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THE BRUNSWICK APPEAL.
VOLUME I.
in «ugar JievLccop is
nTfrteA gs between 25 ami Bo per cent,
year than last. It. wi 11 have an
important fearing on (lie price of cane
sugar when it is remembered that beet
sugar is identical with that of cane sti
gar, and that ike beet-sugar manufacture
covers about one-third of the sugar pro
duct of the world.
The late captain general of Cuba,
Martinez Campos. is now the premier of
•Spain; anil as stidi he is doingjiis best
to sec uro. to Culta the reforms that he
promised the people of that island before
he returned to Spain. He is encounter
ing a great deal of opposition in the cor
tes, esjiecially a- to the abolition of
slavery and tariff reforms. A dissolu
tion of the cortes, or a ministerial crisis
will probably occur before the Cuban
measures are disposed of.
The United States Economist says:
A constant and steady export of wheat
and breadstufl's will occur throughout the
fall and winter months. As the season ad
vances it would not be surprising if
prices would gradually grow firmer. It
is unfortunate for the general welfare of
the country that great operators in grain
manipulate the market in wheat as they
do trucks i? AV all street. By concerted
action corner wheat as they do
railroad stocks and thereby unsettle
values to the’ hindrance of legitimate
business.
The Catholic Bishops of Ireland have
adopted resolutionsappealing to the gov
ernment and to all public bodies and .
individuals to help the poor, as the poor
law act is insufficient to meet the neces
sities of the impending crisis. They at
the same time exhort their Hocks to bear
their trials patiently, to respect the rights
of others, to pay their just debts as fully
as they are able and to obey the laws,
while using all peaceful and constitu
tional means to reform the land laws,
which are the main cause of the coun
try’s poverty ami helplessness.
Any one who has traveled along the
railroads that traverse the coal regions of
Pennsylvania, must have noticed the
huge black hills that stand beside every
colliery. These mountains are coal waste,
and have hitherto been, not only useless, 1
but cumberers of the ground. It is esti
mated that twenty million tons of this
j-pf i|»K» .ft ppwhreed year, an-Gt H.-. j
Ken a problem long thought over by
owners!,' what to do with this waste.
Some years ago a Pennsylvania man pat
tented a plan by which the liner portions <
of the waste was to be pressed into bricks 1
fit for use as fuel, but the expense of ,
manufacturing is greater than the profit j
accruing, so that plan fell through. Now,
however, a locomotive has been con- *
structed that will use this waste as fuel
without any special preparation, except ,
screening, ft is expected that over 100,- <
000 tons will be used this year and when
stationary engines get to use the waste, ]
those immense black mounds will rapidly I
disappear from the landscape of Pennsyl
vania. . ■ ,
It is stated that France and England
have accepted Austria’s view of the' j
Rothschild loan ; that Rothschild must
redeem prior loans amounting to £1,400,-
000 in order to have first security on the 1
surrender of the Kbedival estate. Aus
tria and Germany will accept Anglo-
French representatives in the commis
sion of liquidating, and resulting control
over Egyptian financial administration.
This agreement, if accomplished, removes '
the threatenened hitch in the Anglo-
French scheme. The Porte ami Sultan
arc spending their whole time over the
reform question and the demands of En-
The position of the other powers
is necessarily one of reserve in the ques
tion, which primarily concerns England
and Turkey, and in which marked inter
ference would tend to embroil rather
than clear matters. Still, as regards
Austria and Germany, it may be taken
for_granted that their influence is being
exerted in support of the demand for
beginning reforms as well as toward pre
venting any Collision. As to joining’
eventually in measures of coercion, no
invitation has yet been addressed to these
powers. In this respect there has, there
fore, been no occasion for giving an opin
ion on the subject. The French and
Italian Cabinets are more than usually
reserved on the question, while the Rus
sian attitude in a difference lietween En
gland and Turkey cannot for a moment
lie doubted. Differences of that kind
have always been regarded by Russia as
a most efficient lever for promoting her
political designs in Turkey—a lever sure
to be applied on the present occasion if
the complication last long enough to give
her an opportunity.
Many people throughout the south
will be pained to learn of the death of
Dr. Lovick Pierce, which occurred in
the home of his son at Sparta,(la.,on Nov.
11th. Dr. Pierce was the oldest Methodist
preacher in the United States. He has
held every office in the ministry except
bishop. He gave to the church, how
ever, a bishop in the person of his son,
George F. Pierce, who is to-day ojjg of
its most powerful leaders. George F.
