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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1881.
Sib Edw±ed TnossroN is now with hi*
wife on his war to 8t. Petersburg to enter
upon his diplomatic functions as British
ambassador.
Thi reports of the semi-annual copfer-
enoe of the Mormon Church at Salt lake
do not indicate any abatement of real on
the part of the men with many wives. Fif
teen thousand delegates were gathered
from Otab, Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming and
Nevada, and the religious enthusiasm was
remarkable.
Ob Wednesday evening a farmer driving
home was stopped by three masked men,
taken from his wagon, bound to a tree and
gagged, and robbed of all his money. This
did not happen in Italy, nor in Mezioo, nor
in Sonth America, nor in Missouri, but in
quiet Maine, the borne of Solon Chase, and
of the minister to Spain, and cf Neal Dow.
The property of the late Dean Stanley
is so disposed of by bis will that his sisters,
the relatives of his wife, his own relatives
in the second and third generations, his
church and personal friends, ana, indeed,
nearly every one who stood in any way re
lated to him by kinship, friendship, or do
mestic service, oomes in for a share of the
$420,000.
Philadelphia is having a tremendous
struggle for and against an elavated rail
road in Market street, one of its principal
business thoroughfares. The property
owners along the proposed line seem to be
about equally divided, part claiming that
great damage would be done, and part
arguing that in the New York-Sixth avenue
retail business has been helped by the high
transit.
Oalipobbia papers say that the phyllox
era panic, which threatened at one time
to put an end to wine growing in the Gol
den State, and which has done so much
barm in Europe, is a thing of the past. It
has been found that this enemy of tho vine
can be controlled, if not extirpated, by the
use of proper remedies, and the dread of it
ia dying out. Most of the vineyards in
Sonoma Valley are now in a flourishing
condition i as many new acres have been
planted this year as in the last three com
bined, and the yield promises to be enor
mous.
ThxTunnxl Uxdeb the Hudson.—'The
work on the Hudson river tunnel, in Jersey
City, is progressing rapidly. The north
base has been finished for a distance of 700
feet under the river, and the south base COO
feet. The old air locks are being removed
for use on the New York side. The old
bulk-heads in the working shaft are being
cleared away. As soon as this is finished
work on the section under the city will be
begun. The huge caisson used in sinking
the shaft at the foot of Morton street is
jost disappearing below the level of the
ground.
Gciteau, the assassin of President Gar
field, was brought into the District Crimi
nal Court at Washington on Friday and ar
raigned for trial. Mr. Sooville, his counsel,
fully disclosed the line of defense which is
contemplated. An affidavit sworn to by
Mr. Sooville alleges that be believes the
prisoner to be insane, and give* a list of
witnesses through whose testimony he ex
pects to prove this foots the government is
asked to furnish the means for procuring
their attendance. As a seoond ground of
defense it is charged that, in the opinion
*oi eminent medical experts, the wound of
which the Preeident died was not neces
sarily faial, and a list of eminent physic
ians is exhibited by whose testimony the
prisoner ekpeets to prove that the‘PresI'
dent’s death map have been oattaed by im
proper surgical treatment. The govern
men! it asked to procure the attendance of
these witnesses and to pay them. The
court fixed November 7 for the trial, and
the preliminary question of jurisdiction
will probably be argued on October 90.
Thx Pahaxa Caxa’l mot xaz Bzoux —
The progress being made in the inter-
oceanic canal is not very great. Prepara
tions have been abundant, but not much
work it done. The construction proper of
the canal, according to advioea of Septem
ber 24, has not even been commenoed. In
cluding those engaged in preparatory sur
veys, draughting, furnishing provisions,
Ac., the number of persons in the employ
of the Panama ('ompany does not exoeed a
thousand. Of that small number seventy
have already died and many more are sick,
and the directors have began to bnild a
regular system of hospitals, (four in all),
distributed along the length of toe canal,
end a fifth (“central hospital’’) is to bo con
structed at Panama. The ooet of excava
tion ia fonnd to exceed all estimates, the
work done at the sites of two villages being
laid ont for workmen eoeting $1.25 per
cubic yard instead of three cents as was ex
pected. The French stockholders have re
cently been called on for another assess
ment, and having very little to show for
previous expenditures, will perhaps soon
realize the impracticable nature of the en
terprise to which they have pledged their
money.
M mLAxxD Corxs —A Biarania Sfccula-
tion.—The Charleston Newa and Courier
says: There has been some trouble and
considerable inconvenience in the city
caused by the recent action of the govern
ment looking to the withdrawl of mutilated
coins. Dp to the publication of the notice
by the city railway oompaniea prohibiting
their drivers from receiving them, muti
lated coins passed current, nobody think
ing to inquire into their value. A very
large amount of mutilated coin is in the
city, the great bulk of it in "the hands of
innocent holders. The refusal to receive
it therefore oomes with peculiar hardship
on many persons who can ill afford the
loss. The broken here are purchasing it
at the rate of 86 cents for dollar pieces, 36
oents for halves, 16 eente for quarters and
B cents for dimes. A standard dollar
weighs 412){ grains. A punched dollar,
weighed yesterday, showed a weight of 872
grains, a loss of 40# grains. The agent of
the treasury and the postmaster have both
received orders to refuse mutilated coins
and it is thought by this means the coin
currency will aoon be purified. Thoeo hav
ing it in large quantities axe compelled to
sell it nere or to pack it up, tend it to the
mint whew it will be bought by weight, or
to melt it up ft* the silver.
Gkh EppA Hu»to», ex-Congreseman
from the Warrenion, Virginia, district, I.
confident says the Washington Port,
othat the Democratic majority In Virginia
will be about 15,'JOO and |*e Legislature
Democratic by twelve majority on Joint
WVliot.” Tbe latter calculation, General,
4a too close Ibr comfort. Can’t you ro-
l >t |g figures and make ns feel betteif
LutWMk’s CtUsarifans.
The New York Commercial and Fi
nancial Chronicle of Saturday I art, re
ports tbe cotton receipts of the week end-
tag Friday night, 14th instant, at 185,06®
bales, against 170,810 bales last week,
152,000 bale* tbe week before, and 110,-
433 bales four weeks since,making a grand
total of 777,023 bale* since the let of Sep
tember, tagalnat 003,125 bales for the cor
responding weeks of last year—showing «o
far a decrease of 125,202 bales.
The interior port business of last week
was as follows: Receipts 103,184 against
04,031 for tbe same week last year. Ship
ments, 87,448, against 75,822. Stocks,
180,159, against 121,105 at same date last
year. Adding seven new ports to its list,
the Chronicle shows grand totals as fol
lows: Receipts, 130,080, against ISO,-
082 last year. Shipments, £9,0)8, against
109,678 last year. Stocks last Friday,
198,581, against 147,013 at tame date last
year.
