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VOL. 11l
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I)rs. Jelks & Mabbett,
Ilaving purchased the drug department of
Messrs. Briggs, Jelks & Cos., would respeet
tfuSly notify thair friends and the public gon-
that they have just opened a NEW
DRUG STORE, in the house formerly oocu
ipiad by Dr. Jelks as.an office, which they
Siare considerably enlarged, and are now
supplied with a full and complete stock of
Drugs,
Patnt Medicines,
Perfumeries,
Toilet Articles,
Oils, Paints,
Window Gloss,
Putty, Ac.- Ac.
Also a fine stock of SCHOOL "BOOKS,
STATIONERY, TOBACCO, SUGARS,
SNUFF, Ac.
Z. A. JELKS A HARRY MABBETT.
7-6 m
ite (Quitman Hcprlrr.
STATE NEWS.
PcnciliiiKs and Neissorings from
onr Exchanges.
—A buck is now being run regular
ly betwoeu Bainbridge anil Quincy.
—The grasshoppers have made
their appearance in and around At
lanta.
—The real estate owners of Savan
nah are organizing for the purpose of
taking some steps toward the reduc
tion of the enormous taxation im
posed upon real estate by the city au
thorities.
—The number of aspirants for leg
islative honors is increasing all over
the State. Sound them on file con
stitutional convention and the remov
al of the capital be hire you promise
them your support, citizens.
—The Rome News hopes lion.
Thos. Hardeman will he made a can
didate for elector for the State at
large, in reward for his patriotic
declination, which shows that he re
gards the harmony and unity of the
party as paramount to individual ad
vancement. Canlt vou suggest a
more fitting reward than the cheap
honor of being an elector, brother
News? Would it not be better to
send him back to the Legislature and
keep him there until the next Guber
natorial election rolls round ?
—Thomas county had a rousing
ratification meeting last Saturday.
The delegates elected to the Guberna
torial Convention go untrammeled,
though a resolution to the effect that
Col. Mclntyre is tthe first choice of
that county for Governor was unani
mously adopted.
—A voting flady men.tier of the
Tbomasviile Library Association hav
ing just completed the reading of a
book entitled “Happily Married,”
Triplett t'akee ooaaeion to s'eeord his
sincere wish that she may “realize the
full force of the title of the book
through future life.” Now, Triplett,
prove your, sincerity by going to that
young lady and telling her itihat if she
will join bauds with you 'for “future
life” you will faithfully act the part of
the kind husband she has Been read
ing about. There’s your chance, old
fellow.
-—The Fort Talley jidirror says that
about ten or twelve years ago, some
negroes on the plantation of Dr.
Mitchell, near Reynolds, had occasion
to plant a staftk-pole to stack fodder
on. A ibiiokory pole was selected,
and, in putting tho pole into the
ground, the bnd or blosgoin end was
in the ground. After a time the fod
der was removed afjd the pole was
found to be alive and sprouting. This
polo was suffered to remain until the
present day, and is now a large hick
ory tree, with its bark, limbs and all
‘reversed, and bears each year a good
crop of nuts.
—Talbetton Standard: Those terri
ble pests, the grasshoppers, have ap
peared .in Talbot county. We have
justeeen specimens of them and their
work from the farm of B. <4. Owen,
near pleasant Hill. Mr. Owen says
they are sweeping one field of corn
for Him and 'he fears much more dam
age from them. He says they are
traveling "West. This is the only
place we have heard of their yet
touching.
—Albany News: Hof weather con
tinues, and a want of rain is felt in
many parts of this and adjoining
counties. It bos been very severe on
corn during the past week, and per
haps cut short in many places. The
•crop, 'however., generally speaking,
is above an Average. Codon looks
finely and is 'growing luxuriantly.
The catterpillar has made its appear
ance on several plantations, but has
not yet commenced its destructive
work. They were first found on a
twenty acre field of bottom land, be
lonjfing to Oapt. It. Hobb* on (lie
4th of July. Yesterday, Mr. Wm.
