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The Family Journal.—Nevts—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs.
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GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING.
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MACON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1868,
VOL. XLII.---K0. 48,?^.
[For the Telegraph.']
LINES TO MY MOTHER.
BY K. B. C. x r-
flint. Editor* t The following simple lines liav-
.fctn very incorrectly printed. I take tho liberty of
ka A«kinc an humble place for them. My desire
to them for my little daughter’s scrap-book
j be my apology for bringing them forward a see
Come. Respectfully, Efpie Bowdre Castlek.]
[^r mother,let me weep 1 check not the tear3 that
fill!
^01 swell and madden Summcrseas, and for us all
. each and every heart, storms come in mighty
tilth, " ,
[.> swell to “seas of grief” each wavcletin. our path.
i. fiercest storms are brief-soon trembling waves
,re filled,
L beets novr joyful best that once with fear were
'filled;
I* r <i K ht sleeps alonr the shore,” beaming eyes
aaw see
l,,tea's stainless watchers gild the sky and smile in
tiea
L mother, still I weep, I yield to mem’ry’s power
.rttatly Rads me back to girlhood’s happy hour,
J -utlit scenes I loved. Ah! golden dreams of joyl
[j! bitter, bitter life! why sweet, bright dreams
destroy. •
nw, mother, while I weep, this is no “wasted
(bower.”
i purify the heart, and oft through suffering
boat
btjtornto patient smiles and sweeten daily care.
i is not always come from depths of dark despair.
rmother,let me weep! Thou wilt not scorn my
tears,
growth night and storm and darkness thou host
| filmed my fears;
rlovo. so wide, so deep, no fleeting time decays,
still inereaseth ever with increasing days.
mother, let me smile 1 Joy is not doomed to
I death.
Inch time has blighted hopes with cold and with-
'ring breath:
‘deep well of life I” my mother's tender love!
mh meekness to this heart and lift my thoughts
| above.
;ve theso blighted hopes!—above these falling
| tMTSl
i throbbing, homeless hearts feel not the storms
| tad fears
sswcll and break them here. Oh, God, thy mercy
| jrove,
I shield mo. Father, shield me, with my mother’s
re.
on, September, 186S.-
:,i<;raph l.etter from James Fitzpatrick,,
publican Candidate fur Congress in tile
[>:ta District, to his Friend, Hun. (!) H. M
|!,rncr (colored.)
■ tie Constitution. 2hi.]
following letter was picked up on the
|r of the passenger car lost night, en route
i JIaron to this city. On the principle
|tbe Radical party of appropriating “aban-
1 lauds.” we confiscate thepreciou9 doc-
tat, and by these presents distribute it,
| rata, among nnr three thousand readers,
f-jive it to them verbatim, et literatim, et
‘Mdtim, with the simple remark that it
|.tauine, and that Turner and Jeff. Long
l a colored) are the leaders of the Radical
pen in the 4th District:
House of Representatives
Atlanta Ga sept 22nd 1868
|ki H H Turner
Macon Gft
Dear sir
a few days* ago I re
ltd a letter from yon it was Jast such a
1,-1 expected to receive from you—no
l: I presume living, is better able or ca-
} e of Judging of my principals as a re
an or a party man particularly where
Inghts of the black man is at Stake than
pare—what I have advocated I have ad-
I honestly without prospect of reward
any one unless my maker,” I must
t'tu that I hive been badly abused par-
irly in my absence by Mr Long
► late convention in macon has probably
|-',t me a lesson that will be a benefit to
| hereafter—I Say.it without fear of con-
:tion that I did* not go to macon to in-
my nomination—my name was not
►dined until Your name was withdrawn—
J you Know that the constitution of the
pd States distinctly provides that a con-
itnan mast be Seven years a citizen of
K s. before he could successfully enter
|;ress it you think it unwise for me to run
race at the next election in this
te Just Say-So—if yourself and Long
determined not to assist me in the
r»a» you will cooler a favor on your humble
not by letting mo Know the fact—
■ae people has a Kind of an Idea that one
-s qualifications of a candidate Should
[popularity with white rebels. I dont
t so—if every Republican who occupied
ion this floor on the 4th -of July last—
; 'ht felt and acted as I did we the re-
| : &n members of this bouse would have a
dig majority in this house at present
fill colored men would be in their Seats.
Respectfully
Yours Truly
James Fitzpatrick.
Fixed in.”—The Montgomery Mail gives
['allowing account of a negro marriage
onv that took place in that county not
lisince. Said the sable parson, addressing
diance:
kre is a couple who have walked out to-night,
“f to be jtned Id, and thro’ love, and wishing
i d»t have any ting twixt dem, come for-
; >nd speak now, if not, let dem hold dar
-now and forever more. I want’s every ear
r , sod every heart to enjoy.
' Jim Thompson, whomsoever stands fastly
•r left side, do yon take her foryonr beloved
f’o wait on her through sickness and through
F, safe and be safe, holy and be holy, loving
| '.in,'; do yon love her mother; do you
I Msiinr; do you love her brothers; do you
Fcr sisters; do yon Jove her master; - do you
l*r mistress; but do you love God the best?
T/t-I do.
i Mary Thomson, whomsoever stands fastly
V right side do yon take to be your dear be-
’•aasband, to wait on him through health and
conjiution, 6afe and be safe, holy and be
I. do yon leve his mother; do yon love his
do you love bis brothers; do you love his
do von love God the best ?”
*t-"I will.” I shall pronounce Mr. Jim
[.' Miss Mary fastly by the right hand, and I
li’oconnceyon both to be man and wife, by
I imandments of God. Wo shall hope* and
I's through God, that you may live right—
I '• in-y die right,, now and forevermore.—
LJw. Jim, dew your bride.
r‘i(inga bime:
I Hanged in a gulf of dark despair, etc.”
Platt once, when visiting a penal
I t:< >n; inspected the treadmill with the
t**d. being practically disposed, the
ri* judge trusted himself to the tread-
i'- :|r ‘ n g the warder to set it in motion.
r'Aine was accordingly adjusted, and
I-Iship began to lift his feet. In a few
P*> however; he had had qnite enough
‘nd called to be released;.but this was
. eas y* “Please, my lord,” said the
Jon can’t get off. It’s set for twenty
that’s the shortest time we can
., r g°.” 8o the judge was in durance
i' 1 * 11 term”'expired. •
Paciho Raii-way.—New York,
I'clif,f-r A d ‘ B r‘tch recetvedto-day from
It <r * ck anu nnccs the completion of
I'.'i it l 0n of 016 Dn l°B Paciiic railway, mak-
1 ‘ ‘n operation. . -
MURDER.
