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THE NEWS.
Home and Foreign;
OR,
The World in a Nutshell
Alabama.
Nine young wolves were recently captured by a
party of young hunters in the northern part of
Shelby county.
James A. Pea has invented a device for prevent
ing the escape of sparks from the smoke-stack of
wood or coal engines.
The Grecian war has opened in Scottsboro. he
editor of the Herald takes subcriptions in lard.
State money is selling at 90 cents.
A recent fire in Decatur destroyed th rteen build
ings inflicting a total loss of $50,Q0f.
The product of Alabama coal mines last year
was 65,000 tons, an increase of over 60,000 in
three years.
Mnj. H. C. Semple gathered two tons of clover
hay per acre from a field on bis farm in Lowndes
county.
Selma has 904 dwelling houses.
Capt. Catesby R. Jones was shot and mortally
wounded in .Selma by J. A. Harral.
F. P. Heifner of White Plains expects to ship
•5.000 pounds of strained honey to Rome this sea
son.
Blount county has a registered debt of §6,-
666.15.
The State Baptist Convention meets in Gadsden
July Pith
Judge John Appleby, of LaFayette, is dead.
Arkansas.
A German-Polish company has purchased 50,-
000 acres of land in the counties of Pulaski, Per
ry and Conway.
Bricks are shipped from St. Louis to Little Rock,
at $15 per car load.
The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Industri
al University have elected Gen. D. H. Hill of N C.
President of the University.
The Board of Trustees of Arkansas Female Col
lege elected Gen. Lewis President for four years.
A woman was'jailed in Little Rock ten days for
throwing snuff in the face of another woman.
Ten thousand acres of corn aud cotton in the
vicinity of .Little Rock was covered by a recent
overflow. The damage is estimated at §150,000.
Florida.
Prof. Olmstead, of Jacksonville, has sold a half
interest in his new gas saving appiratus to J C.
Jatliieson, of California, for $100,000.-
A. W. Lawson obtained a judgment against the
eity of Jacksonville for §975 damage sustained by
stepping through a broken sidewalk. He sued
for §1,000
Dan Casick, an employee in Wallace’s planing
mill at Jacksonville, was instantly killed by a
strip catching in a circular saw and striking
him on the head.
A century plant at Jacksonville, 20 feet high,
is covered with buds. It will bloom in a week.
A fig at Monticello weighed seven ounces.
Mon'icello has 60 marriageable ladies and only
21 young men.
The Mayor of Lake City has issued a proclama
tion prohibiting loafers from sitting on the stoops
of stores.
The steamship Lizzie was destroyed by fire at
the Rigolets near Pensacola. Three men were
burned to death. The loss is over §40,000.
John Hughey sold his place, less than 100
acres in extent, near Fort Read, for §19,000. He
had on it 250 bearing orange trees and 250 just
coming in.
Aaron Cloud sold a 40 acre tract with a young
orange grove and nursery, for §30,000.
Col. B. F. Whitner sold 20 acres of land and a
young orange grove just coming into bearing, for
§20,000.
Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the Commission
ers of Columbia county.
A man his been living for 26 years within six
miles of the Apalachicola river and has never seen
a steamboat.
W. B. Sims has leased the State farm.
Thirty schools have been organized in Suwa-
nee county.
Escambia county has adopted the game law.
Enoch Collins, Sr., resides at Hillsborough. He
is the father of 29 children He is 70 years old;
his been marred three times, had 14 children by
his first wife, 6 by the second and 9 by the third.
He had 8 sons in the Confederate army, who all
came out safe.
I’alatka has now a white police force.
Capt. R. H. Marks, of Orange county, has 20
acres in melons. You can walk over the whole
patch on melons without stepping on the ground.
W. A. Adams, near Jacksonville, has rented 15
acres to a Charleston trucker at §25 per acre an
nually.
Gainesville has a tomato ^weighing two pounds
and a half ounce.
A party' of hunters on Indian river killed a tur
tle whose crawl measured 7 feet wide, and it
weighed 1,000 pounds.
