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Bond ok, February 12.—A Paris dis
patch saw: “The Soir announces that
General Debarg, commander of the Six
teenth Brigade of German infantry, has
been appointed chief of staffto the fifteenth
annv corps, stationed at Strasburg,' and
adds: The foregoing is very significant, as
General Debarg is intimately acquainted
with the French army.
The announcement of the donation to
Ireland from Baroness Burdett Coutts, is
exaggerated. Only five thousand pounds
were given, with the promise of other
beneficial acts of relief, when necessary.
I’arik,, February 12.—An official state
ment shows the total expenses and loss of
resources to France, arising from the
Franco-German war, were 13,930,000,000
francs.
Washington, February 12.—In the
Senate Mr. Saunders introduced a bill to
abolish all duties on importation of salt.
Mr. Garland introduced a bill to extend
the time for the completion of the Texas
and Pacific railroad.
The Vice President laid before the Sen
ate a communication from several mem-
ben of the minority of the Louisiana Leg
islature in regard to the representation of
that State in the United States Senate,
Printed and referred.
Mr. Davis, ol West Virginia, said if the
Seuator from Georgia, (Mr. Gordon,) had
been inliisseatto-aay, he, (Davis,) would
have moved to take up the motion to re
consider the vote appointing a special
committee on the inter-oceanic canal.
The delay on this subject was not caused
by him or his motion to reconsider. He
was and had been ready to reconsider the
matter at any moment.
The Senate proceeded to consider the
calendar.
In the House, Mr. Stephens of Geoigia,
chairman of the Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures, reported back five
bills relative to the metric system of coin
age. Printed and referred to the Com
mittee of the Whole.
The five bills provide as follows: first,
for the coinage of a metric gold coin to be
called a “Stella,” the value of four dol
lars; the second for the coinage of a go-
loid metric dollar, two dollars and frac
tions of a dollar, and also the coinage of a
gold double, eagle and half eagle, all of
standard value; third, for the mintage
of ingots of metric gold alloy. Its de
posit in the treasury and the issue of cer
tificates therefor; the fourth, the making
of ingots of fine gold and ingots of fine
silver of the value of one hundred dol
lars each for exportation, manufactures,
etc.; the fifth for the coinage of silver dol
lars and fractions thereof of full standard
value upon the metric system; also a joint
resolution authorizing the Secretary to
furnish the States for the use of agricul
tural colleges, one set of standard weights
and measures. Passed.
Bich-Mo.vd, Va., February 12.—The
Irish Relief Society has collected $3,588
which will be sent to the Most Rev. Arch
bishop McCabe and Most Rev. Archbish
op French, of Dublin, to be distributed
without regard to creed.
\V ashington, February 12.—The
House Committee of Ways and Means
took up the refunding question this morn
ing, for final action. The first vote taken
was upon the rate of interest. This was
decided in favor of three and a half per
cent, by a vote of eleven to two. The
question of time was then settled by the
decisive vote of twelve to one in favor of
a 20-40 bond. Interest on these bonds
is to be paid quarterly, and they are to be
used iu funding fives and sixes, amount
ing to about $500,000,000. The Commit
tee decided also to recommend that au
thority be given the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue two hundred million
dollars of four per cent, treasury notes, re
deemable at pleasure, to assist the reduc
tion of the annual interest.burden, in the
maimer proposed by Representative
Kelly.
The President sent the following nomi
nations to the Senate to-day: George Toy,
to be Collector of Customs at Cherry
stone, Virginia; John Sneed, to be Post
master at Huntsville, and Henry O’Maher,
to be Postmaster at Donaldsonville, Ga.
Washington, February 12.—The New
York Times this morning publishes the
private correspondence between Senator
Gordon and Representative Stephens
with reference to the personal misunder
standing which arose between them at
the recent meeting of the Senate Census
Committee. The letters, it is understood,
were furnished to the Times by Represen
tative Steplieus, Senator Gordon having
refused to give them to the press on the
ground that they related to purely pri
vate matter. Mr. Gordon in his letter
expresses regret that under extreme provo
cation he used harsh and angiy words to
Mr. Stephens, but says the latter had done
him great injustice, both in private con
versations ana in a statement made before
the committee, that he (Gordon) favored
ex-marshal Smythe for the office of super
visor in the first census district of Geor
gia.
Mr. Stephens, in reply, accepts Mr.
Gordon’s apology, but refuses to admit
that there was any provocation on his
part for Mr. Gordon’s words. He says he
meant nothing offensive to General Gor
don iu repeating what he had beard about
letters favoring the appointment of Major
Smytlic. The only object of his remark
before the committee was to show that if
the objectionable words in Simmons’ let
ter of application, were taken in their
proper connection, they were 'not subject
to the construction which General Gordon
placed upon them.
The nouse Committee on Education
and Labor decided to-day to report ad
versely on Representative Thompson’s
bill, ‘‘providing for the distribution of the
fund from the unclaimed pay and bounty
of colored soldiers for the education of
the colored race.” This action is based
upon information furnished the commit
tee that the fund barely amounts to two
hundred thousand dollars, and is being
constantly drawn upon by claimants.
The Senate Commerce Committee took
up to-day the House bill, making a spe
cial deficiency appropriation (in advance
of the general river and harbor bill), for
the improvement of Muscle Shoals, in Al
abama river. Oral argument in advocacy
of a favorable action upon the bill was
made by the Alabama Senators.. No ac
tion, however, was taken upon it to-day.
New York, February 12.—A London
special to the Herald states on the author
ity of private dispatches from Rome, that
no doubt whatever remains of the.recep
tion of Rev. Arthur Wagner, of Brighton,
(ritualist) into the Church of Rome. Mr.
Wagner’s conversion, it is said, marks the
beginning of the long impending and
carefully prepared movement, which may
ere long bring most of the ritualistic An
glican clergy over to Roman Catholicism.
London, February 12.—A~ dispatch
from Teheran to Reuter’s telegram com
pany says it is rumored that the govern
ment will shortly propose the appoint
ment of a European commission for the
settlement of Persia’s northeastern and
Attick frontier. It is also reported that
in the coming spring Persia will dispatch
a force to cccupy Afghanistan, and event
ually Herat, and that England is fully in
formed of these intentions, and has ac
cepted Persia’s proposals and conditions.
Washington, Fcbruaiy 12. — The
House resumed the consideration of the
bill relating to the removal of cases from
State to Federal courts. After a short de
bate, the morning hour expired and the
bill went over without action. The
House then went Into committee of the
whole on the revision of the rules. Mr.
White, of Pennsylvania, offered an amend
ment to the twenty-first rule, to provide
that no legislation shall be attached, to
appropriation bills by the Appropriation
Committee. This led to an animated po
litical debate. Mr. Conger, of Michigan,
accused the Southern representatives of
inconsistency in voting for the present
Rule 120, which permits legislation in ap
propriation bills, inasmuch as the consti
tution of the late Southern Confederacy
prohibited the incorporation of legislation
In such bills. The success of the present
'Speaker in inducing his Southern friends
to vote for that rule,
previous views and in opposition to me i ^
better army than that army of the Forty-
Fourth Congress — without regard to
where they came from—in the interest of
economy. [Applause on the Democratic
side.
