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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1870)
®I)C tUcclilt) Constitutionalist. BY STOCKTON k CO. OUR TERMS. The following are the rates of Subscription: Daily, one year $lO 00 Wiuit, one year $3 00 “ Alone.” The years flow past me, one by one, So silently I hardly know They come at all; and when they’re pone 1 care not where or how they flow. An aimless life, it-is—you say— A nameless life yon might hare said, For all its strength has passed away, And all that mad.; it fair is dead. A bark went forth on pleasant seas, Bnt night and storm beset her way; Wrecked hopes were drifted back, and these, My friend, are all I have to-day. j But fame may come, and friendship—no; The first I seek not, and the last r Has ever shnnned me, and I know | The future will be as the past. To live in solita. ways, With no companionship, but mind ; To toil through solemn nights and days ; To ever seek and never find ; To yearn for that which cannot be; To build, desire, and see it fall; To gather seeming sweets and see The sweetest q .ickly turn to gall; To work incessan ! y for naught Beyond the day the work is done; To think, and leave no worthy thought; To meet the world and be alone; To look into a thousand hearts, A thousand minds, and be unseen, To write dull lines, play empty parts, And ponder on wbnt might have been. An aimless, useless life, indeed 1 But w-at oi that ? It will not mend : There is no path in it to lead To brightness or a noble end. So while the slow years drift along I sit and weave an idle rhyme, Hear voices from the active throng, And feel myself alone through time. Go F*el What I Have Felt. A young lady of New Tork was in the habit of writing on the subject of intemperance.— Her writings were full of pathos, and evinced such deep emotion of soul, that a friend ac cused her of being a maniac on the subject of intemperance ; whereupon she Wrote the fol lowing touching lines: Go fool what T hava uu, Go bear what 1 have borne— Sink ’neath a blow a father dealt. And the cold world’s proud scorn ; Then suffer on from year to year— Thy sol" relief the scorching tear. Go kue< 1 as I have knelt, Imp ore, beseech, and pray— Strive the besotted heart to melt, The downward course to stay— Be daubed with bitter enrse aside, Yonr prayers burlesqued, your tears defied. Go weep as I have wept, O’er a loved fhiher’s fall— See every promised blessing swept— Yontb’s sweetness turned to gall; Life’s fading flowers strewed all the way That brought me up to woman’s day. Go see what I have seen, Behold the strong man bowed-*- With gnashing teeth— lipß bathed in blood— And cold and livid brow; Go eaten his withering glance, and see There mirrored his soul’s misery. Go to thy mother’s side, And her crushed bosom cheer; Thine own deep angnish bide; Wine from her cheek the bitter tear: Mark her worn frame and withered brow— The gray that treaks her dark hair now, With fading frame and trembling limb; And trace the rjn back to him, Whose plighted faith in early youth Promised eternal love and truth, But who, foresworn, hath yielded np That promise to the enpj And led her down through love and light, All that made her promise bright— And chained her there, ’mid want and strife, That lowly thing—a drunkard’s wife— And stamped on childhood’s brow, so mild, That withering b.igbt—the drunkard’s child. Go hear, and feel, and see, and know, All that ray rani hath felt and known— Then look npon the wine cnp’a glow; Be- if i*» beauty can atone — ThlDk of its flavor yon will try, Whcu all proclaim, *tU drink, and die! Tell me X hath the bowl ? Bate is a feeble word ! I loathe—ahhor—my very soul With stroi ; disgust is stirred— When’er I s..e, or hear, or tell Os that dark beverage of Hell. The Dim Old Forest. Among the beantifol pictures That bane on memory s wall, Is one of a din. old forest That seetneth the best of all. Not for its gnarled oaks of olden, Dark with the mistletoe; Not for the violeis golden That sprinkle the vale below; Not for the milk-white lilies That lean from the fragrant hedge, Coquetting all day with the sunbeams, And stealiog their golden edge; Not for the vines on the upland Where the bright red berries rest, Nor the pink-,. • - the pale, sweet cowslip, It seometh to me the best. I once had a little brother With eyes that were dark and deep, Xu the Isn of that dim old forest He veto in pei.ee asleep. Light as the down of a thistle, Fra* as the