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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1881,
Tire network of German subterranean
cable Is completed. It connected towns,
and has coat about $7,000,000.
A raw days ago a party of traokmen work
ing on the Old Colony railroad at Dighlon,
Mass., found under one of the ties six cer
tified bank checks that were lost in Juno.
Tux sowing of forest pine seeds has been
begun by the Shakers at Enfield, Conn.,
imd the State authorities are considering
plans for enoouraging this needed indus
try.
M„ n Stonewall Jacebon and daughter
are in attendance upon the Yorktown cele
bration. They are the guests of Governor
Ha good, of South Carolina, and occupy
quarters on board the steamer Ford.
; Lscbxised Ricr PaoDuenox.—It is
thought that this year the rice crop in the
Gulf States will reach 150,000,000 bushels.
Ten years ago it was only 74,000,000 bush
els. Before the war, however, recalls the
Boston Poet, it was larger than the prom
ised yield of this year.
Tax ox Whisky.—'The whisky distillers of
the United States have determined to make
an effort, next winter, to get Congress to
reduce the tax on whisky from 90 to 50
cents per gallon. They will have a power
ful lobby here.
RxaisTXATiox a NxwYobx.—On Wednes
day 49,226 voters were registerrd in New
York ci'y, making a total of 84.89G regis
tered thus far for the coming election. The
total number daring the first two days of
1879 was 89,054, and in 1880, 145,323; the
present registration is therefore 4,158 less
than in 1879, and 60,427 less than 1880.
T.iurn Cattle Coxtbactxd Fob.—Col. J.
M. McVeigh, of Aldie, Loudoun county, Va.,
has a contract to fnrnisb a large number of
smooth, straight cattle, weighing 1,800
pounds apieee, to be delivered on the 1st
day of April, 1882, at seven oenta per pound.
Col. MoVeigh is one of the most successful
and largest farmers and graziers in Lou
doun county, and his successful fulfillment
of his present contract will give another
demonstration of the improvement being
made in cattle breeding and feeding in
Virginia.
Tax owners of the “Great Eastern,” be
ing unable to dispose of her at auction,
will find her now more than ever an “ele
phant” on their hands, because,” like other
vessels, small or great, if she is not earning
money, she is losing it. Her original cost
was about $3^00,000, and it is estimated
that money enough has since been expend
ed upon her to rebuild her entire. There
should be employment for her, somehow, in
the American trade, if not as a grain car
rier or an emigrant, then as a mammoth
excursion ship.
Wxpdjxo Pbzsexts Fbok the Czab.—
The Augusta (Ga.) News states that among
thwbridal presents at the wedding of Mias
Dogsehka Pickens, of Edgefield, and Dr.
Geo. O. Dugas, of Augusta, last Monday,
was a set of elegant diamonds from the
Czar of Russia. Miss “Douschka” was
bora in St. Petersburg while her father was
minister to the Court of Russia. The Czar
was her godfather, and she was named for
the Empress of Russia Frances Eugenia
Olga Neva, the prefix “Douschka,” being a
pet name, and, translated, means “Dar
ling.”
Tax city of Bangor is the headquarters of
the lumber business of Maine. This year
there have been 200,000,090 feet of logs in
its booms and the localities above, and
about 140,0W,000 feet have been manufac
tured and shipped to market. It has been
an unusually good year for handling and
cutting, wages of men and teams have been
'reasonable, and supplies were cheep. The
only drawback has been the scarcity of
shipB to carry stock to market. It is
thought that next winter’s cut will be poor,
as from present indications atumpage, feed,
wages, and supplies will be much higher.
Enwix D. Mona ax as Sxcbxtabz of the
Tbeasdbi.—The Sun says: Our latest ad-
vices from Washington indicate the proba
bility that Edwin D. Morgan of this city
will to-day be nominated for Secretary of
the Treasury. If this report be aocurate wo
can cordially congratulate the new Presi
dent upon his choice. Gov. Morgan is a
man of great experience in affairs, of
proved ability, and of high standing. A
thorough Republican, he is not identified
with any of the warring factions of the
party. His appointment will give satisfac
tion in all this part of the country; and we
do nqt see bow anybody can be displeased
with ft anywhere.
Fionr Between PmasniB at Mecca.—
Aoooanta have reached Constantinople of a
serio’ds conflict at Mecca between the fac
tions of Mohammedan pilgrims to the
tomb of the prophet. The exact differ
ence* of opinion which led to this fight are
difficult to be defined, but broadly stated
they are those which separata the dose ad
herent* of the Sultan as the viceroy of
God on earth «|A the commander of all
the faithful and the more progressive and
liberal Mussulmans. The fight was severe,
and several persons were killed and wound
ed on both sides. The governor of the
dty refused to interfere, and allowed the
oomhatanta to fight it out. Three battal
ions of troops and batteries have been or
dered to Meoca.
The Bsooklym Bridge.-—As‘the great
bridge between New York and Brooklyn
approaches completion the builders are
somewhat exercised over the question of
transporting street cars across. A number
of the railway lines converge at the bridge,
and to take .the cars across with horses
would keep the track constantly occupied.
The grade by which the bridge is rssebed
is too steep for steam motors. The eleva
tion of the approach to the bridge at Chat
ham street is 40 feet, and at the centre of
the bridgs it is 140 feet; henoe in passing
from New York to Brooklyn there will be
the equivalent of a hill 100 feet high whioh
has to be surmounted. It would require a
heavy, powerful locomotive to draw a train
of eight or ten passenger cars over sneb a
grade, and, tj» bridge has not been built to
bear such heavy concentrated loads, which
would require floor beams, trusses and sus
penders of twice the present strength. These,
in turn, would call for mneh heavier cables
heavier anchorages and stronger towers,
in other words, according to Engineer
Roebling’s report upon the subject in 1878,
the whole bridge would have to be rebuilt.
It U likely that the rope traction system
will be adopted, by which trains of cars can
bs run to and fro alternately, or detached
cars can be run on the circulating plan.
The bridgs has two double-track roadways
for vehicles, 16 feet 7 inches wide, two rail
road tracks each 13 feet wide, and one cen
tra] promenade 18 feet wide. The vehicles
in each division of 18 feet 7 inches will go j
in one direction.
A Flagrant BwlMM.
Three nations came near getting into
a snarl at Yorktown, last Friday, abont
their “flags.” The French took um
brage at the display of German flags In
memory of Baron Steuben. The flags
were wrongly placed either by accident
or ignorance, and France felt herself
thrown into the shade, when by good
mot rights she ought to be at the top of the
fence. The consequence of this was that
France was cross. But in the effort to
adjust matters Germany took umbrage,
lost her appetite and began to swear in
gutturals. The orderlies galloped
and fro in great haste, and it was long
before the sensibilities of Germany
were composed. But when this was
effected the true situation in relation to
Great Britain was realized. The truth
was, the whole affair was an insult lo the
British lion. France, Germany and the
United States were there setting up an
awful chuckle, a portentous crow, over
the defeat of this lion. Tho Hod, too,
bad not been Invited to “jine” in the
celebration.' The American authorities,
in sending out the invitations, had can
vassed the point carefully shall the lion
be invited; and, although there was
some difference of opinion on the point,
there was an honest doubt whether he
would take such an invitation in good
part—whether he would not consider
it an insult rather than a courtesy.
