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WATITBRAV, NKPTKMBIR 18, 1875.
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J. 11. EMTILL, Savannah. <*a.
Exaggeration.
The New York Times objects to the ex
aggeration of the wealth of individuals
, in which our people are so apt to indulge.
This kind of gossip, although not, in
deed, generally malicious, is by no means
always harmless. Great injustice is often
| thus done by charges of parsimony
■* and want of liberality, which would be
greatly modified if the real state of affairs
were known. Hut this is not the only
evil. It is very strange how often pecu
niary credit is given almost entirely on the
strength of unfounded popular reports of
an individual's wealth. The experience
of the community for the past two years
lias, indeed, taught some terribly severe
lessons on this point.
f** Another exaggeration dodge is fre
quently resorted to for the purpose of
imposing on the credulity of and ex
citing the marvel of the gullible public.
We refer to the enormous salaries said to
lie paid to prominent artists. Barnurn,
Htrackosh, or some other show or opera
manager, effects an engagement with
some famous acrobat or vocalist, who is
played out and no longer “draws” in
Europe. The announcement is made in
the American papers that the gTeat show
man, P. T. Harnum, has engaged Herr
Shumpoverdovorlt at one hundred thou
sand dollars for a season of six months, or
Mr. Htrackosh has engaged Madame
* Hcrctchowly, the renowned jrrirna donna,
to perform one hundred nights in the
United States at a salary of one thousand
dollarsu night, paying besides all personal
and traveling expenses of the lady and
unite. The artiste is flattered by tho lie and
never contradicts tho story, and the
shoddy of our great cities willingly pay
ten prices for tickets of admission and go
into ecstacies over the performance, not
because they really npprociuto the ability
of tho rope dancer or tho singer, but be
cause they are said to receive salaries
larger than Grant’s. The noodles novor
stop to consider tho utter absurdity of a
t manager paying to a single individual a
salary that would absorb very nearly, if
not quite, bis entiro nightly receipts,
leaving nothing with which to pay sub
wdinates, fiddlers and bill stickers. This
is one of tho many means by which the
public is humbugged in these days of
progress.
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Uriines, ( asuallles anti Disasters of a
■* Day.
There seems to be an epidemic of
crime, casualties and disasters prevailing
throughout the country. Tho llrooklyn
Argun of Friday last thus sums up the
record oi asiuglcdaj: “An Illinois Judge
testified in a church scandal trial, and
was shortly after assaulted by three per
oou.i, wlio represented a lady lmpUeaceu
~ in tho case. Two persona renew .*1 pi ''‘si
wounds, and other' <■ time in for
umt roesu. A little boy shot a youuge:
brother at Hamilton, N. <J., “in fun,” as
this divertisemout is called. A Brooklyn
7 Wan fired four revolver shots into him
self and then cut his throat. There was
a fight over a funeral at Montreal yester
day. Bt. Louis reports shooting affrays
and burglaries too numerous to mention.
A rough killed a gentleman at a wedding
in Dayton, Ohio. A train on the Haiti
more and Potomac road was thrown from
the track. An unknown woman was
killed on tho Erie. A man was killed at
n railway crossing in Newark. There
was a smash-up ou the Shore Line and
several persons were injured. And,
finally, a bridge gave way under a train
ou tho Wallkill Valley road and sent seve
' ral hundred people returning from a
camp meeting down a ten-foot embank
ment. No lives were lost, but twenty
fivo people were injured, some very seri
ously. Those of the passengers who did
not get into tho scattered farm-houses
near tho scene, spent the night on the
. ground, with fires nud beds improvised
[ from ear-cushions, shawls, Ac. These
| are tho prominent disasters reported to
day. It is a startling reoord for a single
F twenty-four hours.”
Geobgia Vindicated. — Grant’s kitch
en organ, the Washington liejmbUean,
, heads the telegraphic announcement
of tho acquittal of Gorday Harris
with “The Black Man Vindicated!”
“whereas,” says the Capitol, Don Pi
att’s paper, “j,t is in truth the white
man vindicated—vindicated in the face
of the oppressions of so many years,
in the face of the old and new slanders
which have been heaped upon them by
the Republican press, party and earpet
{ baggers. The aotiou of the Georgia au
* thoritios has done more than any event
| since the war to enlighten tho public and
to lead the country back to tho doctrine
of legitimate State rights. It is the first
fair opportunity that a Southern State
has had of acting in its own independent
sovereignty in a case involving tho an
tagonism of races, and the negro could
not have received fairer treatment in the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.”
—
Murder Mania in New York.—
looks very much as if the press of the
of moral ideas" will have to
f a p,jdon their hackneyed theme, the bar
jfc irfsm of the South, and turn their
nearer home for examples of
blood-thirsty savagery, with which to
thrill the hearts of their sensitive readers.
The lJerald of Saturday says: “Murder
in the slums of New York is becoming so
frequent that killing must soon be looked
on in the light of a slight offence. It is
certain that the rough element of our
population no longer look upon murder
as anything more than a venial sin
against public morality. On the slightest
provocation the knife is brought into re
quhition, with the most deadly results.
Something must be done by the courts to
stop this wholesale, eowardly assassina
tion.
Thyßrooklyn Argus says: “Careful
observers of the South apprehend trouble
between whites and blacks when the
emancipated negroes have- passed away
and the lawless, undisciplined and insu
bordinate darkeys shall have taken their
places. There is reason in this, and it
emphasiies the duty of Church and State
to educate and train these people, amd to
teach them tho importance of industry
and of correct habits. The blacks now
coming on the stage Lack the drill that
|laveiy gave, and are less tractable than
Lbostjirho had been brought up under
ifipntwli U relitji
J. 11. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR,
The Inconveniences of a Scattered
Government.
The disadvantages and embarrass
ments, to say nothing of the expensive
ness, of a gallivanting government, is
strikingly exemplified by the delays in
working up the scheme for a Federal
dragouade in Mississippi. On Thursday
last, Milksop Ames, who has bt recently
returned from his home in Massachu
setts, telegraphed to his master
in Washington, to know if the
proclamation of last year could be so con
strued as to authorize the sending of
troops into Mississippi at this time. This
long dispatch of the Mississippi satrap
had to be telegraphed from Washington
to Long Branch. Grant then telegraphs
to the Attorney General in Washing
ton, submitting the question to that offi
cer. Attorney General Pierrepont tele
graphs to the President at Long Branch
that the proclamation of last year will
not serve for present purposes. The de
cision of the Attorney General is, by
direction of the President, forwarded to
Ames by Private Secretary Lucky. Next
follows from Ames a formal requisition
on the President for troops to enable him
to suppress the insurrection and maintain
a Bepublican form of government in Mis
sissippL
This dispatch having reached Washing
ton is forwarded to Grant at Long Branch,
whereupon the President telegraphs At
torney General Pierrepont at Washing
ton to know if he can comply with Ames’s
requisition without first issuing a procla
mation warning the imaginary insurgents
to disperse within a given time. The
Attorney General telegraphs to the
President that a proclamation must first
be issued. This important document
can only be performed by the Secretary
of State, whose whereabouts, at this im
portant juncture, isunknown to the Presi
dent. At last accounts Long Branch
and Washington were telegraphing over
the country to find the lost Fish.
