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Old Series-—Vol. 25. No. 122.
Railroad Schedules.
Revised and Corrected by B, P. Brown, Gen*
oral Ticket Accent, Planters’ Hotel.
PORT ROT AT. RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta —4:2o a. m. and 8:20 p. m.
Arrives at Augusta.. 7 :'25 a. m. and 3:00 p.m.
Arrives at Port Royal 3:00 p. m.
Leaves Port Royal 9:30 a.m.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Lea ves Augusta at 8:45, a. m. and 8:15, p. m.
1 <eavos Atlanta at 7:00, a. m.and 10:30 p. m.
A r rives in Augusta. 3:30,p. in. and 8:15,a.m.
Arrive,sin Atlanta at 5:45, p.m.and6:2s,a.ra.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:00, a. m. and 6, p.m.
Arrives Augusta at 5:15, p. m.and7:so, a.m.
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Lv;i,vet- Augusta at. 10:45, a. m. andß;lsp.m.
ijeaves Macon at. .6:30, a. m.and 8:00 p.m.
Arrives at. Augusta..2 :00,p. m.andß:lsa.m,
Ai rives at Macon at 6:40, p. m. and 7:40 a.m
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:05, a. in. and 8:10, p.m.
Arrives at Augusta at 4:00 p. in. and 7, a.m.
Off VULOriE COLUMBIA AN T b AUGUSTA RAIL
ROA D.
Leaves August aat 9:30, a. m. and 4:15, p.m.
!11 '~es iit Augustnatß:os, p.m. and 8:45, a.m
BY "TELEGRAPH.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
FOREIGN.
Cardinal Manning—Car list News—
Pulling the United States in En
gland.
London, April I.— The steamer Far
aday leaves on Sunday for the com
plete laying of the direct cable.
Rom?!, April I.—The ceremony of con
ferring the title of Cardinal on Arch
bishop Manning took place yesterday
at the Church of St. Gregory. The
ceremonies were imposing, and witness
ed by one thousand English and Amer
ican Catholics.
London, April I.—lt is reported the
budget will show £2,500,000 decrease
in revenue.
Madrid, April L—The Carlists have
hoisted flags of truce at Renteria and
Oyarzan, and are fraternizing witli the
Government troops. Gen. Cabrera has
written to Don Carlos declaring that
the decree issued by the latter depriv
ing him of his honors would be the
best justification of his course lie could
have if he needed any. One hundred
Carlists have been captured at Mauresa.
London, April 1. — Mr. Childers,
speaking at Portefract last night, gave
an account of his last American tour.
He spoke in terms of high eulogy of
America. The United States, he
thought, were probably the most pros
perous country in the world. He esti
mated in fifty years it would contain
150,000,000, while the progress of Eng
land was necessarily limited. He for
cibly presented reasous why England
should seek the friendship and alliance
of the United Stares.
Revolution in South Anißrica--A Fi
nancial Panic in Berlin—Failures
and Suieides—Don Carlos on the
Move.
London, April I.—The steamer Vic
toria, from New York for Glasgow, is
ashore at Garvel Point.
Panama advices indicate a revolution
o*ver the Presidential election.
London, April I.—A special dispatch
to the Post, from Berlin, says a finan
cial crisis is feared there. Settlements
on trie Bourse are effected with great
difficulty, and there have been twenty
eight failures. Two persons have com
mitted suicide in consequeuoe of finan
cial reverses.
Paris, April I.—Advices from Spain
state that a force of Carlists have en
tered the province of Santander, and
wiil be followed by Don Carlos and the
bulk of his army. It is supposed they
are trying to penetrate to Castile.
A New Russian Minister to the
United States.
London, April 1. —A telegram from
St. Petersburg states that M. Sphic
ken, the Russian Diplomatic Agent and
Consul General in Servia has been ap
pointed Minister of Russia to the
United States.
Ecclesiastical Imprisonments.
A special from Beriin to the Post re
ports that 80 ecclesiastics are at pres
ent imprisoned in Posen alone. It is
rumored that the Government lias ar
rested the Papal delegate, who has
Sbeen secretly administering the Arch
bishopric of Posen since the arrest of
the incumbent..
Spanish Affairs.
London, April 1. —A Madrid dispatch
says th.M among the specifications in
Concha’s charges against Jovellar, is
one that when Concha was Captain
General of C.’iba, he had occasion to
send Gen. RiqUelme home for insubor
dination. When the latter returned to
Spain, Jovellar, who had become Min
ister of War, approved his conduct and
subsequently promoted him.
The Government finds it difficult to
defend Jovellar from these accusations.
An old Spanish law prohibits the ap
pointment of an ex -Governoi of a col
ony to any public post until formal in
quiry has been had into his past ad
ministrations. It is understood that in
Jovellar’s case no such inquiry has
taken place since his return from Cuba,
and this circumstance may be used as
a pretext for his withdrawal from the
Ministry.
South America.
Rio Janeiro, April 1. —A dispatch
from Montevideo announces that the
Uruguayan Chambers have passed a
decree suspending the payment of in
terest on the public debt, and provid
ing for the redemption of the debt by
the issue of new paper at a forced
price. It is added that the foreign re
presentatives have protested against
the decree, and the situation is critical.
THE ICE-GORGE.
Fears 0± Disaster Subsiding.
Williamsport, U.k nn., April 1. The
ice above this place ba>3 broken up and
is passing down quietly OP an eleven
feet flood. A considerable quantity of
logs, estimated at 100,000 feet p-'i hour
have been going down siuce 6 o’clock
this morning. They are supposed to
have come out of Pine creek. All the
anticipated danger at this place is now
over. The gorge which formed yester
day three miles below here still re
mains, and some parts of the town
are under water. Families living in
the low part of the town have moved
-out; but if the gorge does not break
|>y t foe timo the Glen Union gorge,
which passed Lock Haven early this
. m. reaches there, it is feared great
destruction will ensue. The longer the
gorge remains there the "more excited
the people become and the more dan
ger of devastation. Reports from Lock
Haven says the Glen Union gorge pass
ed there nicely at 5 o’clock this a. in.,
and no danger is now anticipated.
Ilii lailij fomtittttioMlist
PENNSYLVANIA.
Can-Can News. Riot, Robbery and
Bloodshed by Northern Ku-Klux.
