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The Cedartown Advertiser
OLD SERIES--VOL. VI. NO. 46.{ Editor A Proprietor,
CEDARTOWN, GA., JANUARY 29, 1880.
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NEW SERIES--VOL. II. NO. 7.
Thb miraculous release of Charles F,
Freeman, who sacrificed his child at Po-
casset, is predicted by one of the princl-
paljAd ventists of that place. According to
this authority, the early resurrection of
the girl is expected by Freeman and his
religious friends.
The taste for high colors is brought
about by the discovery of the analine
colors. M. Chevreul, the director of
the Gobelin and Beauvais manufactories,
has produced ten chromatic from the
three primitive colors; these ten circles
make thirty series; each tint has its
gamut of twenty-four tones; thus over
14,000 tones are produced, all of_ which
are said to be needed in the Gobelin and
Beauvais works.
Secretary Evarts has notified the
government of Boumani that the United
States will not recognize it until the
Hewbrew population (about 600,000) are
placed on equality with Boumanians,
agreeably to the stipulations of the Ber
lin treaty of 1877. The government of
Boumania had dodged this duty for near
ly three years, and has continued its un-
just'discriminations against the Hebrews.
Eighteen faculties of medicine in Ger
many have declared in favor of vivisec
tion as a process of study and observa
tion. But Bichard Wagner, the com
poser, opposed it in a public letter ad
dressed to E. Y. Weber, ; and Professor
Zoellne, of Leipsic, fights it on the
ground that it results from and fosters a
belief in nihilism. The adversaries of
vivisection have made little impression
thus far.
Dr. Bichardson says that the body
should be in its best physical condition
at 40 years; for thirty years after the
organization should become more perfect;
at 70 old age should begin and last for
fifteen years, when from 85 to 100, there
should be ripe old age, without disease or
pain, but marked by a general subsi
dence of the vital functions. This
his ideal limit of life where nature has
its undisturbed course.
When Mrs. Chipeta Ouray, the wife
of Chief Ouray, of the Utes, passed Al
amosa, Col., eastward bound, she saw the
body of a man dangling from a tree by
the roadside. Mrs. Ouray was so shocked
that she cried all the way to Chicago
and would not be comforted. She
reasoned that if the palefaces were in
the habit of hanging horse thieves the
tribe of her husband could expect no
mercy.
The United States Minister to Bolivia
has turned up at AVashington without get
during leave of absence from liis post o
ty. He explains by saying that the Be-
public of Bolivia is in a state of anarchy,
the President having been bounced, and
that there is nothing for him to do.
The report on foreign missions made to
Congress, a few years ago, showed that
there never is anything for a United
States Minister to do in Bolivia, but he
gets $5,000 a year.
Berlin takes occasion to crow a little
in a recent report issued by the munici
pality. Berlin is of the opinion that it
has done some pretty good growing of
late years. At the close of the seven
teenth century, when London and Paris
had each over 100,000 inhabitants, Ber
lin had only 10,000. At the beginning
of the present century Berlin had 150
000 people within its- gates; at the end
of 1360 there were 500,000 inhabitants
in the city. Since 1877 there has been
over 1,000,000 in Berlin. The city
naturally thinks it has not done so bad
ly to double its population in seventeen
years. It is now next to London and
Paris in population.
Three factions are said to be contend
ing for the control of Bussian policy—
the purely reactionary or autocratic
party, the reform party aiming to secure
the most important reforms, and the so-
called new party, desiring only a few
mederate reforms, such as the decentral
ization of the Bussian administration.
This party does not seek to have a parli
ament, but simply provincial delega
tions with a purification of the civil ser
vice, and the adoption of severe measures
against all destructive agencies. Count
Schouvaloff is the chief supporter of
these views, and his return to office will,
in a measure, depend on them making
them palatable to the Czar.
SOUTHEEJi NEWS ITEMS.
Wheat and oat crops look well in
vjfeorgia.
The Georgia State Geological Depart
ment is no more.
Arkansas ranks next to Texas as a cot
ton producing state.
Eight hundred negroes left Jasper
and Clark counties, Mississippi, last week
for Kansas.
The Atlantic and North Carolina
railroad is now paying the interest on
its bonded bebt.
The five cotton factories in and near
Petersburg, Va., used last year 9,000
bales of cotton.
There are six murder cases on the
docket for the February term of court at
Chesterfield, S. C.
The post-office at Atlanta will be mov
ed into the new Government building
early in the spring.
Ex-Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, hai a
gold mine in South Carolina which pays
him $1,000 a week.
The ■Agricultural Fair company at
Darlington, S. C., has declared a divi
dend of seven per cent.
The Oxmoor furnace, at Birmingham,
Ala., yields eighty tons of iron, and is
netting $1,000 per day.
Atlanta has twelve regular passenger
trains arriving each day, and they are
said to be all well filled.
An orange weighing a pound and a
half has been gathered by John S- Liv
ingston, of Palatka, Fla.
A bale of cotton was raffled off at San
Antonto, Texas, for the Hood relief:
fund, and brought $242.50.
Gov. Joseph E. Brown has purchased
real estate in Atlanta in the past six;
months amounting to $35,000.
Lots sold for taxes by the sheriff at
Hampton, S. C. were bought at good
prices by enterprising citizens.
A bale of cotton weighing 350 pounds,
shipped from Wilson, S. C., was found
to contain 300 pounds of stone.
They are talking of establishing a cot
ton factory in Spartanburg county, S. C.,
with a capital of over $100,000.
The real estate in Columbus, Ga., is
assessed this year at $778,685—an in
crease over last year of $128,000.
A first-class wagon and carriage shop
iB being established at Huntsville, Ala.,
by a Mr. Laptes, from Louisville.
Eleven bales of cotton were destroyed
at Goldsboro through the carelessness of
a boy who was popping fire-crackers.
The shoe trade of Macon, Ga., is
gerater in proportion to the population
than that of any other city in the south.
In Virginia the killing of partridges
and pheasants is prohibited between
January 1 and October 15 in each year.
