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MACON GA FEBRUARY 18 ’,879
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THE WEBIti,Y TELBORAPff AND MESS*
INDUS is publi-fed arerj Friday mornins in
lho T»' *r»'ih Buildtmr, ..cornar Cherry and
Saoond street* Sa*wription price: Ona year,
lit ait month*.Si t M months 80 orats,
Adraftt-ina ra:«* ” * f ' r ‘
in»^rti »n.
irjtov square for each
—Mraburg is Sow begirt with revolving
irorclad lotren
—The Erie Biilwsy claims to bo saving in
Ita oiling otpemee 8) percent. ty using pira-
fino on putenger car jonrnala.
—A Nawfounditnfl dog at Bidgsaroed,
J., seized a little child by ita oio-bes and
dragged iif-om the railroad track Justin
Urn, to prevent it from being billed by
paaaiug traio,
—A native cf Marseille? bw purchased the
light of extracting chlorate of potash from
the Da<d d«* and expects to net $8 a ton on
an iudtfloUe qisntity of tt delivered at Loo-
don.
— •Twenty yaara ago.” said a colored
philosopher, •niggers waswnfa thouatnd
dollars a pi mo. Now doy would bo dear
two dollars a dezsn, It’s ’stonisbia* how de
race am ■ unnin’ d-nra ”
—Senator Gordon will deliver the Com'
mono omen t oration at tho Mississippi Univer
sity, Mr. Jefferson Davis having declined
the invitation beoaoso of the precarious con-
diUon of hiu health. v •
—Mr. J A. Roj o, of Highland Prairie. W«
wtlhlia 242 p unde; so <’oea his wife; their
twenty year-old son weighs 211, and a daugh
ter. three yeate younger, requires a support
ing knee of the capadty of 181 pounds
—Two Riitlsh b&rkcatines sailed from
Wilmington, N. O , is October Jast eix days
apart, and reached Liverp ul.together. Be-
turnirg, tbey left Liverpool four days apart,
and Into Wilmington rudder to rudder.
-The Pope has bean fairly inundated
With abusive, offensive and threatening let
ters from Socialists in all parts f Europe,
who have been moved to anger because of
bis reoent encyclical. His Holiness is miking
a collection if them
' —Prince Louie Napoleon is reported to bo
lying dangerously ill at his mother’s rest
dance. Ohue.feu ft. It is said that the Prinoe
has. for soma time, led an irregular and dis
aip.t'd 1-fa, and his been wholly regardless
of tne admonitions tf his mother and of M.
Bouher, and other doveted adherents of the
Impel iai family.
—The Pullman car people are building a
special oar for a party of titled Engliaumcn,
who propose a huating excursion as far
West as bey can go The car contains bed
rooms, kilohens. diningroim and game com*
partmencs, and will coat $ 5.CC0. Theeug-
goation of the New York Mail that a great
deal of game cjul.i bo bought for that sum
seems nuCilled for.
—Tne 8 alary bill Jurt pi seed by the Maine
Benite fixee the compensat'on cf the Gover
nor at 81 5j0, of the Supreme Court Jajges
at 82 000. of the Attorney-General at 81.003,
of the Secretary cf state at $',2iO, of the
State Treasurer at 81,6)0 and of the Adju
tant 'General a* 1930 The ea’ariee cf minor
8tate officers were also reduced.
—The Washington itar says that Senator
Bhielas, of Miesiuri, drew his pay and mile
age—some 8400—on Saturday and laid it on
his desk, leaving it there when he 1- ft the
chambi* The monoy was eared for by a
page who took chargo of it until the owner
turned up. Tho Senator did not know of hie
loss Until his attention was oa led to it, and
then he was loat i to believe it.
—It is one of the unwritten laws cf D-Ia
ware that no lawyer shall be elected govar
nor. Their lawyers, they think, should be
sent to Oongreis. Some respectable farmer,
meichant or doctor, is chosen to look after
BUte affairs, and bat once has the governor
aspin d to the United States Senate. That
aspirant, Dr. Bank bury, failed. Be was de
feated by bis brother, the preaont senator.
—The Chinese are superseding English
sailors to a great exteuten Australian vessels
and steamers, b sing fjnnd to be cheaper,
Cleaner and more easily managed. In
recent case at Liverpool tho oaptain of the
English veesot Queen • xplained for the pres
ecoe of an exclusively Malayan crew ty say u
leg that all the avaPable English sailers at
Singapore were so drunk that h9 could not
take them.
—Funry scandal at Paris- Jealous wifo of
an officer on duty at Versailles, having tea
son to believe that be was over-attentive to
a young actress, goes to Verstilles and ob
tains an engagement for ens night only in
the chorus at tho tbeatro, eo ss to oonfoond
him- The play drags; she is too late to got
home by the last train; sho doesn’t find the
husband; and he, g-iug to Paris to give her
• a Joyful surprise, fiuds that she has gone
out closely veiled and does not return till
7a,k.
—The latest statistics shew that tho debts
of the State of the Union amount, in the
aggregate, to 6345,197 000 Massachusetts
takes the Uad, and is followed in a descend
ing scale by Alabama, Virginia, North Oar
Oliua, New York, Tennessee, Pennsylvania
and Louisiana, each of which owes more
than 82n,000.0u0 West Virginia, Missouri.
Georgia and Araansse owe' materially lees,
although the amount is over 810,000,000 each
While all the other 8Utes fall below the lat
ter figures Many municipal debts csoeed
the State debts-
Bikator K lioaa Ch train with Pbcidhv
—It is more than likely, says the N. Y Sun,
that Senator Kohogg of Louisiana may have
a disagreeable experie ce before many days
It l-t distinctly charged here that Kellogg
committed a wilfal perjury when before the
Potter Committed la it summer, in the mat
ter of the Bisblsnd protest. Evidence of
this in his own handwriting exmts, it is said,
in the bands of a Louisiana politician now
here, who is no friend of Kellogg. The
intention is said to be not only to bring the
aubjeot to the attention of the Senate during
the present session, but to procure ’K-dlogg’s
criminal indictment in this district.
—The steamer Coburg has, after sevoral
unsuccessful attempts, at laat forced a pas
sage np the river Ban Juan from the sea to
Lake Nicaragua. This feat cannot fail to
have important results In extending the trade
of this portion rf Central America, and will
no donbt give a fretb impetus to the plans
far the construction of an inter-oceanic
canal by this route. The length of the river
San Jura front ita month to its ouifljw from
the lake ie rixty three miles; the lake itself
Is about fifty six' miles in length, leaving
Sixty-fonr miles—the remainder of the dis
tance across the isthmus—to be rut artificial
ly The ooat cf the undert thing has been
catlmited at *190,DCU,t00.
