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INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Meeting—Georgia Castle No. 11, K. O. F.
Special NoncE-Economy is Wealth, at
Heist’s Drug Store; Japaue.se Cleaning Cream.
Rowllnski.
Auction Sale—Canvasefi Hams, Etc., by C.
11. Dorsett.
Railkoad ScHEDiLEs—Central Railroad of
Georgia.
Steamshit Schedules-General Transatlan
tic Company; Ocean Steamship Compauy.
Pretty—B. H. Levy & Bro.
Cqbau Column advehtisbmknts—Helo Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Kmt; For Sale;
Lost: Personil. Miscellaneous.
Base tall is cot by any means an ill-regu
lated institution. When the participants in
that game discover that a man is “oil his
base’’ they put him out. That’s right.
Exploring reporters have been ordered
out to discover whether Carter Harrison
is in the race for the next presidetiat
nomination. Only a very searching inves
tigation will disclose whether he is really
“in it.” But the ohauces are that he is “not
in it."
Slowly but surely Railroad Magnate
John I. Blair is recovering from his melon
cholic attack at St. Loins. Since he was
well enough to vigorously refuso to see a
newspaper reporter that is pretty good evi
dence that he is rapidly recovering his old
form.
Watermelon knocks out a railroad king
or a country darky with the utm >st im
partiality. When Magnate John I. Blair
thought he was “manifested” thr ugh to
kingdom come the other day at St. Louis
fhat was what ailed him. Too much red
water melon.
Seal Ashing in a sly way is said to be still
carried on in the Bering sea, despite the
numerous fleets of small war vessels of the
British and American navies. Running
away from those littlo boats only affords
the fast fishing schooners common amuse
ment.
Whatever a magnificent endowment oan
do for an educational institution will lie
done for Leland Stanford University. With
a start of $20,000,000 to its credit it should
manage to scuffle along In the world. That is
probably the richest endowment of aDy
Similar institution in the world.
With a severe reprimand from the chief
justice of the Kansas supreme court and a
good deal of the bumptious conceit taken
ont of him. Judge McKay was allowed to
go home, on his earnest pledge to study the
statutes more closely hereafter and not set
up to dictate to the supreme court of the
state. Possibly the judge doesn't feel so
great and powerful as he once did.
When two Pennsylvania railroaders quar
reled over a girl the other day and straight
way proceeded to butcher each other with
a knife and a pistol the Ne.v York Times
described it as “a bloody duel.” That Is prob
ably the rimes’idea of a duel. But it is no
more like a duel than it is like a Sunday
school picnic. Some papers persist iu criti
eising what they don’t understand.
Balmaceda was not allowed to recruit his
uavy in France. All the Frenchmen bis
emissaries enlisted for the new cruisers
they were compelled to land before the
Pinto put out to sea. If they cannot get
Italians they will next try to get Spaniards.
But any crew they may get is not unlikely
to carry the ship over the other side after
they get to Chile and get acquainted with
the situation.
Increasing debility Is the assigned reason
why Queen Victoria abandoned bercontem
plated visit to Berlin. That indicates that
the health of the queen Is on the verge of
falling. No doubt but that will elicit a
great deal of sympathy from all of her
loyal subjects—except the Prince of Wales,
who bus served so long an apprenticeship as
heir-apparent that he is probably growing
a trifle impatient to wiggle that royal
scepter a pass or two.
Mexico is strongly against our pernicious
McKinley tariff law. Before that country
wili do anything toward reciprocal inter
change of commerce the people say that we
mast modify that obnoxious and idiotic
law. They are right. They have been
dealing very liberally with us until that
stupid measure interrupted and literally put
a stop to all intercourse. W nen it is once
out of the way our profitable and pleasant
relations with our Central American neigh
bors may again be resumed.
Ingalls Wants His Interest.
Since Farmer Ingalls ceased somewhat
unwillingly to be Senator Ingalls the change
from the vortex of political strife to the
serene shades of pastoral pursuits, philoso
phy and potatoes lias had an unexpected
effect upon his always rather irascible tem
per. When the slim and shrewd erstwhile
political manipulator and pecuniary man
ager dot's cow emerge from his shady rural
retreat to mail a manuscript or foreclose a
mortgage it is usually with a fiery glitter
in bisasye and a bulky bundle of copy in his
pocket, in which hosjieaks his min i with
fierce energy and unrestricted freedom.
