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W.T. EdU.r. and Proprietors.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.
The regular official statement of the
city and county debt issued by Comptroller
Green, of New York city, shows an increase
during April of over four million dollars.
Six milea east of Philadelphia three
cars loaded with oil, and one with live hogs,
were burned on the 12th. Two hundred feet
of the track was destroyed, and ihe i ails badly
twisted.
A joint resolution has passed both
branches of the Pcnusylvanialegielature, bv a
unanimous vote, a-king the president of the
United States to appoint a board to re-exam
ine the proceedings in the case of Geu. Fitz
jobn Porter.
Application has been male to the
supreme court for an order winding up the
Humana bay company and appointing a re
ceiver. The petitioner is a creditor named
Wm. Rowland, who says there were two com
panies, the Sarnana bay company, of San Do
mingo, owning all the debts, and the Samana
bay company, of New York, owning all the
property.
WEST.
Latest advices from Michigan report
some abatement in the woods fires.
The Grand Lodge of Ohio, L O. O. F.,
are in session at Cincinnati. There are 43,-
000 members in’the state.
Woods fires are raging in Michigan.
Much lumber, timber, etc., has been de
stroyed, and it is feared that great loss will
ensue.
The attorney-general of Wisconsin
affirms the constitutionality of the lailroad
law, and the governor is taking measures to
enforce it.
The conductor of the National House
near Milwaukee, excludes the sheriff from ar
resting inmates on the ground that the state
has ceded jurisdiction of the institution anil
it is under the articles of war.
SOUTH.
Nahvill has collected $915 for the
banaftt of the Louisiana sufferers.
The oat crop in southern Georgia has
been cut short half by bad weather, rust and
insects.
The number of negroes that have
recently been murdered in Georgia by persons
of their own race is stirprising, if not alarm
ing.
The new copper mines in Randolph
county, Alabama, are said to be turning out
four tons of ore per day, worth from 4 to 11
cents per pound.
The graves of the confederate dead
in Elmwood cemetery, Memphis, will be deco
rated next Saturday. General George W.
Gordon deliveres the oration.
Jn\ D. Stevenson, nephew of Gov.
Brown, was shot and killed by a mau named
John W. Carter, about eleven miles east of
Athens, Ala., on the 6th inst.
Dr. Jesse Boring, of Tronp county,
Georgia, has been awarded SIO,OOO as dam
ages resulting irom an accident on the West
ern railroad, whereby his leg was broken.
The port of the Selma, Rome and
Dalton railroad which lies in Georgia, will be
sold before the court-house door in Romo, on
the second Tuesday in July, to the highest
bidder.
Peter C. Cox has recovered a verdict
for $35,000 damages beforo at Louisville jnry
for the loss of a leg, on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad. The road will apply for a
new trial.
A curious fact in South Carolina econ
omics has just come to light. Twenty-seven
convicts have beeii pardoned out of the pen
itentiary because the state was too poor to pro
vide for their support.
There is to be a convention of cotton
exchanges at Augusta, Ga., on the 30th of
June, to consider the feasibility of improv
ing the facilities for obtaining information
about the cotton market and the crop.
Reports from New Orleans say all
the crevasses on Plaquemine are closed. The
work of repair ani of replanting rice has com
menced. The sugar com on the inundated
places has not been entirely destroyed.
C. A. Haynes, negro mail agent at
Wilmington, Delaware, and brother of the
negro secretary or state for South Carolina,
has been sentenced by the United Stat es district
court to four years in the penitentiary for
robbing the mails.
An appeal is published for the urgent
relief of sufferers by floods in the south.
It states that over 142.000 people have been
driven from tlioir homes and are now without
food or shelter, and that to furnish these pro
visions alone will cost $25,000 a days
The southern Baptist convention is in
session at Jefferson, Texas. About 3000 dele
gates are present. James P. Boyce, D. D., of
Louisville, presides. Drs. Burrows, of Rich
mond; Jones, of Nashville; Crane, of Texas,
and Devotio, of Georgia, are vice presidents.
The police of Atlanta have had trou
ble with the Federal troops stationod there.
In the melee that occurred last week one
soldier was killed, and it was feared that a
regular pitched battle would occur. It is
thought, however, that the difficulty is ended.
The copper excitement, which was
recently inaugurated in Carrolton, Ga., still
continues with unabated excitement. Sev
eral wagons of ore passed through the town
last week on tbeir way to the station. The
newly discovered mine is twenty-eight miles
from the county line.
The legislature of North Carolina has
passed an act which provides that any person
who manufactures, sells or deals in spirituous
liquors as a drink, of any name or kind con
taining foreign properties or ingredients pois
onous to the system, shall be punished with
five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Thomas Earles was arrested a few
days ago, at DeKalb, Mississippi, by John P.
Gilmer, on the charge of having murdered
Daqiel Thomas, in Cannon county, Tennessee
in 1872. He lias been turned over to the
sheriff of Cannon county, and a reward of
8300, offered by the governor for Earles’ ar
rest, has been paid to Gilmer.
Further particnlars in regard to the
killing of Capt. C. W. Edwards, at Bledsoe’s
landing, Arkansas, on Friday, show that it was
a deliberate assassination. Dr. Allen having
asked him to issue the attachment, Edwards
declined, as no longer magistrate. Allen then
attempted to bribe him to do so. Edwards
ordered him out of his house, and turned to
enter his wife’s room, when Dr. Allen leveled
a shotgun, and crying out “here’s luck,” dis
charged it, killing Edwards instantly. Allen
escaped. He was formly in the snake show
business
FOE ElGN .
Europe grumbles at t e hot weather
and Paris reports one case of cholera.
The British government are deter
mined to retain possession of the gold coast.
Capt. Gen. Concha has issued a de
cree ordering the formation of eight battal
ions of colored militia.
Concha has begun his advance from
, Bilboa. The Carlists are fortifying the moun
ktain passes before him.
Dispatches from Madrid say interna
tionalist are becoming troublesome at Alcav,
and tu outbreak is feared.
| Notwithstanding recent successes,
Madrid is threatened with another ministerial
crisis and Serrano begs a few weeks for delib
eration.
An American named Lanten, who acts
as vice consul in Cuba for Great Britain and
Germany, lias been ordered to leave the island
for communicating with the insurgents.
After the capture of Bilboa, the
Spanish government again applied to Germany
THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
for the recognition of the republic. Detached
bands of Carlists continue to harrass the
neighborhood of Bilboa.
I>on Manuel Concha, who is said to
hare resumed the command of the Spanish
republican troops, is nearly eighty years old.
His brother, Dou Jose, who has been lately
named Governor of Cuba, is over seventy
four.
A special dispatch from St. Peteis
burg says the Grand Duke Nicholas, brother
of the Czar, has been arrested, but on what
charge is no; made known. There is great
excitement in St. Petersburg hi consequence
of the arrest.
Gen. Olio is said to have arrested four
brigadier generals in the Carlist army on a
charge of treason. Carlos wilt shortly issue
anew proclamation to bis troops. Gen. Con
cha has been appointed general-in-chief of
ihe army. During the bombardment of Bilboa,
150 citizens were killed and wounded.
The American oriental topographical
corps have reached Jerusalem after making] a
very successful exploration in the vicinity of
Mount Sinai. They report as a very remarka
ble fact that they wore detained two days by a
heavy snow storm about Mount Sinai. The’
expedition will soon leave for Baslion and
Moab.
Details of the fire in the town of
Savoy, Phillippine Islands, on tho 28tli of
January, have been received. Two children,
left to themselves, set the house on fire. The
conflagration extended so rapidly that in the
course of four hours half of the houses in
the town—nearly 2,oo9—were and stroyed. Not
a fruit tree remained. Thousands of weav
ing frames were destroyed, and mul itudes of
cattle perished. Fifteen persons, including
six children, were burned to death.