Pierce was admitted to the ministry at
the Jitjt,: Georgia conference in Macon,
January 5, 1831. His career is of more
recent date and is a part of contemporary
Methodist history. Dr. Pierce has been a
delegate to every general conference of the
Methodist church, and in 181© was the
fraternal messenger sent to the northern
general conference, but was refused ad
mission and recognition. In 1874 he was
one of the three sent in response to those
who came to the southern general con
ference at Louisville. He was unable
to go to the conference north, but wrote
a memorable letter upon the fraternal
relations of the churches. In May,
1871, Bishop Pierce was in Louisville,
attending the general conference, and
last year he was present at the general
conference in Atlanta. One of the most
notable incidents of the conference in
Louisville was a litpe speech he made in
connection with the transaction of some
conference business. The aged bishop
said:
“My Beloved Brethren: I stand
before you rather as a marvel in the his
tory of Methodist preachers. It would
be very unliecoining in me to congratu
late you on account of my presence with
you, but it is right that I should con
gratulate myself on being permitted to
see this very certainly the last genera!
conference I shall ever attend. I have
been greatly honored—more certainly
than I have ever deserved. I have never
been left out since the time of my eligi
bility as a delegate. I have never done
much. I have always-felt inclined to
retire rather than make myself bold and
prominent. 1 had no expectation, when
it was announced to me that I was elected
to this general conference, that I could
be present with you. It may be consid
ered as the first instance in history, at least
in that of our own ministry, that a man
in his ninetieth year has'traveled six
hundred miles and occupied his seat
daily in a body like this; but Goil has
conferred upon me this very remarkable
blessing.” ‘
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Jackson, Tenn., has a coal famine.
Cartersville, Ga„ is to have two cot
ton-factories.
Corn is worth $1 per bushel in Goliad
county, Texas.
Blight is affecting the orange trees in
southwest Louisiana.
The cotton presses of Atlanta are.
working day and night.
Union City, Tenn., has just started a
bank, with §50,000 capital.
There was a state convention of spir
itualists in Texas last week.
Savannah, Ga., received seven thou
sand bales of cotton Tuesday.
Grasshoupgrs have, done iucMeuiuij,.
injury to rife wtieni crop or zexas.
Chattanooga’s population has increased
1,391 during the past twelve months.
Lady compositors are employed in the
offices of a number of Southern newspa
pers.
The city bonds of Savannah, 8. C.,
have advanced 3.90 per cent, since Au-
gust. . , . ,
San Antonio, Texas, is to have a pat
ent gas-machine in tiic Alamo, with 300
lamps.
McKendree Church, Nashville, which
was recently burned, is to be rebuilt at
once.
Some fine jacks were sold this week to
parties near Palestine, Texas, at $“75 per
head.
The Seventh-day Adventists of Texas
are holding a grand camp meeting near
Dallas.
Georgia enjoys the reputation of hav
ing the handsomest governor in the
Union.
Seventy-five cents per bushel has been
the price of coal in Memphis since the
Ist inst.
Paul R. Hayne, the Gporgia poet, de
nies that he intends ’to move to the
North. '
Columbia, Tenn., is to have a large
factory for turning out wooden handles
of all kinds.
The public schools were dismissed in
Chattanooga, Tenii., to let the children
see “Pinafore.”
Texas counts up her four million
sheep and asks that she be called the
“ Mutton State.”
The editor of the Key West ( Fla.)
Dispatch, a colored man is in jail on the
charge of robbery.
Judge Lochrane, of Atlanta, gets §lO,-
000 a year as attorney for the Pullman
Palace Car company.
Warren county, Mississippi, in three
years and nine months has reduced her
indebtedness $114,095.
The young ladies of Frankfort, Ky.,
not to be behind the times have organ
ized a cooking club.
Atlanta has eight banking institutions,
not including Jim Banks, who is a sep
arate institution of his own.
Increased attention is being given to
fish culture in Virginia. There are now
three hatching houses in the state.
Colonel E. Richardson, of Jackson,
Miss., has given $2,000 for the improve
ment of the cemetery in that city.
A German colony has settled in Es
cambia county, Fla., near the Pensacola
railroad, to engage in sheep raising.
The Americus, ( Ga.), Recorder thinks
that cattle-raising will sujtersede cotton
growing to a great extent in that section.
