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MACON, FEBRUARY 7, X87I.
The House Fenian ICesoIutiou.
The London Times characterizes Butler'
Fenian Resolution, if intendod os a serious ex
pression of footing by the Congress of the Uni
ted States, as an act of “avowed hostility to
Great Britain.” But it consoles itself with the
idea that it was only a discreditable pander by
unscrupulous politicians to the Fenian voters,
in prospect of the next year’s election.
In one respect tho Times takes a more serf
ous view of tho resolution than it deserves, and
in another ho underestimates its true practical
signification. Tho resolution cannot bo fairly
considered an “ act of hostility to Great Brit
ain.” In its worst aspect we think it ought not
to be regarded as more than offensiee, by nec
essary implication. These Fenians—a portion
of them being American citizens—had been en
gaged in acts of armed hostility to tho Govern
ment of Great Britain on its own soil. The
welcome extended by tho Iloaso lie-solution was
an endorsement of their action and the general
allegations sustaining it. One of them, men
tioned by name in tho resolution as Thomas F.
Burke, has a pardon in his pocket from the
Queen, designating him as a citizen of the
United States, and it certainly seems to us
an extraordinary proceeding in tho American
Government to publicly thank him and welcome
him back to the country for actings and doings
which, in other American citizens, called forth
a solemn warning and admonition from the
samo Government—then a march of an Amcri
can force into Canada to restrain and prevent
such action, and finally the arrest, trial and im
prisonment of tho offending parties by our Gov
ernment
But, waiving all discussion of the merits or
demerits of tho Fenian insurrection against the
United Kingdom, and considering Butler’s res
olution solely from an English stand-point, we
do not see how it can be considered more than
an offensive declaration by the House, and that
only by indirect bnt necessary implication.
Next, we think the Times is in error in con
sidering it a mere pander to the Fenians for
their votes. This was one of the objects, and
tho action of the Democrats, we suppose, must
be accepted pnrely as a foil to that single pur
pose of the resolution. We do not believe that
any portion of tho Democrats sympathise in the
animus of Butler, which was developed in his
Essex spcoch—his threats in relation to the
Alabama claims—his pronunciamento in favor of
seizing Jamaica—which probably suggested the
idea of fortifying that Island which is now in
progress—his fulminations about the fisheries,
and pronunciamcntos about Canada annexation
and secret circulars to those provinces stirring
up the politicians there to the work of agitation;
and lastly this needless and absurd Fenian reso
lution.
All those betray the existence of a settled
purpose, either to foment a war or to practice
menace and bravado for partisan eclat, indiffer
ent to the results, which, in connection with
the unsettled questions between the two gov
ernments, may seriously endanger war. For
the sensibilities of tho British people are just
now "thoroughly aroused—and, wo may say, are
probably in an excited and morbid condition.
They have been so long and keenly taunted by
the outside world with the loss of their anciont
martial spirit, and indifference to honor and
reputation, in supremo devotion to tho arts of
peace, that they are now notoriously in a con
dition to take affront easily, and to oppose in
the samo aggressive spirit any attitude of men
ace which may be assumed by other powers.
In this condition of things, these public and
private demonstrations upon British temper,
good nature and forbearance come from the
man who is said to do the thinking for aggres
sive Badicalism, and who is organizing the
death-struggle of 1S72 for the re-election of
Grant and the retention of power and the
spoils. When wo reflect that every public ques
tion will certainly be treated with entire reck
lessness and solely in relation to its bearings
upon tho coming election—that throughout the
North and West there is still a bitter and burn
ing Tescntment against Great Britain for her
falsoly alleged sympathy with the South during
the civil war—that there are hundreds of thou
sands of men in those sections, late of the Fed
eral Array of subjugation, or its attendant bum
mers, who are tired of peace and anxious for
the excitement and the profits of war with all
its train of manufacturing and trade activity
and quartermasters’, commissaries’ and specu
lators’ profits—that the cry of many leading
ltadicals has been “we need a foreign war to
reunite tho American people”—that the whole
noble army of protectionists, and speculators,
peculators and sharpers of every huo are keen
for war—that even tho great maritime interest,
usually devoted to peace, will see in war the best
chance of reconstituting an American marine—
and in short that there is an immense popular
interest which, for various reasons, will sympa
thize strongly in maintaining an aggressive
front to Great Britain, and lastly, that war
seems to be the great passion of the day, we
see ample reasons for keeping thi3 possibility
of war strongly in view.
And we dwell upon it, not becauao it is a
pleasant theme, but to warn all our readers, in
advance, to have some regard to it in laying
their plans for the future. With war, cotton
will bo valueless, and we in Georgia shall be re
mitted sternly to the question of self-subsis
tence. For your own sake, then, plant largely
of breadstuffs. Look well to tho meat question.
Begin at once to farm in order to feed your
families independently of twelve or fourteen
cents for cotton. War with England is abso
lute ruin in Georgia, if it meets us with no bet
ter preparation than we can show now.
Another.
The negroes and scalawags who constitute
the majority of the Legislature of Texas have
just foisted into the Senate of the United States
one Joseph E. Reynolds, a Federal General, to
succeed Morgan Hamilton, whose term expires
on the 4th of March. Beynolds, like Amos, tho
surrreptitiou8 Senator from Mississippi, has made
his name stink in tho nostrils of every docent
man, woman, and child in Texas by his shame
ful tyranny and hrutal outrages upon tho whites
of that State, and is therefore a most fit and
proper person to represent the constituency
that sends him to Washington. He uomoro re
presents the people ot Texas than does Amc3
those of Mississippi, and his election is
equally a disgrace to the ago and tho spirit of
Republican institutions. Thank God, the day is
hastening when all such pretenders as ho will be
spewed out and trampled in the mire.
One Soubce of Pnom to the Banes.—A con
siderable source of profit to banks is the wearing
out, destruction, or loss by the holders of bills
issued os currency. This is shown by the fact
that of the circulation of the banks doing busi
ness seven years ago under tho banking law of
this State, and which, since the law was passed
by Congress taxing it, has been as far as possi
ble called in, §2,250,000 is yet outstanding.
Some part of this amount may possibly bo
hoarded by ignorant persons tn old stockings
and money chests, but the presumption is that
the greater portion of it is beyond the possi
bility of presentation for redemption, and that
accordingly the banks, which received valuo for
it, will be relieved from meeting their obliga
tions to take it up.
Rocky On a Fellow.
