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Atlanta. Ga., Oot. 24, 1878.
The crowd here to-day is immense and
everybody seems to be eojoying the fair.
The whole oity is taming oat to the
grounds and doing it3 share by the exhi
bition. The fastest racing time ever
made in Georgia, was made on the track
to-day.
Every first-elMS horse entered here has
been secured for the State Fair. Trot
ters in the 2:20 clnss are ooming. Every
thing noteworthy on exhibition here is
promised for Mooon. We hope to in-
dnoe the St. Lonis Military Company
which drills here to come to the State
Fair with the Gate City Guards. Oar
hotels end livery men mast preoare to en
tertain the largest crowd ever ^.isembled
In Macon.
The machinery display promises to be
very fall; in fact, the complete success of
every department is assured.
M. J. Hatcher,
General Snp’t.
Later.—Wo have just closed an en
gagement for horses which have made
the fastest trotting time ever made in the
Sooth, and time tinder 2:25 is guaranteed.
M. J. Hatches,
General Snp’t.
London, October 23.—The annualjcon-
ference of the Home Bnlersat Dublin
yesterday adopted a resolution virtually
approving the policy of parliamentary
obstrnotion pnrsned by Charles Stewart
Farael), member for Meatb, and Joseph
Gillie Bigaar, member from Cavan. No
action was taken regarding the leadership
of the party.
London, October 23.—The Albanian
League have, according to the Vienna
Press, disclaimed responsibility for the
murder of Mehemet Ali Pasha, which
occurred at Jakova, m Albania, early in
September.
The Loague declare that the mnrder
was perpetrated by brigands. The TimeP
Vienna correspondent thinks this expla
nation will be accepted by the Porte, and
the matter compromised, so as to avoid
the necessity of sending troops to punish
the Albanians.
Bombay, October 24.—The Gazette
states that the advance upon Cabal has
been postponed until next year, in view
of more effectually coercing the Ameer,
than by a mere dash at the present time.
The Gazette urges that it will be better to
spend some months in organizing a con
siderable force, than to neglect necessary
precautions, and thus jeopardize the
safety of the empire.
The insurrection in the province of
Leistan continues and Persian troops are
marching against the insurgents.
Pams, October 24—At Largencire, on
Monday night, the river Ligae rose
twenty inches in a single hour, flooding
a great part of the town. Two bridges,
several bouses and ranch other propeit
were destroyed. No loss of life is re
ported.
Pabis, October 24.—Elisha Gray, of
Chicago; Alexander Graham Bell, of Bos
ton, Mass,; Thomas A. Edison, of Menlo
Park, N. J., each received a grand prize
for telephones—Mr. Bell’s invention be
ing exhibited in the British section of the
exposition.
London, October 24—The Netherland,
at Antwerp, from Philadelphia, reports
she eaw a steamer supposed to be the
Herman Ludwig of New York, September
23th for Antwerp, on the 15th instant,
making four miles an hour.
Washington, October 23.—The Signal
Corps Station nt Stonington, Conn., re
ports schooner Joseph Fitob, previously
reported on a reef, went to pieces last
night.
Baltimore, October 24.—Arrivals from
down the bay Ibis morning arc bringing
a few particulars of disasters on the Cnes-
opeake. Steamer Express, Captain Bar
ker, whiah left this port on Tuesday af
ternoon for Washington and landings on
the; Po.'omac, foundered on Tco3day
night near North Point, S*. Mary’s coun
ty, a abort distance above the month of
the Potomao. Captain Barker was res-
cuedjfrom the fragments of the boat by a
pangy and taken to Crisfield and arrived
here this morning on the steamer Maggie.
He reports some of the orow and passen
gers probably last.
The crew were Captain Barker, first
officer L. J. Howard, second officer James
Haney, chief engineer Charles W. Bailey,
second engineer Edward Pricer, derk-
P. J. Stone; quartermasters, John Doug,
las and James Doughs; lookout man,
Fillmore Bice; steward, Thomas Carring,
too; waiters, Nat Carrington and George
Walker; chambermaid, Matilda, colored;
Willie Barker and five deck bands; fire
men, Robert Hawkins and Dick Wyette.
The Shirley, of the York river line, is
ashore at Barren Island.
Steamer Massachusetts is in Patuxent
river, supposed to be ashore.
Steamer Theodore Weems was towed
into Crisfield, with the loss of her rudder
and some of her joiner work, by the
steamer Tangier. The Tangier lost an
chor, chain and Eome of her works.
The Louise, of the York river line,
arrived here safe last night.
The Highland Light and Georgians,
running to Choptonk river, alio escaped
the worst of the gale and came up on
usual time this morning.
Philadelphia, October 23.—A tem
pestuous gale of unprecedented severity
swept over the city early this morning,
commencing about 2:30 a. m., reaching
its height between 6 and 7:30 a. m.
During these brief morning hours, incal
culable damage was done by the wind,
which at 2:45 was blowing at the rate of
25 miles an hour in a westerly direction
and gradually increasing in fury obtained
o velocity of 72 miles an hour.
Not in many years, if ever before, ha3
there been eo much damage done in the
streets, public squares and along the
river fronts. Mtny of the publio school
buildings are damaged,the pnblic Eqnares
devastated and over forty churches
of all denominations more or less dam
aged by the demolition of steeples, etc.
The sheds for departing trains at the
Pennsylvania railroad depot in West
Philadelphia were demolished, involving
a loss of forty to fifty thousand dollars.
The largo depot of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, at
Washingion avenna wharf iB recused to
rains, and the Sonth side of Pennsylva
nia grain dovator in the immediate vi
cinity blown in. Two spanB of the fells
of Schuylkill bridge on the Beading Bail-
road fell in, stopping all travel.
Numerous disasters to shipping is re
ported. Seven persons wero killed in tbs
oity and about seventy-five injured.
Washington, Oot. 24.—Damages by
storm are reported from Harrisburg,
Wilkesbarro, Abseoom, N. J., and Alba
ny.
Washington, October 2-4.—The Signal
Corps Station of Cape Henry reports that
the Amerioan ship A. S. Davis, of Scars-
part, Maine, loaded with guano, from
Callao and bound to Hampton Boada and
Norfolk, ran ashore at 2 a. to. on the 23d
eight miles south of the station. The
vessel and cargo are a total loss. The
crew of nineteen men are all lost, with
one exception, and he is now at No. 2
Station.
The veasol was of 1,399 tons and the
cargo cansigned to Hobson & Co. Nine
bodies were washed ashore last night, one
and a half mile sonth of the st&ticn.
The life-saving crew buried them. Dif
ferent articles and pieces of the wreck are
being constantly washed ashore. The
crew of life-saving sUtion No. 2 is on
dnty guarding the debris.
The body of a man, supposed to be of
the late crew of the Davis, was was at 2
p. m. washed ashore and turned over to
the life-saving crew.
Washington, October 24.—A dispatch
to the Signal Offioe gives the following
particulars of the loss ef the Express as
brought to Baltimore by steamer Maggie.
She reports all the crow and passengers,
with the exception of nine persons, lost,
t ho crew.iossisteu of twenty-one men.
