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SUNDAY CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Our Sunday paper is always much
sought for, and a very large issue has
to be printed to supply the demand.
Merchants and others who wish to
reach the people by advertising their
wares or their wants should take ad
vantage of this excellent opportunity
for so doing.
A vest intelligent and enterprising
gentleman, of this city, contributes to
our columns, this morning, a well-rea
soned article on the financial question.
We should be glad to hear from him
again.
It is now thought in Columbia that
Parker walked out through an open
door. The evidence plainly points to
the fact that the jailer turned him out.
It does seem that it is impossible for
Justice to do anything with the grand
rogues of South Carolina.
A dispatch from Philadelphia records
the death a child and a dog from eat
ing stale sausages. We are not sur
prised at the deatli of the former, but
confess to astonishment that a canine
may not eat the flesh of his species and
still survive.
The recent rains in Georgia have
been a groat help to the crops. There
are some few sections slighted, but, as
a rule, they have fallen everywhere.
They came too late to be of much ser
vice to early corn, but the late crop
and cotton are now in fine condition.
We publish a batch of crop news to
which the reader is referred.
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From the latest New Orleans papers
received at this office, we judge that
the planters of Louisiana are notafraid
of being ruined by the flood in the
Upper Mississippi. So irate does the
Ficayune become with the gloomy dis
patches recently received that it calls
the telegraph man the “Agent of the
Ass. Press.”
Despite the hurly-burly raised
over the O’Connell centenary, and
the predu tions of bloodshed, every
thing passed off peacefully. This is as
it should be. The great man who
always believed and advised that “the
price of liberty was obedience to law,”
has been worthily celebrated. The
Fenians disgraced themselves; but
that was only a spot on the sun.
The Macon Telegraph publishes a
poem called “First Love,’ - and, by way
of introductory, says: “The following
beautiful poem by Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, the gifted authoress of “Pas
sion’s Flowers,” seems the genuine ut
terance of a woman’s soul—earnest,
tender, sadly sweet.” If Mr. Watson
will turn to a volume of the Miscella
neous Poems of Owen Meredith (Lord
Lytton) he will find that Miss Julia
W ard Howe had nothing to do with
those verses.
We publish this morning a commu
nication signed Mechanic which calls at
tention to a remarkable covenant said
to exist between some of the medical
fraternity and the druggists. We know
nothing of the matter,do not feel com
petent to pronounce an opinion upon
the subject, and leave to others the
task of criticising the “ethics of the
profession.” So far as we are individ
ually concerned, Mechanic's exposition
is of no consequence.
If anybody thinks the “Big Ike”
dailies do not have errors in their
blanket sheets, read this extract from
the telegraphic dispatches of the Balti
more Gazette :
Portsmouth, August 4.—'The Third Geor
gia veterans, one hundred and twenty-live
strong, Col. ClaborneLuck, commanding,
arrived here from Augusta to-night.
To have your name “misspelled in
the Gazette ,” Byron used to say added
another horror to death. It certainly
adds a fresh exasperation to life.
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The escape of Parker causes quite a
flutter in South Carolina. The Colum
bia Register says he was such a tre
mendous rogue that it is surprising
“ that he left the lightning rod behind,
especially as he was running away and
had so much need of a good conduct
or.” The Union-llerald states that he
vamosed in the disguise of a negro,
“ with a wig and other fixings neces
sary to assume the role of an old field
hand, and, with a real sable brother,
left for some cabin, there to remain
until the vigilance of the moment sub
sides.” And now, boys, join in the
chorus of
“Governor, dear Governor, come home!”
What were supposed to be secrets at
the University are beginning to leak
out. First, we heard that Dr. Tuckf.r
saved his official bacon by two votes,
and now' we learn from the Atlanta
Herald's correspondence that Mr. Ste
phens would have been defeated for
Trustee “if it had not been for a start
ling, feeling and beautiful ten minutes
speech of B. H. Hill, Jr., in his behalf.
He fairly electrified the boys, and at
once the tide was turned. He spoke of
his being the author of school books,
of his interest in the education of young
men (the old man, though infirm, had
more influence at home than a host of
other men, and it was due him); that
Mr. Stephens had been spoken of as
unable physically to attend to the du
ties of a Trustee, but that, in his opin
ion, Achilles in his tent was all-power
ful. The mantle of the father seems
to fall worthily upon the talented son.”
That was a handsome thing in young
Hill; but, ye gods! to think that
Alexander H. Stephens should have
required such an effort at the Athens
University ! We bow in admiration to
Ben Hill, Jr., but what must we think
of the other boys ?
Long Branch August 6.—Attorney
General Pierrepont is here the guest of
(he President.
THE GALLOWS.
A NEGRO DESPERADO QUIETED.
The Murderer of an Old Clergyman
and Other Persons Publicly Hanged.
[Special to the Constitutionalist i
Union C. H., S. C., August 6, 1875.
Alf W T alker, the negro who murdered
Rev. J. C. Miller, near Union C. H., in
April last, was hung to-day in the pres
ence of a crowd of over 5,000 specta
tors, mostly negroes. He was attended
to the gallows by two colored clergy
men. In his last speech he made no
reference to the crime for which he
was about to be executed, but said his
punishment was just and he hoped to
go to heaven. There was no disturb
ance. Walker is known as the leader
of a desperate gang of highway rob
bers, who have been infesting the upper
counties of the State for five years, and
is known to have committed at least
two other murders. His victim was an
aged clergyman, who was known and
loved all over the State. About a week
ago, he made a confession, which, how
ever, has not yet been made public.
Moroso.
THE THIRD GEORGIA.
