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BtecB ianrrat« Herman—Sophomore
Abodk the event* ot the je*r none are
J&2* with more P««~™
♦ tn»n the Commencement ot Mercer
e,tt . Tnev alwsje attract a very
F^Moad to the city and ia one ol ab-
l*'*' 1 “ Tnterest to our citto-na. The
eorbmg interes fiotn ita
Commencement >tbU 3 bJA . mora thin
initial et*p*PTomu*a 0 bv
uinally brf ' U ^ in >L\, ez e and c«ty to-
the ties wb ‘ 0O ^“ d th e n ,dnat!l they are
fa everything which
° 0e ‘.rdnetotbe progress of either, and
oppertotna to to y ^ tbe p ros _
the sdvywme Th(j ing ,|tntioa has
pe bSd°i « *• heitU 0f T P3 h‘
*? us prcsperliy ia earnestly desired.
coiFoiencement exerc.sea were
T.rnned on Sunday morning at the
eontmueo on where the bac-
„ ; delivered by
.1* P H Mall. D. D. LL. D.
Keel or onhe State Uaiversity.
.L, was slightly overspread with
, lb “ ‘ ^h thickened as the bells sum-
d0ad a to church Notwithstanding tms
™ too church was filled to
^V.wing many extra saats not far-
£ big comfortable accommodations for
escaped the
„? 9 of f*ir P hinds, was prettily decoratod
w i,bfl>werH. B Cim p_
K G. li. MoOail,
«"h C ol Hv«kinsvill«. Rev. j. G. Ry-
D - ° ' “ or Osrter.vilie. Rsv. G. A.
•J* R *• M. B Wnariou,
K° 0 u.Hy."f B “ LL p D of
KlSIA’j.B-ll.. B. D, .nd
Athens,
Bor. T. B.
_ btinner. D D, ononpmg
M ,uoii ,b'o rcatrnm below the pnlpit. A
*Te D,nm in E flu. No 3.
I. B.cmbiOb, wsssung wnh rim.rks
bfe power, beauty and effect by the oboir,
follow*d by » prayer oy Bsv. U. B.
Whsrtoa, which was oeaatifnl in us etu»-
^ChinceUor Mell read the Scriptures,
ml cungs few terse-in the second chsp-
ter of the 1st Corinthians, followed by a
few V'-rs-s from the 4:n chapter of the
rseand Epistle to the Corinthians. Tne
iD h hymm-ommencing “Holy Somer o
CoDsola ioc,” was tong by the choir in a
‘T-fjT'Nuinally. of Borne,efisred
upaferveut prayer comprehensive end
spiritual. koI the choir again sang the
hymn, the first word- of whicu are Ia-
spiie and htam of P«»jer.
Cnancellnr Mai rose and took bis
text in the 4 h -hapt r of the Second
Sp 8tl-8 to the C niothians, G .b verse,
••For Gof woo c iiuin ,n led light to shine
out of da-ku^««. kutx ehiued ia onr
hearts, to give' ne light of the knowledge
of the glory of G;d in the face of Jesus
ChfiiV
Opening hi-remarks with theacnoccrr.-
mi-nt tbit to svtid aoy misunderstanding
he would say that he won d preach aeon.
rneBCeicest sermon. He could not lose
the ippoitani'y to speak to h'8 an litors
and especially the young men as men
whom ha must meet before the throne of
God. .
The dinocursa wia foil of fciTif W»
power. I? ww» purely evangelical* with-
oat the slightest attempt at oratorical or
rhetorical effects, but «ne marked by a
solicitude for the eternal welfare of hie
auditors, Which rose above the usual
methods of commencement se'mona, and
spoke firm a higher plane.* desire to
please tne Msater rather than the ser-
fiQt. It OM practical and sswchiDjf
The plan of salvation was clearly exponn
ded. T .e worta of the text *«»•«*-
plaiucd in all of their lights. Particu
larly io be admired was the earn*s.-
ecjh of the distinguished divine,
and bis words were uttered with forever
which made its impression^ on all pres
ent. It was a dl coarse which is seldom
heard, which will ever be remembered,
and be followed by many good re
sults.
His closing words were, I e-teem it
young g utlemen a great privilege to
ataod b-foro you. I am proud of this
institution; of ita aimuni, all over this
State. Let me tell yon now ''me conclu-
lion of the n hole matter. I have come
to talk of'.he light in the heart. If yon
have i, walk in that, and if yon have it
not, Ipray God that it may shine in your
hearts.
The services were closed with a hymn,
ths dciotory, and the benediction pro
nounced by Bev G. R. McCall.
the eoPBCixoius ixaisitios.
Tbs bouhom**'e exultation ermooff
'oat evening at Misonic Hall b*-fore an
ioatme .uJieuce. Tno ball, spa-
cions as it is, could not contain th
em wo, and the doors and windows were
lhror.ji.1, besides a fringe of those who
o*.u!d obt-in seats around the edges
ct lbs audience in several places. Toe
Mats was hindbOtntly decorated with
gulands. Over the eentte of the stage,
in a graceful curve, ia the device, “Com
mencement. 1979“
Oatue stage aat President B ittle. sev>
etu ot tne professors and a number of
tte trustees of the institution.
Tu» first speaker was Mr. W. H.
vluke, C. 8., of Coweta county, who de-
hraed she “Burning of the Lexington”
jn a graceful and interesting manner,
l'he poem is one in which there is con-
•'larabl- opportunity for dramatic dis-
ti'T. Mr. Clarks seined these points and
He .vwtd hitna lf well, his voios being
ktcl, fl-xlble and woll controlled.
Hr. J. F, Elen., C. 8, of Sam»*r conr-
v h»4teisaiedtbe‘'L*y cf the Madman,”
todhsspsk- It wilhrffrot. His voice wa«
lushed a little low at first, miking It dif-
Jbclt for those in the xecso e portion of
lb* hail tn t.-nr, bat toward the close it
‘“goal with full effeot.
Tbs fine poem of N. P. Willis, “Par-
the Caotive," waispoken by Mr.
"• «• Bord, P. D. 8 , or Maoon. He
Wo isiih the intense emotion demanded
J ike pifee, and evinced the moat o\re-
l" stndj aJ t only cf the style bnt tte
I'li'lintc’.*^! ion poem. HiS acting win
Mtpsnt. • hts •election wav spoken with
, ‘'Oht, -nd many fl iral offerings
his effort-.
n®** v 't the most popular epocchce cf
-as the “addrtE* of Ser-
jt»»nt busu*’ in the famous Btrdcll
«£*^h °f p.cmiae suit, by Mr. F. H.
® S, of Jones oounty. The
tiu^ 6 * Dr . W * s P^tfv'ly impersonated, aDd
j Par'-Tainoe was mo3t admirable
Tt,n speaker was u. num-
C. 8, of Pula-ki county, epeke, “The
Modern Belle,” and from beginning to
end was greeted with applause aod
laughter. He assumed the comic lole
and made a character representation in
manner and movement unmistakable in
identity with the original they meant to
represent.
"Iks Runsn Soldier,” by Mr. W. J
Manually, P. D. 8., of Borne, w*s anoth
er bigoly dramatic seleotion. Mr. Nan-
nalty was particularly forceful la his de
livery, and mads a very fiae deolame-
t*>n, bis hiatr ento talents winning him
mnoh applawsei* He entered fnlly into
his toeme and rna^a ths moat of a fiae
seleotion. ..
