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11Y EDGAR FAWCETT.
H , j.,, |i,. s with the sheen on it
H ~'fo hist look serene on it;
m , in,l it- rim, in the gloaming din, the shades
H | t |„> low hills lean on it.
I ‘ ,s( sound the eharmlng quiet mars;
H i'jiinv heaven is yearning for its stars!
■ , |Slr ., n ge, half-proud humility,
■ :i;: ill „|,?uo,.s tranquillity,
H r t lounging sweet, at my flattered feet, in
I ' vVitaosque immobility;
| , J'thv bosom’s eliante superb repose
v ; blood-red, VblSrct-petailed rose.
■ j. M . aflhtrut hair so billow-like
lr „.i> ~f tliv form SO willow-like,
from the red eaeheniirc folded im
■ ' ' ,1,-r its pale cheek pillow-like;
I . urnippled lake, the gloom, the calm—all dower
I with one imiierisliable hour!
I , ),ow the pines loom towerwisc;
i. tin. iiike-< dae howerwise;
I ' -I n s wait still, ere they llock to fill the lieav
enW meadows Howerwise.
Hosier in the darkening west hums now,
s,.me grand diamond on some swart queens
iirow.
\\i,love ' with tlie rich day failing so,
\\ iithe slimmer sunset jailing so,
j „ ,f/M always rent on the lustrous breast of the
hike, forever .sailing so,
, ~] 1,,.!, at langurous rapture’s utmost goal,
; , lightly sweep the lute-strings of my soul!
fhsslless, ii skit's he thunderfull,
if time iw plunderfull;
i Kiily sure of the splendor pure in those fatliom
|i-< eyes, and wonderful,
y, .Kill would soar beyond all time, as soars
im' iij’lcaping lark through dawn’s white corridors
THE BEAUCHAMP TKAUEDY.
flu- story of One of (lie Most I'ltmoiis
jtiirdeisi ever I*erp*trateil in America.
Cincinnati Commercial.
Wi'.ixlering among the graves in the
ivinctery at k rankfort, a correspondent
it the Cincinnati Commercial found a
.lark, Cray monument bearing the name
Siloiimn 1. 8 harp. Ihe inscription
. tes that he “ was assassinated while
o,trialing the hand of hospitality, on the
nine: <d Nov. 7, 1825, in the thirty
itli year of his ago,” with the text
ltd: “What thou knowest not now,
lit til shalt know hereafter.”
Col. Sharp was, in his day, one of the
vrmio.it men of Kentucky. During the
of James Madison he had
served two terms in congress, at which
linn' he was the room-mate and intimate
friend of
JOHN a CALHOUN,
bio is said to have declared that Sharp
-’’the oldest man of his ai.ee that had
vi r crossed the mountains.” He had
previously been several times elected to
Kentucky legislature, and under
'"'V. .vdair was attorney-general of the
do. At the time of his death he had
ttleil in Frankfort as a very successful
ivyer, but had recently been again
• " ted to the legislature as the cham
!'!" of the “ relief party.” The “ relief”
'h "anti-relief” controversy, of which
- dl not attempt to sketch a history,
* been for some time agitating the
" . and the tact that Col. Sharp was
- irded as a chief exponent of the relief
? incut, and that the session of the
J :!-latnre was to begin on the day foi
ling his assassination, lent a jieculiar
‘■mpliasis to the excitement that followed.
i!x' story ot his death, with its cause
: ! u, l ds consequences, I have learned
'mm several cotemporary personal
imms. But first let me say, fronting
the capitol square in Frankfort, on its
northern side, and only a few steps cast-
W: ! ni from the Frankfort and Louisville
railway, is a large, dark, red-colored
~ru’ k mansion, tliree stories in height,
i.’ttcnding far back, with ample aecom
ii'idations for the slave help of “the
?*od old times.”
his house is perhaps sixty years old,
w ‘ ,s Hie house of Col. Solomon P.
iirji in iN2o. A few years previous,
p,: ir l ) ' ia( l met a young lady named Ann
hhza Cook, and
IIK HAD SEDUCED HER.
; !° was a young lady of good family, of
cultivation, with some literary tal-
He met her at a party, I believe,
"l it was under the excitement of the
i : lll( . r an< l the wine j>erhaps, that Miss
yielded herself to him. After her
became known she had secluded
:"' r>rlf , at home, but it seems that a
* ; <wyer named Jeroboam O. Beau
-1 ;, i s<) of respectable family, hap-
C"r l to S0( ‘ i' er and, falling in love with
! succeeded in obtaining her promise
; 1 ' 'ome his wife on condition exacted
p . T lie should kill Colonel Sharp.
l! ' promise was made —the marriage
'"'place. Some time —a year or two
■ Map s passed, and Sharp still re
' "Utcd alive. Perhaps the trouble
nave passed and been forgotten,
. !ii 't tin- seduction been mentioned as
, " 1 character during the
'"m political campaign in which he
ut'elected to the legislature. On this
' V ' :,! ‘.'C being brought against him, Col.
