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(77/r (True (Citizen. Sullivan Brothers, Publishers. Subscription Matts: On,. Copy «»no year - - $2 00 “ six months - I 00 “ 1 h roe months - 50 POSITIVELY CASH. Volume 2. Waynesboro, Georgia, I* ridiiVj August 31 tli, 188*>. u clul) of llvc> subscribers with t ,.n vlollars, wo will give a box of hole** onmgvs. — Tavares, (Flu.,) \ young lady at our elbow, sug- ,t- ilu' perteiiancc of stating tin lit ,,1^. dimensions of the box. W,. .five the following item of information tor of mu- the consideration agricultural friends: “By 11( . u „o trial the last season, J00 bushels of shelled corn shrank to , s ],ds between December and jl ilV |. It was put in a tight bin, ami the shrinkage was entirely from evaporation. ’ r|’] u , mail carrier continues to please our people by arriving at i) dock every morning.—Darien (la-cite. Why !) o’clock should be the ex act point of time to please the eit- j Z cas of Darien for the mail carrier to arrive, is what we can’t divine, un less it be because it is just after break fast, and everybody is inclin ed (o lie in a good humor. WAS KOMKHODY’K M0T1IKK. The woman was old ami raggoil ami «rray: A ml bout with tin* Hi HI of a winter’s day. I he sireel was wH with the winter’s snow, And t lie woman’s feet were aged and slow. Slit> stood at t ho crossing and waited lung, Alone, uncared for amid tin* throng. Number 16. <The <Tme (Citizen. Advertising Rates : Tnuislenl ii.lvs. (iiiynlile ill mlvi.uee. Contruet ml vs. (la.vutilc fiiinilerly. ('oim mi n leu I Ions for personal licnefll will bo elmrticil for as ml vs., pn.vnble in mlMinee. Attvs. oeeup.vlnjj special poslllon charged 25 jier cent, mlilil tonal. Notices among reading limiter lOeents per line, each insert Ion. Not lees In I .oral .V. fills!ness colmnn, next to reading, 5 rents per line each insert Ion. All mil lees will be placed among reading matter I!' not special ly ordered ot her wise. For terms apply at tlilsofllec. ()f human beings, who passed her by, Nor heeded Ilu* glance of the anxious eye. I town I lie street with laughter and shout, Iliad in the freedom of school let out. he shadows of political death m to he gathering around Billy Maliono, of Virginia. Mo body will donate a cent to relieve bis politi cal distress, and now comes tbe Hiclnnoiid Strife, which, under the head, “Mdlione’s Bees swarming,” makes Hit* following painful thrust: “Mitltoae’s bees are swarming till around, and in a very angry way.— (let out your tin pans and tea-bells, boss and try and hive them, or till your crop of honey will be lost this Came the boys like a llock of sheep, Mailing the snow piled white and deep, Tasfc the woman so old and gray. So meek, so timid, afraid to stay, Lost the carriage wheels or horses feet. Should crowd her down tin* slippery stre At last came one of the merry troop, The gayest laddie ofall the group. Ho paused beside her and whispered low “I’ll help you across If you wish to go.” men prescnn*rt»their ease clearly, land in support, of the chum pro duced the written opinions ol'Sen- i ator Joseph 1*3. Brown, who being i governor at the time signed the j bonds, (tenoral Toombs, the late I (Inventor Alexander !!. Stephens, j and the late Senator B. It. Hill, and the late lion. Amos T. Akennan, i who favored the payment *>l the | claim on the ground that it was an 1 honest debt. Tim committee, alter : bearing the arguments of these t, rendered two reports.— A llulteini III Pcttlroats. Washington, August 2->.—A1 is; Lucy Horton, a brunette Arthur to lb* Kiilnapped. (TKUHNT (I’ljKAMNtiS. cty, has threatened to throttle the in the A Treasury Department. She lias (‘veiling, Heragcd bund on his strong young iirm Shu placed, and without hurt or harm lie guided tho trembling feel along, Frond tlint disown were firm and strong. Then hack again to Ids friends lie went. Ills young heart happy and well content, "She's somebody's mother, hoys, you know, For she Is old and poor and slow; Ondkn, Utah, August 2">.—Con- air and dashing i siderable excitement exists in this well known in local soei-1 city over a report which appeared Wood River 'Hines of last that a party of cow boys poken and written the mnndate.— I started for the Yellowstone Bark to It is that she must have a clerkship, kidnap President Arthur. Sheriff nr Secretary Folger and appoint-j Furry lias detailed two trustworthy nient clerk Butler must bite the deputies to look it up, with instruc- dust. Lucy is not without a histo- Lions to summon a strong posse, rv, and her record is written in and arrest the kidnappers, if the blood. Site i" probably, twenty-live facts are as stated. | gentlemen, rendered two reports.