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Tlw Teifegranh and Messenger
MAOON, GA-. i-PEIL 29. 1879.
XUK UKUHtiU PltKSts.
Hon. Thomas Hardeman nod Colonel
S. K. Cook are eipcoted to epeak in
Tbmdmcoo on the 26J> instant.
General Gartrall ia being mentioned as
a candidate for Governor by some of the
State nchangeB.
A. joatg mao who endeavored to boy
nonte pistol cartridges in Gainesville, was
Mrcatedfor carrying oonoealed weapon*.
Governor A H. Colqniw oendooted the
sgrvioea In the Gilffln Methodist church
OB Snoday morning.
Gaonon Wabhwgtoz, colored,was co”-
vloted of larceny from the house in Pike
oonnty.
An excursion will be tun from Augusta
to Cnarlea-.uD, South Carolina, on the 14’.h
of May.
OoNtsaa Examiner : Tho shooting af
fray that occurred between Mr. Cary
(Jot, of Covington, and Mr. J E. Thorn,
a drummer from Louisville, Kentuoky,
growing cut of some private affairs, re
sulted in nobody getting hart, and a pre
liminary trial before Justice Wocdeon,
who r« qnired Thorn to give bond in the
enm of $1,500 for hia appearance at the
next term ot Newton Superior Coart, to
answer the charge of assault with intent
to-murder. Mr. Cox was required to give
bond in the snm of $500: All paitieB gave
the required bond and were released un
til the next term of tho Superior Court.
Thx changing of the district lines of
Monroe oonnty is exciting considerable
interest in that connty.
Gairrix has received thirty thousand
halos of cotton this year.
Jtma* U. P. Tripps has returned to
Forsyth with his family, and rcanmed (he
practice of law in that pises.
imp with a Chw-Hammeb.—Dah-
lonega Mountain Signal: Daily the evil
effto's of whisky diluting 1b brought to
oar knowledge in one form or another
Fiona all over the lend come reports of
the fitghtfnl results of this evil habit.
Aaad cbbq of this kind coanned in Ten
nessee near the Georgia line bnt n few
days ago. William Ward, livlog in
Gnsktown, Tennessee, while under the
Influence of liquor attempted to shoot hit
wlfa wiib a pistol, bnt she, being a large,
•ton! woman, managed to disarm him of
hit weapon, when ha anatohtd up a
olaw hammer laying near by and bnned
it to the eye in tba poor woman’s fore
head. Immediately after the commis
sion of the feartQl crime tba monster
took to his heil* unified, and hai not
been heard of einoe.
The tragedy oconrred in tba presence of
several members of the family.
Whisky drinking and carrying eon
oeaied weapors are two corses which
should be put down, and that speedily.
Thk heavy rains have served the ciit
»db of Stewart oonnty badly, and much
damage baa resn done. Siys the Lump
kin Independent: Levees were badly
broken, and in some placeB hundred* ot
yards are washed away, all of wbieh will
have to be replaced before any of the
valuable lands they protect oan bn culti
vated. It is utterly impossible to ettt
mate the damage, bnt it may be pnt down
in general terms as very extensive.
O.nz or i*o bridges have been washed
away, and Dearly every farmer In the
county suffered more or less.
Mbs. Patst Banks, tho oldett whits
women in Lnmpkm, is dead.
Thk residence of Mr. John Irvin, Sr.,
was struck, on lait Tuesday night, by
lightning, fired and entirely consumed.
A Z.ABQK revival has been in progress
- for some time in the Methodist Church
ia Griffio. About one hun f red and fif
teen bare joined the church.
Echoes from the storm comes from all
pans of the State in news of broken mill
dame, demolished mills and injared
crops.
Thk largest bull that has ever been
given in McVille will take place next
Thursday night.
Shot Down Wantonly. — McVille
South Georgian:
0a Tuesday evening last, 8th instant,
Mr. Pollard McLsndon, of Laurens conn
ty, walked out before retiring to bed at
night, and was approached by an un
known party. Wnen within about fifteen
paces of him the stranger leveled hia
gun and fired, bringing Mr. McLendon
to the gronnd at once, shooting him
through the hip with a load of buck shot
and wounding him awfully, and possibly
fatally. The assassin fled.
Memobial Dat Orators.—Rev. W. H.
LaPrade has been selected as the orator
for Memorial Day in L&Gronge. Gover
nor Colqoit will perform that office in
CoInmbuF; General Fitzhugh Lee in At-
lant ; Hon. J. F. Pou, or Colnmbns, in
Talbot ton; Her. George G. Smith, of
Milledgeville, in Macon: Hon. Thomas
Hardeman, Jr., in Thomaston and Major
f Gary in Augusta.
The Augusta Evening Weir* contains
quite an extended report of the Pio Nono
exhibition from the pen of acorrespon-
. dent.
Mb. Luke Millktte, of Savannah, an
employe of the Sonthern Express Com.
pauy, died tuddeniy in that city.
Chatham, in his letter to the Savannah
Weirs from Atlanta, says:
The Coarlesun companies of the Fifth
United States Artillery, have arrived
here and gins into quarters ct McPher
son Barracks. The Savannah company
ia expected today. There will be about
four companies here, the balance of the
regiment being on duty in Florida and
Foitr £8 Montoe, Vs.
Also: It is gratifying to know that
“Cinderella,” the wonderful fairy story
of the little slipper, has teen dramatized
by Major Char e* W. Hubner, an Atlanta
poet or rare anitnre and true genius, and
when set to mutic, will be given to the
public at DeGvvs’a Opera House. It is to
be hoped that yonr enterprising music
firm, Messrs. Ludden k Bates, will get
hold ot this charming composition and
add to it their list of publications. I am
aura they would do so if yonr excellent
amateur* were to present this delightful
lyrical drama to a critical Savannah an.
dience.
Atlanta Constitution: It ia inmored
that the BOTercment is negotiating for
another site for a permanent barracks
here. One hundred acres of land have
have been offered for five thousand dol
lars, and the owner offers to remove the
bnilding* is the present site that belong
to the government for twenty thousand
dollars, making the total cost to the gov
ernment ot twenty-five thousand dollars.
Aibioy News: “Mr. Waller Britrnbucb
brings us Information of a dreadful cy
clone that struck the D*nt plaoe, about
six mile* on the east side of the river,
sbont 2:30 p. m., yesterday. The wind
aaauM from tha west, tearing away fences,
■^blowing down trees, and scattering every
thing in its track. Tho roid was com
pletely blockaded for a quarter of a mil*
by the fallen trees. Th« large gin-house
was completely demolished and scattered
everywhere. Not a piece of tbe building
waa found in a quarter of a mile of where
it stood. The kitohen was completely
demoli-bed, and five negro home*, corn
crib, and two boggy bouses blown to
pieces, hog pen blown away, one calf
killed, the large cak in front of the
dwelling tun to atoms, the columns of
Mr*. Marti ’s home blown down and the
windows smashed to smithereens. The
furniture of the negroes whose houses
were blown down was scattered far and
wide. Oue n.g.o waa seriourly butt
The daouiis is very heavy. So far as we
can 1- aru, it did not -trike anywhere but
the Deni place. Mr. Britenbeoh and
Mr. Ha. in wi.i c mmence at one* to re
pair a . .u• a We t,.»r that m*ny other
sue*' -ul h -re yet to be learned.”
