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UACON, APRIL 11, 1876.
Bloody Conkling.—“Mr. Conkling's
first stop.” says a Syracuse paper, “will
be to enter the White House with brains.”
Although 210,000 persons hare been
admitted since last Easter to the London
Tower, freo of charge, not a single ar
ticle in the great national collection has
been lost or damaged.
Send Flannels.—The San Antonio
(Texas) Herald calls Bergh’s attention to
the fact that tho young grasshoppers,
eight miles from San Antonio, arc suffer
ing intensely at nights from cold.
Information Wanted.—And so Bab.
was in that safo burglary business. Now
wo want to know who set fire to tho Navy
Department building so many times.
Wo want to enquire about his health.
An English agent representing a capi
tal of $15,000,000 is in Charlotte, North
Carolina, considering the expediency of
establishing a smelting furnaco for the
treatment of sulphurets and refractory
ores.
Count Cavoub’s secret political pa
pers, kept' since his death by his heir,
the Marquis Cavour, have been con
signed to the Stato archives, and hence'
forth are available for the historian of
Italian unity.
The Eastern Question broke loose
and went over the dam yesterday- All
Herzegovina and Bosnia are now in re
volt, and tho remainder of the provinces
will almost certainly bo drawn into the
straggle for liberation from the Turk.
A College Call.—Mr. Georgo H. Fer
ris, the obnoxious mathematic tl tutor at
Princeton College, was visited by some
of tho Freshmen, who blew upon his
door with a pound-package of gunpow
der.
Belknap.—Tho Senate Sergeant-at-
Arms served the writ for trial on Belknap
yesterday and found him cheerful. The
fact is, Belknap finds himself in a lively
crowd, when, perhaps, ho expected to go
it alone.
Jefpecson Davis will sail for Europe
oa tho first of May. He will pass some
six or eight months in London end on the
Continent to promoto the establishment
of a direct trade wi*h the cities of the
Mississippi Valley.
A crevasse at “Devil’s Elbow,” on
the Mississippi, has shortened tho dis
tance between Memphis and Cairo eigh
teen miles. One of the islands twenty-
five miles above Memphis is disappear
ing rapidly and another is being formed.
It is tiresome even to think of the
gabble there will he a few weeks hence,
when the “lawyers of tho Senate” fall
foul of the Belknap case. Tho New
York Times is advised that the resigna
tion will hrobably be decided to be a bar
to impeachment.
The smallest prayer-book in tho world
has just been produced at the Oxford
University Press in the form cf a com
plete prayer-book; so small and thin,
that, although it is richly bound in
leather, tho print being very clear, it
weighs only an ounce.
Horatio Seymour has been interview
ed by the New York Tribune, which rep
resents him as saying that his own nom
ination for the Presidency is "a thing
out of the question,” while he would be
glad to see Gov. Tilden nominated, “if it
can be done with the cordial assent of all
sections ”
Americans abroad arc writing home
that they blush for their country since
the Belknap. Orvil Grant and Schenck
exposures. Tbe Richmond Whig says
ono good turn deserves another; the
country has long been blushing for them.
it these “Americans abroad” had re
mained at home to help tho honest peo
ple to removo the causes for blushing
they might not have been so much mor
tified.
One of the girl operators of Crane’s
paper mill, Westfield, Mass., suffered a
severe attack of tbe lockjaw ono day last
week, in which the jaws were set for
more than an hour. The attending phy
sician gave it as bi3 opinion that the dis
ease was tho result of a long and daily
practice of chewing gum, and that if tbe
yonng lady persists in chewing the arti
cle a fatal return of tho disease may he
oxpected.
The Storm in Alabama.—Owing to
interruption in travel and transportation
resulting from the great storm of last
Saturday and Sunday, our first newspa
per reports from Alabama reached Macon
peeterday. The rain and tho winds were
much fiercer there than in this part of
Georgia, and great damage is reported
in the account by tbe Montgomery Ad
vertiser, which is copied in this edition.
About eight inches of rain fell in Mont
gomery in thiity-six hours.
Hurry Up.—The Centennial Executive
Committee has issued another circular
urging upon the Ameriaon people to for
ward their goods for exhibition at the
fair as soon os possible. Tho bnildingB
are now ready to receive articles in all
the departments, and space is available
for all early comers! Those .rho are be
lated may find themselves crowded out.
It is urged that first impressions are a
groat deal, if not everything; and if the
fair opens badly for want of a full dis
play it will suffer in prestige and in prof
it. The United States should try to be
first, in a double sense, at the national
exposition.
American Goods Abroad.—Tho New
York Bulletin mentions as a sign of the
times that buyers are in the dry goods
market of that city representing the
markets of Russia and Turkey. They
appear to have been attracted thither by
the extraordinary fact of certain styles
of American cotton goods having found
buyers in Manchester. Their inquiries
appear to have been directed especially
to prints; and some moderate shipments
have been made both to Smyrna and
Russia. Goods of the same kind have
also been sent to India. Prints are
cheaper in New York to-day than they
are in Manchester, and tho market hero
is weak, while that of Manchester is
advancing.
Bristow Looms Up.—A dispatch from
Hartford, Conn., to tho New York Times
states that tho delegates from that State
to the Cincinnati convention will not
only vote for Bristow from the first, but
will work heartily and honestly for him
as long as there is any chance of his
nomination. General Hawley freely and
pnblicly announces that his purpose in
going to Cincinnati is to do all in his
power to secure tho nomination of Bris
tow. Tho Cincinnati Commercial says
the Ohio delegation to the Republican
national convention, as constituted, will
break up the moment the contest grows
serious, dividing between Bristow and
Morton, with tho majority for Bristow,
and, perhaps, two or three votes for
Blaine.
Ttie Yllow
Tho excitement in California on tho
question of Chinese immigration has
risen to tho point of desperation, and
will culminate in bloodshed unless paci
fied by some action of Congress restrain
ing the importation of that people. The
case is well stated in an article in tho
World of the 4th instant, as follows s
The Chinese question, as stated by tho
journals of tho western slope, may be
summarized to this effect: The emi
grants of tho Mongolian race do not
come into tho country as freo men and
women. The males are for tho most
part bound over to the Six Companies
under contracts which render them in
, effect slaves—not crossing to our shores
' moved by the spirit of individual enter
prise or adventure, as emigrants, but im
ported as coolies. The females nro
brought in under the same contract sys
tem, solely for purposes of prostitution.
