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W. E HAD P, f* Usher.
VOLUME 1
Tories OF THE DAY.
Makt of tlie oignrettes of the day are
made from picked-up cigar stump*.
There seems to be no diminution in
the frequency or temper of cyclones.
It cost something over $1,300 to
lecure a jury in the Malley murder case.
The President has called the attention
of Congress to the troubles ip Arizona.
To ALT. appearances we stand sadly
in need of anew and more effective
Indian policy.
Ex-Secretary or State Blaine holds
that the United States is reponsible for
the Chili-Peyu yat.
Poob Captain Howgate ! He is still
lost. Marshal Henry had better increaso
that SSOO reward to S6OO.
The English aesthete will be enter
tained by Mr. Beecher at ITis Peekskill
home in June. Two of anything make
a pair.
The English Government gives Prince
Leopold $50,000 a year to support bis
new wife—a splendid salary for the work
lie does. A-
The Prince of Walos wrote in tho au
graph album of the historian, Bancroft,
“Not ‘Ours, ’ but yours truly, Albert
Edward.’’ j
A New Yoke* company is making ar
rangements for heavy importations of
ice from Norway the present year, to
supply the demand.
It is reported the outlook through the
State of Kentucky taken as a wholo, is
very promising, and crops bid fair to
fully make up for the disastrous season
of 1881. '
The lack of good faith on the part of
Indian Agents may have had something
to do with the recent outbreak. Such
things have been heard of in the past.
And now we have it that Miss Nellie
Arthur has large brown eyes and short
brown hair, and that she is as chubby as
a cherub—altogether, a very delicious
morsel.
The Government hangs three Indian
murderers, whereupon the Indians, in re
taliation, murder a hundred innocent
whites. This is “Indian Policy” with a
vengeance.
A bill has passed the Rhode Island
Senate providing that no license to sell
intoxicating liquors shall bo granted in
those towns where, at the anuual town
meeting in April, the people shall vote
to grant no licenses.
Mon law is becoming almost too com
mon a thing in Indiana. If matters
keep on as they have been going the
past few weeks, it will not be long before
the judiciary iu the State u r ill be entirely
dispensed with in criminal matters.
The National Forestry Convention at
Cincinnati lias excited considerable inter
est on the subject of tree planting. Wo
shall expect within the next few years to
see the country dotted with young groves.
Land can be put to no better puspose.
The proprietor of a restaurant at Fre
mont, Ohio, who found an onyx pin, set
with diamonds, and failed to return it to
the young lady who had lost it, was
bound over to Court in the sum of SSOO,
on the charge of larceny.
The trial of. the Malley boys for the
murder of Jenh'io Cramer is now in pro
gress at New Haven, Conn. Miss
Blanche Douglass, also implicated in the
murder, is said to be an intensely in
terested listener to the testimony as it
is adduced. ol ,
A Cincinnati woman visited a small
pox patient, despite the protests of her
husband, “ just to see what the disease
looked like.” Sho caught the contagion
ind conveyed it to her husband and only
shild. Both parents died and the child
survived. Her curiosity was doubtless
gratified.
Hon Will Ccuback, of Greensburg,
Ind., g ves it as his opinion that tue
mob who hangOd Garrett at Greeusborg
were KentftfcanV hailing from the
former home of the murdered man
Walton. He bases his opinion on the
public feeling at St. Paul, the home of
Walton and Garrett,where he says, there
was no disposition to do injury to
Garrett since his acquittal as as acces
sory tt the crkne.
Wotlb the Government is catisidfrjpg'
the feasibility of protecting American
subjects in Ireland, and the advisability
of going to war with Russia in behalf of
the persecuted Jews in that country, it
will do well to give a moment’s thought
to the unprotected frontiersman of our
own land. If it can’t protect subjects at
honie ) it were worse than folly to talk of
seeming freedom and happiness for the
perseCited in foreign lands.
Thu message of rebuke to the Cabinet,
sent by the citizens of Tucson, Arizona,
asking that better protection be afforded
them against the murderous Apaches,
and less money expended on the grand
military display anticipated at Fortress
Monro*, U wr fitting and doubtless 4*-
THE JACKSON NEWS.
served. A great deal of inansy is ap
pended on more than worthless displays,
which it would he humanity to use in
the protection of those who are in con
stant peril of their lives.
Susie Green, says a contemporary, had
tier pick from among the young meu oi
Lexington, Ky., for she was handsome
and rich; but she preferred a gambler oi
the flashiest kind. He was known to
her for a month as a stock broker, and
at the end of that brief courtship she
married him. They stopped at a Louis
ville hotel on their bridal tour. He
brought her a lemonade in her room,
and she found it bitter. He had put an
opiate in it. When she was unconscious
he stole her purse and $2,500 worth of
diamonds, and deserted her.
