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MACON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1881
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VOLUME LY-NO. 1
AFTER TUB THEATRE.
Ten dollars. Quite a sum to pay
For cne abo earns but foyr a day
For Just a single evening’s fun—
It seems so, now t hilling is done.
Three for the carriage, for you'know
I never could ask her to go
With that swell dress—the shade ecru,
And train strong out a yard or two—
In a plain horse car. And so nice
She looked, 1 do not grudge the price.
Three more for seats—down centre aisle
And four rows back—just right for style.
The curtain rose, now time will pass
. While gazing through an opera glass.
The curtain fell. Once more we stood
Outside, and then the thought of food
Itself presented. She said yes,
She felt quite hungry. You can guess
That what we ate, with just a bit
Of rosy wine to season it,
Used up that other four. Time sped.
I took her home. Good night was said.
Then to my own home came I straight;
And here 1 sit and meditate.
The cash 1 had four hours ago
Is gone. I’ve naught for it to show.
Have I regrets for it? Not one.
’Twas lolly, but, by Jove, ’twas funl
—Boston Post.
1 —
The Needs of the South.
. Hou. Emory Speer, of the ninth con
gressional district of this Slate, has been
•caught in the’toils of the ubiquitous report
cr, and the following Is taken from the
Chicago Times. Mr. Spegf, In speaking of
the material advantages of Georgia, was
asked the following questions:
“What are these questions of material
advantage?”
“For instance, the IarifT question and
the tax on cotton machinery. There is a
great industry whicli we can build up in
the South. Our climate Is wonderfully
adapted for the manufacture of cotton.
The raw material grows right at the door
of the factory. There is not a day in the
? car that our streams are clogged by ice.
straight and labor are cheap. Cotton spins
much bettei in our climate than it does in
a colder climate. -We could add millions
of dollars to our income every year if it
were possible for us to
MAXUFACTtjfeE T^B COTTbN WE GBOW
into clotli or even thread. Yet it seems
Impossible for us to get any relief, even
in removing the duty from cotton ma
chinery, which virtually amounts to a pro
hibition on the purchase of machinery
abroad. My idea of the iiist duty of u
Southron Representative is so to act as to
« et as much and as speedy relief as possi-
lefor the material interests of the people
whom he represents. What I mean to
say is this: I do not want the demauds
of tho party to preVSut me from getting as
much substantial relict as possible for our
people. The Union will need fifteen
millions of new spindles, with accompa
nying machinery, it is said, in the n£xt
twenty years. Now, ought we not be per
mitted to buy where we can buy the
cheapest? If one who contemplates cotton
manufacture can buy in England for one
dollar what will cost two dollars to buy
• here, ought he be compelled to buy at
home, or else abandon the enterprise
which ho contemplates? We want this
load fhken off. We want other relief of a
similar character, and I think this Is the
specd.est way to get rid of any feapof the
solid South. If onr interests arffdiversi-
fied, we will have diverse politics; but if
we are always kept by the policy ol the
government H
AX AOIUCOr.TTJBAI.AXD I’ASToltAI. PEO
PLE,
it will not be surprising if we have same
ness of interests, causing' sameness Of
political thought.”
‘•In what spirit do the people .of the
South regard the election oi General Gir-
field, and what hope, if any, have they
that the policy of the new administration*
will tend to advance their material,'
political and social interests?”
“I think there is a very general disposi
tion in the South to be entirely reconciled
to General Garfield’s election. lie is con
ceded to be fairly elected, and many of us
have testified to our opinion of his high
intellectual and individual cliaracterln
such a way that the people have great
confidence that Ids administration will be
a very successful one. I think General
Garfield can do a great deal toward bring
ing politics into a normal condition down
there by heeding the opinion of our rep
resentative Southern men. I do not mean
to say that I expect that he will pay much
attention to tlie ultra-Bonrbons, but" to
such Southern thinkers who believe that
there is a future for the South, even under
the amendments of the constitution which
were at first so obnoxious to our people.
I allude to_^_.
aval HEX AS SEXATOn BBOWX,
I take him as a type or a very large class
of our people. If all of the offices of the
administration down tbero are to be con
ferred on partisans, there will be very
little encouragement to a liberal and in
dependent spirit. That there is such a
spirit there is evidenced by my election
and that of Senator Brown. Senator
•Brown voted for Grant after the war.
No man in tlie history of our State, from
the day Oglethorpe landed at Yamacraw
Bluff, was so bitterly denounced as was
Gov. Brown, yet be was elected to the
United States Senate by a two-thirds vote
of the Georgia Legislature over General
Lawton, a genuine type of the Southern
chivalry, a gallant Confederate officer,
and one of the meet distinguished men of
our State. This is another instance, I
think, of a very decided progress in
liberalism and independentism on tho
part of tlie people of the South. _ Of course
we cannot offer an alliance with the Re
publican party, because in many things
wo differ from the Republicans; but I
think we can offer a liberal, independent
and progressive legislative conduct.”
“What is tlie condition of the- colored
element of the South?”
“It would be a very happy thing to U3 if
the educational bill, which has passed the
Senate, would pass the House, f here Is
A OIIEAT DEAL OF ILLITERACY
In the South, and we need aid from the
government to educate the pcple. This
education, in roy own State, would bo di-
vided with rigid rightfulness between tlie
colored and white people. The State
Legislature of Georgia votes the same
amount every year to the University for
the colored youth as It docs for the uni
versity for tlie white youth of tlie Slate. I
liave seen crowds of little children at tlie
•common schools being educated by the
colored teachers educated at the State
University. There js great hope
Fulness in my mind about
the condition of tho negroes. They
Are gaining property, and the children, es
pecially in towns and villages, are being
-educated. We belt^-a that
A GENERAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATIOX
•there would In a few years redound Yery
greatly to the prosperity of us all.”
“Is It true that there is a disposition
to deprive tlie negro of the right ol suf
frage unless he votes the Democratic tick
et r
udice of this kind. Of course, where there
have been divisions in the people which
were written in blood, as were ours, it is
a long time before the scars heal over.
Take, for instance, the English
and tho Scotch of to-day. They
are one people, but the Scotch people
perhaps have more pleasant memo
ries of Bannockburn, where Brace over-
threw Edward, than have the English
people. It is not unnatural that weshould
preserve the same memories. Our peo
ple cheer ‘Dixie’ a little louder in some
audiences, perhaps, than they would the
‘Star Spangled Banner,’ bnt still there is
au entirely
GOOD FEELIXG TOWARD THE GOVEBX-
MEXT,
and determination that we shall hare for
the future an indestructible Union.
