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A SERIOUS JOKE. How The Performance In a Circus Was Interrupted. Several nights age, at a circus per formance in Arkansaw, the conven tional drunken man who goesiton the ring and wants to ride that “hots” played his part a little finer than he intended. Sitting near the ring were a ceuple of men from “away over the creek.” They were perfectly wrap ped np in the entertainment, and were very much annoyed when the drnnken fellow interrupted the per formance. “I want you to go away,” the ring master said. “You are interrupting our show.” “Wanter ride that boss.” “Yon can’t ride. Yob are too drunk.” “Here,” said the clown, assuming a serious air, I want you to leave here* * 1 A 1 6 “Wanter ride that hoss.” ‘Tt’e as much as you can do to walk, and yon can’t ride that spirited animal. We paid for the privilege of showing here, and intend to give a good show, but if you keep ou rupting ns we can’t dotanythtog.” “He’s the blamdest fool I ever saw.” said one of the men from aerav over the creek.' * “Yes,” his companion replied, “and if he keepeoa progickin ’round fa*M I’ll show him that I spent my money to see this, aad I don’t waa’lsr he cheated oaten my rights by a drank fool. We can see drmtk fellers evert day, but a show’s a show, leiwne toll yon.” The drunken fellow fell in front of the horse antlcauio near being ran vW. * The clown seised him and threw him from (he ring. He star meu jumped up and raid “Ifo, I’ll be blamed if yeu go' back.” The audience thought it was a part of the trick and roared, and the creek mao, thinking that his course bit re ceived the approval of the crowd, was mueii encouraged. w Gst away, sakl the old joker, In au undertone, “tliia is a part jC the show.” A | C | J|^ “Ye*, an’ it’ll be a mighty sorry part for you if you doa’t git outoo here.” “Look out!” and the ell joker tried to shove the creek man aside. This was more than the ether coun tryman could eudure, and springing up, he struck the perpctrater of octo genarian mirth, and his companion seized him, and began to drag him out. The clown and ring-master rushed out aud tried to rescue their friend. but the men from over the creek had already stood too much. The drunken fellow, who was by this time quite sober, had gone beyond the bounds of forgiveness and should be punished. The audience, still regard ing the whole affair as a grand father ly joke, was almost wild with Joy “Dinged if you shall perfect sicL a fool as this!” and one of the creek men struck the clown in the face and knocked film down. Fresh fuel for the fires of fun, and the audieuca howled and roared and some of the seals foil aud a mighty shout arose. The ring-master was knocked down with the heavy end of his own whip, and then the rest was business-like and practical. A number of the ac tors rushed to the conflict, and a par ty of cross-road hoys reinforced the men from over the creek. The flfly ■lx special constables joined the af fraj, and after awhile, the entire cir cus outfit, with ite tattered canvass and blood stained men, looked as melancholy as the shank end of n day when a note falls duo. It is not often that an old and well-seasoned joke causes trouble, and the circus mana ger, littered and torn as he is, is searching the clown annals of the twilight ages, in the hope that he may find a trick old enough for the public. wsmii UNION'S NSW MOBT- New York Herald: The Western V in Telegraph Company has passed ia te such an alarmingly dropsical stage .lsat its opponents have ceased te abuse It and regard if with a ceataln fearful curiosity. As appears from our financial columns to day, Use company ia going to issue a million dollars of new first mortgage bond-, the pretext being that they are to pay for apneumatiu pipe laid m this city and for anew branch office building. In view of the claim that it has in ! band a surplus of four millions over the last dividends, it teems too bad for the corporation to create anew mortgage to pay 'hose little hills. A million, by >lie way, ought to settle them and lease a very large balance in hand. The new issue increases the bonded debt to seven mi liens, which takes precedence of the capital of eigh ty millions te, say nothing of the guar antee Af Mutual Union securities and other Hems; the “construction ac count" conceals unknown bnt necessa rily immense liabilities; the