Mr. W. H. Prior, C. 8., of Morgan
county, to! a .“Ltgond of Lichbrey
Mob.” Mr. Prior baa a s lvery voloe,
olear and ipoaetratlog. Opening with a
few impassioned.'sonienooe, the narrative
of the selsoiioB’ followed, and its points
were all well brought oat. The fire, the
patjioe. the varying emotions of the poem,
making a performance which was re
markably pie-slag.
Ciareaoa’s Dream, by Ur. J. 8. Bid*
ger«, C 8., of Burke county, was moat
excellently done. His expression, em-*
phsBis, eouama'ion and gestures were
all fine, aod bis rendition of the seleotion
was simply elegant.
The i-st Sophomore speaker was Mr.
8am White, C 8., of Griffia. “The
Polish Boy” bal been chosen, and in a
graceful manner, with a fluent delivary,
be held hU audience. His stage move
ments were free and perfectly easy, and
hie delivery showed much cultnre and a
high degree of excellence in the art of
hisirionio public speaking.
After sn intermi-slon fl;led with mnrio
by the oollege band, whioh oooupied the
gallery on the left of the hall daring the
evening. Rev. G A. Naanally was intro*
dnoed, and in a short address showed the
importance of the study of English. It w-b
fall of valuable and practical thought*
c’otbed in rich and graceful languag-.
He delivered them* d<Isto the sucoesafnl
contestants in Eog>ish composition.
Tin names of the snooessfcl yeuog
gentlemen will be published to-morrow.
To day the exercises will be v*wy in
teresting. This morning the Alumni
address will be delivered by Bev. W. H.
D ivis, of H-phzibab, and the address
b-fore the literary societies bv Captain
Henry Jackson, of Atlanta. Both of the
addressee will be very fine. We hope
our people will not fail to give them the
audience they deseirr.
A procession will be formed in frost of
the Biptist Church at 0 43 o'clock, and
will thence proceed to Ma-onio Hall, in
the fallowing order: Tae Universi'y
bind, the Board of Trustees, the Faonlty.
the Alamni, and the Literary Sooieiies,
and other students.
The Alamni banquet takes place at
3.30 odock, at the Lanier Honse.
The Juniois will speak this evening,
end afterward the Sophomore prizes will
be d-bv^r-d.
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TELEGRAFll.
•nn. in'arrnpted by applause.
. of Virglnm" by Mr. W.
J-',*••-% C. 8., or Pulaski county
. UuLl thh ft'uliunrtA tnanw nvn».- oalowo
> fiuu tb« audience many expressions
_-*rm approval s.-lrctiu.» the forum
_^»o. Knovle's dtami, Virginias, the
speaker _a«ume<i the character of
M*e wrauufix pittance thrri<in having
I// - us task was a verv difficult one
CJtculed with fkili and ability.
Jo-ei. V. D S ,or Macon,
jno *'Def. n*o of Mi-e^ippi,'’ l»v S
y, gracelul,
J '>_d cm-
To*'* 6
* Freot’u, aad with hi
."•J tyl-, 4;e*tica:ation
iv, **“• W''*a a ol*oo in th*j apoioval oi
■JL»tdia»cei
H. ? Heflin e.' .rie ep V?n by
Hr. h. W. McBryJs, rf Macon.
« «u deiiv-rt d with s iru-g off.*ct li
‘,' troo S T 3ice. io i forcible mi-oer ful.
rn^rgy aad fire. Mr. J. C Nc
svi an,
Uavaka, June 29.—In sugar a fait
budinesa baa be-n done owm, to the
steadines* of markets in the United
S ate.-. Prices gradually advance and
Payers continue io manifest a good oia-
pnsition. Numbers 10 to 12, D 8,6i to
CJ reals gold per arrobe ; Numbers 15 to
20, D. S. 7i to 8i reals. Molasses su
gar, Nos. 7 «o 10 6i to 5J reals ; Musco
vado sugar, common to fair, &i to 51
reals. Centrifugal sugars. Nos. 11 to 13,
boxes and hogsheads, 7j- to 8F reals.
S.ocksm warehouse. H-vana and Matsu
z«a. 40 600 hoxea, 79.300 bags and -78.-
500 uugsneads ; receipt- for the week 4,
9C0 boxes, 275 bags, 4.360 hogsheads;
exports for tne week 4.900 buxes, 6,200
bags, 14 310 hogsheads, including 1 070
th*xes, 4 600 b ig» and 10,000 hogshead
to the Uuiied Slates.*
Tobacco fiim. Exchange firm on ths
Unit- d States at sixty days. Gold 7} to
71 ; gul l, short sight, 8 to 9 j on London
19 te 19i ; Paris. 5} to 6$.
IrohDjN, Jane 29.—A circular has been
issued oy tne State Department announo
ing that Dr. C. C. CvX, of Washington,
nos been appointed secretary of tho
UoiteJ States commission to the coming
anstralian exbibitiona at Sydney and
M-rlbourne and that persons desiring to
e&hibit can obtain from him all necss
vary miormatiou and instructions. He
will leave tor Sydney about the 20.h of
July- . -
BuBLtKaroN, I„wa, June 29.—Crop
reports from more than seventy points
in Soaiberu Iowa and Western Illinois
show that the yield of wheat will be near
ly up to the average.
Com ism splendid condition and prom
ises the largest yitld for several years.
In oats the condition is good bnt the
stand light. Hay will bs two thirds of a
crop. Keports kb a whole are good and
termers feel grtally encouraged.
St. PxTEnsBUKd, June 29.—Tne Min-
islet of the Iuterior.haa ordered the local
sotborititB t* take measures against tba
agitators who tire inciting ihs paasxnts
todistoibanocB by spreading false reports
of an impending r*distribu’ion of land
London, June 29.—A Bonter’s Con-
s'antinoplo correspondent telegraphs that
Eogland and F/anoe will not accept the
Salten’d abrogation of the Icode of 1811,
whioh aa'.bozizsd the Khedive to conclude
treaties with foreign powers acd maintain
an army.
A Mtdrid dispatch to Beater’s Tele
gram Company aunonooes that the Span
ish frigate Atmans!, aid the war 6'earner
Jorge Juan h,vj received ordeie to l-.uve
flirios aod proceed to Sin Domingo to
support the demands of tbs Bpanich Oon
sal at Puerto Plata.
London, Jane 29.—Groat diatrtssie
reported in West Ireland on accouat of
long continued rains.
Minister Nsyes givoa grand dinner
!avk evening in honor of Gaacral Myer,
Chief Signal officer of the United S-»i«*e.
Toe director of the Psris obrervatory was
present. General Mver will proceed to
Lsu-ion to-day.
MaDiiD June 29—The Diario &p%-
nttl states that the inen-of-war diepv.cn
ed from Havana have bean ordered to
establish a bl*.*ckid3 t-ff luu coxal ot San
Djmingo if the Domitiloan government
refajfis to give satisfaction to Sp i*n.
Caibo, June 29.—Ismail Psaha, Ex-
Kaodiv*, departs lo-day. Ha will proba
bly go to Smyrna.
Hamilt.-n, Bermuda, June 29—Ar
rived United States ship Saratoga. Sail
e-.l Uuiivd S a'-’i sbsp Despatcu iur
Hampton B'>ads 231.
