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MACON MAT 11,1875
Qbixt J ernes Wait*: and Justice Brad
ley, of the Supreme Court, left Washing
ton last Tuesday to do circuit duty in the
8onthem States.
Is Indiana judge has decided that if
a woman will shorten pie-crust with but
ter at thirty-eight cents a pound, her
'* husband has good cause for divorce.
Bricks made in China are sold in San
Francisoo for less than they can be made
{or this side the Pacific, notwithstanding
ttin ad valorem duty of twenty per cent,
on them.
A-photos of the kissing discussion, here
is Oliver Wendell Holmes’ definition of a
kiss: "The twenty-seventh letter of the
alphabet,—the love-labial which it takes
two to speak plainly.”
The friends of Mile. d’Abbe, niece of
the Empress Eugenio, are determined to
keep that young woman out of the poor
house as long as possible. Her wedding
presents cost sixteen hundred thousand
dollars.
Last Monday was a pretty lively day
for the "old corpse.” At Shelbyville,
New Albany and Jeffersonville, Indiana,
the municipal elections all went Demo
cratic by rousing majorities. At the first
named place a Democratic mayor was
elected, the first in forty-five years.
Lorn, the actress, is small, pretty
has $300,000 in her own name, and can
earn $250 per night on the stage, yet
that mother of hers kinder takes a fel
low’s breath away when she puts on her
bonnet and shawl and says, “Ohyes;
we will be delighted to take a ride.”—
M&waukeeHews.
"Phsbe Cohzins doesn’t dress like her
brothers of the bar,” says the Chicago
Tribune, by way of commencing an item.
That’s undoubtedly true; she dresses by
putting on her clothes over her head,
while they don’t, and, what’s more, they
can’t. But what business i3 it of the
Tribunes anyhow ?—Brooklyn Union.
The issues of postage stamps of all
kinds by the Postoffice Department du
ring the month of April last amounted to
a little ia excess of $3,000,000. This is
an average of about twenty per cent, on
the issues for the corresponding month of
last year, and is by far the largest amount
ever issued in any one month by the de
partment.
A stan in Cincinnati, who dropped two
cents’ worth of mail matter in the post-
office box, had to pay six cents to do it,
went over and stood by one of the win
dows, and said: “May Hannibal Hamlin,
of Maine, have the bilions colic, thoague,
the gout, the jaundice, corns, bunions,
boils, and the buckwheat scratches from
this day noon for the next fifty years to
come.”
A sentimental young man of Chicago
went to see his girl the other day, and
found that his letters had been pasted
over the top of preserve cans. Those be
ginning with “My Darling Susan” went
over the peaches, and those commencing
with "My Own Darling” were put over
iho apples. This was too flatteringly
sweet to allow the engagement to remain
substantial.
Forty-one years ago a fair bride in
Fulton county, New York.-received as a
wedding present a largo and delicious
cheese. Since then the bride and all who
attended the wedding except the groom
havo died, and last Fxiday, on the forty-
first anniversary of his marriage, the
lonely old man, hi3 banquet hall desert
ed, for the first time cut end tasted the
cheese.
Rchor is busy with the opinions of
th.ft jury in the Brooklyn trial, and says
thatTChester Carpenter, the foreman, is
a firm believer in Beecher, who cannot bo
shaken. The Chicago Times has informa
tion that Bowen will be called by Tilton’s
counsel to doso the rebuttal, and start
ling denouements may be expected. They
wanted tho Woodhull also, but she says
the atmosphere of that court room i3 too
foul for her.
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An interesting case has ju3t been deci
ded in the Maine courts in which the
question of spiritualism is involved. A
Topsham woman left a will doing up her
estate in trusteeship, and giving only
small annuities to her daughter, who was
married to a man whom she believed to
be possessed by malignant spirits. The
will was made, as she said, in accordance
with tbo advico of her dead husband,
and her daughter tried to set it aside as
having been made under undue influence
while tho textatrix was of unsound mind.
The jury, however, allowed the will to
stand.
Unless appearances are very decep
tive, General B. H. Hill will he the next
Congressman from the Ninth Georgia
District. Contractors should send in
their bids for the strong iron screen to
bo placed between Gen. Hill and Mr.
Alexander H. Stephens in the House of
Representatives.
Thus the New York Tribune, of Mon
day. There is no Gen. B. H. Hill. His
"entitle” is Mr. B. H. Hill, which has
the merit of being rarer than "General”
these days. Tho Tribune must also be mis
taken about a need for the "iron screen.”
We have heard that Mr. Stephens favor
ed Mr. Hill’s election. Perhaps. And per
haps not. The "true inwardness” of some
folks is hard to get at—particularly of
politicians who have had “little differen
ces.” We think, however, Mr. Hill will
turn his attention in Congress principally
to making it hot for “Boss” Grant’s folks;
bo he won’t havo any use for the screen.
Me. J. R. Miben, of Campbell county,
Vo., has sent to the Southern Society a
characteristic anecdote of Gen. Lee, in
which he said to his tailor, (the lato John
N. Clark, of Richmond,) "My friends do
not know my size as well as you do. They
all think that I am a great deal larger
man than I really am.” This anecdote
has elicited another from a clergyman,
who says that on a certain occasion Gen.
Lee was a member of an Episcopal con
vention and was put on an important
committee. The chairman of the com
mittee drew np the report in very fine
style. It was read and approved by the
members one by one and at last
Gen. Lee’s opinion was asked. “How do
you like it General confidently asked
the chairman. Replied Gen. Lee : “It
will do very well if you will strike out’the
adjectives." The adjectives were at once
struck rom the report.
One Question Settled.
Wo are glad that the election of Mr.
Tnn in the Ninth District, if such be the
fact, settlea tho question that Congres
sional District lines do not determine the
eligibility of “ty citizen to represent the
people of another District if they are veil-
ling, and ho possesses the other requisite
qualifications.
This is tho law of Congress, but prece
dent and common usago have hitherto
decided otherwise. Wo were always the
advocate of the general ticket system,
because it ruled out cros3-road and pot
house politicians, and gave to the State
the services of her brightest and most
competent son3. Tho new precedent,
however, will in part remedy the defects
of district elections, by enabling the peo
ple, when they really prefer another, or
have no citizen they deem worthy of the
trust, to look elsewhere for a representa
tive.
In Great Britain this has always been
the practice. Ofttimes the most eloquent
orator or sapient statesman, who resides
hundreds of miles away, is elected to
Parliament by some obscure borough,
utterly unknown to fame.
