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FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 31,1880.
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840 English immigrants recently
aembied at New Philadelphia, Texas,
adopted an address setting forth their
general satisfaction with their new homes
and recommending others to follow them
Governed Foster withdraws from the
Ohio Senatorial race. This, says the
Globe-Democrat, scales two things—that
Joi n Sherman will be elected to the “
ate and that Foster will he one of
three or four Ohio men in the Cabinet.
The World’s Exposition needs a
script ion from Vanderbilt in behalf of the
New Yoik Central Road of $2,500,000,
and it is whispered In his ear that Tom
SooU. subscribed $1,000,000 to the
tenuis!, and got the money back many
times over in enlarged traffic.
The Chicago Times propounds the
lowing question: “If Mr. Wm. U.
' glisiqof Indiana, were vice-president-elect,
■ > W ouid the Republicans in Congress be
striving for the establishment of tbo the
ory that tlte vice-president, and the vice-
preeideul only, can ascertain and declare
the result of tlie electoral vote?”
Tub stalwarts are deeply chagrined
over the results oi the third census that
they induced the President to order
South Carolina. The accuracy of the
first enumeration is fully established, and
the inaccuracy of tiie census ol 18V0
made very manifest. It is a fortunate
thing that an honest man like General
Walker lias been at the head of the Cen
sus Bureau.
In these nights of bitter cold it will
not bo amiss to remind the poor that two
, or three newspapers pasted together will
afford as much warmth as an additional
blanket. The pa;>er should be placed be
tween two thicknesses of other covering.
Paper coverlets are now manufactured I
England seven feet by five, and sold
thirty cents each. They have been
use iu China and Japan for thousands
years.
The Charleston Hews and Courier
says: “The corn, cotton and rice crops
of eastern North Carolina have been un
usually large this year, and the farmers
of that section arc reported to be in good
financial circumstances. There are large
quantities of cotton at various points
•waiUng shipment to market. In Hyde
county about one hundred aud fifty
thousand bushels of rice have been raised
the present year, tho greater portion of
which lias been sold in Charleston,
Miss Martha Terane, of Eacken-
sack, X. J., undertook to imitate tiie ex
ample of Dr. -Tanner, but unlike the doc
tor she has not demonstrated her ability
to exist without food, as after fasting
seven weeks she quietly expired. It is
asserted by her attendants that during
that long period she only swallowed a
little water, all efforts to induce her to
accept food having failed. Miss Tcliane
was 53 years of age, and had long been
regarded as ecceulric to a degree Uorder-
ng ou insanity.
Senator Butler is reported as talk
ing as follows to a newspaper correspon
dent: “I tell you, sir,” said lie, “it is no
longer a question of policy with us. Wc
simply have one proposition 6taring us in
the face, and it is well that the people of
the North should understand it. We are
resolved that the illiterate lower classes
of our 8! ate shall not rule. We have had
all the experiments in that direction that
we propose to have, and wo intend to use
every means, fair or otherwise, to prevent
such rule.”
New England, says the Boston Her
ald, has always been interested iu State
rights, aud will always defend them when
assailed. Temporarily it was tamed
•side by the extreme assumptions of State
sovereignty which led to the war, but
that episode being over, the IJerald looks
to see its section return to wbat it calls
the correct principlo under tho constitu
tion. It recognizes the strength of the
nationalistic piindpal in the young and
growing West, aud says it is not impossi
ble that the East and South may yet
stand shoulder to shoulder in the defense
of State rights against the WestT
Senator Jones, the energetic, self-
made man from Florida, said to Mr.
Heniy Watterson: “Wo have not the
material wealth that wo had before the
war, but in my opinion, children now
living will see the South far wealthier
•nd more Independent than it ever was.
Not even tho recuperative powers of
•France, after the German war, have sur
passed the energy aud spirit of tiie Sonth
■luce her people have had control of their
own affairs. My life has been spent in
the South. I know what it was in the
past, and I do not think I- exaggerate re
garding the future. Alter the passions of
the war have passed away, and a wise
governmental policy is adopted, we shall
soon have all the prosperity we desire.”
Georgia, says the Globe-Democrat,
lias a Railway Commission, and the gen
tlemen composing It seem to be impressed
with tiio lel.ef that they must perform
their lawful duties even at tbo awful
risk of offending the railway managers.
A Jew weeks ago the Commissioners noti
fied the corporations that no freight block
ade must lie permitted on their roads In
consequence of any pooling arrangements
made between the mmagers. Until this
notice was served upon them the roads
Were blocked by freight which had been
“allotted” to the various lines forming the
pool, but now no more complaint is made.
Since then tho Commission have notified
the roads that alter February 1 they will
lie restricted to 3 cents per mile for each
passenger carried. This is a very heavy
reduction iu rates, the present tariiTbeing
5 cents per mile, and the railway mana
gers are making a loud cry against Slate
suit- rvislon. There u no doubt that 3
cents per mile is ample to pay for carry
ing • passenger over any railway iu this
country. Tiie roads running between
St. Louis and Chicsgo have been carry
ing passengers for less than one-third of
1 cent per mile for the last two months,
and their officers boast that they never
before found passenger traffic so prol
if able. Tho “Potter law” in Wisconsin
reduced tiie 'passenger tariff on all first-
clnaa roads to 3 cents per mile, and It has.
ucrcr been raised since. The Georgia
ct.ut.iplc might be followed to good effect
io :i.auy other States.
A Wicked Piilsecutio:;.—Tbe on*
-'au-sht r.pontbo Jews in Germany now
- „ Mints to a suppression of their liberty,
,.ul tiie utter destruction of the civil
lights of that ancient people. Think of
■udi* spec act tin the present advanced
of progress? It is a shame tnd dls-
;»co to civilization.
The Flight of Time. ..
The recurrence of tiie holidays which
come with the expiring year impress all,
particularly the elders, with the rapidity
of Time’s flight. The year I860 has gone
with railway speed. It Is fifteen years
(hair a generation) since the close of the
civil war, with all its distressing reminis
cences; and though one would Imagine
that tho vexations and distresses of tho
Southern people within that period would
have made the years long, as well as
weary, yet, looking back, they ssem to
have passed as a dream. Tho lads of that
peilod are now men in middle life, with
families, and tho lasso3 are beginning to
look for gray hairs. A few more years,
and most of the actors in that sad drama
will have disappeared beneath the sod.
