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DEMOOBATIO IN POLITICS! PUBE AND BEATmTOJt) IN LIT13KATU1IE| AND PHOGHESSIVE IN SOUTHERN INTERESTS.
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DALTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1873.
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{o ^ounclno onmlMnlon name BOO
' JOB POINTING.
Sa „„,i at Atlanta Pkiceo. Our fa-
.49gfHhS Caron. T.Htnr lntl nlll
£. Po.lnrn.Ao., arn vnry eupoalor. nml on-
n. in offer (Trent Iniliioomi-ntt to tliono
i l^nvtHnn ln o„r lino. Plonk,. Clron.
Jj? mi kinds of Fimey Work rtono to
| Ut*. ai»a n WHITMAN,
order, i .
MISCELLANEOUS CARDS,
HA.NKS & DIVINGS,
ordalni..
Jolyt-ly.
T. B. .TONES,
1 TTOBNEY AT law. King street, Dalton.
, Oonrala. will prnntlcn unywlioro In the
no smfchorokuo Circuits.
‘Yob. H-tf. • __
w. W. GTDDENS,
A ttorney at law. spring rinoo. Door.
clo. will practice In tho Cuerokoo Circuit,
•nit *lve attention to collection of clulms.
n. WABB1RN, M. X>.
TlHTSICIAN nnd SURGEON, Dalton. Goor-
L cla. Offlee. No. 2, over Rosie’s Store. En*
i trance on the street near tlio Bridge. .
Nov. 7-ly. v
GTRO. N. RUBLE,
t\EALRR In all kinds of Agricultural Im-
Implements and Labor 8avlng Maolilnes,
Chattanooga, Tonnesseo.
Feb. lWy.
.TAMES R, WYLIE,
W nOLKSALE GROOF.U and COMMISSION
Merchant, Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Ga.
oct. 2-lin.
HOME AGAIN !
T C. RAWLINS at his own House again—
tJ«Chnlrc ITotol. Broad Street, Rome, Ua.
Pvaengers taken to and fr " '* *
charge.
.June Sl-tf.
L. COHEN Sl OO.
TMPORTERS of Brandies, Wines, Gins, Re-
1 gars, and dealers In Rye> Bourbon and Mo-
nnnvHbela Whiskies. Mnnufnof nrcrsof the eel-
ehrntod STONEWALL BITTERS, Whitehall
Street, Atlanta, Gn,
Dr. O. P. GORDON,
T ENDERS his Professional servleos to the
chitons of Dalton and surrounldng coun
try. Prompt attention will be given to nil
* (Medical, Surgical ami Obstetrical) on-
JOHTVRONT MoOAMY,
A ttorneys AT LAW, Un-stalra in King
nnlldlng, Dalton. Ga., will prnetleo In the
£nort« of this Circuit,and In thoUnlted States
W. B. LOWE &, CO,
TirnOLESALEand RETAIL DEALERS In
.» n U'lothlnir and Gents’ PURNISIIIN
won?. No. 44 Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga.
w. B. Lowk. )
t». J.-Dallas. \ Fob. 20-ly.
B. T. LDTTRr,LL,
dealer In tho FINEST and PUB-
0 F. Bonrbnn and Ryo Whiskies
*M~rth of Tibbs House, Dalton, Uu.
»r. M. GUERRA, Rontist
jsncctfully Invites the nublio
•nil on him when tlrst-i
_ C A 8II. -fi»
found st oli Unies. ru,1,lunc0 ’ wl,0, Q 1 «»
AMERICAN HOTEL,
T*IL» w0 “J lnnwn flulel, very near tbo Pas-
A.*s»5!? r ' )c h°t. Atlanta,Georgia, is now u
jwth# management of Mrs. I). R. SA8SKE...
Lipm,„ „ * 8K ; K i X ; Assistant,) who solicits tho
Snmifv. f 18 0 d lrlond8 and th0 public
hecemhor B-tf.
.TOim HIGGINS,
WsoSSltinW■ <VNT) ^WELLER. Hand,
tnd Ge5K t „» k «r f . P V V0 Jewelry for Tsidlus
■•L K. JOHNSON,
T»Klw*u n 1,5!' 0K M A K ER. »P stairs In
depou UlnSaSMSMB"" to tbo
»»litre mulfflffil" W ABBAN 1 THh to FIT
blw'io tnadt r “ Uon ,l » lo worlunanshlp or ><n
JM.lC-ly. '
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Jn lilHllrK.,suolni.s nniruil ll° 11,1 binds of w
{NO (ImllttfflMMjH PAINTING,GRAIN.