Accordingly,Great Britain was left out
of the play, and the British flag, although
it figured so conspicuously in the original
scene of which this was a proposed re
production, was left out also. But, unfor
tunately, there was no flag.in the world
so important to have there. There was
no nationality so valuable and important
to the United States, none so endeared to
the country or whose intercourse was
half so valuable.
Under these circumstances, what
should or could be done to sweeten
Britain's coffee and reconcile her to the
necessary absence of her flag ? At last,
the genius of Gen. Arthur, the President,
solved the difficulty, and harmonized the
lost misunderstanding. It was ordered
that, after all the ceremonies of rejoicing
were over, the British flag should be ele
vated with great solemnity and pomp, and
honored by a grand national salute—as
much as to say: “This thing is all over,
and now we will go on as before. It was
needful to set up a little fuse over your
defeat at Yorktown, bnt that over, we
beg to say we hold no malice, and will
let the subject rest for another hundred
years.”
Hves Ehjt it Is.
The Tribune ot Friday establishes the
capacity of the negro for self government
and the race equality very simply as fol
lows:
The Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, min
ister to Liberia, will sail soon for that Re
public. His appointment to this position
may well occasion much satisfactory re
flection. He is of African descent. He
has been pastor of a congregation of col
ored parishioners. He goes to a State of
colored citizens. Here are circumstances
which give a coup Ue grace to some of the
shallowest and most pertinacious theories
with which the world has ever been bored.
Dr. Garnet personally and effectually dis
poses of the doetriue ot the inferiority of
the negro race, inasmuch as he is intellect
ually inferior to very few white clergymen.
Liberia, which, in spite of many predic
tions to tho contrary, continues to exist,
proves that the race is capable of sell-
government. Finally, the appointment cf
Dr. Garnet makes havoc of the theory
that ours is a government for white men
alone. We do not say those things because
those who may disagree with us are at all
important in number or character, bnt be
cause we like to have it understood ttat
the world moves, and that there is no faflb-
hood which does not stand a first rate
chance of being refuted.
What will become of this triumphant
demonstration should Henry Highland
Garnet not “sail soon,” or, if sailing, he
should be wrecked, or if getting to Li
beria, his mission, like all others to that
point, should prove a failure, and Liberia
continue the wretched specimen ot Afri
can self-government she has always
been.
The Century magazine, Late
Scribner's Monthly.—The Century
tor November has a picture of George
Eliot as its frontispiece, and is full of
illustrated articles, among which are “A
diligence journey in Mexico,” “In the
footsteps of Fortuny and Regnault,”
“Around Cape Ann,” “Costumes in the
Greek play at Harvard,” “The so-called
Venus of Melos,” “The World’s Work,”
and many others.
The Eclectic magazine for the
same month contains: “The Place of
Revelation in Evolution,” by the Rer. T.
W. Fowle; “Arthur Penrhyn Stanley,”
by Augustus J. C. Hare; “Rambles
Among Books. IIL The Essayists;”
“Suit the action to the Word,” by Dntton
Cooke; “Some Advantages and Uses of
the Revised English New Testament,” by
DeanHowson; “A Legend,” by Emily
Pfeiffer; “A Volume of French Souve
nirs,” by H. Schulz Wilson; “How I
Found the Dotterel’s Nest,” by David
Bruce; “Bermus: A Linus Song,” by
Ellice Hopkins; “Kith and Kin,” by Jessie
Fotbergill, author of “The First Violin,”
chapters zxlr. and xxv.; “Cberubino: A
Psychological Art Fancy;” “The Mind’s
Minor,” by Dr. Andrew Wilson; “How
to Eat Bread,” by Louisa S. Bevington;
“A False Start: A Moral Comedy;”
“Worry,” by Dr. J. Mortimer Granville;
“Miss Kosetti’s New Poems.” The Edi
torial Departments are interesting and
copious, comprising^ Literary Notices,
Foreign Literacy Notes, Science and Art,
and Miscellany.
Published by E. R. Felton, 25 Bond
street, New York. Teims, $5 per year,
single copy, 45 cents; trial subscription for
three months, $1.
Recollection of Cornwallis’ Sur
render.—The Tribune gives the follow
ing personal memory ot the surrender
of Cornwallis:
Mrs. Graham, of Port Byron, New
York, who died last summer at the age of
104, was asked shortly before the failure
of her faculties if she remembered the
sureender of Cornwallis.
“Do I remember Cornwallis’ surren
der ?” replied Mrs. Graham. “Yes, I re
member it; tbat is I remem
ber how the news came. We lived
in Freehold, in the Jarseys then, and
my tatber was with the army; he’d been
with the army a long time. My mother
was worried about him. The day the
news came I was a-altting on the door
step, and I had a rag-doll, and the door
waa open, and mother was IroulDg at the
big table. There was a man came flying
up tbs road on a gray horse and pulled
up at our door and called out to mother,
and aaya be, ‘Cornwallis has surrendered,
end the war is done. I saw a man who
saw your husband; be’a coming home.’
And then he rode on. And my mother
just set down the flat on the table and
dropped into a chair and cried like any
thing, and the hot flat burnt a big bole in
tbe ironing sheet, but mother didu’t seem
to mind that. Law, yes, I remember it
well. It was one of the neighbor men on
tbe gray bone, and be carried tbe news
all over.”
Last Week’s CefteniFI*wree.
The Situation.
Tbe New York Chronicle, ot Saturday,
reports the movements of tbe weekend
ing the night before as follows: Receipts
184.531, against 230,347 the corresponding
week of last year, showing a decrease on
the week of 52,810 bales. Total receipts
since 1st.September last 902,454 against
1,139,400 for the corresponding period of
last year—showing a decrease of 177,012
bales.
The Chronicle's table of interior port
business for the week is as follows: Re
ceipts 125,927, against 155,015 tbe same
week of last year.. Shipments 93,703,
against 133,100. Stock last Friday 228,-
785, against 179,792 at same data last year.
The Chronicle's visible supply table
showed 2,143,965 bales of cotton in sight
last Friday night, against 1,719,600 last
year at same data; 1,421,702 in sight at a
corresponding date in 1879, and 1,412,427
in sight In 1878 at a similar date. These
figures show .an increase of 424,305 on
the visible supply of 1880—an increase of
722,203 on tho supply of 1879 and an in
crease of 731,538 on the supply of 1878.
Tbe Liverpool quotation for middling up
land last Friday was 0| against 01
at same data last year, 0J at same data in
1879 and sixpence in 1878.
The Chronicle appends tho following
to its weekly table of ieceipts from plan
tations: :-» > :
The above statement shows—
1. That the total receipts from tho plan
tations since September 1 in 1881 were
1,123,014 bales; in 1880 were 1,267,288
bales; in 1879 were 1,065,214 bales.
