and in every
valley upon the earth ; I will build an
academy in every town, and will endow
it; a college in every state, and fill it
with able professors; I will crown every
hill with a place of worship, consecrated
to the promulgation of the gospel of
peaoe; I will support in every pulpit an
able teacher of righteousness, so tl at on
every Sabbath morning the chin e od
one hill should answer to the chime on
another atound the earth’s wide ciicnm
ference ; and the voice of prayer and
the song of praise should ascend 1 ike a
universal holocaust to heaven. — Rufus
Elevens.
RHYMING ROMANCE.
A Prosaic Narrative that Night he IM
verse-ifleit.
He was young, he was fair, and he
parted his hair, like the average beau,
in tUe middle; he was proud, he was
bold, but th© truth must be told, he
played like a fiend on the fiddle. Barr
ing this vice, he was everything nice,
and his heart was so loving and te ader,
that ho always turned pale when he trod
on the tail of the cat lying down by the
fender. He clerked in a store, anl the
way that he tore off calico, jeam and
brown sheeting, would have tickled a
calf, and made the brute laugh in the
face of a quarterly meeting. He cut
quite a dash with a darling mast ache,
which he learned to adore and cherish ;
for one girl had said, while she dre pped
her proud head, that ’twonld kill her
to see the thing perish. On Sunday
he’d search the straight road to the
church, unheeding the voice of the
scorner; and demurely he sat, like a
young tabby cat. with the saints in the
amen comer. He sang like a bird, and
his sweet voice was heard fairly tug
ging away at long meter ; and we speak
but the truth, when we say that this
youth could outsing a hungry mos
quito.
She was young, she was fair, and she
scrambled her hair like the average
belle of the city; she was proud, bnt
not bold, yet the truth must be told,
the way she chewed wax was a pity.
Barring this vice, she was everything
nice, and the world admi ed her b istle;
and the Fayetteville boys, being ci.’med
by the noise, walked miles to hear it
rustle. She cut quite a swell, did this
wax-chewing belle, and men flocked in
crowds to meet her ; but she gave them
the shirk, for she loved the young clerk
who sang like a hungry mosquito So
she hemmed and she hawed, and she
sighed and she “chawed,” till her heart
and her jaws were broken; then she
walked by his store, while he stood at
the door awaiting some loving token.
She raised up her eyes with a mock sur
prise, and tried to enact the scorner;
but, to tell the truth, she grinned at
the youth who loved the amen corner.
* * * They met- alas! what
came to pass, was soft and sweet and
precious; they wooed, they cooed, he
talked, she chewed—O how they loved,
good gracious! They had to part, he
rose to start, her grief cannot be painted ;
these are the facts : she swallowed her
wax, then screamed, then chokec, then
fainted. Her pa appeared ; her beau,
quite scared, rushed out to get some
water; the watch-dog spied his tender
hide, and bit him where he “oughter.”
The tale is sad, the sequel stern—he
gave that girl the mitten.
She pined apace, her pretty face
looked tender and dejected ; her father,
kind, but somewhat blind, beheld her
and reflected. His income tax he spent
for wax—she smiled and called him
clever. She went to work, forgot that
clerk, and chewed in bliss forever !
A Financial Decision at Last.
The senate has indorsed the decision
arrived at by the house, that the issue
of $44,000,000 of “ reserve ” notes
should be legalized, and the maximum
amount of United States notes fixed at
$400,000,000. The bill nnder discus
sion was that reported from the com
mittee on finance by Mr. Sherman, and
entitled “ A bill to provide for the re
demption and re-issue of United States
notes and for free banking.” The
voting turned exclusively upon the first
section of the bill, which as reported to
the senate read as follows: “ The
maximum limit of United States notes
is hereby fixed at $382,000,000, at which
amount it shall remain until reduced
as hereinafter provided.” The “ reduc
tion ” referred to is rather of the nature
of conversion, i. e., the bill provides
that after the issue of circulating notes
to the amount of $1,000,000 nnder its
flee-banking c'auses, legal-tender notes
to the amount of $82,000,000 shall be
retired. In other words, the bill first
legalized the issue of the $26,000,000 of
reserve notes now in circulation, then
provided for reducing the legal-tender
issue to $300,000,000, substituting for
the $82,000,000 to be called in anil can
celled, $1,000,000 of national bank
associations in any state or territory
having a less proportion of national
bank circulation than the state of New
York. Of course the $18,000,000 of the
legal-tender reserve not yet issued
would have ceased on the passage of
this bill to have any legal existence.
The first section of this bill now
stands amended as follows: ‘ The
maximum amount of United States
notes is hereby fixed at $400,000,'X)0.”