Unlike Europeans, tho Chine-e do not
como to make their homo here or become
citizens of tho country. Those of them
that die here leave it, as their dying re
quest, that their bodies shall bo sent
back to China, and those that aro fortu
nate enough to become wealthy, in good
timo return to spend there what they
have gathered here.
Coming from a country teeming with
population—whero tho struggle for exis
tence is so desperate that children nro
sometimes murdered to get rid of tho
cost of bringing them up—tho Chinese,
schooled to exist with few wants and no
luxuries, enter into competition with
American mechanics and laborers and
push them from their places. The pro
gress of importation is so rapid that the
whole Pacific slope is threatened, as it
were, with an inundation of tho new
race, and tho problem of the hour is the
means of preventing California and its
sister States from degenerating into
Chinese colonies. Such a consummation
would, it is claimed, be disastrous to
the country, as the Asiatics aro cunning,
treacherous and vicious, possessing no
conception of American civilization and
totally unfit to comprehend it. The re
sult would be to lower the standard of
American manhood and jeopardize the
destiny of the nation.
So strong is the feeling on this sub
ject among the people on tho Pacific
slope, that a citizens’ committee of
twelve members has been appointed in
San Francisco, to issue an address and
prepare for a public meeting to send a
delegation to Congress to petition for re
dress, and a bill nos passed tho Legis
lature of California granting $5,000 for
tne expenses of such a delegation. From
the statement of grievances in an address
proposed by this committee, it may be
seen that some of tho strongest passions
of human nature, and many of its dear
est interests enter into this movement.
“The committee appointed by the pub
lic authorities of the city of San Francis
co to take into consideration the evil of
Chinese immigration and matters of
relief pertinent thereto, believe that
every substantial interest of tho people
of tne Pacific coast is jeopardized by that
unrestricted immigration; that tho time
is approaching when, if tho evil contin
ues unchecked, they will find themselves
to an intolerable extent pushed from their
vocations and crowded from their
firesides by the increasing immigration
flowing from China; that the evil has
already grown to such proportions as to
endanger the public peace and to im
peril the security of life and property,
and that, steadily growing to more and
more alarming proportions, tho evil
even threatens not only the peace and
prosperity of the Pacific coast, but ul
timately the best interests of the whole
country.”
Chinese emigration to this cosmtry
only began about 1853, but it ba3 in
creased with great rapidity during the
last few years. Up to the 1st of Janu
ary, 1874, 144,328 Chinese had arrived,
most of whom have remained in Cali
fornia. By the census of 1870 there
were 63,199 in the United States, of
whom 49,310 were in California. There
are now undoubtedly more Chinamen in
that State, thinly settled though it is,
than there are Irishmen in any States
save Massachusetts, New York and
Pennsylvania, or Germans in any States
save Illinois. New York. Ohio and Wis
consin. Politicians who have not hesi
tated to declare onr institutions in
danger fromEuropean emigration, should
easily understand the magnitude of the
trouble with which tho people of San
Francisco have grappled, and sympathize
with their dread of being overwhelmed
by Asiatic barbarism. Philanthropists
who opposed the African slave trade and
negro slavery at the cost of a long civil
war, considering the blood that was pour
ed out as cheaply expended in the pre
servation of American ideas, should not
be slow to throw themselves into the
field against the introduction of another
servile race into the country. And yet
the Republican party, which is largely
made up of such politicians and philan
thropists, has looked on consenting at
the importation of Chinese.
We are among those who regard it
moral treason alike to our ancestry and
to our descendants to surrender control
of American territory to any colored race
whatever. The African race was planted
here without our or their consent, and as
a British trade speculation, and its ex
istence here has resulted in perpetual dis
turbance, and wc see no end of the trou
bles. The States of the North thought
they had solved the difficulty when they
“lowered the standard of American man
hood” and made the blacks freemen and
voters; but the prospects are they only
added to the vexation and perplexity.
We shall ho greatly mistaken if one or
two decades of further experience does
not bring a universal recognition of this
fact. The negroes as a race will in that
timo satisfy everybody that, while of tho
smallest possible nse to American civili
zation, {hey aro an immenso burden—a
constant sonree of public demoralization
—“in everybody’s mess and nobody’s
watch”—a pest and a peril. Tho com
mon and moral sense and aesthetic in-
stincts of tho American people will for
ever revolt at the radical idea of extin
guishing tho race by process of amalga
mation, and liko the Indian, it must re
main separate and isolated till it dies out
of incapacity for self-assertion in tho
hopeless career of competition with the
whites.
The yellow Asiatics ore more dreaded
by the Californians simply because they
aro a far more sagacious and capable
race than tho negroes. The Californians
complain of their vices, but in reality
they aro far les3 vicions than the blacks.
Comparatively few of them aro thieves,
and in respect even to social vices, they
are far better than tho blacks. Moreo
ver, they are industrious, pains-taking
and frugal, which the blacks are not;
and they aro orderly and snbmissivo to
law and anthority, which the blacks are
too fast getting not to be. It is, in fact,
only because tho Chinese aro apt as me,
ebonies, and industrious as laborers, and
in both capacities come in aruinons com-
petion with tho whites, because they
can subsist and' prosper on less than a
tithe of tho white man's wages—this is
the real burden of the complaint.
Now, when ono looks at what the Fed
eral Government has done for American
citizenship in tho Southern States, it
seems bard to (isk Southern representa
tives to grant a law of non-importation
against tho Chinese to tho whites of the
Pacific coast, from the contact and com
petition with the colored Asiatic races.
If to come down to a scramble with
Africa for tho right of governing our
selves is good enough for us, surely they
shonld be willing to stand Asia without
the ballot.
But we hold that tho American Conti
nent is a heritage from God and our fore
fathers for the white race, and the attempt
to mongrelizo its population with the
colored races, whether from Asia or Afri
ca, is high treason to both. Nature has
established those ineffaceable lines of do-
markation between races for tho purpose
of keeping them separate and experience
demonstrates that mongrelism is ruinous
and degrading to all.
“A NATIONAL NECESSITY.”
tTh^riil sisu?
Yesterday tho publishers of tho Tele-,
graph received an envelope enclosing a
circular signed by 'William H. Thaw, of
Philadelphia. Also an argument head
ed " Protective Tariff a National Necessi
ty ”-»t wo copies' of a memorial to Con
gress, by the “undersigned business men
of tho city of Macon,” protesting against
the revision of the present tariff, and a
request to put them in tho bands of onr
Postmaster for signatures. This request
shall bo complied with; but there was
one other which wa must refuse, and it
was this: “Will yon not,” (asks Mr.
