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There has at last been a small battle
between the Insurgents and the Turks,
in which the latter surprised and
lost four hundred men killed.
The one-horse revolution in Sonora
was suppressed by one battle, five hun
dred to the side, p. p., nothing added
by the club, bets even, pools ditto, fifty
killed, the whole concluding with mar
tial law. It was played according to
the rules governing Mr. Sheridan.
The highly civilized and advanced
people of Ohio were night before last
engaged in the disreputable business
of lynching a man — one Schell, who
had murdered a woman. The Gov
ernor, who is none other than a man
named Bill Allen, will hardly call for
troops upon this occasion.
The Pope of Rome has recalled his
Xunc-io sent to the Madrid Government,
who made demauds upon it that were
summarily rejected, and has sent a
successor. This is construed as a
backing down by the Holy See. These
demands were that the Protestant re
ligion should not be tolerated in
Spain.
New York has a well pronounced
case of yellow fever. It is too late in
the season to spread. That scourge
has let us off light this year, contrary
to the predictions of a great raft of
people, among whom are some army
surgeons about Wasliingtsn who tele
graphed in June that it would be gen
eral along the South Atlantic and Gulf
coasts.
The horse disease is spreading in
New Jersey. The telegraph strangely
enough calls it cerebro spinal menen
gitis, and says that fourteen out of
every hundred have died. We knew a
Middle Georgia doctor, whose remedy
was to slit open the skin down the
back and bum liberally with a hot
poker. The remedy was heroic—first
rate —but the patient always died.
We had a pleasant call yesterday
afternoon from Dr. H. H. Carlton, edi
tor and proprietor of the Athens
Geoi'glan. We hope his stay in the
city will be a pleasure to him. The
Georgian will be issued as a daily on
the Ist of October. It has our heart
felt wishes for success. The city of
Athens and the rich country surround
ing it ought to be supported well. Dr.
Carlton is a brilliant writer and one of
the most genial gentleman connected
with the Southern press.
The summing up of the grain crops
of the United States by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, for 1875, makes a
very favorable showing. It will be seen
that the corn crop is set down as the
heaviest ever grown in the country, if
it matures; and this is asserted not
withstanding the heavy overflows in
the Northwest, which are reckoned in
the calculation. The crop in Georgia
is put down at 90 per cent, of what it
was last year, which is a surprise to us.
A majority of the States are over the
average. We are glad to see that the
South is making a prodigious effort to
raise all the provisions it consumes.
St. Louis is in earnest about getting
up a National Railroad Convention. It
seems to us that much good can be ac
complished by this meeting. It is well
known that nearly every road in the
country other than a trunk through
line is running at a loss. The hard
times first began to tell upon them.
They have suffered as much as any de
partment of business in the whole
country. It would take six or seven
years of the most prosperous times to
back the money lost. The North
ern States have far too many of them,
and even in the South few have paid
any dividends in three or four years.
'The railroad magnates can get to
gether, compare notes, talk the whole
matter over, and if they are sensible
men, they will merge, abandon and ex
tend until they are adjusted to the
■commerce of the country.
Gambetta goes upon record as say
ing that the Bonapartists will not at
tempt to seize the Government this
winter, and dare not tamper with the
army now. He is perfectly safe in say
ing so, for the times are not propitious
for such a movement. The Prince
Imperial is as yet a boy, and the
French will have neither a woman or a
cypher for a ruler. They prefer King
Stork to Dumb Log every time. In this
respect they have ever imitated the
Romans, whose Kings and Emperors
were all great men. Whatever may be
said of their crimes and usurpations,
they were, from Romulus and Remus
to Augustine, all illustrious statesmen
and heroes. The sou of Napoleon will
have to arrive at the age of mature
manhood, and even then show a full
capacity to rule before he can as
cend the throne. And after that
lie will have to possess the ele
ments of true greatness, in order to
maintain his position. There is no
people harder to rule, no Empire which
so unceremoniously dethrones its mon
nrchs. They love order, and yet de
mand a very active, progressive gov
ernment. In ordei to maintain his
hold upon power, the Emperor is Often
obliged to go to war without pretext or
justice. This was the case with Louis
Napoleon and the late war with Ger
many. His army had been idle for
fifteen years, and every subaltern in it
demanded an opportunity to win the
batofi of a Field Marshal. The Bour
bons an<J Republicans demanded it for
the reason it would present, in all
probability, an opportunity—which it
did—of dethroning ,bim. Bismarck a
year ago stated in the toman Parlia
ment that Napoleon was forced into it
against his desire or judgment. But
he had no other alternative than to
fight or abdicate.
®k 2tttgttstd| Constitutionalist.
Established 1799.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The Spanish Government and the
Pope.
London, September 25. —The text of
the circular addressed to Spanish Bish
ops by the Papal Nuncio at Madrid is
published. It says he has been di
rected to communicate to the Bishops
the substance of the protest sent by
the Cardinal Secretary of the State of
the Holy See to the Spanish Govern
ment upon the Papal attention being
called to the toleration clauses in the
new constitution proposed for Spain.
London, September 25.—A special dis
patch to the Daily News from Madrid
says the Pope’s recall of the Papal
Nuncio, Cardinal Simioni, and the im
plied disavowal of his acts, have occa
sioned considerable surprise. Monsig
nor Repella is more liberal than his
predecessor.
Surprise of the Turks—Gambetta and
the Bonapartists.
Vienna, September 25.—Telegrams
state that Dervish Pasha was surprised
near Raono and lost 400 killed.
Gambetta is quoted as saying : “The
Bonapartist Deputies may be doubled
in the next Assembly, but they cannot
seize the Government or tamper with
the army.
