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TMB CONSTITUTIONAUST
SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1875.
The Rome Bonds.
Elsewhere, wo publish the report of
the Financial Committee of the city of
Rome, Ga., which is anything but a
flattering exhibit, and upon which is
based tho following editorial in the
Courier: -
The attention of the public at home
and abroad, those Interested in our
city bonds, is called to the report of
the Financial Committee, from which
it will be seen that our debt is very
large and perhaps beyond oar re
sources to pay. This debt was con
tracted, as is well known, for the bene
fit of certain enterprises which failed
in consequence of the great panic of
1873, and which brought ruin to the
whole country in its crash, entailing
upon every department of enterprise
and all kinds of business a stagnation
and depression unknown to the histo
ry of this country.
Had it not been for the panic and its
results, the great enterprise which the
principal part of the debt of Rome was
contracted, would have doubtless been
completed and saved the city from the
disaster which is now crushing out her
energy and discouraging her people.
The crash came just at a time when
certain projects were on foot that would
have made Rome one of the most pros
perous anti progressive cities in tho
South. Her future was bright and her
people were looking forward with hope
to the time when the obligations of the
city would have been met with all
promptness. The financial distress
paralyzed her iron interests and crip
pled her resources at every point.
But what are we to do, and what will
bondholders do in the premises? Our
opinion is that our city authorities
should go to work at once and see if
the debt of the city may not be amica
bly compromised without further ex
pensive litigation and annoyance. Let
the bondholders be honestly told that
the people of Rome are willing to do
the best they can to save them from
actual loss. Bondholders will act wise
ly in compromising and settling on tho
best terms possible consistent with a
proper regard for the interests of both
debtor and creditor.
In matters of this sort between hon
est debtors and creditors it is best to
be frank and candid. It is best for
Rome to say at once what she can do
towards Ihe payment of her debt, and
it is equally best that those holding
her obligations should act discreetly
and settle on the best terms possible.
If they can get the amount they paid
for Rome city bonds, without Interest,
they will do well to accept such terms
of compromise, save much trouble and
expense to the city and loss to them
selves.
We believe the people of Rome are
willing to pay every dollar of the city’s
debt to the extent of their crippled re
sources. They can do no more: and
we respectfully suggest to tne city au
thorities the importance of a movement
looking to an honorable and fair com
promise.
If bondholders will meet the people
of Rome in a spirit of compromise, we
believe they will gladly submit to tax
ation on the basis of last year and the
most rigid economy in the administra
tion of the city’s affairs in order to
prove their good faith in sacrificing
efforts to meet their obligations.
[Special Telegram to the N. O. Times.
A MISSISSIPPI TRAGEDY.
The Terrible Murder of the Borum
Family at Shannon, Miss.—Five
Persons Slaughtered in Cold B 1 ood.
Memphis, January 3.—The particu
lars of the burning of the Borum fa
mily, near Shannon, on the Mobile and
iio Railroad, on Saturday last, prove
•}d a doubt that the horrible crime
“ work of negroes, as stated in
dispatch. Facts developed
hao news first received prove that
jK, his wife, two little children and
ro boy were first murdered iu the
je, and the building then fired in
half-dozen places. On Saturday,
Borum, who had just received seven
hundred dollars, was in the store of
Mr. Whitesides, at Shannon, and being
asked by him for a loan of three hun
dred dollars, told Whitesides he would
bring him the money on Monday and
started home; his house being a mile
and a half west of Shannon, his nearest
neighbor being half a mile from him.
The next heard of him or his family
was that they had been murdered and
their bodies burned by negro robbers.
When the first person arrived at the
scene they found Borum’s remains a
few feet from a doorway, a part of his
heart and liver in one mass, some
brains in the back part of the skull,
together with one or two molten bul
lets, and by these a pistol, which had
been discharged, and Borum’s knife
open in a corner of the room where a
bed stood. The remains of Mrs. Bo
rum were found with those of. her
youngest child, aged between two and
three years, clasped in her arms ; and
a few feet distant were the bones of the
eldest child, aged five years. Near the
fire-place were found the remains of a
negro boy. The presumption Is that
the perpetrators of the foul deed made
some pretext on Sunday night to in
duce Borum to open his door, when
they rushed in upon and shot him;
that he fired at them without effect
and then defended himself with his
kuife, but was shot and killed, and
that after outraging Mrs. Borum, she
and the children, with the negro boy,
were butchered in cold blood.
After plundering the house it was
fired in different places, and the mur
derers then left, locking tho door and
oarrying the key with them. Up to the
present time the whole affair is wrap
ped in mystery, and no clue has been
discovered that will Jg&d to the dis
covery of the perpetrators of the deed,
except tifcfiWifree negro men were In
_ Whiteside's store, and heard the re
quest for money and the reply; but,
strange to say, no effort has yet been
made to arrest these negroes. Consid
erable excitement exists at Shannon
and in the vicinity, and should the
murderers be found the people will
take the law into their own hands,
fails lipMiiiil
[San Francisco Chronicle, a3d.
THE BONANZA FEVER.
Exciting Scenes at the San Fran
cisco Stock Exchange—Realization
of Silvery Dreams—Astounding Re
port of a Mining Engineer.