One Methodist clergyman in Cleve
land said that the newspapers of to-day
are a powerful ally of Christianity.
Another said that editors would not dare
talk as they write. A third said that
he knew a reporter who became a Chris
tian and found he could not continue in
the business. Doubtless all spoke the
truth. As to the reporter, probably he
liad never taught himself to write truth
fully, aud was therefore a disgrace to the
profession. The other two statements
are accounted for upon the presumption
that one of the clergymen in question
took a respectable paper, while the other
was a patron of one of the few disrepu
table sheets that are published in the
country.
Mrs. Tabor, the wife of the Lieuteu
int-Govornor of Colorado, has filed
petition in court asking that the fine
house in which she lives, said to be
worth $150,000, shall be set apart as ber
exclusive property, and that $50,000 a
year be granted her for living expenses.
Her husband is worth, or is said to be,
from $7,000,000 to $3,000,000. She ac
cuses him of infidelity, while lie repre
sents himself as willing to give her a
divorce, the house and $3,000,000 if she
will sue for a separation, which she re
fuses to do. “The case,” it is alleged,
“will hardly go to trial as it would cre
ate a fearful scandal, in which the best
people would be involved.” If such
people are “the best” in Colorado, what
must the worst be?”
It mas be interesting to our lady
readers to know how Princess Helena,
of Waldeck, was dressed at her marriage
a few days ago to Prince Leopold, the
last son of the Queen of England. The
wedding dress was given to the Princess
by her sister, Queen of Holland, and
was made in Paris. The petticoat was
of the richest white satin, with several
small openings near the bottom, showing
a thick wreath of orange blossoms and
myrtle underneath it, trimmed with two
robings of the costliest point d’Alencon
lace coming down either side, turned
with square corners toward a white satin
train, in the draperies of whch it disap
pears. The train is of immense length,
and literally sown with flakes of silver,
white large bouquets of fleur de Us in re
lief, embroidered in silver all down the
center of it. It was edged with shell
like flutings of satin, intermingled with
point d’Alencon. The dress has short
sleeves, trimmed to match, with point
d’Alencon and wreaths of myrtle and
orange blossoms.
.TtroaE Belfoed, Representative lx
Congress from Colorado, has had an in
terview with the President in regard te
the persecution of Jews in Russia. The
Judge showed that tha atrocities prac
ticed on Jaws in Russia has taken the
form of destruction of property by
plunder and Are, injury to person, mur
derous assaults, outrages on mothers,
wives, and daughters, and deliberate
murder. As nearly as the results of
thess atrocities can be ascertained
and stated in figures, it appears over
two hunered women have been violated,
sixty men were killed, seventy wounded,
twenty thousand rendered homeless, and
about $75,000,000 worth of property
stolen and wrecked. Judge Belford
reminded the President that intervention
in such a cause had been practiced
civilized nations the past two centuries
He cited a number of cases where intex
vention had occurred in late wars,
among them being that of Russia on
behalf of persecuted Christians in
Turkey. The intervention of Russia in
behalf of Greek Christians in Turkish
Dominions was an avowed justification
for undertaking the Crimean war, and
agaiu in 1877 the intervention of Russia
in behalf of Christian subjects of the
Sultan was the single pretext for the
Russo- Turkish war. In reply to Judge
B jfcpl* the President said he felt deeply
interested in the cueepf the persecuted
Hebrews, ahd was 'determined to-do
everything that could be done with
propriety to induce the Russian Govern,
ment to extend the furies- protection to
this class of its subjects. He had within
the past few days addressed a communi
cation to our representative at St.
Petersburg, directing bim to invite tha
attention of the Czar to these, reported
atrocities, to express the abhorrence that
was felt in this country in relation to
their perpetration, and entreating him
to exercise his authority to prevent their
recurrence. The President further said
that he was determined American Hc
-1 brows temporarily residing in Russia
-houid receive the care and protection
of their Gownuaeut
Devoted to the Interest of Jackson and Butts Countv.
JACKSON. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY. MAY 10, 1882.
THE FACTS AT LAST.
HOW THE CONFEDERATE SPECTE WAS
DISTRIBUTED.
An Authentic Account by Gen. Dl brel l, Who wss
in Command of the Davis Escort and
Money Train.
[Washington Post ]
[Gen. G. G. Dibrel! —now a member
of Congress from Tennessee—contributes
tlie following authentic and circumstan
tial account of the disposition of the
Confederate specie about which so much
has been said since the publication of
Gen. Joe Johnston’s first statement. —
Ed. Post.]
On the 12th day of April, 1865, I re
ceived a few miles below Raleigh, N. C.,
an order from Maj. Gen. Wheeler to
proceed at once with my cavalry com
mand, composed of a part of my own
Tennessee brigade, commanded by Col.