2. That, althongh the receipts at the out-
porta the past week were 184,531 bales, the
actual movement from plantations was
211,467 bales, the balance going to increase
the stocks at the interior porta. Last
year the receipts from the plantations for
the same week wore 267,211 bales, and for
1879 they were 229,227 bales.
As to the Chronicle's weather telegrams,
tbat paper reports generally two to four
showery days in Texas; picking going on
finely, and will soon be closed; and a tem
perature ranging from 02 to 88. No rain
in Louisiana. One day of rain in Missis
sippi. Clear and cool at Little Rock.
Two rainy days in Nashville. In Ala
bama, the best picking weather for years.
In Georgia, light showers; in the first of
the week crop accounts conflicting; the
promise of the top crop Improving.
“ColUm Facts ”
We received yesterday from Alfred B.
Sbepperson, 25 Beaver street, New York,
a compilation to which he has given the
appropriate title of “ColtonEacts,” and
which is a mass of all imaginable statis
tics relating to tbe production, consump
tion and trade in cotton. We append the
the following letter from Mr. S. which
accompanied tho book:
New Yore, October 20,1881.—Dear Sir:
I send with this a copy of my book, 'Cot
ton Facta,” just issued. For ready refer
ence upon all matters relating to cotton I
think you will find it useful, and you may
rely upon its correctness. Besides bring
ing down to data of publication the statis
tics contained in last year’s edition, the
present issue contains the cotton acreage
and yield of each county in the South and
full statistics of cotton manufacture from
advanced sheets of theeensas furnished me
by General Walker. The inclosed circular
will show you the opinion of last year’s
book by a portion of the press. Should
you refer to tho book in your columns,
please kindly send me a marked copy of
your p&pory&nd oblige*
icurs truly, A. B. Sheppebson
Revolutionary Cohskm la Chicago.
Chicago, October 21.—The National
Socialist Revolutionary Congress has con
vened here, and held its first session to
day. Fifteen organizations in different
parts of the country are represented by
twenty delegates. The members of the
Congress say tbat a good spirit prevails
in it.
It strikes us there is a lack of modesty in
a parcel of foreign Nihilistic tramps com
ing to this country and calling a ••Revolu
tionary Congress.'’ If our government does
not auit them, they could have remained
at home aud organized one to please
themselves—a government which should
prohibit the acquisition of property and
declared the earnings of industry rob
bery.
Tbe Mississippi River Commission
Memphis, Tenn., October 15.—The
Mississippi River Commission passed
down the river to-day in the UnitedStatea
steamer General Barnard, to examine tho
Lake Providence reach above Vicksburg,
preparatory to starting works in that
locality. Yesterday they were upon tbe
Flam Point streeb, about seventy miles
above this place. A powerful plaut has
been procured,-and it is presumed tbat a
vigorous beginning will be raado in No
vember. From Vicksburg the commis
sion will proceed to the mouth of tbe Red
river, and examine tbat place, which now
acta as a drain instead of a tributary to
tbe Mississippi. The members present
are General Q. A. Gillmore, tbe president
of the commission; General C. B. Corn-
stock, Major C. R. Sitter, Mr. B. M.
Harrod and Mr. R. S. Taylor. It is pos
sible that Captain Eads will join at Vicks
burg. Lieutensnt Leach, the secretary,
is also present. The General Barnard
will return to St. Louis with those mem
bers who wish to attend tbe meeting of
the Mississippi River Improvement Con
vention at that place on the 20th.
Tbe Improvement of the MiaslasJppL
Tbe country has been informed of a
meeting in St. Louis in the interests of
the improvement of the Mississippi river,
and at the same time it is known that
many thousands of acres in Illinois and
Iowa have been submerged by a sudden
oveiflow of the great river—many lives
lost, travel obstructed, farms and stock
destroyed, and properly sacrificed to tbe
amount of millions of dollars. It is not
easy to estimate the loss and fatality re
sulting from such an overflow, for it is
when tbe waters recede and the frightened
and ruined population reoccnpy their old
homes, tbat they are swept by disease and
death, resulting from the malarious evap
oration of the sodden soil. Thus it is that
delay in tbe undertaking of this work
will inflict more damage than what should
be its actual cost.
Every year brings a terrible succession
of overflows and crevasses, each resulting
In enormous loss and damage, and In per
manent injury to tbe country, for which
the hasty and temporary repairs famish
no adequate remedy. The great river,
from its source to Us mouth, is every year
in peril from these overflows. Sometimes
they break over the banks in Illinois, and
at other times they overwhelm tbe coun
try far down in Louisiana.
Fortunately, an unnatural and disas
trous overflow far North diminishes
tbe pressure and peril of the stream in the
South; but it may well be doubted
whether the overflows far up tbe stream
do not work greater Injury by scouring
out MW channels and creating new pesti
lential bogs and swamps as breeders of dis
ease. The farther up in the highlands
these enormous overflows buret out, tbe
more damaging and unhealthful the seep
age and tbe more labor needed to force it
beck to the stream and drain the conntry.
The people of the South and West owe
it to themselves to take hold of this sub
ject seriously and insist tbat this great
river, more than any and more than all
other subjects of internal impro vcjnent,de
mands investigation and expenditure from
government, aud such permanent im
provemeot that a spring or fall fresh shall
deepen tbe main channels, as nature in
tended U to, instead of-spreading over the
country carrying disease and death every
where. Tbe situation to-day calls loudly
for a forcible appeal to the country, and
should be made available for securing the
most determined action at once.
Hew Slaveholders
These are white slaves, principally to
be held under anew arrangement indi
cated by tbe New York Commercial Bul
letin. It is set forth In Monday’s edition
of Hint paper, which solemnly proclaims
as tbe advanced dogma of the so-called
tariff revenue convention, to meet in New
York city on the 30th day of November
next, that it is the right of ’ America
manufacturers to supply this country
with goods, and as a necessary corollary
that no American has tbe right to bay
foreign made goods. It is tbe business of
the government, therefore, to impose du
ties which shall effectively open a market
for everything needed or produced in
this country. The Bulletin says this is
siaveiy in a new shape.
The Secretary or the Treasury.
The withdrawal of ex-Governor Mor
gan, as appointee to the Treasury Depart
ment, although annonneed last Saturday
in tbe New York Sun, gained no credit
until after the appointment had been
made and confirmed. Then it was ascer
tained to be a fixed determination of the
Governor not to assumo the responsibili
ties of the office, and it Is said Judge
Folger another New York politician,
to be nominated immediately. Governor
Morgan’s withdrawal is a great disappoint
ment to the. administration.
The Washington Pest says: Most
the Republican newspapers express the
opinion tbat John Sherman erred the
other day in not allowing the testimony
In the Treasury investigation to be called
for at the same time with the report.
