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‘I am goiDg to nuise yon a little, frail little
darling. Does your bead ache ? Ikjiow it does
by your eye s. Thtre! yon need not talk stall
But I -will sootbe yon iff to sleep. I bave a
magic spell at my finger tips. See bow soon it
shall help yon.’
While she spoke sbe laid qnickly and softly a
gentle touch upon the throbbing forehead.
The rapid strokes fell like a shower of snow
flakes. Nannieccnld not tell exactly when, bnt
beneath the cool fingers crept a relieving sense
of delieiens coolness. The hot pain grew nnuib
and torpid, a welcome, blissful languor followed
it Her last conecioT sness was a vagne wonder
that such contentment could come to her from
those hands, and then sbe fell asleep.
(To be continued.)
Topics to Talk About.—Mr. Parton's late arti
cle in the ‘North American Review’ on ‘Antipathy
to the Negro’ has attracted no little attention. But
we presume he will find few to agree with him in
his idea that this and all other race antipathies are
not natural, but acquired. Nothing we think has
been more fully established by the logics of facts
than that the several races of mankind entertain a
natural aversion to each other. Education and hab
it may overcome this in part but never wholly.
All the philanthropy and fanaticism of Northern
Abolitionists have never enabled them to receive
the negro on terms of perfect equality, and when
they attempt to do so, the real prejudice will peep
out through their cloak of hypocrisy. We suspect
that Mr. Parton himself would find his philosophy
severely put to the test if called upon to go through
an exercise of kissing African or even New Zealand
babies, and the best of dinners would ill suit his ap
petite if compelled toeat it by the sideof an Ashan-
tee chief. * *J
The Relict of Barbarism.—Corporal Punish
ment js said to be a relict of barbarism. It may be
so; but we can with equal truth claim that thieving
and the other offences which are punished by the
inflctlon of corporal punishment are also relicts of
barbarism. There is assuredly no wisdom in aban
doning the penalty so long as the offences continue
We should be glad to know that man had atta.ned
to that state of moral advancement in which they
require nothing but a sente of duty to impel them
to do right, and need nothing but the lashings of
conscience to keep them from doing wrong. But
we have certainly not attained to that state as yet
It is quite a well proved fact that the milder forms
©^punishment do not prevent the commission ol
crime. The prison and the chain-gang do not ap
pear so terrible as to make hog-stealing a rarity.
Nor would we claim that whipping would wholly
prevent crime. But combined with the forms of
punishment now in use, it would deter many who
now harrass our courts of justice with petty offen
ces from their commission. Bad men cannot be
prevented from harming society without some bar
barity. Lacerating the human body by strokes of
the thong may seem an uncivilized mode of dealing
but it is certainly as compatible with civilization
as it would be to allow the idle and unprincipled
to render all the rewards of industry insecure.
Personals.
That Monument to Major Andre.—We see it
stated that there is a movement on foot by some
parties to erect a monument to the memory of Ma
jor Andre. Were this done by the British govern
ment or by British people, it might be of easy ex
planation. We can understand how they might
honor the memory of a man who lost his life in the
service of his country, even though ihe service
which he was in the act of performing was one
which all agree in classing as dishonorable. But
an American, while he may drop a tear of pity over
the fate of the generous and gallant young man
whose zeal for the cause in which he was engaged
led him to bear a letter in a scheme of villainy, can
not honor him without condemning Washington
and the other patriots who had his destiny in their
hands. The case of Andre was one vf peculiar hard
ship. That he was in many important particulars
a geutk man, no one can doubt. That he was at the
time of his arrest, acting the part of a spy is equally
unquestionable—and w hile the office of spy is one
of almost essential importance in war, he who dis
charges it can hardly hope to be respected eveu by
those who employ him. We have always lamented
the fate of Anure. We have never ranked him with
common spies who enter upon their tasks from
no higher motive than love of adventure or love ol
money. We are sure that the mission which he
undertook at the command of his general diu not
present itself to his mind us having in it anything
of baseness. But while we accord to him ail this,
we :hink the best that histoi y can do for him is to
exci.se—she cannot praise. T he monument which
an American would erect to him would perforce
proclaim the one disgraceful act of his life.
We copy, and in copying, endorse the following
irom our neighbor, the “Christian Index,” in re
gard to the Yellow Fever Prize Poem:
“A few weeks ago the New Orleans Times offered
a prize ol one hundred dollars, for the best poem by
a Southern writer, expressing the gratitude of the
Southern people to the people of the North, for the
generous and whole-souled assistance rendered by*
them during the yellow fever epidemic of IMS.