The Bollock organ at Atlanta devotes nearly
a column to the pretensions to office of a youth
ful carpet-bagger named Bockafellow, who hails
from Pennsylvania, and honors Atlanta with his
presence. It says he is trying to have old Dun
ning turned out of the Atlanta Postoffice, but
doesn’t think he is playing many trumps in the
game, and sneers at him, generally. It seems
Itockafellow has a great thirst for office after
the manner of his tribe, and has, in turn, been
an applicant for a fat, easy place on the State
Boad, a clerkship in the Atlanta Postoffico, and
for Collector and Postmaster of Savannah. The
organ don’t seem to fancy a man with such a
loil appetite for plunder. A moderate appetite
is well enough in its way, but this chap has
a morbid one, and therefore sorely offends the
sensibilities of the virtuous “ins” who want no
more nibblers at the cheese.
Wo rather take stock in Kocky. He is trooly
loil,” warp and filling. He “is on the make,’'
and makes no bones of letting people know it.
He came down here to spoil the Philistines, and
don’t care one of Stanton’s continental d—ns
who knows it. He thinks loilty that don’t
pay something handsome is all bosh, and so do
we. He has, as our friend E. Sparkler, Esq.
was won’t to observe of Fanny Dorrit, no “dem
nonsense” about him in the way of pretending
to be on a mission to develop Southern resources
by building opera houses, railroads, etc. Not
ho. Not for Kocky, if he knows it. He came
down here for stamps, and stamps he must
have. Shall it be said that he, so genuine
representative of the genius and spirit of car-
pet-baggery and of the great Be-pub-li-kin par-
tee, must return home no richer than he left it ?
Never. We suggest that Bocky hio him to
Congress and invoke their aid to compel his
brethren to divide. Let him get summoned as
a witness before the Southern Ohtrage Commit
tee, if he can do no better, and harrow up their
souls with the story of his cruel exclusion from
the swill-tub whereat his greedy kith are gorg
ing themselves fat.
Let Kocky have an office, or raise the devil
to know the reason why. We will take great
pleasure in endorsing his papers as one of the
greediest, most impudent, most worthless, and
therefore most genuine specimens of the carpet
bag fraternity that has ever fallen under our
notice.
The Institutions of Civilization.
We have daily ocular and aural proof that
the “institutions of an advanced civilization”
are crowding upon us in Macon. *Stencil cut
ters, razor and scissors grinders, hand organ
men, street merchants of all sorts, and bipenny
shows are getting common. The other day we
passed a street corner where a man stood with a
label hanging over his breast, and the pathetic
inscription, “I am Blind,” paraded thereupon
in golden yellow. That reminds us of Broad
way, where so many of these people go blind
every day for ten or twelve hours and make a
good thing of it. Sometimes, too, they lose an
arm or a leg, and putting oa a ragged blue coat,
are affecting and profitable exponents of the
miseries of the “rebellion.” The process of
doubling up the leg and the arm,'so as to make
a good amputation, is said to be simple, but the
restraint must be painful, and its victims de
serve to be well paid for it.
While writing these lines, an African crowd
of a hundred and fifty are gathered round
hand organ and-two performing monkies, un
der our windows. The monkies are the only
industrious people in that collection; and if we
accept the Darwinian theory of evolution, and
hold mankind to bo only monkies with modem
improvements, then we ask where is the im
provement in respect to industry? But all
these sights and shows prove that Macon is pro
gressing in some of the indicia of what our
Radical friend3 call an “advanced civilization.”
Give ns a few thousand more vagrants and let
them starve in hovels and cellars, and the
thing will be complete. Get a good stick and
set these loungers to useful work and that
would be old-time Southern Barbarism.
Protective Tariff Hen Tired of Pro
tection.
Somo fifty or more woolen manufacturing
firms in New England addressed last week a cir
cular to tho Manufacturers and People of Now
England, demanding that step3 be taken “to
secure an early revision of our present partial,
unjust and oppressive system of tariff taxa
tion.” They complain generally of the evil, in
justice, and inconsistency of special legislation
to protect particular interests. They say that
some branches of the wool manufacture pay
110 per cent, on the wool they use, while oth
ers pay 25 per cent, and are protected on their
manufactures by duties ranging from 70 to 140
per cent And while such inequalities charac
terize a system designed to protect thatrspecies
of industry, the tariff duties imposed on coals,
iron, steel, salt, lumber, manufacturing imple
ments, and so on, inflict disastrous blows on
the professed object of these duties, and coun
tervail all its supposed benefits.
They believe that the depressed condition of
many of the New England industries, gives em
phasis to tho inquiry, whether she is not paying
more for protection than she gets, and they ask
such a revision of the tariff as will admit raw
materials free and permit the manufacturers to
do business under a low revenue duty. That is
significant indication of the impending doom
of protective tariff theories. The whole system
is a bundle of incongruities and self-contradic
tions, and is tumbling down of'its own rotten
ness.
Tbe Dethroned Empress and Prince.
A World correspondent has interviewed Kev.
Peter J. O’Connell, the pastor of the Catholic
Church at Chiselhurat—the English rotreat of
the Empress Eugenie. The Reverend gentle
man speaks in the highest possible terms of the
Empress, who ho says is devotedly loved by
everybody in the sphere of her influence. She
is a woman of great mental abilities, fervent
piety and exalted devotion to France, independ
ent of all mero personal and family interest.
Her intercourse with the people about the vil
lage is characterized by a cordial affability, and
she is dear to every one of them. Of the Prince,
he says:
Ho is a fine, healthy lad, who, although the
weather has been very bad since he went to
Chiselhurat, has not been sick a single day, He
rises very early every morning, and, under the
care of his tutor, M. Filon, devotes himself to
the same studies that he pursued iu France.
The greatest possible affection prevails between
mother and son. He resembles his mother most
in the eyes, which aTe very handsome and in
telligent. He has the Napoleonic head and
nose. The events of the past year have, of
course, saddened him; but he is naturally
vivacious. He is intellectual, and thoroughly
trained for ono so young. Ho is extremely
courteous, and no Matter how humblo the per
son is whom he meets while out he almost an
ticipates the salute. His physique is good, and
he is very active and energetlo. His habits are
studious and his manner is very sedate and
grave. He has “very winning ways abouthim.”
He dresses in the ordinary costume now in
fashion for youths of his age in England. He
speaks English very fluently, andhe was almost
as anxious os his mother to read tho newspapers
containing war news. He is a youth of rare
promise.
Woeld Almanac fob 1871.—This is a compi
lation of over a hundred pages—embracing
full election returns of all the States and Ter
ritories—Census returns and statistics in rela
tion to them—Official Lists—Synopsis of acts
of Congress—History of Reconstruction-Po-
litical Record and Necrology for 1870,and much
other statistical matter. Price—single copies
, twenty cents—seven copies for one dollar.
