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London, February 6.—Bollion increase
^TneNMwegian bark Brnge, Captain
Bergland, from Wilmington, North Car
olina, December 2l9t, for Queenstown,
has pat into Falmouth, much damaged
and m a bating condition.
The Financier says tho new French Ca
ble Company (the Pouyer-Quertier or
ganization) has abandoned the intention
to lay a new cable and agreed to leaso a
wire from the Anglo-American Company.
(Probably the French cable laid in 1869).
Mzlbourns, February 6.—Advices
from Samoa report the outbreak of oivil
war as imminent
Pauls. Feornsry 6.—The official report
not yet pnolished on the subject of the
Bossian plagne, siya that the danger of
its extension to Franos by land is not se
rious, and measures will be taken to pre
vent it i transmission by water. The
government will also participate with
other powers in atndying the charaoter of
tbe epidemio, and the best meins for
combatting it.
Paris. February 6.—The Repvbligue
Franchise says President Gravy's message,
which will be read in the Chambers to
day, will not be accompanied by any
ministerial statement. The message will
affirm that it is necessary that the execu
tive of tbe government should keep itself
is aocord with the will of the nation, so
that the people may pursue their labors
free from all anxiety respecting the form
of government. Measures will be an
nounced intended to throw oblivion over
the past and the message will conclude
by calling upon all citizens to manifest a
spirit of concord and confidence in the
government.
Washington, February 6.—In the Sen
ate Mr. Blaine, of Maine, presented a
memorial from the Hill Manufacturing
Company, the Lewiston Mills, the Eos-
coggin Mills, tbe Continental Mills and
otner manufacturing companies of Maine,
asking for an appropriation for mail
communications between one or more of
our Atlantic ports and a South American
port, believing that the money will be re
paid by increased commerce.
Mr Blaine said the petition came from
manufacturing interests representing a
capital of ten or twelve million dollars,
employing several thousand persons, and
expending at least three million dollars a
year in wages.
It was an enconragament of manufac
turing interests by the proposed lines
which he was glad to see. The petition
was referred to the Committee on Appro
priations.
Mr. Paddock, of Nebraska, submitted
a resolution instructing the Committee
on Agriculture to inquire in regard to
certain reports recently put in circulation
in this country and elsewhere concerning
infectious diseases ameng horned cattle
in the United States. Agreed to.
Mr. Wallace, of Pennsylvania, submit
ted a resolution requesting tho Commit
tee on Commerce to report House bill
known as the inter-State commerce bill
at tbe earliest possible moment. Tbe
resolution was laid on the table, and ho
gave notice that he wonld call it up at an
early day.
The House is in committee on the
army appropriation bill.
Reading, Pa., February C.—3amuel
Muhler yesterday walked a hundred
miles in twenty-three hours and forty-
seven minutes, including one hour end
forty-one minutes in taking rest and a
meoL
London, February 6.—It is reported
that Prince Leopold, the eighth chili and
fourth son of Queen Victoria, now in tbe
twenty-sixth year of his age, will enter
the ministry of the church of Eaglind.
Versailles, February 6.—After the
reading of President Grevj’s message to
day, the ministers will move for one
week’s adjournment of the Chambers.
Aden, February 6.— Ex-President
Grant and party have Bailed for Bombay.
New York, February C.—The Potter
snb-Committee met this morning. Colo
nel Peltoa testified that he went to Flor-
idia and Sonth Carolina, and had corres
pondence with parties here; could not
remember th-ir names; he had destoyed
his oipher key; all telegrams sent by
Weed were, by his (Pelton’s) instructions,
addressed to Hsvemeyer, who transmit
ted them to me, after which they were
presented to the National Democratic
Committee at the Everett House, and
opened by them.
New York, February 6.—Peltou, on
being shown a dispatch nnmbered 14, tbe
translation of which was signed with
Marble’s name, stating that the can
vassing board may and will purge county
returns, and that “our first move will be
to require of the board of three State
officers, one being an able Democrat, im
mediate action,” said:. I'might ae well
state here that I cannot remember-any-
thing about these dispatches. There is
no question that the Tribune's dispatches
get near to the point, yet they are inac
curate. I always understood that Wooley
and Fox were one and the same person.
Attention being directed to the telegram
addressed to Manton Marble, New York,
November 19tb, read when translated:
“Dispatch received. Yon most not trust
B. on that for D. sends for Thomas
Charles.” Pelton said I have no explana
tion .o give of this. I can hardly re
member what its contents were, bnt my
lmpressioa is it refers to negotiations
which were in progress with regard to
buying ent the Betnming Board.
Mr. Pelton testified in regard to tel
egram Mo 60, signed by Marble, calling
for $2G0.C00, that he replied to it that it
was too high. He oonld not remember
farther details. Before be met Mr. Weed
ho wes fnily satiifisd that the money
wonld be forthcoming, bnt later he re
ceived telegrams from Cooper and some
one else whom ho oonld not reoolleot to
tbe effect that tbe money oonld not be
raised.
Question—State erectly what conver
sation took place between yen and Gov
ernor Tilden on thismattei?
Answer—He was exceedingly annoyed
and denounced my action in tbe matter.
In fact, be was very severe. I left for
Baltimore without bis knowledge or con
sent, and be wo3 mnch surprised at my
action.
Chairman—Did Mr. Tilden have any
id?a that yen were perfecting or attempt
ing to peifeet negotiations for buying tho
returning board?
Answer—He had not the least idea of
what was going on.
Qaestion—Did yon tell or advise him
of the correspondence of Manton Marble
or Woolley from Florida ?
Answer—I certainly did not.
Qaestion—Did you tell him anything
about the Weed correspondence ?
Answer—I did not; the correspondence
and arrangements wero carried ont solely
by me.
Qaestion by Sienger—Do yon mean to
say that yon had no conversation with
Mr. Tilden on nls matter nntU after
joar arrival from BaJMmore ?
Answer—Yes, sir, that is the fact.
Mr. Tilden waa much annoyed. j
don't know that be yet forgets it. He
told me distinctly that be wanted no snob
wotk, and wonld sooner die than allow
himself to bs pnt into the Presidential
chair nnder false pretences. When I
subsequently showed the Governor the
correspondence, he was atill more exer
cised, and denounced the whole prooeed-
ng emphatically.
Boston, Fe ora ary 6.—A telegram this
forenoon from Liverpool says the cattle by
tbe Pembroke and Ibeiian have passed ae
sound.
St. Louis, February 6.—The Northern
Cane Growers’ Association are In session
here, end ero discussing the subject re
lating to the growth of cane manufacture,
°* sugar and. the various interests relat
ing to this industry. Mr. Baloher, of the
Belcher Bogar refinery of this city, ex
amined a simple of the sngar mads in
Jliuussoti, and pronooncsd it equal to
the best New Orleans sugar, and worth in
bulk five cents per pound.
New York, February 6 —The Celtic,
from his city for Ltverptol on the 24th
ultimo, due at Queacstiwn last Sanday,
has not arrived at that port. The agents
in :hncity think her machinery is out of
order, and that she is making way nnder
eail.
