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STATE LEGISLATURE.
Atlanta, August 38,1879.
THE SENATE.
Tho Senate met at 10 o’cloak, aad was
cilled to order by President Lester.
Prayer by the ohaplain. The roll was
c »Ued and the Journal read.
Hon. A. J. Lane, of Bibb, was Innted
to a seat on the floor.
A message from tho House was reoeiv-
e3 Tho Committee on enrollment made a
report, which was read.
The Committee of Conference^ the
jary bill reoommend that the Senate re
cede from one of ite amendments, and
that the House do likewise.
The roll was called for the introduc
tion of bills.
A number of House bills were read
the first time.
srw mum.
By Mr. Bis3ell—a, bill to define tho
jurisdiction of County Courts. Judiola-
^Jlr. Dubose occupied tho chair.
A message from the Honee was receiv
ed. It announced that the Honee had
adopted the report of the Conference
Committee on the jary bill.
THE MEMORIAL SERVICES.
At the hour of 11 o’clock the 8enate
held memorial services in honor of the
deceased Senator J. C. Clements, of the
Fifteenth Distriot. *
Mr. Holton, Chairman of the Commit
tee on Memorial, presented resolutions
expressive of the sorrows of the Senate
on tho death of Mr. Clements.
Mr. Holton, in offering the resolutions,
made some remnrks on the character of
tho deceased. Ho had known him long
and woll, and thos* who knew him beat
loved him moat. Ha wa3 a prominent
member of tho Methodist Church.
He iras a Mason devoted to.the the fra
ternity and for years master of Lumber
City Lodge. Ho was a father to the or
phan, a (husband to the widow, and a
friend to tba destitute. Bat he has
gone—gone to that far eonntry from
which no traveler returns. We monrn his
Ioeb and oherish his memory.
Mr. Hudson made some remarks on
tho memorial on the same line.
Mr. Camming said he bad not known
Mr. Clements until he met him in the
Senate Chamber. He learned what he
knew of him from short speeches and
from his pnnotual, quiet discharge of
public duty. He spoke more cheerfully
because the dead Senator was not dis
tinguished. He honored the Senator for
bis qniet cure life, nsefui, good and true.
May tho 'State of Georgia be the pro-
llfio mother of such children!
Mr. Clarke said he did not speak real
ly because custom demanded It, but be
cause bis heart prompted him to speak.
Extravagant encomiums on the deoeased
member would not be proper. He was
an nnassnming member. His true devo*
tlon topnblie duty and his faithful dis
charge of all trusts, made him highly es
teemed by all who knew him. He had
known tte deceased only since last No
vember. It is said of certain men in
holy writ that men took knowledge of
them, that they bad been with Jesns.
The deceased was a follower of the meek
and lowly Nazsrene. The e are various
dangers in pnblio life which frequently
lead men away from a high morality
they might have attained in private, bnt
in the life of the deoeased there wea no
such result.
Mr. Clatke’d remarks were beautifully
appropriate,
Mr. Speer paid a tribute to the mem
ory of Mr. Clement*, and bore testimony
to his worth.
Mr. Folks spake highly and with feel-
log on tho death of bis friend. He had
been appointed with Mr. Statem to oarry
the remains home, and in his remarks
described the fnnerel.
Mr. Boyd bore testimony to tho personal
worth, the many virtues and the lovely
character of the deoeased.
The resolutions were then adopted b/ a
unanimous, rising vote.
*■*•— Ronate then adjourned until Mon-
dsy morning at dm
Atlanta, August 28, 1870.
TEE HOUSE
met pursuant to adjournment, at 9 a. m.,
the Speaker in tbe chair.
Prayer by Bov. J. Jones, the Chap
lain.
Tbe journal of yesterday morning and
evening sessions was read and approved.
The nooeicn yesterday afternoon was
consumed entirely with tho reading of
bills the seesnd timd.
On motion of Mr. Northern, a bill was
taken ap, and the Senate amendments
were concurred in.
A House bill was also recommitted to
the judiciary committee.
REGULAR ORDER BILLS 07 THIRD BEAD*
ISO.
A bill to amend eection 4373 of tho
Code. Passed.
A bill to create a Board of Boads and
Bevennes in Fatton county. Passed.
A bill to amend section 4S6S of the
Codo relative to illegal voting.
A bill to regulate the manner of mak
ing parties plaintiffs to enits after the
original plaintiff is dead. Passed.
A bill to withdraw all rights and fran
chises to the Arnett Bridge Company, at
Biinbridge. Passed.
A bill to authorize tbe levying of taxes
to support pnblio sohools in Bainbridge.
Passed.
A bill to amend and supersede tbe
chatter of tbe town of Senoia. Passed.
Tho bill exempting certain classes of
pereons from jury unty, and whioh had
ooenreferred to a committee of confer
ence to reconcile certain Senate amend
ment?, was taken up and the amend
ments propos'd by tae committee con
curred in.
A bill to repeal the act for the relief of
Elizabeth Tanner, of Dawson county.
Passed.
A bill to repeal nn act to make the
sheriff of Cobb county cs cjjicio tax col
lector. Passed.
A bill to re •establish the old rates of
toll at Fort Gaines toll bridge over the
Chattahoochee river. Passed.
A bill to provide for tho use cf Ben
jamin F. Matthews.
The HonBe resolved itself into the
committee of the whole to consider this
bill. The committee of the whale re
ported favorably, and the bill passed.
A bill to pay Owen Smith $40 for ser
vices rendered the State, was also consid
ered in the committee of tbe whole, and,
after dae consideration, tbe committee
reported on the bill favorably.
Mr. MoWhorter moved to indefinitely
postpone. Lost.
The bill was passed by 38 to 15.
•- A bill to incorporate tbe Skidaway
Canal Company. Tabled.
A bill to regulate the fining or impris
oning of defaulting^arors for contempt of
court. Passed.
A bill to allow tbe judges of the Supe
rior Courts and of City Courts who are
* appointed by the Governor, to fix the fees
of the clerks and sheriffs for services not
provided for by law. The bill was voted
down on a call of tne yeas and nays.
A bill to incorporate the Hudson Is
land Canal company. Paesed.
A hill to authorize the Mayor and Al
dermen of Savannah to construct an
ccquednot in 6aid city. Passed,
Mr. McDonald withdrew the bill pro
viding for the relief of certain tax col
lectors in Bandolph county.
Mr. Dnpree, of Macon, was again
called to the chair, and presided in
a manner highly satisfactory to the
Home.
XIBB*S BEFBESEHTATTVEB.
Mr. Hams, a member of the joint
committee of conference in regard to a
biil exempting certain persons r.m
jary daty, has been very ac.'ve in re
conciling the disagreements of tbe Sen
ate and House on this bill and its
amendments.
The oommiltoe have proposed several
amendments, cud the House have acoep-
ted them. There is little doubt bnt that
tho 8enate will also ooneur in them. The
bill, as it ocmea from Mr. Harris’ hands,
Will exempt from all jury duty forty fire
men of each fire oompany, and all tbe
employees cf railroads, who are certified
by the Superintendent of the road as ne
cessary to the running of trains. The
-bill re fie o la credit on Mr. Harris and bis
oommittee.
Mr.Niabet is very aotiva and energetlo
In getting his bills through the House, -
and is constantly Inhia seat when ha is
not absent on oommittee duty.
Speaker Baoon is still sustaining his
high reputation as the foremost, purest,
best and fairest parliamentarian In the
State.
There iB no more popular man in the
Legislature.