London, September 25.—The Times’
financial article says the tone of the
market for public securities has been
dull, inconsequence of lower prices re
ceived from all German exchanges,
where it is stated the attitude of Rus
sia on the Eastern question is causing
little anxiety. Corn is dull, but hold
ers rather firm; there has been no fur
ther change in prices. The fair weather
continues in districts where harvesting
is not completed, and good progress
has been made this week. The foreign
and colonial produce markets continue
extremely quiet, though there has been
an improved demand for West India
sugar.
The American bark Forest Queen,
Capt. Burns, from Port Ludlow for
Havre, foundered off Rio de la Plata.
London, September 25.—The Pall
Mall Gazette’s Berlin special says the
Porte declines making any concessions
till the insurgents render complete sub
mission. The insurgents refuse to sus
pend hostilities until the great powers
guarantee eventual concessions. The
proceedings of the Consular delegation
stand still. Consuls ask instructions
from their respective Governments.
The Deputies of the Left.
Paris, September 25.—The Deputies
of the Left have resolved to return to
Paris the Ist of October, to prepare for
work the coming session, particularly
the Electoral law, which will be first
discussed.
The decision of the Cabinet advocat
ing the voting by arrondissements pro
duces a strong sensation among the
Deputies of the Left Centre.
A rupture between Dufaure anti the
Left Centre is certain. No effort will be
made to break the union of the factions
of the Left.
From Montevideo-
Montevideo, September 25.—A Gov
ernment manifesto declares it will
make every effort to purify. It
promises a reduction of paper money
aud to reform the system of taxation,
the creation of a national debt.
Extradition of a Swiss.
Madrid, September 25.—Springly, a
native of Switzerland, was delivered to
the United Stat es, which had demanded
his extradition. Springly will embark
at Cadiz for New York.
United States Crop Report—The Aver
age Yield for 1875.
Washington, September 25. —The De
partment report of the Department of
Agriculture says of the corn crop:
Could it be thoroughly ripened its ag
gregate would exceed any previous
crop and the yield per acre would be
one of the best, notwithstanding the
losses by overflow of bottoms and satu
ration of heavy flat soils, such losses
proving less than the usual damages
by drouth and insects, woile the rains
have greatly benefited the crop on
drier aud higher soils. Nearly every
where corn is late in maturiug from one
to two weeks. The general high
condition is still maintained, the aver
age being one per cent, higher than in
August. The State averages are :
Maine 105, New Hampshire 100, Ver
mont 98, Massachusetts 100, Connecti
cut 108, New York 99, New Jersey 111,
Pennsylvania 108, Delaware 100, Mary
land 106, Virginia 112, North Carolina
101, South Carolina 87, Georgia 90,
Florida 83, Alabama 111, Mississippi
116, Louisiana 85, Texas 89, Arkansas
103, Tennessee 114, West Virginia 107,
Kentucky 103, Ohio 97, Michigan 101,
Indiana 83, Illinois 95, Wisconsin 60,
Minnesota 72, lowa 92, Missouri 111,
Kausas 109, Nebraska 73, California 95,
Oregon 100.
Minor Telegrams.
Watertown, N. Y., September 25.—A
fire last night entirely destroyed one
section of Taggart & Davies’ paper
mill and sack factory, with a large
amount of stock. Cause, explosion of
a kerosene lamp. Loss, $20,000. In
sured. One man killed by suffocation.
New York, September 25. —In a suit,
in the Supreme Court, ou a foreclosure
of a seven hundred thousand dollar
mortgage on the Bleecker Street Rail
road, Dr. J. W. Ranney, one of the
stockholders, was appointed receiver.
Wm. C. DuDjed filed an assignment for
the benefit of creditors, Wm. L. Lud
low assignee. Liabilities, $35,568 08;
nominal assets, $9,215 18; real assets.
$1,441 27.
The Insurance Convention elected
the following officers for next year:
Row, oY Michigan, President; Pills
bury, of Michigan, Vice President; H.
Rhodes, of Massachusetts, Secretary.
Belleeontaixe, O m September 25.
The people hung Schell last night. The
guards made no resistance, Schell pro
tested his innocence.
The National Railroad Convention.
St. Louis, September 25. —The ex
ecutive committee to arrange the pre
liminaries for the National Railroad
Convention to be held here next month
held another meeting here yesterday,
and adopted a resolution asking the
President of the Merchants’ Exchange
to appoint a committee to co-operate
with the executive committee ; also ask
ing the Merchants Exchange to invite
other commercial organizations
throughout the country to send to the
convention delegates who favor tho ob
ject in view. A resolution was also
adopted asking the Governors of the
various States to send the convention a
number of delegates equal to the Con
gressional delegation of the respective
States. Tho municipal authorities of
many cities will also be invited to seud
delegates. An address will be issued
setting forth the object of the conven
tion aud the benefits which must result
to the country from the construction of
the proposed railroad.
CONTRACTION AND INFLATION.
Letter of Acceptance of Judge Per
shing.
Pottsville, Pa., September 25.
Judge Pershing’s letter accepting the
Democratic nomination for Governor is
published. Concerning the financial
question he says; “New issues are
presented for the consideration of the
people, the question of currency at
tracting the attention of the thoughtful.
