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FRIDAY, MARCH 25,18S1.
Lail Week’s Cotton Flgarea.
Tx* cows stood in n row in a stable at
Plnttrille, Wi*., with their heads fastened
in the usual way between stanchions. The
floor gave way in the night, and in the
morning they were found banging dead.
Senator Batabd has written a letter to
the Delaware legislature advising them not
to take any action on the subject of pro
hibitory legislation; that such legislation is
contrary to Democracy, which allows indi
viduals liberty ns to eating, drinking, &c.
Watsb MacYeaoh is said to have protest
ed against Stanley Matthews’ nomination.
The report looks probable, except for the
fact that tho protest of the head of the
department of justice, in all ordinary cir
cumstances, would be enough to prevent
the Ljminatjen of a man to the Supreme
Court.
TWn* ia a pleasant coincidence recorded
in Washington that just one hundred years
. ago our first Secretary of War was appoint
ed, and that that Secrotary, like tho pres
ent one, boro tho name of “Lincoln.”
General Benjamin Lincoln’s portrait hangs
upon the walls of the Department, and
Bobert Lincoln's is to be placed beside it.
The Pennsylvania railroad lias nearly
completed a monster locomotive, intended
to make the run between Now York and
Philadelphia in ninety minutes. Each of
tho driving wheels, including tho tire, weighs
two tons and is six feet in diameter. Here
tofore there has been difficulty in accom
plishing sixty miles an hour, though it has
been occasionally done. 2 tho new engine
succeeds five others will be built.
One-ralf of the hundred boys picked
from the New York grammar schools, to
whom medals were given at the raising of
tho obelisk, were of German extraction and
one-third were of Jewish birth. One-third
of tho prize takersin tho New York normal
school was also Jews, and yet neither in the
normal school nor tho grammer schools aro
the Jewish children over one-fifth of tho
whole.
The weavers of Bohemia are ia great
destitution. In upper Silesia,Prussia, there
is no improvement in tho impoverished
condition of tho peasantry. Their situation
is summed up thus: “No grain, no pota
toes, no food for cattle, no seed for sowing.
Snow and cold without, hunger and sick-
noss within.” Soup houses and public
kitchens have been started in seventeen
villages.
Fbospeb Mebimee was far from good
looking, and knew it very well. In tho
midst of a feta one summer day in Paris
he came accidently upon two English ladies
who wero unable to find a cab. As he was
politely helping them in their embarrass
ment, he heard one of the ladies remark in
English that he was amiable bnt dreadfully
ugly. Merimee, who spoke English per
fectly, turned round briskly, took his bat
off, and said: “Madame, a lady bo beauti
ful as you are ought to be more indulgent'
A nocs of snow-birds has lived for over
fivo years in the oourt-bouse tower at Mor
ristown, Pa., yet with every stroke of tho
bell announcing the hoars as they passed
the birds have never ceased to leave tho
tower in the greatest consternation, but
maintain their position in the air until the
last stroke has fallen, when they at once re-
tarn to the tower. , TJraevgp^egt-'&lfeitf
without, howover, causing them to seek
another lodging. Tho bell weighs nearly
4,000 pounds.
Chioaoo’s Hoa Statistics.—A Chicago
telegram says: For tho twelve months end
ed March 1, the total nnmber of bogs pack
ed io Chicago was 0,752,190, tho largest
number ever packed in any ciiy in the
world in any one year. The two leading
houses have packed 2,276,4®) hogs, or more
than any other city in the West. The re
ceipts of live hogs during tho year wero
7,050,355, and shipments 1,340,990. There
have been made316,834 tierces of lard, 260,-
970 barrels of pork, 23,767,G03 pounds of
greon and dry salted, 11,372,895 pounds of
Cumberland, GO,642,843 pounds of short
ribs, 83,109,906 pounds of long clears.
T&s laborers in the St. Gothard tunnel
have suffered from a mysterious disease
that long baffled all physicians; but an
Italian physician, Dr. Giaecone, has now
traced it, with the aid of mjcroicopsc in
vestigation, to pa^isitic worms that aroen-
\pnderod by the underground atmosphere
and lodged in the intestines of men work
ing ii) it, A Swiss physician, Dr. Sonder-
bggo, has supplia?!'.!" 1 . «**• discovery by
devising a method of expelling the parasites.
The two doctors aro bailed in Switzerland
as benefactors qf their race.
The Lima correspondent of the Panama
Star and Herald, under date of February
22, writes that a movement is on foot to
depose Pierola, the nominal head of the
Peruvian Government, and establish a pro
visional administration, with which the
Chilians will treat. Twenty or thirty of the
rioters who began robbing and plundering
at Solaverry and Trujilo have been shot,
and peace has been restored there. Misery
and destitution are prevalent in Lima.
Twenty or thirty Chinamen have been
murdered by a drunken negro mob near
Cerro Azul. Advices from Lima state that
the provisional government has been or
ganized under Francisco Garcia Calderon.
A Locomotive Sixtt-two Feet Lono.—
At the Pennsylvania Bailroad Company’s
shops at Altoona a monster locomotive is
aeoeiving the finishing touches. Its length
from the pilot’s point to the dead wood on
the rear end of the tank is sixty-two feet.
The weight is 92,700 pounds. Each revolu
tion of the driving wheels propels the engine
feet. The machinery governing the
sand box is a new invention, and it is com
pletely in the hands of the engine driver.
In two trial tripe up the Allegheny Moun
tains, one to Kittanniug Point and the other
to Galizin, tho locomotive behaved very
satisfactorily, turning curve on the up-grade
at the rate of thirty miles an hour with
great ease. The company expects by using
this engine to reduce the transit time be
tween this city and New York to ninety
minutes.