The committee to w hom the adjudication of the
prize was referred, alter spending three weeks in
examining the one hundred and fifty or sixty poems
sent in, awarded the prize, on the 28th ult, to a
poem, entitled “Andromeda Unchained,” by Henry
Guy Carleton, lately an officer in the United States
ai my, but lor about two years a resident ol New Or
leans.
It is to be regretted that the committee, in the
eight score poems submitted, were unable to select
one moreapposite to the theme proposed, in the first
place, and in the second place, Jess turgid, grandil
oquent and generally faulty in construction. There
are some good passages, and evidences of a stron>'
but crude imagination. But llie forced and stilted
style, and affected pathos, sadly damage its claims
as a work of art. it does not even faintly portray
to the world, in simple yet noble measures, thefeet-
ingsof grat tude and fraternal love which the no
ble acts of the people ol the North, in the dark days
of our affiiction’ implanted in the heart of the South.
Book K of ices.
We have received the February number of Scrib-
net's Monthly Magazine. This is deservedly one of
the most popular of our Monthlies, and the Table
of Contents of this number promises a rich feast
We find “The Tile Club at l’lay,” “The Glacier
Meadows of the Sierra,’’ “The Homes and Haunts
of Emerson,” Haworths,” he Fortunes and Mis
fortunes of Company C.” The serial of “Falcon
berg,” a fine paper on “Aerial Navigation,” and
another on “I’ott's Fainless Cure,” besides a num
ber of smaller articles in prose and ver.-e, with ed
itorials, “ook notices, &e., &c. The terms of Scrib
ner are 84.00 a year, or So cts. per number, and none
of our Monthlies are better worth the money.
St. Hirholas-ls always full of good things for
the young people. The February Number which
has just ci me to hand is brimming with nice sto
ries, amusing anecdotes and pretty pictures. W e
know that there must be a merry time among the
children whenever St. Nicholas is received.
Eclectic Magazine.—The Eclectic for February
contains a very pleasing and carefully-executed
eteel-er graved portrait of the Marquis of Lome, the
new Governor-General of Canada. It forms a de
sirable complement to the similar portrait of the
Earl ofDufferin, which appeared in the same mag
azine a year or two ago. The Table of Contents of
the February number is as follow s: “The Greatness
of England, - ’ by Goldwin Smith; ‘Trinee Bis
marck,” a highly interesting summary of Dr
Bust h's recent revelations by M. Emile de Laveley*
^“Pictures fr< m Venice,” by Mrs. E. Lynn Linton’
Lost Literature,” full of curious information;
“French Home Life. IV. In the Country;” “My
Walk,” a poem, by John Stuart Blackie; “The
Sun's Long Streamers;” the conciuding chapters Of
Wm. Black’s “Macleod of Dare;” “The Old and the
New ideals of Women’s Education,” by Mrs. Faw
cett; “Backgammon among the Aztecs.” by E. B.
Ty!or, F. B. S; “Nuptura,” a p<tin; “Civilisation
and Noise,” by J: 1110s Sul y; “Notes on Afghanistan
ai d her 1 eopie;” “Observation and Mi mory;” “Two
Medein Japanese Stories;” “A Sad Story;” a bio
err j biosi sic«t«li of the Marquis ol Lome; Literary
Notices; Foreign Literary Notes; Science and Art;
and Varieties.
Iiiblislied ly E. R. relton, 25 Bond Street, New
Yoik. Teixcs. $5 pel year; single number, -soeents.
11 he Eclectic ; nd any ji magazine to one address for
18.
Empress Eugenie has recently sold to the Baron
Hirsch three residences in Paris for 5400,000.
Ex-Congressman F. W. Kellogg, of Michigan, has
just died at Alliance, O., of pneumonia, alter a brief
illness.
Mrs. Chirlotte Lewis, widow of Henry Lewis, the
noted anti-slavery agitator, is lying very low of pa
ralysis at her residence in Cincinnati.
Calvin T. Fillmore, a brother of the late President
of the United States, has just died at Ann Arbor,
Mich., at thelage of sixty-nine.
Mrs. Parke Godwin, Miss Nora Godwin, General
and Mrs. Russell Hastings, Lieutenant W. H. May
er, jr., U. S. N., and Mrs. Mayer sailed for Bermuda
yesterday by the steamer Canima.