winds that blow, We roved there ’mid beautiful Sommers, T he Summers of long ago— But his fsst on the bills grew weary, Aud one X the Autumn ere*, 1 unde for my little brother • A bed of yelk w leaves. iws< tly I,ls psli arms folded My aw . In s meek embrace, As tfis light oi Imsrortei beamy Milan tit jovir and btsfsos, And wiu ii Ui* irrows of sunset l.uotft'd 111 the li • •"pips blight, fie fell In Ills Millli like beauty, Asleep by ibe ututt tl|(f*l, T >‘i'i, »•( Sll tb* purer** That bs"g on in* inor ,’* well. Tbst om oT tiie mm 1,14 rere.c fb lU«4| the bail of all. Decisions of the Supreme Court of Geor gia. Delivered at Atlanta, luesday, February l. f REPORTED EXPRESSLY FOR THE CONSTITU TION BY N. J. HAMMOND, SUPREME COURT REPORTER. | Robert N. Parker, plaintiff in error, vs The Mayor and Council of Macon, de fendants in error. Action for damages from Bibb. Brown, C. J. 1. The Mayor and Council of the city of Macon have full power and authority given them by the charter, to remove or cause to be removed any buildings, posts, steps fences, or other obstruction, or nuisance, in the public streets, lanes, alleys, sidewalks or public squares of the city. Under this power conferred for the public good, they are bound to keep the streets, lanes, alleys and sidewalks in such condition that it is safe and convenient to pass them, and in case of failure they are liable to any person injured by their neglect. 2. A two-story brick wall of a house, that had been burnt down some months previous, standing at the edge of the side walk, though private property, if it be so much dilapidated or decayed as to endan ger the lives of persons passing the streets, is a nuisance, which the Mayor and Conn ell are bound to have removed, and if they fhil and damage results to any person by reason of such neglect, the city is liable for the damages sustained. If the walls were sound and steady, and did not, under any ordinary circumstances, endanger any one passing the streets, and it should be thrown down by tempest or other act of God, a person injured by the fell would have no right to recover damages tor such injury from the city. Judgmeut reversed. - Bacon and Simmons for plaintiff in error. 8. Hunter, by Iverson L. Harris, for de fendant. Ordinary of Bibb County vs. The Central Railroad and Banking Company, et. al. From Bibb. Warner, J. When, by the charters of certain railroad companies, they are authorized “to pur chase and hold nil real estate that may be necessary and proper, for the purpose of laying, building and sustaining” said rail roads, and when it is declared in.said char ters, “ that the said railroads and the ap purtenances of the same , shall not be sub jected to be taxed higher than one-half of one per ceut. upen their net, income; and no municipal, or other corporation, shall have power to tax the stock of said compa nies, but may tax any property, real or per sonal, of said companies within the juris &».«««•p=sr si the property of said cor.qa«nL>s sary and proper tor the purpose ofTaylng, building and sustaining aaid railroads, con stitutes a part of the capital stock of said companies, and is not liable to be taxed in any other manner than is specified In their respective charters; bnt that any other pro perty owned by said companies, which is not necessary and proper for the purpose of laying, building and sustaining said roads and not appertaining (hereto, may be taxed by the county or other corporation in the same ratio of taxation of like property. Held further: That the property of the respec tive railroad companies specified in the re cord is not liable to be taxed by the county of Bibb, except lot number 2, in block 74, and that the coart below erred in holding and deciding that said lot number 2, in block 74, was exempt from taxation by the county. Judgment reversed. McCav, J., concurring. 1. By the laws of Georgia, as they now exist, no county tax can be collected npon any property not taxed by the State. 2. When the State, m the grant of a charter to a Railroad Company, provided that the, Mid railroad and its appurte nances” should not be taxed higher than one half of one per cent, npon its net income, the “railroad and appurtenances” men tioned 'fairly included not only the road and road bed, stations, tanks, wood sheds, depots, engine-houses, shops for the con struction and- repair of it* machinery, of fices and other buildings and property ne cessary for the convenient and successful construction and running of the road. 3. In the charter of the Central Railroad, the State has expressly reserved the right to authorize municipal and other corpora tions (which includes counties) to tax for local purposes the property of said com pany, of any character, within the locality at the same rates as taxes are assessed upon the property of natural persons! but, though such a right Is reserved to the State, it has not by any law been as yet conferred on the counties. 