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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1875)
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS. Decisions Rendered in Atlanta, Ga, September 21, 1875—Hon. Hiram Warner, Chief Justice, Hons. L. E. Bleckley and James Jackson, Judges. Scroggins vs. The State. Petition for certiorari, from Sumter. BLECKLEY, J. 1. An affidavit neither attested by an officer authorized to administer oaths, nor purporting to be sworn to in open court, is void, as the basis of a criminal proceeding. 2. Criminal proceedings in a court of limited apd special jurisdiction, must show on their face the facts requisite to give the court authority under the law, to try the case, pronounce sen tence, and inflict punishment. 3. Where such a court is empowered by statute to try a misdemeanor upon written accusation founded on affidavit, provided the accused shall first indorse upon the accusation a waiver of indict ment by the grand jury, a valid affida vit is essential; and if the affidavit be void, objection to it may be taken after conviction and sentence. In such case, the whole trial is a nullity, and the con viction should be set aside by the Su perior Court on certiorari. 4. Indorsement that the defendant waives indictment by the grand jury, and demands the jury allowed by law, is equivalent to the prescribed indorse ment of “Indictment by the grand jury waived.” 5. In acting on a petition for certio rari, it is error for the judge tq with hold his sanction of any fact which does not appear in the petition, or to hear from the ‘magistrate whose pro ceedings are complained of, any state ment or explanation touching the case. What the magistrate has to say can be heard only through his return to the certiorari after it has been granted. Judgment reversed. N. A. Smith for plaintiff in error. C. F. Crisp, Solicitor General; Fort & McClesky, for the State. Stokes us. Morrow. Equity, from Lee. BLECKLEY, J. 1. If ejectment or statutory complaint for land be brought by a stranger against one of two persons in joint pos session, it not appearing that either claims under the other, the judgment, as a general rule, will bind only the one who is defendant in the action ; and the other, not being a party, can not be expelled under the writ of pos session, even though the declaration, the judgment and the writ embrace the whoie of the premises, and treat the defendant as sole occupant. Judgment reversed. R. F. Lyon, Hawkin & Hawkins, G. W. Warwick, Geo, Kimbrough, for plaintiff in error. K. J. Warren, L. F. D. Warren, for defendant. Kemp and Mack vs. G. M. Byne. Claim from Dougherty. JACKSON, J. Where a note is given by the buyer to the sellers “for one four-pocket bil liard table a id fixtures, the said table to be subject for purchase money,” pa rol evidence is admissible to show the terms of the contract of sale between the parties. Judgment reversed. Jos. Armstrong, Vason & Davis, for plaintiffs in error. R. N. Ely, for defendant. B- F. Salter vs. E. Taylor. Proceeding to abate a nuisance, from Lee. JACKSON, J. 1. The stopping or impeding a private way is a private nuisance. 2. Such a nuisance may be abated by a proceeding before two justices of the peace and a jury, under sections 4094 and 4098 of the Code. Judgment affirmed. Cook & Crisp; George Kimbrough, for plaintiff in error. R. F. Lyon, G. W. Warwick, for de fendant. Thomas J. Morgan vs. Seth R. Taylor. Claim, from Sumter. JACKSON, J. 1. A levy on sufficient personal prop erty to satisfy the execution, undis posed of on the face thereof, is no legal ground for withholding the execution from the jury, if it be shown, aliunde, to the satisfaction of the presiding Judge that such levy was unproductive and without injury to the defendant. 2. A bona fide purchase of land by parol, with payment of part of the pur chase money, and immediate entry by the purchaser into open and exclusive possession, more than four years before the levy of the execution against the vendor, and the payment of the bal ance of the purchase money, and tak ing a conveyance within four years prior to the levy, will, if such posses sion be continuous, discharge the land from the lien of the judgment. 3. In such case, the four years’ pos session must be open and notorius for the full term, in order to discharge the land from the lien of the judgment. 4. A charge to the effect tnat if the defendant in fl. fa. and purchaser agreed to keep the trade a secret, the possession under it would be no pro tection to the claimant, who is the purchaser, is too broad. Such an agreement is a circumstance tending to show bad faith in the sale and to cast suspicion upon the fairness of the trade and the possession thereunder, but, by itself, it is not enough totally to destroy the claimant’s right. It should be considered in connection with the explanation of the parties and the other facts of the case, and the charge of the court should have been so re stricted and guarded. 