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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Jas. G. Bailie, Francis Cogin, Geo. T. Jackson,
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Augusta, Ga.
“Venusian Perturbations” are report
ed in Canada. Where will this thing
stop ?
“Doctors’ broth” is not.so pleasant,
as a general thing ; but those who like
it can pay their money and take their
choice.
The long-legged Mexican ostrich is
still on exhibition at the Globe Hotel.
For further particulars apply to Count
Thaddeus Kosciusko, at this place.
Subscriptions to the Byron statue are
in order. While the Beecher people
are sinking in public estimation, the
noble poet they attempted to dishonor
has experienced a revival in his favor.
We publish another communication
upon the subject of the Lunatic Asy
lum, correcting some errors of a corres
pondent. It is from the pen of a gen
tleman perfectly familiar with the sub
ject.
We have some very interesting cor
respondence this morning, notably
Paris and Atlanta letters, which will
be universally read and admired. Our
European correspondent gives a graph
ic sketch of the French army and poli
ties. The situation in the Gate City,
between labor and capital, is peculiarly
alarming.
It was stated yesterday morning that
the GeD. Waddy Thompson, who was in
the hands of a St. Louis sheriff, was
and is a famous man in South Caro
lina. Lest this should lead to the im
pression that it was old Gen. Waddy
Thompson, we will state that he has
been dead a .great, many years. Per
haps no more honorable man ever lived,
and this namesake is doubtless no
relative of his.
RICHMOND COUNTY GRANGERS.
Organization of a Council —Election of
Officers —A Harmonious Gathering—
Interesting Discussions —A Compli
mentary Resolution.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist ]
Mr. Editor : Pursuant to appoint
ment, on Saturday, lOtli instant, the
Tupelo, Pine Hill and Riehmond-Vale
Granges assembled at Rosini Chapel to
organize a Council of Granges for Rich
mond county.
The Council was organized by the
election of the following officers for the
ensuing year:
President—Dr. R. C. Griffin.
First Vice President—Dr. J. F. Sego.
Second Vice President—A. Sego, Sr.
Secretar}' —J. Jefferson Thomae.
Several officers of the State Grange,
and other prominent members of the
order from other localities, were ex
pected to address the meetiug, but
faiied to attend. Nevertheless, the
meeting was harmonious, pleasant and
interesting. The interchange of ideas,
experimental knowledge and important
facts in regard to various agricultural
subjects was instructive, and calculated
to produce a greater degree of sociality
and brotherly love among the members
of the order.
The failure of the watermelon crop
was thoroughly discussed. The mode
of planting, manuring and cultivation,
though somewhat varied among so
many farmers, failed to discover the
cause, and consequently suggested no
remedy or preventive for the future.
To give an adequate idea of the
siTtnptuous feast spread upon the oc
casion, so highly seasoned with the
bright smiles of lovely woman, could
occupy more space iu your invaluable
paper than you would like. {Suffice it
to say that while the most elaborate
description would fall far short of its
merit, most ample justice was done the
rich viands, by all who participated iu
the festival. Sorry we are that you
were not one of them.
Before the meetiug closed the follow
resolution was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That, in consideration of the
courtesy shown the Granges of Richmond
county by the Editor of the Conshtution-
ALisr, we hereby tender him our thanks,
and prove our gratitude by extending as
Jar as we can, the circulation of his in
valuable paper, and giving it our hearty
patronage.
The next meeting of the council will be
at the same place, oil the second Saturday
in September next, at ten o’clock, a. m.
___ J.H7M.
Hioh Salaries. —The raising of Mr.
Beecher’s salary to £IOO,OOO a year
gives him the largest compensation in
the Uuiou. But one salary in the world
transcends it—that of the Viceroy of
India, which is £50,000, or £250,000 a
year, though it is possible the salary of
Lord Dufferiu, as Governor General of
Canada, is £30,000, or £150,000 a year.
Toe Ambassadors of Great Britain at
Paris and Vienna receive but £50,000 a
year. We are told that H. B. Claflin
pays his “ credits man,” formerly
President of the Bank of North Amer
ica, Mr. Donaldson, £IOO,OOO a year on
account of his unprecedented knowl
edge of credits. The firm do a business
of £70,000,000 a year, and this business
isjan entirely credit one; therefore a
skilful knowledge of the buyers, their
standing and personal habits, is of more
value than ten per cent, upon this
amount; in other words, it is more
profitable to Claflin to pay less than
two per cent, upon his sedes to Mr.
Donaldson. There are rnauy salesmen
in the leading housesof New York with
salaries reaching as high as £30,000,
while the leading journalist must con
tent himself with £lo,ooo.— Troy Times.
Chicago, July 17.—Lewis Schultze’s
furniture factory, on Milwaukee ave
nue, was burned, with a large amount
of seasoned lumber and other stock.
JiCSS, £60,000.
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FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Religious Legislation in Prussia—
Count Von Arnim Sick—The Ameri
can Riflemen —The Byron Memorial
—A Canadian Storm.
London, July 17.—A special dispatch
from Berlin to the Pall Mall Gazette
says the German Government has
ordered that declarations of submission
by Catholic clergymen to the new laws
shall be kept strictly, the secret pur
pose being to secure them from perse
cution by ultramontanes.
Count Von Arnim has arrived at
Carlsbad. His health is in a precarious
condition.
The American Riflemen began shoot
ing at Wimbledon to-day. In conse
quence of a rain, the match for the
American cup was postponed until
Wednesday next. The first contest was
for the St. Leger sweepstakes,2oo yards,
each competitor seven shots, and a pos
sible score is 35. There are several
hundred competitors. Of the Ameri
cans, Fulton has already scored 35;
Gildersleve, 34; Yale, 33; Canfield, 31;
and Dakin, 27. Shooting is still in
progress. If Fulton’s score be equalled
the match will be shot off next week.
