The Athens banner. (Athens, Ga.) 1880-1881, November 09, 1880, Image 1
BLOVfN DEXTU OK A - IjTlRiflJ OGLETHORPE l!#-* AND HIS 8TB*N*£W1 tit confessed tho conlralsai murder several years before. «&f J. T. ■Wjft.YJDItMAlSr, ; • PROPRIETOR. _X- ■■■!.— _ -BL-B WHAT THE ALLIANCE AC- r COMPLIED. The Presbyterian*-have r-iijoyed _ season of fellowship at the Pan-Pres* byterian meeting in Philadelphia, which has been, no doubt, Both jfeis- ant gud profitable. To the .foreign guesTO has been a delightlul jaunt,' minded witlt jexperiences which are -., for different from thoao of onliuarj ' travel and; pleasure seeking. Thi combination of pleasure aiid duty ha& beeu exceedingly felicitous. The faW that the delegates did not come liter* ally from all the countries of the earth makes little difference, nor is it. a pat* ter lor lamentation that comparatively few was present from the most die* tant lands. All the great can lots of Presbyterian influence were well rep resented. Regrets have been uttered in some quarters that the Council did not outs authoritative declaration .ns to ninny points of faith and doctrine and also that it leit updone many things which it might have done. It is easy to find mull.*' M$y ; wyild have been glad too see 'several -things somewhat differ! nt- Especially would it hav# 'delighted the great body ol ■- lVeabyLemieihod there been,; a "real communion. But had the delegates been officially called ip abodyto gath er at the. Lord 5 * Tame there would have been uxcuse lor discord to come, also and exhibit her unwelcome countenance. When brother^ who tiavo long been estrange 1 sncceed in rising superior to the circumstances which have kept them apart it is a great thing for them to get together at all. Under the rest aiuis which are una* voidable many thing may have to be omitted. The Scotch brethren love their somewhat rugged ‘•Psalms of David,” as they insist on calling them, as il I)avi<l had wrilteu each one of them and turned il into the uncouth metre so highly prized. So essential do they consider their version of the Psalms to propriety in public work- ship, that they refuse to sing any olhers or to sit at the Lord’s Table with those who do. The hvinnology of the Council had to he toned down to meet the views of those good brethren, and that was what make it so lacking in the graces of Christian song. We should have been glad if some gilted reader of an essay or some prince ol debaters could have explained why it is that the IVesbvterian Church in ti is country, both North and Mouth, has lor five years suffered a steady falling oft in ibe annual harvest, of new converts. Il would have boen highly desirable if some authentic statement could have been put out regarding predes lination and election and everlasting punishment. There, are thousands isfMi. i v uhivatstrf of* Georgia library 70 r T :rnx/j!0 TTO^rrfTTI “ WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION.’ [Hvi J ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 0, 1SS0. Number 1. The folio ving graph, a few months in the New York Tribune: . j>r. Olivprjluff, of San Francisco, who diedf recently, directed in his wifl that a monument, not to exceed $1,- COQ in cyst, ahouli giiv^.a'nd - wlncht Im *"wi ._ friends, to pass resolutions of--condo' cnee over his decease, o>- to conununi- cate the fact to his friends in the East. It is only in Oglethorpe county, Georgia, where the history and ante' cedents of Dr. lluff are known, that the motives which prompted . this singular documei t, can be explained Dr. Oliver Huff was the illegiti mate son of Col. Richard Ilufl", once a wealthy land and slave owner in Goose Pond district, who created quite a sensation befoie the war by liberating 100 slaves and establishing them in Liberia. In this band of colouisls was a mulatto woman who claimed to be the mother of Dr. Huffi But between her and the al leged son no friendship had existed for years. He always appeared to avoid the mulatto mistress of his lather, and was encouraged in this by his sire. Young Huff grew up into a bright, bai dsome lad, and was sent by Col. Hull’ to the first schools in the New England Stales. During vacations he visitod borne, but here his society was marked. The whites looked upon him Us tainted with negro blood, while from his bearing he scorned the suspicion. , Huff graduated with distinction, and having expressed -a desire to stsuly medicine nis father s -nt lum to France, from which country he re turned with the highest diploma. He located on the plantation of his father; but his old troubles began again. The whiles in the neighbor hood had not forgotten the suspicious ol people looking at the Presbyterian ; c j rcu , n stnnces surrounding thu young Church, and thinking they would . birth, and ho was placed un like to belong to its membership. But j er t [, 0 ), aIi 0 | society. Dr. Huff was they want to know whether they must p r0U( ] 3 nd ambitious, and soon seem- nceepi in all their rigidity the doctrine | to avoid a.-socintion. At length of Calvin and his fellow-reformers, llie w i,; te8 began to discover that or whether they may adopt the | t | ierc wag nol t he faintest resom- milder views held by such as the | i,l. lnce to thc negro race in Dr. Huff, and the report got in circulation that his mother was a Caucasian,, and that the mulatto woman had been paid U> claim and rear /he in^vnt, as hot son. ’ ' . After this the barrier of society be gan to give way. A few whites rec ognized Dr, Huff and employed him in their families, but in a condescend ing way that chafed his proud spirit, Oiheia spoke of him as the “nigger doctor.’’ . Ho w as once engaged to one of the first young ladies in South Carolina, but the report of liis birth reaching her lumiljji. ears, the maich was brok* i-noff. -s-" v- tTlie banning of;the late war found Onl. Huff dead, wiiotofl his. illegiti male son a fine property,.to revert to him at the dclith of tiie lawful heirs. About this time Dr. Huff quitted the opimtry, K tting uo one know bis destination. ’But sonte of the soldiers from this county taw him during the war as surgeon in a Confederate regi ment. His men were devoted to him, and our boys did not expose his his tory After the war Dr. Huff was lost sight of, but about five years ago a rumor reached this county that be was seen-iu Sau Francisco,. Cab, was doing a fine pracrice and-had accumu lated quite a fortune. Our people rMpectctHhi' motives that occasioned- his exile, andbno effort was niudelo communicate- noth ox expose. him Tie next we hear from him is the ifevfs ol bis Iieath, oircul^tyd .through Cumberland Presbyterians. It would have been interesting to mnny had the Council set forth 'by authority’ the particular sections dropped by the Cumbei-lauds from the Confession of Faith. But it would be easy to suggest fifty tilings which might have been other wise. Ntvcr was there anything exactly as .t mi -lit Pave been. Never was tin re mylbuig which might not in some way . r miior have been im proved. Take il all in all this Couu- cil was a grand gathering.' The gentlemen who composed it met as Iri-'nds ami brethren. If there were any points i e oioli they were not exactly agreed, they agreed to say "wry "le about them. 1'fii- - than if they had scratci d and narlod at each other an * torn eac * other’s ecclesiastical hair. Twenty years ago such a Coun cil would i. '. been impossible. This Council Ins iaa<le warm friendships aim ng people who never beloro had met. It opened the doors of a gener ous hospitality. It was a season of rich enjoyment, ot genial fellowship and its memory will long lie bright in the hearts ol all who took part in it. irOJLUV AND WINE. neida Community, in the xewiYork is doomed. With- itself ar£*n*»elerada*te«f its own troctidu. It bad some good fea-r and some very bad ones. The r ones vyeje temperance, industry, nanctal -recitiide and the personal leanh'ness Which MMgq94.&ga]l& The principal had feature was the ins farnmts relation • between the sexes, ci- bis which set at defiance the laws of de- ~ Upf. ^ent soriety, in regard ^to matrimony, kingdom of heaven had been ushered' in and that there ought to be no mar rying or givipg iu marriage. They re garded as the consummation of all selfishness for one man to be married to one women.. -So they married all the men in theircomraimity in * lump to al! tie woman therein, and arrange ed by lot or otherwise who should temporarily be companions for each other. This seems a revolting way to live, but these people got used to it. Each man loved all the women equal ly, and each women equally loved all the men. Outsiders supposed there would be individual affinities and pre ferences, but thc Community people dented that such was the case. The plaoe where they live is a beautifully situated property about four miles from Oneida, New York. It is laid out in magnificent style and is adorned with ample buildings for d wettings and for the various branches of industry which are carried on. The people of Oneida have made little or uo com plaint about them, lor they circulate a good deal of money in town and em- >loy many people as factory hands. 3ut the clergy ol that section of the State have for some lime been most vigorously stirring them up. The pressure exerted On them from Out side was so great that a few- mouths ago they agreed to give up their sy«~ term of what they call “complex mar riage’’ and enter on a state of simple matrimony, like dec nl people. This destoryed the great speciality of their life. Some of these men and women found their affinities and committed matrimony. Some are old and ugly, and nobody knows what they did or how they got along.’ But this giving in marriage crippled the Community to such an extent as to break up its original character. The concern is now to be made into a joint stock company. Heretofore all the proper ty has been belt by lour trustees for the benefit ot ajj. the members in com mon. Now the strongest and smarts est will lake the lead and the weak and inferior will bring'' up the* rear. The latterjwill gradually drop out and a few of the leaders will gobble tne whole organization. As the social features ot tl.e Community are some what wot>e than those ol'the Mormons, uobody ueed regret the change which is uow taken place. Little Book Gazette. ' An accident happened to a named Jack Welch on Friday ni] and the particular^ are so marve that, were it not for the reputation- for veracity and reliability which has always distinguished Mr. Welch, skep tical people ^ would be disinclined rt> expreeaa hearty belief in the story. Daring the wind storm, when the wind was playfully slamming doocjj. tbreakmg- windowsr roHingf^bariers’ through the streets find, chuckling at the vexation it caused, Mr. Wt-loh was driving across the -Baring Cross bridge in a wagon. The roadway across the top of the bridge is open and exposed to the weather. A railing about six feet high runs cn each side the whole length of the bridge. Welch was driving toward the south side of the bridge, and accomplished two- thirds of the distance, which brought him on thu draw. Just as lie reaohed this point the wind came with tremen dous force from the