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THE JEFFERSON NEWS & FARMER
Vol. 1.
THE '
Jefferson News & Farmer,
B Y
HARRISON & ROBERTS:
A LIVE FIRST CLASS
"W eekly Newspaper
FOR THE
Farm, Garden, and Fireside-
Published
Every Friday Morning
AT
LOUISVILLE, GA
TERRS IS §0 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCB
BATES OF ADVERTISING.
1 year.
6 months.
8 months.
4 weeks.
1 week.
SQUARESI
. I SI.OO $2.26 $7.50 $12.00 $20.00
‘ 1.76 6.00 12.00 18.00 30.00
* 2.00 7.00 16.00 28 00 40.00
•} 3.60 9.00 25.00 35.00 60.00
? i 4.00 12.00 28.00 40.00 60.00
icoll 6.00 15.00 84.00 60.00 75.00
Loll 10.00 26.00 60.00 80.00 120.00
fcolj 20.00 50.00 80 00 120.00 160.00
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Ordinary’s.— Citations for letters
ot adninistration,guardianship, &c. $3 00
Homestead notice 2 09
Applicationtor dism’n from adm’n.. 500
Application for disra'n of guard's.9 60
Application for leave to sell Land 5 00
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.... 3,00
Sales of Land, par squat* of (an lines 500
Sale of personal per sq., ten days.... 150
Sheriff —Bach levy often lines,.... 260
Mortgage sales of ten lines or lets.. 500
Tax Collector’s sales, (it months.,..
Clerk's —Foreclosure of mortgage and
othir monthly’s, per square .... 100
Bstray notices, thirty days 3 00
Sales of Land, by Administrators, Execu
tors or Guardians, are required, by law to
be held on the first Tuesday in the month,
between the hours of ten in the forenoon
and three in the afternoon, at the Court,
hojise in the county in which the property
b situated.
Notice of these sales mustbo published 40
days previous to the day of sale.
Notice for the sale of personal property
must be published 10 day* previous to sale
day. ,
Notice to debtprs and creditors, 40 day
Notice that application will be made of
the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land,
4 weeks.
C itntions tor letters of- Administration,
Quarlianabip, dkc., most be published 30
lays—for dismission from Administration,
honthly six months, lor dismission from guar
li>nahip,4odays.
Ruleß for foreclosure of Mortgages most
be published monthly for four months —for
establishing lost papers, for the full space of
Wree months —for compelling titles from Ex
ecutors or Administrators, where bond has
been given by the deceased, the full space
of three months.
Application for Homestead to be published
twice in the space of ten consecutive days.
LOUISVILLE CARDS.
J a. CAIN J. H. POLfittL.
CAIN <fc POLHILL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
LOUISVILLE, GA.
May 6,1871. 1 ly-
T. F. HARLOW
Watcli a,ls:e.r .
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—AND— . v * '
HEIFAiRBIZI,
Special ATTENTION GIVEN to reno
vating and repairing WATCHES, CLOCKS,
JEWELRY, SEWING MACHINES &c., &c.
Also Agent for the best Sewing Machine
mb at is made
“ May 5,1871. 1 Iyr=
-dsttoowellt
LOUISVILLE, GA.
Thankful foe the paronage
enjoyed heretofore, takes this method of con
tinuing the offer of his professional services to
Jpßtrons and friends.
HMays,lß7l. 1 ] J r -
QEOBGIA, JEFFERSON COUNTY.—
Whereas, Nathan Ellis applies to me for
Letters of Guardianship of the person and
property of Michael Pool, Minor Heir of Ibaac
B. Pool, deceased:
These are, therefore, to eite all persons in
terested to be and appear at my office in Louis
ville. Ga., on or betoae the Auguat Term of
the Court of Ordinary for kaid county, and
make known their objections, if any they
have, why said letters should not be granted.
Jnlv 14 II If W.H. WATKINS. Ordinary.
g i KOHUIA, JEFFERSON COUNTY. '
VT Letters of Dismission.