FIFTH ACT IN A PKOTBACTED TRAGEDY—
KILLING OF I. C. WILLIS.
From a note lrom our friend Capt. J. R.
Pace, of Rogersville, we learn that on Sunday
evening last, Mr. L C. Willis, who it will be
remembered killed the notorious Bill Size
more, about a year ago iu Hawkins county,
was himself murdered on Clinch, in said
county, by. a man named Burton, between
whom and Willis, there had been an old
grudge. The full particulars of the murder
are not given. "Willis was shot first in the
side. The wound not producing instant
death, he asked that he might he permitted
to see his wife, hut Burton did not spare him.
He then shot him iu the bead killing him in
stantly. Willis did not fire a shot. The
shooting was done while both were on horse
back.
This mnrder calls up & long train of homi
cides. In 1864, an old and highly esteemed
citizen of Russellville (Mr. Cain) was killed
by a young Federal soldier, a citizen of the
same county, named Bewley. A short time
afterwards Bewley was killed by one of the
sons of old man Cain. But a short time was
left for young Cain to live. He fell a victim
to the murderous hand of a friend of Bew-
ley’s, Bill Sizemore, who, shortly after the
killing of young CaiD, compl ted the list of
his murders by brutally murdering Lient.
Thurman, of Hawkin3 connty. Sizemore
did not long live to gloat over his deeds of
blood. The avenger was on his path, and in
a very short time Sizemore was sent to eterni
ty by a bullet from the pistol of L C. Willis.
Willis now is murdered, and we may well, in
horror, exclaim: Where will the terrible
tragedy end ?—Knoxville Press.
The Fortunes of Rome.—The Rome
Courier says:
Our city was never so thrifty as at present
The rapid increase in wealth and population
is fully equalled by the erection of substantial
business houses and commodious dwellings,
and all the indications are that, as a com
mercial center, Rome will far excel any town
between Selma and Knoxville.
The natural advantages of locality, health
fulnessof climate, facilities for transportation
productiveness of surrounding country, large
preponderance of white population, and
abundance of water power in the vicinity,
all point to this as a place of uaequaled ad
vantages for trading and manufacturing pur
poses.
The spirit of enterprise is already awake
here, and highly stimulated by the unprece
dented amount of business done during the
past twelve months.
As indication of the amount of building in
the past year, or now in process of construc
tion, we will mention the fact that there are
over forty dwelling houses in the city and
its environs—nine good, substaintial, two
story brick business houses—beside numer
ous enlargements, improvements, etc., and a
new flouring mill is now being erected, near
the Foundry, by 3Iessrs. Wadsworth, Wil
liams & Co., with capacity to grind 260
bushels of wheat per day.
The syrup refinery of Sproulls & Stillwell,
now nearly completed, will be of great ad
vantage to planters in this section. It will
make a cash market for crude sorghum, and
stimulate the production of this profitable
crop. They expect to be able to refine. 800
gallons per day. They will run two furnaces,
25 feet long each, and one 10 feet long, night
and day. They have one tank with capacity
of 800 gallons, and three of 800 gallons each.
They expect to commence operations about
tho 15th of October.
An Address by the Central Executive Com
mittee of the Democratic Party of Geor
gia.
Atlanta Drm. Ex. Com. Rooms, (
September 2G, 1868. "I"
The position of the Democratic party of
Georgia, in relation to the Reconstruction
measures of Congress for the establishment of
governments in the Southern States being
misunderstood, it is believed that an authori
tative declaration oi what the party bolds in /declaring laws constitutional, whose constiiuJon
regard to those measures will not be deemed ”ality may be disputed, and.in return we clain, at
right. This is our counsel and advice, and
wu trust and believe that it will be heeded.
ring made known our true position in regard
to the Reconstruction measures of CongMss, and
the protection which is "due to the freedmeu m the
enjoyment of their rights and privileges, wi assure
the people—all the people of every name aid per
suasion, North, South, East, West—that tb»e are
cJm.views—the views of the Democratic party of
Georgia, and any representations to the tontrary
, l re untrue, and do us great injustice.
n We pledge ourselves to submit to all laws con-
’stitutionally enacted—to all decisions oi the courts
Dry Goods Auction Sales in New York.
The New York correspondent of the Phila
delphia Ledger writes on Wednesday:
A feature of the dry goods auctions to
day was a large offering by a leading house
of veils, bareges, bombazines, mousselines de
laine, French merinoes and Empress cloths
of late importation. The attendance of both
city and country buyers was quite numerous.
All of the catalogue was ran off at good
prices, except the merinoes, many of which
were passed, the bids being below the views
of the sellers. Another house offered wool
ens, tailoring goods, velvets, etc. The at
tendance here was very large, the bidding
spirited, and the prices (especially those of
woolens) satisfactory. The catalogue was run
off without duplicates. Another house sold
ribbons and silk velvets, all of which were
readily taken at prices which make the sale
one of the most successful of the season.
***"** sagfew-'*
j A ..‘‘-Cf. •*
“Neat as Imported.”—There may be seen dally
on Chestnut street, Philadelphia, a mau clad in
faultless apparel, with a great diamond upon his
breast, vainly endeavoring to outgljtter the magni
ficent solitaire upon his finger. In a German uni
versity be learned chemistry, and not even Leibiz
knows it better. His occupation is the mixing
and adulterations of Hqnors. Give him a dozen
casks of deodorized alcohol, and tbenext day each
of them will represent the name of a genuine wine
ora popular spirit. He enters a wholesale drug
store bearing a large basket upon his arm. Five
joundsof Iceland moss are first weighed out for
lim. To raw liquor this imparts a degree of
smoothness, of oleaginousness, that gives to imi
tation brandy the glibness of that which is best
matured. An astringent called catchn, that would
almost close the month of a glass inkstand, is next
In order. A couple of ounces of strychnine, next
called for, are quickly conveyed to the vest pocket,
and a pound of sulphate of zinc (white vitriol) Is
as silently placed in the bottom of the basket.—
The oil of cognac, the sulphuric acid, and other
articles that give fire and body to the liquidpoison,
are always kept In store. The mixer buys these
things in various quarters. They ore the staples
of his art.
Many years ago a small Connecticut parish un
dertook to build a meeting-house. They wtnt so
far as to get up the frame and cover it with boards.
Then, for want of money and want of harmony, the
enterprise stood still. The elements then assailed
the unfinished structure, which in the course of a
few years rotted down. By this time the people
had come to their senses, and set out in earnest to
have another house. Raisings were then great oc
casions. AH the men assembled to put up the
windows—all the women and children v.cre there
to see them do It. At the conclusion of the work
it was common to sing a psalm—the lines, for
wants of books, being usually deaconed off. This
office, at the time referred to, was assigned to
President Edwards’ witty son, Pierrepoiit, who
happened to be present. He began as follows :
“Except tho Lord doth build the house, the work
men toll in vain,” which WS3 snug with a will.—
But the excited throng wasjtaken somewhat aback
when their roguish precentor roared out as follows:
“Except the Lord ’ ** *
down again.’
