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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 18S2.
Some prominent cotton men begin to
vaor a vaccinated look.
PiANTWoon the credit system is nothing
more nor less than stock gambling.
Judge Tompkins, it is said, has gone to
Naahville, Tenn., to hold coart. We sup
pose it mast be a pettycouri.
'ins burning question now agitating
Georgia is, wili Collector Clarke find any
salt on the Washington lick-log.
A thousand cranks have offered their
valuable services to the marshal of the
District of Columbia to hangGuiteau.
—The best weekly paper in the State is
the Weekly Teleobapii and Messenger.
Price f 2 per year.*
The authorities are determined that Gui-
teau shall not cheat the gallows by com
mitting suicide. -They keep a guard over
him constantly.
Ben Butleb threatens to avenge liim-
aelf upon the Massachusetts press by run
ning for Governor again. This should be
enough to gag th9 entire force.
The Nashville World says that Dr. Fel
ton has led off in the so-called Independ
ent movement. This is entirely trap, bat
he has not led off anybody else as yet.
Ir the Agricultural Society, now in 1
Bion, will only devise some way to keep the
tanner from eating up his crop before he
makes it, it will preve itself a benefactor
to the race.
The star ronte assassination in Washing
ton has eclipsed Gniteau for the time be
ing, but Gqiteau still gets in his work. He
has made a suit of clothes from the sale of
his autographs.
The Cartersville Free Press thinks that
Mr. Hill made the mistake of his life when
he made war upon the Independents.
That mistake was made several years ago,
when he joined the Independents.
Uncle Cbarlie Willlnoham is trying to
hold Uncle Remns still long enough to tell
him that independertism is booming, but
Uncle Remns is too much interested in
Brer Rabbit and English peas to hear Un
do Charlie.
The mischievous little arrow god has
planted a dart under the fat nipple of yonr
Uncle David Davis, and the stout old gen
tleman,unsheathing his Pickwickian smile,
has accused a rich Maryland widow of put
ting the boy np to it.
Wx do not want to draw Talmagedown
Upon ns, bat if some of the almighty good
people who are blackguarding Bob Inger-
aoll only knew that theirown coat-tails were
on fire, we would have'more prayers and
leas of hell than hitherto.
Young Conoeb, who was present when
Editor Barton was shot, in Washington
City, is evidently a very nervy young man.
When the shooting commenced he was
present, and although unarmed, saved the
editorial lamp at the risk of his life.
The 100-3 issue in Tennessee was to that
State what the Colquitt-Norwood contro
versy wes to this. Now that the question
has been settled, let the Democrats of Ten
nessee follow the example set by their
Georgia brothers, unite and bery the past,
Wz may all imagine we can kill time,
put time never throws np the spoDge and
sooner or later kills ns. The presence of
a sporting expression in this paragraph
goes to show that the prize ring can even
demoralize a paragrapher. We let it go ont
kb an example to the young.
How sad to real this announcement in
last Cartersville Tree Press: The Kirk
wood mntnal admiration society are hell,
bent on defeating Hon. B. H. Hill for the
United States Senatorship, and Senator
Hill has gone back on a reserve force (tLe
independents) that would have made his
station sure.
The fire-eating Willingham has desert
ed his first lore, Gen. Gartrell, for Judge
Book, of Augusta, as the Independent
candidate for Governor. He also leaves
tbs bars down this time, and thinks, per
haps, the lightning might strike Albert
Cox or Harry Jeckson. It will be only an
Independent nomination, and the people
will declare by their votes that they are in
dependant of that nomination. .
A. C. Sotkldo Is in the Washington City
jail, charged with two crimes; first of an
assault with intent to murder C. M. Bar
ton, city editor of the Washington Repub
lican, and npon lhe charge of the actnai
murder of bis brother, A. M. Soteldo, of
which the coroner’s jury has fonnd him
guilty. He is a native of Venezuela, South
America.
Mb. Soteldo wili hardly claim that his
murderous shot sprung from an inspira
tion. The cause of the shot was an article
in the National Republican, and no jury
in the world ever be made to believe
that the Lord would send an inspiration
through the columns of the Republican.
Axidsz the dust and scattered exchanges
that were mixed np by the last experiment
in "liberal” journalism in the Post-Appeal
office, it is impossible to determine with
entire accuracy whether Colonel Thornton
is the plated buckle on the cropper strap or
the illuminated brats rosette on the hexd-
htall of the P..A. *
Philadelphia Recorder: When any
public man, in* this day and generation,
prod iims himself to be a "Jeffersonian
Democrat,” we are disposed to watch him.
There are many Jeffersonian Democrats
nowadays who are no more like the origi
nal than John 8berman is like King
David. If Mr. Jefferson were alive to see
the mangy orowd who take bis name in
vain be would want to die again instantly.
The Savannah'News baa for its hobby
wow • tariff for revenue only, which shall
be low enough to encourage imports in
such vast quantities as will support the
government by even the slight daties upon
them. The News hat strenuously avoided
telling its readers how this country is go
ing to dispose of her own manufactures
wben the people ovexlook them and pur-'
-v— foreign goods. If England can out-
eeU us here, she can outsell us everywhere.
Nor dees the News tell its readers boar,
wben American manufacture* are forced
down to the level of European, there is
going to be such a demand for foreign
goods as will yield a revenue large enough
to rapport the goiernment. The News
bM readied a point where it is ashamed to
pnb>ish the truth. Jt has said the horse
is 17 feet high and disks to it.
The Independent tender. j many honest and conscientious Republi-
Whether or not he shall become the fans voted against it. Kirby, it is almost
needless to say, Is a white man.
At the same time the Senate wasen-
gubernatorial candidate of the coalition
ists, Dr. Felton lias assumed the task cf
organizing the scattered elements, and
has for the present constituted himself
the leader of the movement.
In the Atlanta Constitution of Mon
day, he unloads himself of a letter of
two columns, which purports to be a re
ply to a recently published interview
with ex-Governor Smith. If this eager
and ambitious parson had searched the
State of Georgia for an antagonist calcu
lated to damage .him and his cause,
he oould not possibly have
been more successful than in
this instance. We know of no Geor
gian better able to take care of himself
with pen or speech than Gov. Smith, and
Dr. Felton will fully concur in this opin
ion when the Governor has seen fit to lay
him down. The letter of the Farson is
not able. It [is filled with fallacies, is
faulty in statement and execrable in tem
per. Beyond the fierce assaults he makes
upon Governor Smith and other parties,
there is nothing in it that he has not
served up to the public heietofore, excep
what is contained in this remarkable par
agraph: ^
A colored girl was sentenced duri:
month of November last,in the city of Atiai
to five years In the penitentiary, for stcalii
gaged upon the case of Samson Goliath, a
colored man, and a more flagrant case of
injustice was never carried to the consid
eration of meD, who had it in their power
to remedy a great wrong. It appears from
the papers in the case that he was a slave
at the breaking out of the war. He en
listed in a colored regiment, in which a
mutiny occurred on board a ship while
passing round the Atlantic coast. Sam
son was tried and convicted as the leader
of the mutiny by a court-martial, and
sentenced to hard labor daring the term
of his enlistment, forfeiture of pay, and
to be dishonorably dismissed at tbe expi
ration of his term of service. It sub
sequently turned out that Goliath was an
innocent maD,took no part in tbe mutiny
and through bis ignorance and want of
counseiSamson’s shoulders were made to
bear theHiurden that should have been
put upon another man by the Philistines
of tbe court-martial. The Democratic
Senator frt>m Texas, Mr. Maxey, report
ed and urged a bill for tbe relief of this
much-injured strong man, revoking the
sentence of the court-martial and in
structing the Secretary of War to pour
the balm of Gilead of an honorable dis
charge into Goliath’s wounds. Tbe facts
fifty cents from a colored child. I know noth 1 0< . ere undisputed, and it woul3 seem that
Ing of the evidence and care nothing, for that
verdict will not bear any excuse. I found the
statement in the Constitution; November 26th.
