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M«n*ni3, September 20. —Twenty-
nireo Howard physicians report one hun
dred and twenty-fire cases and forty
deaths are officially reported for the 21
hoars ending at sis o’clock last night.
Among the deaths are Jno. H. Mitchell,
brother of Maggie Mitchell, the actress;
Inngdon A. Cheves, volunteer physician
from Savannah; Major John P. Treze-
vant; George D. Landrum, son of Rsv,
S, Landrum, W. W. C. Miller, and J.
Hayes, who died near the city; Judge L.
V. Dizon, who died at Abingdon, Vir
ginia.
A committee of citizens have adopted
a resolution thanking the United States
and the world at large for generous con
tributions, and declaring that the amount
here and on the way is probably suffi.
cient to meet all needs.
Honty Srarsas, September 26.—The
fever is increasing again. It is said 500
aro down.
New York, September 26.—The annual
meeting of the Northern Paoifio Railroad
Company was held yesterday. The re
port of the Directors shows the basin
of the road increasing satisfactorily. The
gross earnings for the year were $1,193,
381, expenses, $631,302, leaving a net
balance of $562,079 69 and a net increase
of $169,381 over last year.
Lincoln, Neb., Septembor 26.—The
Demooratio Convention of Nebraska,
met yesterday. W. P. Conner, a hard
money representative, was chosen chair
man. Efforts will be mado to endorse
the Greenback State ticket, the Demo*
orata making no nomination.
Saratooa, September 26.—The Be*
publican State Convention assembled
this morning. Hon. Boscoe Conkiing
was chosen temporary chairman and per
manent president.
Mr. Conkiing addressed the convention
and at the close of his speech recess was
taken. After recess, the platform was re
ported and unanimously adopted. It de
clares that the faith of the nation,sacredly
pledged to the payment of the public
debt and the redemption of pnblio prom
ises, according to the letter and spirit of
of the engagement and onr good name
and well being, require that the nation’s
honor shall be kept as inviolate as the
nation’s life; that the highest interests
of business and[no less than the plighted
faith of the republic demand there
shall be no step backward and no
postponement of speoie resumption; that
if the good work shall be completed, the
depression which grew out of financial
disorder forced upon us by a war of re
bellion J will give place to returning con
fidence and permanent prosperity, which
can rest alono on the fixed monetary
standard of tho commercial world on
settled values and certainty for the fu
ture. Standing unalterably for consti
tutional principles of bard money, insist
that greenbacks, ihstead of being dishon
ored and depreciated, shall be made as
good as honest coin; that the laborer’s
dollar shall mean a real dollar; that fluc
tuations and uncertainties which rob
toil and paralyze trade shall cease, that
our currency shall be made best curren
cy by making all parts of it, whether
paper or coin, equivalent, convertible,
secure and steady; and all public servants,
whether executive officers, senators or
representatives whose acts or votes con-
duee to this high object deserve appro
bation; summon people to renewed vigi
lance and unflinching warfare against
a vast horde of claims and raids on the
Treasury which count for the success of
Cemocratic ruli under tao mastery
of the solid South; demand free and
caintimlda’ed elections in tho South ss
in tbo North, and a fall recognition and
observance of tho equal rights and lib
erty of all citizen ; arraigns the dominant
forced of the Democratic party as constant
disturbers of the public peace, tranquility
and oocfl knot; as attempting to weaken
tho nation by crippling the army in
time of uncertainty and danger: as
guilty cf false pretence in claiming for
the Democratic House a redaction in
the pnblio expenditures, whose fraudulent
character proved by the necessity for a
heavy deficiency bills as dependent on the
solid South, and thereby subservient to all
its demands; as aggravating the troubles
of the conntry by mischievous agitation
throughout a period of its supremaoy in
the House of Bepresetatives; as faith
less to its obligations of national honor
and the chief support of wild sohemes of
inflation; the repudiation and utter
fioanoial disorders which inspired the
pnblio credit and business security ; and
its fatther or greater success would be a
national calamity. George N- Darforth
was unanimously nominated for Judge of
the court of appeals. The convention
then adjourned sine die.
Saustcga, September 26.—Mr. Conk-
ling said : “We have met in a year likely
to be the hinge on which mash in future
will turn. A year which, in its politioal
results, will leave deep and lasting Im
pression on other years.’’ He referred to
the depressed condition of industries, and
said Congress must not destroy the head
way which has been made, and launch the
conntry on new seas of confusion and ag
itation by wild and restless attempts to
oontrol the laws of trade, and to create
values by legislation. Financial stability
and certainty on which men oan rely and
calcnlata ahead mast not be exchanged
for exploded theories or novel devices.
Permanence and fixedness in laws are
often better than philosophy or even per
fection. We must have a frugal, hone.-t
government—an earnest, steady admin
istration, honest, constitutional currency,
with the publio credit high and untar
nished. The public treasury, defended
against unfounded claims and against
all schemes of plunderers and specula
tors, must have peace, order, protection
full and equal before the law for the
rights of all men everywhere, North and
South. Property is the product ot labor.
It must be hesved out of tbs forest,
ploughed cut of tho field. Hasted out of
:he mine, pounded out of the anvil
and wrought out in the factory and fur-
naoe.
Labor is at the bottom of it al*, and
nations iu which ibere are most laborers
and in which labor is best cherished snd
cared for mast bo riohest and most pros
perous. Capital and labor are natural
allies; Tvben they work together both
are.cnrichcd. When hostile or separated
both suffer. Mr. Conkiing then spoko of
tho number of people out of employment
and referred to tbo demand for paper
money, and to the fact (bat money is piled
up in every bank,-money centre and depos
itory, and csked what was to be done
with the new issue of paper, and said
that if put into circulation it will dilate
and depreoiato the whole currency and
put up prices for the poor to pay, and the
wages of labor will not advance fast
enough to keep up with the advance of
the priccB of food and commodities. Af
ter speaking of the pledge that the
United States bonds were to bo paid in
coin, and claiming that they were and
are taxed, he says: The man who pays
par in gold for a bond bearing only four
per cent, interest, thns loans bis money
for four and one-seventh per cent., or
only a fraction more than half of the
legal and usual interest in this State,
and pays for the exemption from farther
taxation in advance, and pays pretty
largely for it
He concludes: Look over the country—
East, West and South. See the position
of the Democratic party. Its last na
tional convention demanded the repeal
of the act to rcaume specie payments on
the 1st of January next. Now, when
gold and paper have come together,
months beforehand, Senator Thurmar-
and Mr. Pendleton in Ohio, Senator Voor ',
hees and Governor Hendricks in Indiana
General Johnston in VirgiBis, Western
and Southern leaders generally, and
Demooratio conventions even in New
England, cry aloud for huge schemes of
more paper mocey.
