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Old Series-Vol. 26, No. 18.
‘THE VACANT TREASURY.
An Order from Governor Smith—No
Signs of a Successor—The Matter in
Statu Quo.
[Atlanta Herald, 28th.]
There were no new movements in
Treasury circles oh yesterday.
The Governor did a piece of routine
work in sending an order to the Treas
urer, notifying him that his office was
vacated by operation of the law, and
that in ten days he might turn over hie
books and papers to his successor.
The following is the official order.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 26th, 1875.
John Jones, Esq., Atlanta, Ga.:
Whereas, On the 15th teat., an Ex.
urer of said State, in termsTof the law
in suoh cases made and provided, a
copy of which was, upon the second
day, served upon you personally ; and
Whereas, You have failed to comply
with such requisition within the ten
days allowed by law, therefore,
You are hereby notified that, by op
eration of law, you are removed from
said office of State Treasurer, and a
vacancy declared.
You will please, within the next ten
days, state your accounts and deliver
the books, papers and money of the
Treasury to your successor, , as
reqimw’by section 91 of the last Re
»d Ctfde of Georgia.
iven under my nand and the seal of
Executive Department, at the Cap
itol, in Atlanta, the day and year first
above written.
By the Governor! Jas. M. Smith,
J. W. Warren, Governor.
Secretary Executive Department.
HIS SUCCESSOR.
From all the information we could
gather it is quite probable that Dr. C.
L. Redwine will be appointed to fill the
vacancy for the unexpired term.
Should this be true, Dr. Redwine will
be an excellent choice and the mantle
could hardly fall on more capable
shoulders.
WHAT TREASURER JONES WILL DO.
The natural course of events, now
that Treasurer Jones is out of office,
would be for the Governor to proceed
against him and his securities in the
courts in case he finds him indebted to
the State or behind in his accounts.
Os course there can be no impeach
ment for the Legislature has no juris
diction. Col. Jones can, if he so de
sires, demand an investigation at he
hands of the Legislature, and promptly
settle the issues that now beset him.
This course we earnestly hope he will
see proper to take. Without speaking
by authority, we are inclined to be
lieve that he will demand a hearing
before the Legislature. He persistently
demanded an impeachment, during the
last Session, and it was denied him.
His only object as far as we have seen,
has been to get a full and fair hearing.
This he will be abt to demand next
January.
WHO WILL BE HIS SUCCESSOR.
It is impossible to even guess at his
successor. Indeed there is an air of
vague uncertainty pervading the Execu
tive department that justifies the
opinion that the Governor himself has
not arrived at any determination. Dr.
Bozeman has announced definitely and
positively that he would not accept the
office from either the Governor or the
Legislature. “I will not have,” says he,
“any office that requires a bond of $200,-
000, and only allows $2,000 salary.” No
written application has been made as
yet for the place, though it is said that
Mr. Renfroe, of the Comptroller’s de
partment, is a candidate for it. Dr.
Redwine did not come to Atlanta on
any business connected with the Gov
ernor about the office.
It will be difficult for the Governor
to find a man who will make a $200,000
bond for a mere months tenure of
office. The appointment must be made,
however, within the next seven days,
and the right man will doubtless be
selected.
The St. Louis Railroad Convention.
Most of the delegates from this sec
tion of Tennessee to the Southern
Pacific Railroad Convention at St.
Louis, returned here Thursday after
noon and yesterday morning. The
special train from Georgia and South
Carolina, on which a good many Ten
nessee delegates took passage to St,
Louis, returned last evening via the
Iron Mountain and Northwestern
roads. Sixty Georgia merchants were
on board. Twelve of these were enter
tained at the residence of Col. E. W.
Cole, by that gentleman and hi 6 lady,
while the remainder were conveyed in
the elegant hacks of the Nashville
Transfer Company, to the Maxwell
House, where they took supper. They
left for the South at half-past seven
o’clock. Many expressed their inten
tion of revisiting Nashville and form
ing a closer acquaintance with our
citizens and merchants.