—White women -receiving charity from
Chinamen was the singular spectacle witnes
sed in Han Francisco on the reseat Chinese
New Year’s Day. It is a custom with the
Chinamen on that holiday to show their
liberality and win favor with their gods by
wrapping fire and tec cent o.ins in redpa
per, and giving them to the poor who solicit
help. A number of Italian women, becom
ing aware of tbs custom, asade eamplete
tears of Chinatown on New Year’s Day, and
called at every Mongolian ehsp in the quarter,
i Tbey reaped a boon, if ol harvest anti' a
ft policeman took them in. Then they were
ft taken to the polici court, and tbeneoto the
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Wives Know That the Brow op Cabe
is often soothed by a delicious supper, to
which perfect bread, roHs, biscuit, eta
are eo important. To have these delicate
products of baking always reliable, the
use of Dooley’s Yeast Powder ia very
important. This article ia among the
most valuable of the day in ita bearing
on health. It is pnt up in cons always
full in weight.
A. huhbib of members of the Reform
ed Episcopal Church in Pailadelphia pro
pose to discontinue the observance of
LeDt as a season of fasting. Tbey urge
that the indulgence in worldly pleasure
before and otter Lent ia increased by way
of compensation for enforced abstention
during tne season of fasting; while they
also urge that nniform mi d -ration of life
is tha Church’s great need, and that this
may be better secured without Lenten
observances than with them.
FibePrxsiiujis to he Raised in Bos
ton.—Too report of the Fire Upder
writers’ Committee to be made on Fri'
day, says tbo World, will recommend an
average increase in rates of about 25 per
cent. They divide risks into three class
es—one of 40 cents, which will include a
very limited number of lines cf goeds in
balk, not inflammable in tbcmselved or
liable to combustion in an ordinary fire;
one at 30 cente, inclnding the bulk of
riske on mercantile property, and one at
from 60 cents to $1.50. to include light
goods, broken stocks and open lots of
goods of an extra basardons nature. In
view of the eharp competition it is hardly
probabl • that any large or permanent
increase can be made.
shake ofl the Leathergee,
Cincinnati Times.l
“A marked characteristic of the popu
lation of the Southern States is idleness
an aversion to manual labor—a desire to
get along with as little work as possible.
This is true of the whites and blacks
alike. And until they shake off this
lethargy, recognize the dignity and ne
cessity of labor, pluck np courage and
go to work, the resources of the South
will remain undeveloped, to a great ex
tent, and neither local nor foreign capital
will seek investment there.
Is is to be regretted that there are any
idle men in the South, and we hope they
will go to work, bat when every Northern
newspaper that comes to this office is
laden with complaints of the immense
number of idle, thieving, worthless
tramps prowling around everywhere in
that section, we think the Cincinnati
Times might preach a sermon on idleness
js£b better effect to the country behind
if-Cfarier-Joumal.
<Vs» much idleness everywhere, beyond
zflbibt. Bat it is unfortunately the
case that the "observant traveler," as he
whirls through the country, North or
Sontb, sees,for the most part, lazy people
or people of leisure. The busy people are
ont ef sight—at work on their farms or in
tbeir shops or warehouses. It is unfair
to judge of a country by wbat can ba
seen of it in bar-rooms, railway stations
or other places commonly nssd for loung
ing.
aw Fewer
In Prague, Bohemia, on the evening of
January lltb, much alarm was created
by a meteor that crossed the eky in a
southwesterly direction, and exploded
with a detonation so loud and violent as
to cauee the citizens to rnah from their
homes into the streets in terror. Some
said they beheld a large, white, shining
ball in the sky that darted toward the
eartb, bat at the distance of twice the
height of a church steeple burst, and
disappeared after a momentary emission
of an intense violet dime. The same
phenomena were cb 1 - jv.-d in neighbor-
ng cities. For a -a -ment tbo meteor
illuminated the cur'.h with a light as
bright as day.
No Extba Session op the Senate.—
The World says it ha3 been stated that
the President would call an extra session
of the Senate to nominate four or five
Senators whoee toims of office will expire
on the 4th of March to important posi
tions. The lucky Senators wish to be
confirmed or rejected immediately and
not be put to the expense of going abroad
and remaining in suspense for nine
months before the next Congress meets.
The President said to-night that he bad
no intention of calling such a session,
and furthermore that the idea of so doing
hud never suggested itself to him. Should
he call an extra session the Democrats
would at once reorganize the Senate.
Mount ds Sales Academt. — The
yonng ladies of this institution have the
honor of leading off in the first pablic
movement in behalf of our Confederate
soldiers’ monument.
They propose, as will be eecn else
where, to give an entertainment at tbeir
hall on Wednesday evening next* Februa
ry 19tb, at 7j p. m.
We donbt not t he exercises will be both
charming and interesting, and as tbc ad
mission price is placed only at twenty-
five cents, tbey should bo greeted with a
crowded audience. This movement we
hope to see followed up by others Very
eoon, nor should the efforts of our people
be relaxed for a mom-nt until a sufficient
earn has been secured to complete the
monument and its surroundings, and ex
tinguish the last cent of any debt that
may exist.
(.’citing Up a Yello
Sear*.
Dr. T. C. Miaor, Health Officer of Cin
cinnati, stated in an interview, of which
the Cincinnati Commercial publishes a
report, that he had heard quite a number
of physicians express the opinion that the teration and short weight have become so
yellow fever will break ont again in the 1 . , .. . .
Sonth the comine summer, in which cue nnivertal among them as to ba discount
TVIt at we Bat ana Wear,
A nervous man who reads the news
papers is liable to be frightened every
morning by some fresh discovery of new
poisonous ingredients in biz daily food,
and be ready to cry ont with the agonized
school of the Prophet, "Oman of God,
there » death in the pot 1” The Assert
can world has not vet fairly recovered
from the uncomfortable suspicion that a
half ounce of tin or lead, held in solu
tion by vile acids, may be in every man’s
stomach from the use of doctored Bngar,
when a new alarm is sounded that tho
baking powders carry death dealing' in
fluence to the bread. Burnt alnm, they
say, ia used for cream of tartar, at a sav--
isg of twenty-three cents la tho pound,
with tbo same apparent effect in the
powder, bnt with this unfortunate differ
ence, that the alum produces irritation of
the mucoiu membrane, causing griping,
constipation, indigestion and other evil
and dangercn3 consequences.
This is sad business, it true. It takes
one fond of cake at double disadvantage,
You may compare the cako with its com
ponents of engar and the alum baking
powder, to a shot-gun, both barrels
oharged with fine mustard seed shot. If
one oharfe miSeee, the other is pretty
sore to hit, and the chances favor injury
from both. Bnt it is quieting to reflect
that no visible damage results from the
fosilade. If anybody is hurt, we don’t
kaow it.
It is a pity manufaclurers do not fall
back again on the square line of honesty,
and resume a correct echednle. Adnl-
Another Mibacle.—We printed a day
or two since an account of the restoration
to sight of a blind person in North Caro
lina, it was alleged, through the efficacy
of prayer. But a greater wonder has
transpired. B ast Butler, the man who
nsnlted the fair women of the Confcder
ocy in a way that a virtuous female never
forgives, bos juat declared from his seat
in Congress ‘That whenever tho qnestion
of the depletion of tho treasury by these
war claims is over, I think tbat the pity,
the humanity of the North, will take care
of tbs maimed of the war. If yon
ish to know it. (addressing Mr.
