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SrniKGFixLD, III., Joly 25.—In the
Twelfth District the Nationals nave
nominated Hon. John Matters, of Jack
sonville, for Congress.
Shelbyville, III., July So.-—In the
Fifteenth District of Illinois the Demo
crats nominated Judge Hiram B. Deeins
for Congress.
Ban Francisco, July 25.—A Bois oity
dispatch says Howard has formed a junc
tion with Foreytb, and the whole force is
following the fleeing hostiles.
New York, July 25.—Lester Skinhardt,
manufacturer of silk ribbons, and dealer
in clothing, has failed. His liabilities
are $141,000. . _ _ .
Cincinnati, July 25.—J. F. Davis,
ot Itonton, Ohio, dealer in dry goods,
has failed. Li»bilitie», $50,000. Assets
Elizabeth, N. X, July 25.—Hugh Re-
hill’s “Lady Dexter” burst a hlocd ves
sel while trotting on the Somerville course
yesterday, and died. She was nine years
«ld, and a great favorite. Her record is*
from 2:25 to 2:31. She was of Hamble-
tonian stock, and was valued at $3,000.
London, July 25.—In the House of
Commons to-day Mr. Joseph Cowan,
Esdical member from Newcastlc-on-Tyne,
will present the petition of a small fac
tion of extreme Tnrcophiles, demanding
the impeachment of Beaconsfield.
Vienna, July 25.—News has reached
horo that tho treaty at Berlin caused
great irritation among the Bulgarians,
who, sinco the Russian occnpation, have
been the ruling class in Eastern Bourne-
lia. A called Pan-Bulgarian committee
has been formed at Adrianople to agitate
for Bulgarian unity. The committee
telegraphed to Prince Labanoff, Russian
Ambassador at Constantinople; to Akaa-
koff, Chief of the Pan-Slavic Propaganda
at Moscow, and to the Czarwitcb, in«
forming them of the Pan-Bulgarian
movement.
Arrangements for tho march of the
Austrian troops into Bosnia are now com
plete, down to the last details, and the
forces are ready to cross the frontier at
any hour; but the order to march will
not be given before the end of the week,
as the Austrian Government is anxious to
complete arrangements with Turkey, in
order to enter tho provinces as a friend,
and not as an enemy.
Ent with or without the good will of
Turkey, the order to march will not be
delayed much longer. The headquarters
of tho Austrian forces, fully assembled,
aro at Brod. Nobody anticipates se
rious resistance from any quarter. The
Turkish authorities in the provinces
have certainly received directions from
Constantinople that, in all circumstances,
they are to meet the Austrians in a
friendly spirit.
Greater difficulties are feared in repa
triating the Bosnian refugees, who do
not appear anxious to go back.
Vienna, July 25.—The Italian dem
onstrations absorb political interest here;
br.t it is well understood that the whole
affair is directed against the Cairoli
ministry. The immediate pnrpcsa of the
agitation seems to be to force ministers
to resort to repressive measure?, which
will be certain to be followed by their
downfall.
The open or secret partisans of a re
public and democracy are avowed leaders
of the movement, bat the reactionary
party has given it substantial though
silent help. There are indications tlmt
a reaction is already setting in. The
mosses aro beginning to realize the harm
agitation might do to the country.
St. Louis, July 25.—R. S. Elliot*,
Secretary of the South Pass Jetty Com
pany, publishes a card in reply to state
ments published yesterday, inwhiehhe
states that the stockholders of the com
pany have been fully advised by Captain
Eades of all the financial difficulties and
by a large majority have recognized the
necessities which have governed bis ac
tion and have approved it.
Cincinnati, July 25.—A speoial states
that a fire at SharoD, Mercer connty, Fa,
this morning, destroyed Bowdei’s car
nage factory, loss $12,000 to $20,000;
Maehen’a grocery, loss $20,000; Hanlon's
grocery, loss $40,000; Heeiter’s ehoe
store, loss $6,000; McCormick's tobacco
3tore, loss $2,000; Hizler’a packing
haute, loss $8,000; Evans’ two dwellings,
loss $3,000, and other dwellings and
barns valued at $10,000.
Atlantic City, N. J., July 26.—Sec
retary Sherman resumed his testimony
before the Potter Committee. He testi
fied that on November 17tb, the visiting
Republicans called on the Returning
Board to psy their respecie. The visit
ing Democrats paid a similar visit the
day before. The Repnblioans stated
that they came to New Orleans at the re
quest of President Grant, and of their
political organizations, to witness the
count, but did not interfere with the du
ties of the Board, and hoped the proceed
ings would bo conducted openly. The
Repnblioans thought the Democrats more
active than they were—mingling with
the Board and examining the papers. In
other respeots the conduot of both par-
lies was the same.
Washington, D. 0., Joly 25.—Profes
sor Grote, of Georgia; William J. Jones,
of Virginia point, near Galveston; E. H.
Anderson,of Mississippi; and Professor
Comstock, of Cornell University; have
been appointed Observers, to study the
cotton worm .during the present season.
Atlantic City, July 25.—Secretary
Sherman denied that he or any of his as
sociates met privately with any members
of the returning board. He did not re
member meeting James E. Anderson ex
cept in a casual way. Witness denied
the truth of the Andereon statement
alleging a conversation between Sherman,
Weber and Anderson in which it was
represented that Sherman said there was
no necessity for Weber going back to his
parish; that he ccnld be provided for
elsewhere, Sherman was shown the let
ter alleged to have been written him by
Weber and Anderson, dated November
20th, 1876. He said he had never heard
of such a letter until pnblished. He fur
thermore eaid the letter was bb insulting
as it was suggestive of falsehood, as they
says “We have considered the argument
advanced by you in onr interview and
asking him to state in writing who they
should look to for fulfillment ot ptom-
ises.”
Sherman said he never suggested to
these men employment or promise of re
ward for any service they might render
in connection with the Returning Board-
or in any other way. Witness emphati
cally denied that he wrote the alleged re
ply to the letter from Weber and Ander
son, at the same time, however, there
were things in it he would have written
these or any other men who were en
gaged in the performance of what he be
lieved to be their doty, had be been
asked. Witness said if he bad
been a citizan of Louisiana be wonld
probaily have been killed, for he should
have resisted the rifle clubs, who, in ad
dition to other crimes, drove the negroes
from their homes to the swamp. He said
he could not think of the scenes of vio
lence and Intimidation In Louisiana in
1876 without feelings of resentment and
Auger. Witness never asked Mrs. Jenks
ta suppress any letter written by him.
He never had conversation with her ex
cept in the presenoe of others.
Secretary Sherman will leave for Wash
ington this evening, and be farther exam
ined i n that city.
General Garfield testified that he did
not know that any of the visitors sugges
ted rules to the Returning Board for
oountirg the votes, and denounced as a
Rs the statement that the Returning
Board waB advised to stretch its powers.