Godwin brought in and exhibited to
us several leaves containing the worm
in the webbed state.
This is the time to commence the
fight against these pestiferous worms.
Allowed to livo and propogate for
twenty days the September crop of
cotton will be lost.
Over in Florida.
—The Monticello Comititutlon is the
liveliest campaign paper we get from
Florida.
—Jacksonville had a reusing ratifi
cation meeting last Friday night.
—St. Augustine had an incendiary
fire last week.
—About 550 colored voters have
registered iu Jefferson county since
the revision of the registration list.
—A prominent -citizen of Hernando
county writes:: “Politics in no way
excite us. We have only two white
Republicans (Ben Saxton and Josh
Mizell) iu this county, and many of
the negroes say they will vote the
Drew and Hull ticket. We expect to
double our usual Democratic majority
in this county.”
QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1876-
Thus the Floridian: The Madison
News wants to know how much
“rough edge” it would take to buy
tip Montgomery. We don’t know ex
actly as to that, hut it would tnko
about fourteen thousand dollars worth
to save him from being a defaulter to
the Slate.
Fellow-citizens of Madison, what
is it about bandy-legged Joe, of the
Recorder, waltzing with the “party
nigger gals.” We have seen and
heard the thing mildy hinted at, bnt
we want to know all about it—just
how it was. Can’t some friend of
his race down that way send us the
facts ?
—Monticello Constitution: Colored
voters from Georgia are rapidly reg
istering att.lieClerk’s office in Monti -
oello. They will also he registered on
the criminal docket at the proper time.
Certain parties are making arrange
ments for considerable trouble about
this registration business. Eyes and
ears are open. c
The Tampa Tribune is responsible
for tlie following: “Near l)r. Mayo’s
place,, Seaside, at Clearwater, on the
Gulf shore, the is a medical spring
which is claimed to bo the far-famed
Fountain of Youth. It. is actually as
serted that, besides restoring and re
in vigoruting the physical strength, it
restores the grey hair to its pristine
color.”
—Jacksonville Press: Our esteem
ed friend, Capt. Noble A. Hull, Con
servative candidate for Lieutenant-
Governor, has been spending a few
days in our city. He is looking well
and cheerful and speaks very encour
agingly of the progress of the good
cause up the river. Certain it, is that
he will strand one of his opponents
on a tec shore next November,'and
consign the other to his original use
ful Cftllil*sf of a brick-layer. Col. Wilk
(’all returned from St. Lotus last Fri
day. He reports all wings of the De
ocrratic party heartily in accord with
the St. Louis nominations, and re
solved to give the ticket a cordial aud
earnest support.
--Monticello Constitution: Mr.
George A. ('room, who has for the
last oiglitcen months filled the office
of of the J. P. & 51. R. R. at
this station, has been removed and
Mr. Samuel Beasley placed iti his
stead No cause has been assigned
for this move; but,-it lias caused many
to surmise that the road is to be used
as a -political engine in the present
canvass. Mr. Croows leaves the office
with the respect and esteem of the
time piitroue of the road, and their
best wishes follow "him for snccess
in his future career.
“And Samuel grew and the Lord
was with him, and did let none of his
work fall to the ground.”—[l. Samuel
iii., 9.
Iu five States the law of hanging
has now been abolished. They are,
with the dates of their abolition, as
follows: Michigan, 184(1; Rhode Is
land, 1852; Wisconsin, 1853; lowa,
1572; Maine, 1875.
Ammunition from the Agencies.-
According to the correspondence of
the New York Tribune, Sitting Bull
exhausted bis ammunition so com
pletely on Custer, that he can’t attack
Gen. Crook till he gets “anew supply
from the agencies.” The Government
should hurry on the cartridge at once,
and be suie they fit the bore of the
Winchester rides. It is great neglect
which leaves the Indians, at this crit
ical time, without ammunition. Has
the great heart of the country no pity
for poor Lo ?
