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GEORGIA TEL APH BUILDING
STA BUSHED 1826.
MACON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1881.
VOLUME LV-NO 50
IF AH ! E.
m that moment of hla ecstasy ami eleva-
, „ . tion all tho Impression that he had made
llow much mast go for nanght. How many I on ber was tliat of one of Cice’s swine?
... tow : , » I General Shnrtleff, however, never re-
Uamoved 1 go on Se swift Unties* years;’ "“ft"*"*
Tho onowe pray for never knows onr I the weakness of womankind, especi-
niu n , I ally In Washington, and thought fate was
I going to bo good to Maria, and the Von
llow much must go for naught! E’en beau-1 Luitpliens w ore going to take their old
teousyonth ... .. I place again, and Maria was to have tho
Torn from its kingdom, laying down its I fortune slio was to become so finely,
crown, * * - -
Cry ing for what it yields. It went in sooth
Tho promised fruitage with tho flower’s
first down.
How much most go for naught! Tho sum
mer years,
8o rich in struggle, rich in hoardod
faith;
Even Fulfillment, Failure, stings and
fears;
Slain Expectation dies reluctant death.
Vet somewhere—somewhere, O, most ten
der Lord,
Lore? Well, she never thought of that.
One cannot have everything. And an es
tablishment, a carriage, the proud posi
tion of a Senator’s wife, diamonds, an tin-
| limited purso, and an old colon!>1 name—
that was enough for anybody. She would
have been ashamed of Maria had she been
so forward and so unmaideuiy as to speak
of love. And besides, it would have been
an absurdity an-J an impossibility, why
I so talk of it. Who cou.d love Senator
Belfair—a fat, red-face,toothless old fellow,
with a shining forehead that ran up and
Sure, Thou dost count them for us, treas- j over into tho nape of his neck, a man
uro nil;
Life’s futile toil, joy missed, tho sweet lost
word;
The Love that loves in vain, the tears
that fall.
—[Mary Clemmer.
ST. CECILIA’S. -
who cared for a good dinner as lie did for
his lile, and whose servants bad now and
then to help to bed from timetable'.* Still
he was a Senator, which many a one had
retlier be than President—a man of force
and fortune; and what was pa.t cure in
him, Maria must endure for the sake of
what was past reach for others.
Mrs. Shiirtieff lost no time in taking
From Harper's Bazar. I Senator Belfair to call at the cottage, and
Everybody in the city knows the little I had the mother and daughter to dino with
place, toward the boundary, where the I him a few days afterward. To her amaze-
uaiues of the streets run into the dregs of I meat aud disgust, when, the day after the
alphabet. It has none of the pretensions I dinner, Mrs. Von Luitphen made her
of the grand neighbors of the Capitol or I duty call, and she opened to her the
of the Millie House region, nor any of the I scheme for her daughter’s advancement,
architectural picturesqueness of those I the good little lady openly rebelled, and
about the Legation, witti their bays and I declared she wonld ratherseo Maria in her
peaks and tourelles. It is only a small I grave than the wife of such an animal as
woodon cottage surrounded by galleries,
and so overhung aud embowered with
roses that blossom from June to January,
and honeysuckles that are green from
one May to another, that it seems a bower
Senator Belfair.
For a moment Mrs. Shurtleff had the
best mind in the world to let Maria go
to her grave for al I of her, and sat in a
vexed silence. But it did not take her
still even when the snow is falling. Around j j 0 „g l0 re fl ec t that every mother’s gosling
It the pretty gardens always have some I is * nel) anil t i, a t probably Mr. Von
bloom or oUier to show, aud a great linden I Luitphen would have welcome 1 the Arch-
is the haunt of multitudinous birds that angel Micljae i, ba d ho come for her
niAkc the air alive with song, and not a I daughter, with much the same cordiality,
sparrow in the whole of them. And Maria A ,,d besides she hnrsclf had an affection
V on Luitphen is never ashamed to take I r or ji ar j ai aud if her own mother chose to
any of her few graJid acquaintancestothis I s , An( j j n t i, e girl’s light, she would espo so
little bower of a home that was ouly their I ber ca , ise . «,i ie should not be hindered
gardener s in the days when Govemer I 0 f 8tat0 aDl i 0 p U j C nce aud a career by any
Von Luitphen brought his pictures and I jucb trivial influences. And always teady
plalo, aud household gear and homes, to for a wlndm Hl to fight, Mrs. SUurtleff ad-
W asbington, and lived enjoying himself drcss( . d her30 , ri0 t | 0 contest, caIle d all
at the top of his bent, and burned h's can- h lcrpowereab o U t her, and before Mrs.
die at both ends, and left his family the I y on Luitphen had concluded her call
•*•!?■* , T , I had convinced her that a match with
People pitied the Von Luitpliens enor-1 senator Belfair was the greatest in the
luously when the 6tate of their affairs was I colUJtr yj t j la t it would confound all those
known.. But after a wlnle it was con-1 pe 0 p| e w lio had dropped them and passed
sidered that the existence of the United them by in their poverty, that it would
Jstates Treasury wasla providential circum- j-e-iustate Maria iu the ranks that was
stance, and a post there for Maria provi- J bers tliat it would educate Robbie, and
ded for them amply; and then people for- gi?e h , m a 9tart in tlie world( and lbat Jt
cot them—all but the fow whom Marla wou | d doubtless add years to her owu
loved so well that she would not be for- , ire; ulat> when all wa3 9aid> aud t0 be
gotten by themi. But M ashlngton is too 1 p | a | n about It> Senalor Belfair, with his
full of distractions for one to remember I i Ja bits, was not likely to live very long to
long wlial one does no. daily see; and I p | a mj e M ar la, and slio could bear with
then the, whole personnel changes there | ),; In j or a f ow - years lor the sake of lier
so frequently that presently there^ were I 0B .„ mtereat; and that, good, bad, or in-
not even all of those few Jriemls left in |Mur<jrent, if she didn’t marry him, she
the town to pleasute Maria. What a I W ould marry some Treasury clerk, and
beauty she was, to be sure. Her mother I gel a i on g 0Il tlic precarious footing of
used to look at her and sigh for what I §1^00 a year, with a crisis every fourth
might have been—with her tallland noble year f nr f ear that pittance would stop,
shape, her head crowned with its straight l Mra . y on Luitphen shed some tears, but,
and heavy jet black hair, with her b.g | : ontbe wbo le, confessed it was denrablc—
blue-gray eyes, aud her cdmpiexioa like J lbat ,i ove was bu t a young dream, often
the cream and blftsL of a tea-rose. The I w j t j, a rude awaking, and after a year or
coaches were never heard whirling Along two a wonjan wbo married wide awake
the avenues to the mianight festivals that I ,^1,1 hJ, abou t ^ ba ppy receiving the
the mother did not sit and portray to her- I tender ministrations of an adoring bus-
self’thr loveliness of Maria were she one band ^ ;f she had married in that youDg
of the ladies In ball array—Mariam white I dream,
silk with carnations; Maria m pale rose I
with clouds of filmy iase; Maria Indelicate Meanwhile Senator Belfair himself wa>
sea-blue shading into green, and dripping I net Idle- Yesterday be called with a new
with jewels down the front, like tli$ gown I novel, and the day before with a box of
Earl Doorm would have had Enid wear— I bonbons, and to-day he had sent a basket
Maria in all impossiblesplendor. It never I of orchids,|and all to no avail. Maria had
occurred to her that Maria looked just as I no time for the novel, and she never ate
cabraiing in her white print sprinkled I bonbons, and she had plenty of flowers of
with tiny roses as she could have looked I her own. Then he came with his superb
lu velvets. I team for her mother and herself to drive.
