About Georgia weekly telegraph, journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1880-188? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1882)
Cfrfc (L5eg<egm Blcfrklg smfr ^Fgttcnai & 33Kj?jsa*«g»xr* f Term of the TfW»i*«^*“ l “ 0 E«r- Postage free to all Editions. Dally Telegraph and Messenger, -10.00 per year Daily Telegraph and Messenger, 6.00 0 mos. Dully Telegraph mid Messenger, 2.50 3 mos. Daily Telegraph and Messenger and Southern Farmer's Month ly 11.50 per year Weekly TelegmpS and Messen ger... 2.00 per year Weekly Telegraph and Messen- pPf 1.00 c mos. Woeklv Telegraph and McwcnffBT and Southern Farmer’s Monlh- fciond hr Dost-office order or Reals ter. J r. HAXnoat. hsastw. 3.-50 per year roistered Let- Hit t ©rffflrapu 3ttd #1 t$$e nqtr. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10.1SS2. Rnoodbaoed by the success of Early and Beauregard, Longstreet is trying to organ ize a grand lottery in Georgia. Felton is in favor of a fair count. That makes Felton an enemy to the Hayes ad ministration and tho Republican methods. A DisTXXGUisnzD broken English Ger man of this city, is of the opinion that vaccination still not save Guitcan from the 6chmaU-box. These is one discouragement for Sa vannah independents. One blast upon R. M. O's ear buglo is not worth a thousand men. It is only worth one man. Now that the little'population of Da kota wants to be divided and regarded as two in Congress, Georgia ought to rush to the front with her “Independert State of Dade.” Antons panting for immortality as n a nowspaper man can find an opening at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, as the only dnily published there is now offered for sale. Ad dress Eureka Springs Herald. Ai.tixet Cox’s idea, in suggesting that the war heroes be laid away in the political cemetery, was to so arrange affairs that af ter the next election in the fouthr ho would at least have respectable bed-fellows. It is a common thing to see teamsters standing on tho crossings in Atlanta pop ping their whips and marking tho progress of their teams by the muddy bobbles that rise and explode along the surface of the street. Remakes or PeoiUnent Georgia Card Platers.—Pa. Frlton—Give as a new deal Clements has one card too many. My dear, pass the sherry. Eldes Hook—I want two cards. A bobtail flash is sometimes filled. Col. Thobstox—I do not know much about this game. If it was “pitch,” Iwould take ths ‘widow.* Albebt Cox—Eel’s make it a jack-pot Col. Doooar—I never bluff exoept on a straight flash. Col. Jack Brown—Ah, Thornton, ante for me and pass tho deal. Emobt Speer—I was not bluffing, brt I object to anybody looking at my hand. Col. Pou—I wnnt four cards. No foreign spinner could compete with the stills in Macon, on the styles of yam they are producing. Anything that would tend to destroy the wager of labor in this country would also destroy tho pur chasing power of the people. This wonld destroy the demand for tho goods made by the weavers of the Middle, New England and Western States from tho yarns of the Macon mills, and consequently leave the product of these mills without purchasers. It will be seen that they, ss all other South ern mills, are dependent upon the purchas ing power of the masses for sale of their goods. Editor Harris’ attention is called to these facts. tiou through an exhaustive discussion— and the sooner It comes the belter.” .We regard these utterances as valuable contributions to the investigation which the TKLK6RAI-H AND MESSENGER has already inaugurated. All that the people of the South need is a proper compreben sion of this subject, and this can only b attained by close investigation. They need light, in view of the changed eondi tion of the country. Because our fathers rode in stage coaches, that is no reason why we should not tide in railroad cars to-day. In ante helium days we.wcre purely au agricultural people, owning our own laborers. Now we not only cul tivate but we also manufacture. Our condition is changed, and with this new order of things come new methods and new necessities. my Senator Fishburn of Carolina, enjoys the distinguished honor of being the only man in tbnt State who evtr broke into jail three times in two days. Ho enjoys the honor on the inside, having only broken out twice. Tits Constitution invites us to a seat upon the fence as regards the tariff. Thanks; but we have work to do oat in the fields and among the people. The mission of a wide awake journal is to advise and lead, not to remain neutral. When Felton takes young Democrats up into the high mountains to show them all Of the immense possibilities that lie spread out at their foot, let each of the company uncouple his private telescope and look for the immediate probabilities. A western paper says that if the “no fence” project suooseds, there is nothing to prevent southern politicians from running “at large.” The law should immediately be so amended that every district be re quired to keep up its own politicians. Some of our oity young men have snff- >Ved Emory Speer’s brashness to ex site them into the belief that the Georgia De mocracy has split its pants. The city young men have only to reflect that tho Georgia l)emocracy wen?» JeanB and Jeans never split. It is not consistent for Southern Con gressmen to sit down and help pass a pen sion arrears bill that will saddle millions _*Q{ dollars upon the tax-payors, and then rise up td Object when it is proposed to ex pend a few hundred {housand to give the people good mail service. Editor Harris relies upon the Atlanta polioe more than the exploits of the police will justify. Parson Felton was allowed to change cars in the Gate City and retire to his mountain camp, notwith'.taudmg (hat his name was on bis grip-sack ’Us watch- fa) litile lady had him by the fat of his ear. It is perfectly natural that Gniteau should desire to be kept on iee, after death. It is also natural that he should be willing to go on exhibition, for, besides obtaining tbe notoriety for which he has struggled, there is a oertainty of dead- dw&dino WBy jjjjo gyjjy performance, which appeals to old instincts. The Btate Agricultural Convention dele gates will bo handsomely entertaiiied in Augusta. They will either be taken tip r-lA Thebe is in tho last issue of the All News a dignified article upon the t from the pen of “N. T.” Most of the points embraced in it have been disenssed by ns. Thoro is one point in it we will re ply to now, reserving tho remainder for some future day. The Telegraph does not assert that Georgia mills make 22 per cent, and the New England mills bat 7. simply uses these figures as thoy come through exchanges for the purpose of ar gument. There is one fatal defect in “K T.’s’’article, a defect common to nearly all arguments against protection. It is written from a Southern standpoint only. A protection tariff to sustain tbe whole country, not to tear down one section and build up another, is what we advocate. the canal or given a banquet. News, [Augusta JThtrc Hifiy be gome delegates from about Atlanta that need washing, but we will “take banquet” in ours. It is pretty muoh in polities as it is in astronomy. When a one-horse star cuts loose from its own home circle to cruise for itself, it brings up with a crash in tbe system which attracts it most; and when an ambitions Democrat cuts loose from his party, ha is independent only daring the time it takes him to land with a splutter amongst the Republicans. The young man who killed himself in North