Now, all this red tape and telegraphic
wire is both embarrassing and expensive,
and in case of a real necessity for prompt
action on the part of the government might
be the cause of serious consequences.
Ah it is, qpthing disastrous is likely to
rosult from a few days delay, and as the
election in Mississippi does not take place
for some weeks yet, Grant, by offering a
liberal reward through the newspapers
for his missing Secretary, may find that
important functionary, have a proclama
tion issued, and all things cut and dried
in time to take military possession
of the polls on the day of election.
This may all be accomplished in good
time to guarantee a Republican form of
government to the people of Mississippi,
but it would have cost the tax-payers less
if the “government” had been at the
Capital attending to its legitimate duties
instead of junketing over tho country.
DeSIBED ReTBOOKHSION TO MARYLAND
—A petition is circulating among the
citizens of Georgetown, D. C., praying
Congress to pass a bill retroceding the
ancient m-H'ry Ihu < 'l i,- ~i, ■ il: moth***-
Ltg is ..nrw f-.V ILuli
more tiu/i • trorn thirty-five to forty
years since retrocession was agitated
in Georgetown, and it is a good
many years ago since the question was
decided favorably upon by a vote of the
people there. There is an impression
that the State of Maryland once formally,
through its Legislature, expressed its
willingness to accept this small portion
of the territory it had ceded to the Gen
eral Government, provided Congress
should consent. Alexandria was retro -
ceded years ago to her mother State,
Virginia, through the assent of Congress,
at the solicitation of its people. At least
two-thirds of the population of George
town and tho Heights are pronounced
retrocessionists, and it is said almost the
entire population would express them
selves in the same manner if their views
could be obtained. This is not at all re
markable, as the advantages of retrooes
sion to Georgetown would be obvious.
That old Maryland city would not only be
relieved from tho corrupt rule of plunder
ing Uacfioal rings by which her people are
now sorely oppressed, but she would
thereby regain the right of self-govern
ment, become the second city of im
portance in Maryland, and enlist the
fostering attention of the Maryland Leg
islature and people.
A Radical Raid upon the Neoroes of
the South. —Alluding to the movement
now on foot to reorganize the black
wing of the Union League in Louisiana,
the New Orleans Times says: “The
political dead beats are about to make a
raid upon the negro. The two millions
stolen under the pretence of a Freedman’s
Bank is about done with, and we hear
that in many of the heavy negro parishes
the white political dead beats are trying
to revive what they called the Uniory
League. These secret societies are al
ways organized for the purpose of swind
ling the simple-minded and ignorant ne
groes. They are made to believe that
these organizations are to protect them
from their natural friends, as if they
needed any protection from people whose
bread they are eating, and who could
starve them all in one season if they
wished to do so. And all this is for the
sole purpose of cheating these poor
people aut of their money. If planters
were to apply a good stout boot toe to
the person of any of the robbers who
are prowling around the negro quarters
as “organizers,’ they would do a service
to their hands, and rid themselves and
their neighborhoods of a dangerous and
troublesome lot of white and black dead
beats. ”
According to all accounts that Lay
torpedo at Newport is a wonderful crea
tion. It travels under water, loaded with
500 pounds of dynamite, and may be
guided and turned in any direction by a
single wire held by the man on shore.
The Lay torpedo performs only a single
act. Nothing so becomes its life as its
manner of leaving it. It is headed for
the enemy's ship, it goes for it straight,
it strikes one blow, and up goes the
eusmy and down goes the little iron cigar
to the bottom of the sea, a sacrifice to the
tremendous energy with which it does its
patriotic work.
The number of sailing vessels has
greatly increased throughout the wo.-ld
since 1870, while a steady increase is
noted in steamships. According to a
report presented to the London Statisti
cal Society, the total tonnage of the
great nations indicates their relative rank
as follows: First, Great Britain: second,
the United States; third, Sweden and
Norway; fourth, Italy; fifth, Germ anyr
oad sixth, France. In 1874 the total
tonnage was 5,226,886.
Affairs in Georgia.
Because Colonel Bob. Alston had a
photograph of Ralston, the newspapers
are calling him a “cosmopolitan.” We
didn’t think it was as bad as that.
Way cross had a grand meteoric display
one night last week.
The Griffin News says that the Georgia
Grange “strongly intimates” that the At
lanta Herald is controlled by Kimball.
The Nexen does not fairly state the case, j
The firange, we regret to say, makes a
distinct and unequivocal charge that
Kimball supervisas the editorial columns ;
of the Herald. In short, tbat he edits
the editors thereof.
Three or four circuses are preparing to
invade Georgia.
The negro who recently attempted to
burn the dwelling-house of Captain T.
B. Cabaniss, of Forsyth, has been sen
tenced to the penitentiary for life.
An Elbert county negro attempted to
outrage the person of a little girl five
years old, the other day. The villain was
subsequently arrested.
The crop prospect in Appling county
is very gloomy.
An Elbert county man named West
went to White county recently to see
his sister, and while there he had the
urbanity to steal her horse. He has
been arrested and caged—the naughty
man.
An attempt was made recently by
several parties, some of whom are known,
to Ku-Klux a Mr. Thornton, a well
known farmer of Wayne county. Some
arrests have been made.
A red fox, which had been guilty of
eating conference chickens in Atlanta,
was appropriately and consummately
slaughtered by a dog.
Mr. James H. Rogers, the husband of
Mrs. Loula Kendall Rogers, of Thomas
ton, died recently.
Mr. A. J. Booker, of Valdosta, is dead.
The whisky troubles in Dawson county
still continue. Wholesale arrests are the
order of the day.
The people of Liberty Hill fear negro
troubles.
Louisville, Jefferson county, is steadily
improving.
A boat is being built on the Chestatee
to work the bed of the river.
Bard isn’t going to start a paper in
Atlanta, and we won’t have him for a
target this winter.
A negro barber was killed by another
negro in Sparta, the other day.
A Newnan nigger kidnapped another
nigger the other day.
Houston county has had her share of
the negro troubles.
The Atlanta Herald not only denies
that Kimball owns any of its stock or
controls its editorial columns, but has
brought suit against the Georgia Grange
for so stating. We are glad that the
matter is to be settled.
Jefferson county has occasional shoot
ing scrapes between obstreperous colored
people and rantankerous whites.
Louisville, Jefferson county, has a daily
mail from Bartow.
\lr B- A. SIDVEHt I-*- -* <r<- ti„j
' vorally, 'bos assumed
editor of the Athens t ieorgian.
The Athens'/e will be changed
into a daily at an early day.
Here is the gist of the Atlanta Herald's
denial in regard to the charges of the
Georgia Grange: “Mr. H. I. Kimball
does not and never has owned, directly
or indirectly, one dollar’s worth of stock
in tho Atlanta Herald, and has never dic
tated a single editorial, or influenced, or
tried to influence an editorial line in the
paper.”
It is rumored in Columbus that Ben
Hill has sold his stock in the State Road
lease to parties in Baltimore for $120,000.
