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FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Spanish Items.
London, December 28.—The Times
gives prominence to the following : We
are glad to be able to corroberate the
contradiction of the statement that
Spain has violated tho obligation of
neutrality by enlisting Italians for the
army in Cuba.
A Paris dispatch says that Queen
Isabella has the measles.
A Madrid dispatch confirms the re
port of the death of Deßodas.
The army from Catalonia numbering
40,000, has arrived at Navarre.
Important from Madrid.
New Yoke. December 28.—A special
to the Herald from London says: The
officials in Madrid having refused to
forward the following dispatch, it was
transmitted to this city through an
other source: “There are indications of
the near advent of serious diplomatic
complications. There is a strange ru
mor afloat in trustworthy quarters,
which alleges the near advent of Euro
pean intervention in Cuba. The na
tions which may coalesce for this pur
pose are not named. The United Stat-s
Government is probably forewarned of
the fact, as I am assured that lengthy
dispatches in cypher are passing be
tween Madrid and Washington.”
The Pope’s Nameday.
A Rome special says that yesterday,
being the Pope’s nameday, there was a
series of receptions at the Vatican.
Numbers of the Papal staff, and their
commanding officers, received the Pen- j
tifieal benediction kneeling.
Holland and Venezuela.
St. Thomas, December 16.— The Dutch
war steamer Princess Marie arrived on
the 12tli, and left the next morning for
Curocoa. It is rumored that questions
between Holland and Venezuela will be
settled diplomatically.
A Disastrous Hurricane.
Madrid, December 28.- A dreadful
hurricane on the Phillippine Islands
occurred on the 30th of November.
Two hundred and fifty lives were lost,
6,800 dwellings were destroyed and
many cattle perished. The crops are
ruined.
British Successes.
London, December 28.—A special
from Penang to the Times says the Eng
lish now hold all the important points
in the neighborhood. The Maharajah
Lela has taken refuge in Siamese terri
tory. The British power is supreme.
Only the murderers of Mr. Birch are ?u
arms.
Thiers—The Press Bill.
Faris, December 28. —Thiers has
written a letter reserving the right of
choosing between the Senate and Cham
ber of Deputies if he should be elected
to both Houses. He adds that all ho
wishes for is the establishment of the
Conservative Republic.
The Assembly continues the con
sideration of the press bill in detail.
An amendment has been carried de
priving Prefects of the power of sum
marily forbidding the sale of journals
in the streets. The consequence will
be to cancel orders now in force by
which the sale of seventy-five journals
in the streets is prohibited.
From China.
San Francvsco, December 28.—The
Hong Ivoug press says considerable
dissatisfaction is felt among the Ameri
can residents of Tien Tsin and Pekin
at the order of Admiral Reynolds
sending the United States steamer
Mouocacy to Shanghai for repairs,
while the unsettled state of affairs in
Yunnan continues.
The failure of Messrs. Russell &
Sturgis, merchants of Manilla, is con
firmed. Liabilities, $2,000,000.
CANADA.
After Tweed —Commercial Relations—
Strike of Canal Hands—Settling
with Creditors.
Quebec, December 28.—Two detectives
were on the track of the person whom
they believe to be Tweed. They were
obliged to abandon the chase for want
of funds.
London, Ont., December f B. — The
Chamber of Commerce passed resolu
tions recommending the adoption by
the Government the policy of inciden
tal protection as tho most beneficial
for the country under present circum
stances; also for a renewal of reciprocal
trade relations with the United States.
St. Catharine, Ont., December 28.
The Italians at St. Davids, whom the
contractors brought out to work on
canals have joined the Stone Cutters
Association and refuse to work until
their scale of prices is accepted by the
contractors.
St. John, N. 8., December 28.—A
final settlement has been arranged be
tween E. D. Jewell & Cos., and their
creditors. The latter had agreed to
accept twenty cents on the dollar cash
and ten cents on time, the sum requir
ed to pay this compromise being $510,-
000. The cash was ready, but a diffi
culty arose in reference to security for
the time payment. It is understood
that E. D. Sutton’s nDtes, endorsed by
H. E. Wilmore, of Providence, R. I. and
E. G. Dunn, of St. John’s are accepted
f<r $170,000 dollars, payable in install
ments of two or three years.
CINCINNATI.
Bishop Haven’s Third-Term Nomina
tion Considered.
Cincinnati, December 28.—The regu
lar weekly meeting of the Methodist
preachers considered the Bishop Hav
en matter. Of the first resolutions
offered was one declining to express an
opinion on the third-term and deplor
ing Haven’s course. Another set ex
pressing amazement and alarm over
such a small matter and denying Hav
en’s right to speak for the whole
Church and utterly opposing any con
nection of Church and State were also
presented. After a lively discussion,
finally tho whole matter was laid on
the table, which is probably the end of
the affair here.
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NEW ORLEANS.
Drawing: of tlie Louisiana Lottery.
New Orleans, December 28.—The
golden drawing of the Louisiana Lot
tery took place yesterday. The fol
lowing numbers drew the principal
prizes: No. 582 won one hundred
thousand dollars; No. 16,709, fifty
thousand dollars ; No. 2,249, twenty
thousand dollars ; No. 11,105, ten
thousand dollars ; Nos. 3,918 and 18,468
each drew five thousand dollars, and
the following twenty-five hundred dol
lars each : Nos. 768, 1,898, 6,004, 11,470.
Fatal Shooting:.
New Orleans, December 28.—E. L.
Pierson, a member of the Legislature
from Natchitoches, was shot and in
stantly killed on Sunday by Mr. Cos
grove, editor of the Vindicator. The
difficulty grew out of an abuse of
pierson by Cosgrove in his paper.
CAutjusf n Constitutionalist.
Established 1799.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Currency Statements—Postal News
and Other Items .:om the Capital.