Before the vote was reached on this
amendment, a division took place on
the amendment of Mr. Schnrz fixing
the “ maximum limit ”of United States
notes at $356,000,000. This was lost
by a vote of 18 years to 40 nays. In
the minority we find the. following
states represented thus : New Hamp
shire, 1; Connecticut, 1; Rhode Island,
1; Maine, 2; Vermont, 1; New York, 2;
New Jersey, 1; Delaware, 2; Indiana, 1;
Michigan,* 1; Missouri, 1; Texas, 1;
Nevada, 1; California, 2. Of five sen
ators who paired for the bill, Vermont
furnishes 1, New Jersey 1, Texas 1,
Nevada 1, and Oregon 1. Thus we
have 7 New England senators, 6 six from
the middle states, 2 from tne Bouth, 3
from the west, anck 5 from the Pacific
states, voting to fix the amount of legal
tender notes at $356,000,000. Of these
23 votes 18 were given by the republi
cans and 5 by democrats.
The decisive vote on the amendment
fixing the maximum of the legal-ten
ders at $400,000,000 was 31 yeas to 26
nays. The majority, on the babs of
locality, is thus composed : 14 western
senators, 15 from the south, 1 (Mr-
Sprague) from New England, aad 1
from the Pacific slop)© (Mr. Mitchell, of
Oregon). The minority is made up as
follows : New England senators, 8 ;
middle states, 5; western, 5 ; southern,
5; Pacific states, 3. The majority is
composed of 23 republicans and 8 dem
ocrats ; the minority of 18 republi ;ans,
8 democrats. It will thus be seen that
the demand for inflation in the senate
comes almost exclusively from the west
and south.
Cotton Manufactures.
England has now 36,000,000 spindles
in her mills, with nearly 400,000 Ims
and 650,000 workmen. Next come the
United States, 8,000,000 spindles;
France, 5,700,000; ihe German Zoll
ver. in, 4,300,000 of which Alsace pos
sesses 1,700,003; Russia, 2,000,000;
Switzerland, 1,800,000; Austria, 1 400,-
000 ; Spain, 1,400,000 ; Belgium. 600,-
000 ; Italy, 500,000, and over 2,0C0,000
for other countries. According t j the
report of M. Alcan, made in 1867, the
number of spindles used in cotton spim
ning was 58,850,000, which number has
increased now to 63,700,000. Eitima
ting the amount of capital invested at
$lO in gold per spindle, we find that
$637,000,000 is invested in the indus
try, and some $160,000,000 is am nally
paid to 1,200,900 workmen.
If twenty-seven inches of bdov (pfc
three inches of water, how much milk
will a cow give fed upon turnips ? Mul
tiply the flakes by the hairs on the cow’s
tail, then divide the product by a tur
nip, add a pound of chalk, multiply the
whole by the pump, and the toti.l will
be the answer.
VOL. 15--NO. 15.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS. .
A laugh is worth a hnndred grcans in
any market. —Charles Lamb.
“Prayed out of the town,” are the
words nailed on the doors of several sa
loons at Xenia, Ohio.
Morning aprons are of dark bine
silk, trimmed with small ruffles of the
same material. They are very pretty.
King Koffee keeps his 3,333 wives
nnder the same roof with his magaz ne
of military They do about
as he says.
Charles Lamb, when speaking of one
of his rides on horse-back, remarked
that “ all at once his horse stopped, but
he kept right on.”
A Detroit paper noting the fact that
a man lately dropped dead while comb
ing his hair, says, “ And yet there are
persons who will persist in the danger
ous habit.”
In a murder case in Kentucky three
hundred men were summoned as jurors
before they could get twelve who didn’t
know anything and were therefore eligi
ble as jurors.
The Herald, at Canton, Ohio, ex
isted seven weeks on a capital of forty
eight dollars, but the editor had to buy
a set of chairs for his house and the
paper went under.
When they find a man in Washington
who hasn’t a plan of his own for the
solution of the financial problem the.
drown him in the Potomac. No one
has been drowned there as yet.
A Montreal paper, speaking of a re
cent dualin explosion, says, in a most
pathetic style, that the bodies of the
victims were spread over many rods,
“here a pieoe ax and there a piece.”
Thus sings an emigrant from tLa
“ gem of the sea : ”
There's not a mile in Ireland’s isle.
Where the dirthy vermin musthers,
But St. Pathrick put his howly fut,
And murthered them iu clusthers.
The toads went dash, the frogs went splash
All jumpin' in the wather ;
And the echnakes committed ehuicide
To save themselves from sclhaughter.
An Irish editor, who speaks with the
air of a man who has discovered anew
fact by experience, says that the way
to prevent bleeding at the nose is to
keen your nose out of other people’s
business.