Saratoga, Jnly25.—The first race for
a purse of $300 for maidens four years
old or upward allowed seven pounds, one
mile, was won by Bramble by a length;
Loulivier. second; Gorriok A. Poor,
third. Time, 1:45. The second race for
tho Saratoga cup, for all ages, two miles
and a quarter, wes won by Parole in a
B»Uop by fourlengthf; Joe, second; Gen-
®ial Philips, third. Time, 4:08}. In the
•bird race of three quarters of a mile
Peifection jumped into the lesdand kept
It to tteeed, wlnnligby a length; Bm-
nle Wood, seoond; Bilment’s filly, third.
Time, 1:17}. The fourth raoe, the win
ner to be sold at auction, one mile and a
quarter, was won by Maritime; Hattie F.,
second, lapped by Kenny. Time, 2:18.
Chicago, July 25.—A special dispatch
to the Times, from Capron, Hlinois, says
that a dramatic suicide occurred there on
Tuesday night. George W. Burleigh, an
old resident of Ohio, last Sunday pub
lished a card informing the citizens that,
in order to gratify the curiosity of hia
townsmen to witness some such tragedy
as the hanging of Sherry and Connelly in
Chicago, he would, en tho evening of the
23d instant, deliver a lecture, in Thorn
ton Hall, and at the conclusion gratify
them by shooting himself through the
forehead. The price of admission was
one dollar, and the amount realized to go
for the payment of the funeral expenses,
and the remainder to be inve-ted in the
works of Huxley, Tindall and Darwin,
for the town library. At the appointed
time the hall was crowded, and after de
livering an infidel lectnre, he suddenly
drew a derringer, placed it to his fore
head, fired and fell lifeless.
London, July 25.—In the House of
Commons to-day, Joseph Cowen, Radi
cal, member for New-Costle-om-Tyne,
presented the petition of the extreme
Turcophili faction, demanding the im
peachment of Lord Beaconsfield. Charles
Edward Lewis, Conservative member for
Londonderry City, rose to a point of or
der, bntthe speaker allowed the presen
tation of the petition.
London, July 25.—In the Honse of
Commons, Robeit Bonrke, under Secre
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, replying
to Mr. Gladstone, said the Government
oonld not lay on the table the memoran
dum of the Sohonvaloff-Sallsbnry agree,
ment, without the other documents ac
companying it, and these oonld not be
produced without the consent of the other
powers. Mr. Gladstone then gave notice
that he wonld move for the prodnolion of
the documents. Mr. Bonrke, replying to
Lord Hartington, said that the powers
had been asked a permit for the produc
tion of the documents, but one of the
powers refused to consent. Mr. Gladstone,
whereupon, withdrew his notice.
London, Jnly 25.—It i3 stated that
New Gate prison will be shortly demol
ished and tho ground let fora building
site.
A Constantinople dispatch to the Reu
ters says, there is great mortality among
the refugees here. The British Consul
at Fhilopopolis reports that some Turkish
refugees having returned to the village
of Sinkoi the Bulgarians massacred the
menl and outraged the women. The
Turkish grandarmie is to be reorganized
and placed under Baker Pasha, who will
be charged with a special service on eas
tern Eoumelia. The Tarkish army is
being reduced.
London, July 25.—A private telegram
from Trieste announces the Austrian
Lloyd’s Steamship Company has arranged
for the weekly steamer service Vo Cyprus
by way of Alexandria.
Mad bid, July 25.—There is much
distress in the agricultural districts m
consequence of the drouth in Andalusia.
The peasants resist the collection of the
octroi and land tax. Locusts and tho
phylloxera are very prevalent,
Pabis, July 25.—The Academy of Sci
ence has presented the name ot Dr.
Brown Sequard as candidate for the Chair
of Medicine, made vacant by the death
ofM. Clandeberaard.
Ottawa, July 25.—Fires are raging in
valuable pine forests in upper Ottawa.
Much damage has been done.
Toronto, July 25.— William Riley,
charged with robbing paymaster Backley,
at Troy, was committed for extradition,
having failed to prove an alibi.
HotCbeek, Wy., July 25.—A coaoh
which left Dead wood for Cheyenne on the
23d, was detained one day at Jenny’s
Stockade on account of high water. Af
ter proceeding from there it was stopped
at two o’clock in the morning two miles
north of Lightning Creek by six men on
foot and masked. Finding but one pas
senger on board, Rev. J. W. Pickett,
they forebore molesting him, but turned
their attention to the mail sacks, which
they ent open and robbed of registered
letters and ether valuable matter.
Washington, July 25.—The Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company objects to the
forwarding of coin from the Pacific coast
to Washington and New York on the
government account as mail matter of
the third class over their several lines,
because of the anticipated overloading of
the cars and the additional responsibility
and the transportation of an additional
number of employes required as guard.
The post-office department in answering
the objections of the road, writes that
the coin is properly mailable matter
within the law, and if sent through the
mails, the department, as far as can con
sistently, will observe the wishes of the
road, and if, after consideration, the
company declines the business, the de
partment wi’i make other arrangements.
Commits . e Eaum consulted the
President to-j./ regarding the.revenue
officials in South Carolina indicted for
killing Ladd. No action was determined
upon. District Attorney Earl will be
here Saturday to confer with the depart
ment on the case. It is intimatad that
the prisoner will be taken before the
United States Court on a writ of habeas
corpus.
London, July 25.—A Rsuter’a Con
stantinople dispatch says final instruc
tions have been sent Caratbeodoii Pa
sha to agree to the continuance of the oc
cnpation of Basnia-Herzegovina until
security and order are restored,instead of
insisting that its precise tarms bs fixed
before hand; also to agree to the estab
lishment of a kind of temporary state of
siege instead of insisting on the retention
of the civil administration in the hands of
the Turks. The foregoing appears to
be avirtual compliance with the Austrian
demands.
London, July 25.—Belgrade advioee
still maintain that the inhabitants are or
ganizing for resistance in all parts of
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Vienna, Jnly 25.—The marine author
ities at Trieste officially announce that
the port of Kiek has been closed by tor
pedoes.
Rome, July 25—The Prefects of Ber
gamo, Cretcia, Verona and Vieenza have
assured the Minister of the Interior that
the reports in relation to the secret re-
orniting at those places ara unfounded.
Pabis, July 25.—Nubar Pasha, having
been summoned by the Khedive to aid
him in the reforms which have become
necessary to Egypt, starts tc-morrow for
Cairo. The presence of Nubar Pasha in
Egypt will smooth overthelast difficulties
which stand in the way of a complete
undcistsnding between the Khedive and
England and France.
