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FRIDAY, SEPIEMBER 2,1SS1.
Du. Bum aetnu to entertain the idea
that the President can be cored it a copi
ous flow of bulletin* can be maintained.
The New Yor* Herald should admire the
Ughnu soldier*, luey Bre always ready to
akii> over to the side which seems likely to
win.
A second edition of “Over the Hill to tho
White House”—a poem which has mado its
way on other than purely literary grounds—
contuir.s a , ood portrait of President Gar
field's mother.
Yoon ; 11m~juolb, the sou of tho great
Buchn maa, who used to pay liberally for
bis advertisements, has swindled several
landlords iu New York, and is getting his
adverti-hog free.
The nomination, on his return to Con
stantinople, of Hobart Pasha to the post of
Minister of Marine, tends to show that the
English element is aguin coming into fa
vor with the Sultan.
The men who managed tho fireworks
last Fourth ot July at Myrthsvillc, Idaho,
are no .v on t ialfor their ofllcial acts on
that occasion. They soaked six shaggy
dogs i .1 c i.iji.euu, set fire to them, and let
them luo«e.
A Kansas reformer asks tho Legislature
to pro.oihe by law the quantity and quali
ty of food which n person may eat in that
Eta.-. He believes that most of the ills of
manliud ariio from cverteeding.
Am Ameriaan and Canadian steamer be
longing to rival lines raced down the St.
Lawrence on Tuesday last and endangered
the lives of r.ll on board by shooting the
rapids abo\ o Montreal locked togethor.
It is surprising to find that Boston, erst
while setting her face steadily against tho
bovtr i',o, is now consuming more lager
beer tiun Cl/.cago or Cincinnati, and it is
now the Xa.-h.unable tipplo at the Hub. The
figures last year wero 641,COT barrels—two
barrel, to < .. :y man, woman and child.
Qceen Is auhlla, of Spain, is staying at
Spa trader il;» title of “Princess Isnbelin.’’
A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette
says that deposed or retired sovereigns
have invariably laid aside their titles, and
declares that it is offensive to tho French
and < icrm .us that English writers should
ej'isil. of f.'io widow of the lato ex-Emperor
as “ihe K .pie-s Eugenie.”
Tin: I-land of Cypm9 is overrun with
goat.-. I. ir estimated that there are 230,-
000 of these nuimals on tho island, and
plantii’t' is n'.ni'.sc useless on account of
then' ravages. “Tliey carry* no wool,” says
the 1st. James Gazette, “furnish only n bad
meat, hutl Iiaiiliy give more milk than the
sheep, ;j which, however, (hey are prefer
red on account of their feeding on ligne
ous vegetation, which tho sheep reject.”
Canada is said to have changed tho form
of importer's oath, modelling it closely af
ter the An.i rican form, and yet it is claim
ed that the merchants can now conscien
tiously swear to the value of goods invoiced.
American importers will wonder bow they
do it, for if Ananias coaid hear some of
the affidavits mado at the New York cus
tom Iioujo, ho would feel as virtuou3 as lit
tle George Washington."
WmiD-io Phillips is going about mak
ing *r*ea:,»* iu favor of Nihilism. “Honor
Nihilism,” he says to Americans, anu ap
plaud the Russian assassins with enthusi-
asm. Mr. Phillips is an enemy of the pub
lic pease i-nd order. He nntnrally must
sympathise with Gnitoan and Hnrtmann,
and he should proceed to Banda to chare
the dangers to which his brethr, n iu tlm*
count; y are exposed. We do not want such
advocates of murder in this country.
In spite of dynamite tho Emperor and
Empress of Russia, it seems, still take
soma comfort oat of life. During tho re
cent visit of the Dake of Edinburgh to St.
Petersburg the Duke, who is nothing it not
musical, in company with Mr. Arthur Sol-
thuu i.ad Air. Frederick Clay, entertained
the imperial circle with much merry music.
The Wiuos served at the imperial table do
nctnppearto have commanded the com
plete approbation of the guests, but words
fad them to describe the incomparable ex
cellence of the imperial “caviare.”
Ams drove up at a terrific pace to the
saiiroat! station at Farwell, Michigan, and
inquired for his wife. She bad eloped with
a neigh vor, and was about to take a train
for the E-rsL “Thank goodness, I’m in
time,” the husband cried, in great excite
ment. The bystanders anticipated a
traged , and the wife cowered into a seat.
“Here’. your child,” he continued, produc
ing a Ltdo girl. “Reckon yon forgot her
inyonr hciry. Now you can get oil as fast
as you like.” Leaving the girl with the
xunawtiy pair, he drove away with his pla
cidity entirely restored.
Os a recent return from Coney Island,
every camp chair was taken jmd the seats
a ong the sides were filled. On every deck
people were packed so closely that it was
iluoi; impossible to move. Men sat on the
tool of the cabin and ou the upper deck,
And others less fortunate stood op. “Come
ait on my knee, Mary,” said a young man
to Ids fuir companion. “Ain’t I too heavy
for your” “'Well, I shonld smile.” But the
camp choir collapsed as she sat down, and
Lo never smiled again.
“flow is your man?” is tho new form of
salutation in Pennsylvania. It ha3 been
sagge.'lvd by the graveyard insurance sys
tem, ami has reference to tho subject di
sc red. If you meet a friend who is proba
bly carrying $10,000 worth of graveyard
policies on the lives of various individuals
woo, it is hoped, will presently die, you csk
kirn, “How is your man?” just to manifest
tu interest in his fortunes. The question
is asksd lrom one oud of the State to the
other with as much nonchalance as though
the people were inquiring after the condi
tion of the crops.
The London Truth says: “No man at
tacks the reputation of a youth as women
attack that of a girl. The man who shonld
com- 1 into his club and whisper about
damning stories of his friend’s young sou,
who should accuse him of dishonorable do
ings, such as wonld rain the lad’s cn.,racier
u thoroughly as tho charge of immodesty,
flirting wi'.h married men aud the .ko ruin
that of a girl, would soon have the room to
kimteif. But women over Uio lea table
gather up the crumbs of scandal with rel
ish nud appreciation, and even the mothers
of girls aro not ashamed to believe and
repiat stories against their dear friends'
dsugbie.s which may have no foundation
in fact, aud which even if true, they have
no u-onus of proving aud testing.”
Guta it Cseex, in Arkansas, is onocf the
latest natural wonders which this connliy
i-mi bon-t of. We have already, in response
to those lands which raise bread fruit and
manna, produced a soring whoso waters
are said to taste like turtle soup; but now
the Kev. John R. Ye&tfs, a Baptist di
vine, is qnoied as authority- for a spring
near Greasy Greek, flowing forty gallons a
minute, colored like apple cider, and fast
ing like applejack. He saw hundreds “ly
ing” mound tho spring, in a state of bliss
ful intoxication, laughing nud trying to
slap tiieir hands. The name given to these
springs is tho Millennium Springs, doubt
less as signifying ihnt they bring back the
golden ngo. Souio persons may refuse to
believe In their existence; yet no one can
deny that tin Rev. Johu R. Yeatts is a pos
sible and plausible name.
Signal Service Reports.
We have received from tho chief officer
of the signal sendee a pamphlet entitled
‘•Instructions to Special Observers Signal
Service U. S. Army, in tbo Cotton Belt.”