We can all remember the lime when
the poetical similes of Scripture about the
brevity of human life seemed strained ahd
hyperbolical. With, perhaps, half a cen
tury before us, wo could not realize that
life was but a dream—a light, fleeting sum
mer cloud—a biado of grass,- or a frail
flower; but as wo progress in the journey
and look back, wo see tho forco and apt
ness of these comparisons, and the most
ancient patriarch, reviewing his career, is
ready to admit that his days have' been
“few, - ” and their memory is that of a hur
ried flight.
Says an old friend, jast so soon as man
gains wisdom enough to live his life is
gone. He is only waiting the summons
to another sphere of existence; and this is
the practical sum of divine teaching,
though we arc slow to accept it in youth
Says another, in the eighties, a few weeks
before he expired, “My life has been a
sad failure,” and yet tiie tnan had ac
quired considerable wealth—enjoyed
good reputation, li&d reared a family re
spectably, and was an acceptable member
of the church! All lives are “failures” in
the light he viewed matters—i. e., in the
conception of what it was possible to at
tain, and those conceptions relating main
ly to moral achievements and enjoyments
measured by a true standard.
And undoubtedly tbo most entire and
absolute failure is that cf the man who
devotes himself exclusively to what goes
by the name of success, however great
may be his achievements ; for the failure
is perfect when his cold and - nerveless
fingers lose their grasp npon his winnings
The memory of one good, unselfish deed
(what Christ compares to a cup of cold
water) is then worth more than tiie most
splendid achievement in money-getting
Ideas like these are always embodied in
Christmas holiday tales, and yet no man
can deny their absolute truth and justice,
however he may fail to give them practi
cal force and eflect in his daily life.
Tiie great lesson of Christmas is unsel
fishness. Once in the year the voice of
Time reminds us of Ins approaching close,
and invites, us to suspend the constant pur.
suit of personal ends aud think of what
we have done and can do for others. This
is the Scriptural measure of worldly sue.
cess or defeat, for what we have done for
others constitutes tiie only investment
which we can carry beyond the boundaries
of time.
Admonitory.
Let Us Make Haste Slowly With
that Capitol Building.
That costly but frail monument of the
extravagance and folly of tiie great com
monwealth of New York, the State capi-
tol at Albany, has already had expended
u;>on it $10,000,000, and large sums will
still be required for its completion. But
the worst part of the affair is the fact that
the heavy ceiling of one of the Legislative
chambers is commencing to give way,
and there are grave apprehensions for the
safety of the eutire building. Very pos
sibly it will bave to be taken down and
built over anew. The Commercial Bulle
tin, speaking of this, sensibly remarks
that, “until we change our meihods, all
such public works will be, as heretofore,
undertaken chiefly for the purpose of en
abling the politicians to provide their
friends with tat jobs at the expense of the
taxpayers, who arc expected to be recon
ciled to the mulct by having-their pride if
not their taste gratified by the tawdry im
itation of the architecture of imperial
Rome. The remedy is to have the eutire
work done in an ordinary business-like
way, by private contract to the lowest
bidder. We have been assured that our
county court house on this plan could
have been constructed for $2,000,000; and
it is fair to infer therefore that, following
the same plan, the new capitol could be
built at a corresponding reduction. Just
now no human being can tell what the
final cost will be.”
The court house which our New York
contemporary says could have been erect
ed for $2,000,000, actually cost $12,000,-
000; but then that was In the palmy days
of “Boss Tweed,•* that prince of thieves.
We have no idea that the virtuous au
thorities and contractors in Georgia who
will bave charge of the building of the
new state house, would be guilty of any
sucli enormities. But then it has at
length grown into an apothegm, that ev
erything that can be made ont of the State
or United States governments is perfectly
fair and legitimate. Hence, if in the pro
tracted process of erecting this palatial
abode for the people’s representatives, tho
prices of material and labor, seem to be
abnormal, it will not be surprising. “Un
cle Sam” and tho Empire State have both
been ever subjected to the Sangrado prac
tice of depletion. And no stigma seem^to
attach to this treatment.
Speaking seriously, however, we trust
the moral of capitol-buildiug in the States
of Tennessee, South Carolina and New
York, will not be lost upon the General
Assembly of Georgia. Let the State first
pay her debts before embarking in any
such grandiloquent enterprise, and then
vote money charily for that purpose, boid-
ig to tiie strictest account those charged
wiLli its disbursement. Much cau be done
within herself through the aid of the pen
itentiary convicts, who could be employed
in making brick, quarrying rock from
Stone Mountain, digging the founda
tions, mixing mortar, and as hod carriers
while tho work is In progress.
In due lime we wish to see a conven
ient aud even magnificent capitol build-
erected, but let it be done at the least
possible cost, and not until the common
wealth, with justice to her taxpayers, can
afford to undertake the task.
Better Time* Ahead.
Senator Jones, of Florida, anticipates a
rapid upward progress in Southern for
tunes in the near future, and be Is right,
because the Southern States possess
great natural resources, and the Southern
people have sense, Intelligence and energy
enough to learn how to use them to an
advantage. These make up the condi
tions of success in the long run, and
though failure may harass for a time,
yet circumstances gradually shape the
character and pursuits of any people. “Ex
perience teaches,” says the proverb, aud
It Is teaching our people rapidly. They
are better farmers and better economists
than tLey used to be, and no man doubts
that skillful and industrious larmingin
Georgia is a sure road to gain. Thus,
with a great staple and gainful Industry,
which is competent to employ and reward
all our labor, it would be silly to doubt
the growth of tiro wholo State In wealth
and comfort. It is as sure as crops.
But Georgia is still much in the condi
tion of a youth without capital, aud there
fore labor is, to large extent,wielded disad-
vantageonsly, and acquisition is compara
tively slow. When accumulations reach the
point of seeking investment, and money
becomes easy, progress will be far more
rapid. We cau see that the beginning ol
this stage of progress has been reached.
Almost all neighborhoods and towns in
Georgia arc looking about for mechanical
investments, and the uniform success of
those already made will develop these
enterprises rapidly. It will not be many
years before Georgia will spin the bulk of
her cotton, as well as grow it,and be busy
with every manufacturing industry sug
gested by the situation. Thus, when her
earnings as well as her labor are profita
bly employed, progress will be more sen
sibly accelerated. The cotton crop of
Georgia is now excelled only by that of
Texas, with her vast area of rich and vir
gin soil. Tills shows that our farmers are
well up to their work.
The Bailroad Commission.
More Corn Sugar, alias Glucose.—
A movement to establish acorn-sugar fac
tory in Fort Scott, Kan., was brought be
fore the Board of Trade, and resulted in
committee being appointed to wait upon
the business men of the city relative to
the same. Already the sum of $251,000 S™ 1 tliat *"** .f) 1 f*. j* vert -
tiu hp*>n nlfdf.-fMlfnwaT.il nnn*liBainiT«fni>L' I ed. ’ i , , *** “
“Orr, Mister!” said an old lady after a
bicycle had passed berg just now I
The Big Trial, Began to Test its
Constitutionality.