Is the ‘‘author of the system” pleased with
such a verdict?
It Is not to be presumed that a gentle
man engaged in the cultivation of grasses,
with an occasional raid on sinners and
the offices which sinners mostly enjoy, is
learned in anything but tbe moral law,
but Dr. Felton assaults the credulity and
intelligence of the people of Georgia in
the statement to which wo have referred.
It he does not know the penalties affixed
to common crimes by tbe statutes cf bis
State, then he is unfit to go to a national
Congress to make laws for the people, and
he would be a most impro^r and unsale
perse n to place in the Executive chair of
the State.
But giving his statement all of the
weight that he may claim for It, a child
would know that because a circuit judge
bad strained the law and exceeded bis au
thority, that this could not be tortured by
any process into an argument against
tbe penitentiary lease system. We have
indulged tbe hope that Dr. Felton,himself
a gentleman of respectable habits, educa
tion and associations, would be able to
gather about him a nucleus upon which a
respectable party might in the future be
based; that be would present issues of
such immediate and living importance,
as to attract gentlemen who felt them
selves unappreciated, or because they
honestly desired to change their party
affiliations. The hope seems to be a delu
sive one. Dr. Felton's success on the
stump runs parallel with that in the pul
pit. Those who do not agree with him
are to be lorever damned to disgrace and
eternal punishment. Dr. Felton nnhap-
pily entered public life at an age wben
most men are prepared to leave it. Men
who commence to sow wild oats in ma
ture years are almost invariably lost.
Time for repentance and reformation is
not allowed them.
We have had occasion before to allude
to the bad temper Dr. Felton seems dis
posed to inject into tbe coming cam
paign. This is an infirmity, a common
one, and one for which allowance should
be made. In this lari effort wo imagine
that we can detect something more to be
regretted. The mortification of defeat
and the resentment aroused by opposition
seem tobave unhinged him.
It is a melancholy suggestion, but be
'has begun to show unmistakable evidences
of an unbalanced intellect. Without he
shall put a curb upon his passions the con
test may lead him in the direction of a
public institution, whose doors are more
closely guarded than those of Cougress or
a gubernatorial mansion.
White vs. Black—Samson Goliath and
Gen. Kirby.
It seems to be almost an impossibility
to hammer into a negro’s skull a full un
derstanding of tbe falsity of tbe profes
sions of love and friendship made to him
by those who would throw him into per
manent antagonism to the white men of
the South. The fl-st lesson tanght him
by the agents of the Freedman’s “Buro”
after the wir was undying hatred to the
man and master who had once held him
in bondage. The school teachers who
have followed the agents of. the “Bnro”
have used no other text book, and tbe
consequence Is that the whites and blacks
now being reared, and who are to live in
this land together, are not bound to each
other by a common sympathy or senti
ment. Recent movements in
Georgia and other Southern States
indisputably point to the fact
that so far from any effort being made to
better this unfoitunate condition of af
fairs, Southern men themselves, inspired
by an unholy desire for office and prefer
ment, propose to use the negro in tbe
coming campaign as he was used by the
military powers and the carpei-baggen
during the progress of reconstruction.
He Is to be made to believe, until the
day of election, that he has no friends
save the Republicans and their Liberal
or Independent allies, and that it is his
bonnden duty to cast his ballot against
any and every man who professes a be
lief in the principles of the Democratic
organization, and follows its methods.
The oft repealed Instances in which the
Republicans have proven false to their
professions of love and regard for the ne
gro fail to attract the attention of their
eyeq, and fall with meaningless force
upon dull ears.
Tbe Republican Congress has recently
illustrated the propositions we have laid
down in a way so unmistakably plain
that a man anywhere above the border
line of idiocy cannot fail to see and appre
ciate it. Tbe whole of the session of the
House on Friday last was spent in an
effort to pass a bill for the restoration of ono
Gen. D. T. Kirby to his place in tho army,
from which be had been removed soma
fifteen years since by the action of a court
martial. He was tried for drunkenness,
tyrannical treatment of his subordinates,
misapplication of funds, fighting, insult
ing the wife of a fellow officer, and con
duct generally unbecoming a gentleman
and an officer.- He was found guilty of
these charges and was dismissed. In place
ofgoingto work to earn an honest living
and to wipe out the stain he himself had
inflicted upon a record of unquestioned
gallantry during tbe war, be has hung
about Congress begging to be restored to
the position be had disgraced. The House
passed tbe bill for his relief. It is gratify
ing to know and to record the fact that
iK relief should have been freely given.
fj 5 Republican Senators, however, ob
jection the ground that a court-martial
was by^cd the power of Congress to re
view.
Comtek tL would be superfluous. A
RepublicaA* r bnse reviews tbe finding of
a court rnaiV.‘:lj the judge advocate-
general and the 1,insideut in the case of «
white man justly angvlcled, and a Repub
lican Senate refuS^to do justice to a
negro who had been h^stly convicted of
an oflenso committed ‘xt ltsomo ono else.
We present tbe cases fo. v |ie considera
tion of the colored men of til iState.