3. Real estate purchased by a railroad company, to be used as a legality on which to erect depots, and over which to lay a track, in pursuance of a contemplated change of depot site, does not become « property appurtenant" until the change is actually made the former site aban doned. 4. When there is property of a railroad company in a county, subject to State and county tax, which Is not returned to the proper Tax Receiver, it is the rlghtand duty of the Ordinary to cause the collector to have the tax, both State aud county, as sessed and collected. Brown, C. J., concurred in the reversal of the judgment as follows: The charter of the Central Railroad and Banking Company contains this provision: “That the said railroad, a .and the appur tenances of the same, shall not be subject to be taxed higher than one-half of one per centum upon its annual net Income, and no municipal, or other corporation, .ihall have power to tax the stock of said company, but may tax any property, real or personal, of said company, within the jurisdiction of said corporation, In the ratio of taxsllou of like property." It |» Insisted that this la a contract bre tween the Bute and the eoropsny, wWeh forever exempt* the company from a higher tax than one half ok one i*r AMtiMofl It* net income. And that they are ent lied to this perpetual exum. Uo* from taxation, wo matter what may li* lh« exigent’-as of lire Bute, or the burden# of UaaMoti spun b*r **jTtbis b* so. It «• «*rUl«ly *!*>**? bold tb* company ft **•* I tract »ala fbvorsbteto tb* MWie. t While tb* hut* he* reilnqulsM ber I right oft» aat ion 0 m tk« rood and It* *P’ HJSTA, QA. t WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16. 1870. F^ a ’? CeS| the company has exDresslv on Its part, that a othei corporation may tax any property real* or personal, of said company within l£e J SKrty 0n ’ thC rati ° ° f tixati ° n 0f Now, it is argued that this nrovlslnn Droixwtv a* 6 th mu,llcipal Nation such a the com P a ny may have pur sed ln Payment of debts, and the like, tw DOt appurtenant to the road, and Wtton h n V ,‘ eW Btre n«thened by the inhi to* the stock of the company, Us Ifnnnrf S lasisted ’ in <dudes the road and its appurtances. ♦ o is vlev T I s correct ' wh »t use was -here for the provision, that a municipal, or other corporation, may tax any property, real or personal, of said company ? The State has not relinquished her power to tax Property the company may own, ex cept the road and its appurtenances. Prop erty purchased by the company in pav ment of a debt, not connected with the road, and not appurtenant to the road be ing taxable by the Btate as other property, there coaid have been no doubt about the power of the State to authorize municipal corporations, also, to tax it, and in the charter now under consideration, would less 6 be€ “ surplusa S e * nd altogether use- It Is very evident that this language was intended, when Inserted in the contract, to mean something. Ami I think it quite as evident that It does mean that while the state may not tax the road and its appur tenances more than one-half o? one per centum on its net incomes, the municipal corporations and county corporations, through which it ruus may tax any of its property, real or personal, In the ratio of taxation imposed on any other like prop erty, that is, on any other real or personal property within the city or countw and subject to taxation by it. 3 Treating the charter as a contract, and admitting, for the purposes of this case, that the State may, by such contract, re llnqnish her power of taxation, and it fol tows, under a fair and just cons'ruction oi the contract, that the State may tax all property of the company, except the road and its appurtenances, and may authorize the counties, or ether municipal corpora tions, through which the road runs, to tax any and all property of the road, including the road bed, which is real property, as well as any personal property it may have, in any such county, in the same