5. Where the evidence is conflicting this court will not control the discre tion of the court below in refusing a new trial on the ground that the ver dict is contrary to the charge. 6. Dilligence must be shown, and party and counsel must swear that they did not know of the testimony at the time of the trial, before the court will grant anew trial on the ground of newly discovered testimony. 7. Where the court erred in his charge on material points of law on which the jury might have found their verdict without considering the real issue of fact, on which the case should have been put by the court and deter mined by the jury, this court will grant anew trial, unless the evidence be so decisive and without conflict as to have required the verdict, notwithstanding such errors in the charge. Judgment reversed. Hawkins & Hawkins, for plaintiff in error. N. A. Smith; J. A. Ansley, for defend ant. Thos. D. Speer, guardian, vs. Rebecca L. Tinslev, et aL Appeal from the Court of Ordinary, from Sumter. JACKSON, J. 1. A plea by a guardian cited before the Court of Ordinary to settle with his wards, that he had taken the note of the executor of their father’s will in settlement with such executor, that such executor was solvent at the time; that some time thereafter he ascertain ed that the executor was in debt, and in a year or two took a mortgage upon slaves to secure the note; that after wards the executor absconded, and all his property was attached, and that he, the guardian, bought the morgaged slaves, who were afterwards emancipa ted by the war and were a loss to him, connected with the allegation in the plea that he had charged himself, as guardian, with so much money due to each ward, and not alleging in said plea that the note he took was payable to him as guardian, or*the mortgage made to him as such, and alleging as an ex cuse for not making the balance of the money due to his wards out of said ex ecutor, that he hoped to have made it by a trade with the executor, is bad, and on demurrer was properly stricken by the court. 2. In such trial, on appeal to the Su perior Court, it is not error to allow the wards to show additional indebted ness of their guardian to them, by showing that they are heirs to their deceased brother, who was also a ward of the same guardian, and whose funds were in his hands; and his return to the Ordinary of the estate of such de ceased ward is proper evidence against the guardian. 3. Where the court, on demurrer thereto, has stricken defendant’s plea, it is not error to rule out testimony offered to prove the facts set out in the plea, in substance the same, though slightly different, to avoid the force of the blow, which struck the plea. 4. On a settlement between guardian and wards, the guardian may show “all reasonable disbursements and expenses suitable to the circumstances of his wards,” and if in the series of years in which he has managed his wards’ es tates, he has not expended the corpus, he cannot be held responsible for the profits or interest of the estate, though he may have spent for his wards more than the profits or interest of a given year that year, or less another year ; provided, during the whole period of ! his guardianship, he has not expended more than the entire interest, and has disbursed it reasonably and suitably to the circumstances of his wards, and legally in other respects. Judgment reversed. 8. C. Elam, McCay & Trippe, for plaintiff in error. N. A. Smith, Hawkins & Hawkins, for defendants. THE PAINT AND OIL BUSINESS. An Enterprising Man and Merchant. Our good friend and neighbor, Geo. D. Connor, at No. 53 Jackson street, on the same block and within a few doors of the Constitutionalist office, has had a very handsome box sign, surmounted by miniature ornamented paint and oil barrels, placed in front of his store. Mr. Connor but lately established him self in the paint and oil business in this city. He is thoroughly conversant with that business, and therefore enabled to offer first-class articles in every re spect to his customers, who, we are glad to learn, are becom ing daily more numerous. The house of Mr. Connor is, we believe, the only one ia this city or section dealing ex clusively in paints and oils both, of every kind, quality and quantity, and being a firm believer in the efflca'cy of printer’s ink he cheerfully lets the fact be known. Mr. Connor has on hand a full supply of paints of all styles and colors, and also oils of every kind—all of which he will dispose of at the lowest rates. He deals exclusively in this line of business and hence can offer low prices to the trade in job lots as well as to retail buyers. The New York Store and Tin House. Anew candidate for public favor has just be. n started in Augusta. It is situated at 169 Broad