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W.'a. mIKalkJ Editors aud Proprietors.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
SOUTH.
The rice plantations in the vicinity of
Savannah, Ga., are overflowed, and much
damage to crops is reported. The estimated
loss of rice is $ IOC',OOO.
A southern bound train of six cars on
the Selma, Rome and Dalton road, went through
a bridge on the Waubatchie creek, last week,
falling sixty feet. The engineer, fireman and
several passengers were killel, and nearly all
the remaining passengers were wounded, many
dangerously. Among the killed is Wm. Boyd,
ex-judge of the supreme court of Alabama.
The north bound train on the Missis
sippi central railroad was precipitated down
an embankment over thirty feet, three miles
south of Holly Springs, Miss., on the 28th inst.
The ladies’ car and Pullman palace car turned
over twice. No one was killed, but fifteen
were wounded, one seriously, a colored man.
The accident was caused by a heavy rain dur
ing the morning, which undermined the em
bankment.
At Vicksburg, Miss., on the 22d, Al
derman D. E. Byan, Thomas Donavan and
Mr. Smith, a plasterer, were suffocated by
foul air, in an old cistern, near Ryan's mill.
They entered the cistern to examine it for re
pairs. Smith'entered first. Not hearing from
him, Ryan entered. Not hearing from Smith
and Ryan, Donavan entered to see what was
the matter. A negro gave the alarm, but all
three were dead before they could b taken
from the cistern.
At Memphis, on the 24th, the right
flue of N. J. Speers’ steam cotton-gin, situated
in the vicinity of Vane and Cousey streets,
collapsed with terrible effect. The concussion
shook houses in the vicinity like an earthquake.
Both ends of the boiler were blown ont. U,
H. Reckard, the engineer, was blown out of
the cotton pen, in front of the boiler, where
he had gone to sleep. He was slightly burned
by steam and hot water. A stable near the
boiler was completely wrecked by the pieces,
which were hurled against it with great force.
Paul A. Cicalla, of Memphis, aider
man of the sixth ward, aud who acted as mayor
during the yellow fever epidemic last year, bas
instituted Huit in the second circuit court to
recover $50,000 damages against Col. Michael
Mageveny, Sr., for uttering and causing to be
published in the Appeal of Novembor 4, 1873,
a defamatory and libelous speech and resolu
tions adopted on the same date by the citizens
of the relief committee of that city. While
acting mayor Cic ilia was charged with the
forgery of an order for provisions, and steal
ing the same, which were entrusted to him for
a widow and eight fatherless children. At the
time Cicalla was expelled from the board of
alderman, but was reinstated by process of
law. He now seeks to recover damages.
A United States secret service detec
tive of the treasury department, arrived at
Louisville last week aud overhauled at the
Adams express office a box belonging to coun
terfeiters, and containing a large amount of
money and implements, all made by the fa
mous and extensive organization of counter
feiters who have been operating in North Car
o ina, East Tennessee, West Virginia aud Ken
tucky. Six men, including the one who ship
ped the box, have been captured, ho being
captured first. Last month the box was ship
ped first to two places in North Carolina to the
address of Thomas Goefortb, aud afterwards
traced to two places in Virginia with the same
address. A few days ago it was sent to Cin
cinnati to the address of Silas B. Goefortb,
and arrived in Louisville on the same address.
The box was opened at the express offico aud
found to contain $2,100 in 60 cent pieces un
finished ; $%4 in 50 cent pieces finished;
S6BO in S2O treasury notes ; 32 pieces of coun
terfeit silver 50 cent pieces ; 27 silver 25 cent
pieces ; 20 half dollar gold coins; one obverse
50 cent steel plate with the Stanton head ;
one 50 cent reverse plate ; <juo steel treasury
seal plate; four p’ates unfinished and 11
pieces of engraving tqols.
EAST.
The grand jury of Brooklyn has found
a criminal indictment against Moulton in the
case of Miss. E. D. Proctor.
Two hundred Italians have arrived at
Tittsburg to take the place of the striking coal
miners along the Pan Handle railroad.
In a collision at Smithton, on the Bal
timore and Ohio road, last week, a postal clerk
was killed and a good deal of mail matter
burned.
Advices from Fall River report it is
almost decided to run the cotton mills on
short time, some reducing it to one-half and
others to one-third.
The representatives of the trans-
Atlantic steamship companies having failed to
agree upon passenger rates, their late rivalries
aie renewed, and tickets to Europe are selling
at fifteen dollars each.
Lake Weewanafree, New Jersey, has
been bought by the Prussian government for
three hundred thousand dollars. The lake
will be divided into compartments, some for
the raising of leeches, the remainder for trout
and salmon.
The banking firm of Townsend &
Cos., of New Haven, has failed, with liabilities
of near three milliou dollars, and its affairs aro
in the hands of a receiver. The cause of the
failure is the depreciation of southern, state
and railroad bonds, iu which the bank has in
vested heavily. The greatest sufferers are
the laboring classes. Humor says depositors
will realize about forty par cent.
Representatives of the manufactur
ing corporations having their headquarters in
Boston,[have just voted that the
cotton mills of New England should be re
duced at least one-third, until the proper re
lation between the cost of production and the
market value of goods shall be re-established,
and the true relation between supply and de
mand adjusted. A committee was appointed
to recommend the mode in which this result
may be reached, the committee to report at a
future meeting. At a meeting of manufac
turers at Fall River it was voted expedient to
join the manufacturers elsewhere in running
on short time.
Further advices from the mill disas
ter at Fall River, Massachusetts, place the
total number of killed and injured at fifty-eight.
The calamity appears to have been the result of
criminal carelessness and inefficiency. In the
first place the mill employes attempted to ex
tinguish the fire without calling out the depart
ment, and so allowed the flames to obtain great
headway. When the engines arived at the
scene there seemed a total lack of discipline,
and no attempt was made to ase the ladders of
the department for the rescue of the roasting
operatives. The fire escape attached to the
mills did not reach the sixth story, where it
was the most needed, and for this the propri
etors are censured. The deplorable loss of
life might have been entirely prevented if
either of the three causes had been provided
against.
WEST.
The grand jury at Beaver, Utah, have
ikdieted Wm. Fotheringham for polygamy.
• A dispatch from Prescott, Arizona,
says the Indians who murdered a Mr. Roberts
were followed by a detachment of troops and
Apache Indian scouts from Verde. They were
caught near Head Creek and a battle ensued.
Fourteen hostile Apaches were killed and
several captured. The troops lost one white
scout and one Tonto Bcout killed, and two
wounded. 1
The executive 1 oommittee of the na
tional fire underwriters resolved that the author
ities of Cuicago having failed to comply with
the suggestion put forth by the national board
on the 24th of July last, this committee now
recommend that all companies belonging to
the national hoard discontinue the business
of fire insurance, either by new policies or re
newals, on and after the first of October. 1874.
The land department of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe railroad liave just made
THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS
biDfifi*) * Rj) turn
a sale of land along the line of their road to a
large party of Russian Menonites, who hav e
recently come from Europe. This is the largest
land sale ever made in the west to one party.
There are now here about 1,900 of them, and
they are going on their lands immediately, in
Marion, Harvey, McPherson and Reno coun
ties, in the Arkansas valley. The tract taken
is, in the aggregate, 150,000 acres.
The commissioners for the improve
ment of the Ohio river have adjourned to
meet in Washington, D. C., on October 16.