Georgia.
Dalton has a fine crop of dogfennel.
Dalton has a rat terrier 20 years old.
There are 120 young ladies in Dalton full grown,
and 237 spring chickens, while there are only 36
young men all told.
The Macon Cadets bore off the banner at Bruns
wick, as the best drilled company.
Darien wants a bog iaw.
Thomas county had her first cotton bloom on
the 16th.
Rev. J. N Broadshaw has been re-elected Presi
dent of the Southern Masonic female college at
Covington.
E. G. Ellison, of Cherokee county, has killed 40
moles this season.
The temperance movement is making rapid pro-
gre s in Georgia.
Gainesville has bought 50 bushels of huck’e’oer-
ries this season.
The fare between Atlanta and Gaiuemlle for the (
summer is three cents per mile.
James Crim, of Terrell county, made 24J bush- j
els of wheat per acre.
Mrs. J. R- Janes, of Dawson, raised a beet weigh
ing 4^ pounds, this season.
Judge James M. Clark, of the Southwestern Cir- j
cult, died on the 18th. Charles F. Crisp, of Amer- j
icus, has been appointed his successor.
Rev. J. A. Munday is preaching to large congre- j
gations in Warren county.
An Upson county farmer manured his water
melon patch with 50 pounds of rats last week
The first lot of new wheat in Augusta sold at
§2.25 per bushel. *
Capt. John Colby, near Havkinsville, made 150
bushels of wheat on ten acres of old land.
Col. W. H. Huntley and family, have returned
after a long absence in Europe.
Douglassville has ten old bachelors and one bar i
room.
Asa R. Watson, City Editor of the Macon Tele- j
graph, died recently, aged 40. He was at one
time connected with the Ladies Home Gazette, the
New Era and the Sun. During the war he was
connected with the Southern Confederacy.
J S. Reid of Putnam county, made 450 bushels :
of wheat on 17 acres.
W. P. Orme, made on his farm near West Point,
154 bushels of wheat on 4 acres.
John Chasteen, of Hart county, killed a bull frog
that had swallowed a half grown chicken.
James Tisan, of Emanu»l county, is a raving
maniac and has to be handcuffed to prevent his
injuring himself.
The trial of a negro in Etnanuel county, charged
with stealing a peck of peas, cost §375 and he was
acquitted at thai
Kentucky
One firm in Mayfield sold $2 ' worth of
tobacco on the 9th.
The city of Lexington has obtained r judgment
j against the Kentucky University aud Legcut Bow
man for §12,000.
Th're is an Indian burying-ground on the farm
of Elias Rasdall, near Smith’s Grove.
Several parties have been arrested for violating
[ the fish law of the State.
Mrs. Sheets, near Frankfort, has a colt with five
legs.
j J. E. Neal, of the Dahlonega Signal, is cutting
| up high Jinks around Frankfort.
Frankfort belles have scores of admirers because
their motto is, “I take ’em from the cradle to the
grave.”
Hon. John Caldwell has appointed Fred Morris
to a cadetship at West Point. Fred is the son of
a republican.
Hon. Andrew M. January, of Maysville, is dead.
Dr. N. L. Rice, of the Danville Seminary, is dead.
Louisiana.
The New Orleans Board of Health has a Nott in
it, a Dr. Choppin at it, and a Taylor sitting on it.
Collector King will appoint several ladies to
clerkships in the Custom House.
A society called the Catholic Knights of Total
Abstinence has been organized in New Orleans.
Mrs. Buerkle has sued the city of New Orleans
for §25,000 damages sustained by the drowning of
her son falling through a break in the wharf be
tween Bienville and Conti streets.
Wild cats are unusually prevalent in North Louis
iana.
The deer are so plentiful in Jackson parish that
they are committing depredations on crops.
There is strong opposition to the dog tax in East
Feliciana parish.
The coroner's jury found that Beiheim was assas-
inated by Prater who kept an opposition grocery.