floating debt ia an uudiscoverable quantity; big dividends, which are not earned, are being paid; constant reduction* of rate* .are being made—that which went into effect last month being characterized by President Green as the greatest in the history of the con cern—and. yonnger companies w ~hj smaller capitals are driving the bloat ed otd ex monopoly to the wall. j Knowing all this, the public is not surprised by Dr. Green’s statemeat that Mr. Jay Gould has not bio holding* of the stock, but that be owns more than ever. He and thi< “exaggerated stock,” to coo Mr. Everts’ phrase, have been let severely alone. Ifhe succeeds m unloading It without disastrous loss it will be one of the smartest trick* in ail his (mart career. THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE. VOL. XIX. A CROPPING MORTGAGE. “And what is that ?” asked a stran ger. “Why,” said the old man, “do you pretend to tell us that you do not know what a crapping mortgage is?” bueh were his pretension A “Then you are no southerner,” the man contined; “so I will tell you somethiug about it. A crapping mortgage— well, I give one o’ them durned things once myself. The way of it was just this: Yon fee, 1 alters managed to keep a little money ahead to buy the little things we needed on the plantation and I generally went down to our IHHe town to boy them about once a week. Well, as I was down there trading one week the storekeeper he said to me, sez he. 4rts*l4<he%se of your bothering along this way every week paying out four small change—why fion’t yon give moa crapping mortgage, and tbeneanddofrß when yau want any thing andTet hie pvt in on the books, without bothering about the cb4nge, and then when your trap comes in von can send down a bag o’ cation and rfgf&ssx. . idea—soiiudcd soiler easy like, eO-J told the storekeeper I thought I’d do It. So be filled out a cropping Mort gage, which he had already printed, qjjyS££Mß ffJ them crapping gwrt- j gages Is curious things 1 Before I got half-fray home withjjsy load I got to signed it flit storekeeper he told me ( tbat now any nanre was good in his store for anything! wafiied, and to send right along as often as I pleased. That was what I was studying, and then pretty soon I got to studying up wkat I wanted and what I needed, and that infernal crapping mortgage or something else made me think at things that I uever wanted before. Yon see, I had fought shy of debt all my life, but atl the neighbors was a trying hands ou crapping mortgages, and I thought I’d be in for a little too; well, I did. “I kept on wanting things! aad I kepton getting things. We all got along fine, and the storekeeper sold the old womans lots of nice things that we never had wanted before, but that we waa hound to havo after I signed that crapping mortgage. They breed wants they do.” “At laat the crap came in and I sent a bale of cotton down to the store to pay off the crapping mortgage. It didu’t do it. Then 1 sent down another bale-that wasn’t “ enough. Nest I seat down all the cotton I bad, and finally all my corn and fodder! aud as it wasn’t still paid, the old woman got all her chickens, and ducks, aud turkeys and sent them down— still that miserable crapping' mortgage wasn’t satisfied. Bo I went down to see him about It. The storekeeper said it was all right—all paid up but about two hundred dollars and that didn’t make any difference; I could still have anythlngl Wanted on it. "But, sir.e iiuehow Or other I did not Ilka how things was going, so 1 took aod paid the balance on the crapping mortgage and took the blame thing home with me, though I couldn't help thinking the storekeeper for offering to let me still hare goods after my crap was all gone. When I got home me and the old woman, we put on our specks, looked at the crap ping mortgage, and what do you iliink? Well, I’ll be dad bunted if that crapping mortgage hadn’t been spread over all my laud, my heroes, my mules my stock, my farming utensils, my household and kitchen fnmlture —everything I had in the world was flung Into St, and if It had stayed there another year I’ll bet high everything I had wauid bare gone through it. Well, let me tell you— don’t you never sign one. You never will get through paying it, aod when them store fellows tell you how easy it is to get things now and pay for ’em in th# tall, you remember what I have told yon about a crapping