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i HE CONSTITUTIONALIST
THURSDAY, May 20, 1875.
General Mcßae left the city yester
day morning, without, so far as we
could hear, intimating to any one
whether he would accept the office of
.Superintendent of the Georgia Rail
road or not. There was a general im
pression last night that he would de
cline.
Con. Gkady selects from Hon. B. H.
Hill’s Atlanta speech the following
sentence for special admiration: “There
must he no hand cuffed sovereignties
at Liberty’s Centennial.” Is not this a
paruphaso of Gen. Toombs’ utterance
in 1868: “We want liberty, but not
liberty in chains.”
The first letter of our regular Char
leston and South Carolina correspond
ent appears this morning. He is one
of tiie most brilliant writers and jour
nalists in the Palmetto Commonwealth,
and his contributions to the Constitu
tionalist, which for the present will
appear twice a week, will be a feature
of no secondary importance.
The Georgia Press Convention meets
at Athens to-day. We apprehend that
the attendance will not be a large one.
Nearly all the editors in the State who
can got away from business at all have
gone to the Charlotte Centennial. We
hope those who do attend, however,
will have a pleasant reunion, and from
the programme laid down by the classic
city we do not, doubt that they will.
The Norfolk Virginian, speaking of
Sherman’s memoirs, says : “It would
be nothing surprising if Sherman should
before long bo brought forward as the
Radical candidate for the Presidential
succession, and we ate tempted to hope
he will he, for nothing In reason can
now prevent a Democratic victory in
187(5, and of all men, except U. S.
Grant, Sherman is the man we should
rather see beaten.”
We have iu type the response of
Judge Reese to a communication which
appeared iu this paper. Judge Reese
makes the Chronicle and Sentinel the
medium of reply, and challenges the
correctness of the report given of his
speech, or one of his speeches, in the
Georgia Railroad Convention. Wo
await the return of Mr. John D. Carter,
our city editor, who noted the remarks
of Judge Reese, before publishing the
communication iu question.
The Savannah News pays a high
compliment to Prof. Derry, and inci
dentally rubs vitriol upon the skin of
the Chicago Tribune. Concluding his
article, Col. Thompson, of the News,
says, iu his happiest style: “There is
no traeo of mere partisanship in the
history of Prof. Derry. One of the
merits of the book—a rare one in his
tories—is the impartial and thoroughly
candid manner of the author in stating
facts—facts that are indisputable, and
that even the editor of the Tribune will
sooner or later come to look upon with
something like forbearance.”
Th:>s Milledgeville Union and Record
er says “it is currently reported that
Mr. Hill owns a controlling interest in
the Herald, and that these articles in
which Mr. Hill is bedaubed from head
to foot with flattery, is nothing more
or less than Mr. Hill’s opinion of him
self.” We think our contemporary
has been led into error with regard to
the Herald's eulogies of Mr. Hill being
written by that gentleman. The edit
ors of the Herald are fully competent
to do their own writing, and It is to be
presumed they will deny the charge of
the Union and Recorder.
The letter of the Marietta colored
preacher (see Georgia General News)
to the Atlanta Radical editor is dolo
rous. When he says he was made to
believe by the lying agents of the
Freedman’s Bank that that swindling
institution was backed by the United
States, we are fully prepared to believe
him. As he already knows, the con
cern was only backed by the Radical
party, and we all know that It won’t do
to trust them with froedmen’s or any
other funds. He is very right iu think
ing that the Democratic party will
hold up this gigantic scoundrellsm to the
colored voters of this country. As he
is, by his own admission, one of the
dupes the ventilation will be Interest
ing to him. He need not think, how
ever, that when the Democratic party
ascends to power next year that it will
refund tho money his partisans have
cheated him out of, for the country
Is not l ©sponsible. That bank was a
sort of swindling side-show, operating
under the auspices and part of the
tout of tho great United States circus.
When we take charge we intend to
dismiss the present ringmaster, per
formers, clowns, peanut and candy
dealers, and prohibit all such cheating
exhibitions as he complains of from
performing within ten miles of the
ground.
Robert Burns’ autograph brought
four times the price given for one of
Queen Elizabeth’s.
MECKLENBUKO CENTENNIAL.
Opening of the Ball—Governor Brog
(fon’s Address—Saluting the Flag
-11l umination of Charlotte—Gen. (Jor
don Grand Marshal—Arrival of Gov
ernor Hendricks—The Races —An
Ugly Accident.
{Special to the Constitutionalist !
Charlotte, N. C., May 19.
At noon the flag was raised on a pole
one hundred and eighty-five feet iu In
dependence square. Mayor William
Johnson introduced Governor Erogdon,
Chief Executive of North Carolina, who
delivered a welcoming address. The
Raleigh Light Artillery, Capt. Stomach,
fired a salute of one gun for each State.
Flags decorate public and private
buildings. They hang from wiudows
and depend across ihe streets. At
night the whole city will be illuminated.
General Gordon is to act as grand
marshal to-morrow.
Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, was
received at tho depot by Governor
Vance and military, and five companies
from Virginia and the Carolinas.
A big crowd is iu attendance.
In the first race, to-day, Tom Wood
ard went lame. In the third Letitia H.
fell on the homo stretch, Vandal, Jr.,
over her and Billy over him. Their
riders were seriously but not mortal Iy
hmt.
In the chicken main South Carolina
beat North Carolina. J. I). C.
fokeigiTnews.
Important Debate in the French As
sembly-Response of German Bish
ops to the Prussian Ministry—Carlist
Fandangoes.