The following from the Constitution
will be read with interest by all the peo
ple of Georgia:
Tho celebrated suit instituted to test the
validity of tiie bill creating the Georgia
Railroad Commission, is being discussed
before Judge W. B. Woods, of the United
States Circuit Court, in this city. The
suit is at the instance of Mr. George H.
Tilley, who is the secretary of the South
ern Express Company. He brings suit
as a foreign stockholder in tiie Savannah,
Florida aud Western Railway Company,
formerly tiie Albany and Gulf railroad
and the till filed by his attorneys wil
bring the validity of the law creating the
board before the court. This bill has
been filed for some time, and has been de
layed for one cause or auolher until now.
It was thought at one time that the bill
would not be pressed, but it is said that
tiie railroads have delermiuod to press the
suit vigorously since the commission
has takeu steps recently to reduce passen
ger fares.
Mr. Tilley’s bill is to restrain tiie Sa
vannah, Florida and Western railway
from carrying into eflect the rates fixed by
the commissioners for freight and passen
gers. But little was done yesterday ex-
cept reading the affidavits of Mr. U. S.
Haines, general manager oflhc Savannah
Florida and Western railway, and Col,
Charles II. Phiuizy,president of tiie Geor
gia railroad, and others on the part of the
complainants. .
Tiie argument will commence in good
earnest lo-day, and will bo very interest
ing and learned. - .
Able attorneys are engaged all around,
Almost all tiie railroads iu the State have
attorneys loosing ou if not participating in
the trial. Judge W. S. Chisholm, of Sa
vannah, represents the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway. Hon. Clifford An
derson, attorney-geueral; Robert Toombs
and Messrs. Mynatt and Howell represent
tiie State ami Railroad Commissioners.
Col. H. S. Haines and Captain Harnee,
General Lawton and several important
railroad officials arc in attendance on the
trial.
This suit-does not call in question the
powers of the commissioners as recited
under the act of the Legislature, but the
constitutionality of the act itself. There
are divers opinions on tho subject. Speak
ing for himself, the writer, though em
pliatically opposed to local discrimina
tions in freights and fares, and believing
tiiat the several railroads should be re
quired to abstain from all such invidious
regulations, yet believes that the present
act needs to be materially modified. The
power granted to the commission is with
out parallel in the legislation of the State,
aud cannot safely he conceded to any
committee of citizens. Not that wo be
lieve that the present commissioners have
Intentionally abused tho trusts confided to
them. On the contrary, tbev have ex
hibited a most placable and accommodat
ing spirit, and whenever convinced that
their rultogs wrought injury to anyroad,
after a patient bearing, have promptly re
considered their action. But.it is not with
in the purview or ability of any three
men to devise a system of
freights and regulations which
can be made to apply with • equal
justice and propriety to fifty railroad en
terprises, each one differing from the other
in original. cost, running expenses, length
and volume of business. The task
simply impossible; though, perhaps,
Messrs. Smith, Wallace and Barnett come
near performing their whole duty
'could any other three men in Georgia.
The act, however, requires to be amended
so that these extraordinary powers, which
fa other hands might be sadly abused,
may be curtailed, and tbe commission
converted into a board of arbitration or
appeal for the adjustment of all questions
in dispute between the various railroads
or the individuals who do business with
them. We repeat, however, that all un
just local discriminations in freights or
passenger fares should be legally inter
dicted.
Matters Getting Worse in Ire*
land.—A London dispatch dated De
cember 19th, says: A Land League meet
ing was held at Mullingar, Couuty West
Meath,to-day. Ten thousand persons
were present. The town was decorated
with flags. A mob of 2000 persons at-
temptedon Saturday to wreck the resi
dence of Mr. Downing, a justice of tho
peace, at Bonniconlan, County Mayo, af
ter ho had served writs of ejectment on
some tenants. The police kept tho peo-
>le back at the point of tho bayonet. Mr.
downing escaped on a car to Balllna,'
where he took the train for Dublin. The
police now occupy his residence.
At a meeting of the Privy Council di
rections were given to prohibit all Land
League meetings in Queen’s county;
Cavalry and infantry numbering 800
men and 700 soldiers stationed at Cur*
ragh bave been sent to Queen’s county.
Consequently the projected meeting at
Cullolilil has not been held. y.
Events seem to be rapidly culminating
to a terrible outbreak in Ireland. ■» God
Panama CanaL
Paris, December 19,1880.—The shares
of tbe Panama canal have been token up
almost entirely in France. French finan
ciers couslder that the immediate success
of tbe scheme is now assured. One house
alone is said to have taken nearly 100,000
shares.
BARON KBLANOER’S VIEWS.
A Herald correspondent has had an in
terview with Baron Erlanger, who is well
known in the French financial world, and
thus reports their conversation ou the is
sue of Panama stock.
Correspondent—You are not yourself
specially interested in the scheme, I be
lieve ?
M. Erlanger—No more than the hank
ing world in general.
Correspondent—How do explain the
revulsion of feeling in a thls country with
regard to the canal?
M. Erlanger—It is hard to answer the
question. Much is no doubt due to the
personal efforts of M. de Lesseps.
People are subscribing hero because they
have faith in the man.
Correspondent—Has not an immense
sum been spent in advertising the scheme?
M. Erlanger—Two millions of francs,
quite.
Correspondent—You arc aware that the
American press is vigorously opposing tbe
enterprise ?
M. Erlanger—The opposition of Amer
icans would probably be. au additional in
ducement to French people to support
the venture. They would consider it pa
triotic to push it through.
Correspondent— You believe tu the
practicability of the undertaking?
M. Erlanger—Certainly. It is a mere
question of time and money. The Amer
icans liavo done more difficult things
themselves.
Correspondent — And you think the
Panama scheme will eventually pay as
well as the Suez?
M. Erlanger—In time, I dare say; but
it will be fully eight or ten years before
the canal will bo finished; so subscribers
may have to bo patient.
Correspondent—Are you of opinion
that the cost of the canal will be kept
within the limits of I lie official estimates?
M. Erlanger—It will doubtless exceed
the estimates.
Correspondent—Evidently you liavo no
fear the Americans will ever attempt to
construct a rival Nicaragua canal ?
