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MACON GA , SEPTEMBER 24 1878,
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Monroe Advertiser Bajs'Judge John
X. Hall will probably ba elected to the
Leglelatare from Spalding county, in
place of Mr. Stewart, who resigned his
seat some weeks since.
Mb. Calvin L. Robertson, of Monroe
county, died near Forsyth last Friday,
He had lived in that county nearly a
quarter of a centnry, and was much
respected.
VJs heartily c<ncar in the following,
which we Rad iu the Monroe Advertiser:
Hon. Milton A. Candler—The Rep
resentative from the Fifth district in the
Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses,
will not be a member of the next. It
will not be said he was defeated in the
nominating convention. After several
ballots hod been taken, his name was
withdrawn from the convention, wo pre
sume, because it was discovered by his
friends that the difference between Mr.
Candler and the delegates on the finan
cial questions, was fatal to his chances.
We desire to pnt in print onr opinion
concerning onr noble and honored Repre
sentative. The Fifth district was truly
and ably represented. Mr. Candler’s
modesty reall/ obscures bis ability to a
great extent. He was inflexibly honest
and followed his convictions, whether it
led him to vote for the admission of a
Republican over a Democrat contestant
from Massachusetts, or compelled him to
cut his vote against the repeal of the re
sumption act. His constituents had a
man to represent them in the national
councils whom they coul# trust with ab
solute confidence. The testimony of Mr.
Candler’s colleagues is that in point of
ability end talent be shone conspicuously
in the deliberations that called for men of
mind. There is not one dark spot in his
if cord, as a Senator in the General As
sembly of Georgia, nor as a member of
Congress. He cm look back upon his
career with pride.
The Savannah News says a young man
named Frank Campbell accidentally
pniled a large connter over last Saturday,
which fell upon and pinned him to the
floor, breaking cne of hi3 legs so badly
that amputation will likely bo necessary.
Here is what Hon. N. J. Hammond
c&id to tho friends who called to congrat
ulate him on his nomination by the
Barnesville Convention:
’‘Fellow citizens: This is a new role
to me. For nearly a quarter of a cen
tnry I have been addressing the people of
Atlanta, but it has been in other people’s
cause?. This is almost the first time
that I have been called before you to
plead my own cause. Same weeks ago,
at the request of some of my friends, I
consented to become a candidate for
Congress from this district. After the
usual preliminaries, of which you are
fully aware, yon elected delegates pri.
manly pledged to my support. This
was only the beginning. It was but the
introduction to a contest before a conven
tion of delegates chosen of representa
tive men from a full dozen of counties,
each distinguished for the intelligence
and culture of it3 citizens. There I was
to be mot by opponents, not only strong
at home, but each one of them had, on
former occasions, worthily worn the
honors of onr grand old commonwealth.
The prize contested for was an office of
high honor and trust.
“Yesterday that convention endorsed
tho work of yonr' election, and yon are
here to-night offering your congratula
tions upon the result. I would be less
than man if all this did not fill me with
the liveliest emotions of pride and grati
tude, and my pleasnre would be unalloyed
had not this aotion of the convention laid
upon me so heavy a weight. It has made
ms the temporary standatd beater of the
Democracy, the party of the people, the
only patty of the people. It is the only
organized opposition to tho mistakes, the
blunders and political crimes of those
who have controlled the government. It
is tho only organized body of patriots
which oombines the disposition with the
ability to confront class legislation, mo
nopoly and misrule. It is the hope, and
only hope, of the toiling millions of this
republio of States. My hands are unac
customed to the task assigned me, and I
would faint at the outset but for the sup
port end countenance cf such men ns yon
and i hose who snrronnd me to-night.
“Eocouraged by such support, I prom
ise to do the best I can for victory, (and
should the people, on the 5th day cf No
vember next, ratify my nomination at the
ballot-box,) to devote my time and ener
gy to the interest of my constituency and
tho country.
“Timo will not permit further remarks
to-night. I will add that tho convention
adopted a platform whioh I heartily en
dorse and which I think will be accepta
ble to all. At an catly day I will give my
views upon the issues before the country,
and hope to meet the people cf every
oonmy in the district face to face before
the eteotion.”
Senator Hill was also called on for a
speech cn the same occasion, and epoke
with all bis accustomed force and fire.
We quote this extract for tho benefit of
the so-called independents:
“This country is on tho eve of prosper
ity never before known, unless some ex
ceedingly great madness shall seize upon
her. I don’t mind how men talk; I don’t
mind how men differ. All I wish is that
men shall not break ranks. Let tho sol
diers talk, let them differ, bnt don’t let
them break ranks. Follow your leader.
Yon have him. He has been given yon
by an bone3t convention, and the out
spoken voico of the people of this dis
trict, and it is your duty to follow him.
I do not ask yon to abandon any peculiar
feeliogs you may have, while you may
indulge yonr views and convince as many
as yon please that you ore right. AUI
say is, keep in rank; keep in step to the
order, and I tell yon your victory will
comp, and it will not mako much differ
ence as to our peculiar views and I be
lieve they will be ultimately adopted, but
1 biliovu the Democratic party is wiser
than I am, and if they are not right, I
don’t want them adopted. When they
adopt a remedy that is going to ba my
remedy. It is impossible for pen to pic
ture or tongue to describe the prosperity
we shall see if we wait and be true to
each other. Aud why shouldn’t we wait?
Haven’t wa suffered alike—haven’t wo
been wronged alike? And after we have
suffered all the privations and misery of
the halt of forty years, shall wo break
ranks just as the eye falls upon Canaan?
Advocate your views with your fellow-
citiz-. n?, but go to the ballot box liko men.
and tell everybody ehe to go.
REPEcnrso to tbo candidacy cf Jesse
Hdtzcl-.w, ettaightont Ridical, in the
Seventh district, the Savaonah News wel
says:
Tnis move should teach the people of
Georgia certain wholesome lessons.
Taere are many who have justified the
independent movement on tbo gronnd
that the Democratic majority in Georgia
ia'tto groat that there Is no danger of
suooesifal RidiosI opposition in the
Ststp, and that hones they could afford to
ignore party haer, cast aside party ties,
and consult their personal feelings and
prejudices with impnnity. This cin-
didaoyof Mr. Holtzoiaw teaches them
very decidedly that they are mistaken.
It shows that Radicalism in Georgia is
not go dead as they have supposed; bat,
that although its infamies in the past
have consort tho people of the State, cut
of regard to their personal and material
welfare, to bnry it under an eighty thou
sand majority, it is still a lively corpse,
and morely reigns death until it sees an
opportunity to resume life. This Is One
fcsson Mr. Holtz claw Is teaching the
whole Georgia Demootaey, and especially
those inclined to be lukewarm in the
Dem-jcr aiio cause.
Again the tactics of the Seventh ?Dis
trict Radicals are worthy of note. They
kept vary quiet and laid very low fora
long time. They waited until tho De
mocracy had placed Mr. Lester, their
candidate, in tho field, and until the In
dependents had brought forward . Dr.