5ho was first struck by the gale between
twelve and two o’clcck yesterday morning
and eoon becoming unmanageable,
drifted towards Bamen I-lard. A beavv
sea swept over her and stove in all her
joiner work. Her commander, Captain
Barker, one wheelsman and one colored
passenger were rescued by a passing
vessel and taken to Crisfield. Six of the
crew were taken off by a boat from the
steamer Shirley of the same liup, which
lies ashore on Bamen Island.
The Shirley was unable to save any of
the others, and is unable as yet to get
off. Her upper saloon was carried away
and she rapidly filled with water and
sank.
The scenes of the wreck are described
as Doing horrible in the extreme. The
nine men taken to Crisfield were the only
persons saved, so that the los3 of life
mast haye been great.
The passengers were: Mrs. Bacon, of
Bacon’s Wharf, St Marys county, Mrs.
Jones, of St. Marys county, Dr. D. C.
Burch, of Sc. Marys county, H. Ulman,
of Baltimore, and threo or four passen
gers.
Steamer Massachusetts is aehore, dis
abled, at Dram Point—all on board well.
The steamer Lonisa is ashore on the
Middle Ground. The steamer Ida and
twenty-three schooners are ashore.
Bellaib, October 24—The reaper and
thresher manufacturing company have
made an assignment. Their liabilities
are $190,000; nominal assets $100,000.
Cumberland, ©otober 24.—The Presi
dential party .arrived at one this morn
ing, and were driven to the fair grounds
at ten.
New Yobs, Ootober 24.—Daniel A.
Gillette, of the firm of Gillette & Steger,
a well known member of the bar, is dead.
Edinbuugj, Oatober 24.—The Scots
man says: “A cal for three thousand
dollars per ehaio will he msd« on the
hhareholders of the City of (. ,fgow
Bank immediately. I* hu b on discov
ered since the repoit of the eiaminers
into the condition of the bank that the
foreign correspondents of the bank had
used open credits to the extent of $850, -
000, the most of which will be lost.
London, October 24.—Several Ger
man Socialist newspapers, anticipa
ting suppression, announce their dis
continuance, bnt at the same time ad
vertise the appearance of new jonrnals
by the same publishers—thus, the Far-
warts, a particularly violent Socialist or
gan, announces the speedy appearance ot
a paper to be named the "Reform Joumal”
to be devoted to the general interests of
the people. The editor of the St. Peters
burg Russki Pravada has reoeived his first
warning for printing a letter to General
Drentelu. the newly appointed Chief of
the Secret Police, exhorting him to deal
leniently with political offenders. The
Qolos has received its warning, and it is
said on the street, has been suspended,
for attacking the general anti-Socialist
London, Ootober 24.—Cardinal Pan!
Callen, Archbishop of Dablin, is dead.
He was born in England in 1803, an . was
nominated as Cardinal in I860.
Bo ton, Oot., 4.—TheGreenbaokers of
the Fourth Congressional district held an
excited, inharmonious convention last
evening The regular convention refu
sed to make a nomination, but subse
quently Wendell Phillips was nominated.
New Orleans, Oot. 24—Iuaooord-
anoe with the orders of the government
the arms of the first and second infantry
of the Crescent City Battalion and New
Orleans Infantry have been removed to
ihe Mechanics’ Institute where they will
be guarded until after the eleotion.
Boston, Oct. 4.—Delegates from the
several Greenback clubs throughout the
State, met yesterday. The regular Green
back ticket which was left incomplete by
the Worcester convention, was filled by
the following nominations. Lieutenant
Governor, John F. Arnold; Secretary of
State, Weston Howland; Treasnrer and
Becsiver, General Horaoe Benney: Ser
geant, Attlitor, David King.
New Yore, October 24.—The Citizens’
Belief Committee for the Southern suf
ferers have decided to close their office
on Saturday and no more subscriptions
will be received after that date. The to
tal amount received np to to-day is $11,»
900 04, besides clothing and supplies.
General Pope declines to appear in the
Fitz John Porter case, nnleea regularly
sammoned.
After the adjoarnment of the Board,
General Terry announced that a dispatch
wa9 received from the war department
relating to Pope’s appearance as a wit-
A conference will be held to-morrow
on the subject.
Charles W. Pontez, late policy clerk in
the New York Life Insurance Company,
was arrested for complicity in the $60,-
500 forgery by whioh the Union Trust
Company was victimized.
Augusta, October 24.—The Chronicle
to-morrow will contain an appeal from
the ex-Confederates in behalf of the
widow and childreuof the late Lieutenant
Benner.
Boston, October 24. — The claims
against the Old Colony railroad, growing
out of the Wollo3ton disaster, are be
ing rapidly ad j nsted. It is said the total
ad just muu - will cost but $250,000.
Washington, October‘24.—The Secre
tary of the State sent to Chattanooga
$500 of the fund in his possession for the
relief of the fever sufferers. Bober c Lnm-
son, Abram Maberry, L. A. Mason have
been appointed storekeepers and gangers
of the 6th North Carolina district.
Memphis, October 24.—From six
o’clock last night until noon to-day there
were three interments. Among the
deaths were Mrs W. IJ. Beiry, Wallace
Williams, a condn. or ou the Charleston
Biilcoad, and Mrs. Morgarch Sobrayer.
The weather is growing warm.
Holly Springs, October 24.—Foarteen
new cases and oae death in the past
twenty-four hours. Dr. Compton died
to-day. There was frost last night.
New Orleans, October 2i,—The
weather is clear and pleasant, the th r-
mometer Indicating seventy-two degrees.
To-day sixty-nice new cases of fever and
sixteen deaths were reported. Among
the deaths reported yesterday are Bev.
Tiff Foster, pastor of the Moreau Street
Methopist Episcopal Church, aged twen
ty-eight years. John Gibson, Jr., Super
intendent of tho construction of the Car-
tom Home, died yeeterday at Pass Chris
tian of the fever. Six new cases and four
deates arc reported at Baton Bouge.
Chattanooga, October 24.—Among the
deaths reported are John 8altar and Ethel
Drake, besides two colored persons.
Cumberland, Md„ October 24.—The
Presidential party arrived this morning
and were escorted to the fair ground by
the military and citizens. The welcome
speech was made by Governor Carroll, af
ter which the President delivered an ad
dress congratulating his hearers upon the
presence of peace throoghoat the land,
saying “we are rapidly moving forward to
the period when ill sections are to have
equal rights—the States equal rights un
der the Constitution, and all citizens equal
rights.’’
The President spoke of the depression
caused by the panic five years ago aB
passing away, and he believed the pros
perity of agriculture throughout the
country would extend to otber branches
of industry.
The President alluded to our ability to
undersell European countries in many
things. They have heretofore furnished
us as among the indications of our nat
ional pros psrity.aud concluded by saying
the good credit of the United States is val
uable to every man in the United States,
engaged in any industry, because tbe en
terprises that give employment to
labor can go forward only by cap.
ital and capital can be lent out
only on good eredit. What we want ia
good dollars and inducement to pnt them
into business. If I know myself at ah,
my view la that more Iranian being* are
engaged in labor with hands than In any
other way. They are ohlefly to be consid
ered In governmental affairs. [Applause ]
This ia my opinion. All the time in tra v-
dlinp, our safety depends on the honesty
and fidelity with which tba oomraon la
borers perform their part. If on the
railroad there he defeotive machinery or
eareleseness, onr lives an endangered.