At a meeting of the Tennessee and
Georgia delegates, held on board the
cars while en route home, the following
resolution was unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That we, the delegates to the
St. Louis Railroad Convention from Ten
nessee and Georgia, who have been so well
cared for by Colonel E. W. Cole, President
of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis Railroad, desire to add our testi
mony to the wide reputation he enjoys as a
Railroad officer and courteous gentleman;
and for the many kindnesses he has shown
each of us on the trip, our hearty thanks
are due and are hereby tendered,
C. L. Ross, for the Georgia Delegation.
Thos. Claiborne, for the Tennessee
Delegation.
—Nashville American, 27 th inst.
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for
that the crop was likely to be a pretty
large one after all.
The Agricultural department of this
State has put the present crop at 400,-
000 bales, against 550,000 last year.
There, has already been received at
Savannah 258,0CQ bales, against 288,000
last year, making*a decrease thus far
of 30,000. Is it likely there will be a
decrease in receipts of 120,000 bales for
the balunce of the season? It does not
look reasonable. The per cent, of the
receipts at the ports for the past seven
years for the first three months of the
season was as follows, beginning with
1868, 32, 29.4 25.4, 32, 31.7, 27.5, 38.5.
In consequence of the crops tribu
tary to-tie At'anta ports being early
and those of the Gulf ports being very
late, we have put the per cent, this
year at 39, making the receipts at the
ports, 3,900,000 balos, to which add
350,000 for Southern consumption, and
we have a crop of 4,250,000 bales, and
from our present standpoint we do not
think it will be more and cannot see
how it will be less. When there is a
good crop in the west as there is this
year, a large portion of the receipts in
January, February and March are re
ceived at the Gulf ports. But last
year, in consequence of the failure of
the crops tributary to Galveston, New
Orleans and Mobile, the receipts
were very small. There wero but
three weeks last year after Christ
mas that the total receipts were
over 100,000 bales per week, and even
then but very little over. The receipts
are already 150,000 bales in excess of
last year. Now supposo the receipts
in December are the as last year.
But, in consequence of the better and
later crop In the West, we wilf put the
receipts for January, February and
March at 25 per cent, more than last
year, and the balance? of the season no
change from the year before. The
total receipts fbr the three months
named wero 1,080,000; 25 per cent,
added, 270,000 baldfr, this, with 150,000
already received,Vwill make the crop
just four and a4m!f millions. The crop
'Of this Statir was injured by
the July drought, and will pro
bably fall short of last year about
10 per cent. Many farmers and
sections have as good and better crops
than last year. These we do not hear
from. But it is from those who are
habitual grumblers that wo hear that
the crop of the State will be only half
to three quarters of last year’s crop.
The crop tribuary to this city is about
5 per cent, less than last year, but in
consequence of some local causes the
receipts are likely to be 10 per cent,
less. Some towns that sent us several
hundred bales last year are not send
ing us any this. Last winter freight to
New York from this city was 50 cents a
hundred, whfct this year it is 100 cents
per hundred pounds. This makes a
large difference in our recepts by rail
road.
situation.
There was a long and steady decline
from March to October—six mouths.
Then a reaction for October, and now a
dull arid lifeless November, and the
prices for spot cotton at about the
lowest point for the year.
The prospect for a very large crop
and a stock demand for cotton goods
with the price constantly falling, caused
the bears in the cotton market to sell
contracts down to so low a point by the
last of September that they have been
unable to drive it any lower since. The
continent has been a heavy buyer of
cotton, and taken much the largest
amount it has ever done since the war.
Money is very cheap everywhere, and
cotton goods are lower than they were
when cotton was selling for eight cents
a pound; so it is not likely they will
fall any more for this Winter at least,
as a very much larger amount of cotton
goods than at the prices of two years
ago, There is an active demand in
Manchester for cotton goods for India.
Also, there is a growing demand for
bleached and fine crown goods for
Africa from thi3 country. It is not
likely that even large receipts will have
much effect on prices for the next month.
The price of cotton may be lower than
the present within the next two weeks,
but it is likely to be nearly one cent a
pound higher in the next six weeks.
A Duel Fought.
