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V YANKEE’S OPINION
OF THE NEGBO AT HOME -HOW
SHALL WE MANAGE HIM.
Two groat problems will occupy the
mi mis of this nation at no distant day.
The first will be that of Mormonism
and how to get lid ofit. The scciml
will be termed : “The negro: How
shall we manage him ?”
That the negro has gat to be man
aged will surprise some people—that
class in the North who have never
set foot south of the Ohio river, and
who fondly imagine that the colored
man of the North is a true sample of
therace in this country. There is as
much difference between the blacks
North and South of the Ohio river
as there is between Chinamen and In
dians. A negro loafer is a' rare case
at the North, even in our cities.
Ho4eels lhat he must work or go
ragged and hungry. The negro loaf
er of the South can be met with at ev
ery corner. The ouly feeling he has
is to escape work. lie can probably
beg bis old clothes and enough food
to keep him from starving. If he
can’t, then look out for his thievish
fingers. A Northern uegroe’s state
ment is hardly ever questioned. A
Southern negro will tell three lies to
<nie truth. When we make a verbal
bargain with a Norlhori, negro wc
"rely upou him to carry out his part of
the contract. A Southern planter
may take a negro before a Justice of
the Peace and swear him, and then
oblige him to make bis mark to an
agrccmdbl drawn up in legal form to
labor so long a time at so mnch
per month, ami the negro will jump ,
that contract whenever he pleases
without the slightest regard to ,
honor. Nineteen out of twenty
will lie to and steal from the very ,
men to Whom they are most indebt- ]
ed. Freedom and the ballot, coming •,
together, upset the slave. Asa slave i
he worked and obeyed certain rules (
and regulations because he feared (
the penally. Heft fo his own plan- |
uiag he has no head. J/oft to carry i
out his own ideas, he makes lying* •
deceiving and trickery take the place (
of work. Asa farm laborer no on i
can lie sure whether he will stay a <
day or a month. The very l>est of (
.them will quit work whenever (he 1
whim seizes. Saturday is a holiday I
in which ho must go to town and i
spend his last cent, no matter how the '
crops arc situated.
In tho North the virtue of tho av
erage colored woman is unquestiona
ble. In tho South not one in a thou
sand is credited with it At i race
they do not know the meaning of the
torm. A colored preacher at Augus
ta who was soliciting subscriptions
to rebuild a country clmrch swept
away by a cyclone told tnc that al
most every man in his congregation
felt at liberty to dosert wife and
children and marry again whenever
tie s willed. He had unchurched
_j;W uf them for bev* r g t wo, throe
and four wives.
Southern men have seen a change
in tho negro year by year. He has no
ambition—no industry. Year by
year it is becoming more difficult to
handle him as a laborer. Ho is de
serting tho country for the towns.
He is ungrateful and trilling. For
the benefit of Northern philanthro
pists I should like to say that the rare
lias improved. In ono way it has.
Most of them can read and write, but
this very improvement has worked
them an injury. The colored man
who ean read a newspaper or write
a letter will not do a stroke of work
if he starves as the penally. Ho is
above it, and is looking for an office.
Ninety -eight out of every hundred
live like dogs and worse. Ttight on
the plantation where they work they
will steal the owner blind.
As for schools. Hie mpiiey is equal
ly divided, and they aro given every
chance, but Ihc father whose boy can
earn him two bits a day will not send
him to school for an hour. Educate
a colored girl and she pots on airs, ,
refuses to do work, ami runs off to
some city to lead a fast life. Replace
the negro lal>or of the South with
wliito men and her crops would
double.but the negro keeps the white
labor away. He won’t work and- he
won’t get out.
The people of tho South have borne
from the biack man what no other
people would endure. They pass
over his impudence, find excuses for
his laziness, and sympathize with
him when he comes before the law.
They pay all his taxes, burden t hom
ed vea with his schooling, stand for
his doctor bills, and feel far more
kindness for him than any of us in
tho North. And yet there must lie a
change. The agriculture of the .South j
must drill backwards, the negro must
Ifet out, or there must be some belter
way of controlling him. Our North
ern farmers rout out their hired help
at daybreak and push ’em for all they
are worth. The negro cannot he
ion led out. He cannot bo pushed.
If 15,000 worth of oats wore in dan
gerhe would not quicken his pace nor
give up his trip to tewn. Hind your
self te girehim fI,OOO per month and
be will jump the contract the same as
if the figures were sl2. As he is net
ouly a natural tyrant, but naturally
cruel. Ho will knock bis mule down
with a club where a white man
would not speak out sharply. He
will pound his wife as if she were a
log, and I bare repeatedly seen white
men interfere to prevent them from
crippling their children.
We all want the negro to improve.
He has become a part and portion of
our country, our polities and our bal
lads. But let us not deceive our
selves. lie is a far worse problem
than the savage Indians of the plains.
