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m V; S& THE GEORGIA PRESS. Rev. J. D. Reimknsnyder, pastor of the Lutheran church in Savannah, has resigned. "Ho goes to Philadelphia, his former home. The death of Mrs. G. B. Cummings, of Savannah, is announced. She was about sixty years of age. Mb. W. G. Lee, purser of the steamer H. B. Plant, rescued Miss Mary Stafford and her four-year-old brother from drown ing on Tuesday evening at the wharf at Tybee. They had fallen off the gang plank. The jug smashing of Trinity Sunday- school was an interesting and pleasant oc casion. So says the News. The body of Griff Robinson, who was drowned at Clapp’s factory near Colum bus, has been found. The store of William Bond & Brother, in Wynnton near Columbus, was de stroyed by fire together with all their goods. Loss $1,000. Petek Russell, colored, it is sup posed, broke the neck of his six-year-old girl. He is now in Columbus jail. Candidates are coming up thick in Sumter county, according to the Republi- Rochestek Herald: A number of citi zens of Marietta, Georgia, have sent to New York for white female servants, be cause, as the Augusta News says, of the unreliability of the negroes. Well, the/ won’t want to try the average New York servant more than a week, when they will be glad enough to go back to colored help. Thomasville Post: Little Johnnie, son of Mrs. J. C. Vaughn, fell out of a tree last week and broke his thigh. Doc- tom Adams and Taylor were summoned and Johnnie is doing as well as could be expected. Irwinton Appeal: We learn that storm visited some sections of our county last Saturday, and that considerable dam age was done. We have no particulars as to the track of the storm 'and the extent ofthe damage, but learn that one or more cabins were blown down on the place of Mr. Joel Holleman. Order at Commencement.—Athens Banner: The ladies of Athens and vicini ty co-operated nobly and effectively last year with the authorities in the improve ment of the order at commencement. For the better attainment of results this year, they have resolved not to go up into the galleries of the chapel during the exercises Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We are glad to learn that the authorities will follow the line thus indicated, and will give instructions to the ushers to conduct all ladies to seats below. In this, we are glad to know, it is not the intention to separate the sexes. Tpe ushers will be instructed to give a lady’s escort a seat with her, and in no event to permit him to be deprived of it. Whatever the ladies take in hand will he certainly accomplished; and we look for an order this year worthy of the culture and refine ment of our people. Atlanta Post: Chief Justice niram Warner, of the Supreme Court, left for his home in Gainesville, Ga., to-day at noon. Judge Warner, in conversation with a Daily Post editor, stated that he did not intend to devote any time toward forwarding his election to the office of governor. He belongs to the old school of politicians who believe that the office should in all cases seek the man, and not the man the office. He thinks that a governor should go into the office un trammelled by obligations to any particu lar set of friends, but to be a governor for the whole people. The chief executive should be in a position where he can mete out equal and exact justice to all, without favoritism or personal preference. Judge Warner has been in the service of the State for over thirty years, and has not at any time worked for his election. He has been the choice of the people who have elected him because of his sterling integrity, and his well known principle of dealing justly and fairly by all. The people know him to be absolutely safe and trustworthy. We clip the following statement from the Atlanta Post, of the ICth. It is rather serious fun: During the night a telegram was re ceived at the police headquarters asking the arrest of a passenger on the Macon train and requesting his detention until tlio arrival of the passenger train, which reaches here to-day at 2 o’clock p. m., when a personal demand will be made for the prisoner. The dispatch gave an accurate descrip tion of the party, and consequently there was no difficulty in making the arrest. Officers Foute and Butler were detailed to watch the arrival of the train, and boarding it this morning at the Macon de pot, they had their man secure before the union depot was reached. When arrested the gentleman asked upon what authority it was done, and when showed the dispatch, laughed heart ily. Upon the arrival of the train ,at the car shed the prisoner was taken to the cal aboose and locked up. This morning he was visited in his cell by a Daily Post reporter. The arrested party & about six feet tall, heavily built, aud presents a good appearance. When asked what was the cause of his arrest, he smiled and said: “I da not know, but I guess I will stay here until the train comes up from Macon, when all will be clear.” The gentleman further said that he had lived in Macon ail his life, and that his parents and grandparents had fought the Indians there when Macon was known as Fort Hawkins. He has been in the cotton business for a number of years and claims an _extensive acquaintance in that city. He gave Mayor Huff, Bridges Smith and others as reference as tohis character. This is, he says, the first time a key was ever turned on him except at Camp Chase during the war. On Tuesday night he and several friends, among whom was the gentleman who signed the dispatch asking his arrest, started out to have a good time. During the evening he was asked by the party who sent the teiegram to go on a fishiDg ex cursion, but declined, saying that he had to come to Atlanta on business. To this his friends entered a protest, but he was compelled to come, and left the party in order to catch the train for Atlanta. He thinks that after his departure had been ascertained lus friends thought they would play a good joke on him, and therefore sent the message requesting his arrest. He takes the matter quietly, and says that when the train arrives from Macon his innocence of any offense will be estab lished. Gen. Anderson has answered the tele gram, stating that the party has been ar rested, and asking instructions. Since writing the above a telegram was received by the chief of police, asking the gentleman’s release, and, of course, he went out free, but swearing vengeam e on those causing his arrest. Sparta Jshmaelite: Dr. Grant was anxious to be vindicated, but the Chicago bullies didn't like to. commit themselves to the policy of white-wa3hing tramps. W. B. Hill, Esq., of this city, deliver ed an address before the Columbus Fe male College on Tuesday last. We quote from the Enquirer: Mr. Hill said Jhe liad determined to chooso a practical subject and his theme should be “The Art of Life.” This he would consider from three stand-points. First, its relation to ourselves; second, its relation to-others, and third, its relation to the Supreme Being. Life, in the lan guage of a great man, is susceptible of glo rious possibilities. The query which had been recently discussed in England, “Is life worth living?' 