Relieved of the rest mint of tue ponderous
and oppressive so-called * senatorial cour
tesy'’ he frequently takes occasion to have
a whack at some of bis old ass iciates, in
which ho unmercifully "rips them up the
back. ”
Apparently the amateur granger and
practical politician’s only purpose in
forming 6oc;l or other friendships j
is merely to acquire an intimate
knowledge of the faults and foibles
of those with whom he is thus admitted to
I association in order that he may. with
advantage to himself, satirize them when
he has no longer any other use for them.
Hut the greatest present delight of tho
noted potato propagator is to scream his
most scathing sarcasm at the Kansas
farmers’alliance because he is “not in it,”
and because it defeated him for re-election
to the United States Senate. Above all
things Farmer Ingalls does delight in ex
pressing nis contempt for the ‘ ‘plain fariuc r
in language so lofty and pedantic that the
object of his sharpest shafts of disdain can
not understand them.
In his latest newspaper effusion he attacks
what he calls "debt ropudiators” and takes
occasion to score the Simpson-Peffer com
bination with tho keenest severity. "Be
hind a translucent disguise f euphemisms,'’
says Mr. Ingalls, "the laborers and artisans
are promised the repudiation of all debts,
public and private, tho abolition of taxa
tion, the humiliation of the educated classes
and the redistributiou of property. Angry
suspicion and irrational distrust are sedu
lously engendered by sinister appeals to the
passions and prejudices of those who
should be friends and auxiliaries rather
than antagonists and foes."
Debt repudiators are peculiarly objec
tionable to Mr. Ingalls liecause he has a
strong personal interest in the debts of his
neighbors. When one of them happens to
owe him interest on a mortgage at 18 per
cent, he wants the man to pay it.
Arms for the Army.
Modern scientific warfare is creating a
strong demand for moro deadly guns and
other hand arms as well as heavy
ordinance thun those used in the
past to slaughter opposing armies.
Chief among the new requirements
are long range and terrific force of velocity
for tho projectile. And the ingenious in
ventors appear to be prepared to meet all
of these requirements in the most satisfac
tory way if we may judge from an article
recently printod in the New York Herald
in which the writer describes the latest ap
pointed test in Massachusetts of various
patterns of European magazine rifles before
a board of army experts at Springfield to
determine their range and penetration as
well as their accuracy aud mechanical ar
rangement for rapid firing.
This examination is to be made with a
view to replacing the antiquated weapons
with which the United States army is now
supplied with the highest improved guns of
modern make that oan bo found among tho
various arms in use iu foreign countries or
at home. Americans should not bo forcod
to go abroad for inventions. Buch weapons
as may be required to increase the efficiency
of the army should ba found within the
limits of our own country. American me
chanics should not allow their ingenuity to
be excelled by any foreigner.
Among the conspicuously novel character
istics of the favorite new European gun are
small caliber and high velocity. Both of
these contribute to the main object, w hioh is
to increase the range and extend the scope
of what is called the “danger zone.”
That la the distauce to which a ball can be
sent iu a perfectly straight line before it be
comes “spent” and begins to fall and is no
longer deadly. Small projectiles not only
consume less material but they greatly aid
velocity and penetration and are quite hs
deadly aud also much lighter for the soldier
to carry.
Actual experiments with cadavers in
Europe have shown that the small caliber
aud high velocity rifles at deadly range * ‘will
send a ball through two men with such
force as to kill a third and possibly a fourth
mao.” Further, it is claimed for them that
they will penetrate trees of moderate size
with such force as to be deadly to any
animate object beyond. Thus are mauy
formerly effective protections rendered use
less by tho improved arms.
But when the choice eventually conies to
be made it is to be hoped that tbe work of
the American inventor may be found equal
if not superior to any deadly contrivance
found abroad.
At its last session in Columbus the Geor
gia state Sunday school convention ac
cepted the invitation of the Piedmont
Chautauqua to have the Sunday school
interest represented in its work for the
coming session of the Chautauqua, and the
executive committee of the Sunday School
Association instructed to prepare the pro
gramme for the occasion has arranged for
two days, July 29 and 30, to be given to
this work. As agreed upon, the programme
consists of a “worker’s conference” on the
29th ana a children’s mass meeting, with
addresses by prominent workers, on the
30th. Reduced rates will be given by the
railroads, and the management of the
Chautauqua and the committee of the Sun
day School Association will do everything in
their power to promote the success of the
occasion. It promises to be very interest
ing to church people.