Philadelphia, April I.— The jury in
the Can-Can case against the Varieties
Theatre declared it not a nuisance.
Hazleton, April I.—The excitement
at Upper Lehigh yesterday, during the
raid of the miners, was intense, and
during their stay there was a perfect
reign of terror. It seems that they
divided their force before eutering the
town, some coming in at the east eDd and
others at the west, thus cutting off the
retreat of citizens. Shots were fired
indiscriminately and without auy or
der, many of the crowd being intoxi
cated.
At the hotel a violent demonstration
was made. Tne riotors went through
the house, endeavoring to force the
landlord and boarders to join their
ranks. Some of the inmates took re
fuge in the cellar, while others escaped
through the back door. The compa
nies’ store was also attacked. The Su
perintendent and clerks escaped, but
the rioters fired shots into the build
ing. Persona riding along the high
way were stopped, and were fired at
when they refused to join. The mob
expected from Schuylkill county did
not reach Audenreid. Riots are re
ported at Ashland, with the loss of
several lives. All quiet hese.
PoTTsviLLK, April I.—The railroad
trouble is still threatening. The Read
ing Road has withdrawn their special
police to protect themselves. The safe
ty of property must be secured by the
military.
WASHINGTON.
Debt Statemeut--The Grant Parish
Case.
Washington, April 1. —The decrease
is over $3,500,000. In the Treasury,
coin, $84,000,000; currency, 5,000,000.
Postal stamps sold during the present
quarter exceed those for the quarter
ending December over $‘250,000.
The argument in the Grant parish
case was concluded by Reverdy John
son and Attorney General Williams.
The Treasury disbursements for all
sources, exclusive of the payments
made on the interest or the principal
of the public debt during March, were
$12,290,693.
RHODE ISLAND.
Another Ticket in the Field.
Providence, April I.—A meeting was
held of Republicans opposed to the ac
tion of the late Republican Convention.
They nominated Roland A. Hazard for
Governor. It is supposed the Prohi
bitionists will adopt the candidates of
this meeting.
Marine Disaster.
Fort Monroe, April I.—The steamer
Leo, from Feruandina for New York,
broke her shaft off Chineoteague, and
has been three days in close proximity
to the shoals. The revenue steamer
Colfax fell in with and towed her in
last night.
NEW YORK.
The Mitchel Parade.
New York, April I.— A meeting of
delegates of the Irish societies deter
mined that the Mitchel parade shall
take place April llt.h.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Removal of the Capital Question.
Charleston, W. Va., April I.— Judge
Wait has enjoiued the removal of the
Capital to Wheeling until the courts
have an opportunity to pass upon the
law.
ATLANTA.
Another Fire.
Atlanta, April I. —Four stores were
destroyed by fire this morning. Loss,
$53,000; $32,000 worth covered by in
surance.
Beecher on the Stand. Railway
Adjustment.
Beecher was on the stand in the
scandal ease to-day. His testimony,
thus far, is irrelevant to the scandal,
being, for the greater part, a history of
his career as an editor auu a theolo
gian.
The differences between the Great
Western and the Grand Trunk Rail
road have been.ad justed.
BALTIMORE.
Railway Bonds Issued.
Baltimore, April 1. — The Northern
Central Road has issued one thousand
bonds of a thousand dollars each. The
proceeds are to be applied to increase
terminal facilities here.
Pursuits of the Floridians. —A re
cent letter written from Florida says :
AtTocoi, where we connect, or rather
wait for St. Augustine’s train, we have
half an hour for observations. Siuce
the advent of the Yaukee, every con
ceivable device and agency have been
employed to decoy him out of his
spare shilling, and well may we ex
claim how adroitly this has been done.
“ What do you keep here,” said a
burly son of New Hampshire. “Canes,
alligators and oysters,” replies Flo
ridian. “ Auy ’gators this morning ?”
“Sorry to inform you last one just
sold.” “Nice canes. What are they
made of ?” “ Palmetto, sir.” “ How
many can you make a day ?” “ Duly
three, and it is hard work at that.”
“What do you ask?” “One dollar
apiece.” “ Well, give me five.”
Looking around on the banks of
white sand that glared in his face, he
continued : “ What do you live off here
in the Summer ?” “ Fish !” What in
the Winter ?” “ Yankees !”
It Is a Fact that many grocers sell
Df. Price’s Baking Powders at the
same price they do the cheaper kinds,
and as they have to pay more for it,
make less money, hence they never sell
it unless the purchaser demands it.
They place it ought of sight, and urge
the customers to take the common
kinds because they are more profitable.
Let consumer's become acquainted with
jhe fact that it is only necessary to
mix ope part flour to two parts Dr.
Price’s Cream Baking Powder to
a powder as perfect in it# results as
other kinds, and there are few who
would pay the same price for the adul
terated articles as for Dr. Price’s, not
when flour costs less than six cents
per pound. Dr. Price’s powder is not
sold in bulk. mh3o-tuthsasu.
[For the Constitutionalist.
MEAT AND MORALITY.
The champions of abstinence at pres
ent do not limit their attacks to the
fluid part of our vicious diet, but make
an efforc to reform indiscriminate feed
ers in regard to solids, too. The So
ciety of Vegetarians, abstainers from
animal food, count a numerous mem
bership in not large cities, and single
converts in almost every county of the
Union.
In Newton county, Georgia, I lately
had an opportunity to make the ac
quaintance of a fanatic of this sort,
who, like Mahomet, had commenced
by converting his own family aud re
tainers, and made strenuous attempts
to reclaim a few sinners in the neigh
boring villages of Oxford and Coving
ton. But, owing either to his deficient
knowledge of the English language
(being a Scandinavian by birth), or by
Ids'unfortunate habitof alluding to the
Lotos-eaters of antiquity, his efforts
only created merriment at his expense,
or provoked savage threats from the
local butchers if he should succeed in
his propaganda.