Tbe Chronicle'* visible supply Uble re
ports 1,048,950 bales of cotton in sight on
Friday last, against 1,577,581 bales last
year at same date, 1,283,488 In 1870 at
an equal date, and 1,305,298 In 1878.
These figures show an increase im the
visible supply of cotton as follows: 371,-
578 bales on tbe supply of last year; 665,-
511 bales on tbe supply of 1879, and
643,683 bales on the supply of 1878.
Tbe Chronicle appends tbe following
to its weekly statement of receipts from
plantations:
The above statement shows—
1. That the total receipts from the plan
tations since September 1 in 1881 were
911,647 bales; In 1880 were 1,000,077
bales: in 1879 were 835,987 bales.
2. That, although the receipts at the out-
ports the peat week were 185,058 bales, the
actual movement from plantations was
221,242 bales, the balance going to increase
the stocks at the intenor ports. Last
year the receipts from the plantations for
the same week were 229,176 bales, and for
1879 they were 194,028 bales.
The Chronicle'* weather reports for the
week ending last Friday represent a gen
erally warmer and dry condition. In
Galveston, Indlanola and Corsicana,
Texas, there was an averqtt of about
half an inch of rain during tli^reek. In
Dallas there was 2.85, and reports of tbe
presence ot a top crop. Average temper
ature in Texas about 80. New Orleans
had three showers and an average mer
cury of 77. Shreveport 78, Little Rock
72, Nashville 70, Montgomery 73, Selma
72, Macon CO, Columbus 80, Savannah 72,
Atlanta 87.
Tbe Bontbera Walriunu
We welcome, with hearty congratula
tions, the reappearance of this journal, for
so many years one of the institutions and
landmarks of Athens. It has been in
eclipse for several weeks, but looms above
the horizon this week with new lustre.
It has in the interim been redeemed, re
generated and dlsenthralled,and bereaiter
under the control ot Messrs Yancy, Craw
ford St Gantt, will appear regularly. It
Is an exceedingly good looking, thirty-two
column sheet, printed in new type
throughout, and presents a mos: attractive
appearance. It is bright, lively, and
newsy, and proposes to do some good
work for “the only party that the troubles
of the times have left for honest men.” It
says:
In making oar bow to the people
among whom we have cast our lot, we
reiterate that the Watchman will cham
pion the cause of Organized Democracy
and at the proper time and season will
lend its untiring exertions to secure the
success oi that party and recover our dis
trict from tbe domination of an organiza
tion that owes allegiance to no fixed prin
ciples, and whose platform spans the
narrow gulf dividing tbe two groat rival
parties in this country. Tbe unity of the
Democratic party ia tbe only political sal
vation of the South, and to a consumma
tion of that grand and glorious eud we
ask tb« co-operation of every true South
ron in our borders.
Gtiac So bo Genteel.
It is said to be a settled fact that a great,
(esthetic reform Is going to be introduced
la Washington society. The letter-wri
ters explain that the introduction of Wes
tern manners into the republican court at
Washington hat gradually reduced tbe
standard of manners and etiquette at the
White House till tbe older and wealthy
States of the Atlantic coast are scandal
ised, and social gatherings have lost all
courtliness—in fact, are as easy and un
restrained as a quilting frolic or a church
tea-drinking. This is no longer to be al
lowed. Mr. Arthur, though claiming no
more Illustrious origin than the second
son of a plain, rural Baptist preacher,
interlarding his clerical functions with
agricultural labor on a small farm, has,
by years of study and culture in New
York society aa a lawyer in respectable
practice (as one may say,) learned bow
to behave, and will bring his knowledge
to tho Improvement of White House man
ners. There will be no more smoking or
drinking out of the bottle or the teapot.
Only genteel people will be invited into
the house, and the best behavior will be
demanded. Nothing is said about keep
ing the books straight, but Sherman is
moving to straighten them as preliminary
to a reform in that particular.
Death of Mr. C. A Xatllai.
Our community learned, yesterday, with
sincere iegret, the death of this promi
nent citizen, which took place at 8 a.m.
at bis home on College street.
He has been seriously ill and confined
to tbe boose for several weeks, bat bis
health has been falling more than a year,
the result of a severe attack of typhoid
fever, resulting, finally, in organic disease
of the heart.
Mr. Nutting was, we believe, a native
of Vermont, but has lived at tbe South
many years, and has been prominently
identified with the business interests of
Macon since 1885. Previous to that date,
and to tbe year of Sherman’s raid, be was
successfully engaged in .manufacturing in
Butts county. He served one term in tbe
lower house of the Georgia Legislature,
with tbe late John B. Rose and Speaker
Bacon as his colleagues, and was regarded
as one of tbe best business members of
that body. He a as also at one time pres
ident of the City Bank, of this city, and
one of the lessees of the Western and At
lantic railway.
In all tbe relations of life Mr. Nutting
acted well his part, and baa gone hence
amid general and sincere sorrow. HU
eldest daughter waa married at hU bed-
aide last Tuesday. We do not know hU
age exactly, but think it must have been
nearly, if not quite, sixty-three years.
The Wees era Cera Crap.
The Chicago Time*, ot Saturday, re
viewing the com situation in the Western
States, more particularly in Indiana, Kan
sas, Nebraska and Missouri, estimates tbe
shortage, aa compared with last year, at
80 to 40 per cent. Now, Western com
and Southern cotton have a “glneral”
habit of running in couples. With some
1 exceptions it will be found to have kept It
up for thirty years. For years past, the
big cotton crope of the South have been
off-aet by big Western corn crops. 'In old
slavery timet corn and cotton measured
tbe value of the negro, too—as to core,
tbe dime counting a hundred dollars in
slave valuation, and, aa to cotton, tbe cent.
We reckon tbe Western com crop, this
year, will move about pari passu with
cotton as to the magnitude ot the crop
and tbe priee of it. In Houston county
tbe males are said to he contemplating a
political movement in view oi tbe scarcity
of corn. They will petition Congress to
restrict the consumption of corn in the
manufacture of whisky, so long as the
grain’is so scarce.
The Beaune WtrM'i Fair.
The committee of twenty-eight, repre
senting the ''solid men ot Boston,” have
decided to hold a World’s Fair, provided
the sum of five millions of dollars can be
secured in cash for that purpose. The
Hub is va^r enthused on tbe subject,
and will ea^^4 through with a wet fin
ger—giving an illustration of municipal
pride which will astonish even Atlanta.