Sir Lambton Loraine in a communica
tion to the Pall Mall Gazette says : The re
ported interview with myself, published in the
New York papers, is fictitious. I never eaid
blood was thicker than water, that the people
of England have a strong affection for their
American cousins, and that it would give me
great pleasure to receive a silver brick. What
ever may be my opinion, I am no admirer of
those Englishmen who are given to fawning
upon their American cousins at the expense of
their own self-respect.
Captain General Concha of Cuba, has
issued a decree in wliidi it is stated that the
railroad companies have now’ to suffer the in
evitable as do all other interests in the country,
in consequence of the present financial condi
tion of the island. By decrees issued last
December, the companies were allowed to fix
thein rates for each month according to the
premium of gold current on tho 20th of the
month, but it is alleged they have been in the
habit of charging much higher rates than al
lowed. Gen. Concha has interposed and fixed
the increase for May at fifty per cent, over all
their rates.
A letter from Havana says the court
martial is doing its work, and by wholesale
pronouncing the penalty of death, chain gang,
perpetual imprisonment and confiscation of
property all over the Island. Nine persons
were tried for treason at Magari. one at San
tiago de Cuba, and five at Havana, who have
all been condemned to suffer the death pen
alty. Four persons at Puerto Principe, for the
same crime, have been condemned to work on
the Trocha during the continuance of the re
bellion. Six persons at Gauimara have been
sentenced to ten years on the chain gang, and
one from Trinidad has been condemed to per
petual chains. The approval of a decree of
the governor-general in regard to finances
appears to have arrived from Spain. The
home government hesitated long before ap
proving of them, but Concha was firm and
telegraphed to Spain that they must be ap
proved or he would resigu.
GENERAL.
The sum of $300,000 is to be pre
sented by the pilgrims to the Pope on their
arrival at Rome.
The sloop S. Watara, fitted up to
convey the scientific party to observe the tran
sit of Venus, Dec. 9, has gone into commis
sion.
The Cuban cable was recently cut,
evidently with an axe, a mile from land. The
supposition is it fouled in the anchor of some
ship, and the sailors cut it.
At a meeting of tho ninth army corps
at Harrisburg, Pa., last week, Gen. Wilson
suggested that au invitation should be ex
tended to the late confederate corps, LoDg
street’s, which he had most frequently en
countered, to come up next year, to have a
patriotic time of it, and bury the hatchet to
gother and fore rer. ’
ARKANSAS.
There has been a little more activity
in both camps. At Sparta, in Johnson county,
Gen. Lee Thompson and Col. Brizzolari, of the
Brooks forces, took forcible possession of the
steamer Robert Semple. The owner, Geu. A.
G. Mey. r, got a writ of replevin, and the
sheriff serve?! it on the parties, ca;-taring
Brizzolari and a portion of his men ; Thomp
son escaped. Baxter has re 'eived on ' com
pany of recruits from Hempstead county, and
expects more. The Brooks party have ex
tended their fortifications around the Benja
min block. As the time for the Legislature
draws near, men are coming in from all sec
tions of the state, mostly as reinforcements
for Baxter, though Brooks has received a few
men. Brooks has organized a cavalry com
pany to do scouting duty. He lias pick
ets on Capitol hill, nearly a mile from the
state-house. Beyond this there is no change
in the position of the various forces. Guards
are doubled around the Baxter camp.
Of the situation at Washington a
special to the Courier-Journal says: “The
difficulties in Arkansas are beginning to at
tract very serious attention in government
circles. The president has notified the par
tisans of Brooks tbat they must present their
case before Friday next, as he can wait no
longer than that day. It is reported in polic -
cal and coverument circles that the president
will feel himself compelled to recognize Baxter
as the lawful governor of Arkansas, and to
withdraw the military support by which alone
Brooks has so far been able to maintain his
rebellion to the constituted authorities.”
On the night of the Bth a party of
twenty-five Baxterites, under the command of
Lieut. Welch, took passage on the steamer
Hallie. Their object was to intercept and
capture the stand of arms belonging to the
Industrial University, which were shipped by
flit-boat from Fort Smith on Wednesday
morning, in charge of six men. The Brooks
ites heard of this expedition and started Col.
Jno. Brooker with his regiment of 200 colored
men on a special train over the Fort Smith
railroad, to intercept the boat at Palermo
twenty miles above Little Rook. Brooker’s
party arrived there before the Hallia got into
position and as the b'at came along fired on
her Most of Lieut. Welch’s men n ere on the
hurricane roof at the time and got down below
as soon as passible. As they did so Frank
Timms was killed and several others wounded,
viz: Capt. Sam. Houston, through the body;
Ed. Houston, sprained ankle ; J. M. Years,
through the breast; Bascom Leigh, in the left
leg. Lieut. Welch's men returned the fire,
killing one and wounding another of Brooks'
men, both colored. One of the shots from
Brooks’ men passed through a steam pipe of
the Hallie, disabling her, and she floated down
the river to the opposite bank, and the squad
there left the boat. Tho Brooks men took
possession of the steamer, put a squad on her
to bring her to town, aud the remainder of
them took the train and came back to Little
Rock. Soon after their arrival the Hallie
came down and was landed at the state-house,
where the wounded were taken tff. Capt.
y, aru - Houston died soon after the arrival of
the Hallie. John Mevers, a pilot, is mortally
wounded.
Dispatches from Little Rock of tho
11th, say General Churchill and Col. King
White cro.-sed the river that morning with a
considerable force of Baxter troops, and
started for Baring Cross. Immediately after
ward. Col. John Clayton, of the Brooks armv
crosed the railroad bridge with 300 men. At
the latest accounts skirmishing began along
the lines and a lively fire was kept up. i> ar .
ing Cross seemed to be the objective" point
and the possession of that etation evidently
the purpose of each party. Tie Brook's
forces hold the railroad bridge aud will net
allow tne Baxterites to cross it, but trains are
not molested. A small detachment of Federa
troops cossed the river with a flag of truce.
and firing on the part of the Baxter and
Brooks forces has now ceased. In the skir
mish quite a number are reported killed and
wounded on the Brooks side. Gen. White
had one man wounded at the time of the in
terference of the Federal forces. Gen. White
had the Brooks party surrounded, and would
have captured the whole outfit, but for the
Federal forces.
Baxter has addressed a letter 'to the
attorney-general at Washingten, in which he
proposes to submit the questions at issue be
tween himself and Brooks to the legislature
now in session, and engages to abide by the
dec : sion of tbat body. Brooks also appears
willing to recoguize tbe sam3 tribunal. The
president expresses hi* approval of such an
arrangement, and tbe difficulties between
the rival governors seem in'afair way of peace
able adjustment.
Later advices report Brooks as having
refused acceptance of the terms proposed by
the president through the attorney-general,
and in the meantim e the war goes on. An
other skirmish took place on the 12th, with
loss of life on both sides, when a company of
Federal soldiers separated the combatants.
The state legislature is still without a quorum-
Washiugton dispatches say that final action on
the part of the government will not be delayed
more than a day or two, when means will be
employed to protect the people from the dan
gers in which they are involved, without p ir
tiality toward either of the contending fac
tions or rival governors by whom the teud was
initiated.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the senate, on the 6th, house bill
to facilitate the exportation of distilled spir
its and amendatory of acts in relation thereto,
was passed. The bill provides that when a
new bond is given at the port of exportation,
the original bond given at the distillery may
be canceled, and further removes restriction
that spirits must be consigned to a particular
port, so that thereafter they may be shipped
to the party mentioned at any other The
committee on military affairs, reported favor
ably on the bill to create an additional major
of cavalry, and to promote Captain James M.
