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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1881.
How many pecks of corn are required
for a hen’s breakfast? How many hen
pecks make a bushel.
A hollow tree on Puget Sound has
boon cut off forty feet from the ground
and made into a church.
Every time Mr. Hayes makes a New
York appo-ntmeut it devolves upon the
Senate to settle whether Evarts or Conk-
ling is President of the United States.
Through the efforts of Dr. Keane,
tli« Roman Catholic Bishop of Richmond,
almost every seller of intoxicating drinks
of that faith has given his pledge not to
sell on Sunday.
Saturday's Washington Post says
Postmaster General Maynard returned to
his post yesterday, looking something the
worse for wear, in his recent contest for
the Tennessee Senatorship.
St. Louis is agitated over a project to
construct a locomotive works within the
limits of the city, to have a capacity for
building fire hundred engines a year,
company has organized for this object
with a working capital of $2,560,000.
A Pittsburg firm is making glass
cloth, spinning the brittle material into
delicate, pliable threads, and weaving
these into cloth of beautiful finish. Some
of the fabrics resemble satin and light up
handsomely by gaslight. Imitation os
trich plumes of much beauty are made by
the same process.
“Yks,” remarked a musical critic, re
cently from Kansas, “the fiddlin’ was
bully, but I tell you, when the fat chap
with the big mustache laid hold of that
- bass fiddle and went for them low notes
In the violin-cellar, I just felt as if abuzz-
saw was a playin’ ‘Yankeo Doodle’ on
my backbone.”
Comparisons are Odorous.—The
New Haven Itcgl&tcr says Philadelphia is
proud of the fact that with a population
oi 840,000 only twenty-six of them were
murdered last year. This is a very good
record, perhaps, for Philadelphia; but a
proportionate number of murders in a
‘Southern State in a single year would
give it a very bad reputation.
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts,
New Jersey, Rhode Island, South Caro
lina, Virginia and the District of Colum
bia are the only civil divisions whose com
plete returns have been given, in which
the women outnumber the men. Ver
mont is the only exceptional New Eng
land State; it has more men than women
Although waging an expensive war
with Peru, Chili is said to be in a flour
ishing condition. Last year’s wheat crop
was very fine and her exports for 18S0 ex
ceeded those of previous years. In 1870
the products of her mines amounted to
$20,248,731, which is more than the mine
ral productions of California for the same
time, and her agricultural products were
valued at $12,000,000. Over 1,070,800
quintals of nitrates were exported.
A Philadelphia doctor is making a
raid iipou baby carriages. He says that
a child who is carried in arms is being
eonstantly trained lu balancing its head
and shoulders, and that such infants are
sooner able to sit alone and creep and
walk more rigorously than those who in
the continued supine posture of the baby
carriage fail to receive their muscular ex
ercise. If the doctor had lugged a twen
ty pound baby around fora year at a
time, he would not oppose baby carriages.
Punishing a Leoal Witness. -An
Augusta dispatch to tbo Charleston News
and Courier says on the recent trial of
Mose and Frank Twiggs in Burke county
tor the murder of William Driscoll, the
principal witness against them was Abe
Twiggs, a brother of the other two, who
turned State’s evidence. His betrayal of
bis brothers created great indignation
among his own color. Mose was hung on
Friday and Frank respited for three weeks.
News reached here to-night that Abe
while on a visit on the boundary of
Burke and Jefferson counties on Thurs
day night was taken out of the house by
unknown parties and lynched. The body
was riddled with bullets. The lynchers
are supposed to bo negroes.
The British consol at Shanghai, Mr.
Davenport says there is little doubt that
the dreadful famine which has for the last
three years scourged the north of China
may be attributed in great measure to tbe
.spread of poppy cultivation. A very large
proportion of the available ground in that
region has been sown tqjhis plant, which
Is found to be more remunerative than any
kind of grain. Consequently, the grana
ries were left unfilled and no provisions
made for a year of drought. The consul
gays that unless the growth of opium can
be checked by the government tbe evil
will increase, and of course another year's
drought will cause a more terrible fam
ine than tbe last.
Dr. X. is an eminent pbyaidan o
Philadelphia, and, as is often the ease
wildi eminent physicians, is brusque and
overbearing in manner. Among bis of
fice patients one morning was a gentle
man who, after occupying exactly five
minutes of the great man’s time, took a
$10 note from his pocket, and inquired
the amouut of the fee. “Fifty dollars,”
mid tbe impatient medical man. Tbs pa
tient demurred a little, whereupon the
pbysidau rudely remarked: “Well, what
do you expect to pay? Give me what yon
have got,” and on receiving tbe $10 bill,
tamed scornfully to bis negro servant, and
handing tbe money, remarked: “That Is
for you, Jim;” but lost his temper r.iil
more when ills patient coolly said: “I
did not know before that you had a part
ner. Good morning, Doctor.”
Centraj. Africa loses none of its at
tractions for scientific, commercial and
missionary explorers. Creates progress
and more wonderful results axe near at
hand. The frequent expeditions of inter
national and pri'.ato associations are
daily making that vast region better
known, rendering the journey to it quick
er and safer and caltivaiing a better un
dertaking between natives and foreigners.
A company of capitalists has been formed
at Zanzibar witli tbe view to a regular
service of transportation from tht <
to t lie great central lakes, with a (officiant
Traffic in Stolen Cotton.
How to prevent traffic in stolen seed
cotton is the one vexatious problem
among our cotton planters more Impor
tant to tbe cotton industry of the State
than any we can think of. Alabama has
a law on the subject, the constitutionality
of which has been recently tested and af
firmed last week by the Supreme Court of
that State. Tho Montgomery Advertiser,
of Tuesday, says
On our outside, we print to-day the
elaborate and able opinion of Justice
Somerville, which as the voice of the Su
preme Court will settle any doubts that
may have existed in the minds of those
who have heretofore been apprehensive as
to the result of the judicial tests to which
it has cow been subjected.
These laws have been of Incalculable
blessing to the counties to which they ap
ply—and now that tbe question of their
constitutionality Is put to rest, no further
complaint will be heard or further obsta
cle to their operation be sought.
We have no copy of the statutes alia
ded to, but the following extract from
the decision of the court ef^lains some of
their provisions:
The present indictment is found under
section 2 of an act of the legislature, enti
tled “an act to prevent, in certain cases,
the sale, exchange and transportation of
cotton in the counties of Montgomery,
Bullock, Dallas,” etc., acts 1878-70, p.
200. The first section of this act makes it
unlawful, with certain reservations, for
“any person to sell or offer for sale, barter
exchange or buy,” within the specific!
localities, “any cotton in the seed,” or to
sell or offer for sale, etc., any cotton in the
seed produced in said localities.
