Newspaper Page Text
dp> dksrcgi® Wxfsklvi 3mnm&i & 3&e*9*nfl*fc
The Telegraph and Messenger
MACON GA., SEPTEMBER 24 1878
a HI’ GEORGIA PRESS.
The Atlanta Greenbackers who nomi
nate] Mr Arnold for Congress, spread
their nets pretty widely to catch votes
when tue* pu; a negro on their platform
and nomineting committee. George He*
Kinney was his name. One of the speak
ers in-'de another lusty bid in the same
direction when ho said the new party
proposed to abolish the chain-gans*. An
other speaker eulogized Kearneyiam,com
paring it to the mission of th<A ** meek
and lo*lv Jeans.’' This sort of 6tnff won’t
go dowo m Georgia.
Tub Constitution announces the death,
last Thursday, of Mr. A. F. Nnnnally, of
Atlanta, from injuries being received by
being thrown from a buggy, on tho 9th
inst.
Tux Franklin News shows an uncom-
lf level head when it eays: We have
some doubts in our mind whether this
new Greenback party is any better friend
to the laborer than the Democratic party.
All that is good In their platform has
been adopted in that of tbe Democratic
party. Tnis being the case, why make
war upon a party that is working to
accomplish what they most desire. It
will be an easy matter to defeat the Dem
ocratio party; bat that defeat will only
bring destruction down upon their own
heads, with more oppression than has
yet been felt. We fear the laborer is
being led blindfolded by men whose only
aim is ta got hold of the flesh pots of
Egypt. If w.e are to have a new party
let us wait for a more convenient time,
when there is not so much at stake.
For “will” read “wont” be an easy
matter to defeat the Democratic party,
and you will have it down abont right.
Captain Tete Smith writes a ringing
letter accepting the nomination for Con
gress in the Second District. It breathes
victory in every line. Wo quote ns fob
lows:
Tour compact and solid phalanxes havo
twice met our opponents, and as many
times secured signal rictories in the in
terest of peace, happiness and prosperity.
You have redeemed our District from
misrepresentation in the Federal Legisla
ture. Ton have succeeded in restoring
law and order, and the grand spectacle is
presented by you of a community of two
races living together in perfect harmony
and pursuing their several occupations
with encouragement from all, and moles
tation from none.
I fear the severest strain onr national
system baa ever endared will be applied
in 1880. Fraud, forgery and perjury tri-
□mphed in 1876, end we may reasonably
expeot a resort to aotcal violenco in 1880.
Nothing can save ns from anaroby, ex
cept a patrlotio adhesion to the great
principles of the Constitution. Should
these triumph we oan ride in safety each
angry sea, and law and order will prevail.
In view of the grand results of Democrat
ic influences on the condition and indus
tries of our country, and a reasonable
expectation of what snoh inflaenoes may
effect tn the fntnre, may we not confi
dently expeot all patrlotio oitizens to nnite
with ns in the great work of restoring the
Government to Constitntional limits, and
inf using new life in every department of
human industry.
I trc3t that the fiends of discord may
not be able to disturb our peaoeful course
to happiness and prosperity, and that our
banners of peace may float undisturbed
over a happy population from ono end of
tho country to the other.
The Sandersville Herald eays more cot
ton was received at that point during Au
gust, than ordinarily come3 in during
September. The receipts to tho 14th
inst. footed up 51G bales.
Wbquote the following from the same
Pi John Willis, alias George Dykes, col
ored, convicted lately of assault with in
tent to murder Mr. H. C. Cummin?, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years, and Ben Whatley, another colored
convict, jumped from the train near
East Point, on the 29th of August. The
train was stopped and pursuit made, and
we are glad to' state they havo been re
captured.
Mb. Thomas Muetagh, an old resident
of Savannah, died last Taesday. He was
the only survivor of “the little band #£
nine polioemen who eared for the sick
and buried tbe dead doting the terrible
epidemio of 1854 and 1855. He also
passed through the epidemio of 1876, and
did efficient servioe. He was a gallant
member of the Irish Volunteers, and
served under Colonel Bock well in tbe bat
tles of Kennesaw Mountains and Big
Shanty daring the late war.”
The Buena Vista Argus says last Fri
day, “as some hands were unloading a
wagon at tho new jail, a negro narrowly
escaped a sudden death. The timbers
were twenty-eight feet long and 8x10
inches large—were green and heavy.
-were green
One of timepieces was placed on top of
‘ he wheel ■, and ell hands prepared to
throw it on a pile near by. One of the be approved, aa the otherajiaye been, in
negroes placed the wrong shoulder under
the piece of timber, with his head be
tween the log and the pile. No one no
ticed it until the log had been thrown.
The negro and log fell together, the ne
gro’s head on a log, and the log from the
wagon on his head. All present thought
the negro’s skull bad been crushed, but
in about twenty minutes he was at werk
again. The strange part of the story le
that where the log struck him. on the
forehead there was a spot abont as large
as a silver dollar which was aa white as a
white man’s skin.”
A black snake over sir feet long was
caught and killed in a bird cage at tbe
residence of Mr. Woodruff, near Griffin,
a day or two since. When found, he had
made two coils aronnd one of the birds,
and the other was so frightened that
nearly all of his feathers have since drop-
pod out.
Thb death of Professor Waddell, of
the State University, which was announ
ced by telegraph yesterday, seems to
have been very sudden, judging from the
following in the Constitution:
A dispatch was received on yesterday
by Colonel Foreacre announcing that Mr.
W. H. Waddell bad died on the south
bound train at a little point ca’led Mill-
ford, ju3t beyond Bichmond. It was
toon discovered that it was Professor
Wb. Henry Waddell, of the State Uni
versity. it appears that he left Georgia
a few weeks ago for a tour of recreation
that extended to Saratoga. He had start
ed home in apparently good health, and
wrote a postal card to his wife announc
ing that he would stop & few daya at
Emory and Henry college, and would
reach home on the 26tb. The next thing
heard from him wa3 the dispatch an
nouncing bis death, which must have
taken place very suddenly. Mr. Hey
ward, his brother-in-law, left yesterday
evening with an undertaker, for his body.
The Constitution pays a deseived trib
ute tn tho dead man’s memory, which wo
heartily indorse, having known and
greatly esteemed him as schoolmate
and friend, ever since we were boys to
gether in the good old town of Athene.
God rest his seal 1
A drunken negro, name unknown,
was ran over and killed by a train
on the Georgia read, near Decatur, last
Friday night. His body was cut in half.
A Hard Man to Food.—We find this
eminently Kvj’-h coded card in tbe Con
stitution :
Editors Constitution : I was mnch sur
prised this morning to find my name as
one of tho delegates to the so-called
“Greenback” meeting which assembled
at the City Hill last night. Such nse of
my name was totally unauthorized. I am
a straight-out Democrat, believe in the
regular nominated ticket, and shall most
heartily support Colonel Hammond for
Congress. The platform adopted by the
BarneaTille convention ia a Simon-pure
greenback article, and it is only through
the Democratic party that I see any re
lief for the great financial troubles that
embarrass the country.
