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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1869)
£l)c tUcchlii Constitutionalist. BY STOCKTON & CO. OCR TERMS. The fbllpwlo&ara the rates of Subscription: Dailt, one fear. (10 00 WnuT, one year................... (3 00 f From tb« Bocae journal. to Anniversary. *r Paul m. turn. O, Leve, it Is onr wedding day I Tbta morn—bow swift the m— See— A virgin morn of cleudVess May. Too care your loymi baud to me, Your dainty hand, ciaspt swm and sore As Love's sweet sell, forevermore! O, Love,lt Is our wedding day, And memory ties from now to then; 1 mark the soft heat-iigiaolng play Os blushes o’er yonr cheek seals, And shy bat fond foreshadow log rise Oi tranqaUjoy in tender eye*. 0, Love, 1| is oar wedding day; The very rustling of yonr dress, The trembling of yonr arm that ley On mine, wKh timorous happiness, Yonr flattered breath and Mint feottatt— Ab, sweet, I hear, i see them all! O, Love, it is oar wedding day. And backward Titus’s strange current rolls, TUI life’s and love’s auspicious May Otree more to tloomias in oor souls. And, lark-like, swell the soDgs of hope Yonr blissful bridal horoscope. O, Love, it is ouf wedding day— Yet say, did those fair hopes but sing, Lipped in the tuneful morn of May, To die or droop on tattering wing. When noontide beats and evening chills Made pale the flowers and veiled the hills ? O Love, it is oar wedding day. And none of those glad hopes of youtb, Thrilled to Its height, outpoured a lay - To match our future’s simple truth; Though deep the joy of vow and shrine, Our wedded calm is more divine! O, Love, it is our wedding day 1 Life’s summer with slow-waning beam, Tints the near autnmn’s cloud-land gray To softness of a fairy dream. Whence peace by musing pathos kissed, Smiles through a veil of golden mist. O, Love, it Is onr wedding day; • The conscious winds are whispering ioW Those passionate secrets of the May Fraught with your kisses long ago ; Warm memories of our years remote Are trembling in the mock-bird’s throat O, Love, it Is onr wedding flay— And net a thrush in woodland bewera, And not* rivulet's silvery lay, Nor tiny bee-song ’mid the flowers, Nor any voice of land or sea, But deepens love te ecstaey! Onr wedding day f The soul’s noontide! In these rarb words at watchful rant What sweet, melodious meanings bide Like birds within one balmy nest, Each quivering with an Impulse strong To flood all heaven and earth with song! Tlie Footsteps of Decay. FhOM THE SPANISH. Ob! let the soul its slumbers break— Arodse Its senses and awake, To see bow seou Life in its glories glides away, And the stern footsteps of decay Come stealing oh. . And while we view the rolling tide, Down which our flowing minutes glide Away so fast, . Let us the present hour employ. And deem each future dream a joy Already past. Let no vain hope deceive the mind — No happier let us hope to find To-morrow than to-day. Our golden dreams of yore were bright, Like them the present shall delight— Let them decay. Our lives like hast’ning streams must be, That into one engulpbing sea Are doomed to fall— The sea of death whose waves roll on O’er king and kingdom, crown ahd throne, And swallow all. Alike the river’s lordly tide, Alike the humble rivulets glide To that sad wave ; Death levels poverty and pride, And rich and poor sleep side by side Within the grave. Our birth is but a startling place ; Life is the running of the race, And death the goal; There all onr guttering toys are brought— The path alone, of all unsought, Is fonnd of all. See then how poor and Uttle worth Are all these glittering toys of earth That lure us here 1 • Dreams ot a sleep that death must break ; Alas! before it bids us wake, We disappear. Long ere the damp of earth can blight, The cheeks’ pure glow of red and white Has passed away. . Youth smiled, and all was heavenly fair—. Age came and laid his finger there, And where are they ? Where is the strength that spurned decay, The step that roved so light and gay, “ The heart’s blithe tone ? The strength is gene, the step is slow, And joy grows wearisome and wo, • When age eomes on. [From the New Orleans Picayune. Your Letter. BY XAKIFFA. I kissed yonr letter when it come— I clasped it in my throbbing palms ; Tumultnoos joy-storms swept nsy heart From ont its olden summer calms. The lily nodded to the rose, The rose in richer