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IMF F.EFEtTION.
She eat, half shaded from the glare
vi common light—a jreaturr rare
finished with perteciion;
*r»m dark-crowned head to slender foot,
1 looked—no mortal e’er ecu Id put
vispraiae in his inspection.
The angel face that men had praised
I closer scanned, with lorgnette raised,
atudy not concealing;
She bore it with the proudest ease,
ohe felt so confident to please,
Buch beauty fine revealing.
I wondered if an inner grace
Matched all thirlovelineM ol face,
And used my mental eye-glass;
It* searching crrlal only saw
A mind so free frow rust dr flaw
That—l laid down my spy-glass.
I grew to lore her, day by day;
Sne knew it, liked It - woman's way—
Wat pleased with the newcomer |
Bhe saw another slave enroll
His heart for her serene control.
And liked mb—for a summer.
Twas a fool; I sought her heart:
The calm fare did net feign or start,
Surprise to seem to cower:
She only said, with candid speech,
fihe really had not meant to teach
Me to become hei lover.
I smiled to think that I have learned
(With lorgnette a ideally turued)
So little worth discerning;
For now I see. without my glua,
One great defect—well, let it pew,
No heart. Was she worth learning?
FOR LIFE AND LOVE.
It was in the spring time of the year,
■nd had rained almost incessantly for
two weeks. Harriet Gelderresided with
her aunt, Miss Hannah Linwood, in
Thornway, a village about eight miles
from a Northern town where Florian
Courtland held a good situation id a
bank, and Florian grew impatient sot
fair weather and a chance to visit his
peculiar beloved. There was little im
mediate prospect Sf a cessation of the
rain, and one Sunday morning the ar
dent lover resolved to set the weather at
defiance, and accordingly he sent out foi
his horse, and prepared for his stormy
ride. He came down from his room ar
rayed in a water proof coat, thick boots
and coarse gloves, a glazed hat covering
his culling, go’den hair, and a riding
whip in his hand. The parlor door stood
partly open, and as he was passing it on
lifa way through the hall, Mrs. Maurice,
the lady with whom he lodged, cams
out.
“Dear me, Mr. Courtland,” she ex
claimed, with a glance of surprise at his
rough weather dress, “it is impossible
that you are going out in this rain?”
“The lain will do me no barm; you
see I am prepared for it,* answered
Florian, smilingly.
“ But it is so unpleasant,” urged the
lady. “Where in the world can yqu
wish to go in such weather?" she added,
curiosity getting the better of polite
ness.
“To Thornway,” replied Florian,
blushing slightly.
“ What’s that, Mr. Courtland?” cal'ed
out Maurice, who was reading his morn
ing paper in the parlor.
“ He says he is going to Thornway; ac
tually to Thornway, on such a day as
this! ’ said Mrs. Maurice responding for
Florian.
“ Mr. Courtland, you are crazy!” said
the gentlemen, joining his wife at the
door. “ The roads are in a horrible con
dition, and will be worse by night.
Come, listen to reason, and stay at
home.”
But Florian refused to listen to reason,
■nd took himself Off in spite of warning
or entreaty. On an/ other errand it
would have'been an exceedingly dispirit
ing ride, and if he had been bound for
any other destination he would have
turned back; but the thpughtof meeting
Harriet spurred him forward. The way
grew worse with every mile; his honw
plodded slowly through the mud, stumbl
ing now and then in some of the many
ruts and pitfalls; the rain poured
steadily down, beating into his face and
running in streams from his cap, and he
was very thankful when at last be came
witbin the vicinity of Linwood, as the
estate of Harriet’s aunt was named
He had taken a seldom-used by-road
to shorten the distance to Linwood,
where the road was divided by a small
stream, which bounded one side of the
estate, and was crossed by fording. But
dow the long rains had swollen the
waters to a flood, and the stream lashed
into foam and tossed into billows by ita
own velocity, and rushed onward at a
rate that made the thought of fording
ita wild insanity. With a mental anath
ema against his own stupidity in not
thinking of this, Courtland turned to re
trace his way to thp main road, two
miles back, where the little river was
spanned by a bridge. Opposite him,
across the stream, he could see the gray
walls of Linwood, and in his anxiety to
to be within them the two miles seemed
like twenty.
