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Nkw Orleans, October 3.—Prom noon
to sir o’clock last night there were nine
teen deaths end eighty-eight new case?.
Seventy-five deaths to date since Sep
tember 29th. Many cases are reported
in families just returned from coast wa
tering places.
Shultz & Co. have received a telegram
by cable announcing that the steamship
Democrat, which had been chartered by
them to carry cotton to Earopean ports
from New Orleans, had been lost off the
Isle of Man. , .
The New Orleans Belief Society, hav
ing been refused aid by the HowardP, has
again applied to the Secretary of War for
rations for the destitute. They state to
the Secretary of War that the reports of
those who are in a position to know,show
that tho Hovards cannot and have not
relieved a l irge portion of the destitution
in the city.
Vickbburo, October 3.—Seven deaths
yesterday. The ttlegraph operator at
Delta is sick. A special train for the re
lief of the sick goes to Smith’s Station
to-night.
Hamilton. Ont., Octobor 3.—John
Harvey & Co.’s wool warehonse was
burned yesterday. Loss $50,000 to $G0,-
000.
Boston, October 3.—The Journal says
it is reported that Kimpton has _ conclu
ded to go to South Carolina, having been
promised good treatment.
A Lachino special to the Herald at 9:45
says the weather is very pleasant. A
southwesterly wind is blowing whioh
raffles the water a good deal. Old resi
dents think there is a prospect of its be
ing sufficiently calm this afternoon to
enable the race to be rowed. Courtney
anticipates a fresh wind all day.
New York, October 2.—A special
from Burlington, Iowa, says while A. C.
Breemnn, Greenback candidate for Con
gress, wa3 eddresaing a meeting there
last evening, Thomas Boper, chief of po
lice, was assassinated and another man
serionsly wounded. No causa is as
signed.
New Yobk, October S.—The Herald
has a long special from Auburn, N. Y.,
saying that Anbnra is in a ferment of ex
citement over seemingly well founded
stories that the great Courtney-Hanlon
race hsB been surely sold to the Cana
dians, and gives a story by one of Court-
ney’s friends that the race was a put-up
job from the outset. The Hanlon party
admitted that their man stood no show
with Courtney, and the ODly possible way
to get the match on was to sell the race to
Hanlon. Courtney is to have the $4,000
of the citizen's purse for losing the race.
In order to prevent giving the gamblers
“doable oross,” ho was required to put
the entire sum on Hanlon. The special
gives other details, and says everybody is
now betting on Hanlon,
Galveston, October 3.—A special to
the News from Dallas, says the Republican
Convention adjourned after making the
following nomination: For Governor,
A. T. Morton ; Lieutenant Governor,
Biohsrd Allen; Comptroller, A. Siemer-
ina; Treasurer, S. D. Wood; Commission
er of Land Office, Jacob Kenohler; At
torney General; F. W. Minor. A. M.
Coobrano was elected Chairman of the
State Central committee.
A Palestine special to the News says the
entire bnslrcss portion of that city has
been destroyed by fire. Loss $11,500.
Insnranoe slight.
London, October 3.—Much sympathy
ib felt for the shareholders of the Glas
gow bank. Much of the stock wa3 held
by ladies and gentlemen who have lived
a retired life on a moierate competency,
and row fled themselves reduced from
circumstanc. s of comfort to absolute
poverty.
Seven hundred and fifty persona em
ployed by the bank and its branches are
affected by the failure.
Smith, Fleming & Co, Erst India
merchants, have failed. Liabilities
several million dollars.
New Yobk, Ootober 3.—A New
Orleans speoiai says nearly fifteen thou
sand persons who have returned from the
lake shore wateiing places, are being
prostrated almost as fast as they arrive.
A perfect panic prevails. In the opinion
of well informed observers, the icflaz has
restored the epidemio to its former status.
Over five hundred sro prostrated in Car
rollton, end tbero are as many more in
Gretna and Algiers. At Barnes’ Hotel,
Mississippi City, th03e who died were’
bnried nncoffioed.
Colonel Jack Wharton, who is author
ity for this statement, fays: “Had we
waited to send to New Orleans for coffins,
we wonid have had to carry them ont in
buckets.’’ Colonel Carter, special agent
of the Interior Department, was bnried
there Wednesday. The Italian refugees,
who two months ego anterior to the fever
encamped at Camp Parapet, are return
ing. Many have recently aiokened. At
the Board of Health this morning it was
announced that the fever was increasing
sad will increase bo long as absentees
from any locality fiook into the city.
Thirty-six deaths are reported in the past
twenty-four hours and one hundred new
cases.
New Yobk, October 3.—The President
visited the post-cffice yesterday, and held
levees to-day at the Fifth Avenue hotel,
and later attended a meeting of tho Pea-
body Trustees.
Chicago, Ootober 3.—The Nebraska
Bepublican State Convention has nomin
ated AlbinnB Vance for Governor, Edward
C. Carnes for Lieutenant Governor,
Amasa Cobb for Associate Justice. For
Congress; for tho long term, Edward B.
Valentine; for the short tsrm, Thomaa J.
Majors.
Hartford, Octcbar 3.—The BepublL
cans of the First District have nomin
ated Joseph B. Hawloy.
Boston, Octobers.—Honorable Thomas
Talbott ha3 formally accepted the Be-
publican Gubernatorial nomination.
Nathan Clark was nominated for Con
gress by the Greeabackers of tho Fifth
District.
New York, October 3.—A dispatch
from Bismarck, D. T„ says that a Teton
Indian has reported at the Poplar Biver
Agency that S.tting Bull has been badly,
probably fatally, wounded in a quarrel
with some of hi3 chiefs.
A special from St. Thomas, West In
dies, hss just been received here, which
announces a serious insurrection in the
Island of St. Croix, and tne destruction
of a great deal of property. Already sev
eral prominent whites have been mar-
derod by tho negroes. Tho whole popu
lation of the island is 33,000, of which a
large proportion is colored.
London, October 3.—Ballion in tho
Bank of England has decreased eix’ thous
and pounds in the past week. The pro
portion of the Bank of England reserve
to liability which last week was 49 per
cent., is now 403 ver cent.
Parts, October 3.—Minister Noyes
entertained General Grant at a dinner to
day. Among the gneste were General
and Mrs. Grant, Messrs. J ohn Welsh,
John A. Kaeson, J. Meredith Bead, Con
sul General Fairchild and others.
Havana, October 3.—Jacmel was vis
ited by another hurricane on the 25th of
September. Two vessels and all the
lighters in the harbor were lost and many
houses destroyed.
A telegram from Jamaica contains a
rumor of a negro insurrection in Santa
Cruz. Mnrders and other atrocities are
reported, and tho negroes are said to have
possession of the Island.
London, October 3.—Peter Proman,
the self-confessed murderer, from Ball
river, S. O., was again before the Bew
Street polios coart to-day. Extradition
psperB were banded to a foreign officer on
Tuesday, but have not yet reaohed the
magistrate, and be was remanded until
Wednesday cc-xt. After recommittal
Froman esoaped from a cell in Bow
itreet, and made his way to the roof of a
trailding, when his Sight was observed,
and he waB recaptured after a desperate
struggle.