Washington, June 29 —Steamship
City of New York. C«ph Deakon,
h nee for Havana and Mix ; co, June
i;S u »•' 4 25 p. uj., r.-tiiruvil to iL.o
po:t to-day; She reports that on the
d.iy of her departure, at 10.45 p. uj.,
157 milca sou:h of B-rcexat ia a ibiok
f.^.n'.e c.luj in o.*i:iaici< with-aa iron
buk. HaUen of Dandms, Cape. Barclay,
freui IlAVaOA with su'ar for J»3w Y^rk,
st..k...g bre ai„ut inidsi* p*<, cu ‘iJy her
-i-rou/.h und sicking her in 10 miantes
F>ur of the cr.iw climbed on board. The
■teamci’s quarter boat was lowered and
one man, C»p>. K b ;rt Barclay, of Mon
trose, who was olingin< to the rigging,
was reaenfd. The steamer lost her a :era
board, had her bow damaged and is ma
king a good dial of water. She i3 now
discharging her cargo.
London, Jana 30.—Thornly & Co.,
ooiton spinners, owning the mills at
Hyde, Godley and Stockport, have sus
pended. The immediate cause of the
stoppage is the death ot the senior part
ner.
Washington, Jane 30.—The President
approved tne bill making appropriations
f«.r judicial expenses, bnt vetoed the bill
making appropriations to pay the fees of
the United States marshals and their
general deputies. Tne President says
the bill contains restrictions similar to
those in that be has heretofore vetoed,
and cOnc'udev, hia message as follows:
“In .urde'r'to secure-’its enactment the
same 1 meiijWte is again presently for my
approval^ * ooopled, in the bill 'before
me, with appropriations for support of
marshals and their deputies daring tne
next fiscal year. The object, manifestly,
is to place before the Executive this al-
terna ive: Ei*her to- allow necessary
functions of the peblio service to be crip
pled or suspended for want of appropria
tions required to keep them in operation,
or to approve legislation which in an of
ficial oummuoicatlon to CongresB he has
declared would be a violation of his con
stitutional duty.
Tuns in this bill the principle is clearly
embodied that by virtue of a provision
of the constitution which requires that
all bills for raiding a revenue shall origi
nate m the Honse of Representatives, a
bare majority of the House haa the right
io witbnold appropriations for the eup*»
port Of the government anises the execu
tive ounsents to approve any legislation
which may be attachtd to the appropria
tion bill.
I respectfully refer to the commnmca-
tioni on this subject which I have sent to
Congress during the present session for &
statement of the grounds of my cooolu-
eions, and desire here merely to repeat
that in my judgment to establish the
principle of tuis bill, is to make a radical,
dangerous and unconstitutional change
in he cfa-rauter of our inetitn io ip.
Mr. W.ndam |ibjocted to us present
consideration, atd the rtsoluti.n goes
over aotil to morrow.
Mr. Windom B’.ated that he regretted
to bo obliged to object, but as it ie in bia
power io prevent tne majority from sd
j-uruing to-day without passing the ap
propriation bills for whioh Congress was
convened, ka tnought It hia duty to give
them a right to think ever tbeir resolu
tion and ooane to a batter one. ".
Chandler proceeded to airaign the
Democratic party for its oourse in tbepre.
9rPt -e-HillD.
Washington, Jane 29.—In Senate,
Mr. Yeet’n lad coinage resolution was
considered—the question bring on Aili-
eon’a motion to refer the resolution to.
tn« fiasni-e committee, which was adopt
ed—jeaa 23. nays 0.
In the House, the States wero called
lot bills for reference, but only about a
dozen were introduced. 157 mombersare
present, being thirteen more than a quo
rum.
Mr. Eriou from the Committee on Ap-
P’Opriations, reported favorably on
House joifcfe resolution to adjourn sine
Hit a: 4 p. o. to-dav.
Washington, Jane 30.—In the Sen
ate the bill relating to licensing ves-
eels not propelled wholly by sail or internal
motive power of their own was taken up
and the Home amendmenta concurred
ID,
At one-forty the San ate went into Ex
ecutive sossiOTi, and when the doors were
opened tne President’s message, calling
attention of Congress to making appro
priations for Marshal fees, was read and
referred to the apnropriatioa committee
Eiton then desired to take np again the
resolution with regard to adjournment,
which he reported early in the day.
Windom, however, again objected, and
introduced a bill making appropriations
for marshal fees without conditional
clauses.
Oj motion of Eaton it was amended so
as to be the exact oopv of the bill just
Tetoed, and finally was indefinitely post
poned.
After another executive session of
abort duration, the Senate adjourned an*
ill to morrow.
in the Honse, the Speaker laid before
the House tne veto message of the Prea-
ident on the marshal's bill, and it was
read. The Hou3e refused to passAhebli
over the veto by a vote ot 83 to 63. Ac
2:30 another message was received from
the President, and lend, calling atten
tion of the House to the importance of
making Bomo provision for marshals,
saying that under exieting laws prohib
iting incur men t of liabilities outsida of
appropriations, the executive cauld not
command their services, and that the
suspension of their fnnc'icna for t7cn a
short timo would be inconsistent with
publio interest, and might at any mo
ment prove ’nconelBiont with public safe
ty . The message was referred to the ap
propriation committee, as was, also, a let
ter from the Aitorney-Uoneralont'oe same
subject, presented by Atkina, of Tennes
see. After disposing of some unimpor
tant bnuness on the Speaker’s table, the
House took op and poaaed, under a sus
pension of the rules, the bill originally
mlroduoed by McKenzie, of Kentucky,
patting salts of quinine and sulphate of
quinine on the free list. The vote stood
125 to 82. Adjourned.
Atlanta, June 30.—Ths new machin
ery in the Atlanta ooiton mills was put in
operation to-day. President H- I. Kim.
bill, M4su4 by Governor Colquitt and
Mayor Cslnonn, turned on steam in the
presocoe of air immense crowd.
Lieu'enant MoCuily, of Company E ,
13 b Infantry, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head. Ciaw
unknown.
. Washington, Jjne 30.—The Senate ia
executive session to-day confirmed the
nomination previouely telegraphed of
members of the Mississippi river im
provement commission, also acting asais
tea* Burgeon Ht*nry T. Porcy, of Vir
ginia, to be assistant surgeon and Joseph
N D *rkee, of Jaeksonvidj, to be Uriied
S k'cs marshal for the Norih-rn district
of Florida.
lne HuUceadjournment resoiuiim wilt
be called ia the Senate daring morning
aoar to morrow, -nd' auisndud oo an to
provide lot tte final »dj jurnmeht ot
both Houses at nume hour io-morrow
aitfrnooo. The ampudmaut will douot-
Ibbs be promptly concurred iu by the
Home, and t'aa session will itrmiaate ac
cording!,. The President, in his speed,!
mejsaue this stternoon, uaving “earnest
ly urged upon the siWsilos of Coog^ss”
Us tiowb as to ihe n-:oe3iiiy of making
immediate appropriations for the service
o( tiarthsli surt obj'aty *n,tt.5<.L for tin
Unool year which o -cctnero-e to raorr >*•,
and having by thij m^-ns Uicomplisobd
as much towards proruiieg the desired
l*?3iel-»:ioa as he could have cny.hopo cf
see jifipliBhmg by recocvctlDg Coogmes,
h:is o.iuaindtd to cunLidou hn origiual
.;nrpo»B0i uistilog * proolaui.tion fur Us
rtcril. Vfueo, tuftfion:, tho u»u Hottioi
udjocro to-morrow, there will be no
p-o^shility oi tueir assembi.og -g-io
uoiil Dooember.