Washington, D2oember 28.—The
amount of additional National Bank
notes issued since November Ist *s
$1,761,280. The total amount since the
act of July 14tb, 1874 is $12,715,975.
Ex-Govemor NeweM, of New Jersey,
President of the Natio 1 Council of
the Union League of /merioa h
issued a notice countermanding the
meeting ordered to* be held in Pb:'a
delphia next month and convening th =
sub-Committees at the Astor House
in New York on Thursday July 6th at
noon.
No meeting of the Cabinet occurred
to-day, and unlos something special
occurs there will be none this week.
The retirement of $644,550 legal ten
ders is ordered on account of the Na
tional bank circulation usual during
the-month.
Outstanding legal tenders now are
nearly $372 C 30,01 J.
Theodore M. Vale will succeed Col.
Bangs as Superintendent of the Rail
road Mail Service. Bangs’ resignation
takes effect in Pebruaty.
The general postal union treaty
going into operation in France on the
first of January next, the postal union
rates of five cents per half ounce on
letters, two cents for postal cards, two
cents for newspapers each if not ex
ceeding four ounces and two cents per
two ounces for other printed matter
and patterns of merchandise will Hke
effect on the date named for corres
dence from the United States addressed
to France and Algeria; and, also, for
correspondence addressed to Spain in
cluding the Balearic Isles, the Ca
nary Islands, the Spanish pos
sessions on the Northern coast
of Africa, and the postal estab
lishments of Spain upon the western
coast of Morrocco. The postal union
territory wiil then include the whole of
Europe without exception, together
with Asiatic Russia, Asiatic Turkey
and Egypt, and of course the United
States also.
Zaulo Poole, the child acrobat, has
been taken from the custody of his
brothers and placed in that of Mr.
Gatcha, President of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
until a suitable homo cau be provided.
The Post Office Department has re
ceived the following cable from the
British Postmaster General: “ Money
orders advised on lists from the United
States largely exceed the usual
amount. Please remit £30,000 on ac
count.
The Intervention Story at Washington.
It is asserted in prominent circles
that if, as reported from London,
“ there is a near advent of European
intervention in Cuba,” our Government
would inform such powers as might
combine for this purpose that their
course would be highly offensive to the
United States, as it would imply a de
sign of controlling affairs in localitie:-
contiguous to this country, thereby in
juriously affecting our commercial and
political interests, and for this reason,
apart from other considerations, the
United States would continue to act in
the spirit of the Monroe doctrine.
CHARLEY ROSS.
The Latest Clue to the Stolen Boy.
Boston, December 28.— Dispatches
from Concord and St. Albans state that
a lad answering the description of
Charlie lioss was placed on tho Mon
treal train at Nashua, last night, by
some men who failed to provide him
with a ticket, no gave another name
tit first, but finally said that the men
had mado him tell a fictitious story,
and that his name was Ross. He said
he had lived in Philadelphia ; that he
had been cariied away while playing
with his bother Eddie, and that his
mother’s name was Annie. His ap
pearance and story have so strongly
impressed the persons having him in
charge that they will communicate
with Mr. Ross.
GOVERNMENT FRAUDS.
Allowed to Plead Guilty—Arrest of a
Whiskey Rectifier,
Chicago, December 28. —Tho Times
has information that District Attorney
Bangs has received instructions from
Washington to allow all parties under
indictment here for defrauding the
Government to plead guilty, and to in
sure them immunity from the peniten
tiary.
St. Paul, Minn., December 28.— Jonas
F. Brown has been arrested and his
stock, worth $35,000 at Minneapolis,
seized for failure to make returns and
pay t-he special tax as a rectifier.
Minor Telegrams.
Richmond, December 28.—Lewis D.
Crenshaw’ is dead. Aged 58 years.
Baltimore, December 28.—A private
dispatch from New York announces
the death of ’William Crichton, for
merly one of the most prominent and
active merchants of Baltimore.
Cincinnati, December 27.—The hogs
slaughtered to date number 328,950.
Same time last year, 328,265.
Worcester, Massachusetts, Decem
ber 28. —The suspension of James A.
Smith and G. W. & J. A Smith, Wool
en announced. Liabili
ties variously estimated at from three
hundred to six hundred thousand dol
lars. The assets are unknown.
Marine Items.
Washington, December 28.—The Sig
nal Service Observer at Sandy Hook
reports that the bark reported ashore
this morning is the Gentoo, Capt. Sta
ples, from Calcutta, August 22d, for
New York. She is on a stone pile.
He also reports the schooner Kate
Romwell ashore on the 26th, but is now
off and in tow of the wrecking steamer
Lackawana.
London, December 28.—The steamer
Ville de Brest arrived at Havre yester
day with the passengers from the dis
abled steamer L’Amerique, which is at
Queenstown, fur Havre.
Found Guilty.
Boston, December 28.- -The jury in
the case of Abraham Jackson, the noted
defaulter aud forger, rendered a ver
dict of guilty on all the counts of the
indictment.
Waddy Thompson.
Memphis, December 28. —The charge
of forgery against Waddy Thompson
was dismissed. The charges of felony
will be heard January 12th.
Another Steamer Sunk.
Memphis, December 28. —The steamer
Fort Gibson, hence for Pine Bluff,
snagged and sunk, yesterday, in Bayou
Metre, with a cargo of one hundred
tons of assorted merchandise.
ATTGUSTA. GA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1875.
FROM NEW YORK.
More Beecherlsm—Removal of Canal
Auditor Thayer Asked.
New York, December 28. —Frank
Moulton has instituted suit against
Henry Ward Beecher for $50,000 dam
ages. The complaint sets forth a ma
licious prosecution. Mrs. Tilton wifi
be a witness in the case.
Atbany, December 28. —The Board of
Cotr’'ssiouer3 of the canal fund adopt
ed a requisition upon the Governor to
suspend Franc's S. Thayer, auditor of
the canal department, and appoint a
suitable person to perform the duties,
if it shall appear to him that Thayer
has violated his duty in regard to the
public monies.