rati*with other real or personal property in the county. That is, if other real or personal property is taxed a certain per cent, ad valorem, the property Os this company is subject to a like per cent, ad valorem , or if the tax on other property be specific, the like specific tax may be increased on the property of the company. But while I have no doubt of the power of the Legislature to authorize the coun- Iffifbufff'Vifll’ftP'cflS" fSkti T{in£~lS~ Tfitfase such a tax, the question arises ln this case, whether that power has been exercised as to any part of the property of the company not subject to a State tax. And lam satls fi and, after looking into the case carefully, that the Legislature has not conferred aiiy such authority on the county of Bibb, or any other county. The county is only authorized to levy a per cent, on the State tax. Now, as the State is not authorized to levy a tax on road or its appurtenances, in Bibb county, and none such has been levied, there is no State tax upon which the county can assess a per cent. If the Legislature should, at any time, confer the authority upon the county to assess a tax upon the property of the company withtn its limits, it will be necessary to provide some mode of assessing and collecting it other than the present mode of levying a per ceut upon the State tax. But I am satisfied that all property pur chased in the county of Bibb, for the pur pose of locating new depots, or for any other purpose Is subject to both State and county tax, till actually occupied by the road for such purpose. 80 soon as the new depot buildings are complete, and are oc cupied by the road as snch, they will then be part of the appurtenances of the road, no longer subject to a State tax, and can only be taxed by the county In such manner as may be prescribed by the Legislature. And upon the removal to, and occupancy of, the new buildings by the road, the grounds oc cupied by the old depots and workshops, will become subject to State and county tax. While we should not give too narrow a construction to the word “ appurtenances,” it should receive a reasonable construc tion. The term embraces all the nßfeessary depots, shops, and other buildings of the company, which are proper for the success ful management of the road, together with such quantity of land as may be covered by or actually necessary‘for such use, but no more. The remarks made in reference to the Central Railroad do not apply to snch other roads as have a clause In the charter ex empting them from taxation beyond one half of one per cent, upon their net In ■ comes, without any snch provision as is contained in the charter of the Central Railroad, reserving the right of taxation to municipal or other corporations—as the Georgia and Southwestern Roads, for in stance—whose charters contain no such pro vision in favor of county or city taxation. 8. Hunter, D. A. JLochrane, for plaintiff in error. Whittle & Gustin, Lyon, DeGraffenreld & Irwin, Lawton, for defendants. One of three things is certain. Either the American woman possesses a stronger constitution than she has the credit of pos sessing, or else all our ideas of protecting the bo ty from the changes which belong to our variable climate are, and always have been, unnecessary, or it must follow that the present fashion of exposing the throat and chest to the sadden changes which be long to our climate must, erelong, develop an unusual number of bronchial affections. But even If this la not the result of this hideous fashion, we should Imagine that It* Indecency would prevent all women who poaeaa* the least Idea of moral or artistic beauty from conforming to It. Lack of modesty In dress la intolerable In all plsct*, and on all oocaalona— but apart from till* faet, dressing one's self In a manner unroll ml to the occasion, or to the plan*, |« a mistake which no woman g*lt*d with ordi nary sc### should make. Trailing a party ,Irene through lit* dirt 01 apsblte thorougH far* would h* no mar* ildiculou* titan I* 1 the cores#* whiub I* worn 09 lit* etrenl, 1 end whieb *V|*t*w* ilk IwH w the gsro o< I every SAMN*r 1 From the Hew York San. Married to a Pagan. THE WRETCHED EST WOMAN IN NEW YORK— LIFE IN CHERRY STREET—THE PERSONI FICATION OF MISERY. She Is the wife of a Chinese sailor. She lives at 64 Cherry street. Her husband’s name is Mow-Weit-See; but the independ ent freemen of the Fourth Ward, not being able to reconcile their organs of speech to such barbarian lingo, have