M. Erlanger—Oh no. They are too
practical for financial romancing of that
sort. The best thing they could do would
be to keep quiet and let mattere take their
course. They havo nothing to lose by it
and-their hostility is rea'ly unintelligible.
has been pledged toward purchasing stock,
and its establishment is now a certain
thing. Negotiations regarding an exten
slve tannery and glucose factory are in
rapid development.
Good Fannins'.
A merchant in Tallahassee writes to the
Floridian that a customer of his, from
two-mule farm, has harvested the follow
ing products the present year:
Twenty-two bales of cotton, weighing
11,000 ponnils; 500 bushels corn, 5,000
pounds fodder, 500 bushels sweet potatoes,
200 gallons syrup, 100 bushels gronm.
peas; which, sold at cash prices to-day,
will yield the nice sum of $1,597.50.
The estimate of money yield is, at valae
of to-day, as follows:
11,000 pounds cotton at 9c. per
pound - - - $ 990 00
500 bushels corn at 50c. per
bushel - - -
5,000 pounds of fodder at 75c.
hundred pounds - t
500 bushels sweet potatoes at
30c. perbustiel -
200 gallons syrup at 35c. per
gallon - -
100 bushels ground peas at
$1.00 per bushel - 100 00
250 00
37 60
150 00
70 00
$1,597 50
I see no objection to giving tho name of
this farmer. His name is N. M. Isler.
Mr. Isler docs not claim his land to be
better than the average lauds of this
county.
A Blast for Atlanta.
In one of his recent letters to tiie Phila-
peiphia Times, its editor, Colonel Mc
Clure, makes the following mention of
Georgia’s capital:
Tho influence of Atlanta upon Georgia
and upon the whole South is incalculable.
Already it has revolutionized Georgia. It
lia3 not been done by Atlanta verdicts at
tiie polls so much as by tiie advanced
leadership that pours out its live currents
in every direction. There are Confeder
ate fossils here as elsewhere in tho South,
but their wails fall upon heedless ears;
there are placemen who flaunt the Re
publican flag bearing the skull and cross-
bones of sectionalism, but there are many
reputable businessmen of tho Republican
faith who will one day reach a better
domination for tiie party, and there ore
many thriftless uegroes who steal and
sell their votes to both sides, and cheat all
around in every election contest, but there
are solid colored men in trade, and tiie
colored college keeps abreast with the
white university in the higher education
of the black man. Hero are tho most ad
vanced leaders of tho whole South, Gov
ernor Coiqnitt, Senators Brown and Hill,
ex-Senator Gordon, Mayor Calhoun, May
or-elect English, Editor Grady, of the
Constitution, and ascorc of others of less
prominence before the public, but not less
earnest and but little less useful in the
progressive culture of tiie South, all have
their homes in Atlanta, and they are felt
in every precinct of Georgia, anu tho tide
of progress cannot be swelling up hero in
the centre of the South, without overflow
ing and finding its outlet into ail the sur
rounding States.
Can Horses go Unshod Over Hard
and Stony Roads ?—That seems to be
a question nccissanly raised by the fol
lowing : Sir George W. Cox calculates
that the English custom of horsu-slioeing
costs the nation every year on an average
nearly i!9,000,000 in hard cash, every
penny of which might be saved if horses
were allowed to go unshod. Quoting an
imposing array of authorities from Xeno
phon, whose unshod cavalry “marched
from Cunaxa over the Armenian high
lands to tbe walls of Trebizond,” down to
tbe “Free Lances” of the present day, Sir
George Cox contends that it is safer,
cheaper and in every way better to let
horses go unshod over the hardest roads—
especially over the slippery asphalt of
London streets. Two millions and a quar
ter per annum would then be saved in
farriers’ bills alone; but this is only I
fractional part of the money which would
be saved by the trebling or the duration
of equine existence. Horses ' which are
now used up when twelvo years of age
would, he contends, last fourteen years
longer if they were not shod, and the val
ue of this prolongation of the working life
of a horse be estimates at £ 135,000,(W0 in
twenty-one years or nearly X0,500,000
per annum. Slr'George ruins his case by
overstating it. If he really believes that,
Tor instance, a cab-horse if unshod would
be able to work twenty-throe years instead
of the nine which now suffice to wear It
out, lie will probably not find a single
practical man to share his opinion.
A Touching Scene.—When a body of
expatriated Capuchins left Nantes a few
weeks ago, an enthusiastic crowd of sym
pathizers awaited their embarkation.
When tho tide served the vessel weighed
anchor, and a flag was hoisted with tiie
legends, “Ffeent ten Capuchins! Vice la
Liberie /” A touching scene took place
before the exiled priests went on board.
When the Vicar arrived at the quay a ven
erable man threw himself at his feet and
attempted to kiss the hem of bis garment,
asking his blessing. With deep emotion
in his voico tho Superior sadly said, “I
have not the right to bless you now,” but
urged by bis fneudt, he raised his hands
and pronounced the sacred formula over
the heads of the assembled multitude,
and, amidst the sobs of toe sorrowinu
friends, resumed his road to exile.
seed a wagon*wh*«l mania’ away with a
man. You kin believe it or not. I
wouldn’t if I hadn’t seed It myself.”
Edwin Forkeht Is said to have ha I
tbe snoot sonorous and powerful voice of
any actor known in all the tide of time.'
He could be heard distinctly iu tiie largest
theatre when he spoke in ordinary tones,
but when he did inflate bis lungs and let
himself out, he was a perfect Stentor, aud
no mistake.
SALT LAKE.
Wbat the Hanna Think or the
President’s Message.
Mr. James R. Jackson, a resident of
Balt Lake City, was interviewed at the
Lindell Hotel yesterday by a Globe-Dem
ocrat reporter, relative to tiie tone of pub
lic sentiment in Utah in regard to Presi
dent Hayes’ suggestions in bis message
concerning tbe abolitiou of polygamy and
the disqualification of Mormons as jurors.
Mr. Jackson is a gentile, but does not look
upon the disqualification suggestion with
much favor. He stated that polygamy
was on the decline in Utah, and that but
very few polygamous marriages occurred,
that there was a strong 'faction in the
Mormon church that opposed it, and that
that clement was fast getting in the as
cendancy.
“Do you think that suggesMon will be
carried into effect?” asked the reporter.
“I would not be surprised if ft was,”
said Mr. Jackson; “there are a set of
gentile lanatics In Utah who are using
their utmost endeavors to get up a rupture
between tho Mormons and tho govern
ment, and they thiuk if the Mormons can
bo induced to commit some overt act-
such as forcible resistance to tho govern-
mentr—the government would drive them
from the territory and these gentiles would
take possession of their property. That
is about the foundation of the whole busi
ness.”