W. S. McLemore, and the Kentucky
brigade, commanded by Col. W. C. P.
Breckinridge, and Wigcin’s Arkansas
j Battery, to Greensboro, N. C., and there
report to Gen. John C. Breckinridge, the
Secretary of War, and President Davis.
We had that day at Butler’s bridge, he
low Raleigh, learned certainly of the
disaster of Gen - Lee’s Army. In obedi
ence to that order we passed through
Raleigh and marched fifteen or twenty
miles that night. The next night we
camped above Hillsboro, and the next
reached Greensboro about 12 o’clock at
night, and reported in person with Col.
Breckinridge, first to Gen. Breckinridge,
and then to Mr. Davis. We left Greens
boro the next evening, moving south.
At Lexington we awaited dispatches
from Gens. Breckinridge and Jos. E.
Johnston in regard to the surrender or
terms of surrender proposed by Gen.
Sherman, and then moved on to Char
lotte. N. C., where we were joined by
the commands of Gens. J. C. Vaughn
and Basil W. Duke, which had come
across from western Virginia. After
wards we were joined by Gen. Fergu
son's brigade. At Charlotte, Gen. Brock
inridge, who was a Major General in the
Confederate States Army, assumed com
mand of all the troops along in person
and gave orders. Up to ttiis time my
command of Tennesseans and Kentuck
ians had done all of the guard, picket
and scouting duty, and continued to do
so until surrendered. On leaving Char
lotte we marched on through South
Carolina, encountering large numbers of
Gen. Lee’s soldiers who had been pa
rr led ind were <n tkdi wuj U; their
k*BN.
At Abbeville, 8. C„ on the 2d of May,
after having gone into camp, Col. Bragg
sent for me and showed me the terms of
surrender agreed upon by Gens. Sher
man and Johnston, which included all
of Gen. Johnston’s army. That night a
conference of officers was held at the
residence of the lion. Mr. Burt, in Ab
beville, at which were present Mr. Da
vis, Gens. Breckinridge, Bragg, Vaughn,
Duke, Ferguson, Col. Breckinridge and
myself. After a full and free discussion
of the situation, the condition of the
troops, etc., it was agreed that we would
move at 11 o’clock that night across the
Savannah river into Georgia, near
Washington, and there surrender such
of the cavalry as did not wish to go to
the trans-Mißsissippi department. It
was also agreed there that the troops
should the next day be paid a part of
the specie on hand. When orders were
issued to move, I was requested to fur
nish transportation for the specie, and
the quartermaster furnished four wagons.
The specie train was placed immediate
lv under the control of Gen. Duke, who
delivered it safely the next day to Gen.
Breckinridge at his headquarters, where
it was divided as heretofore published.
In the conference cf officers held the
night previous, Mr. Davis inquired par
ticularly as to the condition of each com
mand, whether they could be relied up
on in an emergency. I remember stat
ing for my command, commanded by
Cols. Mcljemore and Breckinrigde, and
the artillery commanded by Capt. Wig
gins, that they had remained true and
intact, were under good discipline, and
never refused to do duty either as scouts,
picket, or guards and were as ready to
march to battle as taev had always been.
Each officer was asked in turn in regard
to his command, and my statements
were corroborated by Col. Breckinridge
when ho wss interrogated.
Mr. Davis had had the corefpanv of
Capt. Given Campbell, of the First
Kentucky cavalry, as an escort, and he
decided to leave next day with his es
cort, staff, and a few others. On going
into camp near Washington, Ga., on the
3d of May, the specie train was parked
at Gen Breckinridge’s headquarters,
and that intended for the troops was
turned over to Maj. E. C. White, chief
quartermaster of my command, he being
the ranking quartermaster present,, who,
after counting the money turned over
to him, and receiving the pay rolls of
each command present, paid out and
furnished me a statement of the amount,
which I had misplaced, but Col. W. C.
P. Breckinridge having retained a copy
furnished it to me. which is as follows,
to wit:
TANARUS amount received of Confed
erate States government... $108,322 90
By. amount paid Capt. Br ggj, A.
Q. M., Dibrell’s brigade 29,677 00
Byarnountpaid Maj. W. .1. Brad
ley, Q. M., Breckinridge’s •
brigade 1',342 30.
By amonnt paid Capt. Clay Price
A. Q. M., Ferguson’s brrig
ade 23,477 96
By amount paid Capt. J. D.
Floutt. A. Q. M., Vauahan’s
brigade 12,781 80
By amount paid Maj. D. fl.Flew
cllen, A. Q.M., Duke’s brig
ade 17,192 00
Byampnntnaid Capt. W. F. Bell
A.' Q. M., Ninth Kentucky
Regiment 100 00
By amount paid Gen. J. C.