North Georgia Citisen: A negro man
whii, i _ .. oral on Mr. Geo.Ham
ilton’ . . c uear D.ltoo, lfc-t week.
stru. b
. .ad *obebiDc« with the plow
pull ti
«u* uo-eutbed and found to
be a
a Up n farther exam*
inati
*«• - na tnat thi kettle w**
on»* o •
« t vim article* butied in
wh
pu,. a t#be an Indian grave.
in ti
- ii fuund two ekeleton*
In-
•»> ot preservation, one of
which was Tory large and over six feet
ia length, and supposed to be that of an
Indian chief, jadging from tjie ait icier
found around it, and the- pAmtion of the
two skeletons—-there being at the head a
EnlpiM knife, iloftWWF*
and on the breast a large silver ornament
representing the r*J a ct the annandn,
large gelt brlt-alia* and tWO gold but
tons. Tba other, skeleton wm small, ev
idently that of a female' and the wife of
the other. A Jbimble wne found on che
of the ekeleton finger* and a looking-
glass on the bretfStp "together with some
other trinkets. In the grave were also
found Several ear them crock?, a metal
veseel shaped like a modern frying-paa,
other household utensils. Tradition Says
that before the' Cherokee Indiana were
Christianized when the chief of a. tribe
died his wife .waa killed and buried by
hia aide, the man's head'placed to the
west, toe woman’s head placed to toe
east, in which position these skeletons
were found; hence the supposition that
this wae a chief and his aquaw. There
ate other graves in the locality where
this one was plowed up.
The Central Presbyterian Church of
Atlanta has, we leam from the Post,
unanimously called Bev. Dr. Giradeau,
of South Carolina, to its pastorate.
A lively row occurred in a colored
church ip Atlanta, oyer which Bev.
Quarles, colored, presides. No extensive
damage was done, although matters were
decidedly lively. At toe conclusion of
the row, the aermea waa preached and
thirty persona baptised. The cans# was
an attempt on the part of a member of a
rival cbnroh to forcibly go ap stain in
Quarles’ church.
Bishop Beckwith confirmed a claaa of
fifty ladies and gentlemen in St. John’s
cnurch, in Savannah, on Sunday.
Thb West Point Press learns from Cap
tain It. L Sublet!, engineer in ebarge,
that it is his opinion the Ghstiahoootee
river can easily be made navigable from
West Point as far up sa Atlanta, and at
a small expense compared with the great
benefits that will result.
The E1 Cox ease, cays tba Constitution,
has been set for tba 28th iaetanf. When
the oase was called the Solloitor-Gen-
etal annouDoed toe following as bis as
sooute counsel In the prosecution:
Messrs.' Hopkins A Glenn, Halsey k Mc
Afee, Patrick Calhoun, H. D. D. Twiggs
and Howard Vad Epps.
Tne eotmsel for the defense are thefol
lowing: Colonel Pika Hill, Maasrs. Can*
dler k Thompson, B. 8. Jeffries, Gartrell
k Wright and J. A. Billups.
Tax Georgia editors announced that
toe season for spring poetry bad arrived,
as it the subject needed editorial asaia
tan 08 to make it known.
Da. William Rawlings and Miss
Clara Hollifleld, of Sand«reville,are mar
ried. r ^
Mb. Shxeid Hood, of Washington,
dead, aged eighty-three.
Madison Madisonian: ‘-At a meeting
of the Morgan County Farmer’s Club, on
Saturday, 5’.h inst., it was, on motion,
ordered that all persona who received tea
plants from toe one thousand so kindly
donated to uebyCommiSiionerLeDnc, a
year ago, be requested to report their
success with them and the number and
condition of the plants now living, to the
Secretary of the dab,on or before toe
next regular meeting, to be held Satur
day, May 3d, 1879. On motion, it was
also ordered that the next meeting of the
clnb be held at the residence of Mr. John
H. Morgan, on Saturday May 3J. All
persons interested m Agriculture are cor
dially invited to meet with the clnb at its
first basket pio nio of the season.”
The fruit is seriously damaged no in
Greene county. Nevertheless toe Gray
Land correspondent of the Greeneeboto
Herald, with true philosophy, takes solid
comfort to himself because the blackber
ry crop is nnbnrt.
Two negroeB employed in the turpen
tine works near Baxley got Into a shoot
ing sortpe on Monday night of last week,
and one of them was bioly wounded.
Whereupon the Bsxley Gazette hopes the
time will soon come when the turpentine
business will be exhausted there, for, it
says, toe reckless Degrees to whom it
gtvea employment shoot each other on the
slightest provocation, and it tons leads to
more breaches of the peace and distur
bances than anything else known.
Athens Chronicle: “When Miss Hern<
don, in reciting the Haven,’ threw open
the imaginary window and bid the raven
enter, an old bat very opportunely flew
from behind the scenes almost into her
uplifted arms it brought down tha
house.
Unfortunate Accident.— Columbus
Turn:
As the morning train on the Western
road neared the Holland crossing, abont
tour wiles how (he city, the engineer
noticed an old lady and a boy on the
track about one hundred yards ahead of
the train. The woman got ont of the
way. The buy, who bad a considerable
start of hia mother, carried a trank on
his head, and is deaf and dumb. Hence
he did not hear the prolongtd blowing
of the whistle, and tne engineer being
not acquainted with the fact of the boy’s
dumbntts, and also being at the time on
a sharp curve, could not slacken in time.
The poor little fellow was hnrled aside
by the cowcatcher and his leg waa broken
He also sustained other injuries which,
however, are not seriocB. The train
was stopped and mother and aon taken
abiard and brought to town. Here the
boy waa sent to the hospital, where be is
now under the ear* of Drs. Jefferson ana
George Grimes and doing well.
The poor lady, a Mrs. Long, and her
son left Salem yesterday morning afoot
in search of work and were making their
wav to this city. This is indeed a don
hie misfortune to these poor people, and
we trnst the charitable people of Colon),
bns will aid them in their affliction. -
Dallas is ahead on qmlts. The Mari
etta Journal say a Mia G. W. Foote has a
quilt with 2291 piece in it, pieced and
quilted by her in ber fifty ninth year.
Mr*. Frank Gann has one with 2 236
pieces in it, and one ready for quilting
with 3.970 pieces in it, both made by
herself.
The proprietor of the “Buby Bar,’
in ’ Americas, defends himself against
the ebarge, made by rival brethren, that
be sells liquor to negruea by saying they
are confined to one end of the counter
and to a separate sat of glasses, while
w hite men have the freedom of toe bar and
are always waited on first. He adds that'
when a colored man nominates hia poi
son he“treats him civilly, bnt,at the same
time, in a manner calculated to raise
rather than lower the conscious superior
ity of any white man who visits my bar ”
A correspondent of tbe Savannah Newi
gives some interesting item* in regard to
tne piogress of religious matters among
the colored Congregationalism of Liberty
county. He says that Midway churob
there hsa 250 members and will seat 700
persons. Cntbe 234 nit., communion
day, tbe seats were all foil, and several
bundled wero nnable to be seated at ail.
Nineteen united with the chnrcb. At
Golden’s Gr *ve, near this chorob, the
American Missionary Association has
erected a new. nicely finished and con
venient school building for theme of the
colored people, which in known as Dor
chester Academy. It ooit $1,100. On
the 18th tilt, Dr J. E Boy dedicated
thta academy with appropriate services,
end the congregation waa greatly im
pressed. A conocil of Congregationaliit
onurchea was called on the 15ih nit. to
organise a new cburch. At this council
Bev. J B. McLean was chosen scribe,
and B-.v F. Snelson moderator. The
new chnrch was organ-zed with a mem
ber, hip of 49. Dr. J. E, Boy preached a
sermoa, Rev. F Snelson performed tho
bspriems, Bev. J. B McLean gave the
ngbt band of fellowship, and Bev. B. F.
Markham delivered an address to tbe new
cbmch. Five detoons were ordained by
laying on of hands, Btv. B. F. Markham
offering the ordaining prayer. Tbe oo-
caeion waa one of great interest to toe
colored people there,
Oolsthikpb Echo: “A singing school
teacher named Eggle, who quirted El-
berton and loccoa under a' very black
eland, stepped -over in Bairdatown last
week, and, with a great flourtih of tram-
pete, prceai d d to call a meeting of tbe
cilizene, apd arrang'd to open forthwith
Ao-la do ra-toe heteiog aaaokine in t&t
quiet old town. Bo* a stray ^qpy of the
Gainesville Eagle, jejpteing hjwfuLdeM,
preceded him, and whin the tell-tale
paragraph was pointed out to the impos
ter be tOBO'.nded it advisable to hunt
another field of operations, where tbe
news waa not so quickly disseminated.