Good farm laborers in Oglethorpe
county, Ga., get from $50 to $80 per
year and their board, while a few get
$100.
Texas has 7,000 schools, and her school
fund is apportioned equally among the
children of scholastic age, regardless of
color.
To pay a debt, the vestry of Christ’s
church, Alexandria, Va., are endeavor
ing to sell the Bible used by Gen. Wash
ington.
Contractors say that the amount of
building in Atlanta next spring will be
enormous. Beal estate is going steadily
upward.
The amount of stealing in Greenville
county, South Carolina, has become so
great that many persons have erected
man-traps.
The Commissioner of Agriculture of
Tennessee has prepared a large and com
plete map of the state at his own per
sonal expense.
Montgomery Advertiser: Alabama
coal is v fast becoming the fuel for
steamships that ply in the commerce of
the Gulf ports.
The ladies of Americus, Ga., are col
lecting money to pay for removing the
Confederate dead from Andersonville to
the former place.
The town council of Elberton, Ga.,
has fixed the license for retailing liquors
at $1,0QP. Opposition will carry the mat
ter into the courts.
The directors of the coming Florida
State Fair, to be held in Jacksonville,
have decided that no games of chance
will be allowed on the grounds.
The Little Bock, Gas company has
reorganized, and the city will again be
lighted with gas. The price of gas to
private consumers is $3.75 per. 1,000
feet.
One hundred and thirty sin loaded
cars were sent south over the Chatta
nooga railroad within ten hours Thursday
Eight locomotives were required to haul
them.
The only vow that a young lady in
Marion county, Fla., made on the open
ing of the new year was that before the
year ended she would get married, by
jingo.
Prof. Jas M. Saftord, of Nashville,
has been appointed assistant to Prof. E.
W. Hilgard, special agent in charge, to
write up the production of cotton in
Tennessee.
W. S. Thomas, who resides near Eliza
bethtown, Tenn., has two sons, one thir
teen years eld and weighing 351 pounds,
and the other seven years old anu weigh
ing 173 pounds.
The police force of New Orleans last
year made 18,342 arrests, of whom 12,-
781 were males and 5,561 females. The
number of these who could not read or
write was 6,925.
The state debt of Mississippi is $2,618,-
900 47. During the prist two years the
debt has been reduced $220,000. The
cash balance in the treasury Dec. 31,
1872, was $800,757 14.
After defraying the current expenses
of last year, the city of Americus, Ga.,
has remaining in its treasury $938 36,
besides a balance in bank to the credit
of the city of $5,57184.
The Brown House," in Macon, Ga.,
was recently sold, including furniture
to P. C. Lounsberry, of New- York, for
$58,761. The outstanding debts of the
house amount to $26,000.
Hon. Henry Parsons, member from
the Fourth Georgia district, will make
an effort during the present session of
Congress to get through a large appro
priation for the Chattanooga river.
In Danville, Va., a man named Wil
liam Fuller was offered a quart of whisky
by a saloon-keeper on condition that he
w T as to drink it on the pretrises at once.
He accepted the offer and was buried
the next dsy.
Chas. E. Boberts, well known in news
paper circles, who has been engaged in
theological studies at Nashville, Tenn.,
is lecturing on “ Negro Civilization in
the South.” He has also written a book
on this subject.
Greenville (S. C.) News: A medium
rabbit hunt came off in the lower part of
the county one day last week. Eighty-
six of the insects were captured, as many
more were treed, and it was a poor day
for rabbits, anyway.
Memphis Appeal: The protection of
cotton has become a matter of considera
tion in cotton circles. We have shed
room for some forty thousand bales; and
we have nearly one hundred and twelve
thousand bales on hand.
In the dissection of the whale captur
ed last week at Charleston, S. C., the
eyes were extracted. They are about
the size of an ordinary orange, three
inches in diameter, and very firm to the
touch The pupils are oval.
At Dallas, Texas, Dr. Thomas Finn
pleaded guilty in the Federal Court to
raising genuine currency bill fioui a one
to a five and one from a ten to a twenty.
His punishment was assessed at five
years in each case and a fine of $500.
A Negro woman named Patience Bur
rell died at the poor-house of Norfolk
county, Va., on Sunday, sged 112 years.
She was for many years an inmate of the
institution. The husband ol the de
ceased died about two years ago, 110
years of age.
The operations of the Department of
Agriculture recently created by the Leg
islature of South Carolina, are expected
to commence during the present month.
Hon. A. P. Butler, present state fish
commissioner, will be placed in charge
of the new department, retaining at the
same time his position of fish commis
sioner.
An official report from a committee of J an Iffro^to^commhtee thetounfinglhe
Pendleton Grange, Anderson county, S. j Tote J for President . rep orted baek the bill
C., shows that the crops grown ^ by the amending the statutes relating to presidential
members of that body are much more
remunerative than those grown by far
mers in similar circumstances in Texas
or Arkansas.
A whale measuring thirty-nine and a
half feet in length was captured at
Charleston, S. C., last Wednesday, It
has since been on exhibition to all who
will pay to see it. The Curator of the
college museum will probably be allowed
to preserve its skeleton.
Augusta '(Ga.) Chronicle: Augusta
must depend for her future progress and
prosperity upon her manufactories. A
factory lie that the Sibley Manufactur
ing Company proposes to erect Will add
at least 5,000 people to the present pop
ulation, and give a new impetus to trade.
J. B. Holloway, of Marion county,
Tenn., grew 1,500 bushels of peanuts
last year, and considered it a very pro
fitable crop. Everything about the pea
nut can be utilized. The vines and
leaves make a most excellent fodder, and
are eaten by all kinds of cattle with evi
dent relish.
Judge Billings, of the United States
Court at New Orleans, is of the opinion
that harsh, forcible and even profane
language on the part of captains and
mates of river boats i3 necessary at times
to get the men to do their duty, and
that such language is customary and to
be expected.