Mr. Goode, of Virginia, reminded Mr.
Conger that we now lived under the con
stitution of the United States, which al
lowed every House to fUthe rules for its
own proceedings. He thought rule 120
was a wise and just regulation.
Mr. Springer, of Illinois, ported out
that while that eminent Republican, Mr.
Garfield, was at the head of the Appropri
ation Committee, 150 sections of legis
lation had been passed upon the Appro
priation Bill. He was in favor ef legisla
tion in appropriation bills. It had saved
millions of dollars to the people, and if
the house held on to it, it would save mil
lions more.
Mr. White, of Pennsylvania, then with
drew his amendment, and Mr. Speer, of
Georgia, offered one to strike out the pro
vision that allows legislation on appropri
ation bills, if in the direction of retrench
ment, and insert the clause, “that it shall
be in order to strike out any sum of mon
ey and insert a less sum.” He then spoke
in favor of his amendment, saying that the
failure of appropriation bills meant an
archy and revolution, and the House
should adopt such rules as would prevent
their failure to pass on account of politi
cal riders.
Mr. Hawley, of Connecticut read quo
tations to show that in twenty-five out of
thirty-eight States, legislation on appro
priation bills was prohibited by State con
stitutions.
Mr. Blount, of Georgia, thought the
government would never perish in the
way his colleague, Mr. Speer, feared. He
opposed the amendment.
Mr.Mills, of Texas, and Mr. Whitthouse,
of Tennessee, spoke in favor of the
amendment.
Mr. McMahon, of Ohio, appealed to his
party friends not to give up rule 120. It
would be giving up the very standard they
had raised.
Mr. Warner, of Ohio, opposed an
amendment to Mr. Speer’s amendment,
which would make clause three of the
rule read as follows: no appropriation shall
be reported in any general appropiation
bill, or be in order as an amendment
thereto for any expenditure not previously
authorized by law, unless in continuation
of the appropriation for such public works
as are already in progress, nor shall any
provision in any such bill or amendment
thereto be in order, except that it shall be
in order to reduce the amounts of money
provided for by the existing law, and cov
ered by the bill, and to that extent only
to change the law. Mr. Warner’s amend
ment was agreed to by a vote of 124 to
29. Pending the consideration of Mr.
Speer’s amendment the House adjourned.
In the Senate the following bills were
introduced and referred:
By Mr. Ransom, for the erection of a
public building at Asheville, North Caro
lina.
By Mr. Garland, providing that the
Texas and Pacific Railway Company,
organized under the act of March 3,1891,
shall have ten years additional time to
complete a continuous line of railway
from Marshall, Texas, to the Pacific
Ocean, provided, however, that nothing
herein contained shall be construed as
authorizing the grant of any additional
lands or. subsidy of any kind by the gov
ernment.
By Mr. Blaine, endowing the Lowery
Industrial Academy in Alabama, and au
thorizing the acceptance of a donation of
buildings and lands in its aid.
By Mr. Saunders, abolishing all import
duties on salt.
Mr. McDonald resumed his remarks in
favor of the bill for the ascertainment of
the amount of land located on the
military warrant for the payment of five
per cent, of its value to the several States
named. He argued that all public lands
within said States, which, by the terms of
their acts of admission, were exempted
from State taxation for five years from
sale, and that five per cent, on these was
due the State. He held that the location on
military scrip, was a sale within the
meaning of the acts referred to, since the
lands were given as a bonus to those who
served the government, in the place of an
equivalent cash payment.
Washington, February 12.—In exec
utive session to-day, the Senate confirmed
the following nominations for Census Su
pervisors : Norman W. Trezevant, Third,
and H. H. De A. Kennedy, Fourth Dis
trict of Louisiana. The following like
nominations were rejected: Harrison Reed,
First Florida District of Florida; Wm. J.
Patton, Second District of Arkansas. The
following nominations were confirmed:
George Walker, of New York, Consul
General at Paris; Mrs. E. C. Bainbridge,
Postmistress Fortress Monroe, Virginia.
Dublin, February 12.—The Mansion
House Relief Committee has received two
thousand pounds from Brisbane, Austra
lia, and five hundred fram Bombay. The
fund now amounts to 55,500 pounds, of
which 24,600 pounds have been distribu
ted.
Chicago, February 12.—The Imperial
Mills elevator of Douglas & Stewart,.at
the comer of Sixteenth and Dearborn
streetSjWas blown down this morning and
one hnndred and twenty-three thousand
bushels of wheat which It contained
spilled on the ground. The buildingwas
one hundred feet high and one hundred
and ten by sixty feet in extent with a ca
pacity of two hundred thousand bushels.
The mill adjoining was also badly dam
aged. The loss on the elevator and con
tents is $155,000, on the mill $50,000.
There is no insurance covering this kind
of accident.
Washington, February 12,—Before
the Senate Exodus Committee to-day Mr.
East, of Indianapolis, produced statement
written by him, and signed by two colored
emigrants, to the effect that they were
induced to come to Indiana by represen
tations made by Perry and Williams, that
work was plenty and wages high, land
cheap, etc. Perrv said no Democratic ne
groes were wanted—none but strong-
hearted Republicans, because the Demo
crats were misgoverning Indiana. Mr.
East testified that there is no demand for
labor in Indiana. The condition ofthe em
igrants is pitiable. General L. D. Man-
son, a prominent Indiana Democrat, testi
fied that there was room for more capital
and labor in Indiana, but not for pauper
labor.
San Fbancisco, February 12.—S. H.
Brummel, editor of the Enterprise, was
shot and fatally wounded at Hollister,
California, to-day, by G. W. Carlton, edi
tor of the Telegraph. Brummel had been
called horse thief in Carlton’s paper, and
Carlton, upon being called to account by
Brummel to-day, drew a pistol and shot
„ ' . , . “ inverse ui mis iate is in ourpow-
Georoe Jackson, colored, has been ISSSSi. e*** £ om P^ n ^> ***> waspos- j er. Under the present policy the next
'sessedof property valued at about six generation of cotton planter wUl become
hundred dollars, all of which Simmons - oecome
induced her to sell.
sentenced to be hung in Paulding county
on the 2Gtli of March.
Dn. P. H. Pihlpot will hereafter as
sist in the editorial management of tie
Talbotton Standard. Municipal matters
so crowd upon his Honor, Mayor Mum-
ford, as to make this necessary.
The report that the Ed Cox case will
be taken from the Supreme Court of
Geoigia, to the Supreme Court of the
Uniud States, is regarded as highly im
probable
Gbiffin t* j n the midst of itsr prepara
tions for a gram military fair.