"AgOlHO. GLAZING, is 0f wood >» PAPER
R 8eSi'^^PHccs) n ® atly ’ ox P pd HiouB'Y,
xy see. This 11# ,11 a I. J; c - ** LAKOBns, Los-
Palrocl and l H,s , u has been general Iv re*
•»Htheir“ffiW»- Buslnoss men will con.
Ilwt nils nnmo u JfM’y, If'rltm In mind
". n,| T, wblcli e ve. J 1" tho lln-lness
0t *SIrJ ,0 "* n nffnrds 1 ICm “drantnges Hint no
pS"inllm"ioi alwny
_N»rch 1-iy,
• in readiness at
PlmntoraB.
Faces dim como crowding round mo
In the hllonco of tho night,
As I sit half-dozing, sleeping;
By thomokorlng tapor’a light.
Forms and faces crowd around mo
That weiro burled lotig ago,
Ami the long procession passes,
But will como ngaln, I know.
Somo aro old, ami weak and feeble,
Sonic In childhood's bloom appear.
Ami I listen through thtt stillness,
If I cun their voloos bear.
But they never speak unto mo \
They but pass wit h nolsoloss tread,
And I often sigh to Join them
As I bow ray weary head.
Thoy.nrocvorncar unto me,
Though I see thorn but at night—
Those dim phantoms of tho bygone—
By thofllokorlng taper's light.
But tho last that passes from mo
Turns to mo her cloar blue eyes,
And with upraised hand Bbo polnteth
To tho land beyond tho skies.
•Tls tho form of her who Journoyod
By my sldo In early youth—
Theuugol who lit my footsteps
With her Inmp of love and truth.
Bho smiles os sho passes by mo,
And my cares soom half removed,
For tho thought revives and cheers mo
That by ono I still am loved.
So, wliono'r I’m faint or weary,
Or my drooping spirits sink, .
I the gloomy thoughts put from me,
And upon that angel think.
And I bless tho band of phantoms
That como to me at night.
As I sit alone and thinking
By tho flickering taper’s light.
Nlnkn Eihvunls, bad mniricd Bisters,
and my father held to Mr. Lincoln Yc-
latlons of Intimate personal friendship,
for that reason ho was selcoted by
President Buohnnnn and Senator Jef
ferson Davis to bear froih them to
Mr. Lincoln nn Invention to como
Washington at once, as Mr.
Buchanan's guest, with assurances that
ho would he rccolvod at tho White
Houso with all tho respect nnd honors
Agouoy” was changed to tho “Credit
Moblllor of America.” My supposi
tion Is that tho ehief— If not tho only
-^object of this clinngo of nnmo was to
provent inquiries being made by Messrs,
llalstcad. Brooks, Stephen Colwell nmi
others, who, If they Bhonli! happen to
hear of tho operations of tho Pennsyl
vania Fiscal Agency, would ask awk
ward questions, but would nover bub-
poet that tbo great Credit Moblllor of
duo to him ns President elect, nnd , Amcrion, which was building the Union
tlmt by acting togethor thoy could put Pnolflo Kulltbnd, claimed tho “fran-
stop to tho secession movement nnd ehlscs, powers, rights, liberties and
avoid a civil war. Mr. Lincoln seem- privileges" of tlioir old Pennsylvania
at llrst engor to accept the invitation, Fisoal Agency,
hut afterwards declined, heonuse Sena- I mil hnppy to inform you Hint my
or Bun. Wade, of Ohio, opposed it.— father is not dead, ns you stated a few
l'lie Herald Of January 8, 1801, eon- days since. At the age of sigty-two
tnlned a report of nn intervlow he- his mlpd is as elcar, his eye as bright
tween n reporter of that paper and my and his Imndwriting ns steady as* they
father on his return from his unsuo- wore forty years ago. He Is now Pres-
ccssful mission to Springfield. ident of the lawful and genuino Credit
Two or threo years before tho war my Mobilicr of A merica, whoso other of-
mother went to Georgia to pay mo a floors aro William Halstead, Treasurer
short visit, nnd was there taken Bick. Benjamin E. Green, Secretary; Samuel
In April, 18C>1, my father went to R. Brooks, Jacob Zclglor and John
Georgia, hoping to find her sufficient- Rice, Dirctors, with ono vacancy, caus-
ly recovered to return to Washington ; cd by the dentil of Stephen Coir
but, ns sho could not bo moved, he dc- The Durnnt-Ames-Allcy Credit Mo-
cidcd to remsin with her, and postpone biller is a bogus concern, originating
his visit to Europe and tho further in fraud and hnsed on fabricated pa-
prosceution of his great enterprise un- pers, falsely affirmed to be correct, by
til the settlement of the political diffi- which tbo charter was not stolen, as
cultics. stated by Mr. Smith, but only nttemp-
Tbe Union Pacific Railroad Compa- ted to bo stolen,
ny was chartered by act of Congress, BENJAMIN E. GREEN,
approved 1st of July, 18fi2. That act Scorotnry Credit Mobilier of America.
