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Washington Letter.
Washington, January 15, 1881.
THE GARFIELD CABINET
Seems in process of sure, but slow, con
traction. The latest accepted stick of
limber comes from Iowa, and is labelled
Allison, who, it la pretty safe to say will
succeed John Sherman in tbe treasury
department. Allison is now serving his
second senatorial term, four years of which
remain, and is a stalwart, also, a medioc
rity with no special aptitude for finance, or
anything else requiring brains. He and
Blaine are quite thick of late, seemingly
talking over the prospective good times
they are going to have in Garfield’s official
household. I am afraid Allison will be
heard rattling around in Sherman’s shoes,
for lie can never till them. The latter is
one of the meanest and most malignant
xnan-suakes that ever struck at an enemy,
but he has brains to match his meanness,
and has developed an extraordinary apti
tude for putting money in his purse. He
has been in office continuously since
March 4tb, 1857, and with the completion
of his Senatorial term in 1887, will have
had an uninterrupted pull at the teat of
thirty years. When he first came here he
lived in the third story of a third-rate
Lathery. Now he luxuriates in a palace,
just completed, on one of the most fash
ionable streets, and is one of the largest
real estate owners in the city. Truly,
he has lined his nest with golden feath
ers, but there is nobody to bear his name
or inherit his wealth after he has joined
the majority. He and his wife are a child
less couple. I venture the opinion that
he would gladly give half his gold for a
baby. Perhaps the Lord has taken this
method of punishing him for bis mean
ness.
THE KELLOGG FILTH
Is promised precipitation upon tbe South
this week, and it that promise should be
fulfilled, farewell all other business and
pat down an extra session among the cer
tainties. The Radicals are united and de
termined to sustain Kellogg, and the
Democrats, as usual, are divided. Such
a condition of affairs cau hare but one re
sult—Democratic discomfiture. 1 know
Mr. Hill is thoroughly in earnest in his
light against Kellogg, but I fear he has al
lowed his feelings to get away with bis
judgment in the matter. It is only anotb.
er illustration of his fatal facility fordo,
i ng tbe right thing at the wrong time. Of
course, Kellogg is a scoundrel and no
more entitled to the seat he disgraces than
any other tramp, but bis case has been
tried once and settled. It is res aajudi-
cata. The practical question now—and
that is tbe only one in modern politics—is
whether his going or staying will harm
the South and the Democratic party most ?
One thing is dead sure: If Kellogg Is
“bounced,” Butler, Hampton, and proba
bly others, will go, too, just so soon as
the Radicals get coutrol. If the Demo
crats can ailnrd to do business in this way,
ail right. But can they ?
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.
The forthcoming census figures will be
promise fh>m his colleague that he would
get a full dress suit, and have it ready one
evening last week, when both were to
attend a swell dinner. Senator Hill called
at tbe Metropolitan Hotel for Senator
Brown. The latter had hU ow-
coat on, all ready to set out. Hr.
Hill 'sked about tbe dress suit, and
got an answer that “it was all
right.” When the two Senators pulled off
thsir overcoats and marched into the parlor
of tbe house where the dinner was given,
A PRETTY HIGH BATE OF SPEED than that, and the valvq was tied down,
I culd not tell how much over two bun
■asalsi ifcsvwrety-rive Mile* l»;o*e / «d pounds she carried; but sho certain!
orgreat itUeiest, furnishing, as they will,
a vast fund of information on manypo’uts
not heretofore embraced in such reports.
I see among other tilings that Macon
stands 178 in the list of cities with more
than 10,000 inhabitants, her population
being 12,748. Chattanooga is just ahead
of us with 12,802, and Richmond,Indiana,
just behind with 12,743. Atlanta leads in
Georgia, and is 51 on the list, wilii 34,-
398, being sandwiched belweeu Oakland,
California, with $4,456, and Utica, New
York, with 33,193. Savannah is credited
with 30,681, standing between Harris
burg with 30,762, and Omaha, witli 30,-
518. Augusta shows 23,023, rating next
to Wilkesbarre with 23,339.
Some other figures of interest ate in ref
erence to the cotton manufactures of the
country. There are 230,223 looms, 10,-
921,147 spindles, 181,628 persons em
ployed, aud 1,586,481 bales of cotton
worked up annually. Massachusetts leads
followed by Rhode Island, then Connec
ticut and then Maine. In this list Georgia
is credited with 4,743 looms, 200.074 spin
dles, 6,078 bales ef cotton worked up, and
67,874 persons employed. Her place is
eighth in the list. This general statement
does not Include hosiery mills, nor woolen
mills where cotton may be a component
material used.
CAPR1COBNUS CONKLING
is understood to be gelling ready for a
bout witli Garfield in case the latter
doesn't get on his knees aud beg tbe New
York Lothario to name tbe cabinet places
he wants for his strikeis. The talk is
that Conk has sworn to have the treasury
department, at least, and to make things
hissing hot for somebody if he doesn’t get
it. Be might be placated with the post-
office department and its immense pat
ronage, but claims tbe treasury as his
very own. But the West will name John
Sherman’s successor, and perhaps Mr.
Garfield lias also other views as to the
post-office. So alter all Conk’s relations
with the incoming may not be any pleas
anter than they have been with the out
going administration. He could hardly
treat Garfield, personally, with such utter
contempt as he has the man who has
drawn Tilden’s salary for four years, but
he might make matters decidedly unpleas
ant for him in a variety of ways. Gar
field is notoriously thin-skinned, and con
sequently peculiarly sensitive to such as
saults as Conkling is famous for. If lie
doesn't want to have trouble of the most
aggravating description during his entire
official lire, I would advise him to let
Conk have his sweet will. It will be very
humiliating, of course,but Garfield doesn’t
mind that particularly. Anything but a
rough and tumble row, wheu people get
hurt sure enough, Is his motto.
SNOW ANv ICE
still reign supreme in this latitude. The
Potomac is frozen to below Acquier Creek,
and in the fields and parks the snow lies
unthawed by sun or rain. Sleighing in
the city is a thing of the past, but in the
country it is still tbe favorite, and in some
instances, the only mode of locomotion.
The view from the dome of the capltol Is
simply superb, and folly worth the tire
some climb getting up there entails. Far
as the eye can range in Virginia and
Maryland the white fields glisten in the
sunlight unbroken, except here and there
by a dark patch of woodland that seems
almost to shrink from tbe cold compan
ionship. I can conceive ot nothing which
conveys a more vivid idea of utter desola
tion and death than thin wide expanse,
seemingly so destitute of any form or
symptom of human or animal life. Not
a sound strikes the ear, not even
a bird or rabbit breaks the drear
monotony that holds in its death grasp
the ghostly landscape. It seems as if
mother earth and her children had fal.en
on sleep,'and with limbs pulseless and mo
tionless, and eyes glazed and frozen, were
waiting for that last blast on resurrection s
trumpet. It is a weird and weary sight,
and once will serve lor a lifetime, partic
ularly with that horrid climb included.
For tlrose who are fat and “scant o
breath” it doesn’t begin to pay.^ ^ R
Washington, January 10,1SS1.