hues seemed clad; The skies put on a tenderer blue— All thinks seemed glad that I was glad! 1 broke in baste the shining seal, With quaim devices deftly wrought— The waxen lock that kept for me Words woven in the loom ol thought. •• That royal loom!” I, smiling, said ; •* Whence comes this texture, warp and wool; Each glowing, tcintlllaling thread, Ol Love’s Uolcondian wealth a proof. I read; ibe glittering worda were there— Pearls, robiea, emerald* of thought, Bright sapphire links and dtamuud drops— Bui where, oh ! where the love I sought 7 W»» this Ike letter I bed prised, Aud blessed for fulling to IUV lot f True, murk f found, but more I missed, For what was all, where love »u not f Missuwim Cltr, September, W 69. Facetiae. i The cartoon in the London Tomahatck, for last week, represents Mrs. Beecher Stowe rifling the grave of Lord Btron. It is entitled * Uncle Tom’s New Speck,” and embellished with this quotation from the poet: “ Truth! rouse tome genuine bard and guide his band, To drive this pestilence from out the land." On the next page we find the folio wing: OjCa COLUMN FOB LITERARY GHOULS. The rent reason of Boiingbroke’s retire ment info the country during hte early voetk has been discovered at last. In a pv*vwte totter which has recently come to Uebt. awe Dm aie Broke says that he beard from one Margaret Ebern, wholheard It from someone else, that he wished to And a spot to bury the limbs of a servant girt, whom he had seduced when a child aud then murdered. Pope's deformity was caused by a rail be had when a child. He tried one day to strangle his mother, and in the straggle he was thrown down and hart his spine. Addison’s relations with Steele are well known, but not the intrigue which he had with Lady Steele. This is proved by the correspondence of a housemaid in the ser vice of Lady Steele, who makes frequent mention of this scandalous connection. The secret history of Prior’s wife will shortly be published. It will- prove very sensational reading. She was, as is well known, a woman of very low character. Stylft confessed on his death bed that he had tried to poison Stella some fifty times, but ÜBsaceessfbny. He was a horrid mon ster. His secret memoirs will be ready soon. - Goldsmith’s chequered career has often furnished food for the moralist; but we may expect shortly some revelations as to his nightly debaucheries, which will as tonish the admirers of the “ Vicar of Wake field,” The real reason of Churchill’s quarrel with Garrick was that on several occasions the poet forged the actor's name. “ Little’s Poems” will be shortly publish ed, with copious notes, and a key to aH the allusions both to persons aud places. This Will throw much light oq the character of the author of the “ Irish Melodies.” Ths Firk in the Gbeat Dismal.—A ; tentleman who passed along np the Sea ward road on a hand-car, and had an op portunity to make a few observations, has bean talking to us. He witnessed great trees, thirty or forty feet, on fire up to the top, all their leaves and blanches burning up rapidly, and then a puffof wind toppiihg them ever the same as they were but oat straw ; when, on looking at their roots, you would find-th* ground underneath them and nothing re maining but coals and ashes. Large holes arc to be observed all over the swamp com pletely burned out, and nothing remaining in dr near them but the charred trunks of trees. He stepped for some time between the twelfth gad thirteenth mile posts, and had a good view of the surroundings. The Are has burnt the earth or peat up to the ditch-bank of the railroad, aud in some places aa for aa theeye could reach it looked like a great waterless lake, where formerly was dry lajnd and vegetation. Great n rm bers of cattle and animals oralt kinds have been destroyed by the Are, the bones of many of Which can be. seen from , the road track. • . i These matters cannot be observed in pass ing along oh the cars, as they go too rap idly for observation. It is his impression that nearly all the space burned out by the Are will be a lake from three to ten feet deep, as the earth or vegetable mould which formed terra firma in the swamp is all burnt to ashes. A singular feature was mentioned by him In regard to farms aloDg the Dismal Swamp. Smoke could be seen issuing from underneath the corn fields of the farms, wMeh led Mm to believe that their whole foundation