' T treated it slightly and stated in
1'". '1 ;< ‘) it is said, that a certificate was in
, ‘ ■ U' c that this child born of Miss
IIAD A BLACK FACE.
I,l|s added insult to the original injury,
;in, l the secret writing of Beauchamp’s
noise came out "distinctly at his
:, th. 1 he Sunday evening before the
ncral assembly met, Beauchamp (who
v "'i in another part of the state) en-
U'l Frankfort, and, finding the hotels
/" put up at the private house of a
utlcman named Bcott, two or three
'lares south of Sharp’s residence. Late
night he went around to the house in
'nidi Sharp resided—the large, old
K which I have mentioned—and. go
- to a side door (though others say it
to the front door), he knocked.
:l! p was awakened, and asked who was
,‘ m ‘- Beauchamp answered by giving
name of one familiar to Sharp —in
■ tucr part of the state, where the latter
ni " i'ly lived—but changing the second
l! ' 1; il of this person’s name, saying
•i'hn A. Covington,” and requesting
■’him at once on important business.
1 know John W. Covington,” said
'' -u p. deliberately opening the door and
dancing into the open air and dark-
ncv-. • .
, Beauchamp at once lifted a mask which
‘‘t l Wore, saying:
1 h-n’t you know me, colonel ?”
y.y God! it’s B —,” exclaimed Sharp,
did not succeed in pronouncing his
’•jciny’s name Ixfore the latter struck
,!|,t "hh his left hand and
, . stabbed iiim to the heart
, ! l ; the right. Col. Sharp was found
', 0a ' 1 °n his doorstep. Beauchamp re
lied to his lodging and left town early
t H'.e morning, without being suspected,
' T'lieve. It is related that on approach
es' bis home he conveyed to his wife the
intelligence of the deed accomplished by
waving his handkerchief aloft in the dis
tance,
Ihe death of Col. Sharp produced a
profound sensation in Frankfort and
throughout the state. The legislature
offered $3,000 for the detection and ap
prehension of the murderer. There was
a disposition to make political capital
out of the affair, too, I am told, and to
make believe the assassination to have
l>eon in the interest of the anti-relief
party. One of the Frankfort editors of
the time was darkly charged with acces
sory knowledge—and some were not in
disjKiscd, I believe, to have him arrested.
It was through this editor, I have been
told—l think the name was Darby—that
Beauchamp was finally pointed out and
arrested, Sharp’s family, it is said, show
ing an indisposition to touch him and
thus make hopelessly public the cause of
his act. But Beauchamp was finallv
brought tq trial, and
SENTENC ED TO EE HUNG.
During the interval between the sen
tence and its execution, great efforts
were made in his behalf, delegations of
ladies dressed in mourning even going to
the governor, and a son of the governor,
Isaac B. Desha, was imprisoned at the
time, convicted of a highway robbery
near Mavsvillc. It was presumed young
Desha would be pardoned —as lie "after
ward was—and it was urged that the
governor might do a gracious thing,
lightening the selfish act of clemency by
pardoning Beauchamp and his son to
gether. But he was inflexible. Political
revenge, perhaps, it is said, had to he
gratified,
The day of execution came. A short
time before the hour designated, request
was made by Beauchamp that his wife
might be permitted to remain with him
alone in his cell (it seems they were ten
derly engaged to each other), for the
purpose of their last leave-taking, and
this privilege was granted. After a
while, as the time fixed for execution
was at hand, the officers entered the
prison cell and found the wife dying with
the wound of a penknife in her breast,
and the husband himself also fatally
stabbed. They had
DETERMINED TO ELUDE THE LAW,
and die together. But as the time for
the execution had come, Beauchamp was
taken in his dying condition out upon
the scaffold and hung. The bodies of
the husband and wife were removed to
their home and buried together. Sub
sequently this tragic romance of real life
was made the basis of a novel which was
largely bought up, it is said, by Sharp’s
friends. Tutor, about eighteen years
ago, a drama was written by John Sa
vage, the Irish poet, founded on the Beau
champ history, and was on the point of
being produced at Louisville.
“I was at the Louisville theatre that
night, I remember,” a lady in Kentucky
told me; “it was in 1858. The theatre
was very full. I forgot the name of the
play, hut it was understood that its inci
dents were taken from the Beauchamp
tragedy, and Avona Jones was to have
the principal part.
“The curtain was about to rise; every
body was in expectation, when is was an
nounced that a change of the programme
had been determined upon, and the
‘Bride of Lammermoor,’ 1 believe —some
thing, at least, from one of Walter Scott’s
novels —\Vas played instead. Governor
Morehead, it was understood, had come
down on the evening train from Frank
fort, just in time to prevent the play,
offering a large sum of money on behalf
of the Sharp family to have it withdrawn
and not produced in Kentucky. There
was great excitement; many insisting on
leaving the theatre and having their
admission money refunded, I remember.”
Capturing a Prince.