Paris, May 19.—1n the Assembly,
Minister Dufaure submitted a bill reg
ulating official relations between put
lic powers. It provides that the Sen
ate and Chamber of Deputies shall
meet, annually, in January, and sit at
least live months in the year. Tne
President of the Republic may commu
nicate with the Chambers by message.
The Chambers are obliged to reconsid
er any decision if the President makes
a request to that effect. President and
Ministers can be impeached only by
tho Chamber of Deputies, and must be
triedgby the Senate.
M. Dufaure also iutroduced a bill
relative to the organization of the Sen
ate. It provides that elections for Sen
ators shall be* ordered by a decree,
which must be issued six months be
fore the day appointed for holding
thereof.
A motion was made by the Minister
that bills be referred to a committee of
thirty.
The Left opposed the motion, and
urged that bills be referred to a special
cjinmittec.
M. Dufaure’s motion was defeated.
Whereupon M. Batbio announced
that the Committee of Thirty had re
signed their functions.
M. Laboulaye, a member of the
Committee of Thirty, objected that
M. Batbi* had no right to tender the
resignation of tho entire committee.
Due D’Audiffret-Pasquier, President of
the Assembly, declared that the resig
nation of the committee was unprece
dented. The committee should first
meet and consider the subject, and
those of its members who propose to
resign should notify tiie presiding of
ficer of the Assembly of their inten
tion. M. Dufaure informed the House
that the defeat of his motion would
not be considered a Cabinet question.
Berlin, May 19.—The Roman Catho
lic Bishops of Prussia, who addressed a
petition to tho Emperor and received a
reply last month from Ministers of
State, have made a rejoinder that to
reject the decision of tho Vatican
Council would ho equivalent to an
abandonment of Catholicism, and that
they are convinced the Holy See would
never be unwilling to act in conformity
with all proper decisions of the State
Government.
The Berlin Post asserts that the new
trial of Count Von Arnim will begin
June 15th.
Barcelona, May 19. Govern
ment forces gained an important vic
tory at Mount Serrat. They captured
formidable positions of the Carlists on
that mountain, with the loss of only
niuety-three men killed and wounded.
London. May 19. —Seuor Sagasta re
tires from politics uutit he is able to
submit the acts of his party to public
opinion.
The Schiller Breaking Up—A Small
Fight in Cuba."
London, May 19. —The sides of the
Schiller have fallen in, covering the
specie, the best part of her cargo and
probably a number bodies. Blasting
will commence soon.
Havana, May 19.—Offlcical dispatches
from the interior state that Govern
ment troops twice attacked a body of
Insurgents, numbering 600 men, com
manded by Ruloff. Niueteon Insur
gents were killed. The Government
loss was live soldiers killed.
Fire in Cornwall —Claiming John
Mitcliel’s Seat In Parliament.
Launceston, Cornwall Cos., May 19.
Tumble conflagration raging. It is
feared the whole of High street will bo
consumed.
The fire in Launceston has been ex
tinguished ; three buildings only have
been destroyed.
Dublin, May 19.—The trial of Mr.
Moore’s petition against the validity
of the election of the late Jno. Mitchel,
In Tipperary, began at Clonmel to-day.
The petitioner claims tho seat on the
ground that he was the legal candidate
and legally elected, his opponent being
Ineligible from the first, because lie
had transferred his allegiance from the
Queen of England to the Government
of the United States.
Minor Telegrams.
London, May 19.—London was visited
by a thuuder storm to-day.
Tyrone, Ta m May 19.—Twenty-five
Italians and other laborers have ar
rived. The strikers held meetings at
various points, which were thinly at
tended. The strikers are demoralized.
Waoo, Texas, May 19.—A tire oc
curred here to-day, destroying pro
perty to the amount of #I2S,(XX); #50,000
insurance.
Montreal, May 19.—H. Davis & Cos.,
dry goods, have failed.
The Charleston Regatta.
Charleston, May 19. —Tho third an
nual regatta of the South Carolina
Regatta Association begins to-morrow
and lasts three days. Eutries are
more numerous than ever before, but
only outside entries this year are from
Savannah.
Distillery Cases in Chicago.
Chicago, May 19.—The dlstillermen
who were brought before ULited States
Commissioner Hayne this a. m., on
charges of defrauding tho Government,
were held under bonds of #5,000 each
to await the action of the grand jury.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Jesse D. Bright Dying—Hon. M. C.
Kerr Restored to Health.
Washington, May 19.—A dispatch
from the son of Jesse D. Bright says
there is little hope of his father living
through the day.
Hon. Michael C. Kerr has returned
from a prolonged visit to the South,
entirely restored to health.
Official Gossip—Meeting and Parade
of Kinglits of Pythias.
The resignation of Special Agent,
P. G. Clarke, of Alabama, is asked for
by the Postmaster General.
Gov. Pennington, of Dakota, arrived
to-day on business connected with the
sale of the Black Hills reservation.
Sixth Auditor Shouts left for Ala
bama to-night.
The Supreme Lodge of the Knights
of Pythias to-day considered the rules
of tho Order and heard a report from |
the special committee on the Supreme j
Chancellor’s report ; after which the j
Supreme Lodge Degrees were con
ferred and the body adjoured for pa
rade, which was very fine. Their
inarching received great applause.—
Many entertainments iu honor of the
vicitiug Knights are in progress this
evening.
FROM NEW YORK.
Wm. Butler Duncan Receiver of the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
New York, May 19. —Wm. Butler
Duncan has been made President and
Receiver of the Mobile and Ohio Road,
to represent New York and foreign
stock and the bondholders. The line is
517 miles long, and represented by
#10,839,000 bonded debt, and #1,460,000
capital stock.