Julius Nicholas has been indicted in West Feli
ciana for killing two deer.
There are quantities of grosbecs in the rice fields
of Plaque mines.
A gentleman recently caught forty sheephead
in lake I’ouchartrain.
There is a great demand for laborers in Lafourche
parish.
Lafourche parish has been divided into 27 school
districts.
The Shreveport Times wants Red river stocked
with salmon and shad
Shreveport is eujoying a revival under the man
agement of a number of Texas preachers.
During the past month four or five persons have
been found murdered in St. Landry parisn without
any traces of the murderers.
Within the past month numerous temperance
societies have been organized in Franklin, More
house, L'ncoln, Union, Iberia and St. Mary.
The bar rooms in West Baton Rouge and Iber
ville are closed on Sunday.
A party were fined $2,150 in Baton Rouge for
capturing six mocking birds.
Col. John J.Marshall, of DeSoto parish, is dead.
Twenty thousand dozen of eggs were shipped
from Washington, St. Landry parish, to New
Orleans last week.
The workhouse and poorhouse have been abol
ished in New Orleans.
The negroes of St. Charles parish prefer alli
gator meat to beef or chicken.
Delta point, opposite Vicksburg, has receded 695
feet since March 22d.
A bar is forming in the river at Port Hudson.
Mississippi.
Adelbert Ames has sold his Natchez property.
Two little boys, aged six and seven years, sons
of W. Jones and Dryden Lascock, of Grenada,
while playing under a sand bank on the river side,
were killed by the caving in of the bank, recently.
Franches Marschalk will start a paper in Natchez
ou the first of July, to be called the Natchez Daily
Telephone. His father was the pioneer editor of
Mississippi.
Sixty-seven papers were represented at the Press
Association.
A volunteer company was organized at Yazoo.
Franklin Payne (Union soldier) was elected captain
by one majority, over Stanhope Posey, Confederate.
Posey was elected first lieutenant by acclamation.
A ewe goat in Pike county gave birth recently
to six kids.
Twenty papers support Ben G. Humphry for Gov-
enor.
The saloon keepers at Oxford are making out a
list of drunkards, to whom they are not allowed to
sell liquor.
Quite a number of hogs, cows and calves bit by a
mad dog in Water Valley, have had hydrophobia.
North Carolina.
Col. Charles R. Jones, Editor of the Charlotte
Observer, recently lectured at Statenville on “ pro
gress of events in the 19th century.”
A young man in Salisbury in writng a note
to a young lady signed the firm name to
it.
Hogs unearthed from a mound near the site of
the old Richmond Court House, a human skull,
metal buttons and shreds of woolen stuff. It is
supposed to be the skull of a tory named Tate,
hung during the revolutionary war.
In Graham is an almond tree hanging with
fruit.
A revenue officer while hunting distillers in the
mountains of western North Carolina, was bit by
a rattle snake in several nlaces and died in great
agony.
Salem, containing 2,abitants, has shipped i
in the past three yeirs, 3,(To,000 pounds of black
berries, for which nearly $5,000,000 was received.
This is equal to good bales of cotton at ten cents
per pound,
J. R. Snowden, of the Treasury Department, has
inspected the Mint at Charlotte and favors the re
establishing of coining there.
The King's Mountain mine caved in. No one '
hurt. A new vein of unusual richness was devel- j
oped.
South Carolina.
Trial Justice D A. Bowyer, while on official bus
iness at 41 Station, was assaulted on the 15th and
stabbed by Manning M. Way in several places.
A mad dog in Abbeville bit ten or twelve per
sons.
Harry Calhoun, a noted darkey, died at Abbe
ville recently, poisoned or bewitched. He vomited
spring lizirds and sea serpents.
E. J. Waddell, of Marion, gathered tea tons of
hay from one and a half acres.
Three mad dogs were killed at Lebanon, last ■
week.
In Colleton district, good labor can be had at
40 cents per day.
The inmates of the poorhouse at Dariing'on were
three days without something to eat.