Section 2 provides, “that it shall not be
lawful for any person to transport or
move, after sunset and before sunrise. of
the succeeding day,” in said localities,
“any cotton in the seed.” A proviso per
mits the owner or producer of the cotton
to remove it from the field, where it Is
grown, to the gin house or other place of
storage, of such owner or producer. Sec
tion 5 makes it a felony where any one
“knowingly violates” any of the provis
ions of the act, and affixes punishment by
confinement in the penitentiary.
Now as tbe Advertiser says that “these
laws have proved incalculable blessings to
the counties to which they apply”—by
which we infer that they have suppressed
cotton stealing, it may be worth while for
our Legislature, at its approaching session,
to examine into their provisions, and see
whether they will not be equally applica
ble to Georgia. Nothing is more true
than that the failure to protect crops in
the field and landed property generally in
Georgia, is one of the radical defects of
our State government—and a more capi
tal defect could not bo mentioned; for
when the rights of owners of the soil can
not be protected by law, the people ought
in justice to themselves to refuse to pay
tax to support a government which is in
Its primal function useless and an im
position.
The Bibb County Board of Education.
The Board held a called meeting yes
terday to elect teachers for the country
schools and other purposes. The follow
ing was the result of tho election:
Planters’ Academy E. C. Pearce
Sardis - -- -- -- -- -- - Wm. Ryder
Camp Ground ----- Henry G. Brown
Heath’s - -- -- -- -- --R. A. Ryder
Hamlin - -- -- -- -- -M. A. Lindsay
Mount Pleasant ------ C. T. Amason
Hopewell - A. E. Nash
Moffett - Postponed
Tharp Academy - -- -- -- - Postponed
Miss Anna Burghardt was elected second
supernumerary.
The colored schools in tho country will
be opened on the second Monday in
March.
Fonr of the city colored schools, under
H. J. T. Hudson as principal, will be
opened in tbe Holdridge House next Mon
day. Mr. Hudson’s salary was raised.
Two city colored schools will be opened
in the southeastern part of the city so soon
as the Superintendent can find satisfactory
quarters.
Miss Thomas’ salary as principal was
raised $5.00 per month.
On motion of Col. L. N. Whittle—
Resolved, That tbe Superintendent have
fall lists made out from the tax books,
upon the best terms he can, showing all
the poll tax unpaid for each of the years
1878,1870 and 1880, and report the same
to the next meeting of the board.
nmubtir.of negro's enrolled
mnr.ent
as a per-
of porters. This express
it really is, guarantees the
laf..' conveyance of merchandise and log-
at depot midway where
obtain supplies. And, not
a cfi. v-: will be put upon the brt-
. ! a, ;>0 chiefs, who, under tbe
'. i;;lit ot way, have compelled
Ian enormous tax, at tbe
o' their whole outfit and of lift it-
Diyorce in Hew England.
Here is an attempt to show that tho pas
sion for divorce is not alone territorial In
respect to New England, hat exists in the
blood in respect to New England people.
If that be so, let us have the reason:
The figures given out by the New Eng
land autl-Divorce Society show that in
Vermont the proportion of divorces to
marriages is one to fourteen, in Rhode Is
land one to thirteen, and in Massachusetts
one to twenty-one. A speaker in one of
the society's meetings said: “A curious
fact is that in Ohio the number of divorces
is in proportion to the New England ele
ment in the population. Wherever New
England influence is felt there has been
fan increase. The Western Reserve in
Ohio, consisting of the twelve northeast
ern counties, Is said to contain a New
England stock purer than can be found
anywhere else, except a few counties In
Maine, and here the proportion of di
vorces to marriages is one to eighteen,
while in tbe rest of tbe State it is one to
nineteen. In Ashtabula county it is one to
eight, and In Lake county the proportion
or divorce suits to marriages is one to six
and four-tenths. Iu some of the southern
counties, where a different population pre
vails, it is about one to fifty.”
It behooves tbe brethren in the Land of
Steady Habits to explode these figures if
they can—otherwise the young ladies
should he careful bow they contract such
alliances.
Tariff Reform.—There is much
truth in the following from the Boston
Herald: “When so strong and consistent
an advocate of protection as our esteemed
contemporary, tbe Advertiser, calls for a
revision of the tariff we feel sure that
something will be done about it* The
Democrats might have taken strong ground
on the question in the last campaign, but
they threw away their arguments as sol
diers in a panic throw away their guns
and accoutrements. They solemnly de
dared for 'a tariff for revenue only’ in
their platform, and then did all they could
to show that they were as strong protec
tionists as their opponents. With receipts
$100,000,000 a year above, expenditures,
there is surely an opportunity for a revis
ion of tba tariff that will give grept relief
to bnslnesa."
Dayid Davm ams Jon Jonathan
Mahoney JIaloml—'The Sum Washing
ton oorrospoadaot says It trill, In tba nat
ural order of Mania, ha hot a very abort
time before all tbe speculations on the sub
ject of tbs course ot these two Senators
will be set at rest. Bat your correspon
dent feels authorised wow to say, on tbe
beet of information, that Judge Davis will
certainly stand by the Democratic ergaui-
sation of the Senate. So far as General
Mabone is concerned the certainty that he
will do the same is almost, If not quite as
atroi^; as La thosass of Jn4p Daria.
Onr Pine Forests.
The wanton destruction of tbe pine
forests of Georgia, is creating considers
ble alarm among considerate men. We
have called attention to this rapid de
struction more than once, and sounded
the note of warning, but the slaughter
continues. How to reach the public ear,
is a question that just now interests eveiy
citizen who will stop and think fer a mo
ment. The general government is be
coming alarmed at the disappearance of
the native growth all over the United
States. Onr State government has greater
cause for apprehension. Georgia has un
told wealth in her pine forests, and yet
they are diminishing rapidly and bringing
bnt a nominal return.
It is time we were waking up to’our in
lerests and some effective measure of pro
tection adopted and enforced, or onr coun
try will be a barren waste. When the
present pine timber is gone there is no un
dergrowth with which to replace it. The
second growth is sappy and porous and
unfit for any use, but firewood, and fur
nishes bnt a very poor qnaiity of that,
Wisdom would dictate a change in our
methods and demand protection for our
forests.
In discussing this question with our fel
low-townsman Major A. G. Butts, one of
the best posted land agents in the South
we gleaned some statistics that are sug
gestive, it not invaluable.
Georgia contains an area of 835,515,520
acres. The pine belt contains nearly one-
thijd of this area, say 11,505,175 acres.