A correspondent, writing from Jeffer
son county, says that the yield of cotton
in that section will barely reach two
thirds of a crop.
An attempt was made to sell Girardey’s
Opera House in Augusta at auction the
other day which resulted in a failure.
There is considerable complaint in Car
tersville that the colored religionists of
that place conspire to make night too
hideous to think about.
A Jefferson county correspondent says
that Mr. J. F. Upton took from his fish
traps in the Ogeechee the other day,
eleven young sturgeon, weighing, as he
supposes, about sixty-five pounds each,,
making seven hundred and fifteen pounds
in all.
Mr. Andrew McKinley, a son of Col.
Wm. McKinley, of Milledgeville, is dead.
He was a very promising young man.
A colored woman in Cartersville killed
her newly-born infant the other day and
threw it in a well. It was several days
before those who were using the water
found out what was the matter.
Five prisoners Tir tha - jr. Hamilton
succeeded in escaping the other day. '—-;
The Atlanta Constitution is organizing
an expedition for the exploration of the
great Okefinokee Swamp.
The negroes in Spalding county are
getting to be almost unbearable in their
iiisoTence.
Governor Smith has issued the follow
ing order to the Comptroller General
suspending the cotton tax: Whereas, a
petition has been presented to me by a
number of the citizens of Morgan county,
representing that the tax receiver of said
county has included in the digest of taxes
returned by him for the year 1875, as
taxable, all cotton held by farmers and
producers on the first day of April last,
and has required said farmers and pro
ducers to return the same as taxable; said
petition praying that an order be grauted
by this department suspending the col
lection of said tax until the next meeting
of the General Assembly; and, whereas,
in the opinion of many persons, it was
not the intention of the Legisla
ture in enacting the act of 1875, to
impose a tax upon produets in the hands
of the producers thereof ; and it being a
matter of the first importance to pro
ducers that the intention of the Legisla
ture in this regard should be clearly un
derstood, and that they should not be
unreasonably limited as to the time
within which they may dispose of their
products, and thus be placed to that ex
tent within the power of speculators;
and Whereas, The public interest can
suffer no injury by granting the prayer
of said petitioners; it is therefore Or
dered, That the Comptroller instruct the
several tax collectors of this State to sus
pend the collection of the tax upon cotton
and other products in the hands of farm
ers and producers on the first day of
April last, until the next meeting of the
General Assembly of this State.
The Enterprise says that the citizens
of Thomasville offer the following
premiums: For the champion club of
two States, a silver-mounted spring bat
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1875.
and one hundred dollars; for the second
best, seventy-five dollars for the third
best club, all entrance fees of the clubs
that may enter. All clubs that wish to
compete for the above prizes will be
charged an entrance fee of five dol
lars, and must send in names of the
nine to play, with entrance fee en
closed, before the 21st of October,
1875, as after that date the list will be
closed. Each club must bring record to
show that the members entered have be
longed to the clubs not less than thirty
days. The game will be governed by
the rules of 1875, with the exception in
the time of membership. All clubs are
invited to come and contest. The fol
lowing special premiums are offered : by
Messrs. Thomas A Black, a pair oi fine
New Orleans box toed calf boots to the
o*e making the best score of the best
club; by W. C. Echard, the Artist, one
very fine photograph of the members of
the champion club. All communications
to be addressed to T. J. Shau 'al.
It is not true that Col. J. L. Sweat, of
Clinch county, is shortly to remove to
Gainesville. The rumor to that effect
was probably based upon the fact that he
recently invested in some real estate in
that section. We are glad that Southern
Georgia is not to lose so valuable a
citizen.
The Atlanta nerald alludes to our
“petty wrongs.” If our wrongs had been
inflicted by the Herald, they would in
deed be petty. But neither the Herald
nor its managers have ever wronged us.
You are probably of the opinion that
Griffin journalism is not vigorous. Be
fore you settle down into such belief,
however, just borrow a copy of the News
and Messenger, and read the remarks in
regard to the veteran editor of the At
lanta Commonwealth.
Mr. Jesse T. Mullings has been elected
Sheriff of Jefferson county.
It is not necessary to put a bumble-bee
in the pantalettes of an Atlanta editor to
get up a fight. Just ask him for the ad
dress of the Trained Journalist.
The red rust has appeared in the cot
ton in Washington county.
It must be consoling to Hi Kimball to
know that a charge connecting him with
a newspaper is considered grossly libelous.
We are almost beginning to pity Kim
ball.
The Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, of In
diana, will attend the State Fair.
The old block-house in East Macon has
been removed. Fort Hawkins, however,
is still standing.
Charlie King, of Macon, formerly of
Marshallville, is dead.
A protracted meeting is progressing in
the Methodist Church at Marshallville.
The Atlanta Constitution says that Mr.
Hill has not attended a meeting of the
lessees since February, 1874.
It is stated that an attache of the
Courier-Journal got ’into a row with his
wife on a Georgia Railroad passenger
train the other day. had to be quieted
by the conduotor.
While the* ~ ?c v. Corday Harris was in
i°'i p* cm.,
frifl ids atom Suit o, uiOthes.
Water moccasins catch catfish in Bibb
county.
A reporter of the Atlanta Constitution
has discovered an old well full of putrid
corpses near the Medical College in that
city.
Personal in Gainesville Southron :
“Why is it that George Turnlm can’t
come to town and get drunk without
being notified of it through the papers?
And yet George comes to town every
time he gets drunk, and gets drunk overy
time he comes to town.”
General Robert Toombs is in Atlanta.
A young Mr. Echols, of Washington
county, accidently shot himself recently.
He was killed almost instantly.
The Waynesboro Expositor has entered
upon its sixth year with good health and
prospects.
Gainesville is now happy. A mineral
spring has been discovered in the very
heart of the city.
Thomson had a very severe storm the
other day.
As the Sandersville Herald remarks,
freaks of nature will occur. Mr. W. JET
S., who lives near the Ogeechee ja“ver,
about forty miles above Fenn’s -Bridge,
in Washington county, has a cow which
recently gave birt*. to a calf having two
heads, each being perfect and well de -
fined. They were joined at the neck, at
right angles, and g%re the appearance of
a side view to an observer standing di
rectly in front. Each head had a perfect
pair of eyes, ears and mouth, and the
body otherwise was that of an ordinary
calf. This singular specimen of the bo
vine tribe died soon after birth.
Hmesville Gazette'. A friend informs
us that a remarkable phenomenon oc
curred in the upper portion of Tattnall
Tuesday night. About nine o’clock,
a most" brilliant light appeared in the
north, and remained stationary for some
time, and then fell to the earth, accom
panied by a most terrific explosion like
the bursting of several shells. The shock
was sufficient to jar the ground.
Nothing as yet has been seen of the place
where it fell.
Irwinton Southerner: -Judge John H.