1 had been an swered, “That depemis altogether upon the liver.” It is not w-trth living to those who waste it in the paths of sin, nor to Hi ise who squander it listlessly, nor yet to III ve who merely drift on the tide of the great moving world. It might be well to step out of life occasionally, as it were, and inquire in the theme of one of the young ladies “whether?” life is worth living to not only in life, but in everything, and, hence, an effort should be made to find the best method for extracting the good from all surroundings. Health, for instance, is a matter in which young ladies have an interest. He pointed out the inconsistencies between precept and prac tice in relation to physical life. He de fined intellectual life, allowing how and what to learn, commending study of the beautiful, reading of the best books, etc. It is useless to assert that young ladies have not time to read. He could point out instances where they not only found time to improve their minds, but pursue domestic duties, and the making of home nice and attractive. He used to bate the word economy, but had learned that it means much. The North excels the South in this particular. They know the art of life in th sense of economy and utility, and save much of labor and care in home comforts and convenience. In Illustrating tho bearing of the sub ject in relation to others he mentioned manners as exerting a potent influence upon those around us, citing an incident of a little negro, who, having picked up a stump of a cigar called on a grocer for a match. “I don’t keep matches to give away,” was the reply. “Do you sell them?” “Yes.” “Well, here’s two cents; give me a-match and leave the balance here for gentlemen when they call.” This incident illustrates the value of tact. As the great factories of your cities would stop withovt the lubricating power of oil, so the study of tact is olten better than talent. The speaker viewed life as a to tality as illustrated in the history of the lives of tlie great and good of earth. In conclusion, he touched briefly yet eloquently on the art of life as touching our relations to the Supreme Being. The art of life is not complete without a recog nition of Him. As the child’s touch of the organ is discordant, yet the father, standing behind the clii<d, by touching coi responding keys, brings harmony out of discord. So God’s direction is necessa ry to enable us, amid much that seems in explicable, to live earnestly and effectual ly. He could not better enforce his views than by commending to his hearers the admirable discourse to which they listen ed on Sunday last, whose author, from his own personal knowedge, practiced what he preached. Warkenton Clipper: At the graduat ing exercises at the United States military academy at West Point last week, among other graduates from Georgia, we notice the name of Mr. Edgar Hubert, son of our ordinary, Rev. R. W. Hubert. He will at once receive a commission as second lieutenant. Air any Advertiser: Mr. John Frazier brought in to-day two bales ol wool, which found ready sale at thirty-two cents. Mr. Frazier states that his shearing averaged about four pounds per sheep. He also informs us that Mr. Bryan Norman and family, of Colquitt county, sheared this season fully four thousand head of sheep, the wool averaging three pounds per head. Mr. Frazier says that he finds it more remunerative to shear about the first of June than at the usual time. The wool in April is dry and dead; in June it is oily, and with life in it, so to speak, be ing preferred by the manufacturers. Giuffin Neics: A few days ago his relatives received the sad news of the death of Mr. Emmett Fatnbrougli, which occurred at Shakespeare, in New Mexico, May 26th. He met a violent death. In a difficulty with some person whose name we have not learned, he was stabbed four times, once in the left breast, once in left side, and twice in the abdomen, from the effects of which he died very soon after. The deceased was the brother of Mr. Wor thy Fambrougli, of this city, and at the time of his death, was in his 26th year. He left Griffin several years ago for the West. He lias many friends and ac quaintances here who regret his sad and untimely death, and who sympathize with his family. Sparta Ishmaelite: The population of Hancock promises to be fully twice as great as it was occording to the la3t cen sus. The great gain over the last census will not be proof, necessarily, of a large increase ot population; but it will show, as was contended at the time, that the last census was very imperfectly taken. It is estimated now that the population of the county will be between twenty and thirty thousand. Augusta News: If the epidemic of malarial or typhoid fever, which now prevails at the upper end of Green and Broad streets extends down town and af fects the whole city, the people will not be at a loss to understand the cause. There is plenty of food for it to feed upon and thrive, from one end of Green street to the other, to say nothing of the hor rible condition of other sections lower down. Thomasville Post: Still another death. Our community is again called upon to mourn the untimely and unex pected death of a valuable citizen. Mr. A. T. Taylor, a well-known merchant on Jackson street, became ill on Wednesday last and died aboqt S o’clock p. m., on Friday following, at the age of thirty- three years, nis illness was the same as that which proved fatal to Mr. E. H. Smith, and which seems to have prevailed to some extent in the community. Mr. Taylor was a Vorthy young man, upright and honorable, the elder of two brothers, the other being Dr. A. P. : Taylor, one of the most promising young physicians in this section. It is said by a correspondent in the Co lumbus Times, that by spreading a teacup of salt on the back of a horse over the kid ney and loins, and keeping it saturated for twenty or thirty minutes is a sure remedy for the colic. This is simple and may be beneficial to our readers who are not convenient to a drug store. Sparta Ishmaelite: It ought to be ap parent now pven to Mr. Henry Wattcrson that lie will not be able to nominate Sam my at Cincinnati. Henry has not yet earned the title of president maker. He has over-acted his part and helped to make Tildeu ridiculous. The party could afford to pension off both of these, broken down jioliticians. Marietta Journal: One day last week a dog, property of Mr. Cicero Cochran, near the paper thill, went mad, and while on the run went to the house of Mr. John Gantt, and fell jn the yard with violent fits. The screams of the inmates of the house brought Mr. Gantt from the field, hut tiie dog recovered somewhat and bounded off down the road. Mr. Gantt pursued him with a gun and overtook and killed him about a half mile from his house. Columbus Enquirer: Major S. B. Baldwin, Sr., died yesterday morning at 3:30 o’clock, near Howard Station, Talbot county, of inflammation of the bowels. His age was seventy years. Bom in Jones county on July 29 th, 1810, in early manhood lie removed to Forsyth and tlience to Baldwinsville, Talbot county, where lie lias been living for forty-one years. The village was named after him. Unto him were born eight sons and four daughters—all grown and married bat two, and all were present at his dying bedside. Death had not visited a single member of his family in thirty-six years until lie sought its head and laid him low. Major Baldwin was a farmer of the olden school, not a planter of the new. As a consequence he amassed a competency aud held it. He was amongthose who by their acts deserve the grand old name of gentleman.' He was a Christian, all that the word implies—one who grew old gracefully and whose children loved their home. Savannah News: The Democratic meeting at the Theatre last night, the proceedings of which are reported in our local columns, was largely attended, not withstanding the intense heat, aud was brief, harmonious and enthusiastic. The resolutions presenting Hon. Rufus E. Les ter as the choice of the Democracy of Chatham county - for governor, were ndorsed by with a heartiness and unanimity which must have been to