In tho West the Democratic party
has become the party of inflation. Ia
New Jersey and ether States, futious
Democrats and inflationists are progress
ing. In Maine a large portion of the
Democracy voted and avowed expansion.
The ticket for the Democratio press
exult* ever the result. Massachusetts
outdoes herself. General Bntler ad
vances as a Ctesar with the Democracy at
his heels.
London, September 26.—The Brit
ish ship Commerce, from Philadelphia,
August 25th, for Antwerp, sunk by a col
lision off Hastings. The crew, with the
exception of two, were saved.
Vienna, September 26.—An officially
reported deputation from Zwornik ar
rived at Tnzta announcing to General
Szapary the submission of the inhabi
tants expressing a wish that the Austrian
troops should enter the town. A deputa
tion from Petrovacs Kuleninvakuf and
Biela have also declared their submission
to Austrian authorities,
London, September 26.—If true that
the Commandant of Alimnsjid, in the
presence of one of the Ameer’s moBt trust
ed servants, threatened to shoot Cavag-
nari, thero oan be liltle donbt that the
threat was in accordance with direot in-
BtiuotioDS from the Ameer.
The Times Beys this latst news leaves
little donbt tbat we most expect war.
Operations in faot, have oommenoed al
ready. The Ameer doubtless intended to
make the breach with England irrepara
ble. Snoh will bo the effect of his con
duct. We ought to bs well able to suc
ceed in occupying two or three important
points in Afghanistan before winter,
whioh will go a long way towards finish
ing tho war. We can continne it in the
spring, if the Ameer is still obdurate.
The blow when given must be effectual.
Even the Daily News favois a prompt and
vigorous action.
The British bark Wesley and Seymour,
from Charleston, South Carolina, Aug
ust 26tb, for Amsterdam, arrived off St.
Catherine’s Point, Isle of Wight, having
on board tho crew of steamer Voxford
from New York for Havre. Tho crew
were rescued on the 12th when the
steamer was in a sinking condition.
Memphis, September 26.—From noon
yesterday until noon to-day, forty-three
deaths. Charles G. FiBber, E. G. Carson,
Captain Wo. Homan, Mrs. Cromel!, (in
charge cf nurse3 from Washington City,)
Jonathan Wood, Mrs. E. T. Forrest,
Charles L. Park, are dead. The Howard
Association sent another batch of nurses
to Brownville, Germantown, Oolliersville
and Deoatnr. Drs. Bartholomew and
Tncker were detailed to attend the sick
in the suburbs.
New Orleans, September 26 —Sister
Felicita died to-day.
Canton, Miss., September 26.—Twelve
oases and two deaths.
New Orleans, September 26.—The
Christian Association reports 82cases and
the Howard Association four hundred and
thirty-three.
London, Septembor 26.—The Tele
graph, in a leading article, says: “ Lord
Augustus Loftus, the British Ambassa
dor at St. Petersburg, left Berlin for tbat
place on Tuesday. He doubtless will de
mand explanations, and the withdrawal
cf tho Czai’s agent from Cabal, without
delay. The Indian Government has long
had possession of documents and authen
ticated copies of letters advising Sheer
Ali, in the name of Bussio, and by the
pen or voice of Buesian agent?, to just
such a dangerous policy as he is now
pursuing.”
The British bark Acdie H. Cann,
which sailed from Baltimore on the 21st
of August, for Loughowiily, is aground
in the Ltmghfoyle.
Galveston, September 26—A News
San Antonio special says reliable infor
mation at headquarters states that the
Mexican government have ordered the
troops at Monterey to the Bio Grande
frontier. Five thousand reinforcements
are en route for that border. Thirty
thoueand dollars have been appropriated
for mobilizing this force. General Na-
raryo will be in command.
Waehinoton, September 26. — The
Capinet to-day discussed the clause in
the army appropriation bill prohibiting
the use of the army as a posse comitatus
to aid the civil authoritier. It was said
that this clause had, in numerous instan
ces, been detrimental to the government
service. The Secretary of War felt jus
tified, however, in directing General
Crook, should he deem it necessary, to
afford protection to the Pacifio railroad,
government having interest ia the road
and duty to perform in the safe convey
ance of the mails.
Selma, September 26.—The Bepnbli-
can Convention of the Fourth district,
after three days balloting, nominated Jere
Haralson, a colored ex-Congressman.
Bellefontaine, Pa., September 26.—
The Democrats of the Twentieth district
nominated ex-Govemor Andrew G. Car-
tin.
Louisville, Kt., September 26.—The
American stallion raoe was won by Bram
ble. Cammie being second, Warfield
third, Momentum fourth, Day Star fifth,
Pomeroy sixth, Bergamot seventh, Mc
Henry eighth, Solicitor ninth and Fairy
Queen tenth. Time 3:14£.
Marseilles, September 26.—A large
meeting was held here last night in favor
of the Franoo-Amerioan commercial
treaty, at which M. Laho'die, Member of
the Chamber of Deputies, M._ Grandest,
President of the Chamber of Commeroe,
M. M. LeoD, of the Chattean da Temple,
Yonng and Brelalonn spoke. Desolations
were adopted urging the prompt conoin-
eionof the treaty.
Simla, September 26.—Tho Indian
newapapera publish the Viceroy of India’s
dispatches to the Ameer of Afghanistan.
The first is dated August 14, and inti
mates, in friendly and dignified lan
guage, the intei-t n cf tho supreme Gov
ernment of India to send a mission to Ca-
but, end requests the Ameer to issue or
ders for securing the eafe conduct acd
propsr reception to the representatives of
the friendly power. The second, dated
August 23, offers condolences on the
the death of Abdulla Jan, heir apparent
to the Afghan thione. It aho notifies
Sheer Ali that the departure of the envoy
would be postponed until the period cf
mourning ha3 expired. To these dis
patches no answers whatever were re
turned.
Norfolk, September 26.—Three nurs
es sent from here to Memphis atempted
to return yesterday, but were put off the
train Eoven miles from the city by order
of the board of health. They got into
the city late last night and were prrested
and put in the pest bouse. They will be
guarded ten days before they will be set
at liberty.
Halifax. N. S., September 26.—Tuck
er & Co., West India merchants, have
suspended.
Havana, September 26.—It is report
ed from Santiago do Cuba tbat another
hurricane is prevailing in the neighbor
hood of St. Thomas and is expected to
touch Jamaica to-morrow. It is feared
that it will sweep along the southern
coast of Cnba.
Norfolk, September 26 —The steamer
Weybosset, from Charleston for Boston,
which put in at this port yesterday for
coal and water, will sail to-morrow for
Boston. '
New Orleans, September 26.—A mem
ber of (be State Central Committee of
tbe Democratio Conservative party oe-
eertsthat it is untrue tbat any attempt
has been , made to make an aotive politi
cal contest in Louisiana where the fever
prevails. No pnblio gatherings or
speeohes will be made in snob localities,
and no addresses issued. Unobtrusive
efforts were made to secure the registra
tion, and committees are quietly at work,
in connection with the oandidatep, per
fecting the party organization only, and
preparing oampalgn documents.
