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THE NEWS.
Box 876. Tolxoa.Ga.
WH2* THa TlDc C)>IS.
Through t ,e weary day on his c r u h he la
Wi h tlie life t d ebbing slowly away.
And the dew on his cold brow gathering fas-
As tue (tendu uni-numb red moments pass ’
And l heard a sad voie *. wbi.s'p r ng say,
“When the ide g es « t he wi 1 pass away
Pray f >r a sou’s serene re e se !
That the weary spirit may rest in peace,
Whe i the tide goes out.”
When tilt* tide goes out from the -ea-girl lands,
It bears strange freight from the gleaning
Hands;
The wh rig d ships that s lc it w it
For the foam ng w .ve or w nd that’s late ;
The r ns- r. is ca t on a rocky shore
F.om e.he strindeJ ships that shall sail _ no
more,
Ami hojies that fol’ow the shining seas,
Oh! the oe a.i sha'.l win all these
When the t de goe> out.
Bn- . of all that drift from the shore to the sea,
Ia the human soul to life, nity!
Floating away from a si ent hore,
Like a fated ship to re.urn no nure;
Badd-st mast so emu of a.l-a soul
\Vh*7 P -d g where un n .w i wa‘ers roll 1‘
Where 9,'m.l it tue surging current , tend,
Siowlydr.f ng friend from friend.
Wi.en the tide goes out?
* or our parting . spirit, | ray, oh! ,, pray,
While ihe tide of life is ebb ng.wway,
That the s ml in .y pass o’er summer teas
'I him <Ha-peJ of old the Hesperides.
A ba>k wilier sails l»y angd hands
Sbal b • furled on strand of golden sa-ds ;
An i, i tl ,i e fr f ends t .Imt | . stand , . ilent .. . shore, .
. on a
Kmwi.g that we shall return no more,
8 ball wish us joy of a voyage f.,ir,
WitU calm -wcet skies and a la o ing air,
When the t tie goes out.
THE ART DESTRUCTIVE.
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CONSIDERED ESPECIALLY AS AP-
PLIED AT SEA.
Ex^mptoH «vf the Most improved Torpedo
ll°:it , i At!nat“T!ici 4V(*u<l«*rftil Dynamite
<;un Designed l»y Limit. ZstlinsUi. CJ. S.
N. ( mill tlie Work It Can Do.
Our civil war almost revolutionized the art
of naval warfare; recent inventions have com-
pletod the revolution. Between those
have sought to nmk« nn invulnerable vessel
and those who have as steadily improved de¬
structive appliances, we seem to have been
trying a naval solution of the old “catch”—
what would happen if nil irresistible force
wore to strike an immovable body? Tor-
I**does have long been used against navies;
in tho civil war they came into play
more largely than over before, and since
then hundreds of ingenious inventors
have striven to bring them still nearer
perfection. During the last ten years
$ 100,tX>0,000 have been expended by European
governments in exj>ei iments to secure a
reliable torpedo. In this country, too,
immense sums have been spent by
firms and individuals; and yet most of the
machines invented have proved of no great
value. Three, however, have attained a high
degree of efficiency. They are known as tho
Controllable Automobile Torpedo, tho Sims-
Edison and tho Rowell. Along with these in¬
vent ion*. have <*oiiio the invention of torpedo
boats, rams and guns, of which we present
three illustrations, the first of u torpedo
boat built by Messrs. Thornycroft, of Lon¬
don, for the government of Denmark; tho
second of the Alarm, a United States torpedo
ram, and the third of the very remarkable
gun for projecting dynamite torfiedoes, de¬
signer! by Lieut. Zalinski, of the United
States navy.
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There are torjawloes to go entirely under
water in a straight lino, guided by automatic
ru<Mei-s: others logo with a portion above the
water; soma to be projected from a machine,
end niuiy more to bo propelD-d by machinery
in the torpedo itself. Nearly all are arranged
to exphHle by jK-missiou on striking the ves-
cel aimed at; but. s*>me are to lie o^ratwl by
wire* and guided by the engineer at a safe
distanre. Th* y are afi cylindrical, rather in
the shejie of a very slender cigar, of every
length from five feet to thirty and of vary-
ing weights. The greatest speed attained by
***y yet reported is thirty nules an hour—this
by the W hitehead torpedo >n England. Tor-
ptNio IkiaI-v vary still more widely—from those
which go ^iitiivly under water, carrying <w-
densed air for the men. to those which differ
but little from ordinary gunboats. Of the
latter class is the boat lately completed for
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This floating . of . desfcrucUou , . . . , built
engine »
of the finest steel, ls 140 fret in length and
constructed to secure a very high rate of
speed and admit of rapid turning and
maneuvering. It fa exjiected to maintain a
uniform rate of twenty two miles an hour.