W. J. Hardman.
September 19, 1878.
Ths Clayton Countt Murder —The
Hampton Weekly has the following par
ticulars of this horrible affair, mention of
which has been mado in onr telegrams:
One of onr correspondents, writig
from Morrow’s Station, Clayton oonn,
gives the following acoonnt of a most bin
tal murder, whiob occurred near that
place last Wednesday:
A Mrs. Farmer, an aged lady of ninety
years, living with her two daughters,
abont one mile west of Morrow’s Statio n
on the Macon and Western Bailroad, fon,
miles above Jonesboro, was cruelly m nr
dered, and one of her daughters had nr-
ekull crushed by the same fiend. During
the whole of the night, and np to 9 o’clock
yesterday, she was insensible.
The old lady’s skull was literally chop
ped in twain by the stroke of an axe or
hatohet, and was fonnd dead in tbe house,
lying prone npon the floor. Her daugh
ter was found in the yard. The attend
ing physician say there is no hope of her
reoovery. Another daughter was some
distance from the house, in the cotton
patch pioking cotton, and was uncon
scious of what was going on abont the
boose. A gentleman named Harper pass
ing by, discovered that something was
wrong and dismounted and went to the
house, where he fonnd the old lady lying
dead on the floor, and tbe house fired in
three different plaoes. Every trunk, box
and cheBt bad been broken open, and ap
pearances showed that the orimes of rob
bery, mnrderand arson had been com
mitted; The work of mnrder and robbery
was effectually done, and bnt for tbe
timely appearanoe of Mr. Harper the
honse and contents would have been con-
enmed. Parties who were at work in the
neighboring fields say they saw a mulatto
negro with a gun on his shoulder and a
small box under his arm making his way
to a neighboring swamp. No clue has
been obtained np to this writing—
9 o’clock, Thursday a. m. The citizens
of Jonesboro and the neighborhood
aoouring the country in every direction in
tho hope of capturing the Bconndrel.
Old Mrs. Farmer was a pensioner npon
the government, and was supposed to
have eome money. It is thought this f sot
was the temptation which led to the com
mission of the horrible deed, Sospioion
rests upon one Willis Lse, an outlawed
mulatto, for whom Governor Colquitt re
cently offered a reward of $100.
Lieut. Chabdis H, Williams, of the
18-h regiment of F oral infantry, was
married in Covington last Taesday to
Miss Lizzie Overby, daughter of tbe late
B. H. Overby, of Atlanta. Bishop Beck
with cificialed.
Catt. J. P. Thomas was nominated by
the Burke county Democrats last Friday
for the Legislature, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Mr. Cor
ker.
The Augusts News says “the present
season is one of the most remarkable for
cotton on record. Up to last sight there
had been received in the city, since the
1st of September of the present year,
12,276 bales; for the same time last year
only 2,727 were received, or 9,549 more
bales this year than last. In consequence
trade is splendid and our merchants were
never so busy at this season.
The Washington Gazette says tea tons
of lead ore were shipped from that depot
last Thursday to New York. They were
from a mine in that connty. A shipment
of copper ore will be made from the same
mine this week, and the Gazette under
stands $100 per ton will be paid for it.
Mies Sallib Toomb3 and Mr. Thomas
T. Fortson, both of Washington,
married last Monday*
Shaking up the Faithful in the
Savannah Custom House.—We learn
from the News that a special agent of the
Treasury Department has recommended,
and the Secretary has approved, tho fol
lowing reductions in the custom house:
Two day inspectors, at a compensation
of threo dollars per diem each, to be dis
missed.
Two night inspector?, receiving two
dollars and a half each per diem, to be
dismissed.
Henry W. Tarrentine, porter in the
Appraiser’s office at $30 a month, and
Frederick Dickson, messenger in the
Surveyor's office at $30 a month,to be dis
charged.
The compensation of the remaining
four night inspectors to be reduced from
$2.50 to $2 per diem each, and the com
pensation of three boatmen from $45 to
$40 per mnnth. The compensation of
one boatman to bo increased from $25 to
$30 per month.
E. B. Wilson, messenger in the Collec
tor’s offioe, to hare his pay increased from
$45 per month to $730 per annum.
We also learn unofficially that Special
Treasury Agent Barney has recommend
ed that the office of Surveyor of the Port
and the Appraiser’s office be abolished,
the same being considered mere sinecures.
These recommendations will doubtless
which event Colonel A. N. Wilson and C.
H. Campbell, Esq., of the Appraiser’s
office, will be relieved, as also David Por
ter, now Surveyor. Mr. Campbell has
been in the Appraiser’s offioe for a num
ber of year?.
“Citizen,” who wields a savage pen in
the Constitution, pays his respects to Dr.
Felton, in Friday’s issue of that paper.
We make one extraot as a sample of hfs
style:
Yon say we blame yon for not fighting
Bullock' and his orew. Yes, sir, thou
sands of ns do. While Lester, and Miller
and Young were lifting their voices
against Bollook from every stomp in
North Georgia, bidding the people rise
for Gordon and liberty and freedom yon
were silent. Who heard year hallejah-
liok then ? Ah 1 the soldiers were In tbe
land; the satrap ruled; the bayonet
gleamed; the prison yawned.
There were no hospitals! Yon were
afraid.
Eadical role, rsdioal rings, radios! trick
sters, radical thieves, plundering, rob
bing, enslaving, defiling Georgia, and yon
silent as the grave.
Yon were afraid. Thatlswbywe oall
yon reoreant. Yon stood by and saw yonr
mother State stripped of her beauteous
robes, given naked and in ohains to the
lustful hand of the thief and the despoil
er, and lifted not yonr hand or your voioe
to save her. Away, then, patriot of peaos
and safety !*
The Hampton Weekly makes an elo
quent appeal to its Democratic friends to
bestir themselves for Hammond. It says:
Let every good and trne Democrat rally
to the support of onr nominee. The re
vival of the Bepublioan party, and its
threat to run a candidate in this Distriot,
admonishes ns to ba up and doing. The
majority for ns here is not so large that
we should feel safe until onr victory is
proclaimed; and we urge every Demo
crat to fall into line and work hard for
success. Our candidate will work; we
must help him. He will keep awake; we
must not sleep. He will speak; let ua
not be silent. The Weekly will labor
bard—not merely for the snccees of Mr.
Hammond, but for the Eupremoey of
those grand principles which have made
our people what they are to-daj—sover
eign and happy.
And now, though the friends of the de
feated condidates are disappointed, let
them unite in one strong effort to carry
the day. Let none lag behind, bnt all—
every one—oome up and prepare for a
vigorous campaign. For should we, re
lying npon our fancied strength, grow
careless or less vigilant than we have
been in the past, the wide-awake Bal
locates will foist npon ns a vampire that
might draw every drop of blood from onr
political body.
At ths speoial election for Ordinary of
Eomter county last Wednesday, Dr. Thos.
H. Stewart was the successful oandidate.
assisted by two oolored laborers, went to
work on their father’d farm in Etat
Dougherty.
They planted 100 aoreB In ootton from
whioh they expect to pick 50 bale?.
