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POLITICAL CONTESTS.
How and WtPn and Where Nominations
Wore Made in 1856 and Alter.
lii 1856 (he first National Conven
tion of tlie Republican parly, which
hatl been organized in a largo num
ber of Northern States since the pre
ceding Presidential election, was held
in Philadelphia, meeting on the 7tlj
of June. On the first ballot John C.
Fremont, of California, received 359
votes, to 196 cast for John McLean, of
Ohio. William L. Dayton, of New
Jersey, was nominated for Vice
President. The Democratic Conven
tion of 1856 was held in Cincinnati,
•n the 2nd of June, which action
marked the decline of Baltimore as a
distinctive convention city. On the
first ballot James Buchanan had 135
votes; Franklin Pierce, 122; Stephen
A. Douglas, 33, and Lewis Cass, 5.
On tiro fifteenth ballot Pierce's
strength was transferred to Doug-
las, but in spite of this Buchanan was
nominated on the seventccntlr ballot
and Johu C Breckinridge of Kentucky
was placed on the ticket with him. The
Native Amcricau or Know Nothing
party had absorbed much of the old
Whig strength in some sections and
was numerous enough to hold a con
vention at Philadelphia February 22,
with representatives frdm every state
except fqux. JOt nominated
nmnwe, of s **# f Presi
dent, aud Andrew DonSlsotf, of Ten
nessee, for Vice President. Buchan
an and Breckinridge had 174 electo
ral votes ;Fretnont and Dayton, 114,
and Fillmore ond Donelson,. B—those8 —those
of Ntarylsud.
The Democrats were first in the
field in 1860. Their convention met
in Charleston, S.C., on'the 23d of
April. Feeling ran high and it was
the second day beforo an organiza
tion was effected, with Caleb Cnsh
in*. of Massachusetts, as president.
Aftor a protracted and bitter debate,
tjmyixthday the Douglas platform
whs adopted by a vote of 155 to 138,
when the. delegations from South
Carolum, Alabama, Mississippi, Louh
anaa, Texas, Arkansas and Florida
withdrew. The baiters organized in
a separate convention, in which the
Rowing tweivo states were represen
ted : Delaware, Virginia, Booth Car
olina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Mis
souri, and New York. There were
afterwards splits in the delegations
from other states. On the lifty-sov
opth ballot the rote stood : Douglas,
151* ; Guthrie, 01; Lane, Cl; Hun
ter, 16; Dickinson, 0; Jeff Davis,
1. Jell" Davis had received one rote
oh every ballot, which was cast by
General Benjamin F. Butler, of
Massachusetts. The Douglas ihei;
feared that their candidate would bo
abandoned by New York and ad
journed to meet at Baltimore Juno
18 by a vote of 105 to 56. Tito bol
ters adopted tbe idulform which had
.been rejected by the regular conven
tion, and also adjourned to meet at
—i 11, -vUMut M-i-rtiny
n Presidential candidate.
The convention reassembled at
Baltimore on June 18th and on the
second ballot Btephcn A. Douglas
was uominatod. Benjamin Fitzpat
rick, of Alabama, who was selected
for Vice President, declined, and
llcrschcl V. Johnson, of Georgia,
was substituted. The delegates whe
had sacodcd at Charleston again wejgt
out and hold a convention on 1 Ik
-281 h of June, at which they nomina
ted John C. Breckinridge, Ken
tuck, aud Joseph Lane, K Oregon, as
tlioir candidate*.
It The Coiutitu'^o* 1 Union or Amer
ican parly b'/d its convention at Bal
timore o* •he 9th of May and nomi
nated John Bell, of Tennessee, and
Kdward Everett, of Massachusetts, as
It* candidates.
Tho Republican Convention was
held at Chicago and the pialtorm
prepared by Horace Grocley and John
A. Hasson. Delegates were present
from all the free states and from six
slave states and llireo territories. Mr.
Kvarts put Mr. Sew aid in nomina
tion ; Norman B. Judd, of Illinois,
nominated Mr. Lfficoln; Judge Cart-*
tor, of Ohio—present Chief Justice of
tho Supreme Court ef the District of
Columbia,—nominated Mr. Chase,
while Mr. Sommer, of Ohio, presen
ted Judge McLean, Mr. Schurz sec
onded the nomination of Mr. Seward.
Lincoln was second in streugth on the
tlrst two ballots. On the third the
vote stood : Lincoln,
180; Chase 2; Bates 22; scattering,
5. There was a general changing of
votes, which tvaulted in,giving Lin
coln 351 votes and nominating him.
Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, was the
fillui wlaiA /rs* V>t>* PurvJesi t.
Lincoln and Hamlin received 180
votes; Breckinridge and Lane, 72;
Bell and Everett, 39, and Douglas
and Johuscn, 12. Of tho popular
vote Lincoln had 1,866,355; Breckin
ridge, 815,763; Bell, 589, 581; Doug
las, 1,375,167.
In 1964 the Republicans met at Bal
timore oil the 7th of June, renomina
ted Lincoln and chose Andrew John
son for Vice President eu tlie first
ballot. The Democrats held their
convention at Chicago on the 20th of
August, with Horatio Seymour as
president. George It. McClellan vas
selected as its candidate for IVesident
eu the first ballet, with Gcocgc H.