Resolutions were adopted, asking congress to
take decided action for the improvement of the
mouth of the Mississippi, so as to meet the
wants of the agricultural and other industries
of the country, and appointing a committee of
two from each of the commissions from lowa,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, to obtain from the
states the passage of suitable laws ceding to
the United States jurisdiction over such small
tracts of land as my be needed for the location
of locks, keepei’s -dwelling, abutments, etc.
The proposition for the construction of an
other bridge over the Ohio at Cincinnati, a
short distance below the present bridge, was
condemned.
Fuller and later reports received in
dicate that the recent glowing accounts from
the Black Hills country are entirely unreliable
and confirm the opinion of Prof. Wmchol that
there are no valuable mines in the country.
Col. Fred Grant, who accompanied the expe
dition under special instructions to report up
on its geological character, says that the rock
on which it is claimed gold was discovered is
of a metamorphic character, in which no prec
ious metals have ever been found. Not over
three dollars’ worth was brought under his ob
servation during the entire expedition, and it
is a question whether this was not imported
into that section. The timber is spruce and
yellow pine, and valueless for lumber. The
area of tillable lands is very small, there not
being enough for a dozen good sized farms.
The Sioux commission sent to negotiate with
Red Cloud’s and Spotted Tail’s bands, went in
their explorations to the base of the Black
Hills, on the south side, and gave substantially
the views of Grant regarding the character of
the country and the absence of minerals.
The president is emphatic in his determina
tion to carry out the orders of Gen. Sheridan
to prevent all invasion of this country by in
truders, so long as by law aud treaty it is se
cured to the Indiana.
FOREIGN.
Mt. is still in a state of agi
tation.
Elie Do Beaumont, tlie eminent
French geologist, is dead.
Charles Swain, the poet, died in Lon
d last week, aged 46.
Heavy rains have fallen in India,
and tho prospects for crops continue most
satisfactory.
A Carlist dispatch from Solosa reports
that Brig. Gen. Peula has carried the village of
Biscarun by storm, totally defeating ten bat
talions under Gen. Morians, with heavy loss
to the latter.
The postal congress has approved the
plan for an international postoflice. The con
gress has resolved to meet every three years,
and has selected Paris as the place for its
next session in 1877.
Members of the Austrian polar expe
dition declare explorations in the direction of
the notth pole hopeless of satisfactory result,
and that reports of the existence of an open
polar sea are untrue.
The report which was originally pub
lished by the Pall Mall Gazette, that Prince
Bismarck had made proposals for the incorpo
ration of Denmark with the German empire, is
pronounced to be absolutely false.
The National Gazette says that while
the expulsion of the Danes from Sehlesweig
was legal, it was only adopted in a few isolated
cases. The Gazette says the relations be
tween Germany and Denmark are friendly.
Empress Augusta has called a meet
ing of delegates from all the women’s associa
tions of Germany, to be held in Berlin in Oc
tober. The queens of Wurtemburg and Sax
ony, the grand duchess of Baden and the
Princess Alice, of Hesse, have promised to
attend.
The boundary dispute between Switz
erland and Italy, which was referred to Hon.
J. P. Marsh, United States minister at Rome,
for arbitration, has been decided in favor of
Italy, which thereby acquires 1,800 acres of
territory.
Gen. Concha, the captain general of
Cuba, had a narrow escape assassination
the other day. His rigorous regulations re
garding the taxation of property have made
him extremely unpopular, and some of his
personal adherents are suspected of firing the
shot
The Russian government., on account
of tbo extensive emigration of Mennonites,
proposes to exempt the members of that sect
from actual military service, but to hold them
liable to duty as hospital attendants. The
Mennonites of the Volga district will proba
bly accept these conditions.
The Uniied States, having joined the
postal union, its delegates in the international
postal congress are enabled to introduce a
uniform rate of postage for the whole territory
embraced by the union. Should England re
fuse to join the union, German and American
vessels will carry the mails to and from the
United States.
A Havana letter states an attempt was
made a few nights ago to shoot Capt. Gen.
Concha while at his summer residence. His
volunteer guard is suspected. The same
letter also says that Gen. Garcia was captured
by one Spanish officer while awaiting a con
ference with another for the adjustment of
some disputed points.
The Austrian government will dis
patch an expedition to the Arctic regime next
year to ascertain whether the land discovered
by the expedition just returned and named
Francis Joseph’s land is a portion of the con
tinent or an island. The expedition will he
divided, one half going by way of Siberia and
the other via Greenland.
A frightful typhoon passed over
Hong Kong last week. The steamers Loonar
and Alboy and eight other vessels were wrecked
or foundered, and mauy are missing. A great
nnmber of houses were destroyed, and it is
reported that a thousand persons were killed.
The damage to property iu the city and harbor
and surrounding country is immense.
The Mark Lane Express says : “ The
fine, summer-like weather of the past week
was favorable for potatoes, though rain would
have been more acceptable for other roots.”
With regard to wheat, the Express says,
“The autumnal sowings are certain ot a
favorable commencement. We estimate that
Hungary has a million quarters to spare.
Prices in Germany, Russia and France have
declined heavily.”
A Havana letter states that the Official
Gazette published, on the 18th, articles on the
decree requiring the inhabitants to contribute
to the government four per cent, of their cap
ital for two years. It said there is an urgency
for the collection of the first and second tri
monthly contribution on capital, in order that
the treasury may meet its obligations and
cover the deficits which monthly result between
income and outlay.
The French newspapers publish St.
Petersburg advices confirming the report of
Bismarck’s overtures to King Christian, of
Denmark, looking to the incorporation of that
country in the German confederation. Cor
respondents say that Russia is greatly irritated
at the attempt and will never permit Germany
to hold the keys to the Baltic sea. The same
papers say that the opposition of Russia to
the German policy in Spain is due to this
cause. ______
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. Barclay, the widow of President
Van Buren, died suddenly at Newport a few
days ago.
The great scull race at St. Johns,
N. 8., between George Brown, of Halifax, and
E. Morris, of Pittsburgh, for $2,000 a side,
was won by Brown. Time, 36:50.
The secretary of the treasury has di
rected the assistant treasurer at New York to
sell $500,000 gold on each Thursday during
October. The total amount to be sold is $2,-
500,000.
The fanous Stevens’ yacht, Maria,
stolen about four years ago, has been seized
by the French authorities at Algiers, she hav
ing attempted to smuggle a cargo of 200
cases of American rifles on shore for the Car
lists.
In reply to a letter asking information,
O. H. Kelley, secretary of the national grange,
says the granger mortgage bank, lately adver
tised in New York, is not endorsed by the na
tional grange, nor is it recognized by the ex
ecutive committee in any shape whatever.
The locomotive engineers of the va
rious trunk lines and leading roads, protest
most earnestly against any reduction of wages
at the present time. They expressed the
opinion that the Pennsylvania central railroad
-company should restore the ton per cent, re
duction made by them last January.
The postmaster general will doubt
less adopt the recommendation of Third Assist
ant Barbour and A. D. Hazen, chief of the
stamp division, that newspaper postage, under
the new law going into effect Jan. 1, be paid by
stamps affixed to the memorandum of the
mailing stamps, to be of denomination from
two cents to sixty dollars, and to be canceled
by perforation.
The national bank resumption agency
has called upon the national banks, within the
last six days, for about $4,350,000 in legal ten
der notes, to reimburse it for their notes re
deemed. Other calls will follow at the rate
of about $750,000 per day, until sufficient legal
tenders shall have been received to justify
the resumption of redemption. The date of
resumption will depend somewhat upon the
promptness with which the banks respond te
the call.