The Boys Visit Petersburg and Get
Another Ovation—More Speech Mak
ing,
[Special to the Constitutionalist.]
Portsmouth, Va., August 6,1875.
The Third Georgia veterans arrived
here to-day on a special train fur
nished by Gen. Mahone, at 10 a. m.
Mayor Gregory welcomed them in a
feeling and welcome address, which
was responded to, on behalf of the
veterans, by Col. S. A. Corker, of the
regiment. The regiment returns to
Portsmouth to-night and thence home.
FROM NEW YORK.
Mr. W. B. Duncan Still Hoping to
Protect His Circular Notes—The
Mexican Minister After Mr. Duncan
with a Sharp Stick.
New York, August C. —At an inter
view last evening Mr. Duncan said he
believed arrangements will be com
pleted to-day in London whereby Mor
gan & Cos. will protect traveling drafts
issued by Duncan, Sherman & Cos.
Ignacio Marishal, Mexican Minister,
through counsel, made a demand on
Judge Shipman for nearly §17,000 on
deposit for the Mexican Government.
Shipman refused to deliver it. Suit
accordingly will be brought before the
United States Supreme Court to obtain
that sum, on the ground that the law
of nations declares such money pro
tected by the same immunity as the
persons of foreign Ministers.
Good News for the Tourists —Drexel,
Morgan & Cos. Protect the Credits of
Duncan, Sherman & Cos. —A Crooked
Dispatch about Crates—Honors to
O'Connell’s Memory.
Drexel, Morgan & Cos. make formal
announcement that traveling credits
and circular notes, accompanied by a
letter of identification, issued by Dun
can, S. & Cos. ou the Union Bank, of Lou
don, will be cashed or exchanged for
new credits on presentation at the of
fice of Messrs. J. S. Morgan & Cos., Lon
don, or Drexel, Harjes & Cos., prior to
November Ist, 1875.
Yesterday 75 car loads, 400 crates
to each ear, arrived and were sold at
lal>£ per crate. The advice of the
shipment of 100 car loals flattened the
market, selling to wagon men at 15u20
cents per crate. |We are not informed
by the above what the crates contain.
—Editor.]
A solemn Pontifical High Mass in
honor of the O’Connell Centenary was
celebrated this morning in St. Stephens
Church, by Bishop Corrigan, of New
ark, assisted by other clergymen.
Masses were also.celebrated in a num
ber of other churches.
Locking the Stable After the Horse
is Stolen.
New York, August o.—At the suit of
a creditor. Judge Westbrook granted a
temporary injunction restricting Dun
can, Sherman & Cos., from disposing of
any more of their property.
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THE NIGHT SIDE OF NATURE.
Destructive Fire in Chicago—Fatal
Boiler Explosion—Death from Eat
ing Stale Sausages.
Chicago, August G.—A fire at Mount
Pleasant, Michigan, burned the En
terprise printing building and other
houses. Loss, SIOO,OOO.
Nashville, August 6. —The boiler of
a steam threshing machine on Ben Har
lan’s farm, in Murray county, exploded,
killing Harlan, his engineer and a col
ored man. Seven persons were wound
ed, two of whom will probably die.
Philadelphia, August 6. —One child
is dead and ten children sick from eat
ing stale sausages. A dog which ate
some is dead. The sausage maker and
storekeer were arrested.
A Man Killed by a Stray Bullet—Ne
gro Hanged in Selma, Ala.
Rochester, N. Y., August 6. —Henry
Smith was killed by a stray bullet from
a pic-nic party target-shooting on the
opposite side of the river.
Selma, August G.—Eugene Archie
Kelly, a negro, was hanged this morn
ing for the murder of Andrew Cunuing
liam, a negro.
EDUCATIONAL.
The National Association Protest
Against Misuse of Public Lauds.
Minneapolis, August G.-The National
Educational Association adopted reso
lutions against the use of public lands
for the benefit of corporations or sec
tions, and urging Congress to provide
better facilities for Bureau education.
PROM NORTH CAROLINA.
Convention Carried by a Tight
Squeeze.
Raleigh, August 6.—Returns from
fifty-four counties give a Democratic
majority. It is generally conceded
that the Democrats will have a good
working majority in the convention.
Washington, August G. —John C.
Graefer has been appointed Store
keeper of the Fourth Georgia District
The crazy Indian chief, Lean Bear,
died at Fort Marion, Florida.
Memphis, August 6. —The river has
risen three inches in twenty-four
hours closing at three o’clock to-day.
A.UGITSTA, GA„ SATURDAY MORNING, ATTGITST 7. 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The O’Connell Centenary a Grand and
Peaceful Demonstration—Banquet of
the Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Dublin, August 6.—The banquet last
night given by the Lord Mayor of Dub
lin, in honor of the memory of O'Con
nell was a brilliant affair. A dispatch
was received from the Pope giving his
blessing to all persons assisting at the
Centenary Celebration. The health of
the Pope was proposed first; the
Queen’s health was proposed next. The
toasts were received with loud cheer
ing. The toast to the memory of
O’Connell was responded to by a grand
son of the Liberator and by the Arch
bishop of Machale, who said England
was once under the government of
Fiance and yearned for deliverance
from thraldom. It was not strange
that Ireland should now yearn for
home government as did England of
old.
In consequence of the illness of his
daughter, Lord OTlagan’s address will
be read to the people by the Lord
Mayor of Dublin, after the procession
through the streets, from a platform
erected on the site intended for a mon
ument to the memory of the Liberator.
Dublin, August G.—The city is bril
liantly illuminated and streets crowded
with gay throngs. Everything passed
off peacefully.