Once’ upon a time a little Egyptian
girl attended a missionary school on the
Isthmus of Suez. This little girl always
learned her lessons well, and on exhibi
tion days was always pointed out as the
brightest scholar of all her comrades.
One day an Indian prince came that
way. He was returning to his native
land with the corpse of his mother, who
had died in England; where her son had
been spending his youth acquiring a
knowledge of English life, literature, and
customs. His name was Maharajah Du
leep Singh, and he was very, very rich.
In fact, he was so rich, such a gentle-
man, and so elegant in his social be
havior that there were many of the great
ladies of the court who would have
deemed it an honor to have obtained his
hand in marriage. Well, as we were
saying, the prince came to the isthmus,
and being detained there a few days
waiting for a vessel, he strolled about the
village, seeking to divert his mind from
brooding upon the sorrow that had so
recently befallen him. Attracted by a
chance view of the interior of the mission
school, it occurred to him to enter. Hav
ing introduced himself to the teacher by
one of his names that did not indicate
what a dignitary he was, a little extem
pore exhibition of the attainment? of the
pupils was resolved upon. Of course the
pet of the school was called upon to
repeat a piece of poetry. This she did
so prettily that the prince was charmed.
The next day he came again, and asked
the child, who was scarcely thirteen
years old, to speak the piece once more.
She did so, and the son of the sun fell
desperately in love with her. When
school was dismissed he told the teacher
what a nobleman he was, and proposed
to marry the little girl on his return
from India, which would W in just six
weeks from that date. In that interval
’the future princess was put through a
course of instruction that almost dazed
her. But she was an apt scholar, and
when her royal betrothed came to claim
her hand she was nicely Anglicized, and
could manage a long dress quite grace
ful lv. The course of this case of true
love at first sight ran ever so smoothly,
and they were married. The prince took
his child-wife to London, bought- a grand
palace, endowed her with all the mag
nificent jewels he had inherited from his
family, and gave her unlimited credit at
the most fashionable milliners. And they
are still living in England as happy as
happy can be. The prince sends ten
thousand dollars every year to the mis
sionary school where he first saw his
wife, who had proven worthy of him. It
is a very pretty story, and all little girls
who go to school can find a moral in it.
They should always know their lessons
thoroughly, and have a piece of poetry
; committed to memory, so that they may
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1575.
be ready to captivate the first disguised
grand duke that Wandei’s unawares into
their school-room
The Earliest Modern Newspapers.
It seems that to Italy the world is
indebted for the origin of the newspaper.
Centuries before the Christian era, or, to
give the precise date according to the
best authorities, (391 B. C., it daily jour
nal called the Acta Dhirna was published
at Home. It was not in the form of the
printed paper sheet that is nowadays
left at every intelligent man’s door in
the early morning; nor was it issued in
copious editions and circulated among
the subscribers for a stipulated consider
ation. The Acta Diurna was a public
enterprise, supported by government,
and the few copies struck off in Latin
script Upon white wooden tablets were
hung at conspicuous points in the streets
and the frequented places of the city, and
gave to the curious passer-by the latest
intelligence of current events. With the
downfall of the western empire journal
ism perished, and for upward of it thou
sand dreary years was one of the lost and
forgotten arts.
By Italian genius it was finally revived
again, and Venice was the scene of its
second birth. There are now in the
Magliabechia library of Florence thirty
volumes of the oldest modern newspaper
of which we have any knowledge. It
was entitled Gazetta, as some say, from
the word Gazzcra, signifying magpie or
chatterer, and, according to others, from
the name of the small coin for which the
paper was sold. It was published at
Venice once a month by order of the
government, and continued to be written
in script, even after printing had been
invented. The hist number is dated in
the sixteenth century. The earliest
French journal, the Gazette de France,
a newspaper still in existence, we believe,
was edited by Benaudot, a physician in
Paris. It appeared as a weekly, the in
itial number being issued in April, 1(331.
It was patronized by the king, Louis
XIII., and contained at least one article
penned by the royal hand. It also en
joyed the support of Cardinal Richelieu.
The British museum preserves some
copies of a newspaper called the English
Mercuric, and professing to have been
printed under the authority of Queen
Elizabeth in 1588. The titie of one of
the numbers reads thus: “The English
Mercuric, published by authoritie, for
the prevention of false reports, imprinted
by Christopher Barlur, her highness’s
printer, No. 50.” In it is an account of
the Spanish Armada, under the heading:
“ A journall of what passed since the
21st of this month, between her majes
tic’s fleet and that of Spayne, transmit
ted by the Lord Highe Admiral to the
hordes of Council.” But the papers
were not published at the date and in
the circumstances pretended. They have
been proved to be clever forgeries execu
ted about 176(3. In 1622, during the
reign of James 1., a paper appeared un
der the title of the London Weekly Cour
ani. In 1643, in the time of the civil
war, a variety of publications claiming
unworthily the office and the name of
news]taper were produced, but, in fact,
the first genuine news journal published
in England was established by Sir Roger
L’Estrange, in 1665. It bore the name
of the Public Intelligencer, and survived
until the Ixtndon Gazette was trans
ferred from Oxford to London, in Feb
ruary, 1866.