fixed the capital stock of the Compa- —
ny nt $100,000,000, and limited the Afraid he Might be Dead,
amount of stock to be held by any Scene in tho connting-rooin of
ono person to $200,000 thereby hold-1 morning newspaper. Enter a man of
Tho Credit Moblllor of America—Its Se
cret History.
Washington City, Ecb. 1,
To the Editor of the N. Y. Herald:
—My attention bus been called to the
report of the remarks of Messrs. Boyd
and Smith in the Pennsylvania Con
stitutional Convention in reference to
the Credit Mobilicr. The former said
that the charter had been granted by
tho Legislature or Pennsylvania for
$50,000, after $800,000 bad been offiy-
to tlie Legislature of New York
nnd $150,000 to the Legislature of
ew Jersey for such a charter, with
out bucccsb. Mr. Smith said that the
charter, stock book and papers were
stolen and bodily carried off to New
York when the company known as the
Credit Mobilier was organized. Nei-
thcrof these statements is correct. The
truth is ns follows:
My father, General Duff Green, oh
„ . , , , tained tho charter of the' Pcnnsylva-
11 flU0 of nia Fiscal Agency from the Legisla
ture of Pennsylvania at the session
of 1858 and 1859. Not a dollar, not
a cent, was paid or offered or promised
to any member of the Legislature for
tlie charter. Ilia purpose was to or
ganize a company of American, Mexe
can and European capitalists, includ
ing the European holders of Mexican
bonds, to build tho Sabine and Rio
Grande Railroad in Texas, connecting
with tho New Orleans and Opelousas
Railroad on the Sabine, and to extend
that road from tlie Rio Grande to the
city of Mexico and the Pacific.
Tlie then Governor, W. F. Packer,
for somo time hesitated lo approve the
net of incorporation—first, because of
the extensive powers granted thereby,
and second, because ho doubted my
father's ability to accomplish what he
proposed by it. In the summer of
1859 my father went to Europe, with
letters fiom President Buchanan, Senor
Mala, then Mexican Minister nt Wash
ington, nnd Senor Lerdosy Tejada,
now President of Mexico. He soon
returned witli written assurances from
the European holders of Mexican
bonds, acting through-a Committee
and other capitalists, stating that, il
Governor Pucker would approve the
charter, thoy would put into tlie enter
prise $(10,000,000 of Mexican bonds
and advance all tlie funds necessary to
build the road from tlie Sabine to tlie
city of Mexico Bud the Pacific. The
documents ho brought with him from
Europe satisfied Governor Packer of
tlie feasibility of hia plans nnd of the
great public benefit to tho United
States nnd to Mexico, whereupon tlie
Governor approved the charter on tlie
1st November, 1859. ,
On the 6th November, 1859, tho
Company was duly and regularly • or
ganized in Philadelphia according to
law,and tho whole stock (50,000 shares)
taken. The first board of directors
were Duff Green, David R. Porter,
Jacob Zeigler, Samuel R. Brooks and
Oliver W. Barnes; Duff Green, Presi-
dent; William Halstead, Treasurer;
Oliver W. Barnes, Secretary.
Tlie necessity for additional legisla
tion by the State of Texas, and for
some satisfactory arrangements with
Senor Tctucno and othors, who held a
prior grant from Mexico for a railroad
from the Rio Grande to tho Pacific,
caused some delay. In tho I'all of
I8(i0 my fattier went to New Orleans
to meet Commissioners from tho Mex
ican government anil to Texas on tlie
business of tlie road. Anticipating
that bo might need them at New Or
leans or Austin lie took witli him all
the original books and documents.
ing out the idea that it was to bo a Tuctonic tendencies,considerably worse
great national enterprise, which could for the last night’s spree:
not bo “gobbled up" by a few Individ- Tucton, (to the man at the desk.)—
uals. But it was also provided that “If you bicase, sir, I vants de paper
the Company could be organized on a mit dis mornings—ono vot bash dc
subscription of $2,000,000 and the pay- names of de beobles vot kills cholera
ment of ten per cent, thereof, whereby all de vile.”