In Georgia, where there is such a dif
fusion of intelligence and so many capa
ble men, it is seldom any district need go
beyond its borders for a representative.
But it is well that it can do'so, in certain
emergencies. Tho occasion may again
arise when secession, tho question of a
monarchy or dictator, the union of church
and State, forced education, or some other
measuro equally salient and important,
may demand tho consideration of our
wisest and best men. Then it is to be
hoped, under the new precedent they
will bo sought out and brought forward,
it matters not in what put of tho Com
monwealth they may dwell. We have
never seen the day when Georgia could
not summon to her councils as noble and
brilliant an array of representatives as
ever graced the halls of legislation. Still,
we havo no objection to tho present dis
tricting of the State, now that it is a part
of the law of the land.
We are Kulned by Chinese
Cheap Labor.
This is what the New York Commercial
Advertiser asserts, because, " bricks made
in China are sold in San Francisco for
less than they can be made for this side
tho Pacific, notwithstandirgtho ad valo
rem duty of 20 per cent, on them.”
For the same reason we suppose the
brick makers of Augusta might complain
that Macon had ruined them, because all
the brick used at a point as near to the
former 03 Waynesboro, from motives of
economy, are bought in the latter city.
But this is the sort of ruin everybody
is praying for: Cheap building mate
rials, cheap homes, cheap beef; cheap
clothing, cheap money, cheap everything.
And we are not sure if that “ good time”
wouldn’t be equally beneficial to those
who raise or manufacture these prod
ucts. For then the same schedule of
cheapness would lower rents, labor wages,
taxes, raw material for all kinds of fab
rics, and every other expenditure.
At least there would be a strong
tendency in that direction, and as the
necessary consequence, a vastly increased
consumption, and infinite advance in the
comfort of the poorer classes.
The Chinese are doing nothing more
than -New England clock makers, shoe
establishments and pedlers, who make
and S6ll at half the cost the same articles
manufactured by our Southern and West
ern people. It is the old story—to wit:
economy and industry must ever bear
away the palm. Let us proscribe no one
because he sells his own property for leas
than his neighbors think they can afford.
Lethim leamand practice thosamelesson.
It is unwise even to cast a single hair into
the delicately adjusted balances which
regulate trade and commerce. The re
sult will be the disturbance of that per
fect equilibrium which justice demands.
A traveling agent, for business pur
poses, is a good thing for the merchant
who has something to sell, but an at
tractive advertisement in a live paper
is a better thing as a business invest
ment. If a tradesman has nothing to
sell worth buying, no advertisement will
help him to secure a large trade. If bis
goods are equal to the best and his prices
reasonable, advertising will bring him
the required custom. An advertisement
reaches more people in a day than a trav
eling agent could visit in a year. It pen
etrates the home, the office, the workshop
the store—goes where no agent can go,
and if it tells tho right story brings
large returns. If our friends have any
doubt of thi3, let them try the Tele-
grath and Messengeb. A wise system
of advertising always " pays, sir.”
A French physician has reported to
the Academy des Sciences a form of par
alysis peculiar to telegraph operators.
The affection is thus described:
“An employe who bad been engaged
for nine years in a telegraph office, found
that he could not form clearly the letters
U, represented by two dots and a stroke;
I, represented by two dots; and S, by
three dots. On his trying to trace
tho letters his hand became stiff and
cramped. Ho then endeavored to use
his thumb alone, and this succeeded for
two years, when his thumb was similarly
attacked, and subsequently he tried the
first and second fingers, but in two
months these were also paralyzed. Fi
nally ho had recourse to tho wrist, which
also shortly became disabled. If ho
forced himself to use his hand his whole
arm and the side of his body trembled
violently, and cerebral excitement en
sued. This disorder is reported to bo
common among telegraph clerks, and to
arise from the constant straining of tho
same muscles in a never-varying occu
pation.
The Atlanta Hews.
Wo feel a deep sympathy for Mr.
Abrams, the indefatigable and talented
editor of this Atlanta journal, and trust
he will indeed work ont of his difficul
ties triumphantly, and achieve the in
dependence he so much craves. We have
seen this man of-all-work in the early
gray of the morn without having retired
to rest at all, standing by his press, fold
ing and directing his papers to help
" save tho mail,” and admired him for
it. Wo havo respect for energy, industry
and pluck wherever beheld; and now bid
you God speed Brother Abrams. The
Telegraph will never help to pull you
down.
A kan in Weld county, Colorado, re
cently paid $5,000 for his wife, giving
$2,000 in cash, and the deed of a farm
worth $3,000.
THE GEORGIA PRESS;
Thb Atlanta Herald says it is rumored
that Gen. McBae of the State Boad will
probably be tendered the position of chief
superintendent of the Georgia railroad,
and also that the head-quarters of that
road will soon he moved to Atlanta.
Onlt $9,000 are now needed to make
np the stock necessary for the Atlanta
cotton factory to commence operations.
The Constitution says the impeachment
trial of Messrs. Morris and Goodwin,
councilman, and polico commissioner,
respectively, of Atlanta, was brought to a
close on Tuesday. In the case of Coun
cilman Goodwin there was but one dis
senting vote to his acquittal, there being
ten for to one against. In Commissioner
Morris’ case the vote wa3 eight for ac
quittal to three against.
The following stock sales at Augusta
last Tuesday, are reported by the Chroni-
tle and Sentinel:
Ten shares of Augusta Ice Company
stock, at $13 per share. Seven shares of
Augusta Beal Estate and Building Asso
ciation stock, $00 paid in, at $60 per
share. Ten shares of Bepublic Life In
surance Company stock, of Chicago, at
$9 per share. Sixty-six shares stock of
the Stonewall Iron Company, 60 cents
per share. Ninety-nine shares of the
stock of the iEtna Iron Company, at 60
cents per share.
Beterring to the injunction asked for
by Messrs. Toomb3 and Hardeman, of
Washington, to restrain tho officers of the
Georgia Bailroad from taking any fur
ther steps to consummate the purchase
by that company of the Western Alabama
road, tho Chronicle says: “General Bob-
ert Toombs and Colonel S. H. Harde
man, representing certain holders of the
stock of the Georgia Bailroad residing in
Wilkes county, havo filed a bill in eq
uity, asking that the officers of the
Georgia Bailroad and Banking Company
he enjoined from taking aDy further steps
to consummate the purchase above men
tioned, and that they also he enjoined
from paying the interest upon any of the
bonds of the Western Bailroad which
havo been endorsed. The principal point
made is that the President and Directors
of tho Georgia Bailroad had no authority
by the charter of the company or by law
to make such endorsement or purchase,
and that these acts are not binding upon
the company. The question of how far
the acts of the agents of a corporation
bind the corporation is thus presented,
and a most serious matter comes up for
adjudication. If Judge Gibson grants
the injunction asked there will bo quite
a flutter in railway and bondholding cir-
cles.