Washington, February 6.—In the Sen
ate Mr. Edmunds, from the Committee
on Judiciary, reported favorably on the
bills to remove the politio&l disabilities of
Asa Waugh, D. W. M. Nash, C. B. Oli
ver, T. E. Shepherd, Charles T. H. Spots-
wood, John D. Semmes, C. H. Kennedy,
Hy. G. Thomas, W. B. Sinclair and B.
L. Page, of Virginia; John F. Tacker, of
the District of Columbia; W. E. Weia-
ham, Hy. EL Lewis and Isaac B. Trimble,
of Maryland; W. F. Welker, of Cali
fornia, and C. H. Williamson, of New
York, all of which were placed on the
calendar.
He also reported adversely on bills to
remove tho political disabilities of Wm.
Sharp and B. H. Logan, of Virginia, the
committee being of opinion they are not
under any disabilities.
Mr. Batter, of Sonth Carolina, submit
ted various amendments to the Texas
Pacific Biitroad bill, now pending, which
were ordered printed.
The bill providing for the taking of
the tenth census was avreod to. The
bill as passed provides that a census of
the population, wealth and industry of
the United States shall be taken on or
about Jane 1, 1830. It provides for the
appointment of a superintendent of cen
sus by the President, and also the neces
sary clerks and copyists in his office;
the Secretary of the Interior is directed to
appoint on or before the 1st of April,
1880, one or more supervisors of reams
within each State or tor-t'o-y, such per
sons to be residents, of -ujh Slate or ter
ritory. The total number of supervisors
is not to exceed 160. Tne supervisors
are to apportion their districts and desig
nate to tho superintendent suitable per
sons to employ as enumerators, such per
sons to b9 selected solely with reference
to their fitness and without reference to
their political or party affiliations. Each
superintendent is to receive $500 upon
completion of their duties. Enumerators
are to receive two cents for each living
inhabitant reported, two cents for each
death reported, ten cents for each farm
and fifteen cents for each establishment
of productive industry enumerated and
returned. The sub-division assigned to
each enumerator shall not exceed 4,000
inhabitants according to the census of
1870, nor contain les3 than 3,000 where
tho last preceding census shows the in
habitants thereof.
Iu the House, Mr. Williams, of Ala
bama, presented a memorial of the Ala
bama Legislature for tho admission of
quinine duty free.
Mr. Neal, from the Committee on Ter
ritories, asked leave to report a bill for
the organization of tho Territory of Oklo-
hama. Objection was made.
The House discussed in Committee of
the Whole the army appropriation bill.
White’s amendment, offered yesterday
and comprising most of the features of tbe
army reorganization bill, was adopted.
Mr. Hewitt moved to amend the revised
statutes eo a3 to expunge therefrom the
provision that the army shall be allowed
to be at the polls on election days to keep
the peace. Adoptod by a vote of 93 to 90.
Pending the consideration of an amend
ment to transfer the Indian Bureau to
the War Department, tho Haase ad
journed. .
The President sent in tbe following
nominations to-day: Martin J. Town
send, to bo United States Attorney for
the northern district of New York ; N. P.
Banks, to be United States Marshal for
Massachusetts; James Torrans, to be
United States Marshal for, the eastern
district of Arkansas; Sherman Conanr, to
be United States Marshal for the northern
district of Florida.
Th« Teller Committee to-day examined
Judge James B Campbell, o! Charleston,
South Carolina. He testified relative to
his antecedents as a Democrat, and said
that in 1877 he was elected to fill a va
cancy in the Senate of that State. While
occupying that position a bill came from
the House reducing the number of voting
precincts in Charleston, county. Tne
number of precincts was reduced about
one-third in tbe city and about two-
tbirda in the county, compelling voters in
some instances to make a round jonrney
of even forty miles, others of twenty,
twenty-five and thirty miles, and in tbe
greater number of esses from five, ten
and fifteen miles. Witness, as senator,
denounced this as a fraud, and the Sen-
ate.on bis motion, restored tbe precinots.
The bill came baok from tbe House with
the amendments rejected. It was a piece
of party machinery which the witness de
nounced as a frand. General Gary, a
member of the S nate, appeared as the
representative of the Charleston Democ
racy. At the instance of the chairman
of the Democratic committee, who was
a member of the House, and said if the
bill should pass as originally introduced,
witnont the Senate amendments. Gov.
Hampton wonld appoint the men the
Democracy had named and who conld
carry Charleston connty for that party.
The bill was passed in accordance with
this programme.
The witness then gave the particulars
of his candidacy for the Senate in 1878
as an independent Democrat. The Be-
publican convention endorsed him. He
never accepted nor declined such en
dorsement The election was conducted
fraadnlcnll> by the Democrats by msana
of tissue ballots and otherwise. The
Bepnblicans were united, The witness
said he received at least twelve thousand
votes, and a close calculation might give
him fourteen thousand, bnt he was re
ported as receiving only nine thousand
votes. He did not think bis competitor
received nine thousand, bnt was reported
as having received fourteen thousand
votes.
The Senate has confirmed the following
nominations: S. Newton Pettis, of Mead-
ville, Pa., to be.minister resident and
consul general of the United States at
Bolivia. Postmasters — Augustine A.
Fletcher, Marietta, Ga.; Jesse B. Wikle,
Cartersville, Ga; Elwm B. Brink, Wil
mington, N. C.
Washington, February 6.—The Presi
dent has recognized Antonio Gagoizi,
as consnl of Portugal at Savannah.
Tbe eighty-seventh oall was made from
tbe Treasury to-day for the redemption
of tbe 5-20 bonds of 1865, the oall being
for twenty thousand dollars of equal pro
portions of registered and oonpon bonds.
The Grand Jury refased to find a true
bill sgainst Epha Huntcn for tbe al
leged offense of sending a challenge to
Columbus Alexander.
Tbe House Committee on Natal Affairs
this morning adopted tho report prepared
by Mr. Whitthorne in the Robeson inves
tigation. The report has been very
much modified since originally drawn op.
It will, be signed by the Democratic
members. The Republican members dis
sent, and will submit a minority report.
Both reports will be submitted to the
House, ordered printed and recommitted.
Two resolutions are appended to the ma
jority report, they first declaring that
the note and conduct of the late Secre
tary of tbe Navy, George H. Robeson,
and Chief of Bureau since 1872, as
shown in this report and all others, aid
ing and abetting therein in unlawful dis
posal of pnblio property and money in
the method of making contracts, merit
and should receive the severest condem
nation and censure; second, that tbe re
port and testimony, with the views of
the minority be certified by the Clerk of
the House to the President, the Secre
tary of the Navy and the Attorney Gen
eral. The minority will take the ground
that the disposal of old material was.
sanctioned by precedent, and was within
the spirit of law, and that the course
pursued leeulted in a very large saving
to the government.
The amendments submitted by Senator
Bntlor to-day to the Texas Pacific Rail
road bill now pending in the Senate are
iu the nature of a tubstiluto for the
pending Texas and Pacific Railroad bill.
It proposes tho completion of the Red
Bivcr and Mississipni railroad and the
New Orleans, Baton Eouge and Vicks
burg railroad; gives lands to these com
panies and authorizes them together with
the Texas and Pacific Biilroad Company
to severally issue registered or coupon
bonds to the extent of twenty .five thou
sand dollars per mile, the payment of
which is to be secured by a first mortgage.
