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Decoration Day.
Th. followina beautifnl verses were sung as
I «t the decoration of the graves in the
‘^21.^ at Lexington Va., in 1860. Tho
Mjarebya Preston, is one of the noblest
of tho south, and her appropriate stan-
P«t the clash and clang of battle—
rast, the terrors, trials, fears-
Pait the deadly roar and rattle,
r “ ’ y e t wo meet in tears.
Kot a shout of exaltation
Breaks the sobbing silence deep;
On the death day of a nation
Is it strange we weep ?
But the homage sad we render,
Softens with a prond relief,
And a solemn joy and tender
Mingles with onr grief.
Ob, the heroes wrested from ns^
]’{■ va notlived and died in vain:
For their memories’ bow of promise
Spans cur years of pain.
Countless eyes have conned their story—
Countless hearts grow bravo thereby;
I.et ns thunk the God of Glory
We had such to die!
Where had been the Church’s honor,
When the overwhelming flood
Of her foes rushed fierce upon her,
Bat for martyrs’ blood V
Where the lofty acclamations,
O'er tho wrench of thraldom’s chain?
Where the grandeur of the nations,
Bat for patriots slain?
Shall we then in sad procession—
Il.-ads low bowed upon the breast—
Oaly bring onr tears to freshen
Graves where heroes rest ? .
Either lay the rose and laurel,
Glad with dow above the sod—
Lsarn their lives’ majestic moral,
Wait ami trnst in God!
(CRIOl'4 MISTAKES IN IDENTITY.
Mimlrrnl People that Conic lo Eire—litis-
bond* that Mistook their Wives, and Mis.
(iiUcu Mothers who Claimed Dead Onmjli-
ing very high up. The stockings, the wound, I Foreign Notes. j former than to the latter language. The inspec-
the lost tooth, and the marks on the ears, coin- tors and school boards charged with the duty of
cided exactly with the corpse. Ricard was rB r0B THE TELlaBArH AND MESSE1 ' 0EB - carrying out this decree are to notice the result
then shown the preserved head, and fell back in There will shortly be made some enrions ad-1 in their official reports. The Neue Freie Presse
the utter horror of sudden recognition. Themys- ditions to the German fleet in the shape of tor- states that the old Russian party whioh formerly
wry was solved—but only for a day. Of a snd- pedo boats, whioh are destined to place torpe- objected to all instructions in German, fully
den Ada Ricard, beautiful as over, returned does under the enemy’s ships. These boats are recognize the importance and wisdom of this
.•j? a 3 wandering among the soldiers built almost entirely of iron, are sixty feet long measure,
at New Orleans. No further discoveries have by seven feet wide, and have nearly the shape In. Rome the party feeling continues very
ever been made. of a fish. The deck is round. While employed high. On one hand there is the Vatican serving
• a t last cas 4 < ?, Ccnlr /£ in Am som- j n active operations, no one will be visible on asylum for all enemies of Italian unity,
w-i m j Z tr® ne X ,, ey of Pennsylvania, board. These boats will be steered from the and being the center of a perpetual conspiracy
Mark Wilson and Miss Wallace, a lovely girl of bows; and on the deck, above therndder, there against Italian liberty. On the other hand the
eighteen, had been engaged for some months, j 3 a slight elevation for the steersman with a lonely palace of the Quirinal, still waiting for
when she suddenly j ilted him, and without ex- small opening, abont an inch wide, to serve him the arrival of the King; a feeble government,
pJanationforbadebim to enter her house. Wilson aa a look-out. As they are intended to operate a P°° r a 113 politically ignorant people, listening
plunged into dissipation, and rapidly lost his c i ose to on enemy’s vessels, the armor will be to 010 advice of a press whioh is intent on ex
character, his business, and his small means. Yery thick. Instead of coal, petroleum will be citin g the most evil passions-There tea great
Ue was frequently heard, with fevered energy, nge( j M f ne ], Thi a contained in a number dearth of dwelling houses -in the Italian Capi
ta lay rum at her door, and to vow revenge with 0 f j roa receptacles in the stem, thick enough to to1 since the larger part of the officials have
most determined bitterness. Shortly after he be impervious to projectiles. The chimney is removed from Florence,
made preparations to leave for Europe, but, g0 st nall that it can scarcely be hit. A narrow In Spain the clergy still persist in a hostile
before doing so by some means persuaded the gallery, about a foot wide, and inclosed by an attitude toward the Government. Tho Home
girl to take a drive with him. He gave ont at j ron chain, inns around the boat. The hold for Minister has instructed the governors of the
the livery stable that he was going to an occa- the torpedoes is in the middle, as well as the provinces to place in all cities a part of the
sional picnic resort, in a wild gorge among the quarters of the crew. I graveyard at the disposal of non Catholics until
neighboring hills. Neither of them returned ^bo German army will be reduced to a peace tho Cortes will have passed a law regulating
and two days after the body of the girl, stabbed footing of 400,000 men. Von Moltke has been that question. This decree has caused a great
to death with a pocket-knife sworn to as Wil- created a Marshal of the Empire. deal of dissatisfaction among the priesthood,
son’s was found in tho turbid waters of a brook Emperor William will be back in Berlin to- and the Bishop of Cuenca has directed the
that threaded “Pionio George.” She was bu- I war g t b 0 begining of October. Immediately on priests of his diocese to protest against the
ried, in an agony of sorrow, by her loving pa- bis return, the royal flag, which has hitherto burial of a non Oatholio in consecrated ground;
rents, and the day after the funeral Mrs. Wil-1 waived on the different royal residences, will be but should the measure be carried out by force,
son, nec Miss Wallace, returned from New York | replaced by the Imperial German Banner. A 1 no more Catholics shall be buried in the same
drawing of the Imperial arms has been for
warded to Gastein for the approbation of His
Ma j esty. The Imperial eagle is represented on
a golden field, the crown being that of Conrad
the Second.
with her newly wedded hnsband. Who was the
murdered girl, and how a knife like that of
Mark Wilson’s came in her heart, tho most rig
id investigation never could discover.
resting place.
Jabno.
Dntcli Agriculture.