“What is the relative proportion of tho
Mormon and gentile population?”
“The Mormons constitute about eleven-
twelfths of tho population.”
“Is there any conflict of interests be
tween the Mormons and gentiles ?”
“Not in a geueral sense. Owing to the
officious couduct of a few gentiles, Mor
mon patronage is generally confined to
Mormons, but there are some Gentile es
tablishments that are doing a large busi
ness. If a gentile goes to Salt Lake City
and attends to his business and does not
act as if no thought no one was entitled to
an opinion but liiinseif, lie can do well.”
Mr. Jackson does not think the Mor
mons can ever again bo forced into con
filet with the constituted authorities, al
though there was a strong and deep feel
ing among them against the policy of the
government iu the Territory. He says
tiie Mormons, as a clas3, are thrifty and
well fixed financially, As they live upon
the communistic theory—each Individual
contributing so much to a general fund,
which is distributed to tho most needy—
want and destitution is unknown among
them. There is a large storehouse in Salt
Lake City in which is enough
provisions to last tbe Mormon in
habitants one year; this storehouse
is kept full, iu anticipation of
famiue or short crops. Referring to the
Mormon temple in course of erection at
Salt Lake City, he said if it was completed
iu accordance witli its proportions and de
signs it would be one of tbo largest build
ings in tiie world, but ho did not believe it
would be finished within the next twenty
years.
Mr. Jackson thinks the Church of the
Mormons, with all of its delusions, is
fixture in the ecclesiastical world for tho
present decade at least, and, as it is con
tinually augmenting its strength; no hu
man agency can foretell its final col
lapse.
The Cultivation of the Cinchona Tree.
It Should Be Encouraged by the
Government.
This wonderful production of nature,
• Fire in Cotton Gins.
An Albany (Georgia) correspondent of
the New York Commercial Bulletin writes
an interesting aud valuable letter on the
subject of fires in cotton gius, which are
Another Chilian Battle and Advance.
A recent Panama dispatch says:
Tho long-expected Chilian advance on
Lima is at last an actuality. On Novem
ber 10th eighteen vessels, all war vessels
or armed transports, except four sailin';
vessels, winch were towed, appeared off
Pisco. The Angatna and two other ves
sels steamed into the harbor, tbe former
approaching the mole as closely as possi
ble, and seut an officer ashore, who de
manded the surrender of the place anil
was refused. Fire was at once opened
from the three ships, and was returned by
the Peruvian forces on shore. These were
only one thousand two hundred inen t
commanded by Col. Zamudi. The landing'
at Pisco was resisted so hotly tliat most of
the Chilians landed at I’aracas, about
ten miles off, and Immediately marched
on Pisco, almost surrounding Zamudi’s
small force. Tliat officer, hopeless of
further defense without tiie sacrifice of his
entire force, retired, aft.'r blowing up the
shore section of tbe wharf and destroying
other property to prevent its falliug into
Chilian liauds. The rolling stock of the
Pisco railroad was burned, a severe loss
to the English bondholders. Tiie Peru
vian loss in the fight is placed at 150 men
and tiie Chilian thrice that number.
Tiie Chilian force landed consisted of the
Second and Fourth Regiments of 1,200 men
each; the Coquimbo, Talco, Coicliaqua,
Cbabuco and Atacama Regiments of 1,200
men each; the naval brigade, of 900
and 800 artillery and cavalry, mak
ing in all 10,000 men. Tiie transports,
Laving lauded tho troops, returned to Ar-
ica for further reinforcements, which will
bo landed nearer Lima, probably at Cerro
Azul, and thence move on the capital.
Pisco is 126 miles from Lima and 70 miles
from Cerro Azul. Tiie force landed at
Pisco will probably destroy all towns in
the Yea Valley and then enter the Cauclo
Valley,which they will perhaps make their
base of operations. Tiie march to Lima
will be resisted step by step. To this end
three divisions left Lima on the night of
the 19th. They have with them 85 pieces
of artillery.
How to Get Elected.—Election by
the free choice of tiie people is getting to
be a tiling of the past. A correspondent
of the Nation, for instance, relating how
elections are carried in New York in tho
counties between Saratoga and the city,
says:
“A candidate who will not contribute
handsomely In all ordinary circumstances
might as well withdraw- at once, if the
candidate pitted against them will. No
one but a rich man or a man with rich
friends, or backed by a pecuniary interest
that will furnish him $5,000 to $25,000,
can run for legislative office with much ex
pectation-of success if there is a serious con-
test; and this fact is recognized as axio
matic with nominating conventions gov
erning botii parties in this section of the
State. In the community where I live tiie
purchasable vote is put at SQQ out of a total
x»ll of 2,300 by the best informed men of
jotii parties, and tiie amount expended at
tbe last election as $S,000 by those who
ought to know and whose figures arc the
lowest of any. Each party vies with the
other in this business, and tiie only difler-
ence is said to be that the Republicans
cau buy the purchasable colored vote a
little cheaper, aud the Democrats the pur
chasable while vote. If *A. It.’ visits the
eastern part of tho State ho will exclaim
witli tho iQtiecn of Sheba, 'Behold, tho
liflf waxqoV'told me.’^fc
Moorish Table Manners.—Tea is
quite a formidable meal. It is served by
manservant. First tho teapot—or ket
tle, if named after its shape—is filled witli
green tea, sugar and water, iu sucli pro
portions as to make a thick, sweet syrup,
which is drunk without milk or cream.
Then follows an infusiouof tea and spear
mint. Yet another of tea and wormwood.
Yet another of tea and lemon verbena.
And yet another of tea with citron. On
great occasions a sixth is added, of tea and
ambergris. Nothing is eaten. Tim “weed”
usually follows, but the Moof.' tlioueli a
smoker, Is not an ‘-inveterate.” Dinner
consists of various dishes of mutton, fish
and fowls, ingeniously and artistically
served in mixtures of pomades, soups,
spices and qosmetlcs; so, at least,
Englishmen declare who have liadj
in courtesy, to swallow tho preparations.
Knives, forks and spoons are dispensed
with, i-erhaps despised. The company sit
cross legged on the floor and gather round
a central dish. At “In tiie name of God,-*
which is tho brief grace pronounced by
tho master of the house, tiie slave removes
the cover from the smoking dish and mor
sels ofiis contents, deftly rolled into con
venient forms, are tossed, drippiug, into
the mouth with a neatness truly wonder
ful. Exact portions are picked from fowl
and fish and mutton-chop ' bone without
delay or effort. After the course, water
id napkins arc brought round. Tho
wadi over, another planaingof the .paws
tho savory mess. . Incense if often
burned., during dinner which fills tho
larlment witli delicate aroma.