THIS TALK OF A DBESS COAT,
as told by the Star, of yesterday evening,
ought to tie of general iuterest down in
“Georgy,” and t therefore send It. Says
the Star:
“Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia,
is the wealthiest man in his State. He is
a manor marked ability, but is plain and
practical, and not at ail given to frills and
thitigs. Ho dresses something like a
Methodist minister; liis smoothly-shawd
upper lip and long white beard add to his
clerical appearance. In his native clime
Senator Brown always wore his Sunday
Clothes on all important social occasions,
as well as to church. Until he came to
Washington he never collided with the
social requirements of .a dress auit. And
it was only abont a week ago that
he purcha-ed one. His colleague,
Senator Hill, told him that he must
stop wearing ids frock coat out to dinners
and swell affairs, and must get a swallow
tail coat. Senator Brown protested against
it on general grounds, but particularly be
cause the cloth put Into dress coats was so
thin. He suffers with heavy colds on the
chest, and said he was not going to run
any risks Just for the sake of slinging a
little style. Senator Hill finally got a
magnificent proportions, and looked like
aa overcoat cat swallow-tail fashion.
Senator Brown bad ordered the tailor to
make him a full dress suit out of heavy
beaver cloth. The order had been carried
out to the letter, and there was the Sena
tor arrayed in all bis glory. Uf course
there was no “set” to the coat. It looked
like a big bag. The rear pockets appeared
as ifthe wearer had brought his dinner
with him, equally divided between the-
two. Senator Brown bad to sit on the
coat tails all tbe time to prevent
their climbing np to the neck. It was truly
a wonderful costume. Upon leaving the
house Senator Hill took Senator Brown
to task about his suit, but could get no
satisfaction. ‘I am not going to wear one
of those thin things and catch my death of
cold. U society demands a coats cut like
a goose quill, I have got one. U people
don’t like it, 1 can wear my freck coat. T
have gone as far as I am going towards
what you call a dress suit,’ said Senator
Brown. That ends it, and Senator Brown
will appear in his beaver cloth swallow
tail, his frock coat, or not at all.”
DULL TIMES.
I never knew duller, and newspaper
men complain thereof very bitterly.
There is absolutely not one sensation
afloat, which is something unusually rare
at this headquarters of gabble, gossip, and
genuine news. There is nothing either
piquant Or pointed in the proceedings ot
either house, and the gallery loungits are
thinning out except, of course, the tramps
who must keep warm somehow anc
somewhere. They are always with us,
blow hot or blow cold, and would vote
unanimously for perpetual sessions of
Congress. What, with free soup aud lodg
ing houses, and warm quarters in the
House or Senate galleries, they rub along
very snugly. What more does a gen
uine vag want, except to fill
Iris skin full once in a while
with whisky, which is neypr a Very diffi
cult job for an enterprising man. One of
that sort can always get drank when he
can’t get anything else. But one sees very
little drunkenness here* 1 don’t know
where the rummies hide themselves, for 1
oiten go a week w.'thoutseeingeveu a half
slewed customer on the stieet.
THE KELLOGG CASE,
as you have doubtless noted in your
telegrams, got a black eye iu Lite Senate
this week, it was brought up on a square
motion to substitute it for the rcgalar ro-
der of the day, and went down uuder a
decided majority. Nine or ten Democrats
voted against taking it up,Messrs. Bayard,
Thurman, Butler aud Lamar being of the
number. Messrs. Hill and Brown voted
to take it up. it will scarcely be heard
of again, and Kellogg will doubtless be
allowed to jog along uud'sturbed until
Gen. Ilandall Gibson outs him in 1S83.
I suppose he will scarcely go back to
Louisiana, as his occupation will bo gone
and nothing very promising in the future
for any more“good stealing.” By the way,
I wonder what lie did with Jessie Ray
mond after utilizing her to swear to that
chapter of lies about Mr. Hill ? 1 haven’t
heard of her this winter, aud judge she is
not in the city. Such cattle are always to
be found iu Washington during the sess
ion, and for hire or sale, just as carriages
and diess coats. She is as good as Kellogg,
however, In every respect, and I hope she
may make him see tbe old scratch before
she lets him go.
BRUCE IN THE CABINET.
It is understood that considerable press
ure is being brought to bear upou Mr.
Garfield In regard to naming Bruce or
some other promineut negro for a place in
liis cabinet. It makes the faithful squiriq
and curse, and doubtless "iv« <i«r««ia -
big iliorfuat, Out tue question will Lava So
be met, all the same. Tho negro vote de
serves it, and the owners of that vote are
outspoken in that opinion. There are
cheerful evidences in many quarters that
the negro leaders are bent on making tbe
demand, and iu a loud tone, too. Some
aic for John M. Langston, hut the gen
eral cry seems to be for Bruce, who
has been playing Senator for six years
past. Brace is wise enough to know how
and when to hold his tongue, and in the
matter of looking like a statesman and
behaving like a gentleman, is up to any
of his associates. 1 see no reason why be
wouldn’t make just as efficient a secretary
of war, or of the navy, as many who have
filled those positions. He writes quite a
neat hand, aud could sign his name to
papers written by subordinates, who do.
all the real work, just as well as anybody
else.
Of course, his white allies will kick
against the proposition. They always do
wheu it is proposed to give a negro some
thing worth having. They always waut
him to wait a little while longer, until the
public mind has been educated up to the
poiut of seeing him in high position—up
here, of course. Down South it Is all
right for him to be Senator, governor, or
what not; but at the North, where he is so,
well beloved, be must wait. I do hope
tbe colored troops will name Brace or
some other man of their race and slick to
him. They have heretofore allowed them
selves to be wheedled or bamboozled ont
ef their dues in this direction. Let them
take a stand this time and maintain it. If
they will they can be roasters of the sit
uation. A. W. B.
Hoar sad Mviaf a lallrMd Cm
pur IrMsLMS*f|3M,«0O.
Prom the Railroader 1
I am % railroad engineer. Away along
in 1867, during tbe reoent panic, I was
running on the F. and C. railroad. The
railroad companies were going under in
all directions. -Every dsy we heard of
Senator Hill was almost paralyzed. There < J’ llte often where we
was the swallow-tail cost en Senator??®^ expected it. Oar road was general-
Brown, to be sure, but it was a thing ot
The Saint and the Actoil—Re
marks are often made implying that min
isters are overp&id> or at least that such
men as Mr. Beecher and Dr. Stores are
extravagantly paid. The following figures,
given by the New York Tribune, arc
worthy of being borne in mindc
“Beecher gels $20,000; Edwin Booth,
$100,000 a year; Dr. Hal), ef Fifth Ave
nue, aud Dr. Dlx, of Trinity, ge£ $15,000,
while E. A. Sothem earns over $150,000
as “Lord Dundreary,” and John E.
Owens plays thirty weeks annually for
$90,000. Talmage preaches for $12,000,
and Joe Jefferson plays forty weeks as
“Rip Van Winkle” and earns $120,000.