I doth shingle It, ’twill tumble
Gold—Native Gold!—"We were shown on yes
terday by our friend, J. C. Early, Esq , a very rich
specimen of quartz found on the Jarrett property.
Tois specimen was found by an old miner, who
was working a deposit mine on this property, and
who told us he had been offered $50 for the rock.
Evidently, there is a rich vein on this property,
which will prove a source of very great profit to
the owners at some future day.
Capt. Thles, of the Cbestatee Pluming Compa
ny,exhibited to us a short time ago a nugget weigh
ing over fifteen pwts., taken from a surface miDe
near the Cbestatee, below Bearden’s Ford. —Dah-
lonega Signal, 25th.
John Randolph was one of the most sarcastic
men that ever lived. One time a young man at
tempted to make his acquaintance. He obt&lnod
an Introduction, and among the first remarks
said: '
“I pasaed by yourhouse. lately, Mr. Randolph.”
“I nope you always will 1” was the reply.-;
Another one twitted hitp as to hi* “want oi ed
MmS' * * **
“The«<?ntleman remind* me,” * aaid Ba
“of ttW-UPds at ths head* of Montgomery, W
— b4t fuluad hy cultivation
inappropriate in the present juncture of po
litical affairs.
The Central Executive Committee, in the
following declaration of principles, do not
hesitate to say, that they speak truly, the setp
timents and feelings of tiie party they jreprt*—
sent; and they desire to speak for themselves
and their party, that their true position may
be known.
The Democratic party, South, is charged
with still being rebellious inspirit, and in the
event of the election of the Democratic can
didate to the Presidency and Vice Presidency
of the United States, with an intention to
arrest the farther enforcement of the Recon
structions acts of Congress without awatin 0
the action of the-Judicial Department of the
Government upon the question of their un
constitutionality]! and thus' to inaugurate
another civil war.
This charge places us iu a position we do
not occupy, and we meet it with a denial of
its truth. "We claim the right to define our
true position.
We hold the Reconstruction acts of Con
gress to be unconstitutional; that is to say—
they are unauthorized by any grant of power
in the Constitution. To believe an act of
Congress unconstitutional does not imply an
intention to resist its enforcement by vio
lence, or to get rid of it by revolutionary
measures. Different views of the constitu
tionality of Congressional legislation will
necessarily exist, but the sword is not the
arbiter of such disputes—else the country
would be in a state of continual war.
There is a tribunal for the settlement of
all such questions, and when its adjudica
tions are pronounced, acquiesence becomes
the duty of all the people. Individual opin
ions must yield to official and authoritative
decisions of the Judiciary.
Notwithstanding we hold that the Recon
struction acts of Congress were enacted “out
side of the Constitution,” and without con
“stitutional authority, we do not propose or
intend to maintain our position by a resort
to force. The constitutionality of these acts
is a question to ba decided by the Federal
Judiciary, upon a proper case made. If
their decision should be adverse to the Con
stitutionality of that legislation, we will
claim all the consequences which will legit
imately result from such a decision, and it
will not be unreasonable in us to expect that
those who hold opposite views will acquiesce
in the decision, and accord to U3 all the rights
to which it may legally entitle us.
On the contrary, if the constitutionality of
the reconstruction measures' should be sus
tained by the Supreme Federal Judiciary, as
peaceable, law-abiding citizens, we will yield
submission to that decision, and cease all
further opposition to those measures.
And in another contingency, if the Su
preme Court should refuse to entertain juris
diction of cases presented under these acts,
the only alternative left will be to yield them
obedience, as laws obligatory and binding
or to resist them by revolution, and the lat
ter we unhesitatingly reject. We desire a
peaceful solution of the complications arising
under these acts, and a finality to the agita
tion which they have produced.
In our own State, we recognize the govern
ment, which has been organized by authority
of these acts, and will recognize it uow, and
henceforth, if it should not be superseded by
authority of law. If our State shall be re
manded to the government existing prior to
the enactment of the Reconstruction acts, it
must be done by operation of law, and not
by revolution.
We hold, then, that the question of the con
stitutionality of the acts referred to, is a
question for*the Judiciary, and not for an ap
peal to. arms, or any violent revolutionary
measures to be initiated by the President of
the United States to set up, or set aside
those measures by his own mere will.
Whichever of the present candidates for
the Presidency of the United States may be
elected to that office, neither should use his
arbitrary, will either in enforcing these meas
ures against a decision of the Supreme Court,
declaring them unconstitutional, or in super
seding them, and setting them aside before
the action of the Judiciary can be had.
If the Republican candidate should be
elected, and the Reconstruction acts should
be pronounced unconstitutional by a decision
of the Supreme Court of the United States,
acquiescence in that decision will be bis duty,
no less than of a private citizen. If tile
Democratic candidate should be elected, his
election will not per se authorize him to de
clare those acts unconstitutional, null and
void, and no longer of any binding force and
efficacy; but it will be his duty to await the
decision Of the question by the proper
tribunal to which it belongs, and on which
ever side it may be made, to regard the de
cision as obligatory and binding, as an act of
Congress which is clearly in conformity to
the Constitution.
We speak for the Democratic party of
Georgia, and we may go further, and say, that
though we are not authorized to speak for
others outside of our State, yet we believe
that the sentiments and feelings of the Dem
ocratic party in the other Southern States are
in unison with our own.
These are the views we bold upon the qnes
tion in which we, as a people, are so deeply
and vitally interested. We intend no war—
we meditate no revolution—we want no civil
strife. We are for peace and intend to keep
the peace, and will not break it if not forced
to do it in self-defence and for self-preserva
tion.
We counsel and exhort our people to for
bear all ac‘3 of violence upon the colored
race-even to endure provocations, which
thev would not tolerate under other circum
stances. They are ignorant and led on by
designing white men, to make threats and
commit acts of indiscretion, for the purpose
of producing collisions between them and the
white people—and to resist them by violence
will be to enable their white leaders to ac
complish their object. . For this and other
reasons, we counsel the utmost forbearance
which can be exercised.
