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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1881.?}
Ax electric headlight ha* been success
fully used on a locomotive in Australia* It
illuminated the track clearly for 600 yard*
but the atmosphere there ie-«exceedingly
clear.
A ijlbok fleet of steamship* have already
been chartered by parties in Norfolk to
carry cotton to Liverpool, and the first is
eipected to arrive about ten days hence.
is an awful slate of affairs in a lit
tle Michigan town, where a type setter sub
stituted the word “widows” for “windows.”
The editor wrote: “The windows of the
church need washing badly. They are too
dirty for any use, and are a disgrace to our
Tillage.”
Wilkie Collins was for three weeks
confined to a darkened room while suffer
ing from rheumatic gout, his eyes being
affected. He is now recovering, bnt will
not resume work during the next six
months. He has sought the sea-coast for
a change of air.
Tax fact that the electric light is trying
to blondes and favorable tobrnnettesought
to settle the question of its general use in
this land of the free, the Manchester (N.
H.) Onion thinks, because anything that
discriminates against color is contrary to
the constitutional amendments.
Thi Chicago Tribune says there are 68,-
000,000 gallons of whisky in store in
Kentucky. Tax paid, this would represent
nearly <100,000,000. And, allowing a quart
to each man, that same Kentucky whisky
would make 232,000,000 of men drunk. On
this, the government gets a premium of
nearly fifty cents a bead.
Tins Duchess Eugenie Litta has sold her
palace for the curious reason that it Is too
vast to be manageable. Baron Rothschild
has bought it, and will transform it into
the head offices of the Upper Italian Rail
way. The interior decoration is magnifi
cent; the famous Luini cartoons were
bought for this palace at a price of £22,-
000.
Since the Erlauger syndicate and the
Georgia Pacific enterprises became fixed
facts, Alabama and Mississippi have ta
ken np the line of march, and their booms
of material progress are playing well up
among those of Georgia and Texas. The
towns, cities and farms of both States are
moving forward with rapid strides, and the
idio man is a phenomenon.
Tax Pmesxnt f oxxok Ceop.—One of the
largest cotton buyers of Memphis, Tenn.,
received a dispatch Saturday from promi
nent cotton operators in New York offering
to bet $5,000 that the present crop would
exceed C,000,000 bales. The bet was
promptly accepted within fifteen minutes
by a number of Memphis factors, and a
telegram forwarded to New York asking to
increase the bet to <10,000, or as much more
as they wished to make it.
A few days since, there was found by
James Mullen, who is in temporary charge
of Washington’s headquarters at Valley
Forge, a hatchet outside the window of the
southeast room, six inches under ground,
quaint in shape, bearing the impress of
gnat age, covered with rust, and of course
minus a handle. Its counterpart was
picked up years ago near the intrench-
ments. Both are in the possession of the
Centennial and Memorial Association of
Valley Forge.
Lobd Durrani displays practical states
manship in advising the Turkish Premier
to abandon the notion of sending Ottoman
troops to Egypt, which he rightly assumes
might provoke agitation in that country.
The proposal was first made in London, but
the orderly manner in which the Egyp
tians have reorganized their government
has evidently silenced the demand for Ot
toman intervention. Both France and
England now deem it belter to hold aloof.
Governor Plaibtxd, of Maine, was mar
ried on Tuesday to Miss Mabel Hill at an
earlier hour, probably, than ever a gover
nor was married before. The ceremony
took place in church at 5 o’clock in the
morning—a full hour before sunrise. This
prompt proceeding was necessary in order
that the bridal couple might catch an ex
press train. The Governor is expected at
Yorktown, and will be accompanied by
Mrs. Plaisted, who is not only a clever
young lady but a beautiful one.
Recent English mails report an incident
which may be oommended to Talmage.
When the Prince and Princess of Wales
went to Liverpool to inaugurate the new
docks a pious shopkeeper upon the road
along which they passed was seized with
the happy thought of covering the front of
his premises with a huge inscription, “May
the Lord convert the Prince!” Having
hung out this banner on his outward walls
just before the hour of the Prince’* pass
age, he stepped back into the road to con
template it admiringly and—was run over
by a carriage and nearly killed!
Tnx Philadelphia Times soys the Meth-
dist Episcopal congregation of South Eas
ton entertain pronounced views on the
subject of Gui lean's crime and do not hes
itate to make them public. On Sunday
they adopted a series of resolutions more
or less original and striking in their senti
ments, one of them embodying the as
sertion “that the assasination was the most
heinous crime committed since the crucifix
ion of Christ, and in comparison with Qui
te a u Judas Iscariot was a gentleman.”
There have been in the past some attempts
at apologizing for or explaining the crime
of Judas, bat heretofore be has not receiv
ed muoh oounten&nce from Christian poo
dle. It is Jadas’ misfortune that be is not
alive to appreciate the vindication.
Tux Ocala Banner says Col. J. L. White
left that place on the 30th nit, to com
mence a survey of the Hamilton Eisston
purchase of 4,000,000 acres. He will be en
gaged in the work about twelve months,
possibly eighteen. The company have act
ed wisely in engaging Col. White. He is
accustomed to the swamps and bogs of
Florida and knows exactly what is before
him and ia a thoroughly competent sur
veyor. A graduate of West Point and be
fore the war bidding an important position
in the engineering corps in the Western Ter
ritories, had he not resigned his posi
tion to cast his lot with that of the Sooth,
he would to-day, in ail probability, be
holding high rank in the United States
aimy.
Several religions newspapers have been
recently commenting, with more vigor than
seems necessary, says the New York Tri
bune, on the presumed intention of the
Yorktown Centennial Commission to give
to the Roman Catholic Church in this
country the charge of whatever devotional
exercises may be held on the occasion of
the celebration of Cornwallis’surrender
We are informed by the secretary of the
commission that no such intention has
been announced or entertained. While all
the details of the celebration are not yet
completed, it bee been arranged that the
proceedings shall be opened each day with
p raj or. No ohoioe of clergymen, except
for the first day, has been mode- On that
day prayer will be offered by the Ber. Rob
ert Nelson, a minister of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, who was selected for the
reason that he is a lineal descendant of
Governor Nelson, of Yorktown, who com
manded the Virginia militia in tb* attack
upon his own town. It is related of him
that he fired the first gun at his own boose
end offered e guinea to any artilleryman
who would hit it
T* Artis*see m
It Is known to some of the reader* of
tbo TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER th*t
the senior editor of the Telegraph has
been in bad health for two or three years
past Within that time be has lost con
sciousness Jive timet, for loyger or shorter
periods, end always with the general re
sult of making himself very sick, appar
ently in a mortal way, and alarming by
standers. These were called strokes, but
as it is not common for a man to be struck
bo often and still snrvive, or resame the
voyage of life with such apparent ease,
the medical faculty have not agreed in
pronouncing them strokes of paralysis.