The Messrs. Thornycroft, who nmde this
boat, and the Messrs. Harrow, their great
rivals, now employ over 2,000 men m this
line, and each firm can turn out one com-
pletod boat a week.
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t T NiTEt> st Arts torpedo BOAT alarm.
The Alarm, torpedo ram, was designed by
Admiral Porter, and is the only torpedo boat
draught of 12 feet; and projecting from the
bow is an immense under water ramming
prow 82 fret long. This is covered w ith
wrought iron armor four and a half inches
thick, and in it is the torpedo machinery.
Ibis consists of a spar thirty-five feet long,
which can in an instant be run out twenty-
five fret beyond the point of the prow. On
tin* end of this spar the torp-do is to lie placed
and fired at will by means of electric wires
laid in grooves along the spar and running to
u tiring pedestal on deck.
.Still more ingenious is the Mallory Propel¬
ler. bv which the screw driving wheel can lie
shiftetl to a direction almost at right angles
to the boat and thus whirl tho latter around
ns though on a pivot. On tho bow, above, is
a heavy gun, and Hotchkiss and Gatling tna-
chinfc guns line the sides. Bo it is gunboat,
ram and torpedo boat iu one.
But the most novel, and, if successful, the
rno.t formula!.,« . iii ot recent inventions, is the
toipedo gun - Lieut. Zulmski describes it asa
pneumatic lor dynamite ^*^ dynamite tor;)edo gun”—that torpedoes is, by a
gU ' P 1 ' 0
compn .red a,r. I he barrel ,s sixty feet long,
of him, tubmg and lined with brass to secure
smoo hness. It is .-x:,e-tod to throw a cylin-
dncal brassor steel torpoao, eight inches in di-
ameter, ami carrying a charge ot'sixty pounds
of ‘lynamite a distance of two and u quarter
,n : lcs! The torpedo is exploded by an elec-
tne tuso within it; ono kind by shock on con-
tact with the vessel; tho other to ignite in a
given time by chemical action, whether the
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torpedo strikes or not-this in case it be de-
sired to drop tor|x>does ir. the path of an np-
proacbmg vck.h- 1. The gun is so accurately
balanced ami the clumiberH of condensed air
so well ammged that only one man is re-
qnireci to aim and fire it. Tests that seem
jk>rfectly satisfactory havo already been
made with tins gun, and much has been writ-
ten and ssi ! of it. Among other plans <le-
\ imhI >y ns inventor is a gunboat upon which
two guns of greater caliber than the one under
consideration will bo mounted. A boat of
this desig .1 is now being constructed tor tho
Dmted htabis government,
THE DAKOTA FLOODS.
Pictures . from , the . Distressed Regions of
tho Isortimest.
Renders are so accustomed to flunking of
Dakota ns a land of drought in late summer
and autumn, und of frozen solidity in winter,
t.iat the news of destructive floods there
comes to t hem ns a startling surprise. Yet
great hoods are no new phenomena in that
territory; they excite public attention now
only because the region subject to them has
so lately tilled with inhabitants. Dakota
floods arise from two curiously distinct causes.
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TtTE BISMARCK RAIl-ROAD BRIDGE.
On the eastern border the' Red River of
the North has a general corns i due
north; as a consequence there is occasionally
a complete thaw around the headwaters of
that stream, vv nile the ice is still firm
riiilcs northward, down stream. Naturally,
there.ore, the upper floods burst up the ice,
heave it into enormous masses and some-
Lines force it out of the river channel
fai f ut on lht j adjacent prairie. The
double , agency of flood ami grinding ice makes
SU ” b P^aWariv destructive, but
tunately . tliey do not often occur. A similar
thing occasionally hapfiens on the Missouri,
though its cdurse is southeast and toward a
warmer region, and the cause of it is found
in the peculiar “Chinook Wind.”