Pendleton, of Ohio,for Vice President.
The “Radical Democracy who were
dissatisfied with Lincoln’s conserva
tive conduct of the war, met at Cleve
land on the Ist ef June and nomina
ted John C. Fremont for President
and John Cochrane, of New York,
for Vice President, bnt tho ticket
was withdrawn before the election.
Lincoln and Johnson had 212 electo
ral votes to 21 for McClellan and
Peudleton, with 81 vacancies in the
Southern States.
SINCE THE WAB.
When the Republican Convention
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
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of 1868 met at-Chicago, on the 21st of
May, there was no contest for the
Presidential nomination. Of the 010
votes cast every oue was in favor of
U. S. Grant. On the fifth ballot
Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, was se
lected as the candidate for Vice Pres
ident. The Democrats met at New
York on the 4tli of July and alter a
long and exciting convention nomi
nated Horatio Seymour, the president
of the convention, “who, vowing
lie would ne'er consent, consented.”
General Frank P. Blair was chosen
for vice-Presidcnt by a unanimous
vote. The Republican candidates re
ceived 214 votes to 80 east for the
Democratic candidates and 23 vacan
cies still remaining In the unrecon
structed States of the South.
The dissatisfaction with Gen.
Grant's first administration was so
strong in 1972 ns (o produce a party
division calling themselves*' liberal
RepifblicSnli, wlio inaugurated the'
campaign by holding acwinrcntioit at
Cincinnati on the Ist of May. On the
sixth ballot Horace Greeley was de
clared thenominao, while B. Gratz
Brown, of Missouri, was made his as
sociate on the second ballot. The
Democrats held their convention at
Baltimore on the 9th of July and in
dorsed the Liberal ticket and plat
form. The Republicans met in Phil
adelphia on the sth of June, renomi
nated President Grant by acclama
tion aud chose Henry Wilson over
Schuyler Colfax on llio second ballot.
O’Connor and Adams were the can
didates of the straight-out Democra
cy. The Republican ticket received
286 votes to 80 for the Democratic-
Liberal ticket, the latter of which
Were east for a number of candidates
after the deatli of Greeley;in Decem
ber.
In 1876 the Republicans met at Cin
cinnati on the 15th ot June after au
exciting preliminary canTus. On the
first ballot James G. Blaine had 285
votes; Oliver I*. M0rt0n,.125; Benja
min n. Bristow, 113; Roscoo Conk
ling, 99; R. B. Hayes, 61; John F.
llartranft, 58; Marshall Jewell, 11;
William A. Wheeler, 4. 011 the sev
enth and final ballot Blaine had 351;
Bristow, 21; and llaycs, 384. or five
more titan a majority. William A.
Wheeler was nominated Vico 1 ■‘resi
dent on the first ballot. Oil the 27th
of June the Democrats mol at St.
Louis. The first ballet showed tho
following result: Tilden,
dricks, Alien, 56; Hancock, 75;
Parker, 18; Bayard, 27. Outlie sec
ond ballet Tilden bad 508 votes, more
I j jrg. . J... uo*r**ary two- third.., ty tl
was nominated. Hendricks was
chosen on the first ballot for Vico
President. The grecnbackers held a
convention at Indianapolis May 17
and nominated Petal' pooper, of
New York, and Ne"“ 011 Booth, ef
California, and lll ° Prohibitionists
held a eim*** I^ '’convention May 16 at
Cleve>**4 and put Green Clay Smith.
0 f y-.-nlueky. and G. 8. Stewart, of
Ohio, in the field. The result was
fixed up by the Electoral Commission
aud Hayes drew tho salary fer fear
years.
TttF. C'OJIVF.NTIOV OF 1880.
The Republicans, as the majority
party, opened the canvass of 1880.
For tho first lime in the history et
the colihtry a serious effort was made
to nominate a Presidential candi
date for a third term. The contests
in the State Conventions of New
York, Pennsylvania and Illinois,
whereby 1 lie delegations were instruc
ted to cast a solid veto for Grant, and
tlie overthrow of the unit rule by the
convention, are matters of to* recent
history to require elaboration. Tbe
convention met atCliicago oil 'Wed
nesday, June 2. Senator George F.
Hoar, of Massachusetts, was bsth
tornnorary and permanent chairman.
The first ballot, taken on Monday,
Juno 7, disclosed the following re
sult: Grant, 304; Blaine, 284; Sher
man, 93, Edmunds, 34; Washburns,
30; Winded), 10. On tlie third bal
lot one vote was cast fer James A.
Garfield, which tvas continued until
the thirty-fifth ballot, with the excep-
lion of from the fourteenth to the
eighteenth incisive. On some bal
lots this Was re-inforecd by an addi
tional vote. No decided chanan
placcuntil the thirty-fourth ballot,
which stood: Grant, 312; Blaine,
257; Shcruiau, 99; Edmunds, 11;
Wash burn*, 30, Wiudsm, 4, Garfield,
17. This accession to Grant's
strength, which had been going on
fer several ballots, led to a stampede
to Garfield, who had 50 votes on the
next ballot. The thirty-sixth ballot
stood: Grant, 306; Blaine, 42; Sher
man, 3; Washburnc. 5 ; Garfield, 399,
and tbe latter was declared the nom
inee. On the first ballot Chester A.