A Tremendous Outpouring in Dublin
—The Finnegans Prevent the Lord
Mayor from Reading OTlagan’s Ora
tion.
Dublin, August 6.—The organization
for the procession commenced forming
at an early hour in St. Stephen’s Green
and vicinity. Much delay occurred in
formin; on account of the immense
number. The route was five miles aud
the procession extended over the entire
length. Forty thousand persons were
in line and there was great cheering as
tbe procession passed O’Connell’s house
aud the City Hall, where the great Lib
erator delivered bis first oration against
the Union.
Dublin, August 6. —The members of
the Fenian Amnesty Association
marched with a banner at their head
hung with chains, and flags draped
with crape. Other emblems of mourn
ing appearance attracted general at
tention. There were no demonstrations
of disorder during the procession.
Lord O’Hagan, who was to have de
livered the oration, was not present.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin came for
ward to read it amid a great uproar
from the Fenian Amnesty Association,
which had moved to the front aud
shook the chains attached to the ban
ner in the Mayor’s face, and drowned
his voice with shouts of “No Whig
gery ! ” The Mayor made a second at
tempt to read the oration, but lie final
ly withdrew aud proceeded to his car
riage under the protection of the po
lice.
Dr. Butt, in reply to repeated calls
came forward and made a speech re
viewing O’Connell’s career. After fur
ther speeches the crowd dispersed.
With the exception of the scene before
the platform, no serious disturbance
occurred.
Napoleon 111 and the Life of Caesar.
Paris, August 6.—The suit brought
by the publishers against Napoleon’s
heirs for non-completion of the life of
Caesar, was dismissed with costs.
Havana, August G. —Senor Zulueta
has been re-elected President of the
Casino Espinal.
Transfer of Ecclesiastical Property
in Italy—Passage of the Shipping
Bill in England.
Rome, August G.—The Opinions says
foreign ecclesiastical establishments
are preparing the necessary deeds for
the conversion of their real property
into Italian rentes, in conformity with
the law of 1873. The sale of the pro
perty of the Irish College will begin on
the 11th iust.
London, AugustG.—Numerous amend
ments have been made in the commit
tee to the Shipping Bill introduced in
the House by Sir Chas. Adderly. The
bill was finally passed this evening,
without division.
A Baltimore Sliootist Wins a Prize in
Germany—Recovery of the Schil
ler’s Treasure.
Berlin, August G. —Fred Kramer,
of Baltimore, won the silver cup at the
International Shooting Match.
London, August 6. —Two more kegs
of treasure have been recovered from
the Schiller.
FROM WASHINGTON.
——
Yellow Fever Bulletin —A Crooked Col
lector—The Deficit in the Treasury.
Washington, August 6.—The Presi
dent signed the commission of H. H.
Wells, District Attorney, vice Fisher.
The following dispatch was received
from Gen. Brannan, at Fort Barancas :
“No new case since the 2d. Assistant
Surgeon H. E. Brown has arrived. Dr.
Sternberg is reported by his physician
convalescing. This morning, 45 cases
were under treatment—29 are conva
lescent.”
Wm. H. Johnston, Paymaster, has
been relieved of duty in the Depart
ment of the Gulf.
The Bey of Tunis will collect three
and a half centimes per ton on mercan
tile vessels entering ports of his re
gency to defray the expenses of a light
house at Cape Bon.
The Revenue Department has advi
ces of the arrest of B. Wilkinson, Col
lector of the Sixth District of Missouri,
on the charge of embezzlement, signing
false certificates and conspiring to de
fraud the Government. He has been
suspended on a bail of $15,000.
Bristow has returned.
The committee appointed by Bristow
to examine accounts and count money
have reported. The total deficit is
$47,818, including $47,097 stolen from
the cashier’s room July 2d, to which
the commission furnished no clue.
O’CONNELL.
Demonstrations in the United States
and Canada.
Montreal, August G. —No distur
bance. Ten thousand persons were in
procession.
Washington, August G.— Fine proces
sion here and immense meeting on
Smithsonian Grounds. Dispatches
from North describe grand but peace
ful demonstrations in honor of O’Con
nell.
Savannah, August G.—The Irish So
cieties of Savannah celebrated O’Con
nell’s Centennial at the Fair Grounds,
two miles from the city. There was a
large attendance. An oration on the
life and character of the Great Patriot
was delivered by J. B. Catherwood of
this city. There was a base ball match,
trotting race and other amusements
during the day. Everything passed
off pleasantly.
THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.
An Effort to Solve the Vexed Prob
lem—Causes of Mercantile Disaster-
How Money is Accumulated and How
it Circulates—A New Era for the
South—lndustrious Youth, the Pride
aud Glory of a Country.
[Communicated to the Constitutionalist.]