Nashville, Tknn., September 26 —
James Bussell, colored, charged with an
attempt to oommlt an outrage upon Hrp.
Jackson, was taken from jail at Murfrees
boro, at 3 o’clock and hanged, by a mob,
one mile from town. There, were some
donbt as to hiB quilt.
Washington, September 26.—The
Chinese ministers will present, creden
tials to the President Saturday returning.
A despatch has* been received at the
State Department; from tbe consul at
Cahuue. French Guiana announces that
the Board of Health of that country de
cided henceforth that every vessel arriv
ing from foreign places ought to have a
bill of health vised by the Frenoh consu
lar authority of the port of departure.
The vessels to bo Bubjnct to quarantine
unless bo vised.
* Grenada, September 26.—There are
24 new oases and no deaths since tho last
report.
La Fouchk Crossing, September 26.—
Two cases of fever have ooourred here,
one of them with black vomit.
Hiokhan, Kt., September 26.—At
noon there were reported three oases and
no deaths. The ontiook is mnoh brighter.
Martin, Tehn., September 26.—There
were one death and one new ease of yel
low fever yesterday.
Grand Junction, September 26.—
Many mistakes having fonnd their way
into the pnblio press regarding yellow
fever here, we ask the press generally to
pnbliah the faotB as regards to onr past
sufferings and onr real want in fnlnre.
There have been 40 deaths to date, 23
convalescents—18 under treatment We
do not need doetors, nurses or medioines,
We ao want wine, brandy, ale, and
money with which to pay nurses, gravo
diggers, eto. We have a perfeotly relia
ble, responsible agent, to whom all con
tributions should be directed, 3. M. Mor
ris, who will use all such economically.
(Signed) W. H. Beasley, M.D.
W. H. & E. T. Prewilt,
Besident Physicians.
New Orleans, September 26.—Twenty
sailors lett the steamship St Louis to»
day because of fever on board.
Twenty-three children at the Seventh
Street Protestant Orphan Asylum have
been sick einoe the epidemic commenced.
Three had black vomit. Not one death
has ocunrred.
From noon to six o’clock twenty deaths
and 126 new cases were reported, of
which 37 originated prior to the 23rd
inEtani. In the twenty-four hours to
noon, 231 cases were reported to the
Board of health, 129 of which were in
cluded in the official report. One hun
dred and two were omitted, they dating
pryor to the 23rd.
Dr. Murray, of the United States Ma
rine Department, reports three eases at
the Hotel of Dion, three at the Boy’s
Asylum, on St. Charles street, and two
at the Female Asylum, on Camp street.
Benjamin Meyer, German, clerk o2 the
district conit, died of the fever to-day.
THB GEOBGU PRESS.
Wx offer him onrtenderesb sympathy,
and earnestly hope his head has resnmed
its normal proportions. He represented
Atlanta at Savannah on the occasion of
the late jamboree in honor of the steam
ship Gate City, and feelingly refers to
the “tempting bat insidious champagne
pnneh.” Bat who was it—General Howell
or Colonel Grady?
Ds. J. M. White, of Atlanta, a volun
teer member of tbe Howard Association,
at Memphis, died of yellow fever last
Monday.
The Conslilulion has'tho following from
Chattanooga:.
From the reports of tho latest arrivals
from Chattanooga the condition of the
city is about a3 'stated yesterday. In the
locality where tho fever seems to have
tbe most hold the conditions are all fa-
voratle for the propagation of the dir-
ease. The sanitary regulations have
been grossly neglected, and carelees peo
ple are now in imminent danger of pay
ing a dread penalty for their fatal negli
gence. Individual efforts are being stren
uously made to correct the evil now, bnt
the fever has its foothold and no longer
needs a nest for tbe breeding of the
germs.
Stid the exodus of the people continues,
and all who can get away are speedily re
moving themselves from the presence of
tbe scourge. Every train leaving the
city is crowded with flying people, and
last night's train emptied at our dc ora
quite a number of the refugees. The
camps on Mission Bidge and Blowing
Spring are being organized, and in a few
days it is hoped all who are able will have
left tbe city, and gotten themselves com
fortably established in plaoes of safety.
SHE MORTALITY
as yet is not great, hut sufficient in per
centage to cause the gravest apprehen
sions. Our reports give six deaths from
the fever for the twenty-four hours end
ing at noon yesterday. In this connec
tion we would say that we will publish
the reliable reports if they are sent us by
any one of the authorities of .Chattanoo
ga. There are a number of new cases
developed within the last twenty-four
hours, and tome are of a peculiar and
virulent type. We learn that the wife and
son of Police-officer Hunnicutt are dead,
and that he, the last of the family is
probably now dead.
THE TRAINS AND MXALS.
GeD. McBae is now in Chattanooga
looking after the interests of the State
road. The evening train out of Atlanta
now goes no further than Dalton. There
is only one mail through to tho North
and We3t via Nashville. The morning
trains which leave here will back from
Chattanooga at 5 p. m. each day. The
other train will double back from Dalton.
Last night the day mail coach came in
on the train and as a consequence no
mail will reach hereby the neon train to
day.
AS TO QUARANTINES.
It wa3 reported yesterday that Bing-
goid had quarantined against Chattanoo
ga, and that General McBae had ordered
no trains of any kind to stop at tho'for-
mer place. This rumor we could not
trace.
The Dalton authorities, we are glad to
see, have oome squarely up to the duties
of the occasion, as explained in the fol
lowing telegram:
Dalton, - Ga., September 24—At a
called meeting of the city council held‘
to-day they resolved not to quarantine. A
large mass meeting to-night unanimous
ly endorsed their action.
The same paper says a negro named
Green Jaokson, fiviug at Conyers, enter
ed the room of, and attempted an outrage
on the body of Miss Jackson, a yonng
lady of that place, last Saturday night
She woke np and gave the alarm and the
sconndrel made his escape twice, bnt was
afterwards canght and jailed.
Georgia, and Central Stock.—The
Augusta Chronicle learns “that sales of
Georgia Bailroad stock were made yes
terday at 73, with light offerings. Sales
of Central are reported in Savannah
as high as 62. Holders in AngU9ta are
firm, with very ^little disposition to sell at
current rater,’’
In tho case of Barton versns the Geor
gia railway for $10,000 damages, recently
tried at Columbia Superior oonrt, the jary
found for the defendant. Barton’s claim
was founded on injuries received by hav
ing been atrnok on the head by a ekid
projecting from one of the defendant’s
oars.