— vears of age, and hence cannot be The Times says during the past I l’lie majority favored the payment j-inssfil as unsophisticated, having two weeks, a number of strangers, j of tbe bonds, and the minority was j j )0(lll a resident of this city several j till well provided -with good riding against their payment, on the voars> a very few years ago she animals and firearms, and reseni- ! ground that it was ti war debt, | hrc.,1 a slug of lead into the body of filing a party of regulators or Texas barred by the 1-ltli Amendment.— Senator Morgan's son, of Alabama, | cow boys, have been camped on Whim these reports came up m the ]oft him for dead. Sin* said ! Mouse tin' majority report was vo- {| 1( , young man had seduced her, led down by yetis 1 IT, nays Ml). This , , in( ^ | H .trayed her. She is tall, slen der, rather vivacious, and good looking. II is said she can love with a fervor seldom equaled, and hate with a vengeance worthy of a pi rate 1 . Six months or more ago, the A Daiurlitoi' Sues Her Kntlirr. Quincy (Flu.) Herald. There is on the Circuit Court docket for trial at the approaching term of the (fadsden ,'ircuit Court, a case against the town of Quincy, a breacii of promise suit, and a case of a daughter suing her father for wages. settled tilt' claim so far as the pres- 1 cut Legislature is concerned, but does not end the matter, as Mat tingly, through bis lawyers, pro-j poses to continue to press the claim, "Ami I hope some fellow will leml u lmiul To help my mother you understand, “I I ever she’ When tier m i “lit uml poor uml gray, n ileav hoy is far nwny. hoping at some future day to get a 1 slll() ke from the field where she Legislature that will net in his fn- j s i lo t youna having cleared vnr. 1 tun told that the late Gov- a \y a y ( ,s]io applied for a position in the An exchange says, “the quarrels of the Maryland Democrats may not lie past healing, but they should reassure their brethren elsewhere by putting an end to their wrang ling. A few bosses might be nil- And “Homebody s mother” bowed low her head In her home that night, and the prayer she said Was “< tod, he kind to the noble b< Who is somebody’s son and pride j ernor Stephens was to have gotten ' .f.'iiili for the legal opinion rendered I in this case, but never got it. ! General Toomh in reference to a r Treasury Department. Site made her application in person, and was accompanied it is said by Airs. ingcr- oitcc speaking sol, Representative Sltellenbargor, port in circulti- of Pennsylvania, and other good The Mattingly iioml (Liim. Savanmih Tunas. Atlanta, August 2:1.—The ave rage Georgia Legislature knock. 1 the Sharp’s rifle claim out of time i way into bis command, with as niut'li ease us Sullivan downs every slugger who faces lvim. The history of this claim lias been written up so often that every one who takes an interest in Georgia affairs is acquainted with it. In I860 the General Assembly then in session at MiHedgPville, authorized chief executive, Governor Jo- |i,ailed with profit.” This is no time j p 10 lor Democrats anwhere to quarrel.. s( ,ph jr Drown, to purchase a.special if wc succeed in 1881, and success . number of stands of arms for the is within our reach under judicious inore thorough equipment of the management, the Democratic par- \ t.v tattst present an unbroken trout i chased from the Sharp Rifle Com- »il along the line. No Democrat j p. vny) of Springfield, which coaipa- ^liiutlil insist upon his personal ail- i ,,y was represented in the transac- viaieemeat which will in anyway antagonize the party, no matter State militia. The arms were pur lieu to tlie effect that the guns were j and reputable people, who urged I of an inferior quality, said it was the Secretary to give her a place | not true, that the guns were as good The people who recommended her, | as any of those used by tho < knifed- were moved by her pleas and prom- j crate troops during the war. lie ises. As soon as Secretary Folgci : says that some of them found their heard her name lie refused to help and that : her. Rut the old man was soon ’they were first class in every re- outmameuvered by ardent friends, spent. At present the chances of j She was given a position ns a “sub,” Mattingly getting bis money are for three months under another very slim, as there is a good deal of j name than Lucy Horton. At the feeling among some of tin* people i expiration of that time, she sttc- ' of this State against paying the needed in securing another three debt, owing to the fact that tho .months’ lease of life. It was during claim is held by a Yankee. A mem- j the last quarter that she displayed her of the judiciary committee a spirit not to be courted by the who opposes the payment of the saints, whereby a prominent clerk claim, tells me that the Yankees j in the department was transfored prescribed the 14th Amendment, from one division to another, and and that lie was in favor of dosing | came near losing his otlicial head.