The Warrcnton Clipper has entered
upon its seventeenth-roiujne, -yy e w j sh
it much success.
Two darkies in Glascock county jail
attempted to bum out by settlor, |j re t0
the jail in their cell, and narrow v es _
caped burning themselves out of exm.
Having dpr>e so the
unscrupulous groom seized hold upon the
money, stole a horse and buggy belong
ing to Byne, made his escape into South
Carolina, leaving-Byne and Bride lonely
and desolate-^-tlie first minus a horse and
buggy and the latter her property. Byne
offers a reward for the capture of the ras-
STATE GRANGE.
DfUinmci uruajf* uicn
the latter in'tha head.
St. LouiSpFetfcuaay 12.—At a meeting
on ’Change to-djp. g&JKX) in money, 300
barrels (A Aur apt^vaupus lots of pork,
coin, meal, com bcef^bread and other
articles were contributed to the Mer
chants’ Exchange Irish Relief Fund.
Twenty-five or thirty Committees, repre
senting different branches of business,
have been appointed and will canvass the
city at once. It is believed that a ship
load of food and other supplies will be
raised in a very short time.
Cincinnati, February 12.—The Cath
olic Telegraph the oflicial organ of the
Diocese, announces this morning that an
official letter from the Prefect of Pitma-
ganda to Cardinal Simeoni, brings infor
mation that Right Rev. W. H. Elder has
been appointed coadjutor of the Arch
bishop of Cincinnati, with right of suc
cession. In a private letter to Archbishop
Purcell the appointee intimates his inten
tion to accept the appointment.
London, February 19.—A Constantino
ple dispatch reports that daring a fete, a
barrack three stories high, near that city,
collapsed. Two hundred soldiers were
killed and throe hnndred wounded.
A crying baby is a bore to the whole
neighborhood and the parents should he
forced to keep Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrap
bandy. Price 25 cents.
A Chinaman has lately compared
Carlyle with Confucius, and finds not
only that their birthdays are the same,
and that they did not say a great many of
regardless of their, the same thing, but that Carlyle is, In
r . vl . , in opposition to the I fact) anot h er avatar of the great Kung-
actiou of their best and wisest men, was , . an( j that V.3 “hero worship” and i
the greatest triumph a Northern man ever ~ - • -
gained in the way of leading an army of
Soutliem Brigadiers.
Mr. Raadaii—I do not want to lead a
The oat and wheat crop around
Swainsboro never looked better.
Mb..R. L. Paschal had an eight hun
dred dollar barn and stable burned by an
incendiary near Thomson early tills week.
A number of pigs were frozen to
death during :he cold spell in Hancock
county.
Americus had the “Boston Dip” and
“Toodles” this week. The casts were
good.
Judge C. L. Battle and Miss Emma
Battle were thrown from a buggy last
week and painfully but not fatally in
jured, in Schley county.
An old darkey, George Floyd, who was
over a hundred years of age, was burned
to death on Mr. G. E. Clarke’s place in
Sumter county. He was certainly old
enough to keep out of the fire.
There is a considerable amount of
sickness about Irwinton.
Tiie Irwinton Southerner and Appeal
announces the death of Madam Rumor.
There is certainly some mistake, as the
old lady was in the city yesterday, and
very active, too, for one of her age,
This is the season when the wonderful
hog creeps all over our country ex
changes.
Mr. J. F. Hatfield, near Irwinton,
had his smoke house burglarized of five
hundred pounds of meat.
“Fence or no fence,” is being discussed
in lower Twiggs.
Dan Brigady, colored, is to be hung
in Thomasville on the 12th of March,
privately.
A beckless negro driver ran over
little colored boy in Savannah and the
boy will probably die.
A strange disease, similar somewhat
to meningetis, prevails in Elbert county.
It is very fatal.
Rust has attacked the wheat and oats
in South Geoigia.
An eighteen year old white boy in Jas
per county is legally married to a white
woman 71 years of age.
License to sell liquor in Thomson
has expired, and no more will, for the
present, be issued.
Southerner and Appeal: The grand jury
of the January term of Laurens Superior
Court recommends that jurors and bailiffs
of that county be paid two dollars per day
during 1880.
According to the Rising Fawn (Dade
county) Gazette, the iron furnace of that
place is doing well, making about fifty
tons of pig metal per day. This is said to
be one of the best iron furnaces in the
South.
Griffin News: We were shown yes
terday a laige specimen of rose quartz,
fouud near Thomaston, in the center of
which was lodged a quantity of water.
By turning the quartz around the water
seems to move in a groove or hollow, af
ter the manner of the spirit level. How
did the water get in there 2
Ishmaelite: There is no regular fee
charged by ministers for marrying a coup-
V.1UUQV.U <uiutg 1V1 mui * J * 0 “
le, but they are generally paid from $10
to $25, sometimes $50. (Fifty is what we
intend paying.) But an exchange wants
to know what a notary public should have
for making a couple “solid for life.” In
much charity we say $5 and cost, or fifteen
days on the chain gang.
Sumter Republican: Mr. J. D. Brown,
of Sumter county, is thirty-five years old,
and has a daughter nine years of age who
has seen more birthdays Gian he has. On
the 29th of this month, however, he will
get even with her, as he will then cele
brate his ninth birthday. He was bom
February 29, 1844.
Arlington Advance: The ring of the
workman’s hammer can be heard on
every side of our little town. Surely Ar
lington is rapidly improving. Mechani
cal labor is getting scarce, and the mills
nearest town are unable to fill all orders
sent them for lumber. Our citizens are
far from being asleep, all are awake to
the interests of their town, and appear to
be infused with new life and energy as
the indications of prosperity become more
promising.
Buena Vista Argus: We have been in
formed of a most daring attempt to assas
sinate a peaceful and law-abiding citizen.
Last Sunday night week, Mr. Tom De
vane, of Schley county, who lives about
five miles this side of Ellaville, on the
mail route, was returning home from a
visit to Hon. T. F. Rainey’s. While rid
ing along towards home some unknown
person suddenly stopped his horse, and
declaring his intention to kill him, the
unknown would-be-assassin made a stab
at his victim’s heart, and ran. Mr. D.
threw up his arm to ward off the blow,
and his coat -received a long cut. The
presumption is that the would-be-assassin-
ater thought he had killed his victim, be
came frightened and ran. This is a most
daring attempt at assassination under
cover of darkness, and merits the penalty
of the law.
Berrien county News : Mr. Thomas
Faulk, of this place, owns a cow that has
reached the advanced age of twenty
years. He keeps her in a close stall and
gives her the best of attention. She has
grown quite feeble, and the present disa
greeable weather is telling on her consti
tution. We believe thd average of the
cow is about twelve years, but we pre
sume this cow was nst dissipated in her
early days.