Mempuij, Ootobei 3.—Last night was
qnite oool and indications of a light frost
were seen this morning. For the twen-
ty-fonr hours ending at twelve o’clock
to-day the undertakers reported forty-
five death?. Among those who died since
last tight were Patsey W. Maley, Mias
M. H. Clare, volunteer nurse from Jack
sonville, Fla., Dr. D. Peeble, Miss M. S.
Hoon, John M. Peabody, superintendent
efthe Leath Orphan Asylnm, Mrs. J.
Dormsteadler and W. Koob. This morn
Jng* J*”g”Watkins, of the Howard Sop- hundred and eleven new caaes.
ni» IW taken down. Sherff J. weather is clear and pleasant.
ply Depot, was taken down.
W. Anderson was stricken down last night,
The police last night arrested H. L. Allen,
a nurse from Galveston. Texas, on s
charge of attempting to outrage Mrs-J,
W. MoDonaldwho died last Thursday. The
onirage was attempted while Mrs. McDon
aid was ill with the fever.
New Orleans, October 3.—Among the
deaths to-day was Mrs. J. J. Irby, a na
tive of Danville, Va. The death list for
the twenty-fonr hours ending at noon in
cludes eighteen children under the age
of seven.
Baton Bouse, October 3.—There were
ten deaths last night, and a large increase
in the number of new cases. L. J. Adt,
a prominent member of the Ho wards,was
taken sick iaet night. We are having
Joly weather. If it continues, we fear
the consequences.
Biloxi, October 3.—Twenty new cues
but no deaths.
Chattanooga, October 3.—In the twen
ty-four hoursending at 4 p. m., the fol
lowing deaths are reported: Mrs. Delia
Crandall, Daniel McMillen, W. T. Good
win, and John Parker, colored. Ten new
cases are reported. Tho disease seems to
be increasing. A strong noitherly wind
all day gives hope that it will soon de
crease. It has not yet spread out'of its
old quarters.
Washington, October 3.—Beceipts for
National bank notes at the Treasury to
day for redemption were one hundred
thousand dollars, the smallest amount
ever received in one day. This is a re
sult of the recent order requiring banks
remitting notes to pay the cost of trans
portation.
The Secretary of War directs that tho
various articles of bedding and clothing
needed for the yellow fever supply boat
now loading at St. Louis, be furnished at
Government rates.
The Attorney General has many appli
cations for the position of District At
torney for the Northern District of Mis
sissippi, now vacant by the death of Me-
Walton, from yellow fever. The appoint
ment will not be made until tho fever
in the South abates.
Richmond, October 3.—Dean Stanley
has arrived here. He i3 a guest of Colo
nal Archer Anderson.
Pbovidence, October 3.—Advices from
Newport regarding Hon. George Ban,
croft tbi3 evening says he passed a com
fortable day. No permanently serious
results of his injuries are anticipated.
South Hampton, Mas3., October 3.—
The Bepnblicans of the Eighth District
nominated Wm. ClafliD.
New Yobk; Ootober 3.—U. S. Grant,
Jr., called on Mayor Ely to-day, and said
that he had received instructions from
his father to hand the Mayor a check for
$500 for the yellow fever sufferers, which
direction he then fulfilled. The entire
contributions to-day amount to about
$900, including the ex-Preaiden'.’a dona
tion.
The Trustees of the Peabody education
al fund completed their labors to-day.
The following officers were elected:
President, Bobert C. Winthrop, of Mass
achusetts; First Vice-President, Hamil
ton Fish; Second Vica President, Gov
ernor Aiken, of South Caralina; Treas
urer, Samuel Wetmore, of New York;
Secretary, George Peabody Bussell;
Bev. Dr. Leans, general agent; execu
tive counsel, Governor Aiken, Wm. M.
Evarts, C. H. Z. Stuart; surgeon, Gen
eral Barnes and General Layton.
Philadelphia, October 3. — Sheriff
Adams this morning started from Atlan
tio City by the Camden and Atlantic
railroad for Camden, on his way to the
State prison at Trenton, having in charge
Chas. Crane, sentenced to three years
imprisonment. When the train wasra
short distance below Ancora Station, and
running at the rate of thirty miles an
hour. Crane suddenly ran to the back
platform of the car, jumped off and fled
to the woods.
London, Oc'.obsr 3 —The Times' finan
cial artiole says the City of Glasgow bank
had 133 branches. It h-33 paid a pro
gressively increasing dividend for several
years past until it reached twelve per
oeut. It would be inoorrect to say that
disaster was unexpected. On the contra
ry, in banking circles it created no sur
prise, for the bank had been losing credit
gradually for ton years past, yet Sootoh
banks in London wore cot in possession
of information whioh showed that the end
was aotnally near until Tuesday morning.
Bnmors of the bank being in difficulties
had been so often oredited before within
strictly banking ciroles that the repetition
of them did not exoita partionlar interest
on this oooasion. Tho business of tho
bank had been oonduoted for years npon
very unsound principles.
Operations upon an enormous scale had
been indirectly entered into on Indian
produce cod Australian wool. Some
fourteen million dollar? of bills having
been accepted for tho account of three
firms. Very large advances hare been
made to firms in the iron trade in the
North. Utterly reckless support appears
to have been given to builders. The
Times further saye: “We believe we are
correct in saying this deplorable catas
trophe is, with reference to Scotch banks
a3 a whole, entirely an exception, and
that no other I-nr !:iog institution in Scot
land is in any tv.,/ mixed up with the
city of Glasgow bank, or been engaged
in any business of the kind which led to
this failure. Attempts have been made
in the city to complicate matters by say
ing there was a panic, bnt there has been
no panic.
The Bank of England is in an excep
tionally strong position relatively to the
extent of business going on, and the
state of affairs is very different to what
it would have been had disaster happened
to a bank whose soundness had been
above suspicion. The Financier antici
pates no additional bank failure, bnt says
some mercantile failures oan hardly be
avoided, whioh may extend into the iron
districts of the north of England,
Vienna, October 3.—The Cielielhan
ministry, which tendered its resignation
on the third of July, and has since only
held office pending the decision of the
Emperor, yesterday requested his majes
ty to declare bis decision, explaining that
having to prepare the bndget for the
Beichsrath, they were unable to concnr
in Connt Andrassy’s views respecting the
means of raising a fond for the Bosnian
occupation. The Emperor left to-night
for Godollo, in connection with the Hun-
garian crisis.
Pesth, October 3 —At a council of the
Hungarian ministry to-day, all'resolved
to support Herr Szell, and signed their
resignations, which Herr Tiezs, the pre
mier, will probably deliver to-morrow to
the Empeior.