This is a warm wind from the Pacific
ocean, called by tho JajKinese “Kuvo Biwo.”
Occasionally in winter, oftener in early
spring, this wind takes such a course as to
blow through and over tne lowest passes in
the ftoekv mountains of British America; it
then sweeps southeast along tho eastern base
of the big coteau, through Alberta Assino-
boia and the northwestern part of Dakota,
The mercury rises in a night from IkjIow
zero to aWvve the freezing point—in rare
instances as high as ■T5 degs. above zero. The
snow disappears if before a warm south
wind, the ice, three or four inches thick in
the Missouri, suddenly loses its tenacity, the
waters rushing in, burst up the ire and tho
masses sweep down with re-sistless force. But
the river below latitude 46 d *gs. is ’oeyond
the mduence of the “Chinook,” and the
ice even in Mareh as firm as rock;
then the fl-nxls from above pile their
floaUng ire on ic- or burst it by hr-
druulie pres-sure from l»elow, and a terrible
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elemental war ensues. The ice continues to
move on till a gorge is formed which dams
the waters; this hoids till the immense cur-
Devoted to News, Politics , Agriculture and General Progress.
TOCCOA, GA., APRIL 8, 1887.
rent hursts through it, then all is swept el<*ar
^ at another narrow place in the stream
another gorge is formed and the war bt te
and overflow ull the low lauds. The illustra-
R°iis represent the scenes attendant on such
overflows, and are taken from photographs
aad sketches made this year at Bismarck,
Great damage has been done and many
Lvos lost—lull details not yet estimated,
I ' 1 KO,nc places the ice was heaped 100
feet .above the ordinary river level before
tke n,ass gave way. No railroad bridge in
the world could stand such a shock; but onr
engraving shows the Northern Pacific bridge
at Bismarck resisting a minor flood. All the
low laud near there is entirely submerged.
IRELAND’S CHIEF SECRETARY.
A. J. Ha,four, Who Comes Prom Old
Halfoar Stock.
Mr. A. J. Balfour, who has lately succeeded
al- Michael Hieks-Beaelv as chief secretary
Cor Ireland, mid is therefore the active man in
the new scheme of repression proposed, is
eminently fitted for good works; but there is
already too much reason to fear that tho
blood of the “old Balfours” is still vigorous
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A - J - b al>our.
cliangfid Lis ,-elision for ofiice, took „
mean and active part in the worst
intrigues against Queen Marie Stuart,
was present when Rizzio was assassi-
nated, and finally turned against the
quecu and furnished part of the evidence
which led to her conviction and execution.
The Irish patriots naturally suspect a man of
such a race, but the British Conservatives ex-
t#l him as a man of honorable principles and
high acquirement.
He is a nephew of Salisbury, present prime
minister, and noted for some time as private
secretary of that gentleman in tho foreign of-
fi e. He was also president of t he Jocal gov-
vrmncitt board in 1885; was appointed secre-
tary for Scotland in July, 1886, and became a
regular member of the British cabinet in No-
Ve mber last. He is 8 !) years old; a graduate
of Eton and Trinity colleges, of Cambridge,
where he won distinction as a schoJar.
In politics lie is an extremo Tory—
now politely called Conservative—and an
ardent advocate of strong government meas-
ures. He was evidently chosen ns well fitted
to conduct the execution of the strong eo-
ereive measures the present parly in power
has devised for Ireland. It is remarked as a
distinction that in tho darkest hour for the
Conservatives he never faltered in bis
vehement of opposition Gladstone to all the liberal
of measures Ireland. He first for tiie pacification
entered parliament
in 1S74 as mendicr for Hertford; but
since 1 SST» has represented the Eastern divis-
ion of Manchester. The war he and his fel-
lows made upon Gladstone’s policy was at
last successful; the Tories are now in power,
!re and k to be rigidly-coerced, and the nn-
yieiair.g it not inm»»*r« iful Balfour is appro-
coming priately sch etMil to manage the painful work. Tho
summer may witness and
cruel scenes in tho Green isle.
CANADA’S OIL FIELD.
How Petroleum Is Gathered and Refined
at Petrolea, Out.