Jones reports that he was out on last
Sunday night and saw one of the most
brilliant meteors he ever saw. It was
about 11 o’clock in the night, and the
meteor sent forth a light for a few sec
onds as brilliant as the noonday sun. It
traveled with a velocity second only to
electricity, taking an east course from
the south of a parallel line overhead, and
when near the eastern horizon it exploded
into thousands of blazing fragments,
which immediately disappeared into dark
ness. About half a minute after all signs
of the meteor were gone he heard the re
port of the explosion, and compared it to
the distant report of a 34-pounder. Others
have spoken of the same phenomenon.
Some who were in bed and did not see
the light thought it really was the report
of a heavy piece of artillery.
Comptroller Goldsmith has issued the
following circular to tax collectors : His
Excellency the Governor having suspend
ed the collection of the tax ou cotton and
other farm produce, in the hands of the
producer for sale on the Ist day of April
last, until the meeting of the Legislature,
it is therefore ordered that you desist
from the collection of said tax. As the
digests do not show whether or not
such returns were made, you are di
rected to ascertain from each tax-payer,
when he presents himself for the
payment of his taxes, if he re
turned any cotton or other farm
produce. If so, you will deduct the
amount from his taxes, and enter the
amount deducted in a blank column op
posite his name, so that you may know
who to call on and for what amount, in
case the Legislature determines that said
tax should be collected. In making your
settlement with this office you will enter
the amount of tax so relieved in your in
solvent list in order that you may get
credit for it on your account here. Per
sons claiming to have included in their
return cotton and other farm products
must be sworn as to the amount
Correspondence Oglethorpe Echo :
There was a three days’ meeting of the
colored Methodists at Green’s ChapeL
On Tuesday night last a most powerful
sermon was delivered by Elder Thomas,
of high renown. After its delivery one
of the brothers (Eider) got ready for
shouting. But the minister cried out,
in a loud voice: “Hold on brothers and
sisters—don’t shout yet!” He then or
dered nil the benches moved to one end
of the house, which was obeyed. At the
command, Brother Dick Smith, of
Athens, put on his beaver and marched
around the room. This was the signal to
commence, when the entire congrega
tion. little and big, old and young, turn
ed loose in a style that would have put a
menagerie to blush. The voice of the
minister could be heard far above the din
and noise, uttering such sentences as
“ SLout, children, until the walls fall! ”
“ Everybody, saint and sinner, shout! ”
“ Miss Susan Yancey, why ain’t you
shoutin’ thar?” “Brother Dick Smith,
fire up that unconvarted comeV over
dar ! Put ’em to shoutin’!” Then Bro
ther Smith marched out the door, a'i the
congregation following. After marching
around the house three times, all snout
ing at the tops of their voices, they re
entered the church. Pen is inadequate
to describe the actions and expressions of
the darkeys. Of one thing they can rest
assured —if shouting will take any one to
heaven, the passage of that congregation
is paid.
Macon Telegraph: It is again very warm
and dry in Middle and Southwestern
Georgia, with the result of great damage
to the cotton crop. The new and tender
growth, superinduced by the wet weather
of the middle of August, succumbs to the
sudden drouth and blazing sun, and even
the field peas which were relied on to
supplement the meagre corn crop are
perishing under these combined influ
ences. A friend told us a few days ago
that in the course of twenty miles’ travel
in the neighboring county of Houston, the
total wreck of crops is distressing. The
cotton fields are as black from rust as
they ordinarily get to be after the heavi
es! frosts of November, and are absolute
ly bare of foliage. Even the pea crop is
almost an entire failure. One of the
largest planters in Lee and Dougherty
told us a week ago that in twenty years
of farming he never approached any
where so near a total and absolute failure
of all crops as he does this fall, and the
talk of twenty acres to the bale in the
Southwest is no joke, but a sober reality.
We judge, therefore, that the cotton crop
of this part of Georgia is not likely to be
equal to even that of last year, while it is
true tbat the cotton crop at large may go
beyond it.
Augusta Chronicle: “The season for
burning gin-houses has commenced. Last
Friday two in Scriven county, on the
edge of Burke, were destroyed. One of
these belonged to Mr. W. O. Wadley, and
was situated one mile from Millen. There
were in the gin-house at the time seven
bales of cotton, which were also con
sumed. The fire was caused by matches
in the seed cotton. Mr. Wadley prose
cuted some negroes, a short time since,
on the charge of breaking into his store,
and as the wife of one of them was em
ployed in picking cotton, it is supposed
that she placed matches in it through re
venge. There is no positive evidence
against her, however. The other gin-
house belonged to Mr. Jame*- Brinson,
and was located two miles fro.u Millen.
Several bales of cotton were also destroyed
with it. The fire, as in the other instance,
was caused by matches in the . otton.”
Augusta Chronicle: “Atlanta's Custom
House cake has rapidly turnei •to dough.
Just to think that after all her struggling
and scrambling for public mftney it was
“ rumored ”in the city Tuesday “ that
an injunction would be applies for on be
half of the city to restrain Jlv. excava
tions on the foundai’ons of -Ousteri
House lot!” The cake is certainly dough.
’ Atlanta has been sold. Sharp, shrewd,
wide-awake, go-ahead, enterprising, de
veloping, cut-and-come-again, bragging,
brassy Atlanta has been taken in and
done for. The knife has cut itself, At
lanta has overreached herself. She is
not a port of entry. She hasn’t got a
Custom House. Vessels for that port will
be compelled to head for Rabun Gap and
Knoxville. It has been discovered that
Congress made an appropriation not for
a Custom House, but for a Court House
and Post Office, and Atlanta’s fifty thou
sand lot, donated to the government by
the City Council, will contain a
Court House and Post Office.
Only these and nothing more. The
Herald complains that the building of
these buildings will not do the Gate
City any good. That there will be taken
out of the citizens’ pockets the rents
which Uncle Samuel formerly paid for
a Court House and Post Office. And the
Herald, fears that the injunction won’t
hold water because the City Council was
silly enough to make a deed to the gov
ernment of the lot “for a Court House
and a Post Office, instead of a Custom
House.’’ Innocent Atlanta, swindling
Uncle,/Sam! We fear the commerce
of M ne port will be ruined unless
President Grant shall call an extra
Session of Congress for the purpose of
undoing the mischief which has been
done. Ships will avoid such a port and
carry their rich cargoes to inferior har
bors, perhaps to Savannah and Charles
ton. The wharves will rot, the harbor
fill up with mud, the sailors will starve
and the longshoremen languish in idle -
ness. Unhappy Atlanta! She mourns
as Rachel mourning for her children and
refuses to be comforted because they are
not. The municipal -Becky Sharp is
metamorphosed into Niobe weeping for
her Custom House. “Tears, idle tears, I
know not what you mean.”
Murder at a Spelling School.— The
Nashville Republican-Banner says: “A
gentleman from West Tennessee informs
us that last Saturday night Shady Grove,
four miles from Union City, was in the
full enjoyment of a spelling match. The
contest had continued to grow more and
more exciting from its very commence
ment. The audience were intently en
gaged in looking at the class, now fast
narrowing down to a few, when they
were startled out of their seats by the
sharp and sudden report of a pistol in
the midst of them. This was followed
by still another report. The utmost ex
citement immediately ensued. Men
jumped upon the seats to gat a glimpse
of what was passing before them, women
screamed and shrieked, a rush was made
toward the spot, anxious inquiries were
made, and for a time everything seemed
m a perfect tumult. It was ascertained
that a young man named Frank Williams
had come up the aisle to the pew in which
James Turner was seated with a young
lady, and had placed the muzzle of a re
volver to the back of his head and fired,
the ball passing through the cranium.