THE DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.
Full Deta sl s —A Horrible Story.
New York, December 28.— The fol
lowing particulars respiting the dyna
mite explosion at Bremerhaven are
from the Weiser Zeiiung : It appears
that just before the Mosel was about
to sail a cart containing four cases and
a barrel wes being unloaded for ship
ment. Suddenly a terrible explosion
occurred. The effect was horrible. The
quay was then thronged with people,
partly belonging to the steamer, partly
spectators and paiily passengers, who
had remained there to take a last
farewell of their friends. An eye
witness, who stood under the gang
way of the Mosel, on hear'ng
the terrific report, saw a number of
black lumps flying about in the air,
whilst very few of the persons on land
remained visible. Apprehending a
boiler explosion, he threw himself flat
on deck, where he received a volley of
sand, broken glass, fragments of flesh,
bones, etc. The devastation on board
the Mosel was terrific. No skylight
was left. The cabins of the starboard
and port were either crushed in or
bulged out by the pressure, or alto
gether smashed. The side plates of
the ship were burst. The ports with
their glasses and rivets were forced in
wards, and the whole ship was be
smeared with blood and stuck over
with pieces of flesh and other hu
man debris. Iu the hold, and
in all parts of the ship, were
found arms, legs, and other
portions of the human frame. Thus
the lower hold received some limbs
through the open hatchways. The sides
of the hatchway were burst by the
pressure and the front of the naviga
tion eabin on deck stove in. The whole
ship was littered with glass shreds,
which even filled the dishes from the
steam kitchen as they were being
served to the ’tween deCk or steerage
passengers.
The tug got off comparatively unhurt,
being so much more below the quay
line than the Mosel, still the whole of
its deck was destroyed. The crew
came off with a mere fright only, the
engineers and stokers having been hurt
slightly. On land where the package
had been unloaded a hole had
been produced from six to seven feet
deep, and the whole place was strewn
with limbs, shreds of dresses, etc., in
large reeking pools of blood. You
might see here an arm, there a calf, in
testines, mutilated busts, etc.
Amongst the most horrible details of
this calamity is the fate of the Etmer
family, who were seeing off one of their
sons to California. The father, mother,
sou and son-in-law are dead, also the
daughter-in-law had her arm and her
child its hand blown off. The case which
exploded had been in the care of the
carrier, Westerman, of Bremerhaven,
and was accompanied on Ps way to
the steamer by a Mr. Ttimford, of
whom it is said all trace has been lost.
ALABAMA.
Meeting of the Legislature.
Montgomery, December 28. —The
Alabama Legislature mot .to-day. The
Governor’s message is devoted entirely
to matters of State interest, and makes
no reference to National affairs. A re
port from the Commissioners to settle
the State debt will be made in a few
days.
BOGUS ADVERTISING.
A Heavy Verdict Against Ben Wood.
[New York Herald, Dec. 24.]
Tho case of the city of New York
against Benjamin Wood was tried be
fore Judge Donohue yesterday. Tho
suit was brought by the city authorities
to recover $6,230.4(3, with interest from
April, 1872, which was alleged to have
been wrongfully obtained for pretend
ing to advertise the proceedings of the
Common Council prior to April, 1872,
iu the Daily News. The advertising
for which the money was received, it
was claimed, was never done, and the
bill therefore pushed through the
Auditor’s department of the Controll
er’s office on false vouchers and affi
davits.
Stephen Augell, the Examiner of
Piintingand Advertising, attached to
the Controller’s office, had been direct
ed to examine the vouchers put iu by
Wood, in order to discover whether the
advertisements charged for had been
printed. He consulted Mr. Lynch, the
foreman of the News, and obtained
from him the file of tho paper for 1872.
Not discovering the advertisements, he
reported that they had not been print
ed. A false file of the paper had been
gotten up containing the advertise
ments, but it had not been put together
carefully enough to deceive any one.
Mr. Wood came into court and was
sworn as a witness for the defense in
the case. All the questions excepting
one were ruled out, however, because
Mr. Wood had refused to bring the
files of the News into court. During
Mr. Wood’s examination Judge Dono
hue took occasion to reprimand tho
counsel for the defense for the expres
sions he let fall. No other witnesses
were called, both sides resting their
case with the examination of a single
witness.
Judge Donohue, in charging the
jury, referred to the useless adjourn
ments and delays of the defense. It
was in the power of Mr. Wood to pro
duce the files of the paper to show
whether the advertisements were print
ed or not, but he had chosen not to
produce them. The jury retired at
about 3:30 p. m., and returned within
five minutes, announcing a verdict in
favor of the city for the full sum claim
ed, which, with interest, amounted to
$7,581.17. Several suits of a similar
nature will soon be prosecuted.
“We publish a red hot paper this
morning,” as an enterprising Western
editor remarked the day after having
been burned out. '
Edwin Forrest’s mansion in Phila
delphia has been sold for $98,000. It
is to be turned into a club house.
A FAT IRISH BOY.
A Remarkable Ciise of Obesity-An
Interesting Lad-;-His Reception in
Hospital—Successful Treatment.
Dublin, December 10,1875.
A case has lately been brought under
the consideration o ’ the Dublin College
of Physicians which is so remarkable
in many ways as to;seem to deserve a
wider notice than that of the purely
professional circle. It is a rapid and
extraordinary development of fatness
in a boy.
HISTORY OF THE C/ SE.
The patient—for ,: ‘p atient” he really
was —was the sou of poor parents. His
father was a stone cutter, and the boy
was to be brought up to the father’s
trade. At the data of the medical
treatment of the cuse he was about
seventeen years of age, only four feet
five inches in height, and his weight
was 128> 2 pounds*:. His diminitive
stature gave him ;!,he appearance of
being literally as broad as he was long.