S nator Jones, of Florida, has accept
ed an invitation from the Democrats of
Newaik, flaw JarBcy.to deliver the fourth
ot Julyoration in lha' city.
Nh v York. Jana 33. -A Ch.cogo spe
cial says advices from Cheyenna reports
that Iodian troubles are threatened in
North Park, Colorado, 75 miles Sonth of
Cneyenns. That seotion is at present
the centre of mining ex litemmr, and is
occupied by one to two hundred prospec
tors. The Indians have ordered the Ut
ter to leave or pay for ths country, aod
declare no more men orBuppliea shall be
allowed to come in.
London, Jane 30.—It seems to bq a*
last oertain that ihe peaoe overtures of
Cetywayo are bona fide’. A Times' spe
cial from General Wood’s otmp says tne
messengers of Cetywayo have been reoog-
mxsd as important personages by nsjiva
spies.
While palavering with Lord Chelms
ford, a report arrived that the Zila army
wss advancing on Wood’s o*mp. The
messengers readily agreed to be shot V
the report prove true. When it was as
certatued that me report was unfounded
they were released.
Lord Chclmsfoid, after stating tbs
terms of peaoe declared that before treat
ing farther the two cannon captured at
Issndula.tnd some hostages must be
given np, ’>
The messergers ask 3d Cheim-ford to
halt pending au answer, but he refused.
Tne troopers who were with the Frinoe
Imperial when he was killed deolare, in
contradiction to Lienc. Carey’s statement,
that the survivors galloped off two or
three miles without stopping. v
Tne same correspondent, tumm&rlzng
the various acconnts of the .death ot the
Prince Imperial, says: The Quartsr-
mseter General disobeyed Lord Chelms-
ford’s orders by sending the Prmoe ’on a
dangerous expedition, the escort of
whioh deserted its duty. In the whole
affair there is not one redeeming fea
ture.
A dispatch to the Daily Newt from
Utrecht, under data Juno 8 b, says : A
ood; of Zalas raided a farm within a
mile of liuoaberg. A small detachment
sallied ont from Luoeberg, bat finding
the Znlas in a strong hill position re
tired,
Sir William Fothergill Cooke, who con
structed tne first telagraph.liue in Eag-
land in 1838 9 died to-day, aged 73.
The Bnusu trsop ship O.uatea, with
the body of tne Prince Imperial, ig explo
red to reaohEugiand on the 9.atpt Jfti’.
The Lurd Chancellor intiodnood in thb
Houae of Lords to day the G ivarnment’a
Irish Uaiversity scheme, whioh. proposes
toe disaoln'.ion of the pro:6<*t Qieeu’o
Uaiversity and the application of us en
dowment gran s to tho new university on
the model of London Uaiversity.
Baulin, June 30.—Toe Nor n German
Gazette confirms the report that Herr Voo
HobreSht, Minisier of Finance, ,.haa ton-
aered his resignation.
I: is denied that tho government’ has
declared in favor of H^rr You Krankin^
atein’e motion to distribute supplies no-
dor the new -axutioa auutrg the separate
S atesin prcpoitlon to the number of in
habitants.
Paris, Jane 30.—L'Ordre, the organ of
M. Rouhor, makes the following declara
tion :
Prince Jerome Napoleon is reoognized
as the cliief uf the N-p-leonio dynasty,
and consequently the chief of the Bona-
partist party. He cannot fail to reoeivtt
the resotnte and devoted support of all
those who are faitftf al to tne Empire.
It ismade'by the adviae of M. Brnher,
but it is doabtfol whether the Imperial-
late will rally aronnd Prinee Jerome.
London, June 30.—The Times’ Berlin
correspondent says t In connection with
the reported cootofsa between Germany
and Russia, it may be noted that M. Da
Schevenitz, German Ambassador at St.
Peteroburg, arrived in Berlin on Saturday
night Iasi, and had a long conference
with Prince Bismarck, and that Prince
Orloff, Ka.-sUu Ambassador at Paris,
visited Baden and interviewed Prioce
Gortsibakoff. Trustworthy advices from
Constantinople speak of an endeavor on
the part of Russia to come to an under
standing with France relative to the Eas
tern question. It is said also I hat Rus
sia is endeavoring to conciliate Turkey by
dwelling on the possibili y of the release
of Bosnia and Hciz-govina from Aus
trian dominion.
Paris, June 80—With referecoa to
the resolution recently introduced in the
United Stales Senate by Senater Barn-
side, the Rtpublitpie Francaisc combats the
idea tnat tne Uared States should view
ihe combination of the Darien Canal, un
der European anspioes, with disquietude,
and points ont that the undertaking is
independent of • ffi -lal support or con
trol ; that no European Coart will con
tribute a farthing or man to the oon-
airnciion of the canal, uud that the com
pany will merely a-k all the powers to
oonfcid.tr the canal tbjolately neatral
territory.
London, Jane 30.—A dispatch from
Rouiu '.J tho Pail Mall Gazette days a
special convention between Germany and
tne Vatican is being negotiated. The
German government is to nominate
bishops uni j set to the approval of the
Pope and the bishops are to nominate
priests subject to the approval of tne
government.
B ug, June 30—After two month’s
di.ba.td ihe Italian Chamber of D.purieb
haa approved the ministerial railway
bill, whioh provides for the construction
of CJ20 kilometres of railway oitniu
twenty-two years, ac an annual expendi
ture of two umlion four hundred thou
sand pound?.
Paris, June 30.—At a meeting of Bj-
naparlLts ac the residence of M. Rou-
her, to-day, the will of the late Prince
Imperial was read, but no decision ar
rived at respecting the future course of
the par-y. A deputation of the meeting
coxmunicated the will to Prices Jerome
Bonaparte, who eimply acknowledged
it. M. Kouher refused to participate
with the deputation, staring that hence
forth he was ‘determined to take noac
rive part ia politics.
A Renter di-patch from Su Peters
burg denies that Russia has protes'ed to
the Porte against the deposition of the
Khedive
A Beater dispatch from Constantinople
ssjb ills aweit-.d io government circlei-
rbat the ministry will decline to name
the boundary commissioner- on the part
Turkey, but will leave tee deleimiaatioa
of the G-Jck frontier to the powers in
hope tb»i- thr-y will bs anablo to agree.
‘ Constantinople;' June 30—Man mono
N. dim Pasha, who was foruiexly G aod
Vizier and friendly to BusBia, boa nnei*
l ex.tdlv arrived here. The preset.t
Grand Vizier wa<- not aware that the Sol
ten had sent for Nedim Pasha.
The British and French Ambassadors
bay** pro.efcWi against the abrogation of
ihe Irado of 1841, which gars tae Kne-
ilive power to conclude treaties witn for-
trign governments. They demand that
tho ft- .us cxifct* d pr^rion-; to <
deposition of Iimad Pasha bhall bi n. tiu-
tained.