They are unable to see what reason he
can have, upon the hypothesis of his en
tire freedom from crookedness, forob
jectiug to the publication of the whole
matter. Some of them say that the party
ma le a mistake in following his lead in
voting down Farley’s amendment, and
that Republicans cannot afford to suppress
the record, which is certain to come out
one time or another, whether they are
willing or not. For this alarm there is
some cause, but the Republicans should
know John Sherman well enough to feel
ccnfident of his willingness and ability to
keep intact the secrets of tbe Treasury
Department under his administration as
long as it is possible for any mortal man
to do so.
A Tunnel Voder tbe ■evens.
An engineering work which once upon
e time would have seemed a miracle of
audacity and skill, was brought to a suc
cessful termination on Tuesday night.
For a long while past the directors of the
Great Western Railway Company have
been carrying forward a tunnel under the
:Severn, with a view to connect their lines
on tbe Gloucestershire and Monmouth
shire sides of that river. The point at wbicn
the labor was commenced necessitated
two miles of subterranean digging, and,
as usual in such undertakings, the head
ings were driven simultaneously from
each side. The utmost accuracy of level and
measurement is of course demanded lo
insure that the two excavations shall pre
cisely meet, aud engineering science
is able to accomplish this with far
more precision than a rifle can be laid
upon a target. On Tuesday the calcu
lations, as well as the sounds heard un.
derground, announced that each adit had
gone far enough for communication, and
a blow with a pick-axe opened one tun
nel into the other. So exact had been the
line taken that the center of the western
passage was not more than three inches
out of focus with thst of the eastern,
There is to-day, accordingly, a dry,
though dark, road underneath the Severn,
and soon we may expect that passenger
trains will rattle beneath the bed of the
famous river, usefully connecting the En
glish and Welsh traffic. How it will as
tonish Sabrlus,the goddess of tbe stream,
if;she still sits, as Milton depicted her,
“Under the glassy, cool translucent wave,
in twisted braids of lilies, knitting the
loose train of her amber-dropping hair 1”
But nothing is sacred to a sapper.
French Breakfasts.
Prentice Mnlfordin San Francisco Chronicle.
Can’t get acclimated to French break
fast. * First tbe hour—11 o’clock! Aud
tbe first dish? Soup! Potage! Soup for
breakfast! And the waits between the
acts! I mean the interval* between the
dishes as they’re trough, ou the table,
They seem here to have no Idea of tho
value of time to an American breakfast.
What is breakfast ? I mean an American
breakfast. A swallow of coffee, a bite of
bread, a bolt of beefsteak 1 C’est tout,
n'est pas! Ouil Time, ten minutes.
But here the waits between the dishes are
five, ten, even fifteen minutes. Betimes
metbinks they have forgotten me alto
gether. Occasionally they commence
their meal with a slice of bologna, brought
in on a plate with ridiculous ceremony.
I fork my slice of bologna to my mouth.
Voila! The plate is empty. But ihe
Gaul cuts it up with as much pomp and
circumstance as though it were a turkey,
and eats It circumspectly, bit by bit.
And after the soup a single dish of .boiled
beans. Or cauliflower. Alone and un
supported by aught else.
And in ten minutes more a miniature
fish. Over this tbe Gaul wastes a good
quarter of an hour. I cut my fish fn four
pieces, and swallow it in eight seconds
la Americaine. For I am diligent in
business—and breakfast. Seest thou a
man diligent in business'.’ He shall stand
before kings, even though dyspepsia stand
with him. After the fish a bit of steak,
enough to bait a fox-trap. Oh, the pre
cious minutes tbe lazy Gaul wastes over
tbat steak. And then cheese! Cheese
for breakfast. And then confection. A
teaspoonful of Jam! which the procrasti
nating Gaul requires ten minutes fo eat.
Aud then coffee and a cigarette. For all
of which tho Gaul takes an hour, at least.
Sixty precious golden minutes wasted
every day here by thousands over what
they call breakfast. Because I emptied
third of the little decanter of brandy
into my black -coffee they charged me
extra. I objected. They showed me the
tide-water marks on the botllo. You
mult pour only down to each mark. And
charged mo a sou for a serviet—a napkin!
Tbe Ll(Vu we Vee
The Fernandina Mirror says:
It is within the momory of men of mid
dle age when gas itself was only used in
the larger cities, and the feeble and un-
pleasaut oil lamps furnished the illumin
ating power to street lamps and tbe houses
of even tlie wealthy, while the majority
of the people gased the old tallow candle,
with its spitting, spluttering greasy habits
and ita weak and trying attempts at giving
light. Tbe llghtwood of the South is a
sort of Impromptu gas light, which lias
been long m use, and, requiring as ita
only preparation tbe deft use of the axe,
still gives its cheerful, glowing light in
thousands of homes, aud, as our country
people say, is “mighty handy.”
The wonderful consumption of petro
leum shows bow.largely It enteis into the
field of illuminating substances, and it
may probably be safely said tbat It is now
more extensively used for illuminating
purpose* than anything else. Ita great
cheapness bring* it below the cost of gas,
and its high illuminating power nfkkes it
available for almost every purpose. For.
domestic use tbe Hitchcock mechanical
lamp has obviated all tbe objections to
the use of kerosene. Tbe lamps are of
nickel-plated metal and non-explosive.
Fresh air introduced at the base is
forced np through the lamp to feed the
combustion, and has also tbe effect of
keeping the lamp cool. No chimneys are
required; the lamp gives a very soft but
powerful light, and the care of it is per
fectly aimpie. It is certainly tbe most
complete and satisfactory lamp ever in
vented for the nse of kerosene oil.
Neither the electric light nor the gas
light will supersede the present general
use of coal oil, which fills a place whioh
nothing else now known can compete
with iu cheapness and utility.
Incrswaliitr Cotton Production.
The last issue of Harper's Magazine
contains an interesting paper on cotton
and the rapid increase in acreage and pro
duction, from the pen of Henry W. Grady,
from which the following is au extract:
“It may be well to remark at the outset
tbat the production of cotton in the South
is practically, without limit. It was
1630 before the American cotton crop
reached 1,000,000 bales, and tbe highest
point ever reached in the days of slavery
was a trifle above 4,500,000 bales. The
crop of 1880-’81 is abont 2,000,000 in ex
cess of this, and there are those who be
lieve that a crop of 8,000,000 bales
among the certainties of the next few
years.
The heavy Increase In the cotton crop
is due entirely to the increase of
cotton acreage brought about by the
use of fertilizers. Millions of acres of
land formerly thought to be beyond the
possible limit of tbe cotton belt have
bern made the best of cotton lands by
being artificially enriched. In North Car
olina alone the limit of cotton production
has been moved twenty miles northward
and twenty miles westward, and the half
of Georgia, on which no cotton was grown
twenty years ago, now produces fully half
the crop of the Slate. The “area of low
production,” as the Atlautic States are
brought to tbe front by artificial stimula
tion, is moving westward, and Is now
central in Alabama aDd Florida. But
the increase in acreage, large as it le,
will be but a small factor in the increase
of production compared to the intensify
ing the cultivation of the land now in
use. Under the present loose system of
planting the average field is hardly bet
ter than one bale lo three acres. This
could be easily increased to a bale an
acre.