would burn out unless a heavy rain interfered to prevent it. This matter of the charred trees falling, owing to the earth being burned from un der them, will account for a fact that there has always been more or less theorizing about It has long been a matter of sur mise with many how it was that there were so many trees lying prostrate in the swamp, many of them eight and ten fleet below the surface, apparently uninjured. It has been a business with lumber getters to dig these, trees up heretofore This Are explains folly how they came in that condition. Long continued droughts heretofore have enabled the yearly recurring fires to burn their soil from under them and lay them prostrate.— It is said the bottom of the great lake itself is covered by trees in the same way, and it is the theory of some that the basin of the lake was caused by being burnt out. If so, it appears it must have been from a greater and longer continued drought than this generation has witnessed. f Norfolk Day Book. A Coon and Snake Stoby.— The Pulaski (Tcnn.) Citizen tells the following story: A gentleman living in this city has a large pet coon, which is very fond of him. A few mornings ago, as the gentleman was walking through his garden quite early, he was met by the coon in a narrow path, who disputed the ground with him, and seemed determined that he should proceed no farth er in that path. Having always been on the most friendly and intimate terras here tofore, the gentleman was not a Httle aston ished at this seeming belligerent demonstra tion on the part of his coonship; and, be in*' determined not to give way, forced the animal to retire, when, proceeding along the path a few feet, he discovered a very Urge live rattlesnake coiled up in the path, which the coon evidently knew was there, and was doubtless trying to prevent his master from falling a victim to Its tangs. Henry Crabb Robinson says: “I was once In company with a wealthy patron of religion at a dinner party, at which Edward Irving was the principal guest. AddriW ing himself to the great man In honor of whom t.ie dinner was given, the gentle man said: ’What a profound and wise thought, air, was that which I heart from Dr Chalmers—that God la more offended at the breach of a small commandment than a great ones Do replied Irving, ‘ that Dr. Chaiwer* meant i list It is a greater «ff«lP* lo G«d * «» cut a Aog*r than cut a throat r AUGUbEA, GJL, WEDNESDAY HOMING, OCTOBER 13, 1888. How Workingmen Lite in England.— The London correspondent of the New York. Time* gives a most deplorable pic ture of the poor of the large cities of Eng land : “ Millions of people In England live al most entirely upon bakers’ bread, Here, for example, is the way of life of a sober, hard-working Englishman, wire earns a week ($4 86 gold standard), and has a wife and six children. He neither drinks nor smokes, and hands over his whole wages to his wife. This is a common prac tice in well ordered families. She pays 4s. a week fin- rent; Is. for coals: candies, soap, &c., fid.; a penny a week each for six children; to a burial cltjb fid.; on a doctor’s bill due, Is. Here are 7s- 3d. of the 18s. gone, and nothing to eat Now the bill of fare of those eight persons: One pound of bread a day for each—the children scarcely taste anything else— comes to 7s. a week; twenty pounds of po tatoes, Bd.; one pound of qotc ter's meat on Sunday, and two pounds or salt pork for week days, 25.; one pound sugar, half pound butter, one ounce tea, 13d. make up the week’s account. No milk, no fruit, no clothing. The only way they can have that, is for the children to get work or die; then something would come in from the burial club. Thousands on 'thousands Os men work for two-thirds of these wages or less. Plenty, even In large towns, work AWSSs. a week. Thousands cafltaot taste even the Sunday meat dinner.” Hebrew Immig baton. —lt is reported that the Israelites in San Francesco have organised an immigration society for the purpose of assisting persons of their (kith In Europe to come to this country. This, we think, is well. The Israelites prosper in this great arid free country. In no country in the world, since they lost their own laud, have they found so much of a home as they have found here. They make good, peacefol, prosperous citizens. We have no reason to object to a large Sewish immigration. In some parts of Europe, in Roumania particularly, their condition is most wretched. Recent legislation la the Principalities has revived the experience of the captivity in Babylon and the bondage in Egypt. Prince Charles has promised to exert himself to ameliorate their condition; but Prince Charles is a constitutional ruler and uot above law. It is the feeling of the people, not the power of the Prince, that makes the Jews miserable on the banks of the Danube. Let our rich Israelites bring their oppressed brethren to this new land of promise. Here, at least, they will be freemen, and milk and honey will not be found wholly wanting.