We advise our people to accord to tlie
freedmen all the rights aud privileges which
the present laws secure to them. Withhold
from them no right to whiph they are enti
tled. Let them not be obstructed in the ex
ercise of any privilege which the laws give
them. Under our present laws, they are en
titled to the right of suffrage. Let them en
joy it freely, voluntarily and without molesta
tion.- On the day of the approaching elec
tion, to avoid conflicts, the polls should not
be, and will not be occupied by one race to
the exclusion of the other; but arrangements
will be made whereby all who are legally en
titled to vote shall exercise that privilege,
and we believe that our people have the
magnanimity to see to it that no freedman
— *v IBBJ l/b UlOpUiCU. BUU Ui 1CUUU n — -*-»—**-1 all
the rights guaranteed by the Constltution-we
claim protection of life, liberty, and propertj by
law, and we claim for our State equality of rqiits
snd Privileges with other States in the Unite.—
vve desire to see our government brought ba r i to
its original parity and first principles. We a*lre
an administration of the Federal Government apbn
*~?JPUn«plts upon Which it was administer >n
the early,ages of the Republic. .
“Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever
State, or persuasion, religious or political—peace,
commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,
entangling alliances with none—the support of the
State governments in aU their rights, as the most
competent administrations ior our domestic con
cerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-repub
lican tendencies—the preservation of the General
Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as
the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety
abroad—a zealous care of the rights of election by
the people—a mi’.d and safe corrective of abuses
which are lapped by the "sword of revolution,
where peaceable remedies are unprovided—abso
lute acquiescence In the decisions of the majority.
The vital principles of republics from which there
is no appeal, but to iorce; the vital principle and
immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined
militia, our best reliance in peace and lor the first
moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;
the supremacy of the civil over the military au
thority; economy in the pnblic expense, that la
bor may be lightly borthened; the honest payment
of our debts, and sacred preservation ot the public
faith; encouragement of agriculture aud of com
merce, as its hand-maid; the diffusion of informa
tion, and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of
public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of
the press: freedom of person under the protection
of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impar
tially selec Jed
Let the Federal Government be administered
upon thes principles, and speaking for the people
of Georg a “we pledge our lives, our fortunes,
and our sacred honor” to maintain the Union in
its full vigor.
E. G. Casanibs,
Chm’nCen. Ex. Com. of Dem.Party of Ga.
Trout Fishing Extraordinary.
The following curious account of the capture of
a big trout in English waters, is taken from the
Cincinnati Times:—“On Tuesday afternoon, the
9th inst., I walked down to the river Bean, ‘tack
led out’ for chub, and as I was strolling along I
pointed ont to my daughter, who was with me, a
whirling eddy, caused by a rapid from aflood-gate,
saying, ‘that is just the spot where I should ex
pect to find a trout, if there were any lett In this
part of the water,’ at the same time taking a some
what careless cast over the particular spot. The
fly had no sooner dropped on the water than it was
seized by a big fish, which was so unexpected,
and took me so completely by surprise, that I was
wholly unprepared lor the rush; the consequence
was the line ‘came to grief,’ and off went Mr.
Trout with about a yard of my gut collar, greatly
to my chagrin and disgust. Well, on Wednesday
1 had to be in London all day, bnt on Thursday,
the lltb, I resolved to revisit the scene of my
Thesday’s disaster, and try to retrieve my loss, if
happily I might have the good iortune to find
my old friend ’at home,’ and with a rising appe
tite. This time I took especial care to be duly
prepared at all points. Cautiously approaching
the spot, therefore, I first took a cast with a good-
sized alder fly, bnt without success. I then spun
over the eddy with a small ‘brass gill devil,’ still
no response. ‘Well,’ said I to my daughter, who
again accompanied me,‘I fear it is “ no go,” but I
will have one more spin, os a “forlorn hope.” ’ ‘I
have him!’ I exclaimed, and with a mighty rush,
which made the winch shriek again, tbs fish was
across the pool; I felt, however, thatlhadhim
hard and fast; he fonght gallantly tor loll a
quarter of an hoar, bnt at last he rolled, ind rolled,
and rolled into the landing net, when he was
gasped in triumph. On proceeding to remove, as
I thought, the flights of hooks, what was my as
tonishment at finding that the fish had not taken
the spinning bait at all, bnt that in drawing it
over the spot where he lay, the trilngles had
caught hold of the gat collar, which lad broken
on Tuesday, and by their rapid rotary ibotioa had
twisted the gut so tightly round the spitmer, as to
defy all efforts of the fish to ‘untwist the twist,’
and thus it was tbat I captured my old friend
with the very fly he had robbed me oi two days
before, and which, of course, I found firmly fixed
iu Uis jaw.”
A Singular Case.
A CORPSE BITS UP IN BED AND MOVES ITS
LIMBS
From the Houston (Texas) Times, Sept. 12J 1
A good deal oi talk ha3 been excited by the fol
lowing eingular circumstance on the ether side of
the Bayou: On Thursday night at an early hour,
a carpenter who had been in ill hen It a for some
time past, to all appearances died. Th»re was not
a sign of animation left; he was pronounced dead
by ,his attending physician, was drested in his
rravo clothes, and laid ont for burial. His friends
n Galveston were telegraphed to come np and at
tend his fnneral. It was about 8 r. h when he
was pronounced dead, and preparations began
lor his burial. About daybreak yesterday morn
ing, he suddenly rose np in his bed, without hav
ing given, up to that time, a single indication of
life. He was unable to speak, pulseless, cold, and,
with the exception that he was able to Bit upright
aud move his arms and hands, still appeared a
corpse. Not the faintest respiration could be dis
covered, nor did the eyes, though open, 1 give any
indication of anything but death. Hla physician
was immediately seat for, who, on entering the
room, was utterly befuddled at the singular case.
Restoratives, stimulants, and every thing else
likely to be of service, were applied, bnt the
breath refused to return, the pulse to beat, and
the body to grow warm. The muscnlar power to
rise in the bed and move the limbs continued, and
was exercised frequently during five hours, when
that also apparently ceased forever, und the car-'
penter was left as perfect a specimen of a corpse
as conld possibly be.
Has snch a case, as ithas been related to us, as
we have told to our readers—ever been heard of
before? About mid-day yesterday he was buried.
Was he alive when he roee in his bed ? Probably
not.
We way be violating the sense of delicacy due to
the friends and relatives of the subject of this no
tice, but the case is so singular we think we are
justified in saying that we heard that deceased—if
he wa9 deceased—had lately been drinking very
hard.
