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1MKK. MARY E. BRYAS,(*) Aaaoeiate Editor
ATLANTA, GEORGIA. JULY* 19, tS7^.
EXTRAORDISARY DEMAND!
We have been literally overwhelmed with appli
cations for copies of the last issue of this paper
containing the portraits of Hill and wife, Simmons,
and the Prince Imperial, and so persistent has been
the demand that we reproduce them in this issue.
Hundreds if not thousands of urgent calls have been
made upon this office and all the news-stands, which
could not Vie filled.
How to Bake Honey.—Do you complain that
you have nothing to begin with? -Torn,” you say,
••has a (arm, and Harry has one thousand dollars,
but I have nothing,” we say to you, look at your own
hands and tell us what they are worth. Would you
take one thousand dollars for them, or for the use
of them through your life? If you can make half a
dollar a day vv ith tliam, it would not be a bad bar
gain, for that sum is the interest of more than two
thousand dollars; so that it you are industrious, and
Harry is lazy, you are more than twice as rich as
he is, and when you can do a man’s work and make
a dollar a day, you are four times as rich, and are
fairly worth four thousand dollars. Money and
land, therefore, is not all the capital with which a
young man can begin the world, if he has good
health and is industrious. Even the poorest boy of
our country has something to rely upon, and if he
besides be well educated, and have skill in all kind
of work, add to this moral habitsand religious prin
ciples, so that his employers may trust him and put
corqidence in him, he may then be said to set out in
life with a good chance of becoming independent
and respectable, and, perhaps rich, as any man
in the country. Let it be remembered that
“every man is the makerof his own fortune.” All
depends upon setting out upon the right principles,
and they are these:
1. Be industrious. Time and skill are your capi
tal.
2. Be saving. Whatever it be, live within your
income.
3. Be prudent. Do not buy what you can do
without.
4. Be resolute. Let your economy be always of
to-day. and not of to-morrow.
5. Be contented and thankful. A cheerful spirit
makes labor light, and sleep sweet, and all around
happy—all of which is much better than oniy being
rich.
ized condition. Statistics show that since 1870 di
vorces have steadily Increased, and marriages,by
inverse ratio, have been yearly falling short. An
immoralist might suggest that the reason was
patent. We don’t.
In Massachusetts, 1869, there were 14,826 marriages;
In 1S77 only 12,758—a falling off more remarkable
when we take into consideration the increase of
population. In Vermont the proportion of divorces
to marriages is simply terrible. One in every six
teen is the standard ratio. In Rhode Island we
find It still worse. There have been Inside of the
present decade sixteen hundred and seventy di
vorces to twenty-one thousand and seven hundred
marriages; which figures show, according to the
lightning calculator of our office, a proportion of
one divorce to each thirteen marriages, and the
figures, when taken in detail, evidence a continu
ous increase.
And so it runs on through the States. Here In
the District of Columbia scarcely a day passes us
that the newspapers do not record at least one di
vorce. In somecases divorce may be agood thing,
but if so there was never a better specimen ot too
much of a good thing in these indiscriminate sep
arations. They are tar from conducive to morality,
and always, more or less, sinned and signed with
vice. The pseudo cure of previous viciousness is
followed usually by a sickling malady—sicklier for
the individuals and for society.
Kansas and the Negro.—We have all been
taught to believe that the people of Kansas were the
pink of propriety, but they have a fearful facijity for
lynch law. A party got together the other night at
Topeka, and burned up and destroyed the material
gathered foi bulding a temporary shelter for the
negroes escaping from the South.
Naughty Kansas! How bad It is for one to be
slaughtered in the house ofliis friends.
Certainly Not.—The idea of heaven and an ex
istence hereafter is no more extraordinary than the
fact of an earth and an existence here.
By no means! Why should there be so many
doubting Thomasses in the world? We have so little
faith that we actually refuse to believe our own
eyes.
Wlint Bid thsy Brink ?
said Stephens to Hill—
“I’ll speak if you will.'*
Said Ben—“Alexander,
You’ve been a great gander.
And I a great goose.
Bartender, produce.”
“Sow what did the bar-tender produce? That’s the
great moral question and comes into tue next cam
paign. Of course it does, if not more so.
But for His Education.—A young fellow who
spent 82,400 to graduate from Harvard, a few years
after was a postmaster in Wyoming Territory at
twenty-six dollars a year. Wtiere would he have
been but for his classical education ?
Echo answers, in Congress or possibly in the Pres
idential chair. Ignorance is filling many higher
places than this graduate.