Tho latter we can fores with bullet
aad bayonet The former can enly
be punished as a law breaker, and
laughs at the penalty.—M. Quad in
JDctroit Free Press,
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
YOL. XIX.
THE ORPHAN'S HOME AT DECAT UR.
The Boport of the Viaitln* Committee on
tho Work of the Institution.
The committee who visited the or
phan asylum has .submitted the fol
lowing report:
At the request of Rev. 8. TV Jones,
the agent of the Orphan’s homo, De
catur, Ga., we, the undersigned citi
zens of Atlantaand community, made
a visit to ihe homo yesterday, and
were so much pleased and delighted
beyond expectations that we have
deemed it advisable to give an ac
count of our trip. On arriving at
the homo we wero first shown-the
new building now in course of con
struction lintler an efficientcontractor.
It is being built wit li all the modern
conveniences for comfort, health and
cleanliness, and when completed will
be an ornament to our siatotjjaud the
.(wide of its friends. It is located on
a slight eminence in a natural grove,
“beautiful for situation and the joy of
the entire surroundings.” The farm
contains 2fio acres, and has a good
crop on it, cultivated by the superin
tendent and largest boys.
Mr. P. G. Turner and wifo,the effi
cient superintendent and matron, ns
well as Mrs. Cora Hampton the teach
er, manage their different depart
ments withs great deal of skill and j
good judgment. The children all I
look healthy, bright and happy and
(as one ol our members said) look bet
tor in this respect than nine-tenths of
our regular schools made up of the
children of well to do parents living j
in comfort and wealth. Wo heartily
recommend the people, both ladies
and men, of onr city and state to visit
this noble institution when conve
nient—feeling assured tiiat they, like
ourselves, will not only be delighted
but astonished, to soo how much go .id
is being done here for the helpless or
phan children of our stale—and then j
we all who feel that the injunction
was intended for us which says
“Lore yotir neighbor bs yourself”
and that this is fulfilling the law,
will surely feel impressed anew with
the groat truth onr Saviour uttered
when he said : “Inasmnch as ye did
it to ono of the least ef these my
brethren ye did it unto me.”
We wero struck with much force at
the fact staled by one of tlie officers
of the home when he said : “While
our home is the property of, and un
der the care of the north Georgia
conference, when we aro called upon
totakcchargo oftlicsc dependent lit
tle ones, we ask no question, as to
what sect they belong and no matter
iftbey lie Jow or gentile. Mclhodiet,
itaplist or Presbyterian, if they arc
destitute and full orphan*, as long as
we have room we take them in and
care for them until we have chances
to have them adopted into pleasant
Christian families under proper re
strictions.” The home seems to lie
to this class of children what Castle
Garden is to numerous Immigrants
who land on our shores. We cannot
say too much in favor of the efficient
agent, itev. 8. P. Jones, who is ful
ly consecrated and wc might say in
dis|ictisiblc to lids work.
We feat - the present plan of the offi
cers and trustees to complete only a
part of the building at once will not
enable them to accommodate the ap
plicants who stand wailing for ad
mission, as the trouble all the time
lias not only liccn small moans, bul
want of room. They are trying liow
over’(bc it said to their credit) to
keep out of debt, a ml they are merely
attempting to go so far as their moans
allow. In our opinion it >voulil lie
■best to endeavor to raise say |."i,000
more fo enable tlie trustees to com
plete the entire building and improve
the grounds. We urge the citizens of
Atlanta to respond to Ihe invitation
of Ihe agent, Rev. Sam Jones, to visit
the home. We know they will en
joy it. for webavo enjoyed it.
W. A. Moore, G. W. Adair. 8. M.
Inman, A. M. Itheinliart. Dr. C
Jones, .Ins. 11. Johnson, J. T. Stocks
J. F. Barclay. Dr. J. O. Perkins, W
E. llogie, W. E. Met'alia. If. 8.
Johnson, George Muse, 11. C. I.con
oaril, I. S. Mitchell, W. P Patlillo, B.
A. Hemphill.
Allan**, Georgia, June IS. 188-1.
A Vlir.l.R AXI> nv.HF.ttVINO CHARITY.
Surely no sort of commercial strin
gency should prevent the orphans'
home, now building near this city,
from getting the money it needs, and
1 for which appeal is made by the gen
tle who sign a testimonial printed
elsewhere.
This charity is an admirable one
in every sense of tho word. That it
is urgently needed is proved by the
fact It has been constantly over
crowded with helpless and destitute
orphans. That it ha* been wisely
managed is proved by the condition
•I the home and of the children as
shown to all visitors. That it has
been cheaply managed is proved by
the fact that it has fed and clothed an
average ot forty children on purely
casnal and voluntary contributions.
