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BRUNSWICK ADVERTISER,
BRUNSWICK,
GEORGIA.
TIMELY TOPICS.
A Calcutta correspondent writing cf
the maaeacre in the Log» Hffl, of the VfbT^tai" oTIto
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surveying party under Lieut. Haiccmbc,
says the heads of the slain were taken
off by the survivors to prevent their
being paraded in the villages of the
Tages, as those savages think as much
of the capnt is the American Indians
do of the scalp. The number of killed
and wounded, as near as can be ascer
tained, is eighty killed and five slightly
wounded, and fifty-two unhurt. The
Supreme government intends sending
wo regiments forward at once, when
the massacre will be avenged. The
orders to these regiments are to ester
minate, root opd branch, all of the vil
lages and villagers of what are known
as the Sanna and Ninn, and villages of
the Naga Heel tribes. The savages
number near 200, and obtained access
to the camp of the surveyors under
pretence of bringing presents to the
officers and selling provisions, etc., to
the remainder of the party.
The emperor of Russia, in view of
-the possible war resulting from his
ambitions march into Central Asia, is
desirous of keeping all bis people at
home, that he may have the full
strength of his empire to use in emer
gency. Recognizing the fact that the
Mennonites were slipping beyond the
sphere of his influence, and wonld s r on
be established in the United States, he
has modified the military law and con
fined the follower} of Menno to the
civil service only, and has even per
mitted them to elect what branch of that
service thoy will enter. This unusual
liberality has induced many Menno
nites, who were contemplating emigrat
ing, to remain. The whole number of
this people now in Russia is only 95,000,
128,000 haviDg settled in the United
States during the past two or three
years.
Ninety-six estimates at $5 each were
entered, making the pool $180. The
grand total of estimates was 263,541,•
S08, and the average of all 3,826,751.
The lowest of the estimates was 3,579,-
990, and the highest 3,935,000. Most
of the estimates fell between 3,800,000
and 3,900,000. The estimate nearest
that made by the New Orleans cotton
seasou,
will win tne pool, less X) per cent.,
which is to go to the Memphis cotton
exchange. Three cf the estimates
called for 3,777,777 bales.
Early in February there were rumors
of an epidemic raging in Mexico which
resembled oholera, and congress appro
priated $2,000 to defray the expenses of
a medical officer of the army to inves
tigate its extent and character. The
surgeon general has not thought it
worth while to detail anyone on this
errand, but the recent outbreak of yel
low fever at Key West is likely to
change his views of the sanitary situa
tion.
The Chicago Tribune indignantly de
nies that Moody and Sankey are making
money out of the evangelical tour, as
has been charged. It says: “ No
charges of the kind have been for a
moment entertained in Chicago, where
the reputation for integrity of Messrs.
Moody and Sankey needs no vindica
tion, and where the worst that has been
alleged against them touches only the
method of their revival-work and its
value.”
Archbishop McCloskey having been
raised to the dignity of cardinal,
it will be etiquette for him always to
appear in a costume some portion of
which Bhall be scarlet. This is sup
posed to symbolize the special readi
ness of dignitaries of that class to shed
their blood for the good of the church
The full dress of a cardinal is one o
the most gorgeous and striking costumes
worn.
THE SERENADE.
BY AUSTIN DOBSON.
A gondolier stood at» gondola door.
In an attitude very much prized of yore,
(He bad tried at a dozen of tune* or more
Tbat morn, by tbe light of a candle).
And now, “ while the moon o’er the waters played,”
He treated hla love to a serenade:
(For this was t e amateur gondolier’s trade
In the City of Bridges and Scandal).
Blanca 1 Blanca!
The moon Is asleep;
Through red-pillared Venice
The gondolas sweep,
From shadow to cliailuw
And matamorea creep;
Ana I sual to ybiir casement
To whfcpcr-to weep;—
Tir.k-hr.k, .
Tink-tink, tink-a-tink.
Bianca! Blanca 1
If e’er in your sleep
Tbe sound of a sighing
Come np from the deep,
’Tie the voice of your lover,
Wto always will come
Back, back to your casement—*
Tink-tink, tmk-a-turn,
Tink-tink tink-a-tinka,
Bianca, Blanc—
But here he remembered
■ In midst of his song
That the words he was singing
Were utterly wrong;
Tbat tbe lady he wanted
Had changed her address; >
That this was a “ Jolla”
And- Here was a mess 1
Bat worse- as be opened
His eyes at the thought
(in singing he shut them
As good Bingers ought),
Miss “ Jolla” was looklDg
Down into the tide,
And more-she was looking
Down on him beside.