The bonds are to be paid in fifty years In
coin and the interest half-yearly, also in
coin, at the rate of fire per cent, per an
num. The Secretary of the Treasury is
required to endorse the bonds.
The object of the bill ie to secure a
road from Vicksburg and New Orleans
by the way of Vicksburg and Ei Paso to
the Pacific coast.
New York, February 6.—Reed cross-
examined Pelton at considerable length.
The latter admitted that his impression
was that he intended to purchase the Re
turning Board. He could not recolleot
whether he had ever talked to King,
Weed, Marble and others as to whether
they had kept or destroyed their cipher.
Another telegram was shown witness in
whioh the receiver was advised to exhaust
every means to;prevent trading expenses,
of which will be fully met. Witness had
a faint recollection but was not certain
regarding it. Mr. Tilden did not read alf
the telegrams received. He did inquire
as to whether or not there was any news
from Marble, bat never read a single
telegram in relation to negotiations for
the nnrehase of the Returning Board.
Witness had a conversation with Ed
ward Cooper at his own reaidenos before
the former left for Baltimore. It was
about the $60,000 or $80,000. Arrived
in Baltimore early in the morning. Wit
ness went there to see if Weed’s arrange
ments were complete. Saw Weed and
telegraphed Cooper, bnt the money oonld
not be obtained. Snbseqnently witness
met Cooper, who expressed approbation
of what he Lad done. Mr. TiIdeD, how
ever, strongly disapproved it. When
witness telegraphed to Florida he con
fessed that the word Bnssia meant Til
den. Witness led these people in Loui
siana, Sonth Carolina and Florida to be
lieve that be had somebody behind him,
that whatever be did wonld be saaotion-
ed, and that any oontracts made by him
wonld be oarried ont. He intended to
obtain the $60,000 or $80,000 from tbe
National Democratic Committee. Wit
ness knew nothing of any attempt to per-
chasaa colored Sonth Carolina eleotor.
Witness bad not lived with Tilden einoe
August, and when secretary to {him be
was looked npon as bis aooredited agent.
To the question—Are yon not wholly
dependent on yonr uncle? objection was
raised by Springer on the ground that it
waa offensive. Some argument ensued,
when Mr. Hiscock asked witness if he
considered his proposition to bay the
returning board honest ?
Witness did not regard it a3 a fair
question, and told Hiscock he had
already insnlted witness and hoped he
would refrain from it.
Hiscock denied insulting witness, and
asked: Do yon wish the country to be
lieve that without consulting anv leading
Democrat, or your uncle, you took it upon
yourself to make three contracts, involv
ing a large amount of monos, whereas
you have not a dollar?
Witness answered: You are getting
offensive again.
After some farther arguments between
members of the committee, a recess was
taken.
After the recess, witness said be bad
not made up his mind when he promised
money to whom ho should go for it, but
probably to the active men of the Demo
cracy, and possibly to the Democratic
oommittee. He denied emphatically and
repeatedly that he expected money from
Mr. Tilden. The committee then ad
journed till to-morrow, but Mr. Felton
was required not to consider himself dis
charged.
Versailles, February 6 —President
Grevy, in bis message to the Chambers,
saye:
The National Assembly in raising me
to the presidency of the republic has im
posed great duties npon me. I shall
apply myself unremittingly to their ac
complishment, and shall be happy if, with
the co-operation of the Senate and Cham
ber of Deputies, I do not remain below
the level of wbat Francs has a right to
expect from my efforts and my dsvption.
Sincerely submissive to tbe great law of
parliamentary government, I shall never
enter into conflict with the national will
conveyed through its constitutional or-
gane. In bills which the government
will submit to the vote of the Chambers,
and in questions raised by parliamentary
initiative, the government will be guided
by the real wants and nnmistakeable
withes of the country, inspired by a spir
it of progress and appeasement. It will
devote its most particular attention to the
maintenance of tranquillity, security
and confidence, whioh are benefits
France moat ardently desires and moBt
imperatively needs. Iu the application
of the laws which give to our general
policy its character and aim, the govern
ment wilt be influenced by the right spir
it, in whioh those laws were diotated. It
will be liberal and jast towards all, the
pioteotor of all legitimate interests and
tbe resolute defender of tbe interests of
tbe S ate ia its solicitude for those great
institutions which are the columns of tbe
sooial edifice. Tue government will be
stow a large share of attention npon
tbese interests. It is by means cf this
liberal and truly conservative piliey tbi-t
tbe great pswers of the republic are ever
united, and animsted by one and the
same spirit, end proceeding always with
wisdom will oau3e its natural fruits to bs
borne by tbe government, whioh Franco,
taught by misfortune,has conferred npon
herself, as tbe'only one that could secure
her a calm repose and usefully labor for
the development of her prosperity, her
'strength and greatness.
Charleston, February 6.—The State
Grange to-day passed resolutions de
nouncing the action of the fertilizer com
panies in regard to raising the price of
fertilizers, and petitioning the Legisla
ture to repeal all existing charters to dig
and mine phosphates in rivers, and advo
cating the retention of tho whole phos
phate interest in the lands of the State.
Richmond, February 6.—The bill for
the i ale of tho James Biver and Kanawha
Canal to the Richmond and Allegheny
Railroad Company, which has been nn
der consideration in the Houso over three
weekB, was to-day ordered for engross
ment. The bill since being reported to
the House has been amended in varions
ways, the principal amendment provid
ing that in the event of the road not be
ing completed in two years after the time
originally fixed in the bill, everything,
including five hundred thousand dollars
security offered by the railroad company,
shall be forfeited; also, that the road Bhall
be taxed the Eatne ae other roads of tbe
State. The Auditor of Pablic Accounts
to-day sent a communication to the Joint
Finance Committee of the General As
sembly informing them that the State
Treasury was entirely depleted, and ask-
ing that means be devised to raise funds
for current expenses.
The City Connell of Richmond end the
Board of Managers of the Tobacco
Trade have adopted resolutions extend,
ing thanks to the offiqprs and agents of
the Old Dominion Steamship Company
for their successful efforts in breaking up
the recent ice gorge in the James river.
New Orleans, February 6.—Prominent
merchants, members of the Citizens’ Con
servative Association, telegraphed to
Washington, nrgtng the confirmation of
as collector, and MoUUlen as postmaster.
Badger
judge Woods, Jodge Billings concurr
ing, to-day rendered a decision overrul
ing tbe demurrer of the Tenses parish
prisoners. Tbe trial of the Tenses eases
begin on February 15th. J. Madison
WeUe, Louis M. Kennoh and G. Can-
nave, of Beturaing Board fame, appeared
to-day before the Superior Criminal Court
and withdrew their plea of not entity and
filed a demurrer to the Information
against them. Judge Cqllam, their oonn-
eel, claims that, under tbe deoiaionof the
Supreme Court, on Haroh 20th, 1878, in
the oase against A. Anderson, they were
entitled to a nolle pros, in this oase, whioh
tho Attorney General refuses. The de-
mnrrer is fired for Thursday next. The
Attorney General holds that tha deoisfon
in the Aoderson cms is pot res judicata,
and holds only good in that ca»9. Ae sev
eral deslalons of the present Supreme
Court hav- afterwards been changed
he 1* of tie op’flien that the Court may
do to also in the casetf the Bstaramg
Board,
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 4,1879.