Wherever in my canvass I declared for an
indissoluble Union of Indestructible
Stales the crowd would cheer heartily and
with great enthusiasm.”
“What is the condition and character of
the emigration, and wliat is there to in
duce emigration to the South ?”
“I judge only of the emigration into my
district. I know of sixty Northern men
from Western New York there who are
in a very thriving condition. They have
improved the old plantations which they
bought at cheap rates, until they have
very rnnch increased their value. I talked
recently with several of these gentlemen,
who are men of fine intelligence. They
speak very hopefully of their condition.
They are making a great deal of money
in making hay from onr Bermuda grass,
which grows there in great profusion, and
which, until the arrival of these men,
was thought to be of no value whatever
and a positive blemish to tlie places where
it grew. But these men, will) character
istic enterprise, are making money from
it. In the upper part of ray district there
is a great deal of Northern capital em
barked in
GOLD MIXIXO.
There is not a section of the country so
inviting to emigrants as the upper portion
of my State. The climate is delightful
tlie year round; fiuitsof all varieties
grow there in the richest profusion; cot
ton is being grown now to the very foot
of the Blue Ridge Monntains, while be
fore the war there was very little of it
grown in the section where I live, sixty
miles south of that point. Our water
power is wonderfully valuable, and, if we
had an infusion of Northern energy and
capital in our section, the country would
soon assume the appearance of the best
K rtions of Ohio and Pennsylvania.. We
ve a magn'ficent future before us, and
there is a strong dispo.ition among tlie
people to turn away from tlie old ideas
and to reward liberalism in politics.”—
BLAKELY.
Christmas T^M nud Plenty of Fun.
Blakely', Ga., January 3.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—
I must beg space in your valuable paper
for the public expression of a few facts
concerning this pretty little vihage which
nestles cosily lnj.be thick forests of South
west G corgi?.
Much regretting the necessity of spend
ing even a portion of tlie holidays here,
we bad concluded to hybemate through
them, but having heard of tlie graud suc
cess of the Masonic festival at the court
bouse, oalast Monday night, and tlie great
beauty of tlie Methodist-Christmas tree
on the night following, we could not fore
go an irresistible inclination of witnessing
tbe Baptist Christmas tree exercises,
which took pla$e on Wednesday night,
tlie 20tb.» _
At atj/arly hour, accompanied by par
ents and teachers, the throng of bright
children, who were to be the chief bene
ficiaries, commenced pouring in, and ere
long tbe house was crowded with a con
course of people, as well dressed and in
telligent as any city congregation in the
State. The handsomely-decorated walls
of tlie largo court room retlected evidences
of the. unquestionable taste rutd refine
ment of Blakely’s young ladies. From
floor to ceiling in the centre ol* tbe room
rose the most beautiful Christmas tree
we ever beheld. Burning tapers beamed
in beauty from its number
less branches, and hundreds of beautiful
presents hang m rich profusion from its
evergreen boughs. As if In commemora
tion of Christian liberty, countless flags,
the insignia of American freedom, un
furling their, silken folds, waved a happy
welcome from its wide-spreading arms.
Indeed, that gorgeous tree, surpassing in
splendor anything of the kind before in
Blakely, bearing as it did tlie sweet fruits
of Christian affection, seemed the pano
ramic antitype of Paradise. But enough
of {this- Suffice it to say no little face
went from that room saddened with dis
appointment.
If, in the future, It shall ever be our
happy privilege to spend the Christmas
holidays in Blakely, we shall not hyber-'
nate, but make the most of every hour wo
can spare to spend in that enlightened
community.
Asking pour pardon for this intrusion, I
subscribe myself four transient friend,
Jacob.
The Christianoy Scandal
Washixotox, January 4.—Tbe local
papers of this city publish to-day, under
a New York telegraphic heading, a series
of letters purporting to have been written
last spring and summer by Mrs. Chns-
tiancy to Edelberto Giro, whose name is
coupled with liera in Minister Christiancy’s
divorce proceedings. These letters are of
a very affectionate character, and contain
many appeals to Giro to come forward and
testify for her protection against the
charges made by Mr. Christiancy’s coun
sel in regard to their alleged improper in
timacy.
Accompanying these letters are also
several written to a Mr. Jackson, whom
she Implores, as a friend of Mr. Giro, to
exert his influence to induce the latter to
come forward and save the woman he
had compromised from the consequences
of what she terms “a thoughtless.but
great imprudence.”
This evening's' Star publishes an inter
view with Mrs. Christiaucy, in which she
admits the authenticity'of the letters, but
explains them as follows: Giro was in
love with her and had repeatedly asked
her, personally and by letter, to get a
divorce from her husband and marry him
(Giro). She had steadfastly refused,
whereupon Giro at last became violent
and threatened that If she did not promise
to marry him, he would rain her character
by saying that sho (Mrs. Christiancy) was
tlie woman wlio bad once visited bis room
at the St. James Hotel]in this city. To pac
ify him she finally promised to marry
him, but after ho returned to New York
she wrote him recalling her promise. He
continued, however, to urge its fulfillment
with threats. When Mr. Christiancy began
divorce proceedings against her on tlie
ground of alleged improper Intimacy with
Giro, Mrs. Christiaucy, under the advice
of friends, wrote Giro tlie series of letters
now published, her object being to prevent
liim (by pretending to he in iove with
him) from carrying out his threats and to
“I can only speak of my own section, induce him to give truthful testimony for
There was no interference with them in | ] ier protection.'
the exercise of this l ight. But really ] —
this movement of the new South as against ; .Tajik* dONBOB, for two terms-1 rest
tlie Bourbon element is a guarantee that! dent of lb* United Stat.died “after six
the negro shall have a full vote and a fair i yeats of penury and distress, as John y
one >. I Adams wrote in iris diary. >obody got
“Is there really a prejudice in the South j up a presidential relief fund for him nor
.against the North as a section ?’’ I offered him the presidency of a mining
“I don’t think there is any special prej- • company or a canal.
MRS. MARTHA TUCKER’S LETTER
TO SAMANTHY,
Macon Tbroosh an Old Lady’s Ejrea.
Written for the Tel graph a nd Messenger.
Macon, Ga., January 4,1881. v
My Dear Samanthy: You have, no
doubt, by this time mentally accused your
old aunty of, as Mr. Morley would say, a
failure to perform, and probably my delay
in writing you, according to promise, has
been sufficiently long to justify your ac
cusation. Tbe troth i, however, my dear
Samanthy, I have tarried in my intentions
tiiat I might the better please you when
they were fulfilled.