THEGriffio New tells this apropos ato*
ry:
Don’t Like The Back of His Neck.—
Ia all frankness we confess that there
are quite a number of people in Griffin,
men of ordinary intelligence, who will
vote against Mr. Hammond, and we oon-
oede farther tb&t there is little proEpeot
of their being converted. They are liko
the old whig, who, when Colonel C. Pee
ples was running for Solicitor General,
refused to vote for the Colonel. A.cotn-
raitteee of his party was appointed to wait
on him, to Inqniro what he meant by bolt-
ingi and refusing to vote for Col, Peeples.
He gave no reason. Whereupon the
oommittee asked him if Mr. Peeples was
not an honest man? wasn’t he a compe
tent man? didn’t he have capacity, talent
and ability ? was he not a good ehrlaiiat.?
was he not brave? was he not a man of
character and trne to prinoiple? To all
these questions the wandering brother
answered “yes.” “Then why are yon de
termined to vote against him?” inquired
tbe oommittee. “Well because I don’t
like the baok of bis nook,” was the reply.
Now we have seen a few men who say
they will vote for Arnold, who do not
know him, and they will acknowledge that
Hammond possesses every qualification
that a Congressman should have. Not
one have we yet seen or heard olj who
questions his integrity. Not one who
knows anything of the Bamesville Con
vention and its. workings, can truthfully
claim any unfairness, and while acknowl
edging and conceding all these things,
they nnite with the disorganizes, by op
posing the nominee of the party. They
don’t like the baok of his neck.
Colonel Seward has withdrawn from
the Congressional race in the First Dts-.
trict, in a letter to some of the leading
citizens of Thomas, which wo find in the
Thomasville Enterprise. We quote his
conclusion:
A canvass with a mixed population like
ours can not be pleasant. Efforts will
be made to draw party distinctions on
color and races. I would retire from a
canvass at any time upon the presenta
tion of such an issue. Let questions be
settled upon principle, and not on color,
and the peace of the conntry will he se
cured.
In conclnsion, assured of yonr personal
friendship and esteem, I yield to your
appeal, and withdraw my name from the
pending contest.
The Thomas county Badicals at a re
cent meeting resolved as follows:
“That we, as Bepublic&ns, will. take
no part in the Congressional election
which will come off the 5th of November
next; and if the Executive Chairman and
committee see it is expedient that we,
the Bepublicans ot Thomas, do vote in
the election,
Be it further Resolved, That the com
mittee shall have the power to call a mass
meeting so as to instruct us how we shall
cast our votes.”
That’s “freedom” for you, with a ven
geance.
Mrs. General Wofford, of Cassville,
died last Tuesday after a short illness.
Maeion county grows the biggest owls
on record. One was killed down there
last week which measured six feet and
seven incheB between its wing tips.
We find in the Harmony Grove Progress
the folio iring in reference to the recent
death of Professor Waddell, of the State
University:
It seems tbe point where he died—Mil
ford, Ya., not far distant beyond Rioh-
mond—was readied in the night; and It
is supposed that Prof. Waddell got off the
train to either get some refreshments or,
perhaps, seek medioal relief from severe
attacks of pain to whioh he had long been
snbjeol. No one, it appears, noticed bis
movements, nor did he speak to any
body. In the mean time, the train had
proceeded on its way—the absenoe of
Prof. Waddell not having been observed
by any one. Some three or fonr hours
later, the body of the deceased was fonnd
on tbe platform, cold and stark in the
embraeo of death. Those are about the
facts, as we gather them from a friend of
the deoeased, on the train of the North
east Bailroad Saturday last, and on board
of which were the remains ot this highly
esteemed and most worthy Christian man.
Under the circumstances, the whole of
this melanoholy and sad ooonrrenoa is
shrouded m mystery, bat the above is tbe
snbstanoe, as far as we oonld interpret,
of the suppositions and surmises of those
who had a chanoeof getting any informa
tion at all on the subjeot.
Physicians and others who examined
the body after it was discovered, gave it
as their opinion that some disease of the
heart was the probable cause of death.
Gen. Gordon, says the Griffin News, “is
advertised to be here next Saturday to
address our people, and they may expect
him on that day. He never deserted his
people in the time that tried men’s
souls, and he stands to his party now in
the hour of peril as he did to his country
in those troublous times.”
The Athens Watchman had a reporter
atGwinnet court last week, but somehow
he omitted, in hi3 account of tbe business
transacted there, to mention the order of
the grand jury to the Solicitor General to
investigate Speer, the former Solicitor,
and now the independent candidate for
Congress, in regard to some of the peo
ple's money he omitted to turn into tho
treasury, or otherwise account for, when
he was in office. We are afraid tho
Watchman isn’t a “live” paper.
Up to date, Savannah’s contiibotion to
the yellow fever fund amounts to .$13,-
209.65.
The News says tho total cotton receipts
at Savannah to date this year foot up
75,066 bales against 21,403 last year, an
increase of 53.663 bales. On Tuesday
the receipts wero 4,430 in excess of those
of the same date last year.
Highway Bobbery.—TheNeies has the
following: About eleven o’clock last
night a seaman by the name of Henry
Hart, belonging to the crew of the ship
wrecked schooner Jesse B. Smith, whoso
arrival here on Sunday, by the City of
Bridgeton, has been noted, whilst pro
ceeding to the steamship Gate City, at
the Central Bailroad wharf, was Mopped
by five men, on Canal street, near Lach-
lison’s foundry, one of whom struck him
a terrible blow across the right arm, with
some heavy instrument. Tbe parties
baviug thus disabled him, seized him
and riflei} his pockets of all they con
tained and then deoamped. The locality
where tbo attack was made was rather
dark, and Kart was unable to discover
whether his assailants were white or
colored. In a bewildered state of mind
he started back up town, intending, as
he subsequently stated, to go to the po
lice station. At the corner of Bryan and
Montgomery streets he encountered a
policeman, and was directed to the bar
racks. His arm at the wrist was tear
fully bruised and swollen from the blow,
and he was unable to use it. The rob
bers got about five dollars in silver, but
fortunately missed twenty-nine dollars
which Hart had in the fob-pocket of his
pants.
The Upson Er.terprise puts the case as
follows:
Beubin Arnold, of Fulton county, wa3
nominated at Atlanta last Wednesday
night by the" greenback (so-called) party
for Congress in this district. Upson was
not represented in the meeting:. Atlanta
has two independent candidates. Bird
eating Thorton and an Erst Tennessee
mountaineer by the name ot Beubin
Arnold. Both running for Congress in
this district against Hon. N. J. Hammond,
a greenback man and tbe regular nomi
nee. And, besides, he is a man with a
head on his shoulders instead of a pump
kin. A man of brains and integrity.
Their only objection to Hammond is they
want to go to Congress in his place.