-— them with the same medicine that; Appointment clerk Butler discover- they prescribed. | ing Lucy’s unenviable qualities, refused to help her to another term Wilcox creek, and considerable curiosity lias been expressed as to the intention of the party. Some accounted for their outfit by de- A Hood Henson. The late Judge Black was once asked why lie did not become a Republican, lie grimly replied, that if lie wasn’t afraid of hell lie would. The judge was an uncom monly smart man, and good Re publicans would do well to look into the matter. HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS. TIIK 11.: A SON. On land tintl sea ivposos The moonshine cold and white, The perfume of the roses Kills all the air of the night. The breeze is running riot t >’er ocean’s distant blue; No sound disturbs our quiet, (>ur solitude for t wo. In one harmonious chorus Night’s voices all seem blent, Night’s charm is stealing o’er us. And yet—we are not content. Yellow Fever Approaching Urunswiek. Washington, Aug. 2i).—The Sur- eon General of the Marine IIos- a ’Tis not that love lias vanished, ’Tis not timt we forget, ’Tis not that hope is banished, And leaves us but regret. Our thoughts are far asunder As (Mirth and ocean’s pearls— 11 isn’t any wonder; You see we both are girls. scribing them as a party organized I pital Service lias received a tele- to go into the Indian country on a gram from Surgeon Burgess at prospecting trip, while others lie- Havana stating that the Spanish lieveil them to be a party of Arizona | bark DaceJunio, which left there rustlers. During several days past,! on the 2<>th inst. for Brunswick, Gn., some of the party have ridden bad two cases of yellow fever on bow just his claims may be. The siiri'i'ss of the party is paramount to the claims of any individual, it matters not who lie is or wluvt his claims may be. Let us have har mony—perfect harmony—in the party from one end of the land to the other. We have reeeivetl an “Advance Sheet for Editors’ Extracts” of the Ame.rieun Aijriculturulist. We glaiiceil over it, and our eye fell upon the caption “Rickie Farming.” That was good—every body loves pickles—“there is millions in it”— nml if tho editor of the Agricultu ralist will furnish us the seed, we will plant a whole square of our garden in pickles at any season of the year or time of the moon he Mill advise. But that is all we can promise. Last spring we urged our Ini'iners to go into the “truck farming,” and many of them plant ed largely of Irish potatoes and melons, and shipped them to tho Northern and Western markets.— The Yankee commission merchants stole the proceeds, and in our opin ion they would steal all tho pickles that could be raised in the State if they could reach them through the fence. Oh, no; we cannot advise our farmers to go into the pickle farm ing business. Another great cotton mill lias been established at Columbus, (In. The Eastern manufacturers laughed I'omitemptuously at the first puny ellbrts to build cotton factories at tlie South. Later, when tho South ern factories began to show a serious disposition to compete with the Northern factories, hired newspa per writers attempted to stop their building by publishing specious, long-winded articles to prove that cotton manufacture in the South could never be made profitable, and Mould finally result disustcrously to those investing in this businos.— Notwithstanding, these newspaper arguments, there was found capital and energy enough in the South to g" tut with the building of factories, M'lille the ample dividends settled the question of profits. To-day the Rustem niimiilTieturers look with dismay upon the rapid increase and iuiportiuice of the cotton mills of Hie cotton producing States. They sec Ilu 1 Inevitable—that it is only a question of time, when the great coiton manufacturing interest of tion by General Pennington, one half of the amount was paid in cash, and by mutual agreement the remaining sum was paid in bonds. Bonds of the ordinary character were given the manufacturers until a more neatly executed bond could be procured from the hands of tbe parties who were to engrave the set - which was to be considered the permanent issue. Owing to some delay, the bonds were not gotten up until after Georgia had taken up arms against the Union. When tlie State came into possession of the bonds, they were forwarded to tlu' Sharp Riile Company, and by that company they were cither sold or transferred to other parties. The bonds were to run twenty years.