Some miscreant entered the stable of Qually Da
vis, at Ridgeway, and disabled his mule by strik
ing it over the hip and shattering the bone.
In Fairfield, Wylie Thomas with several aliases is
“conjuring” with rattlesnake buttons and teeth,
a white inodorous powder, wild, weid gestures and a U. S. official is not taxable under the laws of
midnight communings with unseen spirits.
Sixty-two full schools have been organized in
Pickens county.
The Palmetto Orphan Home is in better condi
tion than ever before.
The “ Jenkins Rifles,” named after Gen. Mica-
jah Jenkins, is the name of a new company at
Yorksville.
I The legislature repealed the lien law to take ef-
' on and after January first 1878
The banking house of E. J. Scott & Son, of
j Columbia, have suspended.
C. B. Glover, democrat, has been elected Judge
of Probate for Orangeburg county by 12,000 major
ity.
The Catholics, of Charleston, sent §700 to the
j Pope.
0. Adair, the only Chinaman in Richard county,
I died in Columbia last Wednesday. He leaves a
white wife.
[ There are eight persons in Charleston county,
I waiting trial for murder—six colored and two
white.
Tennessee.
The City Council of Clarksville appropriated
§200 for the entertainment of the Press Conven
tion.
Rev. Mr. Sears, of Clarksville, fainted last Sun
day on entering the pulpit.
James Torrey, of Memphis, died recently at Hot
Springs. .
Henry Eckhard, of Shelbyville, can play on five
instruments 'at once—one with each hand, one
with each foot, and one with his mouth.
T. W. Coffey, of Bedford, was struck by light
ning on the 19th and dangerously injured, and
Joe Smith (colored), instantly killed.
A hen laid in a baggage car on the Nashville and
Chattanooga R. R , and hatched out thirteen
chickens. She passed free without a free pass.
Col. Sam Williams, of Carter county, died on
the 15th.
Bettie St.John, four years old, fell into the bolt
ing chest of her father’s mill and was suffocated
to death by the flour.
The Baptist Church at Chattanooga was packed
to hear Mrs. Craig sing “ Jesus lover of my soul,”
Nearer my God to Thee,” etc.
Rev. M. H. Lane has been pastor of the Central
Baptist'Churcli, in Nashville, 18 months, during
which time 104 have been received by baptism and
46 by letter.
Rev. R. N. Price takes charge of the college at
Pikeville on the first of August.
Catherine Ivey, a step daughter of William Per-
key, near Morristown, recently struck the latter
on the head with an iron poker killing him. Per
kin was 25 years old and Miss Ivey 17.
An affray occurred in McMinn county between
Mr. Davis and his two sons, and Mr. Maxwell and
two sons. The sons were seriously hurt and the j
fathers fatally injured.
Rev. W. T. Helms has withdrawn from the Epis
copal Church because he cannot make the sign of
the cross in baptism.
Miss Grace Lewellyn, of Memphis, proposes to
devote herself to the stage.
A young lady in Jackson eats a pint of green
gooseberries every day for dinner.
G. W. Ililman, of Ciarksville has 3,000 bearing
peach trees.
The Ailianthus tree is being cut down in middle
and west Tennessee.
The Memphis aud Charleston R. R. owes the
State §1,700,000.
The farmers in the vicinity of Athens are pay
ing §1 25 per day for harvest hands.
Te^aa.
No sewing machines were exhibited at the State
fair.
Josh Billings will visit the State this fall.
Figs are ripening in Washington county.
A cheese dairy is to be established near Bre-
ham.
The Montague jail contains eight murderers.
Sulphur mines have been opened in Montague
county.
A plantation of 12,000 acres in Grimes county,
is in splendid cultivation.
The premium cow at the State fair weighs
1,700 pounds and gives seven gallons of milk dai
ly-
From the heart of a white rose, in Bonham, a red
rose grew, supported on a stem one inch long.
Whooping cough, mumps and measles, are pre
valent at Honey Grove.
Fannin county has §4,000,000 of taxable prop
erty.
