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VOLUME V.
ENGLISH SALARIES.
WHAT AN AMERICAN WOULD STYLE
J: XTRAO RUIN AUV SA LA RIES.
Seventy-five Thousttml Dollars a Year for
the Archbishop of Canterbury—
Fiftj’ Thousand a Year for
tho Arehbishop of
York.
London, May 12.—T0 a disinterested
obseri r, t!ie English Church Establish
ment hardly looks like a religious system
at all. An intelligent pagan, it seems to
me, if sh, >'• the working machinery of
tho Established ■’ huu-It, would guess it
to he ,i part of t e vault cri.isl system of
the country —a kin ! of first cousin to a
hank— and which people connected them
selves wi*h, for Utsine-s advantages only.
As he walked along the street, over the
magnificent public houses of the metrop
olis, lie w >il;l read in great letters the
names of the most eeiebr.,;od brewers of
English h-s-r ami ale, “Tiuman Han -
hury, A Buxton," ‘Tnd, Coupe .V Cos.;"
and then, upon investigation, he would
find that most of these great brewers
stand high in tho church, and that, in
fact, a number of them actually have the
appointment of of rectors and curates in
the church. Bass's pale ale, Allsopp’s
ale, and Guinness’s stout are well known
in the United States. Each of those three
brewers has tlx: appointment of a minister
in the English Church. Mr. Coope,
whose name also appears above, has like
wise control of an appointment in the
church, and 1 aiu able to point out some
half a di ztn other similar eases.
The Church, as -i State establishment,
cx’sts only iu England and Wales, and
lather more than hall the population of
these claim membership. At the head
are the Archbishops and Bishops, who
ai appointed by the Crown, and who
have seats in the House of L rds. Nomi
nally, the Bishop of a vacant see is
elected by the J* an and Charier of that
see, but the name of the person whom
they arc to elect is sent by the Crown, and
the election is only a fotm, In the
bislio; lies of recent creation, the appoint
ment by the (. rowu is direct, and does not
even need the form of an election.
Rectors, vicars, and curates are never
selected by the congregation, but are ap
pointed by some person who i- seldom a
member of the congregation. The mem
lof the House of Lords rank iu this
o:der: Princes of the blood, Archbishops,
Lubes, Marquises, Kiris, Viscounts, and
B-t: .ns. The pn perty and revenue of
the Church of England are immense.
Mr. Frederick Martin, author of the
State-nan's Year Bo k, puts the revenue
if the Churi.h dignitaries, that is, of
l’lelan's. Archdeacons, Canons, and
Prebend ties, at V 1,7 15,000 annually, and
add- 4-7V.il to more lor ‘ extra cathedral
revenues. " He states the entire annual
revenue of the Church of England to be
$35, lOO.Od'i, exclusive of the annual in
come of 10,20 b clergymen engaged as !
curat,. -, teachers, chaplains, etc., and j
“unattached."
V .'in in England is a town which pos
seaKs a cathedral. lit nee the number
ofeiii - e n re-pond- very nearly with Lite
number of Arclili-hop- and Bishops. Of
the former there ore two, of the latter
twenty eight, Each eatbi i;';t 0.-ually ha
a 'lea t, from four to rix o irmns, and
seT'-rui apclnlc icon anti prebendaries.
Salaries are what , Erg ih call geu
erotia; A 11 :• ri !• - w tit* 1 rail them xtor
tiuDati to o. The Archbishop
of Cunti" t oa' ; ,te .i tof eTi.OOO a
year, with the i.-e of several palatial
redden s or palates rent flee. The
Archbi- ip of. York has a salary of
$50,000 a yea: With residences also rent
free. All 11 > ■ I..shops likewise have
residence.- free of rent, it addition to their
salaries, ihe 80-hop of London’s salary
is s3o,ooii; ' Bishop of Durham
$40,000, t Bi.-hon of Winches
ter $35,00:; attd that of the Bishop of
Ely $27,000. ix other If hops Lave
$26.000 , it have *. 22,300 each;
eight nine: h h ire s2l,oooeach; one-the
JL i , - ■ ' ■ arid one
—tht Bishr ( Sot Man—has
it; 'ile average s..iaryof the
thirty Archbishop.- and Bishops is $23,750
[ier annum.
There are twenty nine deans connected
v:*. i- or -ea n 1 orals. The highest
sal is gl 5,000, which is paid to the
Dean of Durham. The Deans of St.
icb SIO,OOO.
