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The Missing Link.
[e roamed the forest tree, _
(Vith a prond nntrammolied air,
[e bnilt a nest on the palm tree s crest,
And dwelt a master there,
be monarch of all the earth,
The lord of wood and plain,
he lion fled when his angry tread
Shook tho earth with proud disdain.
[e diced on elephant, did
This cy-no-ceph-a-lus,
nd rhinoceros, and the nver horse,
And the bip-po-pot-a-mns.
[rawny of limb was be,
Vet supple and agile,
in rock or tree his arms were free,
For his toes were prehensile.
et doth the monarch sigh
As ho paces up and down,
r'd soliloquize with downcast eyes
And a highly regal frown.
lid is the royal heart,
Woanded the royal pride,
or the lords of state say the king shall mate
With a JiMego Mbouve bride.
'Whatmarry a subject! I
E«poase a chimpanzee!
[o. I m not a Guelph if I know myself,
So mesalliance for me!
'ensh my royal blood,
Perish the princely line,
Ire I desecrate, with a vulgar mate,
This linengo of mine.”
he monarch paused, transfixed,
Vanished his growing wrath,
®1 bright snrprise beamed in bis eyes
As ho gazed down the forest path,
vision of beauty, such
As by Simian eye, before,
Ltd never been seen in the woodland green,
Or been known to Simian lore.
i maiden young and fair
As the charcoal’s ebon tint,
Vith teeth as white a3 cowries bright
From tho Royal Congo mint,
hr locks of a crispy cnrl,
Her foot of a mammoth size,
llmado her seem a bewitching dream
To the fond gorilla’s eyes.
a high o’erarching limb
He swung by his sinewy arms,
nd dangling there, ’twixt earth and air,
Gazed on her dusty charms.
N’ow, by my kingly troth,
This maid shall be, I think,
[y royal bride, and supply beside
Air. Darwin’s missing link.”
,e thoughtless ebon maid,
Saspicionless of guile,
'o the trunk strayed, and beneath its shade,
Tarried in thought awhile.
'hen tho monarch spake his love
As he swung by the lofty limb;
Ie wac gifted, they say, with a taking away,
For the lady smiled on him.
ie pats her curly locks,
With his great prehensile toes
at wined in her wool—a vigorous pull—
A shriek—and up she goes 2
has was the monarch wed,
And thus the race began,
(hence through various links, somewhat strange,
methink9,
Came the ‘’Descent of Man!”
HIGGLES.
BY BBET HAUTE.
We were eight, including the driver. We had
it spoken during the passage of the last six
“lies, since the jolting of the heavy vehicle over
roughening road had spoiled the Judge’s
poetical quotation. The tall man beside
Jsdge was asleep, his arm passed through
te swaying strap, his head resting upon it,—
tether a limp, helpless-looking object, as if
had hanged himself and been ent down too
tie. The Froneh lady on the back seat was
^p, too, yet in a half-conscious propriety of
ttiisde, shown even in the disposition of tho
iadkerchief which she held io her forehead
which partially veiled her face. Tho lady
ran Virginia City, traveling with her husband,
id long since lost all individnaHty in a wild
itfaion of ribbons, veils, furs, aud shawls.
k«e was no sonnd but the rattling of wheels
'd the dash of rain upon tho roof. Suddenly
-stage stopped and we became dimly aware
t voices. The driver was evidently in tho midst
4 *Q exciting colloquy with some one in tho
’£d—a colloquy of which such fragments as
uridga gone,” “twenty feet of water,” “can’t
la -'' were occasionally distinguishable above
•6 storm. Then came a lull, and a mysterious
from tho road scouted the parting adjura-
Jy Higgles."
»c caught a glimpse of our leaders os the
Hole slowly turned, of a horseman vanishing
Plough the rain, and we were evidently on our
■*? to Miggles’s.
" ho and where wa3 Higgles ? The Judge,
tr authority, did not remember the name, and
e knew the country thoroughly. The Washoe
jweller thought Higgles must keep a hotel.
'* only knew that wo were stopped by high
Jter in front and rear, and that Miggles was
tu rock of refnge. A ten minutes’ splashing
“ough a tangled by-road, scarcely wide enough
w the stage, and we drew up before a barred
*o bearded gate in a wide stone waU or fence
^ut eight feet high. Evidently Miggles’s,
•^oviflently Miggles did not keep a hotel
fte driver got down and tried the gate. It
^securely locked.
H'ggle! O, Miggles!”
answer.
oligg-ells! Yon Miggles!” continued the
with rising wrath.
wgglesy!’’ joined in the expressman, per-
“*iTely. “OMiggy! Mig!”
joot no reply came from tho apparently in-
raate Higgles. Tho Judge, who had finally
•(the window down, put his head outandpro-
J’ttaed a series of questions, which, if an-
‘«Wd categorically, would have undoubtedly
pasted the whole mystery, but which the
•rcr ovaded by replying that “if we didn’t
!. to s *t >u tho coach ail night, wehaabetter
op and sing ont for Miggles.”
-7° we rose up and called on Miggles in cho-
, • then separately. And when ho had fin-
y .; u > * Hibernian feUow-passenger from tho
4 for “Maygella!” whereat we all
^Vkilo we were laughing the driver
^‘‘Skoo!”
. ® listened; to onr infinite amazement the
jJds of “MiggleR” was repeated from the
of the wall, even to the final and sup-
“Maygella."
opfjttordinary echo,” said the Judge.
,“itraordinarily d—d skunk!" roared the
i *. r oontemptuously. “Como out of that,
‘wes, and show yourself! Beaman, Mig-
5 ' Don’t hide in the dark; I wouldn’t if I
J°Wj Miggles,” continued Yaba Bill, now
about in an excess of fary.
•“SgWBl" continued the voioe, “0 Miggles ?”
“My good man! Mr. Myghail!” said the
Judge, softening the asperities of the name as
much as possible. “Consider the inhospitality
of refusing shelter from the inclemency of the
weather to helpless females. ReaUy, my dear
sir—” But a succession of “Miggles,” ending
in abnrst of laughter drowned his voice.
Yuba Bill hesitated no longer. Taking aheavy
stone from tho road, he battered down the gate,
and with the expressman entered the enclosure.