— At the end of that time, these bonds turned up in the possession of Geo. Mattingly, of New York, who since the bonds have till ion due has been thumping at the duors of tho Legislature at every session, asking that his claim he paid. The first two or three Legislatures that sat down on tlu* claim, gave as an ex cuse for doing so, that the claim •was a war debt, and as such pay ment was prohibited by the 1 Ith Amendment. Now Mattingly asks that the Legislature allow him to test tbe validity of bis claim, so far as the constitutionality of it is con cerned in the courts of the State, and if, after doing Ibis, tho courts decide that the debt is just an hon est, then tin* governor shall draw Ids warrant on the treasury for the amount of the claim, wliseli is something like ,jto0,<)()0. Some years since, while speaking of this ciaim, an Atlanta man, wlm was a member of the Legislature that authorized the issuance of tho bonds, said tome; “When these bonds were Issued, it was not under stood that the guns were to he used for any other purpose than to equip At Tell he v do not the case Lkksiu ug, Ya., August 2a.—Per haps the best concealed duel on re cord, occurred on Harrison’s Island, near Ibis city, last Tuesday. The affair was kept so completely se cret, that it lias just leaked out here, where all the parties are well known and prominent citizens.— No publication of the alfair has been made in the State press, and the mass of the people know of it. The facts ire as follows: Dr. N. G. West and Dr. Sam Ale- Gill arotwo of the hauling physi cians of this city. They have had mutual dislike for some time past, but recently Dr. McGill had seemed very bitter in his feelings towards Dr. West, and made seve ral statements damaging to hi character. West on bearing these reports, denounced them tis infa mous lies, and expressed his opin ion of McGill in language more em phatic than elegant. McGill, after advising with some friends, demanded a retraction of the epithets applied to him. This West refused to give. Arrange ments were then made for a hostile meeting, which were conducted with consumate skill. Nobody sus pected what was brewing, and the parties left town tis quietly as if they were going to a picnic. They reached Harrison's Island, a seclu ded spot in the Potomac, which Inis witnessed hostile meetings before, and proceeded with the final prelim inaries which were conducted with the same business-like precison characteristic of the two duelists.— Tin 1 duelists were to stand ten pa ces apart and use revolvers. ,Iu.- beforo they were to take their places, however, McGill's second made overtures for a settlement of the ditlh'iilty. They were promptly | rejected by West’s second, who hi nt the end of her last employment. Again Iter old disease for blood re turned. She coolly entered Air. Butler’s room in the department a few days ago, and informed him that unless he reinstated her, she would shoot him and Secretary Knlger, too, remarking with empha sis: “I won’t miss my aim cither,” at which Air. Butler presumed she meant immediate work, and lie re plied be should not treat her as others had if she ever attempted to shoot him, but would reply with the same effect as though sin 1 was mas culine. Lucy left Air. Butler’s room with her anger unsoothed. Re turning to her home on I street northwest, she indited a note to Air. Butler. She threatened his life If he did not give her a place tit once. She essayed the same fate to Secre tary Knlger. Not hearing from her note she wrote again, and again.— The others were of the same pur port as the first. “A clerkship, or your lives, Messrs. Butler and Fol- ger.” Air. Butler informed Secre tary Knlger of the woman’s threats, and repeated to him her dangerous character, but did not say to the Secretary that 11is life was also threatened. On Thursday, Aliss I Inrtmi entered the office of the ap pointment clerk. She was calm, and her face bloodless. She was penitent. She is subject to hyster ics, and after begging to be received back, she was seized by a hysterical spasm, and enacted a scene that would put out pathos its very self. But Air. Butler, to save liis honor, could not take Iter back, and re fused flatly to do sn. She came again yesterday, and again to-day. Her visits were long—probably of two or three hours