London, October 3.—The Manchester
Guardian's Vienna dispatch confirms the
report that the Emperor has aooepted the
resignation of Von Ezell, the Hnngarian
minister of Finanoe. The other minis
ters will only withdraw their resignations
upon the aooeptanoe by the government
of the following conditions: The isene
of a joint Au3tro»Hnngarian loan; the
oonolusien of a convention with the Porte;
redaction of the army in Bosnia and the
abandonment of the oocnpation of Novi
Bazaar. The latter condition has been
already aooepted. The seoond depends
on the Porte. The Austrian Cabinet op
pose a joint loan whioh wonid redace
the Ansirian oredit to the same level with
the Hungarian. Therefore, a conflict be
tween (he two oabineta is imminent.
Memphis, October 3.—The Board of
Health report 26 cases the past 24 honre
ending at 6 o’clock to-night.
Among the deaths are Mary E. Jones,
Michael Taylor, Wm. Hiedman and Jes
sie Peoples. David Flannery, of Jack-
son, Mies., is in charge of tho Western
Union Telegraph office in this city, and
orders that no telegrams of any nature
whatever will be received after 7 o’clock
at night, excepting twenty words, which
are presumed only to give the total hnm-
her of new cases reported by the Physi
cians of the Howard*’ medical (corps.
Meridian, Miss., October 3.—There
are two well defined coses of yellow fever
here.
Cairo, October 3.—Reports from Hick
man, Kentucky, to noon yesterday give
ten new cases and six deaths. Telegraph
operator Pollard is quite low.
New Orleans, October 3.—To-daj’s
reports Bhow fifty-one deatbB and one
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St. Louis, October 3.—Lieutenants
Benner, of the 18th Infantry, and Hall,
of the 13th Infantry, who have charge of
the expedition of relief of the fever suf
ferers along the Mississippi river, be
tween Memphis and Vicksbnrg, arrived
here last night. Both are Northern men
and never had the fever, but have been
stationed in the Soutb, and do not (ear
the sconrge.
The relief steamer, Chambers, is being
rapidly loaded, and wili probably leave
to-morrow.
Dr. Frank W. Eeilly, representing the
Chicago Belief Committee, goes with the
expedition, and its probable arrangements
will be made to enable him to test the
value of turpentine as a disinfectant dur
ing the trip.
Thibodeaux, La., October 3.—Sixteen
new cases; no deaths. A great number
of the cases are malarial, not yellow fever.
Philadelphia, October 3.—Seven pris
oners escaped from the jail at Camden,
New Jersey to-day. One of them was re
captured.
Lake Mahopac, October 3.—The Gre
gory House was totally destroyed by fire
on Tuesday morning, together with the
Monk cottage. Toe inmates were saved
with much difficulty.
Buffalo, N. Y., October 3.—The Re-
pnblicans of the Third District have
nominated Sherman S. Rogers.
Louisville, October 3.—The United
States authorities have information that
a large gang of counterfeiters, who have
been operating in the mountains have
been captured. Fourteen are now under
arrest. The plates, etc., were captured.
The operations of the gang were exten
sive.
Boston, October 3.—Thegreenhackers
of the First District have nominated
Lemuel Bradford subject to Democratic
ratification.
Hudson, N.Y.,October 3.—The Demo
crats of the Thirteenth District have
nominated O. D. M. Baker.
Lewville, N. Y., October 3.—The
Republicans of the Twenty-second Dis
trict have nominated Warner Miller.
San Francisco, October 3.—The non
partisan Democrat and Bepublican dele
gates to the Constitutional Convention at
Sacramento last night oaucussedon the
subordinate officers of the Convention,
and to-day all the places were filled with
the caucus nominations, thus effectually
shutting out all the workingmen’s can
didates.
New Yobk, Ootober 3.—At the Filz
John Porter trial to-day Captain Douglass
Pope was called for cross-examination by
Porter’s council, the objeot being to prove,
if he insisted in confirming his previous
testimony that he made subsequent state
ments in conversation oontradiotory of
bis evidence as to the 4:30 p. m. order.
Witness denied that he ever said he lost
bis way when be started with the order
from General Pope to General Porter.
Colonel Moale, of the United States in
fantry, has declared positively that Cap
tain Pope repeatedly said in his hearing
that he got lost on the 29th of August in
oairying the 4.-30 p. m. order, and did
not reach Porter till near dark. A.
Coos s was examined. Moale said his re
lations with Captain Pope always were
and still are friendly, and that he was re-
luotant to give the testimony. Denton
antT. D. Jones, of the 37th infantry,
gave testimony similar to that of Mo&le.
Philadelphia, Ootober 3.—The game
of orioket between the Philadelphians
and Australians oommenoed on the Ger
mantown grounds to-day, with the Phila
delphians first at the bat. Mach interest
is manifested, and soma fine playing was
done. The first innings of the home
eleven ended with 196 runs on the soore.
The Anstrailians will go to the bat to
morrow.
The Pestilence at Holly springs,
Miss.
Courier- Joumal.1
The following is an extract from a let
ter from the wife of the pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Holly Springe,
Miss., to a refugee friend now in this
city:
We seem here to dwell in “the valley
of the shadow of death.’’ Mr. Craig has
been sick for twenty-seven days.. He can
never be any nearer the grave until he is
laid in it. He doe3 not remember anything
that occurred for two weeks, and I have
bad to tell him little by little of the long
list of loved ones and lost onee. I have
had quite a hospital. Miss C. is down in
ono room and Mrs, S. in the parlor,
have no one to help me; can get no ono.
The two nurses are busy with the sick.
II know you ail do feel for us,
bnt you can never know all the painful
story—the terrible physical suffering;
these mournful, unattended burials; the
sad stillness of death and desolation that
prevails. Ob, it is beyond the power of
words to describe. * * * #
Some (a great many) have died in un-
Htter&ble agony ana wild delirium;
others have gone down step by step into
the Jordan, leaving sweet echoes as they
passed out of sight. Dr. Frank Fennell
died in the country, almost entirely neg
lected. Dr. William Fennell attended
him and with one other person buried
him in the night. To-day Dr. William
Fennell was brought to town and buried.
General Featherstone is better. He
moved to tho country; his son (Winfield)
died, and then Mrs. Featherstone; both
were coffined and buried at 2 o’clock at
night by strange hands. * * *
Yon can perhaps imagine how lonely I
am when I tell you that I am the only
lady between your house and Mr. N/e,
one way, and Dr. D.’s and the Me. place
on the other, (folly a mile). I seldom see
a white face except the doctors.
Merchants in Amoy, China, say that
they have discovered that the last har
vest’s tea has been adulterated beyond
all precedent. Leaves of the willow are
prepared for the purpose, and mixed
with trne tea. The consular body has
laid the matter before the Chinese am
thorities, and the Governor of the pro
vince has published a proclamation offer-
ingareward for information leading to
the conviction of offenders.
No Monet fob New Hampshire.—
The Philadelpha Times says, Congress
man Blair, of New Hampshire, has been
to Washington for the sinews of political
warfare, and has been sent sorrowing
away with the word that the campaign
committee's bag had collapsed. He is
reported as saying that 'money must he
had; that voters in his State had grown
to expect it, and that the result of the
elcelion depended on the extent to which
one side or the other purchased their
support. This is not a new story about
New Hampshire, nor would it be wide of
the trnth if told of some other States
considerably nearer home; bnt it is a
soandalous and disgraceful one none the
lees. The debauchery of the suffrage by
bribery is a crime against the liberties
of the people, and no man or party can
afford to be engaged in It. If Mr. Blair
wanted cash for honest uses, that is his
business and the business of bis political
friends; bnt if he called for it in order to
buy votes he deserves much rorae than
the disappointment of refusal.