west, whistling like a caliope. Sweeping down the nar row passage way on which the wagon stood, it knocked the horses down, ujwet the wagon and blew Welch off the bridge into the river. The top of the bridge is sixty feet from the wa fer, and, whirlimr. sprawling tumbling over and over, Welch finally reached the river feet first. The water closed over his head and he went clear to tlie bottom. After a prolonged subs mersion, he rose cIostTto the "pier upon which the centre ot the draw rusts He held to the smooth iron surface of the pier as well as he could, but realizing that this supjtort was some what insecure, inasmuch as he could not hold on at all, he struuk out lot shore. Half drowned and nearly dead irom his fearful fall, Welch final ly reached the shore, and crawling out on the bank, lay there un.il he had recovered^ small amount of breath which the freakish air had -caused him to lose. His horses were stopped at the gate of the bridge. Welch made his way home and yesterday seemed none the worse from liis ac cident. The particulars of this marvelous story are told by Welch himself, as no one else saw the ac cident. DRIFTWOOD. It transpired in a Keokuk lawsuit that the defendant bad sent his wife to the poorhouse and married his father’s divorced wife. • The sale of ‘gold’ bricks, made principally of brass, is brisk in the West. One corner is pure gold and from that is clipped the sample to be assayed. .Tom Betts, on bejng arrested for killing Judge Moore, in Georgia, ~ edbimsell innocent of that crime DILL ART ON a HOME!' There is a power of comfort clus tering around home. When I say ‘ home’ I mean more than I can ex press in language. Some folks have got a house and lot or a place where they stay aod eat - and sleep, but it ain’t everybody has got a home. I wish from my heart they did have, for, after ;aU, these tender attach ments that dwell unseen around the domestic hearth make np the best and happiest part of life. We don’t know how dear they are until we go off. and N1GIIT LIFE OF YOUNG MEN. A writer in Scribners Monthly uses tlio followiug strong language, which will lie responded' to by the women who have suffered all over the land. “Ol the worst foes that women havo ever had to encounter, wiue stands at the head. The appetite lor strong drink in men has spoiled the lives of more women—ruined more hopes lor them,scattered more lortunes for them, brought to them more shame, sorrow and hardship—than any other evil that lives. The coun try numbers tens of thousands—nay, hundreds of thousands of women who are widows to-day, and sit in hope less weeds, because their husliands have been slain by strong drink.’’ Yes, says the Agricultural world, there are hundreds ot thousands of homes scattered all over the land, in winch women five lives of torture, go ing through all the changes of suffer ing that lie between tlm. ex term vs ti fear and desj air, because those whom theyilovtv love wine ItsCtoXAhanTlhcy do the women they have sworn to love. There ate women by the thou- saids who dread to hear at the door the step that once thrilled them with pleasure ; that 6tep bus learned to reel under the influence of the seductive poison. There are women groaning with pain, while we write these words, from bruises and brutalities inflicted by husbands made mad by drink. There can be no exaggeration in .any statement made in regard »o this mat ter, because no human imagination can create anything worse thaD truth, and no pen is capapablc ot portray ing the uuth. Tho torrow of a wife with a drunken husband, or a moth with a drunken son, areas near thi naiizalit a ol hell as can be reached iu this world at least. The shame, the indication, the sorrow, the sense of disgiacc for hiiusdt and children, the jioveity—and not unfrrquenlly the beggary—the tear and the fact ol violence, t he lingering life long strug • gle aod despair of sewutjes* womeu with drunk, u husbands, -are enough to make sll women curse wine, and engage unitedly to oppose it every where as the worst enemy of thsir sex. hjsj strar^e f \vi)li {Tlte tcr^ clause tlau was' aimed to preserve liis history caused curosity to be aroused and an erpone made. . . Dr. Huff had never married While he was recognized as white man in the Golden State,i'e always had the air of a hunted man. His life bad been an, unenviable one, and he doubt* less !ib/taie<l tp entail tlm curst^ cl suspicion that had followed him upon innocent heirs. Hip, dcjyise . was mourned ui>oat&^injftia w Bl2P®- A good man was gone. But the antecedents of this man have at last been cleared. It is said that his mother is a white woman and One night iifteit destroys a whole life. The leakage of the night keeps the day forever empty. Night is sin’s harvesting time. More siri and crime is committed in one night thtin in all the days of the week, This is more emphatically true of the city, than ot the country. The street lamps, like a tile of soldiers, with torch in hand, stretch away in loug lines on either sidewalk; the gay colored transpar encies are ablaze with attractions, the saloon and billiard balls are brilliant ly illumiuated; music sends forth its enchantment; .the gay company begin to gather to the haunts aud bouses of pleasure ; Jbe. iWmMin* deus .are aflame with palatial splendor; the {theatres arc vn«fc* openthe mills of destruction fife' grinding health, honor, happiness sod hope opt of thousand*' ofi litres, The city fmder gaslight is not ttlfe same ;as under God’s sunlight. ‘ Thehlluremenis and perils and pitfalls are a hundred told deeper and daifcer and more destruc tive. Night life in