duration. This afternoon she repeated her threat, that she would shoot Air. Butler and the Secretary, and those who know her say she doesn’t talk so for a past time. Since she has grown so demonstrative, Congressman Sludlenharger, Airs. Ingersol and Iter other whilom influential friends have abandoned her. through the town in a defiant man ner, and mysteriously disappeared. Prom a man who came in to-day, it is learned that the party, who induced him to join them and make certain pledges of secrecy, were organized to proceed to Yellow stone Park. They left last night, going on the stage-road, and the informant escaped during the night. The object of the expedi tion is to coral and capture Presi dent Arthur and his party,, and to spirit them away into the moun tain fastnesses and caves, where they will be fed but kept prisoners while the members of the party act as pickets, to prevent them from being captured while negotiations for ransom are being conducted. The captain or leader of tin 1 par ty lias’ an idea that a heavy ran som will be offered by personal friends of the President, after the search for the President’s party has been given up, and that half a million of dollars or more caft tlui be extorted from the secret service fund, and divided among the party on the principle of the Italian ban- diti. Tbe escaped member of the party says that there are fid men in the outfit, some of whom were guer rillas in the late war, and that five wild Shoshone and Bannock Indi ans go along as guides and scouts, who are armed with repeating ri- lles and scalping knives. The lead er is a Texas depenulo, on whose head a price has been set, and with the exception of two Italians, who left the railroad grade and flew, the others of the party are cow boys. A grand council was held night be fore last on the prairie, when every man swore by bis dagger, in the firelight, to do his duty. Itliirkmulliin; Kclit'iiic Foiled. board. Ilyins to Avenge Ills Sisters’ Honor. Van hath a, Ills., August 28.— Louis Phillips and Jacob Ro,sen- brook killed one another this morn ing near London City in a duel growing out of remarks made by Philips concerning ltosenbrook’s sister. Both men fell mortally wounded at the first tire. Phillips was a school teacher 22 years of age Some men are so lacking in hos pitality that they will not even en tertain an idea. A New Hampshire dog is sick from biting a tramp. One cannot be too careful what lie eats this warm weather. And now the modest advertising agent is around asking the editor to swear about his circulation, which the editor is doing most of the time without being asked. When Henry was courting Sarah la 1 used to boast that be had a “boss” girl; now that lie is married he finds that lie has a “boss” wile, but lit' never mentions it. Danger from Turkey. Wash i ngton, Aug. 21)—The State Department has received a dis patch from the Tinted States (Con sul General tit Constantinople say ing that the sanitary condition of that city is bad beyond description, that tin 1 city is overrun by fugitives from Egypt, that a visitation of cholera is extremely probable, and that steps should be taken to guard against the introduction of the disease’s germs from there into tlie United States by means of rugs, carpets skins and similar articles of merchandise. Airs. Homespun, who has a ter rible time every morning to get her young brood out of their beds, says she cannot understand why children are called the rising generation. “Walk slower, papa,” cried the little girl whose short steps were no match for the strides of her mas culine progenitor; “can’t you go nice and slow, like a policeman?” A (irlndstone Hursts uml Kills 11 Negro. Richmond, Ya., August 28.— Spencer Coleman, colored, was in stantly killed here, to-day, by tho bursting of a large grindstone which was being tried for the first time.— Coleman was standing about thirty feet from tho stone when a piece, weighing seventy-five pounds, struck him, knocking the top of his head off. One piece of stone went through a nine-inch wall, making a hob 1 almost as large as an ordinary door, and another piece went through tlie roof of the building, tearing up the planks rigid and left. A scientist asks, “How was man distributed on the earth?” Well, brother, judging from a painful ex perience, we would say it was by means of an insidious banana peel. Some Chicago girl has been bru tally made away with. A skeleton lias been dug up at Barnard, AIo., and the bones of the feet show that these members were eighteen inches long. the Georgia malitia, and tho ques- sisted that the idfitlr proceed in the tion of war was not thought of. 