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The Telegraph and Messenger
MACON, GA., OCIOBER 8,1878.
THIS GEOKGIA PkESS.
Tse British ttaamship “Legislator’*
cleared from Savoannb, on Saturday, with
6,000 bales of eotloo, weighing 2,927,
375 pounds, and valued at $311,208 Cl
We find these additional items in the
same paper:
Death of G. G. Smith.—In the Memo
phis dispatch published in the Moming
Hews of Saturday, among the victims of
be yellow fever apppeered tho name of
©. G. Smith, drnggiaf, Shreveport. Mr.
Smith was a native of Sandersville, Ga .
and son of Rev. J. K. Smith, of that
place. His youth was spent in Sanders*
vilie, and bs then came to Savannah sev
eral years ago and entered the drag store
cf Dr. B. W. Hardee, subsequently re
moving to the Southwest. Ho was
comparatively young man, but bad, by
bis energy and excellent qualities, won
as honorable reputation, and was highly
esteemed by a large cirole of friends in
Savannah, Macon and other places.
A Fatal Drunk.—On Saturday night
about half past nine o’cloct, cne of the
cars on the Barnard Street Railroad, when
between the depot and tho cemetery, ran
ever a drunken negro who was lying on
the (rack, crushing one of hi3 arms.
Medical aid was at once secured, and af
ter bis injuries were attended to, the ne
gro, whose name was subsequently as
certained to be George Johnson, was re
moved to the colored infirmary. Tho
night was very dark, and the driver did
not ducover the negro until the wheels
cf the car struck him, and the accident
under tho circumstances was unavoida
ble. He was so fearfully drunk that even
the severe injury ho sustained had not
the effect ot sobering him, and he was
conveyed to tho infirmary in a maudlin
condition.
The News says it is feared tho high
tide of Saturday morning has dono great
damage to the rice crop. It was only six
or eight inches below the tide of Wednes
day of week before last, which did so
much damage to this crop everywhere.
The Augusta News relates a singular
incident, which was the impalement of
& swallow upon a lightning rod in that
sty—the second death among that fam
ily from the same cause.
The same paper says the “Vincluse
Mills have lately been erected by the
Graniteville Factory oat of their surplus
accumulation, and are now running about
one-third of the machinery, and the re
mainder is being put in and started op.
The mill building is 236x72 feet, and four
stories high, including basement. The
machinery consists of ten thousand spin
dles and three hundred looms. Tho mill
dam is of solid granite, and the trunk
which conveys tho water to the wheel i3
of wrought iron. A village for the oper
atives has sprang up around the mill,
containing about sixty-eight houses,
twenty-eight of which pertained to tho
old YauoluBe Mills, and forty-eight have
lately been erected, besides which the
company will build fifteen or twenty
more. Tho Graniteville Company has
been paying handsome dividends all
along, and have erected this mill besides.
Two white boys in Chattahoochee
county, picked one day last week 714
pounds of cotton in a field that bad been
picked over twica before.
The Valdosta Times tells the following
Mrs. McNeil, wife of our efficient Mar
shal, had her attention called ono morn,
ing this week to tho baby, a little boy
eighteen months old, who seemed to be
enjoying himself hugely in the yaid. His
screams and laughter made her curious
to see what wo3 the matter. Upon go
ing out sho was horror-stricken and as
tonished to find him playing with a
3nake about two feet long. He had tho
snake in his hands, and while it endeav
ored to get away the baby persistently
held on to his tail. Tho mother’s dis
tress may be imagined during the time.
Tho snake, a white oak runner and poie-
onou.-, was fioally killed and the child
was found to be uninjured.
The gin house of Mr. John A. Wil
liams, in Siewnrt county, together with
ten bales of cotton, was fcurnod iaat Wed
nesday. A match in the cation did the
business. No insurance.
One day lest week, says tha Lumpkin
Independent, as a negro man near that
town was splitting railj, ho heard a noise
near him as if something had fallen from
the tree and npon taming round discov
ered a largo chicken snake with a half
grown squirrel enclosed in his coils,
The negro quickly dispatohed tho snake
• and then oaptured the squirrel.
Another Richmond in the Field.—
Under this head the Columbus Times, of
yesterday, has the following:
An address to the people by Major B.
3. Moses, announcing himself a candi
date tor Congress, wifi bs found in this
paper. Major Moses is cno of the best
speakers in the State, and he will un
doubtedly make the canvass a lively one
wherever he puts id nn appearance. He
would, too, make a most able and c-ffio
eient Representative in Congress, taking
there as he has always taken in every cir
cle, a prominent position. It is, however,
idle to try to conceal the fact that with
both Mr. Persons and Major Mo3es in
tho contest, Mr. Harris’ re-election will
be almost sure. Hie friends have ex
hibited remarkable firmness in adhering
to him eclidly against any other man
who could bs named, and it will not do
for the opposition to divide their strength.
At least that is the prevailing sentiment
here.
The Hardships op a Farmer*’ Life.—
'William Arp, Esq., describes thorn os fol-
town in his Sunday letter to tho Constitu
tion:
“Sejd time and harvest shall notfail.”
1 used to think that meant tho spring
and fall of the farmer’s year, and I reck
on it did in tho olden time when farming
was in its infancy and folks dident know
much about the natur of seeds and plants
and guanna and agricultural implements.
But now its ceed time snd harvest time
nearly all the year round. We sow oats
from August to April, and wheat from
September to January, and it takes most
all winter to gather in the cotton. There
no time when a tired man can set
down and be easy—no rest for tho wicked
in this world and not much I rocken in
tho next. It looks like the farmers
would have nothing to do cow but to
gather in the fruit3 of our labors and be
thankful and happy, but what with pull
ing and hauling corn and picking out
cotton and turning under the grass and
weeds and sowing oats and wneat and
stripping and cutting and topping and
Borghum and hauling it to the mill and
getting up the winter’s wood, its the the
bu3yiest season of tho year. It does
seem almost impossible to cany it all on
at once in a felisitous manner considerin
the uncertain weahter and the scarcity of
transient labor durin the cotton seaeon.
A fool nigger had rather pick cotton at
50 cents a hundred for the next two
months and perish all the rest cf the
winter than take a good home how at $8
• month.
It takes ft power of woik to realize from
txythlng on a farm, and if anybody
thinks the craps grow without sweat and
toil snd jump from the field into the crib
you want to sell 25 or 30 bushels and
hav’nt got any oorn shelter, by the time
you’ve shucked it aud shelled it by hand,
end hauled it to market, your fingers will
be worn down to the quiok and your’hand
blistered, and you’d take five dollars a
bushel for it if you could get it, Bud feel
no tare of conscience. Well, its just so
with most everything made on a farm
Its all hard work. I sent a .load of wood
to town and sold it for seventy-five cents,
and I thought that if those city folks
about Borne who stepped out of their
offices some cold day and Jewed a poor
wood hauler on his load, knew how much
hard work it cast him they wouldn’t do it.