But the bridge was reached at last and
crossed. Florian had noticed, as he
approached the bridge, that the land at
a little distance below it, which was low
and flat, was completely flooded, the
river, overflowing here, having sub
merged it to a wide extent. A point or
knoll of land, close upon the river's
bank, remained dry, forming a little
island in the midst of the whirling,
muddy flood; and upon this island stood
a small wooden house, which, as Florian
perceived with concern, was evidently
occupied, for a thin blue wreath of
emoke was ascending from the chimney.
If there were people in that dwelling,
their position was most perilous, as the
water was rising fast and threatened
soon to cover the land and sweep away
the house.
Florian turned aside from the high
way and rode down to the edge of the
flooded lowland; as he approached the
water's edge, he saw a female form ap
peal at the window of that threatened
The North Georgian.
VOL. Ill;
dwelling, and a handkerchief was waved
imploringly toward him.
Unhesitatingly he rode into the water,
whieh for some distance was not over
his horse's back but it soon drew deeper,
forcing the animal to swim. Fiorian
urged him forward, and, dntwing near
the house, the door was thrown open,
and he cried out in affrighted surprise,
for there stood Miss Linwood and Har
net Gelderl
“Harriet!” cried Florian, “foi
heaven’s sake, how came you here?”
“ We came to see a sick woman,” re
plied Harriet, with prompt coolness,
*’ and the water rose before we—”
“It is rising now, and fast,” he inter
rupted, excitedly, “ and there is no time
to waste. My horse will carry two;
which of you shall I take first?” *
“The sick woman first,” said Harriet
quietly.
Flirt, coquette, as she aud
not without cause, yet the element of
heroism was in her nature. She was as
calm and cool now as she had ever been
in her life, while her aunt stood trembl
ing with excitement. Florian trembled,
too, as he looked at the feeble old woman,
whom Miss Linwood was assisting from
her chair to the door, and whom he had
not noticed until Harriet called his at
tention to her. He trembled with the
appalling fear that there would not be
time to go and return twice, before the
swiftly rising waters should have torn
the frail structure from its foundations*,
for there was already an inch of water
upon the floor. But he only cast one
gfanceatHarriet’s calm face, and stooped
to lift the sick woman up before him.
Without a word he turned his horse
toward the shore, and the good beast,
with its double burden, struggled back
through the flood.
Harriet and her aunt waited, shiver
ing as they watched the water growing
deeper and deeper upon the floor, and
heard the waves wash with an ever
louder sound against the frail four walls
that stood between them and death.
They saw Florian reach the shore, place
the sick woman upon the ground, throw
off the heaviest of his clothing, and turn
his now unwilliag steed toward the
house again.
They were standing knee-deep in water
when he once more approached the al
ready shaking building. He did not
s]>eak a word, but looked silently from
Harriet to her aunt, his white face
growing whiter yet as Harriet said, in
steady tones, “Aunt Hannah first.”
“Harriet —” commenced Misa Lin
wood.
“Go, Aunt Hannah!”
“Harriet, I won’t!”
“You must!” said Harriet firmly.
“Harriet, Harriet! For pity sake—”
"You are delaying her, Miss Hannah,”
exclaimed Florian, hoarsely. 'Come,
she will not yield, if she dies!”
With a groan, Miss Linwood gave up,
and he lifted her upon his horse. Jhe
turbulent waters washed into the room
and Harriet staggered and clung to the
wall for support. Florian’s face was
ghastly, as he bent forward and placed
his hand upon her shoulder, whispering,
in a choked voice. “ Kiss me Harriet.”
Bhe put her arms around his neck and
kissed him —a long, passionate kiss,
which was their first, and might be their
last.
He strained her to him, saying, “ Har
riet, do you love me?”
“ Yes, Florian.”
She then leaned against the wall
again, as he went, and hid her face, try
ing to shut out the sight of thore yellow
waters, creeping up the side of the room,
higher and higher with every wave that
ro led in through the door.
As Florian reached the shore a car
riage was approaching in the distance,
rocked from side to side, with the
furious speed to which the driver was
lashing the horses.
“It is the carriage from Linwood.”
said Miss Hannah; “we have been afraid
of a freshet, and they have taken alarm
■nd come back to look for us.”
Florian did not hear her; he was urg
ing his exhausted horse into the flood
again. The poor beast trembled and
hesitated; but Florian spurred him
fiercely on, smiting him with his
clenched fist, and shouting at him in his
frantic excitement He was half mad
with agony as he look d across the
turbid waters to the half-submerged
house and saw that they had risen above
the top of its door, and Harriet had
climbed up through the loft to the roof,
where she clung in momentary peril of
death.