John P. Jones has been re-elected United States
Senator from Nevada.
The President has nominated W. H. Clayton,
United State* Attorney for the Western District of
Arkansas.
Carlyle is now in his 86th year, and bids fair to
live to be ninety and perhaps over. His habits are
very regular, but he smokes like a chimney.
King Humbert is not in the enjoyment of good
health, and the anxieties of government do not sit
lightly upon him. He looks pale and thin.
Lena Berger, a young Swiss girl, recently took the
degree of Ph. D. at the University of Berne, and
two other girls, an American and an Austrian
passed as M. Ds. at the same time.
Col. B. J. White, of Madison county, Ky., a well
known “blue grass” farmerand politician, has gone
into bankruptcy with liabilities of 875,000 and assets
about 860,000.
Florence Nightingale was engaged to marry Mr.
Spotteswoode, one of the queen’s printers, when the
Crimean war broke out, and the lady accepted a
mission which she thought higher than marriage.
Mr. Gladstone’s admirer’s propose to celebrate
his attaining to the age of seventy by having a din
ner of 5,000 covers in Agricultural Hall and build
ing a “20,000 Gladstone Hospital.
Gov. Z, B. Vance, Just nominated to the Senate
from North Carolina, was born in Asheville in that
State. May 13th, 1830, and is consequently in the
19th year of his age.
General Morrison, of Illinois, has some idea that
he may be taken up for speuker of the next con
gress. He is an unflinching hard-money man, and
i s said to he for Bayard for the Presidency.
Colonel C. C. Kibbee.has been elected Mayor ot
Hawkinsvllle without opposition, and the following
Aldermen: J. J. Jeiks, R. G. Lewis, J. H. Dycher,
S. B. Lawson, C. T. Lathrop and J. Henry.
John S. Lacy, a citizen of New Kent county, Va.,
was waylaid and murdered last Friday night for
his money. Three negroes who have confessed the
crime are in custody. One attempt to ’ynch therm
has failed, but another.will probably be made.
Hon. James H. Blount was one of the pall bear
ers at the funeral of the late Juliau Hartridge in
the House of Representatives at Washington, Jan-
11th. In common with the other pall bearers, he
wore a black sash and white rosette, as part of his
dress.
Mrs. Emma Moiloy was one of the speakers at the
recent anniversary exercises of the United Kingdom
Alliance, in London, over which Alderman Sir An
drew Lusk, Bart, M. P., presided. Mrs. Moiloy is
the only lady who has ever been invited to address
the Alliance meetings.
Miss Waite, the daughter of the Chief Justice of
the United States Supreme Court, has been very
much of a traveler during the last year or two, and
is said to liavt gone two hundred mile* further up
the Nile than any other lady tourist. She returned
from abroad a few days since.
Lord Henry Somerset, a son of the Duke of Beau
fort, about whom a scandalous story has been float
ing through the “society papers” of England for
some time past, has resigned his office as Comp
troller of the Queen's Household; and the Marquis
of Hartford has resigned the post of Lord Chamber
lain because he finds it a bore.
Rev. Leonard Woods, D. D., who died in Boston,
recently, at the age ol seventy-two, was President
of Bowdoiu College, Maine, from 1839 to 18(16. He
was born at Newburg, N. Y., in 1807, and graduated
at Union College in 181:7. His researches into the
history of Maine and t lie voyages of early navigators
were extensive and valuable.
Beverly Tucker, who is now in Washington, is re
ceiving the surprised congratulations of his old
friends upon his reappearance in the flesh. Through
some error, when Beverly Douglas, of Virginia,
died recently, Mr. Tucker was announced in anum-
ber of provincial journals as the dead man, and he
is finding it a somewhat wearisome business to ac
count lor his presence here now.
The Duchess of Cumberland was assured an inde
pendent annual income on lier marriage, and if the
next Folkestliing is more complaisant, the King
will ask it to give his daughter a dower of 120,000
crows, say 532,150. if the Duke could only get back
liis father's sequestrated estate from Germany he
would have an income of £600,000 a year, leaving
out of the question his expectations from Bruns
wick.
SENSATIONS!
