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JOURNAL AND MESSENGER. CLISBY & JONES, Proprietors. THE FAMILY JOURNAL—NEWS—POLITICS- LITERATURE—AGRICULTURE—DOMESTIC NEWS, Exc—PRICE $2.00 PER ANNUM. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BULLDING TABOES'ISDIW. MACOK, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1880 YOLUME KO—LV A BOOK OF POEMS. To-day I found in a drawer, Where I had not looked for years, A volume of little poems, And my eyes grew blind with tears, As I turned the yellow paces, And found some daises dead, > That marked the last sweet poem My darling ever read. How well can I remember That afternoon in May We saw the white-sailed vessels Go gliding down the hay. And our ships went sailing outward As far as ships could be, Bound for the far-off island, In love’s enchanted sea. She read me this quaint, sweet poem, Her little hand in mine— I hear the throbbing ocean, And see the blue waves shine— And like some dream of sorrow, The years have passed away, And I am by her side again, This afternoon in May. I look in her eyes and listen To bef voice so soft and sweet, As her lips this strange, sweet fancy Of the poet’s brain repeat, And think that love is a poem, So old and yet so mew— Tho sweetest of all sweet poems To those who make it true. Ah! but the poem ended! The beautiful dream is done! The fairest flowers are the frailest Of flowers under the sun. My book of life has its poems, * And the sweetest poem there Is the memory of my darling Safe >vliere the angels are. —Baltimorean. BOSE FORRESTER’S ESCAPE. “Everybody envies Rose Forrester.” The pale girl in gold-colored silk lifted the broad lids from her clear eyes for a moment, as the speaker’s words reached her ear; then she bent over the photo graphs upon her lap again. She handled the pictures with an en thusiastic appreciation of their worth, so absorbed in their examination as to be to tally unconscious of the tall, fair man who stood quite near, looking down upon her with an apparently suddenly awaken ed interest. “Belonging to such a nice family, an heiress, aud so beautiful!” The continued words of the speaker reached Howard Manley’s ear, but evi dently Rose Forrester did not hear them. She turned with a sparkling smile to her hostess, and was still talking with her of the photographs when Mr. Clinton brought Howard Manley up for an intro duction. . . As she rose in the full light it revealed that she was very young, scarcely twenty, yet tall of stature, aud with a marked re- pose of mauner..- • Her beauty was not conspicuous—she was too pale; yet Manley saw how per fectly cut was every feature, how clear the dark gray eyes, how dark the curling lashes. The lips shut over little teeth as white as milk and the contour of the face was a perfect oval. ■TEe'girl’s jiatqfe.qpd spontaneous man ner told that she gave .{lie young man, at first, no unusual attention. Little by lit tle she observed him—the fair hair shad- • owing the white forehead, the dark blue penetrating eyes, the unusual grace of figure, the faultless drees. • • Her manner was so cordial and friendly and unmistakably charming that Manley racked his brains for the chance of a next meeting, but was obliged to abandon it when Miss Forrester was joined by her . brother. . ..... She left the room, but instantly he thanked his good fortune at the finding of a ruby scarf pin which he recognized as hers. It was easy to decide the ornament too valuable to be entrusted to a messen ger. It was a presumption that he wonld manage with ease to call upon her and re store it. „ „ ... Rose was not a belle. She had too much depth and passion of nature to ever be a society woman; but she bad her ad mirers, and out of them she soon chose ^She 6 could not tell why, but his looks, words, every act had a charm for her, and the eloquent blood tinging her cool cheek at liis approach told him the story of lus ^Hewas a proud man—he might well have been a happy one—but he often bore an air ot noticeable weariness and de pression. This, in answer to'Rose’s gen tle inquiries, he attributed to ill health. Spring was opening, with Its vivid sun shine, its balmy air, and Rose was very happy. It seemed to her that it was the pleasant influences of the season which made her daily ways so light; the tender colors, sights and sounds surrounding her daily walk with’Manley in tho park, which made them so enjoyable. Perhaps they helped to make her spirit strong so that she dared say to herself, “I love him!” and say it without reservation or fear; for she knew that it was but a little while since she had first met him, and of his past history and much of his present she knew nothing. No; she feared nothing for herself, io love and be surrounded with tenderness was happiness enough for her; she asked for no more. Yet some instinct or trace of worldly wisdom made her withhold her confidence from her brother, who was her guardian; he knew nothing of the mti- 111 From the night she had first met Man- ley at Mrs. Clinton’s party, she never knew any one who knew him intimately. He told her that he had no living female relative—no home. . He evidently had means at command, and procared for her, with an ingenuity which was almost genius, the rarest and most beautiful gifts. Her delighted re ception of them seemed a mutual joy which prevented any possible feeling of obligation on her side. In truth, full ot passionate impulses of youth, she was • deaf, dumb and blind to anything bat the fnllness of the present. : Her brother came into the music-room where she sat at the piano, dreamily, play- • ingone day. “Rose, will yon give me your attention for a few minutes?” ' • He held an open letter in his hand. He ' was twenty years older than herself, a world-wise, prudent man. “Dr. Wingrove proposes for your hand. You are aware that it will be a very ad mirable match, are you not?” Rose liad a strange, stunned feeling, yet she bowed faintly. From childhood she had been greatly under her brother’s 7 control. - 1 . .: ,, “I should like to write him favorably, Rose. Have you any objection?” “I—I—” ' She fonnd herself upon her feet shiVbr- ing in the May sunshine. “I wonld have a little time, Edwin. One of Opie Read’s Stories. Near the river, in the upper part of Arkansas, lives old Jeremiah Winfrew, known all over the neighborhood as pos sessing a fund of profanity so great that no one, no matter how desirous of “swearing” distinction, could hope to rival. Old Jere miah, although named for one of the most distinguished prophets, made uo effort to ward reform. He would not allow a preacher to come to his house, so great was his aversion to the gospel. One night, when the wind blew cold and when the sleet beat against the window pane with that sharp rattle so brightly tending to produce thankful emotion:) to those whdjare within a warm room,andsocxas- peiatmg to the traveler, a man rapped on the door of Jeremiah’s house. “Come in,” exclaimed the old man, as e^nare.