Mr. Charles Barnard, who writes to the New I
Origin oi (be Whites
The Montgomery Advertiser is responsible
While hitherto all official intercourse with I I° r *be following:
France has been conducted in the French Ian- j A negro preacher by the name of Dempsey
York Evening Post tho entertaining and suggest- gunge, the Berlin Cross Gazette intimates that j Morgan, living this year near Gen. W. W. Al-
iTe letters of “An American Fanner Abroad, * t jj 0 German officers have been directed to cor- 1 len’s plantation, in this county, delivered a fu-
says of Dntch husbandry: _ respond with French authorities in German only neral discourse over the dead body of old Uncle
“As the stranger approaches Amsterdam regi- ; n the future. For the reports of tho German am- Barton about three weeks ago, in which he gave
ments of windmills and battalions of tall chim- bassadors and diplomatic agents abroad to the an account of tho genesis of the (white) species
neys rise ont of tho green, prairie-like meadows, Home Office, Frenoh has also been entirely dis- I which throws Darwin, and all his vain philoso-
and he at once remarks: ‘What an industrious ar d e d. Even diplomatic notes addressed to for- phy of molecular, grannular and atomic creation
people! They are devoted to manufactures! I eign governments by the Berlin Cabinet are writ- I completely in tho shade. He said:
How much steam and wind power they use!’ j n German now. For courtesy’s sake, how- I My Bredderen, when Adam and Ebe was fust
“Yet the truth is manufactures are not the everj a translation is added, which is expressly made dey was bofe niggers. But de good Lord
leading interest. Commerce and agriculture. ma rked as being a translation only. Until within put dem in de garden wherehe had his summer
pile up the Dutch accounts at the world’s banks. a f ew wee ba the hotel of the French embassy in apples and his winter apples, and tole ’em, Ad-
These ceaseless windmills and smoke-trailing B er ii n was decocated with the initial N and the am, you and Ebo map eat dem summer apples
chimneys are but aids to a truly national agri- arnig 0 f the Emperor Napoleon III carved in I much as you want. But you jeslet dem Fowler
culture. The.theme of tho Dutch conquest of stoEQ on tjj 0 facade. Some workmen have since I apples be—I don save dem for my own special
Holland—the bloodless capture of the country been employed to cover the symbols of the Em- toof. Dese like sheep meat, too good for nig-
from the sea—has been sung threadbare. I do -jj-g ^jth sheets of zino instead of effacing gers.
not propose to rehearse it. Any guide-book will
tell tho tale. It is sufficient to know that vast
tracts of water have been enclosed by dykes,
been pumped dry, and now smile in tho richest
green or load the air with the fragrance of acres
of hyacynths. The financial side of the subject
From the Cincinnati Times and Chronicle.!
Among the mystoiies of the late ’‘trunk mur
der" ia New York occurs that peculiar, but not
unfamiliar one, that the deceased is swore to by
so many different persons. From the volumes
oi law reports, and from the records of detec
tives’offices, we might compile page after page
of lancinating nanative upon this single theme,
but onr limited space permits ns to give but a
few examples. Those that we note, however,
will be found upon examination to throw a shade
even of ridicule upon that sublime “reasoning
tbrongu consistency” upon that “unerring” cal
culus of probabilities—through which Kepler
arrived at the laws of matter, Newton deduced
their formula, and without which we would be
to-day almost os ignorant as in the time when
Moses called the moon the second in magnitude
of the heavenly lights. For soma interesting
puticularo on our subject we are iedebted to
Eugene Crapsey, who has made the myteries of
New York a specialty in journalistic writing.
In 1551 Captain John Backson, master of a
sailing vessel, lived with his wifa Nancy in a
beautiful little cottage in the village of Seekonk,
tear Providence, R. I. He was a man of spot-
lcs character, religions almost to Puritanism,
but also very passionate, and that Nanoy, being
greatly younger than himself and very fair to
look upon, should have grown fretful and un-
raly, did not add much quietness to his temper.
They quarreled often; and late one evening a
neighbor passing the cottage saw through the
open window the husband standing over the
*ife in a threatening attitude, with a long
whipcord in his clenched hand, and heard also
in uncontrollable burst of rago and many threats
of violence.
Ike next morning the cottage was closed and
feerted. This, however, excited no attention,
a? John was supposed to have left, on a sailing
lap, and Nancy was accustomed tp depart fre
quently, without announcement, to visit rela
tives in a neighboring town. But that after-
toon a little dog accompanying a picnic party
it (be adjacent woods pawed and howled at a
help of sand, until the merry party examined
it and found there—the corpse of Nancy Buck-
son.
The people of the town flocked around the
horror, recognizing the deceased, her clothes
ttd her jewelry. She had been Strangled with
i cord, and chloride of lime had been sprinkled
over her body to hasten decomposition. The
cottage was searched, and a whipcord found
tpon the float which fitted exactly to the marks
os the victim’s neck; and in the cellar was a
box of chloride of lime like that scattered upon
the body.
Backson was arrested, indicted, and on the
Jay of the trial that would havo sent him to
•he gdlows, Nancy Backson, alive and well,
though cross us over, walked into the village,
Iresh from a visit to distant relatives. The
raptery of the murder was never solved. The
utic’.es of dress and jewelry on the corpse were
Kcognizcd by Nancy as taken from tho bureau
•a her cottage.
One morning in 1861 a New Jersey wharfman
complained to bis “boss” that a barrel of pitch
lad been stolen from the pier. The same mom
'll the clerk of a New York hotel complained
to his proprietor that Mrs. Ada Ricard—once
well known to Cincinnati under another name—
i woman of marvelous beauty of form and no
Den de good Lord he went off ’bout his busi
ness lemonading up and down de yeth, seeking
up whom he mout save up. But he no sooner
turn his back dan, je3 like two fool niggers,
Adam and Ebe steel all de Fowler apples. Ebe
taste de fust one—smack her lubly thick lips,
them. Several Berlin journals ask, not unnatu
rally, if this procedure has been adopted in the
belief that on Imperial restoration is still on the
tapis in France.