When the hurrying carriage reached
the spot, and Miss Linwood’s coachman
leaped to the ground, Florian was half
way back to Harriet. Mistress and man
stood with pallid faces and hearts that
hardly beat, silently watching the beau
tiful girl, as she clung to the frail sup
port, and the young man, with his white
face, and his golden hair blowing back,
as he dashed madly through the flood
to her rescue.
While they watched, a great billow
came rolling in from the river, roaring
fearfully, and tossing its yellow water,
as it dashed upon Harriet’s refuge. Mist
Linwood screamed, and her servant ut
tered a hoarse cry, for where the house
had been was a whirling Wreck of board;
and timbers, and Florian’s horse wat
struggling, riderless, toward the shore 1
But another moment and they saw
that Harriet yet clung to the floating
roof, and Florian was beside her upon it
Seizing; a long board, as the waten
whirled it within his reach, he guided
the frail raft with it toward the shore
As he neared the land, the coachman
from Linwood sprang into the water and
came to his assistance; and in a few
moments they were all standing upon the
land, a wet, dripping, but profoundly
thankful nartv.
BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA., JUNE 3. 1880.
1 hey proceeded, as fast as the carriage
could carry them, to Linwood, where
they all found plenty of employment sot
the remainder of the day in getting rid
of the effects of their perilous adventure
—so far as they could do so.
It transpired that the sick women had
not received any injury; Miss Hannah
had caught a slight cold; Harriet had
caught a severe one, and Florian had
caught—Harriet.
A Winner Who Lost.
A correspondent writing from Fol
locksville, N. C., to the Cincinnati in
quirer, under recent date, says: A novel
wedding occurred here to-day. It seems
that Moses John Miller and Alexander
Bihb, two well-to do young farmers, were
in love with the same lady, Leonora
Lloyd, a beautiful girl of this place.
She was not able to decide as to which
she liked best. Sunday morning Bibb
walked home from church with her and
left under the impression that she said
she would marry him. Last night lover
No. 2—Miller—went to see her and un
derstood her to say she would marry
him.
Both men thin ‘morning went to the
Court-house to get out a marriage
license, and there met each one armed
with the necessary documents, and each
left with a license to marry Miss Lloyd.
They met at the Court-house door, and
finally after some talk they agreed that
the first man who reached the lady’s
house should marry her. The residence
of Colonel Lloyd, the lady’s father, was
one mile distant, and both men started
on the race for the bride Bibb so-n left
the main road and darted into the woods,
expecting to make a shortcut and reach
the house before his rival, but Miller
kept the road, and got in on the home
stretch eight minutes before hfs rivaL
Both men were in sight of each other go
ing up the lane to the house, and Bibb's
efloi it to overtake his rival were almost
superhuman.
When they reached the house Bibb
from sheer exhaustion fainted in the
porch, falling almost at the feet of his
lady-love. When the matter was stated
to her, she said that she had come to the
conclusion that she liked Mr. Bibb the
best, and therefore she would marry him.
Her sympathies were won over by see
ing li m faint. She said that she be
lieved both loved her, but that he whe,
faints at the danger of losing a bride,
must love her more than he who is coo)
and unconcerned in the midst i>i it all.
The affair causes intense excitement in
this small place. To-night Bev. Aaron
Jasper, ths well known Baptist minister,
married Bibb and Miss Lloyd.
The Petroleum Fields of Russia.
The owners of American petroleum
deposits will before long, have to en
counter a considerable amount of oppo
sition in view of the discoveries of this
valuable oil on the continent, and es
pecially in Hanover and Russia. The
beds in the latter country are compara
tively boundless extending for a dis
tanceof 1,500 miles along the Caucasus
range, from the Caspian to the Black
Sea At the present time, however,
there are but two districts in this large
area where any systematic efforts are
being made to obtain the i elroleum,
one in ihe valley of the Kuban River
which flows into the Black Sea, where
two wells have been sunk by a French
company under the superintendence of
an American manager; this company has
a refinery at Tama. The other and
most productive district is near Baku on
the Caspian Sea. Many wells have been
sunk here to the depth of 300 feet, hav
ing a daily yield of 28,000 barrels of
crude petroleum. An extraordinary
amount of sand flows out with the oil,
and is heaped up near the orifice of the
wells in banks at least 30 feet high.
Large refineries exist at Baku, though
the refined oil at present introduced
there is not as good as American oil.—
Domtnuch't Evenina Litt. Loudon.
Earthquakes and Gravitation.