°!^Ioimtaiiibubbieil I he P ut as' ld ° a plate of pop-corn. The ; the stone vases of flowers door opened and a young man, carrying a ’ - ... p a i r 0 f ^jddle bags, entered. Jeremiah immediately began a series of attentions. He gave the stranger a seat in the corner near tlio churn, while his wife and daugh ters flew around in that hurry flurry only known to women, preparing supper for the ‘poor traveler.’ After supper, when the stranger had been invited to smoke and when Abel Jeremiah’s son, had been sent to ‘shelter’ the stranger’s horse, the old man, eying the stranger, asked: “Wliat trade do you.foller ?” “I am engaged in the Lord’s merchan dise. I, my kind Christian friend, am a meek and lowly circuit rider.” “Then git oaten my house, sir,,” ex claimed Jeremiah. “Git right out, or I’ll apply a par of cowhide hoots to that pait of your physical arrangement which rests in a cheer. A circuit rider; why, ding your soul, I swapped horses with a circuit rider when I was a hoy, aud got cheated so bad that my father thrashed me. Get out of here. Mosey!” “I am sorry, my Christian friend—” “Git out. Abe, git this feller’s shoes. Move on.” When the preacher had gone, the old man sat for an hour, swearing aud smok ing. “Father,” said Abe, “I’ll bet my bay filly agin the sorrel nag tiiat you’ll be a circuit rider in six lUonths.” “Go to bed, you young varment, or I’ll whale you.” “You’d better take the bet, pap. Here’s yer chance to win the filly.” “All right, I’ll take the bet. Go to bed.” All next day the old man swore about the preacher’s impudence, and in general terms expressed regret that he did not use a stick on him. Next night, while the old man was feeding the cattle in the barn, a voice so strauge that it made the old man’s blood creep, moaned rather than exclaimed: “Jeremiah Winfrey!” “Who’s that ?” answered the old man. “Jeremiah Winfrey!” . .- “Well.” . v ( “Ride the circuit of the gospel.” “I’ll show you what it is to fool with me,” hotly exclaimed the old man, and he climbed all around in the bam looking for the ofl'ender. He could fiud no one, and when he went to the house he roused Abe out of bed and told pfliis strange ex perience. Next day, when the old man was riving boards in the woods, a voice over his head exclaimed: _ “Jeremiah Winfrey!” “Where are you ?” said _the old man, dropping his free, and gazing up. “Jeremiah Winfrey!” “Well?” sPll gazing. * “Ride the circuit of the gospel!” “Oh, Lord!” supplicated Jeremiah, dropping on his buees. “Oh! forgive me for my sins, but keep me from riding a circuit.” The old man went home, and experi enced some trouble in trying to convince his wife and Abe of the fact that some thing supernatural had spoken to him. The old lady sighed and said that she was afraid Jeremiah was not in his right mind. Thus matters went on for months. Nearly every night the voice at the barn would call the old man, and every time he went to the board tree the solemn admonition would come from above. Unable to lon ger endure such mental torture, the old man, who had by this time professed re ligion, made application to conference, and was accepted. On the morning when he first started out as a circuit-rider he presented Abe with the sorrel nag. He soon instituted a revival, and was so suc cessful that lie received a complimentary letter from religious headquarters. Several nights ago, just after family prayers, and while Parson Jeremiah was upbraiding Abe for not joining the church, the young man said: “Pap, and you did become a circuit rider, didn’t you?’ “Certainly I did. You well know the circumstances.”- ** r • ‘ “Yes, I know,” replied Abe. “I know leetle more about the circumstances than you reckon. Arter I made that bet with you I hid in the barn loft and called you through a horn, When you dim up j[ hid under the hay. Then I beat you down and run to the house. Next day when I seed you goin’ out to rive boards, I dim up in the tree an’ got down in the holler. I again beat you to the house. S racticed this on you, pap. till you ’fessed ;ion. I wanted the nag, you know.” The old man sprang from his seat, seized piece of rope, but throwing it down, raised his hands and said in a calm voice, “Let us pray.” A fraudulent transaction can sometimes have a good result. The old man is still a preacher. _ world, I dare tell my brother why I will not marry Doctor Wingrove.” Dr. Wingrove was the noblest and gentlest of men, singularly handsome, wealthy, and highly connected, and bare ly thirty years of age. He had known her since childhood, never made love to her, but now that the offer of marriage had come to her, she realized, somehow, that he had always loved her. Rose was conscious of a racking pain in her temples, at last. The chamber seemed stifling. Catching up her cloak and hat, and tying a veil of heavy black lace across her face she went out into the street. She soon walked herself weary, without abating her painful sensation, and, re turning to the street in which her resi dence wa3 situated, entered the public in closure of trees and shrubbery which or- | namented the in the centre; sent a sweet perfume upon the air. So close to her home, she had no tim idity, and, sinking upon a circular seat surrounding a large tree, she gave herself up to her absorbing thoughts. • It was soon dark, yet she liad not stirred. In her black dress, in shadow, she was quite unnoticed by two men who crossed the street from the opposite side and sat down behind her. She would then have risen and glided away quietly, but the movement was arrested by Howard Manley’s voice. “How soon?” he asked. “Now, my dear brother, I’ll stand the risk no longer. I’ve passed false money enough for you to shut me up for the rest of my life, and I value my liberty, singu larly enough,” sneenngly. “Well, well, I am willing enough to go, Fred. Heaven knows that I am as sick of the business as you can he. Coining isn’t all prosperity. In a new country I should feel like another man. But—” “The heiress?” •‘I am sure of her. But I don’t like to urge a hasty marriage. She has an old fox of a brother, who may be inconven iently curious regarding my affairs. If we could wait tul the autumn, now, I might enter some respectable business.” “I tell you it won’t do!” Both rose in their excitement, and in voluntarily walked away. Plainly under the gaslight, Rose saw Howard Manley and his brother pass un der the street. They wore coiners. More dead than alive, she crept into the house. But Rose was not a weak girl. Before midnight she had placed Howard’s gifts in a close package, and sealed with them a note, briefly slating that