We followed. Nobody was to be seen. In the
gathering darkness alHhat wo could distinguish
was that wo were in a garden—from the rose
bushes that scattered over us a minute spray
from their dripping leaves—and before a long,
rambling wooden building.
Do yon know this Miggles?" asked the
Judge of Yuba Bill.
“No, nor don’t want to,” said BiU, shortly,
who felt the Pioneer Stage Company insulted
in his person by tho contumacious Miggles.
“Bnt, my dear sir,” expostulated the Judge,
as be thought of the barred gate.
‘ ‘Lookee here,” said Yuba Bill, with fine irony,
‘hadn’t yon better go back and sit in the coach
tillyer introduced? I’m going in." And he
pushed open the door of the building.
A long room, lighted only by the embers of a
fire that was dying on the large hearth at its
further extremity; the walls curiously papered,
and the flickering firelight bringing out its gro
tesque pattern; somebody sitting in the large
arm-chair by the fireplace. All this we saw as
we crowded together into the room, after the
driver and expressman.
“HeUo, be you Miggles?” said Ynba BiU to
tho solitary occupant.
The figure neither spoke nor stirred. Ynba
Bill walked wrathfully toward it, and turned
the coach-lantern upon its face. It was a man’s
face, prematurely old and wrinkled, with very
large eyes, in which there was that expression
of perfectly gratuitous solemnity which I had
sometimes seen in tho owl’s. The large eyes
wandered from Bill’s to the lantern, and finaUy
fixed their gaze on that luminous object, with
out further recognition.
Bill restrained himself with an effort.
“Miggles! Be yon deaf? Yon ain’t dumb
anyhow, you knowand Yuba Bill shook the
insensate figure by the shoulder.
To our great dismay, as BiU removed his
hand, the venerable stranger apparently col
lapsed—sinking into half his size and an undis-
tinguishable heap of clothing.
“Well, dem my skin,” said BiU, looking ap
pealingly at ns, and hopelessly retiring from
the contest.
The Jadge now stepped forward, and we
lifted the mysterious invertebrate back into his
original position. BiU was dismissed with the
lantern to reconnoitre outside, for it was evi
dent that from the helplessness of this solitary
man there most be attendants near at hand, and
we aU drew around the fire. The Judge, who
had regained his authority, and had never lost
his conversational amiabUity—standing before
ns with his back to the hearth—charged us, as
an imaginary jury, as foUowa:—
“It is evident that either our distinguished
friend here has reached that condition de
scribed by Shakespeare as the ‘sere and yeUow
leaf,’ or has suffered some premature abatement
of the mental and physical faculties. Whether
he is reaUy the Miggles—”
Here he was interrupted by “Miggles! O
Miggles! Migglesy! Mig!” and, in fact, the
whole chores of Migglc-s in very much the same
key as it had once before bean delivered unto
ns?
We gazed at each other for a moment in some
alarm. The Judge, in particular, vacated his
position quickly, as tho voice seemed to come
directly over his shoulder. The cause, however,
was soon discovered in a large magpie, who was
perched npon a shelf over the fireplace, and
who immediately relapsed into a sepulchral
silence, which contrasted singularly with his
previous volubiUty. It was, undoubtedly, his
voice which he had heard in the rood, and our
friend in the chair was not responsible for the
discourtesy. Yuba BiU, who re-entered the
room after an unsuccessful search, was loath to
accept the explanation, and stiU eyed the help
less sitter with suspicion. He had found a shed
n which he had put up his horses, bat he came
back dripping and sceptical “Thar ain’t no
body but him within ten mile of the shanty, and
that ’ar d—d old skeesioks knows it.”
But the faith of tho majority proved to be se
curely based. BiU had scarcely ceased growl
ing before we heard a quick step upon tho
porch, the trailing of a wet skirt, the door was
flung open, and with a flash of white teeth, a
sparkle of daTk eyes, and an utter absence of
ceremony or diffidence, a young woman entered,
shut tho door, and, panting, leaned back against
it.
* O, if you please, I’m Miggles!
And this was Miggles! this bright-eyed, full-
throated young woman, whoso wet gown of
coarse bine stuff could not hide tho beauty of
the feminine curves to which it clung; from the
chestnut crown of whose head, topped by a
man’s oil-skin sou’wester, to the Uttle feet and
ankles, hidden somewhere in tho recesses of her
boy'8 brogans, all was grace; thi3 was Miggles,
laughing at us, too, in the most airy, frank, off
hand manner imaginable.
‘You see, boyB,’ said she, quite out of breath,
and holding one little hand against her side,
quite unheeding the speechless discomfiture of
our party, or the complete demoraUzation of
Yuba Bill, whose features had relaxed into an
expression of gratuitous and imbecile cheerful
ness—‘you see, boys, I was more’n two miles
away when you passed down the road. I thought
you might pull up here, and so I ran the whole
way, knowing nobody wa3 at home bnt Jim—and
—and—I’m ont of breath—and—that lets me
cut.’
And here Miggles caught her dripping oilskin
hat from her head, with a mischievous swirl
that scattered a shower of rain-drops over us; at
tempted to put back her hair; dropped two hair
pin3 in the attempt; laughed and set down be
side Yuba Bill, with her hands crossed lightly
in her lap.
The Jndge recovered himself first, and essayed
an extravagant compUment.
‘I’ll trouble you for that thar har-pia,’ said
Miggles, gravely. Half o dovon hands were
eagerly stretched forward; tho missing hair-pin
was restored to its fair owner; and Miggles,
crossing the room, looked keenly in the face of
the invaUd. The solemn eyes looked back at
hers with an expression we had never seen be
fore. Life and intelligence seemed to struggle
back into the rugged face. Miggles laughed
again—it wa3 a singularly eloquent laugh—and
turned her black eyes and white teeth onee more
toward ns#
“This afflicted person is —’ hesitated the
Judge.
“Jim,” said Miggles.
“Your father?”
“No.”
“Brother ?”
“No.”-
“Husband?’
Miggles darted a quick, half-defiant glance at
the two ladv passengers, who, I had noticed,
did not participate in the general masculine ad
miration of Higgles, and said, gravely, “No, it t
Jim.”