Tbe failure of New York to carry out its
project of a World’s Fair will put Boston
on its mettle and though the fourth or
fifth city of the continent in point of size,
when her local pride is fairly aroused
there is not one that can vie with her in
her general capacity to conduct such an
enterprise in the most complete and im
posing manner. Boston will astonish
America in this matter, with tbe una
nimity, liberality and vigor with which
she will project and carry through tbe
World’s Fair of 1883.
The Lapiiam asd Milled Thade.—
The Washington correspondent of tbe
Boston Herald says it is believed In Al
bany that the intimation from Washing
ton of serious Democratic intent to inves
tigate the charges of corruption in the
titles of Senators Lapham and Miller ia
not unconnected with Senator Conkling’a
recent visit to the Federal capital. Tbe
fact that Mr. Depew, Mr. Vanderbilt’s
favorite attorney and intimate adviser,
was at first made the prominent candi
date against the Uonkling element, was
most unfortunate for the friends of tho, h( 5- oaUUll(Jtag g4,337,000 of bonds for
Garfield administration. Mr. Depew’a 4,jj 0 bridge, at 4,6 and 0 per cent; Broolc-
command of large pecuniary resources,
and bis professional connection with the
lobby, gave rise to reports that he was
using maney to compass his election in
place of Platt, and Conkling’a triends in
Albany and elsewhere made effective use
of the circumstance to bolster up their own
cause. The stalwart Senator himself
claimedconversation that nothing
could defeat him and Platt bat the pock
et-book of “that man” Depew, and, since
the election of Miller and Lapham, cer
tain stalwart authorities hare given out
obscure bints of their wish that an inves
tigation Into the methods used, to defeat
Cunkling might be had. Depew’s friends
avow that the charges of corruption are
tbe veriest trash, which tbe stalwarts re
sorted to as a last desperate resort in the
face of defeat.
Csartla Brasil Urals Crop*
During tho year 1870 Georgia grew 22,-
202,018 bushels of corn on 2,538,733 acres
of land. The leading county was Burke,
with 505,200 bushels. Burke, it will be
remembered, was also tbe banner county
in cotton.
Brooks county leads in oats, producing
183,882 bushels, with Thomas, Wilkes,
and Houston next in order, the latter with
121,281 bushels. The State product was
5,548,743 bushels from 812,788 acres.
Bartow county led in wheat, her crop)
being 131,035 bushels. Then earns Gor
don with 113,222 bushels; Cobb with 80,-
917 bushels; Coweta with77,075; Carroll
with 74,826; and Gwinnett with 74,705.
The State produced 3,150,771 bushels.
Tbe acreage was 475,084, showing an av-
ersge yield of less than seven bushels an
acre.
Only a small business was done in rye.
The entire crop of the Stale was 101,716
bushels, from 25,854 acres, pretty well
distributed all over the Slate. Union,
Fannin, Rabun and Towns were the
leading counties, the first named heading
tbe list with 9,132 bushels. Wilkinson
county reported 3,700 bushels, aud Wash
ington 5,456 bushels.
These figures are furnished by an extra
census bulletin recently issued.
Political Jobbery.
In tbe way of an awfnl warning to tbe
States, tbe following from the New York
Commercial Bulletin should meet with
universal circulation. Every State which
has undertaken vast constructions of any
klud, at public expenses, and under legis
lative management, can show, In every
case, vast public robberies, tbe real ex
tent of which become known only In pro
portion as they are perfectly investigated.
But as investigation has to be pushed at
great coat of money and gcod feeling, and
is the most unwelcome of all public du
ties, we may add, with equal truth, there
is never any perfect investigation. Only
public gossip gives ns a loose idea how
tbe State has been cheated, when it Is too
late to apply a remedy. Thus, ever since
we have known Georgia, her sole great
public work has been an established
theme of whispered crimination, and
some idea of bow money was wasted on
it is conveyed by the story that it was
colled back and forth across the Chics-
mauga river some twelve or thirteen timet;
and while under State management
it was always losing money, as rented
property it has always made It.
But it is probable that Georgia has suf
fered as little by jobbery as any other
State of its magnitude. New York has
been a perpetual victim to untold amounts.
In the extract we append the Bulletin
shows up the two last achievements in
this line, one of which Is in the construc
tion of a capitol building, an enterprise
in which some earnestly desire to embark
the State of Georgia. As the Brooklyn
bridge was to be bnilt for three million
dollars and tbe capitol for two, and both
together have already consumed more
than twenty millions, and are still clamor
ous for millions more, so the Georgia cap
itol is to cost a million, which is to be the
nest egg for fonr or five more, when the
State has committed herself to the work.
The trustees of the East River bridge
met the other day, and we read that they
“bad a quorum,” aa if the presence of that
indispensable condition were rare with
them, as perhaps it is. A financial state
ment up to tbe present time was submit
ted, which, to the probably few persons
who gave it more than a glance in skim
ming over the newspaper columns, might
suggest some reflections. This city now
lyn has $3,000,000 at 7 and $0,442,0J0 at
5 to 7 per cent. How these amounts, thus
indefinitely stated, are divided between
the three rates we are uuable to ascerlsiu
from data at band, and it is not necessary
to kribw exactly; but the $13,709,000 total
draw from $708,618 minimum to $0*22,014
maximum yearly, or SI,030 to $2,521 per
day. Taking any reasonable medium be
tween these, it is safe to say that tbe
structure Is costing over $2,000 for inter
est every day of the year. But tbe bends
have been emitted at various dates all tbe
way bade to 1809, aud of course the inter
est paid will compound to a very large
addition by the time the thing Is done.
Looking in the other direction, the last of
the bonds do not mature for nearly half
a century yet. Statisticians wno love fig
ures for thelrown sake may calculate how
much the Interest loss—fur an unfinished
and unproductive structure, be it remem
bered—will aggregate by the time of com
pletion, if they can fix that date. Cynics
have been beard to say that the bridgo
will be done when no more money can be
got fur it; but even on that basis we can
not venture to name tbe date. Tbe finan
cial stalementsubmitled reports $4,437,000
received from this city and $8,457,037 from
Brooklyn; total (with some other items),
$13,224,120; cash on hand, $57,330. This
is for a structure which has been jobbing
its slow length along for fifteen years. It
was “estimated to cost $3,003,000, for 200
feet high; the height was reduced to 135
feet, and the estimate of cost went up.