Whereas, George W. Farmer, Guardian of
William D. Swan, has applied to me for letters
of dismission:
These are therefore, to cite and a|p«nbh
all persons interested, to be and appear, at the
Court of Ordinary, to be held at Louisville Ga.
for said county, on the first Monday in August
1871, and to show canse if any they can, why
said letters should not be granted.
• W. H. WATKINS, Ord’y.
Jose, 16 7, ts.
Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., Friday, July 28, 1871.
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Two Pictures.
An old farm-house, with meadows wide,
And sweet with clover on each side;
A bright-eyed boy who looks from ont
The door with woodbine wreathed about,
“Oh! if I cohid but fly away
From this dull spot the work] to see,
How happy, happy, .happy,
How hippy I should be ?”
Amid the city’s constant din,
A man. who round the world has been.
Who, ’mid the tumult and the throng.
Is thinking, thinking all day long;
“Oh! could I Only tread once more
The field-path to the farm house door,
The old, green meadows could I see,
How happy, happy, happy,
How happy I should be!”
Wc Osa’.Haks Homs Happy.
Though we may not obange the cottage
For a mansion tall and grand,
Or exchange the little grass-plot
For a boundless stretch of land—
Yet there’s something brighter, dearer,
Than the wealth we’d thus command.
Though we have not means to purchase
Costly pictures, rich and rare—
Though We have not silken hanging
For the walls, so cold and bare,
We can hang them o’er with garlands,
For flowers bloom everywhere.
We ean always makohome cheerful,
If the right eourse we begin,
We can make its inmates happy,
And their truest blessings Win.
It will make the small room brighter
If we let the sunshine in.
f • H A f t 1
We can gather round the fireside
9beAt«nivMiii(pbotnMAre long- .
We can Mend our heart* and voices
We can guide some erring brother—
fronrtl‘! P|tl*o£ Wrong.
We may fill our home with music,
And with sunshine brimming o’er,
If against all dare intruders
We will firmly close the door—
Yet, should evil shadows enter,
We must love each other more.
There are treasures for the lowly
Which thegraodest Sail to find.
There’s a chain of sweet affection
Binding friends of kindred mind—
We may reap the choicest blessings,
From the poorest lot assigned.
Pit tH&neirts.
The fievU wi twa Walker. '
Everybody hat heard, and a
great many make use pf the expres
sion, “the Devil and Tom Walker,”
and yet we presume very few know
who Tom W. was, or what relation
between him and the Devil justifies
this frequent association of their
names. As the most authentic ac
count of who Tom Walker was, we
give the following interesting story
by the best writer America has ever
produced—Washington Irving:
A STORY OF THE LAST CENTURY.
As Tom waxed old, however, he
grew thoughtful- Having secured
the good thingsof this world, he be
gan to feel anxious about the next.
He thought with regret on the bar
gain he had made with bis black
triend, and put his wits to work to
cheat him out of bis conditions.—
He became, therefore, all of a sud?
den, a violent church-goer. He
prayed loudly Mad Strenuously, as
if Heaven were to be carried by
force of b»ng*.». indeed, one might
always fell, when he had sinned
ijmipst difritig the weeKj by tne ciamot
of bis Sunday devotion. The quiet
jfeeen .
and qufQyfwj% fUfcwartl
were strnck with reproach at seeing
themselves so suddenly ontstripped
in their career by this new-made
convert. Tom was as rigid in reli
gion as in money mailers $ be was a
strong supervisor and censurer of his
neighbors and seerqed to think ev
ery sin entered up to their account
became a credit on his page.—
He even talked of the expediency
of reviving the persecution of Qua
kers and Anabap|ists.
Still, in spite of his strenuous at
tention to forms, Tom "had a lurking
dread that the devH, after all, would
iyavei his due. That he might not
be taken unawares, therefore, it is
said he always 4*crirf «Bitafe««tiis
pocket. He also had a great folio
Bible in bis counting-house desk,
and would frequently be, Ipurfd read
ing when people' called on business;
on such occasions he would lay his
green spectacles on the book to mark
the place, while he turned around to
drive some usurious bargain.