In faot the Bibb delegation stands sec
ond to none in the House, and reflects
honor on the constituency Bending
them.
The stable cleaners are still at work.
Caholtnn.
BY TELEGRAPH.
London, August 28.—A renewal of the
floods is reported from varlons parts of
England and Wales. Beports of har
vest are duly more deepondent. At
several points there has been thirty
hoars steady and continuous rain.
London, Angnst 28.—In connection
with the Stock Exchange settlement,
the failure of James Case, Jr., jobber in
railway stocks, is announced. His de
ficiency is estimated from twenty to thir
ty thousand pounds.
London, August 28.—Lloyd’s agent at
Yakoho telegraphs under date of August
25th, that tbe steamer of Nordenskjold,
in the Swedish Arctio expedition, is
supposed to bs lost with her crew.
A Constantinople dispatch to Rsuter’s
says, at tne sitting of tbe Tarko-Greek
Commission, to-day, the Turks will m-
nonnoe that the Forte acoepts the lino of
frontier indicated by the Protocol of the
Berlin Congress. It is probable Turkey
will coma to an arrangement on all the
points at issue, bnt reserve the question
of Janiera for the decision of the Inter
national Delineation Commission.
Memphis, Angnst 28.—Five new oases
of fever were reported to tho Board of
Health this morning, among whom are
Lizzie Stewart, Mrs. Jailin and Graos
Harris. Three ohildrsn of John I. Pres-
tidge have been ill for some weeks, but
for private reasons their names were not
announced by tbe Board of Health.
Eight deaths have oocnrred since last
night—George E. Taylor, Bath E. Egnew,
Baobel Sloan, Jennie Sloan, Martin
Morgan, —L&ure, J. Lowery, Prank El-
ridge, colored.
Jim Wright, a colored youth, commit
ted suicide this morning by hanging him
self to a tree in his mother’s back yard in
the northern portion of the city.
IJtica, N. Y., August 28.—Tho State
Committee of Greenbackers this morning
agreed upon James I. Graham, of Boch-
ester, for temporary chairman, and David
Staley, of Hornellville and J. H. "Costel
lo,” of Elmira for temporary secretary.
Tho Committeo is endeavoring to effect
a compromise between three New York
t actions.
Memphis, Tennessee, August 23 —
Dr. E. M. Wright, inspecting cfficer of
the National Board of Health, came into
tho city this morning, and left at noon
for Nashville. In an interview, ho ox-
pressed himself highly pleased with tho
thorough safeguards that have been
thrown around Memphis by tho State
Board of Health officers, especially in
transferring passengers and baggage on
the Lonisville and Nashville Bailroad.
* The Howard Association to-day assign
ed twenty nurses to duty. Ed. Keatiug,
keeper of the court square for many
years, died of the fever to-night. Elias
HcDongall is reported dying.
New Orleans, Angnst 28.—0/ the six
cases of yellow fever reported yesterday
from the quarantine station on tho boat
Black Prince, from Havana, three died
last night. Dr. Carrington reported the
other cases getting along well.
Kichmond, August 28 —la a quarrel
yesterday about the right of way, Nelson
Lewis, a colored drayman, was killed by
a blow on tho head frem a skid in the
hands of Wm. Goodman, also colored.
Tha latter was committed to jail.
Baltimore, August 28.—An unusually
large number of Southern merchants are
in the city at pr-sent, purchasing goods.
All the leading hotels are well filled.
Wilmington, August, 23.—Tho first
bale of cotton of tho now cron was re
ceived here to-day and sold at twelve and
a half cents per pound.
Sophia, Angnst 28 —Iatelligenco has
been received here that two hundred and
forty iEflaontial Boamelian Turks have
been taken prisoners in the Bhodope
Mountains, charged with forming a con
spiracy to attaok Philippopclis. The af
fair has oanBed great alarm at the city, as
it was feared it might serve as a pretext
for the invasion of Eastern Bonmelia by
the Tarkish troops now concentrated at
Adrianople.
Monmouth Park, August 2S. — The
attendance at- tne races to day was very
iwiKe. Tut fi st. vent was the race for
the Meet and Casndou stakes, a three-
quarter mile dasb, whioh had nine Btar-
ters, and was won oy JLata by a half
length in front of Caitagnette filly, with
Cania third. Time, lil8}.
Tho eecond race was for the West End
Hotel stakes admitting three-year-old fil
lies in a mile and a half daBb, the winner
of any three-year-old stake to carry three
ponnda extra, and the winner of two or
more such stakes five ponnda extra. Per-
ida won the race by a length ahead of
Scotilh, who was two lengths ahead of
Andax. Time, 2:47.
The third race was a handicap sweep-
stakes for all ages, of a mile and five for
longs, in which s-x started. It was won
by Lonlanier, by a three-length's gain on
Governor HamptoD, who was a length
ahead cf General Pnillips. Time, 2:57i-
The fourth race was for all ages, with
mile heats. There were two starters :
Jericho and Bonnie 0.fc«. Tbe former
won two heats easily by ten lengths in
1:50 j-, 152},
Tne fifth race, a mils and a farlong
heat for all ogee, had seven starters, and
was won by Una, with Pilot second, and
Jickforew third. Time, 2:01}.
The sixth and last race was a fcandioap
for all ages of a mile and three-quarters
over seven hurdles, and bad seven start*
era. Juditb, the favorite, won easily by
three lengths, with Coronet second, and
a neck before Bedding, with Dandy close
ap and fonrth. Time, 3:26}.
London, Angnst 28—Tne Financier,
in an article on the nneasinees felt in
London, with regard to tho fntnre of the
money market, says: "It is thought
that within a comparatively short time
two million pounds in bullion will be
sent to America,” and predicts that the
ultimate effect of this draft of bullion
will be an advance in tbe rate of
discount from 1} per cent, which ia the
present quotation, to four and five .per
at the bank of Ecgland.
Constantinople, August 28.—The oc
cupation of Novi Bazar by Austrians,
will take place September 8-h. F.ve
thousand men will occupy Probcj Pre-
potje and Techlidja.
Brussels, August 28.—A Vienna cor
respondent of the Id-pendent Beige
states that tho Czsr will arrive there on
September 24.
Berlin, August 23.—Grand Dukes
"VUtiner and Alexis, of Bnseis, visited
the Emperor William at Pols lam.
London, August 23 —The Standard's
Berlin correspondent telegraphs: Toe
tone of the German official press has
been leas irritated against Bnssia daring
the past day or two.
Havana, August 23.—Tv o bands of
insurgents have appeared in Holguin
and Santiago de Cuba Districts, bnt they
are not headed by chiefs of importance,
and the Government has taken most en
ergetic measures to pnt them down.
Great difficulties are experienced in
the attempt to carry into effect the pro
visions of tbe law for the gradual aboli
tion of slavery, on account of the incom
pletion and unintelligibility of the cen
suses of 1867 and 1871. An appeal has
bean made to tho Homo Government for
advice. _
New York, August 28.—A Fan Fran
cisco dispatch from Senator Sharon says
the excitement there has entirely sub
sided, and there is no apprehension of
violence, and asserts that it is much re
gretted by all that the political discussion
should have passed the bounds of legiti
mate argument and degenerated in per
sonal abase.
Boston, Angnst 23.—The echo oner
Stephen Bennett, of Camden, Maine, has
been found bottom eide ap near Phoenix
Island. She had & captain, three passen
gers and fonr tailors on board, all of
whom are supposed to have been drowned.