mortgage.” send having finished hit description of these little engines of oppression, he pulled out a twist of home-made tobacco that looked as rich and brown as walnet wood, cut a thaw with ids horn handle knife, pul it in liis month, nut the knife and tobacco hark into hit breeches pocket, and walked away. He turned around after walking a little way and then said, reflectively: “Don’t you never sign one in the world; if you do, you will never get through paying it off.” Hg might have added: Per the reason that you will l>o sure to buy hundreds of things that you could get along without buying did you have to pay the cash down. That thing called good credit is a|g*st remarkable thing! The Macon Telegraph, having road the fox sod dog story from Oxford, tells this one: When the engineer of the iucoming Columbus train was leaving Reynolds on Saturday after noon, he saw a rabbit coming at full tiR down the track, followed by fif teen dogs. The rabbit was so fright ened and the dogs so excited in tbe chase that they rushed headlong against tbe erfginc, and the result was that the rabbit and five of tbe dogs were run over and killed. Protostaut congregation* in Mexico have more than doubled in tbe iaet eight year*. I* - LOVE CHARMS FOB A SENATOR. The Adv. stares of a Modern Pauurgs in Senna nr tin EndnnM Ornate. One of the remarkable things brought to light in the Sharon vs.; ISharou divorce tritl, nowgoingon, is that the plaintiff, Miss Althea Iltll, or Mrs. Sharon, tried all sorts of tricks to win the Senator’s love. Ouo or her journeys yyas to a wise woman, whn will doubtless cause a good deal of fun when she comes to tell her tale to Judge Sullivan. At 4he atory goes, Althea sought this female, whose sign hangs out in a quiet though respectable thoroughfare,and asked for some charm to make Sha ron love her or marry her, which is stiff a matter af dispute. The obese sybil, whose portly Terra has encum bered a chair in the court room ever since the aseommoaeed, gave Al thea a charm, which she averred could not fail, and with the punic fiaHh for which come people* re noted, told Bbaron’s agents all about it af terward. At the hour of midnight, just as the clacks were striking on that night af the month, when the moon had reached her fulleet ampli tude, Althea was to Grew freni her soft, round arm three drops of blood, carefully drying and preserving the asutoritiited fiaid from any foreign substance. Althea was to find means at some future time to mingle (hem with the wise that ttie object of her affections was about to drink. If site did this without detection and the Senator drained the charmed chalice the desire of Althea’s heart must sure ly be fulfilled ere thrice the moon had waned and waxed again. Althea tried the charm and in due course reported back with words of anger and reproach that it had failed aud then, like Panurge, she journeyed ou to find another and more ;<ati fac tory oracle. This oracle turns out to be the plump and pleasing damsel who always tecupies a seat directly behind Senator Sharon. Her shapely palm was duly crossed with gold. She listened to Althea’s desires aud then filled her young diaeipie’s heart with jv by evolving from the inner depths of her aecromantic art an unfailing plau to bring the aged Croesus to the feet of his young adorer. By stealthy means Althea was to secure oue single hair from the scan ty locks which straggle over the Sen atorial brow like railroad routes access anew country. For thrice throe days that single hair must re poae in Althea’s bosom, and then, to make the charm complete, it must be carefully cut into nine equal parts, which were to be placed in an omel ette, with Althea and her adored one were to eat in company. Faithfully Althea followed the directions given her; but, alls,.thecharm worked not to her satisfaction and once more she started out, like Panurge, to find a truer eracle. How she buried socks and cellars and tried other divinations with the Senatorial linen has already been told, but there still remains to tell of many other strange acts and love philtres.