He reveals tbo tact that the bureau has
made arrangements with the railroads
and telegraph lines in the Southern States
to tho end that reports of rainfall and
maximum aud minimum temperatures
may be collected with reliability, and dis
seminated rapidly throughout the com
mercial centres of the cotton belt from
April 1 to September 23, inclusive. The
cotton growing region is divided into dis
tricts. Each district has a centre for the
concentration of reports called a “sub-
centre.” A group ol districts will be
known as a division, and its centre will
be called a “main-centre.”
There aro to be three main centres, re
spectively, New Orleans, Memphis and
Atlanta. The Atlanta disvision will in
clude five sub-centres, namely, Savannah,
Charleston, Wilmington, Augusta and
Atlanta. The Savannah sub-centre will
include the following stations: Live Oak,
Florida, Bainbridge, Tebeauville, Jeaup,
Albany, MiUen, Davisboro, Macon, Grif
fin, Columbus, in C rorgia, and Eufaula,
Alabama. Also the reports from Cedar
Keys, Fernandina and Waldo, Florida,
which are to be consolidated at Cedar
Keys, and telegraphed to Savannah. In
the cotton belt there will be about one
hundred observing stations.
At each main-centre, the signal service
observer having collected reports from the
sub-centres of bis division, will send them
by special message to the other main-
centres. Do will receive from tho other
main-centres reports collected by each,
which reports he will send by special
message to each sub-centre of bis divis
ion.
The conclusion drawn from tho digest
ed repoits will be posted in the cotton ex
changes tor the public use, and it is antic
ipated that they will be of considerable
value tu the planter in the conduct of the
larger operations of the plantations.
1 ho Kcaaon Why.
In the issue of the Teleokam and
Messenger of July 7th, wo notified our
readers how they could ascertain when
tbeir subscriptions were out, and then
stated that we could not proiniso to carry
anybody beyond the time for which their
money paid. If patrons of newspapers
only knew tho imperative necessity that
this business bo conducted upon a cash
basis, they would neither be surprised nor
become angered when their papers are
itopped at the expiration of their sub
scription. The newspaper business is very
different from what it used to be. In ev
ery depaitment of newspaper enterprise,
money is demanded once a week. The
employes depend upon their week’s labor
lor the liquidation of their grocer’s bill.
If they fail one week, tho supply is in
stantly cut off. Telegraphic dispatches,
postage, editorial help—everything—de
mands money ouco a week, and the ag
gregate amount runs up almost to $1,000
per week. Surely subscribers should not
gramblo when called upon once a quar
ter, or six months, or a year. The bus!
ness manager has carried the subscriptions
of a few friends during the summer
months, hut the time for payment has
come, and wc hope all will make arrange
ments to meet tlieir indehUxloco* at tho
earliest possible convenience. A strict
advance cash basis will hereafter be ob
served in reference to all subscriptions.
The f is;tit In Virginia.
The canvass in Virginia is waxing
warm, and the attention of tho entire
country, without respect to party, Is cen
tered upon the struggle there. It is a
struggle of hor.esty against the combined
influence of repudiation, rumselliDg and
spoils. Ibis combination of evils has at
tracted—“as birds of a feather will flock
together”—the wont elements in the
trading and disgraceful sections of the
Republican party. The auto is aroused
from center to circumference, and the
gatherings at the political discussions are
immense, equalling in number those of
ante helium days. Mahcnism is a study
for the Republican patty elsewhere, but
in Virginia tbe stench is so offensive that
the decent Republicans liavo no other al
ternative but to support the Democratic
candidates, and thus save the Old Domin
ion from the shame that must attend the
triumph of Malionism.
A Curious Deadlock.—The Gov
ernor of Maine is environed with numer
ous difficulties. By a miserable arrange
ment the Governor’s position is tram
rneled by a council of seven, and these
may consist of his political opponents,
just as it is iu the present case. Governor
Plaisted makes out bis appointments, but
his council is composed of seven sore
headed Republicans, aud they refuse to
sanction any of bis nominations, thus ob
structing the process of government. A
deadlock ensues. A few days ago the
quarrel came to an open rupture. The
Governor declared tho council adjourned,
subject to his call, but tho council refused
to consider itself adjourned, and sets day
for another meeting. Without the coun
cil the Governor can do nothing; without
the Governor the couucil is powerless,
Thus the matter stands.
“That Good Time Conataff ”
This assurance has stimulated tbe faith
of the toiling multitude tor generations.
In soma instances It has been realized.
To those of us who have been struggling
and hoping for tho prosperity of our sec
tion, “a streak of blue” between tho rifted
cloud foretells the success that awaits the
South. Tho oppressive legislation and
the wholesale misrepresentation dealt out
to our struggling section by the dominant
political party in tho North years agona
aro .like the morning cloud, rapidly dis
appearing. A better day is coming—that
good time Is actually coming. As a cor
respondent of the New York JPorfd forci
bly expresses it. “it is no new force, not
even new ideas, but simply a chance for
old forces and old ideas to assert them
selves. The day of reward for individual
endeavor has come—that is all.” The
South, by her industry and her energy,
has wrung from the outside world the dec
laration that she is worthy of assistance
aud that help has come at lost. That ex
cellent journal, the Baltimore Sun, con
tains an article upon this subject, from
which we make the following extract.
After speaking of the wonderful activity
and prosperity in Virginia, the editor re
marks:
Quito a number of the other Southern
Stales are sharing in these happy changes;
some in the increase of cotton manufac
tories, others in the mining and smelting
of iron and copper, and in getting out
kaolin to be used in tho making of por
celain and other wares,and in various arts
and manufactures. It has been estimated
that no less than ono hundred millions of
dollars have been subscribed at tho North
within the past eighteen months for in
vestment in tho States of the South east
of the Mississippi river and south and west
of Richmond. Within a year two mil
lions of dollars of Eastern and other cap
ital hive been invested in cotton manu
factories in Georgia alouc. Three mil
lions have been subscribed in New York
for the development of coal and iron in
Tennessee. Eighteen hundred thousand
dollars have been put into cotton mills
and steel works in Alabama. AU these
and many more investments are outside
of tbe largo sums expended iu buying
up and improving old railroads and build
ing new. Besides these investments by
capitalists in tbe Northern, Eastern aud
Middle States, European syndicates have
entered the field. Ono syndicate—the
Erlangcr—is Isaid to have recently
bought an immense tract of laud in Ala
bama. English capitalists bought, a few
days ago, some forty thousand acres in
Georgia, and are now seeking an oppor
tunity to invest half a million of dollars
more iu other States. Whatever may
have been heretofore the misfortunes of
the Southern States.good fortune has now
come to them. They ate having their
railroads built chiefly by foreign capital,
and wherever the people in localities in
terested show a disposition to put their
own money into such enterprises, they aro
readily met with liberal backing from
other quarters. The risk is, therefore,
mainly that of others, and
an immense gain derived from
the advantages, commercially and
territorially, that railroads give, ac
crues to the Southern people, substan
tially, aud without peradventure. Saga-
cioHs anil enterprising men are develop
ing their mineral resources, and bringing
into profitable use their fine water pow
ers to run cotton manufactories adjacent
to and surrounded by cotton fields. They
thus find a maiket fur their products at
their own doois, and work for heir peo
ple in a region of cheapucs3. Itfsapro-
cess of transformation that is now going
on. The signs of it aro everywhere visi
ble throughout tbe South. The signifi
cance of it is too clear to bo mistaken. It
is the revival of an entire section of tbe
Union, and its increase in tho future in
population and wealth will be commen
surate with the activities now making
themselves felt on every side.