Whitt axes Umdbb the Stebeoptiooi*.—
Expert W. E. Hagan showed the Whittaker
court martial yesterday specimens of Whit
taker’s and other handwriting with a stere-
eptioon, in a darkened room in 'the third
story of the army building. The specimens
were magnified 400 diameters, and the ex
pert used a long pointer to trace the peculi
arities of the lines. While Mr. Hagan
Stood in the strong light of the oxyhydro-
gen apparatus, the letters “Yon will be fix
ed" were printed in strong relief on the
back of Mr. Hagan's bald head. The wit
ness particularly pointed out a thumb mark
on the envelope of the note of warning,
which, he eaid, was not made by a greasy
thumb, but by a person with an oily skin.
mndo tho mark was not a greasy ono, bo- | tiie SITUATION,
cause he had magnified the maria of greasy j Tho york Chron{c i c of ]ast Sat-
llpiulw, and found that they °°° . ~ nrfay renorte the receipts of the seven
uous parallel dermal marks, whereas tho e f ,aq t
dermal marks on tho note of warning wero da J’ s ending Friday, 16th instant, at 108,-
not continuous lines, and wero made by a 200 bales, against 40,011 bales for thecor-
person with a peculiar skin. [ responding week oflast year-showing the
1 week’s increase to be 68,589 bales. Total
“Over-Education.” I rece!pt8 £inC8 i st September last 4,018,422
Among the curiosities of literature Is an. ba nst f or t j, e corres-
article staling, as from Simon Cameron, di rtlon oril:e cotton year 1870-80,
that be finds the Florid* negroes in dan- ^ owi ° l an increase of 534,172 bales,
ger of being reduced to practical worth- [ (; otton Exchange statement of same
iessucss from "over-education.” They! dat(J w „ „ foilows .
get above the plow and the hoe and will j 1SS1 jggQ
Net receipts at all ports.... 107,455 60,380
makes a man a fool Is entitled to some Total ‘ “ “ •• •4,887,158 4,388,260
other name. Anything which des- Showing a week’s increase of 57,073, and
troys or reduces his capacities of a total of 403,604 bales. ,
mind or body Is certainly not I The interior cotton ports received dur-
eilncation but dcaducalion. It has been in S tl> ° sanie wcek bales, against
said of whites, as well as of negroes, that 23,855 bales the corresponding week of
the smattering of knowledge acquired in Iast S' ear * T bey shipped 40,001 against
common schools puffs them up with a van- , 37,227* and their stocks looted up last
ty incompatible with rueful labor. That; Friday 267,314 against 2S1,047 bales at
is not education any morn than arsenic is 1 sumo dat0 ,as ^ y ear -
wholesome food.
It is certainly true that all schools can
teach folly, and so be a source of positive
mischief instead of useful knowledge.
Schools may indoctrinate a pupil iu red-
mouthed infidelity, in rip-staving com
munism, or make him equally foolish on
other points, but nobody pretends that wc
ought to stop schools because they may be
perverted to bad purposes.
Every child should have tho great gate
of knowledge opened to him through the
alphabet and orthography, and then he
must take bis* chances of learning either
wisdom or folly, just as ho chooses wise
or silly counsel.
There is no human labor which an edu
cated man cannot better perform than an
ignerant man—ail other things being
equal. The lowest and most brutal labor
is tbat of the soldier. Hu business is to
kill and be killed; but besides tbls there
is no band-work so rough or dirty that a
soldier is not called on to do it. To mine
and to ditch and to fortify; to labor in
water, mml and dust; to scale rocks and
mountains; to delve above and below
ground—this is the labor of the soldier.
And yet everybody says Germany whipped
France because her soldiers were all edu
cated men. But if the German teachers
had taught their pupils that a knowledge
of reading necessarily placed them above
physical labor, we have no doubt France
would have whipped Germany.
The point la
teachers infuse practical common sense
with the alphabet. That every boy and
girl Is taught that labor is honorable, and
nothing disgraceful but idleness aud vice.
Tho royal family of Germany, (the Ho-
benzollems), it is said,'permit none of
their pnnees or princesses to grow up
without learning a trade or the practical
arts of housekeeping. They don’t expect
to practice either, io any great extent,
but they don’t want to be such miserable
fools as uot to know how.
In this country It is a reasonable pre
sumption that children bom rich will die
poor, and vice versa. That, with few ex
ceptions, is tho way we do things in Amer
ica. Every town and neighborhood shows
abundant examples; but vciy few of
wealth carried through two generations.
Therefore, it is of really more practical val
ue to the rich to learn how to save and earn
money than to the poor. Bat every school
ought to be a nursery of vigorous industry
of mind and body. Nothing should be
held up as so contemptible as imbecility
in either. With that sort of edu
cation, the brighter the mind Is, the bettor
the labor performed. But education
which makes man or boy a stupid and
useless fool should be hung up before the
Sohfvtl
Eclectic Magazine.—The Eclectic
for April is a “George Eliot number,” con
taining the most important of the articles
thst were caljed fortb in England by the
death of the 'famous novelist. Among
these are: “George Eliot: A Personal
Sketch,” from Blackwood's Hagazine,
making some interesting disclosures re
garding her early relations with the Black
wood house; “George Eliot: A Critical
Study,” by Leslie Stephen; and “George
Eliot: Her Moral Influence,” by Oue
who Enew Her. No one interested In the
career and character of George Eliot
should fail to read these articles.
The remaining contents of the number
are of the usual variety and interest,
comprising an interesting paper on
“Thomas Carlyle;” “A Day with Liszt in
1S80,” by Rev. H. R. Haweis; “A Persian
Apologue,” by Austin Dobson; “Some
Facts about Fishes,” by W. S. Dallas, F.
It. S.; “OnSomo of Shakespeare’s Fe-
roaltt Characters. II. Portia,” by ZZZ
who has personated them (Helen Faucit
Martin); “Old Jlamage Customs,” and
many other articles.
Published by E. R. Felton, 25 Bond
Street, New York. Terms, $5 per year;
single copy, 45 cents; trial subscription
for three months, $1.
T. B.Petebson & Duos., Philadelphia
Pa , send per mail, postpaid, an advance
copy of a charming novel, just ready, by
Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz, entitled:
“Linda, or, The Young Pilot of the Belle
Creole,” by Mrs. Caroline Lee Hcnlz,
author of “Robert Graham,” “Rena; or,
Tho Snow Bird,” “Eoline,” etc. One
volnme, paper cover—price, 75 cents.
Scribner fob April came yesterday,
and is as full as a flower garden. “Ma
rine forms applicable to decoration,” “Fa
ther Hyaclnlbe,” “A Georgia plantation,”
“Running the rapids oftbe Upper Hud
son,” “New York attics and housetops,”
“The King’s Jester,” “The Calkoun
summer-house,” “Peter the Great,”
“Greek Terra Cottas,” “The greatest ac
tive volcano,” “Wood engravings and the
Scnbner prizes,” and numerous other ar
ticles, with and without illustrations,
make up an attractive melange. Scrib
ner & Co., 743 Broadway.