Says the New York 'limes: “Can
any one explain why it is that wbere
ever Mr. Tilden is personally known
he is detested and hated?” Now,’if
the Times had been fair enough to
add “by thieves,” the query could be
readily answered. As it stands, it
has a canal-ring aspect, for the Times
knows that in Iris own State, where
Governor Tilden is “personally
known,” the people place him in the
gubernatorial chair by an overwhelm
ing majority, after hearing all the in
famous charges his enemies published
against him, and which they were
not able to substantiate in any one
particular.
And now the Chicago Inter-Ocean
solves the Indian difficulty. “Disarm
the Indians,” says the I-0., and these
awful butcheries will bo prevented.”
It evidently has net appeared to this
pundit that the disarming of ten thou
sand Sioux warriors, who have had a
taste of blood,-involves no little diffi
culty. To do it, they will have to be
fought and vanquished, and in that
case the Inter-Ocean must give up its
very patriotic scheme of sending the
whole United States army into Miss
issippi and Louisiana “to protect the
slaughtered negroes,” i. e. carry the
elections iu those States at tho point
of the bayonet and keep the State
Governments iu the hands of Radical
negroes and carpet-baggers.
Georgia Slate Agricultural Socie
ty
Secret a hy’h office, )
Atlanta, July Ist, 1876. 1
To the County Agricultural Societies
and Clubs:
The fall meeting of 1876 of the State
Agricultural Society will be held in
the city of Gainesville on the second
Tuesday (Bth day) of August, 1876.
We hope, through the continued
liberality of the railroads, to obtain
transportation for the members free
both ways. The railroads, however,
will positively not puss but three del
egates from a county. It is useless
to ask an extension of tho rnlo.
Where, therefore, there are two or
more Clubs in one county each claim
ing three delegates, this Society can
not make application for transporta
tion for any of them until the several
Societies have arranged among tliem
sel-'es and agreed upon the three del
egates to represent the county* We
can not discriminate at this office.
Delegates, by agreement with tho rail
roads, will be required to go by the
most direct routes.
Tickets will be issued in the names
of the delegates, who were reported
by their Societies last winter for the
February convention, and forwarded
to the Secretary of the Club for Dis
tribution.
Life members wishing to attend the
Convention, should give uotiee to the
Secretary, at Atlauta, by or before the
25th of July.
Delegates are earnestly requested
to arrange so ns to arrive in Gaines
ville on the evening trains of Monday
bofore the convention meets on Tues
day, that there may be a full attend
ance upon meeting; otherwise, they
cannot reach Gainesville until the fol
lowing evening, (Tuesday), and thus
lose one entire day of the proceedings.
Delegates arriving in Atlanta on Mon
day, can take either the regular pas
senger train ou flu A -Line Railroad
leaving Atlanta at !i p. in. and arriving
at Gainesville at 5 11 p. Hi. or the Ac
con-modntion train, leaving Atlanta
5 p. m. and arriving at Gatnesville at
7:32 p. m.
The citizens of Gainesville are thor
oughly alive to the importance of'the
occasion, and will spare no pains to
render tho members of the conven
tion comfortable during their stay in
that city.
PROGRAMME.
FIRST DAY.
1 Opening of the convention with
Prayer.
2 Address of welcome on the part
of tho City of Gainesville.
3 Response in behalf of the conven
tion.
4 The opening address by the Pres
ident.
5 Reporting of names of Delegates
actnally present to the Secretary, du
ring which the offering of prelimina
ry resolutions will be to order.
0 Adjourned for dinner.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
7 Report of Prof. Pendleton, (from
the F.xperimental Farm), on Grain
Crops, etc.; followed by a discussion.
■S Bee Culture, by Dr. J. P. H.
Brown, Augusta; followed by discus
sion.