The first regular newspaper produced
in the United States was the Boston
News-Letter, which appeared April 24,
1704. In September, 1098, an enter
prising printer in Boston had undertaken
to start a newspaper, hut the first edition
was suppressed by the authorities, and
only one copy is now known to exist.
Fall Planting in the Flower Barden.
If the southern flower gardener desires
a good show of bloom next spring, he
must plant during the present month or
the next, according to the state of the
weather and the condition of the soil,
many seeds which the catalogues of the
seedsmen will direct him to sow in the
spring. Most of the perennials and bien
nials, as well as some of the annuals, arc
of this class. A few of the most desir
able are snapdragon, ( Antirrinum ,) Col
umbine, (Aquiligia,) Sweet Alyssum,
Candy tuff, Caliopsis, Catchfly, Clarkia,
Nemophilla, Petunia, Larkspur, Erysi
mum, Link, Mourning Bride, ( Scabiosa ,)
Stock, Holyhock, Sweet Pea, Mignonette,
(in pots for winter blooming,) Gaillardia
and Pansy. We may sow also, in pots of
prepared soil, Calceolaria, Cineraria,
Mimulus, and Chinese Primrose, for win
ter blooming house plants. The seed
should he sown in September, in pots
prepared in the following manner: the
pot to he half filled with drainage, over
that, the rough sifting of the mold, and
the surface covered with soil as fine as
possible, half of which should he com
posed of river sand. When prepared
thus, it should be watered with a fine
rose, immediately after which sow the
seed carefully, Avitliout any covering of
soil. The pots should then be placed
under a close frame or hand-glass, in a
shady part of the garden, no artificial
heat being required. When the plants
have made sufficient growth—say an inch
—they must he transplanted into small
pots filled with similar soil and kept as
before; and they must afterwards be
several times re-potted, as their growth
may require more room. —Enrol Caro
linian.
Judging Houses. —The purchasers of
horses for the French army always en
deavor to obtain a first look at the ani
mal when he is tranquil and in the sta
ble, noting if the animal supports itself
equally well on all its legs, and if one
seems to yield, to especially examine it
Attention is then directed to the large
ness of the pupil of the eye, which ought
to be more exposed to full light. After
the animal has been led out of the stable
the eye ought to he again examined ; ob
serve has the pupil contracted —it not,
the sight is feeble. Others, to test the
-power of vision, feign to strike the lore
head with the hand. It the hollow over
the eyes be profound and temples gray,
okl age is to he concluded. Wounds
about the temples suggest attacks of
staggers, and when the end of the nose
presents’ circular scars, it may be con
cluded that the horse has been twitched
with a cord to insure his quietness while
being shod, or having to submit to severe
painful operations, —Journal of Agricvl
iur%.
HIS HONOR AND HI JAIL
An Hour lit <l* (ViKrsil Million
foot I ].
From the Detroit Free Fren.
Bijah skulked into the corridor and
returned with a melancholy man, whose
shirt-collar hung by the last button, and
who had evidently been rolled over and
over in the road by the boss elephant of
the last circus.
“ Your cognomen is —?” inquired his
honor.
“ Shoseph,” replied the prisoner.
“ And you workaa?”
“ (>n a Sherman baper,” was the reply.
“ Ah! yes. You are one of those af
ternoon journalists who take items from
the morning papers, change a name or
two, and gobble them as original!”
“ 1 dranslates,” replied the prisonei,
in solemn tones.
“ I understand. I’ve seen your trans
lations frequently, and they are well
done. Anybody who hadn’t read the
other papers would think you had a hun
dred tons of brain under your hat.”
“ I gan’t help dot if I didn’t want to.”
“ Well, I’m only giving you my indi
vidual opinion. If I were you I’d write
my own items or sit on a box and whit
tle bar soap. It’s a fact that you were
drunk last night, and what have you to
say about it?”
The prisoner wiped his nose in an ap
pealing manner, and his honor continued:
“It’s the first time, and I’ll let you
go, but if you appear here again [’ll
translate you and transport you, too.
You are big enough to know how to be
have yourself.”
“ Whoop!” exclaimed a Toledo sailor
as he was brought out.
“Yes, ‘hooped’ for sixty days,” re
plied the court, and Bijah went in for
another.
Henry Gibson came out with wild eye
and nervous step, and as soon as he could
secure a view of his honor’s good na
tured face he feelingly remarked :
“ I protest—l solemnly protest!”
“ Don’t take on that way, Mr. Gibson,”
soothingly replied the court,
“ I will, sir—l will take on ! I pro
test, sir.”
“ Do you protest a draft, Mr. Gib
son ?”
“ No, sir; I protest against the out
rage!”
“ Didn’t you have sheets on your hod,
Mr. Gibson, and didn’t they give you
milk toast for breakfast?”
“ I tell you I protest!” exclaimed the
prisoner.
