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Old Series—Vol. 25. No. 122.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
i'as. G. Bailie, Francis Cogin, Geo. T. Jackson,
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Augusta, Ga.
Failures in England continue. A
rail mill has gone by the board to the
tune of §500,000. It looks like other
countries besides the United States are
getting down to hard pan.
m
Just as the yellow fever is disappear
ing from Fort Barrancas, we hear of its
breaking out at Pascagoula, a town
situated on the Mobile and New Or
leans Railway, near the Gulf of Mexico.
Know Nothingism has broken out in
Connecticut. The Springfield Republi
can suggests the prudence of detailing
General O’Butler to head it off before
it crosses the line into Massachusetts.
Duncan, Sherman & Cos. make an ap
proximate exhibit of their assets and
liabilities. The failure is a pretty bad
one, and if creditors realize twenty-five
cents on the dollar we shall be agree
ably surprised.
—
The August report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture on the cotton crop
shows that, in spite of local drouth and
overflows, the average is still very high.
Georgia, South Carolina and Florida
have apparently been the greatest suf
ferers.
The population of Columbia, S. C.,
according to the census returns is
about 14,445, divided as follows: White
males, 2,534; white females, 2,506. Col
ored males, 4,576; colored females,
4,829. Total majority of blacks over
whites, 4,365.
m i wii
The heated term, through which we
have successfully passed, has commen
ced its reign in Paris. Fourteen sun
strokes in one day may be considered
a fair percentage of misfortune. It is
a well-known fact that more persons
are injured by the Summer heat iu the
North than in the South.
An article is going the rounds of the
press advising young men to exercise
their brains less and muscles more. It
concludes thus:
Young men can easily calculate that the
cost of joining a gymnasium, or a boat
club would not even require that consider
able!’ percentage of the money expended
for cigars, bad liquors and unprofitable
pleasures.
Asa general thing, the expenses of a
gymnasium or boat club are plus the
cigars, liquors, etc. Very few young
men exercise their brains in a hurtful
manner, so far as study and reading
are concerned.
There is consolation in all things.
The better side of the recent “Venusian
perturbations” is thus summed up:
“While undoubted- damage has been
done to the stauding crops, the des
truction is not as great as was at first
apprehended. Against the injuries by
the floods may be set off the probable
profit which all descriptions of root
crops have derived from the rain, and
the enriching of pastures, which pro
mises a fine yield of the products of
the dairy, besides holding out the pros
pect that beef will be of excellent
quality, as well as cheap and plentiful
this year. The Indian corn crop in most
sections is also evidently to be prolific.”
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The Columbia, S. C.. Register says :
“In the address of Colonel D. Wyatt
Aiken, yesterday, before the Grangers,
he spoke of the want of education
among the farmers and of the great
scarcity of reading among their fami
lies. We know that there is great pre
judice against “book learning” among
agriculturists, but then we only have
to compare the homes of those farm
ers who take the papers and those who
do not, to see the vast superiority of
general information where the papers
are read.” The poverty or indifference
of Southern farmers must be very great
when they find it hard or impossible to
take a weekly paper and pay $2 per an
num for it. Let them relinquish just
eight drinks during the year and sub
scribe for a paper.
“ About one year ago Bishop Geo. F.
Pierce asked that every citizen of
Georgia would send him one dollar, the
sum thus raised to be used for the en
dowment of Emory College. In re
sponse to this call, he writes that he
has received about 82,000. He ought
to have received 820,000 by this time.”—
Atlanta Herald
We think the Bishop has done pass
ing well considering the stringency of
the times. There are very few persons
who have any surplus money, aud the
vast majority are desperately striving
to make two ends meet in settling rent,
buying provisions and paying urgent
debts. If clergymen of any denomina
tion expect large contributions from
their congregations or the public gen
erally they are doomed to disappoint
ment. The people are quite poor, and
we want no better evidence of that fact
than the empty appearance of the con
tribution baskets passed round in one
of our most generous churches. Let
the good Bishop wait until the business
Reason commences, and try again.
(El)i' fails i (Eomtitutuimißst
FROM NEW YORK.
DUNCAN, SHERMAN & CO’S. UN
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
A Sop for Cerberus—How' the Broken
Firm is Supposed to Stand—Tam
many Tantrums.
New York, August 13. —A statement
of Duncan, Sherman & Go’s, affairs
shows liabilities §4,872,128, and assets
§2,112,740. They owe depositors §2,-
572,139.75; travelers credits §237,974;
foreign correspondence §774,387. Mr.
Duncan and Judge Shipmau explained
that that statement is not official and
can be taken as representing only ap
proximate amounts. It has been pre
pared to answer many inquiries that
are daily made regarding the probable
condition of the affairs of the firm, and
with special care to avoid making a
better showing than may be justified
by final results. All doubtful assets
have been reduced or entirely stricken
out.
The general Tammany Committee
ratified the action of the committee
re-organizing the districts controlled
by Morrissey, Hall and Ledwith.
Seizure of a Ship—The State Tax.
The ship Queen of the Mersey, seized
by the Brooklyn Sheriff, was complica
ted with Baxter & Cos., baukrupt grain
merchants.
The report of the state of the finances
says the whole State tax next year need
not exceed 3 to 3J4 mills.
Important Arrest of Bond Forgers.
Arrests of parties implicated in the
forgery of California and Oregon Rail
road bonds prove to be extremely im
portant. They comprise Geo. R. Haz
well, nominally a broker, who, last year,
negotiated §30,000 worth of forged Wa
bash bonds ; Geo. Marshall and Wm.
