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^4* iEjflegtapk Soucnai & 1Sl*»#£ttg**r,.
Los Angeles County, with 5,673 seres
•of laud in vines, raised in 1880 53,000,-
000 pounds of grapes, making 2,500,000
gallons of wine and 300 oi brandy.
Dkafts for Ireland.—The officials
Of the Irish E ntrant Society in New
York city stale that during the first three
weeks of December it forwarded fully
$100,000 by drafts to Ireland for Christ
mas gifts, in which 5,000 givers participa
ted.
A TALK WITH JEFF DAVIS.
It is said by those who onght to know
best that Senator Blaine is preparing for
a European tour of eight months, leaving
this country in March and returning next
November. He would go in February it
it were not for the close vote in the Senate
after March 3. *
The will of the late Gov. James D.
Williams, of Indiana, has been probated.
Hduwiij* his property equitably among
his legal lnirs, consisting of bis son John,
his widowed daughter, and the children
of his deceased son George W. There
are no public bequests.
Mr. Whittier writes that he hopes
hat his readers will find that he has
'‘tried to make the world a little better;”
nd that something may be found in his
writings “to awaken a love- of freedom,
justice, peace and good-will—something
Which shall suggest, however faintly and
imperfectly, the Christian idea of love t<v
God and humanity.”
Preparations for the coming census
of 1881 in Londou are being actively
pushed. It is anticipated that the returns
will reveal a striking increase in the pop
ulation of the metropolis, which cannot
no w be far short or4,000,000. The census
will be taken simultaneously in every dis
trict of the United Kingdom on the same
day.
In clearing away the remains of one of
the ruined bastions of Ysdi-koulo near
Constantinople,the agents ot the Prefecture
discovered a large quantity of gunpowder,
the exlstauce of which was not before
suspected. Information was at once sent
to tbo Ordnance Department, whence an
expert was dispatched to examine the pow-
.dcr. Powder, strictly speaking, it was
not, tor the grains were as large as filberts;
but a grain thrown Into the fire showed
that tho composition was of a highly ex
plosive character, but the expert coaid
not precisely determine what the quality
was without submitting it to analysis.
The powder is believed to liavo been de
posited where it was found prior to the
conquest of Constantinople by Moham
med the Second.
Howard and West Point.—The Bal
timore Sun’s Washington correspondent
says a good deal of surprise was manifest
ed in Washington at tho appointment of
Gen. Howard to the command at West
Point, in view of the fact that a few davs
before it was done the President himself
told Gen. Howard that he liad decided
not to place him at the Academy, under
pressure from Gen. Sherman and
Secretary Evans, although he had been
summoned to Washington originally for
that purpose. It leaks out now that the
President was persuaded to act upon his
original intention by certain of the stal
wart- in Congress. When it was announc
ed through the press that the President
had yielded to the representations of Scho
field's friends that the change from him
to Howard would bo too abrupt, they went
to the White House and told Mr. Hayes
that the country demanded just such
change, and that under the present condi
tion of things a colored boy might about
as well be in the abode of the lost as at
West Point. So much feeling had been
aroused that if half-way measures were
attempted the institution was in evident
•danger of being wiped out. Braced up by
stalwart backing, the President decldea
to do as he originally intended, and put
Howard in command.
The Nfw Rothschild Partnership
The act of partnership between the mem
bers ol tho Rothchild family expired on
the 36th of September last. Anew part
nership has recently been formed between
all but one of the members of the family
—Baron Adolphe Rothschild, of Naples,
retiring with a fortune of one hundred
and eighty millions of francs, ($30,000,-
000.) We have millionaires in the United
States whose Individual fortunes far ex
ceed that of Baron Adolphe Rotlischiid,
that of Mr. William H. Vanderbilt being
conspiciously one of them; bnt the united
fortunes of the Rothschild family make
the firm the richest in the world. But the
financial power of the Rothschilds is not
dependent alone upon the mouey
which they have put into their banking
business. It Is the vast sums they cau
draw from theirco-religionistsatany time
when they need the command of more
capital that, in conjunction with their
own means, constitutes them tho foremost
financial power in tbo world. The term
of tho .new partnership jiutentered into is
for twenty-five years. It consequently
expires in 1005.
Jay Gould’s railway consolidations
ombrace the following roads: Tho three
divisions of the Wabash, 2,487 miles; the
Missouri Pacific and branches, 1,075
miles; the Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
825 miles; the Kansas Pacific, 1,011 miles;
the Union Pacific, 2,115 miles; the Denver
and South Park, 201 miles; tho Iron
Mountain, 684; the International and
Great Northern, 064, and the Texas Pa
cific, 587—a grand total of 9,040 miles.
It is reported that Mr. William Shields,
of St. Louis, has discovered a process by
which a steel can be produced in a pud
dling furnace far superior to Bessemer
steel. While it is admirably suited, ac
cording to the tests made by experts, to
the manufacture of rails, old rails can be
reheated, amalgamated witli the new
steel, and the two welded together in tho
process of rolling them into bars. The
chemicals necessary to convert the pig
iron into steel will cost about two dollais
atom <
Ex-Gov. Scott’s Crime.—The pre
liminary hearing In the case of Ex-Gov.
Scott, of South Carolina, charged witli the
murder of W. G. Drury, a drug clerk, of
Napoleon, Ohio, was commenced Mon
day. Scott’s appearance was full of sor
row and dejection. He sat most of the
time with his elbow resting on tfs knee
and his band on bis forehead, occasionally
using a handkerchief to remove the
moisture from his eyes. He pleaded not
guilty to the charge of murder in the first
degree. The evidence so far is about the
same as that produced before the coroner,
only more complete. It sets forth the
killing and the excited and remorseful
condition of Scott Immediately after tbo
deed. Evidence was also produced mak
ing Scott say some time ago that lie would
shoot dead in his tracks auy person who
would in any way influence his son to
drink or would sell him intoxicating Hq-
quon.
Editor Hectare Interviews the
Confederate Chief—Why Be«
gard was Ordered to Itre on ten
ter.
Mississippi City, Mibb., Dec. 16,1880.