Allowing about one-half of this amount
to be already taken up and employed lor
cultivation, milling and turpentine pur
poses, and wo have only 5,752,587 acres
left in tho original forest. There was
consumed during the year 1880, as near
wo can estimate, a little over 250,000
acres of timber. This timber found its
way to foreign markets principally, leav
ing bat little money in the country as
compensation. At this rate, it will be
seen that it will only require about twen
ty years to destroy the last original pine
in Georgia, even if there is no increase in
consumption. The supply, however, is
not equal to the demand now, and new
mills and turpentine farms are being
brought into existence continually.
Certainly such a showing is calculated
to alarm any thinknig man. We were
told by a mill-owner In southern Georgia
that it requires 2,600 acres annually to
supply that one mill. All the merchant
able timber for miles on either side of
the railroads, rivers and creeks has been
cut and sent to market. A section of un
molested pine timber will be e fortune to
any man in less than twenty years. And
some men have wisdom enough to sec it,
and are protecting their interests. Oth
ers are purchasing land for this purpose as
an investment. Major Butts, the gentle
man referred to above, sold during the
year 1880, over 100,000 acres of land in
Georgia. Most of it was to fall before the
merciless axe, but some of it will be
saved and stand as a monument of the
folly of many who are unnecessarily de
stroying ono of the best heritages God has
ever given to any people
A Result of the Mississippi Jetties.
As a direct result of the success of
Captain Eads’ jetties at tbe mouth of the
Mississippi river, is noted the present
remarkable demand for huge grain carry
ing barges for the transportation of wheat
from St. Louis to the ocean-going vessels
at New Orleans. This demand for barges
is supplemented by tbe recent purchase of
several of the most powerful towboats ever
built at Pittsburg, and which were origin
ally designed for the coal trade.
With twenty feet of water assured at
South Pass, wnere tho jetties are located,
the river transportation of grain to ocean
hulls bids fair to assume proportions that
may jeopardize the overland carrying of
grain between the upper Mississippi and
tbe seaboard. Within the past few weeks
the St. Louis and New Orleans Trans
portation Company and the Mississippi
valley Transportation Company have
been in the market as purchasers for
steamers and barges. The latter are of
the variety known in Western waters as
the “model” barge, in contradistinction to
the coal or square barge. These craft are
built to a model, and those recently con
tracted for are of the following dimen
sions : Length 225 feet, width 36, hold 0.
The ‘cargo box” or receptacle for gram
has a capacity for 60,000 bushels or about
1,500 tons. At present forty such barges
are being built at different yards along
the Ohio river,' and tbe total number of
barges that will soon find employment in
the grain carrying trade between tbe
points named is placed by good authority
at 120. A “tow” of such barges consists,
under favorable circumstances, of five, a
loaded barge drawing about eight feet.
To make tbe round trip between St. Louis
and New Orleans requires twenty days,
and the freight on wheat averages eight
cents per bushel. The lack of return car
goes prevents this rate from being as great
a “bonanza” as would appear from an In
come of $24,000 for a three weeks’ job.
Nevertheless it is a good thing for tkose
engaged in tbe wholesale way of sending
grain dowu the “Father of Water*.”—
Scientific American.
Draining' Lake Okeohobee.
The Mobile Register says: “Our readers
doubtless noted a dispatch in reference to
tbe formation of a company to drain Lake
Okechobee, in Florida. The vast marsh,
as well as tbe Okefenokte swamps, is lo
cated over ono hundred feet above the
level of tbe sea. Circular ridges of im
pervious limestone inclose these ever
glades, and hold the rainfall in a basin
from whence it has no escape, except by
overflow or evaporation. If tbe rim of
this basin be cut in several places, this
large area, said to contain 12,000,000
acres, will become productive, and it is
well adapted to the growth of sugar cane
aHd rice.”
One serious trouble with the land re
claimed by the drainage of tho everglades
and Lake Okecbobeo will be its inflamma
bility. It will be simply the residuum
from the crops of successive ages of de
composed grasses,-and has none'of the
density of soi^ It is a fact, tested on sev
eral of the little keys surrounding the
peninsula of Florida, topped with a mould
formed in this way upon ashell limestone
substratum, that a fire lighted upon them
will bum to the basis, and reduce this
mould to light ashes,* which will blow
away with the first breeze. The drained
everglades will need' a heavy intermixture
with sand or fire insurance.
5 id.—staff ' .: tfiu
A Queen in Court.—Queen Victoria
bft a salt in the United States Circuit
Court in New York before Judge Wal
lace and a‘jury. The action is against
one J. D. Otis, and is for the recovery of
some $12,000, in notes of the denomina
tions of one and two dollars, alleged to
been stolen in 1878 from the office of the
assistant receiver-general of Canada, at
Toronto.
Query ? Can curing a cough with Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrup be called bullying a
cough?
Tke Irish Eight in Parliament. gtra |ghtway to put its plans of work into
Parliament met on the 8th January, and SJjg^operation in the United States;
the ight of obstruction with tho Irish ml ®j M u the organisation, with all
member* has now been going on nearly its forces, is regulated, It will enter Con-
thirty days with constantly increasing bit
terness. Doubtless our readers have no
ticed, with much interest, tbe English
methods of dealing with what we call JM-
ibustering. We infer from passages in
the debate, where there is a seemingly
confident challenge to the Speaker to pro
duce a precedent, that these methods
maybe new in Parliamentary bistory,
they have now reached tbe point of an
absolute refusal and neglect to entertain
motions by any member of tbe obstruct
ing minority, and several of them have
been suspended by the Speaker from the
exercise of their representative functions.
Finally, tho whole twenty-seven so-called
Home Rulers have been suspended by a
vote of about 410 to 7 and upon a collec
tive ref usal to leave tbe floor of tbe House,
they were removed singly by the ser
geant-at-arms.
Of course, the excitement and bitterness
are intense, and it is significant of no little
uneasiness in the government and the
majority, that it is thought necessary to
garrison Mr. Gladstone’s residence with a
detachment of police, and to guard bis
approach to and departure from tbe Par
liament Honse by a similar force. The
same uneasiness is also betrayed by tbe
occupation of several depositories of gov
ernment arms by a military force.
It will be noticed, however, that no
serious division is to be apprehended be
tween the Beaconsfield Conservatives and
tbe Gladstone ministerial column. Both
voted almost to a man in sustaining the
government’s peremptory action against
tbe Home Rule obstructionists. Every
thing indicates that Scotland and England
will be a parliamentary unit on tbo ques
tion of Irish coercion.