Never having been present at one of
these harangues, I was tempted by cu
riosity to pay a visit to the home of
the gentle Lotophage, but came as near
being converted as the Lieenciado who
went out: to refute Don Quixote; and
went away with the conviction that an
able lecturer on the subject might make
out as strong a ease for his dogma as
the best advocate of temperance. The
looks of the bright-eyed, merry proge
ny of Mr. M , who all evidently
lived in the “ heaven of exuberant
health,” was a stubborn argument
against the common belief that the
piteli of our animal spirits depends on
the quality of beef and pork consumed,
and the pater-familias assured me
that none of the white or black ser
vants employed in the household re
gretted or complained of the change
from flesh food to sweetmeats, milk
and fruits.
“ Few people have an idea,” Mr. M.
told me, “how many disagreeable sen
sations, both of body and mind-—nau
sea, dull headache, irritation and sad
moods—could begot rid of by discon
tinuing a diet, which has never been
meant for our stomachs. No law of
nature is violated with impunity, and
the construction of our limbs, teeth and
organs of digestion proves clearly that
fruit, nuts, roots and farinaceous prep
arations were intended for our food,
and that it is by no means necessary
that auy animal should die in order
that we might live. To feed on the
flesh of our fellow-creatures is an out
rage on our own bodies as well as theirs,
and is revenged on our physical aud
mental health in many ways.”
“ But the greatest objection,” he con
tinued, “ in my opinion, is its effect on
our moral status. You can make a
tiger cub grow up into a gentle, sweet
tempered creature, by feeding it ou
milk aud bread, and again you can get
a horse to relish chopped’ meat, and
soon find him disposed to tear you
limb from limb. The tendency of’the
different food, with regard to our own
disposition, is precisely the same. The
Anglo-Saxon race is doubtless indebted
to its beefsteaks for those savage bull
dog instincts, aggressive humours and
love of bloody prizefights so often
charged against them; while a people
of old Limes who lived on vegetables
alone were so amiable—(here came the
story of the Lotophages, who bewitch
ed all visitors by their conduct iuto
staying with them forever.)
“The Hindoos, witli whom abstinence
from animal food is a religious duty,
are the most geutle of mortals, beiugs
without bile or the instinct of revenge
as Trelawney says, while the Malays
and the few tribes of East India, who
kill and eat animals, are just as ready
to kill their fellow-men. Our North
American Indians live almost exclu
sively on flesh, and in consequence,
humanity has nearly become effaced in
their nature, aud replaced by an arti
ficial instinct of murder and bloodshed
that equals that of the most ferocious
animals.”
“Yes,” said the Vegetarian, rising to
a climax, “I believe we can no more eat
flesh, without rousing a host of vile
propensities, unkind, vicious and ag
gressive moods, than we can eat opium
without producing drowsiness and
phantasmagorias, and 1 cannot imagine
a greater absurdity than to hear a
pious Christian pray for sentiments of
brotherly love and a forgiving spirit,
and at the same time drug himself by
this unnatural diet iuto the disposition
of a Baresark.
I thought it time to leave. It would
be too hard, I thought, if there should
lie a mistake in the matter, to deprive
the public revenue of its very meat
market-taxes, after all Dio Lewis lias
done, to curtail its income from malt
and liquors, not to mention the private
grievances of people who have their
favorite stews and pet sausages.
But then—if Mr. M. should be right?
If really a plate of hash should be
fraught with thegermsof all the transi
tive sins as St. Augustine calls them,
the disposition to hate, attack and sup
press our fellow-men ; if in roasting a
sausage we run the risk of having to
roast ourselves during that peculiar
period which begins but not ends ; and
if by discarding an article of diet for
which after all we might find a substi
tute, we could change into honey all
the gall and vinegar of the human heart,
what vistas of improvement it would
open to mankind ! It would do away
with all growling and slandering, with
duels, street tights and wars. All private
and international difficulties might be
referred to arbitration, with a certainty
of arriving at an amicable arrangement.
If we only could suppress butchers
and pastry-cooks ! The Boston Peace
Society ought to take the matter in
hand. F. H.
Somebody wants to know “who wrote
that article” in the Houston (Texas)
Telegraph, and it promptly responds
thus : “The man who wrote that ar
ticle early in life was a hard-working
blacksmith, later he was a deck hand
on a steamboat, then he was a cow boy
on the frontier, but of late years he
has followed the profession of prize
fighter. He only became an editor to
reduce his flesh by starvation so as to
become more of a success in his pecu
liar line.” The Telegraph was not an
noyed by further inquiries.
Legal Tenders to be Cancelled.—
Washington, March 30.—The Secretary
l of the Treasury to-day directed the
Treasurer to withdraw from the avail
able currency the balance ip th<r Trea
sury, $1,487,000 of legal tenders, and
that they be cancelled and destroyed,
that amount being 80 per cent, of the
additional circulation issued to Na
tional Banks the present month ; until
further redemptions under the act pro
viding therefor are ordered, the amount
of United States notes outstanding and
to be issued as circulating medium
shall not exceed $379,226,000.
.ATTGTTST.A., GA„ FHIDAY MORNING. APRIL 2. 1875.
fStaunton (Va.) Vindicator.
A GRANGE FUNERAL.
The First Grange Burial of a Lady
in Virginia—lmpressive Ceremo
nies at the Grave—Gathering of
Members of the Order, Etc.
On Sunday last, near Tinkling Spring,
in this county, the first burial of a lady
member of the order of Patrons or Hus
bandry that has taken place in Vir
ginia, was attended by a large con
course of citizens. Mrs. Sarah J. Cal
breath, wife of Mr. ZachariahCalbreath,
a member of Fisherville Grange, No.
71, died on Friday, having had a very
perilous surgical operation performed
a few days since. She was about forty
years of age, and was much beloved
and esteemed by all who kuewhor, aud
her funeral brought together a large
number of citizens outside of the order
to vyliich she belonged, who testified by
their presence to the high esteem in
which she was held. She was the mother
°f Miss Jennie Calbreath, who fills the
position of “ Flora ” in the Grange.
gathering op the grangers.
Early in the morning the Grangers,
each wearing a small bouquet in his
coat, commenced arriving at the Pres
byterian Church at Tinkliug Spring,
where the funeral was to take place,
and of which deceased was a consistent
member. Among those who arrived
were the designated pall-bearers of the
Grange, wearing white baldrics, aud
the marshals of the procession, who
wore the orange-colored baldrics of
their office. Among the members of
the other Granges who were present
were a large number from Barterbrook
aud Waynesboro Granges. The funer
al was preached by Rev. G. B. Strick
ler, after which the concourse of per
sons, numbering over 500, proceeded
to (he cemetery.
the grange ceremonies.