Littell’s Living Age.—The num
bers of The Living Age for the weeks end
ing March 12th and 19tb respectively,
contain the following interesting articles:
“La Rochefoucauld,” Nineteenth Century;
Trollope’s “Life of Cicero,” and George
Eliot, lilackicooJ; “George Eliot,” Corn-
hill; “Candor Tersus Courtesy,” Golden
Hours; “Graffiti or Wall-Scribblings,”
Chambera* Journal: “Carlyle,” London
Times; “The Woods in Winter,” Satur
day lietietc; “American Literature and
Boston Literature,” St. James Gazette;
“Haw-catching in Holland,” Graphic;
“The Talmud and the Bible,” Jewish
Chronicle; with instalmanU of “The
Frerea,” “Don John,” and “Visited on the
Children.”
For fifty-two numbers of aixty-fonr
large page* each (or more than 8,800
pages a year), the subscription price (98)
is low; white tor $10.50 the publishers
offer to send any one of the American $4
monthlies or weeklies with 'the Living
Ags for a year, both postpaid. Littell
A Vo., Boston, are the publishers.
The Chronicle’s visible supply table,
which includes all tho cotton in sight—
Liverpool and continental stocks, United
States and interior ports, cotton afloat and
Friday’s exports and all foreign cotton,
showed a grand total of visible supply
amounting to 3,080,858 bales, against
2,5S3,104 at the samo date last year—
2,405,834 at samo date In 1870, and 2,-
802,004 in 1878. These figures show a
gain of 497,004 bales on the visible sup
ply of last year—585,024 on the supply of
1870 and 278,794 on the visible supply of
1878 at corrcsuondinglV,-:
Cotton In Liverpool last Friday was
quoted 03-10 for middling upland. At
the same date last year the quotation was
7 5-16—in 1870 fig, and in 1878 sixpence.
The Chronicle appends the following to
its weekly table of receipts from plant*
tion.
The above statement shows—
1. That tho total receipts from the planta
tions since September 1st in 1830-81 wero
5,172,765 bales; in 1879-80 were 4,607,996
bales: in 1878-79 wero 4,194,482 bales.
2. That, although tho receipts at the out-
ports the past week were 108,200 bales, the
actual movement from plantations was
only 110,497 bales, tho balance going to in
crease the stocks at tho interior ports. Last
year the receipts from the plantations for
tho samo week were 40.662 bales and for
1879 they wero 42.39G bales.
The Chronicle’s weather telegrams of
Friday from the cotton region, for the
week ending on that day, show very rainy
weather in the Atlantic States, and in por
tions of the Guir States, excepting Texas.
In Galveston there was 1.08 of rainfall
during the week. In Indianolavery little
rain. In Corsicana only 0.88. In Dallas
2.20. Aud in Brenham and Waco very
little—generally good plowing and corn-
planting weather. In Louisiana, New
Orleans makes no report. Shreveport had
0.16 of rain and reports the roads in bad
condition.
Iu Mississippi, Vicksburg had three
days of rain and Columbus four, with
fail of 4.10. In Arkansas, Little Rock
bad a cloudy and showery week with only
three-quarters of an Inch of fall. Ten
nessee, Memphis sends no telegram.
Nashville had five rainy days, but only
1.15 of fall. In Alabama, Mobilo had
three days of heavy rain, in which the
fall reached 7.55 inches. Montgomery
had fire rainy days and 3.23 of fall. In
Selma there were three days of rain. Mad
ison, Florida, complains of too much rain.
In Georgia, Columbus had three days of
heavy rain and 5.84 of fall. Macon the
same—bottom lands flooded. About the
same proportion of land to cotton as last
year, but less guano used. Savannah had
three days of rain and 1.51 of fall. Au.
gusta had four days of rain and 4.77 of
tail. Citv threatened with «
An Extra Scaalon
Of Congress looks more probable every
day. Tho Radicals want to grab the offi
ces at the capital and can’t wait until
December to do it. They are the hungriest
beggars ever kuown. Not content with
monopolizing all the other fat things in
that line, their mouths are watering for
the few crumbs of patronage the Democrats
have been enjoying for a short season.
Such meanness is almost Incredible, and
shows a greed that would shame a half
starved hound. What do they expect will
become of our boys thrown out of a job
this time of year when winter clothes are
nearly worn out and no funds forthcom
ing for rpring suits, excursions down the
river, mint juleps and strawberry short
cake? Hanged if it isn’t the meanest job
ever sought to be put up on a lot .of bard
working, self-sacrificing patriots who, in
many cases, separate themselves from
their families and forego the comforts and
joys of the homo circle to serve their
country,
Nihilism in London.—A few nights
ago an effort was made to blow up the
mansion of the Lord Mayor of London
A policeman discovered a box containing
forty pounds of powder, tvUU ft fuse at
tached, placed in front of the mansion.
Tbe fuse bad been fired, but bad gone
out,
■•tv
Communism In America.
• The two methods of treating communism
or nihilism or petrolism are now going
into foil trial In tbe United Slates and iu
Europe. We have but to watch their re
sults. Tbe one is by forcible and rigorous
suppression. Tbe other is by opening tbe
vent holes and permitting tbe gas to blow
off. The systom of suppression practiced
by Russia and Germany is manifest!) a
failure. Tbe rigor of government against j ~~ jnrT be boy could in reality
tlio Nihilists gives them all their dignity* j gpegfc troll a nQ hj g thunder in the court
They apotheosize before tbe worid in tbe house attracted attention. Fees depend
m. There was no eridcnco against the
nogro, but Algernon got him convicted.
Congratulations poured in upon him. Old
friends of his father crowded round and
pressed his hands, and a talented legal gen
tleman gave him a place in his office where
ho could have the benefft of his library and The latest developments with regard to
do all tho firm's writing. Algernon, as may the silver conference to be held at Paris on
be inferred* did not remain here long. Ho (ho lOlli of April, are by no means so on-
hired ldm au office and hung out a shingle couraging as the earlier announcements,
with his name upon it in gilt letters. Fees F-rst reports inadeit a European propost-
Tlie European Monetary Conference. < a. True Economy.
The New York Commercial and Finan- j The Tallahwsee Economist, conducted
clal Chronicle take3 editorially a discour- j by our old friend, R. B. Hilton, Esq., very
aging view of tho probable outcome oftbe . properly lays hold ol the idea of sheep-
I’arls monetary conference. Bays that pa- raising (suggested by tho Telegraph)
per:
form of fearless Martyrs, Instead of ridic
ulous and senseless fools. Tho police is
powerless to keep them iu check.
It is not necessary that a cause should
os much on tho faith of the public as upon
learning. So it was that Algernon did well.