Baise a great howl abont greenbacks and
get the party divided and elect an idiot
to represent ue. Order ia heaven’s first
law, and without union and organization
no headway can be made with any earthly
undertaking. To vote against Ham
mond and thereby desert the Democratic
party means chaos and tho ultimate de
struction of onr liberties.
The total number of passengers carried
on both sides by the New York Elevated
Bailroad Company for the week ending
September 21 was 344,882, of which 252,-
395 rode on the east and 82,487 on the
west side lines. The average per day
for both sides was 55,813 2 3 passengers.
The largest number (57,621,) was carried
on Monday, and from that time until
Saturday there was a gradual decrease
in the traffic.
Helen Tracy, playing the heroine in
“The Gilded Age,” in Cincinnati, tried
to shoot the villain, but the pistol wouldn’t
shoot. The predicament was awkward.
She clubbed the pistol, and walked np to
the rascal and banged |him on the head
with the handle. He dropped dead.
Bnt when she started back in affected
horror and oast the pistol upon the floor,
the thing went off olosa to her feet,
making her yell with fright
EDITORIAL COBBESPOHDEffCB.
Kimball House, Sept. 24,1878.
OFF FOR NEW YORK.
The morning yesterday was raw, bleak
and inhospitable when the subscriber re
duced by illnesB and not “half himself,’
bade adien to loving friends and tuned
Ids back fora brief season upon yonr
beautiful city.
And here, en passant, as a set off to
Dr. Janes’ “Manual,” tbe writer oan
truthfully say, that in all the United
States and the New Dominion of Canada,
after many peregrinations to and fro, he
h>B never beheld a more picturesque and
lovely city than ou own Maoon.
Built npon as many hills as
roue of old,
her palatial strnetares showing grandly
from many a lofty eminence, luxuriant
gardens and blushing Sowers lend their
charms to hundreds of modest dwellings,
tall spires and magnifioent architectural
piles marking the sites of her nnmeron3
churches and colleges, the winding river
severing the city in twain and laving
the borders of lovely Bose Hill Cemetery,
all surrounded, too, by a verdant setting ot
wooded highlands in the distanoe, render
the coup i'ceil of the place well nigh per
fect. And this is the testimony of all
strangers who honor ns with their pres
ence. A goodly company o! passengers
were on board, who eagerly sought their
shawls and wrappings, and with closed
windows, realized for the first time the
present season, that the
FIERCE HEATS CF SUMMER WERE OVER.
Ail felt gratefal at the certain prospect
that such an atmosphere would very soon
terminate the reign of terror in tbe fever
stricken cities of the WeBt. Who can
paint the stygian gloom and sombre hor
rors whioh atill envelope our sfflictedfel
low-citizens in tbat portion of the
Union?
In the vicissitudes and stirring scenes
of war, where hope, triumph and despair
quickly succeed each other and all is ac
tion and animation—where questions of
right occupy public attention and patri
otism lends its inspiring influence to tbe
combatants, even disaster and over
whelming defeat fail utterly to crash the
spirit of a brave people. But who can
refrain from shuddering when he hears
THE FLAPPING FINI0N3
of the death raven constantly about
his head, and sees the strong, the
yjung and the courageous ever fall
ing like leaves in Autumn around him,
slain by some mysterious, unknown
agency which baffles tho skill of tbe
most learned scientists? Truly the he
roes who face the pestilence at duty’s
oall are none the less to be honored and
admired than the soldier of a hundred
battles.
Weil, then, may the worn watchers and
.sufferers look as wistfully for &
KILLING FROST,
as did Wellington invoke tbe coming of
' Blucher and the night.” Many, there
fore, were the wishes expressed by our
fellow.voyagera tbat tbiB cold spoil would
culminate in ice, and tbe salvation of the
sick, even though a moiety of the cotton
crop might be lost.
Of course the
UBIQUITOUS COMMERCIAL TRAVELER,
vulgarly yclept “drummer,” was on
board, and we must again come to the
defense of this much-abused but essential
factor in society. He is the-auanf courier
of progress and prosperity to nearly all
of our cities—a walking encyclopedia of
every product of the loom and work
shops, which in a trice are displayed to
tbe admiring gaze of the country cus
tomer, artistically arranged, and cover
ing, within the confined space of a sam
ple trank, goods to the
VALUE OF MILLIONS.
He explains, acd illustrates by speci
men models all the most reoent improve-
•ments on maobinery, shows new fabrioa
with queer names whioh are “all tbe
rage,” throws a flood of light npon the
latest fashions, proves to a demonstration
tbat by consulting him, long and expen
sive trips to the “North” may be averted,
and the merohants saved by their want of
experience abroad from many a damaging
“sell.”
And a Urge part of ail this is strioily
trne, aside from tbe atimnlas which these
BOHEMIAN SALESMEN
impart to trade everywhere.
What would New York, Atlanta and
Macon do witbont these industrious rep
resentatives to push their interests in
every village and hamlet in the conntry ?
And moreover, as a class, they are up
right, clever and intelligent gentlemen.
None other wonld be adapted to snob a
business.
On the present occasion Maoon was rep
resented by a capital fellow who bad suc
cessfully sought and found the “North”
in the South, and bappy Benedict as he
was, didn’t oare a copper now, to which
point of the compass he drifted though
bound for Charlotte, North Carolina.
Strange to say, however, though the Win
(ninp) ship was on board tbe brightestgem
of the crew had been left behind. But
this, of coarse, was only a temporary
cruise, and we wish the happy couple,
when re-united, a prosperous voyage to
the farthest confines of life’s tempestous
sea.
Somo of these mercantile travelers
draw immense salaries from their New
York employers, amounting in one in
stance, at least, to six thousand dollars.
Indeed, they carry the trade of whole
sections in their keeping, and are simply
indispensable as agents inremete dis
tricts of the country.
THE COTTON FIELDS
were all as white as snow, and pickers are
in great request, so that there is no excuse
for negro loafers now. Bnt the day was
too wet for such work, and, as a conse
quence, commencing at Bolinbroke and
ending at tbo Gate City, every depot and
stopping place was crowded with happy
looking darkies who had gathered in
from the fariha to spend their loose cash.
What, between whisky, ginger cakes and
looking glasses, doubtless all will be
forced to begin lifo anew without a
penny in their pockets when the sun
comes out. But that fact will not de
press them one iota. Happy creatureB.
Who can help envying them this utter
ignoring of all of life’s woes and uncer
tainties?
A MILNER MERCHANT.