The stock excitement continued yes
terday at fever heat. The crowd upon
the street was larger than on any pre
vious day since the flurry commenced,
filling California street, between Mont
gomery and Sansome, and extending
for a square east and west of California
on Montgomery street. It surged up
and down and around the corners like
the waves of a tumultuous sea. Many
were idlers, but most were operators
to a greater or less extent. People
went about pale and excited, but hope
ful. Those who had made from
$25,000 to $500,000, walked the streets
hardly distinguishable from other peo
ple, except that their bearing was a
little more erect, and their attire newer
and tidier. They condescended even
to speak now and then to old friends
who hadn’t made a cent. At any spot
where a curbstone sale was attempted
the streets became absolutely impassa
ble. The board-room was a little more
of a pandemonium than ordinary, the
excitement culminating when the high
priced stocks were called in the most
noisy and demonstrative lunacy, and
subsiding occasionally into a subdued
rattle of a peck of coyotes. Things
never ceased to be lively.
On the street in the forenoon, stocks
were apparently as strong as at the
close on Monday evening, Ophir going
to $220 and $225. When the Board
met, however, there was a marked
change—many of the strongest claims
falling away heavily. Ophir opened at
$197.50, and before the call was ended
declined to $175, but recovered a little,
and closed at about SIBO. California
sold as low as $450, and Consolidated
Virginia for $430, comparatively few
shares changing hands. Best & Belch
er ranged between $52 and $59, both
figures an advance over Monday’s
prices. Savage sold as high as $135, a
gain of $lO. Hale & Norcross was $3
better than the day before, getting up
to S6B. Chollar advanced to $95, a
gain of $5. Mexican, notwithstanding
that Ophir was so weak, rose to S4O,
an advance of $9 over previous quota
tions. Empire Mills and Imperial were
both weak, each showing a decline of
$2 a share. Challenge was $1 less than
on Monday, ar.d Kentucky $3. There
were wide margins iu Crown Point and
Yellow Jacket, though there was no
extra amount of business in either of
them. Yellow Jacket sold from $166
down to $l5B, the lower figure a falling
off of sl2 from Monday. Crown Point
ranged from $49 to $42.50, which, com
pared with the highpst price in the
previous call, was $lO off. Belcher de
clined as much as Crown Point, but the
fluctuations on the call were not so
ffreat, ranging from $47 to $45. Union
Cousolidal ed advanced from SBS to
S6O, a small sale marking $92. On the
street, after the Board last evening,
the stocks that were off in the morning
nearly, if not quite, recovered from
their set-back, Ophir being in demand
at $l9O and Consolidated Virginia at
$490.
The project of increasing the capital
stock of the Union consolidated, which
has been talked of for some days, has
at length assumed shape, and a meet
ing of stockholders is called for Janu
ary 23, to vote on a proposition to divi
de the present 20,000 shares into 100,-
000, par value SIOO.
REASONS GIVEN FOR THE REACTION.
The decline in the leading stocks
seems susceptible of rational explana
tion. It was probably only the ebbing
of the wave, which at the next Impulse
of the tide will advance still further up
the shore—at least all those who were
largely interested regarded it in that
light. No one seemed astonished or
alarmed. It was remarked that the
experience of every Tuesday for the
last month has been the same as yes
terday’s—a slight fall, from which there
has followed, in every instance, an
almost immediate reaction. Before the
afternoon board was called the exultant
bulls, sitting with their legs dangling
over their desks, offered to bet freely
that the favorite stocks would go
higher before they would again de
cline. Smiley said he would bet $5,000
that Consolidated Virginia would go up
SSOO before it would go down SSO. —
There were no takers. There was un
doubtedly some unloading, but the
reasons for it were variously explained.
It was reported that a Front street
merchant, having made liis “pile,” dis
posed of SIOO,OOO worth of various
stocks. Others, it is presumed, sold
out. because they thought they had
enough ; others from au indefinite idea
that the crisis was almost come and
they might as well realize in time. In
times like these the financial pulse is
always and easily affected.
Shares in the leading Nevada mines
attained a figure on Monday that might
render the date forever memorable in
the mining annals of the Pacific coast,
were it not that the onward tendency
of the market seems prophetic of still
higher prices, when the grr,at Comstock
problem shall have been fully demon
strated. Monday consolidated Vir
ginia sold at SSOO per sbaro—a gain of
$lO5 from Saturday—highest board
price; California sold at SSOO, again of
$174 in the same period; and Ophir
sold at $195, a gain of $73. In the face
of such startling advances men stand
fairly paralyzed. The cause of the
steady advance in the price of these
stocks, which has been going on for
weeks past, is the continued marvelous
developments of wealth which have
been made In the consolidated Virginia
mine, the value of which has increased
at the average rate of $1,000,000 a day
for the past seventeen days. Since the
Ist of December the value of the Cali
fornia mine has increased at the aver
age rate of $2,369,706 per day!
THE SURPRISING ADVANCE
noted on Monday, however, was caused
by the report of a rich strike in the
eastern workings of the Ophir mine—
the discovery of an ore body having the
same general characteristics of the Con
solidated Virginia. This is regarded by
mining men as conclusive evidence that
the great bonanza extends throughout
the whole length of the California
claim— 6oo feet—into the Ophir ground,
and indefinitely northward, the Lord
only knows how far.
In the light of the most recent de
velopments, what a few weeks ago ap
peared to be the delirious ravings of
super-heated enthusiasts begin to look
like the sober calculations of unimagi
native mathematics. Mr. Sharon’s
modest estimate of $380,000,000 as the
v ilue of the great bonanza already im
peaches him as an unskillful cipherer,
and the very men who but twelve days
ago ridiculed bis estimate have now no
jeer for Mr. Deidsheimer, a mining en
gineer of large experience, who, wjth
unbounded faith in the probabilities,
sets the thing at merely $1,500,000,0001
AUGUSTA, G--A... SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY 10, 1875.