“ Well, T would, too, if I’d been found
drunk with my body jammed in between
a sugar hogshead and a barrel of kero
sene. There’s lots of law in this coun
try, Mr. Gibson, but there’s no law to
prevent you protesting from this time
until Christmas.”
“Sir! I want justice! said the pris
oner; “I demand justice!”
“ That’s a different thing, Mr. Gibson,
and I’m happy to say that T can accom
modate you. I find you guilty, and I
sentence you to the house of correction
for thirty da vs !”
“ I pro—!”
But Bijah pulled him in out of the
soft, sad sunlight which streamed into
the court-room.
WANTED THOMAS.
Bhe was a little hit of a woman with a
big straw hat on, and she suddenly
squeaked out:
“Oh ! sir! I want to see Thomas,
sir!”
“ Well, look around you, and if you
see him it will he all right.”
“ Oh ! sir, lie isn’t here, sir,” she said,
after glancing around.
“What Thomas is it?” inquired the
court.
9 Oh! I dunno!”
“ Is it Thomas Jefferson ?”
“ Deed, sir, hut I can’t tell!”
“Or Thomas Jones, Brown, Fmith,
Perkins, De Fancy, Bt. Clair or Wither
spoon?”
“ None o’ them, sir—it’s Thomas.”
“ Well, your Thomas is far, far away,
it seems, and now let’s proceed to ask
and answer other questions. Let, me in
quire if there is the remotest suspicion
in your mind that you were intoxicated
last evening ?”
“ Oh! I can’t go on till I see Thomas!”
she Availed.
“ And Thomas, oh! where is he?”
“ That’s Avhat 1 dunno.”
“ Well, I can’t keep this case open all
summer to please Thomas, John or Joe.
You will have to plead.”
“ 1 plead for Thomas,” she answered.
“ Guilty, or not guilty ?”
“ Oh! sir, call for Thomas, sir !”
“ Madame Bliss, I can’t have any more
fooling around. Ido not know this
Thomas. I do not knoAV his abiding
place. He may he a wild Arab, a howl
ing Turk, a bearded Russian or an Amer
ican with his hair parted in the centre for
aught 1 know. We must dispose of this
case.”
“Thomas! oh! my Thomas!” she
called as she faced the audience.
“He answereth not, Mrs. Bliss, and
now I desire to know Avhy you kicked
down the line fence between you and
your neighbor, and threw slops at her?”
“ Oh ! sir, if Thomas was only here!”
“ I wish he Avas —I’d send him up with
you. I make your sentence sixty days,
and if you ever find Thomas please send
me his photograph.”
Bijah adjourned the court, tenderly
placed the prisoners in the buggy, and
the boys came out of the alley and sing :
Blio’s a wocjiin.s; for her Thomas,
And Tom, oh! when* is he?
If he was any sort of feller
He’d come and solace she.
Tlie Traffic in Italian Children.
The Paris correspondent of the Lor,don
Times, speaking of the abominable traffic
in Italian children, says:
Attention has often been drawn in the
Times to the lamentable practice of leg
ging exercised by .children trained in the
trade. This question has been re-ojiened
by a circular addressed by the “ Soc ete
Italienne de Bienfaisanee” of Paris to
corresponding institu Lions throughoutthe
world. The following facts will, I think,
convince every one that the suppression
of this social pest would lx? a really phil
anthropic Avork in southern Italy. In a
naturally very rich province of the Ba
silicata the greater portion of the inhab
itants make a regular trade of organ
grinding and begging, and theflee come
those bands of children avlio have made
their country notorious throughout Eu
rope and even America. Five or six
communes are especially distinguished
for their immigrants —namely, Marsico-
Vetese, Copicto, LaureUzano, Calvello,
Ricciniico and Yiggiano. This immi
gration, Which Was facilitated by the
formcf Neapolitan goVcrtifiiCnt, doubt
less with the object of getting rid of a
turbulent population,still continues with
the same activity. The custom of lag
ging from town to town by means of
children has given rise to a traffic which
is openly practiced in a lid evch tolerated
by the authorities of every country.
Every ycut several hundreds of children
of every age and sex leave their homes
under the guidance of individuals who
call themselves their parents, or padrones.
In reality these men are nothing but slave
masters; the children are let, sold, or
confided to them by virtue of contracts
signed by two parties, who consider them
so binding that they sometimes call for
the assistance of consuls abroad to en
force their conditions.
These agreements generally hand over
the children for a fixed period at so much
a year or for a sum to be paid before
hand. These bands of children begin by
begging all through Italy. Following
the Corniche road they come to Nice and
Marseilles. Very few come into France
by sea, as at Marseilles the disembark
ation of beggars is guarded against. When
they have no passports they cross the
Alps by Briancon. On the frontier the
children are often re-sold to persons living
in Paris or other large cities, and their
conductors after delivering up their hu
man merchandise return to the Basili
cata in search of others. In Paris the
children are huddled pell-mell, hoys and
girls, into lodgings near the Place Man
ner t and the Pantheon. When they are
out begging their masters often follow
them to watch their receipts, but most
generally the eldest child takes posses
sion of the money, the padrone prefer
ring to spend his time in low taverns.