Grinding his ax, making the maul, ta
pering down the gluts, cutting down the
tree, cutting it np and splitting it, strain
ing the grunts ont of him when tbe tim
ber is tough and knotty—loading up the
wagon, straddling a sharp-edged stick for
a cusion to ride on, stauling in a mud
hole, prizing and sometimes enssinoutof
it, paying bridge toll, hunting round for
a buyer, being jewed like you was a com
mon swindler, getting home again away
after dark and having to feed and wash
up and eat a bite of sapper and go to bed
and get up in the morning to do the same
thing over again. I wouldent like that,
would you?
Bat farming aint that bad, though its
all bard work and constant work, and it
looks like you don’t get more than half
enough for your corn and your wheat.
But there is a heap of solid comfort and
independence in having a plenty of all
these products about you. I like to feed
tho hogs an’ sec ’em enjoy it and grow
fat. I like to peruee the cattle and see
the milk cows come up so slow and dig
nified with their udders all on a strut. I
like to see the calve3 aud the pigs and
tbe sheep a gambelin’ around. It makes
a man feel patriarchal to have so many
lovely creatures a lookin’up to you and
followin’ you about with the basket on
your arm and dependin’ upon you like
little children. It gives a man the same
sort of comfort he used to feel when he
owned a passel of darkeys and tho little
nigs was a bangin’ around watchin’ his
movements as he went to and fro, and
hither and thither, and hearin* ’em say,
“dar goes Mass William—dar he.”
“Farmer” Arnold,the greenback can
didate for Congress in the Atlanta dis
trict, had a hostile “twist” with a stick
last Sunday with Mr. D. P. Ferguson, of
Atlanta. Not much gore spilt but, pre
sumably, any amount of swearing.
Of Colonel Hammond’s prospects in
Crawford and Houston, the Constitution
gives tbe most cheering account based
upon conversations with prominent men
of both counties.
The Constitution made its appearance
on Tuesday in a new suit of typograph
ical clothes. It is both neat and becom
ing, and we take the liberty of offering
onr congratulations.
Ws clip as follows from the Savannah
News:
Death of Father Etan.—The an
nouncement of tbe death of Father Byan
at Chattanooga, from yellow fever, which
was convoyed in the telegraphic dispatch
es of Saturday’s date, occasioned con
siderable discussion, many being of the
impression that Father A. J. Byan, the
celebrated and beloved poet-priest, was
the victim. For (he information of all
such we would state that the uoble priest
referred to was Father P. Byan, of Bt.
Peter’s and St. Paul’s Church, Chatta
nooga.
Fast Time.—The schooner Ida Law
rence, Captain Yonng, arrived yesterday
from Philadelphia with coal, having
made tho run from the Capes in sixty
hours, which is considered remarkably
good time.
Heave Beceipts.—The receipts of cot
ton at this port from the let of Septem
ber to the 30Lb, inclusive, have been
104,409 bales, and tho exooits for the
eame time 62,360 bale;; 10,353 bales for
eign and 62,007 bales coastwise. Savan
nah is looming np.
Getting through Bankruptcy.—On
the first of September last, when the
bankrupt law expired, there were a num
ber of applications for relief, over sixty
being filed during the month of August.
Since our lost report wo learn from Mr.
W. M. Heyward, Deputy Cleik of the
United States Courts, that the following
petitions for final discharge have been
filed:
Harry Barr, Waynesboro, Burke coun
ty. A. M. Bogers, solicitor.
Geo. W. Brown, Columbus. Blanfoid
& Garrard, solicitors.’.
Aaron J. Atkins, Sr., Thomson. F. C.
Foster, Madison, solicitor.
J. W. Jossey, Sr., and M. H. Bush, co
partners as Jossey & Bush, Preston. Al
len Fort, Americas, solicitor.
Final discharges wero granted aa fol
lowt:
Moaea Allen, Brown Station. Parks &
Parke, Dawson, solicitors.
■ Isaac Thorner, Macon. A. Proudfit,
ruesl dident cost much to make it, but
♦van after the corn is ripe you’ve got to
pull.it, and git your feet wet in the dew,
and then you must haul it home and
throw it out and shook it and shell It, and
•*ke It to the mil), and all this requires a
» pnd te8m and gressin the axils aud
with the Infernal muier. And if
solicitor.
The Constitution says it is rumored
that Freeman, of Griffin, will be the Bad-
ioal candidate for Congress in that district
and adds it is generally understood “that
the Bepnblioans have concluded to make
straight ont fight in every district where
there is even a seeming division among
the Democrats.”
The Newnan Herald Is responsible for
this positivo statement:
“If CoL Harris had absented himself
from Columbus or Newnan daring tbe
proceedings of the Democratic Conven
tion in those cities, a nomination for
Congress would have been made and our
Demooratio organization in this district
would never have been abandoned or dis
honored.”
The eame paper says :
The heads of the Maccn Telegraph
and Griffin Sun, and a few other journals
in Georgia, are level in their opposition to
the re-establishment of tho old State
bank system which prevailed so exten
sively in Georgia and other Southern
States in ante helium times. The war
consigned the State Banks, wild cat, dog
tail, rot gnt, and all the whole batch of
corporations under this head to the tomb
of the Capnlets, like slavery, never, we
humbly pray, to be resurrected while
time shall last. That famous freedman’s
bank of tbe Badicals, established just
after the war, with headquarters at
Washington, and which swindled the
freedmen out of millions of dollars in
tho Sonthorn States, is nothing to be
compared to a multitude of little petty
banking corporations under the old State
Bank system, scattered in every direc
tion like musroems over the country.
We have abundant reason to recollect
them—the older citizens, and especially
the “horny banded sons of toil” can never
forget them If they remember tho bank
panics, suspensions and failures, aud the
consequent losses sustained by them
selves and tho hard working, unsuepcofc-
ing people of those days. The country
should bo warned in time against tLo
evils of such a system as the old State
Bank system which once prevailed in
Georgia, and every citizon who has tho
good of the country at heart Bhocid
frown down every attempt to re-cstablieh
it in any shape or form.
Up to last Saturday, 1,704 bales of
cotton had been received at the Central
railway depot at Milledgevllle since Sep
tember 1st, against 265 daring tbe same
period last year.
The Monroe Advertiser has these items:
Another Negro Killed on the Bail-
road.—As the up.freight train on Satur
day night was within a mile or two of
Milner, a negro man was seen, by the
awhdle t ana^ aC0 ?t r iJ,ic S iil 9 i the track, hut too late to
awhile and see. It looks like a bushel of i a top the train. The whole train passed
over the negro and his body was horribly
mutilated. It is supposed that the negro
was drunk, as a bottle of whisky was
found near his body.
One Hundred and Fifty Descendants.
—Mrs. Martha Grant, a lady of seventy-
six years of age, living in the Fouith
district of Monroe county, has nine living
children, seventy-seven living grand
children, sixty-four living great grand
ohildren, making a total of one hundred
and fifty living descendants. The aged
lady Is in good health, and can walk
distance of three miles. Her youngest
child iB about forty years old. Her old
eat great grand child is nineteen years
old. One hundred and twenty-five of
them are living in Monroe county.