Over $13,000,000 has actually been gotten
rid of, and the completed bridge will not
cost the two cities less than live times
what a bridge sixty-live feet higher was
originally to cost.
fin. it was always so—the wedge is al
ways inserted at tbe thin end; aud, how
ever unpromising Iba prospect, there is
nobody to resist tba foolish rule in public
expenditures, that when a bad job is once
well under way there is no alternative
to going on with it. The capitol at Alba
ny ought long ago to have been made a
quarry from which to take stone for con
structing a suitable building; tbe bridge
is a less hopeless structure, and as it can
not be undone, to tiuisb it maybe the bet
ter way. We have it now, good or had,
and tbe only question remaining is, what
can be done with it? The use to which
it is put must decide whether It brings
any approximation to decent return upon
tbe cos‘, the interest outlay on that cost
being nexrly a million per year. Nobody
imagines tbe bridgo will ever pay direct
ly, and the opinion about that was shown
long ago by tbe abandonment of tbe orig
inal thin pretense ot private ownership.
The whole thing is a job, fastened upon
the cities jointly by politicians and specu
lators, and tire only salvage possible in it
will be got by making it a part of a broad
er scheme than that originally contem
plated.
BraaU Farm I asr la tbs Soalh.
The New Orleans Picayune dwells on
the need of “small farming” in tbe South
ern States. The editor recalls the fact
that the wonderful financial prosperity of
France is the most striking example on a
large scale of the value and results oi the
system of small farming which the world
affords. On the other band, an absent
proprietary is tbe curse of every agricul
tural region, and the most unfortunate
troubles in Ireland are occasioned by
“absenteeism.” One celebrated Irishman
averred that he could show a section
where “the country is full of absentees.”
Now, in the aggregate, of the six States of
Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida,
Georgia and South Carolina, it is ascer
tained than 281,705 holdings are farmed
by the owners, and only 213,170 are leas
ed. The number of leases is also far in
excess of tbe number of absentees. An
other prominent and not less gratifying
fact is the large proportion ot small hold
ings. Out of tbe aggregate farm; in the
six States (404,074) the large number of
204,280 contain, less than 100 acres each.
That is to say, more than 60 per cent, of
the farms contain less than 100 acres each.
Tbis ia clearly set forth in tbe following
table:
A'o. of Holdings
holdings less than
in MW acres
STATES— 188*. each
Alabama. 135,834 85,007
Arkansas 04,483 £3,014
Delaware 8,749 4,043
Florida 23,438 16,846
Georgia 188,82G 74,483
South Carolina 93,864 00,801
Total. 494,974 294,286
In Alabama and Georgia, States which
differ‘little or none In population, the
number of farms, or agricultural pursuits,
It Is remarkable that tbe development
should have been so uniform, wbile Ar
kansas and South Carolina which have
about the saute population, dltTer widely.
For example, there are 20 per cent, more
farms under tbe control cf tbe owners in
tbe former than In the latter Stales. Out
of tbe 281,709 farms cultivated by the
owners in these States, 100,001, or 80 ner
cent, are leea than 100 acres. Of the
77,394 leased farms for a fixed rental, 85
per cent, are uuder 100 acres; while of
the 135,785 rented on shares, nearly 60
per cent, are under that size.
Tba Oil Fields ot Cope Breton.
The Standard lie Company are going
to lose their monopoly of illuminating the
world, after season, and tbe blue noses
will furnish kerosene and codfish hereaf
ter.
The Inverness Oil and Land Company
of Nova Scotia, in which many Boston
capitalists are interested, has just com
pleted negotiations for tbe purchase of
25,000 acres of additional oil lands in
Cape Breton. The company hat seven
welli finished, all of which will pump oil,
and from two of them the oil is now flow
ing and running to waste. The company
will, in tbe course of a month, have all its
pumping machinery and storage taolu of
125,000 barrels capacity in place, and
ready to commence operations.
AflasMBMMNua In New Orlsaas.
A late New Orleans paper thus explains
* fortuitous discovery of rich antediluv
ian pboephatic deposits m the city of New
Orleans:
Tbe fire which last night consumed the
residence of Patrick Clarke, Esq , on SL
Charles street, corner of Constantinople,
uncovered a deposit of gtiano and phos
phates wblch, it Is predicted, will prove
an important factor in tbe fertilization of
the worn-out hill lands of the South. We
are informed that a gentleman who ia fa
miliar with the phosphate beds of South
Carolina, which are worth millions, thinks
that this U an outcropping-of the mm
stratum.
Tbe main gjano deposit is said to be
directly on tbe top of Mr. Clarke’s cistern.
Of course much of it baa been washed
into the cistern by tbe rains ot the last
two decades, but tbe supply in s.ghtis
still ample. The character of this de
posit was not known until tbe arrival of
tbe Babcock engine at tbe fire, bat as
soon as tbe engine began to play upon it
tbe acid acted directly upon tbe guano
and liberated such volumes of ammonia
as for a time to drive back our brave fire
boys.
The phosphate bed covers the entire
premises, is elevated fonr or five feet above
tbe street, and is of unknown depth. The
matter is being investigated by a scientific
gentleman who baa bored into the deposit
a considerable depth. On withdrawing
tbe auger there was a rush of fetid gas,
which waa pronounced to be sulpbureted
hydrogen, and it readily took fire from
a lighted match and it burning at
tbia writing. Tbe auger broaght up fos
sil shells, sharks’ teeth, thin plates of ox
ide of Iron, the bones of a malaeoptery-
f ious fish, which clearly lodicates the si-
urian strata, sed bones, scales, hair and
hoofs supposed to belong to Ichthyosauri,
aud prehistoric river ncraes, and tea
cows.
Two young brothers of tbe King of Siam . , , ,
while on a recent visit to Paris, purchased* _ . . . „„ i„
and sent to the ladies of the Ktog’s harem Foua OCCUrred ln ^ ,rg1nl ‘ |
360 piano.. Of all plots to be rid of amon-1 durin « tb ® P** 8 * 111 c “ VaM ’ B^lng o^t
arch by poison, gunpowder, infernal ma or the crlmooy of partisan speakers on the,
chines, or other diabolical engines of de- ( slump. There are two or three others
■traction, that ia the wont. likely to follow.
Improvement of the ■Iwlaalppl Blur
The ArpBOAcnnto Convention.
Tho New York Daily Commercial Bul
letin baa tbe following on the approach of
the Mississippi river improvement conven
tion wblch we respectfully indorse.
The perfecting of that great river
for both drainage ai.d navigation la tbe
highest material public object the Ameri
can people can propose, and should push
all minor schemes aside until it is accom
plished. The South and West,particularly,
should unite in earnest co-operation in fa
vor of it, aud never rest until it is secure :
Tho Mississippi river improvement con
vention, which Is to be held at St. Louis
on the 26th inst., according to the prelim
inary indications, promises to be the larg
est gathering of tue kind ever held there.