And what about the Irish ? Tbe Home
Rule members have preserved a dauntless
front in threatening resistance, and tbe
formal call on Thursday last for the elec
tion of delegates to a national convention,
to meet In Ireland between the passage of
the coercion bill and its going into effect,
has probably but ono meaning, and that
Is to organize resistance if tho land bill
shall not be accepted as satisfactory.
The condition is one of extremo peril.
The mutual antagonisms are every day
becoming more Irreconcilable, aad wo can
see no more probable result than tbe out
burst of a flame ot war iu a very short
time. If so, it is bound to be one of the
bitterest and most destructive civil wars
on record, and likely to offer a very seri
ous interruption to the tranquillity of the
world and the course of trade. We admit
a great deal of apprehension about tbe fu
ture, and see little hope of delivering Ire
land from miseries as great as those in
flicted by tbe armies of Cromwell.
tinental Europe with all the zeal, energy
and means at its command.
IN ULsSbAL
Variety in Celd.
An old gentleman took down his over
coat on Friday morning, but finding by
the thermometer that the temperature
was considerably above thefreezingpoint,
debated whether it were worth while to
cany so much cloth to defend himself
agaiust so light an assault of weather. He
donned his coat,however, and in ten min
utes’ ride found himself chilled almost to
torpidity. It was, in fact, a regularly
damp and benumbing cold—more demor
alizing than ten or twenty degrees below
aero in a bright, dry and clear atmosphere.
It was a kind af cold which carries pneu
monia, couch, consumption, rheumatism,
chills and diphtheria naturally m its train,
and everybody should study into its na
ture and effects. To stand about inactive,
exposing oneself to such weather is ex
ceedingly dangerous, and when ono gets
thoroughly chilled by it, it is by no means
easy to recover a healthy glow of the sys
tem. It Is a case where clear indications
point to a moderate drink of “something
stimulating.”
That atmosphere which visited us last
Friday morning came a great ways, and
was fresh from vast areas of snow and
Ice, seasoned on the passage by a slight
touch or the Gulf Stream. Though not
what could be fairly called cold weather,
it was awful cold to float so much damp,
and it settled down into the very vitals— i
the centres of heat-making power.
On looking over the telegrams of
Wednesday and Thursday, wo find that
Thursday was pronounced the coldest day
of the season from far eastern New Eng
land to the western Pennsylvania line.
The Sound steamers.on that day reported
such a mass of floating ice, that they
agreed to discontinue trips for the present.
Newport reported the day the coldest
of tbe season. New York City,
Long Island and various points of New
Jersey, declared tho temperature ranged
from one to thirty degrees below zero. At
Pittsburg, Pa., tbe quotation was fifteen to
twenty-six degrees below. In Ottawa,Can-
ada, there was wbat they call a blizzard—
a cold to sharp and fierce that it was like
fire to the lungs and vitals, and left a nar
row choice between suffocation or con-
gealment. A blizzard, two or three years
ago, struck a Chicago train, pretty nearly
blocked by snow, and several of the
passengers froze feet, ears and hands, in
pasting from one car to another.
The whole -landscape from Virginia to
the lakes on Thursday was covered with
snow and ice, and the wind, came
to us tempered by a transit first over
long arctic wastes and then five
six hundred miles through a region of
thawa and damps. Whenoiir readers find
such an atmosphere, abroad, tbe best
course is to take as little of it straight as
possible.
A Practical Immigration Sclieme.
Under this head tho New Orleans Dem
ocrat announces what it calls “one of the
most important enterprises that has ever
been started for tho development of the
almost untouched resources of Louisiana,
Arkansas and Texas,” Iff , tho shape of
an emigration movement which has been
entered into by most of iho -real railroads
that traverso the territory which it is
determined to settle up. Tho association
is called the Southern Immigration Com
pany, and is at present composed of the
following railroad companies: St. Louis,
Iron Mountain and Southern; Missouri,
Kansas and Texas; Missouri Pacific;
Texas and Pacific; International and
Great Northern; Gulf, Colorado and San
ta Fa; and the Dallas and \\ ichita..', V
Tba design of the association !*; by
combining th« various ra.!.-<>» i N,
to offer such inducements to the farmers
and mechanics of the oM world, and own
to those in Use more thickly settled p ac
tions of tbe new, as will s.-1-uro a largo
immigration to the Sta'cs : 1. The
resident of the association is Mr. W. \Y.
jang, of the International and Great
Northern. There arc between 8,000 and
10,000 miles of road cow interested in the
irojeot. This is tbe very first practical
* * >n scheme which has ever been
oh a buge scale for the benefl.
: A in i»d jUs 10 Tf
Tbo Legislature of Texas has just de
feated a bill to prevent insanity resulting
from drunkenness from being offered as a
plea for acquittal in murder cases. The
Legislature of Texas is determined not to
put unnecessary obstructions in the way
of murderers.
The Talbott boys, Albert H. and Cbas,
E., convicted of murdering their
father, In Nodaway county, are
in the St. Louis jail for safe
keeping. They are sentenced to be exe
cuted March 28. Many citizens visited
the jail to get a look at the two murder
ers. Several reporters tried to interview
the boys, but the attempt was a failure,
ms they refuse to talk, claiming that the
papers have done them enough barm.
President Grevy, of France, has a sala
ry of $240,000 per annum. His regular
salary is $120,000, aud he is allowed au
equal amount for reception and traveling
expenses. Yet we in this country com
plain because Mr. Hayes draws Mr. Til-
den’s paltry salary of $50,000 a year
monthly in advance. .
The dam of tbe water reservoir in Frank-
town, Nevada, burst on the 2d instant
and caused a considerable destruction of
property, carrying tbe whole town away.
No lives were lost, although a dozen
men were carried off by the flood but were
saved by landing on the banks of the rav
ine below.
Tbe lost training ship Atalanta has
been beard from. Her figurehead has ar
rived at Plymouth.
Au Aztec villa, in a remarkable state of'
preservation, a sort of Mexican Pompeii,
is said to bare been discovered by M. De
sire Cbarny, tbe head of Lorlllard’s ex
ploring party in the neighborhood of Tula.
This town is on the site ofTollan,tbe
capital ot Toltec empire, and tbe ruins
are said to be more completely Asiatic In
character than any other American re
mains that are known.
Judge A. E. Tarver, of Jefferson county,
has now in his possession a bell that was
used to call the early settlers of that por
tion of tbe State together when it was
thought that the Indians were approach
ing.
The widow of John A. Sutter, the gold
discoverer of California, died last week,
six months after her husband’s death at
tbeirPennsylvania home.