Ho did not stand either upon (he manner
of going, but constituted himself into.a
10-iackasa power steam engine, acd l the
hs& seen of Eggie be was making e)>o»t
tea miles aa hens down the sulread
trauk, .spurred on by toe intfmaUmi that
•omedsad boys bM gone in vpieet of a nett
of rotten eggs to steam him pp-wltb. We
know nangut of this fellow, but advise
him to next time pnt more than cine
county between him and hia last field of
operations before attempting hia little
game.” £ tifll,
Columbus Time* (Saturday).: Intelli
gecce wan received in the city last after
noon of a great crime committed mar
Nance’s district in this oonnty. Inqui
ries on the part of a Times reporter elic
ited the following state ot facte: A negro
named John GassowHy, quarreling with
a oolored woman named Mary McCarty,
while they were both engaged in fi>?ld
work, knocked the poor women in the
head with hia hoe, fracturing toe skull
and icflieiing several serious and most
probably fatal wounds. Tois occurred
on the plantation at Mr. T. C. Bsee, who
conveyed the intelligence to the Marshal
ot this city. The brutal negro fled, at
once, and it is presumed in the direction
of Colnmbus. Hu wife lives on the
plaoe of Josiah Freeman, in Browne ville.
I he officers are keeping a sharp lookout
for the perpetrator of the dastardly deed.'
Dr. Fitts was sent for yesterday evening
and found tbe woman in every precarious
condition. He did all he could to .relieve
her sufferings, but is of the opinion,
sre Informed, that she will in all proba
bility be dead this morning. It is to be
hoped that our vigilant officers will snp
ceed in theidi efforts to catch tbe mis
creant.
Bev ass How Tou Bob Toub Beb
Hives too Sock.—Augusta News: Ou
Sand ay last, abuot thirteen miles from
MBSwTSkMSi
finding the deeertedhonse, ate the hone j
end some of the honey comb. One of tbe
ohildren died in fifteen mlnntes after,
aod tbe others were made blind Jempor- 1
arlly, and only saved by a free nse of
aweet oil and milk- It ia supposed that
the honey wm poisoned by being.made
from yellow jessamine. The little girl that
died could not be made to tske any oil
Ot milk. The others recovered their
sight, and are now neatly well of thjBir
honeyed poison.
Wx have often heard and believe i it
to be true that no bee hive should be die-
Imbed until all tbe honey cells are filled
and sealed. Aboat the Ume the field corn
“toesela” or say the firat of June, ia the
usual rule of the farmer.
Fat House.—The News says: We saw
Mr. D. B. Wiggins’ saddle borae yester
day, and be informed ns that he fed him
exclusively on rice flour. Judging from
the condition of that round, fat, sleek
animal, we are led to tbe conclusion that
rice flonr has not received the attention
it deserves from onr people. He eatd it
only cost him 9 oenta per day to feed hia
horses per head. We are going to get na
a horse.
This flour Is computed of the finely
gronnd chtff mixed with broken rioe
which is sifted from the pounded grain.
It is very fattening pirticnlarly for Bwine.
It is a very heatiag article ot food,how-
wvac. . . t *:■
Citz ot Savannah bonds are now in de
mand for permanent investment. <
Augusta News: Merchants and busi
ness men who are troubled with silver
coin will again thank Mr. Stephens for
bis legislation for their benefit, and all
will xejoioe that subsidiary ooln to the
amount of twenty dollars baa been made a
legal tender.
Montzzuka Weekly: List Wednesday,
while Mr. Martin Hamilton, the tele
graph operator at this 'place, was send
ing a message, the lightning struck the
wire near bis offioe, and for a short time
completely paralyzed hia arm. The wire
to tbe ground oountotiou was melted.
The rats floated off 75,000 bricks In a
yard near Montezuma.
Montezuma has a literary sooiety in
fullbUsh ' ~r
Tee Central Bsilrosd will sell a thon
sand-mile ticket for $25.
The Seventh-day Adventists are bold,
ing a series of meetings in Garden Valley
in Maoon oonnty.
The Augnets Presbytery, says tbe Mil-
ledgeville. Union and Recorder, met in
Milledgeville on tha 16th instant. Bov,
B Irving was eleoled moderator.
The Presbytery voted to adopt the
New Book. Tha Presbytery was in eesi
Sion until last Satnrdsy. Gainesville was
selected aa iha next place of meeting.
The Baldwin Bines will assist in the
deoorations on Memorial day in Milledge
ville.
Millidgaville has a oolored militsry
company.
Columbia connty wants and will soon
haVAEfair.
Ths Baptist Bandsy sohool Convention
of tin State la being held in Colnmbns.
Bev. Primus Stafford, oolored, waa
found dead in his bed a few days since
near Columbus. He is supposed to have
died of heart disease.
Mbs. A. M. Davis, one of tbe oldest
ladies in Colambns, ia dead.
The remains of Colonel J. A. Strother
have arrived in Oolnmbos, and been in
terred.
Ihe Late Terrific Tornado.
It seems that this cyclone extended
with more nr-lets violence over an im
mense extent of country, and compassed
both land rad sea. Providentially, 4ts
path, whioh was only a mile in width, did
no*pus through any crowded city, or the
deetewetio* of human life and property |sister State of Oarolibo, The academy,
must have been-immense. The News and
Courier again reverting to the subject,
~ f ' f. ay
Tba tornado which desolated Walterboro,
wxeootr » local development of a great
meteroaoiogieel oiswrbanoe which mended
rtom Ftorida to Maine, and reached inland
as far as Alabama and Western Pennsyl
vania Th.fiiat trace of the storm to be
cteo . vend f• om tha telegrapbio reports was
on Wednesday morning at Femandina,
where several houses were blown down, oan
were blown from ths track, and theis was a
deluge of rain. Ihe wind and rain were
severe all through the northern part of
Florida and Southern Georgia, washing up
the rahroad tracks so as to greatly Interfere
withihe mails. The storm seems th.-n to
have been traveling west, and to have tam
ed np the Chattahoochee river, for we next
hear of itatutho, Henry oonnty, Alabama,
where it played havoc with the houses and
knled two people, and next we hear of it. ia
r.te county, where it croased into Georg!*,
and taming eastward, again crossed toe
8tate of Georgia, d .tog great damage to
crops and rxihoads, and thence into booth
Carolina, striking first at Aiken and along
the Bouth Carol! a Railroad until it reached
tho Edit to, and then following nearly toe
oonrae of that river, struck its severest blow
in Waltorboio’. It came within ten miles of
Charleston, then glanoed off again, stnkiug
with great force at Oakley, and thence ap
parently went out to sea late in tha after
noon of *the 16 b. On the 18th two tidal
waves are reported at Gloucester, Massa
chusetts, and heavy rains and high winds on
all the New England ooaat, with deep snow
in tha inteiior ot New England and Naw
Fork. Tnere were heavy rains and high
wines in New Jersey and Ponuajlva ia on
tha asms day. North Oar lina, Viigi-ia,
Maryland and Delaware seem to have been
paced over. There wee a hail atoim in
New urleans and other parts or Louisian a
on ibe afternoon of the lbth, but it does not
seem to have been connected with the storm
on the Atlantic coast.
A Horrible Story ot tne Grave.
A Pitfcburg (Pa.) dispatch sayat
Some employes of the PiUtburg, Tn.ua
vtllb k Buffalo.Bsilrosd related a strange
and horrii>ie r £o£y yesterday. It seems
a man died last Week at Triumph, a
email placff not far from Tiuiouts. The
-bhdy wsa kept three days, and at tbe cx
piiation of that time buried. Then
some ourioua persons remembered that a
'stater of‘the deceased hod lain in a death
;4$pj®tn5pfc>rp9T«ii}.day8. Ijcwas sug
gested teat perhaps the man bad been
prematurely barred. This suspicion
took so stioug a hold upon the people
that it was resolved to exhume the body,
and the body wau disinterred Saturday
last, after having laid three days in the
grave. The lid waa wrenched off, when
a horrible eight greeted tbe eyes of tbe
reeurroctioniats. Evidently the supposed
corpse had revived, and the wretohed man
had fought desperately for hiB life. Im
prints of hia finger nails were visible on
tbe lining of tba coffin, which, in some
places, was torn into abreds. The coffin
itself was strained and wrenched apart at
toe jointings in the deata agonies of the
miserable man who wae buried alive. He
had turned completely over, and was
foand lying upon bis breast, hiB distorted
countenance ‘indicating the frightful
sufferings be had undergone.