We do not call to mind an invest
ment where sso,ooocould do so much
good as the $5,000 that is needed to
complete this building. Its contri
bution will give (he home room for
100 orphan children and the manag
gcr* guarantee that they will take
eare of evory one that can be shel
tered, and feed, clothe and odneate
them. Bituated as it is on a beauti
ful farm, that is carefully tilled, the
children can have fresh air, fresh veg
etables, fresh butter and milk, and an
abundance of fruit. They will be
taught to farm, to work, and the
arts of house wifery. The farm will
go very far towards sustaining the
home, or at least providing it with an
abundance of food.
Wc ask our people in all earnest
ness if they r,an afford to let this no
ble charity fail for the pitiful sum
that is needed to finish it. Thero is
hardly a man who reads this article
who cannot subscribe something to
the building fund of the home. Ev
ery dollar that is so contributed will
be faithfully expended in finishing
the home, and in making it comforta
ble and pleasant for tho desolate chil
dren, who will be rescued from sin
and want and reared within its walls.
Only $5,000 is needed. Wchavc tho
utmost confidence that it will be
promptly subscribed. Wc do not, be-.
lieteth.il onr people will givo si!o,-
(XX) for a club house, And see our or
phan's home, that will support 100
orphans, failed tobc finished for one
sixth as much.—Atlanta Constitu
ion.
sriciDHor a rouitc mam in macok
East Friday morning at 7 o’clock,
H. D. Ford committed suicide. lie
shot himself through the heart at the
i hoarding house o{ Mrs. Nelson on
I Fourth street, between Walnut and
; Wharf streets. Tho deceased was
twenty-three years old, was hand
some and of pleasant manners. lie
formerly lived in Now Jersey, but
has resided in Macon for the past
three months, tilling Ihe position of
night train dispatcher on the East
Tetmsieo, Virginia and Georgia
Railroad. Mrs. Nelson testified be
fore the coroner’s jury that Ford usu
ally camo home from work at 7
o'clock in the morning. lie had not
i nccii at home for two mornings until
| yesterday. When ho entered the
: house this morning lie seemed much
troubled. She asked him what was
the matter; when he said his girl had
jilted him. Her name was Miss Min
nie Maliord,of Ashland, Kentucky.
Ford went immediately to his room.
He refused to cat breakfast. Sud
denly a pistol shot was heard and
Mrs. Nelson rushed to the room and
found Ford half lying oil the side of
the lied, the blood oozing out of the
wound.* His onlyavords after being
shot were, “oh my Lord!’’ Ford had
boon drinking several days prior tn
tho suicide. He was also out of mon
ey and owed a board bill. His trunk
was searched anil nuinerons letters
were found, one where his sweot
hoart appealed lo his love and sense
of honor to slop drinking,and thU her
father would never consent to their
marriage unless lie forsook his in
temperate ways. Her picture, lhat
of a beautiful girl about 18 years old,
was found in his possession, anil be
neath it was written: “She will feel
sorry for this”—no doubt alluding to
his death. His [wickets contained
some nowspa]>ci' clippings referring
to Ihc Young Men's Christian Asso
ciation, in which his name was men
tioned as making an eloquent speech.
His pocket also contained a receipt
for ten dollars lie had sent his sweet
heart's mother. Superin'cndcnt Mal
lory, of the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Railroad, telegraphed
Ford’s father at Newark, Ohio, con
cerning His death. All who knew
Ford liked him well.
BKECHKK’N I.DXirRV.
Mr. Beecher has directed his man
ager, Mr. Pond, to, book an extensive
lecturing tour for next year. Mr.
Beecher's salary is $20,000 per an
num. He annually receives double
this sum from his leeturesand a large,
additional sum from his pen. lie is
not rich, however. He keeps open
house (with his sun, with whom lie
resides), and gives loans, indorses
and does other unhusiness-likc things
constantly, at a heavy cost to his
treasury. It is said that beyond his
farm at Peckskill, the house and stock
theroon, and his library and bric-a
brac there and at Brooklyn, the
great word painter has nothing to
show for his large income for each of
very many years. llis library is so
large that it is now being catalogued
with a view to soon making a sale
therefrom. 11c has expended, it is es
timated, $130,000 in hooks and as
many more have been given him by
publishers. His house at Peckskill,
built not long since, Mr. Beecher
says, has cost him SIO,OOO. Others
who watch bnsiness matters closer
and are familiar with its growth, say
$70,000 would be nearer the correct
sum. His cows are all Aldcrncys,
and the. herd is belieyed to be worth
$15,000 to SIB,OOO. Ilis farm and its
manner of rtinningand even hospital
ity is enough in itself to absorb a
Irrgc income. It is yet somewhat
encumbered. His collection of bric
a-brac would make a large and fash
ionable museum. Fine prints, bron
zes, printing, statuary—anything
beautiful in shape or color—find a
worshiper in Mr. Betclicr, and it is
said that he cannot go through the
streets of Jfcw York or Brooklyn
without becoming a purchaser as he
roically as he may labor to resist and
avert his eyes from tempting show
: windows. —Ithaca Journal.
According to the account of the
Chicago Times, the prominent Bepub
lican papers which have up to date an
nounced their intention to oppose the
election of Blaine number thirty
throc.
