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MACON SA F33RUA&T 4 1879 !
Cotton, foreign
** con tn iso....
Lumber, fore urn....
" coastwise..
Turpentmc,foreign..
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THJ3 GEORGIA JPKESS,
Damkn’s LtniBiB Thade—We rtotiv-
ed from the editor of the Qasctle, Mr. R.
W. Grabb, a tew days since, a most ad
mirably gotten up printed circular, giT-
ing in detail and neatly arranged, a fall
statement of the lumber receipts and ex*
ports of the port of Darien for the past
year. The number of arrivals and clear
ances were also gWen, and shows that
New Inverness, now Darien, at the mouth
of the Altamaha river, bids fair to regain
and even eclipse all her former impor
tance. The oircnlar in question was mis
laid, hence, this tardy notice. We r.nm
np aa follows: Darien exported to Great
Britain 19,836,319 f66t of hewn timber,
22,350,098 sawed ditto,, and 5,432,331
feet of deal boards. To other European
ports there were shipped of sawed lum
ber 1,592,941 feet, deal boards 96.856
feet and hewn timber 6,543,256 feet.
Canada and St. Johns took 1,301,944 feet
of hewn lumber, 13,617 feet sawed and
deal 21,021 feet. South America called
for 1,713,741 feet deal boards, and our
own coastwise ports, hewn 481,581 feet,
sawed lOO.OOCO feet, deal boards 5,398,-
842 feet.
The number of vessels employed were
187, with a measurement -of 94,784 ions.
The total cf the lumber exported foots up
74,172,411 feet.
Not Downhearted.—Brother Grubb
says
If wo can manage to pull through until
blackberries oro ripe, we can get uleng
through the summer, if the berries hold
out The times are kinder tough now,
however.
Another Prospbrcus SiAroRT.-Bruns-
wick aleo comes to the fore with a very
creditable commercial showing for the
year 1878. Tho Seaport Appeal eays 192
vessels entered that port and 193 were
cleared. The following table gives the
tatal exports
Amount.
. 1.SS7 bales
„ 10.369 **
. 17,25),4M feet
, 22,500,000 “
. S.S60 casks
coastwise e.958
Rosin, foreign.....™. 74,700bbls
" coastwise ... 22.C46 "
Wool, •• ... 39.500 lbs
Whale oil," ... 23,500 gallons
Total value $1,373,841
The Augusta, Knoxville and Green
wood Railroad.—Tho Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist eays the work on this rosd is
progressing rapidly. Twelvo miles have
been gradtd and only three moro remain
to be finished before the river will bo
reached. The South Carolina contractors
else are bard at work, negotiations for (he
iron willsoon be made, and the road be an
accomplished faot. Oar contemporary
thinks the enterprise will be of great
benefit to Augusta.
A "Wonderful Gift—Is at Magic?—
Chronicle and Constitutionalist: For some
time past wo have heard rumors cf re
markable cures effected by a farmer liv
ing near Augusta, by simply rubbing tbs
patient with bis bands. Happening to
meet two well known citizens yesterday,
one of whom, it was satd, bad boen un
der tbe treatment of the parly with the
wonderful gift, whilo a member of Jbe
other’s family bad experienced much
benefit from (he same scarce, a Chronicle
reporter questioned them in fcfer!anoe to
the matter, end ascertained that the ru
mors were well rounded. Mr. Robinson
JameB, the parly whoso ministrations
havo effected each wonderful results, is a
plain farmer, living about eleven miles
from tho city. He is forty-live or fifty
years of age, and until about five years
ago, knew nothing of the power which
after events showed that bo possessed.
The Kimball House.—Tho Constitu
tion contains a very long and elaborate
description of this palatial structure,
which Lai been constantly crowded with
guests all the winter, and despite the
fifty rooms that have been added, is to
be still farther enlarged by finishing off
the remaining apartments in the upper
stories. Wo copy some of tho statistics
that are given, wishing Messrs. Scnvill,
Seldon & Co. a continuation of their
present generous patronage:
The Kimball House can accommodate
now 400 to 500 gnests with ease per day.
In a few months it will be able to take
750. The new rooms are being . finished
up as rapidly as possible. The receipts
of the house have gone up to $1,500 per
day, and will average about $400
day. There ore 128 men employed in
the hotel in various capacities, with sala
ries ranging from $10 per month to {125.
The waiters get about $15 a month.
Tho clerks about £40 to £100. In the
kitchen two barrels of flour per day are
used, 25 gallons of oysters, 30 turkeys,
250 to 300 pounds of beef, 8 to 10 hams,
4 or 6 lambs. 60 chickens and other things
in proportion. For dessertTO to! 12 gal
lons of ice-cream, 300‘ to"800 pies, do-
pending on the .varieties; a bushel or so
of cakes, fruits,•mute, 'etc., in variable
quantities. Th’ore are 5,400 yards of car
pet- on the floors, and tho cheapest in the
house is tho tapestry Brussels at $1, and
there are hundreds of yards that cost £5
a yard when it was put down. Messrs.
Chamberlin & Boynton have just finished
potting in three thousand yards of new
carpet, all within two months.
In a recent brawl between Thomas D.
Thrash and Tom Johnson, in Atlanta, tho
latter fired at Thrash at such closo quar
ters as to burn his face with the powder.
This is one statement of the case, which,
however, Johnson and hia friends deny.
The pistol shot came very near killing
policeman Hayes. Tho ball broke the
middle joint of the middlo finger of bis
right band, passed through his overcoat,
hie ooat. his vest and even through his
shirt, and «amo cut c-n tho other aide. A
paper m hia coat-pocket was cut in two
by the bslL Mr. Hayes cays ho has no
idea who fired the pistcl which came so
near killing him. He saw the men in
front of the door, but could not reccgnize
them.
We glean the above from the Consti
tution.
A Wild Cat Fight.—Berrien County
■Nine*: On the night of the 9th instant,
Mr. Mathew Vickers heard his geess
making a noise as :? alarmed. Supposing
it to be “old club foot,” (ilia cat ship be
ing most familiarly known by that name,),
he set on his dog, which overhauled the'
cat in a short time, when the; had r ter
rible fight, which was repeated some half
dozen timt-a, the dog invariably coming
int “eecord best.” Whit was sent for
md toon arrived with a Ron and dog—
"eager for the fray." After a short ehass
the cat was treed, and watched till day,
when be was shot and killed. He was
supposed to have been the largest cat In
the country. His track could be distin
guished from any other cat’s track, on
account cf hia having a club foot. He
killed as many as eighteen geese in one
night. These, added to others he killed
cn “divers times and occasions,” make a
sum total of foriy-sir head of geeae, to say
notning of the number of pigs and lambs
he bad destroyed. He surely was a had
eat.
An old gentleman near Kcsiellville,
named Dean, choked to death last Thurs
day morning while eating.
Ccsmzndable.—Early county Kcics:
•'Where there is a will there is a way”
was evidenced to H3 the Other day. One
c£ the poorest subscribers we have on
our books brought .ubIOO ponnds of perk
ca ij 5 Bubso fjp , .ion account. Others
could do as well. .
The same paper exactingly remarks: Wo
have hod only two or three subscribers to
run away this winter, and one of them
thought enough of ue to leave behind a
bank of seed potatoes out of which to get
our money—if wo can.