So onr national safety depends on honest
labor, therefore, tbe best thing to do is to
keep our credit good, our .oorrenoy soaad
and staple.
Following the President, Secretary
Sherman made a speech devoted to the
financial oonditiou of the country and
giving some facts taken from the records
of the treasury, tending to show that busi
ness is improving, and that the signs for
the future of trade and industry is hope
ful and cheering.
The Secretary said, in the course of
his speech, we have imported goods from
foreign countries during the last twelve
months to the value of $430,855,017,
and sold foreign countries daring the
same period goods to the value of §720,-
454,171, leaving a much larger balance
in onr favor than has ever occurred be
fore in our history, and this balance is
represented either by the debts paid by us,
or the moneyipaid to us, mostly by the debts
paid by us, and among the bright signs
of the nationol future, he mentioned the
following: Our exportation of manufac
tures of cotton increased from $2,947,528
during the fiscal year ending June 30,
1873, to $11,435,628 during 1878; ex
ports of iron manufactures, iron includ
ing steel, rose from $10,000,000 in 1873
to $12,000,000 in 1878; exports of leather
and manufactures of leather increased
from $5,305,000 in 1873 to $8,077,000
in 1878, and onr exports of copper and
brass, and manufactures thereof, rose
from $753,000 during 1873 to $3,078,000
during 1878.
Speaking anon the currenoy question,
the Secretary said: “I do not say that
coin money should be the only money, for
I believe that paper money is equal to
coin, and is for currant purposes more
convenient than coin money, but the
only test of its equality to coin is that it
is redeemable in coin only on demand of
holders.”
I have no wish to enter upon the contro
verted political question, whether the
best mode has been adopted to bring this
about, for upon this point we might hon
estly differ, but npoa one point I think
wo can all agree, that haviog gold and
silver and paper money so' near to each
other, we will not allow the gap to widen
again, but that all money shall bo of
equal value to the purchasing power
so that the rich and poor, bond
holder and- note holder, land owner
and laborer,may have bb he chooses either
form of money for his labor and produc
tions. I am frequently asked whether we
can maintain the equality of this money
after resumption. I say without hesita
tion that we oan do so. But we must
not foroe the issue of either form of
money when the separate uses for whioh
it is designed wilt not keep it at par with
the others. After the party had left the
fair grounds the President and Mrs.
Hayes held a reception, and many ladies
and gentlemen of the oity and surroand-
ing country called to pay their respects
to them and to the Governor of the
State. At .twelve o’clock the party left
for Washington. Their reoeption was
cordial in all directions.
Atlanta, Ga , Oat. 24.—Fifteen thou
sand people attended the fair to-day.
The trotting race in the 2:50 class was
won by Katie T. Time 2;40,41, 40.
Throe quarter dash was won by No Name.
The mile heat running race was won by
Bill DUIod, time 1:47$. Tbe paoiog race
was taken by Sleepy George. Tims 2:26$
31, 33. The King of the Oarnival enters
the city to-morrow. *
Washington, October 24.—An officer
of the revenne marine service has been
detailed to investigate the recent Davis
disaster.
Charleston, October 24.—Tho schoon
er Fred. A. Carl, from Rotterdam, brings
the officers and crew of tbe bark Martha,
from Bull River for Newcastle, which was
abandoned at sea.
Chicago, October 24.—Iowa, Nebraska
and Kansas advices indicate that the
prairie fires are still raging in these
States, destroying grain, bridges, barns,
fences and other property. Many persons
have perished in tbo flames. An uncon
firmed report prevailed in Lincoln, Neb.,
yesterday that Albion, Boone county, a
town of two hundred and fifty inhabit
ants, had been entirely destroyed. It is'
supposed the fires in some cases had been
lighted by the Cheyennes.
Washington, October 24.—Secretary
Evarts made a political campaign speeoh
at Cooper Institute to-night to an im
mense audience.
Mobile, October 24.—For the twenty-
four hnurs ending yesterday at noon there
weie ten new cases and two deaths. For
the twenty-four hours ending at noon to
day there were five new cases and three
deaths. Forty-one cases are now under
treatment.
Philadelphia, October 24.—Detailed
reports to-day show that by yesterday’s
storm in this city 384 dwellings and stores
were unroofed and otherwise injured.
Several were completely demolished. In
addition to these, there were badly in
jured thirty-one churches, twenty-three
schools, thirty-five factories and ware
houses, five hotels, two elevators, and
fifty otber large building?, such as de
pots, ferry houses, mills and railroad
offices. The fatal accidents were six,
and those seriously injured number
thirteen.
THE GEORGIA PlttESS.
Hie Great Le Maces an Author.
New York Sun.J
When General La Due was dismissed
in disgrace from the Hayes circua, then
travelling in Minnesota, he hastened back
to Washington and took hi3 revenge on
society in general by issuing from the
Government Printing Office an edition of
309,000 of his first annual report. He
has kindly sent to the Sun a muslin-
bound copy of this remarkable work, and
it seems to require a few words of notice.
The cost of printing this largo edition of
La Due’s report is not far from $125,000,
which comes directly out of the pockets cf
the tax-payers of the United States. If
the farmers of the country raise wheat,
corn and rye, this year at an average
profit of twelve and a half cents a bushel,
Lo Due’s publication destroys the profit
on just one million bushels of grain. If
there is a net profit ot two dollars a head
on cattle sent (o the market for export,
it will take an extra drove of sixty-two
thousand five hnndred healthy bnllocks
and heifers to make np for the drain on
the national resources occasioned by Le
Due’s book. If the poultry farmers
make five cents a dozen on eggs, the hens
of America will have to lay not les3 than
thirty million eggs over and above their
normal production in order to equare the
account with Le Due.
Synod of Georgia.
Correspondence Telegraph and Messenger.1
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 23,1878.
This angnst body met last night In the
Central Presbyterian Cburob. The Bev.
Dr. Axon, of Savannah, preaohed the
opening sermcD, It was a fine and inter
esting effort.
Tbe election of officers next took place,
Bev. John W. Baker was chosen Modera
tor and Bev. A. W. Cliaby temporary
Clerk. The Synod then adjourned till 10
’o’clock this morning.
Ootober 24,1878.
The Synod met this morning at the
bonr specified.
The morning was consumed in bearing
excuses of absentees.
I am sorry to say that most ot these ex
cuses were founded on pecuniary inabil
ity to pay traveling expenses.
It is a disgrace to tbe congregation*
that the clergymen of the Presbyterian
Ohnroh are unable to attend the synods
of the chnrch, beoause their salaries are
too amsll to peimit them to pay traveling
expenses to and from tbe plaoe of meet
ing.
The oase cf Deacon Blook will not be
reaohedfor a day or two, probably not un
til tbe bulk of the business before Synod
Is disposed of.
Hon. Clifford Anderson is in tbe oity,
and is looking well.
Caeoltnn.
A Radical Argument*
Philadelphia Special, 234 Inst., to Balk 3nn.l
At a political meeting this evening
some one threw a large stone at 8p»-ker
Randall, who was addressing tbe c.-owd.
Th» Speaker’s escape was very narrow,
as tbe atone struck a door immediately
behind him. No arrests were made.