The meeting yesterday resolved to
open public subscription for the erec
tion of a statue to Lord Byron in some
conspicuous place in London. Mr. Dis
raeli presides. Speeches in favor of the
project were made by Earl Malmes
bury, Earl Stanhope and G. A. Sala.—
Gen. Wilson stated, in behalf of Ameri
cans, that they claimed a share in By
ron and the light to contribute to the
memorial. He was suie his country
men would gladly furnish at least a
quarter of the £IO,OOO, the estimated
cost.
Prussian naval authorities explain
the presence of a Prussian vessel off
Jutland. She was taking soundings
previous to towing a dredge to Wii
helmshafen.
Minister Schenck has gone to Swe
den and Norway for two months. Col.
Hoffman remains in charge of the lega
tion.
Toronto, July 17. —There was a storm
iu this section. At Belleville a man
and boy were killed. At Harriston a
steam planing mill and cabinet factory
were struck and burned.
Madrid, July 17.—The Carhsts, under
Perula, are retreating upon the Ames
cuai Mountains, toward Estella, pur
sued by Generals Quesada, Tello and
Lotna.
Cuban News.
Ha van i, July 14 ( via Key West, July
17). —The Spanish man-of-war Churriea
chased a British schooner into a harbor
of Hayti. The Haylien authorities
found a contraband cargo on her. The
British Consul, it is reported, is making
an examination.
Cuban insurgents have captured two
forts near Baracoa, together with their
guns.
Capture of a Whale—German Politics.
Queenstown, July 17. —The whale
with which the steamship Scythia came
iu contact off Rocke’s Point and dam
aged her propeller has been brought
in here by a tug. It was picked up off
Ballycotton.
Berlin, July 17.— After a close con
test at Wurzburg, the Liberals have
obtained a. majority in the electoral
college, and it is now believed that the
Liberal ticket will be victorious
throughout Bavaria.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Fever Items—Postal Regulations for
Smugglers.
Washington. July 17.—A telegram re
ceived at the Navy Department yester
day, from Key West, reports two yellow
fevet deaths, but no new cases.
The Post Office regulations have been
modified so that Custom House officers
may examine foreign letters suspected
of containing articles liable to duty ;
suspected letters shall be held, the
person to whom it is addressed notified,
and the letter opened by him in the
presence of a Custom House officer.
Dispatches from various authorities
deny the presence of yellow fever at
Norfolk.
Capt. S. T. Cushing succeeds Col. C.
L. Kilburn as Commissioner of Sub
sistence for the Department of the
South. _
LEGAL.
Suing a Newspaper for Libel—Testing
tlie Amended Postal Law.
Baltimore, July 17.—Suit has been
brought in name of the Governor and
other officers who compose the Board
of Public Works against the American
for libel. The American published an
article reflecting on the action of the
Board in the award of contract for the
erection of a House of Correction.
New York, July 17.—A curious case,
involving the constitutionality of the
amended postage law, has been
brought iu the United States Circuit
Court for this District. A gentleman
offers a book for transmission to Phila
delphia from this city, postage at old
rates being affixed. Being refused, he
applies for a mandamus to compel the
Postmaster to receive the package.
The argument of the applicant is
that the Sundry Civtl Appropriation
bill, into which the amendment in
creasing the rate on third-class mail
matter was inserted, was not a bill for
raisiug revenue ; that the Senate has
no constitutianal authority to provide
measures for that purpose, that being
the sole prerogative of the House ; and
the postal amendment having originat
ed with the Senate, and drafted on a
bill which was not one for rev
enue purposes, is unconstitutional.
A Girl Elopes with a Married Man—
She is Reclaimed by a Writ of Ha
beas Corpus.
New York, July 17.—A hearing was
had in the Supreme Court, in chambers,
this morning, on the writ of habeas cor
pus sued out by George Allen, in the
case of Miss Effie Thurston, who eloped
with him from Fall River, Mass., a few
days ago, and was here regained by her
parents. The girl’s father testified that
she was but seventeen years of age,
and J. J. Hathaway, a lawyer from Fall
River, proved that Allen has a wife liv
ing. After a private conversation with
Miss Thurston, Judge Barrett dismissed
the writ, sayiug the young lady, though
evidently infatuated with Alien, had
agreed to return to her parents. He
remarked that the taking out of the
writ, under the circumstances, was one
ot the most audacious acts he ever
heard of. Immediately after the de
cision of the Court was given, detective
Thompson arrested Allen on a charge
of adultery in Massachusetts, which is
a criminal offense in that State.
St. Louis, July 17. — The grand jury
presented thirty more indictments of
parties connected with the whiskey
ring. Names are withheld.
_A.UGUST.A_, G_A_.. SUNDAY" MORNING,, JURY 18. 1875.
FROM NEW TORE.
Failure—How a Race was Lost —An
Invitation to Moody and Sankey.
New York, July 17.—Herman Block,
wholesale butcher, of Brooklyn, has
failed. Liabilities £160,000.
The father of Geo. D. Pamily, who
rowed No. 4 in the Princeton boat race
at Saratoga, states that his son did not
have an epileptic fit, during the race,
but fainted from exhaustion caused by
the intense pailt of a bone-felon.
A cable dispatch,signed by the Presi
dent of the Round Lake Camp Meeting
Association and other ministers, has
been sent to Moody and Sankey in Lon
don, inviting them to hold a ten days
meetiug at Round Lake, near Troy, in
September.
Deaths here this week 980, an in
crease of 147 over last week.
lIOUP LA!
Long Branch Races.
