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tmfct Jmmtal $s Adapted from IciKh Hunt. Winfield S. Hancock, may Lis life be blest, Avoko one night from, a sweet sleep of rest, Aad saw’ within a corner of bis room One with a book marked “ Presidential Boom.” ,. _ “"What lias thou there?” said Hancock bold, “Step to the light and let me this be told.” The Presence then replied, while stepping forth, “These are the names of those who love the North." “And is mine one?” said Hancock,speak ing low. The Presence sadly smiled and answered “No.” “Ah! then,” said Hancock, “let your re cord tell > That I am one who loves his country well.” . j • The Presence wrote and vanished, but came again, A countless host of voters with him then, And allowed the names that patribts loved the best, And, lo! our'Hancock’s name led all the rest! Forney's Progress. GEORGIA PRESS. The editor of the Valdosta Times is fetid out with the mumps. The new iron railroad bridge across Holland’s Creek, near Columbus, is com pitted. No fears of any more accidents there. Two boys in tbe upper portion of Co- feoabus got into a quarrel, and one of them brought out the contents of the hip pock- at, and several shots were fired, but no damage was done. The Enquirer thinks % “ hemp necktie ” will be their end some day. H. C. Cameron’ and L. L. Stanford were nominated for tbe Legislature in Harris county on last Wednesday. Col. Laiiuy Powell has arrived in Columbus, and was reported to have held a levee at the mayor’s office on yesterday. Larry is a tramp of the first water, and is known all over the State. And now the barbers in Columbus are so a strike, anticipating tbe defeat of Nor wood, and as their customers are mostly Norwood men, their faces will be so long that they refuse to work at old prices. They demand a share of the profits. Hr. J. A. Thomas, of Cincinnati, died jc I Come, Georgia, on last Thursday. Prof. R. M. McIntosh has a music slass in Athens of 125. T. C. Mitchell, o£ Thomas county, hits one acre in bermuda grass, which fur bishes grazing for four head of horses and three head of cattle. He has five acres in LeConte pear trees. He also has four .uutulred living pecau trees. There were six hundred visitors in Au gusta last week from along the line of the Port Royal Railroad. Brooks county Democracy is broken all to Hinders, and will result in sending a negro to tbe Senate, and one to the low- • er house of the Legislature. Hon. L. F. Garrard was nominated for the Legislature at the primary election on Saturday in Columbus. There was a little doubt as (o the other nominee, whether R. Crawford or IV. F. Williams was the lucky man. A tbcnk which had been lost for twelve years turned up in Columbus the oilier day, with the contents all right ex cept from moulding. It was found in the cellar of Messrs. Pearce &Renfroe’s store. Hamilton Journal: We are glad to see that our fanners are patronizing the railroad in the shipment of cotton much more liberally than any previous season. We think that in this they certainly pur sue rhe wiser policy. It is a very poorly regulated farm on which a team cannot earn more at this season than it can haul ing cotton twenty-five or thirty miles at seventy-five cents a bale. Of course we do not expect all the fanners to do this at once. It is hard to break old habits, and many will take their cotton on wagons through force of habit, but we can but congratulate many of them who ha\$ adopted tbe better methods. Thomaston Times: Mr. R. A. Mat thews has in his yard a cotton stalk which grew out from under one end of a post, late in the spring; has not had a plow or hoc about it, and on the-lOth inst. had 240 forms, 150 of which were from blooms to bolls. This stalk ilid not seem to suffer from excessive droughts, as it.is seven feet high; nor from the protracted rains, as it lost only five forms. Mr. Matthews intends counting the number of bolls that open white cotton. Athens Chronicle: We boast very much of our reason—and yet, fully nine- lenths of all we do or say, are the result sf impulse. There is no question that the grandest orations, the noblest deeds, have Seen the children of impulse—conceived and bom in an instant. The best friend a man has is his books. They never talk back at yon, never show two faces, but are faithful and true. Tbe man is unfortnnate who has not made them his friend. Go with people when you must—with your hooks when you can. Albany News and Advertiser. Col. James H. Spence, who had annonneed himself an independent candidate for Con gress provided no Republican man man man run, has withdrawn from the race since the nomination of Brimberry, and will stump the district for Turner. Col. Spence is exactly on the right side now, and will no doubt remain there. Athens Banner: There i3 a general impression abroad that the cost of educa tion at the University of Georgia is much greater than at other schools in the State. This a mistake, and a very serious one, when Its possible effect on the University ie considered. We desire to correct this wrong impression, and to do so, we ask that our exchanges—which are friendly to the prosperity of the University—and which of them are not?—will make a aote of what is here said. Board can be obtained in the college buildings for $12 a month. Board and lodging—Including- looms furnished, bedding, servants, atten dance, in fact everything except fi.el and -H{ill's, can be had for $13.50 a month. Itlj two college building have been con stituted boarding houses by the trustees, aad put in the hands of ladies of refine ment and experience. Each ono is virtu ally a large home, presided over by a la dy; and the order maintained in these is perfect. The board and other accorn- dations are good. We doubt if there is a college in the United States where board ing and other arrangement are cheaper; and there are few where they are so cheap. There are colleges where messing arrangements can be made cheaper possi bly than tho prices given above; but the Mine thing can be done in Athens. Columucs Times: Mr. Joseph Jones died at his residence on Tronp street, af ter a lingering Illness of several months, which he boro with Christian fortitude. He was a consistent member of the Methodist Church, a kind father and a loving husband and leaves a wife and sev eral children to mourn his death. Thomasville Times: Among the many Northern visitors who will be m TfeomasvUle this winter there.will doubt- V.w be quite a number from Maine. V' going to si-lect and save the longest rrd sweetest stalk of sugar cane which -rtes to town this fait for the first gentle- xiaii or lady who arrives from Maine. . served Him Right.