Failure of the Brazilian Bank in Rio
Janeiro—A Bad Blow for Hamburg
Capitalists.
Speeches in the scandal case have
commenced.
News received from Rio is that the
Deutsche Brazilian Bank has suspend
ed with a paid up capital of #50,000,000,
mostly owned in Hamburg.
Specie shipments to-day over a quar
ter of a million.
THE KENTUCKY RACES.
Monmouth Makes the Fastest Time on
Record.
Louisville, May 19.—There was a
large attendance at the Jockey Club
races to-day. The track was in good
condition. Tho flag upon the club
bouse was at half mast, in respect for
the memory of Gen. Breckinridge, late
President of the Kentucky Turf Asso
ciation.
First Race—Kentucky stakes, for 3
year old fillies, dash, one mile and a
half; 27 entries. Six started—Summa
ry, Viuaigrette, 1; Robinson & Mor
gan’s filly, by Australian, 2; Eleme, 3;
others not placed. Time, 2:39%.
Second Race —Louisville ladles stakes
for 2 year old fillies ; dash, one-half a
mile ; 19 entries. Nine started. Summa
ry—Lady Clipper, 1; Clemmie, G., 2;
Gardner’s filly by Lexington, 3; others
not placed. Time, 52.
Third race—Association purse, dash
of two and one-eighth miles, five en
tries; all started. Summary: A. K.
Richards’ Monmouth, I ; A. B. Lewis’
Bessie Lee, 2; G. K. Rice’s Vantlaleer,
3; Mary Laud and Wait'are not placed.
Time, 3:48%. Monmouth’s time is t.be
fastest on record by a second and a
quarter.
FROM TENNESSEE.
An Indian Prisoner Runs Arnoek and
Stabs Himself and Two Soldiers.
Washington, May 19.—One of the
seventy-five Indians, on their way to
the Florida prison, managed to got hold
of a knife, with which he stabbed two
soldiers and then himself, this morn
ing, while the train w;ia standing at.
Madison station, five miles from Nash
ville. It is reported that the soldiers
are not seriously hurt. On the arrival
of the train at this < ity, the Indian was
taken off and laid on the platform,
wrapped in his blanket, and is sup
posed to bo in a dying condition.
Observing the Southern Centennial.
Memphis, May 19.—1 u accordance
with the proclamation of Gov. Porter,
setting apart to-morrow as a holiday
iu honor of the Mecklenburg Centen
nial, Mayor Loague hits issued a proc
lamation requesting a suspension of
business and an observance of the day.
FROM OHIO.
Proceedings of Catholic Societies.
Cincinnati, May 19.—1n the Conven
tion of the Catholic Benevolent Socie
ties this morning, the new constitution
was adopted, and the societies were in
structed to acknowledge in their next
credentials the acceptance of the con
stitution as the fundamental law. Res
olutions were passed denouncing Bis
marck and his war against the church
in Prussia, and expressing sympathy
for the Pope.
THE WHEAT CROP.
The New York Crop Seriously In
jured.
Philadelphia, May 19.—Tho Press O.f
this city will publish to-morrow 200
dispatches, covering all points in tho
wheat growing counties of New York
State, showing the present condition
and prospect of the crop. Those dis
patches show that it has been Injured
to such au extont by late cold weather
and wet spring that the yield will
prove not more than half an average.
FROM BALTIMORE.
Prospecting for a New Past Oliice
Building.
Baltimore, May 19.—Me. Bristowe,
Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Jewell,
Poßtmaster General, and Mr. Potter,
Supervising Architect, are in this city
making inquiry and examining as to
the necessity and propriety of the erec -
tion of anew post office building.—
They will report to the next Congress.
ALL FOR LOVE
A Swedish Sailor Shoots an Old Sweet
heart and Pistols Himself.
Boston, May 19.—A Swedish sailor
named Albert Rosenberg, who returned
from sea a week ago and found hip
affianced married to another, attacked
her to-day with a pistol and wounded
her severely. He then attempted sui
cide, but will recover from his injuries,
Good Bye, John I
New Orleans, May 19.—Seven com
panies of the Twenty-second United
States Infantry have left for their
former stations on the northern bor
der Milwaukee audDetroit.
AUGUSTA, GA„ THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 20. 1875.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
The St. Nicholas Hotel—Atlanta Au
thors—lmprovements—The Factory
—Death of Gen. Breckinridge, Etc.
| From Our Regular Correspondent.]
Atlanta, Ga., May 18.
All those who saw Atlanta iu ante
helium days—before it caught the un
stable spirit of Imitation (a species of
progression), and when the Capital
was at its proper place, Milledgeville,
will recall a long piazzaed, low
wooden building that stood exactly
where Peck’s planing mill stands
now, and will be astonished when
I tell them that a grand hotel will
be put up on the site of old Wash
ington Hall. It was here that cousin
John Thrasher, now running the Nor
cross House on the Air Line Road,
was bouiface in his palmiest days.
Washington Ilall was then the hotel of
the city. Afterward sprang up the
Trout House, which stood where the
A usteli building stands now. The At
lanta Hotel stood where the portly
Kimball House stands. The Atlanta
was kept by Dr. Thompson, now one
of tho owners of the Kimball House
building.
Many will remember the circum
stance of the magic-like erection of one
portion of Washington Hall, The
faculty of the Medical College had a
custom of giviDg a grand ball and sup
per, to the students at the end of the
session. Iu the year either ’6B or ’59,
there was no hall or building of a suit
able size or convenience for tho pur
pose. Cousin John was consulted, and
In three weeks put up a three-story
building adjoining ihe hotel, and it was
used for that occasion. Afterward it
was partitioned and made into bed
rooms. When the Federals came iu,
this building, with that of its neigh
bor, and, indeed, all its neighbors, was
burned.