Thaw,) "raise y onr potential voice against
a revision of tho tariff at this timo r”
No, Mr. Thaw, wo can’t do that I If it
would do auy good wo might say this
much: We might say, Gentlemen of the
House, we don’t think there is the small
est chance of getting a modified tariff
bill through the Senate, this session, but
if there is one chance in a hundred of
lifting that incubus off the industry of
the country, go ahead 1” We might say
that much to oblige Mr. Thaw.
But, perhaps, chance or no chance-
in season and ont of season—it is tho
better plan to potter away at that mis
taken and unrighteous policy of taxing
to build up class interests instead of for
revenue, until it is abandoned, which it
is certainly destined to he at no remote
period. The intelligence of tho country
is every year more strongly enlisted
against taxation for protection, as not
only suicidal so far as tho general mate
rial welfare is concerned, but falsa every
way in principle and pernicious in prac
tice-giving encouragement to the idea
that the Government is a contrivance to
be used for money-making purposes, in
stead of an institution designed solely “to
establish justice, insure domestic tran
quillity, provide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare and secure
the blessings of liberty.”
This false idea lie3 at the bottom of
the flood of corruption now deluging tho
land, and wo repeat, in our judgment,
there is no great moral distinction be
tween using the Government to shut but
the people from the benefits of an open
market, and thus compelling them to pay
more for their supplies than to use it for
robbing them through tho arts of cor
ruption and misapplication. Let the
Government stand true to its office as
the common and impartial protector of
the people, and leave them to pursue
their industries and drive their bargains
under impartial laws. This is sense and
reason; but when Government steps be
yond tbi3 to interfere with trade and
stimulate this or that industry by indi
rect bounties, there is no end to the de
moralization, disorder and trouble which
must result.
Judging from the circular of Mr.
Thaw the protectionists must bo in con*
siderahlo alarm, which just now seems
to us needless. But they may rely upon
it their system is doomed. They must
soon content themselves with such pro
tection as must necessarily be accorded
by a tariff fo rrevenue, and that is enough.
In attempting to keep ap the absurd and
outrageous protection of the present,
they are wasting their time and strength
and alienating the respect and confidence
of just men all over the country.
.Bristow,
In the way of prejudicial rumors, Bris
tow seems to . ho unlucky. Many rise
against his fair fame, and not ail of them
go down and under so promptly as is de
sirable. Yesterday in Washington, they
had him decamping suddenly “for good,”
rather than face Grant in that story told
os Bristow by Gen. Henderson, in his
testimony. Tho story we allude to is
printed somewhere else in thi3 edition,
and we are willing to coneede was calcu
lated to raise the President’s cholcr. But
then, Bristow, like a gallant soldier,
should have stood to his guns, and not
have fled on “pressing private business”
at such an inopportune moment. We
are afraid Bristow is injuring his pros
pects for the Presidency by this conspic
uous display of lack of personal courage.
It must bo confessed that things aro
getting terribly out of joint at the na
tional capital, and every day brings some
new trouble to the faithful exponents of
high morals in politics. For a "do-
nothing House of Representatives ”—so
raw and so green—they are making a
terrible clatter. Sampson with his jaw
bone did not lay about him moro lustily.
Little Storm Tossed Waifs.
In passing through the Oconee swamp
Wednesday morning, on the Central
Railroad, Mr. Adams, the road inspector,
stated to tho writer that tho day pre
vious, when the freshet first came down,
whilo crossing on a hand car he saw
hnndrods of trembling little rabbits
perched on '-every bush or brake that
could afford them foothold. A boat load
of them might have been secured.
Afterwards the waters rose still higher,
and the poor little fellows were all swept
away. The only animals we saw were a
few frightened swine who lay cuddled up
on tho side of tho embankment with
their noses almost on the iron rails. It
was a dangerous place of refuge, hut
there was no terra firma m sight, and they
were ent off from escape by the trestle
work.
An illustration of the value of timber
on waste lands in the Old Country is af
forded by a sale of wood which took place
on the estate of the Earl of Cawdor in
Nairnshire the other day. In 1820, two
htllB, abont 300 acres in extent, were
planted with fir and other trees, and
after successive thinnings, tho sale of
which realized largo sums," the remainder
of tho wood has just been sold off for
the sum of .£16,000. The sums realized
for the wood on this waste land during
the fifty years is stated to be equal per
acre to the -return for the best arablo
land in the country.
Brigham Young has just completed,
from his own plans and under his own
supervision, a new store on East Tern,
pie street, Salt Lake City, that is 318
feet long,. 53 feet wide and three stories
high. It is built of red sandstone, roofed
with iron, and is tho finest commercial
establishment west of tho Mississippi.
THE STORM IN ALABAMA.
A Terrible Rain and Destructive
Gale.
From tho Montgomery Advertiser.J
Tho most destructive rain within the
history of Montgomery, or this State,
commenced to fall on Saturday morning
lost, and at five o’clock in tho afternoon
tho torrents commenced to pour down,
accompanied by unusually heavy peal3
of thunder, tho lightning’s red glare,
and fierce bursts of winds, and rattling
of hail. So it continued for hours, every
moment increasing the velocity of the
wind, and tho strength of tho rain, tho
fearful glare of the lightning, and tho
ponderous rolls of thunder.
At midnight, and from then on until
away after daylight, tho situation was
absolutely frightful, and there seemed
to bo no probability of a cessation of the
storm. It was the darkest, most fearful
night over known in Montgomery, to
have been caused by rain or storm. The
destructive winds mercilessly swept
away solid, as well S3 unprotected para
pets, mercantile sign-boards, fruit, bar
ber shop, and cigar stands, framo houses,
shade trec3 without numbor, and in sev
eral instances, lifted tho heavy brick
from tho very tops of houses, and carried
them pelmell into the streets.
It was an indescribably fearful night;
many a loving mother hugged her babe
closer to her breast, and many a stoat
hearted husband and father attempted
to affect indifference. At daylight the
storm seemed to bo at even a greater
height, and more wild than at the timo of
its commencement on the evening before.
Brick walls gave way without resistance,
and tiny houses in tho rear of tho capital
near tho banks of tho river, wero keeled
over without opposition; rain poured in
to houses where leaks were nover known
before; palings and fences innumerable
were prostrated.
