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THE NEWS.
Home and Foreign;
OR.
The World in a Nutshell
Alabama.
Clark county jail is without an inmate.
Mrs. Annie Swanson, wife of Dr. W. G. Swan
son, died at Tuskegee recently. She was the daugh
ter ol Mr. and Mrs. John G. Park of Lawencevilie,
Ga.
Samuel Noble has been commissioned postmas
ter at Anniston.
Miss Marion Smith, daughter of C. H. Smitn of
Rome, is on a visit to Anniston.
Eutaw hag ice at 2 cents per pound.
Hon. R. W. Cobb is spoken of for Governor.
Thomas Maxwell committed suicide at Tusca
loosa by taking arsenic.
The editor of the Randolph County News is
happy; the devil has left him.
Dr. W. L. Heflin, of Louisiana, caught a 42
pound cat fish.
Mr. Kornegay cut 6,000 pounds of Italian rye
grass, in Dale county, from three fourths cf an
acre.
Rev. J. A. Van Hoose was married at Tuscaloo
sa recently to Miss Jennie McLester.
The Mobile and Girard R. It. have executed to
the Georgia Central R. R. a §1,000,000 mortgage.
Dakota.
A five foot snake was killed at Haywood, with
a horn on its tail an inch long.
The Deadwood Champion is a new daily pub
lished at Deadwood by Charles Collins.
A. D. Adams, of Salt Lake City, was robbed be
tween Cold Spring and Hot Creek of §30,000.
The finest cow in the Black Hilia was sold for
$50.
C. W. Tappan will run a hotel at Cheyenne.
The first pony carrying the mail from Paddock,
Nebraska, to Custer City, reached the last named
place on the 6th of June.
Florida.
S. B. Smith of Palatka had his foot pierced by
a rusty nail. The result was lockjaw ending in
death.
Lake City Scrip is worth 75 cents in the dollar
an increase of 50 cents in the past year.
Oats are 7 feet high in Alachua county.
Gov. Drew, at his place on the Suwanee river,
produced 84 bushels of oats and 50 bushels of
shelled corn per acre.
The yield of wheat in Madison county will av
erage 30 bushels per acre.
The stomach of an alligator was opened at Key
West last week and found to contain a live turtle.
St. Augustine has a public library containing
1,200 volumes and has a permanent fund of §1,000.
A white woman named Lizzie Day, of Levy
county, was married recently at Brooksville to a
negro. The white men of the county attacked the
bridegroom. The negro and two white men were
killed.
Maj. W. I. Turner netted §1,300 from 80 or
ange trees at Manatee.
Dr. W. P. Allison, of Live Oak, will take charge
of the Lunatic Asylum at Chattahoochee.
Palatka rats are 18 inches long.
The new jail at Jacksonville has been complet
ed at a cost of $27,000.
There are 2,000 voters in Jefferson county who
do not pay even a poll tax.
dark Mills is at St. Augustine taking casts of
the heads of 60 Indian Chiefs held as prisoners.
H. S. Duval, of Quincy, is Colonel of State Mili
tia and Chief Civil Engineer of the State. The
civil and the military are thus united.
Hon. P. W. White has been appointed Judge of
the Second Judicial Circuit.
A. Rogers, of St. Johns county, has a grove of
pecan nut trees. The trees are 15 feet high.
There has not been a case of bankruptcy among
the business men of Tampa since the war.
A firm in Tampa are realizing one gallon of
honey per week-from each hive.
Dr. Hodees brought into Cedar Keys a raft of
4,000 sticks of cedar.
Fifty thousand dollars are to be expended in
improvement on the Pensacola Custom House.
Georgia.
Rev. W. P. Harrison D. D. preaches the annual
sermon before the State Sunday-school Convention
at Athens, August 26th.
At a family reunion in Union Point at E- C. Bow
dens, there were 28 persons, father, mother, chil
dren and grandchildren assembled. There were 14
grandchildren.
Gen. A. R- Lawton appears to be the coming
man for president of the Constitutional convention.