But such thoughts did not vex the girl I She was on the point of declining, when
any, if they did her mother. She was j Mrs. Von Luitphen declared it was the
content enough to sit ail day at her desk, 1 very thing, and the doctor had long since
and write litters for nine hundred dollars | told her tliat driving and fresh air would
a year, and see men doing the samo work I be her—Mrs. Von Luitphen’s—salvation,
for twice the money. For she remember-I And so they went, and so Maria, pitying
ed unfailingly the consternation of that I her mother, and not feeling that slio had
time before they know which way to look, | a right to deprive her of such enjoyment,
with debts to pay, and life to live, and I went over aud over again, till at last they
little Robert to educate. Now and then I became insupportable. She could not
some of the old friends picked her up in I bear any more to meet that man’s glance:
tlm street and took her home in their I it made her feel like a worthless thing,
landaus; and now and then some one I ‘‘I can’t, mamma," she said; “Indeed I
would have her and her mother to dine, I can’tagain. Don’tyou see what ho meant?
and perhaps twice a year insist on taking I He is going to ask to marry me."
her to the opera or to a reception, and | “And what if he does?” said Mrs. Von
gloating "over her; and when driving
tnrough the mazy roads round the Sol
diers’ Home, and meeting the eyes of one
a id another unconscious of the daughterly
compact, with something in them testify
ing to their different views of the matter,
she would declare to herself that she could
not go out with him again. Once, at her
mother’s urgency, they dined with him at
Weicker’s, and the crimson did not leave
her face for a week; although everything
had been so perfect, even to the presence
of a presidential candidate aud an English
Earl’s daughter with him at the little din
ner, and she regarded herself as a Geor
gian girl in & slave market. Then, again,
to stimulate her vanity, tho man would
procure her leave of absence from her
dssk, and take her up to the Senate aud
put her In the diplomatic gallery, as if no
other were good enough, and servants
would bring trays of dainties—a thing al
most uuprecented in the dignified galler
ies of the first assemblage of the world—
to her and Mrs. Shurtleff, it it happened
to he Mrs. Shurtleff, or to her and her
mother, if it happened to be her mother
sitting there and preening and pluming
herself as the possible mother of one of
those dignitaries below. But itonly abas
ed her to sec the baldbeaded men turning
and adjusting their glasses to admire her,
and laughing at Beliair as a sly dog.
Yet by one device and another her re
pugnance was kept lroin outbreak, between
Mrs. Shurtleff and her mother and the
kindly old genera!; she was fairly belea
guered, and felt like some wild tiling at
bay. Those were SenatorBelfair’s words,
but these were Senator Belfair’s looks
aud acts. Was a trap closing round her;
and she with nowhere to turn? Some
times it seemed to her that it had just
sprung, when Instead of driving from the
CapUo! after these little triumplis rf his,
they walked, encountering half the town;
vapors that seemed to say It was all
mistake supposing there was any wretch
edness in such a lovely world. And every
week sawjthem’nearer the end of their trifle
of money, t while she sought day by day for
work, for pupils, for any means of subsis
tence whatever, and sought in vain. Those
whose daughters might learn were out of
town, those who needed nnrsery-maids
were stilt out of town, too; there was
nothing in town, it seemed to her, but
want and trouble.
And then November had come, and
was passing, and the winter would soon
be along—and they had a iive-dollar bill.
If they were colored people, they could
at any rate go out and pick coal from the
railway and refuse heaps.
“Mamma," said Maria at last, “now you
havo had time to think it ever, do you
still really wish me to marry that man
THE CITIZENS» BASK.
Tbe Shape la Which IU A flairs Come
Before tbe Superior Court.
From tho Atlanta Constitution.
On Tuesday last tbe grand jury of Ful'
ton county considered the matters arising
ont of the failure of the Citizens’ Bank of
this city, and about which failure and Us
subsequent details up to the present time
the readers of tbe Constitution have been
kept fully informed. It was generally
suspected that tbe grand jury would frame
an indictment lor embezzlement against
Mr. \V. Fattereon, cashier of the late
bauk, on the comp aiut ot Mr. J. K. P.
Carlton. Mr. Carlton bad procured the
arrest of Mr. 1’atteison upon such a
charge, and, as Mr. Carlton is a gentle-
Xr WwhotundV'Uov and Openly
strait.—-the man who found us^ happy I aImouaced hi* determination to prose-
weU c ^P a ^’ * nd .j 1 **. 1 cute the case, it was believed that his efl
ruin on us?" Her mother looked at the
beautiful face grown now so white and
thin with care and anxiety and the diet
of dry bread, and burst into tears
forts would result in Patterson's indict
ment.
The result of the grand jury’s : delibera
tions, however, was one of the most sur-
best!" she cried. “I wanted you to have I *£&J* “t.^p’resemment aJSt
everything you should But he is dread- p e ri^rowT^esid P ent, and W. f St-
ful, dreadful, lie makes me shudder to I cashier, for embezzlement end
faces,X 1 "' lneVCrWant 10 860 Hlerceny after trust dialed, being: a
“Olq mamma! mamma!" she exclaimed, fil SSSesI Xures nine
than’Wd
nf nn^ ^nh the various allegations with
at least, wo are of one mind again, and I g rea j precision aud formality.
n e °eS a be ” apeaC ° ^ T There are two counts for embezzlement
Am .inY.v i n ,ii. .ni.t.. it ir . f in which it is charged that Brown and
Luitphen. ’ V I l’* tte . rso . n » « president and . cashior re-
“And I don’t mean to,” cried Robbie.
the cases. ; The bench warrants for the
arrest of tbe two gentlemen were issued
on Friday evening aud placed in the
bands of the sheriff for execution, but up
to 10 o’clock last night no arrest was re
ported, although both Messrs. Brown and
Patterson are in the city. It is not antic
ipated that either of them will avoid ar
rest. Both are fully cognizant of the
finding and contents of the indictments,
and are said to be endeavoring to arrange
lor giving the necessary bonds.
Toe cases will not be called for trial at
the present term of the Superior Court,
but will be In' brder early n the term be
ginning on the first Monday In April
next. There can be no doubt of a full
tf ial of the cases, and it is believed that
'startling developments will be made.
A SOT ABLE CUVSTKV BEST-
BESCE.
Tbe Mansion and Farm ot Hon
Abram S. HewlU, In the Wyssoekls
Volley.
From th* Journal of the American Agricnllu
ral Association.