The Eureka (Nev.) Leader relates a
miner’s experiences, showing that earth-
Siake shocks are not felt very far below
e surface of the ground. This miner
said that on the occasion of the fast
shake at Secret Canon he was at work
in a mine on Prospect Mountain, and,
althought the tremor was plainly felt by
his partners on the surface, he, at the
depth of eighty feet, noticed nothing
unusual. He also said .that through an
experience of fifteen years underground,
he had observed, one very peculiar fact
—that between, the hours of twelve and
two o clock at night, if there was a
loose stone or bit of earth in the mine it
was sure to fall. Said he: “ About this
time it seems that everything begins to
stir, and immediately after twelve al
though the mine has been as still as the
tomb before, you will hear little par
ticles of rock and earth come tumbling
down, and if there is a caving piece of
ground in the mine it is son to give
awav.”
Stumped.
“ Sally Jones, have you done that sum
I set you?”
“ No; thjr; J can’t do it.”
“Can’t do it? I'm ashamed of you!
Why, at your age I could do any sum
that was set me. I hate that word
’can’t,’ for there is no sum that can't be
done, I tell you.”
“ I think, thir, that I know a thum
you can’t thifer out.”
“Ha! Well, Sally, let’s hear it.”
“It is thith, thir: If one apple
cauthed the ruin of the who'e human
rathe, how many thutch will it take to
make a barrel of thider, thir?”
“ Miss Sallie Jones you may return to
your parsing lesson,”
“ Yeth, thir, ’
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Frogs are shipped North from Bed
ford, Tenn.
The new court-house st Corsicana,
Tex., will cost <40,000.
/The culture of peanuts is becoming
more general in Virginia.
, The proceeds of the Frog opera in
New Orleans amounted to <1,250.
Texas 6 par cent, bonds are quoted
at 102 and are scarce in the market.
Ohly one hotel in Jacksonville, Fla.,
will remain open, during the summer.
Unmuzzled dogs on the streets of
Memphis are shot down without mercy.
Nearly 2,000 workmen areemyloyed
upon new buildings going up in At
lanta.
The summer uniform of the police
of Richmond, Va., includes white
gloves.
Il is estimated that the present rice
crop in Louisiana will be double that of
last year.
A cotton compress, costing <40,000,
will be erected at Brenham, Texas, this
summer.
Fisk University, at Nashville, hat
been presented with a bell weighing
2,000 pounds.
During this year 400,000 bushels of
corn have been shipped to Europe from
Richmond, Va.
Virginia is set down for <326,000 in
the Congressional River and Harbor Ap
propriation Bill.
A Goon quality of white porcelain
clay has been discovered in Forsyth
County, N. C.
A grand agricultural and mechani
cal fair is to be held at San Antonio,
Tex«s, next fall.
Mrs. SALLiEGray,of Meridian, Mass.,
is 117 years old and still engages in
letter-writing. ,
In Henry County, Ga., a whole drove
of hogs, while lying in a heap, were
killed by lightning.
Long staple seed cotton is so scarce in
East Florida, but one-third the usual
crop will be planted.
Nnw Orleans has shipped k France
aud Italy within a year 2,400,000 gal
lons of cotton seed oil.
An evening paper has been established,
at Lynchburg, Va., making three dailies
now published there.
The Hon. John N. Hudson, State
Senator from Americus, Ga., has been
sent to lunytic
There is « lady postmaster at Elon,
Amherst County, Virginia. Her last
predecessor was also a lady.
The Legislative Council of Memphis
.:as passed an ordinance abolishing
all hanging signs from over the side
walks.
A colored barber at Macon, Ga., was
stabbed to death with an umbrella
while engaged in a quarrel with another
man.
A Confederate Memorial Associ
ation is to be organized at Memphis to
care for the heroic dead in Elmwood
Cemetery.
The average yield of the oats crop in
the vicinity of Austin, Texas, this year
fa from eighty to one hundred bushels
per acre.
J. F. West, who killed a negro some
time ago at Barnesville, Ga., has been
refused bail and fa now in jail at
Griffin.
A farmer in Montgomery County, ‘
Tenn., drove the bugs from his tobacco
plant beds by treating them to a dose of
rotten eggs.
The water in Wolf River, so long de
tested by Memphians, has been officially
pronounced the “ third best water in the
United States.”
The planters of Alabama and North
ern Mississippi are more engrossed than
ever in the cotton crop, and are neglect
ing everything else for it.
The President of the Mississippi
B'ate Agricultural College, at Stark
ville, receives an annual salary of <2,500,
and the professors <2,000 each.