There is in Cuthbert a man 80 years of age, who
served as a soldier under Napoleon and never has
used a pair of glasses.
Itev. J. H. Cowart of Bulloch county is dead.
A Notary Public in Emanuel county was remov
ed from office for malpractice.
A colony of Italian bees swarmed at Newnan and
ran away. They settled on a small tree seven
miles from Newnan.
Jack Conyers, of Newnan, is 71 years old. For
43 years he has used glasses, but now can read
fine print without them.
Billy White, a colored individual of Newton
county is an athlete. Recently he raised four
sacks of guano, 200 pounds each, one in each hand,
one in his teeth and one on his back. He once
threw a steer over his head and broke his neck.
John M. Martin, aged 21, was recently married
to Miss Ann Elizabeth Wiloby, aged 12, in Monroe
county.
Hillery Caffin died recently in Augusta, aged 81.
For several years he has had his own coftiin—iron
in the shape of the human body—put away.
Over 2.000 bushels of corn have been converted
into whiskey in Rockdale county in the past year.
A white pelican measuring eight feet bet wen its
wing tips, was recently killed in a lake near
Hawkinsville.
Mrs. Mary Kendrick, aged 74, of Webster county
is dead. ,,
j) r q. k. Moore of Dawson has a stalk of corn
with twelve roasting ears on it.
Mrs. Patsey Hargrove died in Burke county re
cently.' aged 62. She was the grandmother of 66
children. .
The mosquitoes are thick in Camilla.
When a Camilla belle is proposed to she says
<• yes, and thank ee' too.
The name of the Cherokee Baptist College, at
Rome, is to be changed to that of Shorter Female
College. We trust that it will never be short ’er
females a?e j 99. an ,j q. \Y. Callery, 69
are the croquet champions of Calhoun countv
\ J Ornie, of Atlanta, harvested on his Baker
county farm 83A bushels of wheat from 21 acres.
Brunswick will pound her hogs.
A petrified turtle has been found near Fort
Gaines. . , . -
Wi«s Sarah Lou Reid is to get up a history of
Putnam county. No one is better qualified for
the task, and her work will have scores ot reaj-
el> Judge C D McCutcheon, and daughters, Miss
Carrie B„ Lollie K. and Fannie-have returned to
Dalton from an extended trip through the North
and East.
The Griffin News states that John West and Bry
ant Skipper sowed 8 acres of land and gathered 155
bushels—whether “wild oats'' or wheat is not
; stated.
The “local” of the Mitchell Reformer is a ver
satile genius. He fills the position of boss, editor,
pressman, proof-reader, mailing-clerk, devil and
contributor to the department of Belle Lettres.
A hen in Cherokee county carries as mother six.
j ty chickens ten guineas and four teen turkeys.
James Noyes, of Cedar town delivered a fine ad-
i dress at the Cedar town academy on “our native
! State.” He will make a noise in this world.
J. F. Me. Clelland was recently elected president
of the Conyers Female College, but declined it.—
Mr. T. B. Baily has been elected.
Rev. H. Quigg and Miss Lizzie Quigg, of Conyer3
have gone to Due West S. C. on a visit.
A pack of dogs in Mitchell county killed 65 goats
one morning.
Joab Gillion. of Wilkinson county’ has killed
in his life 6,002 deer, by actual count.
The Central Georgia Weekly, at Barnesville one
of the best weeklies in the Union, typhographicilly
and editorially, will soon come out very much im
proved.
J. W. Wallace, of Augusta, will have charge of
of the music at the State Sunday-school Convention,
at Athens, August 24th to 26th.
Kentucky.
A cave in Clear Creek, Batts county, has been
explored to the distance of one mile and no end
: found.
Mrs. 0. Cummings, of Harrison county, has a
j razor, said to be 464 years old.
At a meeting of the citizens of Lexington, it
| was determined to remove the remains of Joel T.
j Hart from Florence to Lexington, and to erect
; a monument over him, purchase a marble bust of
him and “the Triumph of Chastity.”