Still they might be. We have been a
newspaper editor long enough to merit the
fate—having commenced tbe business In
the year of grace, 1639.
But about eight weeks ago, without any
premonition, tbe severest attack came
that we ever experienced, and raised a
solemn question with returningconscious
ness about what ought to be done. This
point seemed to be solved by the growing
popularity of the Hot Springs iu Arkan
sas. Scores of Georgians—many of them
from Macon, had found relief from nu
merous chronic diseases at these Hot
Springs. Five yean before an eider
brother of the writer, John Clisby, of
Montgomery, was cured of a serious at
tack or paralysis by a sojourn at these
springs, and baa had no return of the
complaint. In short, the Hot Springs
seemed to offer the best promise of Telief,
and so, on tbe (Jtb of September last, we
set forth.
It is a long ride to the Arkansas Hot
Springs—somewhere between SCO and
000 miles. The route lay through Atlan
ta, Chattanooga, and thence westward,
through northern Alabama and Mississippi
and part ot western Tennessee, to Mem
phis. Then, crossing the Mississippi at
Memphis, followed the Memphis and Lib-
tie Rock railroad to the capital of Arkan
sas. There we took the St. Louis and
Iron Mountain railroad, which continues
this route to Texas, and, following it
about fifty miles, struck Malvern and a
narrow gauge road, and in 22 miles of
further travel found ourselves ia the val
ley of the Hot Springs.
A survey of this track will show that it
covers one of the widest iu the cotton
region, bnt If it had one acreot piomising
cotton upon it we failed to see it. The
whole country was parched up. It bad
bad no rain since earl> in June. Tbe
best cotton in the whole distance was be
tween Macon aud Atlanta. The most of
it was not a foot high, and the fruit very
diminutive. If that scope of country be
tween Chattanooga and Little Rock pro
duces one-half the cotton it did last year,
we shall be surprised. We have seen
forty successive crops of cotton, and never
saw so poor a chance for a cron as this
year. Tbe promise of the newspapers of
six million bales is unaccountably decep
tive. We have seen nothing to justify the
expectation ot half a crop. The bulk of
the cotton in north Mississippi, seen from
the Memphis and Charleston railroad, is
not worth gathering.
The pictures of tbe city of Hot Springs,
seen in the book stores, represent an open,
spacious valley, with gradual slopes and
an orchard-like arborific growth. These
do it injustice. The valley is narrow—
from three to six hundred feet in width
—tbe mountains are as steep as a hod-
carrier’s ladder. The valley Is formed
by spurs of the Ozark mountains about five
hundred feet In height from the bottom,
aud considerable excavation is necessary to
provide space for a street—one row-of
stores, the bath-houses and a wide ditch
or “crik” (as the people term it) which
is necessary for tbe drainage of the was to
water. This water oozes from the Hot
Springs mountain in any number of foun
tains, variously estimated at forty to sev
enty. Aboat seventy thousand gallons
are daily caught in reservoirs built in this
mountain by tho United States govern
ment, and held mainly as a reserve for
tempering tbe baths. Tbe natural tem
perature of tbe water varies from day to
day. One day I tried the two hottest springs
by a thermometer aud found them 150.
This was too hot to drink. A short sip,
as a man would take a hot whisky punch
of a Christmas night, was all that could
be done with it, and yet a quart was con
sidered a fair allowance at a bath. It
was beautiful water—clear as crystal and
of great specific gravity. floats in
tbe bath-tub.
Another curious fact was that the min
eral water was tasteless. Some pretended
to find a taste in the water from the dif
ferent springs, but, like the Marquis in
Dickens, it bad to be done by “making
believe veiy much.” Tbe water never
sickened and one insensibly became fond
of It. It was pretty well charged with
carbonic acid gas and wasa lively alter-
ative.
There were about 1,000 patients in tbe
town from all parts of the country, North
and South, and in the winter and spring
the attendance is usually about 4,000.
Tbe patient usually selects and consults
bis own physician in the use of tbe wa
ters. The faculty is well represented and
very thriving. The customary fees was
$5.00 for a preliminary consultation, and
then thirty dollars for a month of such
further advice and direction as might be
necessary. We have rarely seen so ac
complished a savant and gentleman as
fell to our lot In tbe person of Df. Sidney
W. Franklin. There is so field of medi
cal practice in which he will not win em
inence.
The people of Hot Springs were re
markably kind. It wss a pleasure to see
and experience their politeness to Inva
lids. Tbeir street railway, which passed
every point in the city twice Inseyen
minutes, showed a wonderful care in as
sisting, taking up and landing invalids.
The merchants were signally polite, and
they had large and attractive stocks of
goods. Tbe population of the place, in
general, we should say, were remarkably
kind and polite.
As to the actual curative power of tbe
waters, about ninety in tbe hundred were
cured or materially benefited. Iu most
eases the improvement was plainly visi
ble to the observer from day to day—some
rapid, so that a cure of entire rheu
matic disability was tbe work of eight or
ten days. It was always pleasant to
watch tbe progress of patients, and nearly
all of them were hopeful and happy.
But we must quit, with an apology
for so long and dull a screed on this sub
ject.
Tux Morning World is the name of a
new Nashville daily, tbe first copy of
which reached us yesterday. It is well
looking, well filled and well printed,
aud takes the National Associated Press
dispatches. The number before us doesn’t
develops any special polities! bias, but it
is decidedly too good looking a paper to
be of tbe Jacobin faith.
TIs* Hot Vprlais Title.
The spring* were originally reserved by j
the government as a national sanitarium, -. at tbe request of Mrs. Garfield, Dr. Boyn-
Dr Heya tea's XU»tensest
It is telegraphed from 'Washington that,
Ceafcreace
•< Bell reed
eleaere.
but, like many other government reserva
tions in the new States, were illegally en
teredby private parties, transferred by
sale, and from the indisposition of tbe
government authorities to enforce the
public rights without regard to private
interests, compromises were effected at
tbe expense of much delay and confusion
Tbe present government reservation has
been much reduced in dimensions and
many of the original illegal entries have
been confirmed by a special commission,
organized by Congress in 1878. Yester
day, tbe 11th instant, was the day as
signed by tbe act of 1878 for parties
claiming titles under these irregnlar
methods and the action of the commission
to come forward and perfect them accord
ing to the terms established by the Con
gressional commission. Until this is
done, or in default of its being done
title be conferred by pnbllc sale, proper
ty rights in tbo valley will be held very
Isosely.