Atlantic Citt, July 25.—In the course
of Secretary Sherman’s testimony, x he
said, with reference to Weber’s testimo
ny, that he had never heard of any plan
to manipulate the Tote of Louisiana, nor
wa3 ho at any time writing at a desk at
the Custom House. Weber must have
seen somebody else. The testimony of
that witness about a caucus at whioh he
was present is false, and is made ont of
whole cloth. He was astonished that so
many Republicans stood up for the fight
tmid eo much intimidation and so maBy
hreats on the part of the Democrats.
He denied that the exhibition and state
ments concerning Eliza Pinkston were
part of a plot for political purpose?.
Referring to the appointment of Soner,
as one of the local appraisers at New Or
leans, Bntler asked Sherman if the ap
pointment did not oome down from the
White House instead of going from Sher
man to the President. The Secretary
replied, that the papers will show that.
Yon trench on a delicate gronnd. I
ought not to tell you what the President
said to me, or what I said to the Presi
dent.
Bntler—I don’t ask you for cabinet se
crets. bat I have come to the conolueion
that" there ought be no seorets in a free
Government.
Secrstary—I will give you the exaot
facts when we reach Washington.
Butler—But papers will not help the
case nor answer my question. WaB not
Parker removed as postmaster at New
Orleans and Badger appointed m bis
place on tte same day ttat Souer was
appointed?
about it ?
Was there any consideration
Tha secretary declined to answer, when
Butler said, “I want to prbve.that noth
ing was said in the Cabinet about it.”
Garfield, in his testimony, said he wbb
more indebted to the late D. A. Weber,
supervisor of elections in West Feliciana,
for information relative to that parish
than to anyone else. Weber said the
whole truth there was founded on sug
gestions of tho Democratic State.Com
mittee who advised the formation of
rifle dubs for the purpose of the intimi
dation of Republicans, and to show that
there was physical as well as moral force
in the movement. Websr said he could
not then return to West Feliciana without
running the risk of being killed, although
it might be safe for him to return after
the excitement was ovar.
Garfield said, among other things, that
the air of New Orleans was full ot stories
that the colored members of the Return
ing Board might be tampered with, but
confidents was expressed in the white
members.
General Butler—Witness, have you any
doubts that if the State was carried for
H*ju, i$ was alee eesried for Pnehardf
Answer—I think Packard was honestly
elected, but the ftnal outcome was for
Nicholls.
Butler—I thought the Legislature de
clared for Packard, and put him in as
Governor until the struggle which put
Unroot.
Answer—I do.not se understand it.
Bntler, continuing the question on this
score, said: Did you not understand that
the legislature eld make a declaration
that Packard was elected Governor, and
inaugnrated him, and that he remained
Governor untilhe was unseated by another
power? This same legislatnre elected
Kellogg as Senator, and the United States
Senate recognized him as legally elected.
Answer—But I do not understand that
the party opposed to Paokard lost the
power to control.
Question—After a man has been de
clared eleoted by the Returning Board,
and has been inaugurated as Governor,
do you understand that the legislature can
turn him out ? Do you understand that
can be done ?
Answer—That depends on the statute.
I know that it can be done in case of a
00nl68t.
Question—Do yon know of sneh a con
test In that Legislature ?
Answer—I am not particularly familiar
with the proceedings.
Question—Did not the Legislature and
Governor Paokard maintain themselves
for three months ?
Answer—They maintained about eiobt
aores of Louisiana.
Question—I am asking for the time
and you give me acres.
Answer—I think about three months.
Question—Did not they maintain them
selves till the President sent a body of
men down there to break them up ?
Answer—£ think not.
Question—Did they not maintain them-
Eelves nntil the MoVeagh Commission
was sent down?
Answer—They were maintained by
troops.
Question—Do yon know any act of
troops or of an order to maintain that
legislature? Hiscock objected to the
question. All this, he said, is current
history. It i3 notoriously known to one
gentleman a3 to another. Besides such
an examination does not come within the
letter of authority under which the com
mission is acting.
Butler—Every time I get this matter
to a point my brother on the left objects.
He was patient, however, to-day while
Secretary Sherman was making irrevel-
ant remarks.
Mr. Hiscock—All I can say is this: If
the gentleman considered the remarks
improper he conld have objected to them.
Chairman Potter—I will leave the de
cision of this question to my colleagne,
(Mr. Springer), as all other members of
the committee have expressed their
views.
Springer allowed the question to be
asked and the reply from Garfield was
that he had no knowledge except current
history, open to all.
■Washington, July 25.—A circular is
sued at the Treasury Department to-day,
relative to the value of the Mexican and
trade dollars, says: “ Section 3584 of the
Revised Statutes declares that no foreign
gold or silver coins shall be a legal ten
der in the payment of debts. Mexican
and trade dollars, therefore, have only
bullion value. At the present price of
silver bullion Mexican dollars are worth
ninety and ninety-sight cents. Mexican,
United States trade dollars, and all other
foreign silver coins, ore purchased at the
Philadelphia Mint and New York Assay
Office at the equivalent of London rates
for silver bullion on the day of purchase,
less one-half cent per onneo of fine eilver
contained.’
Democratic Executive committee
Xeetlnar.
Court House, Macon, Ga.,
July 24,1878.
Meeting Democratic Executive Com
mittee: The following members of the
committee were present: H. H. Jones,
ChairmaB; W. Dessau, Secretary; A. W.
Gibson, E. A. Nisbet, C. Mastereon, J.
A. McManus, and J. L. Kennedy.
The following resolutions were intro
duced and unanimously passed:
Resolved, That inasmuch as there is in
the County of Bibb no division of senti
ment or opposition in regard to the elec
tion of Congressman from this district, a
meeting of the Democracy bo called on
Saturday, the 3d day of August, 1878, at
the Court House, at 12 m., for the pur
pose of selecting delegat«3 to the ap
proaching District Convention, and for
the further purpose of the appointment
of a new Executive Committee for the'
County of Bibb, and for snch other busi
ness as the meeting may than and there
determine.
Resolved, That the above resolution he
published till day of meeting in the
Daily and Weekly Telegraph and
Messenger.
There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.
H. H. Jones, Chairman.
W. Dessau, Secretary.
Yellow Fever in New Orleans.—
The later telegrams of Wednesday report
a decided onslaught of yellow fever upon
New Orleans, which we deeply regret.
We reckon the Potter committee, made
short time when they learned it.
That ripeceD a* a flnmorou In
spiration.
Washington Post.]
The editor of the Philadelphia Press
reads Jeff Davis’ late speeoh immediately
after prayers every morning, and just be
fore the oonstrnotion of his daily allot
ment of double-breasted campaign lies.
He says that the mere perusal of the
thing nerves him up to a piece of party
malevolence he wonldn’t take ten dollars
for.