Pres. Gilbert of Paducah committed suicide by
taking four ounces of laudanum. Third attempt.
Cause whiskey.
Thomas F. Cayce of Fulton is dead.
A live centipede was captured in Paducah and
carefully preserved in alcohol.
Matt Turney has been elected County Judge of
Bourbon county.
Scott county boasts of white rats.
A pig near Mt. Sterling has six ears, three on
each side of its head.
Wesley Knight of Elizaville owns a mare 34
years old, that raised 31 colts. Thirty of ihem
sold for §6,000, an average of §600. The last
one is owned by Miss Lucy A. Knight and is the
finest mare in Fleming county.
In Boyle county one man hived a swarm of
bees every day for three days from the same hive
and another man for four days. The hives are
Boyliug over with bees.
Fayette county wants the whipping post re
established.
The Supreme Court has reversed the decision
of the Court below, convicting W. G. Terrel of
manslaughter in killing Harvey Myers.
Louisiana.
The Jefferson Journal has a Bible 291 years
old, the binding of which is beech wood, covered
with boar skin.
R. H. Isbelle, pension agent at New Orleans,
announces that all pensioners, whether of the ar
my or navy, residing in Arkansas, Mississippi,
Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and
South Carolina, will be paid at the New Orleans
office.
J. C. Prendergast, an old newspaper man, died
in New Orleans, at the age of To.
T. II. Hunt has obtained a judgment against
the New Orleans, Mobile & Texas Railroad for
$8,120.
The Pike estate is valued at^§495,532.22.
The parish attorney of Caldwell gets §200 per
annum, but this one would not call-well.
St. Tammany parish has a white coon.
Grasshoppers have appeared in Concordia parish.
Enule Druilhet, near Jeannette, made 27 hogs
heads of sugar and all the corn he needed, with
the assistance of one hired hand.
The Clinton & Port Hudson Railroad offer to
bring their road to Baton Rouge as a terminus, if
the city will loan them §60,000.
The Bienville jail is empty.
A new colored lawyer practices at the Thibo-
daux bar.
Mississippi.
Two negroes were arrested at Yazoo City for
burning a stable, ten horses and mules, corn and
other property, amounting to §6,000. There not
being sufficient evidence, they were discharged.
They were found next morning dead, one shot and
the other hung.
Mississippi has 92 papers, with a combined cir
culation of 60,223, or one copy to every thirteen
inhabitants.
Lewis Miller, colored, died in Lauderdale of
hydrophobia.
J. M. McDuffy was shot and killed at Meridian
by W. W. Henry. Cause, whisky.
Sam Byrd shot and killed Andy Kane at Oxford
last week.
A number of the stockholders of the Grangers’
Life and Health Insurance Company, at Meridian,
have filed bills to cancel their stock, amounting to
§14,500, because the department office was not lo
cated at Meridian.
The Military Institute will be moved from Ab
erdeen to Pass Christian.
Twins have become common in Columbus, and
triplets are not unusual.
William Quigg jumped from a boat into the river
near Satartia and was drowned.
The Jackson Railroad Company are building
six new fruit and vegetable cars to run between
St. Louis and New Orleans, on the passenger
trains.
North Carolina.
H. W. Shaw has been appointed postmaster at
Tarboro, and Author C. Newell at Farmington.
Thomas Powers has been reinstalled as collector
of internal revenue in the second district.
Elisha Tribet in Watauga county was shot and [
killed by unknown parties.
Boykin Rice, of Alabama, died recently, leaving
his estate to his brothers and sisters, in Nash coun-
t7• |
North Carolina sent a 435 pound turtle to Balti
more.
Hog cholera is raging iD Sampson county.
North Carolina paid §3.000,060 for fertilizers
the past season.
The post office known as “ Why Not,” in Ran- !
dolph county has been re-established.
A canal to connect Cape Fear River with New
River and Pamlico Sound is projected.
South Carolina.
The door of the County Commissioners’ office in
Darlington county is sealed.