In Walker oounty, last week, Mr. W.
Lumpkin was instantly killed by the
bursting of a mill stone on which he was
grinding a saw.
A Miracle.—We find this extraordina
ry statement in the Bandersville Courier.
Here 1b something that occurred with
in a few miles of your city, fifty-one years
ago, which never fcsB been in print,
though it was written down at the time
for publication; the writer vonohesfor
the truthfulness of tbe story and ssys it
can be authenticated by two other wit
nesses. I have the original manuscript
in my possession:
An infant was born to me on the 19th
of October, 1827, and was a promising
child, until it was seven years old; its
mother departed this life three weeks af
ter the birth of the child; the child was
then fed by hand. On the morning it
was seven weecs old, I and my oldest
daughter who was then living with me,
took the child out of bed to feed it, after
making a light, we discovered a differ
ent look in its countenance. It looked as
though death had made its appearance,
Wo as usual offered it the nursing bottle,
but it refused. We waited a short time
aud made tbe same offer. The child re
fused again. This was done several
times. The child appeared to be per
fectly easy and a smile was upon its
face. We then procured some fresh
cow milk and gave it to the child in a
spoon. The moment the milk touched
tbe child’s month it was instantly
clabber. We thought strange of thie.
We threw that away and some fresh
milk was given to the nurse, and in
moment that was clabbered, we tried it
the fifth time with the same results. We
then gpt all the milk that we had and set
it by the nurse aud it was all clabber in
one moment. We were then fully con
vinced that we need not try to feed the
child, so we quit. By thi3 time it had
the appearance of a Saint, and soon be
gan to shout the Bedeomer’s praise,
though it did not ntter a word, but with
loud laughs so that one might hear it
across the house distinctly; this laugh
would be heard when aDy cne would talk
to it. At the mention of its name, it
wonld turn its head, look the speaker in
the face and break out in a lond laugh.
Thi3 was done about twenty times, and
then it died with a smile npon its face.
The above facts can be established by
two other living witnesses.
Benjamin E. Barwick.
In Haj. Moses’ announcement of his
candidacy for Congress in the Fonrth
District, he plants himself on the follow
ing platform:
1. A repeal of the Besnmption laws.
2. The payment of all bonds with the
utmost rapidity possible, without undue
inflation of the currency or violation of
the public faith; payments in coin or
greenbacks, according to the contracts
honestly enforced and legally construed,
3. The prohibition of all further in
crease of the bonded debt.
4- A cessation of the contraction cf the
currency, which has resulted iu bank
ruptcy of the people, by enforoed idle
ness of labor, a serious impediment to
productive industry, and a rapid decline
n tho value of property.
5. The commencement of a system by
which the circulation can be restored to
snch a condition as will give employment
to labor, inoentive to industry, and a re
stored value to property.
To this end the overthrow of the Na
tional Bank system, the gradual with
drawal of the National Bank bills, and
the substitution of aa equal amount of
greenbacks that do not bear Interest, re
ceivable for all dues to the government
or individuals, performing all the func
tions of specie, to be used in the pnrehase
of an equal amount of bonds, and then
cancellation, thus reducing taxation
about twenty millions annually.
The promulgation of platforms an
nouncing these principles Is deemed nec
essary thfct national parties may under
stand the sentiment of the people, to
which they must yield or perish.
They aro necessary that the National
Demooratio party in 1880 may bo equal
to the emergency that w&b not boldly and
promptly met in 1876.
The Fonrth District Convention ttands
alone in its death-like silence. It was
controlled by a majority of the friends of
the Hon. H. B. Harris, and be being
present it refused to speak, though
asked by tho minority, and adjourned
without making any declaration on the
one great issue before the people of the
United States, and on the proper solution
of which depends the interest of the
farmer, the mechanic, the laborer, mer
chant, every class but the bondholder,
whose coupons are a perpetual tax upon
our labor aud an irredeemable mortgage
upon the lands of the country.
The Democratic party of the Fonrth
District iu Convention refused to define
its position, henco it becomes necessary
for me to state, that I am tbe earnest and
unyielding advocate of all these meas
ures, and also of a railroad from the Pa
cific to the Atlantio, which shall in good
faith give the South Atlantio terminus
somewhere on or about the 32 parallel,
and to enforce these views and secure
these measures, I annonnoe myself a can
didate for the Forty-sixth Congress fiom
this district, and respectfully ask your
suffrages.
I have delayed in order to ascertain
whether Colonel Harris was probably the
choice of the people. X am satisfied that
he is not, except perhaps as between
those gentlemen who canvassed the
counties with him for delegates to the
Convention.
EDITOBIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Grand Central Hotil. N. Y., >
September 28, 1878. jT
PARTING GLIMPSES OF THE GATE CITY.
Ere committing hlm.-elf to tbe gnid-
anoe and watchful care of Captain Fore
acre and bis attentive subordinates of the
Air Line Road, the writer was permitted
to shake hands with CoL Avery, Prof.
Little and Messrs. Harris and Small, of
the Atlanta Constitution. He also
changed greetings with Mr. Livingstone,
that big hearted and genial gentleman
of tbe district, who
REFUSED TO BE A DI'.ORGANIZES
by running as on independent candidate
against our distinguished fellow-oitlzen,
CoL James H. Blount. All praise to him
for pursuing a oonrse so discreet, and hon
orable. Our word for it, he will be re
membered when Speer, Felton and Cor
ker are sleeping in their politiosl graves,
COL. AVERY,
who holds the important office of Secre
tary, and, as it were, privy counsellor to
the Governor, is eminently “the right
man in the right placo.”
Calm, nrbane, and possessed of the
loftiest courtesy towards nil, the people
in their efforts to interview His Excel
lency and make known their wants and
grievances, always find in him an attent-
Fat Man Made Happy—Loses 61
lbs,
Prattville, Ala., July 20,1878.
Botanic Medicine Company, Buffalo, N. F.:
Gentlemen—About three months ago
I commenoed using your “Anti-Fat,” at
which time my weight waa 219 pounds.
By following your directions carefully, I
have succeeded in reducing my weight to
158 pounds. This is all very satisfactory
and pleasant; but just previous to my
commencing the use of your medicine, I
had purchased two suits of fine clothes
at a high price, aud find, to my dismay,
that they are entirely useless to me now.
When X put one of my coats on, my
friends tell me it looks like a coffee sack
on a bean pole, and when I put tbe pants
on—well, deeoriptton fails. My object in
writing is to ascertain whether you have
not, in connection with your medicine
business, an establishment where your
patrons, similarlily situated, could ex
change these useless garments for others
that would fit. I think you ought to
have something of the kind, as it would
be an Inducement for many to use the
Anti-Fat, who now object to asing it, in
consequence of the loss they would sus
tain in throwing aside valuable garments.
Just turn this matter over in your mind.
A “clothing exchange” is what you want
in connection with your Anti-Fat busi
ness. Yours truly,
octl sw&dit George Boyd.