it was placed in the power of $100,100 lie was handed a paper, and, after
to control tho enterprise. The idea looking it over in a confused way, ho
was also held out to the public that said :
the management was to bo entrusted “Till you pe so goot as to read de
to men of high character, such as nnmes of vot don’t linvo do cholera nn;
Ernstus Corning, William B. Ogden more to show sbust now, and see 1
and othors of like standing. Thoso Carl Gcinsenkoopenoffen hash gotem?"
gentlemen, howevor, relying on tills The clerk very obligingly rend the
general understanding, stood bnck qp list; tho Tuetonjistoned with trembling
the dignity of their characters, waiting attention, wiping the perspiration from
to be elected by a spontaneous action his brow, meanwhile, in great exoitc-
of tlie stockholders. But Dr. T. C. ment. When tlie list was completed,
Durant had managed to secure tho tho name of Carl Gcin , well, no
requisite proxies to elect himself as mnttornhout the whole name; it wasn't
Vice-President, with a board to suit there. Tho Tueton’s whole face brigh-
his purposes; and to give some char- toned up, and he exclaimed:
acter to the organization, a large sum “You don't find ’em?”
was paid to General John A. Dix for “No such name there, sir IF
tho use of his name ns President of | Tucton, (seizing him wnhnly by the
tho Company. Durant’s next slop) band.) “Tills iah'uice; thVa ish Some
was to open n negotiation through fun ; that ish my names. I pin drunk
George Franois Train and Charles M. as never vns, and I vns afraid I vns
Hall for tho purchase of the charter gone ted mit de cholera, and didn’t
of the Pennsylvania Fiscal Agcnoy | know it I I vns senrt.”
from Messrs. Hnlsted, Brooks nnd „ *‘mTlIcr,
Barnes. But that could not be done naTO yon seen Her,
legally, because neither of the last A lady who for the last fi'O years
named had any authority to transfer has been a leader of fashion in ± c
my father’s majority interest and Mr. York, and who may be seen twice a
Hnlsted refused to listen to any ar-l week in her ealeehe dilying a pan of
A (looil Story About Hob* Toombs, of
Georgia.
A gossipy correspondent of tho Cin
cinnati Commercial, writing from At
lanta, gives tho following:,
Tho fiery and untamed Toombs has
been lioro sovoral days swonring nt his
enemies nml being jolly with his friends
by turns. He is of a lively nml soeinl
disposition, and, when surrounded by
a dozen gay nnd festlvo companions,
his tongue runs like a bell-clapper
Sometimes lie talks scubc nnd some
times nonsense. Ho can talk either
about ns well us Rny man iu Georgia.
I heard a story about Toombs tho
other night whieh deserves a plaoo in
history. A gang of legislators were
around a jestivo board exchanging
ideas and oigar stumps. “Just nt the
close of tbo war, said one, whoso timo
It was to tell something, “Toombs
came down into our county to get
away from tho Yankees. They had
destroyed his property nnd were after
him witli shurp sticks. He stopped
at my uncles, and pretended to be a
rich South Carolina planter, moving
about for his health. He shaved uloso,
out his lmir short and wore a broad-
brimmed slouch hat. Nobody but my
uncle knew who he was. My uncle
kept a little country post office, and
the neighbors used to come in nnd
read the papers. One day one ot them
snt down by Old Bob and read tho
particulars of Toombs’ flight to Ouba,
for it was reported ho had gone there.
Old Boh listened attentively.’? “I
know Toombs was too sharp to Btny
here and let tho Yankees entoh him,"
said tho iunneent reader; “he’ll spond
his days in Ouba. He is gone now,
but I tell you, boys, ho was ono of the
smartest men we had in this country.”
“Yes,” said Toombs, looking as inno
cent ns a lamb, “he was a pretty smart
man; I knew him well. Ho was a lit
tle peculiar sometimes, hut as bit
hearted fellow ns ever raised a boll of
cotton. 1 wonder what the Yaukces
would do if they should oatch him f ”
“They would hang him to the near
est limb,” put in ouo of the boys.—
“And I ain’t sure but they ought to,”
put in another. At this Toombs launch
ed into an eloquent defence of Toombs,
the best I ever heard, and said he
wonld yet walk on Georgia soil aud
lay his bones under Georgia soil.—-
The old fellow warmed up considera
bly, and my uncle, seeing that tho con
versation was taking a rather personal
turn, changed it. Toombs remained
with us a month, and was known only
to one man. Hu heard himself talked
about more in that month, probably,
than evor before.