Efforts to make exact justice appear to be
lawlessness are never neglected in the
office of the New York Press if the inci
dent referred to occurred this side of ths
Potomac river. Malignant hatred pro
jects from every line of the heading that
delectable print put upon the brief telegram
telling of the execution of Ozburn, who is
described as “ A Georgia Commission Mer
chant Hanged for 54 Cents.” When a
paper is edited oy people who are so un
scrupulously malicious as that its statements
are all more or less biased by prejudice, and
consequently they impose upon its readers
and are too unreliable to merit any sort of
credence.
Financial disasters in rapid succession
seem to have taught the Argentine Republic
to haul down her ruin-iusly high tariff.
That is what should hav e been done long
ago—as soon as the trouble began.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, JULY 27, 1801-
Divorce Prices Are Away Down.
Since South Dakota started in on cut
rate competition with Chicago in the
divorce line of traffic, the enterprising law
yers of tho breezv western metropolis have
manifestly concluded that they must
"hump themselves,” as it were, or be dis
tanced in the free-for-all dash for trade.
So they have promptly proceeded to
“hump.” They are increasing their op
erating facilities.
Absolute divorce is now offered on the
Chicago legal market for $24 in cash or in
stallments. It is certainly a bargain at
‘‘them figgers,” as n ruralist recently de
clared with some show of reason. It is also
guaranteed by some dealers to be secured if
undertaken, and to be in good working
order when delivered.
With all the e in darn conveniences and
improvements for expediting the divorce
business, there is really no reason for the
turbulent-tied to stand perplexedly and in
j quiringly soliloquize. “Whither are we
drifting'” From devotion to divorce is but
a single stride. And there are cheap excur
sion rates both ways.
Hut isn’t this placing one of the most sa
cred institutions of civilization too conspic
uously upon the commercial “bargain coun
ter;” Isn’t it offering too much encourage
ment to discontent and domestic dissension
which never really require any sort of
prompting? Isn’t it actually placing vice “at
every man’s door" and “putting it within
easy reach of the family circle,” as tho VBn
ders of other kind of merchandise are fond
of stating the case!
Notwithstanding the nominal inhibitions
of the law and the penalties that are threat
ened but rarely applied, attorneys continue
to urge people to break their matrimonial
bonds, and offer them all sorts of induce
ments in tne shape of cheap rates and even
sharp practices in the oourts by which they
may succeed.
If there is no other way of bringing these
tricky and unscrupulous attorneys to justice,
other lawyers who do a legitimate prac
tice should combine to have such fomenters
of strife disbarred, and discountenanced in
every way by all reputable members of the
legal profession. Apparently that is the
only effectual way.
Famine Follows Russian Crop Failures.
Failure of the crops has reduced the peas
antry of Russia to a condition of want and
wretchedness that is pitiful beyond descrip
tion. Official reports from the eastern
provinces represent some of the crops as an
entire failure and others little better.
Everywhere the prices of breadstuffs and
provisions in general are advancing more
rapidly than ever botore. Scarcity of
breadstuffs causes an unusual demand
for other articles of food and
so rapidly reduces tho supply as
to send pricos up at an a-.arming rate. Con
tinued dro.jght is said to preclude any pros
pect for even a fair yield of the later crops.
Therefore the untold misery tbat the forth
coming severe winter holds before the
wretched poor is inevitable. Intervention
from the general government would not be
likely to afford them much relief. But
what little might possibly come in that
way they arc not likoly to get. For the Rus
sian governmental system is not greatly
given to philanthropic practices nor con
sideration for the poor.
Under the must favorable fortunes in
their agricultural pursuits the Russian
peasants are miserably poor. But when
even the most fertile districts fail to yield
any return for their constant toil their con
dition becomes desolate indeed. Neverthe
less they must manage to pay the imperial
taxes with punctilious promptness and
regularity or be subjected to a brutal flog
ging and have whatever chattels they may
possess taken from them. Instead of devis
ing means tor the alleviation of the wretched
poverty of his subjects the czar’s govern
ment has been engaged in tho selection of a
lately-invented contrivance for flogging de
linquent taxpayers by machinery in the
most expeditious and methodical manner.
Yet the money invested in these barbarous
devices would probably have relieved a
great deal of distress had it tieen put to the
proper use.