naturalized the name which is a name familiar to Fourth Ward ears and beloved of Fourth Ward hearts. So this Wretchedest Woman in New York is known as Mrs. Mcrrlsy. Any one who wishes to flud her can do so by going to 64 Cherry street, entering ’the hall to the left leading in from the sidewalk, going to the rear of the hall, ascending the stairs, tra versing the dark hall on the second floor, which runs towards Cherry street, until he comes to a flight of stairs on the left; then let him ascend these stairs and knock at the door which he will coine against ln turning to the right, push open the door, enter the room, and look at the object lying on the bed at his right, between the stove and the wall. The object which he will see lying on that bed Is a woman—Mrs. Morrisy, the wife of the Chinese sailor, Mow-Weit-See. She is a Catholic. He is a Pagan. They have three children, who have been educa ted mainly at the Howard Mission, and who are consequently neither Pagans nor Catholics, but are largely leavened with Protestantism. This commingling of re ligions elements sometimes brings about strange scenes in that dismal room. On one occasion the Catholic wife was found on her knees in one corner devoutly saying her prayers and counting her beads, while the Pagan husband was at the same time crouched In another corner worshipping his heathen gods, and the children were Binging the hymn— £Jeea« loves me, this I know,’’ For the Bible tells me so,” which they had learned at their Mission School That vVas many months ago, when the wifo of Mow-Weit-See conld get out of bed, and bend upon her knees and count her beads. She can do none of these things now. Inflammatory rheumatism, working In her wstera for years, has at last laid its victim helpless. That disease once getting hold of her, escape from its clutch was im possible while she lived, as she for years has been compelled to live ln damp cellars or mildewed garrets, and without sufficient clothing, or fuel, or food, and subjected to the brhtal treatment of her Pagan husband. The public will probably be surprised to learn that the Chinamen who dwell ln this ' '* rl 7 “I 1 married to white wives, ranffamentai ffoctrindv women have no souls, and are of no partic ular account even In this world. Hue, the' traveller whose book onCMna made such an impression some fifteen years ago, says that the biggest joke pf the season wherever he went in the Celestial Empire, was his attempt to maintain that women have souls. The Chinese could not stand such an absurd notion. Its announcement always doubled them up with laughter. Still, we must not be too hard on the Chinese for this, Inas much as some of the most accomplished philosophers in Christendom go farther than they dp, and maintain that neither women nor men have souls. The Chinese notion that men have souls and that women have not works badly In domestic life. It leads the Chinaman to treat his wife worse than he treats his dog. His dog is of more practical value to him than his wife. He can eat his dog, in a pinch, even in New York ; bnt his wife he cannot eat. lie can only beat her, or cat her throat, or shoot her,as Archo murdered his wife. Mow-Wert-See treated his wife after the Chinese fashion; and the Inflammatory rheumatism, starvation and foal atmos phere have treated her after their fashion; and so there she lies on her ragged bed, In that back room, on the second floor of 64 Cherry street, one of the most pitiable ob jects now to be seen on earth. Her chest is drawn all awry, and wrench ed into a misshapen condtlon terrible to lie hold. Her shoulders are drawn out of place. Her arms are tike hens’ legs, and her fingers like chickens’ claws Her body is twisted as la a vice. The coronal suture or her head is torn apart, so that the brain Is exposed. Her eyes are swollen to blind ness and almost gelid. We were at her bedside yesterday morning (Monday, Jan uary 31), at a quarter to 11 o’clock. She was then suffering terribly. “ I have cried all night," she said, “ with my feet." “ What was the matter with them?” we asked. “They were twisted and cramped all up,” she answered. “It seemed as though the pain would kill me; asd I could not see; and my head hurts me so, too.” This woman has no physician to attend her. Bhe has nothing to eat, drink, or wear, except what is sent to her from the Howard Mission, and what her eldest son, a child eleven years old, can purchase with his scanty earnings. Her husband does