Taking in fees became a very interesting
occupation. He found himself growing
be wise and good to enlist in its behalf all j well off, and business continued good. Tho
the comagc and enthusiasm of the mar-; presidential chair was forgotten for the
tyr. We doubt not there have been a ' time living, and fathers began to point to
greater number of martyrs to wild heath
en delusion and to grave forms of relig
ious error, than to the sacred truths of tho
gospel. But so long as this pestilent ni
hilism and communism can command in
its behalf the resolute self-sacrificing cour
age of the martyr—a devotion which is
utterly regardless of personal safety, it is
easy to see that the police cannot defend
the civil authorities. They can address
only bodily fear, which does not exist.
Meu will kill although they are certain of
being slain directly afterwards. There
fore we see that this method of treating
nihilism is necessarily a failure, because
It stimulates the courage of the Nihilists,
which constitutes the chief danger, and it
relics on personal tears which do not
exist.
But what can be done? Tbe appeal
must be made to public opinion, and that
appeal most be based on the self-exposed
folly of this miserable faction. They
must bavo an opportunity to display
themselves. In America, where the in
ternationals and communists liavo full
liberty to display their folly and wicked
ness, they are powerless. They are luna
tics and felons. Every man of sense
looks upon them as miserable outcasts
from human brotherhood. Their mani
festoes and parades aro the signal for
scornful gufiaws. There Is no glory here
for the commune. They arc powerless,
only for good in the way of an "awful
learning.”
Now, In Russia and in Germany if their
blasphemous folly wero allowed full vent
so long as confined to words, much of
their devilment would exhaust itself in
words, and much of their secrecy would
be practically impossible. The plienzy ol
the martyr spirit would subside before the
scorn of public opinion, and this is tho
only practicable remedy wc can think of.
To-day the life ot Alexander III. is as in
secure as was tbat of his father ten days ago
St. Petersburg is such a nest of murder
ous conspirators that the princes of Eu
rope aie afraid to attend the Czar’s obse
quies and will do it with fear aud trem
bling. The Court of St. James is remon
strating with the Prince of Wales against
lus avowed intention to go, for tbev fear
tbat tho gathering of the crowned digni
taries of Europe on the occasion will be
signalized by some grand scheme ot Ni
hilist murder. But there is always a
mode of dealing with every evil in the
way of remedy, and it Is clear Russia has
□ot yet hit upon it. She has only made
matters worse by her police administra
tion.
The Crown Prince Oscar Gustavos Adol
phus, of Sweden—will soon, perhaps, be
king—is a toll, dork fellow, now in his
twenty-third year. He ia quiet, intelligent
and mild in look and manner, and the mil
itary effect of his cuirassier uniform is
Eomewliat modified by the fact of his wear
ing spectacles. The young lady whom he
isgoingtomnrry—Princesa Sophie Marie
Victoria of Baden—is nineteen years old.
Thebe is one thing about this nihilist
business not before noted. It makes the
title of a Russian prince more valuable. A
prince may be fourth cousin to the Czar
on his mother-in-law’s side, and yet, by the
proper application of a bomb, become
Czar liimself.
Emory Spkzb, in his letter to the Ameri
can, says of the carpet-bagger that he has
taken his grip sack to other fields of use
fulness and regards his excursion into the
South as a fool’s errand. Is Emory mak
ing a back-handed lick at Judge Toole ?
It la a singular commentary, upon the
Russian detective foroe that no one has
ever been arrested for selling oleomarga
rine. And yet where the bomb has slain its
thousands, oleomargarine has slain its tens
of thousands.
Theatre going people have at last real
ized the sad truth that the actress of the
day finds it easier to put a hand bill upon
tbe scroll of fame than to write her name
there.
Wa are informed by the Herald that oar
earrings need not match the centra stone.
It is hardly necessary to remark that this
does not apply to plain gold earrings.
Tktlnl Hrmtgmettm.
Philadtlphiu Timet.
It having been decided who will control
the patronise of the United State# Senate,
the next exciting question for this country
to consider is Oat which concerns the nee
of wine in the White House. The anxiety
arising from the dreadful uncertainty on
hie )< tie prostrating in the extreme.
Bible Kevlalon.
According to President Chase, ono of
the American board of Bible revision,
who recently lectured in Philadelphia,
120,000 errors and variations havo.. been
discovered in the old King James version,
but ninety-nine in tl«> * 0
—- r —> tt.cj Go not seriously
change or affect tbe meaning. This, how
ever, would leave 1,200 serious mistakes
which do affect the meaning, and that,
iu a code of religious morals, is certainly
important if true. That it was possible
tbat errors of a serious nature should
have crept mlo our version, even with
the most conscientious search for truth, is
to be assumed from the iact that iu mod
ern times new versions of tho origi
nal text have been discovered, so tbat
not only tbe English version, but the
original Greek aud Samaritan manu
scripts which were tho basis of that ver-
sion # have been corrected. But we may
rest assured tbat the new revision will
have no perceptible effect on tho creed
ol Christendom. It is natural that the
boards of revision should feel disposed to
magnify tbe value and importance of their
services, but let us remember that for
three hundred years ‘of great mental
activity throughout the world no great
heresy has arisen from llieso alleged
errors and mistranslations of tho Bible,
ami we 4wH not that when that so-
called revision has been maturely con
sidered and compared with the King
James version, tbe general drill of opin
ion will not largely increaso tbe common
estimate of its practical value.
Kernoodle as a model Then tho young
man fell in love and married. About this
time tho chair loomed up again, and Alger
non sought office. Ho was elected to a con
stitutional convention. Ho laid aside Ids
law businoss, and talked reform right and
left. Ho went to the convention, and
liis speech upon the railroad bill
remains to this day ono of the
most remarkable pieces of logio
overheard. Ho knew nothing of railroad
matters, but ho had imagination, and while
knowledge only extends to this narrow
sphere, imagination wanders all over the
universe. 8o Algernon’s speech wandered.
Tho effect of this speech ought to have sat
isfied him without tho presidential chair,
but it did not. He went home. People
with law business in his hands pressed
their claims, bnt Algernon was then run
ning for tho Legislature and could not
bother with them. He was scarce'y twenty-
eight, but ho folt that it was no honor to go
into the Legislature after thirty; so he con
tinued to run. He was elected, and his
cases were postponed. A few wero with-
drawu,"but bis magnificant salary os a
member compensated him a hundred fold,
to say nothing of tho distinction.
Time passed on, and ho was ro-elocted.
He was mixed np in plots, combinations
and rings, until finally bo was defeated.