A Dove Breaks a Headlight.—Col
umbus Enquirer: On Monday night the
engineer ofthe Columbus hound freight
tram on the Mobile and Girard Railroad,
when within about nine miles of the city,
saw a dove flying directly towards the
engine. He supposed it passed by, and
did not discover the mistake until arriv
ing in tlie city. It was then found the
dove had broken the glass of the head
light, which is very thick, and lay dead
near the light. We would advise all
doves to steer clear of headlights of loco
motives.
Charge Against an Official.—
Savannah News: Yesterday morning A.
J. Miller, Deputy Collector ol Customs at
St. Mary’s, was arraigned before United
States Commissioner E. C. Wade, on the
charge of embezzlement of government
funds. The charge is preferred by Thomas
M. Blodgett, the Collector, who has him
self been suspended, as onr telegraphic
dispatches have noted, and who is now
under investigation by the Treasury De-
paifment. Mr. Miller waived examina
tion, and gave bond in the sum of five
hundred dollars to appear at the April
term of the United States Court; Mr.
Miller has, since the suspension of Blod
gett, been appointed Collector, and is now
occupying that position. He returned to
St. Mary’s yesterday afternoon.
Tiif. Aueusta News tells how Mr. E.
his “everlasting Yea” are only reverbera-1 H. Byne, of Jefferson county, says that an
tious and reflections from fragments of the i u ... ;^n.ed scoundrel named John Sim-
great CcnfucianTao. j wops recently came to Ills neighborhood,
An All Sifbt Session.
We are indebted to Mr. Eden Taylor
f® the following proceedings of the State
Giange session held in this city. The du
ties of his office as Secretary precluded
his sending a synopsis of them earlier.
Cohnel T. J. Smith, Master ofthe State
Grange, by appointment, called the body
together-it the National Hotel, on the 9th
instant. Thirty delegates from different
portions olthe State were present. Great
harmony pnvailed thoughout the session,
hut, owing U the fact that the State Ag-
f'Wtnral Convention would sit in Cuth-
next (ay, and a large number oi
fP. SPj^^v'vho were also delegates to
bert on the^^^f^^^^btoCuth-
notas larae ^ of the m ® etln S» there was
as - would
, j .7 een. The session was
prolonged tlirpu S t e ntoe niglZ
however, to give L Gaining Agricul
tural Convention dek 0 ,“ rtr„}iL
to attend that body. ates an °PP° rt UBity
The officers elected.*-*. „ .....
years are: T. J. Smih. M.?S. 2,“J.!!L 0
O.; T. H. Kimbrough, Sec.; D. Nichols,
S.; W. B. McDaniel, Aist.S.; W.F. Stark,
Chap.; J. S. Lawton, "reas.; E. Taylor,
Secty.; Wm. Kaigler, H. K.; Mrs. T. J.
Smith Ceres, Mrs. L. Woollier, Pomona;
Mrs. M. H. Lewis, Flora ;Mrs. E. Taylor,
L. A. S.
Executive Committee—F. Living
stone, C. T. Zachry, B. Raily.
The finances of the order ivere reported
in a safe condition, with no outstanding
indebtedness.
In many sections of the Site the con
dition of the Grange was reputed healthy,
and the bettertbe Grange beume known,
the less antagonism there wa to it, and
wherever a true, active Granje was exist
ing, the more thrifty, useful and intelli
gent was the ctmmunity, anymore prog
ressive.
A number oi new deputies were appoin
ted to instruct and reorganize dormant
Granges.
Resolutions pledging acti*e support to
the State Agricultural Depu-tment, and
commendatory of its efiicieit Commis
sioner, and of thanks to Hon.L. F. Liv
ingstone for his antiring and alls defense
of the department in the Legjlature of
Geoigia, were unanimously adcated.
Resolutions of thanks to the generosity
of the railroads of the State a passing
delegates to the meeting at half fare were
adopted. And special thanks were ex
tended to ex-Govemor J. E. Brown,
President of the Western andAtlantic
Railroad for extending the delgates of
this body equal courtesies with thae ofthe
State Agricultural Convention, this win
ning the title of Grange benefactor.
The Grange enjoyed the hospiMity of
their hostess, Mrs. Brown, of he Na
tional.
Much other important busiiess was
transacted during the laborious all-niglit
session, which will secure greater inter
est in and respect for the agriculural life
and the weal of the farm.
The Grange adjourned at 530 a. m.,
February 10, to meet in the city of
Thomasville on the second Tuesday in
December, 1S80.
the poorest, the most powerless and the
most contemptible of earth’s inhabitants,
while under a wise system of planting
producing cotton only as a surplus, the
next generation of cotton growers may
become the richest, the most powerful and
the most respected of earth’s people.
Brothers, wnich destiny will we choose ?
You may ssk how this better fate can be
secured; the reply to which is a very sim
ple proposition—make cotton only as our
siuplus crop, in this lies the Samson-lock
of our future as tillers ofthe soil. Let us
make our own fertilizers, thus we become
The following is the address ofColonel
T. J. Smith on openingthe State Grange:
Brothers Georgia State Granges:
Conforming to the duties impose! upon
us by our fundamental laws, as veil as
the well-being of our organization we
have convened here in this, our ninti an
nual session, for conference and coduel
ing together in the very important iiter-
cst we claim to represent, to advance its
prosperity, thereby, promoting the bestiia-
terest of this, our broad and lovely lanl.
We can hut exceedingly regret, and wit*
much sadness, that we are meeting at this
time, not with that enthusiasm that has
characterized similar meetings in the past,
and as discreet, prudent and wise coun
selors, it becomes our earnest duty, as die
representatives of our oigenization, to
scrutinize closely our structure and set if
all proper appliances have been utilized,
looking to its promotion, if not ferret #ut
the causes of the neglect, and supply it
immediately.
For some cause, wo must confess, our
organization has been languishing in Geor-
ia, and is now in a state of apathy which
jas paralized a major portion of our mem
bership, disqualifying them for work.
Seeing this unfortunate state of affairs, it
becomes os, representatives of our lioble
order, to devise plans and means, and that
wisely, which will give it new force, new
strength, more action and more life, and
the first impulse of a true patrons’heart is
that of gratitude to our Maker for the im
proved prosperity of our country, and the
multitude of blessings enjoyed throughout
our State whilst some sections lave been
visited with suffering and some even with
death.
In counseling together, brothers, with
honest hearts, united, by the strong and
faithful tie of agriculture, let us mutually
determine, in all sincerity and earnest
ness, to labor for the advancement of our
order, our country and mankind. Let us
prepare well for our work: wash and
make clean our hands and hearts of all
evil intentions; relieve ourselves of any
and all prejudices in the least calculated
to promote selfish and individual ends, or
in the least to savor of waging an
gressivo warfare against any other k _
mate interest, for we loudly proclaim
and acknowledge the broad principle that
difference of opinion and interest is no
crime, and we have done our part in
averting all bitterness of controversy with
all other legitimate industries of our
country. Brothers, let us inquire why
was our order organized? Was it a ne
cessity at all, demanded by the tillers of
the soil, or was it a fanatical outburst from
hair-brained fanners cxliilcrated by suc
cess in their earnest work, or was it not
oppression that was grinding into dust our
class of industry which was paralyzing
every interest in our land, threatening it
with certain and utter ruin ? Such sur
roundings with sudi exacting demands,
crippled as our class were by our homes
being embarassed by mortgages and debts;
our products selling at prices by no
meant remunerative for our hard and
earnest eflbrte, had the effect to palsy our
avocation and humilitate us in it, caus
ing us to question the propriety and wis
dom of longer continuing.