Suicides—Sudden Deaths—
Freezes, &<?♦
Horse Phrenology.—You know wha
phrenology is ? The science which tells or pre
tends to tell one’s mental and moral qualities by
the ‘bumps’ on the head. While I am writing to
night, Mr. Fowler, the famous phrenologist is lec
turing in the Opera House to a crowd of people
upon their ‘bumps.’ The lectures are free, but he
a:ks seven dollars to examine one’s head and give
a written chart of it. There is a great deal of
meaning in the shape of a head. I never saw any
body broad between the eyes that was not good
natured, and a well proportioned head indicates a
well-balanced mind. It is the same way with a
horse. Never choose one with a tapering forehead
and eyes close together, and rounding nose. He
will play you tricks when you least look for it, and
as for kicking—give him full swing, as some one
says, and he will kick the horn off the moon*’
Choose a horse that has plenty of breadth and
fullness between the eyes, a clear, intelligent eye,
a small, thin ear, a straight face with no dish
about it, wide nostrils and broad jaw bones. Then
you will be apt to get a horse you can love and
trust* And one can love a good horse. I had one
once that I lovad as if he were human—So kind
so patient, so willing yet so spirited was my ‘hand
some Charley.’ lie had saved my life twice- once
by his t peed and once by his sagacity. Yet he
starved to death in an overflow—he and a little
Indian pony— on a small knoll that was the only
spot of land for miles uncovered by water. Worn
down with swimming, he and the little pony stood
there with the cruel flood around them for days
and days. When help reached them, Charley was
dying, and could only turn his great, sad eyes
upon us. The little Indian pony survived, though
hardly big enough for Tom Thumb to ride, and ate
many a biscuit and stick of candy afterwards. He
cared a great deal more for ‘folks victuals’ than he
did for corn and fodder and was always finding
his way into the kitchen.
Mary E. Bbyan.
The Ghouls have really their Reward.
There can be little doubt now that the widow of
A. T. Stewart has paid $50,000 for her husband’s
corpse to the thieves, and that the bargain was
consummated through the agency of a law firm, ‘no
questions asked,’ and the lawyers receiving a com
mission both ways for their nefarious part in the
transaction. The elaborate celebration of the mar'
riage of Mrs. Stewart's niece to Mr. Wetherell,
and certain remarks which highly trusted confi
dential friends of the family repeated, with the
negative parry of Judge Hilton to all questions,
constitute fair enough proof that the millionaire's
remains were successfully bartered, and will at
last rest in the crypt of the Stewart memorial cath
edral at Garden City.
The cathedral, however, does not yet present
the appearance of expecting its distinguished resi
dent. though the accommodations look as if the in
dividual brought there was expected to stay. In a
shed hard by the unfinished edifice are the famous
Centennial bells that were rung at the Philadel
phia Exposition. Thd crypt is so solid looking
that it is likely to defy an} future speculations on
the dead millionaire; but the success of this big
venture of the ghouls will certainly ecourage en
terprise and develop that line of business,
A Montreal Newsboy palls heir to $500,000*
—A little boy who had been selling papers on the
streets for a livelihood for years has suddenly come
into a fortune of $25,000 a year through the death
of an East India relative. Such things do happen
sometimes in faot as well as fiction.
Jacksonville, Fla., January 18.—Noble A. Hull,
Lieutenant-Governor of Florida, has beeu indicted
by the United States Grand Jury for conspiracy
with others in obtaining false returns of elections
in Brevard County Hull was the Democratic
candidate for Congress at the late election from the
Second District and holds a certificate of election
from the Governor. He is President of the State
Sena'e, now sitting at Tallahassee.
A Queer Start in High Life.—A girl baby
about five months old was found last week on the
steps of Mr. A. J. Lee’s residence in Cincinnati
The little waif wore a gold riDg, and was provided
with a supply of clothing of fine quality. There
had also been left with it a bottle of milk, anoth-
er of paregoric and a silver spoon. Pinned to the
child was the following note:
‘I am baby Mabel Dore. Please take and care
for me and I may be a blessing to you. Please
keep a copy of the morning papers, for when I
grow up to be a miss in my teens something may
turn up that will be of value to poor little me.’
Lauguidg While Dying.—On Thursday last
Doctor Edwatds was summoned to see Mrs 8wear-
engin, wife of Mr. Arch. Swearengin, who lives
about six miles above Tazewell, Ga. She was not
thought to be dangerously sick by herself or her
family. Dr. Edwards found her sitting up in bed
talking and laughk>? with her family and some
friends who were ndting her, and she appeared
' 0 be unusually lively for a sick person. Soon as
he warmed sufficiently he approached the bedside
of his patient and to his great surprise ne discov
ert d that Mrs. Swearengin, though sitting up
laughing and talkicg, was actually dying. He
gently informed her Lusband, who ceuld not real
ize the fact. He thought the doctor was mistaken.