Sensible Talk.—Early County News:
Just now tbe guano trade is considerably
disturbed in consequence of the action
taken by tbe Convention of Manufactur
ers of Fertilizers which assembled in Au-
gnata on tho 18:h Of December. Tnat
convention decided to advance the price
of their different fertilizers abont one-
eightb, claiming that they had lost money
on last year’s prices. In various parte of
the State the farmers have held meetings
and resolved not to purchase any fertiliz
ers until the manufacturers reduoe prioes
to last year’s standard. As yet the guano
men adbero to the aolion of the conven
tion, andthexe seems to be some .feeling
getting up between them and tbe farm
ers. This, it 6eems to us, is all wrong.
The manufacturers know the expense at
tending their business, and if they have
been losing money at former rates, it is
but tho diotate of common sense that
prices should be advanced. Planters have
probably.loarncd by this time, how muoh
they can afford to Day for fertilizers, and
if tho prices go above what experience
has proven will be remunerative to them,
they sbonld, of course, decline to pur
chase. Hence, it is altogether a matter
of business, abont whioh there should be
no feeling.
Good for Millzdgeville.—Broadase
and Itemiser: While in Millejjgevillo this
week we saw the design of a new hotel
to be built in that city in a few months.
It is to be under the management of Mr.
Fred Han ft. If the design is a fao simile
of the hotel, after finished, it will bs
among the handsomest in the State; and
if there is any one thing that Milledge.
villa needs more than another, it is a
good hotel
Blcckkr is a lively correspondent, and
as industrious aa a bee. Listen to him
in the Early county 27mm:
Daring tho last four weeks-I’ve travel
ed in Clay, Quitman, Eindolpb, Calhoun
and Early counties, and everywhere 6aw
new houses, new gates, now fields, and
many other worthy exhibitions of indus
try. all of which ehow the signs of pros
perity are daily increasing. I was glad
to ascertain that tho cold hadn’t seriously
injured tho small grain.
Moee From the Same Soubcs.—Last
week, I heard of a farmer in Quitman
county who, in 1878, made 150 barrels of
Caban cane syrup. Reader if yoa can
excel that, I’m all attention..
Disgusted.—Cedar Town Advertiser:
gome of the eleolors whoso ballots were
exposed by the contest are disgusted with
such proceedings.
The contesting Sheriffs of Floyd coun
ty have agreed to run their race oyer
again.
Ahead cf Last Yeab.—Rome Courier:
Rome’s cotton receipts up to yesterday
morning eggregate 48.520 bales. This is
354 bales ahead of the whole year ending
31st August last.
Rome Wants an Opera House.—Cour
ier: We have heard it rumored that there
are some gentlemen in the city from a
distance who contemplate tho erection of
an opera house, if suitable arrangements
can be made. Wo hope the project will
be carried into effect. Such a building
will eo doubt pay well.
A Wonff’iN the Guano an ?
Fort Valley Mirror: To-morrow a meet-
ing is called of oar planting friends to
consider.lbe action of the guano ring in
raising the quantity of cotton to bo given
fer guano. We say “raising tho quanti
ty” advisedly, as we learn that the cash
price 1 far tne guano has b;en towered.
' Severfil of our agents have written their
companies in reference to making the
samej cotton price as last year; but have
received tbe reply that they eannot do so,
as thp SCO pounds only pays cost on it,
aud they prefer to sell for money. There
is a good deal to be said on this question,
and our advice is fox the planter to deal
with honest fertilizers, whatever maybe
the cost. It is a very easy matter for tbe
companies to palm off inferior stuff,
which Ihey would have to do if they do
not get C03t and reasonable profits on
their commercial fertilizers. It would
probably bo best for tho planter to nse
moro home made manures and bnyless
commercial fertilizers. They are certainly
better and cheaper.
Stained Cotton.—Thero has been less
of this grade of the great staple thrown
upon tho market this season than ever
known before. The explanation is that
the first killing frost was so 'severs that
the bolls were stewed up and never open
ed at ail. Hence there has been little or
no “frost cotton”.
The Augusta Chronicle and Stntine
has this to say on the subject:
Lately a number of inquiries have been
received in Augusta from New York, as
to the reason why no frost stained cot»
ton could bo obtained this season. The
reply has invariably been that the only
October ’ froet killed the top crop and
prevented- the balls from opening, eo
that there was no stained cotton to pick
out. I Last year a large quantity of these
stained cotton were eold here, while this
season a hundred and fifty bales would
probably cover the entire salee. The top
crop was just about to open when the
October frost came and the stalks now
carry at their tops quantities of balls,
partially cracked open and hard &3 rocks.
We eaw, yesterday, a3 an evidence of
the fact, the tops of two stalks, taken
from afield near the city, and they were
a good average of the cotton now stand
ing in the field. There were four or five
bolls on each, three-fourths matured.
The ootton in these bolls wa3 totally de
cayed. We have reports from large cot
ton planters in tho best cotton eeotion in
the State to the effect that their crop has
been reduced folly one-fourth by the I033
of the top yield. The loss to -the total
crop by the destruction of this character
of cotton is estimated by practical farm
ers to be equal to from 150.000 to 200,000
bales, which is a very serious loss to the
South.
A Well Deserved Compliment to our
Distinguished Fellow Citizen, Peof.
Sanford.—Chronicle and Constitutionalist-.
Dr. Shelton P. Sanford, Professor of
Mathematics in Mercer University, at
Macon, has just completed an elemen
tary algebra, which, with his excellent
and popular series of analytical arithme
tics and Cbauvenet’s higher mathematics,
will make tbe Messrs. Lippincott’s line
complete. The algebra is in the print
er's bands and will eoon bo given to the
public. Professor, now Doctor Sanford’s
arithmetics sro used in large numbers in
the South. The sale of the eerieB is
daily increasing. That the Doctor’s al
gebra Will make as favorable and lasting
an impression on progressive educators,
as have bis arithmetics, wo do not doubt.
The Savannah News reports a fire in
that city which destroyed five houses,
four of wjtich were owned by colored
people. By great cxirtion the fire de
partment restrained tbe spread of the
conflagration to tho adjacent frame
dwellings. Three of the houses wero in
sured.
A Palace on Wheels —The Nows gives
the following description of the traveling
conveyance of Mad. Modjeeka:
Tbe car is seventy feet long, sixteen
feet high, ten feet in width all over, and
weighs some sixty-two thousand pounds
standing unoccupied. Tho exterior of
the oar is decidedly attractive, the body
being done in a deep wine-color, which is
relieved by borders and lines of gold.*
The name of tho car is to,bo seen on
"either eide, and on tho ends are “Mod-
jeska Bleeping Car.”
The interior is acffairally arranged; has
Accommodations for thirty-two persons
and all necessary conveniences. Tho
private apartments of Mad. Modjeska are
fitted up in regal style. First, there is
the lavatory and toUst room. It is four
by eight aud a half_feet, and is superbly
fitted up with silver-plated conveniences,
a mirror eighteen by thirty-Bix inches,
marble wash-stand and silver*plated
water tank. A corridor, eighteen inches
wide, leads from the wash or toilet room,
on the left of which is Modjeska’s own
elegant apartment, seven feet square.
In the room are two tete-a-tetes, two
chairs, a toilet stand, doable beith and
four mirrors, one of which is twenty-four
by thirty-six inches, suspended immedi
ately in' rear of the toilet stand. The
windows aro of etched plate- glass. The
whole apartment is rich in detail, sump
tuous in its surroundings, and ad elegant
as! the moat refined and aristocratic taste
could desire.