I found my dear sister’s house fnll of
Christmas guests, and, vgltlle I bare tried
not to show it, I must confess myself but
poorly pleased with affairs here. Every
thing is so different from dear old Elm
wood. Comfort seems to be sacrificed to
convenience on all sides, fur w hile the
house and its furnishing are elegant, there
is a want of enjoyment about it truly re
markable. I miss the old tea-kettle and
my hot brick, and when I speak to a ser
vant be only bows and looks as if be
thought I was crazy. It is breakfast at
ten, dinner at three and supper at nine-
hours that don’t suit an old lady who lias
forty years fed the chickens and herself
at daylight, dined at noon, and gone to
bed with a cup of tea at eight—that is,
when she .didn’t eit up for whist. And
then Urn parties, dances, theatres and
amusements are endless. It is enough to
paralyze one with astonishment.
The only man I have yet seen to like is
Mr. Morley, a sharp, shrewd, funny law
yer, who seems to delight In the weak
nesses of others. He and I have become
firm friends, and I fear I am gradually
adopting many of his pet theories about
people and things. He is a good friend,
and takes me out whenever I care to go,
wbicb is not often, for everybody thinks I
must put on my best black silk dress, tfveu
to cross tiie street.
Macon is a smart sized town and plen
ty of business is done here. But you want
to hear about society, and I have kept my
eyes open to inform. The most remarka
ble tiling I have observed in society Is the
lack of conversation; or maybe it would
be best to say shallowness. There is none
of that good old talk you and your father
and mother and Judge Pitts and I used to
bare. Why! Ihavonot heard a word
said about tlie influence of the weather
upon housed vegetables, or tlie massacre
of the Huguenots, or the persecution of
the early Christians, or tlie burial place of
Moses since 1 came. All those beautiful
stories about old Italy, and tlie early Brit
ous, and tbe Druids, liave been laid aside
for ever it seems, and tlie Lord only knows
what people here do talk about. Mr. Mor
ley says that conversations have degener
ated here terribly in tbe last ten years.
No one reads bools, awl of course they
can't converse about them. National
politics is an unknown realm, a species of
south pole, that nobody seems to want to
invade. Public men outside of tlie city
limits are hardly known by name,
much less by their record. Miwl you,
Samanthy dear, I am speaking only about
tbe fashionable people, because I haven’t
met the other yet. They had what they
called a German the other night, and
nothing must do but what I must go and
see it. I heard Mr. Morley talking with a
bright-faced girl. He said something
about Gambetta, and when she asked if
he had ever been heard of since he sailed
up the Nile to discover the source, he
laughed aud told lier “No. It was now
generally conceded that be had been cat
en up by tlmgrizzly bears. The poor thing
sighed and said that Asia was a horrid
country, and she didn’t seo why people
would keep going there. But that’s just
like them all. Why, the other night I
sat behind Mollie in the theatre, and
heard her talking to a nice looking'youug
fellow that wore kid glovfis. I never was
so mortified in my life. There is a pic
ture on the curtain there of Venice, and
they got to talking about it. Here is ex
actly wliat they said, for Mr. Morloy
wrote it down as soon as we got home.
They had run out of talk, when he looked
at the curtain and said:
“Don't you suppose they found it hard
work ferrying tlie horses about town,
Miss Mollie? I don’t see bow they man
aged it—with such little boats.”
I listened, expecting to hear her tell
him they didn’t have horses there, but the
little goose said:
‘Ohl 1 read somewhere that tlie horses
of Venice were winged. I should think
that wings would be vety necessary there
unless the horses had web leet or fins.”
Both of them giggled and then he said:
“I expect llial was tlie way of it. I re
member now that there is a picture of
Venice at home, showing where one of
them had lit on a high column.” 1 thought
Mr. Morley would roll oil' the scat, hut 1
was so mortified that I cried. By this
time tlie curtain had gone up, and a wo
man was telling her sweetheart good-bye
on the stage. Seeing me wiping my eyes,
tlie young man nudged Mollie and said:
“The old woman can’t stand the racket;
guess she’s from the country.” Mollie flush
ed up but didn’t say anything. She was as
much ashamed of me as t was of her, but
Mr. Morley had got tolaughingagain.
I believe tbe man will die laughing. He
says bo always enjoys such conversations;
that when they are done, be feels as good
as if he had taken a vapor bath. But he
is not perfection either. He faced me
down that it was David who saw the burn
ing bush, and I faced him down that it
was Moses. But bless your soul, .Saman
thy, do you know when I got tlie Bible to
prove it, I couldn’t find the place to save
roylife? And then be laughed at me and
went off. The next day I showed it bitn
in black and white, and lie actually con
tended that be bad named Moses from tbe
first, while I said David. I might have
been mistaken, but I can’t see how it
possiblo.
But I have come to the end of my paper
and must atop. Don’t let the turkeys
roost in tbe woods, and tell Judge Pitta
that they don’t play whist here. They
play a game called “cassmo,” and every
body talks so you can’t remember
tramps long enough to play. Goodbye,
and write soon.
Your affectionate aunt,
Mautha Tucker.
P. S.—The weather is cold here.
M. T.
The Democrats of the forty-fourth Con
gress entered upon a policy calculated to
secure this soil of government. When
they cut down tbe expenditures they
struck at all the most alarming tenden
cies, from centralization of power to petty
official larceny. That policy woii the ap
proval of the people, and ought to be faith
fully pursued. ’
Frugal and Simple.
The Sun deliveers itself of the follow
ing : “I am,” said Thomas Jefferson, “for
a government rigorously frugal and sim
ple.” Tho followers of Jefferson will find
their account In being honestly and con
sistently for tbe same tiling. Tbe phrase
quoted embraces all tbe government that
is necessary to tbe weli being of tbe coun
try. Frugality is the parent Of
official honesty and accountability, while
extravagance in expenditures is a parent
of corruption and centralization.
A frugal and simple government col
lects only such taxes as are necessary for
the performance of its own functions,such
as the administration of justice and tbe
common defense. It raises no fund for
commercial or industrial enterprises;
takes nothing from the people to give away
m the form of sudsldies.
A frugal and simple government cuts
down its civil list lo tlie number absolute
ly required for tlie public business
maintains no army for which it has no
oilier employment than that of overawing
tlie peopie or their representatives. It is
never tlie victim of ring jobbery and plun
der, because its revenues are too slehder
or too well guarded by law to tempt the
thief.
Fatal Fire.
New Yoke, January 4.—A fire occur
red this morning in the rear of 35 Madi
son street, in a four-story tenement house.