Arthur was nominated for Vice Pres
ident, receiving 468 votes to 193 for
Wasburnc, 41 fer Jewell and 30 for
Horace Maynard. Marshall Jewell
was chairman of the national com
mittee and S. W. Dorsey secre
tary.
The Democratic National Conven
tion met In Cincinnati on Tuesday,
June 22, 1880, and was in session
three days. On the first ballot the
vote stood as follows: Bayard,
163)4; Hancock, 171; Payne, 81;
Thurman, 07)4 ; Field, 65; Morrison,
62; Hendricks, 60 % ; Tildeu, 38, with
scattering votes for eleven other can
didates. On the next ballot a move
ment in favor of General Hancock
manifested itself. Before the ballot
vrM concluded so many delegations
manifested a desire to change to Han
cock that it was voted to begin anew
and take it over. The result was:
Hancock, 705; Hendricks, 30; Tilden,
1; William H. English, of Indiana,
was nominated for Vico President by
acclamation. William H. Barnum, of
Connecticut, was chairman and F, O.
Prince, of Massachusetts, secretary of
the national committee.
The Grceubackcrs held a conven -
tion at Chicago June 9 and nomina
ted James B. Weaver, of lowa, for
President and B. J. Chambers, of
Texas, for Vice President.
The Prohibition candidates were
Neal Dow, of Maine, and 11. A.
Thompson, ot Ohio, while the Ante-
Secret Society people nftined J. W.
Phelps, of Vermont, and S. C. Pome
roy, of Kansas.
Garfield and Arthur received4,449,-
j 53 votes to 4,442,035 cast for Han
cock and Epglish, 307,306 for Weav
er Mid Chambers and 12,576 scatter
ing. Garfield had 214 electoral votes
and Hancock 115.
Tbc National Republican Conven
tion of ISB4 met in Chicago last week
and that of the Democrats will
meet iu the same city on tho Blli
of .Tilly. Beth will bo held in the hall
of the Exposition Building, which has
been fitted up to accommodate 9,000
people. Each convention will be
composed of two delegates for each
Senator, Representative or Territo
rial delegate—B2o iu all.
WASTED TO BE KICKED.
“Yas, yas,” smiled the old country
man, as he stood talking to a city
cliap, who seemed to know hint,
(liar’s a hcep o’ tricks played on the
kontrymen; they gits sucked in lots
o’ times. But I kinder figger tlict
the sharper who tries to draw wool
over my eyes ’ll git lef purty bad.”
“I’ll bet you are a good ono,” an
swered the stranger, patronizingly, “1
can tell n man when he’s green.”
Tho rustic poked him i'i the side,
nnd pulling down his otc, laughed :
“D'ye see any green there?”
“Not a hit of it,” merrily replied
the other; then in an advising tone
lie confined, “I’ve seen more of the
world limn you have, and would like
to say that the most important ac
tion is concealing tho money.”
“Oh I’ve got thet down fine,”
hroko in the countryman, pointing to
his left sleeve, “d’ye see that ar
little bump? well ihar’s the cash, in
side o’ tho linin’, and nobody can tuke
it out ’thout mo knowiu it.”
A few moments after, they parted,
title countryman going into aclatlilup
store to do some buying, lie had made
his purchases ami was waiting for
the bill, who* 0118 Gic salesmen ap
proachud him and said :
“Can’t I sell yob a nice coat ?”
“Not me,” answered the farmer;
“I’vo got plenty o’them fixinß.”
“But, I sco the sleeve of tho one
you have on has been torn or cut,
and, if you wish one ef the ladies will
mend it for you.’’
With a ghastly look the farmer
jorked otflils coat and viewed the
wrecked sleeve.
Then tnrning to tho clerk he said
sorrow fully. •
“Mister, kin yc tell nee wliar I kin
git a rale stent man man to kick n
dinged fool onten town.”
A WRINKLE IN BUTTONS,
(loll! Dollar Olid Silver IMmc* Drns
mented With All Bor| of Comic
Fixtures.
“I am worked tq death,” said an
engraver yesterday, “worked to
death making buttons of gold dol
lars witli the owner’s monogram en
graved on them. I made a couple of
dozen such bullous for a leading ac
tress not long ago. Tho initials- were
cut deeply in the gold dollar, then
enameled, the whole job coming to
SIOO. Fer very ordinary monogrnin*
we generally use ten-oeut_pieccs. They
arc smoothed, the monogram en
graved on one tide and some fancy
figure on the other. The fancy fig
ures arc of all sorts, from bull-dogs
to Greek gods. I made two comical
ones yesterday. One represented a
sailor and soldier with a Cupid on Lite
bead ef each. The sailor sat on a re
otutiig ■+*/■>*- sroiT nnr sold ter an a saw
buck. Another, ordered by a young
lady, a jackass, a monkey
and a dndc with their heads lovingly
together, while underneath was the
inscription,‘The Throe Graces.’