Editorial Changes.
The Augusta Constitutionalist, of Wednes
day, contains the following card from James R.
Randall, Esq., its editor for several years past:
A Gaud.—With this issue of tho paper I bid
the readers of the Constitutionalist farewelk
James Gardner, Esq., who gave this journal so
great a celebrity before the war, will guide and
control it again.
My earliest editorial writings commenced about
the time the Federal soldiery insulted Augusta
with their presence; my final contributions close
with the grandest victory for the right ever won
in Georgia. I have but a single regret, when
reviewing my past career, and that is the recol
lection of how very far short of the worthiness
of the cause my work has been. _ I carry with
me, into other pursuits, the consciousness that,
earnestly and unselfishly, to the extent of my
faculties, I have “foZghtthe good fight and kept
the faith."
We regret exceedingly to part with Mr. Ran
dall, esteeming him as we do one of the most
brilliant, consistent and fearless members of
the profession in Georgia or elsewhere. To
great ability as a writer, he adds, in a charm
ing degree, the gifts and graces of a genial,
cultured, high-toned gentleman, and one of the
most companionable men we have ever known.
Wo kiss our hand to him and say—not adieu—
but au revoir, with the sincerest wishes for his
future, in the meantime.
To CoL Jas. Gardner, who succeeds Mr. Ran
dall, we extend the heartiest welcome. In tho
olden and better time he won, in the position
to which he has returned, a fame and influence
possibly brighter and more potent than has
ever been commanded by any pen in the State.
We are assured that though it may now beji
little rusty, from disuse, very little practice is
needed to restore all its wonted point and pow
er. Wo extract as follows from his salutatory
to his readers:
I resume my pen, some what rusty from disuse,
to wield it in tho great cause of State Rights
Democracy—a cause ever dear to the hearts of
the Southern people. _
Though cloven down by brnte force, and its
champions immolated by myriads on the thou
sand battle-fields of the South, its day of tri
umph will yet come. It will come all the soon
er from the crimes and follies daily perpetrated
by the now dominant party. It will come to
make a union of the States a blessing, a3 of
yore, to the South—an object of attachment,
and not a bond of hate.
Much that has been done cannot be undone.
Some results of the late war between the States
are irreversible. They stand fixed as the de
crees of Fate. It were a waste of time to try
to undo them. But ono thing has been done,
and done in a malignant spirit, which has in
flicted infinite harm on the Southern people,
and which it behooves every sensible man to
aid in undoing, whatever bo his creed, color,
condition or antecedents. An antagonism has
been created and fostered between the white
and colored races by vile political emissaries,
of the North, and their viler coadjutors of
the South, and for the vilest, meanest, most
selfish purposes. This antagonism is illogical,
unjustifiable, and fraught with mischief only, to
both races. The laws provide for equal rights
and equal protection to all. It is only the lazy,
the dishonest and the vicious that’ can complain
of the laws. Schools and churches, the advantages
of education and of religious teaching aro acces
sible to all. Those who desire to bo upright,
and industrious, and law-abiding, have every
facility offered them. There is no motive for
proseenting a good citizen, whatever his posi
tion or color. The only guarantee for mutual
prosperity and social peace is in the harmoni
ous relations of capital and labor. Money,
brains and muscle, make up a nation’s material
power and wealth. These intelligently com-,
bined, and under fair and equal legislation, give
diversity of pursuits. They give bread and
work for all—to the tiller of the soil, the me
chanic, the artizan, the merchant, the profes
sional man, the man of art and the man of
science. They build great workshops and
mills, and ships, and rear proud cities, and give
to society the highest results of civilization.
These aro practical views suggested by the
war, and its results, and the present situation.
They require immediate attention. Abstract
questions can be postponed. But the question
of undoing these evil teachings cannot be.
Propositions from England.
A Washington correspondent of tho New York
Standard, on what authority we know not, says
that England offers to settle the Alabama Claims
on the following basis:
First—Great Britain to admit her liability in
the Alabama claims, and to pay all damages
done by her.
Second—To submit to arbitration the cases
of the Shenandoah, Florida, Georgia and other
vessels.
Third—To enter into a treaty binding tho
two countries hereafter to prevent the sailing of
vessels of war from their ports to bo used
against a friendly power.
Fourth—To make and execute efficient mu
nicipal laws for this purpose.
Tho Standard says editorially that the propo
sition is unsatisfactory to the Senate Commit
tee on Foreign Relations, because it leaves the
question of settlement for losses by the other
cruisers still open, and that no treaty framed
on that basis could be ratified by the Senate.
A Bill to Break Up the Government.
Mr. Morrill, a Radical from Maine, has intro
duced a bill in the lower branch of Congress
making it penal to ssll or give intoxicating
liquors to any civil or military officer of tho
Government Morrill must either bo crazy, or
he wonts to break up the Government, 03 at
present constituted. Or, perhaps he is dyspep-
ie and liquor don’t agree with him, and there-
ore, Puritan like, he would deprive those who
are not dyspeptio of the privilege of drinking,
in order to keep him company.
Let Morrill, as a trooly loil man, take heed
what he is about. The passage and enforcement
of his bill would result in wholesale delirium
tremens among his party, commencing with
Grant, and the Democrats would have to step
in and run the machine. Fancy Grant, or Dick
Yates, or two-thirds of the Radical office-holders,
choked off from their daily forty or fifty cock
tails. Can anything be more horrible ?
The New Rotten-Bobough States. —Bills
have been reported by the Senate Territorial
Committee, to admit Colorado and New Mexico
as States of tho Union. By the census of 1870
Colorado has a population of 30,906, while in
1861 she had apopulation of sixty thousand. It
is probable she has very few permanent citizens
—her people being miners who are off os soon
as the diggings cease to pay. New Mexico has
an area of 115,000 square miles, and a popula
tion of 58,000 whites and 86,000 Indians and
half breeds. The only reason for admitting
such States is that the Radicals want their votes
in tho electoral college next year.
Cabinet Reorganization.
The Washington correspondent of the Jour
nal of Commerce, (no sensationalist) has been
investigating the rumors about Cabinet changes,
and says there is no doubt that Mr. Fish will
shortly resign! but his resignation will not take
effeot until after the adjournment of the In
diana Legislature, when no one questions that
Senator Morton will be appointed in his plaoe.
Secretary Boutwell is very sour, and wants to
go out. It is doubtful whether he will continue
at the head of the Treasury three weeks longer.
Attorney-General Akerinan’s official days are
also probably very few. The Faoifio Railroad
magnates are after him, and call him all sorts
of hard names.