Nine lives were lost. The victims are:
Ellen Sheridan, aged forty-three; Katie
Sheridan, aged fourteen; Maggie Sheri
dan, aged five; Martin Sheridan, aged
three; John Walsh, aged thirteen; Thom
as Cassidy, aged six; Charles Cassidy,
aged eight, a girl named Egan, aged
two, ana Mrs. Sheridan, age unknowu.
Several persons were injured—among
them James Cassidy, Mary Egan and
Charles Walsh.
Another account says at S:15 this morn
ing a fire broke out In a tenement house
iu the rear of James Doyle’s liquor store
at 35 Madison street. It started at tbe
bottom of the stairs that furnished the-
only mode of exit for the tenants of the
five-story building, barring outside fire
escapes, and in less than five minutes
swept through the stairway, to the roof,
cutting off the escape of a score of persons.
Suddenly imperilled, the tenants made
rush for the roor, but tbe scuttle was
firmly hooked and would not yield.
The ascending flames drove them back
in their rooms and a scene of tho wildest
confusion ensued. Men and women threw
their children from the windows and
jumped after them, although the flames
swept across tho yard aud caught their
clothing. When the firemen mastered the
raging element the dead bodies of nine
persons who had been burned were taken
out, and several wbo were injured in mak
ing their escape were sent to Chambers
Street Hospital.
Tbe scene was tliat.of a dreadful holo
caust, the like pf which has not occurred
in tills city since tlie tenement house lire
in Canuon street over a year ago, and
tlie dreadful Turner Hall calamity about
the same time. It is approached through
a narrow alley, hardly wide enoughto al
low the passage of a portly man, between
two tall tenements, Nos. 35 and 33, Mad
ison street. In front of No. 35 is James
Doyle’s liquor store. Its back door opens
directly upon the narrow hallway iu the
rear of the tenement, whore the start was,
given to this morning’s fire.
I’lumbers were busy at the foot of the
stairs thawing out frozen wa
ter pipes, and for this pur-
8 osu used a gasoliue apparatus.
iy some means it was upset and the in
flammable material ran out. There was a
blinding flash and then an explosion that
blew in the door of the saloon. In an in
stant tbe black smoke went up a long
stairway, impelled by a draught of air
setting towards the open windows in the.
top story. Tbe fire tmding vent through
the open doors and windows of the Bit-
tenanted ground floor of the bouse
seized upon the shutters, window frames
and wooden floors of the balconies out
side, licking them up like so much tissue
paper, and reaching upwards towuids the
floors where tlie frightened men huddled
together, afraid to venture out upon tho
lire escapes that seemed to lead into tlie
very jaws of death. Eight families occu
pied the house, two ou each floor. On
tlie second floor, the Eagans and Mul-
doons had, at tlie first aiarm, escaped
through the windows. Mis. Marthy Ea
gan, widow, and her four grown children,
Margaret, Thomas, Joseph and John
readied tlie ground in safety by a quick
jump. Sirs. Muldoon, who is over eighty
ycais old, was less fortunate. Seizing her
two grandchildren, Annie, aged ten, and
Katie, aged seven, she sprang from the lire
escape, but In tho fall sprained or broke
her leg aud crawled away with much dif
ficulty.
On the floor above, Mr. R. C. Reagan,
who lived alone, escaped with his neigh
bors, the McKenna family, likewise by
jumping. James, aged nine, Hugh, aged
four,and tlie baby were thrown through the
window by Charles, their eldest brother, a
lad of fifteen. The mother, Mrs. Mc
Kenna, was sweeping in tbe yard when
the fire broke out. Sho rushed to tbe stair
way but was met by a solid sheet of flame,
and realizing tlie danger of her cbildren
roused them by shouting before they
knew of tlie approach of the deadly visi
tor. “Jump, Charles; throw them
down,” tbe agouized mother cried, and
stretched out her aims to receive them, as
three littl heads looked over tho window
sill beside their brother. The lad measured
the distance with his eye—it was more than
twenty feet—and shrank from the ven
ture with dread of instant death; but
smoke was already filling the room and
pourlngthrough the window. Tno children
now cried and stretched their hands to
ward their mother. The baby’s call, “ma
ma, mama,” was heard above tbe roar of
tbe fire and tbe clamor in the streets. Tbe
mother cried, “Charlie, for God’s sake
jump I” and tbe boy flung the baby into
her aims. Tho other cbildren followed,
himself leaping last. AU reached tbe
ground in safety. On tbe fourth floor
lived tbe Cassidy'family aud the Eagans,
another family, but of tbe same namo as
those on the first floor. In the fifth and
topmost story, Mrs. Ellen Sheridan was at
breakfast with her four children.
New York, January 4.—The men in
tlie Sheridan family, as in all the others
bad gone to their work. At tbe firs’
alarm Mrs. Sheridan ran to tlie door, and
seeing tbe hallway effectually blocked
turned to tbe window. Tbe flames there
met her also, and iu despair she rushed to
the scuttle on the root. It was .firmly
lacked, and her strength, desperate as she
was, did not suffice to open it. Return
ing to her room she closed tbe door on
the advancing fire, but it was too lato, as
tbe rooms wero filled with smoke, and
growing more dense every moment, in
which the woman and her children groped
about, vainly seeking a window. They
were found dead, evidently choked before
the flames reached them.
Tbe Cassidy family had attempted to
escape by the roof, but failing, they readi
ed the windows and flung themselves out.
Only two of them, Charles and Thomas,
boys of six and eight years, were left.
They were suffocated, and when found
their clothes were burned off.
Of the Eagan family, all were saved
except a little girl of two years. They
escaped by throwing themselves Into tbe
yard, but Mary Eagan was badly injured
in tlie fall, and was taken to the hospital.
The whole was over in less time by far
than it takes lo tell it. The yard was
filled witli the writhing bodies of scorched
and injured women. The police aud Bre
men quickly removed these and made
heroic efforts to gain the upper floors,
whence issued tbe cries of those yet im
prisoned. They were beaten back each
time. Officer Thos. Barrett reached the
second floor on a fire escape, and assist
ed in the rescue of two children before be
himself wae compelled to jump for his
life. In half an hour all was over, and
the bouse stood scorched, blackened and
dripping from roof to cellar with tbe
torrents of water that bad flooded it. The
damage to the house is estimated at
$3,000. The building is tbe property of
Mrs. Eagan, a wealthy resident of an up
town street, and was a fair type of hun
dreds of structures in the city, in which
the poor are huddled without sufficient
means to escape In case of fire.
Important Letter of Gen. B. P. Alex
ander to the Bailroad Commission
ers.