“Several days age I made one still
more peculiar. It.represented a fat
man sleeping on a sofa. Hugo pieces
of cheese and pin, with spider legs
and skeleton heads ran over his body.
These were undoubtedly intended for
jokes. Still, some people scrieuiy or
der as incongruous designs and
chuckle over the originality of their
conceptions, and recipients probably
chuckle just as much over the taste
of the donor.”—From the New York
Mail and Express,
The grand jinx of Fallon county
recommend to the aulho;itics of the
city of Albania that the tax npon re
tail liquor dsalsrs he raised to the
Horn of ♦tiOOO per annum. In view
of the great importance and value of
the early completion of the Kimball
House and of (he fact (hat during its
erection tho owners can derive no
revenue therefrom, the grand jury
recommended to the city and county
authorities that city and county taxes
on the lot be suspended fer she pres
ent year.
WASHINGTON, GA.; FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1881
CONSTITUTION OF 1877.
Sound Bensons for Amending ns Given
by Judge W. M. Reese.
Editors Atlanta Constitution :
The constitution adopted by tho peo
ple of Georgia in 1877 has been in op
eration fora period of nearly seven
(7) years. It lias in some respects
worked well, particularly thoso in
which the constitution of 1868, and
tlio preceding constitutions of this
state, were defective, viz: Tho pro
tection of the pooplc ef the state from
all abuse of the stato's credit by the
legislature, and tbo protection of tho
iuhabilants of cities, towns and coun
ties from all abuse of their credit by
municipal governments. Its provis
ions Mto'ptlrtbTJdOT’ of taxation are
sound sipt eopimand tho-Ttorfiago of
all honest men. Its provisions as to
iho regulations of railreMSi will; bo,
heartily-indorsed by a gr^pr-majority
•f the people so long as tho regula
tions actually made, whether by the
legislature, or by a commission crea
ted by tho legislature, are based on
principles of wisdom justice and
moderation. In other respects the
constitution of 1877 lias worked bad
ly and contrary to the expectations of
its fra timers. We propose to discuss
somo of its provisions wliic.li liavo
worked injuriously, and to suggest
practical remedies for the same with
out the call of'a convention. First
then, let ns consider that which as
tonishes am| grieves tho tax payers of
the strte beyond measure, the extra
ordinary length of legislative sess
ions, under the constitution of 1877.
Legislative sessions intended to be
biennial under tills constitution by
an abuse of.tho adjourning power
have become annual, and are longer
than two annual sessions as formerly
held. Comparing sessions of the gen
eral assembly hold under tho consti
tution of 1877 with sessions held un
der llio constitution of 1808 from 1871,
the era of the restoration until tho
constitution of 1808' was set aside and
tho result astounds us. The session
of 1871 continued forty-five days;
that of 1872, held in midsummer (one
of llio most remarkable iu the history
.of tho state), continued forty-six days,
in which seventy general, four hun
dred and seven special and local acts
and forty resolntlons were passed.
The general rssembly of 1873 contin
ued in session forty-two days; that of
1874 forty-three days; that of 1875
forty-eight days; that of 1876 forty
four days; that of 1877 forty-three
days. The session of 1878-9, tbo first
tinder the constitution of 1877, con
*ffMired one hundred nnd forty-three
days, nearly tivo mouths. Of this
session it can be said that tho great
length was partially necessary, as up
on it devolved the important duly of
executing many constitutional pro
visions and of trying two impeach
ments. At this session 155 acts of a
general nature nnd 205 of a local and
special nature were passed, It ap
pears that this session of 1878-79 ex
ceeded sessions of 1871 and of 1872 by
forly-threo days. Tito session of
1880-’Bl continued 116 days, twenty
five days more than tho two sessions
of 1871 and 1872. The Into session of
1882-’B3 continued 129 days, thirty
nine days more than the sessions of
1871 and 1872. It cannot bo sajd of
these sessions of 1880-’81,1882-’B3,tht
such important reasons for their
great length existed as in 1878-’79. In
the adjoining state of South Carolina
the legislature of 1882 lasted thirty
days, during which fifly-threo gener
al and sue hundred local and special
acts were passed. In the same state
the legislative session of 1883 contin
ued thirty-two days, during which
two hundred and fifty acts and thir
ty-three joint resolutions were pasted.