Judge H. B. Tompkins, of the Savan
nah Circuit, has resigned his position—
the resignation to take effectMarch 20th.
His term wonld not have erpired nntil
1830. He will resume the practice of his
profession. The Governor will appoint
bis successor, who will hold the office un
til the meeting of the Geneial Assembly
in July.
Judge Pottle.—Tne News learns that
there is a desire among the legal fra
ternity to have Hon. E. S. Pottle as
Judge Tompkin’a successor. Judge Pottle
has been, wo understand, desirous of
removing to Savannah for sometime past.
Died.—Sandersvills Courier: Mr.
George Franklin, Sr., suddenly died at his
resldenos, on last Wednesday night. He
was about seventy-eight years old and was
able to follow the plow nntil noon of the
day of his death. He was a good oit(z9n,
and leaves many friends to lament his
death.
A Newnan judge marched a couple of
miles to marry a pair, and after perform
ing the ceremony in a most impressive
and dignified manner, was rewarded by
the blushing groom with a fee of five
cents.
Columbus continues to be agitated and
alarmed with repeated attempts at incen
diarism. Under the head of “More
Fires,” the Times thus discourses:
Columbus is now running on fires.
Tney call her a slow town, but some how
or other she always has an excitement
on hand and that excitement never falls
short of one of first-class order. Her
amusement at present is fires and fire
alarms. We have all shades and varie
ties, from- the burning of a large hotel
and half block of buildings to the rotten
shingles of a cegro shanty.
Oar fires, too, are no le specters of
time, place nor circumstance. They
come at the dead hour of night when the
world is locked in sleep, at the early
hours of the morning when .said night i3
being dispelled, at the full noon tide,
daring week days and Sundbys and at
any other time. They break out in cel
lars of stores, through chimneys of dwell
ings, in galleries of churches, in garrets
of cotton factories and in any other in
conceivable place.
Judicial. — Times: Jadge Arthur
Hood, of the Pstaala Circuit, will sit for
Jadge Crawford in the trial of tbe civil
oases passed for another jadge.
Romantic Marriage.—Times: Yester
day Justice N. L. Redd was summoned
to the upper portion of tho. oity to per
form a marriage ceremony. The judge
went, bnt was prevented from tying the
“knot.” A head or the family, (a lady,)
appeared on tho scene and made objec
tions loud and long; whereupon Mr. R.
refused to marry tbem unless they oame
to his office. The groom and justice de
parted, and in a few moments were join
ed by the young lady. Tho party pro
endnro, but she has triumphed by her
patience and honesty. She has in view
some projects, which if accomplished,
will benefit her material interests and
the public generally, we believe. Al
most crushed by the removal of the Cap
ital, she has never complained, or said
aught against the public verdict. All
she asks now is that she ba left to work
out her colvation, in the future, without
obstruction from her enemies. —
It also gives the cheering information
that notwithstanding tho hard times wo
are pleased to see the "many improve
ments going on in tho city. They are
not in any one case worthy of special
mention, but taken together they show
an earnest desire to add to the comfort
and beauty of the homes of our people.
One has only to take a ride or walk
around tbe city to be satisfied that there
is life in the old town yet.
Who knows but that the los3 of the
State Capital may prove the salvation of
this Btaid old town? We never desired
it to be located in Macon.
Milledgeville Recorder: Many State
exchanges are making very favorable and
flattering notices of Hon. Thomas Harde
man, jr., a3 the most suitable man for
Georgia’s next Governor.
Tho Recorder says: Three or four news
papers have been started in Georgia in
the past two weeks. Their proprietors
(must own a gold mine or a great deal of
pluck to make the venture at this time.
The Ghikaberby Tree.—Everybody
knows what this tree is br tho name we
have given it. It is the most rapid in
growth oi any tree we know of. It is as
good for firewood as any tree known in
this climate. It drops its berries and
enriches ;tho ground beyond any ma
nure that we know of. It would pay any
man to sow his poor land broadcast in
cbioaberries, and thin out to a stand.
The cattle roaming around eat branches
that aro cut off, and leave their toll on
the ground.
wwcu v* »AAO UUlUiai, BUU
Freeman Young aha "E4W-eoV Lavender
were made one. An amioable settlement
of the affair was made with all parties af
ter the ceremony.
Objects of Charity.—Everyone would
be benefited by carefully reading the fol
lowing article from the Enquirer-Sun
upon tho condition of tho sick and poor
in Columbus, an I heeding its sugges
tions:
We are rtliably informed that there
aro many poor persons in our city
who are quite sick with pneumonia.
Their limited means compel them to have
only the worst of food, which, of course,
in their debilitated state, they cannot
relish. Sich persons need nourishment,
and if they havo it not, the disease can
better fasten itself upon them. We trust
some cf our citizens will see the necessity
of forming club3 to visit these destitute.
Suffering, eTen when one has proper
nourishment, is very unenviable, and it
mast be terrible indeed when the only
food is corn bread and bacon. Reader,
take it home—“put yourself in his place”
—and we have nodoubt but that you will
cheerfully aid in the relief. If there are
any who would like to see the extent of
tho suffering among the poor, let them go
to the city physician, Dr. S. B. Law, or
Rev. J. H. Campbell, D. D., and in an
hour’s walk they will be fully satisfied
One visit will be all that is necessary, and
you will lotum thanking God for bis
goodness to you and yours. If he has
blessed you with health, help these needy
ones, and remember that “he who giveth
to the poor lendeth to tho Lord.”
It was currently reported on tbe streets
of Pensacola that Mr. John D. Gray, of
Chootawhatchee, and well known in Pen
saoola, was drowned, it is supposed in the
sound near the narrows.
Oracular Explanation of the
Weather.—Talbottoa Register : Duriog
the late cold spell a little “nig,” with his
hands fax down in his breeches pockets,
and shivering ail over from tho oaresse3
of tbe polar wave, approached an old ne
gro man, one of the wiseacres, of the
neighborhood, with the question “Do
ole Coffee, what makes it so cold ?”
Whereupon the __ sable Coffee delivered
himself of something to. this effeot:
“Well, yon sees, I knows de why, bnt I
donnoefyoo kim understand- me ef I
tell yon. Yon tee/wen de eqnomioal line
crosses de equator dat makes de mornin’
and ebenin’ star step ober to whar de
norf star ought to be. ..Yon see, den, dat
produces a flaxamatioa in de air and all
da cole on m right down on ns at once.
Dal’s de whyfore. Does yon comper-
bends?” An J old Coffee took another
“chaiw” of tobaoeo, and remarked that
tbe weather was getting colder.
Geobgia State Agricultural Socie
ty.—Wo clip tho following from an ex
change, signed by President Hardeman
and Mr. M. John3ton,the Secretary of the
Society:
Secretabt’s Office,
Atlanta, January 15tb, 1879.
lo the County Agricultural Societies and
Clubs: 1. Tne spring meeting of 1879 of
tbe Slate Agricultural Sooiety will be
held in Ihe oity of Hawkinsvilla on the
third Tuesday, (18th day,) of February,
1879.