There was an awkward pause. Tho lady pas
sengers moved closer to each other; the Washoe
husband looked pbstractedly at the fire; ana
the tall man apparently turned his eyes inward
for self support at this emergency. But Hig
gles’ laugh, which was very infectious, broke
tho eUcnce. “Come," she said, briskly, “you
must bo hungry. Who’ll bear a hand to help
me get tea?” . . _
She had no lack of volunteers. In a few mo
ments Yuba BUI was engaged like Caliban in
bearinglog3for his Miranda; the expressman
was Grinding coffee on the verandah; to myself
the arduoas duty of slicing bacon was assigned;
and tho Judge lent each man hi3 good-humored
and voluble counsel. And when Higgles, as
sisted by the Judge and our Hibernian “deck-
passenger,” set tho table with ail tho available
crockery, wo had became quite joyous, in spite
pf tho rain that beat against the windows, the
wind that whirled down the ohimney, the two
ladies who whispered together in the corner, or
the magpie who ntloredta satirical and croaking
commentary on their conversation, from his
perch above, ^atije now bright, blazing fire
we could see that the walls were papered with
iUustrated journals, arranged with feminine
taste and discrimination. The furniture was
extemporized, and adapted from candle boxes
and packing-cases, and covered with gay calico,
or the skin of some animal. The arm-chair of
the helpless Jim was an ingenious variation of
a flour barrel. There was neatness, and even a
taste for the picturesque, to be seen in the few
details of the long, low room.
The meal was a culinary success. But more,
it was a social triumph—chiefly, I think, owing
to the rare tact of Higgles in guiding the con
versation, asking aU the questions herself, yet
bearing throughout a frankness that rejected
the idea of any concealment on her own part,
so that we talked of ourselves, of onr prospects
of the journey, of the weather, of each other—
of everything bnt onr host and hostess. I must
be confessed that Higgles’ conversation was
never elegant, rarely grammatical, and that at
times she employed expletives, the nse of which
had generally been yielded to our sex. But
they were deUvered with such a lighting np of
teeth and eyes, and were nsnaUy foUowed by a
laugh—a laugh peculiar to Miggles—so frank
and honest that it seemed to cloar the moral at
mosphere.
Once, daring the meal, we heard a noise Uke
the robbing of a heavy body against the outer
walls of the house. This was shortly foUowed
by a scratching and sniffling at the door. ‘That’s
Joaquin,’ said Miggles, in reply to our question
ing glances; ‘would you like to see him ?” Be
fore we could answer she had opened the door,
and disclosed a half grown grizzly, who instantly-
raised himself on his haunches, with his fore
paws hanging down in the popular attitude of
mendicacy, and looked admiringly at Miggles,
with a very singular resemblanoe in his manner
to Yuba Bfll “That’s my watch-dog,” said
Miggles in explanation. “0, he don’t bite,”
she added, as the two lady passengers fluttered
into a comer. “Does he, old Toppy?” (the
latter remark being addressed directly to the
sagacious Joaquin.) “I teU you what, boys,”
continued Higgles, after she had fed and closed
tho door on UrsaMinor, “you were in bigluck
that Joaquin wasn’t hanging round when yon
dropped in to-night.”
“Where was he ?” asked tho Judge.
“With me,” said Miggles. “Lord love you;
he trots round with me nights like as if he was
a man.”
We were silent for a few moments, and lis
tened to tho wind. Perhaps we aU had the same
picture before us—of Miggles walking through
the rainy woods, with her savage guardian at
her side. The Judge, I remember, said some
thing abont Una and her Uon; but Miggles re
ceived it as she did other compliments, with
quiet gravity. Whether she was altogether un
conscious of the admiration she excited—she
could hardly havo been oblivious of Yuba BiU’s
adoration—I know not; but her very frankness
suggested a perfect sexual equality that was
humiliating to the younger members of our
party.
The incident of tho bear did not add arv-
thing in Higgles’ favor to the opinions of those
of her own sex who were present. In faot, tho
repast over, a chiUiness radiated from the two
lady passengers that no pine boughs brought in
by Ynba BiU and cast as a sacrifice upon the
hearth could wholly overcome, Miggles felt it;
and suddenly declaring that it was time to “turn
in," offered to show the ladies to their bed in an
adjoining room. “Yon, boys, wiU have to camp
out hero by the fire as weU as yon can,” she
added, “for thar ain’tbnt one room.”
Our sex—by which, my dear sir, I aUude, of
course, to the stronger portion of humanity—
has been generaUy reUeved from tho imputa
tion of curiosity, or a fondness for gossip. Yet
I am constrained to say, that hardly had the
door been closed on Miggles than we orowded
together, whispering, snickering, smiling and
exchanging suspicions, surmises, and a thou
sand speculations in regard to onr pretty host
ess and her singular companion. I fear that we
even hustled that imbecile paralytic, who sat
Uke a voiceless Memnon in our midst, gazing
with the serene indifference of the past in his
passionless eyes upon our wordy counsels. In
the midst of an exciting discussion the door
opened again, and Miggles re-entered.
But not apparently, tho same Miggles who a
few honrs before had flashed upon ns. Her
eyes were downcast, and as Ehe hesitated for a
moment on the threshold, with a blanket on her
arm, she seemed to have left behind her the
frank fearlessness which had charmed us a mo
ment before. Coming into the room, she drew
a low stool beside the paralytic’s chair, sat down
drew the blanket over her shoulders, and saying,
“If it’s all the same to you, boys, as we're rather
crowded, I’U stop here to-night,” took the in
valid’s withered hand in her own, and turned
her eyes npon the dying fire. An instinctive
feeling that this was only premonitory to more
confidential relations, and perhaps some shame
at onr previous curiosity, kept ns silent. The
rain still beat upon the roof, wandering gusts o
wind stirred the embers into momentary bright
ness. until in a lull of the elements, Miggles
suddenly lifted up her head, and, throwing her
hair over her shonlder, turned her face upon
the group and asked:
“Is there any of you that knows me?”
There was no reply.
“Thinkagain! I Uved at MarysviUe in '03.