—New York Herald. The Chinese.— A writer in the New York Sun, who knows the Chinese well, thus daguerreotypes them -.- “ I have lived nearly two decades in Cali fornia, and know of the people of whom I •write. They are barbarous, cruel, thievish, unreliable, and wedded to nameless prac tices that to mention is sufficient to make the flesh creep. Their morality is nothing, unless you can call abominable vices nega tively so. Every hen roost and clothes line in California has to be guarded against their depredations. They systematically coin and Issue counterfeit money—a busi ness at which they are quite adepts. THS few women that leave China are bought and sold as so many sheep in the shambles. Every China woman in California is a pros titute, and they spread among the young people where they reside every form of vice, and, besides, maladies of the most horrible aud incnrable character.” These would be desirable acquisitions In deed 1 Can Such Things Be?—A corespondent of the Atlanta Conetitytion, writing from Greensboro, North Carolina, says: “ At this point, I learned from several re liable and pious citizens, of one of the strangest occurrences that has ever hap pened In that or any other State. A cow, belonging to a Methodist minister, living six miles from Greensboro, gave birth to a negro baby. The head and face, and all the upper part of the animal, are nttrols takably those of a negro child, and the low er part that of a calf. The gentlemau who informed me of -it Is a highly responsible citizen, and he was so deeply disgusted that be declined to talk about it. I hope the disciples of Ariel did not draw aay conclu sions from it. I assure you 1 almost regrel that I ever heard it, and I have hesitated to write you about it.” Confederate Dbad at Versailles, Kentucky. —Among the Confederate sol diers reported by the Woodford Weekly, a* buried on the Strangers* Lot, at Versailles, Kentucky, arc the following from Georgia: Jack Thomas, Company E. 30th Georgia Regiment, died October 26,1862. Wm. H. Watson, Ist Georgia Cavalry, died January 8,1863. Abraham Hoibcrt, Company E, 36th Georgia Regiment, died October 14,1862. Wm. Allen, Company F, 39th Georgia Regiment, died October 11.1862. R. W. Grant, Company n, 36th Georgia Regiment, died October 29,1862. The Murder of Miss Tinnie, the Af rican Explorer. —Details have bees re ceived of the murdei of M’ile. Tlnoe, in the Ouadi Benljoadj, Northern Africa. Two parties, one consisting of Arabs and the other Tonaregs, who disputed the right of escorting M'lle. Tinne, settled the difference by proceeding together, but shortly after wards came to blows lira wrangle for the honor of carrying her palanquin. M’lle Tinne, rushing forward to separate the .combatants, had her hand cut off by a Tonareg and was shot In the breast by sn Arab. The servants, with the exception of one young negress, were allowed ti> escape. The spot where the outrage occurred is said to be in Turkish jurisdiction. Quite a Local.— ThW morning we saw what we never saw before. We saw a very small pig. squatted on hi* haunches, aUi mode dog. his fore feet In the air, sucking a cow. As the little fellow extracted the tactic fluid from the gentle animat. b* twerne !, in bis rapture, to forget that a crowd of amazed spectators were beholding the indignity which lie was perorating on Broad street .—Kvfatda Neies. To cure corns: Hold your feet near th* Are until the corns pop. This 1* said to be a sure core. ' Horrible Murder.