Long Branch, July 17.—The second
meeting at Monmouth Park termina
ted to-day. The track was heavy. The
first race was August stakes, value
£SOO, added to sweepstakes of £SO
each, p. p. for two years old, dash one
mile. Three started. Parole took the
lead at the start and won in a gallop,
a length before Shirley who was sec
ond ; Lady Clipper ten lengths away.
Time 1:54.
The second race was the Robins
stakes, value £I,OOO added to sweep
stakes of £SO each, p. p., for three year
olds, two miles. Three started, Chesa
peake. being the favorite over the field.
The following shows the average of
pools sold : Chesapeake, £I,OOO and
£850; Ozark, £4OO and £350 ; Leader,
£BO and £7O. Chesapeake took the lead
at the start, Ozark running second and
Leader Third. At the first half-mile
Ozark took the lead by a half length
and had increased it to three lengths
at the end of the first mile, Chesapeake
being second and Leader already out of
the race. The second mile was run in
the same order, Ozark winning, with
out a touch of the whip, in three
lengths, Chesapeake second and Leader
third. Time, 3:52%.
3d Race —Consolation handicap, purse
of £SOO, for beateu horses, all ages,
mile and a half. Three started. Van
dalit.e went to the front at the start,
Lelaps second and Carverway behind.
Coming into the homestretch the three
were running on even terms, but Le
laps lasted the longest and won by half
a length—time, 2:47%.
The fourth race was a steeplechase
handicap for all ages, about three miles
over a fair hunting course, purse, £6OO
—£soo to the first, £75 to the second,
and £25 to the third horse. Seven start
ed. The race was won by Dead Head,
Stanford second, Meteor third and
Moonstone fourth. Audubon threw
his rider in the second mile. Time,
5:54%.
A match race was won by Venango
over The Hoaxer, who was never head
ed, by two lengths—time, 1:56%.
TEMPERANCE.
Settlement of a Vexed Question—A
New Badge.
Providence, July 17.—The thirty-first
annual session of the National Division
of North American Sous of Temperance
closed this afternoon. A resolution was
passed withdrawing the jurisdiction of
the National Division'of Australia from
three Grand Divisions in Victoria and
South Australia, chartered under the
authority of the National Division of
Great Britain and Ireland, and empow
ering the granting of a second National
Division, the charter covering the colo
nies of Victoria and South Australia and
such other territory as may bo
mutually recommended by the officers
representing the National Divisions of
North America, Great Britain and Ire
land, and Australia. This was agreed to
by the representative of the National
Division of Great Britain and Ireland,
and amicably ends a controversy which
has vexed the Order for years.
Anew badge to be worn in public
was adopted, consisting of a triangle
and star, the circle of fraternity enclos
ing the world by the colors, red, white
and blue, and the inscription—“ The
World is Our Field.” The condition of
the urder is reported excellent by the
committee. Prohibition was endorsed
as a living temperance issue.
Minor Telegrams.
Beaver, Utah, July 17. Deputy
Marshal Cross Las arrived here witb P.
Klingett Smith. Cross has been after
him since June 25th, and found him in
San Bernardino county, Cal. When
found, Smith was willing to come and
give all the testimony in his possession
regarding the Mountain Meadow affair.
Watertown, N. Y., July 17.—Jane
Mulligan, nine years old,, was killed by
lightning at Cape Vincent.
Boston, July 17. —Fred. Floyd, chief
clerk of the liquor license commission,
has been arrested for forgery in obtain
ing licenses.
Chicago, July 17.—A balloon, with
Professor Donaldson and reporter of
an evening journal, was seen thirty
miles north. The basket was dipping
water. A schooner turned to help the
balloon, which re-ascended and moved
northward.
New York, July 17.—The failure of
T. J. Daly & Cos., tea merchants, is an
nounced. Liabilities supposed to include
no large amounts.
Indianapolis, July 17.—Wm. Bridge
man, who is supposed to be one of the
men implicated in a recent attempted
Express robbery and murder at Long
Point, Ills., was arrested last night. The
larger one of the two men is still at
large.
Louisville, July 17. —Col. P. B. Hunt,
Supervisor of Internal Revenue, and C.
W. Horton, Special Agent of the Treas
ury, have arrived here, and, with Spe
cial Agent Wheeler, will immediately
commence a thorough examination into
the affairs of the office here, which,
meanwhile, has been closed.
THE WAR WHOOP.
Doings of the Sioux—They Make tlie
Black Hills Uncomfortable.
Omaha, July 17.—A Herald letter
from the Red Cioud agency, dated 9th
instant, states that a strong, well armed
and equipped body of Uncapapa Sioux
are on the war path in the Black Hills,
with an avowed determination to cover
the country with norses’ hoof tracks.
From Indian sources we learn that
they have had two encounters with
white men, miners, and killed seven in
one and three in another.
A Religious Lock Out.
Hamilton, Canada, July 17.—The trus
tees of St. Andrew’s Church here have
been empowered by the congregation
to lock out Rev. Mr. Burnett, their pas
tor, who has refused to enter the United
Church along with them.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
A Commune Threatened—Wliat Too
Much Puffing has Accomplished—The
Cry for “ Work ’"—White vs. Black
Laborers—Where is William Dugas
Trammell ? —-A Phenomenon—The
Rolling Mill Trouble—Odds and
Ends.
[Regular Correspondence Constitutionalist.]
Atlanta, Ga., July 16, 1875.