North Adam*, Mass., July 30—A
giant po wder migsz'.ne at Mawbrj’o nitre-
glyceiiue works exploded about 1 o'clock
shis a r torno' , n, killing J»ck Pteice and
William Long, who wero in the cuilding
mixing blasting powder. Tho force of
: .h-o eiplosicfi t.ba plainly Ms ia N^rlL
Adams, s distucoe of two ■ rui’.ex, and tho
scene of ths occurrence is being visited
by a throng of curious spectators. Tte
neighboring buildings of the works ware
badly shattered and the ground for up
wards of thiity rods ia strewn with timber
and d-bris. Pierce was married and
laaTes'awite and-three children. Long
as a single man. Ths two bodies were
_ vtn to atoms.
■* speculation-
Sins'* the creation, it is estimated that
27.000 000.000.000.000 have liv»d ra tbe
earth. This earn divided by 27 864 000.
tbe number of square miles, gives 1314.-
522 0S6 to a square rod, and 5 to a square
foot Suppose a square rod be divided
into II graves, Vash grava would certain
100 persons. But this is speculation, and
of no benefit to the 1 000.000.000 people
that now exist SOOOuOOOO of whom are
invalids, 33.000,000 dying each year.
What thsv moit want are the facts con
cerning Dr. Pierce's Family Medicines.
For years his Golden M dical Discovery
has been the scandard remedy for the
care of all scrofulous, throat and lung
diseases. While for over a quarter of a
century Dr. Stge’s Catarrh Bsmedy has
been unrivaled as a positive cure for ca
tarrh. The testimony ot thousands of
ladies has been published, certifying that
Or. Pierce’s Favorite Presoriprion posi
tively cares the diseases and weaknesses
peculiar to women. For full information
see the People’s Common Sense Medical
Adviser, an illustrct id work of over 900
pages, price (post-paid) $1.50. Oy at
100 000 copies sold. Address toe autnor,
R. V. Pierce, M. D., Buff ale, N. Y,
jail 1»
GEUUUin PittioA
Hon. Phil Cook, in a letter to the
Americas Recorder, announces that a
vacanoy in ths Naval Academy will be
filled in September from the Third Oon.
gressional Diatriot of Georgia. All appli
cations for this vacancy must de directed
to bis address at Americas, Georgia. The
applicant mast be ovsr fourteen and un
der eighteen years of ago when examined
for admission, and an actual resident of
the Third Congressional District. The
accepted candidate will be required to re
port for- examination at tba Naval Acad
emy in September next. Ali applicants
will be nctified of tbe time and place of
the preliminary examination.
Mrs. S. H. Buhfk, of Willow Lake
nursery, is reaping a rich harvest from
bis peaohes.
Large Corr n: Amerious Recorder:
Mr. J. A- Perry has laid upon our taole
a stalk of cotton four feet high, snd con
taining OTer eighty bolls and forme.
S >me of tbe boll- aro at large as biokory
cats, and present a vrry heal hy ap.
pi-aranoe. Mr. Perry hes between one
snd two acres like the at ilk sent u3 He
used o rtton'eeed and etable manure as
fertilissn.
AuanoTA haa a new ioe company oall-
ed the Arotio.
Acousta bad a glass ball matob lately,
in whioh Mr. W. H. Jones didn’t miss a
single ball.
The Central Georgia State Fair has
constantly brightening pro>peota.
Fr:k :he Cartersville Enprett:
Tne Maoon Tblzobafh and Messen
ger already appears Improved ia its
prut A more marked improvement do
we ospeot to see ere long nnder tbe
nkilled eye of Mr. W. S. D, Wjkle, tbe
new pre-naan.
The Express of Cartersville, opposes
tho removal of the Confederate dead from
Andersonville.
Gen. P. M. B. Young, after a long
absence at the Paris exposition and in
Washington, ie again at home and among
old friends in Cartersville.
A Fish Stjry.—Taomasville Times :
Ox Tuesday afternoon a large party of
gentlemen, left Wfffi iSl 1U9 Saejton
pond, or Linton's lake. On Cal, McIn
tyre's plantation in Florida. Among the
numbsr was Mr. James A. Linton with
his big suine. Tbe object of the party
was to seine the lake, and seine it they
did with the above result. Only one
haul was made, the large trout and eth
er large fish having jumped throagh
and torn the seine te such an extent as
to make'it unserviceable for another
h-al. Mr. 2. 1*. McLaan and Mr. Asa
Kemp counted the fish. They footed up
seven thousand one hundred and fifty
eight.
It any one otu beat this fish story
we’d like tot him io step to the front.
P. S. Tnis challenge is open to any
newspaper man in the State—except Geo.
P. Woods.
Thumuville will soon excurt to Ty
bs« I-l»rd.
MiS3 Bessie Merrill, of Maoon, as
sisted in tbe marie of the young Female
College, ia Thom laville last Sunday.
JsiFSBioN is moving to h-ive a rail
road from that place to the Air Line.
A cuurssp indent of the Quitman Free
Press protests against corporeal punish
ment for childriui.
A New IndubTbt for Flsbida.—Quit-
man Free Press: It has been proposed to
use mosquitoes for fertilizing the sandy
Unds along the banks ot tbe St Johns.
A bad Affair.—Q unman Free Press:
On las' Saturday Mr. Whit Rountree
visited Valdosta, and getting under the
influence of liquor, towards evening
started for his home in the southwest
portion of Lowndes county. Spying some
nica wstermtions on Mr. C. O. Force’s
premises, who lives in the edge of town,
ho concluded that ha would “just get
over” and hrip himself, which he did.
While in - ths watermelon pstoh he wae
ordered out by a negro woman, whose
mandates he refused to obey; whereupon
she got q gun and fired at him, he ap-
proachtd her with his knife drawn, and
when in striking distance she let fly with
the guujsna broke it over him. In the
rneU-e B -nntree gave tho wocic.3 a severe
stub in tn« back, the biode of his knife
with greatforca won t hi cut into her bxek-
bon», ana being unablo to pull it out he
bioke it off. which, onr iGformxnt tells
us. <>p to Tuesday, (the day he left) had
b;ffl -ct the skill of rue physicians to ex-
treat it-, h«r whcle body being raised with
x pair of up opera boH of the broken end
oi the bison.* Mr. Bsuutree h regarded
as a g'oi a d peaceable citizen, and if
ne had not been drunk would not have
gone npoD Mr. Force’s premises.
The repot <s trout tue o jtton crops in
S:on G. •igi'ears di35«nragihg. • djii
Bm Bscuts xcd flit, fries will be the
orosr ot tho d»y i-i Suuthwast Georgia
on fhc 4'b icF'’.r.t. Batbecues will ooctur
Ht Warwick ia Wxith.oounty, Hcrdap in
Bakst, end a’- Daria’ Mill in Calimon
oaoufy. .;
Corn is enff.ring for want of rain io
Bik-i wilukjr. .
ofs. B. L. BoTi.T n, a prominent
ptin»»> of’Cairoii'' ecu ay; has mtrried
M's Fannie M;Ca»kllI. of Marshall wills.
Ths Albany Advertiser says Colonel
Nelson Tift baa made an unconditional
1 offer of his toll bridge over the Flint
’ river to Daugherty county for $30,000.
Two suits, one of $20,000 againat the
city and one for $10,000 against the owner
of a cow which reoently attaoked and in
jured a little girl in Augusta, have been
entered in tho Superior Court in that
county.