Salt Lake Cut, Angnst 28.—The case
of the exeontors of the late Brigham
Young’s estate, who were imprisoned on
the fourth instant by Jndge Bozeman,
for contempt, were taken before the Su
preme Conrt of the Territory on a writ
cf certiorari, and decided to-day. The
order of the lower conrt waB reversed,
and the prisoners discharged.
Memphis, Augnst 23.—Two more cases
were reported this afternoon, Mrs. Pope
and Fannie Conibe. Two additional
deaths have occurred, B. O. Wilkie and
Emma Jackson, colored. The thermom
eter to-day has ranged between 63 and
83.
G. V. Groves, grain dispatcher of
the Memphis and Charleston Bsilroad,
died of fever to-night. A caso of fever
has been devolped at Bartlett, Tenn., a
negro, whoee infection can bo traced to
this city.
Halifax, August 23.—There is no
likelihood of the Smith-Bcs3 race taking
place to-day as a strong easterly wind
prevails.
The race between Evan Morris, of
Pittsburg, and Warren Smith, of Halifax
is fixed for the 16 :h of September.
New Orleans, August 28.—Oao oase
of yellow fever was reported to the
Board of Health to-day—that ol Miss
Ida Berkson, aged 18, who was taken
aiok August 25tb, on Third street, No.
207. in Constanoe street quarter. Her
brother, aged four years, died July 31, of
fever. Tno condition of General Hood
and daughter is reported favorable. At
a meeting of the Board of Health to
night Dr. Sohnppsrt road a lengthy pa
per on national quarantine. Ho claimed
that vessels from infcoted ports, with an
acolimated crew, may arrive without
sickness on board, bat faliy saturated
with fever virus. In support of this
statement, he cited two cases and re
ferred also to the esse of tho "Ply-
month,” where virus outlived even a se
vere winter.
THE GEORGIA JUKESS.
PsAR3from the parent LeCsnte pear
tree are still living in Liberty county, and
the fruit sells at thirty cants per
peck.
Hinesvillb Gazelle i Oa last Satur
day evening in Wayne county, while
George Hilliard, a boy abont twelve or
thirteen years of age, was working in a
field with a negro boy from No. 3, A.
& G. B. B, in the employ of Mr. Henry
McDonough, got into a difficulty. The
negro stabbed the white boy in tbe side,
giving him a painful but not a serious
wound. Mr. McDonough asked him
whioh he preferred taking, the lash or
the law, and ho said tbe lash. Hr. Me.
gave him a nice dressing and pnt bim to
woik.
One thousand copies of tho premium
list of tho Central Georgia Agiicnl-
tural Society will be printed and cir
culated.
A large scrub race will be ran in
Sandersville in Saturday. A number of
horses have been entered.
Sandersville Courier: Governor Col
quitt has been selected by tbe Board of
Trustees ol Ht. Vernon Institute to de
liver the annual address at the examina
tion, end has accepted.
The same paper says: The measels and
sore eyes are raging in Biddleville, Wash
ington county, and vicinity, and it is
feared will interfere with tbe examina
tion.
The act prohibiting tho sale of liquor
in McDuffie county goes into effect next
May.
Th9 editor of the Americas Recorder
attended the last barbecue of tbe season
in Dcoly county, and at the close of bis
report glidoi gracefully into a quotation
from Horace.
De. Geo. D. Phillips, of Clarkesvilla
brotner orxreuunir wintaui Ftultlps and
Colonel C. D. Phillips, of Marietta, is
dead.
Thcmasville Enterprise: Cotton is be
ginning to Cjtae in lively. There has
been too much ram, however, of late,
and not only has picking been retarded,
but much of the bottom crop, not already
open, is rotting.
The came paper says, of tho South
Georgia College: "We would call the
special attention of patents and guar
dians to the advertisement of this col
lege, which appears elsewhere. By it
the reader will see that the school will
open on the 15th of September. Tui
tion being free, and the rates at which
board can be obtained being so reasona
ble—from §8 to $15 per month—this
college offers superior inducements to
pupils from abroad. Tbe Faculty is
eqoal to the beat in tho State, and the
rales governing the school aro wise and
wholesome, while the instraction to be
imparted will bn thorough. The town
is perfectly healthy, and the sooiety and
morals of th8 place are of the very high
est cider. All things combined, this
school is a boon to this whde section,
and should receive a liberal patronage
from a very large radius.
An extensive shooting matoh will take
place next Friday at tho Thomasrille
Fair gronnds.
Talbotton Register: We have received
from the Secretary, Maloomb Johnston,
the premium list of the Georgia State
Fair, to be held at Maoon, commencing
October 27th, and continning one week.
Large premiums are offered in all depart
ments of the exhibition, and no effort has
been negleoted by the management to
make tho fair one of the most complete
ever held in Georgia. Talbot osunty
should be well represented both in exhibits
and attendance at otr State Fair.
A reunion of the survivors of the 32d
Georgia regiment will tako place at
Thomaston to-dsy..
Tabotton Register: To B. M. Batts,
neat Pleasant Hid, belongs the credit of
inventing,}!! combination velocipede
which runs by spring power, guided by
the operator when in motion. Ic can also
be mad9 to rock tho baby cradle, keep off
flies, churn milk, propel a sewing machine
beaidts peiform other and nsefui offices.
Mr. Bnttffehculd open a rink at oar
county fair. It would pay.
The same paper says: Thera were
twenty-three visiting young ladies in
town at one time last week. '
And still Colonel German is not hgppy.
A correspondent of the Griffin Hexes
pays a high compliment to Colonel J. H.
Logan, the efficient postmaster of that
place.
Dalton Timet: There is a man living
about four miles north of Cochran, who
nover had a hair on his head or a tooth
m hie mouth. He iB abont six feet high,
looks like a corpse, has a large family
and is a good provider.
A special to the Colnmbns Times ia as
follows:
HuntcVille, Ala, Angnst 26, 1879.—
Oar town was somewhat thrown into a
state of exeitement yesterday evening by
a white woman entering town dressed in
male garb, and after dark reappearing on
the streets in costume more fitting to her
aerx What her expectations are cannot
bo fonnd out, as she is perfectly silent; to
all who approach her for information
We are informed by a colored woman
from Columbus, that this woman lives
in Colnmbns, and that her real name ia
Emma Butheiford.
Butler Herald: We I-am that a num
ber oE the citizens of Bejnolds and com'
mnnity have been and are still sick from
fever, "but we trust era this, they have
improved in health.
Reynold's first bale of co'.ton brought
15 cents a pound.
Tax Bntler Herald Bays: We were,
startled on Thursday last to bear of the
death of Mr. Thomas J. Acee, one of the
most highly esteemed and useful young
men in Talbot oonnty. His death took
place on Monday night, at the residence
of his mother, near Bellevne. He had
been in his bed but a few days.
The Herald la opposed to tho preaent
lease system of convicts.
Augusta is healthy.
Senator Climent3, deceased, died of
typhoid or malarial fever. The Dispatch
Bays he was bora in Montgomery county
on the 21st of August, 1826. He was a
member of the Methodist Church forty
years, and a Mason of high standing.
His career in the Legislature was marked
by conservatism, and an earnest effort to
legislate for the best interests of Georgia.
He waB a very modest man, of few words,
but good practioal judgment.
Hartwell Sun: The grading on the
Hartwell railroad is about finished, and
the work of putting down crossties and
iron will probably (be commenced during
the latter part of this or the first of next
week. Captain Craft fs pushing the
work with characteristic energy, and
there is no fear bat that "Nancy Hart”
will run in on time.