A ioumey through the South for the
study of the currents of opinion and the
present condition and probable progress
of the reconstructed States would be in
complete without a visit to the one man
who must stand iu history as the front of
the overthrown Confederacy. A drive of
five miles through the sand and straggling
pines which skirt the Gulf bay exhibits
the same general dilapidation among the
old time summer homes which were once
the favorite retreats of the elite of New
Orleans in the sickly season. The shore
of the bay has a number of palatial plan
tation houses, but they have fallen into
the sweeping decay that marks them as
relics of an age that has gone. The only
one that seems to have been carefully pre
served from the desolation that surrounds
It is tho Dorsey place, now the home of
Jefferson Davis. In a forest of green live
oaks, richly laden orange trees and a pro
fusion of vines and flowers, a large frame
plantation hmse is presented. It is a sin
gle story in height, and has the
regulation pillars and broad varan-
das of tee 'aristocratic boutnem
mansion. There the ex-Confederste
President lives with his nephew, General
Davis, and their joint families. The ex-
Queen of the Confederate Court is t
stout, motherly, cultured and genial
woman, and a daghter, a strongly
marked copy of the mother, possesses un
usual attractions of both person and in
tellect. The house is famished with
every regard for comfort, as the well-
worn easy chairs and lounges and the
hall and parlor divans faithfully attest,
and the walls are decorated with ancient
paintings and modern bric-a-brac, while
the wide chimney place and capacious
mantel tell how the cheerful pioe fire
sparkles when a chill or a stray
frost silences the song ot the mock
ing bird and the bloodthirsty
serenade of the mosquito. Soon alter
I had been politely bowed into the
parlor Jefferson Davis entered alone, and
bis greeting was the cordial welcome or
the proverbial hospitality of the South. I
confess to disappointment in the general
appearance of the man who stands in his
tory to-day as the soldier-statesman with
out a country. I expected to find the
strongly marked traces of a grievously dis
appointed life, and severe civility and
studied reticence in discussing all thiugs
of the past; but those who believe Jeffer
son Davis to be misanthropic in tempera
ment and embittered against the nation
and Lite world greatly misjudge him. Nor
is lie the broken invalid that he is gen
erally regarded.
DAVIS IN CONVERSATION.
Ills yet abuudaut locks and full beard
are deeply silvered, and his face and
frame are spare as they always have been,
but bis step is elastic and steady and the
hard lines of his brow, which are so con
spicuous in his pictures, are at once ef
faced when he enters Into conversation.
Instead of imp essiug the visitor as a pol
itical recluse who has no interest in the
laud to whose citizenship he will live and
die a stranger, he at once invites the free
dom of the planter’s home by chatting
without reserve, save when his contempo
raries are likely to be criticized, when he
adroitly and pleasantly turns the discus
sion into inoffensive channels. He is yet
the same positive man in all his convic
tions and purposes that made him the
leader of a causeless rebellion. He well
understands that he cast the die for em
pire or for failure that must make him
■klientutha country and the world, and
that he lost; and he knows that he is to
day the most powerless of ail men iu the
iand to retrieve the fortunes of those who
followed him to bereavement and sacri
fice. He reads right the inexorable judg
ment that makes liim execrated tor the
Confederacy, while bis equally guilty sub
ordinates iiave been welcomed to the fat-
ted'caif. His Vice President, who fol
lowed the slave empire afar when doubt
and darkness gathered about it made baste
to scramble over the ruins of the Confed
eracy and regain the seat in Washington
from which he seceded with Davis to
aid in guiding rebellion. Two of liis un
noted warriors have sat in Republican
cabinets. Lee's ablest lieutenant is the
Republican minister to Tuikey. The
man who marched the first regiment of
volunteers to Charleston ami who served
as Confederate Senator until Appomattox
became historic, died as the lieptiblicaii
minister to Russia; and Senate, House
and Washington departments swarm with
men who were abreast with Jellerson Da
vis in every effort to dismember the re
public. But Davis is the embodiment of
humiliation, while bis fellows go in ami
out without displeasure. I heard no al
lusion to or complaint of this injustice,
but it is plainly evident that Davis entire
ly appreciates it, and that be believes lie
would not lie consistent with himself ami
the grave responsibilities he assumed,
however mistaken he may have been in
assuming them, if he did not delib
erately remain an alien to the government
that lie more conspicuously than all oth
ers struggled to overthrow. He could not
help the .South or himself by seeking or
accepting restoration to citizenship, and
lie is wisely content witli stubborn faith
in the rectitude of Ids lost cause.
SOME REMINISCENCES OF THE WAIL
I have long desired to know the exact
truth from ' the fountain of Southern
knowledge on the subject, in regard to
several important events of the war, and
I was agreeably surprised at the freedom
with which Mr. Davis met my inquiries.
Why Beauregard was ot derail to fire upon
Andersou in Port Sumter, alter liis sur
render was inevitable at a specified time
without assaulting the flag, has never
been entirely understood, it was the act
ol madness, as it made division in the
North impossible, and I have always be
lieved that tbe real cause of the order to
fire was to unify tbo South and end tbe
threatening movements for reunion on
any terms. Mr. Davis answered promptly
and emphatically that tbe order was given
solely because faith had been broken by
the Lincoln administration in attempting
to reinforce Audersou, and that the South
needed no war to solidify its people. I
think lie errs in underestimating tbe
probable power of the movement in tbe
South for reconstruction before the war,
but it is evident that in deciding to issue
the fatal order for the assault upon Sum
ter he believed the Confederacy invincible
and defiantly resented what be re
garded as a violation of tbe pledge of tbe
federal government. That act practically
consolidated thoNortli and thenceforth the
Confederacy was a fea-fully hopeless vJh-
turn. On another important point he
answered with tho same freedom. When
asked whether tbe aggressive movement of
Lee that culminated at Gettysburg was
adopted as purely military strategy or the
offspring of political necessity inside tbe
Confederacy, he answered that it was the
wisest of both military and political strat
egy, but that It was not dictated at all by
political considerations. He said that tbe
wisdom of the military movement was
proven in the recall of Meade from Vir
ginia und the transfer of both armies to
Northern soil; but, be soberly added, the
battle was a misfortune. The chances
were equal, as he regarded it, for military
success, and that would have deranged
the whole plan of the governmeut aud
impaired its resources for the campaign of
that year. As a military movement Mr.
Davis says the Gettysburg campaign had
the entire approval of Lee, and there were
no political divisions in the South to
dictate any departure from the wisest
military laws. I desired .also to know
whether, at the time or the Hampton
Roads conference between Lincoln, Sew
ard, Stephens and others, Mr. Davis had
received auy intimation from any credi
ble source that Mr. Lincoln would absent
to tho payment of four hundred millions
os compensation for slaves if tbe South
would accept emancipation and return to
the Union. He answered that he had no
auchjintlmationfrom any source,hut that if
such proposition had been made, he could
not have entertained it as the executive
of the Confederacy. He was the sworn
executive of a government founded on the
rights of the States; that slavery was dis
tinctly declared to be exclusively a State
institutlou, and that such an issue could
hare bean decided only by tho indepen- j
drat assent of each State. Some of them,'
be added, would have accepted such terms
at that time, but others would have de
clined it, and peace was, therefore, im
possible on that basis.
DAVIS HOPEFUL OF THE FUTURE.
Mr. Davis ili, cussed tbe preseut atti
tude and future prospects of tbe South
with manifest interest and great candor.
White be is not ami caunot be a factor iu
attaining any desired political results for
tbe South, he shares the hopes expressed
by the great mass of the more intelligent
Southern people, that all the difficult
problems will yet be wisely solved by
gradual advancement and final harmony
of races and sections, He was unreserved
in expressing tbe belief that a civil service
in tbe South that would insure fidelity to
governmeut and people could uolfailto
eud partisan or sectional issues between
tho South and tbe Garfield administration,
and unite both North and South in the
promotion of the material interests of the
whole country. His discussion of the re
lations of the two sections under tbe
present political aspect was thoroughly
philosophical aud statesmanlike, and,
while he will remain the one adjudged
stranger to the republic, he hopes yet to
see the South prosperous in common with
a prosperous North, and the scars of war
and the bitterness of sectional dispute
healed forever. Next to a Southern slave
confederacy be lielieves a free Uuion tbe
best government for the republic.—Cor
respondence Philadelphia Timer.