that gentleman a gratifying proof of the high esteem in which he is held by his fellow citizens. Where such unanimity of senti ment prevailed, the appointment of dele gates to the nominating convention wa3 a mere matter of form, and the gentlemen selected have iheir instructions in the manifest will ofthe constituency they rep resent. There have been collected during the present attorney general’s term of office various railroads for taxes: From the Ma con aud Augusta railroad, $16,124.80; from the Georgia railroad, $28,337.04; from the Augusta and Savannah railroad, $10,834.56; from tlie Central, $86,750.48, and from the Fort Valley and Hawkius- ville railroad, $1,000, making a total of $211,811.03 that has been already realized. It is expected that this sum will be great ly increased when all the cases now in litigation are settled. Gen. J. B. Gordon will speak in Waynesboro, Burke county, on the 3d of July. Large preparations are being made for a big turnout. Deaths, according to the report of the everything it contained. But for the prompt arrival of tho fire brigade, and he roic work, in which they were most ef ficiently aided by the citizens, the barrel and stave works of Capt. Cooper and other buildings would have been con sumed. Another serious loss was the de struction of many magnificent moss-draped live oaks that were the pride of the city and the admired objects of all visitors. Loss $4,500. Dalton Citizen: The population of this place, as summed up by S. M. Street, is 2,600—a falling off rather than an in crease since the census of 1870. Cartersville Free Press: After Columbus Times of the 17th, are Willie many years of experience aDd intercourse - T -is « -*r in ?j ...Ul, J *7.. who realize iu value. There is art the following amounts, in litigation with Moss, D. C. Cady, Mr. Allen Davidson. John Smith, seriously ill; Mr. John Shepherd, stricken with paralysis, and Mrs. Wright, an aged lady, sixty-five years old, was beyond the possibility of recovery. Hawkinsville, according to the Dis patch, is showing a wonderful degree of prosperity. Quite a number of elegant residences are going up, and at the same time, some splendid brick store houses in the business portion of the city. We join in the general rejoicing over this prosper ity. Hawkinsville is now a competing point, and is crowing over Montezuma, her rival. Eastman Times: Joe Bass, a little ne gro boy, was lodged in jail at this place on Monday last. He is chaxged with taking some money and a pistol from Sol Mason’s drawer. It is said that ho got into a similar trouble in Hawkinsville recently. Savannah News: We regret to an nounce the death this morning of Mr. Frederick W. Cornwell, which occurred at White Bluff last night about 10 o’clock. Mr. Cornwell had been in feeble health for some time past, and removed to White Bluff about the first of the month in the liop« of being benefited by a sojourn on the salts, but the hoped for relief did not come. He was formerly for many years engaged in the hardware business in this city, but for the past several years was in capacitated by failing health from attend ing to active business, and had retired. He had been a resident of Savannah for many years and was regarded with high esteem by this community. He was aged about fifty years. Sir. Cornwell leaves a wife and one child, and brother, Mr. George Cornwell. His interment will take place this afternoon at 4 o’clock at Laurel Grove Cemetery. Hawkinsville Dispatch: Six hun dred and twenty glasses of soda water were drawn from JohnFale & Co.’s foun tain on Saturday last. The receipts were thirty-one dollars at a nickel a glass. The carbonated fluid gurgled in many a dry throat during the day. Alas, all the soda that sweltering hu manity quails in this city costs us ten cents a glass, and that, too, after we have announced that the calculation had been carefully made by the statisticians that the profit on a glass of soda* was only five hundred per cent. Barnesville Gazette: Lightning struck the Methodist church Friday night. The only damage done was the shattering ofthe floor in one place about six or eight feet. J. L. D., a correspondent, writes: Editors Albany Neics: Find enclosed a caterpillar web, or properly called' a co coon. 1 found the first caterpillar in my cotton on June 7th. I have never found them so early as this any previous year. I am fearful they will injure the cotton drop seriously this year unless we can fight them successfully. Griffin News: We are glad to see that Col. Thomas Hardeman said in his speech at Fort Valley, a few days ago, that he did not intend or expect to get into office by abusing liis opponents. Col. Hardeman is a true and tried Dwfiocrat, and will make an excellent govej^lr, and we shall take great pleasure in supporting him if he receives tlie nomination. Eastman Times: A fine mule belong ing to Mr. W. W. Harrell, of our town, while being plowed a few days ago, got a stick stuck into his head just above the right eye, and broken off. Mr. H. suc ceeded", however, in getting the stick out, which measured five and three-quarters incites in length and nearly two indies in width at the large end. It was thought that the animal would get well, as the wound did not bleed and he showed very few signs of severe pain. But about the third day his head was terribly swollen, and tlie next day lie died. Brunswick Appeal: The Glynn county jail is worse than the Dry Tortu- gas, the Dark Hole<of Calcutta, or hell’s half-acre as a summer prison house. It is cruelty refined to barbarity to incarcer ate men and women in sudi weather as this. Our criminal code contemplates no such punishment as roasting before or af ter conviction. Cannot our commission ers make some improvement ? Peery Home Journal: The Ferry train did not reach Fort Valley last Tuesday afternoon. It left Ferry on schedule time but the engine gave out just the other side of Bay creek. The passengers remained with the train while conductor Skellie sent back to Ferry foe ice and supper for ten. A telegram was sent to Macon for another engine, and it was past midnight when the belated train reached Fort Val ley. Buena Vista Argus: We are in the receipt of a letter from Senator Hudson, now in the asylum, and can gladly say to his many sympathizing friends that his health is so much better and so rapidly improving that he may be expected home at some time not very far distant. Eastman Times: We are reliably in formed that a white man, named Bevin, an Englishman, shot and instantly killed a negro man at some mill near Jackson ville, Tellair county, oil Wednesday of last week. It seems that a few blows had been passed by these parties on Saturday be fore, and on Wednesday they met again, when Bevin commenced to fire upon the negro, shooting him twice with a pistol, killing him instantly. The Barnesville Gazette announces the following excellent bill of fare. “Preach” Hardeman sandwiched between two preachers will spread himself, and measure up to the best of them: The commencement sermon of Gordon Institute, this year, will be preached on the 4th of July. President Lambdin has se cured the services of Dr. Robt. Irvine, D. D., of Augusta, Ga., who will deliver the commencement sermon. J. L. Hardeman, Esq., of Macon, has consented to deliver the junior oration, ar.d Rev. W. A. Can dler of Atlanta, will deliver the annual address on Wednesday, commencement day. Hawkin*ville Dispatch: The heav iest transaction in wool in Hawkinsville this season occurred on Thursday last, between Mr. S. J. Epstein aud Messrs. Geo. R. Reid, R. V. Bowen and Phil Brown, of Wilcox county, These gentle men sold Mr. Epstein their entire