The official programme tells us that “from
1,000 to 1,500 delegates, amoDg them
many leading meu of tbe country, will be
.present, and nearly every city of any size
and most of the commercial organizations
between the Alleghany and Rocky Moun
tains and St. FauT and New Orleans will
be represented by prominent and influen
tial citizens. Several Governors of States
and a number of Congressmen will also
be in attendance.” The object of the
convention, as heretofore stated, Is to work
up public opinion in favor oi Congression
al appropriations for constructing new
levees, dredging sand-bars, cutting sluice
ways and a variety of other work of an
indefinitely costly character.
We are inclined to think public opinion
throughout the country will favor such
liberal appropriations as can be demon*,
straledto be really necessary for such
improvements of the great river as are of
recognized national importance, and not
simply for the benefit ol some particular
State or locality; but we do not believe
such favor will be shown to auy scheme
which contemplates an “omnibus” for the
benefit of every little river and creek that
may be a tributary of the Mississippi, nor
the benefit of any mere Mississippi job.
The refaiious river and harbor grab
bills, which Congress of late years has not
been ashamed to pass, have naturally
made tbe public extremely suspicious of
all such projects; aud if the Mississippi
convention act wisely they will not treat
these suspicions too lightly, and will
recogulze the expediency of relying upon
its own merits, whatever these may be.
Any 'omnibus’ scheme for the benefit
of the so-called 'tributaries,' it is morally
certain, will have to encounter the odium
which attaches to Washington jobs which
depend upon log-rolling for access to the
Federal exchequer; aud in tho present
temper of the public mind, which Con
gress is bound to respect, that will as
suredly be fatal to it. We are aware it is
always an ungrateful task to be tendering
'advice gratis;’ but in this case one may
venture to assure those gentlemen we are
animated by none save the friendliest
feelings towards them. We trust they
will also endeavor to get rid cf the pro
vincial notion that New York, or any of
the Atlantic seai>orts, is opposed to any
Improvement of these Western water
routes lest trado should be diverted from
the Atlantic to the Gult.
It Is time, then, that these assumptions
were finally exploded. Tbis is a growing
country, and in no respect is its growth
to marvelous as In the steady expansion
of Its commerce and industry from year
to year. We believe that this growth is
to be progressive for an indefinite period
in the future, and that, therefore, we shall
need all the facilities for transportation
that the water, as well as the land, can
provide. New York lives by tbe expan
sion of trade, and it is its interest to en
courage, not dwarf, that expansion by the
narrow or selfish policy that is sometimes
imputed to her.
Wc are in favor of maintaining the wa
ter routes, if ouly as competitors with the
railways. We are determined to main
tain the Erie Canal, with this end in
view, but wo do not propose to impose the
cost oi its maintenance or its enlargement
upon tbe national treasury. Our own
taxpayers will see to that. We want no
favors of Congress in that respect. If our
Western aud Southwestern friends cau
build up a profitable foreign export trade
by way of the Mississippi aud Gulf of
Mexico, wc shall be the first to commend
their enterprise and applaud their cour
age; always provided that they do not in
sist that the thing shall be accomplished
at the public expense, nor by virtue oi
the sinuous processes of the Washington
lobby.
Hweet Potatoes.
A gentleman of New Orleans gives ns
the following on tho premature cutting
of sweet potato vines. YVe shall test it
for ourselves, and would like to hear from
auy of our readers who have already
tried it:
I wifi call Ihfi ftlletillou bf planters gen
erally to the experience of two old and
eminently successful tillers of tbe soil and
kaisers of the esculent in question.
By accident, as most good things have
beeu forced upon our attention, the first
one, over twenty years ago, discovered
that if he cut the potato-vines close 16 the
ground before frost, and left the pott foes
in the ground for fivo or six weeks, or
even longer, that he gained two unexpect
ed results. First, lus potatoes weie not
so much inclined to rot. It seems as if a
vine, once touched with frost, sends back
to the potato the poison of easy and ear'y
ruin. Think of this.
Tiie next result he obtained was quito
marvelous.
By leaving his potatoes in the ground
six weeks they doubled in size and meas
ure, growing as much after the vines were
cut as they had done up to the time of
cutting.
I related this, as a great curiosity, to a
gentleman who bad for many years sup
plied Memphis with garden products, aud
Le verified the statement of the Louisiana
sugar planter.
Democbatic Mayoii Kino, of Phila
delphia, is appointing negroes on tho po
lice force of that city. At the recent elec
tion in Ohio tho only Republican candi
date for the Legislature in one district
who was not elected, is a negro.
Tiie Virginia half-breeds will lose one
bolding over State Senator by Riddieber-
geris lighting a duel. That will disqualify
him under the laws of Virginia from hold
ing that office or any other State position
until his disabilities are removed.
•Imply Disgraceful.
Sew Fork 8un.
Tho court journal at Washington makes
the following announcement:
“Mr. R. A. Harlan, a son of Justice Har
lan, waa yesterday appointed to a $1,600
clerkship in tho Post-office Department.”
This sort of nepotism ia Dimply disgrace
ful, and it is to be found in all the depart
ments. Judge Harlan waa rewarded with a
seat on the bench of tiie Supreme Court for
his services in the foal Louisiana business,
with $10,000 a year for life. Not content
with that, be is now cramming his family
into office, and the postmaster-general
helps him over tho Loads of the deserving
peblia servants.
■lob st Their Bsmsla.
Atlanta Letter to Baltimore Sun.
While upon Ihe subject of railro d mat
ters I may just os well give what to me is
cews with reference to the building of the
Georgia Pacific, which oomes to me by a
prominent railroad man just from New
York. While there he says lie met one of
tbe leading bankers of Riohmond, who
told him that tbe Riehmond and Danville
people were sick over the trade made re.
“•utfx, by which they purohaeed tiie charter
of the Georgia Pacino Company, whicn
line was to havo been bnilt from Atlanta
to Columbus, Miss. He said that the bank
er had told him that if anybody wanted to
bay the Riehmond and Danville people
out, that it oould be dune at a very small
ooet, as they were thoroughly disgusted
with the trade. If this be eo, then there is
little probability that the line will be bail',
as if these people are disgusted with their
trade they would be foolish to build and
sink money by doing so. At the same time
it would be sure death to stop the work now
g ting on in that quarter, as by working it
and making out teat the charter was valu
able property, the tine oould be more easily
disposed of than it oould if work was
suspended lor a single day. The salvation
of these people hangs on keeping up ap
pearances.