During all this time tho bright streaks
of lightning alone relieved tho darkness,
darting its forked tongue into every
house, and, apparently, at every object.
The largo parapet on top of LeGrand’s
grocery store was knocked into the mid-
die oE tho street, by ono of its playful
darts. Soveral trees, but no other houses,
as far as ascertained, was strack by light
ning in and near the city.
At about 12 o’clock on Sunday tho rain
let up in its fierceness, but there was no
full stoppage until nearly 10 o’clock on
yesterday, there having been a continu
ous rain, therefore, of 36 hours. Tho
amount of damage that it did cannot now
be < stimated. Daring the time 8& inches
of rain water has fallen, and tho weather
observer informs us that a correct report
will show even a greater quantity than
that. Tho Alabama river at 1 o’clock
yesterday had risen 43 feet, and was
then rising at tho rate of 4J inches an
hoar. At 3 r. m. the river was nearly as
close to tho Commerce street depot as it
ever was before. In some instances the
plows, hoes, and other farming imple
ments of plantations contiguous to the
banks of the river, wero swept away.
At this time the river looks like the
Gulf of Mexico, there being no land to
see on tho other side as far as the eye
can reach. This being the case, it is un
necessary to ask what has become of the
promised crops along its banks. Old
rafters, timbers, logs, etc., without num
ber, have been swept into its bosom by
the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers. The
storm seems to have been general; it
missed Dot a spot of land in all this sec
tion ; it came from tho east, and so far
as our information goe3, extended to the
Mississippi river, and, perhaps, beyond.
At Decatur, 190 iciles north of Mont
gomery, on the S. & N. road, it is said to
have been even more destructive, if pos
sible, than here.
We doubt if it mi3icd a single portion
of Alabama, unless possibly the extreme
southwest, and the damage wo fear is
untold. The telegraph wires camo in
for a full share of derangement. The
trains had ceased to arrive or depart up
to yesterday evening, since Saturday
night. On the Western road at West
Point tho bridge was threatened with
being swept away, and tho water bad
gone up into the store doors of the town.
On the same road, towards Selma, work
is now progressing at Pintlala, Talawas-
see and Catoma creeks, so a3 to make
them passable. On the Mobile road, at
the latest accounts, the train which left
Mobile Saturday is now at Greenville,
and tho authorities expected it to reach
this citv last night. On tho Montgom
ery and' Eafaula road the authorities re
ported the damage not extensive, and
expected to send out a train yesterday
evening. The South and North road
brought’ their passengers to town on a
hand car, transferring some miles above.
Tho pecuniary damage to the railroads
wo have no means of ascertaining, hut
the temporary inconvenience to tho
public will bo of short duration. For
the amount of damage done the planting
interests, etc., we will have to await
further advice,.
TIio Waynesboro Expositor.
This sprightly and esteemed weekly
complains that the account of the arrest
and trial of the notorious Morn?, was
copied into this paper from the Chronicle
and Sentinel, to tho neglect of its own
full statement of all the proceedings in
tho case.
This was not intentional, as that num
ber of the Expositor did not come to hand,
or was appropriated by some meddler be
fore it was scanned.
The items below relating to tho early
historv of Burke, and “ Old Church,”
ouoof its most ancient houses of worship,
aro clipped from tho Expositor of April
6th. They are very interesting :
Bukke County.—This county was sur
veyed and called St. George’s Parish in
1758. In 1777 tho namo was changed to
Baike, in honor of tbe illustrious Ed
mund Burke, a member of Parliament,
and a staunch friend of the American
colonists. In 1793 a part wa3 cut off
and added to Screven, and in 1789 a por
tion was added to Jefferson. The county
is 32J miles long and 32 wido. In 1850
there were 1,017 dwellings, 1,017 fami
lies, 2,757 white males, 2,359 white fe
males, SO free colored males, 72 colored
females. Total freo population 5,263.
Slaves 10,832. Farms 712 and 41 manu
facturing establishments.
Old Church.—This was formerly an
Episcopal church, and had a globo of 47
acres, and was known as St. George’s
Church. As an Episcopal Church it had
tho following rectors, 1770 and 1772 Rev.
Alexander Findley. In 1773, Mr. F. went
to North Carolina; in 1774 Rev. Mr. Sey
mour and Rev. John Holmes; m 1776-77-
78 Rev. Mr. Holmes; in 1780 Rev. James
Brown. Tho property finally passed in
to the hands of tho Methodists- The old
building has been torn down, and a more
modern edifice erected in its stead.
It is said that, after the location of
Waynesboro, for tho county site, the Jus
tices of the Inferior Court passed an or
der that the Old Church building shonld
be torn down, removed to Waynesboro,
and converted into a Court-house, and
that this would havo been done, but for a
lawyer by the name of-Allen, who said
that the passage of Scripture would ho
fulfilled, which says: “My house shall
be called a House of Prayer, but you havo
mado it a den of thieves.”
A New Treatment fob Ra*s.—A Sac
ramento gentleman whose premises were
overrun with rats, wa3 informed that
tho best way to get rid of them was to
give them a feed of yeast cakes, the idea
suggested being that tho rodents, finding
tho cakes palatable, wonld eat as long as
their stomachs had room, then take a
drink and retire. Tho water and the
gastric juices in their stomachs would
immedately cause the yeast to act, and,
as the snggestcr of the plan remarked,
“it just raises ’em up!” Tho citizen
purchased some yeast cake by way of ex
periment, and next morning discovered
some very fat, but greatly indisposed,
rst3 in his yard and dispatched them.
THE COMING DELUGE.
Wltbnll His Ratten Hulks, Robeson
will Find No Ark to Bide It — How
'tVliittlinrne Is Pattlngln His Work.
Washington Special to Chicago Times.)
Robeson’s lines are becoming more and
moro circumscribed day by day. Tho
naval committees have gone over a pro
digious amount of testimony, embracing
criminality in every branch of tho ser
vice. When Whitthorno gets ready to
report, tho country will be moro sur
prised than it wo3 in Belknap’s case.
Tho revelations will not bo confined to
one or two or three dozen, or a hundred
briberies or robberies. From Robeson’s
own reports a statement so damaging
will be prepared that not a single pro
test can be made by his party friends.