Robinson. Placed on the calendar The
senate went into executive session and soon
after adjourned.
In the house, on the 6th, discussion
of the centennial appropriation bill consumed
most of the session.
In the senate, on the 7th, the chair
presented suudry memorials from citizens of
Wisconsin, asking an appropriation for the
improvement of Fox and Wisconsin rivers,
aud the mouth of Mississippi river. Referred.
The commit'ee on appropriations reported
back house bill for the relief of persons suf
fering from the overflow of tho Mississippi
river, with an amendment, as an additional
section, which authorizes the secretary of war
to issue temporary supplies of food and dis
tribute army clothing to destitute persons.
There is an appropriation of SIO,OOO for such
purpose. The provisions of the bill to ex
pire September 1, 1874. Passed without dis
cussion The committee on revolutionary
claims reported favorably on the bill to refund
to the sta’e of Georgia certain money ex
pended by the state for common defense in
1777. Placed on the calendar The sen
a’e went into executive session and soon af
ter adjourned.
In the house, on the 7th, the commit
tee on ways and means reported back senate
amendments to honse bill to facilitate the ex
portation of distilled spirits, and amendatory
of the act in relation thereto. On motion
the amendments were non-concurred in, and
the bill was sent to the committee of confer
ence. .. .The house then went mto committee
of the whole on the centennial appropriation
bill. After considerable discussion a vote was
had on ordering the bill to a third reading,
and it was negatived—92 to 138. The bill
cjmosup again to-morrow.
In the senate, on the Bth, the com
mittee on Indian affairs reported, with an
amendment, the bill to enable the Indians to
become citizens of the United States. Placed
on the calendar.... Consideration of the
Geneva award bill consumed the remainder of
the session.
In the house, on the Bth, the centen
ial bill was recommitted... .The committee on
appropriations reported back the senate
amendments to the bill for the relief or the
sufferers by the Mississippi overflow, chang
ing the amount from $90,000 to $190,000, and
the amendments were concurred in A bill
was passed directing the secretary of war to
compromise, adjust and settle all demands,
legal and equitable, between the United States
and Tennessee in reference to railroads aud
railroad property purchased by the several
railroad companies from the United States,
and to charge for the actual market value of
property purchased at the date of purchase
with the legal iuterest.
In the senate, on the 11th, Mr Conk
ling presented a memorial of a workingmen’s
convention that the two houses of congress
adjourn sine (lie. Ho said the judgment of
these memor.dist was that the uncertain feel
ing now prevailing throughout the country, on
account of financial troubles, would be most
effectually ended by’ the adjournment of con
gress. Referred to the finance committee
A resolution was adopted directing the com
mittee on public buildings and grounds to as
certain if the material in the present unfin
ished Washington monument would be suffi
cient for the erection of an arch, to be called
the Washington Arch, aud if the Washington
Monument Society would consent to such an
arrangement Senate bill for the better or
ganization of the district courts in Louisiana
was recommitted to the judiciary co imutee.
....The Geneva award bill was considered
until the hour of adjournment.
Iu the house, on the 11th, bills were
introduced and referred : To provide for free
banking and better security to depositors,
and to hinder usury, give elasticity to the
currency; preserve its value toj he people and
prevent financial panics by locking up cur
rency, to fix the term of the presidency at six
years, aud to prohibit re-election to the office;
to authorize the commissioner of internal
revenue, by summary process, to compromise
cases arising under internal revenue laws in
which p&na ties and forfeitures may have been
incurred without fraudulent intent; for the
election of supervisors and collectors of in
ternal revenue by the people of their respect
ive districts... .The bill appropriating SIO,OOO
for the improvement cf Oostananla river, iu
Georgia was passed The river aud harbor
appropriation bill was then taken up aud
passed —167 to 58. Among the appropriations
is $25,000 improvement of Tennessee
river, above Chattanooga, $2,500 below Chat
tanooga, SIOO,OOO for the improvement of the
Mississippi river, SIB,OOO for removing raft in
river, in Louisiana, $50,000 for the im
proveoient of the harbor at Mobile, SIOO,OOO
for the improvement of the harbor at Savan
nah. Georgia A resolution was adopted
declaring that if any increase of taxatiombe
found necessary, such increase shall com
ji ence with taxation of persons and corpora
tions on their annual incomes, dividends and
salaries... .A resolution was offered author
izing the president to appoint a provisional
governor for Arkansas, to bold office until the
question of the fact and law at present in dis
pute there can be settled by a proper judicial
tribunal. Referred to the judiciary commit
tee. .. .After a brief discussion of the military
and deficiency appropriation bills the house
adjourned.
In tlie senate, cn the 12th, ihe com
mittee on railroads reported back the bill
supplementary of the act to incorporate the
Texas Pacific railroad, with an amendment in
tke nature of a substitute, and it was placed
on the calendar... .The committee on militarv
affairs reported favorably on a bill amendatory
of ihe ae. increasing the pay of the sailors of
the United States army Consideration was
resumed of the Geneva award bill. Amend
ments were adopted to strike out the clause
exc'uding the claims of insurance companies,
aud that a 1 claims provable or to be allowed
under ihe act shall be estimated and adjusted
upon the basis of United Stales gold coin at
the time of tho loss, and the bill passed—26
to 18.
Iu thehousie, on the 12tli, George O.
Cannon, of Utah, was admitted as a delegate
from that territory The house went into
committee of the whole on the bill to amend
the passenger steamboat law. The bill con
tains eeve tv-three sections, covering eighty
three printed pages. It is in part a re-enact
ment of tho act of February 28, 1871. It
makes provision for the inspection of hulls
and boilers, and for licensing of caotains,
pilots, officers and engineers, and establishes
rules for vessels meeting and passing each
other. After proceeding as far ae the
second page of the bill the committee roee,
and soon after the house adjourned.
Thb Scandinavian idea means a com
bination of the three northern countries
—Sweden, Norway and Denmark—into
one country, Scandinavia. It intends
to make. the three different nations
which ir habit these countries one peo
ple, aud the three different states which
these nations have established one po
| litical body. It aspires to be the inan
j gurator of anew people and the found
j6rof anew state. It is an idea of great
I pretensions and golden promises.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1874.
IP WE KNEW.
•If we knew when walking thoughtless
Through the crowded, noisy way
That some pearl of wondrous whiteness
Close beside our pathway lay
We would pause when now we hasten,
We would often look around.
Lest our careless feet should trample
Some rare jewel in the ground.
If we knew what forms were fainting
For the shade that we should fling, .
If we knew what lips were parching
For the water we should bring,
We should baste with eager footsteps,
We would work with willing hands.
Bearing cups of cooling water.
Planting rows of shading palm*.
If we knew when friends around us
Closely press to say good-vy
Which among the lips that kiss ns
First should ’neath the daisies lie,
We would clasp our arms around them,
Loosing on them thro’ our tears.
Tender w ords of love eternal
We would whisper in their ears.
If we knew what lives were darkened
By some thoughtless words of ours,
Which had ever lain among them
Like the frost among the flowers-;
Oh, with sincere repentings,
With what angui h of regret.
While our eyes were overflowing,
Would wa cry—forgive—forget.
If we knew, alas ! and do we
Ever cere or seek to know.
Whether bitter herbs or roses
In our neighbor’s gardens grow ?
God forgive us, lest hereafter.
Our hearts break to hear him Bay,
“ Careless child, I never knew you,
From my presence flee away.”
A TRUE WIFE.