Fortunate indeed are the people of the
Uuited States that their bountiful crops are
not only large enough to supply the provia
ion deficiencies of Europe where the Rub
sum grain surplus has heretofore gone but
also sufficient to relieve the distress of the
starving peasants of Russia who have
already been driven to the extremity of
actually selling their ohildren to buy bread,
although the severity of their long winter
has not begun.
Gamblers and thugs and adventurers in
general are very much disgusted with St.
Paul, because the governor of Minnesota
was finally urged up to the point where a
decent regard for public observance of the
state laws overcame his “sporting’’ propen
sities and forced him to order the proposed
brutal prize fight stopped. Should they be
come so bitterly disgusted as to stay away
from there altogether it would be a great
advantage to SL Paul, as well as the whole
state of Minnesota. They are not a desira
ble element to attract.
Leaders of the People’s party in Kansas
have suggested Senator Poller for the presi
dential nomination of that society. If the
new senator hadn’t merely 6tumbled into
the senatorial seat that Ingalls formerly oc
cupied while the crowd held Ingalls away
there would be some reason for crediting
Senator Peffer with too much political
sagaoity to accept such a nomination.
Possibly Ben Butler can be persuaded to
represent the vice end of the ticket.
Rural statesmen in South Carolina are
having a very lively tournament over their
differences of opinion on the subject of ag
ricultural finance. Tillman and Terrell
have crossed words and made the atmos
phere fairly hum with their eager enthusi
asm. But the real situation doesn’t appear
to be much better than it was. Talk
doesn’t do a great deal of good.
“lnflooence” apparently comes high in
Canada. One Celtic member of the local
parliament is said to have received $190,000
for his "inflooence.” Now the question
that naturally arises is: Where did a man
so corrupt get enough influence to be worth
all that money* In that particular in
stance the briber must have got cheated.
When the lightning struck that Pennsyl
vania shoe factory the other day the result
must have produced an odor somewhat like
the flavor of the cigarettes smoked by those
“turkey-legs” who hold up the corner
saloons on one of the principal streets of
tnis city.
Possibly that shapely young Brooklyn
chorus girl who was recently so badly
burned with kerosene is to have her scarred
-kin replaced by frog skin in order that she
may not lose her high kicking accomplisu
meuts.
PERSONAL*. ;
T nr estate of the late Secretary Winiom is
valued at $200,000, of which SOO,OOO is in real
estate.
Kx Congressman Cannon has recently pur
chased three newspapers in the district he for
merly represented.
John R. Hance of New Castle, Del., will
name his twin boys, born last Saturday, after
♦•x .Sjeaker Reed and Maj. McKinley.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Mias Winnie Da
vis, who are soon to go to Narragansett Tier,
will be the guest* of .Mr. Haves and family at
St. Elmo cottage.
Rjornson, the Norwegian novelist, writes so
abomiuable that no one but his wife ran read
his manuscript, which she has to copy for him
before it is sent to the publishers.
Ex -Secretary of State Bayard is probably
the most distingu shed person in Saratoga at
r resent He and Mrs. Bayard are at the
nited States hotel and they are keeping very
quiet.
President Weller and the entire faculty of
Lane I'Diversity, at Lee mpton, Kan., resigned
because he did not like the scenery and man
ners of the town. They contemplate an oppo
sition institution at Enterprise.
Bishop G. T. Bedell has given his beautiful
estate at Gambler, 0., valued at $20,000, and
known as “Kokoshinir,” to Kenyon College.
The handsome stone mansion, in a grove of
trees, mny be mad- the homo of the college
president.
Ex Senator Warner Miller is pushing his
Nicaragua work with :r**at vigor with the hope
of getting away to Europe before the summer is
over to Sue his wife and daughter, who have
been abroad for a year They are now in Paris,
after having spent a few months in Italy and
Germany.
Mrs. Cleveland preserves a voluminous
6crapbook filled to the covers with notices of
her husband clipped from the columns of the
daily newspapers. Insomuch as the uncompli
mentary as well as the complimentary notices
have been religiously k-pt, it must furnishing
intere&tiog reading to its owner.
Mns. Fanny Elizabeth Davenport, who
died at Canton, Pa.. Monday night, leaves four
daughters and two sons, all of them actors.
The deceased made her first appearance on the
stage in London in 1H47 as “Juliet"’ to G. V.
Brooke's “Romeo.” She was married to
Edward Loomis Davenport in 1849.