A Washington dispatch says it is re
ported thatthe Porto Rico annexation story has
truly drawn the fire of Russia aud the United
States, and was in reality only a part of a*
scheme of Bismarck to convulse Europe.
Russia, being fully advised of the intention
of Bismarck to acquire a foothold in America,
and with assurances that we will not permit
the transfer of colonial possessions in Amer
ica from one European nation to another, is
prepared to form an alliance with the United
States, in the event that Germany determines
to force her aspirations.
The assistant United States district
attorney, who went to Europe last spring to
obtain evidence against importers in cases of
importations, as alleged, under violations, has
returned. He says he found the German gov
ernment greatly incensed against this govern
ment because, as was thought, it had issued
commissions to its consuls in Europe, author
izing them to cite importers before them for
the purpose of extorting information respect
ing invoices made out in Europe. Acting upon
that supposition, tho German government had
informed the American legation at Berlin that
if the consuls of this government attempted
to execute these commissions, their exequa
tors would be revoked.
The comptroller of currency having
recently ascertained through the reports of
the examiners of national banks, that certain
national banks are in the habit of drawing
drafts on their correspondents in New York, at
sixty or ninety days date, acceptance waived,
have advised these institutions that such is
sues are in violation of section 23 of the na
tional bank act, which prohibits the issue of
post notes. Such transactions subjects a na
tional bank to forfeiture of charter under
section 53 of the national bank act, and it is
the intention of the comptroller to commence
proceedings, if necessary, to prevent such
practice. Other national banks are in the
habit of furnishing their depositors with
checks drawn one day after date, instead of on
demand, for the purpose of evading the in
ternal revenue law requiring a two cent stamp
to be affixed to such checks. Tlie comptroller
will ask for an amendment to the act which
will prevent such abuses.
The Gift of Readiness.
Of all the intellectual gifts bestowed
on man the most intoxicating is readi
ness—the power of calling all the re
sources of the mind into simultaneous
action at a moment’s notice. Nothing
strikes the unready as so marvelous as
this promptitude in others; nothing im
presses him with so dull and envious a
sense of contrast in his own person. To
want readiness is to be laid on the ah If,
to creep where others fly, to fall into
permanent discouragement. To be
ready is to have the mind’s intellectual
property put out at 50 or 100 per cent.;
to be nnready at the moment of trial is
to be dimly conscious of faculties tied
up somewhere in a napkin. What an
engine—we are speaking of “the com
merce of mankind”—is a memory ready
with its stores at the first question,
words that oome at your call, thoughts
that follow in unbroken sequence, rea
son quick at retort ! The thoughts we
may feel not above our level; the words
we could arrange in as harmonious or
der ; the memory, only to give time,
does not fail us ; the repartee is all the
occasion called for, if only it had not
suggested itself too late, thus changing
its nature from a triumph to a regret.
It is such compassions, the painful re
collectiou of panic and disaster, the
speech that vould not bespoken, the
reply that dissolved into incoherence,
the action that belied our intention, or,
it may be, experience in a humble field,
that gives to readiness such a charm and
value. The ready man does seem such
a clever fellow! The poet’s readiness
does not avail him for such practical
nses, and does not contribute to his
fame or sneoess at all in the same de
gree. It is the result—the thought, the
wit, the sense —not the speed of per
formance, which determines the worth
of his efforts. But wo delight in an ex
tempore effusion because of the prestige
of readiness called into play in busy
life ; at least this adds to the pleasure.
The poet’s best verses are the greatest,
least imitable wonder about him ; but
we are apt to be most surprised when
he shows his powers under immediate
command; and good lines, struck off at
a heat, do give us a vivid insight into
the vivacity and energy of the poetical
temperament, prompt in its aotion, ready
at a call, and gaily willing to display its
mechanical facilities. There is a speci
men of Drvden’s fluency in extempore
verse, communicated and authenticated
by Malone, which shows that foresight
and composite action which a strong imag
ination seem to posses*, uttering what it
has prepared, and composing what is to
follow, at one and the same time—a
habit or faculty observed in Sir Walter
. Scott by his amanuense. This double
action must belong to all rapid complex
expression; but the difficulty is en
hanced and the feat magnified in pro
portion when rhythm and rhyme are ad
ded to the other requirements.—Black
wood.
The genuine Icelandic costume for
women is very pretty and becoming, as
well as expensive ; a dark skirt, cut
quite short, and closely fitting jacket,
embroidered in gold or silver, with
broad blt of silver filigree-work. The
head-dress consists of a sort of helmet
of white silk, curving over in front, the
base richly embroidered, and fastened
to it a long thin white veil, which is
thrown back, and floate gracefully over
the shoulders.
Theke are said to ba more Jews in
New York than there in Jerusalem.
They have the finest synagogue in the
city, and live in the beiit streets. Who
knows but New York ia destined to ba
codie the New Jerusalem.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7.
KAMOS.
BT BRET HARTS.
El Refugio Mine, Northern. Mexico, 1874.
Drunk and senseless in his place,'
Prone and sprawling on his face,
More like brute than any man alive or dead,—
By his great pump, out of gear,
Lay the peon engineer,
Waking only just to hear,
Overhead,
Angry tones that called his name,
Oaths and cries of bitter blame
Woke to hear all this, and waking, turned and fled!
“ To the man who’ll bring to me,”
Cried Intendant Harry Lee, —
Harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine,—
“ Bring the sot alive or dead,
I will give to him,” hs said,
“ Fifteen hundred peeot down,
Just to see the rascal’s crown,
Underneath this heel ct mine;
Since but death
Deserves the man w hose deed,
Be it vice or want of heed.
Stops the pumps that give us breath—
Stops the pumps that suck the death
From the poisoned lower levels of the mine 1 ”
No one answered, for a cry
From the shaft r se up on high
And shuffling, scrambling, tumbling irom below,
Came the miners each, the bolder
Mounting on the weaker’s shoulder,
Grappling, clinging to their hold or
Letting go,
As the weaker gasped and fell
From the ladder to the well—
To the poisoned pit of hell
Down below 1
“To the man who sets them free,”.
Cried the foreman, Harry Lee,—
Harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine,—
“ Brings them out and sets them free,
I will give the man,” said he,
“ Twice that sum, who with a rope
Face to face with Death shall cope.*
Let him come who dares to hope 1 ”
“ Hold your peace ! ” someone replied,
Standing by the foreman’s side;
“ There has one already gone, whoe’er he be 1
Then they held their breath with awe,
Pulling on the rope, and Baw
Fainting figures reappear,
On the black rope swinging clear,
Fastened by some skillful haud from below ;
Till a score the level gained,
And but one alone remained, —
He the hero and the last,
He whose skillful hand made fast
The long line that brought them back to hope and
cheer 1
Haggard, gasping, down dropped he
At the feet of Harry Lee, —
Harry Lee, the English foreman of the miue ;
“ I have come,” he gasped, “ to claim
Both rewards. Senor, my name
Is Ramon !