The Fctl'ue o? Viisginia.—The last three
years has folly justified our undoubting confidence
In Virginians, and we can proudly boast tbat th«
whole State, poor and desolate as It is, has sprung
forward with a power and energy that has aston
ished even ourselves. We have no fea’s for the
future—onward! onward! • Is the motto of Vir
ginia. If she has done so much when more than
"one-half of her territory has been swept with the
besom of destruction, what will, In coming years,
be her wealth and glory V There rUes belore our
eye of faith a boundless vista ot her future pros-
peritv. We eeo before the close of this century,
Old Virginia covered with railroads, and crowded
with population", with noble cities at every fall of
her rivers, manufacturing for the Union; with her
mills developing the infinite wealth now hidden
in the bowels of the earth. This picture of the
future is no opium dream, hut it is what must
come to past.—Norfolk Journal.
Thomas Affleck writes to the Houston Tele-
Erjlph^-'
We have butter on table every morning as .firm
I.I had almost said crisp) as at mid-winter., by the
J oilowing simple means: The butter is pl»ced In
aeoTered stone-ware, or other dish—a covered tin
bucket answering very well—and is tten enveloped
in two or three thicknesses of any old woolen or
other cloth, wrung out of cold water, and is set
in the breeze. The evaporation oi the water keeps
the temperature down to so low a point, that the
butter, is remarked, comes on the table firm and
nice. r ’ -.v •
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Gbukral Meads axd hts Retubn to GeoboiR.
Washington September 24.—Gen. Meade’s return to
his command in Georgia was not upon orders from
the Secretary of War, as erroneously stated in some
of the newspapers, but upon his own notion, his
leave of absence having nearly expired. Nor is it'
true that' he - received, Instructions to;investigate
he facts of the recent riot at Camilla, and bring
.he offenders Vo trial. Such a proceeding would
be In violation of the recent orders of the War De
partment, directing Gen. Meade to surrender con-
i rol of civil affairs to the civil authorities, on the
A Letter-writer, who has had. a talk with U. &
G. at his home in Illinois, writes: “Of his elec
tion General Grant entertains no donbt. We
gather from-bis conversation that his opinions are
as much the result of his fine intnitlen—his ueeH
insight Into the working of the popular mind—as
of what he hears lrom his political lrlends. ‘Yes,’
said he, ‘if I thought I could serve the country as
well in my present station as in the Presidential
chair, I should care nothing for ail election. To
give up the place as general is a sacrifice. Itsuits
me; lam grateful tnat It was given to me; it is
for life; and I am sure nothing could be more
gratifying to one’s ambition. But it seemed to be
necessary for me to run aa the candidate of those
who pnt down the rebellion, and so I am in the
field. I suppose that no man can do just what he
wants to, and there stop. Being a candidate, I
want to win, oi course.”
THE RIOT IN GEORGIA. H
INTERESTING STATEMENT OF THE HON. B. H.
• HILL.
The Hon. B. H. Hill,'of Georgia, who is
now in New York, has addressed the follow
ing letter to the Tribune of that city, and
which ^'published in that journal of yester
day. It deserves a careful perusal by every
honest and reflecting reader :
To the Editor of the Tribunes
Sib—I hare read all you have said in the Tribune
on the sobject ot the collision at Camilla, in the State
of Georgia. I beg permission to make a statement
which will present this whole affair in its true light
to you and the Northern people.
Early in tho canvass the whites of that State (nine-
tenths of whom are Democrats) received positive in
formation that the negroes were being enoouraged to
arm themselves and hold nightly drills in military
style. They were told that the ohject of the Demo
cratic party was to re-easlave them, and that they
mast resist its success by force, and especially all ne
groes who should vote the Demoeratio ticket. Very
loon this canard, which originated in the Leagues,
was openly proclaimed. IVhite and colored speakers
at public meetings advised the negroes to get ready to
fight, and were reminded that they could use the
torohes for dwellings as well as tho guns and axes
against people. A painful rumor obtained currency
that the acting Governor (Bullock) was in sympathy
with, if not actually aiding this movement. I do not
know that this was actually so.
This state of things naturally created alarm. Sev
eral outbreaks were attempted, and several con
spiracies to kill white people were deteoted, and the
negroes, when arrested in different portions of the
State, said they had authority and orders to this
effect. We also most satisfactorily obtained infor
mation, that the object of the few whites who incited
the negroes to their crimes was two-fold. First—To
place the negroes, by discipline and excitement, be
yond the influences which might induce them to vote
with the Democrats, or not to vote at all. Second—
To provoke collisions expressly to influence the
Northern people with charges of rebel outrages.”—
Now the interests and the policy of the whites was
ust the reverse. In the first place, it was Democratic
property, and Democratic families, which would be
eadangered if riots occurred. In the next place, ifthe
negroes became demoralized by these politico-military
organizations and frequent assemblages, the crops
would not be well gathered, and Dimocrats owned
the crops, and their impoverished condition made
them anxious to gather as much as possible for the
anticipated high prices. Bnt lastly, we knew tbat the
result of the Presidential election depended chiefly
on the vote of the Northern States, and we were ex
ceedingly anxious to avoid every possible occurrence
which could excite the passions of the Northern peo
ple. Uur property, our safety, our families, our ma
turing crops, and our party policy all oombined to
make us anxious—unusually anxious-to keep the
peace, flow could we effectually keep the peace?—
None but those who felt the responsibility will ever
know tho difficulties with which our situation invest
ed this question. But we resolved by common con
cert and counscl-
First: To bear every insult, and even outrage, pos
sible, and never to resist by force in any form, except
when actually necessary to protect property, person
or family.
Seoond: To stop, by the constituted State authori-
The Better Half of a Great Mau. BRBVXTZE8.
To promote her husband’s interest, Mrs. Ben- j G-— and Lwere talking
jamin Franklin attended shop where -she bought Indians aud their tribal relationships, when i re- ■
rags, sewed pamphlets, folded newepapere and marked that I thought the Kaws were on omnoot .
sold the few articles in which he dealt, such as of the Kakotas or Sioux. N. replied that his anp-
Inks, papers, lampblack, blanks and other sta- position had always been that the Kaws came f
tionery. At the same time ste was an excellent from the Crows. “Yes,’ said G. or trom some x ,
housekeeper, and besides being economical her- other Cause.’ Will the Ethnological Boct-ty
self, taught her careless, disorderly husband to be “make a note on’t ?”
Tne finest idea of a thunder storm extant is
when O’Fogarty came home tight. He came into
the room among his wife and daughter*, and just
then tumbled over the cradle and fell heavily to -,
the floor. After awhile he rose and -aid : “Wife,
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economical also. Sometimes Franklin was clothed
from head to foot in garments which his wife had
both woven and made, aud for a long time she
performed all the work ot a servant. Neverthe
less, she knew how to be liberal at proper times.
Franklin tells ns tbat for some years alter his mar- are you hurt?” “No.” "Girls, are you hurt ?”
ties, all these nigbtly drillings, secret military organ
izations and armed assemblages, of every character, aa
calculated to break the peace.