Felton in opposition. They thsnqnietly
permitted the campaign to advance with
out saying one word, until at length,
when they hoped the breach between the
Democracy and Independents had widen
ed sufficiently to enable a Radical ■ to
clip through, they concluded they would
make the effort and run a candidate. In
this, we believe, the Radical organization
is only acting in obedience to orders from
headquarters. It is the result of a reg
ularly planned and well understood sys
tem to act with the Independents so long
a3 there is no hope for a straight-out vic
tory, bat to place candidates in the field
whenever an opportunity for Eucoes3 is
presented. From this another lesson can
be learned by citizeusof Georgia, namoly:
the great necessity of keeping the Dem
ocratic party organization intact and un
broken.
The Augusta Chronicle thinks “all the
salt in the great Salt Lake can’t save
the National banks when the next Con
gress assembles. They should lose no
time in putting their houses in order?
for to-morrow they die.”
Mb. James Kiblin, the oldest citizen
of Columbus, is seriously ilL He has
lived in Columbus over fifty years.
Much sickness is reported in Stewart
connty. On one plantation every hand
is ill with fever and ail farm work has
been stopped.
The gin-house on the Porter place,
four miles from Lnmpkin, together with
seven bales of cotton, was burned by an
incendiary Monday morning.
The Talbstton Register says:
Away back in the early history of Geor
gia, when the laws were administered
with dispatch.and with comparatively
little ceremony, one of the common
wealth’s noted eons, Walter T. Colquitt,
at the time of which we write, a Superior
Court Judge, condemned a man to be
hung, then preached a sermon, reviewed
the militia, married two couples at night,
and then conducted with considerable
unction a rousing prayer meeting—all
in one day. Who can trot out any bat
ter day’a work than this ?
Gen. Cook spoke at Montezuma last
Saturday, and the Weekly is glad be
came, “as our greenback friends are now
certainly satisfied as to General Cook’s
position on the bond question and ail
other questions touching the payment
of the public debt. Like all other South
ern Democrats, he is as good a green-
backer as the originator of the movement
himself. Let us all make up cur minds
to give the General the largest vote, in
November, that has ever eent him to
Washington.
How is This?—The Rome Courier sey«
middling ootton sold there on Monday at
10$, and low middling at 10j cents per
ponnd,
Augusta’s yellow f6ver fund to date
bas nearly reached {0,000.
-_Tee fielJs ebng the Georgia railroad
aro white with cotton, and] tho crop*will
be picked ont a month ahead of the usual
time.
Mens Fruits of That Policy.—Says
the Constitution:
President Hayes is makiDg civil ssrvioe
and bard money speeches in the West,
and Major Hargrove, the Radical post
master at Rome, is conducting the cam
paign for Dr. Felton, the independent,
democratic, republican, Jeffersonian, and
greenback candidate for Congress In the
Seventh. This is some of the fruits of
the President’s eouthsm policy.
Mb. Stephens writes to the Augusta
News and recalls all his appointments for
the lower part.of the district on account of
ill health. He will fill them some time
next month. He also says “ihe threat
ened hemorrhage with which I was at
tacked last Friday is not entirely check
ed. It returns slightly every morning.”
What the Rome Courier calls a ’ 'reason
able estimate” of the result in the Con
gresBional race in that district makes Les
ter’s majority only 625. It gives Felton
100 majority in Gordon, 1,500 in Bartow,
600 in Cherokee, and 150 in Polk connty,
all the rest to Lester. This is a very
narrow margin to bet on. We can’t in
vest on any such margin. .
Mb. Joel Stearns, one of the oldest
citizens of Falton county and a veteran
of the war of 1812, died last week sged
02 years.
A gang of negro burglars at Savant ah
bas been broken up. and the leaders
caged.
The Savannah News says:
The German bark Joseph Rauere,
Captain Krause, from Bremen, arrived
here yesterday morning. The Captain
reports that on the morning of the 29th
of August, when abont one hundred and
fifty miles northeast of Bermuda, he en
countered a terrific hurricane, and had a
hard fight to weather the gale, having
ran into the centre of it. He was obliged
to cut away the main topmast to keep
from capsizing, as the bulwarks were
under water, which was also over the
hatches. In falling, the mainmast car
ried away the foretop gallant and mizzen
topmasts. Every sail was furled and se
cured, but so violent was the hnrricano
that they were blown from the yards.
After the masts went over the ship
nghted, and after a terrible ordeal man
aged to ride successfully into a safe har
bor.
Bryant told the Atlanta Radicals last
Monday night, that the Radical State
Central Committee had organized, and
that it intended to organize clubs all
over tho State.
The Constitution is informed that Judge
Lochrane has been elected general conn^
sel of Pallman’s Palace Car Company!
He is already counsel for the Southern
branch of that corporation.
The Milledgeville Union and Recorder
saj£: Glancing over our old files a day or
two ago, to find eome information person
al to ourselves, we found tho following in
the Georgia Statesman, published at Mil-
Icdgoville, under date, September 19th,
1826—52 years ago.
“We have too long delayed to inform
onr readers that Dr. Myron Bartlett has
issued proposals for publishing in Macon
a weekly p&psr, to ba entitled the Macon
Telegraph. For ourselves wo have no
doubt but the Telegraph will be a valua
ble political paper.” The editor ob
serves:
“The publication of the Macon Tele-
graph will commence, it is expected by
tho middle of September. The matorialB
will be entirely new; and the size, execu
tion and neatness of the paper, it is pre
sumed will equal any in the State.”
The Biunswiok Advertiser says the lots
to the Altamaba rice crop by the late
storm was very heavy. “At least two-
thirds of the crop had been cut and
stacked iu the fields, and as the water
covered the ground from three to five feet
deep, all of it was damaged and much of
it either ruined or washed away aud
lodge! against the banks. It is difficult
to estimate the loss, as muoh depends on
the weather for the next few days; Oa e
planter says $100,000, another thinks 83
percent, etc.”
Tear Miller, of LaGrange, wants to
be coroner of that connty, and thus “ds-
fineshis position
“I am a candidate for the office of Cot-
oner. I have not been solicited by ‘Many
Friends’—no one his asked me to make
the race. I have the greatest thirst end
least qualifications for tho effioe, yet f Bk
your earnest support.’'
Ocrdy Harms, the barter of the negro
devilment In Washington connty a year
or two since, was eent to the peniten
tiary lest week for ona year for develop
ing a bo;. Another, for the same orime,
went op for fonr years.
The Swainiboro Herald says:
On Saturday afternoon last, while at
tempting to cross Little Canooehee river,
which was very much swollen by the re
cent heavy ra : nB. Mr. Mo wring’s wagon
was upset, throwing into the river about
$1,000 worth of dry goods, groceries,
etc. The boxes and barrels floated unon
the swollen stream and were all saved.
Some of tho goods were rained, others
only slightly injured. Among the goods
was a large lot of calicoes. Those of fast
colors wero damaged very little, some not
at all.