I’m the drunken engineer—
I’m the coward, Senor—” Here
He fell over, by that sign
Dead as stone 1 *
A JAPANESE PLAY.3
The August number of the Revue des
Deux Mondes contains a highly inter
esting paper on “ The Theatre in Ja
pan,” by M. George Bouiquet, who vis
ited the conntry in an official capacity,
being charged with a special mission by
the French government. This paper,
besides an exhaustive account of the
technicalities of the Japanese stage,
gives several analyses of the Japanese
dramas. One of these is a comedy
called “Kami-ye-Djiye,” or “Djiye, the
paper-seller,” which bears a most re
markable resemblance to the “Dame aux
Camelias.” The heroine of the comedy
is a guecha (singing prostitute) named
O’Hare. She is passionately loved by
a paper-dealer or stationer named
Djiye, whom she loves in return. But
he has not the money wherewith to pur
chase her and lead her to his house in
quality of mekake (concubine), he being
already married. He has already con
tracted debts on her behalf, is verging
towards ruin, and bringing his legiti
mate wife and family to despair. An
other aspirant, Kahe, has been rejected
by the guecha. He is rich, but she
treats him as a disagreeable impor
tunate.
The scene represents tho interior of a
tea-house, and the time is evening.
Euters O’Hare escorted by a koskia.
She sits down with the mistress of the
house near a brasero, and in their con
versation an exposition of the state of
affairs is given. As soon as this is fin
ished a koskia arrives with a letter
which his mistress has bidden him de
liver to O’Hare. It is a letter from the
wife of Djiye, the neglected spouse.
What says she? We learn nothing.
The singer reflects for an instant. Then,
as if accomplishing a sacrifice, she
writes an answer, her hand trembling
with emotion. She gives it to the kos
kai after hiding ihe letter she had re
ceived in her dress with great care.
Hardly had this koskai, whose name
is Genroka, gone off then Kahe, the re
jected suiter, appears, escorted by his
koskai. The scene which follows is
irresistibly comic. Kahe pursues the
intractable guecha with his declara
tions, but he does not figure as a bash
ful lover. He takes high ground with
the unhappy girl and taunts her bitterly
in regard to the poor scamp whom she
loves, and draws a tempting pioture of
the ease and luxury she will enjoy with
him if she will but be persuaded. How
ever, she scornfully rejects him. There
upon follows a colloquy between master
and servant in regard to the strange re
fusal. Kahe, despairing of getting
himself loved, determines to revenge
himself by a biting epigram. He looks
round for a guitar. Not finding one he
seizes a broom and imitating with amaz
ing contortions the sighs of a lover he
shouts, accompanied by his koskai, a
song of mockery in regard to the unfor
tunate Djiye :
“ There was once a poor paper-dealer
—who was beaten by his wife—in his
house they died of hunger—all through
the fault of a guecha."
“ Enough, enough !” cries the poor
girl. “ Encore, encore !” shouts the
public. The song is horrible, and the
ability of the actor to imitate the squall
ing accents of Japanese music shows
that ridicule of themselves is not neg
lected by this sceptical people. The
plantitudes of the formulas of saluta
tion are constantly made the subject of
most amusing parodies. However, at
length the two women begin to lose pa
tience, and the gallant is invited to take
himself off. But even in returning he
plays off one of his tricks. At the door
lie lays in wait for Djiye, who he thinks
cannot fail soon to be there. In fact, a
man appears with his head enveloped in
one of the black liooda which are worn
by persons who frequent these disreputa
ble quarters, in order that they may
escape recognition. Kahe and his ser
vant proceed to attack the unknown,
but he quickly knocks them aside and
shows his sabre. It is not Djiye, it is
one of the two-sworded nobies. “I
ought to punish you for your insolence,”
says he, “but as I am in a place of this
kind I will pardon you. Go on your
ways.” This injunction they do not re
quire him to repeat.
This unsolicited clemency, however,
and oertain details of costume, lead the
audience to suspect that this person is
not one of the aamourai; but that he
is compelled to hide his name and his
profession for some secret purpose. He
is, in fact, Djiye’s father, who comes to
snatch his son, if possible, from this
fatal passion. He enters the tea-house
as a Bamourai who wishes for rest and
amusement. Everything must bow to
the desires of a aamourai , and the mis
tress of the house calls O’Hare to dance
and sing for their guest. But she re
fuses ; she is too sad. The mysterious
personage interrogates the hostess in
regard to this intractable girl. He
learns all he wishes t know. To every
thing that he sayß to her she gives but
a simple reply : “ Which is the best
way to kill oneself, by steel or’ by
X?” Presently they pass into the
>n to take tea.
At the other end of the street now ap
pears Djiye; his handkerchief is bound
round his head, he is pale, his eyes are
hollow, his legs tremble, and he exhib
its all that physical weakening and those
material ravages which are moduoed
by a disorderly ;aesion. In a long mute
scene the actor exhibits his grief,
his despair, his weakness. He oare
fully peers around for fear of meet
ing those spies who are to prevent him
from approaching the beautiful O’Hare.
Be sees ho one, however, Iml hearing
the sound of voices inside the house he
hesitates abont entering. Mangoyemon
—the name of his father—in the mean
time had drawn from the young girl the
secret of her project. “ You will kill
yourself in despair, will you?” says he,
re-entering upon the scene. “But do
you not know that your lover will at
tempt to take his own life ? You are
going to cause innumerable misfortunes.
Besides, have you not a mother who
loves you ? Who is to console her
when you are dead ?” O’Hare bursts in
to tears, but for a long time keeps si
lent. At last her mind is made up.
“Well,” she says, “come every day for
three months at this hoar. He shall
see me no more, and will soon forget
me." Djiye, who is behind the door,
overhears these words. Furious with
jealousy he raises his sword and at
tempts to stab the girl through the lat
tice. Bat Mangoyemon seizes the
sword, disarms the attacking party,
whom they take to be a robber, reaches
through the lattice, and grasping his
son binds him firmly to tho post. At
this moment O'Hare utters a cry ; she
recognizes the sword as that of Djiye.
The father recognizes it also, and is
struck dumb with astonishment.
Kahe now again appears upon the
scene, followed by his koskai. They
come forward very cautiously, as they
fear to meet the samourai again. They
nee a man at the door, and believing it
to be him they fall back and discuss the
situation. But presently they recog
nize their enemy Djiye, and immedi
ately determine to punish him. They
cry out “ Thief!” the police arrive with
a punctuality which is in sad contrast
vuth their habits in real life, and as
usual they begin to hustle and bully
those who have called them. Mangey
emon now comes out of the house and
stops the tumult. Kahe trembles like
a leaf. “ Why,” says the false sa
mourai, “do you call this man a thief?”
“ Because he owes me twenty rios, and
will not pay me.” “ Where is the bond?”
“It is here.” The father seizes the
paper signed by his son, and tears it
into a thousand pieces. Kahe thinks
he is to be defrauded, but the father
pays him the twenty rios, and the cred
itor then departs with many bows and
compliments. Mangoyemon now releases
the prisoner. “You are my benefac
tor,” says Djiye. “I am but a poor
man, aud I cannot repay yon the money
immediately, but give me your name
and your address, in order that some of
these days I may acquit myself. “My
name and address you have no need to
inquire, but if you wish to know me,
lift up the lantern.” “My father?”