The scholarly and gifted Dr. Stores has
$10,000, aud Maggie Mitchell earns $30f
000 to $50,000. Dr. Cnyier works hard
and faithfully for $8,000 a year, while
Dion Boucicault finished a season as the
“Shaughraun,” etc., at $3,000 a week, and
his managers scolded him in the public
prints because he would not play longer
at the same price. Dr. Potter, of Grace
Church, has $10,000 and a parsonage; tho
eloquent Dr. Tiffany lias $10,000; the once
vigorous (now deceased) Dr* Chapin gets
$10,000, while Fanny Davenport earns
$1,000 every week she plays.”
The reopening of the Kellogg case in
the Senate has been indefinitely post
poned. Nine Democratic Senators voted
with the Republicans—Msssrs. Bayard,
Butler, Groome, Lamar, Pendleton, Thur
man, VMtten. Williams and White. The
conduct of the Senators named is in fine
contrast with the action of the Republican
caucus, which bad resolved to obstruct ail
legislation rather than lose a political ad
vantage. Kellogg has no more right to
represent Louisiana in the Senate than he
lias to represent Pennsylvania; but it would
create a doubtful precedent to unseat him,
and doubtless force an extra session or
Congress. The game is not worth the
powder.—Philadelphia Record.
Keki*ino Grapes.—A California pa
per say* for keeping grapes largetana
six Inches in depth are used. After the
eraoes are gathered and those of which
the skin is Broken are picked out, put a
newspaper in the box, then a IjfW®
crapes, then one of the newspapers until
• hero are three or four layers, but no
more. Keep them where it It'warm and
dry, that is where it is not cold enough to
freeze.
ly looked upon as one of the most substan
tial iu the nation; nobody seemed to have
any fears that it would fail to survive the
general smash-up; bat yet 1 did not fully
share in iu the general ooufidence. Wa
ges were cut down,arrearages collected,and
a great many other little matters seemed
to indicate to me that the road had go",
into deeper water than was agreeable all
around. Among other things, the matter
mechanic had told me in tbe spring that
the company bad ordered foar first-quali
ty Taunton engines for the fall passenger
business. The road was put in the very
best condition, and other preparations
were made to cut down the time and put
the trains through quicker thau was ever
known before when the new engines
should come. Well, there was but one of
tbe engines came.
I said there was bat one engine came;
but she was, in my opinion, altogether
the best ever tamed on; of the Taunton
works, and that is saying as much as can
be said of any engine. She was put in
my charge immediately, with tbe under
standing that she was mine. It was Sat
urday when she came out oftheshop,aod
1 was to take a special train up to Y—.
The train was to carry up the president
and several other officers of the road to
meet some officers of another road, which
crosses ours there, and arrange some im
portant business with them. I had no
trouble at all in making my forty miles
an hour going ont. The engine handled
herself most beautifully. We were just
holding up at Y ■*«, when Aldrich* the
treasurer, who had come out on the plat
form to put brakes on, slipped and fell-
As we were still under good headway he
was much injured, aud carried off to the
hotel insensible. According to tbe presi
dent’s direction, I switched off my train,
turned my engine, and stood ready to
start back to C at a moment's notice.
Aldrich’s presence was of so much im-
portance that the business could not be
transacted without him, so all those 1 had
brought out, except the president and Al
drich, went back to C— on the 3 o’clock
express train. This was tbe last regular
train which was to pass over the road un
til next Monday. Early in the evening I
left the machine in charge of my fireman,
and went over to an eating liouse to see if
I could not spend the time more pleasant
ly than on my engine. Two hours drag
ged themselves away slowly. I was play
ing a game of dominoes with the station
agent when in came Roberts, the presi
dent, in a state of great excitement.
“Hany,” said he, “I want yon to put
me down in C at 12 o’clock.”
As it was nearly 11 o’clock then, and
tbe distance was seventy-five miles, 1
thought he was joking at first; but when
we got outside the door he caught me by
the ann aud hurried me along so fast that
1 saw he was in earnest.
“Harry,” said he, “if you don’t set me
down in C—— by 12 o’clock, I am a
rained man aud tills road is a ruined
road. Aldrich is dead, but he told me
before he died that he had embezzled from
•time to time $500,000 of our money, and
ills clerk is to start with it on the 12
o’clock boat from C for Canada. If
we don’t have that money on Monday
morning to make some payments with,
the road goes into other hands; aud if you
put me down in U at the right time,
so that 1 have my money, you shall have
$5,000. Understand it, Harry—five thou
sand dollars.”
Of course 1 understood it. I saw now
the reason why the wages had been cut
down. 1 understood it all, and my blood
boiled. I felt that I would save tbe road,
if I lived, and 1 told Roberts so.
“See that you do it, Harry,” he replied,
as he climbed an nnti*» T*- tb - *—’*
which wascnim'*** 1 *- “J “« 0 ine.
i sprang up into the footboard, got up
the switch tender to help my fireman,
opened the throttle, and just as she com
menced moving, looked at my watch; it
was just 11 o’clock, and I had one hour to
make my seventy five miles In. From
T to C there were few curves ou
the road, but there were several heav
grades. 1 was perfectly acquaiuted witl
every rod of it, so that I knew exactly
what I bad to encounter, and when I saw
how the engine moved I had very little
fear for tbe result. The road for tbe first
five miles was an air line, and the road
so smooth that my engine flew along with
scarcely a perceptible jar. I was so busy
posting myself as to the amount of wood
and water aboard, etc., that we danced by
the first station,almost before I was aware
of it, having been five minutes out and
having five miles accomplished.
“You are losing time 1 ” yelled a voice
from tbe coach. I looked around, and
there stood Roberts with his watch in bis
hand.
I knew very well that we would have
to increase our speed by some means if
we carried out our plan of reaching
U by midnight, and looked anxiously
around to see what 1 could do to accom
plish that purpose. She was blowing off
steam fiercely at 110 pounds, so I turned
down the valve to 200, for I know we
should need it all to make some of the
heavy grades which lay between ns and
C . It was three miles to the next
station. With the exception of a few
curves, the track was aa good as tbe last.
As we darted around what commonly
seemed a rather long carve at the station,
but which was atour rate of speed short
enough, I looked at my watch, and we
had < lone it in two minutes and a half.
“Gaining,” I shouted back to Roberts,
who was standing on the platform of the
coach.
‘Look ont for the heavy grades,” here-
plied, and went inside the car.
Tbe next six mile* rose gradually from
a level to ten and a half feet grade, the
last which lay between ns ana tbe next
station. My fireman kept her fall, and
now she began to get hot. Tbe furnace
door was red, and tbe steam roee continu
ally, so that she kept her speed and passed
the station like a streak of light in five
minutes. Now came nine miles like
the last, over which she kept psce with
her time and passed the station in sev
en and a half minutes. Hero for ten
miles we had a twenty foot grade to en
counter, but the worst of it all was at this
place we would be obliged to stop for
wood. I was just going to speak to Rob
erts about it when! .looked around and
saw him filling the tender from the coach
with wood which bad been placed there
before starting, while be bad gone after
carried none lest tbe remainder of th
journey. And well she might carry such
an enormous head of steam, for after pass
ing over that ten miles in eight minutes
there lay ten miles of five feet up-grade
and fourteen miles of twenty feet to tbe
mile depression between us and C ,
and it was now thirteen minutes to twelve
o’clock.
Now the engine was hot in earnest.