Prodigious figures, whose bare com
prehension strains ordinary arithmeti
cal capacity.
A reporter of a contemporary on
Monday interviewed Mr. Deidesheimer,
who returned last Saturday from Vir
ginia City, whither he had gone to in
spect the mines referred to. The re
porter asked:
DEIDESHEIMER’g VISIONN OF WEALTH.
“Did you go through all of the
mines—Consolidated, California and
Ophir ?”
“ No; through Consolidated Virginia
and the California drifts. After seeing
them a man don’t want to see any
more mines.”
“ What do you think of them ?”
“ Well, I hardly know whether I
ought to say ; if I do, people will set
me down as a crazy man—just as they
did when, a couple of months ago, I
told them California and Consolidated
Virginia would go to S3OO before tho
close of 1875.”
“ But the headers of the Post would
like to know anyhow ; they can draw
their own' conclusions.”
“ Well, nothing like these mines has
ever been seen or heard or dreamed of
in the world before. They are richer
than I can tell.”
“ How rich are they ?”
“ Well, there is one pillar in the Con
solidated Virginia that contains, ac
cording to my calculations, seventy
million dollars.”
“Seventy million dollars! That is
enormous.”
“ Yes, but that is nothing. I tell you
that nothing like it has been heard of
or dreamed of before, and when a man
goes through the mine, as I have done,
and makes his calculations, the result
is simply astounding.”
“Well, what is the result of your
calculations ? ”
“ Allowing 500 feet for the depth of
the ore body, I calculate that there is
in these mines $1,500,000,000 worth of
bullion.”
“But is there any justification for
believing the ore body extends that
deep ? ”
“ It has already been exposed to the
depth of 200 feet; and from the un
failing indications horizontal and ver
tical exposed by the different cross
cuts—indications of the kind which
have marked every body yet found on
the Comstock, aud every other body
of which I know anything—l am satis
fied that the depth of ore body Mill far
exceed 600 feet.”
IN THE CROWN POINT
the ore in the widest part was but 168
feet and not over 550 feet in length, yet
it went to the depth of 600 feet. This
ore body, as we know now, is at least
1,700 feet long. The depth of an ore
body is always proportionate to its
length.”
“ But fifteen hundred millions is an
enormous sum.”
“I know it is. But there has never
been anything like this before. It will
not be long before oxperts aud mining
capitalists will be Hocking from all
parts of the world to see this wonder
ful bonanza. Flood, O’Brien, Mackey
and Fair will be the richest men in the
world.”
“Richer than the Rothschilds ?”
“Yes ; richer than any one in Europe
or America. I don’t know how rich the
Khedive of Egypt is, or how great
some of the great Indian or Chinese
fortunes may be, but these men, in a
few years, will be richer than any one
in Europe or America, not excluding
the Rothschilds.”
“What prices do you think these
stocks will attain ?”
“Well, you can judge for yourself
from what I have told you ; but I am
satisfied that it will not be long before
people will be talking of thousands in
stead of hundreds.”
“Are you interested in these mines,
Mr. Deidesheimer?” >
“ Yes; I have somo stock and have
ordered some more this morning ; but
I have nothing to what I would have
had if my friends would have acted on
the information I gave them months
ago, beginning when California stood
at S6O, Consolidated Virginia at $76,
and Ophir at S3B. Now California
stands at $5lO, Virginia at SSOO, and
Ophir, including the Mexican dividend,
at $224.”
People may well smile incredulously
at
THE EXTRAVAGANT FIGURES
of Mr. Deidesheimer, despite his early
Freyburg training aud his later Com
stock experiences. It is quite likely
that Mr. D. has “ some speck ” —in
fact, a great deal—and that his hopes
have run away with his judgment.—
Yet there seems to be no reasonable
doubt that all former estimates of this
immense discovery have been under
stated. Whatever may be the ulti
mate amount realized from this mine
ral wonder, this “ heart of Comstock,”
enough is unquestionably demonstrated
now to prove that it will pour into the
lap of San Francisco a sum equal to
the total existing wealth of the city.
A Small Bor’s Composition.—Tobac
co grows like cabbages, but I never
saw none of it boiled, although I have
eaten boiled cabbage with vinegar on
it; and I have heard men say that the
cigars that was given them on election
day for nothing was cabbage leaves.
Tobacco stores are mostly kept by
wooden Injuns, who stand at the door
to try to fool little boys by offering
them a bunch of cigars, which is glued
to the Injun’s hands, and made of
wood also. Hogs do not like tobacco,
neither do I. I tried to smoke a cigar
once, and it made me feel like Epeom
salts. Tobacco was invented by a man
named Walter Raleigh. When the
people saw him smoking they thought
it was a steamboat, and as they had
never seen such a steamboat, they was
frightened. My sister Nancy is a girl.
I don’t know whether she likes tobacco
or not. There is a young man named
Leroy. He was standing on the steps
one night, and he had a cigar in his
mouth, and he said ho didn’t know as
she would like it, and she said:
“Leroy, the perfume is agreeable.”
But the next morning when my big
brother Tom lighted his pipe, Nancy
said :
“Go out of the house, you horrid
creature ; the smell of tobacco makes
me sick.”
Snuff is Injun meal made out of to
bacco. I took a little snuff once and
then I sneezed.