Porlir Vision.—Sometimes when woi contem
plate the scene- of beauty.granduer or itfiuay be of
ghastliness which the Poet’s pa i has bofced forth,
we wonder that he could have/borne Yi> excite-
TS'eerf'fWie-iutie 1 ll l ,on such conceptions. \£ wiiat a
fully sublime picture of ice-green cliffs, aiig^jof the
spectre ship outlined against the broad, rediyce of
the Arctie sun, or that still more horrid scene of
slimy reptiles makirg their tracks upon a rotting
sea. In what a state bordering on frenzy must
Milton have lived for days and months as he slow-
iymoulded into lines of matchless music liis sublime
Vision of Pandemonium aud the Demoniac hosts.
These liues when read, stir the soul to its inmost
depths. How vastly moremust the things so depic
ted have excited him who first saw them by virtue
of that second sight which God gives to the Poet!
It is no wonder that one who has been lifted up by
themes so transcendent should henceforth walk the
eartli as if it were too gross for his touch. The fire
of such genius doth indeed show a madness in the
brain where it burns; but were the ancients wrong
in regarding that madness with the reverence due
a holy inspiration ? * *
All Ike Law and tlie Prophets.—Wiiatever
you would not wish your neighbor to do to ytou do
it not unto him. This is the whole law, the rest isa
mere exposition of it. j
This embodies all the law in the Universe. Why
not let ns all practice it, and abolish legislatures^
Jails, penitentiaries and court houses. In this way
all could have a little touch of heaven here on earth.
Is Eifp Worth Living ?—'"Is Life Worth Liv
ing?” is the title of a recent novel. It depends en
tirely on your financial system.
This rea.inds us of our neighbor W. When asked
the other i*hiy if he intended to go “a fishing,” replied
•‘that it deV-fded altogether upon what the nciqhj
guess there was'not ?non s n wnu m for two. This
shows how independent people can be of other peo
ple’s charity when they are amind to be.
Something New—The National Society for
the Promotion of Matrimony.—Looking over a
Cincinnati paper we saw, the other day, a short par
agraph, says the Washington Capitol, to the effect
that early next month the city of hogs will hold a
novel sort of carnival in the shape of a grand picnic
of the National Society for the Promotion of Matri
mony, and asa successful work, one hundred duets
will be publicly blended in marriage on the
grounds.
This is what we call success, as actions have a
louder.tone than words, and the old maids of the
country should present that association witli a mon
ument adorned, as to its apex, with a cat’s corpse.
This association is but two years «id, but it has
worked so systematically that it is already a settled
institution iu forty cities aud numbers two thou
sand members. How it works up the culmination,
gauges the matrimonial machine and brings about
the looked-for results is a dense secret, hut it has
proved Itself anead of time in successfully bringing
about matrimonial issues.
Iii these days it is very often marveled that mar
riages are so infrequent as compared with the past.
The reasons therefor are very patent, however.—
These be luxurious times, and with the run of mod
ern every-day inventions, the comforts of home life
are found lying at hand by every bachelor, and the
spirit of man at best i6 one timid of assuming un
necessary responsibilities. In fact as the world
now stands, there is no necessity for a man to mar
ry, and as far as love is concerned, nothing so kills
or maims that quality as does luxurious living
and indulgence; this is the age of luxury and in
dulgence. the means for both are so cheap and the
material so eloseathand. The purple of selfishness,
not the honest raiment of God, is the garb that
clothes the nakedness of to-day.
In this connection we are brought to that subject
even more interesting than marriage—divorce—and
the statistics are replete with an alarming increase
of this accursed aud socially ruinous system.
To the North and West it is most entirely con.
fined, and the New England States especially are ex
amples of its popularity to an appaling extent. In
Massachusetts, since 1860, there have been granted
by the courts seven thousand two hundred anu
twenty-three absolute divorces. The greater por
tion of this number has been since 1870, and each
year follows year with increased ratio. The fol
lowing table covers the last ten years:
Macon SnicDles.—Wliat is tlie matter with our
Macon friends? In no one place in the Union do so
many suicides occur. Is there such a thing asa
suicide epidemic i If so, that accounts for these fre-
quen t tragedies in this bea utiful city. The last one
was Albert Callaway, a noble, “bright and promis
ing youth.” City life with its gaieties, temptations,
and pecuniary demands is exceedingly demoralizing
and it would he well if the youth of the land could
be kept from the cities til! their habits are formed.
Let all parents endeavor to settle their sons on good
farms. Good farmers—educated farmers, are the
hope and demand of this couutrv.
A LEGACY TOJEFF DAVIS.
A ROYAL VILLA LND PLANTATION.