The smallest children are considered the
best workers, and are most in demand,
because they excite most compassion
from the public. Begging lasts from
morning till night, the children obtain
ing their food from the charity of others.
In the evening they return to their lodg
ings to give up the proceeds of the day,
but if the receipts are had they often beg
late into the night to avoid ill treatment.
Some of them are sent into the suburbs,
more especially on fete days in the sum
mer. They wait outside the stations for
the trains, singing a barbarous mixture
of patriotic and obscene songs. When
one of them is arrested he is provisionally
detained, and notice is given to the Ital
ian consul. The padrone, however, gen
erally arrives first, asserts his claim, and
the child is nearly always given up to
him. A Neapolitan physician states that
of one hundred children of both sexes
who leave their country only twenty re
turn, thirty establish themselves abroad,
and fifty fall victims to illness, privation
and cruel treatment. Fifty is, indeed, a
heavy mortality.
FALSE ECONOMY.
TCistaUcM I’ooplr llnkt* in si 3lidirc<’t<‘<l
Propensity (iir Kavin^.
Scribners’s Monthly for August.
Wc know a, very industrious and ami
able little housewife out west who lias a
taste for darning stockings. She can put
as neat a patch upon a stocking as ever
you saw, the threads of cotton as regular
as fish-netting, and as straight as an “only
direct railway route;” and the whole so
smoothly done that you hardly know
which is the original and which the darn.
Indeed, her jovial neighbor who livesjust
across the alley says those darns never
wear out. She says that Mrs. Hamilton’s
stockings arc like the human system—
the material is renewed every seven years.
And the neighbor, being in good circum
stances, and having nothing else to do,
has calculated the total expense of mend
ing these stockings after the first thor
ough overhauling, as expressed in cotton,
needles, and candles, and finds that it
would have kept Mrs. Hamilton’s family
in the best balbrigans or British hose, in
stead of the inferior quality which she
had bought for their cheapness. In this
estimate no account was taken of the
time employed in the mending. Mrs.
Hamilton has said that her labor was her
capital, and it hardly seemed fair to count
that in. Our informant says, however,
that her Joe heard Clint Hamilton say
the other day that, somehow, that last
batch of doughnuts wouldn’t go down.
We know another worthy and well
meaning young woman in New York,
whose limited salary as private tutor has
for several years supported a chivalrous
old soldier of the last two wars, whom
the last one left impoverished and unpen
sioned in Alabama. It was her custom
—heaven knows she thought it her duty—
to walk up to her work, twenty blocks,
through the slush and snow of last win
ter, in order to save the fares bv the
street ears. She would, perhaps, have
reasoned, between coughs, that health
w is capital.
People whose resources are small fre
quently make the mistake of supposing
that what is of immediate and market
able value is of more importance tl a 1
health or education, and they begin a
course of economy by cutting away their
pleasures; money spent in recreation
comes to be regarded as a dead waste.
While a Thomas concert or a day up the
Hudson would let in enough music or
sunshine to drive away the whimsevs
and the doctor for a month to come, this
mistaken notion of economy cuts off the
only way of escape from the grindstone
and pill box. The first necessity of a
business man is diversion; and, so long as
it does not lecome laborious, the more
absorbing his diversion, the better. Be
tween the utility of the beautiful and
the beautiful of fhe useful there is no
room to institute a comparison.
in some people economy takes the form
of investment for income. These are the
support of the mock-auction shop and
the second-hand book-store. Mrs. Toodles,
with her door-plate, has a congener in
the seedy young bibliophile who thinks
he has found a bargain in the “annual
report of the deaf and dumb insane asy
lum for blind inebriates,” or the “ History
of the Christian missions among the bare
legged Indians.”
Other people cling to an old garment
as to an old friend; and after it has be
come as shiny as a suit of medieval arm
or, rebind and patch, and clean it an ex
pense greatly disproportionate to its
worth. This is only another and a
longer road to prodigality.
After all, the principle of economy is
not so much self-sacrifice as discretion,
and a little bit of good sense will often
* evade t he necessity of heroism.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
,4-i {niorrsflits: AildHst from (hr Kt-Clilfl
tain—VaciiMiH CnwlMt* of National Intvr
*•( tonrlMil I tMiii.
Jefferson Davis delivered an address at
the Agricultural fair, at Desoto, Me—
souri on the Bth inst., according to the
programme. There was a great crowd
present from Jefferson and the adjoining
counties, and quite a number of the most
prominent citizens of all political senti
ments.
Mr. Davis was well received, but no
notable demonstration was made on the
oeeassion. He opened his speech by ex
presssing much pleasure in meeting (he
people of a section of country with
which he was well acquainted many
years ago, and felt rejoiced at its growth
and prosperity.