Professor Curtiu3, of Berlin, is abont to make
an archteologieal expedition to Asia minor. He
has never been noticed. In brief, tho process w jq p, 0 assisted by an officer of high rank intbe and ’quired of Adam, “how is dat for high?’
is something like this: engineers, and as it is proposed to explore some Adam said it was all O. K.; and den dey went
“The 6ea flows over certain shallows. The par ts of the coast which are seldom visited, the for dem Fowler apples like the he thing Chinee,
shore belongs to private parties, or to the state, imperial Government will lend a gunboat for Bimeby do Lord come back and de first thing
as the case maybe. Beneath the water is a thick theoccasion. Professor Adler will accompany he say was “Adam, Adam! where my Fowler
layer of fine black mud. In its present position t jj 0 expedition as architect. He has been com- apples ?” Den Adam got skeered and said “I
it is useless. Exposed to the air, it will make missioned to draw np the plans for the restora- don’t know Lord; but I speck Ebe got ’em.”
the finest soil that can be imagined. A company tion 0 j ^ church of the Knights of St. John De Lord den went to Ebe and said, “Ebe, who
is formed and possession taken of the tract of at Jerusalem, which the Saltan presented to the got dem Fowler apples ?” Den Ebo got skeered
water. At a great expense an earthen wall is jy n g 0 f Prussia two years ago. Professor Car- and said, “Dunno Lord, bnt I kinder speck dat
projected into the sea, enclosing a certain space. t ius will commence his investigations on the fool nigger, Adam, took’em.” Dsn deLord
Powerful pumps are erected. Steam or wind pi a jn3 of Troy. got so mad he fairly smash his teef. He
power is applied, and the seemmgly hopeless The Bavarian Government has, at last, made stomped up to where Adam wasstandin’shiverin’
task of pumping ont whole square miles of j- nown jta position toward the dogma of Papal like a sheep-killen’ dog, and he make de ground
water is attempted. The engineers take their infallibility. In an official communication ad- fairly shake as he say: “Adam! Adam! You
places, and the stockholders go to sleep or die, <q re ssed. by the Minister of Pnblio Worship to gTand old tief; what for you steal my Fowler
as the fancy strikes them. Wait they must, and t h e Archbishop of Munich, the Government apples ?” Ben Adam got so skeered he turn
years will slip away before the bottom of their declares that “it will refuse its aid and co-op- white as a sheet! and my belubbedbreddren he
lake appears. If their pockets were anything era tj 0 n in the promulgation of the new dogma, nebber got black any more; and dat accounts
bnt Dutch their bottoms would appear before an d j n the execution of injunctions issued by for all de poor white trash we see flyin’ round
tho land. At last a wet bog takes the place of t he spiritual authorities with regard to its recog-[ here so grand, votin’ de Dimercratio ticket!
the sea, and ships sail up and look over the n jti 0 n and establishment. The Government | Let ns look to de Lord and be dismist."
bank upon tho new discovered country. Tho fi rm i y abide by the principle that the steps
main work of the pumps is done, but months -nrhieh the ecclesiastical authorities may decide j “The Irrepressible Conflict.”
must pass before the owners can even walk OI1 t a king against those members of the Catholic
upon the soft black mnd. Ditches must be dug church who reject the new dogma, will affect
n4- nnd initlAl! auo In (Via /->( da fliof I • v . ,1 _ • :1 3 1:i: I ; 1..r it. „
The New York Journal of Commerce, plnloso
through it, and joined one to the other, so that I ^no degree toe ffivii and poiittoM"rights oTthe I phizing on the eight-hour procession of the
the pumps may begin once more and drain the parties concerned. Should it be deemed nec- workingmen of Hew York, the other day, in-
Iast drop from tho spongy soil. In about two essary> further measures will be adopted by the Yitea attention to the fact that—
years after it appears the land is fit for the state to protect the independence of tho civil « ITh w ag a cl intelligent-looking,
piongn. j jurisdiction from ecclesiastical coercion. j -, .7....p,7 and exhibited no siens whatever
Then comes the first dividend for the patient jn consideration of the ratification of the cus- Great 8 numbers of
stockholders, and the heirs drag forth the for- toms’ treaty by the French National Assembly Lv £ve bSces T slvings
gotten wiUs to seo who owns the new country the German government has given orders to L b ’ liv6 £ comfortable homes much
The land is divided into farms of convenient evflcuato immediately four more departments Unffilv than millions of^otoers in Oris
size, and sold or let at a handsome profit. and to iednc0 tbe army of occupation of the ?htok of parading Streets
Hereafter tho only expense is to keep the dyke othet departments to fifty thousand men. LithbLners bearingdistressfulmottoes”
in order to pump out the ram-fall and collect I The disarmament of the National Guards manners beanng distnraru mottoes,
the rent. The happy shareholders may go to throughout France is progressing in an orderly But as the bystander watched these long lines
sleep or travel. All is secure, unless the dyke man ner. of robust and clear-eyed workingmen moving
burets. They need not concern themselves on Though the Executive has forbidden any pe- 8w iftl y pa st, he was driven to wonder—What is
that score. Other men build houses with chim- titions for the dissolution of the Assembly to be I , . . , f rnn Wn with
ney tops on a level with tho sea, and risk their a , ° 6a> ther e are many lists to that effect circa- their „ 8n ®7 anC ® ? What 13 010 tX0UbIe ™
all on these sunken farms, and the mere share- jating in Lyons. them ? The editor says:
holders may bide in peace.—The details of the q^ e French Ambassador at the Court of Yio- “ The flags, the gonfalons, the inscriptions,
care of these reclaimed farms, or polders,_ as { or Emanuel has assured the Italian cabinet did not answer tho question satisfactorily,
they are called, tho government of the pumping ^at the French government accepted the situ- There was a perpetual recurrence of legends
machinery, and the regulation of the amount of a ti on in Italy, but tho Paris papers continue about enforcing the eight-hour law, but the
rain-water suffered to remain in the ditches, do n sing very bitter language toward tho Italian well-informed spectator knew that that was not
not concorn U3. What wo want are facts con- pe0 pla. Only the other day the Liberte thought the real demand which this parade was sent
earning the horticulture and agriculture carried pr0 per to apply to the Italians the epithets lut- forth to make. The truth is that this protest
on behind these miles of sea-walls. _ teurs gangrenis, mourantes populaces, to whioh against what is termed the non-enforcement of
“Can this sea bottom produce crops that will i nsn lt the' Arena, of Verona, replied as follows: I the eight-hour law was merely the pretext of
repay both farmer and dykeman? Will it bear “jjoes the Liberte know what tho evils are Wednesday’s demonstration. Having no sub.
the cost of cnltnre and maintain the steam- f rom whioh Italy suffers ? They are precisely stantial grievance before them, the labor socie.