Mrs. Sarah A. Dorsey, who has just died in New
Orleans, was the stepdaughter of Gen. Charles
Dahlgreen—a brother of the late Admiral Dahl-
green—who cast his fortunes with the lost cause,
and a niece of Mrs. Warfield, the author of ‘The
Household of Bouverie' and other novels. We
learn from the Washington Critic that both ladies
were rich and talented, and occupied their leisure
moments with the pen urged thereto by genius,
which forbade their finding enjoyment iu inglori
ous ease. Mrs. Dorsey is the author of several ro
mances, and from similarity of name is often con>
founded with Mrs. Anna Hanson Dorsey, the Cath
olic writer, of whom, however, she is no relation.
Her estate in Louisiana was one of the most elegant
in the State, for, uuiike most of the wealthier class
of Southerners, she suffered but little loss of for*,
tune by the war; like her step-father, Gen. Dahl-
green, she was enthusiastically devoted to the in
terests of the Confederacy, and her last act was to
bequeathe her magnificent property to the honora
ble Jefferson Davis, its ex-President. In making
this bequest Mrs. Dorsey refers to the ‘great ser
vices and sacrifices’ of Mr. Davis on behalf of the
South, and reproves his countrymen for their fail
ure in gratitude and appreciation for such services,
and regrets the small contribution which she is able
to make for his relief. The estate embraced in th : s
legacy includes two large plantations in the upper
part of the State and an elegant villa at Beauvoir,
on theseacoast, whgjtAIr.Jiavis is now sojourning.
The climate and situation of the villa have proved
especially favorable to his health and his present
occupation of study and labor in the preparation
of his book defensive of bis administration of the
office of President of the Confederate States.
FROM PRESIDENTtO CITIZEN.
How Andrew Jackson Spent his Last Night in the
White House
A Happy Darkey on the Wing A darkey
in Georgia got religion, and felt so happy that he
suddenly imagined himself an angel in spite of the
absence of wings and difference of color, for in or
thodox colored churches it is a dogma that a resur
rected darkey is whitewashed before he can be a
full-fledged angel. Our Sambo, despite these dis
ci epaneies, started on the wing for heaven from a
house-top. and was picked up with a broken neck
in the street below. His soul may have made the
trip, but it could not carry so much body.
Our colored friends do get mighty happy some
times, but they must not attempt to fly without
wings. That is ah wrong, and sometimes danger
ous—specially so when they propose to start from
the house-top.
In 1869
No. of di
vorces.
339
No. of mar
riages.
14,825
14,721
15.746
15,142
Ratio of di
vorce to
marriages.
1 to 43.7
1 to 38.9
1 to 48.3
1 to 47.2
1 to 36.6
1 to 24.0
1 to 23.6-
1 to 24.2
1 to 23.1
Ill 1870
Ill 1871
In 1872
In 1873
378
.... 326
342
449
In 1874
In 1875
In 1876
In 1877
In 1878
fr»8
578
526
596
10,564
13,063
12,479
12,758
Total
This is a more Interesting and unhappy record
than the relative standing of the aspirin^ base-ba'l
nines, and more systematic. In others of the New
England States society is in a still more demoral-
THE PENALTYOF FLIRTATION.
A Girl on_Her Muscle.
If some TTestem States have been credited with
peculiarly liberal views upon the question of di
vorce, it would seem that Hymning asserts a pecul
iarly stringent penalty for trilling in courtship.
A nice young man of Cheyenne pic-nicked a pretty,
but muscular, country girl, until he found, as sum
mer advanced, that she got away with more and
more ice cream every week; and he naturallv dis
covered that what cooled the girl in one sense pro
duced the same effect on him iu another. His affec
tions cooled with the increase of ice cream,, and at
last an entire week passed without paying a visit to
the young lady, who, upon having her hill for sup
plies thus vetoed, at once perceived that her nice
young man was about to perform the False Ferdi
nand. It was not yet midsummer; forty days of
hot weather to come, and at one fell swoop ice cream
and beau were both cut off! For a moment she
thought of getting another nice young man, but the
season was advanced, and the be;<u exchange did
not show any quotations of nice young men. Every
girl in town was provided with an ice cream pur
veyor, and she alone was left in the lurch. As these
thoughts passed through her head vague schemes
of redress suggested themselves; but when two days
had been devoted to the subject reflection panned
out a plan.
As -hat nice young man was strolling out foi a
walk the next evening, lie was accosted by his fair
ice-cream eater, who advanced in skirmisning or
der, holding a big brother in reserve.
‘You promised to marry me, didn’t you ?’