At thefienrishi&g little town of Milner,
whioh will handle 5,000 - bales of cotton
this season, has a large increasing trade,
and a mercantile capital of over $50,000,
Mr. , a thriving merohant, farmer
snd orchardman, got on the train. He
was en route for Atlanta, and expeoted to
bay considerable bills of groceries, shoes
and dry goods that evening, and return
home the same night. He dealt mainly
with Moore & Marsh, and said he bad
proved that a conntry merohant oonld do
better in tbe marts at home than by go*
ing to New York. He was foil of life and
hope end a good exemplar of Georgia
thrift and enterprise. The same iudivid-
nal has a farm for which he reoently re
fused
TWENTY DOLLARS PER ACRE.
and is now patting oat a large orobard
from trees procured from Delaware nur
series, whioh, he insists, bear earlier here
than those of Southern growth. This,
however, wa are disposed, to donbt, and
then they laok tbe acclimation, whioh is
an important element of snooess. His
plan is tosoatter one pound of bone dnst
about the roots of every tree when it iB
transplanted, whion produces the finest
results. The country abont Milner is very
healthy and fertile, and no portion of tbe
State ia advancing more rapidly in wealth
and population. Colonel Jack White iB the
grand central figure of that region, while
one of Georgia’s most able and successful
lawyers, Col. S. D. Irvin, iB a resident of
Milner.
ATLANTA.
We rode into the capital in tho midst
of a spiteful, driving rain, the leaden
skies and biting atmosphere reminding
one of the rigors of winter.
Hundreds of citizens were absent on
Mr. Wadley’d Savannah excursion, but
still they could not be missed, and the
streets were alive with bustle and mov
ing pedestrians. The ootton business of
tins city has made astonishing strides
Within ILv piui low yonra. anil QQW they
talk of getting 125,000 bales the present
season. This shows the power of capital
and energy even to divert trade from its
legitimate channels. With* the same
means and energy Macon ought to ware
house at least dou&Ze her present share of
the cotton crop.
THE NORTH GEORGIA FAIR.
We found the indomitable Wrenn en
trenched behind a mountain of volumi-
sous documents and papers, all get
ting ready for the post-office. We
doubt if any scheme was ever
better advertised or more industriously
pushed, and its success will be doubt
lessly commensurate. Wrenn is a power
when he undertakes anything. The
friends of the Atlanta fair asseit that
occurring so near as it will to the State
exposition, both enterprises will be bene
fited by the superior inducements offered
by the two to stook exhibitors and visit
ors from abroad, which neither singly
could have afforded. This is true to a
certain extent, but we doubt if it will com
pensate for the falling off in attendance
and contributions from the people ot onr
own State, in whom we are most interest
ed.
We are sure, however, that Middle and
Southern Georgia will hold their own,
and even eclipse any previous effort ever
made by the whole State. Of coarse, onr
Atlanta friends have a perfect right to
hold as many fairs as they please.
THE* ELECTION FOR JUDGES
will be the great bone of contention, be
fore the next General Assembly. Never
wore legislators more assiduously can
vassed by the hundreds of candidates,and
the general expectation is that there will
be log rolling without end. Bnt when
did this ever fail to be thecaae? Oh,
how many broken promises will bs re
corded when those elections are over.
His Excellency
GOVERNOR COLQUITT
is in excellent health, though his estima
ble wife has just been summoned io at
tend the funeral of her venerable father
in Twiggs county.
The Governor won golden opinions
throughout the nation by his coble and
catholic utterances at the North. We
doubt not those patriotie addresses will
do much to promote the return of kind
ness and good feeling between the peo
ple ot both sections. Georgia has jnst
cause to be proud of her Chief Magistrate.
THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION
in this district will be hotly contested,
though we trust, and fully believe, that
Colonel Hammond will be victorions over
every combination that can be made
against him. Your readers will be sorry
to learn, however, despite the Greenback
complexion of the Barnesville Conven
tion, that Mr. Pittman has gone baok to
the ultraists of his ilk, and will support
Colonel Arnold in the race. But many
of his warmest friends, it is said, have
fallen away from him, and his following
will be insignificant.‘
The weather is still raw and wet, bnt
not so cold. There is sot much scare
here concerning the yellow fever at
Chattanoogo ? as it is thought that frost
will check the farther spread of the dis
ease.
THE KIMBALL HPU=E
has been thoroughly repainted and' reno
vated, basides having an addition of an
other whole upper floor, which hitherto
had remained unfinished. Mr. Campbell
has made it second to no hotel in the
South, while Messrs. Miller and Calla
way continue to dispense their courtesies
to the traveling public. We close to
take the Air-Line train. EE J.
Florida News.
Th» Tallahassee Floridian says the In'
disDB who were taken trom Fiu>ia» iut
spring to Hampton Xostitnte, at Hamp
ton Hoads, Virginia, are said to be doing
well. All the yonng men in sohool are
expected to work on the farm oonneoted
with tbe institution, and are paid for
their labor. One of the Indians, trne to
hia early training, refused, saying,
“Braves no work; squaws work." The
General did not foroa the rule, but when
Saturday oame all but this “brave” were
paid and went to the city to spend their
money. He was greatly displeased, bnt
General Armstrong replied, “No work, no
money.” He Btill persisted, “Braves no
work ; squaws work.” The General next
deprived him of his drawing materials, of
which be waa very fond. After a few
weeks ha deoided that it was best to work,
and has now become obedient.
The water in Lake Monroe is higher
than since 1871. At Sanfork it i3 within
six inches of the top of the picket fence
in front of the Sanford House, and comes
np the front walk until it has fully sur
rounded the large century plant The
water is three feet deep in PhilFarra-
more’s livery Btable.
A Poland China boar, raised by Mr. J.
C. Thresher, of Jacksonville, and intend
ed for exhibition at the Thomasville, Ga.,
fair, pulls down the scales at 646 pounds.
Pensacola Advance 14th: Thursday a
little child of Mr. Jasper Band, aged
abont a year and a half, fell from the
back porch of her father’s house into the
bay, where- it speedily wonld have been
drowned had it not been for the courage
of a fourteen-year-old sister, who, seeing
the fall, instantly jumped after and suc
ceeded in saving tbe child. Fortunately
the tide was remarkably low, only reach
ing to tbe older child's chin, else the
little “tumbler” and sister would both
have been drowned.
Sun and Press: There is no donbt that
tbe oraBge crop has sustained Bet ions in
jury. Thousands have been threshed
from the trees, and thousands of others
have been pnnetnred by the thornB and
are now dropping: It is stated tbat many
of the oldest orange trees at Mandarin
have been uprooted.
At the museum of Mr. Greenleaf there
has been, until lately, among the other
enrioaities, a large rattlesnake and a long,
slim snake, mnoh smaller, oommonly
known as the pilot ratlesnake, from the
belief that when the rattlesnake sheds its
skin and becomes blind, for fonr oi five
days it follows tbe trait of the pilot rat
tlesnake. A few days ago the two snakes
were placed in the same cage, and as soon
as this was done the pilot at once attacked
the rattlesnake, ooiling himselt around it
with choking force and biting so savagely
that the pilot had to be killed to preserve
the largersnake. Of the different rattle
snakes kept by Mr. Greenleaf somo have
acquired three rattleB daring one year,
aBd al), while shedding their skins, have
a film form over the eyes, snd are much
more easily irritated.