The furnace door, smoke-arch, and
chimney were all red, while she seemed
,to fly onward as if the very evil one him-
*self operated her by machinery. Six min
utes carried us over that ten miles and
we darted by tbe last station that had
lain between us and C—. Now we bad
fourteen miles to go, and my time showed
fifty-three minutes past 11 o’clock. “If I
live,” said I to myself, “I will make it.”
And we plunged down that twenty foot
grade with all steam on. Persons who
saw the train on that wild ran said it was
so soon after they heard the first sound of
her approach, when the strange object,
which looked as if was a flame of tire,
darted by, and the sound of Its travelin;;
died away in the distance, that they coulc.
hardly convince themselves they had
really seen anything. It seemed more
likely the creature of a wild dream than a
sober reality.
And now let me tell you that no engine
ever beat the time we made on those four
teen miles. Those great wheels, seven
feet in diameter, spun around so swift
that you couldn’t begin to count the revo
lutions. The engine barely seemed to
touch the track as she flew along, and al
though the track was as true as it was
possible for it to be, she swayed fearfully,
and sometimes made such prodigious jolts
that it required considerable skill for one
to keep his feet. No engine could hold
together if crowded to a greater speed.
Well, just as I came to a standstill in
the depot at C—, the big clock boomed
ont 12, and the steamboat was getting her
steam on. Roberts got on board in time
and nothing to spare. But he saved the
money. He found it hid away in some
told boxes, as Aldrich bad directed him.
Booth *nd the Lord’s Prayer.
When tbe elder Booth was residing In
Baltimore a pious, urbane old gentleman
of that city, hearing of his wonderful pow
er of elocution, one day invited him to
dinner, although always deprecating the
stage and theatrical performances. A large
company sat down at the table, and on
returning to tbe drawing room, one of
them asked Booth, as a special favor to
them all, to repeat the Lord's Prayer. He
signified his willingness to gratify them,
and all eyes were fixed on him. He slowly
and reverently arose from his chair, trem
bling with the burden of two great con
ceptions. He had to realize the character,
attributes and presence of the Almighty
Being be was about to address. He was
to transform himself into a poor sinning,
stumbling, benighted, needy supplicant,
offering homage,’ asking bread, pardon,
light and guidance. Says one of tho
company who was present: “It was
wonderful to watch the play of
emotions that convulsed his
nance. He became deadly pale,
and his eyes turned tremblingly upward
were wet with tears. As yet he had not
spoken a work. Tho silence could be
fell; it had become absolutely painful,un
til at last the spell was broken; as if by
an electric shock, his rich-toned voice
syllabled fortlit “Our Father Which art in
Heaven,” etc.,’with a pathos and fervid so
lemnity .which thrilled all hearts.
He finished; the silenco con
tinued; not a voice was heard nor
muscle moved in this rapt audi
ence, until from a remote, corner of the
room a subdued sob was heard, and the
old gentleman, the host, stepped forward
with streaming eyes aod tottering frame,
and seized Booth by the hand. “Sir,”
says he, in broken accents, “you have af
forded me a pleasure lor which
my entire future life will feel
grateful. I am quite an old man, and
every day, from boyhood to the present
yjP’ .J frMEprorated the Lord> prayer;
“You are right,” replied Booth; “to read
that prayer as it should be read, caused
me tne severest study and labor for thirty
years, and I am far from being satisfied
with my rendering of that wonderful pro
duction. Not one person in ten thousand
comprehends how much beauty, tender
ness aud grandeur cau be condensed in a
7 space so simple. That prayer itself
^Sufficiently -illustrates the truth of the
Bible, and stamps upon it the seal of di-
viuity.”
counte- Without action on the bill, the Senate's!
Homoeopathy has received a severe
blow in Spain. The cure of Scudonl baa
declared from the pulpit that ,ick .P® r "
son belongingUihla pariah whoha* tried
to cure himself by homeopathy will, __ — handled pounds before wa finiab-
the event of death, be refused the |^“ and — j^e gauge indicated no fcigbet
of the church. 1 ’
I believe we would have made this ten
miles with the same speed as beiere, bat
through the carelessness of the fireman
tbe fountain valve on the left-hand side
of the engine got opened, and the water
rose in tbe boiler so fast as to run tbe
steam down to 100 pounds before I dis
covered where the difficulty was. At first
Roberts didn’t appear to notice the de
crease of speed, and kept at wsrk at the
wood as for dear life. But presently he
looked up, and seeing that the speed bad
decreased, he shouted, “Harry, we are
stopping!” and then coming over to where
I was, he said: “Why, here we have been
ten minutes ou tbe last ten miles, and I
believe we will come to a dead stand if
something is not done! Tbe speed is con
tinually slacking. What is the matter ?”
I explained tbe caose, He was apparent
ly satisfied with my explanation, and af
ter having tied down tbs safety valve he
climbed over tbe tender, exhorting me to
“put ber through, fee God’s sake, or wo
are all beggars together 1"
Just than wa passed the next station,
having taken nine minutes for eight miles.
We were now more than half over the
road, hut we had loot nearly ten minutes’
time and had only left twenty-seven min
utes to do thirty-eeven miles In. I had
shut the water off from both my pumps a
little distance back when I discovered
what was tbe matter, and she was now
making steam Onely down a light grade.
From lea than cm© hundred, with which
we started over that ten mile stretch, the
Horrible Outrage iu South Carolina.
Columbia, January 20.—The Rally
Register lias received the following spe
cial in regard to the recent murder and
lynching in Newberry county:
Prosperity, S. C-, Jan. 19.—As Miss
Bettie Wortz was reluming home on the
17th from her brother’s, she was attacked
by Dave Speennan and Sam Fair, colored
employes of Miss Wortz’s father, aud out
raged. She was then tied and gagg;d,
and Dave and Sam went to Mr. Wortz’s
and ate supper. Afterwards returning to
their victim, they again outraged her, and
then choked her to death. Her body was
then carried about thirty yard*. and laid
down where a fence crossed a foot-path,
and left whero it was afterwards found.
Yesterday morning Justice Wheeler
held a coroner’s inquest, at which sus
picion rested on the abovo mentioned par
ties. Sam confessed that lie knew the
deed was to be done, but claimed he was
not a participant in tho act. The guilty
parties were placed in a guard-house, to lie
carried to jail to-day. During last night
the doors were forced open and Dave was
taken to the spot where the deed was
committed, where, it is aaid, lie made a
full confession that he and Sam com
mitted tbe act. Dave was then tied to a
pine tree and shot. The Infuriated party
returned to the guard-house aud took Sam
out, shot him on the spot and left him for
dead.
After daylight the incensed people
searched tor the bodies and found Sam at
his mother’s, in bed, with several ballet
holes in him. He was brought to Pros
perity, taken about one mile from town,
and hanged at 1 o’clock p. m. The hang
ing was participated in by both whites
and blades, ana abont 250 or300 men were
witnesses. Everything is quiet to-night.
The deed was nearly a year In being
planned, according to the confession of
the murderers. Miss Wortz was highly
respected.
Tee True Realm or Woman.—Of
tho realm of home woman is tbe queen.
Home takes its cue and Us hue from her.
