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The Greox-gia, Weekly Telegraph, feuiid. ^Toririial
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON JULY ’fo M70
War-Cloud* tower Again.
We are profoundly disappointed with the tone
of our early dispatches to-day—Thursday, Apnl
34th. The danger of war seems to be greater
than ever. Indeed, the parties seem to be at
a dead lock. Dispatches from Brussels and
32ms both assert that France, dissatisfied with
tie assurance that Prince Leopold, of Hohen-
zollern, has withdrawn from the candidacy for
the Spanish throne, demands from the King of
Prussia a perpetual renunciation on the Prince’s
behalf, and a guarantee of the royal disappro
bation of any further approaches to the Prince
upon that subject. To these demands the
Prussian King has responded with a prompt
negative, and has refused an interview to the
French embassador charged with presenting
them. When this Embassador waited upon the
Prussian Court at the little watering-place of
Ems, yesterday, he was met by an Aid-de-Camp
of the King and informed that Prussia had no
further communications to make.
Meanwhile, it will be noticed by the synopsis
furnished in the dispatches that the tone of the
whole Paris press, yesterday morning—op
position and imperial—wa3 very warlike, and
the opposition press, in particular, was taunt
ing the ministry with a substantial loss of
prestige and position so far in the negotia
tions.
Under these circumstances, We fear that the
peremptory refusal of the Prussian Court to en
tertain the French demand, and the obvious re
buff of the French Embassador, will be con
sidered a deadly affront and that the next news,
perhaps, may be a declaration of war by France
and the march of Imperial armies towards the
Prussian frontier. Against this apprehension,
however, we have the apparently quiet aspect
of the markets, so far as reported, both Ameri
can and European; but this potential indica
tion to the contrary notwithstanding, it seems
to us, on the information presented by the dis
patches, that the situation is about as perilous
os it well can be before hostilities have actually
commenced.
The attitude of France seems to us to be very
aggressive and over-bearing; and perhaps dic
tated by a desire to pash matters to extremities,
or to force Phissia into an act of positive hu
miliation. First, Prussia say3 she had nothing
to do with Prince Hohenzollem’s candidacy—
that it was a matter purely between him and
Spain. Next, in the interest of peace, she
quietly procures his withdrawal, and so removes
and apparently redresses the presumed affront
and the alleged grievance of France.
A reasonable man would suppose, in the ab
sence of better information, that these were
sufficient. But that don't suit either the French
papers or the French crown. They want Prussia
to swallow a little humble-pie over the matter,
and so far to take the back-track, on any alleged
or imputed complicity with these negotiations,
as to give guaranties that Hohenzollem shall
never sit upon the Spanish throne, and that ne
gotiations between him and Spain shall never
be resumed hereafter forever. That was the
demand brought by the French Embassador, to
whom King William sent a servant to meet him
at the door with assurances that the King had
nothing more to say about the matter.
Now, we have so high an opinion of the
French Emperor and French people as to
believe that when a deadly issue is made upon
such a state of facts, the alleged casus belli is
only seized upon and pushed into an occasion
for war. For reasons of his own, the French
Emperor wants war with Prussia, and Prussia
. is too powerful and too self-confident to decline
the wager of battle at the expense of the slight
est constructive loss of dignity. And the worst
feature of the business is that the French press
are sufficiently traitorous to the interests of the
people to hound on this strife which will prob
ably consigu one hundred and fifty thousand
young men to bloody graves, cover the country
with desolation and mourning, and burden
honest labor with new debts and taxes for years
tooome. “War,” says the poet, “is a game
which if the people were wise, kings would not
play at;” and the press is foully traitorous to
all popular instincts when it aids the govern
ment in fomenting war upon mere punctilios as
forced and unreasonable as this seems to be.
While, therefore, we have always felt a more
lively interest in France than in the Prussian
States, we are bound to admit that the course of
Prussia in this business seems to us defensible,
while that of France is not, as to the alleged
cause of quarrel. The fight will be in the in
terests of French ambition. It will be a terri
ble one. The belligerents are evenly matched.
It is hard to tell which are the better soldiers.
The consequences of the war will probably be
portAntqus on the politics of Europe. They
will not be generally disastrous to America, but
will bear unfortunately upon the South. The
war will depress cotton and create an active
market for grain and provisions. It will give
one more reason for planting corn and raising
food in Georgia. It will stimulate immigration
to America, and increase the value of American
securities. While we shall not be surprised if
it shall eventually involve the whole European
continent in arms, the best we can hope for is
that it may end with a short, sharp and decisive
test of physical superiority, like the struggle
in 1866 between Prussia and Austria.
Result of the Cultivation of Corn and
Sugar by Steam l'ower.
In the report of the Department of Agricul
ture, for the months of May and June, is found
a report to that department of the results of an
experiment in the cultivation of sugar and oom
by steam power in Louisiana, which is en
couraging. The experiment was made by Mr.
Lawrence, “the pioneer of steam plowing in
the United States. ” The report says:
“His crop of cane and corn, about one thou
sand acres in one field, had been planted on
land plowed and cultivated wholly with the
steam plow. Not one drop of rain had fallen
for more than six weeks, and the crops on the
various plantations passed, though green, were
quite small, from exoessive drought. I was
surprised when I got to Magnolia, to find the
cane and com looking dark and exceedingly
thrifty, and I am free to say it is the most
Splendid-looking crop of cane and com I saw in
the State. The dry weather had not affected
the growth of the crops, which were in a for
ward and flourishing condition. The crop was
nearly til laid by, and it had been worked by
about half of the usual number of hands. I
was shown a few acres of three-year old rattoon
canes that had been deeply sub-soiled with the
steam plow, apparently as good as any cane in
the field. Mr. L. is very sanguine that the cane
crop can be made, with steam cultivation, with
one-third loss mules, one third less laborers and
will givo one-third more yield per acre than
under the old system.”
No Backwardness on that Point.—TVe see
that while, for several days, the Atlanta Agency
has been backing and filling on the question
whether they can do any general legislation,
unless the Georgia bill passes Congress, they
Tn»a« right sure of one thing, at least, on Thur*.
day. They voted themselves two hundred dol
lars apiece advance, and so transferred the risk
of their ability to do official service to the
shoulders of the State. The Agency is a re
markable body. Its fame will descend to
children's children, even unto the third and
Sovrtb generation.
The Georgia Pres*.
The Very Reverend J. F. O’Neil, of Savan
nah, died Wednesday afternoon, of dysentery.