The same paper says the probability i3
that the contest 03 to who shall succeed
Judge King as President of the Georgia
railroad will bo narrowed down to three
gentlemen: Messrs. C. H. Phinizy, Jae.
W. Davies, at present*Vice;Presi(tent of
the road, and Major George T. Jackson—
all of Augusta. To harmonize matters,
it is also proposed that Judge King shall
remain in office at least one year more,
Policeman McDonald, of Augusta,
was shot and painfully wounded on
Wednesday morning, by a party of negro
thieves whom he caught dividing cotton
which they had stolen from the ware
house of I. T. Heard & Co.
From the Savannah Hews:
More men have been discharged from
the Central railway workshops at Savah-
nah.
At the court-house sales on Tusday tho
following stock wa3 sold: Thirty-nino
shares of Southwestern railroad stock, at
$79; twenty shares Central railroad stock
at $59}, and twenty shares at 58}; thirty
shares Central railroad stock at $59 50 to
$60 50 per share; five shares of Savannah
Savings and Loan Association at $95 50.
Messrs. J. McLaughlin & Ssn sold sev
eral shares of Coast Lino railroad stock
at $50 per share; also, several shares of
capital stock of the Augusta and Savan
nah railroad at $87 per share.
The Savannah Advertiser reports tho
following:
Two Against One.—Some serious
amusement was created by a bully affair
which took place near the steamer
Katie’s wharf yesterday afternoon, in
which two negro men indulged in some
butting for a silver half dollar. For
nearly an hour these two worthies barked
up each other’s scalps and made the
wool fly. Tho smaller of tho contestants
seeing that ho would be defeated bant
ered his adversary thusly: " Yer too good
for me, but I bet yer two dollars dat
Jeemes Murray (his backer) and me can
out butt yer. “Good nuff,” reiterated
the champion buttist Then commenced
one of tho most ludicrous sights ever
seen before in this novel way of turning
an honest dollar. But the fun could not
last long, and tho ambitious champion
was forced to cry enough, after his head
was badly cut in three or four places, and
his entire body covered with blood.
We quote these item3 from the Co
lumbus Enquirer-Sun:
Wounded While at the Supper Ta
ble—Mr. Hancock lives two or three
miles from Smith’s Station, in Lee coun
ty, Via. On Friday night, while he was at
the supper table with his family, some
one fired at him through a window with a
shot-gun. The weapon was loaded with
slugs. Both barrels were discharged.
Mr. H. was wounded severely, bnt not
dangerously, in tho shoulder, and glass
was thrown all over his wife. Other
members narrowly escaped. The mis
creant has not been discovered.
Pneumonia.—Wo are told of one plan
tation in Southwestern Georgia whero
eleven negroes lately died of pneumo
nia. The diseaso has been quite preva
lent around Albany.
A strange story comes that the force
of tho wind was so great at one point in
Harris county, where the tornado of last
Saturday touched tho ground that it un
twisted a rope in a well to which a bucket
was attached. This is vouched for.
Whew 1
Sale op Jewelry, Notes and Ac
counts.—Those belonging to the estate
of John King were sold yesterday by the
assignees, Peabody and Salisbury,
through Ellis & Harrison, auctioneers.
The jewelry, diamonds, etc., brought
$1037; tho notes and accounts, $1794—
total, $2831. Some $SS0 of Bussell coun
ty, Ala., orders brought $200, which i3
about 25 cents on the dollar. A very fin»
magic case watch brought $126; a small
diamond cross 535; diamond ring $64,
and other jewelry in proportion. *A silver
tea set brought $150. Fifty-five thou
sand dollars of accounts on one person
sold for $970.
Bain-pall.—Tho rain-fall of Saturday
amounted to 1 24-100inches; Monday af
ternoon's to 22-100; Monday night’s to
95-100—total, 2 41-100 inches. Hoavy,
that.
The Griffin Heirs says the sale of the
Griffin, Madison and Monticello railway
has been again postponed—this time to
tho first Tuesday in November, and adds
this was done by mutual agreement be
tween the commissioners and creditors,
with a view of giving stockholders who
are in arrears a chnnco to pay up and re
deem the outstanding liabilities of the
road.
Bt a vote of 89 te 19 the Bomans on
Monday decided in favor of compropiis-
ing with the holders of their city bonds.
( Tho Commercial Says:
> While the vote is small and far less
then was anticipated, the people may
congratulate themselves that those vot
ing represented the property of the city,
and we do not hesitate to assert that it is
a fair and juat expression of those upon
whom the burden of the debt rests most
heavily. Those voting against the com*
promise, with one or two exceptions, art
for unequivocal repudiation of the entire
debt. In the rote, yesterday, only two
negroes exercised the inestimable privil
ege, and as we are credibly informed, one
voted "fox” and the other “against” the
compromise. Therefore this element was
not manipulated for tho benefit of either
side.
The Thomaaville Enterprise says:
Mr. E. L. Powell, an old citizen of this
county, was found dead in bis field, five
miles from Boston, on Friday morning
last. He left his home on Thursday
evening about dark, telling his wife to
send a negro man to a certain tree in the
field, and, if alive, he would tell him
what to do. From thence he went to a
neighbor’s house and stayed awhile, and
then visited another, leaving the latter
about twelve o'clock. At four in the
morning, the colored man was sent as
directed, and found Mr. Powell dead, a
few feet from the tree. He was evading
arrest by the sheriff; and was armed with
a pistol, resolved not to be taken. He
had told different parties that his trou
bles would kill him—that when this ex
citement subsided he could not live.
The "Georgia Teachers’ Association'
met at Griffin Tuesday and was called to
order by Bev. A. J. Battle, President of
Mercer University. B. EL Johnson, Esq.,
of Griffin, welcomed the delegates in be
half of the town and was responded to
by Dr. Battle, after which Col. D. W.