A divorce suit was filed in the county court of
Bastrop county and in one hour the divorce was
granted. The divorced man married another wo
man that night.
The survey of a railroad from Denison to Gains-
ville has been completed.
The barbers, of Marshal, have resolved not to
keep open on Sunday.
At the fire in Galveston, Mr. Kippert lost 4,000
sacks of coffee.
Houston owes over §2,000,000 and propose to
abolish the city charter.
Ripe watermelons were plentiful at Brownsville
on the 7th.
The oat crop of Tarrant county will average 50 j
bushels.
H. W. Wyman killed R. C. Turner at Marshal.
Ten live stock breeders in Texas, own 1,025,000
head of cattle, and six have 682,000 acres enclos
ed
A lightning rod man had his horses stolen near
Whitesboro. A sewing machine man lost a fine j all the military authorities of Turkey is on the
mule near Gainsville, and a patent medicine man increase.
Virginia
Inman E. Page, colored, of Virginia, was the class
oraior at Brown University.
W. T. Sutherlin. of Pittsylvania county, made
7,000 bushels of wheat this s asou.
The colored insane asylum in Virginia has 300 in
mates.
John Graeme, Jr., for 27 years connected with
the Richmond press, will be assistant clerk in the
money order department of the Richmond post
office.
Rev. T. W. Dosh, D. D has been installed presi
dent of Roanoke coll.ge.
The Jeffersonian says that in Charlottesville,
“ wild roses look like pale pink stars, while the
lilies of the valley in cur gardens resemble dried eel
skins.”
A Catholic priest and two Presbyterian divines,
took tea together, at the house of a Catholic recent
ly in Harrisonburg.
A. J. Frieze, of Jefferson county, has a horse 23
years old, who served in the Confederate army
throughout the entire struggle.
Charles Knott, of Jefferson county, has a horse
that was wounded 13 times during the late war.
Old uncle John died in the county poor house,
near Boydton, aged 121.
The Guyandotte Metho lists have a grand cele
bration on the 4th of July.
A negro boy confined in Buchanan jail, is suffer
ing from a snake bite received five years ago.
West Virginia contributed §125 to the Bible
cause, in April.
Quite an amount has been subscribed to the
building of the Ripley and Ohio railroad.
The workmen at Davis steam saw mill have
killed in the last two weeks 42 rattlesnakes on an
acre of ground.
Elias Lively, of Fayette county, has two yearling
sheep, a cross between Cotswold and Southdown,
that at shearing weighed 274 pounds, an average of
137 pounds each, the fleece weighed 242 pounds.
William Haines, of Battelle District, owns a sow
that has a litter of twenty-seven live pigs.
John McConnell, of Ohio county, has a silver
lode on his farm, the ore containing 33 per cent of
sil ver.
The mines at Raymond city are closed on account
of the low price of coal and a glutted market.
FOREIGN.
June 21.—Faik Pasha defeated the Russians
near Van. The capitulation of Bayazid is looked
for.
The Russians defeated the Turks near Saidachan.
Tue chamber of deputies at Constantinople has, by
a large vote, decided to postpone the question of the
admission of Christains into the army.
Alexander Barclay & Co.of Gottenburg, Sweden,
have failed. Liabilities §1,340,000; assets §950,-
000.
The town of St. John’s, New Brunswick, was
visited by fire. 200 acres were burned, over 15,000
people rendered homeless, and §15,000,000 proper
ty destroyed. A number of lives wete lost.
June 22.—Muktar Pasha is before Delibaba.
Bayazid has been reoccupied by Turks.
The barges for transporting corn on the Da
nube, nave been converted into floating block
houses for transferring infantry.
An Imperial Ukase is published at St. Peters
burg authorizing a 5 percent, loan of 200,000,000
roubles called the “Oriential loan of 1877” to be
paid off in 49 years.
The British government has ordered the En
glish officers in the Khedive’s office to resign.
The French Senate has voted for the dissolu
tion of the Chamber by 150 to 130.