It may require a fortnight to finish the
showing, but if tho report wero mado to
day Robeson could not escape impeach
ment and popular execration. This as
sertion is mado on tho strength of mem
bers of tho committee who have hoard
and examined tho evidence of Robeson’s
criminality. Tho mo3t significant point,
however, is that Danford, a bigoted Re
publican, who has heretofore scouted tho
inquiry of (he committee, camo from tho
committee room this evening and said to
a follow Republican: “I am sick and
discouraged. Nothing can save Robeson.
Tho evidence is overwhelming against
him." This evidence, it must bo borne
in mind, is not that taken before the real
estate pool committee, which everybody
holds to be abundant to drive the shame
less robber from tho place ho disgraces.
Frank Gassaway, who was the executor
of Huntington and custodian of his pri
vate papers, is to be called as a witness.
Ho is now in California, having gone
there some months since. It is claimed
that these papers contain a mine of val
uable information in connection with the
transfer of the Government financial ac
count from tho Barings to Jay Cooke,
McCulloch & Co., and Clews, Habicht &
Co. It will bo remembered that some
timo since ono G. P. Cheeves brought
suit against tho firm of Clews & Co,
claiming to be a partner in the house,
basing his interest on certain influences
alleged to have been procured by him,
through which his firm abroad became
oustodian of tho Government funds. This
suit was brought to a sudden and mys
terious termination. Tho allegation is
that it was the original intention of the
Government to to give Clews the whole
account, but that it was divided on the
manipulation of Huntington and Jay
Cooke. Robeson’s letter to Clews, pub
lished some weeks since, throws light
upon this decision and tho motives that
constrained tho administration to make
it. It is alleged that a large snm of
money passed to secure the transfer of
this account. The names of several la
dies in society are said to figure in the
correspondence, which it is tho object of
tho committee to unearth. It is further
claimed that there were brokers in the
premises between tho high contracting
parties. The State Department Expen.
dit-ires Committee aro informed that the
$150,000 Benjamin H. Chener claimed as
promised him for getting the State De
partment’s fiscal agency in London for
Clews, Habicht <& Co. was to bo shared
with Louis Dent.
l’nrman, of Florida.
The investigation into the case of Rep
resentative Ptirman, of Florida, was re
sumed Monday by the Committee on
Civil Service.
L. J. Dennis, State Senator of Florida,
was questioned. Witness offered Pur-
man $300 for an office worth $1,000, but
ho declined.
On crofs-examinatiou the witness said
Purman might possibly havo regarded
the offer as a joke, but he himself meant
business. The witness was present when
a Mr. Wentworth offered Purnam $1,000
per annum for the collectorship at Pen
sacola. Purmnn wanted $3,000 in ad
vance from Wentworth. Purman did
not say he would procure the appoint
ment for Wentworth for $3,000, but said
ho would not get it without tho $3,000
and that it must ho paid in advance.
Wentworth did not secure the ap
pointment, and the witness thought the
matter fell through because of a lack of
confidence between them. Purman would
not get the appointment for Wentworth
and trust him for tho $3,000, and Went
worth would not pay tho money and trust
to Purman to get the position for him.
So the matter failed.
The witness was asked if it was the
understanding in Florida that people are
to pay their members of Congress for
obtaining positions ?
The witness replied: “ That depends
entirely upon who represents us."
Question—Do you mean to say that
such is the custom there ?
Answer—Well, some of our members
havo such a reputation. [Laughter.]
The impression of witness was that
Purman goes in for making money, and
would not let a $10 bill stand between
him and his friends.
Florida News.
Reading by Mas. Stowe.—It is an
nounced that Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
has consented to give a select reading at
the church, corner Church and Cedar
streets, on Friday evening, April 7th, at
8 o’clock, for the benefit of the Union
Congregational Church. This is an op
portunity to enjoy an evening’s enter
tainment and assist in a most worthy
enterprise.—Jacksonville Union.
Five inches and eighteen one-hun
dredths of rain fell in Jacksonville on
Sunday.
Speaking of the municipal election on
the 3d inst, tne Press says:
We have elected our Mayor, Marshal,
Clerk, Assessor and Collector, and seven
of tho nine aldermen. We present these
officers to tho'citizens of Jacksonville
with tho confident assurance that the
affairs of the city will bo so managed as
to insure progress and prosperity, estab
lish confidence and reflect tbe highest
credit upon their administration. The
aldermen elected are Messrs. G. R. Jono>,
G. Muller, A. E Sawyer, T.E. Beckman,
J. H. Burton, A. Doggett, J. E. Hart-
ridgo and B. H. Webster. Messrs. J. C.
Greeley and Wm. Simons are tied, each
ono receiving 331 votes. Three cheers
and a tiger for the reform ticket.
How to Head off Mosquitoes.—Mr.
Codrington, of tho Agriculturalist, offers
tho following as a protection against the
mosqnito:
Dry the leaves of tho Vanilla plantain
(Liatris) and use as a “ smudge” in mos
quito districts, or evaporate a small lump
of camphor, or pour a few drops of coal oil
in a basin of water to be rubbed over the
face and bauds, and tho “ small voice of
tho night” will lose its terrors.
Not 60 Bad After All.—The gardens
aronnd here do not now appear to be so
badly injured by the recent cold as was
at first feared. Many vegetables are
coming out freBh and green again, and
nothing has really been killed except
perhaps cucumbers and melons. By-the*
way, we have been told that tho cold
wavo which struck ns extended way up
the St. John’s, was seriously felt in St.
Augustine, and went down the Gulf coast
as far eouth as Punta Rosa. Where is
tno frost line ?—Floridian.
That United States Criminal Court in
Washington is a very active little fellow,
but in it9 pursuit of justice evidently
belongs to the department of that name.
Last week it made a big show of proceed
ing against tho safe burglars and prom
ised to uso up every mother’s son of
them; but whon it got ready to act,
Whiteley and tho wholo gang had disap
peared nobody could tell where. Tho
court i3 evidently a Republican institu
tion.
THIS GEORGIA PRESS.
The fruit, says tho Barnesville Gazette,
is not yet all killed in oar region, bat
much thinned. Yonng corn all killed
and forward wheat and oats more or less
injured.
The Marietta Journal learns that for
ward wheat has been damaged, while
late wheat promises well.
Mb. Martin L. Ruff, of Smyrna, Cobb
county, is dead.
Bishop Wightman will preach in Ma
rietta to-morrow.