Off for the West. — Constitution:
Col. W. O. Toggle, of LaGrange, leaves
this morning at five o’clock, via the Een-
nesaw route, on his way to the Indian
Territory. He expects to spend some
weeks among the Creeks and Chootawe.
He is Interested, or abont tobeoome so,
in the collection of oertain claims
held by these tribes against the United
States government, and should he be suc
cessful in his mission and representation
of these claims he will make a very com*
fortabla matter out of his agency. He
oarries with him our bast wishes for his
Bnocesa.
An effort is being made in Atlanta to
have Nats Suthsrn pardoned by the in.
fiaenceof the Legislative Penitentiary
Committee with the Governor. The nn.
fortunate woman is confined at present at
Howard’s camp, in Taylor county. She
is the only white woman now confined in
the State's service, her eister having
served her time and returned home.
Timet and Planter: Seventy-nine per
sons, inolnding old and yonng men, and
women and large and small childre'n,
were ^added to the church at Central
academy. In faot it is said that nearly
every person living in the neighborhood
now professes to ba a follower of "the
meek and lowly Nazarene.”
Covington Star: Speaking of the large
fees charged by some of the prominent
lawyers of this country, reminds us that
a sharp young attorney of Atlanta has
recently bsen employed in a case, upon a
contingent fee, which, if ho succeeds
with the case, wili amount to $10,000,-
000. Now let tho large fee lawyers step
to the front and sea who can beat that.
Mb. J..O. Striokland informs the edi
tor of the Clarion that the bear or a wa
ter-horse has attaoked the bottom corn
of Mr. Henderson Bites, on tho Chatta
hoochee river. Is is supposed to have
been a bear, os he saw the eign where
the "varmint” had dragged its tail
through the mad as it came up out of the
water.
Henrt county can boast of three of'
tbo tallest men in the State in the per
sons of Messrs. Tamer, MoVloker and
Branham, whose combined heights
amount to about twenty-one feet.
Griffin News: On Thursday last Mrs.
Austin Davie, of Pike county, sold to D.
W. Patterson, 1300 pounds of dried frnit
at 9 cents per poand, bringing $137.
This was tho resnlt of the orchards after
an abundant enpply for the family and
made with her own labor and that of her
“house gang.” This beats raising cotton
to death.
A Gravs Bobbed.—Jesnp Sentinel:
Mr. J. B. Boberson givss ns the follow
ing acoonnt: About one year ago, Wil
liam Elliott, a colored man, was killed
while gambling at' Enville turpentine
farm. He was buriod in the woods near
Began &• Willis’ still. On the night of
the I2;h instant the grave was entered
and tbe ceffl i broken open, a portion of
tbo'lid being found near by. On the
13 th instant a colored man, while playing
cards, wa- heard to say that if he had one
of Bill Elliott’s fingers it would give him
good luck. That night the grave was
entersa again. Next day Mr. Boberson,
with several other persons, .viBited the
spot to see if tbe body had been removed.
They discovered that the right hand had
been out off and was missing. Joseph
McCrary, colored, and the man who ex
pressed n wish for Bill EUiott’B finger,
were absent from wor^ the night before.
Mr. B. thinks ttoj are the guilty parties.
CROP KOTK3.
Taylor Ccustt.—Bntler Herald: In
the Garden Valley portion of this county
& great deal of rain has fallen, materially
injuring the cotton crop. Many fields
present a fine growth of weed, but the
excessive wot weather has caused the'
thrifty growth to shid largely it3 frnit.
Such fields as aro heavily fruited, (small
growth) are badly injured by the rust.
Farmers are satisfied that only a two-
thirds crop will be made in this vicinity.
A few cotton worms reported. Picking
has commenced.
The cotton caterpillar is reported as
being pretty general throughout South
ern Georgia.
Walton County —Athens Watchman:
The recent freqaont and heavy rains are
greatly damaging the cotton crop in
Walton county, as in other counties of
this section. Tbe weed is flourishing
finely but the boils are remarkably
scarce. It is feared the crop will fell
considerably short, though a late fall
may mfiko a great change. The corn and
other c:op3 are up to an avenge, taken
all together.
Washington County.—Sandersville
Courier: Mr. S. J. Smith, one of our
largest planters, and one of Washing-
ten’s best cotton growers, informs ns that
the protracted wot weather is causing
the cotton bolls on bis farm to rot. He
also informs us that the boll rot is not
confined to bis farm, bat is blasting
the hopes of other farmers,
- Wayne County.—Hinesville Gazette:
Crops are-very good considering'the dry
weather, which prevailed through the
month of July. The fall crops, cotton,
rice, cane atd potatoes, are looking ex
ceedingly welt since the late rainy season
sets in, and if the seasons continue good
there will be a plentiful harvest.
The rico crop ia very good in Liberty
county.
Washington County—The Crcpj.—
Courier:. We have recently traveled OTer
portions of Washington, Johnson, Eman
uel, Burke, Tatnall, Montgomery and
Laurens counties, and have carefully
noted the crop prospect: In some neigh
borhoods the corn crop will measure up
to the fall average of the best crop years.
Thesa favored spots, however, are few and
far between. In some communities, from
protracted drouth, the oorn crop is cut
off one-half, in others, perhaps, three-
fourths. A few weeks since tbe cotton
crop bid fair to be far above an average
yield. These hopes have been crushed
by excessive rains and met. On many
farms the cotton plant has expended all
its substance in producing stalks of un
usual size, bnt almost entirely destitute
of frnic. The rust has made sad havoc
on hundreds of farms, indeed, there are
bnt few farms, if any, exempt. We have
seen scores of fields with scarcely a cot
ton leaf to be seen, and tba greater por
tion of tbe bolls now matured open. It
is impossible for more than a half crop
to be realized.
The bridging of the English Clh&nnel
is seriously proposed by Sainte Anne, a
French engineer of-good professional
standing. He proposes to bnild a line of
immensely solid etone piers, and on them
place sections of girder, suspension, and
tabular structure, according to local re-
quiroments.
An unpleasant passenger in a street on is
a crying Baby. In such cases Dr. Ball’s Ba
by Byrnp should be given to the little suffer
er to ease its troubles. 25 cents a bottle.
An Ingenleni swindle.
Superintendent Walling, of the New
York polioe, has communicated to the
New York press some facte illustrative
of the mode of swindling by pretended
atock-jobbing "pools,” a much more
adroit fraud than the "sawdust” swindle,
since tbs rogues can neither be made an
swerable to the liar nor checked in their
operations. 2b. Walling received from
one of the victims of tho swindler, a
yonng lady of Montgomery, Alabama,
who had "pat in” $25 toward the pool,
a complete set of the "circulars" and
"reporta” of the firm. These people ad
vertise, especially in country papers,
that they comprise a Wall street firm of
unexampled facilities, that the times are
ripe for successful speculation, and that
persons who send them email sums may
expect to reap large returna as the
resnlt of the co-operative system
of buying and selling stocks re
sorted to bjr them. They issue circulars
and pamphlets, and oifer sharee in their
"combinations” to greenhorns of every
degree. They issue “certificates” against
the money sent them, forward reports ex
hibiting the progress of operations and
the aocretion of profits, seeking always to
inveigle their viotlma into throwing good
money after bad, bnt never by any
chanoe do they return a single penny of
the original investment. In the yonng
lady’s oase the "report” showed her en
titled to a profit of $162.50; the next gave
her a credit balanoe of $112.50; the third
a credit of $62 50; the foortb, when it was
discovered that no more money conld be
gotten out of her, wiped oat the entire
credit balance and brought her in debt
$12.50. The Secretary of the New York
StockExohange, itissaid, reoeived a let
ter from a clergyman’s widow recently,
stating that she had been swindled out of
$3,000, all the money she possessed, by
one of these rasoally concerns.