Would have made 60 bad the caterpillars
not made their appearance. Have al
ready pioked 22 bales from fifty acre?.
No guano was used; fifty aores was man
ured with compost, and the remaining
fifty was river bottom land.
They have two and a half aores planted
in sugar cane from which they expect to
make 500 gallons of syrnp. Made 800
bushels, and a very fine potato crop.
They made 140 btuhelsof wheat from
about 17 aores and one thousand bushels
of oats from one hundred acres. They
made ten bales of cotton and 100 bushels
of corn to tbe mule.
This was done by these six hands, only
about forty dollars being paid out for ex
tra labor.
The Advertiser says on last Sunday
morning “Mr. A. Fields took from his
fish trap in the Kiuchafonee creek, near
where it empties into tho river, twenty
large sturgeons. The next day he got
six, end on Taesday another, making in
all twenty-seven in three day?. They
Tanged from forty to one hundred and
twenty pounds in weight, and aggrega
ted about two thonsand pound-"
Still rnnCLIng Him.
New York Sun.l
What. Hale—little Hale ?
You don’t mean
Eugene?
Impossible he should fail t
Zicli Chandler’s son-in-law,
Elaine’s little pet,
Out in the wot,
With no sand in his craw ?
It can’t be. by thunder 1
tnert,Iw
What!
[wonder?
Hurrah fob the Jokes Boys.—The
Albany Advertiser has the following:
This year four young men, Henry T.,
Ben F., Frank B. and Sidney J. Jones,
sons of Dr. Talifeiio Jones of this county.
Hit Him Again.
Boston Herald J
General Butler now talks about *‘ihe
gross and ontrageous frauds” of the Lou
isiana Returning Board. When there
was a chance to defeat those frauds he
wa3 cheerfully denying that there had
been any.
AZ it Again.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.]
Crookedness in the disposition of the
Chicago money raised fbr the benefit of
the yellow fever sufferers Is chprged al
ready. They make a business of “ relief
aocietiea” in Chicago. It is about the
only profitable occupation known in that
much-mortgaged city.
A Pertinent Question-
Philadelphia Becord.1
Jay Gonlu went to Washington the
other day to get the Government to pro
tect the trains on the Union Facifiic road
which were threatened by organized bands
of robbers. After the Government shall
protect Jay Gould from the jayhawkers
who will protect the Government against
JayGoulci? , . ■
To be Sore be Will.
Cincinnati Enquirer!
Mr. Sherman isn’t half so popular with
the hard-money people of the Eist as he
was a week ago. Having lost his grip
here inOhio.it is difficult to tell where
John will land next. But he will be
pretty sure to land on his feet somewhere,
and ba ready to swear that he has been
standing in that exact spot ever since he
was a ~boy.
Old Hod’s Wherabunts.
Albany Argus!
J. Madison Wells is at Niagara Falls.
His nearness to the line not only
shows how dilligent be is in discharging
his duties as Surveyor of the Fort of
New Orleans, but it also indioates that he
has apparently fonnd out that the extra
dition treaty does not cover the theft of a
Presidency. Still, why he wants to get
so near to so muoh water is a marvel, un
less ho desires to try on it what he vainly
tried on the Morrison Oommitttee, and
what Mr. Emerson calls the occasional
and frnotifytogdam,
Morrison’* Level Head.
St, Louis Globe-Democrat!
We are indebted to Mr. Don Morrison
for the most practical prescription for the
cure of hard times that has yet come to
our notice. He says: Let Congress ap
propriate money enough to send a thous
and negro women to Europe, to ehow the
people ever there how to make corn
bread, and wo shall reap more benefit
from increased export of corn than would
accrue from the issue of five hundred
millions of greenbacks. We nominate
Mr. Morrison for the United States Sen
ate on this platform.
Tell That to The Marines.
■Washing ton Star.l
Mr. Moulton, (his brother-in-law,)
thinks that Secretary Sherman is growing
tired of public life. For nearly a quarter
of a oentury he has held publio poeitions,
during whioh time he has been constantly
under a heavy strain. The Secretary, he
says, Is extremely anxious that his plan of
resumption shall suoceed, and he believes
it will succeed, and were it not for the
pride he takea in making it a snoosss, he
would throw aside the burdens of publio
life at onoe, and spend the remainder sd
his days in snoh pursuits as would afforo
him more leisure, bring npon him les
abase, and give him the opportunity to
better enjoy life.
Elk in' Harntss.
From the St, Paul Glob&J
Mr. A. H. Mcore’s span of Elk at
tracted much attention on the grounds
yesterday. Their names are Dexter and
Dasher. Dexter weighs 516 pounds and
Dasher 500 ponnds. They are two yearn
old each, well broken to harness and, Mr.
Moore says, are so well trained that a
woman can drive them. They were cap
tured on Bice river, eight miles sonth of
Fargo, when four or five days old. It is
an easy matter for them to travel sixteen
miles an honr and haul two men and a
buggy, and it is said they can travel one
hundred miles as easy as a horse team
can fifty. Their antlers are in what the
hunters term the velvety stage.
Bird* Ct a Feather Flock Togeth
er.
New York Sun.l
Nothing oonld more prominently illus
trate tbe quality of Hayes’ oivil servioe
reform pretensions than ths appointment
of ex-State Treasurer Cardoza of Booth
Carolina to a position in the United States
Treasury Department. A fugitive from
South Carolina, where he stands iniioted
for participation in gigantio and system
atic plunder of the State, or rather of the
bondholders who were victimized into
loaning money to the State, this man Is
placed in a position of traat and respon
sibility at Washington. It is bnt natural,
it is true, that an Administration found
ed on frand should seek tools and subor
dinates among the class to whioh Garde-
belongs. The old proverb that birds
of a feather flock together well applies to
tho fraudulent Secretary of the national
Treasury and 'the ex-Trtainrer of South
Carolina.
A Hero of Use Present
Lynchburg Yirginian .1
When the yellow fever broke out in
Portsmouth in 1855, a young man, Mr.
Samuel Cutherell, though unencumber
ed, refused to leave, and nursed in the
terribly infected hospitals until stricken
down himself. Cheerful and determined,
he recovered, and nursed on until “the
plague was stayed” and the city was free.
When the war broke ont, he went to the
front, and exhibited the same obeerfnl,
fearless devotion and disregard of dan
ger. In this service he contracted vio
lent rheumatism,which has left the marks
of its violence on his brave limb?. And
now, a man of forty-five, he passed
through this city on his way to Memphis
to help that stricken people as a nurse.
He spoke to a friend cheerfnlly of his de
termination to fight the yellow fever from/
city to city until relioved from hiB self-
imposed labors by victory or death.
A notable improvement in watches is
repotted from Chanx do Fond?, SSwitzer
land. By a peculiar process the figures
on the diel ore rendered luminous, so that
If exposed onoe during the day to the sun
light they xenuiln phosphorescent and vis
ible tbroughont tba night. Preparations
have been made for the production cf
these watches en a’large scale.