Georgetown county is without a Board of Coun- ;
ty Commissioners.
Dr. W. L. Broyles, of Anderson, is dead.
Beaufort county has fifteen trial justices.
The Baptist Theological Seminary, at Greenville
is to be moved to Louisville, Ky.
The Supreme Court decided that C. W. Buttz
having accepted congressional honors can not j
hold the position of Solicitor.
The uniform of the Governor's Staff is the Con
federate Fiel d and Staff' uniform, and a black Burn
side hat.
Capt. II. S. Shelby was acquitted at Walterboro
of the murder of J. C. Bulow
Calhoun’s Mill township will vote for a no-fence j
law.
In Anderson county, one cow, one calf, four hogs
and three dogs had gone mad and were killed, and
seven dogs considered dangerous, were likewise
killed. All were bit by the same dog.
Preliminary steps are being taken to build a
roai between Chester and Union.
Grading on the Chester and Cheraw Road will
be completed in two weeks.
A Darlington hawk caught fourteen chickens
from the same yard in one day-
A meeting at Rock Hill adopted resolutions fa
voring the fence law.
Ten thousand dollars have been subscribed for
the endowment of Walhalla College.
M. L. Brown, proprietor of the Winnsboro Ho
tel, denies that he is dead.
Tennessee.
Adjutant General W. R. Hamby has tendered
his resignation as private secretary to the Governor.
Govenror Porter has commissioned his son Charles
D. Porter the fill the vacancy.
Brownsville has three citizens weighing over
1,000 pounds in the aggregate.
H. M. Houston of Lauderdale county has copy
righted “ a tree of the English language. ”
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church, South, will have its next meeting in Knox
ville.
The editor of the Athens Post has been setting
type 53 years and is still a good hand at the case.
The charter of the Coal Creek and New River
Rail Road from the coal fields in Anderson county,
to a point on the Cincinnati Southern Rail Road
in Scott county, has been registered.
Col. W. J. Clift a Middle Tenneseee lawyer, will
locate in Chattanooga.
A firm in Shelbyville received 6,000 pounds of
ginseng in two months, worth §7,000.
Shelbyville has 75 marriageable young ladies, to
about a dozen young men.
Judge Dickenson resigned his position as judge
of the Sixth Judicial Circuit.
Memphis proposes to pay her debts, 50 cents in
the dollar.
The Sun & Whig and Tribune have been consoli
dated under the name of Tribune & Sun.
General Joseph Cooper and Col. John B. Brown-
low raided the illicit distilleries in Hancock county
and destroyed fifteen still-houses, 8,000 gallons of
beer and fifteen gallons of whisky.
Colonel Thomas Boyers, editor of the Examiner,
has been appointed Postmaster at Gallatin.
Franklin wants a telegraph office.
The Nashvilie Historical Society has been pre
sented with a specimen of petrified moss.
Chancellor Lurton has decided that the bonds
isued by Sumner county, to the Cumberland, &
Ohio Rail Road, are valid and must be paid.
In a street in Edgefield, 16 honses contain 45
children, under 15 years of age.
A social reunion was given at New Providence,
in honor of Miss Katy Cahaniss, daughter of judge
Cabaniss of Jackson Mississippi.
A widower, from Arkansas, came to Covington
and exchanged a young bear and two white mice,
for one of Tipton’s fairest belles.
Mrs. Marion Adams, sister of Mrs. Andrew
Jackson, died at the Hermitage at the age of 75,
from the eflects of a fall.
Alphonse Joanard, an old resident of Nashville
is dead.
A man named Hendrix in Henderson county, is
said to be 115 years old.
D. A. Wells of Newton, has sold his black mare,
“ Colored Girl, ” for §750 to H. E. Garth, of Mem
phis. She has a record of 2: 40.
Miss Smith of Rome, GeurgrariTin TTthens on a
visit to Mrs. Rowland.
Major Tom O'Conner has been elected president
of the Knoxville & Charleston Rail Road.