A few weeks ago the papers were
filled with accounts of English failures,
and very recently the tidings came that
a great American house has succumbed
and which we fear will prove the pre
monition of other failures, for under
our extensive credit system no such
monetaiy shock can occur without af
fecting and sometimes paralyzing the
financial community. While the fail
ures of many prominent houses may
be traced back to their seductions into
speculation, it is well known that oth
ers are borne down by the force of out
side circumstances, their complication
with others, the disastrous rise or fall
of bonds and stocks forced up and
down by rings and cliques, or the with
drawal at once of funds and favor by
panic-stricken customers, whose faith
had been shaken by the downfall of
rotten aud fictitious concerns, for un
der excitement, the multitude c tnnot
discern the wheat from the chaff. Some
times, when we hear the complaint of
“dull, hard times and ruin,” an exami
nation will show that this is caused by
a transfer of property, and that capital
which was hitherto employed to pro
duce more capital, and at the same
time give employment to thousands of
the laboring classes, has been forced
out of these channels and is now locked
up in the vaults of destructive specu
lators whose gains can be reckoned by
the losses of others, and yet who exert
a monetary power that will be felt ali
over the country. It is a reflection
on the character of our Government—
that its authorities, hoiding the highest
offices of emolument and trust, often
give all their influence in these specu
lations, and then pocket a large share
of the profits. Iu England and many
other countries, it is in die regular
course of events for the son to succeed
the father in business, and thus con
tinue it with great prestige from gen
eration to generation, while in this
country it is unusual for any great
banking or commercial house to con
tinue its business into the second gen
eration, aud all our regulating princi
ples of commerce seem opposed to the
ideas of stability and perpetuation.
Indeed, all our ideas of value aud ex
change seem contained in one word,
“fluctuation,” and from a number of
causes the United States has been pe
culiarly liable to this condition for the
last few years, from the Government
attempting to adjust what commerce
alone can regulate, from the controlling
wealth-power of the country being
centered iu one peculiar district, from
the great frauds attending the man
agement of so many railroads and cor
porations, and particularly from the
uncertain value and inflated condition
of the national currency. Any country
which adopts for its currency mere
Government evidences of debt, whose
expressed purchasing power or value
in exchange is coufined to the country
so issuing, thereby deprives itself of
one of the greatest blessings of inter
national commerce, namely, of keeping
on hand just so much money as the
business aud enterprise of the country
demand, and no more. And why? Simply
because money is only a commodity,
and, like any other commodity, will
seek and find the market where it can
he most advantageously employed and
pay the highest interest If French bus
iness should stagnate, thereby placing
a large unused surplus on the market,
aud Prussian activity creates a demand
for money, then the French capitalists
will hasten to export their gold and
avail themselves of Prussian enter
prise, thereby securing interest on their
principal, and at the same time aiding
Prussian exchange. If England lias
accumulated large savings which can
not be profitably employed at home,
the inducement of high rates of interest
will even draw the money into South
American and Asiatic, investments, un
til enough has been withdrawn from the
English markets to enable that re
maining to be profitably employed,
thereby adjusting the supply and de
mand in the various countries, and
this principle holds good wherever the
legal tender of a country is on a gold
basis. But our currency, which is not
available beyond the shadow of its own
flag, and can only compete with a gold
basis currency at a fearful disadvan
tage, is adjusted to supply and demand
by the judgment of Government offi
cers, who issue or recall it at their dis
cretion.
The relation of debtor and creditor
therefore is always uncertain and vari
able ; hence the aversion to negotiating
long loans, for, before their maturity,
the entire value of the transaction may
have been changed. Currency is best
regulated to the commerce of a country
where just enough is employed to ac
complish her exchanges with a reserve
fund to be constantly employed in de
veloping her resources. We wonder
therefore at the cry of those who com
plain there is no money in the country
and who ciarnor for an increase of Gov
ernment issue, not realizing that it is
other elements of success, not money,
that is wanting, and that any inflation
merely causes the value of Government
evidences of debt to fall in relation to
all other exchangeable commodities, or
in other words for the price of all pro
ducts to rise, so that while our money
has increased in volume it has declined
in value and efficiency, and we are no
better if as well off as before. The
various departments of production and
exchange are so intricately connected
and dependent upon each other,
that no division can meet with
great profit or great loss without
affecting the whole combination of
capital and labor. If for instance the
farmer is blessed with a bountiful crop
it is not the farmer alone who is bene
fited, but the manufacturer, the miller
aud marketman, receiving greater sup
plies, dispose of it, retaining a show of
its profits in proportion to the farmer’s
success. These same farmers, manu
facturers, etc., now have money to pay
out to the merchant, the tailor, the
blacksmith, and all channels of ex
change, and each party in the exchange
will derive a share of the profit, aud
this will continue until it returns to the
farmer, who can now buy his necessa
ries at cheap prices. But if the farmer
fails, he has nothing to exchange, the
miller, manufacturer, etc., from lack
of business aud loss of profit, must
contract their expenditures, and the
merchant, the tailor, etc., being onfy
able to sell a little, try to sell that little
at high prices, and thus reverses will
likewise extend around the whole circle,
until they return to the farmer, who
besides a short crop must now struggle
against advanced prices.
But on considering the uncertain and
disastrous condition of business for the
last fifteen years we must remember
tliat failures and misfortunes have not
been peculiarly visited upon us, but
have pervaded and infected all Europe.
And in seeking the causes, we think too
little importance is attached to the im
mense amount of property (the savings
aud product of centuries) destroyed iu
that time. As we remarked before,
sometimes what is considered ruin has
merely been the transfer of capital, but
the capital remains in existence. Still
ruin produced by flame and sword is
the actual destruction of wealth and
its producers, and which can only be
restored by years of hard labor and
from the fruits of the earth. In look
ing for causes of our business misfor
tunes we must consider the extensive
wars of the last fifteen years, both in
Europe and this country, and must re
flect upon the amount destroyed in the
destruction of others, the drain upon
the few workers at home to support
non-producers iu the field, the num
bers of helpless ones who must eat up
saving and, as in this country especi
ally, the strength of the country, in her
young men mutilated or destroyed,
and we can readiiy account for a large
share of the consequent disaster. Then
following tliis, the terrible fires
(whether of property insured or unin
sured) and floods which, devastating
whole cities aud districts of the United
States, have destroyed an amount of
property which only years andyears of
toil can restore.