The Bepnblican says of him:
He was bom in the county of Kerry, Ireland,
15th October, 1790, and hence, had nearly com
pleted his eightieth year. He was educated for
the Catholic Priesthood, and at the solicitation
of Bishop England, emigrated to the United
States and settled in Charleston in the year 1824.
He was ordained a Priest in 1826, and officiated
in that capacity with the church in Charleston
until 1833, when he removed to Savannah, and
continued his useful labors for a long period of
years, and until disabled by age and failing
health. For several years since the close or the
war, he resided in Baltimore, but returned to
Savannah in 1869, resolved there to spend the
remainder of his days.
The Republican says there was an accident
on the Savannah and Charleston railroad, Mon
day, which resulted in a passenger having his
head severely cut, and a lady her arm broken.
The Constitutionalist tells a hard story on a
would-be bigamist in the employ of the Central
Railroad, who was abont to marry a girl in that
city, Sunday, when his wife appeared on the
scene, having come from Florida for the pur
pose. * The result was a resignation from the
road, and a return to Florida with his wife.
Augusta came very near having a disastrous
fire Tuesday morning, in the drug store of W.
H. Barrett on Broad street. The Constitution
alist gives the following account of its origin:
There were thirteen carboys of acid in the
corner where the fire appears to have originated,
and the inference is that the fire was caused by
spontaneous combustion of one of the carboys,
since no other satisfactory cause Of the conna*
gration presents itself. A number of packages
of medicines, etc., were charred by the fire and
damaged by the flood of water necessary to
check the conflagration. Several firemen and
citizens had their f6et burned by coming in
contact with the burning acids upon the floor of
the bnilding, and came out of the fiery contest
minns boots and pants. The loss will probably
amount to §3,000, fully covered by insurance,
except about §300 worth of the remedies of J.
C. Ayer & Co., for whom Mr. Barrett is agent.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says the large
boarding bouse at Aiken, S. C., kept by Mrs.
M. A. Mackey, was burned Sunday night, with
a loss to the occnpants of everything they had;
not even their clothiDg and money was saved.
The Constitutionalist concludes an article ou
the future of the State Road as follows:
“We believe the road will certainly be sold,
sooner or later, and, if we are correct, we hope
that when sold it will fall into the hands of our
own people; and without having other interest
in the question than that of a citizen seeking
the public good, we will express the further
wish and hope that it may bo purchased by the
Georgia Railroad Company. The reasons why,
in our opinion, it would be the best interest of
our State that the Georgia Railroad Company
should own the road, whenever the State parts
with the control of it, are many and obvious.
Among them we will only name those of econ
omy and of still reaping the fruits of the enter
prise. The two roads connected would make a
magnificent line from Chattanooga to Augusta,
under the management of one set of officers in
stead of two; and as the entire stock of the
Georgia Railroad Company is owned within the
State, the earnings of the combined line would
remain within our borders to enrich and build
up our own people, instead of flowing into the
pockets of men at the North.
The Savannah Republican gives the Atlantese
the following dig: “J. G. "Westmoreland, in the
course of an article published in the Atlanta
papers, frankly confess what the press of that
city have persistently denied, though painfully
obvious to every visitor, viz: Pure water is
demanded in the center of their city—where,
according to analysis recently made, the water
of wells is contaminated to a degree that sani
tary considerations forbid its use for drinking
purposes,”
Vie clip the following items from the Colam-
bas San:
Bio Amount fob the County.—Mr. Enoch
"Willett, Tax Collector, reports that since March,
1809, he has paid into the county treasury some
§82,000. For the State and county taxes of
1869, he has collected nearly §68,000, of which
the county has received §39,000. Since he has
been in office—that is for the fiscal years of
1868 and 1869, he has collected from the people
of Muscogee about §150,000.
Cotton.—Reports come from all quarters
that the crops generally, in this section, is thir
ty days behind that of last year. The plant on
the poor lands is the best, and hence erroneous
impressions are derived from seeing the crops
aloug the railroads. The stand is poor, lice are
more frequent than ever were known, grass is
abundant and the seasons have dwarfed the
growth. Best lands have done poorest. Corn
never looked better.
The Enquirer says the thermometer marked
93 degrees in the office of that paper Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o’clock, and that in other places
in the city it was two or three degrees warmer-
Capt. Roper, of Kingston, is offering to sell
100,000 pounds of hay of his own raising.
The Cartersville Express sums np the local
situation as follows:
We are needing rain, bnt so far the crops have
not suffered; warm weather and a good time to
kill grass. A large amount of clover hay has
been cut in Bartow county. Cotton looks small
for the time of year, but corn is doing well.—
Some indications of rain.
A lad named Burnett living in Rome shot an
“obstropnlons" 15th Amendment through the
arm, Wednesday.
The Rome Southerner has the following ad
ditional particulars of the riot at Cross Plains,
Alabama, which we noticed yesterday:
It seems that on Sunday eveding last, a white
boy and a negro had a quarrel and fought.
Several other negroes and whites coming np, a
general row ensued. The negroes were dis
persed, bnt having armed themselves returned,
and meeting the white boy, with whom the first
difficulty occurred, in company with a number
of ladies, fired into the party.
This so exasperated the whites that a large
number armed themselves, pursued, captured,
and hung a Mr. Luke, a carpet-bag school
teacher, who is said to have urged the negroes
on, and four of the ring-leaders among the ne
groes, and also shot and killed another negro.
Luke was taken to a house before his execution
and allowed to write a letter to his family. In
his letter he denied having incited the negroes
to revenge, but claimed to have persuaded them
to desist. »
Two solders were struck by lightning at the
Federal barracks, in Atlanta, Tuesday, and one
died next day.
Two Atlanta cavaliers fought a pitched bat
tle in the street, Tuesday, on the issue of
whether a certain belle’s eyes were black or
bine. The Mayor taxed them §5 each next
morning, and the question is still unsettled.
A portion of the citizens of Atlanta had a
Mercer University meeting Wednesday even
ing, which resulted in the passage of a resolu
tion recommending a subscription of $50,000
by the City Council, in case the University is
located in or near Atlanta.
The Albany News says there will be a dificien-
dy of 40 stores and as many residences in that
place on the 1st of October.
We learn from the Albany News that the
Postmaster General has established a weekly
mail route from Albany via Bloomfield, War
wick and Gum Greek to Vienna, Dooly county.
The distance is 40J miles, Jacob Freeman, of
Albany, is the contractor, and $495 his compen
sation.