Of all smells seek to be delivered from that
of Canadian oil. As compared with it the
petroleum of the Btat-'s is the most delicate of
perfumes. Once within the Canadian realm
of King Oil the scene affords no for-
getf ulness of nauseated stomach and suffer-
ing lungs. To the right and left of the rail-
,-oad tracks are stumpy wastes of land, al-
most treeless, dotted with the low. immense squatty
derricks peculiar to the region,
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pyramid of barrels
pvramids of barrels are oassed Porous a sootv re-
finery or two reeking with the pro-
duct, some rambling wooden buildings, and
the passenger uli-hte on the platform of the
Grand Trunk rai’road depot at Petrolea of’On- one
of the central points in the oil fieM
tario.
The visitor who is familiar with other pe-
troleum regions wifi find the same cheaply
constructed buildings here, the same muddr 4
irregular, but busv, streets, and manv other
points of resemblance, yet Petrolea has sub-
stantia], handsome public buildings and busi-
ness blocks, and, although built in afi the
bustle of excitement incident to such develop-
ments, compares favorably with places of its
class wherever found. The o;xn handed,
generous characteristics of their Fennsyl-
vania cousins is there too- the same vim
fever for spt-culation and utter indifference
to defeat, and what is lacking in ceremony is
made up in heartiness. Some of the most
prominent operators of the section are front the
tho States, it inav be added; and during
Grst developments in the Canadian firid, at
OU Cit J» °“bt in I860, shortly after the
Venango excitement, the Ontario field was
operated almost entirely by Pennsylvanians.
The first wells were heavy producers. Now
many of them are utterly abandoned, though
about S,000 are pumped near Petrolea and in
the northwest district, and about 500 at Oil
Springs, with a total monthly production of
about 45,000 barrels. Manv wells are worked
m. one pumping rig. At this place one pro-
ducer has mnety-su wells so connected.
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and violent in him.
The Balfours have
never been a morel-
ful race and have
produced a few of
the most cruel me-
mies of liberty torv^ir in
British hi
James Balfour of
Scotland in the
sixteenth century,
was a noted case,
Xttvv m U "- as a
Protestant for a
and beiu- or
rested with John
Knox, who called
him the "Blasphe-
mous Balfour,’' Le
Canadian oil field has an area reaching
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ron ? ‘ iOU se 'P n teen nines from Sarnia, the
no, p ine f territory, to Oil Springs on the
st%< 11 weils, only three ot which are
novv Producing. The specific gravity of the
P l °duct is about thirty in the northwest ter-
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rltory, thirty-two and thirty-three in tb«
Springs—much £ et ‘' oIea "* So » heavier and thirty-seven than the oil of at Pen Oil iv-
s y!vauia. The average price during the past
three years has been about U a barrel. When
rt ‘& ,od it commands a higher price than
tke Pennsylvania oil does in its market,
though in Canada the Pennsylvania oil is con-
siderably higher, and is more valued for
illuminating purposes than the home product.
There are nine refineries at Petrolea, one at
Hamilton, one at Woodstock, two at London
and one at Sarnia. As transportation is done
entirely by rail most of the oil is refined
where produced. The refineries are Individ-
u,d or corporate enterprises, acting hide-
pendently and not controlled by the Standard
Oil company or any other monopolv. This
**, perhaps, tho only oil field that giant cor-
poration has not in some way fastened upon.
The ten i toi-y is served by three piping com-
. which have
Pames no connection with the
refineries.
The average drilling depth in the ohl field
475 feet, at Oil Springs m feet and at
Eupbemia 275 feet. Drilling is done with
skikcr, Bar, bit and pole—a chain attached to
a pole nml pan! ouffrom a “bull wheel” over
a small walking beam. As compared with
drilling in the states the outlay for paraplier-
nalia and labor is trifling.
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A BRAVE MAN.
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Henry B. Rumsey, tho Hero of the But-
. falo Fire.