street, under the Augusta Hotel, and has selected the name of “New York Stove and Tin House.” The front room is devoted ex clusively for the sale and display of stoves and tinware. In the rear is the Manufacturing Department, which em braces copper and sheet iron work, galvanized iron cornices and roofing, tin and slate roofing, tinware made by machinery, plumbing and gas fitting. * The most skilled workmen in the country are employed, superintended by James Gainey, a master of his pro fession. A visit to the establishment would convince any one that it means busi ness, and that contracts and orders will be filled to the letter and in superior style. The house deals in every variety of House-furnishing .Goods, Hardware, Wholesale and Retail. The Wholesale Department offers the same induce ments offered in New York to dealers. Stoves, Grates, Mantels and Tinware at rates never before offered in this market. Everything on hand is entire ly new and modern, and offers extra inducements to purchasers. Personal—Negro Murderers. New Yobk, September 25.—Madame Titiens, prima donna, and Chas. Brad laugh, British Radical, have arrived here. A negro named Areston, arrested on a charge of assisting in the murder of Abraham Weissberg, a Jewish peddler, in Westchester county, turned State’s evidence and confessed that he and two other negroes, named Ellis and Thomp son, did the deed. LSster Wallack has obtained a per manent injunction restraining Mr. Daly, of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, from producing Byron’s drama of “Our Boys.” INDIA AS A MARRIAGE MARKET. A Slackness Caused by the Insuffici ent Incomes of the Young Men— Monstrous Extravagance of Female Dress. The Bombay Gazette, of the 14th ujt., thinks that the Indian mother must often look back with a fond regret to those days when the matrimonial mar ket was not overstocked, and when suitors were more plentiful than spinis ters. Her memory, perhaps, carries her back to her own days of girlhood, when) from the moment she sailed at Gravesend, to the not distant hour when she was happily disposed of in the far Mofussd, all male creation was at her feet with whatever wealth men had to offer in exchange but for her smiles. Those were the days when sol diers, civilians, and merchants hunger ed and thirsted for marriage. There was no shilly-shally about popping the question in those good old times. The great difficulty was to prevent a superabundance of pop ping from too many love-lorn swains together. But things are altered ma terially for the worse now, and there is a tightness in the Indian matrimonial market of this present year of grace which, wo verily believe, will drive some mothers to despair if events do not speedily arise to restore the repu tation of India us a good market for the girls. Considering the very thin disguise that parents nowadays think is necessary to shroud their connubial designs in from society at large, it would be absurd to pretend a delicacy which nobody sees on the great domes tic questions of marrying and giving in marriage. The alternative for a young lady without fortune is perhaps the life of a poor relation, of a governess or companion. Sensible girls see the ma trimonial question from a business-like point of view, and are content to marry and be happy ever afterward, as we sincerely wish they may be. However, if sensible girls cannot meet the sens! ble men to make things smooth be tween them, a difficulty arises that is not readily to be surmounted, and it is in the vain efforts to climb this hurdle in the course matrimonial that some parents tumble to the ground with grievous groans over the manners of the jimes which render such acrobatic feats a pain full necessity. The fact is that young' men cannot marry in India any longer with those prospects of comfort which in olden days made them speak of matrimony as a something awfully jolly. What with the rise in prices, the debased rupee, the frightful ex travagance of feminine fashions, and the parsimony of the Government of India, which has abolished hundreds of appointments and cut down the sala ries of so many more, no young man with his senses about him will risk the maintenance of two persons—possibly an eventful dozen. Thus Miss Quihye is left lamenting on the shore of celi bacy while ‘ Capt. Mull navigates his own canoe on the open ocean there, avoiding the quigksands represented by waving tresses, bright eyes, and twinkling ankles that in these days of state economies bring men to poverty and rags. Mr. Lowe’s Competition walla, who asks the Government for a compassionate allowance wheirewitfa to - educate his children, is no exaggera tion of the poverty of the day. Hun dreds of married men in India at this moment are fighting the battle of life with very little—we might almost say without any ammunition. A misory long ago unknown in in India, that is to say