We think no city tax has yet been col
lected in the town, not could it be
collectable until all rights of tbe govern
ment in - the property had been formally
divested. The city of Hot Springs up to
this time has been without taxable reve
nue.
For the same reason improvement,
though rapid, has been of a cheap char
acter. People will naturally refuse to
spend a great deal of money upon land
to which they have imperfect titles.
Bat we believe the city will now im
prove rapidly and become a sort of pet of
the Federal government. There bat been
some talk in Congress of building army
and naval hospitals there,and surely there
cannot be a better place for tbe purpose.
Tbe people of the place, particularly
the ladiet,are now moving to bniid a pub
lic library edifice, and feel confident that
if they can provide a substantial place of
deposit for the books, Congress will
help them liberally to fill it. They have
tbe promise of help from many leading
members of Congress, which we do not
doubt will be verified. When Northern
members of Congress reflect upon the des
titution of the South in all material evi
dences of beneficence of the Federal gov
ernment, surely they will be glad to flud
a spot la the South where public money
can be spent with good reason. There is
not a thermal sanitarium on the face of
the eaitb to be compared with these Ar
kansas hot springs. They belong to the
government, and the pride of tbe govern
ment should be enlisted in providing them
with every thing to render them attract
ive and efficient. A good public library
is indispensable for this purpose.
As we have remarked, sharp, transac-
tiona in public lands have been not very
extraordinary In the new States. We
will tell one that occurred in Florida in
1844. When James K. Folk was elected
the old district register of pub
lic lands for tbe Tallahassee
district.was turned ont of office, and a
new man from Maryland waa appointed.
The government held a tremendous live
oak reservations in Madison county, but
there was no evidence of such reservation
on the records of the district office, either
marked on the plats or entered on the
tract books. The only record of res
ervations was in the General Land Office
at Washington, where all applications fur
entries were sent for approval. The land
buyer made his application for entries on
the evidence afforded by the district of
fice. That application was forwarded to
Washington, and until returned u rejtel
ect,” be took and kept possession of the
land, if tbe districtregister allowed him to
file his application—in other words, if be
did not know the land was reserved.
Now, unluckily, at this time the Gen
eral Land Office was more than three
months behind its business, and that was
carried on invonsorial routine—every man
took his torn. A certain firm engaged in
filling paval timber contracta with the
government knew alt the facte in tbe
cae. They were aware that the office
records showed no reserves and that the
new district appointee kuew nothing
about them. Thereupon they went bold
ly into the land office and made thdlr ap
plication for a patent to all this great live
oak reservation worth hundreds of thous
ands. The application was received in
good faith. The tract books showed that
the land was vacant. They paid tbeir
dollar and a quarter per acre, and tbeir
application was forwarded to the General
Land Office in Washington for approval
in ite turn. Owing to the inability of tbe
General Land Office to examine
it, the quasi purchasers there
fore bad at least three mouths’
possession. They entered upon the land
with numerous bauds—stripped it of the
Umber—and sank it. In the course of
three months these applications came
back rejected—their mooev waa returned,
but their timber was secure. Next win
ter they sent out vessels—raised and
shipped it to Brooklyn, and turned it
over to the government in fulfilling a con
tract for as big a sum of money as a lot of
timber bas ever been sold lor in America,
and there was neither concealment nor
remedy in the case.
We suppose the HotSprings reservation
was worked in a similar way. Doubtless
there was no evidence in that land dis
trict of any such reservation until it had
been sold and re-sold.
One Ham!red and Thirty-six Times
Over!
At New Orleans, on the 13th day of
September, at the 130ih Grand Monthly
Drawing of The Louisians State Lottery
Company, $30,000, tbe first capital prize,
was won by ticket No. 43,713, half held
by John Conners, an engiueer on the L.,
N , and Grand Southern railroad, and
collected for him through tbe Bank of
Commerce, of Memphis, Tenn.; the other
half held by Simon Silverman, of Indian
Bay, Ark., whose title to ite ownership
is disputed hy Mrs. Emma Clarke, of
the same place. $10,009, the second
prize, by No. 83,657, collected on ac
count of Mr. Hynes Watben, through tbe
FintNaUonal Bank of Vincennes, lnd.
Third, $5,000, drawn by No. 3,; 172, held
by a worthy gentleman of Albany, N. Y.,
who is desirous of remaining unknown
for personal reasons. $2,500, drawn by
No. 32,648, held by Mr. G. A. Print, of
Cullman, Ala,, and No. 56,771, halves of
which were held by Emily Moir, No. 737
Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., and E.
J. Short, of Warsaw, lnd. There were
many thousands of other lucky ones. Any
one anxious to know anything connected
with tbe next drawing sbou'd write at
once to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans,
La., before November 8tb, tbe day of the
138lh drawing.
The Chicago Times says it was Conk-
ling’s intense dislike of Mr. Bayard which
lead to tbe noil-election of $ president pro
tan. of tbe Senate at tbe adjournment of
the extra session of tbe Senate last May.
When he learned that the Democrats In
tended narnlbg Mr. Bayard for tbe place
be went to Arthur and directed him to
keep bis place and Ibas defeat Mr. Bay
ard.
ton, who was with the President until his
death, and who had determined to make
a general statement of tbe case and also
of the autopsy, has consented to withhold
it from tbe public. Tbe telegram to tbe
New Yoik Sun, referred to above, says it
is learned that the statement, if published,
would cootain the following points:
That from about Aug’ist 12th the Presi
dent had imperfect command of his men
tal facu ties, and that he had ouly lucid
intervals. He often found It difficult to
complete sentences, aud his mind would
wa'uder toward the end*of nearly every
attempt at' sentence making. Many
of the sayings attributed to him
were either misunderstood or were
not correctly reported from the
sick chamber. The notable saying; “Is
it worth while to continue this struggle
longer?” is said to liavs originated in
the statement made iu tho President’s
wanderings when be was evidently going
over his work as a member of tbe electo
ral commission. “Is it worth while to go
into this Florida business further?” Ou
arriving at Long Branch he fell into a
stupor, from which it was difficult to
arouse him, and from which he did not
altogether rally until the next day. When
he aroused be wassufprised to find where
he was, requested to be taken away, and
said that he had asked to be taken to
Mentor, and wished to go there. He fre
quently asked for Mr. Blaine, and won
dered why he did not come, but did not
make a general request that all tbe mem
bers of the cabinet visit him. Toward
the latter part of the time the physicians
and attendents were compelled to satisfy
bis requests and commands with
evasions.
Tbe Cot Sox Market.