Carolina because his wife refused to pull his hosts for him, betrayod great pres- •uoe of mind. He foresaw at once that a woman who could refuse this oommon ac commodation deserved to bo a lonely widow and his revenge was instantaneous. Bat when tho senior editor hears this para graph read out at the breakfast table in tbe morning, he will say the junior wrote it. The Constitution good-naturedly invites the Telegraph to a seat upon its tariff platform. We have msde an earnest effort to find out what ita platform was, and have been foroed to the conclusion that not even the Constitution itself knows. From its timid mention of the subject, how ever, we are left to infer that the platform it oocupies is no broader thsnjho top rail of tbe fenoe. This being the case, we de cline to oome up. The Telegraph believes in the no fenoe system,uot alone in agricul ture, but all things. A Southern Congressman, who lias a clear bead, made tbe following sensible re mark: “We will never drive the Republi cans from power as long as the hot-heads in the party are influential enongh to ar ray the moneyed interests of the country against ns.” Mr. Tiiden is the Ouly man whom the party has nominated that oould command the confidence of corporate cap ital. He is tbe only man that has been eleoted for many years. These facts are Worthy of consideration. Tbrrr are more places than our sister city of Columbus, where the following or dinance would apDly: It is ordained by tbe oity oouncil of the city of UoUunbna as follows: Any person who t 1 ** 11 go about from door to door with in the corporate limits of this oity for the purpose of begging for his or her benefit, or who shall place him or herself in the streets, highways, lanes, parts, eemeterit* or other public grounds of said city, with no fixed p’aee of abode, shall be known ■ad arrsntod as a tramp, and upon eonvio- tion as snsh shall be fined or srflersoch other puntiharant, or both, at the discretion **j!dwto?iB«oncf! Fsbrearyl, 1882. Cuir B. Gann, Mayor. Oar Kail Service. Blount, Atkins and otner Southern Repre sentatives want to return to the old system of paying for railroad transportation according to the weight carried, without regard to speed. They will oppose that section of t^m bill which appropriates S-500,000 for special facilities on trunk lines. The above comes in the shape of a spe cial dispatch to the Post-Appeal, and may or may not be correct. We assume, how ever, that it is, as Col. Blount last session, when acting iti Atkins’ place as chairman of the ap propriation committee, opposed the appro priation for a fast mail service, and Ills position, as stated in the.telegram, is con sistent with his record. We have no war to make on Colonel Blount, but we warn him that the peoplo'will not en dorse any action ot his. nor the action of any other Southern representative that will interfere with the advancement which marks the recent history of these States. One of the most important factors In tbe transaction of the business of this section is a good mall service, and by that we mean not only a safe, but a rapid movement and delivery of the mails. When the government confines itselfTo the system which pays the railroads only for the weight of matter hauled, without regard to speed, it virtually surrenders tho people’s time to the convenience of such corporations; it removes the incen tive fo? fast trains and interferes with business in its every form and division. If there is any one thing tlie South needs more than another, it is this same fast mail service. Tbe country is large and far from the metropolis and trade centres. Its merchants and bankers really rely to a great extent upon capital held a thousand to sixteen hundred miles Sway,and It Is or tbe utmost importance to them that tbe space be as nearly as possible annihilated by mail facilities. So far from opposing any appropriation to increase the facili ties, it should be tbe policy of these Southern representatives to Insist upon larger appropriations and increased facili ties. Economy In expenditures for South ern purposes is a policy toward which Congress is too ready to turn a willing ear, but wliat caa be expected ot Congress when Soulbern members themselves whisper tbe advice. These latter gentle men are much, too much, inclined to re gard such expenditures as coming from theli* own pocket! 1 The gorertltiidrit has long since deter mined qpon a policy of internal improve ments, and since that policy is j.redomi nant, why frighten away lastiug benefits with the ghost of a dead issue ? Not that we expect any Democrat to abandon his principles, bat we for one object to having tbe rudder lashed and abandoned. There is a way of sailing against tbe wind, and the rudder should be in the hands of those who know the way. There is good, hard common sense in a recent editorial in the Nashville American, from which we clip the following: If there Is any one thing essential In the poll ticsof the South It Isa broadernnd more libera leadership. It ts not new men, for we have men who are progressive, broad and liberal, It Is rather a realization on the part of those who assume to lead and represent that the popular conditions have so changed In the South that breadth and liberality, which might have be--.n fatal a few years ago, arc now re quired. When popular thought concerned itself only about one all-absorbing sectional issue, which had to be settled, public opinion suffered no thought outside ol that line. That one of the pack which went nosing about the woods was sure to be whipped back to the trail. Public opinion was right; “things by season seasoned arc." A change has come over the public which hns hardly been sufficiently noted by the polit ical leaders. Democracy has too many who are suffering with the same disease which Is dry-rotting the Republican party. The leaders of both parties have, for so many recurring yearn, followed the political game over the same round that they still go off in full cry as If they were on a fresh trail. They cither pur sue a fixed habit or they arc on a cold track, or they are on the hack track. British aid American Taxation. The following paragraph in tbe Savan nah Netm of recent date was laid aside in this office to be replied to as soon as the ptessure upon our columns was relieved The Chfi^juooga Times, however, has taken it up and replied so completely to the statements contained therein that nothing is left us but to reproduce its argument and statistics : I ! • -Me end and object "i protective tariff Is to shut out imports so as to prevent foreign competition with American industries. The effect of this is certainly to curtail the revenue which the government derives from customs duties, and the only manucr in which tills loss nn be made up to the government Is either irough a taxation of the people directly or .ugh an internal revenue system. The talk, B, about abolishing internal revenue 1, and yet malntolninga high protective simply to state an utterly Impracticable Ion.— Savannah Xtict. Tli'.Xiatcr of the A~.net presumes on the ig- n.iratin\|»;iis readers. He, In the same pnper from wliiVujio above Is clipped, points to England ag^Iyoylng that greatest of blessings, a tariff for reVa! je only, and denounces the tariffof-tlils gothiKinetit as most oppressively protective. Let 0^ torapare the revenue In come from the custkj'duties this government, collects with that renWJMfrom the same source by Great Britain. In tBOAtear ended June 30, 1SS0, England collected Iff*- customs S0C.C00,- 000. The United States cdk*'ed S1S0.500,000. We take this year's business Rp^he two coun tries because It was an average^?!