Louisville, December 17.—Governor
James M. Smith, Chairman Georgia Bail-
road Commission, Atlanta, Ga.: Dear
Governor— In looking over the official
report of the commission to the Legisla
ture, I see myself recorded as having ex
pressed tlie opinion that six per cent, div
idends would be a reasonable return for
stockholders in railroads to be allow
ed to receive for tbeir invest
ments. I cannot recall ever having given
expression to such views,- or ever before
having been called upon even to frame or
express an opinion upon tho subject, and
I am sure your honorable body has either
been misinformed as to my views, or have
misunderstood some statement or
expression which I have used in some
other connection,but cert ainly not intended
to convoy the opinion which has been
accredited to me. If I were called upon
for such an opinion I certainly would not
fix the dividend, which any railroad cor
poration should bo allowed to receive, at
less than 10 per cent.; and I think the fol
lowing considerations should justify even
a larger dividend than that, to-wit: In
the first place, as property invested in
railroads benefits all the community in a
far greater degree than property invested
in mercantile business, and even far
more than that invested in manufacturing,
a community, 1 am sure, receiving all tlie
benefits of cheap transportation and in
creased values of lands might look with
equanimity upon dividends, at least as
great as the ordinary profits derived from
mercantile and manufacturing invest
ments, even those that are exceptionally
profitable.
In tbe second place, the enormous
amount of money required to build rail
roads, places tbeir construction generally
beyond tbe power of single individuals,’
who must combine in corporations, and
withdraw tlieir money from other invest
ments to put it in railroads. Of course
there would be no encouragement to capi
talists to make this use ot tbeir surplus
means, unless they are allowed the privi
lege of increased eamiugs from tlieir in
vestments. To limit the dividends to
lower rates would be simply to put a pen
alty upon investing in a railroad, which
surely should not be tbe policy of the
State.
In the nest place, the building of a
railroad is usually a matter of some
years. Money invested In a railroad
stock is usually unproductive of any div
idend for a much longer period than
money invested in mercantile pursuits or
any manufacturing enterprises, and should
upon tiiat ground alone he entitled to
yield better returns after it lias passed
through the unproductive period. I think,
therefore, that no reasonable man can
complain if tlie stockholders of a railroad
receive for-tbeir iu vestment a larger re
turn than the average of good investments
iu either mercantile or incnutacluring
enterprises.
Now, wh.at are tlie average returns of
such investments? The legal rate of in
terest allowed iu Georgia, to men who
take no risks, but lend money upon am
ple security, and without a single day of
unproductiveness, is 8 per cent, per an
num,. Successful manufacturing enter
prises pay all tho way from 10 to 20 per
cent, and the average successful merchant
clears on his capital embarked irom 15 to
25 per cent, per annum. At lerst those
are tlie figures given me by friends in
trade. Iu this connection there should
be considered tho contingencies to which
railroad capital is subjected—which are
certainly as great as the contingencies af
fecting either'mercantile or manufactur
ing enterprises. Money once invested in
a railroad caunot be moved. The build
ing of a competing line may destroy its
value, and there is no help for it. But
a steamboat may go to another river, or a
merchant may remove his stock of goods
to another market, or a manufacturer his
machinery to another site, which may of
fer better opportunities, aU with compara
tively little expense.
Again, the principal calamity which
can befall a merchant or a manufacturer
is fire, agaiust which lie can insure. But
every railroad company has daily at - risk
the lives or limbs of thousands of travelers
whose safety depends upon tbe sobriety,
skill and faithful performance of duty of
hundreds of employes, aud upon the
strength of thousands of wheels and
axles, couplings, rails, ties, spikes and all
the myriad appurtenances oi a complete
railroad. The only insurance against an
accident which may involve a year’s earn
ings Is In a careful attention and watchful
supervision of all these matters, under all
circumstances, rain or shine, storm or
calm, heat or cold. No human care or
foresight is adequate to absolutely insure
safety in ail these risks.
Iu addition to the ordinary dividends to
its stockholders, every railroad should be
allowed to earn a surplus fund, to take
care of dividends when these accidents
come, as well as when short crops aud
financial crashes overtake them, in com
mon with all other Investors,'except those
who lend tbeir money at $ percent, amply
secured.
Perhaps I may say in addition, also,
that, as building a railroad does not force
anybody to use it, but still leave tbe com
munity in possession of all tbe transporta
tion facilities wbicli it bad before tbe road
was built, unless they voluntarily abandon
them.it should really be no matter of con
cern to the community at large, whether
tbe railroad turned out a very poor one,
and paid Its stockholders little or nothing,
as some manufacturing and mercantile
enterprises do, or whether it should turn
out a small “bonanza” and make its
stockholders rich, as somo other mercan
tile aud manufacturing enterprises do.
But, at least, I hope your honorablo
body will understand that 1 have never
intended to be understood as saying that
I considered 0 per cent, a reasonable
maximum dividend to be allowed to rail
road stockholders. • Very respectfully and
sincerely yours, E. P. Alexander,
Vice-President.
while onr imports, mostly from England,
were $1,170,000. These are facts.” Such
facts completely upset the theory of New
Englaud protection. Tbe argument iu
favor of the present tariff ou the ground
that the laboring classes are benefited
by It is a taking oue, but is exploded by
the fact that Canada is becoming depleted
of her best laboring population because of
the reaction of promises held out to it iu
view of her highly protective system, and
especially by the remembrance that it was
during the existence of the present tariff
that the laborers of this country were in
greater distress, and the complaint was
more general, than ever. But it is hard
to root out old Ideas on this subject.
Harder atill is it to bring about a change
under such leadership as established this
system of “legalized robbery.” Neverthe
less the time has fully come to try it. For
tiiat reason every revenue reformer is wel
come to the front from whatever camp he
comes.
The Pullman Comuanv Floored.
Baltimore, Jan. 3.—In the United
States Circuit Court this morning, in the
suit of tlie Pullman Palace Car Company
agaiust the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, for Infringement of the patent
of complainants by the railroad company,
incising Pullman sleeping cars on their
roads, and praying an injunction against
tlie railroad company, Judge Bond filed
the opinion of the court refusing to grant
the injunction.
In the same court, in the case of D. K.
Stewart vs. the President and Directors of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Conipa-
ny, praying that defendants be enjoined
from any further control and management
of the canal, and asking (he appointment
of a receiver, Judge Morns read the de
cision of the court refusing to appoint a
receiver. . .
The New American Cables.