Vanity versus Vanity.
Much has been written and said on wo
man’s vanity; on her love for admlra- of miracles i
tion nnd dress. IIow conscientiously —’ "
sho adheres to the latest style, and goes
Into estaolos over a “ lovo of a bon
net."
Somo oven venturo to affirm, (of
eourso thcBO aro tho lords of creation,
or strong-minded womon) that her on
ly study after leaving school Is Demo-
real's or Godey'a Fashion hooks.
Fashion books indeed 1 As if she
didn’t practically understand tho "song
of the shirt" and know what it is to
have aching limbs, after sitting for
hours at a sewing machine; or naming
up and down stnlrB, twenty times be
fore dinner, to see that Bridget hasn’t
let tho beef burn, or tho pudding bo
underdone, because Mr. A is so partic
ular. And after all this sewing, and
cooking and keeping Bridget in bounds,
'tho most dillloult job of tho three)
dr. A growls, when ho’s presented with
tho dressmaker’s or millcrnor’s bill,
though ho ought to know, if ho over
stnys home for a day, his wife lias earn
ed it. Woman’s vanity i Woman’s
love for dress 1
Did you cvcr.sco a man enter a room.
How self satisfied ho appears, as he
passes his fingers through his perfumed
hair, fresh from, the hands of tho bar-
bar, and how he twirls his moustache;
lookiug at the same time as if on exhi
bition I and probably imagining that
oyery girl in tho room is in love with
him.
Did you ever notico with what admi
ration he surreys IiIb shining boots;
nnd how he caresses Ids gold headed
eano; and If lie wears a ring how care
ful he is to exhibit It?
No, vanity is not one sided ; a walk
down Broadway would convinco you of
that.
The love of dress, is not ono sided,
and even if It were—the money spent
on wine and cigars by tho men, would
allow half the dressmaker’s and milli
ner’s to retire on a fortune.
Fannie Lee.
emphatic
of u practical-mind
school, among somo
loners had sprung uj
it, and who, upon c_ -
points, were rather in doubl
these rustics, wishing to have Ids foggy
intellect cleared up on a certain point,
romniued after Sunday morning ser
vice, and waited upon tho rector
vestry':
“Welt, my man, what brings
here ?”
“If you please, Sir, I want you
explain to mo what a miracle U;
can’t quite make it clear like.”
“Yon can’t, eh? Well, just
outsido for a minuto, and I’ll talk to
y °Out r wc C nt 1 tl| inquirer, nnd patiently
waited, thinking to have made ns pro
found an impression on tho parson as
Zulu on tho Bishop of Natal. Pres
ently out crept tho minister, noiseless
ly, behind his parishioner’s back, nnd
dealt him n sound cuff on his double-
hnunted numb-skull.
“Holloa I what’s that for ?” exclaims
tho skeptical Corydon.
“Did you feel that ?” calmly inquired
the parson.
“Feel it—dnng’d if I didn't?"
“Well, my man, if you hadn't felt
it, that would lmvo been a miracle.—
Good morning 1”
Thoroughly satisfied with this strik
ing illustration of a Scriptural difficul
ty, tho young person quietly left the
presence.
rangement that did not pi'ot^t my superb ponies in Central Pari., has re-
father’s just rights. Failing in the cently stated, in the select dwta
attempt to purchase that charter, of- which sho belongs that Hie only artl-
foi ls were next made to obtain a siml- de m existence * kick ^ ?
lar one in New York and New Jersey, and lustre to the complexion without
I know nothing, except from hearsay, | ultimately impairing the textureof the
reason to believe that in this Mr.
Boyd’s statement is correct; hut ho is aration cannot witli propriety do give ,
altogether mistaken in saying that it but it may be Euntioned en pa**«"‘
wasafterwardsobtained from the Penn- that she 1ms spent amM J ears of her
sylvania Legislature for$50,000. That 1*41» Europe and Is familiar with all
sum was paid to Oliver W. Barnes the arts and preparations employ cd by
and Charles M. nail and not to any tbo court beauties of the old world to
member of the Pennsylvania Legisla- enhance their charms.
ture. It was not paid tie purchase Terrible Earthquake In India,
money for the oharter,, hut as a bribe Tho . Americnn p,. eS3 Association has
to Barnes and Hall foi their aid in an ^ (liijp!ltc . u f,. om Calcutta which reports
that an onrthquakc hnB occurred at tho
attempt to “steal" tho charter, as 1
(natter explained.