* yet we re ceived under our tariff, whflL f - the News says was specifically framed to kcdl!!?at impor- h.lions, j. more than Flight!, 1 ,, look bv The Mitwlty »l In v cat I gat lots Tbe editor of tbe Albany Acica and Ad vertiser, In speaking of tbe questions of tbe day, says truthfully “that sectional ism has furnished tbe party issues of our country, aud such questions of real gov ernmental policy ss the tariff bave been sleeping so long that the young men of the country, who have come upon the stage of public or political life since tbe late war, bave bad no occasion 01 oppor tunity to study them.” And then adds this sensible advice: “It is therefore im portant that not only the young editors, but the people generally, should ‘read up’ on this question and prepare themselves to act intelligently and for their best in terests when the issue comes.” Not only is this question agitating tbe raiads of tbe younger portion of tbe com munity, but experienced men see tbe ne cessity of a full investigation ot it in all ita bearings. Tbe editor of tbe Augusta Chronicle says: “Nothing would do the country more good at this time than a her glorified, altogether Just and peril ly tariff for revenue only 1 For the yi June 30, 1881, our collections toms dues amounted to $108,158,090 those of Great Britain were a shade 1 the receipts of the previous year. In thel year we Imported goods valued In gold CGI,028, only $1(0,103,031 of which pald| We exported $833,925,917, the balance in vor being $241,251,319. Our customs r income was something more than daubJJthnt of England In 1881; and wc imported tlnfyear at least $300,000,000 In cash, and cash values In the form of immigrants and the money1-hard £old and silver—they brought over, iflding enough citizens to the republic to people the State of &uth Carolina. Ilow is that for a country tinted with a tariff “the sole end and object of which Is to shut out imports," and the effect of which Is to curtail the revenue the government derives from customs duties?” Let us now examine a few figures, taken from official tables, to ascertain whether we need all our internal taxes in order to carry on the govtrnmcnL The surplus of revenue over or dinary expenditures, omitting reduction of the bonded debt in the fiscal year 1881, was something over $100,000,000. The internal rev enue receipts were $135,000,000, the bulk of which was raised on spirits and tobacco. Sup posing we lop off the pestilent taxes on bank capita], deposits, circulation and checks, the oppressive tax of 100 per cent, on matches reduce the tobacco, cigar, cigar ette, snuff, spirits, wine and beer levies one-third, we slionld still realize not less than $80,000,000 from tills source; enough to maintain the sinking fund and con tinue the debt reduction at the rate of thirty or fot ty million dollars a year. In fact, tbe whole internal revonue system can be wiped out, if we put a taxon tea and coffee equal to that laid on those articles by Great Britain, and the government would still have plenty of money an d something laid by for a contingency. Wc pointed out some days ago how England Compensates her exchequer for the loss she suffers on account of her partial policy of free trade In breadstuff's and provision. 1 ?, sne col lects from tobacco and spirit excise $125,500,000, •tamps $30,550,000, and from otlisr sources of direct taxation about $121,000,000 more. If the Savannah News would favor a liberal applica tion of the British revenue system to this country it is nearer daft than we have supposed it to be. We conclude this effort to furnish food for thought to a thoughtless editor, by reminding our readers that the Xetes is about on a par with the average fossilized nonsense And crude generalizations now being mistaken by news paper antediluvians aud Ignoramuses for sound political economy. A touch of facts grumbles them Into dust —— Hi . Tbe InbarmoBleas netloki. With a full appreciation of tho wisdom of the maxim, “Never to underrate your enemy,” after a careful survey of tbe field aud a searching and exhaustive inquiry, we have readied the conclusion that the Independent movement *0 far as declared and developed is a very fierce tempest in a most diminutive teapot. What tte thirst for office, unbridled ambition and tbe promise of bounty before tbe tight and swag afterwards may do for it, yet remains tc be seen. At present there is nothing but tbe rolling of drums, inviliug ibo lame, blind aud halt to fall into ranks to be uniformed, accoutered and drilled. We have purposely beaded Ibis article “In harmonious Factions,” for at these writ ings tbe scattered and desultory efforts at tbe formation of a new party are confined to small factions here and there. The leading agitator is Parson Felton, who hopes to take such a start on Mr. Clements while he is engaged iu his Congressional duties, as wit! carry him back to Washington. This is his main hope and dependence, but If this should fall and the independents should cjntrol the coming Legislature, then the Parson would be pleased to lay aside his surplice for the Senatorial toga of Hr. Hill. He Is backed by bis old adherents in the seV' enth district, and is sustained by ibo sym pathy of Elder Hook, of Augusta. The Parson bu pronounce 1 himself the most unadulterated Tom Jeffersonian Andrew Jacksonian Democrat, has placed himself upon a platform in the ma.n Democratic, and has failed to put to record anything in common with tbe Radicals, save an intense and malignant desire to destroy the Democratic organization of tbe State of Georgia. Elder Hook, who voted for Garfield, and who prays for a deluge of fiat money, applauds the Parson while Dr. Miller pays him little social unprofessional visits, and the Republicans generally smile approvingly upon bin. This Is one of tbe factions, and perhaps much the largest one. Col. Marcellos E. Thornton, with an eveniug daily, is indus triously building him up a “Liberal” parly, which so far consists only of him self aud his imported editor. He has no welt defined platform of principles, bu! designs to enlist all tbe hungry and dis- satisfisd elements under bis banner. Mr. Albert H. Cox proposes to run a somewhat diluted branch of a liberal par ty in tbe fourth dls‘ rict. He fails to state exactly wbat be desires or what be in tends to do, and Mr. Jos. F. Pou, of tbe same district, Is pronounced in bis inten tion to run • Simon pure independent hrasly looking and waiting for the time wbea all the elements, tired of warring on each other, will, by common and tacit consent, conspire to carry him into the gubernatorial chair by spontaneous com bustion. In tbe meantime the Re publican beef eaters and those who desire greatly to draw government ra.ions are trying to make coalitions which will advance them at Washington. Farrow, Wade, Clarke, Wilson and oth ers are engaged in a hand to hand skirm ish as to which one shall get the most of of the scramble. To our vision this is the situation as It stands. There are two small side shows that should perhaps be mentioned. The St. Louis Globe-Demo- crat is trying to cultiv ate a small portlou of the moral vineyard, aud the Chicago Times has a few sickly independent sprouts in jars in the front window. It seem* to be settled beyond dispute that Arthur has turned over tbe manage ment of the Georgia campaign to Long- stroet. He is