The Anti-Tammany Combination on
Monday last nominated Edward Cooper
for Mayor of New York, against Augus
tus Schell, the Tammany candidate.
Mr. Cooper is a Democrat, and will re
ceive tbe support of the Republicans as
well as all tha Democracy outside the
Tammany Hall oonceotioc.
“Scar-Faced Gobdon.”—This, says
the Constitution, “may be used as a term
of reproach among the FeitoDites, bat
among those,who remember with some
thing like reverence the memories of
those who fought and fell in behalf of
the lost cause, no prouder title could be
given to the man who, when the supreme
moment came, charged down with his
little handful of ragged veterans upon
the entire Federal army. Yon are cor
rect, independent* 1 "Scar-faced” Gordon
let it be."
The same paper says a vote was taken
on the State Road train from Atlanta,
last Tuesday, with this result: Lester31,
Feltonl9. Then the ladies voted, with
this result: Lester 28, Felton 8.
Rxfreeing to the digraceful scramble
for the negro vote now going on in the
Fourth distriot, the Chronicle and Consti
tutionalist voices publio sentiment
Georgia as follows:
The experience of other sections of
Georgia has shown what “independent
movements” and "scrub races” are —
that they mean the prostitution of.the
ballot and the bribing of ignorant and
corrupt voters, nothing more and nothing
less. In such contests the ignorant and
vicious of both races hold the balance of
power, and are considered fit subjects for
cajolery and corruption. If the Demo
crats bad made a nomination and by force
of publio opinion kept disappointed office-
seekers out of the field, they would have
had no trouble. As it is, the contest be
tween two Democrats is being conducted
in such a way as todigostall decent men,
and to pave the way for the speedy dis
ruption of the party.
We quote the following from the same
paper:
The State Fair.—This annual exhi
bition of the Georgia State Agricultural
Soolety will commenoe in Macon next
Monday and oontinue during the week.
From information that wo have received
there is reason to believe it will be by far
the largest and most successful exhibition
held by the Sooiety. The premram list is
large and has been oarelnliy arranged so
as to interest all olasses of citizens. The
raoiDg pnrses are especially liberal and
will attract some of tbe best horses in the
country. The show of stock of every de
scription promises to be exceptionally
fine. Among the side-shows of the fair,
so to speak, will be the famous marks
man, Dr. Carver, and the Presidential
candidate, Senator Thurman. The for
mer will exhibit his wonderful skill with
the rifle and shot-gun and the latter will
make a speeoh. It is docbtfnl whether
Mr. Thurman receives the nomination of
the National Demooratio Convention, but
even a Presidential oandidate is some
thing of a lion in Georgia and the Ohio
Senator will draw a orowd. We believe
that neatly all, if not all, the railroads
leading to Macon will transport passen
gers for one fare. The fair grounds are
large and convoniently arranged and
baantifnlly ornamented. The managers
of the exhibition have spared neither la
bor nor money to make it a snocess and
we hope they will be rewarded with a
large attendance
An Adjourned Session.—Wo hope
that the General Assembly, which is to
meet two weeks from to-day, will not
attempt to finish its labors in one long
session. It is the opinion of those whose
experience in public affairs makes their
views valuable, that the new Legislature
cannot complete its work during a session
ot less than sixty days, and many believe
that ninety days will be required to put
in operation the machinery of the organic
law. We thing that instead of holding
a continuous session it would be better
for tbe Legislature to meet, elect a Uni
ted States Senator and the Judges of the
Superior Courts and snch Solicitor- Gen
erals as are to be chosen, pass the Tax
and Appropriation acts and then adjourn
until next July or August. The commit-
toes having been appointed they could
do most of their work, intelligently and
at their leisure during the recess, and
npon re-assembling, legislation deemed
necessary would be matured and be ready
to be acted upoD. With a continuous
session legislation would necessarily bo
hasty, erode and perhaps defective. A
very large percentage of the present
General Assembly is made np of planters.
These gentlemen can not be absent from
their homes in November and December
without sustaining great inconvenience
and perhaps pecuniary loss. Ia August,
when their crops have been laid by, their
plantations will not suffer from their ab
sence. The lawyer and merchanc mem-
bers, also, have little to do in enmrner,
while in winter they are generally busy.
Every class would be suited by the adop
tion of the plan which we have suggested
above, and the State would be a gainer,
in better digested legislation. By not
allowing any mileage for the adjourned
session the cost of two short sessions
would not be greater than the cost of a
long one. We undeistscd that many
members favor this course, and we hope
that it will be adopted.
A Hanoook oouuty letter to the Chron
icle says Mr. David Dickson has recently
made live fish ponds at a cost of $30,000,
and now has fish by the wagon load.
The total cotton reoeipts at Savannah
on Taesday were over 7,000 bales, of
whioh number 6,000 were received by the
Central road.
The following items are from the Sa
vannah News i
Brought to me Citt.—The citizen
ot Bryan Neck, Bryan county, who shot
and killed the negro Giles on Friday last
for an outrageous aseault upon his wife,
tbe partioulaia of whioh have appeared,
was brought to the oity yesterday trader
guard and committed to jail. It is pre
sumed the^ase will be brought before the
Superior Court of Bryan at its present
term.
Railroad Mutual Loan Association.
At the twenty-fifth regular meeting of
the Railroad Mutual Loan Association,
held on Monday night, the old board of
officers were re-eleoted. The following
sales of money took place: $1,000 at 46},
$1,000 at 47, $1,000 at 47}, $1,000 at 47$.
The News prints a special from Tebeau-
ville dated the 22), whioh aays a bol.
“attempt waamade last night to bard
the entire business portion of Waycroasu
Ga., by fire being placed under W. H,
Cason’s grocery store. Fortunately, the
flames were discovered in time to prevent
any damage. A prominent citizen has
been arrested, charged with the crime.
His preliminary trial eommenoes to-mor
row, and great excitement prevails.”
The Constitution says tho “bogus green-
backers and Independents in the Fifth
District do not seem to be making much
headway. This is natural. A candidate
that was nominated by men who repre
sented nobody, and s party represented
by a man who had formally pledged him
self to snpport the action ot the Barnee-
ville convention, couldn’t bo expected to
make much headway. It is rarely that
the people are deceived by any each non
sensical campaign as the bogus green-
baoker* ara making.”
Columbus leads Macon. She has
eight policemen who require two lieu
tenants and one marshal to command
them. What an unmanageable set the
eight nut be.
A Screven county man makes this
blow in a late Utter to tbe McDuffie
Journal:
Fifty bushels of corn are being mads
per acre; eighteen bale* of cotton on
twelve sores; thirty bales on thirty acres;
twenty-three barrels of syrup on one
acre.
Caleb Nettles, who wasahotbyF.
B. Sioney, inMoDnffie county last week,
died on Sunday. Stony baa sloped.
The Sumter Republican aays the house
of Mr. W. W. Wheeler, of that town,
was burned last Taesday morning, to
gether with all ita contents. Incendiary,
and only $500 insurance.