Lord Stanley, the governor general of Can
ada. does not belong to the intellectual order of
the British aristocracy He is best described as
what the boys call a “jolly good fellow,’" and is
a popular and easy going nobleman, enjoying
life to the utmost. H** enters into Canadian
sports and pastimes with edifying vigor and
heartiness.
Lord Wolseley tells of a curious relic in the
possession of the wife of the American consul at
Madeira. It is only a simple paper-knife, bur it
would be. difficult to find anything more inter
esting than it. On one side is written: “I broke
this. I). D. Porter.” On tne rever-eis inscri od:
"I mended it, W. T Sherman.” The owner
met f he-so two great Americans at Gibraltar, aud
remembers them with great pleasure.
BRIGHT BITS.
“PurA, isa seer a wise man*”
“Not always, my sod. Sometimes In a poker
game, for instance, he is a prize idiot.”—brook
iy.i Life.
Bessie—l hear you have broken with Charlie
Loveleigh ?
Florence—l? O, no: lam quite heart-wholo.
—Sew York Telegram.
Frank—Why do they always speak of the
rose as blushing?
May—Because of what frequently occurs un
der it, I presume.— Sew York Herald.
“There is a pleasure in poetic pains.
Which poets only know,”
Wrote Oowper long ere poets learned
To editors to go.~Detroit Free Frees.
“Humor is the most powerful, thing in the
world.” remarked Cumso.
"How do you make that out!” asked Fangle.
"It overcomes the law of gravity.”— Harper's
llatar.
Fogg—You refused me when I asked you last
June to marry me. Miss Flyrte. May I ask
you if you have Changed your mind since then?
Miss Flyrte—No; but I have changed my
name.— Somerville Journal.
“My wife is a lecturer, and lam an enter
tainer.' said Hobbs.
“Indeed? I knew your wife appeared in pub
lic, but I did not know that you ever did.”
"0,1 don't, X stay at home and entertain the
baby.”—Rued).
HusbAnu 'reading his morning paper)—nere's
a woman who was so grieved when her husband
died that she killed herself. Tnat’s the kind of
wife tor a man to have!
Wife—That's the kind of husband for a
womau to have'.— Chicago Tribune.
Miss Van Dyke—Don’t, you dance at all, Mr.
De Witt.
Tom DeWitt—No. I have never learned
how.
Miss Van Dyke—That's nottiing; lots of men
dance who have never learned how.—Ftmadel
pliiu Inquirer.
(Just Arrived)—“ls this the world of
spirits?"
"It is, my sister. What—”
(With flashing eyes) "I have a complaint to
lay before Christopher Columbus. Please show
me where he is. I am l’hc.-be Couzins.”—
Chicago Tribune.
"Are you going to wear the same bathing
suit that you wore last season?”
“I am.”
“But fashion says that bathing suits will be
fuller tliis year.”
“Well, mine will be fuller. lam a good deal
stouter than I was last season.”—New York
Press.
“The following epitaph,” says a correspond
ent, “copied from a tombstone in a graveyard
in New England, is an interesting example of
the coarse flippancy so often found in epitaphs
in ‘the good old days:’ ”
Mary Ann lies here at rest,
With tier head on Abraham's breast.
It is very nice for Mary Ann,
But rather tough on Abraham
—Brandon Bucksaw.
“There are no flies on me," said the board
ing house steak.
“No," replied the boarding house butter,
“flies would starve to death while they were
trying to get their teeth though vou ''
“But loos at the flies on you!” retorted the
steak. “IVny don't you run away from them?
I'm sure you are strong enough."—Brooklyn
Eagle.
“I trine you’d orter raise my wages," vent
ured Mr. Haice le's hired man.
“Don t see how 1 kin do it, Jim: don’t see no
way at all to do it. Tell you what I will d>,
though Wnen any of too summer boarders is
around I'll allude to you as my private s*cre
tsry. But as to givin' you any moro money on
the month, I .iust can't do it.”— lndianapolis
Journal.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Amsrlcua Will Help Savannah.
From the Americas Times (Dem.).
This section of Georgia will render Savannah
all the aid in its power in its ed ,rts to get deep
water. Deep water at Savannah means a good
deal for Americus.
Ingalls Probably Agrees With ’ngersol
From the Philadelphia Times ( Ind.\
Ingersoll thinks the farmers’ alliance is a
nightmare. As he must know the wonderful
things sometimes accomplished by dark horses
the colonel should give this fact more considera
tion.
