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GOV. A. H. COLQUITT.
Reports of the Investigation of the North
eastern Bonds.
After a tedious investigation, the fol
lowing reports were submitted to the
legislature on Thursday, the 12th:
MAJORITY REPOET.
To the Senate and House of Represen
| tatives: On the 7th day of November,
, 1878, Ins excellency, the governor, laid
j before the general assembly the follow
ing special message, to-wit:
“Executive Department, Atlanta,
Ga., November 6, 1878.—T0 the General
Assembly: A grievous necessity has been
imposed <n ne o demand at your hands a
thorough investigation oi my motives
and conduct, as executive of Georgia, ii.
placing the state’s indorsement upon the
bonds of the Northeastern railroad. This
necessity has been created by widely cir
culated slanders and inuendoes, vile and
malignant, and so mendacious and wick
ed as to make all comment and para
phrase upon them utterly futile. Noth
ing but a thorough sifting of my every
motive and act in regard to these bonds,
as far as human insight and judgment
can reach these,"can satisfy an aggrieved
honor, or give such entire assurance to
ihe people of Georgia, as they hxye a
right to demand in the premises. To a
man who values his good name far more
than liie, it would be an act of supreines.
injustice to deny the most plenary vindi
cation, rendered in the most august am
authoritative form known to the laws, oi
to public opinion.
“To the people of this great common
wealth it is of the last consequence that
they should know, beyond all peradven
ture, that the man who Alls, at their call,
the chief seat of authority, is above re
proach or suspicion.
“My denunciations of an awful and
stupendous slander, forged and uttered to
dishonor me, will not be enough. The
general assembly of the state—a co-ordi
nate power—is appealed to for that jus
tice which, while it will, I know full
well, exonerate me as a man, will also
vindicate the fair fame of Georgia, assail
ed by cruel slanders on her chief execu
tive.
“Alfred H. Colquitt.”
In response to the foregoing, the gen
eral assembly passed the following joint
resolution:
“Resolved, That in response to the spe
cial communication of his excellency,
Governor A. 11. Colquitt, on the subject
of the indorsement by him of the bonds
of the Northeastern railroad, a committee
of five from the senate to act jointly with
a committee of eight from the house be
appointed to investigate the whole mat
ter and report their action to this body,
and that the house he notified of the ac
tion of the senate in the premises, and
that said committee be authorized to
compel the presence of persons and pro
duction of papers.”
And subsequently the following ad
ditional joint resolution was adopted, to
wit:
“Resolved by the senate and house of
representatives, That the joint committee
to whom was referred the special mes
sage of his excellency, asking an investi
gation of his indorsement of the bonds of
the Northeastern railroad, be instructed
to report not only the conclusions at
which it shall have arrived, but also the
evidence on which the conclusions are
based.”
The committee appointed under the
first of the foregoing resolutions submit
the following report:
Impressed with the gravity and magni
tude of the matter submitted to it, the
committee have patiently and rigidly in
vestigated every charge and every rumor
which might in any way affect the mo
tives and conduct of the governor in fix
ing the state’s indorsement to the bonds
of the Northeastern railroad company.
Every witness in any way connected
with the transaction has been subjected
to a most thorough examination. The
committee has not been able to find any
proof that lias, directly, or indirectly, im
plicated Governor Colquitt in this trans
action inconsistent with the honest and
conscientious discharge of the duties of
his high position.
They also find that he has not been
guilty of any illegal conduct or corrupt
practices in the matter of said indorse
ment.
In the opinion of this committee, the
reports and rumors that connect the
name of the governor with any improper
conduct in the matter of t he indorsement
of the bonds of the Northeastern rail
road company are vile and malignant
slanders.
This committee did not investigate the
legality of the state’s indorsement of the
bonds of the Northeastern railroad com
pany, except in so far as the same was
calculated to illustrate the motives and
conduct of the governor, because they
did not believe that the investigation of
this purely legal question was within the
scope of the investigation ordered by the
general assembly.
In investigating the motives and con
duct of the governor, the committee have
found it necessary to examine into the
conduct of Mr. John W. Murphy, a clerk
in the treasury department of the state,
and it is the opinion of this committee
that Mr. Murphy was not guilty of any
illegal conduct or corrupt practices in the
matter of the indorsement of the bonds
of the Northeastern railroad company.
