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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1882.
JhKav Youxo has stopped nn effort at
mpaffiatlo* 1“ Miunosot*. -Virginia
bo included in Judgo Young’s cir-
fx is too late now, bnt tho government
«cs&l to bnvo levied a heavier duty on the
■M{lUh sparrows. This country needs
jeo'rction from the sparrow.
A liifiSAcirosKrrs revivalist says that
•^ki; ladies who dance will, sooner or
eter, dance in hell.” And still tho Boston
Mtos cry “On with the dance.”
Tx» Mormon missionaries have struck
Che i ogro in Union county, Tennessee,
—A lodge Lynch threatens to divide the
wrieite and black Mormon with a rope or
Btwhile.
Inn English sparrow has been outlawed
» m intolerable nuisance in Chattanooga,
Tfeanoesee, and tho small boy with his sbot-
gtu L distributing number sis shot indis-
acizni irately.
Tas: Em per sr of Japan has i.isred an ad*
Areas to the army telling the soldiers not
la mod die with politics. The Emporor of
Japa i is the proper person to bo President
of the United States.
G*». Ana Bmroan, of Kcntnoky, has quit
the broad quarter stretch and walks in tho
marrow church aisle, bat “he still thinks
that racing can bo carriod on legitimately
and not inconsistent with moral or relig?
iocs principles.”
Csivaci Isaiah Iiv.smuts has been brow
ing pDilgr. for a New York Democratic
okib, in a bowl that once belonged to “Old
Hickory.” Tho grog was stiff, no donbt
mod Mr. Stephens should have been pre
sented ftitb a glass on his birthday.
Ktctr Yolk World: Dr. Felton, the “in-
dterwudent” leader of Georgia, after bis
asoginary movement has been caricatured,
sow tries to formulate it by mnkinga cause
ant of a craze. Bat thus far bo has tut-
nuix-.-J no sufficient reason for bis being.
Masaachubiiis railrotds are being pro
vided with wrecking implements. General
Aksxuder and frionds have provided tho
Oeoigia Central with tho same imple
ments, bat the Gcnoral and his array and
don’t seem to be happy over tho
8o aims a paper cs the Now York Trib
al* *47* that there ought to be no tronble
in pcniuading Congress to repeal the pen
al cm arrears bill, and that it ot^- Uf do be
political death of any man _
to perpetuate a swindlo of each mammoth
dissensions.
AKawYoBE woman stood by her front
door until a drunken ruffian kicked
down. Then she receives him on the bnsi-
BUii end of an o'd faslroned carving knife.
Tins carving knife was ndt injured, but tho
nfian has been sent to Roosevelt hospital
tot extensive repairs.
A Wisconsin- poet lias taken a patent office
ease ns a theme for his muse. In two hun-
dmd and four stanzas of eight lines eapb
ha tolls the story of an infringement of
meter proeess of oil inspection. And
Otelambus, Georgia poet has tnnedSiiA
mcee to tho shelves of the publio library.
■. B.—This last was not Matt O’Brien.
Dnrworr, Michig£, is in a bad way. The
Most, of that village, declares that a good
chief of police would be worth $200,C:
sad adds: Detroit needs a chief of police
who '•’HI rid the city of abortionists, assig-
*at‘ houses, gjmbling houses, Drs. Hol-
ly J, Mrs. Schneiders, Bob MoKinnoys,
Sophia Lyons and all that tribe.
Oil. Mascellus E. Thobston occasion
ally mounts tho tripod when his imported
aditor is overat Weinn'Oister’s laying in his
beans and beer. His latest effort W03 an
faslmiaiion that wo sometimes gathered
fc*H>ir»uon from the Washington specials
of lies Post-Appocl. We never take “inspi
ration” of any kind sooond-handed. Tho
Wsalungtoc specials of the Post-Appeal are
familiar to ns, in the cclnmns of the Wash
Iwcton dailies, from twenty-fonr to forty-
eight hoars before they reach ns in the
XkA
Civil servioa examinations aro in vogue
ia the Interior Department at Washington.