'I lie j “good old style.” A second attempt militia in those days were in the I was made to conciliate West, hut it most part armed with broom- f a ih*d, and it soon became evident handles and hickory sticks, and the tlu\t he must have a fire. Accord- guns were to he given to tlti'ii^in the j ingly the parties were stationed, place of their wooden weapons.— : all( | Dm word was given. The session was the same one at j Doth fired, and West’s ball grazed which Ben Hill made Ins famous j Mo({ After the ardor of spooch, advocating the pardoning 1 (lu , (llK> , lul(l ( . on | n | i, y nds harm- of (’holer, who killed an Atlanta Postal IUwpi|its Pulllim oft*. policeman. Hill was the leader of llm Senate, and ex-Congressman William II. Felton was the ac knowledged head of the House.— Whenever these men spoke they ooniiminded attention, and nearly advocated by them went through with a rush, as each tin* country must be transferred fmm tho North and Hast h> its nut- j ‘‘very measun »ml pnaltoiu at tho South. Nor is went through \ n ii . 4 i nf tlie*111 had iniliU'iu'P witli lln Hie cotton nmnutacturc tho onl.\ , . . ,> I,,,. , , .... , . i iiicmbci's ot bulb brilliclios. 'mmoli ot mnuutacturlug interest, mInch is assuming Importance at When this meusuro came up bc- tIn* South, and which lire destined fore the judicial,\ a lew in a few years to bring Northern the attorneys of Matlm capital mid Northern Interests to found to be Yanepps, and King F. grief I Calhoun, of Atlanta. These gentle- >y lees exchange of leaden compli ments, McGill’s* friend again ten- t dcred conditions of agreement, which, according to one report, were accepted, hut according to an other were rejected. At any rate, the encounter ended at this point, mid tlu 1 belligerents were soon on their way home. There Is bud feeling yet between days fly nice, were tin' parlies, come of this mis quarrel. and something may curious mid mystori- Stibsci'iptions are positively cash It appears that the postal reve nues derived from the sal*of upst age stamps have fallen mf np%lie time for tho reduction of letter postage approaches. This indicates Unit tbe public is making prepara tions for the change, and are not adding to outstanding stocks of stamps, and that when the first of October conn's a very large increas ed demand for the new stamps will bo tin' result. It is assumed that tin'sale of postal cards next your, will bi> less than that of the fiscal year just ended, but that it will be made lip In the number of stamps sold. Nii provision has yet been ninde for tho redemption of three* cent stamps mid envelopes in the bunds of postmasters. This re demption can only take place by act of Congress. It’ is suggested that these thrce-ccnt stamps and envel opes can In' used for double postage by adding u one-eeut stamp, and that there will be no necessity for their redemption, w hich would en tail a great amount of labor and expense upon the department. Quite a sensation was created in Baltimore a few days ago when it became known that tin attempt had been made by a young widow, well connected, to extort !£')<)() from John Henry Keene, a prominent lawyer and a gentleman of large means. A few weeks ago, the young woman, who is a daughter of John Cole, a retired merchant, called at Keene’s office, and secured his services to obtain a .share of her late husband’s estate, which she alleges is kept from her by her husband’s children by ti former wife. Keene had seve ral interviews with her, but always in presence of 1 iis law student. A tew days ago she culled and deman ded St.'iOO, and remarked: “If you don’t give me tho money, 1 shall create a scandal.” Keene delayed matters until the next day, and in the mean time informed the police of flit' case. Detectives were de tailed at Keene’s otllee, and when lltt' young woman called for the money, they overheard the conver sation, and at the proper time ap peared, made themselves known and thus blocked the game. Keene refused to prosecute, and thus the woman escaped punishment. She is young and handsome, and the police snv, lm> been successful in other instances. The alfair lias been suppressed in the papers here, and only became known to-night by accident. Keene is a widower, and bis wife was a (laughter of Cooke, the New York banker. She died a few months ago at Saratoga. “Never would call a boy of mine ‘Alias,’ ” said Airs. Jones, of Hunts ville, Ala., “if T had a hundred to name. Afen by that name is alius cutting up capers. Here’s Alias Thompson, Alias Williams, Alias the Night-hawk—all been took up for stealin’.” Jacksonvim-f., August 27.