Justice demands that all business and
inteiest of a legitimate character should
he fairly rewarded and protected. Surely
no one will question hut that our avoca
tion is prominently embraced among such,
and that our labors and our energies
contributing to the wealth of the country,
and its general prosperity, is entitled to a
fair and just remuneration, as much as an
invotment in merchandise, manufactur
ing, banking and railroads. How docs
money invested in a farm compare with
other industries? What the comparative
yield in profits in a good many instances,
vary considerably, in some worse than
nothing; whilst the mortgage and claims
upon the investment are drawing from
fifteen to thirty per cent, interest, the ten
dency of which, of course, is to reduce
the land-holders to mere tenants, and the
laborers to paupers.
It is to be greatly desired that the recent
reaction in prices of the products of
the soil may prove : n nnanent,
though very much will <■ _.jnd upon
the course of action pursued by the
farmers in planting and making less
cotton, and these, with other promi
ses, will keep up the present boom, whilst
under existing circumstance, producing
excessive crops of cotton, we will ever
grow poorer and they will ever grow rich
er, who handle it after it is made. Without
a great change from producing five and
half or six millions of bales of cotton, the
Southern States are destined to become so
many plantations, practically owned-by
independent of the guano dealers. Let us
rake onr own supplies, thus we become
independent of the provision merchant,
for we all know the cheapest and safest
line of transportation runs from onr owe
grain fields and hog pens to our bams
and meat houses. With no debts for our
provisions and fertilizers, we will need no
accommodation credit at two to five
per cent, per month. Thus we be
come independent of Shylocks in
the person of lien merchants. In
this beautiful and so much desired
situation we sell all our cotton at
our own time, to our own chosen buy
ers, and will get our own money. But
planting on a ruinous credit none of these
things can we do, but (hirelings like) he
hnmiliated by task masters.
For what are governments established?
Can it be for the protection of one class
to the sacrifice of others, or has it been
instituted as the medium through which
all the people are to obtain protection ?
A government, to be perpetuated, must
have a high standard of virtue, intelli-
and'po^k&i 1 - 11 ? , t0 S^e it true strength
undoes and storms in jW [](?.!!£ which tor-
pointed aspirants for office will surely £e3t
its stability—yes, overthrow it; for our
own Government has taught ns sad les
sons, which arc now fresh in the memory
of our people. Where does the wealth of
a nation come from ? Does it spring from
productive industry from the labor of such
a country ? You will find where a govern
ment neglects to encourage and protect
these it disregards its best interest and its
main support; does nothing short of in
viting; the certain penalty. If the profits
of industry are taken from the producer,
and the wages of the laborer inadequate
to the maintainance of themselves, as also
their families, is not the object of govern
ment disappointed and the just rights
of the people disregarded; yes, we might ad
mit, crushed out. Where are the powers of
government vested? Are they not in the
people. We claim they are and their offi
cers are mere servants responsible to their
constituents for every act, whether op
pressive or wholesome, and if the plant
ing interests have suffered and still suf
fering from unjust and oppressive restric
tion from unhealthy legislation by the in
fluence of organization of other classes, no
blame can he atttachcd to those engaged
in other industries of life for using honora
ble as well as legitimate means in pro
tecting as well as fostering their peculiar
interest. We claim no great reform was
ever, or ever will be, except through or
ganization and a united effort, for we are
forced to have some medium through
which our wrongs can be vindicated and
our wants understood and the strength of
organization felt,
If this is true, and we so maintain, does
not the Grange present the organization
as also the medium to the planting inter
est through which it can not only speak
but claim the assurance' with proper and
well-directed efforts that practical and
good results can be attained. Such, so
mlpable, staring us in the face, we organ-
zed as farmers iu the Grange for our pro
tection and mutual benefit, for wise and
beneficent purposes, and this effort sprang
our order into existence, seeming as if by
magic arousing naturally the surprise and
suspicion as well as the jealousy of all
classes of business and serious apprehen
sions gained foothold, feeling that the far
mers and planters of the country
whose grievances were acknowledged
were arousing from their slumbers
and prostration for the great pur
pose of redressing their wrongs by re
taliating upon those whom was regarded
as their aggressors. Now it lias been
demonstrated, and most satisfactorily,
that these apprehensions had not the
slightest foundation. We can and do
claim, without fear of being contradicted,
no organization was ever formed with pu
rer motives and with nobler aims, for the
protection of human rights, than the
Grange, and strange indeed, to us, it has
had much and unjust opposition to over
come oven among the planting class,
whilst its motives were so unjust and so
pure, but being controlled entirely by
farmers and planters inexperienced in
wire working, or in any co-operative ef
fort, we cannot compare it better than to
a ship launched upon strange waters, and
at the same time maimed by incompetent
as well as inexperienced mariners, aud is
laden with an invaluable treasure. Sound
ing of course had to be resorted to, and a
chart prepared, compass set, and the men
put in training even to handle the ropes
and all tlie needed work, as well as stand
at the helm.
Such being our situation, who can be
astonished at our craft being standed? who
is shocked at so many dormant Granges ?
Who is not astounded that our organiza
tion still lives, that thirty States of this
Union recently convened in National
counsel, with brothers fired up with
Grange zeal, working in beautiful harmo
ny, brotherly love and earnestness,
the deliberations of which has in
spired new life and new confidence in
our Order, not only in this na
tion, but is keenly felt in
the Dominion of Canada, the representa
tives of which were present, with warm
and patriotic hearts fully revived _ in
Grange interest, determined, like us', to
perpetuate our organization in the Do
minion of Canada, where it has taken
deep root from the seed sown there by the
National Grange.
bled here over this suffering aud seriously
111 patient, let us prescribe and administer
the needed remedy, hoping to remove the
disease and invigorate it into new life
and more enthusiasm.