From the Henry County Weekly: It ia
proposed by the good people of Augusta
to mako the unveiling of the Confeder
ate monument in that city a grand and
imposing occasion. Some of the great
captains who won fame and renown dur
ing the war have promised to be present,
anl among them Davis and Johnson,
Gordon, Georgia’s own illustrious soldier,
will be there, whioh of itself is enough to
invest the occasion with much interest.
Altogether, it will ba a splendid gather
ing of fair women and brave men—drawn
there by a desire to render tribnte to the
noble dead. Anguata is the home of men
who take delight in patriotic actions.
Atlanta Letter.
Correspondence Telegraph and Messenger.]
Atlanta, September 14,1878.
WHAT ATLANTA IS DOING.
The great afflictions which havebe-
fallen;our Western friends have awakened
a great deal of sympathy in the Gate
City.
MANY ENTERPRISES
have been 8et on foot by the citizens and
benevolent societies to raise funds and
provisions for the relief of the yellow
fover sufferer?.
The Atlanta Amateur Dramatic Asso
ciation presented on Monday evening last
a charming comedy entitled “Married
Life,” which was attended by ono of the
largest audiences ever assembled in the
Opera House. The proceeds of the en]
tertainment amounted to {500, clear of all
expenses, cr rather there were no expen
ses, as the printing, gas/mneio and theater
were all furnished free of charge.
MOONLIGHT PARTIES
in the City Hall PArk and on the grounds
of several citizens have also contributed
considerable sums to the same good end,
COnTT-IBUTION BOXES
have been established at the most popu
lar stores and hotels, and are also attach
ed with suitable placards to the lamp
posts on tho-principal streets. Flowers
are sold at the frnit stalls and cigar stands
for the same end.
The amount of money so far raised aud
forwarded to the various points of dis
trees foot up to over
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
There is au extensive movement on
foot, headed by Dr. Little, tbe State Ge
ologist, supported by other gentlemen, to
organize a regular system of operation to
gather in all contributions the people are
willing to give, whether in money or
other articles of value. A placard of the
Ssientifio Association has been posted,
free of expense, all over tbe eity, and the
agents are now ont soliciting help of all
kinds from the people.
I am happy to say that these appeals
have met with ready response from every
class of onr people.
Tbe plan is being actively carried ont
and is under tho approval of the Mayor
of the city.
We are alive to the suffering of the
cities of the Weal. Cabolynn.
DISASTER TO 1HK BICE CKOPj
Nearly all the Plantations on Com.
bahee Under Water—Damage
Other Places.
Letters received bere'yeaterday, says
the Charleston News and Courier, leave no
doubt that the rice crop on many of the
rivers of the State has met with a severe
disaster caused by the late gale. On the
Combahee the breaks in tbe banks are
nnmerons, the rice in the fields has been
badly wet and the plantations look like a
sheet of water, while the stream was
still rieing at last accounts. On the
Aahepoo there has been more or less
overflow with some damage, and on
Cooper River several breaks have oscar
red, but the amount of injury has not
been ascertained. Farther intelligence
will be anxiously looked for, as up to this
disaster the prospect for good crops was
highly encouraging through most of the
rice region.
A letter received from Green Pond,
dated 4 P. M. yesterday, says that nearly
all the plantations on Combahee are more
or lees damaged, there being many
breaks, some of them forty feet long, and
the rice on nearly all the places is in the
field. The breaks cannot be mended at
once, and the rice cannot be handled
nntil the breaks are mended. The winds
baTe shifted to the west, and the plan
ters are thus enabled to get mud to mend
their banks. Tho loss, however, will
necessarily be heavy before the rise can
be handled.
The Savannah News saye: “While the
individual losses occasioned by the storm
of 1874 were possibly greater, yet the
present disaster is more general, the
entire rice intorest suffering, and the lots
will be heavier. On the Savannah and
Bank Rivers there are in all 11,000 acres
under rice cultivation, whilst on the
Ogeechee there are 4,000 acres. The
average yield this season was estimated
to be thirty-five bushels per acre, or
525,000 bushels, and it Is predicted that
fully twenty per cent of this will be a
total loss. This is exolosivo of the dam
age done by the breaking of banks, and
the additional labor necessary to place
tbe plantations in order. The total los3
it iB estimated by experienced planters
will rather exceed $300,000,”
Tbe Woman Who it Always Fall
ing to Flcen.
Hawkoje,]
She came to the train a little late and
had to make a rash for the train. When
she reached her seat her hat fell off. She
got it on, but it toppled over to one side,
and when she tried to straighten it her
hair tumbled down. She lost her ticket
twice before the conduotor reached her,
and would have lost it again if ho hadn’t
taken it away from her. She reached up
to put a bundle in the rack above her
head, and burst tho collar button off her
duster, and stack her fingers on four pins
in her drees before she found one that she
dared to hike out to repair the damage.
Then just as she thought she had got
comfortably settled her lit-le hand valise,
packed to 'bursting with enough things
to load a Saratoga trank to the muzzle,
exploded, end she nearly worked herself
into fragments getting it together again.
Then by the time she got tho valise shut
up her bat etraightened baok into i‘s
piece, her hair tumbled down again, and
ss soon as she got her hair twisted np,
and harpooned it with a, oonple of hair
pins, tbe valise went off, and when she
got off at New Prague ehe tacked tbe
gasping valise under her arm, and tries
to corral her toppling hat and wandering
hair with one band, and as she went flut
tering and straggling into tbe depot, we
couldn’t help thinking that it would be
safer and more convenient to run her in
sections and flag her against everything.
I have seen this woman on several other
trains, and she has never been able to
keep herself together. There seems to
bo more average humanity about her than
there is abont her neater sister. She
isn’t so aggravating, but she keeps yon in
a state of agon'zing suspense, for you
never know where she is going to give
way next.
The Charleaton yellow fever relief con;
tributions amounted on Monday last to
$8,847.
A Bloated Landholder.
Fargo (D. T ) Correspondence Chicago Times.]
This morning I paid a visit to the Dal-
rymple farm situated eighteen miles west
of Fargo. The estate embraces one hun
dred thousand acres, owned by Mr. Dal-
rjmple, of 8t. Paul, Genersl George W.
Csss, of New York, B. P. Cheney, of Bos
ton, and J. L. Grandio, of Pennsylvania.
The Grandln division, consisting of forty
thousand sores, is situated on Goose river
thirty miles Sonth of Fargo, and apart
from the other divisions. So far opera
tions on this farm havo been oonfined
chiefly to wheat-growing. In the Eastern
States, an agriculturist who oan harvest
a round thousand bushels of grain in a
season is a bess in Buoolio pursuits. But
here, in a country so new that it is not
yet fenced in on one side, a man who can’t
connt his wheat-shocks by the ten thou
sand is regarded as a beginner and a nov-
ioe In farming. The Dalrymple farm is
accommodated by both railroad and
steamboat facilities. This farm is man
aged with something of tho system that is
employed in directing tbe operations of
an army. It is ent np into divisions of
2,000 acres each, and IheBe are managed
by experienced superintendents and fore
men, tbe finanoes of each division being
brought under a regular and separate sys
tem of book-keeping. Mr. Dalrymple is
general manager of tbe whole.