When tho enterprise fever struck tho
ALlant ese at the end of the war, a hand
some structure was put up on the site,
and has been used ever since as a plan
ing mill. The other day it was repur
chased by Mr. William Markham, and
he will speedily put up a hotel that
will rival the Kimball. At one time
Markham owned a great deal of real
estate here, among which was his last
purchase, but became dissatisfied a few
years ago, sold everything and went to
Ohio Alter about two years’ ab
sence he returned, recklessly bought
real estate, and again became a resi
dent. A month or so ago he bought a
#30,000 orange plantation iu Florida,
which ho will run on a money making
schedule.
His latest venture is the “ St. Nicho
las,” the name given to the new hotel.
It is named farfetehedly iu honor of
Col. W. M. Nichols, the former mine
host of the Kimball. Ever since Geo.
McGinley underbid him for the H. 1.,
the Colonel has panted to do business
here. At one time Col. Grant (of Grant
& Alexander fame) was about to put up
a big hotel on the vacant lot opposite
the Capitol, now used as a court yard,
and install Nichols as host; but some
how or other that scheme fell through.
Then Nichols prospectively pitched
into a pork-packing establishment, but
it vanished also. When next we hoar
of him he is running New Holland
Springs.
As the Colonel is noted for being well
up in tUe hotel business, he may make
the St. Nicholas squelch the Kimball
yet. But what on earth Atlanta wants
more hotels for is out of the reach of
my comprehension, when every other
house you strike is either a hotel or a
boarding house. No city of its size
can boast of as many hauheries
as Atlanta. Possibly the ease
with which one can start a
boarding house is the cause of tho
great number. You have only to rent
a rickety old buildiug, borrow a few
hard-hearted beds, buy you a loaf of
bread and a dab of sauage meat, hang
out your shingle as a ‘‘private board
ing-house,” and you can glory in the air
that hangs around the landlord without
stint, from the artistocratic brown
stone whore you pay #4O a month, to
the dingy tenement house where you
can swallow indiscriminate hash for
#lB. Aud speaking of boarding houses
reminds me of a recent Interview with
a landlord, in which I learned that
about 25 per cent, is lost by the first
class hotels on “treats,” and about 56
per cent, by the boarding houses. They
have tried every way to save them
selves from this loss, but to no avail.
Pay in advance is a losing motto, for
nine out of ten can’t pay in ad
vance. To retain the baggage proves
often a dead loss for men who
arc unable to pay board can’t
carry much iu their trunks. Henoe,
they are simply martyrs to a ne
(sessary evil, and hear their troubles
as best they can. Tho average dead
beat is always well dressed. He comes
in with a wealthy air and frowns at the
simplest hint to pay. By and by the
demand is made square out, and mask
ing himself behind a battery of well
studied and perhaps well worn prom
ises, tho D. B. folds his last shirt and
quietly steals away to bleed some other
martyr. Aud perhaps the most inveter
ate and most accomplished professor
of this black art is the tramping prin
ter. I’ve known them to boast of the
number of houses beat by them. They
seemed to regard it as very clever, but
it would have heeu cleverer If their hash
eating propensities wore cut off by the
slack end of a rope.
Atlanta Authors.
The Constitution now regales its Sun
day readers with a column or so of ten
line puffs for anybody who has written
anything from a two-square advertise
ment to a four-story novel. The thing
is about half done, tawdrily written
and awfully dull, even If there was
one-third enough material here to writo
on. Taking out Gol. W. H. Sparks, who
wrote that flue book,- “Memories of
Fifty Years,” and Mrs. Westmoreland,
tliere isn’t an author worth mentioning
in the city. Of course there are wri
ters —egad! the town is full of them —
but very few are they who have at
tained any sort of reputation outside
of Fulton county.
Improvements.
According to the statement, of a re
porter of one of the dallies, who has
taken the trouble to find out, there are
over #500,000 worth of improvements
in the city proper being made. When
it is known that these figures cover the
cost of John Smith’s putting anew
door to his chicken coop, as well as the
cost of putting up the Custom House,
these fat figures will lose over half
their corpulency.
The Factory.
The Atlanta Cotton Factory Compa
ny, through their President, H. I. Kim
ball, have actively circulated a petltiou
praying the City Council to allow them
the use of all water needed for making
steam, putting out fires, for use of op
eratives, etc., for ten years free of
charge. The petition gained many
signers, until the people began to think
of the precedent they were establish-
ing by granting a water subsidy to any
institution ; then they were a little re
luctant. It is claimed by the non
signers that even a soap factory can he
granted a similar subsidy. They want
to cut the water off from all deadheads.
The petition is reasonable, though, as
it will not require a great deal of the
water, and, according to the civil engi
neer’s statement, the little spring
branch, which is the main supply of
the works, will furnish enough water
for two or three cities, and then have
enough to spare to put out purgatory.
The Death of Gen. Breckinridge
was received here with the greatest
sorrow. The eulogy of the News was iu
Mr. Abrams’ purest style, and gave ut
terance to a sorrow none hut the truo
Southron can feel in tho loss of one so
devoted and loyal to our glorious cause.
Many are hero who fought under him,
and tho mention of his name always
Inspired a tribute from them to his
excellence as a man, and his valor as a
soldier. Now that ho is dead and
nought but his memory can five with
them, a grief like that which clouds
our hearts when our kindred are taken
from us, creeps into their bosoms ami
moistens their eyes. Brave, generous
Breckinridge! the South never know a
purer or more gallant defender than
thee!