Lewis addressed the association on popn
lor instruction. In the afternoon the
subject “What are the best Elements of
Snccess in Teaching,” was debated, and
several new members were admitted. At
night Bev. Dr. Sears, agent of the Pea
body Fund, spoke. Mr. Stephens address
ed the association] on Wednesday after
noon, Among the delegates we find the
following from Macon and Bibb county.
We quote from the Netos:
'Bev. A. J. Battle, D. D.; B. H. Zet-
tler, Mrs. M. A. Davis, Mrs. M. W. Yil-
lipigue, Miss L. A. Whitehurst, Miss Ella
Eiley, W. B. Bonnell, Wm. Byder, J. S.
Barfield, B. F. Howard, J. H. Heard, J.
S. Fielder. J. P. Lee, Captain B. E. Park.
Of Interest to Building; and
Loan Associations.
A Washington special to the Courier-
Journal says Judgo Brown, of the City
Court or Baltimore, has rendered a deci
sion of much interest to the building
socia*ion3 of that city and elsewhere. It
is, in brief, that when a building associ
ation takes back it3 stock and makes a
loan to tho full amount of said stock, and
takes a mortgage to secure tho loan, but
instead of paying the full amount of the
loan makes deductions therefrom, and yet
requires interest on the full amount sta
ted in the mortgage, and in the weekly
dues collects more than the l6gal interest
of six per cent, for the period stated in
the mortgage, the mortgagor can recover
back all paid over and above the amount
actually loaned to him, and six per cent,
interest. The decision was rendered in
the case of Bidgeway against the Balti
more Permanent Building and Land So
ciety. Judgo Brown said the question
was, whether Bidgeway could be consid
ered a member of the society, entitled to
share in the profits, or was simply a bor
rower at a usurious rate of interest. He
joined the society to get the loan, and
then divesting himself of stock, he was
still compelled to pay hi3 weekly dues as
a member, in addition to interest on the
loon, and tho fines that might be imposed
on him as a member. Judge Brown held
that tho whole arrangement is a contriv
ance to give the appearance of legality to
loans on mortgages at usurious interest.
The case is appealed; but if tho abovo
decision shall be sustaino 1 by the Appel
late Court it will close up a good many
of these building societies in Maryland,
and lead to reorganization in other States
having a usury law.
Macon as Seen by a Courier
Journal Correspondent.
We find tho following in a recent letter
from a correspondent of tho abovo paper
who signs himself "Mahlstick”—a rather
cleverish sort of a chap with the pen, by
the way, but we fear somewhat of a “fly
ing Dutchman” himself. Or, perhaps, he
went it too strong on ante-breakfast cock
tails tho morning ho was hero :
At Macon there i3 a tavern kept by
Mr. Brown, which is an honest tavern,
doesn’t pretend to bo a metropolitan
hotel, even in its prices. I cat a good
supper, smoke the pipo of peace with the
landlord, encounter a “flying Dutchman”
in the shape of a commercial traveler,
and having received as many lie3, in the
shape of that party’s personal adventures,
as I think I can cany through my usual
allowance of dreams, retire to a comfort
able bed and sleep like exhausted and
wandering innocence. In the morning I
look out of my window—I am fortunate
in tavern windows—and beforo mo rises
a wooded height, through which pierce
spires and cupolas, and out of which ad
vance great burly buildings, until I am
satisfied that tho sleeping beauty lives
somewhere there, but that her domains
ore wonderfully increased, and that tho
impenetrable forest is thicker than
ever. This enchanted place looks utter
ly unassailable from any point of view,
bnt I suppose there are streets that
lead through it and take the poetry ont
of it in the twinkling of an oye. At my
back, if I could see through the wall, I
should view the business part of the
city. After breakfast, I go out, but I
dress first, remember that, and I see
with a curious eye, dim forms of build
ings on the opposite side of tho street,
which is of such amazing width, that I
am satisfied that Baraum could pitch his
hippodrome in the center of it and not
obstruct travel in the least. In fact, it
i3 a little puzzling to decide whether the
length or width of the street is the great
er. In the very widest of all wide streets
in tho town I encountered an acquain
tance. He had a pony and a straw wag
on. “Will yon take a ride?” said he.
"With pleasure," I returned. “Which
way will you go ?” ho asked. "Across
the street and back again will be as far
as I would like to go this morning, if
yon think your pony can stand it.” He
was sore that tho animal was equal to
that, as ho had on one memorable occa
sion dono it twice in one day. I mado a
note of this. This city is embowered in
the woods. It presents a very pleasant,
agreeable aspect to tho stranger. I was
sorry that my stay here was only limited
to a few hours.
Oration to Beecher.
Last Sunday was a field day in Plym
outh Cbnrott, and thousands faced the
elements to pay their court to the man,
who with the leprosy of sin clinging to
his skirts, is still regarded little less than
divinity. The New York Sun thus
paints the eoene:
Shortly before half-past ten Mr.
Beecher worked slowly through the
crowd, with an erjiresnon of mingled
amusement and surprise on his face.
He wa3 accustomed to stand before large
embiles, but probably inJtf* twenty-
seven years of pastorate over Plymouth
Church he never saw within and around
its walls so vast a throng as this. He
worn his time-honored wideawake hat,
which-was,nearly raised off his head by
his long iron-gray hair as it was tossed
about by the boisterous wind. It was
blowing what a mariner such as Captain
Duncan, who is still a member, though
not an attendant of the chnrch, would
call "half a gale,” and tire usher had to
exert his entire strength to hold the door
open while the pew holders entered. He
had a hard tussle with it as the pastor
went is, followed by his brother, Colonel
James Beecher, now a Poughkeepsie
clergyman, who took a seat upon the
platform beside him, and looked with as
tonishment at the immense assembly.
On Mr. Beecher’s right stood the tall
glass vase filled with cal a lilies, ferns,
ribbon grasses, and orchids. In front of
the pews a table was spread with the sac
rament upon it, and loaded with silver
plate. Before this was another tall glass
vase filled with spotless white lilies. As
the pastor stood up, the lower part of his
body was in some degree hidden behind
the wealth of flowers between him and
Ms congregation; and these floral deco
rations, together with the great assem
bly, the noble music, and the solemnity
attaching to '.the communion table, com
bined to make up a scene probably never
before seen in Plymouth Chnrch.
The sermon was eminently Beecher-like
and dramatic. He talked of the transit
of Venus and the difficulties experienced
by the various scientific expeditions in
viewing it, caused by storms and the in
clemency of the weather, drawing the
appropriate conclusion that so it waa with
religion. "Whatever well advised steps
we might take, however faithfully we
might fulfill our daily round of duties,
unless the atmosphere of love was clear,
we conld only be partially successful, or
not at all, in drawing near to God as dear
children.” There is no denying great
gifts to this wizard of the pnlpit, and his
sermon was replete with beauties.