Mother Suipton Endorsed.—Swit
zerland has refused the Socialists permis
sion to assemble in tbeir International
Congress in that country. Whereupon
an irate member informs tlio judges of
tlic Tribunal “that they will bo the first
to be blown np, and that tbo Socialists
have enough dynamite to blow up half of
Switzerland, and that it is in Switzerland
that a conflagration will begin that will
burn up the world.” Dynamite therefore
bids fair to make a finality of everything
before the year is out, thereby vindicating
the prophecy ot Mother Shipton by a
method tbe old lady never dreamed of.
Timely and Comely.—Tho New
York IFiorM, one ol the most progressive
newspapers in the new world, is out In a
new typographical dress, very becoming.
The change of “head” is a great improve
ment, as well as the cut pages, which
make it so much more convenient
for tlic reader. The chango in “head
and dress” has not changed its politics—
it is as thoroughly Democratic as ever.
AGoodShowino.—The earnings of the
Louisville and Nashville road for the sec
ond week in August arc $180,200, against
$184,100 last year. For the month of
July tbe earnings of the Louisville, Cm-*
clnnati and Lexington were $115,000,
against $107,000 last year.
It Is said that in one Radical district
in North Carolina two churches have
been closed aud the doors nailed up to
keep the pastors from preaching prohibi
tion.
TUB PBESIDBXrS COSV1TIOX.
Two Miles to tbe Question.
A great deal has been said of lato by
the leading papers of the country about
the connection between crime and illiter
acy. Mr. J. F. Wickcrabam, who has been
connected a long while with tho public
school system of Pennsylvania, has close
ly examined this question, and claims
that one-sixth of all the crime in the
country Is committed by persons wholly
illiterate, and that the proportion of crim
inals among the illiterate is ten times
greater than among those who have re
ceived the elements of a common school
education, or have advanced beyond.
Hence the conclusion is that education is
the nniveisal panacea for crime. The
other side is presented by tlio Baltimore
Sun iu an able editorial, as follows:
That a merely intellectual education is
an effective restraint upon the passions
that lead to crime may admit of doubt,
and it is to be regretted that reliable sta
tistics on this point are hardly to be ob
tained. That a close relation holds be
tween crime and illiteracy—the absence
of ability to read and write—is believed
by many educators, bnt tbe figures cannot
be said to be conclusive. The most re
cent and most carefully prepared statis
tics on this point are those ot the census
of Massachusetts of 1875. Taking ac
count only of persons fifteen years old
and upward, we find that of the total pop
ulation of 1,108,002, tho number of illit
erates are 08,472; the number of convicts,
3,071; tbo number of illiterate convicts,
404. But if the ratio of illiterates to the
entire population (of fifteen years and
over) were the same as that of the illiter
ate convicts to the entire number of con
victs, we should find the number of illit
erates in tho Stato 128,400—a number
greater by 30,018 than it actually is. In
a word, tbe expected proportion
does not hold, and we can
not deduce the crime of a
country from its illiteracy. In
fact they seem both the results of the
same things, which are poverty and un
favorable homo influences in early life.
The census of 1880 reckons the population
of Maryland at 034,032, tho number of il
literates of the 'age of fifteen aud over
at 117,854. The annual report of the
Maryland penitentiary for 1880 shows the
number of convicts to be 501, of whom
250 cannot read or write, and 58 can read
only. In Massachusetts tbe illiterates
are 8.4 per cent, of the population over
fifteen years of age; in Maryland the illite
rates me 12.C per cont. of the entire popu
lation. In the former State the convicts
numbering 8,921 or .3 per cent, of tho
entire population; in the latter .00 per
cent. Massachusetts’ illiterate convicts
are 11 per ceut. of the whole number of
convicts; in Maryland—reckoning also
those who can read but cannot
write as Illiterate—52 per cent, of tho
whole number of convicts are il
literate. With a greater number of illit
erates, Maryland has much loss
crime, but of her criminals a larger pro
portion are illiterate. Tb:s greater num
ber of criminals in Massachusetts, with
smaller proportion of illiterate criminals,
might be twisted into & proof that educa
tion had promoted crime in that State.
But the fact is, that these figures prove
just nothing as to the effect of education
on morals. If there is no close relation
between a knowledge of reading and writ
ing and altruistic sentiments It is not sur
prising that we can not extort an indica
tion of it from statistics. The Maryland
State board of education hits the nail on
bead in its last annual report when It says:
“The school can do much, bnt the family,
with the religious, social aud industrial
influences wbicli surround it, docs more
for tbe impressionable character of tbe
young.” ,
To find tbe comet: Continue the line
of stars in the handle of the “dipper,’’
which also does duty as the tail or tbe
“bear,” directly through the dipper rather
more tiian half way to the horizon beneath
the polar star. If you don’t see anything
that locks like a comet, liiro a small boy
to hit you in tho eye with a green apple.
This will have the desired result, and
make jt interesting ior the boy.—Xeie Ha
ven Beyiiter.
ABevIewof HU Case from the Day
ot HU BbooUwr.
The President’s condition yesterday and
the alarming reports received were the
topics of conversation in every portion of
the city. Many conflicting rumors wero
abroad, and many that were greatly exag
erated. It was said at one time that the
pbysioions had unanimously pronounced
his cose hopeless and had formally with
drawn, leaving him in tbe hands of his
family. It was even reported that a dis
patch had been received stating that at
six o’clock the President died. The
true reports can be found by referring to
the telegraphic columns of the Telzobaph
Mi morning, and while they are unques
tionably indicative of a desperate condi
tion, still life remains, and while there is
life there is not only hope bnt a chance of
reoovery. We present this morning a table
showing the condition of tho President
upon each day since his attempted assassi
nation. The rise and fall of the patient’s
health is admirably set forth therein, and
as the intelligent eye follows the fluctua
tions, tho ear con almost hear the beating
of those waves of life npon tho frame of
the poor sufferer.
The storm reached it3 highest point on
Jtdy 23rd, when tho blood beats reached
130 to the minnte; when tbo temperature
was 101.7, almost hot enough to consume
the vitals, and the respiration gasps,
twenty-five of which were given each sixty
seconds. The President was very near
death on that day. The pnlso on Angnst
15 again attained 130, bnt tho respiration
was slower and heat more subdued. On
tho 21th, when the swelling in the parotid
gland became nlarming, tho President be
gan to enter that dangerous condition in
which he now lies, anil which the late tele
grams fully describe. ...
Tbe reports below are made up from tho
daily bulletins, nnd represent the highest
figures reported for each day
July 4
July 5
July 6
July 7
July 8
July 9
July 10
July 11
July 12
July 13
July 14
July 15
July 16
July 17
July 18
July 19
July 20
July 21
July 22
July 23
July 24
July 25
July 26
July 27
July 23
July 29
Temper- Rcspi•
Pulse, ature. ration.