Over <400,000 has been raised in the
North for the construction of the new
Sibley mills in Augusta, Ga., and the
remaining <200,000 fa
The cotton mills at Carrollton, Miss.,
have been bought by one King, a
Georgia manufacturer, who will add 200
operative to the working force.
The credit of the State of Mississippi
is at par. Her warrants are equal to
currency and are paid on demand. Her
bonds command a -premium in the mar
ket.
There is not a single liquor saloon
in any town on the line of East Tennes
see and Georgia railroad, between Chat
tanooga and Knoxville, a distance of
112 miles.
Local option has proven a success in
Jasper County, Texas. Not a case of
drunkenness has been seen on the
NO. 22.
streets of the town of Jasper during the
present year.
The people of Charleston, 8. C., have
subscribed about CSOO for the relief of
the families of the two negroes whodied
from foul air tn cleaning out one of the
fire wells in that city.
The sculptor Clark Mills claims to he
something of a horseman, and to be pre
pared to defend bis bronze horse against
all adverse criticisms by judges of
horses in Tennessee.
brick the size of an ordinary cigar
box, made of the counterfeit nickeli srt
lected in the street-ear cash-boxes, fa >ne
o’s the curiosities which adorns the new
street-car office in Memphis.
The Sunday liquor law is being
rigidly enforced in Columbia, 8. C. One
na'n was fined <lO for delivering on
Sunday morning a bottle of liquor that
he had sold the evening before.
New Orleans has a cork manufac
tory employing fifteen men and turning
out 2,500 dozen corks per day, which
Joes not even supply the local demand.
The establishment is soon to be en
laiged.
Two South Carolinians, who have
been at law four years for the possession
of a bull, are still at it. The costs
exceed <I,OOO, exclusive of counsel fees,
and the bull is dead. It has been
stuffed, and fa to be produced in court.
Mrs. Rogers and one of her daugh
ters, of Buncombe, N. C., made by their
own labor, during last season, from two
and a half acres of land, <684 worth >1
tobacco. This amount was realized
after paying a rent of one-third of the
crop.
The man at Luray, Va., who has
kissed nobody during his entire man
hood has conscientious scruples in ihe
matter. He became convinced in hi
youth that kissing was wicked because
Christ was betrayed by ». kiss.
At a business meeting held last Sun
day in the First African Baptist Church
of Richmond, Va., attended by 2,560
people, the confusion being so great
that the Mayor sent a large detachment
of police into the building to preserve
order.
Clark Mills, the eculptor, fa seventy
years old. Until his fortieth year he
was a plasterer, and never had any idea
of becoming a sculptor. At the time he
undertook his first equestrian statue of
Jackson, he had never seen the General
nor an equestrian statue.
It is stated that a Mr. Willis, now
living in Bradford County, Ga., fa 106
years old. He fa able to walk to town,
some six miles, and also able to support
himself by his own labor. He has 135
descendants in Georgia and thirty-two
in Florida.
In Middle Tennessee a drunkard fled
to the woods while wild with delirium
tiemens, dug a grave and was found >n
it dead. His wife was rendered fiantic
by the sight, and prayed that she m’ght
die, too, when she was struck by light
ning and killed.
Richmond has a University Club,
composed of graduates of that institu
tion, who are trying to aid in the raising
of funds to make available the fine tele
scope, said tc be the best in America,
presented to their Alma Mater by Mr.
McCormick, of Chicago.
The last grand jury of Telfair County,
Ga., recommended that their next Rep
resentative and Senator use their influ
ence securing the passage es a bill by
the Legislature fixing the liquor license
in that county at <5,000 a year.
The Young Men’s Library Associa
tion of Atlanta, Ga., received from all
sources during the year ended, <6,842.-
77. The increase in the number of
volumes during the year was 1,035. Miss
Emma Abbott is a paid-up life member
of the association.
Fannie Hunter and Macha Thomp
son, colored, who were convicted of
burglary and sentenced to the peniten*
tiary for life at Anderson, 8. C., in the
fall of 1878, have been pardoned by the
Governor upon the recommendation of
the Judge and a numerously-signed pe
tition.
Miss Baeah Martin, a Cherokee
gill, wrote a letter to the Evangelfat, E.
L. Moody The letter w«s shown to a
wealthy friend of Mr. Moody, who was
so well pleased with it that he placed
<I,OOO at the disposal of Mr. Moody for
the continuation of Mies Martin’s edu
cation.