Anew era is dawning upon the South,
which iu a few years will transfer the
Northern balance of wealth aud power
into Southern legislation. Much has
been said of Southern indolence and
Southern extravagance, but it is well
known that it was Southern cotton
which supplied Northern manufac
tories ; that it was in a great measure
the Southern consumer who relieved
the Northern markets, at great profit
to them, of the fruits of their indus
try, and that it was the Southern visi
tors who contributed most largely to
the wealth and popularity of Northern
Summer resorts and watering places.
The sudden breaking up of the South
ern institution of labor, which had
been in active employment for years,
the turning loose of several millions of
paupers, attended by evil aud forced
legislation, upon a country already
pillaged and wasted by four years of
bloody civil war, was succeeded by a
temporary stagnation of business and
paralysis of effort or hope. The war,
which, on the Northern side, had been
almost entirely waged ou the offensive,
told very little in its immediate effects
upon them. What cottou had been
saved during the war went on to feed
the Northern loom. The Northern
markets poured their produce into the
famished South, relieving us of much
of the gold and silver we had saved,
and it seemed for a time as if we had
been deprived of all our wealth and
our position, and had merely retained
our dependence on Northern enterprise.
But the Southern planter, though
it will be long ere he can conduct his
operations on an extensive and mag
nificent system which he enjoyed before
the war, and is now forced to manage
with a spirit of invention and economy
which he formerly disregarded entirely,
and the Southern capitalist aud pro
ducer, jealous of the power of the
Northern receiver, are beginning iu a
measure to manufacture and consume
their own commodities thereby keep
ing the profits at home, while Southern
pleasure seekers are beginning to show
a knowledge of Geography in their na
tive States of which formerly they were
entirely ignorant, aud wo need but a
few years of activity and economy to
place us on an elevation of power and
wealth that will make us the envy and
admiration of the world. The North
is now in turn realizing her losses from
the effects of the war which for a time
so completely destroyed our efforts as
producers. Her manufactories are ly
ing idle for lack of business, Northern
laborers are striking and starving for
want of employment, and w'th a large
class of people a feeling of distrust and
depression prevails.
We only want to see an early estab
lished trade and an equalization of
wealth and power over the country. —
We want to see the young men of the
South practising industry and economy.
We would find them not loafing round
street corners and complaining that
they are running in debt, looking for
something to do, wo would see them
established under their vine and fig tree,
not riding and followed by dogs, issu
ing orders, but making themselves
leaders by work and example, and ear
ning a living from the ever-willing soil,
for after all, from thence the wealth
and power of a country spring.
J. B.
Seven Hundred Slieep Literally
Frightened to Death.
[From the California Alameda Independent.]
Last week we mentioned the loss of a
large number of sheep in the hills back
of Mission San Jose, belonging to Mr.
Ashurt, but were misinformed as to
their death. It was not by rushing
down a precipice, but in another and
most singular way that the misfortune
occurred. The sheep to the number of
about 2,500, were quietly feeding on a
hill about three miles east of Mission
San Jose on Sunday afternoon, July 4,
when a man who had been a short time
working for the owner of the sheep,
suddenly uttered aloud yell, which had
the effect of frightening the sheep.
They immediately commenced running
down hill as fast as they could, At or
near the bottom of the hill a large
patch of poison oak was growing, and
they rushed pell-mell into it. Here
their legs got so entangled that they
could not move. Meanwhile the others
behind still came rushing down upon
them, until they were piled in layers
six deep, one upon the other. Of course
the most of them were soon suffocated
and dead.
One of the owners came to the spot
within ten minutes afterward, and with
the aid of a Spaniard succeeded in pull
ing out and rescuing about fifty head.
But the number that lost their lives in
this strange way was seven hundred in
all. It is supposed that the yell of the
hired man was done for the purpose of
starting the sheep off to camp.
The three brothers Ashuist, who
own the sheep, had recently brought
them from New Idria, in Fresno coun
ty, and arrived with them at their pas
ture, near the Mission, only on the Ist
day of July, four days before the acci
dent. The sheep were worth $1.50 to
$3 per head. One of the brothers, the
gentleman from whom we got our in
formation, is so disgusted with the re
sult that ho is determined to sell out
his share in this herd and in another
here in the same hills. He has about
three thousand in all for sale. The
most of those lost were mutton sheep ;
the most of those left were stock
sheep.
Miss Clara Rose, of Philadelphia, had
$7,000 expended on her Latin, French
and German education, and then mar
ried a man who has to buy his butter
half a pound at a time.
A DEAD “EMPRESS.”
A Queer Cadaver Under the Scalpel
—An Eleven Thousand Pound Ele
phant on the Dissecting Table at the
“Zoo’’—Her Checkered Story-Last
of an Old Sight for Boys and Girls.
[Philadelphia Times.!.
Her Majesty is dead—the Empress
has finally succumb to old age, and
her carcass was last night iu the hands
of the disarticulators. Darkness shroud
ed the earth when the Times reporter
endeavored to gain admission to the
Zoological Garden iu order to gather
facts in regard to the deceased “Em
press.” He whistled loud and long,
but met no response save the hoarse,
hard laugh of a restless hyena, and
the occasional deep-bayed growl of the
magnificent Bengal tiger.
At last the fence bordering the gar
den was climbed, at the expense of half
a yard of coat-tail, and (.’apt. Thomp
son’s house was reached, after shins
and garden seats had been in frequent
collision. At length a light glimmered
through the trees, and Capt. Thomp
son, pipe in teeth as usual, came along
the wire-girded pathway leading to his
home. “Want to see the remains of
her Majesty ? Come with me, sir,” and
thtrbe-bearded Captain led his visitor
along dark pathways aud by corrals
containing sleeping antelopes and kan
garoos until he came to the miry spot
where “the Empress” drooped aud died.