The suffering from famine in the Northern
provinces of China has abated.
The sudden cold weather in China has injured
the silk prospects. Many of the worms died.
Over 30 persons were killed during the fire at
St. Johns, N. B.
June 23.—The bridge over the Danube from
Ibrail to the Turkish shore is completed. It is
composed of huge planks held together by an
chors from the Ibrail side.
The whole Russian corps is in Bulgaria.
Six thousand Russians crossed the river at
Galatz.
The Turks abandoned Matchin. They destroy
ed the line of railway between Tchernavoda and
Matchin.
Suliman Pasha has 30,000 troops and is advanc
ing slowly. The Turks have 60,000 troops oper
ating against Montenegro.
Suliman Pasha and Ali Saib forces after 6 days
continuous fighting and a loss of 7,000 men effect
ed a junction.
June 24—The anti-slavery society of London
gives a public breakfast to William Loyd Garri
son.
Jcse25.—The ninth army corps of Russia is
marching along the left bank of the Aluta to-
wards the Danube.
The Russian troops who crossed at Galatz re
sisted the Turkish cavalry with the bayonet.
The clergy and Christians of Matchien received
the Russians with great ceremony.
The Grecian Chamber of Deputies has voted for
a continuance of the war, even if all Europe com
bines against the Turks.
The Turkish newspaper Bassiret announces the
capitulation of the Russians at Bayazid, and that
Suliman Pasha has entered Cettinge, the capital of
Montenegro.
The Czar and Grand Duke Alexis are now rec
onciled. The Grand Duke has been raised from
major to general.
June 26.—The agitation against Radif Pasha and
TO COItRESPOVDESTS.
All communications relating to this department of the
i paper should be addressed to the editor, and have the
word •• Chess " written on the envelope.
SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 15.
I 3
R Kt 8 (ch) K Q 2
Kt Kt 8 (Ch) £^3
R Kt 5 K Q 4
K K 5 Kq3
Kt Kt 7 ich) K Q'4
K B 2 PB6
PQ3 PB5
pqt p b 4
Q It 5 P B 3
KB PB7
ill Kt Q 7
12 Q R 2 <cb)
13 Kt B 5
iHQR7
15 KQ R5
IS R K R6
17 Kt Kt 6 (Ch) K Q 3
18 Kt Q 7 P B 4
19 Q Kt 8 ich) KB3
|20 P mates.
P B6
PBS
K Q 3
KQi
KQ3
KQ4
had his entire outfit taken from him, near Gates-
ville. Verdict, justifiable larceny.
Texarkana is to have a §50,000 cotton com
press.
A Franklin county woman gave birth, recent y,
to three boys.
A fearful contest is expected at Rustchuk.
Eight hundred cases of typhoid fever in the
Russian hospital at Constantinople.
The Turks have abandoned the north end of the
Dobrudscha.
Mukhtar Pasha’s successes in Montenegro are
Miss Tabitha Ann Cumming, aged 20, of Little i confirmed. The Turks' loss is 10,000.
River county, has 13 acres in corn and 12 acres The Turks evacuated Hixsora, and the Russians
in cotton, planted and cultivated by herself. She | occupied it.
hired a tramp to help her but thrashed and dis
charged him before dinner time. She’s just the
girl for John Lowry.
Wealthy capitalists, from Iowa, have established
a saw mill near Kildare
Twenty-eight thousand Russians crossed at
Ibrail.
The reports of a conspiracy to blow up the Suez
Canal proves to be true. The Khebive is taking ef
fective measures to prevent it. The liquor shops at
A man named Garner was sentenced to be hung St. John’s, N. B., have been closed by the c.ty
near Rockwall on the 15th for the murder of A. C. j authorities.
Starks. On the evening of the 14th his wife went ; June 27.—The population of Rustcbuck fled to
in to see him. At daylight n^-xt morniug, Garner ■ the neighboring village. Twelve shells fell on
and his wife were found dead. She carried' mor- military hospital, five on the civil hospital and two
phine in her mouth and beta took it, preferring on the orphan asylum. The consulates of France,
to die together. They left four children, the young- Italy, Greece, Germany, and Belgium have been
est but 15 months old. ; injured by the Russian fire.