Breckinridge and twenty
four men 630 00
By amount paid thirty-one en
gineer troops with Gen. 8... ,314. 73
Bv amount, paid a!vrt*six rarm'. .
of various commands per or
dor of (ten. Jsi uekiariclg4r, r l ,ft WOO"
Bv amount paid <?en. Bibroll
ami thirteen officers at di
vision headquarters 841 25
By amount paid twenty - six
scouts, DibreH's division, . .. 882 50
By araound paid tventy-six
courriers, Dibrcll’t division #8! 50
By amount paid Wiggin”s bat
tery, eighty four men 1,205 00
By amount paid quartermasters
department, Dibrell’s divis
ion, twenty two men 377 50
By amount paid C. 8. depart
ment, Dibrell’s division,
fourteen meu 809 50
Balance 66 8-1
$108,322 90
After this money was paid out upou
pay rolls made out by the officers pres
ent, our command went into camp to
await a Provost Marshall to whom we
could surrender. Some of our men went
on and were paroled at Augusta, and
in all our march from Greensboro to
Washington, Oa., the two brigades above
were well organized, well armed and
equipped and splendidly mounted, and
were, all iu all, equal to any command
in either army in every respect. They
had done as much hard fighting, hard
marching and suffered as much hardship
as any troops in the army, and when
the last days of tlie Confederacy came
they surrendered in good faith like true
and gallant soldiers, and, I have no
doubt, hae respected their paroles to
this day.
lam induced to speak thus of my
command on tiiis march, because several
parties writing upon this subject have
characterized the cavalry along with
Mr. Davis as irregular cavalry, and have
stated that they clamored for a division
of the specie. This, so far as the gallant
Kentuokv and Tennessee brigades and
Wiggin’s Arkansas battery is concerned
is untrue. They were regular cavalry
and artillery under good discipline and
remained true to the very last. The
division or payment to them of the
small amount, received was unsolicited
upon their part; was in accordance* to
an agreement made by the officers with
Gen. Breckinridge the previous night
without their knowledge orjprocureinent,
There was no halting or speech making
until the Savannah river was crossed
and a general halt ordered.
Capt. Lot Abraham, of tlie Fourtli
lowa Cavalry, was sent from Augusta to
parole us. The paroles were all made
out on the 9th of May, when Capt.
Abraham notified me ho had been in
structed by Gen. Upton to take all the
horses from the private soldiers. I de
clined to surrender to him, and told him
I would march hack to North Carolina
and surrender to Gen. Sherman ; that
all of our horses were private property,
and under the terms of Gen. .Tohuston’s
surrender all private property was to be
respected.
At his suggestion, Gen. Vaughn, Capt.
Coffin and McKenney went, with him to
Augusta and telegraphed the situation
to Gen. Wilson, who telegraphed bark to
allow the soldiers to keep their horses,
all of which were the private property
of the soldiers.
On the lltli of May we were all pa
roled and stated for our bpmes in a body.
Near Cleveland, Tenn., we were mStby
a request fiom the provost marslia. at
Cleveland to come by that place Ve
did so and were immediately surround
ed bv an infantry guard, and a vigorous
search of the person and baggage of ev
ery soldier instituted, until stopped by
Col. Smith, of the One Hundred and
Fifty fourth Illinois Regiment, ail ex
ceedingly gallant and clever gentlemin,
but wo were sent under guard to Chut
tanooga, where Gen. Juda was com
manding, but a certain provost marshal
named St. Sargent took all the horses
from the soldiers, allowing the officers
to retain theirs, claiming to^ act under
orders from Gen. Thomas, which proved
to be false. The soldiers thus dismouit
ed contrary to the express terms of tie
surrender and the instructions of Gai.
Wilson, left immediately for th<ir
homes, some bv rail and the balance in
foot. Gen. Williams having joined is,
proceeded immediately to Nashville aid
got an order for the return of our horswi
taken from Breckinridge’s brigade, and
Col. McLemore got our order for ins,
anil they both sent hack and got most
of their horses, but before the order ras
received and the others sent for, he
Tennessee brigade had lost 25C hea< of
valuable horses The quartermaster lad
turned them in a dry lot without fiod
or water. Many had died and a lum
ber were too poor t’travel and were lift
by the wayside. The loss of 250 held
of horses was a serious ioss to the gtl
lant soldiers, who had just returned!*)
their desolated homes, pennilem aid
with nothing with which to start alym.