Newsygraphs.
The weather continues hot and dusty.
The admirers of Robert Burns, tho
Scottish bard, have organized them
selves into a society to be called the
Burns Club. They propose to have a
fine library of books aud all kinds of
literature.
Tho corner-stone of the Jewish Syna
gogue will be laid on the 24th instant,
by the Most Worthy Grand Master of
Masons, of Georgia.
John Bard, who cut Willie Spencer,
is now undergoing his trial before
Judge Hopkins.
The puddlers•strike has ended, and
the men will go to work at less rates
than heretofore. Hence the Scofield
Rolling Mill is again in full blast.
Roanoke.
Twenty Thousand a Year not Enough
to Marry On.
New York is crowded with rich un
married men, afraid of the expense of
supporting these gilded butterflies.
There is a bachelor at ihe Sixth Avenue
Hotel, whose income is #20,000 a year,
aud still he says he can’t afford to got
married. He’s a proud fellow, and says
as a single man he can have the best
horses, hesfc room, and best, box at the
opera. “If I should get married,” he
said, “ I should have to stint myself.or
overdraw my income.” “How is that?”
asked a friend. “ Weil, now, come into
the parlor and I’ll show you. You see,
ladies are extravagant nowadays. They
dress so much more than in Europe. I
mean, they don’t wear rich diamonds
like the women of Florence and Milan,
but they wear rich dresses, laces,
shawls and furs. Now, I’m proud, and
I would not want my wife outdressed,
so I have to keep out of the marriage
business. Do you see that lady there?
he said, pointing to a fashionable call
er. “ Yes.” “ Well, she lias on a #4OO
panDiered wattaued, polouaised, brown
gross grain dress, and I wear a #6O
coat. She wears a #1,200 camel’s hair
shawl and a #SOO set of sable, while I
wear a #7O overcoat. She wears a #7O
bonnet, while I wear an #8 hat. She
wears #2OO worth of point applique
and point augile, while I wear a #6 shirt.
Her shoes cost #ls, mine #l2. Her
ordinary morning jewelry, which is
changed-every year, not counting dia
monds, costs #400; mine costs #50.”
“Well, how does it, foot up?” “Why,
the clothes she has on cost #2,225, and
mine cost #206, and that is only one of
her dozen outfits, while I have—say
three. The fact is,” said he, growing
earnest, “I couldn’t begin to live in a
brown stone front with that woman,
and keep up appearances to match
carriages, church, dinners, opera and
seaside—for #20,000. I’d have to be
come a second-rate man and five in au
18-fo#t house, or withdraw over to
Second Avenue, and that I’ll bo hang
ed if I do!” and he: slung his list down
into a nice silk hat in the excess of his
earnestness.
Havoc Among- the Horses.
In our weekly review of the Augusta
markets, published In Saturday’s Con
stitutionalist, remark was made that
there was a deficiency iu the supply of
the mule market here, which dealers
could not remedy, prices for animals
ranging higher iu Kentucky aud the
West than in our own city. This
unusual condition, as mentioned, has
resulted from an extraordinary demand
for horses and mules in the east and
eastern cities.
The New York Post slates that from
official returns it appears that during
the past Winter more than a thousand
dead horses have been received at the
offal dock in that city. A vory large
proportion of this waste of valuable
animal life Is due to two causes. The
first aud most serious is the pernicious
aud unlawful practice of salting the
streets, which is pursued by the rail
corporations ; and the other is tho
careless sweeping of nails into tho
roadways from the down-town stores
by tho laborers who opon packages. As
nearly as can be calculated 300 horses,
many of them fine aud valuable ani
mals, had to be destroyed by reason of
their feet rotting and the hoofs fall
ing off from disease incurred by
traveling in the salted slush. Of this
number seventy-four were owned by
the poorer class of truckmen—men
whose solo means of support was their
one horse and truck. Seven were
owned by widows, who, with the aid of
their oldest doys, thus managed to get
a living for themselves and their fami
lies. One hundred aud twenty-seven
horses were destroyed as worthless
from injuries caused by their picking
up nails in their feet. The Post sub
mits these facts to the consideration of
the community without further com
ment than to ask everybody to consider
whether, in view of them, the work of
Mr. Bergh is not a work of humanity
to man as well as beast.
Petersham has procured au auction
eer who tells the truth. He recently
told a bidder : “You’ve got a good bar
gain on that sleigh you bid off for #2.50.
It’s just as good for the liens to roost
on as one that cost #60.”
The foreman of a flour mill in Indi
ana lately put a watch in a sack of
flour aul snipped the lot before he
found his mistake. It will doubtless
be found in the flour by some poor wo
man kneading it.— New Orleans Repub
lican.
An lowa congregation dismissed its
preacher because lie signed his name to
a hair-dye testimonial. It was the hist
hair that broke the camel’s back, anti a
white one at that
It is a funny sight to see each fe
rn rle at a New Orleaus sewing society
sipplug her cholera preventive between
chapters of gossip.
TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD.
The Recent Experiments on Gen. Blair
and the Results.
[St. Louis Letter to the Chicago Times.]
The medical process known as trans
fusion of blood is exciting a great deal
of interest in St Louis, attention hav
ing been called more especially to the
matter through the recent experiments
upon Gen. Frank P. Blair, and the ap
parently wonderful results attained.