At its close no less than one hundred
and Jive new members were received,
seventy on profession and thirty-five by
letter.
Then folio red a talk to the members,
and afterwards the communion.
His own high priest, this demi-god,
then invited all, whether members of
that {chnrch or of sister churches,
whether they were not members of any
church at all, to unite is holy communion.
“The bread and wine,” quoth he, "did
not belong to Plymouth church any more
than the bible; and as the bible could be
read by every man, 'so could the sacra
ment be partaken of by all. He did not
invite those who took it as a matter of
church etiquette, or, still less, as a charm,
but ho invited those who felt they had
need of it.”
Half of the vast audience responded
and then the priest stood upon the floor
and prayed, “half hidden behind tho vase
of lilies.”
Wo concludo this religious melodrama
with a sketch of
iir. bbzcher’s brother jahes ;
as portrayed by the Sun reporter: Col.
Jame3 Beecher, who sat beside hi3 broth
er on tho platform of Plymouth Church
yesterday morning, was originally a sail
or. While in China he camo under reli
gious influences, and returning home
stunied for tho ministry and was ap
pointed chaplain in a colored regiment in
the rebellion. In ono action all tho offi
cers of his company was killed, and he
took command and fought gallantly
throughout tho day. Fcr the remainder
of the war he was in active military ser
vice, and at its closo received a commis
sion as colonel. When peaco was restored
ho resumed his clerical duties, and finally
accepted tho pastorate of one of tho larg
est churches in Poughkeepsie, which he
now holds. He i3 not in the least like his
brother, being [apparently many years
younger. His features, too, aro heavier,
and his bearing loss elastic. He is more
like the Bev. Thomas K. Beecher, pastor
of tho Park Congregational Church in
Elmira, but his beard and whiskers are
coarser, and his appearance by no means
so prepossessing.
Not Exactly So.
The Savannah Horning News of tho 5th
instant says:
Mr. Thomas H. Harden, of Bryan _ 0
county, contributes to tho Macon Tele- wl'hcre aro doctors in swallow-tailed coats
i—.. - —s i-i. .«—“and doctors in frock. There are town
doctors and country doctors. There are
The Speakership of the Next House*
and the Situation Generally—What
Fernando Wood Says.
"Gath,” of tho Philadelphia Times
lately paid tho Hon. Fernando Wood a
visit, and reports as follows as tho result
thereof:
Mr. Wood said as follows to me:
WhUo I have been named for tho speak
ership, and am not unmindful of the
honor of the office, I do not expect to be
elected. I shall probably be beaten be
cause I will not relinquish my own indi
viduality, and will not assume obligations
and traffic for tho place.
Nothing can boat tho Democratic party
in 1876. They will return to power if
the whole newspaper press should be
against them. The Bepublican party is
not a party for duration, but a coalition
of individuals for tho war. That war
cannot he galvanized again into an issue.
I feel the absolute assurance of easy vic
tory.” Wood thinks that David Davis
has very strong prospects of wiiming the
Presidential race, says that Tilden has
mado a genuine hit, and is inclined to
the belief that the Republicans will nomi
nate Hamilton Fish, whom he thinks to
bo the man who has saved Grant’s Cabi
net from contempt.
A Greeting to the Doctors.
This is how the Courier-Journal wel
comes the doctors to Lonisvillo :
Four and twenty doctors all in a row,
and these four and twenty multiplied by
four and twenty again, is tho pleasant
spectacle that meets the ej e of Louisville
to-day. There are doctors and doctors.
There ore scientific doctors and senti
mental doctors. There are doctors in
plug-hats and doctors in wide-awakes.
graph a lengthy and very interesting
sketch of the late Rev. Joseph C. Stiles,
D. D., a native of SavanHab, and most
honorably known and greatly beloved in
this commnnity. From this sketch we
eliminate the following reminiscences
and anecdotes, which will not be unin
teresting to the general reader, while by
the numerous friends and admirers of tho
deceased these fragmentary incidents of
his useful and honorable career will bo
sacredly cherished.
Mr. Harden has always been regarded
i a amous and graceful writer, and on
several occasions managed the helm of
the old Republican for many months with
ease and dignity. Donbtiess he could
have prepared a much better article. Bnt
it happens he did not write the "reminis
cences” in question, bnt was one of those
who communicated to the author orally
some of the anecdotes which were repro
duced.
Batin’ importe.
doctors from Texas. There are doctors
from Duluth. There is every sort of a
doctor here, except a quack-doctor, and
this is to signify the health of tho whole
lot, and any number of welcomes on top
of that. A doctor is one of the handiest
things in the world to have about the
house. He is, os a body may say, a con
tingent remainder which no young cou
ple, going to housekeeping, can afford to
leave out of the general estimate of pos
sibilities; and, therefore, he is a member
of every man’s family. There used to be
a little premium in favor of the preachers
over the doctors; but Brooklyn has
brought up the average, and, at this wri
ting, a doctor is, why, begad, Jjq’s a doc
tor ! It is not our purpose to make too
much ado over the doctors ; for, like the
women, they know their importance. In
a word, and not to put too fine a point'
upon it, the latch-string is on the outside
and the little pot in the big one, while
the goose swings uncommonly high and
all things arc lovely and festive.
Visit to New Guinea.
Oareapondenee at New York Vorid-1
London, April 19.—Among the few
portions of the earth which have not yet
ben enlaced by Europeans is the inter
ior of Papua, or New Guinea. This isl
and, which lies north of Australia, and is
about 400 miles long by 800 broad, has
hitherto been a terra incognita so for as
its interior was concerned. But on the
25th of Hit, 1872, a Captain J. A. Law-
eon set forth from Sydney to explore New
Guinea. On the 23d of June he landed
on the coast, and from that time until
Febnmry of the next yew he was engag
ed in traversing the interior. He was
pleased with the natives, whom he fonnd
to be industrious, clever, cleanly, honest,
truthful, kind and affectionate to their
wives. Indeed, it ieem3 a very great
pity that a community having all these
virtues should not be in some way pre
served from the degradation which is
sure to be their lotas soon as white men
begin to come among them. Captain
Lawson was received with great kindness;
he obtained the services of two native
guides, who spoke English, Dutch, Por
tuguese and various Malayan dialects,
and with these and Mb three servants he
started on his tour of discovery. At the
end of six days he crossed the foot of a
great range of mountains, wMeh rose to
the height of 13,000 feet, and reached a
village called Bnrtemmy Tara. The in
habitants were intelligent; many of them
could speak Dutch; they had flocks of
cattle and goats, herds of swine and hosts
of fowls, and they cultivated maize and
rice.