I call your special attention to the re
port adopted by the National Grange, as
presented by a special committee of that
body, as follows:
“Worthy Master, your committee raised
to take into consideration the state and
condition ot American agriculture, and to
report such measures and policies as in
their judgment will tend to afford relief
from the weights, hindrances and difficul
ties that may beset it, and suggest such
methods as will restore to American farm
ers greater prosperity and promote
their political and material wel
fare, have given the subject such
consideration as opportunity and
circumstances allowed, and present the
following report: Agricultural progress
has never been more rapid than within
the last decade. The modes of apicul
ture have been vastly improved, 'fhe in
vention of labor-saving implements and
farm machinery has multiplied the pow
ers of farm labor aud accelerated the
forces of production. In that period the
increase of raw production has been aug
mented. The appliances and facilities
for profitable farming are in the hands
of every farmer, and the highest
degree of agricultural progress is
exhibited in the marvelous abundance
of harvest. From 1875 to 1878 the
amount of newly settled lands in the Uni
ted States was 18,755,115 acres. The ten
dency is toward the increase of raw produc
tion, and the new methods of cultivation
upon all farming lands give additional
and enlarged powers of production. From
these additional resources agriculture
yields a larger annual wealth, and tab;™,
a general view of Its progress, it might be
WCO^ed as evidence of a general pros
its fields; but ‘bifift. wfcp are engaged in
vidual farmer, the reverse is prfeseindi.
Surrounded with such advantages, and,
notwithstanding the stupenduous efforts
of the agricultural people to keep abreast
with the onward march of other
trades, occupations and employments,
farm capital and labor receive less re
muneration than equal capital and
labor employed in other departments of
life,
Canandaigua,X,' W York,do especially pe- married, and have si
The cause of so much apathy and luke
warmness in the Grange is given by the
National Grange at its last session. Hear
it: That the cause of dormant Granges
emanates from the Grange admitting
wrung materials, electing improper offi
cers, want of proper instruction, failures
in experiments in business, want of edu
cation in the true objects and aims of our
order, disregard of law, violating rules
and regulations bringing about disorder
and chaos, dissensions engendered by in
troducing personal differences in the
Grange. The National Grange also sug-
g »t the following remedy for dormant
ranges: Reorganization of the Grange
with proper material, careful and thor
ough instruction by those reorganizing,
proper and healthful education in the de
claration of purposes and in the plan of
carrying them out, encouragement to those
who have become indiflerent, appointing
competent deputies who are enthusiastic
in our work—and not because they have
aspirations for the position, but because
of their well-known fidelity and zeal,
proven by their good works. Visits should
be made to the dormant Granges by com
mittees appointed by the neighboring
Granges; lectures, pnblic and private,
should be kept up; Grange journals, whose
devotion is sincere, earnest and filled with
Grange subjects, as a means of education,
and the Patrons of Husbandry of Missis
sippi most wonderfully fills this necessity
—pardonme forsayingthis and every mem-
herof the Grange for reading it. Who
doubts all this? The various causes of dor-
manrgranges,cause of lukewarmness,of so
much’ apathy, if any other cause exist
among us, it is our duty to find it out.
Let our scrutiny be complete; sift earn
estly for all causes. If the National Grange
has failed to furnish a remedy in our case,
it is another duty imposed upon us. It
may be, our case is one of great despera
tion. If so, apply bold and desperate
remedies if nothing short will answer our
purposes. But let us first apply the mild
est applications that are calculated to ac
complished the desired work. In some
States the pruning knife has been
liberally applied with healthy re
sults, but in Georgia the dis
eased and improper clement of the
Grange, has sloughed off, therefore no
work of a surgical character, no pruning
is required. Our organization is wanting
in fertilization, that its membership may I
multiply and grow iu strength. It needs . tional Grange of the Patrons of Hus-
n ctimnlortt <inr1 wo Us nlivsiriana ' kendpv. AnrwtintAil in anmifll Qftssinn of
American farming is growing less profit
able and less encouraging. In a country
possessing so many facilities of cheap
production, this discouraging aspect of
agriculture must be and is the result of
more than natural causes.
The annual additions of wealth, under
the enlightened system of agriculture, are
enormous, but from the unequal divisions
ofthe profits of labor and the unjust dis
criminations made against it, the enlist
ments of property show that the fanners
of the United States are not prospering.
While it is rapidly extinguishing all debts
and restoring an equilibrium to tlie cur
rency of the country, its votaries are de
prived of a just share of the rewards of
their toils. Capital concentrates to make
corners and form rings to fix prices.
Transportation companies are allowed
to make and unmake prices at will by
theirunjust and discriminating tariffs and
freights.
Subsidies and tarifis are created to pro
tect other industries to the prejudice of
agriculture. Commerce is shackled,
American productions are denied the
markets of the world, through partial and
restrictive laws. Agricultural property is
made to bear an unequal and undue pro
portion of taxation, to afford exemption
and privileges to other industries. Mo
nopolies are permitted to assume power
and control, and exercise prorpgatveis and
privileges justly belonging to sovereignty.
Encouraged by Legislation and stimula
ted by power, they have grown dictatorial
and imperious in their demands, unrelent
ing in their exactions, and cruel
and unmerciful in their im
positions. Society has become
extravagant, and is now a heedless spend
thrift ofthe painful earnings of labor.
Government has become proud and auto
cratic, while her toiling laborers are hu
miliated in their poverty; States are lavish
and prodigal with the people’s money;
cities and towns grow rich at the expense
and impoverishment ofthe country; laws
arc ingeniously formulated to make jus
tice tardy and thus tend to encourage
crime and disorder.
In view of the well established fact that
the productive industries must bear the
burdens of society, chief among which is
iculture, the natural nursing mother of
all the occupations, trades and professions
of our people, it is found that it is overtax
ed and overburdened with unnecessary,
unequal and flagrant impositions, that a
just sense of right would transier to where
they justly belong.
The farmers of America have on all oc
casions shown themselves to be a patient
aud enduring people, and further submis
sion to wrong and injustice will be a sac
rifice of manhood and exhibition of cow
ardice. Stirred with a just sense of right,
and supported by the integrity of our pur
pose, the National Grange of the Patrons
of Husbandry, in the name aud interests
of the farmers of the United States, stern
ly demand
1. That the Department of Agriculture
shall be made an Executive Depart
ment, and the Commissioner a Cabinet
officer.
2. The Agricultural department shall
be supported by annual appropriations
commensurate with the importance ofthe
great and permanent industry it repre
sents. t
3. That commercial treaties shall he
made with all forei. n countries, giving to
American products equal and unobstruc
ted intercourse with the markets of the
world.
4. That governments be administered
in a cheaper and simple, manner, conso
nant with the conditions of the people.
5. That ainore rigid economy in the
expenditures of public moneys be re-es
stablishcd.
3. That the laws shall he plain and
simple, to the end that justice shall he
speedy, crime punished and good govern
ment maintained.
7. That the creation or allowing of
monopolies to exist is in violation of the
spirit and genius of free republican gov
ernment.
8. That the tariffs of freights and fare
over railroads and all transportation com
panies shall be regulated, and all unjust
discriminations exhibited by law.
9. That taxation shall he equal and
uniform, and all values made to contrib
ute their just proportion to the support of
the government.
10. "That the revenue laws ofthe United
States shall be so adjusted as to bear
equally upon all classes of property to the
end that agriculture shall be relieved of
the disproportions of burdens it bears.