He came, he said, not to discuss these
questions which vex the mind and dis
turb the harmony which prevail among
the people. If there arc any who still en
tertain feelings of malice, or cherish bit
terness on account of the past, let us
withdraw from such. He declared what
ever might he the machinations of ]H>li
tieians, whatever the views of policy and
designs of State craft might desire to
consummate in regard to the future, the
people of the great Mississippi valley are
one, and must always remain one ]xa>ple
in interest, in destiny and in social forms
and material progress. No man, no
course of policy, no deep designs of am
bitious men could ever dissever them.
In all the future they would surely stand
together. The great river bound them
together by ties stronger than any poli
ties could ever present, and they must
he united.
He then spoke at considerable length
upon the vast agricultural resources of
the country, and the future development
of the commerce of the Mississippi val
ley, and its great advantages and import
ance to the nation, and predicted the
time would soon come, when fleets
of iron barges would float down the
mighty Mississippi, bearing a commerce
greater than that of the whole world.
He advocated the building of a univer
sity which would serve to confer highest
education upon ihe young men of the
valley. The great population which
must soon swarm this region, will lead
according to the status which they main
tain in mental culture. He urged the
necessity of direct trade with Europe,
and asserted specie resumption was im
practicable until our exports exceed our
imports. He declared congress had no
authority to declare that specie payments
should resume at a certain day, and that
in the present condition of the country
more currency is needed.
The speech was frequently applauded
and seemed at least to give satisfaction
to all his hearers.
Napoleonic Intrigues in France.
The Empress Eugenie and her son are
receiving a small and select party at
their castle of Arenenberg, where they
are passing the holidays. The party
comprises several journalists, and the
Empress is doing all she can to win
back her way in popularity.
It is now pretty generally understood
that the Napoleons took away with them
in one shape or another about $80,000,-
000, and that they have since spent a
greater part of this money in political
intrigues far their restoration. They
have maintained, and are probably stiil
maintaining, wholly or in part, about
forty newspapers in France and other
countries; but their funds have lately
been running short, and they are now
trying to do whatsoever is to be done by
condescension instead of hard cash. M.
Paul de Cassagnac, the champion of the
fallen Empire, is also particularly court
ed both for his pen and his sword. But
the exercise of the latter has been re
cently circumscribed, because two journ
alists attached to the editorial department
of the Republique Francaise, M. Gam
betta’s paper, pass all their days in prac
tising fencing, for the avowed purpose
of taking M. Paul’s life. A few of the
older adherents of the Napoleons gath
ered around the widowed Empress and
her son on the 15th inst., and the young
Prince addressed them with considerable
tact and political ability. He said:
“Should the French people some day re
call me to power 1 will force all honest
men to rally round the Empire by eras
ing from the French language the words
‘exile’ and ‘proscription.’ If it could
only be known what lessons I have
learned from the past, what resolutions
I have drawn from experience of the
events which passed under ray own eves,
it would be seen how well I understand
that 1 must only look backward for ex
ample and* teaching, but not for objects
of vengeance and bitterness. A great
people is not eo be governed by hatred
and revenge.” These are brave words,
full of fair promise, and it is only to be
hoped that the Prince will act up to his
principles should he ever have a chance
of doing so.
John Bright’s Sarcasms.
John Bright has long been regarded as
one of the most eloquent speakers in the
English house of commons. But it is not
so well known that bis power of sarcasm
is almost unrivaled. When provoked by
the taunts of opposition to use this weap
on, which lie does but seldom, bis retorts
are overwhelming. Quite recently he
replied to some of the torv party, who
had been finding fault with measures of
Mr. Gladstone. He said: “These gen
tlemen must find fault; it is their nature;
if they had Veen in the wilderness they
would have complained of the Ten Com
mandments as a harrassing piece of leg
islation.” But his sharpest sarcasms
have been against members of the nobil
ity. When boasts had been made of the
antiquity of a prominent family, that
their ancestors came over with the con
queror, his reply was prompt, “1 never
heard that th<w did anything else.” A
noble lord once said, on occasion of Mr.
Bright’s sickness, that Providence was
punishing him fora mis-use of talents by
inflicting a disease of the brain. The
sarcasm of the rejoinder was terrific when
Mr. Bright resumed his seat, “It may
be so; but, in any case, it will lx? some
consolation to the friends of the noble
lord to know that the disease is one
which even Providence could not inflict
upon him.”
*
A Disputatious Man. —“ Why, it is
as plain as that two and two make four.”
“ But I deny that, too; for 2 and 2
1 nuke 22.”
VOL. 16—NO. 3i.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
Hemptttjps is the name of a rivet
in Washington territory.
Forof. rules the world, and always
will. When it's not force of arms, it’s
force of mind— or money.
Finally the French republicans have
got a nickname for the Prince imierial.
They call him “ Invasion I\ .”
An Irishman, lieing told that the price
of bread was lowered, exclaimed : “1 his
is the first time that I ever rejoiced in
the fall of my lxst friend.”
Appropriateness is absolutely neces
sary to secure neatness in dress. Colors
and forms and modes, in themselves
graceful and beautiful, can liecome un
graceful and ridiculous simply through
inappropriateness.