A Boy Revivalist
New York Sun.l
Thomas Harrison, a boy exhorter, is
conducting a remarkable revival in tbe
Foundry Methodist Church, Washington.
He is 18 years old. His entrance to a
meeting is thus described: “Crack,
snap! crack! sound upon tbe wailing air
with tbe thrilling sound of pistol shots in
rapid succession. The explanation ap>
pears as the evangelist comes in slapping
his white hands from excess of nervous
ness. He is dressed in a tight-fitting
black coat, whose skirts are so long as to
give it tbe air of a priestly robe. A white
tie shows above the close-buttoned coat
A chained tiger i3not more restles?. He
is never still. His feverish unrest in
fects bis audience. The never-failing
wonder of wbat he will do next and the
failure to correctly anticipate keeps up
an unflagging interst.” He uses simple
language, and expresses his ideas cleaily>
but has none of the style of & trained
speaker. Bat his energy is tremendous,
and his power over an audienco wonder
ful.
His descriptions of a sulphurous hell
for sinners are terrrifying to most of his
bearers, and the excitement is always
great by the time his sermon ends with
an appeal +o sinners to go forward for
prayers. One reporter gives the follow
ing account: “He ran down from the
platform and stood on the front seat. He
was pale with excitement.JHe outstretch
ed his bands downward, and the heads
went down in front of him as if impelled
by a weight. Then he said in a low
voice: “The Bpirit of God is present
with more remarkable power than I have
ever felt in all my experience.” Fervid
exhortation followed. Persons began to
quit their seats and rush forward. In a
minute the front seats were full. Old
and young struggled with each other to
be first. The leaders met each new comer
with a band shako and a ehoat. One
fashionably attired young woman fainted,
but a friend near her caught her, and she
fell prostrate over the chancel rails,”
Harrison is from Boston. He has been
remarkably successful in inciting religious
fervor wherever he baB worked, ana is in
great request by Methodist churches.
He is said to be so engrossed with his
mission that be often breaks into exhor
tation at hotel tables, in street cars, and
anywhere else that the impulse seizes
him.
2S&5 A National Enemy.
New Orleans Times.l
The faot is that this soason the fever
has wandered at its own sweet will all over
the Southwest, skipping one locality and
ponnoing upon another, though both have
suffered equally from the dangers of in
fection, and generally demolishing tbe
most hoary traditions of the disease. If
nothing else has been proved, we think it
safe to say that no one will question onr
proposition (hat total absence of any
speoifio knowledge has beeen proved, and,
such being the oase, yellow fever becomes
at onoe a national peril and a national ca
lamity. We know of no reason why the
events of 1878 may not be repeated in
1879, and for the future indefinitely, an
less somo dearer light be thrown upon
tbe snbjeot than has been thrown there
heretofore. Furthermore it is not sus
ceptible of proof that New Orleans is any
more liable to yellow fever than Memphis
or Shreveport or any other oommnnity
south of the Ohio river—though it is sus
ceptible of proof that the fever hero is of
a milder and more manageable type than
elsewhere and that a man’s chances of
recovery here are about three to one 03
against the other plaoes which have been
visited this year. These, however, are
mere details. The eonutry now knows
that yellow fever is a national enemy, and
the country will show its good sense by
attacking the problem at once.
Feeding Pork.—Pork is now lower
than it has been for thirty years, and the
prospect for those who have many hogs
is not agreeable. Yet it would not be
wise to sacrifice good herds on this ac
count. Those who have not, will find
this a good opportunity to weed ont their
stock, and replace it with a better quality
of animals in preparation for the time
which is certain to come, when pork shall
again bear a profitable valae. The chief
profit from pare-bread stock consists in
its early maturity; and the fact that a
pig of a well selected breed and properly
fed, can be made fit for the barrel at less
than a year old, makes it of far ’ greater
worth than one which requires two years
to arrive ataealeable condition. To keep
only the best stook should be the aim of
every one who rears animals for sale; and
there Is no better time to begin to im
prove one’s stock than when the value is
low, and it can be done at the hast ex
pense.
African explorers will probably ride
on elephants in fntnre. Colonel Gordon
has proved by experiment that tame ele
phants coon learn to liTe on leaves and
gras?, as the wild elephants do, and keeD
in good condition. Afiioan travel will
thus be more pleasant and muoh safer, as
the native?, it is said, will not venture to
attack a party mounted on elephants.
An Interesting Dog Story.—A well-
known physician has a very fine dog
that is much attached to his horse and
buggy. Wherever he drives the dog is
sure to follow, and when he stops the
sagacious creature lies down beside the
buggy, guarding it as olosely as a sentinel
on duty in the camp. Friday last the
buggy was sent to the shop for repairs.
The dog followed and took his accustom
ed position beside the wheels in the shop.
While Jthe workmen were mending the
broken parts, the dog strutted aronnd
with his bristles raised, watching the
operation with eager interest, and appear
ed very muoh agitated. Thus he con
tinued on daty all day and refused to
leave the shop at night. Next morning
he was fonnd lying beside the buggy,
and wonld not leave until it was finished
and taken home.
Cabinet Plans. — The Washington
Sunday Herald says:
If we oan believe the reports abont the
informal Cabinet conference on Friday
last, the prospeots are joyful for theDem-
ooratio campaign. The enemy is demor
alized in its plans, principles and enter
prises. A forcing of the stillest kind of
hard-money issues was resolved on
os a desperate measure against the
Greenback acquisitions of the
Demooraoy. while premature resump
tion was dropped with ludiorous
haste. Saddest of all to relate, aa a po
litical necessity the assassination of the
nnfortnnate C. Service Beform was fully
determiued upon. Only Secretary Sohurz
resisted this scheme of infanticide by the
Administration, but Cassius Sherman and
Bratus Devons overruled him. This is a
good instance of the insincerity of tbe
Badical professions of reform “within
the party” and an encouraging confes
sion of the hopeless straits into which
Badical weakness has fallen.
ZZ WANTED.
All persons suffering from diseases which
have been pronounced insurable by other
physicians, or wbo have been receiving
treatment from private practitioners or
using other advertised medicines for die-
eases of the lungs, liver, and stomach,
without obtaining relief, to try Doctor
Pierce’s Golden Medical Disoovery and
Pleasant Purgative Pellets, which have
restored hundreds of coses that have
been pronounced incurable. Also all la
dies suffering from uterine weakness and
disease, who have been subjected to the
barbarous nse of mechanical contrivances
and torturous operations, without ob
taining any permanent relief, to use Dr.
Pierea’s Favorite Prescription, wbioh im
parts vigor and tone to the diseased
ports, restoring the natural supporters—
the uterine muscles—to their normal vig
or and strength. sep21 dwswlt
Dr. Ball’?aBlocd Mixture by its won
derful restorative influence purifies and
enriches the blood anl induces good
health.
Col. Ashley E. Vickers.
Ia tbe sudden and painless death of
this good man, whioh occurred at his res
idence in Laurens county, on the 21st of
July last in tbe sixty-first year of his age,
the following quotation is appropriate:
“So glide my file away! And so at last,
My share ol duties already fulfilled.