Chancellor Cooper has decided against the Union
Consolidated Mining Company, and in favor of
J; E. Raht, for §108,000.
Miss Annie Hirsch, who mysteriously disappeard
from home near Nashville, was subsequently found
insane.
Father E. E. Jones, of Nashville is dead.
The Murphy temperance movement has been in
augurated in Nashville.
The first barrel of flour from new wheat, sold
in Nashville for §15,25.
Texas.
The San Antonio Herald is now under the man
agement of its founder, J. D. Long. J. A. Ware
is editor, and G. P. Meade, business manager.
One hundred and twenty thousand dollars in
specie was recently shipped to Galveston from
San Antonio.
Louis Duerler, of San Antonio, committed sui
cide at San Pedro Springs.
Mrs. LeGierse has sued the “Sun Set Route,”
in Colorado county, for $30,009 damages for fatal
injuries sustained by her husband in March.
Sixteen students of Baylor University at Inde
pendence were arrested for a failure to work the
roads, but were discharged.
A mass meeting was held in Goliad and S7,800
was raised to retain Hall’s command six months
longer for the protection of the people.
It is thought that Gov. Hubbard will have to
call an extra session of the Legislature, because
the appropriations are exhausted.
Marshal has two newspapers and two brewer
ies. They patronise each other.
Col. R. W. Loughery, of the Dallas Herald, has
invented a bultphone for scaring cattle off rail
road tracks. It has been tested and found a
success.
A Greenback Club has been formed in Cass
county.
Huntsville boys say of their lady-loves, “Oh!
she will do to put in coffee.”
Austin is to have a paper barrel factory
The Grand .Jury of Dewitt county found forty
indictments for murder.
Near Somerset, in Atasoco county, three ladies,
sisters, have a large ranche which they cultivate
and manage themselves.
E L. Stone, Deputy Collector of Custom at Gal
veston. is a defaulter to the tune of §27,000.
Extensive stock-yards are to be built at Sher
man.
The county site of Yanzand county has been re
moved from Coulton to Will’s Point.
A colony of Pennsylvanians will locate near
Goliad.
The cattle shipment from Denison has been
greater than last season.
A shower of flesh, resembling beef, fell in the
white settlements near Fort Worth recently. The j
hogs ate it with a relish.
A drove of 8,000 beeves recently pissed through j
Dallas.
Waco has a Turn-Yerein.
Galveston has a cucumber 4 feet 6 inches long.
Car loads of ponies are being bought for ship
ment to Georgia
There are 100,000 Germans in Texas.
A party of gentlemen from Illinois has purchas
ed 15.000 acres of land in Clay county.
M. M. Brannan. popularly known as “Doc Ad
ams,” is on the editorial staff of the Dallas Mail.
Virginia.
Rev. Jacob D. Mitchell, D. D., of Alexandria,
recently stricken with paralysis, is deal.
The tobacco plants in Orange and Louisa coun
ties, are being injured by cut worms.
The Female College at Boydton, has been sold
to F.ev. E. I. Baptist for §2.000.
Richmond has 343 factories, giving employment
to 11,000 persons.
Hon. Joseph Segar has retired from the contest
for Hon. John Goode's seat in Congress.
M. J. S. Henry, a relative of Patrick Henry,
has been appointed a mail agent on the Midland
R. R.
The Yonell farm of 328 acres in Rockbridge coun
ty, has been sold for $8,000. It was once owned
by Thomas Hart Benton.
Fine anthracite coal is being taken from the
; Dova Mines west of Harrisonburg, on the Wash-
i ington City and S‘. Louis E.R.
Miss Park P. Pe r kins, crowned queen at the
j Centennial, was married in Buckingham county
j Wednesday to Major W. W. Brently, of Pulaski
county.
; A Catholic Church is to be built at Jarratts.
Honored A. H. H. Stuart has withdrawn from
! public life.
A baby at the baby show at Whelling, seven
I months old, could talk, walk and eat peanuts.
A cedar tree is growing out of the side of a
chimney in Fredericksburg. It has been there forty
years.