An Addison, Vt., man, who has been
an habitual smoker for fifty-two years
without missing a day, lias laid aside bis
pipe for good, and says he has not the
slightest inclination to use it.
Bowdoinham, Me., has an old fox-hunt
er, eighty-five years old, who, after the
loss of his sight for ten years, has just re
covered it, and is as eager as ever in the
chase this winter, having already bagged
a number of foxes.
A decision has just been rendered in
the Wisconsin Supreme Court which
holds that money leut on Sunday caunot
be recovered. It regards the act in the
light of a business transaction, and even
goes to the extent of holding that if a
promise is made subsequently to pay tho
money borrowed on a Sunday it cannot
be recovered.
A correspondent of the Christian Secre
tary, writing from Boston, says of Antho
ny Comstock, the valiant and indefatiga
ble opposer of obscene literature: He be
gan bis warfare in this direction in 1872.
Since then he has gathered and destroyed
over 24 tons of immoral publications.
He has also seized more than $25,000
worth of steel, copper and stereotype
plates of the same character, and arrested
more than .450 men. Ho has been attack
ed by pistol, bludgeon, knife and fist; but
by God’s grace has thus far escaped un
banned. He said be bad not been oppos
ed by any religious sect, only by the
“Liberal League” of Infidels.
Mrs. Hayes’ influence has spread to
Canada, and at her - last reception Mrs.
Tilley, wife of llio Canadian secretary of
the treasury, banished the flowing bowl
from her table, and her colleagues in tbo
cabinet will do likewise.
Mr. Kiutner, of the Patent Office, after
looking at what has been done with elec
tricity in the last decade, believes that tho
next decado will find telegraphic corpora
tions supplying motive power, heat and
light fortheir buildings and electricity for.
their lines from ono common source of
power.
Among th'e stuffing of an old lounge, on
which T. J. Marsh had slept for many
years, at Charleston, Hi., wore found after
his death, government bonds and gold
coin worth $11,000.
There are 8,149 whlto schools in Mis
souri and 492 colored ones. Tho attend
ance of white pupils during tho past year
was 400,000; of colored pupils, 22,890.
The total expenditures amounted to $3,-
151,178.47. The State has more than 100
colleges and academies.
Tbe great English essayist, Hon. Thos
Carlyle, died at half-past 8 o’clock on yes
terday morning. Ho was in his 80th year
of ago. His death was calm and peaceful,
and he passed away without a struggle.
He has had a long and an eventful career.
There were but few brainier men in Eng
land than was Thomas Carlyle. He was
somewhat of a recluse, and in some of his
writings he exhibited a morose, and oven
a bitter spirit. Yet, few men have served
their generation more faithfully than the
dead English essayist.
The select committco of llio House of
Representatives on tho intcroccauic canal,
have reported favorably upon the incorpo
ration of;the Interoceanic Transit Com
pany.
Georgia’s roto will bo counted, notwith
standing all the ridicule heaped upon
Governor Colquitt for adhering to tlic
laws of the Stat6.
The Pamellites. have resolved to with
draw oil opposition to the passage of the
coercion bill In-the British Parliament, : ai
opposition was hopeless.
1 Omo lias passed a bill, which is nova
law, prohibiting tho consolidation of tele
graph companies, arid the New York leg
islature has passed a similar bill-to the
second reading. This legislation dames
too late. The grand combination of ’all
existing lines lias bacn'afcorBpiiiluijy
laws have iy> !fg|rogcyve povsviv. Jay
Gould can Snap WS flagcr* atali suM! [ f-
formances.
Mexico his been oouplod wikh the out
side world by laying a submarine "Cable.
She will soon bo bound lotus: by-fron baiv
and communication with the “Halls of
tho Monteziimasri wUkbo easy and rapid.
‘ "Thb’detdils of<thp>gr6a£ fire > at Charles
ton will be found In our tafrgiams this
morning. ■
Prohibition in north Carolina.
The Old North State Is very much ex
cited over a general effort to rouse her
Legislature, now in session, to the point
of prohibiting by statute the sale of ardent
spirits in that State. Tbe Raleigh Daily
News au<l Observer, of the 2d February,
prints tbe following copy ot a petition
very generally signed by tbe women of
tbe State in behalf of the passage of such
a law:
We, the women of North Carolina, do
earnestly appeal to the Legislature of 1881
to grant us help in the direst calamity
that has ever fallen upon a civilized peo
ple. No cruelties ever practiced by one
portion of the human race upon another
equal in extent and atrocity the evils
brought upon us and our children by the
manufacture and sale oi intoxicating liq
uor. The breadstuff's which should feed
us are turned into fiery poison, which de
stroys tbe bodies and souls of our hus
bands aud sous. The modern application
of steam as a motive power enables the
agents ot satan to flood the country with
the tearful “fire-water,” it is well termed
by tho Indians, and trains drawn by steam
engines carry it to every neighborhood,
and almost literally to every door. The
poor Indians, ignorant, degraded and
wronged, took vengeance on their white
oppressors by murdering men, women and
children. This, however, seems a mere
trifle compared with this new and gigantic
foe which now faces us, its trembling ric-
tims. We are tbe victims in this case, and
not tbe sinners; for you know well that, as
a general thing, women do not drink.
There are hundreds of thousands of wid
ows whose husbands lie in drunkards’
graves; there are hundreds of thousands
of orphan children deprived of education,
Ladies’ and children’s boots and shoes
cannot run over if Lynu’s Patent Heel
Stiffendrs are used. wot
or orphan children deprived of education,
deprived of a decent living, deprived of
kindly paternal care, because their fathers
fill drunkards’ graves. No words can por
tray the sufferings of tbe drunkard’s fami
ly. He drinks away the very life
blood of his children. There are
rumors that tbe wealthy liquor dealers
and manufacturers are spending vast sums
to prevent the passage of prohibitory laws
by the present Legislature. But if our
North Carolina Legislature is wbat has
been called in all ages of our republic an
honorable body, it cannot be bribed. We
cry to you as tbe helpless to. the strong.
Ws entreat you by your hope of eternal
salvatiou. We entreat you to remember
God’s fearful warning: “He that shutteth
liis ears ro the cry of the distressed, he
shall cry himself but shall not be heard.”
We appeal to you as patriots, save your
country! We appeal to you as fathers,
save your sons from tho horrible fate o: r
tiie drunkard; save your daughters from
the horrible fate of drunkards’ wives!
