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The Cedartown Advertiser OLD SERIES--VOL. VI. NO. 46.{ Editor A Proprietor, CEDARTOWN, GA., JANUARY 29, 1880. r #1 OO per year if paid in Adraii^. (pi 50 per year if not paid in Advance. 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.