she had overheard the conversation in the park. The next morning it was dispatched. As soon as her brother broached the subject of Dr. Wingrove's proposal, she- asked to have the latter call upon her. He came, with countenance sq high of purpose, with eyes so full of truth, that she involuntarily contrasted Howard's cold, reticent face with it; but she told Mr. Wingrove all the truth. “Perhaps it was wrong, bnt I loved him —loved fiim purely—and my heart is tom and bleeding. I am wild with a secret pain which I must hide from everybody. If I liad never known him! Bat I cannot imagine that. This terrible experience has changed me; I am not the care-free, happy, trusting girl, you knew. I cannot love you; bnt pity me—be my friend, I must talk to some one, and oh,,there is no onerin the world so kind a3 you.” Was Dr. Wingrove piqued by his recep tion of his proposal ? No, he was too gen erous and tender-hearted for that. “Poor child!” he said, in a tone so soothing that, for the first time, Rose gave way to a relieving burst of passionate weeping. “What shall I do ? What do you think of me?” she asked at last. “We will wait, and I think that I love yon,” he answered, quietly. So two kept the secret of Rose’s so/row more easily than one, and though her heart still kuew its pangs of grief for a time, the summer brought change of scene which was hopeful to a spirit really brave and innocent. Dr. Wingrove joined Rose and her brother at the seashore, to find brightness in the young girl’s eyes again, and to the latter it was sweet to call so kind and no ble a man friend. Together they climbed the rocks, drank in the free air, watched the sunsets and the sea. Of old they had been congenial, and now they seemed more happily so. There is usually a sacredness about first love, and perhaps it is expected of me to record the death of my heroine of a broken heart, bnt I must tell the troth. In the autumn Rose manied Dr. Win grove. She is one of the happiest wives in the world. The first love fell from her like a false blossom, while the second ripened the richest fruit. A Professor of Dimples. A New York reporter has discovered a “professor” who creates dimples, who prophesies that in five years, when his process becomes known, there won’t be a plain woman in New York City. After discussing the esthetic and poetic sides of the dimple question, this is the way the E rofessor says he can create the bewitch- ig hollows. “Well, sir,” said the professor, “a dim ple—a natural dimple that is—is simply a slight hollow between two muscles or over a muscle, and the skin is more firmly attached to the subjacent tissues at this point than at other points. Hence, when the muscles contract, as in the act of smil ing, the skin is drawn down into the hol low, forming a dimple, that beautiful—” “Yes,” said tlie reporter; “but bow do yon make them ?” “I make apuncture in the skin at the point where the dimple is required,” an swered the professor, “a puncture that cannot be noticed when healed, and with a delicate instrument I remove a portion of the muscle. Then I excite a slight in flammation which attaches the skin to the subcutaneous hollow I have formed. In a few days the wound—if wound it can be called—has healed, and a charming dimple is the result.” The reporter suggested that _ there ought to be a good deal of money in the new operation. “There is,” said the professor. “Wo men will be made lovely and 1 will be made rich.”,, “How many times have you per formed this operation ?” asked tho report- C “Many times in France,” answered the professor; “neveryet in America.. To-, morrow I begin operating on several ac tresses who wish dimples on their faces, shoulders, arms and—yes, shoulders aDd arms.” -The Burkett Outrage. New Yo’iik, July 28.—A special from Pittsburg states that a farther hearingwas had at Greensburg yesterday in the case of the showmen charged with outraging the person of Salome Burkett, a little j country girl. The girl was .present and _ | twelve persons were picked out fronf “Certainly,. if you wish-,” though his among the prisoners by the girl as having brow slightly clouded. “The doctor will assaulted her, she passing among them in not probably look for an immediate an- company with District Attorney Kline. «™>_» I Q n cross-examination her story was The next moment R6se had escaped about the same as in the chief examina- froin the room, and was locked in her j| on . . Several showmen testified, corrob- chamber. 1 1 orating the testimony of the girl. All During the next two hours she hardly were then discharged except the twelve .knew what she was doing. She found w ho were Identifleiby the girl herself walking the floor, and wringing _ - Uru j.*». . .her hands. At last she stopped short, —The desire to go somewhere in hot with a sense of pride. weather Is only equalled by the desire “There is no reason—no reason in the get back again. gy and medical profession and a few em ployes of the government, shall present himself in uniform and drill everyday from 11 o’clock until 1. All foreigners are invited to form themselves into a corps to maintain order and protect property in the event of tho city being left '-'it any time without the usual guardians of the peace. No inhabitants of the province of Lima are allowed to go beyond its limits without passports. As an example of the spirit which .ani mates the people, it may be stated '-that the archbishop of Lima lm placed -the treasure of :he church at the disposal of the government, to be used in the Sprvice of the country. An official telegram dated Lima- July 4, received viaPayto, states that thfll Chil ian transport Amazona was on the day previous blown up by torpedoes in Callao bay and sank immediately. It is thought quite likely, however, that it was one of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company’s steamers, as the Amazona had been pre viously reported as having sailed for Val paraiso. - The Chilian government is said to have agreed upon the following propositions looking to tho prosecution of the, war: First, to emit $0,000,000 for the continu ance of the war; second, to organile the army with new’ divisions; and, third, to raise the Manco Copac. Serious Icbatc was occasioned in Congress in conse quence of one of the deputies saving it was now time to offer peace to"; Peru through the mediation of another gower, and that' the bombardments of Callao were barbarous and useless proceedings. The cable has been restored from Arica to Callao, and is now being worked for Chilian account. Panama, July 27.—The volcano Fuego, in Gautemala, is in exceedingly active eruption. Whole houses for miles around are filled with smoke. At Sau Benito, and even beyond that point in Mexico, and down the San Salvador coast, fine dust thrown up by the volcano falls in quanti ties, which renders it certain that in the immediate nigliborhood the effects must be caiamitousT A WOMAN’S EXECUTION — PARIS* 1871. The South American War. Panama, July 17.