A HAPTT TilB
this morning are Hayes and John Sher
man. I don’t suppose either of them haa
felt so “bumptious 11 einoe they have been
in their present positions. They have
made and whipped a square stand-up
fight with one of the strongest, most ag
greBsive and insolent of their foes. He
has had his day of triumph and lapped
his fill of the sweet cup of victory. To
day he is drinking deep of another, sort
of cup, and, if he eve; does that kind o f
thing, must be clothing himself with a
fall suit of damns. I say hallelujah 1 I
don’t care a continental about Hayes and
Sherman, but I do feel nearly aa good
over Conkling’s defeat as they do.
It ought to have come last May.
Then we should not have loat
eight members of Congress and the New
York State ticket in November, and very
probably would oIbo have gained a Sena
tor in Conkling’s plaoe. Demooratio stu
pidity and Conkling’s blarney lost us the
triok then, when winning wonld have
oonnted for bo much. But better late
than never. This time only five Demo
crats followed Conkling’s lead. They
were Messrs Eaton, Oookrell, Garland,
McDonald and Yoorhses. Both the Geor
gia Senators, I am proud to reoord, help
ed in tbe good work of Conkling’s de
feat. There were many pain, eo tbe to
tal vote was only fifty-seven, the yeas
being thirty-three and the nays twenty-
fonr. Tbe “stalwarts, 1 ’ of oonrse, sup
ported Conkling, Blaine meekly ooming
to his enemy’s heel like a well-trained
spaniel. The carpet-baggers, except
Conover, took the same coarse, and last
night the eore-beaded strikers or the New
York turkey cook were swearing Hayes
bad bought him outright.
AS USUAL,
Business at this date is much further
behind in both houses than it should be
and as the promise was at the commence
ment of the Christmas holidays. Since
that time very little progress has been
made, and to date only three of the ap
propriation bills have been passed—tbe
pension, consular and diplomatic and
military academy. Tne fortification ana
Indian appropriation passed the Honse a
month ago and were ordered to a confer
ence committee, but have sot yet been
considered. The naval appropriation
bill has passed the House and also tbe
Senate, but with such amendments in
the latter body as will surely
send it to a conference committee.
The other money bills have not yet been
finished in the Honse, and yet only
twonty-two days after to-day’ remain.
As usual tho real work will be crowded
into the last week of the session. That
week i3 the golden opportunity for jobs
and steals of all sorts, but since tho Dem
ocrats have controlled tbe House the
banditti have made light hauls even
there. There is an awful lot of them
here now, and one can scarcely get
through the lobbies and corridors so
dense ta the throng. It is real fun for a
man who is even the least posted to
watch tbe performances that go on
around the doors and in the corridors.
They tell a sad story in one aspect, and a
shameful and disgusting one in another.
They have a comic aide, too, and I have
bad some real fun watching the
discomfiture and scon ling faces
of some of the strikers when
the men they thought were “all right” 1
either gave them the slip or fooled them
outright. Tbe women of the lobby, too,
are unusually active and especially grac
ious and gorgeous. They seemed to have
reserved not only their most stunning
clothes but their sweetest smiles and ten-
derest tones for the last I would like to
bet something handsome that ia the next
twenty days tbe devil wilL shingle some
souls wita mortgages through this me
dium.
beating a fool
a mortar is, I believe, advised against
in tbo good book, but oooasionally tbe
temptation is irresistible. In tbe House,
last Saturday, Hooker, Cbalmers, ana
Singleton, of Mississippi, put one Bragg,
of Wisoonsin, a so-called Democrat,
through that proeess. When they were
through with him tbe Bsdioal3 looked for
the pieces with tbeir strongest glasses,
but without much success. He took it
very meekly, too, didn’t even wbine.
while he was going through tho mill.
Perhaps he wa3 speechless at
the audacity of these “d d reb
els,” in skinning him, the great Gsueral
Bragg, of tbe Yankee army. I don’t
think the country will near from Bragg
any more an the line of his former re -
marks. He and all men at the North
who agree with him, and who label
themielves for Iral and personal rea
sons Democrats Miht to bs put on notioe
that hereafter tbe dog must do the wag
ging and not the tail. If the latter in
sists on it, there will be tronble ; and a
great many people feel it in their bones
that the dog will get off muoh tbe lightest.
I am just about as a warm a friend to oar
Northern elites ns the next man, but they
mnsn’t overload U9. Tbe South is pret
ty solid, I imagine, ou tbe question at
the great mass cf so-oallod war-claims
coming up in Congress and charged to
ber, but sh3 docs not like and will not
tamely submit to the beotoriogs and in
sults of Bragg and bis like.
old man-who-walks-on the-water,
which his name i3 Paul Boyton, gave
one of hiB exhibitions here last Saturday
at the Navy-yard, which I was foolish
enough to attend. I use that adjective
because it wa3 one of the most disagree
able days even of this exceptionally
shocking winter. There were about
2,000 more or less people as idiotic as
myself, and Lord! how the wind did nip
their noses and redden their eyes. Hayes
and some of his Cabinet were there—they
are great on free shows, you know—and
other dignitaries who may generally be
found sailing in the Presidential wake
To my notion Boyton is a largo success.
He did all he claimed to do and more,
and certainly demonstrated fnily the util
ity and completeness of his safety dress.
He swam, walked, talked, laughed and
did pretty muoh everything else ho conld
do on laud, and wound up by gathering
a lot of chips and sticks that were Seat
ing about and made a raft which he util
ized as a dining table, off of which be took
an apparently very satisfactory lunch.
Then he emoked a cigar and read a news
paper, and finally came out of the water
as warm and dry as if ho had been in a
snug room. A. W, B.
Novel-reading as a Dissipation.
Richard Grant White in ths North American
Revicw.l . _
There are millions of people in Eng
land and millions in America,- and almost
millions in Australis, to whose enjoyment
of life novels are almost as neoessary as
food to their life itself, everyone of whom
take some oiedit to themselves for tbe
time they pass in “reading,” complacent
ly contrasting themselves with idlers and
those who are given to ths frivolitios of
life. A vain and foolish notion, for there
is probably no more inBldions form of
liziness, no method of passing time more
absolutely void of exertion of any kind
than novel-reading as novels are read by
moat of those for whom they are written.
Aa a child opens Us mouth and haa sngar
plums put into it, so the ordinary novel-
reader site quietly and thoughtlessly end
ha* a story poured through hi* eyea into
his mind or into that what serves him in
that capaaity. It is quite another spirit
and with another purpose (hat great
works of imagination are epprqaobed by
those who eat) apnreoiate them.
The California 'Wheat Crop.—Ad
vices from San Francisco state that there
are at least 300,000 tons of wheat still in
the hands of the farmers for exportation.