The area of gronnd under crop this
year is 13,000 aores; next year the area
will be increased to 20,000 aores. The
spring wheat waa sown the latter part of
March and the fore part of April. The
first of it was ent July 25th, and twelve
days after the work of the reapers had
been finished, and miles upon miles of
wheat shocks oovered the plains. In
bringing this crop to perfection Mr.
Dalrymple bas employed nearly 500 bead
of horses and males, 80 broadcast 8 j feet
seed-sowers, 160 14-inoh ploughs, 200
steel-pointed harrows, 15 40-inoh cylinder
threshers and cleaners, 15 10-horse-power
steam engines, 80 self-binding reapers,
and a force of abont 400 men. These 80
machines, when inmotion, cat end bound
with wire 1,000 large bundles every mint
ate.
Threshing commenced a fow days ago,
and as I stood In the midst of this stubble
plain to-day and watobed the smoke curl
iug np from steam machines miles upon
miles away, and fanoied that they looked
as vessels look when steaming far ont over
tbo lake in front of Chicago, I thought to
myself, what a magnificent “desert’’this
is! Near by me was a superintendent who
was talking through a telephone with an-
othersnperintedent some three miles away
Near him sat an operator, who wa3 tend
ing a dispatch to another part of the farm.
I asked Mr. Dalrymple if he could form
any idea of what bis crop of wheat would
yield in bushels. He replied that ho ex
pected the yield to aversge twenty-five
bushels per aore, whioh would give a total
of three hundred and twenty-five thousand
bushels, worth just that many thousand
dollars, two thirds of whioh would be net
profit. It iB all No. 1 wheat and Mr.
Dalrymple said he had just declined an
offer by the Millers’ Association of Min
neapolis, of ninety-two cents per bnshel
for eighty thousand bushels. He is now
shipping from bis farm to Dnlntb, and
thence to New York, twenty oars of wheat
every day.
My astonishment at what I had seen
was nothing compared with that whioh I
experienced upon being told by Mr. Dal
rj tuple that it was his purpose to carry
forward the development of his form until
he shall have put forty thousand acres un
der the plough and brought hi3 yearly pro
duction of wheat np to a round million
bnshela. After that ho will devote the
remainder of bis lands to stock-growing
use?. Dalrymple’s is not th9 only large
farm hereabouts. There aro at least
half-dozen others whioh number from
one thousand to two thousand acres nnder
cultivation. Tho number of farms em
bracing from ono hundred aores nnder onl
tivation is very largo.
Five Tfionsaud Victims.
Sc. Louis Republican.]
It is impossible to obtain the exact
number of deaths caused by yellow fever
in tbe South. The confusion and demor
alization are great, and the physicians
and nnrses so pressed for time that they
can not always make returns. The total
number of fatal cases to date is not for
short of five thousand, however, and tho
following approximate estimate of the
mortality at the principal cities and
townB may be accepted as nearly correct:
New Orleans 1.600
Memphis 1,200
Vicksburg 400
Grenada 220
Port Gibson 70
Canton 40
Hickman
Greenville, Miss..
Holly Springs
Baton Rouge.
Total
SO
40
25
SO
. 4.415
This leaves the deaths of refugees un
accounted for, and does not includo those
who died in various villages and email
towns, which, if accurately reported,
wonld swell the figures nearly to the
round five thousand. It is terrible to
contemplate that the fearful disease bas
at least a month to run unchecked by
frost.
Unfriendly Remarks Abont fbe
Camel,
Charles Dudley Warner.]
No human royal family dare be uglier
than the camel. Ho is a mass of > ones,
faded tofts, hump?, lumps, splay j jinta
and callosities. His tail i3 a ridiculous
wisp, and a failure as an ornament orfly-
brush. His feot are simply big sponges.
Forekin covering he bas patches of old
buffalo robes, faded and with the hair
worn off. His voice is more disagreeable
than his appearance. With a reputation
for patience he is snappish and vindic
tive. His endurance is overrated; that is
to say, he dies like a sheep if he is not
well fed. His gait racks muscle like the
ague. Aud yet this ungainly creature
carries his head .in the air, and regards
the world out of his great brown eyeB
with disdain. The very poise of bis head
saye: “I have come one of the dim past;
the deluge did not touch me; I helped
Shooto build the great pyramid; I knew
Egypt when it hadn't an obelishnora
temple. There are three of ne: the date
palm, the pyramid and myself. Every
thing else is modern^ • #o to l”
Tbe Bennctt-Bell Marriage,
Nashville American!
The wedding of Isaao Bell, Jr., and
Miss Jeannstte Bennett, slater of James
Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald,
is annonnoed to take plaoe at Newport,
R. L, next Thursday the 19lb. Between
200 and 300 invitations have been leaned.
Mr. Bell is the son of Isaao Bell, of the
Old Dominion SteamBhip Company, and
ia a jovial, heavy set, plebeian looking
young man of abont twenty-nine. He
wears short side whiskers, and wonld ba
taken for a well kept English groom. He
is a ootton broker and has some expecta
tions.” Miss Bennett is a great favorite
with both her gentleman and lady friends.
She is said to bo twenty-three yews cf
age, bnt looks three years older. She is
a little above medium bight, slender and
ladyliko looking, but neither beautiful or
stylish. Although very wealthy, ehe makfe
no display, always dressing plainly and
avoiding attention. Sha has always kept
olose to her brother, who is neither the
most immaonlate or manageable young
man in the world. James Gordon Ben
nett is now thirty-seven.
Poor Gene!
Utica Observer. |
The State of Maine holds one man to
day who is Halo'but sot heaity.
. ■ P I o - - --
BboeKtngly Impertinent.
New York World.]
Is it not abont time—we speak nnder
correction—for Blaine’s sunstroke to re-
cur? _
Ongbt to Have his Jaw Insured.
Marriage notice in the Boston Herald!
Swell—Bjhorkblad.—In this city,
September 7, at 240 West Oanton street,
by Rev. Henry A. Cooke, Robert Swell to
Alfphild BjrorkbUd,both of Boston.
How Jim Wouidiilketo Swap.
N ew York World!
It iB understood that Mr. Blaine wonld
like to swap Maine for Louisians, yellow
fever included, and that he wonld even
give boot provided the Returning Board
was thrown In.
Pretty Good for Boston.
Boston Horald.J
Mr. Fkister, of Kentucky will probably
be a member of the next Congress. He
ought to fill tbe seat once oooupied by
Congressman John Morrissey, of New
York.
Has Heard From Maine.
Buffalo Express, Republican.]
We desire to say briefly, bnt with em
phasis, that we have heard from Maine,
and whoever mentions that Bubject again
will be removed by the police.