Wilmingtor,'Del., November 29.—R.
W. Baylor, of Norfolk, Va., and Col.
Jas. F. Kegan, formerly an officer in
the United States army, fought a duel.
Blows had been exchanged in Phila
delphia, during a quarrel, Saturday af
ternoon. At the first fire, Baylor re
ceived a flesh wound in the left side,
when friends interfered, preventing fur
ther bloodshed.
Wilson's Remains.
Boston, November 29. —The day was
fair. An immense crowd viewed the
remains. The ceremonies were very
impressive. Business in the neighbor
hood of State street and the burned
district was almost entirely suspended
and the stores closed on account of
Wilson’s obsequies. Flags were at
half-mast all over the city,'which in
many localities wore a Sunday aspect.
At Lowell, Lawrence and many other
New England cities bells wero tolled
and cannons fired.
lEDNESDAY MOpNING. DECEMBER 8, 1876.
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on Sunday by a
shrewd policeman who disguised him
self as a negro, in order to effect their
arrest.
The members of the Immaculate
Conception Church of Atlanta purpose
holding a fair. It will oommence on
the ninth instant.
All regular practicing physicians and
surgeons in the counties of Hancock,
Warren, Glasscock, Jefferson, Johnson,
Laurens, Wilkinson and Baldwin, have
been invited to meet with the physicians
of Washington couDty, on‘next-Tues
day for the purpose of organizing a
medical society.
Rev. Moses Brazeal, and his two
sons, Reese and Charles, Quamly
Walker, Joe Solomon, Sharper Solc
mon, Nat McCormick, Matt Kemp and
Bob King, all negroes, have been
arrested at Irwinton, charged with
“Ivu-Kluxing” several of their black
neighbors who disagree with them
politically.
On Saturday last, Master Eddie An
derson, a nephew of Colonel Alston,
of Atlanta, was loading the left barrel
of his shot gun, having thoughtlessly
left the other barrel, which wa3 loaded,
cocked. In ramming the powder home
the loaded barrel exploded, the shot
ploughing through his face, putting
out one of his eyes, and possibly both
of them.
Atlanta Constitution: Matters were
exceedingly quiet about the Executive
office yesterday. Concerning treasury
matters there was nothing to be
gleaned further than that Mr. J. A.
Richardson and Mr. W. B. Lowe were
tfamed as aspirants for the vacant office.
The Govenor has given no public in
timation as to whom he will confer the
trust upon, but it is certain that he
will select the coming man within
jhe next two or three days,
In the meantime, Captain Jones is
preparing to deliver up the office. He
refuses to make any public statement
at present.
Newnan Star: The very latest from
the - -Brinkley ease is, that Judge
Bucbanau, who is now holding court in
Columbus, refused, on Sunday last, to
hear a motion for anew trial. A bill of
exceptions to this decision, was sent
down lavt night by Mr. Rhode Hackney.
This he will doubtless refuse to sign.
A mandamus writ has already been
prepared in anticipation of Judge
Buchanan’s decision, which will be
presented to the Supreme Court to
compel Judge Buchanan to sign the
bill of exceptions. Should this be
granted, it will stay the execution be
yond next Friday, but it is very doubt
ful. Mr. Brinkley, of Memphis, was
expected here to see his brother last
night.
Atlanta Commonwealth’: The num
ber of escaped convicts since January
last is fifty-nine, only seven have been
recaptured. John Howard has lost thir
teen in four mouths out of an average
of thirty-five. J. T. and W. D. Grant
have lost fourteen and recaptured four
out of an average of two hundred and
twenty-five. F. J. Smith has lost
eleven, has killed one and has recap
tured three. Dade Coal Company has
lost but one man, Wiley Redding, out
of two hundred and fifty-nine. North
eastern Railroad have lost three out of
thirty. Henry Stephens has lost six
out if fifty, and has recaptured four.
Fields, McAfee & Cos., have lost two out
of one hundred. Henry Taylor, out of
forty, has lost none.