—Alta Californian. UP FOR Lirx Ogletrec, the man who created a widespread sensation last spring by kidnapping small boys at wholesale rates, was last week sentenced to the Mississippi peaitoutlary for life. Ogletrec first obtained notoriety by kidnapping Charlie Tilden, a small news boy, whose home is in this city. One evening last JitlT Oglctree was in Atlanta, where he met Charlie, who is a bright little fellow, whom he induced to go to West -End with him to drive a cow back to the city. After Ogletrec had passed tbe city limits Charlie refused to go any fur ther, whereupon Ogletrec compelled him. The child was takdn to Ole tree’s home, which was near Dallas, where he remained closely guaided for several days. Duriug this lime Ogletrec made the child call him fa ther, and beat and abused him terri bly. He shaved the hsir off the boy’s head, cut a mole from his body, and put earrings in his ears. One day Charlie escaped, and when his storv becaiue known in Dallas the country became too warm for Ogletrec, and Me skipped, liis first case of kidnap ping infat natal Ogletrec, ami ill tbe course of two months lie stole fully a dozen boys. In September he stole a small boy named While in Alabama. The boy’a father followed Ogletrec until he left the state lor Mississippi. Duriug the early part of tbe winter Oglelree turned up in Neshoba coun ty, Mi**., when he outraged an eight year-old white child. Thia time he was captured, and last week hit trial was concluded. When he complete* his life sentence in the penitentiary he wil! probably have forgot his mania for kidnapping.—Constitution. In tbe cattle contagion district of Kansas quarantine is strictly en forced, tud it is believed there is no danger that tbe disease will spread from any herds now known to be in fected. Tbe Neosho Falls Quaran tine Committee has ordered the kill ing and burning of seven head out of the Owl Creek herd. Frightful rav ages are reported in Adair coun ty, Mo. As the doctor turned sadly away from tha patient whem he found using Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, hetsid: “It beats at* every time,” WASHINGTON, GA.; FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1884. • 1 In July, 1861, at the age of sixteen years, Daniel P. Watson left his home and aged parents in Wilcox county, Ga., and entered the Confed erate army as a private in Company H, Twentieth Georgia Regiment, General Benning’s brigade. On the 2nd dav of July, 1863, youug Watson was wounded and ta ken prisoner at the battle of Gettys burg. Ho was taken to Fort McHen ry, near Baltimore, and afterwards ta Fart Delaware, where he effected his escape. He made his way to New York, where he shipped on the bark Antelope, of New Bedford, a whaling vessel nound for Greenland. He re mained in the whaling region for two years and a half, and was wreck ed off the coast of Greenland, in Oc tober, 1866. All of the crew were saved, aud young Watson was rat, tied to New Foundland, going from there to Boston. During these years he heard nothing of his poople in tho South, and for a period Of one year did not even hear from the United States at all. The first news of the close #f the war was received in Greenland. From Boston he again took to the ocean, this time on a merchant schooner bound for the James river for lumber. For twelve years, be tween 1866 aud 1878, Watson was a sailor in the service of American and English vessels. He visited every country on the globe except Switzer land and once had an adventure with Chinese pirates. Allast Watson decided to return to tho South and ouce more to see hi* people, not knowing -whether his father and mother were living or dead. On the night of March 20, 1884, he arrived in Hawkiusville, knowing no person and known by no one. On Friday morning, he started to ward Abbeville. Wilcox county, and going to the home of Mr, E. B. Mix on, made himself known to the old gentleman. Here he learned that his mother had been dead nearly twenty years, but that his father, Thomas Watson, still lived near Abbeville, in the eighty-second year of his ago. A messenger was sent after the old man and he was informed that his son Dan, whom he had not seen in nearly twenty-three years, had re turned and was at Mr. Mixon’s. The old man could hardly believe it, but though bowed down with tho weight ofoycr eighty years, ho set out for his neighbor’s to meet his long missed sou. holjHtjuk vs. jkbskt. A< Holstein cow,like Avshiresnd some others, have had the reputation of he iug “pretty good cheese cows,” which with most people is equivalent to a mild condemnation of them as butter producers. At other times they are damned with some other form of taint