Upon tbe terrace of the principal ho
tel at Whitecliff, two ladies sat in con
versation, unheeding, because unaware
of, a listener behind the closed blinds of
a window near them. Not an intention
al listener, for he was deeply absorbed
in the contents of a newly-arrived letter,
when the sound of his own name at
tracted his attention. One of the pretty
young matrons was speaking, and said:
“ I can’t imagine how snch a spark
ling, brilliant woman as Mrs. Lancaster
ever came to marrv that solemn piece of
granite, Edward Lancaster.”
“ Solemn piece of granite ! One of
our most profound scollars, Edith ! A
thorough gentleman, too, and very
wealthy.”
“ Wealthy,” repeated the first speak
er. “I suppose that accounts for it.
She married him for bis money, of
course.”
“ And spends it royally. I can’t im
agine Edith Lancaster without the sur
roundings of money. Her dresses, her
jewels, her carriages, seem a verv part
of her.”
“ But she would be beautiful in a
print dress and straw hat,”
“ Here she comes now, in her new
yachting dress. Is she not lovely ?”
The dark eyes behind the closed
blinds followed the same direction as
those of the two ladies. Coming toward
the hotel was a merry party, who had
been on the water for several hours, and
prominent in a group of pretty women
was a tall, slender brunette, in a jaunty
dress of blue cashmere with gilt but
tons, and a broad hat, frem underneath
which could be seen a face of exquisite
beauty. The perfect oval of shape, the
clear, olive complexion and crimson
cheeks, the regular features and dark
eyes, were all in an oriental style; while
the masses ot‘ pnrple-black hair needed
no artificial additions to wreath the
small, shapely head with heavy braids.
She was chatting merrily and laugh
ing as she talked, as if youth and hap
piness were personified in her beautiful
face.
The man who watched her from the
closed blinds was tall, broad-shouldered
and strong-featured. His hair, thick
and curling, was iron gray, and piled
high above a massive forehead; his
eyes were deep set, but very large and
full of earnest expression. Not a hand
some man, but one whose air of distinc
tion was undoubted —a man who
wonld be noticed in any assemblage of
men.
As he watched the radiant figure in
the sunlight coming toward him, the
shadow upon his brow grew deeper
every moment, till, with a groan, he
rose and went to his own r •■om, closing
the door behind him.
There was little resemblance to gran
ite in his face, as he paced up and down
this room. It worked convulsively, and
the emotions that in a woman would
have been vented in passionate tears
found expression only in an occasional
sigh that was a groan.
He was living over the last three years
of his life, as he walked up and down.
Until that time he had been a scholar
only. With large wealth, inherited
from his father, he had devoted himself
to tbe acquisition of knowledge, living
in his library, except when he traveled,
always in pursuit of some new light
upou a favorite science or study. His
money matters were arranged by his
lawyer, and liis household affairs by a
housekeeper, while his books wire his
world.
From this scholarly seclusion, at the
age of forty-five he was awakened by a
call of friendship, being summoned by
an old schoolmate who besought him to
become guardian of a very modest for
tune he was about to leave to his only
child. Obeying this summons, Edward
Lancaster found his friend already dead,
and the orphan turning to him for con
solation. He took her home, gave her
to Mrs. Keene, his liou-ekeeper, as he
wonld have done with a baby, for care
and comfort, and retired again to his
study.
Between his eyes and the pages of his
book came ever the fac? of the orphan
girl. He found himself sitting idly be
fore his papers, listening for the sound
of a musical voice in the passage or
garden. He neglected his studies, to
count the hours between meals, when
he met his ward at table. Never before
had a woman’s face or voice wakenel
even a passing emotion in Edward Lan
caster’s heart, and, interest once aroused,
love erept in and took root, deep, strong,
life-long. There was no possibility of
driving away this love, once it was ad
mitted. Edward Lancaster knew that
Edith must be won if he was ever to
know happiness in life again. If he
lost her, he would live, bury himself in
his books once more ; but never again
conld the same peace he had known be
found.
When he told the child (she was but
seventeen) he loved her, she nestled in
his arms, lifted her sweet face to his,
and promised to be his wife. He never
doubted her love, strange as it seemed,
and they were married within six
months of Edith’s arrival at her new
home.
Once she was his own, Edward Lan
caster made his wife a perfect favorite of
fortune. He left his favorite-beloved
library to escort her to gay watering
places in summer, to balls and parties
in winter. H§ never counted the cost
of any indulgence she craved. Her
dress was of the costliest description ;
her jewels were the envy of her circle
of friends ; and she had but to name a
wish to have it gratified. She was of
the sunniest temperament, child-like in
her gratitude, and flirt ng from pleasure
to pleasure as a bird flies from fruit to
flowers.
Life had been very sweet to Ed var.l
Lancaster in the three years following
his marriage, though many wondered,
seeing the grave, elderly man, how lie
came to marry Ids child'wife.
But as he paced his room in the Whit
cliff hotel, Edward Lancaster ques
tioned his happiness as he had never
questioned it before. The letter he
held fast in his clenched hand, the con
versation upon the porch, combined to
probe his heart to its core, and the
question hidden there rose to the sur
face.
Did Edith love him?
She had been always gay, tender, af
fectionate, deferring to his wishes, more
like a child with an indulgent father
than a wife ; for, as yet, but little wifely
duty had been exacted of her. Of
household care she had none. Her life
had been pissed in perpetual pleasure
seeking, with no call for sacrifice.
Bat the letter, the fateful letter, told
the tender husband that the wealth he
had held so carelessly for years was
gone in one great commercial crash ;
one hour a man of riches, ths next a
pauper. It was all gone, his lawyer
wrote, and the sale of Elmsgrove, liis
home, would scarcely cover the liabili
ties incurred in the past three years.
Edith ! Edith ! That was the cry of
the man’s heart. His darling who had
been shielded from every rude blast,
who had known only the brightest side
of life under his care, who had married
him for money, perhaps !
Had she married him for money ?
The thorn, once planted, stung him
sorely. He was not a vain man, but he
had thought his love, so devoted, so
true, had won a return. Money had
been to liitn, a 1 his life, so small a con
sideration, never feeling its want, that
he had never taken it into considera
tion, except to be glad it was his to give
Edith every indulgence. And now the
ha ! efnl thought rose, and pressed him
sorely, that Edith married him for what
he had lost, and could give her no
longer.
A rattling at the door-handle, a voice
calling his name, roused him from his
moody misery, and he drew back the
bolt to admit Edith.
“Justin time to dress for dinner !”
she cried, coming in. “I stayed down
stairs till the last minute. Shall I ring
for Mary, Edward, or—” She looked
in her husband’s face. “Edward, what
is the matter ?”
An impulse, a cruel one, prompted
him to test her then and there, and he
put his lawyer’s letter in her hand. In
a moment, before she had smoothed the
crumpled sheet, he repented, and drew
near her to catch her if she fainted, and
to console her if she wept. She read
it all. The light of merriment in her
face softened to a sweet, earnest gravi
ty, aud some of the rich color faded
from her cheeks. Her voice was very
tender as she said, “I’m so sorry for
you, Edward. You will miss your
library, your books. Perhaps we can
saye some of them for yon.”
“ But you, Edith!” he said, amazed.
“I? Mr. Morrell tells you, espe
cially, that my property is safe. A hun
dred a year,” she said, with a silvery
laugh. “ How little it is, compared
with what you had ; bat I have seen a
time before wheu a hundred a year
seemed positive wealth.”
“Bat, Edith, child! you do not un
derstand. I have lost everything. I
can no longer give you diamonds, laces,
velvets. I cannot carry you from place
to place, wherever the whim sends us.