Ir
The Irrepressible Coiitl ct
From time immemorial, the ^ f°-oective
father-in-law, and the would-b^.pn-ic-
Iaw, metaphorically speaking, bad
each other by the throats. In ole or in
the other capacity, most men art^ called
upon at sometime in the course [jf their
existence to engage in that irrej
conflict, which is tbe premonitoi
tom of matrimony, the conflict
It cannot be denied that there
generations a favored few whostj
forward, claim their spouses wii
position, glide gently down to that pater
nal dSponsibility which usually comes
with middle age, and return the compli
ment to some other favored darling of
fottnne. The instances, however, are not
numerous. It is generally conceded in
matrimonial circles, that when prosperity
assails poverty, it is irresistible, but com
pared with the extent of our rapidly
pairing population, the attacks of this de
scription are few in number. Courtship
is the fairy land, where birds sing, xnocib
light nights abound, the skies are roseate
and numerous other stage conveniences
and effects exist. But these do not exist
m an uninterrupted perpetuity. This
fairy land is at times a battle ground, and
the scene of irrepressible conflict. Its
sea'ons and divisions are Irregular. It is
liable to sudden showers, storms, sheet-
ligbluingaud miniature earthquakes. It
has its seasons of peri 1 , its panoramas of
flying youths and pursuing parents, its
watch dogs* angry bark, its desolated
trousers, its smashed mandolins and
abra-.ured shins, its slop basin
matinees from the hurriedly opened shut
ters, its white-robed figures framed in the
window’s cliiaro-oscuro, its cruel glitter
of old-fashioned firearms thrust recklessly
into the populated gloom without, its dire
disasters and number 7 bird shot by salt
petre propelled. Nor is this the entire
programme. While, like a daring knight
from the days of pomp, pageantry and all
the olden chivalry, flits into its charades
an occasional Locbinvar, there are oftener
visions of fagged horses, frantic midnight
calls in neighboring counties for licenses
and parsons, grim specterly brothers flit
ting through the gloom, strange conflicts
in the imminent deadly breach, screams
of maidens, clinching of fists, tussles on
the wayside sand, the tearing of hair, the
blackening of eyes, and tlie aognizing
shrieks of bursting suspenders. Sucb are
some of the incidents and panoramas Jn
ho land of this irrepressible conflict.
Strange as it may seem, the world does
not turn from these scenes to shudder.
Something like a groat big eighteen-carat
throb of sympathy wells up and slobbers
all over a man’s little garden of roses,
when he glances over tbe prison walls of
business upon these conflicts. It hat a
similar effect upon women. Subtle
shivers of ecstasy run all through their
dear little dreamland, and they have to
rush oH to sunny nooks in neighboring
porches to recover. When a public per
formance is given in this sunny court
ship land, and the stern parent comes into
conflict with youthful hopes upon the
stage, you can wager your church money
that all the world is not only akin, but
we are all cousins.
Thus tt was that when the young At-
lantians, on Saturday last, raised the cur
tain everybody’s attention was engaged.
The audience had but recently seen a
New Yorker fill hi3 adored adipose with
birdshot because of a trifling bitch in the
last act and then wend his way to two
years of penitential reflection; had seen
tbe cruel Washington father, after elevat
ing with his district boots a surprised
knight of the pierced heart clear over the
front stoop into theclsminy arms of a
new-laid asphalt pavement, turn and dress
the alabaster limbs of his daughter with
rawhide—had seen all this and we.-e both
shocked and grieved. The drama was cer
tainly getting a little stupid, grief outrun
ning joy.But the rising curtain disclosed a
new series of scenes, this time in Atlanta,
which the good people eo much admire.
There was the tryst, the rapid flight, the
carriage Impressed, the long ride to an
other county, the almost fatal error in
mistaking a high school for a court house,
the tired horses, tbe bridegroom’s bsppy
expedient, the roaring train, the more
rapid flight, tbe consummation, the grand
tableaux of hearts and friends united-
red lights and curtain down. It was per
fect. Interest never flagged for a moment,
and when the cumulative excitement ex
ploded tn the grand finale, the auditorium
rang with applause, and tbe small boy in
the gallery-leaning forward, blew a blast
upon his Sogers that almost spilt the ear
of the deaf janitor who was turning ont
the lights. Let the confliet proceed.
Sematob Beck has gone to his “Old Fen-’
iueky home." It is to be hoped that h
will stay there lony enough to learn that
the eon does not rise and set in Waahing-
ton Gity,
The Cossvlet System.
In a late issue of cor very able and
conservative contemporary, the Augusta
Chronicle and Constitutionalist, wo find
the following paragraph:
Our people should hear in mind that tho pres
ent convict system' was inaugurated by a
Republican. Legislature. It remains for the
Democratic party to abolish It- The truth is,
that it Is a blot upon our civilization. The
State is able to establish and sustain a system
that will vindicate tho law and at the scftne
time give the unfortunates a chance for refor
mation There can bo no vested righto in the
laborof men who may commit crime in tho fu
ture. Wo had a thousand times rather give a
million of the State's money lor a penitentiary
than for a State capitol The time has Come
for the abolition of the present inhuman sys
tem of farming out convicts. The Chronicle
has been opposed to the present system for
‘many years.
The inauguration of a convict system
which hired ont this labor to the highest
bidder, was the scheme of a Republican
legislature, but tbe system thus inaugu
rated has been added to, enlarged and im
proved in all respects to such an extent
that the sponsors of the bantling w ould
scarcely recognizo it now. While it was
the duty and the pleasure of the Demo
cratic party to undo much of the vicious
legislation enacted by the Republicans
when in power, we don’t see tho obligation
that rests upon thatpaity to abolish the
convict lease system which it lias endorsed,
modified and improved. Wo cannot think
it wise or prudent statesmanship to put
this plank in a Democratic platform. To
be entirely candid, our politics are Dem
ocratic, and we should feel bound to op
pose this issue without it can be support
ed and sustained by arguments, reasons
and facts stronger than the mere asser
tions contained in the paragraph
which we have quoted. We do not rec
ognize the fact that it is a "blot on our
civilization.” At its inception,'when the
convicts were under the control of men
without means and of no business or ad
ministrative capacity, the abuses of the
system were such as to shock the sense of
justice in the raluds of ail good people;
but as it now stands, compared in any
and all respects to the penitentiary sys
tem of any of tho States of this Union,
the assertion that “it is a blot on our civ
ilizstion” cannot be successfully main
tained before an impartial and intelligent
audience. A system which keeps convicts
guarded in terms of tbe law, which gives
them necessary food, clothing and sleep
ing accommodations, and which exacts
the labor imposed upon them as a punish
ment for violation of law, and exhibits as
a result ouly three-quarters of one per
cent, mortality cannot be made to appear
as “a blot on our civilization,” orthe civil-
izatiou of anybody else. There can be no
question as to the ability of the Slate to
re-establish the old system, to which our
contemporary doubtless refers, and for
which it is willing to givo a million of
money in preference to a capitol building.
But, is it policy to do this ? Are tbe
people of Georgia, who are now heavily
taxed to arrest, to try and to convict those
who render life, property and the
the public peace insecure, willing to he
taxed to speculate in reformatory institu
tions, which have signally failed in all
past experiments? Are they prepared to
“crib-cabin and confine” a thousand or
more convicts within walls, to labor in an
unskillful and unproductive way in me
chanical trades, at a vast yearly expendi
ture of money. Would It be wise, proper
or just to take this rude labor and to
throw it into competition with the skilled
laborof citizens, and to back it, as it
were, by a subsidy in the way of appro
priations from the public treasury to meet
the aiatming deficit between the cost of
production and the account sales ?