—Sumter Repub- . .in: On Thursday morning a young . an from a neighboring eounty was In the r i;y early, preparing to marry a young ... iy- of the country. The ceremony was take place at tune o'clock that morn. ...... Our festive friend leaded up his •.urcass with frequent potations, and. . h other friends in the same fix, started tlie fair maiden’s house— some six or ... ui miles from town. When they ar- ::vod the I .our had passed, tbe guests as- . . tabled, and the expectant bride waiting ^ impatiently, the advent of her tardy lov- 1 a tall, well formed, and remarkably hand er When he entered her presence with some man, and was known among ratt an unsteady step, flushed face, and the ! roid men and builders all over the conn- fragrance of the intoxicating bowl float- try. The fact of liis death was telegraph ing off his breath, she indignantly asked ■ ed to his relatives. He was a colonel on him to retire, and consider their engage- Lee’s staff.” - meut cancelled. The previous under- LujirKix Independent: Mr. Thomas standing had been that if he or any of his i J. Yarbrough was returning from Kim- friends went there drinking, there would Lie’s mill in a one horse wagon last Sat- be no wedding. We commend this young lady’s example to all of the marriageable girls of our country. A pure woman ^3 too good and holy to he the wife of a drunkard, and any girl who knowingly marries a drunken man, courts misery and risks degradation. Madison Madisonian: Judge Bartlett, of Monticello, was in town this week. We are rejoiced to learn that his most ex cellent wife is slowly convalescing. God grant that this noble lady may soon he re stored to health, and bless and halo ahome she has so loDg gladdened. Eably County News: The Norwood papers and politicians are sick of the “ Convict Catechism,” and seem to regret that it was ever published. They say, however, that it was issued against a doc ument put out by the friends of Colquitt, headed “ Why the People Should Vote for Colquitt—Why they Should not Vote for Norwood,” and thus attempt to justify its publication. Now, we don’t know which of these documents was put out first, hnt this we. do know, that we heard of the “ Convict Catechism ” several days before we did the other document. Rome Tribune: Superintendent Fink, of the Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad, has just returned from the North. We regret to hear that he has resigned his po sition on the above road to accept • the game or similar position on tlio Mexican Central road, which is in progress of con struction by a Boston company, and will connect the city of Mexico and El Paso. Although we regret much to lose Col. Fink, we may congratulate him on his ap pointment to a place which must be ex ceedingly remunerative. Madison Madisonian: T. W. Aiken comes out in invective against Colquitt for saying anything concerning - Norwood’s Oxford speech. Did he ever utter a word against the convict catechism ? No, some other bull is gored this time. The Nor wood faction, seeing this catechism is re coiling upon them, are trying to convince the people that it originated from Col quitt’s friends. Too thin, gentlemen. You sowed the wind, now leap tLe whirlwind. Rome Tribune: Some one asks us “if editora are dangerous?” In reply we would say, only when they are intruded upon by a book agent, who wants a forty- five line local for a seventy-five cent book, or by a poet with some verses about the gentle spring. Auousta News: JulienS. Rodgers, of Waynesboro, passed through Augusta on Saturday evening, on his way to Mercer University. Julicn goes ahead of time in order to give the Macon girls a “racquet” a few days before college opens. He is a Senior in the University, and a talented son of the distinguished Judge A. M. Rodgers, of Burke. $600 Reward Griffin News: A few days ago Gov. Colquitt issued his procla mation, published in the News, offering a reward of $300 for the apprehension and delivery of the unknown parties who killed W. H. Waldroup, in this county, on the ISth of August last, with proof sufficient reconvict. The father of the deceased, Mr. Aaron Waldroup, regarded the kill ing of his son as a brutal murder, and is determined to use every means and ef fort to bring the parties to justice. He visited the News office yesterday, and handed us for publication the notice which will be fouud elsewhere, supple menting the reward offered by the State, by a like reward of$300. If there is any possibility of discovering the parties amt bringing them to justice, the reward of $000 oflered will very likely accomplish the work. ^Atlanta Post: Yesterday information was received at the police headquarters to the effect that Sheriff Fink Stevens, of Cobb county, had arrested at Marietta Bud Broom, one of tbe men implicated in the robbery of Mr. John Atkinson, which occurred only a few days since, about seven miles from Atlanta. Captain Flynn, as soon as the news reached At lanta, hoarded a train for Marietta, and returned to the city last evening with Bud Broom, whom he placed in Fulton county jail to await trial in the Superior Court of the county. Jim Ruffin, John Coppage and Bud Broom are now in jail charged with the crime, and one or two others charged with being accomplices are at large. These, it is hoped, will be arrest ed in a lew days. The Hot Springs (Ark.) Telegraph haa this to say about two Georgia boys: One of the principal drug booses in Hot Springs is that of Dr. J. T. Jelks, situated ou Central Avenue near the Malvern road. Dr. Jelks is a practicing physician and surgeon, a graduate of the medical depart ment of the University of Nashville, Tenn., and was for many years a resident of Georgia. The Doctor is the President of tlieEoard of Health of Hot Springs city, which position he has held for tbe past three years, and numbers among his pa tients many of the resident families be sides strange re and visitors from dif ferent States throughout the Union. The drug store is under the charge of Mr. R, P. Menard, formerly of Macon, Ga., a practical pharmacist. The stock embraces drugs, patent medicines, toilet articles, etc. All drugs sold or used in compound ing are of the purest character. Great care ig observed in making up prescrip tions, and the prices charged are very reasonable. ■ Americes Recorder. It has been re peatedly hurled in the face of Governor Colquitt that in violation of law, as de cided by the Supreme Court, he paid the Alston fee. In his justification many of the best lawyers of the State have argued that the new law did not apply to this case, but that the principle governing this payment is laid down by Judge Lumpkin in the 18 Georgia Reports. The Governor has simply affirmed his own act, without animadverting in tbe slight est upon the court. if the self-respect of Judge Warner would not allow his farther service on the bench, it differs very much from that of Judges Crawford and Jackson, who are equally responsible for the decision, hut who have never felt that the honor of the State’s judiciary has been impugned by her Executive officer. Sad Death of Col. John G. Clark. —Savannah News: The many friends of Col. John G. Clark, formerly connected with the Central Railroad, and who had recently been awarded the contract for building the bridge for the Waycross Rail road over the St. Mary’s river, will be pained to hear of his sad death by acci dent. We find the following account in a New York paper of the 16th, which, how ever, contains a slight error. One of the bridges he was examining was for the. St. Mary’s river, and not tha Broad liver: “John G. Clark, a well known bridge contractor of Baltimore, whose family re sides in Richmond, Va., was killed on the Erie track at Paterson on the 15tb. Mr. Paterson bad a good deal of work done at the Paterson Rolling Mill; and he visited the place on that day to examine the pro gress of two large bridges being made for him, one for the Savannah and the other for the Broad river, Georgia. Sir. Clark wished to lako the 10:07 a. m. train for New York, and Watts Cooke, President or the Bolling Mill company, accompanied him re the depot. They stepped from the track to avoid a locomotive coming be hind them, and then stepped on the track again, not noticing that the locomotive belonged to an incoming Newark train that was making it flying switch, and that the care were coming on rapidly behind them. A passing freight train on tbe main track was making a' great noise at the time. Mr. Cooke heard some one call out, and