Steep Taxation.—Last year the gross
reoeiptB of non-resident Icsuranoe Fire
Companies in Pennsylvania, who are
taxed eight-tenths of one per oent. on the
Bsme, amounted to $8,741,905. The net
profit after dednoting ail losses was
$233,244 Upon this they were com
pelled to pay a tax of $69,935 on the
gross receipts, and another ot $90,520
on oapitel stock, making an aggregate
of $160,455 tax on seventy per eent. of
the entire net profits.
This almost amounts to prohibition,
and mnst make the rate of fire insurance
dear indeed. It seems almost impossible
to convince corporations and States that
all such onerous hardens whioh are m
tended to fall upon the heads of Individ
uals or private organizations, never fail
to oome ont of the pockets of the inno
ceat public. Verily, legislation is a sci-
ence stilt in its infancy.
Many a lady, whoso complexion would
bo otherwise simply perfect, has some
slight and almost unnoticed derangement
of the blood that mars it a little. Dr.
Bull’s Blocd Mixture is tho remedy for
the complexicn.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Thebe were two oases of sunstroke at
Athens last week and tha thermometer on
Friday and Saturday ranged from 98 to
100 degrees
Skylabxing with pistols never pays. Tha
latest instance thereof was at Savannah
on Wednesday whan Tom Banks, negro,
was shot and killed by Alex Mendel, of
the same color. ' "
* “Sharp and quiok” Halbert, who
made Bollock the so-called Governor of
Georgia, is, as we learn from the Atlanta
Independent, living at Bedford, Indiana,
where he is superintendent of a narrow
gahge railway,
Augusta temperature was xednoed to
somewhere in the] eighties last Monday
evening by a gale from the north wbjoh
sent the sinners te their knees.. The
Chronicle says meteor after meteor flash
ed over the zenith, and the lightning wgs
vivid and incessant.
We clip th8 following from the Au
gusta News:
Cheap Enough.—Good flour can be
bought at from $5 to $6, and the best for
$7.25. This looks oheap>nongh for fine
flour.
Seriously III.—We regret very much
to learn of the very serious illness of Mr.
Fred L. Cooper, of the Southern Express
Company.
Scarce and High.—In consequence of
the extreme hot weather, watermelons
are becoming scarce and high.
The Lumpkin Independent says: “Proa*
every quarter of the county comes the
gratifying intelligence that Gen; Cook
is the favorite candidate for Congress.
He has made an honest - , faithful repre
sentative and there is no reason why he
should not be returned. So think the
solid men of Stewart.”
A Lexington correspondent of the Au
gusta Chronicle writes as follows;
A funny little episode occurred in Mr.
Stephens’ speech Saturday, which shows
that from the sublime ad ridiculum there
is but one step—hardly a span from Jef
ferson to jollity. “Little Aleck” had
just begun to tread water on one of those
constitutional billowe of his and was
dashing Jeffersonian spray all aronnd
him, when drawing that little phial of
Bourbon, he douohed his lips with a gen
tle sip, and, returning the bottle to his
pocket, thus concluded his rhetorical
swell, “Yes, fellow-citizens, this is true
Democracy.” A gentle smilo hovered
over and lingered around the crowd for
some minutes, and with the profound as
surance that the Commoner was well-or
ganized if that phial be trno, they re
lapsed into attention again.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun announces
the death, last Wednesday, of Mr
Thomas P. F. Threewits, one of the old
est and most esteemed citizens of the
place. He was about seventy years of
age.
The Marietta Journal says D. C. Sut«
ton, “the alleged bigamist, who married
Miss Young, of this place, and having a
wife and several children in Chattooga
connty, and who was ont on a bond of
$1,000, was delivered np by his bonds
man (his father-in-law) last Monday,
and lodged in jail at Marietta, to await
trial in November.”
Ws find the following ia the last
Thomasville Enterprise:
Reports from all our farmer friends
say that their crops are fine. Corn is
made and will turn out well. Cotton is
well advanced and promises an abundant
yield. Some people predict that corn
will not be worth more than twenty-five
cents a bushel next fall in this market.
The rattlesnake crop seems to be on
the increase in this section. Mr. - D. J.
Hall reports the killing of a large one re
cently right in front of his front door
step. On Thursday last Mr. Hall and a
colored man were engaged in taking np
some fodder in a patch of early corn.
Mr. Hall had passed along some twenty
feet when be saw that he had passed one
handful of fodder. He turned and walk
ed back to get it; just as he was reaching
ont his band for the fodder he heard a
noise and looking down he saw a large
rattlesnake giving back a little from him
and coiled ready to strike. Tha snake
immediately shook his rattles and Mr.
Hall jumped out of the way.
nonpayment of their capitation tax. If the
gooa people of that city cannot pay their
tax without having it wrung from them
at the last end of an execution, would it
not be wise for the City Counoil to devise
boom fair and satisfactory plan of relief,
scaling or compromising the oity debt?
jOther titles, just as folly impressed with
the sacrednees of their public obligations
as she is,.are doing it, and do not call it
“repudiation” either. The tax payers of
this country—particularly municipal tax
payers—need all the relief they can get,
by honorable means, and we think it the
duty of their representatives to obtain it,
when it can be done.
The oity of Columbus, through the
ageuqr ot her Mayor and finance com
mittee, is engaged in this work, and if
they succeed—as doubtless they will—
the whole city will rise np and thank
them; and the holders other obligations
will not feel that they have been injured,
or unfairly treated, because the arrange
ment arrived at will be the result of a
mutual agreement. Parties to a con
tract are not always bound by the terms
of the first contract made—but the terms
can be changed and modified at aay rime
that both parties assent to it, without
either of them noting in had faith.
F. S.—He forgets to say whether or
not be chargos anything for his advice.
The snake
was killed and measured about six feet
and had ten rattles. It was a very nar
row escape for Mr. Hall, as the snake
mnst have been nnder the stalk of corn
when he passed by it.
An enthuslastio Speer man tells the
Constitution that the latter will certainly
carry the 9 th distriot, bnt be did not offer
to pnt up any money on it.
The fight in the 7th district rages as it
rises and rises, as it rages—or words to
that effeot. Lester and Felton are keep
ing all the stumps in the distriot hot, and
the newspapers have pretty much ceased
to talk about anything else. If somebody
or something don’t ostoh a fire before No
vember, it will be a miraole. The can
didates do their stomping separately,
now, Dr. Felton having declined to
meet Judge Lester any more.
The Falaski connty Democrats met on
Tuesday, and selected delegates to the
Congressional convention, who were in
structed to press the nomination of Colo
nel Kibbee, and “ support him to the last
extremity.”
Woods, of the Hawkinsville Dispatch,
pays this compliment to his favorite bev
erage :
Mr. Robert Partin, while fishing at
Big Creek, the other day, was bitten on
both ancles by a snake. The usual anti
dote—a pint of “Hawlrinsville’s best ”—
was administered, and in a few minutes
Bob felt able to catch all the fish in the
Ocmulgee. Snakes are simply fooling
away their time when they bite a fellow
from Hawkinsville.