genteel poverty, is common enough here now, and debt is now in curred in India not so much through extravagance as under necessity. Natu rally, when watching the shattered wrecks of matrimonial ventures about them, the young and wary gentlemen of the country sheer clear of such sig nals of distress; whence, we repeat, the memory of the mother for the past, and the decadence of a trade which dealt chiefly in beauty. In justice, however, to the young men from the Mofussil, we must say that the mon strous extravagance of female dress has much to do with their avoidance of marriage. Ten-guinea dresses and three-guinea bonnets, coming fast and furious on one another to answer the demands of church, dances, and din ners upon them, are enough to bring any modest income to untimely grief; but such is the rage for dress to-day, that we constantly see girls wilfully frightening away their lovers with tlieir gorgeous robes rather than deny them selves the gratification of flaunting them in the faces of other women. This may be pleasure for the moment; but it certainly does not induce proposals. In short, between dress and her lover, the girl falls to the ground, which is a pity, for nature doubtless intended her, but for Worth and his kind, to be a gracious wife, and the happy mother of children. The National Railroad Convention. St. Louis, September 25.— The ex ecutive committee to arrange the pre liminaries for the National Railroad Convention to be held here next month held another meeting here yesterday, and adopted a resolution asking the President of the Merchants’ Exchange to appoint a committee to co-operate with the executive committee ; also ask ing the Merchants Exchange to invite other commercial organizations throughout the country to send to the convention delegates who favor the ob ject in view. A resolution was also adopted asking the Governors of the various States to send the convention a number of delegates equal to the Con gressional delegation of the respective States. The municipal authorities of many cities will also be invited to send delegates. An address will be issued setting forth the object of the conven tion and the benefits which must result to the country from the construction of the proposed railroad. Lost in the Gale of the 18th. New Yobk, September 25.—Ship Western Empire, Captain Bertie, from Pensacola for Grimsley, waterlogged in the hurricane of the 18th, and was abandoned. The Captain and crew landed at St. Vincent’s Island, Apa laceicola Bay, in boats. In landing, a boat capsized, and seven were drowned. The remainder, seventeen, landed at Pensacola, destitute. BACK FROM THE GRAVE*! A Husband Returns After Five Years Absence, and is Not Received With Frantic Joy by His Supposed Widow. Five years ago Benj. S. Grosvenor lived in Dowagiac. In June, 1871, he left home for the pur[ ose of going to St. Jo to butcher. He did not return, and his wife could only learn that he got off the ears at Niles but did not reach St. Jo. She heard nothing of him until the following September, when, in a huckleberry marsh near Buchanan, a body was found so badly decompos ed that the features were unrecogniz able. Some of those who saw it were positive that it was Grosvenor, and sent to Dowagiac for his wife to come and view the body. She went down and was met at the depot by a dentist of Dowagiac who had been to see it, and told her he was positive it was Grosvenor, as he recognized the teeth from some work he had perform ed on them. She went down to see the remains, and though she could not pos itively identify them as her husband, all the indications looked that way, and a day or two after she wept over the grave of ber husband, as she supposed. Not long after a son, who was lying very sick when the father went away, died also, leaving her with one child, a little girl. She left Dowagiac and came to this city, and is now cook in the Grand Rijer House. From tdat time she has lived a widow and believed herself such, though she says that there was always a presenti ment in her mind that they had all been deceived and that her husband was still alive. But her friends were confident that he was no longer living, and as the yeais passed by without tiding of him, she had to give up hope and only at times would doubts arise in her mind. Any doubt she might have felt was not shared by others, and it was supposed that he had been mur dered, and she has received a number of letters from detectives—one from Europe—offering to ferret out the mys tery and bring the murderer to justice. She had some reason to hold her doubts, for her husband, [when absent before, had threatened to stay away until he had acquired a competence, but she did think that if ho carried this threat into execution ho would have written to her. Tuesday night at midnight a man got off the cars and presentod himself before her. It was the lost