If she is in the best sense womanly—if she
is true and tender, loving and heroic,
patient and self-devoted—she consciously
or unconsciously organizes and puts iu
operation a set of influences that do more
to mould the destiny of the nation than
any man, uncrowned by power or elo
quence can possibly do.
Db. Maclaben, of Edinburg, Scot
land, states that the types oflnsanity have
changed with modern times. For Instance,
acute delirious manta is now comparative
ly rare, but mental enfecblement attended
with paralysis is becoming more and more
common, and is the result ofthe overwork
and worry of tho struggle for existence at
the present day.
In England, a youth 18 years of age
was recently sentenced to three months’
imprisonment with hird labor, for enter
ing a garden and stealing a sprig of gera
nium and a rose-bud.
Unenviable Refutation. — The
Oioba-Dewocrai says: St. Louis is ap
proaching San Francisco in the criminal
buainere. Tbe year jnat closed witnessed
there twenty-eigbt morders and fty-eeven
sniddes. They hang a murderer, occasion
ally, however, in spite of Ingenious coun
sel's pleas and tbe testimony of medical
experts oo insanity.
A Baltimore and Ohio' freight train
broke in two in tbe tannel on the Stralts-
ville, Ohio, division, Saturday night, and
whim the crew were confined in there
they were so saflocated by the smoke that
they all became unconscious, m which
condition they were foond when the next
train arrived. Tbe men were token to
Newark, Ohio, and pot under treatment,
Washington Hews.
Washington, January 20.—In the
House, Mr. Calkins, of Indiana,
that be would not call up the contested
election case oi Boynton vs. Loring, but
would yield to the committee*on appro
priations, and, the morning hour baring
been dispensed with, tbe House, at 12:30,
went into committee of the whole, Mr.
Cox, of New York, in the chair, upon tbe
naval appropriation bill.
In tbe Senate, the ladies’ gallery was
largely occupied at the hour of meeting
by members of the National Woman’s
Suffrage Association now in session in
Washington.
The Vice-President submitted a com
munication from the State Department re
lating to an offer made to sell to tbe de
partment the original manuscript! and his
torical papers bequeathed by Benjamin
Franklin to his grandson, Wm. Temple
Franklin, the same being tbe collection of
Henry Stevens Franklin. Among these
papers is tbe original petition ofthe Con
tinental Congress to Geotge IU. in 1774,
and sigued by the delegates. The collec
tion will be offered for sale in London for
.£7,000 if the oiler to this government is
not accepted. The communication was
referred to the committee on library and
ordered to be printed.
Tbe House committee on post-offices and
poet-roads met to-day, and, by a vote of
7 to 1, agreed to a favorable report on tbe
Springer resolution, and directed Repre
sentative Money, chairman of the commit
tee, to present the report to the House at
the earliest opportunity. The following
is thetext of the resolution:
“Resolved, That tbe committee on post-
offices and post-roads be instructed to in
quire Into tne expediency ot establishing
by law a telegraphic postal system
under the government of tbe United
States, and also the cost oi reproducing
facilities for transmitting telegraphic mes
sages equal to those now possessed by ex
isting corporations, and as to the expense
of operating the same, with power to send
for persons and papers, and report at any
time by bill or otherwise.” .
Washington, January 20.—In tbe
Senate, on motion of Mr. McDonald, his
resolution, introduced in Febraary, 1880,
for the creation of a standing committee
of five Senators to receive, consider and
report upon all petitions and bills relating
to ttie rights of women citizens of the
United States, aud to be called tbe “com
mittee on tbe rights of women citizens,”
was taken up.
Mr. Daris, of West Virginia, said the
rules required that the proposition should
go to the committee on rales. He moved
to lefor the resolution to that committee,
which motion was agreed to, by ayes 26, i
nays 23.
The funding bill was received from
the House aud referred to the committee
on finance.
The regular order, being the bill to pro
vide lor the allotment offends in severalty
to Indians on ttie various reservations,
was taken.up aud occupied the remainder
ofthe day. Mr. Cook, who reported the bill,
explained its provisions, and there was
quite a long debate thereon, in which
Messrs. Coke, Teller, Butler, Morgan,
Hill, Saunders and others participated.
Without antlnn am tha LSII Al._
4:25, went into executive session, nod,
when the doors were opened, adjourned.
Washington, January 20. — In the
House, Mr. Atkins, of Tennessee, briefly'
explained the provisions ofthe navy ap
propriation bill, which appropriates $14,-
371,000, a net increase of $55,000 over the
appropriation bill for the present year.
The principal items ef increase were
$125,000 for the pay of the navy and
$13,000 for the marine corps. The prfcP 1
cipal item of decrease was in the appro
priation for torpedoes. The bill was then
read by sections for amendment. Mr.
Uiscock, of New Fork, moved to increase
from $800,000 to $1,000,000 the appropria
tion for the bureau of steam engineering.
After some debate tho amendment was
rejected by 73 to 87. The committee then
rose and reported the bill to the House,
when it was passed exactly as reported
from the committee on appropriations. .
Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, from the
pommittee on appropriations, reported the
ordered printed aud recommitted.
Mr. Calkins then called up the con
tested election case of Bojnton vs. Lor
ing, from the sixth congressional Uistrtet
ot Massachusetts, and Loring took tbe
floor and made au argument In his own
behalf, which was listened to with great
attention by members and by several
Senators who occupied seats on the floor,
and at Us conclusion the House took a re
cess until 7:30, the evening session to be
for the consideration ot district business,
Washington, January 21.—In the
Senate, Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
presented various petitions, and among
others one irom the citizens of Westches
ter, Pennsylvania, for action to prevent
the encroachment of White settleis upon
Indiau territory, etc., and to protect
the Indians iu tho enjoyment of all their
rights.
Mr. Logan, from the committee on mil
itary affairs, reported, witli two amend
ments, the benate bill to place General
Grant ou the retired list. He thought
there could be no objection to the bill and
asked Us Immediate consideration. Mr.
Edmunds objected, but upon being ap
prised ofthe character of the bill, said tbe
>111 was one of such special and peculiar
Iuterest that he withdrew hla objection
with pleasure.
Mr. Logan said the amendments of the
committee consisted m tbe addition of a
provision that the General may be re
quired to do active service, aud another
that would prevent his interfering with
any officer of similar rank.
Mr. Randolph, chairman of tbe com
mittee from which the bill had been re
ported, said there was not a full meeting
when the bill was acted upon by tbe com
mittee this morning, and the report bad
been made by a majority of those present.
He asked that tiie hill and amendments
be laid over and printed.
Mr. Logan said the measure presented
only one question, that of admitting Gen.
Grant to the retired list, and this was up.
This was one upon which Senators
did not need much time for reflection ae
to how they would vote.
Mr. Keraan called for tbe printing of
the bill, as there were amendments to it.