to muster tbe forces in and is to have charge of tho money chest. As Longstrcel’s military education qualified him for a recruiting officer and he was once a paymaster, we may regard tb < ap pointment as a'trlbute to his integrity, for while lie lias about sufficient intelli gence to keep from falling in the fire and not to soil his ciothes, he knows no mere about the'conduct of a political campaign than ■ mule. „ When be returns to Georgia with bis red sash and the d.utn and fife, wc shall see how many itching palms will be stretched out to grasp tbe dirty sbllllogs be may bave to dispense as a corruption fund. While the teapot is small, the tempest is quite boisterous, particularly about Atlanta, which is the headquarters for recruiting. You can gather there that all the brains, intelligence and worth of the State are about to join tbe new alii ance, and many gentlemen are being in dustriously slandered day by day bebind their backs. It would bo unwise not to expect some •effect from the combined eflorts to which we have alluded. There will be a slough ing off of proud-flesh from the Democratic organization. The process, though pain ful, is a healthful one, and no radical cure can come if some sound flesh Is not lost iu tbe effort to restore a vigorous and healthy tone to the body politic. It Is a matter of but little concern aud limited regret that this sloughing off must take place. It may mark the con mence- ment of a work tbat will virtually make tbe Republican party of tbe country re- spectable, a consummation most devoutly to be wished for. We regard tbe occasion aa opportune for those who may wish to change their party relations. There is an active Jemand for men whose records are not smirched, and who tell the truth and wear clean shirts. Cotton Ml nfement. According to the Financial Chronicle of Friday last, the receipts at all the ports aince September 1, up to that date,were 3,- 787,53s bales, compared with 4,110,544 bales in 1SS1, and 3,803,C04Jln 1880- showing a falling off compared with last year of 320,000 bales, and as compared with I860, of 70,120 bales. The receipts for the week were 05,057 bales, compared with 147,120 bales la.t year, and 112,103 in 1880,. Stocks iu interior towns were 300,010, against 317,600 at same date last year. The total visible supply Is 3,120,9S2 bales, against 2,830,814 last year and 2,- 333,927 in 16S0. These figures indicate an increase iu cotton in sight last Friday night, compared with tbe same date in 18Sl,of 200,108,and an increase compared with same date in 1880 ot 491,432 bales, and as compared with 1870, au increase pf 579.5S9 bales, Middling cotton in Liverpool last Fri day was Of; at same date last year it was 00-16. Tbe Chronicle reached Macon one day behind time this week, which accounts for this report appearing one day later than usual. thorough illumination of tb« tariff ques- * party of bis own. Gen. Gartrell is anx- Not Hopeful.—Tho Republican lead ers bave no Lope of being able to Mahon- Ize Georgia. The Washington Republi can says, “South Carolina, Georgia, Flor ida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,Tex as Md Arkansas have within their borders host!) of wis?, courageous and energetic men, who are carefully perfecting plans for a revolt against tbe Bourbou party, and they will find all Republicans, except a few Bourbons, ready for a Liberal al liance.” . And tbe New York Timas adds! “The Republicans are detunralliied, thoroughly broken uj>, and disorganized, without leaders, without hope or outlook for tho future. Their self-appointed chief men are engaged in an angry scramble for the Federal offices; tbeir State committee, so called, is like so much merchandise, for sale to tho highest bidder. ✓ A Virginia Readjuster writes to the Rich mond Dispatch in this manner about our city: “Macon is a very pretty place, is built on seven or more hills, has wide streets, and many beautiful private resi dences, though I cannot say I very much admire the style ot architecture in some ot them; too much strain after the “aesthetic.” I cannot admire anything that goes above the frost-line of a Virginia mountaineer’s imagination, bat I can and do admire the tastctnliy arranged yards and lawns plant ed with evergreens and sbrnbbory, and oc cupying an area large enongh for comfort able breathing room. » Our rural friends who carry cotton lint on their coals and hay seed in their hair, indulge a superstition to the effect that editors do not know all about farming. Notwithstanding Horace Greeley, wrote n book on the subject, and succeeded in rais ing cabbages at three dollars a head and tarnips at seventy-five oents ap'ece, we ineline somewhat to the superstition our selves ; but if they don’t pasture their small grain crops they will lose them. Tho season has been nnnsually mild, and the grain has grown almost to the boot. One plum tree in bloom don’t make a summer, and oar winter may pnt in an appearance later in the season. Let down the bars, and tho grain aud the cows will both be benefited. We are in negotiation for a fighting ed itor, aud it is no secret that we are after Hullivan, who whipped Ryan on yesterday. Jast for a little fun scattered along this oolutnu, we have received a belligerent call and a hostile letter. We shall be pre pared so soon rs Prof. Snliivan can have his lip sewed np and his ear patohed. In the meantime names can be registered in alphabetical order. Everybody shall have a fair showing. We can stand contempt, and frigidity of manner, but beyond this we draw the line, and Prof. Sullivan, in the language of the ring, will “w.ltz in as light aa an elephant in pumps,” and would os soon tackle a railroad syndicate or a jarist with an overwhelming practice, as an ord - nary citizen. I The nil. On Tuesday, at high noon, not from New Orleans, tbe metropolis of tbe South, Messrs. Sullivan and Ryan en countered iu a twenty-four foot ring, and indulged iu wbat is called in professional parlance, a mill, but what is best knowD to the public at large as a prize fight These men were young, strong, active and plucky, and bad been trained up the last possible polDt of physical perfec lion, and were in prime condition to give and receive punishment. They bad as an audience a large number of persons who feel a lively interest in such sports, and were stimulated nol’cnly by a nat ural deti.'e to succeed, but also to ban die tbe heavy stakes in money laid upon tbe issue of tbe contest, From the meagre accounts which have reached, ns it is presumed tbat tbe affair in its conduct was one of tbe most order ly of Us kind, and tbat everybody was sat isfied except the man who was defeated and those whose confidence was as badly misplaced as their money. Mr. Ryan succumbed speedily to tbe well-directed blows of his hard-hitting adversary, aud was compelled to throw up the sponge after a battle ot nluo rounds. This exhi bition cannot be justified or defended upon moral grounds, and we are not going to attempt either, but even of it we may extract something worth tho thinking of. Men are not totally deprav ed, and prize fighters, who train and ex hibit tbeir animal qualities, are not with out some traits which compel admiration Iu the first place they are courageous, and courage never complains of a lack of admirers among men and even among women. They are capable of great seif restraint and self abnegation, for a prize fighter in training has to scourge and , n ortify tbe flesh as tbe monk in his lonely cell, and to guard himself