We are threatened with a repetition
of some of the scenes that transpired
in Paris during the dark days of the
Commune. You remember how lavish
ly the city prints reported the amount
of improvements going on, the vast
number of buildings being erected, the
water works, etc. Well, the publication
of those accounts has nearly resulted
fatally. With the charming seductive
ness of an immigrant agent, these high
ly colored reports went through the
land like a dose of salts, and the me
chanic afar off bid his family good-bye,
packed his tools and marked his valise
to Atlanta; the young man from the
country slung the plow lines over the
nearest stump and scooted for Atlanta:
the freedman dropped his hoe-handle
and footed it to Atlanta, in fine, la
borers of all kinds looked upon those
accounts as a gilt-edged invitation to
come and go to work, and flocked here
to find plenty ahead of them and noth
ing to do. Then the rolling mill diffi
culty occurred as a sort of spice to the
affair and labor was at a discount.
If one set of hands agreed to work
at £1.25 per day, another set steps in
to do the work f'r£l per day. And
from one dollar it was reduced to
seventy-five cents, and there it stopped.
Of course it was the freedman who took
up the last bid, and the white man
was left out in the cold.
Now the cry comes wailing up from
a thousand Anglo-Saxon throats,
“work!” Yes, sir, there are to-day in the
city of Atlanta a thousand honest, de
serving skilled mechanics begging for
work, whilst the bang of the hammer
and the clash of the trowel iu the hands
of freedmen is heard in every quarter.
Avaricious contractors and builders,
heeding not the cries for bread from
the children of honest white mechan
ics, give plenty of work to the igno
rant negro because the ignorant negro
will work for seventy-five cents a day !
The m gro must have a living. He is
a full-blooded citizen, and to him be
long all the rights and privileges of a
freeman in this great and good land of
ours. But for all of that he belongs on
the farm. He belongs where it doesn’t
require brains to handle a hoe or skill
to shove a plow. He belongs where
sense is not required in the performonce
of labor, and not where he can by
working for seventy-five cents a day
take bread away from white men’s
children. The negro is not wholly to
blame. Hard work is his bane, his
terror, his death. He sees where he
can handle a trowel, shove a saw, or
raise a hammer, instead of traversing
the rows of a stubble field in the broil
ing sun, and he goes for the trowel and
hammer with a vengeance. Seventy
five cents a day and ten hours
work in town is heaven to him.
Therefore he is not to blame for
competition ootnpolo him. lu put
his figures down to the lowest notch
and he needs employ the cheapest
(hang the skill) labor in order to make
a few hundred dollars profit. The
property owner is not to blame because
times are too hard to pay a reasonable
price to have his improvements made
or his houses built, besides it is no
business of his what kind of labor bis
contractor puts to work. Therefore, it
is the fault of the poor white man. He
has no right to live, to have a wife and
family, or to have, children to grow up
to receive a “fancy education at the ex
pense of the people.” And from this
mass of starving mechanics ominous
mutterings are heard, which threaten a
storm. Already things are taklug a
shape that forebodes trouble. A pledge
signed by nearly every white mechanic
in the city, refusing to trade with or
deal in any manner with men who give
work to negroes to the exclusion of
whites, has been brought to the surface,
and will perhaps open the eyes of
flimy-hearted autocrats.
The unemployed working man must
be heard. He is speaking for his child
ren and for his home. The appeal for
work, work, work, ladens every breeze
and pervades every quarter. It is
work or starve, or something else. The
time has come when the white mechan
ic should act; but he must act coolly,
with all fairness, and with that deter
mination that springs from the respon
sibility of having a family to support.
The negro must go back to the corn
and cotton field, where Nature intend
ed him, and the white man must take
his place at the forge, at the bench and
at the mill. Contractors must loosen
the grip of avarice, and property own
ers must remember that the white man
is in want of work. And all this must
be done at once.
Mechanics of other cities must shuu
Atlanta. There isn’t half enough work
for her owu mechanics, and by coming
here you only make more angry a
threatening, terrible, destructive cloud.
A Wonderful Phenomenon.
Last evening about 8 o'clock, just as
the busy town became still enough to
get out-doors and drink in the evening
breeze, the northern sky was the the
atro of beautiful and grand scenic
effects. Skirting the horizon was a
flaky festoon of clouds hanging be
tween the blue sky and the city. Ever
and anon the lightning, evidently far
away, as the thunder could scarcely be
heard, would flash, tinting for a second
the edges of the cloud, presenting a
picture truly sublime. For full a half
hour did the lightning play behind the
cloud, sometimes in one large flash
like the burning of red fire on the
stage, and sometimes with quick, jerky,
forked flashes. Then the pendent fes
toon began to mount higher, as if to
give way to two dark clouds that sud
denly loomed up, one from the north
and the other from the northeast.
They rose rapidly, and seemed to strug
gle for supremacy. The northeast
cloud was a wind cloud and the other
contained lain. Rising like two giant
monsters, growing blacker and more
terrible in appearance at every stride,
they terrified every beholder. There
against the blue sky, the moon in the
south throwing her bright rays full
upon them, it was one of the grandest
sights man ever beheld.
The struggle for the mastery result
ed in victory for the wind cloud, which
like a full blooded race horse made one
bold effort and rushed ahead. Then
like a devil-fish it thrust out its many
fingers as if reaching over the sky for
all the bright little stars, and flattening
its flat black belly over the blue vault
until the whole sky seemed veiled with
’ the darkest saber of sombre night.—
And as it flattened itself the air came
rushing from it in great foroe, and so
icy that it seemed fresh draughts from
the frozen lips of old Boreas. For fif-
teen minutes we were enveloped in
darkness, and then the cloud with all
its force spent began to roll back like
a great curtaiu and then dissolved
away. The rain cloud, waiting for its
turn, then swiftly strode over the city
and let fall its burden and seemed “like
Niobe, all tears,” at the departure of its
whilom companion. In half an hour
from the first appearance of the clouds,
the heavens were as blue as the skies
of Italy, and Dian shone in all her
mellow glory just as if nothing had
occurred to mar her night’s pleasure
or hide her face from a moonlight lov
ing world.