Ho began to gather up tho broken threads
of his businoss, but they would not join,
and in tlio meantimo he pressed himself
for appointments and elections in vain. Tho
coat he wore began to look threadbare, and
bills unmet passed in and out his office
door. Years passed, and Algernon dragged
along about the same, sometimes iu no!'
tics, sometimes in law, but always witnoL
money. Ho may be met to-day upon all
the streets of Georgia, for there are Alger
non Komoodles of law, Algernon Kemoo-
dies of medicine, Algernon Kern oodles of
trade and of agriculture. No full history
of him can be given, for he nover dies.
He is as immortal as Sluikspeare, and ns
instructive when studied aright.
Hen. Algernon Kernoodle ot Nnnp-
doodle.
Algernon Kornoodle, the subject of this
sketch, was bom in Snapdoodle in the year
18—, of poor, but American parents. He
was tho fifth son of a list of ton, being too
far from tho eldest to bo taught carving,
and too far from the youngest to be a
favorite. But Algernon had points. Points
that, 03 they developed themselves,- con
vinced tbe parents that ho would
eventually occupy tho presidential
chair. Before he was ton years of
age,ho had constructed a sled and harnessed
up to it the four gallon cow. This showed
invention, and was the subject of conver
sation in the family for several weeks. Tho
fact that the four gallon cow broke loose
and tossed Algernon into a Cherokee rose
hedge, where all of him but liis pants were
finally extricated, has nothing to do with
the incident. At eleven, he recited Maud
Muller at the village school exhibition in
such a manner os to call forth a compli
mentary noiice from the Snapdoodle Item
izes
From this time his progress was rapid
No exhibition was considered complete
without him. At fifteen he was sent to col
lege, where, by cord playing and reckless
talking, he made himself a success. He
was elected class speaker, and in a prize
debate, where the question: “Did G. Wash
ington cut down the cherry tree?” was be-
jng discussed, gained tbe victory over his
opponents,who had taken the negative side.
At nineteen Algernon graduated with a de
gree and a button-hole bouquet. The de
gree he stack away in his trunk, but he car
ried tbe bouquet home on ioe and had it
framed. Then his fond parents and rela
tives pressed him for the bar—the legal
bar. Algernon had graduated at the other.
He went to the legal bar, and wee eventu
ally recognized.
The day he first stood in the court house
a lawyer, was a proud day for the Ksrooo-
-dles. The presidential chair was in sight.
The entire-family had assembled to hear
A1 speak. Ha had been appointed to de
fends aegro-for steeling!) hog. A1 was on
hand as brilliant aa a morning glory at 6 a.
The Conditio of Biwsia.
Tim new Czar, say tlio Tribune, lias
need of tho genius of the groat Peter
with all the practical sharpness euperad-
ded which tho world’s growth in civiliza
tion since that day can give him, if he
hopes to pull himself and Russia out of
tho slough. Nihilism is but one of the
difficulties winch face Alexander, though
the foremost and mo»t likely to defeat
him, simply because it will be lo him, as
it was lo liis father, an undefined, con
stant, paralyzing terror. No man, he he
slave or kaiser, can keep a clear head and
temperate will, or can be just to others,
however statesmanlike his ability or pure
bis intentions who is forced to move from
his bed to bis breakfast with the fear of
poisou or a bombshell preseut with him
at every turn.
B sides nihilism, whose extent aud
dancer are very accurately known to the
world, Russia has other difficulties to meet
quite as formidable. Her financial con
dition at the present time is worse, proba
bly, than that of any country iu Europe.
The deficit in the treasury for 1870 was
over $40,000,000, hku her credit was such
that she found it impossible to procure a
loan. The budget for 1881 estimates the
revenue for tho current year at $10,223,000
less than it was for 1880, and the expend
itures about $15,000,000 more. The
whole of this debt is duo to military ex-
XX«» mmmhlnSmmsfp «w|ut.t.Ae L*-e
been enormous, amounth-g iu tbe
last fivo years to over $905,000,000. This
does not include the costly expeditions
to Asia, blio lias gained no pecuniary
advantage by any war in that time, and
tbe amount ceded to her by China in the
treaty signed two weeks ago would not
reimburse her fur the military prepara
tion* made to threaten tlio government at
Pekin. In Older to fill her empty treas
ury Russia has Increased her import
duties in threo years 60 per cent., aud
an addition ot 10 per cent, was levied last
mouth, but, according to statements in
our latest files, even tills levy will prove
inadequate to meet the war expenses
alone.
Throughout northern Russia and tbe
Steppes, there hasbeeu for two years uni
versal suffering both from poverty and
disease. The mass of the subjects of the
new Czar are not only wretchedly poor,
but have just reached that dangerous
phase of civilization when they begin to
see how poor they are. They have
touched the grade of the Frenclr peasant
iu the days of Louis XVI. Before tlio
late Czar freed the serfs they were as un
likely to revolt as was Jacques uuder tue
Grand Monatque. A lntlo freedom, as
well as knowledge, is a dangerous thing
to rulers like the Bourbons or Romanoffs.
Beside* their poverty, which short crops
for two sum me is have rendered extreme,
tbe whole of middle Russia lias been
swept as by a besom of desti ticiion for
two years by ciphtberia, typhoid aud other
malignant fevers whicli grow out of star
vation, ignorance aud filth From southern
Russia the accounts ot the faniiuo during
tho last menth were appalling. The sup
ply of food had given out, tno heavy falls
of snow shut off all coiimututcation to
many villages, aud the people wore left
literally to starve. The government did
notiiing, possibly from waul of money, or
probably from sheer lack of competency
to grapple intelligently w ith disaster so
great ami overwhelming. There cau be
no relief until after the harvest of next
summer. Verily tbe position of Alex
ander III. is of supreme difficulty, re
quiring a skill, patriotism and broad
sense of justice hardly to bo hoped tor in
a Romauoff.
The Mexican Railway Project.
St. Louis, March 10.—The Republican
has an article on the narrow* gauge rail
road system of Mexico which gives infor
mation not before made public. Tho
statement is derived from tlio highest
authority, aud may be relied upon. The
Mexican government has granted very lib
eral subsidies to tho projectors oftbe enter
prise, who have organized under the
name of the Mexican National Construc
tion Company, with e»Goverr.or Hunt,
of Colorado, as manager, and Gen. W. J.
Palmer aud James Sullivan occupying
high positions. The road is to be kuown
as the Mexican Central, and will be
practically an extension of the Denver
and Rio Grande road, although under
different organizations. Under tho pro
visions oftbe grant the Mexican National
Construction Company is required to
build the first interoceanic Use from
the City of Mexico to tbe Pacific ocean.
Tbe company is required to complete
277 miles of the road every two years.
The interoceanic line must be completed
witbiu five years, and the international
withiu eight years from last September.