Everybody knew me there, and everybody had
the right to know me. I kept the Polka Saloon
until I came to Uve with Jim. That’s six years
ago. Perhaps I’ve changed some.”
lie absence of recognition may have discon
certed her. She fumed her head to the fire
again, and it was some seconds before she again
spoke, and then more rapidly:
‘WeU, you see I thought some of yon must
have known me. There’s no great harm done,
any way. What I was a going to say was this:
Jim here’—she took his hand in both of hers as
she spoke—* used to know me, if you didn’t,
and spent a heap of money upon me. Beckon
he spent all he had. And one day—it’s six years
ago this winter—Jim came into my back room,
sat down on my sofy, as you see him in that
ebair, and never moved again withont help. He
was struck all of a heap, and never asemra to
know what ailed him. The doctors came and
said as it was caused aU along of his way of
life—for Jim was mity free and wild Uke—and
that he'd never get better, and couldn’t last long
any way. They advised me to send him to
Frisco to the hospital, for he was no good to any
one and would be a baby all his life. Perhaps
it was something in Jim’s eye, perhaps it was
that I had never had a baby, but I said “ No.”
I was rich then, for I was popular with every
body—gentlemen like yourself, sir, came to see
me—and I sold ont my business and bought this
yer place, because it was sort of out of the way
of travel, you see, and I brought my baby here.’
With a woman’s intuitive tact and poetry, she
had, as she spoke, slowly shifted her position so
as to bring the mute figure of the ruined man
between her and her audienoe, hiding in the
shadow behind it, as if she offered it as a taoit
apology for her actions. Silent and expression
less, it yet spoke for her; helpless, and crashed,
and smitten with the Divine thunderbolt, it stiU
stretched an invisible arm around her.
Hidden in the darkness, bnt stiU holding his
hand, she went on s
“It was a long time before I could get the
hang of things around yer, for I was used to
company and excitement. I couldn’t get any wo
man to help me, and a man I dursent trust; but
what with the Indians hereabouts, who would
do odd jobs for me, and having everything sent
from the North Fork, Jim and I manage to wor
ry through. The Doctor would run up from
Sacramento once in' a while. He would ask to
see ‘Higgles’ baby,’as he called Jim, and when
he’d go away, he’d say, “Miggles you’re trump,
God bless yon; and it didn’t seem so lonely af
ter that. Bnt the last time he was here he said,
as he opened the door to go, Do you know,
Maggies, your baby will grow up to be a man
yet and an honor to his mother; bnt not here,
Miggles, not here! ” And I thought he went away
sad—and—and here Higgles’ voice and head
were somehow both lost completely in the shade.
“The folks about here are very kind,” said
fTtggiM. after a pause, coming a Uttle into the
Ugbt again. “The men from the fork used to
flung around here, until they found they wasn’t
-wanted, and the women are kind—and don’t
calL I was pretty lonely until I picked np Joa
quin in the woods yonder one day, when he
wasn’t bo high, and taught him to beg for his
dinner; and then that’s Polly—that’s the mag
pie—she knows no end of tricks, and makes it
quite sociable of evenings with her talk, and: so
I don’t feel like as I was the only living being
about the ranche. And Jim here,” said Higgles,
with her old laugh again, aud coming out quite
into the fire light, “Jim—why, boys, you wonld
admire to see how muoh he knows, for a man
like him. Sometimes I bring him flowers, and
he looks at ’em just as natural as if he knew
’em ; and times, when we’re sitting alone, I
read him those things on the wall. Why
Lord!” saidMiggleswithherfrasklaugfa, “I’ve
read him that whole side of the house this win
ter. There never was such a man for reading
as Jim.”-’- - ‘ •
“Why,” asked the Judge, “do you not marry
this man to whom you have devoted your youth
ful tife?”
“Well, you see,” said Miggles, “it would be
playing it rather low down on Jim, to take ad
vantage of his being so helpless. And then,
too, if we were man and. wife, we’d both know
that I was bound to do what I do now of my
own accord.”
“But you are young yot and attractive—.”
“It’s getting late,” said Miggles, gravely,
“and you’d better all turn in. Good night,
boys s” and throwing the blanket over her head,
Miggles laid herself down beside Jim's chair,
her head pillowed on the lew stool that held his
feet, and spoke no more. The fire slowly faded
from the health; we each sought our blankets
in silence; and presently there was no sonnd in
the long room but the pattering of the rain upon
the roof, and the heavy breathing of the sleep
ers.
It was nearly morning when I awoke from a
troubled dream. The storm had passed, the
stars were shining, and through the shutterless
window the fall moon, lifting itself over the
solemn pines without looked into the room. It
touched tho lonely figure in the chair with an
infinite compassion and seemed to baptize with
a shining flood, the lowly head of the woman,
whoso hair, as in the sweet old Btory, bathed vei9a
the feet of him she loved. It even lent a kindly
poetry to the rugged outline of Yuba Bill, half
reclining on his elbow between them and his
passengers, with savagely patient eyes keeping
watch and ward. And then I fell asleep and
only woke at broad day, with Yuba Bill standing
over me, and “AR aboard,” ringing in my ears.
Coffee was waiting for us on the table, but
Miggles was gone. We wandered about tho
house and lingered long after the horses were
harnesses, but Bhe did not return. It was evi
dent that she wished to avoid a formal leave-
taking, and had so left ns to depart as we had
come. After we had helped the ladies into the
coach, we returned to tho house and solemnly
shook hand3 with the paralytic Jim as solemnly
settling him back into position after each hand
shake. Then we looked, for tho last time,
around the long, low, room, at the stool where
Higgles had sat, and slowly took our seats in
tho waiting coach. The whip cracked and we
were off!
But as wo reached the high road, Bill's dex
terous hand laid the six horses back on their
haunches, and the stage stopped with a jerk.—
For there on a little eminenoo beside tho road,
stood Higgles, her hair flying, her eye3 spark
ling, her white handkerchief waving, and her
white teeth flashing a last good bye. We waved
our hats in return. And then Yuba Bill, as if
fearful of another fascination, madly lashed his
horses forward, and wo sank back in our seats.
Wo exchanged not a word until we reached the
North Fork, and the stage drew up at tho In
dependence House. Then the Judge leading
the way we walked into the bar-room, and took
our places gravely at the bar.
Are your glasses charged gentlemen ? said the
Judge, solemnly taking off his white hat.
They were.
Well, then, here’s to Higgles, God bless eee !
Perhaps he did. Who knows ?
BEAR BLEATING IN MONTEREY.
Exciting Enconnter With a Female Griz
zly.