Rea, whom, the police state, are w T eli
known dealers in forged bonds, and
Edward Hal}. The latter arrest is con
sidered one of the most important yet
made, as he is believed to be the head
of a gang of bond counterfeiters who,
not long ago, endeavored to flood the
city with forged Erie, City and Water
Loan bonds. These are the same per
sons who negotiated some New York
Central Railroad real estate bonds,
which are believed to be worthless.
FROM WASHINGTON.
A Call for Bonds—Appointment.
Washington, August 13.—A call for
ten million dollars’ worth of bonds will
be issued by the Treasury Department
to-day, the Syndicate having made an
other subscription for that sum. This
leaves but §38,537,550 of the new five
per cent, bonds in the hands of the
Secretary, and the Syndicate has until
November 15th to take this amount.
Dodd county, Georgia, is included in
the second collection district.
Robert A. Mosely has been commis
sioned postmaster at Talladega, Ala.
Report of tlie Cotton Crop.
The returns of the Department of
Agriculture for August show an im
provement of the cotton crop of 4 per
cent, in North Carolina, 1 in Mississip
pi and 4 in Arkansas. These States
were largely flavored with the same
conditions of growth which had secur
ed their high averages of July. Texas
maintained her previous figures ; the
drouth in some counties being counter
balanced by fine weather in others.—
Tennessee lost 2 per cent., mostly on
account of injuries to bottom land
crops from excessive rains. In Louisi
ana the average decline is 6 per cent,
on account of local drouth, though
several parishes report very prom
ising crops. This injurious influ
ence cut down the average of
Georgia 11 per cent., of South
Carolina, 15 per cent., and Florida, 16
per cent. The August averages were
as follows: North Carolina, 99; South
Carolina, 84; Georgia, 86; Florida, 85;
Alabama, 93; Mississippi, 104; Louis
iana, 99; Texas, 93; Arkansas, 108; Ten
nessee, 107. Lice and caterpillars are
reported in two or three counties, but
no damage to the crop is noted.
Special River Report.
7:30 p. m.—The Mississippi has fallen
seven inches at St. Louis, three inches
at Cairo and risen one inch at Mem
phis and Helena, and two inches at
Vicksburg. The river is now nine
inches* higher at Cairo, and one inch
higher at Memphis then it was during
the Spring flood of this year. Red
river has risen five inches at Shreve
port. Rains are reported from the
river sheds of the lower Mississippi
and the lower Missouri, the Arkansas
and Red rivers.
Postal Arrangement.
Washington, August 13.—The Post
Office Department arranged with the
King Line of steamers to carry the mail
between Baltimore and Rio Janeiro.
The King Richard sails from Baltimore
at ten o’clock on the 28th inst.
FROM SPARTA.
One Negro Murders Another With a
Pitchfork.
[Special to the Constitutionalist.!
Sparta, Ga., August 13, 1875.
Two negro men, employed by Mr. T.
M. Turner, of this place, had a dispute
over some watermelons this afternoon,
and one struck the other on the head
with a pitchfork, fracturing his skull.
He died this evening. The other ne
gro escaped. X.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Falling Down Stairs—Robbing a Bank
—Mutiny—Murder aud Suicide.
Cincinnati, August 13.—Frank Knorr,
a delegate to the Druids’ Convention,
while visiting the Central Fire Depart
ment Station fell down a flight of
stairs. His injuries are probably fatal.
Milwaukee, August 13.—Nothing has
been heard from Hobkirk, Cashier of
the Corn Exchange Bank, of Waupun.
He has doubtless absconded with all the
available accounts. The bank is due
depositors 885,000; others, 815,000.
Baltimore, August 13. —The brig
Harry, Captain Barnes, since Monday
night for Matanzas, is at Annapolis,
the crew having mutinied.
Detroit, August 13. —John Hoffman,
of the firm of Hoffman & Mayes, ship
chandlers, shot himself and wife.
Cause, jealousy.
Hanging of a Murderer—An Immense
Audience of Morbid Siglit-Seers.
"Knoxville, August 13. —John Webb,
the murderer was hauged to-day. He
maintained wonderful nerve to the last
and under the gallows continued to af
firm his innocence. An immense crowed
came from the surrounding country,
estimated at from 12,000 to 15,000, to
witness the execution.
New Orleans, August 13. —A barrel
factory at the head of Marigny street,
blew down, killing two and injuring
three.
AUGUSTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The Alfonsists Crowding the Carlists
—Another Failure in England—Ex
cessive Heat in Paris.
London, August 13.—The weather is
unsettled.
The Stockton Rail Mill Cos., have
failed for §500,000.
Madrid, August 13.—The Alfonsists
at Seo d’Urgel carried the Olsana tower
after a desperate struggle mounting
the battery in the Olsana. It is consid
ered impossible for the Carlists to hold
the citadel.
Paris, August 13. —Heat excessive.
Fourteen sun strokes have occurred.
Ten 'I housand Troops for Cuba—At
tempt to Swim the English Channel-
Expulsion of a Prussian Bishop—A
Burial Case Settled by Decree.
Madrid, August 13. —It is said the
Government intends to send ten thou
sand men to Cuba to enable Captain
General Valmaseda to execute his plans
for the reduction of the insurrection in
that colony.
London, August 16.—Webb, who
started to swim from England to
France, was picked up half way. He is
confident he could have made the trip
but for the roughness of the water.
The Faraday sailed to renew her ef
forts to repair the direct cable.
Berlin, August 13.—The Bishop of
Gneisie has been expelled from his dio
cese by a decree of the Government.
Montreal, August 13. —A long ex
pected decree of the Privy Council was
received from England ordering the
burial of the remains of Joseph Gui
bord in the consecrated portion of the
Catholic cemetery.
The Old Catholic Conference—More
English Failures.