Russia May Feel Relieved.
Frn -i the Philadelphia Record (Dem.).
In an English parliamentary report upon the
ravages of la grippe the history of the malady
is traced back to the fifteenth century This
relieves Russia from the imputation of having
originated the scourge, for which medical
science has yet to find any certain remedy.
Proud But Not Selfish.
From the Chicago yews (lad.).
Chicago should not allow itself to become vain
or self glorified because of its aldermen who are
now exposing themselves to the bewildered gaze
of St. Paul people. We ar*‘ very proud of our
aldermen. Yet we are always willing that thev
should go away for a long time so that other
people may also benefit from their society.
Shouting Very Softly.
From the Pittsburg Post (Dem.\
The first six months of the year under the
McKinley bill show that pig metal production in
the United States has fallen off l.v-S.fO i tons,
or 26 per cent. The decrease in Pennsylvania ha
been t 36.000 tons. The production of Bessemer
steel ingots in the same time has fallen off 21
per cent., and of Bessemer steel rails 44 per
cent If there had been an increase in the same
proportion how the McKinley bill would have
been glorified As it is, the protectionist pres
talks in whispers.
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Rare Coin of the Louth.
The commission which has just completed the
counting of Supt. Bosbyshella mil
lions in the mint in this city, in examining the
curious coins in the mint museum, came across
a 1 cent piece with a rare history, says the
Philadelphia Record. It is a coin struck from
the only complete dies made for tho coin
ing of money for the late confederate govern
ment, and these dies were made iu Philadelphia
in 1801.
Investigation discloses the fact that the only
part of these dies is in the possession of J. Cal
vin Raudail, the coin collector of this city.
There were only eighty-six p eces struck from
the dies, after which they were defaced. The
story of this coin is quite interesting. The dies
were made by a Mr. Lovett in Philadelphia,
who says they were ordered in 1801 from the
south, and were to be for 1 cent copper coins.
Aft**r manufacturing the dies he was not
able to get them out of the city, and. becoming
alarmed, hid them away after striking off
twelve nickel pieces. No one except himself
knew of the existence of either dies or coins
until 1873, w hen Mr. Randall and John W.
Haseltine discovered their existence by acci
dent.
Mr. Lovett had been carrying one of the
pieces as a pocket piece, aud one evening, by
an oversight passed it in a restaurant. Tne
proprietor, knowing Mr. Haseltiue as a col
lector, sent the piece to him. The latter, recog
nizing tt:e head of Liberty as Mr. work,
succeeded jointly with Mr. Randall in negotiat
ing the purchase of the dies.
The two gentlemen then agreed to strike off
fifty-live pieces in copper, twelve in silver and
seven in gold This accomplished, the mutilated
tho dies and held the struck coins for sale to
collectors. The following is a description of
the coin:
Obverse, 1861: head of Liberty; inscription.
“Confederate States of Aineyca;’’ reverse, a
wreath of ears of corn and wheat, with a cotton
bale at the bottom; in the center the words
“1 Cent.” The restrikes were struck by Peter L.
Krider, No. 6lfi Chestnut street.
This was the only coinage ever contemplated
by direct authority of the confederate govern
ment. and the original nickel pennies and tbe
restruck pieces are now very valuable. In 1871.
when Messrs. Randall and Haseltine offered
them for sale to collectors, they asked S3O each
for the gold, sls for the silver. $1 for the copper
and S2O for the nickel coins,they having bought
from Lovett what he had lett or the last struck
in 1801. The coins are now very rare and are
worth a great deal more than the prices asked in
1874.
The only other coin issued in the south during
the war wa< a half dollar. This was coined at
the United States mint at New Orleans in 1861,
and for its obverse the United States die for
the haif dollar was used, i>eing a seated figure
of liberty that still appears on our coins. For
the reverse a die was cut, whose design con
sisted of a shield surmounted by a liberty cap,
and surrounded by a cotton and sugar cane
wreath. The iegend was '‘Confederate States
of America Half Dol.” A number of these
were afterward restruck, and the diejdestroyed.
Single pieces have be?n sold for $23.
Romance of a Photograph.
“The picture of a pretty girl with large, lov
ing eyes and beautiful hair. A pretty face with
au air of refinement about it, and a swret
mouth that looks as if longing for kisses. Writ
ten in a delicate hand on the back of the photo
graph the one word ‘Nellie.'