Love your neighbor as yourself—bor
row bis plough, hoe, or horses when
ever you can ; but if he wants to bor
row yours, tell him that you are very
sorry, but you were just going to use it
yourself.
A Cincinnati girl can write beautiful
poetry when asleep, and also speak three
foreign languages while unconscious of
what she says. But, after all, it’s better
to curl down under the sheets and sweet
ly sleep until Aurora beams again.
A Kentucky farmer refused to look
at a sample sewing machine recently,
as he always “sewed wheat by hand.”
He is related to the man who did not
want a threshing machine on his farm,
“ for,” said he, “ give me a harness tug
or a barrel stave, and I can make my
family toe the mark according to the
law and Scriptur.”
A philosophical Kentuckian, who
had but one shirt, and was lying in bed
while the garment was drying on the
clothes-line in the yard, was startled
by an exclamation from his wife to the
effect that the calf had eaten it. “Well,”
said the Kentuckian, with a spirit
worthy of a better cause—“ well, tin m
who has must lose.”
No more truthful sentence was ever
penned by man than the following writ
ten by Chancellor Kent: “ The parent
who sends his son into the world uned
ucated defrauds the community of a
lawful citizen and bequeaths to it a nui
sance.” These words should be written
in letters of gold over the entrance of
every school in the land.
The social and vital statistics of the
White House are reported as follows :
One marriage, Miss Maria Monroe,
daughter of the president, to Mr. Gou
veneur, in 1820. Two presidents have
died in the house and a third, Mr. Lin
coln, killed elsewhere, was laid in state
in the east room. Several children
have died at the White House, but it
has welcomed the advent of but one
new-born baby, James Madison Ran
dolph, the grandson of Thomas Jef
ferson.
One of those instances in which a
good man speaks out the thought that
is uppermost without considering all
that might be implied thereby, occurred
a number of years ago in a well-known
church at the west end of Edinburgh.
The late Dr. , of London, during
one of his periodical visits, was preach
ing an evening sermon to a croweded
audience, when a no'e was handed up
to him to intimate that if Dr. So-and-So
was in the church he was urgently
wanted. Having read the note, and
seeing the doctor moving off, he imme
diately added, with great fervor, “And
may the Lord have mercy on his pa
tient.” .
Murder of the Innocents.
Professor Chandler, in a recent lec
ture in New York on health and health
laws, went into a comprehensive expla
nation of the duration of human life,
and the causes leading to the premature
cessation of life through the want of a
proper supply of air and water. Even
under the most favorable circumstances
the organism wears out. If it is used
it should last, on an average, three score
and ten years, but it does not. Dr.
Playfair, as shown in the statistics of
Liverpool, found in the case of the gen
try—the best fed, clothed and housed—
that the average duration of life was
forty-three years; in the cases of the
tradesmen, nineteen years ; and labor
ers, sixteen, the average being only
twenty years. That is, the human or
ganism is so poorly protected against
causes of death that it averages to sus
tain itself only t wenty years. In study
ing sanitary questions, one of the first
points is to get at the facts, and for this
reason what are called vital statistics
are carefully collected, calculated and
studied, in order to ascertain the facts
connected with death and disease.
In 1882 the number of deaths in New
York was over 32,000 in a population of
1,000,000, or, as it is tochically spoken
of, 32 per oent. in the thousand. It is
important to know how this death rate
is distributed among the ages, as it is
the first point in determining how to
prevent death, and we find to our horror
that nearly-one half the deaths are of
children less than five years old, show
ing that the causes leading to this great
death rate are dependent not so much
on the action of persons themselves as
of those who should care for them.
Between the ages of five and twenty
12J per oent. more die, so that before
reaching manhood 62 per cent, of our
population dies. For the remaining
period it is distributed more equally :
from twenty to twenty-fire ® P er
cent.; from twenty-five to thirty, o per
cent. ; from thirty to thirty-five, about
5 per oent. ; from thirty-five to forty,
a little over 4 per cent. ; from forty to
forty-five, a little less than 4 per oent ;
forty-five to fifty, 3 per cent, ; from fif
ty to fifty-five, the percentage is 2} ;
from fifty-five to sixty, 2$ ; from sixty
to seventy, about 2 ; and from seventy
to seventy-five, a little over 1 per cent.
Then the number falls off. In fact, all
but 5 per cent, die before they reach
the age of three soore and ten. While
the mortality in New York is 32 in 1,000.
we have reason to believe that under
favorable circumstances the inevitable
mortality should not be more than
in 1,000; that the mortality w nearly
double what it might be if overy 8
we could do were done to dimunsh it.