A Memphis telegram of Monday, from
the Colton Exchange of that city, reports
ftom the districts of west Tennessee, north
Mississippi and north Arkansas an aver
age of 61 per cent, depreciation and loss
on the cotton crop of last year, and a
range of 25 to 75 per cent, falling off from
1880. The average yield is 375 pounds of
seed cotton to the acre; but everywhere
the average weight of teed is much greater
than it was last year. The crop in that
region will not average more than a bale
to five acres, and it is undoubtedly the
poorest section of the crop. At least, it is
inconceivable how there could be any
worse. There were abundance of fields
along tbe road with cotton stalks not more
than three or four inches high, and those
very scattering, while tbe bolls were about
tbe size of a thimble. None of this cotton
had been raiued on since June, and a great
deal of it had perished. But, In the whole
range of the American cotton region, we
doubt whether there is any considerable
area showing an ordinarily productive
crop. Here and there exceptional rains
or exceptional sources of moisture may
hare saved the crop; but there can be no
important scope of country which, in our
opinion, will turn out more than half what
it did last year. Quotations must rise,
but, of course, the great efiort will be to
prevent a rise until it has passed into the
hands of buyers. A London dispatch of
the 10th is as follows
London, October 10.—It is stated that
another cotton corner has been formed,
and that cotton not yet grown is actually
being bought at fixed rates.
rilliUxifsiiut Batura.
The Western papers are earnestly ad
monishing New York not to put her money
against the current of the Mississippi riv
er. They have quite a pile of money, but
it will exhaust long before the current of
the Mississippi river. Tbe great project
of the New Yorkers now is the free navi
gation of tbe Erie canal—that is to say,
the abolitlou of tolls. This will bo sav
ing to the canal beats, but In order to
meet all tbe necessities of the case, they
must also furnish power. The current of
tbe Mississippi river will float the grain
of the Western Stales down the stream
with the addition of only steam power
enough to give steerage-way. A single
tug boat, at the bead of ten barges, will
safely deliver more than a million bushels
on shipboard, over a course uninterrupted
by a single lock; but it the New Yorkers
maintain free canal navigation at an
enormous yearly expense, they still lack
the power to drag the freight through the
dead and shallow water of tbe canal.
There can be no such thing as successful
competition with the river current, which
performs the great bulk of the labor ab
solutely without cost. It is not essential
to the prosperity of New York that she
should monopolize the grain transporta
tion of the country, and she cannot do it.
She will never lack business, but she
must prepare to divide with other points
or lose on account of physical disabilities.
MatMnled Coins
One of the saddest times in Eugland,
according to Macaulay, was in tbe days of
William Prince of Orange, when the coin
age came to such a pass of mutilage that
it had to be suppressed by the government.
That occurred at a time of pestilence, and
tbe exchange was effected by leaving tbe
debased coin at some public place where
the agents of the exchequer would taka it,
and leave new coin in lieu thereof—both
parties keeping each other in sight, but
not in contact. Then the mutilation was
charged to predetermined fraud, and in
relation to gold coin it was probably true,
but we have no idea that tho mutilation of
sliver results from any fraudulent design.
We are just from a community which cir
culated a large part of ite change in vul
canized rubber five cent street railway
tickets, and yet they were continually
bored and mutilated. It is not for the
metal that small change is mutilated, but
from an idle love of whittling, whicli is
almost universal. It is very mischievous
and unfortunate, but we may say of it as
of every other wrong and mischief— 1 "Re
sist tbe devil and be will flee from you.”
Rlonaal tsabtrlsad.
A friend furnishes us with the follow
ing report of a fierce and dcstiuctive
northeaster on the coast at Cumberland:
Seaside House,
Cumberland Island, Oct. 8,1881.
On Wednesday we bad a regular north
easter. Tbe tide covered the marsh so
entirely that there was only a short strip
of marsh grass visible—np the inlet Just
tbe tips or grass were visible above the
water. One of tbe boat lioiues had its
legs washed out, and is now sitting flat
oa the ground. A boat that was lost
wlien we first came down in tho spring,
returned with tbe huge tide.
Tbe marsh hens were ail run out of
tbeir usual haunts, and were very easy to
kill- Edgar and Mr. Patterson got four
teen iu quite a short time. They wero
almost exactly like fried spring chickens.
A Spanish vessel was wrecked off Little
Cumberland Wednesday afternoon, aud
six of the ship’s crew lost. Six of tbe
crew came ashore in a yawl boat, on that
island—drifted there without an oar. The
pilot boat Robinson, Capt. Fader, took
them over to Brunswick. R.
Senator Antuonv says Arthur is de
cidedly tbe most reticent President since
Mr. Buchanan filled that office. He is
kind and genial, says Anthony, but he
will not talk.
I An important conference of railroad
i commissioners was held in Atlanta on
Tuesday, of which a correspondent sends
us the following report, tbe transmission
of which seems to have met with some
delay.' We shall hope to bear further
from him in this number:
Atlanta, October 11.—A convention of
railroad commissioners of several States
met here this morning, in the office of the
Railroad Commission of Georgia. The
States represented by their officials aro
Iowa. Connecticut, Virginia, South Caroli
na, Kentucky, Alabama, California, Mis
souri and Georgia. Illinois did not send
on aooonnt of two membei.* of her
commission being sick. Connecticut is
tho only New England State so far repre
sented, though each has a commission.
It is not likely that any business of con
sequence will be transacted until to-mor
row, as more delegates are expected by
that time.
The meeting is considered an important
one, as these commissions seem now to bo
an established institution in many of the
States, and a comparison of rates, results
and experiences, with a view to possible
uniformity, is a matter of considerable in
terest.
An Agricultural Fact.
Boston Post.
John Sherman’s fences wore never be
fore in snch a shocking condition as at the
present time.
They Want a New Meier
Boston Post.
Professor Bell’s induction balanoe lied
so like blazes that the gas companies pro
pose to have him invent a new meter for
them.
A Charming Deputy SheriK
Texas Shiftings
Austin has a female deputy sheriff, and
when she tells a man stie has an attachment
for him he don’t know whether toblneh and
try to look sweet or to light out for the
woods.
The Innocent Ntar Beaters,
Providsnce Star
The star route gang: “Please, sir, of
course we are innocent, but if wo can wrig
gle out of this scrape on a technicality, yon
can gamble on the certainty that we shall
do it.”
Tux Washington Star states that
twenty-five boxes, carefully packed and
arranged, ye ready at the White House
for transportation to Meutor, Ohio.
There will be six more boxes, which in
all will contain the personal effects of the
late President and the members of his
family. A special car will be chartered,
which will convey the goods to Meutor.
Nothing from the sick room will be sent
to Mentor, except the large fans which
were used in cooling the atmosphere lai-
cdiately surrounding the sick President.