praise quite as significant. Bnt it has rarely been intimated that they are rarely excellent cows for the pro duction of butter. It seems to bequite forgotten that immense quantities of really choice butter arc made iu the native land of (be Holstein. It was therefore a surprise to a great many persons when Mr. Wales, of lown, an nounced that a Holstein cow bel<jm# c ': ing to him had stepped boldly to the very front as a butter maker. The Jersey tnen had been enjoying a mo nopoly of the business so long and had worked its* profitably that they were astounded ; but they put on a bold front at once, and Mr. Fuller, of Can ada, the owner of “Mary Ann of St. I.smWt,” a plicnemiiial Jersey, in the spirit of true chivalry, challenged Mr. Wales to put Holstein against Jersev in some sert of a thorough test on a wager. Mr. Wales was un able at the time to accept, the challenge for several very satisfactory reasons, but holies tod >so at some future time. There the matter rests at present. The public can afford to wait and see what comes of the contest before taking any very active part on either side. It will of course interest tho general pub lic, but the speculators will be princi pally profited. Gammon dairymen can better afford to stand aloof till the speculation subsides. —Breeders Journal tor April. ANWVAt RZADJIITXEST OP THE lUtaiKs ow ronasneas. The annual readjustment of the salaries of Postmasters for the next fiscal year has begun at the Post Of fice Department, says a Washington special af the 2d. The salaries ef 2,405 Presidential Postmasters will l bo adjusted on returns for the quar ter cuded March 31. The adjustment takes effect July 1. The department is about to begin an examination and review of the claims of Postmasters for the readjustment of their salaries for the period between the years 1804 and 1874, in accordance with the provisions of the act of March 3,1883. Circular letters are being sent to all persons who were Postmasters during that period, or their heirs, calling for information concerning their claims, but it is staled at that depart ment that further progress in the ca ses is not possible unless Congress makes provision far at least twenty additional clerks. There are many thousands of claims covering periods of from one to ten years, and the pos tal officials aay the enormous sum ef $50,0001100 will be required to par them. THE OLD PORTRAIT. G. H. BASKLTTE. A portrait hangs on my chamber Wall, All yellowed with age and dust; It has huug there so long it threatens to tall From the nail, half eaten with rust. 'Tis a woman's face, arid passing fair— How it came thero I do not know; Some Inring hand must hare placed it there In the days of hong Ago. I laid Twas a woman's face, and fair, For despite the dust and the ataio, I can mark the flood of her wondrous bair, As it falls in s golden rein O'er a faultless bust, whioh once I deem Was as pure as the driven snow— And that face sometimes lights up with a gleam Of life from the Long Ago. The lips seem ready at times to part Andutt r some thrilling word, And oft, as I watch with a throbbing heart, I could almost swear they stirred; the eyes, so dark,peer out from the ■V' gloom— Ah, why do they burnt ns so, Ann so steadily follow me 'round the room, Those eyes of the Long Ago? And whet do I.know of that fair faet, And what doe it know of me, That is Bhould haunt me from place to plate With its mystical sympathy? Fo r it seems to smile when my heart it glad; But when it bests heavy and low, Those eloquent eyes grow weary and sad With a grief of the Long Ago. I wonder if ever she loved and lost, Or ever she loved in vain; ■ Ifa joyous hope her pathway crossed And left gloem and despair in ita train? 