A Pulaski oounty farmer expeots to
make sixty bales of ootton and two thou
sand bushels of oorn, with six plows, this
season.
Wx find the following in the Albany
News:
Five Cents Pee Day.—Ws under
stand that there is a farmer not a thou
sand miles from Albany who allows the
pitiful snm of five cents per diem for full
grown white women as fodder pullers.
Titb and Sumter, —On a visit to the
southeastern portion of Sumter, passing
through Lee county, we found crops of
oorn, cotton, Bugar-oane, potatoes, eto,,
seemingly es good as the land could pro
duce. No signs of caterpillar, and but
little rust; still a few days of uopropl
tious weather could greatly damage the
ootton crop. Health of country generally
repotted geod.
We heard of some opposition to Gen
eral Cock for Congress, bnt not enough
to cause a doubt that Lee and Sumter
will both send solid delegations for that
bold and nnflinobing friend of the South.
The weather being warm and items
scarce in that locality, the local of
the Columbus Tims* promenades his
eyes Maoonwarl in search of a subject
and finds it as follows:
No Scaling or Compromising.—The
City Conncil of Macon, at their meeting
on Tuesday night, passed resolutions
against repudiation of the city debt, in
any form whatever. The feeling against
any plan of "scaling or compromising’
was strong and unanimous. Butin the
face of this, the people of the town do
scale the city money, and pretty heavily;
and it is stated that the Clerk of Council
has over six hundred executions against
Ecme of the best citizens of the town for
. Onr Paris Letter.
Special Correspondence of the Telegraph and
* Messenger.
Paris, July 5th. 1878.
Messrs. Editors : My last letter brief
ly mentioned the tonr onr party made to
the lovely lakes of Northern Italy, and
left us on Lake Maggiore.
Wo sailed to Arons, where, at mid
night, we took the diligenoe, - as the huge
vehioles with three compartments are
called, for the passage of the historio
Alps Mountains. Fortunately, Mrs. F.
and myself obtained excellent seats in
the oonpe, the front oompaitment, high
above the interior, having glasB in front
and around ns, affording proteotionagainBt
the oold, biting winds from the snow
capped mountains, and giving us the best
view of the grand scenery before, above
and around us.
Tho first ten miles we were carried
rapidly by the five powerful white horses
attached to tho diligence, along the banks
of Lake Maggiore, having the clear waters
of th9 lake to glisten and sparkle in the
reflected light from tho great
lantern, on our right, while
on the left the Alps towered above us,
and seemed, at times, ready to fall upon
and ciU3h us. It was a rare and most
romantic midnight ride. Tbe third oc
cupant of the coupe was an Italian offi
cer, wbo"proved about as proficient in his
knowledge of the French as myself, and
we kept up an occasional conversation nn
til we parted at daws. The road wound
in and out and climbed in zizzags mile
after mile, along the banks of the lake,
until Ravena was passed, when we began
the ascent of the famous Simplon Pass
in earnest. This magnificent Pass was
constructed by Napoleon, in 1805, and is
a miraole ot engineering skill. The road
from Domo D'Ossola, where we break
fasted, goes higher and higher, the
scenery at every mile becoming wilder
and grander. Sometimes we pass through
fields on the steep hillside?, sometimes
nnder overhanging precipices of rock,
constantly looking down upon wild tor
rents that come rushing and foaming
along the valley and throigh the deep
gorges and black ravines beneath
ns. Frequently wo beheld lofty cas
cades of water pitching headlong
over sharp ledges of rock loBt sud
denly to our sight, and then reappear
ing again far below, enveloped in mist.
Tbe vast perspective stretched far away,
bordered by the rugged mountains. It
gigantic and wonderful. Very often
the view ia lost in a gallery, a tunnel, or
a dark ravine, yet reappears again and
again as we near the summit Occa
sionally we saw a hat, or a cluster of
dwellings, whose thin eolnmns of smoke
were lost before they reached the height
of our road, dome of the galleries, or
tunnels, constructed by Napoleon’s skills
ful engineers are hundreds of feet in
length, and wore built to protect the
road from the terrible avalanches, which
glide over them from tbe lofty heights
above, and fall in the deep valleys below.
We passed numerous glaciers, and
great quantities of snow were lying
by tbe roadside, and far beneath
as well as high above us. Of course
we could not resist the temptation
to eat some of It. After 12 o’cloik we
reached a point ao high that only mosses
and coarse grasses, with here and there
a straggling flower, including the Alpine
rose, could be seen in tbe way of vegeta
tion. The surronndiags were cold, win
try, . desolate, indeed. At last we
reached the Hospice, a splendid
building on the summit of the Simplon,
where wine and bread are offered the
traveler by the kindly priests who live
there, free of cost, though one is expect
ed to deposit something in the contribu
tion boxes. All along the route are
houses, built of rock generally, called
‘Refuges,” and intended as temporary
homes for travelers caught in the numer
ous scow storms of the Alps. Eight are
to be passed in a distance of three miles
as we approach the hospice. At thiB
point, we reach the summit ot the Sim
plon Pass, a low depression, from which
the mountains surrounding reoede on
either hand. Here one of the five horses,
which were changed every eight miles,
was dismissed, and we began the des
cent. They proceeded in a swinging
trot, turning rapidly the zigzag corners
of tho winding road, and leaving the
grand, desolate, snow-covered heights
lehind. Late in the afternoon we reached
Sonata, at the foot of the Gemmi moun
tains, having accomplished over 100
miles since midnight. Yon may suppose
we slept soundly that night after our fa
tigue. Early next morning, we took the
cars for Martigny, riding along the banks
of the tempestuous Rhone river as it
rushes through the winding valley.
At Martigny we resolved to cross the
TETE NOIR PASS,
over the mountains which separate Switz
erland from France, to the valley of
Chamouny (spelt Chamonix here), being
told the Colde Balme was covered with
snow and utterly impracticable, and that
the Tete Noir was really grander and
more picturesque. After attending a
country fair being held at Martigny we
begun the ascent to the Col de Forclaz,
which precedes the Tete Noir. The fair
had a large crowd in attendance, but the
hogs, sheep, cows, goats, leather and
wine to be sold were not of a very at
tractive kind. The pass proved to be
very rough and exceedingly narrow.
Several carriages were passed, with ex
treme difficulty and considerable danger.
After several hours of slow travel we
reached the Hotel de Tete Noir, an inn
which overhung the valley. The first
hotel had been burnt down recently, and
anew cue of rock was in conrse of
erection. Here we rested an honr,
and again proceeded towards Cha-
mourny The descent began here.
The mountain rose from tbe road on the
left almost perpendicularly, while on the
right it descended precipitously. In
front was the vast rock, tbe Tete Noir,
from which the rugged Pass takes its
name, and seemed impassable until we
reached tbe tunnel which pierc. s it. Af
ter its passage we conld Bee tbe valley
beneatb, with its bright green fields, a
part catching, once in white, the fall
light of the afternoon sun, while the rest
of the valley was in shadow.