I—l can give yon nothing.”
His face was ashy white, and his eyes
rested upon his wife with a piteous, im
ploring look, as if entreating her par
don for some wrong. She put her arms
about him, aud drew him down beside
her upon a sofa. Then she rested her
head upon his broad phonlder, and put
her hand in his before she spoke,
“Edward, my husband,” she said,
gently “do not grieve for me. I never
owi ed jewels till you gave them to me.
I wp.3 brought up in a school of com
parative poverty. The income my
father left me was gathered together at
a cost ef privation and hardship I can
never describe to you. When my father
died you came. I was never in a bouse
so beautiful as Elmsgrove. I never had
any one to speak to me so kindly as yon
spoke. My father had given me an
education, and my teachers were fond
of me, but he seldom spoke to me. I
w r as a desolate child.”
“ Edith ! Edith 1 ” her husband said,
tenderly.
“Then yon took me home. Yon
spoke to me so gently; you cared to
have me near you. Yon ” —E lith’s
tears were falling fast—“ you loved me.
You, so noble, so good, so' rich, stooped
down to love poor little me. Edward,
nobody ever loved me in all mv life but
you. You gave me every wish of my
heart; but all the pleasures, all the
indulgences, were nothing beside your
love. 1 ’
Edward Lancaster was too much
moved to speak. Never before had
Edith torn the veil from her heart as
she was doing now, and the certainty
he was rapidly gaining that she had
given love for love was a happiness too
overpowering to find vent in words.
“ And yet,” Edith said sofily, “there
was always one wish ungratifled. Do
not think I undervalue all the sacri
fices you have made for me. I appre
ciate the care for me that has made you
leave your home, your books, to take
me about in the gay world. I saw that
it made yon happy to have me dress
handsomely, to have me invited into
society and enjoy its pleasures. But in
all these three years I have scarcely
seen you. I have craved a home where
we could be all in all to each other ;
where no claim to the gay world should
come between ns. Not a grand home,
with servants to perform each task, but
a home your wife could beautify with
her own hands. Now we will find one,
my husband. I am lenging to show
you hew nicely I can cook ; how daintily
lean clean a room. While you read, I
will work ; and in the evening we will
sit together in our tiny sitting-room,
and be far happier than we are in these
crowded hotels. And, Edward, if we
are very saving, we can buy back your
books. There are all my jewels, surely
they will buy some.”
“Edith, stop ! My own happiness be
wilders me. You love me like that ?
Yon will be happy in a poor home cook
ing and working for me ? ”
Edith lifted her shining, dark eyes
to the noble face bending over her, and
drew dawn her husband’s head till her
lips touched his.
“ I love yon -I love you ! ” she whis
pered. “ Love will make all labor
light if it is for you 1 ”
There was consternation in the gay
circle of Edith’s friends when, the next
day, she was missed from among them.
Speculations were wild regarding tho
sudden disappearance of tho brilliant
star of society, and many were the pity
ing words lavished upon her when
Edward Lancaster’s losses were known.
But the little wife neither knew of the
pity nor asked sympa by. Her husband
accepted a professorship in a college,
and a little house was taken and fur
nished for the home Edith craved.
The beauty that had made Edith a
star in the most brilliant circles of soci
ety lost nothing in her husband’s eyes
when it was the home-light after his
days of college work. In her quiet
dresses, without glittering gems, Edith
was as lovely as she had ever been in
her costly ball or dinner toilettes ; and
the little hands that could rest idle in
luxury, glitter with valuable rings, and
flash over the piano keys, were busy
from dawn to sunset in the house-work
that women find ever waiting them. '
Edward Lancaster was never very
poor, and Edith never knew again the
wants and cares of her girlhood ; but
the wealth he had lost was not restored,
and never regretted. By its loss he had
learned his wife’s heart; deprived of
that, he found the treasure of happy,
domestic life, and in his new duties he
found the pleasure of making the knowl
edge he loved useful to others.
The professor had been two years in
his new home, when, one evening, com
ing from the college, he found Edith
sewing busily upon a cloak for a year
old boy crowing in his cradle.
She held up her work for inspection.
“ My yachting dr ss, Edward.”
“ I remember it,” Edward answered,
gravely.
“ Do you ? I never wore it bnt once—
the last day we were at Whitecliff.”
“ The day,” her husband answered,
“ wlieD, after an hour of doubtiDg
agony, I found my wife had married me
with the true love, for better or worse.”
A Pneumatic Grain Tube.
A Minnesota man has patented a
pneumatic tube for the transport of
grain. The machintry of propnlsion is
a fan, worked by steam, revolving in an
air-chamber which consists of two dou
ble cones, put ba eto base. The axle
of the fan is hollow. A tube runß
through it. pe forated at the sides and
bottom. This tube connects the two
pipes which enter the apices of the
cones. The grain to be transported is
poured into the entrance-pipe. The
revolution of the fan sucks it into the
connecting tube, and then blows it
ahead into the main pipe. At the same
time the fan of tin next station, twenty
miles away, begins to whirl. Thus the
grain is hurried forward by suction
ahead and compressed air behind. The
trouble with the theory seems to be
that the grain cannot readily pass under
the influence of two directly opposed
currents of air iu the same tube. At
some point they must neutralize each
other. Still, as the inventor has seour
ed a patent, it is fair to infer that his
model works satisfactorily, so that ho
may have met this difficulty. He thinks
his tuba can carry 6,000 bushels of
wheat 960 miles in an hour. Mail mat
ter can make forty miles more in the
same time. The expense of construct
ing a tube between Chicago and New
York, with a carrying capacity of 40,-
1)00,000 bushels a year is put at $4,000,-
000. A charge of twelve cents a bushel
would pay the cost of construe* ion in a
year an l leave SBOO,OOO for operating
expenses. Among the calculations it is
raid the saving to farmers, even when
the company got such remunerative
rates, would lie great. Grain would bo
transported from Minnesota to tide
water for fifteen cents, instead of fifty.
This would save that state alone about
$10,000,000 a year.
Sheep and Wool Report.
According to the tables given in the
department report of agriculture, we
find that the states in which the greatest
increase has taken place are Kansas,
which is rated at 96 on every 100; Cali
fornia, 17 ; Maine and Texas, which are
each set down at 8 ; Michigan, set down
at au increase of 2on the 100. Kansas
in 1870 had only 17,569 sheep, so that
doubling her sheep would not make the
whole number more than there is in one
of our third rate sheep-growing coun
ties. But adding two per cent, to the
sheep in Michigan is a different affair,
as it adds 24,000 head to the state. Bat
then we find that New York ha3 shrunk
three per cent., or that during the year,
if her stock of sheep was equal in num
ber to the number reported by the cen
sus of 1870, this state has lost 78,534,
or three times the amount that Michigan
has gained.
California is reporte t as havinggained
seventeen per cent, on her number of
sheep. Sheep have increased so fast
in than state since 1870 that it would
hardly be fair to set her figures'for 1872
by the census of 1870, which places the
number of her sheep at 1,088,002, or
less than Michigan in that year. Her
wool being mostly sold in the unwashed
sta’e, however, aud estimated in 1872 at
20,000,000 pounds, or equal to tho pro
duce ol 3,000,000 sheep, an increase of
seventeen per cent, wonld be equal to
510,000 head, or the production of au
increased crop of unwashed wool of
3,060,000 pounds. The state of Ohio is
set down as making no change.
Equinoctial Storms.
There is a popu'ar delusion that a
thiee days’ storm is inevitable win n
the sun crosses ihe liue in the lat
ter part of March an I September,
and the unsettled state of the weather
at this period, which usually culminates
in showers of some duration, is always
spoken of as the “equinoctial storm.”