“I will open sliells in Oyster Bay first;”
and Maria smiled sadly to look at his lit
tle weak white bands that never had been
and then not all the beauty of broad | S°°d for anything, and then cried to think
avenues and enchanting skies, not tho *L
blue vistas opening down these streets aud |, wasciyfog.and trying
| sportively of sad bank, did, on the 18th
1 day of April, 1S31, embezzle, steal, se-
I Crete and fraudulently lake and carry
away of money, to-wit: Five hundred
! thousand dollars in United States treasu- |
[ ry notes, national bank notes aud gold
and silver coin cf the United States. ■■
■ The counts for larceny afler trust dele-
At Ringwood,!n the Wyanockie Valley,
is tho residence of the Hon. Abram S.
Hetfift, containing 1,000 acres, about
eqnallv divided between bottom land and
mountain pasturage. The narrow valley
in which it lies is fertile and beautiful
The mansion occupied by Mr. Hewitt
stands on an elevation in the midst of
beautiful park of elms and maples, and is
further adorned by fine shrubbery and by
i l number of acres in a well-kept lawn.
Here are also a valuable grapery and hot
bouse and a large number of ftuit trees
and choico plants, the verandas, which are
very spacious,being filled with rare plants
and flowers. The bouse itself is built ot
wood, in the architecture of theElizebeth-
au period, and is recognized as one of the
‘‘nest country residences in the United
tates. There are doubtless residences in
those, not Ariington sitting on Its heights, l>er best to check it that Robbie ran, the gated charce and accuse the said Brown 118 ?0U9tri ’ b v U . 1 ° f St0Ue thathavoCost
no.- the Monument, with the sun shiuing <loor-bell ringing, to usher iu upon her, I jj nd patrereou that flavin" beeXas nreaU ! ,lorC mdney.but nDne can present a more
through the flag tint blazed atop like a ™th her briming eyes and dishevelled I d “nt anASer ^resnectnrelv of thb P CitI- N au tim^: V»rcbltectural picture or he
i - - ~ 'hair, a spare, dark gentleman in looa I rea P ect ! re , l J „ tDB 1 foor* perfect In its interior arrangement.
cassock—Father BiarcLI. lie bad a roN xeI,s Cank > b > 11 , ? nt ”“ t * d ^'certain 1 - *
pride themselves on their virtue for doing
it. It was not a tuad whirl of dissipation,
hut it was more than she wanted; for
even the enjoyment of It all and the sight
of her old world did not compensate for
Luitphen. “I only wish bo might. I
haven’t seen so agreeable a man since your
dear father—”
“Mamma! mamma!
“And when 1 think of such a possibility
the wouuds pride suffered at the bauds of | —of you taking your old place, of my llv<
dresses made over until she knew every | ing in the old luxury, of Robert’s having
scrap in them by heart.
It was on ono of these occasions, when
old General Shnrtleff had stoppod her on
her way home from the Treasury, and
told her that he should call for her that
night aud taka her to hear Lucia, and
Mrs. Sbutleffhad embraced her in the
carriage and the dark, and thrown
swan’s-down mantle round her lest she
should take cold, and half the audience
had risen to stare at her as they went into
their box, she moving and looking like
the education he needs—1 feel as if it
were a leading providence.
“Oh, mamma! how can yon say so?
How can you think so? That terrible
man!”
“Maria!” cried Mrs. Von Luitphen, “I
am really shocked at you. To call a Sen
ator of the United States a terrible maid”
And she recoiled as if it wetc a species
of blasphemy.
“Mamma, you know he Is. And as for
marrying him, I would rather wo all go to
“daughter of the gods, divinely tall and I the poor house together.”
most divinely fair,” tliat, iu tho entr'acte,
Senator Belfair joined the party.
bad never heard Lucia before, and
with every measure her heart bad beaten
wilder and wilder, and the color had
burned deeper and deeper on her check,
'•rhe poor-honse is a very disagreeable
place,” whimpered tlie mother. “If you
had ever been there and seen tho miser
able wretches, some of them with their
feet done tip in rags, you would think l>etr
ter of tbe most sumptuous house in Wash-
till it was like a damask rose in the sun. I ington and an unlimited bank account.”
It was not altogether the melancholy tale I “Well, mamma, wo will end the matter,
of the Master of Ravens wood that moved 11 will never marry Senator Belfair. We
her; it was quite as much the personality j are very welt as we are, and wo will stay
of tho prlma donna, who seemed to her I so.” And slio turned, winding back into
to wear the air of some great Scandina-1 place a heavy lock of her hair, and more
Tian goddess, to be no less than Froya I beautiful than ever in • her determination
herself stooping to play tbe part of the | and resentment. i>
love-lorn Scottish maiden, and over all I “Oh, you selfish, you wicked, you un-
tbe simple mountain melodies of tbe opera I grateful, you abominable girl!" cried her
there ran in her mind some hint or mem-1 mother; “After all I have done for you,
ory of tho mystical Walhalla music, and I to condemn me to poverty and suffering,
the ride of tlie Valkyrlan sisters, not hid-1 and your brotherto ignorance and toil—”
fog the sweet tanes, but adding to their I And just then Senator Belfair confront-
power, and giving them, as it were, an I ed them, his ring not having been heard,
aura and atmosphere of a loftier kind. I and Maria faced him, with her fallen hair
For music was the passion of her life, and I and the stain on her check and tbe glory
many a thing she had gone without to I in her eyes.
save money enough for the purchase of I “You must pardon me," said he then,
the sheets whose burden when she heard I gently, “if, coming in, 1 could not help
it sung, and when she tried to sing it her-1 overhearing part of yonr conversation,
self, fed her so«l as meat and drink feed I My dear girl,” and he took Maria’s life-
another. I less hand, “when have I talked of marry-
Sba bowed mechanically to the Senator I ing you? Wait to I do before you revolt,
when he was presented, but forgot his ex-1 And, till I do, let me look on you as a
lstenco the next moment, and when tbe I dear child that warms my heart, and
curtain rang up, thought of nothing in all I brings back to it the lender memories of
the world but the abandon, tbe intense 1 days that are long lost in the past.”
dramatic splendor, ot Lucia 5 * acting, the I It was very adroit. What could Maria
ineffable spell of the sweet music, the I do? He begged her to take tbe place of a
sorrow and anguish and beauty of tbe ! lost daughter, and he was wonderfully
whole, till it was a white rose, not a I klud; and she pitied him a little to think
damask, on -her cheek, matching the I he was so helplessly repulsive. Plainly
swan’s-down mantle—till her eyes were I there was nothing else but to let him come
shiuing like stars, and tears welling up I when be would and listen to her singing,
and quivering in them, and she shivered I and drive with him on snnny afternoons,
and throbbed with exeitsment and de- I and wonder what satisfaction he found in
light and woe. And looking at her, tbe I tlie society of one so silent and distrait as
Seat or said to himself that here was a | she, and go with him, under her mother’s
Worn*n indeed, a flower turned to a wo-1 charge, to the theater, and feel that it was
man, a attain of music berselft and then wholly reprehensible in her, but that she
be laughed to find himself growing poetl-1 disliked him more every day.
cal. Bat he told the Geueral next day I When he sat in the low chair and gazed
fbat Mrs. Shurtleff must take him ont to I at her, as she sang with her delicious
tee that charming creature, and help him I voice, so modulated to tbe little room
make her Mrs. Belfair and the mistress of I that one hardly dreamed its power, it grew
liia mtilt — rt i.a L..am M.ai * kawAtwl liwthsenaa fnr tn foal hia'na7n
great flower, nor tlie picture of tho Treas
ury facade—nothing, in fact, closed her
eyes to the view of her’own degradation if
she took auotlier step beside that man.