....120
100
•20
....126
101
20
....114
100
24
....100
99.9
28
....104
100.6
23
....108
101.4
24
....103
101.0
24
....103
101.9
24
....10S
102.8
21
.... 1(M
102.4
24
....102
98.5
20
.... 98
101
23
.... 93
101.4
20
.... 93
100.2
19
.... 93
98.4
18
....102
100.7
21
.... 96
99.8
19
.... 93
99.6
19
.... 96
99.9
19
.... 93
1003
19
....130
101.7
25
....118
99.8
23
....1M
98.4
20
.... 106
98.4
19
.... 96
98.5
20
....104
100.5
20
.... 98
98.4
19
....104
100.2
20
104
99
20
....104
99.5
20
104
100
20
100
93
19
.... 96
98.4
18
93
93.4
18
.... 104
100”
20
....108
101.9
19
....104
100.2
20
106
101.9
29
....110
101
19
....103
101.2
19
....103
101.2
19
....104
100.7
19
....103
, 100.8
19
....130
99.6
22
....120
9S.9
19
....112
98.8
18
....103
100
18
....100
100
18
110
100.4
19
....103
99.2
18
....104
98.4
18
104
99.2
19
....115
99.2
19
....120
99.8
20
The Mate Fair.
Amid the interest manifested for the
condition of the President, let us not for
get the approaching State fair. It is but
little over a month ott. Tbe officers are
making every preparation for a large dis
play. Tho grounds are being put in
splendid order, and the houses arranged
for the best possible display of goods, and
by tho day of opening there will be noth
ing left undone, so far 03 the officers are
concerned, to make the exhibition one of
tho grandest that has ever been given by
the society.
What remains to he done, is in the
hands of the citizens of Georgia. If they
will come np to the measure of duty—a
duty they owe the State, as well as the
society, there is no apprehension as to the
result. Let every farmer look about and
see if there Is not something that he can
bring to make the fair a successs. Let
every housewife determine to contribute
her share to this grand display, for re
member it is npon personal effort on the
part of the citizens that success doponds.
Above all things, let there bo promptness
in securing space or accommodation from
tho officers, and then have everything on
the ground by opening day. There is al
ways great confusion when exhibitors aro
behind time.
As to crowds, every indication points to
the fact that tbo largest crowd that has
ever visited Macon will bo in attendance
upon this exhibition. So much interest
bas been manifested upon this point, and
inquiries made, that accurate measure
ment of every hotel and boarding house
in the city has*been made in order to as
certain their capacity to entertain the
multitude that will bo hero. This infor
mation is sent to other points, and letters
are already coming in to secure rooms for
October.
Let tho people of Georgia unite their
efforts with the officers of the agricultural
society to make the approaching fair the
grandest ever held in the State.
Disgraceful.
The shylocks who have been making
the feeble condition of President Garfield
do service In weakening tho markets,
shonld receive the condemnation which
their disgraceful conduct justly deserves.
In the opinion of many, if this course is
permitted to go on much further, we shall
see tho end of it In a panic. The effect of
tbo death of tho President was long ago
discounted to the fullest extent that such
an event coaid jnstify,and the continuance
wonld bo criminal if it did not approach
tho ridiculous. Deeply as tho country
wonld regret tho President’s death, there
is no cause of apprehension. The change of
incumbency might he attended with some
momentary political squabbling, bnt the
business of the country would move on,
and the good sense of the peoplo would
correct any unnecessary lrlctlon and re
store confidence.
Wicked for Clergymen.
Rev. ——, Washington, D. C., writes:
“I believe it to be all wrong aud even
wicked for clergymen or other public men
to be led Into giving testimonials to quack
doctors or vile-stuffs called medicines, but
when a really meritorious article made of
valuable remedies known to all, that all
physicians use and trust iu daily, we
shonld freely commend it. I therefore
cheerfully and heartily commend Hep
Bitters for the good they Lave done
me and my friends,- firmly believing
they have no equal for family use. I will
not be without them.”—New York Bap
tist Weekly.
Terrible Low of Life.
Millions of rats, mice, cats, bed-bugs,
roaches, lose their lives by collision with
“Rough on Rats.” Bold by druggists.
15 cents. junl4aly
Consolation,
Boston Post.
A homely young girl has the consolation
of knowing that if she lives to forty she’ll
be a pretty old girl."
A Seasonable Suggestion.
Louisville Courier-Journal
The United States marshal had bettor
look into Wendell Phillips’ coat-tail pock
ets. These are bomb times, and Wendell
is a hard citizen.
Tbe Season.
Washington Republic .n.
Clara Louise Kellogg will never again
visit St. Petersburg. Sbs was constantly
watched by the police, whom she suspocted
of trying to find out how old she is.
Ground for Divorce.
Courier Journal.
An Indiana man pulled a drowning wo
man ont of tbe mighty Wabash, which was
all right, bnt ho smoothed her damphair as
she lny on tho bank, which was all wrong,
and his wife has sued for a divorce on ac-
couut ol it.
A New WrJuklo in Waltsinff.
Whitehall Review.
By tho by (asks a military friend), can
yon toll me if it is the correct thing for a
lady to lay hold of the lobo of her partner's
car with her teeth when whirling in the gid
dy waltz ? If it is not tho proper thing (he
adds) I shall remonstrato tho next time it
happens.
Can Beat That.
Hashvill eAmerican.
Tho salo ot a wife for ono dollar by a
man in New York was tologrnphod ns gen
eral news instead of tho market reports.
Tennessee can beat that. A man in Shady,
Johnson county, swapped his wife to a
neighbor for a calf, nnd all his neighbors
thought tho man who got the wife was
cheated in the trade.
It Will not be Joseph.
Atlanta Correspondence Augusta Chronicle.
Senator Brown does not have much con
fidence in the present railroad boom, which
be consider* anything bnt healthy nnd lung-
lived. He predicts that the bottom will
suddenly drop oat ot inflated stooks mid
somebody get hart. It is Bate to say that it
will not be onr Senator.
Blaine Telling the Truth.
Washington Dispatch to Xew Fork Repress.
But little faith is placed npon the official
bulletins. Tho only dispatches that are
looked upon as giving a trutlif nl report of
tho Whito House patient are Secretary
Blaine’s official notifications to our minis
ters in Earopo. Bluino is making much
capital hero by tolling tbo truth about the
President.
A New So 'tety.
St Louis Globe-Democrat.
A new socioty has been organized. Each
member is to be sworn to kill the mnn who
uses the expression “word-paintiug.” This
compound word is tho last and constant
friend of wonk minds. It may have beon
■usod bygoniuses, but it is everlastingly
used by vapid and boneless men. As soon
as Tennyson gives to bis publishers a new
till
of word-painting.” Why not say of a pic
ture-one with pink and white clouds over
a quiet lake—that is a] nice bit of paint
wording ?
Round Doctrine.
Savannah X’ews.
While the Stato is not bound to protect a
railroad, sho should not by her net need
lessly impair its utility to its owners. All
that wo contend for is that no charter
should be granted that contains unwonted,
inordinate or nnjust privileges or conces
sions conferred at the expense of existing
institutions, whose only assurance of safe
ty outside of honest and just management
is the faith of the Stato. The Cole charter,
ns it stands, contains extraordinary’ nnd
nnjust features, and we trust they will bo
measnrod by tho standards of prudence
and equity.