The Maffet liquor register will be patented.
Mrs. General Jeb Stuart will move to Staunton
and become a member of the faculty of the Staunton
female seminary.
Professor.!. Willoughby Reade is reading at
Lynchburg.
The city council of Alexandria has memorialised
congress to erect a marble column at Yorktown and
carry out the resolution of the congress of the
confederation adopted October 29h, 1781.
The Presbyterian Church at Chalottesville
has called to the pastorate Rev. J. B. Strickland
of Augusta County.
Rev. J. A. Broadus preached before the Young
Men’s Christian Association a fine sermon from
the text “For me to live is Christ.”
FOREIGN.
June 28.—The affair at Delebaba was severe.
The Turks lost 400 killed and 2,000 wounded.
The Russian cavalry are spreading over the
Dobrudscha. All of Gen. Zimmerman’s troops
crossed the Danube.
Russia ha3 given Mr. Whitehead an order for one
hundred fish torpedoes, to be sent to the Black Sea
and the D mube.
The Bulgarians in Dobrudscha are arming
against the Turks.
The Chamber of Deputies at Constantinople has
been closed by the Sultan.
The fourth army corps, from the interior of Rus
sia, is entering Roumania.
A Russian column, 15,000 strong, has arrived
before Khorassan, in the rear of the Turkish eenter.
Professor John Santini, an Italian astronomer,
is dead.
June 29.—The Czar, in a proclamation, assures
Christians, that they will be protected against all
violence.
The Russian attack on Servia was repulsed de
spite repeated assaults.
The Turks have completely wasted the country
around Sistova, Food and forage are not to be had.
The Russian left is near Herzova, and is being
constantly strengthened.
Insurgent bands have appeared in Russian
Lithuania.
The army corps stationed at Lublin, in Poland,
have been ordered to march to the Danube.
One hundred thousand Russians have occupied
the Island of Barcea, near Silisteria.
Turkey claims restitution of certain ammuni
tion seized by the Greek authorities, and Greece
resists the demand.
Clark & Co.’s thread works, at Paisley, Scotland,
burned on the 29th. Loss, §75,000.
John Robertson & Co., spinnery, at Glasgow,
burned on the 29th. Loss, §400,000.
June 30.—The Russians captured Batoum.
A Turkish guuboat destroyed the bridge at
Ibrail.
Servia has ordered accoutrements for 50,000
men, to be delivered in three weeks.
The Russians launched a fleet of eight boats,
loaded with dummy soldiers, at Oltenitza. When
the fleet reached mid-stream, it drew a fire from
1,000 rifles and many cannon.
The Turks threw 2,000 or 3,000 shells into Guir-
gevo.
July 2.—The Russian government has ordered
the purchase of 30,000 horses.
Germany will prohibit the exportation of horses,
on the ground of internal economy.
Thirty thousand Russians crossed the Danube at
Sistova, and commenced a forward movement to
wards Bjela.
The Turks have abandoned Nikopolis.
The Turks are removing the rolling stock from
Rutschuk to Varna.
The Turks have abandoned Rutschuk and are
marching toward Sistova.
July 3.—The municipal council of Amiens was
dissolved for participating in a reception of Gam-
betta. The council at Marseilles will share the
same fate.
The Pan Presbyterian Council opened at Edin
burg. Prof, Flint, of Edinburg University, preach
ed the sermon.
July 4.—20,000 Roumanians have crossed the
Danube.
The Turks drove 10,000 Russians from their po
sitions at Karakrlissa.
The siege of Kars was raised on the 3d, the
Russians retreating towards the frontier.
The Russians have occupied Tirnova, the an
cient capital of Bulgaria.
The Russians are pressing on beyond Tirnova
towards the Balkans.
Mahmoud Djelaleddin Pasha is acting Minister
of War while Redif Pasha is at Shumla.
The British fleet has arrived at Bessiker Bay.
A Turkish reserve force, of 30,000 is being
formed.
Every Turkish house in Sistova was sacked by
the Bulgarian residents after the departure of the
Turks.