The following is a copy of* TilMjk
official order issued by me, whiqh V/s
furni-hed me recently by Lieut. Join
A Lewis, Adjutant of the Ninth Ken
tucky cavalry, viz :
Beadhii a ifkicits Cavalry Division, Msv
5, 1865. —Commanding officers will imme
diately make kno wn to their commands (hat
thev are expected to conduct themselvt-F as
soldiers nnd centlemrn. All vbo are un
willing tis do this are respectfully icquested
to seud up furloughs for approval end will
leave their command. No depredatioas will
he allowed, either now or npon the march, ’
or after they are paroled. All soldiers guilty
of offences will be turned over to th civil
sutherities. Soldiers who cannot refrain
from shooting in anil around e.-mpsaie re
quested to take furloughs and go where
llieir shooting will not endanger the livss of
their comrades, or violate the ru'es of good
ord r aLd discipline. Read this to all your
men. ■*
G. G. Dibrfix, Brigadier General.
Official: J. M. Hines, A. A. Gen. and C.
- ■ ,
Every officer and soldier who sow this
command, nd mi fed jfs good disciplim
and soldierly bearing, and all who sa
them in'battle admired their gallantry
Commanded by such officers as Breckir
ridge"* and McLemore and a splendi
corps of regimental and line officers, the
could not be othewise than under goo
discipline an.T brave and gallantxoldie)
and whefc they .-in good faith laid dost
their arms anil accepted a parole, as tru
brave and good a set oFjnen as eve'
breathed'the breath of life, beeanu
good citizens. Justice to their memory
demands thftbl should say this and de
! fend them against the charge of beinj
! irregulax cavalry or clamorous for any
thing. ' • J •& G. Dibrki.J.
| Washington, April 12, 1882.
Fooling M. Thiers.
Spies do not always render services
proportionate to the pay they draw, and
their employers are no doubt often sorely
vexed by the blunders they commit
through overzeal. In 1872, when the
Count de Chambord had gone to hold a
sort of court at Antworp, and was gen
erally thought to be on tlie ove of getting
restored to the Fronoh throne, M. Thiers
sent spies to watch his movements. One
of these was so übiquitous that he ended
by attracting the attention of two of tlie
Bourbon Priuoe’s supporters, who were
young noblemen fond of fuu. Theso
gentlemen, keeping their eyes on the
spy, found that he was in the habit of
•pending his evenings in a certain cafe
on tlie Grande Place. Repairing to this
establishment they seated themselves
near to their man, and began talking
about the Count do Ohambord's doings
in whispers just loud enough for the fel
low to hear. The spy, of course, pricked
up his ears, and soon he must have been
convinced that he was discovering most
valuable secrets. Tho young men re
lated marvelous stories about tho Prince's
plans, the number of adherents lie was
gathering in France, and spoke of a grand
coup d'etat which was being prepared
for him by a number of statesmen and
Generals who hoped to take tho country
by surprise. In great excitement tho
spy flashed the news to Versailles, and
M. Thiers, who had no wish to see tho
Count de Chambord restored, communi
cated them to his private organ, Le Him
Public. That orednlous newspaper be
came remarkable during tho next few
days tor publishing the most extraordin
ary news from Antwerp. Every- day tlie
spy had something new to relate out of
what he piokod up at his a a/a, till at
length one of his hoaxers having let fall
a letter as if by Occident, tlie spy dis
covered (as he fancied) tu elnliorate plot
for kidnapping M. Tliiers. Tho letter
stated, in effect, that the Count de Cliam
bord, having resolved to seize upon the
throne, was going to liavo M. Thiers ap
prehended in the middle of the night by
a certain General, whose name was men
tioned, and that meanwhileanother Gen
eral would arrest M. Gambetta. M.
Tliiars was a fussy little man who had a
great belief in plots, and on reocipts of
tho tidings which apprised him that his
liberty was in danger ho must have
experienced a moiuout’s consternation ;
but before he could take any stops to
prepare for the coup d'etat, tlie Union, a
Legitimist paper, published a chaffing
letter from Antwerp, iu which tlie hoax
played upou the spy was related in de
tail* M. Thiers aud tho editor of tho
Lc Hien Public (which always pre
tended to have no official connections)
then looked very foolish. As for the spy,
I*. my 1c doubted whether, on his re
turn to Paris, he was received with smil
ing thanks. —Oornhill Magazine.
Uow Some Poet* Worked.
How Dryden worked I can not, find
recorded ; doubtless at any time and all
times, whenever the need of money
pressed him. Pope always required his
writing desk to be sot upon his bed be
fore he rose. Gray, the author of the
“Elegy,” was, perhaps, of all writers
the most curiously minute in his method.
It is said that he perfected oaoh line sep
arately, amending and rewriting it over
and over again, nu'd never commenced
another until the first had wholly'satis
fied his fastidious taste. Byron sul down
to write without any premeditation ; his
ideas flowed with liiu ink, nml one line
suggested the next. But after the poem
was completed, and during its passage)
through the press, he was continually
altering, interlining, and adding. ‘The
first copy of “The Giaour” consisted of
only 400 lines; to each new edition .wnro
added new passages, until it swelled to
nearly 1,400 lines.