—Latest dates re ceived here from Lima are by mail to Juue 30, aud by telegraph via Payto to July 4th. The Chilian admiral, Riverose, it is said, has announced his intention to bombard Lima, aud lias notified the di plomatic body in tliatjcapital to that ef fect. 3 Notification has also been conveyed to foreign ministers,intimating that the Pa cific Steam Navigation Co.’s steamers would be pemiiitted to enter Callao har bor up to the eighth inst., and would re ceive all foreign families of women and. children who desired to fly from the doomed city. From certain portions of the adjacent coast, no doubt Lima can be readied by the artillery of the Chilian fleet, the dis tance in a straight lino not being more than four to four and a half miles from the centre of the city, to the depth of‘ten fathoms of water. Its destruction, there fore, is a mere question of time, even without the assistance of the land force. The number of long range guns which the, Chilians have at command is small, however, and the work of injuring the city, at the distance stated, will he ex ceedingly slow. * The Chilian admiral has already threat ened that Lima when taken will be given up to destruction and to the ravages of the Chilian troops as were Molendo and Arica, because, as he states, the Chilian officers cannot restrain their men. The Feravi- wns are preparing to give their women, children and household valuables an asy- lnm where no enemy’s hand can reach them. Lorma, a beautiful little town, situated beyond impenetrable ramparts of the Cordilleras, has been selected as the place, and great activity is being shown in its preparation for the large increase of population which it will doubtless soon receive. In view of the critical state of affairs Railroading Along the Blue Ridge. Asheville, N. C., July 20, 1880. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: The writer’s physician had urged upon him the necessity of seeking for. a time a higher altitude and a more invigorating climate, and in canvassing for a location combining these requisites, we decided to teat the Blue Ridge of western North Carolina. Leaving your city by morning train, we found tho same time would be made by lying over in Atlauta and faking the early morning train of the Air Line road. Mine host, Major, Huff, of the Markham, gave the party an impromptu “hop” aiid ex tended other courtesies in keeping with his well-known reputation. ThU hos telry is liberally patronized, a3 it well de serves to be, being in charge of such vim, energy and experience as is seldom com bined in hotel management. , Next morning, as the twinkling stars be gan to fade in early twilight, round the party on board the Air-Line train, and rather uncomfortably packed for hbt weather. The cara are new and in fine condition, tlie conductor courteous and obliging, roAd^bed smooth, schedule time at all stations promptly made. Breakfast at Bellton.* was rather meagre, as the con ductor had orders to telegraph for seven teen, when eighteen extra ones wanted' what they were not willing to order two hou« previous. . Nothing out of the usual routine of railroad travel occurred during the run to Spartanburg, which place was reached at 12 m. Here was a break of over four hours. Half a mile of omnibusing u» ti, fi Central Hotel furnished us an excellent dinner and gave ample time to perambu late through the town, which shows signs of thrift and business energy flattering for their future. Many new buildings are in course of erection, some of which are on quite an extensive scale. The town Is healthyj and has a thrifty surrounding country to support it. At 4 p. m. we took the train for Hen dersonville, forty-five miles distant in a northwesterly direction. The road has an up grade from the start, and ere long has an average of ninety feet. Twen ty miles bring to view tlie tips of tlie Blue Ridge.'As we progress they gradually loom up, until they assume huge proportions, and presenting a barrier which seems to defy the locomotive to penetrate or sur mount. '/ We arc now meandering among the foot-hills and spurs of this mighty range, circling peaks, high upon tressliug over giddy ravines, clear, sparkling cascades, clashing their spray over the train. Skirting murderous gorges, sweeping round a sharp promontory into a small open space, wo stop for wood and water. Here the climb commences in earnest, and on a maximum grade of 238 feet. The slow measured exhaust of the engine an nounced the fearful tax upon its powers. An occasional whir, as tlie bite of the dri ving wheels relaxed their hold upon the rails, caused a shudder among the more timid. The formation presented but lit tle choice of location by tlie engineers, they being compelled to follow tlie con tour of the mountains through the gap which makes a continued alternate curv ing in and out of tlie mountain side. Tlie ravine is on our left, and for the whole distance presents a fearful abyss, into which to plunge a train of cars should they be thrown from the track. It is well known that fewer accidents occur in tbesMieavy grades and curvilin ear roads, than on tlio^ugnore Savorabl located! This exemption may be attnbul to the perfect structure or the road, and the slow and cautious running over such lines. Every precaution against accidents is adopted—even the couplings of the cars are trebled. It would be impossible to separate the train unless intentionally done. Somehow we always feel safe in this species of railroading. Adding there to its novel and exhilerating effect, it fur nishes a delightful change from the mo notonous run through a level country. The summit is reached as the eveuing shades are hovering over the mountain peaks, and when, after an easy run of ten miles, we roll into Hendersonville, the stars arc out in full force, as well as a phalanx cf hotel drummers and hack drivers. These accessory nuisances of travel are adepts in their calling, and are as clamorous an 1 persistent as if the fate of a nation were at stake. By accident we selected tin Arlington, where an ex cellent supper was furnished,' and, on a vote being taken, it.proved unanimous,, in favor of going to Asheville, twbnty-one miles distant that night. Twothacks and a baggage wagon were engaged for the sum of $20 to take the party of ten. The road the entire distance is very good. The late start and moderate speed landed us at the Swaunanoa DcStel just as the in- ‘dustrious denizens of Buncombe county were astir. .Ere long will give you glimpse of Aslieville as impressed on tourist. C.A.N. Theatrical Notes. Alice Hutchings, who possesses a sweet voice, is to travel with the “Tourists” next season. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Carhart have been engaged to support Mine. Janaoschek next season. Clara Morris will probably play an en gagement at the Park Theatre, New York, the coming season. It i3 stated that in October next Arthur Wallack will lead to the hymeneal altar Miss Addle Moss. Lizzie Price Fechter states that she, and not John McCullough, paid, for her hus band’s monument. Emma Carmen, a protege of Samuel Colville, takes Amy Gordon’s place in the “Goblins” next season. F. C. Stansbury, one of Callender’s 0r- igiral Georgia Minstrels, died at the New York Hospital from sunstroke, last week. “Nora’s Vow” will be produced Novem ber 1st, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, un der the immediate direction of tlie author ess, Emma Schiff. . ; Louise Pomeroy Will go to Australia next season under the management of Mr. Dayman. Her contract also includes season in London, England. A fortunate man is Manager 'Abbey. Hfchat already been offered, by three sev eral parties,.! bonus, of S30.000 for Ids conti act withMlle. Sarah Bernhaniu Mrs. G- T. Ulmer (Lizzie May Ulmer) has received"a very flattering ofl'er to go -i : 'Uomnn 'nnnninfr in "Rllinhlirffh. • BY EDWARD KING. Sweet breathed and young, .The people’s daughter, No nerves unstrung, Going to slaughter! “Good morning, friends, You’ll love us better— Make no amends; We’ve burst your fetter! “How the sun gleams! (Women are snarling), Give me your beams, Liberty’s darling! “Marie’s my name, Christ’s mother bore it, That badge ? No shame, Glad that I wore it!” (Hair to her waist, Liinb3 like a Venus), Robes are displaced; Soldiers, please screen us 1 “He’s at tho front! That is my lover; Stood all the brunt, Now the fight is over. Powder and bread Gave out together; Droll! to be dead In this bright weather! “Jean, boy, we might Have married in June! This the wall? Right! Vine la Commune V’ 'renewed your provision,” said a rival “Don’t speak of it, I have qnite rained myself. I have bought a thousand things I do not need, among others, six tooth brushes.” “Ah, one for each tooth,” said the other sweetly. It is said that more than three millions cf women in England and Wales are earn ing a living—or trying to earn one—in the various trades and industries. But their wages are so low that six years ago a soci ety—the Women’s Protection and Provi dent League—was organized to raise them. Walk up Mulberry street any fair after noon and you will see upon tlie most fash ionable bonnet, cherry, apple and peach blossoms, often in small sprays, boughs of hawthorn, reeds, ragged sailors, cat-tails, small sun-flowers, chrysanthemums, hare bells, four o’clocks, and seaweed, together with odd looking insects. Living on a Volcano.—London has discovered, says the Daily Telegraph, that it is undermined in every direction by a network of pipes tilled with a gas which, when mixed in a certain well-known pro portion witli air, becomes at once terribly explosive; that this network is divided off, according to the districts served by the different gas companies, into special sec tions, and that each section is liable, from a single act of carelessness at any point within its area, to be suddenly involved in a common ruiqp No matter how careful the individual household may he, its safe ty lies practicaily at the mercy of a stupid workman • a mile off, for any day, wheu a flaw in a pipe in some distant street or square is being “re paired,” the fatal train may be ignited, and a sullen roar, rolling down tlie centre of the thoroughfare, and turning corner after corner, may announce the rush of the exploding gas as it ploughs up street after street, and tlie houses on both sides are shaken and shattered by the awful force of the swiftly traveling devastation. Such an accident as this may, it appears, happen in the most crowded thorough fares of the city, or tlie most aristocratic quarters of the West End. may include a railway station in its radius of havoc, or a crowded opera house, and, instead of wasting its'violence on such comparatively unfrequented spots as Charlotte street and Perry street may revel in tlie carnage of the Strand or Picadilly, or the great business centres round the Royal Exchange. It is no exaggeration to say that such a disaster is always possible, and that witiiout an instant’s warning, or from no negligence of their own, whole rows of households may be overtaken by sudden rain, and whole streetfulls of hu man beings blown suddenly into the air. We are speaking literally within the facts, for so long as gas has to be used for light the public must live With this hew danger added to their al ready too dangerous existence. The ex plosion of Monday evening is but the rep etition on a large scale of what is by no means unusual in a small way with -gas laying. Any foreman of works could teill an Inquirer of dozens of similar accidents, which have fallen short of tho present ^MSn^te'n^ISll^^ces in WEATHER GRUMBLERS. Hath the Bain • Father. That wonderful student of human na ture, Dr. Talmage, has recently delivered one of his unique discourses upon the weather, which everyone can lay to heart. We append an extract: I suppose you understand your family The Cotton Caterpillar. Among the telegrams of Tuesday night, In our yesterday’s edition, is the follow ing, which will bear republication Mobile, July 27.—Prof. Riley, chief of the entomological commission of the Uni ted States, addressed the members of the Cotton Exchange to-day. He said he had just visited North Carolina and Georgia, genealogy. You know something about aDli vour narents vour rraiidnarents vonr i cotton bounties in Misissippi, as far as Have you ever studied the parentage of the shower? “Hath the rain a father?” This question is not asked by a- poetaster or scientist, but by the head of the uni-' verse. To humble and to save Job, God asks him fourteen questions—about the world's architecture, about the refraction of the sun’s rays, about tlie tides, about the snow crystal, about the lightnings, and then He anaigns him with the inter rogation of the text: “Hath the rain father?” With tho scientific won ders of the rain I have nothing to do. A minister gets through with that land of sermons within the first three years, and if he has piety enough he gets through with it in the-first three months. A sermon has come to me to. mean one wqrdof four letters: “Helpl” You all know that the rain is not an orphan. You know it is not cast out of the gates' of heaven a foundling. You would answer the question of my text in the affinnatiye. Safely housed during the storm, hear the rain beating against the window pane, and you find it searching all the crevices of the window silk It first comes down in