crop of wool—twenty-two bales—which, with a bale owned by Mr. N.O. Connor, amount ed to sixteen thousand, nine hundred and ninety-eight pounds, and for which they received 32| cents per pound. The amount in rouhd figures was $5,279.65. The market was in a declining condition when the wool was oflered. On Saturday, wool was quoted at 31| cents, or a decline of one cent per pound from Thursday’s prices, Augusta News: On Monday afternoon' John Chase, an express messenger at Washington, Wiikes county, shot and k : l!ed a negro named McLendon. It is considered a cold-blooded murder. Chase is in jail. -j'; . Atlanta Post: It was rumored on the streets last night that Butler, of South Carolina, had challenged Ben Hill. Such a thing might have been expected, al though the rumor has not been confirmed, for a reader of the running debate on the Kellogg question must have noticed .that Hill got the best of Butler In everything. Butler threw himself on Ids war record aud talked about his career as a soldier, when lie might have expended his time talking on the questiou. Albany Advertiser: Capt. LL C. Tay lor, conductor on the Brunswick and AU bany railroad, informed us last night that a very severe fire came off in Brunswick about 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. The fire v as caused by the bursting of a tur pentine still near the railroad in the out skirts ol the city. The still was entirely consumed, together with several resi dences. Mrs. Golding lost her house and with our fellow men we have reached the conclusion that tlie only men who know how to run a newspaper successfully are those gifted beings who never do it. They always devote their talent and learning to making shoes, or practicing law, or selling peanuts, or laying brick, or building post holes, or some otljer literary pursuit. A dispatch to the Augusta News says: A young man named Mason was killed’at Cowpens, on the Air Line railroad this morning. He was a train hand on tlie passenger, with Conductor Luke Johnson. The train started from the station when he jumped on, and was ground between the car and a wood pile. Atlanta Post: Grady went all the way up to New York to ask Uncle Sam my Tilden if he wouln’t withdraw from the presidential race, hut the old man declines to say whether he will be in the field or not. We think it right mean in the old man to he so stubborn after Hen ry had gone to so much trouble. Columbus Times: Yesterday the news readied this dty that a negro was killed in Harris county by a falling tree. He was out in the field on Mr. R. G. Hood’s plantation when a storm came up, blow ing down a tree which fell upon the negro and instantly killed him. We could leam no further particulars as to the amount of damage done. Hon. Thos. Hardeman Jr., addressed the people of LaGrange yesterday, and Gen. Gordon and Gov. Colquitt are book ed for the same place on next Satarday, the 26th. The Columbus Enquirer announces the death of Miss Lizzie Hodge, who for merly lived in Macon. Miss Lizzie, -with her sister,-kept a millinery store on Sec ond street. The Cuthbert Appeal reports the com mencement exercises of Andrew Female College were exceedingly interesting, and is enthusiastic in praise of Dr. Wills’ ser mon, and Col. Jeffries’ address. Dr. A. L. Hamilton, the president, is a live man, and we are sure that eyerytliing that could be done to make the occasion a success was provided. Among the best things provided was the speech of our old friend, (Jul. Sam W. Goode, of Eufaula, Ala. Sawtell says it was “a faultless and per fect gem of oratory;” and Sawtell is gen erally right. Savannah News: Mrs. Mary Ryan, mother of Mr. D. J. Ryan, of this city, died quite suddenly at Isle of Hope yester day morning. She had not been in good health for some time past, and had gone to tlie island for tlie benefit of tlie salt air. She felt much improved on Wednesday, but yesterday there was a change, and she died rather suddenly, as stated. Her re mains were brought to the city and the funeral will take place from the Ca thedral this morning at 10 o’clock. Db. Stewart.—Americus Becordcr: Friday, the 2d of July, at the fairgrounds. We hope our citizens will turn out and hear this distinguished Georgia who has done so mudi in the past for our State. LaGrange Beporter: Farmers have had much trouble to get laborers; some ot them have offered a dollar a day, and have not had their cotton chopped yet. The corn Is being laid by, and cotton looks well where it has been worked. Wheat has not been threshed yet. We don’t know how that will turn out. -Blackber ries are plentiful, however, and so are fried chickens. Augusta News: The rains of the past few days have done more for the sanitary good ofthe city than have the authorities for six months. We hope, however, that the board of health will eventually rival Old Probs in this matter. The board of health is a good institution, when the city is in a perfect state of health. We take the following from the Ogle thorpe Echo. It expresses i tself: Savannah, June 7,1880. Messrs. Thos. D. Gilham and other cit izens of Oglethorpe county: Gentlemen —I have just returned from the circuit and find your invitation to address the people ol your county upon the political situation in Georgia. It would afford me pleasure to en deavor to comply with any request you might make of me, especially as you have been so generous in your expression of re ganl for me. The political situation in Georgia, os it exists in the immediate present, involves nothing which, under the circumstances of my candidacy for the nomination of governor, it would become me to discuss. Having consented to allow my name to go EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. A Forecast of Cincinnati. The Herald Washington correspondent Athens, June 16. j gives this forecast of the probable situa- The writer left Macon en route for J tion at Cincinnati: Georgia’s famous seat of learning, sol 1. If Gov. Seymour can be persuaded to gracefully named after the fairest capital! acce P t t * ie nomination there will probably the 14th mat. The cars were almost un- j formal assent has by this time been given, comfortably crowded, showing that already I If has become known this evening that the caloric of these Senator Kernan went to Utica on Satur- DIT51WINO rrrvB- mra d »y for a final consultation with Mr. Sey- • S , BURNING. JUNE DAYS mour, and that he is expected to retufn is driving the low-country people to j to-morrow with the ex-Governor’s decis- the watering places .and mountain I ion. In that case the West will claim the resorts they are wont to seek as | Tl c ® P^ es ? d ^ nc L and ThurmanandPayne, the summer advances. The i of Ohio; Hendricks and 'McDonald, of „ , . uay , 33 Indiana; Morrison, Palmer and Judge cruelly hot, and your correspondent I Davis, of Illinois, are spoken of for this before the convention as a candidate for Y ade the nnivci^ailv imT I porters on the ground that his opinians as governor, I cannot well stand before the side all was ^ y " Butout- I judg e woiiid help the ticket in the Pacific M tmmm vales, and would secure the favor of cor porations. Bat there is an aversion to taking a candidate from the Supreme people and sound my own trumpet. Were I vain enough to believe that I am the fittest man in Georgia for governor and foolish enough to proclaim it, I don’t think my mere professions on the stump would or ought to be regarded by the people. Should I be honored with the nomina tion, I will then address your people 11" it should be your pleasure to hear me. There may be issues then which I ought to discuss, and I can discuss them without making myself the