During tho printing of “The Ilrido of
Abydoa” he added 200 lines, unil many
of the original were altered again and
again. One of tho most constantly la
borious writers of whom we huve any
account was Southey. In one of his let
ters he says: “Imagino me in this
great study of mine (at Gesta Hall, Kes
wick), from breakfast till dinner, from
dinner till tea, and from tea till supper,
in my old black boat, with corduroys
alternated with tho long worsted panta
loons and gaiters in one, and the green
•hade, ana sitting at my desk, and have
my picture and my history. * * * My
actions are as regular as those of fit.
Dustan’s quarter hags. Three pages of
history after breakfast; then to tran
scribe and copy for press, or to make my
selections and biographies, or what else
suits my humor till dinner time ; from
dinner till tea I read, write letters, see
the newspapers, and vary often indnge
in a siesta. After tea Igo to poetry,
and correct, and rewrite, and copy till I
Am tired, anil then turn to anything till
supper—and this is my life, which, if it
be not a merry one, is yet as happy as
heart could wish.”— Argosy.
Bringing Drowned Bees to Life.
A lady in Providence relates the fol
lowing storv: Hw father once brought
home a molasses hogshead to ho used os
a water tank. On washing day her
mother said:
“Let’s throw the snds in it to *onk tho
molasses from tlio bottom.
Tho instant she had dotio so she ex
claimed:
“Oh I hve drowfiod hundred'; of our
neighbor’s bees. ”
The hogshead was Mack witli bees that
were busily appropriating tiie sweet from
■wJat they quint have considered an enor
pfJUs blossom. The good lady made
haste with her skimmer to skim the bees
from tho top iff tiie watet and spread
them on a board in the sunshine, but
they seemed drowned and nearly dead,
and sho was very sorry. The bees that
were around - the hogshead lwd flown
away at tiie drush of the water, bait iy u
few minutes they returned, accompanied
by scores of others. Then lrtlgon a cu
rious jrQrk They immediately went to
work on the unfortunate' bees, turning
them over and working on them con
gtantlyvith tlioir heads, feet and anten
nae. The result of their busy labor was
that one after Woodier gave signs of life,
stretching the limbs and wings, crawled
about and dried itself in the sun, and
flew; away. The lady said thero were a
hajf-piptat first, and that there remained
only about a dozen helpless eases beyond
lit* iiwuuiy •Bolts oi their brothers.
Halles of Cabinet Officer*.
Tho Secretary of the Treasury hiu ;
cliargo of tho national finances. Ho di- 1
gests and prepares plans for the improve
ment and management of tlio reveiiuc |
aud support of tho public credit. He
superintends tlio collection of tho revenue
aud prescribes the forms of keeping and i
rendering all public accounts, mid malt- j
ing returns; grants all warrants foi
money to be issued from tho Treasury, I
in pursuance of appropriations by law: j
makes reports, and give information tc {
either bruueli of congress, as may bo re- ,
quired, respecting nil matters refereed tc '
him by tho Satiate or House of Ropro- j
sentatives, and generally performs all
such services relative to tho finances ns
lie is directed to perform; controls tbs 1
erection of public buildings, tho coinage
aud printing of money, tho collection ol
commercial statistics, the marine hos
pitals, the revenue-cutter sorvioo, the
life-saving service. Under his superin
tendence the Liglit-house Board dis
charges the duties relative to the con
struction, illumination, inspection, and
superintendence of light-houses, light
vessels, beacons, buoys, sea-marks, and
their nppeudages; makes provision foi
the payment of the public debt undei
enactments of Congress, and pubhshei
statements concerning it, and submits tc
Congress at tho commencement of each
session estimates of the probable receipt*
and of tho required expenditures tor the
ensuing fiscal year. The Secretary ol
War performs such duties us tho Presi
dent, who is tho Commander-in-chief,
may enjoin upon him, concerning the
military service, and bus the superiutcu
donee of the purchase of army supplies,
transportation, etc. - The Secretary oi
tho Navy lias the gonoral superinten
dence of construction, manning, arma
ment, equipment, and employment ol
vessels of war. The Secretary of tlie
Interior is charged with tho supervision
of public business relating to patents foi
inventions; pensions and bounty lands;
tho public lauds including mines; tlie
Indians; tlio census, when directed by
law; the custody aud distribution of pub
lic documents, and certain hospitals and
eleemosynary institutions in the Distrioi
of Columbia; ha also exorcises certain
powers and duties in relation to tlio Ter
ritories. The Postmaster General lias the
direction and mauagomont of the Post
office Department; he appoints nil officer*
and employes of the department, exoepl
tho throo Assistant Postmasters General,