The AnguBta Archers call themselves
Hiawathss
Evening News: Ia certain portions of
Florida the farmers won’t dig IriBh pota
toes that weigh less than taro pounds.
Yes, they send a man down with a lan
tern and a pair of scales and weigh each
vegetable before extracting it. There is
nothing like care and scontacy in agricul
ture.
A correspondent of the Early oounty
2Tcios gives the following acoount of the
killing of a desperado.
Oxdib Spring, Georgia, •
June 20 1879.
Mb. Editor: List night, George Feat,
a desperado of Henry county, Alabama,
was shot dawn and immediately killed by
the sheriff end posse of Jaokson oounty,
Fla., who ware trying to arrest him on a
requisition from tbe Governor of Ala
bama. There is a requisition from tbe
Governor of Georgia for this same m«n,
and a number of. tine bills in H«nry
oounty, Ala., for various offenses. Ha will-
be remembered as tbe supposed murderer
of a negro man ac Howard’s mills some
years since, kmong the tine bills against
him is one for complicity in the Poner’a
Warehouse robbery last year. . The news
of his death is followed by a sigh of ra
lief, for be was a tenor to the people of
Etrly and Deoatur oonBties, Georgia, and
Henry oonnty, Alabama. Three of the
banditti were arrested and sent to Abbe
ville, and SbVeral others are yet to cup
tare. If I am not mistaken, the Fant
family moved from Lee oonnty, Georgia,
to Henry county, Alabama, ten years
ago.
The yonng lady of Crawford county
who declined to marry tho young man to
whom ehe was engaged, because he vio
lated hiB promise to drink no more is re
ceiving the no qualified endorsement of
*he S ate papers.
A Buckstfull.—Dihlonega Signal:
Captain Imboden has etrnok it rich at
tbe Dahlonega mine. On Monday last
he sent a bucketfull of gold, intersper
sed with a few flasks of rook to town,
which created quite a ripple of excite
ment. The precious freight was taken
in charge by Dr. T. R. Lombard, who it
te said, has sat up with it of nights since
the discovery. Fretze to it, Doctor,
"there’s millions in it.” We have not as
yet learned the exact amount ot the gold,
bat suppose there were several hundred
dollars’ worth.
The Rich Strike at the Dahlonxga
Gold Mine.—MowwUm Signal: After a
long and tedious a meant ot labor in work
ing through the old stoped ground new
gionod has been reaohed at the above
mine, and on Monday last a fine amount
of exceedingly rioh ore opened np that
bids fair to exceed anything that has
been found in this seotion in many years.
We had the pleasure of seeing soma spec
imens from the “new fixde,” and we are
8*tiafied that it wonld no: take many
(oos of sack ora toensb e the company
to deolare dividends equal to Us capital
stock.
Now that the dead work i* finished and
new ground broken under such suspicions
cironmatauces there is little doubt bnt
that this oelebrated mice will regain her
former prestige and take her lilts os tbe
first gold producing mine of Georgia.
The Berrien oonnty News aayei Wool
brought tbiriy cents in this market np
to time of going to press.
has an infant the covering
of whose abdomen is transparent.
A oxlobbd min in Columbua has in
vented and patented an improvement
a grate.
Southwest Gxoaaik Agricultural
College.—Cuthbert Appeal: Faisnant
to measures taken in the Legislature last
winter, the Superior Court of Randolph
oonnty, at its session in January, incorpo
rated the following beard of trustees ot
ths Southwest Georgia Agricultural Col
lege, to-wi‘:
Hon. J. T. Clarke, Cuthbert; Jno
Mo K. Gunn, Oapk J. W. Sealy, Col. K.
F. Crittenden, Hon. J, J. MoDozuld, J.
A. Allison, Bsv. J. E. Godfrey, Dr. B.
B. Jordan, Cuthbert; Hon. David A.
Vason, Cap*. B. 8. Weston, Albany;
Hon. EJ Hill, Terrell; Col. J G. Parka,
Daw-on; Col. W. W. Flemmimr, Blake
ly ; Dr. J. W. Mercer, Hoa. Wm. Har-
rieon, Georgetown j B. F. Barnett, Fort
GsineB; Rev. Thomas Muse, Arlington j
Hon. M. J. Crawford, Columbus ; Hon.
W. W. Fitzgerald, Ftorenoe, Stewart
oounty ; Hon. H T. Hollis, Bnsna Vis
ta; Hoa. L. M- Felton, Marsha' ville ;
H-m J. H. Trontman, Fort Valley;
Hon.'C. F. Crisp, Americas; Hon. W.
A. Harris, Isabella; H>n. D. A Russel:
Biiabndg'; Gov. A. H. Colquitt, At
lanta; Hoa. Thomas Hardeman, Jr.,
CoL H H. Jones, Macon.
Judge John T. Clarke was elected
permanent chairman of 'the Board and
Mr. Joseph J. McDonald permanent see
retary. A committee will go Io Athens
daring tha approaching commencement
in the interest of the college.
Cuthbert ia making great prepara
tions for her fair on the 4th and 5th inaL
On a cur-eory estimate, there are
abimt one hu3d*ed dogs to every sheep
in Whitfield county.
Thebe is not a telegraph office between
Union and Athens. Crawford should
have one by all means.
Govebnob Colquitt addressed tha
Sunday Schools- at O.usandra, .Walker
ooynty.ilset Monday.
Says ihe Oglethorpe Echo : “But a tew
hnnd red yards from the spot where the
negro desperado, Warren, was shot and
killed at the cloao of the war, ia a strip
or woods iu which his ia her brutally
murdereu a whi'e man ^ears before.
Augusta Chronicle and Constitutional-
ist: Tho Fo«i—.fll;ti Dcp<niCUuU propj-
ses to havo a fast mail service bitween
the North and South by two different
routes—ono to New Orleans tiu the Air
LineBt lr ad aax Atlm a, cuo otuer to
Jacksonville t-ia Charleston and Savan
nah. This awing men*. w;ll lc-ove Co
lumbia, Aogu-u.u, Jiic u and Columbus
out in the cold We trust that the De
partment Will give tho cKi;u: of thebe
four cities some atten'.ioa before taking
final action in the matter.
We folly endorse tue tbove. A fast
mail route should be arranged for them
and will constitute a very impo tent line.
The John T. Fold A mat a- D itsHo
Club last week presented Aurora Fl yd in
Savannah, in a brilliant ms-sar..
Savannah News: There u considera
ble tilk about town as to who will bx
the purchaser ot the Atlantic and Galf
Railroad. Rumor has it that the Central
ie prepared to size anybody vise’s pile,
while other reports are to ths effect that.
ityritl be purchased by the holders of the
second mortgage bonds.
John Williams, colored, while swim
ming in a canal near Savannah, was spat
tered with mud by a companion, when
he procured hie pistol and shot the other
darkey in the neck
Natnre’a effort# «•*» always directed
aright; bnt sometimes occasional assis
tance of the proper kmi proves eminent
ly serviceable to her vfforts. Dr. Bull o
Baltimore PiliB combine every quality to
render them of peculiar servioe in many
diseases.