Yet, as tho spring was deepening, slie
often went on long walks by herself after
office hours to avoid tbe persecutor at tbe
cassock—Father BiarcLi. He had a roll
of music under his arm aud after an ab
rupt word of two of greeting, no opened
and spread it on the piano rack in a busi
ness-like way, struck a fow chords, and
called her to his side. “1 have need of
, , Jhe main hall resembles that of War-
moneys to be used In its name and foe jfo Wc k c’astle, England. It is 28 by 40
behalf, they did, on the 13th day of April, • n ^ nIs ’ bcd b in hard
l88I, wropgfii}iy jiud^ fraudulentlyfag Walls are orDamented
of nearly every
the time of his usual coming. And many j soprano to-day,” ho said, without any
a time, when her thoughts were all in a circumlocution. “It is St. Cecilia’s Day.
ferment, slio would slip into some open I " se0 what we can do iu her honor.”
church on her way and sit down in the I And tho room never echoed to sueh music
shadow till the quiet seemed to fall upon as that singing whilo-Maria lilted up her
vert the. sum of five hundred thousand
dollars to their own usfi,- to the fraud and
injury of the said Citizens’ Bank.
■ This bill was found true on the Gtliday
of this inouthjWas signed by Robert Wiii-
ship, foreman, and brought into court.
Tim witnesses marked on the indictnient
As those that will testify for tbe proseep-
with
specimens of nearly every de
scription of arms used in the late
war. '.On tho left' Is a Capacious open fire-
dace, with antique andirons, cushioned
ettees here aud there, unique chairs, fa
des and other adornments. A staircase
pf zqarvellous beauty ahd elegance leads
her like a Vnaut!c,'and she couldTgo her I heart and soufin her suddenly hopefui j Uo,V‘^rn L^l'HiMI^V^S^Thomns'^ ir" froiu Uie rcar of tLo hal1 10 the
way inpeace. Often she paused at the voice, for once hardly at Jail abashed by JdL Job^H J^e*3rT8nfoL °P enln 8 froru ,. tha ball, on the
threshold of St. Cecillia’s at some vesper the drill-master who deejared this passage £ p So TomUranT f ccdored). Itf H ngh V 8 *“ v C - 1 1 ^ an , t d in,D S room, the
service, or stole up where the choir prac- t^n wrong, aud that without expression, K na pp WAA. HmphH! and Heniy S^ott. rqop, » r °°o ’
ticed the old Latin chants, and where the and tbe other a travesty of the writer’s A r abova “amiu WMe not e^mfoed au ? llbrary adjo J , 1 H i , ng V I 0n
voice of an acquaintancs of hers used to meauinu. But after an hour asmilegaiL- CtJSTK i?„? the left are drawing rooms and Mr. Hew-
seud Its so ft anM rich contralto tone through ered on Father Biauchi’s dark face, and The juryXt^aytry * l f ts '‘“dy,'filled with a great collection
the arches of the empty place-empty he put his music into tho case again. eUber or liotli of tlie y y ° f P racUcal a ® d 8 S ien ' fic h™* 3 - The
then, but so frequently thronged with gay “That is well,” ho said; “on tlie whole, T be record of the finding of this bill r Ti S V furuUbed witb every possible
bridal parties, whose pomp it suited well. well. You are the soprano of St. Cecilia’s themmuiesof the a ? ic L Q for use aud J UX , Ury ’ aud tbo , waU ?
Often, too, she joined with her friend and choir. You will be ready for even!.,g be^e the grand Meel plates 8 ware^Ss
found a coinfoct in that old music which I service at the choral festival to-night. 11 * 1,-4 , lct concluded its work udod the wltD steel plates, water colors,
had brought comfort to so many; and just have meant to make it an offering of song nik affairs InX memitime no 0,1 P alatiu *»’ 0n , flrat floor ■»
as often she paused in a kind of fright beyond all others in the laud. We have ^‘^ e '^ 0 " a d uk b a f al tb e er au^iSfStmld rooms, the second nineteen, udln
when she found tliat it was Father Biau- been preparing for it this six weeks, and bQ ^ound williu- in somfdeeree to mod- , tba atti « C eight * S bo °* d erportion of the
chi himself drilling tho sincere in their I to-day I feared all for nothing, till I »r WKSESfiBSl fc 0 "? a ‘eoru han a century old. A
P*rt*—FatherBi.nch. wholad.won such ^.dyon Yoomurti^T win be- Wm cntirelJ. Baton bzic^bllfdW » m fo aTerfecUUfoof
a wonderful name for the Christmas aud I uigut in company with the rest. I Fiidav when the crand iurv assembipd DncK D wiamg,,*uu in a pencct state or
Easter music here that his people had a But w-here is the other soprano?" asked KSd&SSffli iflSh
vague idea the songs of cherubim and I Maria Uimdlj. I the finding was relected and the indict- I a DiacKsmau
seraphim would not be complete without I .“My soprano and my tenor have been M>op, and is St.ll used for that purpose,
him! It was heavenly old' music they dtoU^^a d Frtber Lflan^. -a do ^
were singing under his direction, though, uot at ail require my s.ngeiS to worship I d e3 i re( i » 0 co before the pratid Inrv and in several small laaes*
written by men with Heaven and its wore with me, hut I do require that they shall KSvEEnt rf ? ewilt P 5 !? 8 *°“? cair age and
ship iu their souls; and listening to it, aud not hinder others from worshiping with g. s^^borses of Uioroughbred stock,but
joiuing in with lier fresh voice when she m0 by their secular conduct. 1 have re- j tQ ■, 1UM ii 01led transac^oils of the bank f rdfl , w S ./ Q r* *^ eiae y aa ^ Mol-
daredfalways left her in peace. placed my tenor. I havo inquired about fro^iim Urneha becameit? e «hfe? uS to ate L n Catlle * ? h , M twen *
People'were going from tho city by this, I y° u * ^ ou surely sing with a de- I t | je ^ * e * tg f a ti Qr g ffran( « s™ ty-four cowi, and of the four, one
however, the Shurtleflk at last amoug tho vout spirit-you have something to bo L dat e *L ^ e r g ™ nd £**• Je«ey bull andone Holstein bull. The Ho!-
The dairy is a pretty building of the Swiss
chafot style, and is one oftheiinest in the
country. It is supplied with a large
- .stream ofrunulng water, drawn from a
tliocitv ? I ““‘“s iu ° iuusic m uiu mum icsiivai ■ _ », Qrn -i,t m _,i.„ above,.entering .tbe building on the
It was when they lefttliecarriage, dark- fSt. Cecilia’s, as that sweet silvery voice statement he^ was St MmUtod to^S Sec °? d i°° T and descending to tie base
ness havln- coma on as they drove, one threw forth its throbbing tonos in an ecs- b *, Dr ' , b 2n Tw? or J™ m ® nt ! P° w , er *? r »-water
,noonlMs"fl S h“Mre. Von Luitphen pre- t.sy of triumph and thanks, berrmst have gMfti adIrtum B oro W , h ‘ C - h 1°^ lhe „ work of - th * e, ^ b *
ceeding them to tho garden reals, that felt that Maria Von Luitphen bad «cap- ro?n the beriShrFultoSsuM r^i 00 ^ i, ’ dudiD 8 J 18 churning. The
MftpiatJmimiin orarf caught in the I ed bis toils forever, and was as far re-1 0 . 110 penenor rultou oupe j walls are stone, with a cemented floor,
and slia staid to loosen it° only to fiu5 tbe I >noved from bis impossible reach as St. I f*? r «? U ir ^ Judge I tiled sides, and hard wood ceilings; the
.U«»> -S* 1." cliolr of £*» LSrart?, E’l’.St “S» »W » •*,
tinnn iipr in a inomcpt sbe had torn I angels round her. was iu heaven. | pere temporarily, lie saia to a graua 13 the ice house, by means of which tbe
herselfawaf scarf audaTbandtureedon I LZ” ! u - ±. . j^y making lnqulqr of him in open court, temperature is kept atthe proper poinL
him iratalv to tlio dark “Iknowlnrom-1 ASnnte»li»a worth Adoption. I that It was not only their duty to hear the The principal production of the farmis
SSSw 5 '. £ kSrtbik iSSS’lffi 4t H« on tte 8tb d.y .r No- KfCttSf fS’b'Ji fS.2 tatl«r,'ofolSA M.. m.d. J„ U»
it is too much for me. I cannot pretend vember, at the 138th Grand Monthly I whcn »«>m 57o U> 000
any longer. I love you. You must be Drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery.