While some of this enormous don
sumption of time, and of course mon
ey (as the legislature usually costs
about one thousand dollars tidily) by
flic general assemblies of 1880-f,
1882-3, may be charged to absence of
members from the capital attending
t* private business at home and else
where, this cause will not fully an
swer Die question constantly asked
by thinking men throughout tho
state: -‘Why are legislative .session*
iipw so long?” -The Arm atllPor is
that a largo part of the time so con
sumed Is directly due to the provis
ions of the constitution of 1877, para
graph 15, section 7, article 3 of this
constitution regulating the introduc
tion and passage of local and special
bills isapioniincntoanecof these pro-
traded sessions. While under all of
I he constitutions of this slate front the
first until 1877, local and speefiil leg
islation originated in cither branch ot
the legislature and wis acted, upon
without the intervention of a special
committed. Now tinder said para
graph 15, local and special bills can
not originate in the senate. All local
and special bills must originate In the
house, must be referred to a special
committee and must bo reperted up
on by that committee unless by a
two-thirds vote such reference is
waived. 'Phe concitildmg clause *f
said paragraph 15, requiring local
and special lulls to he introduced
within the first fifteen days of tha
legislative session has been practical
)y expunged, as the same may be set
aside by a two-tldrds vole. The re
sult ofthis provision, requiring (in
the house) so many two-tldrds votes
on the action ot a special committee
prohibiting any action of the senate
upon local and special bills unless
they havo been first by
tho house, leaving the senate with
nothing to do for so many days iu the
beginning of the session, thereby pro
tracting its label' at the end of the
session, is a grea* waste of valuable
time. Paragraph 15 should bo strick
en from the constitution at once and a
provision inserted in its place allow
ing local and special legislation to be
introduced into either branch of the
general assembly within the first
twenty days of the session find not af
terwards. Another prominCnfcause
of the length of legislative sessions
under the constitution of 1877 is that
tho general assembly is required by
it to eloot judges of tho superior court
and sell'itors-gcueral. The people of
this staic should be willing to make
the sacrifice of time and money re
quired by these elections,if tho officers
elected werojin any respect superior fa
there i> •uni an ted by the governor and
Uic senate. Neon*,
however, claims any such thing Apr
legislative elections and if is lioi
the fa>-t. As nicruborq of the
legislature aVe required to rote for
Judges iu every one iofr the twenty
circuits, it is plain that each member
as to nineteen of the circuits is vot ug
without information except such as
may be devised from partisans and
oppenentß of the candidates. Besides
these Objections the plan of legis
lative electiou ef judges and solicitors,
i here ate qthqrsjjiueli ns thp combiha
tiMldHiß||iJl"i on
pcra& TUgS/gm grounds, ami
i and dc
tatsupport.
w of the leg
egeneral assem
bly Bhould berll&sed from this duty;
judges .ind solicitors should be ap
pointed by the governor and cob*,
firmed by the senate. By striking
from the constitution of ' 1877 para-
section 4, article 3, which
allows the session of the legislature
to he extended, and inserting a pro
vision which would liftiit the length
of a session to eighty-days, still re
taining in tho constitution tho power
of the governor to convene the legis
lature Whenever an emergency may
arise, ample time would be allowed
to transact (ho bushtois of legislation.
Tho judgment of public men iu tho
state familiar with logiklation is that
sessions of forty days annually, or
eighty days biennially, is as much
time as shouldWallowod to an ordi
nary session of the general assembly.
Tho Ids dry of annual sessions, tho
(if public men, the history of
anfiu'i’txossionji in our sister stalo'ef
all demonstrate that
the length of a legislative session is
not an unknown quantity which can
not be fixed by a constitutional pro
vision beyond tho pewerof extension.
Bosidcs paragraph 14, section 7, arti
cle 3, which prevents the passage of
any law unless a majority of all the
mombors of each house vote for it tho
constitution should prohibit any leg
islation by either branch of the gener
al assembly unloss five-sixths tho
members ef each house was present.
This weuld allow an absent list of
tweuty-uiue representatives and seven
senators, a number so small as not
to interfere with tbo transaction ef
business.
In concluien thou wo say that the
provisions of the constitution ef 1877
which should be repealed as unwiso
and hurtful are those respecting local
and special legislation, the election of
judges and solicitors and the power
of extending tiie legislative session.
He would insert in their places pro
tection of preceding constitutions as
t* local and special.legislation with a
clause limiting the time within
which it could be introduced; the pro
provisien of the constitution of 1868
as to election ef judges of the superior
courts and soliciton-general, a pro
vision limiting tho length of the
legislative session to eighty days,
with n<r power of oNtonsiifi -id a
further prevision that no legislation
•f any kind could be transacted un
less live-sixths pf tho member* elected
were present. W.w. Reese.
Washington, Ga., June 3, 1884.
HOW HK GOT A HUSHANU.
A Vpi>jtOtrl Who Traveled to Won.
iwntM-.onlal Vwiw..
Miss Nettie Brett, of Oswego Falls,
says tho Oswego iN. Y.) Times,is the
heroine iu a rather romantic marriage.
Some time ago she read an advertise
ment in a newspaper soliciting cor
respondence with somo lady, witli a
view to marriage, if all was. “proved
agreeable.” After correspondence
and tho exchange of photograph* the
gentleman sent for tho lady to visit
him at Ins liomrt in Men tana. She
loft hero about the first Of May for the
farWesti He met her for the first
lime about 200 miles this side of ids
heme at the town of Hillings, In Mon
tana. She would not then marry him
until she had visited ids heme and
learned more of him and Ids charac
ter. She found iu Ids home lug. moth
er and two nieces, who cordially re
ceived her. Srtfiiro it lo say that (Ids
daring orphan girl two weeks later
fully deter mind to remain and grow
up with the country, 'J’lie agreement
was that if she did not like him or lie
her enough Id marry, tie was to pay
her expenses buck to this place. She
paid her fare out to him. Tho young
tady was a member of tho Baptist
Church and bore, wo believe, a good
reputation. The following is taken
from a Montana paper and tells tho
sequel to tho story :
“Married, May 13, 1884, in Stillwa
ter,Mr. Alexander Hundley, of Still
water, Montana, and Miss Nettie
Br*tt, of Oswego Falls, N, Y.