Thereupon ensues a long sermon upon
the immoral conduct of the son, his
disorders, his debts, and the shame
which he Das even now brought upon
himself, by being called a thief in the
streets, and losing his sword. And all
this for a woman ! and what kind of a
woman ! Does she love him ? Not
she, she is ready to abandon him at this
moment. At the mention of her name
the young man rushes into the house ;
overwhelms O’Hare with reproaches for
her supposed infidelity, and demands
the return of a paper which he had
given her, engaging to kill himself with
her, in case she could not be his. She
resists, wishing to keep the paper as a
souvenir; and, moreover, it is in the
same part of her dress with the letter
from his wife, and she does not wish to
show either one or the other. Djiye,
now as furious as he had before been
tender, insists upon her producing the
paper. The father seizes her girdle,
and out falls the fatal letter. The jeal
ous lover wishes to read it. Mangoye
mon prevents him. What does he see 1
His son’s wife begs the quecha to give
her back her husband and restore peace
to the domestic hearth. It is for the
purpose of acceding to this request
that she bas been willing to abandon
Djiye. He is struck with admiration at
this devition on the the part of the girl,
but it is above all things necessary that
Djiye remain in error in order that his
cure may be complete ; and the father
cries, as he destroys the letter : “ This
woman deceives thee.” At the same
moment he casts an eloquent glance at
the singer, which tells her that he un
derstands all, but that she must submit
to this last sacrifice. She bends her
head in silence. The chorus sings a
verse, which gives the actors time to
prolong their gestures and pantomime,
and the whole audience vociferously
applauds them.
Mangoyemon carries off his son, and
the piece appears to be finished. The
Japanese playwright, however, prefers
to prolong his drama as much as possi
ble. Hardly have the father ana son
taken a few steps than the latter wishes
to return. “ What is the good of see
ing her again if you love her no longer?”
“ I wish again to abuse her ; I have not
said all that I wish to say.” He enters
again, an \ this time he begins with
tears. “ Dost thou remember the past?
Alas ! I love thee still ! ” O’Hare is
overwhelmed with emotion. She is on
the point of betraying herself when
Mangoyemon again enters. “ Not a
word,” says he in a low voice to the
guecha. “Not a word, or my son is
lost.” Then turning to his son he ex
claims, “Thou seest; she is silent,
and cannot defend herself.” The cur
tain falls as he makes a last gesture of
gratitude and homage to the woman
who thus sacrifices herself.
The Georgia Gold Region.
The Atlanta News has been shown a
piece of gold ore taken from the Yine
branch mines,‘six miles from Dahlonega,
worth about SIO,OOO per ton. He had
a small piece weighing about one-fourth
of a pound, which contained six dollars
worth of the precious metal, the ore
being worth $200,000 per ton. Mr.
Harrison says that there are now three
mills in operation, two very large ones
building, and by next summer six or
eight mills will be running, employing
nearly two thousand hands. The mine
known as the Big Acqueduot mine pur
chased by Mr. Hand, of Ohio, will be
one of the largest in this section of the
country. The acqueduct alone oost
about $500,000. The power of the
mills will range from twenty to forty
s’amps, and each stamp can pound
twenty tons per day. One gentleman
has a mill that cost about $15,000, can
pound one hundred pounds of ore per
day, at a oost of twenty dollars. The ore
of this mine averages about one dollar
per pound, leaving a net profit of eighty
dollars per day. Great preparations
are being made, and by next spring
Dahlonega will present as busy an ap
pearance as our own city.
A Five Million Dollar House.
Mr. Albert Grant, the donor of Lei
cester square, is having built a mansion
which promises to be the finest in Lon
don. It is situated in the High street,
Kensington, and the buildings and
ground cover an area of more than
fourteen acres. The house is in the
Rennaissanoe style, and has a frontage
200 feet. Some idea may be formed of
the extent ©f the work from the fact
that during the past two years 650 men
have been daily employed. The total
oost will exceed a million sterling.
When completed, the house will con
tain a grand hall and staircase in white
marble, a picture gallery and three din
ing-rooms en suite, a hall-room 85 feet
long, and three stories of bedrooms,
reached by steam elevators.
Thu expense of publishing a daily
paper is scarcely guessed at by out
siders. The entire oost of the New
York Herald, for example, is said to
average $2,500 daily, or $912,500 a year.
The cost of publishing the Tribune is,
probably, $1,500 a day, of the Times
$1,300, and of the World, S7OO to SBOO.
THE BANKRUPT LAW.
What the Amended Law Means Aecord
ing to Judge Blatchford.
New York Journal of Commerce.
There has gone abroad a greatlv mis
taken interpretation of Judge Blatch
ford’s recent decision regarding the per
cent, of a debtor’s obligation which
must be paid in order to entitle him to
a discharge. We find the decision
broadly stated to be “ that when the
assets of a bankrupt do not reach fifty
per cent, of claims proved against the
estate, he cannot have a discharge un
less with the assent of a majority of the
number and value of his creditors, in
accordance with the law of 1868, a pro
vision which, in the opinion of the oonrt,
has not been modified by subsequent
legislation.” What was in fact decided
was something very different, though
important to undischarged involuntary
bankrupts in whose cases proceedings
were begun after Jauuary 1, 1869. To
such cases the fifty per cent, clause was
applied prospectively, by the act of July
27, 1868, and the question is whether
the repeal of that danse by act of 1874
releases from the operation pending
cases. Judge Blatchford declares that
it does not. As interpreted in the above
quotation the decision would flatly con
tradict the language of the amendatory
act, which declares (section 8) that “in
cases of involuntary or compulsory bank
ruptcy the provisions of said act (the
original bankruptcy act of March 2,
1867), and any amendments thereof, or
of any supplement thereto, requiring
the payment of any proportion of the
debts of the bankrupt, or the assent of
any portion of his creditors, as a con
dition of his discharge from his debts,
shall not apply; but he may, if other
wise entitled thereto, be discharged by
the court in the same manner and with
the same effect as if he had paid such
per cent, of his debts, or if the required
proportion of his creditors had assented
thereto.”
Judge Blatchford rules that congress
meant, in the first part of this quota
tion, cases of involuntary or compulsory
bankruptcy which may hereafter be
commenced, and that no relief was in
tended for debtors already adjudicated
bankrupt, but remaining undischarged
for want of ability to pay fifty per cent.,
or to obtain the assent of a majority in
number and value of their creditors. It
may be so. Although it appears to ns
no violence would be done to the lan
guage of the amendment by a more
liberal interpretation, yet the district
courts appear thus far to have held uni
formly that except where the amenda
tory act is expressly given a retroactive
effect, its operation is confined to cases
which have not yet reached the point of
adjudication. Where an order of adju
dication had in fact been made b v the
judge, but not formally entered, Judge
Blatchford held the opening largeenough
to let in the amendatory act, and in such
a case required the petition to be amend
ed so as to allege suspension of payment
of commercial paper for forty days, in
stead of the fourteen which was enough
to allege when the proceedings were be
gun. None of the other decisions which
have fallen under our notice hinge upon
quite so fine a point of time as this.
Judgments have been rendered, how
ever, limiting the express retrospective
provisions of the act of 1874, one of
which, regulating the number of credi
tors to be joined in a petition, it is en
acted without qualification shall apply
to all cases begun since December 1,
1873. The circuit court for the eastern
district of Missouri, in ro Obear, and in
re Thomas, reversing the order of the
district court, restricts this general pro
vision as follows : “ Without entering
upon the inquiry as to the competency
of congress to annul by mere legislative
declaration prior adjudications of bank
ruptcy, regularly made, in pursuance of
laws in force at the time, under the con
veyance and acts thereunder, I m of
the opinion that congress did not intend
by the amendatory act to overturn or
disturb adjudications then already made
and in force.” In another case, arising
in Michigan, the adjudication was made
in April of the present year, and the pe
titioning creditors, supposing it neces
sary to amend their petition in accord
ance with the amendatory act of June,
sought leave of the oourt to do so. The
court, however, decided that amendment
was necessary, saying : “ The decree of
adjudication having been rendered prior
to the appioval of the amendatory act,
it will stand as the decree of the court.