I S30.000.tba first ranit.i nriz-. was n*rl I arn ‘ n 9 'v. 111 ? 5 *. 0 * *i* “ ls hoh*.M« to do so and of so excellent a quality that
HASH TO HASH.
Torrihl. Rtranle H n Ballroad Car
with a IHisporado.
Detroit Post.
At 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon a
thrilling episode occurred ou the Michigan
Central In-bouud express train near Kala
mazoo, and but for the courage of a wo
man might have ended in a terrible trag
edy. When tbe train neared Pokagon, a
man, who bad been apparently engaged
In readiug a newspaper, was seen to rise
suddenly in his seat, and turning to a per
son, seemingly bis companion, shouted in
loud tones, “Yon give me your revolver
and let me go or I will. brain you 1” A
desperate struggle instantly ensued be
tween tbe two men, aud the startled aud
now thoroughly frightened passengers
precipitately fled from the car, with the
exception of a plucky little woman.
The man wbo uttered tbe exclamation
was Henry W. White, olios Burton, a no-
j pithy paraphrase of a classical military
j maxim by “gcttin’ thar fust,” and it la
'quite likely that the lightness of their
burdens contributed in a notable degree
to such performances of tbe German in
fantry during the last great war as tbe
Crown Prince’s match back In pursuit of
HacMahon. Tbe table compiled by the
Russian minister of war ought not to be
frithouHts significance for the English
military authorities, who are agreed in
representing the rank and file of their
army as inferior in physique to wbwt It
should be and used to be.
A City of LurtcstLIfat,
Keokuk Constitution.
The cita of Aurora, HI., forty miles
west of Chicago, affords a striking specta
cle of the revolution In lighting cities by
the electric tower plan. At night the dty
is bathed in a flood of lambent light, and
her citizens are iu a state of delighted en
thusiasm over the splendid practical re-
_ _ ..w * u ^ ts Achieved.- The system consists of
torious stage-robber, bandit and despera-1 fl* electrical towers, made of iron rods
do, en route to tbe Detroit bouse of cor-1 and net*work, each 100 feet high. These
rest. Congress had adjourned late in me i WLuPWHB .« i recelvo ft. om blm any .statement.
July heats. But not Senator Belfair, ha I that of your late desk in the Treasury, I; r. i 3 . aId *hev wernlfitsllv *dVl«ed fb«t I
still remained, and his bones came pranc- but the position will bring you pupils iu lf m-olve ofthefonumS^Ingamsfore
ing to the door every night. And M tWwUl tojbto IL» it,, dJlredt”bLMr.^tSft wo J uld
could she refuse her mother the relief of And •* t> ® nator B e ff» lr was among tho bo proper for tbem do ^ As on)y
omecU d y.? l0Wi ‘ IS aif 0Ut3 a ,Uni ‘ Ce I Stotoe S atTo^^^^^^ } sm>11 Action of that'‘number signifle
mv wife I $30,000, the first capital priz was ctr>- 1 “'"il'L "ir'TTr' "A. T'“ y- i »im oi so exceneui « quality tnai a mar-
“Xcvci!”shecried'passlonatcly—“never I tured by ticket ifo. 40^303, half ^f h e ‘hrtd“that SaMrbatb'boSdtIlem'ft m®* bas ^, eadily *° u n d fo r R during
neverl never! I wifi die first!’’ And she which was held by John T. Garvim I I the past ten yafin rttterato of ninety
sprang past him aud into the house, fore a driver for many years on the Metropoli- make " they could nrt refore P to hear anv *7* P °. Und ‘ B22S&.S? 8,1 i* 8
getting that so much demonstration was tan horse railway, No. 3 Thornton Place, ap P°' n i cent3 a S e ^ erfe 5 t f? r tbe , U8e * for
“You’re a trump, Maria,” said Robbie, lead tbem to mkW ktWUJ’Adding,
following her, and giving his first opinion “ this Exeh:ango National BmIc It Js strons iy intimated by his friends,
in the matter. “I woulJn’l many him if one-half held by Ar^h’. JEdwfn I wl ,‘° ar t al ‘PP9 s ? d to know fully theeitn- I and In winter with meal and chopped
be wis made of gold f and don t you. I xfotiAt nf Rmmitt«hnpo \fri • I ation, that iiad Mr. Patterson bocn allow-1 liay, steamed, in this dairv tho
And Robbie was the only comfort she had I lb ba jj throu"li J U ja, Scixas & Co ed to go before (he graud jury and make | set about twentv-fonr hours: at
for niaiiy a day thereafter, between her 8l “ 8r " a “ l ' ,rou "“ * u - tbirf f.nii.i a statrment, he would have satisfactorily
mother’s reproaches and beseeebings, «y 8an *' “Rd capital cIetr?d up a „ suspicions against himself I together to prevent loss of cream. The
weepings and wailings, and her old lovers I L 1 ,,.. A ' lm fa. hJSk. r -- 1 and shown that ho was not guilty of any churning is done at 58 degrees in tbe sutn-
ambuscades, from which he surprised her ^Yorklit? tS fourthcanUalsS?: °- f the acts cbar S ed a ^ In » t hi “’ » is mcrTdW degree! fo thTwinter, The
Jin D rL* q U w w mw-nittia 1500, two prizM, No. 40,414, woif by Frank I !L evcd , b y t } ie, H t .bat*ho would have told dairy is managed by Mrs. Hewitt, who is
And from her dcsl* in tbo bo. mornings | m.iL.i v n Vnw t\ r I whole truth to tho Jmy* At whAtever j a dAUchter of Mr* Peter CooDcr. &nd who
touch thn hem b nf leans; aud No. 15,200 by B. Jacobs, Ware sacrific8 of P rld ? «nd defiance, and placed justly takes great pride in her work, par-
side li.r, as if be would touch the hem of ren , bu „, jj 0> jj ext draw i nj: ; 3 on Tues- ! te ? ln P?* 868 * 1011 th e JtU that would ticularly as her mother and her mother’s
h!m° Uld n0t I day, January 10th, 1882. Write to M. A. ? ad 40 tbe unraveling of every mystery sister were expert butter makers before
glance At him or speak with him. I Daunliin Vpw Orinana r* n? it I that now seems to surround the aifairs of J her* The nrACticAl work is done br aq
• At le ”?} h p hima “wfthnm SSf!« two dolfore. L ’ " bank Asho^as denied the priyi- j experienced Swtchdiii? woman, «
in going the whole way homo without I . I lege of doing this it is claimed that he husband, Mr. James Monniean, a thor-
meeting him; nor did she see him the next How co X Abr«wl. cannot well do otherwise now than hold oughly experienced farmer, has the im-
day or the next. Senator Belfairhad giv-1 I his peace until called to answer in the mediate management oi the farm.