Some say Torti grew a Tittle crack
bnpned in nis latter days, and that,
fancying his end approaching, he
had hit horse newly shod, saddled
and buried with his feet uppermost,
because that, at the last day, the
world would be turned upside down,
in which case he would find nis
horse ready for mounting, and he
was determined at worat to give iiia
friend a run for it, This, however,
is probably a mere old wile’s fable.
If he really did take that precaution,
it was totally superfluous—at least
so says the autheutic old legend,
which doses his story in the follow
ing manner :
One hot afternoon in the dog days,
just as a terrible black thunder gust
came up, Tom sat in his counting
honse in his white linen cap and,
India silk morning gown. He was
on the point of foreclosing a mort
gage, by which he would complete
the ruin of an unhappy speculator
for whom he had expressed the
greatest friendship. The poor land
jobber begged him to grant a tew
months’ indulgence. Tom had
grown testy and iriitated, and re
fused.
‘‘My family will be ruined and
brought upon the parish,” said the
land jobber.
“Charity begins at home,” replied
Tom. “1 must take care of mysell
these hard timesd’
“You have made so much money
out of me,” said he; “I have not
made a farthing.”
Just then there were three loud,
knocks at the street door. He step
ped out to see who was there. A
black man with a black horse, which
stamped and neighed with impa
tience.
“Tom, you are come for,” said
the black fellow, gruffly. Tom
shrunk back, but too late. He had
left his little Bible at the bottom of
his coat pocket, and his big Bible on
the desk, buried nnder the mortgage
he was about to foreclose—never
was a poor sinner taken more una
ware. The black man whisked him
like a child astride the horse, and
away he galloped in the midst of a
thunder storm.
Such was the end of Tom Walker
and his ill-gotten wealth.
The story has resolved itself into
a proverb, and is the origin of the
popular saying prevalent throughout
New England, “The Devil and Tom
Walker.”
Important Facts for Everybody.
Not a week passes when we do
not read accounts of fearful acci
dents from kerbsene lamps. These
accidents occur from f vVo causes.
First. Drawing the oil or filling
the lamp in the evening, when a
light is burning in the room. This
should never be done nor allowed.
It is not necessary that the light
come in contact with the fluid to
warrant the accident. The esca
ping gas fills the room and is liable
tflf igniie at any point. A block of
buildings were burned in Rutland,
Vt., a few years ago, the fire hav
ing caught in this way. Numerous
examples might be cited to establish
this fact.
Second. Burning the lamp when
only partially filled with oil, is also
very dangerous. As the oil burns
down in the lamp the vacuum is
filled with inflamable gas, which
may ignite from a slight jar, and all
the terrible consequences of explo
sion follow. A large majority ol
the accidents which occur result
from these causes.
We can think of but one more
source of danger, viz: the breaking
of the lamp when lighted, and thus
setting fire to the oil as it is sprinkled
upon garments or furniture.
* And now for the remedy. It
must occur to every reader as sim
ple and effectual. Touch not the
kerosene oil can or barrel after dark;
ip other words, let all lamps be filled
in the day time, and see that every
lamp is filled every morning. If
the globe of the lamp is kept nearly
full explosion is impossible. The
liability of accidents can be avoided
only by using metallic instead of
glass lamps. *
One more suggestion. Never
turn down the wick to extinguish
the lamp, but blow it out. Turning
down the wick id liable to opqp a
passage for the escape of the gas in
the globe of the lamp, which will
igniie and explosion will follow.
Blow off the light and the cause of
dauger is removed.
Let these suggestions be under
stood and regarded in every family
w|ere kerosene is used, and we
sbotold hear no more ot death and
destruction from this cause. O.