So severe is tbe prevailing drought, how
ever. thai. they are holding on to the
breadstuffs like'sensible people until they
can sow their spring wheat. If sot gotten
in the greued within tho nrxt two weeks,
it is feared that the season will be too
late for anything like a full and certain
yield.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Six Pin Cent. Bond3.—Augusta, fol
lowing the example of the State and gen.
eral government, has, through her City
Council, adopted an ordinance reduoing
the rate of interest of the new bond?,
soon to take the place of floss about to
fall due, from seven to six per cent.
There will be issued in the new bonds
$63,000, which, beBideB tiding ever ths
present emergency, will prove a consid
erable saving to the city. The Chronicle
says of these bonds:
“We have not the slightest doubt of
the ability of the city to place the new
bonds at par. Obligations of the State
of Georgia and of the Georgia Railroad
Company bearing the same rate of in
terest command a premium, and Augusta
bonds ahonld bring equally as high a
price. Their ultimate payment is guar
anteed by a sinking fund, and by the
faith ot a city that has never repudiated
a contract
Why conld not Macon follow suit, by
procuring a slight increase of taxation to
orcate a sinking fund for the liquidation
of her debt, the avails of which might be
placed in the hands of a special commis
sioner, who shall be required to give bond
that the funds thus raised shall be applied
in no other way whatever. This indepen
dent sinking fund wonld affoid a guaranty
for tbe redemption of the new bonds at a
diminished rate of interest, to take the
plaoe of the old as fast as they mature,
and ought to sell at par. We merely
throw out the suggestion for the consid
eration of oar city fathers and the public.
We ore wedded to no special relief pro
ject, but something must bo done ero
long.
The Augusta Mabkbt Injunction
Case.—Tho complainants seek to enjoin
tho movement before Judge Snead,on the
ground that the election and vote—
we quote from the Chronicle — was
insufficient to confer such authority to
build tbe market; that the tame was not
appointed and held under awy law pre
scribed by the present constitution, and
not according to the act of the General
Assembly of February, 1874; that notice
was not given at least-thirty days before
said election, but wa3 only given for ten
days before the same, and did not specify
the bonds or other like obligations to be
issued, or the terms and conditions there
of; that the assent of two-thirds of the
qualified voters of the city was not given
for tho building of a new market and tho
incurringof a new debt nor required by
the resolution submitting the question;
that defendant has no authority to locato
said market in the centre of Broad
street, or to incur such new debt without
farther legislative authority, and not
thereby while the city debt exceeds seven
per eent. of tho assessed valuation of
taxable property.
The complainants also pray that the
defendant be required to make answer to
the following questions:
1. Were any votes' bought and sold or
acquired for money, in favor of a market
or its location in tbe center of Broad
street ?
2. What was the debt of tbe city at
the_ adoption of the present Stale Consti
tution or afterwards ? Did and does it
not exceed 7 per cent, of the assessod
valuation of ail the taxable property in
the oity ?
3. What was the number of registered
voters at the recent election ? What was
the number of all the voters at or before
that time, known to the defendant?
Judge Wm. Gibson, City Attorney, is
preparing the answer to the bill, which
«ill have a hearing before Judge Snead,
ou the i3tn lust.
A Handsome Testimonial.—Savannah
News i Wd were shown yesterday a very
handsome gold medal and pin received
by Mrs. Cheves, mother of our lamented
fellow-citizen Dr. Langdon A. Cheves,
who died in Memphis last summer, a
martyr to noble duty, accompanied by a
letter from the President cf the Memphis
Howard Association. The medal, whioh
is beantiful in design, ts awarded in tes
timony of appreciation of the services
of Dr. Cheves. The pin is an elegantly
chased gold bar two inches long and a
quarter of an inch iu width, with the in
scription “Dr. L. A. Cheves.” Pendant
to this i3 the medal, the size of a silver
half dollar, wita rim, and on one side a
wreath encircling tbe words, “Howard
Medical Corps.’* On the reverse is this
inscription: “Awarded for services dur<
ing the yellow lever epidemio in Mem
phis, 1878.
Remarkable Cow.-—The Sanderevilie
Courier is responsible for tho following
Mr. James Price, ot Johnson county,
owns a oow that has given birth to five
calves within the l^at twelve months; two
of whioh first saw the light in January
1878, and the other three entered the
-lippery path of life daring the January
whioh has jast passed away. This re
markable oow, now ten years old, has
given birth to triplets once and to twins
twice, besides a single calf, making in all
eight calves daring her sojonrn m this
wicked world of oars. She knows that
negroes are free, and that ehe mast work
for her own living, or draw ont a misera
ble existence. We received the above in
formation from Mr. B. F. Brown, of this
county.
This reminds ns of another remarkable
cow owned by an honest Hibernian, who
in reoommending her, said she wonld
give mtlk year after year, without having
calves; “beoanae,” said be, “it runs in
tbe brade; for she came of a oow that
niver had a calf.”
The same paper comes to ns with the
following matrimonial stunner:
He Wanted to Mabbt But Didn’t.
We understand that a oertain young man
was to have been married to a yonng lady
of tbie county last Satnrday night; that
h9 bought the lioenee, made all prelimi
nary arrangements to have the s sored
ceremony performed, and was at the res
idence of the yonng lady’s mother in due
rime. He was accompanied by a Joslioe
of the Peaoe, who did not correspond
with tbe old lady’s ideal of a magistrate,
and she objected to tbo performance of th
ceremony. Ehe conld not bo indnoed to
believe that be was on anthorzied officer
of the law. and said no snoh looking fel
low shonld marry her daughter. Eo she
finally grabbed a long pole and ran the
high dignitary off the premises
Escape of a Prisoner.—Swaiksboro
Herald:
Mr. John M. Chance, who was arrest
ed and brought to this place tor prehmi.
nary trial, on Monday laBt, tor the cutting
of Mr. D. B. Kennedy, mention ot whioh
woe made in oar last issue, escaped from
a guard on Monday night. The case was
continued from Monday till Wednesday
following. In the meanwhile, in order to
keep Mr. Chance from being incarcerated
in jail, until he could have a hearing, a
guard wo3 appointed to take obarge of
him till the day of trial. On Monday
night he told the gnard that he was sio-
and was going to lie down. He polled
off his boots and walked across the room*
toward the bed; bnt when he came oppo
site the door, which was open, sprang
oat end made good his escap-.
Two Daring Bobberies at Hampton.
Griffin .Nines i
On last Friday night there was a raid
made on the Hampton business men hy
some thief or thieves. The store honse
of J. X. Kalman was broken into, and a
considerable amount of clothing, dry
goods, etc-, stolen. The actual amount
is not known, but two or three hundred
dollars are known to hava.becn stolen.
On the B»mo night the saloon cf James
Askew was broken open, and one hundred
and fifty-seven dollars and thirty-seven
cents in moaey was stolen, besides cham
pagne, liquor and tobacco, the amount
net known.
Editorial Starring.—Atlanta Phono
graph: Brother Htncock, of the Ameri
cas Republican, is a v*ry bilious old
gcntlemar.
“Rather,” quoth the Republican, “sinco
the visit made ns by too spoilt Ham of
the Atlanta Phonograph. A. few days
■pent in his company wonld raise the
‘bile’ on anything. The Atlanta Infirm
ary will have plenty of work if that Ham
is to be dealt out to them in daily ra
tions.” ...