The ! .vch is ;1, -j, which is | atd to the
Dean of St. David’s. The average salary
of the twenty-nine is $7,007. Each Bean
is also furnished with a residence free of
rent; at all events, I can ascertain no ex
ception to this rule. Neatly all the
cathedrals have also from four to six
canons. The whole number is 128, and
the aveiage salary is $3,813. A number
recoivo as much as $5,000; and a few
receive as httle as $1,750. The see of
Oxford has a rather expensive cathedral
equipment. The Bishop has $25,000 a
year; the Dean has $10,000; six canons
haves6,2so each; and two Archbishops
receive the one $1,500, and the other
SI,OOO. These items alone amount to
S7S,(XX) yearly. Durham even beats that.
Bishop, Dean, Archdeao ns, and Canons
there receive in the aggregate over
SIOO,OOO.
The holder of the living of a parish is
the rector, lie has the freehold of the
parsonage, the glebe lands, tlte tithes,
and oilier dues, and disposes of them very
much as he chooses, "lie revenue of
these go to make up the value of tho
living. In England and Wales there are
some 12,000 parishes, each having a
rector, and about 200 extra parochial
place., besides. The incomes of parishes
are various, lit many cases they amount
to fully $.5,0'. 0, in addition to the univer
sal use of the parsonage free of rent,
which, considering that a considerable
plot of ground usually accompanies it,
might be reckoned fully equal—rich and
poor parishes all together— to an average
of at least S4OO mo.e. Insouie cases the
revenuo of a palish is miserably small.
In many a town of loss than a thousand
people tlte living is worth $2,500 a year,
and in many towns of ten times the popu
lation it is net worth more. lowever,
livings worth $5,000 to s4.Otto are ex
ceedingly common.
The right of appointment to a church
living is termed advowsou- These are
widely distributed. Only 4500 are held
by members of the House of Lords; 317
are held by members of the House of
Commons; many are held by universities;
a few by private corporations, and a very
large balance is distributed among the
private gentry throughout the kingdom.
The Bishops hold a very large number of
appointments, often over JOO. The Lord
Chancellor controls no les- than b:.X> ap
pointments; the Duke of Devonshire, 42;
the Duke of Bedford, 27; the Prince of
Wales, 20; the Duke of Noithumbei iand,
23, and many other noblemen control a
dozen or more. One member of the
House of Commons appoints to 14 livings,
and another to 12. As 1 have already
mentioned, a few are in the gift of
brewers.
Advowsons a'-e ranked as real property,
and her,. crops out one of the most in
iquitous systems tit .t ever d : sgracod a
professedly religious organize! n . Every
advowson has a market value. In some
eases they are attached to some manor,
| and cannot be disconnected from it; but
I if the estate he sold, the value of t lie
I appendant advowson is not forgotten,
i Another class of advowson is termed “in
gross,” and these are salable apart from
the estate of the possessor; about as easily
transferred as a horse, in fact. Asa
! matter of fact, they are every day offered
for sale, and actually sold. An advowson
| is only valuable in a financial way by
I reason of the fact that the appointment
| itself is Hold, that is to say, a clergyman
I (or some liiend for hint) actually buys a
life appointment for the cure of souls.
Tnis is not a thing of rare occurrence, or
which there is any attempt whatever to
conceal. It has been a common, every
day matter for some hundreds of years
past, and the people are used to it.
Whether the Bishops, who hold so
• many appointment', and whether the
Lord Chancellor, who hold.- ; 0, tike
money for appointments in their gift, I
do not know, but presume that they
usuady and i not. They tJicn, ) owever,
appoint relatives or near friends. Most
of the livings in the gift of the piivate
gentry, a id others—ar.d those eons!ante
mote than Tiaif of the whole number—are
either sold outright or given to some
needy relative who is out of employment.
Appointments are always for life, and it
is not usually neces ary that the one who
t iceives the appoint moot hiu dbe either j
specially religious or attentive to the
needs of his flock. Inaeed. cases have
been kn /.vn where the re t <r of a parish |
hai lived in some other locality, having a
cheap curate to att.nd to his duties, and
tiie rector himself being next to an utter
stranger to his parishioners.
II re is an incident, which is amply |
vouched for: A nobleman was hunting its.
Yorkshire. “My Lord,’’ said age; e-!
man riding up to the nobleman. “1 bet j
you five thousand pounds you don’t give
’the living of (then vacant) to my ;
SUMMERY ILLE, GEORGIA, AUGUST I, 1878.
son.” “Done,” exclaimed his lordship.