He la a Smooth Coon.
Cincinnati Bnquirer!
It seems to be satisfactorily proved
that Misses Chandler, of the State of
Michigan, has shown bis plastic handin
the campaign of that 8tate by assisting
to organize Greenback clubs. ’Gene Hale,
who is Mitzer Chandler’s son-in-law,
doesn’t approve of it, and though ho has
but just emerged from an encounter with
a jtrazz saw in hia own district, he takes
his little yell for “honest money” all the
same. Zacharlah can give hia boy sever-
pointa in the game of politics and then
beat him. He ia a smooth coon.
The right thing in the nght place is
Without donbt Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup,
the beet remedy for babies while teething,
Price twenty-five cents a bottle.
ive listener and ready friend.
We venture the remark that a more
accomplished official cannot be found in
the country, and all concede him to be
gentleman sans pew, sans reproche.
much for this retired journalist who was
ever an honor to his profession.
DOCTOR LITTLE
b&s not only snivived his non re-appoint
ment to the chair of geology in the Uni
versity of Georgia, but rejoices in the
fact, and says the trustees did exactly
right. It was impossible for him to oc
cupy the chair of mineralogy and chem
istry and still fill the important position
of State Geologist, and besides, he
wonld never have oonsented even had it
been practicable, to displace his friend,
the gifted and erudite Professor White.
The Doctor thinks the University is now
on the up grade, and will eoon
become as prosperous as in former times.
Still he was tho friend of Dr. Tucker,
and like many others thinks it would be
unjust to attribute tho decline of the
institution to bi3 agency. Professor Lit
tle is a man cf boundless work and energy,
and Georgia
NEEDS HIM IN THE FIELD
to develop-her inchoate resources and the
rich mineral treasures which have re
mained hidden from human ken since the
creation of the world. We trust the
next General Assembly will not only re
tain hi3 Bureau, but enlarge its useful-
ness by a liberal appropriation.
Just here, too, while touching upon the
condition of our State University, we
wonld pause a moment to drop a tear to
tho memory of the late
PROF. WILLIAM HENRY WADDELL.
The name of Waddell for three genera
tions has been identified with the history
and prosperity of that fane of science, at
which many of the moet illustrious
sons ot • the commonwealth have
worshipped and drawn intellectual inspi
ration. And in the person of the junior
of this race of educators, the family fame
received new lustre.
In the death of Professor Waddell the
State has lost one of its brightest orna
ments, and the nation and the republic of
letters a savant who bad few superiors as
a learned and accomplished linguist. So
ciety and the church, too, will mourn tho
painful vacuum caused by his sudden and
untimely demise.
In common with a multitude of the
friends of the University, we can only
hope and suggest that
PRorassou morris
may bo promptly appointed toanpply the
vacancy occasioned by tbo death of the
lamented Waddell. If splendid attain
ments,exalted worth and almost maidenly
modesty can avail for aught, surely he
should be tho coming man
Bat to return from this digression.
We found tho Constitution office pretty
nearly deserted’, four of the staff being
absent at the steamship jollification in
Savannah. But the irrepressible Harris
was on hand keeping things alive, and
pouring hotshot into Felton and Speer,
while Mr. Small, barring a slight foreign
air and accent, was also quite himself,
and ready to point his salient morals
through tbe utterances of the famous
“Old Si.” The genial Howell was among
the absent, and we can bat echo the hope
expressed by his associates that tha po
tent influence of Savannah’s “Artillery
panoh” may not have dezsd the senses of
the entire editorial orowd. It was a sus
picious oiroumstanoe that none of them
Sad fonndtime to report progress through
the medium of tbe wires. But the writer
who is aw fait as to the blandishments
and hospitality of the dwellers in tbe
"’city by the Bea,” osm explain tho faot by
the positive assertion that
NO TIME WAS ALLOWED THEM
to do anght bnt ei>joy themselves. So
we can permit no sinister insinuations in
the premises. Besides, surely Atirnta
ought to be proof against bomb abelis
and artillery, whether levelled tram the
gaping engines of war, or tho iqaally
dangerous nozzle of a champagne bottle.
Otherwise the “lamp of experience” is
oeitainly a very poor bonoon light. Bat
we must harry on board of tho
AIR LINE TRAIN
or be left. Fortunately, Bnoh waa
not cur fate, and arriving in the niok
of lime yonr unworthy eoribo was
soon flying “over the hills and
far away” at what seemed to be
break-neok speed. Farms, hamlets, vil
lages and towns, forest, monntain and
valley vanished in qaiok saooession, and
the pauses at every station were of the
briefest. Bnt having traveled over the
same ground with the reader daring tbe
past summer, we shall not weary him
with a repetition of tho beauties and
budding greatness of Northeast Georgia,
if Dr. Janes will allow us so to designate
this portion of onr noble State.
Suffice it to say, if possible its loveli
ness was enhanced by the splendid au
tumnal tints of Dame Nature’s painting,
whioh shed a
HALO OF FADING GLORY
on the landscape. Well may the limner
despair when attempting, from his artifi
cial mixtures, to sketob suoh a variety
and infinity of beBUteoua colors. For
companions we had Maoon’s cherished
citizen,
REV. J. W. BURKE,
and onr good brother Whtdby, who is so
thoroughly identified with the Sabbath
schools and temperance oanse In Geor
gia. The latter ia a moat worthy and or*
oellenl gentleman, and jartiy respeotecl
for his piety and virtues. Of Mr. Burke
we need not speak. His noble charac
teristics, enterprise and successful oareer
are well known to your community. To
show tbe difference between
NOW AND THEN,
the writer will bo pardoned for saying
that this famous head of a great book
and printing establishment then an ap
prentice of Aibou Chase in tho Southern
Banner office nfc Athene, But up tho typo
to a Fourth of July oration (the first
lucubration of his that ever saw the
light) delivered before the Phi Kappa
and Dcmoethenean Societies in 1844.
Now, ho is a Presiding Elder in tbe
Methodist Church and one of the leading
citizens and merchants of Macon. Let
tho lais ot tho rising generation heed
this notable instance of the reward which
is certain to follow the efforts of the in
dustrious, intelligent and upright youth.
At Lola, Mr. Burke took the Athens
train and Whidby dropped out at the ex
cellent supper house in Central City,
Soath Carolina. Thence we journeyed
in darkness and silence until the morn
disclosed the hills and forests of the
“OLD NORTH STATB.”
This portion of that old commonwealth
is thickly settled and dotted with hand
some towns and villages. It is a great mis
take to aupp03e they are all “Tar heels”
in North Carolina. A largo portion of
the State is hilly and very fertile and
picturesque. Apropos of tar and turpen
tine, however, an intelligent native in
formed us that the pine force's had been
wall nigh exhausted of their reBinous
product, and henceforward the' world
must look elsewhere for naval stores.
Of course an opportune word was said for
Southern Georgia and tbe millions of
acres thickly covered with virgin pines
along the line, and in easy reach of our
own Macon and Brunswick railroad.