Mb. Moody is described by the Tribune
as being at hiB very best at Northfield.
One of his neighbors says of him : "I
have seen him in a great many large
places, bnt I come here to this little
town, where he knows everybody, and
takeB an interest in everybody, to be
more thoroughly charmed with him than
ever before. People like to langh; Mr.
Moody knows it, and has the taot to pnt
his audience in good humor to commence
with.” "That is very good singing for
one congregation,” he said at a meeting
the other day at the close of the first
verse ol "Guido me, O Thou Great Jeho
vah,” "but there are a good many con
gregations represented here and we onght
to sing belter than that. All sing now.
Mrs. Davie, take that fan away from
your mouth 1 Mrs. Smith, I didn’t hear
yonr voice! Undo Charles, yon can
sing! Here, mother, here is the place,
you sing! Now try again. I’ll keep
watch and see if there are any who don’t
sing.”
Persona of sedentary habits, and over
worked, find in Dr. Ball’s Baltimore Pills a
specific for want of Appetite, Palpitation,
Debility, Constipation, and many other ail
ments. At all druggists. Price 25 ota.
Couplets Success of Fi,h Culture
in The Hudson Biter.—The New York
Sun, of Saturday says: The State Fish
Commission, through their agents, have
turned into tho Hudson Biver this sea
son more than 6,500.000 young shad that
they bad hatched by the artificial pro
cess. This iB abont one-third larger
number than they had hatched in any
previous year, requiring the uninterrapt-
ed work of Bix men about thirty-five
days. The most satisfactory results have
followed tbs efforts of previous years.
Not for half a century have shad been
so abundant in the Hndson as they were
this spring, The markota wero filled to
overflowing, and fishermen along the
river disposed of largo nnmbsts to far
mers to be used to fertilize the fields.
The New York markets abounded in tbe
fish, at more reasonable p.-ice than ever
before. The work of stocking the river
has reached such a state of advancement
that, at comparatively little oost, the
same number of fish that ascended the
river this year may be made to appear in
succeeding years.
The Commissioner’s work in other di
rections has bsen hardly less snooesBful.
Brook tront have been pnt in nearly
avery available stream; salmon have been
tamed loose in the rivers; lake tront,
blaok base, and white fish are thriving in
waters that had not known them for
many a year. The oost has been trifling
when compared with tbe benefits already
reaped.
CONSUMPTION CUBED.
An old physician, retire 1 from practice, hav.
ng had placed in his hands by an East India
missionary the formala of a simple vegetable
remedy lor the speedy and permanent cure for
Consumption, Bronchitas, Catarrh, Asthma, and
all Throat and Lung AUMtlont^f •
and radical m— f.r wurvous Debility ana all
Ncr.uus Complaints, alter having tested its
wonderful curative powers in thousands of cases,
has felt it his duty to make it known to his
suffering fellows. Actuatod by this motive and
a deairo to reliove human suffering, I will send
free of charge to all who desire it, thisreoipe,
with full directions for preparing and using, in
German, French or English. Sent by mail by
addressing with stamp, naming thispapor. W W
8HARAB, 149 Powers* Block, Rochester, S Y,
ebl4 Cm
'For the North Pole.—A letter from
Capt. DeLong of the Bsnnelt expedi
tion, dated at Onalasiki, 4th instant, says
he arrived there on the 21 instant, and
fonnd at anchor the revenue steamer
Bneb, whioh, daring a recent craiss to
the northward, passed through Behring’s
straits to somo twenty miles to the north
ward and eastward of East Gape, in Si
beria, without having encountered any
ice whatever. Supposing that Professor
Nordenskjold had already passed sontb,
no communication was held by the Bash
with St. Lawrenoo bay. No communica
tion from St. Lawrence bay bad been re
ceived at St. Michaels at the date of the
Bash, on the 231 of July, and conse
quently there was no knowledge of the
safety or movements of Professor Nor-
denekjold’s party. From ell intelligence
received from the northward it appears
that the last winter has been an excep
tionally mild one, and that no obstruction
to navigation in tbo shape of ioe has
been encountered. Lieut. DeLong tea
grots that the nooessity of loading tbe
Jeannette so deeply at San Franoisoo has
made progress so alow—coupled with
head winds and swell—that it Is donbtfnl
whether sho will bo able to profit by the
open water in the Arctio sea in the ef
forts to gain a high latitate this season.
He would le&vs for St. Michaels on the
6;h instant, and if, upon arrival there,
nothing has been heard of the parly un
der command of Professor Nordenskjold,
he wonld proceed to Sf. Lawrence bay,
in Siberia, to obtain news of him. The
health of all on board the Jeannette re
mains good.
Great Falling OH In Imports.
Washington, August 25.—The Bareau
of Statistics has issued a statement to-day
whioh makes an interesting showing in
regard to the dsozcase in exportation to
this country of many leading artlolea
from Great Britain and Ireland daring
the seven months ending with the first
of the preaent month, as compared with-
the corresponding period of last year.
The decrease in the exports of oolton
pieoe goods waa evor 7,000,000 yards;
pig iron, nearly 18,000 tons; bar, bolt and
rod iron, 1,000 tons; worsted staffs, 4,-
000.000 yards; woolen doth and oarpete,
each 130,000 yards.
Boston Herald.)
Tbe Jim Biver Blizzard is a Dakota tri
umph in the way of newspaper nomencla
ture.
Courier-Journal.)
San Franolsco po'itics has become so mix
ed that yon can’t tell what shoot a men here
will take.
Bt. Louis Post-Dispatch.)
If Gen. Grant really did not want the norm
inatiOD, he would have settled the question
long ago by a very few words.
Courier-Journal.)
DeYoung should have imitated the chir
al rio Sprague and given the blooming Kal-
loch five m'nntes.
AN ANGEL’S BIRTHDAY.
Published by request ia memory of
Sarah Ellen 35——, whose third natal
day would have been to-day.
'Xis your birthday, my beautiful darling.
Or would b« If you were on earth;
X know it must be, still be your birthday.
Thouch born to to your heavenly birth.
I knov that the angels are fair and as sweet
As these fair rows I twine;
Their love may be perfect, pure and complete,
But never more tender than mire.
Are you glad in your gladness, my darling:
Iloyou '.au*h in your innocent glee
Or are yon sad in the brightness oi heaven,
In thinking of home and hi me?
In the night when I long for yonr presence.
And water my pillow with tears,
When I pray tor the touch of yonr fingers.
To comfort my aorrow and fears;
Boriight is the veil that’s between us,
Tbe mother and child are so near;
The breath of my soul it impended
For your accents to tender and clear;
Ohmy glorified darling, most precious
Of all the sweet gifts that were mine,
I havo lent you, not lost you, iny darl ng,
Only lent to the love that’s divine.
There are moment* so sweet and so solemn,
Tnat my soul bunts Us prison of pain,
And soar* to the realm* of the spirit
And meat* my own angel again.
Then calm from the laiatly communion
I defy every fee of the world;
I can scorn every breath of contumely,
Every shaft by it* jgnoranod hurl’d.