The Washington Star says the United
States Trust Company of New York has I
had registered at the Treasury depart
ment $265,000 in 4 per cent, bonds in the
name of the company as “trustees for
Mrs. Lucrelia R. Garfield and tbe surviv
ing children of James A. Garfield, de
ceased,” being the amount purchased with
the proceeds of subscriptions to the Gar
field fund. These bonds will yield an an
nual income of $11,000, and cannot be
paid off by the government until the year
1007-
The Jacksonville Union says good beet
sells at six and seven cents per pound in
Marianna. In Jacksonville it is held at
from eight to twelve and a half, and some
of it is tough as sole leather—yea, it would
make good trace-chains.
Hon. John Goode, of Norfolk, mem
ber of the House of Representatives in the
last Congress, has accepted tbe Demo
cratic nomination for the Virginia Legis
lature from that city.
Tee Washington Post has doleful news
for the boys. It says that the increased
price ol all kinds of produce has had the
effect of raising the price ot board in that
city from $3 to $5 per month among the
boarding and eating houses. The hotels
have not yet increased the price, but
threaten to do so unless the backboueof
the market can be broken. At the eating
houses meals have advanced from five to
ten cents, and board In proportion.
Thebe is a big row and much profane
language among army officers at the
attempt to have Rockwell, one of the
Garfield “kitchen cabinet,” appointed
quartermaster general of the army. Thirty
officers have precedence of Rockwell,
whose sole recommendation is his connec
tion with jibe Garfield family. Matters
wero pressed so far that Mrs. Garfield was
persuaded to write to President Arthur in
Rockwell’s favor.
Witraen as Washing tou.
Washington Star.
Widowers will be is the ascendency in
Washington this season, os the President
is a widower, the new British minister is al
so, and so is Mr. Allen,the Hawaiian minis
ter, nowthe dean of the diplomatic corps
There-are also several widowers in each,
house of Congress. Among the Senato
rial widowers aro Anthony, David Davis,
and Jones, of Florida.
Made Money.
• Nashville American.
Newa from the seat ot the Indian war in
Arizona shows an enormous amount ot
military operations to the amount of dead
Indians bagged. So far, after days of
marching and a great battle, the United
states troops bagged one Indian and one
little squaw taken niive. It is clear that
our country made money by boarding Sit
ting Ball recently at a first-class Western
hotel.
omen to receive a letter from yoor mother-
in-law, stating that she is coming to spend
the summer, or to come home at 1 o’clock
in tbe morning and find your wife awoke.
We Hbonl<l Think Bo.
X. r San
Unless Henry J. Rowley,of Utica, desires
notoriety at any price, be u probably sorry
that he wrote that letter in which Mr.
Oonkling’s assassination was alluded to.
He bas not only secured the disapproba
tion of all decent men, but also a very thor
ough whipping from an admirer of the
Utica statesman, who resented tbe insult in
a very energetio manner.
Horrible
White
Condition of the
Home.
Washington Telegram to Cincinnati Commer
cial.
The White House is undergoing a thor
ough cleansing and some repairs, which
are greatly needed. One of tbe attendants
upon the President was asked to-day when
the President contemplated moving into
the White House. “Idon’t know,” was the I . _— » lIlolr
repl*\ “I do know, 'hough, that the plaoe I g° r °n the suoculeat roots, they lay down
is all torn np, and more thai^hat, the far- < to sleep and kept the hunter company till
niture in the East Room is just alive with ""*-**—•“-•** *- --
insects. The President will hardly care to
move in until the White House is fumigat
ed and completely overhauled.
French Information en the CuaMim
•f ISM.
Paris Figaro.
- endeavor to succeed Mr. Hsvm
P / esld . en 1 tlttl c hair, two leading can"
‘kemaelves face to faoe^two
toSlh?™ 11 &nd Hanoook. Suddenly
G™^ P M bU0Rn “^didatee of General
(irant, Messrs. Blaine and Sherman
came afrmd They believed the^aw
Th<m br0W J>* Gra P t an imperial crown.
Th«v nU*. 0ed a trn y &h*kspearean scene.
d&es 1 ^5 en00n ?° *?u eir r «P<*tiv6 can-
«idpromise the vote* of tho Re-
p™h«m party to Garfield, who vainly re-
The Longest Sight He Ever Famed:
(Cal )tfsmr.
nigMdurtoghU^ Zt
SttSS&S.
Just as he had comfortably* fixed him^is
for a night’s freeze-out
spreading sapling two large cinnamon W,
h °7 e J n .? , * ht ’ Having appeased their hum
The Gainesville, (Fla.,) Sun learns
from an Orange Lake friend that General
John B. Gordon, of Georgia, has purchased
a half interest in the fine orange grove
owned by Judge A. Means on Orange
Lake and forty acres of land beside,
which he expects to devote to orange cul
ture. The purchase is quite a large one,
but we do not know what amount was
paid.
The wires this morning, report the sud
den death yesterday of Dr. J. G. Holland,
editor of Scribner's Magazine, and a man
of considerable literary taste and attain
ments. He hss written much, and always
in tho line of pure thought and sound
morals. He edited Scribner with good
taste and Judgment, and quite success
fully.
Senator Brown’s Washington resi
dence is the Metropolitan Hotel. Sena
tor Hill is keeping house at 21 Grant
Place, where bs was last session. It is
said that against tho advice of his physi
cians he spoke frequently at tbe Demo
cratic caucus, and that bis voice and
euuuciation showed little, if any, change.
The epilhetical scrub who does the
mud-throwing for tbe Chattanooga Times
is an exceedingly well-informed person.
He speaks of tbe Utica (N. Y.) Observer
as “Conkling’s home organ.” The Ob
server is a staunch Democratic paper, and
always was.
Tbe Bight Talk.
Philadelphia Times.
Every boy ought to heve some time to
read. If he be so overloaded with lessons
that he is deprived of this, there is a mis
take somewhere. The poor fellows who
are so cruelly driven with studies iu school
and at home that they have no time for
exercise or for indepedent reading may re
ceive high marks for tbeir lejsons and
graduate with what goes by tho name of
“honors.” But they are likely to be fiat-
chested men, with weak lurgs and ailing
stomachs, and to die of consumption or
liver complnint before finishing their half-
century. The boy who combines tbo right
amount of school study nud home study
with a fair quantity of vigorous exercise
and tbe proper seasoning of a liberal coarse
of rending will find himself best fitted to
enter on a career of usefulness when he
shall reach manhood.
In. Gnrfleld’s Last Visit to the White
Hones.