THE GEOBtilA FREES.
A trial just ended in Portland reveal
ed that Joseph fj. Clement, who had bis
life Insured for $15,000, started witha
friend in separate vehicles for his home.
Near the river his friends heard a splash
and saw Clement’s team struggling in
the water. Clement was miseing from
that time. His wife applied for the insur
ance money, whioh was not paid, the
averment being that Clement was not
dead. The insurance men obtained
Clemen’t mother’s affidavit that he pre
tended to be drowned, and fied to the
West, whether his wife was to follow
with the $1G|000
The interest on $429,000 of Augusta
city bonds fell doe on the 1st inst, and,
as we learn fiom the News, was promptly
met. Happy Angnsta.and happier bond
holders!
Undib the head, “Atlanta and the
Epidemic,’’ we find, and cheerfully pub
lish the following from the Constitution:
We assert solemnly, earnestly and de
liberately that there Is not and never has
been a case of native yellow fever in At
lanta.
We assert solemnly, earnestly and de
liberately that there have been only four
cases of impoTtedyellow fever in this city
sinoe the beginning of the epidemic-
two from New Orleans, one from Mem
phis and one from Chattanooga. Two
of these were here two months ago, one
of them abont one month ago and one of
them last week.
Not a single family has left the city.
The streets and hotels are crowded with
refugees from other points. The mty
was never hnsier, fuller, or more cheerful
Hundreds of wagons throng onr market
places, and every train brings its fall
complement of visitors. The only hints
of a panic come from people who are at
a distance, with once in a while the yawp
of an indigenous jackass.
An Athens telegram to the Augusta
News, dated Wednesday, says:
The fall session of the University
opened this morning, and the prospects
are very promising. Dr. Msll, Chancel
lor of the University is fall of hope, and
rejoicss over the future of Georgia’s
State Institution. Over fifty new stu.
dents from different portions of the State
entered this morning, and two or three
times that number will enter this week.
Nearly all the old boys and all the under,
graduates have returned, and in abont
month the roll will he over two hundred,
Dr. B. H. Washington, a well known
teacher of Augusts, died last Tuesday.
The Augusta factory Jigs declared
quarterly dividend of two per cent.
Central railway stock is stiff at Au
gusta. Sixty-three was bid and refused,
on Wednesday. At Savannah, on Tues
day, it brought sixty-four and a half
Southwestern stock sold for ninely-fonr.
Savannah bonds brought fifty-seven and
throe quarters.
The Augusta Chronicle takes a hand in
the Fouith District Congressional race,to
this extent:
The Chronicle had nothing to say for or
against the renomination of Mr. Harris to
Congress from the Fonrth District. Nei
ther did we have anything to say on this
subject during the sessions of the two
conventions, whioh were as unseemly as
they were protracted. Bat the eontest
having assumed its present shape, we
think it the dnty of the Demooraoy of the
Diatriot to give their votes to Mr. Harris.
We think he deserves to be elected, and
we hope he will be. There may be abler
men in the Diatriot; tbere is undoubtedly
strong and bitter opposition to him; but
with those things we have nothing to do.
The theory of Demooraoy is that a ma
jority shall govern, and we believe there
was no time when Mr. Harris failed to
have a majority of the votes sf the Con
vention.
In reference to the same matter a Tal.
botton correspondent of the Columbus
Times writes as follows about tha
county:
This county is very nearly eolid for
Persons. He iB the most popular man in
the connty and is a personal friend of
every man throughout its entire limits.
It is confidently predicted- by alt that out
of the 1,800 votes in the county 1,700
will be put in for Persons. Last after
noon quite a ripple was produced by the
newB that Major B. J. Moses would in
this morning’s paper announce himself as
a candidate." The coming out of Major
Moses will cause a decided change upon
the status of affairs throughout the dis
trict, and the issue in the contest will bo
rendered still more doubtful.
We credit the Constitution with these
remarks: The Covington Enterprise says
wo-thirds of the voters of the sixth dis
trict prefer another man than Hon. J.
H. Blount for Congress. We are glad,
however, that th9 voters sink their per
sonal preferences to send back one of the
best men in our delegation.
The rumor that Colonel Jack Brown is
to return from Washington to the Third
district and run a3 an Independent
Greenback candidate against General
Phil Cook is very gratifying. If it is
true it insures a Democratic victory in
every district in the State.
The Columbus Times has a very strong
editorial against Tom Scott’s so-called
Texas Pacific railway sohome, being aid
ed by Georgia and Alabama members of
Congress. It calls it “a scheme for di-
verting to Northern ports tho trade from
the Pacific shore that by proximity and
natural conformations rightfully belongs
to Southern Atlantic and Gnlf ports. We
regard it as an attempt to complete and
perpetuate the commercial bondage of
tho South to the North, and to tax our
people for the forging of their
chains.”
Mb. T. C. Lumpkin, formerly of Borne,
and son of the late Hon. John H. Lump
kin, died of yellow fever at his home,
eight miles from Chattanooga, last Satur
day. About one week before his death
he spent one night in Chattanooga.
The Hinesville Gazette tells this story
At a campmeeting when penitents were
called up to be,prayed for, an old repro
bate “half seas over” went into the altar.
He was not satisfied with that, bnt re
quested the minister afterwards to put
up a special prayer in his behalf. He
did so, and begged the Almighty to have
mercy on Mr. White, as He well knew
what a torn-down sinner he was; that
he would get drunk and swear, and in
fact break all the commandments; bnt as
he was penitent to forgive him. The old
sinner did not like to be so exposed in
pnblio, and on returning to his seat met
witha yonng lawyer, who observed to
him that the preacher had rained his
character, and that he ought to sue him
for “defamation of charaction,” and that
he would undertake the ease for half of
what he recovered.
It was carried to oourt and the preach
er was fined 9100.
A difficult! in Marlon oounty last
Monday, between Messrs. Jos. Story and
Alonzo Jordan,resulted in the latter being
Btruok over the head with a gun by Story,
from the effeots of whioh he died that
night
The Marietta Journal says “the pros
pect for the oertain eleotion of Jadge
Lester grows brighter every day. The
most encouraging news reaohes us from
all over the distriet.”
The latest fashionable wedding at Col
umbus wss that of Jadge Bobert B.
Trippe, of Cartersville, and Miss Leila
Dots Benfroe, of the former place.
The Columbus Enquirer tells of an an
cient—bnt we hope not “fish-like”—pair
of socks In that place, which “were pur
chased in 1832, and worn at the owner’s
wedding. Twenty years after, he was
married In them again, and now proposes
to use them a third time.”