The young man was presented and insti
tuted to the living, and the bet was paid.
He no doubt holds the living to this day,
I for the affair is comparatively roccnt.
j Another ease, equally genuine, has a bit
of romance in it. A young lady of
moderate fortune had bestowed her af
fections on a country curate. Site in
vested her means in the purchase of an
excellent church living, and then gavo
iter hand and tho benefice to her lovor.
The living was not at fho time vacant,
but shortly became so, and they then
entered upon the enjoyment of it, and
retain it to this day. Among country
patrons it is next to a uniform rule to sell
a living, if no relative happens to want it.
The rector of fst. John-at-Hackney died
a short time ago, and a short obituary
notice gave this hit of infos motion, that
“the rectory of St. Johu-at-Hacknoy was
purchased for him by his father for tho
sum of 13,000 pounds,” that is. about
$i15,000.
It may he asked whether the law of the
eountiy adotvs these things. Technically,
it does not. Tho law is easily evaded,
howover. Tho actual recipient of iho
appointment must declare that, no money
or its equivalent, passed between hint and
tho patron. Instead ot selling the actual
presentation to the living, the right of
such presentation is sold to some third
p;' tv. That seems to sat'sfy the law.
There is also a law which forbids the sale
even of the right of presentation, when
the living is actually vacant, Even this
is cleverly avoided, and the right of pro
sentation is openly advertised and imme
diate possession promised.
Tho Eedeittitk' cal Gazette gives sevora 1
pages in every issue to tho advertising of
advir.v- ms for sale or exchange, and the
salt of the “right of next presentation.”
That is, the incumbent is living and the
sale is effected, subject to the life of the
p'-esent. occupant. The advertisements
prettily and modestly state that the sale
is subject to a life of, say seventy or
eighty years as the case may be, and
sometimes add that the health of tho iu
cumheat is failing. Many of them say
that in.crest will he allowed on money
paid un.il the death of the present ocou-
pa >t. 1 now have (he Eccl“;in:,tical
On.cl e before me, and it contains the
I ■ tier part of a hundred advertisements
for the purchase or sale of advowsonsand
nest presentations to church living . tao-t
of i hem the latter.
TJ.nl as this s .<•: n is, it. lias its defend
ers, though it n.! 1 flit he io'orrcd to have
supporters, otherwise it could riot coo
linue to c .ist• It may not bn unreasona
ble to say that the House of Lords,
holding, as it does, the large number of
f hOO advow mis, could not be expected
to work v<vy earnestly to overthrow a
system which must be so profitable to
them, or which, at all events, adds so
!ir ;ely lo their influence.
'1 bo preaching is just about what ono
would expect under such methods of ap
pointment. In most small parishes, and
in many large ones, too, the preaching is
oft he dullest possible kind. Sermons are
almost universally read from manuscript,
and such a good business is done by cer
tain publishers in the sale of lithographed
sermons, “which cannot be distinguished
from handwriting,” as they say, that it is
onlv reasonable to conclude that ave t
considerable number read other men’s
sermons. A church system so honey
combed with cot ruption surely should no;
be iong-live 1, but there are few signs of
improvement just now. Perhaps, how
ever, the nation will, by and by, awake
to the real condition of their b’tato Chinch
and will conclude to annihilate it instead
ol foolishly attempting to reform it.—./,
W. in the New York Sun.
The New Haven Journal says that a
practical joke was played upon an agent
at a small station on the Shore Line road.
A number of fellow agents united in tell
ing him that at a certain time all unmar
riud ageri's would be discharged and their
places filled with married men. At fir.- ;,
the vie; i:u did not behove it, but so many
repeated it to him, and with such earnest
ness, that finally lie took it for solid truth.
First he wanted his father nominally to
fn id the office. This, however, the jokers
insisted would not do, and Mr. Agent at
last, in sheer desperation, said: “Well, I
suppose I’ll have to get married, but who j
to, 1 don’t know. I’ll go over lo Blank- i
ford, and if I can pick up a wife there, I i
will; if not, I’ll love to lose the jo 1 .” He 1
was getting rcu ly to go when the juke;
was explained to him.
Elopement, marriage, twins, an di
vorce have happened to an Indiana girl
within a
KUHCOL'NG IvESTMIi’S WOUNDS.