Over890,000 oranges,.passed through
Jacksonville to Eastern markets liy rail
water on a single day last week.
which furnishes the only drug that is a [ usually attributed to causes other than the
certain specific against tiie ravages of mi- true ones. Tiie writer, being extensively
larial fever, is now cultivated with signal engaged in the insurance of gin-housea
success in India. Some or the English has made the question one of study and
papers report the annual yield as reach- experiment. He says that from Septem
ber 1st to November 20th forty gin-houses
were burned iu Georgia, sixteen in Ala
bama and five in Florida. He says tbo
common idea that tbe cotton takes fire
from friction between the saws and sand
in tbe lint is erroneous, for it is not possi
ble to get fire in that way. The common
notion that the fire Is communicated by
matches finding way accidentally to the
gin from the cotton heap is unsound.
Many experiments have been made to
communicate fire to cotton In the glu in
that way, with single matches and a box
of matches at a time, but though tho com
position would sometimes Ignite, the wind
from the gin would blow out tho flame
immediately. What are the main causes
he lays down as follows:
One of the principal causes of fires is the
want of proper attention to the leveling
and plumbing themandthen keeping them
oiled properly. Last week a man was
running his own gin, and finding it re
quired more power than usual, he ex
amined tbe bearings or journals and find
ing them dry, poured oik on them; as they
were very hot, the oil blazed up immedi
ately, and caught the cotton so quick he
bad to run tor his life. It is true this was
very careless indeed, but it burned his
gin-house. Since tiie introduction of
steam, the velocity with which they are
run often heats the bearings or journals,
even when they are kept oiled properly.
As soon as a gin gets out of plumb or uu-
level, which U often the case, tbo fric
tion Heats the boxes so that the oil in
them burns up with a blaze as steam car
Journal boxes do. A man living near
here, who had his steam gin burned last
week, told ino the oil on the bear
ings of his gin had been ou fire threo
times this season, but lie had always suc
ceeded in putting it out until the last
time, when it burned so quick that there
was not time to stop it. He had kept a
barrel and buckets of waters near the gin
all tbe time. Last week I saw a gin
ing the astounding figures of eight thou
sand dollars per acre. A correspondent*
of the Agricultural Department thinks
this qnite possible in view of the fact,
which the trade reports verify, that “the
mossed barks bring os much as eight shil
lings a pound in „ths Loudon market.”
The same writer says: “I have observed
that the cinchona region begins just about
where the coffee climate ends.” It is
a hardy tree that will flourish at great
elevations, covering a climate of forty de
grees variation. In the vicinity of Boga-
ta, and indeed all portions of South Amer
ica accessible to transportation, the cin
chona has Ween so effectually exterminated
by the improvidence of tlio3e who collect
ed the bark, that it is difficult to obtain
the sight of a single growing tree. The
cinchona is not found farther South than
the twentieth parallel of latitude.
Humboldt suggested that its extension
north must havo been limited by the
lowness of the mountain range of tho
isthmus. It ha3 been demonstrated
however, in ludia, that its cultivation
may be extended to the thirtieth degree
of north latitude. It is successfully
grown in the Pnnjaub, on the same
parallel of latitude with New Mexico,
Arizona and Southern California. Tiie
cinchona loves a dry soil, but flourishes
best in a moist climate where rains are
frequent. We havo not tiie least doubt
that it would thrive finely in Southern
Georgia. In fact, there exists in that
region in great abundance, a shrub closely
resembling in appearance and medicinal
qualities this invaluable tree. During tbe
lato -war, Professor Joseph Jones, of the
Medical College of Louisiana, then a sur
geon in the Confederate army, experimen
ted extensively with the bark of tills tree,
which abounds in the “bays” and branches
of the seaboard of Georgia, in bis treat
ment of malarial fevers, aud with the
most gratifying results. He even went
so far as to have largo quantities of the
bark collected for hospital purposes
Should this indigenous plant, upon
analysis, prove equal to the South Ameri
can original, it would prove a blessing of
untold value to tho residents of the chill
and fever regions.
Experience has shown that the bark of
tho cultivated cinchona is far superior to
that of tbe tree in a wild state. Also,
that with care, the stripping of the bark
need not endanger tiie life of tbe tree,
slip Is taken off extending the whole
length of the trunk and one-third of its
circumference. The wound is then dress
ed with straw matting and kept wet until
tiie healing process is completed, and a new
bark begins to form. Each year a fresh
strip is peeled off, and the work of deple
tion and recuperation continues pari
passu.
According to the report of the corre
spondent of the Agricultural Department
at Washington, a plantation of one hun
dred acres of cinchona trees may be start
ed at a total outlay of about one thousand
dollars per acre.
As the supply of bark is rapidly dimin
ishing on account of the improvidence of
those who procure it from the native tree,
it is becoming painfully evident that, un
less supplemented by artificial means, it
must soon bo exhausted. It is said that
whole districts are devastated every year,
hundreds of thousands of trees being de
stroyed, root and branch, while scarce
ly any effort is made to replace them,
Counterfeiting, which is the invariable
concomitant of any valuable production
or discovery, is also being resorted to ex
tensively, and the market is flooded with
Spurious barks, purporting to be tho genu
inc cinchona.
The only possible remedy in the prem
ises is to make the cultivation of the cin
chona tree a specialty in agriculture, and
wherever it will thrivo on tho habitable
globe there it should be planted for the
“healing of the nations.” No danger that
the supply will ever exceed tho demand
Chills and levers with their baneful ef
fects are prevalent In every climo and
latitude,and quinino is tho only sure rem
edy for them.
Wo arc glad to setf, therefore, that sci
entists and our own government, too, are
becoming aroused to the importance ol
not only perpetuating, but largely in
creasing the production of the chiucboua
tree. Should Congress sec fit to make an
appropriation for tho importation of a
ship-load of young plants for gratuitous
distribution at tbe South, we are sure it
would be generally approved, and might
in a few years prove a very profitable
source of revenue to the country, aside
from tho sanitary blessings which would
follow. As the matter now stands, the
poor cannot afford the enormous prices
asked for quinine, which tho lowering of
the duty upon the crude bark does not
seem in the least to havo diminished.
D«ath of the Heraic Cmbv.