No rain in Macon yet. The roads are
dnst-heape. The nights are cool—along
in the beginning of the sixties; and the
days culminate in the beginning of the
eighties. •
The Louisville Board of Health re.
ports all the cases of fever now consoli
dated in one hospital building, and seven
nurses discharged. Not a single original
case has occarrad there.
EDITOBIAL COBRESPOSDEffCE.
Grand Central Hotel, N. Y,
Bept. 30, 187R
A SLIGHT RETROSPECT.
In the sudden cutting off of the wri
ter’s last missive he omitted several notes
by the way that may stilt be worthy of
mention. These will be briefly sub
joined.
THE LANDS OF THE OLD DOMINION,
traversed by the Piedmont and Air Line
Boad, were for the most part utterly ex
hausted by ante helium slaveculture, and
do not appear to be recuperating. Hun
dreds of thousands of acres are badly
washed and covered over with a scanty
growth of ferns, brambles and sassifras
and persimmon sprouts. Those that lie
well may still be reclaimed, however,
where there is a sufficiency of timber for
fencing purposes.
Whole districts extending for many
miles were utterly denuded of their forest
growth by the immense armies on both
sides, which marched and countermarched
for years over that region ahdbivonaoked
upon the soil. It will bo many a long
day before the desolating footprints of
the war will disappear from the bosom of
the dear old “mother of States”
At Frederioksbnrg we saw the spot
where our own gifted and noble
OXH- T. B. B. COBB
ell, and still at another point, the identi
cal zoom in whioh Stonewall Jaokson
breathed his last.
_Ah, who oan ever forget the thrill of hor
ror and dismay whioh convulsed the entire
Confederacy when tha mournful tidings
fell, like the knell of death, upon the ear
of Dixie. Bat the theme is too sad to be
dwelt npon.
Near tha banks of the Boanoke the
mansion of that wittiest of the witty and
bitterest of the bitter among Amerioan
statesmen,
JOHN RANDOLPH OF BOANOKE
is also, still pointed ont. Indeed, this
whole route to the federal capital is clas
sic and bistorio ground.
Oar pause in Washington was only for
a few minnte?, and then, until the day
ushered in the fertile slopes and green
fields of “the Jerseys,” the writer lay
“oribbed, coffined and confined” in the
upper berth of a Pullman sleeper. He
was able to rest, bnt not sleep in that
traveling prison...,
Without waiting for the sun we left (he
“sleeper” and took in the sweet morning
air from an open window, at the same
time feaeting onr eyes npon the verdant
landsoape.
NOT SOCIABLE.
Bnt onr Yankee friends wonidn't talk,
so we have nothing moro to report during
the brief moments that intervened before
reaching Jersey City, and onr installation
In a chamber on the seventh floor of this
palatial hotel.
The elavator now-a-dsys, supersedes the
old time weary flights of stairs, and when
in Gotham the writer always tries to get
as near the clouds as possible, to avoid
the roar of the streets, and enjoy the
grand panoramio view of the vaBt city
with its shipping and beautiful sntburban
surroundings.
NEW FOBS
looks more like itself than we have seen
it far years. Near the Herald building,
on Broadway, the same old, time “block
ade of vehicles” is oooasionsUy witnessed,
and females cannot oross the street save
under the protecting olub of a stalwart
polioeman.
Around and abont the great wholesale
stores huge piles of boxed goods awaiting
shipment, shew that business is.onoe
more “reviving,” and every body seems
to be in a hurry and running for dear
life.
The oredit of the S jnth, we are gl*d to
ohroeiole, also, is fast becoming
“oilt xdoe”
again. Our merchants and people have
had “heaps upon heaps” of experience to
guide them, and we trust will be the
wiser and better off for it in future.
THE BROCKLYN TABERNACLE—DR. DEWITT
talmaoe’s sermon yesterday ok cap
ital AND LABOR.
The writer was an humble and un
known integer in the swarming thous'
ands who thronged the immense circular
edifice, whioh closely resembles some Bo-
man amphitheatre, yclept the Brooklyn
Tabernable,on Sabbath, to hear Dr. Tab
mage on the great political problem of
the hour. To say the house was packed
gives no adequate conception of the as
sembled audience. .It was crammed,
nay, jammed to overflowing redundancy,
without even an iuoh of unoccupied stand
ing room.
No less than
six THOUSAND
upturned faoes greeted tbe speaker. The
writer had a seat within ten feet of the
stage, (not pulpit), and close to the table
where one female and eight mssculine
newspaper reporters sat to take down the
Doctor’s words.
His whole bearing was melo dramatic,
and to a Southern spectator, smacked
more of the professional boards than the
pulpit.
Tho exercises opened with the rendi
tion of the long meter doxology to the
grand air of "Old Hundred,” a single man
standing on the stage and leading off
with his
SHRILL SILVER'COENET
and an organ accompaniment.
But the whole of that vast multitude took
up the soul stirring refrain, and their com
bined voioes rushed and waved and rever
berated, like the mingling of “many wa
ters.” One coaid well imagine tbe sound to
resemble the battle hymn of Cromwell’s
host ere it was precipitated npon the
Cavaliers,
Then followed the Lord’s prayer and
the readiog of sundry passages in the Bi
ble, notably tho forty-fifth chapter of Isa
iah, with running comments all along,
whioh were sometimes solemn and at
others elioited audible langbter and ap
plause. These preliminary exercises
elosed with the
BAPTISM OF A LONG PROCESSION OF BA-
sentia). Tha miners of Pennsylvania have
kept themselves poor by their strikes.
“Strikes ruin capital and labor."
" The capitalist is nothing bnt an
ARDUOUS AND SUCCESSFUL LABORER.
Thus all the great publishers of this
city were onoe apprentices and printers.
The owners of magnifieent oarriage re
positories alio started as mere meohanioj
working for wages,and on the other hand,
there ere inatanoes to be shewn where
men whn were once capitalists and em
ployed hundreds of laborers, are now toil
ing for their daily support. Tbe two con
ditions, the rioh and poor, “or* continual
ly changing places." It is a patent truth
that the men who
80HIMK AND FOMENT STRIKES
who behaved with astonishing deoorum,
and then the minister read, in sonorous
tones, “Hold the Fort,” remarking,{“The
man that oan’t sing that can’t sing any
thing.” And verily it was rendered with
a prolonged yell that onrdled onr old Con
federate blood, and effeotnally for the
time, knocked away every prop of that
bridge whioh so many, besides Greeley,
have essayed to
ACROSS THE “BLOODY CHASM."
THROW
That song always stirs the very “old
Harry” within ns, and there never oan be
'poaoe and fraternity” nntil it is strioken
from the bymnology of all religions as
semblies.
But after this deliverance we feel a
little better, and will take np Brother
Talmage again.
THE TEXT
was drawn from 1st Corinthians, 12th
chapter and twenty-first verse: “And
the eye oannet say unto the hand, I have
no need of thee."
The speaker said in substance: Yon
have seen elaborate and complex machin
ery, its thousand motions controlled and
regulated by a single monster fly wheel.
In precisely the same manner is society
controlled by one force,
THE WHEEL OF GOD’s PROVIDENCE.