Under the subsidy proper the government
gives the company $11,265 per mile of
road constructed on the line from Mexico
City to the Pacific, and $10,460 per mile
on tbe line to the northern frontier. To
indemnify tbe government against failure
to build tbe liue by tbe parties asking the
concession, James Sullivan has deposited
$300,000 in Monte de Fledad, which is to
remain on deposit until sixty-two miles
ol tbe railroad from Mexico City to the
Pacific are completed. Tbe amount can
then be withdrawn and an equal amount
in first mortgage bonds of the railroad
company substituted therefor. Xbe entire
line, when completed; will be
mllee long.
tion wholly, with France the mover, Ger
many hea'tily m accord, and Great Brit
ain encouraging. Now it appears that
France did take the initiative, but Amer
ica quickly aud eagerly became associated
witli her, and the invitation is going out
to European courts from these two pow
ers, while England aud Germany are not
even willing to receive it uniess modified
so as to mean nothing.
Is not this, under existing circum
stances, an aggravating if not a humilia
ting posiiiun for the United Slates to ac
ccpt. What special interest have we any
way in this silver question? Our mer
chandise exports are running now neatly,
if uot quite, nine hundred million dollars
a year, aud two hundred and fifty millioi
dollars more than our imports. For all
these productions the world must cive us
gold or its equivalent. As a consequence,
wc are drawing down the gold reset ves of
Europe with alarming rapidity, and they
aie replenishing them if at all only from
their active currency. The French gov
ernment for instance, is now putting into
the Bank of France the gold received for
taxes, and will probably pay out silver
while tbat coumry is exporting gold large
ly to Great Britain and Kpain. Germany
is only nominally on a gold basis, being
on tin: verge of suspension a few months
since, and needs at least one hundred mtl-
liou dollars more of gold to make her po
sition safe. England really bolds tho on
ly available gold reserve outside of the
United States, and her entire commerce
is paralyzed by tills fear of losing it.
Under such conditions as these, and
aficr two repulses, the United States joins
a third invitation to Europe, virtually
saying, “Come now, graciously encourage
us a little, and wo will eo throw ourselves
into tbe breach as to euable you hereafter
to pay us for our exports silver instead of
gold,and thus relieve thestrain on your gold
rese.ves.” Surely this gives evidence of
great benevolence on our part—a mining
of the left-check after the right had been
smitten. But superfluous amiability is
never appreciated. In reply, Germany,
iustcad of heartily accepting, first pouts a
little, then sounds England, and finally
announces that “Prince Bismarck is em
phatically in favor of the maintenance of
the status quo;" and England points over
her gray locks at her traditional policy
and says: “We will come, but you mns’t
lake our acceptance as meaning nothing.”
So the United States, the only commer
cial nation in the world that can profit,
and that most decidedly, by siting still
aud letting natural laws work out the
cure they are eo rapidly effecting, puts it
self iu the attitude of a suppliant already
twice repulsed, asking for a favor where
it is really granting one. And all for
wliat ? Because a certain number ot our
people—and apparently among them our
ex-Sccretary of State, judging from his in
structions to the first commission and his
action now—think it of great importance
tbat silver, being a production of the coun
try, should be raised to its old price How
absurdly trivial such reasoning appears
when we remember that the whole differ
ence in the value of a year’s yield of our
silver mines between 52d. the present
price, and COd. the old price, is onlv about
six millions of dollars—a little less than
two days’ merchandise exports of the
country I
But as tlie conference is called, and
will, we suppose, meet, these strictures
bavo no special value except as they sug
gest the real position the United States
hold on this question and tlie only policy
our commissioners will find it wise to
adopt. It is to be regretted that we have
uot among our representatives a practi
cal, shrewd, we.l-informed merchant, one
familiar with commerce and its workings,
like Daniel Webster’s representative,
Abbot Lawrence, who could add expe
rience to learning ami diplomacy—for
this is peculiarly a commercial question.
Yet if wc must in these days be confined
iu our selection for this aud similar mis
sions to lawyers, it is a matter for con
gratulation tbat meu of such prominence
in the profession, and so well and widely
known, have been selen» J .. -
w» only wish .mat they would all of
them in tbe start be fully persuaded that
the United States is less interested than
any nation iu tbe world in a speedy set
tlement of this question. An uudoubting
consciousness of this fact will give tliem a
certain indifference to results which is
necessary for greatest influence. Of
course our people aro interested in the re
instatement of silver. Wc know that the
commerce of the world needs the two
metals lor its use, and cau uever be free
to expand so long as it is under the thrall
dom of this fear of losing gold. Bnt as
other nations need that far moro than we,
do not let us try to help them out of their
difficulty uutil they are ready to help
themselves.
Aud this brings us to the important
mint in this discussion. We find it clear-
y stated by a recent correspondent of the
Boston Adctrlistr. He says: “It Is oue
thing to hold tlio old relatk n (of silver to
;old, 151 to 1) while it was unquestioned
ii all practical affairs, aud quite a differ
ent tiling to restore that relation after it
has been broken under all the distrust that
was b.»d of that catastrophe.” This
in substance may be interpreted as mean
ing that although Franco aud the United
States, with oilier minor countries, might
have prevented what has happened, it will
require the co-operation of England aud
Germany to fuiiv efface the distrust which
long disuse aud consequent depreciation
lias bred. The slightest discredit to silver
will load to a premium on, ahd conse
quently a discrimination in favor of, gold.
England and Germany—especially tbe
former, as having tho largest inter
est of any nation in tho question—
by throwing out silver, would inevitably
impart that discredit. This could only
lead to every oue’s gathering the cheaper
metal to pay its debts with to the bi-me-
talic nations. We, as any one of them,
would receive silver for any balances due
On the other baud, England aud
Germany being on a gold basis, would
only accept gold or its equivalent from
us in payment of what we bought of
them.
Be assured the United Statcswill never
rnt itself into any such position as that,
f the commercial nations of Europe waut
bi-mctalism enough to adopt it now, they
can have the help of this country’s con
currence iu attaiuiug it. Otherwise our
people feel perfectly contented to let the
“status quo bo maintained.” We do not
see anything very embarrassing to us or to
our finances iu receiving seventy millions
of gold a year from Europe.
New York's Wealth.
Washington telegram.
A preliminary exhibit ot the "wealth,
debt and taxation” ot the State of New
York has just been completed by the Census
Office. The “wealth” statistics place the
valuation of real estate in 1880 at $3,326,-
669,813 and personal property at $252,469,-
820; total, X2,679,139,133. Tho total local
indebtedness is $248,766,118.87. The total
taxation Is $52,467,407.19.