9 Miscellaneous Business.
s*ss” Experience meeting at night.
SECOND DAY.
1 Fruit culture, by P. J. Berkmans,
Esq., Augusta; followed by discus
sion.
2 Delivery of Testimonial to Col.
David W. Lewis ex-Presideut and ex-
Seeretary.
3 An address from the North Geor
gia Agricultural College of Dahlone
ga.
4 Terrace Ditching, by Capt. Jno.
F. Lewis, Thomaston; followed by dis
cussion:
AFRERNOON SESSION.
5 Report on the communication of
“Brunswick” on the “Advantages and
Practicability of Controlling and Car
rying Trade from the Ports of Geor
gia,” bv Col. C. A. Redd, Chairman of
Committee; followed by discussion.
6. Ati Address upon the subject
of promoting manufactures in our
State, by E. Steadman, Esq. Coving
ton ; followed by discussion.
JSiay Experienee meeting at night.
THIRD DAY.
1. Election of Officers—A President,
nine Vice-Presidents, and ten mem
bers of the Executive Committee.
2. Consideration of proposed
amendments to the Constitution.
3. Selecting of next place of meet
ing.
4. Miscellaneous Business, Resolu
tions, Etc.
5. Closing Proceedings.
The Convention will assemble at 9
o'clock in the morning, and adjourn
at 1:30 for dinner, will reassemble at
3 o’clock in the afternoon, and ad
journ at 6. p. m: will meet again for
the Experience Meeting at 8: 15 at
night.
A. 11. COLQUITT, Pres.
MALCOM JOHNSTON, Sect’y.
The German Vote. —The Chicago
Telegraph says the Germans in Illi
nois are organizing enthusiastically
for Tildeu and Hendricks. The Tele
graph quotes Colonel Juessen, Schurz’s
brother-in -law, as saying that Sekurz
made the great mistake of bis life in
coming out for Hayes, and that the
entire Western German vote are for
Tildeu.
TILTONS CHILDREN.
Dispute Retween Theodore ami Elizabeth
Tilton Over the I‘osession of Ralph.
[From the Brooklyn Eagle. J
An unpleasant controversy is
threatened between Mr. and Mrs.
Tilton concerning the guardianship of
their son Ralph, which, without rais
ing any of the old issues, will give
pain to the better friends of both par
ties. Mrs. Tilton, as is generally
known, has refused persistently to re
ceive any pecuniary assistance from
her husband, although he was willing
to aid her, and her legal right to ob
tain it is unquestioned. Out of this
disposition to maintain herself by her
own exertion tho present trouble in
some measure has arisen. Mr. Til
ton, it appears, after his recent lec
ture tour, sent 81,(100 to Mrs. Tilton.
Adhering, however, to her resolution,
she would not use any of the money,
but put it it in the bank to the credit
of her children. Along with the
SI,OOO Mr. Tilton sent SIOO specially
for the boy Ralph. Mrs. Tilton made
the same use of this as she did of the
larger sum put it in the bank with
out saying anything about it to the
boy.
When Theodore learned what his
wife had done he expressed anger,
not so much at her refusal to profit
personally' by bis labors as at the fact
that she did not acquaint Ralph with
the pecuniary evidence of his father’s
regard for him. Looking upon this
act as an evidence, or making it a pre
text for believing that tho mother
could not longer be trusted with the
bov, he a few days ago induced the
child to visit him, when, putting him
into a carriage, ho drove over to New
Jersey, where lie lias kept him until
now, and still insists upon keeping
him.
Mrs. Tilton had no intimation of
her husband’s intention until she
found herself deprived of her child,
when she became almost frantic with
grief, and is now in a state bordering
on distraction. Whether Mr. Tilton’s
assigned reason for taking way the
boy is the reft] reason .nits of
doubt, but that his action wiii give
rise to an unpleasant qunrr I seems
certain at present.