Ibe Herrera of tbe Wstterbsr*-
Cyelsne.
A staff eorrespcndanl of the News and
Courier has written to that paper a vary
graphic and exhaustive account of'the
hurricane which recently swept ovqr
tbe peaceful village cf Walterboro. in cur
No Peachka—.Milledgeville Union and
Recorder: On Saturday last we were in-
formea by Mr.*L. Perkins, who lives on
tbe east aide of the Oconee, that he
could not fled a peach on any tree in hia
orchard, whioh covers eight or ten aorea
of land. He said, also, that fee had om
favorite tree whioh be took the preoaU'
tion to cover with sheets, bat on whioh
there is no more fruit than on any of the
others. If this is trns of others in the
neighborhood, onr old friend will have
to travel some distance for his milk and
peaches this summer.
Fbesh Water Whales.—Colnmbns
Enquirer: Every spring hundreds of
sturgeon come from the lower river to the
dams at this point rad spend some
months. Tbsnsands are caught by our
fishermen, and ore sold in toe market at
from 6 tu 8 cents per pound. On Sunday
morning they began to arrive, and all
daring the day could be seen ia large
numbers jumping above toe water. The
nets were soon Btretched, and up to yes
terday afternoon full twenty-five had
been captured. Some are very large,
weighing from one hundred and fifty to
two hundred and fitty pounds. The nets
need are what is known as the gill net,
rad are suspended perpendicularly in the
water. It is with some difficulty they
are -ecured, as they are very powerful.
Several rook fish were also caught.
Ax East Let Down.—Lord Chelms
ford, toe commander of the British force*
in South Africa, has not earned many
laurels in the campaign with the Zalus.
Henoe his retirement is deeired. How
to get rid of him gracefully is the ques
tion; The following foreign paragraph
tells its own tale:
It ia said the British ministry is likely
to get over the Chelmsford difficulty in
the following manner: Lord Chelmsford
is abont to apply for leave of absenoe
from bis command on the plea of sick-
nets. And the application will at ODce
be granted.
Congressional Sketches,
* Luther,” an intelligent Washington
correspondent of tbe Nabhville American
tons speaks of the South in tbe present
Florida makes no change in her dele
gation.
Congress:
Georgia changes bnt three in nine,
Kentucky three in ten, Alabama one in
four, Mississippi none. Alabama makes
the most changes, returning only three
out of eight, but Tennessee sends back
e x out of ten, Texas four out cf six, Vir
ginia six out of nine and We3t Virginia
her entire delegation. Massachusetts
and Wisconsin return respectively nine
out of eleven and seven out of eight, and
make the fewest changes of any of tue
Northern Sta'es. t |
The “baby” of the House is Mr. Bich
ard L. Taylor, of Tennessee, who, iti;
; said, started out with only five dollars
and a fiddle to capture tbe district, which
bad a Republican majority of nearly
1.200. His intimates declare that he
fidoled hia way into Congress, bnt be
must have bean a very able yonng man
to do it. The next youngest man ia Mr.
Smory Speer, a Democratic Greenback* r
from Georgia. He » described as one of
tbe moat brilliant speakers of tho South,
and worthy to represent the famous
mountain district, which has sent to Con
gress each men as Howell Cobb, Jamas
Hillyer and Bea Hill. Tne dandy ot
the House is Harry Bingham, of Philadel
phia. His trousers are spotless and his
cravats are mono menta of skill. He has
seen a deal of public life, has been Post
master of Philadelphia, and has as grea*
weakness for tbe votes of the post-office
boys, as bis predecessor, the mercurial
Chapman Freeman. The most conceited
member of the Honae must he the Hor.
M. P. O’Connor, of South Caroline, for
be asserts positively that he has nevrr
made an error in hia political judgment
yet. He has tbe reputation of being
a sound lawyer and a brilliant orator.
The most famous of the new members is
undoubtedly Gen. Joe Johnston, of Vir
ginia, and the most notorious—well, New
Jersy and Indiana can draw for it, bnt
New Jersey will win.
Wx bad tha pleasure yesterday of wit
nessing the operation of a combination of
telephones, ail centreing in a single office,
and aiding the business of one of onr
most enterprising commission merchants
and produce brokers, Captain W. W.
Carnes.
The Captain has placed instrnments in
no less than thirteen of our leading busi
ness houses and tbe offieee of the Central
and Maoon and Brunswick railroads.
These are all oonneoted by separate wires
with bis own oonnting room, so attsohed
to a “switoh board,” whioh ia duly in
dexed with tbe number of each firm be
longing to the combination, that a signal
is given when any member of it wishes to
establish communication.
Capt. Carnes is constantly in receipt cf
telegrams from abroad, giving every
change rad phase in the markets of onr
principal cities, so that at any moment
one or a half dozen merchants, without
the trouble ud d9lay of a persona! visit,
oan not only receive the latest commer
cial intelligence, bnt by the use of toe
telephone, converse with the operator,
and learn every particular in the prem
iser. We opened commuaicition in per
son with several parties, and carried on
an amusing and desultory conversation
with them.
This arrangement will greatly expedite
the business operations of onr merchant
guild, and muet make Capt. Carnes’ of
fice one of theohief thoroughfares of the
city.
A Permanent Ministry.
A movement has been inaugurated by
the Methodist laymen of Brooklyn look
ing to the repeal of the rule limiting the
pastorate of those who occupy the pulpits
of the Methodist Chnrch. A convention
will be held, and toe matter will probably
be presented in tbe form of a petition to
the General Conference, which assembles
next year.
There is much to be said on both aide*
of thia question. Sometimes a live and
active minuter is removed in the very
nenith of his usefulness, and just when
he has become endeated to hia charge.
But, per contra, many a slow-coach, and
one whose work ia utterly without re
Bults, is made to pass on and give plaoe
to a more acceptable and efficient pastor.
In our judgment the advantages and
disadvantages are pretty evenly balanced,
the poor pastors being tha chief suffer
ers from tbe constant breaking up of
their homes and the necessity ever re
curring of making new friends end be
ginning life, as it were, afresh. But we
have no desire whatever to dictate to onr
Methodist brethren. They are doing a
noble work.
all of the churches, seven in number,
id sixty out of ninety cf the dwelling
houses, with all of their outbuildinge,
were wrecked and utterly destroyed.
We quote as follows from the New• and
Courier:
The approach of toe cyclone was ra
sudden os it* effect* were disastrous.
Wednesday waa a lowering, cloudy, sul
try day, with hardly a breath ot wind to
stir the green leaves of the many trees
about tbe sandy streets of the town, or
sway toe rose bushes which bloomed in
almost every yard. At 4 o’clock in the
afternoon almost all the inhabitants had
finished dinner, and most of them were
about their houses. The profaned quiet
and tranquillity of a summer day m a
Southern cosnxry town pervaded every
thing. Only! the crowing of a cook, the
sleepy chirruping * of a bird or some
occasional village - noise disturbed
the silence. A dark cloud began moving
up from a direction somewhat west of
south, and very soon afterwards came a
gust of witid, and a terrible sound uni
versally described as resembling the
rushing of many trains of steam cars.
Those who looked towards the cloud saw
tbe tail green tree tope 1 in the woods toss
ing about like' troubled waves, rad the
earth trembled, Its vibrations being dis
tinctly felt, and the houses, which were
almost without exoeptkm of wood, seemed
to shudder, as It endued with.life and
sense. Haaty movements were made to
ahntdoors and windowaagainat toe storm,
and families ka ff by inBtinct huddled tp.
gether. Then some houses were felt to
twist and shake. Persons in others were
instantly enveloped in darkness, and
massee of debris. In abont one minute
the raih poured down in torrents, and
there tfaa hi wind, feat a light breeze.