—A dispatch from Wellborne, Fin., says that John Dies wits shot dead to day while riding in n buggy, be tween Luke City and Wellborne, by an assassin who was concealed in a s 'hoollnnise by thi' roadside, and fired through a crack, the whole charge taking effect in Di*'s’ buck.— There Is no clue to the murderer, no suspicion, and no arrest lias been made. Macon, Aug. 28.—Near llawkins- vllle lo-dnv \\\ L. Headley shot J. L. .McIntyre twice In the breast and abdomen, killing him instantly. A bum-lea’s Danger. N f.w York, August 28.—The Senate sub-Tommittee on Labor and Education resumed their ses sion to-day. William G. Aloody, of Brooklyn, author of “Land and Labor,” was a witness. He called attention to the fact that foreign capitalist were purchasing vast tracts of land in the South West, lie' said that Hamilton Disston, of Philadelphia owned a tract of 4,000,1)00 acres in Florida, and that a corporation is possessed of 10,000 acres in Texas. English lords and French counts were dom inating territory three times larger than tlu 1 Lingdom of (treat Britain, and by this system of wholesale farming, had driven the American farmer from bis homestead and into tlie ranks of wage slavery. Wage workers were crowding the cities, most of the small farmers were not able to secure a decent competency, and the only remedy for this was the abolition of private property in land. A Pi'trtflpil Iloily. Kiistmun Times. Our renders will remember that the rioters who were hanged tit this place on the 2i)tli of October last, were with the exception of Boh Donaldson, who was sent to Coch ran, buried in one corner of tho jail yard. Here their bodies have re mained undisturbed until Thursday of last week, when they were disin terred by order of tlit* Ordinary, Judge Roztir,and removed to tho ne gro cemetery, about one mile above town. The coffins were all opened and tlu 1 bodies found to be therein, as they bad been buried, though in a terrible state of decomposition, except the remains of Joe King, whose remains it is said arc partial ly petrified. Tills seems to be the opinion of nearly every one who saw him, and Air. J. Watte, who who made a close examination of tlu' body, s:\ystherecim ho no doubt about it, and adds that if the corpse had remained undisturbed three months longer it would have be come a solid rock. This idea is strcngtlied by the heavy weight of tlu* eollln and contents, it being estimated to have weighed at least 500 pounds, Sarah Bernhardt says in her book that slii' was not very pretty as a girl. It is too late to remedy the defect now; but Sarah can console herself with the reflection that if she lives twenty years longer she will be a pretty old woman. “1 feel so worried about Charles!” sighed Mrs. Wildliusband. “It’s getting late sure enough,” said sis ter Kate, looking at the clock; “hut I guess nothing unusual lias hap pened.” “That is what frets me,” and ,wiliod Mv* AVildhuslmnd; “I am replied Mrs. AVildhusband; “I afraid something usual lias happen ed to Charles.” It was a colored preacher who said to his llock: “We have a col lection to make this morning, and for tin 1 glory of bonbon whichever of you stole Mr. Jones’ turkeys don’t put anything in the plate.” One who was there says, “Every blessed niggah in de church came down with de rocks.” A self-acting sofa, just enough for two, has been invented. If proper ly wound up it will begin to ring a warning bell just before 10 o’clock. At one minute after 10 it splits apart and while one-luilf carries the daughter of the house up stairs, the other half kicks the young man out of doors. They will come high but people must have them. Ten years ago two loving hearts were separated by a little quarrel owing to the miscarriage of an ex planatory letter. He went West and married; she staid East and married, and now both are once more free, llo lias eight children and tin* Jaundice, and she seven and tin* dyspepsia, anil neither lias any idea of ever marrying again. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but it is not so romantic. One of the Kansas postmasters is more than pleased with the new official order, lie says: “When the wife of the first or second-class postmaster offcially requests him to beat the carpet, or weed the ouiouhed, or white-wash the buck fence, he can then draw out and read Postmaster General Gresham's order forhiding first or second-class postmasters from absenting them selves from their offices. Then lie can go out from the sheltering roof of Ids domicile absorbed in the beautiful thought that ‘there is no cloud without a silver lining.’ ” A Me . AM ...