Business in the British House of Commons has
been delayed by several members from Ireland.
A Goose Drawn by Geese.
Mr. Rogers sailed in a tub, accompanied by four
geese, from Battersea to Westminster Bridge Lon
don, recently. The tub was two feet deep by two
feet six inches in diameter, and it was balanced by
heavy weights, four geese being harnessed in front.
The man was dressed in a naval captain’s attire,
and sat on a seat fixed across the centre of the tub.
The start took place at twenty minutis to 2, on
the ebb tide, which was flowing strong enough to
carry the tub steadily along, the geese appearing to
do little or nothing toward drawing it, their heads
being as often as not turned toward the tub. After
some delay Mr. Rogers was got safely into a boat
and rowed to the Westminster Bridge steps, where
he landed amid the admiration of about thirty
small children and a sprinkling of spectators on
the bridge.
Teach Them to Work.
The poorest girls in the world are those who
have never been taught how to work. There are
thousands of them. Rich parents have petted j
them; they have been taught to despise labor and
to depend on others for a living, and are perfect
ly helpless. If misfortune comes upon their
friends, as it often does, their case is hopeless. [
The most forlorn and miserable women on the j
face of the earth belong to this class. It belongs
to parents to protect their daughters from this i
deplorable condition. They do great wrong if
they neglect it. Every daughter should be taught
to earn a living. The rich as well as the poor re
quire this training. The wheel of fortune rolls
swiftly around. The rich may become poor and i
poor rich.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
All communications relating to this department of the
paper should be addressed to the editor, and have the
word “ Chess " written on the envelope.
Chess HEADgCAKTEBS—Young ilea’s Library Associa
tion, Marietta street.
Typo: Procure Beadle's Dime Chess Instructor.
PROBLEM NO. 16.
i Correct solution fsom J. H. W., Columbia; Mary, Bat
i and Lee Smith.
SOLUTION TO PROBLEM NO. 16.
1 1 B K R 7 PKt3 |3Kt mates.
2 Q B K B 2 PxKt |
PROBLEM NO. 18.
By F, W. ilartindale, Peterboro, N. Y.
BLACK.
WHITE.
White to play and mate in two move*.
PROBLEM NO. 18
Centennial Problem Tournament. By Samuel Loyd—
“Tnemes.” First prize for best two mover.
^ JL
KB6;K. K R 7.
KKt4; Q7. Q B 4. QR7.
KB. K B 3; K 2; 3. KB 4. K 4. QB7;QKt2
White to play and mate in two moves.
CHESS IN NEW YORK.
An amusing skirmish between Messrs Maurian and
Mackenzie, played last summer at the Cafe Interna
tional.
VIENNA OPENING.
White.
Mr. Maurian.
1 P K 4
2 Kt Q B 3
3BQB4
4PKB4
5 Kt K B3
6PKR3
QxB
Black.
Mr. Mac.
P K 4
Kt Q B 3
B Q B 4
P Q 3
B K Kt 5
BxKt
Kt Q 5
White. Black.
Mr. Maurian. Mr. Mac.
11 RK B Q Q 2
12 QxKt P Castles
13 RxK B P (b) Kt K 2
14 Kt Q 5 K R K Kt
15 QxK P RxKt P
16 KtxKt ch K Kt (c)
8 Q K Kt 4 (a) KtxBPch
9 K Q KtxR
10 PxP PxP
|17KtKB5 QxPch
118 BxQ Q RxB ch
19 K K Kt B 7ch
i20KB R Kt 8, mate
(a) The sacrifice of the Rook gives White a very fine
attack, and. but for an error later in the game, would
probably have been successful.
(b) A tempting move, but not so strong as the QxR,
which would have resulted iu White's wiuuiugat least a
couple of Pawns.
(c) The Knight of course cannot be taken on account
of B to K 6, Ac. The suddenness with which the attack
now changes hands is somewhat remarkable,—Turf, Field
and Farm..