The Fewer.
The fever newB is peculiarly sad tc-day.
Among the Memphis victims is young
George D. Landrum, who left Macon a
fortnight oa eo ago npon hearing of the
sickness of his parents, npon an errand of
filial duty—perfectly aware of the ex
treme personal peril of the step, and pa
tiently. listening to the remonstrances
and entreaties of his friends, bnt resolute
in the conviction that he ought to go.
Memphis reports 125 new cases and forty
deaths for the twenty-four hours ending
Wednesday night at 6 o’clock.
The fever is also increasing at Holly
Springe, Mississippi, where 500 cases are
reported. Holly Springs has a popula
tion of abont 3,000.
New Orleans reports 515 new cases for
the twenty-four hours ending the evening
of the 25th, whioh is heavy. The return
of warm weather has, no doubt, had an
unhappy influence on the pestilence.
Reports from smaller infected points
in Tennessee are generally worse, and
there is great alarm among the people.
From Chattanooga we get nothing by
telegram, but private letters state that
worsS conditions exist there than are ad
mitted in official reports. Cleveland has
quarantined the Nashville and Chatta
nooga, East Tennessee and Georgia and
Western and Atlantic Roads, from ap
proaching within ten miles of that place.
The superintendents of these roads were
trying to lift the interdict; bnt with
what reEuIt we have not learned. So far
as we hear at present writing, no quar
antine bas yet been established at any
point in Georgia.
Two Wars.
The London papers of yesterday an
nounce that war with Afghanistan is an
existing faot, and colamna of their troops
will penetrate the mountainous defiles
leading into that oonntry before winter
seta in, and occupy commanding points
with a view to decisive operations in the
spring. The oonntry of Afghanistan is
exooeedingly mountainous and presents
every variety of climate aooording to alti
tude ; for while the valleys are warm, the
mountains (theJHindoo Koosb) rise some
times to an altitude of 20,000 feet, and
on them and other high elevations tbe
winter is exceedingly severe. As the
balk of the invading foroe will ba native
Indian troops, it will be likely to find a
novel experience in this ragged and cold
oonntry.
The second war, according to Ban An
tonio advices, is preparing m Mexioo for
the United States. Five thousand sol
diers have been set in motion by the
Mexioan government for the Bio Grande,
to confront any invading parties from
thissideinpurBuitof Mexican and In
dian raiders. It these Mexican troops
will only display their prowess in stop
ping raids into Texas, thero will be no
Jtrouble and no war.
Mew York. Conventions.
The Demooratio Convention ot New
York bad to call in the polioe on Wednes
day to adjust the Tammany and anti-
Tammany differences. Tammany won
the fight and Tilden is down.
On the other hand, the so-oatled Be-
pnblioan State Convention organized in
Saratoga yesterday, with Conkiing as
temporary chairman—Conkiing as per
manent ohairman—Conkiing aa master of
osremouos — Conkiing as resolntor—
Conkiing as universal regulator and
sense-keeper. In Bhort, Lord Boscoe has
a bill of sale of the entire oonoern, and
there is not strength enough in the ad
ministration party to raise a gasp or a
groan. »
Worse still, it has been gravely oharged
tbat Tammany itself is working for Conk
iing, and Conkiing owns Tammany. If
these things be thw, what more la to fol
low?
Champagne and Oysters.
‘Baltimore Sun.]
Mr. John Norris, of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore'railroad, who
has been a-fishing lately in deep sea
soundings, presented to the Sun office
yesterday a salt water curiosity, which
demonstrates the strong affinity of oys
ters and champagne. It was a full-sized
quart champagne bottle, covered with
barnacles and topped with & well-grown
oyster, who had fastened himself in the
month of the bottle as securely as a cork
—so lightly, indeed, that it was impos
sible to determine whether the contents
ot the bottle were salt water or cham
pagne. The bottle wanted about two
inchea of being full, and the oyster looked
very dry, stuck into it with his month
wide open, and just far enough away
front the liquid to tantalize him to death.
The ancient and fish-like smell which
proceeded from the biTalve indicated
that he had been some days defunct, and
wholly past all restoration. The eingn- 1
lar home which the oyster had chosen,
and the way he had grown to maturity
out of the mouth of the champagne bot
tle, constituted one of the greatest curi
osities o! the many curious things which
hive come along from time to time. It
also demonstrated that that oyster, when
he waa young, even as a micro3copio
atom floating on the waste of waters, was
a knowing cove, and evidently fond of a
good thing.
Poor Ohio!
Philadelphia Times J
Several Ohio gentleman of high worth
are looking after the vacancy left by Mr.
McPherEon, and the President will have
an opportunity at last to do something
for the meritorious citizenship of his own
State. It has been a good while since
Ohio received any recognition.
Tbe Fourth District.
The Colamhas Times, censoring some
remarks of the Macon Telegraph npon
the pelitioal status in the Fourth Dis-
triot, winds up his article by declaring:
We write this to snstain the position
which we have taken, and in which the
friends of Mr. Harris concur, that there
has been no nomination, or vote equiva
lent to a nomination, in this District,
and that each candidate goes before the
people equally freo from the charge of
“independentism” or “eohism.”
So be it. We have no desire for con
troversy or to add to the disagreements
on the subjeot, and wish both the candi
dates could be elected. .
Rev. Henry Bunn and Mr. J. P.
Glover, ot Twiggs, were playmates in
North Carolina in their boyhood. Both
emigrated from the same neighborhood
in tbat State to Twiggs county. Both
were elders in tbe same ohnrch. Both
died very nearly at the same time, and
both were buried at the same time, in
the same‘cemetery.
Fables tor Good Little Boys.
Boston Herald. I
THE XWO DOLLARS.
"Get out o! my waj 1” arid tbe Greenback Bol-
•Tm Government’s Promise to pay!’.
“I'm Government’s Pay" said tbe Dollar oi
Gold.
"I can’t get out of your way 1“
MORAL.
When the Moon meksthe Sun to get outot her
light.
There’s a very fine chance fora very free fight I
A Bard Question.
Philadelphia Timea.1
The Inquirer propounds the startling
conundrum, “Is Secretory Sherman an
Antl-Protectioniat?” He may have been
something like that yesterday, bat there
is no telling what he will be to-day.
Who Ho U-
Philadelphia Times,]
General Boeaer has been asked to go
to West Point and give evidence in the
Porter caee, but he doesn’t want to do ao
and he aayp, go there yourself. He’s the
man whom Acklin held down by getting
underneath and inserting hia nose in his
viotim’a month; or eometbieg like that.