11. That the patent laws of the United
States be so revised that innocent purcha
sers of patent rights shall be protected and
fraudulent venders alone held responsible
for infringements ot rights and violations
of law.
12. That a system of elementary agri
cultural education shall be adopted in the
common schools of the country.
13. That we are entitled to and should
have a fair representation in the legisla
tive halls of the country, chosen from the
ranks of the fanners.
The National Grange, finding the pat
ent laws as construed by the courts ma
king the innocent purchaser or maker of
any patented article, purchased or made
in good faith for his own use, not know
ing it to have been patented, liable to pay
royalty for using the same, is an outrage
upon common sense and antagonistic to
every principle of justice and fair dealing,
therefore directs me to present to you
the following memorial, to which I also
call your attention:
To the Senate and House of Representa
tives, in .Congress assembled:
Whereas, many persons having pur
chased in good faith implements and ar
ticles for their own use, and having inno
cently used them for years, are now hav
ing money extorted from thorn as “royal
ty,” under threats of prosecution in the
United States Courts by persons claiming
to be owners of patents covoring such ar
ticles and implements, thereby causing
great injustice and hardship to innocent
persons, »
Therefore, We, the members ofthe Na*
lien merchants, and the cotton producers a stimulant, aud we, its physicians, assent- j bandry, appointed in annual session at (
tition and pray your honorable body that
such amendments may be made to the pat
ent laws as shall make the manufacturers
or \ enders of such articles and imple
ments that are infringements on any pat
ent that may have been granted amendable
to the action of such patent laws instead
of the innocent purchaser of such patented
article or implement. And that any per
son innocently making any implement or
article for his own use, which is an in
fringement upon any patent without know
ing it to be such, may be allowed to pay
toe royalty upon it or by ceasing to use it,
shall not be liable to prosecution under
such patent law.
The Committee on Resolutions in the
National Grange, stated the partial relief
given us by the National and State Legis
latures is accepted with thanks, as the re
sult of petition. There is, however, no
substantial relief to the overburdened
farmers of America, in any action thus far
conceded by-the legislative authorities of
our government.
, Thirteen years experience and associa
tion in the Grange has satisfied the Amer
ican farmers, whom we represent, that
their grievances will never bo removed
until farmers are elected as representa
tives to the law-making bodies of our
States, and to the National Legislatures,
in such numbers as will constitute those
bodies with a fair share of our people.
The sacred right of petition is the
legitimate, and omy way In
which a minority can establish their
claim to be released of unjust
and unequal burdens. The American
farmers once united to act and vote to
gether, can assume the full authority of
the law-making powers of the State aud
ofthe national government. To do this,
we will avail ourselves of a constitutional
right secured to us in peipetual succession
by our honored sires, who founded this
republic. We have come now to consider
we can so act as to maintain our consti-
mannufri»~T>t to equality and defend our
consideration in view ui ■ Pverv
overthrow of "the proprietorship of tne
farms we till, to act promptly and wisely.
To this end, we recommend farmers to
make such alliance whenever repre-1
sentatives to the State —-
. nee lived In Louisi
vine. Mr. De Funiak rose gradually
from a subordinate situation in the sendee
of the Louisville and Nashville Company
to his present influential position.
KBS. GBEE2TS MILLIONS.
The Woman who Owns 10,000 Shares
of Louisville and Nashville and
Great Southern Stock.
“Oath.” in the Cincinnati Bnqnirar.”!
Some time ago the President of the
Louisrille and Nashville and Great
Southern railroad said that there was a
woman owning stock in that railroad who
had $25,000,000.1 thought over the whole
range of women in this countiy, and fail
ed to drop to any with that amount of
money. I inquired of other persons, and
they thought the woman was a myth. But
I have understood, within a day or two,
that there is really a woman wiui a for
tune of that, or approximate magnitude,
though she is scarcely known to anybody
in either financial or social circles.
She is a Mrs. Green, the wife of a form
er American merchant in China, who is
himself said to be worth $5,000,000. This
gentlemen spends most of his time about
the Union Club, New York, while his
wife resides with an invalid sou at Bel
lows’ Fall,Vermont.
She derives her fortune from a man
known as “Blubber” Robinson, who
owned the Iaigest line of whale ships at
New Bedford, Mass. New Bedford, you
will remember, is quite a modem town, in
New England, having been settled only
ten years before the Revolutionary war.
It took the name of Bedford, because the
land was owned by a Mr. Russell, who
remembered that Russell was the family
name ofthe Dukes of Bedford. This
town grew rich by the address of a Quak
er named Rotch, who persuaded the
French and British Governments to let
him ship them whale oil duty free. Then
arose a magnificent whaling business for
^3^ ”2
whale oil a year.
, . , . - . The man known as “Blubber” Rohin-
. .. . . . , legislature or > son j s sa ;,j f 0 j, ave had a line of whale
ahips painted blue in color, and had ex-
traordinary success, both on the sea and
chosen as will enable them by their votes
to elect from their own number an even-
handed, fair share of representatives. Act
ing together to accomplish this grand pur
pose is no violation of their obligations as
members of our Order. The assumption
of this constitutional right is hut the as
sertion of our manhood, and wo cannot
longer he dominated by party associations
which deny us our equality or support a
partisan press, that ignores the association
of American farmers.
THE MACON AND BRUNSWICK
HOAD.
Tire Sale In Atlanta.
The railroad news from the capital yes
terday excited no little interest in the
city. It was the topic of conversation iu
all circles and received varied comments
on all sides. The final adjustment ofthe
vexed question as to whether the lease
made on the 13th of last month would be
carried out, gave relief to the public mind
and immediately started the additional in-
quiiy as to the composition of the com'
panv into -whose hands the road had
passed, and what they intend to do. The
road has undoubtedly been sold in a bona
fide manner to a company at whose head
is Mr. R. T. Wilson, a millionaire of New
York. The other members are Mr. C. M.
McGhee, of the East Tennessee, Virginia,
and Geoigia Railroad, and the Memphis
and Charleston road, Colonel A. J. Lane,
of this place; J. M. Couper, of Brunswick;
Colonel George H. Hazlehurst, of Chatta
nooga, Tennessee, and several others
whose names have not yet yeen made
public. A brief history ofthe transac
tions which have been going on re
cently, which we get from undoubted au
thority, may not be uninteresting. When
Mr. Couper, who bid off the road
at the late lease-sale, he did so on the as
surance of Mr. Chauucy Vibbard that the
money was ready for him wherewith to
meet all the requirements of the lease-sale
act. Mr. Vibbard based his calculations
on cablegrams from Mr. H. E. Wheeler,
from London. At 2 o’clock, after the
lease had been effected, Mr. Vibbard re
ceived information from Mr. 'Wheeler
that he could not or would not come up
to his part of the bargain.