The Rolling Mill.
This unfortunate institution, having
gone through a regular rolling mill of
trouble, is about to resume work. In
deed, it is announced that work will
commence Monday. The hands have
been satisfied, by being paid a per
centage of back pay, and are ready
now to go to work with lighter hearts.
There is some fear of the mill being
forced into bankruptcy, which means
that it will belong to the State Road.—
The matter is considerably muddled,
and its affairs are much entangled iu
law and lawyers.
Pencil Marrow.
Just think of the luscious banana
growing right under our uose! And
yet there are several trees here iu good
health and bloom.
Seventy-five hands are at work on the
cotton factory lot.
The religious interest continues. The
meetings at James’ Hall are progress
ing favorably.
The hum of the College Commence
ment has subsided, and the girls will
leave off education and put on their
best looks for a long session of the
domestic school.
Roanoke.
Josh Billings on Marriage.
History holds its tongue as to who
the pair wuz who first put on the silken
harness, and promisod to work kind to
it, thru thick and thin, up hill and down,
and on the level, rain or shine, survive
or perish, sink or swim, down or flute.
But wotever they wuz they must have
made a good thing of it, or so many of
their posterity would not have harness
ed up since and drove out.
There is a great mcral grip to mar
riage, it is the mortar that holds them
together.
But thar ain’t butadarn’tfew pholks
who put their money in matrimony who
could set down and give a good writ
ten opinyuu why on earth tha come to
du it.
This is a grate proof that it is one uv
them uatral kind of accidents that must
happen, just as birds fly out ov their
nests when they have feather enuff,
without being able tu tell whi.
Sum marry for buty aud never dis
kover their mistake ; this iz lucky.
Sum marry for money, and don’t
see it.
Sum marry for pedigree, and feel big
for six months, aud then very sensibly
cum to the conclusion that pedigree
ain’t no better than skim milk.
Sum marry because they have been
histed somewhere else ; this iz a cross
matefy, a bay and sorrel; pride may, in
course of time, make it endurable.
Sum marry for luv without a cent in
their pocket, nor a friend in the world,
nor a drop Of pedigree. Thia looko
desperate, but it is the strength of the
game.
If marrying for love ain’t a success
theu matrimony is a dead beat.
Sum marry because they think witn
men will be scarce next year, and live
tew wonder how the crops holds out.
Sum marry tewget rid of themselves,
and discover that the game was one
that two could play at and neither win.
Sum marry the second time to get
even, and find it a gambling game—
the more they put down the less they
take up.
Sum marry to be happy, and not
finding it, wonders where all the hap
piness goes to when it dies.
Sum marry they can’t tell why, and
live tney can’t tell how.
Almost everybody gets married, and
it is a good joke.
Sum think it over carefully fust and
then set down aud marry.
Both ways are light if they manage
to hit the mark.
Sum marry rakes to convert them.
This iz a little risky, and it takes a
smart missionary to do it.
Sum marry coquetts. This is like
busying a poor farm heavily mortgaged,
and working the baluuee of your days
trying to clear off the mortgage.
Married life has its chances, aud
this is what gives it its flavor. Every
body loves to phool with the chances,
because everybody expects to win.
But I am authorized to state that every
body don’t win.
But, after all, married life is full as
certain as dry goods business.
No man can swear exactly where he
will fetch up when he touches calico.
No man can tell jist what calico has
made up its mind to. do next.
Calico don’t kno even herself.
Dry goods of all kinds is the child of
circumstances.
Bum never marry, but this is just as
risky ; the disease is the same with
another Dame to it.
The man who stands on the banks
shivering and dassent, is more apt to
ketdi cold than him who pitches his
head fust in the river.
There iz but few who never marry
because they won’t —they all banker,
and most of them starve with bread be
fore them (spread on both sides) jist for
the lack of grit.
Marry young! iz my motto.
I have tried it, and I know what I am
talking about.
If anybody asks you why you got
martied (if "it needs be) teil him you
don’; recollect.
Mmiage is a safe way to gamble—if
you win you win a pile, aud if you lose
youdou’t lose anything, only the privi
lege of living dismally alone, and soak
ing jour own feet.
Ttere is but one good excuse for a
maniage late in life, and that is—a sec
ond marriage.
Up in a Balloon.
Ceicago, July 17. —A special to the
Tunis from Goshen, Ind., says, yester
day morning,a balloon was seen passing
ovfct that city in an easterly direction.
It vuas high up iu the air and the par
ties in it were cheering. Whether it
was Donaldson or some other aeronaut
is not known.
FROM^IEMPHIH.
The Waddy Thompson Case.
Memphis, July 17. —Waddy Thomp
son who has figured so extensively in
several [habeas corpus cases in Missis
sippi, arrived here in charge of the
Sheriff. Owing to the illness of Thomp
son, he was permitted to remain in the
house of a lriend, in charge of an offi
ce!, until Monday, when he will be
br>ught before the Criminal Court for
trill, he having forfeited his bond of
£li,ooo for his appearance here some
w<fcks since.
LETTER FROM PARIS.
BEAUTIFUL SCENERY AND ES
TATES.
The Grand Army of Paris—MacMa
hon’s Review at Longchamps-Frauce
Preparing for Revenge.
[European Correspondence of the Constitu
tionalist.]
Paris, June 30, 1875.
A stranger traveling from Liverpool
to London is sure to observe with in
terest the beautiful country that pre
sents itself in every direction. Indeed,
he will think that surely no country
could be more beautiful. But let
him not be too hasty in his conclu
sions, for a trip further East and
through the Northern section of La
Belle France will likely convince him
to the contrary.