If He Can.
Philadelphia Tines.
The eyes of the country are now upon
CorkhiU, and Corkhilt must positively keep
his mouth shut.
What He was Wishing For.
President Arthur.
“In Field Marshal Murat Halstead here?”
“Yes, your excellency.” “Then let tho ad
ministration go on."
Awfnl.
Hew Fork Commercial Advertiser.
“Arrotrocius” snys ovon tho houses of
young couples iu Concord, Maas., arc pro-
toplastered with emblems of Hunt, Des
cartes, and culcliar. Intellect and weak
legs rule the hour.
Jim Bust Gw.
St Lo.is Globe Democrat.
It is a pity, but that truly good and great
man, James G. Blaine, must go. W’e trust
he will be able to fiud a place where he
cannot raise a big fuss es bo did in Mr.
Garfield's cabinet. Thera has been quite
too much Blaine iu the country for tho past
six months.
They certainly Do.
St Louie Post Dispatch.
People who were hilariously daneingover
the grave of Conkling a short time ago
seem to have lost their agility. Tbe music
of tbe sackbut and tho psaltery does not
strike their ears with that melodiousness so
necessnry to the proper agitation of the
pedal extremities.
Our Sentiments, Also.
Chicago Times
Miss Mary Anderson appears to bare
reached that dangerous state in which the
powers are at a standstill. It was pleasant
a few years ago to recognize in this young
lady some promise of greatness. But as
season after season passes, and, after all
tbe growth they bring, promise is fulfilled
with simply other promises, there is some
excuse for asking why greatness lingers,
and whether it will ever cease “coming”
and actually arrive.
Tbe Remedy
Rochester Express
Why is it that every newspaper ofiloo and
every editor is publie prey? Why is it
that every day hundreds of pcopiu visit
every newspaper office in the laud and ask
for favors for which they never expeot or
intend to render an equivalent? Simply
because the editors all over the land don’t
hire men with clubs to guard the sanctum
door and fire the vultures down stairs. If
that were done the tideof emigration would
cense and tho editor’s lot would be more
like a happy one.
Tbe Next Thing.
lf.FC mmercial Advertiser.
The fall of tho leafl How sweet, how
tender, how true 1 The death of the fiow-
ers, the decay of nature, the clotting of
Coney Island hotels, the last lingering toot
of Levy’s cornet—how everlastingly deuced
saddening they are 1 Whither have they
fled? Have they gone to the everlasting
utterness of the illimitable, or soared into
the etheraelneea of the etitingami and the
infernal ? O leaves, O flowers. O summer,
OdearOl The next thing is to get a
strong pair of thiok soles and have gome
plastering done to the old overcoat
A Sockdolager.
If. F. World.
Senntor Davis in 1860 was of the opinion
that in “twenty years cf domination by the
Republicans chronic abuses have become
fastened upon the public service,” and that
“nothing shortef the sternest remedy gives
any promise of effective reform, and tbe
ffrst step towards it is a change of rulers.”
And yet the Now York Times, in 1881, is of
the opinion that Senator Davis is in “known
sympathy with all the more important pur
poses of the Republican party,” although
the only Republican who nas so far agreed
with Senator Davis ns practically to apply
the “stem remedy” of “a change of rulers’
is Mr. O. J. Guiteau.
To Europe, Avia and Africa— Greet
ing.
Buffalo Courier.
To whom it may concern: The majority
of iLe people of the United States having
learned with regret that a person named
Rutherford B. Hayes, of Fremont, O., rep
resenting himself ns an ex-President of
this republic, is about to sail for Europe,
hereby give notice to hU princes, poten
tates and people of quality in foreign
lands, that the SRid Rutherford B. Hayes is
a fraud; and we hereby notify all princes,
potentates and people of quality aforesaid
not to trust or honor him on onr account or
bestow upon him any honors or hospitali
ties in consideration of their respect for
the United States; the said Hayes is of
medium size, sandy whiskers tinged with
gray, and plausible address, and may be
known by his affected devotion to tem;>er-
nnce: he is notable for having defrauded
one Samuel J. Tildcn out of the office of
President of tbe United States, and drawn
the said Tiiden's snlary for four years,
amounting to $200,900.
Bonelblag Decidedly Novel.
fifitgn Herald.
It seems to be the good fortttns of Am
herst College ta take tbe initiative in Amer
ican college discipline. It lately threw the
responsibility of faithful study upon the
undergraduates, with satisfactory results,
aud now President tieelye, with tho consent
of the faculty, has invited the students to
take a share in the administration of ool-
Icge affairs through such representatives
from the several classes ns they may
choose. The new plan ia to havo a repre
sentative assembly, ooroi>osedof four sen
iors, three juniors, two sophomores and
one freshman, with a member of the facul
ty as presiding officer. It is not proposed
that this governing board shall supersede
the college faculty, but thatcertaln matters
of discipline aud control of the students
shall be delegated to it, with the hope that
the students shall thus be made to feel a
growing responsibility for tho character of
the institution with which they are con
nected. The ripe nge at which students
are generally matriculated at Amherst ren
ders it possible to initiate changes like the
one in question, and the proposed plan, if
adopted by tho students, will be watched
with keen imerest by all who are interest
ed in the higher education. At present the
plan is under consideration by the students
and is yet to be formally adopted.
Wedding Tonra In Europe.
Chicago In er Ocean.
In the first place, girls, think of being sea
sick on the Atlantio as the beginning of
your honey moon! Imagine the awful
necessity of coming on deck with a lurch
and a groan and a tumble as you surge to
ward your deck chuir. Fancy the experi
ence of leaving all your bangs and frizzes
in your state-room and appearing before
your bridegroom with your face tied up
with f'annel scarfs on account of a dread
ful neuralgia. You are sure to have neu
ralgia when sea sick, if ever you bad it in
your life, and very likely to be afflicted
with it if not subject to the disease. Of
course, you won’t care at the time—no one
oarjs for anything human when suffering
with sea sickness. But think of the disen-
chanting effect upon your new husband,
particularly if he is not ill himself.
Then there are the wretched delays in the
Custom House where you laud, and no
mortal bride likes to have her trunks
opened and pawed over by some rude men.
There are draughty stations, and stupid
servants in hotels, and myriad beggars, and
a million other vexations of travel, which
the bride, who sets forth upon a tour of
Europe, will find to tiy her sod.
And then she will learn that her beloved
isn’t always a paragon of patience, and she
will see that it would have been far wiser
to have stayed at home and made her hus
band's acquaintance before starting forth
with him upon a tour to Europe.