While at Monterey last week, says the Castro-
ville Argus, we met Ed. Logwood, and were fur
nished by him with the following particulars of
an enconnter that he and his brother Joseph had
with a female grizzly bear abont three weeks
ago. The locality where it took place is in the
mountains, about thirty miles south of Monte
rey, in what is known as the “Fresno” district,
beyond the head of Carmel Valley. The grizzly
had killed a cow of Ed’s., one night, within
abont three hundred yards of the house, and
dragged the carcass into a dry creek bed, where
it was found the second day after. The night
following Joseph took his station in a tree close
by to watch for the bear, and during the night
got a shot at it, only succeeding, however, in
breaking one of its forelegs. Next morning both
brothers started out on horseback, and followed
the trail of blood from the wounded limb about
a mile up the ravine, at whioh point a grizzly cub
about four months old rushed out of the brush,
and was despatched forthwith.
A very short distance beyond Ed., being in
the advance, discovered the enemy, who gain
ing sight of her human foes only about thirty
feet off, immediately made a furious charge
upon them. Ed. pulled the first trigger of his
doublebarreled shot gun, but the gun snapped
and by the time he could firo the other barrel,
the bear was rearing np in the face of his mare.
The latter made a fearful bound to one side, di
verting Ed.’s aim, so that though the bear was
blinded by the flash and smoke, the balls with
which the gun was loaded only hit her in one
of her hind feet. The jump of the mare threw
her rider jpst as he fired right in front of the
now thoroughly infuriated hear, which, luckily,
blinded and bewildered by tho explosion and
being under full headway, ran right over him
at Joe who was close behind. Ho turned his
horse as Bhe came and stunned her with a pistol
shot, but not before she tore off the hind part
of his saddle with one stroke of her sound
forepaw, and by a charge completely demoral-
IzqcL hia hors©, which ooon placed a reSp6CtaDl6
distance between himself and the enemy. Ed.
had by this time convinced himself that he
was not killed (although rendered very suspl-
ous that he was by the bloody smearing ho
had received as the bear rushed over him,) and
hatless, gunless and horseless, beat a retreat
instanter to join Joe on a rocks cliff about
seventy yards off, from which a view of the
wounded and prostrate foe could be had with
safety.
A council of war resulted in his starting off
afoot for reinforcements, leaving Joe as a de
tachment of cavalry to “sortof skirmish around”
and watch the enemy. Opportune reinforce
ment in the shape of a hunter with a rifle was
met about half a mile off, aud from the top of
the cliff mentioned that bear was 6oon filled
with lead enough to ^akn a cold corpus of some
rix or seven hundred pounds weight.
Ed. expresses himself as perfectly satisfied
Joe saved his life, bnt does not desire par
ticularly that Joseph shall again be called upon
to do so under like circumstances. It was cer
tainly a narrow escape and a singularly fortu
nate one for both men.
Stantch is Chattanooga.—J. G, Stanton was
in Chattanooga Saturday night, on his way to
interview Gov. Lindsay at Montgomery. The
Times says:
He has no money with which to pay the hon
est debts of the road incurred under his manage
ment, and has neither the ability nor the will
to raise any money to pay off. Yet ho had the
sublime audacity to remain in this city and to
face his former dupes, boldly proclaiming that
ho had no money, but that he would hold the
road for five years, and prevent the State of
Alabama from running it.
We rather like his cheek. We do not intend
to abuse him, because he is at this time fatally
dead, so far as his connection with the A. and
O. B. R. is concerned, and is only going abont
to savo funcrcl expenses. Ha is a very healthy
looking corpse, it is true, aud has bought him
self anew white hat, but stiU he is dead, and it
would be meaner than we are capable of being
to abuse a corpse.
[Bor the Telegraph and Messenger.
Manufactures and Agriculture—No. 2
Editors Tdegraph and Messenger : Lotus not
look for assistance from abroad, for no great
work was ever accomplished but by the efforts
of men relying upon themselves. What, then,
do we reqmze to commence this great work so
much to be desired? The power necessary to
accomplish *hia work is in the simple article of
commeroe, money. For with this capital we
can employ the brains and purchase the mus
cle to execute any enterprise. And onr people,
by the fiery energy and indomitable wiU exhib
ited by them in tho late revolution, have shown
that their talents, properly directed, are of an
order capable of achieving undertakings re
quiring the greatest human efforts. Our peo
ple, individually, are too poor to even commence
ftiia work; but that whioh cannot be accom
plished by a single or small number of indi
viduals may bo performed by a large commu
nity, aU contributing in accordance with their
circumstances in life. And this can only be
accomplished by onr representatives in legis
lative body assembled.
For the last few years it has been the desire
of one Legislature to lend the credit of the State
to the building of railroads, and for that pur
pose the State of Georgia has given her credit
to the building of various railroads in different
sections of the State. This credit has been ex
tended by the State by the endorsement of the
Bonds of said railroad companies to a certain
amount per mile, and taking a mortgage upon
tho entire property of said railroads to secure
the State in the endorsement. It is well known
by men conversant with the railroads of this
State that some of them now built and in pro
cess of construction wifl not pay the legal per
cent, npon the capital invested in them, and
eventuafly the State may be the loser to a con
siderable extent by some of these enterprises.
With the exoeption of affording a more conve
nient method of transportation through the im
mediate country which they pass, and facilita
ting travel, they do not add materially to the
wealth of the country through which they tra
verse. The carrying trade and travel of the
State of Georgia require no more railroads until
her population and wealth are sufficiently in
creased to support them.
If the State of Georgia had given the same
aid and credit to tho establishment of the man
ufactures of cotton, wool, leather, iron and
wood that she has to the construction of rail
roads no one can doubt but that the material
wealth and prosperity of our State and her peo
ple would have been greatly increased. Legis
lation might be enacted for the purpose of pur
chasing suitable localities, for the exemption
therefrom of taxation and other and farther
enactments tending to protect and develop this
great branch of industry. If the aid and credit
of the State is to be given to internal improve
ments, let it be to the manufacturing interests.
At the same time the State should be protected
from loss, and the maintaining of her credit
should be be an object of the greatest care of
the legislator.
That the various manufacturing enterprises
that might be entered into, if properly managed
wonld be abundantly enabled to pay their bonded
debt and at the same time remunerate their
stockholders, there can little doubt considering
the advantages they would possess in the cost of
transportation alone. The present small manu
facturing interest in onr State, although deficient
in many of the late labor-saving and economical
improvements, have been enabled to declare a
good interest on tho capital employed in Uiem.