Bonn, August 13.—The Old Catholic
Conference discussed the question of
processions of the Holy Ghost. The
Conference has nearly agreed upon a
formula concerning this doctrine,
which will be submitted to-morrow.
London, August 13.—The failure of
Denegre & Son, of Old Jewry, and W.
J. Craven, of Trenchard street, are an
nounced.
Prorogation of Parliament.
London, August 13. —Parliament has
been prorogued to the 29th.
The Queen’s Address.
My Lord! and Gentlemen : I am
happy to be enabled to release you
from attendance at Parliament.
The relations between myself and
foreign Powers continue to be cordial,
and I look forward with hope and con
fidence to the uninterrupted mainte
nance of European peace.
The visit paid to this country, on
invitation of my Government, by the
ruler of Zanzibar has led to the con
clusion of a supplementary convention
which I trust may be efficacious for
a more complete suppression of the
East African slave trade.
I have learned with deep regret that
the expedition dispatched by my Indian
government from Burmah,with a view
to open communication with the Wes
tern Provinces of China has been
treacherously attacked by an armed
force while on Chinese Territory. This
outrage, unhappily involving the death
of a young aud promising member of
my consular service, is the subject of
careful enquiry and no effort shall be
spared to secure punishment of those
by whom it was instigated and com
mitted.
The condition of my Colonial Em
pire is generally harmonious, aud I
thank you for the liberal supplies you
have voted for public service.
My Lords and Gentlemen, it is grati
fying to me to find that the lengthened
consideration you have given the vari
ous statutes which have from time to
time been passed for the preservation
of the peace in Ireland, has resulted in
a measure which, while relaxing the
stringency of former enactments, is
calculated to maintain the tranquillity
of the country.
Her Majesty then refers to other
principal enactments of the session.
The reference to shipping bills being
as follows: The state of the public
business and difference of opinion
naturally arising on a varied and com
prehensive scheme have unfortunately
prevented you from completing the
consideration of the Merchant Ship
ping Bill, but I rejoice that you have
been able by temporary enactment to
diminish considerably the dangers to
which my seafaring subjects are ex
posed.
I have every reason to hope that the
progress in the revenue system which
has marked recent years will be fully
sustained in the present arrangements
which you have made with respect to
the reduction of the national debt, and
and those for the better regulation of
loans for public works will lead to
valuable improvements in our system
of imperial and local finance.
In bidding you farewell for the re
cess, I pray that the blessings of Provi
dence may fall on your recent labors
and accompany you in the discharge of
all your duties.
An Ultramontane Victory.
Berlin, August 13.—Herling, Ultra
montane candidate, has been elected to
the German Parliament for Coblenz by
8,000 majority.
THE GRANGERS.
Time and Place for Holding a Conven
tion.
Louisville, Ky., August 13.—Louis
ville has been selected as the place for
holding a Convention of all Grange pur
chasing agents and the first of October
as the time. The National Executive
and all State Executive Committees
will be present for the purpose of adopt
ing a plan by which business can be
conducted on a uniform system through
out the United States.
YELLOW FEYEII.
A Malignant Type of the Pest Breaks
Out in Pascagoula.
Pascagoula, Miss., August 13.—Yel
low fever broke out here on Sunday
last. It is not knowm how it originated,
but supposed to have been brought
from Havana. Thirty cases are under
treatment. The disease is of the most
malignant type. There have been seven
deaths, including Dr. Brackfield, a
leading physician.
Cornering a Defaulter.
San Francisco, August 13. —The po
lice surrounded and searched the rail
road company’s office and found Wood
ruff, alias Miller, who had been in the
city jail in default of $25,000 bail. Wood
ruff refused to converse with the re
porters.
Sporting News.
Rochester, August 13.—Pools in the
free to all: Goldsmith Maid, 100. The
field, including Lula, American Girl
and Nettle, 40.
LETTER ifllOJI ATHENS.*
The “Deserted VI lage.”—College Boys
and Inspiring 1 Young Ladies. The
Odd Fellows’! Encampment—The
“Governors” (*>ne to the Agricul
tural Conventi(gi—Methodist Confer
ence— Superiorl Court—“ Infantry ”
Tactics —“Hyd®>-S ulphuri o so”
Springs.
[Regular Correi >. Constitutionalist.!
Athens, r A., August 12, 1875.
Commencement is over, and Athens
has relapsed into ler usual lethargy.
The over-age g iduate has gathered
up his “duds,” sb uldered his diploma,
3wung his meda around his neck, or
seen it equally sa . round other necks,
and has departed :,o that “dearest spot
on earth.”
There has bee absolutely nothing
to vary the stillc ss of the “deserted
village” save no and then a stray
loafer who mine s the festive melon
in the shade and ghs for the friends
of his youth.
Indeed, the yoi ig ladies of our city
who are so renoybed throughout this
State, have, mam] of them, left us, and
the very recent fa* 3 well of three charm
ing belles of Au usta, together with
one of Aiken’s f; i.r beauties, has left
“L.,” of the Cliroi vie and Sentinel, and
your corresponde t, in complete deso
lation.
Owen Meredith contended that civil
ized man could nc \ live without cooks,
but it is equally 1 ue that they cannot
live, in the full se se of the term, with
out the gentler se . It is essential to
poets, and it is ne ossary for that class
of modern wort ;es, one of whom
we are viz: m vspaper correspon
dents. Nor do w; think that this will
be entirely refute 1 by “Jean Valjean,”
who, despite his veil known stoicism
and practicality, minently showed in
some of his spicj letters that he had
imbibed at the sa ie exhilarating foun
tain.
Notwithstandin the late monotonous
ordeal, we are sc uewhat refreshed at
present by thesti in our city occasion
ed by the Conven ion of Odd Fellows.