In the olden days, up to the war, the
Stato of Georgia, in addition to the ex
pense of arresting and trying “criminals,”
had to pay $140 per head per annum for
tbe privilege of keeping these people
where they conid not murder, burn, rape
and steal. <
In our judgment, Georgia is not ready
to repeat tho costly experiment. We
shall not slop to argue the question of
vested rights. This belongs to tho courts,
but if the State has pledged her faith 7>y
solemn contract to her citizens, she will
be guilty of a wrong when she attempts
to violate that contract. If this is to be mado
a cardinal principal of Georgia Democra
cy, we, for one, repudiate it in
advance and will have Done of it. There
is nothing but bare assertion to sustain
tbe«charge that the system is inhuman.
The punishment of the wicked, the vicious
and the depraved is intended to be hard.
The law provides for this. The man who
slays his fellow man, who appropriates
the proceeds of his bard work, who burns
his dwelling and who submits his wife to
a late worse than any or all of these, must
expect to bo punished aud punished se
verely. Society couli not exist and be
safe without it. Prison reform is no new
question. It has engaged the attention of
statesmen and philanthropists for many
years and has made but slow progress.
Something has been gained aud all
penitentiary systems share in
the gain thus made. If more progress con
be made, public opinion and common jus-
hysterical eloquence and the appeals of
demagogues to the passions of the igno
rant and degraded. We confess to espe
cial surprise and apprehension that a
journal so strong and so generally well
balanced^as tbe Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist should have made profertof the
issue in the shape of a party dogma.
We are not weddrd to the present sys
tem, though we think it the best of which
we have knowledge. Give ns one its equal
.in all present respects, With more aud
better safeguards aud reformatory provi
sions, and We will be willing to adopt it.
It is a question of political economy, as
well as or justice and humanity, aud its
discussion belongs rather to tho legisla
tive forum than to the hustings, where,
amid the excitement of a political cam
paign, parties appeal to the passions and
prejudices cf the masses.
Death of Bishop WlKhtmnn
Onr telegrams this inorcing announce
the death of Rev. William May Wight-
man, one of the bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, at his home in
Charleston, S. C., on yesterday morning.
He was born in Charleston in January,
ISOS, and had just passed his seveuty-
fuurtli birthday. Wheu twenty years old
he was admitted into the South Confer
ence. His first ministerial work was on
the Feedee circuit. His polished manners
and genial nature won all hearts, aud he
soon rose to distinction among his
brethren. "
His talents were not to bo given to
South Carolina alone. He was called to
a position in Bandolph-Macon College, in
Virginia. Afterwards he was elected to
theediitorshipoftba Southern Christian
Advocate, published in his native city,
and for fifteen years his graceful editorials
were the charm of that publication. His
editorial life was in the days when troub
lous questions agitated Methodism, and
his abilities and Christian bearing during
that memorable controversy, were admit
ted and commended by his bitterest op
ponents. He has never bad a superior
and but very few equals iu religious journ
alism.
He was taken from the editorial chair
aud placed as president of Wolford Col-
leg'*, at Spartanburg, S.C., where he re
mained some time. He was afterward
elected chancellor of the Southern Uni
versity, located at Greensboro, Alabama,
where he remained until the General Con
ference of his church met In New Or
leans, In 18GG, when he was elected
bishop.
In every position of life he was the same
faithful, devoted and consecrated man.
His reputation as a pulpit orator extend
ed from the Atlantic to tbe Pacific. His
polished literary articles have graced every
church periodical iu the connection. His
labors as bishop extended from the Ohio
river to tbe mountain fastnesses of Oregon
and Montana—from Maryland to Califor
nia. He was a finished scholar, au elo
quent orator, a graceful writer aud au
elegant, Christian gentleman. Tho va
cancy caused by his death will bo hard to
fill, even among > so numerous a denomi
nation as our Methodist friends. Wo have
known him for many years, and esteemed
him highly for his many qualities of both
head and heart.
A Stove tn the Bljtht Direction.
We are in receipt of a note from a
prominent lady and musician of this city
warmly seconding the proposition made
by a correspondent in these columns a few
days since, to organize in Macon a memo
rial concert for the benefit of the family of
Sidney Lanier. We are informed that
the proposition will be acted upon. It is
scarcely necessary to promise tho support
of ’.lie Telegraph to make this laudable
enterprise successful In every respect,
Macon, as far as we know, has not con
tributed ono cent to tbe memorial fund
wldch Is being accumulated. Baltimore,
Augusta aud other cities have moved
promptly in the matter, but tbe city which
should have been tho first to respond to
the call has shown a lamentable lack
of action. It was here that
intelligence first dawned upon the sweet
singer, whose voice is now silent; herein
our midst the melody of the spheres first
echoed in his dreams, and here that the
muses taught him how to weave among
the chords those words—his all—which
yet remain. From infancy to youth, from
youth to manhood his ways were our?,
our interests his. As a citizen, 03 a Geor
gian, ho has done his duty, leaving a lega
cy that will outlive us all; leaving tbe
world brighter aud toil less wearisome be
cause of that legacy. Ill health placed it
beyond his power to provide for his fami
ly. To that South whose soil he so faith
fully defended, whoso chivalry lie so no
bly upheld, whose genius he so grandly
illustrated,he has bequeathed a trust—his
orphaned children. Her great mother-
heart has taken them home. Let us guard
them from want.
Deatb of General Ell Wnrreii.
General Eli Warren died at his home
in Perry, Ga., suddenly yesterday at
noon,‘in the 82nd year of his age..
... . ..... , ? Few men were better known or more
ice will demand that all prisoners shal ^ ^ MUjem , d lban Uen . Warren.
have the benefit of any improvement
which may follow. Tho penitentiary sys
tem of Georgia has been submitted to pop
ular decision and has received an unmis
takable ratification. It was one of the
leading issues iu tho late gubernatorial
campaigu. It occupied a large portion of
the time and attention of the last Legisla
ture, and the law as perfected only needs
the active co-operation oi the executive and
the prison officers to make its enforcement
anything but inhuman. Objectionable
features have been cut off and new re
straint8 added. The system itself, which
works men in the free air and under an
open sunlight, has given to tbe convicts of
Georgia a mental, moral and physical
health far beyond those of other States
There is no reason why the labor of the
convict should net be made to repay tho
public money expended upon him. Ou
the contrary tho reason is ail tbe other
way. It Is a reproach to our governmen
tal system that all the idle and vicious
are not made’to put by tax or license into
the public treasury, in their young days,
funds to support them when they grow
old and become a burden upon the body
politic. j.
We have endeavored to meet tbe posi
tions laid down by onr contemporary,
without referring to tho color line iuvolved
in this question, or by reference to the
fearfully exaggerated oratory which it
has heretofore invoked.
The system commends itself to our
candid and settled' judgment, and no
appeal to party allegiance is going to draw
us into the endorsement of methods
which have keen tried and found wanting.