The country has not yet recovered from the
shock occasioned by the terrible wave of fatal
accidents of one sort and another that has
lately swept over it, and it is to be hoped
along with the shock a lesson has lieen learned
which will be well
heeded, and that
fireproof hotels and
safely lighted “nil and
heated road
trains will be the
result
ally,
The hotel firo at
Buffalo placed the
name of one man
high on the roll of
the world’s heroes
Who shall say after
readin- of the self-
sacrifice made by
Ihmrv B Runisev
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> given,
da 3 s °f bigh and
noble bravery are past? Mr. Rumsey,
it wi l bo remembered, was a guest
at the New Richmond the night of its
destruction. Ho was awakened by the
fire and sought to save himself. But
as he ran for sweet life lie saw a little girl
whose mother had fainted and who was in
imminent danger. Did he stop to think of
himself? No. He ran back into the terrible
flames ancl rescued the little one, but at the
cost of his own life: To make the story more
pathetic, the Child herself died afterward.
Fort Wayne, Ind., which had the distin¬
guished honorof being Mr. Rumsey’s place of
residence, did well to place its. flags at half
mast on the day of his burial.
A Logan Anecdote.
The world knows but little of Gon. Logan
tho man. Representative Thomas, whom
M|-s * Logan dandled as a baby on her knee
the daj' she was married, and who now repre¬
sents Logan’s old district in congress, says the
United States knew Logan no better than
old Judea did Jesus Christ He was only
gruff and morose at times, and he was in
reality one of the kindest of men Thomas ever
know. Said he; “Gen. Logan could not bear
to see hurt the feelings of even a dog, and
when the family would drive the dogs off the
porch ho would say:
“Let them alone. They are doing no hurt,
and why should you disturb them?
“The people of Illinois feel that they had
a property right in John A. Logan. He was
Peculiarly an Illinoisan, and the people of my
district Joved him as one of their own family,
Thc T always called him John. He would
shake hands with them and chat with them,
and there were few of them that he could not
remember. I saw an old woman i:i a sun
b ° ,:net a!ld a calieo dl ’ e ^ ' vko ™nio up to
shake 1 hands with him during the last time
he spoke m my district. She had gray hair
aad laa »T tinkles. She was pool ly clad
a ° d sbe came forward timidly. As soon as
Lo S aa her he jumped toward her and
gasped her by the hand and said: ‘Why,
ko ' v do y°a d «» Aunt Nancy? I am so glad
to see you!’
“The old woman was so delighted at being
recognized that she wept. She said: ‘It’s
tWl?nt y since I saw you, John, and you
remember me I You know I used to dance
J™ oa whca Jou was a baby!’
‘Yes, Aunt Nancy, I remember it, and I am
gJad 806 F ou again.’ And the woman
went away the happiest person in Illinois.”-
Washington Letter.
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Servants’ Peculiar Qualifications.
An English gentleman not long ago ad-
vertised for a general servant, “who must be
a good plain cook and an earnest deist.”
And in an English paper there recently ap-
peared the advertisement of a coachman who
declared himself to be an “advanced Catholic
filial in the management ofhomea.”-
New V orx Tnbuae.
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VICTORIA'S JUBILEE.
*ts celed.won already degun
IN INDIA.
How the Subjects of the Plmpress Have
lieen Treated to Hrilllant Displays.
More Than S3,OOO Prisoners Keleascd
iu Honor of the Occasion.
On June 23 next Queen Victoria will
complete the fiftieth year of her reign,
aiK l jubilee celebrations are already in pro-
£ ress iu variotts parts of her great empire.
We present herewith two illustrations of tb«-
brilliant display made in Bombay on Feb.
t iv itiraA Iumi nations and rmblierejoiSngl hi
*Ud. Lahore and many other cit-
axindoc«tan as well os among the rum 1
^^vstates ‘ °At XtCaLmta Cale’ppTVo'riDnffpri^ Lou! Duffenn,
. I* reoerick Roberts,
UCU X ° nt*ta > ant on
commander 111 chi f f < reviewed U» troops;
J hauks S 1 '; lu S services followed, and all
tha I eSfc f 1 1 i( ? da y was devoted to
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. . deputations and addresses
recc \ v “S from
^nicipaht^ a11 ku ? ds ot associations and representatives Services were of
he “ in tie fngush, beotcu, Catholic
and Greek , churches, the Jewish synagogues,
H-a^anuca 1 temples and numerous other re-
“f 10118 edlfice8 °J ,nan y, and varions faiths -
U wa8 ren u lrkcd » s il Iia PP y Proof of the
ff row th of liberal i i sentiments that the divers
sc ? ts iat ? " ,:1(h t,ie People are divided
,m,1 £‘ , cd in tno best of humor and laid aside
^ ucll of their exclusiveness. By order of
. ^ heid for debt
‘ H ' K f 1 A'! ‘ P 1 leonore
were re-
i* >”oi ot tne ot casion.