The Grand Em mpment I. O. O. F.
of Georgia conve ad here Wednesday
morning. There ~re about seventy
five delegates ii all from various
sections of the 8 ite. These, accom
panied by Oliver encampment, No. 14,
and Willi ms Lodfea, No. 15, of Athens,
assembled Wedn aday at 9 a. m., and
under command o Grand Master F. V.
Jordan, of Savann di, paraded through
Broad street am filed through the
College Campus to the Uuiversity
Chapel. Here the were welcomed in
an appropriate at i eloquent little ad
dress by F. G. Fr uk Lumpkin, which
was fittingly resp( tided to by the Grand
Master. The offh -rs of the Grand En
campment, eieetc \ for the ensuing
year, are as follow \:
A. T. Luckie, M. W. G. Patriarch ; R.
J. Maynard, M. EgG. High Priest; J.
G. Bloodworth, RfW. G. Senior War
den ; John G. Deil:, R. W. G. Scribe ;
T. A. Burke, R. G. Treasurer ; W.
A. Prout, R. W. GlTuuior Warden ; J.
S. Tyson, R. W. (i Representative G.
L. U. S.; J. C. Roblrts, W. G. Marshal.
The following fere the officers 0?
Grand Lodge of JLeorgia, elected to
day : f
TANARUS, J. Simmons, 1 [aeon, M. W. G. M.;
L. J. Schressler, R !W. G. M.; Samuel
Levy, Augusta, R. W. G. M.; Jno. G.
Deitz, Macon, li. V G. S.; T. A. Burke,
Athens, R. W. G. r ;7. J. Glenn, Atlan
ta , It. W. G., repre entativeG. L. U. S.
Installation of c ficers this afternoon
at 3p. m. Not b< ng one of the bro
thers of the “ M Stic Tie,” however,
we were unavoidal y absent from this
interesting ceremonial.
Col. A. O. Bacon from
Bibb county to tig Legislature, is in
attendance upon tie Grand Lodge.
There are not, Is we know of, any
“ Governors ” along, most of them be
ing absent at till State Agricultural
Society at Dalton fhowever, it is not,
as yet, certain whelm. Athens favors for
Gubernatorial digfity. Probably she
will raise up a can idate of her own.
The District COl ’erence of the M. E
Church is also in s ssion. Rev. Thom
as Pierce presiding Elder. The open
ing sermon was pi ached this morning
by Rev. Dr. Borin , However impor
tant and necessar these conventions
may be, some peoj 0 do say that they
are death upon ri ja fruit and young
pullets, which is m at unmistakably at
tested to by the s lircity of peaches in
market and the sh ness and suspicious
anxiety of the avei ,ge fowl around our
farmyards.
The Honorable Superior Court of
Clark county now tteth under the su
pervision of Judge Rice. Col. Joel A.
Billups, of Madiso , Juo. C. Reid, of
Crawfordsville, an other eminent law
yers are present. >0 far the time has
been taken up wit) civil cases, none of
them of much imj rtance. The crimi
nal docket we leai is very small this
term, owing to th- exceeding morality
of our most exerni ary community, so
we fear there is no ihanceof a hanging
or any similar epis de to vary the mo
notony of the tim* .
Notwithstanding the peace which
reigns supreme t| er our classic city,
there has been, dS ring the past week,
many additions tu the infantry. Sev
eral recruits have! made their appear
ance in different! ainilies of the com
munity, and our | resent quiet neigh
borhood may eonf lently look out for
“squalls.” j
As we have alreffly intimated, nearly
every one who is | >le has departed for
some springs, of ers for the falls.
These fashionabl* springs in North
Georgia seem to | * temporary affairs.
One Summer we* ■ ear of the Sulphur
Springs, arm the|; another, each one
running its seasef* and finally drying
up, we presume, |j>r nothing more is
ever heard from if! m. This Summer
it seems to bo >?Jw Holland Springs,
and to this resorV jhe public generally
are hastening. fTae knowing ones
around here apum that twenty
miles from Athens is a most
delightful retre||, which iu the
“good old times’l :was considered the
Saratoga of the Ss|th. This was called
Madison is in Madison
county, Ga. They, fay that for delight
ful scenery, fine and pure air it
is little short of x||at a modern para
dise might be. 1.4 all means then let
tbis most romantiMplace be filled up,
embellished and Tiiorued, and if the
name is too plebdJo, why change it to
the “Hydro-Snip i ffioso” Springs or
something of thatg#rt, and we will pre
dict for it a libeialif atronage.
Athens should * j ave something of
this kind for plpiure seekers after
commencement, If -a kind of resting
place whither me# “pilgrims” of the
Lucy Cobb Institi||; and University of
Georgia may hie drinking deeply,
or toasting lightb|||(B the ease may be,
of the Pierian waitkb. Picciola.
Salt Lake, Augfp-t 13.—A part of the
Indians have lefi| Oorinne for the re
servations. Othe|| promise to follow.
No trouble is appf|aended.
HONORED HEARTS.
Some Curious Histories.
The romantic incidents connected
with the heart of Robert Bruce, and
also that of the gallant Marquis of
Montrose, are pretty well known. Such
incidents, however remarkable, are by
no means singular, as the few following
facts will show :
Paul Whitehead, some time secreta
ry to Medmenham Club, and a dabbler
in ryhme, dying in 1774, left his heart
to his noble friend and patriot, Lord
Le Despencer, to be deposited in his
mausoleum at West Wycombe. Lord
Le Despencer accepting the bequest,
had the heart wrapped in lead and
placed in a marble urn, and on the
16th of May, 1775, it was carried to its
resting place with much ceremony.