May some disease, not tardy to perform
Its destined office, yet, with gentle stroke,
Dismiss mo weary to a safe retreat,
Beneath the turf that I have often trod.”
He made an indelible mark, for his earn
estness, activity, industry and perseveA
anoe will ever perpetuate bis memory.
No neighbor could oharge him with neg
lecting his duty a halt’s breadth in
thought, word or deed.
When his death was announced, friends
far and near came, uttering oondolenoe
mingled with praises of his virtues. The
lamentation of his widow and two sons
were tributes of sorrow that oarried grief
to every heart.
His death has awakened a deep feeling
of regret throughout the country. In
appearance he was very distinguished,
and the very picture of health. Ho was
never engrossing m conversation, nor was
his mind ever known to possess any nar
rowness upon any subject, when he had
given it proper thought. Having devc-
ted his entire life to agriculture, he
always kept his mind fully charged with
all its duties. When his financial trou
bles came, in 1873, for a time they seem
ed almost to overcome him, but being
physio ally and mentally strong, he very
soon pnt ail his active powers to work in
a business he loved; expressing continu
ally a joyful hope of reclaiming all his
losses. And, too, he really seemed pre
pared to go over again, by a new path,
and re-test his former convictions that
perseverance wonld overcome every diffi
culty. His mind never seemed to be over
loaded with a calling with which his whole
life seemed fascinated. The essential Char
acteristic of Col. Vickers’ mind was that
of a thinker, combined with an energy
scarcely equalled. No one could fail to
recognize in him these noble qual
ities. As a husband he was kind,
devoted, affeolionate. As a father he was
noble, generous, kind, forgiving and com'
panionable, which gave for his family an
irresistible charm to bis society. Yea,
the kindness and attentiveness ho had for
his family words can scarcely express.
Notwithstanding his farming interest of
ten drew him away from his home, be
always left them in that confidence which
seemed to foretoken a happy return.
His home was a refreshment, a spring
flower of happiness after passing through
weighty business. He was a member
and a deacon of Laurens Hill Baptist
Chnrch at the time of his death, and had
been for many years. While he wa3 not
a man who made an ostentatious exhibi
tion of his religion, he was always con
sistent, always gave a charitable inter-
pretation to the absurdities, tbe follies
and the errors of his fellows. He ab
jured all thought cf personal comfort at
all timely and labored in what he believed
to bo a goed cause. He leaves a widow
and two sons in tearful grief. His sous
are eged 15 and 21 years respectively.
The older, Ashley E., having entered
into manhood, comes forward to fill a
father’s place, in accordance with a fath
er’s Irishes. How often have I heard that
father speak of his worthy sons in the
warmth of devotion, trusting his life
would be spared that he might promote
their prosperity and stand firmly by them
In adversity. Father, motber and sons
onoe walked together in love, hand in
hand. The chain is broken. That hus
band, that father is hear, but sleeps in
death.
Surely “Life.is a journey in a strange
land.”
A Friend.
Twiggs County, Ge., Sept. 16,1878.
Sherman's Change ol Rase.
Washington Dispatch to New York World.J
The hope expressed that the interview
with Secretary Sherman published in i
local newspaper last Sunday was incor
rect is groundless. Tbeprcofsof the in
terview were revised by Mr. Sherman
and hetake3 the responsibility of his
utterances. Without announcing, him
self to be a Greesbacker, he espouses
the leading principles of tho party. He
favors abolition of the national banking
system, hints that the resumption law is
an unwise measure, which his official po
sition alone compels him to execute, and
says that he favored the establish
ment of a four per cent, bond, in
to which greenbacks could be con
vertible at will. The hard-moneyed Re
publicans of Washington look upon him
with fears and distrust. They Bay that his
oonoessionB to the Greenbackers are sim
ply bids for the favor of the soft-money
wing of the Bepnblican party. The Sec
retary of the Treasury is accused by these
men of having designs on the Presidency.
By announcing opinions contrary to the
spirit of the law he is sworn to exeoute
be hopes, they say, to gain the good will
of the Bntlerites of the country. When
the silver bill was passed Secretary Sher
man went back on his reoord in tbe Sen
ate, and before the Committee on Fi
nance of that body parted company with
Mr. Bayard,. Mr. Kernan, Mr. Morrill
and others in advocating remonetization.
His aotion at that time was purely for po
litical effect. That is the entire seoret of
his suddenly developed Greenback ideas.
A Plague at Athens.
Collins’ Abridgment ol Thucdidcs!
The second summer of the Pelopene-
sian war began miserably for Athens. A
pestilence broke ont in the overcrowded
streets and snbnrbs. It wa« said to have
began in Ethiopia, and to have been con
veyed by some merchant vessel to Pirreus.
The disease appears to have been a vio
lent eruptive fever, of what form is not
known. Persons were attacked suddenly
while m fall health, without ostensible
cause. First they were seized with vio
lent flashings about the head and redness
and .tnrgesence of the eyes; within, the
fauces and the tongue beoame all at once
blood-red, and the breath unnatural and
fetid. After this came on sneezing and
hoarseness, and in a short time the suff
ering extended to the chest, with violent
cough; and when it settled on tho heart
it disturbed its action and pro
duced bilious discharges of all kinds
known to medioal language, accompanied
by great diatress. In most oases a dry
hioonp come up, oauslug violent spasms,
whioh sometimes ceased soon, and in
other oases lasted a long time. The sur
face of the body was neither hot to the
touch nor pallid, but rather red, livid,
and ooveredwith an eruption of bliBten
and sores, while tbe internal heat waB so
great that the patients oonld not bear
upon them the thinnest garment or the
finest linen, or to He in any other way
than naked, and bad a longing to throw
themselves into oold water. Nay, many
who were not oarefally watohed aotaally
did so, into the tanks, urged by an insa
tiable thirst, and it made no difference
what they drank, much or little. They
suffered severely from a distressing rest
lessness and want of sleep throughout.
Yet daring the whole time tbe disease was
at its height the body was not sensibly
emaoiated, but held out against this suf
fering in a way beyond belief, so that
most died abont tbe seventh or ninth
day of Inward fever, still retaining con
siderable strength. Or, if they sur
vived this crisis, then the disease passed
into the abdomen, severe ulceration su
pervening with profn-e diarrlan. The
majority died of this at last from sheer
exhaustion. For the disease, which had
its first seat in tbe head, passed down
gradually through the whole body, and if
any one got through the worse stage?, it
was apt to leave its marks upon him by
seizing the extremities, for it lighted on
tbe fingers and toes; and many only es
caped with the loss of these, and, in some
few ease?, cf their eyeB as well. Some,
when they rose from their sick bed, had
lost aU at once their reoolleotion, and did
not even know who they were, or recog
nize [their nearest friends. The plague
continued its ravages in Athens for two
whole year?, and then, alter an interval
of twelve month?, broke ont again B. C.
426, and lasted another year. It oarried
off altogether forty-fonr hundred of the
heavy infantry and cavalry (all of whom
wohld be oitizens of some position), and
of the lower dosses “a number never as
certained ” of was en and children the
historian seems to take loaeoouat. Tue
total loss o! life probably exceeded tie'
number of those slain In battle during the
whcl9 war.