The Houston and Texas Central rail
road is receiving new steel rails with
which to replace those of iron now in
use.
An extra session of the Florida legis
lature, to consider the proposition of the
Florida ship canal, will probably be held
soon.
The scarcity of water on the route of
the Texas Central railroad is so great,
as to interfere with the regularity of
trains.
The Augusta, Ga., cotton mills havea
capital of $900,000, and pay a dividend
of twenty-eight per cent, on the money
invested.
' The Whig records the death in Rich
mond, Va., of Capt. C, F. Pardigan,
tt noted French teacher and cx-Confeder
stte soldier,
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 20, 1879.
There are thirteen thousand volumes
belonging to the North Carolina State
Library, more than the library building
affords room for.
The New Orleans papers call upon the
police of that city to abate the nuisance
caused by the illegal sale of lottery tick
ets on the streets.
The court-house at Opelika, Georgia,
was fired by incendiaries Tuesday night,
but the Hames were discovered in time
to prevent any damage.
The progressive towns in Georgia are
striving to secure the location of the
State Normal College provided for by
the last legislature.
A number of influential newspapers in
the south are advocating smaller farms
and better cultivation as the surest way
to success and prosperity.
Ilan Isboro, Miss., is furnishing Louis
iana stflck-iaisers with blooded Dheep.
I'he town is also making preparations to
start a cotton and woolen factory.
Between 600 and 800 laborers arc now
engaged in the construction of the Owen
horo and Nashville railroad between
Adairsville and Russelville, Ky.
The hemp factories at Lexington, Ky.,
have closed on account of a regulation
of the railroad companies raising the
cost of transportation for dress hemped.
Farmers in Chattaboochie and Stew
art counties, Georgia, complain of a
great scarcity of labor, and the cotton
crop threatens to be diminished in con
sequence.
Louisiana sugar-]Haulers are elated
over the fact that the. European beet
sugar crop for the present year is
twenty-live or thirty per c nt. below the
average.
Memphis Appeal: The city is becom
ing haunted with drummers. They now
think Memphis is a great city, although
during the epidemic thev gave her a wide
berth.
Flemingsburg ( Ky.) Times : We have
no big pumpkins, blit D. B. Hinton has
a gourd that is 104 years old. It was
brought from England to Virginia in the.
year 1775.
The Little Rock gas company has re
fused to furnish gas to the city for its
streets and public buildings until the
city puts an etui to its indebtedness to the
company.
In Lonoke county, Ark., last week, a
quarrel between MeArmstrong, Justice
of the Peace, and Pink Saunders, result
ed in the shooting of the. latter. Death
occurred instantly.
The. past summer in Key West, Fla.,
was the healthiest which the inhabitants
of that city have experienced in thirty
years. The mortality was less by one
third than in any year since 1861.
Mr. AV. U. Cotton, of II arris county,
Ga., raised a stalk of cotton this season
that is now bearing nine hundred and
V. .11— 'LL- ~ j i
Dickson variety.
The Catletsburg Dem., says that Win.
Christian, of Lawrence county, claims
to have fallen heir to Fountain square,
in Cincinnati, and that he has refused
§140,000 for his interest.
Frank Smith of Fayette, county Ky.,
has shipped to New York for the. eastern
market one hundred head ol cattle that
averaged 1,800 pounds. Four head
averaged 2,120 pounds.
Savannah News: Pensacola is elated
because she owns the steamship Escam
bia, of the capacity of 6,500 balesol cot
ton, which is intended to ply regularly
between that port and Liverpool.
Ex-Governor Alcorn is building a fine
residence on his home plantation, in
Jonestown, Coahoma county, Miss. When
finished it will be one of the linestand
best arranged dwelings in the State.
A colored woman died at New Orleans
the other day whose age was given at 100
years by the coroner, but she was sup
posed by those who knew her best to
have been at least thirty years older.
Belgreen, the new county-seat of
Franklin county, Ala., though founded
only eight months ago, has a nice, new
court-house and county offices, and a
brand-new paper —the Franklin News.
In Walter county, Tex., the District
Court rendered a verdict of §14,000
damages against the Central railway in
favor of Mrs. Fowler, whose husband
was accidentally killed atHowth station.
Memphis Ledger: Nearly 400 bales of
cotton have been shipjied from Captain
William Forrest’s President’s island
plantation. The crop will not all be
gathered before the end of the present
year.