For instance, the man who3S dnty it will bo
to wait on a sub-official is actually asked
about the transit of Venus and the right of
the government to permit railroads to pass
through the Indian reservations. If in re
ply to the question “What is the present
cocJiiten of tho Indians?” he answers
■“Vary impecunious,” he is called very im
. pertinent; and if ho romarks when oskod
why ere tho wavos higher in the Straits of
Dover than in contiguous waters, “What in
tho devil has that to do with being appoint
ed a messenger?” he i3 told to stand aside.
Cans aw predicts the failure of the Re*
publican-independent coalition in Georgia
in tho following paragraph: “Onr nation
cannot longer bo saved from a Bourbon
restoration by any narrow, hido-bonnd,
close-communion policy. If the enemies
of progress bt the Sonth insist upon seven
teen years more of that straight Repnbli-
cscii-Tt which means only the Federal
offices in exchange for national delegates
and no serious efforts to carry elections
ontcide of for_r or five Congressional dis
tricts, and it tho North does not give them
a strong rebuff and its enrnrst support to
the mom unselfish Republicans and tbe In*
dspoudenta, then we may well despair of
the requisite nnmber of electoral votes in
18M, and may also expect to lose tho next
Houao of Representatives.”
Tkm Now York Timergoes for tha speech
of Ingalls on the arrearages of pensions
bill as fo'lows : “The eloquent gentleman
ttom Kaiisa; apparently forgot to deal with
one vsiy important defect of his bill—its
entim failure to furnish the government
ade.;u.to means of ohecking fraud in the
cUiiu - submitted under the act. In fact,
t-'ic hi:! was chiefly remarkable for break-
teg down existing safeguards against bogus
cUim-s, and those intrusted with its execu-
t on hat o pointed oat time and again how
wet. cumulated it is to drain the treasury
for tbe benefit of beats, bummers, and
claim vents. The demoralizing effect of
tin* monstrous piece of legislative inapti-
li.-i -...I! bo an interesting, though hardly
WBy oboorful, study for the investigators
oi the , jcial probleias of the last quarter
Of ti.s Century.
Ml*,. - mi lias not enjoyed a great represen-
tativo , .noe the death of Tom Benton. The
Beari.»t ai-pnwBto it is Senator Vest, who
is cout.-igeoas^oright and eloquent. But
•"feat was waspishness in the little rad-
baadod giant seems to have simmered
down into gush. His effort on the arrear
ages of pensions bill bad as little banquet
and body as the champagne punch at a
ebarab fair. But no amount of eloquence
or argument upon the part of Senator Vest
o/bis oolleagues cm give a svfeet savor to
that abominable steal. It was gotten up
os an Onie idee, and like all Ohio ideas, it
nchca that State m ire intensely Republi-
cin vl.:.u over before. The claim agents
and fty ter* get tits money, and the s < in-
Uliid and disgusted soldiers vote the Repab-
Ueou ticket. Vest js vipa de of good,
Otrang. intelligent Work, and is the equal of
any St - tor on tha Republtean tide in de-
mtt Ho should rely open the exercise of
V»«*i qualities to ratarn him to tbe Senate.
Protection and the Farmer.
Colonel Lewis, of th3 Iahmaelite, aud
Colonel Shivers, of the Clipper, have
found time, even In the midst of the con
fusion attending the debut of the several
new political parties, to have a journalis
tic set to over tho tariff question. Both of
the papers referred to are welcome visitors
to this office, and are conducted with
marked ability and judgment. The
Teleoraph, since there is no bitterness in
the discussion which is going on, is glad
to see journals ol such influence awaken
ing to the importance of the subject, well
knowing tbatout of contention coine3
truth, and truth is what the people ot
Georgia need to-day, especially concern
ing the tariff. Wo are not entirely famil
iar, however, with the gist of the
controversy between Editors Lewis and
Shivers. All we can understand of it, Is
that each claims to have argued the other
into positions just the reverse of those
first taken, but what these positions
are it is difficult to define,
since the discussion has reached
that point denominated by the Hardshell
fraternity os slxteenthly. Still, if neither
gentleman Is mistaken, they have both
gained signal victories, and, as a matter
of professional courtesy, wo feel justified
in extending our immediate congratula
tions. It Is not our intention to chime in
at this late hour and take sides upon the
issues formed, for the simple reason that
the “first editorial which initiated the dis
cussion” is not available, and besides it
would be bardly fair to draw a six-sbootcr
on a man who has just discharged the load
from Ills single-barrel. Another reason is
the gentlemen have been dealing largely
with Dan Voorhccs and Alex. Stephens,
aud have placed them where we cannot
at this moment lay our hands upon them.