Those fchota febtises stood , werS horribly
astonished on going to their doors, to eee
a vacancy where a minute b«£ore build
ings hid been, and the fallen trees piled
upoiroue another in : wild confusion. The
roar of-the Wind was such tost the tre
mendous crash which must have been,
was heard by no one. One gentleman
who was looking from his piazza at the
time, saw three large trees fall in hia
front yard,-but heard no moxd sound than
if they had been feather#. He eaya
they were not dsshed to the gronnd, but
want over slowly, as if they had been an
dermined.
As the people of Walterboro’ rushed
from their houses into the rain a terrible
and indescribable eight met their eyes
The town runB east and west; the court
house being at the wester? end; From
abbnt a block east of it, where there had
been bright gardens, masses of green,
dwellings and ohnrchea obscuring the
view, a few dismantled honsea and treeB
stood barely above the wreck, leaving
an almost perfectly clear space. I know
of no more expressive language to de
scribe toe fate of these things than that
of Major Bnrbridge in hia letter—"they
are gone.” It only required a few min
utes for the few men in the town, many
being in Charleston, to begin the work of
saving life, and white and colored work
ed rapidly and faithfully together, Tha
list of casualties I telegiaphed, and it
appears an absolute miracle that it
waa not ji tar larger one, when the
wreck ia locked upon. Tho frail osbins
of toe colored people, and many of the
out-honaes are not only blown down, bnt
blown away, and their fragments ecat
tered for hundreds of yards. It is an ac
tnal fact that the Bites where some cf
them stood can cnly be discovered with
difficulty, fiomu of the larger houses
seem to*have been beaten down after
being on the ground, tbe debris being
flattened ont. OtheiB appear as if they
bad simply fallen to pieces like struct
ure* of cards, the aides falling some in
acd some outside and the roof going clear
Of them all, and smashing itself agaioet
tho ground some distance away.
As already stated, tbe scene was simply
indesoribable. For half a mile on toe
right of the town, as yon enter, there was
a wilderness of prostrate trees, and pieces
of planks, rafters, laths, and shapeless
fragments of dressed wood ot all sixes
were saattered thickly upon toe ground,
the ends all pointing from southwest to
northeast, exoept when in their fight
through tha sir toey enoonntered obsta
cles and rebounded, falling in all direc
tions. Detached pieces of tencingwere
everywhere, and among the other rem
nants lay articles of household furniture
Here and there amid tbe confused mass
lay tho remains of houses in the disorder
of the orasb. A'l the streets were filled
with the wreok, and all lines weraob
luerated. Lifelong residents of the
town became oonfnsed and list their
way, being abto to disoern no fa
miliar landmarks, and conld form
no idea aa to where tb-y were. The
beautiful little hickory valley where Gov
ernor Hampton spuke in .’77 ia torn np,
the trees which adorned it lying piled to
gether, and toe Presbyterian Cnnrob,
whioh stood npon toe bill by it. being a
heap of indistingnisbable rubbish. A
portion of the weather boarding ot thia
oourohhaa been found on a farm five
miles awav. Columns might be taken
up with anoh inatanoea of tbe fury of the
wind. The air was filled during the pas
sage of the storm with flying fragments
ot all sor a. Groves of eorob oaks on the
outskirts of the town have the b*rk en
tirely beaten from them by tho showers
of laths, shingles, staves, and other
thirgs whioh encountered them as toey
whirled along. It is piobable that what
was taken for a olond aooompanying
toe storm waa merely a mass ot leaves,
sand and other objects taken up by the
wind.
The phenomenon seems to have been a
genuine cyclone or hurricane. The rotary
motion was distinotlv to be seen in its
effects, tbe trees, for instance, falling in
ezaotly opposite directions within a few
feet of each other. It is probable that
two revolutions of the terrible circle were
made in the town, the centre being more
to the northeast daring the second one.
This will aocoant for the wild confusion
in which everything was left. Zf there
had been a direct wind all things blown
down by it must have lain in the same
direction. In fact the circle can almost
be completely traced by the different
direction ot articles left on the ground.
Many ot these were atrewn so thickly
and so evenly tost they looked as if
they h*d been thrown up by a tide,
and where there are obstacles this debris
is maesed against them as it it bad
floated oh a stream cf water and been
left there. Many of the trees were not
blown dowB, but broken off from fire to
forty feet above the gronnd, and in anch
instances some of them presented the
appearance of having been wrung off,
tbe twiat being apparent in tbe remain
ing wood. A grova of wild orange trees
a few miles north and cast of the town
was stripped of its berries, whioh de
scended in a shower tin miles beyond.
A lady’s trank which was secured, looked
and placed in the garret of a dwelling,
was taken by the wied as the house fell,
and carried half a mile into toe swamp,
the cloihiog in it being costtered in every
direction 8ome of it was found up a
tree, away off in the wood*. Several
baggies were blown forty or fifty ysrde,
om or two of them being completely
smashed. A foar-horse wagon was lifted
from a yard and blown thirty feet away
over a fence eight feet high. One
remarkable occurrence was that of a bask
et of books uelog taken from a be me, and
deposited in a tree three-fourths of a mile
distant, without looking soy of its con
tents, whioh were found intact. A sheep
was found lying in tbe rood with every
particle of wool taken from it as cleanly
as a rasor conld have done it. Many
p-opl- were buried in tbe ruins, and it.ie
marvkllous tha* they were not killed. One
lady as she felt the house giving away
gathered her ohildren in her ' arms and
knelt by the bed with her infant nnpoc
ber body. Tbe building fell upon them,
and they were nearly buried in a- shower
ot bricks and mortar, although all es-
oaped with bat a few bruises aod
scratches. The lofaut being nearly suf
focated by tbe dust, its mother, with re
markable coolness, blew into its month
until its lungs resumed their wotk.
' ‘Charleston up to thia time has raised
about $12,000 for the auiferere* and the
suheoriptioEs ooaUuue. • os.J
What tbe Gresneaekers frames*
s ii : i.m Hfin.
Mr, De Lx Hatyr, wh* seems to be the
leading spirit of the small Greenback fac
tion in Congress, has filed a petition ’em*
bodying X bill lo isaoe one billion of green
back enrranoy lo be leaned on# st little
or no interest to tbe dear people end
foster gigantic works of internal improver
ment. Thia is bow toe project reads'
It provides that the Secretary of toe
Treasury be xeqnired to have prepared
the earliest prao icsbla period notes and
obligations cf the United Stales to the
aggregate amount of $1,000,000, to be
known as |'greenback currency,” for g«n
esel circulation in snob amounts and in
snob format toe bill provides, which
notes or obligates when issued shall
ooostitnte a legal tender for all debts and
shall be receivable for all United Siates
Government does, and shall read sa fol
lows:
‘!Tho Government o£ the United StateB
of . America will pay on demand at the
Treasury thereof to or bearor $—
in lawful money. This note ia a legal tend
er for ail debts public and private, except
each as may have been heretofore other
wise provided by law, and is receivable
for all does to said Government.”
The Secretary of the Treasury ia au
thorized by the bill to loan from anch
“greenback currency” to the corporation*
hereinafter named, npon application of
their properly authorized officers, provid
ing said corporations shall file their
bands for the same, bearing their corpo
rate seal, on toe following terms:
Said bonds shall fce payable fifty years
from toe data thereof, and shall bear no
interest for five years fiom said date, bnt
at the expiration of five years shall bear
interest at the rate cf 3 per cent, per an
num, legal money, the interest to be paid
semi-annually.' ;.:?u
The following are the corporations
mentioned who ehall have the advantage
of the loan above described:
The James Biver and Kanawha Canal,
$60,000,000; the A'lantio and Great
Western Canal, §50 009 000; tha Florida
Cornt Canal, §12.000,000; toe Fort St.
Philip Canal, §10,000,000; for a railroad
to oonneot the waters of tbe Mississippi
with the Pawfia Ooaat, § ; Oswego
Canal, §25 000 000; the Lexington and
Big 8andy Railroad, §5 000 000, and the
Niagara Ship Cans!, $14,000,000.