The Courier-Journal says the fact is
that the Southern cotton factories make
cotton goods twenty per cent, cheaper
than they can bo made in New England,
and if the prohibitory tax on cotton ma
chinery was removed cotton cloth could
be manufactured cheaper than in England
We would remind tho Philadelphia organ
of spoliation (the Bulletin) that General
Hawley, a Connecticut protectionist, has
more than onco publicly declared that, if
the heavy duties were taken off cotton
goods, the New Englaud mills could even
then undersell England, and we have been
told by scores of protection organs dur
ing tbe last two months that Now Eng
land is “underselling tiie werld” in cotton
goods. Tiie inference is very logical,
therefore, that the South, which can man
ufacture cottons cheaper than New Eng
land (who can manufacture cottons cheap
er than Old England) can also manufac
ture cottons cheaper than old England.
Wo rather think tiiat the Philadelphia or
gan had better pause for refreshments and
get up some better arguments for protec
tion than it has heretofore given ns.
A lady of Marianna, Fla., writes: “I
applied to a physician here for a prescrip
tion for sick lieAdaclie, with which I have
been afflicted many years. He recom
mended Tutt’s Pills. They acted like a
charm. 1 can now attend lo my school
itiiout any pain or Inconvenience. It is
the host medicine I have ever taken. May
on meet witli the reward you deserve.”
Anna Jenkins.
There is an extensive deposit of kaolin,
t porcelain clay, in South Carolina, near
tho Georgia city of Augusta, of tbo finest
quality, equal to the ueroauds of a hun
dred years. It is said to have been used
adulterate flour, being soft, white and
free from gravel.
which was brought to this town for re
pairs. The journal had wo|ii through the
babbitt metal of which tho box was made,
and worn an inch into tiie wood. . Now
this journal was not only running two
inches out of plumb, but running on pine
wood, and it was only throuch the merest
cliauca that it had not taken fire aud
burned up.
Then, another great cause of fire is the
saws get out of plumb and strike the ribs
so as to produce fire enough to burn a gin.
Until steam power began to be used, such
a thing as a gin being on fire wa3 rarely
ever known, except incendiary lircs
from dissatisfied laborers. In a few cases
gins have been burned by sparks from
engines. But as long as gins are run by
steam power and tlicparty who is in charge
of the ginning (usually an overseer on tho
plantation and almost always some per
son, while or colored, who has no Interest
in the success of the place) has but little
interest, you will hear of numerous fires,
rt hen a new gin stand is put up by a man
who is careful and understands his busi
ness, there-is scarcely aDy danger at all
for two years; at the end of that time the
machinery often becomes worn (as the
light sand in the cotton wears all parts of
a gin very fast) and.out of plumb, and un
level, and the danger from fire increases
alarmingly. I charge $00 to insure a
steam gin for $1,000 for six months in the
running season, and it is very doubtful if
any money can be made at that rate.
Georgia.
Sanding The Track,
The 28th of last November will
never be forgotten by the writer of this
brief tribute to the memory of the
brave engineer, who, on the morning of
that day, near GriswoldvIHe, on the Cen
tral railroad of Georgia, freely gave his
own life that he might save the lives of
others.
The writer It ft S ivaunah the night of
the 27th on the accommodation train from
bavannah to Macon. In company with
Col. Wadley, the distinguished president
of the road, Cant. Raoul, ;ts vice-presi
dent aud son-in-law of Col. Wadley, Mr.
Wm. Wadley, a son of tbe latter, and
Mr. Malt. Freeman, of Macon, who was
in charge or two little children of Mr.
x tiouias Thompson* And An elderly
gentleman, and a young man whose name
he does not know, the writer took a sleep
ing car, his own berth being the last that
was occupied and nearest to the end of the
train.
Nothing worthy of notice occurred dur
ing the night. In the morning, as the wri
ter lay in his berth, he was debating In
his mind, when between Gordon and
Grlswoldville, whether he should get up
at once or wait—as had been his invaria
ble custom—till tiie train passed the latter
station. A sudden and uncontrollable
impulse detegnined him to do the former.
Accordingly lie aroso. In a few moments
he was dressed; and no sooner was he
dressed than lie left the sleeper and went
forward—to-tiie smoking car. He was
hardly seated in the latter when he was
aware that the train was going at very
off speed and evidently approaching a
standstill. As no engineer’s whistle gave
any signal to put on tho brakes, and as
the writer knew that we
were at least two or three
miles from the next station, the movement
of the train arrested his attention. It was
soon explained. The accommodation
train, on which we were, is a freight train
with several passenger cars and a baggage
car attached. The freight car had broken
loose from the baggage and passenger
cars. _ Tbo engine, still bearing the form
er in its train, sped on its way to Gris-
woldville, unconscious that it had left the
latter behind. -How long the train was
thus severed before it was known to any
In the baggage or passenger cats, it is not
in our power to say. Tliat something un
usual had happened—that something was
dreaded—we were not long in finding out.
As our cars came very near lo a stand-
gin still, I heard voices without, which
How Much of the Public Domain
Eemains Unoccupied.
Interesting Statistics.
The recent passage of the illiteracy bill
in the United States Senate gives increased
iutcrcst to the future disposition of the
public lands of the country.
According to the government surveys,
there rernaiu open to sale aud settlement
in the States of Missouri, Iowa, Kansas,
Minnesota, Nebraska and Colorado, 230,-
000,000 acres of wild land.
Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho, Dakota
Utah and Montana will furnish 250,000,-
000 acres more fit for agricultural purposes.
Then we have on tho Facliic slope, em
bracing California, Oregon, Nevada, aud
the Territories of Arizona and Washing
ton, 250,000,000 acre3 of umurveyei land.
Much of tills region, however, Is so broken
by mountain ranges as to he adapted only
to sheep-farming. In Texas there are no
tab, tta grea Sule haviug ™ S.JlVVbb
indicated that danger, perhaps, was
apprehended. Two passengers in the car
with me suddenly arose and disappeared.
An impulse prompted me to go to the door
and see what was the matter. Hearing a
train rushing on I knew not whence it
came. I jumped off and ran up an em
bankment about four feet in height which
happened to be on my side ot the track.
Turning instantly what a sight met my
eyes 1 Simultaneously with my turned
look, an engine, dragging a long freight
train behind it, came thundering along
crashing into the sleeper, and crushing
through the berth which I had so recently
and providentially left. Hardly had this
happened when lo, another freight train
following close in the wake of its wrecked
companion, telescoped In’o it, striking it
just at tbe short aud sudden carve where
the rear car of the train, which had teles
coped into ours, had stopped.
Here were three wrecked trains! But
at what loss of limb and life! The latter
was doubtless the intensely absorbing
thought iu the minds of all who were
saved. Besides a few bruises which one
or two had received, it wan soon known
that but one person was seriously btirt.