OUT IN THE NIGHT.
I glided forth into the night,
And climbed a mountain’s height,
Led by a star’s faint glimmering light.
At length I reached a sombre glade)
Far in mid-atr, where (alt troes swayed,
Like forms in shadows masquerade.
No sound, no bitter breath of woe,
if o dying echo sad and alow,
Rose from the slumbering world below
And still above me softly shone,
In peerless purity alone,
That star to which my soul had flown.
I marveled at its luminous groee,
Wherein I seemed to dimly trace
Warm, waving valley lands of space.
And lot I knew that heart like mine,
With power to love, and yearn and pine;
Throbbed in that distant light divine;
I knaw that life in some strange way
Bloomod there in golden hues of day,
And withered flower-wiae to decay.
Then as I mused, like ono who feels
That wisdom born of men qcqcsah
The truth whose shadow it reveals,
I sought in vanity of desire,
To picture in their strength entire
Tho children ofthat globe of fire;
What ecstasiea and what despairs,
What radiant hopes and burdaning cares,
What splendor of mien and form time theiraf
TheVgrow within niy mVnfl a thought, >
Whereof no roioc had whispered aught,*
With deep and marvelous meaning fraught;
And to throelnvswcet star I cried:
“What Cod has wept and bled and died
For you, tike Christ, the crucified!
“Or can it be you never dream
Of Odd, wham men Sublimely deem
One, and omnipotent aad supreme!’*
Oeorge Edgar Montgomery.
burning Widows.
Horrible Beene. In tho East.
As polygamy Is allowed among (he
Hindoos, i| frequently happens that
mdiw titan one widow-immolates her
self on the dead body of her husband.
One of the most horrible scenes ever
enacted in the East was the burning
of ferty-soven widows at once, the
wives of the Priucb ef Marata. He
died about tho age of oighly. A deep
circular pit was dug in a field with
out tho town ; in the middle Of it was
erooled a pile of wood, on the left of
which, on a couch bichly ornamented
lay Hit body of tho deceased Princji in
ins finest robes. After numberless
rites were performed by the Brah
mins, tho pile was set mi fire and, im
mediately, the unhappy women ap
peared sparkling with jewels anil
adorned with flowers. Those victims
walked several times around tho burn
ing pyre, the boat of which was felt
quite a distance. Tho principal wid
ow, then holding the dagger of her
late husband, Shus addressed horselt
to tho Prince, his successor: “Here is
the dagger the King made use of to
triumph over his enemies; beware to
never employ it to other purposes,
never imbrue it with tho blood of
your subjects, govern them as a father
as he has done, and you shall livo
long and happy as ho did. Since lie
is tie moro, nothing cau keop mo lon
ger in tho world. All that remains
for me is to follow him. With these
words alio resigned the dagger into
the Prince’s hand, whe took it from
her without shewing the least sign of
grief or compassion. The Princess
now appeared agitated. Ono of, tho
domostics. a Christian woman, had
frequently talked to her upon religion
and, though she never surrendered
her idols, had rnado some impression'
*n her mind. Perhaps they uow re
vived. With a most expressive iook
she cried out: “Alas! what is tho
end ef human happiness? I know
that I shall piling myselfheadlong in
to hell.” Ou these words horror was
visible *n every countenance, while,
resuming courage, she boldly turned
hor faee to the burning pile and call
ing u*>on her gods, flung herself inf*
the midst of the flamps. Tho second
widow was tho sister ef the Prince ef
of tho blood, who was present and
assisted at the sacrifice. She advanced
to her brother and gave him the jewels
wherewith she was adorned. His
feeling* gave way, he burst into tears
and fell on her neck in .tendor embra
ce*. She however, remained unmoved,
gazing upon the fire and (hen upon
the assistant. Then loudly crying;
“Chiral Chival” the name efoneof
her gods,, she jumped Into tno flames
as the former had (lone. Tne other,
soon followed, some with bewildered,
downcast and sorrowful looks. One
of them shirked about the rest, ran to
a Christian soldier whom she bolicld
among the guards, and hanging
about ids neck begged him to save hor.
The new convert, stunued with sur
prise, pushed the unfortunate woman
from him, and, shrieking alo- <l’, *lm
fell into the fiery trench. The soldier
ail shivering with terror, at once re
tired, and a delirious fever ended his
life the following night. Though
many of the unhappy victims at first
showed tiie utmost intrepidity, yet no
sooner did they feel the' fiamos than
they screamed out In tho most dread
ful manner, and, weltering over each
other, strove te gain the brim ef the
pit, but in vain ; tho assistants forced
tiiem back witli their polos and piled
new fuel upon them. The next day
tho Brahmins gathered (lie hones and
throw them into tho sea. Tho pit
was leveled, a temple erected upon
tho spot, nud the deceased Prince and
and his wives wore reckoned among
(lie deities.