Cadet Smith.—A World telegram says the
Secretary of War has under advisement the
proceedings and verdict of the court in case of
colored Cadet Smith. It is understood that ho
has been convicted and a severe penalty im
posed, but Mr. Belknap will not make public
the findings until the House sub-committee
shall have reported the result of their investi
gation of the troubles that have lately taken
place in the first class. The sub-committee
returned to-day.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Another man has been gamisheeing the Ex
press agent at Hawkinsville for money paid on
a box of “valuables” from Now York. New
York sharpers seem to bo making a dead set at
Pulaski county.
Mr. Charles Everett, an old and much es
teemed citizen of Dooly county, died of apo
plexy at Yienna, on Saturday.
Tho Rev. Geo. Wills, an Episcopal Minister
from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and Col. Edward
L. Wells, of Southport, same State, and Dr.
JohnsoD, of Savannah, were robbed at the Plan
ter’s Hotel, Augusta, Wednesday night,, by a
waiter employed in the hotel. The first of <530,
the second of $210 and a watoh and chain worth
$125, and tho last of $30.
Tho Constitutionalist of Thursday, says:
Appbehended Fbeshet.—The heavy and con
tinued fall of rain on Tuesday, commencing in
the afternoon and lasting during tho entire
night, caused a rapid rise in the Savannah Riv
er and excited apprehensions of an overflow of
tho oity. Yesterday moraingat 8 o’clock, from
3 o’clock on tho previous afternoon, tho r.. or
showed a rise of about seven feet, and contin
ued to increase in volume during tho day, over
flowing the lower wharves and covering forty-
five or fifty cords of wood belonging to Mr. tV.
W. Smythe, whose loss in wood and the expense
incurred in removing over a hundred cords to a
place of safety will not fall far short of $200.
A few articles of merchandise, freights by tho
boats, were also covered, and several bales of
cotton on the lower wharf set afloat. The lat
ter was caught and removed to the upper
wharves for safety. Mr. Smythe is tho heav
iest loser by the flood, so far as heard from yet.
At 3:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon, tho river
registered 24 feet at the city bridge, and was
rising at tho rate of about eight inches per hour.
There were forty-five deaths in Atlanta during
the month of February.
An Atlanta firm received a remittance of
$200 from a correspondent in Florida on Thurs
day, in which were fifteen well executed ten
dollar counterfeit National Bank notes.
The lessees of the Western and Atlantic Rail
road have paid $25,000 into the State Treasury,
as the rent of the road for the month of Janua
ry. They paid tho four days December rent,
early in January.
Tho negroes at Atlanta who are attending
Tamer’s pow wow, make the following modest
request of Congress:
Your committee would farther recommend
that, owing to our moneyless condition, that
this Convention do ask Congress to appropriate
one million of dollars as a loan, to assist such
of our people as may desire to settle on Govern
ment lands, to be expended and accounted for
by commissioners appointed by the President of
the United States, and that tho Government
hold such a claim on all lands settled and culti
vated as will insure the payment of said claim
with lawful interest. And that the said agent
or agents of emigration be requested in his in
spection of Government lands to give special
attention to their productive resources, water
facilities and such other conveniences as may
be of interest to new settlers.
Mr. Norman Gignilliat, one of the most es
teemed citizens of Marietta, died there on tho
29th nit.
Mules sold in Columbus, Thursday, at prices
anging froa $12 G to $142, and horses from
$86 to $130.
The Constitutionalists, of Friday, says:
The Duel.—Contrary to announcement yes
terday morning, the duel pending between Col
onel Wm. Johnston and Sir. A. H. Davbga was
rot adjusted, and we are advised that tho par
ties have determined to settle their differences
in a hostile manner either in Alabama or Flor
ida.
Mrs. W. H. Royal, widow of W. H. Royal,
late of the Hancock Journal, has established a
paper at Thomson, McDuffie county, to be call
ed the McDuffie Journal. Mr. C. S. DuBoso,
of Sparta, will edit it.
Jim Simms, the mulatto District Judge, so
called, down at Savannah, says if tho Bar of
Chatham county refase to recognize him ho will
send his commission np to Terry and have him
endorse it. He thinks that will fix things!
The Columbus Sun of Saturday relates the
following:
Oub Tbustee3 and the School Comsussioneb.
—There was a little episode during the stay of
our Atlanta visitors, which was not the most
pleasant in the world. The Trustees of our
Publio Sohool met Major Lewis, a Federal offi
cer, who holds tho position of Commissioner of
Georgia, under the School Law, passed by the
last Legislature. Our Trustees desired to get
any portion of tho State fund which might be
long to our school. Major Lewis had a goodly
sized pamphlet of instructions, prepared by
himself, explanatory of tho law. A leading
lawyer, on examination of tho rules and the
act, declares that the Major had been making
law himself. As no one had the patience or
time to wade through the explanations, it was
announced to the Commissoner how the
Publio Schools of tho city were managed
—that all white scholars were admitted
free of tuition,. and that tho expenses
of the institution were paid by a direct tax on
tho white citizens. Whereupon the Major de
clared Columbus had no right to impose any
tax, the benefits of which were not shared equal
ly by children of all colors. The act of the
Legislature granting expressly the right to Co
lumbus was shown him. He said Ms School
Act repealed that provision. A better lawyer
than he explained that it could not be done with
out stating in direct language in the publio net,
that the particular privilege wasrepealed. Tho
Major still insisted and very vehemently, of the
correctness of his idea. One of the principal
Trustees told Mm very forcibly, “it does not
make a d—d bit of difference what you think,
or your act says, we’ll manage our schools as we
plonso.”
P. S.—Lewis had Ms baggage immediately
checked for Washington, to have that trustee
reconstructed.
An attempt was made last Saturday night to
bum the gin house of Henry P. Everett, near
Fort Valley. Tho same gentleman had two
mules stolen from Mm a few days since. Homor
Brown, living near Hayneville, had a mule and
watch stolen from Mm the same night.
The Constitution, of yesterday, has the follow
ing State Road items:
We learn that John H. Boston, late a con
ductor on the State Road, has been appointed
agent of the road at Marietta. A most excellent
appointment. tf
Conductor Harris, of the Macon and Wes
tern Railroad, has been appomted a conductor
on the State Road.
There are quite a number of negro applicants
for positions on the State Road. They refase
to sign au obligation that they assume all the
risk.
The wMte applicants readily sign the agree
ment and get the positions. The darkeys are
bellicose and talk of mobbing the successful
applicants.
Willie Jones, a white youth, fell out of a
second-story window in Atlanta, Friday, and
only smashed his collar bone.