“This is what William Tucker found in his
uniform.” said Treasurer McVicker, of the
Soudan company, now rehearsing in Chicago,
to a tribune re Dorter.
“All of the soldiers in ‘Tho Soudan' wear un
iforms purchased from the English government.
Tucker plays the part of Sergeant O’Connor,
and was given a coat suitable to his rank. Iu
the Docket he found tbe picture.
“No one can tell where it c.ime from or to
whom it belongs. The photograph is soiled and
stained as if from much handling, but the
beauty of the face is not obscured. It is. in
brief, hardly what one would expect to find in
the possession of a private soldier.
Tucker showed his find to a friend, who thinks
he can throw some light on the mystery.
“ 'To my mind,' he remarked, ‘that is a
picture of Ellen Dysart, daughter of Sir Edward
Dysart, whoso elopement some nine months ago
caused such a commotion in England. Bhe ha i
been in love with a young oxford student named
Chalmers or Chaddock. I forget which, but her
parents forbade the match. And just before
the Soudan war the young man in a fit of
despair entered the army. After his name on
the honks of the Seventy eighth regiment ap
pears the word “deserted," and the girl left her
h me about the same time.
“An attempt is being made to locate Sir Ed
ward Dysart, and the picture will be sent to
him for the purpose of ascertaining if it is that
of his missing daughter.”
If this is original, and the treasurer of Me
Vickt*r's has not duplicated it, one may truly
say that there is a better plot in it than in “Tne
Soudau” i.self.
Cn the Winero of the Wind.
Fedora Bell in Chambers' Journal.
Pear idle summer winds that softly blow
Across the lea,
I love a mai t. and fain would have her know
Sweet thoughts of me.
So let me fetter you with strong desire
For my behest.
Then wing your way, and light a loving fire
Within her breast.
Go, murmur through the pine trees, soft and
low
In mournful tone,
Until she sighs -then whisper: “Thus in woe
He walks alone."
Go, dash her lattice with the 6oa*s salt tears
Nor ever rest
Until she weeps—then whisper: “So do fears
Assail his breast.”
Go, shake the heathen blooms, and mako them
ring
Each rosy bell
Until she laughs—then whisper: “They but
sing
'He loves thee well.’ ”
Go, waft the sound, if marriage church bell
ring
A giad refrain.
Then if she speaks—oh, fear it on vour
wings
To me again.
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iiciMS OF IMfEßiiof.
Advices just received at London from Stan
ley Falls, in the Congo Free State, tell of canni
balism among natives and of an armed expe
dition against them. Natives along the Lomani
river, who had blocked the stream with hun
dreds of armed canoes, killed and ate fifty
natives friendly to Europeans. An expedition
composed of ten Europeans and fifty Arabs
soon after left Stanley Falls to punish the can
nibals, and after a day s battle succeeded iu
routing them and occupying their villages.
Hundreds of the rebellious natives were killed
and wounded. The same advices also state
that the Bad urn us around Stanley Falls are re
turning to cannibalism, and that several of
them have been court martia led and executed.
Anybody who wishes can go into the big
Crane & Co.’s factory at Dalton, Mass., and see
the workmen place the blue silk on the ma
chine that makes the paper for all tho United
Slates notes. The silk comes in spools, aud is
made by Folding of Nortnamption It is sold
here in Bangor. There is no more secret about
it than there is about the water flowing over the
dam above the toilbridge. The real s- crot is in
the composition of the paper. Tho silk thread
is secured by patent, to be sure, but the mak
ing of paper, tho compound of the ingredients,
is safe in the head of J. Murray Crane, who re
ceived the art from his father, who made
1) inis for Salmon P, Chase, Lin
coin's Secretary of the Treasury, away
back in war times. Tne pure
linen pulp is in a big room, looking for all the
world like any linen pulp. Then comes J. Mur
ray Crane with a gripsack, lie a dt ne “grip”
enter the room toget er, and it is presumed
that ho locks the door, for the door is locked on
the inside, and the “grip” does not look able to
do it. They are closeted half an hour. Waen
they come out the pulp goes to the paper ma
chine, aud Mr. Crane and the grip go home.