Columbus Times: Some of our citi
zens have already commenced to sow
oats for the spring crop. Efforts will be
made to retain the reputation of raising
the finest oat crops in southwestern Gear-
According to the Banner, the year’s
operations of the Nashville cotton fac
tory, closing on the, 30th of September,
indicate considerable prosperity. Ihe
amount of wages paid was $2,807.90, and
the number of yards of cloth produced
was 5,424,927.
Little Rock, (Ark.) Democrat: The
jury in the Tom Davis murder case was
hung by a colored man, reported to be a
barber. The other jurors were white.
The prisoner was a colored man, the vic
tim a white man.
Holly Springs, (Miss.) Reporter: The
dedication of the monument, elected to
the memory of Rev. Father Oberti and
the six Sisters of Bethlehem Academy,
who died of yellow fever in this city in
1878, took place, Monday.
The News says that a young man
named Randolph Watts, oi Savannah,
Ga., who recently appropriated $1,3500f
his employer’s money, and left very sud
denly, has returned and voluntarily giv
en himself up to the authorities.
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion : In the death
of Paul A. Botto, of the Natchez Demo
crat, the press of Mississippi, has lost
one of its worthiest members. He was
born in Italy in 1810, but has resided in
Mississippi since his childhood.
Little Rock ( Ark.) Gazette : Sever
al wood cases came, up before the United
States Court yesterday. Cutting wood
from ,'government lands has caused a
great deal of trouble, and as ignorance
of the law excuses no man, the Urmffp
is inflicted.
New Orleans picayune: Th/ Britisl
| steamship Ashburn, Capt. Hall, was
cleared yesterday for Liverpool with a
cargo of 7,120 bales of cotton. 1,378 sacks
of oil cake and 1,080 pieces’slaves. This
is the largest cargo of cotton ever ex
ported on any one vessel from this port.
One of the brightest young lawyers in
Arkansas, J. P. AVoods, oi Johnson
county, has been sentenced io the peni
tentiary for stealing a pistol. The pis
tol was taken while he was drunk, hut
the] worst feature in the case was that
AVoods did not tell that he had the pis
tol after he became sober.
Charleston News: The United Slates
Government employes are removing
10,000 tons of granite from the quarries
near Columbia to AVihninclon N. C., to
be used upon the public works in that
harbor.. It is greatly to be regretted
that this stone can not be' T-sj'vi upon the
Charleston jetties simply ’heNause there
is no communication by railroad to the
water’s edge. A
Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen: The sur
plus agricultural products of Giles coun
ty this year will reach] §1,000,000, as
follows: 'Wheat, §200,000; cotton,§6oo,-
000; mules, hogs and beef, $200,000,
This, with a population of 32,000, gives
us nearly §3OO cash per capital for every
man, woman and child, black and white
in the comity. Certainly there is life
in the old land yet.
< 'ne of the unsung heroes of the Mem
phis plague is John Walsh, an undertak
er there, who has remained pluekily at
his post for two years. At times he has
been left absolutely without assistance
and at times he has buried 150 bodies in
one day.
A young lady, Miss Caledonia Linton,
Texas, residing on Cottonwood Creek,
w hile walking in the woods met a large
alligator. She got a rope, tied it around
the alligator’s neck and dragged it two
miles to her home. ’The brute came
near striking her several times.
The Georgia gold mines yield §1,000,000
a year. The Magruder mine, just in the
edge of Lincoln county, is worked day
ami night, and yields JOO penny weights
ol gobi per hour, or §BOO a day, and the
Georgia papers think that their State
will eventually rival Colorado’s mineral
richness.
Memphis Ledger: To be collared by
an official and charged §10.25 every time
lie comes here, makes a commercial tour
ist roar, and some get oil in a hurry.
Four came in a few nights since, and up
on seeing how it was, they never un
packed, and thenext train carried them
out of town.
Memphis Ledger: It is rumored that
there is to be no Mardi Gras display here
next spring, and it is also current that
the pageant, at one time intended by the
Memphi for the 10th of February next,
has been sold, and that it paraded the
streets of St. Louis a few weeks ago un
der the atlsjuecsof lljo .Vaijg'.l fcProul(G*r
by two trifling women, each the mother
oi' several children, was burned the oth
er night, and three little children per
ished. 'The women are strongly suspect
ed of having started the lire. < hie of the
women was once before imprisoned fora
similar crime.