Kelfer), I eee no more reason woy
Confederate soldier, maimed and
crippled in tho honest discharge of
wbat he believed to be his duty, should
not be pensioned, than why a Confeder
ate general, who honestly believed he was
doing his duty, shonld be pnt into a Be-
publican cabin el.’’
Now, what has acme to pass? Is It the
millennium, and will the lion and the
lamb, (the Bad. and the Democrat.)
really “lie down together, and let by
gones bo by-gones? Alas, wo have no
faith in Honast Ban, of spoon-appropri
ating memory. H9 once, (before jh-
meeting of the Charleston convention.)
played tha rolo of Democrat to perfec
tion, and then equally distinguished
himstlf as the most rabid, relentless,
blood-thirsty, blackest and moat unsoru-
poloua of all tho enemies tho South was
ever foroed to oontend against. We have
no ose for each a creature, and trust the
Democrats will never stultify themselves
by any affiliation with him in future.
That soft, bnneomba talk of his shonld
deceive no one old onongh to remember
the fall of New Orleans.
AN ELEGANT PREPARATION
De-ign«d to meet the publlo want for a
harmless h*ir drea it-g and restorative, it
foaudiu P*rker’a H&lr S»l.am It ac s like
m.nic, commencii-g At tin very route, re
moves Dandruff and all knurrs from the
scalp aad never fails to restore gray or
faded hair to Us original yon bfal color and
beauty. Failing hair is imme -lately checked
by itsnso, and it produces a growth of beau
tiful young hair, soft, glossy and iuxutirnt,
tbat surpri-es everyone. These properties
added to its exquisite perfume and purity of
composition, render it the growing favorite
of the toilet table everywhere Buy a bottle
from your druggist Boland B. Hall, and test
ita merits.
MAN 2 LADIES
nffering from Nervousness, Painfal
Periods and Debility, will fin : there it no
wiy in which their hoaltb may be so rff-c-
tu»lly regiined, relief from pain obtained,
and functional regularity -etabliehed as in
the uso of Parser's Ginger Tonic. The
na sing mother, exhausted by the care o
her Hi tie one, finds her strength and nerves
reetored by tte use, while the mother's com
for thus secured, ii imp,-ted through the
mi'k to her babe, making the little one
happt, eheetfui. free from pain, an t dispos
ed to refreshing sleep Buy a 8- 000 bottle
from you droggmt, liolaud B Hall, or a
sample bottle at 15 ota-, and test its merits.
janl-Sm.
Who would throw away hard-owned
QCRER, ISN'T It, - money for ev. ry new cough syrup adver-
/*?£ ?„ re , learning tl at i tisrd; when you can procure tbat etan-
„ biikt! s Durham smoking Tobacco u toe best? I j n. ojii.n. u
A «k your demur lor it, anil tuke ."O other. I dard remedy for coughs, Dr. Bull a Congh
juuK eodAwiy J By tup. Price 25 cents a bottle.
South the coming cummer, in which ease
he thought Cincinnati would be as liable
to be visited by the epidemio as Louis
ville or any other river city. He also re-
mark-d:
“The Surgeon-General of the Marino
officially reported a few deaths as occur
ring in Mississippi within the last four or
five weeks. Dr. Lowry, who lately re
turned from Memphis, was in the health
office a few days since, and seemed to
think a lingering tendency toward yellow
fever still existed in that city; that many
hous.es there and in Yickabnrg were as
yet unopened aad had not been venti
lated and disinfected. I was also in-
formed by a prominent steamboat man
from Pitteburg that there had been oases
of yellow fever m Memphis within a
comparatively recent period. A special
telegram from Lanlavitle to thu morn
ing's Enquirer also stated moat positively
tbat tbo disease had not died out in the
far Sooth. You may take all these state
ments for what tbey are worth.”
South Cabcltna to the Rescue.—The
Angnsta Kims intimates that Carolina is
greatly enthused over the prospect that
■be State Fair will be losatcd in tbat city.
But wbat will Georgians have to asy on
the subject. Are the people of Camden,
Ware, Deoatnr, Glynn, Clinch, Liberty,
Lcundes, Baker, Wayne, Appling, Thom*
Qaitman, Telfair, Randolph, Clay,
Stewart, Troup, Gbattahooobee, Mein-
tosb, Muscogee and twenty other remote
eonnties in Georgia, some of them nota
ble contributors to the fair, to be made to
transport tbeir contributions and them
selves to the Carolina boundary mainly for
the benefit of the peopte woo live “beyond
the river." We opine nor. This Agricul
tural Society is meant for the benefit of
our own noble commonwealth, and ita
fairs ehonll be made as accessible as pos
sible to the bulk of her people. Net that
our dear Carolina friends will not be ever
welcome visitors, but then this is emi
nently a Georgia lustimtion, and no more
ff-c>aal means oonld be taken to destroy
•he State Agricultural Society than by
divertin' from its own limits the legiti
mate results of her industry, thrift and
skill.
ISiuoGrd Cattle-
That “times are not now as they nsed
to be,” wsb o’.oaily shown at a great Bite
of imported cattle—“Jerseys, Ayresblres
and Gnernseyu”—in Philadelphia last
Tuesday. These were all blooded oattle
—imported, and all with a herd-book
record; and yet ike highest price paid
for any one was $330, and the average
did not rcaoh balf tbat snm. The days of
ten end twenty thousand dollar cows have
pushed and gone. Most of the stock was
bid off by the New England people.
Iiouulana Cannot Repudiate.
A Constitutional Convention bas been
called in Louisiana, and it is said many
ot its members favor tbe repudiation of
her consolidated bonded debt. It bas
transpired tbat this will ba impossible,
however, even if a majority favored so ill-
advised and suicidal a measure. Tha act
of 1874. authorizing tha issue of these
obligations, expressly stipulates "that
each provision of this act shall be, and is
hereby, declared to be a contract between
tho State of Louisiana and each and every
holder o’ <be bonds leaned under thin
act.” 1. addition, the Constitutional
amendment of 1874 is as follows:
“Thet-sne of consolidated bonds an-
.boiiz d by the General Assembly of the
S'H<e at Ub regular session in they*ar
1874, ia hereby deolared to create a valid
contract between the Stale and each and
every holder of said bonds, which the date
shall by no means and in no way impair.
I'oe ui-a b juds shall he a valid obliga
tion of tbe State in favor ot any holder
thereof, and no conrt shell enjoin tbe
payment of tbe prinoipal or interest there
of, or tne levy and collection of tbe tax
therefor ; to secure such levy, oolleotion
and payment, the judiotal power shall be
exeroised when necessary. The tax re
quired for the prinoipal and interest of
skid bonds Khali ba assessed and oolleoted
eaob aad every year nntil said bonds shall
be paid principal and interest, and the
pri.oeeds shall be paid by the Treunter
of the State to the holders of said bonds,
as the prinoipal and interest of the same
shall fall due, and co farther legislation
or appropriation shall be requisite for tbe
s«ld assessment and oolleotion, and for
such payment from tha Treasury.”