as scrupulously as tbe vestal virgins who kept alive the sacred fires on the altars of ancient my thology. These powers rightly directed might, and they sometimes do, make useful citizens of prize-fighters. It is of record that one of the fistic heroer, 'of tho ring in England afterwards became member of Parliament, and made a good member, too, for he kept his mouth clinched as tight as his fist save when called upon to vole. John Morrissey, of New York, became a member of the United States Congress, where lie was a modest aud attentive representative, so much so that tho Congress of this day would bo vastly superior to what it is If two-thirds of its members bad tbe bard sense, tbe manli ness aud charity of John Morrissey. Tom Sayres, of England, who for long years carried the boast of England for bard fighting and fair play upon iris sturdy anus, numbered among his friends many gentlemen of note, and when his powers began t? fail and bis friends offered him an exhibition to raise funds to support bis declining yeats, Lord Palmerston, then the premier of Great Britain, headed the list with a subscription of fifty pour.ds for a man who neither in public or in private bad struck a blow below the belt. Besides, prize fighters go to their work without the malice which constitutes a prominent aud necessary element of crime, and are not actuated by a spirit of bate and revenge. Coming as they usually do from the un educated classes of the community, they bave an ambition to excel in physical feats, jurt as tbe Grecian youths of old sought the laurel crowns in tbe some times bloody lists of tbe Olympian games. And they cultivate and display auotber virtue worthy of imitation by people who are really better, and those who conceive themselves to be greatly better than prize fighters, They do not jump upon and kick and persecute the fallen man. Let an es’.ablished bully once meet with a reverse at arms, and tbe fellows who once cringed at his frown and were happy un der ids smile, will each one hasten to heap insult upon his mortification. Nut so with the prize fighters. No man’s hand will be raised against tbe bruised and battered Ryan, but the bullet-headed and brawny-armed glr.dtators are already punching sand bags in preparation for a round with tbe victor Sullivan. In a moral and economic view 11 would bavo been belter if Sullivan and Ryan bad been slinging a sledge or pushing a plane as honorable exercise for tliefr iron muscles. They and tho country would have suffered nothing from this, but as tbe Spaniard has his bull fight, the Mexican his chicken main, the Italianbls vendetta And the Frenchman his passage at arms with rapiers, we suppose Americans will indulge in a sport fashioned by their fathei • aud imported along with their civiliza tion. During these many mouths SulliVaii and Ryan, aud their friends, have been living peaceably and quietly, aud working har.l The two principals bave met and fought, under tbe best conditions. There was no long continued struggle and brutal pun ishment, and one scou wcut down, dazed and stunned, only to come to himself uu der a dash of cold water. It were far better thus than that they should have met in somo den, armed v/ILb knives and pistols, that a community should have been shocked by the details of a blcody murder and that tbe courts should have had to add the tragedy of tho gallows to the rec ord of crime. So long as men will fight, let them use the weapons of nature in place of tho bludgeon, tbe brass knucks, tbe knife aud pistol. If the written law cannot stop it, let tho light go on under the unwritten law, whose fuudamental principle is fair play.’ au cmphaticai denial of this statement, and makes a very sharp and well-defined Usue of vetacily between himselt and Col. Anderson, which needs immediate and full explanation. Gen. Alexander and his friends carried matters to suit themselves, but suudry stockholders of the Central road, through their attorneys, Messrs. Chisqint aud Erwin, applied to Judge Tompkins for a writ of injunction restraining the issue of the interest cer tificates. The writ was granted, and a hearing fixed for the 2!st proximo. The matter now goes to the courts, aud every agency of the law will be invoked to ward off the blow aimed at the pros perity and safety of the Central road, and the industries and interests of the people of the State of Georgia. Our climate is balmy, but now and then a cold hungry streak of weather will chase a batch of fleeing consumptives clear Jacksonville. The great trouble about Anna Dickin son’s HaraUt is, whenever Opholia tosses flower the she-Hamlet will persist in catch ing it in its lap. ^ • m • Fbosi the direction of tho broeze and the looks of tho clouds yesterday, wo aro of the opinion that Atlanta’s canal water is being shipped to her by the air-line. CnsDDAND Lafhim hzs yielded to tho blandishments of Dr. Mary Walker and has made her his private secrotary and clerk of his woman's suffrage committee. If the pictures of Gaiteau, jury, jadgOj counsel at d prosecution, which Southern newspapers are publishing, be trao to na tore, wo more to hang tho whole gang. General Alexander has gotten his navy and has commissioned Col. E. O. Ander son, an old naval officer, fleet captaim Perhaps we shall hear the thunder of guns presently. Several Georgia editors of country weeklies are willing to retire from the tri pod, but there is no immediate investments for lafg9 capital outside of railroads, and' railroads are so uncertain. John Max:.id, the pioneer of piscicul ture in Gcorgin, is fearful lest tbe carp should be too cheap to be good. Ho says that a fish which grows so rapidly is apt to taste like a cotton bat frescoed with pius. It was thought yesterday that Mollio 4n derson’s bill post r had arrived in the city. The stranger, however, turned out to be coalesced politician with a pail of white wash in one hand and a backet of mad in the other. . 'Senator IIiduleqkkoeb sees, in tho pros pect of tho passage of his bill, n hope that “Virginia will soon be in a position to look her creditors in the face.” No man can look another squarer in the face then sneik thief. Some of the Mississ : ppi papers are much dissatisfied with the Railroad Commission And if the Commission exercises the nn- liirited powers vested in it all tho papers and a 1 the Miseissippians will curse the folly that saddled them with a Railroad Ccm mission. A Charleston jury of inquest have found an engineer aud conductor guilty of crimi nal negligence in causing tho recent fearfnl railroad accident, between Charleston and Savannah. It is the plain duty of the South Carolina courts to interview the en gineer and conductor. Julius Cxsau Bunnows, the Michigan der with the great voice, is on the road to political immortality. By tho aid of Hei fer and au inexorable rule, ho has pushed his anti- polygamy bill through tho House. he can get his bill through to relieve ali Federal doserters, Julias Ctesar will be safe and happy. He was not such a fighter as his name qr bis voice wonld imply. Gen. Shebmas says that in ciso of war with foreign powers we could put our whole seaboard coast into impregnable dc- fenso with water batteries and earthworks inside of thirty dayp. People who aro dis posed to turn over and take anotiier nap on this assurance should bear in mind that “Cump” is a lineal descendant of Barcn Munchausen. The (Mitral Railroad Hatter. From the Savzunab News of Wednes day wc gather that at a meeting of the di rectors of the