— From resident* of Decatur, ws glean the following particu lars of a horrible murder perpetrated by unknown parties In the quiet village of Decat bt go Friday night Lina, a negro woman, who was formerly the faithful ser -1 vaut of Ami Williams, Esq., ana who was heid in high esteem bv all the people of De catur, was fonnd to ber bed. murdered by some party unknown, who had. evidently entered the house for the purpose of rob bery. Lewis. h4r hpshaud. Who was trees* urer of the African Chorrti. had gone to the "church for the purpose of putting It in order that ft could be ready on to-day. He was known to have in his possession, as treasurer of the church, some mohey. The drawers and tranks were overhauled by the murderer, brat fortunately, an the money waa in the had, he failed 0o get it. No clue has been found aa to the perpetrator of the outrage, but the citizens feel indig nant at tt. Suspicion rests-upon some idle negroes as connected with it, whose object was plunder, aud who hesitated not to slay a faithful and houestoid negro woman. {Atlanta Constitution. Is That the Man ?—At a political meet ing the speaker and audience were very mack disturbed by a man who constantly called out for Mr. Henry. Whenever a new speaker came on, this man brawled out, *■ Mr. Henry I Henry I I call for Henry I” After several interruptions of fads kind st each speech* n young man ascended to the platform, and was soon air ing h s eloquence I'l magniloquent style, striking out powerfully in his gestures, when thd bid ori was heard sot Mr. Henry. Putting his hand to bis moath'like a speak ing trumpet, this man was brawling out at the top of his voice. “ Mr. Henry! Henry ! Henry I Henry !' 1 cal! for Mr. Henry !” The chairman now rose and remarked that it would oblige the audience if the gentle man would refrain from auy further calling for Mr. Henry, as that geuttoraan was speaking. "Is that Mr. Henry f* said the disturber of the meeting. “ Thunder, that can’t be Mr. Henry ! Why, that's the lit tle cuss that told me to holler — Ex. Cotton Seed Oil.—We met in this city, last week,- a South Carolina gentleman, who came to investigate the profits and advantages of manufacturing oil from cot ton seed, with the view of embarking In the business at home: He became abundantly satisfied of this, and found the only drawback to be the enormous waste of the fertility of the land which would be caused by the carrying off its richest, aud yet smallest ingredients, which are concentrated in the seed. This would be especially dangerous to a region now terribly devastated by long cropping. Without restoration, and which is able to maintain Itself only by the use of concentrated fertilizers. Perigops the best means they could use to retgln the strength to be found in the seed, would be to feed cotton seed ol! cake to their animals, and to place their manure with the Ingredieuts of the oil aud cotton fibre, found in the other sustenances, upon the soil, if possible, in augmented quanti ties:—New Picayune. Habit is Evf-hytfuno.—A city man ac customed to lodge on one of the noisest streets, recently visited a country friend.— Too much quiet destroyed his rest at night. His friend fefl for his distress, and said he would toy and relieve It. Accoid'ngly he went to a. neighbors and procured a bass dram, which he beat under the gtwst’s bed room window, and had hfs boy run a squeak.tig wheelbarrow up and down on the porch, while hi* wife played ou the piano, and his servant girl pounded on the chamber door with the tongs. In this man ner the sufferer Was enable*?to get two or three hours of quite refreshing sleep, though it was heavy on the family. V. Noyel Currency to Settle aWash Bill. —A curious scene was lately witness ed in Paris. A girl was observed in the street with a wooden leg under her'Ann, while a gentleman was calling to her frrite a window on the other side of the street, gesticulating fiercely and demanding her return To the large crowd widen the scene attracted, the girl made explanation that she was washerwoman to the gentle man ; that be would not pay her; that she visited the lodging to demand her money, and that on his refusal she had taken pos session of his wooden leg, purposing not to return it antll she had received her money. Farm Asaoci ationa —Farm Associations are popular among the Germans residing in New York city. A tract of land composed of 50,000 acres, in Potter county, Pa., has been settled on this plan, and has located" upon It a thriving village, called Germania. The farms of twenty-five acres each are sold for S3OO, aud are paid .for in install ments of $2 per week. The associations organized for the pnrpcee of obtaining farms at low rates consist of fifty members csch, and purchase large tracts of 1,250 acres. Muitwall Jackson.