1 wonder if ever those longing eyes Were bedimmed by the scalding flow Which wells from a sorrow that never dies, Nor is lost in the Loug Ago? Sometimes when I think of a love that is gone, And a joy that once might have been, Of a hope once cherished, but long sines flown, - To return to me never again; When I brood o’er the aad, and tho weari some days, With their burdeuof sin and of woe, That pret ence bends on me a pitying gaze From the dopths of the Long Ago. And whether it be but a poet's conceit, Placed there by the painter’s art, Or ;■ 'mo of a woman sweet, Who bae tired and played her part, There’B a apirit, so gentle, which comes st my call, And warms withs sentient glow The face that looks down from my chamber wall With a love of the Long Ago. And I cannot help thinking that the soul I bsTs hero, Aad the soul of that portrait divine, Soznshow and lomctimo, in an ultimate sphere, In a closer communion will join; When the tremulous hopes mud the torturing fears, Which around me their mysteries throw, Will be viewed from tho far ofTfuture years Through the mists of the Long Ago. HißEirn , Tt> A COMMIT*. A Woman Wedded lo a Rend So Idler to Obtfitftu HU Pnlon Money. Samuel B. llobbins moved in the little village of Ap|delon fifty-one years ago, says an Augusta (Me.) special to the Philadelphia Press. He served bravely in the civil war, and received wounds which entitled him to a pension. For six years he has lived with his brother Noah. Last July he began to fail rapidly, and a month ago it was evident that he could live only asliort time. Ifhe died his pension money would be lost, for his wife was dead and he had no children. In this emergency it was Jleeided that a wife must be obtained Tor the dying soldier. In Uockiauil was found a woman who, under the circumstances, was, willing to become a wifo and widow in quick succession. February ,20 the bans were published. The lkw in Maine requires five day’s notioe be fore tlie marriage. March 2, Robbins fell into a comatose condition and did not recover bis senses before be died, March 4. It is said that when ’Squire Pease, tho ponsion agent, learned how noar dissolution, Rob bins was he sent post-haste to Bock land for tbe bride he and Noah had selected. Unhappily, tho woman did not arrive till midnight, uiue hours after Robbie's death. The woman was hurriedly taken to the chamber where Uobbius lay dead, and the mockery of a marriage ceremony between tbe living woman and the corjise was gone tnrough with. Pease’s son tpok the clammy hand of tho dead man and placed it In that of the willing widow. At the funeral aho was Introduced as Bob bin's wife, and, it is understood, claims tbe pension money. A legal investigation will be held. The Eiberion New South says* “A very intelligent gentleman, who is a close observer of things generally,and who lias traveled extensively through the comities of Elbert, McDuffie and Lincoln recently, says that extensive clearings have recently been made on nearly all the water courses in the va rious counties, which are tributaries to the Savannah and Broad rivers. He says that tho timber and under growth Is being rapidly ent from the banks of tbe streams, which he says will eventuate in denuding the soil of that which, in a measure, prevents the rapid running off of water and rising of streams. He thinks that in the leixt few years these streams will canso floods which will be very disastrans to land* on the Savannah river, and especially to the city of Au gusta, which is even now partially overflowed at times when the river is high.” The street cleaning brigade of Par is number* 13,000 men, women and children. ITEMS OF INTEREST. That woman was a philosopher who when she lost her husband, said sho knew where lie was of nights now. Electric lights on tho high mast at Los Angelos, Cal., can be soen from the island of Clomeii'o, 80 miles out at sea. It frequently happons that the girl that has the most bangs to her hair lias the biggest holes in the heels of her stockings. . The spinners who are on a strike at| Fall River have grown so disorderly that tho police have been summoned to quiet them. Several of tho fashionable churches in the cast are considering the pro priety of charging admission the same as theatres. Col. John A. Treuchard, of Elbert, who lias been in the in tho service of tho Baptist cluirch iii the Indian Ter ritory, is#n avteit home. William Lawrence who died in Lansingbuig, N. Y., on Wednesday night, of test week had for mafly years believed that he was immortal and would never die. Tho flvo-year-old daughter of Green Barfield, of Dooly county-, foil in a clay hole in rear of the and welling ou Wed nesday of last week and was drowned before being discovered. The manager and clerks of a tea and coffee company in Philadelphia who wore selling their goods in pack ages containing prizes have been ar rested for gambling by lottery. M. De Losseps seems te keep a rnrt niug account with nature. He often sleeps for twenty-four hours or more at a stretch, and then goes