solitary drops, pattering the dust, and then it deluges the fields and angers the mountain torrents, and makes "the traveler implore shelter. You know that the rain Is not an accident of the world’s economy. You know it was bom of the cloud. You know it was rocked in the cradle of the wind. You know it was sung to sleep by tlie storm. You know it Is a flying angel from heaven to eartlu You know it is the gospel of the weather. You know that God is its father. If this be true, then Low wicked Is our murmuring about climatic changes. The firet eleven Sabbaths after I entered the ministry it stormed. Through the week it was clear weather, hut on the Sabbaths the old country meeting-house looked like Noah’s ark before it landed. A. few drenched people sat before a drenched )astor; but most .qf tlig farmers stayed at loine and thanked God that what was bad for the church was good for the crops. I Committed a good deal of sin in those days in _ denouncing the weather. Ministers of The gospel sometimes fret about stormy Sabbaths, or hot Sabbaths, or inclement Sabbaths. They forget the fact that the samp God who ordained the Sabbath and sent forth liis ministers to announce salvation, also ordained the weather. “Hath the rain a father?” Merchants, also, with their stores filled with new goods; apd their clerks hanging idly around the counters, commit tho same transgression. There have been seasons when the' whole spring and fhl —e.-i tber. 'The mefend dbr wet starring to Europe, opening in Edinburgh. She will accept-next season. The Kiralfvs will produce the spectacu lar play called “Black Venus” at Niblo’s Garden next fall. Many novelties will be introduced, including a den of wild ani mals. ‘ Agnes Haliock has been re-engaged as leading lady with Jarrett and Rice’s “Fuji on the Bristol” party fofnext season. She is at present rusticating near Harrisburg, Penn. Frank Budworth, wlw» achieved a fair success as the “Heathen Chinee” in tho “Danites,” plays the principal comedy part in Ned Marble’s play of the “Tile Club,” next season. Miss Henrietta Vaders lias been dan gerously ill at her home for the last five weeks, but is now slowly recovering. She is specially engaged as Tom Keene’s lead ing support for the next season. The uncertainties of the theatrical business are illustrated by the fact that Miss Ncilson, after a season of great suc cess in the East, has been playing to al most empty houses in San Francisco. T Haverly has added another to the long list of theatres under his control. This latest is the leading one at Denver, Col. Does he propose to make up tho even one hundred before he stops? * j Texas Jack will always be remember ed in the profession by his reply to a modest query why he and his troupe wore long hair and broad sombreros. “All actors,” said he, “wear long hair—all good actors!” Instead of “Two Nights in Rome,” Miss Ada Cavendish will probably play next season in the same author’s “The Soul of an Actress,” which was early this year produced by Clara Morris in San Francisco. E. M. Gardner, representing Frank Mayo, lias purchased Bartley Campbell’s play, “The Virginian,” for $2,500. It is to be strengthened in several points, and will be produced early next season in New York. Mr. Lawrence Barrett ha3 a new dra ma, entitled “Pendragon,” wntten by Mr. \Y. W. Young, and founded on one of the •legends of King Arthur. This will be produced by Mr. Rarrett in Chicago Sep tember 27- Harry Clifton, Jule Keene, Harry Irv- g, and Miss Connie Thompson, have ten engaged for Buffalo Bill’s company tlie coming season. Irving is re-engaged. Open season at Windsor Theatre, New York, August 23. Mme. Alta Hallelt, while performing her trapeze act witli. Murray’s Pony Circus in Cambridge, Massachusetts; July 6, fell, sustaining a compound fracture which may disable her for life. She is at pres ent in a dangerous condition. Wambold having retired from the San Francisco Minstrels on account of ill health, Mr. Charles Bernard, the best and most pompous of middlemen—interlocu tors we call them uow—will resume his old place in the troupe next season, Femlulne Fancies. A young lady wants to know if the ‘crack” of a rifle is where they put the powder in. • „■ j A smart young girl calls a young fellow of her acquaintance “honeysuckle,” be cause he’s always hanging over the front fence of evenings. I’d have you to know,” exclaimed Mrs. Upalcrust, haughtily, tossing her head, “that my family always moved in the up per circles.” “Yes,” whispered Mrs. Blount to her friend, Sarah Jones, “I’ve hearn that the scum alius rises to the top.” Mrs. Elvira A. Crabb has taught a lit tle school in Troy for fifty years. Though now over eighty, and partially paralyzed, she keeps up her school. The great grandchild of one of her pupils is now liv ing, and she has taught four generations bf the same‘family. A young and beautiful girl was rapidly sinking with the lockjaifr, when her pby- General Grant President of a Mining Company. 'A special dispatch to tho IForM says General U. S. Grant has been elected £ resident of the San Pedro aud Canon do ,agua company, which owns 40,000 acres of land in New Mexico, including copper and gold mines. Boston and New York ‘capitalists are largely interested in the enterprise. While in New York General Grant will make his headquarters at the banking-house of George - William Ballou & Co. . [The San Pedro and Canon de Lagua company has a nominal capital of $10,- 000,000, divided into $25 shares. It is or ganized under the laws of the State of Connecticut, having its principal office at No. 17 Devonshire street, Boston. It is said that the company has secured the services of Superintendent Gillette, who was for a long time the superindent of J. W. Mackey’s “Savage” mines. General Grant, so those interested in the company say, is expected here next month, and wll spend his time as president ofthe company both in this city and in Boston. Wheu the rumor was set afloat that Gen. Grant had been' elected president the stock went up from $1.50 per share to $2, and yesterday upon confirmation of the fact ofthe election, was quoted at Si bid. This was at the close of business. Mr. Jesse Grant, who is in business in this city, is reported as saying that he has no information that his father, from whom he hears regularly, intends to come to New York to live or to engage in a min ing enterprise.] Mr. Hayes on the Stump. A San Francisco special to the Herald says: Atelegram from the East announcing that President Hayes will take the stump on tho Pacific coast for Garfield during his visit here in September, meets with condemnation by many in the Republican ranks. Democratic orgaus very frankly state that if Hayes takes the stump he will be treated as any other stump speaker, aud that they could not wish