While we do not believe that * any
wrong has been done in this instance, and
while thus exonerating his excellency,
Governor Colquitt, and Mr. Murphy, we
are of opinion that the independence of
the departments ot the state government,
and the purity of the pubuc service would
be seriously threatened if it were tole
rated, that an official or subordinate of
one department should be permitted to
practice before or mass influences upon
the chief ol another department of the
state government, with a view to in
fluence his official conduct.
Therefore, to avoid any wrong from
such a practice, in the future, we suggest
the propriety of such legislation on the
subject as will prevent any officer of the
state, or any person holding office by au
thority of the state, from accepting a fee,
or being employed to represent beiore the
governor any matter or claim that the
governor is required to pass upon.
In closing their report, this committee
submit all the testimony taken by them,
and also submit the following resolution :
Resolved, That the report of this com
mittee be adopted as the sense of this
general assembly.
Albert H Cox, Jos. W. Preston,
Chairman H. C. Chairman S. C.
W. J. Northex, H. R. Casey,
Arthur H. Gray, Jno. F. Troutman,
Allen Fort, Samuel Hawkins,
H. G. Wright, Isaac P. Tison.
John 1. Hall.
MINORITY REPORT.
To the Senate and House of Represen
tatives—The undersigned, members of
the joint committee of the senate and
house of representatives, appointed to in
vestigate the conduct and motives of his
exoellency, the governor, in placing the
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 19, 1878.
1 state’s indorsement on the bonds of the
Northeastern railroad company, being
unable to concur fully In all the conelu
, ions arrived at by a majority of the com
mittee, beg leave to submit the following
I minority report:
From* the very general nature of the
embraced in the inquiries, which
| i committee were by joint resolution
in irueted to make, their investigation
has necessarily taken a vide range, touch
ing at times on occnVwhccs which,“when
considered separately and apart from
other facts developed by the committee,
may not seem to bear any necessary re
lation to the main purpose of the inquiry,
and while recognizing the impossibility
of opening at large, within the limits of
a formal report, the various facts elicited
in the course of the investigation; yet
we deem it necessary to a proper under
standing of the repoi t we have felt called
on to make, that it should contain at least
a brief outline of some of the more prom
inent features of the testimony. In the
month of October, 1874, the authorities
of the Northeastern railroad company,
for the first time, made formal applica
tion to the then governor, to have the
state’s indorsement placed on their
bonds; this applicator was not success
ful; Governor Smith ♦ ‘lining to deter
mine at that time the question as to the
right of the company to receive the in
dorsement on the ground (among others)
that the application had been premature
ly made, and postponing the considera
tion of the matter until such time as the
condition of the work would authorize
and require definite action at his hands.
The claim of the company to receive the
indorsement seems to have been brought
to the governor’s attention several times
afterwards, but in an informal way, and
without definite result, until late in the
fall of 1876, when he was notified by the
officials of the company that the road had
been completed and requested to appoint
commissioners to examine into its condi
tion, and report whether the terms im
posed by the act granting the aid of the
state had been complied with. The com
missioners were appointed as requested,
and soon thereafter reported to the gov
ernor that forty miles of the road had
been completed and equipped, and that
there were no prior liens outstanding
against the property of the company; it
appeared, however, that to continuous
section of twenty miles had been com
pleted in the terms of the st.ite aid act, at
the date of the passage of the repealing
act of March, 1874. Soon after this re
port was made, the attorney-general,
Mr. Hammond, at the request of Gover
nor Smith, furnished at official opinion
as to the rights of the road to receive the
state’s indorsemen; this opinion was ad
verse to the right claimed by the compa
ny, and the authorities of the road were
promptly notified of its tenor. On being
further importuned by them, the gover
nor suggested, in view of the alleged
“equities” underlying the claim, that the
matter be brought before the legislature;
and in this situation the claim of the rail
road company stood when the official
term of the present executive begun. The
questions involved were of the gravest
moment to the people of the state, as
well as to the holders of the bonds; they