The Marietta Journal says: Tho two
Shef ton boys, who shat and killed Bud
Puckett at Dallas last February, and es
caped, delivered themselvos up last week
and were released on bond—Polk Shel
ton’s bond being $2,000, and that of
Jerry Shelton’s $1,000—and will be tried
at August term of Paulding Superior
Court.
The Dalton Citizen of yesterday has
the following items:
A negro child at J. T. Camp’s, near
Dalton, fell in the firo and wa3 burned
to death one day last week.
A ride in the county, a few days ago,
gave ns a chance of looking at the wheat
and oats crops, some of which we found
injured by the late cold weather, but
not seriously. As a general thing these
important crops throughout this and ad
joining counties, from all tho informa
tion we can gather, aro looking well and
give promise of a fair yield.
Wb regret to. learn that Mr. Wiley
Mitchell, son of W. D Mitchell of this
county, was killed on tho Memphis and
Charleston railroad on Thursday last.
He was an employe on that road, and his
melancholy death was occasioned by the
running off of the train on which bo was
engaged. Ono of his legs, we under
stand, was cut completely off, and his
other leg and body badly mangled. He
lived three days after tho accident.
If there is one feature that more than
another predominates in the genius which
conduct* the Dalton Citizen—which by
tbo way very narrowly escapes being tho
best weekly in Georgia—it is the poetic.
As a proof of this assertion, witness the
following:
The distant cooing of the dove is
heard in the woodlands, and tho “ busy
bee” lazily hums through the air as be
flits from flower to flower, sipping from
their stamens nectared sweets—blessed
harbingers of spring.
The idea of giving tho attribute of la
zinesa to bee3 is so now as to be highly
imaginative and eminently poetic. The
paragraph, however, leaves no doubt of
the fact that the year has commenced its
spring campaign.
A little four year old son of Dr. H. L.
Graves, of Dawson, had his leg hioken
last Sunday.
The Sandersville Herald has the fol
lowing report of an important law suit
recently disposed of by the Supeiior
Court of that county. Judge Pottle, of
the Northern circuit, sitting for Judge
Johnson.
One of the most important suit3 ever
tried in Washington Superior Court ha3
just been concluded, after a trial of eight
days duration. Hon. E. H. Pottle, Judge
of the Northern Circuit, presiding. Tho
case was B. J. Wilson vs. W C. Biddle,
and involved near $100,000. A few
years ago Mr Riddle was the most ex
tensive farmer and cotton planter in
Washington county, producing annually
many hundreds of bales of cotton and
using large quantities of commercial Ma
nure and plantation supplies. During
thiB time—from 1866 up to 1870—Mr.
Wilson, (either alone or as a firm.) thpn
doing business in Savannah, was Mr.
Riddle’s factor. During these years
there was a running account between
Messrs. Wilson and Riddle, the former
furnishing guano and plantation supplies
and the latter shipping cotton to pay ftr
the same. Finally the reckoning came,
when Mr. Wilson claimed that Mr. Rid
dle was largely indebted to him. To this
Mr. Riddle demurred, claiming that the
showing was not correct, that he had not
had proper credit: for cotton shippel
Suit wa3 brought by Mr Wilson, and
the case has been on tha docket in some
shape or other over since. At March
term, 1875, wo believe, the matter was
submitted to a Master in Chancery. The
report was rendered at the opening of
March term last, and was adverse to Mr.
Riddle. Realizing tbe fact that the trial
of the cause would consume many days—
more time than he could devote to it
without great injury to others and the
conflicting with other courts of his cir
cuit—Gov. Johnson put the case down
for trial on Tuesday of last week, Judge
Pottle having consented to preside. Such
an array of talent has seldom, if ever,
been seen in one case in this county.
Mr. Wilson wa3 represented by Judge
McOay. late of the Supreme Court; Hon.
Clifford Anderson, of Macon ; Messrs R.
L. Warthen and Langmade & Evans, of
tho local bar. Mr. Riddle by General
Ilenry R. Jackson, of Savanah; Judge
W. W. Montgomery, late of tho Su
preme Court; and Hon. J. N. Gil
more, of tho local bar. It was in-
indeed “Greek against Greek.” Every
inch of ground was hotly contested. Tho
first week and a portion of Monday of
the second was occupied in the taking
of testimony. The discussion wa3 open
ed Monday afternoon by Judgo McCay in
an able argument. (Mr. Wilson having
offered no testimony had tho opening
and closing.) Judge Montgomery fol
lowed on Tuesday morning with an ablo
speech, General Jackson concluding for
Mr. Riddle with one of tho finest offorts
of his life. Hon. Clifford Anderson de
livered tha closing speech, in which he
fully sustained his reputation as ono of
the first lawyers of tho State. The jury
retired late Tuesday afternoon and Wed
nesday morning returned a verdict in
favor of B. J. Wilson & Co., for $59,-
406 04, principal sum, with interest from
May 1st, 1871 to date, making a total of
between $79,000 and SSO.OOO Court ad
journed Wednesday forenoon.
The Rome Commercial says: “Col.
Thomas Hardeman is the noblest Roman
of them all, and a gentleman of tho real
old stock. Wo wonld bo delighted to
see him safely ensconced in tho guberna
torial mansion at Atlanta. He would
fitly adorn the position, honor his peo
ple, and do credit to tho State, both at
homo and abroad.”
Martin, of the Houston Home Journal,
has scared up a turkey which laid three
eggs one day last week. He" can go head.
The Irwinton Appeal mentions a diffi
culty which occurred in Jeffersonville,
Twiggs county, on Tuesday, between
Maryland Bentford, T. J. Wood, Teaber-
ry Newby. John Lamb and H. S. Newby.
Teaberry Newby was terribly beaten with
a piece of scantling by Bentford, who,
after knocking him insensible, left pur
sued by H.' S. Ntwby. After walking
some distance, Bentford turned and re
treated with his faco to his pursuer, who
pulled out his pistol and fired at him,
whereupon Bentford commenced firing,
advancing in tho direction of his foe.
After emptying his pistol ho left.
Examination developed' tho fact that
he had shot Newby iu the groin,
inflicting a dangerous and perhaps
fatal wound. In aidition to this
wound Newby was also cut severely on
the arm with a knife. Mr. John Lamb
was cut severely iu the back with a knife
in the hands of Teaberry Newby. It was
at first thought that he -was mortally
wounded, but an examination showed
that his wounds wero not necessarily fa
tal. Teaberry Newby was horribly man
gled about the head arid faco by blows
inflicted by a piece of scantling. He
was knocked insensible and was thought
at one time to have been dead, bnt re
gained bis consciousness, and will no
doubt soon recover. Bentford and Wood
escaped uninjured. The difficulty was
ono of theso senseless drunken rows,
where the 'confusion was so great that
it was impossible for tho sober specta
tors to decido positively who inflicted
blows or fired pistols, and consequently
there is great discrepancy in their state
ments.