But the pulp is changed by that visit, and no
body has been able to penetrate the Crane
secret. The company gets about fifty times as
much for that paper as for other linen paper
rna lr in the same mill ”
When Charles Taylor, aged £O, wooed and
won Rosa Gordon, aged 11, they determined
upon what might be called a walking wedding
from Virginia, or an elopement by easy stages.
They could not get married very well in Peters
burg, their home, as it is likely Rosa's father.
William Gordon, would have opposed it. But
love, tuougu young, was strong in both of
them, and was bound to surmount all difficul
ties, even if they should include miles of south
sitle Virginia dusty road or railroad cross-ties.
Lochinvarism has become somewhat antiqu
ated, an 1 even the run irom Richmond
or Petersburg by rail is becoming
rather tame by reason of its frequency.
So the young couple determined to
change the plan, and t > walk to their Gretna
Green—any where in North Carolina. That the
runaway might b* nroloft red as much as possi
ble, instead of making a bee line for that state,
they tried to make the trip by traveling m a
southwesterly direction. They accordingly left
by Petersburg three weeks ago, and since then
had traveled on foot more than 200 miles to
Salem in Roanoke couuty, au average of about
ten miles a day There, however, awaited them
Oapt. W. H. Eares, chief of police of Peters
burg, who brought them back to this city.
Rosa says she loves Charles, and that she will
wade through blood up to her neck for him; but
that has not prevented Charles from oeing held
on a charge of abduction.
In the year 1661 lightning struck the tower
of the St. Marion church, at Berlin, setting it on
fire. The danger of the church and that part
of the city was very great, as j ist there the
streets were so narrow. In the moment of the
greatest danger it occurred to Marshal Otto
Cristoph von Sparr that he might shoot the
burning tower down with cannons. Me did it
and saved the church, and perhaps tne who e
district. The churehly minded field marshal
felt conse entiouslz b ”>n to rebuild tho tower
at his own e cpi oe This he did. but taro jgh
it b ■ ame so impoverished that he died
a poor man, so that his relatives for
sevjn years after wore frequently re
minded of his unpaid funeral expenses.
While living Von Sparr ha i erected i:: tne
church to his memory a marble monument
which to this day forms the chief attraction of
th” St. Marion church, and is the most excellent
work of sculpture of the period t>3* A. Scluter.
Gn the monument was an inscription, natural y
omitting the day bf his death. The heirs and
di'tant relatives were so angered about their
loss of fortune that, they did not think it worth
while to fill this vacauqy. T.ie place at. which
the date of death, May 9, 161x8, snould be is still
vacant. In opposition to this the noble heirs in
stituted a sort of mock tablet of memory, which
hand's in the southe: n part of the church an 1
contains this inscription: “Lukexiv, 28. ‘For
winch of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth
not down first and counteth the cost, whether
he have sufficient to finish it?' ”
Sir Wii ltam Frazer, in his reminiscences of
Lord Beaconsfleld, has occasion to comment
on tiie narrowness of the limits which circum
scribed fashionable society a generation or so
ago. From 1847 to 1870, he says. Londou so
ciety consisted of from 30) to 50.0 persons.
These were the people to be met at the best
balls and evening parties. The charmed circle
was guard ’d from intrusion of outsiders with
the utmost jealousy. “Everyone knows every
one eise. at least by sight, and you meet the
same partners night after night for three
in >m hs” Recent di closures have made it clear if
demonstration was needed, that no such ex
clusive lashionable clique exists now. nor If it
still exists, that it no longer enjoys us old pres
tige, says a writer in the Boston Beacon. So
c:ct} distinction— to use a phrase which, how
ewr Hums l , nevertheless has a precise meaning
may be acnieved bv almost any one who cares
to pursue it, provided he or sne makes proper
use of some personal and pecu iar qualification.
Any single qualificati n. us-d the right way,
will suffice; none is imperative. Breading is not
essential where there is wealth; the lack both of
breeding and may be com
pensated bv good looks or impudence.
Mrs. Pon-onby de Tomkyns may be fa
miliar with duchesses. Sir Georgius Midas
may entertain the highest Id the land, without
either of them suffering the affronis or exciting
tbe ndicu’e which Mr Pune a has imagined.
Society, which was once a clique, has now be
come a crowd, and a higuly mixed crowd, in
which may be met ail sorts of men and women.
Under the present dispensation the privileges
once monopolized by rank and birth are now
within the reach of persons with neither.
Some people are a imitted only because they
are rich, others because they are talked about,
others only because they are in a way amusing.”
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