turning, saw tbe passenger care close upon them. Mr. Cooke jumped aside, and took hold of Mr. Clarke to pull him off, but at that instant Mr. Clark was struck by the corner of a car, and thrown bead first alongside the track. His skull was fra;tured. lie was probably instantly killed, although it was not definitely de termined that he was dead .until after his body had been carried to the Ladies’ hos pital. The car struck Mr. Cooke’s hand and skinned his knuckles. Mr. Clark was urday afternoon, and when descending tho hill near Mrs. Brazier’s on the Eu- faula road, one of the breeching straps to the harness gave way and caused the mule he was driving to run. Mr. Yarbrough was thrown from the wagon and badly bruised about the head and face. He is rapidly recovering, but the marks he re ceived will cling to him some time. Savannah News: Business along the Savannah river is fairly booming, and freights, coming and going, are unusually heavy. The popular steamers Katie and Carrie, on the Savannah and Augusta line, are now running on high pressure, as it were. Yesterday morniDg these steam ers arrived here from • Augusta and way landings, bringing 951 bales of upland cotton, in addition to a large assorted freight. As soon as they were discharged, they departed for Parachucla. They were compelled to make this extra trip on account of the large freights awaiting shipment from points along the river to Savannah. They will arrive here this morning, discharge, and with good freights depart in the afternoon. Berrien County News: The most se rious difficulties are frequently those be tween persons of the same household. As a general rule great bitterness is en gendered by the efforts of both parties to expose each other’s private character. If our political brethren are allowed to go on, we fear they will start a neighbor hood scandal in the “Democratic” house hold. Sandersville Mercury: The plat form at the railroad depot has been great ly increased in size, yet it is unable to ac commodate the large amount of cotton being brought forward for shipment; the platform is crowded and over a hundred bales are piled up in the yard around the depot. Dublin Gazette: In a conversation a few days since with one of our best farm ers, Mr. D. H. Coombs, we were greatly carried away with his idea of farming with a double plow, or at least, preparing lands for cultivation. He says: “Where I used the double plow this year my cot ton kept fresh and green all the time, du ring the divest season, it retained all of its fruit, while other parts where I used a single plow, shed badly all tlie time, and where I used a double plow, I have already gathered a bale per acre.” This is certainly good farming, for he will, in all probability, get half as much more from it, and if all our old lands were prepared in this way In the fall, the yield would be quite different. Montezuma Weekly: We are willing to vote an indefinite furlough to the rail road commission. Order No. 10, as it now operates, is about as near correct as they will ever get the rates. While it put freights from Montezuma to Savannah back to the old rates, nearly, it taps our neighbor over on the Ocmulgee on the shoulder, and puts her on an equal foot ing with us. Just. Sylvania Telephone : Master Sammy Sasser, a boy about 16 years old, picked four hundred and thirteen pounds of cot ton one day last week. This is the best picking we have ever known, and we doubt if it can be beat. Trot out your rapid cotton pickets. It is much more commendable to be able to pick more cotton in a day than any one else in the county than to be able to whip any of your fellow-citizens. Athens Banner: Mr. Budd Fellows, a young man in the employ of Col. J. H. Huggins, met with a severe accident Sat urday morning. Just after starting from home to the store, he was attached with an epileptic fit—to which he is subject— and fell so heavily re the ground that his jaw-bone was broken on the left side. Some of his family saw him fall, and went to his assistance. His jaw was set by Dr. William Carlton, and he is now doing as well as can be expected. Columbus Times: The primary elec tion agony is not yet over, as the result has not been officially announced. Yes terday evening Mr. James W. Barber and T. J. Chappell, Esq., went to Nance’s af ter the official returns of that precinct, as nothing could he heard from them. They found the managers, who stated they had been given to two young men, whom they did not know, representing themselves as sent by the chairman of tho executive committee for them. On being informed that the returns had not reached the city, we understand they prepared certi fied copies which have been turned over to the committee, and all will be opened to-day and the result announced. There were many surmises on the streets yes terday, and much dissatisfaction at the delay in she returns from Nance’s, and let the result be what it may, the friends of the aspirant counted out will probably demand that lie run anyway. Athens Banner: There was a hat in Athens yesterday which was bought by Mr. Samuel Hunter sixteen years ago. He gave seven dollars for it, wore it two years, and then sold it to its present owner for six dollars. He has worn it every winter for the past fourteen years. How do you like that for a hat story? Milledoeyille Recorder: Business has opened briskly for the season, and our merchants seem to be very hopeful of a profitable tall trade. Cotton is coming in rapidly, and we hear the farmers are paying their obligations with promptness, as far as they are able. Our information leads us to believe that the farmers will have lighter debts to pay, and more ready money in pocket this winter than has been the case with them any previous year since the war. If they will be cautious how they spend their money ift extending the area of their cropping next year, they will ba wise, and have some money to in vest in other waj3 than buying mules and guano. Smaller farms and a greater attention to the improvement of his best lands will enable the farmer to make just as much money and give him a chance to add to his home comforts, at.d increase the happiness of his family. Talbotton Register: Public atten tion has of late been directed to Talbot ton and Talbot county, on account of the real prosperity of our people, and the steady strides they are making m the race of progress. Our fanners have turned over a new leaf, and do things somewhat after a modern fashion, realizing that it is poor economy to let lands run to weeds and waste when by proper care they can be made to yield profitable returns every year. Talbotton is increasing her busi ness from year to year. Her merchants are enterprising, keep good stocks, and are willing to sell at small margins. With the completion of our railroad at an early day, a cotton market will he established here with good prices for all grades of cotton. The hotel accommodations of the town will be second to none in the State. As a place for summer residence for people in the cities and the lower sec tions of Georgia, no town in the State can otter superior advantages. Our popula tion is annually increasing, our schools are flourishing, and more attention is be ing paid to tho comforts of home life. Our people generally are progressive, and fully alive to the demands of tho age. Athens Banner: Rev. Dr. Patterson, of Wilmington, N. C., has been called lo Emanuel church in Athens, and there are strong hopes that he will accept, as the people here have heard glowing encom iums bestowed .upon him, as a man and a minister. Columdus