Gen. Blair, while filling the unexpirod
Senatorial term of Judge Drake, began
to fail iu health, and after the Senato
rial canvass in the Legislature two
years ago, which resulted in the elec
tion of Bogy, his powers seemed to give
way almost entirely. His friends ob
tained for him a sinecure iu the super
in tendency of insurance iu Missouri,
and tho General has been spending
nearly all the time since at the Clifton
Springs water cure, in Now York State,
in the hope of recuperation. His at
tack was a slow disoaso of the brain
and prostration of the nervous power,
brought on, according to his physicians,
by intenso mental strain and exertion,
coupled with the excessive use of to
bacco and stimulants. The disease
threatened the gradual wasting away
of the intellect and the living death of
paralysis. Complete relaxation, avoid
ance of all excitement, careful diet, and
the simple tonic of cold water treat
ment., were prescribed as the only pos
sible remedies, and to obtain these Gen.
Blair took up his residence at Clifton
Springs.
Like the rest of his family, Frank P.
Blair was in his time possessed of
splendid physique aud au iron consti
tution. A weaker man would have
fallen under the burdens and abuse tea
years earlier. The treatment promised
for a time to bring about a restoration
of at least partial health. The hope
was a delusive one, however, and a
year ago the conclusion was forced
upon Gen. Blair’s mind that he could
never be more than an invalid. It was
then that he renounced the “pomps and
vanities,” told his friends he should
never again enter the political arena,
and then united with the Presbyterian
Church at Clifton. He remained at the
cure all hist Summer and Fall, finding
temporary relief iu the treatment.
Early in the Winter he reached home,
a mere wreck of himself as his friends
had known him here. A senatorial
contest —the one in which Cockrell
won—was coming on, and Blair’s old
henchmen aud allies called on him,
looked on his shrunken form, expressed
sympathy, and went away Sorrowful,
recognizing that the political giant
upon whom was supposed to have
fallen the mugnelfc power of Benton
had wasted his strength.
Blair lingered along through the
winter at his homo in this city, gradu
ally failing in strength, physical and
mental. Six weeks ago he had sunken
so low as to be unable to recognize his
friends or help liimsolf, and he lay
helpless day after clay. Then was con
ceived the idea of trying upon Gea.
Blair’s system the effeCtfof transfusion
of blood. The family strongly opposed
tho experiment at first, but after con
siderable solicitation on the part of the
attending physicians, gave reluctant
consent to the test. At the first ex
periment between two and three ounces
of fresh human blood were injected
into the patient’s veins, and the effect
was highly satisfactory. He could
move his arms, and even talk a little.
Since then twelve ounces iu the aggre
gate have been transferred, and now
tiie General is able to move himself to
a considerable extent. There is some
brain activity, aud apparently the man
has taken anew lease upon life. The
family and other relatives have with
drawal all opposition to the experi
ments, and are now hopeful of com
plete recovery. They are, however,
morbidly sensitive about the subject,
and avoid as far as possible all pub
licity respecting the experiments.
Tne transfusions were made last
week aud five ounces of blood injected.
The ill results which attended the first
of theso two operations, however, de
monstrated the necessity of great care
iu selecting tiie person from whom the
current is to he drawn. The blood was
taken and injected, and caused effects
upon the General similar to intoxica
tion. Upon investigation the physi
cians discovered that the subject who
had furnished the blood had been on a
bit of a spree the day before, and with
the blood had been transferred some
alcohol. It was a very clear case of a
drunk by proxy. A second transfusion
was made in order to overcome the bad
effects of the former. Another trans
fusion will sake place this week,,to be
followed by other experiments as the
General shall seem to improve.
Since the encouraging result iu this
• isc a number of experiments have
been made with others. The most no
table one is the case of Edmund Pinero,
of a leading law firm, Pogue & Pinero.
Mr. Pinero has been completely help
less nine weeks with the rheumatic
gout. All of his joints had become so
affected that ho was unable to move,
and lay day after day suffering untold
tortures. Transfusion was tried with
him one day last week, his partner, W.
H. Pogue, a stout, healthy gentleman,
supplying the fife current to the extent
of two ounces. He improved rapidly
after the transfusion, and is now able
to sit up. lie will receive another con
tribution from his obliging partner
some day this week.
Iu every case so far attempted in St.
Louis the result has been successful
with a single exception, aud then tho
patient was too far gone. Beside in
the selection of the donor great care
required in the transfusion that no air'
is injected into tho veins of tiie patient,
an almost infinitesimal quantity being
sufficient to cause death.
In itself the operation is simple, but
requires peculiar instruments. When
the preparations have all been made a
vein is opened iu the patient’s arm, the
right generally, and a tube similar to
that used iu injecting medicine under
the skin is inserted. Tne blood in the
vein as soon as exposed to the air in
the penetrating tube coagulates aud
forms a clot. Then a vein in tho arm
of the subject is opeued and the blood
drawn out through a glass fuanel into
a glass syringe, the sides of which
have graduated lines to show the
amount. A delicate valve cuts off the
current when the desired quantity has
been obtained. Then a small flexible
tube is attached to the syringe
in place of the funael. The
end of this tube has an attach
ment, sharp pointed, which passes
into the instrument first inserted in the
patient’s vein. With tho blood com
pletely filling the tube and the attach
ment the sharp point is foroed through
the clot in tho openiug of the vein, and
by a gentle pressure the blood is forced
j into the patn ut. Very rarely is a laiger
I quantity than three ounces iujected, as
more than that is liable to cause per
turbation in the circulation and work
harm to the patient.
The cases to which the St, Louis
physicians pronounce the transfusion
applicable are these:
1. All cases of exhaustion by any kind
of hemorrhage.
2. All cases of anaemia and chorosa.
3. Lipotheraii.
4. Cholera morbus.
5. In cases, of partial paralysis, poi
soning, hydrophobia, atiphyxia, bachist,
scrofula and consumption.