We had indulged the hope that this issue
could be kept out of tbe coming cam
paign ; that we should have no more of
He bad enjoyed a long and exception
ally pleasant and successful career
af the bar, • of which he
had been an acknowledged leader for
many years. He was a gentleman of tbe
tenderest sympathies and broadest charity,
and his loss will be deeply deplored, not
only iu the commumtv in which he lived,
bat throughout the entire State. His
last public service was as a member ofthe
cmstitutional convention of 1877, but up
to^tho day of his death ho took a deep
interest in everything that affected lhe
.public weal of Georgia. We recall
now, with melancholy easure
the fact that frequently with
in the last few weeks he has ad
dressed to us letters filled with the sug
gestions o( bis ripe experience, and ex
pressive of his hope that tho efforts being
made to divide public, sentiment might
not eventuate in harm to the honor or the
best interests of the State.
He had so lived, that though
tbe summons came suddenly he was pre
pared to meet his end as he had borne
himself In life, with a firm yet gentle dig
nity. He has been gathered to his fath
ers full of barors, leaving behind him
pleasaut memories of an useful and hon
orable life.
Cotton Statement.
According to the Chronicle of Friday
last, tho receipts of cotton for th<T week
ending that day were 86,779 bales, for the
same week last year they were 133,72.3
bales, aud in 1880, 119,834. These fit,cr a
PERSONAL.
—Baron A. Alhamtra, the Brazilian
minister to P.ussfo, has boon recalled.
—John Wilson, actor, of the Madison
Square Theatre, died on Friday at Ills home in
New York.
—Major John W. Daniel has been
... . n ... «%<iv!m?s I5.tr.k
show a falling off in tho week’s receipts of elccU “ ; ^^lidcntol theVtigiM* S*rin«s Bank
36,944 barns compared with last year and at I.ynchimig. . ,
Dorsey ought to gel- tho biggestmedal
I.. MYI linvrt uimollllllff to
Death of Gen. William McRae.—
Gen. Wililam McRae died in Angusta on
Saturday night last. He has been lu de
clines health for months, but his friends
were hardly prepared for the sudden re
sult. Gen. McRae was well known in
railroad circles all over the South. He
was a gentleman of marked character,
and tbe courago and decision which gave
him distinction aaa soldier were strongly
exemplified in his business life.
• £ k : Ml ■ . &
33,072 bales os compared with 1SS0.
The total port receipts up to last Friday
night,’from September 1st, were 3,874,317,
for the same time last year they were
4.230,267, and In 1SS0 were 3,083.618
bales, showing a falling off as compared
with last year of 373,960 bales, and a
falling off as compared with I860, of 109,-
201 bales.
The stock at interior towns foot up
3S0,52S bates, against 313,837 bales the
same timo last year, showiug au increase
over last year of 66,091 bales.
The total visiblo supply of cotton was
3,161,799 bales, compared with 2,839,414
bales last year, auu 2,635,312 bales in
1880. These figures indicate an Increase
in tho stocks of cotton in sight of 312,385
compared with the samodate In 1SS1, and
an increase of 516,4S7 bales compared
with the same date In 1SS0.
This report should have appeared in our
yesterday’s Issue. The Chronicle, as all
other Northern mall, Is now a day behind
time on account of stoppage of the fast
mail service South. This service has been
discontinued because of failure of proper
appropriation. The credit for this has
been generally attributed to pur immedi
ate representative in Congress. Wo
would suggest to Colonel Blount that the
mail service is all that the South gets iu
way of benefit from tho general govern
ment, and we Intend, Instead of going
backwards, to have a better service than
any we have hitherto had. If he cannot
make up bis mind to assist rather than
thwart our efforts in this direction, the
business interest of this community and
section will find a way to protest against
tbe injustice done them that he will re
gard as anything but endorsement of a
policy so narrow as already to have seri
ously damaged Iris party and constituents.
Promotions in the Army.—Tho
Washington Sunday Ilerald has a com
munication from Atlanta suggesting a new
idea about promotions in the army, based
strictly on the time the officer has served,
an J suggests a “provisional” rank with
the pay forjsuch rank the same as he real
rank gets.
When a first lieutenant has served five
years he becomes a “provisional” first
lieutenant with pay of a first lieutenant,
but remains a “real” second lieutenant
until promoted regnlarly. Ten years'a
“provisional” first lieutenant andtheof-<
fleer Is a “provisional” captain. Ten
years a “provisional” captain, he rises to
the rank of “provisional major, where if
he continues seven years he becomes a
“provisional” lieutenant colonel. He
will at the expiration of six (6> more;
years be a “provisional” colonel and draw
the pay of a colonel, although Ills actual
rank, in times when no war is going on,
may only be a major. In thirty-eight
years, however, tbe great desideratum of
a colonel’s pay will have been arrived at.
He then suggests that no officer be re.
tired unless for forty-five years’ sorvice or
disability. The'“provisional” rank and
pay will keep young officers quiet then.
—The cheapest paper in the South is
the Weekly Telzobaph and Mess end eh,
$2 per rnnam.
The new mot Southern prosperity bos
not left the editorial gang untouched. Evan
Howell owns present stock in a cotton fac
tory and holds debentures on tho coming
crop, Hemphill has a paper mill, Joe Har
ris has a rabbit warren, Grady owns a
breech loafing gnn and a St. Bernard pup
py, John Go,ham has a pair of pantaloons
forty yenrs of ago, John Triplett possesses
the biggest horn in tho world, Charlie Wii
linghnm has the largest and strongest col
lection of political expletives, Pgt Walsh
plays with a section of the Auga'U canal,
Howard Richardson is tho inventor of a
very popular and salable cough tonic,
Dwinell runs an iron mill, Finch nnrses n
bone felon, Dick Grubb is proprietor of a
pet coon and our young man has got a
baby nnd his name is Jack, and girl babies
'aro never named Jack.
Tue left wing of General Alexander &
Co.’s wrecking expedition, located at Au
gusta, seems disposed to fly tho white flag
and to call for a parley. Drop your scut
tling angers and throw np your hands, and
we’ll take you in as hostages for the good
behavior of the sappers and minors in Sa
vannah. .
Gen. Are Butosd claims the credit of
Hancock's nomination at Cincinnati. As
the General has joiced the church, it is to
be presumed he is telling the troth. At
any rate it is to be hoped that as he has
quit the turf ho will quit his other wicked
ways end will eschew president makingfor
tLe future.
Tub traditional mother-in-law has mot
her match. Mrs. Rosie Hooper, of Brook
lyn, poured hot tea over her mother-in-
law's head, sat her down on a red hot stove
and polished her off with a poker. She
then lifted Mr. Hooper with a stove-lifter.
There has been peace in the family ever
sinoe this muscular display.
C-Xz of the trained bloodhounds in a
traveling Uncle Tom’s Cabin company
slipped his muzzle and came near eating
up an escaping slave. If we had that dog’s
address, we would send him a silver-plated
collar.
Thh daily chums and companions of So
teldo while he was dyiog were enjoying a
square meal at Willard’s, over which
Hutchins, of tho Post, presided, and which
JobnMcCnllougb paid lot.