‘I may have said something of the sort,’ replied the
nice young man.
‘You may have said something of the sort,’ the
girl interrupted. ‘Don’t you know that you have
given me your solemn promise to marry me ?’
‘I might have done so.’
This was more than the rural damsel could en
dure. She had acted very discreetly so far, but
now patience overleaped its bounds. She was mad.
What woman wouldn’t be under the circumstances s'
Suddenly she doubled her fist and struck him full
in the face. The man fell back in disorder. She
advanced with fury and struck him again; nor were
the blows which the buxom country girl launched
from her shoulder to be laughed at. One left a
mark and the other brought blood.
Then the man did what was discreet; he fled, and
all Cheyenne at once turned out to witness the spec
tacle of a false fiance pursued by a girl thirsty for
ice-cream and revenge, and carrying the moral that
Wyoming girls must not be trifled with.
Movements in Society” and other important de
partments have been crowded out of this issue.
[New York Times,]
When Senator Allen arrived in Washington, he
found the city filled with strangers who came from
all parts of the country to be present at the inaug
uration of President-elect Van Buren. Amoug them
were a number of leading men from Ohio, and they
occupied so much oF their newly-elected Senator’s
time, that it was not until late on the night of the
3d of March that he bad an opportunity of speaking
informally and freely with his life-long friend Presi
dent Jackson. On that night, however, he went to
the White House, a Senator of the nation, to see the
man who, a little more than 20 years before, in the
Lynchburg Tavern, had laughed over his boyish
curiosity, and wondered at his ready tongue. With
out ceremony, being well-known to the attendants,
he was shown into the President's bed-chamber.
Chief Justice Taney and Senator Forsythe of Geor
gia, afterward Minister to Spain and Secretary of
State, were alreadjHii the room, and Jackson him
self active, and to a certain extent restless, as usual
stood in the middle of the floor smoking a short
corn-cob pipe- He congratulated Allen warmly
upon his election to the Senate, aud then called to
a young Irishman who acted as his body-servant
aud waiter, turned to his visitors and said;
‘Gentlemen, I think the occasion will warrant me
in breaking one of lay own rules. Let us drink a
little Madeira.’ j
The wine was brought. Jackson took a small
glassful—it was tM first liquor he had been known
mouths—and then, asking his
cn for a few moments, he finish-
upon which he was engaged,
iid lighting bis coit pipe again,
‘id stood silently watching
.old-fashioned clock, which
_ It was five minutes before
£ 3f/befuro the beginning of the
■ Jackson -“ase to be
;al." v The silence in the room
It was broken by the clear,
sharp bell of tli3 clock striking the last hour of a
day which had gdke forever. Then Jackson, start
ing suddenly and looking toward his friends, said,
with a quick, neryAvis laugh:
‘Gentlemen, I #11 no longer President of the Uni
ted States, but aaLood a citizen as any of you. ’
Subsequently 1. expressed to them a feeling of
great relief at file prospect of escaping from the
official cares which had begun to weigh most heavi
ly upon him, saying to Allen, among other things
of the same sort, ’1 am very glad to get away from
all this excitement and bother.’
That day Van Buren was inaugurated President
of the United States, and Jackson, at the end of his
second term, left the White House—left it so poor
that he was obliged to borrow from his friends
$5,000 with which to rebuild “Hermitage,” his old
family mansion, which sometime before had been
burned to the ground.
Longfellow and His Poems.
His Reputation Abroad.
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[Capital.]
The writer remembers, when a small boy, to have
heard his father read from a newspaper, in which
it was mentioned as a matter af national pride, the
fact that a stanza from one of Longfellow’s poems
had been quoted by a speaker in the British Parlia
ment. It was, if we recollect rightly, the stanza in
the “Psalm of Life,” beginning—
“Lives of great men all remind us
TUe can make our own sublime. ”
This was about the year 1845, at which time Mr.