,* 0i PaKBBNTS.
largo, anil oqr prices
," 9 ' ,llon S'°“ visit Atlanta.
whioh ^r."'^ilth nfi'onpouffl.y (Sup^o^'l^he^were^bta^nud by
^AT.nr.N
b"ank°dooks es were afterwards| “"gn^uhom lna"lvortcntlpn tho'usOnl
ln th ° ; nrcnnrf Lore for his signature. But
“ ’& bho.
J-'KWRUIY b.tTS^ 8 "
S Waiik a" 1 ' Plated
In the Spring of 1868 my father was s '^ ule ‘ nttended by dreadful destruo-
lymg ill m one room of my houso in ^ of lmmnn life- The disaster over-
Georgia and my mother in another. t()ok the lt g0 sm jdcnly and nnoxpec
About that time the deatli of my nous- .. .. . escape was possible.—
in, Mr. Duff Green, of Falmouth, Vlr- j ffi 0 uUdaUons^TkookT"*‘l«> *arth
influences un-
ueau.< Tempted by an offer of $50,000,1 “5«TO?~W tU ° ^
and perhaps emboldened by the Idea dr ^ g of dwellings wero laid in
of my father s death, Baines aniVHall rnjng . 0n tl)0 flrBt alarm tho inlinbi-
wero induced, on May 29, 1808, to fab-1 rushed from their houses into
met their death
while thoso who
thu act to incorporate t> Pennsylva I ^yS^g^^d
nia Fiscal Agency, and a certificate I tl , 0 ruins of their own dwellings
or protended subscriptions to.the cap- L jg “ atimBtc d that upwards of five
ital stock of the 1 ennsylvnnia 1‘ iseal ed pergons p 0r j 9 hcd by tho calam-
Aiieney. jt Largo numbers of animals were
On the 1st of Juno, 1803, Barnes I n | ( , 0 devoured by tbo earthquake,
“affirmed” before James McCaken, nn The inhabitants of Lehree, after the
Alderman of Philadelphia, that, these g rgt qonvulaion was over, seized their
fraudulent “minutes” were “correct. I movables and fled to tho mountains.—
Oil these fabricated papers and false Tb(J )l0n8C8 tottered nnd fell in mins,
affirmation, by deceitfully concealing Mgjdng tho Btreets nml killing men
tlie previous bona fide organization of an( j anlm als as they fled.
tlie company by tlie commissioners in —
November, 1809, letters patent, dated Thonght they were Going by Steam.
Juno 1, 1803, wero obtained from Gov- T wo persons traveling on tbo road
ernor A. G. Curtin, purporting to “ore- to Gotham innlightwngonwerosmok-
ate nml ereottho subscribers (Ac., thoso i|)g cigars, from the fire of which somo
named in said fabricated papers) Into ! straw at tho bottom ignited. Tkeflnracs
one body politic ami corporate, by tho S(lun djKyo them from their sents, and
name, style and title of tho Pennsyl- w m 0 busy extinguishing the fire, a
Vania Fiscal Agency. countryman who had been for some
These nretended letters patent werfi timo following them on horseback said
then turned over bv Barnes and Hull to them: “I hnvo been watching tho
to tlie Durant-Dix party lit New York. gln oke for some timo,’ sa d he. Why
lovm ' ■ ■ - then,did voumptgive notice?” “Well
responded thoYustio there aro so many
now fnnglcd notions now-a-diiys, I
Bovine Phenomena.
We clip tho following from tho Bow
ling Green Democrat It will make
tho credulous open yieir eyes:
We have board of hermaphrodites,
tho Belgian giant, Tom Thumb, the
bearded woman, tho FalU'of Niagara,
tbo Hot Springs of Montana, George
Francis Train, tho Ohio fat gal, prai
rie dogs, falling meteors, long-tailed
comets, and seen a few of them; but
for real, genuine, inexplicable living
curiosities, give us a peep into the big
room on Fitzpatrick’s corner, in thU
city, at the five-legged eow, tho lacteal
bovine of the male persuasion, and the
giant offspring of these monstrosities,
having one eye directly in front and
a tail over the eye, and one nt tho oth
er extreme. The cow weighs 1,300
pounds, and the bull weighs 1,200
pounds. The bull gives milk, from six
to eight quarts a day, while tho cow
gives milk from a tost on tho top of
her bnck anrt from her udder liko oth
er cows. Wc can understand some
tilings, but tho problem of. this gentle
man eow is a persimmon abovo our
pole. _
A national Woman.