Mexia (Tex.) Ledger: It seems out
of the question for people to get enough
suitable labor to cultivate their farms
the present year. Many persons here
tofore furnishing renters with their sup
plies along through the year are now
unable to do so—hence the amount
of land unrented.
Augusta ( Ga.) Chronicle: The new
purchasers of the Atlanta and Gulf rail
road will commence work on a railroad
from Waycross to Jacksonville [within
the next sixty days. The distance from
one point to the other is seventy-two
miles. This will then be the shortest
railway route to Florida.
Nashville Banner: Judte Tyler has
entered suit at Clarksville, in behalf of
Montgomery county, against the Louis
ville and Nashville railroad company for
upwards of $50,000 back taxes on assess
ments since 1850. The railroad com
pany files a plea against the assessment,
and the case goes into Chancery.
Chattanooga Times: It is noised
abroad that we are to suddenly have a
bridge over the Tennessee river, extend
ing directly north from the foot of Mar
ket street. The said bridge is to have
not less than six piers beneath it and a
ponderous draw of sufficient capacity to
pass the largest possible steamer. "The
work will be let suddenly or sooner by
the proper committee.
The Columbus Enquirer has preserved
a list of the gin-house burnings in Geor
gia, Alabama and Florida during the sea
son, commencing in September, 1879.
Up to Sunday the list showed the burn
ing of fifty-nine cotton gin-houses in
Georgia, thirty-five in Alabama and thir
teen in Florida; total 107 in eighteen
weeks. With each was consumed con
siderable cotton.
The Greenville (S. O.) News says that
it was announced that a son of Oliver C.
Ross and a Miss Painter were to be
married on Thursday night, when the
old man threatened in case tbe wedding
occurred to kill his son. The marriage
took place, however, and the old man,
who had prepared himself with a shoot
ing iron, hept his word. He is now
seeking to avoid arrest.
Chattanooga Times: The great ex
citement which has prevailed throughout
the world since the recent discoveries,
improvements and perfection of Edison’s
electric light has struck Tennessee broad
side, and on every side we hear of electric
light corporations springing into exist
ence. One company has been incorpora
ted in Nashville, two in Knoxville, one
in Memphis, and now we are to have one
also.
A shocking murder was committed at
Charlotte, N. C., Thursday. ’Souire Car
rington sent his tweive-year-ola son into
a field to watch some cows, but the boy
left his post and went to playing. For
the offence the father caught him, and,
after stripping him of his clothing, took
him to the woods and actually flayed
him alive. He left the dead body naked
in the woods. The boy’s body was lit
erally cut to pieces by the stick which
the monster used. The unnatural father
is now under arrest.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
The Senate, Jan 12: Mr. Paddock intro
duced a bill to authorize the appointment of
commissioners to ascertain and report the
losses sustained by citizens of the U. S. on
account of Indian depredations and to adjust
claims arising therefrom. Referred The
Senate took up and passed a number of pri
vate bills for the relief of individuals, and a
bill for the support of the West Point military
academy with amendments, reported by the
committee of appropriations The Senate
then took up the special order, being a bill
to prevent cruelty to anima’s in transporta
tion On motion of Mr. Thurman it was
made the special order for Monday next
At 2 p. m. the Senate went into executive
session, and when the doors were opened,
adjourned.
The House, Jan. 12: The Speaker proceed
ed to call the States for bills and resolutions,
under which call the following were intro
duced and referred: By Mr. Ballon (Rhode
Island) to reduce the tax on deposits subject
to payment with persons and associations en
gaged in the banking businoss By Mr.
Robinson (Massachusetts) in regard to the
compensation and .expenses of pension
agents By Mr. F. Wood (New York) to fa
cilitate the refunding of the national debt
By Mr. Ellis (Louisiana) providing for
mail service between the United States and
certain foreign countries By Mr. Warner
(Ohio) to stop paper inflation and provide
for the the necessary increase of volume of
currency by by a free coinage of silver and
gold, and gold and silver certificates. Also a
resolution calling on the secretary of the
treasury for information hs to the times, con
ditions, etc., of the United States treasury be
coming a member of the New York clearing
house By Mr. Thomas Turner (Ky) for the
benefit of small producers of tobacco By
Mr McMillan (Penn) for the relief of certain
souther* mail contractors By Mr. New
berry (Mich) to amend the inteinal revenue
laws in regard to taxation of national banks
By Mr. Updegraf (Iowa) changing the
time for counting the votes for President and
Vice-President Mr. Hosmer (Penn) moved
to suspend the rules and adopt the resolu
tion for the appointment of a committee of
seven to investigate the manner of paying
pensions, bounties, etc., to soldiers. Adopted.
Adjourned.
The Senate, Jan. 13: Mr. Jones (Florida(
presented a petition of the citizens of Tampa,
Florida, for the improvement of the harbor
at that place.>....Mr. Butler (S. C.) pre
sented a petition of the citizens of South
Carolina for the improvement of the Wateree
river Mr. Saulsbury introduced a bill to
preserve the secrecy of telegrams. Referred,
The Vice-President laid before the Sen
ate a recommendation from the secretary of
war that the appropriation for arrangirg the
confederate archives be increased to $7,500.
Referred. Adjourned,
elections, providing for the counting of votes
and fbr the decisions of questions arising
therefrom, and it was made the special order
for January 29th Mr. Money (Miss) sub
mitted a report to accoinpany the bill for the
establishment of return-letter offices. Referred
to the cotninittes of the whole. The House
theh wefat Into a coinmittee of the whole on
the revision of rules and there was more dis
cussion on the rule requiring the commerce
committee to report the river and harbor bill
for reference to the appropriations committee
Pending the discUsBion { at 4:25 the com
mittee rose and after the introduction and
reference of two or three bills, the house ad
journed.
The Senate, Jan 14: Various petitions
were presented: for a liquor traffic commis
sion; for a cable to Central and South Amer
ica, via the Gulf of Mexico; for the relief of
Fits John Porter; for an atnendment of the
law relating to the seizure and forfeiture of
vessels for a breach of the revenue laws
..... Mr. Kirkwood called up the bill to in
crease the pensions of certain totally disabled
soldiers and sailors, and it was passed. It in
creases the pensions of such persons from
$]%tc $72 per month. Adjourned.