Iu England, the soil is largely devot
ed to the cultivation of grasses, and at
this season will be seen beautiful,
broad, undulating fields, teeming with
luxuriant growth. Here and there are
clusters of small huts, thatched over
with straw. Theso rude structures are
occupied by the tillers of the soil. At
intervals of great distance are to be
seen the residences of the landlords—
large, stately mansions, erected upon
prominent localities, with handsome
surroundings, and some presenting an
tique appearauces. The monotony of
broad fields is broken by intervening
magnificent oak and elm forests. The
country throughout is undulating, with
how and then a range of hills of consid
erable prominence and beauty. The
laud, being owned by the wealthy few,
is sparsely settled, aud far the greater
portion of the population of England
is to be found iu her manufacturing
and commercial cities.
In France the sceDe is different. You
behold a country more beautifully di
versified. Instead of broad, extensive
fields, the eye is greeted on all sides
with a country dotted over with num
berless little cottages—some in valleys
aud some beside beautiful meanderiug
streams. Here you find every inch of
the soil most skilfully cultivated, grow
ing every variety of crops and iu the
greatest abundance. Around every
dwelling, too, will be seen flowers in
profusion, evincing a care and atten
tion not unequal to that bestowed upon
the grains and grasses of the fields.
All this presents a most beautiful pic
ture, and, when compared with rural
England, far more pleasing to behold.
My early arrival in Paris enabled me
to witness a most magnificent sight.
The occasion was a review of tlie
“Grand Army of Paris” before Presi
dent MacMahon. “Longcliamps,” the
famous Paris race course, lying just on
the western border of Bois de Boulogne,
was the place selected. The review
was announced to take place at 3 p. m.,
but long before that hour the Avenuedes
Champs Elysees, the broad and beau
tiful thoroughfare leading to and from
Bois de Boulogne, was literally packed
with vehicles of every description,
equestrians and pedestrians, on their
way to witness the grand display. No
less than 500,000 persons were present.
The army, composed of artillery, in
fantry and cavalry, and numbering
near 75,000, had assembled on the vast
plain at an early hour in the morning
More favorable weatner for the occa
sion could not have been had, the at
mosphere being cool and bracing.
At the appointed time a discharge of J
several rounds from one of the batter
ies served to announce the arrival of
the President-Marshal and his staff
Shouts of “Vive la Republique” were
then heard from the vast multitude,
that fairly shook the building in which !
I was seated. Couriers and staff offi
cers were now seen, in their brilliant
uniforms, galloping to and fro at light
ning speed, carrying orders to the va
rious commands. The President and
staff having posted themselves, the re
view begins. First comes the infantry
iu columns of companies, marching in
quick time, each regiment headed by a
band, playing national airs as they
pass. Their uniforms are composed of
red pants, dark blue coats, and red
caps trimmed with golden cord and
surmounted with red pompons. This
branch of the army is iu some respects
inferior ; the men are nearly all young
and small, and as yet with but little ex
perieuee as soldiers. Their flashy uni
forms and glittering chassepots, how
ever, presented a most imposing spec
tacle.
Next comes the artillery, passing in
review by batteries abreast, in full gal
lop. This was truly a magnificent
sight. Their movements were executed
with a precision that showed long and
careful training. The men are all large
aud fine looking. The horses are of
the celebrated Normandy breed, aud in
the most excellent condition. Every
thing, indeed, connected with this
branch of the service appeared to be of
the very best material, and presented a
most formidable appearance. Three
hundred of such batteries, when or
ganized, will constitute the artillery of
the French army—about 2,000 guns.
Next, and last in order, is the cav
alry, seen first away to the right, ap
proaching amidst clouds of dust. On
they come in columns of companies at
full gailop, preserving their lines and
distances with wonderful accuracy.
The reflection of the sun’s rays upon
the thousands of glitteriug helmets,
cuirasses and drawn swords at times
almost dazzles the vision. The sight is
a grand one. Heading the column were
the regiments of St. Cyr school, recog
nized by their dark blue uniforms, bra
zen helmets and crimson plumes. They
are regarded by the French as “the fa
vorites,” being the best drilled and
finest looking body of men. Their
approach is greeted with deafening
cheers. Following in quick succession
are the regiments of two other schools
apparently equally as well drilled and
making a display scarcely inferior to
the former. This branch of the Grand
Army, like the artillery, appeared to be
wanting in nothing. The men are all
fine looking, well proportioned, and
their horses and equipments in the
very best trim. Here ended the re
view, certainly a grand sight and one,
too, that seemed to gratify the French
very much. The troops were marched
back to their respective quarters and
the vast crowd dispersed in every di
rection through the beautiful Bois de
Boulogne.
There is no doubt but that the Mac-
Mahou governmeut are bending their
energies to place France upon a mili
tary footing second to none. Under
the present conscript law the number
of her regular army exceeds that of
any other nation in Europe, aud now
time only is wanted within which to
discipline the vast number of recruits
and make of them a military force that
even united Germany might well regard
with no little feelings of uneasiness.
In the face of such an extensive mili
tary preparation it would hardly be
safe to predict a long continuance of
the peace of Europe. Apart from the
loss of territory, it is but natural that
-New Series—Vol. 3. No. 158.
a country with so much national pride
and with such a brilliant military re
cord as that of France should avail
herself of the very first opportunity to
wipe out the disgrace of defeat. Upou
the other hand Germany, aware of the
ulterior object held iu view by France,
is now desirous of inflicting" another
and severer blow, in order to rid her
self of any future trouble from this
quarter. This wish, recent events show,
was on the eve of being carried out,
and was only prevented by the timely
action of England, who, whether from
interested motives or not, was unwilling’
to see France further shorn of her
power. The action of other govern
ments may, in the future as in the past,
stave off temporarily the impending
conflict, but that it will eventually come
is hardly a question of doubt.