It is so constituted that if yon harm
one part, you damage the whole—“Dives
cannot kick Lazarus without hurting his
foot.” There is no such thing as inde
pendence. . Smite society anywhere and
the whole organization feels the blow.
This was illustrated by the relation of the
members of the body to each other in
tbe text—“The eye cannot siyj f the
band, I have no need of thee.” So it is
with all classes of the community. They
are mutually sympathetic and dependent
npon each other.
The first measure of relief proposed by
Dr. Talmage for our present labor diffi
culties, was a
BETTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN CAPI
TAL AND LAB3B.
How stands the matter now? Labor is
at its wits’ end to procure bread,
and capital trying in vain to pay taxes
and expenses. Who oan deny that fair
profits always ensure high wages to the
laborer? Harmony between employer
and employe is to tbe last desree es-
•ye cursing
hand.”
The laborer is the highest style and
type of a capitalist. The man who has
a trade and his ten fingers oan
“put TO THE BLUSH A COBLISS ENGINE.
I wave to day tbe flag of trnoe be
tween capital and labor. What is good
for one is good for the other, and vice ver
sa. The two are reciprocal terms and
mntnslly dependent upion.each other.
2d. Belief will come by’
CO-OPEEATIVE ASSOCIATIONS.
There are 765 of these bodies in Eog.
land .who do a business of seven hundred
and fifty millions in one year. Lord
Derby and a host of the wisest and most
practical men favor this measure of re
lief. True, there were some failures, but
failures occur in all pursuits. The money
squandered for rnm and tobacco would
start the co-operative.movement all over
the world.
ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS PEE ANNUM
are wasted in this oountry alone upon
tebaoco. “Add the surplus for over
dressing and over millinery” and the ag.
gregate will be swelled almost indefinitely.
Bnt it is rnm'and tobacco that “rob the
working man from his watch fob down to
his boots.’’
Again, the laborer who imbibes stimu
lants cannot hold out with the tetotaller
at hard work. The speaker's own father
had observed this among the men he
hired at harvest time.
Daring a protracted sitting of the En
glish Parliament, out of eix hundred and
fifty-six members, all were
PHOSTBATED BY EXHAUSTION,
save two tetotallers.
In the Russian army, when any arduous
march or conflict is expected, a eoporal is
made to pass down the line and smell the
breath of each soldier, and those who had
been drinking were all ordered back into
barracks, because they were coEBidered
unfit for the hardships to be encountered
Belief will come to the masses throngh
more
PBOVIDENCE AND ECONOMY.
The speaker had known a yonng man
who married a foolish girl, with an in
come only of $750 per annum. His wife
spent in trinkets and fine clothes all her
dowry, which was $500. The husband
got night work and toiled incessantly, for
what ? Was it to lay by something for a
rainy day ? Not so. He wished to save
up money enough to buy his wife a seal,
skin shawl.
Hundreds of people in the West were
guilty of the folly of mortgaging their
Harms to take their families to the Gen
tennial because it was considered fashion
able to do so. With great emphasis he
remarked,
THEBE IS BUT A STEP BETWEEN THOSE
FOOLS AMD PAUPERISM.
Men were derided and called stingy
who tamed off their gas when they went
ont, and tried to save in little things.
He had no sympathy for skinflint econ
omy, but “I plead for Christian provi
dence.”
If a man saves to educate his family
and for charity, he is to bs commended
for it. “Saving is mean or magnificent,
according to the motive of the individual.”
4th. Belief will come when employers
let their laborers know just how their
bnsiness stands.
He knew a man who employed a thou
sand hands, and yet always commanded
their love and esteem by pursuing this
course. He frankly told them all abont
the concern ana paid them good wages
when it was possible, and when they saw
that the profits fell off they were always
oontent to submit to necessary redactions
for their mutual benefit.
On the contrary, the capitalist who
was always imperious and reticent in hie
bearing to his employes, holding himself
above them and scorning to take them into
his confidence, was snre to have trouble
and strikes in seasons of difficulty and
disaster.
5th, and lastly, the speaker said relief
will como through the
RELIGIOUS RECTIFICATION OF THE COUN
TRY.
Piety and tha grace of God can bring
men into accord when every other means
fails.
He drew a graphic and vivid picture of
a poor laborer and his employer, supposed
to be blown np by an explosion, appear
ing at the celestial gates and asking to
be admitted. The rich man claimed in-
gresB because of his wealth and powe
and importance on earth, bnt was per
emptorily excluded.
The poor laborer plead the merits of
the Saviour and was joyfully weloomed
through the ponderous gates, whioh were
slammed in the faoe of his former master.
There are no distinctions in Heaven.
But we osnnot follow Dr. Talmage in tho
farther elaboration of thia last point,
whioh was dwelt upon at length and with
great foroe. He closed with tbe remark,
that when the working masses have been
Cfariatianizsd and aubjeoted to tbs gentle
infiuenoes of the Gospel, then, with their
reformation, “Capital and labor and the
lion and the lamb will lie down together,
for the Lord hath spoken it.”
Tbe above report condensed, and of
oonrse shorn of tho word painting and
inimitable action of| he wonderful orator,
ie yet a faithful synopsis of hla argument.
It was an admirable address, replete
with wise and aonnd views, but ntterly
on suited to thejpnlplt and God’s holy Sab
bath. Next Sunday he will take up the
Chinese question, and then having visit
ed with the polioe all the ahowa and evil
hauntaof this great oity, he announced
hie intention to. detail these horrors In a
aeries of sermons, as he said, that “ihe
unwary may he made to shun them.’’
How muoh better to leave in blissful ig
norance tha nnoonUminated hear! and
ear of virgin parity. Think of each
preaching in the South?
ANOTHER PULPIT CELEB Birr.
In the evening it was onr privilege to
listen to the eloquent Dr. Deems in the
“Charoh of the Strangers.” Oar readers
may not be aware that thia edifloa wm
pnrohased and donated to the Congrega
tion by
COMMODORE VAMDBBBXLT
in 1870, at a ootfc of fifty thousand dol
lars. That sum wm afterwards supple
mented by an additional subsidy sufficient
to extinguish annually as muoh as nine
hundred dollars of the ground rq^
Tho Commodore’s last wife was a lovely
Mobile lady, and, after the war, misting
very appeal to join the Northern Metho-
IstChorob, she remained steadfast to
her home faith, and wm mainly instru
mental in establishing and building np
this Independent Methodist Churoh for
strangers in tbe heart of New York.
Bo liberal is tbe organization, that a
FONT HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED
beneath the pnlpit, in whioh those who
prefer baptism by immersion to sprink
ling, are submerged, and the stored rite
is administered in both forma. Mr.
Salisbury, of Maoou, wm one of the
original seven who formed the nucleus
to tha now flourishing and nnmorena
“Churoh of Strangers.” In creed and
faith the members are Methodists, and
their devoted pastor ie a man of gnat
zeal and infinite labors.
He, too, is reputed to be somewhat
PECULIAR AND eccentric
in hie pnlpit deliverances. Bnt not so at
leaat,on the present occasion. The Doc
tor’s test wm based upon the 10th verso
of the 12th chapter of Genesis.