From the above tne New Orleans Pic
ayune cornea to the following apparently
just conclusion t
1. Tbo State can be sued through its
officeis to collect the tax, and the money
collected can be paid out to tho bond
holders without legislative appropria
tion.
2. —These provisions are part of tbe
contract, because >hey establish the only
legalremedy given to the bondnolder to
enforce hia contract.
3. The Supreme Court of tbe UbiCtd
States has repeatedly held that the rem
edy ia a part of the contract, and any sub-
aiqaent law of the S ato which so affects
tbe remedy as substantially to impair
or lessen the value of lho contract is for
bidden by tho constitution of the United
States and void.
4. Tne Constitution of the United
States prohibits the violation of a con
tract by a State, whether the State acta
through ite Legislature or a convention
of ita people in their sovereign capacity.
It would be well for Memphis and
other oities to “lock" well “before they
leap” in the matter of disavowing and
shirking their jurt obligations. It is just
possible tbat they may inenr tbe odium
and loss of credit without reaping the
benefits of repudiation.
The necessary 'requirements of a good
baking powder are parity, wholesome
ness and reliability. Whenpnre it is
always uniform in its resnlts.i in pro
ducing light, easily digested bread, rolls,
biscuit*, and cake. Dooley’s Yeast Pow
der has a well-earned reputation forper-
(eot purity and thorough reliability. „
ed on prices, and in a very abort time
all profit by them is lost. The newspaper
press and the scientists, ever on the alert
for a surprise or a sensation, * not only
detect all anoh enaticisma, bnt exagger
ate the pnblio suspicions and apprehen
sions abont them, so that very soon the
manafactnrers loee even more than they
ever gained by crooked practices. Tbe
misfortune, however, ia that prices in a
sharp competition, become eetablished at
a point incompztibleNritb strictly honeBt
fabrication.
A few days ago, the papers spoke Of
the examination of the foreman of the
finishing department in a large English
calico factory, from whom the testimony
was elicited that tha sizing of the cloth
within a few years back had increased
from three to forty per cent, of the gross
weight, and taia weight was composed
principally of white clay. Thispiaotice
is supposed to nave had great influenee
in damaging the Oriental markets for
English cotton goods.
The following paxagraph is now travel
ing the ronnda:
Cotton Goods tob China.—Mr. Albert
D. Shaw, United States Consul at Man
chester, England, has sent to the Depart
ment of State the report of a trial involv
ing the manner of manafsotonng and
packisg cotton goods for the Chinese
market. A contract was made for the
sale of 48,000 pieces of gray shirtings,
which were properly packed and shipped
to Shanghai. On being opened at that
port more than half of the packages
were found to be affeoted by "mildew.”
It was contended that this “mildew” was
not caused by any exterior influence, hut
by the nature of tbe sizing used by tbe
manufacturers to make the cloth
heavier and thicker. This sizing is com
poa-d in part of chlorate of magnesia,
chlorate of lino, glue and China clay. O' i-
giunliy a floor composite was u*ed. Bat
improvements have been discovered. Tal
low, oil or paraffine, mixed wiibstarob,
removes any harsh feeling tbe oloth may
have. By degrees the manufacturers
found that other ingredients could be
added. Tho cloth was not sold by tbe
yard only, but by the weight, 4 pounds ot
ootton being made to weigh 8} pounds by
this process of sizing. Moisture being
necessary to increase the weight, salt was
added It was oontended that the “mil
dew" was caused by the use of salt In the
sizing. Some manufacturers claim to
have added an ingredient, in the form ot
an antiseptic, whioh removes tbe danger
from dampness. In the case before the
oonrt the “mildew” was found in tbe cen
ter of the package and not on the outside,
u in packages badly paoked. The sab
jeot is worthy ot attention by American
mznnfaoinrers.
The English silk manufacturers allege
that tho Lyons drsss silks have latterly
been loaded with more than forty per
cent, of their weight with met&lio dress
ing, giving them a delusive finish and
thickness which disappear as soon as
worn.
All these arts and expedients are more
than discounted in the consequent loss of
trade and loss of confidence among buy
ers. Notoriously false goods and faith
less dealers must sell at low prioes, if at
all, whereas on the other hand, any ar
ticle or brand, or trade mark, with an es
tablished repntatien of honesty com
mands a good prioo.
As a matter of weighty oonzoienoa the
food mannfaotnrers should be scrupu
lously honest, bat, beyond serious donbt,
are seldom so. Cheap and often Inju
rious sabstanoes are introdnoed into al
most every preparation, and false marks,
false packing and short weights are so
common as to be anlioipated as a rale.
Bnt that any firm shonld deliberately,
year after year, put on the markets a
fraud seriously prejudicial to health is,
after oil, as we believe, more ■ matter
ofstupioion and sensation than of abso
lute faot.
Robin Hakyest.—Tbo number of these
little birds which nave fallen before the
remorselescaimof the numerous sports
men ot all sizsB, races and conditions
within the last week wonld count thons
ends. To many of the darkieB they are
as welcome as were the quailB of the wil
derness to the Israelites ot old, and pgQtty
nearly as abundant. Tha woods, swamps,
cbinaberry trees, cedars and fields liter
ally swarm with them, and tbe mortality
doeB not seem to diminish their numbers
in the least. These birds are very fat
and delicately favored, being far more
juicy than partridges. Many is the robin
pie that has been served of lato. While
sorry for the little fellows, it must bo
confessed that they serve a good purpose
for food at the season when chickens are
no longer chickens, but old henB and
roosters. They come to the South by
millions every fall, and return with tbe
approach of warm weather. Ia upper
Georgia, however, some of them remain,
build their nests and tarry all the year
round. The note of the robin la very
sweet, though not varied like that of the
mocking bird. It is “love’s labor lost” to
try to stop the boys from shooting them.
Tbe St« ffieaolu Hotel,
On Broadway, New York, now under the popu
lar management of Mr. Uriah Welch, has large,
well-ve tilated rooms, excellent bed* and perfect
accommodations. An elevator connects directly
with the Udie.’entrajce. The tableaad atten
dance throughout is acknowledged as being un
surpassed. No extra charge for first-class
rooms. decl2 oodSrn
Sball We Have the State Fair?
This Is the all-absorbing question of
the hour, and we are glad to see tbat onr
people are a unit in their desirs and ef
forts to induce the State Agricultural So
ciety to permanently locate ita exhibi
tions, be they annual or biennial, at our
beautiful park. No city In the State has
expended as much as Macon, or oeen at
greater pains to promote tha aims and ob
jects sought to be accomplished by these
periodical gatherings of the people and
their diversified productions, which have
done so much to improve the agriculture
of the country and promote gooi will and
praisewortny emulation among the repre
sentatives of every branch of industry.
Experience has demonstrated, too, that
owing to her superior advantages of loca
tion and accessibility, a large crowd never
fails to be present, and the exhibits are
always the admiration of the stranger
and visitors from abroad. To continue
the rotation of the Fair necessitates the
keeping np of two or more sole of im
provements at heavy cost, and eubtraots
from that earnest zeal, which a permanent
location wonld inspire in the city which
was thu3 honored, in bahaltof the exposi
tions of tbe Society.