It is not in the power of the legislative
department of the government to so far
interfere with the judicial department
as to vacate the judgments and decrees
of the latter.” The United States dis
trict oourt for the western district of
Wisconsin also says : “It is not neces
sary to amend the petition when there
has been an adjudication before the
amended act took effect. An adjudica
tion removes the cases beyond the do
main of legislative control.” (In re
Raffanf, 6 Legal News, 841.) The east
ern district court of Wisconsin has like
wise decided that the amendment mak
ing it necessary in order to avoid sales
alleged to be in fraud of the act that the
buyer must know, and not merely have
“ reasonable cause to believe,” that they
are fraudulent, is not available in cases
begun before the Ist of December, 1873.
Under these decisions accordingly,
there is room for the enactment of a sort
of general amnesty to relieve debtors
who remain undischarged while other
debtors of the same class, under the
later act, go free of their obligations.
There is no justice in maintaining this
ungenerous distinction.
The Southern Planter.
There must, and will be, a radical
change in the conduct of the rising gen
eration of planters. The younger men
are, I think, convinced that it is a mis
take to depend on western and northern
markets for the articles of daily con
sumption, and for nearly everything
which goes to make life tolerable. Bat
the elders, grounded by a lifetime of
habit in the methods which served them
well under a slave regime, but which
are ruinous now-a-days, will never cor
rect themselves. They will continue
to bewail the unfortunate fate to which
they think themselves condemned—or
will rest assured that they can do very
well in the present chaotic condition of
things, provided that Providence does
not allow their crops to fail. They
cannot be brought to see that their on
ly safety lies in making cotton their
surplus crop ; that they must absolutely
dig their sustenance, as well as their
riches, out of the ground. Before the
war, a planter who owned a plantation
of two thousand acres, and two hun
dred negroes upon it, would, when he
came to make his January settlement
with his merchant in town, invest what
ever there was to his credit in more
land and more negroes. Now the more
land he buys the worse he is off, because
he finds it very hard to get it worked
up to the old standard, and unless he
does, he can ill afford to buy supplies
from the outer world at the heavy prices
charged for them—or if he can do that,
he can accomplish little else. As most
of his capital was taken from him by
ishe series of events which liberated his
slaves, he has been compelled, since the
war, to undertake his planting opera
tions on borrowed capital, or, in other
words, has relied on a merchant or mid
dle man to furnish food and clothing
for his laborers, and all the means nec
essary to get his crop, baled and
weighed, to the market. The failure of
his crop would of coarse cover him
with liabilities ; bat Bach has been his
fatal persistence in this false system
that he has been able to straggle
through, as in Alabama, three saooee
aive crop failures, The merchant,
1874.
somewhat reconciled to the anomalous
oondition of affairs by the large profits
he can make on coarse goods brought
long distances, has himself pushed en
duranoe and courage to an extreme
point, and when he dare give credit no
longer, hosts of planters are often
plaoed in the most painful and embar
rassing positions. So they gather up
the wrecks of their fortunes, place their
lares and penates in an emigrant wagon,
or car, and doggedlv work their way to
Texas. —Edward King, in Scribner’s.
The International Shooting Match.
Tho international rifle match took
place on the 26tb, at Creedmoor. Maj.
Leech, captain of the Irish team, and
Col. Wingate, captain of the Americans,
were chosen referees and Gen. Shaler as
umpire.
The firing was begun at 800 yards’
range, each marksman having fifteen
shots. The shooting was witnessed with
the most lively interest among the buils
eyes, exciting loud murmurs of applause
among the spectators, who at first also
hailed them by a round of hand-olap
ping. At the earnest request of the
captains of both teams, these demon
strations were subdued, as ha vine a
tendency to disturb the marksmen. The
result of the competition, which lasted
an hour and a quarter, was in donbt al
most up to the close, when it wr s found
that the Americans were winners by
nine points—326 to 317. Fulton, of the
Americans, made 58, and Hamilton
made the same for the Irish. *
The result of the first oontest gave
encouragement to Ihe friends of the
American riflemen, and many confident
ly predicted their success in all the
trials. The betting was now 8100 to
S7O in favor of the Americans.
The shsoting was followed by an in
termission for lunch in one of the tents,
where congratulations were exchanged,
and in a complimentary speech Major
Leech presented to the rifle association,
on behalf of the Irish team, a handsome
silver vase, as a trophy, to be subject to
annual competition, and as a memorial
of the international matoh. A handsome
silver badge was at the same time pre
sented to Col. Wingate, captain of the
American team, by Capt. Leech,
Soon after two o’clock firing was re
sumed at the 900 yard station, and the
result was in favor of the Irish team by
two points. Both teams immediately
moved to the 1,000 yard range, and the
result of the firing here was also favor
able to the Irish by four marks, but
these latter triumphs were not sufficient
to overcome defeat in the short ranges,
and the Americans won the match by
three points.
A Plnnec in the North Sea.
M. Durnof and his wife, who recently
made the perilous ascent from Calais,
have been rescued in the North sea.
As one of the attractive features of a
public fete given at Calais that day, it
was announoed that the adventurous
aeronaut and his wife would go up in
their balloon, the Tricolor, and if the
wind was favorable, they proposed to
make au aerial voyage over the channel
and land in England. The wind was
squally, and, moreover, blew in the
wrong direction. With a south-easterly
current, the attempt would have been
made, but it blew variously south and
south-west, and the only prospect before
the voyagers was a descent in the Ger
man ocean, unless they could reach the
distant shores of Denmark or Norway.
The authorities forbade the ascent, but
part of the crowd, disappointed of the
sensational episode of the day’s amuse
ment, taunted Durnof with cowardice,
and, stung by their taunts, he and his
wife made the desperate effort to carry
out their engagement, and Le Tricolor
was seen rising in the clouds just as night
was closing in, and drifting over the
Straits of Dover toward the open sea.
So it continued to drift fcr ten hours,
when the gas being partly exhausted, it
fell into the North sea.
Then they saw and were seen by a
Grimsby fishing smack ; the crew hast
ened to their rescue, pursued the car,
which dipped and rose out of the water
like a flying fish, and finally, after a
chase of two hours, saved the half
drowned aeronaut and his wife in the
middle of the North sea, some 170
miles from the Spurr light-house.
Aocording to these data it would seem
that the balloon had traveled about
three hundred miles in a direct line,
its rate being between twenty-five and
thirty miles an hour, or about twice
the average horizontal motion of the
air. —London Ttlepraph.
Pleasure Without Pain.
Among the mauy “ mosa-grown er
rors ” which is the delight of philoso
phers, moralists, and poets, to forever
keep repeating, there is none which
more needs exposure than that about
pleasure always eluding the grasp of
her pursuers. So often has it been re
peated that the mere attempt to t njoy
one’s self is enough to render enjoy
ment impossible, that it is a wonder
that people have not, by the mere force
of authority, given up altogether all
essays at pleaanre-seeking.
“ There can be no pleasure without
thought, or without exertion, that does
not aim at pleasure, or the exercise of
the moral powers,” says a religous con
temporay. Is it possible that the writer
of those sentiments never went to sleep
at night with an easy coascience, never
took, an afternoon nap, or enjoyed any
slumber “on purpose? ” Is it possible
that he never went a-flshing and had a
good time, and caught quite a respect
able “ string,” without any exercise of
the moral powers ? What have oysters
at their season, or watermelons or roses,
so curious in their constitution, that
you must pretend to be going to ohnrch
when you are really going to market,
in order to prevent their losing their
attractions for the senses ? Exertion
must aim at something else in order to
hit pleasure, forsooth !