“She went like a shot out of a gun,
sir,” said the superintendent, “and as
she fell over when released from
the slings which you know have up
held her for the last few weeks, she
broke the tusk you were playing with
in my office just now short off. Her
weight, sir? Eleven thousand pounds;
though she fell away considerably du
ring her illness. She was born in
Ceylon, and her age we believe to be
about 85 years. She was purchased by
us from Dr. Spaulding, a former part
ner of Rogers, the coach builder. Does
her chum, the St. Bernard, miss her?
I don’t think he realizes the fact that
she’s dead as yet. Don’;, go too near
him, sir; he’s ugly after dark. No lie’s
not thoroughbred, and never saw the
Jungfrau or St. Got hard.”
Carefully following the will-o’-the
wisp carried by the captain, the re
porter waded through the slush and
mud until he reached the place where
the old elephant was lately in the slings.
Here, busy at work with cleaver aud
knife, were several butchers stripping
the ponderous bones of the huge ani
mal of the flesh that has so long covered
them, piling the intestines in tubs, and
unscientifically disarticulating the poor
old Queen of the “Zoo.”
“We are goiug to have her skeleton
properly prepared for exhibition,” said
Mr. Scattergood, with a deep-drawn
sigh, as he gazed ruefully upon the
huge chunks of ruddy flesh that were
being torn from the carcass. “Yes, it
might come in useful during a siege,
might not be unpalatable, still I think
that her old friends in the garden
would rather starve than eat a mouth
ful of her.”
“What are you going to do with all
this flesh that you are carting away,
Captain Thompson ?”
“M. L. Shoemaker is taking it away
to render down for the sake of the
grease, and ho will return the bones
when they are pretty well cleaned to
tho Zoological authorities. Mr. Nash,
of the University Hospital, will articu
late them and make up the skeleton.”
“Did you save her brain ?”
“No, sir. We could not have done so
without destroying partially the cere
bral cavities. That’s a tumor, and it
must have been a great affliction to the
poor old girl.” The speaker pointed to
a pulpy mass, weighing about eighty
pounds that was lying upon a bench
hard by. “Here is her heart —it was in
the right place -and there is her liver.
No tubercles in that, sir, though she
was an East Indian. Do I regret her?
I do, indeed ! you, get out;” and
the Captain gave a kick at a little fox,
which was fortunately far out of his
reach, in order to vent his regret, to re
lieve himself of the sorrow that was
evidently affecting him.
The “ Empi’ess ” was an unwieldy
brute, and has of late been a source of
great trouble and annoyance to the
keepers of the Zoological Garden, but.
her loss is a severe one to the Society,
as her value, on account of her bulk
and age, was great. The deceased
“ Empress ” had a checkered oareer;
but amid all her trials and troubles she
was always good tempered and exhibit
ed a kindly disposition that made her a
favorite with all,
Some years ago she fell through a
bridge while on her travels with a me
nagerie and sustained the spinal in
juries which ultimately resulted in hex
having to bo placed in slings under a
derrick. Her ponderosity and great age
were the final causes of her collapse.
“La reine est mort!" murmured the re
porter, as he left the dissecting place
and followed the glare of the captain’s
lantern down the asphalt path ways and
out into the l-oadways leading home.
A Northern Girl’s Opinion of South
ern Girls.
[Miss Constance Fenimore Wolston in the
Cleveland Herald.]
You can tell a Southern girl at once.
She is rounder than her Northern sis
ters, indeed, she is never thin or lank;
sho walks with a languid step, and all
her movements are slow and indolent;
she is never alert. She has fine soft
eyes with a serene expression, very
different from the quick, keen eyes of
the North; she has not the beautiful
white and red complexion of New York
and New England, rather is she sallow,
with a few rose tints; you might call her
cream-color. She never looks anxious,
no matter what happens; she does not
think she can help matters by her
advice or interference, but sits back
calmly and leaves everything to
“brothel-,” or “pa,” pronouncing the
latter word in a way I defy a Northern
girl to imitate. The vvoi'd might be
used as a shibboleth; it is not exactly
“pay,” but half way between that and
the sound of “a” in “cat.” Our South
ern girl dresses picturesquely rather
than trimly, and has brighter colors
and more floating ends and curls about
her than a Northern belle allows. She
has pretty, plump hands, but she is
not particular about the gloves that
cover them—l mean particular com
pared with Fifth Avenue rules. In
short, she is a more voluminous sort
of a girl in every way, and cares less
about “the fashion.” She has one de
cided advantage over the Northern
girls, however, and that is her voice;
it is sweeter and lower, a little triuante,
perhaps, but essentially gentle and
womanly.
Sister Rose Everett, a niece of Ed
ward Everett, is about to establish a
convent at Dallas, Texas. She is at this
time Mother Superior of the Convent
of St, Vincent de Paul, Jefferson, Texas,
HOW TO DOSE YELLOW JACK.
Mount Vernon, July 30, 1875.
To the Editor of the Ohio State Journal:
During my residence iu Buenos
Ayres, I passed through that fearful
pestilence, the “ yellow fever,” where
25,000 died in ten weeks. After the
following treatment was adopted many
were saved :
Put the patient into a hot bath, with
plenty of mustard mixed with the
water. When taken from the bath rub
him with flannel, put to bed and cover
with five or six blankets. The result
will be, in a few minutes, a profuse per
spiration. Be careful not to chill the
patient. Soon after the bath give a
large dose of castor oil. After this
guard the appetite well, for there is
strong desire to eat. If the patient is
much exhausted after t.he operation of
the oil, give small quantities of cham
pagne.