Our fiist intention was to drop in and help
reassort the parties, and suggest that for
appearance sake, Lewis go up and run the
Clipper awhile and let Shivers take charge
of tho Iahmaelite, if, as the gentlemen
seem to think, they have run each other to
opposite sides but the Voorhecs-Stephens
element interferes with even this mild
plan. If we are right in our diagnosis,
Col. Shivers reached over the edge of his
high tariff platform, and boldly seizing
Stephens, Voorliecs and Lewis by their
forelocks, yanked them squarely into the
middle of the structure and attempted to
sit on them until the umpire could pro
nounce the benediction. Col. Lewis,
charging Uiisi— j, ‘"«-DoUited remarks,as-
S^rU-'rrtyrtb & t this coul^ji^ gtop-and-go-
fetcli-u7aM‘fi , Srauts to bet that ths marked
■skill of his adversary was an accident.
However, we digress. Lewis succeeded
in wriggling back over tbe edge of the
platform, dragging with him Dan Yoor-
hees, retaining a plucky grip ou the
threadbare section of Alex’s Georgia jeans,
and refusing Alex tbe common courtesy
of being allowed to tighten his galluses.
This is tho situation at present, and both
gentlemen tire calling foc-“judgment.”
We may bs mistaken in this, but it is
not our intention to do an injustice. We
have had to depend on a bird’s-eye view
of the affair, and a pair of fists for tele-
In the leading manufacturing county, j oratory, and
Middlesex, the average value of the 10,-, cessors have
134 J acres of cultivated lands outside the | this respect
cities is $0S.03. The average value of son
none of bis suc-
approached him in
until James Jack-
became the head of the court.
3,0SSf acres of market gardens is
$283 per acre.” The question naturally
arises, why is tbe. poor “granitic soil”
When a young man, a member of Con
gress from Georgia, Judge Jackson deliv
ered an eulogy upon Thomas J. Rii$k t
and that is, it is clearly the duty of the
Telegraph to refuse to allow Stephens
and Shivers to be dragged off our own
platform, and If Col. Lewis will pardon
our addressing him while he is somewhat
out of breath, we will take the occasion to
speak.
Aside from aii that has gone before, we
note that he asks tho following question:
“Docs the government protect the men
that raise cotton aud wheat against tbe
pauper labor of Europe, Asia and Africa ?"
aud answers it calmly, and tbusly: “ The
high tarlffitcs have never contended that
it should.” The ardor of our contemporary
has led him into a rash statement; in fact
to a point in the undeibrusli from which
he will find it hard to discover any way
out, other than the back track. Precisely
what the “high tariffites” claim for their
policy is that it protects the men who raise
wheat and cotton from the pauper labor
of all the world. And not only growers
of wheat aud cotton, but growers of every
thing else that goes to market. The farm
ing country that sells its products of the
soil to pauper labor, is the victim of pau
per labor; the country that sells Us pro
ducts of the soil to a protected labor, is the
beneficiary of protection. Against these
two propositions the Iahmaelite may hurl
every reasoning of its active brain depart
ment, and every metaphor of its brilliant
fancy. We have no fears for
the result. Fortified by common
sense, and garrisoned by an army of
statistics, they are invincible. They are
as easily illustrated as defended. For
convenience, we will bring up home facts.