Hard Tijies in the Gay Capital.—
Paris, notwithstanding that glamour
of faith which resulted from the pay
ment of the Prussian debt, ha3 come to
see very hard times. Not only are the
poor affected, but the fashionable world
also. This shows that the cause is a
deep one.
Worth, the man milliner, who was
to Paris fashion buyers what a General
is to an army, has lost very heavily by
the pressure upon his business by the
stringency of the times; and though
his horses prance as daintily, and he
buttons his pearl-colored kids as lack
adaisically as ever, it is feared that
financially he is embarrassed to a great
great extent. But, if gossip is to be
trusted, he has lost mainly thtough the
failure of fashionable Americans during
our present panic.
Another Herod in the Field.
Kingston, Jamaica, December I.
A Hindoo employed at the Constant
Spring estate, beheaded five children
from religious frenzy.
A circus is about to visit Memphis,
and the Planet, organ of the colored
people, warns them against it thus:
“Teachers, tell your pupils. Preachers,
impress it on your congregations.—
Fathers and mothers, tell your children
to let this show go by; there will bean
other next year.”
A pretty and_sensible young lady re
marked in the presence of seven bare
faced young men the other night, “that
it just doubles the value of a kiss to
have to burrow it from under a mus
tache.” The next morning one of our
druggists sold seven bottles of a pre
paration to encourage mustaches, in
less than half an hour after opening
his store. —Norristown Herald.
THE WWF VIRTUOUS GIRL.
CrowntfflK the Rosiere in France—A
Remaijnible Coincidence in the
Name sfthe Queen of Virtue.
ICorrespbtßence of th > New York Times.]
Yesterday was a superb autumnal
iiStle cool but very fine—and all
our “ hlfdlifeurs ” went to the races at
Chantilly? .They were not extraordi
nary, mtslfof the horses being little
known, tui the great event of the day
was the success of Colchique. This
superb jgplinal has for a long time come
within;®heiad or so of winning each
race forlwlyich he has been entered, and
has proved a fortune to the book mak
ers. ®e outside public made largo
bets updh Colchique, so great was the
in him, and in each race he
came in second. Still M. De Caumont
continued to back his horse, which're
mained a favorite with the public, aud
yesterday Colchique’s friends were re
warded, he winning the Prix de la Table,
and making sad havoc among the book
makers. But while the grand monde
went tdiChantilly, the rest of Paris went
out to Puteau, to see the ceremony of
the clowning of the rosiere. This
ceremffihy differs from that of other vil
lages in one respect, it being purely
laeiaßjone of the conditions attached
to the legacy beiug that neither the
priests nor the church shall have any
thing to do with it. At Nanterre the
disappointed virgins maliciously de
clare that it is necessary to please M.
le Cure, in order to get the crown, aud
that virtue has less to do with the
choicmthan an affectation of excessive
piety, [ Doubtless this is true to a cer
tain extent, for tho cure always desig-
rosiere. The girl who was
crowned last year, for instance, was in
the hiibit of getting up before light to
hear 6,o’clock mass before going out to
dig her potatoes, aud very frequently
she found herself alone at that hour.
Vpry few girls of of that age could
stand this throughout the year. At
Puteaux it is the mayor that designates
the rostere upon reports made by
scores of persons to give their advice
secretly on the subject. The girl chosen
thisjjear was prodestiued to wear the
croTO, for her name is Bertha ltozier.
She works in a paper mill whore about
one|iundred girls ure employed, and
to hbr greater honor it must be added
that-this paper mill is next door to a
caserne full of superb dragoons. Most
of her companions have the reputation
of being on the most amiable terms
with tho dragoons, but Bertha Rozier
would, not look at one of them, and
aftellfc -trial of twelve months her for
titude Tins been rewarded by a rosier’s
crown and a sum of money amounting
to seven hundred and fifty francs. The
selection of a girl from the paper mill
caused a considerable commotion at
Puteaux, the rule being to take a rosi
ere from among the laundry girls,
since they are exposed to temptations
which can not reach the girls confined
all day in the paper mill. My own im
pression is that the blamhisseuse who
wins the crown of roses ought, in jus
tice, to have her dot doubled.