Dr* Edwards prescribed for the jovial woman and
It ft her without letting her know of her rapid dis
solution. Ou.hi(A-’i<ti’ Lome he met Dr. Hall, whom
he asked to call ajSd^ee his patient and aid him if
possible. He, too, decided that she was dying.
He left medicine and directions to administer it at
a certain time, but before the time came she was
dead.
PRO C Li Mil 10 H
BY THE
King of tlie Carnival.
EDICT XXX,
To all to whom these presents may come,
Greeting;:
Our loving subjeces ol New Orleans, tht Queen
City of the South are assured that witii the
deep, st anxiety we watched the ruthless course
of the terrible epidemic which visited them du
ring the past summer, and that our trnest sym
pathies were with them in their sufferings and
trials.
Believing that our presence will tend to dis
pel the gloom caused by iheir late t fiiictions,
bring within their gates thousands ol visitors,
and do mi ch to set once more in motion the
wheels of trade, thus bringing to them prosper
ity and happinet s, we ordain that at
MAKDI GRAS!
Th3 25t!i ot* February, 1879,
it Known as the Grand Fete Day of ourselves,
EX, KING OF TEE CARNfVAL, shall be ob
served in such state and pomp as shall make it
a season ot joy to onr !o\ing subjects and all who
Bhall visit our Royal Capital at that time, and to
that end w e do order and decree:
I. That all lines of transportation extending
throughout our Royal Domain immediately
cause to be promuldated a seduced tariff of fares
for the benefit of loyal subjects who may desire
to visit the Royal Capitol on that day.
II. That in order to testify their loyalty
and to properly honor Our Most August Person,
on the occasion of our triumphal entry into the
Capitol all loyal suf jects resident therein are
hereby commanded to forthwith form them
selves into organized bodies, reporting prompt
ly to the DEPARTMENT OF WAR for assign
ment to station and service.
III. That in coLsideration of ready and im
plicit obedience to this, our Royal Mandate,each
and every loyal snbject is hereby absolved from
all service and allegiance to any other. power
than that of ourselves, and all public buildings
and places of business in the Royal Capital are
hereby ordered to be closed.
IV. We congratulate our loyal subjects
throughout the State upon the abundant crops
which have rewarded the labors of the husband
man, and the many signs of returning good-
fortune which bright n the hor zon of their fu
ture, and trust that these evidences of better
days, now so happily existing, may continue
and grow stronger with years, increasing the
prosperity, wealth, and pewer of those w horn we
love t.o well, enabling them tc celebarte with
more eclat, and more heartily enjoy our annual
visit to their beautiful city.
GOD SA VE TEE KING!
Given under our hand and seal, at BEREN-
GAi.IA PALACE, in our CITY JEAN D’ARC,
this, the 10th day of December, 1S78, and one
thousand and seventh of our Reign.
By the King himseli’:
REX.
Attest:
BATHURST,
Lord High Chamberlain.
Carnival Palace, NewOrbaUs, Dec. 14, 1878.
Address all Official Communications to ‘BATH
URST,’ Post Office Drawer 101, New Orleans, La.
NEWS ITEMS,
— Queen Victoria bas had ihe kindly custom for
many years of receiving at Osborne House on
Christmas Eve the poor old people and children of
the adjacent villages, and of presenting to them in
per?0D gifts of food and clothing. This year the
Queen’s bereavement led to her complete seclusion,
and her benefactions were dispensed by the pretty
little hands of Princess Beatrice. The old, poor
women of the neighborhood were presented with
dresses, the boys received good warm scarfs, and
the girls shawls, the young people being also re
galed with cake.
It is now asc6rt'ined beyond peradventure that
the severe cold of the patt month and the snow,
which even went as far south as below Jacksonville,
have wrought no serious damage to the orange
groves of our sister State.
The Princess Louise has taken to snow-shoeing,
and spends a couple of hours each afternoon in
this exercise. Two new chairs, for her and the
Marquis, are to be provided in the Senate Chamber
at the opening of Parliament, in lieu of the old
chair which has been used by successive Governors
since 1841.
Has the body of Stewart been found T The ‘Sun’
says Mrs. Stewart has it, and the other papers
deny the statement. Hilton will say nothing, and
refuses to be interviewed on the subject. We are
of the opinion that the body has not been found,
or Mr. Hilten would make the fact known. We
cannot see what pessible objection there could be
to giving this information.