We bad no oonfidenee that the Governor would vol
untarily aid us. Therefore, letters were addressed to
the Legislature urging action. The Legislature did
act, by passing resolutions requesting and uiging the
Governor to issue his proclamation forbiddiug these
armed demonstration. The Governor issued his proc
lamation, bnt in a style and with false charges which
really confirmed the worst fears of the whites as to
lis sympathy with these movements.
But we had the proclamation, and we hoped that
all threatened dangers would disappear. Now, there
was not the slightest desire, as you seem to think, of
interfering with the constitutional right of black and
white “to keep and bear arms,” or to have Republi
can meetings—as many and as Jong aa they desire.
We only desire to prevent military drills, ana organi
zations not authorized bylaw, and armed assemblages
calculated to break the peace; and these we desire to
prevent by legal authority, executed by the civil offi
cer. You now hare the exaet reason why the sheriff
met the appoaching armed procession, and after ex
hibiting the Governor’s proclamation, told the lead
ers they could bold the meeting peaceably, but begged
them not to attempt it in violation of that proclama
tion.
Camilla is a very small village of not exceeding, I
would say, 300 inhabitants, black and white, men.
women and children. «.
A large assemblage of negroes gathered from sur
rounding counties, led by these white men, and all
armed, and to bb excited by inflammatory speeches,
and many of them by other causes, placed the people,
families and houses of that little village iu danger of
pillage, rape and burning, with the alternative, if
prevented, of fearful “rebel outrages,” to kilt negroes
and prevent free speech, scattered all over the North
just as the State election was approaching, which, it
was believed, wonld determine the Presidential
election l
I know both Fierce and Murehy, the two white men
who conducted this whole affair. They are of the
most emphatic specimens of what are termed carpet
baggers. Before the passage of the Reconstruction
measures, there was no complaint heard against them.
These measures disfranchised every intelligent white
citizen who bad held office in that country. Pierce
settled as a Bureau Agent in Lee county, and Mur
phy in Dougherty county, adjoining the county in
which Camilla is situated; and in the counties of Lee
and Dougherty there are five negroes to one white.—
I have no idea that one dozen white Republicans
could be found in the three counties.
Thus, you see at a glance the temptations offered to
Fierce and Murphy to get offioet by the large negro
votes. Accordingly since the passage of the Recon
struction measures these men hare sorted with the
negroes. Fierce was for a time a candidate for Con
gress at the last election. He has now received the
nomination for that position from a Convention of
negroes. Murphy was elected Sheriff by the negroes
at tho last election, but was unable to give bond. He
is now, I believe, on the electoral ticket. We have
natTowly escaped several bloody riots in that region
before. Our people here believed these men, especial
ly the latter, incited them. They were distinctly in
view, with others, when we counted the difficulties in
the way of preserving peace, and when we sought to
secure the proclamation.
But in spite of that proclamation, and all the re
monstranoes of our people, and the fears of onr wo
men and children, they persisted in holding armed as
semblages of negroes, and the Camilla riot is the un
fortunate result.
The Camilla riot, properly understood, will exhibit
to the Northern people more clearly than a thousand
speeches could, the exact reason why the Southern
whites arc. at present, unwilling to extend universal,
indiscriminate suffrage to the negro. It is because
they can be taken possession ot by a very few bad
white men seeking office at their‘hands, and made
terrors to society, and destroyers of safety for prop
erty and security for families. Many of the more in
telligent understand and repudiate these influences,
bnt the greater number do not.
Iu these very counties of Lee and Dougherty, in
which Pierce and Murphy reside, I do personally
know (for I plant in both tboss counties) that in 1866—
after the surrender, mark you—lands were telling
lrom $10 to $20 per acre. Immediately after the pas
sage of these reconstruction mea«ures these very
lands commenced declining, and I do know that some
of them hare recently been sold (with cotton as high
as it wa* in 1866) at one dollar per acre in gold.
To hare onr families and our lives thns constantly
menaced and our property depreciated is certainly a
fearful and sad condition. Let every man in the
North place himself, his family and his property in
l his condition in his native country, and then, when
he makes the most peaceable efforts possible, in a law
ful way, to avert these dangers, lot him hear himself
denounced as “a rebel,” “an enemy” and “a traitor,"
and guilty of “rebel outrages,” and be will have some
idea of the exact condition, of the Southern whites,
many or whom did allin their power,like the writer
Our people bear these evils. Is there any other
people on earth who'wonld bear them so pstiently 7—
Why do they bear them ? Because they took hope
fully to the Northern people to resene them. They
love every man North who is willing to rescue them.
They want, above aU things, peace. They will make
any other sacrifice, accede to any other demand the
North can make, to secure peace. But they cannot
and thev will not consent, by their own act, to dis
honor themselves by disfranchising their wisest art
riagehis breakfast was bread and milk; they eat
out of a two penny earthen vessel, with a pewter
spoon, but one morning, on going down to break
fast, he found upon the table a beautiful china
bowl, from which, his bread and milk was steam
ing, with a 6ltver spoon by his side, which had
cost a sum equal, iu our currency, to tea dollars.
When he expressed his atonishment at the unwon
ted spendor, Mrs. Frankln only observed that she
thought her husband deserved a silver spoon and
a china bowl a* much as any of his neighbors.—
Franklin prospered in his business until he became
the most famous editor and the most flourishing
printer in America, which gave him the pleasure
of relieving his wife from the cares of business,
and enabled him to provide for her a spacious and
well furnished abode. She adorned a high station
as well as she bore a lowly one, and she presided at
her husband’s liberal table aa gracefully as when
he ate his breakfast of bread and milk from a two
penny bowl.
Promising to Marry the Girl.
From, the New Albany Commercial.]
We yesterday heard rather a good story on one
of onr city ministers. During last winter a reviv
al was In progress In one of onr country churches
near the city. Among the regular attendants
of the meeting was a beautiful and estimable, but
rather unsophisticated yonpg lady, whoa- friends
were very anxious to have her unite with the
church.
Bbe seemed, however, reluctant to do so, and
the minister in question was requested “to talk to
her.” This he did several times, on one occasion
saying in a jocular manner, “Miss M——, If you’ll
join the church I’ll marry yon,” meaning he
wonld perform the ceremony. The girl seemed
pleased with the proposition, and a few evenings
after came np to the altar and united with the
cbnrch.