Look at Turkey, Ye Lunallcs.
Bichmond Dispatch!
Turkey has been carrying ont the Idea
of the Richmond Whig and the “flat”
Greenbackers. The recent war in tbe
Sultan’s dominion led to a demand for
more money. The Saltan set bis print
ing presses to work getting out “fiat”
money.“He “coined” $200,000,000. This
fiat money wbb baaed—just as the Whig
would have ours—on the oredit of the
government, whioh had its basis on all
the resonroes of the oeuntry, its mines,
tithes, customs, revenue?, and tbe prop
erty of the Sultan’s subjects. For a |while
business was “boanoiug.” Bat gradually
the people began to distract the fiat curren
cy. At last it took 360 paper fiat piastres to
buy an English sovereign, formally worth
163 piastres. What is the result? The
poor man has been wronged and the rich
man has grown xieher. Look at Tarkey,
ye lanatios.
Poetically Stated.
Courier-Journal!
Bobbinty bobbinty.
Big Waisted Ben.
He made a great row
With the “ worchester” men,
He bullied the Mayor
He buzzed to the people,
Hg hired the hall
And walked oB with the steeple.
He’s a dreadful old rat,
Not a bit of a mouse.
And his eve’s on the cheese
That perfumes the White Hcuse.
Mot Wearing Weeds lor Him
Cincinnati Enquirer!
Daring his visit at Dayton yesterday
President Hayes referred with feeling to
the loss by death of two of his friends
sinoehewas there before. Mr. Hayes
has lost a good many friends, mostly Re
publicans, in the last year and a half, bnt
it will do him no good to monrn for them
now. They are not wearing weeds on
their hats for him.
All (Jncle Dlctc's Mistake
Baltimore Gazette!
Governor Bishop’s day of prayer in Ohio
was followed by a cool spell whioh fell a
little short'of frost. The delay occasion
ed by the Hebrews of Cincinnati writing to
the Governor to know whether they were
included in the call to “Christiana” may
have prevented concerted aotion.
Try a New “Snap.”
Baltimore Gazette!
We advise the New York Tribune to
drop the thrilling cipher dispatches and
get ent a new edition of the “Rebel
ClaimB Bugaboo.” The Tribune must
know thatsinoe the election In Maine, the
people cf the Sonth have .added 37£ per
cent, so that the dad-donged total mnst
foot np something like $976,452,328 now.
The aotual peril of the ooontry can hardly
be estimated in figures.
An Unexpected Demand lor
Hayes.
New York Tribune!
Mr. Hayes ought to run home aud take
hold of hiB Cabinet with both haads to
keep it steady. An alleged flnanoial
polioy whioh doubles on itsolf three times
in a fortnight is bewildering to the peo
ple who have some interest in knowing
what sort of money they will need to pay
their bills with day after tc-morrow.
Bounce Him For Being a Fool
New York Sun!
Mr. Herman was arraigned in a police
oourtin Springfield, Illinoip, on a charge
of disorderly condoot. The complaining 1
witness was the oflicer who had arrested
him and wbo said: “He was standing
right under a gaslight in the street with
one arm aronnd a girl’s waist and the
other around her neck, hugging her like
everything.” Mr. Herman pnt the girl
on the stand and she bnibingly testified
that be was her accepted lover, and tbat
he was kissing her good night, with her
fall consent. He was discharged.
Acklin's Heroic Mission.
Baltimore Gazette!
Congressman J. H. Asklin, of Louisi
ana, who has been in Newport and New
York for some time gallantly and fear
lessly raising funds for the yellow fever
sufferers in his seotion, received a tele
gram the other day that the plagne had
broken out in his distriot. He started
Sonth at onee to save as xnany voters as
possible. Before tearing New York he
remarked that he had never had the yel
low fever and that he expeoted to be laid
ont In less than ten days. Mr. Acklin is a
gallant gentleman, one of the best pistol
shots in tho land,and we trust that he will
be spared to enjoy many champagne sup
pers.
Tbe New Oregon Senator-
Washington Star!
Hon James H. Sister, Democrat, who
has been eleoted United States Senator
from Oregon, to suooeed John H. Mitch
el>, Bepublioan,whose term expires March
4th, 1879, was born in Sangamon connty,
Illinois, in 1826. His early eduoation was
limited bat hesuooeeded in mastering tba
intrleaoies of the law, and has been a suc
cessful practitioner at the bar. He emi
grated to Oregon many years ago, and has
been a prominent Democratic politician
there for tbe past soore of years. He was
eleoted to the territorial legislature in
1857 and again in 1858, and then beoame
a member of the lower House of the first
State Legislature. In 1866 he was elect
ed distriot attorney for the fifth jadieial
distriot of Oregon, and filled that office
tiro year?. In 1870 he was elected to rep
resent the State in Congress, bnt was not
renominated for a second term. Mr.
Slater resides in the eastern portion of
the State. He declares himself an oppo
nent of inflation, bnt favors the substitu
tion of greenbacks for national bank
note?, and believes that the onrrenoy
should be placed npon a ooin basis.
The Champion Benedict.
New York Special to Philadelphia Time?.]
A month ago Mrs. Billings, a repaid
ble German woman of this city, answered
an advertisement for a housekeeper. Her
letter was responded to by a man who
gave the name of Franz Eckstein. He
said he had much money, and displayed
some valuable diamonds and titles to real
estate. He hinted that he wanted a wife
as muoh as or more than a housekeeper.
Mrs. BiU : ngs, struck vrithhis appearance
and polished manners, encouraged his
advances, told him she also was sot
without means and asked him to mil
again next night. He did so, and they
were then married. Two days afterward
he mode an excuse to be gene from her,
and soon after she received a .letter from
him saying that he had faded to receive
some money he had expected; would she
•end him somo? This she did, sending a
large amount. She had previously given
him money. He did not return. To
day shs was summoned to the District
Attorney’s office. Going there she was
given a aeat near iivd other women, who
were also waiting. Scon two deputy
Sheriffs entered. Ericatein wbb between
them. The six vromtn exclaimed: “Why,
there’s my husband,” and all advanced
toward him. It turned ont that under
different names he bed victimized the
entire six, and a seventh, who was not
present, in the same manner. He chose
widows who had a little money, and
cheat- d them out of it as qnickly as possi
ble.
An Undeniable Trulls.
Yon deserve to Buffer, and U yon lead a
miserable, unsatisfactory life in this beau
tiful world, it ia entirely your own fault
and there is only one exouse for you—
yonr unreasonable prejudice and skepti
cism, whioh has killed thousand?. Per
sonal knowledge and common sense rea
soning will soon show you that Green’s
August Flower will cure yon of Liver
Complaint or Dyspepsia with all Its mis
erable effeetp, each as siok headache, pal
pitation of tbe heart, sour stomaob, habit-
ual oostivenees, dizziness, of the bead,
nervous prostration, low spirits, eta Its
sale now reaches every town in the West
ern Continent, and not a druggist but will
tell you of its wonderful cures. You can
huy a sample bottle for 10a. Three doses
.will oure you, ju’j8 ly
A. WICKED OLD GENTLEMAN*
Bow be Sang Bass aud Basely
Toole la tbe Boys.