a whole week without je moment’s dozing. A cew horn measuring four feet eleven inches in length, aud eighteen incites around the base, is on exhibi tion at Montieello, Fla., and is sup posed to be the largest cow horn in the world. Mr. Arago, the scientist, as long ago as 1831 described a series of red twi lights and accounted for them by the existence, at that lime, of a volcanic eruption in the Mediterranean sea, near Sicily. The stato chemist *of New York went out to buy blitter. He got thirty pounds at different stores. Then lie went home, and ou analyzing his purchases, found he had only ten pounds of pure butter. A California man lias ciphered out how the republicans can elect the next president without the vote of New Ybik. But his scheme reqnterfi Connecticut, Indiana, Oregon, Newl da, Ohio and California. A hogshead of tobacco having fall en on a Kentuckian and crushed him out of symmetrical proportions, the Arkansaw Traveler remarks: “It can’t bo denied I lint tobacco taken in large quantities is injurious.” The Vicksburg, (Miss) Herald, chronicling the presence of Jefferson Davla in that city one day last week, says that he is as erect at a young In dian brave and the grasp of his hand * an firm and warm as in the unfor gotten past. “Yes,” said the actor, “I’ve had hard luck. I’re been hurt in a smash-up, had my pocket picked, my wardrobe has been burned, my wife has eloped. But I deserve it; I don’t kick. I have helpod to in flict ‘Uncle Totas's Cabin’ on this country. At Atlanta Tuesday the sheriff yf Pulaski county paid into the Stale Treasury $3,000, the proceeds arising from the sale of several lots of land acquired by the State in deicing‘the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. The land was sold by order of the Legislator*. While making brick for Mr. Bcrckm&n’s store, at Maxey’s, the workmen laid bare a large Indian graveyard and disinterred a j num ber of skeletons. They ere sar rou tided by shod beads and relics, one being an iuaaga of a man carved from stone, and now In (he possess- ion of A. T. Brlghtwell. Governor Iloadlay Is decidedly for Payne’s nomination to the presidency. 11c so announced himself to a Cincin nati Enquirer correspondent whilo in Chicago last week. He added his belief that Ohio would go democratic in October if the right man was nom inated, and that Payue was the right man. The electric light in the libraries and dining room of the House of Commons having proved satisfacto ry, the Edison & Swan Company has increased the lighting accommoda tion to 480 lamps. Careful provision has been made against any failure of the light from accidents to the en gines or machines. The Railway Age says that it Is already safe to assert that there will he a large amount of railway building in the United States during the present year While the number of great trunk lines to be completed or commenced is not likely to be so large as in the past few years, the demand for new and comparatively shart roads f r local accommodation and for ex tensions of cx'sting roads seems to 1 e as active as ever. The cost of con st ruction has decreased greatly in re cent years. The difference between the cost ef slfcl rails in 1868 and 1883 was $11,170 per mile, equivalent to a NO. 15. yearly difference interest at 6 percent of $670 per mile each year. The sav ing in railway construction last year over the average pi ice of 1868 was over $72,000,000. A few days ago, while some of his hands were clearing off a field on his plantation uear Eatonton, Dr. H. A. Cogburn came iu possession of a quantity of silver. It seems that in old treo, containing a hollow was bnrnod. In the debris was found a! quantity of melted silver. Dr. Cog- .burn has no doubt but that it is the I hidden treasure of some miserly per son who is long since dead aud bur ied. In the old days no woman was al lowed to desecrate the monastery at Sau Augustin, Mexico, by so m'uqh as putting her foot within its walls} A ble ladfckjof Spain, wife of tljf reigning vicecey, was bentim vUitfng, it. Nothing could stop her, and- in she came. But she found only empty cloisters, for sach virtuous monk locked himself securely in his cell, and afterward every ; stone in the floor which her sacrilegious feet had touched was carefully replaced by new ones fresh from the mountain top before the pollution of her pres ence was considered removed. But