The republication here (in London)
to-day ot the cable correspondence be
tween Mr. Pender and Mr. Gould con
cerning the two new American cables con
tracted for by Siemens Brothers, says the
London correspondent of the World, has
caused much excitement among those in
terested in cable stock. Dispatches from
New York bring the information that tlie
subscriptions to.the new American cable
corapauy are about equally divided be
tween the leading owners of tbe American
Union Telegraph Company and a syndi
cate of tbe largest customers of the ex
isting cable companies among tlie
merchants aud bankers of New York.
This information greatly disconcerts Mr.
Pender and his friends, who cannot un
derstand how Americans should be
capable of tbe audacity of entering into a
serious competition with the “interna
tiunal leviathan” in tbe business of ocean
telegraphy. They now begin to perceive
that tlie business of swelling a cable
stock opt of all proportion to its business
by taking over successive enterprises
with an eye to a grand cable mouoply
may be overdone.
The intensity of arctic gold.—
The chronicler of Lieutenant Schwalka’s
recent expedition in search of the remains
of Sir John Franklin records some inter
esting facts regarding the great cold of the
Arctic regions. The lowest temperature
met with by tbe company was 103 degrees
below the freezing point, or seventy-one
degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, a degree
of cold almost impossible to imagine by
tbe people of more temperate climes. Tbe
effects of such intense cold upon tlie hu
man system were not' so marked in the
case of the lieutenant and his companions
as might be supposed, and even during
a month in which the average
temperature was sixty-five degrees below
zero the health of the parly remained
unimpaired. The men adapted them
selves as much as possible to the habits
of tbe natives, feeding largely upon blub
ber and fat meat, by which tbe vital beat
was sustained. Plenty of game was
found by the adventurers, wbo were able
to secure with their repeating rifles
enough reindeer at oue time to last them
for several days. The difficulty of ap
proaching these animals was often very
great, for in the still, cold air tlie step of
a man npon the snow could be heard
two miles away, and the grating of the
sledge runners resounded like the clashing
of tempered steel.
The Boston Traveller has hit upon a
very sensible plan to give poor women
work and money, and we would not be
surprised if some of them will take the
hint. It is excellent. The Traveller
says:.
“If some women who want bread, not
tbe baliot, would set up a mending estab
lishment to repair tlie clothhigof business
men Who have no one to do it for them,
she might originate a new industry for
whicli there is a great demand. There are
thousand of men in this city who have no
wives, mothers or sisters to give that little
stitch in time which a wardrobe constant
ly requires, to sew on the prorerbial but
tons, darn the rent, which is tlie accident
of the hours, or to adjust the fit of a ready
made garment, which usually needs a lit
tle attention. Now here is an employ
ment for women for which the demand is
simply overwhelming. It requires no cap
ital to begin. There is no red tape about
it. A five-cent thimble, a paper of nee
dles and a half dozen spools of thread will
start tbe enterprise. It will require no
advertising. The first customer will be
perfectly sure to advise his fellow-suffer
ers as to where this new enterprise is lo-
1 oca ted. Once established, needed belp
could be. employed, and arrangements
made to receive all work that caine.”
“Legalized Bobbery."
It U pleasant to notice that thoughtful
•a in various parts of the country, now
that General Garfield is assured of his
are turning tbeir attention to the fol
ly and injustice of tbe present tariff. Since
party feeling has abated and party success
is no longer in jeopardy a good many Re
publicans are beginning lo wake up to the
need of tarifil reform. The last Democratic
candidate fur Governor of Massachusetts
characterized the present tariff as a “legal
ized robbery.” An examination of it will
justify tlie characterization. A Republi
can writer—Mr. Sherman, of New York—
shows by facts and figures that “the fos
tering hand of protection has cost the
United States one-half of ita shipping,
one-half or two-thirds of its com
merce and one-fifth of Us
manufactures, saying nothing of tbe
enormous loss occasioned to tbe largely
dominant agricultural class.” As respects
the manufacturing interest, claimed to be
specially benefited by tbe present tariff, he
says: “Our exports of cotton goods in 1879
were only $10,850,000, and were actually
less by over 100,000 than in 1880. The
exports of cotton goods from Englaud in
1879 were $60,000,000 more than In 1860.
The mere increase of the annual rate ot
exports from England was nearly six
times as great as the whole of onr exports.
As to cutlery, the whole of onr exports to
about enough for one Sheffield store—
> >’* ... Hla%' J®
DEATH OH THE CABS.
A Northern Lndr Mm *b the Ours
Between Hardaway and Albany.
Yesterday morning tbe passengers in
the sleeping car of the Savannah, Florida
and Western railway train, en route to
this city, were the unexpected and sym
pathetic witnesses of a scene that was so
sad in its nature and peculiar surround
ings as to cast a gloom over ail, strangers
though they were to the dying one and
tbe loved ones around her.
Mr. G. W. Blake, of Chariton, Iowa,
was returning home with his sick wife
from Florida, whither she bad been taken
in the last stages of consumption some
five weeks ago, hoping a change to a mild
er climate would restore her former
health, or at least prove or some benefit.
She was accompanied to Jacksonville
by her tl;ree cbildren, tbe eldest of whom
is a bright boy of twelve years, aud tlie
youngest a little prattler of only seventeen
months. Tbe mother and children were
afterwards billowed by tlie fond husband
and father, wbo, finding that his wife was
growing weaker every day, and being ad
vised by physicians that she must surely
die, resolved to return home with her, as
she preferred to die there. They left Jack
sonville on a through sleeper on Thurs
day afternoon, and were nearing ibis city
on their journey when the death scene
above rclerred to occurred. Mrs. Blake
was taken with one of the severe spells of
coughing which characterize the disease of
consumption, and rapidly sunk under it.
Being very weak, she died like one
asleep.
Captain J. S. Kneiler, tlie efficient and
noble-hearted conductor of tlie train, did
all in his power for the dying lady, aud
was afterwa:ds very kind to the bereaved
husband and cbildren. Learuingthat the
family were Episcopalians, and that tbe
deceased was a consistent member of that
denomination, Captain Kneiler, as soou
as be arrived in tbe city, proceeded to tbe
rectory of St. Paul’s church, and apprised
tho Rev. Mr. Pond of tbe death aud cir
cumstances. This was all tiiat was nec
essary, for soon a parly of such kind and
benevolent ladies ol fc't. Patti's church as
Mrs. L. E. Welch, Mrs. W. E. Mitchell,
Mrs. Nelson Tift, Mrs. Fannie Nelson and
Mrs. T. D. Dupont, were ou their way to
where the sleeper had been left on a side
track near tbe passenger depot. These la
dies took charge of tbe remains of tbe dead
stranger, neatly dressed them, and saw
them laid into the handsome metalic cas
ket wliicli tbe bereaved husbaud had pro
cured in which to carry them to tbe fami
ly home in Chariton, Iowa.