Boston Commercial Bulletin!
Nioe old gentleman he was, big white
waist-ooat, low cut shoes, bald head and
silver bowed spectacles. He led in the
singing on Sunday evening in the hotel
P*rior, and .sung that old-fashioned
baas in “Coronation” and “China” in
tbat sonoioas .up-and-down style whioh
ooontry choirsters used to praotice inao
eompanying the big fiddle, and withal
bad the bland benevolent look of a good
old up-country deacon.'
He was “looking round the house” next
night and stepped in where some of the
boys were playing cards—something
where they were talking of “oalle” and
“raises” and “seeing.” The boys looked
a little disconcerted, but the old man
didn’t say anything till the hand was play
ed out, and one of the party, under pre-
tenoe of having an engagement, winked
to the others and said be must go, intend
iog to break up until the old man' had
gone away, and then resume the game.
Bat he had scarce turned his back when
the aged visitor remarked:
“I wonder he didn’t raise ye, with the
.hand he held.”
“Do yon .understand the game?” asked
one. Of the party, takiBg a cigar from his
mouth.
“Wall a leetie; I’ve tesn ’em playin’
on it, an’ sometimes thort that Pd like to
take a hand jee’ for fan.”
11 Jast so,” said another, “suppose yon
toy a game or two with us.”
“Wall, I don’t mind, jes’ for the fan
of the thing.”
So the old man sat down and with a
good deal of instruction, managed to get
throngh with the game, and won on the
penny ante. “Thar,” arid he, “if that
fellow that’s gone had been spunky an’
put In $5 he’d get it instead of these 8
oents would’nths?”
“Why certainly,"said one of the young
men, “certainly, its yonr deal, nnole;
now, why don’t yon go in for a $5
ante?”
“Wall,” said the old fellow, throwing
round the oards, *‘I dono, bnt I will, bnt
I haiu’t got nothin’ bnt a $20 bill that I
drew outen the bank to oome here
with.”
“Well, nnole,” said the other, gather
ing np aud glanoing at hia card*, “IM go
yet twenty, and yon oan put it in tbe mis
sionary box when yon win it it yon
like.”
“She! so I ken,” said the old man; “I
don’t think 'twnd be gambolin’ at all ef
tba I’d tho oase/'
||“Not at all,” said the other, winking to
his companion?.
“Wall, then I don’ care of I go yer this
’ere other fifty—bnt l s’pose you’ll think
Pm doin’ on it to ekear ye—'but onr de
nomination’s tarnal poor, and a big con
tribution is jest what they're hankering
arte'*.”
“Ob, nc; Cover yonr fifty, nnole; we
ought to be liberal, yon know,” and so
the game went on till finally the old man
remarked: “Wall, I’d no idee I had
this’ere roll o’money in my pooket—so
yon call, do ye?—$500 np!—yes, yon hev
got three pinters—three queens and a
jaok! Well, ’tis kinder qneer I got tother
queen—bawl haul haw!”
“Yes, I’m sorry for yon bnt what are
year other cards?” said the yonng man,
triumphantly
“Well, three on ’em cz kings—why,
dam it, that ’ere pot ’omoney is mine,
yonng fellow,” said he, stretching out a
powerful paw and squeezing the bills out
of the hand of the young man, who had al
ready begun to roll them np. “P'raps,
mister, you’d like to take your band
again” said.he to the other.who had return
ed, meantime; they arc going to sing
some sam tunes upstairs before going to
bed, and I promised I’d jine ’em,”
There was a blank look of amt z tment
in tbat oirole as he left, and the thought
forosd itself into more than one mind of
the danger of trusting to appearanocs.
Wilhoft’a Tonic is not a panacea—is
not a cure for everything, buz is a cathol-
icon for malarious diseases, and day by
day adds fresh laurels to its crown of glo
rious success. Engorged Livers aad
Spleens, along the shady banks of our
l&es and riveas, are restored to their
healthy and normal secretion?. Health
and vigor follow its use, and Chills have
taken their departure from every house
hold where Wilhoft’a Anti-Periodic is
kept and taken. Don’t fail to try it.
Wheblock, Finlay & Co., Prop’rs,
New Orlean?.
For sale by all druggists.
sep!7 8w
Prompt Reform and JUo filly Evils
The prompt reform of those bodily
evilB, enfeebled digestion, incomplete as
similation, inactivity of the liTer, kid
neys and bladder, as well as of the ner
vous symptoms which these ailments are
especially prone to beget, is always ac
complished by tho nse of Hostetter’s
Stomach Bitters, a medicine accredited
by physicians, pronounced pure by ana
lysts, and eminently wholesome and
agreeable. Surely such a restorative is
preferable to unpalatable and indigestible
mineral drugs and unsanctioned nos
trums. The nation at largo assuredly
thinks so, judging by the unprecedented
demand for the article from Maine to the
Pacific, a demand now supplemented by
immense orders for it received from trop
ical America, Mexico, the British and
Spanish Colonial possessions, and else
where. Both at home and abroad it is
recognized as a standard remedy and
preventive, the decisiveness of it3 effects
recommending it everywhere.
sep!7 lw
“OH YIRGIN2fT.'’
BT 01* MARVEL.
" ... --,
’Tis bin a long, long time Age,
8inoe t were dor; 1
TiDM Fum-W™ 67 T “ e W ’
Dis* Ungfjpvimit meTanx^wiy
Like ol’ Virginny.
^ * 6 1 tao^S^° veni Stntest
Pat all jo* promises an* bates
ur, 7 >
^ ©l Virginity, V t r
““■nans*——i—
Oh. what» jolly dance an’ hit.
Wid blazin’ nine-’nota on de hirf
In or Yirginny. ’ T
Yes, limes is pow’ful changed since den
Down in de Bout.
De niggers tink deyselves gre’t men.
Wldall tha’meof!
Dey dress up fine, an’stmt aroun’,
An’ read de papers upside down,
On’ kick up shinny.
Now, I ain’t get no nse fur dat,
Oh, thunderashions,
Des bro’d-clotf clothe*, en’ be’ver h»t,
An* jrre*t Ki rations. 1
Dej fairlj starves to be a fop—
Give me ash-cake an’ fat-meat-son
Fnaol’Virginnyj
vn.
Wid frieze pant-loons, an’ homspun shirts
An’ol* straw hat: s
Nun oh yo’ dress-triled coats wid skirts,
Plenty to eat and common clothes
Is de way my money goes,
1 ain’t no ninny.
vnx,
But time* dun changed, I sod heto*,
X bears m mine.
But a place like de Jeems river she*
I’s got to fin’.
But ef I does, I uy, ’twill eben
Be dat place wha’ we call* Heaben,
Like’olYirginnyl
I’s gittin* ol*. I know* dat fac;
Mos’ aiity-fo’;
. But ef I lives I’s gwine bac’,
Dat’s sartin sho*.