Its final settlement rests with Congress
and the President. The legal tender
issue has become incorporated into the
business of the country, and its consti
tutionality been affirmed by the Su
preme Court of the United States.—
I am opposed to inflation in its
true sense, and inflation is not demand
ed by the Erie platform. That platform
opposes any further contraction of the
currency at this time of financial dis
tress, when our workshops, mills and
manufactories are closed, and thou
sands of men willing to work are out
of employment. To expand the volume
of currency when the people are incur
ring debts, and to rapidly contract
it when the time for payment has
come, will prove ruinous to every
business enterprise. The attempt to
force the country to a resumption of
specie payments under the provisions
of the act passed by the last Congress
will only intensify the distress which
now everywhere prevails. We must
cease exporting gold to pay interest on
our indebtedness abroad before specie
payments can safely be resumed. I fa
vor such a volume of currency as the
legitimate demands of business and a
revival of the industries of the coun
try may require. Experience will best
determine this, anu it is to be
hoped that an adequate standard or
test for regulating the amount of cur
rency may be established by our rep
resentatives in Congress. I adhere to
the doctrine always held by the Demo
cratic party, that gold and silver con
stitute the true basis for bank note
circulation. The question as to this is
not the same as that of a paper cur
rency. That is itself made by the sov
ereign power a legal tender, and there
fore is money.”
FROM WASHINGTON.
North Carolina Cherokees —The
Chicago Custom House.
Washington, September 25.—Hon.
R. B. Yance, of North Carolina, James
Stevenson, of Washington, D. C., and
A. T. Davidson, of Ashville, North
Carolina, have been appointed as Com
missioners to appraise the lands re
cently recovered to the Cherokee
Indians in North Carolina.
The new Chicago Custom House
Commission have submitted their re
port to the Secretary of the Treasury.
They recommend the strengthening
and completion of the concrete founda
tion ; also, that certain parts of the
building be taken down. In referring
the report to the supervising architect
of th# Treasury the Secretary di
rects him to proceed with the
reconstruction at once. He will bring
the building as near as may be to a
uniform level before hard freezing
weather, when he will suspend building
work and adopt such measures as may
be necessary to protect the building
thoroughly from exposure to the
weather during the coming winter. Be
fore resumption of work in the Spring
the Supervising Architect will carefully
revise the plans of the building, redis
tributing the weights and lightening
the structure as much as practicable,
iu accordance with suggestions and re
commendations contained in the report,
and also reduce and cheapen the char
acter of the stone cutting on the super
structure. He will select for the Su
perintendent of this building the most
competent and trustworthy man ho can
obtain, and will charge him specially
with seeing that all the contracts with
reference to material are rigidly enfor
ced, and that all material furnished is
carefully inspected.
Murders and Suicide.
New Albany, Ind., September 25.
Mrs. Catharine Rontler was found with
her skull crushed in in her partially
burned cottage. Her divorced husband
was in the yard with his throat cut.
Rentier, who had delirium tremens, was
sheltered by Mrs. Rentier.
Philadelphia, September 25.—The
body of Albert W. Markley, of Cam
den, missing since Thursday, was found
on the bank of the Delaware river.
Supposed suicide.
Hudson, N. Y., September 25. —Capt.
W. P. A. Stranahan, Captain of the
steamer City of Hudson, shot himself
while seated on his mother’s grave in
the Episcopal cemetery, at Athens.
Since the recent robbery of his boat he
has been depressed, which is the sup
posed cause.
BOSTON HELPS TEXAS.
Letters of Thanks.
Boston, September 25.—The following
was read to-day:
Galveston, Texas, September 24.
Hon. Samuel C. Cobb, Mayor of Boston:
Wheu I returned to Galveston from
Boston I proclaimed, not only to Gal
veston but to Texas, that no city in the
Union could equal the one over which
you preside iu generous hospitality,
unbounded charity and official integri
ty. Since your munificent charity to
the sufferers of the Gulf coast of Texas
the univeisal prayer of the sufferers
and sympathizers throughout the State
is, “God bless Boston.”
[Sigued] R. L. Fulton, Mayor.
FROM NEW YORK.
A Case of Yellow Fever.
New York, September 25.—A sailor,
belonging to tne brig Waburn, from
Matanzas, is in the Brooklyn hospital
with yellow fever, and not expected to
recover. Before becoming speechless
he said the Waburn came from
Matanzas with a cargo of sugar,
which she discharged at quaran
tine. Several cases of yellow fe
ver were on board during the passage.
The patient was taken to the hospital
Saturday last. The nature of the dis
ease was only discovered on Thursday.
Search was made for the infected ves
sel without success.
Fine Trade in Chicago.
Chicago, September 25. —Prominent
dry goods jobbers here report the lar
gest business for the past week ever
before in same length of time. The fall
trade proving very heavy. Country
rnerehants throughout the Northwest
are buying freely. The outlook of busi
ness is very promising.
Miss Ford n of Baltimore, has adap
ted to the American stage “La Fille de
Roland,” by Henri de Bornier, a play
that was received in Paris with great
favor.
AUGUSTA, GLA.., S TOSTDA-Y, SEPTEMBER 26. 1875.
I HOODWINKING TlfeE NEGRO.
- H — i-
TkeWay Ames Playi 1 if? on "Shep” —
A Good One by St ; iat|r Alcorn.
Illustrative of hov. thf negroes are
led about by the nose by| unprincipled
men, Senator A Icon o‘* Mississippi,
who is now in Washifgtah, relates an
amusing story. Duiing |his last can
vass against Ames f<|: tie Governor
ship of the State, llierf was a very
eager contest. As Alcfrn Imployed up
ward of 1,000 men on • is plantation, it
was feared by the , Amis men that
they would all vote foi th*ir employer.
Upon the plantation i an pld patriarch
by the name of “She */ho was the
property of Alcorn be oreithe war, and
who had the most of nis]ife seen ser
vice on the Alcorn Jactation. One
day a small-sized, i ipuer-mannered
carpet-bagger came up |to Alcorn’s
plantation, and went around secretly
electioneering among le negroes. He
discovered that “She ” fas a leader
among them all, and u iletri he gained
them over it would R unless to look
for votes for Ames on thl plantation.