His cheeks were Corid and bursting
with fat, overlapping his nose, and well
nigh burying his blue eyes, which yet
seemed to be bursting from their sock
ets. His under chin fell on the front
of his chest, and thick, brawny folds
lay between the back of the head and
his shoulders, quite obliterating all ap
pearance of neck. There was a marked
accumulation of fat Across the chest;
the belly (as he lay in bed) was spread
out on either side of him, and projected
beyond his knr ?s. The thighs and legs
were not in proportion to the upper
parts, and it wes visible that the fat
predominated in the head and neck
and front of the trunk. The posterior
regions were small by comparison ; the
corresponding muscles were both small
and inefficient, and much of the diffi-.
culty which ho experienced in standing
or sitting was, no doubt, owing to the
condition of those m uscles.
HOW HAD HE BEEN FED ?
He never had the means of pamper
ing his appetite had he been so in
clined. His food consisted chiefly of
potatoes, cake, bread and tea. He was
not fond of sugar. He was not of a
lazy or indolent disposition, although
since the development of his obesity
he had, not unnaturally, passed much
of his time in sleep. His father was
short and stout, but could not at all be
called fat. Neither was his mother.
He was one of thirteen children, not
one of whom had manifested any ten
dency to obesity. ii
/ PPLICATION FOE TREATMENT.
In January, 1874, he was first
brought by his mother for medical ad
vice. She stated that for the preced
ing three or four months, he had been
getting so fat that lie had not been
able to do any work’, Practising the
paternal trade—stone cutting—when
lie stooped he got j “caught in the
chest,” and could ndt give a second
blow to the chisel. His remarkable ap
pearance elicited such lively sallies
from the students that neither en
treaties norc&mmands could persuade
him to remain and submit himself to
treatment. A month later he was again
taken by his mother and locked up
in the room o" one of the resident
pupils, to protect hikn from the in
quisitive gaze and sarcastic remarks
of a curious crowd.
Four and twenty days after his ad
mission to hospital he found the means
of escape. At this tithe he could fairly
movo about. Last April he had him
self become alarmed kit liis condition,
and he promised his nfiother that if ad
mitted into hospital he would remain,
or, as ho put it, he * “ would not run
away again”—a superfluous promise,
since he was quite Unable to stand,
much less run. Except on three or
four occasions he ha I not left his bed
for nine months. He-was conveyed to
the hospital in a cart lying on his side
on a bundle of straw. The cart was
“ backed ” to the hospital steps, the
“ tailboard” removed/’the shafts raised
aud he was slid down the incline
plane into the arms of two of the hos
pital attendants, whol carried him to
bed.
EXTERNAL /PI EaRANCES.
The general color of his skin was
reddish, but the feet and legs were of a
purplish hue, passing into blue. On
pressure those livid ports became quite
pale aud very slowly recovered their
bluish tinge.
HIS MEN f/L CONDITION.
He had none of the amiability with
which fat persons are usually credited;
on the contrary, he wits very irritable
and subject to violent fits of passion.
He was
VERY SENSITIVE? TO COLD,
though so fat, and suffered much in
frosty weather, the extremities being
quite livid.
The abundance of volatile fatty acids
given off from his skin made his vicini
ty unpleasant, and proved a serious ob
stacle to leoch treatment. To mitigate
this, warm baths were used, and the
bouyancy of fat persons was well illus
trated in this instance
measurement.
The following measurement may be
interesting :
| Inches
Circumference of oranhfin 22%
Circumference under cl 25
Circumference of arm, ni>ar axilla 13
Circumference of wrist C 3 ;
Circumference around cifost 39
Circumference around vyjiist 39
His average -
pulse:
beat was 28.5, circulation feeble, action
of the heart weak, rapid, but not irreg
ular or attended with Abnormal sounds.
his vital capacity,
as measured by Casfpla’s spirometer,
was 56.6 cubic inches. : The respiration
was shallow and rapid!, although there
was no pulmonary obstruction; its av
erage rate was 32.2. I
FEELING OF UiEIGHT.
<
His own account of fiiuiself was that
“ the weight of his ifelly was break
ing his back,” and tjiat he felt this
most when he tried to f" sit up straight
on himself,” and that ihe “grab in the
back” was increasing daily. His usual
and most comfortable ; position in bed
was lying nearly roun j on his face, the
belly spread out before him, his ehiu
resting on his forearm; in this way he
felt least pressure of wfie abdomen on
the back. j?
TREATMENT.
Into the medical treatment of the
case it is unnecessary to enter. It will
be sufficient for medical readers to be
informed that the agents employed
where large doses of: liquor potassce
and the liquid extract of the focus
vesciculusus. [
These remedies wen§ used both sep
arately and in combination.
* \
ITS EFFECT.
When admitted to ],tf& hospital he
could barely lift his haij.d to his mouth.
On the eighteenth day’ he could sit up
in bed. In forty-one]; days more he
I could walk the corridor with the aid of
a stick. At the end of another six
weeks he walked a distance of three
quarters of a mile and back. The
strangest part of the case, perhaps, is,
that when he left the hospital he was
one and a half pounds heavier than
when he entered. The explanation is,
that the loss in adpose matter was re
placed by muscle. The increase of
muscle was apparent in the changed
shape of his lower paUs, in his enor
mously increased power of standing,
walking and kicking; the grasping
power of his hand had almost doubled.
It may be observed tbat his weight
might, absolutely speaking, be at any
time considered moderate. One hun
dred and thirty pounds is not excessive
for a boy of seventeen; but it may well
be considered excessive in this case
with respect to the almost dwarfish
stature of the patient. Moreover, it
was not the weight, but the enormous
fatness which was really excessive.
DUELLING.
Its Absurdities—How It Does Not De
cide—The Way to Save Life.
[Baltimore Gazetted
Mr. Woodward, of Winnsboro, South
Carolina, owned a yellow dog of a rov
ing aud predatory cast of mind ; a dog
of active habits, possessing large in
formation concerning adjacent hen
roosts and smokehouses. Mr. Cloney,
of the same city, had forbidden that
yellow dog to come upon his premises ;
he had warned Mr. Woodward to make
more economical use of his dog’s time
hut without effect. Whereupon Mr.