The sun set long before we reached the
village of Chamouny, and just before it
sunk from view we mads a sudden turn
in the crooked read, when onr driver ex
claimed, in French, ‘'There Ib Mont
Blanc P* and a full, magnificent view of
this sapexb monarch of the mountains of
Europe was obtained. Tbe brilliant snn
was just setting upon its glowing snow
crowned summit, as it reared its mighty
dome above the 6nowy heights adjacent.
It was a grand sight, and eclipsed all
around It. The beautiful aky, dark val
ley, lofty mountains were all forgotten
in the presence of towering Mont Blanc.
We stopped at] the Hotel des Alpes,
from whioh we bad a commanding view
of the mount airs. After a most refresh
ing sleep, and an early breakfast, we hired
a guide and three lazy old mules, whose
ages oombined wonld reach three soore
and ten at least, and began the ascent to
Montanvert, a peak of tbe Alp?.
From this point we crossed the wonder
ful ITerde Glace, a sea of ioe two miles
wide, end, onr guide said, eighteen lea
gues in length and 300 feet deep.
Our Alpenstocks were of great service
here, as tbe ioe,dampened by tbe heat of
tbe sun was quite slippery, and deep
gorges varying from six inohes to four
feet in width and from twenty to 100
in depth had to be crossed. These gorges
were made by the melted snow wearing
them away. Sometimes we could hear
vast pieoes of ioe fall down these great
blue ioe oavercs with a loud reverberating
sound.
The Mauvais Pas was also crossed, and
it well deserved its appellation of the bad
pas. Iron railings were necessary on its
steep sides andstepshewn ont of the solid
rook, made tha ronie barely practicable.
It was a toilsome expedition bnt well
worth the labor and fatigna undergone.
The waters from the melting snows of
the Mer de Glaoe and other glaoiers of
the Alps form tbe lovely lakes of Switzer
land and two of the greatest rivers in
Europe, the Rhine and the Rhone.
THE VILLAGE OF CHAMOUNY,
located at the foot of the Alps on the
Trient river, has around It a finely culti
vated little valley, and is composed main*
ly of hotels and small shops, whioh mak9
and sell walking oanes, with heads of the
horns of the chamois goats, whioh roam
over the aojaoent mountains, and of ba
kers’, photograph and pressed flower
shop?. The season at the hotels lasts
only four monthB of the year. From
this pretty village we rode by diligenoe
(on the banquet—th8 top of the vehiole),
forty miles to
GENEVA,
whioh is looated on the largest of the
Swiss lakes, being at some points from
seven to ten miles in breadth. The
rapid river Rhone passes from the lake
direotly thtongh Geneva. It is so dear
that pebbles at its bottom and oonntleBS
fish oan be readily seen in its swift cur
rent. The foroe of the river is so great
as to drive the wheel of tbe vast
water works which supplies
the numerous fountains of the
oity with abundant water. The prin
cipal productions of Geneva
are watohes, musical boxes and wood
sculptures. One hundred thousand
watobes, and as many musical boxes .are
manufaotnred tirfjre annually. I had the
pleasure of walking over one of the
largest factories In the oity, and to see
the watobes in every stage of manufac
ture.
The oity has a population of fifty thou*
sand. It was once the home of the great
founder of Presbyterianism, the stern
John Calvin, and of Rousseau, Voltaire
and Madame de Stael. We found Geneva
to be the costliest place we have yet vis
ited. The stores are very exhorbitant in
their prices, and tbe hotels absurdly so.
Guests are oharged eaoh from one dollar
to three dollars per day for a room alone,
twenty cents each for candles, whioh are
sold in Macon at eight for twenty cents,
ten centB for a goblet of water with ioe,
forty oents for a plain breakfast, com
posed solely of bread and bntter with tea,
paying high prioes for eaoh extra article
ordered, one dollar for dinner, withont
wine, twenty oents a day for service, two
oents for a sheet of paper or an envelope,
besides feeing the clerks, chambermaids,
porters, waiters, et sL, all of whom ex
pect pour boirc. These charges, however,
axe similar to those of til first-class
hotels in Italy, France and Switzer
land. By charging such rates the
venerable proprietor of the Brown
House could, it well patronized, soon pay
for the expense incurred in rebuilding
his elegant hotel in our city.
From Geneva we sailed octoes its lake
to Lausanne and thence to Berne, the
capital of the SwisB Confederation.
Here my better-half and I attended a
very interesting session of the
SWISS PARLIAMENT, OR CONGRESS.
The eapitol building is about equal to
the Old Capitol at Miliedgeville, baviug
a fresher appearance, and the room used
for holding the debates and transacting
business, is about the size of our Superior
Court room. We heard one honorable
member deliver a speech in French and
another reply to him in German, and
were told that some of them spoke in
Italian. The President of the Congress
pnt all questions in both French and
German, and announced the result of all
votes in both those languages. Switzer
land, though eo very firmly united, free
and independent, is divided into French,
German, Italian and Switzerland, and
those langaages are each spoken exclu
sively in their respective sections cf the
little republic. The entire country is
about as large as South Carolina.
The city of Berne baa the bear
for its heraldic emblem, and real bears
and the images of bears are to be seen
throughout the city. A large den of
bears is maintained at the expense of the
city, and they are very much petted.
Many of the publio buildings have images
of bears,equipped with shield,banner and
helmet, placed on them and in front of
their doore. All strangers visit the no
ted clock tower, ot which the Bernese
are very proud.
At three minutes ■ before the hour a
wooden cock claps his wings and crows,
a minute later some automatic bears
dance around a seated figure, with crown
and scepter, tho cock repeats the signal,
and when the hour strikes, tbe seated
figure, an old man with a beard, turns
an hour glass and oounts the hour by
raising hia scepter and opening his month,
while the bear on his right inclines his
head and a harlequin strikes the hour on
a bell with a hammer, and the cock con
eludes the performance by flapping his
wings and crowing for the third third.
From Berne we went to Lncerse, and
sailing upon the beautiful Lake of the
Four Cantons, on whioh it is situated, to
Titznan, we ascended
MOUNT RHIGI
by means of the most elevated railroad
in Europe. This railroad has a locomo
tive in the rear and open car ia advance,
and the ascent is over 7,000 feet, the
track being laid at angle of about thirty
degrees, rising about one foot in three.
The oogs in the center of the track hold
the train, and a cog wheel works In them.
The climate grew cooler as we ascend
ed, and shawls and overcoats were in de
mand. We spent the night on tho sum
mit at a splendid hotel, and abundance
of blankets were very necessary. There
was no snow on the Rbigi, bnt it catcheB
the chilly breezes from the snowy moan-
tains adjacent, and is exceedingly winter-
ish. From its anmmit we could see sev
eral villages, lakes and rivers, and one
hundred miles of mountains. The view
is oae of the finest in all Enrope.