Longfellow had published three or four of his earli
er volumes, including many of his best brief poems,
and what is perhaps the gseatest of all his longer
ones, “Evangeline.” But, although he was quite
popular at home, his readers were comparatively
few in England. What a growth in the poet’s rep
utation the intervening thirty-four years have wit
nessed ! Long since his poems have become as famil
iar in England as America—more popular than any
living English poet’s, those of Tennyson himself in
cluded. Indeed, we have heard a pleasant anec
dote to the effect that at a village in the Isle of
Wight, only twelve miles from Tennyson’s home,
the landlady of a tavern related as a fond, but some
what vague traditioiya visit of Longfellow to the
locality, (where a monumental fountain, inscribed
with an original stanza by our venerable poet, bears
v itr.ess to the historical fact;) but when she was
asked concerning the home of the English Laureate,
she repeated his name as if uncertain of having
heard it before, and did not associate it with her
stock of poetical literature. The late Cardinal
Wiseman, the highest type of a cultivated literary
churchman, some years ago, in a university lecture,
expressed his appreciation of Mr. Longfellow’s writ
ings, saying: “Whether we are charmed by his
imagery, or soothed by his melodious versification,
or elevated by the high moral teachings of his pure
muse, or follow with sympathizing hearts the wan
derings of Evangeline, I am sure that all who hear
my voice will join with me in the tribute I desire to
pay to Longfellow. The Blackwood Magazine,
also many years ago acknowledged our country
man’s poetical eminence, observing: “ We are
thankful that the present age is graced with such a
poet as Mr. Longfellow, whose extraordinary ac
complishment and research and devotion to his high
calling can hardly be over-rated. His productions
must always command our deep attention, for in
them we are certain to meet with g eat beauty of
thought and very elegant diction.” Hundreds of
similar critical acknowledgements might be quoted;
and it certainly would not be thought surprising if
our poet should now furnish poetical quotations for
British orators in or out of Parliament. During
those thirty-four years, too, Mr. Longfellow, like
the bird into which Horace fancied himself turning,
has gone abroad to the four winds, and become
familiar in all lands and languages; if not
“From China to Peru,”
at any rate from China to Brazil, where, we believe,
the literary emperor, Dom Pedro, has honored him-
seif by attempting occasional translations; while
his more recent visits to Europe, in proper personal
flesh and clothing, have been attended with prince
ly honors.
Three noblemen are said to have been expelled
(him one of tne best known and most aristocratic
of London clubs, for the reprehensible practice of
cheating at cards; tbe expulsion . has created
quite a sensation.
Moody’s Power.
HISTFNDERNESS, ZEAL, AND EFFICIENCY.
BY JOE BEAN.
Our hearts burn as Mr. Moody talks with us, and
endeavoring to discern those peculiar traits which
form his wonderful influence we observe:
ist.. Authority. Mr. Moody speaks as one having
authority. Feeling called to preach the gospel,
confident in the love and mercy he proclaims
through Christ, Mr. Moody asks us to meet him in
Heaven with the authority of one who invites us to
dine in his father’s house. He points to that man
sion in the skies, and bids us to the marriage sup
per of the Lamb with the assurance of a peer who
leads to the court of his sovereign; who knowing
that the King has need of us, bids us come, for all
things are ready and the inheritance has been pre
pared from the foundation ot the world.
2nd., Tenderness. Mr. Moody exhibits a nature
full of love and sympathy for liis fellow men, and
his kindly eye beams with hallowed pleasure as he
speaks of a soul finding its way to God, or fills with
tears, as with a choking voice he dwells upon those
scenes of the suffering and lost which his labors
have forced him to witness. He lives in all the
simple annals of the poor which he relates, and his
accents are never so impressive, so affecting, as
w hen his heart goes back to the humble cottage of
his boyhood where au aged mother claims hi- love,
or when he recounts with simplicity and tenderness,
some incident connected with his own precious fam-
ily.
3rd. Zeal. Mr. Moody’s love and duty to God
seems never to abate. We have seen him address
ing an individual, and in either attitude the earnest,
soul-stirring manner was just as zealous and im
pressive. We have followed him through the ex
haustive ministry of a day, and in his fifth and
final service the ardor and intensity of his love
for God and man seemed to rise above and subdue
all impulse to rest and relaxation. He is one who
could hoHstirigly affirm, ‘come and see my zeal for
God’ and that memorable sentence of Arnault is of
ten on his lips: ’Rest ! Have we not all eternity to
rest in ?’
Efficiency. We wanted to criticise Mr. Moody,
and found no subject for criticism. The plain, blunt
man who stood before us anil exposed in almost ev
ery sentence, his lack of early opportunities. Was
soon merged and forgotten in the sincere, earnest
servant of God, who acquainted with the griefs and
sorrows of his fellow men, strove so efficiently to
win them back to God. We have spoken of his
wonderful powers of exertion and endurance. God
has endowed the man with great physical strength
and vigor, with great powers of observation and
great tact in seizing each impressive incident and
applying it to some scriptural truth, conveying it
forcibly to the minds and hearts of his hearers, so
that seeing, they may perceive, and hearing, they
may understand. Whatever gifts or powers Mr.
Moody posses-es, he huseonsecratedchemalltoGod.