Dr. Aberncthy had a very strong
dislike to unnecessary talk on the part
of his patients, nnd sometimes treated
garrulous persons witli great rudeness.
Persons acquainted with his habits, de
siring to consult him, took care not to
give offense by multiplying words.
A lady on one occasion entered his
consulting-room, nnd put before him
nn injured finger without saying a word.
Abernethy dressed tho wound In si
lence ; and the lady placed tho ordina
ry foo upon the table, and retired with
out Bpenking. In a few days she call
ed again, and offered her finger for 'in
spection.
“Better ?” asked tho surgeon
“Bottcr,” answered tho lady ; and
nothing more was said. At her last
visit the patient held out her finger,
freo from baudages, and perfectly heal
cd.
“Well ?” was tho doctor’s inquiry.
“Well,” was tho lady’s equally brief
reply.
“Upon my soul, madam,” exclaimed
tho delighted surgoon, “you are the
most rational woman I ever met with !''
Why the Farmers are so Poor.
In Lynn money is tight when the
boot and shoe trade is dull, for in Lynn
they make only boots and shoes.
ln Iowa money is tight when the
trade in the products of the farm is dull,
for only while the crops are in motion
to market have we anything to sell for
money.
Tho crops this year do not move,
and the farmers arc wondering where
the money will come from to pay their
tax; business men are every day com
ing closer to tho vortex.
Suok times wero never seen In this
country before.. We have gaily ridden
high upon a false prosperity for ninny
years, while the corporations were get
ting “ under holds,” and now we are
thrown.
Tho mining and manufacturing cor
porations have it so arranged with tbo
Congress of tho United States, that by
a tariff, there Is legislated to their cot
ton and woolen goods, irons, coal and
leather, an artificial proQt.
Say the duty on iron is $9 per ton;
that is the artificial profit poured into
the ironmaster’s pocket over nnd above
tho natural profit of his productions.
But wheneo comes tho farmer's arti
ficial profits ? Where is the Congress
which can legislate to his corn, wheat,
oats, pork and cattle an artificial val-
uo? There is none. His produce sells
at prices as low ns liofore tho war,
while everything he buys, by operation
of the tariff, is at a war price.’
A farmer wonld cheerfully sell his
pork at $2.15 or $3 per hundred, if
cotton and wooleu goods, salt, anil oth
er articlos whieh 1m buys wero nt pro
portionate rates, but they are not. So
a farmer comes to town and pu ts two
loads of potatoes on his feet ifi the
shape of his wiitter boots. If he stays
all night, lie eats a load of outs. Ilia
wife wears five acres of wheat, and tho
children each ten acres of corn, nnd
are not very warmly clad then. For
an overcoat ho wears a good four year-
old Bteer, and If ho sport a Sunday
spit, it is in the shape of ot least twen
ty head of fat hogs. And on tho lop
of that, his farm wears a mortgage that
is worec .tlmn hard-pan to the soil, and
the animal tax rots into his roof faster
than rain.
He must ent and wear, and from tho
Bmall price of his produce, must pay
to the manufacturer tlie artificial profit
tlie tariff puts upon ids goods, while
tho profit whieh tho farmer should re
alize, goes to the railroad corporations
for carrying his crops to market.
Should we ho asked tho process by
which this stnto of things has been
renched, we would only answer that it
is by our Congress, Oomts and Legis
latures making moneyed corporations
of all sorts, snpremo nnd superior to
tho people.
It was not so once. There was a
timo when tho people wero supreme,
hut that timo is gone—Iowa City
Press.
“Sow” Is the Watchword.
Our future is always before us.—
The past is fixed. No tears ean wash
away its facts. Let us waste no vain
regrets upon it; bat from the wisdom
its very mistakes and sins bequeathed
us, start afresh on the race. Though
yesterday wo wero weak, selfish, indo-
lunt, let us to-day—at this moment—
begin to be strong, brave, hopeful, just,
considerate, generous, tender, truthful,
pure, patient, forgiving. “Now” is a
glorious word. "Henceforth” is always
within our grasp.
Grant Pardons a Ballot-Box Stnffer.
The President is severely oriticiscd
by newspapers of all parties for par
doning the notorious Philadelphia re
peater Brown, who went round to tbo
ballot-boxes last November and voted
under different names. Brown/was
justly oonvioted by cloar evidence, and
his pardon is regarded as a liccnso to
himself and others to repeat the of-
fenso as often as party needs may re
quire it.
She Cousruted.