subject of discussion. Believing that you will agree with me in the propriety of these views, I beg that you will excuse me from complying with your request; which under other circum stances I would most cheerfully comply with. Very truly yours, Rufus E. Lester. Columbus Enquirer: Rev. Mr. Owen Smith, whose illness we noticed some days ago, died at his residence in the up per part of Harris county ou Tuesday last, of typhoid fever, and was buried on Wednesday. Several other members are quite sick. Mr. Smith wa3 a good and true man, and was highly respected in his oounty. His age was near 00 years. La Grange Reporter: Tho people of the sixth district have decided that Hon. J. H. Blount must return to Congress whether be wants to or not. Public meet ings have been held in nearly if not quite all of the counties, and the expressions have been notably emphatic. This kind of popularity is remarkable, and is one of the highest evidences of merit. Sparta limes and Planter: Mynor Griggs, who was convicted of the murder of Hiram Rozier about three years ago tlu wi,ir X; and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, This highly esteemed gentleman, who j presented to each of the following was thrown from his buggy a week ago and i gentlemen a neat and substantial w alnut seriously hurt about the head, and whose condition ever since the accident lias ex cited the gravest apprehensions of his physicians, was reported yesterday to be improving. We sincerely Jiope that he will yet be spared many days to his family and friends. He is a man whose excel lent characteristics our entire community fully appreciate, and we can think of no citizen in the county whose death would be more sincerely mourned. Augusta Chronicle: Work on the Sib ley mills is now going vigorously on with three hundred and and thirty-three hands, a large working force day and night. The labor at the rock quarry near tho mills contihnes all the time, and three locomo tive headlights illuminate the work. The mills have also valuable sand-beds near by of great assistance in making mortar, and the massive structure stands in the centre of a large cotton field, with the growing plant at its very doors. Hun dreds of citizens visit the busy spot every day, and the railroad will soon be finished to this point. McVille South Georgian: Hon. A. O. Bacon is announced as a candidate for the United States Senate. The wire-grass has always supported Mr. Baccn solidly in every race he has here tofore made. It' will do tho same thing for him when the senatorial race comes off before the legislature in Novem ber next; He has always stood by our people,- and we will never go back on him. j it' i Oglethorpe Echo: The labor laws in Georgia are strict enough if farmers would have their contracts properly wit nessed. • The statutes provide that where a contract is officially witnessed by the Ordinary of a county, and the same is vio lated, the offender can be arrested and punished for contempt of court by impris onment. There are plenty of negroes now in the chain gang for leaving their em ployers under these circumstances. A ver bal contract is as binding as a written one, if made in the presence of a witness. Americus Recorder: Mr. G.W.Israel ofthe new 16th district, was in the city last'Wednesday the Kith inst., with a load of watermelons for sale. Being the fir^t of.tlie season to reach our market, they were readily disposed of at good prices, the choice ones going off at 50 cents each. Last year the first load was brought by Mr. Ward, of Lee comity, on tlie 21st of June. Savannah News: It is believed that the convention of volunteer military offi cers, which assembles in Rome on the J3ih of July, will be one of the most im portant military gatherings that has ever taken place ill tlie State. The attendance promises to be very large. Look After the Nurses.—Augusta Chronicle: Last.Wednesday a colored nursQ was seen on Ellis street whipping severely a little white boy in here charge. The child had previously strayed off, and the woman, enraged at having to look-af ter him, maltreated him in the most out rageous manner. A lady who saw the occurrence remonstrated with tlie woman, and was roundly abused by the latter. MdViLLE South Georgian: ■ Mr. Thomas Davis, of our town, succeeded in killing a largej buck on last Monday morning. In the evening of the same day Mr. R. Rose concluded. he would try his luck in the same way, and it was not long before he was repaid with a fine specimen of the deer kind. LaGrange Reporter: L st Sunday morning was an interesting occasion with the MethodistSunday-school in LaGrange. After the lessons were over, the superlu- tendint exhibited a $100 bond, of the Southern Methodist Publishing House, and announced that it had been donated to the school by Dr. Wm. E. Murphey. The bond bears interest at tho rate of 4 per cent, per annum', alid the interest is to go to the literature fund of the school. It was a most timely and liberal gift, and the school adopted resolutions expressive of their sincere thinks to the donor. SPARTA Times and Planter: Our clever friend Jim Rogers lias a rare piece of an tiquity which he found on the person of a Fedqral soldier on the battle-field of Cold Harbor, during the war. It is a ten-dollar bill printed more than a hundred years ago. Tlie following proves its ancient origin: “TenSpanifh milled dollarf, or their value in gold or filver, to be given in exchange for.tbif bill at the Treafury of Virginia, purfuant to act Of Affembly paffed October 7, 1766.” It i? of value to lovers of antiquity, but, like the Confed erate note, “Representing nothing on God’s earth now, nor aught in the waters below ft.” Columbus Enquirer: The drouth is becoming quite destructive to the gardens in this vicinity, and unless we have raiu soon many ot them will be ruined in short order. Already some vegetables are assuming the appearance of fodder. Cuthbebt Appeal: CoL Thomas Har ; dcraan, of Macon, we are glad to an nounce, will surely be in attendance upon our fair, and will address our citizens on walking-stick: Messrs. Jim Rogers, G. H Pattillo, C. M. and A. M. DuBose. The Railroad Boom.—Darien Ga zelle : It will be seen by reference to the proceedings published in this issue that a meeting of the citizens of Darien was held at the court house on last Friday after noon, to take into consideration the con struction of the long talked of railroad from this city to the Savannah, Florida and Western railway. It is needless 10- say that we hail with great pleasure this movement on the part of those of our cit izens who are alive to the interests of Da rien. It i3 not so much whether a railroad would pay a handsome dividend to the in vestors; that is a selfish view to take of it, but w.ll it help Darien? If tlie road can be made to support itself for the first fire or ten years, then, in our judgment it be hooves every citizen of Darien to put into the road all he can spare, whether much or little. That great good will accrue to our city and community from the construction of a railroad admits of no argument, ex cept in the affirmative. The Dalilonega Signal 3ays: The su perintendent’s report to the New York Mining Record on the Singleton gold mining company’s property is as follows: The run of May was 119 ounces at $9 per ounce, which gave $952. Expenses amounted to $259, leaving a net profit of $703. Prospects are improving, and the work of exlendinga ditch to another lot is nearly completed, when he expects to find richer ore. Griffin News: Young Robert Hobbs, who was shot by, John Sullivan last Sat urday, died at a quarter past seven yes terday evening. His family and friends were until yesterday very hopeful of his recovery, hut on yesterday tlieie was a change for the worse, and he died in great pain. Daiuen Gasette: Hon. Augustus O, Bacon, speaker of the House of Represen tatives, will be a candidate for tlie United States Senate. Bacon would make good one. did little more than stretch his neck I place. through an open window, with the double I 2. If Gov. Seymour declines the West- »< o««»»•r^lj^yaJKrssassSSS breath of air and scanning the growing- Eastern and many Southern men, who crops. x *' ’* think the party cannot get on without an POLITICS WERE OUT OF THE QUESTION. I 5 aSte f? J 1181 } at , ^ **®* d °/ ^cket. The gubernatorial pot boils too fiercely ?