Mr. ^l. S. Hartridge, of Savannah, baa been
elected a director of the Central Railroad, vioe
Edward Padelford, deceased, and Georgo W.
Wylly, President pro tern.
Of crops in Terrell comity, the Dawson
Journal says: “ Cotton is small, and on many
plantations baa not oommenced to put on fruit.
Where fertilizers have been used, the stalk is
large enough, but backward in blooming. The
com crop has improved under the late general
rains, and it is now thought that the larger
portion of S. W. Ga. will enough to sup*
ply the home demand.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
J DELIVERED* JULT 12.
From the Atlanta Constitution. j
George S. Rives, plaintiff in error, vs. Charity
Lawrence, defendant in error. In equity
from Hancock.
Br.owN, C. J.
Where A has knowledge that B, a female, ex
pects to attend an administrator’s sale to pur
chase a tract of land, and he and a relative of
hers, at her request, promise to call for her at
the hotel and accompany her to the sole, and he
fails to do so, but tells her relative and friend
before, and at the time the land is exposed for
sale, that instead of going for her he will bid off
the land for her, and her relative having re
ceived tbis assurance, does not go for her; and
A bids off the land, and tells several persons
immediately afterwards that he bid it off for
her:
Held, That it is a fraud upon her rights for
him to take the title in his own name, and re
fuse, on her offer to comply with the terms of
the sale, to convey it to her. In such case the
law raises an implied trust in her favor, and a
court of equity will, on her offer to comply fully
with the terms of the sale and. save him harm
less, compel him to aceept the indemnity and
execute a deed to her for the land, or hold it in
trust for her benefit.
In such case the statute of frauds does not
apply.
Judgment affirmed.
Toombs & DuBose, Geo. F. Pierce, Jr., C.
W. DuBose, for plaintiff in error.
Linton Stephens, Wm. Reese, for defendant.
W. F. Hill, plaintiff in error, vs. T. B. Gools
by, defendant in error. Complaint, etc., from
Oglethorpe.
Brown, C. J.
1. A tenant will not be permitted to dispnte
the tide of his landlord. And after the relation
of landlord and tenant is established, the ten
ant’s sayings, while in possession of the premi
ses rented, that he has purchased them from
tho landlord, are not admissible to prove a con
tract of purchase in defense of a suit brought
by the landlord to recover rent for the use of
the premises.
2. While this court is not well satisfied with
the charge of the Court below on the ground
that in summing np the evidence to the jury,
he put the testimony of the plaintiff more prom
inently before them than the defendant’s side
of the case. We will not order a new trial, as
we are satisfied the verdict was right, and that
substantial justice has been done between the
parties.
Judgment affirmed.
John C. Reed for plaintiff in error.
J. D. Matthews for defendant.
B. G. Pool, et al., plain tiffs in error, ts. Pick
ens R. Lewis, et ak, defendants in error. Case,
eto., from Bartow.
Bbown, C. J.
1. The owner of a mill on a stream whose
dam and machinery are suited to the size and
capacity of the stream, has a right to the rea
sonable use of the water to propel liis machin
ery, but he must detain it no longer than is nec
essary for its profitable enjoyment, and he ninst
return it to its natural channel before it passes
upon the land of the proprietor below.
What is a reasonable detention is a question
for the jury, in view of all the facts in the case,
taking into account the nature and nse of the
machinery, and the use of the water necessary
to its profitable employment. If the owner
detains the water no longer than is necessary
for its profitable nse, he is not liable in dama
ges to the proprietor below.
Where the owner of an iron furnace upon a
stream claims that the owner of a mill above
his works had bound himself by verbal contract
that he would never stop the usual and con
stant flow of the water m the channel of the
stream, and the owner of the furnace, after the
death of the owner of the mill, stood by and
saw the mill sold by the administrator of the
deceased to an innocent purchaser, and gave no
notice of the verbal agreement between him
self and the deceased, he is estopped from set
ting up the verbal agreement against the pur
chaser who invested his money without notice
of it.
And the parties stand upon their respective
rights under the general law governing rft
parian proprietors in the nse of the water in
the stream.
Jadgment affirmed.
Wm. T. Wofford, W. Akin, for plaintiff in
error.
A. Johnson, by W. H. Dabney, Jno. W. Wof
ford, D. A, Walker, for defendant.
Z. H. Clark, Trustee, vs. Thomas 0. Jennings,
Administrator. Equity from Oglethorpe.
Warned, J.
When a bill was filed to marshal the assets of
a decedent’s estate, and the Court decided that
a note given for the purchase money of a share
was not entitled to be paid out of the assets of
the estate:
Held, That in accordance with the rnling of a
majority of this Court, in Shorter vs. Cobb, and
White vs. Hart, that the Court below had no
jurisdiction or authority to enforce any debt,
the consideration of which was a slave or slaves.
Judgment affirmed.
Robert Toombs for plaintiff in error.
Mathews & Reid for defendants.
“Can we be happy in heaven, with • our rela
tive* and friends in perdition ?” is now asked
from a Cincinnati pvipit.
S. H. Lane vs. Jno. R. Lattimer. Complaint
from Hancock.
Warned, J.
It appears from the record in this case that
on the 30th day of December, 1869, Lane and
Lattimer executed an agreement in writing,
reciting that they had that day agreed to settle
the land difficulty between them on the con
dition therein named, to wit: That said Lane
agrees to pay to Lattimer $2,125, in payment
for a trace of land which Mrs. Laurany Tye
now resides on; the said Lattimer agrees to
make the said Lane a good and sufficient title
when the suit is deoided now pending between
the said Lattimer and Mrs. Luvany Tye. It
also appears that on the 14th day of January,
1868, that Lane paid Lattimer the §2,125 for
the land, and took hi^ receipt therefor. After
wards, in September, 1869, Lane sned Lattimer
to recover back the §2,125 paid him for the
land, alleging that he had refused to make
him a title to the land, in accordance with his
written agreement. To this action the defend
ant, Lattimer, filed a special plea, setting forth
various grounds of defense. On the trial, it
appears from the evidence in the record that
in May, 1863, Lane purchased the land
from Lattimer for Mrs. Tye, for tho snm of
§2,600, gave his note to Lattimer for
that amount, payable in currency, bank
able at par in the banks of Savannah or
Angasts, which was secured by a mortgage on
the land. Lattimer having conveyed the land,
by deed, to Lane, in July, 18G3, Lane conveyed
the land, by deed, to Mrs. Tye, as Executrix of
the estate of Daniel Tye, and to her five children
by name. In January, 1867, Lattimer shed
Lane on the note given for the land. It appears
from the evidence in the reoord, that Mrs. Tye
paid Lane for the land in Confederate currency,
and that Lane tendered tho same currency to
Lattimer, in payment of his note, the same being
bankable in Savannah and Augusta at that time,
which currency Lattimer refused to receive.