Cloney arose and dew that yellow
canine with the strong hand of irre
sponsible power. Mr. Woodward did
not waste his time in unmanly sorrow,
but hastened to wipe out in gore the
wrong inflicted upon his honor. The
loss of a dog is dishonor, and death is
better than dishonor. Mr. Cloney,
nothing loth, having now killed the
dog, is quite ready to attend to the
case of his owner. So these two gen
tlemen repair with their seconds to
Sand Bar Ferry, tho scene of the re
cent fatal duel, and arrange the pre
liminaries of a meeting, which is hap
pily prevented by the intercession of
friends. And all this took place while
Mr. Tilly, shot in a duel through the
stomach and bowels, was dying in
agony in the same little city, and for
giving his slayer with his latest breath.
Laying aside the clearly-defined
questions as to the morality and
legality of the duel, ought not the ab
surdity of such things as this bring it
into ridicule and disrepute ? A duel is,
perhaps, better than a Southwestern
vendetta, or a brutal street fight, or a
political “horsewhipping.” It is even
better than a gentlemanly assasination;
but this is not saying anything iu its
favor. The great objection to it, out
side of the moral or legal aspect, is
that it is an appeal to arms to decide
what never gets decided. It always
leaves behind it life-long hatreds aud
heartburnings among the friends and
relatives of the parties, ready to flash
out into deadly feud. The thing which
it is called upon to do is the very thing
which it eminently does not do—decide.
This much may, however, be said in
its favor. Its courtesy and punctilio
fit it in some degree for the healing of
bitter quarrels. Two men, smarting
under mutual injury or insult, desire
each other’s blood. They cannot, if
they would, approach eacli other with
tenders cf peace and good will.
But as soon as one of them calls
in a friend and sends a challenge, tho
affair has passed completely out of his
hands; and when the challenged party
names his friend, he also is in other
hands than his own. Now, if these
seconds happen to be men of high
character they will not let their men
light over a mere trifle. They are cool
men of the world, and feel responsible
to public, opinion, which, in some quar
ters, is, unfortunately, stronger than
the law on this subject. They can, by
virtue of their power, take steps to
ward reconciliation, which the parties
themselves could not take; and thus it
has ofteu happened that an old quar
rel has turned into a lasting friendship
by a challenge sent and accepted. The
trouble is that seconds often do not
have tills high character, and have,
beside, a scant allowance of brain; and
another difficulty is that society—
which always holds up its hands and
shrieks with horror at a fatal duel —
always sneers more or less openly at
one amicably adjusted. Fortunately,
Mr. Cloney and Mr. Woodward, in the
great Wiunsboro’ yefiow-dog duel, had
sensible and true-hearted men for sec
onds, and so the affair ended without
the shedding of human gore.
A Tale of Blood.
A long, loan, hungry yellow dog was
observed running down tho street yes
terday morning with a large piece of
meat in his mouth. He had hardly
disappeared around the corner before
a big ragged negro, with a long butch
er knife, hove In sight. Seeing a white
man near by, he called to him :
“ Hello, boss! Seen anything ob a
yallar dog wid a jint ob meat in his
raouf ?”
“ Yes.”
“ Hi, golly ! Which way did ho go,
boss ?”
“ Around the corner there. You had
better feed your dog, or keep the door
of your -smoke house shut. Tho dog
looked like he hadn’t iiad a square
meal iu six months.”
“Golly, boss, you don’t know nuffin’
’bout dat dog; an’ you know preshus
little ’bout dis nigger, too! Smoke
house ? Ge-ru-sa-lem! Ise got no
smoke house —nor meat nuther ? Dat
yallar dog dun gone an’ run off wid all
de meat ’twixt dis chile an’ starbation.
He just histed the fid offen de pot and
stuck his nose in do hot bilin’ potlicker
and snaked that joint of meat out ’fore
you could say ‘Jack Robinson!’ I jest
want to sot my eyes on dat dog once
mo’! I’ll fix him !”
“You are going to kill him, are
you?”
“ See hyar, boss ! You ’spose I’se
gwine to kill de only dog I’se got in de
worl’? No. sah, I’se a mighty big fool
when I gets mad, an’ I’m powerfully
aggervated, but l’se got more sense dau
dat—but I’ll fix him—l’ll match him
for his smartness !”
“ What are you going to do with
him?”
“ I’se gwine to cut his tail short off
wid dis butcher-knife!”
“ What good will that do ?”
“It will larn him some sense, I
reckon.”
And the enraged darky passed on in
pursuit of the object of his vengeance.
The Washington elm at Cambridge,
under which Washington stood when
lie took command of the Continental
armies, is decaying rapidly. Tho exca
vations of the municipal government
for sewer building have so cut and
undermined its roots that the famous
tree is in danger of falling at any
time.
A STRANGE LIFE CLOSED.
Death of Alanson Palmer at the Wil
lard Asylum for the Insane—From a
Millionaire’s Position to the Poor
house—A Singular and Melancholy
Life History.
| Buffalo Courier.]
One who acted an important part in
the long ago history of our city died
; on Saturday night last in the Willard
Asylum, at Ovid, Seneca county, a
State institution for the insane. We
speak of Alanson Palmer, once the mil
lionaire whose vessels were the proud
est that plowed the great lakes; whose
landed property was vast in its extent;
whose hand seemed to turn to gold
everything it touched; but who was
yet destined to drag through nearly
the years of a generation as a living
ifionurneut of the mutability of fortune,
groping into extreme old age with no
vestige of his former wealth, with in
tellect darkened, and, indeed, in the
full sense of the expression, “ a very
weak old man.” Wo can only sketch a
career which, if written in detail, would
prove {i most interesting recital al
though a bail one.