HOW tbe OH Crossed Ms Hills
The Clinton (Pa.) Democrat gives this
interesting account of the Pstrolenm pipe
line through that portion of the coal oil
region of Pennsylvania. It forcibly illus
trates oertain familiar phenomena in
physio?:
John Ward, one of the watohmen on
doty during the filling of tne new oil
pipe line, gives the following aooount of
what he saw: The line crosses Hiner’s
Ban. or its headwaters, at a plaoeoalled
MoOinre’s Springs. Here there is qaite
a hollow or .depression-- in the ground.
From tbia place to the reBidenoe of Mr.
Holding, some six miles there ia a grad
ual rUtjlhis the oil had to climb after
passing the hollow at that spring. I wae
.told to watch well tnis hollow as tha oil
had ascended the Dettle Creek Moantain
and was coming. I repaired to the hollow
and lay some hoars there, when I heard
a sound tike a heavy wind, and presently
beard tne oil gargling past. I waited
some time. Thera was no leakage and
all seemed perfect.
I thought that the pipe line was a suc
cess for sore, and so left my position and
passed along to see if it was all right
ahead. I bad gone some two miles when
I reoeived a dispaich to wxtoh wtll the
hollow and not to leave it for some time,
so I hastened back. Imagine my aston
ishment when I saw th9 place I bad left
each a short time befoia so tame, now
hissing at 10,COO points. Jets or oii
were flying twenty feet high, and hun
dreds of barrels flxwing down Hmer’s
Bun, never to eee a market.
I thought the pipe was gone np, sure
At first I wa3 afraid to approach it. but
soon grew valiant, and witn calking chis
el I stt to work to atop the leak. I made
poor headway. ’ It was a dark night,
and I dared have no light. I had taken
off my coat, the whuz'ng oil carried
away my hat, and I very soon becami-
tboroughly drenched with oil. My pock
ets and my hair and eyes were full, and
if I was not then an oil man I wonld Iik*-
to know what constitutes one. I at length
grew sick, and supposed I would hav® to
give ap and all would be lest, when all
at onoe the whizain2 stopped, and, in
stead of an oat pressure, I could bear at>
in-drawing—a suotion of air. I now re
alized the faot that the oil had all this
time been climbing the upgrade to Mr.
Holding’s, but was now on the deBCeni
for Pine Bottom Bun. This caused a
suction, and relieved the hollow at the
springs.
I eg&in waited some time, when I re
ceived a dispatoh to hasten to Haney ville,
that the pipe was tmrsting. I procured a
horse and went witn all s*. eed. When I
arrived tha people there were greatly ex
cite 1. The pipe waa throbbing and whiz
zing at every pore. MoCmre Springs
were nowhere. The oil was spouting
from the pipe for miles. I made no at
tempt to oalk. I knew from my experi
ence at MoClnre’a Springs that the oil had
reaohed and waaolioobing the high moon-
tain below Pine Creek, bnt the presenre
was so great that I feared ever; nmsent
tbe pipes wonld burst.
Here was fo(fi» agaimt which human
power was of no avail, hence, we only
stood and looked on, when suddenly, as
quick ag thought, all cooiu>oti?9 sowed,
except A sucking In of air, and 1 heard
toe oil pass rapidly along the pipe and
knew it had crossed over the mountain
and was speeding its way to Williamsport,
with po more mountain to climb, and
that the oil line was an established fact.
—Emperor William insisted upon a good
old-fssbionsd kiss from tha ladies and ohil-
drea at the royal golden wedding. Kissing
his hand did not salsfy him for so extraor
dinary an ocoAslon.
■Trouble oommenoes early in life,” we
heard a young wife say, when she sent
for a bride of Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup, to
core the baby.
Last Week’s- Cotton Figures.
TBE C&OP SITUATION.
The New York Chronicle of Saturday
last reports the receipts of the seven days
ending Friday .Right, 27th instant, at
6.293 bales, against 6.879 for the same
week of last year. Total receipts of so
mooh of the cotton year as ended with
that date 4,420,903 bales against 4 237,-
315 for the corresponding period of the
cotton year 1877-8. showing an increase
of 183,588 bales.
Tbe interior port business of these
days waa ae follows : Receipts 2.959,
against 5 236 for the same week of last
year. Shipman's 7.042, 'against 7,034
last year. Blooks 25,223, against 23,240
at same da'e last year.
The Ckroniele’f visible supply table
showed, on Friday night lost, 1,561.808
bales of cotton in sight, against 1.823,-
794 bales at tbe eorreepondiog data of
last year. 2,397,253 at same date in 1877.
and 2,457,937 at same date in 1876,
This snows a decrease in the visible sup
ply as compared with that of last year
of 261,986 bales; a decrease on the sup
ply in 1877 ot 834,445 bales, and a de
crease ob the visible supply of 1876 of
896.129 bales.
Middling upland in the Liverpool mar
ket waa quoted last Friday at 6i; at
same date last year the quotation was
6 3-16; in 1877 at same date it was
6 5*16, and in 1876 at earns date it was
six penop.
The Chronicle's weather telegrams for
the week ending last Friday show that
tbe situation m Texas has been partially
relieved by Ught showers, la Galveston
1.75 of rain hod fallen during the week.
Cotton was doing tolerably well, but corn
was much in j ured. IndUnol* had bad
only three light sprinkles. Cotton was
beginning to suffer aad corn woe nearly
ruined. Dalles makes a similar report.
Brenham bad no rainfall. Corn crop out
short beyond redemption. Cotton on
black lands doieg well, but Buffering
dreadfully on sandy lands. Northern
Texas repotts pretty good rains, bat Eas
tern, Western and Boatbern Texas, were
all suffering.
Louisiana reports no rain. Miuiaetppi
was vary dry. Alabama had fine showers
everywhere, and the cottonerop wm ev
erywhere progressing. Mobile had cat
erpillar rumor*, but waa indifferent about
them. Georgia, at Meeon and Coloua
bu?, reported light rains and erop prom
i;iag. Savannah and Augusta hod so
rain and crops need It badly. August*
says from the present outlook erop esti
mate* will be reduced. The fields we
clean and stands fair, bat coftoq ie HOgd
and making tardy growth. The Weather
was dry and warm la Charleston.
The Chronicle has a very extended and
carefully prepared article of eight col
umns oa the oriton acreage and oondi-
lion of the crop*, with theee conclusions:
1 That the area In cultivation is 12,-
679 962 acre*, agsiuri 12.269,962 acres in
1878— showing a net increase of 8.34 per
Cent.'
2 That the crop is ten days to two
weeks bxhind last year. - Fields clear end
welt cultivated and. perfeot and healthy
stands secured, with tba exception of a
part of Georgia.
The condition of the Mississippi valley
in these respects is better than it was a
year ago. The drouth in Texas threatens
barm. The aitnation, conpled with the
most favorable Beason and highest pro-
duel: wonld make possible a crop of 5,812,-
806 bales. It tbe most onfavorable con
ations are realized, a crop ot 3.871,744
biles would be the result. Now, if the
reader of the TxLEaBAFH AND Messen
ger wilt split the difference, straight
through the middle of It, his deduction
will tv* for the year 1879 SO a crop of
4.842,265 oaleB, whioh, in our conjecture,
will be not far from the aotual crop bt
that cotton year.
—Lillie Oner, who rbot end killed Ellen
Hearn, at Snow Hill, Md., boa written a love
atoty for the Philadelphia Times, and oou-
templ -tee a leotariog tour
—Farmers at Wto.ita, Kin., are htallng
buSaio b nee into <<>wn every day. There
has just opened iu Wichita a good market.