In Georgia five baba have been raised
on one acre, and a yield of three bales to
the acre is credited to several localities
President Morehead, of the Mississippi
Valley Cotton Planters’ Association, says
that the entire cotton crop of the present
year might have been easily raised in
fourteen counties atong tbe Mississippi
river. It will be seen, therefore, that tbe
capacity of the South to produce cotton is
practically limitless; and when we consid
er the enormous demand for cotton goods
now opening up from new climes and
people, we may conclude that the near
future will see crops compared to which
the crop of the past year, worth $300,000,
000, will seem small.”
A Spiritualist Answers Mrs. B W. If
Cuthiieut, Ga, Oct. 24, 1SS1.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger
Iu your issue of tbe 13tb instant appears
an article headed “Spiritualism,” by Mrs,
B. W. H.
Now, I do not suppose the lady intend
ed to make any misstatements or say any
thing calculated to wound tbe feelings of
probably as large a class of religionists as
any other. She has simply been misin
formed as to several matters, and my only
desire is to correct several of her state
meats, so that all parties will have justice
done them. In regard to the Katie King
exposure and swindle, if Mrs. B. W. H.
bad taken the trouble to inquire she
would have found out that the me
dium was always suspected by a large
portion of the best Spiritualists of Phila
delphia, including such men as JohnH.
Kase, Henry D. Childs and others, and
was thoroughly exposed by them and not
by any outsider or unbeliever—iu fact,
nearly every exposure of false and tricky
mediums that has ever taken place lias
been by Spiritualists themselves. They
are as much opposed to rascality and
trickery as any one, and wish it exposed
at once.
Dr. Henry Slade was never expoted in
London or anywhere. Ue was arrested
at the instance of Prolessors Donkyn and
Lancaster, in London, under an old
statute passed during the time of Hemy
VIII., against conjuring and obtaining
mouey under false pretenses. He was
taken before a regular buffoon in the way
of a magistrate, Justice Flower, who as
sumed the prisoner’s guilt before trial.
l)r. Slade was acquitted because there
was no evidence to prove him guilty of
ihe charge, and the case dismissed, Jus
tice Flower said, because there was a flaw
in the warrant. The most Intimate
friends of Dr. Slade In England—among
which were Sergeant Cox, Alfred Russell
Wallace, and many oilier eminent men,
hooted at the idea of him being guilty of
such a ridiculous charge. Dr. Slade was
never accused of opening letters by the
aid of a tea kettle, and was never known
as “Tea Kettle Slade,” because tho Doc
tor’s mediumship is writing between
closed slates, lie i3 not h medium for
reading sealed letters, and does not pre
tend to do so. Mrs. B. W. H. has con
founded one Ii. W. Flint, of New York,
who was accused by his wife, during a
divorce suit, of opening letters in that
way, and was known for some timo as
“Tea Kettle Flint,” but his (Flint’s) best
friends never believed the charge, believ
ing it malicious. Dr. Slade went
from England to the courts of Germany,
Austria and Russia, coufounding the wise
men there and converting several emi
nent German scholars from materialism
to a belief in the life hereafter. If Mrs.
B. W. H. will try and read Johan. Frcid-
erlch Zoelnen’s Transcendental Physics,
she will learn more of the wonderful
things dona through Dr. Slade than “she
ever dreamed of in her philosophy.”
The ignorant and credulous are not the
classes thatSplritualisra recruits her ranks
from. To he a Spiritualist is lo be a
thinker, and no one ever became a convert
to its doctrines without research and a
thorough understanding of the subject, aud
a rejection of the supernatural is as cer
tain to follow tbat understanding as light
follows darkness.
Spiritualism teaches you tbat God works
by natural laws, not supernatural; tbat all
things are governed by law, and tbat He
never violates his own laws. Tbe Misses
Cary, whose sweet poetry lias charmed
many a household, were open and avowed
Spiritualists, and died rejoicing in their
faith. If the seances had Leen continued
privately as commenced, there is no doubt
those present would have been fully re
warded for their perseverance by receiv
ing manifestations tbat wtuld have satis
fied all.'
Home circles are tbe most satisfactory
and convincing of any, and have made
more converts, and are daily making
them, than all tbe public mediums. Home
circles and his own daughters as medi
ums are what converted the gifted Henry
Kiddle, late superintendent cf the public
schools of tho city of New York for a de
cade of years. Home circles made the
Rev. Samuel Watson, a Methodist clergy
man of thirty years standing a Spiritualist
of tise most enthusiastic kind, and anyone
who wishes to investigate let him or her
organize a circle and pray to tho Great
Master ot all, and beseech the good an
gels for light reverently and in earnest,
and tbe prayers will be fully auswered
without tbe need of any public medium.
A Spiritualist.
About Girls
Mary Anderson.
Some girls are bora fat, some achieve
fatness, and some fix themselves up with :
old newspapers and things.
Sorry so Hoar It.
Washington Post.
Secretary Windom is of pure Virginia
blood. His father and mother were both
bora on the sacred soil of tlie .Old Domin
ion.
A Flattering Endorsement.
John Logan.
Davy will do. I know, myself what it is
to belong to two parties, but not at tbe
same time. Davy is the biggest kind of a
sunflower.
Bravo!
Washington Star.
A Terr Easy Question to Answer.
Albany News.
The bitter attacks of tbs Atlanta Const!,
tution on Senator Bayard move tbe
Charleston (S. O.) News and Courier to in-
Sayard?” whoso way ia Geor i. r ia is Mr.
Sir Hod ward's Opinion.
Philadelphia Press.
. Eyarta,” said Sir Edward ihornton
to a friend, just before loaving this ooun-
try, ‘ is a good lawyer who flatters himself
that no is a statesman, and sometimes im
agines that he is a diplomatist.”
Tbo Worst orn Bad Lot.
Sunday School Times.
^SSS/SSffSHiS , * mm
Forbade her to roam
tr atnlnfflOn mar* j And ftinflnnil L . «
Judge Tourgee’s new Iectare is entitled Where she nibbled at crisD-fr?S e, r
3tve Us a Rest.” To do his subject full | phtheighphtheaux. p ^ Ined I
pough-
Great Trouble in How Fork.
Mew Fork Tribune.
0f the oity ’ a “apply
18 the gravest apprehensions
"Give Us a Rest.” To do his subject full
justice the author should lock up his man
uscript securely in a safe.
. Their Best Flan.
Courier Journal.
The socialists are in convention at Chi-1 Thera is now in reMrv«'h»,A?i.’«t,'^, CU if i ' ,nH ‘
cago, devising ways and means for waging ter to last sixteen^seventeend£? B h ^
a war on capital. Their best plan would I unless there are heavvrlin^^!’ sH?
be to go to work and capture capital at the night the raotroDoliswin'lS ?■
rato of about $1 per head each day.
Personal InlormaUon Abont auEdl- tothepubhc*remindsever/oneof hTfo
Cincinnati Commercial. mTy be (3through* economica^ns^
Wo aretold that the editor of the Uommor- tho terrors of so appalling fa catos tronhe’
oial is very old. Yes, ho has been knock- 1 — *
ing around through eight Presidential
campaigns, bnt he nos never boon harness
ed in liver pads or taken a mud bath.