Square Between tbe Eyes.
Boston Horald. I
Butler says the proprietors of the Her
ald belong in the gutter, and asks why
the Herald keepB pounding him—all the
same day. The remarks go together,
If we belonged in the gutter we should
not pound Butler—he would be our can
didate.
CbtUinK Future for a Great Man
Baltimore Gazette!
There is not the slightest hope now
that old Hannibal Hamlin will ever know
the comforts of an overcoat. He oonldn'
master courage enough to bay one in
prosperity and there is no likelihood that
be will squander his money now that ad
versity has spread its wings over his uni
thatohed poll.
A Dreadfully Dirty Hand
Courier'Journal!
“The Republican party a year and
half ago,” says Secretary Evarts “held
the politics of this country in the hollow
of its band.” Aud the hollow of a dread
fully dirty hand it was, too, or the politios
of this country might have been held there
still.
How New York Slay be Happy.
Philadelphia Times,]
The New York lawyers are doing a co
ble work in undertaking to reduce the
fees of the oounty official?. Aud one good
tarn deserves another; now let the county
officials set about reduoing the foes of the
lawyer?. New York, then, maybe as
happy as if her beer had reoeived a gold
medal.
Crowding Jim -
New York 8tar. |
Mr. Blaine has not felt so bad since he
went down on his knees to Mulligan.
Easily Answered.
Cincinnati Enquirer!
‘‘After Maine, what?” eBks the Boston
Advertiser. A Republican belly-ache, we
think, from the groans we hear.
Really too Bad.
Washington Capital!
Ic is really too bad. Jast when John
Sherman gets the oonntry down to
steady diet of two beans a dev, Maine gets
np mad and goes for the pa *
Thank Ton.
Boston Herald.]
We don’t think General Garfield ought
to insist that the Southern people Ehall
acknowledge they were wrong. Ferhsps
they haven’t yet get to thinking so. If
they obey the Constitution as amended,
that is all we can reasonably ask of them,
The Ohio “Idee ”
Washington Capital!
Substitute greenbacks for bank currency
pay the bonds with greenbacks, then sel 1
the greenbacks for niokels or waBte paper.
Hang John Sherman to a soar apple tree
IhisiBa platform upon whioh ail mo n
oan stand, regardless of birth, color or
previous condition of rascality.
What Worries Them.
Cincinnati Enquirer!
The Detroit Tribune (Rep.) oontains
twenty-fiva columns of notioes of sales of
real estate tor the payment of delinquent
taxes, to oome off Ootober 1st. They are
terribly worried np that way over the dis
honor of &n irredeemable enrrenoy, and
can’t get onongh of it to pay their taxes
with.
Good for the Farmers.
Philadelphia Times!
Oonoerned for their corn crops the II
linois farmers looked askanoe at the frosty
mornings last week, but sent word to Chi'
osgo, nevertheless, that, for the sake of
suffering humanity, they hoped the vial-
tstant might oome sharper and heavier.
They would risk the nubbins If it would
help the yellow fever sufferers. Good for
the farmers.
Ought to Be a Policeman.
New York World.]
Mr. C. D. Sanders, ot Parkersburg,
West Virginia, is a tall, straight, robust
man, between fifty and sixty. He has
not slept for fifteen years; he feels tired
sometimes, but never sleepy, though he
has tried working continuously for ten or
eleven days and night?. Heavy opiates
have no effect upon him. At night he
goes to bed “so as to be out of the
way,” and lieB there and thinks, but does
not sleep.
Check!
Cincinnati Enquirer!
Tbe Philadelphia Presj notes with pleas
ure that as ths Demooratio Congress “did
not make a special appropriation for cam
paign expenses, ths oommittee at Wash-
jngton is in a diitreseingly impecunious
condition.” Better that than steal from
the pnblio for such pu-poses, as was tho
practice of Republican Ooogrers.
How To Pay It.
Cincinnati Enquirer. 1
There is one source of revenue assidu
ously cultivated by tbe Frenoh govern
ment, whioh, if adopted here, wcnld soon
pay off our national debt and leave a bal
ance on hand. We allude to the imposi
tion of flues for “insulting” President
MoMahon. I is estimated that a fine of
OBly one dollar per capita on all who
speak disrespectfully of “President”
Hsyes would yield not Icbs than $30,000,-
000 a day. This is worth considering.
Modest Bates tor Oratory.
New York World!
Before the Maine election the Hale.
Gorham National Campaign Committee of
the Repnblloins announced to clubs of
the faithful that it would supply eight-
page speeches for {4.65 per thousand. But
the “faithful” did not respond. The
“faithful” discovered that the speeches
could be reprinted if desirable for $2.60
per thousand. Will Hale, in view of his
retirement as Congressman, and Gorham,
in view of his relegation as Secretary of
the Senate to private life, now reduce the
speech tariff? Kearney says he oan get a
grammatical speech written’for {4.50, and
speeches should come oheaper at whole
sale, particularly when grammar is no ob'
ject.
Forebodings Abonl Pcnnsylva*
nia.
Washington Correspondence Baltimore Sun!
The habitneB of the Republloan earn,
paign committee’s rooms have no en
thusiasm lei t after the Maine eleotion,but
it has been determined to keep np the
fight in a mechanical kind of way, and the
distribution of dcouments will go on as
usual. Few here have any idaa now of a
Republican success In Pennsylvania. In
case the RspnblioanB lose the Legislature
there is an impression that ex-Governor
Curtin will be a formidable candidate for
United States Senator. Governor Cnrtln
is doing active oampaign work for the
Democrats, speaking from the same stand
with Senator Wallace and Mr. Dill, the
Demooratio candidate for Governor.
“Martha, does thee love?” asked a
Quaker yonth of one at whose shrine his
heart’s holiest feeling had been offered np.
“Why, Seth,” answered ahe, “we are com
manded to love one another, are we not?”
“Ab, Martha, bnt does thee regard me
with the feeling the world calls love?” “I
hardly know what to to tell thee, Seth. I
have greatly feared that my heart was an
erring on?. I have tried to bestow my
love on si'; bnt I may have sometimes
thought perhaps, that Ihte waa getting
rather more than thy ihare.”
A CHILD WONDER
A Four-Tear-Old Colored Prod
igy Who Addresses Congrega
tions.
Conner Journal!
There ia now in Louisville a negreaa
who is a perfect child wonder. She is a
Scriptural marvel. She doe3 not even
know her letters, yet she can qaote ac
curately almost any passage in the Bible.
At the age of nine months she could
talk, and would frequently tell her
mother what her idea of Heaven was.
As she grew older she would sit for hoars
aud expatiate on the beauties and glories
of tho other world. The old colored
folks wonld listen to her sayings for
hour?.
At the age of three years she began to
leoture on heaven, Us wonders, or God
and his omnipotent power. She has lec
tured in many plaoes, ana has created a
furore in every plaoe she has yet visited.
The prodigy lectured at the York street
colored ohurch yesterday afternoon, and
at night spoke to a large orowd at the
Green street aolored chnroh. Her speeoh
was good, and her delivery impressive.