CHESS INTELLIGENCE,
The Zukertort-Blackburne match commenced on the
25th of June. A stake of £60 to the winner of seven
games.
Mr. Loyd wins the prize offered by the Boston Globe
to winner of first prize in “ Centennial Tourney.” pro
vided the problems were contributed to the globe—an
elegant Parlor Chess Table, with Staunton men, valued
at $50.
The International Tourney, inaugurated by the Hart
ford Times, promises to be a success. Sixteen American
players have entered, all of long experience in corres
pondence games. With snch players as Gilbert, Romeyn,
Peiler, Jager and Orchard, we feel confident as to the
ultimate result.
“ Silvester's Errand." An exquisite story of home
life.
The WeBt German Chess Association will hold its 11th
Chess Congress at Cologne on the 18th to 20th of Angnst.
Peiler is a “ blus (gl) b ass ” fisherman on the '* pawn-
derous deep."
The American Chess Journal (Hannibal, Mo.).—The
June number of this excellent journal is at hand, over
flowing with piquant matter, and quite up to its old
standard. A portrait of Loyd adorns the title page, and
it will be a surprise to many of his admirers to find him
so young and handsome, bis problems are so hard A.
W. Jerome contributes an able article on the “Two
Kings Questions.” (We submit that two Kings destroy
the accepted theory and spirit of the game, no matter
what positiens may arise.) Eight Qneens are also made
to do duty. The selection of games by Mason is judi
cious and fascinating—plenty of food for the largest ca
pacity. Mr. Loyd’s review of Chess Tourneys is concise
and interesting. The problem section oontains a num
ber of prize-bearers which will stand examination and
hard study. An index to volume 1 will repay perusal.
The Journal is an ever welcome visitor, and we hope the
friends of caissa will rally to its support. Subscription,
$3 per annum ; with Bunny South, $4.50.
All mail for this department must be addressed to
Puzzle Department,” Sunny South, Atlanta, Georgia.
Answers to Enigmas, Puzzles, etc., in No. 103.
No. 1—Enigma: The fall oi Custer at the Little Big
Horn.
No. 2—Diamond Puzzle:
G
NET
SCOOP
GEORGIA
W A G O N
T I N
A
No. 3—Decapitation: Start, tart, art, rat, tar.
No. 4—Initial changes: Beari pear.
To Oar Puzzlers.
J. H., Columbia, S. C.—Would be glad to receive the
puzzles. You answer Nos. 3 and 4
“ Crab." Hampton, Ya.—You must be patient with ns,
for w« cannot publish all of yours.
" Phcebe,” Richmond, Va.—We will be glad to publish
something in this column from your pen.
New Puzzles, etc.
No. 1—Charade.
My first is a carriage
For earth, sea or air;
My second is favored,
Disingeuious or fair.
My whole is a thing
Used by servants and cats.
And sometimes by dogs,
And even by rats.
By master and mistress,
By children and guest,
Though often admired,
I’m very hard pressed
Ponie, Crawford, Ga.
No. 2—Enigma.
I am composed of 13 letters.
My 9, 6. 12 is not raised iu this country.
My 7, 3. 4 none of ns like.
My 1. 11, 2. 5 is thrown out from.
My 8. 3.4. all of ns have felt it.
My 10, 3, 13 ruins many people.
My 13. 3. 7 is not pleasant to fall in.
My 8, 9, 6,2.13 is powerful.
My whole is a song, which I will send to the young lady
sending first correct soiution
Boy. Hampton, Ya., Box 32.
No. 3—Enigma.
My 4. 6. 3. 5 is in every house.
My 7, 2. 8 is a noted queen.
My 1, 3. 2 is a tree.
My whole is a prominent musician of Washington,
D. C. Hebndon Mobsell, Washington, D. C.
Ilanij telephones are now in use between the
offices of the Mayor and the Chief of Police of
Providence. Fx-Gov. Lippit also has the instru
ment in his office, so that he can converse with,
Ms son in the bleachery at any hour of the day.
INSTINCT PRINT