The ceremony at Puteaux has been
regarded as laical, but this year it has
been made Republican. Let me say,
however, that this is only the second
time that tho Cartault prize has been
bestowed. M. Jules Simon was chosen j
as the orator for the occasion, and upon
the platform, with the Radical munici
pal council, were some of the notabili
ties of the Republican party. Beside
them sat Mile. Rosseau, the rosiere of
last year, whose virtue has not been
further rewarded with a husband. M.
Jules Simon made good use of the oc
casion for making a political speech,
and once more affirmed his doctrine of
tho “amiable Republic,” first declared
at Cette. He called upon all per
sons present to show themselves mili
tant Republicans on all occasions,
and begged them to stand up firm
ly for the government of their
choice. That form of government
reposed upon virtue, he said, and
they were there to celebrate the virtue
of a young citoyenne; and then the ora
tor went into the past to bring us ex
amples of virtue which made Bertha
Rozier open her eyes with wonder to
find herself classed among the great of
the earth. All this was a little out of
place, but there waa one part of M.
Simon’s speech that was superb. He
said that tho reason ho would not dio
was because his work was not finished,
and he had no idea of passing away
until his earthly task was complete.
This task was to bring about obligato
ry instruction in France. Under the
empire he had worked for it as a pro
: fessor and as a member of several com
i missions appointed to examine the mat
ter; he had worked for it as a deputy
and as a minister of his country; he
should continue to work for it until it
had taken root in France. “ If we have
obligatory instruction,” hoadded, “but
a few years will close before we shall
see here not one rosiere but a whole
bouquet of rosieres, for the greatest
safeguard of virtue lies in the educa
tion of our daughters.” Here M. Simon
was on the right ground. In France
ignorance is the mother of vice. Os
the hundred young girls that heard M.
Simon speak, perhaps not half of them
could read or,write ; perhaps not ten of
them could write a sentence correctly.
In ten years’ time obligatory education
would make a great change in the
morals of this country.
The ceremony of the day ended with
banquet at so much per head, the
Mayor inviting the rosiere and her
friends at the expense of the town.
“Isn’tyour husband a little bald?”
asked one lady of another, in a store,
yesterday. “Thero isn’t a bald hair in
his head,” was the hasty reply of the
wife.
THE MAN OF SEDAN.
Astounding Revelations of Napoleon
lll—Wliy France was so Easily
Whipped by the Hermans.
[Chicago Tribune.]
The accumulating facts about the
monstrous inefficiency of Napoleon
Ill’s preparations for the war of 1870
have already exhausted all our ca
pacity for being surprised, but still
they come. We quote a few fresh in
stances of criminal stupidity. All the
eight thousand artillery-wagons were
in a strong enclosure at Yernou, which
was provided with one narrow en
trance. The wagons were so ingeni
ously and intricately piled together
that it would have taken eight months
to merely get them out. Gen. Ducrot
testified that, of the two thousand can
non in Strasburg, less than five hundred
were fit for use. The arsenal was full
of stone cannonballs, made in the
time of Louis XIV. There were cook
ing-pots for only two thousand men
and canteens for only fifteen thousand ;
there were no halters or picket-ropes;
but there was enough black
cloth to dress one hundred thous
and men. Ducrot said he “spent
five years in asking uselessly
for indispensible things.” In Metz,
which was the basis of supply for three
army corps, the supply of biscuit and
oats was exhausted within a week.
There was not an ambulance, wagon,
not a cart, in the town. Os the three
million three hundred and fifty thou
sand muskets, only one hundred thou
sand were chassepots, and many of the
others had been sold for old iron, al
though not yet delivered. There were
only one hundred and fifty rounds for
each ehassepot. The troops were han
dled with shocking incapacity. More
than one huudred thousand of them,
who were absent on leave, were left
without orders, without transportation,
.without arms, and without rations, to
join their regiments as best they could.