Being asked to deliver au address for some occasion
he replied:
‘I am not fitted for such as that, my mission is to
preach the Gospel, ’ and as he remarked from the
pulpit, ‘God will employ these powers for his own
work and glory, and when I am old and useless, he
will set me aside.’
But apparently God’s work through Mr. Mood3 r
is just reaching its noonday. Young, vigorous and
progressive, who can measure his influence in bring
ing souls to Christ? Nor since the days of Mahom
et (if the Pagan can be mentioned) can we call to
mind one who has acquired such fame and influence
as ihe obscure orphan who developed on a New
England farm, those powers of strength and endu
rance which were afterwards to do such service for
C-od. 1
HOW HE GOT HiS WIFE OFF.
High Old Time.
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MEMPHIS.
Confidence in Business Restored.
Memphis, July 16.—There is a general revival of busi
ness and many persons who left have reiurned, con
vinced that there will be no epidemic this reason.
S|»cedy Punishment Besirable.
[Elmira Advertiser.]
When the assassion of the bowie-knife and pistol, who
is impelled to shoot liis neighbor at sight, understands
that before the week is over, if his case can be reached
by any court in session, he will receive his just con
demnation, hemav pause a moment and allow reason to
subdue his passion. That is the design of the new Geor
gia law, a retribution so speedy that the murderous act
cannot pass beyond the public and righteous opinion
that condemned it. Such cases are to take the prece
dence of all others. A man who shoots or knifesanother
in the street, for some fancied provocation, will be tried
and dealt with by a speedy retribution only exceeded by
lynch law.
A HORKIBI.F. ACCIDENT.
Fun r Young I.miles Browned.
A heart-rending accident occurred at Beaufort. N. C.,
on Friday, the 4th inst. While Capt. Appleton Oaksmith,
accompanied by his four daughters, two young sons, and
an employee, were enjoying a sail in a small boat, which
started from Carolina City, the boat suddenly filled and
capsized when only half way across Bogue Sound. A
ten-year-old son of the Captain, who. was a good swim
mer, succeeded in saving his little brother, but tlie tour
young ladies all found u watery grave. Three of the un
fortunate girls were soon rescued, and taken to the
Ocean House at Beaufort, where every effort was made
to resuscitate them but without avail. The young ladies
were highly intelligent, and much esteemed and be
loved by all who knew them ; and two of them had but
recently graduated. The sad affair has cast a glooni not
only over the bereaved family, but the entire section is
sorowing at tlie calamity.
Tryinglndge Elliott's Assassin.
Owenton, Ky„ Julv 12.—In the Buford trial L. D.
Ilollowav testified as to tlie threats made against Juoges
Elliott and Pryor if Bufords case was decided unfavora
bly. Major Stanton, of the Kentucky Yeoman, testified that
Buford, a few minutes after the shooting, said he had
intended to go snipe shooting, but met J udge Elliott and
asked him if he wanted to go snipe shooting. He eon-
tinned: “I then asked him to tuke a drink, then I shot
him : I thought I would treat him with as much courte
sy as he showed my sister when he robbed and murdered
her. I swore I would gain the suit or die with her.”
This, with the testimony of a few others which corrobo
rated the above, dosed the case for the commonwealth,
and Judge Curtis presented the case for the defense. He
was, however, taken suddenly ill from tlie effects of the
heat and abruptly terminated his speech. General Abe
Buford was sworn. His testimony chiefly regarded he
reditary insanity. He said that the family, from the in
termarriage of cousins, was in general mentally affected.
‘Your wife going to the country ?’ asked Smith, V u thVhamSs’o/
as he met Brown on the Avenue recently. ’
Reckon not: offered her fifty' dollars to get
rendv, but she swears she won’t go.’
‘Have you worked tlie ill-health dodge ?’
Hell, yes: I tried it, but she’s gained about
twenty pounds in the last six months, and that is
gone up.’
‘Can’t you make her sort of believe that her
nerves are relaxing ? That generally works pretty-
well. I caught my first wife on it for three sea
sons.’
‘Nerve ! she sleeps like a top. That won’t do.’
And he looked mournful, and his face wore the
heaviest ulster of disappointment.
‘Why can’t you run her off to—to—well, to see
her mother V
‘Not much; she’s dead going on four years. Wish
I could.’
‘How’s her digestion V
‘First class; eats more for breakfast than I can
all day long. No, old fellow, I reckon it’s no go
I’ll have to put up with her all summer.’
A pause followed, and both men looked sad.