It is worth noticing in this con
nection and as perhaps indicative of
premeditation, that under the law of
New Jersey, the father is the recog
nized guardian of a bov after he
reaches the age of seven, and Ralph
reached that age a few days ago,
while in this State no such doctrine
ia entertained; both parents being
looked upon with equal favor. Mr.
Tilton now says that Ralph desires to
remain where he is, namely, at Ocean
Grove, N. J., with his sisters, while
the friends of Mrs. Tilton and the
boy Carroll, who is thirteen years of
age, nud who lives with his mother,
say that Ralph wants to return to
Brooklyn.
Southern Democrats.
[From an address of Lieutenant Governor
Dorsheimer, of New Y'ork, at Buffalo. ]
Our Republican friends are contin
ually asking for proof that the South
is once more loyal to the Republic.
They may find their proof in the con
duct of the delegates of tho South at
St. Louis—-not in professions of their
lips, but in actual work, showing that
they meant to prove their loyalty to
the Republic by doing their part in
securing good government to you and
to the future generations of America.
[Cheers.] They came there with no
loud professions on their lips; they
came there saying, we wish to do our
part in the great work of reform. So
from every part of the South; from
old Kentucky, from heroic Virginia,
from South Carolina of many memo
ries, and from the Gulf States to the
State of Texas they rallied around
the banner of Tildeu and reform; and
to them you owe your victory. I say
to them you owe your victory, and not
to any efforts made by New Yorkers
alone. My friends, this work is only
begun. You think your representa
tives at St. Louis did their work well.
I think they did it well, and deserve
your applause. Your representatives
at St. Louis did it well, and this nom
ination was made before they reached
St. Louis. It was made by the voico
of the people before the convention
had assembled, and now the remain
der of the work lies with vou.
‘‘A Gilded Humbug.”
[Rochester Union.]
Samuel J. Tilden, the candidate for
Presidout, wo mean. * * * A
greater old humbug than that same
Samuel J. Tilden never lived.—Liu
fugshmiiepublicati.
We have seeu that estimato put up
on Tilden, and have heard that sort
of talk before. When “that same
Samuel J. Tilden” told Tweed, Swee
ney & Cos. that ho had gathered proof
of their plunder of New York city,
and they must stop stealing and
make restitution, they laugfiedat him
and said he was a humbug. When
he became Governor and told the
boys upon the canal that 1m had been
looking into matters along the tow
path and discovered a great deal of
rascality there, and that it was about
time for the extraordinary repair bus
iness to stop and for them to pay
back something to the State, they
smiled at his apparent verdancy and
said he was a humbug. We believe
they are all now pretty well convinced
that “that same Samuel J. Tilden” is
no humbug, and that when they
thought he was asleep he had one eve
wide open.
German Millet.
When to Cut and How to Cure it.
Editors Telegraph and M kbsknokr :
i Many of our farmers have sown this
millet, and what few patches we have
J seen will make a fine yield. As it is
something new with them, and many
enquiries have been made us as to
the time when best to cut, so as to
make the most and best forage, allow
me, through your columns, to give
my experience and observations. For
forage, all forage plants must bo cut
when there is the most sacharine mat
ter in the stalks. Observation and
experience have taught us that when
forage plants are in bloom they con
tain more sacharine matter than at
any other time. It is so of Indian
corn. Any person who has over tried
it knows that when Indian corn is in
the roasting ear state the stalk is
sweet; as soon as the grains com
mence getting hard the stalks lose
their sweetness and become hard and
woody.
So it is with all the grasses; when
in bloom the stalks are sweet, and as
tho seeds form and begin to mature
the stalks lose their sacharine matter,
and become hard and woody. The
seed then contains nearly all the nu
triment of the plant.
The proper time to cut the millet
js when in bloom, just as the seed are
forming. This may be known by the
head having a red feathery look and
the stalk green.