In the heated discussion at Oariersville,
last Thursday, the writer and other per
sons of Marietta, were present, and hen I
Dr. Eel ton ridicule JutUe Look r’ts empty
sleeve, vehemently accusing him of
“speculating on his wounds, trading upon
J his gears, and holding the stump of his
arm up and asking to bo rewarded with
|;m office.” We are glad to see lit such
j unfeeling and unsympathetic sent euv .:
| and unjustifiable denunciation, wore not
j endorsed by those of his friends present,
j The burst of passion fell still-born, and
! invoked nothing but murmurs of indig
nation. Dr. Felton certainly made a
[ serious mistake when he thought he could
1 bring Lester’s one arm into contempt.
I The people cannot sympathise with such
!an ungrateful remark. Judge Lester lost
j his arm fighting in defence <d’ his invaded
country, while Felton saved his arm by
remaining at home in tho rear. That
■ empty Hoove cart ins no dishonor with it.
it is flagrant with deeds of heroism and
| da -ing.
The people of the Sunny South, when
they see a one-armed hero of tho “tost
cause,’’ feel like lifting their hats in
reverence as he passes, but Dr. Felton
hurls epithets of ridicule and derision.
The crippled Confederate soldier is in tho
way of his political promotion, and ho
feels no love for his wounds and self
sacrifices. What old soldier of “Dixie’s
land” will join in scorn and ridicule of (ho
“empty sleevo” by voting for Felton
if. linst Lester? Will you say at tho ballot
box the sth of November (hat his empty
sleevo is a badge of honor, or onn for
Felton to hold up to public contempt
and fun-making? To condemn Lester
because lie cannot appear before an au
dienco with two arms, is to condemn tlie
cause he lost his arm in, and to throw
reproach upon the dead heroes whose
mounds we meet annually to decorate with
fragrant flowers. 11 will not ho consistent
to strew flowers upon the graves of our
dead soldiers, amt ignore and insult the
living cripples. The dead cannot he bene
liiled, the living can. Baliy, then, and
lot Dr. Felton see, that if he does not
appreciate t ho “empty sleeve,” you do.—
Mii. ii ; i ,/wni'il.
I.Hi,:VIA A CM KAT.
Negroes who leavo America to live in
Lbe'i.i a re either cut holy i a u. rant of that
sickly Utile tropier. 1 col or, if not
ignorant, they are exceodin; Iv foolish to
go there to mend tlie'r furtents. The
toosi northc.ii part of it is neater to tho
equator bv twenty-three degtoes of 1 a.i
tude then Southern Alabama, and cor
respondingly hotter. It is a- trip of land
about fif’.y tndcs wide, s.relolti g live
hundred miles along the M-atlnno, sandy
and flat along tho shore, hilly and woodi ;
further inland. To white men the
climate is generally fatal, and it i. : nv r
less so to negroes tamed in the 'em pi r "
zones. Both black and vvhxe s, i: • < )•;
*ra attacked with tho Atman fiv .
soon as they land at at.y sea to t. Wi. to
men never become rcchma ed, and Id - k
lutmigianls ate never exempt from other
fevers of a severe lypo arid long derail.,e.
The country is prolific in all fruit.- and
t'ccs of tropical countries, but it has
never been cul ivated. its sole elements
of civilization are eight or ten thousand
Arno, ican negitits, who have riotincr. ~.,cd
in knowledge or morals since they left this
ccuutiy unde,’ the auspices of the Coi.j
niz .i ioii e ely, of v/1 h Henry (Jay
and other Southern statesmen were con
spicuous members. Agriculture lias
made no progress. The i ibaouants live
chiefly on indigenous fi u 1 n vegetables
and game, all of which abound. Panning
implements are few and rude. There is
vety li.tie manufacturing machinery in
the colony, of which the supply is only
replenished by donations. All the emi
grants to Libet a wont there poor, and
they have done but little thero to met'd
their fortunes. The civilization imported
from Ametica, in spite of missionaries
and teachers, lias made no advances in
the interior. A hundred miles from the
shore is nothing but dense barbarism.
Even the children of the earlier colonists
have in hundreds of instances telapsed
into ancestral heathenism. This is so
much the natuial effect ol the ell mate
that nothing keeps the colony from
speedy dcgenoiatiou to savagm;. except
the sui.tily of intelligence kept op by the •
whits societies - liiirjpi; and Atomic..