noth ing. He was lying In bed yesterday morn ing when we made onr call. He Says he can’t get a berth on a ship as a sailor. He was either asleep or else shammed sleep during our visit. We asked his wife why be didn’t shovel In coal, or do something else to earn some money. • “ Oh, he wonldn’t do that,” she said, “If he could cam $9 a day. He’s too proud to do that." A few nights ago his little son—the one who works to help support his mother— was lying In bed with him, and, the child being unwell, groaned with pain; and the father, not relishing such disturbance of his rest, seized the child and hurled him headlong out unou the floor, whereby the poor little fellow waa badly bruised. That Is a specimen of Mow-Welt gee’s paternal afßclfon, And now What la to he done about thl* ? Are there not generous Catholic heart* enough In Maw York to meet this ease f We do not counsel wrath, nor any attempt on the part of-Mr* MorrUy’s countrymen to give that Mongolian Ireath-H, her hus band, a taste of Catholic Christianity. We have stated the ess*, and fit Cherry street, wjioik) floor, hack room, I* open to all eonier*, ___ W* learn that Cspt W h Newman will tommuucs Mulshing up tk* Mton* Mountain Hotel u«»t week Local Reporting —A Professorship of the Difficult Art Demanded.—The proposition to establish a department tor education in journalism in Washington College has elicited considerable comment. The Cincinnati Times thinks there should be a special professorship for Instruction In local reporting, and attempts to indicate what the course should be. It premises, of course, that the student in the local bus iness should have a great deal of exercise on his legs each day—taught that It isu’t brains so much as leg talent that is re quired to make an efficient reporter. He mast learn to smell an item a long dis tance, as the model war-horse “ snuffeth the battle from afar,” and spare no exer tion In finding it. His fancy and imagina tion need to be cultivated somewhat, and his invention quickened and encouraged, In order that he may have something to fall back 4n In case things persistently refuse to happen, for the public demands local news every day, remember, whether there be any or not. Deprive them ol able “lead ers,” and they may stand It for a day or two, but they won’t give up their local .news, not for a single issue. The would-be local will require little In struction in regard to receiving presents of boots, hats, clothing, bottles of wine, oysters, cigars, dead-head tickets, &c. They learn that very readily. The professor can do os he pleases about advising them to reftase or accept such perquisites. If any conscientious young local should have any scruples about accepting, we would remind him that he has as high authority as the President of the United States for taking In any presents offered him, and he can imitate it or not. The student should be taught to miss his meals often, sit up late at night, eat all sorts of festive suppers, and sit patiently to hear long and doll speeches from after dinner orators. He must be taught to have no emotions of his own, to look upon all calamities with a purely professional eye, to observe and describe the convulsive humor of a popular comedian, or a hang m»n, with the same stoical indifference.— Ihe professor of local reporting ought to hang a man occasionally In the presence of the class, In order that they may become accustomed to reporting executions. And finally, the candidate for the “ local ” chair should learn to live on a moderate Income, sternly subdue all inclinations tor more than the necessaries of life, and be willing to give poverty a smiling welcome, until fete or his own exertions hoists him to a higher place. Spinner’s Bureau—What the “ Dear, Sweet Prince ’’ Saw Timbre.—The good natured Treasurer, recalling bis own boy hood. thought the yonog Prlnee would like to see some of the young ladles, about as well as the vaults, and so he conducted him through some of the rooms In which reusnry "billldlng. Beauty is always one of the points which decides whether they shall or shall not be employed. An ungnlnlv. 