Afterwards, it appears, the parties agreed to re
scind the land trade. Lattimer was to take the
land back and give up Lane his note, given
therefor, and xef erred the only question then
in dispnte between them, as to the rent of the
land and improvement made thereon, to two
arbitrators who made their award on the 2d day
of October, 1866, awarding and deciding that
the value of the improvements made on the land
was §450 and that in the settlement of the trade
between the parties in the retaking of the Iand
by Lattimer, nothing shall be allowed for rent,
bnt the said sum named for improvements. The
note of Lane and the mortgage thereof appears
to have remained in the possession of Lattimer
or bis counsel. On the 9th March, 18GS, Latti
mer filed his bill on the equity side of the court
against Lane and Mrs. Tye praying that ** ey
might be decreed to execute to him a ti
the land. It appears from the record t).
sale of the land made by Lattimer to mano,
after the reoiaion of the original contract, and
after the award of the arbitrators as to tlio
mprovements and the rent of the premises,
was made on the 30th day of December, 1866,
and that Lane paid to Lattimer the considera
tion of tbis last sale of §2,125 on the 14th day
of January, 18G8, which was prior to the time
of the filling of the bill for specific per
formance, It also appears from the evidence
in the reoord, that at the time the parties agreed
to rescind the original contract, and at the time
of making the last contract, that Lattimer did
not know that Lane had conveyed the title to
the land to Mrs. Tye, as the executrix of her de
ceased husband, and to her children; bnt it is
admitted, that Lane told Lattimer that ho had
conveyed the iand to Mrs. Tye; that upon the
discovery of tbis fact he dismissed his bill for
specifio performance, and on the trial of the
case in the ooart below, claimed that in eonse-
sequence of the misrepresentation of Lane as to
the title conveyed to Mrs. Tye, that it was snoh
a fraud ormiktake on the put of Lane as would
authorize him to rescind the contract or excuse
Jhtafocitaaoa-peifMacMe. Thfe court changed
the jury, in snbstance, “that if Lane had in-
formed Lattimer, whether intentionally or by
mistake, that he had made a deed to Mrs. Tye,
only to the land, when, in fact, he had made it
to her os executrix of her children, by reason of
which Lattimer was prevented from giving pos
session to Lane; and if he had so informed
him, that plaintiff could not recover; that this
oase was controled by that principle of law, that
when one of two innocent persona had to sqffer
by an act, then, the one in fanlt must bear the
loss, and that the legal effect of the contraot of
the parties, as proven, was to discharge the ori
ginal note of Lane to Lattimer, whether it was
delivered up or not.”
Held, That this charge of the court, in view
of the facts contained in the record, was error;
that inasmuch as Lattimer sought to repudiate
the contract for the sale of the laud to Lane, on
the ground of fraud or mistake, that he must
repudiate it entirely, that he caanot treat the
contract us a nullity so far only as to excuse
himself for its non-performance and at the same
time claim the legal right to retain the money
paid him by Lane for the land under that con
tract ; the contraot is binding on both parties,
or it is not bindiog on eithtr of them. If Lane
is not entitled to have the land under the con
tract, then Lattimer is not entitled to have the
money paid him by Lane for the land under the
contract; that the legal effect of the recission
of die contract between the parties is to place
them in tho same position they originally occu
pied before there was any recission of any con
tract in respect to the land—that is to say, Lane
is entitled to recover the money back which he
paid Lattimer for the land on the 15th of Janu-
atv, 1868, and that Lattimer, on tho discovery
of the fraud or mistake in the conveyance of
the title to the land by Lane to Mrs. Tye and
her children, had the right to enforce the pay
ment of his note and mortgage made and exe*
cuted by Lane to him for trie land on the 23d
day of Jane, 18C3, his right to eleot and repudi
ate the subsequent contracts made on the
ground of fraud or mistake accrued to him on
the discovery of the fraud or mistake, and not
before. * -J.
Judgment reversed.
Toombs & DuBose, C. W. DuBose, and J-. T.
Jordan, for plaintiff in error.
Linton Stephens, Wm. Reese, for defendant.
General Lee’s Visits to Eixjcott Orrr,-
General Robert E. Lee made rather an unexpect
ed airival in our city on Sunday evening last,
and became the guest of Major George W. Pe
ter until the Tuesday following. Notwithstand
ing the many reports to the oontrary, we teem
ed that the General’s health is generally good,
and that he suffers from nothing more serious
than a slight bronchial affection. He waa soon
recognized upon his arrival, at course, and
shook hands with several Maryland soldiers who
had served under him in the late war. It is
mentioned as a rather singular coincidence
just ten years ago, and immediately prior to the
breaking out of the. war, he waa the guest of
Major Peter, being at that time Colonel of the
Second United States Cavalry, and making jnet
such an unexpected arrival a* on this osofiten.
IBHmtt Ciif ttntf ,
A Waterloo Defeat.
It appears that Fenton, the Radical Senator
from New York who so bitterly opposed the
nomination of Thomas Morphy as Collector of
Customs at New York city, met with an over
whelming defeat when the Senate took final ac
tion on the nomination. He spoke three hours,
and presented a list of charges against Murphy
as long as the moral law, bnt all to no purpose.
The vote stood 48 for to 3 against confirmation.
All the Democrats voted for the confirmation.
Sumner, Howard, Harlan and Anthony, aU
Radicals, did not vote. This action on the
part of the Senate is of public interest, inas
much as it is considered certain to still further
intensify the feud now raging between the Rad
ical factions in that State, and thus insure the
continued asoendancy of the Democratic party
there.
Daring Benzhosxs Resist Uncle Sax.—-Ob
Saturday Federal soldiers seized a lot of whisky
in Lincoln county, took it to Tullahoma, md
shipped it on the Nashville and Chattanooga
railroad for Shelbyville. At two o’clock Satur.
day night a squad of men went to Concord, on
the Manchester and McMinnville railroad, took
possession of a locomotive, and foroed the en
gineer to run it to Wartrace, where the car con
taining the whisky was overtaken. They cap
tured it, took it back to the neighborhood of
Tullahoma, unloaded it in the woods, and dis
missed the engineer.