Then Smith put his hand upon Brown’s shoulder
and said, iu a reasoning, prefatory sort of way:
‘Brown, old fellow, you’vo always beeu a good
friend of mine.’ ” 0
‘ Well, Smith, I hope so; I’ve always tried. ’
‘Yes, sir, you’ve stood by me like a brother, and
I won’t and don’t forget it. Now I’ll let you into a
little secret way of getting out of the traces. My
wife has gone to her mother’s: won’t be hack for
ten weeks. I’ll tell you how I worked it. It was
just this—has your wife got freckles ?’
'Yes, y es !’ answered Brown, e.-igerlv a"d
No Yellow Fever iu Memphis.
Memphis, July 15.—The developments of the past
twenty-four hours continue to inspire hope, as regards
the future sanitary conditions of the city. The opinion
is becoming more general among the medical fraternity
that there Is no danger of epidemic, even among those
who hold tenaciously to the genuineness of tlie eases
that have beeu reported. There are physicians among
them—those who have witnessed every epidemic that
has occurred within tlie past forty years—who contend
that no well-defined case of yellow fever has made its >ip-
psarance here this season. Talking to one of this class
to-day on the subject of sporadic cases, he said that
“their appearance is probable. I111874, the next season
after the scourge of 187::, to my certain knowledge there
appeared over forty well defined sporadic cases of fever.
The city medical department at that time was not as
ambitious ns those of the present day appear to he, and
no publicity was given to the fact, and consequently no
alarm was created. Then the physicians acted upon the
well established precedent that sporadic cases of fever
would appear but not become epidemic the year follow
ing an epidemic.” He hooted the idea that an epidemic
was imminent; The general health of the season did.
not justify the opinion. Yellow fever always casts
its shadows before in tfie form ofagenera] tendency to
fever complaints, particularly in the low, marshy lands
contiguous to Memphis. Such has not been thaca.se this
st :tsori, and upon that fuel lone he lelt sale in the opin
ion lie expressed of no danger of epidemic this year.
Keniarkable Ultra I lei I ism in Fortune.
[New York Times.]
ntc ns was the death of young Louis Napoleon,
Is 01 savages, laaeu by surprise, enlisted in a
■au.se of doubtful worthiness, and at best not a cause of
his own country, his his death was less unfortunate
than that of his second cousin, tlie Duke of Reiehstadt
who was born King of Rome and heir to the french
throne, and died at 21 Lieutenant in the Austrian Artil
lery. There seems to be a remarkable paiulellism in the
fortunes of these two Princes. One died at 21: the other
was killed at 23. Both had brilliant prospects at birth -
both were horn after long and anxious expectation'
both were only sons and oniy children: both lost their
prestige and chances by the military downfall of their
imperial fathers: both were forced to quit their native
country; both were educated in foreign militurv schools
-one m Austria, the other in England ; both' were of
delicate constitution: both were amiable, generous and
estimable, without inheriting the paternal strength •
both pined for opportunities: both came to an untimely
end. '1 he two youths were as gentle and likable as their
fathers were selfish, cruel, and treacherous. Yet their
fathers had magnificent success up to a certain time, and
lost their power by overweening ambition; There is
something very dramatic in the fact that the sole son of
Napoleon I., the greatest force in modern times, should
have sickened life away at Sehonnbrunn, and that the
sole son of Napoleon III., should be pierced to death
with Zulu s]tears in a remote and barbarous laud, and in
a^cause in which lie liad embarked simply for political
TIIE “MGGER."
<VI,at Republican Journal
1 (links or Him—A Cry for Dis
franchisement.
[Lamars flows; Sentinel, Rep 1
While the amiable idiocy that prevailed in Congress
luring the reconstruction davs was at its height
the
pec'.ediy.
Well, that’s the racket. I tried every dodge on
her, but she was bound to stay home. One night
lying in bed I thought of her freckles, and I played
that. It worked like a charm. Nothing but the
country air in summer removes freckles, you know;
peels them off; makes the complexion as fair as a
babe’s, and all that sort of thing, you know. Oh !
it was complete, and she left. You try that old
boy.’
’Iry it ? well I should think so. God bless vou
Smith, I’ll never forget you. By next Thursday
my wife and freckles will be forty miles away,
and we’ll open a bottle of wine together; be out
every night ’til two in the morning, and have a
high old time. Shake, me boy, and let’s take a
drink to make it more binding.’"
0{i! woman, in our hours of ease 1
Thoughts.
BY B. At. O.
, ,_tger was enfriuiehi;
„ v | it" was mvestcl witli the ballot 011 the petty theory
1 he •man and a brother, with an infusion of
sand 111 lus make up.
It was given him on the school-girl notion that affec
tion for the party that gave him his freedom would make
him its perpetual instrument.