THE AIR-LINE ROAD
is in perfect order, and its affairs are
managed like clock work. Capt. Fore
acre has no superior in his line of busi
ness at the South, and he has been ex
ceedingly fortunate in the selection of
his assistants. It would be difficult to
find a more courteous official than con
ductor Brenan, and the remark is equally
applicable to all with whom we came in
contact by the way. Every thing works
emoothly without confusion os delay.
A WORTHY AND NOTED FEDERAL JUDGE,
When the dawn appeared and objects
were distinguishable, the writer waa
struck with the intelligent, open coun
tenance of a gentleman sitting near him
A word addressed to him met with
courteous rejoinder, and soon a very
pleasant and protracted conversation en
sued.
Our vis-a-vis was no other than
JUDGE BROOK?,
the Distriot Judge ot North Carolina.
He had been a Union man from princi
ple throughout the late war, though sym
pathizing deeply with his Southern
friends and countrymen. When the
straggle ended, President Johnson gave
him the position he continues to hold, and
Andy never made a batter appointment.
Judge Brooks is now a strong anti-Butler
man and Demoorat, and to him is North
Carolina indeDted for deliveranoo from
KUKLUX PROSECUTION S.
During the time when the “State
troops,” a drove of banditti, were lording
it over North Carolina under the acanrsed
rule of radicalism, Judge Brooks declared
that hundreds of the beat citizens of the
State were arrested and imprisoned with
out oanse, or the shadow of jast pre
text. Said he, “It was worse than the
star ohamuer edicts of the infamous Jef
fries.” It was then that this good man
stepped into tho arena, and by the aid
of the
HABEAS CORPUS ACT,-
liberated the poor captives, against whom
when brought to trial there was not even
a proeeoutor. It is needless to say that
the Judge commands tho reapeot and re
gard of all parties in tbe State. He says
he voted for Vance for Governor, and
that gentleman is certain to be chosen
United States Senator, but his preference
is for Merrimon, who has been faithful
to every trust confided to him, and was
not in reality a “bolter.” Judge Brooks
was the firot federal appointment in
North Carolina after the war.
TOBACCO CULTURE.
The country adjacent to tbo Danville
road ia famous for tho amount and qual
ity of the “soothing weed” it produces.
Fields of tobacco were almost constantly
in sight, and it is certainly, with its wealth
of green and pendant leaves, a beautiful
crop to behold. A word or two in refer
ence to its cnltnre perhaps may interest
the reader.
The plant flourishes best on rioh allu
vial lands, but tbo qualities in most es
teem aro grown upon sandy or silicioue
soils.
IT IB COLOR THAT GIVES VALUE TO TOBACCO.
The lighter tho shade the more itiB in
request, and the margin as to quality is
very great.
Thus tha weed raised in the river bot
toms ia much darker and heavier than
that cultivated upon less fertile and
more elevated lands. Still the preponder
ance in quantity is so much greater in
favor of the rich ground, that as to actual
profit tho latter bears away the palm.
On the latter at a fair price, aa much
as $250 per acre is frequently realized,
which is equal to the profits of sugar
culture. But jast now the
PRICE OF THIS STAPLE
is ruinously low. For the common
grades the planter receives only
from three to five cents per pound.
Fanoy lots, however, will command
twenty-five cente. "We saw the laborers
picking off tbe greedy worms, which if
unmolested would utterly destroy the
crop. They are of an intensely green
color, and nearly as largo as a man’s fin
ger. One insect will devour a fabulous
amount of .he tender foliage in a single
day; hence they must bo hunted np and
killed in detail.
The tobacco is usually “cut” just pre
ceding or immediately after the first light
frost. When unusually luxuriant, it is
sometimes “topped” sooner, however,and
a second crop of succors secured before
winter. But the quality of the latter is
very inferior.
MODE OF HARVESTING.
The plant ia cut down and suspended
upon poles or scaffolds, if tho weather be
fair, for a day or two, then twisted into
small bundles and taken to the drying
houses.
These are usually constiuried of loge,
and quite elevated, the interstices being
plastered with clay to exclude the air.
The weed iu hung up inside upon trans
verse poles, and the building is then heat
ed to a temperature of about 175 degrees
Fahrenheit by a charcoal furnace located
without, and the drying process contin
ued for four days.
At the convenience of the planter it is
then again made up into larger bunohes
and hauled to tbe receiving warehouses
to be packed and sold on account, jast as
our cotton is disposed of.
No farmer under the revenue laws is
allowed to sell more than one hundred
pounds of tobocco annually, hence he iB
forced to market hia surplus through the
medium of these packing houses, tbo pro
prietors of which are made to account
duly to the government for all the taxes
that may bo due upon each lot. The
crop seems to be about an average the
present season.
GEN. W. H. LEACH.
On the Danville road the writer bad
the pleasure of meeting this gentleman,
who is a member elect to tbe Senate of
North Carolina and has served both be
fore and since the war in the Federal
House of Representatives, besides be
longing to the Confederate Congress. He
spoke in the highest terms ot Colonel and
Mrs. Thomas Hardeman, and remarked
of
GENERAL GORDON
that he was the most popular man in tbo
Senate and constantly growing in influ
ence and nsefnlness. Those, said be, who
tbink that Gordon baa attained to the
maximum of his fame are muoh mistaken.
He is a studious, ambitious and observing
man who is
biz
Raising the Needle.
Cleopatra’s Needle was raised to ita po
sition on tbe Thames embankment with
out a hitoh. When the signal had been
given, the monolith began slowly to move
on an iron axis, and with no apparent
strain on any point, the giant block of
stone gradually raised its head until at an
angle of ten or fifteen degrees from the
perpendicular it oame to perfect rest, sus
pended on ita centre of gravity. It was
then easily moved into its proper place.
Within the pedestal had been placed an
earthenware jar oontaining Bibles in
French aud English, fen Arabic Genesis,
a Hebrew Pentateuoh and a verse from
the third ohapter of St. John in 215 dif
ferent languages.
, It has been pointed out that this enter
prise is only the second instance since tbe
timeof theBoman Emperors of the trans
port of a colossal obelisk from the shores
of Africa to any other part of the world.
The first instance waa the memorable en
terprise of Louip Fhillippe in removing
the Lnvor monolith of Raineses II to the
centre of the Place de la Concorde in
Paris. It was set on its pedestal on the
25th of October, 1836, in the presence of
of the King, the Royal Family and an
immense concourse of people. Borne
sailors climed to the top when it waa
firmly in place, and placed the tri-color
there amid the shouts of the multitude
below.
iKWhen the obeliek at St Peter’s, in
Rome, was set np in 1856, it required
the joint labor of 1,600 men and 140
horses, straining for a month at blocks,
ropes and tackles. Butin contrast with
this, only a dozen men were working at
the cranks in London the other day, and
they raised the obelisk in half an hoar.
There are only twelve colossal obelisks
now 'standing on the face of the earth.