our cities is a dark problem^ whose depth aod-abysses anil wliirlpoola' raffke' us start back with horror. All mght 'ong tears are < ’fk)lidgi bloodls streaming. / l ‘Young men, telhme how and where you spend your evenings, aud I will Write Out tht*Whact; of your character -and ffitiF'dedl!ny, v wrilh"-blanks to in sert your uatnes. Il seems to me an appropriate text would be “ Watch- wliat of the night?” Police- A PATUEIC HISTORY. Oue of the most interesting and pa- theic of volumes could be prepared front the newspaper report of colliery explosions iu England, The.searchers in the 8oab>roeoiflifTy aft dc. thnj^oeat terrible disaster came uj>ou several af fecting memorials of the doomed men shut Up" in thfe fiery trine. On an Old’ ventilation was chalked: “All alive at three o’, lock. Lord have mercy upon ns. T< -ether prays ins tor help.—Robert Jo mson.” Tn another part are written ‘with chalk on a plank the words, in a bold, clear hand: t “The Lord has been with us. We are all ready for heaven.—llicliard Cole. Ilalf-past two.’’ Auother poor fellow, Michael Smith, liad scratched with s nailt upon- bis water bottle the following message to his wile: “Dear Margret—There were forty of us altogether at, 7 a. pj. Some wore singing b>pj»s. but my thoughts Were on' my' little Michael. I thought that him and I would meet in heaven at the same time. Oh ! dear wife, God save you and the children, and pray for myself. Dear wife, farewelj | My last thoughts are about you and the children. Be sure and learn the cbildreu to pray for me. Oh ! what a terrible position wo are in.” “Little Michael” was the child he had left at home ill. It died on the day of the explosion.—New York World. Louis Hohenschild frequently had epileptic fits in the night, and, as a precaution against Billing out of bed, tied himself fast. One morning he was found choked to death by the rope. The Charivari, to illustrate the na ture of the odors ot late prevalent in Paris, represents a country gentleman inhaling the emanations of a manure heap. ‘ What on earth are you about, papa ?’ asks his sotf. 'Training for a visit to Paris, my dear boy.’ In Russia, all the sons and daugh ters of princes inherit their title. They are, consequently, as plentiful as sparrows. It is said that there is a village where every iu habitant is a Princess or Princess Gallitzen. The title of Prince in Russia is about equivalent to that of Esquire in Eng land. . . r t . President Eliot has sent to the pa rents of Harvard undergraduates an inquiry whether their sous have been accustomed to attend prayers at home, and requesting opinion on compulsory attendance in the dispel. This is a possible preliminary to making religi ous worship voluntary at Harvard. A society of Mormon girls, having for its object the securing of mono- gamic husbands, lias been discovered and broken up at Salt Lake. The members took a vow to marry no man who would not pledge himself to be content with one wife. Five grand daughters of Brigham Yottng had joined il. Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, wish ed to teBi a certain railroad brake. He bad one adjusted to a car, aud started off for a trial trip. The engineer soon saw wliat seemed to be a big rock qo the track ahead, and applied, the brake, stoppiug the train within a few feet of the obstacle, which proved to be of pasteboard ’•The Londdtt Telegraph says that in consequence of the advance in value of many securities held by the Glas gow Bank, the liquidation is likely to show much b.-tter results than were at one time anticipated, and those shareholders who have met their calls in lull will be handsomely remuner ated. HEREDITARY CRIME. A FAMILY OF SEVEN PERSONS OF WHOM SIX WERE INMATES OF PRIS ONS.; The death ot James Flaherty, a eouvict in Clinton prison, by violence at the hands of his keepers, which was described by Quimbo Appo, Jr., upon bis discharge from that. institution, recalls a family history that illustrates the theory that crime is hereditary The Flaherty family consisted of lath. COST OF PICKING COTTON. man, Virginia. She was a uear relative to « - - - - Col. Huff, and while on a virit to him in this county an unnatural intimacy existed between them, which re-ulietl inthe^rt^j[-^:ihU^i»DS: Ohveriiunr~ Fv llwleinfe *8DSni© t>i the girl, a mulatto woman was hived to claim it as her oftsspring. . There are over 1,000 acres ol fine land in this county, the titles to wbicli are vested in the hero ot this sketch. As there are doubts about- liismolbeL, and he leaving, no heirs, il is claimed that this prop*iffy will nveitXo the State. , We give the story as related to us. — Ojjlethoipe Echo. ily named Bausom. They w»:re apt- very pious people, and neijr vefitJO church. Once, however, during a revival, the family were prevailed upon to attend preaching-^ Wheu they made their reluctant and tardy ’ ' had * There is a cave in Tennessee two miies in length ; but this does not compare with the cave of gloom into which tho Democracy Is thrown. the city doing at night l W here do they spend their evenings? Who are their associates ? What are their f-Where do-they^- «* and t jjme do. yon.see.them come out? Policemen, would the night life of young men commend them to the coofid¬f -of their employers ? Would it be to their credit? - Make a record ;of the nights of one wOek. ; Put in thennoming paper the names of all the young men, their habits and hatiuts, that are on the street’for miiful pleasure,'would there not lie shame and contusion ? Some would not dare to go* to their friaces of business: some would return Rome at night; some Wpdld-laavj dome would cortmft -ebi "Si member, young men, that iu the retina of the all seeing Eye there is nothing hid* but Shall be revealed on the last day.