We trust the convention at Hawkins-
villa next week will consult the interests
of tbe Seoiety and people, therefore, by
fixing the Fair permanently in Maoon,
whioh is very near tho geographical con
tra of the State, and has already in post
tion every building and improvement
needed in the premises.
A Fugitive Corporation. 1 nection he had with any frauds or any plrting tbe reading of the
’hrt nnfifll I fin rtf hnv tha nnhliis mrnnon onvnmiftru? in *. s _ a . * lu “
The question of how the pnblio debt of wrongs commuted in the conduct and re
the city of Memphis stands affeoted by • *' arDS °f the election, he said it was ap :
the repeal of the not incorporating tn„t ™ pU f- f< f u 8ajtl
, .. .. .. v * connection, as he was not in the State or
■tfWPPg thejniSNpapaw attf thej plaoe_ where any thing of the sort was
Honesty the Best Policy.
Thh worst snow storm of the season
was raging in Qaebeo last 'Wednesday.
REPUDIATING STATES, AND CITIES.
The bonded debt of Tennessee ia $24,
0CO.000, without oounting ever so much
interest overd as. Abont a year since the
bondholders made the State one of the
most liberal propositions ever heard of
in the transactions of corporations or in
dividuals. It was no less than this: To
aooept a rebate of fifty per cent, of the
principal, and reduce the interest to six
per cent., granting at tbe same time
thirty years for the new bonds to rnn.
This the Senate accepted, with the ex
eeption that it scaled the interest to four,
five and six per cent. But a resisting
House defeated the entire proposition by
a majority of five votes. It does not ap
pear whether this action was prompted
by a desire to secure still greater conces
sions, or was the ontbirth of consaicn
tious scruple?. We hope the latter.
Nearly the same proposition is again
presented by the bondholders through
their counsel, General Roger Pryor, so
far without having been accepted. But
in addition, the majesty of the law has
been appealed to, and, if rejected, the
constitution of tbe United States and the
Supreme Conrt will intervene to prevent
the contemplated wholesale violation of
the obligations of solemn contracts.
So much for tho financial condition of
the Volunteer State. But one of her
principal cities is even in a worse pre
dicament. In an evil hour, oppressed
with debt and disheartened by tbe reoent
plaaus, whioh more than decimated her
population, Memphis sought by a dis
honorable subterfuge to evade the pay
ment of her righteous dues. Tho plan
devised and successfully carried out was
to procure fiom the Legislature the re
peal of her charter and the appointment
of a receiver, so that no tax could bo lev
ied to liquidate even the interest of her
fire million debt.
Batn-eemathe seme expedient bas
been tried before, notably in tho oase of
Washington City, whioh sought to esospe
the payment of $22,000,000 by having
her charter revoked by Congress, and re
manding the government of tbe oily into
tha hands ot three commissioners. The
attempt, however, proved a failure, and
this besvy dobt still harasses tho capital
of the nation. We see it stated, also,
tbat one of Missonti’a oities, Cape Gi-
randen, resorted to the same expedient
to get rid of her liabilities, bnt tbe Unit'
ed States Oonrt stepped in with its Mar
shal and pnt a atop to tbe proaednre.
A reference to an article in yesterday’s
issue concerning the Louisiana debt, will
show that it may be capitally doubted
whether Memphis will not be forced to
pay every cent of her iidebtedness, unless
through a voluntary compromise of her
creditors. How much better to have
manfully continued to struggle os, work
ing out her own salvation by retrench
ment, economy and persistent effort.
Bnt witness the direfnl results of the
destruction of her city government, and
ths semi-state of anarchy which now
reigns in Memphis. One of onr own
citizens, a reliable gentleman, just re
turned from a visit to that unfortunate
city, gives a doleful account of the condi
tion of affairs. There is no mayor, eonn-
oil, polioe or competent authority to
enforce order and regulate municipal
matters.
The government, if it may be oslied
snob, is devolved noon tbe receiver and
hi* mbs or depnties. As a consequence
tbs streets are well nigh impassable and
exceedingly filthy, and worse still, all
sanitary preoantions seem to have been
abandoned. Our informant Baw the ne
groes washing and hanging ont to dry
qaintitles of seoond-hand clothing whioh
had every appearanoe of having been
nsed by the viotims of yellow fever, and
hundreds of partially worn shoes were
offered for sale also at the junk shops and
on ths streets by petty traders. These,
too, beyond azy reasonable donbt, were
the property of the deoeased anfferen.
He says the condition of the city and
the general outlook u deplorable indeed.
When we reflect that itia extremely
probable, if not oertain, that this despe
rate attempt to evade the payment of
her debt will prove abortive, and the city
be loft without credit or financial stand
ing, can any one doubt tbat “honesty is
the best policy,” and Memphis would
have fared far bettor had sho breasted
her difficulties and not sneenmbed in this
disgraceful manner? Even now, wo
trust that she will take the back track
and make the best terms possible with
her creditors, even if it involves untold
privation and self-denial to her tax-pay
ers.
SMITH’S WSM OIL.
Frspand by SB LYNDON, Athens. Go.
Atkins, Ga, December 8,1877.
A few nights since I give my son one dose of
Worm Oil, and tbs next day he passed sixteen
large worms. At the same time I gavaone do*e
to my little girl, fonryeart old. and ahs pused
eighty-six worms, from four to fifteen inch**
long. _ W F PHILLIPS.
worms. I tried calomel and other Worm Medi
cines but (ailed to expel any worms. Seeing Mr
Bain’s certificate,Igot a vial oi your Worm OU
and first dose brount forty worms, and the seo
ond dose so many g were passed I did not count
them. - ‘ - 8 H ADAMS
Hunt. Rankin A Lamar, who], and ret. agts,
Jun&fdSza
bondholders, too. It the step was taken
wMh a aerions view ot escaping liability
for honest pecuniary obligations, it is not
a creditable one. The city has placed
htrself in the position of a fugitive
debtor. Io the hard old times "before
annexation,” when so many judgment
deb.ora fled to the Southwest between
nuns, and “G T. T.” was so common
retorn upon the back of exeontions, the
adventurous debtor could put Himself be
yond the reaoh of Stato or federal juris
Uiotlnn.