111-fevored woman Is as obnox ious to Spinner as a Wall street gambler. TheTreasnrer has an Idea that a handsome woman can do her work better than a homely one. As was to have been expect ed, the Prince was fairly dazzled when he entered the room in which the ladies arc. Beeing so many of them made him blush slightly, but Spinner came to his aid and assured him they were harmless and no gushing demonstration need be anticipated. As he passed the corridors from room to room such of the employees as were there stopped to gaze at him. Araongthem were a large number of young ladles, who, being away from their offices, were free from re straint. They commented Variously upon the appearance of the Prince Some said he was a dear, handsome fellow, and looked Just like a Prince; others thought he was not as good looking as some of the clerks, or some of their Congressional friends.— Bome of the more Impressive wanted to kiss him for his mother. Another hoped he Would drop his pocket handherchief, so she might pick it np and keep It as a remem brance. One girl wished she had a lock of his hair. A brunette was cnrlOus to know If he had a sweetheart, and picture! to her companions the kind of a woman she thought he would marry. After doing the Treasury Department, the Prince returned to the residence of the British Minister, where he lunched and tried to recall the beautiful faces he had seen ln Spinner’s Bureau. [New Tork Herald. Wonderful Physical Phenomena.— That celebrated physicist, Dr. Priestly, while experimenting with electricity casu ally Illuminated one of his fingers so as to ‘make It perfectly transparent. The curious phenomenon was noted In his journal, though It does not appear to have excited any further lifquiry. About two years ago, under similar circumstances, the no less celebrated philosopher, Dr. W. B. Richard son, of London, illuminated nearly the whole.of his hand. This strange fact was published in the London Lancet, and copied generally in all the scientific journals throughout the world. Recently, Dr. Thomas Nicholson, of this city, has pursued this wonderful feet still further, and with considerable success. By the aid of the powerful Incandescent light of an oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe, or calcium light, and large magnifying lenses, he has succeeded in completely Illuminating the whole hand, the body of a frog, and other substances. From the successful experi ments already marie, it would appear that for the Illumination of the entire body It Is only neeessary that the lights be sufficiently vivid and the lenses sufficiently powerful. If the whole intcral machinery oftbehumau system could thus be brought directly under the Inspection of medical practition ers, the advantage to selenee .ml to humani ty would be Incalculable. Every person will remember theseml-transparentappear aw e of the hand when held between the eye and a powerful light, and If the vision be aided by artificial appliances there Is 110 difficulty In Imagining an Immense increase of our clairvoyant powers. We may thus be enabled to dlaoover structural and func tiotisl ailment* which are 1 m wholly hid den from human Might, and apply remedies with an exact knowledge of what we tteelre J in accomplish [ ffmt Oiltoiu '/him, January HM 1 I A Mil k** town reported In the M*ryl»ml, I House of Delegate* to appropriate the *nm *of fit 000 ut pur ukase * lot of ground at MnUeic lii wiii'h 1 “ Inter the rs -1 main* of the f Jonfedarate aoldtera who i|i*d I liter* while prteouer* VOL. 29, NO. 7 Relapsing Fever.—An epidemic thus classed by the medical profession, u disease heretofore unknown In the United States has, withtn the last two or three months’ made its appearance in the city of New York, occurring among the most’ destitute classes. A special to the Louisville- Cou rier-Journal gives the following account of Its nativity, with a diagnosis of the dis ease: mber ?, f the * >attentß have been taken to Bellevue Hospital, and there the fever ‘" oae two Instances, has been comma-’ ulcated to the young physicians in afctend- Though unknown here, epidemics ?L"* e „ d!s^f e have occurred frequently abroad, in Germany, Russia, and the Brit ish Isles. Like typhos. it Is a famine fever attateMn® ? 1 JJ! eS ?® neral distress, ams attacking In the first place the poorest classes of the community. Those who keep up with the medical literature of the ?hi« h l. noU ? 1 ® ever » l months back that this disease had made its appearance In London, and that numerous cases had been Dh? In *? the hospitals. Thence it has doubtless been brought, in snite of quarantine regulations, to our own coun try. The complaint ordinarily begins with SomZ! C , h ", 1 ’ follo^® and usual phe! noraena of fever. These continue toln thr?e ' sonr > flve .