AND LOT rrtCHBD HIS TENT TOWAXDS SODOM
We took down eopious notes of this
excellent discourse, and would gladly re
produce them did spaoe permit But
this already overgrown epistle makes it
simply impoMible. Suffice it to say that
we have rawly heard a more spiritual,
searching and truly eloquerib effort. The
vast congregation hung suspended npon
his every word, and a deathlike stillness
prevailed. We venture the assertion
that every one present wili carry with
him to his latest hoar, a vivid impression
of the history of the
’‘uncle and nephew,”
Abram and Lot, and the striking applica
tion and moral of the subject. It was
one of those practical, powerful sermons
which find a lodgment in the heart for
ever. We never saw superior graces of
delivery or more fervent zeal exhibited by
any pulpit speaker.
Dr. Deems is justly classed among our
most distinguished and effective pnlpit
Orators.
are those who notoriously are unwilling j Thna ended onr Sabbath experience,
to work. “It is the eye oursing the which, we trust.
which, we trnst, may not prove unprofit
able to the reader. H. H. J.
Ventral Bauroad iteport.
We are indebted to Jadge Gresham,
one of tjf Directors of the Central Bail'
road and Banking Company, for a proof
oopy of the report of the Company’s oper
ations for.the fiscal year ending the 31st
of August. The earnings were as fol
lows
Centra) Railroad, Savannah diy’n... $1,389,008 27
Central Railroad, Atlanta diy’n...... 517.820 53
Central Railroad Bank esjws 61
Southwestern Bail road 739,223 28
Upson County Railroad.-......^...,.. 9,234 M
Total for Roads and Bank $2,721,624 OS
Expenditures of all kinds
have been: ’ .
Central RailiwASarun
nah division.- $821,279 94
Central Railroad, At
lanta division 309,937 36
Central Railroad Bank 16,965 46
Southweate-n Railroad 458.996 02
Upson County Railroad 8.137 60—1.698,514 58
: leaving net $1,123,309 67
Compared with the previous year there
has been an increase in the gross earn
ings of the roads and bank of $281,-
770.49, and a decrease in the expenses of
$50.73, making the net earnings $281,-
821.22 more than for the year ending 31st
August, 1877. Analyzing these differ
ences and it is shown that there has been
an increase in the earnings as follows:
On the Savannah division, $169,532.32;
on the Atlanta division, $39,936.80; of
the bank, $15,554 26; on the Southwest
ern railroad, $55,287.83; and on the Up
son county railroad. $1,469.28.
The expenses have increased on the
Savannah* division $3,024.68; on the At
lanta division, $15,512.45; in the bank,
$763.21; while there has been a decrease
on the Southwestern railroad of $19,-
261.22, and ontheUpson county railroad
$92.05.
It was stated in the last annual report
that; the very considerable falling off in
the earnings of the previous year waB
fairly attributable to the severe epidemio
of 1876, and the foregoing result goes to
piove the correctneis of that statement.
It is a source of gratification to the Board
to be able to report a steady increase in
the net earnings of the Shuthwestern
Railroad, This has resulted from the
strictest economy in its management, to
gether with more prosperity in the agri
cultural Interest in that pait of the State.
There has also been a very gratifying in-
crease of earnings on the Savannah di
vision of the Central Railroad, while the
expenses are but little more than for thr
previous year, and, with a fair allowance
for improvements that have been made,
would be very considerably redneed.
On the Atlanta division there has been
a very fair inoome of earnings,with a cor
responding increase in tbe expenses,
whioh, however, are fairly chargeable to
substantial improvements that have been
made, and not to the enrrent operations
of the road.
Keeping in view reasonable eeonomy
in the management of your affairs, tbe
gradual improvement of your property
has been looked to, and it iB confidently
believed to be in a better condition than
at any previous date. In the renewal of
rails steel has been adopted, exoept to the
extent that can be supplied by re-rolling
tbe worn ent inn, paying in old rails for
re-rolling. Daring tbe pact year there
have been 3.000 tons of steel rails placed
on the traok, making in all now on the
road miles. We have added fifty
freight oars to onr stock, besides making
extensive improvements to oar stock of
passenger and baggage oan. In the en
gine department one new engine has been
built at the shops in Savannah, and ex-
tensive repain made npon all of our mo
tive power.
Extensive repairs have been made to
our buildings, and an addition to onr
shops in Maoon has been commenced,
and considerable progress made towards
completion. This improvement wili "en
able us to concentrate our work by clew
ing np tbe shops in East Maoon, and
will zeanU in a positive ssvingin expense.
The road had declared two dividends
during the year each of 2i per cent, and is
creating a sinking fond of a hundred thou
sand dollars tomeet maturing obligations.
The operations of the ocean steamship
line are pronounced tohaveheen very sat
isfactory. Mr. Ceeil Gabbeit has succeed
ed General E. P. Alexander in the pres
idency of the Western Railroad of Ala
bama and the operations of that road
have shown a net increase of $76,127.97
over last year. The Mobile and Girard
railroad shows also a marked improve*
meat.
Governors Hampton and Bice:
Editors. Gsvamcm and Judges should
be paEsionlcss. It is hard to be so “in a
private capacity.” The editor or Govern
or or Judge, as a .matter of fact; is fre
quently stirred up to wrath and resent
ment; bnt he has time to cool off and re
strain any puhlio and official exhibition
of private jll-temper. It is certain he
never can make one without seeing cause
to regret It. No man, in point of fact,
can lose perfect self-possession without a
corresponding loss of personal dignity,
Thia position may be disputed, but npon
mature reflection, we think every intelli
gent man will agree to it. Even in ordi
nary social intercourse tho Iom of temper
involves s more or leaa heavy Iom of
prsetige, and muoh moro forcibly doea
thia remark apply to grave pnblio doon-
manta.
Tha oorreopsndenee, therefore, between
Governors Hampton and Rioe will not
bonofit tho omm of oithor functionary.
Governor Hampton had justification for
entertaining feelings of personal resent
ment In the faet that hla sincerity had
been virtually impugned by the letter of
Governor Rioe. A more effeotiva official
repulsion, however, could have boon
penned without the leMt betrayal of offi
cial discomposure. Gov. Rise’s flout In
rejoinder, and the flinging or Hamp
ton’s letter bad; Into the writer’s foes;
wm worthy of a sohool girl in a pet, and
wm in contempt of official dnty. The
letter wm a Stale document and belonged
to the files. Both functionaries were
concerned with a point of the first im
portance, affecting fundamentally the
comity of the States and tho maintenance
of pnblio justice in this great Confedera
cy. They have belittled tha subject by
interjecting matter* of mere personal
resentment, which should have been, and
might have been very graoefnlly waived
in view of the national importance of tbe
topic.
Sevxkth Tennessee District.—Ac
cording to tho Courier-Jouraol the three
contestants f< r a nomination to Congress
from tho Seventh OoEgMEsfonai Distriet
of Tennessee are quite willing to sihmtt
their claims to another convention, none
of them having a thought of making an
independent raoe. General WhlUhorno’s
friends, it is said, are eonfiiest that ho
will be his own inooessor, .