GLU009E.
Resolutions of Eesrot
Office of
Board of Road Commissioners,
Macon, Ga., Dec. 24,1680.
Mr. President and Gentlemen : The
committee appointed at our lost meeting
to draft suitable resolutions ot regret at the
death ot our esteemed friend, James Wing
field Nisbet, feel tbeir inability to express
their deep sorrow at an cveut that has
caused so much sadness to this commu
nity. Mr. Nisbet died at Bloomfield, in
this county, Friday night, November 0th
1880. He was a native of Oswichee, Ala.,
a son of F. A Nisbet, Esq., and a brother
of our esteemed fellow citizeu, tbe Hon.
Robt. A. Nisbet, of Bibb.
Death, although it may come with its
spring flowers, or in summer with its
green leaves, or even iu autumn with its
golden foliage, it is always with the chill
ing desolation of winter that relatives and
friends mourn their lossoftnose they love.
As one ol the Board of Road Commission'
ers we remember our deceased comrade
as one of the most prompt, efficient and
influential members ot tbe beard—always
courteous, always attentive, we may well
deplore bis loss in tbe deliberations of this
body. It is In his home, though, that his
loss will be most keeuly felt. Iu tbo
sacred family circle, wbero man’s purest
traits are destined to shiue with the
greatest spleudor, bis affectionate kindness
aud protection will be missed. To those
bereaved ones we exterd our heartfelt
sympathy. To his friends, we would
point to his honorable and useful career,
and bid them follow tbe example of liis
usefulness and the precepts of bis faithful
ness in all of bis dealings.
The committee would, furthermore, beg
to offer the following:
Resolved, That in the death of Mr.
James W ingfleld Nisbet this board has
lost one of its most worthy and intelligent
members, one who, in life, we loved and
respected, aud whose death we deeply de
plore; that we tender to Ins kindred and
friends our heartfelt condolence; that we
inscribe upon the minutes of this meeting
these resolutions, and upon our hearts the
fondest memories of our deceased frieml
and comrade; tnat a c >py of the same, to
gether with this report be furnished to the
Telegraph and Messenger and the
Macon Dailg Herald for publication, aud
that an official copy be seut by the secre
tary to liis family. With this, the com
mittee feel that it lias but faintly express
ed the sentiments of tbe members of this
board, except in tbe earnestness aud sin.
eerily which they feel tbe duty is per
formed. Respecttiilly submitted,
N- M. Hodgkins,
H. L. Cook,
Ji B. Davis.
On motion, tbe above report of Messrs.
Hodgkins, Cook and Davis was received
and approved, and tbe resolutions therein
ofl’ered were unanimously passed.
It W. G. Smith, Sec’y.
Marl: Twain Insane.
A Hartford correspondent of the Sun re'
veals tbe painful fact that Mark Twain
(Mr. Clemens) has become subject to
spells of mental delirium (styled melan
cholia) and describes one of them which
occurred on Christmas, day as follows:
So I proceeded through the damp,
chilly air and slushy mud of Christinas
morning to Twain’s bright red mansion
and rang the door bell. Was Mr. Clem
ens at home? Xo, not exactly. That
was to say, ho wasn’t in the house; I
might find him yonder in the north
yard, behind the barn. I turned up
the bottoms of my trousers, and trudged
through the mud and snow to the place
indicated by tbe domestic. There I dis
covered the humorist, standing on an
empty dry-goods box. His posture was
very erect. His arms were tightly pressed
against his sides. He wore a long ulster,
reaching to his ankles, and on his head a
high peaked hat, procured during his
travels in tbe Tyrol. His face was
solemn.
“Hello, Mark,” said I; “what are you
doing on that box? Merry Christmas!”
He sillily inclined his head. “Didn’t you
know,'* he demanded, in slow,grave tones,
“that! antedate the Christian era by
many centuries ? What in thunder do you
mean by talking Christmas in my pres
ence ? ”
“Come, come,” said I, “no joking. Get
down off the box and go to where it’s
warm.”
“If you refer to the pedestal,” ho re
plied, “I can’t get down unless I’m low
ered. And as to the temperature, it has
little effect on a monolith, seasoned as I
am seasoned.”
“You look like a monolith,” I admitted,
“In that ulster aud that hat.”
“You really think so ? ” he eagerly
asked. His features relaxed to an expres
sion something like complacency, and he
sat down npou the edge of the box and
began to drum against the side with his
heels. “You really believe I’m tbe gen
uine, only original obelisk ? ”
. “Obelisk!” said I. “I saw the obelisk
day before yesterday in New York.
They’ve got it as far as the trestlework.
You’re a humorist, not an obelisk.”
Mark Twain immediately ascended the
box again, while his features once more
assumed their stony look. “Yon have
been Imposed upon,” be remarked with
great dignity. “That thing in New York
is bogus. It is a practical joke of Gor-
ringes. It is a Cardiff giant of an obe
lisk, a composite, plaster fraud concocted
on the voyage over, and palmed off on an
unsuspecting community. The real obe
lisk was shipped to Hartford by Freight
No. 27, New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad, You behold it at this
identical moment.”
1 took off my hat. Thisseemed to please
him a good deal.
“Excuse me,” lie went on, “If I am a
trifle touchy on the subiect. Every mon
olith is naturally sensitive when his au
thenticity is called in question. Don’t I
appear stiff and hard enough to satisfy the
most skeptical?”
“You look stiff and hard enough,” said
I, “but where are your hieroglyphics?
That’s the test of a true obelisk—the
hieroglyphics.”
“Just what I expected,” be returned,
with some show of f eeling. “There don’t
appear to be any hieroglyphics, perhaps
you think. Singular, but I’d noticed the
fact myself, and it’s given me considerable
concern. D—n those hieroglyphics I” he
continued, getting excited. “I don’t know
what to make of it. Sometimes I think
Gorringe took ’em and plastered ’em oote,
his sham shaft. Then I think Marshall
Jewell’s stolen ’em for a telegraphic ci
pher. Then again I surmise that they’ve
merely struck in, and will blossom out
again as soon as I’ve got acclimated. But
you’ll allow that it’s putting a respectable•
Egyptian antiquity at a disadvantage to I
steal bis hieroglyphics. Any fool can
come along and say, ‘You’re no obebsk;
where the d—1 are your hieroglyphics?’”