*? ard ’ ?,‘, I ? do 1 ! ph ’ Massachu- for that. A few abortive attempts were I and Clarkson N. Potter are spoken made to ventilate Joe Brown, Gov. Gol- I of anaonglhe Eastern men. quitt, Tom Hardeman, Lester, Gartrell, ana the other aspirants for the executive chair, and a faint senatorial boom may have been started in behalf of our eminent townsmen, A. O. Bacon and Clifford An- 3. Mr. Tilden is not in the race. This has been confidentially but definitely made known by his friends to prominent Demo crats here. 4. There are numerous dark horses, demon, hut the whole subject collapsed, s< ? me of whom ought to be -classed as po und never attained even to the dignity of me3 ’. suc ^ 33 Randall, Ingersoll, of Con- a discussion. ■ | necticut; Barnum, of the same State, and The babies fretted and cried, to the sore distress of their mammas; the sun darted his fiery rays through the eastern windows, water went circling round without cessa- j tion, and a general apathy seemed to per- half a regiment of Western men, pretty much all of whom will take the second place thankfully if theyi cannot get the first. 5. Judge Field has some Western sup- side all was green and beautiful. The recent rain had given a strong im petus to the growing corn and it fairly stretched and cracked under the benign influence of heat aud moisture. The Bench. 6. If Governor Seymour heads the ticket a first-class man will be selected for U*TUE BOY THAT BY THE AUTHOR OF “JOHN r i OEN TLEMAN.” Look at his pretty face for just Dltj ute! His braided frock md i one min. shoes— dainty button T fc“ n "* “»»>“. »»■>■«tart,. And miss him from mx 6i( u My little boy that died “ Bo ' f ar“" *■* ■■ ** and u a, And lives a iong life in parent’* sirtt ,® as *> abort a pridet? 1. And then, my poor boy died. 1 u him , rockingon his wooden c w aTday? throu S h ! watch hisgreat blue eyes gn>wl aigejli So dark now since he died. But yet, I often think my bov K i ip , n „ As living as my other children a^, n “ Whe “vi g n 0 g mSht kimIalll 5 a0 I keep one for him though he is Can a mere grave divide lar ‘ Me from him—though he died’ So, 'S3c^ meand plant it0 ’ et (Nothing but childish daisies all v.. round)— 1 plant is vividly green, and promises a flat- fi CKei a , , 338 ma “ win De seiectea lor tering yield. Bqt alas/ there should be p l a 9!» hundreds of acres of this valuable cereal, Jf rn ™ 3U- It is held that no Democrat, where row only scores appear to view. however eminent, need or ought to hesi- It is still the day of small things with I ® UCket wlthGov ‘ cotton, and saving the single exception of er 2 or rV C ^ rao , u S . , . . , a magnificent patch at Bolingbroke owned, we suppose, by Mr. Wadley, the weed was 0 ^‘ ,. ^ ie pr0 H linent candidates is small, and not ‘all of it even chopped to w- a l f narr °wcd „o Seymour, Bayard and a stand. Butthere w-as far less grass than we expected to see, and few breaks in tlie •, convention assembles on Tues- fields, which stretched forth on every side bt ^ t . tha . tl °I 1 ^ Qa3l3 5. 18 tj* 3 * balloang as far as the eye could reach. Barring I accidents, there is ample time for a full . m 8 ’ ^ average crop of cotton and wliat i3 lacking 06 admitte d and given half a vo.e. in quality is made up in quantity. { Senator Lamar on the Exodus. The grain crops all the way from M4-1 Senator Lamar, who has been in feeble con to Athens have been harvested, and I, ... . , .. . . . . , threshing is now the order of the day. Iiealth duiin S the session just closed, The yield, however, is far from satisiac- ] made his first and last speech last Monday tory, and wheat biscuit will bo scarce in afternoon. It was in reply to the abusive the formers’ houses of Middle and North- j an( i slanderous attack of Windom upon I in .in this fruit, which has grown to be one of I the report upon the exodus. The inter- tlie staples of the commonwealth, was al- esting synopsis which follows is from the most entirely cutoff by frost. We did not World: 1SC °'“solitary patch of bice t J} 1 ? 1 Mr. Windom should have permit- on the entire route, where thousands of himself to indulge in the riotous and acres should be nodding to the breeze. disgraceful language of the speech Atlanta looked dull and sleepy in the ? m , azed V hose w ?-° bav ^.. been accustomed noontide heat as we glided into the depot, I t0 bea I fr ° m h*™ nothing worse in the Continually God’s hand thecurtafa raise3 And I can hear his merry voice’s annfv And feel him at my side! ^ My little boy that died. —[Good Words, —Bob Ingersoll’s phrase for Conltlin. is likeJy to stick. “Roscoe ConkuS? well-dressed sneer,” says Bob. 3 a —If Seymour would run he could bars the nomination on the second ballot if he will not, Bayard will evidently be th. leading man after a few ballots. -Lyman Trumbull, tbe Democratic nominee for Governor of Illinois, i* m years old, and changes but little i a an. pearance from year to year. His youncpS child is not yet 2 years old. J sesl and for an hour or two walked her streets. Just now there is an interval of PAINFUL SUSPENSE way of misrepresentation than good-hu mored raillery. Upon rising to reply Mr. Lamar said that it had been his intention between the conventions of the two great K° debver speech this session under « .. .. o— I anv PirpnmQfnnPAa. hnt. lm hnnml in contending parties of the. nation. *The Radicals have snoken and placed their I f e * ute indom’s statements, -which chosen ticket in the field, and await with 5 e ri ; al,Zedwer c intended notfor the bated breath the movements of the oppo- Senate but for the campaign. They were sition. On the other hand, the Dem££ ^ D f d ^onls which would fly to the racy, feelingly alive to the importance of and the East to snow that m the the situation, are busily engaged in bar . South religion had no temple and human- monizing differences, organizing their I bo Pf' pbe y would reach also the forces, canvassing the claims of candi- £ 0ll ‘ b ’ a fd there perhaps might impress dates with a view to centering upon the t be Southern planters, who for years had most available man, and preparing for beeustmgghng to rise by abor, knowing such a demonstratieu and denouement at that labor would alone restore them pros- Cincinnati as shall carry terror to the I l >er . lt y. and command for them respect, hearts of the ! r Radical foes. Hence, there is at present a TEMPORARY LULL and discourage them with the belief that the burden of hate was too heavy to be borne. By one class only—that of politi- in politics, soon to be succeeded, however, I by a very tempest of excitement, which - recel \ ec *> ana “ “ nat c a s . “i.cause will rage and run riot in the whole Union and 0eW ° P * until Uneventful ides of November shall i fr t,n 0 ou^AUanta^cdiUciwM 1 'had^itUe to’ sav° exod u 3 * To bis m ind the term had been but fotend t P o senH £e deesation to and ridiculously applied, for there Cincinnati next week. had been nothing but a simple migratory THE AIR LINE