—Evening Hourt.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
’Tis all She Wants
A seal-.'kin sack and a camel s hair shawl.
Diamonds, rubies and ermine;
A brown stone bouse and marble hall,
And a beau to dance the German.
The state carriage of Cardinal Mc-
Closky was placed on exhibition in New
York last week by the manufacturer.
It is an eight Bpring Berlin coach'of
unpretending appearance, but of the
finest workmanship. Its weight is 1,605
pounds. The body is black, while the
running part is paicted a very dark
green. It is lined with blue aud gteen
satin. But few mountings are nsed.
The handles of the doors and settings
of lamps are of plain po’ished silver.
The Cardinal’s coat of arms has been
handsomely emblazoned oa the doors,.
It consists of a shield vert, bearing
these orosslets, argent on chevron gnles
between two stars in chief and a flower
de luce in bas. The crest is a double
orosslet. The carriage will be drawn on
state occasions by heavy black horses,
with silver mounted harness. The har
ness cost $30,000.
The balance of trade, as made np
from the mere returns of imports and
exports, reckoning the latter at their
specie value, was about $8,000,000 in
our favor for the calendar year 1873,
and about $65,000,000 in onr favor for
tbe year 1874, according to the returns
just issued. The imports fell off about
$45,000,000, and the exports increased
about $13,000,000.' Of tbe decrease in
imports $14,500,000, and of the increase
in exports, $10,000,000 was in specie.
The merchandise balance for 1874
comes very near an even thing, exports
and imports each footing up about
$550,000,000 gold.
A fool for estimates of the cotton
crop now marketing was closed at the
Memphis cotton exchange Thursday.
The Washington national monument
association has issued an addresd to the
people of the United States, urging a
united and determined popular move
ment for the completion of the work
which the society has begun and thus
far sustained. It is the desire and aim
of the society that the monument be
completed on tbe one hundredth anni
versary of tbe nation’s birth.
Possibly the grief of the ladies of
the treasury department over the resig
nation of Gen. Spinner was owing to
the fact that the general’s retirement
will compel the employes to count every
dollar in the treasury vaults. There
are more than one hundred millions
there.
How Some Men Have Risen
There is a decrease of one million of
tons of coal in the amount carried from
the Sclinylkill and Lehigh regions.
Pennsylvania this year as compared
with last year. This shortage is due to
the unprecedented suspension of work
on account of the strikes among the
miners.
The restoration of flogging to the
roll of British punishments for such
offenses as wife-beating and gar-
Tweed began as a brash maker, at
j ourneyman’s wages. Had he remained
at his trade and continued honest, hiB
native talent wonld have insured wealth
—but he arose to a dizzy height, and
then suddenly fell. “Hank Smith,
who died in his official career of police
commissioner, began as a driver on tbe
Erie canal, and reached at one time a
membership in the ring which gave him
(as it was estimated) a million. Of this
but little is left, and his widow is living
in a distant village. The late police
superintendent, Jourdan, began as a
newspaper folder in the service of the
Tribune. He was in the office of su
perintendent for three years, and left
an estate worth, as it is said, $200,600.
The salary of this office is $7,500, bnt
the facility of receiving bribes enables
tbe incumbent to get rich rapidly. It
has been said that Jourdan knew the
Becret of the Nathan horror, and that
an enormons fee secured a pledge of
immnnity in favor of the guilty parties.
Another man who has risen from
poverty to wealth is Brown, the noted
sexton of Grace churob. He began
life as a carpenter, but being of a portly
turn he found the trade laborious, and
obtained an appointment as inspector
of carriages. Next be was made sexton
of Grace church, and for twenty years
he has had all tbe patronage of that
rioh society. He is extensively em
ployed to manage social reunions and
receptions, in which branch he is an
adept He kaB the ran of all the fash
ionable young men, and many a $5
note is handed him to refresh his mem
ory when invitations are to be circu
lated. Snob a man may assist a friend
to an entrance into a certain class of
society, if not into tbe best. In this
manner Brown, though occupying a
second-rate position, is in fact an auto
crat among many of tbe fashionable
world, at least in that which is next to
the crente de la creme. Instead of
shoving the plane at $15 a week, he now
has a country seat, and is estimated at
a quarter million.
Oliver Oharlick, who is now president
of the Long Island railroad, and is
considered a millionaire, began busi
ness as the keeper of a grocery on the
wharf, \there the profits of the orgies
of sailors aud longshoremen gave him
both money and political influence.
rotting is being seriously discussed. It- Oharlick was at one time a leader in the
is argued that those who persist in.
taking a physical view of humanity can
be best instructed by a vigorous ap
plication of their own principles.