But tho return of a Rackensack sheriff
upon an execution against such a debt
or—“non eat inventum ab-quatulando
damnum et Swartwoutandibua et railum
in swampo,” cannot be wnrien against
Memphis. She is still there with all her
assets, and even though cioilifer mortuus,
the estate has not perished with Her, and
ia applicable to legal claims against the
deceased, in some way or other. We find
in tbe Charleston News and Courier this
view of the matter:
Memphis, though disincorporated, ie
apparently not yet out of the woods. The
holdetB of the $5,000,000 indebtedness of
the late city seem to think that they have
an equitable remedy against something or
somebody,and the are bnsily consulting
to find out what tbat remedy ie The
State of Tennessee created a body cor
porate, with power to raise money by
taxes and to run in debt. This creature
of the Siate at once exercised ita power
to tun in debt to the extent of five mil
lion?, and then, declining to exercise itB
co-ordinate power to raise money by taxea
and pay the debt, or effect a compro-
miie with its creditors, chose rather to
get the State to extinguish its oorporate
existence. On this view of tbe oase the
bondholders are inclined to believe either:
First, that the aot repealing the charter
of Memphis is void, bsoause impairing
the obligation of contracts; or, seoond,
the Siate itself, in vacating the charter or
Memphis, assumed that city’s debts, and
is bound to provide for them by taxation;
or, lastly, the debt of the defunot city
adheres to all the property within its
former limits, “and United States courts
can, by appointment of receiver and >he
imposition of speoial taxss upon snoh
property, enforoe the collection of debts
for the protection of non-resident orod
itore.”
Tennessen Public Debt.
A Nashville speoial to the Courier-
Journal, announcing tbe arrival there of
General B.ger A. Pryor, representing
tbe holders ot the Tennessee bonds, and
armed with a formal proposition for a
settlement of the debt, Bays that in an
interview with General Pryor, he stated
ibatlart fall a very great majority, in
amount, of the Tennessee bondholders,
appreciating ibe embarrassed condition ot
Tennessee, submitted to the Governor a
plan for the adjustment of the debt
whereby the creditors of the Suite agreed
to a reduotion of forty per cent, of the
debt, or, alternatively, at the ohoioe of
lho State, a reduotion of interest. Tbe
oriditors of tbe State, by this offer,
evinoed a willingness to make such eon
cession as wonld reduos tho claim within
the ability of the State to discharge. No
response has been made by the State to
tbat overtnre.
Meanwhile one of the creditors of the
State instituted suits against the railroads
with a view to enforoe a supposed lien in
favor of creditors on property of the
railroads. The snit, however, having
been brought, the bondholders are anx
ions tbat tbe State should understand
that whatever may be ibe validity of the
alleged lieu against tbe railroads, what
ever tho legal enforceable right of the
creditor, th*y (the bondholders) have not
modified tbe proposition, nor withdrawn
tbe offer of compromise. The proposi
tions will be likely to be Bent in 'to the
Legislature by Governor Marks, and G?n
oral Pryor will be afforded an opportunity
to address tbe body in bbhalf of the bond
holders.
BY TELEGRAPH.
New Yore, February 14. — Mary
Hooper, who shot Augastus Phillips,
(Oofty Gooft), was arraigned at Jefferson
Market Conrt to-day. Pnillip?, in an
affidavit, claimed tbat the shooting was
not wilfal and retracted statements
to the contrary, which he said were made
white under tbe influence of medical nar
ootice. The woman was held in $2 000
to answer, Phillips tarnishing $500 of the
amount.
VVa-hinoton, February 14—In the
Senate the Committee on Railways heard
to-day the argument of Mr. Beiff, of the
Amerioan Automatic Telegraph Compa
ny, who spoke in favor of the proposed
bill for authorizing railroad companies to
open telegraph lines for pnblio service
and said the bill conferred no additional
rights, hut raised questions as to the pow
er of tbe Western Union to make exclu
sive contracts.
Mr. Lowry replied for the Western
Uzion, contending that the bill was pro
moted by defeated litigants and disap.
pointed competitors of his company, and
intended to start them in business. If
tbe bill passed the railroads would absorb
all tbe telegraph lines, and become a
still greater monopoly. At present, they
fixed prices of farmore’ prodnoe, and if
they transmitted his commercial commu
nications they wonld control his business
altogether.
Mr. Lowry will conclude the argamant
to-morrew with special refereooe to the
company’s oontraote, and Mr. SwintoD,
of New York, a member of the Associated
Press, will state before the committee
bis company’s relation to tbe Western
Union Telegraph Company.
The Committee on Ways and Means
will to-morrow consider tbe letter of Sec
retary Sherman to Representative Atkins
on the snbjeot of legislation to supply a
suffioisnoy of meanB to m«t the expendi
tures of the next fhoal year, it having
been estimated that said expenditures
would be increased by the act paying ar-
reages of preminms.
The House Committee on ludisn Af
fairs deoided this morning to report to
the Home, after oonsiaerable amend
ment, the bill to authorize the Seoretary
of the Interior to allot land in severalty to
the Indians residing on reservations
within tbe United States, and to issue
patents therefore.
Senator Brnce, of Mississippi, was
called to theohair in the Senate Chamber
to-day, end presided over the delibera
tions of the Senate a portion of the af
ternoon, This is the first time In the
history of tbe Government that a oolored
an has ooampsd the ohafr
The United States Consul at Dublin
reports tbe shipwreck of the United
States brig, Den Quixote, on ti-e Gallo
way coast. Tbe brig lef> New York for
Limerick on the 16th of December last.
On tbe 29th Captain Yorke, Chief Mate
Masters, and Third Mate Lunt were
washed overboard during a heavy gato.
On the 12th of January the vess-l went
ashore on the rooks off the Isle of Arran.
The remainder of tbe orew were saved.
Oathe 17:h of January the America*
ship, Fanny L. K nnedy, from New York,
was stranded on the Wexford oezet. No
lives were lost.
-The select oommittee of the Senate, ap
pointed at the instance of Senator Mat
thews, for the purpose ot inquiring into
his connection with the alleged election
frauds, have made public the testimony
of that gentleman, given several days
ago. On sppearieg before the committee,
the Senator said he did not deem it ne
cessary for his vindication that Anderson
ba compelled to attend. Being sworn,
he ssid that, with a view to enable tbe
committee rightfully to understand his
relation to the whole subject, it was ne
cessary to make a statement in reference
to his visit to New Orleans in November,
1876, at the request of General Grant, to
witness with other gentlemen the can
vass and count the voteB for electors. In
answer to the question' aa to what con-
possible, and knew nothing in refereooe
to the matter. He was quite sura be did
not see Anderson while in New Orleans.
He first saw him March 23 J, 1877, and
several times subeeqaendy. He denied
emphatically promises to use his luflu-
enoe to infiusnoe tbe nomination of any
body aa collector of custom at New Or
leans. These statements were pore fab'
rioations.
The Senator never heard of the so
called Sherman letter until it had be
come a matter of publio notoriety
through the preas. In none of his inter
views did Anderson in any manner inti
mate he had been party to any misdoinga
in respeot to misrepresenting the true
result of tho eleotions. The reasons
that actuated him in corresponding with
Andorson were to aid him in securing
what he thought he ought to have, and
to not give him any excuse for believing
I had not acted in good faith.
After further explanation the com
mittee decided it did not desire to call
any witnesses at present, and tho ieves
tigation here rests.
St. Pzzeb;BUro, February 15.—Baron
Stuart, the Russian representative at
Bucharest, has been appointed Chief of
Archives of the Foraign Ministry. No
suecessor at Bucharest to Biron Stuart
will be appointed for the present. This
is an evidencs of Russia’s displeasure at
Rcumania.