times are sadly changed, and the house has been turned into a common "hostelry. a BAND JURIES. There is in tho minds of the people genet ally au altogether mistaken idea as to the duties and powers of grand juries. A grand jury is not tho peo ple, and does not in any respect repre sent the people. It has certain powers aud privileges, and certain duties to perform, but has only such as are ex pressly conferred on it by tho statute. If we are to judge of the actions of the grand juries by the reading of their general presentments, wo would be forced to the opinion that they spent a large part of their time in consider ing matters that do not in the least concern them iu the capacity of jurors. It was intended by the framers of our constitution that the requirement that our grand jurors should bo “the most upright intelligent and experienced’’ should add to their efficiency. But it has not done so. They consider them selves being tho most upright, the most intelligent, and the most exper ienced of the people, a very sanhedrim to legislate morals and establish a gen eral inquisition into tho lives and opinions of tho people, and largely neglect the more important nutters for which tke system was provided. They want to be reformers and states men, i - CASH DISGUISED AS A HE. URO. A dispatch from Columbia, S. C. says: “A report has gained credence all through the State that W. Bogan Cash, tho outlaw, for whoseappreheu sion tho Governor has offered a large reward, is roaming about the country disguised as a negro. Saturday a col ored mau chopping wood along the Saufeoriver saw a man disguised asa negre, his face blackened with char coal, walking along tlie river, lie hail ed him, aud the man, being star'lcd, drew hi* rifle and fired at the weed chopper, who took to hia heal* and fled precipitately. This disguised man is now known to bo Cash, who is biding in the vicinity of that plaoe. ilia foet prints were fonnd iu tbeseft clay soil along the edgo of the stream, and ewing to the peculiar formation of on# of the hoot heels, were identifi ed as these of young Cash. Thß wood choppors are armed to teeth, and hare received orders to shoot Cash upon sight if he does not instantly su render. The elder Cash, who Is out on bail, says' his he alth has been much in jnred by the excitement ef the past fortnight. What I Never I M. I Never! It never fails that on the second Toesday of each month the Grand Drawing ef The Louisiana State Lottery occurs with regularity and unimpeached honesty at New Or leans. The 16Gth took place on ifarch 11th, last, and Gen'ls G. T. Beauregard, ef La., and Jubal A. Early, efVa., sent to the destined parties large fortunes and small sums thus: ticket No. 14,467 drew the first capital, $75,000, which had been sold in fractions, ene-fifth of which was held by G. Goldsmith, a well known Jewish merchant of Colum bus, Miss., collected through the Co lumbus Insurance and Banking Cos., of Miss., another fifth, costing also sl, lo Henry Rivers, a well-known citizen of Milwaukee, Wis., collected hrough the M irine and Fire Insur ance Company Bank of Milwaukee. No. 6,998 drew the second capital prize, $25,000, sold alse in fifths at $1 each ; James Wenlzel, Port Cra bon, Schuylkill Cos., Pa., drew one piece, and C. M. McCormick, Char leston, Ark., were among the ferlu nate ones. Ticket No. 1,282 drew the whole third capital prizo of SIO,OOO for $5, went to J. Kraimer San Francisco, Cal. The next draw* Ing takes place on Tuesday, May 13th, and M. A. Dauphin, New Or leans, La., will give all information desired if applied 10. Mcßkidb A Cos. Atlanta Ga„ can give to dealers bottom prices on show cases, looking glasses, crockery, glass ware. bar fixtures, lamps of all kinds Lamtreth’a Improved fly fans, Beth Thomas olooks and Mellville ntmoe pheric fruit Jar, JOB PRINTING UrgD Stock all Kinds White ca OWoM^~ Paper, Envelopes, Cards, Etc. ON HAND. The Finest Job Printina Of Every Variety done at very Buon. able Rates. TEE CENTURY PROGRAMME FOR 1883-’B4. The programme for tho fourteenth year of thl magsuine, and the third under the new name, la “ anything moro interesting and popular than ever With every season, Thb Century shows a decided gain in circulation. The new volume be ins with November, and, when possible sub scriptions flhould begin with that Issue. 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