Times: A report was gen erally prevalent yesterday that a negro woman bad beaten her child to death in the “ bottom ” at the foot of Wynn’s Hill. A warrant was sworn out, the wo man arrested and lodged in jail. Her name was Rosa Crenshaw. She had a preliminary trial, and the proof not sus taining the charge she was discharged. The child was not dead at latest reports. That she heat the child, and that it is in critical condition, there is little doubt. Moxroe Advertiser: Mr. John Cham bliss died at his honfo four miles from Forsyth on last Friday night, aged eightyr three years. He was one of the pionee- scttlers of Monroe county, and with the hardihood, economy, energy and thrift characteristic of that class of citizens, had accumulated a large fortune. The war despoiled him of a large share of his pos sessions, hut left him a competency. Milledoeyille Recorder: The Mid dle Georgia Military and Agricultural College opened on the J5tb with over two hundred students. The new professors were at their posts. The prospects are good for a large attendance before winter sets In, and the friends of the institution are much encouraged. With an able fac ulty, a merely-nominal cost for tuition, a healthy climate and a splendid college building, wo expect to see five hundred students in attendance by the beginning of spring. The First Arrival.—Griffin News: Out on one of the country roads, leading into Griffin, in the cool of the afternoon yesterday, a novel caravan might have been seen toiling along the dusty high ways. The caravan consisted of a pain fully ancient looking one-horse wagon, built after the revolutionary model. Braced np on the shafts was a lean and lanky looking steer, to whom seemed to have come the patient resignation of de spair, who pulled its weary load with a painful energy. On the rickety wagon was laid out a rusty looking bag of cotton which famished a seat for a countryman and his wife. The latter was a simple looking old lady, clad in the most primi tive gingham bonnet and homespun dress. The man was fully as primitive. He looked a lean and hungry, and withal a copperas-clad Cassius. There was that air about the caravan that indicated a weightier purpose than the mere going to market. As the team neared town, a re porter of the News ventured to interview the State, said: .“Well, sonny, we hain’t thinkin’ so much about the cotton as we be about the circus. We have come nigh onto thirty mile3 since yesterday mornin’,—me and the old ’oman hain’t been to Griffin in ten * Upon being informed that the show would not get to Griffin until Thursday, he said: “We are goin’ to see that thar circus, and we wasn’t goin’ to resk any accidents. We can jist santy’round an’ see the sights ontel Thursday, an.’ the old ’oman thar, site wants to buy some store things. Yes, sonny, we’re goin’ to see the show or bust.” At a late hour yesterday evening the couple were stand ing in rapt amazement in front of the show hills. Berrien County News: Mr. Elias O’Quin, our postmaster and telegraph operator, left us on Wednesday for Macon, where he has gone on business, and w|l 1 probably move there at some future day, to make it his permanent home. Athens Banner: Mrs. Niceler, the widow of the late Dr. Niceler, died a few days ago at Butler, Ga., at an advanced age—more than ninety years, as we, are informed. Her remains arrived in Athens yesterday afternoon, and were conveyed to the old family burying-ground, a few miles from Athens, for interment. She was the mother-in-law ot Dr. W. L. Mitchell, and the mother of Mrs. Peter Hutchison, and was a resident of Athens many years ago. Rev. Dr. Lane perform ed the funeral ceremonies. Conyers Examiner: The conductor on the through freight, schedule 14, section first, was very much abused by an old la dy, on last Tuesday, whom he had put off in the ditch between Decatur and Clark- ston, because he did not want to stop at the latter place to accommodate her. Sec tion No. 2 came along, took the old lady on board and carried her to Clarkston. She said the conductor had kept her tick et and put her off to take her chances on the train following, and to think she was put off in an old field when she liad paid her fare, was more than she could bear. If that conductor could have heard what she had to say on the subject, we venture to say that he would have been more than glad to have stopped at Clarkston. She vowed that she would report him to head quarters Savannah News: John James, a col ored watchman employed at the bridge over the Ogecchee river, on theSavaunah, Florida and Western railway, was run over near No. 1$, on the road on Wednes day evenins, by the passenger train. His right arm* was completely severed near the shoulder, and bis head and face badly cut. He was removed to No. 1| station, and a physician Irom Savannah was sent to his assistance. He was sub sequently brought to the city, and con veyed to the Georgia Infirmary (colored), where he died late on Friday night. We understand that the unfortnnate man was paid off on Wednesday, and had gone to No. H, six miles from his post, for the purpose of sending some money to his mother. While at th^station it appears he drank quite freely, and on his return to the bridge was overcome by liquor, and dropping beside the railroad track, fell asleep, his arm being thrown across the track, and was in this condition when the train rattled over the track. Xumpkin Independent: Judge J. M. Scott passed through Columbus last week and the gimlet attachment to the Enquirer office reported having had an interview with him, and charged him with saying that ho had found all the country above Columbus “solid for Norwood,” etc. Judge Scott authorizes and requests us to state that -the reported interview never took place, and that the statement attrib uted re him was manufactured in toto by tho aforesaid gimlet. That, in point of fact, there are many Colquitt men m that section, and that he doas not want to be reported as having uttered any such false hood as the Enquirer puts in his mouth. Washington Gazette: Eveiything shows signs of life, business and activity. Tho cotton fields afford employment to all who want it. The steam gins are crowded with work, and the air of prosperity per vades the country. There is some land in this county that the old people say is better now than when it was cleared a quarter of a century ago. But it is land that is owned by a man who knows his business and attends to it. There is no reason why land should not be improved under cultivation, and every reason why it should. Savannah News: About half past 1 o'clock Saturday morning a citizen, while passing up Congress street, encountered three negroes who wore running rapidly, and who apparently had committed some crime. A short distance further he found oh the sidewalk, in front of the clothing store of Mr. E. Heidt, a white man, whose head was badly cut and who was bleeding freely. The injured man was perfectly sober, and stated that as he was walking quietly along the street he was snddcnly pounced upon by three negroes, who fell ed him to the ground and attempted to rob him, when they became frightened at some noise and fled. Ho was assisted to his feet by the citizen and ambled off to his boarding house. From the Circus to the Grave.