A Satisfactory Explanation.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Lodger at a Long Branch hotel npon lw>-
ing presented with his bill—“Fifteen dol
lars for two days!” Polite clerk —"Correct,
sir; yon read figures like a banker’s clork.”
Lodger—“Do you take me for a bonanza
mine on its travels?” Polite clerk—“Far
from it; but you bad ono ot the bof t rooms
in the house.” Lodger—“Why it wasn’t
bigger’n a coal bin, and I had to sleep with
my legs ont of tho window.” Polite clerk
—“That’s just it, you-see. When a guest
sloops with his legs ont of the window, we
alwBys charge him two dollars and flity
cents a day extra.
A Mod cl Greenback Orator.
Cincinnati Commercial.
Jacksonville, III., August 20.—Do La
Mntyr, a long-headed, large-boned
strong-jawed man, not very tidy ns to his
dress, commenced in a good
deep, voico at the creation ot
tho world, and ndvanccd slowly, driving all
before him, and mowing tliiugs down even
until tho time of Christ. Then ho took off
his gray coat, palled down his gray vest,
brushed his bn hy hair into a simmelricnl
haystack and c nnmouced on the new dis
pensation, throwing in side-lights now and
then, as contrasting his mothet's spinning
and wonving with the loom that turns ont
fivo miles of carpet a * dsy; his father’s
primitive farming with tho steam thrasher
nnd tho lightning binder. I staid almost
two boars, nnd in that time he had scraped
evory gravestone iu tho yard except the one
ho onght to have beon ai work on. He had
traversed all ages, all climes; dived into
the sea, and soared into space, bat not a
grcosnback nor a plausible reason for one
was shown up. I left, having gathered not
one new, wolf-defined nnd intelligible idea.
A Fighting Editor'* Work.
Boston Post.
A Western editor, whose style of writing
was calculated to arouse people to deeds of
gore, being himself not muon on the mus
cle, found it ncoessary to keep u fighting
editor, and he had u speaking-tube con
nected w : tli tho heeler’s room to call him
when danger required. One day a gentle
man whom the editor bad referred to a* a
“cross-eyed dromedary’’ came iu to request
a correction: nnd as the fighting editor was
ont, he didn’t respond to the signal of dis
tress. and while the editor and ids visitor
wore on the floor nude: the desk, the ior-
mor agreed to correct the mistake, and tho
irato man left. Pretty scon n gontlemon
from tho rural districts came
in to give the editor a big
squash and get n notice, and nliont
that time tho fighting editor returned, nnd
a boy in his room told iiim thut tho boss
wanted help. The man of war was quick
to respond, nnd dusliiug into tho chief’s
room, nnd seeing -.he latter in n somovrhat
disordered condition, the result of his pre
vious visit, he thought ths countryman was
tho cause of it, and clutched 1dm. and after
staving np some furniture, ran the victim
across the street to where an empty hearse
was standing in frout ot an undertaker’s
shop, aud into it he jammed the farm
er and shut tho door. Tho commotion ho
had created seared tlio horses attached to
the hoarse, and they started off on tlio dead
run. People sooa noticed tho runaway
and ran afler it, nnd wero
shoukod at beholding the honrso
collide with n post and bc-
como a complete wreck; nnd Ihcir borror
at seeing a human body precipitated to tho
sidowalk was only equaled by their amaze
ment by seeing it spring nimbly to its feet
aud take off across the country yelling mur
der. They thought it won an attempt to
bury a man alire, and part of them went
an ' got tho uadertaker to lynch him,
while tho rest pursued tho farmer, who
was foand hiding in n swamp. And ufter
ho was brought in it look throe Iionrs to get
matters explained, and then tho farmer
went before a justice nnd mnde affidavit
that he huped to be struck by lightning if
ho over entered a newspaper office aguin.
The death of Mrs. Millard Fillmore
aer-es to recall a singular Incident con
nected with her two husbands. In 1847,
while she was the wife of Hon. Ezekiel
McIntosh, of Albany, Mr. Fillmore was
candidate for the position of State comp
troller of Now York. Some persons, who
desired to defeat his election, raised
about $20,000 fur tho purposo and placed
it in tbe hands of Mr. McIntosh, instruct
ing him to place it in a bank m his own
name, and not to mnko tho matter pub
lic. He did as desired, but before the
fnnd could be drawn ont to uw for e’ec-
tsou purposes tho treasurer fell sick and
died. Mr. Fillmore was elected comp,
(roller, and many years afterward mnr^
ried Mrs. McIntosh, aud received as a
part ol lirr dowry, the money that Lad
been raised to defeat his election. The
cs-Pre8ident used to eijoy lelliDgthe
story, aud often remarked that “tho mon
ey w.-.s placed where it would do tbe must
good” to him.
•till mt Large.
Philadelphia Times.
In spite of all the precautions there are a
great many hip pockets Ltill at large.
A Versatile Politician.
Philadelphia Times.
Governor Foster, ot Ohio, is a versatile
politician, but he is making a good deal of
a spootnelo of. himself trying to carry
water on one shoulder and beer on tho
other.
The Deadliest Weapon.
shitadelphia Times.
Some of the campaign poetry now loose
in the columns of our csteemod Virginia
contemporaries evidence* the desperation
of the oonffict in that 8tnte. Campaign
poetry is about the deadliest wenpon known
aud like the toy pistol it isn’t safe to handle
it at either end.
Bat Why “Reverend?”
New York Tribune.
Why do they call him the Rev. Babcock?
He made a speech at the Leo Hartmann
sympathizers meeting in Boston one night
last week. He said that tbe government
hud menaced an npostlo of liberty just
landed on our shore, meaning Leo afore
said. He declared the deeds of tho Nihil
ists to bo “a noblo and manly warfare
against despotism,” nud tha’ nobody bold
ing a different opinion was “fit to Ire secre
tary of State.” He mado many other fool
ish and ferooioua remarks, the plume “scoun
drel from Maine.” rather predominating
in his dynamito rhetoric. We don't mind
what Babcock says at all, only we must say
that we do not nnderstand why be be call
ed “Reverend.” Wherefore should ho bo
revered? Wimt church acknowledges him
as a shepherd? What is his ism? Who or
dained him? Is he a Chrinlian ora Pagan?
No doubt he is a very unploasont Babcock,
but why Reverend?”
Sammy anti His Cigarette.
Prom the Richmonl(Pa J Whig.
Sammy Dobyns, a Floyd Conrt House
juvenile, saw his .pa coming up tho street
and shoved bis lighted cigarette in his coat
pocket to keep company with a halt-poand
package of powder. Then Sammy laid
down in a gutter and yelled, and a crowd
gathered round and Sammy was carried
home minns coat nnd breeches, and the
doctor remarked, while he applied a cool
ing lotion to Sammy's side: "Anybody but
a boy would havo been blown to pieces.”
Tbe Sweetly Sweet at tlio Seashore.
Bar Harbor Correspondence of Bangor Com
menial.