WASHINGTON, GA,; FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1884
A KV KU X PAltAttE.
From the authentic history of “Tho
Ku Klux Klan : It* Origin,Growth,
and Disbandment,” by Itev. D. H.
Wilson in the July CEsyintY, wo
quote tho following: “Soon after
nightfall the streets were lined with
an expetant and excited throng of
people: Many came from the sur
rounding country. Tho members of
the Klan in the county loft their
homes in tho afternoon and traveled
alone or in squads of two or throe,
with their paraphernalia carofttljy
concealed. If questioned, they an
swered that they were going to Pu
laski to sco the Ku Klux parade. AG
ter nightfall they assembled at desig
nated points near the four main roads
leading into town. Here they tlonnoil
their robes and disguises, and put
■cover* of gaudy meterials, on their
horses. A sky rocket sent up from
some point in tho town was the signal
to mount and move. The different
cattipniiea mot and joined each other
on tho public square in perfect silence;
the discipline appeared to be admira
ble. Not a word was spoken. Necessa
ry orders wore given by means ef
whistles. In single file, in death-like
stillness, witu funeral slowness, they
marched nml countermarched
throughout the town. While tho rol
umn was headed nerth on one stroot
it. ivas going senth on anothor. By
crossing over in opposite directions
tbc lines were kept up in almost un
broken continuity. The effect was te
create tho impression of vast numbers.
This marching and countermarching
was kept up for about two hours, and
tho Klan departed as noiselessly as
they came. Tho public were more
than over mjstifiod. The cfi’erls of i
tho most curious to find out who were 1
Ku Klux failed. One gentleman from '
Ihe country was confident that he 1
could identify tho riders by the horses. 1
But, as wc have said, tho horses were 1
disguised as woll as tho riders. Do- 1
tcrniined not. to be baffled, during a <
halt of the column ho lifted tho cover <
of a horse that was near him, and f
recognized his own steed and saddle,. '
on which he hail ridden inte town. '
The town people wore on tho alert to I
sco who of tho young men of the town <
would be with the hu Klux. All of t
them, almost without exception, were l
marked mingling freely anil con- I
spicuously with tho spectators. I
“Perhaps tho greatest illusion pro- t
duerd was in regard to the numbers t
taking partin the parade. Reputable I
•itiJens were confident (hat the irtnrk
hers wms not less than three thousand.
Olliers, whose imaginations wore
more easily wrought upon, were
quite certain there were ton thousand.
Tho truth is that tho number of Ku
Klux in tho parailo iliil not exceed
four hundred. This delusion in re
gal'd lo numbers prevailed wherever
the Ku Klux appcnril. It illustrates
how little the testimony of even an
eye-witness is worth in regard to any
thing which makes a deep impression
on him by reason of its mysterious,
ness.”
THE UNUMdI: OF VMIIKKI.I.AH.
There is a language of umbrellas, ns
of flowers. For instance, place your
umbrella in a rack and it will change
owners. To open it quickly in the
street means that somebody’s eye is
going to be put out; to shut it, tliatn
hat or two is to he knocked off. An
umbrella carried over a woman, the
man getting nothing lmt the drip
pings of the rain, signifies courtship.
B hen a man lias the umbrella and
Ihc woman the drippings, it Indicates
marriage. To punch your atnbrella
into a person and thou open it means
“I dislike you.” To swing your um
brella over your head signifiics “I am
making a nuisance of myself.” To
trail vour umbrella along the font
path means that the man behind you
is thirsting for your blood. To carry
it at right angles under your arm
signifiics that an eye is to be lost by
the man that follows you. To open
an umbrella quickly, it is said will
frighten a mad bull. To put a cot
ton umbrella by the side of a silk one
signifiics “exchange is not robbery.”
To purchaso an umbrella moans “I
am not smart, but honest.” To lend
an umbrella indicates, “I am a fool.”
To return an umbrella means—well,
never mind wliat it means, nobody
ever docs that. To tnru an umbrella
in a "list of wind presages profanity.
To carry your umbrella in a ease sig
nifies it Is a shabby one. To carry an
umbrella just high enough to tear
out a man’s eyes and knock off men’s
hats signifies. “T am a woman.” To
press an umbrella on yonr friend,
saying, “Oli 1 do take it; I had much
rather yon wonld than not,” signifies
lying. To give a friend half of vour
umbrella means that both of you will
got wot. To carry it from home in
(lie mornings means “It will clear
off.”
Another Poor Man Strum by Fortune.
The man who has a prize in a lotte
ry is regarded ns (ho happiest of mor
tals. At the last drawing of The
Louisiana StateLotlory two Memphis
men drew $15,000 each. Mr. B. J.
Dorsey, a foreman upon the levees
alonglho Mississippi, has been living
in hmnblecircunislanccs at 33 .lack
son st. An Avalanche reporter re
paired to the corner of Jackson street,
and inquired where Dorsey lived. Q.