According to Professor Loomis, of
Yale college, however, the equinox has
very little to do with the storms, and
excepting that the weather is generally
unsettled by the changes which are
taking p ace in the atmosphere, there is
no more likelihood of a storm upon
the day that the sun crosses the line
than upon any other day of the year.
So much for one of our popular the
ories, which, like onr popular supersti
tions, obtain a stronger hold upon
the public mind than the strongest
facts. In the Dglit of this truth it is
not difficult to account for the length of
time—centuries, perhaps which it
takes to discover a popular error or es
tablish a scientific truth; nor caD we
measure our indebtedness to the men
who devote their lives to discovering
facts in nature and art, and establishing
them upon a scientific—that is, a real
and knowable—basis. For it must be
remembered that these men are always
‘in a minority ; the mass of mankind are
content to take the world as they find it,
with all its errors, superstitions and
prejudices, and feel no gratitude to
those who disturb their fond and fool
ish belief in them.
College Hazing.
The New York Tribnne, in the course
of an editorial commenting on the ac
tion of the faculty of the Michigan
university in expelling those students
recently found guilty of “hazing,”
says : “It is sentimental nonsense,
gathered from English novels, to say
that it makt s a boy manly to bo kicked
and cuffed by his elders. If a man
kept only the company of gentlemen
and ladies from his cradle to his grave
he would be all the better for it. This
is unfortunately impossible, but it is
the duty of teachers to see that while a
youth remains at school he shall see as
little of the vulgar brutalities of life as
is consistent with the conditions of hu
man existence. It is not alone in the in
terests of the victims of hazing that it
should be put down with the strong
hand. It is the best thing that can be
done for the rough hobbledehoys them
selves who consider it such a pleasnre
and privilege to bally the youngsters,
to show them that if they act like ruf
fians aud blackguards they will be pun
ished for it. A single decided act like
that of the Michigan faculty will do
more to convince the youth of that re
gion of the immorality of hazing than
any amount of lecturing.
The World's Consumption of Cotton.
According to Mr. Pechen’s report,
which is highly commended by tbe Eu
ropean press, the following is the pres
ent consumption of cotton in the un
dermentioned countries, expressed in
pounds:
Consumption
Spindles. of cotton.
England 39,600,000 1,264,. 00,0110
United States.- 8.350,000 476,000,090
France 5,200,00 197 000 090
Germany 5,100 000 228,000,090
Switzerland 2,06.’,000 56,100,000
Russ a 2,000,000 120,000,00
Austria 1,600,000 106,9 t 0,000
Spain „ 1 400,000 67,20 ,000
Belgium 159,000 27,9' 0 0< 0
Italy 500.000 24.600,000
Scandinavian countries... 300,000 18,000',099
Holland 230 0.0 9,800,000
Toial 66,890,000 2,594,800
A Baptist clergyman relates as his
early experience that he engaged to
preach for a society for SSO a year.
Upon a settlement at the end of the
year he found that the oommittee had
an item of S2O charged to him for the
use of the pulpit to practice in. One
of the deacons, however, by way of
sympathy for the pastor, presented him
a pair of boot-top,
THE FLOODS.
Couf ilined Distress in Arkansas and Be
in iv .11 ore Belief Needed.
The Memphis relief committee have
reoeived a large number of letters and
applications for relief from the over
flowed districts, particularly . from the
lower portion of Arkansas, where the
destitution is greatest, and where the
following extracts from letters will give
a good idea of the suffering and desti
tution, and appeal to the philanthropic
throughout the laud:
A well know planter writing from
Bernard, Chicot county, Arkansas, says:
There are needed in this section rations
for a thousand persons, and forage for
their stock, whoso lau’s are under wa
ter. The destitution here will be very
great, nearly every one in the over
flo > eil district having lost their stock,
and having nothing left to aid them io
purchasing the necessary rations. These
parties all require help until they can
raise somo corn. Help us all you can.
Onr people are truly suffering, and un
less we get aid to make at least some
corn, this portion of the country will
be abandoned by fully one-lialf of the
laborers.
A petition from 350 colored laborers
from Arkansas City and vicinitv, is for
warded by J. W. Dickinson, which says:
The undersigned, colored people of
Arkansas City and neighboring planta
tions, would respectfully state that we
are in a desperate condition, only a fow
of us having a few day’s rations, and
they have been furnished by the owners
of plantations who now have not
enough left for their own families. The
water stands as high as four feet above
the floors in many of our houses. Somo
of us have had to move out and herd
with others as best we can. Over all
the plantations the water stands from
3to 5 feet. The levees are all broken,
the fences gone and our stock has been
greatly reduced from drowniDg and
starvation. Our friends, the white peo
ple, have done all they could and can
do no more now. We can nothing
but starvation and death to many of us,
unless the good people will aid ns and
that soon.
Mr. Dickinson, in forwarding the pe
tition, says : It does not make the con
dition as bad as it really is. Some of
these families are on my place, and I
have been feeding them for four months,
three of wiiich they have been cooped
up in their houses on platforms three
feet above their floors. I cannot feed
them any longer, bnt hope something
will be done for these poor negroes.
They will suffer. Some of them have
not enough left for their own families
long, and the others are living on hom
iny alone or parched corn.
On the other side of the river from
where these letters are written, there is
considerable destitution, but Gov. Ames
and other state officials are taking steps
to relieve them. But in Arkansas, ow
ing to the troubled condition of affairs
at the capitol, nothing is being done for
them, and they are entirely dependent
on tho chairities of other states. The
relief committee is doing good work,
but cannot relieve but a small portiou
of the immediate district.
Citizens complain of the action of the
New Orleans relief committee in not
sending supplies outside of the state of
Louisiana, but this doubtless aris s
from the scarcity of supplies and the
great amount of destitution nearer New
Orleans. The Memphis relief commit
tee are actively engaged in collecting
supplies to relieve the immediate wants
of these people. Farther tiuublo la
apprehended from a rise in the St.
F-ancis river.
The governor of Louisiana and relief j
committee receive letters daily from the j
overflowed parishes, giving details of |
the condition of the inhabitants. Re- I
cent letters from Calahoula, Caldwell, j
Concordia, Franklin, Onchita and Ten
sas parishes, show no improvement, bnt
indicate additional affliction by sick
ness. From the great mass of corre:-
pondence the following is selected as
showing substantially the purport of
the whole:
Mr. Redditt, writing from Cuba,
Ouchita parish, says : All the country
for miles around is submerged. Twelve
farms are almost entirely under wa
ter within three rail* s of thiß place, with
a population of 790 persons, from the
breaking of the Cuba levee. The levee
broke April Bth, and the current of wa
ter was so strong that it washed away
everything except my dwellinghouse and
store house. My corn, horses and oxen
are all gone. The water in my dwelling
is four feet deep, wnd rushes through in
such a current as to make it tremble
like a leaf. But do not look to me
alone. There are six or seven hundred
others similarlv situated within three
miles. W. J. Eliis has lost everything.
The water on the floor of his dwelling
is five feet deep,ard he has not one pound
of provisions on hand for himself and
fifteen freed men, and ho chance of get
ting any in the neighborhood.
Dr. R. C. Burch, writing from Bosco
bel plantation, Onchita parish, says
there are 300 people within the limits of
his practice many of whom are suffer
ing from sickness, caused by exposure
on account of the overflow. He is una
ble to supply the demand for medicines,
and askes that medicine be furnished,
offering to distribute it to the sick and
suffering.