The early appearance of the yellow
fever at Key West has created great
excitement all over the country. It is
reported as prevailing in an epidemic
form in Havana.
The German banks of Nett York state
that the impending panic in Berlin is
caused by a large advance in prices,
and the reported failures by parties
being short at Frankfort.
A front row box at tbe opera,
Whenever I wanted to go;
A neat conpe and landan, too,
Apd meals- a la Delmonico.
Then in summer go to Newport,
With dresses rich and many;
And tA sab my name in the fashion report,
OTiile pa hands out the money.
—“We find the prisoner not guilty,
but the kissing business must be stop
ped !” was a verdict rendered by a
Charlton (N. Y.) jury in a case of do
mestic trouble.
—A Chicago man thinks that the
worst speller ought to get the diction
ary, and the winner shonld have a
“wreath of sorrel, or some other garden
sass, like them Greeks,”
—The prodnotion of raisins from
California grapes is a growing business
and is strongly nrged as likely te be of
great profit. The white mnseat of
Alexandria is named as the best raiBin
grape.
—Among the numerous phases of
orime daily developed, did you ever
bear of anything equal to the act of the
Jersey City man arrested for forgery,
who says be did it in order to be sent
to tbe state prison to escape from his
wife!
As an illustration of the limitless
number of combinations which the
three primary colors are capable of, it
may be interesting to know that in the
Gobelin tapestry manufacture 28,000
distinct shadings of yarn are employed,
each one distinguished by tbe praoticed
eye.
—A French soldier is to be punished
with death for insulting an upstart offi
cer. This gives Victor Hugo an oppor
tunity to thus compare the case with
that of Bazaine ; Having sold his flag,
having surrendered his army, having
betrayed bis country—life; having
Btrnck his corporal—death !”
—Messrs. Moody and Sankey do not
meet with entire approval in their re
vival labors. The London Athenmum
says there is more curiosity than reli
gion in the crowds they attract, and
ompares Mr. Sank ey’s singing to a
ostermonger’s cries.
Jean Valjean—
A merry wight, fond of hia ease,
While he Bings his songs and strokes his knees,
And light as the air which sways the leaves,
Is Joan Valjean, the cobbler.
Through the summer’s day he sits and sings
Of the olden days and of ancient things,
Of the dames of yoro and of bygone kings—
Sings Jean Valjean, the cobbler.
The birds are Binging in every tree
Till the air is filled with the melody
Of song as light and gay and free
As Jean Valjoan’e, the cobbler.
With the waning shadows the bird in its nest,
And Jefin in his cot, each seek the rest
Which sweet sleep brings, with no cares op
pressed,
Ah! happy Jean, the cobbler.
—Mr. Valentine, the sculptor, has
nearly completed the life-size recumbent
statue of the late Gen. Lee, and it will
be placed over tbe contemplated mau
soleum at LexiDgton. Mr. Valentine
modeled a bust of the general from life
in 1870, and after the hero’s death it
was determined that he should be se-
ected to execute the statne.
—“ Well, Uncle Billy, don’t you want
any more civil rights !” “ Not any ting
mo’, I tank you, ’ ’ replied Billy. ‘ ‘ Near
ly done raind now. Hev to pay my
own doctor’s bill, lost all my money in
the Freedman's bank, ntbber got uo
forty acres an’ de mule dey promised
me, an' can’t help myself to a little
chicken, fryin’ size, widout gwine to de
penitentiary. I’se got ’nuff cibbil
rights 1”
—The London Sporting Gazei te, ref er-
city government, and this was a rich j ring to the statement that the Emperor
source of plunder. Ol course he be-; William has forbidden the exDortation
came wealthy. These results, and @f horses beyond the German'frontier*
others which could be referred to,
show what curious changes occur amid
the sooial revolntions of a great city.
— Scientists now tell ns that the in
roads of grasshoppers into the north
west, of late years, is dne trainly to the
havoc made among* tho prairie hens,
which are slaughtered by tens of thou
sands every year to gratify the epicures
of this country and Europe. The
prairie chickens nsed to “absorb” the
grasshoppers before the latter reached
the settlements, bnt they are no longer
equal to the emergency.
says; "This startling announcement
heralds a revolution, the results of
whijh are likely to very seriously affect
the horse trade in England, as three-
fourths of the carriage and draft horses
in London at this moment have been
imported from Germany, Moreover,
we are dependent on Germany in a very
arge degree for our troop-horses, and
it is not clear whence we shall obtain
the necessary supply now that we are
shut out from Germany, especially as
both France and Spain are also in want
of troop-horses, tho former requiring
10,000, and the latter 5,000.