had been widely discussed, and diversity
of opinion existed respecting them, even
among those best qualified for their de
termination. The claim of the compa
ny was brought before the legislature as
had been suggested by- Governor Smith,
and afterwards by Governor Colquitt, but
at so late a period of the session, that an
adjournment took place before any action
was had in regard to it, and for some
months the matter rested here. It ap
pears that the Scofield rolling-mill com
pany, doing business in Atlanta, and
having large claims against the North
eastern railroad company on account of
iron furnished for the use of the road, had
had transferred to it, as a security for the
payment of these claims, bonds of the
railroad company to a large amount,
some of which had been used by r the
authorities of the rolling-mill compa
ny in negotiating loans from banks
in Atlanta, Athens, and perhapt at other
places; and in the spring of 1877, the
rolling-mill company, for its own pro
tection, and that of the banks, determin
ed to urge anew on the governor the
signing of the bonds, and, to this end,
legal advice was secured. In the course
of the efforts that followed, attention was
called by the governor to the propriety
of procuring the institution of proceed
ings in the courts under the provisions
of the repealing statute of March, 1874;
this suggestion was immediately adopted,
and an equity suit commenced in the su
perior court of Clarke county in the name
of a Mr. Morris, of Athens, with a view
to having the right of the railroad com
pany’ to receive the indorsement deter
mined. This suit resulted adversely to
the claim of indorsement, and the claim
was carried to the supreme court, where
the constitutionality of that section of the
act of 1874, under which the suit was
brought was denied, and the whole mat
ter virtually relegated to the governor,
who, though very strongly impressed
with the “equities” of the case, and not
withstanding the great concurrence of
opinion among those whose advice and
opinion were sought by him in favor of
the right to indorsement, yet in view of
the magnitude of the interests involved,
felt that it would be the safer course to
postpone action in the premises, and let
the whole matter be determined by the
legislature, and so advised the parties in
terested; nor did he think of departing
from this policy, until near the close of
1877, when it appearing that suits insti
tuted by the creditors of the railroad
company were about to culminate, and
its entire property’ threatened to be sacri
ficed under the executions that would fol
low-, the governor believing that nothing
less than immediate action on his part
woulk save the company from impend
ing ruin. After a most careful considera
tion of all the questions involved, and in
pursuance of the advice of some of the
wisest and most prominet men in the
state, on the 17th of January, 1878, pass
ed an executive order for the signing of
the bonds, and on ths 23d day of the same
month, they were delivered to the au
thorities of the railroad company’.
As to the sufficiency’ in a legal point of
view, of the conclusions on which this
action of the governor was based, we do
not deem it either necessary or proper to
express an opinion, concurring as we do
with a majority of the committee, that
this is a matter uot included in the scope
of the investigation that they were direct
ed to make.
It appears, further, that during the
yeai of 1877, intimations were made to an
official of the rolling-mill company, that
for a sum of money- to be paid to an em
ployee in the office of the state treasurer,
the indorsement of the bonds could be
procured. No arrangement or contract
was then perfected, but early in January
of the present year these negotiations
were re-opened and a written contract
was entered into between the official
above referred to and the Citizen’s bank
of this city r , in which it was stipulated
that SB,OOO should be paid to Samuel B.
Hoyt, if the governor of the state should,
within ten days, pass an order for the in
dorsement of the bonds, and the signing
of the same should actually begin. On
the 10th of January, by a supplemental
contract, the time within w’hieh the or
der for the signing of the bonds was to
lie passed, was extended to twenty days;
the order for the signing ot the bonds
was passed on the 17th of January, and
the money was paid to Mr. Hoyt for
Mr. J. W. Murphy, then and now clerk
in the treasurer’s office, on the 23d of
January. The services rendered by Mr.
Murphy, and for which he received the
sum stated, consisted in procuring and
>resenting to the governor the opinions,
ifficial and professional, of ex-members
of the legislature, and of prominent law
yers, in Atlanta and elsewhere, and in
arguments made by himself and by Col.
D. P. Hill, his attorney befqre the gover
nor, urging the indorsement of the bonds.