I think most cases can bo cured by
this treatment if taken in time.
R. C. K.
An Arkansas Fisherman Finds the
Dead Body of His Little Daughter
Fastened to a Trot Line.
[From the Memphis Avalanche.]
A little distance below the ferry
landing on the Arkansas shore, oppo
site this city, is moored a boat owned
by Dave Robinson, a fisherman, on
which he and his family live. About 8
o’clock Wednesday evening, his little
daughter Ada, aged about ten years,
fell from the boat into the water and
was drowned. Every effort possible
was made to recover the body, but
without success, and it was given up
for lost, in the belief that the current
had carried it down the stream beyond
recovery.
About daylight yesterday the fisher
man made his daily visit to his trot
lines, which were laid iu the river
about 200 yards below his boat. He
threw out the grappling hook, caught
the lines, and proceeded to haul in;
but, before many feet of the line had
been recovered, he drew to the surface
the dead body of his little daughter,
fastened by the dress to one of the fish
hooks. The child’s body had been
carried down by the current until
caught by the trot line, where it was
held fast, and fished up next morning
by the father.
That Sneaking, Skulking Mr. Jaskins.
(From the Detroit Free Press ]
“Can I be protected here, Mister ?”
asked a woman yesterday as she en
tered the office of the Chief of Police.
“Yes’m.”
“Can my family—my innocent child
ren—also be protected ?” she demand
ed, striking the floor with her um
brella.
“Yes’m.”
“If there is any law I want it,” she
went on, dropping into a big arm-chair;
“if there isn’t, I propose to take a club
to him!”
“My dear woman, this world is full
of sorrow,” said the Captain, as he
looked up from his writing ; “each one
of us has his own separate and dis
tinct grief to grieve over. Tell me
yours !”
“Do you know Joskins’” she asked.
“Jaskins? Jaskins? Seems as if J
had heard the name sometime.”
“Man with a limp—one eye gone—
red neck —sandy hair—got a skulking,
sneaking way with him,” she said.
“And he has stolen your poultry,
eh ?”
“Poultry? Naw ! It’s worse than
poultry—it’s next to arson or murder!”
“Go on, madam-go into the particu
lars !”
“Well, he boards next to me. I’m a
widow. Been alone these fourteen
years, and if I do say it myself, I’ve
always had the respeetablest kind of
name. I’ve a daughter Jane. She’s
seventeen. She’s a good girl.”
“Yes, madam.”
“And that sneaking, skulking Jas
kins is after her!” she exclaimed.
“Possible !”
“He just is! Was after me first. For
weeks and weeks htAl hang around our
gate, and smile at me and inquire if I
wasn’t lonesome, and send up straw
berries, and look his lovingest out of
that one eye!”
“And then ?”
“ And then, when he found I wouldn’t
marry him to save his neck, and he
couldn’t get my property to run
through with, what d’ye s’pose he
done?”
“ Cut his throat ?”
“Naw! He turned right around and
went to loving Jaue! He has sent
notes to her in those pink, envel
opes ; he has sent her bouquets and
coeoanuts, and perfume and cherries,
and he’s skulking around yet! I’ve
talked and talked, but it don’t do no
good. If sunthin’ ain’t done 1 believe
Jane’ll marry him!”
“ How does she act?”
“ She’s grinning around and looking
soft and loving like, and she won’t
mind half I say, and is getting notes
and writing answers, and—and—!”
And she broke down. She wiped her
eyes, softly rubbed her nose, and after
a moment jumped up and demanded :
“Is there any law !”
“Lots of law—dead loads, madam.”
“And you’ll put the law to him ?”
“I will, madam—l’ll make this towm
a voleano for him before he’s a week
older!”
“And you’ll break up the match ?”
“Either that or break his back !”
“Good! The police are worth sun
thin’ after all! If you say you’ll wait
on him and tell him he’s got to back
right down or go to jail, I’ll chain Jane
to the table-leg and sit by her for four
weeks, but what I’ll make her forget
him!”
“I’ll do it, madam.”
“Think of my Jane marrying a man
with one eye ! and a red neck ! and a
limp! O-h-h! when I think of that
skulking Jaskins sneaking around my
innocent Jane to make her his wife I
could t-e-a-r his house down !”
She sat down, and they fixed up a
plan, and Mr. Jaskins had better leave
for the West this very day.
The Escape of Parker,
The Columbia correspondence of the
Charleston Neivs says: “Parker left
his trunk and all his clothes, showing
that he went off in disguse. A 15-inch
cold chisel was found in his room,
showing evidence of recent use. The
Attorney General was sent for this
momiDg, but telegraphed to Col. Rion
to act in his place as he was unwell.
Col. Rion arrived hero this afternoon,
and has offered a reward of SSOO, in the
name of the State, for the capture of
Parker, and has telegraphed this fact
to Charleston, Port Royal, Augusta and
Wilmington. Sheriff Dent this evening
has offered an additional reward of
S2OO for the lodgment of Parker ip qqy
jail of the State or the United States,
and refers to Edw|q J. Scott & Cos.,
bankers, as to his responsibility for the
prompt payment of the reward.”
-New Series—Vol. 3. Mo. 5.
WIT AND WISDOM.
Tom Scott doesn’t bathe.
Condensed beer is the latest.
Most people are like eggs—too full
of themselves to hold anything else.