AN ATROCIOUS CRIME,
Hundreds of Armed Men Searching for a
Slurderer.
From tho Karsas City (Mo.) Times, 9th,
On Sunday morning last one of the most
cold-blooded, sickening and atrocious Crimea
ever perpetrated apou the soil of Missouri, was
enacted in our midst, and the red-handed fiend
is still at large.
The particulars are as follows: Three miles
northwest of Columbus, in this county, resided
Mr. Hunter, a farmer, and his family, consist
ing of himself, his wife, one child two years
old, and one two months old.
On the day above stated, about 10 o’clock,
Mr. Hunter took his eldest child out in' the
meadow with him, a short distance from the
house, leaving his wife washing in the yard.
"When he returned in a short time he found the
wife of his bosom a lifeless, bleeding corpse
before him; while her brains were scattered
over the grass and the crimson tide of life
saturated the earth.
Upon examination, which was made by those
who had come to her relief, it Was found a rape
had been attempted upon her person; the skull
was fractured on the left side by a blow from a
large stone, and through the wound her braius
oozed out; the right eye was torn from its
socket, the teeth and gums mashed in, and the
left jaw broken; upon each side of the throa
were the marks of a strongman’s thumbs,show
ing that she had been choked first by one hand
and then by the other; her wrists were all
skinned and bloodshot, great tufts of her hair
lay upon the ground, while everywhere were to
be seen marks of a fearful struggle, with here
and there the bluod and brains of the unfortu
nate woman, and her clothes were nearly torn
from her body. Near by lay a large, sharp
pointed stone, covered with the blood and hair
of the murdbred victim.
The perpetrator of this fiendish deed is un
known; but suspicion points to a negro man, of
whom no minute description can be given, who
inquired of a lady in the neighborhood where
Mr. Hnnter lived, and upon being told, started
off in that direction.
The whole country is on the alert. Farmers
have stopped the reaper in the field and the
plow in the furrow to join in the search, and
hundreds of armed men are searching the
country in every direction.
A Spanish Paper on Cuba.
The Tribune reprints from El Universal, a
Madrid paper of the 18th Jane, an article to
which it attaches great significance. "We append
so much of it:
We profess as much love to cur country as
any one, but a higher feeling than this is that
of justicewbich has no age or country. Not
even the sadness of faots, nor the gravity of
circumstances, nor the painful nature of the
thoughts which arise from either, nor the
foolish clamor of some, nor the silence of others
shall stifle in onr throats the voice of justice
and of truth.
Cuba will be lost!
She will be lost whether the United States
recognize her belligerency or not. She will be
lost, dropping from onr bands in ruins and
bleeding. She will be lost through our fault,
through our fault alone, leaving at once a
vacancy in our interests, and an indelible blot
on onr name.
Cuba will part from Spain retorting to our
excuses and outrages with an eternal curse.
And, what iB worse yet, she parts from ns amid
the applause of a great people—the American
people—who, in the present state of things,
will see in the emancipation of the Castilian
colony more than an act agreeable to particular
views. They will behold in that event the fulfil
ment of human justice and the redemption of
a slave, atrociously ill-treatedby his master.
We have achieved a far from enviable suc
cess in stirring np against us every hatred,
and making ourselves obnoxious to every free
people by the Bystem we follow in Cabs. For
the savage conduct of the volunteers, and the
execution of Goicouria, an old man of sixty-
five years, a prisoner, tried, condemned, and
put to death in eight hours; aud the Bhooting
of Oscar Cespedes, a boy of 19, and the death
of the brothers Aguero, and the horrible mur
ders of which Cubans, previously pardoned by,
the Government, or acquitted ky the Courts,
have been victims, and the banishment of
whole families, and the destruction of homes,
and the confiscation of property, and securities
illegally exacted, and fines cruelly extorted; all
this and mnch more has alienated the sympa
thies of Cuba and the United States, and we
have lost no opportunity, nor have we neglected
any means to insure that the great Repnblio i
shall look upon the insurgents with affection,
and consider them as the victims of an odious
tyranny.
Sworn on Shakespeare.—A lady in Fairfield
county, Tennessee, sends to the Independent
the following story, with the assurance that it is
the simple truth: *
“At a meeting of Republicans, white and col
ored, for the purpose of forming a union league,
it was discovered that thsy had no Bible on
which to swear the members. The chairman
inquired where one could be procured. A col
ored man said bo had one, and ottered to mount
his mule and ride to his house, two miles away,
for it. As they could not think of swearing in
members without one, his offer was accepted,
and proceedings were suspended till his return.
There were thirty men to be sworn in, and, as
the officers officiating were very particular to
see that each one laid his hands on the open
Bible, the ceremony was quite a lengthy one.
After the league had been formed, business
transacted, and the meeting broken np, the
chairman discovered, to his horror, that the
-opposed Bible was a copy of Shakespeare. It
was too late to remedy the mistake. * Mum was
the word.” So he carefully handed back the
•Bible’ to its owner, not even venturing to in
quire if he ever enoountered any* difficulty in
finding his minister's text on his return from
meeting.”
Anew Branch of Thieving.'
On Thursday evening, June 9th, the little
daughter of Mr. Thomas Digby living on How
ard street, New Orleans, was stolen by two ne
gro women, and np to this time nothing has
been heard of her or them. She was only sev
enteen months old; A reward of §1500 is offer
ed for her. She is thus described:
She had rather a thin face and delicate feature,
small mouth, fair complexion, round blue ey68,
which she bad a trick of rolling; she had Tery
light hair, which did not curl, and a bald spot
ou one side of the back of her head, produced
by a boil, which will remain so for many months
before the hair will grow on it. She answers
tc the name of Moll or Mollie, and called herself
Dada, trying to imitate her father, who always
called her daughter. She can say a few Words,
like Mamma, Fapa, Rosy, Nelly, but cannot put
words together in a sentence. She walks well
and even dances.
A short time ago, in Delaware county, Pa., a
Quaker lady, a maiden who had reached the
age of 60, accepted an offer of a man who be
longed to the “world’s people” and the Presby
terian church, and began to prepare for the
wedding. As nsnal, a delegation of friends
from her meeting, waited on her, and remon
strated with her for marrying oat of meeting.
The bride elect heard the visitors patiently, and
then said: “Look here! I’ve been waiting
just sixty years for the meeting to marry me;
and if the meeting don’t like me to marry out
of it, why don't the meeting bring along its
boys t" That was conclusive, and the delega
tion merely replied “Farewell” and vanished.