Col. AVm. H. Caruthers, a prominent
citizen of Virginia, died in Nottoway
county, on the 12th of October, at the
age of eighty-throe years. Though a gen
tleman of thorough education and line
address, and qualified fora brilliant law
yer, he devoted his life principally to
agricultural pursuits. During the late
civil war he filled the place of major in
a Virginia regiment.
Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times: L. F.
Johnson met a singularly sad and tragi
cal death at AVashington and Lee Col
lege, Va., last Saturday. He ami an in
timate friend named Poigiier were play
ingcroquet when they began quarreling,
and Poigner struck Johnson lightly on
the back of the head with a croquet mal
let. Johnson died a few hours after.
The grief of his brothers and of bis unfor
tunate slayer was heartrendering. I’oig
ner is in jail.
Master Joseph Brand, sou of Mr. E.
M. Brand, of Logansville, La., was the
victim of a most shocking accident at
his father’s gin in that place on Tuesday
of last week. AVhile putting some tur
pentine upon the band leading from the
steam engine to the gin, to prevent its
slipping, his left arm was caught ami so
torn and mangled that it necessitated the
amputation of the limb near the shoul
der. The lad suffered most excrucia
tingly and died shortly afterwards.
Brownsville (Tenn.) States: Last
spring, a colored man in this county
rented a place and planted a little crop.
He had but onemule, and that turned up
its legs and died just as the cotton com
menced coming up. In sore trouble he
applied to his merchant for advice and
help. A mule was bought for sixty-five
dollars and the crop was faithfully
worked, gathered and sold.' The colored
man has paid his rent —one hundred dol
lars—paid for his summer’s supplies, paid
for his mule and has about three hundred
dollars left.
Mr. S. Brocker, one of the cstablishers
of the Little Rock Democrat and for
several years connected with the Gazette,
died of dropsy on November 9th. He
was a native of Cumberland, Did., and
was about 58 years of age. He served
throughout the civil war as an officer in
the confederate light artillery, and was
a major commanding a battalion at the
close. In the, Brooks-Baxter trouble in
1874 he was appointed brigadier-gener
al. He was for several years secretary
and grand master of the Masons in Ar
kansas.
Maysville ( Ky.) Republican: Last
Saturday an aged and decrepit weman,
carrying upon her back an idiotic child,
about ten years old, passed through this
city on her way to Kam as City, where
she expects to join her husband, who
left her for that place years ago. She
was an object of pity and commiseration
as she trudged along with her burden
upon her back, on her long and weary
tramp, depending upon the charity of
strangers fora subsistence. She said she
was from Martin county. After remain
ing ever Sunday at the station-house .
resting and recuperating
hr '.iited a.-am
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Professor Hayden, six miles northeast of
the city, in Harrington vein of chloride
ami bromide of silver, the first found Ju
Georgia, and gives promise of immense
value. The range of assays of silver go
into the hundreds, and the gold will
give from twenty to for.y dollars per
ton. There arc three v.ins in this neigh
borhood which are argentiferous, viz:
“ Harris lode,” the Kelton vein aiid the
I farrington vein; in addition to which is a
ledge of white, marble, and near by, on
Dr. Ham’s land, is a dyke of porphyry;
associated with it you find a vein of
magnetic iron and manganese.
Mr. L. J. Dupree, editorof the Austin,
(Texas) Btatcsiiiail, thus writes of a
Georgia town: The Augusta Georgia
Ncwssays “the third crop of figs in Ogle
thorpe county is nearly ripe, and there
has not been a lighter quarrel in Lexing
ton since hist spring.” It was of this
ancient village that Bob Toombs said
forty years ago that it was “finished and
fenced in fifty years” before his time.
The assertion has been applied to other
fossilized towns but owes paternity to
Bob Toombs. But Lexington is a his
torical spot. Little, lifeless, rose-embow
ered, its shining white cottages and resi
dences going to decay, its store houses
empty, and courthouse a dilapidated
rookery—hapless as its fortunes may be,
and deserted its bar room, where the
Ncwssays there “has not been a fight
since'last spring,” Lexington is still a
fascinating spot—for aii ai’chieologist.
The voice of AVm. 11. Crawford was once
familiar on its streets as was bis gigantic
form. He sat, in his old age, on the
bench. "His old home is hard by, and
that of Joseph Henry Lumpkin and of
George R. Gilmer and of the builder of
the great public hall of Athens. These
old homes of Worth and grcatilcss still
constitute monuments to the ancient
glory of Lexington. Then Tom and
Howell Cobb and Bob Toombs and Bill
Dougherty and Jack Greer and Alexan
der H. Stephens, were boys, loitering idly
about the village green of Lexington.