—Baptist Weekly. Learn a Trade.—One man with a trade is worth a thousand without one. Tfieihoets cfyohng men in teyary large city who apply ^or" employs inept antjl fail to gel it for the .reason ttet^lhey ctpnbt truthfully; affirm that they are educated or especially fitted for any particular business, cou- stitute & potent argument in favor of o , reform. Uuder the apprentice sys» and gils, wp|llriO>.omA '|«rt.4ilqug)f,i jt^ld,>we should have few ignorant aud everybody in 1^6 old church knows machanics and incompetent busmen we didn’t vMtMMdat.' Slfl .Mb f«Ttne in itself. the first hymn, reading it sorae- ivlyfc’; ‘Itejtuiu,: yjs* i f fansoffi- sinners, home.’ ‘AH right! cried tho head of toe Ransoms, get- Icing op in a rage, and dapping his hat his head. ‘Come along, old woman AFFAIRS IN IRELAND. The iWorld correspondent ih\ Lorn don gives dH almhniHg report from Ire land in the following dispatch : London, October 30.—The states incut published in . your .columns on VX$3hjsdst£!dj[ this weak to.tlJrjjBlIeA that an appeaT for"afJTor'The 'agita tors in Ireland had heen formally made in America by Mr. Michael Das vitt has been telegraphed to this side ot the water and has produced a dee] sedsatiou Both hefe and'ln Ireland ThVleadifig-figitators intheSisteHs* having been making; secret promises to their followers that whenever aid was needed it would be forthcoming from the United States, but the^doett ment published by the World is re garded as the first actual evidence that has been offurd sis to the Irish in America “meaning business.”' The most exaggerated rumors, are circula ted in the wests of Irelaud—a district that has often expected to see and has at times actually seen a foreign ally arrive to aid in a struggle with the British power—to the effect that an auxiliary army from America is even now on its way, and there is conse quently an Increasing disposition to defy tlfe TOterninenl'andTo incur (he terrible chances of a civil war. The universal cry is, “The Americans will see us through,” and the masses are encouraged iu this belief by the agents of the agitation, who Ijelieve it better, even wiser, as a mhlter of temporary policy, to take the risk of blemished rather than see the whole movement perhaps collapse ignominiously. secret preparations fob REBEL- • LION. Nightly drilling goes on secretly with greater activity than ever, and there is really jin immense store of arms of all- sorts 'iiow hidden in all parts of Ireland.. With any active help from an American organization, a revolution might be made to t break out any moment. The New York Cotton tells us in its last issue: Some of the Southern papers have expressed surprise at the estimate made by a correspondent ot Brad- street’s, that it cosis 840,000,000 to pick the cotton crop; but, as that.es timate is made ou the basis of 50 cents per 100 pounds for picking, and aa fully 30 centals the prevailing rate in Texas, while as high as (1.25 has been paid this year, it is probable that 850,000,000 would better represent the cost of picking out the cotton crop of the United States. Of this amount probably $30,000,000 is paid to col ored men. i I . Perhaps, says the Columbia Regis ter, those who hold, the above esti mate too high do not compare the figures with ibeoost of picking a good deal of cotton gathered by hands reg ularly employed for certain wages. At 810. per month and ' feed, this, all told, would perhaps not exceed 813, which amounts to 46.4 cents per day. The usual limit of a hand’s picking is ten bales of 500 pounds. This calls for an average picking! per day—from the I5th ot August to tho 15th ot No vember inclusive—or not less .than 150 pounds, which, at above wages, would cost a little over 30 dents hundred. But as this is almost, if not quite, double the average of produc tion per hand in the country, and the picking begins before and ends after the above period, at' lower rtltes ’of gathering; the cost of picking’ cotton per hundred with wages hands cannot fall shoit of 65 cents f and special lat bor under the pressure of a full bio# is, of course, paid mote. It is not far from the t>nth, then, all around, to put the cost of picking at 70 cents a hundred,’which, on a crop of 85,500,000 bales of 400 pounds each, amounting to 8,500.000,000 pounds of seed cotton, calls for 859,- 590,000. In round numbers it must cost $60,000,000 to pick this crop: We believe, from a close estimate of 1 the same, that 1 nt least four-fifths of' this money " is paid to colored pickers, which is $40,060,000 a year paid to colored men, women and youths to gather the cotton crop. we begin to feel the pressure of the cords that bind us, and the lunger we stay auay the harder they pull, draw ing us tenderly and lovingly to the dearest spot on earth— the only place where we can find rest and peace and happiness-without alloy. I stepped in on the family last night ahead ot time. There’s nothing sweeter than a pleasant surprise. I love to tip-toe up the steps and peep in at the win dow while the lamp is brightly burn ing and the fire is glowing cheerfully iu the hearth and the good mother and bairns are silting around, and perhaps are thinking and talking of me. It increases my love and magni fies my consequence, aod my heart beats quick and warm as I gently open the door and poke the top of my rev erend head within the family room. With what pare delight the children scream and run and gather mo in their embracing arms. I like that, and it ever I have got to die unawares from violence I would rather have the breath choked out of me with love than any other way. ‘ Where is the queen,’ said I—‘ the silver moon, the bright, particular star— children, wheie is your mother?’ They pointed to the kitchen, where I found her cooking supper. Her hands were in the dough, but calmly and with a face all serene she presented herself tor the accustomed salute, as she remarked, ‘I knew you would come to-night, for you most always slip in ahead of time, aod besides, ray nose has been itching all .the after noon, and eo I told the girls I would get Bupper, and in a little while I will' have tlie wild ducks done aud the squirrel too, and hope you will eujoy them.’ Blessed woman! She knew by insti’ict I was a coming, and wouldn’t tell it, but slipped off by heiself to get an extra supper. It erer I caught her napping I don’t know it. It’s good to g° aw ay from home .sometimes, fur it .quickens love and'renews our appreciation, and it’s good to come back again and rejoice with the happy family and see tlie lit tle change- that time has wrought. The killin' hogs have grown big and fat. Buss has had a calf. The bob tail pup has got to barking. The cut'on has been over tho seeoml time, and the wheat land-is all well turned and waiting for a frost. The boys are laying up a good supply of wood, tor Judge Underwood has been over to see tne, and says its sure to be- a very hard winter, y C|t Sethis ^iamter. J. T. WATB3K.3WtA.3ST, PROPRIETOR. The World’s Largest Bridges, 'haiinml^tec i .. , . jMffCi torious thief in the Fourth War; served several terms io the pe'mtei for various offenses. In 1974 be was shot dead while engaged in a robbery on Long Island. The mother is an habitual drunkard, and spends most of her time on Blackwell’s Island. She has been in the penitentiary. The oldest son, Thomas, was a thief from childhood. He began his career with Abe Coakley, now in thc Tombs for complicity in the Manhattan Bank burglary. Martin Broderick Molntz and other noted criminals. Thier chief occupation was stealing cotton during the war, when tnat staple brought enormous prices. Alter serv ing several terms in the penitentiary, Thomas was arrested in 1875 for pick ing pockets and sentenced to Sing Sing. lie escaped, but was re-cap tured, he being re-arrested tor the same crime about a year after his escape. He was convicted and sen tenced again, but escaped while on his way to Sing Sing. Deputy Sheriffs Burrus and Mulhollard had him in charge when he jumped through a ear window. It is believed that be is now in Canada. Jiin, the second son, was sent to Clinton prison for three years for picking pockets. IIe was taken sick with cancer of the stomach, became refractory and was placed in a dark cell. His sufferings became so iutense that be cried all night. The keepers attempted to correct him, and in the struggle tint ensued it is alleged that he was strangled to death. : - 1 ’ Patrick, Jr., the youngest, son, is now serving put a five years’ sentence tor burglary in the fivst degree. While attempting to rob a house in Roosevelt street about six months ago he was caught in the act' by. detective Carr of tile Oak street police. He, pleaded guilty. The elder daughter is an habitue of vile resorts and has served one term in the penitentiary for stealing a diamond pin from- a conspicuous sporting man The moth er and daughter were in the peniten tiary at the same time. The younger daughter is an exception to the rest of thu family, she being a respectable woman.—Ex. NINETY MILES AN HOUR. ugut pf tlie towers for «e sugportjs uy^orth .Bridge haserte ated some surprise, and no wonder, when It is taken into account tlmt when com pleted they will bo the highest buildings df any kind in the world. Science will, ’••le^efofo, Wait with some anxiety their completion. The height of the towers on the Island of Inch Garvie, midway between South and North Queensferry, will te 560 feet, to support a bridge 180 fectAMVeiiigh-water mark, but the rea son for this great altitude is that in thc generality of suspension bridges the tow ers are built on land on either side of the span, and were this thc case in the Forth Bridge towers of 150 feet less height, or 430 foot, would be sufficient; but this is impossible, from, the great length of the bridge.’ .It serins fhSt by natural laws there is a limit to everything on this earth—Unit is, that man can go a certain length and no further, as, for instance, in telescopes nothing larger than Lord Russ’ having been perfected for many years. In ref- ence to buildings, . a correspondent quoted St. Jtollox Stalk 430 feet high. St. Paul’s Cathedral is about 4C0 feet to the top of the daiae, St Peter’s at Rome 480 feet, the Pyramids of Egypt at least the great pyramid, is 180 feet at present in ita imperfect state, liut by calculation would reach 600 feet in height when finished. When it !ia re membered that this structure only difficult! Towers ,to These towek ’Sre to be formed of solid masonry to a certain height, and then by groupa of iron pillars girded together in layers upward. The Niagara Suspension Bridge has one large span of. 821 feet; the railway track above the water is 245 feet, or 9*5 feet higher than the Forth Bridge; the towers are only sixty feet high, being built on either side of the shore. The Alleghany Bridge has two large spans of 344 feet each, and the towers are 45 feet high. The Covington and Cincinnati Bridge has a span of 1,057 feet ; its br ight almvo low water is 103 feet, and the towers 230 feet high. The