Men who were ordered to the frontier
from Paris were actually sent thither
by way of Algiers, iu order that they
might be clothed iu the moth-eaten
uniforms which were lying there. It is
needless to pile up more proofs. These
are enough to convict Napoleon 111. of
a degree of incapacity such as his bit
terest enemies never dreamed of im
puting to him, before his bubble-repu
tation burst and France fell a victim to
her faith in him.
FOX HUNTS.
IN. Y. Herald.]
If Mi. Bergh has ever visited the
scenes he describes, he must have as
sociated with some very queer speci
mens of the “London Club men,” or
the “habitual idler.” “Feeble mind”
and “perfumed body” are not pretty
epithets to apply to the Dukes of
Beaufort or of Grafton, to the mem
bers of the Pytchley or the Quorn, or
the long list of gentlemen whose names,
although they may appear in parlia
mentary annals or on tho lists of noble
charities, are forever damned in Mr.
Bergh’s eyes and subjected to his
scornful vituperation because they are
to be seen weekly during the
hunting season in a godless sheet
known to the unregenerate as Bell’s Life
in London, which advertises, under
date of November thirteen, the follow
ing “meets” in the United Kingdom,
viz: Five stag hounds, one hundred
aud thirty-five fox hounds, eighteen
harriers, all, according to our letter
writer, largely attended by “feeble
minds” aud “perfumed bodies.” It
would be impossible in the limited
space of this article to correct all the
mistakes or misstatements in the little
extract wo have given of Mr. Bergh’s
notion of a fox hunt; but one can ima
gine, for instance, Mr. Talboy’s expres
sions both of face and feelings, if, after
a ringing “view halloo,” “dogs, horses
and men scamper pellmell after the
miserable animal.” Dear Mr. Bergh!
if you had ever chanced to have had
the luck once in your life to find your
self, well mounted, in an easy country,
with negotiable fences, smiling along
over grass land in the “first flight,”
you would have been spared an awful
exhibition of yourself in the way of
writing about what you do not under
stand.
Who own a good steed they know how to
bestride,
Tho’ blind to the fences and brook deep and
wide;
With nerves that ne’er falter, whatover the
pace,
L.t what may delight others, their joy is
ciiase!
Our letter writer, in his lycanthropic
zeal, may, perhaps, forget that the fox
i3 the most destructive of vermin; the
farmers, therefore, who join in the
hunts he denounces have a reason for
joy beyond the pleasure of the chase
in their protected poultry yards; and,
really, in considering the abstract
cruelty of fox huntiug, it does not
seem of great moment whether the
vermin is hunted and destroyed by the
dogs, or whether caught by the leg in
an iron-toothed trap during the night,
he should linger in torture until he is
clubbed to death by a farm servant in
the morning.
It seems almost needless to defend a
noble sport which has done so much
to improve tho breed of horses and to
strengthen the nerve and give vigor to
the frame of men in England; but it is
well to remember that the grand old
Duke of Wellington was a celebrated
fox hunter ; that the gallant cavalry
whose resistless charge at Waterloo,
whose brilliant riding at Balaklava are
things of history, were led and officered
by men who had learned their riding,
their coolness and their pluck in many
Ia hard run with the Pytchley, the
I Quorn or some of the hunting meets
I which take jglace four times a week
i during the soifeon all over the United
1 Kingdom.
New Series, Vol. 3, No. 17
BERGH ON FOX-HUNTING.
Thomas T. Kinney, Esq., President New
Jersey Society for the Prevention of
Cruelly to Animals:
Dear Sir: You will, I am sure, par
don me, as the representative of the
senior society in America for the pre
vention of cruelty to animals, for call
ing your attention to a dangerous and
cruel “sport,” as it is called, namely,
“fox-hunting,” which has just been
presented to the admiring suffrages of
the farmers and other land-owners of
your State.