To Sure the Bite of « Rattlesnake.—
While on a visit to the country we heard
following remedy and history of its
results related as tacts by one who was
acquainted with the parties: A gear
tleman, while rakiog and binding grain,
was badly bitten by a rattlesnake. Be
ing some distance from any house, he
started to walk home. Before goiug far,
he found himself unable to walk, and
tried to crawl on bis hands aud knees,
suffering very much and being very
thirsty. He was unable to get water,
but having a powder flask in bis pocket,
he put a little dfiton his topgue. Gain
ing some relief from it, he repeated the
dose, until he wqs able to walk and fin
ally recovered. An instance of a dog
being bitten and cured in the same way
was also related. It is an easy remedy
snd worth knowing.— Visalia Delta,
' Remedy fbr Sunstroke.
Recently a gentleman was reading a
letter of an Oriental traveler, and was
particularly impressed with an account
of a remedy for sunstroke. One of the
party of travelers fell from his beast,
insonsible, from the effects of intense
heat. The Arabs immediately squeezed
out the juice of several lemons, and
with it rubbed the hands and Wrists,
face, head and neck of the sufferer. In
a short time he was able to remount and
ride on “two hours fartherl”
On last Friday a negro woman, named
Hannah Jackson, fell insensible npon the
levee from sunstroke, and remained in
that condition for a considerable time.
The gentleman before referred to beard
of it, and recommended the lomon juice
remedy. Itwag applied as above des
cribed, and also rubbed on the spine.
In a very short time the patient irom
being utterly insensible, had so far re
vived as to sit up, and was still improv
ng at last accounts. She says all the
dioctors oughtto know it.— N. O. Paper.
Georgia as She Is-
The correspoudent of the Journal of
Commerce, iu leaving Georgia, pays his
respects thus:
I leave Georgia with regret, for she is,
from her eastern to her western boun
dary, a good, solid, prosperous, kind and
hospitable State. Her people are as
fine specimens of humanity as are found
on the greon earth, and besides being
intelligent and of far-reaebiug ken, are
doing more for the general good of the
country by their honest thrift aud in
dustry than they will ever receive credit
for. They are greatly belied by the par
tisan press of the North.
I heard more of Georgia politics in
in Washington Inst winter than I have
heard in fifteen days intimate associa
tion with her people. I believe you told
me to find, describe, and bring back a
Georgia Ku‘ Klux. I have tried to get
one, bat they cannot be bad for love or
money. Alligators and mocking birds
are sold S3 pets for trifling sums, but the
Georgia Ku Klux are like the George
Washingtons. There was only one—
and he died.
In different parts of the State some
impetuous yonths attempted, about two
years ago, to form a Ku Klux Klau.
But before an organization was effected
the whole thing fell through. There
has never been an organized band in op
position to law or order. It has in sev
eral instances since that time, but not
lately, ocourred that parties of fellows
have disguised themselves and proceed
ed to whip negroes, and white men who
had negro wives on the European plau.
Others have disguised themselves aed
committed robberies on the highway or
in houses, and still others have bnrned
houses to the ground. But the Ku Klux
part of these things is a matter invol
ving grave nntruths on the part of the
Radical leaders here, because in one
aggravated instance, • Democrat killed
another Demoorat, and the survivor was
taken from jail and bung by a disguis
ed mob. In another case a negro was
robbed by disguised negroes, and in
nearly all cases the injuries received
were inflated from private grudge or
for the purpose of stealing. Still, all
such things have been called Ku Klux
outrages, because men disguise them
selves for these dark doings, and style
themselves Ku Klux. Years of inves
tigation would prove to the Congress
ional Committee tint one fact, so far as
Georgia is concerned, viz: that there is
not, and that there never has been any
Ku Klux organization in Georgia.