2. We have not yet been able folly to
ascertain wbat all tbe railroads will do in
tho matter of pas3iog delegates and other
members to tbe convention. Tho Western
and Atlantio railroad and the Maoon and
Brunswick railroad will pass tbe delegates
and other members free both ways, as
heretofore. The'. Georgia railroad and
branches, including the Maocn and An-
gnsta railroad, will only pass the mem
bers at three cents per mile each way.
Members can purchase tiokets at any of
the stations on said road and branches,
which tickets will be good for ten days
from date of issue. Tbe county socie
ties and clubs, however, are requested to
eend in their roports and return their del
egates forthwith, and ws will obtain free
tickets ovr-r all the roads, possible, and
make the best terms we can for reduced
transportation over the others.
Cheap if True.—Montezuma Weekly;
It is said that the suiveyor has reported
that for one hundred and fifty dollars
per mite Fiiot river can be made navi
gable for boats carrying 1,000 bales of
cottoD, from Montezuma, Certainly an
appropriation of eo small amount can be
obtained.
Emphatic and Well-Timed Appeal.
The same paper says: For conscience sake
do not wait to be dunned for your sub*
Bcription. If you want tho paper pay
for it without being dunned, and if you
do not want it, pay up what you owe and
have it stopped.
Hubbah fob Millidgeville.—The
Recorder declares that Milledgeville is
out of debt—owes nothing and pays cash
tor all she gets. She has had muoh to
least he sits upright, keeps his feet on
the floor, doesn’t chew tobacco and spit
promiscuously, pays attention to what is
going on, and in short doesn’t behave at
all liko Conkling. Could anything more
in his favor be said than that ?
. ; A." W. R.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Washington City, January 27,1879.
iHiMEFUL.
There is no other word for it, unless I
use a stronger one, and say criminal. I
refer to tho practioo of absenteeism,
which seems particularly to affiict the
Democratic side of the House. There
has hardly been a day during the 44th
and 45th Congresses, when appropriation
bills wero op, that wo have not been
beaten in Committee-of-the-Whcle by
this means. The Democrats get tired of
work and slip oat and the Radicals stay
in their seats and watch. By aud by a
vote is taken and the Appropriation Com
mittee is beaten,and the party thereby de
moralized to a certain extent. To say
that the evil can, and generally is reme
died in a fall Houso in regular session is
neither answer nor excuse. If Demo
crats would 6tay in their seat3 and attend
to tbe duties they are sent hero and paid
to discharge this would not happen. If
a party has a cl ear majority in the House
it should make that felt at all times, as
well in Committte»of-the-Whole as in the
regular session. " I have been thoroughly
disgusted many times in my experience
here by this thing. It seems, too, an
especially Demociatic failing. The Radi
cals have found snd adopted the old time
discipline which once marked and made
the Democratic column eo strong. If
thero isn’t a change the people will not
entrust the party with power in the 47th
Congress. That seems clear to me..
a good thing
it 13 lo havo served on tho Noithora side
of tho late unpleasantness. It is almost
equal to a small bonanza. The new pen
sion bill will pour at least eighty millions
more into the laps of the fellows who
were hit during the war. Some of them
will pocket at least £5,000 back rations,
and a gentleman told me this morning
of an acquaintance of his who would get
more than that; and who,by tho way, only
served about 30 days and had the charm
ing luck of being hit just badly enough to
entitle him to a pension. John Sherman
fought the bill hard and Hayes held it so
long as to cause the opinion that ho did
not intend to sign it. 'But he did at the
eleventh hour, and now it i3 hard to tell
who are tho happier—tho demagogues
who made themselves conspicuously
noisy in its advocacy, or the men who
will benefit by it. Gen. Rice, of Ohio, a
Democrat, had charge, and claims much
of " the credit of pushing it through.
“They say” he is “Boning” to be govern
or of his State, but the Rads out there
swear be will fail to connect. Nobcdy
can get ahead of them when it come3 to
putting salt on that bird’s tail. Of course
the South will kave to pay her share of
this money. That is one of the penalties
of making a losing fight. It is rather hard,
however, that she should be denounced
for thinking dam, as our dear friendi of
the Jaccbin persuason insist we are al
ways doing, whatever our utterances, It
would be a pretty tough job even for
Satan, the father of Radicalism, to turn
out a more creditable piece of work ihrn
that party, as it generally illustrates
itself by voice and act.
THE TEXAS AND PACIFIC PECPLZ
seem to still cberish some faint hopes of
getting a successful day in courtfor’ their
project. Thero was moro than the usual
activity among them last week, as if a
bold stroke cf some sort was pending, I
don’t know what it is, and can’t even
imagine. The thipg seems dead as Hec
tor to me, but as I am not “inside” of
course that opinion is worth very little.The
only possible chance for it seams to me to
combine with every other scheme pending
and mako a despeiato push with all tho
allied strength. Such a combination, if
the machinery could bo - made to werk
harmoniously, would, storm the very
gates of bell and put Satan on the ran.
The peoplo of this country never will
realize how thankful they ought to bo
that sueh a combination can hardly ever
become a fact. In thirty days tl ereaf ter
there wouldn’t be a nickel left in the cash
box and John Sherman wonld be a howl
ing lunatic. But if Tom Soott gets left
this sossion eo will Huntington, pro
vided he really wants anything from
Congress. He tilks about a right of way
being the limit of his demands, but I
have a suspicion that ho would compro
mise on non-action in regard to the T. P.
It does take so littlo sometimes to satisfy
modest folks. I don’t really see how the
lobby will get' through tho long recess
this year. They have not had a decent
shake this winter, nor, for that matter,
not since the 431 Congress. But it
6sems to me this sorsion has been tho
roughest line3 of them at].
MBS. SENATOR BRUCE,
Sounds grand, doesn’t it, for a comply,
light mulatto, as we would phrase it
down South. There was considerable
talk and speculation, you will remember,
concerning Mrs. Senator Bruce, about
tbe timo suo took that title, and some of
the wives and daughters of Radical dig
nitaries were painfully disturbed about
wbat they should do when she came here.
But Mrs. Senator does not seem to have
particularly disturbed herself. Sbo has
behaved as wall as her husband, who has
won muoh credit for the exceedingly level
head be has shown in this matter of sooial
recognition. I don’t know many finer
looking or better mannered men than
Bruce, and, by report, his wife shows
equal sense and tact. I heard a lady say
the other day that the wives of several
members and Senators had called on her,
and, making due allowance for their" po
litical bias and partisan damphoolery, one
and all seemed entirely honest in tho ver
dict that Mrs. Senator waa'quite the lady,
and “really so fair, you know.” One of
them said Mre. B. was much fairer
than herself, but as the speaker was a
pronounced brunette that didn’t consist
with the other verdict. I bear Mrs. Sen
ator comes to the capitol in her carriage
quito frequently and gazes over so lov
ingly from bei seat in tho Senatorial gal
lery down at her huBband, who is a model
of dress and decorum, and looks a deal
more like a e.nlkinin *r.d statesman
than very many of his associate?. At
PB1KCE NADASKYOF AIS r«U
WhyHe was Harried a Second
Time to Mis Wife in Far-away
Oregon.
The Portland Oregonian prints tho fol-.
lowing story, translated from the Oregon"
Deutsch Zcitung:
“A few days ago the Oregonian con
tained* list of marriages during tho year,
and among them appeared the following
notice: ‘Dec. 13. Prince C. J. Nadasky
and Marie von Reiche.’ The oddity of a
titled wedding in Oregon led our reporter
to investigate, and here follows the true
story: ‘Prince Carl Johann Nadasky, Eole
heir of a wcatthy and influential Austrian
family and a long line of illustrious an
cestors, was, during, tho revolutionary
year of 1848, a young officer in the Impe
rial Austrian Guard.