If this is not practical insanity we
know cot what to style it.
A proposition to increase at a single
boned the national debt by one-half.
And for what ? To fill the pooketa ot
thousands of hungry speonlatora acd
achieve tost whioh chould be done tnu
will be done by private enterprise if tbe
proposed schemes are likely to prove pay
icg investments. Thh is sorely piling on
the agony.
Ben BurLXR is not a fcoL He per
ceive* the' point of the immigration
movement. We suggested ths other day
that tbe movement would do more to
settle the negro problem than many
years of discussion, through toe effect of
negro labor on white labor in the North.
Butler seeB tha point. He says the
Democrats have nothing to complain of
in toe movement. “Wnerever,” says he,
“tbe Southern negro and the white Be
publioan laborer come together in the
North there will be one white Republi
can vote less and one badly demoralized
black man.” Interests control in poll'
tics, and settle issues.—Exchange.
A crying baby is a bore to the whole
neighborhood »nd the parents should be
forced to keep Dr Ball’s Baby Syrup
handy. Price 25 cents
Tbe James’ Tragedy.
This terrible event in Baltimore, only
psralelled by the Aiston-Oox horror, is
thus jaslly commented npon by toe New
York World:
Neither tbe natural rage of the father
ot the dead girl, nor the oonrage of tha
alleged sednoer in remaining within reaon
of the man who bad sworn hia death, osn
modify the fsot that an old man, believ
iug himself toe viotim of extreme family
disgraoe, ia lying dead; tnat two families
have suddenly come into a notoriety
which will attaeh to the innocent aa well
aa tha guilty, and a great oity, and, In
deed, toe nation itself, is horrified by a
deed whioh is utterly without any good
or credit to any one. The story is fall of
moral point tor any one who obooses to
look for it, but unfortunately there ia bnt
a minority of the people to take anch nar
ratives st their real worth.
There is not one Southern man who
Will withhold his sympathy from the
strioken James’ family, whose venerable,
but feeble head fell by toe villainous as
sassin, who had first ruined, and it may
be said, murdered his once innocent acd
ooafiding daughter.
In the palmy, days of anolent Borne and
Greece, tbis horrible catastrophe would
bave furnished ample material for an
epio poem.
Mot tbe Fool (bey Take Him for
George, the Count Joannes, is oorrectly
described by a correspondent of tbe Utica
(N. Y.) Observer aa the original Claude
Melnottp when the “Lady of Lyons” was
first prrjduoed in this country; and he i?
right U ssjing that Mr. Jonee became a
real «e tnt while traveling m Europe; but
the blowing implies that the the coble-
m*r&bw appears on the stage solely from
mercihary motives: “I held a long con
versation with the Count the other day
on the subject of his acting. Said he:
‘People think I am a orasy fool; I am
not. I’m a knave. The people flock to
make fun of me. They don’t hurt me,
unless the cabbages or oranges don’t hap-
>en to be sufficiently mushy. Bnt I look
>eyond tbe howling and shooting of the
idiote in front of me to the time when
the treasurer hands me their dollars.
Then I say to myself, I was the fool
awhile ago, yon are tha fools now.’ And
the old man is right. He has more cense
than they give him credit for.”
No one can think dearly when suffer
ing with Headache. Dr. Bali’s Baltimore
Pills will banish this disagreeable ail
ment. Price 25 cents.
NORTH GEORGIA.
The result of tbe late frost in Ogle
thorpe county is thus summed up by thb
Lexington Echo: “An inspection of fruit
last week showed that about one peacb
outofa thousand escaped the freiz<»;
early cherries were killed; bnt toe old-
fashion varieties are not hurt; strawber
ries are badly bU; old field plums thinned
out, bat plenly left; about half the apple
crop killed, figs, pears and apricots
killed; some fields ot corn were kilted to
the grain and bad to be planted ovet;
the Irish potato oroy cut Bhsrt be one-
htl and smalt grain and clover nipped.”
Batts ay -**F” of tb* Fifth United
8tatea Artillery has bean stationed in At
lanta. Battery C, D” from 8avannah, ha*
also been stationed in that oity.
Bon 2VAm<: * Oa Monday Mr.
Henry McK>o»ip, while tracing a trot-
line near the junction of the rivers, dis
covered the b.dy of a man Heating on
the surfaea of tbe Oostansuls. Hasten
ing forward he towed the body to the
bank with the assi-tsuoe of a book. Tbe
body was in a horrid state of decomposi
tion, the exposed flesh having been en
tirely devoured by fish. The body wag
identified by sevessl as that of Sam L*ae,
colored, who wop accidentally drowned
wbile watering a horse lost Jsusry nesi
Fiat Bm-k, on thOpstanaula river. Pr.
Alexander having examined tbe bnd\
in company wi’h tbe Coroner, the jury
rendered a veidiot in K«ooid.nce with
th* above facts.”
Tbe H. A N «. R. R—taulon’s
Prospects—TIi* Character of
ibe (oantry—It* rredneti and
Crodnettventss-CoitAB on the
Biae Ridgr— ■ obaeea is (Me
Vaikya-Frutto sa* Vegetable*
-Trees, Waterpower. Minerals
■»«* SleiaU—Chmp JUviag—Air
and Water.
OANTOi, Go, April Uto, 1879.
Editor* Telegraph A Messenger—In say
las* letter! promiaod yonr readers something
additional from Notto Georgia Since the
publication of my remAM* aboat too Mariet
ta and No th Georgia Railroad end Can ton,
I mads a fijlug visit to Southwtst Georgia,
and the inquires rAsAa of ureas to the char
acter o this AeefloA and tbe pioapeota of iu
doTeropE.ut were so frequent and so oar-
neat that the folflliaiea: of my promise to
write snot hoi letter seems a work of necessi
ty os well as a labor of lore.
. . WWW W1TT.W-1T,
I stated that onr railroad would be cam-
pleted to tids point by the 20th inst. and tost
Oaniou’s prospects for growth and prosper
ous trade were exceedingly promising. I
now hate the pleasure to annoUnee tost the
train willoertatoly cross into our oorporate
lines on Saturday next, 19th, and that Can-
ton’s piospeota are brightening even day
We have substantial evidence from sU por
tions of tbs State that men of energy, enter
prise and capital are taking steps to share
in toe development of the new Eldorado.
TBE COUNTRY
through which the new railroad is to ran
and from whioh Canton is to draw its trade,
is probably most valuable for its agricultu
ral and hortioultnrai resource- and possi
bilities It is not, aa many suppose, so
uwnUSncua and ragged aa to render culti
vation impracticable <.r to seri.Ublj impede
tha ordinaiy methods of tilling On tha oon-
tr-ry, bnt a small peroen ago of the vast
ares hide defiance to the plowman. It ia
nearly all culuvatsbie, while tha greater por
tion may beolaased as rolling lands ana val
leys and much above the avenge in fertility
aha uplands are generous and where proper
ly ulied yield from eight to twenty boahe a
of com or wheat to the acre a d toe valley
1-nda from twenty to fifty bushels. Oats,
rye, narley, potatoes, onions, tobacco, sor
ghum and the grasses ore produced in tha
eame proportion, and ot late years
onm
has received much attention and a bile to
two acr.a ia abont tha average. Onr farm
ers are n w begin i us to nse commercial far-
tLizera freely and toe yield will no doubt be
large, y increased. More cotton will be
planted here this year than • var before and
toe system ot foroog the gipwih and mam-
rty within the extremes of the season* by
the tue of the right kind of fertilizer* will,
m my opinion, produce astonishing resul.s,
and may develop th. fact to t tbo “king’’
con reign and fijurieh on tha elopes acd
peaks of the Blue Bidga.
TOBiCOO
In some of our valleys tobacco is grown as
suooassfaUyas in any portion of Virginia
and the qusli.y u equally as good tislscos
is not behind tho rich section around Dan
ville, Va, in the production per sere, or in
the quality of the tobacco produced, sod w»
onlyne d Virginians, who know how to plant
and cultivate toe weed, to bring *11 the ,al
ley lands up to the same standard.