A Couple of Conundrums.— -The Bos
ton Globe inquires: “Have you noticed
that in all the estimates of the cost of
living given us, the cost of the clothes
of the ‘man of the house’ Is almost In
variably set down at S3OO, or there
abouts, and that that of the madam’s
varies from SBOO to $3,000 ? A singular
j fact, is it not ?”
And the Toledo Blade rejoins : “Ti ue
enough. But when it costs three tln.es
as much to clothe a woman as it does
to clothe a man, why is it that every
body expects the woman to labor ior
less than half the wage3 which the man
receives for the same work ?”
[New York Times,
CORA STANLEY.
The Old Love Story Set with New
Names—The Funeral of an Actress.
She turned her face to the wall and
simply said, “I want to die and as
she spoke those words her life came to
an end. Yesterday she was buried iu
Greenwood Cemetery. Her career from
the moment when, as Therese Therand,
she captivated young Paris, until her
death on Friday in this city, under the
name of Cora Stanley, is public pro
perty. On one occasion alone did sho
nearly betray her incognito. One
of her friends heard her sing “Je
l’aime! Je l’aime ! O Bretagne ! ”
He said, “ Why, Therese, you
must be a Breton.” Her eyes filled
with tears, and she hastily left the
saloon. When he sought her he found
that she was crying bitterly, and she
said, “ Dear friend, never speak to me
in that way again; you make me so
sad.” She was compelled to leave
Paris, and decided to make her home
on this contiment. Before her depar
ture she gave to her friends and com
panions in Paris a grand farewell ban
quet, at which she bade them farewell.
She left France with 800,000 francs,
$160,000. The next heard of her was
at Havana, where she lived in magni
ficent style.
In Havana a young and handsome
actor named Gomez fell deeply in love
with her. She loved him with as
much sincerity. One night, after the
performance in the Tacon Theatre,
where he was playing:, Gomez went
with Therese to her residence, and
proposed to marry her. At first she
.aughed at him, but seeing that he
meant what he said, she reasoned with
him, and said that if she married his
prospects in life would be ruined, and
she loved him too dearly to do that.—
The infatuated young man went to his
hotel and blew out his brains. He left
a note addressed to Therese, saying
that he found life unendurable without
her, and that he would not forget her
even iu death. When the news of his
suicide was broken to her she was
seized with brain fever, and for some
weeks was at the door of death. She
recovered to find herself almost a beg
gar.
During her illness her maid had stol
en all her jewelry, and fled to the
mountains with another servant. She
then sold her house in Havana, came
to this city, and assumed the name of
Cora Stanley. She dispensed charity
with no niggard hand, and the poor
and starving never went away hungry
from her door. To the charitable so
cieties she gave largely, and to the
shame of the officers of one be it said
when she needed aid at their hands
she found it not. At last her star be
gan to set. Consumption seized upon
her. The most eminent physicians in
the city could not avert her death. For
three years she lingered on. Two years
ago she found her wealth gone, and
was compelled to take a room in au ob
scure French hotel. She died in decent
poverty.
[Rome Courier.
ROME BONDS.
Report of Finance Committee.
To the Mayor and Council:
Gents : Your committee have exam
ined tho Clerk’s, Tax Collector and
Treasurer’s reports and their books of
accounts, and are pleased to report
their books corroctly kept, and that
comparing them with each other their
balance sheets correspond.
From these reports it appears that
the sum total of receipts for the past
year amounts to $45,260.14, and the
sum total of disbursements amounts to
$45,260.14.
Of the $45,260.14 there was credited
on city drafts in payment of dues to the
city, the sum of $4,808.3, the Treasurer
receiving the balance of $40,452.11, of
which a,mount there remains in the
Treasury the sum of $573.36.
Of the receipts there has been
collected on account of
taxes ad valorem $28,397 48
Taxes for streets 1.754 20
Taxes for licenses 8 463 18
Taxes on sales 2,937 48
Taxes for water rents 2,413 90
Sales of burial lots 534 35
Storage of powder 144 09
City Hall rent 200 50
Fines 153 05
Sale of lumber, carts, mule
and brick 221 65
Commission on sales for 1873. 40 24
$45,260 14
Of the taxes asses
sed ad valorem,
there remains
due and unpaid. $5,024 67
Of the sale of buri
al lots 500 00
Of the street tax, •
approximate 500 00
Of the tax on sales,
approximate 5,000 00
Of the other claims
standing over... 1,709 36
$17,709 36
The unpaid liabilities are as follows :
Interest on bonds up to Ist
January, 1875 $17,191 67
Interest due Ist January,
1875 7,523 00
For bonds matured Ist Sep
tember, 1874 1,000 00
Outstanding floating debt... 2,200 00
27,914 67
The aggregate shows liabili
ties unpaid $27,914 67
And solvent assets uneollect
rr,e(l: :-; 13,709 86
lhe total principal of the
deb t is 408,500 00
Of which matures Ist
January, 1880 $107,500
Ist January, 1881.... 66,000
Ist January, 1882 100 000
Ist January, 1883 36 000
Ist J anuary, 1891.... 100’,090
Past due Ist Septem
ber. 1874 1,000
408.500
Respectfully submitted]
Chas. H. Smite, )
T. McGuire, (-Fin. Com.
E. H. West. )
Very Adhesive.— 1 “ Really, my dear ’
said poor Mr. Jones to his better-half
“ you have sadly disappointed me. i
once considered you a jewel of a wo
man ; but you have turned out only a
bit of matrimonial paste.” “Then, my
love,” was tho reply, “ console your
self with tho idea that paste is very ad
hesive, and wlu stick to you as long as
you live.”