Two Western inventors have recent
ly obtained patents for the use of saw
dust, Instead of sand, in plastering
compositions.
NO. 24.
ITEMS OF INTEEEST.
Suggs, tlie man who killed his fel
low showman at Adairsville, Ga., last
December and escaped from jail, has
been arrested iu Texas.
The Democratic national conven
tion will be composed of 802 delegates
Under tho two-thirds rulf-H will re
quire 535 to make the nomination.
The average duration oflife in Rus
sia is twenty-six years. Tho high
death rate is sa’dte be traceable to
the filthy habits and inteuiperauce of,
the rural population.
The Slate of Louisiana alrdady lias
an established ex-ConfedcratoSoldiers
Homo, and it 1* in ft prosperous condi
tion, under tho care of Gen. Francis
T. Nieholls anil a board of directors.
“One hundred and twenty ocean jgo
ing steamers are now laid up on tlie
Tyne and tho Weir rivers and aj
Leith in consequence ef tho'dopressed
state of tho shipping trade in England.
A paper chimney, fifty feet high,
has lately been put up at Brcslon. Coin
pressed paper pulp is stated to bo one
of tho least inflammable of substance
nd to make an excdlcnt material for
tire-J)roof doors.
Henry Wahl Beecher put on rubber
clothes tho other night and immersed
several young men at Plymouth
church. lie says that lie does not
bcltevo in it, but wants to please every
body so far as he can.
There are 35,000 more women than
men in Philadelphia. In the country
generally thirty states and territories
ltaye more men than women, and
Boyontocu states and territories have
more women than men.
The Washington Post congratulates
tho young democrats of Brooklyn up
on their recent resolution in favor of
a tariff for revenue only, and asserts
that this is the sloguu of young, active
democrats everywhere.
During the last twenty-five years
2,000.000 human bodies have been bur
led within the limits of tho London
postal circle, and tire people arc chang
ing their mind as to cremation, regar
ding it with increasing favor.
Tho Georgia Marble Company has
raised from the quarry a block of mar
ble 12 foot long, 6 foot wide and 3 ifect
4 inches thick, without a fracture or
,blemish. This block contains 252 cubic
feet and weighs about 60,000 pounds.
Asa result of au electric—light wire
crossing a fire-signal wire In LouisVillo
Ky.,‘ recently, ovor throe hundred
alarm lioxos were wholly or partial
destroyed, besides placing the central
office in total darkno##, the connections
having been melted.'
Perry Home Journal: Tho first
cotton squares we have hoard of in
Houston this season wore first soon
last Sunday ou the farm ef Mr. W. L.
Rainey, on cotton about four weeks
old. Tiie first squares reported at
this office in 1883 wore discovered eu
the 18th of May.
During a storm last Saturday a
negro man and his wife and sou took
shelter under the gin house of Mese
Lampkiu, in the western part ef
Dndgc county, when suddenly a flash
oflighlutng struck and killed ail
three of them, and also a mule noai*
by, but doing no other damage.
It is feared by the Cougregational
ist that tho “good old practice of talk
on personal religion between the jias
tor and his people” is goingouUf fash
ion. Etiquette in some church circles
new forbid a minister to introduce
the subject, but to wait until the lay
man does so, just as a physician does
when a patient calls on him for ad
vice.
Women new serve on juries in
Washington Territory. Hi speaking
of this fact a deputy distriot attorney
of Seattle said recently: “This now.
law lathe grandest thing that has
happened to Beattie. I tell yen it
looks nice to sp* these cloaks and
bonnets hanging up there, and there
is only one spitteou in the court room,
and that is seldom used.”
A girl baby fully developed was
found in tho Chattahoochee river,
near the wharf, at Columbus, Fri
day. An inquest was hold, and the
jury returned a verdictof death from
an unknown cause. Dr. Jenkins
thought thabody had been in the wa
ter three weeks, and was (brown in
immediately aftor birth. It was
probably the work of an inhuman
mother.
There are now 107,300 buildings
in New York city, and this number
is being added to at the ralo of 2,000
a year. The largo majority of build
ings erected wilhiu the last two or
three years have been dwellings worth
from $16,000 to $35,000. So rapidly
is the vacant ground on Manhattan
Island being taken up by blocks of
brick and brown stone houses of this
class, that tho prospect is fair for the
whole island to be covered with build
ings in just about the next ten
years.
Cincinnati is supcrstitiously in
turested in tho ease of a woman who
falling asleep in a railroad train,
dreamed vividly that her child at
homo had been serioualy hurt. She
was so deeply impressed by the vision
that oa arriving In.tho city she drove
directly to a physician’s office and
carried him hastily to her residence,
whcic tho youngster was found to
have been thrown from a swing at
precisely the tlmo that (lie mother
had dreamed. The story is told cir
cumstantially by tho persons con
cerned.
. A coiexv OP GRASS WIDOWS.
Tlie Newport Tree on Which itViimm
ted Matron* Have Perched
lor Refuse.