He fell into couversat >n jyith “Shep,”
and gathered from hi i tije scanty de
tails of his past lift B|j then went
away without saying a ymijji to “Shep”
about the election,
Several weeks aft t tat, and a
short time before the lec: ion, a large
letter postmarked V asl; Ington, and
resplendent with red a als and official
stamps, came to the Aj mi 1 i plantation
addressed to “Shep.” tv as an event
iu the old man’s lire. ' m eiintr of his
favorite secret society wis at once
called and one of th- pr siding offi
cers who could read ?as detailed to
open and read the awt inspiring docu
ment. It was as fijllov i : s
“ Executive Mansio: . Washington,
D. C., Headquarters o th|s Army and
Navy and Glorious C mm wealth. —
My Dear Shep ; Alt! >ug*i you live
at a great distance fr m ne, and al
though you are only 01*1 o many col
ored children, yet I 4nc': all about
you. You were born >n ; plantation
near Lynchburg, iu Vi; Gnia. You
were owued there by ii tan by the
name of Charles Some; . >ome years
before the war you v >re sold to Mr.
Alcorn in Mississippi. L k tow J ~lius,
Robert and James H ary Augustus,
your boys, as well as ; sap Ann Jane,
and Roxana Virginia, ; >ur daughters.
You see, Shep, that a hoi gh I am a
very great man, I kno r a|l about my
children. I have a vattmful care
over you all, and have . pi jin to make
you all happy. I want ’ouito vote for
Gen. Ames for Governor ■bisffall,and,mv
dear Shep, I will give y u |iy reasons
for so wishing. In the trstl place Gen.
Ames is my officer in y* ur State, and 1
want you to obey him. M|. Alcorn is
an old slaveholder; youi mu|t not vote
for him. If Gen. Atr s ih elected I
propose to cut up Mr. i coifi’s planta
tion and give it to the sla'|eß, who so
many years worked fo< hisi for noth
ing. I will give you,; lay dear Shep,
your choice out of tl > lo i wtieu the
plantation is cut up. If) n t forget to
do all you can to get ote i for Ames.
Good-bye, my dear She .
Your friend and iem factor,
U. S' Grant.
“The great General o the army and
navy, and commander c tin > common
wealth.”
This letter carried “8 ep ' complete
ly by storm. An ange from heaven
direct could not have ; onvinced him
that the letter was not j onv the Presi
dent. He voted for An; s, ind carried
upwards of 500 votes w; h h|m.
The above related i: cidiu.c is only
one of the many ways ii ed by unscru
pulous politicians to ; hoodwink the
simple-minded and gull- >le hegro.
AS A MARRIA: 'rE [MARKET.
A Slackness Caused b. tlii' Insuffici
ent Incomes of tlie Yolmg Men—
Monstrous Extravaifa icelof Female
Dress. ! !
The Bombay Gazette, f tqo 14th ult.,
thinks that the Indiar mother must
often look back with a; foil* l regret to
those days when the mil ,rin|onial mar
ket was not overstock and, [and when
suitors were more plent ultimo spinis
ters. Her memory, p rhal/S, carries
her back to her own day s ofc girlhood,
when, from the mornei , sb;e sailed at
Gravesend, to the .not distant hour
when she was happily * ispksed of in
the far Mofussil, all raa 3 creation was
at her feet with whate* *r wealth men
had to offer in exchan e but for her ,
smiles. Those were the j ays when sol- 1
diers, civilians, and mer iau;ts hunger
ed aud thirsted for ma :uq?e. There
was no shilly-shally t >oi|t popping
the question in tho e Igood oid
times. The great difficult {■ was to
prevent a superabunilunb of pop
ping from too many loie-i >rn swains
together. But things a?3 a tered ma
terially for the worse no|', a ,id there is
a tightness in the India! n atrimonial
market of this presentiye;|r of grace
which, we verily belieje, {will drive
some mothers to despai* if {events do
not speedily arise to rei :orfi the repu
tation of India as a gc >d -market for
the girls. Considering he: very thiu
disguise that parents n wn lays think
is necessary to shroud t ieis conuubial
designs in from soeiet a: large, it
would be absurd to pre' me 'a delicacy
which nobody secs on th; gr |at domes
tic questions of marrying ar and giving in
marriage. The alternati e I >r a young
lady without fortune is f rh ;,ps the life
of a poor relation, of a; gc verness or
companion. Sensible gii st be the ma
trimonial question from l bi siness-like
point of view, and are cojj tei t to marry
and be happy ever aftij w; rd, as we
sincerely wish they may! >e. However,
if sensible girls cannot fi eel the sensi
ble men to make thinji i Smooth be
tween them, a difficulty nijses that is
not readily to be surmeu teji, and it is
in the vain efforts to clin j tjhis hurdle
in the course mati minial that
some parents tumb 3 ;to the
ground with grievousj groans over
the manners of the tirfies which
render such acrobatic ?atis a pain
full necessity. The fact m that young
men cannot marry in Inc a |:ny longer
with those prospects of ; oabort which
in older days made V 3m speak of
matrimony as a some hing awfully
jolly. What with the ' ise in prices,
the’ debased rupee, the frightful ex
travagance of feminine ashious, and
the parsimony of the C >vm-nment of
India, which has abolis ed hundreds
of appointments and Gut 1 ov ! , o the sala
ries of so many more, r > young man
with his senses about hi *, will risk the
maintenance of two perilms— possibly
an eventful dozen. ThurfM ss Quihye
is left lamenting on the ih< re of celi
bacy while Capt. Mull a’|igates h 3 s
own canoe on the open oqpan there,
avoiding the quicksands represented
by waving tresses, brq it {eyes, and
twinkling ankles that in ;h|ise days of
state economies bring n mjto poverty
and rags. Mr. Lowe’s C jmpetition
walla, who asks the Gove n merit for a
compassionate allowance, Wherewith tn
educate his children, is ; o • exaggera
tion of the poverty of tl i lay. Mun
dreds of married men in India at this
moment are fighting the battle of life
with very little—we might almost say
without any ammunition. A misery
loug ago unknown in in India, that is
to say genteel poverty, is common
enough here now, and debt is now in
curred in India not so much through
extravagance as under necessity. Natu
rally, when watching the shattered
wrecks of matrimonial ventures about
them, the young and wary gentlemen
of the country sheer clear of such sig
nals of distress; whence, we repeat, the
memory of the mother for the past,
and the decadence of a trade which
dealt chiefly in beauty. In justice,
however, to the young men from the
Mofussil, we must say that the mon
strous extravagance of female dress
has much to do with their avoidance
of marriage. Ten-guinea dresses and
three-guinea bonnets, coming fast and
furious on one another to answer the
demands of church, dances, and din
ners upon them, are enough to bring
any modest income to untimely grief;
but such is the rage for dress to-day,
that we constantly see girls wilfully
frightening away their lovers with t heir
gorgeous robes rather than deny them
selves the gratification of flaunting
them iu the faces of other women. This
may be pleasure for the moment; but
it certainly does not induce proposals.