Some say wait until the seed form,
but cut at that stage you lose a great
many seed, for they are easily thresh
ed out, and when dry, in handling
the hay, you lose a large part of the
seed, which, at that stage is almost
the only valuable part of the hay.
IVlien cut, if possible, after the
grass wilts never allow the rain or
dew to fall on it. The rain or dew
dissolves the sacharine matter in the
hay, which is lost in evaporation.
Every evening nil hay that has been
cut should be thrown up in heaps, or
piles and rouudod off. Next morning
as soon as the dew dries off it should
be spread out and any time afternoon
should be put in the barn or under
shelter, or in large shocks, or piles,
which should be well rounded off. It
can then be housed at leisure, if tho
piles are well put up, one rain will not
injure the hay.
As few persons can put up hay se
as to keep in stacks, I would advise
to house as soon as it is cured. A
half gallon of salt sprinkled on each
load of hay as it is put in the barn
will keep it, aud stock seem to relish
it.
IVe are glad to see onr farmers
turning their attention to hay raising.
Some are sowing millet now. In rich
moist land it may pay. I advise all
who intend sowing to wait until Au
gust. On good land it will mature
for forage in 60 to 70 days. Sown in
August the cool nights of September
and October and the dews will make
a good crop. Sown now, it will get
up six or eight inches high and the
hot sun of August will kill it out just
as it is heading out. We all know
that com, oats and all onr crops need
moisture just as they are heading. A
good season on crops at that stage is
needed more than at any other time.
I would advise all who have the
millet, and like it, to save their own
seed. Lst it get fully ripe before it
is cut for seed.
B. D. Lcmsden.
Starving in a Graveyard.
From the World. J
An unhappy mother was yesterday
found by a funeral party at Green
wood lying with her four little chil
dren huddled about her on the grave
of her husband. They were all quiet
ly dying tliero of starvation amid the
costly monuments reared by civilized
opulence and religion, to attest the
sanctity of human affections and hu
man hopes. The poor creatures had
been turned out of their apartments
in this city, and they fouud no room
left for them anywhere among the liv
ing in the metropolis of the great re
public. We chronicled but the o’her
day the appalling fact that iu Lon
don nearly fifty human brings annu
ally die of absolute starvation, iu
spite of all the miricles which steam
and electricity have wrought to better
human life since Wordsworth wrote
his unforgetable lines:
“Homeless nonra thousand homes I stood.
And near a thousand tables pined and want
ed food.”
This miserable story of the day in
New York, following upon half a doz
en others of tho samo sort during the
present Summer, is a terrible and
sardonic commentary upon our own
proud Centennial boasts of the supe
riority of our own social and political
systems to those ot the Old World.
TnE Business Situation in the West.
—The business situation througout
the West and Northwest is thus char
acterized by the Chicago Tftbune of
Friday: “Trade is not stagnant, but
is reduced in volume, and the rate of
proflats is also low. No change is
looked for among bankers or busi
ness men until midsummer is over.
The fall activity should begiu by the
middle of August, and there are many
reasons for thinking it will show an
improvement over preceding seasons.
No one looks for a sudden leap into
good times, but with good crops there
ought to be a fair trade and an im
proved tone in commercial and finan
cial circles.’
Why nSilver Dollar Cannot liny a
Gold One.
New York Sun.
Tho silver question has risen to such
a bight that it is porplcxing the na
tions with fear of troublesome change
in their money systems.