THE HOUSE, Jan 14: Mr. Upson (Texas)
reported a bill appropriating $200,000 for Die
erection of suitable posts tor the protection
of the Rio Grande frontier. Referred to
committee of the whole. The House then
went into committee of the whole on the re
vision of the of the alleged excessive power
given by the new rules to appropriation and
judiciary committees At 4:20 the commit
tee rose, and after the presentation and ref
erence of several executive communications,
the House adjourned.
The Senate, Jan 15: Mr. Allison, from
the committee on finance, announced that he
was directed by that committe to report back
the joint resolution for the withdrawal of the
compulsory legal tender power of the United
States treasury notes. The committee had
made a verbal amendment to the resolution,
unanimously agreeing to it, and with that
amendment directing nim to report the reso
lution adversely. He understood there was a
minorty report to be presented, otherwise he
would ask an indefinite postponement of the
resolution. He asked that it he placeffon the
calendar for the present. So ordered Mr.
Bayard, from the same committee, presented
the views of the minority, as follows : The
undersigned believing the industrial, com
mercial and financial pro pects of the coun
try, in order to be enduring, must be bared
upon money of actual and intrinsic value,
and that onr government has no power, and
is incompetent to endow its obligations with
such value, and the United States treasury
notes in existence and in circulation, being
now redeemable in gold and silver coin at
the option of the holder do recommend the
withdrawal of the compulsory legal power of
such notes, and the passage of the subjoined
resolution. Fbancis Keenan.
Thomas F. Bayaed.
Mr. Morgan presented the credentials of
Luke Pryor, appointed as Senator from Ala
bama until the legislature elects a successor
to the late Mr. Houston. Mr. Pryor was
sworn in on taking the modified oath Mr.
Garland introduced a bill to release the Mem
phis and Little Rock railroad company from
the operation of so much of the acts of
of 1853 and 1863 as unjustly affects such
corporations; also to authorize the secretary of
the interior to certify to said road the. public
lands to which it is entitled under said acts.
Referred. Adjourned to Monday.
The House, Jan. 15; After having trans
acted some miscellaneous business the House
resumed reconsideration of the bill requiring
one-half the reser^* of national .toh»
kept in gold and silver com of the United
States .... Afr. Price (Iowa) had the floor and
spoke in favor of the bill Mr. Price
in advocating the bill relative to bank re
serves, declared himself opposed to any tink
ering with the «urrency, either as to the
quantity or quality of the of paper which is
circulating. He was also opposed taking
away the legal tender quality of greenbacks.
All prudent men spoke in thunder tones and
said: ‘"Let well enough alone” Mr. Lewis
(Alabama) followed with a speech in favor of
the bill The morning hour haying expired
the bill went over without action.. After
a long discussion of the revision of the rules
in committee of the whole, in the course of
which Mr. Hoar (Michigan) made a humorous
speech in behalf of the committee on manu
factures, to which he insisted all other com
mittees should report. The House at 4:30
adjourned.
The House, Jan. 16: Mr. Stanford (Ala
bama) from the committee on claims, report
ed the bill refunding to the state of Georgia
$35,000 expended in the common defence in
1777. Referred to committee of the whole.
Mr. Brights (Tennessee) chaiiman of the
committee on claims, reported a resolution
railing on the secretary of the treasury for a
statement of the moneys received into the
treasury from the proceeds of the sale of
lands for direct taxes in South Carolina.
Adopted The House then went into com
mittee of the whole on private calendar, and
took the up bill for the return to Charles N.
Clinton, late assistant treasurer at New Or
leans, of $5,800 stolen from him in 1874, and
refunded by him to the United States. After
an extended debate the committee refused by
2 to 62 to report the bill favorably to the
House. The committee then rose and the
House adjourned until Monday.
A Lesson for Employers,
A judgment lately pronounced by a
court of justice at Dresden may serve
as a warning te those benevolent per
sons, in Germany at all events, who
may be tempted to give their servants
on discharge a better character than
they had proved themselves entitled to.
A merchant at Dresden a short time ago
engaged a young man beloging to a
family of good position and highly re
commended by nis last employers as
cashier in a retail place of business. In
this position it was his duty to receive
all money paid in during the day and
convey it in the evening to the head
book-keeper of the establishment. Sev
eral circumstances led to suspicion that
the new cashier did not give npat the
end ef the day all the money paid to
him during the hours of business. Con
sequently arrangements were made for
checking the sums collected and paid
over by the young man, and in a few
days it was ascertained that he had ap
propriated at least $400. The default
ing cashier was accordingly summarily
dismissed, and his employer applied to
the merchant who haa originally given
him a good character for repayment of
the sum stolen. This the merchant
refused, hut on the matter being taken
before a court of justice, and on its be
ing shown that the young man had been
discharged by his first employer because
he had stolen money from him, and that
the good character had been given him
from a feeling of pity, the original em
ployer was ordered to make good his
protege't defalcation,
A Curious Plant.
An Appleton (Wis.) paper reports
the discovery in Wisconsin of a curious
plant which produces a kind of cotton
and flax from the same stalk. It has
already been woven into fabrics, and as
any article that will make as good cloth
as can be made from this plant will
make good paper, it has been called the
paper plant. It can be planted in the
spring and cut in the fall and winter.
It bleaches itself white as it stands, and
will yield at least three or four tons to
the acre. From a single root that was
transplanted last spring grew twenty
large stalks, with three hundred and
sixty-five pods containing the cotton,
with at least sixty seeds in each. From
this root were obtained seven ounces of
pure cotton and over a pound of flax.
It is a very heavy plant, and grows
, from six to seven feet high.