The pall-bearers of the order bore
the coffin, decorated with flowers, to the
gate, followed in order by t he family of
the deceased, the lady members of the
order, the male members, and last the
procession of citizens. At the gate the
coffin was stopped and the members
of the Grange opened rank aud passed
ou each side of it to the grave, around
which they formed a circle, the coffin
being placed at the side of the excava
tion in their midst. The Master of the
Grange, Air. Samuel B. Brown, of Fish
erville, then made a brief address, fol
lowed by the Chaplain, W. H. H. Lyon,
of Staunton Grange, who officiated in
place of the Chaplain of Fisherville
Grange, who was absent on account of
sickness, who repeated the Lord’s
Prayer, the repetition being followed
by all the members of the order
The Chaplain then read from the
BURIAL service
of the order, some words of comfort to
the relatives of the dead and a brief
address to the members of the order,
in which they were told that, “ Heaven
and God are best discerned through
tears—scarcely, perhaps at all discern
ed without them. The constant asso
ciation of prayer with the hour of be
reavement, aud the scenes of death, suf
fices to show this. We must be made
perfect through suffering; but the
B l ru £fri e by night will bring calmness
or the morning. The prayer of deliver
ance calls forth the power of endur
ance, and while to the reluctant, the
cross is too heavy to be borne, it grows
light in the heart of those who will
trust.”
A hymn was then very sweetly sung,
the singing being led ’by Arr. Frauk
Bell, of the Grange choir, and Mrs.
Woody, a lady chorister of the order,
during which the Grangers passed
around the yet empty grave, and
breaking their boquets apart, dropped
in the flowers. The chaplain then read
the beautiful burial service which ends
with the twenty-third psalm, during
which the coffin was lowered into the
grave, and the lady members of the
Grange then passed around it, each
breaking her boquet and scattering
flowers on her coffin, a very sweet
hymn being sung during the time.
The master of the lodge and the pall
bearers then advanced to the grave
and threw 7 in their boquets, the master
saying : “ A good name is better than
precious ointment, and the day of death
better than the day of one’s birth. He
shall go as he came, and take nothing
of l>is labor which he may carry in his
hands.” He then took up a handful of
earth and sprinkled it in the grave,
saying: “In the name of Fisherville
Grange, I pronounce the u'ords, sister
Calbreath, farewell.”
After a prayer by the chaplain, to
which all the members of the order re
sponded “Amen,” the grave w 7 as closed.
memorial.
The Grange has set apart a day to
plant a memorial tree, as is the custom
of the order, at the grave of Airs. Cal
breath. They also have in the Sum
mer a memorial day, on which they
visit, the graves of the deceased mem
bers and scatter flowers on their
graves.
fComment of the Atlanta News.
Rather Sacrilegious.
If the ceremonies are correctly re
ported, it would appear that the Gran
gers have established a religion of
their own. “In the name of Fisher
ville Grange, said the master of the
lodge, “ I pronounce the words, ‘Sis
ter Calbreath, farewell.’” This sounds
so much like “In the name of the
Prophet, figs,” that it would bo laugh
able, w'ere it not for the presence of the
dead and the sacrilege it embodies.
The different Christian denominations
have funeral services of their own, and
it is reasonable to suppose that the
Grangers belong to some of the denom
inations. Why, then, they should have
a “ funeral service ” peculiar to their
order, and assume functions which be
long to God, wo cannot imagine, unless
it is proposed to establish a religion of
their own.
Such a ceremony as that described
by the Staunton Vindicator will shock
every religious community, and especi
ally those Christians everywhere w 7 ho
are accustomed to associate death with
the most solemn ceremonies of Chris
tianity and the funeral service as essen
tially Christian. We trust that the
Grange will dispense with its “ burial
service,” and rest content with that of
the denomination to which the deceased
member belongs, as more in keeping
with the Christian faith.
Another Brooklyn Scandal. —The
wife of Chaplain Jas. Kane, of the
United States navy, has instituted pro
peediugs in the Supreme Court in Brook
lyn for a limited divorce, on the ground
of cruel treatment. Kane has been
chaplain of the Roanoke aud of the
navy-yard. He was an ensign in the
navy under Faragut during the war,
after which he studied for the ministry,
and then obtained a chaplaincy in the
navy. Various acts of cruelty are
aliened in the application of diyprce.
(Troy Pros?.
SIX WIVES IN A LIFETIME.
The Marital Experience of Mr.
Smith, Who is Ninety-Three Years
Old.
They lived at 60 North street —Mr.
and Mrs. Smith. The husband is 93
years of age, and has been married six
times. The wife is pretty old, too,
nearly eighty, perhaps, but she refuses
to tell her exact age. She is a grand
daughter of Mr. March, at one time
Governor of Kentucky. Mr. Smith is
now exceedingly pale and almost deaf.
In 1813 he mar ried his first wife, by
•whom he had three sons and a daugh
ter, three of whom survive, the eldest
being sixty-two years of age, and the
youngest fifty-three. He cannot now
remember the names of his first, sec
ond and third wives. All that he re
members of them is that, except the
first, each one of them did not live
long; and that he lived happy with
them all. His fifth wife, who had con
siderable property, died about four
years ago, leaving the bulk of it to her
husband.
“I have had six of them, and they
have all been good waves to me,” he
said. “I am too old and feeble now to
have another.” About twenty years
ago Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith No. 5
removed to Troy, where he has resided
since, Mrs. Smith dying four years ago.
as above stated, and where he married
Mrs. Smith No. 6, three years ago, hav
ing only courted her two nights pre
viously, according to his statement,
but a great many more nights, accord
ing to Mrs. Smith's.
The latter, indeed, was inclined to be
not a little indignant at the statement
of her husband that they had had only
two evenings’ courtship before mar
riage. She knew all about him, she
says, before they were married. She
did not want, to be understood, how
ever, as saying that she had not en
joyed her married life. She liked her
husband, though he was so infirm that
lie could scarcely' walk, and so deaf
that he could scarcely hear. She would
remain with him as long its he lived,
and after his death she would go and
stay with her rich friends. She con
tinued : “I like married life, and if my
husband were to die to day, I would
marry again to-inorrow if I got the
chance.