The Nevada Legislature, on the I4th, elected
Natt* P. Hill United States Senator as successor to
Jerome B. Chaffee- Mr. Hill is a native of Massa
chusetts; emigrated to Colorado in 1867, and has
since been extensively engaged in smelting oper-
ations^ He is said to be enormous’y wealthy, but
has not heretofore taken any active part in politics,
although known as a Republican.
Mr. Wheeler assisted Mr. Hayes in his New
Year’s reception. This was a very common thing
previous to the vtar. President Lincoln broke up
the custom. He, as is well known, was an exceed-
ingly plain man, and he may have thought that
the face of the then vice-president, with nis own,
would have the effect of dispelling all the cheer
fulness that usually accompanies New Year’s greet
ings at the White House. Mr. Wheeler is not a
beauty, but he is not hideous.
At Avoca, Wis., an examination was held over
the body of Henry Doty, aged eighteen, receutly
found in the Wisconsin river. The evidence
showed that his father had struck him on the head
with some weapon, killing him; then, fearing de
tection, shot a pistol- ball through his head, and,
to give the appearance of suicide, threw the body
and the pistol into the river.
Mules, horses and cattle are reported to have
frozen to death in East Mississippi during the re
cent cold snap. The Columbus Democrat says the
frozen mules were mortgaged mules, and their feed
was guaged to the low price of cotton.
The elections in France on the 5ih instant result
ed in an overwhelming and crushing defeat of the
Conservatives by the Republicans. Of forty-seven
Conservative senators, only thirteen were re-elect
ed. The Republicans will have a majority in the
senate of fifty seven.
A complete record of the donations received by
the City of Memphis during the prevalence of the
yellow fever epidemic is printed in the papers of
that city. The figures are official, and are taken
from the books of Secretary Smith. The total
amount received from all the States is $417 536,-
66. Of this sum. New York contribtued $56,800,
and Illinois $52,307,60; and California comes next
with $20,000. --and Ohio nvxt with $26,(M3<\k.
Last yeai 5 314 books were published in Eng"
land, 1.584 being new editions. Fiction leads*
with 879 volumes; theology comes next, with
739, and education third, with 586. Nearly all
the novels are republished, while hardly a third
of the other books go to a second edition.
Owir g to the famine in China a large demand
for breadstuff's from the Pacific slope h; s been
developed, and all the steamers Irom San Fran
cisco for China go out fully loaded with
flour.
Nine members of the present Congress have
died since the commencement of ihe 45th Con
gress. The list embraces Senator Morton and
Bogy, and Representatives Leonard, Welsh
Quinn, Williams, Douglas, Hartridge and Sch
leicher.
The Gate City Guards.
On last Tuesday evening quite an interesting
event took pi- ce at the armory of the Gate City
Guards. The meeting of the oompany was very
large, and after the drill the members assembled
in the club-room of the armory to witness the 1
presentation of two elegantly bound ‘rohters, 1
the liberal gift of Maj. Sidney Herbert. These
•rosters’of the volunteer military of Georgia
were prepared by Major Herbert at considerable
personal experse, and contains valuable and in
teresting reading, particularly to the soldiers of
Georgia. One of the volumes was inscribed as
follows: ‘Sgt. E. W. Reinhardt, champion of
the state, prize drill, 1877.’ The other: -State-
fair pr'ze drill, 1878. Private W, M. Haig, third-
prize soldier.’
The binding was in blue and gold,having been
executed by Captain Hugh Dunn, of the Frank
lin bindery, and was a finished piece of woi k.
Four of the ‘rosters,’ in paper oove.s, were also
presented to the other members who took part
in the individual drill at Maoon. It was a sharp
con test, and the piize plume and medal men of
the state were engaged, except Sergeant Rein
hardt, who took no part because of a disabled
hand. Corporal Cubbege, of the Savannah Ca
dets, Private Edwards, ot the Macon Volut teerp,
and Private Haig, of the Gate City Guards, were
the list left on the field, and Captain Ellis, 13th
United States, Captain DuBignon, and Lieuten
ant General Wheeler, the renowned Confederate
leader, who were the judges, found it difficul-
to decide the contest, Messrs. Swearingen,Gilt
bert, Fleming and Corporal Snead,were the oth
er members who received testimonials. Captain
Dunn presented the prizes, and quite a number
of speeches were made. The Macon and Savan
nah prizes will be presented during the coming
week.