In short, between dress and her lover,
the girl falls to the ground, which is a
pity, for nature doubtless intended her,
but for Worth and his kind, to be a
gracious wife, and the happy mother of
children.
BACK FROM THE GRAVE !
A Husband Returns After Five Years
Absence, and is Not Received With
Frantic Joy by His Supposed Widow.
Five years ago Benj. S. Grosvenor
lived in Dowagiac. In June, 1871, he
left home for the pur( ose of going to
St. Jo to butcher. He did not return,
and his wife could only learn that he
got off the cars at Niles but did not
reach St. Jo. She heard nothing of him
until the following September, when, in
a huckleberry marsh near Buchanan,
a body was found so badly decompos
ed that the features were unrecogniz
able. Some of those who saw it were
positive that it was Grosvenor, and
sent to Dowagiae for his wife to
come and view the body. She went
down and was met at the depot by a
dentist of Dowagiac who had been to
see it, and told her he was positive it
was Grosvenor, as he recognized the
teeth from some work he had perform
ed on them. She went down to see the
remains, and though she could not pos
itively identify them as her husband,
all the indications looked that way, and
a day or two after she wept over the
grave of her husband, as she supposed.
Not long after a son, who was lying
very sick when the father went away,
died also, leaving her with one child, a
little girl. She left Dowagiac and came
to this city, and is now cook in the
Grand River House.
From that time she has lived a widow
and believed herself such, though she
says that there was always a presenti
ment in her mind that they had all
been deceived and that her husband
was still alive. But her friends were
confident that he was no longer living,
and as the yeais passed by without
tiding of him, she had to give up hope
and only at times would doubts arise
in her mind. Any doubt she might
have felt was not shared by others, and
it was supposed that he had been mur
dered, and she has received a number
of letters from detectives—one from
Europe—offering to ferret out the mys
tery and bring the murderer to justice.
She had some reason to hold her
doubts, for her husband, i,when absent
before, had threatened to stay away
until he had acquired a competence,
but she did think that if he carried this
threat into execution he would have
written to her.
Tuesday night at midnight a man
got off the cars and presented himself
before her. It was the lost husband.
He had gone to Missouri and had been
living there. He had not yet become
rich, but got su:k of the country and
retured East. His wife was indignant
at his leaving a sick family as he did,
and leaving her to work for herself,
without letting her hear from him—
though he says he did write, but the
letters miscarried—that she gave him
a reception more cool than that which
is popularly supposed to te the thing
in such cases, and rather intimated
that as she had got along very well
without him for five years, she could
keep on doing so. This somewhat dis
mayed him, and he went to see a
brother near Saginaw, and is there
still.
There is no chance for any remarks
about Enoch Arden, for the whole af
fair is decidedly matter-of-fact, and
there is no second husband, though she
says there might just as well have
been, and her tone seemed to express
regret that the matter did not have this
romantic complication. She does not
seem specially glad that he has re
turned, and seems inclined to let him
do the best he can for himself, being
well contented with her present inde
pendent condition. It is not safe nor
profitable for a man to desert a reso
lute woman with an industrious dispo
sition, for the chances are that he will
be glad to yet return and ask favor of
her. —Jackson Patriot, Sept. 13.
A Texas Bed Bug.— A Shermau man,
who was out in the country buying
grain, stopped at night at a dilapidated
farm house. After a fierce contest with
the bugs and mosquitoes, he had fallen
asleep. He slept about an hour when
he was rudely awakened. The old far
mer was standing over him with a
cocked revolver, one of the farmer’s
stalwart sons had him by the heel and
was in the act of jerking him out of
bed, while the hired man was tossing
the pillows around with a three-tined
pitchfork.
“What have I done ?” he hoarsely
asked.
“Keep cool, stranger,” replied the
farmer, “some of the boys thought
they heard a Denison beg bug chawing
up the shuck mattress, but I guess it
must have been wolves out in the time
ber they heard ; you can go to sleep
again.”
But somehow or other he could not—
[Sherman Register,
Miss Kellogg will open English opera
in New York on the 11th of October.
Her troupe will comprise Mrs. Van
Zandt, Miss Beaumont, Miss Montague
and Messrs. Maas, Carleton and Peakes.
There is a rumor that Mrs. Zelda
Seguin will also be one of the company.
She will be a valuable acquisition to
the company.
The Stamford (Conn.) Advoc ate says
“ Mr. Edwin Booth is steadily recover
ing from the injuries received by the
recent accident, but it is unlit’ely that
he will be able to appear qpon the
stage for many months to gome.