A Strange Story about the Widow of
BishSp Bsscom.
A recent Uriel: to the Cincinnati Times says:
A friend has just informed me that Mrs. Bas-
com, widow of the late Bishop Bascom, is living
in Kentucy, in a state of perfect isolation, as
faras any white society is concerned. Mrs.
Bascom is of one of the proudest families in
New York, of the regular old Knickerbocker
stock. She was never a favorite with the
Church—perhaps she did not desire to be—in
which he was such a shining light, and has been
very unfortunate in her family. These circum
stances have caused her to be tabooed since his
death, the neighbors neither recognizing nor
visiting her, the negroes doing her work being
the only persons she sees. The Churoh, with
the exception of Bishop Kavanaugh, who called
upon her long since, has ignored her. In this
matter doeB not the Church set itself above its
Master ? "Whatever may have been her faults—
and she is said now to be a very altered woman
—something certainly is due to her as the wife
of one of the dignitaries, and one of the most
eloquent preachers of the time.
J?RxkoNttORT GrOaNS.—The Herald’s Wash
ington Correspondence shows s ; gns of the ap
proaching Woe over the carpet-bag Congress
men from the Sontb. He says:
Every unprejudiced and fair-minded person
who has given this session’s proceedings the
least attention must have come to the conclu
sion that a large portion of Southern Senators
and Representatives do not in any sense repre
sent the States that send them here.
Now what mortal ever thought or said they
did? He says:
New Hampshire has in effect five United
States Senators holding seats in the Senate and
voting for New England interests. New York
has bnt two, New Jersey one and Pennsylvania
three—Messrs. Scott, Cattell and Cameron.
The Herald is wrong. New York has four
Senators, Nebraska three, Michigan three, and
soon. The carpet-bag system will give the
North the cholic before it is well over.
Supreme Court Proceedings.
■Wednesday, July IS, 1870.
Argument in the case of John H. Newton vs.
Joshua R. Price, was resumed and concluded.
Messrs. Montgomery and Hook for plaintiff in
error, and Messrs. Wright and Evans for de
fendant in error.
No. 1, Middle Circuit—Harris vs. Perril—
complaint from Columbia—was withdrawn.
No. 2, Middle Circuit—Bartlett vs. Russell—
distress warrant from Augusta—was argued for
plaintiff in error by OoL W. W. Montgomery,
representing Frank H. Miller, Esq., and for de
fendant in error by Gen. Henry W. Hilliard,
representing A. D. Picquet, Esq.
No. 3, Middle Circuit—Hook and Glenn vs.
Adams, Administrator, et. al.—dismissal of
bill from Washington—was withdrawn.
Pending argument in No. 4, Middle Circuit—
Washington vs. Barnes—the Court adjourned
till 10 o’clock a. x. to-morrow.—Atlanta Era,
Uth.
Thursday, July 14.
Oscar Reese, Esq., of Carrolton, was admit
ted to the Bar.
Argument in No. 4, Middle Circuit—Wash
ington vs. Barnes—was resumed and concluded.
Geo. Henry W. Hilliard for plaintiff in error.
No 5, Middle Circuit—Pettus vs the State—
false imprisonment from the City Court of Au
gusta—was continued for providential cause.
No. 6, Middle Circuit—Spires vs. Walker—
motion to set aside a judgment from the City
Court of Augusta—was argued for plaintiff in
error by Col. W. W. Montgomery, representing
Frank H. Miller, Esq.
No. 7, Middle Circuit—Bugg vs. Towner—
ejectment from Richmond—was argued for
plaintiff in error by Judge Hook, aud for de
fendant in error by General Wright.
Fending, a motion to dimiss No. 8, the last
cause from the Middle Circuit—Bunniughsm
et al vs. Schley et al—the court adjourned till 1
o’clock, a. m., to-morrow.
SevenDem oc ratio Congressmen from
Tennessee.
Tennessee Cor*, -Cincinnati Commercial.)
It is not absolutely certain that the Democrats
will carry every district in the State, but, with
the exception of Maynard’s district, where the
chances are abont equal, it is highly probable
that they will. The Republicans have no pos
sible chance except in the three East Tennessee
districts, and not much in them. These dis
tricts are the First, Second and Third, now re
represented by Butler, Maynard and Stokes.—
Stokes will, in all probability, be the Republi
can candidate in the Third District, and, to illns-
trate his brilliant chances of success, it is only
necessary to refer to the foot that at the Guber
natorial oontest last year Senter beat him, in the
thirteen counties composing this district, over
eight thousand votes.
The New Natc ralization Law.—A Washing
ton speoial of Tuesday to the Courier-Jontnalof
Tuesday says:
The House ooncurred to-day in the Senate
amendment to the naturalization bill, and it
now only requires the signature of the President
to become a law. Although it does not transfer
the power of naturalization from the State to
the Federal courts, it gives the.latter the power
to appoint what is virtually a Federal police
called Bpecial agents, who are to attend every
election precinct to look after naturalization
and other frauds in all elections for United
States officers. The agents are to be appointed
in all cities exceeding 20,000 inhabitants. It is
very generally understood that the bill was pass
ed with special reference to New York city.
Deolxnz nr Buxldxno Material.—It may be
an intereating item of information that build
ing materials of all kinds have fallen in price
considerably. The New York Commercial Bul
letin says:
Bricks have declined nearly fifty per cent,
from the highest point; lime and cement thirty-
three per cent, and building-stone of the vari
ous descriptions nearly thirty per cent. The
average decline in lumber during the past year
may be estimated et from eight to ten per cent.;
ana if we go back to the period of the greater
inflation, at from twelve to twenty-five per cent.
Builder’s hardware, gas fixtures and plumbing
materials have experienced an average decline
of some fifteen per cent, daring the past year,
and fully twenty to twenty-five per cent, from
the highest point The decline in paints may
be estimated from that <sf the two staple arti
cles, white lead and linseed oil. The former
sold daring the war for twenty-three cents; two
years ago at fourteen and a half cents per
pound, and the wholesale price is now ten and a
half cents per pound, showing a decline of some
thirty per cent from the medium rate. The
latter is now selling at eighty cents per gallon;
a year since the price was one dollar, and two
years ago it fluctuated between one dollar aud
five cents and one dollar and twenty cents per
gallon, showing an average decline for that pe
riod of twenty-five per cent
The Georgia Bill.—Things are getting very
r critical with the Georgia bill in Congress, and
we will venture no prognostications. The Con
ference Committee, as supposed, locked horns
ou the- matter of an election next fall. An
attempt was made in the Senate yesterday to
secure a concurrence in the House bill but
failed. The session of Congress terminates to
night, and if something was not done in the
evening session yesterday, we presume a strong
effort will be made to-day. -The telegrams in
onr lest stated that the President and Mr.