ROAD. movement of comparatively a few people. a. o.o rt „ T . Such ^movement had no terrors for him. til t? *» * r 0 " 1 ‘n'- 16 "* 1 „«• Ati—uu “ . I demand for labor m Kansas and Indiana, it could certainly not be-regarded as any- A Pittsburgh Democrat who recently had a conversation with Mr. Tilden L confident that the great invalid will with draw from the presidential contest, and declare in favor of Seymour and Payne. —“Was not James A. Garfield the chairman of the committee of appropria- tions in the House of Representatives tliy reported the salary grab, and was not he a supporter of that infamous measure?” —Lord Beaconsfield’s house of Hugh- enden is a substantial and comfortable but not ancient building, standing in a beautiful park full of great trees, 0 velvet sward and wild flowers. It is an exceed ingly pleasant plaee. —The Countess de Noe, widow of the famous caricaturist, Cham, hasjustifled many a poem and story. She went mad with grief over the death of her hnaband, aud after lingering for only a few months has just died in the asylum. —Mrs. Christiancy, it is said, will not insist upon the $150 a month alimony, but will soon marry the lover who at the time of her marriage with the Michigan Senator, promised to wait until—the present moment apparently.. Does its Work. a The Sunday Tribune, Rochester, N. Y., says: “No medicine now known purifies ^he blood so effectually. as docs that named as Warner’s Safe Bitters.” . 15-2w Tbe Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Micb ignn, Will send their celebrated Electro-Vol taic Belts to the afflicted, upon 30 days trial. Speedy cure guaranteed. They mean what they say. Write to them without delay. febl4-da wly Prejudice. Kills. “Eleven years our daughter suffered on a bed of misery under the care of several of tlie best (and some of the worst) phy. sicians, who gave her disease various names, but no relief, and now she is re stored to us in good health by as simple a remedy as Hop Bitters, that we had pooli- ed at two years, before using it. We earnestly hope and pray that no one else will let their sick suffer as we did, on ac- apunt of prejudice against so good a med icine as Hop Bitters.”—The Parents.— Telegram. J15-2w Littell’s Living Age.—The num bers of The Living Age for the weeks end ing June 12th and 19th respectively, con. tain the following articles: Animal Intel ligence, and The Letters of Charles Dick ens, Westminster; Memoirs of Madame de Remusat, Quarterly; “Cymbeline” in a Hindoo Playhouse, Macmillan; What Shakespeare Learnt at School, Fraser; Ascent of Boraima, Temple Bar; A Per sian Garden-Party, Tinsley's Magazine; Music in St; Paul’s Cathedral, Leisure Hours; Soda) and Literary Daudyism, Saturday Review; The PiDch of Wealth, and Mai the w Arnold on Poetry and Re ligion, Spectator; Professional Fools, Globe; Anchor-Ice, Nature; and in the way of fiction, “A Young Lady’s Letter,” and installments of “Adam and Eve,” and “He that Will Not When He May,” with the usual amount of poetry. For fifty-two numbers of sixty-four large pages each, (or more than 3,300 pages a year,) the subscription price ($8) is low; while for $10.50 the publishers of fer to send any one of the American $4 monthlies or weeklies with The Living Age for a year, including tbe extra num bers of the latter, both postpaid. Littell & Co., Boston, are the publishers. —Daring the past year thirty divers In the pearl fishery of the Persian Gulf lost their lives, raost-of them by sharks. The value of the pearls taken in tlie Persian Gulf in 1879 is estimated at $1,500,000. branches off to Athens. This enterprise is admirably managed by Captain Fore acre and his able lieutenant, Mr. Houston, and affords a striking instance of the magi cal effect of a railroad in advancing dvili- thing other than ail indication of health in the body politic. If it was good that the negroes should go, the voice of dvery " ou " 1 TERRA incognita ‘ In ^viewing the testimony taken by the ten years ago. The people wfre poor and exodus committee and quoted largely by illiterate, the lands comparatively value- less, and its natural resources wholly un- | ^* bed attention to the fact that Mr. Win- developed. Now, flourishing towns have ttSASSSES tba t the Republicans risen almost at every station, two colleges n? S and numerous schools aud churches shed 3nd Jj ben | ^°* cd that, ofthe 1,600 abrpad on every side the ligS^of knowl- Republican testimony occupied edge and revelation, and rich roiues of pa 3 e fi and ?® mocra ttc only 30b gold and elegant watering places bave P^ es » and tb ®s e P 3 ? 63 sinsh and transformed this neglected section into a m5Sre Pf cseutatl 9R had been poured m thriving and fashionable resort. No por- J' 1 ! 011 H 16 c ° mmittee m consequence ofthe tion of the State has improved so rapidly. country All of this, and more, is due to the spleu- h 20,000 ° Ut ° f 4, ~ did artery of commerce which has proved , - the “opeu sesame 1 ’ to that rude region. i ° s ^ ow ^°. w eharge of The cars were crowded with passengers, ^S'‘ 0 0 PP re S 310n in the South Mr. Lamar the road iu excellent. condition, and the tbe of “ en ? bo . « be P llt conductor, Mr. , gentlemanly and I !b' La< ! n 1 0t drifted wit . h reference to par- attentive. At Lula a nice supper wm ? re ?* 1 . t , 3 ' The first was Sir George served, and here the Athens passengers *£53^2/ traveled through the were forced to wait several hours for the | ? 0U J'? i’? ar ^ or „* be purpose of stuily- departure ofthe Northeastern train. There “'S-the relations of thes whites ami blacks, were a number of highly intelligent mb- r* nd ^ ^ bd . be aftenvanls -wrote on tlemen present, among them Captain - b j sub J e et had gi\ en, as his deliberate Harry Jackson, of Atlanta, and the iSfeK • ranked , i n a11 gubernatorial succession' respects with the best laboring and farrn- was discussed at length. Several of the in 8 e* 3 * 868 of England, more prominent candidates had their ad- I c . r ‘ Lamars, next witness was Bishop vocatcs, and it was generally agreed that een> . on Ins albeit the present incumbent seems to tr 'P bad de clared have the inside track at this'time, Harde- ami 10 S man, Lester and Gartrell will each have h * d } ns , ?i ends a large, following, and there will be no “ k f, d J, ear3 3 £? '\ bat bls V 1 ' choice on the first show of hands. In l colol ' ed P^PP 1 ?’ be subsequent ballotiugs who would give cfei* 3 d v° exp 5 esstbebo P1 way, and when a “Tireak” might be ex- tba J tbe ^ sbou ^ d ever be so for ad\ anced peeled, was a mystery impossible of solu- a0 q-, s ° Prosperous as^iey are to-day.