Ben Baker has been elected Mayor of Columbus. ! The Mont“sezina army is concentrated opposite
Col. J. DeGress, Mayor of Austin, is wrestling Spus ani Pi djoritza.
with a bribery suit- The Czar has ordered another army corps from
Texas has between 2.000 and 3,000 miles of the interior to the lower Danube.
1 KtxP (ch)
2 R K 4
SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 15)4.
KxKt 3 B Kt 8, mate.
PxR
1 KR5 3 RxB. mate.
2 Kt Kt 2 (ch, PxKt
1 B B 4 3 RxP, mate.
2 Kt Kt 2 (ch) PQ5
(Inscribed to J. B. McKim.)
PROBLEM NO. 17.
By F, W. Martiadale. Peterboro, N. Y.
WHITE.
White to play aud give mate ia three moves.
PROBLEM NO. 17,-4.
Lebanon Herald Tourney, No. 36. Third prize, “ Blue
Bonnets.” By C. M. Baxter, Dundee, Scotland.
K R; Kt K B 8. K Kt 5; K B 6; Q Kt 2. Q 3; QR5. Q B 6.
^ &
Q R.6; Q Kt 3.
i JL *2? %
K R6;7;KB4;2;QB4; K; K 4; Q 2.
White to play and mate in two moves.
CHESS I1V ATLANTA.
At the Young Men's Library rooms, between Mr. Shup-
trine, of Thomaston, and Mr. Robinson, of Atlanta, Ga.
Mr. Shuptriue won the odd game of the match. The
other games are not recorded.
(Scotch Gambit.)
MR. W. G. R., JR. MX R D. 8.
MB W.G. B.
JB. MB. B. D
White.
Black.
White.
Black.
1 P K 4
P K 1
13 P K 5
Q B 4
2 K Kt B 3
Q Kt B 3
14 Q Kt 3
B Kt 3*
3 P Q 4
PxP
15 P K 6 !
B B3
4 B B 4
B B 4
16 BxB
PxB
5 Kt Kt 5 (a)
Kt R3
17 PxKt
Qx P
6 KtxP
KtxKt
18 P B 5!
Q K 2 ?
7 BxKt ch
K B (b]
19 P B 6!!
PxP
8 Cas
Q B 3
20 B (ch)
K K
9BQ5?
Kt K 4
21 Kt Q 2
KQ 2
10PKB4LC]
Kt B 2
22QRK
QQ
11 K R
12 P Q B 3
P Q 3
BQ 2
23 Q mates.
(a) Right here, we would call attention to a game be
tween Schumoff and Jmnisch, in “Brevity and Bril
liancy,” page 80, a Scotch Gambit which is •• Coufuci-us
(n) Classics ” to us. Will some of the brethren -' rise and
explain ” or set us aright ? Don't all speak at once.
(b) This is extremely weak. Take the Kt, aud with
judicions play, Black has the superior game in this vari
ation.
(c) We have found that this Pawn has more effect in
the Scotch than any other opening; it is the lever of this
game.
CHESS INTELLIGENCE.
Belden, of the Hartford Times, is conducting a success
ful literary “ chess tourney ” We are highly pleased so
far, aud shall peruse the coming numbers with increased
scrutiny.
We have received a neat circular from the Lebanon
(Tenn.) Herald chess editor. It contains three prize
problems of tbe “Herald tourney,” No. 38, which gained
the first prize, > real gem. The key move is by no means
easily perceptible. No. 33, to which prize No. 2 was
awarded, is but little inferior to No. 1, aud is very pretty.
In our opinion, the unsuccessful problems that were
inferior to No. 36, gainer of the third prize (see problem
No. 17)gI, must be greatly below the general average ot
the unsuccessful composers whose names are given; for
we regard No. 36 as quite an inferior problem, too simple
by far to have deserved a premium, unless the competing
ones (as we sav) were very inferior. Still, it has soma
elements of beauty.