If, after ten or twenty years of happy
married life, a couple find tbemseivee dis
posed to try a long journey together, a tin
wedding or a silver-wedding journey may
be found pleasant and profitable. The
wife then knows what her husband is in
the habit of saying when disturbed, as no
LriUe ever knows, and the husband has dis
covered that his wife sometimes forgets,
angelic as she may otherwise be, aud with
this mutual knowledge and strong mutual
love, the journey might be an experience of
nntold happiness.
Bat it is very risky work for a bride, and
she might bet er commence housekeeping
at onee, and take no wedding journey at
all, than this long one over sea and land
Araerleau Winners en Feabnll.
Loudon Cable Letter to tf F. World.
Mr. Walton, of the 8t. James Hotel, in
your city, is figuring here as the great turf- *
plunger and has oleaned out a good many !
of our sporting youths of all their spare
cash. He took every bet that waa offered
against Foxhall. and I am told he netted a
clean £80,000. Nobody here knows who Mr.
Walton is, bat a a good many checks were
drawn to-day in his favor. Another mys
terious winner on Foxhall is Mr. “Swin
dell,” said to be a disguise assumed by Mr.
Keene himself. It ia a queer name to take,
but he carries off about £25,000. This is ,
quite as paying a game as going into H»n. I
nibal and other comers.
State Pride In s Great man.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Calico Charlie Foster’s friends claim
that he can do more “organizing” with a
$10 greenback than a mere novice in the
business with ten times that sum.
Advice So Punster*.
Sew Haven Register.
Ia setting snares to catch puns be careful
to baittLem with the first aril ablest some
word that ends in “age.” This will enable
you to bring a tremendous string of game
into market. The priee is low for such
game, to be sure, but you can have lots of
cheap fun.
Tbe Deserved Fate of a Deraoaecne,
London Ca le Letter to If. F. World.
My summary of the situation, from all
the information I can gather, is that Ire
land wiU be neither OAjoled nor coerced
into submission: that the demand for the
repeal of the union will be supported by
an increasing number of English Radicals,
and that the lawlessness in Ireland, com
bined with tbe now weak, now despotic at
titude of the government, will eventually
result in the disgrace and overthrow of the
Gladstone administration.
A Tory Toneby Old Faraaa.
Sew Fork Sun.
The rooster is by no. means a bad bird,
although there are bad roosters, and just
why a man should dislike being called a
nice old rooster" is not clear. Some men
might consider it a compliment. Deacon
John Evans, of Denver is not one of those
men. On tne contrary, he oonsiders tiie
term “nice old rooster,” as applied to him
by a Denver newspaper, as criminally libel
lous, and has had the editor arrested, n hen
the case comes up to trial it is to be hoped
that a correct definition of the term will be
ascertained.
ATrnly Devoted Wire.
Sew Orleans Timet.
A woman in New Orleans found her hus
band lying in a state of intoxication in an
alley. Instead of being exasperated, she
gently tnrned him over to a comfortable
position, and, running her hand into his
vest pocket, she extracted a $20 bill and re
marked : “I reckon I’ve got the dead wood
on that new bonnet I’ve been sufferin’ for.”
Bho made a straight streak for the nearest
millinery shop. Strong men wiped the
moistore from their eyes at her heroio de
votion to a husband who bad, by strong
drink, broaght himself so low as to neglect
to provide his wife with the common nec
essaries of lifo.
Death or Charles Alton Nattlar,
‘‘Ob, swiftly sinks this life of ours
Through Age’s cloudy bars,
A fading flush on hill and sky,
And lo f the world of stare
After more than a year’s straggle with
death, the almost unconquerable soul of O.
A. Nutting, Esq., has at last forsaken its
mortal tenement, and now djvAfq^in the
mysteries of the Great Beyo^Hkpn\the
pangs of suffering are on:
ness of body unknown.
Nutting had a severe attack
which he never fully reoovi
daring the presentroi^H^^toost
he was able to streets and
mingle with his^fn^^KT tjfeas at the loss
of health and a shinr^d constitution,
which through a long senes of years had
successfully withstood the storms of life—
a lifo whose morning was passed amid toils
and pr.vations—whoee noonday was made
golden and happy by the luxuries of wealth
aud the honors of position, and in his even
ing time, amid tbe shadows of death which
fell about him, gleamed the sunshine of
wifely devotion, the love of son and daugh
ters and the fidelity of friends.
On the first of this month, while walking
in his garden, Colonel Nattingwas stricken
down with an affection of the heart. Over
two weeks he heroically battled with the
disease, fighting death away with all the
energies of a gallant nature. At times it
seemed that his determined will and won
derful vitality would win the victory, and
ever and anon “hope, like the gleaming ta-
per’s light, adorned and cheered
Monday night, however, final
appeared inevitable, and with
of Tnesdaj ’a sun deal
unmistakably stamped u;
patient’s countenance,
eigh* o’clock yesterday
to be esa is ted from the
rocking chair. Here
possession of his
rounded by his family,
the bars were lowered,
gently; so gently that
removed the last, the breath <
softly through. Mil the soot
ting had taken its flight.
Concerning the birth and life oi
CCaiild we take tbe following extract
an extended notice in tf
Biographical Register
1871-72: .
“There 1* perhaps,
Legislature less am'
hedors than the subjat
there is certainly n<
with less effort
influence in tho
Mr. Nutting was bo
moot, on the 2*th qf
native plaoe reoeived
daring the intervals of
a long and laborious
cotton and wool mnnul
mechanic arts. In II . _
young man of twenty-one7
Georgia, and daring the folli
was employed as on oveseer in t
bus factory, situated three miles
town of Columbus. Two
opportunity opening, he
his own account in Jas[
erection and successful
curding establishment,
became known aa the
prominent ootton man 1
State, located at Seven
oounty. Under the efflciei
ioal management of Mr. ^mEgTthese
mills were made a source of profit to
all the owners, and after some
years became the sole
of himself and the late Mr,
Macon, who was regard
ablest financiers of Geori
high opinion and indorse a:
ting’s ability, capacity
character are well knot
their bosioees relations,
taring establishment pr
the 16th of November, ll
utterly destroyed, together
mease amount of property,
wing of Sherman’s army, dari:
through Georgia to Savaunab.
Tbia sudden misfortune carri
ting to Macon, where, on tbe
of tiie war, ho engaged iu the bi
private banking with his old frit ,
Scott, under the firm name of Nul
Co., and conducted it with eminent sul
until the death of bis partner iu Deoerni
1887."