Preceding the bier, bearing the urn,
marched a grenadier officer in full uni
form, nine grenadiers, two deep, the
odd one last, two German flute-players,
two surpliced choristers, “with notes
pinned to their backs,” two nure flute
players, eleven singing men in surpli
ces, two French-horn players, six lifers,
two bassoon players aud four drum
mers with muffled drums. Lord Le
Despeneer, as chief mourner, followed
the Dier in his uniform as colonel of the
Bucks Militia, and was succeeded by
nine officers of the same corps, two
lifers, two drummers and twenty sol
diers with their lirelocks reversed. The
musicians played the “Dead March in
Saul,” Dr. Arnold, Mr. Atterbury and
another gentleman beating time with
scrolls of paper.
The church bell tolled, and cannon
were discharged every three and a
half minutes. Upon reaching the mau
soleum anottier hour was spent in going
round and round it, singing funeral
glees; then the urn was carried inside
and placed upon a pedestal bearing the
name of the whilom owner of the heart
and the lines—
“ Unhallowed hands this urn forbear;
No gems, no orient spoil;
Lie here concealed; but what’s more rare,
A heart that knew no guile.”
Spite of the injunction, some unhal
lowed hand stole the urn in 1829, and
the whereabouts of Whitehead’s heart
remains a mystery to the present day.
We are not sure that Byron’s should
be reckoned among lost hearts, but we
have somewhere read that when it was
resolved to send his body from Misso
longhi to England, the Greeks en
treated that the heart of the poet, who
dreamed that Greece might still be
free, and wrought his best to make the
dream a reality, might be left to them.
Their claim was allowed, and they en
closed the precious relic in a silver cas
ket. When the fall of Missolonghi
could no longer be averted, a party of
its defenders sallied out, bearing the
heart with them, to cut their way
through the Turkish army.
The attempt was a successful one, but
the heart of the famous Englishman
was left with many a brave Greek in
the marshes the desperate band had
passed. Napoleon’s came nigh to suffer
a more ignoble fate. It had been re
moved from the great Captain’s body
to be put in a separate case ; and fear
ing Madame Bertrand might steal it,
since she had declared her determina
tion to become its possessor, the doc
tor in charge placed the heart in a
glass upon his bed-room table. In the
middle of the night the sound of break
ing glass startled him out of a dose
just iu time to enable him iu detecting
a brown rat dragging the Emperor’s
heart toward his hole.
The doctor rescued it, fastened it in
a silver urn, and placed it in the coffin
with the body; but had he slept a little
m<*e soundly the heart of “imperial
Caesar dead” would have served as a
titbit for a rat’s supper. Shelly’s heart
defied cremation, and after his body
was consumed was snatched from the
subsiding flames by Capt. Trelawny
and found to be entire, a circumstance
commemorated by the words Cre Cor
diam, inscribed on the marble slab
marking where the poet’s ashes and
heart lie in the Protestant burial place
at Rome.
Robert, Earl of Mellent and Leices
ter, as famous among the crusaders of
the twelfth century for his sagacity,
eloquence and valor, as he was infa
mous at home for his unscrupulous ra
pacity, violence and cruelty, finding
life slippmg away from him, assumed
the monastic habit and died in the odor
of sanctity at the Abbey of Dreaux.—
There he was buried ; but in the fulfill
ment of his dying wish, the heart of
the infidel-hater was sent to the hospi
tal he had founded at Brackley, to be
there preserved in salt. Perhaps the
old warrior thought, like Lord Wind
sor, that the heart of an Englishman
ought to rest in his own land.
When Richard, the lion-hearted, knew
he should never don armor or draw
sword again, he willed that his body
should be laid at his dead father’s feet
at Pontevrault, in token of his sorrow
for tiie many uneasinesses he had caus
ed him iu his lifetime, but bequeathed
his heart to Rouen, iu acknowledgment
of the great truth and constancy of his
Norman subjects. The bequest was
gratefully accepted, and duly honored
with a beautiful shrine in the Cathe
dral; but its beauty did not save it
from being destroyed in 1738, witli
other Piantagenet memorials. In 1838
the mutilated effigy of the famous cru
sader was diecovered, under the Cathe
dral pavement, and near it a leaden
casket that had inclosed his heart,
which tiie finders replaced. Before
long, however, it was taken up again,
and removed to the museum of anti
quities, where it remained until 1869, 1
when it found a more fitting resting
place iu the choir of the Cathedral,
never more, let us hope, to be dis
turbed.
Tne relict of John Baliol, father of
Bruce’s rival, showed her affection for
her dead lord in a peculiar way. She em
balmed his heart, placed it in an ivory
casket, “bunden with sylver brycht,”
and during her twenty years of widow
hood never sat down to a meal without
this silent remembrancer of happier
days. Upon her death, at the age of
80, in 1829, she was buried in her own
abbey on the banks of the Nith. Baliol’s
heart, in obedience to her instructions,
being laid on her dead bosom. From
that day the whilom “new abbey” was
known as Sweet-Heart abbey; and
never did abbey walls shelter a sweeter,
truer heart than that of the lady of
Barnard Castle.