‘•You mean Hie man that drew the
lottery prize?” A. “Yes.” “He’s
moved away. Ho is to live in a fino
houso in Ft. ffekoring now.”—Mem
phis (TcunO Avalanche, June h
LOGAN IN '7,5.
J The Now York Tribune's Ilcantt
ful Pen Picture of tho Ora
tor and Statesman.
■i\ Pranced there in upon tho arena of
; tiio great debato’ like a trick mule in
i a circus,or a spavined nightmare upon
tho track of a beautiful dream—Hogan,
o. Illinois, There was a vision of
,11,1 usfaches, oyebrows and hair piled
on each other in arches; a largo
nil stridulous war-hoop and
brandishing of arms, a pose
much as though a picture of the
Deerfield'massacre had stepped out
f. om the pagos of our early history,
7iJg.ni took tho American Senate by
large capacious ear. And then
i: wont for his mother tongue, lie
i, iote it right and left, hip and thigh,
V showed no mercy. Swinging
fijyt -rcat l ionil
■i. ‘ho air. lie turn oil it ere it tell, and
u. itli the hammer side struck the lan
guage of (10,000,000 of people fairly in
11*' face,ami mashed it beyond recogni
tion. Glider his stroke tho lloor of
American Somite was spattered with
the remnants of a once proud voeab
u'arly, and messengers, doorkeepers
ami pages wero covered from head to
foht with the spray. In the fearful two
hours which followed tho first roar
of his oration, all tho parts of speech
were routed and put to flight. There
wire orphaned adjectives nml wid
owed nouns: bachelor verbs driven
tc polygamy, and pollgamous verbs
left lonely; conjunctions dissevered,
pimpositions scattered, adverbs ilis-
Iti vclod and distorted, and syntax
(lung into wild disorder. It was a
gibat day for Hogan.
He set his teeth info tho langungo
as tho untamed tiger of the jungles
taxes between his mouth ami paw the
warring apparel of the wayfarer, ami
the ripping of it. was hoard through
ali, the forest depths. It rcvcrbcratoil
to ihe other end of the capitol, and
sli ggish Repsentatives lifted up their
o* and listened to the roar with
terrified ave. Some started for tho
seine; but, upon being told Ihc causo
of’(ho disturbance In the brief com
mit nicotian, “Hogan’s up,” turned
back with full assurance that they
oeuld hoar from that, end of tho capi
tal all that ivas tvortli hearing. So
throughout two hours Hogan swung
his bountiful arms over she heads oi
the,Senate like tho booms pf a govern
ment, derrick, while hia chin churned
the language like a' pile-driver in a
lie'; j sea—ami tho baffled reporters
tuff A wild pillage* with liie'n puiitfiU
to gather up his regurgitations for
the printer.
Ah! I-ogan isa great man ; aslatos
man. When he throws his intellect
into n question, lvlicthor it is of fi
nance or solf-goVcrnlncnt, or of stick
ing to the ship, something hns got to
come. Anil you may always know
where lo find him—to-wit, where ho
lias always been drawing pny from
tho government in some capicify.
lie lacks only fifteen or twenty things
of bcingan orator. He ha*lungs.
KITCHEN Kcoatomv.
Teat* nindo toy Ihc fior
or>meal CliemiMt.
Dr. Edward G. Love, the Analyti
cal Chemist for tho U. 8. Govern
ment, has made some interesting ex
periments as to tho comparative val
ue of baking powders. Dr. bovo’s
iols were made to determine wliat
brands arc the most economical louso
and as their capacity lies In their
leavening power, tests were directed
solely to ascertain the available gas
of each po Alter.' Dr. Dove's report
gives tho following.
Strength
Tame of tho Cubic Inches On*
linking Poor dors, par each ouncenf Powder
eKoJfAi”i'*hHolrttely pure; 127,1
“I’stapsco” (slum powder) 125.2*
“Ruoaford’s" (. phosphate) fresh .121.6*
‘‘RumfordV’> phosphate) old . .'12.7*
•‘Hanford's Nono Such,” fresh 121.11
“llandford’s None Such,”old. .. 84.35
“RodhsadV ,t|7.(l
"Charm” (slum powder; .... .. . I lli.W*
” Airtaxon” (alum powder) ... 111.0*
"ClcvelandV i short weight % or.). UO.H
"Sea Foam”. 1117.9
“Czar”. . .100.*
"Hr. PriceV’ 102. C
“Snow Flake” (OrofTa, fit, rent) lOt.SS
"Levis'a” Condensed 98,2
“Cengreaa''yeast . #7.5
"C. R. Andrews A Co'n" I contains
slum ■ 78.17*
"Meeker’s” #2,5
"Millets” 54.2
‘Hulk” H 0.5
‘la his report, tho Government
Chemist, says:
"I regard all alum powders as very
unwholesome. I’hosphate and Tar
taric Acid powders lilioratc their
gas too freely in process of baking, or
under varying climatic changes suf
fer deterioration.”