The fact that tho women of Illinois
are much better than the men appears
to bo emphatically demonstrated by
the fact that of the 1,357 convicts now
in the State penitentiary, at Joilet,
only fifteen are females
[Brighton, England, Cor. Chicago Tribune.
ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE
GOSSIP.
Lord Byron’s Descendants and the
Curse Upon Them.
LADY WENTWORTH.
At the Rink one often sees many of
the celebrities of Brighton; for some
times there are as many as 2,000 peo
ple, skaters and spectators, there at
one time, and among such a number of
course mix many whose uames are
familiar to the public tongue. Many
times may be seen there a fair woman,
upon whose brown head falls the sun
shine yet from the eastern horizon of
life; whose oontours have a girlish
roundness, but whose features begin to
show the harsh touch of the chisel of
care. Looking upon her one would be
lieve her to be a girl yet, for her years
cannot be more than twenty-throe—one
who has been a very Psyche of girls,
and is not yet far separated from a
radiant, buoyant youth. And yet this
fair woman is one whose name has
been smirched andjiwhose fair fame
tarnished by one of the most mon
strous scandals*of fashionable English
society. She is the wife of a member
of the proudest aristocracy in the
world, who is heir to two Earldoms,
and whose woalth is so great that he
himself hardly knows its extent.
This is Lord Wentworth, son of
Lady Lovelace, who was “Ada, sole
daughter of the hearth and home ” of
the poet, Lord Byron. By the paternal
lino he will inherit the title and honors
of Lady Lovelace ; by the maternal he
came into possession of his present
one. It would seem that some dread
ful curse had fallen upon this family
to make its domestic nests foul with
toads and vipers, and all unclean
things. All the world knows the story
of Lord Byron’s domestic unhappiness,
and of the filthy depths of sensuality
from whence his poetic genius soared,
carrying so much of the grossuess of
his life upon its shining pinions. The
very word Byron is suggestive of vo
luptuous thrills, of carnal ecstasies,
and of passionate fantasies upon the
lyre that should be attuned only to'
soul born, not earth-begotten harmo
nies. Even were Mrs. Stowe’s dread
ful tale a mythical one, enough is
known of the lives of this mismated
pair to prove that there was that in
the Byron blood to poison all the sweet
waters of domestic affection with which
it tried to mingle.
byron’s daughter.
Ada Byron, the first Lady Lovelace,
was of a very peculiar temperament,
inheriting from her father the morbid
conditions which, in his case, were a
reactionary effect of emotional delu
sions, but in hers a constitutional de
pression. Hers was not a happy mar
ried life, although one free from scan
dal, and Lord Lovelace, when he was
mistaken for a servant by the pretty
widow who was afterwards his wife,
upon the hotel steps at Madrid, per
haps felt the first warmth of the re
vived emotion which Lord Byron’s
pulseless daughter had chilled to
almost death.
Lady Lovelace, Ada Byron, trans
mitted a peculiar mental constitution
to her sons. The elder, Lord Ockam,
who would have been Lord Wentworth
had he not died before tho title de
scended from the elder branch, was a
youth of many abnormal tastes and
eccentric habits. In his early youth
he abandoned his home, his luxurious
habits, and all the refined associations
of his rank, and worked for months In
a blacksmith shop. Later in life he
married a publican’s daughter, and It
is not unreasonable to suppose that
the curse of his race, a domestic
blight, or tragedy, -would have come
also to him had he not died soon after
his marriage. Dying childless, the ti
tle, which is now Lord Wentworth’s,
passed over him to Lady Lovelace’s
second son, who now bears it.
LORD WENTWORTH.
And now this son, Lord Wentworth,
rich, noble, only thirty two, and the
husband of a wife so beautiful that,
when she appeared a bride in London
assemblies, stately dowagers and Mo
thor-of-the-Gracchi matrons mounted
chairs and tables to look upon her
over intervening heads as she passed—
it would seem that he must indeed be
the man whose garment could cure the
King’s malady. But no ! marrying in
haste a beautiful girl, whoso graces
were those that enchant only the
senses, he repented at leisure, when
the glamour melted from before his
sight, and he saw that the bright eyes
had no shadowed depths, that the mer
ry laugh bespoke a vacant mind, that
the woman was but an airy nothing,
the most impalpable shimmer of a bub
ble, behind her beautiful face.
It is told of this nobleman that one
evening, going into tho theatre, he
made a bet with one of his companions
that he would marry the most beauti
ful woman at the play that night. It
chanced that the lovely daughter of a
Newcastle clergyman occupied a stall
near enough to the young men for them
to discover that she was lovely enough
to have contested for the golden apple
in the gift of Paris, and before the cur
tain had fallen upon the drama of that
night the tragedy of their lives had
begun, for Lord Wentworth determined
upon the spot to mako the fair girl his
wife. Of the subsequent appearance of
the couple in the divorce courts, of the
shameful charges brought against the
wife, who seemed to have a lover for eve
ry change of the weather, of the dreadful
counter-charges brought against the
husband, who seemed to have In him
the morbid taint of his ancestry, all
England, which has a passion for spicy
bits of aristocratic scandal, knows full
well.
And who can envy the beautiful wo
man whom we see often at the Rink,
though men rave of her beauty ?—for
a great shame lay In wait for her upon
the very threshold of her radiant wo
manhood. 1
On the 23d inst. two Southington far
mers had turkeys In New Haven, Conn.,
weighing 30>* and 31j* pounds each.