The esthetic tastes if some of our young
people as displayed in their dress are, to
use the language of the said y. p., “too ut
terly utter.” One young lady, often seen
on the streets and who is prominent in
lawn tennis tournaments, has n dress, the
underskirt of which, at a short distance,
looks like bed-ticking, while the overskirt
appears to be - of red nnd white awning
cloth. The basque is of turkey red, aud ou
h6r head she wears a red knit cap, shaped
like a sailor’s. She bas many imitators
who approach her uniqueness with only in
different success. There are several of the
“b-hoys” who wear baiber-pole suits with
just the onuningest little caps perched
jauntily on their pates a la band-organ
monkeys; and others wear pantalets, with
stockings to match, showing the reives (no
reflection, of coarse) off in an el leg-ant
manner, which is jast “too bewitchtngly
cate for anything.”
How They Farted.
X’or, istoicn Herald.
A new song is entitled “How They Part
ed.” Wo have not read it, hut no doubt
they parted in the usual way, about 2 a. m.,
after kissing each other “good night” at
least thirty-seven times. “Well, I gness I
must go,” he says with a sigh about two
hours before ho does go. 'Then, after an
other half hour's conversation about one
thing and another, he presses her hand
with much pressiveness, says Le really
must go, and—lovingly lingers another
half honr. Then he say s he didn’t kuow it
was so late, picks up his hat aud moves to
ward tho door, where he j uts his arm
aropnd her to prevent her falling in a
swoon, aud kisses her fire minutes in ono
inning and—still lingers. Then he gives
her one more kiss just fur luck and reluc
tantly steps down and ont into the black,
lonesome night, and calls aroaud tho next
night. Th:tc is how they parted years ago
—if we have not been misinformed.
'All About tbe Parotid Glands
Washington Republican-
Now everybody will be wanting to know
all about the parotid glands, the right ono
of which in the President is in a state of in
flammation. Tiieso glands derive their
name from two Greek words, which ex
press the idea of nearness to tbe ear. They
lie one on each cheek, below the tar, nnd,
of course, forward of it. The funeiion of
these glaudi is the secretion of saliva, and
they* tuo the largest of nil the salivary
glnud*. Each is furnished with a tube or
duct a little over two inches long, which
opens on tho inner part of the cheek, oppo
site the upper jaw. Each gland weighs
about one ounce. The other salivary ap
paratus is composed of the sub-maxtUanr
giund and the sub-lingual glands, which
he, as their mimes indicate, the former un
der tho lower jaw and the latter under tho
tongue. In protracted low fevers the par
otid gland is frequently the seat of fevers,
and sometimes even of ubcesses. Inflam
mation of tins gland, although annoying
nnd painful, is not necessarily a serious
symptom.
Tbe President's Hind Gone.
Washington Special to Philadelphia Times 23 J.
To-day it is definitely ascertained that
tho President is helpless, both men
tally nnd physically. Ho is nnable to grasp
what is going on around him. His mind is
wandering and ho is only occasionally m
tbo enjoyment of lucid intervals. He is
nnable to pul his hand to n peu. His nerves
are ell gone, lie conld not sign a calf for
u session ot Congress. He could not sign
a legal document that would stand in any
couu uf justice when it should ho contest
ed. This admission of lu» physicians is
said here to be a competent certificate that
the disability contemplated by tho consti
tution now exist* tho same a* if the Presi
dent were pronounced insane. An eminent
lawyer, whose personal sympathies can’t
be Haiti to be with either faction of the Re
publican party, said vo your correspondent
t-uday tiiai, under recent developments
there was no qm ntioa bat what it was the
right mid duty of Mr. Arthur io take upon
himself tbe functions of the Executive of
fice until tbe President was declared by bis
physicians capable of performing the same
for himself.
Sancimcatlon nt the Keatilde.
Ocean Grove Cor -V Y Tribune.
A little incident occurred hero this week.
A young lady at the Sheldon Uuuso was
playing enntoh<■ from “Olivtile.” when two
pretty y oung girl* began whirling nronnd
tlio parlor. An alarm was taken to police
headquarters, and the cJiief, clothed iu blue
ond.brasa. went, to tho hotel und slopped
the terrible youngster?.
There is unc thing here that is a novelty.
Everyvno, old and young, sa.ut and sinner,
bathe* daily in tho beeutif ul sui t. This is
on’irely free, tho Association not yet hav
ing mnde tho bather* procure licenses.
Everything else is licensed, and tbe trus
tees will probably find sumo way of licens-
iug the bathers or taxing each billow when
it strike* the bcaelu It is a very interest
ing sight to ses the bathers here. When
tbo surf strikes r. minister iu
the back aud send* him on his noso
iu the s-.tul, he does not swear liko tho
men nt Ixmg Branch and Coney Island,
but he tayt, “Oh, my goodness I ” nnd
walk* slowly und calmly out of tho salty
clement. But tho gul* hero ‘cream find
giggle when iu ilia water, ihe very same
way other girls uo at other places. Some
of the suits arc trimmed in a gay manner
and bright uud gay nocking* Are worn,
but no suits are improper. Ttie other day
u well known New York merchant, who is
one of the best swimmer* here, tore out
the sleeve* of hi* bathing srtit so or to hnvo
grenier freedom when in the water. Two
or Hues dencato ladies almost "fanned
away" when they saw ldm. Complaints
wero made, and :ue r.’exl time he went
biiiUug three b.uu co.iieJ servants of the
peace stood on the beach and wurnedhitn
not to use the sleeveless suit.
A Newr Version or that Shut-gun Story
Providencetptcial talks Boston Globe.
Winchester Britton, Mrs. Sprnguo’s law
yer, in n recent interview on the shot-gun
affair at Cuuonche*. said that from his own
knowledge Mr. ConklinS had been misrep
resented. ihe iauer had made a statement
to dim which, until disproved, he was
bunnd lo consider a* a correct version of
the episode. Mr. Conkling, ho said, was
in a sleeping apartment over the veranda
when ho heard some one exclaim: “He's
got three charges in his gun,” and, glanc
ing cut of the window, he saw the German
taior, Liuke, going cut the premise* by the
back rhorn, pursued by Sprngne. Later,
Conkling met Sprague. Tne latter had
been down towards the pier and had just
returned. Conklicg said: “Sprague, what
makes yon behave so. You act like a crazy
man.” Sprague, so Mr. Britton aoid, threw
his arms up in the air and wont off on a
tangent about insanity and of bis be
ing incarcerated as n madman. Mr. Conk
ling was not menaced with a shotgun, and
lift Canouchet in a quiet, peaceable way.
He did not know until afterward what
made the governor so irascible when the
words “insane man” were uttortd, learning
tiom rotne one that talk had been made
about Trustee Chaffee causing Sprague to
be shut up on the ground of lunacy. Mr.
Britton further averred that Conkling
went to Cauonchet on Sprague’s own busi
ness affairs, and thnt that alone was the
reason of his being there. In regard to
tho divorce Mr. Britton said that a large
number of depositions had been taken,
tending to support tho allegations of adul
tery against the governor, which were of
such a nature that Sprague could not re
fute them. They had not been filed as
yer, nor would they be until the date ot the
trial had teen assigned: then they would
becoiuoa part ot the records. Against
these depositions the governor could mako
uo defense. The evidence was as damuing
us it was undeniable.