Now that glass which is not brittle
has been invented, people who live in
glass houses will be able to throw
stones as safely as other people.
About two thousand aged eggs
awaited Messrs. Moody and Saukey if
they had addressed the Eton hoys.
What an eggs-ample for the youth of
England.
The report of a wedding in Kentucky
concluded in this wise: “The bride
was far from being handsome, but her
fathei threw in a span of horses and
seven mules, and the bridegroom was
satisfied.”
The aged father of Colonol Gilder
sleeve publishes a card denying the
statement made by certain Irish pa
pers that the Cnlonel was born with a
rifle in his mouth.
A Jamaica boy, who was hit iu the
stomach with a ball, retained breath
enough to observe: “It’s lucky I j’ned
the Sunday school;” and then curled
up for the balance of the season.
When you observe a lady drop a
handkerchief in the street and not stop
to pick it up, the chances are ten to
one that she hasn’t got her stoop-over
dress on.—Whitehall Times.
She leans over the counter now and
tells the clerk he had better cut off two
yards for that drees pattern, as she
will not have the skirt made as scant as
some wears them. —Norwalk Chronicle.
Most of the papers are a little tardy
with their recipes for the cure of hy
drophobia this year. Who can correct
ly estimate the number of lives that
have been lost in consequence of this
neglect Fulton Times.
“John, I wish you’d close that door,”
said an irritable father to his son.
Your mother must be scolding some
body at the other end of the hall,
there’s such a draft from that quarter.”
“A child who was told that God was
everywhere, asked, “In this room?”
“Yes.” “In the closet?” “Yes.” “In
the drawers of my desk ?” “Yes,
everywhere. He’s in your pocket now.”
“No, He ain’t though.” “And why
not?” “Tauth I ain’t dot no pottet”
“Maria,” observed Mr. Holcomb, as
ho was putting on his clothes this
morning, “there aiu’t no patch on them
breeches yet.”
“I can’t fix it now no way ; I’m too
busy.”
“Well, give me the patcli then, an’
I’ll carry it around with me,” added
Holcomb. “I don’t want people to
think I can’t afford the cloth.”
The editor of the Cleveland Leader,
when attacked in his office a few nights
ago, bent an iron cane over the head
of his assailant. If editors continue to
receive belligerent visitors in this way,
half the excitement of journalism will
die out, for the bully with a grievance
will never come arouud to have a little
fun with the boys.
Death of Alexander Hamilton’s Sou.
Gen. Alexander Hamilton, son of the
great Alexander Hamilton, of Ameri
can history, died at his residence in
New York, on Monday evening, after a
long and painful illness. Mr. Hamilton
was born in New York on May IG, 1786,
and was consequently in his ninetieth
year at the time of his death. He
served in the war of 1812 as general in
command of the old Sandy Hook Fort,
and took active part in many of the
minor engagements which were fought
at that time. After the close of the
war here he visited France, where he
resided for a number of years. While
in Europe he made a tour through
Spain, which was then almost com
pletely in possession of the French
Government, and was present at the
memorable engagement between French
troops and the Spanish and English
soldiers under command of the Duke
of Wellington before Badajos. Ho re
turned to New York in 1820, where he
continued to reside with brief inter
mission up to the time of his death.
At the tune of the lamentable duel be
tween his father and Aaron Burr,
which was fought at Hoboken in 1801,
the late Mr. Hamilton was attending
school. He leaves no children behind
him, so that his personal effects will
probably be divided among his broth
ers, of which three survive him,
Joseph Alexander, aged eighty-eight
years, John C., eighty-five, and Philip,
seventy three.
The Baby’s Weight. —Dr. Groussin,
of Bellevue, has contrived a machine
which he calls a berceau-balance or
pesebebe, by means of which the anx
ious young mother may assure herself
from day to day, or even from hour to
hour, that the baby is going on satis
factorily as regards increase of weight.
It consists of an ordinary cradle, to
suit the taste, fitted with a balance un
derneath, which will tell the exact
weight of the cradle and its contents,
without any need for disturbing the
child. It is said that after two complete
day’s life a child weighs about four
ounces less than at birth. When a week
old, it will be of the same weight as at
birth. From seven days to five months
the average increase should be three
quarters of an ounce daily. At five
months the weight should be double
that at birth. At sixteen months the
weight should be double that at five
months. Of course, infants vary from
time to time, and each individual has a
rule of its own ; the great point is that
growth ought to be constant.
A. T. Stewart Deals with Mixs.
O’Fjlanaoan.— Mrs. O’Flanagan is said
to be the name of a lady who owned a
piece of the Congress street property
at Saratoga recently purchased by Mr.
A. T. Stewart, the merchant prince.
They are telling how she outwitted the
great merchant. Mr. Stewart called
and offered her $22,000 for her lot, in
his usual brusque yet business-like
way, and gave her till 4 o’clock to ac
cept his offer. “Shure, Mr. Stewart, a
brewer from Albany has offered me
$33,000 for the pi-operty, and given me
as long as I want to think about it.
But I told him he could have it for
$34,000 if he was back here by 3 o’clock.
It is now ten minutes to 3. Ye can
have it for $35,000 if yo get back be
fore the brewer does.” The thought of
a “brewry” in the neighborhood of the
Grand Union Hotel did the business.
Mr. Stewart closed with Mrs. O’Flana
gan on the spot.
A woman walked into a house iii
Rutland, Vermont, where two red flags
were displayed, and, sitting down, ask
ed when it would oommence. “ What
commence?” “ The auction, of course.”
When told that the flags meant small
pox, and not auction, she jumped up at
least six feet., and then ran howling
down the street.