Several weeks after this the minister preached
at the church, and after services met the yonng
lady. “Brother —said she, “yon know you
promised to marry me it I’d join the ehurch. Are
you going to do so ? I'don’t want to wait any
longer.” The minister saw his dilemma and at
tempted to explain. “I meant I wonld perform
the ceremony,” he said, “that’s all. I can’t mar
ry you myself, for 1 am already married, and love
my wife too much to Bwap her off tor another.”
l'heyonng lady became indignant, declared she’d
leave the church, and that t-he “never did have
much faith in these town preachers.” Our min
isterial friend declares he will never again use any
other -than Scripnfural argument to Induce a
yonng lady to join trie church.
best men, and agree to a scheme which must place
their wives and their children and their little remnant
of property under the domination of Ignorant, semi
barbarous negroes, excited and ledoa. by a few bad
white men, who have no desire bnt to ret office at the
hands of these negroes. Why should they, forpeace,
ocssent to that which must destroy all peaoe ? Yours,
very troly, B. H. Hill.
New York. September2i. 1168.
George Upton, while endeavoring to get
upon & train of cars, at Newark, New Jersey,
on Saturday, while in motion, fell under the
wheels, and his head was completely severed
from his bodv. ■ Wv-Jl 7 ‘< *'.•
Edward Malone, a flagman belonging to
the Government surveying party, was killed
and scalped by fi,band of hostile Sionx, sooth
of Fort Kearney, on Wednesday. The In-
West Point—Virginia Lands —One of the par
ty o gentlemen who recently visited this 8tate for
the pnrpose mainly of making a purchase of land
at ft est Point, at the head of York river, writes to
the Philadelphia Telegraph an account of the jour
ney and the purchase made. He states that the
“American Agricnltnral and Mineral Land Com
pany” purchased 5000 acres of land, which em
braces West Point and the adjacent territory on
tbe Pamunkey rives. The tract extends from near
the White Hons-e, on the Pamunkey, to seven
miles below West Point on the York river. Five
hundred acres at West Point are to be laid ont in
town and garden lots. The remainder of the land
is to be divided into farms to suit purchasers. It
is anticipated that these (arms will be devoted to
early vegetables for snpplyiog the Northern cities.
The writer especially praises the lends of the
York and Pamunkey. He says: “I can see no ne
cessity for persons going West to the States of
Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, or other more distant
portions of the conntry. when, within a stone’s
throw of onr large cities, there remains such
wealthy s >il as that through which this company
ot capital's 6 passed to-day.
Great expectations are entertained of the fntnre
of West Point, with its commanding harbor and
deep river—which has never been frozen, giving a
direct outlet to sea—and with its extensive rail
way communication with the Ohio and the West
ern States. The writer expatiates upon the supe
riority of the place as a seaport over Norfolk and
all other ports in Virginia, and represents the
plans of the company with rvgard to it to be com
prehensive and practical. If a tithe of the expec
tations ot these people is realized they will be am
ply rewarded for their enterprise, and Virginia will
be greatly benefit ted.—Richmond Dispatch.
Who Has the Tuscaloosa Monitor been
“Cutting?”—The Montgomery Mail of Sat
urday says:
The Cincinnati Commercial comes tons with
the wood ent of the Tuscaloosa Monitor repro
duced, and three columns of extracts from that
newspaper accompanying tbe obnoxions and dam
agingpicture. A distinguished Alabamian writes
from Cincinnati that the wood ent has produced a
disastrous • fleet, and that the Rehnblican party
have had 500,000 copies of the Commercial struck
off for general circulation. - As the election of
Seymour depended on Ohio, and as the wood-cat
represents, as a prospective scene, tbe hanging of
an Ohioman in the city of Oaks, after the election
of Seymonr, it is not probable that many people
will be convinced that the success of the Demo
cracy will benefit persons from Ohio who may
have settled In Alabama.
Tbe wood-cut, we tear, is good for a loss of five
or ten thousand votes from those who wonld oth
erwise have voted tbe Democratic ticket. It may
lo?e us Ohio, and In that event will lose ns the
election, and keep the Radicals in power for fonr
years longer. It is a terrible thing, after the labor
we have undergone, tbe pangs we have endnred,
the hopes which we have clnng to, the endurance
to which we have nerved ourselves, to see the
rising temple of liberty bnrnt to the ground by &
torch flung among the shavings.
What was this “fatal wood cut?”
Southern Singers.—Tbe New Yorkers
are listening to two Southern singers for
whom success and eminauce are confideutly
predicted.
These are Miss Louiale Kellogg, the fairylike
prima donna, who arrived last Tuesday In the Rus
sia, and Miss McCulloch, of Max Maretzek'a im
mense opera tronpe, ready in a few days to appear
in Chicago.
Miss Kellogg is a native of tbe town of Snmter,
in the Palmetto State. She has just arrived from
a brilliantly successful tour in Europe, end has
been engaged by Strakoschfor four years, of which
three are to be given to Europe, and one to con
cert-touring in the United States.
Miss McCulloch is a native of Columbia, Booth
Carolina, and has been engaged by Max Maretzek
as a member of his immense combined opera
tronpe that is to leave New York for the Great
West and Southwest. Miss McCulloch has been
winning her way Into popular favor for two years.
She is the favorite eleve ot Maestro Torrlani, who
predicts lor her a career of nnnsnal brilliancy.—
Her style Is Spanish
There Husbands Poisoned by their Wires.—
A most ex'raordinary easels to be tried shortly
before the Court d’Assizes of Marseilles. It has
just been discovered that three women coolly and
deliberately poisoned their husbands in order to
marry again. Two of the husbands died some
months ago,' the third and last in August. AU
three bodies have been exhumed, to be analyzed
by medical men, each of tbe presumed assassins
being brooght in the presence of the victim. One
of the women Is forty-five years of age, another
thirty-five, and the third scarcely twenty. As far
as can be ascertained at present, they appear to'
have been assisted by a Fourth woman—a necro
mancer, or tieruse de cartes—vrbo seems both to
have Inspired the deed, and helped to accomplish
A Large Estate.—The will of the late
Edwin A. Stevens bequeaths nearly $20,000,-
000. Two public school-houses in Hoboken
are bequeathed to that city, and $650,000 for
the erectioD and maintenance of another is
donated. The Stevens Battery, for the com-
iletioa of which $1,000,000 is donated, is to
ie presented to the State of New Jersey. Tbe
rest of theproperty falls- to the widow and
children. , * ~i
Railroad Bridge.-—The Mobile and Gi
rard Railroad bridge is being pushed ahead.
Tbe lattice work has been completed to the
second pier. From Appearances we preecme
the time will not he long before the structure
No’.” “Girls, are yon hurt?” “No.” “Terri
ble clap, wasn’t U - v- - ■ -
A Young lady, who teaches music in an acade
my in "Western New York, sent an order to a pub
lisher recently, In which she had spelled the words
very poorly. She apologized by adding a post
script as follows:
“Yon must eskews this letter, as I pla bi noat,
but spell bl ear.”