— Savannah News: On Saturday night an ~id colored woman, whose name we were unable to ascertain, attended the circus performance and secured a scat ou one ofthe top benches. She wassubject to fits, and during the performance a fit came on her, and the poor old creature tumbled between the benches to the ground, a dis tance ol over twenty feet, where she lay writhing in convulsions. She was re moved by some colored people, and at the time was not thought to be seriously injnred, hut we learn that she died at her home shortly after midnight, her spine having been greatly injured, and was bu ried yesterday afternoon. Maine Will Vote fob Hancock.— The Springfield Republican says that cal culations based on the assumption that Maine won’t vote so m November might as well be suspended. The happy family which has got toother since last September, and won an elec tion, is not Lkely to go to pieces in the next six weeks. R will he quite as sale for parly managers to add “solid Maine” to other Democratic solids. The peculiar adaptation of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup to so many phases of throat and twouclnal diseases has rendered this remedy immensely popular. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Sold everywhere. ’ —Mrs. Langtry has gone home to Jer sey and is so charmed to find herself there that, Vanity Fair says, she has written to her friends in England that she never in tends to return to London again. Mrs. Smithkins Sends After Her Quince Recipe. Mr. Smithkins went home a few days ago, and as he mopped bis brow and threw his coat over the bed on the floor, a boy walked in with a note from Mrs. Smithkins, which read as follows: Dear John : Please send me my re ceipt for making quince preserves; it is in the left hand side of the wardrobe in the pocket of my steel blue silk. The key to the wardrobe is down in the right hand corner of my trunk, and the trunk key is in the lower little drawer of the bureau. Am up to my elbows in syrup over at Mrs. Johnson’s, and can’t come. Mollie. P. S.—The key to the little bureau drawer is under .the vase on the mantle- piece. Don’t muss up the trunk. M. Smithkins ran his hand through his hair as he read the note for the third time, and the valley between his eyes got deeper and deeper. He laid the paper down and tried to get the little drawer of the bureau open; it was locked. He tried the trunk, it was locked too. He jerked a knob off the wardrobe, hut the door nev er quivered. Then Le took another look at the noto.. His face lighted up as ho saw the postscript, and got positively cheerful as he lifted the vase and found the key. He tried it in the trunk, and then.in the wardrobe, but with no other effect than to get his face wet with per spiration again, and to run np his account on the profanity side of the eternal regis ter. Smithkins spread the note out ou the mantle, hunted up a pencil and proceeded to carry-out the instructions slowly and with the air of a man determined to suc ceed. He checked the first key and un locked the drawer. Then he checked off the trunk and unlocked that. Running his hand down in the right hand corner, he began to search around, hut no wardrobe key turned up. He took from the trunk seventeen white garments, eleven pairs of hose, seventy, pieces of scrap ribbon, a bundle of lace, two bonnets, some false hair, lemon peeling, poems, old letters, feathers, braids, edgings, and a peck of smaller plunder, and then the key from the left hand corner. I “So, Mrs. Smithkins,” he muttered, be tween his bloodless lips; “so, you are never wrong,-oh no! oh no!” Then he tackled the wardrobe. He took down a dress, turned it round, slid his hand in one hundred tucks that looked like pock ets, lammed it across the room, kicked over two chairs and then sat down to think. The dress lay on the floor like a bursted balloon. He got ou his knees and felt every square inch; there "was pot a pocket in it. He was but human. He thundered at the boy: “Go tell Mrs. Smithkins to come home.” The boy was gone at the word “go.” Bursting in upon that estimable lady he informed her that her husband had gone crazy and tom the house down. In three minutes she was in her room— “Oh, John, John! what u it?” “Didn’t you tell me,” he said, hoarse ly, looking from among the wreck of the tmnk and the dress, “£hat the key of that wardrobe was in the right hand comer of that trunk ? ” “I did; I did; where was it ? ” “There—in the left hand comer. Oh, no, you are never wrong—and that dress, didn’t yon tell me that receipt was in the pocket of that dress? Don’t deny it, Mrs. Smithkins, don’t deny it. I have the paper in my hand.” “I did, John. Didn’t you find— “Don’t come on me. The man doesn’t live who can find the pocket of that dress, Mrs. Smithkins, much less the receipt, and yet, as I remarked, you are never wrong, oh no.” “That thing yonder, John Smithkins,” exclaimed the little woman, firing up, “is an overskirt. Here is my dress, and here is the receipt.” She walked to the ward robe and produced both. “Now, will you be kind enough to tell me how yon stood when yon opened that trunk.” “There,” (sullenly.) “That is the rear of the tmnk, Mr. Smithkins, (sarcastically.) It made your right and left wrong. Where are those keys.” “They all fell in the trank and the cov er fell down and snapped,” he ad mitted. He was crushed. He spoke no more, but jamming his liat down on his head, walked out of the bouse, kicked the front gate open and was gone, and Mrs. Smithkins sat down among her things, cried and then laughed Wntil the locksmith, John -had sent up, arrived, and order was restored. Mercer University. On to-morrow morning the fall session of Mercer University opens. The bojs are already coming in, and the prospect for a good opening is very encouraging. Tbe vacation has been improved by the officers and board of trustees in looking up boys all over tho State. There ought to be 200 students at the opening on to morrow, and the Baptists of Georgia, so numerous aud wealthy, should feel ashamed if there is a less number. Mer cer being centrally located ought to com mand the largest patronage of any college la Georgia. The local patronage is good, and it remains for this large denomina tion to send in the hoys from the various sections of the State and thereby show their appreciation of tha efforts of the offi cers and board of trustees in supplying the very best facilities for a broad culture and finished education. Let every pnpil be prompt at roll call. Not Room Enough Yet Professor Zettler informs us that, not withstanding the erection of two addition al school rooms on the Academy lot, there are about twenty-five children in that dis trict without seats. The school at that point was opened on yesterday morning, and 140 pupils presented themselves, and, as above stated, twenty-five had to go back home, there being no room for them. Somebody is to blame, but wo don’t know who. It is a reflection upon the enter prise of Macon, that she does not provide room for the education of her children. The most assiduous parental attention will frequently fail to prevent coughs, colds, croup, etc. Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup is a most valuable remedy to have con venient when needed. Price 25 cents. Needs of Our Public Schools. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Al low me to offer to our people through your columns a few thoughts upon the needs of our school system, so far as the city of Macon is concerned. Those who have scudied this subject agree that we need three full-grade grammar schools and one secondary or high school. The-three grammar schools should ac commodate each about three hundred and fifty pupils, and the high school one hun dred and fifty, making in all twelve hun dred. The grammar schools should he located at three equidistant points, and the high school as nearly central as pos sible with reference to these. Let us see how nearly we have ap proached thi3 organization. At the south ern terminus of Second, street, we have the South Macon Grammar School, com plete in organization aud equipment and provided for in a splendid building, per fectly adapted to the purposes for which it was intended. Three hundred and fifty pupils daily assemble here for instruction. A little northwest of the center of the city, on what is known as the “Polhill” lot, we have another grammar school, complete as to its organization and equip ment, but miserably provided for in the matter of a building. At this school 260 pupils are accommodated. At the northern terminus of Second street, on what is familiarly known as the “Academy” lot, we have just organized a third grammar school. Yesterday, the opening day at this school, 140 children were enrolled, twenty .more than could be seated. The buildings here are the prop erty of the Free School trustees, and fur nished without cost to the Board. At the junction of Pine and Spring streets, and very near the center of the city, we have tho Central High School, numbering ninety pupils, and occupying a building owned by the “Macon Free School Trustees.” Tliese four schools constitute the main reliance for public educational facilities with the people at large —the Fourth street school, while forming a part of the system and opera ting under the direction of the Board of Education, being intended to provide for the children of our Roman Catholic citi zens, who preferred a school adapted somewhat to their own ideas of educa tion. Such is our city system. With reference to it, we find that, as to organization, it is complete and adapted, In the main, to our needs. The location of the schools is also quite satisfactory. But what of build ings ? At the Polhill lot the North Macon Grammar School is provided for in build ings that are a positive eyesore. They are not only small and poorly adapted for school-rooms, but are unhealthy and so dilapidated and unsightly that they pro duce a false impression upon strangers as to the character of the school and the peo ple who patronize it. At the Academy lot the rooms are well adapted and sufficiently commodious, but they are only furnished to the Board as a temporary relief. At the High School we have a building which, until the prtMent year, has proved equal to the demands upon it. It is too small, however, for the number of pupils now in attendance. Our need, then, is school buildings. If asked what ought to be done about the matter, I would suggest that the Polhill lot be sold (to be given up next spring or summer) and the proceeds used to purchase a lot farther west, per haps in the vicinity of the Appleton Home, and to commence a building upon it to be finished by the incoming council. Then as to the Academy place grammar school, I believe if “tho Free Sffiool Trustees” were asked to set apart a por tion of the old Academy lot and erect upon :t a commodious school building they would comply with the request. I have been informed that such a petition is even now being circulated. As to the High School, I have been as sured by several of the Free School Trustees that before the beginning of another school year they will erect a commodious and handsome building for the accommodation of that department. Such is our condition as to buildings. Shall it remain as it is or will our people determine on better things? Atlanta’s appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars in bonds to erect public school houses has made her the Chicago of the South. Respectfully, B. M. Zettler, Supt. Public Schools. Jones’ Gate. I want to enter a protest—a mild, peaceable protest—against Jones’ gate. You see Jones is a first-class citizen of East Macon, and it would ill become me, having so great a reverence for those self- made men who spring up from waste {daces and carve their names high up, to say aught against Jones; hut when I think ot that gate, of his, and feel the braised places on my harked shin, I must utter some little complaint. Now, as previously remarked, Jones is a good citizen. He ruus a big store as well as a wagon yard; but his business interests, being so multifarious, cause him to forget, day after day, month after month, that the big double-jointed gate of his wagon yard remains aggravatingly wide open, block ading the sidewalk on which I travel twice a day. And this gate, ten times the size of an ordinary gate, rims a schedule of its own which is calamitous. It seems to be pos sessed of a very wicked spirit, and often, when you turn the comer and glance in its direction, you perceive, to your great satisfaction, that it is shut. Then you keep right on the sidewalk until you get near, and then it swings round just in time to strike yon on the shin. I think that it all the abuse and invec tive I have heaped upon knd hurled at that gate were collected together and pointed at any one candidate, it would wipe him from the face of the earth. I have cursed it night and day, aud once I was wicked enough to give it the whole of a Sunday. It haDgs open, and you might fasten it up with railroad spikes, and yet it would swing around at the proper time aud get in its work. And should the ground be wet, and that crimson Ea3t Macon mud ger soft, then ail the power of a hydraulic press couldn’t keep it shut. Dark nights seem to act upon it, and keep it unlatched. The darker the night tho wider open you’ll find it. It has ta ken off four yards of skin from my legs, and on one occasion took off a foot of the best skin on my nose. I am compelled to go out into the street to get by, for I have sworn a terrible oath never* to at tempt to shut it again. Now I "wouldn’t hurt Jones’ feelings for anything in the world aud I wouldn’t like to call out the militia to attack the en emy; but ff Jones will just turn his atten tion to the gate for five minutes and en deavor to keep it latched only one day in tho week, I’ll vote for him for any office within the gift of the people. And fur thermore I’ll send him* a card of thanks from the very core of my soul. Tom Abter. Extract from Telegraph and Messenger, Macon, Ga.: We have tested its virtue personally, and know that for dyspepsia, biliousness and throbbing headache arising therefrom, it is the best medicine the world ever saw. We had tried forty other remedies before the Sim mons’ Regulator, but none of them gave us more than temporary relief, hut the Regulator not only relieved, but it cured us. The new tobacco crop will be the smallest for years in Virginia. Worms and heavy rains at a critical *111116 are among tha causes. fine Cotton. Yesterday evening k Telegbath re porter took a tour.through the cotton lands in the swamp, and was both pleased and astonished at the condition of the crops. Upon tbe lands of Mr. Abel stands about the finest growth of cotton ever pro duced In middle Georgia. The field of thirty acres aloDg the river is a mass of tangled bloom, boll and weed, and scat tered through it could he seen the pickers hard at work, the heads and shoulders only showtBg. From this one‘field has already been picked eleven hales, and it is still white with cotton and blooms. It is estimated that there is now within the field twenty- five bales. The yield will be li hales to the acre. The com In this section is also better than any where else. The hay is abun dant, but is not being harvested except on some farms. Dost. Such clouds of dust as we were afflicted with on yesterday were appalling. It seemed almost impossible to live in them. | NOTES ON THE CAMPAIGN. Till.