— The Parke*burg Gatette states, as a matter of historical fact that" Mud wail Jackson” was pot, as pop ularly supposed, General WilHam L. Jack son, who before the war was circuit Judge at Parkesburg. *■ Madwail” was a cavalry oAoer of the name of Jackson, who hailed from Mississippi, and waa(liatiaguUbed by that sobriquet because he was not made of such stern stuff as Ws namesake “Stonewall.” The Gasetu is good authori ty in a matter of this kind, and its state ment is to be accepted as correct. An inquisitive urchin the other day, while reciting a lesson, (says an exchange) from a sermon on the Mount, broke out: Ms. did Jesus get $2,600 a year for preaching? ’ “ No, my child ; he did not get any thing.” “ Why didn’t they pay him Y" “ Because He retased to preach politics. The devil offered Him a big salary to do it, but He would not accept the call 1 ’ A Wall street speculator, returning home on Bstorftsv evening in no enviable frame of mind, annua need the result ol bis opera tions to the family group ; “No more silk <lre»scs this Winter, my desr; no more balls tnd parties; no more opera boxes •” and then, warming with his subject, “no wore infernal wising* *»*d dinings, and no morn d—n noßsenae of any sort, Matilda.” Kurely the most uninitiated would have known that the man wm a Mar. General Items. Bishop John Early is lying dangerously iM at his residence in Lynchburg, Ya Dr. Marion Sims, surgeon to the Empress Begunlc. is on a visit to the United States. A rich lady in Paris has gone insane for love of her cook. Senator Sprague, who employs 8,000 peo ple, recently raised their wages 15 per cent. Skiff & Gaylord’s Minstrels are playing in Richmond. Two weeks ago ripe strawberries were gathered from the garden of the editor of the Charlotte, N. C., Democrat. Over one hundred barrels of dried black berries have been sold in Charlotte, N. C., during the past few weeks. The master of ceremonies at a recent Boston funeral announced, “ The corpse’s cousins will now come forward.” lowa recently had a wedding in which a female clergyman tied the knot aud offi cially kissed the bridegroom. The “calico hop” has reached Illinois. It is the hired girl jumping out of a second story window with the family spoons. A Chicago girl says that she don’t get married for the reason that she don’t know whose husband she might be marrying. Thirty-nine persons were received Into the Methodist church, a'. Charlotte, N. C., last Sunday—result of the revival that has been progressing there for several weeks. Mr. Henry W. Raymond, son or the late editor or the New York Timee , will assume next month a position on the editorial staff ot that paper. Bishop Early, reported seriously ill at Lynchburg, Va., a few days ago, is greatly improved, aud is now considered out ol danger. There are some 12,000 known and un known Confederate soldiers buried at Hol lywood, the graves of all o! whom are num oc red. The Lynchburg Republican reports prices of old tobacco, In that market, “ frilly as high as they have been for several weeks past.” The market was active last week. “ I know by a Uttle what n great deal means,” as the gander said when lie saw the tip of a fox’s tail sticking ont oi a hollow tree. A wag seeing a door off Its hinges, in which condition it had been for some time, observed that when It had fallen and killed someone, it would probably be hung. Mr. F. W. Claussan, a prominent busi ness man o.' Charleston, haw removed to New York, where he is to sAlnto the ship ping and commission bustn^p. It is stated that at the next meeting of the Legislature steps will be taken to estab lish a Metropolitan Police and Fire Depart ment for Charleston. One of the disagreeable effects of the dry weather In some parts of Virginia has been to cause the wells to become infested with snails, thereby causing the water to taste and smell very disagreeable. Miss Kate Walker, the heroic young lady, who was shot by her father, near Rapldau Station, Orange co., Va., while endeavor ing to prevent him from shooting hlmseit while in a fit of temporary Insanity, bus since died. It took Prince Charles, of Prussia, flfteeu thousand dollars to hush up the disgrace ful affair In which he was recently involved. He bad seduced the wife of one of his vaUte de