’A lot of fellows in Atlanta went to a
masquerade ball and wore all kinds of
fantastic equipme&f. They took their
suits to the State Capitol, And whether
it was done for a joke or not, is not
clearly proven; but a correspondent of
a New York paper- was shown these
fancy dresses and informed that they
were Ijona fid* Ku Klux uniforms cap
tured m Georgia. He desoribes them
in print. People North read and be
lieve tbat statement, but the Executive
clerks at Atlanta, who knew all about
it, simply laughed, and said they did
not expeot the jest would.be carried so
far. 1 su-pect that the real object was a
sort of swindle, whereby Gov, Bullock’s
rewards wire.to be divided among a lot
of waggish y oung men.
Even the K u Klux in South Carolina;
have disappeared new. . The reason of
that is not beoause the Ku Klux law
frightened them, for they could dodge
that, but because the negroes and car
pet baggers they visited last had shown
fight, aud the otberswereprepared.—
Fighting is ppt a part of their business.
They are brave enough to shoot men
down, hut being shot at is not their
taste. The people, too, have set their
faces against Ku Kluxism so boldly that
it cannot exist much longer.
Noth withstanding all,the reports about
the Ku Kluxes in South Carolina, yet
there was 'more dauger from the one act
of "arming the negroes in that State
than there ever has been from the Ku
Klux. GpoH oitizeas have always been
safe thereexcept from fear of negroes,
armed aud iuqited to riot by bad men.
Any man, from any part of the world,
would be safe' in South Carolina now,
as he would be anywhere. As for Geor
gia, I think it is to-day toe most peace
able State, without exception, in the
Union, Her eities are well governed,
and crime is a matter of rare occurrence.
A Negro Thief Pretax tyaeh Lew.
We find the following letter in the
Charleston News : "
Graham’s, S C., July 16.—1 write
you an account pf a semi-j.udical trans
action which took place about three miles
and a, half from this place on Saturday
last,. 15th Instant, at Sojourner’s mill;
One Smart Loyd, colored, obtained
posewiou of a binhel of corn from §o-
journer’g mill in not exactly an ortho
dox manner ; and being accused of the
theft, first denied it, but altcrwards, “ac
knowledged the corn.” lie was thieat
ened with the terrors of a trial justice,
and in order to prevent his punishment
by the law, he offered to he tried by a
jury of his peers, and to submit to what
ever award they agreed upon. His
proposition was accepted, anil he selec
ted the following meu aud brethren as
jnrymen to try the ca e : March So
journer, Abraham Walker, Lewis Fel
der, Jeff Wright, Toby Sojourner aud
Alfred Boylston.
The facts ot the case being duly made
known to tlio-jury, they retired under
an umbrageous oak to deliberate what
they should do in the matter. Alter consul
tation they decided that, iu their opinion
said Smart Loyd be allowed to receive
forty lashes, save ono. to be there and
then laid on , to which the aforesaid
Smart Loyd agreed. The names of the
jury were then put into a hat, and
Smart drew to see who should wallop
him. He selected Abiabum Walker (a
left-handed blacksmith,) who, pro
curing a hickory of regulation size, pro
ceeded then and there to lay the afore
said forty stripes, save one, upon the
person of Smart Loyd ; which he ditj to
the satisfaction of all concerned, cxcppl
the b id Smart, whom ho made smart in
more than one placo before ho finished
the castigation.
The culprit and all concerned in the
affair are colored men ; and all, with the
exception of- Smart are respectable,
hard working men, who don’t waut too
much law, and took this method of set
tling the matter without putting the
county to any expense.
A Girl's Fight with a Rattlesnake. —
The Lanesboro’(Minn.) Ihrald relates
the following :
Last week, Sunday, as a Norwegian
girl, living some four miles from this
place, was walking along the road, she
passed directly in front of, and very
close to a huge rattlesnake that was
just coming out of the grass into the
road. This uncourtcous action seemed
to make his snakeship very wroth, and
be immediately sounded the battle alarm
by rattling his gong. The girl well
kuew the souud and turned to ascertain
the location of her ugly foe, which she
soon did, and, instead of runuing, scream
ing or fainting, looked about for some
thing with which to defend hertelf.