A Bethlehem man has one that weighs
46 pounds, and a Griswold farmer
marketed 116 a few days ago, the ag
gregate weight of which was 1,314
pounds, yielding by their sale the sum
of $289.08. Connecticut has considerl
ablo woight on the turkey question.
The Norwich Advertiser says : “ A
young lady, very pretty, walked around
the new road, (seven miles) in one hour
and forty-five minutes. We remem
ber escorting her around the road once
by moonlight. Time—four hours aud
forty-five minutes. But then she said
she wasn’t in a hurry. The old folks
had gone to camp-meeting.”
“Well, Pat, why don’t you put up
your umbiella?” “Because, yer hon
or, the rain would spile it, an’ so I keep
it under my arum, and divil a dhrop
its got 1”
F. O. Ticknor, of Georgia—Died De
cember, 1874.
L. E. B.
By Ticknor’s harp a vacant chair doth
stand!
The strings are broken and forever hush’d;
The sweetest singer of our Sunny land
Is gone through darkness back again to
dust.
No Troubadour who sang in France or
Spain
To Knight or lady of the olden days,
la music touch'd such soft, melodious
strain,
Or earned for minstrel Art such moed of
praise.
The art was his which Nature’s self im
parts,
The grace and spirit which a master owns:
He found his way to all the human hearts
That ever listened to his magic tones.
Sedate and simple was his liquid verse;
He won us gently by his sigh or smile:
Unformed his muse to threaten or coerce,—
No stormy vigor in the thought or style.
Alas 1 may not we murmur and complain,
That one so tuneful, though he died not
young,
Held back to perish in his heart and brain
Such wealth of song—of precious song
unsung?
EPITAPHON A DBOBASED (LOCOMOTIVE.
Collisions four or five she bore,
All patching was in vain;
Long time she rusted, at last she busted,
And smashed the excursion train.
[Southern Churchman.
. Husband and Wife.
This is such a hackneyed subject
that it is with real diffidence I approach
it, and yet the intorest I feel in young
people just starting out on “ the voy
affe of life ” induces me to try to do
them a service, by giving them some
of my old-fashioned views, together
with a little advice.
In the thrilling and popular play of
“ Divorce,” a beautiful old couple is in
troduced who had lived together in
perfect harmony for forty years, and
on being asked “ How it was possible
for people to live together so long with
out quarreling ?” the old lady replies :
“By mutually bearing and forbear
ing ?”
This is, indeed, my dear young
friends, the true source of domestic
bliss, without it even the most amia
ble people'cannot live comfortably to
gether. At times you must be blind
to the faults, and deaf to the words of
those you most truly love, remember
ing that each has an evil as well as a
better nature, and the first unkind
word or act, is as the trickling rill,
which but precedes the bursting of the
angry torrent, which sweeps all before
it.
There should be no concealments be
tween husband and wife—no secret, the
sudden revealing of which would cause
you to quail before the eye into which
you should always look fearlessly. I
do not mean that the private affairs of
friends, or the delinquencies of chil
dren or servants are to bo discussed,
these you will do well always to keep
in the background; but speak no words
or do no acts that you would not bo
willing for the other to hear or see, as
the very fact that you desire to con
ceal thorn is proof positive that they
are wrong. A man should always let
his wife know his exact pecuniary con
dition, for I do assure you that money
is one of the most frequent sources of
domestic discord.
If he is a mau of means, he should
always furnish his wife freely and
cheerfully with money, giving a little
more than her household and porsonal
expenses amount to, that she may
have a little that is her own, to do as
she like with, and not be considered
either foolish or extravagant in its ex
penditure.
None but those who have gone
through it, can tell the narrowness of
soul produced by the constant effort to
make cents do the work of dollars.
If his means are limited, he should
let his wife know exactly what they
are, and if she is a sensible woman, he
will often be surprised to find how far
she has made a little go.
When she hesitatingly asks “for a
few dollars,” lot him not give it reluc
tantly or grudgingly, or annihilate her
with the exclamation, “What! more
money 1 why it was only last week I
gave you five dollars,”—but let him
cheerfully take out his pocket-book
and divide with her, saying something
pleasant in the mean time calculated to
relieve her embarassment. The first,
method will produce a hard and resent
ful feeling that may require days or
weeks to overcome ; while the latter
will fill eye and heart with gratitude ;
and she will mentally resolve “to make
that sum go u long way,” for dear
Charles is so willing to divide. If she
is a woman of great delicacy of feeling,
it will give her “real” pain to ask for
money, and a husband ought to spare
her that necessity.
A word in your ear,|young husband.
Do not think it unmanly to show- a ten
der appreciation of your wife. You
have made every exertion to win her
heart’s beet affection, see that you
now make every effort to retain it. A
woman will “ bear all things, hope all
things, endure all things, so long as she
has the love and sympathy of hor hus
band ;” remove these, and she withers
like some tropical plant suddenly ex
posed to the rigo ns of a -northern cl i
mate: or becomes the cold, hard, !
worldly woman, that is too often met j
in society. How many women have
died whose disease, “ baffling the skill
of physicians,” was the want of loving
appreciation; therefore, love your
wife, and show her that you do so : ac
knowledge her slightest efforts to
please, and never ridicule them, how
ever they may fail. Encourage her,
praise her—you have promised “ to
love, cherish and protect hor.” See
that it was no idle promise, and all
will be well.