Central Railroad Company on Tuesday tbe following gentlemen were elected directors cf the Ocean Steamship Company, viz: Wm. M. Wad- ley, J. F. Alexander, E. C. Anderson, E. P. Alexander, C. II. Phinizy. Subse qjently Mr. Wadloy was elected presi dent.. When tbe document was presented to him to sign which provided for the is sue of $3,500,000 worth of interest cer tificates, Mr. Wadley, after conference with the counsel of the Central railroad refused to sign it, and subse gently tendered his resignation as president. Tbe board then elected Col. E. C. Anderson president. During the session a document in tbe shape of a pro test signed by W. W. Gordon and other stockholders of tbe Central was presented by Mr. Wadley, and was, on motion, im mediately laid on the table. President Andorson, in reply to a note of W. W. Gordon and other stockholders, stated that this was done after the business of the issue of tbe interest certificates had been settled. Mr. Wadley, in a letter to tbe same parties, gives The Kentucky Democracy wisely divide their honors equally. Major Wright has been elected secretary of tho State central committee. Major Wright was a Union soldier during the war, served as a mem ber of Gen. Busll’s staff, and since the war has served as a member of the Kentncky legislature and afterwards as adjutant- general of tho State. He is now secretary and manager of the board of frado ot Lou isville. Jiho chairman ot the committee is Major A. E. Richards, who was one of Mosby’a most daring officers during the late war. “MfiTfio” Plitt writes the following loiter to a Grant club in Albany, New Fork: Gents: I am very sorry that I cannot go in person and express my appreciation of tho high compliment of the invitation to your third annual supper. To be the guest of such an organization as the Grant Club is better than to dine with princes. I would rather be one of the glorious ‘-30G” who stood firm at Chicago, even after the storm came and the stampede raged,or one ot the Spartan band who at Albany last spring and summer for many weeks laced tho fury of a crazy press nnd people, than be a Senator. And of such stuff I know is made up the Grant club of Albany, if there is to beany future for the Republican party, it will be through such as yon. May your membe-s increase and your courage inoculate the whole people. Faithfully yours, T. O. Plait. There is but one thing to bs taid iu favor of Piatt, that is he is a better man than either Lapliam or Miller, A Barber’s Picture ot Conklljur. Xne Pork Correspondence IVashington Stir. "My opinion of liiin ain’t what you might hope it ’ud he, sir. hut I can’t help it all tho same. He’s a conceited, overbearin’ ass, an’ belongs to the codfish liaristocracy. now do I know 1 I knows him well. I’ve done his hair fur years, ami I never got so much as c nickel. He always comes to my chair ’cause I fixed him tip when I tell you that liis head ’a a monstros ity! It’s like Gulteau’s.” "Oh, no!" Weil, sir, I’m tolling the truth, and I ought to know. I’ve handled that blessed old skull long enough—by the wav, he’s getting bald—to get onto Us shape. In tno first place, the head runs up to a point In tho back and cuts in be hind so as to make it hollow out at the neck. On top It runs down grade to his forehead like the head of a Cherokee Indian, with a board strapped on Us skull. Do you get my Idea of lls Shape! LikeGuileau's." i’WeU, it don’t look that way.” "Of course. It don't, and why? Because me and the other barlicrs fix his hair as he orders, lie has a big wad of lialr on the back of Ills head, which conceals the hollow there, and an other big wad iu front, which conceals the down grade tendency there, lie’s a great uian, maybe, hut he's the most conceited ass I ever sa\v," He stopped here abruptly and whis pered with great confidence, “shampoo." I shook my head, and he continued: “H>* fig ure would Ihj good, if he wasn't so pun-pigeon breasted. But his airs—some tonic on your hair?—when lie comes In here would startle an obelisk—can recommend this bav room for the face, fifty cents a imttle, Every hair lias to lie Just so, find Ills whiskers must he brushed with u soft brush, Hiid when he gets done up nt last he struts out like the king ol Arlzain, without dropping u cent to the brush boy or mo." W. H. Meltbuiaii, of Wifliamsport, Pennsylvania, has Invented a breech-loading cannon,which loan extremely effective weapon. A brass piece constructed after his model, three and a half feet long, with a one nnd a half Inch bore, weighing one hundred aud sixty pounds, was. discharged as often as twcuty times .’a minute. The firing did not heat the breech. PERSONAL. —Queen Olga, of Greece, has been de livered of a sou. —Siosson won the match with a score of 3,W0: Vlgnaux, 2,353. —Mr. Win- Florence denies that he is to retire from the stage. —Louise Aicott will not entertain Os car O'Flaherty at Concord, as charged. —Vertigo is the illness which now afflicts Mr. Longfellow and prevents him from working. —General Hancock was iu St. Louis last week, taking a look at his farm and seeing old friends. —Ex-GovernorSfijmour is ill—tbe conse quence of a severe cold Caught in driving from Ltlea to Deerfield. —Mrs. Scoville says she has been crazy crself, but her hnsband didn’t want to use the ; in the .iv-hsmu's trial. —Mr. William Morrison, of Illinois, is wid to he getting into a good i>osltiou for Presi dential thunder to strike film. —Hiram Miller, father of Senator Mil ler of New York, was killed by a Central rail road engine at Utica, Monday. —Emperor William lias become a great grandfather, a daughter having been born to tho wife of the Grand Guko Vladimir. —Chief Boudiuot, of tho Cherokecs, dresses liko a Broadway swell, is highly edu cated, and wears his bnir like Ben Franklin. —The Prince S3 Louise will illustrate a long poem by tho Marquis of Lome, the sub ject being Quebec. The work will be published in Hood Words. —Mr. Theodore T'lton has gone out of sight Wc remember him as an autumnal sun set, a sweet vision whoso pinks and purples have faded to a dun. —The Empress Eugenie is at present living in a small house within tho grounds of Osborne, In the Isle of Wight, nnd is visited daily by Queen Victoria. —Hallet Kilfcournj business manager cf the National Republican, at Washington, D. C., denies that the paper has been sold to District Attorney Bliss, of New York. —Among the neighbors of Samuel J. Tiiden on Grainercy I*ark, New York, arc Gen. McClellan, Cyrus \V. Field, John Bigelow, Pe ter Cooper, and Abram S. Hewitt. —Es-Govcrnor Seymour has been so ill again that his Utica neighbors fear lest his dis ease. helped by the veteran's weight of years, may bear him down past recovery. —Great wit to madness nearly is allied, and Andre Gill, the Paris caricaturist, 1ms bro ken down the thin partitions that their bounds divide and fetched up in an asylum. —Verdi declines all offers to compose new operas on the ground that he has finally reured from the stage. He receives an ovation wherever he appears in public in Italy. —Hon. Nicholas Ford, of Msisouri, has been invited by the people of Worcester. Muss., to open the United Land League there on Feb ruary 12th, and has accepted the invitation. —Six women have been burned to death In their beds in the last month, but all married, of course. The single ones sit up all night—if they have the least encouragement. —John B. Gough, the temperance lec turer. was attacked with neuralgia of the stom ach while nildressing an audience at Beloit, »is., on Wednesday night. His condition is serious. —Mr. Rowtandfon, lately defeated by* small majority when standing for the West Biding of Yorkshire, is a tenant former, of which large body there ore but two in the House of Commons. „ ■Tbe St. Louis plohe-Democra' the friends of Mr. Conkllnc “hope to sccTTim back iu the Senate from New York before the close of the present administration, ami they will not be disappointed. —Guiteau lias issusd.an address de nouncing the course of tho newspapers in his case, advertising his photographs nnd nuto- tra^hi and condemning the scheme for putting -Ex-Minister Cbristiancy denies that he made any recommendations relative to the mltcy to be pursued in regard to Peruvian af- airs. He simply wrote of tilings as he found them and in a colorless wav. Ball dresses now have the waists gathered a la Recamlor, and bells with buckl.s and bags depending from the side or from the Tub reported row between Archibald Forbes and the Head Fool on the train n.