ABHiamlaWUeh IUUsm ot 1M>
lars tie laves ted—Tbe History of
Its Oriffl*-—Eoenaeos Profits Had*
—A Talk With rrsf Ckaadlsr
In the course of a lawsuit brought in
Batavia, New York, to determine the
ownership of certain shares in the Buffalo
Grape Sugar Company, it was shown last
week that tbe profits of the business now
amount to about $1,000,000 a year upon a
capital of $400,000. The lact that enor
mous quantities of grape sugar or glucose
are sold, and that the business has at least
doubled every year for tbe last five years,
nutil at present all the starch factories
turn out more or less of the product; that
several vast establishments are building
for the pmpose of manufacturing glu
cose, one in Detroit and one in Chicago;
and that the adulterations in which glu
cose is used are now recognized among
merchants, induced a reporter of tbe
Evening Post to inquire into the history
and extent of the glucose business. Sugar
merchants who mix glucose with their su
gar are careful about giving facts and fig
ures, but all admitted that its use was
widespread, aud increasing every day. .
In 1867, a German chemist named
Goesling arrived in New York with a se
cret process of producing syrup from corn
at small cost, about twenty gallons of syr
up being obtained from-one busbel of
com. The corn was first made into
starch, which, after treatment with sul
phuric acid, was run through marble dust
In order to extract the acid, after which it
was purified with boue black and boiled
to any desired consistency. Dr. Goesling
interested some'New York capitalists anc.
sugar merchants iu bis process, and sold
the patents to a company called the Un
ion Sugar Company, for $500,000. The
Union Sugar Company had been organ
ized especially to make the new kind of
sugar, and immediately erected works and
began business. Prosperity was too much
tor Dr. Goesling, who died before tbe first
batch of syrup was turned out. No one
thought at that time of making solid glu
cose; the syrup was all that the Union
Sugar Company intended to produce.
When the first barrels of the new syrup
were produced the appearance was excel
lent, and the stockholders congratulated
themselves upon having possession of a
gold mine. Unfortunately tbo new
product had defects, tho chief among
which was that it would not “staqd,” as
the syrup men say; it solidified and can
died, becoming a solid, waxy mass, which
was unsalable. Dr. Goesling had ap
parently forgotten to tell the company his
method of making tho syrup “stand.”
He had known somo method of doing
this, but his secret died with him. After
several ineffectual and costly attempts to
solve the difficulty the Uniou Sugar Com
pany gave up business, having lost about
$1,000,000, and sold tbe product of can
died syrup on band to tbe Tribune Asso
ciation at $2 a barrel, for the purpose of
making ink rollers.
When Dr. Goesling sold his patents to
the New York company a Buffalo com
pany had already bought from Goesling
the right to use his process in Buffalo. The
Buffalo company met with the same diffi
culty that the Union Sugar Compauy ex
perienced—their product candied. But
lustead of giving up the manufacture they
went to work to fiml out to what use the
candied glucose could bo put. In the first
place it was found that the glucoso syrup,
it mixed with low-grade black molasses,
made an excellent golden syrup, which,
while not so sweet as refined Cuba syrup,
was as good in appearance and sold as
well. As glucose syrup could bo pro
duced for half the cost of sugar syrup, tbe
saving effected by mixing the two was
enormous. In the next place if glucose
syrup was allowed to candy and harden, it
was fouud that it could be ground up and
mixed witli low-grade, dark-brown su
gars, tbo mixture having the ap
pearance and qualities of refined light
brown sugar, with tbe exception that it
was not so sweet as refined sugar. From
small beginnings tbe business of tbe Buf
falo company grew to importance. The
glucose could be produced from corn at
the rate thirty pounds of glucose, worth
3£ cents per pound, from one bushel of
com, besides which the refuse from each
busliel of corn brought 5 cents when sold
as stock food. One of the witnesses in tho
suit mentioned in the beginning of this
article testified that he mixed from to 12
to 20 per centum of glucose iu his sugar,
selling the mixture at a good profit under
the name of “new process sugars.” He
sold more than two hundred barrels a day
of this sugar.
Upon referring to several Wall street
sugar merchants tho reporter found that
while the use of glucose in vast quantities
was admitted, tho mixers, as they are
called to distinguish them from sugar re
finers, are uot anxious to have much light
thrown upon the business. The refiners
are not mixers. Tlley sell sugar only
just as the Buffalo compauy sell glucose
only. The mixers buy of both aud mix
to suit themselves. Several firms do this
sort of business exclusively, calling the
product “new process sugars.” The
Evening Post reporter was referred to a
certain Mr. A. as a gentleman known to
be engaged iu mixing sugars. Mr. A.
said that be bad heard a great deal of late
about mixing glucose in sugar, but that
he knew nothing about it himself. If the
reporter would go across the street to Mr.
B. he would find out all about it, for Mr.
B.’s business consisted of mixing glucose
with cane sugar. Mr. B. had
also heard a good deal about tbe
glucose adulteration, but could not
himself say bow much of it was done or by
whom. But if the reporter went across
tho street to Mr. A. he would find out all
about it, for that was Mr. A.’a business.
The result of the reporter’s investigation
was to the eflect that about 12 per cent, of
the sugar sold in Wall street was glucose
or grape sugar. As the value of the sugar
refined in this city aud Brooklyn is about
$60,000,000 a year, it follows that about
$7,000,000 worth of glucose must be
bought and sold every year by Wall
street sugar and syrup merchants. One
firm, whose business is selling syrups, ad
mitted at once that glucose syrup was
used in their business, and contended that
it was a legitimate use or nature’s prod
ucts, the mixed syrups being belter liked
by bis easterners than tha pure syrup,
which was too sweet to be pleasant.
Having been told that glucose In sugar
had a baa effect upon the health of the
consumer, and that, therefore, it was
worse than a mere assault upon the
pocket, the reporter next sought out Prof.
Chandler, of tbe Board of Health, who
scouted the notion that glucose in sugar
was unhealthy. “Wo eat glucose with
ere y mouthful we take; every bit of
starchy food we take turns into glucose.
There is glucose in every fruit and a cer
tain qaautity in tbe best of sugars. Be
cause' saccharine particles are found in
diabetes, people jump to the conclusion
that it Is glucose. Again, they hear that
sulphuric acid is used in making glucose,
and they are horrified. They might as
well bo afraid of getting some of the iron
oft tho hoe with which their potatoes are
dug up as to be afraid of the sulphuric
acid used in making glucose. Ido not
believe that sugar refiners sell or
export glucose. I have analyzed
samples of sugar sent to me by
government officers whosuspected certain
exporters of defrauding the governmeut In
the following manner: When raw sugar
is imported it pays a duty, and If it is not
sold here, but only refined and exported
again, a part of the duty on that sugar is
refunded. But tbe government did not
wish to return money on exported glucose,
which of course bad paid no import duty.
I analyzed many samples by means of a
device invented by Dr. Rickets, of the
Columbia College School of Mines, and
myself, and found no tram of fraud. So
long as tbe mixtrs only put one part of
glucose to five parts of sugar there- need
be no trouble. When they get to mixing
one pert of sugar to five parte of glucose u
may be time for some one to protest-”—
N. Y. Evening Post.
The best sidewalks are in the middle of
tbe streets.