The case is simple enough. Tho
deposits of this metal brought to
light in tho ltocky mountains by the
discovery of tho famous Comstock
lode sonic a ears ago, called the serious
attention of several European nations,
notably German and Holland, whole
silver was tho standard, to the sub
ject. The sharp financiers of llio
Netherlands about tho time w hen gold
was discovered in great quantities in
California and Austrailia,thought they
foresaw that gold was goiug to bo in
creasingly plentiful instead of silver,
and that tho relationship in value be
tween the two precious metals was to
he changed in favor of silver. Iti order
to bo jyise in time, they seized the ex
igency by the forelock, and changed
their standard to silver ; and thus they
stood, aud Germany with them, till
the Comstock lode discoveries again
alarmed them with tlie prospective
excess of silver. They accordingly
hastened to repair their error, and
went back to the gold standard. The
result is, that silver having been turn
ed out of itvold homes in vast quan
tities, and the supply being rapidly
augmented by the amazing products
of the bonanza mines a sort of panic
has rapidly fallen. Since January,
1874, only a little over two years ago,
it has gone down about fourteen per
cent. In other words, a silver dollar
that two years ago would buy a gold
one, will now fail of doing it to the
extent of fourteen cents. Measured by
gold, the silver dollar is worth now
only eighty-six cents.
Shu Thought Slip Knew.
Delaware County American.]
The passengers in tho sleeping-coach
were just closing oft’ when something
howled out:
“Ow—wow—wow 1”
“Great dragons, there’s a young
one aboard !" growled a fat man from
his upper berth. “I’ll bet a hundred
dollars none of us can get a wink of
sleep to-night ”
“Wow wow !” whined the child
“There he goes again!’’ growled
the fat man “I never tlAVulsfl 1“t
what I run across someone off
spring.”
“Who’s thnt, talking?” called the
mother of the child in aloud voice.
“Me!” answered the fat man. “Why
didn’t you either leave that child at
home or stay at home yourself?”
“Are you talking to mo?" demand
ed the woman.
"Yes, ma’am, I am ! I say it’s a
shame to bring a sick child into a
sleeping-car to disturb twenty or thir
ty people.”
“Are you a father?” she asked.
“No, I haint.”
"Nor a mother?” she continued.
“No, ma’am.”
“Well, sir,” she said, as she poked
her head out between the curtains,
“when you’ve been the mother of
eleven children, moved forty-eight
times, lived in nine different States,
and worn one corset right along for
seventeen years, you’ll begin to think
you know vour business. I think I
know mine; and if this baby wants t<
bowl lie’s going to do it. if I have lo
come over there and kick a ton and a
half of conceit out of you.”
Indignant Women.
Matilda Joslyn Gage gave to a-
Philadelphia Timet reporter the oth
er day an account of the presentation
of the Declaration of Rights on tho
Fourth to Vice President Ferry.
“Miss Anthony went before,” she
said, “and I came behind, holding tho
declaration between us, so tliat Gen.
Hawley would not sec it and keep ns
I from presenting it. I gave it to Su
san B. Anthony and she handed it to
Mr. Ferry, who looked paler than he
will when he is in his coffin.” Phoebo
H. Cozzins said: “Gen. Hawley and
the Centennial commission, in their
refusal to accept tho Woman’s Decla
ration of rights, committed as great
an act of tyranny as did King George.
My mother was chief of the noble wo
men who composed the sanitary com
mission, who, for four years, braved
every hardship of camp and field, and
saved the lives of thousands of their
noble countrymen; and to think that,
after all woman has done to sustain
her country in its hour of peril, she
should bo denied this boon ! Every
woman, by tongue and pen, should
and will rebuke this insult. But the
crowning act of their insult was in de
nying a pluce on the platform to Lu
cretia Mott, that noble woman, who,
for fifty years, has labored in this
very city for the cause of reform.”
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, in a
letter to one of the proprietors of the
Twin Mountain House, among tho
White Mountains, says: “We shall
be at the Twin Mountain House
about the first week iu August.
There will be quite a party of us,
more than heretofore, and we want
Mr. Beecher to return to Brooklyn in
the fall ready for a hard winter’s
work. Among those who will accom
pany us will be Mr. Cleveland and
wife, Mr. Christian and wife, Mr.
Barry and wife, Mr. Pratt and wife,
and I hear a great many Plvmouth
ites are coming.” It will be ooserved
that Elizabet is not of the pious
party.
No. 22.