But ef I die? befo’ dat time
I’s gwino who’ en’lesa glory shite,
like ol’ Virginny.
—Richmond Dbpatcli.
[The following lines were lately ad
dressed to a bsreaved mother in Macor,
by a friend in New York.]
A MOTHER'S REVERIE.
I am sitting in the gloaming
0! the evening’s deepening gray,
While my thoughts are backward roemics
To a distant mile-stone day.
rr.
But I span time’s chasm so fieetly,
That it seems hutyestermom,
Which upon us irailed so sweetly.
When to us a sou was bom.
in.
When with rapture beyond measure,
First I clasped him to my heart.
As anew found priceless treasure,
Ol my very life a part.
IV.
I felt then, our father sent ns
From on high, that beauteous boy.
But I could cot deem him lest us.
For sc brie! a term o! joy.
v.
While a mother’s hopelul scanning,
Saw him safely tide life’s stream.
And his brill-ant future planning—
A fond delicious dream,
VI.
Time flaw rapidly while nearer.
Grew the little one each hour;
By sweet baby-ways made dearer—
Tender, yet a houeehold flower,
vn.
With pure brow of aazzling whiteness.
Clear blue eyes, and locks of gold,
Angel-like he teemed in brightness
Although cast in fleshly mould.
Till.
But a few years when with yearning,
. Stricken hearts, his eyes we close.
To the Giver but returning
His to claim, when e’er He chose.
* IX.
Not an aget mere’y seeming
This day does my darling shine.
But a real cherub beaming,
And he still is “baby mine.”
x.
Other dear ones wait to meet me,
Should I reach their home above;
But methinks the first to greet m^.
Will be my sweet white-winged dove-.
Affectionately dedicated to a mother Vy
Sept. 15.1878. A FBnsro.
BY TELEGRAPH.
PRE-EMINENT
As an elegant hair dressing stands Park
er’s Hair Balsam, deservedly popular for
tbe beautiful hair it produces, and its
healthfnl, cl nsing and healing proper
ties. Commencing at the roots, it pro
motes a luxuriant growth of young hair,
and unfailingly restores gray or faded
hair to its original youthful color, giving
a soft, rich and lustrooa appearance of
great beauty. It is pleasantly cooling to
the scalp, cleansea it from Dandruff, cures
itching and humors, and stops falling of
the hair. It is perfectly harmless, ex
quisitely perfumed, never soils the skin
or gums the hair, and pleases everybody
by its many excellent and attractive qual
ities. Buy a bottle from yonr druggist,
Roland D. Hall, and test its merits.
MOTHERS SELDOM REALIZE
That indalgence in fruits and vegetables
causes deposits in tie milk whioh indaoe
Colic or Cholera Infantum in their nurs
ing little onee. To cofinteraot these in-
urions effects the mother should nse
Porker’s Ginger Tonic. It strengthens
and corrects her own nervous condition,
and its good effeoU are imparted throngh
the milk to the child, making it cheerful,
free from pain, and disposed to refresh
ing sleep. Many ladies Buffering from
functional disorders and NeiTOuaneM,
will be surprised at the comfort this
strengthening tonic affords, as by its nse
they find relief from pain, and functional
regnlarity restored. Buy a $1.00 bottle
from your druggist, Roland D. Halt, or a
sample bottle at 15 cents, aad test its
merits. july9-3m
Senator Batter, wno ia travelling with
the Presidential party, nnoouscioasly per
petrated a good joke during his visit to
Minnesota. On one oeoasion a person on
introdnetion, inquired: “Are yon tbe
man who killed so many people in Boath
Carolina?” General Butler, without be
traying annoyance, pleasantly replied: “I
presume you have killed more men then I
have.” He wee unaware that be had got
1 of Me questioner, until a hearty
laugh from the bystanders suggested an
inquiry ae to the ease, when he woe in
formed that the man^wos a doctor.
Warranted not to contain a single par
ticle of mercury, or any injurious or min
eral substance, but to consist entirely of
medical matter purely vegetable, which is
she reason Simmons’ Liver Regniator is
to effectual, yet so harmless.
“I write yon to certify that I have used
Dr. Simmons’ Liver Regulator in my
family with complete success.
“J. W. D. Bird, Chattahoochee, Fla.”
G nuine prepared by J. H. Zrilin &
Co., Pnilodtlpbie. sep!71v
Camden, N. J., September 20.—Tbe
general freight agents of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad'company order their agent?
to aocept all supplies and donations for
the relief of the fever sufferers and for
ward them immediately without efcarge.
The agents of the West Jersey Railroad
and Its brnnoheB have the same instruc
tion?.
Cincinnati, O, September 20.—At 2
o’olook yesterday mornlBg. highwaymen
attacked Paul Jones, ia Terrs Hants.
One plaoed a pistol to his head and warn
ed him to keep stil’. Jones knooked the
pistol down, oauslug ita discharge, the
ball pissing through his right lung. They
robbsd him of $400, and escaped. Josea
is a lawyer of great popularity, and i?
dangerously hurt.
NswYobk, September 20.—William
Kennedy, convicted of killing Denni3
Mahony on the 30th of Jnne, was sen
tenced to the State prison for life.
Jacksonville, III., September 20.—
A large bridge over tho Indian Creek,
across which the Peoria, Pekin and Jack
sonville railroad runs, has been bnrnod
by an incendiary.
New York, September 20.—Louis C.
Lewenstone, of Greenville, was taken
with yellow fever at the Bowery Hotel
to-day and removed to the quarantine.
New Orleans, September 20.—From
noon to 6 p.m., seventeen deaths ana
forty-six new cases occurred. There are
indications of a decrease of the fever in
thecentrel portion of the city and an in
crease in the extreme upper and lower
limits. It is stated that of every twenty-
one attacked by the fever in the second
district in the vicinity of tbe French Mar
ket, ten have died. The fever is spread
ing in the fourth and sixth dietncl?
above Jackeon street. ,
Jackson, September 20.—Tbe genial
outlook shows but little abatement, im
ports for yesterday ahow 13 death?
Vicksburg. Among the deaths to-fl®!
were Wm. A. Fairchild, Past Grand Com
mander of the Knights Templar. A*
Canton, two new oases ard five destu
are reported. At Lake, three nsw ca?e»
and two death-. Water Valley, seven
teen cases and twodeathB to date.
Vienna, September 20.—General J®'
vanovioh telegraphs that the paoificau® 11
of Herzegovina is virtually completed-
Korje&ioi and Klobnk, whioh are stid held
by tba insurgent', will very ahcrily w
cleared. The local authorities have bee®
appointed, and a political administration
hot been organized throughout the oonn*
^London, September 20.—A Kenter’*
dispatch from Constantinople, says
understood that ths Grand V.ster wW
cedeeventually
BCBBSSaSS
to resign i« unfounded.
London, September 20-—A Paris
patch eays it is rumored that Leon
Minister of Finance,
his views conflict with GombetU e»bo°
tbe conversion of five pet W
If M. Say resigns he will probably b*r
poln'ed G ivernor of the B.ink of Fr