husband, He had gone to Missouri and had been living there. He had not yet become rich, but got sick of the country and retured East. His wife was indignant at his leaving a sick family as he did, and leaving her to work for herself, without lotting her hear from him— though he says he did write, but the letters miscarried—that she gave him a reception more cool than that which js popularly supposed to be the thing in such eases, and rather intimated that as she had got along very well without him for five years, she could keep on doing so. This somewhat dis mayed him, and he went to spe a brother near Saginaw, and is there still. There is no chance for any remarks about K j. cii Arden, for the whole af fai&JtS .decidedly matter-of-fact, and therh is n#«^'c'i»d huftbattdi-shough she says riiere might just as well have been, and her tone seemed to express regret that the matter did not have this romantic complication. She does not seem specially glad that he has re turned, and seems inclined to let him do the best he can for himself, being well contented with her present inde pendent condition. It is not safe nor profitable for a man to desert a reso lute woman with an industrious dispo sition, for the chances are that he will be glad to yet return and ask favor of her.— Jackson Patriot, Sept. 18. A Texas Bed Bug. —A Sherman man, who was out in the country buying grain, stopped at night at a dilapidated farm house. After a fierce contest with the bugs and mosquitoes, he had fallen asleep. He slept about an hour when he was rudely awakened. The old far mer was standing over him with a cocked revolver, one of the farmer’s stalwart sons had him by the heel and was in the act of jerking him out of bed, while the hired man was tossing the pillows around with a three-tined pitchfork. “What have I done ?” he hoarsely asked. “Keep cool, stranger,” replied the farmer, “some of the boys thought they heard a Denison beg bug chawing up the shuck mattress, but I guess it must have been wolves out in the time ber they heard ; you can go to sleep again.” But somehow or other he could not.—» [Sherman Register. Nice little story. Gay young clerk goes serenading all by himself, Tootle toots on his flute. No response. Gets tired and sits down on front steps. White pants. Steps newly painted. Gay young clerk tootle-toots some more. Then goes to sleep. Big dog comes. Gay young clerk starts to run. Can’t run. Stuck. Frantic efforts to get up. Dog uncomfortably near, and getting nearer. Something tears. Tableau: Gay young clerk making Harry Bassett’s time down the pike, dog ditto, patch of white duck on front steps. Gay young clerk thinks serenading a humbug. So does young lady. Do does do g.—Lebanon Herald. Miss Kellogg will open English opera in New York on the 11th of October. Her troupe will comprise Mrs. Van Zandt, Miss Beaumont, Miss Montague and Messrs. Maas, Carleton and Peakes. There is a rumor that Mrs. Zelda Seguin will also be one of the company. She will be a valuable acquisition to the company. The Stamford (Conn.) Advocate says “ Mr. Edwin Booth is steadily recover ing from the injuries received by the recent accident, but it is unlikely that he will be able to appear upon the stage for many months to come. i Many persons, whohavegone to the verv brink of the grave beyond the old line that was once the limit of hope, who have sot their houses in order and taken a sad leave of their families and friends, have been brought back to life and vigorous health by the persistent of the celebrated Home Stomach Bitters. sep2l-tuthsa U&c FOREIGN DISPATCHES. The Spanish Government and the Pope. London, September 25.—The text of the circular addressed to Spanish Bish ops by the Papal Nuncio at Madrid is published. It says he has been di rected to communicate to the Bishops the substance of the protest sent by the Cardinal Secretary of the State of the Holy See to the Spanish Govern ment upon the Papal attention being called to the toleration clauses in the new constitution proposed for SpaiD. London, September 25.—A special dis patch to the Daily Neivs from Madrid says the Pope’s recall of the Papal Nuncio, Cardinal Simioni, and the im plied disavowal of his acts, have occa sioned considerable surprise. Moneig nor Repella is more liberal than his predecessor. Surprise of the Turks—Gambetta and the Bonapartists. Vienna, September 25.—Telegrams state that Dervish Pasha was surprised near Raono and lost 400 killed. Gambetta is quoted as saying : “The Bonapartist Deputies may be doubled in tho next Assembly, but they cannot seize the Government or tamper with the army. London, September 25.