Germany may yet find that the cost
of acquiring, added to the expense of
holding, Alsace and Lorraine,will more
than counterbalance the profit derived
from the acquisition. Duke.
THE ENGLISH RAILWAY.
Tlie Horrors of Close Compartments—
Murder and Violence Invited—The
Latest Case.
As our readers generally know, our
long passenger cars are not used on
English or most of the continental rail
ways. Instead of them they have car
riages divided into compartments, each
of which will hold eight or ten persons,
the seats being arranged like those of
a hack. This secures a certain degree
of privacy, and when a first-class com
partment has only one or two passen
gers it is very roomy and comfort
able, On the other hand, it may be
very solitary and dangerous. " It
is entered by doors on the side. —
On the English roads the fares are col
lected by stopping the train just outside
of a town, while in France and other
continental countries the conductor or
guard, as he is called, walks along a
narrow platform on the outside while
the train is iu motion, collecting fares
at the risk of his life. Should a pas
senger in England be iu trouble of any
kind, he can stop the train by pulling a
cord, but a card which gives him this
direction warns him that he will be se
verely dealt with if he thus signals for
insufficient cause. Then, too, the cord
is likely to be out of order, as was the
fact iu a ease which we shall describe.
A few years ago, in England, a Mr.
Briggs was traveling alone in a first
class carriage, and was murdered aud
robbed. The assassin left for this
country, hut was arrested before he
lauded in New York,-being iu a sailing
vessel, while the police anticipated his
arrival by following iu a steamer.
He was taken home, tried, convicted,
and hanged. Iu Hungary last year a
wealthy man was assassinated nnder cir
cumstances very like those which cost
Mr. Briggs his life. Instances have not
been wanting in Great Britain and on
the Continent where insane passengers
have attacked their fellow-travelers, or
where ruffians have manifested great
brutality. An example has late
ly occurred which has created great
excitement, from the high standing of
the culprit. Col. Valentine Baker, of the
Tenth Hussars, said to be an
intimate friend of the Prince of Wales,
on the 23d ult., got into a first-class
carriage at Liphook, on the way to
London. Only one other person was
in the compartment, Miss Rebecca Kate
Dickinson, a highly respectable young
lady. They soon began an ordinary
conversation. After a few minutes’
talk, the Colonel seated himself by Miss
Dickinson, kissed her sorely against
her will, and made some very insulting
demonstrations, which so frightened
her that she tried to ring the bell at
tached to the alarm cord. It was not
in working order, so that her only re
course was to open the window, which
she did with great difficulty, and
scream for assistance. No one heard
her cries. Meanwhile, her assailant
was trying to pull her back. She broke
from his grasp, opened the door, and
stood on the small steps below the
door during the rest of the journey.
Her position was a very daugerous
one, and her bonnet blew off. When
the train stopped she was nearly ex
hausted. The Colonel begged her to
say nothing, as she did not know what
trouble she would bring on him, and
apologized for “frightening” her. She
had him arrested and he was put under
heavy bonds. A preliminary exami
nation was held the next day, which
resulted in the postponement of the
case. The Colonel said that he was
very sorry he had given any offense to
the lady, and that she had exaggerated
the facts under the influence of alarm,
though he would not charge her with
any intentional misrepresentation. He
is evidently iu a very unpleasant situa
tion, aud ie likely to pay dearly for his
reckless brutality. The situation of
Miss Dickinson is hardly more agreea
ble, for she lias been subjected to a
most undesirable publicity. The occur
rence is a foroible illustration both of
the dangers of the solitary carriage
system and of the morals of the army.
Mi. Stone aud His “Remarks.”
[Christian Intelligencer.)
Mr. Stone, a well-known aud excel
lent Christian gentleman, belonging to
one of the Murray Hill churches iu New
York city, was up in tlie country one
Summer, and learning that an evening
prayer meeting was in progress at tlie
village church, walked iu aud took a
seat in the back part of the room. The
brother iu the conducting the
meeting, observing the stranger, left
his seat and coming to Mr. Stone, said
to him:
“ What is your name ?”
“ My name is Stone.”
“ Where are you from ?”
“ I am from the city of New York.”
“Are you one of the Lord's people.”
“I hope that I am,” answered Mr,
Stone, with becoming humility. The
presiding genius, satisfied with the an
swer to his catechism, returned to his
elevated seat, and at the end of the
hymn arose and said :
“Will brother Stone, from New
York, favor us with a few remarks ?”
Mr. Stone, willing to do what he
could, made a few practical observa
tions to the best of his ability. No
sooner had he sat down than the presi
ding elder rose and said :
“Will brother Stone, of New York,
ask the Lord to bless his feeble remarks ?”
Undismayed by this commentary on
his speech, Mr. Stone offered prayer,
aud the meeting proceeded as usual.
Not Guilty. A Harrison avenue
woman made her appearance before the
Recorder yesterday and demanded a
warrant for the arrest of a neighbor for
slander.
“What did she say?” asked his
honor.
“She said I stole her fine comb.”
“And you didn’t?”
“As there is a sky above us I didn’t!
I’ll take my solemn oath that we haven’t
had a comb of that sort in our house
for fourteen years!”— Detroit Free Press.
TRUTH WILL OUT.
Jakey, His Ma, and the Sunday School
Teacher.
[San Diego World.]
Jakey crept up and sat down by bis
mother’s side as she was looking out of
the window yesterday morning. After
a few minutes of silence, he broke out
with—
“ Ma, ain’t pa’s name Jacob ?”
“ Yes, Jakey.”
. “If I was called young Jacob, he’d
be called old Jacob, wouldn’t he?”