en up tlio matter and left town, she said; I r st James Caaette, Xovembern. I trial of the cases made against him. I Mr Hawittiti* annronriata to atato
and more lighU.earted than Sinbad when ^ al ^S 'sh courts of law, but more r f L °' amount afieged to have ^in em- is toe uSindivIdu» P Kffiover of IS-,
he escaped the Old Mon of tho Sea—since I in English criminal coarts, I hc/jiiod, viz., five hundred thousand dol- j bor in the United States P havini- fowr
ehe had always feared tho least atom j n I an atmosphere of gravity and decency I j 9r9i jj au sjtonijjqnf. matter in the eyes hundred families on his estate at Rlnir-
the woridtbatshe might yield—she tripp-P^ va ®®w Jcbnocne “n be aftogetlierLfjjjg,.^^,,^ ^ truth is that the wood, and employing three thousand
ed along on the way to the Treasury on the ®S are ili 3 tantl v rendered consdous s , um tbu3 alleged h , intended re P reMnt bands at his afferent manufactories, and
morning of the day that sho came to this “ v^thev' trvto violateit It isot pmv the entire amount of money lost to depos- during the baitl times from 1873 to 1870
joyous conclusion. 8he had conquered; I " ul ' n ..J.} 1 - lo “• n is not easy 11,„.^ Coiinw. -»r uat wf... ! ■■ . . .
ehe had not soli'"
self-respect, for — : — -—— — ----- >. , . d , L. 0[d B .. , . wnn i d i » ymm rmxuwu w hju- I sudk m ms dusiuoss »iw,uwper annum,
was gone; tomp’ation was gone too; she ^de«Und that^he miwt behave verted ’ wI1 i , do “ bt i2“ fal1 ,ar ^ ‘bo He kept them employed, when necessary,
was free; she had overcome. She took aud wbat is more he would l^ 8Um named in the bill. As it stands this by building stone walls and tearloTthem
her place at her desk, audthero lay the gSSalW IoSmo? ^ would be tried ‘ndlctmentisfor the largest sum of money down again, and he Is therefore esteemed
long ydlow envelope, the envelops dreed- “ 00 so - u “J ''J“‘ d be t « ed ever named in any indictment found in by his employes as a most generous?
ed by every clerk astbe yei ow pestilence oKwSd/bm taT^oSd State of Georgia. . hearted man. His firm, Cooper, Hewitt
flag is, the envelope conuining a letter of | ™ “• 523ZT2S, J” ed I On Friday the grr- 1 * - ‘ ™ FFl J ~
dismissal.
She put on her hal and opened her j
umbrella, and walked home, dazed and
dizzy, an&ble to think for a while, as if
blow had been struck aud stunned her.
Here was Senator Belfair’s hand. He j
had had this thing done. And she bad
few friends in tbe world and they were
In a much more ’dignified and stronger I .Hn^nntilpr ^«' 0nipaD rif , ^ n i 22 ’*
tried Tri London than seems S* 111 another^ Joint Indictment^ agates* 000 acres of land In the neighborhood.
way if he was
to be possible in Washington
Brown and Patterson, for the alleged of
fense of embezzlement. The charge iu J
this last Dili is that the accused had on
Items Frem Talbot csuatr.
Tauuotton, December 12,1881.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—
Miss Sallie Bently, of Upson county,
sister of Mrs. Dr. W. H. Philpot, of our
A prrmoN is now being circulated and I deposit and in their custody Atlanta 6 per
h—reestvedtiissigBatarmoIaoaeooftheie Mnt . bonds of #500 each to tbe amount of
SwTnsvIi railroad 1 renuMtaHTtoe 551 - 500 * w bich they, on the 13tli oi April,
— —j. | tors of that road to set apart tlie rear car j did embezzle, steal, secrete and
all away, some of them at the end of tho I 0 u each of tho momiDg trains to New York I fraudulently take and Mrryaway, etc. i *»__ i,—
earth, and perhaps none of tbem could I for the use of those who desire to hold re-1 It appears that the bsuk had on deposit I "O^vn, aiea here yesterday evening of ty.
help her—certainly not General Shurt- I ligious services on the train. The services $04,500 of tbe 0 per cent, bonds of tbe I pboid fever. Miss Bently has been for
left; who was in an open quarrel with the I are to be held between ML Vernon and I city of Atlanta, when It closed iu doors, several weeks with her sister’s family at-
bead of her department; certainly not Mrs. I New York, and wil conriat of Sonpture J Of this amount the receivers have been tedi th , lbI ... M „ nnt f. h _
Shnrtleff. who would be glad to have her r®» d '«JK. and prayer. One hundred enabled to trace and recover only $43,000. Wndlng “ em *2* M noted W
reduced to no alternative but marrying thfauStoude 0 n P t bifora Srlntoi^th^ re Of the WbereebouU of the other bonds, T 0 " correspondent, and just as they
her persecutor. And with the powerful 1 5 est ^ before granting the re-1 $51,500, they have been unable to obtain I were convalescent, she fell a victim ; and
band of a great Senator against her, how I 4 ’ , ,,, , the slightest information. Neither Mr. I truly a noble woman has fallen—she was
was she to contend any way? There was Tutbk are in Persia about 40,000 Jew?, I n ?!„^L, Pat . t S r * on t W L U deT f‘°P I more than a noble sister “of charity.”