When the sentence cf death was passed
upon Robert Blum, the famous revolu
tionary leader, and a favorite of the Ger
man people, the young officer wa3 de
tailed to command tho detachment of
soldiers whose bullets were to terminate
tho life of the noblest and bravest man
of his age. The fortitude Blum displayed
at the execution, and his parting‘words
so impressed the young soldier; that a
few months’ study of the liberal publica
tions of those days sufficed to lead him
into tho revolutionary party. But the
feudal government triumphed, and
Princo Nadasky, together with many
other prominent leaders, was taken pris
oner and condemned to death. Through
tho influence of his relatives hia sentence
was commuted to imprisonment for life,
and ho was Bsnt to the dark cells of an
Austrian fortress.
Eight long years he lived the life of a
convict, when at the birth of the Crown
Princo of Austria be was liberated, but
banished from his country for life. He
came to San Francisco, aud, aud under
the assumed name of H. Meier, devoted
himself to tho business of a flower-gar
dener, earning a livelihood aud accumu
lating a email fortune. About five years
ago he wa3 married to a German lady of
noble birth, who was impressed with tbe
cultured and gentlemanly demeanor of
the gardener. Not more than a year past
ho removed to Salem, in this State, and
bought a small propeity for his business.
Bnt tho happy pair had been blessed
by a lovely boy, and the father found no
zest in tho thought that his dear ones
were destined to lead an obscure life,
away fiom the honors and luxury duo
tbem, end took passage for Europe. He
went to Vienna, and in an audienoe with
Emperor Francis Joseph succeeded in
obtaining his pardon and being reinsta
ted in his ancestral inheritance. Post
haste he sped back to his family, and an-
der his real name ha was Bgain married
in this oity. to his faithful wife. The
steamer Idaho, which left hero Decem
ber 29, look tho happy couple and their
youDg son back to the castles of tho Prince
in the beautiful mountain regions of old
Austria.”
Tbe Plague In Russia.
News anil Courier J
Tbe black death, which ha3 again ap
peared in some parts cf Russia, has
proved very destructive, and caused the
greatest alarm. This i3 tho came dis
ease which, in the fourteenth century
desolated the globe, and it gets its name
from tbe blaok spot?, symptomatic of a
putrid decomposition, that ehow them
selves atone of its stages on the skin of
the sufferer. It is thought to havo had
its origin in China in 1333, some fifteen
years before it3 outbreak in Europe, and
it raged for twenty-five years, while
droughts, famines, floods, earthquakes
that swallowed towns and mountains, and
swarms of locusts spread devastation
everywhere.
During the same period Europe had as
many abnormal conditions ns the East.
The order of nature appeared to be re
versed. The seasons were at various
times inverted; thunder-storms were fre
quent in midwinter, and volcanoes, long
considered extinct, burst forth afresh.
The theory is that the extraordinary ac
tivity of tho earth, accompanied by de
composition of vast organic masses—my
riads of locnsts, brutes, and bodies of
human beings—produced some change in
the atmosphere inimical to life.
Bomo writers eay that the impure air
was actually visible as it approached with
its burden of death. The plague owed
its extension almost wholly to infection
and contagioD. Tbreo yearn passed from
the date cf its appearance in Constanti
nople before it crept by a huge circle to
tbe Russian territories. Statistics were
not obtainable then, but it is estimated
that in China alone 13,000,000 people
died, and in the remainder of the East
24.000,000, while in Europe 25,000.000
souls perished, making a grand and ter-
riblo total of 52,000,000.
Although there is little danger of tho
spread of the pest to Western Europe—
for many generations it has been confin
ed to the East—it is not strange that the
Rnssians ahonld be startled by tho rav
ages tbe black death has already made.
Persons attacked with it are said to die
like flies, and the ignorant and super
stitious peasantry are so terrified by it
that many are said to have died of pure
fright. Fortunately, the lawa of health
and the peculiarities of disease are much
better understood now than in centuries
gone by.
Homes in tno South.
Knoxville Tribunal
Daring tbe past few weeks we lava
noticed the arrival of several parties in
onr city looking for desirable locations,
and in a few days a party of fifty people
from Minnesota is expected to arrive
here, coming to East Tennessee for the
purpose of investiag in farming lands.
There can be no doubt as to the fact that
we are to havo a largo increase in our
population during the present year, and
it wonld be hard to find a man who con
siders this increase undesirable.
We are all agreed that increased popu
lation-population of the right character
—brings a corresponding increase in the
aggregate wealth of the community and
cf the State, Wo have a vast area of un
cultivated and unprofitable land. Mnoh
of this land, by onltivation and improve
ment, could be made immensely valuable.
In its present oonditiop it is unprofitable
to tho owner and unprofitable to the
Stats.
The individuil owner has so mnoh capi
tal lying, idle, an investment; earning
nothing, while the revenue paid the State
in the way of taxes is email. When
tbeso lands are divided into small farms
and the email farms aro carefully im
proved, lands now worth perhaps not
more than tbres dollars per acre will be
worth fifteen, the aggregate wealth of the
community will bi increased five fold
and there will be a proportionate increase
in the revenue derived from such lands.
The emigrants who are coming to us
now are, as a rule, men of limited means
who intend to invest whatever sums of
money they bring with them in small
farms, aed who hope by industry and en
ergy to improve the lands until they
yitld a handsome profit upon tho invest
ment.
.France spends fifteen and a half times
as much on her army as on her schools,
Italy twelve times nmob, England five and
a half times as mnob, Germany four and
two-fifths times, Austria four times, and
Switzerland one and one-eighth times.
Per head of population France spends on
her army 18i. and England 14i 5i.
“Papa, me ‘has been baptizs, ain’t
me?” asked a little 3-year old. “Yes,
dear." “Then me won't have to be bap
tize again.” “No; but can yon*remem
ber anything about being baptized?” “I
dess I can 1” “Well, wbst did the. minis
ter do to you?” "Ho shoved up my
r leave and stnok a knife In my arm.”
Cold Weather Statistics.
In view of the great severity of the
present season, a summary of the statis
tics prepare^ by. the philosopher, M.
Arago, covering the last four centuries in
Europe, and printed in tbe Paris Adver
tiser of 1835, will be read with interest:
In 806 the Rhone was frozen over;
the cold was from 18 to 20 centigrade de
grees below zero. In 1172 the Po was
frozen from Cremona to the see; in 1234
loaded wagons crossed the Adriatic "in"* P r ° vemen tuP I>n th® State Banks of issue;
- but we say in passing we want no hanks of
issue. The Comptroller of the ourrenoy,
in the elaborate argument in favor of the
National Banks contained in his annual
report, assumes ttat the country must
front of Venice; in 1305 all tbe rivers of
France were frozen overjjn ^lSle it was
possible to travel,from Denmark to Lu-
beck and Dantzio on the ice. In 1334 all
the rivers of the Provence and Italy
v^erefrezen; at Paris the frost lasted two
months and twenty days. In 1468 it was
necessary to brake np the wine in Fland
ers with hatchets in order to servo it out
to the soldiers. In 1644 the same became
requisite in France. In 1594 thp sea was
fiozen from Marseilles to .Venice. *! In
1657 the Seine was entirely frozen over.