As John Smith stood up to ho mar
ried, in Webster City, Iowa, tbo other
day, ho refused to have the ceremony
thought yon wero going by steam."
President Taylor’s Baughter Pensioned.
Speaker Blaine vnentod tlie Chair on
lawful eustodinii's. ”*I nDcoomber, 18.10, | prepare W"i^“'Sbeing^o' M’K SB .?P performed unless the sister ot his in-
i'liWmlolS ‘J-PQlrtaa- ana ail to Louisiana and Texas, returned tO| m g of tho 8t0 cUUoliiers j
L boy Attempts to Commit Snioide.
A painful story of tho attempt of a
child of twelve years old to commit
suicide comes from Ohio. . Tho eliilil,
a boy, was niloptcd by a moderately
wealthy family in Olydo, Ohio, sovoral
years ago, and was uniformly treated
with tlie utmost kindness nml affection
by his adopted parents. He wnB, how
ever, taken sick with a fever, and
though he recovered, tho fever left him
a cripple for life. Tho sense of his
misfortune, and a morbid borror of
his helpless condition so preyed upon
the mind of tho unfortunato lad that,
watehing his opportunity, he swallow
ed some poison which had been bought
Politeness.
Manners, says the eloquent Edmund
Burk, arc of more importance than law.
Upon them, in a great measure, the law
depends. Tho law ean touch us hero
and there now and then. Manners
are what vex or soothe, exalt or do-
base by constant, steady, uniform, in
sensible operation, like that of the air
we breathe in. They give their wliolo
color to our lives. According to their
quality, they aid morals; they supply
them or they totally destroy them.
Winter In England.
It appears that England has just
boen visited with nn extraordinary vis
itation of cold weather, causing not
only great distress, but hundreds of
deaths. Weather so unnatural in Eng
land found many of the poor unprovid
ed with sufficient comfort nnd protec
tion, and hence the widely extended
suffering and many fatalities. It has
been a day or two since ono of the
fiercest storms of tlie ycur strewed the
British coasts with wreoks. Truly has
this been a calamitous winter on both
sides of tbo Atlantic.
Woolen Hills Closing.
We learn from the Lowell, Massa
chusetts,\News that some of the woolen
mills in that State are closing, owing
to the high price of wool and the dis
arrangement of the markets, caused
by tho Boston fire; The Washington
mills nt Lawrence have virtually stopp
ed, while the Maryland mills at Ando
ver have shut down, throwing a largo
number of operatives out of employ
ment. Tho woolen business of Ames-
bury and Salisbury has not been nt
so low an ebb for fifteen years as at
the present time. Fortunate are thoso
manufacturers—few and far between—
who aro well stooked with the raw ma
terial.
Ancient Rome.
Another important discovery has
just been mado in tbo EsquUinc quar
ter of Rome. In clearing some ground
the remains of a house hnvo been como
on which, it is thought, belonged to
somo rich citizen. Tbo walls are dec
orated with beautiful fences; the pave
ment is in mosnio. Under the peristylo
is a fountain in a niche decorated with
shell work, and a basin in marble.
Copper in Florida.
Col. L. A. Hardeo says: “I can
show yon a bed of pure copper «in
Florida, that you can see on the sur
face for at least a mile and a half, and
it is supposed that there is enough to
supply all tlie mints,. manufactories
and ship yards of tho world for a cen
tury. L have seen and handled somo
of the coppor, nnd if you desire proof
of this, I refer you to A. W. DaCosta,
Esq., of this city (Jacksonville). Now
let us know who has tho capital nnd
enterprise to join ns in developing
tliis wonderful mine of wealth.”
tggrDon’t hawk, hawk, spit, spit,
blow, blow, and disgust everybody
with your Catarrh anil its offensive
odor, Vlien Dr. Sago’s Catarrh Remedy
will speedily destroy all odor and ar
rest tho discharge.
tended wife would then and there wed . to kill rats. He was disoovercd; anti
ono Peter Brown, who was present— dotes wore promptly applied, and bo
Although the ulBter had nover Bpoken 1 recovered from t|ie effects of his rash
to Peter previous to this occasion, she ' act. When asked what led him to^nt-
Au Unpleasnt Situation.
A Danbury youth, who could not
Bing or play,wanting to serenade his girl,
whistled for hnlf ao hour under her
window, tho other (iveniug, and when
ho got over”
seventy-fivo <
ho wanted.
Can thoy be Called Twins 1
[jow^ tho other (jvontng, tiRd vidgii
jot over tho foi.ee, found about
mty-fivo dogs 'Waiting to see what
ranted.