—The Times’ financial article says the tone of the market for public securities has been dull, in consequence of lower prices re ceived from all German exchanges, where it is stated the attitude of Rus sia on the Eastern question is causing little anxiety. Corn is dull, but hold ers rather firm; there has been no fur ther change in prices. The fair weather continues in districts where harvesting is not completed, and good progress has been made this week. The foreign and colonial produce markets continue extremely quiet, though there has been an improved demand for West India sugar. The American bark Forest Queen, Capt, Burns, from Port Ludlow for Havre, foundered off Rio de la Plata. London, September 25.—The Pall Mall Gazette’s Berlin special says the Porte declines making any concessions till the insurgents render complete sub mission. The insurgents refuse to sus pend hostilities until the great powers guarantee eventual concessions. The proceedings of the Consular delegation stand still. Consuls ask instructions from their respective Governments. The Deputies of the Left. Pakis, September 25.—The Deputies of the Left have resolved to return to Paris the Ist of October, to prepare for work the coming session, particularly the Electoral law, which will be first discussed. Tho decision of the Cabinet advocat ing the voting by arrondissements pro duces a strong sensation among the Deputies of the Left Centre. A rupture between Dufaure and the Left Centre is certain. No effort will be made to break the union of the factions of the Left. From Montevideo. Montevideo, September 25.—A Gov ernment manifesto declares it will make every effort to purify. It promises a reduction of paper money and to reform the system or taxation, the creation of a national debt. Extradition of a Swiss. Madbid, September 25.—Springly, a native of Switzerland, was delivered to the United States, which had demanded his extradition. SpriDgly will embark at Cadiz for New York. United States Crop Report—The Aver age Yield for 1875. Washington, September 25.—The De partment report of the Department of Agriculture says of the corn crop: Could it be thoroughly ripened its ag gregate would exceed any previous crop and the yield per acre would be one of the best, notwithstanding the losses by overflow of bottoms and satu ration of heavy flat soils, such losses proving less than the usual damages by drouth and insects, while the rains have greatly benefited the crop on drier and higher soils, Nearly every where corn is late in maturing from one to two weeks. The general high condition is still maintained, the aver age being one per cent, higher than in August. The State averages are: Maine 105, New Hampshire 100, Ver mont 98, Massachusetts 100, Connecti cut 108, New York 99, New Jersey 111, Pennsylvania 108, Delaware 100, Mary land 106, Virginia 112, North Carolina 104, South Carolina 87, Georgia 90, Florida 83, Alabama 111, Mississippi 116, Louisiana 85, Texas 89, Arkansas 103, Tennessee 114, West Virginia 107, Kentucky 103, Ohio 97, Michigan 101, Indiana 83, Illinois 95, Wisconsin 60, Minnesota 72, lowa 92, Missouri 111, Kansas 109, Nebraska 73, California 95, Oregon 100. Minor Telegrams. Watertown, N. Y., September 25—A fire last night entirely destroyed one section of Taggart & Davies’ paper mill and sack factory, with a large amount of stock. Cause, explosion of a kerosene lamp. Loss, $20,000. In sured. One man killed by suffocation. New York, September 25.—1n a suit in the Supreme Court, on a foreclosure of a seven hundred thousand dollar mortgage on the Bleecker Street Rail road, Dr. J. W. Ranney, one of the stockholders, was appointed receiver. Wm. C. Dunjed filed an assignment for the benefit of creditors, Wm. L. Lud low assignee. Liabilities, §35,568 08; nominal assets, §9,215 18; real assets. 81,441 27. The Insurance Convention elected the following officers for next year: Row, of Michigan, President; Pills bury, of Michigan, Vice President; H. Rhodes, of Massachusetts, Secretary. Bellefontaine, 0., September 25. The people hung Schell last night. The guards made no resistance, Schell pro tested his innocence. Mrs Drake, remembered by the older class of theatre-goeis, died in Kentucky on the 2d instant. Her acting was re markable for its power and intensity, and she was chiefly uoted for her Lady Macbeth, Margaret of Burgundy, Madame Claremont in “A Mother’s Vengeance,” Evadne and similar parts. ; He last appearance was in Cincinnati, j in 1868. WIT AND HUMOR. When one gets mad at an aristocrat in Washington it comes very handy to say to him: “I know you—you sold gingerbread during the war.” A correspondent seeds us a “small piece of Morton’s bloody shirt.” The material seems altogether too thin for fall wear. “He strained at a gnat and swallow ed a calomel,” was little Johnny’s ver sion of the text yesterday.—l Rochester Express. It is hard to tell which will bring the most pleasant expression into a wo man’s face—to tell her that her baby is heavy or her biead light.