A single objection being sufficient tolay
it over, the subject was disposed of with
the statement by Mr. Logan that he would
call it up at the next meeting of the Ben
in the House, Mr. Calkins, of Indiana,
called up the contested election com of
Boynton vs.-Loring, but the question of
consideration was raised against it in favor
of private business. The House deter
mined to lsy aside private business and
consider the election case, contestant
Boynton taking the floor in his own be
half. ,
The House committee on elections took
up the case of Yestes, Democrat, against
Martin, Republican, of the first North
Carolina district this morning. Represen
tative Speer, for the majority ofthe sub
committee to whom the case was referred,
read a report declaring that Yeates was
entitled to the seat, and Representative
Field began the reading ot the minority
report favoring the silting member, Rep
resentative Martin. The hour of adjourn
ment having arrived before he concluded,
the matter went over till the next meet
ing, when a vole will be takeu by tbe
committee, and it is believed that tbe mi
nority report will be sustained by a strict
party vote.
Tbe Senate committee on military af
fairs, to-day, agreed to report with a fa
vorable recommendation the bill to place
Gen. Grant on the retired list or the
army by '.he following vote: Yeas, Bum-
side, Plumb, Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
and Logan; Bays, Randolph, Cockrel aod
Grover; absent, Maxey and Hampton.
Washington, January 21.—In tbe
House, after brief speeches by several
members, a vote was taken on the resolu
tion dee! aring contestant Boynton enti
tled to a seat, it was rejected. The majority
resolution in favor of the sitting member,
Loring, was then agreed to without divis
ion.
Mr. Keifer, of Ohio, then called up tbe
contested election case ofBisbee vs. Hall,
from the second congressional district of
Florida, the report of the committee on
elections being unanimously la favor of
Bisbee, the contestant.
Mr. Dickey, of Ohio, raised the ques
tion of consideration in favor of private
business. The yeas and nays we.* de
manded on the Republican side, pending
which Davidson, of Florida, moved that
the House adjourn. The motion was
defeated. Tbe House agreed,
by yeas 137, nays 93, to take up the elec
tion case, pending which Mr. Finley, of
Ohio, moved to adjourn. Rejected. Mr.
Davidson stated that if the gentleman
from Ohio <Keifer) would let tbe election
case go over until to-morrow, he (David
son) would make no opposition to its con
sideration. Mr. Keifer said that he would
agree to the proposition on condition that
no opposition should be made to taking
it up iu tbe morning. This required unan
imous consent, and objection was inter
posed. Mr. Keifer then took the floor and
argued briefly in support of the commit
tee’s report. At the conclusion of his re
marks. Mr. Keifer demanded the previous
question, pending which tbe House, at
4:39, took a recess until 8 o’clock, the
evening session to be for the consideration
of Senate bills on the private calendar.
In the Senate, Mr. _ Logan, from the
committee on military affairs, reported
favorably on the Senate bill to authorize
the Secretary of War to grant certain land
at Fortress Monroe, Ya., for the erection
of a hotel.
The Rollins bill to determine whether
the New Hampshire Legislature of 1880
or the one of 1882 shaft elect the next
United States Senator occupied the re
mainder of the morning hour.
Mr.Edinunds offered an amendment giv
ing definite construction to tbe language
of tbe statute governing tbe subject, aud
making the bill applicable to all States.
After tbe debate tbe bill was laid aside
without action.
Mr. Kellogg submitted an amendment,
intended to be proposed by him to the
funding bill. It authorizes tbe Secretary
of the Treasuiy to issue from time to time
bonds not to exceed $500,000,000, bearing
interest at 3 per cent, per annum, payable
semi-annually fa gold coin—the principal
of tbe bonds not to be payable or redeem
able at any specified date, but ia lieu
thereof the Secretary of the Treasury,
when the condition of the treasury justifies
it, shall invite proposals for the surrender
of the same at the lowest obtainable rates,
or shall purchase the same in open mar
ket. This loan is to be known as “tbe 3
per-cent, consolidated bonds ofthe United
Section 2 authorizes the Secretary to is
sue, in addition to the above, not exceed
ing 190,000,000 of 3 per cent, treasury
notes or certificates of deposit, in denomi
nations of $10 and $50, this issue to be in
ten distinct series, and the principal pay
able iu one, two, three, and up to ten
( ears respectively from date of issue,
[olders of bonds bearing a higher rate of
interest than 3 per cent., and which ma
ture between 1880 and 1881, are entitled
to exchange the same at par for bonds
and notes authorized by tbe proposed
amendment, which latter are exempted
from national, State or municipal taxa
tion-provided, no tax shall be levied
upon the circulation secured by the de
posit of these bonds under section 5,214 of
the revised statutes.
At the expiration of the morning hour
the Indian appropriation bill was taken
JJP** 11 ! passed. The bill appropriates
$4,597>86tt.08. At 4:20 the Senate went
into executive session and wheu the doors
were reopened adjourned to Monday.
WASHiNGTON^Januaty 22.—The House
continued iu session all night, endeavor
ing to get a quorum but, without this be
ing done, adjourned at 6 o’clock this
morning.
Owing to the late hour at which the
House adjourned this morning, the Jour
nal of yesterday’s proceedings was not
completed at the hour of meeting, and a
recess was taken in order to complete
it- After the recess the journal waa read
and approved. The morning hour hav
ing been dispensed with, Mr. Keifer, of
Ohio, called up the resolution of the com
mittee ou elections upou the contested
election case ot Bisbee vs. Hull, declaring
the contestant, Bisbee, entitled to his seat.
Mr. Springer, of Illinois, replied that
the opposition to the consideration of the
report arose from the fact that some gen
tlemen on his side desired Mr. Hull to be
present at the time of the. vnt* tv,
au. tue usr OI tDC House and took
the oath of office.
On motion of Mr. Cox, of New York,
Senate bill was passed authorizing
certain persons to accept decorations and
presents from foreign governments.
The House committee on tbe inter-
oceanic canal, at a full meeting to-day,
referred back to tbe sub-committee the
bill and report favoring tbe incorporation
of the Eads dhip railway across the Isth
mus of Panama, with instructions to
strike out that portion which provides for
the endorsement by the government of its
stock to tbe amount of fifty million dol
lars.
Strange Forms of Fungi.
A gentlemsn Who recently had occasion
to explore the chambers, drifts aud cav
erns of the old deserted Qpbir and Mexi
can mines, says fungi of every imaginable
kind have taken possession of the old lev
els. In these old mines, undisturbed for
years, is found a fuagus world in which
are to be seen counterfeits of almost eve
rything seen in our daylight world. Ow
ing to tbe warmth of the old levels, and to
the presence in them of a certain amount of
moisture, the timbers have been made
to grow some carious crops. Some
ofthe fungi in the old chambers are sev
eral feet iu height, and being snow white
resemble sheeted ghosts. In places are
what at a little distance appear to be white
owls, and there are representations of
gObtfrsrith long beards, and as white ms
though carved in the purest white marble.
The rank fungus growth has almost clos
ed* some at the drifts. The fungi are of al
most every imaginable variety of growth.
Some kinds hang down from the timbers
like great bunches of snow-white hair and
others are great pulpy masses. These
last generally rise from the rock forming
tbe floor of the drifts and seem to hare
growu from something dropped or
spilled on the ground at the time work
was in progress in these mines years ago.