From this point Captain Lawson trav
elled for eight days through a fine coun
try, with wooded hills and fertile plains,
abounding in deer. Then he reached a
magnificent lake, seventy miles long,
dotted with numerous islands covered
with tropical vegetation. To the north
of this lake was a range of hills, and hav
ing reached the summit of these, Cap
tain Lawson saw before him a volcanic
region of seventy miles in extent, full of
crater lakes and volcanoes, extinct and
active. The highest of these is one
wMch Captain Lawson called Mount
Hercules, and wMch, he says, rises 32,783
feet above the sea. As this is 3,781 feet
Mgher than Mt. Everest, the highest
mountain yet known, it may be surmised
that something was wrong in Captain
Lawson’s angles. He tried to reach ite
summit, but he succeeded only in attain
ing the height of 25,314 feet. As this is
nearly 10,000 feet higher than the top of
Mt. Blanc, he should have felt satisfied.
Leaving the mountains, he pushed on to
wards the north until he reached a vil
lage only thirty or forty miles from the
northern coast. Here he unfortunately
had a misunderstanding with the natives
wMch resulted in a fight. One of the
natives was killed, three others were
wounded, and Captain Lawson and Ms
party beat a retreat back to the southern
coast. His book is very well written, but
one has tbe suspicion that the author has
drawn the long bow occasionally.
One Day’s Work by tbo De
troit Humorist.
From the Detroit Free Press 3
Massachusetts begins to wonder if she
has a single safe dam in the State, and
dams everytMng because she believes she
hasn't
Long John Wentworth, when a hack-
man undertook to swindle Mm, spit on his
hands and remarked that he waa the
American eagle all over. The charge was
promptly reduced.
A man in Delaware hunted the Bible
all through to find the quotation, "A bird
in the hand is worth two in the bush,’
which ho ascribed to Mose».
Most any woman can sit down grace'
fully in a street cor, but not ono in a
hundred can descend from the back end
of a baggy when the horse is running
away without feeling that she’s going to
overdo the thing.
From certain late discoveries at Pom
peii, it is rendered almost certain that
the mothers of olden times used a heavy
shingle to train their boys in the way
they should go.
Getting Settled.—“Hovdo youliko
your new place ?” inquired a gentleman
yesterday of a friend who moved off to
Mullet t street a few days ago.
Wall, it was purty lonesome for a
while,” was the answer, “but my wife is
gittingto jaw around kind o’ natural
like, and it begins to seem like home.”
Fun Ahead.—Passing a house on Ab
bott street about six o’clock last evening,
gentleman noticed a boy hopping
round and exhibiting great delight, and
ho paused and asked:
'Why, hub, what ails you ?”
‘Ails me?” grinned the lad; seo
there—house sket up, no supper, main
off gadding, and there comes dad around
the corner! It’ll bo worth $50 to see tho
far fly when he opens this gate!”
An Extra One.—Tho other day a beg
gar toiled up stairs and asked a Griswold
street insurance agent for alms, but the
agent replied:
“Oh! go away! A dozen people just
like you come up here every day asking
for money."
“That may be,” said tho beggar as he
sat down, “but none of them had their
whole family blown up on a steamboat,
and I’ll bet ten dollars on it!”
His reasoning brought him a shin-
plaster.
Effects of tho Trial in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Argus gets off tho fol
lowing :
“Cross-examinations” are now of daily
occurrence in Brooklyn families. For
instance, the other day, at tho breakfast
table of a well-known resident ef Pierre-
pont street, the following colloquy took
place:
Pater familias (in a stem voico to a
pretty ] daughter, aged twenty)—“Julia,
who was that young man that was here
last night?”
Julia (with deliberation)—“A friend.'
Father—“How late did he stay ?”
Julia—“I don’t remember.”
Father—“What is his name ?”
Julia—“I can’t recollect.”
Father—“Where doe3 ho live ?”
Julia (quickly)—“He’s moved.”
Father (reprovingly)—“Don’t answer
me in that erasiye manner. Did ho ki33
you before leaving ?”
A young sister, who had been reading
tho trial (turning to rich old bachelor
unclc(—“I object; the question is‘lead
ing.’"
Father—“I insist upon an answer—yes
or no—and will put tho question in an
other form. Was there any salutation of
tho lips ?”
Julia (absently)—“My memory fails
mo in matters of detail, although" (with
a pause) "thero might have been some
thing of tho kind.”
At this point tho breakfast ended.
A Miracle in Card Playing,
The friends of General Schenck’s little
game, writes a correspondent of tho New
York Advertiser, will bo interested to
know of a curious coincidence which hap.
pened among a party of poker-player3
here one evening last week. Six were
playing, of whom four had passed out,
leaving two to bet. Upon the hands
being called, the player who wa3 called,
said, “I have two aces.” “So have I/'
replied Ms opponent.- “King high,” said
tho first. “King high,” replied the other.
“Ten next,” said the first. “Ten here,
too,” said tho other. "And a six,” said
tho first.” “And so is mine,” replied the
last. In short, tho two hands were ex
actly alike, and the pool was divided. The
incident is one wMch probably would not
occur again in a million deals between
six players, and I have thought it suffi
ciently interesting to be put on record.
One op the Party.
Paterson, May 3.
A toung Scotch girl inquired of a gen
tleman in broad Scotch tluaroad to the
Tremont House, Boston. ™ desired her
to follow Mm, and asked her how long
she had arrived from Scotland. _ “Sax
weeks, your honor." On their arrival at
their destination she very cooly inquired,
“Noo, sir, wall ye just tell me hoo ye
kenned 1 was fra© Scotian’ ?”—H. Y. Hail.
Mofclnt a Kentucky Newspa
per “ Consist.”
George C. Harding.j
the pleasure of assisting at the
birth of the Louisville Ledger. It was a
powerful cast. I don’t remember the ex
act number of editom employed on the
paper, but it was immense. There waa
an editor-in-chief, with two or three as
sistants, a news editor, a heavy corps of
reporters and city editors, a foreign edi
tor, an amusement editor, a fine art edit
or, a nautical editor, a legal editor, a
financial editor, and a number of miscel
laneous and unclassified editors. There
were so many editors, in fact, that the
building was uncomfortably crowded, and
they were in each other’s way. Thera
was always a scramble for the lounge and
the Cincinnati papers.