Fire.—The Talbotton Register
the catching on fire Of the store of Mr.
W. H. Martin in Talbotton, on Tuesday
morning. When first discovered it was
burning between tho ceiling and upper
floor, and had mads some headway toward
the northern side of the house. The
alarm was given, when all the town rush
ed to the rescue. The flames were
promptly extinguished. L033 not ascer
tained.
Guano.—Talbotton Register: Will gu
ano be used as extensively by onr farmers
this year a3 last? Of course it will. Few
farms will pay in this oonntry without it.
When our lands were fresh, thirty years
ago, and cultivated oy reliable labor, no
one thought abont the nse of a commer
cial fertilizer, much less of hauling it ten
or twenty miles to put on corn, grain or
cotton. With the slave emancipated and
onr lands exhausted of their original fer
tility, came one of the greateat discoveries
of this age, that of the gnano deposits in
the Pacifio islands and phosphate rooks in
the Cooper and Ashley rivers,of South
Carolina.
Bust.—“Yes,” says the Register, “this
is the word for it. Oar farmers are quite
busy preparing for the new orop. New
fences have been pnt np, old ones re
paired, corners have been cleaned and
their contents of vegetable matter dis
tributed over the ground; and other need
ful preparations made to make a big
crop. Labor in this section is plentiful,
and the negroes are contented.
Americus Fair Association.—Repub
lican: At a meeting of the stockholders
of the Americus Fair Association, on
Tuesday last, the following gentlemen
were elected as Directors for the present
year: A. C. Bell, A. K. Schumpert, W.
H. Davison, J. W. Jordan, Jr., John
Windsor, A. J. Buchanan, J. H. Black,
T. J. Howell, U. M. Wheatley, John A.
Cobb, E. J. Eldridge, T. M. Fnrlow and
J. W. Wheatley. In the afternoon the
Directors had a meeting and re-elected
Hon. John A. Cobb, President, and J.
Wheatley, Secretary and Treasurer.
The Southern Watchman contains the
painful intelligence of ths death of Dr.
B. M. Smith at Gainesville, on Satnrday.
He was one of tb9 oldest and most res
pected citizens of Athens. Dr. Smith
was strioken with paralysis abont a year
ago and had never fnily recovered. The
Watchman trnthfnlly says:
In all the relations of life, Dr. Smith
wn3 a Iras, generous-hearted, pnblic-spir-
ited Christian gentleman, and his death
will be deeply deplored by a very large
oirole of relatives and frienda throughout
the entire Sonth.
Mbs. W. H. H. White, of Athens, is
also dead. She was a most estimable
lady.
Death of an Old Veteran.—Lump
kin Independent: Mr. Benjamin Cleve
land, one of the oldest and wealthiest
oitizsna of this county, died on Monday
last. He was eighty-seven years of age,
and leaves a large family of grown chil
dren and numerous relatives to monrn
bis lots. He was a soldier in the war of
1812, and haB been a oitizsn or this conn
ty for upwards of forty years.
Newnan Herald: A shooting sorape oc
curred at tbe Virginia Honse abont 9)
o’clock last night. Mr. John Manly shot
Jim Bay, colored, in the head—the ball
glanoed and merely ont the scalp. Too
late for particulars, as wa are abont going
to press.
Everything conducive to the Letter
condition of tbe baby is snro to attiact
attention; and hence it is that Dr. Bull’s
Baby Syrup is becoming more and more
appreciated, as its woederfal influence
in snbdaing tbe diseases of babyhood
becomes recognized. Price 25 cents.
Some time ago Wilbur F. Storey, of
the Chicago Times, set tbe Western news-
paper men on the qui vine by mortgaging
his newspaper building for §75,000. The
other day one cf.his old reporters, who is
now at work on the Cheyenne Leader spied
Storey in a Faoifio express osr and
straightway tackled him. Storey waa
shy at first, but finally told the reporter
that be was bound for San Franoisoo to
make arrangements for tho pnblioation
of the Times in that oily every morning.
The San Franoisoo edition ot the Times
will be identical with the Chicago edi
lion, except in the matter of local news
Telegraphic and editorial matter will be
wired from Chicago to Frisoo, special
arrangements having been made with a
telegraph company.
Hon. Wm. B. Fleming.—Next to our
old friend, Col. Thompson, of the Savan
nah News, this excellent and venerable
gentleman was our choice for the brief
vacancy in Congress caused by tbe death
of the lamented Hartridge.
Judge Fleming’s record is Without
stain or blemish in a long an^ honorable
career. As a jndgo he was eminently
impartial, and all th9 money in tbe uni
verse could not hare caused him to
swerve one iota from the exact line of
what he deemed his duty.
Fewer of his decisions are said to have
been reversed than those of any of his
associates on the benoh. Long einoe,
this able jurist should have had a place
upon the Supreme Court of tbe State,
which he would have adorned and illus
trated.
Ia the sero and autumn loaf of a vigor
ous and well-spent life, it is especially
gratifying to his numerous friends to
have this mark of generous confidence
and appreciation bestowed upon him by
bta fellow-citizens.
Of late years, the life of this excellent
man has been chequered by many adver
sities, and the hand of Providence has
pressed heavily npon him in the shape
of oft repeated family bereavements.
His'caree and responsibilities were many
and'onerous.
It is gratifying to know, however, that
aside from the honor conferred, his elec
tion will be of great assistance to this
venerable gentleman and his dependent
family, from the pecuniary benefits which
will inure to him. Old Liberty has just
cause to be proud of her worthy son.
A Brave Hoy.
The New York Herald's special dispatch
from Terre. Haute, Ind., tells a dramatis
story. At a public school iu that city,
during the morning hours of last Mee-
day, one of the scholars, named Frank
Pescheck, discovered that the npper
stories of the building wera on Bra. There
were at the time nearly fit* hundred
scholars In tbe echeoi, and a hasty err,
the slightest display of terror on the part
of the lad, wonld beyond doubt Lave
sacrificed many young lives and have
plunged many families into the deepest
affliction that can be visited on human
beings—the sudden loss of their children
by a painful and horrible death.
The brave boy—for coolness iu such a
moment of peril is the perfection of ocur-
age—maintained his preMnoe of mind,
and, going quietly to the principal of the
aohool, communicated to him in a whis
per the fearful intelligence. Even then
the removal of the children caused snob
affright that some of tbe little oues leap
ed from the lower windows, fortunately
without sustaining injury; but the bulk
of tbe scholars passed out in an orderly
manner, under the guidance and control
of the teachers. The scene on the streets
when the parents rushed to the spot, ig
norant of their children’s fate, must have
been painfully exoiting, and no doubt
many blessings were showered last night
on the head of the brave boy whose self-
Need .Encouragement.
We see from the Washington tele
grams and the aotion of Senator Blaine
yesterday, that the cotton mills in Maine
are greatly in need of “encouragement.”