No wonder the “third crop of ligs this
season ripens in Lexington.” Figs have
less to-do there than in any spot of si
lence, white sand, and sunlight and soli
tude oil God’s foot stool.
In the last number of the Monroe,
(Ga.) Advertiser, Dr. A. Rogers pays
the following tribute to oneol hisformer
slaves: Aunt Clara Rogers, one of the
best and most unexceptional colored
women the writer ever knew, died last
week She was a faithful affd true ser
vant in slavery, obedient, honest, confid
ing and loving; true to her master and
mistress, and a kind nurse. There was
not one of thcchildren that did not love
her. She nursed them all; cared for them,
and called them her children; and woe to
the darkey that dared to offend one of
them. After freedom she was the same
kind and faithful friend and servant,
living with her former mistre-s most of
ns in flays "I yore. Nounng <-xi t- H
among them all but the kindest words
and feelings. When her mistress sicken
ed and died, she sat by her bedside to
wait on her and see the last breath de
part, and then she wept with the chil
dren ami lamented her death as one of
them. Her disease was the fatal and
tormenting cancer, which she bore with
calmness, fortitude and resignat ion. She
said all her trust was in God, and exhort
ed her husband, kindred and friends to
meet her in heaven. For two days before
she died, she refused to take any more
morphine, to alleviate her sullerings,
which were very great, saying she wished
to die in her senses, which she did.
Speaking kindly and lovingly to all pre
sent, and offering her hand to husband
and others when she could no longer
speak, 'fhe household she so much loved
now weep for Aunt Clara, and hope to
meet her again on the other side of the
dark river. Farewell departed kind one,
we believe your robe there will be
shining white.
MISCELLANEOUS.
| fA widow 70 years of age, residing near
Austin, Texas, takes care of a slock
ranch and 300 head of cattle.
John Arnold, of Mineral county, West
Virginia, raised this year ten barrels of
corn from one ear’s planting.
Mrs. Charlotte Letcher, the widow of
ex-< lovernor Letcher, of Kentucky, died
at Frankfort on the 29th of October.
The whole number of Methodists in
Louisville, Ky., in 1865, was 1,424. The
number at the close of 1878 was 4,882.
The Ashville Citizen says : President
Fain anil Superintendent Herbert will
soon have their end of the North Geor
gia railroad completed.
Wood county, West Virginia, has
shipped this fall 290,006 pounds of
crapes, besides the quantity sold at home,
yielding in all a revenue of SIO,OOO.
A correspondent in an exchange gives
his experience in favor of cotton seed
meal for milch cows. He feeds three
fourths of a pound, morning and night.
Under this feed one cow gives an extra
yield of three quarts and another of two
and a half quarts of milk.
A cheap and simple piece of machin
ery has just been invented and is in op
eration al Weschester $. C., which spins
seed cotton Into thread, it is claimed
that this invention wilt add 100 per
cent, to the profit of the planter, as it
saves him the expense of ginning, baling,
bagging and ties.
“ Dal c.ullud pussun on de jury, him’s
de man I objec to,” said a negro when
put on trial in the Marion, S. C., Court
the other day. The black, good man
and true, was unseated, and the prisoner
given acquittal. After his release the
darkey was asked what he had against a
juryman of his own color. “ Nuflin at
all,’boss,” said he, “but, yesee, 1 knowed
if I flattered the prejudus ob de odder
jurymen dat 1 get off, an’ golly I did.”
Sidney Lanier, the poet-musician.
lecturing at the Johns
Haltimore, on •
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ONE OF GENERAL JACKSON’S MEN.