Many of these editors were amateurs,
with rather crude ideas of journalism-
gentlemen of a leisurely literary turn of
mind, who thought it would be a good
thing to stroll into the office once or twice
a day, draw off a kid glove, dash off a pro
found editorial on national politics, and
then stroll jauntily ont again, twirling a
delicate rattan cane, with a horse’s hoof
or feminine leg in ivoiy for a handle.
Col. M. W. Cluskey (since dead), formerly
of Memphis, was commander-in-chief of
this rabble of courageous but undiscip
lined ink-slingers. Col. Cluskey is an
Irishman, reared in Alabama, where he
acquired a mo3t delicious Southern
brogae. Personally, he is one of the
highest toned, kindest hearted and most
chivalrous of men, and in his time he has
been recognized as one of the most vigor
ous writers of the South. A little work
on parliamentary law, of which he is the
author, is still quoted in Southern legis
lative bodies. But at the time Colonel
Cluskey took hold of the Ledger ill-health
had greatly impaired his usefulness. He
was a gallant soldier in behalf of the
Lost Cause, and was literally shot to
pieces. The only wonder wastliathe
managed to live. Colonel Cluskey made
frantic efforts to discipline his rabble,
and at tho same time endeavored to cul
tivate agreeable social relations. It was
one of his theories that a man employed
on the Ledger miut necessarily be a gen
tleman, and that a man good enough to
associate with him in the office was en
titled to be received at his house. About
once a week the entire force was invited
to Ms elegant mansion to discuss oysters,
venison, champagne and other creature
oomforts.
The earlier numbers of the Ledger were
cariosities in their way. I remember one
night, when the foreign editor, intensely
Prussian in his sympatMes, had written
an article on the Franco-German war,
and Dr. Breckinridge, who strongly sym
pathized^withtheFrench, had written one
on tbe same subject. Of course they con
flicted, and each was stubborn in insist
ing upon committing the paper to his
own views. Colonel Cluskey was appealed
to. “Gentlemen,” said he oracularly, “by
Jove, you must make your articles con
sist. It won’t do to have an article in
one paht of this papah taking one view of
a subject, and an ahticle in another col
umn taking another view, they must con
sist. Now, I don’t care a coppah about
thefrog-eatohs or the Dutch, but the
papah must be one thing or the othah.
It can’t be both ” And, after some fur
ther squabbles, the foreign man and the
doctor, unable te get at an understanding,
Colonel Mike called out. "Heah 1 Give
’em to me; I'll fix it up myself.” Tak
ing the two articles, he cut the head off
the Breckinridge editorial, sliced a sen
tence ont of Price’s, and pasted it on;
then he scooped out an inch or two of
Breckinridge and pasted it on to Price ;
and bo continued, taking alternate para
graphs from Breckinridge and Price, un
til he had patched up one of the most
remarkable foreign articles ever publish
ed in the United States, tho whole thing
ending with a semicolon.
Colonel Cluskey was disposed to assert
his rights, and took umbrage at tbe fre
quent consultations of stockholders.
“There’s too much buzzin’ about heah to
suit me,” he would say. “If there’s any
buzzih’ to be done, I'll buzz myself. By
Jove! I’ve been elected managing editah
of this papah, an’ by Jove! I’m going to
manage it. If the gentlemen ain’t satis
fied with my management, my resigna
tion’s at their service; but I don’t want
any buzzin around me. Come, Harry,
boy, let’s go an’ get a cawktail.”
Colonel Cluskey had none of the absurd
prejudiee about personal journalism,
which some of the sedate and stupid news
papers of tho day affect. “Boys,” he
would eay, "to-mo’ah we must open on
’em along tho whole fine. I’ll go for ’em
on the second page, and I want Undah-
wood to go for ’em in the local, and
Smith can go for ’em in tho telegraph,
and Hendahson in the commercial, and
among us we’ll make it hot. It’s about
my time ofjday for takin’ a cawktail, and
I want tbo whole fo*ce to go out with me.”
Colonel Mike came from a country
where the code was in force, and he had
an idea that nothing helped a newspaper
so much as for some ono connected with
it to shoot some one, or get shot himself.
“The papah’s gone to hell,” he’d say;
“ought to have fought a month ago.”
MAN AND WIFE.
Twenty Thousand a Year net Enough
to Harry on.
Says a New York paper: New York is
crowded with rich unmarried men, afraid
of the expense of supporting these gilded
butterflies. There is a bachelor at the *
Sixth Avenue Hotel, whoso income is
$20,000 a year, and still he says ho can’t
afford to get married. He’s a proud fel
low, and says ns a single man he can
have the best horses, best room, and best
box at the opera. “If I should get mar
ried,” he said, “I should have to stint
myself or overdraw my income.” “How
i3 that?” asked a friend. “Well, now,
como into the parlor and Til show you.
You see, ladies are extravagant nowadays 2
They dress so much more than in Europe.
I mean, they don’t wear rich diamonds
like tho women of Florence and Milan,
but they wear rich dresses, laces, shawls
and furs. Now, I’m proud, and I would
not want my wife outdressed, so I
havo to keep out of the marriage
business. Do £you see that lady
there ?” he said, pointing to a fashion
able caller. “Yes.” “Well, she has on
a $400 panniered, wattaued, polonaised,
brown gr03 grain dress, and I wear a $60
coat. She - wears a $1,200 camel’s hair
shawl and a $500 set of sable, while I
wear a $70 overcoat. She wears a $70
bonnet, while I wear an $8 hat. She
wears $200 worth of point applique and
point augile, while I wear a $6 shirt. Her
shoes cost $15, mine $12. Her ordinary
morning jewelry which is changed every
year, not counting diamonds, cost $400;
mine $50.” “Well, how does it foot up ?”
“Why, the clothes she has on cost $2,225,
and mine cost $206, and that is only one
of her dozen outfits, while I have—say
three. The fact is,” said he, growing
earnest, “I couldn’t begin to live in a
brown stone front with that woman, and
keep up appearances tomatch—carriages,
church, dinners, opera and sea-sido—for
$20,000. I’d have to become a second-
rate man, and live in an eighteen foot
house, or withdraw over to Second Ave
nue, and that I’U be hanged if I do!”
and ho flung his fist down into a nice
silk hat in the excess of Ms earnestness.