FOOD FOR POWDER.
The German “ War Play.”
[Chicago Tribune.
The cable dispatch from Liegnitz, in
Silesia, which appeared in Monday’s
issue of the Tribune, not only gives a
very graphic and animated picture of
the three days’ sham battles of a Ger
man army, but it also furnishes some
very suggestive reasons to account for
the superiority of the German army to
the French in the recent Franco-Ger
man war. The kriegspiel, or “ war
play,” lasted three entire days, and the
troops bivouacked upon the field of
battle during the third night. Two en
tire army corps were pitted against
each other, and their operations in
volved every detail of the labor
and hardship of the real battle
except the killing, and at the
close the troops were as jaded and
fatigued as if they had been engaged
for the same length of time against an
actual enemy. The plans of the mimic
battle were laid out with the most
minute exactness, and the Emperor, the
Princes, and the Generals of the army
were in every part of the field, examin
ing and criticising with reference to
praise or blame after the action, and in
addition to this the troops were also
critically watched by distinguished
foreign officers. Perhaps the best tri
bute to the efficiency of the army is the
fact that, while foreign officers were
unanimous in commending the discip
line, activity, and precision of the evo
lutions, the Emperor and his Generals
were not altogether satisfied with all
the operations, showiug the exacting
standard of military science which
is required by the military de
partment. The troops on this
occasion were required to make long
and fatiguing marches both by day and
by night, to dig trenches, to carry heavy
burdens, to ford rivers, to build
bridges, to storm almost inaccessible
heights, and to perform every possible
movement and endure every possible
fatigue which would have been necessi
tated had the battle been an actual in
stead of a mimic one, and all this not
for an afternoon, but for three days,
day and night, without intermission,
and without regard to weather. It was
not the show of a gala day to amuse
the people or gratify national pride
and military glory, but the actual work
of a campaign, with all its tediousness
of routine as well as its arduousness
of physical work, devised to keep
the army upon its war footing,
and ready to take the field at a
day’s notice. There was nothing of the
holiday maneuvering of the English
militia, or of the summer afternoon
show of the French. Another feature
of the German military life, as illus
trated in this battle, is the impossibili
ty of exemption from this duty. Com
mutations and substitutes are of no
avail. Every able-bodied man, from
the Crown Prince to the lowest peas
ant, must do his duty himself, and bear
his share of the labor and fatigue.
Shirking is impossible, and every man,
therefore, is not only a soldier, but a
soldier who stands ready for the duties
of a campaign on call, and is inured to
its hardships by constant exercise of
the roughest description.
Now, contrast these operations of the
German army with the annual ma
neuvres of the French army. For the
success of these maneuvres a plesant
Sunday afternoon in leafy June is es
sential ; likewise a pleasant park into
which the regiments leisurely march.
The troops are then drawn up in line,
with the cavalry on the wings, the
artillery in front, and the infantry in
the rear. What space they do not oc
cupy is filled with crowds of specta
tors—men, women, and children out
for a holiday afternoon show in holi
day attire. After the troops are drawn
up in line, the Grand Marshal and his
aids, gorgeously caparisoned, ride into
the park amid the roar of artillery and
the cheering of the multitude, tickled
with a straw. They pass among the
various divisions, and then ride
up and down the lines, the
troops presenting arms. Then there
is more cheering. The Hags
are waved. The bands play. The
troops go through the manual of arms.
The gay uniforms, glistening of arms,
waving of banners, the sunshine, trees
and flowers and fountains, the viva
cious and enthusiastic crowds, make
up a very brilliant picture to the eye.
The troops go through with this plea
sant pastime, and then march past the
Marshal and the crowd, and then back
to the barracks, and they are ready for
war! The German maneuvres are a
week of incessant toil, with every de
tail of an actual campaign except the
loss of life. The French maneuvres
are a summer afternoon’s pleasure—a
holiday show —to divert the Parisians
and keep them quiet and contented.
The two systems need no comment as
to their availability and effectiveness
for military purposes. Gravelotte and
Sedan furnish the tests to be applied to
them.
Very Hard Play At That.
[Cincinnati Gazette.]
France is approximating her military
system to that of Germany. The re
serves have just been called out for a
drill of twenty-eight days. Saying
nothing of the los3 of the soldiers’
labor for that time, the cost of keeping
the men and their deserted families
will reach 7,500,000 francs, or about
$2,500,000. The corporations for which
many of the soldiers have been work
ing refuse, with few exceptions, to con
tinue their wages, and the expense
therefore falls on the public. The call
includes all able-bodied men up to
forty years of age who are not in active
service. The papers are growling, tim
idly but unmistakably. Neither is
all lovely in Germany. The physical
grounds of exception are very few, and
the continuous maneuvres very severe,
and the number of sick shows that
many are unable to endure the drill.
Military glory may have its attrac
tions for monarchs, but it certainly
heaps most grievous burdens on their
subjects.
A GIRL’S LIVELY TTm AGINATION.
A Tale Full of Drollery—Wliat Came
of Taking Little Sips of Brandy,
The Paris correspondence of the
London Daily Telegraph contains the
following:
A tale full of drollery comes from
Cambrai. On Saturday night prodi
gious alarm reigned in that city. The
telegraph worked without ceasing, and
mounted gendarmes careered in every
direction. Their orders were to stop a
van, clearly described, in which would
be found several acrobats and three
kidnapped children. A little girl esca
ped had given the alarm. She came
home very late, dreadfully bruised, her
eves blackened, and scarcely able to
walk. A big dog, to which she was
much attached, led her. The parents
and neighbors, greatly disturbed, ask
ed an explanation, which, with
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 45.
tears and spasms and mental ag
ony, the little girl delivered
She was playing on the glacis with
her dog when a van came past. The
Fair of Cambrai had lately taken place,
attended by many acrobats and gyp
sies, and the van belonged to a party
of these. A woman got out as it stop
ped on the glacis and seized the child.