The average price of farming land in
Hancock county is, we will say, $10—a
high estimate. There is not, we believe,
a single manufactory of importance in the
county. The population is divided into
those who produce from land planting,
tho3e who act as purchasing agents, those
who act as selling agents, and tbe profes
sionals who regulate legal rights and look
after the people’s moral and physical
health. Tho main classes, however, are
tho land planters and tho agents. Land
is nothing more Ilian capital, and, like all
other capital, is profitable only to tho
extent it can be made to produce a rove
one. For farming land to produce a rev
enue, there must be a market for its
products, and thb nearer it be to a mar
ket, the more profitable the land. Tho
county now labors under two fatal dis
advantages. It has to pay agents to pur
chase its necessaries, and pay other agents
to sell its products. The market for its
great staple is in New York, the market
in which it purchases its food is in the
West, and the Iahmaelite, through a mis
taken course, would locate the market in
which it purchases its clothing and artl-
oies of use in Europe.
Outside of cotton and grain, wliat does
Hancock grow that can be converted?
Nothing. There is no sure market for
anything else. Hence, its rich lands are
held at $10 per acre, and considered high
at that. The Iahmaelite knows this to
be true. In the issue before us is this
paragraph :
The man wlio doesn’t know That the present
distress In Georgia Is duo to the all-cotton
mania, and not to Democratic rule. Is an nn-
mitigated ass.
But Colonel Lewis might have gone fur-
tber and said the all cotton mania is nec
essary because it U the only product the
people can realize on without trouble. So
much for Hancock, which Is but an ex
ample of the common system. Let us ex
amine another section of tbe country.
The. State of Massachusetts—perhaps the
best type of a manufacturing State—well
illustrates how manufactures may be con
ducive to a prosperous agriculture, even
upon poor granitic soils. In that State
according to tbe State census of 1873, tho
average value of the 44,540 farms is $4,100.
of Massachusetts worth ten times m much, Senator freffi sod a Gsorgtan by
as tbe rich lands of Hancock. The an- birth, wbo bad died shortly before under
swer is plain. By reason of manufac
tures, there is a population and a demand
for farm products close at band in Middle
sex county, and a purchasing power made
large by the protective tariff. In Han
cock there is neither. Middlesex county
is the beneficiary now of a protective tar
iff. Remove the tariff, force her manufac
tories into competition with the pauper
labor of the world, reduce wages fifty per
cent., aud the land now wortU $08 per
acre will dwindle in value until its pro
ducts reach the level of the purchasing
power.
But why, asks our contemporary, when
we have had the tariff twenty years, is
our land worth $7 only ? The answer to
that is simple also. The Telegraph
has once before pointed out that practical
ly the war has only been ended five years,
aud confidence restored between the South
and that section from which must come
the capital to develop our industries, cre
ate a demand for farm products and there
by lead tho farmer to diversify his crops.
This capital is flowing southward in vast
streams. We see it in our railroads, fac
tories, mines, furnaces and mills to-day,
and around every one of these enterprises
we see land increased in value, good mar
kets for every product of the soil, aud
thriving communities. It will come to
Hancock also, in time. If tbe Iahmaelite
wiirbury its free trade notions and direct
the flow, it will come soon. It will
start the wheels of Sparta’s factory, fill
her tenement houses, open up the market
for the products of those lands amid which
some of the brightest minds of Georgia
have broadened and deepened, and start
old Hancock upward toward tho olden
prosperity. We want no quarrels on this
issue. We have no other object than the
prosperity of this, our common country.
We would not tear down Massachusetts
to build up Georgia. The policy that is
not suited for every section, we’ll have
none of. But it is so plain that some of
our most conscientious men are opposing
the State’s and the people’s progress, that
we scarcely know how to deal with them.