The “owners of Niagara Falls,” the
“ Porter family,” form the permanent
aristocracv of the place, and the prop
erty is entailed, as in England, so that
the eldest son is a sort of young lord.
The Scotchmen, in order to escape de
feat, left the country the day before the
American team arrived. It is the first
time a Scotchman has ever tailed to come
to the “scratch.”
“Is he anything, anyhow?” said one
young lady to another a$ they prom
enaded Laramie street, and discussed a
nice young man. “Oh yes,” replied the
other, “lie’s something; lie’s an awful
big fool.”
In a recent scandal case in Smith
county, Kansas, a lady witness declined
to answer a question, and the attorney
demanded her reason. “ Because it is
not tit to tell decent jx*ople. “< b well, 7
said the lawyer, “just walk up here and
whisper it to the judge.”
A little girl went to a neighbor s
house one day, and saw some apple par
ings on the table. After sitting awhile,
she said, “ I smell apples.” “ Yes,’ the
lady of the house replied, “ I guess you
smell these apple parings on the plate. ’
“No, no,” said she, “’taint them; I
smell whole apples.”
The following notice of a death in the
columns of a eotemporary is somewhat
uncertain : “Maria S., wife of John tSt.,
aged eighty years, triie lived with her
husband fifty years, and died in the con
fident hope of a better life.”
The average yield of corn-cobs is 7.62
parts of carbonate of potash in 1,000
parts of the cobs, which is nearly twice
as much as is furnished by the In st spec
imens of wood. The corn crop ot thirf
country will supply 15,400,000,000 Its.
cobs, from which 115,500,000 Its. ol }xt
ash might lx* made.
The most appalling case of deafness
that we ever came across outside ot an
asylum was that of an old lady who lives
just across the street from the navy yard.
The other day they fired a salute of
twenty-one guns. The old lady was ob
served to start and listen as the last guir
was fired, and then exclaimed, “ Comer
in!”
A candle 13,000 feet distant shines
with a light 20,000 times more brilliant
than do some nebulae. Yet the constitu
tion of these nebulae has been determ
ined. They are found to consist of
hydrogen and nitrogen. M c know the
nature of worlds situated at a distance
inconceivable. And the relative ages of
tiie stars we know. The white stars are
the hottest and youngest. The yellow
stars, including the sun, are older; while
;he colored stars are not so hot, and are
stilt older.
Herr Ernst von Ban pel, the sculp
tor of the Herman monument, is thus
descriltcd by a corrcsjiondent of the I .on
don News: “As to the maker of this
monument, you must imagine a white
bearded hermit, but without the hood
and gown, standing in the doorway of
this hut, as I saw him yesterday. A
most remarkable life is Ernst von Ban
del’s. He is now 7f> years old, and he
has spent 37 years of the l*est part of his
life on the erection of the monument to
Hermann the Cheruscan. lie was born
at Ansbaeh on the 17th of May, 180 b,
and is by birth a Prussian. When but
19 years’of age he put on paper his idea
of a monument to Hermann.
A correspondent of the Scientific
American writes as follows: Those who
arc fond of investigations with the mi
croscope will find a beautiful object in
the head of a parlor match. Htrike the
match and blow it out as soon as the
head has fused sufficiently to cause pro
tuberances to form on it; on the part of
the head which took fire first will be
found a white, spongy formation, which,
under the microscope, and with a bright
light upon it, has the appearance of dia
monds, crystals, snow, frost, ice, silver,
and jet, no two matches giving the same
combination or arrangement.
Pig Meat for Cities. —The Buffalo
Live Stock Journal says that more than
half of the swine sold for London con
sumers is than a year old, and weighs
less than 200 pounds to the carcass.
Abundant experience has proved that
the second 100 pounds added to the weight
of a hog cost loss than the third ]OO
pounds. Young meat is produced cheajH*r
per lxmnd than old meat; and being more
tender and juicy is preferred in cities.
This enables farmers to turn tlieir money
and crops often when no animal is sold
over ten months’ old. Short horns owe
their great popularity to the fact that
they will make good beef when from 20
to 24 months old.
A writer in a California newspaper
says: About half a mile over a moun
tain from Bartlett Springs, there is what
is called the Gas Springs. This is prob
ably the greatest curiosity of the moun
tains. r J lie water is ice-cold, but bub
bling and foaming as if it boiled, and the
greatest wonder i* the inevitable de
struction of life produced by inhaling
the gas. No living thing is to be found
within a circle of one hundred yards of
the spring. The very birds, if they hap
pen to fly over it, drop dead. We exper
imented pth a lizard on its destructive
properties, by holding it a few feet above
the water. It stretched dead in two
minutes. It will kill a human being in
twenty minutes. We stood over it about
five minutes, when a dull, heavy, aching
sensation crept over us, and our eves
began to swim. The gas which escapes
here is of the rankest kind of carbonic,
hence its sure destruction of life; also of
quenching of flames instantaneously.