Five are in Egypt, four in Rome, and one
each in Pans, London and Constantino
ple. It cost abont £16,000 to remove
Cleopatra’s Needle to London and set it
up, while Louis Phillippe’s government
expended between .£80,000 and £00.000
to seenre theirs.
Must lie Feverish.
Baltimore Gazette.!
It is atrange that nobody thinks of in
terviewing Charles Francis Adams on the
degradation of Massachusetts politics.
His pnlse must be running as high as
twenty-fonr in this crisis.
Now we Breathe Freer.
Philadelphia Times.]
Le Dook denies tbe allegation that he
is about to be resigned. The eonntry
will be relieved to hear thie. Tea culture
would come to an untimely end were Le
Dook to be removed, and another great
industry prostrated.
No Proof of It.
Ccuricr-Joumal.l
Mr. Chase, the leading Greenbacker of
Maine, may be red-nosed, bald-headed
and atoop-ahouldered, but he is certainly
as pretty as Ben Bntler. There is no
proof that Ben ever yet looked directly
into a photographer’s camera.
The C’heerlul KatUerford.
Philadelphia Times!
The President, Washington dispatches
say, is ia high good humor. Nothing
shakes his sweet and Eunny confidence.
The gale from Maine did not sway him,
nor do premonitions of storms to come
chili his cheerful marrow. Optimism is
a feeble word when applied to Ruther
ford.
How They Came to he Green.
From a Speech delivered at Hiawatha, Kan 1
Mr. Pomeroy told how the greenback
oame to be issued. How himself and a
Congressman from Buffalo, N. Y, went
with Seoretary Chase to New York to bor
row $7,000,000, and bow on this trip they
urged the “Greenback question” npon
Secretary Chase, who opposed it. How
he finally adopted it, and how green was
chosen as the oolor, beoauae It conld not
be photographed; how he, Pomeroy, was
sent to New York by Seoretary Chase to
bay tho patent of a chrome green, then
reoently invented—the green now used
on bills and postage stamps—the green in
nse at that time being arsenio colors, and
poisonous.
Will Have its Hands Fall.
Courier-Journal!
The Cincinnati Gazette points out an
old speech of Butler’s iu which he favor
ed tho non-taxation of four per cent.
United StateB bonds, and then scolds tbe
old man for being a Greenbacker now.
If the Gazette ia to keep track of all the
flops of great men, it will have its hauda
full. There have been no more conspic
uous Hoppers anywhere than Morton aud
Sherman, and the suspicion abroad that
the latter has flopped again has caused
him a vast amount of mental torture.
Why should the Gazette pick on poor old
Ben, who wants to do the best he can for
himself?
A Sharp Lawyer Caught.]
Cne of those shrewd, sharp and sarcas
tic lawyers, of that class who take de
moniacal joy aud unspeakable pride in
twisting a witness into a labyrinth of
difficulties, had occasion some time ago
to oross-examine a gentleman of some
little prominenoe. The sharp lawyer
managed, after muehskiliful maneuver
ing, to ao confuse the witness that the
only answer he could obtain to his ques
tion was, -*‘1 don’t recollect.”
When the lawyer had had this answer
returned to him a score or so of times,
his patienoe gave ont. “Tell me, Mr.
J.” he exclaimed with biting sarcasm, “do
yon ever remember anything
“loan was the response.”
“Can you oarry your momory back for
twenty years and tell me a single instance
that happened then?”
<c Yes, I think I can,’ returned the wit
ness, who had gained some composure
“Ah!” exclaimed the lawyer, gleeful
ly rabbihg bis hand in orthodox legal
fashion. “Now that is ooneoling, What
isthls instance which yon remember so
well ?”
“Well slf, I remember that twenty
years ago, when yon were admitted to the
bar, yonr father oame to me to borrow
thirty dollars to buy yon a suit that yon
might make a preeentable appear an oe at
oommenoement, and I have a distinct re
collection that yonr father never paid
that thirty dollars book to me.”
Conf asion changed hands at this point
of the proceedings, and the lawyer dis
missed tbe witness without more ado.
The Opium Evil*
Chin Lin Pm, the Chinese Ambassador
to this country, is under instructions
from hi3 government to make a careful
investigation of the means adopted at
Y&rioue institutions in this country for
the cure of opium eating, and is deeply
interested in the matter. He is at pres
ent accumulating what facta he can, and
in due time will report the result of his
investigations to his home government.
It is a fact not generally known that an
edict was officially issued in China last
year forbidding the cnltnre of the poppy
after 1879 in any part of the kingdom,
and forbidding all importations after
1880.
An edict has also been sent to all gov
ernors and leading generals cf provinces,
requiring them to Bubmit plans of laws
whioh shall effectually do away with the
nse of opinm under pain of death after a
period of three years. The task will be
one ot gigantio proportions, no doubt, aa
it is estimated that 6,000,000 of people in
the Chinese. Empire are addioted to the
habit of opinm-eating. A large hospital
has been established in Hong Kong for
the cure of opium-eaters, and it is the
plan of tbe government to bnlld np other
institutions of the same kind. It is the
aim of Ambassador Chin Lin Pin to dis
cover the best moans for their manage
ment and the best systems of oure to be
introduced into them. For a oentury the
Chinese have suffered untold miseries
from the opium trade, and in spite of leg
islation to the contrary the production of
the poppy has increased. But a terribly
earned effort has now been decided on
for trampling ont the eviL
A Judge whs Fats on Airs.
Chicago legal News. |
Judge Beck even carries his whim of
professional propriety so far as to pro
hibit swearing in court, and is said to
have fined a lawyer who swore at a wit
ness daring his cross-examination,
Another peculiarity ot this judge is a dis
like of seeing attorneys, when arguing a
case before him, pass around a bottle of
.whisky, and he ia said to be violently op
poBed to lawyers treating tbe jury to
drinks while a trial Is in progress. Judge
Beck is said to have violated common de-
oenoy by refusing to proceed with a case
until the attorneys engaged in it should
pat ont their pipes, and a community onoe
rose in indignation when ha ordered a
lawyer to move his foot from th8 judge’s
desk.
“Turkey Cock.” C’onkUng’g Fail
ure with the Bloody Shirt.
Philadelphia Times,!
That the bloody shirt is no longer ef
fective in firing the Northern heart has
been abundantly attested in many ways,
bnt seldom more notably than in the re-
oeption that was given to Senator Conk-
ling's remarks abont the solid South and
rebel claims in the Saratoga convention.
The speaker, in his most fervid manner,
committed himself anew in oppoeition to
paoifloation, and drew a picture as graph
ia as it was false of the present relations
of the races In certain Southern States;
but it is remarked by one of the most
careful Republican correspondents ou the
ground that “hia utterances in tnis re
gard were received with Eiienoe, which is
significant of party sentiment when it is
remembered that thore were enough
Conkling men, pare and simple, in tbe
genius when oonpied with these qualities,
to make him the peer of any one In the
nation. His persyial presence and bear
ing too, make him a universal favorite.