The Sandersvilie Courier says a diffi
culty occurred one night last week In
that county “between Dr. B.C. Wilson
and Mr. A. B. Hataway. Mr. Hataway
earn* to Dr. W.’s gin house where he was
ginning cotton, and without any words
fired on the Dr: twice, both shots taking
effect, one over the stomach and one in
the left aide. Hataway then ran off, the
Dr,pursuing him with a shot gun and
fired once, bnt the distance was too great
for the shot to take effect. Hataway has
not been seen since.” ■
A Tattnall county rattlesnake made
a big;mistake last week. He bit a negro
boy and died from tbe effeots. The boy
got well.
From the Hinesville Gasette we clip as
fallows:
A distressing incident ot the camp,
meeting was the sadden illness of Bvv,
Simael Anthony, the agent of tbe Hon
day sohools, who was pros! rated by f
stroke of apoplexy on Saturday. We are
glad to add that from the latest aoooonia
ho wan rapidly improving.
Gin Housb Burned.—Honorable El
bert Bird, Representative elect from Tatt
nail, loBt his gin-house by fire not lone
since. Four bales of cotton, about four
hundred bnshels of cotton seed, together
with the machinery and a threshing ma
chine were totally destroyed. The whole
secret was that one of the cotton pickers
who was smoking her pipe in the field
left a match in the basket of cotton. Mr.
Bird estimated his loss at $6D0.
The Big Cob.—Mr. Allen Mattox, one
of the beet practical farmers in Tattnall,
raises the largest corn in the whole conn-
try. We saw a cob which could not go
through a two-inch auger hole. He also
had ears of corn which measured thir
teen inches in length; The corn was the
oidinary variety, whioh Mr. M.,has been
planting for tbe last thirty years.
Faet»Abont Cotton,
New York Sun.)
Cotton iB an absolute and induspensa
ble necessity to onr raoe. Out of the
1,400,000,000'of people on the earth,
1,200,000:000’ are more or less consumers
of cotton. If it was obliterated, there is
no known textile that oould supply its
plaoe. All other textiles are more or less
speoialin use, in speoial localities to
whioh they are specially fitted. Cotton
alone, from its very cheapness, and abnn
dance, and adaptation, meets the wants
of people and all olasses in all climates.
Oar cotton belt is situated between
thirty and thirty-Bix degrees of north lat
itude.- There is not exceeding one-quar
ter of that belt under cultivation. The
day is not far diBtant when Texas alone
will produce more eotton than is now
grown in all the States. The lands now
in ootton are not half cultivated. Before
the beginning of the next century we
will produce better ootton and doable as
much to the acre.
Cotton requires a peculiar climate tot
its regular, unfailing and perfeet growth.
It is a tropical plant, yet the tropics fur
nish (outside of onr own country) but
and these limited localities for the
production of a fibre eqnal to onr own.
Although some of these latitudes produoe
ootton enormously, it is inferior. China
is said to have produced from 10,000,000
to 12,000,000 bales the size of ours. But
China cannot now supply her owu con
sumption, and is importing from British
India a large amount to make np her de
ficiency. A little over seventy years fam
ine compelled the dynasty of China to is
sue a degree entorcing the withdrawal of
large quantity ot lands from the
cultivation of ootton and devoting
them to tho production of food.
This policy has been continued, and
more lands are generally taken from
the ootton area every year to meet the
demand for food of her increasing popu
lation. From this cause China has be
come a large importer of eotton, although
ehe has been, and is,* the largest cotton
producing country in tho world. In
1863, before our ootton cultivation and
recovered from the effects of the war,
England took from us only 877,000 bales,
from India 913,000. In 1871 she took
from us 1,925,000 bales. These facts
end all controversy about East Iedia
competition, even if tbe quality was
equal to onr own.
j ingland consumes about 3.000,000 bales
—two-thirds of which ehe takes from us.
In 1859, before the war, England took
from us 2 086,000 bales; and the total
amounts from Brazil, West Indies, East
India and Egypt were 743,000 bales: In
1860 she took from us 2.582 000 bales,
and from all others 786,000 bales. More
than tan-elevenths of her increased sup
ply came from us, less than one-eleventh
from all others. Ia 1870, notwithstand
ing our war and the arduous efforts of
her Cotton Supply Association, she took
from us between sixty and seventy per
cent, of her cHpply. If ehe could get
equally us good cotton elsewhere, ehe
would have done so long ago. Sbe has
abandoned her Cape of Good Hope plan
tations. Failing in all her efforts, she
now looks to our orop as her ohief depen
dence.
Cuba made an effort to produce cotton
in 1853-9. The seed was furnished by
England. The experiment was made un
der the auspices of the “Anglo Douera
Joint Company.” The lands selected
were about eleven miles from the oity of
Havana. Tbe crop produced was, in
bulk, an unusual success, yielding about
000 pounds to the acre, lint and seed,
being about 900 pounds of lint to the
acre, equal to our best cropB raised in the
State of Arkansas. Now Cuba plants
none. Climate and absence of frost
closed the bustnese. The Manchester
company made several vigorous efforts in
the Darwar settlements ot the Bombay
.Presidency, but succeeded only in pro
ducing a weak, unequal fibre as compared
with tho American cotton.
A Disc every of Great Impor
tance to aanaiactarera and
Navigators.
Special to the Cincinnati Bnquirer. {
New York, Oot. 20.—Mr. S. C> Salis
bury, a mechanic, has been at work for
twenty years on a plan to utilize petrole
am for fnsl in producing steam. He haa
bit it, and it in 'a fair way t6 make's for
tune. It was tested in the Brooklyn
Navy-yard on Saturday, and was found to
work to the utmost satisfaction of the
offioera who Inspected it. The furnaces
were in full blast, but no smoke was visi
ble. Great volumes of white steam roll
ed away from tbe pipe, but no ooal waa
thrown upon the fire below. It bad the
look of an effect without a oause.
“The moat wonderful Bight I have ever
seen,” the veteran engineer Isherwocd
said. “It revolutionizes the iron and
steel manufacture the world over,” one of
the largest iron men of the oonntry ex-
olaimeu. “It opens a new era in glass
manufacture. We shall soon have glass
roofs on onr houses, and Frenoh piste
will be as cheap as common window-
glass,” said a large glassmaker.
The results were so extraordinary in
the perfeot oombnstion attained, In the
intensity of heat quickly produced, in the
enormous pressure oE the eupeiheated
steam, in tbe astonishing evaporation of
water, in the freedom from dust, cinders,
sulphur and all imparities,that these ex
parts, at once realized that a revolution
in all departments where steam is used
must ooour immediately.
The fuel is made of the residue of pe
troleum and coal tar, whioh is mixed to
about the consistency of molasseB. It is
conducted from the barrel to the furnace
by nuans of a small gag.pipe. At the
end of thia pipe as it enters into the
door of the furnace .is a funnel-3hsped
apparatus. As the fuel enters this fun
nel it comes- in contact with a current of
highly Euper-heated steam, which atom
izes the liquid so that it leaves the ma
chine. It induces the required amount
of oxygen to enter end mix at the point
of ignitioD. Thus the atomized fuel
shoots, in a fierce but delicate Epray, in
to the blazing furnace. The brick arches
of the great furnaces are kept at a white
heat,, and a pure white fltme flashes
along the whole length, registering
beat of 5,000 degreez, melting pig iron
in ten minutes, and making liquid glass,
in two hours instead of sixteen. All that
there is to maintain this extraordinary
heat is the Elight spray darting in from
the little furnace, which comes jnst with
in the door. “I con send this intense
white flame from the battery to Grace
Church if I have a furnace arch that
long,” said the inventor.