The Road to California.—There are yet to
be completed853 iuiitw by the Union Pacific road
and 233 miles by tbe Central Pacific, making 585
miles; and as they are now building nearly 100
miles a month, it is highly probably that the entire
road wiU be completed by the 4 th of July, 1809.
The lower House of the Oregon Legislature has
adopted a memorial to Congress asking aid in
money, and the passage of a law for constructing
a branch of the Union Pacific railroad from the
vicinity ot 8ali Lake to the navigable waters of
the Colombia river, and thence to Portland, via
Paget Sound.
The missionaries of London often scatter the
“good seed” in a queer, way, A tradesman’s
card, printed under the supervision, of the tract
distributors, reads: “For Jeans only. P. Green,
OU and Italian Warehouse-man, No. 99 Old Road.
NottlngHall. Sauces, jambs, pickles, etc., etc.”
Rowland Hill rode a great deal, and by exhrclse
possessed a vigorous health, on one occasion,
when asked by a medical friend what pbyslcan and
apothecary he employed, to be always so well, he»
replied: “My physician has been my horse, and
my apothecary an ass."
A Decree was recently published in Poland order
ing all hack drives to adopt the Russian costume.
Accordingly, on tbe day fixed by >he authorities
they all changed their dress, bnt what waa their
dismay on being fined two roubles each for not
having changed their whips for tbe short handled,
stock and long leather throng used in Russia.
, The Boston Transcript has the following:—
“What makes blue silks so popnlar that it is oi- •
most always chosen by writers of fiction as the
raiment of their heroines which is to be rained by
the spilling of coffee, lemonade, preserves, ices
and the like ? Moreover, if a damsel is reduced
to poverty, the one ball-dress she has left la inevi
tably cerulean hue.”
During his Russian campaign, the First Napo
leon sent to Paris tor entertaining books. His
Secretary wrote; “The Emperor desires to have
some amusing books. It you have any good new
novels, or old ones which he "has not read, or
agreeable memoirs, yon wonld do well to send
them, as we have leisure moments difficult to
employ.”
“Charlie, I was very much , shocked to
hear you singing ‘Pop goes tlie Weazel,’ in
church.” »
“Well, mamma, I saw everybody was sing
ing—and it was the only tnne I knew,”
A young lady vocalist, of limited powers,
consoles herself with the reflection that if
she can’t sing C, she can crow K (croquet)
with ease.
Tzaohbb.—“If a man gave yon a hundred dol
lars to keep for him, and died, what wonld you
do? Would you "pray for him?” Candid pupil—-
“No, air; bnt I would pray for another like kun.”
Fat cook (with conscious blushes) to the lady
wbo wants to engage her. “As to there bein’ no
followers allowed, mom, you might recollect as
yon’ve been single yonrselt; and a girl as is ray-
ther showy in figure can’t well help ’em earnin’
about
Kate was talking glowingly about “love-app
les.” “That’s strange!” exclaimed Charlie, her
accepted lover. “Why should ‘love’ be associated
with ‘apples ?’ On the contrary. I thought love
always went in pairs.” Kate smiled approvingly.'
A Small child, being asked by a Sunday-school-
teacher, “What did the Israelites do after they hod
crossed the Red 8ea?” answered, “I don’t know*
Ma’am; but I guess they dried themselves.”
The Major says that the only man not spoiled by -
being “lionized,” was the prophet Daniel, and that
Adam was the only man that never tantalised his
wife about “the way mother used to cook."
A German in Jersey City has made four vigor
ous attempts to ran off with his wife’s sister, hot
has each time been captured and brought back by
his legitimate partner.
THk Syracuse Journal says the Democratic edi
tors of New York are a hard set. Their names are
Wood, Marble, Stone and Brick.
Thr London Punch calls a pretty waiting maid
the “back-door belle.” Bhe (or It) la also the echo
of, and answers tbe front door belle.
If a man’s wife, the mistress Of the house, is his
better half, is .the master of the honse, after all,
anything more than a quatermaster ?
A London letter carrier, with children and a
sick wife to support on nine shillings a week, stole
twelve postage stamps from • letter, and has been
sentto prison tor five years.
The ignorance ot some persons in the matter of
simple arithmetic is perfectly astonishing. We
know a man who has been engaged his whole life
time in “looking ont for number one.”
to prevent secession, and who hare never seen the dar
when they would not give their lives to preserve the
Constitution.
A young man in Paris claims to be the son of
King Louis of Barvaria and Lola Montes.
Newspapers are springing up all over Japan.
Dr. Hirsh, of Rotterdam, claims a dis
covery for making deaf mutes bear and
speak.
A Miss Tapper officiates as pastor of two
churches in Wisconsin.
A wild hog, tbe size of a cow, tbat gnaws
down trees and roots np fences, is creating a
disturbance in Mississippi.
Forty miles of board fence inclose a farm
of 13,000 acres in Illinois, which is sub-divi
ded by seventy miles of hedge.
A daughter of the novelist James has
made an unsuccessful appearance on the Aus
tralian stage.
An irritable man, having been disappointed
in his boots, threatened to chaw up the shoe
maker, but compromised by drinking a cob
bler. •
WHYwasGoliah astonished when David .
hit him with a stone' ? Because such a thing
never entered his head before. • ",
It is said that Edwin Booth recently pur
chased some “cloth of gold” for his new cos
tume in “Richelieu” at $125 a yard. <jv, - j
Ladies now ornament their note paper with
smell photographs of themselves—the fashion to
supersede monograms.
Mrs. Persimmons regards with concern tho in
crease et tbe cattle piagne, and sympathetically
wonders If her husband will escape it,
A max In Chillicothe has twenty-five living chil- . •
dreu, and another man living near there has twen
ty-three, all living. Both have bad three wires.
Brigham Youxo is reported to -be paying his ad- .
dresses to. a yonng Gentile named Aunetta luce, r
an octrees. - ". -7-. v. . ,
More stories of great gold discoveries in Mon
tana are started to secure a rash of emigrants and -
the rapid sale of claims.
What would this world be without a woman
A perfect blank—like a sheet of paper—not even .
ruled.. -rflyyN '.1
The session at the Virginia Military Institute
as opened with an increased number ol codeia. . . •
Great preparations are being made in
Wales to celebrate the majority of the Mar
quis of Bate. His iaeeme will be $1,600,600
in goldayetii - Jj;
In Maine there is s school teacher who. until a
day or two since, had sever men or heard a band '
organ. Her pupils ware given a reosos to enjoy .
the treat with her. .
A snake waa found ioeide a watenneioa iu
' T ’«mnes*ee recently. •
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