The Houston Home Journal says:
Swapped.—Governor Bullock has swapped
Ms judicial appointees in this Senatorial Dis
trict. He has changed A. S. Giles from Dis
trict Judge to District Attorney, and J. A.
Holtzclaw from Attorney to Judge.
The Albany News says the heaviet rain of the
season fell in that place last Tuosday and Wed
nesday. The streets were flooded, and Flint
river rose and raged, sweeping away CoL Tift’s
temporary bridge, put np last summer. The
road bed of the South Georgia and Florida
Railroad was considerably damaged, and the
trains had to stop four miles from town.
The last Legislature of Florida passed an act
requiring that all legal advertisMg in newspa
pers should be done in those officially desig
nated and appointed for that purpose. This
exploded scheme fordragoonMgthe people into
the support of Radical newspapers has been
tried in almost all the Southern States with fa
tal effects to the Radical organs. In Tennessee
it created such a hostility to them that every
one died out The ingenuity of Satan himself
cannot coerce Southern wMtes into Radicalism
as at present constituted. It must have some
thing better than pains, penalties and coercion
to stand on.
THE SIIAKEBS.
What Wc Saw and Heard at Soath Union,
The Shaker Settlement In Logan County,
Kentucky.
From the Bowling Green Democrat,]
Monday afternoon, the 16th’ inst., accompa
nied by our friend Robert Dulaney, of tMs city,
we visited South Union, the widely-known Sha
ker village in Logan, our neighboring county;
and we propose to give our readers somo ac
count of what we saw in that very notable place.
SOUTH UNION.
This village is located just midway between
Russellville and this city, abont sixty rods
northwest of the MempM3 Branch Railroad. It
is an exceedingly neat and well-built place, its
houses being built cMefly of brick, from two to
three stories ia height, and erected on cither
side of a broad -street that passes directly
through the town, and beipg located with an ev
idently systematic view to convenience in car
rying out the established regulations of the
Shakers. From the depot to Sonth Union, we
rode in a comfortable spring wagon, provided
for the occasion, in company with Solomon
Rankin and T. J. Shannon, two prominent Sha
kers, who gavo ns a cordial welcome to the vil
lage, which has an exclnsively Shaker popula
tion embracing three hundred souls.
Monday evening, after enjoying at the “office”
an elegant supper, the preparation of which il
lustrated the culinary skill for wMch tho
Shakers are famous—wo found ourselves in a
social circle of wMch Solomon Rankin, U. E.
Johns, T. J. Shannon and L. Pearcefield wore
prominent figures. These men, to whose num
ber we should add Jackson McGown, aro now
the most conspicuous members of tho South
Union settlement. In compliance ■with onr
own request, Solomon Rankin, the oldest man
present, he having been born in Robertson
county, Tenn., in 1897, undertook to give us an
account of tho
ORIGIN OF SOUTH UNION.
We learn from Solomon that Ms father, John
Rankin, was born in Guilford county, North
Carolina, and was a Presbyterian preacher,
came to Logan county in 1798, and was one of
tho leading spirits in organizing this settlement
in 1810. John Rankin Was a strong preacher
in those days. He rode a circuit, and talked
earnestly and eloquently of the Saviour, in hum
ble dwellings and under the shade of deep
woodlands where big camp meetings were held.
Just ;wenty-foar years before Rankin settled
in Logan county, viz: in 1774, Ann Lee, of
Manchester, England, to whom tho Shakers as
cribe their origin—came to America under the
guidance of-strong religions convictions. The
Shakers believe that Ann Lee, who mado sun
dry prophecies and bore many persecutions,
was divinely inspired, and that, upon her, the
spirit of Christ was shed as it had been upon no
other person since the coming of Christ him
self. She was a zealous teacher of religion,
and, under her inspired influence, the seeds of
tho Society of Shakers were planted and devel
oped. Her followers sprung up in Kentuoky,
and, about tho beginning of tMs century, pro
duced an extraordinary revival of religion,
known as the Kentucky Revival, commenced in
the Western States. John Rankin was drawn
into tMs great movement, and, in 1810, in con
junction with others, laid the foundation of tho
South Union Society of Shakers. Tho most
active and conspicuous members of the new
Society were John Shannon, Thomas MoClean,
Jesse McComb, Samuel G. Eads, Charles Eads,
Francis A. WMte, Samuel G. White, Samuel
Shannon, Samuel Robinson, Joseph Small,
George Rankin, Benjamin S. Youngs and Wil
liam Johns. Benjamin S. Youngs, who was the
foremost Shaker for twenty-five years; Joseph
Allen, Mollie Goodrich and Mercy Picket con
stituted the original Ministry under which, in
1810, the Society was formed. From tMs be
ginning, the present Society at South Union has
grown and maintained a prosperous existence
for half a century. There were secured, to
start with, about 1,200 acres of land on wMch
the settlement was established, and that num
ber has been inoreased to 5,COO acres, wMchlie
mainly in one body, embracing some of the
best land for cultivation in the Green River
Section. Two thousand aores of this land are
under cultivation in com, wheat, oats, mead
ows, etc., and two thousand five hundred acres
are under substantial fencing.
the social obganization.
This Society of Shakers is divided into four
families, styled, respectively, the Centre, the
North, the East, and the West family; and each
of these families is presided over by two male
and female members. William B. Ware, Sam
uel Smith, Nancy E. Moore and Malisa Milter
are at tho head of tho Centro family; Jesse
Rankin, Dana Campbell and Jane Wing are the
heads of the West family; Jackson McGown,
Lorenzo Pearcefield, Susan Smith and Harriet
Breedlove are heads of the East family; and
Rev. J. R. Eads, Asa Ware, Jane Cowan and
Mary Wann aro heads of tho North family.
Tho male and female members of these fam
ilies are under the immediate guidance, respec
tively, of the male and femalo superintendents.
From time to time, these families have acces
sions of persons who desire to forsake tho out
side world and j oin the Shakers. Such persons,
in order to gain admission, are required to
pledge themselves in responses to a series of in-
terogations relative to their moral character and
tho sincerity of their purposes in seeking ad
mission into tho society of Shakers. They
wont admit any one who has committed a crime
under the laws of the country, and, using the
ige of the venerable Solomon Rankin,
they “don’t believe in lazy Shakers.” Occasion
ally they aro imposed on by persons who join
this Society as a temporary method of securing
lodging, clotMng, eto., or, again using Solomon
Rankin’s language, they are often burdened
with “Winter Shakers.” Wo noticed, uniform
ly, tho remarkable cheerfulness and contentment
which characterized every Shaker, male and
female, whom wo met; and one of the causes
to which wo attribute this fact is the industry
which thoy daily practice, and tho scrupulous
order and neatness observable among and
about them on evorysido. All their property is
hold in common; and, though there is no com
pulsory labor, every member of tho Society
finds it necessary to encourage habits of energy
and industry.