ehambre . who threatened to kill him, and actually fire 1 a pistol shot at him. The Western Union Telegraph Company will put anew telegraphic system Into effect October Ist, based on air line distances, which will equalize and greatly reduce the rates to all points, especially in the South and Southwest, and do away with any ap parent discrimination against small places. The municipal election in Nashville pass ed off quietly on the 25th. Morris, Conser vative candidate for Mayor, was elected by a handsome majority. The Conservative ticket for Aldermen and Councllmen was also elected by a decided majority. It is stated, on English authority, that over thirteen hundred thousand Hindoos and three hundred thousand Egyptians have perished within the last five years from starvation, consequent npon the forced cultivation of cotton Instead of bread. If this be trae, such competition will hardly prove successful against the South. The Haynevllle Examiner moves that a meeting of the Alabama Press be held in Montgomery. Thursday, November 11 (the "bird day of the State Fair), for the pur pnrpose of organizing. What says the Press? it asks. The Mail says all right, unless scalawags and carpet-baggers are included. The King of Greece has just compliment ed ills subjects of the Jewish faith by at tending the synagogue In Corfn during prayer. The ark was opened as he took his seat on a throne, and the rabbi called on Heaven to rain blessings on the heads of the King and his son. A man locked his wife Into an upper room, and not being satisfied with this pun ishment hut wishing to aggravate her still frartber, sent his son up with a bone. The yooth Innocently brought It, and said, “ Mother, father sent this np, and says, there is a bone for yon to pick.” The gen tle mother replied, “ Take It hack and tell him I say he Is not your father, and there’s a booe for bbn to pick.” At the Lincoln coup y (Tenn.) Fair, on the 25th inst., there was a general row, re sulting In the dispersion of the whole crowd la attendance, and the breaking up of the fair. It appears that a white man asked a negro woman of bad character to drink With him, which she did. A third party denounced the proceeding, when the wench attacked and stabbed Rim. This was the signal for a general melee, Which was kept np for some time with sticks, Ntonss tnd brickbats. Fortunately, no person was kilted, although a number were badly wounded. The State of Delaware, originally of a small pattern, Is becoming smaller by de grees snd beautifully less. The Delaware , riser I*said to be encroaching on its burd-1 era from ten to twenty fact per year, and the sites of bouses which once sUsxl far In the field* are now under water. The llght honae near Bower’s beach has been remov ed three times, and a hotel on the same Onsub, that once stood a considerable dis tance from the bay, with large trees lu front, |» now bnlng WMhed away by tlie water*. VOL. 28. NO. 41 Richmond, Va., shipped over one million pounds of ohcwiug tobacco during August. Action should follow thought. No farm er can plow a field by turning it over in his mind. The Alabama river is so low that it is almost impossible for boats to navigate it at all. At A. T. Stewart’s store, in New York, twenty $2,000 shawls have been sold this season, and one worth $5,700. Why are horses in cold weather like meddlesome gossips? Because they are the bearers of idle tails. Bisop Phlllpots, of Exeter, who died the other day, was the son of an inn keeper, who filled pots before him. Mr. John Cox, of Georgetown, is now at the point of death with lockjaw, caused by using bines tone as a remedy for toothache. Corning has white blackberries of an amber color. Next we will bear of a white black cow of a brlndie tint. A North Carolina farmer has a couple of “ foolish turkey gobblers,” who will persist in setting on nests full of apples. The New York papers are discussing a proposal that the United States shall pay that State $12,000,000 for the Erie Canal, and open It to trade free of toll. What Is the difference between Noah’s ark ami an archbishop ? Noah's ark was a very high ark, but an archbishop Is a hierarch (higher ark). A junior Dent, whose Christian name is Fred, turns up in California, and cheerfully serves his country at $1,500 per annnm in the San Francisco Custom Honse. There is a Kentuckian who has no ears. He Is married and