Iu consumption hovrever, a double
operation is necessary to effect a per
manent cure. The patient must be first
almost entirely depleted of blood aud
then the transfusion of healthy blood
may take place.
LOUISIANA.
Prostituting Schools to Political Pur
poses and Stealing the Funds—What
Reconstruction has Done for the
South.
{llxtract fx-om Chas. Nordhoff 's Letter to
tiie Now York Herald.]
I fiud that in a great many parishes
the members of the Legislature are
members and officers of the School
Board. As the latter office is not sala
ried I was dull enough not to seethe
object of the Seuatois and Representa
tives in holding it, until an intelligent
colored man, a Republican and an
office-holder, explained to me that in
this way the public schools are made
political engines throughout the State.
The Senators or Representatives ap
point the school teachers, and select
men who are their own political adhe
rents, and who, living among the col
ored people, help to keep them in of
fice. “In this parish,” said the man to
me, “we have a great many more col
ored schools than white; but it is a
fact that most of the teach rs are ig
norant men or lazy, or, sometimes,
drunkards. They arc appointed by our
Senators and Representatives, and
their work is not to teach school, but
to talk up the man who appoints them.
If a teacher were the smartest man in
the township and he went against the
man who appointed him he would be
turned out; but this is not all. Over
here there is a colored school, and
another one close to it. There is no
need for two so near together, but
neither of them is worth auything, for
they were both set up for politics, and
the teachars are only politicians, and
the schools are hardly ever open.”
The colored man who told me this is
a Republican and an office-holder. I
shall not mention tiie na ne of the r Ir
ish in which he lives, because I don’t
wan’t to get him into trouble ; but his
testimony was confirmed to me by
many other men of both colors.
Stealing School Funds.
The school report to which I have
referred gives a melancholy picture of
the Louisiana school system. Of 272,-
334 children, between six and twenty
one, only 57,43-3 were carolled iu the .
public schools; and as my eye runs I
over the pages I find that in one pai 1
ish tho Treasurer of the School Board
has used the funds for his private pur
poses and paid the teachers in scrip to
the amount of #3,000 ; in another 830,-
000 was spent, aud the schools wei e
open less than a year—this in a coun
try parish. In two parishes the school!
treasurers “ had absconded with quite I
a large amount of money Delonging to i
the school fund.” In another “ the i
money appropriated to establish i
schools was invested iu private busi-,
ness aud speculation.” In yet another
“ ali the forms of law which should
govern school affairs have been totally
ignored aud disregarded.” Iu the
parish of St. Martin the treasurer of
tiie school fund was discovered to be a
defnuiteF to the amount of #3,700. In
St. James the School Beard had pru
dently burned their records when they
left the office, aud J. W. Hunsaker,
President of tho Board, after giving
bail of #5,000 to answer to the charge
of fraud, left the State.
Ostracism, So-Called.
Do you wonder, iu the face of such
things as these, that, according to tho
admission of Marshal Packard himself,
only 5,000 white men voted the Re
publican ticket in 1874 ? That is to say,
the office-holders aud their relatives.—
Is it matter for surprise that but for
fear of the Federal power the people
would sweep away this State govern
ment in an hour—that, in fact, these
rulers would disappear of themselves
if they did not know that they have the
Federal government behind them? Do
you wonder that enterprise languishes
and property is valueless when men
see a fair election defeated by a fraudu
lent Returning Board, and the Presi
dent of the United Statesappointing to
Federal office the chief officer of that
Board—tho engineer of the fraud,
whicli was denounced as such by two
committees of Congress ?
It is not contempt which the people
here feel for their rulers, but fear. The
man who takes part iu the State gov
ernment, even if he should be honest
himself, gives his influence to public
plunderers, and he must expect prop
erty owners to be shy of him. Did
honest mou associate with the Tam
many thieves iu New York? Or, If
they did, were they not, iu the public
opinion, stained by the contact ? “Do
jou see that man ?” said a citizen iu au
interior parish to me ; “he is our Parish
Judge ; ho is as ignorant of law as a
horse. Duriug the last election I heard
him openly, and to his face, charged
with t: eft. Not only that, but at a
public political meetiug where he was
speakiDg, in his presence, ho was ac
cused of taking a bribe of #lO while he
was prosecuting attorney, and the man
who accused him was the man who paid
him the money. Iu spite of this the
colored peoplo were persuaded to elect
him Judge. Every decent colored man
in tho parish will tell you that it was
au unfit nomination ; but he got on the
ticket, and the whole Bar of the parish
firmly believes that he sells justice.
He says lie is ostracised ; but can you
expect me to invite him to my house?
He could not to-day get invited to the
house of any respectable colored man
in the parish.”
“Can you expect us to like people
under whose rule such frauds go on
for years and am unpuuished ?” asked
another ; “who allow the fountains of
justice to be corrupted, who never
punish crime, and are too corrupt to
check corruption in their subordinates;
who degrade the very schools to servo
their partisan purposes; appoint rogues
to collect the taxes, and uame a re
turning board to cheat us by a clumpy
and glaring fraud when we try at the
elections to procure betLer govern
ment ?”
I must reserve to another letter some
details of the actual political condition
of the State.
“You may talk,” says the Milwaukee
News, “about marrying an heiress, a
delicate human blossom, a fairy, an
angel, but give me a gal like Nancy
Terwilliger. of La Crosse, who ran out
of doors the other night, and strad
dling a horse, yelled out, “Good night,
old man; I’m off for the spedih’ match!”
IN ew Series—Vol. 3. INTo. 99
GEORGIA CROP NEWS.