The Virginia Readjnsler* need readjust
ing. Riddlcberger calls Parson Massey a
“felon” and yet but for Parson Massey
there would be no Riddleberger or Mahone,
for the Parson b the father of the Read*
j us ter party.
Mb Wattekson rises to say that the
"slaughter” he promised, id case the Dem
ocracy abandoned the free trade issue, “is
all right, and will arrive on schedule time.”
As a slaughterer of the Democratic party,
Mr. Watterson is a succose.
Tux Mormons have placed four hand
some, educated, English females at work
in the Washington lobby in their behalf.
The Mormons know exaotly where to strike
the average Congressman. “One touch
o! nature makes the whole world akin.”
The fast mail is off. Msoon merchauts
dealing -with New York must now Drake
allowance for thirty-three per cent, in
crease on the time lost in correspondence.
E. C. Wade, internal revenue collec’or
at Savannah, who has been fed and clothed
for years by the influence of the negroes of
that section, telegraphs from Washington:
“Get up a telegram to retain me. Thay aro
trying to put a negro in my place.” 7 his
r. the
;e L.'FVttridg9, of Boston, took, ^jgtirssh
suburbs
i to considered a nice sum lor a
ofthe lot, so that he can havo somethin
bide behind.
—A Chicago editor remarks: “Oscar
Wilde gets £200 n night for being an ass, while
we remain poor.”
—Jonathan B. Mitchell, for thirty years
a member of the Arm of J. B. Lipplncott Co.,
died at Philadelphia Friday morning.
—Cadet Midshipman Cabaniss, of the
United Slate* steamer Swatara, was nceidentitlly
shot and kiUed at Kabe. Japan while at drill
—JThe Prince of Wales has promised to
be godfather to thencwly-bom Dalmeny. son
ana heir to the Earl of Kosebcrry.
—The Rev. Mr. Corbett, of New Haven,
speaks of Henry Wart Berber ,■»“«>!* ha-
rangucr, this defilor of tho Goipcl of Gotl, my
Savfor. M
—Mr. Kelfer lias threatened to have a
new man at the head'of the House rortaurant
if he detects the present manager soiling liquor
in any frhnpe or under any name.
—Sfnator Beck ventures tbe prediction
that if arrears of pension; are granted to pen-
s'oners of all our wars, wrardhrasof thchf cir
cumstances, it will bankrupt the national
treasury-
—Mr. Edinon S. Connor, although re
tired from the stage, and In h j« seventy-third
year, occasionally appears with I WJWJ
rear his home in New Jersey. Ills Kiclielfcu to
still powerful.
—Mr. Hunt, the oldest son of the Sec-
good law practice in Dakota, and to regarded as
a future United States Senator.
'lhe London Times has received a tel
egram from Stillman, its correspondent, whose
murder by tnc Amauts in Albania was rc-
porled. The telegram, which to dated at Ath-
eus, is tus follows: "Oumrd. All right.
—Edward C. Marshal), one of the oldest
citizens of Virginia, died at hto residence, In
Fauuufer county, on Wednesday. He vm a
son of Chief Justice John Marshal 1, and was the
lost survivor of the children ol that able jurist.
—John J. Fllnn, of the editorial staff of
the Chicago Dailn Xeic*. lias been appointed
by the President United States consul at Chem
nitz. Germany. Tho salary to *2,030 and
the fees collected there in' 1880 were over 517,-
000.
—George Alfred Townsend (“Gath”)
is suffering from a severe attack of gout, and
1ms started for the South. He will go first to
Florida, whence he will proceed to Hot
Springs, Arkansas, if hto malady docs not im
prove.
—Pleasant personal In thg West Liber
ty Scorcher: -‘The Senior editor lias been ab
sent about two weeks. A report reaches here
that lie to running a lager beer saloon up at
Washington. Watch out for hfm; he’s a
‘crank.’ ”
—Tho painting of Mrs. R. B. Hayes,
presented to the President by tho temperance
ladies of the United States, has been returned
to the White House from *l’arto, where it was
rent to be engraved. It will be hung in the
green parlor.
—George L.'FVltrhlge, of Boston, too'
three of ttic Bt " -‘ ~ —
annual award
r 230, which It -
young man to muko while at the same time
profiting mentally from hto labor.
—Tho late bibliophile, Lord Spencer,
during a year’s stay in Rome, devoted hto
whole attention to a search for the original
edition of Martial, and having found it, posted
straight home in high spirits, without having
visited St. Peter’s or the Coliseum.
—Mile. Charlotte Rothschild, the eldest
daughter of Baron Gustave Rothschild, is to
marry the Prince de LIgnc. tbe youthful hoad
of an ancient, wealthy and illustrious house in
Belgium. Tlie prince was bom in 1856 mid
succeeded his grandfather in 1880.
—Major Vo. B. Rochester, tho new
paymaster-general, was a paymaster of volun
jeers all through the war, and was appointed
in the regular army in 1867. lie will be the
youngest man wearing a brigadier-general's
star in any of the staff departments of the army
—Tbe English dukes are taking to the
elcetrir light. The Dnkc of Sutherland is go
ing to have Trcntlmm Illuminated with It, the
Iiukc of Westminster contemplates Introducing
it at Raton Hall, and it has been in operation
at the Duke of Northumberland’* aeal; Ala-
wick Castle, fur nearly a year.
—Lord Eskdale,.eldest son of the eld
est son of the Duke of Bueciciich, came of age
lately. Ills grandfather was a duke at 13, but
it looks as though he himself may not be a
duke until he to 58. Some heirs apparent have
to wait a long time. There have been instances
of their not succeeding until about CO.
—Gen. Butler is said lo have the whole
Democratic state committee of Massachusetts
stowed away snugly in hto pocket. The com
mittee held its annual meeting on Wednesday,
and reorganized by electing Butler men to ail
the princiittl olflees.
—Friday a white man named Bivana
committed suicide near Haw river. North Caro
lina. He had been married but two weeks to
nn attractive wife, but became dissatisfied with
her, and deliberately walked into the river
holding a heavy stone which he had tied to hi
hands. »
—Col. Ingersoll does not mean that it
shall he said, after hto death, that ho turned
from infidelity on his dying lied. His sccreta-
S r, who writes short-hand, Is Instructed to take
own accurately whatever he may say on that
oci-aslon. “There will then be no opportuni
ty,” he says, “forauyonc to put into my mouth
utterances contradicting the expressions of my
entire life.”
—Whatever grievances Mr. Soteldo may
have hn>l against the Republican, he made the
great mistake—i--i^-cl»lly for a journalist—of
seeking redress pistol in hand. Iu tho deplora
ble result the public will only recognize the
fact that he suffered the p-nalty Invited l>>- a
deadly personal a*snult -This style of settling
newspaper difficulties should be relegated to
outskirt civilization.
—A very sail story comes from Lancas
ter,'Tn., w here the Hon. I{. C. Rogers has been
committed to jail for twenty days for vagrancy.