If our contemporary, and we speak earn
estly the advice, will state the
advantages of his county for
investments, will point out the now silent
mill ready for work, will show how the
rich counties roundabout can support a
dozen such without charging freight on a
bale of cotton delivered, will tell the peo
ple everywhere that balmier airs, brighter
skies and kinder people never existed—it
will be a grand day for Hancock and the
Inmaelite. Let him Introspect his freo
trade policy and see if it be net an inher
itance rather than an adoption, cast
aside, and take this text, “ Manufacturing
industries cause a diversification of farm
products by creating a demand.and sup-
A Word lor tbe Art Exhibition
Several years since there came from a
small village in Massachusetts to a Now
England college, a youth not fond of his
books, but deft with his pencil and possess
ed ot a talent for caricature. As may bo
guessed, he soon became a favorite with
his classmates, but did not claim the kind
consideration of the faculty. In a freak
peculiarly painful circumstances, which | of thoughtlessness common to boys of his
will compare with anything of the kind a S e i hc drew * n< * Panted a wonderful
in the English tongue. A^e does net seem likeness of the face and hoad of the profess-
Jokn S3. Preston, of South Carolina,
took the poor, unknown, struggling Hiram
Powers by the band and gave him money
to complete his art studies, aud Hiram
Powers gave to his benefactor and the
world a piece of sculpture that dug from
the depths of ages the cunning of tho
chisel of Praxiteles.
f.ot Macon give to young Georgian^ n
PERSONAL.
scopes. One thing is apparent, however., flying a purchasing power, and every
thing that protects manufactories protects
farmers.” Each industry depends for its
life upon the other; neither can thrive
apart.
Few men in the House of Representa
tives can surpass our friend Floyd King,
in the number and variety of the bills he
introduces to tap the public cash box.
He is very solid in tbe desire to see ap
propriations coming southward, and nev-
erloses an opportunity to guide the appro
priations in that direction. Here are his
latest efforts, as taken from a Washing
ton journal:
Representative King, of Louisiana, introduc
ed a bill to-day appropriating >, 5,000 to be ex
pended by the Department ot Agriculture lii
Investigating the origin and spread of charbon
in animals.
Mr. King, of Louisiana, offered a bill appro
priating *10,000 to enable the Commissioner of
Agriculture to investigate the origin and spread
of cocoa grass in the United States.
Upon the first reading we were some
what alarmed at the information that
charbon wa3 spreading in animals and
cocoa grass was spreading in the land. The
suggestion came at once that If the grass
could only spread itself in the animals, it
might be immediately belter for tbe ani
mals and subsequently belter for the land
Charbon ii a dark spot in the tooth of a
horse indicating decay. The process of
decay would certainly be hastened by the
crunohing of Western com, while it might
be arrested by the chewing of cocoa grass,
The troublo with the South Is the
scarcity of grass. It takes a large per
centageol her cotton crop to purchase
Northern grass when cured into hay. If
the cocoa grass will fill a loag desired
want, and at the same time will stuff the
paunches of our horses and plug the cavi
ties in their teeth made by charbon, then
we do not care to know where it comes
from or how fast and far it may spread,
The Vicissitudes of Public Life.
That - times change and men change
with them, is almost daily illustrated in
tho lives of those who seek the ways of
public lifa, and appeal to the applause and
support of their fellow-men. Tbe great
preacher of to-day, who has built up a
strong congregation and whose persuasive
tongue has dragged sinners from their
downward course, may find himself sup
planted to-morrow by a younger and
more popular favorite, while he is com
pelled to seek other stations from which
to dispense the bread of life. The actor
who could once charm thousands with his
mimic art and fill his coffers with the
same ease that houses were filled with ad
miring audiences, nas to give place to ri
vals of less genius and cultivation per
haps, when the public taste desires
and demands something startling or novel,
The politician is ever banging on the per
ilous edge of change. No matter what
may be tbe standard ef his courage, hon
esty or capacity, a popular election is just
as apt to lower his hopes and ambition as
to carry him farther forward in the race
for honor and distinction. Tbe constant
changes taking place in the times, are fol
lowed rapidly by chauges in tbe opinions
of men. The vicissitudes thus created
are strange and striking, aud but that we
have become familiar with them from
daily contact, mignt seem to us to reach
aimost beyond tbe borders of reality into
the land of romance.
Some years since when Chief Justice
Lumpkin, from the bench, pronounced an
eulogy of great beauty and pathos upon
Bolivar Hall, a brilliant yonug attorney
who bad recently died at tbe threshold of
a promising career, a member of the bar
remarked that “it would almost be a
pieasure to .1 i <• i n the knowledge that J udge
Lumpkin would pronounce bis funeral
oration.” No man of Georgia could excel
Judge Lumpkin in that branch of |
to have withered his powers in this re
spect, for but a few days since he paid a
tribute to the life and character of Judge
Warner, which may well take a place in
the Georgia Reports beside the funeral ef
forts of Judge Lumpkin.