“ Yes, my dear ; what makes you ask
such a question as that ?” r
“Nothing, only I heard something
about him last night.”
Mrs. Watts suddenly became inter
ested.
“ What was it, my son ?”
“Oh, nothing much; something the
new Sunday school teacher said.”
“ You oughn’t to have anything your
mother don’t Jakey,” eoaxingly plead
ed Mrs. Watts.
“Well, if you must go poking into
everything, I’ll tell you. The ne.v
teacher says to me, ‘What’s your name,
my little man ?’ and when I said Jacob,
he asked me if I over heard of old
Jacob, and I thought that was pa’s
name, so I told him I guess I had, but
I’d like to hear what he had to say
about him. He said old Jacob used to
be a little boy once, just like me, and
had bean-shooters and stilts, and used
to play hookey and get licked, and used
to tend cattle—”
“ Yes, I believe he said his father
used to keep a cow,” interrupted Mrs.
AVatts.
“And he hogged his brother out of
something or other, and he got struck
with a young woman named Rachel,
(Mrs. Watts became still more interest
ed,) and was ‘going to marry her, but
her old man fooled him and made him
marry his other daughter; but pa said
he guessed he wasn’t nobody’s fool, and
married them both.”
“The wretch !” ejaculated Mrs. Watts,
shaking her list at Mr. Watts’ slippers.
“He said old Jacob had a dozen or*
two children and ”
“Did I marry for this,” exclaimed
Mrs. Watts, sobbing and throwing her
self on the sofa, making ali the springs
hum like a set of tuniug-forks.
Jakey said he didn’t know what she
married him for. butshe wouldn’t catch
him telling her anything very soon
again, if she was going to kick up such
a row about it, and went out of the
room feeling highly indignant.
When Mr. AVatts came home he met
Mrs. AVatts in the hall, with a very red
face, who pointed her linger at him and
jerked out the word “villain!” and
asked him if he could look his innocent
wife and infant son in the face. Mr.
AVatts showed that he could by staring
very hard alternately at Jakey and Mrs.
AVatts.
“I know where you go when you stay
away from home,” continued Mrs.
Watts ; “I’ve heard the story of your
perfidy. Can’t you tell mo how Ra
chel and that other woman is to-day ?”
she asked with forced calmness. Mr.
Watts confessed his inability to en
lighten her on the health of the ladies
about whom she was so solicitious.
Mrs. AVatts said that she always knew
that something like this would occur,
and ended with another hysterical in
terrogation after the children’s health,
but not receiving any satisfactory an
swer she threw herself on the floor
again and sobbed and asked herself a
few times why she had ever left her
mother’s house, and then she called
Jakey to her and told him that she
would have to live alone in a little
house, and be very poor and maybe
not have enough to eat, which made
that hopeful utter a series of most
doleful howls and hasten down to the
kitchen to examine the larder.
Later in the day Mrs. Lewis hap
pened in and Mrs. Watts confided to
her the story of her husband’s villainy.
Of course Mrs. Lewis was very proper
ly shocked, and tried to impress upon
Mrs. AVatts the necessity of being phi
losophical, and left with the observa
tion that she had never yet seen a man
with a mole on his nose who did not,
sooner or later, prove to be a rascal.
Towards evening Jakey was sitting
on the steps, having recovered from
his grief of the morning, when the Sun
day-school teacher chanced to pass by,
and Jakey hailed him with: “Say,
mister, I told my mother what you
told about old Jacob last night, and
there’s been the old scratch to pay ever
since. Ma called pa a villain and a
bloody thief, and tried to break her
back on the sofa, and said there
wouldn’t be anything to eat, and there
ain’t been such a time since pa offered
to kiss aunt Jane good-bye. Maybe
you had better drop in and see the old
lady, mister; she ain’t so bad as she
was.”
The teacher, after some pressing,
accompanied Jakey into the house,
and was presented to Mrs. AVatts in
the parlor.
Mrs. AVatts began to thank him for
disclosing her husband’s perfidy, but
he disclaimed having done anything of
the kind, and after considerable talk
ing, it was discovered that Jakqy had
misapplied the story of the patriarch
Jacob. Airs. A\ 7 atts started right out to
hunt up Mr. Watts, and when she found
him, astonished him again by being as
loving as she had been distant. Jakey
is contented in the fact that there is
no immediate prospect of a lack of
supplies in the family, and Airs. AVatts
would be perfectly happy if she could
only shut Mrs. Lewis’ mouth.
The Free Press says that the follow
ing rumors prevailed in Detroit just
after the tornado : “That a house was
moved twelve blocks and not damaged;
that an old woman was blown four
miles; that a boy had his ears blown
off; that a horse had his tail blown off;
that a cow was carried up into a tree;
that a fence-post was carried ten miles;
that a cat had her fur blown clear offc
of her; that a man had his boots blown
off, and that a brick-yard was moved a
full half mile without tearing down the
kiln.”
A man was recently accused in Paris
of having stolen a pair of trousers
from a dealer in the temple. There
were several witnesses, but the evi
dence was meagre, and so the accused
was acquitted. He was told that he
might go “without a stain on his char
acter;” but there he stood motionless.
At length he leaned over the desk, and
whispered : “The fact is, sir, Ido not
like to move till the witnesses have left
the court.” “Whyis that?” “Because
sir, I am now wearing the trousers
which I stole.”
The newspapers state that a well
known banker ip Paris has absconded,
leaving a large deficit behind. Mrs.
Partington thinks it was very good of
the poor man to leave it, when he might
have got off clear with everything.
The First Baptist Church of San
Francisoo, the oldest ecclesiastical edi
fice in that city, has been sold for a Chi
nese opmm den.