In spite of her struggles she was hand
ed over to a man who took her up and
put her in the vehicle. There she re
cognized three other children belong
ing to the town. The man put a bottle
in her mouth, and made her drink
some opiate, no doubt. But the dog
had stuck to his mistress, and she had
not let go tiie chain. Between them
they prevented the door shutting, and
presently the faithful cur dragged his
mistress out, and she fell into the road,
bruising herself, as could plainly be
seen. The van people didn’t wait for
such a troublesome victim, but hurried
off. This story was much interrupted
by the fainting fits of the mother.
When she could be safely left, half a
dozen zealous neighbors hurried to the
police office. The Coinissary arrived
and heard the little martyr for himself.
Then ensued that galloping of gen
darmes which I have mentioned. There
were persons incredulous, of course;
for such there always are everywhere.
To the anger and disgust of the city,
these people pointed out that the Fair
had broken up ten days before;
that not a van or au acrobat
had been beheld in the last week.
Roused to more aggressive incred
ulity by the wrath of true believers,
they declared the little girl to be a
little story-teller. After this no one
would talk to them any more, and in
Coventry they reflected on their wick
edness. But the worst of it is these ca
lumniators are proved right. The
naughty little girl confesses that she
found a bottle of brandy, that she gave
a glass of it to her brother, and took
the rest upon the glacis with her dog.
Then she sipped and sipped, in the
blaze of sunshine, until, in fact, she
could sip no more, but roiled among
the stones, to her great damage. And
then she went to sleep and dreamed all
that story of the van. Waking, with a
dreadful headache and two black eyes,
she pondered how to explain these ac
cidents to her mother. The dream
came handy for this purpose, and was
used. But now the parents called her
story-teller, and treated her accord
ingly. With needless emphasis they
protested that brandy had never en
tered their house. The Commissary of
Police was struck with such warmth of
denial. He called the little girl again,
and she wept sore in hopeless puzzle
between her own falsehood and her
mother’s. So the Commissary took on
himself to make a perquisition, and a
quantity of brandy did he find, of
which no satisfactory account was
forthcoming. There seem to be several
morals that attach to this little story.
Motherless.
Three little golden heads at an upper
window and a long line of carriages in
the street below. Nurse holds baby up,
who laughs and claps his little dimpled
hands as his eye is caught by the nod
ding plumes on the hearse; and pre
sently the procession moves down the
street, and mother has gone away for
ever. The men from the undertaker’s
remove the traces of the funeral; the
parlors are in their wonted order, ex
cept, perhaps, the curtains are not
looped as gracefully, the furniture is
not disposed as tastefully, and the little
ornaments and bijouterie are not in
their accustomed places. In mother’s
room there’s a chill and prim
air about everything, so different
from its usual look of cosy comfort. A
bright June sunlight is gleaming
through the half-opened blinds, but it
does not seem to give warmth or cheer.
The toys are brought out, but the chil
dren soon tire of them. There’s some
thing gone—they scarcely realize what.
By and by baby begins to fret, and
nurse gets cross. Poor little darling !
mamma’s pet! how tenderly she would
have soothed him with soft iullabys.
And then papa comes home and gath
ers the little flock around his knee, and
tries to tell them something of the
beautiful home to winch mamma has
gone; but they want her sadly here;
they cannot think why the Good Father
should want her so much.
Financial Condition of the Eastern
Railroad.
Boston, September 25. —The Evening
Journal makes a statement of the
Eastern Railroad Company’s finamial
condition. The statement claims the
expense of a floating debt of $2,200,000,
and an aggregate total debt of $15,000,-
000. It further claims an increase of a
hundred per cent, in the capital debt in
three years, while for the same time
there has been an increase of only 24
per cent, in the annual gross earnings
TIIE SONORA REVOLUTION.
A Battle and Suppression.
San Diego, September 25.—The revo
lution in Sonora was ended August 23d
by an engagement near Alta between
the Government troops and the revo
lutionists. The latter were defeated,
losing fifty killed, wounded and pris
oners. About 500 were engaged on
both sides. Martial law has been pro
claimed until affairs are quieted.
Personal—Negro Murderers.
New York, September 25. —Madame
Titiens, prima donna, and Chas. Brad
laugh, British Radical, have arrived
here.
A negro named Areston, arrested on
a charge of assisting in the murder of
Abraham Weissberg, a Jewish peddler,
in Westchester county, turned State’s
evidence and confessed that he and two
other negroes, named Ellis and Thomp
son, did the deed.
Lost in the Gale of the 18th.
New York, September 25.— Ship
Western Empire, Captain Bertie, from
Pensacola for Grimsley, waterlogged in
the hurricane of the 18th, and was
abandoned. The Captain and orew
landed at St. Vincent’s Island, Apa
laeeicola Bay, ip boats, In landing, a
boat capsized, and seven were drowned.
The remainder, seventeen, landed at
Pensacola, destitute,
nil ■
The Horse Disease Spreading.
New York, September 25.—The
horse disease is rapidly spreading
throughout New Jersey, The disease
is pronounoed of the cerebro spinal
menengitis type. Number of deaths,
fourteen per cent.
Mrs. Drake, remembered by the older
class of theatre-goers, died in Kentucky
on the 2d instant. Her acting was re
markable for its power and intensity,
and she was chiefly noted for her Lady
Macbeth, Margaret of Burgundy,
Madame Claremont in “A Mother’s
Vengeance,” Evadne and similar pafts.