It further appears that during the pro
gress of his efforts to procure the favora
ble action of the governor, Mr. Murphy
informed him that he was interested in
he indorsement, hut it is shown by the
testimony that neither the terms of Mur
phy’s employment, nor the lact that a
>e was to be paid to him, were known to
the governor until after the indorsement
was made and the bonds delivered.
Whatever, then, may have been the mo
tives that moved the parties to this con
tract, to enter into it, it is absolutely- cer
tain that neither its terms nor anything
grow ing out of it could have in the least
degree influenced the conduct of the gov
ernor in indorsing the bonds; and we do,
therefore, brand as a libel the insinua
tion that the determination of Governor
Colquitt to endorse the bonds was induced
by any sinister influence or unworthy
motive.
jl>at underlying that mass of calumny
md slander, which has lately assailed the
.air name of the governor,* and the real
iccason for the existence and currency
>f the loose libels that have so alarmed
ind grieved all good men, the testimony
m this case discloses an evil too great to
>e passed over without notice and con
lemnation at our hands. As the guar
lians of whatever concerns the salety of
;he government, and the purity of’the
public service, it is our first duty to point
out abuses that may seem to threaten
either, to the end that they may be re
moved and fresh securities provided
against their recurrence, and it is to
avoid the imputation of unfaithfulness in
this respect, that w-e invite the attention
of the general assembly to the evils that
must flow- from the toleration of the prac
tice among officials or employees of any
department of the government, of exact
ing fees, or receiving rewards, in con
sideration of influencing, or attempting
to influence, or pretending to influence
the official conduct of other officials of
the same, or of different departments of
the government. This is certainly a
matter of the gravest concern, and one
most nearly affecting the integrity and
independence of the several departments
oi government. Nor can it be said that
this abuse is not a proper subject for our
animadversion, since it is out of its evil
operation that the occasion for this in
quiry- arose. It lies at the bottom of the
••whole matter.” It has banished mem
bers of this body or weeks from their ap
propriate places cf duty, and so hindered
the public service; it has filled the pub
lic mind with anxiety and alarm; it has
furnished food for the w hole brood of
malignant slanderers; and, worse than
all, it has imperiled the peace, the in
fluence, aye, even the reputation of one
whose honorable fame is among the most
precious of our public treasures; and, if
permitted to go unrebuked, w-e may, un
der its operations, see each department of
the government converted into a “tolling
house” for the exaction of unjust and un
authorized fees. There is small reason to
fear that the executive chamber itself
will ever become the scene of corruption
or extortion; but for its perfect protec
tion it is, in our opinion, necessary that
the precincts thereof, and the approach
es thereto, be likewise preserved from all
occasion for suspicion or scandal.
This much we have, under a sense of
duty, felt necessary to say- in explanation
of the conclusions w-e have reached. If
our conclusions be wrong, these errors
have proceeded from no lack of pains on
our part to know- what was. l ight. This
pledge of rectitude we gave to this gen
eral assembly when entering on the dis
charge of the grave and delicate duties
intrusted to us as members ot the com
mittee; and this pledge we have endeav
ored faithfully to redeem.
And, to guard against the evils advert
ed to herein, w-e respectfully- recommend
the enactment of such legislation as will
prevent the contracting for, or receiving,
directly or indirectly, by any official or
subordinate of any department of the state
government, any fee or reward for in
fluencing, or attempting to influence, the
official conduct of the head of any other
department. Respectfully submitted.
Wm, M. Hammond,
R. C. Humber.
The general assembly by an almost un
animous vote, there being only two dis
senting members, who, both of them pro
claimed their entire confidence in the
governor, passed the following resolu
tion, which makes his own vindication
perfect:
Whereas, On the second day of the
present session of the general assembly
his excellency, Governor Colquitt, de
manded, as au act of justice to himself,
and of momentous interest to the State of
which he is the chief executive officer,
investigation into his conduct and mo
tives in reference to indorsing the bonds
of the Northeastern railroad company,
and, whereas, a joint committee of thir
teen, after the most rigid and thorough
examination, have unanimously vindicat
ed his conduct in regard thereby, howev
er difficult and differently expressed, the
views of the majority and minority on
minor points; and, whereas, the general
assembly have not time without a pro
longation of the session to examine the
testimony accompanying said report with
a view to adopt or reject said report:
therefore,
Resolved, That the postponement by
the general assembly of action on the re
port of the investigating committee is
not to be construed as an expression that
its confidence in the character of the gov
ernor —a character exalted by his civil,
military and private career is at all sha
ken —but such postponement by the gen
eral assembly is due to its own apprecia
tion of the proprieties of judicial proceed
ings which forbid judgments in any and
all cases before the cases have been heard.