Chi catco Water.
St Louis Globe Democrat.
The Oldest Twins Urine.
ReidscillefN.CJ Times.
oldest twins in existence m
all this conntry are George and Edmund
Gravely, who in good health are still living
within five miles of each other, and with
Chicago water has to be boiled before it in three miles of where they were born at
is fit to drink. It is mighty inconvenient Leatherwood post-office, in Henry county
for a thirsty Chicagoan to have to wait in a Va. They will be ninety-three years old
saloon -ill the her-tender boils him a glass I the 1st of December, 1881. Their mother
of water, so be surmounts tho difficulty by I lived to be over 1C9, and th6ir father died
calling for a glass of whisky, which doesn’t at the age of ninety. Leatherwood is the
require any cooking. The Chicago intellect I same place in Henry oounty where, in 1861
is equal to any emergency. ninety-six Graveleys voted the Whig ticket!
With One Xye'Open, Too. I How They Will Recognise Hint
Meio Fork World. I Courier Journal.
Oar half-breed friends, when they pass I Twenty years hence a centenarian with
near the grave of the late Mr. Conklins, I long white locks and flowing beard will
betray an inclination to decorate it with I land in this country from a foreign steam-
the flowers of respect rather than with tho er, aDd the i>eoplo will think him a second
broken crockery of contumely. They 6eem I Rip Van Winkle. But when he opens his
to cherish a haunting suspicion that politi- mouth aud says: “l want another office
cally be is not dead but sleeping—with one I nearer home this time,” they will reoogniro
eye open, too. | him and say: “Why, it is Unolo Hannibal
■ ■ ■ —m i — | Hamlin.’*
The Hon John B. Clark’s Original
Blunder.
Mash v ills A,arris* n
The original blunder was (Jlark’s own
false step. A dashing widow with three
children and a boarding-house may well be
excused for accepting n man and a homo,
even when enoumbered with children, thus I around the peaceful valley to watch the
making a double case of step-children; but weather-beaten old salt standing with
Clark ought to have known better than to I speaking trumpet in hand and shouting to
merge his flock into that of the widow,with I his favorite cows: “Hard sport!” “Star-
the chances so largely in favor of a “wiot, | board your helm 1 ” “Steady 1 *
a wumpus and a wow.”
It Is Beautiful.
Sew York Commercial Advertiser.
Ex-Secretary Thompson, having retired
Brutal Treatment ol Burglars.
Milwaukee Sun.
A case of heartless cruelty to burglars
He Wanted Gold.
Wislern Press Dispatch from Washing'on.
To-day an old man presented himself at I occurred in Madison tlie other night.'"Mr!
tbe treasury and gave his name as Bald- C. Laurence entered his office on Sunday
win, from Ohio. He took trom his valise | morning and found his safe door standing
United States 6 per cent bonds amounting open, with seven holes drilled in the door,
to $17,149, and demanded payment in gold. I Upon examination, the contents were found
Treasurer Gilfillan endeavored to pereuade I to be intact, not one of the 11 cents bad
him to take checks, bnt be refused, and I been taken. Mr. Laurence then remem-
finally the amount was paid to him in $20 I bored that he bad left the door of the safe
gold pieoes. He put the coin in his valise, I unlocked the night before, and after tbe
and, as it weighed seventy pounds, he I burglars had drilled the seven holes they
oould not carry it. He wonld not exchange I also noticed that it was unlocked. It is a
the coin for anything else, and as he ap-1 sad commentary.
peered to be partially demented the treas
urer sent for the captain of police to take
charge of him and hia money until his
friends could be heard from.
What Broke It Up.
Washington Republican.
A good story is told abont “OldJnbe”
Early, who has been credited of late with
thirsting for Senator Mahone's life-blood.
The General was introduced recently to a
frffce of popular prejudice, defended the
King’s officers for shooting down the citi
zens of Boston ixx King street, now State
street, has been the rule of my profession
al life, and ought to be tbe guide of every
lawyer.”
Preparing for Another War.
Courier Journal.
It can no longer be denied that the South
is preparing for another war. AU tho
young people are getting married, which
in itself is ominous; but the evidence is
made strong os proof of holy writ by the
display at the marriage of Raphael
Scmrnes, at ClarksviUe, Tenn., of a floral
Stalwart Pistols ami Half-Breed Cof-
tee.
Washington Republican, 2 th. . . I
The New York Tribune, confronted by | ship in miniatnro of the rebel privateer
this paper with its infamous calumnies Alabama, bearing the Confederate battle
against General Garfield, writhes under the flag and pennant. The bloody Banks should
lash and fairly foams with rage. The Trib- I fire the heart of the Senate with an illu-
une is lewd and mercenary, and has under- minated description of this latest and bold-
taken tbe business of tearing down tbe ed- est Southern outrage. Mr. and Mrs.
itor of tho Republican for hire because he Semmes will doubtless set about raising a
has assailed certain public robbers who are crew for their ship.
ita employers. The vicious old thing prt- I
tends to have spasms of virtue when it has I Tbe Pacific Ballway Snow Sheds
a particularly dirty job on hand, and our Letter to the Mashvtlle American
tS;
letter advocating the assassination of Gen. xhev were fat suited Si
Grant are serious obstacles to its obtaining ^president, Chaff O&to, bSt hii
1 companions hesitated through fear of their
— — ... , impracticability and expense. They are of
TwoEsrs Live paper* In Atlanta j two kinds, one with very steep roofs and
Letter to Savannah Mews. the other with flat roofs. They cost per
I do not propose to apply tho above to I mile from $8,COO to $12,COO, and in some
two new journalistic enterprises about to j places, where heavy masoury was needed,
be established here, because I have assn- I tbe cost reached $30,030 a mile. They are
ranees that both papers are to have a solid I firmly constructed to support tbe great
finanoial basis. Atlanta never lacks for I weight of snow and resist the rush of ava-
brains to start newspapers, her failures be- I leaches. Fire precautions are very thor-
iug attributed to a scarcity of cash—hard I ough. Corrugated plates of iron separate
cosh. We are promised a live evening pa- I the buildings into sections, and in tho great
per, with fall <elegraphia news, to com- I ten-mile shed there are automatic electric
mence publication next week. Col. B. F. I fire alarms. At the summit is an engine
Sawyer is one of the I ending spirits in the I and tank always ready to flood the ignited
enterprise, and is an old and efficient jour- I spot in an instant. These sheds shut m tho
imlist. A new morning paper, to bo first- view of tbe great Sierras, but without them
class in all of its departments, will be I winter travel would be impossible. Some
started in November, CoL E. F. Hoge, an I times five feet of snow falls upon them in
able and popular lawyer of this city, hav-1 a day, ‘and often thirty feet lie on the
ing the matter in charge. He is confident
of full success, and can secure it if any
man could.
Bayard ami Hancock.
New Fork World.