We left the Rhlgi early next day, and
passing through Zurich, Basel and other
cities, stopped at Strasburg long enough
to see her wonderful clock and the fa
mous storkB. I shall not attempt a des
cription here of this oft described clock.
It wbb deeply interesting, aEd deserves
its celebrity.
The next point visited was
MAYEKCE,
where we saw tbe noted monuments to
untenbnrg and Schiller. Gntenbnrg
was, you know, the discoverer of the art
of printing, and his original press Is to
be seen in tbe museum. It is a fino city,
and the principal starting point for a sail
on the Rhine.
We were delighted with our sail on
the fast express steamer from Mayenco to
Cologne, but believe the scenery of the
Hudson is really far superior to that of
the mom clisaio Rhine. The latter has,
between Bingen and Coblenz, very fine
mountain soenery, and romantio looking
old oaitles, as well as many very pretty
villages and towns, and churches, but the
lofty Fallsades and Highlands, and hand
some titles, towns and villages, eto., on
tbe oharming Hudson, far exoel the
boasted historio beanty of the Rhine.
After visiting Cologne, which is in
Frnsala proper, we inspected the sights
of Brussels, the great lace emporium of
tbe world, and the Capital of Belgium,
and after another day’s journey reached
Paris. Of the sights in the latter oity,
must write in another letter.
PERSONAL.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Cap
tains A. O. Baoon and J. O. Rutherford
here. They seem to be enjoying Faria
to the fullest extent, and are studying
and aoquifing a knowledge of Frenefa,
very rapidly. Dr. Collins and Mr. Mar
tin, of Macon, are also in Paris, and so
is Dr. J. B. Roberts, of Banderville. Mr.
J. F. Cratohfield, ot Maoon, has reached
London safely. R. E. P.
X&q first Bale.
We prints telegram to-day from Alba
ny announcing tbe receipt of the first
bale there from the plantation of Primus
W. Jones, Esq. For the last three years
Mr. JoneB has sent the first bela to the
Alba'ny market, at dates and sold at
prioes as follows:
1876. August 2—sold for. .16 els.
1877. August 4— « « 17}ots.
1878. Jnly 25— “ “ 18 cte.
It will be seen that this year Hr. Jones
ia ten days ahead of last year, and eight
days ahead of the year before. All were
received by Meters. Weloh & Baoon,
warehousemen.
Seems to be Right.
■Washington Post. J
The people of Chicago boast that they
have suffered less of late than those of
any other Western city. We can only
account for it on the theory that people
whose heated term is reserved for them
are shown some favors in this world. It
seemB to be right, too.
Very Different Cases.
Washington Post.]
A .Radical editor asks us with a glow
of triumph mantling his bulging intel
lect, which he has sot wholly bean able
to withhold from the types, why we
haven’t a word to say against Hayes for
running away from Washington, when
we never lost an opportunity to blame
Grant for the same act. Onr steamed
contemporary should understand that
the cases are different. It wag Grant’s
duty to stay in the White House—it is
Hayes’ to leave it and never come back.
A Very Good Reason.
Washington Post.]
A woman put herself in the hands of a
Boston dentist to have her teeth reoi-
ganized. He found them in a very bad
plight, and asked her why she had allow
ed them to become eo decayed without
coming to him or some other dentist.
She replied that she had not had time.
'But,” he replied,“it would not haTe tak
en ling, and you could have ooipo in.al
most any time.” She saw he was bent
on explanation, and she fired this at him
like a cannon ball: “Well, if yon had had
a baby every year for the last ten years,
you would think it was about enough to
attend to.”
Humanism U Massachusetts■
Springfield, Mass., July 21.—A gang
of armed roughs and tramps boarded a
crowded excursion 'train on the New
Haven and Northampton road, atChes
hire, Conn., Saturday tight, as a party
were returned from the sannd. Women
wereinsnlted, clothing stolen, men struck
he rear car unshockledjand the trainjstap-
ped several timep The passengers and
conductors were helpless. A few tr&mpa
were thrown from the train and the rest
feit at Flainville.
Reorganization of the Ssnats.—
Speaking on this subject a special to the
Baltimore Sun says, in regard to the
office of Secretary of the Senate, it was
stated to-day by the friends of Mr. Henry
M. Watterson, of tbe Louisville Courier*
Journal, that he is a candidate for tbe
position, and ha? already received snch
assurances from the Democratic Senators
as to leave no doubt of his election. It
is generally understood that Mr. John
Thompson, the present Sergeant-at-Arms
of the House of Representatives, and &
warm personal friend of Senator Thur
man, will be the suocessor of Mr. French
as Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate.
A meeting of the creditors of the Jay
Cook estate was held at Philadelphia last
Monday. Edwin Lewis, trustee, submit
ted a plan for winding np tbe estate. He
suggested that the whole of the assets,
leaving ont the Ogontzand Lake Cham
plain properties, be cerefully viewed by
experts, catalogued, and a scrip dividend
or percentage of tbe amount declared and
give in serp to the creditors, the lands to
be offered for sale not below the catalogue
price; everybody to bs invited to bid, and
if not sold within thirty days the credi
tors to come in and buy at invoice prices.
This proposition was referred to the
committee of ereditors. The committee
will report at an adjourned meeting on
Monday next.
The Rev. Dr. J. B. Finney, who has
just reached Liberia, writes from there,
that no preparation had been made for
the reoeption of the emigrants by the
Azor, and that they will hare much trou
ble to find shelter for the three months
of r«in, whioh begins in June. He adds
that ‘‘Howard University should furnish
half a dozen young physicians to come
immediately to thie open and inviting
field.”
Mb. John C. Hamilton, a son of Alex-*
ander Hamilton, gives to a correspondent
of the Philadelphia Times this pathetic
incident of his father: “My father’s
residence was in the country, toward the
north ot New York Island. His law
offioe in the city was .rather a shabby
affair. The day before the duel I was
sitting in a room, when, at a slight noise,
I turned aronnd and saw my father in the
doorway, standing silently there and look
ing at me with a most sweet and beautU
ful expression ot countenance. It was
full of tenderness, and without any cf the
business preoccupation he sometimes
had. 'John,’ he said, when I had discover
ed him,'won’t you came and sleep with
me to-night?’ His voice was frank, as
if he had been my brother instead of my
father. That tight I went to his bed,
and in the morning very early he awak
ened me, and taking my hands in his
palms, all four hands extended, he said,
and told me to repeat,the Lord’s Prayer
Seventy-five years have since passed over
my head, and I have forgotten many
things, bat not that tender expression
when he stood looking at me in the door
norths prayer we made together the
morning before thedueL”
Hon. Hamilton Flab, who is at Lorg
Branch, has been interviewed, andisrc*
presented as expressing the opinion that
General Grant does not desire another
presidential nomination. Mr. Fish fur.
ther says thathe does not think Grant’s
nomination probable, “for the reason
that no man has ever been nominated
President whose nomination has been
talked of three years before.” Farther}
Mr. Fish took occasion to refer to the late
removals in the Now York custom-house,
pronouncing it an unwise measure, and
one not calculated to help the adminis
tration. Mr. Fish thinks Senator Thur.
man is likely to be the next Democratic
candidate for President.