On being asked if she thought she
would have any chauce, she answered
that she did not know but w T hat, she
might; but this she was sure of, that
if she got a chance to marry again she
would not refuse it. “ I got a chance
to marry when I was eighteen from a
widower—a man with money—when I
was down South on a visit; but my
father would not allow me to accept it,
because I was too young, he said, to
undertake the charge of ten children.
I never got another chance until I was
seven—” “ Seven what?” suggested the
repot ter. “Oh it is no matter,” she
rejoined. “It has always been a rule
with me not to tell my age to gentle
men. But I was going to say that if
ever I got a chance again to marry,
although the man had fifty children, I
would accept it.”
“Quite right,” said the reporter,
“ but in the meantime what will become
of Mr. Smith?”
“ Excuse me, sir, I forgot about him.
Poor man ! It's a good thing that he
could not hear what I said. I must go
and make him some tea,” and here
ended the conversation.
A Just Retribution.
The other day a well dressed stran
ger, carrying a baud valise, called into
a life insurance office and inquired if
the agent was in. The agent came for
ward rubbing his hands, and the stran
ger asked:
“Do you take life insurance risks
here ?” •
“Yes, sir, glad to see you, sir ! sit
down, sir,” replied the agent.
“What do you think of life insurance,
anyway ?” inquired the stranger as he
sat down and took off his hat.
“It’s a national blessing, “sir—an in
stitution which is looked upon with
sovereign favor by every enlightened
man and woman in America.”
“That’s what I have always thought,”
answered the man. “ Does your com
pany pay its losses promptly ? ”
“ Yes, sir—yes, sir. If you were in
sured with me, and you should die to
night, I’d hand your wife a check with
in a week.”
"Can’t ask for anything better than
that.”
“ No, sir—no, sir. The motto of our
company is ‘prompt and honorable
dealings! ”
“ How much will a £5,000 policy
cost?” inquired the stranger, after a
long pause.
“ You are—let’s see—say thirty-five.
A policy on you would cost £lit> the
first year.”
“ That’s reasonable enough.”
“Yes, that’s what we call low, but
ours is a strong company, does a safe
business and invests in only first-class
securities. If you are thinking of
taking out a policy, Ie„ me tell you that
ours is the best and the safest, and
that even the agents of rival companies
will admit the truth of what I say.”
“ And when I die, my wife will get
her money without any trouble ?”
“ I guarantee that, my dear sir.”
“ And I’ll get a dividend every
year ?”
“ Yes ; this is a mutual company,
and part of the profits come back to
policy-holders.”
“ And it won’t cost me but £llO for a
policy of £5,000.”
“ That’s the figure, and its as low as
you can get safe insurance anywhere.
Let me write you a policy. You’ll never
regret it.”
“ Them’s the blanks, I s’pose?” said
the stranger, pointing to the blanks.
“ Yes,” replied the agent, as he haul
ed one up to him and took up a pen.
“ What do you say—shall I fill out the
application ?”
“ N5, I guess I won’t take any to
day,” replied the stranger, as he un
locked his valise ; but if you want
something that will take that wart off
your nose inside of a week I’ve got it
right here ! It’s good for corns, bunions,
the toothache, earache, sprains, .”
The patent medicine man left.
“ I can’t really spare it,” said he to
his wife, who had just made a demand
for some fresh back hair; there’s £l7
for groceries, £8 for them new trous
ers, £5 for sewing up the slit iu
Johnny’s scalp, a load of kindling
wood to be ordered, and only £3O to
pay with.” And he felt so bad because
he couldn’t spare it, and had to disap
point her, that he went out and spent
£5 or £6 in drinks and billiards before
12 o’clock that night.
Customer—l want a mourning suit.
Shopman—What is the bereavement,
may I ask ? Customer—My mother-in
law. Shopman—Mr. Brown, show the
gentleman to the light affliction de
partment.—Fun.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
AUGUSTA DAILY MARKET.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, )
Thursday. April l, i p. M. |
Financial:
Gold—Buying at 113 and selling at 115.
Silver—Buying at 102 and soiling at 105.
Sight Exchange on New York, buying at
par to % premium, and selling at %@%
premium.
Cotton.
The Augusta Exchange reports the mar
ket quiet and steady to-day with rather
heavy sales on the basis of yesterdays’ pri
ces.
The closing quotations were: Good
Ordinary, 14%; Low M iddling, 15%; Mid
dling, 15%.
Receipts of the day, 255 and sales, 725
bales. The receipts at all United States
ports were 4,412 bales; same day last year
0,813 bales.
Produce.
BACON firm at quotations, Clear Sides,
13%; C. R. Sides, 13%; Shoulders, 10. Dry
Salt—C. R. Sides, 12%; Long Clear Sides,
12%; D. S. Shoulders, 9; Bellies, 12%.
Tknnesske Meats—Sides, 13%; Shoulders,
10%; Hams, 14.
HAMS—Canvassed, 14%@15.
LARD—Choice, in tierce, 16; kegs and
cans, 17.
BAGGING AND TIES-No demand.
BUTTER—Goshen, 4b@45; Country, 28
<030; Tennessee, 28(030.
FLOUR—City Mills are $6.25@6.50 for su
perfine; $6.50(06.75 for extra; $7@7.25 for
family; and $7.50(07.75 for fancy; for
Western and Country, we quote superfine,
$5.50@G.00; extra, $6(06.50; family, $6.50(07.00
and fancy, $7.00(07.50.
CORN—Prime to choice white (new dry)
$1.08; yellow and mixed, $1.05. Small
lots, or less than ear load, 3<05 higher
than car load or depot rates.
WHEAL’—Light stock; choice white,
$1.43; prime white, $1.40; amber, $1.38; red,
$1.30(01.32%.
OATS—Mixed, 85; white, 85.
CORN MEAL—City, sl.lo;Country, sl@
1.05.
-EGGS—Per dozen, 15,
Note.—We give wholesale rates. Prices
for small lots of the articles we quote are
higher in proportion.
TELEGRAPHIC MARKETS.
FINANCIAL.
London, April I—Noon.—Erie, 26^.
Paris, April 1 -Noon.—Rentes, 63f. 75c.