If there be any man with a life dreary
enough to write this specious sentiment
of the schools sincerely—a man who
has never sought and gained pleasure
through sight or hearing, and gained it
consciously—then let all men pity him ;
it is full time that he began to eat his
bread with joy, and to drink his wine
(metaphorically) with a merry heart.
Remarkable Movement in China.
The violent opposition of the Chinese
of Canton to Christianity has nearly
ceased, it is said ; and many of them
have beoorne earnest supporters and as
zealous in good works as the missiona
ries themselves. “A system of free
schools is being inangurated which
takes large numbers of scholars from
mission schools. On this aeconut
the London Missionary Society has
been compelled to relinquish the
school they had at Fatschan. The
children preferred the schools of
their own neighborhood, tanght by
men of distinction. Hospitals, too, are
erected, at which medicines are dispen
sed gratis, and the sick receive medical
advice without charge. The poor find
support from a fund for the purpose,
and widows and orphans a home.
Preachers are being sent out in imita
tion of the evangelical missionaries, who
are to preach both through the city and
country adjacent. To these enterprises
public men of wealth are contributing
their thonaands.
Rev. Dm. West, lately of Danville,
Ky. t avers that the Rev. Dr. Swing, of
Chicago, is “ simply a pantheistic Arian
of the Eutychian type, a mcmophvsite,
a monothelite, and does not preach the
Apangasmal brillianoe of Godhead’s
glory, bmt is a Macedonian,”
TOPS! TUMBLE.
A Little Street WeW, ant WDat Became
ut Her.
She wasn’t a bad sort of a girl foi' one
who had been brought np in an all< y all
her days, living with old Mother Hart
ever sir oe she was large enough to g ther
chips around the ship-yard. The boys
called her Topsy Tumble, and noliody
knew anything abont her parents or re
latives. ” Her hair was long and mat ted;
her face tanned to a brown ; her nose
always bore a stain of dirt, and she had
stone-bruises on her feet, and chapped
hands and sore heels, just like the rag
ged boys with whom she played. The
“ society” of the alley rather cut Tt psy
Tumble” but she was independent, and
she made faces at “ society” from the
top of coal-sheds, and allowed herself
to be harnessed up beside Bob W ute
when the boys wanted a blooded team
to draw a oreaking cart down around
the railroad crossing.
The alley was unusually quiet the
other week. Topsy Tumble was sick.
Mother Hart said so when Bob Wiite
went to Bee if Topsy wanted to trt de
her old jack-knife for a small dog which
he had pioked up on Atwater street. It
was a strange Bring, her illness. For
eleven years she had rolled in the di't,
waded through the snow and plash ;d
around in the mud, and nobody had ever
heard her complain of anything more
than a stubbed toe. Bob oouldn’t make
it out. He and Bill Davis and Sam
Sharp and Chip Larkins sat in the shade
of a truck wagon going to decay aid
talked it over. It would be rough cn
Mother Hart to have sickness aod beir
a doctor’s bill, and they wondered f
Topsy would get well in time to go out
with them the next week.
The doctor said it was a bad fever,
and most of the folks in John Browa
alley oalled in to say that they would
sit up nights and do anything they
could. Topsy was out of her head,
talking Grange things, and, after look
ing at her flushed face and listening to
her mutterings, Bob White called tho
boys together on top of a coal shed, and
there was a lump in his throat as ho
whispered :
“ Boys, Topsy’s a-goin’ to die !”
The boys looked around over the shedn
and made no reply, and by-and-by they
slid down one by one and went home
There was ro more dog fighting in tht
alley—no pounding of fire alarms or
the old steamboat boiler and then rush
ing the “ masheen” np to the corner.
Columbus Jones brought his rooster
down and wanted to bet a kite that it
oould clean ont any chicken in John
Brown alley, but the boys had no en
thusiasm.
Topsy grew worse. The doctor called
twioe a day, but his medicines didn’t
touch the case, and he told Mother Hart
that Topsy must die. The old woman
felt a little weak, and her eyes grew
misty. It had been a score of years
since Bhe had wept for gnef, and Bhe
coaid not remember when she had
thought of death.
The neighbors came in, and they tip
toed across the room, and kept their
babies still that the dying girl might
hear no harsh sound. Bob White and
his chums hung around the door awhile,
and finally gathered oourage to pull off
their hats and enter the house. Mother
Hart motioned for them to take seats on
the bench at the foot of the bed, and
she whispered in a weak voice :
“ Bob, I’m afeard we’re going to lose
Topsy!” ...
Bob wiped his eyes and his chin quiv
ered, and gome of the boys broke clear
down and wept.
Topsy was unconscious. The boys
wondered at the pallor of her face and
the whiteness of her hands, and they
saw that her matted hair had been cut
short. The women shed tears. Mother
Hart kept wiping her eyes on her apron,
and the boys wondered if sitting there
wasn’t something like going to meeting.
She was a good girl, Topsy was,”
whispered one of the women.
“And so willing to help her mother,"
said another.
“And she stood up for John Brown
alley !” added Bob White, a sob in his
throat
Darkness settled down and they al
most lost sight of the white face. No
one moved. Some of the babies fell
asleep, and the mothers trotted them
softly, and the boys almost dozed as
they sat crooked up on the bench. The
shadows of night grew deeper, and the
rattle of a truck going home sounded
painfully loud and harsh. Mother Hart
moved softly over and lighted the little
old lamp, and as she held it up the wo
man said : “ Poor dear !” and Bob
White leaned over on Chip Larkins’
shoulder and sobbed aloud.
Topsy Tumble was dead !
The little soul, never washed by a
mother’s tears—-never made > etter by a
word about heaven—never drinking in.
the knowledge that only the body dies
—crossed the dark valley alone, having
only the tears and heartaches of the
dwellers in John Brown alley to plead
its case with the angels. —Detroit Post.
United States Wines.
The manufacture of wine has become
an industry of considerable importance
in the United States. In 1870 the pro
duction amounted to 12,450,000 gallons.
Of this, California yielded 7,000,000;
New York, 2,225,000; Illinois, 1,200,-
000; Missouri, 1,000,000; and other
states, 1,000.000. At the exposition in
Vienna, the United States stood ninth
in the list of exhibitors. The fjur
leading oonntries in the catalogue were
Austria with 1872 kinds of wine ; Hun
gary, 1574 kinds; Spain, 1200 kinds;
France 920 kinds. The United States
displayed eighty-two specimens, sent by
seventeen manufacturers ; and received
two medals of progress, four medals of
scienoe, and three diplomas. The re
port of Dr. Adolph Ott, member of the
Swiss commission, says that the United
States “sent ordinal y and spurkling
catawba, Delaware wine, and cham
pagne, sweet and dry.” The last
named received much commendation,
and was declared to be equal to the
best Spanish and Portuguese dry wines.
The sparkling wines were also mnch
approved. It is well known that the
European vine, vitia vinifera, does not
flourish in America, on aooount of the
severe changes of temperature, and even
the bastards obtained by hybridization
are worthless for the production of
wine. On the other hand. North Amer
ica possesses more than 800 native va
rieties, mostly of the vitis labrusca, of
which, however, only a small number
are cultivated. Mr. Frederick Hecker,
who has experimented with fifty-seven
varieties, has settled upon fourteen.