There is no reason why that this proposed sys
tem of giving the State’s credit under proper
restrictions should be controlled or influenced
by any single class of men, but legislation can
be so enacted that the benefit thereof may ac
crue to onr citizens of enterprise and worth, to
the end that it may add to the wealth of the
entire State.
It has been bnt a short time since that the
integrity of onr legislative bodies was never
questioned, and enough of those men remain
now or their Bons in their stead, and sufficient
will be in our next Legislature to enact and
have executed any law tending to the welfare
of the State in an earnest and honest manner.
In this climate the labor to carry on any in
dustry should be as cheap, continuous and ef
fective as in any country. The impetus pro
posed to be given to our agricultural interest by
the general government and the continued and
increased efforts in that direotion wifl soon en
able us to raise provisions for a much larger
population; and our people are approaching a
period when we wifl raise our own supplies as
is being demonstrated in the great deorease of
the supply of provisions required from the west,
and the extremely low price of meat and bread
stuff sin that locality. _
As the larger plantations are being subdivided
we may look for more attention to be given to
the raising of supplies, and our importations
from tho West wifl necessarily be very small.
The cities and the counties in nearly every por
tion of this State, in their collective capacity,
have subscribed and paid large sums of money
for the construction of railroads, but for manu
factures they have given comparatively nothing.
For instance, the city of Macon has given to the
amount of several hundred thousand dollars to
the building of railroads and taken stock in the
sam9, which has resulted in serious loss to her;
while for tho advancement of any manufactur
ing interest in her limits she has subscribed
nothing, and is not now able to subscribe to
anything. It is now proposed to connect Macon
by rail direct with Knoxville, Tenn. While said
road, if ever bnilt, would be of advantage to
Maoon.the immense amount of mon®y necessary
to build the long and expensive hneof said
railroad might bo profitably flpont in tho
different portion® of the State along its route
than by i»a construction.
The Bnrnlng of Columbia, S. C.—Who
Did It?
A writer in the Atlanta, Gs., Plantation,
writing over the signature of “R. A. A,” says:
A few weeks ago I saw the announcement of
the sudden death of Mr. T. 8. Nickerson, the
former proprietor of Nickerson’s Hotel, at Co
lombia, S. 0., and more recently in charge of
the Sore ven House, Savannah. I saw this news
with regret, as he was a warm-hearted, amiable
and benevolent man, and his aptitude for hid
profession was remarkable. I have heard it
said that there were more men born to make
good Presidents of the United States than there
were to be good hotel-keepers. Mr. Nickerson
certainly was one. Daring the war he kept the
best house in the Confederate States, and al
though he was known to be a Unionist, yet his
uniform kindness to our soldiers made him pop*
ular. He accumulated an independent for
tune, much of which was invested in his hotel.
When Sherman was at Dalton, I happened tobe
in Columbia, and Mr. Niokerson asked me ifT
thought Sherman wonld ever reach Atlanta? I
replied “Yes.” He then said:
“ Do you think he will get to Colombia ?” I
replied: “ If he ever passes Kennesaw Moun
tain, he will sweep over the country like the
waters of a mill-dam broke loose, and the very
point he will make for will be Columbia.”
At this Mr. Nickerson looked concerned, and
he &Bked me, in a very earnest manner, what I
wonld advise him to do, in such an event.—
Said I:
“ When Sherman gets here, make friends of
the mammon of unrighteousness; place your
house, your horses, your wines, and overtiring
else that you have, at his disposal, and ask him
to proteot you. This is the only course for you
to pursue. This may savo yon; I know of no
thing else.” . .
In due time Sherman reached Colombia; the
city was sacked and burned, and Nickerson, like
everybody else, lost all he had. After the snr-
render, at Charlotte, I was returning home, and
massing through Columbia, called on Nickerson.
He was living in a small house on the outskirts
of what was once the city. He looked haggard,
and I may almost say despairing. After bidding
me welcome, he said:
“Well, Colonel, I took your advice. When
Sherman got here, I turned over all I had to
him and his staff. I wore myself down in
waiting on them, and at eight o’clock in the
evening I went to my room and put on ntg
slipper and threw myself on the bed for a
short nap. I had scarcely composed myself
when Is&ao, whom you knew well as my billiard
marker, came rushing into my room and said to
mo: Mr. Nickerson, you had better get Mrs.
Nickerson ont of this hotel; they are going to
burn this town at nine o’clook!” He says ha
was so bewildered that he simply remarked,
Great God, no!”
“Yes they are,” said Isaao, “because I heard
General Barnes and the officers say that the
fire would commence at nine o’clock, while I
was waiting on them at supper.”
Niokerson said tho boy’s manner was so ear
nest, and his expression so indicative of alarm,
that he reshed down stairs, and ho approached
the office, he saw the staff officers examining
his horse blankets. “Great heavens, gentle
men, what does this mean?” They sneeringly
replied: “We ju3t thought we would appropri
ate these, as you will not need them any more.”
He then went to Gen. Barnes and begged him
to save his house, which he agreed to do, and
ordered a detachment of men to be in readiness.
Nickcroon then commenced to collect all the
blankets, and had them saturated, and even
procured an engine.
Sure enough, at 9 o’clock, the rockets went
up, and in ten minutes the whole city was in
flames, and thousands of poor women and chil
dren were running to and fro, shrieking and
screaming in despair and alarm. Nickerson
succeeded in preventing the flames from reach
ing his house for some time, until a band of
soldiers came rushing into the honso and called
for him to bring out a Confederate flag whioh
they had heard he had. *ag it out d—n
you, or we will murder you.” "He brought it out,
and they trampled it under foot’ and then pro
ceeded to cut tho hose and firo his house. He
said:
“In ten minutes more I was a ruined man. I
stood bewildered and broken-spirited, looking
upon the charred ruins of all that was left me
of a long life of energy and toiL"
And yet Sherman says Hampton burned Co
lumbia.
Gambling at Badeit'Badeiii
From the London Globe, August 23.]