Life is in living. The marble palace is
not always the bower of love. Every
kind word is a flower, which will beau
tify our final home. Every good deed is
an evergreen which will mark our last
resting place.
There is one single fact which one may
oppose to all the wit and argument of
infidelity—namely, that no man ever re
pented of being a Christian on his death
bed.—[Hannah More.
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THE BOXD COMPROMISE RAW.
We give below the text in full of the
general law passed by the present Legis
lature, authorizing the issuing of new
bonds by city and town corporations for
the purpose of e<Bpromising their bond
ed debts. The .following is the law:
Ax Act to J&a*. mnuietpul au
thorities of town ana cities to compro
mise their bonded debt; to provide for
the issue and exchange of new bonds
for outstanding bonds and coupons; to
provide for the establishment and man
agement of a sinking fund for the re
demption of such new bonds and cou
pons and for other purposes.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State of
Georgia in General Assembly met, and
it is hereby enacted by the authority of
the same, That the municipal authorities
of any incorporated city or town of this
Shite are authorized and empowered to
compromise and settle their bonded debt
in accordance with the provisions of this
act: provided that this act shall not be so
construed as to prejudice the rights of
such creditors as may refuse to assent
to such compromise.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the
said authority, and it is hereby so en
acted, That where there are outstanding
bonds and coupons of any incorporated
town or city of this State as aforesaid,
whether the said outstanding bonds or
coupons are due or to become due, it shall
oe lawful for the municipal authorities
of such town or city to issue bonds with
coupons attached to be exchanged and to
stand for and in the place of such out
standing bonds and coupons; provided,
always, that the new bonds so issued
shall not exceed in amount the previously
outstanding total bonded debt, with in
terest thereon of such town or city.
Sec; 3. Be it further enacted by the
said authority, and it is hereby so en
acted, That when the authorities of such
town or city shall desire to avail them
selves of the benefit of the provisions of
this act, they are hereby authorized and
empowered to pass any ordinance or or
dinances to provide for the issuance and
exchange of new bonds to stand in the
place and stead of outstanding bonds and
coupons and to determine the mode and
metnod of such issuance and exchange
and to fix the length of time such new
bonds shall run and the rate of interest
they shall bear. Such ordinance or or
dinances shall have the force and effect
of contracts between the said town or
city and those who may receive or hold
such new bonds so issued and exchanged.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by said
authority, and it is so enacted, That if
any town or city availing itself of the
provisions of this act, shall desire to pro
vide a sinking fund for the redemption
of such new bonds, it shall be lawful for
the authorities of such town or city to
pass all ordinances necessary for that
purpose, and to create a commission for
the management of said sinking fund,
and for its proper use and application,
which commission shall be composed of
not less than three nor more tnan five
free-holders of such town or city, and the
ordinance or ordinances provided for said
sinking fund, and said commission for
its management and application and the
mode of appointing said commission and
prescribing its duties, shall have the force
and effect of law, and shall be held and
considered as part of the contract be
tween such town or city and the accept
ors and holders of such new bonds.
Sec. 5. Be itenacted by said authority,
and it is hereby so enacted by said au
thority, and it is hereby so enacted, That
ail laws and parts of laws conllicttng
with the provisions of this act be, anu
Lhe same are hereby repealed.
A. O. Bacon,
Speaker House Representatives.
Herny R. Goetchius, Clerk House.
Rufus E. Lester,
President Senate.
Wit, A. Harris, Secretary Senate.
Approved Dec. 11, 1878.
Alfred H. Colquitt, Governor.
COTTON.