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT.
U. E. Johns, who was bom in Logan county,
near Logan county, Ky., is, and has been for
abont seven years, tho cMef financier of the
Sooioty. He is a tall, strongly-built man, rath
er round-shonldered, partially deaf, with hazel
eyes, and features that indicate great determin
ation and firmness of character. He is now in
Ms sixty-eighth year, and is distinguished for
Ms sagacity, activity and integrity os a business
man.
Lorenzo Pearcefield, a stoat, healthy, simply-
drossod and practical man, and Jackson Mo-
Gown, a man of delicate organization, tall and
slim, with an exceedtogly benevolent and intel
ligent countenance, are tho agents ef the Socie
ty for transacting business abroad for the East
family. They have oharge of the seed depart
ment, and manage it with great energy and
effeot. Jackson McGown and T. J. Shannon
do most of the traveling for the Society. T. J.
Shannon, who is one of the most intelligent
men we have met for a long while, and a gen
tleman of highly attractive manners, has trav
eled through the Southern States in the inter
ests of tho Sooioty for thirty-six years. He is
known far and wide among business men, from
Louisville down to New Orleans, and at many
intermediate points at which he has negotiated
large and numerous sales of seeds and preserved
fruits prepared by the Shakers. - He is a young
looking man, though about Bixty-eight years of
ago.
Jessie Rankin and Logan Johns are the prin
cipal stock men, and have been acting in that
capacity for many yeara. The present Minis
try, charged with the government of the whole
society, is composed of James M. Rankin, suc
cessor to John Rankin, Harvey L. Eads, Pau
lina Bryant, and Betsy Smith. Rev. John Eads,
bom in Logan county, and aged 66 years, and
Harvey L. Eads, also of Logan and aged G4
years, are the preachers for the Society. They
are men who have led most exemplary lives and
are zealously devoted to their spiritual work.
Their sermons are not based upon distinct texts,
bnt consist inainly of general exhortations and
pious counsels. The religious services which
they direot embrace preaoMng, praying, sing
ing and dancing, and are conducted publicly in
the big church daring the summer months.
THE SCHOOLS.
.There are three schools at South Union, and
in all combined there are now abont seventy
male and female pupils. The males and fe
males occupy separate apartments and are in
structed with great care in all the dnties of
practical life and in all the dootrines wMch are
peonliar to’the Shakers. They are taught to turn
their.hands]to any occupational which they
may be required by circumstances from time to
time.
distinguished shakers.
Death ha3 lately taken away some of the most
prominent men, who, for yea*, were identified
with this settlement. Among the distinguished
dead whose memories are deeply revered, we
may mention Eli McOlean, who was bom in
North Carolina, lived seventy-six years, and
died January 12,1870. John Rankin, Jr., also
of North Carolina, who lived to the age of 76
years, and diedNovomber 29, 1870, after haying
served as a principal member of tho Ministry
for 30 years; and Benj. S. Youngs, a New York
er by birth, who won much reputation as a wri
ter and teacher of Shakerism. These men were
robust in statue, sterling in oharacter, vigorous
in intelligence and were spared to old ago in
their useful work.
AGRICULTURAL FEATURES.
The Shakers are noted throughout the country
for the great variety and fine quality of the gar
den seeds which they furnish to' the markets of
the South. They derivo a large revenue from
this source, and under the direction of Pearee-
field & McGown, conduct the seed business on
a very extensive scale. In addition to'their
seeds, they also sell thousands of dollars worth
of preserved fraits to dealers in all portions of
Kentucky and the South, and such preserves
poor mortals aro seldom allowed to eat! We
learned from U. E. Johns that they raise an
nually, on an average, two thousand bushels of
wheat, eight thousand bushels of corn, sixty-five
tons of hay, two thousand five hundred bushels
of Irish potatoes, and fifteen hundred bushels
of sweet potatoes. From these crops a largo in
come is annually obtained.
CATTLE AND STOCK.
The Shakers raise a great number of the Dur
ham cattle and exercise extraordinary oare over
them. We observed during our visit that
Pearcefield & McGown were filling orders from
Texas and Alabama for these cattle, and they
remarked to us that they could now sMp cattle
as well as other stock to ar.r part of the United
States with perfect safety. They sell cows at
from $75 to $150 apiece, and calves at from
$50 to $100 a piece. They now have 175 head
of fine cattle on hand, and several beeves of ex
traordinary dimensions. We visited the cow
bam, in wMch the Centre family of cows are
stalled over night, fed and milked We noticed
thirty-eight eows in their stalls, and while the
animals were feeding on meal and cut hay, and
meal and bran, mixed, several neatly dressed
Shaker women milked them—and richer milk
we had never seen, as it flowed into the clean,
pails of the milk maids.
HOGS.
The hogs raised by the Shakers here are the
Berkshire, Chester WMtes and Poland China
breeds. Jefferson Shannon remarked to us
that thoy aro not very favorably impressed with
the Chester WMtes on account of their inability
to stand tho winter’s cold and owing to their li
ability to disease. Thoy have great faith in the
BerksMre, and pride themselves on the raising
of them.
POULTRY YARD.
We had often heard it said that the Shakers
could beat the world raising cMckens, and we
were satisfied that the saying was true when we
were conducted to the poultry yard There we
saw an immense drove of Brahma Pootra cMck
ens of all sizes and ages. The spectacle was
truly a grand one. The Brahma Pootras have
pure white feathers, and, as they congregated
in response to a familiar call, they looked like
thousands of big snowballs assembled before us.
The Shakers are constantly receiving orders for
pairs of those wonderful fowls from all parts of
the country, and they receive as ranch attention
as any other branch of their business.
TTTF, MILL.
September, 1868, the Shakers sustained a
heavy loss in. the destruction by fire of their
fine flouring mill and factory, located abont one
quarter of a mile from tho centre of the village.
The property was fired at night and the loss
sustained by the destruction of the two build
ings is estimated at about $100,000. Since
then the Shakers have erected on the site of the
old mill, a new one at the expense of $20,000.
TMs mill is quite an imposing structure and is
run by both steam and water. In packing the
barrels with flour, we observed that Wolf’s Pat
ent Packer was used, with wMch about twenty
barrels can be packed in a minnto. G. F. J.
Hildebrand, the miller, is a very intelligent
German aged thirty-two years. He was brought
up to the business, and is one of the best mil
lers in the Western country. He says he was
“a rebel against King William, and came to
America to be free.”
MISCELLANEOUS.