London, February 15. — Bell's Life
atatSB that Rowell, the Cambridge atb
leto, will embark in the Parthia to-day
for New York for the purpose of contest
ing the pedestrian championship with
O’Lsary.
vMadbid, February 15.—Two British
ships for Barcelona from the East aro
quarantined at Port Mahon.
A severe storm visited the coast of
Galicia yesterday. Two vessels went
ashore and twenty-eight persons were
drowned.
Madeira, February 15.—Tho steamer
Danrobm Castle, which brought tte news
of the disaster of tha British troops in
Sontb Africa to St. Vincent, called here
this morning on her way to Plymontb.
It ia ascertained from her officers that
later advioes received at Cape Towa re
ported that subsequently to tbe disaster
to CoL Glenn’s camp the foroes under
Dartnell and Levedale bad a victorious
engagement with tbe enemy at Ronrke’a
Drift, Col. Pear-ons’s column is safely
established at Esaye. There were, no
hostila Zalus in Natal.
London, February 15.—The Fall Hall
Oaxelte correspondent at Rome says
“Cordial letters have been exchanged be
tween the Pope. aod tbe German Em
peror. Tne Cardinals oppose tbe Pope’s
acceptance cf the oivil list. His holi
ness deoidss nevertheless tbat eoolcsias-
iioa must obey tbe laws.
Washington, February 15.—In the
Senate Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
presented the memorial ef John Roach,
in reply to a memorial recently present
ed from the Baltimore Board of Trade.
He denies tbat tbe New York and Brazil
ian line is now remunerative, and claims
that reoslpts from trips already made by
the steamers have no: paid expanses, and
a fair United States mail contract ia abso
lately neoessary to the snooessfnl estab
lishment and permanent maintenance of
the line to Brazil.
He declares if tbe action of Congress
?hall be suoh as to enable good, swift and
elegant Amerioan steamers to compete
with British lines, the hold on onr trade
with ths Southern hemisphere will cer
tainly be broken. The memorial waa or
dered printed and lie ou the table.
In tho House, immediately after the
reading of the Journal, the House, at 11:
20 went into committee cf the whole,
Blackburn, of Kentucky, in the chair,
on the Legislative, Judicial and Execu
tive Appropriation bill.
The Senate resumed the consideration
of the bill to restrict Chinese immigra
tion, and Hamlin, of Maine, spoke in op
position to th» bill.
LivERPOOL,Febrnary 15.—The strike'?o
delegation this morning proposed arbit.a'
tion to the ship owners, in the mesatim-
re.mming work on the old terms. This the
ownero rejected, bnt agreed toarbitrrticn,
provided the men would resume at tbe
proposed reduction. Tho matter now
awaits the decision of the strikers. It is
thought tbey must yield.
London. February 15.—Three hundred
and seventy employe? of tho Aberdeen
jute works struck against a five per cent,
reduo ion in wages.
At a meeting of the engineers’ strike
committee yesterday it was announced
tbat the engineers of Leeds, Plymontb,
Dover and other peiats, intend to strike
immediately
Tbe Pall Mall Gazette's correspondent at
Rome says Cardinal Barocchi, intransi
gent Bishop of Bologae, is transferred
to Anconia in the place of Cardinal An-
tonucoi, deceased.
NewYorx, February 15.—S’ata Com
missioner Patrick has issned an order
from Brooklyn directed to cattle owrers
and veterinary surgeons. He directs that
all cases of cattle disease shall be report
ed forthwith. No cattle are to be per
mitted to land unless examined, and all
persons employed in the care of well cat
tle are forbidden to enter upon the premia
sis where disease sxiBts among animals.
Infected cattle must at ones be quaran
tined or slaughtered.
Memphis, February 15.—The jury in
the case of Charlie Wood, colored, on
trial for the murder of Mrs. W. C. O.
Foster, tl is morning retnrned a verdict
of murder in the first degree.
Meridian, Miss., February 15.—A fire
ocevrred last night at Enterprise, Miss.,
resulting in a loss of $60,000. Insurance
$40,000. White & Shaw, druggists,
insurance $3,000; W. P. Davis, mer
chant, $3,500, insurance on stock. J. P
Moore, storehouse, insurance, $6,000;
Hoffman & Co., merchants, $4,000 insu
rance on stock; McGee, lawyer, loss $1,-
000, no insurance; Courier printing office,
x total loss, no insurance; Harris’ store
house, $1,000, insurance; Pickett’s bar
room, loss $1,000^ no insurance; C. Kra
mer, building and stock, heavy loss of
$5,000; partly insured; Lyeriey & Wol-
verton, building fully insured; E. A. Ly
erley & Co., loss $15,000. insurance $6,-
500; Wolverton t Co., loss $12,000, insu
rance $9,000; Baugh Ss Co., no insurance.
Riohkond, February 15. — Patrick
Smith, one of the four negroes ehargeu
with tha murder of John C. Laoy, in New
Sent last month, has been oonvioted id
that county, and sentenced to be bung on
tbe 15th of Marob. Julius Christian, an
other of the gang, was on trial to-day*
Tbe other two are to be tried next week.
WASHiuaTOK, February 15 Chairman
Reagan, of the House Committee on
Commerce, will on Monday report tbe
River and Harbor bill baok to the Honse
and move ita passage under a suspension
ef the rules. There will be some oppo
sition from the Pacific coast members and
some others, but it is generally believed
that the necessary two-thirds vote will
be secured.
The Committee on Ways and Mian*
to-day considered Secretary Sherman’s
letter in relation to appropriations for
the next fiscal year, suggesting that
measures be taken for meeting defioien-
cies. No aotion waa taken, and it will be
farther considered Monday.
The House in Committee of the Whole
made some progre-son the legisl^ive ap
propriation bill. An amendment provid
ing (or tha salaries of Sarvtyors General
was postpen* d nntil the provision coaid
be reaoh*>d proposing a change in the
system of surveys. Amendments for
additional olerloal fore* to oarry
out the pension arrearages bill were
Vi'bdrawn on tbe asanranees from
aaemd-rs Of the Appropriation Committee
that this oommntee would report on
Monday or Tuesday next a bill for the
p-ymeot of ibe arrearages and m«kiog
orevi-i-nn for the ntoeesary clerical
force.
Tne Senate to-night, by a vote of yeas
59, nay a 27, phased the bill to restrict
'Jhiue.se immigration, and. then took up
the bill to etnend'thi Internal RjVoUua
law, which contains "air amendment re-
dnoing tbe tobaooo tax, but before oom-
Senata adjourned." blli * *' 7-40 ’ bo
Ia th* Senate to-day, Mr. Eamucds
from the Committee oa tha Judiciary’'
reported favorably on the bill* to remove
the political disabilities of John Randolph
Hamilton, of Sonth Carolina, aad John
McIntosh Kfll, of Georgia,
la the Seward investigation to day
Mr. Carpenter, of the counsel for th*
prosecution, called the attention of th*
committee to the fact thatnodecisioa has
yet betn rendered on the question arising
from the non-oompliano* of Sewsrd with
the subpoena duces tecusn served upon him
sometime since, namely, whether or not
he will be required to produce the books
called for. A seoond Bessicn was held ou
the subject. It Is understood that the
committee is divided in opinion, the
majority holding that the books should
be given up, and the minority that the
books are of a private nature and the
commits* had no right to compel their
production for public inspection. At a
meeting on Monday, Seward will proba
bly be informed of the action of the com
mittee, and if he still refuses to produce
the books, will bo reported to the House
aa in contempt.