who are appointed by tho President, by
and with the consent of the Senate; ap
points all postmasters whose compensa
tion does not exceed $1,000; makes pos
tal treaties withforeign governments, by
and with the consent of the President;
awards and executes contracts, ami di
rects tlio management of tlio domestic
and fdreign mail service. The Attorney
Gonoral is the head of the Department
of Justico and tlie duel law ollleer or tue
government; he represents tho United
States in matters involving legal ques
tions; ho gives hU advico and opinion on
questions of law when they nro required
by the President, or liy the heads of the
other executive departments, on ques
tions of law arising upon the acjministrn
tion of their respective departments; he
exercises a general superintendence and
direction over United States attorney*
and marshals in all judicial districts in
tho Stilton and Territories; and he pro
vides special counsel for tho United
States whenever required by any depart
ment of tho government. Recently we
gavs ft statement of tlio duties of the
Secretary of State, In regard to ques
tions of policy and matters of importance,
Iliey consult’tho President, and are of
ten consulted by him.— (fyucago Inter-
Ocean, ,
Discoveries nt Pompeii,
A woman with a ohilil has been dis
covered at Pompeii ill a narrow street
twelve feet above the level of the an
cient pavement. It is well-known that
the cubudqoplie of 7t> A. D. commenced
with a thick shower of small pumice
■tones, by which the streets of Pompeii
wore covered up to tlm roofs of the
houses. Htones were succeedeiLby adieu,
which became solid owing to the action
of successive showers of boiling water;
anil these ashes now form the top layer
of the materials which covor the ruins
of Pompeii. Most of the unhappy be
ings who remained in the houses after
the eruption first reached tho town made
tlieir escape through the windows, but
the greater part of these fugitives could
have taken but few steps, and must have
been quickly snftoeatod by the poisonous
fumes. With one arm tho woman whoso
skeleton has now been found was damp
ing the legs of the child, whoso body
shows contraction in the arms arid legs,
and a general emaciation, which lead us
to suppose that thochUd must have been
very ill. It was a little hoy about ten
years of age. Doubtless the woman was
the mother of the child. Homo jewels
found on the female skeleton indicate a
person of condition ; two bracelets of
gold encircled the arm which hold tho
boy, anil on the hand were two gold
rings, tho one sot with an emerald on
which is engraved a horn of plenty, and
tho other with an amethyst liearing a
head of Mercury.
A Soldier’s Danglitcr.
IndianniMilis has had a romance in
real life that is a wide, departure from
the ordinary line. During the war a lit
tlo girl, tho daughter of an Indiana
soldier who fell in battle, was placed in
a Soldiers’ Orphans Hoino. There she
became the friend and confidant of the
ilanplit; r of (hi; superintendent, but in
tho coursn of time was tiansferreil to an
other institution and lost trace of her
friend and also of her mother. 'When
about seventeen years of age she went to
live with a family, who gave her a plhas
aut home. Among the members of the
family was a young tnan of good address,
who fell in love with flic girl and tho
end was her disgrace. Leaving her home
she found her way to the Homo for
Friendless Women m Indianapolis, and
was transferred to the City Hospital,
where her babe was l>orn. Home weeks
later, a lady visitor to the hospitid
sprung toward the girl, now an invalid,
with a cry of recognition. She was tho
old friend and confidant of the Soldiers’
Homo, and through her efforts tho
gill’s mother was found and mother and
daughter united. Then came the lover,
and they were married. A- few hours
after her muring*, Use young wile died.
lUUMN: $1.60 per Anuuw,
NUMBER 35.
HUMORS OF THE DAY.
The man who is corned is very apt to
jet on his ear anil stalk off.
A man cats cloves between acts so that
not breath of suspicion may be cast on
his temperance character.
Always look on the bright side; a
mighty ugly hired girl can ring the bell
for a mighty good dinner.
It may be said of tho “belle of the
ball ” that when she hows assent to an
invitation to the dance, “she stoops to
couenr. ”
Bartendeus are the most sooiable set
.on earth. They break the ice oft
sner aud finer than anybody.—Bloom
ington Eye,
Don’t throw away your old flour-bar
rels. They are useful. It has been
1 found that an ordinary flour-barrel will
hold 678,900 silver dollars.
Wherein is the average church con
gregation better than the highwayman?
: Does it not make tho poor preacher
stand and deliver every Sunday?
"The muses kiss with bps of flame,”
savs a recent poet of tho hew order.
Then we are thankful that wo are not
courting any of tho muses just now.
Wo don’t wish to have our mustache,
burned off.