This overturned all calculations, and
the railroad elephant was on the hands of
the company. Mr. Couper could not raise
the ten thousand dollars necessary, and
Mr. Vibbaid was discovered to be in a
similar condition. Messrs. George H.
Hazlehurst and A. J. Lane bridged the
difficulty with a contribution of five thou
sand each, the money coming from, the
vault of the First National Bank.
Mr. Hazlehurst left for New York the
next day, and was followed by Colonel
Lane and Mr. Couper shortly after. An-
nother Savannah capitalist, who was
laigely depended on, is said to have alscr
drawn out about this time. After a few
days Mr. Hazlehurst returned to Chatta
nooga and Colonel Lane to Macon,
having perfected their arrangements
in New York, and since then
the transactions have been gradually ar
ranged. The company in the policy
which is to be pursued is virtually the
same which first leased the road. Messrs.
Vibbard and Wheeler are out entirely.
The change in the ownership of the
road will be made at once. It ia pretty
well settled that Colonel Hazlehurst will
be President and Colonel Lane General
Superintendent. The new arrangement
will make a change in the directorship,
and the present commissioners will go out
of office.
In regard to the extension to Atlanta,
nothing definite can be ascertained at
present. It is thought, however, that
Knoxville is the ultimate objective point
with the company. At any rate, we think
that Macon and Brunswick have reaseh
for congratulation over the result of tbs
whole transaction.
The money for the pnrehdu Was paid
yesterday in Atlanta. We learn also, on
undoubted authority, that of two of the
best informed directors of the Central
road, that the rumored contract between
the Central, Geoigia and Louisville and
Nashville roads is entirely withoutfounda-
tion, in fact. Such a thing, if accomplished
at all, is yet a thing of the future.
Further developments in railroad cir
cles are looked for with intense interest.
Fred De Funiak’s Bomanee.
Cincinnati Chuctts'. I
Mr. Fred De Funiak, the General Man
ager of the Louisville and Nashville rail
road, is held liigh in estimation by rail
road men. He is an Austrian by birth,'
and the son of a famous son. He served
in the Austrian army in the Italian wars,
and is the proud possessor of several med
als and decorations won by acts ot brave
ry aud discretion. He came to this coun
try during the war of the rebellion and
entered the so-called Confederate army,
in which he rose to high rank on account
of his ability as an eugeneer.
He served under Forrest aud Dick Tay
lor. At the battle of Selma, Ala., in
which De Funiak took part, two Missip-
pians, father and son, fell wounded. The
old man made a dying request of the
Austrian that he would carry their re
mains to their homes iu Mississippi. He
promised and fulfilled his agreement. At
the home of the'dead men he! met the,
daughter aud aia.cr. and foil in lore with
her. When the war closed they were
in the employment of his capital on shore.
After the discovery of gold in California
the whaling business declined, and dur
ing the war of the rebellion the big New
Bedford fleet in the Pacific Ocean was de
stroyed by one of the worthless rebel pri
vateers. Meantime it seems the carefully
treasured wealth of “Blubber” Robinson
passed into the hands of a daughter, edu
cated into an extraordinary passion for
penury, and taught that there was but
one commandment left to nun, and that
was to “know the value of money.” In
the city of Paris, on an occasion, Miss
Robinson encountered Mr. E. H. Green,
and their fortunes were joined. She,
however, kept her own separately, both
in the amount and the management, and
I understand that Mr. Cisco, in New
York, is her business agent and makes
her investments. Mr. Green, meantime,
hunts out investments on his own ac
count.
Mrs. Green is said to have ten thousand
shares of stock in.the Louisville organiza
tion, and considerably more than that in
the Houston and Texas Central Railroad.
If we will suppose that these ten thousand
shares originally cost $40 a share, they
have gone up $1,000,000 in the subsequent
rise of the stock. I am not sure that I
have the figures correctly in my mind as
to the number of shares possessed by this
woman. Tlie husband, Mr. Green, is said
to have been originally a man of fine gen
eral observation and respectable scholar
ship, hut liis connection with such a well-
husbanded fortune lias made him some
thing of a monomaniac ou wealth.
A pleasant and cheerful room is essen
tial to the health of the baby, and the
usual pains and ills of the young ones
soon vanish after the use of Dr. Bull’s
Baby Syrup. Price 25 cents.
CONSUMPTION CUBED.
An old physician, retire 1 from practice, hav-
ng had placed in hla hand* by an East India
missionary the formula of a simple vegetable
remedy for the speed; and permanent cure to-
Consumption, Broncb-tas,Catarrh,Asthma, ard
all Throat and Lime Affections, also a positive
and radical core for Nervous Debility ana all
Nervous Complaints, alter taring tested the
wocder nl curative powers in thousands of cases,
has felt It his duty to make it known to all
suffering fellows. Actuated by this motive and
a desire to relieve hum&u suffering, I will send,
free of charge to all who desire it, this recipe,
x wittt stamp, namuiK this paper, W. v
149 Power.* UV.rk. mvbiwtsr. N. T.
THE GENUINE
DR. C. MeXiANE’S
Celebrated American
WORM SPECIFIC
OR
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
T HE countenance is pale and lead
en-colored, with occasional flushes,
or a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the
pupils dilate*; an azure semicircle
runs along die lower eye-lid; the
r ose is irritated, swells, and sometimes
Needs; 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, ac others,
titircly gone; fleeting pains in the
stomach; occasional nausea and vom
iting; violent pains throughout die
abdomen; bowels irregular, at times
costive; stools slimy, not unfrequent-
Iy tinged with blood; belly swollen
and hard; urine turbid; respiration
occasionally- difficult, and accompa
nied by hiccough; cough sometimes
dry and convulsiveuneasy and dis
turbed sleep, with, grinding of the
teeth ; temper variable; but generally
irritable, &c.
Whenever the ahovt symptoms
are* found to exist,
DR- C. McLANE’S VERMIFUGE
* will certainly effect a cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form; it is an innocent prepa
ration, not capable ofdoingtk* slightest
injury to- the most tender infant.
The genuine Dr. McLane’s Ver
mifuge bears the signatures of C.
McLane and F leming Bros, on the'
wrapper. —:0:—-
SB. C. HoLANXTS
LIVER PILLS
are not recommended as a remedy “for
alt the ills that flesh is heir to,” but ia
affections of the liver, and in all Bilious
Complaints, Dyspepsia and Sick Head
ache, or diseases of that character, they
stand without a rival.
AGUE AND FEVER.
No better cathartic can.be used prep**,
atoiy to, or after taking Quinine.
As a simple purgative they arc na*
equaled.
BEWARE OE IMITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar coated.
Each box has a red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression Da. McLanTs
Liver Pills.
Each scrapper hears the. signatures ef
C. McLane and Fleming Bros.
Insist upon having the genuine Dr.
C. McLane’s J.IYXR Pills, prepared by
Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the
market being full of imitations of the
name McLane, spoiled diforfttiy tat
prQtutu<;\it'V?a,
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