Washington Star
When Mrs. Garfield, when last in Wash
ington, made her one visit to the White
House since she left it with her invalid
husband, on September Ctb, she expressed
the dsSire to see, for tbo last time, the
room where he had lain ill so long—the
same in which she was also ill for several
week. The friend who accompanied her
says that when first they entered the room
Mrs. Garfield looked bo deadly pale she
thought she would faint, but with her cus
tomary self-control she maintained her
composure and with grateful feelings to
those who had arranged the room for her
coming, noticed the taste and affection
they bad shown in its adornments. The
bed was covered with choi est flowers,
beantifully arranged, and on the pillows
rested a picture of the dead President.
Hew They Purify ’Eta In Atlanta.
Augusta Xtics.
A very sad accident occurred in Atlanta
the other night. A young man and the
idol of his soul, who were occupying the
choir, began talking about “Kismet.” The
beautiful being on his knee said to the
young man that she thought “Kismet” was
just too perfectly lovely for anything, but
be laughed a loud and brutal laugh, and
replied that “Kismet” was no good at all.
Then the girl begnn to cry, aud lie had to
promise ber a box of candy and haul her
over to the other knee and tell how much
he loved her about seventy-five times be
fore she would cease crying. Mutual ex
planations followed, when it transpired
that lie was referring to a bay mare with a
record of 2:4'_%', while she meant the book
written by Miss Fletcher.
A quick Town.
Washington Mepuhlican. *
Six months ago there was not a house at
Glendive, Montana; now there arel^CO.
The Northern Facifio railroad was ojiened
to that point iu July. Iu the new cemetery
there are nine graves, including five of men
killed in fights, and two of female outcasts
who committed suicide.
The Benson Why.
Journal of Education.
“Why are you late ?” a*ked a school
teacher of n little girl, who hung herheud
and aaid:
“We have got a little baby at our house.”
“Don’t you let it happen again,” said tbe
teacher fiercely; and the little girl said she
wouldn’t, and took her seat.
Uolnc t* Washington.
X. V Commercial Advertise.
“Yes, dear, ot oonrse we’re going to
Washington this winter; the President ts
a widower, you know.” “How awfully too
utterly sweet! ” “Yes, and the new British
minister’s a bachelor.” “How too precious
ly consummately lovely!” “Icawn’t marry
them both, you know, dear.” “No, dear,
leave me j'ust one.”
Tbe Freuds of » Fraud
Bon Piatt in the Washing on Capital.
Frauds in the Pension Office, frauds in
the Post-office Department, frauds in the
Treasury. This is the record of tbe Hayes
administration np to date, and the investi
gation can hardly be said to have begun.
The more the covering is taken off that ad
ministration the more disgraceful the
showing.
Doraey'e UUIe Bauch.
Nashville American.
A gentleman who recently rode through
ex-Benator Dorsey’s cattle ranch in New
Mexico rays of it. “It is forty by sixty
miles in size, and has ou it twanty-e ght
thousand bead of cattle and thirteen hun
dred horses. The income from this plaoe
cannot be less than $75,000 for the present
season.”
Bet Likely.
* Washington I Olt.
An administration paper, with Joe How
ard, Jr., at the bead ot it, is talked ot as
not only a New York necessity, but possi
bility. Two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars of somebody's money have been
got ready for its devouring maw. But poe-
tibly reason will resume ber sway, and the for, or to note a winding sheet in the can-
money will be saved. * die.” in Chicago it is considered an ii
Mr. Hewitt ou un Allege* Consulta
tion Between Democrats and Urecn-
backers
X- r. Sun.
Mr. Hewitt read the dispatch carefully,
and said decidedly: “There is not a word
of truth in it. There has not been such a
consultation, and I never mndo any such
remarks. In fact, I have been and am ut
terly opposed to any alliance of the Demo
cratic party with the Greenback party. All
attempts to conciliate have been a mistake.
In the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Con
gresses, of which I was a member, attempts
were mAde to conciliate tho Greenback
party, aud the Democrats made a mistake
in doing so. The Democratic party must
come to be n party for hard money or 60ft
money. For my part, I am a hard
money man. I always was and always
shall be. When you wont to weigh a pound
in a balance you take a pound weight.
When you want money you must have real
money, aud not imitation money.”
Mrs President Arthur.
Eli Perkins
It is settled that Mrs. McEIroy, the Pr s-
ident’s sister, will not be the mistress of
tbe White House. The gossips now ask,
“Who will be ?” The newspapers have
ohronicled the President's whereabouts for
the last two days, except when he has
slipped out of the Fifth Avenue Hotel un
attended, Where did he go then ? I will
let the secret out. He called on the widow
of Marshall O. Roberts, corner of Twenty-
first street and Fifth avenue. Arthur is a
managing man; and to marry a young
widow with $40,000 a year will be as *
a thing as the Presidency itself.
Roberts was formerly a Miao Endicott.
The fami'y were in moderate circum
stances, but tbe daughters were always
good managers. She is now thirty-five,
with a fair face which seldom smiles. She
has one child, about three years old. She
would manage tbe White House in a very
aristocratic maun 3r. Her ideas are any
thing but democratic. Tho burden of con
versation among her old school-friends
when she married the rich eight-million
aire, Roberts, was, “O, she doesn’t know
us auymore.” When Mrs. Roberts gave
ber first reception on Fifth avenue, none
of her old friends were invited. In their
place the house was filled with the rich and
aristocratic—many of them persons the
young wife had never seen before. A
young lady who was to intimate with Miss
Endioott as to take beaux to introduce to
ber at her humble home, was, after her
marriage with Mr. Roberts, “out dead” on
the street. This wa« done out of a desire
on the part of Mrs. Roberta to get into a
more aristocratic set, hb is too often the
case when poor, ambitious girls marry men
of great wealth. Mrs. Roberts is an ac
complished lady, thoroughly educated.
Hew They o*t Awejr With HIM.
Cincinnati Enouirer.
Talking to boys lu public meetings is
getting to be an art and a science. Billy
Ro?s is a great temperance lecturer and at
Rushviiie, Ill., was once preaching to the
young on his favorite them. He said:
“Now, boys, when I ask you a question,you
musn't be afraid to speak right out and
answer me. When you look around and
see ail these fine houses, farms and cattle,
do yon ever think who owns them? Your
fathers own them, do they not?,’ “Yes,
sir," shouted mnny voices. “Well, where
will your fathers be twenty years from
new?” “Dead,” shouted tbe boys. “And
who will own the property thei\” “Us
boys,” shouted the urchins. “Right! Now,
tell me, did you ever iu going along the
streets, notice the drunkards lounging
around the saloon doors waiting for some
body to tieet them?” “Yes. sir; lots of
them.” Well, where will they be twenty
years from now?” “Dead exclaimed
tbe boys. “And who will be drunkards
then?” “Us boys.” Billy was thunder
struck for a moment, but, recovering him
self, he tried to tell the boys how to escape
such a fate.