The American varieties of vine flourish
exceedingly well, never freeze, and are
almost indestructible. For instance,
the catawba, the blue Isabella, and the
blue Madeira, are known in Europe.
Some kinds bear enormous grapes, as
the Concord, North Carolina, and oth
ers, which, according to Hecker, are
very well suited to the Rhine climate.
Upon the character of the American
wines Mr. Ott remarks: “ The odor
and taste of nearly all the labrusca va
rieties is similar to that of mnscatelle,
and varies between vanilla and straw
berry. The aroma, which is different
from the flavor of European wines, is
generally weak, and diminishes with
the age of the wine. Still the wne ob
tained from the bine Isabella (cape
grape) ia distinguished by a superior
boquet, which fills the surrounding air
with a spicy essence; for which reason
this grape Is well fitted for admixture
with less aromatic grapes.”
Those stormy petrels of social life—
Wood-hull and Claftin—are back again.
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Incidents of the Fall Elver Fire.
Incidents of the .Bftrrflifl
some of them being of' t4i; moat
heartrending description. Dtirieg fße
height of the excitement a gwjs,
scarcely in her teens, appeared m> ooa
of the upper windows gazing npofl 'the>
horror-stricken people below. All Wear
were directed to her, in the expectation,
of seeing her follow the example of
others who had jumped from thewfcu
dows at the risk of life and limb. Those
who were holding beds beneath the
windows grasped them more firmly to
receive her, while seorces of voices
shouted to her to jump. The light
shone full npon her face, which was
wreathed with a beautiful smile, aa
though she had caught a glimpse of the
other world already; as the people
gazed she slowly turned around and
disappeared forever from mortal view.
Whether she became insensible from
the smoke or whether the terror of the
moment bad deprived the poor child of
reason, will never be known until the
dead give up their secrets. Another
incident that has been narrated as an
actual fact, but which I have been una
ble as yet to substantiate, is almost in
credible, though not beyond the range
of possibility. It is said that a little
fellow, scarcely a dozen years old, jump
ed from one of the upper windows to
the ground, and when the spectator*
rushed forward to pick up the mangled
body, they were astonished to see him
spring to his feet, apparently uninjured,
and start on a ruh for his home. Burst
ing into the house m breathless haste,
he shouted to his mother, “ The mill is
all on fir# !” and then he suddenly drop
ped to the floor lifeless, the fearful
sixty-foot jump having resulted in fatal
internal injuries which the excitement
of the moment prevented his feeling.
It appears that many of the deaths and
severe injuries were caused by the peo
ple striking upon the ladders which
were run up to the third and fourth
stories. One girl struck between
two rounds in such a manner that her
back was instantly broken, and her
head hung down swaying back and
forth, and while the body reclined in
that position a man and a woman in turn
struca against it, bounding off again to
the ground. All the persons who at
tempted to escape from the attic did not
mat, a a clean jump to the ground. A
rope was thrown out of the window by
somebody, which reached a good part
of the way to the ground, and quite a
number slid down this rope as far as
possible, and then dropped the rest of
the way, thus escaping instant death;
though all were more or less injured.
Two of the girls—Alice Stafford and
Nancy Mullen, who were among tho*e
who used the rope—had their hands
badly burned by the friction, and the
former had her back injured and both
ankles dislocated by the fall. The per
sons who availed themselves of this
rope would have esoaped serious injury
had not the rope caught fire by the
flames bursting out of the windows and
burned off some forty feet from the
ground.— N. Y. Herald’s fall River
Special.
terialistic Joke.
A lecturer on materialism and a city
missionary met the other day in England
to discuss before an audience the
tion of responsibility. “Science,” arid
the philosopher, “ has proved beyond
doubt that at the end of a few years not
a particle in my body or brain remains;
every atom has passed away, and the
new matter forms anew man, who can
not be held accountable for the conduct
of another.” The audience seemed en
chanted. Then arose the city missiona
ry and said ; “ Ladies and gentlemen,
it is a matter of regret to me that I
have to engage in a discussion with a
man of questionable character, with
one, in fact, who is living with a woman
to whom he is not married.” Up rose,
in wrath, again the materialist. “ Sir,
this is shameful, and I repudiate your
insolent attack on my character. I defy
you to substantiate yonr charge. I was
married to my wife twenty years ago,
and we have lived happily together ever
unoe. This is a mere attempt at evad
ng the force of my argument.” “On
the contrary,” replied the city mission
ary, “ I reaffirm my charge. Ton ware
never married to the person with whom
you are living. Twenty years ago two
other people may have gone to church,
1 tearing your names, but there is not
cne atom in your bodies remaining of
those which were then married. It fol
lows inevitably that yon are living in
concubinage, unless you will admit that
you are the same man who was married
twenty years since.” The philosopher
vas compelled, amid great cheering, to
allow that, somehow or other, credit and
discredit for past actions most be grant
ed even by materialists.
A Kentucky Beauty.
A Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette writes: “ Four
y -ars ago Congressman Reek’s daugh
ter, Miss Maggie, was one of the ac
knowledged queens of Washington so
ci 2ty. Byron describes her type in his
Dadm Without exception, I think she
hid the most exquisite neck, arms, and
shoulder I have ever seen. No marble
from far-famed Carrara was ever more
tr rasparently white, and no sculptor’s
chisel could have added a perfection.
Hir hair was dark and lustrous, and
long black lashes shaded eves of that
peculiar blue-gray which Miles O’Rielly
im normalizes in his poem to his lost
Janette. The ‘Blue Grass’ state is
very prodigal of the charms it bestows
upon its daughters, and it heaped them
bountifully upon the person ot Miss
Maggie Beck. At the close of her third
season, James Corooran, nephew of th
wealthy banker, won her for his bride.
At the end of a month of married life
she was dressed a second time in her
wedding costume ot lace and pearls and
shimmering satin, and from the parlors
of r,he Corooran caatle she was borne to
the cars which carried her to a grave in
her native state.”
The “ War Governor” Vanquished.
The Washington Capital relates the
foil >wing anecdote of ex-Governor Den
nison, of Ohio: ‘‘On the night the
Neil house, Columbus, was burned Gov.
Dei nison, not believing the hotel to be
on fire, mounted upon the balcony to
address the crowd. It was an immense
ooncourse, for the alarm was given at a
very convenient hour, immediately after
sup’ier, and it was too tempting for
Wil iam to resist, so he sang out in that
clear, clarion voice of his: ‘My fellow
citizens, the conflagration is not here, it
is elsewhere. But it has been sug
gest and to me by friends that, in view of
your promiscuous, unexpected, and I
may say startling assemblage on thiß
occasion, it will be well, while the con
flagration, wherever it may develop its
lurid torch, is manifesting itself, to dis
cuss a few of the momentous issues now
diviiing the people of this ensanguined
land ’ Before William could reach the
said issues the fire scorched his ooat
tails and he was knocked over by a
truniu”
Tee Alaska Herald’s enthusiastic as
sertion, that, in two hundred and fifty
yean from this, Sitka will be one of the
ieadi Qg-ship-building cities in the west,
has failed to create any perceptible rip
ple of enthusiasm among the present
gene nation of Sitkans.
Ah old lady with a large family, liv
ing rear a river, was asked if she didn't
live in constant dread that some of her
children would be drowned. “ Oh, no,”
she replied, “ we have only lost three OT
four in that way,”