Williams then shot at his fallen form
again, the ball striking the leg of another
and producing a slight wound. It was
stated that Turner had seduced Williams’
sister, and her brother had pleaded with
Turner to save her from disgrace by mar
rying her. Williams had that night call
ed him out of the house and remon
strated with him. telling him at last that
if he did not lead her to the altar he would
kill him. Turner responded that he would
not marry her, and that he was not afraid.
The sequel of that conversation was Tur
ner’s death. ”
How One Illinois Ku-Rlux Was
Brought to Grief. — Springfield , El.,
September 1. —A case ef Ku-Klux on a
small scale occurred in this county last
week. Some carpenters, building anew
house for William Curry, about two and
a half miles north of this city, found
nailed to their work-bench on Wednei
dav last, a letter, in which the writer dt
manded that Mr. Curry should furnish
him by Saturday night last a sum cf
money, which he was to put in an old
boot-leg at the end of a lane about a ha.f
mile from the house. On failure to do
so he might expect to be picked off at
any time. Mr. Gurry informed the Sheri!
of the matter, and he sent out a posse to
watch for the man or men. On Sundaj
about § o'clock Mulitou§ Hanston was
seen to approach and take from the boot,
leg sixty dollars in counterfeit money
that had been placed there. The Sheriff s
posse immediately arrested him. and ke
is now lodged in jaiL
South Carolina Affairs.
Sheriff Geiger, of Lexington, has now
in his custody ten prisoners, committed
for different crimes.
Union Court House is to have a steam
laundry.
Twenty-five prisoners are now in jail at
Abbeville, at a cost to the county of $lO
a day for their board.
A colored woman in Conwayboro has
been in a religious trance for six days,
during which time she has eaten nothing.
Mr. Geo. Reaves, an aged and highly re
spected citizens of Marion county, was
killed by an accidental fail from his
piazza on Wednesday of last week.
The German butcher, George Bech,
who was so badly cut in an affray with
Win. Palmer, Jr., at Union Court House,
last Friday week, died from his wounds
Wednesday. Palmer is now in
jail.
Died, at her home near Fishing Creek
Church, Chester county, on the 25th ult,,
Mrs. George C. GUI, in the forty-eighth
year of her age.
The improvement fever has taken a
good hold on the enterprising people of
Union at last—from the merchant down
to the mechanic. Several stores and
houses are reported in process of con
struction.
By an order from the Post Office De -
partment, the carrying of the mail on the
Carmel Hill route has been changed from
Wednesday to Friday.
Mr. Richard Roper, factor, has received
from John’s Island the first bag of new
crop South Carolina sea island. It was
grown by Mr. F. Y. Legare. The prepa
ration appeared to be excellent and the
color good.
The new hotel at Union has been
eased to Messrs. E. R. Wallace and W.
T. Thomson, who have gone North to
purchase the necessary furniture and
fixtures.
There is a movement on foot to estab
lish a shoe factory at Hodge’s, Abbeville
county. Twenty-three hundred dollars
have been subscribed in the neighbor
hood, and sixteen hundred dollars in
a community near by. Four thousand
dollars in machinery and equipments
have been purchased by parties from
Lynn, Massachusetts.
A heavy hail storm occurred on Tues
day last between Windsor and Mont
morenci, on the South Carolina Railroad.
The duration of the storm was consid
erable, but no damage has been done to
any of the crops in that vicinity.
The new town hall of Timmonsville
is completed.
The Republicans of Aiken have nomi
nated Dr. P. G. Rockwell for Mayor.
The election occurs on the 13th inst.
On Monday the citizens of Williams
burg met in convention for the purpose
of selecting a municipal ticket. The fol
lowing gentlemen were nominated : S. A.
Swails, for Intendant; G. P. Nelson, W.
J. Lee, J. S. Beck, and Ben Mouzon, for
Wardens.
The Baptist Union met at Black Creek
Church, Darlington county, on the 27th
ul*. Ten churches were represented,
and after transacting the usual business
the convention adjourned to meet next at
Cheraw. *
The first bale of new cotton of the sea
son at Sumter was grown by Mr. J. B.
Roach, and sold to Mr. A. A. Solomons on
the 26th ult. It weighed 466 pounds,
and was ginned from 1,308 pounds of
seed cotton, at Mr. A. Hauser’s steam
mills, by one of the American needle
gins.
The new'mail route between Columbia
and Fairbanks, better known as Koon’s
mill, has commenced operation. The
mail is to be carried weekly, leaving Fair
banks on Friday for Columbia and return
ing on Saturday.
The town guard house at Aiken is so
full of county prisoners that for the last
two weeks when there was anew arrival
the Sheriff had to place him on guard,
armed with a musket, to keep the others
from running away.
The total value of the real estate of
Charleston is estimated at $18,122,810;
value of personal property, $8,538,824.
Tlie Methodists of Darlington will have
an entertainment on the Bth instant for
the benefit of the organ fund. A spell
ing bee will be the principal feature of
the occasion.
There are fifteen cotton gins within
five miles of Aiken.
Mr. N. \V. Lafoy has been appointed
conductor of the Blue Ridge division of
the Greenville and Columbia Railroad,
vice Mr. T. Douglass Sloan, who has re
signed with a vie\y of engaging in mer -
cantile pursuits in Atlanta, Ga.
Mr. Greenville Green, one of the most
popular and successful farmers of Sleepy
Hollow Township, Aiken county, died
last Friday of a congestive chill, at the
age of sixty-two years.
The Laurens Railroad has been com
pleted to Martin’s depot.
The fiyst bale of new cotton sold in Ab
beville this year was bought on Monday
morning from Mr. J. S. Britt for 13 cents
a pound. It was raised by J. U. Britt,
and classed good middling.
They turn out five white boy children
in six weeks on one plantation in Spar
tanburg county.
An excellent letter appeared in the
Greenville News of the 2d, from T. B,
Ferguson, Esq., addressed to parties in
Massachusetts who contemplate estab
lishing a manufactory of agricultural im
plements in the South. The advantages
of Greenville as a site for this purpose
is set forth in many convincing state
ments.
A Grange meeting took place at Irwin’s
Mills, on the Saluda, six miles east of
Honea Path, on Wednesday last. It was
addressed by Colonel J. N. Lipscomb,
State lecturer. Twenty-five hundred
persons were present, including a large
number of ladies, A subscription of
$35,000 was made to build a ootton fac
tory at that place, the capital stock of
which has been fixed at $50,000. The
fine water power is presented to the com
pany by the liberal owner, Mr. Erwin.
The prospects of getting the factory into
operation at an early day are quite good.
Shares are fixed at $25, and may be taken
by others than those who are members of
the order of the Grange. The enterprise
is not limited to the Grange, but is pro
jected under its auspices.
Hi Kimball has bought the Clay Springs
property in Orange county for SB,OOO.