In 1750 the Seine was frozen for thirty-
five successive days. In 1709 the Adriatic
and the Mediterranean, from Marseilles
to Genoa, were frozen. In 1617 shops
were established on the Thames ana
finally, the Seine was entirely frezsri
over in 1742,1744,1766, 1788, and 1820.'
Non-Productiveness of Rail
road Stocks.
The dividends paid of late years upon
railroad investments in this country, eave
in a limited nnmber of individual instan
ces,, have been “few and far between.’
Stocks have run down almost to zero
even on the great thoroughfares of tho
country which bless and enrich hundreds
of thousands of people. This state of
things has become eo general, that now
it is actually getting to be a question
when any new road is projected, whether
the subscribers should expect any other
remuneration than the patriotic conscious
ness of having developed the resources
of the commonwealth. This may do
when the proprietors own the land per
meated by the proposed highway and
get paid by the appreciation of their real
estate. Otherwis'e it is a losing business
to all save the dear pnblie. Bat Ameri
can railroad enterpiises are not the only
ones similarly situated. In Great Bri
tain in 1877 not lass than 205 companies
paid no dividend on their ordinary stock,
the aggregate of which represented 15.6
per cent, of the total railway capital of
the country. One-tenth ef fhe total paid
less than three per cent, and less than
one-quarter paid six per cent., though
the percentage paying between six and
soven per cent, was 29 5. ■
Tbia is not a very flattering showing
for tho billions of money invested in
these securities. -
We opine the reason is, that there are
too many roads; more than there is
business to support. Yet, once bnilt,
they must and will be kept up even if
they change hands at reduced valuations
a half score of times. How seldom do
we see a railroad actually abandoned
which has once been in operation.
CONFEDERATE OFFICERS IN EgTPT.—
Onr readers will remember that Mr. Dwi-
nell, the editor of the Rome Courier, has
written a graceful work relating his ex
periences in a protracted tonr through
Egypt and the East. * While sojourning
in tbe Khedive’s domain, he had an ex
cellent opportunity cf studying the insti
tutions of the country, and acquainting
himself with all tho resources cf that mon
arch whose star it seems is deoidedly on
the wane.
Many officers of tho Southern Confed
erate army tendered their swords to this
Egyptian potentate, and some of them
were assigned to high command?. O’
these gentlemen Mr. Dwinell thus speaks
in tho last nnmber of bis clever journal:
Among tho many people on whom tho
Khedive’s bankruptcy la; borco more
hardly than upon'that magnificent per-
sonago himself are the American officers
who went out to Egypt at the close of the
civil war to take commissions in his ser
vice. There were forty or fifty of them,
at one time, all on the general staff, and
a gorgeous general staff they made.
Usually they had not much to do except
to go on exploring expeditions up the
Nile, though when their services were
required in action they showed them
selves good soldiers, and not a few of
them lest their lives. Altogether ten of
the number have died from varous
causes, and tho rest havo all come home
except General Stone, who still remains
chief of the general staff, although, as
there no longer is any general staff, his
command is not an imposing one. Some
of these men have had a very curious ex
perience, and the whole story of Ismail
Pasha’s promising bat unsuccessfal at
tempt to create a Paris on the Nile is one
of the most entertaining outside tho
Arabian Nights.
A VALUABLE SUGGESTION.
It is easy to arrest the conrso of the
streamlet among its nat ; ve hills. Bat
when it has flowed downward into the
valley and been multiplied by a hundred
brooks, it is a difficult and sometimes im
possible task to arrest the mad torrent of
waters. Thus it is with disease. In" its
earliest stages, when the patient notes
the first symntoms of its presence (often
indicated only by a sense of languor,
drowsiness, or a slight headache), it is
easy to arrest its progress and secure
relief. But when, through carelessness
or neglect, it is allowed to develop, com
plications are apt to set in, and it is no
easy task to arrest it, Oar grandmothers
taught their daughters that “a stitch in
time saves nine.” A pill in time saves
not only nine, bnt ofttimes an incalcu
lable amount of suffering as well. If the
system bo kept thorooghly cleansed and
strengthened, it is almost invulnerable
to disease. When the first symptoms of
diseaBo appear, two of Dr. Pierce’s Pur
gative Pellets, and a few doses of the
Golden Medical Discovery, to cleanse the
blood, will, in almost every instance, ar
rest the progress of disease and expel it
from tho system. Those who haV9 used
them aro tho loudest in their praise.
Their reputation is genuine, depending
upon their merits alone.
Some Presents to the Prinos.-s Tur
ns.—Among the wedding presents which
PrincesB Thvra received, the most costly
was a complete garniture of diamonds
from the Emperor of Russia; the most
beautiful, a jewelry case from Danish la
dies; tho most curious, an enormous
kringle, or wedding cake, from the baker
apprentices of Copenhagen. The jewelry
case consists of a rectangular box, made
of silver inlaid with geld and emaille,
mounted with bands of sapphires, end
bearing on tbe top of the lid the name of
the Princees in large diamonds. The box
rests on the necks of four dragons with
diamond eyea and teeth, and ugly enough
to frighten away any thief who might ap
proach the shrine. The kringle was
brought to the palace an hour before the
wedding by a deputation of fire young
bakers, who were most cordially received
by tbe Queen, and shown the other wed
ding presents! Meanwhile, ihe yonng
bride entered tbe room in her bri
dal attire. The subdued but nevertheless
audible exclamations she answered with a
quick little laugh, and promised the ba
kers that the hringle should be served
nex'u morning at her breakfast table auji,
according to old Danish custom, every
one belonging to her ne w household should
have a pieoe of it.
Ami, the oiatty correspondent of tbe
Washington HeraM.'speaklng of Ihe trials
of the street oars in "the oapital, sajs :
Bnt perhaps the very hardest thing for
a gentleman to bear is, when he giveB hia
plaoe to a lady, to see her beckon .to her
escort, and to note how the small space in
whioh bB sat has suddenly expanded, so
that it is quite large enough for the lady
and tho gentleman accompanying her,
who settle down in it quite comfortable
and happy, while he holds a preoarions
grip on life through the medium of a
leathern strap. This Is hard indeed.
estate Xtanlig not the Alternative
Cincinnati Knquiror.i
The defenders of the National Banking
system are wont to.use aa a final argu
ment on its behalfiiha-Aaiament that if
we abolish the National Beaks (as -hanks
of issue) the. oldiejsteinrof State —
of issoa^Hl be revived, and, it is
the National Banke are.better than tfcoy*
We admit that tbe National Banks of
issue, in point cf security to tho note
holder and-uniformity of notes,are aa im-
choose between National Bank notes and
State Bank notos, and says that tho lat
ter wero “a grievous tax upon tho -busi
ness and commerce of the country.”
He says that the repeal of "the National
Bank Aot “will result In- the restoration
of State systems similar to those which
were previously in operation.” v The
Secretary of the Treasury In hia annual
report pleads that the “advantages de
rived to the publio from n National sys
tem of banks over a State sjstem seem to
bef folly demonstrated,” admitting no
other 'sUernative. The President in bis
talks has pnt the issue in the same manner.
The New York Times and leading Repub
lican organs have nrged the Bame view.