That nobleman died in Spain in 1574,
and directed that his body should be
buried iu the Cathedral Church of the
noble city of Liege, and his heart, in
closed in lead, laid under his father’s
tomb in the chapel at Bradenham,
Bucks, “in token of a true English
man.” So, too, Sir Robert Peckham
ordered his heart to be conveyed to
Denham, in the same county, to be
placed in the family vault; but his
relatives do not seem to have been in
a hurry to execute his behest. The
worthy knight died in 1569, and
the register of burials at Den
ham contains this entry; “Ed-
mundus Peckham, Esq., sonne of
Sir George Peckham, July 18,1587. On
the same day was the harte of Sir
Robert Peckham, Knight, buried in the
vault under the chappell;” so that it
had been kept above ground for seven
teen years. When George Villers, Duke
of Buckingham, fell a victim to Fen
ton’s knife, King James commanded
that his dear Steenie should be inter
red in Westminster Abby, where his
tomb may be seen; but a sumptuous
monument to the Duke also exists in
St. Thomas’ Church, Portsmouth; and
as this boats an urn, it is probable that
it boasts also the possession of the
heart of the once all-powerfui favorite.
Chambers’ Journal.
Historical Gleanings from Old Vol
umes.
BY DAVID CROCKET, JR.
[Washington Chronicle.l
History of Horse Racing.
Races were known in England in very
early times. Fitz Stephens, who wrote
iu the days of Henry 11., mentions the
great delight that the citizens of Lon
don took in the diversions. In the
reign of Queen Elizabeth racing was
carried to such excess at that early
period as to injure the fortunes of the
nobility. The famous George, Earl of
Sunderland, is recorded to have waste i
more of his.estate than any of his an
cestors by his extreme love of horse
racing, tilting and other expensive di
versions. In the reign of James I.
races were established at various
places, when the discipline and mode
of preparing the horses for running,
etc., were much the same as they are
now. The most celebrated races at
that time were called the “ Bell
Courses,” the prizes of the conqueror
being a bell; hence, perhaps, the
phrase, “ bearing the bell,” when ap
plied to excellence in speed.
Racing was revived soon after the
Restoration, and much encouraged by
Charles 11., who appointed races for
his own amusement at Dackot Mead,
when he resided at Windsor. Newmar
ket, however, became the principal
place. The king attended in person,
established a house for his own accom
modation, and kept and entered horses
in his own name. Instead of bells, be
gave a silver cup, valued at 100 guin
eas, on which cup the exploits and
pedigree of the successful horse were
generally engraved. William 111. not
only added to the prize, but founded
au academy for riding ; and Queen
Anne confirmed the bounty of her an
cestors, adding several plates herself.
George 1., toward the end of his reign,
discontinued the plates, and gave in
their room 100 guineas.
An act was passed in the thirteenth
year of the reign of George the II for
suppressing races by ponies, anil
other small and weak horses, by which
all matters for any prize under £lO
were prohibited, under a penalty of
£2OO, to be paid by the owner of each
horse running, and £IOO by such as ad
vertise the date aud by which each
horse entitled to run, if 5 years old,
was obliged to carry 10 stones; if 6, 11;
and if seven, 12 stones. It was also
ordained that no person shall run any
horse at a course unless it be his own,
nor enter more than one horse for the
same plate, upon pain of forfeiting the
horses; and also every horse race must
be begun and ended on the same day.
At New Market there were two
courses, the long and the round ; the
first exactly, miles aud 380 yards,
i. e., 7,442 yards; the second 6,646
yards. “Childers” run the first course
in seven minutes and a half; and the
second course in six minutes and forty
seconds, which is at the rate of more
than forty-nine feet in a second. But
all the other horses were seven min
utes and fifty seconds in completing
the longest course, which is at the rate
of more than forty-seven feet in a sec
ond, and it is commonly supposed that
these coursers covered at every bound
a space of ground iu length of about
twenty-four English feet.
The Origin of Card Playing.
It is generally believed that cards
were invented for the amusement of
one of the early Kings of the line of
Bourbon; but this belief is erroneous;
who the man was that invented these
instruments of amusement is not known,
neither can we tell in what age they
were first invented. Our knowledge is
limited to the country whence they
came—-Egypt.
The colors are two, red and black,
which answer to the two equinoxes.
The suits are four, answering to the
four seasons.
Their emblems formerly were, and
still are in Spain—for the heart, a cup,
the emblem of Winter; the spade, an
acorn, the emblem of autumn; the club,
a trefoil, the emblem of Summer; the
diamond, a rose, the emblem of Spring.
The twelve court cards answer to the
twelve months.
The fifty-two cards answer to the
number of weeks in a year.
The thirteen cards to each suite, to
the number of weeks in a lunar quar
ter.
The aggregate of the pips, calculated
in the following manner, amount to the
number of days in a year:
The number in each suite 55
The number in all the suites 220
The court cards multipled by ten.. .120
The number of court carts 12
The number of each suite 13
The number of days 355
“The Tale of Two Churches and Two
Railroads. —The two Methodist chur
ches of Bloomington, 111., decided to
give an excursion to St. Louis about
the eud of July. They accordingly
made a contract with the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad Company, aud offered
tickets at §6 for the round trip. The
Chicago and Alton Railroad Company
immediately offered round trip tickets
at §4, which completely killed the
church excursion, and it was postpon
ed. Then the other road raised its
rates again. This action has created
a good deal of feeling among the Metho
dists, who claim that the action of the
Chicago and Alton Company was direct
ed against the churches. The President
of the road has therefore agreed to
contribute toward the churches’ benefit
as much as the Illinois Central will con
tribute; or he will give one-half the
gross receipts of au excursion train
over his road, but he positively refuses
to allow the Illinois Central to cut the
regular rates without following suit,
and the Methodists are in a very un
happy frame of mind, and are not at all
charitably disposed toward either road.
—Ctdcago Times.
If you are at church of a Sunday
evening in August, without a fan, cast
about your eye until it lights ou an en
gaged couple, and, when you see how
close they snug up together, you will
lose in a great degree a sense of the
heat,— Danbury New a\
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Parker’s Statement of His Escape —A
Card from the ex-Fugitive.
[Special to the News and Courier.]