This impudent and aggressive relief
to indolence is of aristocratic lineage,
and to the feeble mind of the average
London clubman iu particular presents
great attractions; firstly, because it is
of very high "ton," and,' secondly, that
it exposes his perfumed body once a
year to the semblance of physical
exposure. It is true that royalty
itself, as well as “meaner things,?
does sometimes engage in this
“noblesport,” just as it does in
shooting, cock-fighting and bull-bail
ing, but then, in my opinion, thegreater
the offender the greater the offense. I
don’t know whether the frugal and in
dustrious people of New Jersey qufl.o
understand this elegant innovation,
but, in a few words, it is this : On a
given day a number of habitual idlers
issue from their do-nothing abodes,
aud meet at a stated locality in close
proximity to what is termed a “ tap,”
or, In American phraseology, a “sam
ple room.” The convention, all mounted
on horses, and having imbibed suffi
cient air and liquid, starts for an open
field, followed by a numerous naek of
hounds, which locality, on bein - reach- -
ed, a teirified fox is liberate rom a
box, aud the dogs, horses a i men
scamper, pell-mell, after the t> .‘table
animal. Now the fox, exercis ; that
cunning for which he is distim .ished,
generally takes that route wL re his
pursuers can do the most damage to
hedges, gardens, and crops, the conse
quence being that those noble “sports
men” usually leave behind them an
irregular track, characterized by its
widespread devastation. Iu these
predatory incursions, it is true, the
“dashing huntsman” is sometimes
brought in contact with something
harder than his head ; and the “in
ferior animal,” as the horse is erron
eously called, often gets disabled ; but
intelligent sympathy, as in bull-fight
ing, is always with the horse.
Sufficient injury having been dene
to the farmer and the landlord, the
precious pack of men aud hounds re
turn to their usual covers, dragging
along a wretched fox as a trophy, and
the following day the sporting papers
paint the “daring and exhilarating
scene” in glowing colors ; just as tho
“Hackensack Hunt” was done. It is
almost superfluous to add that a “high
old time” usually terminates these
meets, whereat meat is of secondary
consideration.
This pernicious pastime should be
“ nipped iu the bud” by the farmers of
New Jersey, and that illustrious Celt
named Donohue, who “entertains
hopes that these fox-hunts, now in
augurated, may soon become an estab
lished institution in New Jersey,”
should be emphatically told that' if
either he, or his followers, the gallant
Classon, Purdy, Skinner, Levy, Bias
son, or Brennan and Murphy, of
Dickel’s Riding Academy in New York,
as well as all other similar tresspass
ers. are discovered again engaged in
such depredations they will be prompt
ly arrested by the police ; or, failing
which, then by the aid of some swifter
traveling agent, known t b and feared
by certain other malefactors, who prac
tice their . sporting proclivities in the
night time within the country houses
of retired citizens.
I am yours, very faithfully,
Henry Bergh,
President.
The Last of Wilson.
Natick, December I.—The day was
bright aud cold. The funeral ser
vices took place at Mr. Wilson’s
house.
Natick, December I.—At the conclu
sion of private services at the house of
the remains of the Vice-President, they
were removed to the Town Hall, where
public and final ceremonies took place.
The services were conducted by Rev.
Francis N. Peloubet, assisted by Rev.
A. E. Reynolds, Rev. J. S. Whedon and
Rev. Edmund Dowse. After the bene
diction by Rev. Mr. Peloubet, the re
mains were conveyed to the hearse aud
the procession formed. The line
of march embraced nearly every street
in town and it was not until four o’clock
that the hearse reached the grave in
Dell Park Cemetery. Tiie Grand Army
Post Band formed a square abou’- the
lot, while the military escort were
drawn up in line, and in the drive-way
mourners and invited guests having
assembled in body, the band mean
while playing a solemn dirge, the casket
was gently lowered to its final resting
place.
Rev. Mr. Peloubet spoke a benedic
tion, the relatives and friends took a
last look, dropped a few flowers upon
the casket-lid and the last rites attend
ing the demise of Henry Wilson, the
Natick cobbler and illustrious Yice-
President of the United States, were at
an end. The town was crowded with
people during the afternoon. After the
ceremonies ended, the military escort
immediately departed for Boston. The
day is clear and cool.
They 3ay it was a rare and touching
sight at the Dayton, Ohio, depot the
other day, to seo a Democratic ex
candidate for Attorney General chased
through three cars by a revolver, with
an irate female behind it.