It is a sad fact that this need of “en
couragement” ia quite general abont
thesetlmes, The cotton giv»nv.~, ...
are satisfied, must be iu dire need of “en
couragement.” Wuen a min works all
the year round on a crop which, on the
Georgia average, brings him in not ten
dollars to the acre, with a net profit to
the land heller eo small that it is doubt
ful whether it would not be exaggerated
by stating it at a cipher, he is bound to
feel in need of “encouragement.”
He wipes his brow in a thoughtful
manner—ho is puzzled how to cover debts
with available assets—may be he reflects
on the possibility of a loan or an exten
sion; bnt the idea of going to Congress for
“encouragement” never once enters his
head. He knows, by sad experience, that
thero is bnt ono reaortfor him—he mnsl,
with the help of God, lake care of himself.
"Boot hog, or die,” is an adage presenting
-to his mind the sole alternatives in his
Bat with Mr. Blaine’s constituents
the case stands otherwise. The said con
stituent demands “encouragement” from
the government of the country. He
first invokes and obtains the aotion of
the government forbidding the people of
the country to buy their gcods of any
body else than himself. This is done by
putting on a tax varyiag from forty to
sixty percent, of their value on all simi
lar goods made in foreign countries.
This secures him a monopoly of the home
supply, and the people think that is en
couragement-enough, it not a little too
much, on the line of justice and equity.
Thus encouraged, the man of Maine gees
on rejoicing. His spindles and looms
hum and clatter with a ceaseless, activity,
He turns out goods without end, and he
pockets dividends which he does not like
to print.
Bnt, by-and by, be is again in difficul
ty. What is the tronble ? Simply this :
Stimulated and enoouraged by his heavy
profits and upward flight to wealth, he
has overdone the business. He haB made
more cood3 than the country needs. The
warehouses and stores are all full, and
merobants will bny no more.
Now, what is to be done ? A cotton
farmer wonld say, in such a case, we
know no other course than to sell for
what yon can get or stop producing until
the exocss of supply abates. Bat the
Maine man don’t tako that view of the
case at all. He calls on government
again. “I must have more encourage
ment.” And what now? asks govern
ment. Why, says Maine, you gave me
the control of the home market—“you
compelled the American people to buy
from me, and I have sold them ail they
want or can pay for, and now I demand
that you ehall furni-h me a market in
foreign couEtries. Your ‘encouraging 1
business is not half complete it you do
not provide me a home and a foreign
market, too.”
But how am I to do that ? asks Gov
ernment. You must start a generel for
eign trade. Yop must pay ship3 to run
to foreign ports where thero is little or
no American trade now, in order to test
the chance of getting up a trade. The
ships can’t run witbont money. We can’t
take tho riBk of famishing freights. Yoa
must, therefore, etep forward and ran
theso ships oat of the tsx money of the
people, so as to ascertain whether or not
somebody or something will not tern up
to start a trade with these countries, and
eo open a demand for onr
non tma is a hard proposition. The
man who starts a shop where there i3 no
trade, and no demand for his goods,
makes a gloomy venture; but if it should
so happen that he sells his goods, he at
least will reap the profits. But in this
case the government incurs certain loss,
with no chance of profit. The Maine
brethren are, therefore, discreet when
they decline in aivanco to risk a dillar,
and declare that the government should
take all the risk and loss.
Now, the revenues of the govercmtnt
are not raised for purposes of trade and
speculation ; bnt 1? they were, the gov
ernment is entitled to a trader’s ebanoe
of gain as well as loss. The revenues
are in greater part the hard-sarned ttxes
of poor people, people who have Buffered
in earning and denied themselves in pay
ing these taxes. For the government,
therefore,to take these taxes and throw
them away in a desperate venture,
to cpsn a foreign market for tho Maine
manufacturers, wonld be a cruel wrong.
It would be a gross breach of trust, just
as much na if the South should demand
and reoeive four cents per pound bonus on
raw cotton, because six to eight cents
don’t pay cost of production, and plant
ers need “eaconragement.”
Mr. Comdusg's Defeat.—Mr. Conkling
and the other anti-administration Senators,
eays the Baltimore Bon Washington corres
pondent, are exceedingly gloomy to-night by
reason of the disastrous defeat which nve*-
tcok them this afternoon, while the adminis
tration henchmen are Correspondingly tri
umphant. It is charged openly to-night
that the administration has trafficked with
certain Republican Senators to ohUtn thair
votes. Ia the lobby of Willard’* Hotels
noted Bspnbh’cin politidm of New York, a
personal friend of Mr. Conkling’s, charged
Senator Conover with being influenced in
his vote by the premise of Federal patronage
in Florida.
—A party cf sixteen persons from Plain-
field, New Jersey, have reaohed Bavannah on
their way to Ware Connty, iu the fouthem
portion of the Btate. wnero they expect to
settle. These people have purchased a
large tract of land, containing abcut five
thousand acres, wbieh they expect to divide
into small faims and cultivate. They bring
with them mules, horses, wagons, tools,
seeds, fruit trees and provisions enough to
lut them one year. In an interview, the
leader cf the party stated as a reason for
wanting a change that ths time was exceed
ingly hard in New Jersey; that business was
at a stand still; that the laboring olaes found
it hard to get along, especially if thoir pro
perty was at all encumbered with mortgages.
Besides all this the rigorous climate makes
it moro difficult for a man to make a livinv.
He bsilsvea that if ha can make a favorable
report to the peoole of Plainfield about tbe
condition cf affairs in Georgia, one hundred
families will move out next spring. *
ExrosTSF'OM Niw Yobk —Six Btcemers
left Now York for Europe Saturday last, i nd
two others that had been appointed to leave
were unable to complete loading in time.
Among the shipments are 78 head horned
cattle fo- London, and this notwithstanding
the commotion in England aa to the exis
tence of pleuro-pneumonia among Ameri
can exported cattle; US bales and 35 cases
cf domestic dry goods went to Liverpool
and 1,000 barrels oysters to the cams plaoe
Grain, ;10,000 bushels; bacon, 11.000 boxes;
butter, 10,000 packages; cheese, 25,000boxes,
flour, 4,000 barrels and 10,000 sacks.
—Chief Joseph of IbeNt z Perces Inditns
who is now in Washington, waa asked the
other day what of all the work* of civiliza
tion teen in thia his first trip to the East hid
impressed him most. It was expected that
ha wonld name ths Oauitol, bat he r plied,
without a moment’s hesitation, that the most
wonderful thing he had ever aeon a dreamed
ot was the bridge over the Mississippi Biver
at 8L Louis. He could build a mountain of
stone life the Capitol he said, bnt he could
rot build a spider’s web that would stand
alone in the air. He was afraid to moss it,
but be taw that tho ,pa!e facet went not
rfraid, so he wrapped hit blanket around
h'm and trembled as the train went over
—Shdfcld the bill to apply the proceeds of
the pnblio lands for educational pu-poccs
become a law, the Btate of Georgia would
anna%ily receives as her pro rata the sum
cf 8124 225 66. This devoted to popul.r
education would greatly supplement the
preeent sohool revenues of the State. Tins
sub, eat was up for do bate in Congress on
the 24ih of J- nuary, and Mr. Bell of Georgia
made an ab'e speech in ita euppott Geor
pa’s quota would ba hither than any cne cf
ourteta Southern States.