Columbia, August 12.—Everything is
at a dead stand-still; whether this is
the calm succeeding the recent turbu
lent state of the town, or whether it is
but the premonitory hush which comes
before some terrible outburst of the
storm, which shall deal avenging jus
tice with heavy hand among the trem
bling, guilty accomplices in Parker’s
double infamy, time alone will show.
But just so sure as the night follows
the dying day, so sure is a mighty
judgment near at hand. It is not well
to speak of matters which, to
prove successful, must be conduct
ed sub rosa, but this much is
sure, that within one short week there
will be one of the biggest legal hauls in
this town that there has been for many
a day. It must come; it is ridiculous
to suppose that an intelligent commu
nity can be gulled into the belief that
a man so astute, so cunning, as Niles
G. Parker should have ventured an es
cape, backed simply by an ignorant ne
gro, and a man who" is an acknowledged
murderer. What does Parker mean
when he says: “I would not have at
tempted to escape if I had not been
pushed up to it by my friends.”
Friends, indeed, who, when he came to
their doors an outcast, a fugitive, with
nowhere to lay his head, drove him off
and shunned him as they would a pes
tilence. These advisors, these pushers
up to the escape, well may they trem
ble, for as dangerous as it was for them
that Parker should be in jail before, it
is doubly so now. Such treatment of
an outcast friend is not calculated to
seal the lips of the sufferer against the
crimes of his accomplices.
Parker to-day made the following
statement, written in his own hand,
concerning the manner of his escape
from jail on the night of the 4th in
stant :
Richland County Jail, j
Columbia, S. C., August 12,1875. j
To the Special Reporter of the News
and Courier: As there have been many
rumors and conjectures in circulation
as to how and by what means I made
my escape, it is due Sheriff Dent and
his employes that I should make the
following statement : On Wednesday
evening, the 4th of August, about 10
o’clock p. in., I ascended by means of
the lattice iron work to the trap door
leading to the roof, unlocked it and
got upon the roof. From thence I de
scended to the ground upon the light
ning rod. I had no assistance from
the Sheriff or any of his employes,
aud neither he nor any of his employes
had any knowledge of my plans for
escape. Niles G. Parker.
General State News.
J. Art Russell, aged 24 years, from
Lewis, Sussex county, Delaware, died
at the house of his uncle, Dr. W. T.
Russell, Spartanburg, ou the 6th in
stant, at 4 o’clock a. m. His remains
were forwarded to his home in Dela
ware. His last utterance was: .
“Jesus, Savior of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly.”
Deatli of Mrs. Nancy Jane Bowie.
We regret to announce the death of
this estimable lady, at the residence of
brother, Mr. James Strain, at Air
Mount, Miss., on the 30th of July, in
the of her age. She had been in
feeble health for some time past, but
sank rapidly a short time previous to
her death. Born and reared in this
community, she married in early life
the late Wm. Bowie, and after his death
spent the years of her long widowhood
in devoted" attention to the education
and comfort of her children, of whom
only one now survives her, Robert E.
Bowie, Esq., late a member to the Ab
beville Bar .—Abbeville Banner.
The last number of the Aiken Tri
bune contains a communication in
which the writer states that a strong
movement is on foot to petition the
Legislature to repeal the act consti
tuting the county of Aiken, and to re
mand it to those counties from which
it was originally formed. The reason
given for the movement is the exist
ence of certain societies whose patent
policy is to screen offenders, and thus
to defeat tiie ends of justice.
A Leap of a North Carolina Winona.
By some great and unaccountable
shock of nature one of the principal
projecting rocks was split, leaving a
fragment of some three or four feet of
uneven surface, lying about three feet
from the main body of the rock. Miss
P., of North Carolina, who it will be
remembered, spent the greater part of
last Summer in Abbeville, and delight
ed the society in which she moved with
her quick repartee, beauty of person
and gentleness of manners, is a lady of
uncommon nerve, and did here what
no lady has ever done. She leaped
from the main rock to this rough crag
and back again, with a fearlessness, or
a want of the appreciation of danger,
that perfectly horrified and made sick
the heart of every beholder. A mis
placed foot would have dashed the fair
adventuress to pieces on the rocks a
thousand feet below. — Cccsar's Head
Letter to Abbeville Banner.
The color line has been broken in
Chester county by the election of Col.
John W. Walker to the office of Sheriff.
The election was spirited and the op
posing candidate, one Richardson, a
colored man and au ex-postmaster of
“ the best government the world ever
shone on,” was defeated by a majority
vote of more than 200.
The Truant Governor.
Radical rule has been a success in
South Carolina. Here the State has
been running along without a hand to
guide for more than thirty days and
things seem to have done about as
well as when the master was at home.
To be sure Gleaves has been about the
State House a little, has pardoned a
man here and commuted a life sen
tence there; but Gleaves is about as
near nobody as you could find in a
year’s search. During all this time —
the most important crisis since his
election—when banks were bursting,
murderers hanging, defalcating treasu
rers being tried and breaking jail, Gov.
Chamberlain has been spending his
time among the good people of Massa
chusetts, sharing their hospitality and
drinking their good health, seemingly
without one good honest wish for the
prosperity of the State he left behind
him.— Abbeville Medium.
During the past week we have had
pleasant calls from Prof. C. P. Pelham,
of Columbia, and who has had a long
connection with the press of that city,
and known as a writer of ability. He
appears at home near a press, and we
hope he will make our office his head
| quarters whilst here. He is on his way
jto Glenn Springs.— Greenville Moun-
I tttinecr.
JNew Series—V"ol. 3, ISJ'o. ll
HAMMER AND TONGS.
The Times and Ti'ibune Quarreling
Over their Circulation—A Story with
a Moral.