He was one of the world’s unfortunate*,
a cripple, doomed to waste his life on a
bed of pain. Bracing himself np.the other
morning, tbe little fellow’* eyes wander
ed, looking at the brightness of the morn
ing’s son glistening on the snow. “Main-
ms,” said he.
“Well, Robbie."
“I wish when you banc up rsy atoriefng
Christmas eve you’d fill It with somblne.
It’s tbe beet pain killer.”
He bad a mournful look about hitn^
and be advanced witb measured steps t
the table. -
“I’m a useful member of society,” said
he in a sepulchral voice.
“Indeed, nooue would suspect it.
face like yours—”
“Is a blessing to its owner. 1 can man-
ufactu e more melancholy in ten minutes
than any other man can in a week,
That’ my business. I go about touching
up tbe tender feelings of people end re
ducing them to palpable tears—”
“A regular brine drawer?”
“To be short, yes. One loos at me will
make tbe stoutest eye weep I’m very
useful at funerals.”
“This is no funeral, but it will be aud
there will be joy instead of mourning, if
you don’t take your melancholy mug out
of here in a hurry,” and just as he was
going to ask for a quarter a paste pot went
whizzing by bis head, and he retreated,
leaving a streak of blue behind him that
will last a week.
MUTUAL LIFE IBSUEAtfCE.
A Road Better Than the If aeon and
Knoxville, and fer Lest Money.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—
A few years ago tbe people of Macon be
came so deeply concerned about a railroad
from this point to Knoxville, Tennessee,
that a company was organized for the pur
pose, and a preliminary sutvey made of a
part of the route. It was conceeded by
ail that such a road would be of immense
advantage to Macon by creating a new
line of communication with the coal re
gions of Tennessee and indirectly with the
great West. The project, however, seems
cow to be entirely abandoned for lack of
available capital to cany it out. The ex
pense would be enormous,both on account
of the necessary length of the road (about
200 miles) ana the character of the coun
try through which It would pass.
But while it is more than probable that
we shall never have a Macon and Knox
ville road, I think it quite practicable for
us to have another road even more desir
able and at infinitely less cost.
It lias been authoritatively announced
that Rome aud Chattanooga will soon be
directly counected by the completion of the
Rome and Chattanooga railroad. If now
a road is built from Rome to Carrollton,
—a distance of about forty miles—Macon
will be in direct communication with
Chattanooga by a route entirelj inde
pendent of the State road. That is to say;
only forty miles of road are needed to
give us a new chain of connection with
east Tennessee and the West. By refer
ence to the map, the several links in this
chain can be seen at a glance: Macon to
Griffin, Griffin to Carrollton, Carrollton
to Rome, Rome to Chattanooga.
I will not now enlarge upon the bene
fits that would accrue to Macon by the es
tablishment of two competing lines to
Chattanooga. Chattanooga is the key to
the West. Whatever facilitates and cheap
ens transportation from Chattanooga to
this point, brings us nearer to the graua-
ries anti pork houses of the West.
Chattanooga also commands the coal
fields of east Tennessee. At this par
ticular juncture, no argument is needed
to siiow tho Importance of multiplying
our connections with the coal mines. The
present scarcity of fuel in Macon teaches
the lesson in a language which the sim
plest caii understand. Tbe State road
cannot keep Atlanta supplied with coal,
and, as a consequence, the people of that
enterprising city are clamoring loudly for
the building of the Georgia Western road,
To open to them the coal beds «f Alabama.
If the Georgia Western is built—and it
doubtless will be, for the people of Atlanta
have a way of carrying their point—it will
intersect with the line I have above indi
cated, connecting this point with Chatta
nooga. Thus Macon will not only have
an additional line of communication with
East Tennessee, but will also be very
directly connected with tho coal region of
Alabama.
In a word, all tbe arguments in favorof
the Macon aud Knoxville road would ap
ply with Increased force to the establish
ment of tlie Macon and Chattanooga route
above described. Chattanooga is a far
better terminal point than Knoxville.
Macon has the recent example of Augusta
to stimulato her enterprise in this matter.
That city has just recognized the impor
tance of improving her connection with
the West by subscribing $250,000 to the
Augusta aud Knoxville road. Vox.
The Angel of Death.
A Pittsburg d.spatch says: “This is
sad and mournful Christmas for tbo little
town ot Haulsdale, Clearfield county, in
this State. Tho angel of death is holding
high carniual in that fearful scourge, scar
let fever, aud is rapidly thinning and des
olating every household in the place.
Eighteen children died yesterday from
this terrible disease, aud this morning
many new cases are'reported. It is but a
few days since the first case was reported,
and already thirty deaths have resulted
from the fatal fever. Physicians have
been summoned from all tbe neighboring
towns. Tho few doctors here were all
overworked, and could not possibly attend
to all demands upon them. Thero is
scarcely a family in town which is not
plunged into tire deepest grief over the
deatti of their children. Heretofore the
health of the town has been excellent and
the doctors are at a loss to account for the
fearful ravages of tbe dread disease.
Knew When to Quit.—“I think
may be excused for a little show of pride
in saying that I knew when to quit Wall
street,” he observed, as an elevated train
carried litm over the great thoroughfare.
“You used to speculate, eh?”
“Yes; I was on the street for seven
years.”
“Made your pile, 1 suppose?”
“Yes; I made and lost money as the
rest. At one time I could draw my check
for $93,000, and that wasn’t so bad for a
man who went into Wall street with only
$40 in his pocket.”
“And you knew when to quit?”
“Yes, sir.”
“That was when—when—?”
“That was when I had enough left to
pay my fare to Elmira and hire a boy to
carry my satchel up to my father-in-law’s
house!” was the quiet reply.—Wall
8lreet News.
An Eleutric Eel.—The bark St
Lawrence, which arrived a few days ago
from Demerara, has on board an electric
eel, which it is proposed to present to
Druid Hill Park collection. The eel,
which was caught in Demerara, is three
feet long and two inches thick, and is
kept in a tub ot water. The characteris
tics of these eels are well known. They
are so heavily charged with the electric
fluid that they can by contact koock down
or stun, and in many cases kill tbe strong
est man or beast. A gentleman who
touched the one in question with bis um
brella, the ferule of which is iron, felt the
electric current very perceptibly,—Baliq
more Sun.
Sellable Wall Street Broker*.
The annual activity in stocks during
ihe past three months has left many a
man tbe richer for a fortunate investment
at the right time. The one unaccustomed
to the ways of Wail Street the relible ad
vice of a reputable firm, like Joan A.
Dodge & Co., No. 12, Wall Street, New
York, and others that might be mention
ed, is of great importance. Firms like
this one do uot hesitate to advise their
customers respecting their speculative in
vestments, and tbeir advice In generally
sound.
BanwUMi tor All Who are IitairS
to IS* Lodges a! tkU City.