Akerman were both making a point on the
passage of » bill providing for an election this
fall.
It is believed that Louis Napoleon has really
no serious objection to onr excellent yonng
friend Hohenzollem, bnt merely desires an op
portunity to prove that the needle-gnu is not
superior to the Ghasaepot rifle.—Courier-Jour.
The Philadelphia Press ssys: “Grant aud
Bismarck are two of the greatest men of our
time.” This is true. "With the single excep
tion of John Smith they are perhaps ^* great-
est.—Ibid.
There is very little difference between the
brigands of Greece and the doctors of this
country; for while the brigands live by plun
der, the doctors live by pillage.—Ibid.
An exchange says: “Gen. Ouster is tired of
the "West, and threatens to resign.” "When the
Indians are on the war-path the "West is cer
tainly a very tiresome place.—Ibid.
Florida Iteks,—The Floridian, Tuesday, has
founa another case of tampering with laws after
their passage. An enrolled fee bill in the pnblio
archives as been dootored so as to raise fees
three hnn dred per cent. The Florida Radicals
are a people of surprising resonroes.
We see no complaint of worm or caterpillar
in Florida. Crops appear to be fine; the
people getting lively in politics, and the negroes
stupendous in the same line. In Leon county
they have nominated two tickets—sable all-
one of carpet-bag negroes and the other com
posed of native slock.
The Floridian mentions a case of hydropho
bia in a Jackson county dog—the first we ever
heard of in that State. If the dogs in Florida
go mad, there will be much madness.
The Floridian has the following:
Rector or Sr. Joan’s Church.—The Rev.
John Hammond, M. A., of Trinity College,
Dublin, has been duly chosen Rector of St.
John’s Church in this city, and has aooepted
Living Beyond their Means.—Bolwersays
that poverty is only an idea, nine times out of
ten. Some men with ten thousand * year suffer
more for the want of means than others with
three hundred. The reason is, the richer man
has artificial wants. His income is ten thou
sand, and he Buffers enough from being dunned
for unpaid debts to kill a sensitive man. A
man who earns a dollar a day and does not run
in debt is the happier of the two. Very few
people who have never been rich will believe
this; bnt it is true. There ere thousands and
thousands with princely incomes who never
know a moment’s peaoe, because they live above
their means. There is really more happiness in
the world among the working people than among
those who are called rich.
Cost of Was in Europe.—At the International
Power Congress, held lately at Lausanne, the
suggestive fact was elicited that $3,600,000,000
is the annual cost of the war system of Europe,
and that $16 out of every $20 of the taxes are
now employed to sustain that folly. What a
stupendous cancer upon national resonroes—
Yet it is easier to discover the evil than the
remedy. Victor Hugo thinks that if republics
were established, wars would cease to exist—
A monstrous absurdity, oontradioted flatly by
the whole history of ancient and modem times.
The greed and jealousies of nationalities which
lead to wars are as great under one form of gov
ernment as another, as our own history proves.
the call.
A Liberal Offer.—We fear it is too late, but
we will offer to settle this quarrel between
France and Prussia ou terms perfectly honora
ble to each, for two and a half per cent com
mission on the least estimate of what both par
ties will expend in the struggle; and save them
every drop of blood. If that offer will not do,
r ’ffi-
Probability of a Collapse.—The New York
Commercial Advertiser, a Republican paper,
gives the fallowing diagnosis of the party con
dition :
The present condition of the Republican party
may be likened to two men, each having a tube
inserted lit a bladder, and each blowing from an
direction with ell his might and main,
ns if to see what tension it will bfar without
have good lunge, it wil) be a
to
’Two Indies la
From the Detroit Free Pr ]
About eight o’clock last evemn^^^l
residing np-stairs in the block
avenue, just beyond State strZt W %2!
that a iaree . ree *i oh*7"*l
uiuiuug birange conduct. H e f ’ "tin.
them in the room for an hour or “ *
ng and seeming to be very restW v*’
the attention of the ladieTS
animal he was snapping his jatSf 10
ing, and his eyes had an excitS
adies were not easily alarmed and n M
lar attention was paid to the Av. S p * t %l
time, he lying down in a corner af i° r
rnand of one of the females. Saddmf M
without warning, the brute f - %
middle of the room, eyes ablaS?^ ' nt ° £ |
like bristles, aed J
pain that sent the blood from
in an instant. Leading off K i , dles Q
a closet or clothes’ prei, and for
the women instantly sprane "S™ “I
follow or attempt to molSVhfSW
follow or attempt to molest
they were closing the door,
near gaining admittance, snanni„„ ‘ r ‘ e tam
ing savagely. The male portion ofS
Iy were away at market, and the ladii fa
themselves prisoners, with a sennit* Si
for a keeper. The animal SJJfewJb
and ran about the room, biting at ext,
of furniture, and his heavy breathing
of intense pain would have
aw nnowio nneil n — a "I
nuiuu nave mad.
er hearts quail than those shut u D i- .vT*
closet. The ladies screamed, the v i
and for nearly an hour there was 1?
.1 >—-|H Briano ♦!,„ j. u WCltli.
jiuur mere was an ■'*-
time within a small space, the doe
then scratching and tearing awav at
door. At last, alarmed by the scream- C ^
men from the street made their wavl^^
and with clubs, after a sharp struegi e iT
the frothing brute. The dead todv’ft 1
animal was thrown into the alley srl
carted off by the scavengers. It f.,
upon by large numbers before being J. *3
away, and none who saw the eye- antT
foamed-flecked jaws doubted that ^
had been seized with an attack of
FraEMEN’s Riots in Philadelphia.—Accord
ing to the Philadelphia Press, there were four
riots among the firemen in Philadelphia last
Sunday, and the telegrams in yesterday’s pa
per showed that hostilities were renewed on
Wednesday. The Press charges that the fires
which called these companies to the battlefield
were all acts of incendiarism perpetrated for
that purpose. One of the fires on Sunday was
very destructive. The casus belli, according to
Mr. Forney’s paper, is the employment by one
of the companies of “a colored band,” and, if
this be true, the 15th amendment, civil rights
bill, and so on, are evidently at a discount in
Philadelphia.