YaUITa AND VAQKTABLE8,
peaches, apple*, pears, cherries, plcms. and
thegiape and many other varieties of frntt
gro- here in rich luxuriance and delicious
perfection. It is the country for apple,,
peaches and grapes and is capable of fur
nishing all the markets of the Bcath 0»b-
biga, Irish and sweet potatoes also do well
Ano will, ere long, stop the importation from
New England
TBXIB
are no iu core [durable item in estimating the
vriaeof a country and should not be over
looked. Our fereata abound with good tim
bers, such aa whito oak, red oak, hickory,
poplar, chestnut, pine, asn, maple, walnut,
beech, birch, &uin, Aa, just such timber as
we are daily purchasing from the North and
West in wheels, spokes, axe and noe-helv- e,
bsmes. wag re, furniture *nd all sorts ot
woedenware.
WATxa-rowzB
is abundant and easy of access. Ths
stream* are numerous and many of them sf
ford t efficient water to run tbe kerviect ma
chinery, repeating ita wotk frequently SB it
pltuges down ths elopes to tho sluggish
attearns in ths lowlands
jams IB AND NET ATS.
I have arid tbis seotion is most valuable
for its agricultural and horticultural resour
ces and possibilities. In solving the prob
lem of subsistence, tois s true, hut tht
geest wealth of tneae mountain counties
lies imbeded underneath the tillable soil
and is yet to be developed. The gold belt
extends dear through toe line from Mane -
t* to Murphy, and the veins already discov
ered are being workea here in Uherokoe
county are now rated by miners and met*
largio scientists tbo riches’ in the world
on the live mills now in operation are rapid*
ly establishing the act. Ths discoveries of
copper, iron, maibie, slate, mag-.esia, chalk,
mica, soap-stone, elsstio sand-stone, crown
stone and oth.r varieties, including th.
granite, for building purposes, lime, tnl
ptur, magnesia, i-haiibeate, slum ana many
i ther valuable minerals, *11 along toe ice,
indicate undevelopedres.u ces of fabulous
value, and U is not txtravigant to estimate
the yield within the next quarter of a cen
tury at ons hundred millions.
AtBAND WATER.
These elements ore as pure, a* sweet, ss
tree from malaria, os invigorating and life-
preserving as npon any known spot of the
globe and this question of the bealthf alness
of the seetion is beyond controversy or cavil
The climue is by no means rigii n winter,
wbile it ia altogether ohannlDg and health-
restoring in the spring, summer aud autumn
sesaons.
FBiOEOFLUSS:
The margin between the prices of tbe
poorest ana richest agricultural lands is
very broad, vaiying from one d liar per
acre to one hundred. Uplands range irrm
one to ten; mixed la d* from six to twenty,
and valley lands, lndluding ri*er and creek
bottoms from ten to one handled per sore
LTTOG
is about aa cheap as it is any*h*re on the
fsoe of ths earth, among civil zsd people,
while it ia as good as tbe canine art of toe
housekeeper oan make it I fcnuw a gentle
man who is boarding nine students at §6 per
mo.th each, and says he makes money by
the operation He.eeds like a prince witn
all, and his hospital,ty never descend to the
vulgar practice of exacting pay from a
neighbor or a wayfarer Good board and
lodging oan be bed in Canton at §10 per
month, bnt attention beyond fi.ee, water
clean towels, o esn theet* and diuing rooms
need not be expected Onr people gene
rally do their own work and guests ore ex
po ted to moke themselves at home and
tote their own skillet .o >ome extent.
OsBST W. blYLES.
The Co a (eat in tongrtn,
Tbe regular Washington correspondent
of the Cincinnati Enquirer writes that
after a heated political debate of more
than two weeks in tbe House and seven
days in the SeBate, the political situation
is no clearer to-day than it was when tbe
contest opened. One thing, however, ia
painfuil* apparent to the Republicans,
and that is that the cry of revolution has
fallen flit upon the people, who are not
to be excited with tbe goblin of a new
rebellion; and bo far as any of ths Re-
publican leaders can assort to the conua-
ty, it has cot had tbe eff ret of whipping
the President into the Stalwart attitude
besought and almcst demanded of him
by his party. Two weeks ago no Bepnb-
liean of ray prominence bad any douot
that Hayea would veto the army bill
Not a few cf them now have ray serious
doubt that he will not sign it. . .
Tha more the Bepnblican position Is
debated and agitated, the more unten
able bos it become. Argument* have
given way to sophistry. Indeed, no ar
gument has been advanced by the Re
publicans, the sole baiden acd tenor of
the speeches made from their stand point
being merely the revival of sectional
hears atd drawing a Stalwart line tor
the President lo toe: If the apathy
which is now noticeable on the part of
the leaders of the party indicates any
thing, it ia that some move must be mode
to gain the ground lost should tbe Presi
dent sign the Army Bill. There have
been frequent conferences of late--not
in the nature ot caucuses, but quiet
gatherings cf the managers—to map out
some plan to get out of tbo awkward di
lemma tbe party finds itself in.
At is believed now that Secretary Sher
man’s recent financial exploit will be used
to abandon the 8talwait position, and
plant the Republican banner once more
< n tbe fiuaacisl issues. The sbrewd-r
politician* are beginning to see that
about the only glory gained by maintain
ing a tiiqlwsrt position accrues to Grant,
and that' tbe only result of making a
campaign on that qosU means hia nomi
cation iv lead toe heals. Hence thtode-
aira to drop dead issues and take up toe
more vit 1 cues of finance and tbe cur-
r.ncy. Tbe plans henceforward will be
t > magnify tbe financial operations of
Seuretaiy Shrrroar. If Hayes signs the
army bill the Stalwart, plan of esmpsign
he abandoned, acd the RennW
will make their Presidential fioht,
financial record, with John Lb *‘-'
the standard-tHore*. t,
—Night session* are now held intho h-
on Mondayo, Tu*ed»y*. WadnL!,. “on**
Thursdays for dtbu* lii,
—Among tbe fifty, ohc-r
of Parliament from fraiaoj fntbL
Onmmon*. oays tto London wo-ia* 0 !
tail dezsn ptactioed Journalists cf goodly*
—‘No toank you; I cover wait*.
It any of tha young mm wont £ h^ !*»
murtdott on the sly; she won? taw
massing my dr**e np, and ££2*8§fi
maiks on my white wobt, so let*
The Ohio Legislater*"taa* ^J 1 ***-
theriztng ths AppotatmmtTfl* 1 **^-
N tarien PabUs, sad in NissmW^ **
the extent of being allowed to vLi/V 0
membeiv of tb« Bobool Committee. ^ for
-Work tv bring resumed on ths Wi_
btidge, and about a i boosted
bririybe employed in a *hort £nTV
complete, work oath' ,2*
way wtii se htgun dorian the
the master mechoniotrita boDefaj^*'.’^
toe bridge being retdy for fublio
oonp'e of years. “•mini*
—there seem* to he notiuns
lutira tor nsakins government losn»w„
On Wednesday Senator Dawes. of M.i.V?®'
setts, delivers i a long speetotoss^ 1 ??'
toe TMafederote*- wore burying ^ *
try to ruin; on Than day the wholeA^'
cent loon to take up the tm.fortL S?
one hundred and fifty
bed by a Ne* York syndicate. 1 uWcrt *
—A St Petersburg dfcpsteh. Am
18th says 8olowJ t ff. ths would-be “, t| ^
of the the Cast, is a sou or a groom in'tu
household i f toe Grand Puche?*
After leavsg St Petersburg tTnirmin i
beosme a teacher. He tot tell nndwth?
notioe of tbe authorities in ocuree ot Wi^
lea into the Socialistic Inbignes H*
peered during toe inquiries and wu Zi
beard of until be made toe attempt entht
Czar's life.