S PASTOR’S RESIGNATION
BX z. zdoab ;om
Ike aged pastor bowed his head within the altar’i
tailing;
ends were tremulous with age, his sight and
Voaring failing;
Mud faith and trust were striving hard to Ifht
away his tears,
tot yet hia heart was sore and sad and sought re
lief la tears.
tor forty yeare his tongue proclaimed to all sal
vation’s story,
fet forty years to all who came he offered hope of
fortyyears the bell that echoed now frem out
tbo steeple
toocMmed that here his warning voice had tidings
for his people.
now the leaden of the church—an influential
■Id called on bin to yield his place to hold a
younger man;
■a energies had long been apent, ’twaa meet be
’ mould retire
Ito they might call a man of mark endowed with
■ youthful Are.
■Kb quavering voice he gave response to friends
who offered greeting.
gad listened in an absent way to members in the
DtMOureiBg in familiar tones of changes thay were
tod asking ^him to make remarks, although his
heart was breaking.
But yet he spoke—as oft before-his voiee aglow
with feeling,
While down his faded, furrowed face alow tears
were softly steeling,
k holy hush pervading all, aa though
spell
t angel
i to bid his look far fi
gs spoke of memories sad and sweet, of dim and
distant days,
Of forty years of constant toil, of pain and prayer
•mri praise—
Of children—christened by his hand who stood
before him still,
While some reposed beneath the flowers upon the
distant hill.
And hare his voice sank aad and low—for there his
ehild and wife
Were laid when death had left him Ions to live his
laboring life—
Par more were they he once had known, who
»neath the willows slept,
Th.w they who sat before him new, and e’er their
memories wept.
For all he prayed as fathers plead for children
whom they love,
Twt might once again be joined in God’s abode
above;
And then, in voice replete with tone* of love and
fond caressing,
He raised his trembling hands aloft and guvs to all
his blessing.
The saddened people silent sat as he resumed his
chair,
While rays ol sunshine eoftly tell end played upon
hie hair,
isd rested there with light careea, as though e
By which an'angri message somght and soothed
Un in his pain.
The organ broke tha silence then with aweetiy sol
emn roll,
That wailed in wares si sUrar song ecross tho sad-
goal,
With -Boekol Agesold, yet new—msjwtls, grand,
and strong—
Well may tha angel eholrs above its futvering
notes prolong.
ifce people rote to be dismissed; their pastor lin
gered sun,
And imfUng looked upon the graves that crowned
toe distant hill;
But when toey sought with grith touch to wake
the muring mind,
They found that death had called Urn henoe:
CINCIIfKATI’S EAKI.T BAT.
Fonag Israel Ludlow, of New Jersey, Ito
Founder—His Expedition to the Weat-
Ae Early Survey*-Slariettn’a Cestaw
nisi Anniversary April 7, 1888; duels-
Of recent date there has been much
eontroversy going on regarding the early
«ettlement of Cincinnati, a writer, a
Mrs. Hopkins, well known to Cincin-
oatians, contending in unmistakable
terms that her ancestor, Captain Covalt,
was the original settler. The article
following on this subject contains infor
mation not heretofore published, and
will doubtless, for its history, be read
with some interest. It is from the pen
of one of Cincinnati’s oldest settlers.
After giving the earlier history of Israel
Ludlow, and stating what lead to his ex
pedition to the West, the writer, in the
Cincinnati Gazette, says:
When twenty-three years of age he
received a letter from Gen. Hutchins,
the Surveyor General and Geographer
of the United States, inclosing an or
dinance of Congress for the sale of a
large tract of land in the Ohio Terri
tory, which the New Jersey Society
have contracted to purchase. As it
will be necessary to survey the bound
ary with all possible speed, I propose
to appoint yon for that purpose, being
assured of your ability, diligence, and
integrity. I hope you will accept it.”
He did accept the appointment, and
received an order on the frontier posts
for a sufficient escort to enable him to
prosecute the survey. Accompanied
by a party of twenty energetic young
meD, he proceeded to the Northwest-
ert Territory.
From Pittsburg he descended the
Ohio Biver, stopping at Limestone to
confer with hi3 friend, Mathias Den
man, of New Jersey, who had purchased
some sections of those lands in Ohio,
and was waiting there on his return from
looking at them. While Col. Ludlow
remained ai Limestone, he became asso
ciated with Dr Denman and Col. Bob-
ert Patterson, of Lexington, Kv., in one-
third interest in their proposed town on
the Ohio Biver, opposite the mouth of
Licking Biver. The plat of the town
was then made complete, and they
named it Cincinnati.
came the home of their domestic hap
piness and charming hospitality.
This vast country, from the Ohio
Biver to the Pacific Ocean, was at these
earliest dates an unknown wilderness to
the white man. The Ohio Territory
was the banting ground of the Wvan-
dots of the North and the numerous
tribes of the Miami. The Pottawai*
omles and Delawares ranged from the
Miami Valley to the plains of Sandusky,
while the Deiewares inhabited the ex
tensive Scioto Valley. All these tribes
were in excited hostility against the
whites.
With great exposure of life and count*
less fatigues, Col. Ludlow succeeded in
the Miami survey to the satisfaction of
the Government, He was again com
missioned by the United States to sur
vey and determine the-boundary be
tween the United States and the In
dians, agreeably to the treaty of Green
ville, made by Gen. Wayne in 1795.
These duties were attended with im
minent peril from savage treachery and
scarcity of provision for imen. and
horses.
His solicitude in the sucqess of the
town continued unceasingly, and his ef
forts nnabated in assisting the fast com-
ing population in their selection of
town lots and farms, and giving them
remunerative labor, by clearing the
forests preparatory to cultivation. To
i im they looked in confidence for ad
vice, material aid, and sympathy, after
their wearisome journey anu exhausted
finances. His short life was illustrated
by a series of practical benevolences.
Col. Ludlow was not permitted to
witness the wonderful result of the en
terprise which nis untiring industry wa:
forwarding. He died when quite a
young man,
A Dangerous IT him.