Hew It Is In UilesK*.
Chicago Tribune.
Speaking of superstitions connected with
marriage, a London paper says that in Ire
land “it is considered an ill omen to rise
before the sun the marriage morning; to
dream of the croaking of a raven, or to see
the shadow of his wing flit by in the sun
shine; or to hear the knock of an invis ble
hand, which, however, should be listened
Uncle Jim’s Befleetlous.
Neto Orleans Timet.
De stars is jes as bright as dey was befo’
de war. Some folks would borrer a bung-
hole ef dey could. Dar’s some things dat
will do to swop orf in de dark. A smart
dorg rudder take de back track ob a grown
b]ar. A dorg wid a block on don’t brag on
his sitiwation. Old Saiun loads his canons
wid big watermillions. De debbil ain’t got
no pertiukler objections to Christmas.
Hasps o’ pentenchery bands kin sing hyms
firs' rate. You may pray for rain, but you
better try de hoe on de crab-grass. A
punkin vine ain’t gwine to ax your 'vioe
’bout what road it trabble.
Marvin’s Mistake.
X. Y. World.
The enterprising and seductive Mr. Mar-
vin-Budlocg, etc., who, to parody a famous
phrase, was several married gentlemen
rolled into one, has been sent to prison at
Richmond, Va., for ten years for bigamy
and swindling. Wbat a melancholy in
stance of misdirected talents and wasted
opportunities! If he had only allied him
self with political parties and then deserted
them for gain—if instead of committing
forgery he had merely advocated repudia
tion, instead of finding himself sent to ithe
penitentiary by Judge Qhristian at Rich
mond he might at this moment find himself
in course of reception at tho Union League
Club by Judge Davis.
Wbat tbe South Wants.
Courier-Journal.
The census bureau shows that New Eng
land cotton manufacturers pay ten per
cent, more for raw cot on than the South
ern manufacturers do. Were the New
England mills located in the South a sav
ing of over $ ,000,000 iu the cost of mate
rial would result. In the matter of wages
in cotton mills, the average wages of New
England hat,da is "56,64 and the South
$161.00 u year, and the Southern manufac
turers get a higher price for their goods
than is obtained for the tome kind in New
Euglund. The South's want is good and
cheaper machinery. The protective tariff
now forbids this, as it also limits the mar
kets for manufactured cotton goods. The
South requires a tariff for revenue only. If
she would prosper iu her .manufacturing
interests she must demand a tariff change.
A Distinguished Tramp.
New York Tribune.
Without doubt the most distinguished
tramp in the country is Wyatt Henry Card,
well, whose mother was the eldest daugh
ter of Patrick Henry, and his father an
eminent physician in Richmond. Va. He
was graduated at Washington University,
is a good scholar and accomplished in
many directions. At the age of fifteen he
joined the Confederate army and lost his
leg at Manassas. He was subsequently the
private secretary of Senator Foote. For
years he has wandered about the country,
occasionally engaging in newspaper work
in various cities, but constantly sinking
lower and lower through his uncon trolls-
ble love of liquor. This fiend has pursued
him through life and will probably kill
him before long.
Wattling for Guiteau.
X. Y. Sun.
The members of the little band who fish
for bass in the neighborhood during the
day and meet in tVoolff’s Old House by the
Mill, near New Dorp, Staten Island, after
dark, arc still bent upon taking the life of
the miserable Guiteau. Daring the linger
ing illness of President Garfield they
planned, in the event of his death, to send
an assassin to Guiteau’s cell in tbe guise of
a clergyman; but they were too closely
watched, they say, and that scheme was
abandoned. Charley Wolff is one of their
leaders. He said yesterday: “I’ll guaran
tee Guiteau ’U never get away alive. If he
gets into the hands of tbe New Jersey an-
thorities we’re sure to ges him. We’ve got
plenty of men with us m New Jersey who
can shoot within an egg at sixty yards. I
can do it myself, and if the chance comes
to me I'll do it, and I don’t care what hap
pens. We’ve got plenty of money offered
us. One business house in New York has
offered ns $10,000 for any necessary ex
penses in getting at Guiteau. A good deal
of money has been put up in Providence,
and I’m going there next week to see some
of our members there. We*v got men in
Washington, and I tell you our organiza
tion is still alive and active. If Guiteau
fries the insanity dodge he never escape us
alive. I was in New York to-day to look at
some hand grenades. They are beautiful,
no bigger than an egg, and you can carry
one in your vest j>ocket to blow a man to
pieces. We bod a meeting last night at my
house, and we are watching this matter
closely.”
speculation A beat tbe Mew Cabinet
Washington Special to Baltimore Sun. 8th
Speaking ot the cabinet, it was said to
day in quarters professing to be informed
that some if not all of the cabinet nomi
nations will be sent iu at the gpeciul sea
sion of tlie Senate. The general impres
sion has heretofore been to the contrary.
Mr. MncVeagh is understood to be already
making preparations to move back to
Philadelphia, and tc express himself as
quite satisfied with his experience as a cab
inet minister. Tho President, it does not
see in to be doubted, would prefer that both
Mr. James and Mr. MucYeagh should re
main until the star-route prosecutions are
concluded, as they are certainly entitled to
any glory that may come out of that mat
ter. But neither Mr. James or Mr. Mac-
Veagh are at nil confident that convictions
will follow the indictment of the star-route
people, and if the whole business fails after
the great hurrah which has been made
over it, they prefer that the failure should
be attributed to some one ebe. At any
rate the present cabinet cannot hold to
gether for any long time. It has never
been harmonious from the beginning. It
will be remembered that in this correspon
dence illusion was made to this fact iu the
latter part of last spring, and the state
ment was made that there would soon be
cnanges. Hud it rot been for the shooting
and the succeeding illness of President
Garfield the changes would have been made
long ago, and if General Garfie.d had re
covered one of the first matters to claim
his attention would nave been a recon
struction of his cabinet. President Arthur
is too good a politician not to know that
his administration can only hope to be a
successful and brilliant one with all tbe
members of it in perfect harmony, and be
could not expect to accomplish much if he
held to the discordant organization which
has come down to him as a legacy from
his predecessor. For some reason not di
vined attempts are making to picture the
cabinet as one of the happiest of happy
families, but the contrary is so well known
that such attempts excite amusement only.