A whisper to you, young wife: Upon .
you devolves more nearly the duties |
and responsibilities of making the j
home for your husband. See that you !
rightly appreciate this inestimable
privilege. Do you wish your husband
to love his homo f Then make it cheer
ful and attractive. Men will not vol
untarily go where cross looks and
ciosser words await them, and when
this is the case, any temptation will
lead them astray ; but with the vision
of a cheerful, well ordered home, bright
smiles and loving words to greet him,
is there any man so lost as not to pre
fer these to the poorer enjoyments of
a club room, the bar of a tavern, or
even the lower haunts of vice ? Oh 1 if
you only realized how much your own
happiness depended upon yourself
how you would strive to attain it!
How much more frequently would lov
ing words and smiles take the place of
reproaches and tears ? How all peev
ishness and repining would be banish
ed, and hope and gladness smile in
their stead ? Make your home happy!
You are not an angel, nor have you
married, a being of another sphere, but
you can control yourself, and thereby
acquire the power of controlling others.
Let no word of reproach ever pass
your lips, either to, os of your husband ;
I bear with him, honor him, love him,
and all will be well, for in making him
happy, you will have learned the secret
of making your own happiness.
And now my dear young friends, let
mutual love, mutual forbearance
mutual unselfish ties, be the sentinels to
guard your earthly Eden ; and if you
have already “ chosen the better part ”
and declared with Joshua of old, “As
for me and my house we will serve the
Lord,” you have attained a bliss which
can only be rivaled by the joys of
heaven. Care, sorrow and affliction
must and will come, but they are only
the shadows which obscure the sun for
a time, and lead us to think of and pre
pare for the life which is to come.
FASHIONABLE!
Silk Crocket Jet Trimmings
AT CLARK’S.
JET FRINGE, JET GIMPS,
AT CLARK’S,
Jet Embroidery Cord,
Jet and Silk Buttons,
Jet and Silk Cloak Loops,
Jet and Silk Cloak Tassels,
Jet and Silk Belting,
Silk Fringe, Silk Cord,
AT CLARK’S.
Cord and Tassels, .Girdles,
Embroidery Slipper, and
Cushion Patterns,
Zephyr, Embroidery Silk,
Filling Floss, Beads,
Bugles, &c., &c.,
Worsted Ball Fringe,
New Style Corsets,
New Style Bustles,
Lace and Lisse Ruohing,
Smoked Pearl Buttons,
Leggins,
Black and other Velvets, Swan’s Down,
Ermine, Real Hair Switches,
Real Hair Curls,
Veil Lace, Veil Tissue,
Crepe Veils, English Crepe,
Crape Lisse, Crape Collars,
Beaded Belting,
Silk Belting.
DEHOREST3 RELIABLE PATTERNS.
Bracelets, Combs, Necklets, Crosses,
Chains, Silk Sashes, Silk Ties,
And many other articles.
HATS!
AU the New Styles Felt Hats.
HUNTRESS AND OTHER SHAPES.
Sash Ribbons, Hat Ribbons, Neck
Ribbons, all silk fine quality Ribbons,
Laces, Cambric Edgings, Stocking Sup
porters, Steel Buttons, Spool" Silk,
Embroidery Cord, Fur Trimmings,
Hercules Braid, Jet Arrows, Pearl
Arrows, Dress Caps, at
CLARKL’S
261 Broad Street.
febS-ly
M. P. STOVALL,
COTTON FACTOR
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
No. 5 Warren Block, Jackson Street,
CIONTINUES to give nis Dersonal atten
) tion to he STORAGE and SALE of
COTTON and other PRODUCE. Commis
aions for selling COTTON $1 per bale,
masr Liberal advances made on Conslgn
jsnten frisutu&c-Sm
Removal—The New Store.
THE undersigned, in making their sin
-1 cere acknowledgments for the liberal
patronage accorded them at 135 Broad,
would announce their removal to THE
STORE, NO. 164 BROAD, first below Maj.
Burch's shoe emporium, where, with a
largely increased Stock of Staple and
Fanoy GROCERIES and Plantation Sup
plies, they will be pleased to welcome and
serve their friends and the public generally.
We soil at Bottom Prices,
decll-tf GALVIN & JONES.
Fall and Winter, 1874.!
c. j.tTbalk,
No. 186 Broad, below Monument Street,
HAS NOW in STORE a full assortment
of Dry Goods for Fall and Winter.
Great bargains in Jeans and Oasslmeree.
Great bargains in Black Alpacas.
Good Black Silk at $1 per yard.
Velveteens, in black and colors, from 60c.
up; 1,000 Ladies’ Felt Skirts, the cheapest
in town: the best 25e. Towel in the city;
Cotton Goods lower than ever; 600 dozen
Coats’ Thread, at 70c. per dozen; the best
assortment of Calicoes, Bed Ticking, Blan
kets. Linseys. Flannels, etc., cheap. Look
for No. 136 Broad street, between Monu
ment and Centre street. Special Induce
ments to wholesale buyers. Orders care
fully attended to. My one price systorn
(prices being marked In plain figures) s
cures the same advantages to the most in
experienced buyers as to the best judges oi
Dry Goods. Goods cheerfully shown and
samples given. C. J. T. BALK.
sep2o-suwefrtf
FURNITURE
E. G. ROGERS,
147 and 140 Broad St.,
OPPOSITE THE FOUNTAIN.
A Full Assortment of all Kinds.
CHAMBER SUITS.
New wid Handsome Styles at reduced prices
PARLOR SUITS,
Gaea* Bargains offered.