Abraham Joliumhi'k Kvcntfnl rare of 100
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Just beyond the Moosic mountains, a
few miles northeast of Scranton, Pa., in
the primitive village of Salem, there
lives a centenarian whose history reads
like a page plucked from one. of tho
Leather-stocking romances. Abraham
Johnson is now 106 years old—hale,
hearty, unimpaired in intellect, and
gifted with a remarkable memory. His
family record shows that he was born in
tlie state of Afermont, early in the year
1773, near Lake Champlain. His father
was a Revolutionary soldier, and was
killed at the battle of Stillwater, a short
time before General Burgoyne’a surren
der, October 13, 1777. Abraham John
son was Captain of a company of Oneida
Indjaus in 1814, under General Macomb,
who commanded at Plattsburg during
the absence of General Izard. He refers
with great pride to the battle of Platts
burg, and shows two wounds which he
received on that occasion. One of them
is a bayonet-thrust below the knee, the
other a sword-cut on the neck. He says
that after he was struck down by a
gigantic “ Red Coat,” another thrust a
bayonet through his leg to ascertain if
he were dead. He says he bore the pun
ishment rather than sutler the indigna
tion of being taken prisoner, and was
accordingly left for dead. The Indians
carried their bleeding and battle-scared
commander to their village, where he
was nursed and cared for by Oneida, the
beautiful daughter of an Indian chief,
whose gentle care restored him to health
and strength. But while she healed his
bloody wounds, she inflicted one still
deeper on the warrior’s heart, and he fell
desperately in love with her. Bhe eventu
ally returned his affection, and they were
married after peace had been restored
between the United States and Great
Britain. They made their home in Sus
sex County, N. J., where the dark-eyed
daughter of the forest taught her soldier
husband how to earn a livelihood by
basket-making. A daughter was born to
them, and they named her Martha. She
is at present known as Mrs. Ellsworth,
and lives in Madison township, Lacka
wanna county. As years went by A lira
ham Johnson’s Indian wife began to pine
for her old homo and the rude associa
tions of her childhood. She gradually
failed in health, and, finally, in response
to her repeated longings for her people,
her husband carried her back to the
Oneidas, where she died, and was buried
as became the daughter of an Indian
chief. Little Martha found a home and
shelter for a time with an uncle in Sus
sex county, but when she grew up she
joined the Oneida Indians, and lived
among her mother's kindred, where she
married a man by the unromantic name
of Brown. After his death, she married
EJisworUi. her nrosant
of her princely ancestors as 1T They hole,
the proud name of Plantagenets, or
owned the high and haughty spiritof the
Tudors. Since the loss of his Indian
wife Abraham Johnson has remained
single. llc still talks of General Jack
son with great unction, and declares that
ho will vote for General Jackson to the
day of his death. Although entitled to
a pension for his soldierly services in de
fense of the flag, he does not receive a
penny, and is permitted to remain a
charge on Salem township. He is prob
ably one of tho oldest men in Pennsyl
vania.
The Skulls of Murderers.
One of the most curious collections in
the great Anthropological Museum in
the Paris Exhibition of last year was a
collection of thirty-six.skulls of murder
ers who had been guillotined in France.
This collection has been carefully studied
by Mr. Bordier, who has published the
results of his studies in the last number
of Broca’s liemie d! Anthropologic. The
most striking result of his observa
tions is the very large cubic capacity of
these crania. In fact, the average
volume of the thirty-six skulls, measured
with shot by Broca’s method, is as much as
1549T1 cubic centimeters. Eliminating,
however, one of the skid Is which is of usual
size (2076 cubic centimeters,) and is ob
viously abnormal, the average is reduced
to 1531 cubic centimeters. But even
this figure is considerably higher than
the average of an ordinary series of
modern crania. In order to find skulls
of equal capacity it is necessary to go
back to prehistoric times; thus the
capacity of Solutre skulls is 1615, and
that of the type from the cave of
L’Homme Mort is 1606’5 cubic centi
meters. The development of the murder
ers’ skulls is not in the frontal, but in
the parieto-occipital region; and it ap
pears to indicate a low intellectual
standard, with a strong tendency to
powerful action. Most of the cerebral
characteristics presented by the skulls of
these criminals are comparable with
those of prehistoric races. A murderer
may be regarded as an anachronism, and
his character may be explained on the
principle of atavism, or reversion to an
early type. If a prehistoric savage
could be introduced into modern society
he would probably become a notorious
criminal; on the other hand, if one of
the brutal murderers of modern times
had lived in prehistoric ages, he might
have, been a chief of his tribe, highly
respected.
A New Story.
Modjeska is writing a story for Scrib
ner’s Monthly. It is a love story. Ihe
heroine’s name is Griscldavilcb Topple
watchkitzky, and the hero’s Vladimir
Tschezarotsh. The scene is laid in the
quiet little Bolish village Stirritupit
visch, on the banks of the classic River
Muddibsehky, in the region of the
zcnbutitzelosky Mountains.
pa- age from advance
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NUMBER 1.