—The Bancb.GarlinartoB-Alatoii- I JackMa-lAwton-Bawinger Pee. Consolidating all that has been said about this fee (miscalled the Alston fee) by Governor Smith, Judge Warner, Mr. Norwood, and others, the “charges” may be analyzed as follows: THE CONTRACT. 1st. It is said that the contract by which the 12| per cent., first agreed on, was raised to 25 per cent, was not sufficiently established. Let us see. Governor Smith admits tliat lie indorsed on the back of Baugh's power of attorney to Jackson, Lawton & Bassinger a memorandum, when these attorneys were brought in, that the fee was to be increased not to ex ceed 25 pet cent. He also admits, that when he went out of office General Gar lington .brought to him a memorandum which, he'said, contained the terms of the contract made when the attorneys were taken in. (It contained a statement sim ilar to Governor Smith’s memorandum on the Baugh letter.) This Governor Smith did not read, but it was left by him in the executive office. He did not call Governor Colquitt’s atten tion to the matter, or in any way notify him that the contract was not complete. Afterwards, Col. Alston made an affidavit that the Garlington statement was filed during Governor Smith’s administration. When, therefore, the attorneys claimed that their commission was twenty-five per cent., and when this claim was based on such respectable evidence as Alston’s affi davit (whose honor was never impugned while living), establishing the Garlington memorandum as an executive record, aud when this was further corroborated by Governor Smith’s own indorsement on the Baugh letter, and when such gentlemen as Jackson, Lawton and Bassinger and Alston and Garlington—men whose char acter forbade the idea of wrong—claimed that they were entitled to the twenty-five per cent, under the contract, surely this was such evidence as left no ground for suspicion as to the existence and good faith of the contract. the amount. 2d. It is said, admitting the contract was established, that there was no agree ment that the amount was to he 25 per cent. Men’s contracts aud the laws of the land are full of such expressions as “the amount not to exceed,” etc.; hut I have never yet heard of an instance where tills was construed as meaning “that much but no more.” For instance, the constitution of Georgia says “the per diem of members shall not exceed four dollars, and mileage shall not exceed ten cents for each mile,” etc. "While these amounts might be less, it was not con templated at the time that they would be less. In fixing the salary of the Treasur er, the constitution declares that it “shall not exceed $2,000 per annum.” So, of other officers. This language was used to fix the salaries at the amounts so limited. So, in regard to the claim of these gentlemen for the additional 124 per cent. The first set of attorneys had a retainer of $3,000 cash, and 121 per cent, conditional. The second set had collected (as they might well claim) this large debt—pending for twenty years—regarded as almost hope less. They had no retainer, and as their work had been done upon a wholly con tingent fee, they might well urge that they had fully earned the extra 12| per cent., even if the contract did not, by its terms, entitle them to that in the event of collection, as it clearly did. This topic to be continued. The only remaining point to be noticed about tbe charge is that Gov. Colqnitt, by paying to Alston bis part of the fee, lost $$,000 to the State, inasmuch as Alston owed the State that sum. It is said he should have put the money in the treas ury and waited for legislative appropria tion. The facto are as follows: . ALSTON'S DEBT. 1st. At the time Gov. Colquitt paid the money to Alston it was not known that he owed the State. Alston tva| public, printer. The State owed him and he owed the State. Gov. Colquitt could not appoint himself master in chancery and investigate the condition of the accounts, Gov. Colquitt was not bound to antici pate a judicial investigation, and assume that a debt existed, which Alston denied and afterwards defended in coart, and which, if it did exist, was not established as to amount or in any ocher particular. By what strange logic is Gov. Colquitt termed a- “weak man” and yet held re sponsible for the omniscience of -the Al mighty ? Besides, Alston had given a hond as public printer, with good security, to protect the State against loss. ALSTON’S BOND. 2d. But it is said that Governor Col quitt’s act discharged the securities on this hond. Not so. The Supreme Court has decided (see parnp. page 59) that these securities were discharged by the act of the Legislature in 1875, an act pass ed before Colquitt went into office, and passed several years before Colquitt paid over this fee to Alston. In the same de cision the court says that, if the securities had not been already discharged, Gov. Colquitt’s payment would have discharg ed them. But the Governor can well af ford to compare his act (for which, as I show below, he had Judge Lumpkin’s au thority, and by which the State lost noth ing) with the act of the assembled wisdom of the State in the General Assembly by which the whole loss occurred. The truth is that all the attacks on Governor Colquitt, made in reference to this fee, hit nobody but the Legislature. The richness of it all is that some of the mem bers of that body are ignorantly assailing their own folly by animadverting on Gov ernor Colquitt! THE SUPREME COURT DECISION. Cd. It is therefore clear that when Gov. Colquitt paid the fee to Alston, there was at that time no amount known to be due the State as an offset, and that the pay ment by the Governor did not cause any loss to the State. The only question, therefore, is this: Was Governor Colquitt’s act (although it did uo harm) such a violation of law as to show that he was “weak and incompe tent?” Undoubtedly the Supreme Court held the position, as staled. above, that Gov. Colquitt’s act would have discharged the securities, if not already discharged. Rut they nowhere say In the case that Gov. Colquitt’s duty as Governor was to put the money (fees and all) into the Treas ury. 1st. In order to understand this, it is necessary to advert to the law as to secu rities. Any act of the creditor which in creases the surety’s risk will discharge him'(code, §2154.) To discharge him, it is not necessary that the creditor should know that his act increased the risk. Any act, however innocent, having this effect, works a discharge. Hence, Governor Col quitt’s act would have discharged the se curities, although he did not know at the time and could not have known by rea sonable diligence that Alston owed tbe State a certain debt, provided it after wards turned out to be the fact. The court, in deciding the law, very properly, treated the whole transaction as a unit; but it was not decided that Governor Col quitt was in any default in not anticipa ting the liquidation of the Alston debt. ] THE PRACTICE. In paying over the fee by virtue of Al ston’s lien, Governor Colquitt had the sanction of universal usage. I boldly as sert that the governors of Georgia have done the same thing in more than a thou sand instances. In 1843 the State owned the Centra! Bank, and the hank loaned money in almost all the counties. When the notes were not paid, they were turned over to attorneys for collection; and nev er, in a single instance, did thoGovemor put the whole collection iu the treasury. The lawyers were allowed to reserve their commission. THE LAW. A case of this sort arose in 18 Georgia, 658. There the Supreme Court (compos ed of Lumpkin, Starnes, and Be ruling) held that “an attorney who has collected money for the Central Bank, to whom, the State is indebted for fees, has a right? to retain in his hands money sufficient to satisfy his claim.” This was held in tho absence of any contract as to the fees; and Judge Lumpkin says in a note (p. 664): “Had it been passed upon by the Governor, the law having clothed him with the power-of employing counsel and 1 an’end “SSL®**. 