Alanson Palmer was a self-made and,
perhaps we might add, a self-ruined
man. He was born in Eastown, Wash
ington county, Maryland, May 29th,
1794, and came with his father’s family
to the then village of New Amsterdam,
now the city of Buffalo, in 1806. Subse
quently they removed to Eighteen
Mile Creek, iu this county, where the
future millionaire and pauper worked
on a farm until such time as lie was
sent to learn the tanning, currying and
shoemaking business, at Smith’s Mills,
now known as White’s Corners. 1 here
he remained only four months, leaving
his trade to enter the army, at the age
of eighteen, as a substitute for his
elder brother, who had been drafted.
In 1813 he returned to his trade, hut
after working four months longer he
again abandoned it and, comiug to Buf
falo, he entered the employ of Mrs. St.
John, who kept a tavern on Main street,
opposite the site at present occupied
by the Tifft House. Later, and after the
war had closed, he became a clerk for
Wm. Hodge, whose store was located
at what would now be the corner of
Main and Utica streets, and after re
maining with him for a time the young
man took half the stock of goods, with
which ho started a store at Eighteen
Mile Creek. He continued there until
1817, when he returned to Buffalo and
began the grocery business in what
is now the Kremlin block. Alanson
Palmer’s cash capital at that time was
just sl3; but he was naturally a busi
ness man, shrewd to calculate and
energetic to carry out. His trade in
creased, and from that time until the
final and fatal crash great prosperity
seemed to attend his every venture.
In 1817 ho was married to Puttie Swain,
daughter of Daniel Swain, of Boston,
this county. Five years later she died,
leaving no children, and in 1827 he was
again married to Julia Mateson, who
bore him five chilreu, of whom the
survivors are Charles W. Palmer, late
of Buffalo, and Mrs. Julia Cleveland.
Fortune continued to favor him with
her pleasant smiles. His wealth rolled
up untill he became one of the richest
men of the whole section of the coun
try. According to his own estimate,
he was worth §2,000,000. The Ameri
can Hotel, for which ho gave SIOO,OOO,
was one of his purchases. The Alan
son Palmer and the Julia Palmer were
among the imest vessels on our inland
seas. His equipage was the grandest
seen upon tho streets, and he was look
ed upon as tho Croesus of our then
infant city. But at last the change
came. Grand speculations developed
into nothing, costly bubbles burst, leav
ing nothing but empty air, and Alanson
Palmer’s riches took wings which hur
ried them irretrievably away. On the '
4th of May, 1837, he made an assign
ment to Horatio Warren, his brother
in-law, and Col. Alfred Cleves. His
ruin was utter and complete. Of his
lost fortune not even a shadow re- i
mained. The blow was more severe
than his mental faculties could sustain, |
and the balance of his long life became
useless to himself and to the world.
Not even the means of subsistence re
mained to him, and he became a public
pauper, for years an inmate of the Erie
county almshouse. Of all his faculties
the only one which seemed to remain
unimpaired was his memory. The old ;
man loved to talk of the very early
history of Buffalo, reciting many
quaint and interesting circumstances.
Many anecdotes of Alanson Palmer’s
life might be repeated, but they would
only lengthen out a chapter that is at
its best gloomy. Many of our readers
will remember the old man making his
slow way about the city streets clad in
his poorbouse garb, a melancholy pic
ture of the work of adversity. Duriug
the construction of tho addition to the
County Asylum ho was removed to
Ovid, where his history of over eighty
oue years has ended with his death.
Jenkinsonia.
This much-discussed-but-nover-do
cided question of Blonde vs. Brunette
is now being revived here—the revival
representatives being wives of two
foreign Ministers now here. The bru
nette is Senora Mantilla do Los Rios,
of Spain, who is a perfect type of ma
ture Andalusian beauty. She wore, at
Secretary Fish’s dinner, a white satin
ball-dress, with a sweeping train of
crimson velvet, both almost covered
with rich point lace, wliilo her black
hair was arranged with pearls and dia
monds, and each of her solitaire ear
rings was a small fortune. Flashing
black eyes and manners of majestic
grace, excited general admiration.
Austria has sent us, as the wife of
her diplomatic representative, Madame
la Comptesse de Hoyos, nee Comptesse
de Herberstein. He is descended from
one of the oldest Hungarian families;
and she—a native of Upper Austria —
is a true type of Teutonic beauty. Tall,
slender, graceful and spirituelle, she
wore a delicate shade of pink silk,
elaborately made, and trimmed with
rare old point-lace, with sprays of
diamonds on her breast aud left
shoulder while a costly cluster in her
auburn hair flashed the prismatic
colors, in harmony with the diamonds
which composed her ear-rings, necklace
and bracelets. She has the rare gift of
tongues—speaking German, French,
English and Italian—and is a rare ac
quisition to society here — Washing
ton Chronicle.
Tho personalty of eight citizens of
Liverpool who have died during the
past twelve months represent, in the
aggregate, upwards of £4,000,000 —
Robert Gladstone, £300,000 ; James
Houghton, £500,000 ; Richard Hough
ton, £500,000 ; Charles Turner, M. P. f
£700,000 ; James Tyer, £200,000; R. L.
Jones, £300,000; J. J. Rowe, £400,000;
and H. Dawson, £1,500,000. This is
pretty well for a provincial town, which
is not even a city.
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 106
TERPSICHOREAN TRIUMPHS.
ROYAL HONORS TO THE TAGLIONI
FAMILY.
Sketch of the Lives and Achievements
of the Great-Ballet Dancers—A Bril
liant Scene in the Berlin Opera
House.
[Special Correspondence of the Cincinnati
Gazette.]
Beriin, November 25.