A HIT HE’S FAME.
Like a quiv’ering, crystal bubble,
Floating on the summer’® air,
Is a maiden’s fame for virtue,
Jewel of all jewels rare.
But a breath—and gone the bubble,
Never more to be the same;
B.uf a whispered word of scandal—
Gone the maiden’s spotless fame.
False may be the direful rumor;
Pure in heart may be the inaid;
But a heartless world will whisper,
And the forfeit must be paid.
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
To ask a man to pay a bill is as easily
said as dim.
The outlook in Washington— the ob
servatory.
Charity begins at home, and ends in
a foreign mission society.
The only trip some people have taken
the past summer was on a banana skin.
A WORM in the is worth two
in the month.
They called the old man a “ rattling”
<ood talker because his teeth were loose.
“ To be continued in our next,*’ as the
fond young mother said after rehearsing
the woes of her first-born.— N. K Mail.
To use the new machines or the old,
fashioned washboards? Aye, there’s the
rub.
A mercenary wretch who courted a
rich blind girl, said he worshiped an eye
dull.
SHE certainly had a pretty foot, but
after all it didn’t make half so much im
pression on him as the old man’s.
Cincinnati school boy’s thought:
“ Wonder whether Napoleon ever sat
down on a pin without hollerin’?”—
Andrew’s Bazar.
It doesn’t require any very hard
blows to pound a man into a jelly, if the
jelly be not too solid.— Cincinnati Satur
day Bi'y/it.
The reason that some men can writ*
such hard, bitter things, must be that
most ink is usually made of iron and
gall-
The girl who is sweet enough to be
called a “dough nut” before she is mar
ried, is usually sweet enough to be a
“do naught” afterwards.
A friend of ours remarks that the
reason the softer sex call the men bears,
is because they hug the girls so tight.
Logic by the armful.
“So ends my tail,” as the bee said to
the boy, at the same time giving him a
practical illustration of how he con
ducted business.
A little boy came to his mother re
cently and said: “Mamma, I should
think that if I was made of dust I
would get muddy inside when I drink.”
.1 ames I'A rton and Bob Ingersoll have
joined hands. They are satisfied there
is no heaven, because Sankey says
“There’ll be no Parton there,”
--w.-v x« x ji,nrumr rter v o
been a coachman ami put her under tho
’bus— OU City Derrick.
We are ottering a chromo for a book
agent who is not selling the finest work
ever before presented for public pat
ronage.
Many persons believe all the snake
stories printed in the newspapers, and
refuse to place any credence in the ser
pent story to be found in the first chap
ters of the Bible. — Norristown Herald.
He said he wanted her to be his help
meet, and she replied that she could
never be more than assister to him.—
Poston Post.
The New Orleans Picayune says: It
takes twenty able-bodied men to stand
and look at one poor little sign painter
while he is at work.
The Paris fashion of ladies taking tea
in bonnets and gloves doesn’t seem
absurd toa country boy who often drinks
water from his hat.
A Chicago man’s nightmare turned
out to be the shadow of his wife’s foot
on the bedroom wall, instead of an un
earthly monster with five horns.
“It is easier to raise a beard than
raise a dime,” said a young Old citizen,
who has stopped shaving.— Oil City
Derrick,
“ Yes,” said Johnny, “ lapsus may be
the Latin for ‘ slip,’ but I notice that
when mother laps us it usually means a
slipper.”
“ I called twice and found you out,”
said Mrs. Jones. “Very good,” said
Mrs. Smith; “ I had to call but once to
find you out.”
“ Down in Maryland there is a black
man who is turning white. We can
match it. The other evening we saw a
White girl turn red.”
A Meriden man has a mule called
“ Confusion.” And every time he licks
it, it only makes confusion worse, con
found it.
A hardware clerk who was a little
green at the business sent a couple of
lifting jacks round to a customer who
ordered a pair of razors.
Olive Logan says: “I saw George
Eliot walking in the Regent Park the
other day. How sad and ill she does
look, to be sure. I hear her physicians
say she must never produce another
novel!” , , , .
The gang of burglars .who work for
Beven straight hours to hammer a safe to
pieces to secure fourteen cents, know
how a country ministed feels next day
after a donation visit.
Scene in a restaurant: Two ladies
seated at a table. First lady to the
waiter—“ Bring me an ice-cream,
please.” Second lady—“ I’ll have an
too.” Waiter
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