no hope; she was dismissed from office. I and the Judische Pre?s says they have a I nnyrthing concerning these bonds, and for I . . . n . J
She had not a hundred dollArs In the I bad time of it, being subjected to all aorta J Mjtt Account the indictment for etnbez- I interrea at Uak Hill cemetery
world; she had not been brought np to of vexatious restrictions. In tbe town of I zling said smount of bonds is preferred. to-morrow morning, by the side - of little
work, and there was nothing she could Hamidan are the traditional toombs of I The above two indietmenU are in addl- Birdie Fbilpot, her niece, wbo died re
do; there was only a choice between stare | Eetha and Mordeoai. | tion to_ tho two indictments for violation | ceritly. _
vationforheraelfandbermotliorandhorl _ .. . . ’ ••• ’ .... ' I of the law? governing banking in tbe State I Rev. Mr. Lyon, agent for tbe American
brother, and marriage with the man she I Iast monthly I of Georgia. They were frilly explained I Bible Society, occupied the Methodist pul-
loathed. For herself it would be easy, J I and dlaci »**« d lo » previous iaaue of the pit Sunday, in the interest of tbe cause be
butforthem! And then her mother would I bi« ft to meetoll demandSvritho”’ raishui I Constitution. In the above misdemeanor I represenU.
drive her half wild with her woes. And ^ ra teof discount. 10,1 1 casea the bond of eMh gentleman named w. Eugene Leonard, with Singleton
> she did. I - ,,, , I was fixed at $5,000. Mr. G. I. Brown be- I Hunt JC Co., of Macon, Is visiting his
The summer was already gone, and now 1 Wssism DsiseMvMsed. | came surety for Mr. Ferino Brown, and I father, Captain B. H. Leonard, or this
September crept aaray. October, witb its Nr.w York, December 14.—The quare I Messrs. J. W. English and J. W. Murphy j place.
magic color in all tbe squares and on all I terly reporbof the Western Union Tele- 1 signed tbe bond of Mr. Pattoreon. I Mr. J. B. Douglass, wbo has beenat-
tbe hills, wrapped the great white splendor I graph Company for tbe quarter ending | In the felouy cases first above men-1 tending lectures at the Atlanta Medical
of the Capitol iu its azure hues, and veiled j December 31,1881, estimates tbe net rev-1 tioned Judge
every long length of avenue or reached [ enues for the quarter at about $2,010,527.1 bail at $5,000 each, making $10,000 for I Messrs. Martin ft Freeman lost two
ri ltril r t ovorj'Iie Potomac into the Virginia shores, I A dividend of 11 per cent, is declared, I each of the defcnilante, or $15,000 each as I horses last week from “pinkeye."
his millions. How could be know that beyond indurance for her to feel hisjgazo or up the Maryland slopes, with alluring 1 payable on the 10th of January next. 1 the aggregate of tbe bonda required in all I Cobbzspokdkxt.
rectum. The individual he addresse I was
United States Marshal P. P. Wilcox, of
Denver, Colorado, who had him in cus
tody. The exclamation was instantly
followed by the prisoner bringing down
with terrible force on the officer’s head a
pair of handcufls, which he liad cunningly
picked from his wrists with a toothpick.
The officer was momentarily stunned by
the blow, but made a desperate resist
ance. Blow after blow was was rained
on the officer’s head with tbe handcufis,
and then he made a successful effort to get
tho revolver. Tlie officer shouted
for help, but none came. The prisoner
cocked the revolver, held it against
the officer's breast and pulled the trigger,
but it failed to perform the work intended
for it. A desperate stinggfe for the pos
session of the revolver, a Six shooter of
44-callbre, known aa a bull-dog, now look
place on tbe part of the officer. Now it
was in bis hands and then in that of the
prisoner. The most mysterious thing
about the struggle is that, although each
tried to fire the revolver, it failed in each
caso to respond. Tbe muzzle ot the weap
on, while in the hands of tlie prisoner,
was thrust against tbe left temple of the
officer with such force that the prints. of
it were plainly discernible when he ar
rived in Detroit.
During the contest the lady, a Mrs.
Smithson, from Denver City, remained in
the car and labored heroically to aid the
officer. She threw her arms around tbe
desperado’s neck ' aud tried to hold his
hands.. She remonstrated with him and
tried to calm bis fury. Towards the dose
of the struggle, the pritoner, seeing that
he conld not kill the officer nor get posses
sion of the keys to nnlock the shackles on
his feet, placed the muzzle of tlie revolver
against his heart, and again it refuse to
respond. ‘ Finally the officer grabbed tbe
bell robe and stopped the train. A brake-
man, attracted by tbe struggle, bad come
into the car, but wa» afraid to touch the
jrlsoner. The struggle was fortunately
Drought to close by the opportune appear
ance of C. F. Chapin, of br*nver, from tlie
forward car, who joined forces with tlie
officer. -The two guards 'whom the offi
cer had brought witb him were in the bag
gage car smoking during the struggle.
Word finally reached them of the peril of
their chief, and they came nulling to tbe
rescue. The prisoner was soon reduced
to subjection, and bis bands pinioned be
hind his back. White did cot besitate to
announce that be intended to kill the
officer, rob tbe passengers and make his
escape to tbe North woods. He said he
was virtually a dead man when once
withiD tbe walls of the house of correc
tion. - . ■
1 1 ’ .. v
A SEW EX a LA SI* OPTIMIST.
Review oi Hr. Barker’s Sen lino eats,
ot Lewloion Me., by a Prominent
• joisnaia."..' •*“ •
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Mr. C. I. Barker, agent of the Bates Mills,
Lewiston, Me., who has recently returnei
from a trip to Atlanta and the South, has
drayn forth much unfavorable criticism
upon his review of tbe Southern cotton
manufacturers, published in the Lowistou
Journal receutly. lu the whole range of
correspondence on this subject we have
seen no opiuiou as yet so adverse to tbe
South. Happily for this section and for the
whole country as well, the position of Mr.
Batkfr’s premises is in direct opposition to
farts, and his deductions, therefore, must
come to naught. It is evident that his
mind was somewhat prejudiced before bis
journey to sUow.bim to aee anything really
or prospectivoly good south of Mason anil
Dixon's line, aud we also fear that he is one
of loose mistaken individuals who
believe that Southern success mesne
Northern ruin. His arguments
that the Southern climate it
bad for cotton manufactu re, the wages too
high and the water power scarce, are
hardly worth refuting. On the matter or
waste it is doubtless true that Southern
economy is upt so rigid as it should be,
though decided advances have been made
io this line, aud there is no reason to
beliove that the movement lias come
to a standstill. Skilled operatives are
without doubt comparatively few iu num
bers, as Mr. Barker further asserts, but it
would hardly be otherwise with the open
ing of new industries at any point.
Meanwhile no mill has slopped for lack
of good labor, and it goes without saying
that skilled labor is being continually at
tracted by good wages, which, .however,
are not higher there than tbose paid lu
Northern mills, as onr optimistic friend
would Lave it: *:.u ....
But coming to the main question of
mill eatnings, which answers all minor
queries, Mr. Barker is clearly wrong. It
would'indeed be strauge if .be could not
find several “shaky” mills In the South,
but it remains a matter of record that
sixty.of the Boathern mills, both large
and small, selected at random, have for
three years averaged 14 per cent, per aa-
ntini. Mills are singled out which have
paid 20 per ceut., but the average Is a
good one, and has a crashing effect upon
prejudiced and inaccurate statements.