* XACOX SOLDXEH CAJ> IIRkd
A Trip So New York onu u Jn ,
and ST
F-unrxN HouseWbue 5Iocn- '
tains, N.H., Attaint ifisi
EdITOKS TELEGKAKt AND SEntOn __
Having occasion to visit New York, we left
Crops through Tennessee, Kentucky nna
southern Ohio were not goil, Sfa?’ Z
fered for ram. Near Toledo there
been fine rains, and such
Who rsH Bogus Silver Money,
Street Car Conductor to Jf. Y- Tribune Re
porter.
“Where do the bad coins oome from?”
was Asked.
“That’s more’ii I know—where they come
from in the first place. It's mostly women
that give ’em to ns. You see when a man
gets hold of a bad half dollar he don’t feel
jus. like passing it off himsolf; so he just
gives it to his wife and don’t say anything
about it. And even if sho does know tho
piece is bad, it doesn’t mako a mite of dif
ference. A woman, young women, is the
queerest thing in the world-one of the
quee-c-e-est things in the world. I often
stop nnd say to myself: ‘Well, now, what
then in the thunder did sho do that for?’ A
woman has no idea of other people’s rights
at all. So when she gets hold of a bad half
dollar, she just naturally passes it off again.
Dishonest? Why, bless yon, no, she doesn’t
mean to do anything dishonest; its
just her natur; she can’t help it. She
don’t want the half dollar—of
course she don’t—so there is just one thing
to do, aud that is to pa3s it off on someone
else. But I tell you, you have to be power
ful careful how you treat a woman. Some
of ’em waut you to help ’em on tho car,
now, mid others won’t let yon touch ’em.
So either way you do, you’re Eure to make
half of ’em mad. I stopped the car—it was
only yesterday morning—to let a woman
off; gave her plenty of time, and she got
both feet on the ground, then the cor start
ed, but she wanted it to wait till sho was a
yard awAy, so what doe* she do but jump
on again, and make tho car come to a dead
stop. There is no accountin’for ’em no
way. Why, I have a glass dollar np nt tha
house now that a woman ga\* m?. I was
a fool to take it, bnt I’ll pass it off on some
man again. When the car is pretty dark,
they won’t notice it. Yon seo they’re sot
used ,o it, as I am.”
The Gordon-Colqullt Bonanza.
From the Atlanta Rsdstep of Thnrsdog Eight,
Falsely dated Friday Horning.
When General Gordon, Major E. C.
Gordon, Mr. W. S. Gordon and Governor
A. U. Colquitt determined to raise a com
pany to build a road from Atlanta to th
Mississippi river, they had three item
on which to base their claims.
1st. An appropriation of $100,000 cash
from Aberdeen and Columbus each, snd
$150,000 from Monroe county in Missis
sippi—aggregating $350,000.
2d. Al large quantity ol coal lands,very
much over 100,000 acres, which,at the value
of surrounding lands ($20 per acre), was
worth from S2,000,000, £1,000,000. Th
deeds for these lauds were in the shape of
“grauts”—deliverable when tho road was
finished.
81. Several Important charters, in
cluding the Georgia Western, on which
they bad a clear profit of $200,000, count
ing the trade with Colonel Cole—two val
uable charters and property in Mississip
pi, and over 100 miles of the right-of-
way.
These items of property and franchises,
briefly summed above, they determined
to value at $700,000 cash. This valuation
was reached after consultation with Mr.
Jewett aud other gentlemen interested
with them in the organization of the
Georgia Pacific company. On this basis
—that the company should take the prop
erty and pay tho Gordons $700,000—the
Gonrcla Pacific company was organized—
Mr. Jewett, Mr. C. H. rmuizqr, u*...»at
Anderson. Senator Bamum and others
taking large amounts and becoming direc
tor. The surveys of the new road wore
ordered, and work commenced at both
ends. All the slock was taken, and more
could have been scid.
At this juncture some gentlemen con
nected with the Richmond and Danville
railroad opened negotiations for a combi
nation with the Georgia Pacific. The
Gordons had sought the alliance with this
road at first, but it had refused to value
their properties at the price they set on
them. They offered to allow $250,000 for
them. The Gordons asked $700,000.
After they had made up their company on
this basis, the Richmond and Danville
people offered to go In on the basts of
$700,000.
Seeing that two roads were about to be
built where one could do the work, the
Gordons closed a contract with the Rich
mond and Danville people. The terms
of this contract were that the Gordons
should be paid $700,000 in cash aud al
lowed a certain amount of stock, and that
their properties should then be turned
over to the “Georgia Pacific”—composed
of Richmond aud Danville people and the
Gordons and their associates, aud that
General Gordon shonld be president of
the combined company.
This trado was made months ago. In
fact, it was made the day before the or
ganization of tlio Georgia Pacific was an
nounced, and the details have been per
fecting ever since. It was also agreed
that the contract for building the road
should be let to tbe Richmond and Dan
ville extension company. This company
lias a crpi’al of $5,000,000, which is held
by the Richmond aud Danville people
anu by the Gordons and their associates.
The Richmond and Danville extension
company has been arranging ever since
to take bold of its contract and finish it.
Various delays were necessary, ono of
which was that the charter had to be
slightly amended. This consumed sev
eral weeks of waiting. At last everything
was arranged and the transfers made.
The Richmond and Danville extension
company is now in charge and will push
the building of the road. When it is
built it will he turned over to the Georgia
Pacific railroad company.
The cash has been paid to General Gor
don, Messrs. E. U. and W. S. Gordon and
Governor Colquitt, and ft was divided in
about equal proportions, and not as given
by the A’etcs correspondent. The Gordons
aud Governor Colquitt own $1,002,000
stock in the Richmond and Danville ex
tension company, which stock is naw held
at a premium in New York, with none
offered. They will have two aud one-
half times this much stock in the Georgia
Parific.
General Gordon Is president of tho Geor
gia Pacific and will remain so. MajorE. C.
Gordon ispicsident of the two roads belong
iug to tbe company in Mississippi, the
chatters of which extendfrom Birmingham
to the Mississippi river. Mr. W. S. Got don
Is a director lathe Richmond And Danville
extension company, and Is engaged in rais
ing a company to build a very important
railroad extending from Chattahoochee,
Florida, to a point ot connection on tlio
Georgia Pacific. It Is unnecessary losay
that this outcome makes each of the four
gentlemen interested, rich men in a large
sen*e of the word, and will result in giv
ing Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi a
badly needed line of road. It may be
noted here, as wc are discussing the for
tunes of tnen who are known all over the
State, that the orgar’zation of the Bel-
moi.t coal mines belonging to them—in
augurated by Major Gordon two years
since—gave each of them a handsome
competency.
Thu facts involved in the organization
of the Georgia Pacific were known to us
months ago, but we have published noth
ing concerning them for the reason that
we feared some of the details might mis
carry and spoil the trade. As they have
cutue to this happy issue, however, they
arc now given to the public.
What Hr. Ball Wuta.
X'orristown Herald.
Sitting Bull says he wants to be free and
“go about wherever I please and have a
WHiter.” Pretty soon he will want to part
hie lihir iu the middle, sport a single-barrel
eyeglass, and wear his watoh chsiu on the
outside of his ooat. Then he should be giv
en a toy pistol to play with.