The special and spontaneous enthusiasm
with which the people assembled at York
town yesterday welcomed two eminent
Americans, the one a soldier and the other
a statesman, emphasized in a fashion not
to be overlooked the lesson of the day so
terse put by President Arthur. No other
two living Americans so completely incar- rlll
nato to the popular mind the “love of liber-1 foreign and of civil war, but have stood tbo
ty protected by law” as Senator Bayard and I abeyance of almost all administration,
General Hancock. hen the story of onr 1 ■ - - -
ground at one time, and in many plaoee
snow accumulates to the depth of fifty feet
above these great wooden arches.
Ar Eloquent Peroration.
From Robert C Win t hr op’s Yorktown Address
“Let us strive to aid and advance the lib
erty of the world is the only legitimate
way in our power, by patriotic fidelity and
devotion in upholding, illustrating and
mlorning our owu free institutions. We
are one by the hopes of our children. We
are one by a constitution and a nnion
which have not only survived the shook of
times shall come to be weighed by onr de
scendants a hundred years hence, the
names of these faithful servants of the
constitution will shiue, as they shine to
day, pre-eminently bright bb those of lead
ers who never for a moment forgot, tho
one in the camp and the other in the fo-
rnm, that if law without liberty is tyranny,
liberty without law is license.
ExpcRalve Fodder lorn Vermont Cow
Washington Star.
Treasurer Gilfillan has received a letter
from a man m Caledonia county, Ver
mont. Tbe man says that one cow ol a
while the whole people were waiting breath
less in alternate hope and fear for the issue
of an execrable crime. I dare not linger,
amid scenes like these, on that great afflic
tion, which has added, indeed, ‘another
hallowed name to the historical inheritance
of oi r republic.’but which has thrown a
pall of deepest tragedy upon the falling
curtain of our first century. Oh, let not its
influence be lost upon us for the oentury
to come, but let us be one, henceforth aud
always, in mutual regard, conciliation and
affection! Go on, band in hand, O States,
never to be disunited! Be the praise and
heroic song of all posterity! Join your in
vincible might to do worthy and God-like
iuij ^ d _ ^ o might to
number, be is unable' to iflentifyparlicu-I
larly. chewed and swallowed ‘the contents
of his pocketbook. There were in that “PP 6 *! on ReformationinLagland,
- - - • - — - 1 two centuries and a half ago—‘A cleaving
curse be his inheritance to all generations
who seeks to break your union!’ No
anathemas shall escape my lips on this aus
picious day. Let me rather invoke, as I
a gtuuiiu. wau« mo cnucu fndferventiy do, the .
reimburse him for his loss. It cannot I ^
done. The man will have to produce I i® ®ti time to come, to pre-
rtions of the notes upon which tlie cow I °^5._5m OTed country in unity, peace
pocketbook twenty $10 bills, one $20 silver
certificate and a $5note, in all $225. There
were also in the pocketbook two keys,
“both of whioh,” naively says the writer,
“with pieces of the book, were found upon
tbe ground.” He wants tbe United States
to
portions .
operated before he can recover from Uncle
Sam.
and concord!”
He
Grant's Movement, and Wbat
■aye.
Western t-rese Telegram from Washington.
General Grant is said to have accom
plished the return of his old comrade aud
staff officer, Col. Amos Webster, to tbe lu
crative office of. register of wills, from
which he waa removed by Gen. Garfield on
the m anting he was shot. The name of
Mr. Rumsdell, who was appointed in his
lace, will not be sent to the Senate, end
iVebster will go back under the tenure of
office law. General Grant took occasion to
state frequently during his visit that all
the talk about Grant and anti-Giant Re
publican* was or ought to obsolete, and
that he had thoroughly determined never
be a candidate for the Presidency
again.
Hayes’ Hole-Book.
Boston Post.
Col. Jaok Brown, a noted Radical politi
cian, of Georgia, aud \V. L. Scruggs, of the
same State and politics, who was minis
ter to Bogota under Grant, were talking
in a hotel rotunda last evening, within ear
shot of one of the Post’s reporters.
“Why diJn’t you make Hayes give you a
better plaoe?” asked Brown.
“I did,” was the reply. “I often called
at the White House and thought X was
booked for something satisfactory.
A Isa Frmnmsew Tavern.
Letter to Nashville American.
It is seven full stories high above the
basement, that is 127 feet from base to cor
nice. Its sides are 330 by 273 feet, cover
ing nearly two and a quarter acres of
ground. The walls, with their rooms, halls
and galleries, surround a court 144x84 feet,
extending clear up to the glass roof, and
each floor having aooess to it on galleries,
beautifully ballostered and columned. In
the centre of this court floor of marbla is
a circular driveway fifty-two feet in diam
eter, iuto which carriages drive to receive
or discharge the guests. Five immense
hydraulic elevators run for the accommo-
_ He
always took out hia book aud made some
memoranda, and tliat made me believe my I datiou of its patrons, and these are attend
case was a special one.” I ed by the most polite and attentive engin
“Do you know what Hayes kept that kook j eers. Four artesian wells supply the wa
ter?” said Brown. ter and 755 rooms await the travel of the
Scruggs replied that he didn’t. I world. Of these, 875 open on tke four streets
“Well, 1 didn’t ask for an office, and, sarrouttding the building and each of these
consequently, the book was never brought j rooms has an immense bay window. They
VUUOG«jUUUU/i tuv inn/A WOO UClUt UfUUgllb
out ou-me. But just before Hayes left the
White House,” oyntinued Brown, “1 made
bold to ask him what be kept that book j
for, and be replied: ‘Brown, 1’U tell you if J
you’ll keep it a secret. That is a book in
which I keep a list of skunks whom it will
never do to give an office to.’ ”
Scruggs looked pained.
have dressing rooms and bath
rooms complete, and are arranged so
that several of them can be thrown en
suite. The fire safety arrangements are
perfect, as a patrol is kept on each floor
night and day, and these floors can be
flooded in three minutes. Surmounting
h * malere fl glass roof are vases
urns of flowers and plants G. .* n “
growth, their delioious
the surrounding galleries
tb-se are a numL?onhe
attentive managers and *5®*® and
found in 7pE hMtferv ^ ,m y. eeTet
travels, and we have doue^An^.i. 81 onr
nevor paid oni bill with°!U^ r 8i ? re ' w
the barber ehoD remitted to
(such as angels envy' a room
square, with bav wimdnl? 0 * 1 t ? eatjr feet
and bath, was on'y^4 d « 'd™ 68 ?”? T P om
who read these tines d8y * J* 1 .«*>«>
when they visit the ruH* d€8cn P tiott ‘
csrately speaking the^iiS^vV 01 * a ?°£ e *©•
We bade the &3uaHatei Jv* y Wlad °?«*
cere regrets. Hotel adieu with sin-
THET JOLVEP a CtttCVS.
***•?*-**» »« «, rt
■•y Who Rju off with a show.