3. H. Alexander, in a communication on
the sutyect of “Mutual Life Insurance,” In
tbe Auguaia Chronicle, gives expression
to some suggestions of deep interest to the
hundreds in Macon who belong to these
beneficial orders. As tbe subject is one
of importance to a large.class, we present
herewith bis views:
“Life insurance iu the mutual benefit
associations bas become a matter of much
general interest aud discussion in Augus
ta recently, by reason of several new or
ders being introduced among us, and tbe
presence of canvassing agents iu our
midst. There are a thousand young and
middle aged men here belonging to the
several organizations already established,
and a thousand more are going into the
several new ones. The many thousand
wives, children and dependents of the men
of our community are vitally interested
and concerned that no unwise investments
of this nature be made.
“I write to suggest that the multiplicity
of these orders is a ground for fear and
doubt. New ones have increased so fast
and the competition grows so active that
each one is virtually arrayed agsinst the
other, each draws material away from the
other, and tbe new ones are the enemies
of the old ones. Let the members of the
older orders, the Knights of Honor and
Arcanum,consider this,vie w of the case,and
see if by affording aid and encouragement
to the new aasociations they are not lay
ing the mine orpit that will eventuate in
a common downfall of the old and new.
The dangers are: First, that under tbe in
ducements and persuasion our men of
small means will overload themselves with
insurance, become dissatisfied with the
assessments that will inevitably increase
and not be able to meet yearly tbe pay
ments, and so fall out of oneor all orders.
Second, the competition leads to taking
bad risks in new orders, which
is fatal to all; and third,
the competition is expensive, ex
hausting the reserve funds in paying so
licitors, advertising, etc. In regard to this
matter of soliciting agents, none of the
mutual orders can afiord to pay them out
of honest mutual funds; and if it coaid be
afforded it is yet too dangerous a system,
because agents who are paid to travel at
so much per capita for new members will,
by reason of the temptation to make
money, and for want of acquaintance
among the people of the communities lie
visits, take bad risks; let in men who
would never get into any regular life
compauy. Mutual effort of friends among
friends in each locality, and where eacli
one bas main hope in the good of the or
der, is the surest reliance for safe and
healthy increase of membership.
“Being myseif a member of the Knights
major domo of the establishment.
To visitors who were strangers Mrs.
Sprague would expatiate upon her friend
Mr. Conk ring, bringing in his name even
when unnecessary, as though she gloried
In tbe fact that their names were linked
together. Mrs. Sprague, as well as Mr.
Coukllug, bas braved so much that they
are not in the least sensitive, and, as I
before said, they succeed in all their
worldly undertakings, and as long as that
is tbe case they are indifferent to publie
opinion. Senators who have guaetpral
won’t hesitate to shield Mr. Conkliug, it
necessary. From political motives some
will lie in his favor, and others from pru
dential motives, lest be say, “Yon are
another.” And so, no matter about the
verdict, Mr. Conkling will boss New
York politics, aud as long ss there is a
necessity for protecting Mrs. Sprague it
will be done, and that, too, by meu who
are careful of the good name of their own
wires aud daughters.
Tne President and his wife have acted
throughout this scandal with great tact
and good judgment. Tbe have braved the
ire of Senator Conk ling, aud Mrs. Sprague
has never entered the White House
during this administration. It remains to
be seen what course Gen. and Mrs. Gar
field will pursue after tbe 4th of March.
Gen. Garfield may not care to antagonize
the New York Senator, and that gentle
man’s ultimatum is always, “will you re
ceive Mrs. Sprague?” The refusal of Mrs.
Conkling and her daughter to invite Mrs.
Sprague to the latter’s wedding was re
sented by the Senator to the extent of ab
senting himself on the occasion and a re
fusal to speak to his daughter afterward.
When lie wished to smoothe liis mffled
plumage prior to the State convention in
New Yoric last February, he commanded
his wifeto come to Washington and drive
in an open carriage with Mrs. Sprague
and dine with her. If she obeyed he said
he would call to see his daughter aud be
reconciled to her. The iujured, patient
wife meekly submitted, and came to the
Riggs House, where she passed five days.
Mrs. Sprague drove in he.* carriage to the
hotel and sent iu her card to Mrs. Couk-
ling. She was received.
Next, the two ladies rode together
through the principal streets of the city.
Tbe last move iu the game was the dinner.
Many were bidden, but excuses made
by all but Judge Swayne, Judge Field
(but not their wives), Mrs. Hamilton
Smith, a Mrs. Barrett, a young mau,
member of Congress from Rhode Island,
Mrs. Sprague, Senator and Mrs. Conkliug.
These comprised the guests. The hostess
or Mr. Conkliug caused the dinner to be
written up for the press in tho most lavish
style, witb lull descriptiou or the piinutest
details. Mr. Conkliug considered this
the
ABLEST BIT OF STRATEGY
of his life; but when the martyr wife was
goue and all was understood, it was con
sidered tlie flimsiest structure ever erect
ed. The whole thing toppled over, and
of Honor and of the Arcanum, two ofthe hlSmJTSw th
.„d be., established „,de„ * .bis to
an uncomplaining wife. Nevertheless Mr.
Conkling carried the convention for
kind in the couutry, believing that both
of them are so far in a sound and healthy
condition, and giving us, for tbe time be
ing, cheap and reliable life insurance at
cost—the Arcanum, particularly, appear-
ibg to be as well managed at tho head
quarters, aud in its details of money mat
ters, as any order could be—I fear harm
only to these orders by the active canvass
ing going on in behalf of new and untried
schemes of tho mutual nature. And I in
voke the aid of every member of the older
orders to see to it that the good material
in our city be not taken away from us, to
our injury. Wo have lodges enough to
give choice to all, and if we let them know
the advantages we offer aud the secure
hope they give us for our families, no one
will be easily led into new or different
schemes to gain the same ends.”
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PAD, tbe ooly leuody that he* m honestly ac
quired right to aw the title- word “PAD** in ena-
reetioo with e treatment for chrome dlieate* of
thc Stomach. Liter and Splint.
By a recently perfected iap:ovearcot. effected
by lb - addition ol vegetable ingredia .te of newly
diioorerrd remedial value and absorptive adapt
ability. Dr. Holman h«a gn-etly inemaed tbs
aoope of tbe Pad’* u>«ulooai, and appreciably
augmented it* active curative power.
Ttii* greet improvement give* HOlMANT
PA D (with ite adjuvant.) comp eld and ucf.iUt*
control over the moat peratetent and nryieid
in* form* of Chronic Disrate ot the Stomach ant
Liver, aa well a* Malarial Blood poinding.
HOLMAN’S PADS have curretTand are Sail,
earing, diseases of *o iriry kinds, the* the littii
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Poison el every type, fn m Aching Hawse on ■
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cine 1“
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itator* who off-ir Pad* *imi!*r in Pore* end Odor
to tbe genuine Hoi aan Pad. Beware ct tbaee
bogus end imitation Part*, gotten up only to sell
on tho reputation of ibe GB' L'INH Hoiman
Pad.
Bech genuine Holman Pad been tbs P*feats
Revenue Stamp of the HOLMAN P*D • OMPA-
Nf wuh the abore Trad.-Mar* printed to
green.