We thought Hi was bankrupt.
Nassau county has plenty of peaches.
Orange trees in Southern s’-16ridft aye
blooming the second time.
Key West has no more sickness to
speak of.
Palatka gloats over a cabbage palmetto
tree.
There is at least one man who has re
ceived a prize in a Texas lottery. His
name is H. H. Hoeg, of Jacksonville.
Heavy daily rains are reported in
Orange county.
The Agriculturist says that Colonel
Hardee has sold seven acres of land east
of the well-known Honeymoon nurseries,
and west of the Felton land, for S2OO per
acre cash, and fifteen acres to Dr. 11.
Scott for $l5O per acre. All these lands
on McCoy creek have advanced 100 per
cent, in the last twelve months.
Marion county is ahead. The Ocala
Banner says that John Simpson has a
turkey gobbler that some time since be
came animated with the maternal spirit,
and by his actions and manoeuvres showed
very plainly that he wanted to be a
mother. He (the gobbler) took to a nest
and set one week without having any
eggs placed uuder him. Mr. Simpson
then concluded to let him try his hand
on vl ee eggs. The gobbler set three
’weeks and brought forth a brood of three
young chickens that now follow this self
constituted mother, who acts toward
them in precisely the same manner as a
hen would.
The same paper says that Mr. George
Pasteur has had picked in the last week,
with an average of thirteen hands, 5,000
pounds of long staple cotton, and on
Friday, with twenty-one hands, among
them six small ones under twelve years
of age, 1,547 pounds. The highest pick
ing is one hundred and twelve pounds,
and the next one hundred and eleven
pounds.
Thus the Jacksonville Union: We have
a patent on the following conundrum:
“Have preachers,by entering into politics,
within the last ten or fifteen years,
purified said politics ? If not, why ? and
if so, how ?”
The Union says that on Friday even
ing last, an infant child of Mrs. Frank
Howard, residing in Parkhurst’s Block,
corner of Forsyth and Ocean streets, fell
from the second-story window, striking
on the brick pavement below. The child
is still alive, though very badly injured.
Any one wanting a fine orange grove
can get one on Lake George by applying
to C. Oodrington, Esq., editor of the
Florida Agriculturist, at Jacksonville.
Some of the trees are just coming into
bearing. There are between 3,000 and
4,000 trees in different stages of growth.
The property is thirty-five acres, and the
price $6,500 cash. The owner, seventy
years of age, is unable to attend to it.
The Agriculturist says that the culti
vation of the banana in Florida is now
attracting considerable attention. One
gentleman at Welaka is putting in 800
plants, and another person from the
Halifax river has ordered 10,000 plants
from the West Indies. We have re
ceived letters from people in the North,
who are coming here for the express pur
pose of cultivating bananas. Most of
the Florida fruit that is sent to this mar
ket has been gathered too early. The
bananas are not fully matured, while the
starch has not fully formed, which turns
i&io sugar ant! givoc flavor to the fruit.
They are not fit for market until they are
quite filled out, presenting a shining ap
pearance. When cut at that stage in
warm weather, the top fruit begins to
ripen in three or four days. In the West
Indies they are obliged to gather them
for shipment before they corqe to ma -
turity, or they would spoil on the long
voyage. In cold weather they will keep
for three weeks, even if fully ripe. On
this account the foreign fruit trade is
only conducted in the winter season. In
this State, where they can be got into
market in a few days, there is no neces
sity to send unripe fruit. Doing so will
injure the character of the Florida ba
nana trade.
The Marlboro’ Times of the 3d inst.
says : “It is generally admitted that the
cotton crop of this county has been seri
ously injured by the heavy rains. From
the most reliable information we have
been ablo to obtain, our estimate is that
it will fall twenty per cent, short of the
crop of last year. Some go further than
this, and say there will be a falling off of at
least a third. Our estimate of twenty
per cent, is, of course, intended far an
average. In some places, and on some
kinds of lands, the falling off will be
much greater, while on other lands the
crop promises to be as good as that of
last year. From the same information on
which we base our estimate of twenty
per cent, loss in the ootton crop of this
county as compared with last year, we
estimate a corresponding increase in the
quantity of corn produced. This has
been a good year for corn, and the area
planted is greater than last year. The
pea crop in low places was partially
drowned by the heavy rains, but the
prospect is good.’’
Lexington Jtispatch > On Wednesday
last Trial Justice Harmon heard an action
brought by D. L. George vs. Jesse K.
Dooley “for recovery of damages for ten
sheep killed by Mr. Dooley’s dog, in com
pany with a strange dog.” The case was
one of interest, and created much ex
citement among our citizens, it being the
first of the kind brought under the late
laws of this State. Messrs. Rice and
Meetze were engaged in the suit, and ex
pounded the law fully and mu. The
case wss finally submitted to a jury, who
found S2O for the plaintiff, whereupon
both parties appealed to Circuit Court.
Aiken Courier-Journal: Must we not
acknowledge that the world is moving
forward when we learn that ex-Goyernor
Robt. K. Scott has seen the errors of his
ways and is stumping the State of Ohio
for Democratic Governor Allen? And
his successor and former alloy, Hon.
Daniel H- Chamberlain, is doing equally
as good service for the people and Con
servative cause in South Carolina. It
only remains now for ex-Governor Moses
to come out and do something worthy
of his illustrious namesake, forswear his
false gods, desert faro and become ft
reformer like the other two.
Tallahassee Flm-idian: The Femandin?,
Observer says that in noticing its cotre
spondent “Jonathan/-, and failing to in
dicate who we think he is, the Floridian
has ignored the name of its editor stand
ing responsible at the head of its columns.
Well, we are sorry to think that the
editor of the Observer endorses all the
puerile slurs of “Jonathan’’ upon the
people of this city, and particularly that
portion of our community who have been
summering at St. Teresa. If the author
of “Jonathan” be the person some of our
cotemporaries suppose, the kind treat
ment uniformly extended to him by the
people here, and especially by the white
portion thereof, should .trained
his pen within decent bodnds. If the
writer, in the fruitfulness of his imagi
nation, had any fancied grievances to re
dress, it was not very seemly for hka to
take advantage of his position corre
spondent to even” 'at supposed
slights by the “set” he had conjured up,
and we don’t think the Observer would
have lost in tone had its editor expur
gated what was so manifestly unbecom
ing, even though the expurgating pro
cess had left the lucubrations of “Jona
than” very much like the play of
with the part of Hamlet omitted.
- —fcr~ ■- ■ t —-
SxExnrsci Chops. —The planters in Ala
bama are holding meetings to concer
some plan for the suppression of so
called “dead-falls,” and to stop the steal
ing of crops in the field, which is going
on, as they say, to an intolerable extent
this fall.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
The Church Investigation of Doctor
Hicks’s Case—A Card from the
Committee.