A celebrated personage in Berlin has
been having a grand jubilee over the
fiftieth anniversary of his profession,
and as his name is well-known in
America a description of the proceed
ings, with a slight sketch of the family,
may not prove uninteresting. More
than three years ago, at one of the
grand balls, a fine looking, elderly
gentleman, surrounded by three hand
some women in lively conversation
with the Crown Prince, attracted my
attention. Upon inquiry I learned it
was the celebrated ballet-master, Paul
Taglioni, with his wife and daughters,
all well-known personages iu Berlin
society.
On the 4th of this month the concert
hall of the opera house presented a
beautiful sight. The room was hand
somely draped and lined with tier upon
tier ot fragrant flowers. Upon either
sides were tables loaded with presents
from the friends of Taglioni, and from
his associates and admirers from all
the theaters of Germany and Austria.
A great troupe of artists, dancers, and
singers were present, and among the
most interesting the little flock of chil
dren, pupils of the master, who fill up
the great ballets. Taglioni entered the
room accompanied by his wife and two
daughters, one daughter now the Prin
cess Windischgratz, and formerly a
ballet-dancer almost as celebrated as
her aunt, Maria Taglioni, for whom she
was named; the other, Auguste, mem
ber of the Royal Theatre.
DECORATIONS AND PRESENTS.
After taking the seats prepared for
them, Superintendent von Hulsen con
gratulated him, while the choir sang
“God Salute Thee,” and handed tho
gray-lieaded master the order of the
crown, with a letter from the Emperor.
Three cheers rang through the house,
and Fraulein Granzow, a worthy suc
cessor of Taglioni and Elsler, sprang
forward with a roguish grace and
pinned tho order upon the master’s
coat. Congratulation after congratu
tion, and present after present, fol
lowed iu quick succession. From the
members of the stage came an lonic
column of wrought silver, forty inches
in height, whose capital bore the figure
of Terpsichore. Upon the front of the
richly wrought base was a portrait of
the Taglionis in bas reiief, encircled by
a golden laurel wreath, upon the other
side the names of the donors. A gol
den band wound round the shaft of the
column, which bore in white letters the
names of his most celebrated ballets,
these are : The Hamadryden, Alphea,
Electra, The Island of Love, Satauella,
Ballauda, Don Pasquela, Flick and
Flock, Ellinor Morgano, Fantasca, Sar
danapal and Militaria. Fraulein Wed
derin, in the name of the ballet-girls,
presented an elegant silver vase.
One of the little blonde-haired
children stepped forward, and, with
a charming little speech, present
ed, in the name of the children, a silver
writing service. Music Director Hertel,
the friend and co-laborer of Taglioni,
gave a handsome silver drinking cup,
and with it, instead of a speech, a
hearty kiss to the receiver. Herr Salo
mon, in the name of the solo personals
of the theater, gave a table service
ornamented with laurel leaves. Herr
Doering, tho oldest member of the
stage, gave a similar one. The Duke
of Anhalt sent the order of Albert, the
Bear. The Crown Prince a vase and
ring, the Empress a handsome cup. The
superannuated members of the ballet
corps, who are pensioned, sent a mag
nificent vase.
Telegraphic dispatches came from
all quarters in honor of the day, and
one that pleased him most heartily w r as
from Fanny Elsler. At the end of the
festival the old master tried to express
his thanks, but could ouly say a feiv
words in a trembling voice, and these,
as usual, were humorous. He had “lived
fifty years in Germany, and for that
reason words failed him.” In the eve
ning representations from different bal
lets were given in the opera house. The
Emperor was present, and after every
act Taglioni wes called upon the stage,
with unending cries of applause, and
pelted and fairly smothered with bou
quets and laurel wreaths.
THE STORY OF THE DANCERS.
The celebrity of the Taglioni family
began with Philip, who, iu tho end of
the eighteenth century studied his art
by Coulou iu Paris, made his debut
with great success there, and was then
called to Stockholm to reform the then
style oY ballet in that capital. He made
the dancers leave off their shoes with
heels, the ladies lay aside their silk
short dresses, and banished the pow
dered wigs with queue, and all the
principal features of the society dress
of Louis XIV. time, iu whioh, until the
beginning of this century, the zephyrs
and goddesses in mythological plays
appeared upon the stage. This unfit
ting costume he replaced with purely
Grecian drapery.
Taglioni was now called to the Court
of Westphalia to amuse its ci-devant
King, Jerome, whose court knew no
higher duty than to make the evening
surpass the day iu dance and merri
ment. After the downfall of Napoleon
which put an end to Jerome’s splendor,
Taglioni gave up an engagement in
Cassel to go to Vienna, where he was
received with open arms. His stay
there was lengthened into years ; there
he achieved his greatest triumphs y and
there he composed the daDces and bal
lets which so fascinated and bewitched
our mirth-loving fathers and mothers,
and which to-day remain unrivaled, un
less we except the works of his son,
Paul Taglioni, of Berlin. Who does
not remember “La Sylphide,” “The
New Amazon,” “Lodoiska,” “The Lit
tle Wife of the Danube,” “The Gipsy,”
“The Swiss Milkmaid,” “Sea Waves,”
etc.
For ten years he directed the thea
tre iu Warsaw, which he reckoned the
happiest part of his life. Not until 1852
did he resign his profession and ask for
rest. He returned to his native country
and built a villa upon Lake Como,
over the door of which he had inscrib
ed— i: Mon Desoi.” Soon after a heavy
misfortune befell him in the loss of his
eyesight. An operation restored, in a
measure, tho left eye. His wife, who
had always been his faithful adviser,
sickened and died in her eightieth year,
and the old man wandered unhappily
from daughter to son, from Paris to
Berlin. When the Franco-Prusssian
war drove him from his daughter’s
house in Paris, he returned to his villa
on Lake Como, and died ou the 11th of
February, 1874, in his ninety-fourth
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MARIA AND PAUL.
His daughter, Maria Taglioni, tho
celebrated danseuse, and sister of the
hero in the late festivities, is too well
known to need but a passing notice.