She could find nothing, nor had she long
time to look, fur the snake, with eyes
glistening, rattles in motion, mouth wide
open aud his tongue darting back and
forth, was close upon her.
But she was pluck to the back bone,
and did not propose to surrender the
field without a fight—iu fact retreat was
out of ths question, for the snake was
now within arm’s reach of her—so keep
ing her eye steadily on the snake's head,
she commenced the fight with her foot,
moving it back and forth, up and down,
in every direction, tire snake following
the motions with his head to get a
chance to bite. This performance las
ted but perhaps a minute—hours to her,
when, by a quick movement, she got the
advantage, and down came the foot and
heavy shoe upon the snake’s head,
where she held him until he was dead.
She then found a stone and pounded off
the rattles to keep as a trophy. There
were nineteen rattles, and she says it
was the largest rattlesnake she ever
saw.
Beecher says he can never get up
to his own ideal of preaching, which
is perhaps fortunate for the public.
Some of the Fijians now want
cast-iron missionaries, If cleanli
ness lo godliness, castile
would be more appropriate.
Ingenious and thrifty Chicng o
gamins make money by imitating
the warble of the cat under win
dows of nervous people and selling
the boots and bootjacks that are
thrown at them.
When a man with a rnother-in
law kills himself in Arkansas the
coroner’s jury brings in a verdict ot
justifiable snicide.
If your enemy annoyeth you,
give unto his children many bunches
of crackers, and so fulfil the law of
lov-.
Josh Billings says that a large
policy.of life insurance doesn’t ex
actly make a man’s corpse smile at
his window, but it helps amazingly
to get another fellow to do it lor him.
A Connecticut editor unkindly
alluded to a rival editor’s head as
the Polar regions, because it is a
great while bare place
They don’t marry in Wyoming
■like they do here. The bride there
furnishes the ring and parson’s fee,
and the bridegroom faints. Tha
bride then rubs lineament under his
nose and he “comes to.”
The “Declaration of Independ
ence,” one of the finest specimens
Of’ literary composition on record,
was written by Thomas Jefferson.
Immediately after writing it, that
original rebel went home and lar
rnpped one of his niggeis because
his boots had not been properly
blacked.
Henry Ward Beeolier preachod the
other Sunday from the text : “My eon!
cleaveth unto the duet.” It certainly
does: and a twenty-thousand-dollar sal
ary is a pile ol dust well worth cleaving
to, too.
DRIFT-WOOD.
The small-pox is progressing iu Lon
don.
Osceola county, lowa, has not a tree
within its boundaries.
Baltimore is much excited over tbe
Wharton poisoning case.
Washington city is to have, anew Op
era House, at the cost of 8220,000.
O’Donivan llossa, the liish exile, has
gone into the insurance business in New
York.
The Appleton iron furnace, of Wis
consin, turns out about seventeen tons
of pig iron per day.
lale College graduates ninety-nine
students this year.
New York cousumes one million of
eggs daily.
Attorney-General Akerman, is stump
speaking in North Carolina.
The Hibernians attended the funerals
of the rioters in New York in luil re
galia.
Over twelve hundred chuiches were
built in the United States last year.
King Kamchameha, of the Sand
wich Islands, has his hoots made iu
New Y’ork. He wears nines.
k ive hundred persons 'vent crazyiu
Paris during the reign of t iror.
London has anew prima donna, Al’lie
Mariuiou, who is usurping Nilsson’s
throne.
In Constantinople, wood, milk, and
wine are sold by weight; and bread is
sold by the foot.
The degree of LL. D„ has been
conferred upon Horace Greely,
Paris has had a terrible explosion of a
powder magazine.
The Mississippi Radicals are splitting
into factions over the policy of Gov.
Alcoi n.
Eleven of the Southern States under
Republican rule have been plunged into
a debt of two hundred millions of dol
lars since 1865.