bridge seems to give the best proportion to the Forth Bridge, which is 1,680 feet for two spans, 150 feet high, and towers of M0 feet. Those we have mentioned are finished and in working order; and we may men tion also the East River Bridge, connect ing New York to Brooklyn. The towers of this bridge are also built ujioii the land, and are 278 feet high. Tlie single span is 1,695 feet. There is, therefore, no doubt that the Forth Bridge, when completed, will bo an engineering« triumph. THE KING AND THE PAGE A plea-ant; story is told of the old King" Frederic the 'Great of Prussia. Once when he rang bis bell for life page to come and wait on him, there was no answer. So he went out into the anic-chamber, and there he found his page fast asleep. The step ot the King does not waken him, so soundly 1 is he asleep. A letter sticking Out of , the boy’s pocket catches the Ring’s eye, and he ia curious enough to take it out and read if. Not any more honorable that for a Kiiig than for any ono else. • 1 But th^ boj had no reason to be afraid or ashamed of the King’s curiosity: for il was a letter from liis poor mother, thanking him for send ing her his wages, and praying God to reward his kindness and attention, After readiog it the King went softly back to his chamber, took a bag of money, and with : the letter slipped it into the pocket of the boy. Again going to-Lis chamber he rang the.bell loud euougltto. arouse tlie sleeper, who immediately an swered its summons; ' ‘ You' have been' fast adeep,’ skid the King. ,ir*o,l- ns Frightened and coulused, the poor boy put liis hand into his pocket, and what to find but a bag of money. He took’ it' out and looking up to thc King, burst into tear*. C ' VWbat,is the- matter,’ asked- tlie King, . . , ‘ Ab, sir,’ cried the poor feHow, throwing' himself 'on his knees before Frederick, ’somebody is trying to ruin me. I know nothing about this money, which I have just found in my pock-t.’ * My young triend,* said the King; 4 God takes different ways ol helping us. Send the inoffey to your mother. Salute her for tne and tell her I wdl take good care of both her and you.’ Christian Weekly. Tell you what, boys; let’s get in ood fighting. trim, aod lick ’em in good 1994. It is probable that the scheme which was proposed first by Mr. Shaw Le- fevre, and which lias been advocated by Mr, Bright, will form the basis of the contemplated settlement .of the Dish land question by the present English Government, All land owners ready,to sell will be given debentures bearing three per cent,' for their pro perty- Their tenants will be charged four pear cent during a terip of years— three per cent, beiog to pay interest on the debentures, and one per cent, to act as a sinking fund, 90 that at the end pf the term the fund. will become the property of the occupier, In ad- dition to this, large tracts of waste lands will thirty or I these lota the peasants ot payments. The New York Sun siiys: “There has just t urnerl out from the Grand Locomotive Works, iu Patterson, N. J„ a new locomotive of peculiar pops struction, intended far the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad. Bngend Fontaine, the iu venter,! claims that this)locomotive can ,be, made, to gp, ninety.^uiiles, an hotijv while t|mj machinery is run no .faaW, than that' of an ordinary locomotive traveling at the rate ot sixty miles an hour. The msohinery is all on top -ot the boiler, instead , of under it,—The driving wheel rests ou another wheel, which in turn rests on the track.' Tills low er wheel has two rims, one a foot smal ler than the other* it The outer rim touches the track, and the inner or smaller rim supports the driving wheel The motion of the driving’ wheel thus communicated is magnified by this arrangement so>> that the lower wheel turns one-third faster than the driving wheel, and so the speed is in creased. The smaller ’ run of' the lower wheel bears to the larger rim a relation similar to that of a very large hub to any; wheel. Of course any rate of motion communicated to such a liub is greatly magnified at the peri phery ot tile wheel; In the same way the motion of the driving whee 1 in this case is magnified by thc peculiar ar rangement of thu wheel it rests upon. Mr. Fontaine believes that his loco motive, if it were not for the increate resistance of the air, could bn run at the rate of IQ? inilesAO hour- r He <s- pects;: it to make 90 miles gn hour easify.’’ /, A Visit to a Japanese House. When you go to a Japanese house, there is no bell to ring, no knocker on the door, and no person to receive you; you sing aloud, “ I ask to l>e heard,” when a servant opens the door and bmva down to the floor, and then listens to you. You tell the servant what you want," and she leads you into the house. There are no chair* to sit on, nor a91 there any stools or sofas, hut you sit on the floor with yotir-limbi ’doubled up under you as the tailors Sit. I forgot to tell y6u tbat.you. have to take off your boots or shoes before entering. After you ’sit'down, the servant brings you a pipe and some tobacco to smoke, also tea and cake, and tells you that the master is bqsy and cannot see you immediately. After awhile the master comes in and you make a profound bow to each other. He then asks you to his study, which is well furnished.