MaftsaEi3«
our travels, going no e^rH 1 ^ 11 began
splendid steamer C. YUiarf“o? 1tho
from thence to Saratoga by ^ ba ? r ’
rush and crowd has not been a
toga for years. We tried 5>q£2> ^ a I ra '
Hotel, which can accommodatedFvS 3011
hundred guests, hut conld not
and had to put up tho firat night ar’ccm 1
gress Hall, sleeping on cots in the gentle
men’s reading room. What interested tu
most was the splendid dressing of the
ladios; their costly and imgnificent
diamonds (mixed with a good deal that wa3
false and shoddy); the fine horses and
turnouts, from the coach and four to the
modest litiledog-cart. The display to be
seen onthedrive to the lako surpasses
anything wehave ever seen.
Bat we will not trespass on yoar space to
describe what has been so frequently done
before. Besides, wo wish more particular
ly to write of onr visit to Oswego. Some
of your readers doubtless remember a
sword being returned a few years ago to a
Federal officer in Oswego by tho writer,
which was taken in Virginia daring the
late war, the said officer being made a pris
oner of at the same time.
It was to pay him a visit that carried my
self and wife to Oswego, Wo met under
very different circumstances than those
which snrronnded us over seventeen years
ago. Then he was tbe captured and we
tbe captor, bnt now it is tho reverse. W e
can never forget the henrty welcome, kind
greeting given as by Mr. H. H. Lyman and
his lovely wife. Wo were mado to feel at
home at onco, and talkod over onr war ex
perience and fought onr battles again, as
each remembered something of onr
past ndventnres. Everybody that wo
met at the honse of onr host and on the
ttreet gave us a hearty welcome and cor
dial shake of tho hand. We were much
impressed with tho treatment wo received,
and can nover forget it.
One thing that pleasod U3 was tho words
of praise bestowed on onr native State.
Everyone places Georgia in advanoe of all
herSonthem sisters, and predicted for her
a bright future. Oswego is a beautiful,
thriving city, and is one of the oldest towns
iu tho state of New York, being first set
tled by the French, who built a tort there,
and after many years a second fort. There
is now a fort built by onr government, and
which was until recently garrisoned by a
detachment of United States soldiers.
Some of the streets have splendid lines of
maple and elm trees.meoting overhead and
presenting a beautiful view with the bright
blue waters of Lako Ontario as a back
ground.
Tho government is now constructing a
splendid breakwater, over a mile in length,
which will be of vast importanco_to tho
shipping interests of the city. We were
introduced to the city officials and fonnd
them all in lino, convenient quarters.
Tho customs duties on lumber from Canada
are large.
Wc fonnd the customs officials in pleasant
quarters also.
Kingsford’s corn starch factory is a huge
concern, employing abont a thousand
hands at high wages. Lager beer, wood
pulp and paper, malt and barrels are made
here. There aro also large flour mills,
grain elevators and many other branches
of manufacture, all of which go to make
a thriving large town, which has three
linos of railroad and ode canal, besides its
lake traffic.
The celebrated Deep Rock Spring is lo
cated in the city, the water being pumped
through a tnbe running down one hundred
and twenty feetin solid rock. Mr. Doolit
tle, the proprietor, says that ho averages
abont sixty barrels a day shipped.
The Oswego Falls Factory, twelve miles
above tho city on Oswego river, employs
twelve hundred hand*, and makes many
brands of the finest, w«v»wu goods.
vc. -vu pleased driving through
tho snrronnding country, looking at the
farms, orchards and cattle. For miles it
looked liko a village. The farms ran from
twenty-fivo to throe or fonr hundred acres.
Money can easily be obtained by mortgago
on land at 6 per cent., and, to show you the
value placed on the land, I wo* shown a
place of one hundred acres upon which
there was easily borrowed ten thousand
dollars at 3 per cent.
This is the great apple growing section.
The farmer does not depend on one crop,
bnt realizes on wheat, oats, corn, bay,
apples, tobacco, cattle, sheep, strawberries,
buckwheat and other things, os tho cose
may be. Onr Georgia fanners wonld be
surprised to see how neat and well kept
the farms are.
After some days delightfully spent, we
left Oswego with many pleasant memories,
accompanied by Mr. Lyman and wife,
going down theSt. Lawrence river throogb
the Thousand Islands and shooting the
rapids, reached Montreal. At one rapid
the boat rnakos throe and a half miles in
seven and one-qnarter minctos.
'ihe Windsor Hotel, in Montreal, is the
finest in America. The Victoiia bridge
over the St. Lawrence (ono nnd three-
quarter miles long), is a splendid struc-
ture.
Wo left onr host and his wifo tn Mon
treal and reached here yesterday.. *>e
fonnd it quite cool, fires bemg used in the
hotel, which we imagine is very different
from what you have in Macon. More
anon. F. S. J.
DOGS AT THE SEASUOJtB.
The Filthy Little Brutes thut Fash*
fouuble Women Carry About with
Them.
Cipe Hay Correspondence Philadelphia Secord
Dogs are abhorred by seaside hotel
managers. To keep tbe little brutes out
of the Stockton House, at Cape May, tbe
directors decided to charge board for dogs
at tho rate ot $10a week. It was thought
this would be an effectual bar to all noisy
pet poodles and skye terriers, but the fact
that six dogs are now on tbo hotel list of
boarders shows that the managerial
scheme has been a delusion and a snare.
Among the hoarders there is a png whose
uglinass'is his charm, two rival lap dop
and three skye terriers that vie with each
other In the s'ze of ribbon bows they
wear on their necks. One animal last
week had a bright orange ribbon around
him that spread out into abow so large *i
to hide tlio little fellow’s head and bool-
Ail tho dogs are recognized as special n't
guests aud are entitled to the courtesies
of that class. Four of the six dogs hive
special attendants, each of whom involve*
$10 a week more upon “my lady.”
clado tho wages of tho care-taker with
these items, aud it will bo figured out flu*
each dog costs $25 a week—rather heavy
keep for five pounds of dog-flesh.
It is tho proper thing in the cool of tee
evening at Cape May to ride along ft-
beach past the prominent cottages, retarc'
ing in anont an hour. When •Wjjw"
appears on the porch, arrayed wrhB
daily ride, the little png stmts proudly “J
her side, now wagging his tail and loo*'
ing up for some mark of recognition! no
tugging at tha string by which the at
tendant, holds him m check.
country band in a new uniform, this noTe
company passes along the porch an** 0 J“
tho stdcwalk in full marching
ready for review. With regal air, oj
lady” takes her seat in an elegant turn;
ont; the pug paws the ground, hut
he is restrained by the cruel cord.
dowager foils off up the broad arennsi
and the pug retires from the scene uu.j
the carriage is seen ou tho return
when the dog again appears, wagffmg *t
tail aud leaping in the *drtogrsoth-
mistress. This is part of the dai'J
tine, varied only when the animal is
lowed the extra liberty of a perch on i
carriage-seat.
Another routine of dog life at t“®. *®Ji
shore is the bath. The mistress, Ha«
fashionable folks, goes to tbe beach
appointed honr of noon, and, with tnep -
iu her lap, patient^ watches the hath
Soou the attendant presents hlrnseu
bathing garb, and gently nestling '“ 5
under his arm he dashes into the -
The great salt ocean washes notm*"
alone, but dogs also, and the little LJ
gets a good sousing. Then the ,
taken out tenderly, is rubbed w .
heavy Turkish towel, and t
again into his mistress’ lap to w*^
Mss and embrace. Ob, to be a wom»“
pet I