These growths have In several places
raised from the ground rocks weighing
from ten to fifty and even one hundred
pounds. Some of tbe rocks have thus
been lifted over three feet from the
ground. In the higher levels, where tbe
air Is comparatively dry, tbe fungi are
leap massive In structure than below and
‘are much firmer in texture. Some re
semble ram’s horns, as they grow in a
spiral or twisted shape, while ethers,
four or five feet in length
and about tho thickness of
a broom handle, bang from the cap Um
bers like so many snakes suspended by
tbe tails. One kind, after sending out a
item of the thickness of a pencil to the
length of a foot or two, appears to blos
som; at least produces at tbe end a bul
bous mass that has some resemblance to
a flower. In all tire infinite variety of
these underground fungi it is somewhat
strange that not one was seen at all like
these growing upon the surface iu tbe light
of day. Nothing in the uature of toad
stools or mushrooms was found.—Vir
ginia Enterprise.
Orer-Sdmoated Girls.
Woman is man’s complement, not hi*
rival; ber chief power lies in the influence
she has over him; through men women
have ten-fold more power than they will
ever have in their own proper persons.
That to mauy women the present educa
tional advantages are of immense value I
do not deny ; but these, it may almost be
said, are exceptions; we can count on onr
fingers our lady doctors, or our lady law
yers; our known lady artists are not
numerous; and tbe world would be better
without some of our lady writers. But
take the mass ot our English girl students,
and can we, say that the present
high pressure system of education
is good for them? I know one
or two houses where girls wiio
attend the colleges board; and in all of
them, the girls invariably are aide at tbe
end of the term. During the last week o.
two tdey have examinations, for which the
girls cram, and make themselves ill, and
then they go home for two or three
months, ana two-thirds of them forget,
during the long holidays, most of wnat
they have learnt. If a girl is to be a gov
erness, and teach, or in any way to get
her own living, she most necessarily learn
thoroughly such subjects as are essential
to tbe object in view; but even so we hold
that working desperately for a period, and
then having three months’ holiday, is a
bad division of tune.
And as for girls who are not going to be
governesses, but whose lot in life is rather
to be pleasant home companions, helpful,
intelligent members of society, and proba
bly mothers of children, it is a pity their
health and strength should be strained
and overtaxed by condensing tbe work of
months into weeks and of years into
months. And indeed, some of the bright
est and most intelligent of the mauy de
lightful women ws meet have never had
college education, know nothing of
mathematics, and not much of science;
but instead hare dipped deeply into good
literature, and can take an intelligent in
terest m, aud give sound opinions upon the
questions of the day. Was it Charles
Lamb, who said bis idea of educating a
girl was to turn her loose into a well-
chosen library. Of course he was think
ing of a girl as a companion, not as a
clerk ora lawyer.”—Tinsley's Magazine.
Length or Life or the Ex-Presi
dents.—In considering the question of a
fund for ex-presldenta, it may be interest
ing to study the duration of life or those
who have eqjoyed the greatest distinction
our people can confer. Of tbe 19 Presidents,
excluding, of course, Gen. Grant and Mr.
Hayes, the one who attained the greatest
age was John Adams, who lived to be 91.
Assuming the Presidential chair in 1797,
succeeded by Jefferson in 1801, he lived
on for a quarter of a century. The next
in numberof years was Thomas Jeffer
son, who, dying a year after John
Adams, attained the age of 83. John
Quincy Adams is third, having lived 81
years. Tbe fourth in age was Van Buren,
who, bora in 1781, died in 1862, aged 80.
Taking the average lives of tbe Presidents
L'. Is found to be a little less than 72
years. At what age do those men who
ate made Presidents assume their high
office ? The oldest man who was made
President was Harrison, who was 68 when
inaugurated. The youngest was General
Grant, who was made President when he
was 47. Franklin Pierce was President
in his forty-ninth year, and was
remembered as the “boy President.’i
The average age at which a man s.
made President is 57. Now, taking 72 as
tbe duration of life of Presidents, and 57
as the age of a President when inaugu
rated, and adding to this tbe four years of
office, wliich makes him 61 when he gives
up his offioe, should a fund be established,
re-election ofthe same person not enter
ing into the calculation, the oldest ex-
president might be the recipient oi the in
terest from the fund during a period of 11
years.
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Estimates of Genebal- Jackson.—
It is well known that Geueral Jackson
joined the Presbyterian church near the
PkXPsM, WWflns Brstffti armric*!? itea
from politics and when improper motives
could not be imputed to him for the act. To
gratify her pious wishes, he had at his
own expense built a small brick chapel
on tbe Hermitage plantation, which he
regularly attended when at home. At the
time of his death he was, I believe, the
“ruling elder” of the congregation, au
office which be waa accustomed to declare
he valued higher than the .Presidency.
There is an old story that when the fact
of his death was communicated to Mr.
Clay, his great rival in politics, the
question jocosely arose as to the proba
bilities of Lis final salvation. Mr. Giay
listened for a moment and remarked:
“Oh, yes; all— couldn’t prevent it.”
The Hen. Thomas L. Jones relates an
anecdote of & similar nature. In a letter
to the late Gov. Cali, of Florida, who was
once, as I have mentioned, on the military
staff of Gen. Jackson, and was present at
his obsequies, I find this: “Shortly - after
the funeral, one of tbe negro women at
the Hermitage was visiting Nashville, and
met witli an acquaintance, a negro woman
also, who probably belonged to a Whig
family and had imbibed its political
prejudices. ‘Do you think your old mas
ter’s gone to Heaven?’ was asked of ber
doubtlngly. ‘Gone to heaven ?’ answered
the other with an air of sanctified disdain,
why of course he has,’ and added: ‘If he
wanted logo dar, I’d like to know who’s
jwine to stop him.’ ” She evidently be
lieved that evep so haughty a saint as Pe
ter could not resist the imperious will of
her dead master.—Cor. Cincinnati Com
mercial.
The Nevada Senatorial Million
aire.—James G. Fair,the new Democratic
Senator from Nevada, has never before
held an office or been a candidate for one.
He waa born in Ireland on December 3d,
1834, came to this country with liis parents
in 1843 and settled in Geneva, 111. He
caught the gold fever early, became “an
argonaut,” and has ever since been en
gaged in the business of mining which he
began as a “forty-niner.” In 1867 he was
made tbe superintendent ofthe Ophir and
the Hale and Norcress mines in Nevada,
out of which tbe “Bonanza princes”
realised 'their first half million. About
this time he became associated with
Flood, O’Brien and Mackey, and with
them obtained control of the California
and Consolidated Virginia mines, Mr.
Fair (ItU aaid) being tbe animating
spirit of the concern. From these proper
ties Senator-elect Fair baa amassed an
immenas fortune. It is reported that his
real estate in California is assessed at
$12,000,009. Still he is a hard worker,
and Is daily to be seen about liis mine in
mining costume. In politics Mr. Fair is
a conservative Democrat. When he en
ters the Senate he will be not merely its
richest member but his wealth will ex
ceed that of all tbe others combined.
Giobe Democrat.