It was pleasant to hear such kind things
from a disinterested source of our gal
lant Senator. Lang may he .continue to
represent bis own native Georgia in the
halls of the national Legislature.
We cannot pause to talk abont
RICHMOND
with its mnlutnde of manufactories and
gigantio growth since the war. Indeed,
the writer had but a bird’s eye view of the
tobaooo, flour, iron, cotton and other in
dustrial establish meats whioh loomed up
on tbe banks of tbe James river, forever
made famous by tha events of tbe l»te
war. Tbe water power of the city ia im
mense, aud it has already taken rank with
the great manufacturing oentres of tbe
world.
It seems like a pity to give the
FSDEBAL CAPITAL .
the go-by, aud not narrate also the many
incidents whioh occurred daring the re
mainder of onr journey to New York, bnt
space, time and Uncle Sam’s mails call
for a hilt incontinently, and we obey.
H. H. J.
A Yellow Fever Romance.
Philadelphia Times*
During the early days of the plague a
gentleman named Wood fell sick at Fort
Fiokering, a suburb of Memphis.
Throughout hia illness, which was at
times critical, a yonng lady of the neigh
borhood, Miss Qaaokenbush, until then
unknown to her patient, nursed him pa
tiently. Last week a quiet wedding took
place iu the stricken city, the parties to
whioh were nurse and patient.
Tbe Silent Stranger.
Boston Courier.]
A stranger sat In tbo corner of the car
hence to New York in easy attitude, his
feet upon a large black trunk. The gen
tlemanly conductor, going his rounds, at
the first station politely informed the
stranger that the trunk must be put in
the baggage-car, to which the stranger
nothing replied. At the Becond station
the displeased conductor more decidedly
told tbe stranger that he must put the
trank in the baggage-car, or it wonld be
put off the train, to which the stranger
nothing replied. At the third station the
vexed conductor more imperatively told
the stranger that he mu9t put the trunk
in the baggage-car or it would be put off
the train. To which the stranger noth
ing replied. At tbe fourth station the
irate conductor had the trunk put off and
left. At the fifth station the mollified
conductor, addressing tbe stranger, beg
ged him to remember that he had but
done it after repeated warnings, and that
it was solely the strangei’a fault. To
which the stranger .laconically replied :
"Don’t care; tain’t my trunk.”
Bhz Was a Boston Girl.—She waa a
Boston girl. She waa visiting her White
hall country oouslne. While walking out
several butterfliee passed her.
“Oh, dear me, what charming little
bird?. They are perfectly exquisite.”
“They are not birds, my dear,” replied
her country oonsin, “they are butter
flies.”
“Ob, you Jo’t say so ? Then these are
the dear little oreatures that fly from fl >w-
er to flower and gather tbe sweet yellow
butter that we nse ? They are too lovely
for anything.”-—TPAtfehaU Times.
Different methods of Doing Bus
laess.
The St. Louis Journal of ^Commerce is
down on drummers and in for adver
tising. By way of practical illustration,
it relates the experiences of (we quote)
“a well known house in New York which
had the choice of paying $5,000 for a
store in a great thoroughfare or $500 for
one in a quiet cross street, and chose the
latter, devoting the $4,500 saved in rent
exclusively to advertising.” This was ita
first step to an enormous fortune, and,
although it occurred many years ago, it
gives point to the Journal’s comments on
the greater value of advertising com
pared with drumming. It says:
“A Chicago wholesale grocery house,
which a few years ago carried 16 drum
mers, at an expense of $40,000 per an
num, aud did an almost profitless busi
ness, has abandoned tho dtutnmer sys
tem, spends one-fourth their cost an
nually in newspaping advertising-, divi
ding the balance among customers. A3
a natural result, their trade has increased
tenfold, and the net profits to the house
In 1877 were $130,000. This year they
will da still better. Their customers
are better pleased, because they buy on
orders from prices current from two to
twenty per cent, cheaper than they ever
could under the drummer system. Com
petitors don’t like it much, hut it is nev-
erthelees a success—an immense success.
Will not somebody here try tho expert
meut ? The day is not far off when they
must all come to it again, and and it is
better to be the pioneer than to bs driven
into it. The same rule will apply to ail
other lines of tho wholesale trade with
equal force.”
Shut Your Mo mil.
We have all beon greatly distressed at
the appalliug ravages of yellow fever on
the Missiislppi. May you abide safely
under the Almighty’s wing. Many years
ago a little book, with the curious title of
“Shut your mouth,” was published by
Mr. Catlin, whoso portraits of Indian
Chiefs used to adorn the Smithsonian In
stitute at Washington. Mr. CatliD,
portrait painter, was brought very low by
bleeding at tha lungs, and aa a last resort
he went far West of the Mississippi and
lived among the wild Indians. He no-
ticed their freedom from pulmonary ana
malarial diseases. Henotioed also that
they breathed invariably through their
nostrils, and, indeed, rarely opened their
monthB. He learned that this was taught
them from their earliest infanoy, the
mother watching her sleeping babe, and
compressing its lips as often as they
opened.
After a long, arduous struggle he man
aged to do this himself. His lung trou
bles at once began to disappear, and he
dwelt amid malarious marshes, both in
North and South America, with impunity.
On his voyage home from the latter he
pointed out to a fellow passenger those
who habitually breathed through tho
mouth. The yellow fever broke ont on
the vessel, and all tho3e who did this,
died.
Now we don’t know how much import
ance to attach to this, but as Mr. Catlin
evidently fancied he had found a panacea
for many of onr bodily ills, and took the
trouble to write a book In which he ur
gently entreats the adoption of the cus
tom, wo think it worth mentioning at this
time. “Shut your mouth,” therefore.
It will do you no harm; it may do yon
good, and will very likely do your neigh*
bor good.
THE WIDOW.
How becoming tho«e robes of deep sable
Jgrw fitting the delicate crape. ’
*1° the hands without jewels
And how sweet that love ot a cape! J e,S
Why is it a woman in mourning
Is so certain of public regard?
Are sorrow and tears to bo purchased.
Like satins and silks, bv the yard?
aaBassaaasar
^sgMKKsra*'”'-
’feKffi.TwSS&'SS-
'*A , w?iff® M) J k \.“ pla netin splendor—
.A widow, and oh, whati a prize!
I ThSd?E t . hi ?. K . potentfa *»row
4a ? men to her side?
wnat la it that renders a widow
A queen that no rival can bide?
In a d . ep ® na e“tjwa free is the widow
AU t W&t^ttowMge of life-
All the
complete,
With the world. t6ct .
She beckons and calls for her brougham;
She smiles with an exquisite g
She is gone, with her sable and l—„
And darkness has taken her place.
ADCNAIS.
iuty,
That
Religions Enthusiasm
Fays.