It is said here among friends of Mr. Blaine
that the publication of his letter of Decem
ber last to General Garfield was without
his knowledge or consent; that the motive
was to annoy and injuro him, and that an
other member of the cabinet with whom
he is on notoriously unfriendly terms is
really responsible for the publication of
the letter. Certainly Mr. Blaine can take
no pleasure in snch a document in print
with his name attached to it. It breathes
the loosest political morals all the way
through. Borne of Mr. Blaine's particular
friends here were so much irritated by the
publication that at first they were inclined
to doubt its genuineness.
near daylight As Dick was not hunting
bear he did not shoot, nor sleep much
either. He avows it was the longest night
he aver passed in ail his born days.
Tout Bleed Us the Scute
Wafhington Star.
There have been, perhaps, more changes
in the.personnel of the United States Sen
ate this year than have occurred in- one
singlo year in the history of the govern
ment Since tbe 3d day of last Maitk
twenty-one Senators have retired by the
expiration of terms, resignation and death.
Another feature of the Senate to meet next
week will be the unusual number of young
men and of men comparatively new in
public life. Of the twenty-one Senators
who, when the Senate meets Monday, will
have taken their seats in 1881, only half a
dozen can be said to have attained nation
al reputations.
(jnrOeld Coincidence*.
Washington Star.
One story is always good until another is
told, and es many Tuesdays as Friday coin
cidences can be named for Garfield. He
was not nominated President on Friday,
but on Tuesday, June 8th. He was
elected President on Tuesday, came to
Washington to be inaugurated on a Tues
day and was carried a helpless invalid from
the White House to return there no more,
on a Tuesday, when going to Long Branch
to die. It wanted but one hour and twenty-
five minutes of being Tuesday when he
died. (
Senator Bayard's Family.
Washington Post.
Senate r Bayard’s family, who have been
at Sharon Springs, N. Y., will occupy their
house on Highland Place, Massachusetts
avenue, early in the season. Mrs. Bayard,
nee Louisa Lee, of Virginia, wss a hello
and beauty, and a famous musician. It is
needless to say tbat ber daughters, Misses
Katie and Mabel, have continued her repu
tation.
An Important Harrises Decision.
Sew York Hour
In a decision handed down Thursday,,
the New York Court of Appeals lays down
the doctrine that a marriage valid in the-
State wheroin it is contracted is valid in
every other State of the Union, even in a
State which may have forbidden by local
law one of the contracting parties to mar
ry within ite territory.
I’aelsNoM’s tefta
Texas Siftings.
A few days ago Gilhooly met Uncle Moso
on Austin uvcuue. The old man was look
ing very gloomy, so Gilhooly asked him
wbat was the matter.
“Old Uncle Nace is done gone. Ho died
las’ night.”
“What did he die of?”
“Shot in de back wid a pistol.”
“Why, I never heard of it.”
“I hasn’t turned him ober for ter see,
but I reckon dot’s what de doctors is gwiuo
ter pay. When de President was shot in do
back day said be died ob neuralgia ob de
heart, and as old Naoe died ob neuralgia
ob de heart I reckon somebody must hub
shot him in de back.”
FtUr Notes.
Among tbe entries arriving af the office
of the secretary we notioe a beautiful dis
play of goods made from the fleece of tho
Angora goat, the handicraft of an accom
plished lady from Jones country. No more
attractive display will be on exhibition.
Talbot county is in a blaze of enthusi
asm, and is making most extensive prepar
ations for her exhibit. Superintendent
Cary speaks there to-day. Sumter county
also is exertihg every energy to win tho
champion belt in the competitive display
of coon ties.
Dr. Jones, of Burke, will show his splen
did herd of thoroughbred cattle.
The stook show promises to excel any
past exhibit in that line.
Captain Bogardas with his son will giv
an exhibition of their wonderful skill every
day in the hippodrome at 12 o’clock. Ho
wears the champion belt in the rifle prac
tice.
In Machinery Hall a larger number of
entries have been made than ever before at
this date. Cotton gins, steam engines of
various patterns, agricultural implements
of every description, mowers and reapers,
barrows, pulverizers, riding cultivators and
seed drills are arriving in large numbers.
We learn that it‘s in contemplation that
the business houses and tbe colleges and
publio srhools shall give a holiday to their
employee and pnpils for one day, in order
that oar entire community may testify
their cordial appreciation of the executive
committee in selecting oar grand old city
and our beautiful parkas the permanent
home for the fairs of the Georgia State
Agricultural Society. Wednesday has been
suggested as a suitable day for the grand
ovation.
The Central railroad and all its branchoa
will sell round trip tickets to and from the
fair to all points at five cents per mile*
tickets good to return for five days niter
date of sale.
The drew* Mid (he Fair.
The executive committee on yesterday
made arrangements with the cirous agent
whereby the tents of the Coup company
will, on Thursday, be erected within the
park enclosure, and every one who buys a
ticket to the fair will also bo admitted to
the circus. This is a good move on tho
part of the committee, .and will not only
attract large crowds to the fair, but will
give everyone the opportunity of viowing
both attractions for a small sum. The
day chosen is one likely to be the most
popular, and a dense crowd may be ex
pected. There is some talk of having the
grand chariot race on the mile track.
Arrsa much discussion and delibo ratiom
we observe, the snb-ocmn.ittee on linnnoo
of the Philadelphia city councils have
agreed to report on the $l(w as tho
tlx rate for 1882. Tbe public building,
commission, whose demands, like those of.
onr public works commission, are always
on a grand scale, wanted an appropriation,
of $1,260,01k), bat tbe sub-committee ad
vised them .o be content with $750,000—
and it is probable the advice will be accepted
in view of tbe stated fact that the advance-
in tbe price of tbs ne cesearies of life wil
probably force coancil* to restore tbe 10
per cent reoently taken from the salaries
of all city employes, especially those of the*
school teachers.
Kino Cbahles of Wurtemberg is rciwrt-
ed to have secretly embraoed Catholicism,
during his stay at Nioe this summer
through the influence of Baron Spitzen-
berg, an ardent Catholic.
The doctrine of tue coeducation of the-
sexes, it would seem, is to sum up in pro
visions for educating them apart. The au
thorities of the Ohio State University have
undertaken to keep the male sn i female
students wholly apart, except in the recita
tion rooms and chapels. A former order -
permitting the girls to receive calls onoe a
week has been rescinded, and they are for-
idden to meet the boys anywhere out of.
doors. A rebellion is threatened.
Tbn intention of the Secretary of the In
terior to direct that the governors of the
Territories shall stay at home and attend
to their business will paralyse some of.
those officials. Some of them have hardly
taken the trouble to stay over night in the
Territories of whioh they »** the chief ex
ecutives. Territorial governorships won’t
be so desirable hereafter, if attention to
doty is. to be insisted upon..
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