No black robe* of darkness and mourning
Should he worn for a spirit like thee—
Only solemn thank:giving and blessings,
That yon from earth’s sorrow* are free.
Macon, Anguit 29th, 1879.
A CHUNK OF GOLD.
Son Franciico Call.)
One day while I was at work in the
drift one of oar party, who was bailing
in the shaft, said:
"There’s something big happened np
above, 'Tom; I hsar a great buzzing and
shouting.”
‘.Perhaps it’s a fight,” I suggested, as
I stuck my pick in the soil and unearthed
a nugget as large a* a walnut.
"Perhaps it’s a find,” suggested mate.
"There’s a find here,” I said, as I
crawled ont of the drift and exhibited the
nngget I had jnst taken ont. Then I
heard the clamor also; it waa like the
murmnr of distant waves. We shook
the rope, and receiving no answer to our
signal, concluded that something import
ant had happened, as onr mates above
had evidently left the windlass. A mo
ment later a shadow appeared above, and
Bill’s voice waa shouting:
"Come np, boys, and see the big find.”
"Where is it 7” I asked, on reaching
the surface; but I scarcely needed to
ask, for it must be where the crowd is
collected, some fifty yards distant from
our ejaim. Tho crowd was large, and
every moment increasing, but being
broad-shouldered, I pushed my way
through it, and was almost overwhelm
ed with astonishment at the sight wbioh
greeted my vision. It wasn’t a nugget,
it was a bowlder. No wonder that the
miners were excited. The spectacle was
enough to exoite tho most phlegmatic
individual that ever breathed.
It was a solid mass of gold &s large, or
arger, than a leg of mutton, and not un
like one in shape. This was the mass
which has since become widely known as
the Welcome nngget. A fac-simile of it
may now be seen in the mineral depart
ment of the Boston Museum of Natural
History, where the weight ia Riven at
2,100 ounces, and the value as $41,822,70.
The farther information iB impatted
that the nugget is the largest pieoe of gold
ever found. This is an error. A la-ger
nngget was fonnd at Bendigo lead on Feb
ruary 9.1869. It weighed 189 pounds 1
ounce Troy, or 2,200 canoes.
I had been mentally congratulating
mjself on the disoovery of a nugget as
large as a walnut; bnt the sight of this
mass of gold took all the conceit ont of
me. Nevertheless, I was glad that the
nngget had been found, for the claim
from which it was taken was right in the
direction in which we are working, and
onr claim was growing rich in ore.
The weloome nngget, as large as it
was, did not enrich the finders, for there
were twelve shareholders in it, and it
brought them less than a thousand
pounds spied; it wonld have been lacky
a find for a oonple of mates. The man
who dug it ont fainted dead away before
be unearthed it. When bi3 pick first
strnck it he put forth his hand to piok up
the lump; tho light irjrn hie oaudle
shone upon it and revealed its nature.
To his enrprise it did not yield to hiB
touch. Then ho began to fatl around it
with his hands, and it grew in size nudsr
hia exploring digits. He gave it a wrench,
bnt it did no t badge. Seizing ’ pick be
began to dig around it, and rs its pro
portions grew under his eye, the speota-
ole overcame him, and he fainted from
i°y- t m
THE INYZRTIGtTlOXS.
Last evening a representative of the
Telzobaph and Messenger had the
pleasure of meeting Judge John T.
Clarke, of Cathbert, at the Brown Honee.
Judge Clarke had jnst come down from
Atlanta, and looked a little care-worn
from his labors in the Senate. Jndge
Clarke is fast making reputation in the
higher branch of. tho General Assem
bly, as one of the safest mem
bers of the body. After speaking
on other matters, the question of the
investigations in Atlanta were touched
upon when the question was asked as to
the Goldsmith impeachment trial.
Judge Clarke remarked that since mat
ter had taken a definite shape, public
talk in regard to the case bad somewhat
subsided, and people seemed to be will
ing to let the trial decide for them. The
impeachment court meets again next
Monday, at which time I will return to
Atlanta.
How long do you think the trial will
last?
Thero is no tolling exactly. There is
no limit to the efforts of counsel, and
they will have fall freedom to try all
their twists and turns; there is no rale
set for the regulations of arguments or
anything in that way. Then, too, the
pnblio prints have spoken ao much abont
expecting the trial to be a long one that
it will almost inevitably be so.
I think the oase oonld bs tried in a
week if couneel on both aides and every
one interested would conspire to that
end. I have seen cases in the Superior
Court involving much more important
and valuable interests to be tried in that
length of time.
Will the trial not be very expensive to
the State?
Yes, too expensive for the- issue in
volved, which, when radnoed to its anal
ysis is, whether Mr. Goldsmith should be
Comptroller or net. That is the only
question at last. The trial will consume
several weeks.
How about the rumors of impeach
ment against other State House offie ere?
Well, in regard to that nothing is defi
nitely known except to oommittee men.
Their prooedinga are secret.
I am led to believe, however, that arti*
cles of impeaohment will be brought
against Treasurer Benfroe, and Mr.
Nelms, of the i J enltentiarj, and perhaps
Mr. Janes.
Is Mr. Nelms, for instance, a subject
of impeaohment ?
That ia an open question. The Consti
tution of the State is peculiarly reticent
on the Bnbjeot. By the United States
statutes all the civil officers of the Gov
ernment are subject to Impeachment, and
this practice may be adopted. If it is,
then they will be clearly subject to the
impeachment. Such a practice would
involve the State in mnch expense and
be too heavy and cumbersome. I think
tome method should be devised whereby
the State officers, guilty of such offenses,
may ba removed from offioe promptly,
and made amenable to the courts of the
coentry on general charges.
What abont impeaching Commissioner
Jane*? Many cannot understand on what
groond he can be attacked?
I have not heard any partionlar charge
against him. It ia true ha has money
appropriated to his office to pay hia sub
ordinates, and a certain portion of hia
expenees, for seed* for distribution, cir
culars, etc. He may have been unfaith
ful in these disbursements, bnt I have
heard no specific chargee against him.
The Treasurer will probably coma in for
more than any of the rest jast now for
investigation, and (after a slight panse)
the Keeper of the Penitentiary.
Do you think there ia anything wrong
abont tbe Treasurer ? •
That I osnnot say. Thera are, howev
er, some phenomenal things about hia of
floe, whioh will aland explanation. We
cannot understand how a man on a two
thousand dollar salary can make so muob
money and aeonmnlate property so rap
idly. These .things Bhould be explained. If
he Is culpable the Lagisl a tore should know
it, and if not then it should be given tol
the pnblio, oontinhed Jndge Clarke with
a Blight smile, the seoret by whioh money
osn be accumuhted so fast. There are a
plenty of poor men sitting sronnd who
wonld be glad to laara it, and might pnt
it to advantage.
After a few more remarks on genera
topics enr repoer withdrew.
WITHDRAWING GRANT.
Somo Rattier Important Infor
mation lvomGeorge tv. t'hllds,
Washington Post ]
A rumor being current that, in a recast
interview with Uol. John B. Browalow, Mr.
George Washington Childs had delivered an
effective obituary over the Grant boom, one
or the Post reporters hunted np the Colonel
Sunday night, and catechised him. "Yon
have jast now the reputation of holding in
formation regarding Grant’s candidacy; wifi
yon Rive it to the Post and the pubHo?"