Whereas, there appears m the columns
of the Jacksonville Press of September
6, 1875, an article purporting to be copied
from the Savannah Morning News, en
titled “Church Investigation of Doctor
Hicks’s case,” which contains gross mis
representations of facts, and reflects
upon the conduct of some of those con
nected with such investigation. We, the
chairman, secretary, committee, prosecu
tors, and counsel for the defendant, have
united in solemnly protesting against
such misrepresentations, and make the
following statement which we ask may
be published in the News in denial of
such misrepresentations:
In the flrst place it is not true that the
chairman of this investigation “remarked
that he would submit no longer to the
court being used for the manufacture of
evidence for other purposes”—thereby
insinuating that the counsel for Dr
"tea
drew from the prosecution of Hicks be
cause a practicing attorney employed in
a civil suit on the same issue was allowed
to conduct the defense.” Dr. Collier
withdrew from the prosecution of the
case on nccount of sickness, having prose
cuted the case for eight hours after his
objections to Col. White had been over
ruled.
It is not true that “Secretary Carruth
also retired this afternoon” on account
of any trouble growing out of the man
agement of the investigation, or as is to
be clearly inferred from the article al
luded to in the News, for the same rea
son that caused Dr. Collier to retire from
the prosecution. Secretary Carruth had
other pressing engagements which
claimed his attention, and late Friday'
afternoon he was relieved by the com
mittee with kindest feelings ahd a unani
mous rising vote of thanks for his ser
vices to the committee.
We hope you will do us the justice to
give this statement a place in your paper,
with the earnest hope on our part that
persons allowed the courtesy of attend
ing the sittings of this investigation may
not hereafter misrepresent the actions of
those connected with it, and may 7 have
the manliness to retract what has been
already stated.
A. Peeler, Chairman.
Thomas A. Carruth, Secretary.
J. S. Hawkins, Prosecutor.
J. F. White, for Defendant.
J. B. Fitzpatrick, M. M. Miohan,
T. W. Moore, S. E. Phillips,
Henry Edw. Partridge,
Committee.
A Cow’s Tail.
John is a farmer, a good man, a deacon
of the Methodist Church, and was always
considered a shining light in his town
ship till his late accident with one of his
cows. The cow that figured is one of the
chief features in the grand performance
that caused the deaoon to fall from grace
was his pride and glory, and she pos
sessed a tail of such noble dimensions
that he never failed to point it out
whilst discussing her fine points to my
listener.
Amongst one of the traits of John’s
character was a strong objection to swear
ing of any kind, and his neighbors fre
quently said, when speaking of attempt
ing an almost impossible task, that you
might just as well expect to hear Deacon
John swear as to do tho thing. But even
the most difficult Tiing can RjTTSne. and
our worthy farmer has lately beeu heard
to swear as well as any man who bad made
a study of “cursing" for years.
A week or two since, John’s oldest son
used the word “ darnation,” for which he
received a sound walloping from his dad,
and which was also the main cause of an
exhaustive and effective sermon from the
deacon at jps church on the next Sabbath.
But to our story. A few days ago, a
city friend called on John, who, after
well entertaining him with a good din
ner, proposed a stroll over the farm.
This was done, and tiipe passed away
pleasantly till it got to be milking time.
-John bad spoken of his pet cow to his
friend, and had said that he would milk
her himself, to let his friend be con
vinced what a quantity of good, rich
milk sho would give. He, therefore, got
the pail and stool, and. after stroking
“Beauty” with his hand a few times, and
calling her many endearing names, sat
down and commenced to milk her. It
had rained in the morning, and the' flies
were very troublesome, which made
“Beauty” use her tail rather freely, and
in trying to flick off one rather more
troublesome than the rest, she slung her
tail around John’s neck, and pulled him
backwards off the stool. Now, being a
good man, John did not swear, but
quietly got up, and to avoid another such
a catastrophe, tied her tail very securely
on to his loot. He does not possess a
small foot, by any manner of. means, and
a kind of a smijg passed over his face as
he resumed his milking,, and remarked to
his friend, “I think that tail will settle
her flicking, anyhow!”
It certainly did, bqt not quite in the
way John expected. The milking wont
on bravely for a few minutes, though
Beauty gave several ineffectual jerks at
her tail. Presently that troublesome fly
got at her again, and she worked her
hide, shook her head round, and tried
to use her tail, but all no go; the fly
would not move, neither would her tail.
So, losing all patience, she kicked over
the pail, kicked John over p,nd started
off at a mad gallon. Tnen the deacon
found that \.o had tied her tail too firmly
to his boot, for he was bumped over the
ground for about fifty yards at a terrible
rate. Then the boot came off, and Beauty
dashed off with it, slinging it with a sort
of air pf triumph as she went. In the
short 3pace of time that it took John and
the cow to travel that fifty yards John
did some of the tallest cussing that had
ever been heard in that neighborhood,
and the air was thick with o?,tha.
His friend rushed UP frantically to see
if the deauon was much injured, but
really fainted with astonishment when he
heard the following fearful language come
from the deacon’s mouth 4 4 May all the
thunder and lightning God Almighty can
make knock her d—d old karkiss into a
million of splinters; and if she has got
a soul may it be so split in little pieces
that the Angel Gabriel can never find ’em
to join together again !’’
Not a soul dare go near the infuriated
farmer, and a®, Soon as he was able to
move, ]y e rushed in doors, got a hatchet,
and cut the ipoor cow’s tail off so short
that she has nothing left but a stump.
The bravest man in the neighborhood
dare not say the word “cow” anywhere in
the hearing of Deacon John.
The Oae.— The
general impression in New York is that
the Tilton-Beecher suits are at an end,
at least as far as Mr. Tilton is concerned.
One great difficulty seems to be the want
of money. Some friends of Mr. Tilton a
short time after the former trial evinced
a desire to get up a subscription m his
aid, but the project h:,„ apparently fallen
through. Tf v, stated that Mr. Tilton’s
counsel feel that they did their duty to
their client by working for him through
the first trial, and they pro. mwilling to
go on further in thji mailer without com
pensation... There has also been a little
hindering between some of the counsel
and their client, and this has capspd the
counsel to become a little lukewarm in
the cause. It 15 siaced authoritatively
that y.nuf the present circumstances,
should the matter be brought to a trial
again, the former counsel will not act
N. Y. Tribune, A'ugunt 6,
According to the last census of Ireland
the inhabitants are thus classified as to
their religious faith : Koman Catholics,
4,150,867; Protestant Episcopalians, u67,-
998; Presbyterians, 497,648; Methodists,
43,441. The rest, 51,423, are of other
denominations. Among them are 1,538
Cos vena, iters, 2,605 Brethren, and some
Exclusive Brethren, Chris tadelphians,
Darbyites, etc.
Cotton Figures.
By special telegrams received Friday
nigfi says the New York Chronicle of the
tth inst., from the Southern, ports we are
in possession of the returns showing the
eceipts, exports, etc., of cotton for the
three days tending this evening, Septem
ber 3d. It appears that the total receipts
for the three days have reached 4,264:
bales, against 3,610 bales last week, 1,941
bales the previous week, and 1,541 bales
three weeks since, making the total re
ceipts since the first of September, 1875,
1,264 bales, against 5,656 bales for the
same period of 1874, showing a decrease
sinoe September 1, 1875, of 1,392 bales.