After looking around at cattle, hogs, the mill
and other objects of interest, friend Shannon
carried us through the Dairy, the Wash house,
the Sisters’ shop, the sewing department, the
kitchen, the church, and to the reservoir. All
of tho departments named are sustained in a
very creditable manner, being performed ex
clusively by tho Shaker ladie3. We met and
conversed with Lucinda M. Broomley, who was
bom in Wayne county, Tennessee, and who
superintends the making of preserves and wine,
and Mary McComb in the Sisters’ shop, whoso
father owned the original tract of land in tho
South Union s-.-ttlement, and who is now halo
and hearty in her seventy-sixth year. We met,
also in this department, Prudence Houston,
aged sixty-six years, whose father a Presbyte-
riah Preacher, reached tho ago of 95, and who
was a near relative of the lato Gen. Sam. Hous
ton, of Texas. She is a remarkably well-pre
served lady, with an eye like an eagle’s. In the
Sisters’ shop beautiful bonnets are made, and
sewing silk and silk handkercMefs are manufac
tured.
Tho Dairy is the very perfection of a place
for keeping milk cool, and butter fresh. Wo
saw about one hundred vessels of rich milk and
a large supply of golden-hued butter—enough
to make an appetite for the dullest plate.
The big well is located in the North House
yard, sixty-five feet deep, and from it the pure
water is forced into the reservoir, from which
the village obtains its general supply.
The Shakers have emphatically proscribed the
eating of swine meat, believing it to be un
healthy. They eat but little meat of any kind,
indulging to a limited extent in mutton—a fact
wMch reminds ns that they have a flock of
sheep which numbers now eight hundred.
Among the notable men at Sonth Union, is
William Sangster, aged 22 years, who has dis
tinguished himself as an inventor. He has
secured a number of patents, all of which he
has sold to capitalists at comparatively small
prices.
SHAKER HOSPITALITY.
And now, in conclusion, let ns recur to tho
hospitality which we enjoyed during the day
and a half we spent among the Shakers. That
hospitality wa3 fresh, liberal and sincero, and
while enjoying it, wa were lastingly impressed
with the many noble traits wMch characterize
tMs peculiar people. They are free from guile,
straightforward, and earnest in all they do and
say. Andthe good humor that seemed to uni
versally prevail among them convinced us that
no people on earth are guided by a purer sense
of duty and principle than the Shakers. May
Heaven bless them always, and prosperity ever
brighten their lot. Wo returned to Bowling
Green Monday evening on tho train, bearing
with as hearts of gratitnde for many kindnesses
that had been bestowed npon ns by Shaker
hands.
WOSBEBFUL EScW'
A liccomotlve Fireman Falls f r .
Covered JU)com«ve° «*•!*
From the Kansas City Bulletin]
A fireman in the employ of the AT.v
cific railroad had a most remarkable '^ 05ri Pt. I
Thursday last. The night train duo £5?“ I
at 10:35 p. m., left Independence
usual, and ran facing the terrible SLi^.Qnt
and wind, that made the train %
coated with a coat of glass. ThobeahV
wind and snow against tho headlieV s.f 0,ti »
-what obscured the light ahead render;
possible to see farther ahead than nf 611 M
at a time. At the top of the steen ^
three miles west of Independence
shutoff steam, so as to not make tL 61 ®* 58
speed down tho bluffs to the Missouri h
tom Going down grade is the time cWf
the fireman to go ont ahead and ponr« n®
tallow into two brass cup3 upon I
chests.” The steam being shutoff tbaf; 515 1
opened the ice-covered cab door
“tallow can” in ono hand, and clinrin^H S*
frosty hand-rail with the other, he ran on*^
the “running-board,” - - n ont w 1
* ‘steam-chest” to the ‘ ‘bumper,” and was r
round tho other side of the < * WBSl
Ms footing, slipped upon the glassy sow*,
fell. With instinctive forethought ha o® 61
Mmself forward towards the smoke liar
caught at the headlight bracket, bnt !
had made them too slippery to hold bv n
missed Ms hold and fell through the snI«S # '
tween the bumper and the smoke-box. pZ -
nately he fell npon a bar of the front taS"
upon which Ms leg caught. In attempt^?
secure a better hold ho fell upon his siSk-
left nrm resting upon the revolving aieUf.i
truck wheel. Here in this perilous
driving ahead at the rate of tMrty miles ^
hour, tho unfortunate boy hung on bliJS
with the sleet, cMlled to the skin, .
neer, thinking the fireman required mors
tho usual time to tallow on account of p -
The Telegraph and Messenger as an Adver
tising Medium.—Messrs. Clements & Co., of
Baltimore, in notifying ns of the payment of a
draft npon them add: “It is almost two years
since we commenced nsing your columns in ad
vocating the claims of “Rosadalis,” and our
sales in your district prove to our minds the
value of your paper as an advertising medium. ”
We are satisfied every advertiser in the*TELE-
obaph would say the same. In the range of our
circulation, whioh covers a large part of the
■State of Georgia, the Eastern frontier of Ala
bama and portions of Florida, we can confi
dently assert that we never knew an advertising
medium to be compared with it either in the
universality of its circulation among the people
or the eagerness with wMch it is consnlted as a
source of new3 and information.
Death of Mrs.'Whittle.—Macon society has
sustained a severe blow in the death of Mrs. L.
N. WMttle, an accomplished and kind hearted
lady, whose genial and elegant hospitality for
many years has poweifully contributed to tho
social attractions and enjoyments of the place.
She was a lady of rare personal and mental en
dowments, and added to these all the virtues
which can adom and illustrate the wife and
mother. We deeply sympathise with the afflict
ed household under this irreparable calamity.
Mrs. Whittle died last Friday, after a protracted
illness, and we learn will be buried this after
noon. The heartfelt sympatMes of onr whole
community go with the bereaved.
Good Words for February continues a new
tale by Edwards, under the title of the Sylves-
tres—the Second Paper npon the Coolie; Coral
and Coral Beefs, by Prof. Huxley—Part second
of Hawthorne's First Impressions of France and
Italy;—the German Miners; the Dressmakers
and other papers make np an attractive number.