"Well, I bad a long talk with the Gene
ral’s most intimate freed, about fonr or fire
weeks since, and he expressed himself very
earnestly on the matter. He assured mo
that Gen. Grant was not a candidate, onght
not to be one, and that he, as his friend,
was opposed to hia being eo regarded under
any circumstances. I am bound to believe
that Mr Childs knew what he was talking
abont, as he is known to be nearer to Gen.
Grant thin anybody else. Yon may, there
fore depend upon it that Gen. Grant is out
of the ooniest”
1 What else passed, and who oimmonosd
th9 subject of Grant’s oindidacy ?”
" Mr. Childs asked me who ths Bopubli
cans of Tennessee were for, and on my re
plying for Grant or Sherman, he volunteered
the above statement in substance, remark
ing at the same time that he had reoeived a
letter from Grant ocly the day before. He
also showed me the presents the latter had
received in Europe, the gold c&eket contain
ing the freedoms of the cities of London and
Glasgow, eto”
“ Did yen have any conversation with him
as to Grant’s prob&blo movements on bis ro-
tnm?'’
" Yea, he told ms that the General had
asked him logo to San Franoisoo to meet
bim, and that they wou'fl live together in
Philadelphia.,’
“ Do yon moan Grant would take np his
permanent residence with Mr. Childs ?”
“ Yen, I have Mr. Child’a word for it that
this is tho Dian at present.”
" What reasons did Mr. Childs give for hie
deeire that Grant shou'd not ran ?”
He said that the latterhas money enough
to live on withont tho salary and could re
main tho first of American oitizene if he did
not ran, and though he was of the opinion
that he would be eleoted, it would hurt his
prestige with the people, among whom he
conld wield more iofiuenoo as he is than as
President. Tho mud throwing Incident to a
contest, which wonld bo the bitterest that
ever took plaoi, wou'd, he thought, perma
nently bosmirch the General.”
" What yon have given mo is about all
that took placb, is it ?”
" Yes, Mr. Childs cannot deny it. If ho
does I V.i 1 ccma out in a card giving tho ex
act words which passed. The teUthcs of
myee'f and family with tho gentleman are
very friendly, he having published my
fathor’s book on the war. Tne conversation
took plaoe in the Ledger office, and was
quite lengthy. Mr. Childs entering fully in
to the qncs'ion of who should be the candi
date of the Bepnblicans and giving his rea
sons.”
“ Who is his choios ?"
"John 8herman. first and last.”
Decatur (III) Sun.
While Jndge Logan, of Springfield, Ill.,
was Lincoln's partner, two farmers, whojhad
a mUunderstanding reapec’ing a horse trade,
want to law. By mutual consent the part
ners in Jaw became antagonists in this case.
On the day of the trial Mr. Irgan, having
bought a new shirt, open in the back, with a
huge standing collar, dressed himself U ex
treme haste and put on the shirt with the
bjeem a: the batk, & linen cjii concealing
the blunder. Ha dazzled the jury with hi*
knowledge of “ horse points.” and as the
day was sultry took off his ooat and summed
up in h'B shirt sleeves. Lincoln, sitting be
hind him, took in the situation, and when his
turn came, stil to tbe jury: "Gentlemen,
Mr. Logan has been trying for over an hour
to make yon believe that hs knows more
about a horse than th03s hornet old farmers
who are witneBsei; he has quoted largely
from his ‘horss doctor,’and now, gentle
men, I submit to you (here he lifted Logan
out of his chair and tuned hie back to the
jury and the'orowd, at the same time flipping
up his enormous standing cellar,) what de
pendence can yon plaoe on his horse knowl
edge when he ha* not sense *nongh to pat
on hi* ohiit ?' The roare of laughter tnat
greeted this exhibition, and the verdiot that
Liacoln got soon after, gave Logan a perma
nent pre j ndico against ** besom shirts ”
Borne Courier )
Within the last fortnight the country has
been excited over the exhibition and tho use
of the shot gun in more places than one;
once in the South and twice in tho North;
twice with tragical resnlt and once with far
cical; bnt in tt,U series the farce came first.
Philadelphia Times ]
If Senator Boscoo Oonkiing wishes a vin
dication in tho courts, he can open the case
without unnecessary scandal by eatoriag a
complaint against ex-Sonator Sprague for
violation of the game laws.
Bparta Iehmaslite.)
Wo are determined not .o vote for Gover
nor yet awhile, let the editors nominate
whom they.will We are determined on this
point. It is useless to tear around wild and
loose to gat a Governor elected in the year
of grace 1879 It is our deliberate opinion
that it cannot bo done.
Washington Star.)
An Acting Secretary or tho Treasury to
day receive;! a postage stamp to tho amount
of 10 cehts from an unknown person who is
evidently console rce-sirickan. The stamp
was forwarded in an envelope postmarked
Philadelphia, with a statement to the effect
that the tender many years sgo while at
school had snocoeded in erasing the oar cel-
lation mark trom one or two stamps which
had been need and had used them again.
Now that ho knows such action was wrong,
he dt8lres to pay ths Government the
amount “ justly due,” and to make it "dead
Enre” inc’.ostd stamps to the amount of 10
cents, which were covered into the conscience
fond.
—Scrgeant-at-Arma Thompson thinks the
Greenback movement is wholly dead in
Ohio. “We are,” he says, "all satisfied with
resumption, and there is nothing to be gain
ed by raking np tbe dry bones.”
—The Bev. Leonard Bacon has failed In
an attempt to enforce tbe Sunday law in Nor
wich, Conn. The city attorney declines to
prosecute ths. owners of Sunday exenrsion
steamers, on the ground that the law pass
ed In 17C2 is obsolete.
—lha cultivation of the fig in the Western
Michigan frait region bos proved to be a sac-
oess. Specimens have been received in Cni-
cago from a Michigan nnrsery. including a
branch feur and three-fonrth inches in
length bearing seven ripe figs. The crop of
tbe tree from which the branoh was taken is
estimated at two bnshels.
—Senator Hampton is reported by the
Bicbmond (Ya.) State as saying to an inter
viewer that Thormtn -or Bayard will be the
next Democratic nominee for the presidency.
Hampton’s choice was thos announced : "I
prefer Bayard; X 'prefer him as a man. I
like bis principles.” The Senator thought
that Sherman rather than Grant wonld be
tbe Republican nominee.
The Consumption of Baileoad Ties —
Tbs Lumberman’s Gazette estimates that
tbe annual consumption of railroad ties and
sleepers is 49,000,000, or thirty years’ growth
of 75,070 acres. The Gazette suggest* that,
in view of the rapid depletion of oar foreits
for railroad and other purposes, it would be
well if we should hasten in following tbe ex
ample of Enropeon States In tbs adoption of
iron cross ties.
—Sir. Nicholas Biss, formerly a member
of the Hungarian Uehbslag, possesses a hotel
at Paris. At the foot of the etsircoee ho has
placed an elegant aaveall or tirelire, sur
mounted by a parrot. When any one oomea
down and goes np the etairoaae, the parrot
screams out, ‘Szegedic!’ Tbe visitor looks
around astonished, sees the tirelire, and
puts something in It. Ths parrot has al
ready collected more than 8,000 francs.
The Eastern Bbare (Md ) newspapers con
tinue their oompiaiuts of the mosquito
plague. The Superintendent anu train
bands of the railroad near Cambridge de
clare that ths mosquitos have been so thick
at to obscure the light of the sun, and that
lighted lamps have been necessaiy at midday
in tbe stores and counting room*. From Ty>
askina newspaper correspondent declare*
that ‘never in the history of Tysekln have
the moequitoe bsen eo th ek as for the past
vraek- 'There Is no rest night cr day ; our
only remedy Is smoke! smoke! And we
have smoked so much that our old women,
and young women, too, look like dried beet
on the hoot."