The House Committee charged with
the investigation of the beat means of
preventing the introduction aud spread
of epidemio diseases, have prepared a
bill similar to tha'. reported by the special
committee of the Senate. One of the
principal differences is in the omission of
a provision for a bureau of health, but it
adopts the Senate’s feature for a Board of
Health to consist of seven members to be
appointed by the President, by and with
the consenc of the Senate. Not more
than any one member is to be appointed
from any one State. The compensation
of each daring the time when aotusliy
engaged in the performance of his duties
is to be ten dollars a day and res sonable ex
penses. The Surgeon General of tbe army
and the Surgeon General of the navy are
to be members of the Board withont ad
ditional p.y. rhe duties of the Board
are such as are defined in the Senate bill,
and precautions for preventing the intro
duction of infectious diseases into this
country generally. The same House bill
contains a proviso, “that it shall be un
lawful for any vessel engaged in the trans
portation of goods or persons from any
foreign-port where any infectious or con
tagious disease exists to and in tho United
States, except in accordance with the
provisions of this act.”
Toronto, Ont., February 15.—The
Iuternauvnal Carling Mmioh yesterday
between Canada and the United States,
With eight rinks on a side, resulted In fa
vor of the Americana by a score of 144 to
135 in tne eight rinks. The Duffarins of
Toronto versus the Barns Club of Clave-
land—a contest for tbs Macready medal—
resulted in favor of the Doffering by a
soore of 13 to 9 The Scottish counties’
match waa also played between Ayrshire
and Liasrkshire, two rinks aside for
Scottish American Journal Medal, result
ing in favor of Lanarkshire: 43 to 23.
The match betne* n the Red Jackets, of
Toronto, and Sc. Andrews, of New York,
one rink each, resulted in favor of the
latter by 20 to 13. The ice ie in good con
dition and the weather fine.
Washington, February 15.—The Sen
ate Committee on Railroads heard to-day
tho conclusioa of the argument of Mr.
Lowrey, counsel for the Western Union
Telegraph Company, against Senator
Jones’ kill authorizing railroad companies
to construct and maintain telegraph lines
for commercial purposes. Lowry said
the act of 1876 g»Ve the Western Union
Company nothing which it not already
posses?, except the right to enter
the Sluts with us liae, in opposiion to the
will of the Sente L gislatme, as was done
in the Pensacola oase, and that there was
□o reason why o her telegraph compa
nies should not build their lines along
railroads on the opposite side of ihe track
trom the Western Union wires if they so
desired. ‘General Butler then addressed
the committee in favor of the bill, dwell
ing on the diffionlty of controlling such
a great corporation as the Western Union
on acoonnt of tho immense power whioh
t< possesses of corrupting legislatures.
He enumerated the advantages which
would accrue to tbe public from the ptia-
age of tbe bill, and said ill- buying up of
rival lines by tbe We-tern Umon Compa
ny as soon as they began to bo successful,
was proof tbat telegraphing oonld, bo
done more cheaply then it uow ie. At
the conclusion of Butler’s remarks the
oremittee adjourned until Moudsy, when
Mr. W. Simouton will state the nature of
the relations between the Western Union 7
Company and the New York Associated
Press.
London, February 15 —A Vienna tele
gram says that some days ago a large
current of water penetrated into the coal
pits of Dux, in Bohemia, and, this morn
ing, comes telegraphic intelligent that
one of the mineral springs of Teplitz is
gradually diminishing. Great alarm is
(elt leat all the springs of this noted
watering place should be connected with
tbe waters which found their way through
the fissure into the coal pits. Tnerp
seem* to be some ground for apprehen
sion, as tbe water in the pits, in spite of
all efforts to keep it down, has been in
creased m bulk, while its temperature is
»l*o rising.
Londjn, February 15.—Tha Standard
panlisnes the following, dated Moriz-
bury, January 25: Shortly altar the
commencement of hostilities L>rd
Ohblmsford and Oslonel Pearson success
fully engaged the enemy. Near ths
plaoe where Lord Chelmsford had been
figbiing he left eix companies of tbe 24th
Regiment under Pa Heine, whom Dam-
ford was to join with the natives. Fif
teen thousand Zalus attacked the united
foroes on the 22J instant. A fits from
the British o-nsed great havoo among
them, bat they rushed forward with in
domitable ploob, and when tbey came to
close quarttra the great numerical supe
riority of the Zains secured for them z
complete viotory. The six oompsniee of
the 25:h wet* totally destroyed, and Da-
ruford’s strives were utterly routed. The
victonons Zolas attacked a small foroe in
the vloinlty ot Bonrke’s Drift the same
day bnt were repelled. Iu the attack on
the 22d, after tha destruction of the
oamp at Ronrke’a Drift, a hundred men
succeeded in keeping off 4,00o Zulu.
The Brislsh lost fifteen men.
Baltimore, February 15.—In the Uni
ted SUteH Cirouit Court to-d*y, Henry
Bowers, judge of eleotion in the 17tn
ward at tha late Congressional eleotion,
indioted (or refusing permission to a
United 8tatee Supervisor to inspect ths
ballot-box before the voting began, was
found gailty. Judge Bond fined him firs
dollar! and costs and twelve months im
prisonment. Lewis Colemao, judge at
same election, indicted for hindering and
obatrnoting a Uaited States Supervisor,
and for stuffing the bsllot-bor, was found
guilty Judge Bond fined him fifty dol
lars -nd costa and twelve months impris
onment.
HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY.
Tho remarkable popularity which tbo
Louisiana State Lottery Company ha3
achieved by the integrity and fairness
which havo characterized all its opera
tions, has created no litile astonishment.
When the reader, reflects, however, that
the valuable franchises which the com
pany have secured laat for twenty-five
year? from the date of the incorporation
in 1868, and for the security of which
the inviolable faith of the State of Lou
isiana is pledged to a contiaot upon
whioh the State haa already received
nearly half a million Of dollars, he wiU
see here at least honesty is the best poli
cy. The drawing* will go on as usual
for the next fifteen years. For any tux*
tber information apply to M. A. Dau
phin, P. O. Box 692, Now Orleans, Lou
isiana. "vvjft febll Iw
The Grand Central Houl on Broad
way, New York, ia* big House, and it
taker a great many peopte to fill it. In
ordtr to 4 do the latter, and to please
everybody, the hotel is now kent on
i»th plans, the American at $3 60 to $3 00,
Ad the European $1 W and upwards per
day. Au' tlegant-Restaurant, at moder
ate prioerf, ia condaoted by the Hotel.
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