But few people living are acquainted
with the theoretical idea of counter-irrita
tion, which has been so much admired in
the practice of medicine. It had ittorigin
in Uie following manner: A shoemaker
living in Barnsley, in Yorkshire, in Eng
land, called in Dr. Fellows tor advice. He
gave a history of bis case, summing it all
up in these words: “In short, doctor, I
can’t stand sitting.” “Then,” replied tbe
doctor,who was somewhat famous as a wit,
“you fool,why don’t you sit standing?” 1 his
go enraged the cobbler that he left the
physician and sent in his bill for a pair of
roots. Tbe doctor paid the bill, gave a
fresh order for another pair, and soon
gained the confidence of bis patient.
Learning that the cobbler lied villified
him lie determined to make him suffer.
He prepared a machine which, by means
ofa flying wheel,threw forward aud back*
ward a board like a weaver’s shuttle. Be
neath this board were placed large pebbles.
When the cobbler applied again
for treatment for the pros
tration with which he was suf
fering he was strapped by the doctor to
this board and the machine pnt in motion.
Tiie poor cobbler groaned in agony and
suffered as if upon the rack, but the doc
tor put on all the power until the cobbler
yelled for help. The next day the patient
had so much improved that he applied for
another trial of the machine. It effected
a complete cure, and tiie doctor became
famous throughout Yorkshire as a curer
of nervous debility by his “counter irrita
tion machine,” which was invented as a
joke.
Grat hairs are honorable, but few like
them. Cotbo them with the hues of
youth, by using Ayer’s nair Vigor.
Mere People Die
From diseased kidneys than of consump
tion, bat not one fatal case in a thousand
would occur if Warner’s tiafe Kidney and
Liver Cure was taken in time. By all
means try it. lw
W. B. Tappan, contractor and build
er, Toledo, Ohio, says: An Excelsior Kid
ney Pad relieved me of pain in the aide of
fifteen years’ standing. Please send me
another pad. See advertisement. lw
Dr. Wm. Alex. Greene, Xneon, Geer-
sis, Writes i
• • • 1 cheerfully state that I have
tested the virtues and efficiency of Cold-
en’s Liebig's Liquid Extract ot Beef In
my private practice in cases of general de
bility, weakness, depression, dyspepsia,
toss of appetite anc. nervous afflictions,
when medicine had proven more than use
less. I have found it the best remedy I
ever used. Sold by all druggists. 14-1W
Bleep, Appetite Sad I
Return when Hostetler’s Stomach Bitten
is systematically: used by a billons dys
peptic sufferefk Moreover, since (he brain
sympathizes crosely with tbe stomach aod
its associate organs, the liver and the bow
els, as their derangement iCTectified by the
action of tbe Bitters, mental despondency
For sale by ail druggists - and dealers
generally. Jaall-lm
Bit. SANFORD'S
LIVE*
INVI60RAT0R
Th: Only Vegetable Compound
that acta directly upon tha Liver,
and curesLiver Complaints Jaun-
dicej Biliousness, Malaria, Cos
tiveness, Headache. It assists Di
gestion, Strengthens the System,
Regulatesthc Bowels,Purifiesthe
Blood. ABookscntfrcc. Address
Dr. Sanford, 163 Broadway ,N.Y i
roa bale tv At t. DatlftatfiTii.
FORD’S EXTRACT.
Snbdnei Inflammation, 1 Ccntrole all Hmor-
UJcute and Chronie. Iphape, venom and mn-
invaluamu ro*
CATARRH. HOARSENESS. RHEUM I.
TISM, NEURALGIA, ASTHMA.
HEADACHE, sorb throat,
TOOrHACHH. SORENESS
ULCERS, old SORBS, ttc.
| FOSDVS
CATARRH
EXTR ACT
No ntmedv «o rapidly sad affsctaslir umtt
lk< irritation ad iiHUipt Irom Cotorrbol Af
fection* »
OOCGas, GOLDS inthoUSAl>.TraA\L or.d
THROAT DltUfUKQKA. INPL AM* ATIONK
end ACCUMULATIONS ia tlm I.UNOi. AYFS,
SAKS end THROAT. RUBUHATIAd RSU-
K ALOIS, etc , A*mot be cored *0 eaiilr oy tuy
et>er medicine. - For ermittra ond oove-e reeee
ot OATAKRH nteoarOATARBH OUjt < iTScl.
In all e**e* <uee onr NASaL STRINGS »16e).
Will be teat in lot* ot S3 wortb, on receipt of
price.
NXMAAsxm.—“VelaAble end heneaeiet.'
UinroOD Sxrrx, M. D.. M. a. O P- oi Eag-
Uod.—“1 have aeed it with marked bonedt.
H. G. Paanoi, M. D., Brooklyn. N. T.—"I
know ot ae remedy eo generally amdal.” . _
Asrxus Gtmrase*, M. I).. r. E. O. A. el la*-
land.—"1 hove preecribvd Food'* Bztraet with
■mil BffiooeSR.**
CAUTION.—Pond’* bztraet ta cold ealy tat
bottle* with the name bio on in the plow
It le oorefe to aee other artielee with oerdi-
neiiM* lruiet 00 bovine Poad't Bstreet. Be
fore all imitation* and eaoetitete*.
WOtr new Pamphlet with Hotory of anr
Prepanticoa. rent PR KB 00 appltaaifoo to
eXTRAOT OO.
No. 14 W. lath At net. Now Trek.
Sold brail Dru«sl*t*. nnettdendewly
L INI (SR At ANDROSOV.
ATTOHNEY8*AT-LAW
MACON, GEORGIA,
Will ooatiaae their prolmeional batiaoM ae
heretofore, except that S’. Andertoa will cot
take any .-are In which tbe State 1* a party er it
concerned. Hi*oocaiioral ebmeree at AtleeM
a* Attorury General will not interfere With bit
other beainete.
Jaxoary U. 1111. IS-dStalwdti
Notice to Debtors and Oroditors.
A LL pence* boldine claim* aeainat tbe area to
of John W. Rryar, deceaaed. (late ef Her
■haffville. Q», will preent their claim* tome,
duly aatnrnticited. >nd those indebted will
please make payment to am at once
N. T. JOHNSUN. Adm’r.
January S. lMl.-dlaw4«
No. 1 Lot of Land tor Sale.
B
T virtue of *0 order from tho Superior Oeort
of Stan oonnty. will be io'd to Mu
highest bidder In tbe town of Clinton, Joe*
county, within tho local boors of sale, lot *Hml
No. l«. la the teeth district of •ncinaUy Bold
win now doneeoornty. end adjoining lands** *■
P. liaat, Mr*. A. M- Hanl. John Stswnrt at aU
on tbe Bret Tuesday In February, I&ll. read lot
rar tainted one taBdrad. aed ninety *«* rerae
more or lore. Tbe land lire Immediately pa the
recent survey el tbe Macea and Bnaaeevek reG-
ro-rt extenaioa. Bold for the perpoao a! retevtm.
'"Lysr. 1 "”- t. u«i
G BORGIA. BIBB UOUHTT.-WbermaAta
under Motion bee made eppHear on fer ire -
ere of seardmoehip of tbe arena and eaepretF
Inoia May Season and Mart BbeppudIKen_
a. minor child res of T. B. boa ton. lets ef alt
Three*areYbtrofeee to rite and admonirt alf
none emrerwed tube and apooarat vheC
Ordinary ef eeM eoaaty, aa tire dml.Mo,
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