The exports for the week ending
Friday evening reached a total of 5,890
bam, of which 3,973 were to Great
Britain, none to France, and 1,917 to the
rest of the Continent, while the stocks,
.os made up this evening, are now 69,430
bales.
i’elegrams from New Orleans Friday
night shows that besides the above ex
ports the amount of cotton on shipboard,
and engaged for shipment at that port,
is follows : For Liverpool, 1,500 bales ;
for Havre, none; for continent, none;
fop. coastwise ports, none; total, 1,500
bales; which, if deducted from the
stock, would leave 8,000 bales represent
ing the quantity at the landing and in
prases unsold or awaiting orders.
from the foregoing statement it will bo
seen that, compared with the correspond
ii g week of last season, there is an in
c/ritQe in the exports this week of 230
bries, while the stocks to-night are 39,597
bales lew than they were at this time a
y?# ago.
For future delivery there has been a
steady decline, gnd at the close of
'Vjdueaday’s business the reduction from
/it previous Friday was j(S'5-16c., from
w-egotvf.s yesterday a slight recov
ery aftbe opening, j* 'Steadier accounts
from Liverpool, but the ololS was wcah-i
under free receipts at the interior towns.
Confidence in the future of the market
has been greatly impaired, and leading
operators were looking for still lower
prices. Crop accounts liavo greatly im
proved ; the weather has been favorable
to its rapid maturing, being warmer,
with very little rain. The reports from
several Southern cotton exchanges for
August have been made public, and are
rather unfavorable; but ns the information
on which they are based is not of recent
date, they have had little effect. To-day
there was an even decline of fully £c., ana
the market somewhat demoralized under
a further decline at Liverpool and the
prevalence of hot, clear, forcing weather
at the South. After ’Change there were
sales at 13fc. for September, 18 3-lGc. for
November and December, 13 5-16 c. for
January, 13.1 c. for February, 13 11-lGc.
for March, and 13 27-320. for April. The
total sales for forward delivery for the
week are 113,600 bales, including
free on board. For immediate delivery
tho total sales foot up this week 9,057
bales, including 299 for export, 8,703 for
consumption, 55 for speculation, and
in transit. Of the above, bales
were to arrive.
For forward delivery the sales have
reached, during the week, 113,600 bales,
all middling or on the basis of middling.
The figures indicate a decrease in the
cotton in sight to-night, of 205,084 bales,
as compared with the same date of 1874,
and a decrease of 201,770 bales, as com
pared with the corresponding date of
1873.
The totals show that tho old interior
stocks have increased during the week 813
bales, and are to night !, 737 bales less
than at tho same period last year. The
receipts have been 81 bales less than the
same week last year.
The exports of cotton from New York,
for the last six days in August, show a
decrease, as compared with last week, the
total reaching 743 bales, against 3,203
bales last week.
An Insulted Hat.
I once had a hat adventuro myself. It
was in 1850. I was at the ball of the
Hotel de Ville, esoorting Mme. Victor
Hugo, while M. Hugo gave his arm to
Madame Houssaye. There was ’a chair
empty and the one next to it contained a
hat. I took-, up the hat and gave the
chair to. Mme. Hugo. Of course I -dhi
uot proppse to hoid the night, so
put it on the ripor. Its owner, soon
arrived. It was a oelebrated duelist, M.
Sherbctte, a Deputy from Soissons. He
came straight to the chair which had had
the honor of holding his hat. He was
about to attack Madame Victor Hugo, but.
as 1 was talking with her, he turned upon
me.
“Is it you, sir, who have displaced my
hat?” “Yes, sir.” “Did you put it on
the floor?” “Yes. Do you think I ought
to have put it on my head?” “But, sir,
you have insulted me. Here is mv
card.”
I took out a card and threw it in his
hat.
“Monsieur!” said the Deputy, furiously,
“do you suppose I am going to pick up
my hat?”
“Do you suppose,” I said, “that I am
going to put it on your head ?”
Victor Hugo laughed, Madame Hugo
smiled, but Madame Houssaye was not at
all amused.
“I require, sir,” said the Deputy of
Soisson, “that you replace my hat on the
chair whore it was.” I began to laugh.
A little circle had gathered. liL Sher
bette finally picked up his hat
text of taking my card.
“Monsieur Arseno Iloussaye,” ho said.
“We are from the same place, a reason
more for our meeting.”
“I await your seconds, Mr. Sherbatte,”
I replied. •
“At what hour?”
“At this-hour. We can fight as soon as
we leave the ball.”
M. Skerbetto bowed to the two ladies,
and went off in search of two seconds.
I asked Victor Hugo and the Marquis do
Belloy to act as my witnesses in this
ridiculous affair. M. Sherbette’s seconds
soon appeared. It was decided that wo
should fight with pistols at twenty paces,
at the Bois de Boulogne, at daybreak. It
was then hardly midnight, but we re
solved to pass the rest of the night at
the bail. At that time I was very fond
of waltzing. They told Madame Hous
saye that the affair was amicably settled,
so that we amused ourselves pleasantly
until nearly dawn.
As ill luck would have it, we all met in
the cloakroom, principals and seconds.
“It is a nuisance,” said one of Sherbette’s
seconds, “to go to the Bois in this snow
storm.” “Come,”said the other, laugh
ingly, to M. Sherbette, “as you are the
injured party, you can apologize.”
“Never!” said M. Sherbette.
The two seconds came to me. “Say
one word to free us from this task. We
want to go to bed. “Never!” I cried in
my turn. M. Sherbette put on his hat
with a slant oyer the right ear. I put on
mine with a slant over the left. The
four seconds besieged us, and said they
would not accompany us unless we were
more good-natured about it.
“After all,” said Victor Hugo, “I think
that Arsene Houssave, having insulted
only M. Sherbette’s hat, might make hia
apologies to it.”
At this moment a word from M. 'Sher
bette changed the face of things. “If
M. Arsene Houssaye declares that in of- '1
fending my hat he did not mean to offend \
me I will hold myself satisfied with this
declaration.”
I declared that 1 had not aimed at M.
Sherbette under his hat and the duel was
at an end. It was agreed in the verbal
proces-verbal that whenever we met
thereafter we were to salute each other
by a touch of the hat.
On Monday last two young men, named
Barnes and Sperry, were arrested at
Girard, Erie county. Pa., for burglary
and other lawless acts at Spring and
Hayfield, in Crawford county, near the
Erie line. On Friday night they entered
four houses, tied Ellis Hotchkiss to a bed
post, choked and beat him. They also
threatened an old man named Sperry, a
relative to one of the boys, with revolvers,
and ripped a valuable mare with a knife
so that the entrails protruded. The
prisoners are between nineteen and twen
ty years of ago, and lived at Spring.
The mixed school question has come
up in tangible shape before the New
York Supreme Court. A formal decision
has not yet been rendered, but judging
from a few informal remarks from tho
bench, the case is likely to be decided in
favor of the colored complainant. Of
course in that event an aopeal will be
taken.
Judge Hoar says that m the republi
can campaign next year “ the camp-fol-'
lowers of all kinds, the sutlers and bum
mers will be ordered to the rear ” —which
will leave a small army for the advance.
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