Officer Gillespie, of San Francisco,
was recently waited on by a woman
named McConnell, who resides on Mis-
lion street, and who stated that she
wanted him to take charge of her hus
band, who was on the street, armed
with an ax, and threatening the lives
of those who passed by. The officer
went to the place designated, and there
saw McConnell, whose first name is
James and who is a blacksmith by oc
cupation, standing on the sidewalk with
an uplifted ax in his right hand.
The officer took charge of the man and
conveyed him to the Central Station,
where he was examined and found to
have received two wounds, in the
back of the right hand and on the upper
part of the left shoulder. The prisoner
was charged with assault with a deadly
weapon, and after his wounds, which
are very slight, were dressed, he was
questioned, and said: “This whole
tiling arises from the fact that some one
had connected an electric battery, or
something of that sort, with my bed
last Monday night, I don’t know ex
actly what it was, but it was a sort oi
cross between an electric light box ant
a telephone, from which numerous
streams of electricity darted and dis
turbed me. This was going on all the
time, yet my wife could not see the
light, which lit up the place more bril
liantly than the sun. 1 went out and
watched and saw my neighbors throw
ing electric balls and darts at my house.
I came here to-day to complain to the
Chief of Police, but went away, as I was
satisfied I wouldn’t get much satisfac
tion anyhow. To-night I got the ax
and saw the fellers at the same work
again, so I determined to stop every one
who came along to find out if they had
anything to do with the electric current,
and I halted every one that came along;
but every time I raised the ax to strike,
a dart of electricity was thrown at me
and that made my arm powerless.
Some people say I had the jim-jams, but
that’s false.”
Genius Knows no Limit.
(Detroit Free Freea.J
“When the saw buck was invented,”
said the orator, as he cast a sly glance at
Elder Toot’s bow legs, “ some folks im
agined that the limit was reached, but
it*was only twenty-nine days before de
world was convulsed wid de news dat de
buck saw had sprung into life. After
de buck saw came de horse-radish
grater, an’ upon de heels of dis came de
§ lotions news dat genius had given us
e far-soundin’ tinkle of de cow bell.
[Cheers.] Some men wanted to fold
deir [hands en’ die, finkin’ de eand had
come, but genius plumed her hack an’
lo! we had taller candles. [Wild
whoops.] Light shone in dark places,
but it was no time to stop. Wid one
wild swoop of her raven wings, genius
left at our doahs a jug with a handle
and de wheelbarrow. [Cheers and
yells.] So it has gone. We didn’t stop
wid de clothes pin, hut sprung for’d to
de ha’r-pin, de stove handle, de jack
knife, ae dictionary, ice-cream, lager
beer, an’ odder splinters of genius too
many to menshun. We shall nebber
stop. What am new dis y’ar will he ole
de nex’. Genius will not be content wid
replacin’ de bed cord by springs, or de
stage by de locomotive, but will go on
and on and on, until buttermilk kan be
A Wonderful Parrot.
A wonderful parrot was fprmefjy
owned by a physician of Montgomery,
Ala., which was the pride of the county.
The negroes used to say, “ Brass de
Lord! dat ’ar bird got white to As”
sense I” A correspondent of the Globe-
Democrat, of St. Louis, rulflt#s the fol*
lowing of this parrot:
The doctor, tike all physicians, was
frequently called out at night by some
one’s “ halloo” at the front gate.
Polly learned this, and one night
when the doctor answered a shrill
“halloo” by coming to the door and
asking what was wanted, Polly answered
from a bunch of rose-bushes:
“ He! hi 1 ha! I fool the doctor that
time; hi! he! ha I”
Polly received a sound thrashing for
this trick and was quite sullen for a
week or so, when one dark, rainy night,
the doctor woke up to hear some one at
the gate repeating his "halloo,” fre
quently.
Going to the door he asked who was
there. From the top of a tall Lom
bardy poplar, the parrot screamed out
in fiendish glee:
“ Hal ha! ha! You can’t cateh Polly
this time I You can’t! yon can’t!! yon
can’t! ! !”
All the doctors persuasive arts were
called into requisition to get the parrot
down from her high perch, but she could
not be deceived, coaxed or flattered into
doing as he commanded or entreated
her.
She resolutely kept her perch all night
in the rain, and waited until he started
off next morning on his daily round,
before she ventured down.
The doctor had a little boy, aged
about two years, for whom the parrot
formed a strong attachment. Warren
was the child’s name, and by-and-by he
fell sick.
The parrot moped around and ap
peared to be quite melancholy. At
times, when the child was left alone for
a few moments, Polly would hop^up on
the edge of the cradle, and , spraeding
out her wings, she would vibrate them
like fans, and ask as she had heard the
nurse ask:
“Poor baby! Baby want water?
Baby sick? Baby hungry! Poor baby I
Polly’s so-o-o sorrv.”
Final] v the child died, and the parrot
slunk away for the two days preceding
the funeral, and was neither seen nor
heard. On returning from the ceme
tery, the family met her, waddling along
in the middle of the road, repeating to
herself in the tenderest and most
mournful manner:
« Where’s little Warren? Poor baby I
Baby sick! Baby want water? P-o-o-
o-o-r baby! Polly’s so-o-o sorrv.”
She was picked up and taken back
home, but never spoke another word un
til the day of her death, when she cried
out, “Hawks, hawks,” and the next
minute was whisked away in the talons
of a monstrous chicken hawk, that had
been watching for an opportunity to
carry her off for several hours.
The South’s Prosperity.
The advance in the price of cotton is
of great benefit to the farmers and small
planters of ihe South. Seys the At
lanta Constitution:
We have shown a short time since
that the price of cotton for the past
three months has added at least $10 per
bale to the natural price of every bale of
cotton that was offered for sale in the
South. We mean by this that the $10
per bale is a clean, sweet surplus—-a sur
plus over the actual profit of raising it—
over what the farmer expected to get
f or it—a surplus over what has been
usually paid for it. The boom has
drooped in Atlanta already (65,000 bales
having been received)—$650,000 of sur
plus money, that is just as gratuitous to
the farmer as if it had been paid by the
Bank of England as a bomis—just a3 un
expected aslf it bad come as the fairy
.poach and silver slipper came to Cinder
ella. In Augusta $1,000,000 of this sur
plus has been paid, in Athens $500,010,
in Rome $500,000, in Cartersville $250,-
00”, in Macon $600,000, aDd from $10,-
000 to $100,000 in each of the other
towns and cities of Upper Georgia. In
South Georgia the payments have been
quite as heavy. The total of surplus
naid in the State of Georgia on the cot
ton crop cannot be far short of $10/00,-
000, if, indeed it does not exceed that
enormous figure. This huge sum of
money has gone net into the hands of a
few speculators, but into the pocket3 of
the farmers.