Special to the Conner Journal
Little Rock, Abk., October 23!-Last
October a circus exhibited in this city be
fore a large audience, the people coniine
from tbe surrounding country for miles
and miles. Among the throng was an old
farmer named Wallace, who, with hia
wife and son and daughter, had come
from Searcy county, over lOu miles west
of here, to witness the show. The girl
was seventeen years old and the boy fif
teen, and they became completely fasci
nated with what they witnessed and de
cided to join the circus. The girl, fearing
her sex would stand in the way ot her de
signs, donned a shabby suit belonging to
her brother and succeeded in securing a
situation with him without betraying
her identity. The show went south from
this point, taking the twain it. The father
and mother of tbe boy and girl were fran
tic with grief, not knowing wbat had be
come of their children. They remained
in town several days searching for them
everywhere, but, being unable to find
them, returned to their mountain homo
utterly bewildered by their loss, aud the
mystery in whleh it was shrouded. To
day’s train from Texas brought back the
children whi ran away just a year ago.
In the twelve months which have elapsed
they have learned enough experi-
rience to last them during tbe remainder
of their lives. They were hired by tho
management of the show at $2 per week,
which to them seemed a large sum, and
took part in the concept which followed
the regular perfoi mances. They traveled
through the greater part of Texas, the
glitter and tinsel of tbe business fading
away at every step. Finally, when at
Galveston, the manager grew weaiy of
them and set them adrift. They were
thus left without a friend and with only
S5 in money. This was in December last.
Tbe girl had kept the secret ot her sex so
well that no one except her brother
took her to be other than a comely youth*
Alone and In a strange city, they were
glad to get a. situation at once, and the
only thing which offered employ
ment was a brig plying between Galves
ton and.New- Orleans, and on it they both
shipped. Their experience on board the
brig was anything bnt pleasant, the crew
being boisterous and theiremplover utter
ly brutal. When they reached New Or
leans they again ran away, forfeiting ail
theirwages thereby, as they had contract
ed for the round trip. Here the boy was
taken ill, aud their situation was becom
ing critical when tho girl en
countered a Sister of Char
ily, to whom she told her story. Con
vinced that it was true, tbe Sister had the
sick boy removed to a charitable institu
tion, where be was nursed back to
health. She also provided the girl with
'armeuis suitable to her sex and succeeded
n enlisting the interest of a wealthy and
charitable lady of New Orleans in tbe
children to such an extent that the lady
furnished them with money to carry
Ben Butler’s Platform.
Extract from hit Letter to Guiteau's Lawyer.
“I hold it to be a part of the chivalry of I Captain Jons’, and the “handshaking ‘was
my profession that no lawyer within the hardly over before the formor, who is very ,
circuit where he practices ought, without I f on d of talking about the “wab,” asked, in
c ?-» ee / ,*? r ? fuse 40 * or n “ Ba his squeaking voice: “What command in them home and a comfortabta
whose life is in danger before a court of the army did you belong to, Captain V” - - - - ’ * comfortable
justice, whether his personal belief be that “Oh,pshaw 1 General,” said tho young man,
the accused is innocent or guilty, and, of blushing: “I wasn’t an officer ia the army:
course, the amount of compensation in the Fm just the captain of a baseball club.”
rese ought not to become a makeweight in I “Ob, hell 1” cried old Jubal. 'Jhat broke up
the question. The admirable excmple set | the war chat,
by Otis, one of the Sons of Liberty, who, in 1
outfit besides. The children readied this
place without any trouble, and will leave
at once for the old home amid the moun
tains, where their parents arc iio doubt
grieving over their disappearance, and
where they will be welcomed as having
risen from the dead.
A MATCH Of MEWS .
Albany, Fort Talley, Bainbridge and
Gordon Gleanings
Albany, October 25.—At 7 a. m. an
alarm of fire was sounded, which was
soon discovered to be tbe residence ol Mr.
A. B. Wilson. Wbeu discovered, the
whole roof was enveloped in flames, but
by tbe prompt and heroic efforts of our
gallant colored company, Eagie No. 2,
aided by private citizens, tbe out-houses
and adjoining residences, together with
the contents of the dwelling, were saved,
and a serious conflagration prevented.
Our steam engine arrived after the danger
was over. A frog in tbe cistern got into
the suction, or the throttle would not
work. At any rate something was wrong,
and the Mayor ordered them to go up.
town and pump water tor the artesian,
well engine, and that he would give there
notice three days before the next fire.
We have not had any rain in so long
time we have forgotten how it comes.
Wells and cisterns are dry, and water is-
getting to be an object ot commerce. Po
tatoes and cars are ruined,, but the farm
ers have had a good time lo save bay,
and a great deal has been housed. J.
BAUmniDOE, October 24.—'Tho long
continued drouth has caused great scarci
ty of water iu this county. The cows and
other stock turned out to pasture in the
woods are suffering, and In some section*
are reported to be dying for water. Many
cisterns m the city are dry and are all get
ting low.
L. F. Burkett will begiu tlie manufac
ture of furniture from the timbers or this-
section in a few days, having purchased:
machinery for that purpose.
Judge W. O: Fleming is lying very low
at his home in this place. lie was attack
ed last week while on his way to Dough
erty county to hold oourt,.faad a violent
hemorrhage of the lungs, and it is thought
tbat he also has typhoid'fever.
The cotton crop is nearly all gathered
in this county. T.
Fokt Vallet, Ga., October 20.—Mrs.
Mary A Skcllie, a well known and much-
esteemed Christian lady, died at Iier resi
dence in this place night before last. She
was in her sixty-ninth year.
The gin bouse of Mr. B. W. Sanford, of
Crawford county, was burned last night,
consuming ten boles of cotton. Supposed
to be tbe work of an iucendiajy.
The agricultural society of Foit Valley
held a meeting this morning at which
'.bey determined to call a convention of
all the farmers of the county, to meet at
IVrry the second Monday in November
next, to take steps towards canylng into
effect the “no fence law.” C.
Gordon, October 24.—The Ebcnezer
Association, after a pleasant and profita
ble session of -three days, adjourned at 4
o’clock this af.eruoon. Tlie speeches de
livered on temperance, just before the-
close, will be long remembered. In fact
the whole thing will be thought of with-
pleasure for days to come.
Um Issh TUats Be?
Special Dispatch to the Courier Journal.
Washington,October 23.—The charge
is made against the administration of tne
government printing office tbat tlie higher
officers of tbat establiahment hare carried
on for years a system of mining young
ladies who may be employed there. It is
stated that a half dozen old women are
employed in the printing office, through
whom exira pay la given to the young wo
men who will content to the loss of their
virtue. These old women have sinecure#,
except that they are to act as procuresses
among tbe young ladies employed in tbe
establishment. The charge is creating a
good deaf of excitement, and it is not im
probable that it may terminate in an in
vestigation.
TTtw—■** T—puasw Cain.
The eighth annual convention of tbe
Woman’s Temperance Union met in this
city to-day. Miss Frances R. Willard de
livered an address, and the remainder of
tbe day was occupied with reports from
the superintendents of the various dis
tricts. The pretence of delegates from
tbe Southern States was noted for tbe fink
the columns of the oourt, beneath the met-, time in tbs history of tbe association.