Ensor, is never •• out of play,” always has “ time,” and
is never “ 1 am not feeling well.”
What has become of the English Bird ?
The Cleveland Voice proposes a meeting of chess editors
daring the summer at -Put-in Bay.” We cordially en
dorse. but cannot be present in parson, though inspirit.
We nominate McKim temporary chairman.
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railroad and 30,000 miles of telegraph lines.
Virginia.
R. G. Mosby, a Richmond letter carrier, has been
arrested for robbing a letter.
U. S. Grant (colored)has been sent to th- peniten
tiary for three years, for house burning, in London
county.
Petersburg was visited by a shower of frogs, on
the 19th.
Rev. M. H. Houser has been installed pastor of
of the Presbyterian Church at Abingdon. Rev.G.
Wilson is going to Huntingdon.
A wild deer entered a field near Staunton and
was pursued and pawed to death by a mule.
Judgi
The consuls at Rustchuck are drawing up a pro- 1
test against the Russians bombarding their resi- |
dences as against all principles of international i
law.
The Grand Vizier has ordered the release of 400
civil prisoners confined at Rustchuck.
' The Russians are bombarding Rustchuck to re- j
duce it and compel it to capitulate and save a long
siege.
The banks of the Danube from Hisasloa to Tutt- i
cha are occupied by the Russians.
Alvarez, at Acopulco, Mexico, captulated to Diaz.
Alvarez is reported to have gone over to the enemy.
All mail for this department must be addressed to
Puzzle Department,” Sunny South, Atlanta, Georgia.
To Our Puzzlers.
Cbab—“ Puzzler ” ia all right, we believe. We expect
something from him soon.
Jno. D. White, Marietta, Ga., answers Nos. 1. 2, 3
and 6.
L. A. Kaufman, Portsmouth, Va.. answers No. 3.
Janett Davenport, Batesburg. S. C., answers No. 3.
Answers to Enigmas, Puzzles, etc., in No. 10S4.
No. 1 -Word square : Omen, noble, Ella. near.
No. 2—Decapitation : Rice, ice; that, hat.
No. 3—Charade: Goliath.
No. 4—Transposition: Balm. Iamb; Babar, rahab; vesta,
stave; lager, regal; cheap, peach.
No. 6—Puzzle: Rover.
No. 7—Enigma: A fl., .
New Puzzles, etc.
No. 1—Riddle.
Of letters five I am composed;
I'm neither high nor low;
Spell me forward or backward.
You'll pronounce the same, I trow.
Ellen Thomas, Quitman, Ga.
No. 2 -Decapitations.
Behead a vegetable and leave a dish.
Behead farther away aud leave near by.
Jno. D. White, Marietta, Ga.
No. 3—Diamond Puzzle.
A consonant, a verb, a weapon, a literary lady’s name, a
verb and a pronoun, a verb, a consonant.
No. 4—Puzzle.
As I was walking out one day,
Into a Sib o.. I chanced to stray;
A man quite second there I saw,
Who gulped down a first and called for more;
On the table then jumped an ugly whole cat.
The old gent at once hollered out - scat.”
Say, “Puzzler,” wnat do you think of that?
A “ Centennial ” song book fur the first correct solu
tion. Ray,
Box 32. Hampton, Virginia.
NO. 5 —WOBD SqUABE.
To drudge; an affection of the mini; to inform; a val
ley.
A piece of music to the young lady under eighteen
years of age sending the first cjrrect answer to W. J.
Ray, Batesburg, S. C.
Never tlin'i that whi h you do for religion is
Guigon has decided that the income of time or m n y miss} eat.
Eminent statisticians have calculated that the
amount of ingenuity and labor expended by impe
cunious topers in getting free drinks would, if de
voted to any honorable and useful pursuit, pay off
the national debt in a little less than six
and eight months.
INSTINCT PRINT