CARD
back—T* the Pohii *
which, I understand, has^Ji, 8 *^
several other paper* copy?
opinion of my fSXg
me. v «oti^,
whose name is prettv ■ ^"*1
to
is unquestionably a venT^- I
man * ? 9 , f * ther A 1 r ^1
named Holmes, who won sol°^l
tion as an officer in the (W e 4 **l
had a favorite quadroon Z ** 4
bore him one child. The old v ?"• V
man of letters, as well aTa^H
Mars. His favorite poet J
?, n< * if a sportive mood ha f
illegitimate slave son, Percv ir . -li
ley Pinchbeck. Holiea ^^sJ
iB8ippi in 1848, and became I J^l
cessful planter. He had Ta J *»1
ruling passion which
him. He waa an inveteratr
and , faTorite Pastime
npwd down the Misshsippu,^
alluded to in thefa£££*>
“epublidjtonotleft
It is true that I moved from
Hinds county, Miss in
that I serv^inthe ^k l 7m *
veto; that in 18361 served htS
nole war as Colonel, and was
to the office of Brigadier Gen^
that, after the war terminated f 1 ,
elected by the Legislature of 'll
Ma i°r-Genera\ f £
Whether 1 won any “distinction'-^:
military career ia not for me to ut
1 endeavored A all tines’ tj
my duty as a soldier.
So far as my name is concerned
tract above copied is a tissua of
hoods. I never saw tho Hon. it rSl
back in my life, so far as I
lieve ; and certainly I have no c!
whatever to the patemilg ofthta
guished personage.
The extiact copied above presenti.l
to the public in the character of i Zj
sional gambler; and th# remaisitj>1
tion of the article charges that m «I
of “draw poker” with Capt. ThonaJ
on his steamboat Magnolia, I mil
Pinchback (who was a small 'boy r )aad}|
him 1
TMs whole story is a sheer fah:
from, beginning to end, as far si aji
is connected with the narrative. Ii
never been a gambler at anjpew
my life. Really, I would not hand
ticed this matter thus publicly, be j
the fact that my friends in GeorjjJ
to be mortified by tho slander, ariii|
gest that I set tho affair in ilir
light.
I append hereto the statement!
gentleman of Hinds county, vt»j
known me long and well, ia vin&d
of my moral character, and vital
ther comment, dismiss this subject [
Thos. J. Horn
I have known Gen. T. J. Ealnaa
of the time he has resided in Miriq
and take pleasure in saying that lx]
always demeaned himself as a;
man—that he stands deservedly 1
public estimation—and that he hui
been addicted to the low professed
gambler. A. R. JoHjsns|
Jackson, April 5,1875.
The release from robber rule seems to
have inspired tho people of Arkansas
with fresh courage, and os a consequence
there is a much more cheerful tone in
reference to agriculture and trade. The
Little Rock Gazette of a recent date says:
“Never in the history of Arkanaas were
there such signs of industry and improve
ment. From every county in the State
we have the most cheering news. More
wheat has been sown and looks m better
condition than ever before known. More
new ground has been put under fence,
more new fencing made, more farm Im
provements and more industry displayed
than was ever witnessed in our State in
any one year previous to this.”
infanticide.
A case of the wickedest tindof i
infanticide was developed in lb d
yesterday morning, though : |
been discovered that promises to!ai|
a discovery of the perpetrators (ft
is really a double crime. Tho H
are all the facts that could be c:;
up to a late hour last night:
A colored woman, who lives a c |
joining lot, went to the well of Itij
Thornton, corner of Third andHtf
streets, for the purpose of don
bucket of water. On looking dinij
tho well, she saw a bundle
the surface. The bundle wa3 don
and upon being opened was tovzi.i
tain the remains of a fully dev*
female negro infant, which had e
been dead for several days, sudea
tion had commenced. Tho :i
wrapped in a balmoral skirt,- I
package thu3 formed was endori -j
sack and tied up, and then
the welL
The horror of tho family, vha j
made this discovery in the vellJ
which they havo been steadily usVj
ter, may be imagined, but can!
described.
The police miio diligent wril
tor J av, but were unable t: - - j
facto that are likely to lead lath j
covery of the person who con=h»l
horrible enme.
Coroner Sessions held an
verdict was redered in accord '
the facts abovo stated.
Wliltber are We DrifW'j
From tho Now York CommercW-W n! ^|
Science and superstition
bed-fellows. The Chicago Adr*j?|
sembled in their white roba a rv
tl|ro ago, expecting that the I® 1 ,
appear and take them out of •
city. Their disappointment a- n
ura of their hopes was bitter.
science comes to the aid oi
and announces the approae-s; ^ 1
all things. Professor CliffWi
ent English, authority, nssens
come through the loss of heat j
and Professor Proctor, nno~s
scientist, declares that the ei:-
into the sun and be consuraeo.
this cold spell Mr. Clifford vill^ jj
believers, but in July tho **** i
thority frill rest with Mr. T l
the showman remarked, no '7
little dears, you pays
you takes your choice,
probable, notwithstanding■ -J
vaticinations, that tho g oc ^ c ) ,,.. J
continue to wag through spat 1 - •- I
a century to come.
The Khedive’s Vena***
tablishment.
Correspondence New York j- J
Yesterday, at the Shebra I
handsome turnouts—neat
blooded horses—attended vj .)
guards and enuchs, drove ;>
each alighted two elegantly^- . jjj
from the Khedive’s harem.
are not limited in any
dress or luxury in eqmppS^ p
in which they choose to
want a palace refurnished t
to express the wi3h. The
wives, thenumberpennittto1
and these have separate
Ho owns between four ,
fifty and 500 odnlisqn? 5 *
concubines, as you may
some of them beautiful ™
ported to havo cost
portion of Ms family if ^ ^ cif-j
than ono palace, and tn-y
about to suit his convoB 1 '- .
ing to their whims. H® w&o
aces; some of tho lesser o ^ i
have cost $500,000, and tn^^
much more. Many of them.‘jjW'l
unoccupied, and gotog. )UJj
gardens, into shabby ®
the now on® 8 only I^fJ
He ia now building tnrw \
the other side of the 111
Gizurch. One person^ ^
outlay for all these
dens, end harems as_weU^.
Beingaakedwhatmad®
an unwashed street Ar» of §»st,*'
wm made, they tell m >
suppose it works out. y&.v- ’