The arsenal at Rio Janeiro has been
destroyed by fire. The loss to tbe Bra
zilian Government exceeds §300,000.
Snow fell in the basket of a balloon
that went up from Oswego, N. Y. on the
4th, to the depth of two inches. The
party, having on summer clothing, suf
fered intensely from the cold.
A Missourian has invented a perpetual
tobacco pipe. It has a reversible bowl;
when one charge is nearly burned out,
it is reversed and filled again, burning
without relighting.
One of Darwins strongest arguments
for tbe descent of man from the monkey
is, that the latter animal always parts his
hair in the middle.
According to London correspondents,
Napoleon visits town every day, and
generally strolls along the sunny side of
Bond street or haunts the bow windows
ot a club house. He is very popular
with the working classes, who cheor him
and he is getting very fat.
A destructive atorm has occurred alon°-
tbe Louisville and Nasbvillo Railroad'’.
The freight train was blown from a
switch across the main track, and threw
the passenger train off. No lives were
lost.
Governor Palmer, of Illinois, will as
sist ths Sheriff, with the whole power of
the State, in arresting the. persons who
lynched Martin Mera—the man who so
cruelly mnrdered his own son.
The sudden arrival of Governor War
mouth in New Orleans from Pqss Chris
tian, created a sensation among politi
cians. The Governor at once took
charge of the Executive Department.
General Cook, with five companies of
cavalry, fifty picked Mexicans and a
number of the bent native scouts, has
taken the field against the Apacha In.
dians in Arizona.
In the United States Court, in Brook
lyn, N. Y., the steamer Cleopatra was
declared forfeited to the Government for
a violation of the neutrality laws. The
act of violation consisted in smuggling
§4.000 in cigars, by the employees on
board.
The State of Michigan contains five
thousand one hundred and eleven inland
lakes, covering au area of eleven hun
dred and fourteen miles, besides a water
front on the great lakes of more than
eighteen hundred miles.
The Pleasonton-Boutwell imbroglio
shows no decided phase of settlement.
In case of Plnaaonton’s resignation or
removal, it is thought that Mr. Donglass
will succeed him as Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue.
The coal discovered recently on the
line of the Central Pacific Railroad is
said to be foutid in veins 35 feet thick
It is semi anthracite, containing 72.16
per cent, of carbotr, 22 per cent, volatile
matter, 3.44 water, and 2.5 ash. It is
sold at San Francisco at sl3 25 per ton.
If the extent of the coal field is not
over-estimated, it will have more inflq
ence than the gold mines upon the fu
ture of tbe’Pacific coast.
The New York Tribuue says that the
most violent of tbe New York rioters
were women. So it was in Paris in the
day of the Commune. The “oontagious
insanity” to which a Froncli writer at
tributes the monstrous conduct of the
Communists, seems to have crossed the
Atlantic,
The San Diego Union learns that
rich deposits have been discovered at
some point in Lower California, about
Isff'ffiilee south of San Diego. Water
is found in sufficient quantities to allow
the claims to be worked.
No. 13.
I The "Democratic Legislature of New
I Hampshire is making revelations which
j show that the Radicals have kept pow-
I er in that State by corrupt usages of the
j ballot Luxes and registry lists.
The management of the two-headed
girls. Christine and Miiie, who were
j in Atlanta some mouths since, is coiuiug
| money in the Provinces of Great Brit
i ain.
j New York State contains 5,123 Sun
| day Schools, with a membership of
| 574,347. The Methodists lead all other
denominations, having 1,391 rchools
with 122,071 scholars. The I’resby
! terians come next, with 822 schools and
j 93,35S scholars.
j Two clergymen, late editors of the
Ministerial Union—a Christian paper
which appeared for four consecutive
weeks in Chicago—vaiedictoried as fol
lows : “Chicago is a good place tor a
religious paper, provided that three pa
ges serve Satau and the other one is
mixed.’’
Father Hyaciuthe in a recent letter
sti)Stho Lloudy acts of the Communists
'n Paris were the result of the nega
tion of God by the people.