A Cincinnati Ghost Moves a Wholsale Fur
niture House—A wholesale furniture house in
Cincinnati has just conclnded arrangements to
move on acconnt of the visitations of a ghost to
the premises now occupied. Many responsible
persons have had demonstrations of itopresence,
and all attempts at discovery have proven una
vailing. The visitant perambulates at midnight
in the immediate presence and near the parties
watching, apparently in heavy and creaking
boots, but sndden illuminations and all else
failed to detect the cause.
Boll Worm in Barbour County.—The En-
fanla News, of Tuesday, says:
We learn from Col. Hiram Hawkins, that hia
plantation on the Middle Cowikee Creek, abont
twelve miles north of Eufanla, is infested with
the regular boll worm, as well as those of his
neighbors, and the plantations generally on that
creek. Some plantations sonth. of the creek,
still nearer to Eufauia, abound in them. CoL
H. is of the opinion that a close examination
would show evidence of the prevalence of this
dreaded enemy of the cotton plant on many
more plantations of the country.
A Game or Cards Tor a WiTe.
About eight or nine months since a ?>,
living in the northern part of this city**?
out into the eastern part of the State to
his fortune in the new mines of that seed™
leaving his wife and one child here in town
Some seven months ago a gallant disdrferf
St. Crispin persuaded the .White Knewd*
to take up her abode with him in a l
which he furnished for her. The new raj. i
lived together for about seven months.
a few days since the genuine husband retW
Of course there was trouble in the ca ffin [ v
after some quarrelling the two men agreed«I
play a game of seven-up for the woman. Ifc I
game came off last Saturday night, and t!»|
husband won his wife back by ina “t*l
points.” The man claimed his wife, adth I
man of leather could not say but that he had I
fairly won her. The woman preferred tig I
shoemaker, but the husband and winner m I
determined to have his own. He packed el
what furniture they possessed and lit Stain I
evening, with all hia household goods all
gods, left by a fast freight "Wagon for Caiifar-1
nia. When the wagon started from Sortie I
street there was quite a scene. A crowd a* I
nearly one hundred persons had collected! I
seethe husband carry away his “stale” at I
there was much merriment over the roaua j
affair. The woman cried and wanted tos^ I
with the shoemaker, and the shoemakecat I
at parting with the treasure he had lost!;
not holding enough “trumps." He M
some of the crowd if they thought he wouH
be arrested if he attempted to take the womt
out of the wagon. They told him - .-"..idio* I
her “on the square” and i.e mis; Leartllih I
a man, so the wagon movedand toes the f
fair one was “gone from his caze."-re-
ginia (iVer.) Enterprise, June 29.
Firemen’s Frolic* In riumdelpbji.
Philadelphia, July 10.—The western put
of the city was kept in an uprocu ■■ >t night bj I
riotous, firemen. The hose e-image of tli j
Goodwill Company was thrown uio Sdrajl-1
kill river by the Philadelphia Ecgine Cat-
pany after a small fire. Subsequemiufortie
purpose of drawing the Philadelp^“ Uompaiy I
near the premises of ‘he Goodwill, the large j
flouring mill of Rowland & Erwin, coma of I
Broad and Race streets, was set on fire. It |
was entirely destroyed, with some of them-1
rounding property. Loss heavy and no is I
surance. The carriage of the Goodwin J
fished out of the river and the memberst-1
tacked by the Philadelphia Company as tl? I
were taking it home. Few arresta j
The newspapers are loud, in their danull
for a paid -fire department in consequent*«I
the arson and riots of yesterday by tne vo® I
teer department. The Goodwill and Phal
delphia engine companies have been put on* j
the service. The property destroyed bv *1
Broad street fire was valued at one hnnwl
thousand dollars—insured for forty thoa»|
dollars.
Is a Hearse a Pleasure CabeugiI-I
An undertaker at Dayton, Ohio, write! >|
Commissioner Delano, as follows:
“Will you be kind enough to inform m
the ruling of Deputy Commissioner Docgtol
that, hearses come under the head of po?|
carriages—ruling March 26, 1870—is safl»l
ed by you ? I
“It is as impossible for an undertaker toil
business without a hearse as to do witto'l
saw or a jack-plane. Now, if Mr. Jw*|
considers a hearse-ride a pleasure, he «g*J
have one, and he would be right in hiintol
providing his views of pleasure-rides in tf l
rect. I nave been in tne business manual
but never yet heard of a s'ng’e person. w|
took a ride in one of my pieasore-csrn*!*l
express any feeling of pleasure with **|
taken. The parties were always mum os« , l
subject. . ,. I
“If a hearse is a pleasure-carriage, *jl
high time undertakers knew this new i**|
in their business; and wo to the poor *71
who take a ride after this for pleasure ■
would advise you as friend, never to w* I
ride in one of my pleasure-carriagesAsW 1
you live.” I
Lost his Speech from a Firi-0^^1
On Monday evening a little boy n*® 6 ®
bert Knorr, abont ten years of age, r
ing with some other boys in front of b 3
er’s house, on Liberty street, Allegheny,
a fire-cracker, by some accident, was
into his mouth, where it exploded- 1 &
to the ground and was taken intotn® ,
when a physician was summoned. * T
seemed uninjured in every respect, « xce P\,
his voice was completely gone. R h* 5 '•
returned, and it is feared that he wm
manently speechless.—Pittsburg
rlcfJl
A Family Arrangement.—A
planter, who has some four humimv ^jjij
hands employed, constituting
voters in his ooonty, has agreed
rers to support one of them for r8 P r ”!L
they, in turn, to Bupport him
this voluntary contraot
ment law.
An inebriated individual fell dorm*
—T-ny,
stairs the other night, and a passer-n ,
him to be seriously injured, ran to P>
But the man majestically staggered
and in respouse to the proffered aia m
“Now you jes lemme 1 one. Wan n
round me. I alius come down stair 5
After a sermon fo.. . ,.
favor of Ireland, a woman pas®®“ *
assembly with an alms bag. tue ^ ^
been very eloquent, the ‘motions era* j
were universal, and gifts rained m ^
A workman present oast in hi^’vSjt*
aloud, “One need not know the |( " BW
when a people is dying of hunger.
"What will fashion do next ?
in Boston whose ears were too long ™ •
applied to a surgeon to have them 1
\ too long . ^
va them
ve»*»j ——
her head.
toe Harvard College edifi®*
erected in 1713^ M
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