The Davenport (Iowa) Gazette has re
ceived and details an interesting story
of profitable religious enthusiasm. Borne
ten years ago, it says, Mr. Jonathan
Brinton, of 'Washington, Ia., became
possessed of the idea that he was com
missioned by the Saviour to open au inn
near Jerusalem, and so become • pioneer
in the work of rebuilding and Christianiz
ing the Holy City, for it was made known
to him in a vision that the ancient glory
of Jerusalem was about to return into
her. He was worth abont $20,000; he
gave $10,600 to hie wife and son, who
preferred to remain on the farm, hoping
that the husband would be relieved of his
insane notions by rough experience. So
the husband went away alone, arrived at
Jerusalem in safety, bought several aorea
of land in tha most desirable location he
could find two miles east of the city,
built hia ion, and opened itfor the accom
modation of tourists to tbe Holy Land.
Two years had elspeed, and whether he
has bean cured of insanity or not is not
known, bnt it is very certain he struck a
good thing when he built that hotel.
His letters home have been of the most
cheering charaoter; his health has been
good, he sees good times all the while.
His pictures of prosperity, his longing
for bis wife’s companionship, have caused
Mrs. Brinton to deride to go to her hus
band. She has sold her propeity in
Washington county, snd this week leaves,
with her son, to join her busbacd at bis
inn on the slopes of Judea.
• • “Thammux eame next behin-J,
Whose annual wound in Lebanon allu.-od
The Svrian damsels to lamest his fato
In amorous dtities ail a summer’s fay."—Milton
Shall we meet no more, my love, at tho binding
of the sheaves, s
In the happy harvest fields as the sun sink.
low,
When the orchard paths are dim with tho drill
' ot fallen leaves,
As thawwrs sing together in the mellow misty
Oh, happy are the apples whan tho south winds
blow.
Love met us in tho orchard ere the com had
gathered plume—
Ob, happy are the apples when the south winds
blow!
Sweet as summer days that die when the months
are in their bloom.
When the peaks are rice with sunset, like tho
tassels of the brocm
In the happy harvest fields as the sun sinks
low.
8weetai summer days that die, leafiing sweeter
each to esch—
Oh happj are the apples when the conth winds
All the heart was full ot feeling; Love hsd ripen
ed lhto speech.
Like the sap that turns theneciur in the velvet
of tho peach.
In tbe happy harvest fields as the sun sinks
low.
Sweet as summo'r days that dieat tho ripening of
the com—
Oh, happy are the applo3 when the south winds
Sweet os lovers’ fickle caths sworn to faithless
maids forsworn.
When the musty orchard breathes like a mellow
drinking horn
Over happy harvest fields as the sun sinks low.
Lovoieftus at the dying of the mellow autumn
eves—
Oh, happy are tbo apples when the south winds
blew,
When the skies are ripe and fading, like tho col •
ora of tbe leaves.
And tbe reapers kiss and part at the binding of
'the sheaves
In the happy harvest fields as tho sun sinks
low.
Then the reapers gather homo from the gray snd
misty meres—
Oh, happyarotheappleswhenthe south winds
blow.
Then tho reapers gather home, and they bear
upon their spears.
Love whoso face is like tho moon’s fallen pale
among tb6 spheres,
With the daylight’s blight upon it as the
sun sinks low.
Faint as far-off bugles blowing soft and low the
reapers sung—
Oh, happy are tbe apples when the south winds
blowl
Sweet as summer in tho blood when lhc heart is
ripe and young.
Love is sweetest in the dying, like the (heaves ho
lies among
In tha happy harvest fields as the sun sinks
low.
—[Will Wallace Harney, in Harper’s Maga
zine.
GUARD*.YU THU TREASURY.
Precautions Taken Against Any
Attack on tbe Bnifdfng.
A correspondent says the recent labor
troubles in Washington have directed the
attention of tbe Treasury officials afresh
to the propriety of adopting Borne system
of defeaee for tho building and its rec
ords, as a preliminary measure against
the possibility of an incursion from any
quarter. To this end the clerks who are
aocnslomed to the nse of firearms hsve
been famished by the Ordnance Bnreanof
the Wax Department with revolvers of
(he heaviest calibre and with boxes of
oartridgeB, all of which sre required to
be in a convenient drawer of the deek of
clerk and are thn3 distribnttd through*
out the Treasury building.
In addition to the abundance of cau
tion imposed upon the watchmen, tho
building has been connected with the fire
elarm telegraph by a secret wire and tel*
ephone, and in tbe event of trouble or
apprehendid invasion a signal at night
would cause a general affirm to be repeat
ed three times, which would summon
the clerical, military and main corps to
the building, together with the entire
force of the police reserve. Tho clerks
so armed aud disciplined are required to
carry a badge as insignia of their posi
tion, which has been furnished them by
the Government. Of course there is no
expected attack, immediate or preepec*
tive, but during the fall and winter
months, when there is a large number of
idle persons in Washington, an attempt
to rob tho Treasury vaults might be
made, and the knowledge of the fact that
the authorities are prepared a£ any
instant to have the aid of a thousand dis
ciplined men would deter the most reck
less of the leaders of a mob from making
the attempt.
An Infallible Test of Yellow
Fev« r.
New Orleans Times!
The fever this year ha3 not been more
vigorous in ita attack npon humanity than
npon the theories regarding it that have
been based upon the annals of the past.
One by one has it overthrown the notions
of onr forefathers, until it has assumed a
type unknown to history. So peculiar in
deed have been its characteristics this
year, there are those to day who hesitate
to pronounce it as the yellow fever known
in former epidemios. Only one idiocrasy
is clear—the marked difference between
the oonrse of the pnlse acd the height of
the thermal line. This ispecnliar to y<l’
low fever alone, and has invariably served
to distinguish it from the palnda! fevers
so common in aemi-tropio latitude?. In
ordinary fevers the pulse and the temper
ature keep even psoe, or vary bnt little.
In yellow fever, from the commencement,
the pulse declines to normal figures or
even lower, while the temperature rises.
This is the tree pathognomio sign, by
whioh the disease oan never be mistaken.
United Alter Fifty Years.
Denver (Col) Tribune J
The Tribune ia in reoeipi of the follow
ing, whioh will be read with interest by
many Denver people:
Married.—In Los Angeles, California,
September 9,1878, at the residence of A.
H. Weir, Esq,, by Judge Baldwin, of Los
Angeles, Hon. Orson Brooke, cf Denver,
Colorado, and Mrs. Naney Miohatl, of
Los Augelee. No cards.
Judge Brooks is a well-known and es
teemed oitizsn of this oity. Thera is
some romauoe in this mariisgo whioh
gives it additional interest. Forty-five
yeara ago tbe ; jadge was tbe accepted
bnitor of the lady he has now wed. The
relentless purpose of hate separated their
young hearts, and tbe lady and gentleman
have both since married twice and lost, he
hia wives and she her husbands. Some
thing like a year ago their paths crossed
again, and the judge hM now married his
first choice.
The groom if seventy years of age and
his bride sixty-three.
Indian advioes report an invasion of
Afghanistan insvitable, and the govern
ment pushing every appliance to make it
soon and effective.
Cotton stiffened again in the Liver
pool market oa Monday, and transactions
were large and free. Cotton is doing
well under th© circuosUBOeis