Iu England, where statistics, are more
carefully kept than here, it is stated that
one in everv ten dies from tbe effects of
liquoi. The loss of life from this one
cause averages six hundred thousand an
nually iu that small kingdom. What
war dhl she ever engage In that cost her
this number of lives annually? Wbat
pestilenco ever swept so many hapless
sufferers into tbo grave? All intelligent
people know that tbe probibitoiy laws of
Maine have Veen successful. Those who
deny this fact arc grossly ignorant and
false. What has been done there can be
doMO here. God has given you the power
to do it. You can save a ship about to
sink, with hundreds ot thousands of your
helpless fellow creatures on board. There
is no help except in you. If you let us
sink imploring your aid, each life Will be
required at your hands. Oh, can you look
at the fearful amount of suffering and
raise no Anger to save? Christ gave His
lifu to save you, will you not give each
one a single Vote ?
Teo Many Doctors for an Unappreci
ative Patient.
It Is the fashion to assuino that the
South is sick. Everybody wants to play
doctor. The politician is ready with liis
prescription of special legislation. The
philanthropist insists on thrusting down
her throat theories never put into practice
anywhere else. Advice aud reproof are
offered to her without limit by the politi
cal economist. The sensational pulpit
uses tho South for striking illustration and
disparaging allusion. The novelist, when
other topics pall upon the popular taste,
has only to go on a fool’s errand to the
South to get a hearing and to turn a
penny. ■ Every quack lias his own diagno
sis aud mode of treatment.
The bewildered and obstinate patient
is denounced because sbe does not swal
low all the medicine prescribed by these
self-appointed doctors. It is vain that she
assures them that she does not feel so
very sick after all, that she is pretty com
tunable, and hopes to do very well
They insist that she is very sick, and that
unless something is dono quickly she
must die. On the one hand we have any
amount of gratuitous advice, and on the
other invincible obstinacy.
Now, a patient is not always a good
judge of his own condition, but usually a
sick person knows he is sick. Wbat
about the South? What is her condi
tion?
It has been asserted that the South was
being depopulated, and that nothing but
immigration could save her. Tbe revela
tions of the late census dispelled that illu
sion. Iustead of being depleted the South
lias grown rapidly in population during
the last ten years. The immigration
doctors were wrong in their diagnoais-B
It has been said that the South was
perisbiug for tho lack of a reliable labor
system. It lias been charged that the
whites were too proud and the negroes
too lazy to work, and that both raws
were in danger of starvation. That illu
sion was dispelled by the annual exhibits
of tbe agricultural bureau of tbe govern
ment, showing increased production and
heavier exports than over before.
With more plausibility, it has been said
that ignorance is the disease that is kill*
ing the South. The census of illiteracy
is paraded aud wo are told to swallow the
new educational nostrums prepared for us
or die. A comparison of criminal statistics
which is the true test of social soundness,
shows that the South is Iu as healthy a
condition as her sisters. There is no
ground for boasting anywhere on this
score. Bnt these statistics strengthen the
opinion long entertained by many in ail
parts of our country that mere sharpening
of the intellectual faculties is not the'only
condition necessary to tho stability, pros
perity and happiness of a State. A more
important factor is tbe religious belief and
moral status of tho people. Theplaiu
tiller of the soil, wiio signs Ids name with
a cross mark, and yet believes in God and
in immortality, is a safer depositary ofthe
liberties and happiness of a State than tbs
graduates of any system of education tbat
attempts moral culture without a recogni
tion of God and a sense of accountability
to him. At this point also tho diagnosis
is not altogether correct, and the proposed
treatment is of doubttul efficacy.
Too much doc oring will make a well
person sick.. It is not wise to go to taking
medicine for every .slight disorder of the
body. A healthy bov’s “growing pntus”
are not dangerous. Leave him and let
him grow. The South is growing in ail
the elements ot material aud moral prog
ress. During the last Uitcen years sbe
has suffered more at the bauds of her vol
unteer doptors and nurses than from ail
others. Under carpet-bag rule she was
bled within an inch of her life; but she
survived aud is now doing well. Her ap
petite is good; her sleep is sweet; her
lungs are sound; her limbs are strong; her
eyes, are bright, Lot her grow awhile.
Don’t waste so much advico where it is
not needed. _Dou’t discourage a brave
and struggling people with this unceasing
-glaum of censure or evil prophesying.
Before the war tbo Southern people,
in. dealing' with difficult anil pe
culiar , inherited conditions, acted their
parts as wejl as any of their
oeiDors would have done under the same
eucuittitsimgeJ Since the war they have
siiunn great adaptability, and they have
rxhibiUm m'u- m.irked degree the quali-
iliplrsaqiuduii for political -organisation
anil. selt-g- vermueu;. They are not an
«i<fW* raua. They are not barbarians.
Xhejlare nefi a sick, or dying people.
.'J hay Jbava giveu umuy names to tho roll
oi •iiluiUiouS men -whose lives are tbe
glory uf onr country, and they will add
t. i>u - o . ... me. There is
Jifc iu lira land yott Let there be a stop
to croaking at borne aud of nagging from
abroad. The last ten years was a period
Of marvelous progress to the South. The
next ten years will- be stiil more progres-
give.— Nashville Christian Advocate.
Washington Correspondence.
Washington City, February 1st,
1881.—The' elements are playing that
same old tune again thin morning, and
everybody, including even Uncle Hanni
bal Hamlin, is disgusted. Three or four
inches of snow have fallen since midnight
and more is coming thick and fast. The
air is horribly keen, and the promise
good for lots more trouble with over
shoes, bad colds, sore eyes and chapped
lips and hands. And this is the “beauti
ful snow” of which poets and crazy people
rave and write. How delicious it would
be if they could have it all to themselves—
homestead on it, as it were.
WILT. THEY STICK?
The Democratic Senators caucused
yesterday and resolved, first, that tbe
President of the Senate had no right to
count the electoral vote. Se.cond, that
the two houses of Congress, assembled in
joint convention, possess that right.
Third, that the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives will exercise tbat right on
the second Wednesday in February. This
means business.
But will they and their brethren ofthe
House “stick?” Somehow, these latter
days, the supply of Democratic backbone
seems to ruu short just when it is most
needed. If they do meau business, and
stand by this decision, it will result in an
extra session. Tbat you may gamble on,
and give any odds that are asked.
JUDGE DAVIS,
of Illinois, is emulating tbe activity ofthe
pig which kept such * running about tbat
it couldn’t be counted. First, the Demo
crats claimed him as sure to act with
them in the forty-fourth Congress. That
was during one of his pauses last session.