The decision of the Beichsrath has beenpro-
nonnoed, and all the gamingtables of Germany
must positively be closed on the first day of De
cember, 1S72. Weisbaden, Ems, Homburg,
and Baden must find fresh means of attracting
the publio, and of deriving the funds necessary
for their great expenditure. Homburg alone
pays a fine to the Government of 470,000 a
year; and the expenses Qf keeping up the beau
tiful gardens that surround it amount to an an
nual outlay of 47,000, whioh are also paid out of
the gaming tables. It wonld seem, as might
be expected, that this year will be an unusually
productive one; the players throng round tho
tables every evening in rows of six deep, and
many have to retire withont the wished-for op
portunity of staking their money. The “Salon
Dore” is crowded every night with spectators,
and the play becomes very exciting.
A company of Russian# nave come over witn
the avowed intention of breaking tlm bank, ana
night after nigut they may be seen winning ana
losing enormous sums. Each is attended by his
secretary, who sits besiae him and registers the
gains or losses made by each coup. For one
night thoy played alternate Btakes of 10,000
francs and 12,000 francs at a coup, the latter
essary gaming tables. Originally the Homburg
tables were open every day of the week, but
the law which compelled them to close on
Sundays did not include Nauheim, probably
as being too insignificant The Nawheim di
rectors accordingly made arrangements with
these coach proprietors that Sunday passengers
from Homburg should obtain return tickets at
a single fare, the Company itself paying for
their return journey. Accordingly on Sundays
all the gamblers of Homburg packed off to
Nauheim, and the rooms there became so
crowded [that it was impossible to get to the
tables. At last the law that affected the large
town was extended to the little one, and forth
with the liberal arrangements for Sunday traf
fic came to an abrupt oonolusion. Every one is
asking now; what will become of the adminis
tration after 1S72. During the Emperor’s visit
the town did everything to appease him, and
then presented its petition that matters might
remain as they were, at least till 1872. His
Majesty replied that the'question did not rest
with him, bnt had already been decided by the
Beichsrath. It is said that the Company intend
to open at Geneva, and that they will pay an
enormous fine to the Swiss Government.
at a single occasion. Of course, with all players
the chances of the bank make its nltimate suc
cess certain, bnt the players which it prefers are
not the steady gamblers, bnt the occasional vis
itors who yield to a passing temptation. A pro
fessed gambler plays upon a system, and part of
his system most objectionable to the bank is
this, when he wins a large sum he stops. The
celebratedHaltese,whobroketheHombargbank
three years ago, used to pay into bankers large
sums whenever he was successful, and ultimate
ly left the place, carrying away from it many
thousands of Naps destined to be lost at
Baden-Baden a few weeks afterwards. It is
otherwise with the tyro of the tables. He
plays and and wins, becomes inocculated with
the fever of gaming, and ultimately loses all
he can readily obtain; at one time you see him
playing until gold, flushed but anxious, then the
wheel of fortune is adverse, the lightly got coin
lightly goes; the hoards are swept back to
original Bource, and he is almost “clean#* oct r
Tie ooreoration that controls nearly the sum, equal to 4480 of our money, being the
tire trade and travel that comes into th# city of largest sum which the bank permits to be staked
Macon only has been enabled to make abont ' * “ 1
ten per cent on ita capital atock, aotanexces-
sive sum, while other hues running'Into the ci£
have been carried on at p losa. Macon needs
no addition to her travel or carrying trade until
her wealth and manufacturing importance is
more developed. Whereas, had the money ex
pended by Macon for the construction of rail
roads been expended for the purpose of devel
oping tho water-power on the Ocmulgee above
U3 for the building of factories for the purpose
of the manufacture of cotton, wool and other
fabrics, or for the purpose of cutting the timber
on the Ocmulgee below us for the manufacture
of wagons, furniture, staves and wooden ware,
not only would the investment have been a good
ono, bnt the material wealth of the city and
her people would have been greatly increased.
The small manufactures that wo now have of
workers in cotton and iron add to the trade and
business of our city, as onr mercantile men well
know, and their loss would be a Berious one to
the trade of the city.
The position of the State of Georgia from
the coal and iron belts on the north to the
broad Atlantic on tho south, with harbors capa
ble of an unbounded commerce and trade, ena
bles us to look forward to our future importance
as a State and a people. Therefore let us urge
upon our legislators to take if it be but one
step toward fostering the manufacturing inter
ests in our State ere we find ourselves tributa
ries to the people around us. F.
Why the Democrats Lost California*
The New York Bun, of Saturday, expla*^ 016
Democratic defeat in California as ’
The Democrats have lost
majority. This is due to a weak platform, a
feeble candidate for Go^ruor, a
on their part destitute of f'™?. P Ia “°™
holders insisted upon putting him on the track
for a second term. The Republicans nominated
Newton Booth, a favorite with the people, and
threw into the campaign a powerful anay of
speakers from the Eastern States, while the
Democrats had no orator oapable of ^meeting
them, except the Hon. S. S. Cox, of this city.
VllKliiai DVIUVB) UUU MU ■
You would think that now, at least a®
stop; but no, the hand that staked an hour
ago now stakes guldens. «
that Homburg spreads * ttr ‘^J 1
a prodigality that is oto'^kviaA Bands, con
certs, balls, shady v*»iks under well-preserved
treeplantations, picket, himfang, pigeon-shoot
ing, the sparing " al « re of the KaiserBronnen
71°aseptic, reading-rooms for all classes
flnator urinations, and all this free; it only
novl/ta chance at the table, and it does not
ask that, but trusts to the common pro
pensity for gambling, that is independent of
race, language and nation. Day after day the
train takes back to Frankfort visitors who re
turn with lighter purses than they reckoned on./
“But there’s aye a green crop coming,” and
every night the tables are again crowded.
Ab an illustration of what expeases are In
curred without hope of other return than that
whioh is paid down so liberally on the green
cloth, it i3 known that the opera costs the ad
ministration more for every representation than
would be realized, assuming the house to be
filled at the exorbitant prices that are asked.
Madame Patti alone reoeiyea tax titistaOQ per
formances £3,500, and su6h artistajjgJWbelli-
Bettini, Fancelli, and Bettini sanKHt—
Some miles from Homburg there ST’Vpleasant
little town of Nauheim, which has a natural salt-
Letters to South Georgia Farmers—
Mo. 2.
BE HXBBKBX FIELDEB.