Monroe Advertiser: We hear au oc
casional complaint of an appearance of
rust in wheat, but from all the enquiry
we have been able to make wo thiuk
the prospect exceedingly flattering for
a fine yield. The rust has not as yet
made a decided appearance in any sec
tion but some of the farmers are afraid
they see a faint appearance. The dry
weather which has now lasted for near
two weeks has been exceedingly fa
vorable on the wheat. In consequence
°u exces6 * ve rain of the early spring,
the stalks of the wheat were not so
strong nor the heads so large and full
as could have been wished, but the hot
sunshine has made a decided improvo
men* 3 e doubt now if the yield per
acre wili boas large as we thought be
fore the wheat headed out. But the
increased average will more than make
up the deficit.
Hon. Bobert A. Reid, member of the
Legislature from Haralson county, died
recently.
The bankrupt roll for hist week is
reported as follows by the Savannah
Advertiser:
Applications: Jas. T. Humphries,
Halyondale, Screven county ; Davant,
Waples & Cos., Savannah ; Seneca B.
Burr, Macon, Ga. The following pe
titions for final discharge have been
filed: Wrn. J. McEiroy, Macon, Ga.;
Jas. N. Tripp, Arlington, Calhoun
county ; Blair R. Maise, Plains of Dura,
Sumter county ; Jas. S. Green, Starke
ville, Lee county; Russell W. Slappy,
Andersonville, Sumter couuty.
Rockdale Register: We regret to hear
that the growing wheat is taking the
rust in this vicinity. In some instances
whole crops are ruined. The news of
the disasters to the wheat crops of the
V\ est renders a failure here peculiaiiy
hard upon our people. We know of
but one way to dodge tho high prices
that will inevitably follow the failures
in the wheat crops, aDd that is to
plant an extra large crop of corn.
Sparta Times: Cotton is reported as
coming up rapidly, with promise of
regular stands. The fanners have
been working “like little men” for the
past two weeks, and crops are mostly
in the ground, although considerable
corn and cotton are yet being planted.
Athens Watchman: Accounts from all
the surrounding counties represent the
wheat crop as being at this time un
usually promising. While this is gen
erally true, a few persons have ex
pressed some doubts as to 'he yield
assuring us that while its general ap
pearance is good, the heads are rather
too short for a full ci op.
Gainesville Southron: Wheat is be
ginning to head in some of the patches
in the city, and an abundant yield is
expected. It promises a fine yield,
notwithstanding the many floods,
freezes and frosts.
Covington Star: We hear consider
able complaint in regard to the irregu
lar stand of cotton in some portions of
our county, owing to the ground hav
ing become baked Hnce the late heavy
rains. * * The peach crop promises
to be a very large one in thfs county,
the present year. I he trees are perfect
ly loaded with them. - * The wheat
prospect still continues very flattering
in this county, and if no unforseen dis
aster befalls it, the crop will be the
largest since the war.
THE GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE.
Prom Colorado to Missouri They Are
Ravaging the Country—Fences
Blackened by the Swarms—Railroad
Trains Stopped—Cities and Towns
Invaded.
Tho Kansas City Times has informa
tion that grasshoppers are doing great
damage in Western Missouri. Many
fields of wheat are totally destroyed,
as well as of corn, the grasshoppers
going down to the roots.
About Kansas City they are blacken
ing the fences and eating up grast and
garden plants. They are moving in a
northwestern direction, and as they
cannot fly, many suppose they will de
stroy themselves by hopping into the
Missouri river. Merchants are dis
heartened—more so than at any time
since the panic.
[Lawrence (K*.> Special to the Chicago
Times.)
Grasshoppers are more numerous in
this section than was expected, although
there are spots in some localities almost
free from them. The farmers are de
stroying them by rollers, and driving
them into pits and burning or burying
them. Considerable destruction is re
ported to the growing crops from all
parts of Dougias county. I walked
through a field to-day literally covered
with young grasshoppers.
The train on the Kansas Pacific
Road, from Leavenworth last night,
was detained two hours by running
over grasshoppers. Sand was used
on the rails, and even then a portion
of tho trian was left.
A route agent on the Kansas Pacific
Railroad Informed me to-day that tho
grasshoppers extended all the way
from here up Into Colorado, and are
more numerous there than between
hero and Denver. He informed me
that the people of Colorado are alarmed.
In Barbour county, Kansas, grass
hoppers are very numerous. The streets
of Fort Scott are alive with them. They
are numerous in Coffey county. They
have destroyed many fields of oats and
flax. They are numerous in Jefferson,
Franklin and Leavenworth counties.
The deposit of eggs throughout the
State last Fall was greater than was
supposed, and many more have hatch
ed out this Spring than was expected.
It appears that the deposit of eggs was
much greater in the East and South
east than in this section. The Western
ooumies are reported alive with grass
hoppers. In Missouri and south of the
Missouri river they are very numerous
and doing much damage.
[Chicago Tribune.]
In Eastern Kansas and Western Mis
souri a grasshopper panic already pre
vails. The pests are already up and
doing, and have started on thur lino of
march, destroying everything green in
their way. The route lies in a north
wests ly direction, and the only hope
of the farmers is that the grasshoppers
may disappear in time to sav the corn
crop. In several counties in Minnesota
the eggs are hatching fast, and warm
weather is expected to bring with it a
renewal of last year's* devastation and
ruin.
These are the days you put your foot
down on tackses, and when the painter,
the kalsomlner, and the carpet-beater,
unmolested, hold high carnival among
your household goods.
In dciude, female child was
bora to one of the Princes, it was
brought to him in Durbar, and if he did
not approve of it, it was put under the
cushion upon which he i-at, and extin
guished by the gentle pressure of his
paternal weight.