Bombay, however, made the most brilliant
d May, beginning in the morning with a
1 ’ ar “ de ° f tl,e L oops and followed bypro-
^‘onsand , addresses, . "J 1 ending Our with illustrations a grand
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ARCH OVER THE QUEEN’S STATUE, BOMBAY,
streets and park of Bombay, Over the
queen’s statue two immense pyramids of
light were reared, 20,GUO lamps being em-
ployed; these were joined by a brilliant arch,
on which was inscribed “Victoria, Kaistr-i-
Hind,” in honor of the queen as empress of
India. All the public buildings were illu¬
minated, 40,000 lamps being employed.
Many plearing incidents of the general har¬
mony are related. The orthodox Hindoos and
Parsees, who religiously refrain from the
slaughter of cattle, petitioned tho government
to forbid the killing of any on that day, and
when the authorities announced that they
could not exercise such power the Mo¬
hammedans voluntarily declared that
none should be killed, A great feast
was made for all (he poor, without regard to
faith or caste, the wealthy merchants con-
tributing lavishly for the purpose. All the
voxels in the harbor were also illuminated.
Tho addresses by various bodies of Hindoos
and resident Europeans and speeches in re¬
sponse by the officials congratulated the peo¬
ple on the harmony '■ now prevailing between
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ILLUMINATION IN BOMBAY.
the Hindoos and British and the good results
thereof. The mottoes in all the processions in-
dicated the satisfaction of ftie pe« pie at their
present ' " relations ’ with - Great Britain, Lord
Reay, the governor, declared in liis address
that the queen had faithfully fulfilled every
promise made in her proclamation after the
mutiny of 1857-8, which proclamation is re¬
garded 0 __________________ as fair, the magna ___ charta ______________ of India. The
peopie’s organized for the occasion, was
a brilliant scene, an immense multitude of all
nations taking part. The illustration of the
principa 1 buildings shows that the local ac-
count did not exaggerate in declaring that
they “seemed as if incrusted with blazing
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Mackerel Frightened Away.
It is well known that finbacks and black-
fish feed upon mackerel, and have been oSten
seen scattering them in ail directions. The
mackerel have been frightened off their ac-
custome.1 feeding gioQrids, and have no
doubt, found other waters where they enemi™ are
less liable to be preyed upon by their
At all events, the catch test season was much
smaller than usual, notwithstanding the finbacks
that our whalemen have killed many
and blackfish during the past five years,- 3
Boston ‘ GW * '
A Stinging Rebuke.
A celebrated man not long since received a
just rebuke. A lecturer stated that the
aforesaid celebrated man knew how to make
a most excellent cun of coffee. A respectable
minister wrote to him asking for the recipe.
His request was granted, but at the bottom of
the letter was the following manifestation of
stupendous conceit; “I hope that this is a
£ eli ume request, and not a surreptitious mode
of ^curing my autograph;” to which the
adnister . replied: “ Accept iny thanks for the
i faLh, making coffee. I wrote in good
and, in order to convince you of that
£Litely^, autograph.’’-Christian bS which S
me, your Ad vocate.
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JOHN GODFREY SAXE. "I
Death of the Man Who Was Once Known
as the “American Howl,"
The poet Saxe, who died on the 81st of
March at Albany, was scarcely known to the
new generation of readers; but some thirty-
years ago lie was hailed as the great conning
satirist, the “American Hood,” etc. And, in¬
deed, two or three of his poems published
about that time gave promise of a brilliant
career; in particular bis satire called ‘-Pro¬
gress’’ and his purely humorous -poem with¬
out a moral, “The Proud Miss McBride,” were
read and laughed over by all the readers of
the time. Especially did they please tho
young and ardent, and this was looked upon
as a favorable sign for his future, ns the ap¬
plause of the young, to a certain extent, an-
ti ci l >atos the Judgment of the next age. Buff
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coni P ositiou in a different vein, and gener¬
y inf er i 01 - 1 ,, his earlier pieces.