He to a lawyer, and has boon a master of sev
eral languages. lie was a member of the State
Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania of
1837, end minister to Sardinia under Martin
Van Bua-n, but to now in his dotage.
—Senator Bruce is receiving a good
many letters from bankers in different sections
of the Union Indorsing hto bill to prevent the
ovcr-cortIdeation of bank checks, and urging
Its passage. This bill was referred to the Sec
retary of the Treasnry for hto opinion, and he
has not yet sent hto reply, but it to expected
tlrnt the finance committee will receive it very
soon. •
—Charley Hinsr, a Chinaman, was hanged
Thursday in Nevada, for the murder of Ah
Lick, a fellow countryman la«t May. On the
seaffuld he said that he committed the act in
self-defense, and claimed Hint *600 had licen
used to bribe witneaKatoMv.iir falsely, when
the trap was sprung tlie condemned foil with n
scream which was cut :hort by the dislocation
of hto neck.
—Ben Ferley Poore says: “The Chief
Magistrate is restoring some of the traditional
decorum and dignity which appertain to the
olllce of President. He docs not, when an ac
quaintance enters the room, rush up to him,
throw hbarms around him. and exclaim: "My
dear fellow, what ran I do for you ! ” but when
He makes a promise It Is nMpMqr yMeaasiL |
and not forgotten the next moment afterward.
—Mr. Peter Cooper entered upon his
ninety-second year on Friday last. < V)u Satur
day morning Mr. Cooper was in ld« office trails-
acting business as usual, nml declared that he
had never been In better health nor more free
from pains nnd aches. Saturday evening there
wasnn Informal gathering of Mr. Cooper's
friends, v. ho dined with him at his home, ex-
Senator Hamilton Fi-li, Hon. A. S. Hewitt
nml Mr. John Bigelow tiring among those pres
ent.
—Oa<*ar Wilde visited Niagara Falls
Thursday and declared the tight to l>c far l»c-
vond wlmt lie had seen In Europe. It seemed,
Mr. Wilde said, a -sort of cmliodSmcnt of pon-
thetom, and he “thonght of what Leonardo dn
Vinci said once—tlrnt the two most wonderful
tilings In the world were a woman’s smite and
the motion of mighty waters.” Mr. Wilde
wrote in the Prospect House private album:
"Tlie roar of these waters is like the roar when
tlie mighty wave of democracy breaks on the
shores whcrc.klugs lie couched at ease.”
—Senator Lamar was struck down by a
passing carriage at the comer of Pennsylvania
avenue nml Seventh street the other day and
painfully hurt. He was walking leisurely
along Seventh street, and when almost on the
curbing a carriage drawn by two horses was
driven rcckle<s!v around the corner. He was
struck hv one of the horses and knocked down.
The driver and the occupants of the carriage
drove right on, never stopping for oven au
instant fo ascertain what Injury had lx*on
done.
■The death of Auerbach the great Ger
man novelist, announced in recent dispatches,
removes a shining name from the brightest
field ofliterature. For near a ipisrttr of n cen
tury his charming storicaJUustniUng the purest
and the lx-st types of social nnd domestic life tn
the Fathcriana, have l>ocn held ns household
treasures ou lioth sides of the ocean. lie
reached the safe Biblical age of thn-e score nml
ten. ami in the full fruition of an unsul
lied name and an unnmrrod chdWtrr. Mil
lions of people nationally divided, but meotinir
upon the plane of a blended languaxt ami a
common progress toward lhe attainment of the
best domestic virtue, will inincle their *nrr*>w>-
for r great light extinguished, for a good man
dead.
—John T. Raymond, tbe actor, wm se
verely injured ami made a narrow e^capq fr *ra
death on Monday morning last. He was walking
from the depot in Washington to take a train
for Philadelphia, when an avalanche of **evi ml
tons of snow ami ice. which carried with it a
lot of cornice work, fell from the top of a house
i Pennsylvania avenue and buried him on
the sidewalk. He was released in an unoon-
sdou* condition and removed to a neighborlyx
drug store, where ho was attended by a phvsi-
eiati. He received n number of uqvere imitate
and two severe sea Ip wounds, from which he
lost a good deal of blood. He came to Phihi-
, deiphla. nnd notwitstauding his Injuries- heian
may be said to be a waU by wire. j |^ c n n ,^f t cracnt at the WaGut SWuet Thc; ‘ ,re
Boston icsthettcs wear mustard plasters
bseeu.se thev are oi nn old gold color.
Of the 30,000 boys who visit, saloons in
Chicago 1 -,r->o arc members of .Sunday-.' chooto.
A AVkstkkn editor is reported to have
died worth tw■-uly-fljA dollar*. We-tern edi
tors must have splendid salaries.
At Genoa all dead bodies may now ba
legally burned instead of buried. The crema
tory furnaces are In full wording order.
About 80,000 acres of land between
Jaffa and Jerusalem have been soewad on
which to form a colony for the ix-rsocuted Jews
of Kuropc.
Miss Kinlin of Chicago recently mar
ried n man named Vood. The nyuringe no*
tiee was head.sl “Klnlln-Wood. Little chips
wilt bo picked up shortly.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says them aro
slDOhio statesmen rorln* about wit h Presiden
tial lighting rods in their lints. Lightning doc*
not again strike in Ohio. Sure.
The latest phase is Parisian suiddoLsto
shoot yourself In n hack. It is apt to damaga
tho linings but enables the snicide to lie
promptly conveyed to tho morgue.
Trojans who went to New Orleans to
sec Paddy Ryan whip Sullivan telegraph that
tho walking home to very good. Their mes-
cagea were all marked "collect on the envel
ope.
An Indiana evangelist ask3 : “Can a
Democrat get to heaven 7” We hasten to my
that ho can—it ho has tho handliug of the j;-
turns.—Boston Transcript.
The Weekly Telegraph and Mes-
sknoe* contains the latest market rejiorts, and
latest telegraphic news. Published every Fri
day. Sena for sample copy.
'Ate Christmas Eve service in Uvarre,
in Spain, a pack of wolves entered the church,
and did not quit it until they had killed threo
and seriously wounded five of the congrega
tion.
The Supreme Court of Louisiana has
pronounced illegal on constitutional grounds
every conviction had in the New Orleans crim
inal Courts since the adoption of the constitution
of 1879.
A $1,200 clerkship In tbe War Depart
ment was vacated by death tlie other day, and
It was filled thirty minutes after tlie cleric
breathed his last. There isn’t a touch of civil
ity, even, about that.
The salvation army of Lordon has en
gaged a hall capable of scating3,ooopeople, and
gives out as an Inducement to reform, that all
thieve*, drunkards and convicts converted by
tho army will be exhibited on the platform as
trophies.
An. ebony framed stained glass fire
screen 5 feet high and 13 wide, has been pre
sented Grandma Garfield by Ohio ladle* resi
dent in Washington. A portrait of Garfield is
among tho embellishments which, are hand
painted and then burned.