Augusta factory stock is quoted at
122.
Augusta has the whooping cough, and
Moore, of the Consftfutfonaluf, wears
asafeatida around his neck.
The Chronicle and Sentinel of yesterday
says: The following telegram was re
ceived yesterday afternoon :
Oconee River, April 6.—Bridge all
right. All trains can pass over. Notify
both papers to-night, so that notice can
appear in to-morrow morning’s issue.
£j K. Johnson, Superintendent.
Tho first train, freight, uasaed over
the bridge at 8:45 f. at. All trains will
ran on schedule time between Augasta
and Atlanta to-day.
The Atlanta Constitution says: Mrs.
Harvy Clinton left her house about ten
o’clock, leaving her boy child, some eigh
teen months old, crawling about on the
floor. ' Soon after she left it is supposed
the child crawled into the fire, setting
fire to its clothes, and then crawled to
the door step, whero it was found, its
chin hanging on to the round of one step
and the instep of its feet resting against
the rounds of the step lower down. Be
tween the chin and instep tbe child’s
body wo3 burnt to a crisp and black.
Strange to say tho child did not cry at
all, notwithstanding th9 pain. It lived
some fifteen minutes after it wa3 discov
ered.
“Shall religious property bo taxed ?”
ask3 the Atlanta Commonwealth. Before
the question is answered our cotemporary
ought to explain as to what faith tbe
property professes.
Savannah good little boys ore fined
five dollars for using their Alabama
slings in that city.
Editors of newspapers, says the Sa
vannah News, continue to adviso farmers
to raise their provisions; but if this ad
vice is followed, what will become of tho
grange stores? Why, one of the prin
cipal objects of the grange movement is
to buy provisions cheap. If the quill-
drivers think it i3 easy to resist the cot
ton fever, let them try farming seven
teen or eighteen years, and get beggar
lice on their breeches and cockle-burrs in
their hair.
The Brunswickians are smacking their
chops over strawberry short-cake.
Rev. R. A. Mickle entered upon his
duties as pastor of the Brunswick Pres
byterian Church last Sunday.
The Eastman Times says: The United
States Marshal arrested three citizens of
our county,, Messrs. Roquemore, Pea
cock and Giddings, a few days since at
the instance of one Mr. Edge. It seems
that some time ago Edge was taken from
his home at night and whipped. He re
ported these parties as having done it
and hence the arrests that have be* n
made by the Marshal. We understand
they are prepared to prove an alibi.
Greensboro charges $3 for a retail li
cense. Good for Greensboro.
W. W. Weaver i3 the newly elected
Mayor of Greensboro.
Greensboro is cackling over a pair of
goslins from tb e same egg.
Bishop Beckwith will preach in Rome
to-day.
The Columbus Times announces itself
a tri-weekly instead of a daily for the
next six months.
The La Grange Reporter advances three
ef the good citizens of Troup county to
the front in the following paragraphs:
Mr. E. J. Green, who lives near La
Grange, makes all tho tobacco he uses.
Mr. ."homas Swtndall, of this coun
ty, has plowed every year for sixty suc
cessive years, and is still plowing. This
is a record of labor of which any man
ought to be proud, and which few can
rival.
Mr. John A. Smith, of O’Neal’s
Mills District, has three crops of cotton
on hand, and has corn enough to run hi3
farm with till Christmas. Mr. Smith
does not buy anything on credit, and of
course all the merchants are anxious to
sell to him.
The Reporter says a hen which went to
roost on a high point on tho bank of tho
Chattahoochee last Saturday evening,
woke up to find herself surrounded by
the rising waters. At last accounts she
was still sitting there, waiting for the
waters to abate.
The LaGrange Reporter has a great
deal to say about tbe late freshet in its
section. Why, it was nothing bnt Wa
ter-man in its fiery untamed mood.
Some fifteen Troupe county bridges
were either swept away or greatly dam
aged, by the late freshet. Tho losses
foot up nearly $4,000.
The coroner of Palaski county has re
signed. We nominate Wood, of the
Hawkinsvillo Dispatch.
The Dispatch announces the death of
Mr. W. J. Fountain, of Pulaski county,
and also that of Mr. M. G. Wilcox, of
Telfair.
Thomasyille floral fair has been post
poned from the 20th to tho 26th of May.
It i3 safo to say, says tho Times, that
ten persons are cnltivatingiiceio Thomas
county this year, to whero one cultivated
it before.
Mrs. John Stark, of Thomas county,
died last Tuesday, and Mrs. Millie Mc
Guire, aged SO, died in Thomasville
on Saturday, the 1st instant.
Mr. Lot Warren, of Albany, will de
liver tho memorial address at Americas.
Mrs. W. H. Mathews died near Amer
icas on the 30th ultimo, in tho 30th year
of her age.
Berrien county has already developed
a five foot rattle snake. Now let the
snake stories begin.
Oglethorpe county is in favor of ex
citement over a prospectivo gander-
pulling.
The Atlanta Commonwealth has pnt on
a new head, and a very handsome one.
The Atlanta Commomccalth, of Friday
evening, publishes the following para
graph, double leaded:
Wo have learned from various source?,
entitled to belief, and we ourselves be
lieve the matter to he an authentic fact,
that Governor Smith has under consider
ation tho propriety of retiring from
the candidacy for Governor, and we hare
good reason for believing that such an
nouncement will be authentically made,
perhaps to-morrow.
Tsssamo paper says: Just 03 wc go
to press wo learn that Mr. West, of the
late firm of West, Edwards & Co., of this
city, was arrested to-day by virtue of "a
requisition of tho Governor of New York,
under tho charge of defrauding some
parties in New York city, and taken off
on the 12 m. train for Augnsla. Before
leaving a habeas corpn3 was sued out by
his attorneys, but it did not have the ef
fect to delay the officers having tho pris
oner in charge.
The Savannah News learns from Mr.