-ar Baltimore, was the device of the lothetu s ad vertlsing agent. ks,” said the farmer, “barber! wire fence is expensive, but the hired man doesn’t stop and rest five minutes oil the top of it every time he has ;o climb it. ^ The entire line of railroad from Jack sonville and Fcnmndlna, on the Atlantic, to Chattahoochee, on the Gulf, is now in Sir Ed- vnrd Reed's possession. Mb. Loiuli.ard’s Iroquois lias not accepted for the Lincoln handicap, and Mr. J, R. Keene's Koxlmll and Mr. Lori 1 lard*s Sachem have not accepted for Uie City and Suburban handicap. All along throughout the tedious trial of the murderer, Guiteau, the infamous wretch likened himself unto St. Paul, and. strange to my. the verdict was rendered about fivoo'cluck on the evening of St. I’uul's day. •A Philadelphia man says that vnr.cn can't be induced to listen while others talk, for any length of time. They want to do the talking theifiscivcs. This is a slander on the sex. I-et him trot out a flrrt-class scandal nnd see If the women'll listen. The only man in this country who crcr had the “honor” of being decorated with an order and at the same time occupying a cell In the penitentiary is Mr. David Mount, of Phila- deli>hm. He was one of the “Three Hundred and Six” at Chicago, and Is entitled to his medal weighing one pound. Governor Long, of Massachusetts, has Invited Mahonc and Riddlebergcr to partic ipate in the Boston celebration of Washington’s birth day. An expurgated edition of tno “Fare well Address" is understood to havo been pre pared for special use on this occasion, with all' that portion la-ginning: “Asa very important source of strength nnd security; cherish public credit,” carefully eliminated.' Ex-Treasurer Spinner, who is now eighty years of age, perfected his famous auto graph when ho was a young man, working at harness-making In Herkimer, New York. Ho- practiced writing it hour after hour and lits old partner said a year or two ngo that lie hud seen as much aa two hundred sheets of fools-cap- covcrml with fho ntfnmnt«z —Dr. Bliss and Mrs. Dr. Edson have 'resented itemized accounts ol services ren- [cred the late President to the Uouro illness expenses committee. The accounts of noother physicians have as yet been presented. —As Joe Brown is doing all he can against the Republicans of the -South, the Pres ident doesn’t see why he should be called upon to fill offices in Georgia with Brown's friends, and told tlint modest worthy so Saturday. —Gen. IS. F. Butler and Senator Ma honc had a long nnd. apparently, very friendly conversation on the floor of the Senate yester day. It was reported that they were planning the organization of u third national party. eh I’ratt’s proposition for the establishment of a great free library in Balti more has been accepted bjrthe councils of tlint city. The acceptance carried with it the <Tutv of providing for an annual library appropri ation of $50,000. —Gtorge A. B’acon, J. Clement Smith, William Bovd, Robert G. Ingersoll, and Charles White have been appointed to have prepared a bust or statue of Thomas Paine, to be presented to the United States from the citizens of the District of Columbia. —Bcaccnsfield, Gambetta, and Blaine had a common experience. Their departures from office were instantly followed by the com- dete reversal of all their plans, and the clihc- ng with all convenient speed, by tlieir succes sors, of the characteristic marks of theirndmin- istrations. —Among tho guests at the dancing par ty given by the British minister in Washing ton on Thursday evening was the minister from China, Cheng Tsao J a. He was accompa nied by Ills chief Interpreter, Chin Clil Yung. The wife of the minster Is not in society, and receives only by cord. She is only seven teen years old; her husband is about fifty. —The Danish minister, M. G. St. A. de BUlc, who has represented hts country here since the fall of 1880, has hitherto home the character of charoe d’affaires, the same rank ns is given to the representative of the United States in Copenhagen. M. do Bille lias, how ever. now received the higher degree of minis- t, rrc i-l-’-it. it wu> iu i-rdirto deliv»rhi« credentials in this new quality that ho bad, on i u, = ;,u .i.'ili. m e in tlu- White — Iu loo-iiug over the rebel archives, which are now at tho War Department undcr- dfscoverod that in na ltegl- namcof Gunter—one captain, oiie lieutenant, two ser geants, two corporals and twenty-two privates. —Judge Fornandcr, lor thirty-four ars a resident of one of the Hawaiian Islands, —lievcs that the nntives are not of American descent, as originally supposed, nor Malay or Mongolian, as most authorities have agreed, but Aryan; and he sustains this view by argu ments derived front philology, traditions, nnd physical resemblances. —“Mirs Annie Louise Gary writes weekly letters to her relations in Durham, Maine, nnd in them frequently alludes to her approaching marriage to Mr. James Lorrilnnl, of New York," says the Boston Post, comment ing on the various rumors in regard to the fu ture of tlmt eminent artiste. The welding trill occur early In the autumn, nnd they trill reside In New York. The last time Miss Cary will sing in public will be In June next at City Hall, Portland. —The Rev. James T. Powers is serving out a term in a Massachusetts prison for va grancy. Ten years ago he tvas considered a re markably eloquent preacher, amt had n charge at Ludlow, Vt. Ife was a clever writer, and his articles were generally salable to newspa pers or magazines. His downfall tvas not caused by drink or immorality. Ills wife died in 1872, and lie at once lost heart, liecame a wanderer, and nt last a . miserable, ragged tramp. Tbe Plumed Knight nnd Gultean'a President. Philadelphia Times, Evidently Ex-Secretary Blaine docs not In tend to let the administration have tilings all to it«clf In the South American affair. He has written a rather troublesome letter to President Arthur, which, while It does not belter Mr. Blaine's kind of diplomacy much, docs seem to Involve the administration in his schemes. The situation lias nmv become very Interesting. There are comparatively few [a-ople who un derstand or care anything about what lUnlue sought by his South American diplomacy, hut everybody understands a fight between him and Arthur, nnd everybody knows that lllaine knows how to fight. Wilde Verse Tills Is from an ode to Oscar Wilde. W. J. Florence Is supposed to be responsible: Thou lean yet fat nnd trlpey child, Intensely too, ntnllfnely noodle. Lank. Ump and sjuay-foot Oscar Wilde, Chief of Awes, Prince Flopdoodlc, Welcome to this land of gulls. Laud of shoddy, shams and flunkies! Thoil’it find nmoi!S us kindred fisds, So tike thyself, ewthetie donkeys. And when you’ve taught them how to gu-dv And slop," arid wear short-wnisted collars, Aad blather platitudes of mush. Then fill your vest with Yankee dollars, Skip back tb Cocknoydom and wink, W ith linger on your nose gigantic. And laugh like blazes when you think What fools live on tills side tit* Atlantic: Tbe Chinese on Oar Shore*. JTno York Herald. While the Chinese have been of service to America In many ways, the fact thut they rep- resent u teeming va>t empire; that it is vitntn the iKMver of C'lifim to throw into AlaerJm mill ions nnd millions of these laborers, and that, if not checked, they oould swarm over the IHeific riuiskanu practically occupy it, i* thereat jsiiul to be considered. 