A reporter of the Courier- Journal in
terrogated her last night.
“What is yonr name, little girl?”
“Alioe Goatny.”
“How old are you ?”
“Ise just four years and twenty-eight
days old to-night.”
“Where wore yon born?”
“I was bom in Liverpool, England—
’cross de Atlantic.”
“How long sinee you felt tho power
within you?
“I don’t know; Ise always felt the pow
er of God?
“What do yon speak about when yon
talk to a orowd?”
“I talk abont Jesus, about heavenly
things, about bow Jesu3 died and wbb oru-
oifieC; how be rose again in three days
and sittethon the right hand of God.”
“Can yon spell?”
“No, sir; I don’t krow my A. B. O.’a
yet.”
She then went on in a zaplnroua
strain abont things biblical and spiritual,
completely nonplussing the reporter.
She was acoompanied by two colored
men. They talked In an enthusiaatio
manner about her. Sho said in her con
versatioq that she believed ih two kinds
of baptisms. She spoke cf the different
modes of salvation; how to reach Para
dise; how to be converted from a bad
man to & good one. Her sayings were
entirely original, and were not spoken in
a hesitating voice, bnt in a quick, keen
and foroibla manner. As yonng as she
is, a negress, without ednoation in the
principles she seta forth, her power par
takes strongly of the marvellous.
Dr. Summer's Diagnosis of ths Yel
low Fever.—Dr. T. L. Maddin reoeived
the following dispatch, yesterday, from
Dr. T. O. Summers, Jr., in referenoe to
an inquiry from the former relative to the
clinical history of the fever:—Nashville
American.
Memphis, September 14.—Prof. T.
Maddin, M. D-, Nashville: The disease
here began as an ordinary malarial fever
of a malignant type and glided gradually
into the epidemic fever. Tbe raw, well-
marked yellow fever has a decided mala
rial livery, and should be treated with
quinine. In the hot state, pro re nata,
the kidneys, according to my autopsies,
are injected with albumen arising from
the very largo amonnt of carbo&io
aoid, given off in the blood, whioh al
ways attenda zymosis. Tho albumen is
thuB dissolved, and only phosphate of
ammonia, fifteen grains every three
hoars, will reduce it to a physical state of
suspension. The fever rurte a course or
about threo days, when either death oc
curs or convalescence begins. Nothing
but fluid nutriment can be used. There
is but one chill at tho commencement,
attended with severe pains in the back
and head. Patients die from three causes
—suppression of urine, irritation of the
centres at the base of the brain, and gas
trio disorder. The temperature at the
beginning is from one hundred and two
to one hundred and fivo; pulse generally
ono hundred and fire and above; the
pnlss goes down while the temperature
remains the same or rises. Nothing but
creosote and morphia will arrest the
black vomit. T. O. Summer?.
Why He Changed.
Detroit Free Press.]
A dilapidated individual stood gazing
at a huge pile of watermelons iu front of
a Woodward avenue grocery until his
mouth watered, and he made bold to re
mark to a man who wo3 selecting one for
dinner:
“ I wish I had five cents to get a email
melon; I haven’s tasted of melon for
over two years.”
The gentleman promptly handed over
a nickel and went on with his selection,
About the timo he had hia melon picked
out be eaw the vagrant coming out of a
saloon near by, and he called out:
“I thought you wanted that money to
buy a melon.”
“So I did," was the very courteous an
swer. “I told you I hadn’t tasted melon
for over two years, and after reflecting a
little I found I hadn’t tasted whisky for
over three. Therefore, I gave whisky a
show to catch np with the melon, and
start off square. Nothing mean abont
me. eir—good-by el”
A KeinarJtabie Core.
Detroit Free Press!
“For many, many years,” said the man
with the bad eye, “I was troubled, an
noyed, positively afflioted with a raging,
burning thirst for Btrong drink and aloo-
holic beverages. I sought for relief in
everyway. I sought the advice of my
physicians and the counsel of friends,
tried various oures recommended by the
newspapers, but non9 of them seemed to
do me any good.”
“And by what means,” asked tbe cler
gyman in the tall hat, “did you at length
suooeed in allaying this terrible thirst?”
‘Well,” said the man with the bad eye,
after a moment’s reflection, “I found that
old Grow whisky, as a steady thing, kind
of softened it down, and qnieted it abont
as muoh as anything I tried. When
found the burning and thirst for drink
oomlng on, I would go and tako about
three fingers of old Grow and the thirst
wonld pass away, and—”
But as he looked up he saw that hi3 au
dience had also passed away, and the
young clergyman was looking baok at him
with a sad, yearning, disappointed expres
sion.
A Quickened Conscience.—An elder
ly gentleman of benign apperanea has of
late been distributing religious traots in
the street cars, and yesterday at least one
ctsa of quickened oonsoienoe was brought
to pnblie entice. A young man entered
the car, paid bis nickel, and was handed
a tract headed : “Are yon a sinner ?”
He turned pale at once, read a few ses,
and suddenly called out:
“Ye?, I am 1 I put a bad nickel in the
fare box, but now I’ll begin a new life by
being honest. Here, driver, change this
half dollar, and I’ll pay my fare over
again.”
The change was given him, and he
paid; bnt after riding a blcok or so he
left the ear to ste a man on the walk.
Tbe passengers thought it wbb a wonder
ful case and were deeply interested, when
the driver suddenly called out:
“Hang me, if this ’ero half dollar isn’t
bogus!’’
So it wrp.—Detroit Free Press.
SABBATH HORN IN THE COUNTRY.
How still the morning of the hallowed day >
Muto Is the voice of rnnl labor, bushed
Tte P io^ hb0y ’ 8 whislIa and the “ilkffiald’j
Andt hwTe S d. iS SSCe " 11 ttat they ml Skt»Uj
StSSSSSSffiffiS 8‘.zr ™“>
Andfmdsit there, hewill startle tbo quiet
Of the hallowed day with shouts and
And takinga on of ona aud another
That will make a lured man sink into his boot*
BY TELEGRAPH.
As Unenviable Weight ol Wofal
Wealth.
Boston Horald.l
The following estimate of the posses
sions of tho Vanderbilt family is given by
tbe Graphic, and, it is claimed, is from a
tolerably authentic sonree, and is believ-
ed to bo below rather than above the ac
tual wealth ot William H. and his imme
diate family associates:
Stock. No. Shares. Value.
Weitern Union Telegraph... 90.0(0 { 8,469,006
New York Central £00,000 68,400,000
Harlem 1CO.OOO
Lake Shore 2E0.C00
Michigan Centra! 100,000
Canada Southern (boudg)...8,V00,000
about Y,
Canada Poutbem of stock
Interest in feeders to various
line* (non-productive),
s.eeping ear stock, cattle
yard*. »— 1 «*"
6900,000
16,750.000
7.000.0CO
6,030,000
J,500,000
15,000,000
Total .{130,010.000
It is reported of the late Wm. B. Ac
tor that he once asked a friend who was
envying his wealth: “Would you be will
ing to attend to this vast estate, with all
its multiplied cares, for your clothing,
board and lodging?” Upon his friend’s
looking surprised, Aster said: “Thu is all
“ receive."