Jbe go vet. ment is an o igavciiy m the I
di.rgui.-c of a ; e State, i t controls j
250,000 native, idolatrous, superstitious |
savages, among whom civilization makes
little progress. Whites are not admitted
to citizenship, but a bad ota ■ of white
traders wield much influence. Their
com moron E Exited to trading with the
natives of tho interior, buying palm oil,
rieo and skins, for which they give
tobacco, calico, heads, cheap cutlery and
other articles, brought from Europe or
America. Their only manufacture is
sugar, anil that is very limited, for lack of
machinery. Horses and mules cannot
live in Liberia, and their horned cattle
-.tv vx-mti v and inefficient. There is
very little plowing dene. Women sow
rieo in the wot scat'.on, and crops are pro
duced without further attention.
It has cost not less than five million
dollars to plant this i mull colony, which
is not as well ns it was twenty years ago.
Tt is the last place in the world for a
civilized colored man from the United
states to go to for the purpose of im
proving Iris condition. It is going out of
light into darkness. If sent I here ns a
punishment for crime, ho would run away
as soon as lie got a ohanoo. On gonoral
; Hueiples die country that has the most
enlightenment and the most wealth is the
best for poor men. Our advice to tlte
colored man is to stag here where he is
wanted, and keep as far front Africa and
Afiieuri harhad an as ho possibly can.
This country is superior to Liberia in
every conceivable particular, its institu
tions being the result of a civilization fot ly
centu iesold. —Covinjlon Star.
A FT MU AN ICI.OI-IvIUSSNT.
About eight o’clock on Wednesday
morning, N. T. Johnson, keeper ol' the
St. Julien Hotel, at. Forty-fifth street and
Vincennes avenue, Chicago, was shot by
his son-in-law, Bryson Reynolds- In
August last, Reynolds, who was 19 years
old, runaway with Johnson’s daughter,
Nelli-', .ti 15. The pair were captured
m Philadelphia, about tut hour after they
j had boon married. They have since lived
I with Noll Vs father, and are very much
I :K; Ito each other. One Monday
mcning Johnson and his son in law
quarreled. Johnson says that the trouble
ot initiated in a demand by him that Rey
nolds, who had procured employment,
should take his wile elsewhere. Reynolds
says that Mrs. Johnson wanted Nellie to
go to the circus with another man, which
Nellie would not do. He adds:
“Afi.or I had left the table, in a little
while Capt. Johnson came and called me
into the barroom. Here he called mo
some very hard names. 1 begged him to
desist, but he wouldn't. Then Isaid ‘Mr.
Johnson, 1 ant sorry to say it, but you’re
another.’ Then ho drew a pocket knife,
and opening it said, ‘Vou pusiil: uimotiß
young i’ll cut you heart out.’
He did not advance on me then, put some
few minutes later; l am not sure whether
lie bad anything in his hands at the time;
1 drew my revolver and shot at him; the
weapon is a .tingle barreled Derringer.
At the time 1 fired Mrs. Johnson and two
visitors were present. I. then walked out
j with tit" intention of giving myself up;
1 .Mur. ./I Unwed n.e out. HonlfFd at
the e: ti relicts, my wile bad thrown hor
se i'l) the grass plat. Aa I walked a.vay
she raised herself and called me to l id her
good-bye. x turned back to greet her,
when Johnson rushed at her a.id struck
!:?r back to the earth. I rained her up,
ii?j;,l giving her in charge of a servant,
went o(T.’ ’
Johnson’s wound is near the heart.
A man wa sentenced to State prison for
! i; at Zanesville, Ohio, last week f.r a
murder which was proved arainst him in
peculiar cir -' i!-;t:i:ir -.;. In I une, J. 7*, a
fartuet named Brock was found lying dead
with a gun-shot wound in one eve and a
gun lyiii by him. A verdict of suicide
was rendered, and the body was buried.
Suspicions were It" vever aroused against
his farm hand, named Mooroitead. of
whom lie bad been jealous, and last Feb
uary the body was taken up, and it was
lound that then, had been two wounds in
the head: one mado by a bullet from a
rifle entering from behind, and tho other
made by a shot-gun discharged into the
left eye. A flattened buflet and several
shot were found in the brain; the bullet
L : i boon plow ed with one or more.shot,
entering on the con vex side, which pointed
to the fact, that it had been first in the
hi ; lo 1, cd in such a position that
li !.ot ,n in; .ting bad perforated if.
- 1 and •vi,., arrested and tried with I
the r. 'ii as ven above.
T : > V tie before b- I
- —“ ! '!■ t.iovtr wbat l -.
t . i to the world, bu’, as to uir:,e!>' f
secm to have been only like a boy playing ■
o.u the sea shore, and diverting myself in
now arid then finding a smoother pcbblo
r a prettier shell tier -dinary, whilst,
tho great ocean of truth lay all utini. oov
u ;<1 before ute.’