° r some times six days copious perspiration ter- ■ free a of B the fev«Vh P l t ’ e,,t ‘J** fe «f. though often feeble and ailing. About the fourteenth day from the commencement of the attack a second chill I th ® flm attaok - a flret dL iiif® ° CCUrs about ‘he twenty «nd oases are recorded in which f ven .{ ou I t h have been observed. vISAnS h ? fevcr the symptoms are violent and the pulse very frequent and tho temperature high, the disease is attended w th comparatively little danger, the mor tality commonly not exceeding four or five per cent. It spreads by contagion like other pestilence When It ‘h® by no means con fined to the poor and needy. Marx Twaih’s Hotel.—Havlpcr lately None but the brave deserve the fare hoXTb ,r» Boarders who do not wish to pay ir ad vance are requested to advance and pay ? re "“feted to wait on the col ored cook—for meals. Sheets wl II be changed once In six months 4MI mAM If nAAMMiMW. * Double boarders "Tirrfoirj" two i—*-■ Boarders are requestSf te'ptill’o# ifiefr boots before retiring, if they cuu conve niently do so. Beds with or without bugs. All money and other valuables : re to be left in care of the proprietor. This Is in sisted on, as he will bo responsible for no other tosses. Inside matter will not be furnished for editors under any consideration. Relatives coming to make a six months’ visit will be welcomed; but when they bring their household furniture, virtue will cease to be a forbearance. Tiie Longest and TouOkmt Cocx Fight on Record.—A cock fight was re cently contested between two slx-poupd cocks, owned by Messrs. McLoughlln and Wade, of this city, respectively, for fIOO. Mac’s was a bine-rod and Wade’s a gray cock, and both birds were In splendid con dition. The odds at the start were S6O to S4O on the blue-red. When they wc let go they met with a crash, and for forty minutes fought like devils, without appearing to gain the slightest advantage. After an hour’s desperate struggling the betting changed In favorof the gray cock, but when twenty-five mhmtes more had elated It became even. There was great excitement during all this time among tlu> spectators; one minute the betting would lie In favor of the blue-red and the next In favor of the a. Considering the hard fighting, both i were very strong on their feet. At theexplration of one hour and forty minutes the gray cock lay for dead In the pit, and the nine-red was declared the winner, but he too died Id an bonr after his victory. It was the longest and hardest cock fight on record. —Savannah Republican. A Word for the Loafer.—A writer in the Metropolitan Record heroically comes to the defense of the genus loafer. He says : “ When you reflect that he is not a spec ulator In stocks, that lie is neither a boll nor a bear, that he has nothing to do with the rise in breadstuff's, and, above all, that he seeks to do no man’s work, or deprive his fellow being of hit situation, 1 insist that he Is en titled not only to the conslderatiqp of the community, hut to a certain amount of their respect. Then there are so mauy things which he might do, but which be re frains from doing. I know that in the minds of the suspicious and uncharitable, this Is conclusive testimony of his Idle disposition and his lazy, vagrant habits; but let me ask, are not people often de ceived by appearance, and has not many an Innocent man been hung on circum stantial evidence ? If be Is really lazy, ho Is to be pitied all the more, for I bold that isziuem, when it reaches such a point, Is a disease. Properly speaking, there are two classes of loafers—the constitutionally lazy and those who are lazy from choice. The former, of course, can't help themselves— the latter don't wish to, for the reasons hUUkI." Professor Agassiz Is so unwell that he la not able to attend to bis correspondence, even. A recent tetter from bis wife say* that Its ha* hoeu, and still Is, serloitely 111, having hud several somewhat alarming at tacks : a consequence, ae hi* Physician as sure* him, of nsrvou* prostration and over work, from which it* may entirely recover by absolute rust, lie is therefore forbid den to work for a long time, and will be obliged to give up all public featuring ■ —am 'WfIM t fiMwr rr • - **r '* WNtsgfM term.»- ' A revsuu* officer r* 1 miiui| that k ” Ltrfe of whlekig Mired by hp for not Iwlug stsmpt has (iron stolj by • affine with fscas dteguyssed with krslp” )f tii* whisky was as bad ** tire otfi :*r# spelling! tint** whu ”atoll "It had § poor prim- —mow Mills /vase