In a few moments it was evident that tbe
engineer of the first freight train was
buried and had perished in the wreck. AU
who could lend *a helping hand were soon
busily employed in removing the debris of
tho crashed sleeper. Col. Wadley never
showed himself to better advantage. He bad
escaped almost by a miracle. With noth
ing on but his pantaloons, with suspenders
hanging down, with head uncovered, be
moved about superintending the work
and applying his own hands to hasten it
forward, forgetful of his recent lameness,
and regardless of the bitter cold
of one of tbe coldest mornings ever
witnessed in our climate. Captain
Raoul, just as he had escaped,in his night
clothes, with only a loose coat thrown
around hitn, and iu slippered feet, was
equally prompt, seconding with a hearty
will the orders of his chief. There was
indeed not one on the three trains—notone
of the passengers—who was not ready to
do all in his power to rescue the missing en
gineer,if rescue was possibly But,alas! all
hope of rescue was in vain. The brave
Crosby had fallen at his post, a noble
martyr to his sense of duty.
Not the sligliest blame, as we believe,
attaches to any one of tho employes on the
three trains.
Tbo accident which brought on the
catastrophe was unavoidable; and when it
occurred, everything was done to make its
effects less terrible. But no praise
is comparable to that which de
servedly attaches to tiie name of
the engineer who lost his life. If it had
wisely reserved, by tho terms of anuexa
tion, every foot of her territory. Arkansas
is the only one of tbe older States of the
Union, save Florida, In which any consid
erable bodies of public land still remain
Innoccuplad.
First and last, the government has been
guilty of the folly of giving aicag, for rail
and wagon road construction, tbe enor
mous aiuonnt of 10S,105,704 acres of tbe
public domain, of which those monster
corporations, tbe Pacific railroads, gobble
np no less than 135,000,000.
The New York Bulletin publishes an
interesting table showing tbo value of
farm lands fn the United States, cleared
and timbered, lor 1SS0, and tiie percentage
of increase m one year. In this we find
Georgia put down as follows:
Average value of cleared land in 1SS0,
per acre, $6.03;
Average value of timber land, per acre,
$5.45.
Average increase in value of both classes
per acre, 10 per cent.
Tbe table gives an increased value for
every State. For the whole country tho
average is 8 per cent. The South Atlantic
"States advance 0 per cent. Tiie aggregate
shows an immense addition in value to
the real estate of the Union.
The SnowStorxi of Monday Night
was very severe north of North Carolina,
and the mails havo been impeded more or
less since that, time. :: At Fredericksburg,
Va., the snow-fall continued without in
termission thirty-three hours, i.nd many
trees were broken down with the weight
of the deposit. It wa3 declared to be tho
heaviest snow-fall known in Virginia for
twenty-five years. In New Jersey the
accumulation was at the rate of an inch
an hour, and all the roads were blockaded
and for a tiino impassable. At Long
Branch there were drifts tenfeet in depth,
and part of the great iron pier was de
stroyed by ihe force of the sea. On Long
Island the snow was fifteen inches deep on
level. The storm throughout the Mid
dle Atlantic States was very severe.
Tbe Best New Tear's Gift
For your friend is a ticket in tbe 27th
Drawingof the old reliable Common
wealth Distribution Co., which takes
placoon the 31st Inst. It costs only $2
and may result iu a gift of $39,000. Send
to R. M. Boardman. Louisville, Ky., for a
ticket. _ _ ■
True—It is easy to understand why a
f ood actress in % play morally bad will
raw better than ap^oractrtlsaJn a m)ay
morally good. But trhy a good actress in
play morally good will not draw as well
as a good actress in a play morally bad—
in Boston, too—is a question which should
be handled as gently as possible, unless
one wishes to get himself disliked.—Bos
ton Post.
noble purpose to sacrifice his own life to
save the lives of others—the loss of life, in
all probability, must have been very great.
The distance between the curve and the
sleeping car was less than the length of
his own train. As the conductor of tiie
passenger train, who ran with all the
speed be could to signal the danger, did
not reach the carve before the approach
ing freight train had arrived at it, tbe en-
g lneer must have seen our train as soon as
e saw the flag of tbe conductor. In a
moment—in the twinkling of an eye—the
intrepid Crosby blew ou brakes; in the
next moment he reversed his engine and
held it reversed; and to lessen tnt speed
by making tiie friction greater, ho all tbe
while kept sanding the track.
The wooiFpasser and the firepnn, see
ing that a collision was inevitable, that
certain death awaited them if they re
mained on the engine a moment longer,
entreated the engineer to jnmp and save
himself. But he turned a deaf ear to
these appeals. The wood-passer ami
fireman leaped from the engine and saved
themselves from tho impending death.
But the bold engineer nobly stuck to his
engine, believing that every moment ho
adhered to his purpose he was saving a
human life. If be abandoned his eDgine,
if he left off sanding the track, liis engine
might go crashing through the entire pas
senger train before it. But if be held on,
he might save his engine; If not, he
might so break the force of tbe rushiDg
train as to save the lives of many,
if not the lives of all on
the passenger cars. If he had
not dona what he did do, if he had not
held to his engine and sanded the track to
tbe lost, the destruction of limb and life
must have been great. IBs engine must
have made a perfect wreck of all the pas
senger ear*'before It; tfic blow must bave
been so sudden as to leave no possible es
cape, at least for those in
the unfortunate sleeper. At all
eveuts the writer will go to his grave
persuaded that the heroic and sdf-sacri-
licing conduct of Sol. Crosby saved tbe
life of Col. Wattley, the lives of Col. Wad-
ley’s son aud son-in-law, the lives of tho
passengers then on the sietq-er, and, per
haps, the lives of others iu the other cars
of the telescoped train. J|
Such a death deserves a monument! Such
a servant deserves tiie amplest reward.
The heroic self-sacrifice of the brave
eugincar should be so signally rewarded
that every employe of the Central rail
road may feel that he seiwes a company '
that knows how to appreciate and now to
repay deeds of heroic dariug ;>er-
fortned in its service. Let tho widow and
the orphan children of the lostengineer be
made the adopted wards of the company !
a marble column be reared to his
memory, on which shall be written the
inscription; “He Sanded His Track to the
Java.” J. O. A. Clark.
Macon, Ga., December 23, 1880.
Charles Hartman, Ohio, says: I
know it cured me, aud I hope others simi
larly troubled with paiu in &e chest may
be helped by Use “Only Lung Fad as I
have.
The foreign gossip* say that the match
between Ashmead Bartlett and L*dy
Burdeit-Courts is off.