A BETumr which is interesting from
several points of view has just been sub
mitted by the Russian minister of war,
the subject under investigation beiug tbe
weight actually carried by tbe infantry
soldier in each of the European armies in
time ot war. It shows that tbe kit and
accoutrements of the Russian soldier
weigh nearly 71 pounds, those of tbe
French soldier 00, those of tbe Italian and
English nearly 62, those of the Austrian
67, those of the Swiss 484, and those of
the German 474- And yet the stout
soldiers of the German Emperor and
Count Moltke are probably superior in
physique to those of any other army; they
certainly are better “up to weight” than
the Freneh, Italian or English infantry
men of tbe time. And they have a much
•mailer weight to carry. -The late Ad
miral Rons used to hold that seven pounds
extra on a horse were equal to a distance,
and an eminent turfman of tbe last
century declared, “Give me throe pounds
the best of a match and l’U put up
stable-boy against a jockey!’’ In the
human as in the equine race weight will
tell as well as blood. Tbe pace of a reg
iment or corps it that of its more feeble
members, and io a long and dusty march
an additional burden of fifteen or twenty
pounds will make all the difleronee in the
world. Battles are decided by legs as
much as by arms, or, to use Forrest’s
gre crowned with electric lamps or 2,000
caudlo power, or equal to 125 gas jets.
Tbe cost complete for each tower and
apparatus is about $1,000. One eleotric
tower lamp, fed by soft coal at $3 per ton,
gives a 2,000 candle light at24 cents pel
hour, a ratio of 24 to 50 compared to a
corresponding use of gaslight. Tbe peo
ple ot Aurora are universally jubilant'
over the result of tbo adoption of tho new
system, and express the most earnest and
complete satisfaction with tbe Brush tower
plan in all its bearings and aspects.
Colton Planting In California.
j The following letter, glviug an account
of the production of cotton In California,
is furnished the Baltimore Nun by a San
Francisco correspondent:
From Professor nilgard's official report
of personal examination we present sudh
parts as will satisfy inquiries into the
adaptation of our cotton belt toth^growth
of that staple, tbe reliable area of the
belt, the quantity per acre in twenty local
ities on a continuous line of 500 miles, the
quality of the fibre by comparisons with
tbose of tbe Atlantic cotton States, etc.
It is ten years since Strong ft Buckley
planted the first cotton on Merced river, in
Central California. They were soon fol
lowed by others In Fresno. The experi
ments comprised from forty to 150 acres
each, with and without irrigation, on up
lands and on lowlands. After a time
they had to quit, because there was no
market on this coast. But their success
Is inferred from their recorded convictions:
f‘We now feel assured that a long, white,
fine staple can be produced, with at least
600 pounds to the acre.” “We find that
if does best on uplands, because they are
less troubled with weeds.” Moreover the
same p:\rties have resumed cotton plant
ing, now that they fiud some sale for mix
ing in the woolen mills. Strong ft Co.
have now fine cotton'fields, and they pro
nounce tbe fibre long, fine aud strong.
Kern county fibre is of equal quality. A
bafo sent to New Orleans brought 124
cants a pound, full price. Tlie Professor's
judgment on cotton in Tulare county Is:
‘•For length of fibre, strength and fine
texture the staple of Tulare can scarcely
be surpassed by tlie best specimens of
the far-famed Sea Island cetton.”
These experiences are from counties
south of the bay of Francisco. Irrigation
vm generally applied; though experi
ments without it show equal production.
Going northwardly Napa Yale proves so
satisfactory that next year will see many
new cotton experiments. In Chico, away
north, General Bidwell has been growing
cotton for three years past, and is so
pleased in every respect that he means to
continue till $ market arises, which will
change the agriculture of his 20,000 acres
of wheat to cotton. This ranch is 150
miles north of our bay. Beyoud this, in
Colusa, 500 acres of excellent upland cot
ton was grown this year. But the Pro
fessor fouud on Feather river, Yuba coun
ty, a patch so superior to all others as to
excite admiration. The staiks. were four
feet high, the bolls large and abundant,
tbe fibre excellent, and the yield estimated
at 800 pounds per acre. They will plant
150 acres in 1882. The seed was planted
May 10th. but it might have been ten days
earlier. Nothing is feared from frost
.The cotton belt Is not less in length
than 500 miles, viz: Colusa, ou the, 40th
parallel north, to San Diego, 324 degrees
on the south. Col. Strong declares that
“California cotton will average 30. per
cent, of the excellent quality known as
cotton middling more than any Atlantic
State.” Addressing capitalists, Prof. Hll-
gmrd says: “You need not wait for cot
ton'to be grown in advance. Were mills
put in construction 100.000 bales or cotton
could and would be delivered at their
doors os soon as the machinery could be
pat iu operation.” Eastern capitalists ore
now examining our cotton belt aqd the
facilities for manufacturing.
Regarding water power, California is
well provided. Prof. Hiigard says that
wherever he has seen cotton growing he
has found water power adequate to raan-
ufactnro it by placing mills on tbe spot,
and railway carriage is not far off. Every
where along our metaliferous range, for
hundreds of miles in and bordering on
our cotton belt; are hydraulic canals, and
tight water-bearing pipes, carrying a
mountain pressure of 3O0 to otKIfeet, for
miles to tbe mills that crush cur aurifer
ous quartz and to tbe hydraulic machines
that tear down our gold bearing gravel
mounts and extract tbe gold. Year by
year . some of these get worked out and
enormous water powers are set free for
other uses. A peculiar water wheel is.in
universal use here, though unknown in
the East. It was invented here. It is
known os “Knight’s Hurdy.”. - It is a vari
ety of turbine. A little mountain stream
of two to six cubic iudics is brought
down frem au elevation of 400 to GOO
feet, in tight wrought iron pipes of suffi
cient strength, and carried to the works
some miles away, where, under tbe full
initial pressure of 400 to"600 feet, it la di
vided aud sliot with continuous cannon
baft force against a score of. different mill
hurdles. A single cubic inch, making
say 500 to 2,500 revolutions in a minute,
may furnish a cheap60-borse power, with
out complexity of structure or liability to
serious derangement. The backets move
horizontally. They are not in the hori
zontal wheel, but attached to it ontaide.
It combines hydraulic power with hydro
static pressure. All along our coast range
of mountains such mechanic powers
abound, and they can be bought for a
trifle, while yet attracting no attention.
In your Southern States this unique wa
ter wheel may fiud application. 8.
Death «C a ■—thsra Floreaea Ilckt-
lawale.
HuntsrilU f Ala J Independent.
Mrs. Erwin was a sister of the famous
beauty, Miss Rowans Webster. Mrs. Erwin
was the Southern Florence Nightingale.
During the war she had hospitals wherever
the Army of tbe Tennessee could be
reached, and after the war she established
an asylum for the orphans of Confederate
•oidiero. It is well enough to pause, in tbe
•training enoceesicnof events, end uncover
the head, while the n'.me of suoh a grand
female character is called and added to the
list held by the Great Reaper.
It takea over one hundred pairs of
gloves to assuage the grief of the Brooklyn
officials over the death of an alderman,
whose life might have Been saved by a
single bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup.