Now, it has beeu noticed and noted tbat
he has voted with the Radicals on
every test question ftbis session
without! exception. Suppose he runs
this habit into the next Congress and Ma
bone concludes to camp with the Demo
crats? There will be a lie—thirty-eight
on each side, and the casting vote with
Arthur. I seem to feel that the prospect
is decidedly murky for Democratic con
trol after the 4th of March, and that the
boys over there may be out of a job before
they know it. The truth about this Illinois
Daniel Lambert, inmyjudgment,isthatbe
is just looking out for himself at present,
and doesn’t care a continental for either
party. I predict tbat be will get down off
tbe fence on tbe Radical side of it, and
don’t you forget it. At least on tbe ques
tion of re-organizing tho committees and
redistributing pap. A gentleman who
heard him talk veiy freely lately, confirms
what I have just written. So good bye,
Davy, and Democratic control of the Sen
ate.
MB. SPEER
won his spurs this week in the manage
ment of the Yates-Martin contested elec
tion case from North Carolina. He pre
sented the report of the majority of the
committee which favored Yates, and
made a clear, strong speech for it, and
which was heard by the House with more
attention than is usually given in such
cases. He did not succeed, however, in
carrying liis colleagues, Messrs. Steplieus
and Felton with him. They voted with
the Republicans, and were tbo only
Democrats who did. So did all tbe
Greenbackers, except Ladd, of Maine.
But the Democrats beat the world, tbe
flesh and tbe devil and put Yates in. As
be and Martin will both draw pay, repre
sentation from tbat district for tbe present
Congress will cost the people about
$20,000.
MARY AKDEESOM,
with her divine face, grand voice, loni
legs and superlative awkwardness, wil
bold £he boards at the National Theatre
tliis week. Sbe draws like a well-built
chimney bere, as everywhere, and is get
ting rich with phenomenal speed. I don’t
think, however, tbat sbe has progressed
upward one particle in four years. Last
night, as “Parthenia,” she proved this en
tirely to my satisfaction, at least, and iu
the act where she is about ta be dragged
away to the river, demonstrated her enor
mous lung power by a yell that would
have made Sitting Bull ashamed of him
self, accompanying it by a series of kicks
and cuffs that raised a doubt for a while
whether tbe barbarians should cany off
Parthenia, or she carry them off,
which so excited the jealousy of the bar
barian that he set up an opposition shop,
and brought down tbe house by beating
the fair Mary at her own game. I am
sorry to see Mary progressing backward
after this fashion. Sbe bid fair once to
worthily wear the mantle that graced tbe
fair aboulders of Julia Dean, but that
promise certainly bas not yet been fill-
filled. Meanwhile, however, Mary is
coining money, and has set up a villa at
Long Branch. If she doesn’t lose her
senses and get married, she is bound to be
a very rich woman some day.
THE INAUGURATION JAMBOBEE
promises us a spectacular performance to
surpass ail previous pageants of tbe sort.
With tbe exception of $5,000 for fireworks,
all the money estimated for has been
raised. The ball will be one of the grand
est features of the occasion, and the Na
tional Museum, where it will be held, is
of such enormous dimensions as to ac
commodate 8,000 persons, giving each one
about six square feet, and thua prevent
ing anything like a jam. Only tliatnum-
ber of tickets will he sold, and only Gar
field, Hayes and Grant, with their wives,
will be dead-headed. The room will be
lighted with gas and well heated by steam,
and the music will be furnished by a band
of 150 musicians. The building itself is
nearly as large as the Capitol, cov
ering nearly two and a half
acres. The military escort to tbe Pres
ident, on his way to the capital,
will number twenty thousand militia and
fourteen companies of Federal troops and
marines. Such a show of blue and brass
has not been seen here since the dtys that
Sherman's and other armies went marching
home after the close ofthe late civil war.
The hotels, boarding houses, bar-rooms
esorts all
CALIFOBJTA AHD NEVADA.
n KlM.MdN(.
Bepreaeatatlve
-.The Hnlhn Chlaee.
Kelly, Ball reads, Irrtcatlea aad
AgrieaHnr*.
AVer York Herald J
Mr. John W. Mackay, the California
Bonanza King, will sail in the Bothnia
to-day. He intends to spend the winter
with his family in their chateau in Paris.
Accompanying him from San Francisco,
whence he arrived on Sunday last, was
Mr. Rolllu M. Daggett, Nevada’s only
Representative in Congress, formerly edi
tor of tbe Virginia City Territorial En
terprise. Mr. Daggett spent yesterday
morning in Mr. Mackay’s parlors, In the
Gilsey House, and as tbe Bonanza King
was up to his armpits in his preparations
for an ocean voyage, and, besides, had to
eke oat time to call upon the wife of Gen.
Grant, Mr. Daggett entertained the visi
tors.
The representative of Nevada said that
the people have settled down to business
and almost forgotten tbat there ever was
a Presidential election, but that Demo
crats have a reminder of it in their de
feat, and tbat there Is deeper feeling than
might be supposed to exist at that distance
from New York against the arch traitor
who sold tbe Democratic party out.
This is not the language ofthe Nevada
member of Congress, but his admission.
“Mackay and I are not, you understand,
the persons to speak for the Democratic
party,” he said, “for we are Republicans,
but we know what is going on.” John
Kelly is execrated by tbe party that ha
betrayed, and if he should venture to visit
Nevada and California ho would not be
long in ignorance of Democratic senti
ment there.
When asked whether the shipload of
natives of China that sailed from San
Francisco the other day may be assumed
to be the precursor of an exodus of China
men, Mr. Daggett said: “The country
west ofthe Mississippi river may be set
down as a unit against the Chinese. I
traveled across the country to California
in ’49 with a rifle on my back. There
was hardly a settlement. I am whirled
across from San Francisco to New York
in a week now, and the laud is dotted
with farm houses and schoolhouses
throughout the long journey of 3,000
miles. With wars vanishing from our
history and medical science advancing,
we are gaining enormously in population,
and the time is not many centuries distant
when our numbers will be so great that
there will be a straggle for bread. No,
sir; we don’t want assistance in develop
ing our internal resources. We don’t
want the demoralizing Chinaman. In
deed, what do we want of any foreign
land ? We can produce all our own ne
cessaries and all the luxuries. Why let
Europe rule our markets ? The idea of
letting Europe set a price on our silver!
We are big enough to take care of our
selves,and our generous soil makes us the
most truly independent nation the world
ever saw. True, we have thousands of
miles of unimproved territory, but let us
keep it for our own and hold it for our
own, so that we and our descendants may
put off as far as possible the day in which
there will not be land that an American
can preempt.”
THE FUTURE OF NEVADA.