He last appearance was in Cincinnati,
in 1868.
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WIT AND HUMOR.
Mrs. Snipe, of Texas, made her hus
band quail before her. Gamey !
The Empress Augusta wears white
pique at the French watering places.
Doolittle would give a man who is
married two votes. How many to a
man who has committed bigamy?—
[Lowell Courier.
When one gets mad at an aristocrat
in Washington it comes very handy to
say to him: “I know you—you sold
gingerbread during the war.”
A correspondent sends us a “small
piece of Morton’s bloody shirt.” The
material seems altogether too thin for
fall wear.
“He strained at a gnat and swallow
ed a calomel,” was little Johnny’s ver
sion of the text yesterday.—[Rochester
Express.
It is hard to tell which will bring the
most pleasant expression into a wo
man’s face—to tell her that her baby is
heavy or her bread light.—[Easton
Free Press.
“He was an elder in the Methodist
Church, and the leader of the village
brass band.” is the touching conclusion
to an obituary which an Indiana paper
gives a deceased subscriber.
A man would have preached in Vir
ginia City the other day had not a rock
struck him between the shoulders.
This is the nearest thing to Sunday
services they have had there in five
years. ,
They are going to put up a lieadstont*
at the grave of Capt. Cook just as soon
as anybody can be found to point out
the grave. Meanwhile, the committee
will hold your subscriptions.
When Ida Lewis rescues a man, she
does’nt hold his head in her lap until
he revives. Several members of Con
gress risked their lives off Lime Rock
this season, under the impression that
she did.
She looked out of the window at the
lowering skies and flying leaves, and
remarked, with a little shiver of de
light, “Time to think about that winter
bonnet and them new furs.”
The Danbury News isn’t a dead jour
nal yet, by any means, but continues, at
intervals, to hit the nail on the head
with astonishing force and precision. It
says; “What this country really needs
is a good five cent cigar.”
A man was seen on the avenue, yes
terday, shaking and quaking violently,
and his face one immense mosquito
bite. It was afterwards ascertained
that he had spent the summer at one of
the so-called watering places in the in
terior of New Jersey.
Sam Ward, the Rex of the Vestibule,
is in town. It is said that he proposes
to entertain his friends at a dinner, the
prominent feature of the “menu” being
pig’s ears. All the Pacific Mail folks
will be invited, including Donu Piatt.
A New York policeman, out in the
country on a vacation, has worn out
six clubs on an old stump. That’s the
nearest thing he can get to knocking
some peaceful citizen down with his
baton.
Robert Collyer frankly says that he
doesn’t believe any canal boat captain
will ever become good enough to reach
heaven, and now won’t there be some
big fighting when two boats get fouled!
The King of Holland is not a miser.
The other day, when a laborer stopped
the royal carriage from going into the
river, the King handed him forty cents
and smiled a smile worth thirty-five
cents more.
There are, according to Mrs. Craw
shay’s calculation, 900,000 women in
the United Kingdom for whom there
is no chance of marriage. What a pity,
truly.
The handkerchiefs are “the prettiest
and flimsiest bits of lawn and lace im
aginable.” But what will the poor girl
do if she should happen to take cold in
her head?
The Providence Journal regards the
proposition in the North Carolina Con
stitutional Convention to disfranchise
felons as a blow aimed at negro and
other Republican suffrage.
There are seven generals, five colo
nels and one judge in the field as can
didates for Governor of Georgia. This,
of course, does not include the majors
and captains that are holding back to
manipulate the State convention.
Red Cloud was interviewed the other
day. He said: “Heap wolf white man.
Injun nobody. Red Cloud going to git
plug hat and be big as anybody.” It is
probable that Lougfellow will found a
poem on the brilliant speech.
Mrs. Robert Taylor, living near
Greenville, Va., has been insane for
some time past; but lately, complain
ing of a pain in her head, she drove a
large nail into it. She concealed the
fact for some days, and when it was
discovered, the doctor had great diffi
culty in getting the nail out; but Mrs.
Taylor’s mind had been entirely re
stored „ by this extraordinary opera
tion.
One of our tavern keepers actually
blushed when a departing guest, on
paying for a night’s lodgiug, kindly
pressed another half dollar into his
host’s hand, with the request to give
those bedbugs one square meal, any
how.—[San Antonio Herald.
When Bismarck’s daughter meets
her future husband at the front door,
and demands, with a mitrailleuse in
each eye, “You, Wendlzuenlarberge,
why didn’t you bring them hair pins ?”
he will reach the top story before she
gets the name out of her mouth.
Think about marriage as we piease,
there is no pleasanter sight than a
newly-wedded couple walking home
from church on the first Sunday, with
the bride’s mother in the rear thought
fully adjusting the bustle and back
bows of the happy daughter.—[Dan
bury News.
Fulton Times: A dollar is a large
price for a watermelon,” said a pur
chaser to a vender of this fruit, as he
was paying for one the other evening.
“You wouldn’t think so, mister,” said
the dealer, “if you had set on the fence
with a shot gun in your hand every
night for three weeks,' watching the
patch.”
They call them the “pull-backs” out
on the frontier, when eastern, ladies
jump out of the cars or stages, and the
usual aot of adjusting the bunch of
things on the hips creates vast merri
ment among the gaping crowds at the
stations. Pity that the world must
have its ill-mannered barbarians as
well as its gentle aud modest Chris
tians.
Speaking of the checks now worn by
gentlemen, a London correspondent
thus abundantly evidences that capri
cious fashion is not confined to the
gentler sex. “I believe,” he says, “that
some of the plaids are so large that a
gentleman has two pairs of trowsers—
one worn in the morning, the other in
the evening, to show the entire pat'
tern,”