Georgia Matters at WaakiMgtea.
Washington St r 1015.
A fight, which looks as if it would prove
successful, is being made on Collector
Clarke, of the first internal revenue district
of Georgia, to accomplish his removal.
Among tlie nominations to fill vacancies
in offices in the South which will be sent to
tbe Senate next week, will be the names of
three or four colored men. Two colored
men will get places in Georgia. There are'
between twelvo and fifteen candidates in
the field for the marshalship of Georgia,
Wbo They Are.
Washington Star.
The almost assured fact that an extra
esion ot the Forty-seventh Congress will
be called brings out renewed interest in the
speakership contest For the place the
East puts forward as its candidate Mr.
Frank Hisoook, of New York, who will be
supported by the delegation from his own
State, Pennsylvania and New England,
The West has three prominent candidates
—Mr. Kasaon, of Iowa; Mr. Kiefer, of Ohio;
and Mr. Borrows, of Michigan. If an eleo-
_ tion bed been bald immediately following
JMXX) the recant adjournment of Congress, Mr.
Hiscock would have been elected easily.
as the one thing which can efficaciously
renovate exhausted lands in Florida; and
ho sagaciously cotnbiues it with tlie cul
ture of Bermuda, which, he truly says,
furnishes the best pasturage of any glass
we havo in tlie cotton region, and is ab
solutely inexhaustible. We know of a
few Bermuda pastures Iu Bibb couuty
which might safely challenge an equal
area anywhere to furnish a greater quan
tity of good pasturage, and which, it is
safe to say, if the amount of food taken
from them every year wero capitalized,
would be dirt-cheap at a thousand dollar*
per acre. -
Such pastures could be made of the
washed and worn fields of Georgia, which
will produce no other remunerative crop.
Break them up as well as you can, furrow
them every two feet with a scooter, then
pass over the laud with a wagon and drop
at intervals of two feet or less a little
fragment of Bermuda sod, and cover with
the same scooter. The grass will take
complete possession of the laud in one year,
very certainly in less than two, and you
have an inexhaustible summer pasture, on
which your sheep and cows can keep fat—
for their droppings will enrich the sod
faster than their grazing will deplete it.
But the pasture should be well fenced,
for it will be uncommonly attractive to
your neighbor’s cattle aud hogs. This
treatment, unless the pasturage be thrown
away on stock which bring no return,
gives a value to the land which It is diffi
cult to calculate. Cows, sheep, horses and
hogs prefer Bermuda to any other grass.
It can be grazed on nine months in the
year without expense.
Now lei any man calculate the amount
of forage gathered on such a range,
without expense, in the course of a year,
aud what it is woith per acre—then find
out what amount of capital sum this will
pay the interest on at seven per cent., and
the land is worth just tbat sum per acre
But it is worth more, for in tbe mean
while the land lias been improved so
much that it will produce after a few
jears abundant crops of any kind of pro
duce. You have only to shade the ground
with grain crops for a year or two, and
tho Bermuda is all killed out—for Ber
muda will not stand shade.
Now it is clear that with three months
of green grazing on oats, barley or rye, you
have provision for fat sheep, mutton aud
beef all the year ronud, aud it is equally
plain to every man who lives in Georgia,
or any where else in the South, tbat tat,
healthful and succulent meals for our
markets are just what we lack, aud what
we could easily-have with little labor.
Hero then, is tbe use which wo could
put our grazing provision to, if wo had it.
Aud most evidently our lack of it, when
we could have it at such small expense
and so great profit, does not speak well
for our enterprise. A little time and fore
thought would give every farmer a steady
income from the sale of meats, with little
or no outlay. Their production would
enrich his farm and dispense with his
guano hills, and no permanent Improve
ment in farm economy is otherwise possi
ble.
The thousands of Northern visitors in
cast Florida to-day aro fed on meats
brought from Northern cities at a cost of
25 to 45 cents a pound, because no meat
fit for tbe table is raised there. There is
not the first sensible reason why wo should
uot raise wLolesomc meats with great
ease and at half tho cost of tin*. Jinnhom
meals, except that we are too lazy and
thoughtless to make tbe attempt. We
could not only supply our own markets,
but our spring Iambs, coming far earlier
tliau those of the North could find au il
limitable market there if we had them to
sell; and, the last quotation we saw was
45 cents' per pound. Let us say with
Grain Shipments via New o
leans.—The shipments of pain from sT
Louis to Europe via the Mississippi rir»V
and New Oileaus are stuporous For
the wcek ending last Saturday tiiov Z
stated as follows: * ' 4
The withdrawals of grain from cleva'nr.
for tho past week for shipment to V,,™
via New Orleans were: Whrat in ™ 1 *
bushels; corn, 397.794 bwlEBUM:
505 bushels. Total, 084,831 b u ^ e Z
Since February 18 there bare h!il'
shipped by same route, on foreign
count, an aggregato of 2.112,007 bus!.«fc
ol grain, weighing 52,004 tons. TWs
been taken down tha river in twelve
Watts:
Good Lord, and shall we ever live
At this poor, dying rate?
A Knoxville Solon,
He of tiie Tribune, says “a farmer’s
ambition should be to own smaller land
titles and better laud; to own a less num
ber of stock and better stock. More praise
to him who raises one thousand bushels
of corn from ten acres than to him who
raises the same from twenty; and to him
that feeds five cows into making a pound
of butter each day, than to him who has
ten cows and gets a half pound from each;
and to him that makes yearling porkers
weigh as much as liis neighbor's two-
year-olds, than to that neighbor.
As much as 212 bushels of com, 50
bushels of wheat, 60 of oats, 70 of bar
ley, 50 of rye, 0 of clover seed, have been
reported from one acre.
Hogs havo been made to weigh 4C0
pounds at one year old. Steers 2,400 at
three. Forty pounds of wool have been
sheared from one sheep. Seventeen pounds
of gutter have been made from one cow
in a week. And the closer a fanner gets
to these results the more the world owes
him.
The Labor Contest of the Future.
During the past week a committee of
navy yard employes has been In Wash
ington endeavoring to have tho govern
mental boars of labor reduced. to eight.