for a better opportunity than that would afford for “expanding his fraudulent presidency.” “His vetoing the Chinese restrictive emi gration bill would also be a delicious morceau, ,r and both would be used effec tually against Garfield. As a warm friend add supporter of the President in these matters, the Republican paper of the late secreiaiy ofthe State central committee, alluding to this telegram, utters this morning the following: “For the honor and glory of the country wo hope not. We hope the presidential office will not be brought so low in Amer ican politics as to see its incumbent mounting the hustings to ‘make votes’ for the party with which he affiliates. It would be a disgrace that would sink so deep in the escutcheon ofthe nation as to be ineffaceable. If Republican leaders do entertain such an idea for a moment as seenring stump speeches from the Presi dent of the United States we say, in the name of God, in the name of all that is decent, patriotic aud honorable, cease all efforts in that direction; and if the Re publican party cannot win its fight with out dragging in the mud the great robes of the presidential office, then we say let the Republican party be beaten.” As President of the United Slates Mr. Hayes will, on his arrival, be appropri ately if not enthusiastically received in San Francisco, but the first stump speech Will sever him from tho multitude. At Birkenhead, England, lately a man was arrested for furiously driving a horse. It was explained in extenuation that it bad become, while in the possession of a = - drummer of convivial habits, so addicted I sician conceived the happy idea of hold- to strong drink—“standing on its hind ing a spoonful of ice cream to her lip*, legs and drinking liko a man”—that it I The .Moment he did so, she opened her ,,, „ M , VJV „. t ._._ -was hopeless to attempt to'get it past old ' jaws and shrieked: “Don’t give me a little ot existing in Lima, Dictator Pierola has de- J boozing haunts without putting it into a plate; make it a big one. to creed that every male between sixteen ! gallop. The explanation was deemed A coquette came out of a f«mcy-goods i and sixty years of age, excepting the cleft, satisfactory. ^ shop loaded with purchases. Y ou have “Everybody pays taxes at the North,” said Senator Edmunds in a speech on his native heath the other day. The state ment is positively false if he means that all pay Federal or State or municipal taxes, for millions of the Northern people do not pay a red cent, not even poll tax; hut “everybody pays taxes,” not only in the North, but iu the South, to the manu facturers’ring, which has its seat chiefly in New England and Pennsylvania, and is sustained by that infamous instrument of oppression, the protective tariff. “Ev erybody pays taxes,” and is compelled to, on every article of consumption, but -the proceeds do not benefit the government, but a sect of business men—an unconsti tutional arrangement to which Senator Edmunds gives his wannest approbation if Courier Journcl. He had made other observations aloDgthe line of the .Alabama Central and Vicks burg and Meridian railroads, and found the worm in. most fields, the evidence being that they must have been there a full month before, and, in many instances, the fourth generation was just hatching In sufficient numbers to cause serious injury to cotton in the next fortnight. Nine planters out of ten ride through their fields and coine away with the idea that there are no worms in the fields, because they were yet quite small—just hatching. The moth, which.is also called a fly, is about, and eggs are being laid constantly. Re garding the best and cheapest poison, he referred to Loudon purple, a refuse mate rial obtained in the manufacture of ani line dyes. lie said, although the worm is in the fieids, if the planters use poison and the weather'is good, there may be very good crops. - ■ a • We are inclined to believe from some facts coming to our knowledge, that indi cia ot the caterpillar will be found vjery general, if close investigation be made, and that great danger to the crop is fore shadowed. In this connection we pub lish the following from the Entomological Commission: Department of the Interior Office of the United States Ento mological Commission, No. 1700 13th St., N. W., Washington, D. C., July 22,1880.—Editors Telegraph and Messen ger : The enclosed circular wasprepared more particularly for the benefit of the spe cial agents of the commission, but I take the liberty of. sending you a copy in the belief that you may wish to call wider .at- tention to it through your columns. I shall consider it a favor if you will have mailed to me any items containing infor mation regarding the cotton worm that may at any time be published in your columns, and shall take pleasure in re ciprocating the favor in any way in my power; Respectfully yours, * : ’ C. V. Riley, Chief-U. S. Entomological Commission.- * COPY OF CIRCULAR. Dear Sif: Congress at its late session made an appropriation to the United States entomological commission for the completion of the investigation into the habits and best means of counteracting the injuries of the Rocky Mountain lo cust and ofthe cotton worm. The work on the last-named insect has been con signed to me, and as many of the ques tions relating to the cotton worm were • pretty fully considered during the past year, as indicated in the preliminary sum mary of work given in Bulletin No. 3 of the commission, it is my desire to pay es pecial attention the present year to fur ther study of the practical questions in- weather probabilities” with more inter- tention to issue ai ine eu»e. va- est than they read their Bibles, They watched for a patch of blue sky. They went complaining to the store, and came complaining home again. In'all’that sea- s5n oTavet"feet, and* dripping garments, and impassable streets, they never once asked the* question, “Hath the rain a father ?” So agriculturists commit thi3 sin. There is nothing more annoying than to have planted corn rot in the ground be cause of too much moisture; or hay, all ready for the mow, dashed of a shower;, or wheat, almost ready for the sickle, spoiled with the rust. How hard it is to bear the agricultural disappointments. God has infinite resources, but I do do not think he has capacity to make weather to please all farmers.' Sometimes it is too hot, or It is too cold; it is too wet, or it is too dry; it is too early, or it is too late. They forget that the God who promis d seedtime and harvest, summer and winter, cold and heat, also ordained all the climatic changes. There 13 one question that ought to be written on every barn, on every fence, on every haystack, on every farm-house—“Hath the rain a father?” •-»< If we only knew what a vast enterprise it