The rise in the St. Francis, which set
in a few days since, has overflowed
batiks in two or (hree places, and plan
tations under cultivation have been
drowned out. There is bnt little desti
tntipn in this valley, and planters are
hopeful of the waters soon running off
and being able to resume planting. The
rise has broken the levees in several
places near the mouth, includirg Jeffer
son and St. Clair rivers, near Island 63,
and threatens several others. The
levees at Helena and Friar’s Point are
reported in danger. While the river is
inside its banks down to Augusta and
below there, planters are yet hopeful of
being able to make a crop. In the low
er Arkansas river the water is off of all
the plantations except Rawlins’, and
the planters are at work.
The relief committee write to Gov.
Kellogg : “In accordance with your re
quest this morning, we submit the fol
lowing information : From the 23d of
April to the Bth of May, fifteen days,
we shipped to the overflowed districts
852,488 rations of bread-stuffs and 353,-
401 of meat, of which the government
supplied 162,133 of bread-stuffs and
118,825 of meat. Tho shipments made
in excess of receipts from the govern
ment proceed from private contribu
tions. We have been far from supply
ing the demands on ns. We estimate,
from the best information we can £ atli
er, tho number of sufferers in Louisi
ana alone at 56,500 persons. The calls
are increasing as the distress becomes
greater, from the exhaustion of the sup
plies in the hands of the people at the
time of the overflow.”
Exclusive Cotton Planting.
Col. John Dent, of Floyd county,
Ga., a cotton planter of large experience
in Lower Georgia in ante bellum times,
his recently visited that section, and has
this to say of it in the Country Gentle
man:
“ I recently made a trip to the lower
countries ; that it was all water; large
fields planted in corn and cotton were
under water; the railroa Is washed up
in many places ; the whole country pre
sented "a sad scene. I went to that part
of the country I moved from just after
the war, and there I met with many
negroes I owned when slaves. They
seemed rejoiced to see me, anil I was
also glad to sea them. I saw from ap
pearances they were not doing well, and
I had a long talk with them, giving
them all the advice I oonld—-how to
live and conduct themselves to make a
living, ifcey told me, what ] saw my
self, that they had merely mi de out to
live since their freedom, aud lad accu
mulated nothing.
“I never could have imagined a coun
try so run down and rained as that is in
the course of nine years. Exclusive
colton planting and buying largely of
commercial fertilizers has done the
work; and I am sorry to say that the
farmers in the up countries, where grain
and the grasses are the best crops for
our soil and climate, are trying co make
it a cotton-producing country through
the stimulating properties of commer
cial fertilizers. A greater curse was
never inflicted upon any country and j
people than these fertilizers ara.”
AFRICAN PIGMIES.
Remarkable Race of OwarU Fowud at
tbe Court of a King who Kate
a Baby Every Day.
There have ever been traditions of
strangely-formed tribes of human
beings dwelling in Central Afri
ca. That unknown region Las been
peopled by fancy and fable with tailed
men, hideons hybirds, half human and
half bestial, dwarfs and giants. Travel
ers who have plunged into it Lave had
their stories of discovery met with cool
incredulity. It was years before Du
Chaillu could convince people that the
gorilla was not a myth. Whan the ani
mal's existenoe was definitely ei tablish
ed, it was thought by many to account
for the stories of men with tails. A
truer explanation has been given by the
explorations of Dr. Schweinfnerth, the
German Livingstone. • This intrepid
traveler spent tho three rears from
1868 to 1871 in the heart of Africa.
One of the tribes he reached was the
Bongo. All its male members wear an
animal’s tail, fastened by a string tied |
round the middle of the body. This j
explains the fable of the tailed men as
fully as a man on horseback explains
the myth of the centaurs. The most
enrious of Dr. Schweinfuerth’s discov
eries was yet to come. Threnghout
his long journey he bad heard of pig
mies that lived near the equator. They
were never over three feet tall, said his
Nubian servants, and they wore beards
t at reached to their knees. TJa ay were
skilled elephant hunters, creeping un
der the animals and killing them with
stabs from below. They were in great
demand as court buffoons. The explor
er put little faith in these stories think
ing that seeing was better than hearing.
Finally he saw. At the court of a can
nibal king, who ate a baby daily, he
found several pigmies. They were very
shy, and kept out of his way for several
days. At length his servants caught
one. “I looked up, surprised at the
shouting,” says the traveler, “ani. there,
sure enough, was the strange, little
creature, perched upon Mohammed’s
right shoulder, nervously hugg ng his
head, and casting glances of alarm in
every direction.” The wee men was
soon pacified. He was the clrief of
quite a large settlement near by. Dr.
Schweinfuertli afterward meas ired a
number of these dwarfs. The tallest,
fall-grown men, were not over four feet
ten inches. They said that great, tribes
of their fellows lived just north of the
equator. They are amiable, affection
ate, and quite intelligent. Dr. S< hwein
fnerth considers them to be clos ;ly al
lied to the Bushmen of South Africa.
He bought one of them, Neswue, for a
dog, but kept him only eighteen months.
At that time he died of over-et,ting—
unruly o ffivD'Kod \yav of shuffling
off the mortal coil, for did not the "first
gentleman in Europe,” to whom Sir
Walter Scott played flunky, die from
the same cause ? Neswue’s fate is lees
to be regretted, inasmuch as two of his
kindred are now en route for Italy.
They are to be placed in charge of the
ethnological society at Florence.
The Latest Agony iu Ladies’ Shoes.
Among the many reforms for which
women have cause to be grateful, the
shoe reform is one of the best. Fine
weather is always given as an explana
tion Of streets "thronged with women,
but in view of this spring’s capricious
atmospheres, that reason surely fails.
It mast be the prevailing shoe, broad
soled, square heeled, -nd freer than
suffrage, that has driven forth the fem
inine pedestrian, for certainly a cover
ing for the foot as “easy” as thit of
the present walking shoe lias not been
worn in & long time. Shoes o: all
kinds are notably plain ; even fancy
stitching is out of favor, and neatness,
only, is imperative, provided the shoe is
excellent in fit.
Buttoned boots, made of soft, lustre
less French kid, are the kind preferred,
heavy ahoes of pebble goat being aided
to now in preparation for the
country. For sensitive teet, easily wea
ried by walking, uppers of French sa
tin have foxings of kid, only high
enough to give strength and protec; the
feet from dampness. .
For carriage wear, there are diunty
boots of French satin, which lace upon
the instep, and add a quilling of narrow
black lace entirely*around both ej elet
rows. Such shoes, made of the fame
material as the dress, are provided with
elegant dinner and reception costu nee,
while others of black satin with lace
trimmed lappels upon the instep are
preferred by some for the same purpose.
For traveling, kid buttoned boots are
first in favor, but many ladies are or
dering boots of heavy gray aud lax
colored linen to serve in dry, hot
weather. •
Slippers of lineD, corn, buff and
brown, are being chosen for ne-jlige toi
lets in the country, and these trimmed
with rosettes of black, and bright steel
buckles, are both pretty and suitable of
themselves.
Marie Antoinette slippers, croquet
and garden shoes, and Pompadour shoes
of scarlet, or bine kid, are among the
fancy provisions of the shoe-shops this
season.
No more buff or gray kid shoes are
worn by little girls, black being firmly
settled "as the favorite color, or ra her
no color. Wee things in their first
short dresses, and bairns just trying in
dependent locomotion, wear dainty nut
toned shoes of pink, scarlet, or bine,
without heels, and fastened with pearl
buttons.
Silver Brick Testimonial.