This is the harmonious plea of the Na
tional banking system for oontinued ex
istence—“We arebetter than thoso vicious
S.ate Banke.”
And they are better; not because they
have more coin behind their circulation
than had tho old State banks; for they
have far les3, but because they have gov
ernment credit behind them. In Amass
Walker’s “Science of Wealth” it is shown
that for twenty-six years prior to I860
the bank of tho United States had on the
average eighteen cents in coin for one
hundred cents of pfomse. This"was the
* ‘specie basis” under tho State Bank sys
tem. This basis was just twice as ‘solid’
in coin as that of the National Banks.
The latter hare a circulation of £322,000,-
000, and have in coin, and coin certifi
cates, and in checks payable in coin, only
$30,000,000, a lone dollar to pay ten
with, while even the old Stato Banks had
abont one coin dollar with which to re
deem a promiso to pay five.
Among the changes wrought in the fi
nancial system of the country since 1860
i3oneof greatest importance. Govern
ment credit has been substituted for coin
as the basis of the “money of the realm.”
The government issues half of the money
and guarantees the other half. Tbe State
bank system is wiped cut forever. Tho
next money fight is not between National
and State banks, bnt between Naticnai
bank issue and government issne.
All the National Bankers agree that the
State Bank system was vicious; of course
(?) that interest will never vote or work
to restore the State system. All men
who believe that the right of usae prop-
eriy inheres in the Government agree
that the State system was vicious, %sd
they may be depended on to oppose the
restoration of the Stato system. On the
third day of March, 1865, the State
Banks were annihilated by law. It was
sweepingly enacted that “every National
Banking Association, State Bank or State
Banking Association shall pay a t&x of 10
per c.'ntum on tho amount "of notes of
any person, or of any State Bank or State
Banking Association, used for circulation
and paid ont by tbem.” This law cannot
be repealed.
Th'at was tbe end of State Banks of
issue in this country. They are nob the
alternative when it is pioposed to retire
the Nations! Banking system. The cur
rency of the country is now “in hand,”
and in such a condition that the right of
issne, to use the words of Jefferson, can
bo restored to the nation, to whom it be
longs. That is the one question now in
our politics.' Shall this be done ?
All the world over baby governs. Yet
often disease will overcome the baby and
then it is that Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup
proves its worth by conquering tho dis
ease. Price 25 cents a bottle.
Northern Civilization ys. South
ern Barbarism.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: It is
probable, at least, that correspondents of
a leading journal like the New York
Herald generally know what they are
writing abonr, and believe what they
write. Furthermore, that such corres
pondence is endorsed by tho editors-in-
chief as in the main truthful and correct.
While disclaiming any unkindly dis
crimination, we premise thus much in or
der to call the attention of your readers
to an article of recent date in the Herald
descriptive of the oxeention of the man
Hunter, at Camden, New Jersey, for the
murder of Armstrong.
We allude to the graphic correspond
ence in question, for the reason that cer
tain partisan journals of the North gleat
over the genial task of seizing «pcn every
pretext to show up the Southern people,
as living in a state of semi-barbarism,
regardless alike of law, order or morality.
We trust, however, that these amiable(?)
fomenters of sectional mischief, and more
especially .those political headlights c!
the Blaine-Edmunds-Garfleld school will
ponder the lesson inculcated in tho teach
ings of ono of tbeir own oracles, tho
Herald.
We must say, if that responsible jour
nal truly portrays tho ruffianism display
ed at Camden, and worse still, in the aw
ful presence of the death penalty for
violated law, then we can recall no timi-
lar inatance in any Southern city bear
ing tbe remotest comparison.
Is it not a matter of surprise, that
there ehonld be intelligent opinion, which
for tbe sake of political capital only, will
cling to a stupid stultification of facts as
to tbe evils detrimental alike (o both sec
tion?
There never can bs a perfect under
standing between the North aed South,
until the sublime work of reconciliation
is divested of all political significance
whatsoever. Heaven grant that we may
yet.reach that plane of forbearance, from
which as a Christian people, we can look
dispessionately upon the foibles of each
seotion for ju3t what they are worth. If
the Southern States contain within their
border, evil doers acting as if under no
legal restraint, shall the majority of her
better oitizsns bo condemned to like com
mon reprobatioc?
If so, we insist that tbe dregs of tho
came bitter chalice be commended in
turn to the lips of our Northern brethren,
for according to the showing of their
own journals, their violations of law,
civil and political, appear in the sad ratio
of ten to one.
We say in conclnsion, that if tho South
ern States are to beharrassed by expen
sive Congressional investigations, solely
and wholly for partisan purposes, we
urge that the present Congress eeo to it
that every State become subject to an
eqogl working of the rule.
In this way only can justice be impar
tially dispensed, and in the osmingetrug-
gle. Democracy or Republicanism be
forced to stand upon their respective
merits, shorn of any undue advantage
or disadvantage. O. L. S.
Albany, G», Jan. 26:h, 1879.
An exchange eays: A one-armed ne
gro boy In Augusta has saved four per
sona from drowning. This is nothing,
however, for Dr. Boll’s Cough Syrap has
saved thousands from consumption
Bevannau has received this year over
715,000 bales of ootton, and oomprtsied
360,000. .
Old Zacx Acjming.—According to the
Washington correspondent of Cinoicnttl
Enquirer statements are circulating, with
a good deal of positiveness, that Senator
Christianoy will resign his scat in the
Senate on the 2d of March next, and is
tben to be nominated Minister to Brtzil;
that ex-Secretary "Chandler will sucoeed
nim, and that he will be on "hand to be
sworn in as soon as the Senate meets,
either in extraordinary or its regular see-
The U. S. Foub Par Cents.—Th
ca'es 6'. the first eighteen days o! January
amounted to £88,957,959.
portion cf J Vienna, according
the most recent census, is 1,(23,770, fen!, 0
ding the troops in garrison.
men * tUl keepastsady Ruardd,.
and right over tbe grave or Brigh^ y^
n a small building erected near by.
—SenatorThutmin has consented tor.
liver an oration dming the commensem™,
exercises at Onapel Bill, N. O., Oniveriitj
—Ex Governor D. H. ChamberU; a
beenfiown with the diphtheria His>3
sofi Hugh died of the disease cn Tneed™
Eveiy other member of hia family was m/”"
—A marriage has Joet besn celebrated m
Nevada and elsewhere, where the bride atJS
in Nevada and the'groom in Ut»h, indi?.
officiating clergynAw straddled the lino
—Erof Baird ofAbASmithsoman In’nitn
tion is abont eetablikhing a number of fi.v*
breeding stations ip,tba rivere cf Tenneasao"
for the protection.qr^fiioh a State appS
pnation is to be made. .
-Iroquois OountVlU., has 2C0 Artetit,
wells, ail of small bore, within a-radinaoi
twenty miles. No ono of thorn exceeds?;
feet in depth,"* and they yield a total din.
tupply of 53.500,000 gallons. 7
*' —The Germania, the UitramcRtane am-,
n the empire of that name, s»ys that «<•»
condition of Papal finance is at the prmen-
moment anything but satisfactory, and tbit
his Holiness has in oonsequence enj oinedth.
strictest eoonemy. 3
—A dancing idiot, ten years of age U >
reeident of Indianapolis. Ever sines hU
birth he has boen going through tho motions
ofawaliz to ellent music. Ha ianeveretillii,
his waking hoars. His mother had dan-ed
to excess at a ball j oat before he was bom.