New York, April I—Noon.—Stocks
dull. Money, 5. Gold, 115%. Exchange—
long, 484; short, 488. Governments active
and lower. State Bonds quiet.
Gold opened at 114%.
London, April I—P. M.—Bullion de
creased, 82,000 pounds.
Paris, April I—P. M.— Specie decreased
2,000,000f.
New York, April I—P. M.— Money easy
at 4(05. Sterling, 483%. Gold actfver at
514%. Governments cull and weak. New
ss. 14%. States quiet and strong.
Stocks closed active and steady: Central,
100%; Erie, 30% ; Lake Shore, 73%; Illinois
Li ntral, 101%; Pittsburg, 92; Northwestern,
M%; preferred, 57%; Rook Island, 106:
Sub-Treasury balances: Gold, $54,770,646;
Currency. $42,970,339. Sub-Treasurer paid
out $17,000 on account of interest, and
$25,500 for bonds. Customs receipts, $415,-
000.
New Orleans, April I.—Exchange
New York Sight, % premium. Sterling,
550%. Gold, 1J4%@115.
PRODUCE.
Liverpool, April I—Noon. Breadstuff's
quiet. Bacon—long clear middles, 495. 6d.;
short clear middles, 51s. Gd.
New York, April I.—Noon—Flour dull
and unchanged. 5V heat dull and drooping.
t quiet and heavy. Pork firm at $21.50.
Lard firm; steam, 14%. Spirits Turpentine
steady at 36. Rosin quiet at $2.07%(01.12%
for strained. Freights steady.
Louisville, April l.—Flour quiet and
unchanged. Corn firm at 68(070; pro
visions advancing and stronger. Pork, $22
@22.50. Bacon—shoulders, 9@9%; clear rib
and clear, 1‘2%@12% for prime. Lard
steam, 14% ; tierce, 15; keg, 16; Whiskey, 11;
Bagging hrm at 12%@1;{.
Chicago, April I.—Flour in good demand.
Lorn in fair demand; No. 2, mixed, tjs; re
jected, 65%. Pork excited at $21,50. Lard
in fair demand at 1440. Whiskey—advance
asked, but none established.
Cincinnati, April I—Flour stoady. Corn
hrm at70i0.2. Pork quiet but firm at $21.50
firm; steam 14% bid; kettle, 14%. Bacon
firm; shoulders, 8%@9; clear rib, 12%;
clear, 12%, held higher at close. Whiskey
hrm at sl.ll. *
St. Louis, April I.—Flour in good de
mand, scarce aud unchanged. Corn -No
l Whiskevsteady at Sl-12*.
loi k, $21.25. Bacon—shoulders, 9; clear rib
and clear, 12%@13. Lard firm, 14% bid.
New. York, April i—p. M.—Southern
Hour in lair request and without material
change in price. Wheat l©2c higher and
more doing at $1.25@1.27; Winter red Wes
tern, $1.28@1.29; amber do., $1.29@1.39 for
white Western. Corn %@le better, fair de
mand at 86@86%; Western mixed, 86% for
yellow Western. Coffee firm, in fair do
in and il t gold Rio. Sugar firm.
Rice quiet and unchanged. Tallow Hrm at
8%. Rosin aud Turpentine steady. Pork
inner—new, $21.50(021,75 and quiet. Lard
firmer; prime steam, 14%@14 11-16. Whis
key lower at 13%. Freights dull.
Baltimore, April I.—Flour quiet and
unchanged. Wheat quiet and steady. Corn
steady and firm; Southern white, 87; yel
low, 83. Oats quiet and unchanged. Rye
quiet and steady. Provisions buoyant.—
Pork, $21@‘21.50. Bacon active and firm;
shoulders, 9%@9%. Lard firmer at 14%@15.
Coffee strong, upward teudenev; Rio, car
goes, 16(018%. Whiskey active at 15. Sugar
strong, 10%@10%.
Wilmington, April I—Spirits Turpen
tine strong at $32%. Rosin firm at $1.70 for
strained. Crude Turpentine firm at $1 55
for hard, $2.50 for yellow dip, $2.50 for vir
gin, Tar q siet at $1.30.
COTTON.
Liverpool, Aprill—Noon.—Cotton firm;
middling Uplands, 7%©8; middling Or
leans, ; sales, 14,00$; speculation and
export 2,000; total sales yesterdav, 16,000
of which 2,000 were sold after regular close
ot market on basis of middling uplands
nothing below low middling, deliverable
April and May, 7%.
Laler— Cotton—sales of American, 7,000.
.N ew York. April I—Noon.—Cotton easier;
sales, 531 bales; uplands, 16%; Orleans, 17.
Futures opened quiet and steady as fol
lows: April, 16 17-32, 16 9-16; May, 16 29-32
16 15-16: 17 9-32,17 5-16.
New York, April l-P. M.-Cotton quiet
sales, 616 at 16%@17; net receipts. 831:
gross, 831.
cl * 8e H aud steady; sales.
23,300 bales; April 16%May, 16 29-32.16 lg-16:
June, 17 9-32, 17 5-16; July, 17 9-16 17 19-32-
August, 17 21-32,17 11-16; September. 17 9-32
17 5-16; October, 16 21-32, 16 32-32; Novem
-18 13-31, 16 15-32; December, 16 7-16,
. "jhiVEKroot., April I—P, M.—Cotton on
basis of middling uplands, nothing below
o y,!? llddling, 1 Iddling, deliverable June and July,
8 3-16.
Latere- Cotton on basis of middling up
lands, nothing below good ordinary, de
liberable May add June, 8; middling Or
leans, nothing below low middling, de
liverable April and May, 8.
Savannah, April I.—Cotton quiet—mid
dhng, 15%; low middling, 15%; good ordi
nary, 14%; net receipts, 712 bales; gross
786; exports—to Great Britain, 1,052: Con
tinent. 2,112; coastwise, 735; sales 749-
stock 41,198. ’
Wilmington, April I—Cotton quiet and
ffiSW 1 132;
miflflUn RIiT i A P rd L—Cotton quiet:
kn ?‘K7* s/ * r ' !oe lpts, 794 bales;
Kroes, 1,257, exports—to Great Britain,
2,424, Continent, 1,400; sales, 3,650.
lhn AXlV^a TON ’ L—Cotton dull;mid-
? et : receipts, 737; gross, 763;
56 coaatwise 295; sales, 90; stock,
Baltimore, April I.—-Cotton quiet—
middling, 16%; net receipts, none; gross,
124; exports—to Great Britain, 38; coast
-260; Ba * es 390 spinners, 60; stock,
Philadelphia, April I.—Cotton quiet:
middling, 16%; net receipts—none; gross,
Norfolk, April l.—Cotton firm; mid
dling, 16; net receipts, 523; exports—to
Great, Britain, 1,160; coastwise, 775; sales
200; stock, 5,476.