James' McPherson, Clerk of the United
Statss Courts, that during the present
week the following proceedings in bank
ruptcy have been filed in hi3 office: A
ictition m involuntary bankruptcy has
lecn filed by Jenkins Lane & Sons, and
others of Boston, petitioning creditors
against M. E. S. Meyer, & Co, of Macon,
Ga. A petition in voluntary bankruptcy,
filed by William S. Moughon, of Had
dock’s Station, Jones county, Ga. A
letition for*final discharge has beeh filed
iy John H. Crouch, of Dawson, Terrell
county.
Tom Marshall and Aaron Thomas,
two prisoners in the Muscogee jail al
tercated Wednesday evening. Marshall
struck Thomas over tho head with a ba
sin, causing injuries which produced
death tho next day. The Coroner’s jury
rendered a verdict of mnrder.
NOTES.
Whin tho Radicals heard the testimony
of Custer they cussed or, its equivalent
The Run says: “ California now
the belt in the divorce line.” Not tlT
belt alone, hut the whole suit. 8
W. H. Psoas, of Louisville, has been
fined $500 for dealing faro. The sen
tence fairly knocked him off his p C3g ,'
Dana was a high-toned literary pirate.
He should have stolen Bpoons, and then
Butler would have been spooney on him
Dana never denied that he pilfered
Lawrence’s Wheaton. Thongh he wag
“two years before ths mast,” he does
not seem to have learned how to lie too
“Hands off!” exclaims the Conner,
dal Advertiser. If the C. A.'s party had
adopted that plan ten years ago there
wonld have been no need of investigating
committees now. *
Edward Everett Hals says: “We
should elect none bnt high-toned men to
office.” “No man high-toneder could be
found” than C. S. Bell, and yet the
Radicals would scout him as a candidate
even for a detectivecy.
“Be done with Tammany,” exclaims
the New York Sun, with as much acer
bity as if there were con-Tammany.
ation in the very word. The Sun thinks
thesachems are a naughty set of poli.
ticians, and that the Democrats ought to
sack ’em.
Canada is not to be ontdone by the
States. She matches Kentucky’s shower
of meat by a snow of flies, millions of
which covered several acres of snow-
covered land. Wo have seen snow fly
many a time; but have never seen it
snow flies.
W. F. Storey, of the Chicago Timet,
has made himself a temporary hero by
proving his good citizenship by obeying
a summons to serve on tho grand jury of
his county. He is a very good Storey,
but has done no moro than any good
citizen wonld have done under similar
circumstances, and the law will never
have a wholesome administration until
they do.
The Radicals now take their Tom and
Jerry without nutmeg.
“Grant provides places for all of hu
impecunious kin,” hat that is only rela
tive-ly speaking.
“Frank Mato has played Davy Crock-
ctl 800 times.” Certainly be should h&Te
learned to play it better by this time.
Tennessee dentists convene in Nash
ville. Won’t the teeth of the people feel
like they are in gnosh-ville while so many
Forceps are about.
The California Legislature has bad
before it a bill requiring the writers of
all newspaper articles to sign their names.
Wouldn’t that be a happy relief to ed
itors 1
Imports from Sheffield this year haTa
amounted to only $585,000, against $2,-
275,000 during the same.three months c!
last year. That is a great cutting down
in cutlery.
A Massachusetts girl had a two hours’
attack of lock-jaw, occasioned by exces-
s've uso of chewing gum. If girls will
chew, why don’t they take to tobacco, like
sensible people ?
Since his rejection by the Senate,
Dana is in deep meditation upon the
moral of the text, “thou shalt not steal;”
but when his mind run9 upon Butler, the
moral of the thing loses some of its force.
The Rev. Joseph M. Berry has been
tried by his church in Ashville.N. C., and
found guilty of lying, drunkenness acd
adultery. And when they found that
that Berry was not sound fruit they
plucked it and cast it aside.
The Washington Chronicle has “no re
spect for tho honesty of Mr. Clymer’s
committee,” as might have been expect
ed. The only honesty for which the
Chronicle has ever manifested any reaped
is an honest adheronco to all the princi
ples of dishonesty.
Eafaula and Alabama Matters.
From the limes of the 6ih.>
We met: many gentlemen from tbe
country in town yesterday, and they re
port tho storm as disastrous to ths
planters generally. All the freshly
plowed ground is washed badly, and in
many places corn will have to be plant
ed over.
The Fort Gaines Bridge.—We are
pained to learn that the splendid bridge
across the river at Fort Gaines was
swept away by the flood cn day before
yesterday. Thi3 is really a great ca
lamity, not only to Fort Gaines, but to
the Southwestern railroad and the travel
ing public. It was a fine and coBtly
structure and it will cost a great deal to
replace it It will lose to Fort Gaines
most of its Alabama trade.
Immense slaughter of rabbits has taken
place since tho river ha3 been so high.
The hoys and negroeB aoout town ha«
brought all the batteanx, fice dogs and
shot guns into play, and by visiting a”
the points near the river that are pot
overflowed, have had fine sport capturing
all tho rabbits that havo congregated on
such spots to avoid tho rising waters.
Hundreds are thus destroyed every dal-
The Storm at Union Springs.—
learn from a gentleman just from Union
Springs, that the storm of last Sunday
was very severe—almost a cyclone. Many
houses were unroofed, and trees and fen
ces prostrated. No damage to hfo c:
limb had been reported up to the time
onr informant left.
The farms throughout the county,r°
far as wo are able to learn, are Wv
washed. Luckily but few planters ha«
pnt out their guano as yet; those
have, have almost invariably lost it-
The river, as wo expected, ba3 neon
booming, and was on Tuesday
last within three feet of being as high®*
it was about this time two years ag®»
but yesterday evening it was gradually
falling.
Monster Hen Ego.—We wero sho*-*
by Capt. G. A. Roberts, on yesterday,
two of the largest hen eggs we ever
before. They wero laid by a com®
hen, on his lot, and measured Gi
in circumference ono way and about
tho other, and the two weighed se
ounces.
The Fruit Crop.—There will be
peaches in this locality, after all.
ed April doesn’t treat us to a k«- ‘
Many of the trees here had not P nt J
when tho cold fell and are now co«
with blossoms. Apples are said to he w
promising hero as well as in other *
tions of the State.
The ga3 companies at Cincinnati h»
agreed to reduce the price of g 13 ,", j
per thousand feet, with a discount
per cent, for prompt payment.
A very bright and interesting I®*. .
lady has been expelled from Well
College at Amherst, Mass., for ** ...
money and clothing from her fello*
dents.