pnmps that must lift every undesirable drop of (Be same as those that infest France herself— ties were obliged to take up with that. Their
rain that falls on hundreds of square miles of materialism and Roman ultra-clericalism. A deeper purpose was to make a formidable dis-
torritory ? A mere glance at Datch agriculture country, however, whose eyes have been open- play of their numbers, to impress the community
shows that money in abundance comes from ea to the origin of the malady with which it is and, we regret to add, to menace it, with an idea
something. If not from the soil, then the peo- afflicted has already made some progress in the I of their systematic organization and imposing
pie are living on the interest of their debts, or path to recovery. Bosce te ipsum was the dovico I strength. Their real aim is to form a patty
some other unknown piece of property. Thon- 0 j the Athenian sage, and that is the great, which shall fix the hours of labor and the com
sands of sleek cattle graze over the rich, level though difficult, remedy which Italy has began pensation for it, not alone on pnblio buildings,
meadows; vast gardens, crowded with unrivaled to apply to herself; to this she owes both her but in all the trades and industries of the State,
vegetables, lie flat and warm in the shelter of unity and Rome, in spite of the French jamais l They would extend the power of the unions so
the dams, while miles of nurseries and bnlb while France, persistently ignoring this means as to control the details of every employer’s
plantations stretch along the artificial coast. _ 0 f recuperation, presents the sad spectacle of a business, dictate to him whom he shall hire and
“Concerning the soil a few words may bo in pro longed dissolution.” what he shall pay, and use his capital as they,
order. That abont Amsterdam and Harlem is French papers persevere to preach eter- not he, saw fit.”
the old sea bottom. In other parts of Holland nalhateto the Germans. The “Anti-Prussien,”
wo shall find both river deposits, glacial refuse I which indulges in the most terrific tirades, ex-
and other qualities and kinds. The poulder claims: “Frenchmen! let ns draw the bands
soil is a fine, powdery mould, entirely composed i 0 j f ra temity closer. Net us be nnited that we
of vegetable matter in a state of decay. JR is | may be strong. Let ns be one great family.
How and Why Senators Pnt Thieves,
Counterfeiters and Courtesans in
Office.
A Washington letter in the New York Sun,
of Friday, tells some of the secrets of how ap
pointments to office at Washington are made.
Under the head “A Story of a Western Sen
ator,” the correspondent says:
Sometimes the parties so appointed by offi
cials approach the Senator or Representative
with whom they have had relations, with a threat
of exposure if he does not get them appointed.
The Senator, for instance is a married man, lives
in good style, receives elegantly and entertains
sumptuously. He cannot afford to be exposed.
He knows that the woman who is hanging about
to black mail him is a bad woman. He knows
that she is associated with a man who claims
to he her htiBband, who is suspected of belong,
ing to a gang of counterfeiters. Notwithstand
ing he insists that she and her lady friend, who
also demands a place, shall occupy a position by
the side’ of respectable women in the Currency
Printing Bureau of the Treasury Department,
where ample opportunities are afforded these
two lady companions of the suspected counter
feiter to pureue their criminal professions.
I am illustrating my point by a real case. I
am not supposing one, nor drawing upon my
imagination. This is not all that the frighten
ed Senator did. He demanded that the man
himself who had received bis $1,000 hush money
should be appointed in the Interior Department.
He was told by the acting head of that depart
ment that the man was a scoundrel; that he
had a bad reputation at home, and was suspect
ed of belonging to a gang of counterfeiters in
tbe United States.
It made no difference. The Senator saw near
him the glare of the demon, and felt his sharp
claws in his flesh, for he trembled with fear
when he heard the Secretary’s words. “Never
mind,” responded the Senator, “if what you
say is true, he will make a good detective in the
Pension Bureau. Appoint him. Set a thief to
catch a thief.”
A Senator commanded, and the creature of
the Senate obeyed. The suspected counter
feiter was recently removed, complaint being
made by another Senator, whom he had also at
tempted to black mail, that the fellow was a
scoundrel. The acting Secretary said, “Yes, I
think ha is, and told Senator so; but he
insisted, and I yielded. If yon demand it, I will
remove him.”
The Secretary said afterward that he had re
moved him; that he had pursued his Senatorial
victim and insisted upon being reinstated, and
the belief is that he is now in the employment
of the Government, if not in the same place,
probably in some other bureau.
The same Senator has paid ont to these
thieves, counterfeiters and their paramonre,
about $6,000 hush money, besides keeping
them in snug places in tho Government pay,
where they can spy and post np their outside
confederates. This Senator cannot be bene
fited much by the temperance reform which I
have suggested, because he is already a pioneer
in that movement. He is a pions temperance
exhorter. Ho has a great deal to say about vir
tue and against corruption, but he is probably
the greatest legislative thief in the United States
Senate. He is only one. There are others.
Neither of these women, to whom I have re
ferred, can be reached by breaking up certain
houses in this metropolis. They do not live in
such places. They are too “respectable!” It a
thunderbolt would unroof all the residences in
'Washington, when the entire Government is
there, some morning before dawn, il3 electric
light would astound the nation.
Tire Fever at Chnrleslon.
From the number of deaths reported in the
— --o . — »- Jt i® | may b"e strong. Let us be one great family. I past few days, the recent cold weather must
free from stones, always two ormore feet deep, I jj nt accomplish this we must no longer per- have had a most disastrous effect upon the yel-
and so porous that water passes through it read- mit the Y u e S pi ea of Bismarck’s blood-hounds i ow f ever patients in Charleston. Some reports
ily. For those plants to which it is adapted it ge f their feet upon onr soil. Theymnstnol . . .. ,5, . . „ .. • ^ .