TBE SEW ESA OFBTKAH.
Loekpeat’s Saeeeuial Expert*
meat to bo Islrodnced into
Sprtagfleld, 3Com.
from the Springfield Republican!
The Springfield Gas Company has
bought the rigbs for this city to ate the
Holly system of running steam pipes
through the streets to furnish heat and
power for adjoining buildings, and the
oity Government will be asked to permit
the construction of an experimental line
this winter from the Company's works on
Water Btreet through Elm to Main street.
This short line will reaoh a number at
dwellings, stores and offices, a large
school bouse, the county court house, and
the first obnroh and ohapel, ta whioh,
with the exception, perhaps, of the
ehnroh, it is hoped that a trial cf tbe
system may be made, the most distant
point from the works being the Ohioopee
Bank. It is no new thing, of conrse, to
heat more than one building byeteam
from a single furnace, this already being
done in this city in the aimory buildings
and In the Boston and Albany buildings
and depot.
The Holly system, which is awaed at
Lockport, New York, and is in successful
operation in that city, includes numerous
improvements in the protection ot the
pipes laid in the streets, the arrangement
of connections, valves, traps, etc. In the
works at Lockport, steam is conduoted
two miles, and Mb. Holly claims that a
distance df five miles can bs reached.
The pressure on the pipes in the streets ia
about fifty pounds, and in the bouses ten
pounds, although only one or two pounds
is needed for heating. The Lockport
company began on the basis of charging
for tbe heat about as much as had been
before paid for fuel, but introduced me
ters as soon as tbe enterprise was
fairly established, and a similar course
will doubtless be pursued in this city.
The amount that oan be saved to con
sumers by this system is evidently huge,
sinoe there is inevitably a waste of fuel
in connection with every fire, and a great
deal of dost and dirt that are Injurious to
furniture and health. Borne of the Look-
port housekeepers told vimtors from this
oity that they hardly considered it neoes-
sary to clean houses in the Spring, while
their houses had been heated throughout
so thoroughly, that they scarcely knew of
the ohasgeB of temperature ont doors.
The steam is also need for cooking, and
is equal to almost any onlinary operation
except fryiDg and boiling.
The Saltan lately gave a reoeption to a
corps of Sisters of Charity sent to his
army by the Queen of Saxony, on which
occasion he thanked them for tlieir
courage and devotion, and presented
each with a medal. Coffee and sherbet
were served, and Osman Pasha presented
each with $250.
The people of the Coast of Labrador
are represented to be in a dreadful plight.
The fisheries failed last fall, and the
traders, who usually barter supplies
with them for fish and oil, consequently
havq withdrawn from that region. Noth
ing of conseqnence will grow there, and
some families have died of starvation.
The New Order of Things in Cuba.—
The decrees assimulating the municipal
laws of Cuba to those of Spain, and divi
ding the island into six provInces, eaeh
to be administered by a Governor have
bees formally gazetted. A preamble
announces that Cuba is entitled to be
represented in the Cortes by forty Depu
ties and ten Senators.
An unprecedented case in life insurance
litigation is reported from Albany, where
the Atlantic Mutual, which was placed
in a receiver’s hands a year ago, basin
the meantime accumulated a net surplus
of about $60,000 over and above all lia
bilities, including its capital. This im
provement has been secured from unpaid
premiums on outstanding policies,* 7 per
esnt. interest on first-class investments
and a low mortality.
Sand bathing has been introduced on
the beach at Ocean Grove, N. J. A ttenth
is dug in the damp sand near the Ocean,
and the son’s rays are allowed to pour
into it until the sand becomes almost hot.
The bather then reclines in the sand, and
an attendant covers with sand until he
looks like a terrapin. The bathers say
the baths are not only pleasant, bnt
benefioial, and that three such baths will
cure rheumatism.
Thr Mississippi Jetties.—In a letter
to Congressman Crittenden, of Missouri,
written on the 8th instant, Captain Eads
says: “The jetty channel is now almost
as good as the ^entrance to New York
harbor. Large Bhips and steamers .visit
the port of NewjOrleans than ever before,
Ocean freights have been so greatly
lowered in consequence that the saving
on cotton alone from tha port of New
Orleans the past season was over $l,60o>-
000. Every intelligent man in Missouri
knows that arevolution has been wrought
in the grain trade as a result of tins deep
water. As the channel deepens and com
merce adjusts itself to their new condi
tions the benefits to tbe producers in
Missouri will be still more extensively
enjoyed. The permanent improvement of
the Mississippi operates as a regulator of
transportation charges, and thus adds to
the value of every bushel of grain' grown
for export to Europe or for cocsumption
in the Atlantic States; and ib also cheap
ens to the farmer all of his merchandise
and other supplies brought from the
East.” ' . v..r:
Gold ik Patagonia.—Patagonia is a
very attractive oountry. Its climate ia o
the coldest, its men are of the tallest, and
is women of the ugliest specimens of the
human race. Its mice are likewise
gigantic, and the natives display an
ineradicable propensity to tell lies. This
delightful country ia destined to become
very important, in contequence of the
reoent discovery of gold therein. From
the Cordilleras to the Atlantic, from the
Santa Cruz to Terra del Fuego, the coun
try teems with gold.
The Financial Troubles in Louis
ville.—The Louisville Courier-Journal,
in a long editorial on the financial status
of that city, says:
Expenses are going on at the same
extravagant rate whioh, last year, accord
ing to the Mayor’s message, exceeded
onrrevennes $85,000. The Mayor has
warned the Conncil that unless they
lessen expenses this year, they will fell
short again $87,000. But the facts seem
to indieato that he has greatly under
estimated the probable deficit. The
reduction of onr assessed values
aadlowezing the taxes eight oents on
ike $100 will lessen our inoome thi
year $156,929. If these expenses are
to continue at the same rate as last year
there can be no esoape from the fate of
falling ahort the amount of lessened rev
enues and the exeeea of expenses over In
oome last year, which together make
$243,929, This would be bad enough;
bnt if wo fail to collect 30per cent, of
the taxes levied for this year, as we have
done for several years past, the balance
against us in the Bhape of a floating debt
wonld be increased exactly that amount,
which would run the total oyer $300,000.
Our floating debt sow exceeds $1,200,000,
It would be worse than folly to inoreaee
It would be criminal,
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