0 **® would have been . an ena of the business.” This was nra- cisely what had been done in this CONCLUSION. Although, therefore.Governor Colquitt’s act. was held to be such as hypothetically /r cb , a v rs \ a s * curit y> it is beyond doubt (1) that he did no harm, and (“>■) it was justified at the time by the contin- ?!,\rffr eXCCU } v ® P ractice of Georgia’s entire history, and by the existing decision ofthe Supreme Court. This was strong justifi- caaon even for a weak governor. “ d , this high authority, the attorneys had a hen upon, an otener- r'H™’ r bS m ?, n ? y S° llected to the extent of their fee. It had never been doubted’ it is as old a principle as the common law itself. The decision ofthe Supreme Court was never styled a persecution by Gov ernor Colquitt. If it persecutes anybody, it persecutes, every governor Georgia ever had, and persecutes Judges Lumpkin, Benning and Starnes. Their memories are safe from all partisan zeal. No-Axe. FoondUuis. A night-gown is nothing but a nap- sack. Rowell, the pedestrian, is writing his biography. It will abound in foot notes. Burglars have been finding oat. lately that there Is a good deal of danger in a safe robbery. Said an old woodchopper, “Whenever I want a chip of the old blcck, I just ax the block.” At an inn in Suffolk county, the land lord has a sign posted outside his door. “Good beer for sale here, but don’t take my word for it.” It is not true that a married man can ever become a bird, although when he comes home at two in the morning, hi3 wife very often makes him quail. The Prince of Wales’ two sons are somewhat lively. While on a sea voyage recently, the younger was heard to ex claim : .“Come, bub, tune up your fiddle and give us “God save your old Grand mother.” When they can’t make an Albany baby quit crying in any other way, they let him crawl under the bed and make him be lieve they think he’s lost and are looking for him, and ho will keep quiet for two hours. An amateur punster informs ns that some houses have wings, and he has of ten seen a house fly. We thought no part of a house save the chimney flue.— Norristown Herald. That floors us. Did you ever sec the front stoop?—or the side walk. ? “Which is the more delicate sense, feel ing or sight?” asked a professor in Co lumbia College. ‘Feeling,” responded a student. “Give a proof of it, with an example,” said the professor. “Well my chum can feel his moustache, but no body else can see it,” replied the student. She was a four-year-old blonde, gener ally quiet and tractable, but mamma had provoked her. “I don’t love you any more, mammal” “Yeiy well, dear, you needn’t.” “ Well, I don’t love you.” “All right, dearie, mamma will try to get along.” “ Well, I do love you, but I don’t feel just like it now.” An Oil City gentleman, who recently traveled in Europe, said that he was at a dinner one day in Paris, and while telling a story was attacked with'a sudden and continued sneezing. When,-he ceased a Russian gentleman at another table, named Pitcheekee, turned about and com plimented him on his excellent and cor rect pronunciation of the Russian lan guage. . ' The Rifles’ Fair. The ladies ve manifesting much inter est in behalf of the Floyd Rifles’ fair. On Monday afternoon the ladies of East Macon held a meeting at the residence of M. H. Cutter, aud much determination was shown that the assistance from East Macon should he ahead of any other part ofthe city. Last night there was a large meeting of the Yineville ladies ah the residence of Colonel Thomas Hardeman, and Yine ville promises not to go into it half way. This afternoon all the ladies who are willing to aid the company are requested to meet in the ladies’ reception room at the-Lanier House. The committee acknowledge the follow ing contributions: Capt. W. W. Carnes, cash; J. D. Frederick, cash; G. S; Ober, Jr., (for his New Jersey house) 1 tea set, 2 changer sets; Livingston Novelty Works, Pittsburgh, Pa., I improved Mon itor Corn Sheller. IN M EMOIU4.M, Mrs If.ry Her.riftU Huiih-K, wife of Col. J). G. Hughes. died in Twiggs county, September 1 183’'. st the age of fifty-two y tars. She was reared in tha mo t intellectual and po.iehed circles of Athena, Gecrg’a, and «» fit ted by ratursl endowment* and educational ad* vantages to adorn the higbeat wr.ti* of life, and to shine as a leader in the most refined and cul tured aocit ty of her day. Harrying h r husband before he attained hia maj irity, ahe accompanied him to hi* rural home and col tecrated to the new and unostentatious, hot not !eaa noble du* tiea oi a country life, the high qcalitiei of her nj^ureandher training. In this sphere, ahe gave herself with all the energy of her nature to the endettirg relation ships of stife aid mother, neighbor and iriend, in etch of which the nobly sustained her part. As a wife, she was in every tense a help meet to her husband. Through varying fortunes ahe clung to him in unchangng love. The tieaot affection were on'y strrhgtbentd by adversity. Her vivacious temperament >» ever eierted to lighten hia carat asd enliven hia bom .*. Every thing gloomy was dispelled by the radiance of her sunny smile. • :■ \ At a mother, how shall I apeak of bar ? Her work speaks for itself. “Hu chilJren rise np and call her blessed “ Gentle and sympathetic, ehs ruled in k>ve Obedience waa the fruit of affection. To gain bar smite of approval was her children’s highest ambition, aud her disphasure was an instant cheek. Her ir liuenre ever her youi'g friends waa wonderful, and yet easily ex- p aiued. 8ho entered into and thus brightened their joys; tha shared, and thus divided their sorrows. While the inner beauty of htr borne life la aa- cred even from praiae, delicacy doca not forbid noticing her in. tbe cap«city of neighbor and friend, da such, she won the confidence and love of those whs knew her best: the admiration iX. 111 who taw what she waa To .tho sad and poor and the sick around her, she was a minis* taring spirit. Wherever there waa sorrow, suf fering or death, there ,bc went, whether to the cabin 1! the negro, or tbe scant home of poverty. Fo ail she bad a ocidial and a balm. How many there were whose spirits soothed in their last esrihiy hours by her gentle ministrations, have sped tb.ir way to tbe world beyond ! And leav ing their bright abodes, they have come again to earth—thaye happy spirits; o hnvering over the dying ooaeh ed their benefactress, ahe hesid tho ao't fluttering of angel wings and the sweet mu sic of ie:aphic voice*, bidding her cornel eomo Convoyed that, her gentle spirit winged its Sight to Du sonowiess, painless, sinless land, "When Death strikes down the beeatifol spir its cJ earth, of every tear that sorrowing mortal* shed on such gTeen grave*, tome good is bore, acme gentler nature comes. Iu the destroyer’* steps, there spring up bright creations which defy his power, and his dark path becomes the way to Hsa-cn ” My friends, her neighbors, your good Bamari* tan is gone. She needs no monumental pile, no memorial scroll; her name end her memory are inscribed go the hearts ot sufisring humanity. »*•