Tne bane* ace gathered in Harper and Box-
b *ac oi.ua iee, where they lie In countless
numbers, and are hauled from fifty to one
baBnred miles
—The late amnesty of Frenoh Communists
oondemned to transportation for life has
a anted many an Eniox Arden epiaode In
France, ths wives or the absent having often
attach d tbemeelvts to other haa bands.
Some of the Ard ns art. lees philosophic atd
aeif-reetmint-d than the origin si Enoch.
~-t Worth or New Hornoon, Wis., was a
remaikably handsome joutg man. He was
engaged t • m»rry Uus Dxku, a wealthy girl,
che pointed what sue thought woe an empty
pistol at him, and shot h m in the fooe, als-
dgariig him terribly. She now refuses to
Ketp tue engigsment, e-yin* that each an
ngly husband would make hir constantly
nervous
—A young Obinamsn, named So, who has
btenfor three years a pup 1 of the High
School o* Northom. ton, M*«s, hie passed a
or dicable examination for admission to the
V ,n Beossalaer Polytechnic Institute, st
Troy. When he o*u.e to Noib&mpton. six
years ago, Le was entirely i norant of tbe
Eoglith language, yet at this examination he
stood highes: or all tbe candidates in spel
ling and geography
—A m nis er of the Ohuroh of England, at
OircheB'.er, having refused tu administer the
i-acrameut to a lady b=cau-.o ehe had married
the hutband of a deoeaced ci,t» r, the Biehop
deoideu as follows: ‘After having corefully
oon Idered tbe isport you have made to mo,
it ie my judgment that, as tbe law of the
Ohur. h and ih i law ot ih, land are both c x-
ph it, you could not hare acted o bsrwita,
though I know well tha. .i lisa given you
gva*t p-fct, w» lmo u-tji to act.
Woltxs Killng Sheep i< Cocbe CJouhtx.
—The ctewpjrr, Ky , B p rter is infotmed by
a gentleman wnoee v^rscit) o»n. oi be doub
ted. that Uk tbe let and S;b civil districts of
that county, the o.t zun« are compelled to ,
pea their sheep of nigbis on auojant of the
wolves,'whioh have beau killing their sheep
rapidly. It is said that thero aie ab nt2()
wolves in the gang, and that dogs have not
as yet b°en found (list could do anything
with them. . „ . ,
—When charity, in the guise of Mrs. Fletch
er Harper, gives woiking women two weeks
ofeeaairand rest fur almost roihing, ws
aie quite certain that toe groaie t of th^ee is
charity. She opened her coitago at Atlantic-
vUle for this purpoae lost year, aod will open
it again tha first of Juy. in or er to benefit
the greatest number tne s ay -f eooh is limi
ted io two weeks, and nine dollar* p .ye board
for that time and ico'-Ulesfaru to and from
New Xoik
—Hr- Dudley Olcatt, of Albany, caught on
the I7ih of June a salmon weigbi * 36 3 1
pounds, in Canadian waters tie writes:
‘fp kill him was the hardest hoar’s work I
have yet put in, and the exQ t- m*Bt was
ahead it anything I had imagined. When
he took the fly he jumped olear ont of the
Water. It eeemed W It b9 would take the
onoe down. When etrack, be CP
tackle hops as if e raoe-boree wit ac the
other end. He tried all my etrength every
momen: until ho wae bKPg 41' g:S '
Tpz Nxauo a»d sd Ooawnos —Tue New
Orleans Picajune, eaje L eii id 00 longer
any cogency in the argument tbarihsutgroes
are a >aae jaat emerges from a long nigat of
ignoranoe and oppression It is now some
fourteen years Blase the W*r ended, and the
colored citizen ought to be a man by this
time, ae well as a voter. If he cannot pre-
t< c! himself, man against min, oaruluiy ths
United Bt-tea cannot afford to famish him
«iih a enbetitnte. The ooantry eot mm free,
bat it oonld not endow him with manhood,
A WatersYelootise.—Eton Marsh, of
Battle Creek Miobigou, hoe invented a velo
cipede to ride npon water, it was given a
good ieet a day or two ago and proved p;r-
teo'ly satisfactory. The frame la elm tar to
that of an ordinary velocipede, having three
wheels, or rather large air-right drum , wi:h
fans, two in front as propellers end ne be
hind to steer by. The machine ie propelled
snd steered in tbe same manner as any b.ey
e's. At the trial on tbe river it walked ap
ihe stream agalast the current much faster
than an ordinary boat and with greater ease
than rowing The machine draws only fi -o
inches of water.
A BiHcrzn Bcicb’s Bivaroz—Be me
few months ego a yonng man, now a resi
dent of Gr nneii, Iowa, married. Last week
be reoeived a package containing e note sxd
a cigar. The note explained that the a*gir
woe a wonderfully fine one The (mutual
character of the gift, coupled with the fact
that the young hnabeud uid not recognize
the name of the donor, aroused his snspi-
ciors, and be showed hie present to hie wife.
She leoogniseo tbe writing as that of a for
mer suitor. 8be prooaeued to investigate
the cigar, and found s veral groins of etryoh
nine oocoealed in tbe end. The fellow has
not been regarded as quite in hie right mind
of lets.
Txz Tzlephose ie tse Kfgube Abet—
The New Fork Tribune say*, twelve sets of
telephones have been sent ont to Sir Genet
Wolseley for use et the seat of war in South
Africa. Tbe great advantage of the telephone
over the telegraph is that the General eon
carry oo oonfl feudal talk with the officers at
he district station, or a ooldler oan creep oat
oward the enemy’s tinea and • blaper back
nformation as to position. A flue wire —the
himunr the better—io all that te needed
This the soldier carries on a reel upon his
back, a mile weighing only a few pound*.
This will be the first time the telephone tee
been used as an instrument of warfare.
—Tbe seoet eootly reboot building in tbe
world te probably the new Polsuobnto Io-
Uimte in Hanover. Tba late King of Han
over oommenoed the oonstruettoa of a mag
nificent palace, upon which be expended
about five million dollar* When hie Govern
ment was overthrown aud tne kingdom of
Hanover became a province of Prussia, the
building woe found in e half flatebtd condi
tion. Far several years the windows were
boarded ap and the empty rooms become
tbe residence of bats end birds. &t last the
German Government resolved to alter tbe
building and adapt it to the ueea of tbe poly
technic school. The work hoe been going
forward for several years, and te now nearly
ended.
PfcFULAR VvTE (V THB UNITED STATES
—A writer in tbe Washington Capital
who hes been figuring up tbe popular
vote in the Congressional election of
1878 shows that for Members of tbe For
ty-sixth Congress there were* 6,711.444
votes polled. Of then 3,182 564 were
oast fos Democrats, 2,725.224 for Repub
licans, end 854.667 tor the .National?.
Thus the Republican party even at that
election wee 1,263.005 vote* behind iu *
total of 6,711454. or ee to the voter?, the
Nationals asd Democnti having voted
together as to the poll* voted, he rvyr*-
sente 2 724224 vote* ugufsst 3.287.280,
repreaeoted bytho^zhjaritr to Oongwza
eoit^w^he Bspnbhcun L
over that UU of over one 1
votes.
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