“You just ought to see howl was pay
ing attention to Miss Flapjack .out at tho
picnic!'’ “ Did you speak to her ?" “O
no ; I didn’t proceed to that extreme,
but I patted her poodle dog on the Lmk
when she wasn't looking.'*— Austin Sift-'
ings.
“Dear, dearl” jsxolaimed Mrs. Brown.
“I have just been over to see Clara.
Poor child! She is dying of criAui."
“Why, how you talk!” cried Mrs. Home
spun; then, ’adding, ns she moved away
from her visitor: “Mercyl ’Tain’t ketch
in’, is itl"
“Gentlemen of tho jury,” said ft
blundering counsel, in a suit about a lot
of hogs, “there were just thirty-six in
the drove. Please remember the fuot —
thirty-six hogs; jnst three times as many
as in that jury box, gentlemen.” That
counsel didn’t gain his ease.
The lecturer began: “There is a for
tune lying in wait—” Up jumped a
bullet-headed fellow in tho northeast
corner to remark: ‘‘ Well I guess you’re
Tiout right, there, mister. There’s Bill
Jones, tho butcher. Throe years ago
he wasn’t wufli a dollar. He’a got a
fortin now. Got it, as you nay, by ly
ing in weight.” The hullot-headed man
said no more, but the lecturer was ill at
ease during the entire ovoning.— Boston
Ti (Mscript.
Bhf. was bright eyed and rosy cheeked;
in fact, very pretty, Sho arranged two
our scats so that she might have abund
ant room. Then she opened her book
satchel and began to take notes ol tier
morning lesson. How charming to see
the young female mind develop, thought
we. Hhe took notes just three minutes,
and then, oil, horrors ! sho unfolded a
(lash story paper anil road hluhli for half
an hour. * Her ln-auty faded so rapidly
that when she left the oar we thought
sho was tho plainest jieraou we ever
saw.
“Good morning, Fogg,” said Brown,
briskly. “ How did you like the opera
lust night ?” Oh so-so,” answered Fogg,
moodily; “ nothing striking about.it,
excepting the drum-sticks.” “Gome,
come,” returned Brown, “bo sorious.
Didn’t you think that bravura passage
pizzicato nml nppogiatura embellish
ments were lovely I” “Guoss I didn’t
see it,” replied Fogg ns'leforo; “ there
was only feathers anil flowers and things
on tiie one in front of me,” “ What are
you talking about, man?” exclaimed
Drown. “That girl’s hat, of opurse.
Wusu’t you?” “Good morning, said
BiOwn, ns he turned the corner.
The Actor Versus the Flay.
It, is certainly the idea of all drama tin
representation that the play itself is the
one important thing. The aetors re by
rights only cunning and sdert lay fig
iili s, that surround thenisclyoii with tho
scenes, anil endure their aetihg With the
passions of one play Alter another.;, If
this is ilotie with much power and art, it
is so much the mitre creditable to the
actors anil delightful to the audience.
If it is done but poorly, thon still the
play has its own vitality and ite own
claims to respect. 1 In the same way it
may even lie pleasant to read from a tom
anu dirty volume, if tho words them
selves are fine. Thin, without doubt, is
the natural and reasonable way of con
sidering playfi anil play actors. For
merly it was tlie universal one. It was
the tine new play tiled (hat drew the
orowd—not tho line now actios*.
But all this is changed no< Tho
glorifying of one actor to the degree oil
making a “star” of him ; the “ personiti
magnetism” element ; and the attention
given to the matter of dry goods, have
all tended to make most dramatio shows
nothing more than the exhibition of the
gifts of on? actor or actress. The charm
of that one person is the thing relied on.
The plays of such are fitted to them on
the saino principle that their clothes are
,_ t* set off their natural grades. "
Whether the play itself is a fine literary
work is a matter of small consequence.
The result of this sort Of thing has
been that the number of plays populitejy
given- has become constantly smaller
nntl.smaUer. It has come to be known
that certain dramas are best of atl ’
adapted to the display of pleasing elec
tion, personal peauty, and fine dresses. >
These, then, are the Ones to'be Chdfcen,
and they uro given over and over in the i
same season, while hundreds of better
ones are ignored and forgotten.- As
things are at present, a-person who de
sires a familiar acquaintance with that
broad range of literature which has been
put in the form of dramas, must content
himself with reading the volumes in
whi?h these things are printed. He may,
however, if lie choose, have the pleasure
of witnessing “ Camilla” perfectly acted
and splendidly dressed a dozen times in
one whiter. ’I
A lady who had been traveling iff
Italy Was asked by a friend how she
liked Venice. “Oh I very much, in.
deed,” was the reply. “ I was unfortu
nate enough, however, to urrivo there
just at tho tilde of a heavy flood, and
wo hful to about | tlia streets ip