'Vo are not building up a .Mongolian or an African or a Tartar republic, but a nation of white Christian men ami wo men Wo do not desire to have in America small classes ot rich, prosperous men living at the expense of mvriads of i«ooriy paid, indus trious coolies, it is of more eousequence to have a large, thrifty, contented, well paid, w orking class of our ow n people. Out of this . lass come the la-sl citizens. If the Influence of tht* immigration of the (Tdne*c to the I nited States is to weaken or diminish or lessen tile mural force of our working classes then it should be restricted. A great deal la due to China as a friendly nation and one in whose future wo have a growing interest, but a great deal is also due to the laboring people of our own States, and especially those living on the Pacific coast. covered with the attempts. A vast religious gathering has recently been held at Allahabad, at the Junction of tho Jumna and the Ganges. It Is known as the Magli Mela, and this being tho twelfth year of its holding, tlie nttcndanco hns la-cn unusually large. Visitors aro estimated to have number ed between one lad ttvo millions. Fears have been entertained that a pestilence might break out among this great multitude with frightful results. The committee having 1c charge the mnttcr of erecting a monument at St. Louis to the late General Francis P. Blair has received a proposition from Mr. Wilson McDonald, n well- known seulptof nc guarantees a faithful like ness, to be completed In fifteen months, and ho asks $10,500 for the commission, and he will al low seventeen cents n pound for cannon. The nittec will probably entertain the propo- _ ' favorably. Some thousands of dollars re been collected, but thus far no satisfactory model lias been obtained. Twenty-three boys gathered from tlie streets of New York left that city a few days ago for Culpeper county, Virginia, where homes havo been provided for them. They were sent by Mr. Whltelaw Reid, w ho briefly addressed them before leaving, giving them some suggestions concerning tho new course their lives trill take from this time. Every boy was eroTided with a complete ontfit—trousers, shirt, coat, scarf, shoes, socks and cap: where their own' garments were old they wore ex changed for new ones. David A. Curtis, a New York news paper reporter, lectured lately on the “Sccrejs of the Sanctum." He explained away much of the mistaken notions entertained by many per sons concerning the vocation of a reporter, nnd claimed that reporting fs not a trade, but an art Mr. Cnrtis doubted whether the famous novelists of the age could, in the hum- of prc- • paring a report nt a late hour ..f the night, equal the reporter in that kind of work. The- majority of men disposed to denounce reporters- ns a class had. hffllus satisfied, at some i>eriod in their lives found their evil deeds espoeed by reporters. A young stranger^ revival meeting at Carils ed to a stirring exhortatj went forward when re[ Tiled, and wept whij him. When quests Thomas, a burgj city to open safg to kill time; tlj wished to conli committed ini who happened tt found i!"- toni”_ He is to be tried fori cused himself. A novel sort stand the other day sylvan la, to prove her i nothing else than a lien j that she had been prove his owncrshjj vocal powers, wlS pricing degree by I mniuls of nature, the owner, whereupr to a scries of lioii? view of her nattS np to the siamliJ was no doubt of! the Judge thought! have strayed ore his acquittal. The Earl of D« cd from his big huij of Canada to New England. To World he said hd St. Lawrence in a country, one hundred anl. tiie gulf, mi a mmimaim" thousand fset i" height. ■ American reindeer, which sought the snow-fields on tin: hIkivc, aud us the wcatlu r "a- the sport was not tlie plcasantrail Mill, the Karl and his i- irt;. » ' much as they could do to frozen, managed to secure splendid game. Nine months of hard al labor by Johnny SSmsome* a < prison nt Folsom, California* oicapc. By thrusting a the granite blocks In discovered ft cavity undy abandoned sower. Vil pmugghM in /nun the I mmI, he broke one off cd a month, becans blow when a dooi nolso was made to hidl Nit np all night v more than once was in the shop. After romovi inure of granite, he dug slowly t three feet of stone and cement hole, and afterwards letting the through if. At the end of three snotitq into the newer, and found it plugg and cement ter. feet thick at it* lonnc remaining six mouths was spontii! through this obstruction. Ife worked and naked, leaving his clothes so arr. t>ed that the guard *»m>osed be ii Foul air nearly sunocated him, lo de him ill. and hi'* weight fell oil _• pounds. But he got out at Inst, three hours an officer recognized him, anO u* again a prisoner. A number of friends gathered at Dor-' man's urtu-ic store, Church -tnvt. ^a-brille, Tennessee, a few days ago to hear tilth: Maude Cook, 'laughter of Samuol Cook, of M itu-liesicr, perform on the organ. Monde was l«iru blind, nnd Is now only six years old. 8he already knows and can play one hundred pieces Of music. Professor Dowd was present and play ed a large number Of pieces with her, "'-compa- nyinz her on tlie violin, .she exhibited her genius for music iu playing over places after hearing them tor the fint time, ntul In aceom- ponviiig Professor Dowd In pi.-.site had never t»eforO heard. 8he bream,- -n marinated, with Professor Dowd’s playing on tin: violin that she did not want to piny her-cH. nnd in sisted on bis playing for her. it was wonder ful to see her delicate little linger- manipulat ing the keys and keeping womb-rfa! time, either in playing by herself or in ducts with the professor. 8he evidently ha- ’■ ■-■rent mttsl- cal future before her. Tub San Francisco Hominy Call sajs: “There is a p<u-tng greyhound, bred and reared in Tniuro county, though iu>w owned in Galt. His owner claim* tltal his fa-test gait is a pace, and that he ha* no occasion to bn "k into a gal lop to accomplish all that he i- called upon to do. It Is said that he can to re a "ere on a (su e, and when led by the side of a horse will put tbolequlnc to a racing stride to keep up with the canine. Hts owner propose* to match him against any pacing or trotting horse thrt can be brought, and will risk a reasonable amount of money that the dog will prove tho victor, lie b rather larger than the average of dogs of his race, and has a peculiar formation. His shoulders ate comparatively straight and his back arched. To two a horsey expression, he is of ’rangy' build, rather counter than a majority ot the Wed. and with a powerful con figuration In every paint.