The amazing scope of this new dis
covery may be estimated from its effect
upon the oil trade alone. Mr. Salisbury
says he is about to make a proposition to
the producers and tbe United Pipe Lines
for a permanent contract to take from
them at Pittsburg all of their surplus
and all their distillate napthas at a price
that will give the producers firly 59 per
cent, profit, and also pay the pipe lines
for piping it to Pittsburg. The ocean
steamship busine.-s w:ll also feel the
effect of this revolution in steam-produc
ing fuel. Eiperiments already made
show that in a single trip across the At
lantia a saving of about $5,000 will b9
effected ia freight-room alone, as the
space now taken up for 800 tons of coal
will be used for freight.
But the greatest achievements of the
new system will be in iron-making. Said
the leading representatives of this inter
est: “This is the grandest achievement
of science in this age, and this inventor’s
income, even on very small royalties,
will be greater than that of any living
capitalist. With the mechanism invent-
by Mr. Salisbury a blast furnace of
thirty tons per day will convert its liquid
iron into blooms or ingots of wrought
iron or steel at a cost so trifling that it
enhances the value of pig metal 100 per
per cent.”
Lucky Cbadnlck.
San Francisco Stock Exchanged
One of tbe luckiest men on the Com
stock to-day, all things considered, is
Chad.” His real name iB H. A. Chad
wick, .but they only know him by that
name on bis birth-register and his bank
checks. By tbe way, the bank men, nntil
very recently, had almost f ergotten what
the full name was, but they have had
their memories prompted in a very satir-
factory way. Chad came out here with
Warren Leland, the hotel man, to help
ran the Palace. They nsed to say of the
two that Warren was heir apparent of
the hotel dynasty, but Chad was the heir
presumptive. The ono waa major gen
eral and the other was hia adjutant
general, and without the latter
neither oould exist. Hawbeit they
quarreled. They used to say alt manner
of mean things of each other, and though
both were fat, neither langhed in the
other’s prosenoe. Leland hobbled along
with the Palace and Obad got under the
wing of Baldwin, and opened and organ
ized the working foroe' ot the other’s no-
tel. Then differences arose and Chad
cot loose from Baldwin. Then he rested
awhile; He began to get a little disgus
ted with the hotel business. He had ran
Willard’s in Washington daring tbe war,
when that hostelry waa an army head
quarters. He had ran the Grand Pacific
in Chioago, another hotel in Baltimore,
and—weil, after twenty year's work ha
hadn’t made mnoh more than a living.
Oae dry Hanak and Ike Bateman, who
own tho Hew International Hotel in Vir
ginia City, invited him over then to
run that establishment. Chad looked
almost atnpefied at being invited to
run a country hotel, but he gazed at hia
bank accent t, and finally coniented to
treat. He treated. In due time he went
to Virginia, opened the International,
made a success of it—Ohad always makes
a sucoess of a thing when he ia allowed
his own way—and he took auch good can
of Johnny Skae, whenever the latter went
there, that Johnny gave him a point; it
was a small point—only a $3 point at
lint, bnt it grew. It started to grow al
most at once. Chad west in light at the
beginning, but aa the point began to run
np like a lima bean vine, he doubled up,
and before Sierra had touched $25 owned
fifteen hnndred shares. Then Johnny
told him to aland pat, and he stood pat.
And he still stands pat, and oan dean np
to-day over $200,000 if ho wants to. The
moral of this little story is that a hotel
keener, if he is fat, jolly and popular, can
caBt his bread into the flames of tha Vir
ginia and Gold Hill Water Company and
find it after not many daya.
N.Y. Herald.]
It is estimated that General Butler’a
chances for winning the Governorship of
Massachusetts are by no means bad. Hia
enemies concede him 90,000 votes.
PETROLEUM AS FUEL.
Too sombre.
An esteemed friend and admirer of the
Tzlegrafh think its oolumns are not suffi
ciently hopeful and oheery, and instances
the artlole of our Senior on Wednesday
morning npon the present condition and
fntnre of Great Britain. In this; howev
er, our friend is mistakes. Tha Tele
graph tries to be a plain speakiog, truth-
dealing journal. It seeks to arriTO at an
intelligent understanding as to all politi
cal and monetary affairs throughout the
nations of Christendom, and then, when
apposite conclusions are suggested, feels
itabounden duty to spread them before
our readers, whether favorable or unfa
vorable.
Did it aet otherwise, the editors
would not be trne to their trusts. 'In the
instance cited, the baldest of facts only
were stated as to the English situation,
whioh iB sufficiently gloomy through
heavy business failures at borne and for
eign wars in the remote dependencies.
The close relations between the twe
oonntries rendered it but proper to sound
note of warning to oar people. Sue
prudence and precaution may greatly
abate the threatened injury, bnt they
should know the worst and provide for
it. ThuB the present extreme low prioe of
ootton should cense onr planters to de
vote more apace and energy to the culti
vation of rice, sugar oane,the oereale, po
tatoes, fruits and vegetables, for we know
not how long it may be before
the great staple will again command
remunerative prices. True, even if En
gland becomes really involved in a for
eign war, still her mills must continue to
consume a very large amount of cotton,
and this very contest in Asia may reduce
the product of the raw material in that
quarter of tho world and enhance the
price here. A great demand wonld also
spring np abroad for the bread stuffs and
otber provisions of America, which, if
operating against Southern consumers
would nevertheless swell the aggregate
wealth of tbe nation. Happilv, the pres
ent year we have full barns and an abund
ance of food, and it is to be hoped that
onr people will hereafter continne to
raise their own provisions. It is their
only pecuniary salvation.
But viewed in any aspect, as England
the beat customer of the United States
and her business relations cloaer with ns
than those of any other nation, the fact
ia unquestionablo that if her trade and
industries decline, ours must suffer also.
And it was this and nothing more that
Mr. Cliaby meant in his remarks con
cerning England’s present difficulties.
Hence,the necessity of so regulating our
own affairs as best to ward off threaten
ed financial troubles on this aide of the
water.
So far as Georgia is concerned and the
prospects of our own fair city, the Tele-
graph has been quick to lay hold of and
expatiate upon every symptom of im
Movement manifested, and to suggest,and
abor to inaugurate, new elements of
wealth and fields of industry, such as the
general introduction ofxioa as a farm
prodnat, tha rearing of Bheep. the onltU
vation ot traits and vegetables for the
northern markets, tbe proper application
and value of fertilizers, the development
of onr mineral and turpentine lands, the
utilising of the water power of the State
as far as praotioable, the inestimable im
portance of popular edooatlon, and, In
short,nothing that could possibly inure to
the benefit of onr beloved commonwealth
has been overlooked In onr oft repeated
arUole* npon then and other topios gar-
main to them. But this journal abhors
the sensational, and will never falsify
facta even to glorify the Stat* or nation.