Tbe present position of Chief Justice
Jackson is an apt illustration of the vicis
situdes of public life. In the year 1845,
George W. Craufhrd, then Governor
of Georgia, strongly recommended the
General Assembly ot tbe State to estab
lish a Supreme Court for the correction
of errors. The Legislature was composed
of strong, able and earnest men, many of
whom have since been distinguished in
the seryice of Georgia. Absalom H.
Cbappell was president of the Senate and
Charles J. Jenkins Speaker of the House,
and among the members of the latter
body was James Jackson, a mem
ber from the county of Walton.
It was in the dayo of high par
tisan feeling, and the establishment or a
Supreme Court became something of a
party measure and was hotly debated
and fiercely fougbt. It passed tho Senate
by a majority of eleven and was sent to
the House for action. James Jackson led
the assault upon it, supported by
Judge Kenan,and was opposed by JobnE.
Ward and Mr. Jenkins, who left the chair
to take prominent part in the struggle.
By amendment to every section, aud by
the use of every parliamentary device,
James Jackson fought the bill until un
der the call of the previous question,
which cut off a proposed amendment by
Jackson t* submit tbo bill to ratification
by a popular vote, it was finally passed.
All Georgians are familiar with tho re
sult. The bench was composed of Lumpkin,
Nisbet and Warner, the Whigs taking two
judges and the Democrats one, aud this tac
it agreement was acknowledged aud carried
out so long os the division of parties last*
ed It was not strange that Mr. Jenkins
should have risen to the occupancy of a
seat on tbe bench of the Supreme Court,
or that Martin J. Crawford, a member of
tbe Legislature and a supporter of the
bill, should nave been similarly honored.
But who would then have predicted that
the young member from Walton, who dis
played his powers of eloquence and par
liamentary fiuesse in opposition, woq Id
live to preside over a tribunal whose es
tablishment he opposed as unnecessary,
unwise and dangerous?
Out of tho fierce party conflict ujas
eliminated a court, that has done sigi al
honor to the State and has proved an u-
estimable blessing to the citizens of Gc ir-
gla. Indeed, standing in the light wb cb
beams down upon 03 now, it is aim >st
impossible to conceive how party sp rlt
should have been aroused to i p-
pose a measure so neces
ry and important, and I lie
grant for which had -been given in I lie
constitution of 1708. But if party spi it
opposed but could not defeat tbe bill or
a court, it still accomplished someth tg
further for tho court itself. It made it
incumbent upon cither party to have ts
ablest aud best representative ou tie
bench, and thus it was that Hiram W ir-
ncr was made the colleague as ho was
the peer os a lawyer aud man of Lumpljln
and Nesbit.
Tbe court aud its judges are yet orim
to the vicissitudes, one of which we hdve
briefly sketched. In the near coming fu
ture perhaps, the old rule may bo In
voked, that the party In power shall in
the majority of judges.
We can only hope that in the com:
division of sentiment, even among Geor
gians, no vicissitude so unhappy may de
rail, but that each side may be prepaid
with men of such learning and integrity
forjudges, as shall cast no shadow upon
the bright record of a tribunal born ansid
the throes of a partisan contest.
Tins city is linked to the village in wliicli
Garfield diod in tho following way: A
ywmg Macon man named Lewis B. Brown,
who once clerked for W. H. Birdsong, went
to New York, became very wealthy and
bought tho land where the village refemd
to is located. He built a fine cottage for
himself aud one for Grant, and got tbe
settlement well advertised. In honor of
its founder it was given a name that em
braced the sounds in his own ; thus, L. B.
Brown becarno Elbcron. Mr. Brown is
still living in New York. He is tf distant
relative ot Mr. Asher Ayres, of Macon.
Tne color line is causing the usual tron
ble in tho Maryville College, near Knox
ville, Tenn. Thsre are a n umber of color
ed students in the college, and one of them
recently applied for membership in one
of the literary eocieliss connected with the
college, and was promptly rejected. Two
members who voted for the negro were
immediately expoiled from the society.