Mobile, April l.—--Cotton steady; mid
dling, 15%; net receipts, 55; exports coast
wise, 513; sales, 1,100; stock, 40,139.
Memphis, April I—Cotton stoady; mid
dling, 15%@16; net receipts. 499; shipments,
690; sales, 1,500; stock, 37,877.
Boston, April I.—Cotton quiet; mid
dling, 16%; net receipts, 186; gross, 764;
stock, 16,216.
Charleston, April I.—Cotton Hat; mid
dliug, 16; net receipts, 443 bales; exports
coastwise, 742; sales, 300; stock, 29,550.
MARINE NEWS.
New Vork, April I.—Arrived: Lena,Cobb,
Colon, /ilns, Westphalia, C. F. French.
Arrived out: Kooria Mona, David, Mo-
Mutt, Leois, Eleanor, Homeward, Jessie
Boyle.
WE ARE READY!
AT
J. B. WHITE&Go ’s
WITH
$05,000 WORTH OF
IN EW
Spring and Slimmer Goods
lAA DOZEN 2 BUTTON KID
IY/Y/ GLOVES, all colors and sizes,
at 50 cents; 130 dozen Superior COR
SETS at 50 cents; 100 dozen pure
FLAX TOWELS, 12%%*., worth 25c.;
1,500 dozen HOSE, from 50c. up ; 150
pieces 4.-4 PIQUE 15c., market value
25c.; 300 pieces well assorted PIQUE,
20c. to 50c.; 150 pieces PEPvCALES,
12%c.; 100 dozen PARASOLS, 50c. to
£lO each ; 80 pieces Embroidered Gren
adines 12%c., worth last season, 35c.;
85 pieces Black Iron Grenadines, 25c. to
£1.50 ; 75 pieces Striped and Colored
SPRING SILKS, prices low ; 15 pieces
Black Silk, 75c. to £3 per yard; 5 pieces
Extra Value, £1.50, last week sold for
£2.25; magnificent assortment of
RUCHES and LLAMA LACE POINTS,
£5 to £IOO ; 9 cases % Bleached Shirt
ing at 5c., 7 cases % Bleached Shirting
at 7%Jc., 24 cases 4-4 Bleached Shirting
at 9,10,11% and 12%c.
FOR CASH.
100 BALES FACTORY SHIRTING at %c.
less than Agent’s prices.
Country and City Merchants will do well
to call and get posted before buying.
J. B. WHITE & CO.,
228 BROAD STREET.
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Fertilizers !
HIGHEST GRADE
AT *'
Reduced Prices ! !
Important to Grangers and Farmers.
lAM Agent at this Dointforthe GEOR
GIA STATE GRANGE FERTILIZER,
an Ammoniated Superphosphate, made
from pure bone, aud yielding an analysis
3.28 Ammonia, and from 9.50 per cent, to
10.50 per cent, available Phosphoric Acid :
none excel, few eqal it.
Georgia State Grange Dissolved Bone,
made from pure bone, guaranteed to con
tain 13 per cent Soluble Phosphoric Ac-id.
Nothing better sold in Georgia.
Georgia State Grange Acid Phosphate,
mad*- from South Carolina Phosphate Koeki
guaranteed to contain 10 per cent. Soluble
Phosphoric Acid, only equalled by one
article made in Carolina.
The above articles are offered to Grang
ei-s at prices as per contract with “ Manu
facturers Combination.”
Farmers not Grangers will also be sup
plied at low rates.
For terms and prices, applv to
W. W. RHODES,
Agent for Augusta, at Planters Union
Agency. W. M. MOSES,.
General Purchasing Agent.
CHAS. C, HARDWICK,
Local and Distributing Agent,
marl7-wefrsu2w Savannah, Ga.
BLINDNESS CUBED.
MU. ANDREW’ lIETT wishes to in
form the public that he has perform
ed some miraculous cures on the eyes of
many people who live in this city. ‘ a liey
can be seen and conversed with on the sub
ject, and will testify as to what he can do.
Mr. Schofield, who was almost blind with
sore eyes, was cured in 14 days so that lie
could read fine print without specks. He
can be seen at his Tin Shop on Jackson
street.
Mr. Stoker, who had one eye paralyzed
aud mouth drawn to oue side, was cured in
14 days; also, a bliad man who was in At
lanta six months under treatment, and
could not be cured there, he was made to
see in three days. He can be seen at Mr.
HETT’S residence, 175 Reynolds street.
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NOTICE.
Al FEW PERMANENT AND DAY
BOARDERS can be accommodated at 133
Ellis street, corner of Monument.
mch24-6 A. P. CHEERY.
C. E. DODD 4.V. CO.,
219 BROAD STREET.
OP POSIT CENTRAL HOTEL.
You will find a nice line of
Men’s, Boys’ and Child’s Hats
and Caps.
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“ BANCROFT'S”
“EXTRA PROLIFIC HERLOXG COTTOX,”
will sell tho above valuable Seed, from this
date, as follows:
$3 Per Bushel of 30 lbs. for 1 to 5 Bushels,
ff _ A ‘ for 10 or more “
$1.50 “
(Delivered at Athens Depot, Georgia R. R.)
n Planters desiring Pure and very Superior
SEED are Invited to call at our office and
see sample stalks ol this Cotton.
For sale by
C. H. PHINIZY & Cos.,
COTTON FACTORS,
AUGUSTA, GA.
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Fashionable Dress Making
Br
MissK. MUSTIN,
Rooms over Derry & Law’s, No. 277 Broad
Street. mch2Q-3
IV ew Series—Vol. 3. No. 68
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
SHARP’S RIFLE" CO.