NUMBER 3E
ci.nkka;. n ax>.
The “monogram fan” is tho latest
thing out.
Dr. J. (J. Aver, the patent mcdicin -
millionaire, is dead.
Baltiunro dug killer h vo slaughtered
3000 canines in the past two weeks.
The only medical college for colored
people is in Nashville. It has an ample
endowment.
Mrs. Julia Tracy, of Agawam, Mass.,
was outraged on the 21st of July. She
ir seventy ...at i old.
Thoro ..re eij.iit cases of yellow fever ttt
lx) quarantine hospital at Now York,
brought from 1 lavana.
Horse flesh is sold in Paris for human
food, and some Londoners are ai. v.
engage in tiie same business.
An explosion in a coal mine in Engt-u .
nn the 7th of Juno shook the earth for
mhos, and killed 233 persons.
Reports of tiie wheat crop in Ohio show
not only an increased acreage, but a
greater average product than over before.
Tho number of visitors to the Paris
Exposition is diminishing rapidly. Some
of tho hotels have returned to last year's
charges.
A gentleman of Quincy, Florida, re
cently put a large rattlesnake in his collar
to keep off thieves. Nothing has been
stolen .since.
lloedel, the atlempted murderer of tho
Emperor William, has been .sentenced to
be beheaded. His demeanor is insolent
and defiant.
It is stated that in the distribution of
awards at Pat is, the Americans will old aiu
more prizes than will tho citizens of any
other country. *
Gov. Hampton has given notice that
all South (JaroliniauH who are hiding from
ku-klux prosecutions may return to their
homes without fear.
Dr. Carver, the California marksman,
recently undertook to break 5500 glass
balls with rifle bullets in 500 minutes.
Ho accomp!ished|the task it: 490 minutes.
Wheat was recently cut down, thrashed,
ground, baked, and eaten, in five minutes.
If you don’t believe it, ask the editor of
tlte Carrollton (Mo.) Dcmowat.
On Mix ' "th of July Piper Herndon was
convicted of’ htiviti.r robbed a train on tho
Texas Pacific railroad several months ago;
and was sentenced to imprisonment for
life.
The firm ■■ . .e man whipped under t.ho
new la v hi Virginia was a sailor at
Hampton Roads, who sfoio an anchor.
The punishment was inflicted by a negro
constable.
Mose Kirkeudal, colored, charged
with having attempted to ravidt Miss
Walters, was taken from the jail n Kar
ri. tin, Ark., on the night of July 18th,
ami hanged.
A c i an you,!;; ladies are said to be
attracting the attention of English young
inert to an cst.-nt which excites the
alarm of yo” .g igUshwomcn and of
their uiminus
A 1 rie girl in Yonkers, N. Y., paifly
■ w'.i. owed her toy balloon, the tubo point
isg down. It lodged in her windpipe,
a.i 1 every time she breathed it partly
filled, and sho root; died of suffocation.
The New Y .i. Greed Lodge of Fiee
masons resolved “That we refuse to
recognize a.', a Freemason any person
initial'd, passed, or raised, in a body
where me existence of a Supreme Being
i denied or ignored. ’’
I'lic Cincinnati doily Siar is responsible
for the statement that a gentleman of
that city bought some eggs during tho
third week in July, and that on Monday,
the 22d inst. he found a vigorous and
healthy chicken in the plato in which
some of them had been left. The plato
had stood in the kitchen where the sua
rthone ou it.
A rowboat from one of tho British Wm
vessels was cruising near the Gulf’ of
Sarosun the 10th of July; the crow laud
ed, and were made prisoners by the
itu .ans. The English captain sent
another beat s crew to look after the first,
vrhu worn fired upon by the (Russians, two,
fad. pas, i, g through the sides of the
b ,at. Mo one of the crew was hurt,
An cri. ay the sth iual., :. serious fight
O ' utrod near Sterling, Cherokee oounty.
Art, " on !. It fg Cook and his
• o i Mr. Mick Atkissoo arid his
family. Br., ant Cook was knocknt! 'i:nse-
Icss, his father baoly wounded on the
nose by a large rock, his mother knocked
down and beaten, ana Thaddeus Cook
serious! at Bryant, reoovoring liis
<v ■ ion no. h, ran '- the house to get his
gun, the A krisen- retreated, one of
them with three ribs broken.