—The plague of rata in the Deosan, Bom -
bay, for the second season in snooeastoa ia
occasioning serious alarm. These animals
overspread the eonntry like locusts, destroy
ths crops almost as thoroughly, and are even
more difficult to keep down. Bo grave tat
become the aspect of affaire that a “Eat
Oommittee” was appointed to inquire Into
the beat means of disposing of these crest-
nr as. They havo advised the people to tom
out en masse and fcoe tbe enemy. Bewarda
are to be offered for dead rats, and, in fact,
the invasion ia to bs treated as a matte: to
be dealt with vigorously by the whole com
munity. In the mean time the question has
arisen as to bow the rats have multiplied.
Boutn Carolina Cotton.—The Greenville
(8.0.) Hews saya that the cotton crop of
Greenville oonnty is likely to ba materially
changed by the heavy and repeated rains of
the last week. A week ago the planters
were in high hope of a heavy yield; to-day
they wonld compromise on a seven-eighths
orop -perhaps on a thrce-fourlba crop. Ev
ery day’s rain for tbe next week will dimin
ish the yield, unless an uuusurdly late and
dry fall oomes to their relief. It U noticed
that ths meet promUffig fluids a week ags
are tbe least prumhiDg to day on aooount of
the large growth cf weed lappiog nsross the
middle and Bhading tbe ground. If the rain
continues, the best lands will not yi6ld more
than half the crop expected a week sgo.
Ontario of thk fail Tbidl—The Balti
more bun says after the lost week in Angnst
the dull season ends and the fall activities of
trade begin to open. The prospeots for the
present antamu are very cheering. Tbe de-
maad for staplo goods ia greater than the
supply, and under tho stimulus of brisk
competition prices hive already advanced.
A gentleman who io largely engaged in the
Western carpet trade was in tbe city last
week. He said he was detained in New
York for ten days ever his regular lime by
the difficulty of securing his goods and hav
ing them forwarded. Trices have advanced
in this trade 18 par cent, in the put fonr
months, bnt stiU the orders far exceeded the
ability of stocks to meet them. These or
ders were all for carpets of American manu
facture-law Imported goods were now sold
by the trade. The iron business is literally
"booming.”
—Death From Fright.—Mias Bachel
Snodgrass, 19 years of age, of Westmoreland
county, Pa., dropped dead one day lost week
under etranea circumstances, Shortly be
fore tbe occurrence of the deplorable affair
it is said that a little niece of Mia* Snodgrass
had strayed ont into the back yard of her
aunt’s residence, and presently wandered
ont to a plank which bad been suspended
across a deep well. Here the little one, un
conscious of its peril, sat astride the board
playing. A few minutes later Hiss Snod
grass, who had missed the child, started ont
to look for it. Going to the well she waa
abont rescuing ths child, when It began to
c y, and at ths same time made nn effort to
crawl off the plank- This was so terrifying
that Miss Snodgrass was overcome by her
nervous excitement and fell to the ground,
and had already expired when she was dis
covered by her parents. The child was res
cued without in j ary.
—Great tribulation reigns in tho Cote d’Or,
tbe seat of Burgundy wine production, where
the phylloxera seem* to have made its ap
pearance It is estimated that this insect
has already destroyed some 930,000 sores of
vinos, and great fears are entertained for
the safety of the remaining 609,003. Up to
tbo present nothing with ihe exception of
inuuditiou has prcvailod against the phyllox
era, and there are not many vineyards to
which this remedy oan be applied. Some
people have urged that the vine is not de
stroyed by tho phylloxera, but tliat diseased
plants generate that insect, which then feeds
on th:m. Their theory is th»t the eoil is
exhausted, and lhat no land can long sustain
tba same plant. Bat the vine has been cul
tivated from time i TmemorUlin Italy, Spain
and other ooontrias which have not suffered
like Francs; and tho phylloxera attacks in
differently and with the s*me result old and
weaa plants and the young -land vigorous
vintB. It is evident that the presence of tbe
phylloxera oan neither be tnosd to the weak
ness of the plant nor to the exhaustion of
ths soil. .
A Disappointed Husband.
How many yonng husbands have bsen
wakened from their dreams of domestic hap
piness and prosperity by the anxious care of
a sickly wife! The home is not the elysium
the lover hod so fondly pictured. Its atmos
phere ia gloomy with inval.d complaints.
Sweet-winged hope that at first brooded on
its hearthstone, Boon fled, and an ominous
bird ia there mate-nil, croaking cf disappoint
ment. The many little heuseho'd offices
that should ba tho delight of the wife to per
form ore confided to strangers. The home
soon becomes one only in name, and tbo
disappointed husband teats pleasure and so
ciety elsewhere, and goes downward step by
step, from vice to vice, until the rain is com-
pleto; and all because a wife has lost her
health, and with it latr temper and all those
sweet womanly graces that osn alone retain
tbe love the maiden had won. Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Presoriotion is an effioacioos reme
dy for the painful diseases and weakness in
cident to tho female organiem. It ia both a
tonio and a nervine, strengthening the parts
as well as remedying the diseased condition.
N. Y. Ban.)
Henry Wateraon writes to his paper from
Block Island abont the Conkling-Bprague
business: “I wish I may bs harpooned,”
says he, " if ever I heard of anything like it
in all my perusal of wicked history from '
Claudius down to Henry Ward Beeoher.”
THE GENUINE
3DH. C» MoXAME’S
Celebrated American
WORM SFECiFSC
OR
VERMIFUGE,
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
T HE countenance is pale and lead
cn-colored, with occasional flushes,
or a circumscribed spot on one or both
checks; the eyes become dull; the
pupils dilate; an azure semicircle
runs along the lower eye-lid; the
nose is irritated, swells, and sometimes
bleeds; a swelling of the upper lip;
occasional headache, with humming
or throbbing of the ears; an unusual
secretion of saliva; slimy or furred
tongue; breath very foul, particularly
in the morning; appetite variable]
sometimes voracious, with a gnawing
sensation of the stomach, at others,
entirely gone; fleeting pains in the
stomach; occasional nausea and vom
iting ; violent pains throughout the *
abdomen; bowels irregular, at times
costive; stools slimy, ndt unfrequent-
ly tinged with blood; belly swollen
and hard; urine turbid; respiration
occasionally difficult, and accompa
nied by hiccough; cough sometimes
dry and convulsive; uneasy and dis
turbed sleep, with grinding of the
teeth; temper variable, but generally
irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR. C. MfLANE’S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect a cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form; it is an innocent prepa
ration, not capable of doing the slightest
injury to the most tender infant.
The genuine Dr. McLane’s Ver
mifuge bears the signatures of C.
McLane and Fleming Bros, on the
wrapper. —:G:—
DR. C. McLANE'S
LIVER PILLS
are not recommended as a remedy "for
all the ills that flesh is heir to,” but in
affections of the liver, and in all Bilious
Complaints, Dyspepsia and Sick Head
ache, er diseases of that character, they
stand without a rival.
AGUE AND FEVER.
No better cathartic can be used prepar
atory to, or after taking Quinine.
As a simple purgative they are un
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BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar coated.
Each box has a red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression Dr. McLane's
Liver Pills.
Each wrapper bears the signatures of
C. McLane and Fleming Bros. \>
Insist upon having the genuine Dr.
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Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the
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same pronunciation,