Dr. 11. A. Mott, the former Govern
ment Chemist, after a careful and
elaborate examination of tho various
Baking Powders of commerce, repor
ted to the Government in favor of the
Royal Brand.
Prevent serious sickness by taking
necasionly one of Emory'* I.tltle
Cnlliurtie Pills, a wonderful appe
tizer, an absolute preventive and cure
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CATCHING ATAItTAB.
On the train from Cincinnati to
Chattanooga the other day, the talk of
the mob of six orcight in tho smoking
car ran to train robbery.
Tho subject was canvassed from
every standpoint, anil all but ono
agreed that a passenger car could bo
robbed without danger to the robbers.
This chap was soiling drugs for a
Baltimore house, and he announced
his readiness to lay down his life when
ever an attempt was made to deprive
’ him of his cash. It was generally bc
liovcd that his ooyrago was *ll talk,
and by-and-by when ho fell asleep,
we put up a job on him. *
A giant of a chap from Dayton
Ohio, wns selected to play robber.
iJe was about the uglost looking white
r.tiyb dv ever set c.vo* on
ami W: borrowed twef revolvers* 're
moved the cartridges, ami awaited
the right moment. As (he train stop
ped at a little station the big fellow
opened and slammed the door and
cried out:
‘Hands up gentlemen !The fir*tone
of you who drops his hands is a dead
man!’
Up went our hands and the man
awoke.
“Up with ‘cm—throw them up!’
commanded Dayton as ho leveled both
shootors at the drummer anil slowly
advanced.
‘Not if I know myself!’ was the
cool reply, and what did Marylander
but out with his revolver and began
popping away ! He fired four shots
and drove tho ‘robber'to the door l>o
foro any one could grab him and ox
plain matters. Ono bullet, went
through tho big mans cap, one burned
his check, and the third and fourth
went through the windows. Ho was
whiter than sr.ow when the affair
onded, and returning tho revolvers to
their ov ncrs ho stood up m tho aisle
and said:
‘Gentlemen you can put me down
an t ho biggest bln mod fool in America!
Good night \‘
And ho took his coat and grip and
loft us for a scat in another coach.
BUKIED IN A iHanoi: 1
The UuppiiNi'd Fate of n Wt Virginia
Ilrliie of Three Months.
< A 'Wheeling (IV. Ya.) special of the
28th ult., says: Ono of those ghastly
stories of interment before life has
become extinct, which causes an in
voluntary shudder ef horror to pass
through the render, Ih cur-jit In tho
c,fy 10-nght. The victim, so the
story goes, Is a young married lady
of twenty years. In May of last year,
three months after her marriage, the
lady was taken violently ill, and af
ter lingering for ten days apparently
died. There vero certain peculiari
ties about the uppcnrancc of tho sup
posed corpse, howover, which caused
ft suspicion in the mirnl of the attend
ing physician that his patient might
bo in a trance; but alter keeping the
body for four days, with no sign of
returning life, the remains ivcrc con
signed to the grave, temporary inter
ment being made Hi tho family lot
in an abandoned graveyard. A day
or two ago the tiody was disinterred
prior to removal to another cemetery.
To the surprise of the sexton tho cof
fin lid showed signs of displacement,
and on Us being removed tho grave
digger was horrified to find the re
mains turned face downward, tho
hands filled with long tufts of hair
torn from the hoad, and the face, neck
and bosom deeply scratched and
scarred, white f lie lining of the coffin
nail been torn into fragments in the
desperate efforts of I lie oiitombed vic
tim to escape from her terrible fate.
Since the discovery the young hus
band lias been prostrated and his life
Is despaired ot. Tho names were
withheld.
JOAdI’IN JIIU.EB OIK THE CAPITAL
CITY.
Joaquin Miller gays that Washing
ton, from his cabin on Meridian Hill,
reminds him of hut one city in the
world, ami that, is Damascus. It
ought to he known, for it is the fact
that in three, possibly lour, important
particulars the American capital sur
passes every capital in the world. In
beauty of site or situation, in breadth
and disposition of streets, in govern
ment- buildings and in climate it is
equaled by no European capital. And
while it is better located, better laid
out, better provided with great struc
tures adapted for public uses, and has
a more delightful average tempera
ture than Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome,
or Constantinople; it lias also hotter
drives than any of these cities by rea
son of its wider and better paved and
less crowded nvenues. Contrast ll
with London in its freedom from mist
and mud. How many cities on the
planet have 300 miles of noble trees?
And how many places have 24distinct
kinds and convenient kinds of public
conveyances to move about in ? Then
Mon signor Cnpel says that Washing
lon possesses more refined and agree
able society than lie lias met with in all
Ids travels. In view of all those facts,
what a marvelous city of easo-llviug
and life-enjoying this capital will be
a half century hence. The generation
of to-day will not soo it grow to its
full maturity of beauty. It is not
cheering to inflect that we shall not be
prancing and rioting above ground.