She was born in 1804, during her fath
er’s residence iu Stockholm, and was
prepared by him for the stage, and
made her appearanee under his aus
pices ou the stage in Vienna, then in
Stuttgart and Munich. In 1827 she ap
peared in Paris, where she remained a
fascinating and glittering star in the
theatrical world until Faony Elsler
eclipsed her. In 1832 she was called to
Berlin, and from there made a tour
through Germany, France, Italy, Rus
sia aud England, being, received every
where with the greatest applause. She
married Count Gilbert de Voissins, and
retired for some years from public life.
Before the death of her husband she
appeared again on the stage in 1844, in
“Diva,” in Paris and England, aud
shone with her youthful splendor. She
then retired to her possessions in Ven
ice and a villa on Lake Como, wLiero
she now lives, at the age of seventy,
happy in the affection of two children
—tiie son an officer in the French army,
and the daughter, Princess Trubetzkoi,
the wife of the Russian Consul at Mar
seilles.
Paul Taglioni, also educated in Paris
in the celebrated college Bourbon, made
his appearauco on t he stage at Stuttgart
at the age of seventeen, with his sister
Maria, who was then twenty. Ho was
so well received that he was called
directly to Vienna, and danced before a
circle of the best artists iu “Zenure”
and “Azor,” aud was awarded the
highest praise. His reputation was
already established when ho appeared
in. Paris with his sister, but from this
time on be stood at the head of his
profession, and tho best theaters in
Europe sought to win him by tho offer
of extravagant sums. He arrived in
Berlin at the time grand preparations
were being made to celebrate tho nup
tials of Prince William (the present
Emperor), aud was immediately called
to take part in the representations in
the theater of the New Palace at Pots
dam. His success was wonderful, aud
lie was engaged at the Royal Opera
House in Berlin, where ho appeared in
his allegorical ballet of Briol’s, “The
Triumph of Love,” with the celebrated
Galster as Venus. The beautiful dan
seuse triumphed also iu real love, for
she won Taglioni’s heart. They were
soon after married, and she lived to
share his fame. Her face, still hand
some with lines of age, and silvered
hair, looked proudly ou at her hus
band’s well-merited honors during the
late festival.
taglioni’s triumphs.
Taglioni now became the lion of the
day, aud no court festivities could bo
arranged without his helping hand.
Even his presence seemed to inspire
every one with new life. He was a
young, handsome man, full of grace,
and possessed, besides his eminent tal
ent for dancing, a lively, fruitful fancy
that showed itself in his poetical bal
lets. Uniting with this quality an ami
able, kind disposition, ho was hon
ored aud beloved by all who knew
him. In 1836 he arranged the ballet
“Undine,” from the fable of Fouque,
for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth.
This choreographic creation excites tho
greatest admiration, and has always
been considered one of his best works.
His ballets are produced on every
stage, where he himself triumphed in
all the principal cities of Europe and all
the large cities of America, where his
graceful wife shared the honors with
him. After his return from the scene
of his triumphs, St. Petersbug strove
hard to secure his services for life, but
Berlin was his chosen home, and hero
he has ever remained. His daughter
Maria made her debut iu London
with tho most brilliant success, aud
remained a bright star in her profes
sion until she abandoned the stage to
marry the Prince Windischgratz. His
socond daughter, Augusta, devoted
herself to the drama, and appear
ed in Vienna as Francisca, in “Wi
ona von Barnhelm,” with marked suc
cess. She has, however resigned her
position, aud is now dovoting herself
with great zeal to arclueological studies,
for which, it is said, she possesses un
usual talent. The name of Taglioni
dies out with the father. One son
alone was born to him, Charles, who,
having no inclination to tho profes
sion of Ids parems and sisters, pur
sued his studies with so much ardor
and so much success that he was call
ed t<> fill the position of diplomat at
the courts of Naples, Munich and
Paris. Accepting au invitation from
the Khedive of Egypt to tho opening
of the Suez Canai, ho wrote an inter
esting work in regard to it. In tho
last war he was on the Emperor’s
staff at Versailles. Tho anxiety of tho
campaign threw him upon a bed of
sickness. When apparently recovered
he returned to his father’s house,
where he was again stricken down, and
died quite unexpectedly in the bloora
of early manhood. Paul Taglioni,
though sixty-seven years of age. has
many years of active file before him, if
he lives to boas old as his father, and
doubtless will produce many more
ballets.
Tlie Steamship “Stonewall Jackson.’
It was announced a few days since
in a Boston dispatch that the ship
“Stonewall Jackson” had made a suc
cessful trial trip. Mr. D. D. Kelly, the
well known shipbuilder of East Boston,
who is the builder of this vessel, has
addressed a communication to the Bos
ton Post, in which, in response to in
quiries, he furnishes the reasons why
he named her the “Stonewall Jackson.”
He says : “The political hunters for
place have for a long time prevented
that union and harmony of sentiment
between the North and South which
should at all times prevail, and have
done much against true patriotism aud
the interests of tho merchants, me
chanics aud laborers of our common
coun try. Jackson was one of tho truly
loved men of old Virginia. His faults,
if any, must be forgotten by every true
American, by the shining brightness of
his noble character as a man. lam by
birth and sentiment a son of old Mas
sachusetts, and could anything be more
appropriate than for our people to ex
tend the hand of true fellowship in 1876
to the old mother of Presidents, Vir
ginia? You will plase excuse this loug
note, for the Stonewall Jackson is my
last ship. I commenced with the Old
Hickory, and end with the Stonewall.”
“Pa, are you in favor of the Bible in
the public schools?” asked a West Side
youngster at the breakfast table the
other morning. “Why, of course I am,”
responded the father, pleased that such
an important subject should engage the
attention youthful offspring.
“What makes jmu ask such a question,
my son?” “O, nothing,” rejoined young
hopeful; “only I thought maybe you
wasn’t, as you never have had one at
home.” The urchin dodged, but hq
wasn’t quick enough.