The World, of Tuesday, says the Cen
tral Park ghost waa caught the night be*
fore, and proved to be a thing of flesh
and blood—a tall woman, fifty yean old
and six feet' high—an invalid, who says
ahe took her walks for her health.
A rosy-cheeked, fair-faced - boy, dres
sed in girl’e clothing, has for tiie lsstaix
months been running a loom in tbe
Oswego Falls faotory, and living in the
girls’ boarding house. He bad made
himself inch a favorite that half the girls
in Jhe factory wept when he waa led
away to jail.
Dean Stanley preached in the new
Boston Cathedral last Monday, before a
splendid audience.
Members of the French Assembly ge
fire dollars a day, but not till their elec-
ttoaa i>u e been declared valid. If the
election is declared valid the member is
at once entitled to back-pay from the date
of election, bnt if it is quashed he gets
nothing. The Chamber has annulled
the elections of sixty-four Imperialists
and other members of the Bight, thus
saving $60,000 in salaries, and there are
several other contested seats etill to hear
from. Seven seats were vacant for 27
days, fifteen for 62 days, fourteen for 96
days, six for 124 days, twenty for 157
days and two for 264days.
Mrs. Julia C. B. Doer of Rutland,
Vt., has received the personal thank; ot
King Alfonso of Spainfcra sennet on
the late Queen Mercedes.
Dr. Babccck, inventor of the fine ex
tinguisher bearing his name is a drunken
outcast in Oakland, Cal. Ho was onoe
moderately wealthy.
All the doom in the Boston school-
houses me to bo altered so as to swing
both ways. »
In North Carolina a negro woman
fainted at a camp meeting .while shou
ting. She remained anconseious fonr or
five days, and then died.
A Columbia correspondent of the
Charleston News and Courier Bays the
Governor will issue a proclamation to
morrow setting apart Friday, October 4,
as a day of fasting, humiliation and pray
er in view of the great.calamity which
has befallen tbe people of the West.
A Boston lawyer has a letter written
in 1814 by a New York firm, saying that
they had placed in the hands ot Daniel
Webster a bill for collection, and asking
that the financial condition of Webster be
inquired into, as they oonld not obtain
any settlement from him.'
The most extraordinary convulsions of
nature are taking place .throughout the
island groups of southern Polynesia, and *
never in the history o! man hare thee*
convulsions been eo frequent as daring
the present year.—Fan Francisco Chroni
cle.
Rapid Transit Not a Nuisance.—The
grand jury of New York city has decided
not to indict^ the Metropolitan elevated
railway, as requested to do on the peti
tion of one hundred and thirty-five physi
cians, on the ground ot injury to publio
health. As an offset to this was three
memorials, containing the . signatures of
two hundred leading physicians, includ
ing ex-Surgecn General Hammond, cer
tifying that the noise on the elevated
railroad is not injurious either to the
healthy or to the sick, and the jurors
inclined to this view of the matter. The
New York Herald expresses the opinion
that the more rapidly the road is exten
ded into the extreme up-town diBtxicta the
greater will ba the preponderance of
benefit ever injury, and the smaller the
chance of any successful attempt of resi
dents immediately upon the line, or sur
face road rivals to annoy tho company ia
theconrts.
As to remedies for the bite of the rat
tlesnake, a physician in Western Pennsyl
vania Eaya that whiskey is a specific.
He treats twenty or thirty persons a
year for rattlesnake bites. The bites
rarely prove fatal when whiskey is used
in season. Thd rattlesnake always strikes
at the neck, or as high up as he can get.
In the experiments in Indianapolis every
animal put into the snake’s cage was
struck in tbe neck. The snake’s fang
makes a very small wound, and but little
blood escapee. Inflammation sets in at
once. Tbe animal struck eeems to suffer
very little pain, but to bo rather in a
stupefied condition. Human beings are
said to suffer acute pain from the wonnd.
It is not known whether or not the rattle
snake poisons the animals that it desires
for food, bnt it is known that it ean swal
low its own poison with impunity. It is
said also that airamaa being may swal
low rattlesnake poison with perfect safety
if there is no wound about the mouth. *
There is one animal invulnerable eo fas
as the rattlesnake is concerned, and tbat
is the hog. The hog wages war upon all
snakes, innocent and poisonous, end des
troys them with eagerness.
-Touchxko incidents of the Thames
disaster are still related by English cor-,
respondents. Families have been raised
and brought on shore “firmly locked and
interlocked together,” mothers are found
holding children, the little ones grasping
their dolls; one yonng man, after placing
his betrothed into an overfilled boat,
bade her good-bye, and went down with-
ont a struggle. One man acknowledged
that he kept himselt afloat by support
ing himselt on the floating bodies oE
others. Another held on to an anchor-
chain, and advised his wife to drop their
child and save herself. She held onto
the child, and both wero drowned.
New York Falminations.
Those were cheeky performances of
the Radical brethren at the Saratoga
Convention on Thursday. It takes serve
for a party steeped in frand, extrava
gance, waate and misrule, to crawl out of '
the gutters and blackguard people in
clean garments for their filth. Bat Sen
ator Conkiing and hia crowd are just the
boys to do it—and doit with such a show
of virtuous indignation aa to confuse acd
abash honesty and virtue themselves,
As aa achievement of brazen-faced impu
dence, it gqea beyond all recent exam
ples. _
Health of Iio alsvllle.
Louisville prints in the telegrams an
indignant oontradiotion of alleged rumors
that the fever had broken out in that oity.
We hope and believe there is cone there.
We hope and trust Lonisvills may pass
through the peril unscathed. That city,
alnoe the first outbreak of tbe disease in
Tennessee, baa kept open doors and.free-
ly invited all nfjgeea from infeoted
points to fi id a resting plsoe within her
limits. _
Atlanta—The Constitution ofthe26tl; *
contradicts domestic rumors in relation
to a yellow fever case in that city, and
says there ia no yellow fever there, and
oan be none nnd there ia no malaria
within several milee of Atlanta.
Fat People Made Lean.
Fhyeiolana and physiologists have long
“scratchel their heads” and “bormfi
the midnight oil, 1 ’ seeking to devise tome
means wheaeby excessive corpulency
might be either prevented or controlled.
Until recently all “theories,” “special di
rections," and “remedies,” have failed.
But at last the problem is solved. Al
lan’s Anti-Fat will surely and positively
reduce flesh from three to six pounds p*r
wsek. No medicine or sembisation of
medioines has ever been discovered that
would produoe each wonderful results,
and at tbe same time improve the csOervl
health. Bold by druggists.
sep28 dwsmlt
Fortify the body against
purifying the blood with Dr.
Mixture. Thus forearmed,
never be attacked by riekaes*.