The Hartford Times has already
tounted the Presidential votes, and
gives Cleveland 260, and Blaine 141.
NO. 27.
GENERAL NEWS.
Diphtheria is prevalent at Sylvania
A project is started to establish an
American college in japan.
It is estimated that Texas is ready
to send 400,000 head of cattle to the
great market.
The National Cotton Exchange re
ports that the area of the cotton crop
is not greater than that of 1883.
The President has signed the hill
reducing postage on transient news
papers to one cent for four ounces or
less.
The ..converts to Christianity in ja
pan the past year equal in number
the converts of the previous, twenty
years.
The suite /ho O.arof Russia con
Mt* V.j>ma
jor* general fjLa suite, and lOi jucjcs
dc-catnp; In ail 294.
The directors of the Chicago Driv
ing rrk have resolved that hereafter
races shall bo run there on Sunday as
on any other day.
The sale of ill* grated police news
papers, in accordance -with a recent
act of the Legislate/c, is now prohib
ited In the Slate of Kentucky.
A paper read before tho Forestry
Congress estimated the cost of the
ritilroad tics used in tho United States
every seven years at at $14,784,000.
Not content with 73-button gloves
reaching from linger tips to tlus nape
of the neck, Paris women ot fashion
have taken to wearing vests made of
kid.
O. S Burnap, of Charleston, has
painted a portrait of Gen. Francis
Marion, and Ihcpictnro will be placed
in tho South Carolina room at Mount
Vernon.
Melon brandy is the nowest drink.
I was discovered by a Frenchman,
and it is said to he a potent and so
ductivo liquid, a little stronger than
applejack.
J. T. Carlisle and L. Nobles, of
Dooly, wero in Ilawkinsvillo Thurs
day with 2,f>00 pounds Of wool, for
which they wore offored twenty cents
per pound.
It is said that, Riddlcbcrger throws
np the sponge, so far as Virginia is
is concerned. Ho admits that the
democrats hive tho advantage In tho
Old Dominion. '
One of the queerest army corps in
the world is .that of tho Norwegian
skaters. The;- are armed with rifles
which they can trse with great preci
sion while skating.
The Wheeling Register predicts
that tho democrats will West
Virginia by not less
jority, no matter whom they make
their candidate for president.
Tho promoters of tho independent
movement in Now York arc engaged
in an extensive correspondence with
the view of holding a convention in
August, in which every doubtful state
will be represented.
The historic island of St. Helena is
reported to be in a very bad way, the
übandonmen t of the Cape route since
the opening of the Suez canal having
taken away its trade in refitting and
victualing ships.
A New York ice cfc&m manufactu
rer claims to bo able to make ice
cream keep a year in just as good
condition as when first made. It is
in brick form about Bx 4 inches, atul
wrapped up in white paper.
There arc sixty Catholic churches
in Montreal. The French cathedral
situated there is tile largest church on
this continent. It is built of limcslone,
and fifteen thousand people have of
ten been asscmblod under its roof.
A gentleman just from New York
says: “Wall street looks deserted,
and business seems kcad.” If it stays
so it will be life and health to the
public at large. Wall slrcct specula
tion was but little removed from ordi
nary gambling.
New York dealers in boxing gloves
say that there was never such a de
mand for their goods as now. Every
body, from dudes to bootblacks, buy
them, and a considerable number of
women are learning tlio noble art.
They cost from $2.50 to $7.50 per pair.
New York business men represen-
ting $350,000,(XX) worth of capital have
organized to fight unjust discrimina
tions of railroad pools and ultimately
telegraph and express discrimination.
In many cases a merchant in New
York can receive merchandise at much
less cost than he he can ship it.and the
pool of trunk lines is arbitrary in its
maimer of handling freight.
The intest noyclty in church enter
tainments lias struck Cedar Rapids.
lowa. It is an evening of cradle songs,
in which tho different customs ot na-
tions in singing their babies to sleep
will be told iu song and illustrated
in pantomime. Each representative
mother and child will be in the cos
tume of the country, and the lullaby
will bn sung in the native language.
I’rvTON, the murderer, who was
condemned to lie hung at Brunswick
last Friday, Imt who escaped the noose
througii tho efforts of his attorneys in
moving anew trial of his case, is still
in his cell In Savannah jail. The Newt
states that he is a quiet, docile prison
er, has shown uo symptom of insanity,
and has but little hopo of an escape
from the gallows. It is a cruel com
mentary upou human barbarism that
the fact (hat the execution did not
take place was a disappointment to a
large party of negro excursionists
who. induced by the promises of
music from a brass band and tho
pleasure of a picnic in which the hang
ing of Peyton was to be a leading
feature, went to Brunswick from sev
eral stations on tho lines of railway
leading into Brunswick.