Owing to an accident to the engtno
which carries the northern-bound train
from this city to Smithville, no train went
out on tlie Southwestern road yesterday,
and Sir. Blake had to lay over. He will
proceed on his sad journey homeward on
the 12:15 train to-day. He and his now
motherless children have our sincere sym
pathy in tins, their greitest of all affiict-
ions—to him tlie loss of wife—to them the
loss of mother!—Albany Neics and Ad
vertiser.
Cold Weather Eighth-Four Years
Ago.—Col. Moses White has called pur
attention, says the Knoxville Tribune, .to
the following communication in the
Knoxville Gazette of January 8th, 1787—
tbe first paper printed in the State. The
item was furnished by some one living
near the mouth of Little Tennessee:
“For a few weeks past the weather has
been colder than ever experienced In tlie
memory of tbe oldest inhabitant. On tlie
evening of tlie 22d of December the Ten
nessee river was entirely ires ofice; on tlie
morningofthe 23d ice was moving down
in great bodies, and on the 24lh tho river
was passable for foot and horse. On tlie
25th (Christmas) Mr. Silas Flinsuiore,
agent for tbe Cberokees, and Samuel R.
Davidson, commanding at Tellico Block
House, gave a dinner on tbe ice to a com
pany' of ladies and gentleine... (Contigu
ous to the place of entertainment two
quarters ot a bear was barbecued, and tbe
ice was found of sufficient thickness to
bear fire sufficient to liave roasted an os.”
Rev. Gbouhdfea Jim. — This old
Yineville worthy, who for to many years
has dispensed his sassafras beer and parch
ed groundnuts at his well known
stand in tha suburbs of the city, on New
Year’s day, safely passed bis 85lh birth
day.
The genial face of the old man and his
pleasant smiles are familiar to hundreds
of the community. The old preacher still
holjlsforth every Sunday, aud faithfully
carries with him into the pulpit the well
thumbed Teetament and hymn book,which
he at least goes through the motions of
reading,
S He has considerable knowledge of the
criptures and is a harmless, honest and
respectable colored citizen. Long may he
continue to live and serve his juvenile
ail the wex'ld'in'iSTS waw'onhr $«&,66b-^ Mernis, wbo all love him, with tbeir fa-
Moscular Men.
Among tire Greeks the successful ath
lete was crowned with laurels and loaded
down with wealth and honors. When
Egenetus, in the ulr.ety-secoud Olympiad,
triumpbantingaines, entered Asrigentum,
his native home, he was attended by au
escort of three hundred chariots, each
drawn by two white horses, aud followed
by the populace, cheering and waviug
banners. Milo six times won tlie palm at
the Olympic and Pitbian games. He is
said lo have run a mile with a four-year
old ox upon Iris shoulders, and afterwards
killed the animal with one blow of his fist,
and ate tho entire carcass In one day! So
great was his muscular power that he
would bind a cord around his head and
break it by the swelling and 'pressure of
the veins. An ordinary meal for Milo was
twenty pounds of meat, as muck bread,
and fifteen pints of wine.
Polydamus, of Thessalia, was of colos
sal height and prodigious strength, aud, it
is said, alone and without weapons,
killed au enormous and enraged lion.
One day, it is recorded, be seized a bull
by its bind feet, and the animal escaped
only by leaving tbe hoof in tbe grasp of
tbe athlete.
The Roman Emperor Maximinlus was
upward of eight feet iu height, and, like
Milo, of Crotona, could squeeze to pow
der the hardest stooe with his fingera aud
break tbe leg of a horse by a kick. His
wife’s bracelet served him as a ring, and
Ills every day repast was sixty pounds of
meat aud au amphora of wine.
While a prisoner in Germany, Richard
I. accepted an invitation to* a boxing
match with the son of his jailer. He re
ceived tlie first blow, which made him
stagger, but recovering, with a blow of
bis fist he killed his antagonist on the
spot. Topham, also au Englishman, born
in 1710, was possessed ot astonishing
strength. His armpits, hollow in tbe case
of ordinary men, were yritli him full of
muscles aud tendons. He would take
bar of iron, with iu two ends held in bis
bands, place tlie middle of the bar behind
bis neck, and then bend the extremities
by main force until they met together,
and 'bend back tbe iron straight again.
One night, seeing a watchman asleep iu
his box, be carried both the man and bis
stiell to a great distance, and pul them on
the wall of a church-yard. Owing to do
mestic troubles, he committed suicide in
the prime of life
The fameus Scauderberg, King of Alba
nia, who was born in 1414, was a man of
great stature, and bis feats of sword exer
cise have never been equaled. Ou one
occasion, with a scimitar, he struck his
antagouist such a blow that iu force
cleaved him to the waist. He is said to
have cloven iu two men who were clad iu
armor from head to foot. Ou oue occa
sion tbe brother aud nephew of a certain
Baliabau. who had been canvicled of cru
elties toward the Albanians, were brought
to him bound together. Transported with
rage, he cut them iu two with oue stroke
of his weapon
Maurice, Count of Saxony, tho hero of
Foutciioy, inherited the physical figor of
his father, aud was especially noted for
his surprising muscular power or “grip,”
in his bauds. Ou one occasion, needing a
corkscrew, he twisted a long iron nail
round into tlie required shape with liis
f.ugers aud opened a half dozen bottles of
wine with it. Another time, stopping at a
blacksmith shop to have his horse shod,
be picked up a number of new horseshoe*
and snapped them in two as readily a* if
made of glass, much to Die disgust of the
smith.
If history is to be believed, Pbaryiius of
Crotona, could jump a distance of fifty-
six feet- The exercise was practiced at
the Olympic games and formed part of
tlie course of ilie Pentathlon. Strutt, au
bne I is h authority ou games aud amuse
ments, speaks of a Yorkshire jumper
French work published In Pari* fa 174#,
eutitled “Tbe Tracts Towards tbe History
of Wonders Performed at Fain,” men
tioned an Englishman, who at the fair of
St. Germain in 1724, leaped over forty
people without touching oue of them. I«
our own day ve are familiar wfth any
remarkable exposition* of strength and
endurance. Dr. Winsbip, with tbe aid «f
straps, lifted a weight of 3,500 sounds,
and with tbe little Unger of Ids right hand
oouid raise his body a considerable
distance from the ground.
THK MACON AYR BRUNSWICK.