Colossal.
Chicago Tribune 1
Ben Bntler is the wickedest man, j n
Amerioan politics. His natural and ac
quired cussed ness is edema).
Where They get Them Mew.
New York Herald.]
AU the men from Ohio having been ap
pointed to offioe, the Cincinnati medical
oollegea are compelled to steel their
corpses from Indians and Kentneky.
Amen!
Murpb/iboro (Ill) Tribune. I
Ihe St Lonis Globe-Democrat is engag
ed, we think, in one lsndsble undertaking
at leMl; that of demolishing the eupho
nious titles that abound on every hand.
Let the titles be smashed.
Fall and Free.
Newark Call.J
“Dearest,” he murmured, eostaUcally,
as he folded her in his arms tor tbe first
time, “let me sample the neotar of your
lips.” “Take a whole sohooner of it,” the
faintly whispered; “it’s all on tap.”
Ta, Ta. Gu.
Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Eieotrioity ta making giant strides in its
raoe for snpremaoy over gap. Already
the leading London papers are confidently
predicting that tho street gM lamp will,
in another decade, ba as much a thing of
the past as the oil lamp is now.
A Greenback “John tbe Bap-
tlEt-*
Chicago Inter- Ocean.J *
General Samuel F. Cary, having eon*
verted Tnun&an and Hendrloks and other
aspirants for the Presidency in Ohio and
Indiana, is now after larger game in Il
linois. Hois looking for an nnderholt
on Judge David Davis. Sam is a kind of
Greenback “John the Baptist,” who works
for $50 a day, with the glory—’ ‘locusts
and wild honey”—thrown In.
What He Remarked-
Cleveland Herald.]
When Mr. Thnrman read of the per
formance in Marquette, where Tilden’s
lawyers stole the books of bis mining
oompany to keep the truth abont that in*
come tax business from getting ont-, bo
suppressed bis emotions by taking a pinch
of snnff, and after an unusually loud snort
in his red bandana, remarked that he did
not think there vfonld bs as many candi
dates for the Demoeratio nomination in
1880 as people had heretofore supposed.
Has to be Said to Btu Face.
Cincinnati Enquirer. I
Tbe old Boston Advertiser, the organ of
the blue-bloods and hard money men, says
the Koow-noihiugs, the Liberal Republi
cans, and tbe Grangers have “left behind
them nothing but the memory of muoh
humbug and paioel of dry bones.” Suoh
is posthumous fame! There is nothing,
after all, like the old Demoo ratio party.
What is said of it has to be said to its face,
and not over its dry bones and mouldering
in the grave.
Hla Hearty Bnekvye Shake.
Chicago Times ]
Foster, of Ohio, oomplained, that,
tbongh he was a personal friend of the
President, he conld never reach his heart.
He might add that, as a member of the
Repnbiioan Congressional Campaign
Committee, he hss been unable, to reach
tho President’s pocket. The Committee
interviewed His Exetllenoy some months
ago, and obtained from him an irredeem
able promise to pay, coupled with the ex
pression of the hope that all offioers and
employes of the Government wonid sub
scribe. They have done so; bnt the Com
mittee has yet to see the oolor of Hajes’
money. He has given the boys his favor
ite hearty Buckeye shake.
Religions Teachings from Bog-
ton.
Dijton (Ohio) Democrat.]
In one of Boston’s most sanctified reli
gions family papers, the Golden Buie, we
notice the last page is occupied as iollow£:
three columns of Garfield’s Boston
speech; two columns of an illaBtrated rifle
shot gun, revolver, etc., advertisement:
seven Inches of “corsets” illustrated; fire
inches of liver pads, and abont eight
inches of small miscellaneous advertise
ments. It seems from thia that our reli
gious contemporary believes in teaching
the yonng idea how to shoot, to lace, and
also bow to keep yonr liver in good or
der.
Selling his Wile? Wooden Leg.
New York Sun.J
Mr?. Mary Johnson kept an apple and
peanut stand at Washington and Yesey
streets for many years, and saved enough
money to pnrohase a home in One Hun
dred and Ni&teenth street, near Fonrth
Avenue. She also saved money enough
to buy an artificial leg, having lost one of
hers in childhood. In Joly, while sitting
behind her stand she was sun struck and
taken to the hospital. Hed husband then
sold the house and fursitnre, and tried to
pawn the wooden leg. Failing to dispose
of it in that manner he sold it for twenty-
five cents. Mrs. Johnson, sinoe her dis
charge from the hospital, has been unable
to pnrohase another artificial leg. Johnson
wm arraigned before Jostioe Smith in the
Harlem police oonrt, on Thursday, on a
charge of abandonment. After having
investigated the case the Justice said to
him: “This taking Motions of yonr wife
and trying to sell them won’t do. You’ll
be pawning the baby next.” Johnson was
sent to penitentiary for twelve months.
Health of Mobile.—The Begislerot
the 21 says since the report of the Board
o! health, published in our yesterday’s
issue, we can learn of no new rases of
fever. All of.the cases now under treat
ment are convalescing. There seems to
be no apprehension of any spread of.the
disease.
The Supreme Court of Indiana holds
that the occasional drinking of a glass
of ale, wine, or whisky by a man
who is not in the habit of becoming in
toxicated, does not constitute each im
morality or unfitness as wonid preclude
an applicant from obtaining a license to
retail intoxicating liquor*. In support
of this view, the Court quoted the Scrip
tural texts: ‘‘The Lord canseth to grow
the wine that maketh glad the heart of
man” (104 Ps., 15th verse.) “Drink no
longer water, bnt bni little wine for thy
stomach’s sake, and thine eften infirmi
ties” 1 Tim., 5th verse.)
In a flood in Austin, Texas, a man
found himself left on a swiftly dissolving
bank. He called to his son, who wm on
high ground above, to throw a rope.
The boy did eo, and the old man, m he
took one end of ihe line in his band, said:
“Nowlisten tome, pnd do m I tell jess.
If yon find yon oan’t bold on when I
oommenoe to climb, let go- It’s no use
for both to drown, eo don’t let me poll
you down. If you find yon can’t bold
the rope, drop it, run down in tbe flat
end grab for me m I float by.” The boy
braced, and the father was saved.
The Turkiah Government, which began
in July, 1876, to grind out crimes or
paper money in the shape cf five, tan,
twenty, fifty and one hundred piaster
note* (tit* piaster is supposed to represent
four tents and three mills gold,) is (Effac
ing the tribulation of a sweeping depre
ciation, tbe money having now only a
nominal value, and is worth no Jung to
the unfortunate people to pay their taxes
with. The revenue* of tbe Government
have fallen off to almost nothing, and
tbe Sultan is at hie wit’s tad to compete
the situation, as no progress has bees
made toward securing a loan from En
gland, who i* Turkey's creditor now to
the extent of eb-st $900,000,000. The...
paper crime* are pouring into Con
nopte, end the Farts is Q#triy ban
end will doubtless eo eoatieae uattl
proposed European financial oeaaiiMteR
get* to work.