A Boston lady is making a presid
ing gavel of raro wood and
stone of hisloiical value. It will con
tain .a fragment from Washington's
tomb, marble troiu Caesar's palace in
Rome, and a pieco of a torch found in
the wolfs den occupied by Putnam at
Pomfrot, Conn. The gavel is to bo
used at the National Democratic Con
vention, and is to bo presented to tho
successful Presidential candidate.
An unusual freak of lightning hap
pened a fews days ago on the farm
of Capt. C. Mount near Goshen, Old
ham county, Kjk During a: storm
which occurcd there, five head of cat
tle and two line colts, which were
standing by a wire fence, wero im
mediately killed by a lighting bolt.
They were stretched out over a space
of 150 yards,but the bolt ran along
the fence and killed every one, throw
ing some as far as tweenty feet away.
pk VnsmsioNEii
At a cln.Sdißttc’r in New York re
cently, "an examining surgeon related
tli'e following incidents, showing how
the Arrears Act developed pensioners
out of sound and undeserving men.
During the war he was surgeon of an
infantry regiment, When tho regi
ment first won t into battle he observed
sitting behind a big troe, at a safe
distauco from tho lighting-line, tho
captain of one of the companies.
“ What arc you doing here, Cap
tain?” askod tho doctor.
“I’arn not feeling well,” repliod tho
officer, in a doleful voice.
The surgeon was too busy looking
after the wounded to stop and inquire
as to his complaint. A few week la
ter the regiment again got underfire,
and the surgeon found the Bamo
captain skulking behind a hard.
“Hello! sick again ?” ho exclaimed.
“Wc)l. the fact is, doctor, I’m
not exactly sick. I may as well own
ni> that I'm a coward. There’s no
help for it. It must be constitutional.
Now, doctor, what’s tho use of my
staying in the army ? Won’t you help
mo get a discharge?”
The sn rgcon thought hewas doing tho
country a service when a few days af
terward, he recommended that tho
man he discharged on tho ground of
general disability. Ho hoard nothing
of the captain until sixteen years la
ter, when lie received a letter from
tho Pension Office informing him that
Captain Blank had applied for a pen
sion from the dato of his mustcr-ont,
and that ns he, as surgeon of tho regi
ment, had certified to tho disability,
would ho kindly informjtho govern
ment as to the nature of thj disease
5. -itart-ori; *
surgeon replied that the captain'!
complaint was chronic and incurable
cownrtWco, not contracted in tho line
of his duty, but constitutional. Tho
captain’s name did not go upon tho
roll, and his plnn lbr gotttng some
four thousand dollars for arrears and
twenty dallars a month for the rest
of his life came to grief. How many
schemes no loss dishonest have suc
ceeded through tho complaisance of
examining surgeons, loss honest than
narrator of this incident, could only bo
ascertained by thorough overhauling
of the whole Pension List and a ro-ox
nmination of the ontiro army of pen
sioners.—E. V. Smalley, in the July
Centijiit.
AN IDYL OF HATE.
“That horrid Mrs. Sawyer I” said
Mrs. Jones, the othor day. “I wish
site would move out of tho neighbor
hood.” *
“Well, what do you run there ’all
lliotime for? I told you how it
would be,” rclorled Mr. Jones.
Tliis was not the kind of sympathy
Mrs. Jones expected, and slio became
ominously silent.
“What has she sjid about you now ?”
Inqufed Jones,
“Oh, it’s nothing about me,” said
Mrs. Jones indifferently.
“Who is it about?” asked Jones
with evident anxiety.
“It’s about you,” resumed Mrs. J.
“She says you’re no more fit to run
for office than a bripdlc cat, and that
if .Sawyer votes for you she’d nover
speak to him again; fj|C save—”
“Never tuind,” iofliiy.
“I’m not the least interested in any
thing a feeble-minded, gossipy woman
says.”
But the flat-iron had struck home,
and Jones left tho table with a look on
Ins face that noded no good.
It was baking day at the Sawyers.
If there was anything Mrs. Saw
yer prided herself upon, it was the
tender, flaky quality of her pasto.
Jones knew this.
Mrs. Sawyer was just rolling that
tender pic-paste into great sheets of
transparent dough, when Micro camo
a knock at the door. Mrs. Sawyor
answered if, rolling-pin in hand. It
was Willie Jones who had knocked.
“Please, Mrs. Sawyer,” said tho in
nocent child, “pa would liko a picco
of your pic-crust.”
“Certainly, Willie,” said Mrs. Saw
yer much flattered, “hut it isn’t baked
yet.”
“Ho doesn’t want it baked.”
“But he can’t cat raw pio crust.”
“Ho isn’t going to eat it.”
“Then what is ho going to do with
it ?”
“ITo said lie wanted to mend tho
harness, and make hinges for tho
barn door with it, and—”
The rolling-pin hung fire, and tho
bOy escaped, but tho barrier between
tho houses of Jones and Sawyor can
never bo broken. It is tougher than
tho pic-crust,