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PO. KOI Silt. M WILLIAM sr , New fork
Grant, ami expected through his election
to the Presidency to silence all those who
expressed disgust. He had made Cornell
Governor to revenge himself upou the
President and Secretary Sherman. But
not even be attbat time expected that liis
power was great enough to elevate Mr.
Arthur to the second highest office. Aud
now Uisreveuge is complete, aud he feels
strong enough to defy God aud man. Un
less Judge Hunt dies, Mr. Conkling will
not let him resign, nor afford the oppor-
tutiity for Mr. Hayes to name his suc
cessor. Ho would uot vste on the noiai-
nation.
What English Ladies Wear.
Thursday Was a capital day at Sandown,
socially considered. Tbe weather was
The Great Bird Kelt Of fhe Welt, brilliant, recalling a bit of early spring,
The most notable pigeon roost In the with suushins and no east winds. Pretty
West Is located iu the southwestern part
of Scott county, Indiana, and covers many
hundreds of acres of the forest. To this
roost come nightly, in the fall season,
when pigeons are abundant, millions of
these birds. They commence arriving as
early as 5 o’clock in the evening, and often
until midnight the flocks pour in. The
birds commence leaving at daylight, and
by 8 or 9 o’clock all have departed for tlie
feeding grounds, often hundreds of miles
away.
During the roosting season thU pigeon
roost is a notable and exciting place.
Hunters visit it from all parts of Indiana,
and from Ohio and Kentucky. They come
armed with shotguns and long poles, and
supplied with torches aud sacks, the
latter to be used in carrying off
the captured birds. The hunters usually
commence their work about 8 o’clock iu
the eveulng, and thence od through the
night the scene is an exciting one. The
roar of shotguns is heard on all sides.
Added to this Is the crackling and falling
ofthe limbs of the trees from tbe accumu
lated weight of the pigeons upon them.
Torches flash on all sides through the for
est, the crash of the long poles through
the lower limbs of the trees as they
sweep down the birds, tlie shouts of tiie
hunters and the whir of the wings of the
rising and setting flocks create confusion
worse confouuded. Thousands of birds
are killed nightly, and during the day
droves of bogs roam through the woods to
fatten on the killed aDd wounded birds
left on the ground during the night's fo
ray. At intervals of mauy years the pig
eons change their roosting place, but nev
er locate far away from tbe old roost. A
week ago they made a change, taking new
quarters a few miles distant from the
former roost. This change was made
iii the night. The Scott county
pigeon roost has been a famous resort for
more than eighty years. Near this roost,
the most famous Indian massacre that
ever occurred in this part of the State took
place in September, 1812. A party of
marauding Pottawatomies out on the
warpath, attacked the Pigeon-roost set
tlement, at that time the most remote in
the In this direction from tbe falls of the
Ohio, and murdered all the settlers but
five—two members of the family of John
Collins and Mrs Beadle and her two little
children—Mrs. Beadle flying with the
children iu her arms and secreting herself
and them In a sink hole till the Indians
had gone, when she took the children in
her arms and ran to tbe nearest settlement,
six miles away, and gave the alarm.
The Power of Faith—Dr. John
Brown, of Edinburgh, once gave a laborer
a prescription, sayiug: “Take that, and
ccmc back in a fortnight, when you will
be well.” Obedient to the injunction, the
patient preseuted himself at tbe fortnight's
end with a clean tongue and a happy face.
Proud of the fulfillment of his promise,
Dr. Brown said: “Let me see what I gave
yon.” “Oh,” answered the man, “1 took
i t, Doctor.” “Yes, I know yon did; but
where is tbe prescription?” “I swallowed
it,” was the reply. The patient had
made a pill of the paper, and faith in the
physician's skill had done the rest. Faith
Js a rare wonder-worker. Strong in the
belief that every Frank is a doctor, an old
Arab, who had been partially blind from
birth, pestered an English traveler into
giving him a seldHta powder and some
pomatam. Next day the chief declared
that be coaid see better than he had done,
for twenty yean.
Tho Cenklin? Scandal.
Fay, the lively Washington correspond
ent of the Courier-Journal, in a letter
dated the 27th, says:
The Sprague-Conkling scandal has
broken out, and occupies public attention.
No matter what is alleged on cither side,
nobody will be damaged in the estimation
of those who intend to stick to denials of
everything, and who, for political reasons,
will extol both Mr. Conkling and Mrs.
Sprague. I know good women who are
doing it, aud they intend to stand by the
jrincipal actors. Here is a sample: When
ihe assertion was made that Mrs. Sprague
accompanied Mr. Conkliug to the Chicago
convention the shield cf Mrs. Don Camer
on’s society was alleged as protection. It
is denied that she traveled with him
in his private car in Ohio and In
diana. Next she is with him at Buf
falo, which is no sooner reported than
Mr. Crowley, a member of Congress, who
lives near Buffalo, comes to'the front,
takes Mrs. Sprague to his home and lie
ana his wife give her an entertainment.
Mr. Crowley lias all this announced in
the papers; that Mrs. Sprage is liis guest,
and that Buffalo was distracted to do
homage to this paragon, but that, ill-
health and anxiety concerning tlie health
ot one of her little girls prevented her ac
cepting Buffalouian hospitality. Tlie
sequel of this has since been developed.
Lord Uoscoe Intends to reward the subser
vience of Crowly with a seat in the Uni
ted States Senate.
It is strange that astute men don’t see
that they concede everything when they
court favors from Mr. Conkling through
attentions and pecuniary assistance to
lira. Sprague; if that lady had cared to
£ reserve the respect of her father's old
lends, coaid she uot easily Iiave dene so
by living at Edgowood and educating her
children instead of permitting politicians
to pay the rent of an expensive house in
the city, and also keep a retinue of ser
vants, carriage, and other expenses ? Last
winter Mr. Conkling was her daily visitor,
and hi* servant, who la so peculiar look
ing that he is unmistakable, was
toilets were abundant, and eccentricity
seemed less rampant tban during early
meetings. Perhaps winter clothing allows
less scope in that direction. I noticed an
entire costume of mulberry-colored plush,
relieved by cream-colored chrysanthe
mums in the bonnet, and cream-colored
lace and flowers on the muff. All tbe
dresses were short, aud either feet have
grown more pretty of late, or boot-makers
more clever. Wnicliever it may be, the
result is decidedly good. A champagne,
colored velvet jacket made a sensation,
dividing the interest of the fairer portion
of the assemblage, with “Miss Kate,"
simultaneously with whose rather un
expected triumph .the jacket ap
peared on the scene. It fitted very rightly
and was edged with sable, the dress and
bonnet being of dsrk-browu velvet. Ruby
velvet appearsto be a favoritestuff for dress
es this winter. There were several on the
lawn, one of them being thickly trimmsd
witb gold braid and gold cord. Such a
dress would have been too much for most
women, but it suited the tall, handsome,
brown-haired girl who had ventured upou
it. But why sapphire ear-rings? Small
as they were, they were a great mistake.