I The Vulcan Iron Wotks of St. Lou ; 3,
1 turns out a rail 39 feet long every miu
| uto, or enough iron for rf*mile of double
I track, with eight swithes iueluoed, ev
live hours and a half.
General Butler is described by the
Boston Transcript as a great admirer
ol the Paris Cotnmuue, and it asks when
elected Governor of Massachusetts,
"will lie stigmatize his inaugural by
blowing up tile State House or puliiog
down Bunker Hill Monument Tho
former, of course, ns his “vocation/’
tike that oi 1 a s ass, is "blowing.”
J “Senator S men Cameron declines
tbe Radical nomination for tho Vice
Pres.deucy,” says au exchange. This
lis premature in Senator Simon Caine
j rou. We are not informed that the
j opportunity to decline the nomination
lias yet been held Out to him.
j Brooklyn, New York, on account of
highway robberies and assaults, is be
coming an unsafe place after dark.
This place Las just had an exciting
whisky riot.
King Louis, of Bavaria bas convoked
all the great actors of Shakspearian
plays throughout the world to meet in
Munich, in Janury, 1872, where he in
tends to give the most perfect represen
tation of Shakspeare’ plays ever attemp
ted.
Hon. Andrew Proudfit is said to be
tho coming man for the Democratic uom
iuation for Governor of Wisconsin. He
is one of the old Bchool.
The Chicago Times has a word to say
to the thousands of young men just
graduated from colleges which, des
pite it satirical flavor, is sensible advice.
This is the point of it:
“But as a further preparation for an
honorable career, his first duty is to
quit being a college graduate. When
the floral tributes that applauding maid
ens flung at his feet on that imposing
commencement occasion have withered
let him address himself to this task.
' Let him conceal as far as possible
from those around him the fact that he is
the wisest man of his time; let him
postpone his elevation to the Presidency
as long as he thinks the pressing demands
of his fellow-citizens will permit, and
with an air of well-affected meekness,
let him go to work at his chosen avoca
tion.”
FOREIGN NOTES.
Dispatches report a riot between the
Sociables and Ultramontaines, at Vien
na. Many people were injured. Th«
police were powerless. The military
suppressed the cmeute.
The magazine of tbe Grecian- war
steamer Eumonia exploded recently in
the Grecian Archipelago. The crew,
forty in number, were nearly all killed.
The balance were hurt. The vessel was
destroyed.
A telegram from Hong Kong to Lloyds,
announces that a typhoon visited Hiago,
Japan. Seven steamers went ashore or
sank. The place was inundated.
The Czar has made the Crown Prince
of Saxony an honorary Field Marshal.
The Emperor William of Germany
has issued an order for a medal to be
struck in commemoration of tbe war.
The committee of the French Assem
bly, having in charge the subject of a
reorganization of the army, have adopt
ed the principle pf compulsory service.
The future Emperor ami Empress of
Germany were snubbed by the Queen
on their recent visit to England. Her
Majesty refused to take them in at any
of her palaces, and they were obliged to
lodge with the Common Ambassador.
It is reported that Washburn, the A
meticar. Minister assured tbe French
Government that no perSoiTfcPtivicted of
criminal acts in Paris against the Na
tional Government during tbe reign of
the Commune, will be permitted to re
side in tbe United States.
In tbe Upper Chamber of the Parlia
ment, the Netherlands, by a vote of 1G
to 15, postponed, indefinitely, a further
consideration of a treaty for cession to
England! susitre* re# ,V‘
In consequence of the explnsion of a
pistol, the only son of the Sultan of
Turkey has lost oae ofhia eyes.
Private citizens of Hamburg, in Ger
many, support fifty Protestant misatoa*'
ries in Africa and Australia.
Three hundred and forty-nine ladies
in Germany have received medals of
honor from the Emperot William I„ fog
valuable services rendered in tbe milita
ry hospitals during the war.