Memphis, Dec. 10. —The Memphis cot
ton exchange report for November,
which embraces the districts of West
Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Ar
kansas and North Alabama, shows the
following aggregate of replies:
The weather for November—Seventeen
report never better; eighty-five very fa
vorable; one hundred more favorable
than last year.
Crop picking—The cotton crop is re
ported as being from seventy-five to one
hundred per cent, gathered, averaging
eighty-five, per cent, harvested. Pick
ing will be consummated by the sth to
the 50th of December, averaging the 14th.
Yield of the crop—Thirty-seven re
port a greater yield than last year, eigh
teen about the same; forty-seven less av
eraging five per cent, less than last year.
Crop marketing—The crop is variously
reported at from eight to seventy-five per
cent, having been sent to market at the
close of November, averaging forty per
cent.
Miscellaneous —Sixty-six complain of
serious damage by draught during the
months of July, August and Septem
ber causing serious shedding of fruit and
premature ripening. Nineteen report
much damage by rains, causing excessive
growth of the plant and light fruitage.
Much damage is reported by ravages of
the boll worm. Seventeen report the
season as having been a good average or
better for all crops.
Labor—Eeighty-eight report laborers
working well and general morale good.
Fourteen report them working moderate
ly well: eleven that the morale of iaborers
is not good.
Democracy is only organization in
Georgia, outside the independent move
ment. It covers Bullockism. It covers
lobbying. It covers fraudulent railroad
bonds. It covers convict corporations.
It covers Northeastern bonds and Mr.
Murphy. It covers anything, O Lord,
that belongs to organization. The pecu
liar aspects around Atlanta are impossi
ble for Jeffersonian Democracy, but that
Bastard growth that came in with Bul
lock, and grows apace with latter admin
istrations, is a sort of Democracy that the
people do not like, and do not intend to
cover up with a secret investigation.
From this time, henceforth, black shall
be black, and white white, in our Dem
ocratic dictionary. We are for princi
ples, not men. A public official may
keep his hands clean if he wants our suf
frages. When he louches pitch we will
show the people the defilement. We
take no secret investigation in our De
mocracy.—Rome Tribune.
The upstart that rose to a point of or
der after sitting down on the aggressive
end of a pin was assured by the chair
that the point was well taken.
There is no use in Talmage running
down clubs when every paper in the land
is crying, “Now is the time to get up
cfluba.”
NUMBER 23.
THE SUGAR XI.ADE.
The Kid Glove Importers *nd the Frojms
od Change In Duties.
New York, Dec. 10.—A conference
was held, yesterday, betv eeri Gen. Ap
praiser Ketchum and the kid glove im
porters, in obedience tain tractions from
the treasury department, to obtain the
views of importers on the proposed sub
stitution of a specific for an ad valorem
duty on kid gloves. Gen. Ketchum said
that the meeting had been called to see
whether the leather glove importers
could agree upon specific duties, the gov
ernment favoring any duties which would
return to it a revenue equal to that now
received from ad valorem duties. Some
importers advocated a specific duty as
the surest way to prevent a repetition of
the present duty without regard to value
would eutirely stop the importation of
low priced glove-s, and if adopted it would
deprive the government of much reve
nue. A vote on the question, “Would
you oppose a specific duty of $4 a dozen
all around without regard to size or ma
terial ?” showed 14 importers in the affir
mative and sin the negative. Eleven
importers were opposed to a specific du
ty of $3 and eight were in favor of it.
Nine importers opposed a specific duty of
.$2.50 all around, and ten favored it. A
proposed duty of $4 a dozen all around
was opposed by five importers and four
teen favored it. Ten were opposed to a
mixed duty, nine in favor, and one de
clined to vote. Eleven dissented from a
proposition for a duty of $1.50 a dozen
and an ad valorem duty of twenty per
cent, and nine favored it. The vote
against discrimination in duties between
gloves of different lengths was unani
mous. A second vote on a specific duty
of $2 a dozen received only two negative
votes. Gen. Ketchum stated that he
would report the result of the conference
to Washington, together with some views
of his own.