“ It is so hard to be a widow,” cried a
French lady, who had just lost her hus
band, “ Wednesday is my reception
dav, and generally I have a great many
calls, but yesterday was complied to
keep my room and weep all the time.”
“Ah,” was the reply, “ don’t yen say
anything against widowhood. I myself
have just married a widow, and the
clothes of her first husband fit me like
a glove.”
XHK FAILS OF TH3S SIOUX.
STL.S. WMOa.
PtS seen the wonjen of onr land
In monfitsin, Tilley, stream and strand.
Bat ne’er beesra a apot did find
With aneh a wealiS »f charma aa lam*.
A thonaand waterfaUa In one,
A thonaand rills around ns nm;
A thousand brooklets laugh and leap,
And make this lovely scene complete,
Thy waters tell mo of that day
Th. Indian o’er these worn rocks tsod.
And held communion with his God.
Whan, o’er these myriad waterfalls
And through this Isis with sylvr-
The dusky maid and loyer s ’
And love’s old—nay,:
I lore Dakota non and
Her prsirlse Test, her
1 lore her mountains;
Bnt moat bar beantttal
And, though I roam In
In city dense on oosan’i
Thy aharma shall retail In
Aad bring me back to
m in aatoavya ban*,
thee, * Hear Tall*.
EVERY-DAY SPICE KIES.
drawn from every hitchin’ post an’
Col. Ludlow, with his party, reached seven cen t sugar scooped in from de
. j—:—on nVito ciHo i r00ts 0 f ebery lamp-post. In de lan
guage of one of Eome’s grandest sena-
the designated locality on the Ohio side,
opposite tffe mouth of the Licking
Biver, on December 28,1788. He sur
veyed the town plat, and the men begun
the work of clearing away from the
streets and public square the forest
trees and the dense undergrowth on that
rich alluvial soil.
While this work was in progress, a
small detachment of soldiers was or
dered from Fort Harmer to protect the
new colony from Indians, and Fort
Washington was located by the erection
of two or three log block houses. Sev
eral families soon arrived and increased
the number of residents. This begin-
ine in this part of Ohio was the open
ing wedge to the flood of emigration
from the Eastern States.
The first settlement in Ohio Territory
was at Marietta, April 7, 1788. It was
led by Gen. Eufus Putnam, of Connec
ticut. The founders of the three set
tlements between the Miamis were,
first, by Major Styles and Gen. John T.
Gano and others at Columbia, on the
Little Miami, in 1788; the second by
Col. Israel Ludlow, at Cincinnati, on
the Ohio Biver, opposite to the mouth
of Licking Biver, in December 28,
1788; the third by Judge John Cleves
Symmes, at North Bend, in 1789.
The first log cabin ever constructed
in Cincinnati was for Col. Ludlow’s use;
the first frame house there, in 1791, wae
built for his residence. The first im-
S rovement out of the city was Col.
mdlow’s farm five miles north of the
river, where a fort was made, and
United States soldiers stationed there
for protection to the citizens. Covalt’e
Station and White’s Station were also
important posts for refuge when the
people felt alarmed by the approach of
Indians. Col. Ludlow built a large,
commodious dwelling on this extensive
farm. Mrs. Ludlow was an accom- i
plished, admirable woman, and it be- j tj me .
tors, “ PluAbus, syllabus unvm cum dig?’
Telephones and Talking Eish.
[London Telegraph.]
That the telephone would eventually
prove a source not only of great gratifi
cation but of valuable instruction no
body ever doubted. It has, however, re
mained for some thoughtful scientific
gentleman to utilize it in a way which
will commend itself to all who lovingly
observe nature. One of these, anxious
to know how far the animal world as-
simulated itself to onr own, lately intro
duced a telephone into some water
which contained a fish. To his aston
ishment he found that the creature,
alone and unable to converse with any
thing else, was actually talking to itself.
Mr. §. E. Pearl now comes forward and,
in a letter to a scientific contemporary,
confirms this assertion. He, too, has
been ‘listening, and he finds that the
large “Mashi?’ — Barbee Macrocephahis—
converse with a peculiar “cluck” or per
suasive sound, which may be heard as
far as forty feet from the water. He
has also discovered that a large bivalve
exists in some parts of Eastern Assam
which actually “sings loudiy in concert.”
After this it would he interesting to
know what it is that the pike says to the
roach before swallowing it. If we are ex
pert enough to read ciphers, surely we
might without great dfficulty learn the
language of the jack.
When von see a man with a gun on
his shoulder and three dogs at his heels
making across the country, you needn’t
feel bad for the rabbits. He’ll miss a
crow or two, find a few frozen apples,
fall into a creek, and return home, be
lieving behashad a thundering good big
More Figures on the Situation.
The wheat crop of the United King
dom has been thrashed and it proves to
be less than was produced in any year
since 1846. The average crop, as ascer-
ained by a calculation covering many
years, is 27} bushels per acre, making a
total annual average for the kingdom of
90.227,200 bushels. This year the pro
duction was 18 bushels per acre, on an
averaere, making a total of 54,768,000
bushels. From this must be substracted
6 S46,000 bushels, necessary to be re
served for the seed for next year’s crop.
This would amount to hut 7} per cent of
an average yield, but it equals 12} per
cent, of the present production, and re
duces the quantity available for con
sumption 47,200,000. From these figures
it is estimated that the people of Great
Britain will consume before next harvest
141,000,000 bushels of wheat from
foreign countries.
not Always mus.