I wish in this article to present the subject of
the growth of tttfmals for food service and fer
tilizing land. Many of you have insisted that
with the present population and oivil regula
tions for the protection of private property, you
cannot profitably raise hogs for meat; and act
ing npon this conclusion, often withont having
made a fair trial, you have purchased your meat
from abroad. Our people have not shown the
energy and will to raise hogs that they have to
raise cotton, or they would long since_ have over
come most of the difficulties that lie in the way.
If yon toll me you can’t suooced in raising
hogs in the woods, I agree with you, and go
farther: If you could raise them in the woods
they are hardly worth raising that way.
"When you raise animals for service, yon
look to bone and muscle, bnt hogs only for the
food their flesh affords. The more rapidly this.
is produced, the less its cost and the bettor its
quality. It takes your ordinary breeds of hogs
from two to three years to get their growth in
the woods, so that you can fatten them. Dar
ing all this time you have to feed them some to
keep them gentie; and they work it ont trying
to get a precarious living by rooting, even if
they, esoape hog thieves. When you take them
up to fatten, it takes often from one* to two
months to get tho turpentine and wild root
juices out of them and their digestion and skin
in healthy condition, bo that they will set out on
a new growth and ultimately fatten only tolera
bly, and seldom make large meet, whioh is most
acceptable in feeding your laborers. In fatten
ing them you feed away more than it would
have required to raise and fatten them in en
closures, where you can have them safe from ■
rogues and derive all their fertilizing benefits.
A pig that lies down all day keeps fat and grow
ing on but little food. He grows to maturity
sooner, grows larger, costs less, and makes
more and better food in flesh and qiL Add to
this estimate, the advantages of pasturage on
roots and the vino crops and grasses to which I
wish again to allude, and which can be provided
by every farmer at comparatively trifling ex
pense, and the safety and health of these ani
mals by enclosing them as you do your horses
and mules, and it would seem that no judicious
farmer can hesitate to give the theory a fair
trial And it cannot be overlooked, that, by
this method you can control tho breeding and
soon vastly improve the stock.
A breeding sow ought to be large and kept
fat. If she has more than four pigs the surplus
ought to be killed off the first day, leaving her
such number as will begin and continue a rapid
growth without reducing the sow. The pigs
thus hurried will be ready for the smoke-house
in a year. The sow mil breed rapidly and in a
given number of years raise as many pigs as if
allowed to raise large litters, and beoome poor
in nursing them. The large litters of pigs get
poor and stnnted in growth, requiring a much
longer time to get grown, and never grow so
large. They usually cost more to raise and
fatten them than their meat is worth.
Onr fanners usually raise their work steers,
their milch cows and beeves, and buy all their
horses and mules from other States. Now, a calf
eats abont as much as a colt, and a steer con
sumes about as much by the time he comes to
the yoke, and a cow by the time she comes to
the milch pail, as' a mule does by the time he ia
ready for the plow. Tho one Is worth from $20
to $40, the other from $100 to $200. Can any
man give a sensible reason why he will raise the
one and buy the other, when they can be raised
on abont the same kind and quantity of food,
and in about the same length of time ? Horse
power is one of the most important items of real
value in all onr agricultural projects, and under
the habit or baying instead of raising, it is one
of the mOat expensive.
But few farmers seem to attach sufficient im
portance to the class of horse power they em
ploy. Your capital invested in farming con
sists of your land, rolling Btock and implements,
seed planted, fertilizers applied, labor, whether
of your own hands or hired, provisions for man
and horses, and your skill and care, and your
horse power. All may be first-class except the
last, and if that is defective the enterprise
must to some extent prove a failure. Take a
railroad oompany for illustration. They ex
pend millions of dollars for first-class road bed
and rails, and cars, and agents and employees.
Would it not be poor economy, for the differ
ence in the price of engines, to pat on such aB
are too weak to pull the trains? The same
kind of economy is shown by every farmer who
puts a weak or slow male to plow. A has a mule
worth $100—B has one worth $250; their land,
labor, and fertilizersand provisions, implements
and skill are all equal B’s mule will plow a
third more land and plow it better than A’a—
and the difference in the value of their pro
ducts will more than pay for the fine mtde the
first year, while the inferior mule ia a drawback
upon all the balance of the oapital invested.
Now if fanners could be induced to raise in
stead of buy, the oost wonld be but little more
■to raise fine than scrub stock. If the quantity of
milk and butter and beef were increased, not
only wonld the health of the people be promo
ted, bnt a large portion of toe baoon bills might
be cut off. And if it *e really true that hog
growing Is imprao«|»We in the negro belV we
should have by less use for that animal
But our ejstem is ruinous, even as it relates
to the stock we do raise and own. For oer-
fptnV t>® most profitable part of the badness
ji/allowed to go to waste. The fertiliser from a
cow or hog, or even a valuable horse or mule,
if husbanded, iswortB'far more than the ani
mal for any purpose by the time they are fit for
use. A hog or cow raised in an enclosure, or
penned regularly, is worth far more for manur
ing land than for food or milk and butter. Not
only ought all our farmers be induced to save
this most valuable quality, but to increase it,
and thereby not only add to the value of their
annual crops but cut off a large portion of the
expenses they incur for meat under the present
system. Take this - heavy tax off cotton, and
put it on hogs, cattle, mules and horses, where,
instead of a drain upon the gross inoome, it ia .
a regular contributor to swell the net profits of
the business. _
Buixock’s Bonds.—The following Is taken
from the 'Washington correspondence of the
Savannah Advertiser:
Prior to the publication of Treasurer Angler’s
testimony, there was some little demand for
Bgllock’s seven per cent, gold bonds in New
York. The expose of their utter worthlessness
has completely stopped their sale, and the quo
tations occasionally given are, from what is
known in financial circles, as “wash sales.”
For instance, Clews & Co., will send two attor
neys to tile Stook Exchange, when Georgia
sevens are called one of these attorneys will
bid 98£ for 5,000. His partner immediately
cries ont, “sold.” Thns a high quotation is
officially obtained, when, in reality, there wm
spring, and is reaobed from Hombnrg by coaches 1 no bid "for the bonds at any price. In foot, tt
that Btart at fixed times daily. There a rival is doubtful if any portion of these bonds could
oompany have established a kursal and the neo- be negotiated at any prioe.
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