J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia. , "
paid no attention to the fact of his “partn?
absence from Ms seat. But becoming alarms L
he wMstled down-brakes, and ran ont toart-l
the fireman. He was found nearly frozen f
bnt had suffered no other serious injury. '
Supreme Court of GeorgU-Januatj I
Term, 1S71. ' 1
Wednesday, February l, 187l
Argument in case No. 17, Southwestern Cj I
cuit—Cohen vs. Cohen & Co. et al.—was res*-'
edand concluded. General Morgan and It
Anderson for plaintiffs in error, Judge Jacisc
for defendants in error. i
Nos. 8 and 10 having been transferred to tb
heel of the Circuit, No. 8 was next called. I :
is Snelling vs. Bryce & Co.—Attachment fro-
Sumter. It was argued for plaintiff in error h
Judge Lyon, and for defendant in error by M-
Anderson. 1
No. 10, Southwestern Circuit—Darley, L...
iff, vs. Thomas—was argued fer plaintiff b I
error by J udge Lyon, and for defendant inesz
by Mr. Anderson.
A motion was then mado by Mr. Anderson a
take np the ease of Cubbedge & Razlehnrst-
Adams—injunctionfromBibb. JudgeJackso;
counsel for defendant in error, was present, ci
consented, but members of the bar from fel
Patanla Circuit, objec.ting to the motion forth
reason that Terrell Superior Court commence! I
next Monday, the Court overruled the motion, I
and set down the case for a hearing at the heei j
of the Pataula Circuit.
. The first case on the docket from the Pataah I
Circuit—Vanover vs. Tomer—continued from
the last term, was called and argued forplaintif
in error by Col. A. Hood and Gem Morgan, ini
for defendant in error by Judge K. H. Chile.
Pending argument in Cherry et al. vs. De
bar, a continued case from Terrell connty, tie |
Court adjourned till 10 a. m. to-morrow.
{Era, 24
Abont Nutmegs.
Authors are not agreed, says a writer in in 1
English magazine, as to whether nutmegs and
mace were known to the ancient Greeks aid [
Romans; some being of the opinion that tie
fragrant fruit called koomacon by Theophmta; I
used for maMng unguents, and said to be ob
tained from the Arabians, was really the nut
meg. Pliny, again, speaks of a juice eipressel [
from tMs fruit; a description of which is con
sidered by some to refer to the oil of the not-1
meg. It would seem that the first unequivoo!
reference to mace and nutmegs occurs in ite
works of Avicenna. The nutmeg tree is am-
tive of the Banda Isles; it attains a height of i’
to 25 feet, having a general similarity of sp-
pearanco to a pear tree. Not only are the mi
megs and mace MgMy aromatic, bnt also tie |
leaves of the nutmeg tree.
The Dutch, adopting tho lestrictiva pbficj i
they considered most advantageous to theircom-
mercial interests, endeavored to confine tk
growth of nutmegs to three of the Banda Isles,
viz: Santoir or Banda proper, Banda-Keira, and
Way (Polo-ay); but a pigeon, called locally the I
nutmeg-bird or nutmeg-eater, helped to fins-1
trate this policy. English occupation of tla r
Molucca Islands from 1796 to 1S02, and agth
from 1S10 to 1814, completed what the MMi I
began. They exported young nutmeg plants to I
Beneoolen in Sumatra, to Penang, India, ad I
other places. In 1819 a nutmeg tree having I
been sent from Beneoolen to Sumatra, it piss-1
pered, and formed the commencement of a non I
large cultivation. So resolutely bent were ill
Dutch on keeping up the price of the spice, tit I
when the nutmeg crop was abundant they use I
to burn large quantities. _ _ |
Each nutmeg is closely enveloped in its pet-1
eriDg of mace, and the wholo contained isM
large fleshy mass or pericarp. Nutmegs ik I
especially liable to attack from an insect, whia,
however, only begins its ravages while the fp
is yet nndried. It is a great object, thereto, I
to complete the desiccation as-soon as possto I
wMch is effected by smoke-drying over a wa. |
fire for a period of about two months. ulM
thoroughly dried the nuts rattle in their shift f
which are then cracked with wooden md.^
and tho worm-eaten and shrivelled nnts throvt j
aside.
Sadness in tbe Household of Mr.Isa»< j
Solomons—He is struck with Grid I
and Talks to his Family Physician- [
Mr. Isaac Solomons lives in East BroadriJ-
He sells feathers. He is five feet high andt*®-
ty-four years old. He has been married
years. A year ago he had three children.
months Ms devoted wife presented him with ad
ditional pledges of her affection in the
two bouncing boys. Although a man of b '
erate means, Mr. Solomons was overjoyed- d-'
feather business was good, and bright prosp«
appeare d in the future. Cheerfulness was
Solomon’s companion, and contentment -
smiling upon Ms hearthstone until S a I lr “ '11
last. Oa tho afternoon of that day Mr. So:to® l
was observed chatting merrily with a neig * I
in front of Ms residence. He was_ snad ) I
called away. Soon afterward the neighbors
tered Mr. Solomon’s happy home. B 0 .<,, [
that contentment had sailed away
hearthstone, and that anger instead ot cn ”
fuMess was Mr. Solomons’ companion, i 0 ,
voted wife had presented Mm with ad<n“
pledges of her affection in the form o-
bouncing girls. Mr. Solomons looked npo.-
dispensation from a far different stan P “
from the one he occupied eleven momw
The feather business was bad, ana da P.
pects appeared in the future. Mr. do r
dissatisfaction, despite the presence ot ~
gers, was expressed in an unmistikamemw^;
He gave full vent to hi3 wrath. I
tumult and sadness had usurped the tn -, I
quietude, peace and joy. Mr. Solomons I
not be comforted. Suddenly turning to ms I
ily physician, he said: . I
“Ov you bleeze, doctor, itish
sehtopbeboottodosedings. Vunbair of I
I dinks is oiler riot, but more as dot isn
owit, don’t it. Dot’s vots de matter nm * |
You know how it ish myself.—K. T. aun.
A oorresfondent of the Springfield
can says that the discovery of an Inman ^
in a state of petrification in the
Tomer’s Falls, has caused a wonaenm ^
ment in Greenfield. It has been visited t
American house by more than 2,000 V e0 J‘ff£.
was found by a hunting party with a dog, ■
drove a rabbit under a deposit of the
verized shale, wMch abounds in tnat 6^
On digging this away, the back and an “".tj
body were revealed. After the first p
surprise, the dog was driven off, an “'tv, rot-
hour or so of careful labor in removing
ten and decomposed stone, the body®** j
out, and with the exception of broken
is quite perfect. The imprint of the arms ^
the chest as it lay on its face are
seen in the plastic mud now turned w
At first it was thought it might b« ^
diff—a young John Henry—;but thela:» jjj
more soientiflo examinations indicate tns
genuine human petrification. - *
A young lady who prided herself on 0 ^
ography, seeing a candle adant, rema * ^ ^
it reminded he* ot the “Leaning ^T 0 .0
Pisa.’” “Yes,” responded a wag, w Suit
difference, that is a tower in ltd,'
tower in grease.