—riambettaia growing very stout, m
wtmld be a stood pabsnt for the ‘antt-rat’
remedies He ws* advised to walk £
horns a day and live on a short rilowonciri
food He commenced a walking tn.tcn m
the road between Paris and Yersoffim
was so annoyed by tbe orawd* that mn
attracted, toot be tried itaowToomtj’7
bat soon gottirad of hia monoton us trims'
and hsa jaiaed tha Maine Gjmnsstie tloG
—Mme. Gr*vy lately took a raivet dim*.
which bad seen service, to a vsty mud
Parisian milliner, and arid shswuh 4 ob
tain alternations mode The grand moditts
intimated with a superbly sffsble sir that
they were *not in the habit of d- i g that iort
of work for ladies with whom tbe; were tot
acquainted.’ Mme. Gravy expreised bet
regret, rasrarking that she wo- the wife of
toe President and wanted the dre«s to eeu
at sn Btyree entertainment Atrsnsfonui-
tion scene inetantaneoosly followed.
AN Iu, Advtbid fchemt —If the gentle
men who are ■ apposed to be e. giuoenng
events so as to insure toe nomu.ation ot
General Grant for .Resident in 1883 sre site
tney will sit down with their utmost ponder
osity npon the sbsardnnjeet of a trsvalticg
moss convention of 6),UiO proplstonuet
the General at Ban Franoieou and erco t him
aoioes ths continent There ore a tnu'timdt
of good reasons whioh might be effort d, but
the schema ia an manifestly IU advised tint
it Is hardly worth wbi’e to treat it as anything
else than the invention of a few nitretd
sharpen
TbeWobxcx Gosscnusc* — A short tma
ago tbe offioe of Mr J Y L Graham, s
Baltimore lawyer, was broken into and rob
bed of a cash box oontriciog §8 i. A few
days after a sermon in whuh Mr U- ndy
preached abont restitution, a man miffitd
abont the foee called at Mr. G ah m’o huuto
and l'ft with the servant a tpool-oottou box
careful'; tied up and ooDtrioing §43, «coom-
pont-d by a letter, stating that tbe thief bid
been seised with remorse eunscience, sad
returned this with the full intention of pay
ing hick toe remaining §23 as soon as pos
sible.
—The Flashing New York Journal of April
18 h says especial pun* live b.ni t.iou
w thin lie paet month to suppress the out
burst cf entbatissm now apparently threat
ening. and wo sbonld not b- rurpiis.dto
learn that the txpeoted on'pounng of hu
manity from thoAtlantfo to the PaciSocoatt,
where the great American traveller once
more toucue- ‘rue own. me native land.’ iris
somewhat chtc'-ed by the cu’d blanket now
sought to be thrown over bis Preridt-ntUl
prospects. The truth ie, the great Americu
traveller’s friends are rathar ‘crowding tht
mourners ’ The Presidential cakes are be
ing hurried up too rapidly. The; widget
oold before the feaat id on the table.
Tubbi a tee TiBLES —The l i fters’Pro-
tcctiTs oociety of Netraik Liquor Dealer:,
which was formed to resist the Law-snd-
O drrLe«f?ue of that city, hie ^iven uofto
by advertisements innewsp-p-rs sndotber-
wise that it will prosera e to the fullest ex
tant offenders against the Btmday Iswcf
Now Jtr.ey and will make o mplii .U agilcit
all pereooe travellirg in Newark to day.
inapt poisonsi going to or from cbmch, or
carrying tba Gnited Stati-s mail or fur a
physician. The law forbid* thedrivtigor
cars tr stages, an 1 drivers, bctcheta. ml's
men, groc-r* and in general any onewbo
relisor offers to cell ary thing, or who foiloti
his trade to-d»y, are to b« prosecuted by tbe
soo'ety. All the members of the s ctety
have p'edged themselves to observe the law-
Gei>tis2£ -The movement in f svor cf
Grant for a third term was inaugurated in
Fbi'adi-Iphia two years ago ty* lew design
ing politic ons who h-d ret per a neb h-rresl
nnuer hia former adminittraticm. The pro
gramme was then all arranged Grant mi
to g* abroad until 1879, when he was to
tetum home and bo received wi’h greit
enthusiasm by the ‘striweita’ who are t)
represent the people. Already preptratiom
areb.-ingmadetoatnd a ilicumnd p r<ow
to meet bim when he lands on tbe r»aflc
elope, whoa*- basinets it will be to hurrah
for Grant and a third term until heretebtt
Philadelphia. Thin reported «t*:emin'. of »
travelling companion, that he will rot *g«In
aocept a reaairination, ia given out to de
lude tbe public into the be’ief that Grant
does not want* third term: but. aftei the
demonutraiiois in the triumphal marchof
the Gr*nt circa* across the Conti ent. it will
be annou oed, a* per programme, that Gen
eral Grant, bowing to tbe general d> mindoi
the‘stales', ts,' dirgniied ae tbe people, bat
reluctantly contented to become* third t£Q
Presidential cant.date.
Tee LAjrsr UbexobKew Yobx Poucz'
ken,—A ourioua sight, says the Stw foil
buu. Was witnessed in this city n Saudi y-
paiiceme j stationed at chad, doors to keep
people ont. Of ooarse, when a church u
loti u is fall, and overcrowding is notonlf
di.agreeable, bat dsogeroae; tardy e'icti
mud sinners must seek some lets popoitt
place of w rehip. All the eame tbe biae-
o rated, club t-riddling polcemau at tot
church door would have consider.b:y setes-
ished ths early Omistians. and it u drEctrt
to reooucile Un with the command to 'uO
intothe byways and hedges and compel then
toyoomein.’
now THE MiSSiCHUSXTTS Bobm Bon-
HaT-S—'i’he Springfield Republican, i»J<
our robin does not go to Virginia and Don*
da in tbe winter, as onr booolti ks and iavu-
tds do Be a ays, tnugly and aooiably p»»*
ed w th bis fe’low* in anoh convenient t®**
a*d rcok-oiifts and ground-bugging hem
locks oi sprnoes as they koow of A Long-
meadow farmer once cut on old birch tnine
dead of winter, and took out of a great
low cf ihe trunk three' peck* of robm,*P*
parent ly d*»d He carried them home
cariosity and lodged them in a wotm toon
when tbs; all o.mcto life.
Hurt Mux ox Passesgess a Teas
Ran, s*ys tlw travel by toe New Yoik eier>
ted rai roads is increasing rsptdij
week showing a large increase over the pte-
cow ing t ne. During toe mouths if J«W-
Pt binary, and Marsh tne New Yo-kEie«»
road earned, 7,(89,476 passengers. *>0“’
Met>opoM-aa Btevoted rood earned 3,S»,
6<3, being a total cf U,475.t S3 for both <o*«
Tsking tbe inanosed fseiliuee for the
tost ore b»ing prepared by the road*
consideration, officers cf the road* eettnu
tost ihe two roads will oarry more tbsa w ;
million p.snc ngers daring th* year.
Ths South Awraiom Wan.—A
to toe Herald, dated London Ainl l*. i ■<
aays ihe Uocsal i-eneral of the Argeu
Bepabiio h<a published a telegram
fcuen-s Ayres, April 14 from tbe Micut a
Fiuanoe, delaying all rumor# cfap" ^
oomp iostion of toe Argentine Btste* ® . ,
war on the Padfio ooast, and declaring,
the Argentine Govemnunt intends to ok
ont tha convention on toe frentier qa<*
ooDomU-d «i h Chile >**t December. ___
The Dawn or the
cor*'a i f Indianapolis held a aty cod*®". 0 j
the other day ana gathered in a *hoj* -
ool red men. Not only were oolorw.
member* of the convention, bat ous «****£,
ed the pool torn cf vtoe provident and
er nominated foe «ty Mamtul Be*J£
tbe Doiflocrat* of Bbode Island ran > ®^ irg
ed man Ur toe Lrgiaiainre, and as
auoth-r was a candidate Ur Con*uDu> u ^
tbe Democratic ticket. This »n>eun
a revelation.
—No German Emperor ha* bitter*® (w
as long »»_tne preconi ^ u&.
■a iviua «r> *uv vov-- —- -
bun oumee Frederick III, who
aged 58
Ootiuk dropped sa e'gil-
pool yvstetdsy.
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