We take pleasure in cop} in g the above report,
as the elegant ‘roster’ referred to is handsomely
illustrated with pictures of distinguished gene
rals and sketches taken from the Sunny South,
which will thns be preserved in a more perma
nent form. Capt. Dunn, who is a thoroughly ac
complished and skilled workman, has put the
‘roster'with an ‘autograph* and a scrap-book' de
partment, into an elegant and substantial blue
and gold cover, 13 x 15, and made it the finest
book ever published in the South. We are proud
to know that the Sunny South, through its il
lustrations and biographical sketches, is enti
tled to a share in the honor of producing so rare
a volume.
A sadden Death.—There is somethin# terrible in the
thought of having our friends stricken down at our side,
without a parting word of endearmeut or consolation—
one moment at our side In the Bush of \igerous life,
cheering our hearts with their loving»ympathy; ihe next
at our feet, pale with death, deaf to our cries and heedless
to our tears. Every excessively fat person is in instant
danger of such a death. Seven-tenths of the victims of
obesity die of heart disease or apoplexy. Allan's Anti-
Fat, the only remedy for obesi l y. reduces the weight by
regulating the degeation and assimilation ol the food, it
is perfectly harmless, and its use will insure in every in
stance, a reduction of weight from .wo to five pout-da a
week.
A German paper charges English manufac
turers with being profitably engaged in the
fabrication of idols. The artistic designs and
elegant workmanship of British-made idols
make them very popular with the heathen, who
are willing to pay liberally for them in prefer
ence to their own make.
Rich gold discoveries are reported from New
port, Tenn., and several scientific and some
practical men have visited the region and are
well pleased with the prospect. They say it
equals anything they Lave seen in California,
the quartz being found to be rich in gold.
A Rabbit-Cat.—Once I saw a little dog
(belonging to a timid maiden lady,) that had lived
so much with cats, and seen so little of its own
species, that it had ca. ways and evidently thought
tself a very fair specimen of the feline race. But
I never saw a rabbit cat, such as Mr. Charles
Warner says that he possesses. It was a Chinese
cat, so the friend said who gave it to him. Every
thing odd and grotesque comeB from China, and
this cat was tailless in kittenhood, and when it
grew up, developed a short bunch of fur behind,
for all the world like the tail of a rabbit. Mr.
Warner says that when ‘China’ first realized her
existence, she evidently, thought shs was a cat, and
her first sportive effort was to play with her tail.
She looked around and there wasn't any tail there
—the other half of her was rabbit. She was mor
tified, but what could she do ? She began without
any apology to play with her long hind leg and
chase it round and round as if it were a tail, and
she has amused herself in this way ever since.
So the boys and girls in Mr. Warner’s neighbor
hood had this question up before them, whether
‘ China’ was a rabbit trying to be a cat, or a cat try
ing to be a rabbit.
A late circumstance seemed to decide the query
upon the rabbit side. The Warner garden had a
bed in which some radishes were deciding whether
they would shoot up to spindly top or spread out
at the root into creditable vegetables. Their de
cision was anxiously waited for by the family, when
just as the plants made up their minds to develop,
they were swept from the scene. One morning, the
master visited the garden to find ‘China’ nibbling
away the last radish top. Whoever heard of a cat’s
eating radish tops! But then ‘China’ has short
ears and purrs. Mr. Warner wants to know what
he can do with ‘China.’ lie cant eat her for a rabbit,
nor give her away fora cat. He wonders ifLe might
coax a tail out of her by putting her under blue
glass.
Mary E, Bryan*
Worth Twice the Stim.—We are just in re
ceipt of The Chicago Lelgeb, the leading
Family Paper of the West, whicb is now enter
ing upon i.s seventh volume. The Ledger is a
large forty-egiht column weekly paper, printed
upon bold, plain type, which can be read with
ease, by either the old or young, and is fitted
with choice stories and matter of particular in
terest to every household. This excellent journl
is supplied to subscribers, postage paid, tor the
extremely low price of one dollar and fifty
cents per year. In order to more rapidly in
crease its present large list of readers, the
publishers of this paper have just made a new
contract for the manufacture of sevral thou: and
fine Nickle-plated English Steel-Barel-and-Cyl-
inder Seven Shot Revolvers- 22 caliber—which
they propose to distribute amoDg their sub-
sreibers at cost, and therefore offer one of these
elegant weapons of defense and The Ledger
one yoar for three Dollars. The revolver will
be Sent by mail, postage paid, on receipt of
the price. They have already d:s rtbuted 3,000
revolvers and are mailing hundreds daily. Now
is your time to get a first-cass revolver and the
best paper in the country for k ss than half the
actual worth of either. Three sample copies of
Ihe Ledger will be sent to any address tor
ten cents. Address The Ledger, Chicago, 111.