1 noted a greater quantity of “gems” than
good taste usually permits with afternoon
toilets. I concluded that the fair wearers
had been reading “Endymion.” A dainty
littlo lady distinguished herself in the
chiffon liue by wearing a bonnet and
mulf both entirely composed of
pink and dark-red chrysanthe
mums. The effect was pretty and festive,
though not exactly warm or comfort-sug
gesting. Is it a fact that the majority of
tbe long brocaded velvet coats now worn
hare to be unbuttoned before the wearer
can sit down? Tbe buttons are so numer
ous that it must have its disadvantages.
The prettiest dress, to my thiukiug, was
entirely of black. Velvet and plush ap
peared to be the principal .ingredients,
with showers of jet and chenille fringe.
The short coat, cut like a man’s, and fit
ting to perfection, had large black velvet
flowers raised on a ground of white satin,
and white Christmas roses were in the lit
tle black velvet or plush bonnet. Ladies
will be glad to hear that “fluttered frog”
it the name of tbe last new color; it is
rather lighter than “frightened toad” or
“angry mouse.”—London Truth.
threat. Under the breast an iron box is
placed which contains tbe dust ofthe
saint. Accompanying it are documents
signed by the officials at Koine. The re
mains Will be removed from the oratory
to-morrow evening, and placed in a recep
tacle under one of the side altars. Father
Hogeman, the pastor, will preach the ser
in- n on the occasion. Rt. Rev. Archbish
op Kenrick has examined the documents,
and given permission for the ceremony to
take place.—Globe Democrat.
srfuif
I* mad* from a simnle Tropical Leatofltere
V*1U3. »ni i* a POStTIVB HtsMHDT lor all tho
disrates that eaosi pains in tbe lover part of tha
body for Torpid Ltar—Keadarbas—Jaandloa—*
Dixiinem-Gravel—Malaria, and all diBonltias
o' th- Kirinor*. Ii Vr-r. an! Ur nanr Organ*. For
FBM'LK DISK ARBS, Monthly Ii metre Moat,
nnd rturin* Pre*n»nai Ubi* r-ONjail. It re
store* the orrtr.* thtt ra*»* tbrb ooJ. end heiMM
is tbe brat BLO <D PUEIFIRR. It I* t Ite only
known r.medy th*t rat**BSIGHT’S DIRE IHE.
For Dithota*. tut WAR .VUE'S SAFE DIA-
BSTBS CUBE.
Por sale by Drnrcltt* and TLeler* at tl.H
par bottle. Lsreratbottle in tbo market. Try it
H H WARNER t< CORoehaster. N T
FLAGGS
Impest
Liver
PAD
With the Anti-Malaria.
John Ingalls, druggist,
Wholesale and Retail Aaont, corner Pvnrth and
Poplar afreets.
STARCH
h »l'*<>lu(r!y odorlei*, wad
It 1* snowflake white.
It I* HuacepttbSe of tho litehest end
lasting l’ollsh.
A Sainted Martyr's Bonks The
Jesuit Fathers in charge of St. Joseph’s
German Catholic Church are preparing
for a solemn ceremony which will take
place to-morrow evening. They have al
ways desired to possess the bones ot a
saint, and, last year, when Fattier Techie-
den, the former pastor of the church, was
in Rome, he secured the remains of St.
Justicus, who is supposed to be a martyr
ofthe fourth century. The bones were
removed from tbe catacombs on the 25th
of August, 1761, and they come here with
all signs of authenticity. Tbe grave from
which they were exhumed was inscribed,
“Justlnus, puer, martyr,” and contained
a vial of blood, the palm and other evi-
a™*™**™, wa* HOUSEHOLD NEED.
a*tcnu»«K»l».
Mil JoflErirNiMMo, Jjl, the Chief of
the Government Bureau of Statistics at
Washington, in his animal report, gives
some very interesting figures. He shows
that the value of American breadslufis
exported for the year ending June 30, was
$288,035,835, of cotton $211,525,905, pro
visions $127,033,252, mineral oils £36,218,-
045, tobacco $18,442,237. The Uffited
States surpass every other country in
the world in the export of breadslufis and
provisions. Great Britian imports a larger
percentage ef our surplus goods than any
other country, and in the case of bread-
stuffs and provisions more titan atl the
other European countries combined.
A Valuable Sheep.—Perhaps the
heaviest return over obtained in this
c wintry from a single sheep was secured
last year by the Daniel South, of Hins
dale, N\ H., who raised from a Shropshire
ewe -three lambs, which he sold for $18,
and the wool ot tbe ewe for $1.50, mak
ing 'he total Income from tlie sbcaa
$19.50. ^
Still to*!. Outfit P
I I I PO. VlO&aRT.
SSMturs to
A DV«RTI»S*-S I send for oar Hetoe< List of
il Iejoal Newspaper*. G^o. P. Rowell A Co.,
>u Sprues sr. N.
NOTlOE TO DEBTORS4 CBEDI fOl
BORGIA, BIBB OOUNTT—Notice is bare- \
VX by siren to aii persons bavins djuaandf '
uuoit ('athsrina A. Freeman, of said oounty, '■
deeramd t > present them to ra- properly tnsae
ouk within tbe itm* proscribed by law; and ail *■
Dr.von* indebted to said dsemued are hereby re- ;
qairea to taake imaadiatajMymsnt.
„ GEO. O FREEMAN, idn'r. i
Dee 7-wSws
Administrator’s Sale-
W ILL be sold before tbe eeort bouse door to
»h* town of Oliotan, son** oounty. Grot-
nilRS* Q China aud Fever, Dy? {
UVlltoV pepsi.n, Liver Com
plaints, Kidney A flee 11 on*. Neural
gis, CoiistIpntion.NIslilleaA d
nehe, Female 4'oiuplalnta, bilious- ,
lieaa. Palpitation, nmt alt Malar 1st' *
Disease* without medicine^ Ho Dos- •
ing—no inconvenience, end a positive curs.
Price, including Dottle Ar.ti-Maleria, ®*oo. I
Sent by mail to any address upon receipt of ,
price. Principal Depot. B2 OrriBSu SI., '
ii»i to., r“ — ^ ~
i lsts generally, »
c„ • # 9 (was-
Miid Nlomaoli I*ml, others ere bulky,
bard and troublesome to wear*
It possesses greater strength ot body
than other trade brands. O
ln Found Parcels. FOH r%
Weight guaranteed.
It.cnsU less money than any Starch ta -*>
tl»© World*
“ GrE^SSlTSS&k 5 " Amorics * ?
Sfi?j&%S£g , J >ttoa rc “vh«, Twenty b
It t* inannfacinred hy Anires rj->"
?TO O^fto theb^rtS *
car * al "Ston of tt» i£
church Is a wax figure ot a boy, of appa
rently 15 years, with ahorrible gashin the Bend 3-cant it»mp lot« 80-pw Book *
1 Vtl*it^fl I 1 llridl* t nil liMsat ass ieew A.. — T _ ’
“Ihe Lifer, IU Diu»tea tad thitr
IfttiEMl,”
INCLUDING MALARIAL TROUBLES, Ste. >t
Add ess DR. BAHFORO, W
l«2 BipadWA i New York. 1
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