stands unrivaled in the world. By the nse of longer be allowed to crawl up tons like serpents, sta te that the fev8ijs spreading 1 t d f ying
sand from the shore its usefulness i3 greatly ex- an d discover our secrots. No, Prussians! we tmt» and that this fact and not the cool weather
tended. In appearance, with of without the declare war to the death against yon! Away, explains the number of deaths. The Columbia
sand, it seems rich, soft and valuable. Its black baseband of spiea and thieves! The cup of your Union of Saturday, says:
color implies vegetable strength. One thing is crimes is full to oveiflowing. Away with you! ™ ’ . 7- , nr r „ nort „ from charleston
certain: it bears crops that, in their way, rule Giy0 p i ace to men of honor. Now venture if Tte c on “ a diclory reports from Charleston
the market of tho world. Holland bulbs and Yon dare,” the article concludes, “to strut about regarding the yellow fever are not calculated to
Dutch cheese need no heralding._ The cheese, 0 ur streets. Your stolen boots leave bloody inspire confidence in tho masses. Either the
at least, is in the months of all civilized men.” f 00 t-prints behind you. Takecare!” newspapers are too anxious to conceal the facts,
- <»> The Liberte of Paris thinks that the meetings or they are afraid that nnless they make ont as
LoKGEvmr op Pope Pius.—Anne Brewster a j. igchland Gastein between the Emperors of good a case as possible, business will take its
writes from Rome to the Philadelphia Bnlletin: Germany and Austria were intended to prepare J departure for some other locality. There is no
Pins IX comes of a long-lived family. He is the way for the execution of the following disguising the fact that the disease is still un-
not an old man at all, according to the rules of I programme: J checked, for the deaths are equally as numerous
longevity among his people. He may live twenty The entrance of the German territories of I as at any time since it first made its appear-
vi TTri _ r ._ r years longer, end then only reach the age of his Austria into the Germanic Confederation. I ance. The prospect is a fearful one, when a
“nil charm *of Ve'ature but'sensuous as Lola grandsire, and if he should arrive at the years 2 . An understanding between tho two Em- contagion depends upon a future contingency
Moniez and as frail of character—had suddenly 1 of the gay Countess of Desmond, who we nre perors to facilitate the extension of Au-tria to for its duration. Have the sorely tried and
"“d inexplicably left without paying her bill, j told, in the ballad, reached the age of t b e months of the Danube and to the Balkans, harassed oitizens of Charleston to wait until
The next day there wa3 found floating in the One hundred and ten, 3. A declaration of the rights of Prussia to frost comes before they can again return to
y ®rth River a barrel of pitch and tied to it by . And fell from the branch of a cherry tree, then, the German-speakingBalticprovincesof Russia, their homes and their business? This appears
a rope around the waist was tho corpse of a Such a jolly old girl was ebe! 4. The eventual creation of a slavonio king- to be the case. Not a very pleasant condition
beautifnl woman clothed only in a night dress he will not be withont oiample among his an- dom, bounded on the north by the territory of of mind to be in, particularly when business en-
& aJ a pair of stockings. A gag fastened in the cestors, many of whom have been contenarians. Old Prussia, on the east by the Dwina and the gagements are pressing,
month was tho only mark of violence, but that j His lucky escapes in the presence of so many Drieper, and on the south by the Black Sea. The Charleston papers have not a great deal
sufficient to evidence murder. The form dangers during his long pontificate are.however, There is a mowing dissatisfaction among the abon( . thg fever> We taJro the following
of wonderful beauty—such voluptuous really remarkable. His Minister, Pellegrino I German Austrians, since the Ministry Hohen- y w ^ .
bfiuty bs must have served for the model to Rossi, was assasinated, and a member of his wart has recognized the rights of Bohemia by paragraph from the News or Saturday:
Titan's Venus. It wasnotieed, though the stock- household, Monsignor Palma, wasshot down at promising the coronation of Francis Joseph at The cold snap on "Wednesday and Thursday
ia g« were almost too small for the sbapoly limb, his side. His Holiness has lost his kingdom Prague and granting new electoral and national has proved more disastrous to the sick than we
they were two sizes too small for the foot Upon twice; and, notwithstanding all the reports of bills. The German deputies have therefore had expeoted, as is shown by the number of
0! >e oi the lower limbs was tho*cicatrice of an his having attacks this day of fainting, and that refused to make their appearance in the Bohe- deaths reported this morning. City Registrar
°'-d wound. day of vomiting, and the other day of a fever, mian district, bnt they sent a message to the Lobby reports the receipt of eight certificates
The body was interred withont recognition, Pins IX. is this moment in better and more Assembly protesting against any illegal votes in of death from yellow fever during the twenty,
bot the head preserved. A few days after, a florid state of health than any of the crowned their absence. The liberal journals of Vienna, four hours ending at noon yesterday, viz: Jos.
6«ntleman intimately acquainted with Ada Rio- heads of Europe. “Inexcellenthealthandconr- especially the Neue Freil Presse, are very bitter Carter, Jas. O. Starr, W. J. Middleton, James
recognized the face as hers bevond tho ; ageous spirits," as a prelate reported to me a in their attacks on Count Hohenhwart on so- Lombardo and Wm. Heyward, who died on
i^dow of a doubt. The police then interview-' day or so ago. Yes, he is likely to live many a count of his policy of decentralization in favor J Wednesday, the 20th; and J. D. Hopke, E. P.
ber quasi husband, Charles Ricard, cautious- long year yet; and as tho most unhkely things 0 f the Poles and Bohemians. 1 Starr, and J. Strauss, who died on Thursday,
£ concealing from him her supposed death. I are constantly happening in the history of the | A satisfactory settlement of the Roumanian | the 21st.
freely entered into a description of her his- world—for who oould have dreamed of the revi railway difficulties is shortly anticipated, the T . . , _
i or y and person, spoken with some pride of her val of Cteaarian imperialism in Radical Ger- German bankers and Roumanian Treasury de- Whh« negro jury in Mississippi wentout to
£*“8[obliged to wear stockings too large for many, the hot-bed of Communism? wemay (or partment having come to an agreement. deliberate, onejuror uJred mother: >f Isdiaa
„!* *°» order to fit her well rounded some younger than ourselves may) see Pius IX. I A nkase, issued by the Emperor of Russia hanging case r To be'Bure, nigger, was the
Qiu, mentioned the mark of an old wound and restored a second time to the *‘Patrimony of St. I immediately after hia return from Germany, j answer. ” said the first jMor, dis mg-
7?.Position, regretted the injury to her beauti- Peter.” It is a Baying in his family that a Mas- instructs the ministry of education to see that ger heard one dem lawyers say dat boysgpse
Jun** 6 ? by the loss of one on the left side, and tai-Jfe*retti “si muor giovane quando si muor a the study of German shall take the priority of I comm back here and hant ns if we hang •
ghed at her having worn ear-rings so heavy notanianni (dies young when he dies at ninety | French in all pnblio and private schools, and | Ino go for hanging, a “dhavedfl yg
83 to cut her oars and necessitate a second piero- years.)” that more time be devoted to the study of the toiler me. No sir. Verdiot of manslauguter.