TheXatienn 1 scout ge.-It is estimated that the
annual damages caused l*y the ravages of bisects
and worms exceeds 81 0,000,000 in the United States
alone. Truly and enormous loss! Yet it sinks it.to
insignificance when compared with the ravages ol
that more terrible scourge. Consumption, which an
nually* sweeps hundreds of thousands of human
souls into eternity. The causes of Consumption are
various, depending in every instance for the devel
opment of the disease upon the scrofulous habit.
I hat Consumption can be cured by* proper treat
ment will be readily perceived when the exact na
ture of the disease is understand, viz,, the accumu
lation and deposition oi scrofulous matter (tuber
cles; in tlie lungs. Obviously, tlie principle reme
dies required are (1) a powerful alterative, or blood
purifier, to arrest the accumulation and alssycleanse
the blood of the scrofulous matter, and a ntUii
cathartic to expell the diseased matter from the
system. This course of treatment, in conjunction
With a strict hygienic regime lias proved tlie most
successful method of curing this disease, Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery and PI* asai.t Purgative
Pellets are tlie best alterative and cathartic reme
dies before tlie public, and have been alone used in
thousands cf cases of consumption with the most
marked efficacy. Dr. Pierce's invalids’ Hotel, at
Buffalo, N V., affords special and unequaled advan
tages to consumptives, not only possessing ihe best
medical and hygienic means of treatment, but hav
ing the essential advantage of being situated in a
climate where the inhabitants are notably free
from this disease.
Our Tenure Life- Depends in great measure up
on our regard for or neglect of the laws of health. If
we violate them we cannot expect to ‘‘make old
bones.” But that tlie span of existence allotted to a
naturally delicate constitution, or one which has
been shaken by disease may* be materially le gtli-
ened, is li fact of which we have daily proof. Tho
vivifying and restorative influence of Hostetler's-
Stomach Bitters upon the physique affords a strik
ing illustration of tlie power oi judicious medication
to strengthen tlie hold on life. Restored digestion,
complete assimulation, renewed appetite, sound re
pose, these are among the benefits conferred upon
the debilitated by that supreme renovant. With a
circulation enriched, a frame invigorated, and a
nervous system tranquilized, the invalid; after a
course of the Bttters, feels that his life-tenure is not
longer the pieearious thing that it was—that he may
yet enjoy a “green old age.”
THE GEORGJAJRAILROAD.
GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY, )
Superintendent’s Ofeicz, V
Augusta, Ga., January 17th, 1878. j
COMMENCING SUNDAY, 19th inst. 6:00 p. m„ the fol
lowing Passenger Schedule will be operated :
No. 2 East Daily.
Lv'e Atlanta 7 45 a m
Ar. Athens 3 30 pm
“ Washington.. l 00 p m
“ Caniak 108pm
“ Miied'ev'e... 8:0pm
Ar. Macon .... 5 20 p m
‘* Augusta 3 18 p in
No. 1 West Daily.
L've Augusta. 9 45am
“ Macon 710am
“ Mil ep'y'e 9 08 a m
“ Carnal: 11 44 a m
*' W ashingtou 10 45 a in
" Athens 9 15 a m
Ar. A Hunt:! 5 SC-ptn
COVINGTON ACCOM MODATION.
[Daily*—Except Sundays ]
L've Atlanta 6 SO p m | Ar. Covington... 8 00 p m
“ Covington 5 25 a in i Ar. Atlanta 7 40 a in
No. 4 East DAily.
No. 3 West Daily.
L've Atlanta 6 00 p m
Ar. Augu .ta 6 25 a in
L've Angnsta...... 530pm
Ar. Atlanta 5 30 a tu.
Trains Noe. *2,1, 4 and 3 will not stop at Fla<» Station
Counectsat Augusta for all points East and South-East’
Superb improved sleepers to Augusta. I ullmau sleep
ers Augus.a to New York—either via Charleston or Chai
lotte.
JCsrOniy one change Atlanta to New Y'ork -sy
S. K. Johson, E. R. DohseyT*
Superintendent, " ’