—The numbsrof deserters from the British
army, advertised during 1878, wa* 8 666,
being 3,0 in excess of the total for 1877.
—All the Chinese have been drives from
SanBunardino, Cal., and Los Ang4eaex-
peo'e to bs relieved of their presence by
spring.
—The heaviest turkey that we hav* heard
of is the one eent to President Johnson in
ISfit .1— tt_.-—, pfj ^
Tnis bird turned the scales at forty-seven
pounds, alive, and was not two yean Old.
—The wind has been blowing aotosa the
top cf Mount Washington lately at the rate
o • 114 miles an hour, the snow u eo deep
that the buildings are buried to tbeir eaves,
and the temperature frequently falls to
twenty degrees below sero.
—Qaotn V.o'.oria likes Dickens’s novels,
and some of George Eiiot’a, ba; her chief
favorites are Wilkie Collina and William
Bisok Scjtt she reads and rereads.
She does not particularly like tne m/vsis of
Beaccnsfisld, 'Thackeray and Lori Lytton.
—Ezra G. Perkins, a Beaton railroad con
tractor, who died a few days ago. obtaiued
a wife in a peculiar manner Be took a
fancy to Mrs- Hardy, coolly hired her hus
band to permit her ts get a divorce, and then
married her
—Tbe new Bulgarian Assembly ia to con
sist or 286 members -partly ex-officio, part,
ly nominated by the Government, oat chit fly
elected. Every Bulgarian of 22 jiue of age,
possessing property, or engaged in a oatiisg
other than that of a servant, student, or
daily laborer, is to have a vote
The De'line of Chuech-Goixo.—The Rev.
Dr Tyng preached in the Churoh of ths Holy
Trinity, Bnuday evening last, a frmpii in
which, acooiding to the report printed in a
morning newspaper, he declared that only
250,000 ont tf ths one million inhabitants of
New York city had attended ohurch that
morning.
—Owing to the severity of the weather,
the forests of the Bernese Jura are infested
by droves of wild boars, sometimes so numer
ous as to d-.fy attack. Bands of wolves
hover abont the farms at night, and hundreds
of hungry chamois have descended f. m the
mountains, and are wandering auout the
valleys in search of food.
—There are 142 daily newspapers in Fag-
land, eight having discontinued public*Men
oaring the past year, geventy sight cf
them aro morning papars; seventy are pub
lished at a penny apieoe, sixty three at ijfd.,
and the remaining ten at prioss from rim np-
to 8d.' Sixty-four of the papers are Liberal
in politics, thirty-seven Conservative and
forty-two Independent.
Finakcul Cosdi:ion of Kinsu —The
financial condition of Kansas ia d oidsdly
prosperous The State’s bonded <t- b; is bet
$1,162,008 against which there is $469,000 in
the sinking fund. Ths total receipt# last
year exceeded the expenditnree by *311.000.
With a permanent echool fund of $ 45 >.000
and school property valued at $4 527.000,
Kansas' cm fairly, be clissed among the
most prosperous cf States.
Bifid Tbifsit on Ice lee-boating on
the Hudson was veiy exciting last we-k, aa
many as thirty big, bandsoms yachts b ing
on the river daily. There was an exciting
raos on Saturday between four yaobte. Tbe
Jac b Backbone made the distance between
Fonghkeepeie and New Hamburg, ten miles,
in just ten minutes. On tbe clear smooth
ice the yachts made more than a u ile a
minute Charles Jane, tho ch*mpion skater
on the Hutson river, is recorded as having
skated a mile iu one minute and fifty-eight
seoonds.
Beware—Do not let yenr drussiet palm
off bn you any new, cheap remedy for
colds whsn you inquire for Dr Bull’s.
Cough Simp or you will be disappointed.
Price 25 cects a bottle.
a great offer for
HOLIDAYS!
We will during the HOLIDAYS dispose o
100 PIANOS A ORGANS, at EX1RAO&DI
NARY nOW prices for cash. SrLENDID OR
GANS 28-5 sets of reeds $65, 3 sets with eub
Bass and Coupler $80, 2 sets $56. I set $to, t set
$35. 7 Octave o« ROSEWOOD PIANOS $180,
71 Sdo$14),warranted!orSJXyear*. AG NTS
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A REtlEDY THAT HAS bEEN
UEHECIElr..
The invincible repugnance felt by almost
every ono to the smell and flavor ol Cod Liver
Oil,has prevented Uns of thousands cf the victims
of debility .from reaping the benefits ot its peculiar
healing and nutritive properties The almost
hopeless consumptive, the m*rtyrto heuma-
ti8m, the barely living shadow of men, women
and children that emerge from the clat**hes of
malarial fever-, all of t hese know, or at least their
doctors know, that of all discovered remedies,
this Oil is the best, and often the only to e that
will build up their wasted bodie-. and restore
their shattered nerves, and far more effective
than the oil by itself is Scott’s Emulsion ef it,
with tbe Hypophosphites of Lime and 8oda.
This is the finest and most natural food and
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45 Years Before the Public.
THE GENUINE
BE. G. McLANE’S
CELEBRATED
LIVER PILLS
tor the cure of
Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint,
DVSPSPSIA, A2CD SICK HU.tC-nvilS.
Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.'
P AIN in the right side, under tho
edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure ; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the. left side; sometimes the pain
is felt under the shoulder blade, and
it frequently extends tq the top of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in thuirm. The stom
ach is affected with loss of appetite
and sickness; the bowels in general
are costive, sometimes alternative ‘with
lax; the head is troubled with pain,
accompanied with a dull, heavy sen
sation in the back part. There is gen
erally a considerable loss of memory,
accompanied with a painful sensation
of having left undone something which
ought to have been done. A slight,
dry cough is sometimes an attendant.
The patient complains of weariness
and debility; lie is easily startled, his
feet arc cold or burning, and he com
plains of a prickly sensation of the
skin; his spirits are’ low; and although
he is satisfied that exercise would be
beneficial to. him, yet he can scarcely
summon up fortitude enough to try it.
In fact, lie distrusts every remedy.
Several of the above symptoms attend
the disease, but-cases have occurred
where few of them existed, yet exam
ination of the body, after death, has
shown the liver to Kaye been exten
sively deranged, t
AGUE AND FEVER.
Dr. C. McLane's Liver Fills, in
£ases ok Ague and Fever, when
taken with Quinine, are productive of
the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory to,
or after taking Quinine. We would
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disease to give them a fair trial.
For all bilious derangements, and
as a simple purgative, they are un
equaled.
ISEVTAKK OF IMITATIONS.
posssseloo averted a terrible oalsm’ty.
Cheap Coal.—The eoal pric.-s fixed by
tbe Philadelphia and Beading Coal and
Iron Company for tbe presort menth
range from two dollars to two dollars and
fifty rents per ton.
The genuine arc never sugar coated.
Every box has a red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression Dr. McLane’s
Live* Pills.
The genuine McLane’s Liver Pills
bear the signatures cf C. McLane and
Ileming Bros, on the wrappers.
Insist upon having the genuine Dr,
C. Me Lane’s Liver Pills, prepared by
Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the
market being full of imitations of the
name HIc£.ane t spelled differently but
same pronunciation.