(New York Letter tn tho Argonaut.)
The colony of unhappy wives at
Newport is shocked, outraged, cha
grined, and dismayed. I wrote some
time ago about tho large number of
women, including Mrs Oliver n. p.
Heimont and Mi's. Henry Turnbull,
who have been rishling in Newport
the past two years, intending at the
completion of their third year to take
out a divorce from their husbands
under the Rhode Island laws. Xfc has
been the lalw, ever since law has ex
isted irr Rhode Island, to grant a di
vorce to any woman who ha* lived
away from her husband for three
years in that State. There has been
no end of iamily scandals among the
wejlttrter-peopio-of 4bo-oity the past
two years. Thectbbs have been kept
gossiping about them continually.
Net a few of them have been solved
by the retirement of the wives to
Newport, where they havo taken up
rcidences and organized a little set
whiph cannot bo equaled, as faT as
family history is ebneertted, fit any
portion of tHA “Union. Hero the grass
widows it aye lived all the year round,
their ranks being constantly added to
by unhappy wives from New York.
As the time advanced the colouy in
creased, until at present it numbers
nearly forty ladies, the majority of.
whose social connections are of tho
highest possible sort and who are
mainly attractive and .handsome, wo
men.
Admittance into this circle is diffi
cult of attainment by a man. Jt is
an extremely exclusive set. Clergy-
men are eagerly welcomed, and the
officers of the naval, station of West
Point have also the entree into the
colony of unfortunate wires. It is
said that a jollier, happier and more
amnsinglot of entertainers can not he
found than tiioq* who from this set at
Newport. By September next a ma
jority of the women would have come
forward freed from the shackles of
matrimony. Such, however,is not to he
their fate, as tho laws of the State
have just been amended so that the
threc-year-residenco clause Is a dead
letter.
OOMOBESniAX JO BI ACKCVEN
AND HIS BABY.
(Washington Letter.)
Four days before I went to tho
front with my regiment wo had a
little girl baby; -She is now grown,
and you always see her with me at
any social gathering. Well, in our
army tho furloughs came very rarely.
When we get int? line there was no
great chance for a man to got home.
It wai about three years afterward
that a few of us were ono night going
down the Mississippi on a river
steatner. I had been sink, and was
returning to my command, but pretty
well broken up, cron then. As for
money, we did not havo any, hud tho
night was hot as I laid down on tho
deck, my throat almost parched with.
thirst. Pretty soon a little girl came
along witli a bigglass ot lemonade.
1 tell you it looked good to me. Sho
saw me eyeing it, stepped a minute,
looked doubtfully at me, and finally
came up to my side. “You looked as
if you wanted something to drink,”
she Said, and offered me a glass. It
wasn’t quito the square thing to do,
but I took it and handed it back to
her empty. It was like nectar to me.
Then I llmikeil the little creature and
Soon after, just like every child, she
came back, leading her mother to see
the poor soldier. By Jupiter, it was
my wife, and tho g’rl was tho baby
whom I had last seen as a baby but
just born. ~*You can Imagine the re
union. They were with my brother’s
family, and happen to be going down
the river. That was the only time dur
ing the four years’fighting that I saw
my wife and baby, and under these
circumstances what man wOuid ever
forget it ?
CAPTURING A BAND OP HUB
' " DEREKS.
In Monlgomory county Tcnn., have
been arrested a farmer named Mor
row, sixty years eld, his two sons and
two men named Outlaw and Horn,
charged with belonging tea band that
hare committed crime for twenty
years, past. .Tho arrest was made
fifteen miles from Ciarkesvilto by a
deputy sheriff and posse. Outlaw
and Horn confessed that the band had
committed several murders, tho last
being a negro named O verton, who
overfeed for Morrow, and who sudden
ly disappeared, tho Morrows explain
ing hjs absence by sayiug he bad gone
to Alabama. The deputy sheriff and
posse went to the house and searched
without success, after which they
went to a big cave on the farm, and
several hundred yards from the en
trance they found, at the edge of a
precipice, Overton’s body. The two
men, in their confession, named nu
merous cases Of arson and robbery.
The gang is reported to Include one or
two prominent citizens. The prelimi
nary trial will bo held to-day;
1 -■— II- Ml.
A WIIOLK ARMY IMFRIOOMBD.
Worldly Cleveland Deals Harshly wit la
tlie gulvufioii Host.
CimvELAND, June 7,—Tho Salva
tion Army, numbering twenty-four
men and women, was arrested last
evening for disturbing the paeee by
parading the street-,singing,shouting,
praying and playing musical instru
ments. The army was kept in jail
ovor night and this morning arraigned
at court. Capt. Walker and ’ three
others wore tried jointly and., con
victed. Waikor being the leader was
fined |ls Bml costs, and the others $5.
The remsrningtircirtydmnaudod jury
trials and wero put under bail; In
passing sentence Jgdge Henderson
said that the Salvation Army had be
come a nuisance and must be sus
pressed as any other nuisance. Ho
would impose alight fine as a warn
ing, but if arrested again be would in
flict tho full penalty of the lmr.