Selling Railroads—A Discouraging
Auction in Tennessee.
From the Nashville Banner, Sept. 21.]
A large crowd of capitalists and representa
tives of railroads attended the sale of delinquent
railroads on the eastern side of the Capitol at
noon yesterday.
The Knoxville and Charleston Railroad was
knooked down by Auctioneer Dolin to the Blue
Ridge Railroad at $75,000; the Rogersville and
Jefferson to the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad at $10,000; the Knoxville and
Kentucky to W. B. Johnston and others at
$300,000, and the Western and North Carolina
to E. Simerly, on behalf of the stockholders, at
$12,600.
Some very spirited bidding occurred between
W. B. Johnston, of Macon, Ga., and J. R.
James, of Atlanta, tor the Knoxville and Ken
tucky Railroad, there being ten bids ranging
from $100,000 to $300,000.
After the sale had taken plaoe the commis
sioners retired to the comptroller’s office, and,
after consultation, refused to confirm the sale
of the roads mentioned, on account of the poor
price obtained.
A modified decree was entered in the Chan
cery Conxt relative to the Memphis, Clarksville
and Louisville Railroad, in whioh several points
objectionable to the purchaser of that road (the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad) are equitably
settled. The result will be ihat the purchaser
will turn over to the comp troller $1,700,000, the
minimum price fixed.
The Banner, of the 22dsays Mr. Johnson rep
resented the East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor
gia, and the Western and Atlantio Railroads in
his bid.
Tammany and the New York De
mocracy.
What the action of the Democracy of the
State of New York trill he with reference to the
blunders and corruptions of Tammany, is very
probably foreshadowed in the following from
the New York World, of Friday:
The fate of the Tammany chiefs depends
upon Democratio action, and the events and
developments of the last five days rondo* it en
tirely certain that there will be no abatement of
Demooratio vigor, nor any loosening of the grip
which has already been got by hostile Demo
cratio hands upon the municipal authorities.
We have looked into the Democratio newspapers
of the interior, and find them all demanding,
as with one voice, that the power of Tam
many be overthrown,, and the party oleared
of any complicity with the malfeasance
which they were long reluctant to believe,
bnt now regard as fully established by
confessions and proofs. There is a universal
demand that the party shall take hold of the
municipal government and reform its abases.
Nothing will now satisfy Democratio expecta
tion short of great changes, both in the organio
struoture and the personnel of the oity govern
ment. The charter will be overhauled and re
fashioned. A newly elected Mayor will appoint
new heads of departments. The strong and
thoroughly awakened sentiment of Demooratio
honesty will accept of nothing less, and the in
domitable vigor of that sentiment is a sure
guarantee that the reforms will be accomplished.
It concerns nobody so much as the Tammany
chiefs themselves to look this prospect fully in
tho face, and recognize the untenable position
in which they stand.
COURTING IN NEBRASKA.
Effect of a Scarcity of Single Women.
A Nebraska correspondent of the Syracuse
Standard, writes as follows:
“There is lack of woman’s nursing,
There is dearth of woman’s tears.”
Gertainly not because they' are unnecessary
in this Western region, bnt the faet is the wo
men are scaroe and men are plenty. In market
phrase the woman “demand far exceeds the
supply.” Those inexorable laws of supply and
demand, abont which political and other econo
mists delight to talk, have not yet corrected
this acid qneation. A heavy dose of girls, none
of your homeopathic prescriptions, is what Ne
braska needs, and the stomachs of her young
men will always remain sour until the supply
comes. You have no idea east how anxious
young men in this region are to marry. In the
words of a prairie farmer, “oonrtin’s hot.”
The poor man is passing through a bitter ex
perience. A party of ns were duck-hnnting the
other day on the Missouri bottoms. Night
overtook us before we were aware of it, and we
were obliged to seek lodging at the first dwel
ling we conld find. It was a small one-story
strnctureof three rooms, and occupied by a
family of six—father, mother, daughter, and
three sons. The sons were all unmarried, and
from the calls that were made afterwards, we
judge the daughter was unmarried also. We
aadn’t been in tho house five minutes when
some kind of vehicle drove up and two young
men were ushered into the parior. Straightway
the mother and daughter held a whispered con
sultation, whioh closed with an invitation to
the sitting-room for supper. It was evident the
yonng men oallers had been to tea, as they staid
in the parlor with “sweet sixteen.”
Scarcely had we taken onr seats at the table
when a howl from the dogs ont doors announced
another comer. He seemed to avoid the front
door, and knocked at that where onr party was
just Bitting to supper. The mother rose to an
swer the summons, v/hen wo were surprised by
the daughter opening the parlor door and rush
ing forward with “don’t got up, mother 1” Its
one of my fellows! Gome in, Jim; how do you
do?”
And Jim entered in response to the cheery
salutation. He made himself as comfortable
as possible till we had finished supper, when
another whispered consultation proved that the
“parlor is full as it ort to he,” whispered by Miss
in response to some motherly suggestion. The
old gentleman solved the question by inviting
ns into the kitchen to smoke. It is evident that
Jim didn’t smoko, for he remained in the sitting
room. We should have doubtless en jpyed a quiet
cigar had not the old lady opened the back door,
and shouted at the top of her voice: “Gome
’round here to the back door!”
It was another yonng man, and we fancied ho
looked as if he had come in rather late. Two
yonng men within the parior, one in the sitting
room, and one in the kitchen. What should be
done ? The courting business was getting hot!
There was another talk between mother and
daughter. It was evident their devices had been
exhausted. The old gentleman was called into
tho corner. He settled the question with a
whisper: “I’ll be damned if I'll move again
til the settin’ room’s full!”
Into the sitting room went number four, and
we smoked. It was foil ten minutes before the
next disturbers came, and they entered tho
kitchen with the air of old acquaintances. We
looked anxionsly at the host. Taking his pipe
from his mouth, a single sentence relieved us:
“Them’s the widowers! Stick J"
“And we “stuck” and smoked on. For the
next half hour the girl must have been kept
busy. The widowers had certainly a third of
her time. It was nine o’clook. We wished to
go to bed, and the only bed we had discovered
wrs in the parlor. The old gentleman divined
our wishes, and said:
“I’m sorry, gentlemen! But this is one of
the regular courtin’ nights! Them two fellers
in the parlor never leave afore midnight, and
the widowers alius stay all night. And that ain’t
the worst of it. Dan ’ll be here at ten o’clock!