^ tion. 1 he Rev. Mr. Hatfield of the Washing- WARNER to THE FRONT. ^J 0 ^? uar8 Church, New York, and One sagacious gentleman and capital I r a * ma S e a ‘ so quoted to the same talker thought it not uulikely that a s a ®h®ot, as were also several speeches made last result the name of Judge Hiram War- General Grant during his recent trip ner, whose recent unique and characters • the South, to ofiset a quotation tic letter has challenged so much atten- something on the same subject, but tion, would sweep the convention as a compromise candidate. But this is all VAJIlll/l UllilOw uAimiUiltv* JJUL tllUi lo ttll I a « 1 • , , _ _ _ speculation, Another remarked that from and Tli 1011 -^?' Wla " the beginning Joe Brown had made in do ,£?flourish, tlie Senate, if the session could be pro- « bl ? argument, traded six months longer lie would infol- • tbe ^? lc t^l res libly be his own successor. In this free and ^ t , r * k ' 1 °, Ja rf uase f or w . bicb La- expressiou of the views of quite a number tbe *f, n ^ tor 8a j d tbat m bls of representative men, it was pleasant oplMp 1 * W «? odus bad TC ry however to note the good humor that pre- y r0sem bled a ^Northern strike, and va!1«R nrui .11 thmt o n s,,,i«- was no more nor less than a strike. Yet, Vailed, and all were agreed that an inde pendent wouldjse sternly frowned down by the Democracy. THE TRIP TO ATHENS upon this labor question the closest scru tiny had been brought to bear' for the sole purpose of defaming the South. That It had was made in a magnificent coach which! demoralized^ Southern hopes has been put on since last year, and has showed upon how firm a no superior in the State. The North- section capital and latwr stood, eastern is in good condition, and contin- ^r n n a ? d uesto do well under the new superiu- K b ®, u J? l * st ” es of tb ? ®? utb . ba ? dourisbed tendent, Mr. Bernard. The building of ^? d th ® T er y ra,sed byj'fg™ this road has proved a bonanza for Ath- J 31 * 01 bad * st f, adl y increased. Wages ens, which is fast taking rank as ettfo ofl “ ^° d tb «re a* anywhere else for tho most important business centres in | abor ’ aad the condition of the labonng the commonwealth. Conductor Hale | cias8e ® w as better than elsewhere. They spared no pains for the comfort of hls|? e £* happier and more contented, they passengers, and at - 10 oclock p. m., they | h* d more privileges and immunities. Yet were all safely transported to their jour-1 an assassination m one place, an angry ney>* end. ■ aob witb neither head to Then, after the usual wrangle and I uor heart squabble among the omnibus drivers, the | cotnmon enougn in tbe Morth. writer and his associates of the board of | boea sufficient to turn the eye of the visitors to the University, were taken to the CLINARD HOUSE and hospitable received by its clever host mob with neither head to think to feel in another, both £iu^ n of dense sulphurous vapor “f enough in the North, had inchasm and sa^ coun try upon that whole peace-loving, law- abiding people, and shutting out from public gaze all that was virtuous and he roic among them, to affix the name of Since last year he has changed his base mui ^, cr?r s *-0 them and call upon the « .. I . ° .1 U’/irirl trt hnhrtM from the old Newton House, and occupies ^ orl T d t0 tfhold the revolting spectacle, a smaller structure near by, until the new j 8 oiit at thte point, hotel, which is in contemplation, can be | ? nd shortly afterwards the Senate ad- erected. But his patrons have all follow-1 Jp urned - . Mr. Conkling, who had kept ed him, and, by the aid of adjacent rented j, oommittee-room early in the day, en- rooms, he is able to lodge as well as feed j , en r, lbe chamber soon after Mr. Lamar them all to their entire satisfaction. We I “ad begun speaking, and listened atten- rceommend Mr. Clinard’s establishment | tlve *y t0 the end, to the traveling public for his courteous . , Chattanooga gave a magnificent re- attentions and capital fare. And now, as I ceptioo and banquet, on Thursday, to Cob we have nothing more at present to say, E. W. Cole-aiul wife, who have taken up here endeth this epistle. H. H. J. 1 their residence in that city. —The Marchioness Tseng, wife of the Chinese Ambassador to England, is a petite, plump, rather pretty person, whose almond eyes have a dreamy expression and whose dark hair is almost concealed by a jeweled cap. She is a graceful hos tess and a picturesque one, too, as she al ways wears her national robes, made of exquisitely embroidered silks. The mar quis is a man iorty-two years old, and an accomplished scholar, taking a lively in terest in art, science and literature. The Electoral Count Bill.—The bill which Senator Morgan reported from the joint select committee on countingthe electoral vote, and which passed the Sen ate on May 24, was yesterday, after an ac tive discussion of its merits in the House, successfully combatted by the Republi cans, and by filibustering forced to be postponed until the first Monday of De cember, when Congress meets again. Then it will be taken up and passed, or neglected, as the case may he. Between the present time and the meeting of Con gress so many things may happen that it is useless to speculate about the future of thebiil. One man, says the Sun, has his head cut open or gets a bullet through his lungs and lives to a green old age. Another man pricks his finger with a pin and dies before the month is out. An ocean steamer plunges, head on, Into an iceberg, and crawls safely to port without the loss of even one passenger’s life. A Sound steamboat is run down by another steam boat on what should be one of the safest water highways iu the world, within a few miles of a dozen towns and villages, and swiftly settles to the bottom, drown ing or burning to death many men and women.- The First Man Who Ate Ckow.— The Spriugfiehl Republican says that the origin of the phrase “eating crow" is propriately revived in these convention days. An old farmer on the Hudson, be low Albany, took summer boarders to eke out tbe profits of his farm. He sold the best of his farm products, however, and .often palmed off on his boarders “store” articles bought at a lower price. To their murmurs he replied: “I kin eat anything, I kin eat a crow.” This re mark was repeated so olten that one of the guests finally shot a crow and got the cook to prepare it for dinner. Fearful, however, that the former might have stomach for even such a dish, the bird was liberally seasoned while cooking with Scotch snuff. The fanner was rattier taken back when the dish was placed be fore him, but had too much pluck to gR® iu beaten without a trial aud attached the bird, with the remark: “I kin do it. •** the second bite he repeated, “I kin eat crow,” and, as he suddenly suspended Ute operation of cutting the third mouthtuJ and began a retreat toward the door, he added, “but dang me if I hanker arter it. The Vesuvius Railway.—It b not only in view of a possible sudden erupj tion of Mount Vesuvius that the raur» s “ to the top of that volcano is encir T 3 with a halo of romance. There are other possibilities which make a trip on it du- ierent from one on any other known rai- way. The ascent is on a frightfully TiV.t* tho flret nnflrfArftf tllC ^ . grade. For the first quarter of the it is at the rate of forty feet, in a hundrea. Then for a considerable distance it is srt* ty-three in a hundred. As soon as a P"' senger begins to go up he feels sea-s: and wishes he was somebody else. As n- rises higher, holding nervously to the esn for fear the cable will give way, heoe- comes hot and hotter and is half sun^ ted by sulphurous atmosphere. top the ground on which the road is presents a singular phenomenon, bre puffs of smoke sometimes burst out “ where they are least expected, and tn cause the passengers to sneeze and ice if tbejfcwere going to be smotherea. most cases the inconvenience is but porary. The speed is quite rap'd, whole ascent being made in about se minutes. There are instances, howe . in which with the issue of a P““ be ground opens into a great chasm i-- . denly close*. In such cases anything happens to bo in the way runs the # being swallowed. Some of these| . section of the railroad will be s called in, possibly with a tram <>“ “' d cable which pulls the cars “P of forty-nine strands of steel wn , covcie 1 with tar to presence it from ^ Marie Twain wrote that he made t e ^ scent of Vesuvius in ^ ar .^ I( j happ®-' 1 this forty-nine strand cable sb °“’ d STat to give way all of a sudden, the wifi be made in much less tim t . Notwithstanding the ramaatMV«£g „ ous features of this enterprise, fas]l i 0 n already well patronized, ^ly de- of clambering up on foot was tern structive to good boots.