An extract from a Paris paper told
how a rich widow bequeathed a legacy
of $10,000 to a young man who offered
her his umbrella on a rainy day. Yes
terday was a rainy day, and a young
man saw a lone female paddling up
Woodward avenue. He had an um
brella—she had none. He had read that
extract. He saw from five to ten thou
sand dollars lying around loose. He
stepped forward, bowed politely, and
“Madam, will you do me the great
honor to accept of my umbrella?”
She halted, looked at him acd his um
brella all over, and then replied:
“ Now, boy, yon move on! Do yon
suppose I’d give myself away by carry
ing an old cotton umbrella! If yen
want to be polite lend me a dollar and
telephone for a couDe.”
“ Some has bad luck from the shtart,”
said Sir. O’Conemara, “and sorra taste
av anythingelse iver comes to ’em. Wid
me, now, Oi was born a twin the same as
me brother, and we niver had bat wan
birthday betune the two av us, until he
doied, long loife to him!”
The tongue of the real belle never
told dander.— Whitehall Times.
Courtship, says an exchange, is not
run by the rule of three. But after
courtship is run by 10; the woman 1,
and the man 0.
It is difficult to understand why a
wife never asks her husband “if the
doors afe all locked” until after he is
snugly covered up in bed.
“Dearest let me correct your morals.
Yon address me, ‘ My dearest Mans.
Ami to suppose that you have other
dear Marias?”
He said, "I think I’ll utilize youi
suggestion.” She yeplied flushed wub
indignation, “I don’t tell lies, and yon re
a mean nasty thing."
The difference between us
derbilt is that Vander has $16,000,000
in four per cents, and we haven t four
per cent, in $16,000,000.
“ Life is f nil of golden opportunities,”
remarks a philosopher. It is, it is; bui
they arn’t worth their face when you try
to cash them.
The word “Caution” appears in
many medicine advertisements, and i
good deal of attention should be paid,
to it
Men are beginning to feel uncertain
as to the policy of wedging a maple
taoth-pick between their teeth and
breaking it off, for the sake of dislodg
ing a bit of codfish.
This is the the time of church f’-irc when
The lamps shine o’er fair women and brave men
When oyster soup with its golluptioua smell,
For forty cent* a dish is made to sell. .
—Toronto Graphic.
11 Did you do nothing to resuscitate
the body?” was recently asked of a wit
ness at a coroner’s inquest. “Yes, sir;
we searched the pockets,” was th«
reply.
The rumor is out that Gen. Grant u
using the silk copy of the BawTceye pre
sented him, for a handkerchief.—Quincy
Modem Argo. This is a sad blow for
Burdette. Who nose if it is true ?
A SON who had always been sup
ported by his father, cremated the old
gentleman after death, and put hil
ashes in an um, so that people couldn 1
say he never urned his living.
People with political communica
tions are respectfully informed that we
have no italic type in this office. Wt
will not need them ourselves until aftel
the next election, and we sincerely trust
not then.
Child (scarcely three years old) look
ing wistfully at a diminutive pie:
Mother—“ Now, Meta, I want you to
save your nice pie so your papa can see
it when he comes home.” Child—look
ing still more wastfnlly—“I rink I
*ould tell papa ezacly how it looks.”
If you haven’t spunk just eat buck
wheat cakes. They’ll make you come to
.he scratch.—Menden Recorder. You
iust come to the scratch and acknowl
edge that this is our paragraph, writ
ten bv us months ago.—Keokuk Conetitu,.
Won.
WHAT’S HOIfOB?
Ask not the soldier in the bsttle’s Tan,
Nor ret the statesman, nncorrupt as gold, .
But her beneath Tour own roof-tree who can
And will most willingly, to yon nniold
The secret. Bid her mark yonr neighbor’s wne
When she her ample wardrobe seeks, to don her
Fine garments; when she reappears, my life.
I’ll stake, yonr better half can tell what’s on her.
The advantages of literary culture are
very great. A young man spent much
of his time in the Public Library in
Glasgow, Scotland. He studied science.
He came across a minute description ol
a still. He thought he could make one.
He also made whisky. He is now in
jail.
Take a dead wasp and impale him on
the point of a needle set up in the bot
tom of a wood chair so that the insect
conceals the needle, and then all yon
want is to find some man who will tw
foolish enough to bet that he can sit
down on that wasp quick and hard
enough to crush it before it can get its
work in.
A ntnce pie at bedtime is the shortest
route to the menagerie.—Cleveland Plain
Dealer. ... _
A Colorado paper says: An Eng
lishman, ‘who naa seen better days/
was riding in the coach to Leadville
recently. There were a good many i»
the coach also. ‘ Will yon please,’ said
the Englishman ‘ open that window; I
want to sea the mountain scenery.’ An
Irishman, who was snoozing in a corner,
looked up on hearing the remark and ob
served—‘ Bedad, you’ll seo plenty at
it a month from now, when yotfrecomin
backonfnt’” . , , .
it is a fact which argues somewhat
against Christian consistency that the
most unpopular minister is he who oft-
enest holds up the sins of his people be
fore their eyes, and exhorts them to bet
tor things. The average Christian is
very well satisfied to confess in his closet
that he is a wicked sinner, but when
anybody else tells him so, it makes him
mad. Why is this thus?
The story is told of a clergyman, that,
after preaching an interesting sermon on
the “Becognition of Friends in Heaven,”
he was accosted by a hearer, who said:
"I liked that sermon, and I now wish
yon would preach another on the recog
nizing of people in this world. I have
been attending your chnrch three yean,
and not five persons in the congregation
have so much as bowed to me in all that
time.”
The countries in which calico prat
ing is chiefly practiced are, in the order
of their importance, Great Britain,
France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
Spain and Bossia and the United States
of late years has become also an exten
sive producer of printed cottons. In
the United Kingdom, which takes the
first place in the point of production,
as Alsace is supposed to do in the mat
ters of color and design, there are 140
firms engaged in the trade.