DINING ROOM SUITS,
A Handsome assortment.
OFFICE FURNITURE.
A great variety of Office Desks and Chairs.
UNDERTAKING.
MET ALIO OASES and GASKETS. COF
FINS of ail grades, home-made and from
the best, manufacturers, always on hand.
ootl6-3m
FOR SALE.
DESIPENGE 185 ELLIS STREET FOR
It SALE. Price, SIB,OOO. City assess
ment. One-third cash, balance in four
payments: 6,12,18 and 24 months time, with
10 percent, interest on notes and mortgage
on property. W. W. BARRON,
-New Series—Vol. 3. No. S
If (It Mi BUST.
HOWE’S
u. S. STANDARD
SCALES.
R B -2® T p of . the Judges at the Georgi.
, Fair, held at Macon, Novemotu
ii., 1873, and Atlanta, October 25, 1874 •
BEST AM MOST ACCURATE SCALES.”
AMO.
TWO PREMIUMS
At the Savannah Fair.
PAGE & CO.,
General Agents.,
3 PARK PLACE, New York.
Full line of
Seales, Weigh-Masters aod Cottor
Beams and Frames
constantly on hand.
MOORE & CO.,
AGENTS,
laire-ly AL ' UUBTA ’ A
HEADQUARTERS FOR PRIZE CANDIES.
X HAVE the largest and best stock of
PRIZE CANDIES
Ever brought to this market Every box
contains
MONEY PRIZES!
A& the holidays are approaching Jobbers
and Country Merchants will find it to their
advantage to call and examine my stock
and prises. A liberal discount made to the
trade. All orders from country merchants
or orders left with news agents on the dif
ferent railroad trains will meet with
prompt attention. F. QUINN.
LOOK! LOOK!
$1,200,000 IN PRIZES!
Tile UrandMt Single Number Scheme
on Itecord, will be drawn in Public in
Et. Louis on March 81st, 1875.
Capital Prize, $100,000!
MISSOURI STATE LOTTERIES!
Legalized by State Authority.
Murray, Miller & Cos., Managers,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
1 Prize of SIOO,OOO
1 Prize of 50,000
1 Prize of 22,500
1 Prize of 20,000
5 Prizes of 10,000
10 Prizes of 5,000
20 Prizes of 2,500
100 Prizes of •. 1,000
And 11,451 other Prizes of from $1,500 tq,sso.
AMOUNTING IN TELE AGGREGATE TO
#1,300,0001
Whole Tickets, S2O; Halves, 10; Quarters, $5 *
Prize payable in full and no postpone
ment of drawings take place.
Address, for Tickets and Circulars,
MURRAY, MILLER & CO.,
f- 9-J525 Sfi; ST. LOUIS. MO.
Jans-tut.hsa&ctilaprs
TO RENT.
That
and esirable THREE-STORY HOUSE,
, with Basement, on the corner of Mis and
Monument streets—lately repaired wit h all
the modern improvements. Apple, for
terms, to
dec3l-tf NO. 338 BROAD STREET.
THE NEW STYLE!
Neat and Light, Pretty, Cheap !
HOME SHUTTLE!
JUST received and on inspection at
Rooms 148 Broad street.
Call and see it before buying any other
make; it is to your interest to do so, and is
all I ask. It lies flush with the table,
makes the Elastic Lock Stitch alike on
both sides, precisely the same as the high
price Maclaines, ana does every variety of
work done by any Machine (no matter
what the prioo paid for it) or no sale, and is
the most simple and durable In construc
tion of any in the United States. Money
refunded, after one week’s trial, if disap
proved of.
Six different styles. Price, $25 to SBO.
Sent to any address on receipt of price, or
by Express 0.0. D. Address
A. B. CLARK,
143 Broad street,
ecl3-suwefr&ctf General Agent.
HOME ENTERPRISE.
Cigars for the Million!
MANUFACTORY AND STORE
Corner Tallin and Mclntosh Streets
HAVING recently occupied the spacious
store3 oorner Ellis and Mclntosh
streets, I now have increased facilities for
manufacturing CIGARS of all grades, and
keep on hand constantly a well selected
stock of
Cigars an<! Smoker’s Articles Generally.
P. S—Orders for special brands solicited
and promptly attended to.
P. HANSBERGER.
oct2s-euwefr2m
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE !
BALTIMORE, MD.
The next annual session will begin Octo
ber Ist, 18741, and end Februrry 25th, 1876.
The Hospital and General and Special Dis
pensaries furnish ample material for Clini
cal Instruction. For Catalogue with infor
mation as to plan of instruction, Fees, cost
of living, etc,, address
J. E. LINDSAY. M. D„ Deaj.
Dyeing and Cleaning.
THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RE
spectfully announce to the citizens of
Augusta, and vicinity, that he still con
tinues to do Dyeing and Cleaning in all its
branches.
Ladles’ Dresses, Shawls,.Sacquee, Capes,
etc., dyed and cleaned in the best of style.
The cleaning of Gent’s Clothing a speci
ality.
N. B.—The above work done in the best
manner at low prices.
All orders left with me on south side of
Broad street, between McKlnne and Mar
bury, will receive prompt attention.
decl-2awßin GEO. R. DODGE.
DISSOLUTION.
THE Law Partnership heretofore existing
between Thos. S. Bnthwell and Robert
L. Pierce is this day dissolved by mutual
agreement.
THOS. S. BOTHWELL,
j&oS-lw ROBERT h. PIERCE,