—The antique towor cfBslem, near 1*.
ben, which served aa a prison for political
c(Tenders, * crumbled to tin groundoa the
,18fiiof December. ^ It was a part of thoo’d
Hie-onjmite Convent, and a splendid galle--
in tho Moorish style was building in connec
tion with it. Eight persons wero buried in
tte rains.
—A new tenor, by name Tomigno, who
hss jnst appeared at Milan, is spoken olaa
the earning man. He is described in tbs
musical journal of that ciiy a3 ‘anarchangel
of tho Bt. Michael typs, of fair complexion
aud powerful yet graceful form, with tbs
loveliest voice imiginablo, gieat dignilvcf
bearing and graoe.’
An angry father in Hardin county, Iowa
his daughter having eloped with lha man or
her choioe, pursued the fagitives, and after
a tremendous chase, overtook the wagon in
which were a young man and a cloeoly veiled
woman. He discovered that it was anoth't
young man and hia daughter s next friend,
who had obligingly diverted pursuit, while
tho real true lovers had gone eff by another
road at their leisure and got married.
—The consumption of beer in the whoel
Gorman Empire last year was 84l.C5S.76S
gallons, or nearly twenty gallons per month
of population. Tho importations amounted
3 333.8’.4 gallons and tho exports to 19.C93,-
266 gallons. Bavaria leads, for thenghths
rate of consumption is riot given, so great is
the production—fif ty-threo and three eighth
gallons per head—that after mating dno
deductions for the exportation a greater
than average quantity is :eft for home con
sumption.
—In the Massachusetts Legislature a bill
is under consideration which provides Hut
tramps eha’l be punished by imprisonment
at hard. labor for one year, and that ‘any
tramp who shall enter any dwelling house or
any unoccapied building, or kindle any lira
in tho highway or on tho land t r. anoiher,
without the"consent of the occupant or owner
thereof, or shall be fennd carrying any fire
arms or other s dangerous weapon, or ehill
threaten to do any, injory to .tha.pers'on or
properly cf another, shall be pnni-hdd by
imprisonment at hard labor in tho house of
cirrtctioa '* or " State worShcnae not moro
than two years,’ The enactment is not
anp icable to any fotnalo. to a nrno: under
16 yearn of age, to any blind person, nor to
any person who has a certificate of retpocta-
ble character from tho selectmen cf the town
of which he was last inhabitant.
Where the Ciphers Oaee Feoji?—The
Potter Committee it is said believe that Wm.
E. Chandler faroished the cipher telegrams
to the New York Tribune. It will be remem
bered that General Eutlc-r stated that he did
not absolutely know how he became pre
sent d of nearly seven hundred (f the origi
nal ciphers, bnt had a suspio'en It is
claimed that Chandler, after making copies
of tho origin&lB, sent them to General Bet
ter, and he not taking advantage cf his
opportunity to explode tho dynamitein tbem,
Chandler turned them over to theTribnno.
Of those turnod over to tho Oommitteob7
Butler it is not expected there will be any
unraveled which have not aUiady been mad)
publio.
The PnoiogTD Goloid Coins—tbs Em
of Mb. Stephens. —Mr. Stephens’ .bill to
authorize the coinage of the goloid metric
dollar, five dollars, and fractions of a dollar,
and of metric gold coin of standard value,
has been printed. The goloid coins are in
accordance with tho patent cfDr Hubbell,
and will contain an equal amount in value of
silver aEd gold This would mike a goloid
§5-ccin a littlo larger than (2 59 in silver
made into a tingle coin. The $1 goloid coin
would be about the size of a silver half dol
lar, tndthehalf- dollar no larger than a silver
quarter. Thty can bo produced in blue com
pressed and light Tgold raised figures, and
cannot be imitated by electric precipitation.
The S5 coin, while unhandy to curytbcut,
the advocates of the bill say wonld bo useful
in foreign trade. -Mr. Stephens is very mu:h
interested in tbe metric system.
—A Washington special tothe New York
Tribune says: ‘The resolution of 8enator
Windom relative to tho migration cf colored
people from the South has had seme effect.
Tte Eenriorwas visitedlo-dayby delegations
of colored people from six of the Southern
States, including among their nnmber Pro
fessor Greener, Senator Brace and Bepr9-
sentativos Cato, Smalls and Rainey, ail of
whom Euli they wero disposed to favor Mr.
Wicdom’s echi-me if lie was in earnest Hr.
Windom was told" that the colored people tra
not satisfied with their condition; that they
would bo willing to move, and that local
club 3 have already bogun to agitate tho
question The delegation thought that ICO,-
001) able-bodied colored laborers could ba
induced to leave tbeir homos if, they should
have oven moderate assurance that they
wonld improve ‘ tlieir condition. Senator
Windom assured the delegation that hewts
thoroughly in eatnest, and thtt ho had no
political purpose to accomplish b7 Hi reso
lution.’
A Compromise Array Hill.
Gen. Binning, on Friday last, intro
duced into ihe House a bill which is in
tended as a compromise for the proposed
plan or army reorganization previously
submitted by the Barcside Commission.
It has the Indorsement of Generals She:-
mat), Schofield, Hancock, Ord, aud the
officers of tho lino so far as'their views
are known. It provides that tho army
shall be compose! of eighteen regiments
of infantry, n reduction cf seven j eight
of caih'.ry, a reduction of two; fiveci
artillery, as now. All regiments are to
bo organized in tho German or four bit-
talioa system; two battalions cl caco
regiment to ba officered and manned, a
third to bo officered, tho fcuith to tw
filled in time of war.- It reduces the gen
eral officers to two Major-Generals aud
four Brigadiers, and creates a redaction
in tho aggregate of two hundred and
thirty-five officers.
The c(Seers who go cat, receive p*J
fiom three to five yc^rs, according to
length cf service. It provides for inter
changeability between the etsff and line,
and for tho retirement cf woundsd offi
cers, retirements to bo compulsory a.
aixty-twcf years oi nge. Ccmmissionea
appointments aro to ba made from Wes-
Point, or from the. line; promotions are
to be made cn examination?, to b3CMj|
ducted by proper B ards. Tho bi-i
causes.a redoction of nine regiments and
ninety-six companies. The bill i3 . m "
dorsad by tho Joint Army Commission,
and has eliminated from it the feat arcs
of fhe original bill, which were deemed
to be uncpnstitutinnal and objectionable-
Theological students reason that i*
there be counterfeit money, there must
be genuine; so, if there ba infidels,tbem
must also be Christians. If this bo true
of money aed religion, will not the
rule apply to “put up” medicines?
not the cheap and worthless nostra**
prove ttat there are genuine and ms 11 '
torious “pnt up” medicines ? The ere>-
popu’arity of Dr. Pieroe’s Golden Medi
cal Discovery ha3 resulted in the man u '
fact ore of. many shoddy altei alive an
tonic remedies,; but oae after another
these have disappeared, the proprietor
caving found that, no, matter bow
they advertise, success depends
merit. In South Amotics, a* well as —
this country, vhe Discoveiy is. the stan
dard remedy for all scrofulous RnJ
tive diseases. It aots promptly on tu
stomach, liver and bicod, toning W
regulating, and purifying the sjEtem-
sr.nefiilv allays all bronchial irritation.