The sugar trade, at the meeting to-day,
pronounced emphatically against Secre
tary Sherman’s proposed change in the
mode of collecting duties on that article
as in the highest degree unjust and im
practicable. Instead of decreasing the
temptation to fraud they believe it will
have just the contrary effect, and if any
change at all is to be made in the tariff’,
they think it should be so' trained as to
avoid discrimination against any qualities
of raw sugar, whether of high or low
grade, and that will conform as near as
practicable to any ad valorem duty.
DEATH OF TOSS LOUISE W. KING.
Augusta Chron. and Con.]
About midnight on Saturday last the
soul of Louise W. King returned to the
God who gave it. She had come back
from the North with a severe cold,
which became serious, and finally ter
minated her existenee in this world. Her
years were few, but her good works
many. She was as beautiful in person
as she was gifted in intellect. A more
serene or angelic spirit never inhabited a
tenement of clay, and yet her virtues
were eminently practical, always man
ifested for the exaltation of the human
race, and as her zeal was unflagging,
her life-work was noble to the last. She
was the founder and patroness of the
Widow’s Home in this city, and also of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Animals. It was very charming
to see her on errands of mercy, and as.
she loved whatever God ha 1 created, it
was her mission and delight to show
others the necessity and importance of
such affection. Her labors in this field
were distinguished and cordially recog
nized every where in tins country, as
well as in Great Britain. Though Lou
ise King had such surroundings of
wealth that her days might have been
spent in lolly, or fashion, none of these
things did she become subject to so that
her grand career as a useful woman
could be in the least, obstructed. She
sought the highest social life to which
she was entitled and always an orna
ment. But the brute creation received
at her hands the tenderest care, and to
the unfortunate of her fellow beings she
was ever considerate, charitable and gen
orous. A higher ideal, or purer pur
pose, or more earnest person, we have
never encountered among “the-daughters
of music,” and when there came upo
her a great silence that men cali.“Death”
it was the extinguishment, so far as this
sphere is concerned, of a character that is
as rare as it is memorable. Well indeed
may the very heavens have wept when
tail was pressed upon her holy relics
for from us has gone the flower of the
flock. It is well for her, no doubt, and
it will be well for us if we become as
worthy of a higher life—
And if we grieve, ior this is human too,
We grieve no longer than thy days were few,
Nor that thou hast escaped tne tears add woe,
The deaths on deaths the living undergo.
THE FORMATION OF FROST.
New Orleans Picayune.
We take pleasure in publishing the fol
lowing note from the United Stales Sig
nal officer at this port, on the subject of
formation of frost at relatively high tem
peratures :
To the Editor of the Picayune: fin re
ply to your inquiry of “How can frost be
formed at a temperature of 48 degrees?”
I have the honor to say tha frost w ill
form at any time when the temperature
of the “dew point” falls below' 32 de
grees Fahrenheit.
The “dew point” is the 'emperature
at which the moisture of the air is con
densed ; it may be found by cooling a
vessel or any article until the moisture of
the air is condensed on it, and then tak
ing tne temperature of the a.tide at the
moment this disposition begins, which
is the dew r point.
When the air is saturated with moist
ure, or the relative humidity is one hun
dred, then frost will not form at a tem
perature above thirty-two degrees Fah
renheit ; but the more dry the air is, that
is the less moisture it contains, the less
the temperature will have to fail to form
frost.
For example: Suppose the tempera
ture of the air to be 48 degrees; suppose
the tempereture of the wet bulb to be 40
degrees; which will give a relative hu
midity of 43 per cent., and the “comple
ment of the “dew' point” will be 16.8 de
grees, which, subtracted from the tem
perature of the air, 48 degrees, will give
31.2 degrees for the dew point, and frost
will be under tin $e circum
stances ,* which is often the ca-ie here.
Very resp’lly, your ob’t servant,
W. L r . Simons,
Serg’t Sig. Corps, L T . S. A.
“Have you cologne?” asked she.
“No ma’am,” replied the and uggist; “I
have no scents at all.” She said he didn’t
look as though he had.
A friendship that makes the least noise
is very often the most useful: for which
reason a prudent friend should be pre
ferred to a zealous one.
“Masterly inactivity” was first alluded
to by Isaiah, when ho said (jooc.. 7)
“Their strength is tto sit still.”
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