Ws hope, however, never to be negligent
in recording every triumph of onr people
in all the various fields of industry, and
especially will cont iane to ring the changes
npon Macon’s largely increasing trade,
the numerous and substantial improve
ments now in progress, her noble Col
leges and Semin an ea of learning, and
the fact that she possesses the beat inte
rior location for buiiuesa and health in
the State.
True, we have not had the benefit of
tha Northern capital whioh has been
poured into the Up of Atlanta, and there
fore haye not been able to keep pace
with he* astonishing growth. Bnt the
progress ef onr city is steady and derided,
*nd its future bright and glorious
Reports from- tbe;Storm.
GREAT DESTRUCTION—A TERRIBLE
“ gale. _.'-r:
-The telegraphic wires were probably
restored to working order yesterday, and
the early telegrams give melancholy re
pot to jas far north as-Philadelphia. The
destruction' of craft on the Chesapeake
Bay was extensive, and involved a good
deal of loss of life. There is no mention
made ot any devastation in the city of
Baltimore, from which fact we hope that
the city escaped any signal damage from
the storm.
In Philadelphia the gale was one of
almost unexampled violence—moving in
its highest velocity atthe rate of seventy,
two miles an hour. In that city the
damage is reported (o bn almost incalcu
lable. Forty church buildings are said
to have sustained serious injuries. Two
large railway station houses were blown
down, and a grain elevator partially de
molished. Tbe injury to private proper
ly must also have been very great; bnt
the brief telegram affords no Bpacefor
the recital of minor disasters. No doubt
also in a gale of each violence the ship-
ping at the wharves and in the stream
must have been seriously damaged.
It is to be feared that the Philadelphia
report foreshadows other damage north
ward by sea and land. A good deal of
anxiety will be felt until these points are
heard from.
The Afghans.
The foreign telegrams state that the
expedition into Afghanistan will be post
poned to next spring, in order to mature
an assault in such force as-shall admit no
poFsibility of frustration or even delay.
It haa been repeatedly given out-by au
thorities on the Indian question that
failure to crush out resistance with
promptitude might be followed by dan
gerous consequences. It might lead to a
general revolt in the Punjanb,. whioh
wonld b8 subdued with the greatesc diffi
culty.
The people are warlike—inhabiting a
highly defensible country and are now
well armed-and more or les3 familiar
with military organization. Backed by
the Afghans, they might make a severe
fight, which must be met in. great part
by native Indian troops, who, in spite of
the boasts of Eail Beacon?field,mighfc not
prove reliable adherents of the British
rn. The Earl’s theory is that the
Indian occupation has added millions of
soldiers to tho aggressive force of the
British empire; but the suggestions
dropped in connection with Afghan inva
sion ehow that the ministry are not wil
ling to hazard too much on the sound
ness of that theory.
His Usual Luck.
Baltimore Gazette, f
While sitting on the curbstone ia front
of No. 15 Grameroy Park, waiting for
some one of the coparceners to emerge
with that letter, we remarked that Mr.
Tilden had never yet appeared at the
bottom of a statement designed for the
public eye without bringing confusion to
his enemies. His explanations have al
ways explained heretofore, and he ap
pears to have had good lack this time..
APPBR THE BANQUET.
The Teveli era over—the orgy tc past.
All my lively companion* h»*e leff aw at tut;
And the ball dozen strokes ot my ormBlrrHoeX
Are effaced by the strains ot the shrill crooms
coda-
In ita grave lies the laughter that boat torn
our lipi'
Over lion tv mail’s ditties and Funnyman's
qut'ps; • .. . .. _ . . A . .
Not an echo survives in tha daw*!* *hUly light
Of the nurth *nd~ tha niusic that * —-
, v through tha night.
There were dainties ot every conceivable ahane,-
There wM Bus—there was Alsopp—and the
blood-of the grape.
There spirits arranged by some cunning derico
To be not very noxious, and yet very nice.
But the thoughts of the feast brius a gloom to
my brow-
As Igsze on the wrecks that- remain of it cow.
And a lew bitter sentiments enter my heed.
While I awhtiy but sadly prepare m* for bed.
Aa £ glance ot yon blank and mi tenanted ahell.
Where it once was- the pride of an ojster to
dwell,
I can scarcely.retain the too-sensitive t«ar,. - -
And the wu hto behold the inhabitant here.
. . brimming, look i
lorn.
That I trac* through their bodies the advent of
morn.
Yet why should I murmur? ' That sunny ebam-
Was productive of Jones’ most rollicking vein.
And I never believed that young Simmon oould
puu
Till tbe serious drink ot the right w as begun.
Though the sceut of tobacco still sickens the air.
My cigars were pronounced a tuoceaa—and they
were. ■
Sammy Tracers, who came to mo down in the
dumps. .
Made a joke after three of tbesa—tharo are tho
stumps.
Ah! Youth is the gaslight, and Age iath* gray.
Will the follies ofmght tear the besnrsoMhe
day?
It is hardly for butterfly poets to preach.
But at forty the learner nay aet up to teach.
Giddy boys: go along with jour jokaa *nd;our
song, - - .
Which are all very pleasant, and notvary wrong,
Bnt the dawning of Reason, Philosophy tells.
Only leaves empty brttles, and ashes, and shells.
Grain Crop of France.—According to
the annual harvest reports of France,
collected by M. Birthelemy Eatienne, of
Marseilles, the grain ciop of this year
will be considerably below tha avenge.
The yield is given as-very good ia only
two departments, good in twelso, flair ia
twenty-three, and bad in forty-six. Saw
timated on this basis it is thought that
tbe French will have to import for home
consumption daring the next twain
months cot less than 1,200,000. tons of
grain; or, in other worde, 1,000,000 tons
more than they Imported during tha year
ending October i; 1878.-.
An Excellent Chance so Secure a
Competent: Teacher.—We invite oare-
fuLattention to the advertisement else
where for a school, of one of. the last grad
uates of the University of Georgia. The
water is well acqnsinttd with the young
gentleman and his excellent father also.
Ha is pious, well traintd. and thor
oughly eduoated, and we feel assured
would give perfect satisfaction to any
school or academy who may noed his ser
vices. Bead the card referred to.
'ihe Storm.
The groat storm ot last Tuesday was
oceofthe most destructive whioh ever
visited tbe United States, but oor accounts
of it are still exceedingly meagre. Phil
adelphia was the centre of destruction,
bnt the storm covered a wide scope and
tbe losses will foot up millions.
He Hay come toLlke
Philadelphia Times!
Washington has put in so strong a
claim that the President has decided to
make a prolonged visit. Tbe World's
correspondent assures us that he “has
finished his list of acceptances on the
agricultural- fairs, delivered his last ad
dress and declined- henceforth.all invita-
tioas which would call him from the cap
ital” He will find it very dry.aud dull,
no doubt, after the excitements of his re-
cent nomadic life, but in time he may
came to like Washington.. Thera are
neople who prefer it to Sag Harbor or
Oshkosh.
Tbe Ladhsi favorite.