[New York Times.]
The nominal editor of the New York
Tribune took it into his head some time
ago to vary his monotonous studies of
Good Tommy and Naughty Betty by
what he called a “statement” about
himself and his paper. If that state
ment had been a true and exhaustive
one, it might have been read with some
little interest. There is even a faint
probability that it would have formed
a permanent chapter in the history of
journalism. For surely it would be
worth knowing how a man who came
here six or seven years ago without a
penny in the world should now be able
to boast that he owns fifty shares of
the Tribune, valued (it is said) at
$500,000. A fortune like that is not
made by many men in seven years—
still less by “literary men” or journal
ists. Asa general rule, these ill-starred
mortals work hard and die poor. Even
Horace Greeley was not worth more
than $20,000 when he died—perhaps
not so much. How, then, has his suc
cessor been able to acquire, so soon,
the ownership of half the entire stock
of the paper ?
Unfortunately the “statement” in
question did not touch upon these in
teresting points. Nor, indeed, was it
designed to tell the truth on any point.
It was intended solely to deceive the
public by a series of representations
which had no foundation in fact. Three
advertising agents were called in to
give some sort of weight to the fraud
—one declined when he saw what he
was expected to do ; the others fell
into the trap. Then the Tribune, not
satisfied with declaring that it circu
lates 50,000 copies a day—whereas it
does not sell 35,000 ; no, nor 30,000 —
must needs drag the Times into all its
low puffs and advertisements. There
was no provocation for such an attack
upon us. We had not mentioned the
Tribune or its circulation, nor should
we have cared to dispute any assertion
about itself. But unless the so-called
editor of the Tribune could have
dragged in the Times, his puffs-would
have had no value in his eyes. There
fore he told one falsehood about him
self, and two about us. And this we
allowed to go on for some weeks,
being unwilling to enter into any con
troversy with a dishonored newspa
per, or with an “editor” who has
shown himself to be unworthy of the
calling to which he belongs.
At last, however, it seemed time to
bring even this person to book, for the
systematic attempt to injure and mis
represent the business character of an
other. A banker, a broker, or a store
keeper does not allow his business to
be willfully and maliciously slandered
by a next-door rival; and a newspaper
proprietor ought not to be expected to
submit to it either. We, therefore, pro
posed an old-fashioned sort of test by
which this man Reid’s assertions could
be fairly tried—not a perfectly satisfac
tory test, perhaps, in all respects, but at
any rate one which could not fail to
thoroughly answer its purpose. For
here is a sum of $25,000 ready to be
paid over to any distressed person in
the city—even to the Tribune stock
holders—if the Tribune can prove its
claims on its own behalf, or its asser
tions about us. Now, a man who has
not deemed it beneath him to make
public statements about the business
position of another ought not to be
above proving his statements or else
withdrawing them. We apprehend
that no one will dissent from this prop
osition.
But from either of these two courses
the libeler shrinks back. The first
course is out of the question. The state
ment about the Tribune's circulation is
simply false; instead of 50,000 a day it
does not circulate 30,000. Our offer to
prove this will be found in another
part of our paper. And as to with
drawing his charge, would not that
place Whitelaw Reid in the position of
a self-convicted swindler ? For what
is it but swindling to invite customers
to your place of business on fraudu
lent pretences, and get their money
out of them under representations
which you well know are altogether
false ?
WIT AND WISDOM.
Curran was once asked by one of his
brother judges : “Do you see anything
ridiculous in this wig?” “Nothing but
the head,” was the reply.
Anew thing in the way of drinks is
condensed beer, one thimbleful of
which will knock over the most con
firmed toper. All persons desiring to
be knocked over at small expense may
send in orders to Mr. John Morrissey’s
club rooms.
Somebody profanely challenged the
godless people of Cincinnati to repeat
the Lord’s Prayer, verbatim et literatim,
for SIOO. One J. Smith writes to the
Commercial that he is “about the size
of man who can get away with that
snoozer’s money.”
Two American ladies who may be
considered safe from the attack of
British Colonels, are now making a pe
destrian tour in the Highlands of Scot
land. Each of them travels with a
grand establishment of six chambers,
and a ball in each of them. It’s a fem
inine taste.
“Well, Pat,” asked the doctor, “how
do you feel to-day ?” “Och, doehtor, I
enjoy very poor health entirely. The
rheumatics is very distressin’ indade;
whin I go to slape I lay a.vake all’
night, and me toes is swiled as big as a
goose hen’s egg, so whin I staud u u i
fall down immadiately.”
Thirty-five years ago a young man
pawned a blanket to a Berks county
farmer for five dollars, and took Gree
ley’s advice by going West. He re
turned last week from California, worth
a cool hundred thousand, visited the
farmer and redeemed that blanket,
which had been carefully put away at
the time it was received.
The death of the prominent Cincin
natian, who recently figured conspicu
ously in all the newspapers, is thus
touchingly alluded to in the St. Louis
Republican : “ His end has cast a shade
of gloom upon the entire community ;
every other Cincinnatian feels as
though he had lost a brother :
“ A lioness from Lybia’s desert waste.
With rattling heels he boldly dared to
paste.
She scratched him, and the scratches mor
tified ;
In seventeen weeks the little jackass died,
Gone to meet Sergeant Bates.”
An Irishman with a had cart ran
against a little man who was standing
at a street corner in London, the other
day, crying as if his heart would break,
and tumbled him head over heels into
the gutter. Pat pushed right on with
this cart, but not without stopping to
observe; “Bad luck to ye; and it
sairves ye right to be standin’ slob
berin’ an’ waystin’ yer saltpater in the
publtc strates.” It was Brother Sheats
man,