The Richmond Whig says wben tho
bills now pending In thc_Virginia Legislature
to reorganize the university, tlie military Insti
tute, and the deaf, dumb, blind, and insane
asylums become laws there will be quite a
number of “vacant chairs.”
The report of tbe Roman board of sta-
istirs shows that on the night of the 3t>t of Dc*
1881, the population of Rome and her
numbered 167.327 males, and 132,965 fe
males—a total of mjM souls. The Increase of
population in the last ten years has lieen 52,-
416.
Bartholdi’s colossal statue of Liberty
Lighting the World, which to designed to stand
as a lighthouse at the entrance to New York
harbor, to completed, bnt it to not to be deliver
ed until a pedestal satisfactory to tin* French
committee nos lieen erected. The money to
lmlld tills pedestal is not forthcoming, and
thus the big boiler-iron Liberty has, so to speak,
no place for the sole of her foot.
APABTYofvcgetariaus who were board
ing at a water-cure establishment, while biking
a walk In the fields^ were attacked by a bull,
which chased them fnrioudy out ot his pas
ture. "That's your gratitude, to it, yon great
hateful thing,’' exclaimed one of the ladies,
panting with fright and fatigue. “After this,
I’ll catbeef three times a day!”—JV. (), Pica-
rune.
Whenever tbe eighth son Is born Into
a Belgian family it to the custom for the King
to stand goiUithcr. A town-councillor, upon
the recent tffl«arauec of hto eighth hopeful,
applied for an extension of the favor in his own
ease, and the King not only consented, bnt
sent to his little godson a silver cup. napkin-
ring. spoon and fork, egg-cup and spoon, diver-
rattle, with pearl handle, and a silver whistle.
A charming woman, who is a bit close
about money, without at all suspecting herself
of that fault, received the New Year’s greeting
of her daughter. “Ah, my darling,” -nil she-
“when you look for your gifts you will find I
luive not forgotten you?’ “Dear mamma.’*
“Yes; lost year, you know. I gave you the lovely •
~ wn you wnnted so much: this ]
,ve the money to pay for it.”
After having successfully inlrodhe
trout and perch Into tho waters of Now
Wales, the Zoological Society of that cbonj
recent!/ renewed its efforts witix mlasg(|
applied to tbe |bk eeauuarion Zsk
States for eggs, and two boxes. roritsS
ouo, were toon forwarded. Th u
been safely deposited in the lmt. hlrifr*
Bowenfeto, after great i-are nnd trouble.
There are rumors in London
diary which Lord Bcaconsficld kept is
to lie Issued in book form, but verv
is definite about the work can be teamed,
known, however, to be a fact that at
diaries which he kept in his youth n
totence. Roth were given r.wny by tl„ .....
in his lifetime, so that the executor* have]
control over them. Ono of them relate* t
Journey which young Disraeli made lu the F
with his friend. Mr. Flav.
Under a law which went mlo
tion at the beginning'! tb^ncesent year Ate I
male sex in Switzerland has be
right of beeomin
erto a woman in
majority in the e,
what her age she
ship. This gallant
abolished, bin it is _
men of Switzerland will <
one any quicker than ti
country.
A dispatch from St. Joints, Me
land, recites a painful story of the peril!
wintry sea. Nino epeu boats, manned 1
titty men, caught at sea in a Midden
weather, were Imprisoned in a vast field
ieo, ana though by extraordinary ex
seven escaped, two, with ttuircrew-. we
ried away, such an Incident occurring/
Newfoundland coast will Aviva lie- v,
the great journey of t'nc Jeam.c tie'* Is
Arctic Ocean from the New Siberian )
the mouth of tlie Lena River.
The charters of nearly
national banks expire in a yq
hundred expire within two yefcn. T
Congress is called upon to meet the qi
and there Is only one way to do It. I’i
should Ik* made for the renew a! of tin - clmrtei
tlie taxation upon bank- should v- r. dui'<s*.
and every possiblea*iiuoniii< wh’i tittiecaj^-’
bilitv oi ihc law should l.c ■ to kc
national banks out of politicsaiu! out of alii
tertmoce with national legislation. Our cur
rency is the 1*01 that is (unii hcl by. any gov
ernment of tlie world to i»- people, and tho
wise wav is to let well enough alone.
There was a ball iu Elli.tt county)
Ky., and it hod been given out that nobody
from Rowan county would bo permitted to
dance. Nickcll, a young bully from llowan,
entered the hall with some Comrades, nml took
entire control of the affair, not only 'lancing
him-ci: with the Elliott cirt- pr, ',ruling
any Elliott fellows from golngten the tl*»or. In
till
reel.
hu emergency the best j'Ugiil.-t lu Elliott war
in fried I y sent. for. Hi- name V.[ - Tolliver,
on me wills alacrity, and Uc “
ace svith n partner in r. Virgin
pccti-d fight lsolween the du
ooo at once. Rut It wm- not a
th fist- alone. Both used pi
t« killed and Tolliver wounded
A practical educator, writing to lhe
hit
Tho
ropiona took
ii nn ounler
•I . Nickel!
trie'
». mswi “I
tlUttnf old
4ve one o£
tom of the
iit<> an<] two
Hu* liiMrfe.
it pausing a
»!<• the j*uro
.Mil* of the
• iKVCWifllUr
a—eight tn.
or less extent*
ri'.iir iht* entire
x-hnlar taking
•J' t*y by 15,
u:.iv»l while a
-Wit England Journal of Educal
know of no better mode of v
buiMing*. than the simple, inexp
fitting a lx*i#d tightly aor«»*s the
b -v. some eight or ten indie:
iree inehe* irom the sadi. <
lower sxush is then raided wit
Untight of air upon the M-hol.rr*.
iteriutr at the bottom and
r. I nave seen thi
cry window of a sd
all—thus mim'd, to a gieater
hrough every session, nnd du
winter season, without a single
»M therefrom. The room wu**
id the last ventilated^ ever i
bool was tn session.”
At l*st a young man who thought it was
not loaded has l>een convinced by the verdict
of u jury that it hi not the proper thing to point
a gun at another person, even if the individual
I "Muted sit happens to be his own sweetheart.
John H. Wolfe, of New Jersey, who p!umt>e<(
ubout two hundred birdshot into MUs Melinda
Jacobus some months ago, was ye-vnluy found
guilty of assault and battery, nnd although the-
rlndiiig was only as severe as might have re
sulted from the theft of a single it implies
a possible sentence of two year* in the btato
prison and a fine of ftve hundred dot lure. Mr,
Wolf© and hi« frlenda insist that he loved the
lady, while the young woman's friends am
equally p«*uti vc that no sane man would attempt
to pr.ve his affection by peppering bb lady
with ^ol t lead. There can be no doubt U»at tha
fri da o the shotladen damsel w rightr but.
on h • oth'jr baud, no lover cm Iks considered
edtlrol v sane, and the jury,.femfru? been tbert
themsciveOfftTtftfce accused the fcatofU of tha
doubt.
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