Upon Its face this means no harm, hut
when it Is understood that these men are
backed up by powerful labor organizations
ail over the country the situation assumes
a serious phase. The idea is to have the
government employee win in their fight
first, when a concerted movement will be
made in the coal and iron districts of
Pennsylvania and the manufacturing sec
tions of the East for similar hours. In
case of refusal then there will he a gen
eral strike throughout the country. This
startling information was given to a mem
ber of Congress by one of the committee
now here. Their expenses hero aro paid
by a contribution levied upon all em
ployes, and from the reserve fund of the
trades unions. Without hesitation, these
men declare the contest of the future to
be one for a reduction of the hours of la
bor rather than for increase of wages.
Fnonabilities OF A Turco-Cbeciav
War. -The Poll Hall Gazette ot lao
Saturday says: “The news from the Eait
is ominous of war. Crete is the maximum
which the Turks offer to cede. The cea
sioa of Crete and Thessaly is the mini-
mum which the powers will accept. Un-
less means can be found to briug tbe
minimum nearer the maximum tiie
Greeks will cross tlio frontier, and a war
will begin which may not close until it
hss spread far beyond the limits of the
Ottoman empire.”
The question whether Philadelphia or
New York is the dirtier place is agitated
by the newspapers of thoso cities. AU
admit that neither city has been ch*r»d
since tho first tall of snow this whiu.*.
And we think, rightly considered, this
fact would decide the case against New
York, ou tbe ground that she is the
busiest and most populous.
The universal subject of discussion this
day is Mahoney-Maione—he’s a broth of a
bye, intirely. He’s on four committees,
with the refusal of the balance. The idea
that Ben Hill smoked him out and down
is a mistake. He hung to the tree like a
’possum by the tail.
Ice was seen yesterday on some of the
approaches to Macon, but whether the
peach buds were killed we cannot say.
A lasx who is familiarly known as the
“witch of Wall Street,” predicts that Jay
Gould is going to die of softening of the
brain. The symptom aro not sufficiently
developed to bo perceptible to the pnblie.
But it shonld not take a witch to say that
no mortal brain can long stand the load
that Jay Gould carries.
President Gabvikjld has announced his
purpose of stamping out polygamy. It
will require something moro than messages
to Congress to accomplish that purpose.
Gov. Mnrray is said to have a perfect under
standing with tho President on the subject,
and as ho will soon return to Utah, he will
have an opportunity to do some “stamp
ing.” *
President Gab field, says tho New York
Evening Post, a Republican paper, has dis
appointed and well-nigh discouraged tho
men who aro most anxious tor the success
of his administration. The most effectual
way to prevent similar and fatal mistakes
is to correct the first one. It is to be hop
ed that the Senate wilt lose no time in re
jeering Mr. Matthews.
The ladies will be interested in the newt
that a glass dress is being made for Fanny
Devenport in Pittsburg. It will bo a full
toilet evening suit, and tho process of
making is such as to give tho work tbe ap
pearance of French satin, only that it is
much more brilliant. The dress will have
a long train of woven glass, and it will be
elaborately trimmed with glass lace. To
make what is called tho gloss cloth from
which this suit will be made, the gloss it
first spun into threads and then woven.
There is nothing to compare with the pro
gress of this awe.
The increase of the foreign element of
our population during tbe last ten years
has been in New England, where it is
accounted for by the manufacturing in
dustries of tbat region; in Colorado aud
New Mexiee, where a remarkable devel
opment of the mining interest has taken
place since 1670, and in Dakota and Ore
gon, whose immense wheat fields have
invited settlement. In the United States
as a whole, there is a relative decrease in
tbe ratio of foreign born inhabitants to
natives to tbe extent of 1| per cent. Most
of tbe Southern States have but a very
slight foreign element, it being less than
2 per cent, in eight of them, and from 3 to
10 per cent, in tbe remainder, Louisiana,
Texas and Maryland exhibiting tbe
largest ratio.
The men employed at Krupp’s Manu
factory are working night and day in sup
plying orders for large guns from abroad.
Roomania has ordered 100; Greece, 700;
Sweden, 50; Holland, 120; and Italy, 400.
Ia the presence of facts like these it is a lit
tle difficult to perceive from which.direc
tion the millennium is approaching. It
looks very much as if tho blast of war’s
great organ wonld shake tho skies for a
considerable time to corns, unless, indeed,
the planets are really inga^ed in the mean
designs against tho universe with which
some people discredit them.
The excavations at Ostia, at the southern
month of the Tiber,ore discovering valuable
remains. An altar of remarkable beauty
has jast been unearthod upon which illus
trations of the birth of Romulus aud Be-
mut are sculptured ia such high relief that
some of the figures are almost detached.
On one side aro the Palatine and the shep
herd Faustalus looking down from the cliff
npon the twin boys; on the other are Rhea
Silvia and the god Mars, with a genius
abovothem drawing them together; while
on tbe third are Cupids playing with the
helmet and arms of the divinity. It is re
garded as the most important work of art
discovered for somo time at Ostia, and ii
in a fine state of preservation.
A Boston minister was asked a few days
ago what was the rusjlt of tho MooJy and
Sankoy revival—whether tho churches had
been benefited. “Not materially,” was the
response. “There have been a great many
backsliders. That revival was a mistake.
Mr. Moody should havo labored in th*
churches, instead of in a big tabernacle,
for in this way he could do effective work.
He sees his mistake now, and at S in Fran
cisco and Oakland, where ho is now work
ing, he is laboring in tho churches, with
the co-operation of ministers and laymen,
and with better results. Ono good that
grew out of that revival was that it had the
effect of making more workers in our
churches.”
Conkliko, Cameron and Logan aro still
under tho willows. They aro amusing
themselves by making willow whistles sad
imitating the night bird's sad complaining-
It is hard to say which “poor Will” they vie
plotting to whip, but if they mean Will Ms*
hone, we say let tho play proceed..
In Cuba, they guard against watered
milk by having the oow driven round to the
various residences and there milked. 9°’
it seems to us that the milkman might etifi
triumph over tho law by watering hi3 co*-
An effort is being made to mako S. J-
Tilden president of the World's Fair. 9ti
Sammy is too old a rat to be caught
He does not propose to risk being coact
out by a 8 to 7 commission again.
The hen who knocked down a shot goo
and killed a Methodist preacher, cominitt*“
a fowl deed, and doubtless was a Niki"”*
Still, if she was a yellow legged hen, th*
are extenuating circumstances.
Ma. Talxage continues to bombard t“*
office with a weekly sermon. It
just fiercely enough to destroy an ore
and shake itself into the wasto'baskeU
Gsadi says there are but two cities m
United State*—Atlanta and New *«
This shows how travel broadens a
views. Formerly there was only one w
Ou* types made Judge Toole the aat ^
of “A Fool’e ferand,” yesterday.
Tourgee should not be shielded in sB3