—[Easton Free Press. “He was an elder in the Methodist Church, and the leader of the village brass band.” is the touching conclusion to an obituary which an Indiana paper gives a deceased subscriber. A man would have preached in Vir ginia City the other day had not a rock struck him between the shoulders. This is the nearest thing to Sunday services they have had there in five years. They are going to put up a headstone at tho grave of Capt. Cook just as soon as anybody can be found to point out the grave. Meanwhile, the committee will hold your subscriptions. When Ida Lewis rescues a man, she does’nt hold his head in her lap until he revives. Several members of Con gress risked their lives off Lime Rock this season, under the impression that she did. She looked out of the window at the lowering skies and flying leaves, and remarked, with a little shiver of de light, “Time to think about that winter bonnet and them new furs.” The Danbury News isn’t a dead jour nal yet, by any means, but continues, at intervals, to hit the nail on the head with astonishing force and precision. It says: “What this country really needs is a good five cent cigar.” A man was seen on the avenue, yes terday, shaking and quaking violently, and his face one immense mosquito bite. It was afterwards ascertained that he had spent the summer at on<- of the so-called watering places in the n terior of New Jersey. Sam Ward, the Rex of the Vestit ’?, is in town. It is said that he prop> s to entertain his friends at a dinner, : qe prominent feature of the “menu” bt ug pig’s ears. All the Pacific Mail fonts will be invited, including Donn Piatt. A New York policeman, out in the country on a vacation, has worn out six clubs on an old stump. That’s the nearest thing he can get to knocking some peaceful citizen down with his baton. The King of Holland is not a miser. The other day, when a laborer stopped the royal carriage from going into the river, the King handed him forty cents and smiled a smile worth thirty-five cents more. There are, according to Mrs. Craw shay’s calculation, 900,000 women in the United Kingdom for whom there is no chance of marriage. What a pity, truly. The handkerchiefs are “the prettiest and flimsiest bits or lawn and lace im aginable.” But what will the poor girl do if she should happen to take cold in her head? The Providence Journal regards the proposition in the North Carolina Con stitutional Convention to disfranchise felons as a blow aimed at negro and other Republican suffrage. There are seven generals, five colo nels and one judge in the field as can didates for Governor of Georgia. This, of course, doeernot include the majors and captains that are holding back to manipulate the State convention. Red Cloud was interviewed the other day. He said: “Heap wolf white man. Injun nobody. Red Cloud going to git plug hat and bo big as anybody.” It is probable that Longfellow will found a poem on the brilliant speech. Mrs. Robeit Taylor, living near Greenville, Va., has been insane for some time past; but lately, complain ing of a pain in her head, she drove a largo nail into it. She concealed the fact for some days, and when it was discovered, the doctor had great diffi culty in getting the nail out; but Mrs. Taylor’s mind had been entirely re stored by this extraordinary opera tion. One of our tavern keepers actually blushed when a departing guest, on paying for a night’s lodging, kindly pressed another half dollar into his host’s hand, with the request to give those bedbugs one square meal, any how.—[San Antonio Herald. When Bismarck’s daughter meets her future husband at the front door, and demands, with a mitrailleuse in each eye, “You, Wendlzuenlarberge, why didn’t you bring them hair pins ?” he will reach the top story before she gets the name out of her mouth. Fulton Times: A dollar is a large price for a watermelon,” said a pur chaser to a vender of this fruit, as he was paying for one the other evening. “You wouldn’t think so, mister,” said the dealer, “if you had set on the fence with a shot gun in your hand every night for three weeks, watching the patch.” They call them the “pull-backs” out on the frontier, when eastern ladies jump out of the cars or stages, and the usual act of adjusting the bunch of things on the hips creates vast merri ment among the gaping crowds at the stations. Pity that the world must have its ill-mannered barbarians as well as its gentle and modest Chris tians. Speaking of the checks now worn by gentlemen, a London correspondent thus abundantly evidences that capri cious fashion is not confined to the gentler sex. “I believe,” he says, “that some of the plaids are so large that a gentleman has two pairs of trowsers— j one worn in the morning, the other in i the evening, to show the entire pat tern.” The Horse Disease Spreading. New York, September 25.—The horse disease is rapidly spreading throughout New Jersey. The disease is pronounced of the cerebro spinal menengitis type. Number of deaths, fourteen per cent.