Among tbe many thousands of ladies
who have used Dr. Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription and prononneed it their fa
vorite remedy, because so efficient in the
diseases and weaknesses peculiar to wo
men, are many who are well and favora
bly known in the world of letters, as well
as artists, musicians, and a whole host of
names from the brilliant ranks of wealth
and fashion.. It is pre-eminently the la
dies’ Favorite Prescription, its UBe*while
being far more safe and efficient, exempt
ing them from those painful, caustic ope
rations, and the wearing of those me
chanical contrivances made like Peter
Pindar’s razer—seller’s razors—to sell,
rather than to core. oct24dwsmlt
Confederate War Records
Nashville American. I
General Wright, agent of the War De
partment, desires that the attention of
those interested in the Sonth should be
called to the fact that the effort of the
Burgeon General ofjthe army in endeavor
ing to obtain the records relating to Con
federate operations during the war may
be extended to the medical records of
the Confederate army; those particnlarB
whioh relate to the prevailing diseases,
the methods employed in the treatment
of diseases and wounds, the construction
of general hospitals, or tbe management
of the sick and wounded in the field hos-
by tho medical department, and will to
used with similar material contributed
by the medical officers of the army of the
United States, which is now being put*
fished in the Medical and Surgiehl.fliato-.
ry or the late war. The reports will be
esteemed of great value, and duRcredit
will be given in every instance:
A Romance ot tlio flagse.
Memphis'Avalanche I
One ot the thousand and one tragic
incidents ot the great plsgns happened at
Holly Springs a few days eince.. A beauti
ful young lady of New Orleans'was forced
by her father to marry an old man she
conld not love. Preferring death to-slave-
ry, the yonnglady ran away and gave her
services as narco to the fever-stricken at
Holly Springs. Attar a few days ot devo
ted attention to the siok she was herself
stricken. There waa a male nuree for
her. There was so female hand to soothe
with its gentle touch the fevered brow.
But the noble Ridley was there to per
form the last sad offioestothe dying girl.
Toward the last she said to him; ’Kiea
me/ A* Ridley kitted her on the cheek,
she exclaimed: *]$£■ my lips,’ which he
did. She then said: ‘Yon are the only
man I ever kiiaed; kies me again/ While
Bidley waa in the act of kitting her tha
threw her arm* tightly around hit neck,
and instantly expired. W bless tbe
brave hearts.
Yes, He Would..
Chicago Tribune!
It is said that “Gentleman” George
H, Pendleton now views himself in the
glass as a probable candidate tor the Pres-
denry in 1880. George wou'd make a
handsome race, if nothing more.
Forney’s.Opinion. •
Interview in Philadelphia Times!
' “I shall stand by the Bepublican party
till tbe last horn blows, and I therefore
must not be misunderstood when I say
that the chances are in favor of a Demo
cratic triumph in 188p.”
Pennsylvania.
Tbe Issue la
Philadelphia Timer.J -
Tbe issue m this State, to be decided
this day two weeks, divested of all us fus
tian, is whether or not the people will
ratify tbe gift of Simon Cameron of a
seat in the United States Hecate to ti3.
son Don.
Other People’s Honey.
Washington Posy •
When a man resolves that he would,
like to hand!# other people’s money, it
beoomes necessary for him to deride .
whether he will (tart a sayings bank, *
form a Joint Stock Company, or turn
philanthropist and solioit subscriptions
for tbe ohnroh.
Doesn’t Pan «nt Well.
CincinnatvEnquirer.j
The struggle to getnp a few rebel out
rages is immense, bnt does not appear to
be appreciated. The John JScdwn sour
apple tree lament does sot enthuse as it
was hoped. The rebellion is,a thing of
thepast,anddemagoging politicians must
kno-w that there is no moro capital in it.
No|Icetotbe Lsdjes.
Steubenville (Ohio) Gazette..)
Talmage claims that more heads of
families.in New York support the bad
women than young men., ft would seem
that what is needed in tha great city now
more tf an anything elsei ia a lot of well-
pital. These facta are earneetlr d^red iQ ^ ° f
Vts fliA morlipfil rfan&rimpnt;. anti will Vji a“iy f •
Ob! Homan, Woman.
Bnrlington.Hawkeyc! ,
That terrifio runaway on Jefferson
street last evening, in whioh the frantio
horse cvertnrned the wagon, broke three
street lamps, upsot an apple-stand into
perfect chaos, run over a child and
jumpei into the river, was caused by tho
horse catching sight of a fat woman in a
kilt skirt.
Held Up Your Hands.
Naw. York Tribune!
There is no ooosston for haste, men and
bmthrer!: Mr, Tilden, Mr. Marble, Mr.
Ooyle, Mir. Woolley, Mr. Weed and other
coparoeners will flnt have a fair oppor
tunity to state under oath, and snbjeot to
tbe peins and penalties which attach to
perjury, what they know about the oipfaer
dispstohes. It is quite possible that
f archer evidence may then aeem super
fluous. Bat unsworn denials are cheap.
Orangs Countx Outbqns—Deuojou
Georgia Bums.—Ws reoeived a day or
two since from tho fair hands of the daugh
ter of a friend and neighber, a plate ot
fresh butter jaet from thebharn, whioh
for richness of oolor, sweetnaar, flavor,
firmness, and absolute freedom from
milky dilution, has never been surpassed
in any dairy in America.
The writer haa visited tha beat dairy
farms in Orange county, Haw York, and
sampled the famous Philadelphia batter
bnt nothing has tame up to this Yraevill*
specimen.
The cow that yielded the milk from
whioh thia butter waa manufactured, has
furnished all of that essential article
needed for the table ueo and cooking of a
largo family, ever since February last,
save /onr pounds purchased from the
grooef. What oonntry cr animal can beat;
that? • *
Tally Explained-
Bottos Herald)
Tho reoson why, whan Bailor “nub
another lie,” it won’t stay nailed, W that
he doesn’t ueo genuine nails, bnt only a
sort of -“Hqt” WWUSfc t°t fc*"!
metal.
Ttn-Llned Btomnebs.
New York World. J
’Yes,’ said a well-known chemist to a
World reporter list evening, ’people will
hove tot-lined stomaohea before long.’
Than the chemist went to a closet and
took therefrom several small bottles,
which be held np before a strong fight.
He exhibited several sheets of tin whioh
had been extracted from sugar purchased
from extensive dealers in sugaft in this
city. ‘This,’ said the ohemist, ‘is what
they nsa.inthe adulteration Qf sugar*,
and I am informed that epme ot the
dealers buy tin by the ton.. Thia tin
has been cut with muriatic acid, and was
used in sugars and syrups.. I have here
(exhibiting some other small bottles)
samples of glnooae. 25 to 30 per
cent, ia used in engprs and 65 per oenL
in snap*. Poor starch and floor are also
need by some of there wealthy anger
dealers, and I am informed that such
adulterated sugars produce skin diseases.
Here is a bottle (exhibiting a reddish
brown powder) that I cannot describe.
I don’t Ifcow what it ia, bnt intend to
find out. It was taken for eager. ’ . Th*
chemist is yet at work, and in a short
timqcxpeeta to make his report public.
Mb. Hates’ devotion to the road is ex
traordinary. He ia no sooner home than
off again, apd it ia probable hie retain i«
simply da* to th* nspiwitiM of refitting
far another trip. The sympathies ef the
country tfill be agitated on tbo question,
hgw bp ia to bear confinement daring tbe
seeaoa of Congress; bnt luckily it i* n
abort Marion, and after tbs 4th of Marsh
fee cap toko to tbe rqad bfato.