I and the boys alius sleep in the haystack Fri
day nights. Yer welcome to that!”
The parlor, sitting room and kitchen foil, we
retreated to the haystack. In response to a
question on the point the old gentleman said
that—
“Friday night it’s party bad, but Sunday it’s
wuss. Last Sunday night there w as ten on ’em,
and the girl is getting more and more partikiler,
The more she gets the more she wants!”
On the haystack, with a stiff breeze driving
away the mosquitoes, we heard Dan drive up.
One of tho laat remarks of the old man before
we fell aBleep was, “Yes, gentlemen, eourtin’s
hot in Nebrasky!” And we believe him.
A Canine Fisher.
From the Elken Bun Gazette.]
There are many remarkable stories of the in
telligence of dogs. Indeed, their sagacity is so
closely allied to human reason (hat we some
times are inclined to adopt Darwin’s theory of
the origin of man, and to think the dog ia not a
very remote link amongst those that connect
the “lords of creation” with the hnmbleat order
of mamalia.
Before the “late unpleasantness,” we had
“coon dogs” and “possum dogs,” and still hare
squirrel and bird dogs; bnt the following, for
the truth of whioh we can voneh, beats Ward
Beecher’s story of the big Newfoundland and
little greyhound.
Mr. Albert Ashby, in the upper part of Fau
quier, Va., has an old bob-tailed pointer, named
Jack, who for some tim6 past he has been in the
habit of taking along when he has “gone a fish
ing” in Goose creek, whose services are even
brought in requisition before he reaches the
stream, for Mr. A. has only to take down hia
poles, which he keeps suspended on wooden
pegs in his front porch, when Jack is in perfect
ecstacy. Mr. A. then quietly remarks to hia
fellow-fisherman, “I wonld like to have my bait-
basket,” when Jack, no matter where it is, will
soon produce it. Mr. A. even thinks that he
hides it, as he invariably brings it home from
the oreek. The two-legged fisherman need not
ask for something to dig the worms, for Jack
has found tho grubbing-hoe behind tbe hog-pen
or stable-yard, and gives month to announce
the fact.
Jack’s services as an adjunct are more valu
able beside the Btream, where he unflinchingly.
watches the cork, at the loaat motion of which
he becomes restive, and by the jumping of the
minnows knows tho approaoh of a pike, whioh
having seize! the bait, Jack makes a “dead
stand,” as though settmg a covey of birds. If
the fish on being landed becomes disengaged
from the hook near the margin of the stream,
he manages to keep it away* from the water,
and bears it to a safe place on land.
In fishing for jack, or pike, as they are some
times called, Mr. A. is in (he habit of setting
his poles, baited with minnows, fifty or sixty
feet apart, at two places, placing Jack in sight,
up stream, at one of them. On snch occasions
he is fully competent to watch and give notice
in the manner stated, lying flat on bis all-fours,
intently watching the cork with a countenance
expressive of anxiety and expectation, like that
of Col. McMurter, at Faro, “waiting the turn”
for his last white chip.
Mr. A. on one occasion, when Jack was thus
assisting him (and he himself some rods distant,
unmindful of sport, meditating on the mutabil
ity of human affairs,) a large pike had drawn
the fishing pole into the water. Jack seized the
but end with his teeth, and actually drew the
fish ashore before he got there. If we did not
know the character of Mr. Ashby for truthful
ness we would not believe it. Who ean say that
a dog would do this from mere instinot ? It is
something higher even than Bagaoity. Who
can say that he does not reason, for he is oer-
tainly an apt scholar.
J. M. Seely, Esq, living near Mr. Ashby, a
gentleman of undoubted veracity, coroborates
this statement, and says: “I know the dog
well—a white, liver colored, spotted pointer,
out of an English slut, imported by Mr. Rich
ard de Butts; a fine dog. I hunted with him
two seasons, snd gave him to Mr. Ashby be
cause ho had lost his scent, occasioned by hunt
ing him early in the season before tbe bloom of
the carrot-weed, so abundant on my farm, had
been killed by the frost, though he hunted well
next year. Jack is now very old—too old to
hnnt, and for sport, probably thinks fishing his
next best chance.
Tlie Virtues of Borax.
It may not be generally known how very val
uable borax is, in various purposes of household
use. We find it the very best cockroach exter
minator yet discovered. One half pound, cost
ing but fifty cents, has completely cleared a
large house formerly swarming with them, so
that the appearance of one in a month is quite
a novelty. The various extermination powders
pnffed and advertised have been found not fully
effective, tending rather to make the roaches
crazy than kill them. There is something pe
culiar in the smell or tonch of the borax, whioh
is certain death to them. They will flee in ter
ror from it, and never appear again where it
has once been placed. It is, also, a great ad
vantage that borax is perfectly harmless to hu
man beings, hence no danger from poisoning-
It is also valuable for laundry purposes. The
washerwoman of Holland a“d Belgium so pro
verbially clean, and who get np their
linen so clean “ad white, use only refined
borax as washing powder, instead of soda, in
proportion to a large handful of borax powder
to ten gallons of water. They save soap nearly
one-half. All tbe large washing establishments
adopt the same mode. For laces, cambrics, eta,
an extra quality of the powder is used; and for
crinoline (requring to be stiff,) a stronger solu
tion is necessary. Borax being a natural salt
does not in the slightest degree injure the text
ure of linen. Its effect is to soften the hardest
water, and therefore it should be kept on the
toilet table. As a way of cleansing the hair,
nothing is better than a solution of borax in
water. It leaves the scalp in a most cleanly
condition, and the hair is just sufficiently stif
fened to retain its place. This stiffness, how
ever, can be readily removed, if objectionable,
by washing with water. Borax is also an excel
lent dentrifice; dissolved in water, it is one of
the best tooth washes. In hot countries it is
used in combination with tartario acid and
bicarbonate of soda, as a cooling beverage.
How a Yonng 'Widower Hot “H* 1 ?*”
From the Decatur (Ill.) Republican.]