Pat s Qt Breech-loading
national and nearly all other principal
matches at Creedmoor. (See Official Record >
Sporting Rifles S3O p ,
Creedmoorßilies, with Elevations fori Vm
yards | S9O to $125.
Send for Illustrated Catalogue.
E. G. WRBTOOTT,
Armobt and Office, President.
HARTFORD, CONN.
f* N. F. BURNHAM’S
Water Wheel
fife® Was selected, 4 years ag. ..an.!
put to work in the Patent
Wa-liingion, D. and
has proved to be the 1 >est. i
sizes made. Prices lower tlian
any other tirst-class wheel. Pamphlet ft-, -e.
N. F. BURNHAM, York, Pa.
(fr/Tp; A WEEK to Agents to sell n
Ip ttJ article saleable, as flour. Proiii
Immense. Package free. Address
BUCKEYE MANUFACTURING CO..
Marion. Ohio.
A ttWUßmwii cio-ap: Good:
malic. All persons who contemplate
making contracts with newspapers f*>r tie
insertion of advertisements, should send
3-? Cents to Geo. P. Rowell A Cos., 41 Park
Row, New York, for their PAMPHLET
HOOK (niiuzty-Hevenlh. edition), containing
lists of over 2,000 newspapers and estimates,
showing the cost. Advertisements taken
for leading papers in many States at a tre
mendous reduction froui publishers’ rates
Get tuf. Book.
(fc R day at home. Terms free.
ip-l f_| CpZiV/ Address, Geo. Stinson A ( o„
Portland, Me.
rTf*r A WEEK guaranteed to Male
wL / / and Female Agents, in their 1.
* |%/ § cality. Costs NOTHING to t .
•mJ M m it. Particulars Free.
P.O. VICKERY A CO.. Augusta. Mh.
U T3SYCHOMANCY, or soul charm
J ING.” How either sex may fasei
nateand gain the love and affections of any
person they choose, instantly. This art all
can possess, free, by mail, for 25 cents;
together with a Marriage Guide, Egyptian
Oracle, Dreams, Hints to Ladies, * t-.
1,000,000 sold. A queer book. Address
T. WILLIAM & CO.. Pub’s, Philadelphia,
apro-su wdfr&ctf
LOOK look:
$1,200,000 IN PRIZES!
Tin* Grandest Single Ktiml>er Selieme
on Record, will be drawn *n Public in
St. Louis on March 31st, 1875.
Capital Prize, $100,000!
MISSOURI STATE LOTTERIES!
Legalized by State Authority.
Murray, Miller & Cos., Manaqers,
ST. LOUIS. MO.
1 Prize of SIOO,OOO
1 Prize of 50,000
1 Prize of 22^50u
1 Prize of 20,000
5 Prizes of 10,000
in Prizes of 5,<W
20 Prizes of 2,500
100 Prizes of 1,000
And 11,451 other Prizes of from $1,500 to SSO.
AMOUNTING IN THE AGGREGATE TO
#1,300.000:
Whole Tickets, S2O; Halves, 10; Quarters, $5.
l rizo payable in full and no postpone
ment of drawings take place.
Address, for l'ickets and Circulars,
MURRAY, MILLER & CO.,
P. O. Box 2446. ST. LOUIS. MO.
jans-tuthsa&etilaprs
CARD !
BUY the best Goods in market, and econ
omise by adopting the CASH SYSTEM
in vogue at the Chiua Tea and Coffee Store.
Whether your money can be “lengthened,”
von (tan judge better by comparing the fol
lowing list of priees. The quality of G<>ods
we guarantee the BEST IN ALL KE
SP ECTS;
Two lbs. g.xwl Green or Black Tea for $1;
1 lb. Choiee Young Hyson, Gunpowder 01
Inqierial Tea for $1; 1 lb. of the Best Oolong
or English Breakfast Tea (with caddy),
'51.25; 4 lbs. Choice Rio Coffee (warranted>.
$1; Old Government Java. Laguavra
Roasted and Green; all kinds ground fresh
on the premises. Our sales in Teas mai
Coffees the past year are a sufficient guar
antee of success in this department, in
Sugars, the prices continue the same f< e
the consumer, notwithstanding the addi
tional tax.
Two and a half pounds of Martin’s Gilt
Edge Goshen Butter for one dollar;
5 lbs. Martin’s Best Cream Ch<*ese for $l:
20 bars Hutch kiss’ Best Soap for $1; tie
quality of this Soap beggars description;
4% lbs. Pure French Candy for $1; Gilts
Best Stick Candy for $1; 8 lbs. Ginger
Snaps, Lemon, Cream and Boston Craokei
forsl; Ferris’ Pig Hams 16e., and Di i.-.i
Beei', 5 lbs. for $1; 2 gallons California Cider
for $1: 5 gallons Best Kerosene (Jil for sl.
Also, great bargains in Canned Goods of
every description.
R. N. HOTCHKISS,
Proprietor China Tea and Coffee Store,
143 Broad street.
Red Bronze Front, opposite Fountain.
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SALE OF MACHINERY,
Belonging to the Estate of
GEO. O. LOMBARD,
(DECEASED).
One ffo-horse power double cylidder Steam
Engine.
One Foroe Pump and Shaft for same.
One 25-horse power Steam Engine, cylin
der 10%x16.
One 15-horse power Steam Engine, cylin
der 9%x10.
Two S-horse power Steam Engines, cylin
der 7%x6.
One set of Head Block Machinery, lor Saw
Mill, complete.
One Portable Grist; Mill.
Two sets of Segment Gin Geur.
Two sets of Graham’s Latest Improved
Solid Rim Gin Gear.
One lot of Grist Mill Spindles, Bridge Free
Drivers and Brushes, one lot of Geodgens
and Pulleys, and a General Assortment
of CASTINGS such as are generally found
at a Foundry
The above is sold for the purpose of di
visioii of Property among the heirs of the
said Estate, therefore will be sold very
cheap. J
dress Ul ier P ar ticulKrs, apply to or ad-
GEO. R. LOMBARD,
At Forest City Foundry and Machine
Works, who will continue the business in
all of it s branches. marl4-d3triwlcl
TO RENT,
A. DESIRABLE ROOM, No. 1 Warren
Block:.
Inquir e at
jaoill-tt THIS OFFICE,