- On one side is a door which swings on binges, or can be pushed back to the right or left. The walls are not white; but either gray or brown, the same as the ceiling, which ia low and made of wood. In the corner of the room is a rack, covered with a silk spread. Pictures hang on the wall, but tney are not framed but trimmed with silk and fancy paper-which can be rolled up and put away. The study fronts on the garden, and you can inhale the fra grance of flowers. There is no parti tion between the study and the garden, except sasher filled with transparent paper, which, appears most beautiful at night; but in case of a storm they have a canvas which they draw over this and make itaecure. Then the master intro duces yo® : to his wife. He does not call her bu£. simply says she is my wife. She is dressed splendidly. Her hair is arttfigid fn Something’the same way as the Aperican; lady dresses hfrs. She asks you to six in. a high seat and order* tea. and cake. She will ask you if you aire married, how many children you hare.letc. '. The Ameritau ladies are just as inquisitive. By her .side sits her daughter and son on the floor, without cushions. The young lady is dressed very mucjvli&i her mother, and if you ask her to play, she .will get. an instru mentsomething like a guitar, and play and sing.Her brother never gives his parents any 'trouble, and never asks any He Didn’t Know it,was Loaded, -sPaul Nadon, a blacksmith ot St. Rose, (panada, went shooting on Saturday and returning, laid nis gnu 00 a beam in the kitchen. On the same evening Cleoptras Cloutier, a farmers’ son of nineteen; and a. sweetheart ot Eadon’a daughter Victorine, paid her.,ayjsit. . While hft as.,chatting to.berin the doorway,, her brother fierinidw, aged thirteen, thinking the gun was empty, took it down, play fully presented in at Cloutier, and pulled .both) triggers. Two charges oft buckshot lodged 4n tho young man’s brain, and be fall dead. Inquest today; verdict ‘accidentally shot.! * TDn jt and tyt it> ioto of acres topetwaqta, and teoometheprpPWXto iler a ; oerta^u number GERMAN CARP. - - [ There 1ms been an effort on thu part of several’enterprising gentlemen in Georgia to introduce into our pbiids aiid takes W fish known ns the German carp. The Hon. W E. Smith, of Albany, has taken considerable inter est in the matter, and writes the fol lowing in the Albany.News aud Ad vertiser. He say s : The little'pond into which Dr. Potillo placed a portion of his, tin ac count of the. abaeuce .iff, rains, became nearly dry. From this pond Dr. Patillo took two carp, each one of which weighed 1 between eight and ten pounds and were about twenty inchts iu length. One he gave to me, and a portion of another he gave to Rev. Mr.' Felder. My fish was baked. T found it a beautiful white with scarcely any hones, and of a delicious flavor.' This experiment of propagating this valuable food fish in this country, and in out ponds and.lakes, I consid r as demonstrating, beyond all doubt, the feasibility and practicability of such enterprises. • ■' 1 ■ fWto '- I . Should the carp in • other ponds thrive as those of Dr. Palillo’s, I will lie able to furnish id^ neighbors with tyiy. number of’ young, ones next of tho lakes and ponds planted wltJi question uo r > ><X Modern Psyche. ..... 1. .;i .. 1- [Troy Times.J I . The modern Psyche has turned up. She.lived it Atlanta, Ga., and although fifteen years old, feU in Ipve with one ol Uncle Sain’ssolaieis stationed there and married him. On the wedding day—sc cruel is fate sometimes—the regiment te which her husband belonged was trnn» ferred to Fort Assiniboine in Montana Territory, and despite -tears and pro testations the bridegroom was forced tc leave, his wife behind. The poor little lady was disconsolate for many weekr after his departure. Early in the sum mer, however, she-started, like Psyche, tc search for her lover.. She traveled alone to SaVanhah and set sail for New York, and; as in the old story, < -j i> Underneath h.irfeet the moonlit ee* Went ghepherling his wave* disorderly, So-that after many trials she found her *df moving over thc Pennsylvania Rail road toward the West. Food was given her by kind passengers, and interested gentlemen saw that the conductors were not troublesome. At Chicago, Quarter master General Ingalls was surprised one day to see on her knees before him a “ ry pretty girl with tears in her eyes, id’ the story aforetold on her lips. General Ingalls grew sympathetic, and E her a-letter to the railroad officials, whom she got a pass to SL Paul, e she * procured ’ another pass to Bismarck, and -Wen* thence to* Coal Bank*, from which place toe dropped down upon her husband at Fort Assini boine, having travel id 4,000 miles with out a 1 penny 'in her pocket. A Sioux City reporter describes the meeting as something to shout over. You may have sfeen a young man bn one side of a gate and a maideti on kheotbeb ride; Why tbeyftatit to long r -.~ - is because a great de*! cop be said -on I fmsstoncr Will furni both rides. j, v J . ( ' *ttp on Vppflrmtion. 1 j,., lion. .' Fish Commissioner o! ashihgton, gud also oji'^State Cota- The « Athcnttum” on Franklin. In reviewing Mr. John Bigelow’s edl- tionof .‘‘Franklin’s Life and Works.” the Athchceum says: “ Benjamin Frank lin is one of the few men whose place of residence.i» London is thought worthy of commemoration. Whoever walks down Craven street will' see a! medallion in front of a house there with these word* .inserted tin it:>' ‘!lived here Benjamin National Portrait Gallery * portrait of Franklin hang*/,among- those of the worthies whose memories we delight to honor; and itib probable that if he could revisit this w#rla he, would .find himself as much respected In this country as ia thM of his birth: • • •’’ Though opto- iope.rew differ to to .ttoom»t^.whuffi popular in both; Indeed/not mshyw ; Franklin,'ananonsdf hi».work*h*i