The Jolly murder is still the absorb
ing topic of Interest at Decatur, >fa.
The general opinion in ’hat section fa
that Weaver was also conrerned in the
murder of Victoria Norris, and it fa
probable that he will be indicted by
the next grand jury.
The Bt. Lawrence Presbytery, in
connection with the Southern Presby
terian Church of Texas, has passed
resolutions condemning the use of
tobacco by ministers, and directing ths
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Committee on Education hot to recom
mend any candidate for help in his
education who uses it.
At Newbern, N. C., J. L. Rheen
planted a crop of peas on t he Ist of Feb
ruary and finished product
On the 20th of April. He then cut the
vines from forty-five ■ acres, and cured
them for forage, and on the evening of
April, 80 had the ground planted in
cotton. Rmisi
The principal plank in. the platform
of the Rev. Jefferson ..Washington, col
ored, independent candidate for Con
gress in Hie Fifth Georgia District, is
thus stated by him: “ I am opposed to
having our children gobbled up by these
medicated
stop it.”
At Argents (< Ark.,an immense cotton
seed oil mill is to be erected immedi
ately by Memphis and Little Rock capi
talists. They will also erect a powerful
cotton compress, the press costing <30,-
000, and having a pressure of twenty
five hundred tons to the inch—capable
of reducing a bale of cotton to six and
a half inches.
A gentleman passing a colored
school at Toccoa, Ga., saw a number of
little chaps playing in the bushes—as if
thev were hunting for some one, using
sticks for guns, when he casually asked
them what they were doing, and re
ceived the reply: “We fa playin’rev’-
nue men hunting for licker.”
The evangelists Moody and Sankey
passed through Indian Territory last
week, and while at Muscogee in the
Creek nation, Mr. Moody arranged to
receive ten Indian girls from that na
tion, for whom he will provide free
-ducation at the Young Ladies’ Semi
nary established by him at Northfield,
Mass.
The colored Republicans of Missis
sippi demand that Blanche K. Bruce,
now a United States Senator from that
State, shall have the second place on the
Grant ticket. Bruce is a colored man
of limited a native of Vir
ginia, and a Mississippi planter since
the war His term of service as Senator
will expire next March.
A newspaper In Georgiff says that if
the farmers of that State would devote
less of their energies to the raising of
cotton and give more attention to the
cultivation of sugar-cane, rice, arrow
root, the tea plant, wine-growing, and
the production of early fruits, vegeta
bles and melons for the Northern mar
ket, they would be nttich more inde
pendent and happy-.
A force of men stationed by the
United States Bureau of Internal Rev
enue in Fanni, Union, Towns and Rabun
Counties, Ga., to break up the illicit
distilleries in those counties and to
bring the offenders to trial, is being paid
<5,000 a month. These men look upon
their occupation as a “ fat job,” and
will hardly apply for a discharge until
the appropriation runs out.
At the office of the Commissioner of
Immigration for Florida, were received
on Saturday two letters which were
somewhat unique as to the requests con
tained in them. One was from a Greek
firm iu London, which wanted a cargo
of orange-wood sticks, and the other
from a gentleman in Kentucky who
wished a water monkey forwarded to
him.
The season for elopements has begun
in Virginia. In that State such events
are much more likely to occur during
the cheap excursions in summer to
Washington City and the North. In
deed, Washington is regarded as a sort
of national Gretna Green. In many of
these cases no cruel parents interpose
any objections to the match, but the
hypothetical elopement was adopted
with a view of economy. It saved a
wedding outfit and entertaiments that
usually follow marriages.
The Richmond (Va.) State attributes
the failure of foreign immigrants to
settle in the South to the presence of
the negro as an important element of
the population.of th it section. On the
other hand the Richmond Whig says:
“Prujudice against the negro is indige
nous only to the soil they inhabit, and
it is especially noticeable that the im
migrant class of foreigners when they
first come amoug us know little or noth
ing of such distinctions until they have
imbibed it from accocfation with our
selves. ’
It fa likely that ■ Congressional Com
mittee will be appointed to visit North
ern Georgia and North Carolina this
summer tpmake a, thorough investiga
tion of the charges that have recently
been made, in regard Jo the lawless, re
bellions, cut-throat“ moonshine” popu
lation i-aid to exist in that section.
These charges are now believed by the
Commissioners of Internal Revenue to
be false to a great extent, and to be
slanders upon a people that are in the
ip>jn peaceable and law-abiding.
GFIA