The trials of a yonng widow** resides
not so very far from here-'* r y ia E> t0 8®*
“help,” are worth relat-'E* becoming
almost discouraged by * 18 many failures, he at
last drew up in fro~<« » small dwelling among
the hills, and a^« d the customary questions:
“Gan you t* 3 *’ 111 ® where I can get a woman to
do the w^a in a farm-house?” "Where are ye
r rom asked the old man, viewing the hand
A Frenchman, while fishing near Kettle Island ar ^Ie horse and buggy with a critical air. “My
on Saturday afternoon, hooked a large musko- name is , and I came from ." “Ob,
In the Ottawa (Canada) Free Press we read:
Ionge, which afterward proved to weigh thlrtr
five pounds. In the act of pulling him R
large eagle swooped down on the fish, “i d ' fa3 :
tened his talons in it with such fr*®® “at it
eonld not get away; and the Frep jDman P nl t® d
in both the fish and the birdj now haa the
eagle in his possession alive- ■
The sentence pronou« , ® d against Rochefort,
of exile to a penal coainy for life, la deolared to
be both severe and unjust. Of its severity
there can be doubt; as to its justice, there
will be much diversity of opinion; but all well-
wishers ot Fraaoe mast congratulate her that
she is at last to be rid of a man whose moat
familiar instruments were Blander and vitupera
tion, and whose ohief aims were violence and
disorder.
Younger Brother—“Whatis the matter, Mary?
Are yon unhappy because neither of those fel
lows you were flirting with at croquet, yester
day, proposed to ‘yon ?” Mary—“Both did,
7 . And—I said yes to the wrong one!’’
The Woman Problem—Dress.
The average yonng man walks into his tailor’s
twice a year, pays a bill, and has coats and,
pantaloons and vests. That is all he knows.—
He requires shirts, and somebody makes him
shirts. He thinks no more. "WU1 he have a
hat? Behold! apiece of felt, with a galloon
string—it does not flop over his forehead. It
will never twitch off his back hair. It does not
blow into his eyes. Its elastic cannot blister
his neok, nor produce depressions of the cere
bellum. It will not be ont of date before sum
mer is over, seldom or never be a matter of
anxious reflection. It is a fixed fact, like yes
terday’s dinner or last election, The average
young woman expends enough inventive power,
enough financial shrewdness, enongh close
foresight, enongh pertnbation of spirit enongh
presence of mind, enongh patienoe of hope and
anguish of regret,upon one season’s outfit—I had
almost said upon one street suit—to make an ex
cellent bank cashier, or a comfortable graduate
of a theological seminary. If yen doubt the
truth of this statement, just take in for your
self, with the “ oricket’a eye,” the first young
girl you meet downtown. How fearfully and
wonderfully made! How do you suppose those
bias folds, and double box plaits, and Ante ruf
fles, and paniered skirts, and bowed, and
flounced, and tied, and corded, and laced, and
buttoned and spangled, and fringed, and folded,
and dotted, and hunebed, and bonebed, and
horrible mysteries got together? There was
manceenvering expended upon tbe dressmaker
to have elected a representative, and concentra
tion of mind upon the seamstress * intense
enough to have withstood a Wall street panlo,
and headache enongh put into the sewing ma
chine toiiave mastered “Porter’s Human Intel
lect.” And now it requires care enough to
keep herself together, to save a souL—Eliza
beth Stuart Phelrs.
yes! I’ve heard you; yon lost your wife a spell
ago. "Wall, I’ve got six gals—good gals, and
yon may take your pick among ’em for a wife;
bnt they wouldn’t none of ’em think of going
ot ’ter work. I Bhould as lieve yon should take
Hannah, because she’s the oldest, and her
chance ain’t quite so good, seein’ as she’s .nigh
righted, and can’t hear very well; but .if yon
don’t want her, yon ean take your pick of the
others.”
Out friend went in, selected the best looking
one, drove to the Justioe’s and was married, and
carried his bride home that very night, having
secured a permanent and efficient houskeeper,
who proves thus far in every way satisfactory,
with no questions of wages, and no limit to the
work she is expected to do,
Memphis rejoices in a new gas company
whioh has just gone into operation. The price
of gas, heretofore $6 per 1000 cubic feet, will
probably be rednoed at least half that amount
One Flag, One Oountby.—The Frenoh Dem
ocratio Olub of San Francisco recently passed a
resolution, whioh the Bulletin of that city com
mends as an example which should be followed
by all citizens of foreign birth who have adopt
ed America as their'eountry:
“Whereas, Foreigners once naturalized are
no longers foreigners, but American citizens;
therefore it is resolved that the members of this
Clnb, in all pnblio demonstrations, will never
carry any other flag than the one of the country
of their adoption—the only one to which they
now owe allegiance.”
Says the Bulletin: “A man has no more right
to two countries than he has to two wives. Any
man who, after Bwearing allegiance to the stars
and stripes, marches under tao flag of tho coun
try whioh he has renounced, commits political
bigamy.”
The Boston Traveler says a gentleman of that
city wb*t® traveling in Europe, lad his
watch stolen from him in Vienna, and offered a
rP ward equal to $50 in onr money. The watoh
did not appear, and when returning toward
America he left his name and address and the
number of hia watch. A year has since gone,
and he gave np all hopes of ever seeing it, when
a few days ago bis watch came to him in Boston,
the only charge npon.it being one of fifty cents
for express transportation from New York. The
thief bad been arrested in Vienna, the watch
found upon him, and forwarded by the oity
government free of charge.
Senator Glayton, late Republican Governor of
Arkansas, was the first, or nearly the first, indi
vidual of that State to be arrested for a vioU-
tion of the Enforcement law; and now in Mis
sissippi a Judge Taibell has been brought before
a Commissioner and held in $1,000 bonds to
appear for trial on a charge of having violated
the same aoh It is alleged that the Judge
threatened certain officials that unless they
supported Gapt. Lake, a Republican candidate
for Sheriff at an approaching election, he wonld
have them removed from offioe. The framers
of this law probably did not reflect that it might
possibly prove a boomerang.
Goon Showing.—’The Petersburg, Va., ootton
T^iiia publish a statement showing the financial
operations of the establishment for eleven
months of the year ending August 31. ThS net
profit ia shown to be equal to twenty-five per
cent, on the capital stock. The company pays a
rent equal to two and a half ptr cent, on its cap
ital stock. The managers behave that no other
cotton manufacturing company in the United
States can make a showing of profits equal to
its own, and invite comparison.