Tbo subsequent history of Mr. Nutting
in Macon as President of the City Bank,
hi3 triumphant election to the Legislature
in the dajrs of recor struct ion by a hand
some Democratic majority over his Re
publican opponents, and his valuable ser
vices to (be State of Georgia, are too fresh
in the memory of the citizens to be dfelt
upon in detail by ns. In honor of hhn the
Nutting bonds were named.
At the time of hia death, Mr. Nutting
waa a director and stockholder ia the Ma-
oon Gas and Water Company, a director
and lessee of the State road, a trustee of
tbe Georgia Asylum for the Kind, and a
trustee of Wesleyan Female College and
chairman of the building oommittoe of
that institution under the Seney gift. He
also owned mining interests in Colorado.
Mr, Nutting was a well bred, polished and
cultivated gentleman, a man of many gen
erous impulses, and possessed of excellent
taste, wit and marked financial ability.
As husband and father be wae tender,
kind, liberal and devoted. Mr. Nbtting
was a Knights Templar; also a member of
the Knight* of Pythias and Past Master,
and a charter member of
Mizpsh Lodge No. 47, of this
city. Tbe tnneral services will be held
this morning at 11 o'clock, from tbe late
residence of the deoeased on College Hill.
He will be buried with Knights Templar
homirii,jand the weary frame laid to rest in
“Into that land which hides in tombs
Tha batter part of our old homes,
Tis there w»’U make his bed.”
May the heavenly light of
come book to his beloved onee-
A WIPE roti A DOIaMaAH.
Tbe CapItMsst Relations ol Mr. mm*
Mrs, E K. Lutes as Disclosed la
Gear*.
Hue Fork Tribune.
Edward A. Lanten began, in August
last, an action In the Supreme Coart
against his wife, Mary Lanten, for a de
cree of absolute diroree. The marriage
relation began twenty-three years ago.
The case was referred to a referee to as
certain tbe facts, and be reported against
tbe fidelity of Mrs. Lanten, who bad not
appeared on tbe reference. Mrs. Lanten,
by her attorney, applied to Justice Bar
rett for an order setting aside ail proceed
ings previously bad in the action. The
application was based on an affidavit ln
which she admits tbit her relations with
one Ferdinand Jansen had been inti
mate, but declares that they were con
tracted with tbe knowledge and upon the-
instigation of her hmband. Cato had
loaned his wife to bis friend for a season,
bat her husband had sold her to a stran
ger for $1. A bill of sale and receipt for
tbe consideration money had been exe
cuted st the time of tbe transaction. Tbe
following are copies of the documents:
Mount Vmmxou, June 3,1881.
I, Mary Lanten, of this plaoe, heretofore
the wife of Edward A. Lanten, oonsent to
be sold toF. Jansen for tbe consideration,
of $1 legal money.
Mabt E. Lanten.
Reoeived of F. Jansen $1 consideration
money for which I transfer all my rights
to said Mary E. lenten.
Eovuo A. Lurm.
Mrs. Lanten further declares that her
husband subsequently took her ti
with him again. Mr. Lanten oppose*
motion to set aside tbe proceedings In
divorce suit and to allow Mrs. Lante
interpose a defense. He explains in
affidavit that the bill ot sale of his w
was a piece of pleasantry, and that he
never intended to authorize or connive, at
conduct on tbe part of Mrs. Lanten which
would Inevitably reflect discredit not
only on her, but also upon himself. He
was sitting on a Sunday in June in the
shadow ofhls house at Mount Vernon.
He was surrounded by bis friends, and
Mr. Jansen was also there. The latter
said to tbe company that he bad read of a
man in the West who had sold his wife for
$1.50. The story seemed a pleasant one,
and every one laughed. Mr. Jansen then
turned to him and said:
“I will give you filty cents for your
wife#**
‘That’s too little—make it ouo dollar,”
was tbe reply.
His wife was aflectcdby the insignificance
of tbe sum at which her husband estima
ted her, and said to bim:
“I want lo see if you are mean enough
to sell me for one dollar.”
ir?e then went away and returned !m-
_ediately with pen and paper. He there
upon, still regarding the affair as a joke,
wrote out a contract, which was handed
to Mr. Jausen, who retained it. He af
terward learned that his wife had lived
with Mr. Jansen as bis wife for three daya
at Fannlngdale, I*. L He determined,
after consultation with his lawyer, to take
her back lo his boose for the sake of
avoiding a scandal, but not to live with
her again. He took his wife to
the officeof bis lawyer to have her sign
articles of separation. She then consented
to forego in Ihe future the pleasure of Mr.
Jansen's company, confessing, however,
that it would be a sacrifice, as she loved
him dearly. The sacrifice proved too great,
and sbo broke her promise. Mr. Jansen
walked past the house one day within the
full view of the family. Mr*. Lanten told
her husband tbat she would go down to
tbe garden gate and tell Mr. Jansen to go
away. She went down to the garden
gate, she told him to go away, but went
with bim herself and only returned after
several hours. She often went away with]
Mr. Jansen in this way. Finally she told!
her husband tbat it was of no use, shel
loved Mr. Jansen, and could not give hint!
ud. The children then insisted that tbe4
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Frederick Pal
The distinguished ]
edian, Frederick Pauidl
a favorable impression^
when here before, will
house next Monday and Tue
as Salviati in the magnificent'’
that name. Mr. Panliung has, we"
forme J, made marvellous improvement aa
an actor in the past year, and he now-
stands in the foremost rank of hist r ions.
The play of Salvia'i ia said to be wondet-
fnlly weird and fascinating. It was orig
inally produ-ed in France, aud ran for
over one hundred and fifty consecutive
nights in Paris. It was adopted for the
American stage for Mr. Prulding by Willie
Seymour, stare manager of the Boston
Maseaip.hDd for years with Law renoo Bar
rett and Edwin Booth. Mr. Paulding has
been so successful in the title role that he
never fails to arouse the aodienoe to tha
highest pitch, and whenever he plays it he
is sore of from five lo raven calls before
the curtain. Mr. Paulding oomes support
ed by aa excellent company and every ao-
craaory of stage property needed to prop
erly display this great dnuna.
~KI«lwff'ts Huts
Yesterday afternoon ana of the bosses
attached to a doubU hack became demor
alised from soma cauae, when nearly hi
front of tba Mulberry Steeot Methodist
Church. Tha driver oontmonoed to lamp
the frsoti *us steed, but this had the effect of
producing a kicking spot), and before fate
mad career oould be cheeked, ha kicked the
hack literally to piceaa, Waving hardly a
section of it unbroken.