But the nigger is less serviceable to tlie Republican
party as a voter than he was as a slave 1
He needs too much coddling—too much protection
He caii only vote the Republican ticket when sur
rounded by a cordon 01 Republican bayonets
There is no grit in him.
There is more voting energy and party strength in a
dozen raw Irishmen than m a thousand well-fed uig-
HTt-Jokes:—The rich sauce of conversation and
the champagne of life that helps one to throw off
the dull routine of business cares; the spice that
makes society agreeable and companionship pleas
ant. Without jokes, conversation would stagnate,
and social intercourse lose its inviting and peculiar
charm. Jokes among men, are what compliments
are to women—always agreeable and always in
place. They should never wound, if so, they be
come sharp and stinging arrows meant to insult,
disgrace or degrade.
In witicism, the butt should enjoy the point
aimed at himself as well as others, and return if
able, the same kind of shot; for though there may
be a sting it does not irritate or hurt.
A poet, remarkable for his death-like looks, in
reading a piece on a country walk to his friends,
the following couplet occurred:
‘The red breast, with his furtive glance,
Comes and looks at me askance.’
Upon which a wit present remarked—‘By heavens!
if it had been a buzzard, he would have stared you
full in the face.’
A little seven year old girl was talking to her
father, when he to tease her, asked her, why she
was not as pretty as her two younger sisters.
Thought for a moment and then said; ‘Papa I
waut to look like you.’ *
‘The rays of wit gild whereso’er they strike,
But are not therefore fit for all alike:
They charm the lively, but the grave offend,
And raise a foe as often as a friend.’
‘Who for the poor renown of being smart,
Would leave a sting witbin a brother’s heart ?
The fame men give is for the joy they find,
Dull is the jester when the joke’s unkind.’
The first thing a man takes to in his life is his
milk; the last Is his bier.
There is not an ounce of Stalwartism in a ton of nig-
The more niggers the less strength.
As a slave, the picturesque misery of the nigger was
an unfailing armory of party weapons-as a freeman
there is no romance in him-cowanfice is not romantic
All over the South lie is throwing his ballot for
and traitors, when he votes at all rtbeIs
He is too cowardly to vote his convictions or too stupid
to have convictions. siupiu
When the Stalwarts get into power in 1880 he must
either be disfranchised or compelled to vote riirhr 6 mUSt
The free negro is a fraud. b
THE UNITED STATES SENATE.
Then 11ml Now.
„ [Capital.]
The Boston Traveler, remindea by our pen-pictures of
the tinted States Senate, savs- “fit is thnmrhr of!.?*
Senate is losing its dignity, it never had much dig„Uy
to lose, partly because it lias had so m„„v“ o" ! , u>
seekers In it; for to seek the Preridencv sm.i^ f
temper, if it be good, and makes it wor^int be h?d
There used to be ns hot fights in tlie Senate as n v thsi
} UI ii- e< l 111 ^ le present session ; and disnlpvsnf
blackguardism were not entirelv unknown i., ,1, ,
Henry Clav, being Secretary of St- tc ‘?n V th,u bod D
Randolph, and took a shot at hhn bcc-uiie f >7,, ftel 1,1 t . or
blackguarded him in the extremest style How Mr cto
himself came down u]xni Mr. Choate inthrsSI.t : Cla ?
forgotten, and Mr. Rmton and Mr rwn,,^P nate IS n .°i
bouts, and so did Mr. Clay and Mr Calhoim d s ,n ff
master of the senator from Kentucky ’ said Vr I <” I n be
on a certain occasion. ‘My master u'suid* Mr V| h °'- n
persona^nature^between Hie'senaiors of°aay^md*Wel>-
sterisday, butthey were p^esTlll^r^t^n
apd prostitutes gath-
$uch as may be seen to
res of sovereign Slates,
held high debate
» ou .t th e representatives of sovereignSutes"
when those eminent men of the past held wo ,
upon the lloor, they would, in wrateand di^^ d n bate
st i ‘d ) I lp ed N heCreatU ru t ‘ s out with theircanes d a ron-
stable. Nor were the committee-room, places wherein
tom got drunk and slept off their debauches Afe r «n'
the senators themselves are very little bettw than thi/i
friends, associates and agents on the outside Arid whcn
exceptionally may appear men of character s,dh.teYwt
it is sad to see them go down before tho • *
tion that disgraces tlmt Pla4 I^another yra r
of candidates for the Ppresidencv will
thinned out. Already
1°Z «con7asf p,^,ga" d and
POOToid Senator Edmunds has left bis seat never tore-