■■ » ♦
Tbe Allsits Extessaiem Will be BwfM
U. W. G. in Ik* Con*iit»ti«n ] ! / :
I had a talk with Mr. B. T. Wilson t/ y.
day, and asked him what he intendeds!
do about tbe Macon and Brunswick road.
“Why, we intend to build it right
through so as to get to Atlanta. Our en
gineers are now at work, and as soon as
they report we will push the work right
along.” «
“When do you think yoa will get tl *
work ?”
“I should say early in the spring. Of
course these things cannot be rushed
ahead, but £ am satisfied that we win
throw the first dirt before April is over.
Wo have fully determined to extend the
road promptly. It is our contract to da
so, hut outside of any contract it Is our In
terest lo do so.” *
“What route will you take?*
“My impression is that we will hnlld
directly to Atlanta. I undershsnd that
tlie distance to Atlanta direct will be only
ninety-three miles, and it will take sixty-
live miles of building to get to Covington.
So that we would only have twenty-eight
miles further to bnild to get into Atlanta
by a direct line of our own. Of course I
do not know tiiat these figures are official
and correct, but they appear to be reliable.
If they are, I should say that we would
build to Atlanta. As I understand it,
there is a common route as far as Montt-
cello, and that in either event tbe road
will go direct from Macon to that point.”
Colonel Wilson exhibited a lively in
terest in the future of the Georgia \Vest-
ern—and with reason. A glance at the
map will show that when he has a line
from Brunswick to Atlanta, he must break
across tho country and connect with his
Memphis and Charleston system. On his
private map I noticed four routes care
fully pencilled for tlie Georgia Western—
and while none of them are built it was a
comfort to see them even projected on pa
per.
Colouei McGhee vice president and
manager of the Wilson & McGhee systems,
in discussing the condition of tbe South,
said:
“I never saw such prosperity as we have
In East Tennessee at present. The whole
country Is teeming with produce of all
sorts and it looks as if the material
wealth of that favored section was ex
haustless. Our trains are loaded to their
capacity all the time. Indeed, It would
be impossible for our roads to earn anoth
er dollar than they are now earning, with '
tlieir present rolling slock. They are car
rying all that tlie cars will hold and the
engines can pull!”
The British Cabinet.
The Loudon correspondent of the
World telegraphs ou Friday: “A most
important meeting of the cabinet wili be
held to-morrow. It is understood that it
will be devoted entirely to tbe considera
tion oi Irish affairs. The form that coer
cion wilt take in Ireland will oe tha priiw- •?
cipal question discussed. Chief
tary Forster arrived in town from Irelr
to-night, and it is hoped by sensible ft
of all parties that his mind may at least
have been made up iu regard to
tlie policy which the government
should pursue. His vacillation in dealing
with the Irish question has been the
means of repeatedly impeding tbe action
of tlie ministry, and has gone far towards
placing them in a false attitude before the
country.
COERCION AND THE LAND BILL SIDE BT
SIDE. |
Tlie impression gains ground that the
government will decide to introduce
measures far coercion colncidently with
tbe new hkid bill.
A Hew Southern Bonto to the Sea.
Within a few days past a new Southern
route to Charleston and tbe sea has been
organized by tlie purchase of tha Ken
tucky Central Railroad and the formation
of connection, Ihps described by tits Cin
cinnati Gazette: ■
The new route to the sea will: be over
tlie following liue; By tbe Kentucky
Central to Lexington, and over an exten
sion of the Central to Livingston, Ken
tucky, where the road will connect with
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
thence by the Louisville and Nashville to
the Tennessee State liue, where the new
trunk line is to connect with the Knox
ville and Ohio Railroad, which i* to to
extended by tlie Atlantic, Mississippi and
Olii > Railroad, which controls it from Its
present, terminus, CareyvilW, Tnnntsro*.
to the junction at the State lino specified,
tbeoce by the Knoxville sad Ohio, Atlan
tic, Mississippi and Ohio, and CtostsstoR
and Augusta Railroads, to Ctortnetoo,
South Carolina, forming an nil Mohan
trunk line through tbe 8outh to tho At
lantic ocean. The probability is that
i be new road will enter this city ovei the
Pennsylvania railroad bridge, at the foot
of Butier street, though, as lit. Natter
jokingly remarked, perhaps tbe Southern
Railway might like to have tbe new road
come in over its bridge. Is the opinion
of Mr. Nettor the new road will to in a
better position to command the Southern
trade than the Southern Railway, because
of tbe combinations which wilt be made
with the PiUaburg, Cincinnati, and St.
Louis, C., 1.; St, L. and C., and other
roads running north, east and west from
tliis city. In a financial point of view,
Mr. NeUcr considered the investment oue
of ilia best of tbe day. Tbe road was now
paying 4 per cent., and be expected to see
the stock recently purchased quoted at par
within a year..
vorite parched “plndars.”
age ofeighteen leaped, without the aid of
a springinc-bo*rd,over nine horses ranged
side by side. He cleared a cord extended
fourteen feet from the ground with one
bound, crushed with Ins foot a bladder
suspended at a height of sixtee^i feet, and
on another occasion he lightly cleared a
large wagonoovored with an awning.
Colonel Ironside^ who lived in India
early in this century, relates tiiat he met
in his travels an old white haired man
who with one leap sprang over tho back
of an enormous. elephant flanked by six
Who Can Tell.—Can any one tell
why men who cannot pay small bills can
always find money to buy liquor and treat
when among friends ?
Cau any one tell why it is that some
mothers are'always ready to sew for tto
heathen Ubeu tlieir own cbildren are
ragged and dirty ?
Can any one tell how men live and sup
port their families wbo have no income
and no work,while others, who are indus
trious, are half starved ?
Can any one tell why four-fifth* of tto
young ladies prefer a brainless fop, under
a plug hat, with tight panta and a shot
coat, to a man with brains ?
Can any one tell how young men who
are always behind with tbeir landlords
_ ^ r __ can play billiards, nigbt and day, and al-
named Ireland, whosh powers were mar- L w *> - * be ready for a game of cards when
velous. He was six feet high, and at the’ "weney is at stake?
, — Can any one tell why a man wbo is al
ways complaining that ho cannot afford 1b f
subscribe for the local newspaper, and
every week borrow it Irom bis neighbor,
can afford to attend every traveling shear
that comes into town P sti
The Chattanooga Tunes of the fltii s*j%
country produce is dreadfully scared to
that dty, it being very difficult to buY>
potato, cabbage, egg, or pound of better.
These articles are reaching wjsp fWWSh
camels of the .largest breed. A curious Eggs are difficult to obtain iff saj? prices-