The Nile overt! iw, whioh Is dne in
September, aoeordlng to tbe Herald, is this
year likely to be in damaging ezoesr. The
heavy rains in Khartoum, it Is eald, will
rsiee the overflow at least ten feet high
er than naual, and so oceaslon great dam
age. Last year there was no overflow,
end almoat a famine followed. Bat next
to no oveifl >w an excessive one is most
disastrous.
Washington, September 18.—PoBt-
master Thompson, of Memphis, having
died of the yellow fever his widow will ba
appointed to the vacant office.
The War Demartment has advicEB
from the Red Cloud agency, Dakota, that
two Indians arrived there from Sitting
Ball’s camp in Canada. They report
that Sitting Ball is well supplied with
arms and ammunition. He had intended
a raid on the Black Hill3 last spring, but
after considering the disadvantages of
such action, concluded net to leave
Canada. Tue Secretary of War has re
turned.
The coin balance in the Treasury to
day waa two hundred and thirty-nine
millions; currency balance, three hun
dred and eighty thousand and eight hun
dred dollars.
Isaac Cohen, the labor agitator, waB
arrested for attempting to force his way
into the room of Commissioner LeDue,
and pat under bond to keep tho peace.
Cohen had a large delegation with him
when he visited the Agricultural Depart
ment. Information was lodged at police
headquarters from the Capitol police and
by a citizen to-day that language was
made use of last night at the meeting of
Cohen’s followers on the east steps of the
Capitol building of the most incen
diary character. Seme of tho speakers
are represented as advocating a raid on
the United States Treasury,
The General Superintendent of the
Life Savings Service issued circulars to
the suborciuate officials, calling attention
to the late law increasing that service
and the responsibility of their duties,
urging them to select men for appoint
ment solely upon the ground of their
fitness for the arduous labors that fail
upon them aud without reference to any
other recommendation.
The Post-offioe Departmrnt ia taking
steps to 8 end mall to the quarantined cities
Sonth and where routes are cut off by
railroads ceasing to ran on aoooant of
quarantine regulations or otherwise. Post
masters are instructed to try some other
methods to save the publlo in the matter
of getting their mails regularly.
London, September 18.—A Vienna dis
patch says the Pesthcr Lloyd, heretofore a
loyal supporter of Count Andrassy, raises
its voice against the AuBtro-Seivian-Mon-
tenegrin alliance, whioh that journal de
clares wonld be a slap in the face to Hun
gary ; and it takes this reputed Intention
on his part to repudiate the Count and
his Bosnian policy. It also contains an
artioleby Dr. Falk, member of theReieh-
sratb, whioh says that au allianoe with
the Sclavonic principalities wonld be an
enormity and an insnlt to Hungary.
Another Vienna dispatch says that M.
Rsistios, the Servian premier, offered the
oc-opezation ot Servia, bnt it was de
clined. The Vienna cabinet has given it
to be understood that it never entertained
the idea of accepting suoh an agreement.
Constantinople, September 18.—An
envoy from the Ameer of Afghanistan
has arrived here.
Advices received through inaurgent
sources claim that the Austrians were
defeated near Zwornik and Tazla.
London, September 18.—The places
where subscriptions were opened ia Paris
for tbo relief of the yellow fever suffer-,
ew in the United States, are the newspa
per offices, Munroe & Co., bankers, U. S.
Legation and tbe Consulate at the Expo
sition.
Cincinnati, September 18—To-day
Judge Baxter, of the United States
Court, in passing upon an application to
allow railroads in the hands of receivers
to be garnisheed, remarked that the
practice of placing railroads in the hands
of receivers is altogether too common,
and has become a groat evil. He cited
the case of a railroad in Georgia which
cost fifteen million dollar?. The receiver
in charge within three years issued cer
tificates of fifteen hundred thousand dol
lars, and when the road was sold the pro
ceeds wero not sufficient to pay the cer
tificates. Another case was that of a
Detroit road, which cost over eight mil*
lions, and when the road ctme to be sold
eminent counsel requested the judgfes to
fix a minimum price for the sale, sug.
gesting such price as should be sufficient
to cover all charges of the receiver and
his lawyer. Judge Baxter said he had
observed that when the receiver got pos
session. he generally ran the road for the
benefit of himself and employes, includ-
* h#b d5e!^ irQ ‘“ 0te comes “Slower from tho
sMacmolark
M hCiva tuntti the lulling
Murmurs more gently down the
While from yon roof, whose curling^*? sIan *
O’ermounts the mist, is heard at mKu
Tbe voiccof pashas, the simple ■figSL-
And the hired gul swearing at the cooVhot^
—Old City Derrick.
THE SEPTEMBER DAY.
Where no trace ot shadow lies;
Mists upon tbe mountains clinging-
Sweet voiced birds their matins singing-
Dew like diamonds ’neath our tcet— ‘
Oh, September mom ia sweet!
At the noontide—fields at rest,
Cradlirg sunshine cu their breast,
Inthemeadow nodding grosser.
Freshening where the brooklet passe*.
Butterflies now here, now there—
Oh, September noon is fair 1
it the sunset hour—she,
Waiting ’neath our try sting tree.
Twilight shadows dropping nearer,
Stolen moments, each one dearer.
Hand in hand and side by side,
Oh, how glad the eventide I
EDEN.
Deep in the summer time of long ago.
There dwelt on either side a broken stream
A knight, who, Bighing, telt love’s passion grow,
A maiden weeping lor tome distant dream.
His gallant life was lost on Holy Land;
Her love was buried iu a life's regret.
Loving the river where be touched her hand;
They called it Eden where these lorers met.
The summer lime still comes though knight) ars
dead,
With tears of maidens rivers rush to sea;
Love rulelh still though chivalry has fled—
His kisses were tbe same to you and me.
All was the same from bridge to ruined znill.
Across the stream we loved, and met to part-
White winters change to flower time, and still
They call it Eden where you broko my heart.
The London World.
New Haven, September 17.— The
Democratic State Convention met in Mu
si a Hall this afternoon. Every town in
the State wa3 represented. Francis A.
Harden, of Stamford, was chosen tempo
rary chairman. He said the financial
question was an important one before the
country, and people wero expecting such
a platform from this convention as wonld
undo tbe financial legislation of the past
sixteen years. Various committees were
appointed. Francis A. Harden was cho
sen permanent president, with a vice
president from each Senatorial district
and a secretary from each connty.
The Committee on E?s?lntiona are in
favor of soft money.
Senator Eaton and A. E. Burr are not
in the Convention, and it is reported that
they left town in disgust when they
ascertained the complexion of the Com
mittee on Resolutions.