John Godfrey Saxe was born in June Middle! 1816
at Hi \ r t and graduated at
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JOHN G. SAXE.
thought fit to publish, and “Progress,” a satire,
attracted great attention. As we read it now
we readily see that it only interested the'
people because of its satirical references to
the Mexican war and other events of the era;
now that the contemporary feeling is gone
and the confcemjxwary and local flavor evap¬
orated from the poem, we can barely under¬
stand, much less cijoj- it. It was not a poem
for all time. His “Rape of the Lock,” “The
Times” and “The Pixiud Miss McBride” had a
somewhat more enduring fame. Indeed, ib
makes an old reader melancholy to recall the
many brilliant writers of the decadp of
1840-50 whose works are now almost obsolete
because they dealt so exclusively with the
events and so faithfully portrayed the feel¬
ings of their time. We simply cannot fee] as
did the part isans ot the Mexican war period,
and that which stirred their blood like good
wine falls cold on our unwilling ears.
In 1850 Mr. Saxe removed to Burlington,
Vt., where for five years ho edited The Senti¬
nel with great success. Thereafter he devoted
himself to lecturing, at which he made a bril¬
liant success, and maintained a reputation
till 1871, when he suffered in a railroad acci¬
dent in Virginia and never regained his vigor
of body or mind. Boon after this he lost in
rapid succession his wife, three daughters and
his oldest soil, which afflictions seemed for
a while to have completed the ruin«f his fac¬
ulties. From 1860 to 1S81 he lived in Brook¬
lyn; fiiice that time with his only surviving
son, Charles G. Baxe, in Albany. Socially
be was quit.* witty and genial and a great fav¬
orite till his misfortunes produced a settled
melancholy.
A PROTESTANT CRUSADE. m
Rev. Justin D. Fulton, Late of the Rroob*
lyn Centennial Haptist Church.
The sensation of the day in religious circles
is the furious onslaught made Rev.
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lic church until the church is deprived of
its power i;i the United States.
To this end he has resigned his pastorate
of the Centennial Baptist church, Brook¬
lyn. The members of his church unan¬
imously refused to accept his resigna¬
tion, but by a large majority granted him
inde * 1:ut e leave of absence, and ho catered at
[ ,nce °n chosen work V»y a farewell sermon
111 J vhlch he declal ’ ed that tko on f
m " na< '° to llbert y m England ,
and Aai , ^ !ca tf) ~ day , ^ the , organized
P° wer ° £ tlio Catholic , priesthood. His lan-
guage was strong, almost violent This was
followed by a lecture m the Masonic temple
before the congregation of the reformed Gath-
hi ' C 4 > ”^ , £ atbCP 0 Con "? r * 1“ tk is lecture “
S d eclaration
There is no sa ration except in the name of
^ T h Father v t vf 1 ^ O Connor rsWn °f. dissented de waters some- of
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a,ated lbat t refouned vratliohcs wouid M fol-
°OnW 7 ‘V'im,*
oi^ar figure Jtest
ate conmutceo on liteiature against a allowing
any Catholic institution, educational or other-
^ any th ® publlC m ^ e J*
S*? 4 * * ^'JTY Catholic f educator rephed Fulton and haa •
certain % fet *f ted « h “ crusade m a
niarmPr to attiact . attention,
On the Safe Sidei
Old Gentleman (to driver of Third avenud
Streetcar)—My friend, what do you do with
j our wages every week—put part of it in tho
savings bank?
Driver—No, sir. After payin’ the butcher
an’ grocer an’ rent, I pack away what’s left in
barrels. I’m afraid of those savin’ banks.—
New York Bun.
The balloon for the Paris exhibition of 188f
will carry up 160 persons. ..........
burvcoHecein hoeutereii 1839
111,843
On the practice of
law at St. Albans,
Vt., and remained
till 1850, but did not
mako a success in
the profession. Dur-
ing the time he was
wearily waiting for
clients and business
he relieved his dull¬
ness by writing sa-
tirical sketches of
all sorts of persons
and things in bis
acquaintance, A
few of these were
Justin D. Fultonort
the Catholic church
—e specially tho
ckurc h as said to bo
with pol-
So fully is
the reverend gen-
tieman surcharged
with the spirit of
b>s mission that he
has abandoned tho
regular ministry
a n d announced
that he will main¬
tain an uninter¬
mitting war on
the Roman Catho¬