happy—whether in con sequence of being married or of having no ears, we have not learned. Joseph Whitworth, luventor of the Whit worth gun, and Win. Falrbrain, the cele brated engineer, have been created baro nets. Anew municipal Snnday regulation, closing all the barber shops and clearing the boot-blacks off the streets, went Into effect In Washington city on Suuday last. Mr. William D. Coleman, editor of the Richmond Enquirer and Examiner, is a candidate for the position of Clerk of the Senate of Virginia. The reasou why Frellnghuvsen declined the Chinese mission has leaked out. He wasn’t on good terms with his uncle, old Hyson, who lives there. George S. Bennett, local editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, Is dead. For twenty eight years he collected news for the same newspaper, and lived out three sets of pro prietors. A memorial against Christianity has been presented to the Japanese Government by three priests of high rank. Considerable opposition to foreigners Is manifested In the Japanese Parliament. Miss. S. A. Brock, of New Yorkapro po**es to publish a volume to be made up of contributions from poems already publish ed, one poem to be selected by each author as his favorite production. The foreign Importations at the port of New York during last week were about four millions and a half—a marked falling off compared with the average of the month or for six weeks past. Dr. Llghtenteller, who ran over two la dies with his horse and baggy, in Lock Haven, some time since, while* under the Influence of liquor, has been sentenced to a ten years’ term In the State prison. The United States Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, In session at Ban Francisco, has postponed consideration ot the amendment to the constitution of the Order changing the title of the Grand Lodge until the next session. Rev. Dr. Sears has appropriated $21,600 of the Peabody school fund to Virginia— s9,4oo for public free schools in four large cities, $6,200 for normal schools and nor mal classes, aud $6,000 for colored schools. A woman at Plattsburg, New York, didn’t know whether she could fill a kero sene lamp while It was burning nntll she tried. She now wears a wig, and her face, heretofore handsome, looks like a rare beefsteak. A writer wants to know the difference between tlie ivory checks that gamblers buy for piavlng faro, and the paper checks for the Gold Exchange Bank the other gamblers in the Gold Room ? The legiti mate demand for gold for custom house and other purposes Is not half a million a day. The Lynchburg Netes learns that the planters have generally commenced cutting their tobacco, and that the quantity is much better than they were led to antici pate from the lateness at which it was planted, and the injury done by the pro tracted drought. At Cincinnati last week the sizes of the shoes worn by certain ladles were ascer tained by an enterprising reporter. Miss Susan B. Anthony wears elevens, Miss Elizabeth Cady Stanton eights, and Mrs. Norton sevens. A negro woman living in New Orleans has a very numerous family of children, which vary In color from pale molasses to jet black. In speaking of ber progeny a day or two ago, pointing to one of the former color, she remarked, “ I ’splses dat chile—l does. It shows de dirt so easy I neber kin keep It clean.” Mark Twain thinks that soda water is not reliable for a steady drink. It is too gasy. The next morning, after drinking thirty-eight bottles, he found himself fall of gas and as tight as a balloon. He hadn't an article of clothing that he could wear except his umbrella. A New York Journal gives the following as a valuable recipe: “ One part of carbolic acid and three parts water, applied to a dog, will kill fleas at once.” But a much more valuable recipe is this: One part strychnine and five or six parte sausage, applied to a dog, will kill the dog without harming the more neeftil insects for whose destruction the other prescription is in tended. Anew hotel, with a marble front, eight stories high, has Just been completed at the corner of Broadwcy and 81st strict, New York. It Is known as the “ Grand Hotel, ’’ and was built at an expense of SBOO,OOO, | exclusive of the land on which it stands. | The furniture and < quipmenta cost another $900,000. More than $20,000 was paid for ! mtrrass. The establishment has been i leased at $65,000 per nunum.