is to provide approprate weather for the world, we would not be so critical ol' the Lord. Isaac Watts, at ten years of age, complained that he did not like the hymns that were sung in the English chapels. “Well,” said liis father, “Isaac, instead of your complaining about the hymns, go and make hymns that are better.” And he did go and make hymns that were bet ter. Now, I say to you, if you do not like the weather, get up a weather company, and have a president and a secretary, and a treasurer, and a board of directors and ten million dollars of stock, and then pro vide weather that will suit all of us. There is a man who has a weak head, and lie cannot stand the glare of the sun. You' must have a cloud always hovering over him. like the sunshine, I cannot live without plenty of sunlight, so you must always have enough light for me. Two ships meet mid-Atlantic, the one is going to Southampton, the other is going to New York. Provide weather that, while it is abaft for one ship, is not a head wind for the other. There is a farm that is dried up for lack of rain, and here is a_ pleasure party going out for a field excursion. Pro vide weather thatVill suit the dry farm and the pleasure excursion. No, sirs, I will not take one dollar of stock In your weather company. There is only one Being in the universe who knows enough to provide tlie right kind of weather for this world. “Hath the rain a father?” Certificates ior Arthur. Here is what Hayes and John Sherman said of' this same man Arthur not long since. It is Republican testimony ana should not be questioned by Repub licans; “With a deep sense of my obligations under the constitution, I regard it as my plain duty to suspend you in order that the office may be honestly administered.” —R. B. Hayes to Collector Arthur, Janu ary 31,1879. “Gross abuses of administration have continued and increased during your in cumbency.”—Sherman to Arthur, Janua ry 31, 1879. , , , “Persons have been regularly paid by you who have rendered little or no ser vice; the expenses of your office have in creased, while its receipts have diminish ed. Bribes, or gratuit’es in the shape of bribes, have been received by your subor dinates in several hranches of the custom house, and you in no case supported the effort to correct these abuses.”—-Secretary Sherman to Collector Arthur, January 31, 1879. Notice.—The following regulations have been posted in the forest domains of France, by order of the minister of agri culture : The Hedgehog lives on mice, small io- deuts, slugs, and grubs,—animals hurtful to agriculture. Don’t hurt the hedgehog. The Toad is a fariu-assistant; destroys twenty or thirty insects an hour. Don’t kill the toad. The Mole is continually destroying grubs, larvie, palmer-worms, and insects Injurious to agriculture. No trace of veg- year a final and, as far as possible, ex- . iiansMve re[>ort on all the insects injuriously affecting the cotton plant, SP, as. to embody not only the unpublished data collected during the past year relating to other insects jthan Aletia, but all that will be ascertained, during the present fiscal year regarding the cotton worm, which outranks all the others in importance. I therefore give below, for the benefit of those employed by the commission, (but also for those who in any way desire to aid in Us work), an outline of tlie plan of the final report it is intended to make. The report will be delivered in six parts, as follows: I. INSECTS AFFECTING THE ROOT. Under this head there is need of much further investigation, and I wish observers to pay particular attention to plants that die where the trouble seems to be in the root. Specimens found on such roots should be carefully packed and sent tome according to suggestions in the letter of instructions. All symptoms and- mani;, _ festations should becarefnlly noted. II. INSECTS AFFECTING THE STEM AND BRANCHES. Here, also, there u room for additional observations, aud I repeat the request made in the preceding paragraph. III. INSECTS AFFECTING THE LEAF. These include a large number of species which have already been studied by the commission. It is upon tlie cotton worm among them that I desire the recipients of this circular to concentrate their attention, and especially to the mean3 of destroying it. In addition to the special instructions you will receive, the different substances treated of in Bulletin No. 3 of the com mission, especially Pyrcthram powder and yeast ferment, or beer inasb, should be carefully tested so far as opportunity offers to test them, and results duly recorded and reported. Extracts from any other plants that grow in your neighborhood that are not too rare and that give the least promise of beneficial results should be made, and their effects fully tested both upon worms directly, upon the chrysali des, and upon the eggs; also in how far they prevent the parent n.oth from iaying eggs. I also desire to have trials made oi any machine employed in your vicinity whether for sprinkling, spraying, or pow dering, also models or pliotograps, with full descriptions of any machine or con trivance not mentioned in Bulletin No. 3. . IV. INSECTS AFFECTING THE SQUARE OR INVOLUCRE. Under tills head it is proposed to treat of every insect that in any way affects the square and causes it to wither or to fall. The shedding of the squares, to an unu sual extent is a very serious trouble in many sections, and there is much yet to * learn as to the different causes which lead to it. I therefore desire as full a report on this subject as possible, as also speci mens of the insects concerned in the work. ^ V. INSECTS AFFECTING THE BLOSSOMS. Any insects infesting, or in any way in juring, the blossoms should be forwarded. VI. INSECTS AFFECTING THE. FBUIT OR t BOLL. Under this head I desire more particu larly accounts and specimens of those in sects, other than the ordinyy boll worm, which cause tlie young boll to wither and fall, whether by eating into it or by punc turing itj’ also any that aflect the cotton after the boll opens, or that aflect the seed. For special work that I desire you to perform you will receive special ins trac tions. All reports or communications should be written on one side of the paper only, and addressed to me at the headquarters of the commission. Respectfully, Cuas. v. Riley, Chief U. S. E. C. The Fasting Man. New York, July 28.—Dr. Tanner en ters upon the 31st day of his fast, appa rently bright and in good sjptrits. In tjie past twelve hours be b^s consumed less than a gill of water.. During the morn ing, after restlDg from his usual drive, be marched around the enclosure iu the ball distance of nearly ______ twenty-five times,, station is ever found in its stomach. Don’t | half a mile. His gait was firm, anti s|e^ kill the mole. elastic. Mm