The Virginia City (Nevada) Enter
prise says that, it having been propi *ed
to send'Sir Lambton Lorraine a s .ver
brick as a testimonial from the people
of that city, about SIOO was collected
in a few minutes. Only $1 was accej ted
from any one person, though several
gentlemen offered $5, $lO and S2O, and
one man was anxious to give SIOO. It
was not the intention to send a brick so
large as to corvey an intimation tha it
is presented for its intrinsic value, but
large enough to conveniently embiace
the inscription, and to be a good, solid
little bar worth about S3OO. On the
bar will be engraved a 6hort and pithy
inscription, and it will be enclosed in a
neat box manufactured of native ma
hogany. Among those who contributed
were several ladies.
An historical curiosity has just bsen
placed in the Museum of the Rival it es,
Paris—namely, the suit of armor which
Charles VII. presented to Joan of Arc,
and which the heroine wept to depi *it
at St. Denis after having been wounded
under the walls of Paris. It is com
posed of 6teel plates, weighs about fifty
pounds, and in every respect resend les
the one in the Pierrefond's collection,
which the Maid of Orleans wore at the
moment when she fell into the power of
the enemy in making 6 sortie from Com
piegne.
VOL. 15—NO. 21.
MlINtiS AM) imum.s.
Question for florists—ls not a rich
mandarin a Chine Astor ?
An eastern critic says of a tragedi
enne that “ she claws her fringe too
much.”
Talbot oonnty, Georgia, last year
produced 5,832 bales of ootton and 145,-
500 bushels of corn.
Pious flirts are said to succeed best.
A heavenly smile will tell on a man, ba
he never bo irreligious.
A Geobgia clergyman has thirty-two
children. His sermons are nearly all
upon the subject of “ a better life than
this.”
At east General Concha is going to
try the expedient of striking the Car
lists in the rear. Just what they de
serve.
Thebe are twenty mills in Montana
cnnhing gold quartz. The silver ore is
Dearly all shipped t> Europe, much of
it going to Swansea, Wales.
To A BOTTLE.—
Tis very strange that von and I
•Together cannot pull;
For you are full when I am dry.
And dry when I am full.
At a revival in a western town, ont of
one hundred converts fully two-thirds
were males, which the women explain
by saying their own sex are mostly an
gels already. *
It is astonishing how rapidly a young
man’s emotion will change when a lady
relieves her waist from his encircling
arms by inserting about one inch of
hair-pin in it.
Inscription on a tombstone in Co
lumbia, Tenn.: “Escaped the bullets
of the enemy to be assassinated by a
cowardly pup —a kind husband, an af
fectionate father.”
Experiments have recently been made
with dynamite as a means of clearing
land of timber stumps. The explosive
compound is said to do the work ef
fectually and with little trouble.
It only takes three hours and about
half a cord of wood to put a millionaire
into a very small glass bottle. The
only difficulty to be apprehended is the
inevitable increase of family jars.
Cornelius C. Logan, minister pleni
potentiary of the United States to Chili,
has consented to act as arbitrator in the
question between Pern and Chili aris
ing out of the liquidation of the ac
counts of the allied squadron during
the war with Spain.
“You never saw snch a happy lot of
people as we had here yesterday,” said
a landlady in Indiana to a newly arriv
ed guest; “there were thirteen couples
of them.” “What! Thirteen couples
just married ?” “ Oh, no, sir ; thirteen
couples just divorced.”
Gen. John C. Breckinridge is slowly
recovering from his dangerous sickness.
It will probably be some time before
he will be well enough to read with en
tire equanimity the Cincinnati Gazette’s
elaborate obituary notice of him, under
the title of “ A wasted life.”
“Oh ! Mary, my heart is breaking,”
said an Aberdeen lover to his Highland
Mary. “Is it, indeed? So much the
better for you,” was her qniet reply.
“Why, my idol?” “Because, Mr.
McSniitb, when it s broken out and out,
you can sell the pieces for gunflints.”
Happiness.—
There ia not in this wide world a happier life
Than to sit by the stove-pipe and tickle your
wife; •
To kiss her warm lips in your moments of glee,
And twist the cat's tail when she jumps on
your knee-
A Chicago paper speaks of
American flag-toter as “Sergeant Bates,
the sublime jackass,” and no UDprejn
dioed mind can contemplate the ser
geant's ears, towering heavenward in
their pride of place, without acknowl
edging the well-merited character of
the compliment.
First ruffian.— “ Wot was I hup for,
and wot ’ave I got? Well, I floor’d" a
woman and took her watch, and I’ve got
two years and a flogging.” Second ruf
fian.—“Ah, 1 flung a woman ont o’ the
top floor window ; an’ I’ve only got
three months,” First ruffian.—“Ah,
but then she was yer wife.”
Some of the planters in the innnda •
ted bottom lands of Mississippi and
Louisiana have had three crops washed
ont in the last two months, and they no
longer feel interested in the question of
“ less cotton and more oorn,” bnt have
begun seriously thinking if it will not
be “ no cotton and still less corn.”
Last year was a bad year for cham
pagne. In 1873 thirty thousand dozen
less of the fashionable tipple were im
ported into the United States than
reached here in 1872. Now that the
crusaders have got to work it may be
that 1L74 will show a still larger diminu
tion o' the trade.
Much of the most valuable land in
Georgia was originally distributed by
lotterv. and many owners of real estate
have abstracts of tit e going back to lot
tery iickets. The system is to be reviv
ed. The legislature has authorized a
scheme for the sale of lands by lottery,
and an office is to be opened in Augusta.
It is expected that the owners of large
plantations will*subscribe.
The blandness of expression that will
spread itself over the countenances of
all good and true temperance crusaders,
when they read the following, oan not
be counterfeited : “ Wednesday last the
parents of a b y. five years of age, hy
ing in Davenport, lowa, celebrated his
birthday, and drank his health in punch
and other intoxicating drinks. They
left a cnp of whisky, and in the morn
ing the child aro-e before the parents,
drank the whisky and died in a few
hours in great agony.” .
Theodore R. Tymby, the inventor of
the revolving turret battery, having had
great experience in machinery for weld
in T heavy ordnance, is contemplating
the construction of the largest telescope
lens' ever made. He proposes a Ibds
more than twice the size of that recent
ly made bv Alrin Clark for the Wash
ington Observatory. Preparatory steps
to casting a lens of five feet in diameter
have been taken near Tarrytown, New
York. If his experiment proves as suc
cessful as be has rea-on to hope, Mr.
Tymby’s efforts will place American as
tronomical science far in advance of that
of other countries.
A planter in Virginia, being dressed
for some special occasion, said to Uncle
Ben, an old family servant, “Uncle
Ben, how do I look?” “Why, you
looks splendid, marster, splendid.
Why, yon looks as bold as a lioD.
“What do yon know about a lion.
You never saw one.” “Why, ye®. 1
did, marster, I’s often seed a bon;
offen.” “ Where, Uncle Ben ?’ * V hy,
down on Master Johnson’s plantation ;
they’s got a lion, and seed him,
too; I know you has.” ‘ Y on
old goose, you, that is not a lion ; it is
a jackass, and they have named him
Lion.” “ Well, I don’t care about dat
—I don’t care for dat. You looks just
like him.”
i 7
Aquation rs. Cremation.
The discussion of the cremation ques
tion in England has led to another propo
sition for disposal of the dead. A writer
in one of the Manchester papers sug
fests “ aquation,” as he calls it, or the
nrying of the dead far out at sea. H
concludes thus: “ There is no violence
here. The idea is maratime, and we
are a maratime people. The cost wonla
be little, the mode reverent, the effect
sanitary, the condition natural, scrip
ture would be satisfied, and the philoso
phers contented. Of course, I *®v
a word about the fishmongers an
customers, although some nug g
ble about eating less shell-fish than
usual. This would be no loss, except
to the medical profession.