Tho old State ticket—Erhart D. Hub-
baTa, of Hartford, for Governor; Francis
B. Loomis, ot New London, for Lieuten
ant Governor; Dwight Morris, of Bridge
port, for Secretary of State; EdwinA.
Buck, of Ashford, for Treasurer, and
Charles C. Hubbard, of Middletown, for
Comptroller—was nominated by acclama
tion.
. The declination of Francis B. Loomis,
for Lieutenant Governor was rend, and
the declination accepted.
Charles Durand, of Derby, was nom
inated by acclamation. Mr. Durand has
accepted the nomination.
New Orleans, September 17.—To
day’s reports are 62 deaths end 223 new
cases, of which 121 occurred prior to the
14th iset.
Worcester, September 17.—Tho plat
form reaffirms edherenco to Democratic
principles as enunciated and acted upon
by Jefferson, Madison and Jackson, con
demns the extravagance in the State ex
penditures, expresses shame and sorrow
at the sight of a President elected by the
votes of a majority eet aside and the pec-
pie deprived of hi3 services by forgery
and perjury, and declares no man shonld
be permitted to hold office who is tainted
with fraud and corrnption; the platform
for the State government as eet forth by
the Democratic party in its convention
in 1875 is reproduced, a more extended
ceferecce to which is found in the address
of our candidate for Governor to the citi
zens who asked him to be a candidate;
deprecates the legislation tending to
place an impediment in the way of free
suffrage by poor men, and oalls upon all
to nnite with the Democracy in securing
needed reform?.
New Haven, September 17.—The res
olutions reaffirm tbe principles of the
party; condemn the frauds by which tbe
people were cheated out of their choice
in the Presidential election; consider the
resumption act, in its inception, as un
wise, and rely upon their representatives
in Congress, in their action upon tils
ing attorneys, and he [the Judge] would ] question, to be governed by those princi-
hereafter see that there would ba a re- p!e3 which underlie the beBt interests of
form in his circnit, for tho benefit of both
creditors and stockholders. It tho pro
ceedings to Bell aud realize were not
pushed to r conclusion, he wonld vacate
the receivership and give the road back
to the company. Great interest is mani
fested by railroad people in this deliver
ance.
Worcester, September 18.—The reso
lutions adopted renew allegiance to the
principles of the party; to rejoice that
resumption is nearly asoompllshed, and
insist that all lawful means be taken to in
sure it within the time fixed by law. They
say also that the refunding of the national
debt at a lower rate of interest should be
carried forward as rapidly as possible; to
declare in favor of raising the civil ser
vice to the plan of honesty and efficiency
demanded by the Cincinnati Convention
and the President’s letter of acceptance.
They call for the strictest economy in the
administration of State affairs; denounce
as falsa tho charges of mismanagement
made against the State administration;
assert that those who would foment dis-
oord by falsely teaohing that onr commu
nity is composed cf hostile classes with
antagonistio interests, ore publlo enemies,
whose defeat is essential to pnblio wel fare
that the success of the bold attempt
to plaee an open repudiator in the execu
tive chair or this renowned common
wealth wonld be an announcement to tbe
world that for the first time in the history
of Massachusetts she wavers in her devo
Uon to honest finance and is indifferent to
tbe saoredoesa of pnblio faith. The res
olutions commend the President for his
firmness in resisting the attemiti to de
predate the onrrtnoy, aud for his endeav
ors to promoto tbo restoration of good
will and social and ecmmcreisl intercourse
throughout the country.
Nxw Oslxak*, September 18.—The
deaths include twenty-three children un<
der seven years of age. Among the
deaths are Mrs. Magnire, wife of ei-as-
sistant postmaster Maguire, Rev. G. Baa-
mu of tbe German Lutheran St. John's
Chnroh. From coon to six p. m. twenty-
three deaths oosurred. One bundrod and
forty-five new oases aro reported, ninety-
seven dating prior to the 15th.
Baton Rouge, September 18.—There
era twenty-five new oases to-day, deaths
three.
Vienna, September 18.—Tho follow
ing is official: The Burning and bom
bardment of Brczka from the river Save
not having sufficed to silence the insur
gent gnns there, the*AnstrianB r on Tues
day, attacked the town by land on two
sides, and captured it after a desperate
resistance which lasted till 8 in the even
ing. The loesea have not yet been made
known. In the movements prioq to the
capture of Brczka, the Austrians oap-
tured Kresplo and Da Drava to the west
ward of Brczka after prolonged and
stubborn fighting.
the people.
Baltimore, September 18.—The Dam-
ocrats of tbe Sixth District have nomi
nated George Peter.
New Orlkan?, September 17.—The
official statement of the ootton crop for
the year 1877-78 bas been published by
the National Colton Exchange. The
receipts at all ports were4.334,190 balee;
overland movement, 295,369 bale?. Total
crop, 4,773,865 bales.
New Orleans, September 17.—Rav?
Dr. Matthews, pastor of Carondelet Street
Church, has the fever. A. W. Ferguson,
operator at Port Eads, ia very low. J. N.
Shawhau died to-day. The deaths for
the past three days include fifty-nine
children under seven years of age. From
noon to Bix p. m. there wore 19 deaths and
143 now case?.
New Orleanp, September 17.—OoL
Robinson, Superintendent of tha Mobile
and New Orleans Railway notifies Post
master Badger that owing to quarantine
regulations by Mobile connty, Alabama,
and Jackson county, Mississippi, against
each other, he ia compelled to discontinue
trains east of Ocean Springs. No mails
cu he taken beyond Biloxi.
Worcester, Mass., September 17.—
There is a very large gathering of dele
gates at the Democratic Convention. Bat-
lex’s friends are present in large numbers
and are meeting with a mest determingl
opposition. They show signs of weaken
ing. If the Butler ranks are broken,
Chas. Thee. Russell will be nominated.
The State Central Committee is deciding
contested cases against the Butler men.
At 8 o'clock the Butler men, having
possession of the hall, placed L. Powers,
of Springfield, in tha chair,and proceeded
to business. After a long wrangle, May
or Platt took the platform, and said per
son? in tho hall might remain, bnt no
others would be admitted. A resolution
thanking tho Mayor for the decided stand
he had taken was then unanimously
passed, amid great applause. \ reeeee
ot fifteen minutes was then taken.
At 11:10, David Towers took the flior
and requested the delegates fr» nominate
a ohairman. Mr. HaD*vit f , Bailer's Stc-
retary, moved that • committee be nomi
nated to sea that only delegates bearing
credentials be admitted to the hall. Tee
motion was oarriedand oommittee eiectea
and retired.
Before it returned a rush was made for
the hall and an outsider foroed the door.
He was closely followed, by the mob, tut
the daors were olosed by.the police.
At this jrfnoture Major MoOafferly en
tered the ball ud was reoeived wltn
oheerfi« .,
Boston, September 17.—A fire in toe
Merchants’ Bank building, corner of
State, Devonshire and Exchange ?tre®w>
this morning, occasioned a loss of tmr y
thousand dol'ars.