After saying tbat it is on the slate that
Mr. Mackay’s'partner, Mr. James G. Fair,
shall succeed William Sliaron as Senator
from Nevada, Mr. Daggett continued:
“We, of California and Nevada, are
bound together by the ties of consanguin
ity; but a bitter feeling has been engen
dered by the grasping managers ofthe
Facific railroad, who have imposed upon
tbe business of Nevada almost restrictive
discriminations. We can ship goods from
New York to San Francisco and back to
Virginia City cheaper than from New
York to Virginia City direct. The Pa
cific railroad is charging us as much for
freighting as it cost us when things were
transported by mules. We have no rivers,
ami onr only way out is by rail. Our
hope is in railroads and, I should add, in
irrigation. We have two railroads giving
us communication with the mines, and
one that will connect us with both Pacific
railroads; but we require facilities by rail
that will enable us to deal with the East
direct, and these we shall get.
“Nevada is an immense bed of silver
spread out in mountains as high as those
of the Sierra Nevada, and in vast valleys
into which our small streams flow and
and other resorts all expect to make
enough to ran them througn tbe summer
and will cut as deep as they dare in the
matter of charges. If any of your folks
contemplate coming on tell them to bring
all their available cash. They will need it.
PERSONAL.
Mr. Frank A1 friend, of Richmond, who
was clerk to the Senate committee on
commerce when Gen. Gordon was chair
man thereof, has been succeeded in that
xwltion by a son of Senator Ramsom, who
s the present chairman. A. W. R.
Tom, Dick and Harry are now appear
ing with their grandfathers’ recipes for
coughs, etc., and seeking a fortune
through advertising, bnt tbs people know
the value of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup and
will take no other. Price, 26 cents a
bottle.
Railroad Bonding in 1800.
The Baltimore Sun, collating the sta
tistics of railway construction last year,
says:
The miles of road built m New Eng
land in 1880 were 115, in the Middle
States
314B
tee 602, in
i, iu the Gulf States
pp*»
ith i
the South Atlantic States
Ala
(Florida.
bam a, Mississippi, Louisiana and T<
837, in the South Interior States (Indian
Territory, Arkansas, Tennessee, Ken
tucky and West Virginia) 150, In tho
North interior States (Ohio, Michigan and
Indiana) 940, in tbe Northwest (Illinois,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska rad DakotaS 2,915, and
tbe far West interior (chiefly Territories)
1,343, and Pacific States £89. These di
visions are in some degree arbitrary—as,
for examhle, in classing Missouri with the
States ofthe Northwest—yet tbe classi
fication la explicit enough to
permit tbe
Northwest
trending of railroad
tion which baa already been mentioned.
Thus, taking the Missouri river ae the
east aad west dividing line aad eschewing
all States and Terrltariw in which rail
road building foil abort ot 800 miles in
1880, we find that In tbe Northwest there
were built in Nebraska 377 miles, in Min-
eeota 812, In Illinois 821, in Iowa 450, in
Dakota 724; a total of 2,196 ml)as. in
the Southwest there were built in T**as
053 miles, in New Mexico 640, la Mimoo-
ri 313, in Kansas 863, and in Colorado
343; a total of 3416 miles. Them fleams
not only balsam remarkably, hot Tlloa-
trate tbo tendencies of railroad develop*
meat with sin^uly parsplcuonansaa,
be, through;
wells. Already we raise the best pota
toes in the world; but with the great basin
watered by artesian wells Nevada can be
come an agricultural and wine growing
State, as California is, and is destined
more conspicuously to be.
“The march of immigration either
passes Nevada or does not reach the State.
Few young men are settling in the State,
and many of those who come to us are .
lured to rain by the potent agencies ofthe
cup and gamingtable. Butin time we
shall be able to give a better account of
ourselves. Irrigation will give our society
the solid base of agriculture upon which
to erect a superstructure of railroads and
the enterprises tbat follow them. Our
mining machinery is the grandest in the
world, and our mines yield grander re
sults than are yielded by any others on
the planet. But we look for a time when
agriculture shall do more for us than
mining.”
! MB. mackay’s movements.
Mr. Mackay entertained - at dinner, in
Delmonico’s parlors ou Monday evening,
General Grant, Mr. Henry Rosener,Judge
Messick aud Mr. Daggett. The gentle
men sat in easy conversation until a late
hour,and then Mr. Mackay and his friends
visited tbe office of the New York Herald
and spent two hours in studying the econ
omies and resources of the establishment.
He was reminded, he said, that he dwelt
in Park Bow in his boyhood, before the
time of the new post-office and the new
court house, and be bad Bred to see tbe
Herald grow from its modest beginning
in Ann street to its present foremost posi
tion of influence. To h's mind tbe Her
ald's advance was the greatest evidence of
tbe growth of country that be could In
stance.
Mr. Mackay will spend six mouths in
Europe.
After two hours with General Grant
yesterday morning, Mr. Mackay and the
General drove to Wall street and called
upon some of their financial friends.
In the afternoon they visited some friends,
and with these they dined in the evening.
INSIDE POLITICS IN NEVADA.
Mr. Daggett, when asked for au insldo
history or the fight in Nevada, said that
the contest was reaiiy between tbe Bank
of California and tbe Bonanza firm—$20,-
000,000 against $100,000,000. Mr. Mackay
was pressed to take the nomination for the
senatorship, as he was a member ot the
national committee, but ho declined in
favor of bis partner, Mr. Fair. The weapon
tbat was brought to bear agaiust Senator
Sharon was the fact, that'although he had
been for six years a Senator, he had not
been for six days in the Senate chamber.
The effect of Sharon’s running was to
throw Nevada into tbe hands of tlio Dem
ocratic party.
Reporter—What is the wealth of the
Bonanza firm?
Mr. Daggett—No one knows. Mr.
Mackay owns two-fifths, Flood one-fifth,
Fair one-fifth and the estate of O’Brien
one-fifth. They took out of one mine
alone $111,000,009. Mr. Mackay’s fortune
Is satlmated at from $00,000,000 to $30,-
000,000. He is a benevolent gentleman,
as you will admit when I say that when
tbs Sisters of Charity began to establish
•ay him* in Navada be aant for tba mother
of the order and told her he would be re-
spoaaibls for all tbe bills.
A young lady was caressing a pretty
' and murmuring: “I do- love
dog!” “Ah,” sighed a dandy stand-
da I wer
“I would
nice do)
ing no
“Never mind,” retorted the young lady,
sharply, “you’ll grow.”
Little Annie is ibe daughter of one
©f our moat prominent citizens. Yester
day aha told us, in her way, what a good
thing Dl Bair* Cough Syrup was, as it
fcadcond bet at a vary aovara odd.