Anticipating trouble with the faculty, the
society vacated their hall in the oollege
building, and rented a room in Maryville,
to which thoy movod their furniture. VVhile
engaged in moving, they were ordered hy
the faculty to desist, but' disregarded tho
ordors. Yesterday morning twenty-five
members of tbe socioty were suspended by
the faculty, farther trouble is expected,
and many students aro leaving,
To such Georgians as from sore heads or
impatient ambition propose to join tbe
new Republican independent coalition, wo
command the following, ad iressed by Ar
thur's Washington organ to Southern Re.
publicans: “Beware the leaven of j ths
Pharisees. Your party cannot live without
growth. Do not fear to fellowship witb
your enemy’s foes. Do not fail to rebuke
any who narrowly repel recruits. The
Bourbon Democracy never forgives any
body for desertion. When you find a rebel
against Bourbon authority you have found
an ally.”
or of belles leltres, who was a man as
odd in appearance as In character. Hang
ing it in a conspicuous place it soon
attracted the attention of tho pro
fessor who had been for years the
United States representative at Rome,
and was a lover and a connoisseur of art.
In place of taking tho offending youth
to the faculty to be rusticated or expelled,
the kind-hearted aud appreciative pro
fessor sent for him and said: “You have
no love for your books, but you have a
strong native talent for art. I will in
terest myself with moneyed friends, aud
have you seat to Italy to bo educated as
a painter.” The offer was accepted, the
poor boy from an obscure village became
celebrated with his brush, and.found
fame, fortune and friends. Tbe reader,
perhaps, has already seen tho moral to
which we aro leading up.
In the South there are many boys and
girls, too, the equal iu natural taste and
talent of the Yankee youth to whom we
havo referred. There are no good, kind
professors to send them to Europe, or
even to New York; but if they had the
encouragement and opportunity they
would become artists, and would learn
how to earn a comfortable living while
contributing *to tho pleasure of others,
aud to the honor of the section of their
birth.
In our schools and colleges, to which
only a few comparatively can go, art is
taught only iu a fragmentary and desul
tory way, and the results are consequently
few and unsatisfactory.
Tho originators of the Art Exhibition
to bo held in our city were impelled by a
desire to awaken interest upon this inter
esting and important subject. They
hoped to inaugurate a movement which
would open up new avenues of industrial
calling to our boys and girls, and to de
velop talents that arc now lying fallow for
the waut of the stimulus of opportunity
for cultivation. It is impossible in the
space allotted to a leader in a daily paper to
handle this subject iutelligoutly, not to
say thoroughly. Our object is merely to
suggest to our people that thoy do not let
this matter fail lor the want of interest
and support.
Anew and elegant opera house may
now be assumed as a fixed fact in the near
coming future. The enterprise and liber
ality of our citizens have been well illus
trated in tho rapidity with which this
scheme has been put beyond peradveu-
tiire. Now let them turn their attention
to tho Art Exhibition. There is no need
to be frightened at the name. It is not
intended that the art treasures of tho
world shall be concentrated for a season
in the city of Macon. Such a thing wero
cliauco to enter tbe tempting fields of art,
and in after years perhaps, the walls of
her homes may bloom with the creative
fancies of their pencils, and her bioad
avenues may he adorned with monu
ments to her taste and liberality chisel
ed from native marble by native and
grateful bauds.
Silk Culture
A short time since we took occasion to
invite the attention of the women and
children of Georgia to silk culture as a
new, clean and remunerative employ
ment.
Since that time tho Ladies’ Silk Grow
ing Association has held a highly inter
esting exhibition iu the city of Philadel
phia. From the Times, of that city, wo
take the following extract on tbo subject,
which may be read with interest:
There were twenty-stx competitors for the
premiums. Mn. Rebecca Taylor, of Kcnnet
Square, mother of Bayard Taylor, ctghty-two
years of age, was awarded the first prize of 8200.
Her cocoons counted 157 to the quarter-pound
and yielded one aud one-eighth ounces of silk,
two and seven-eighths ounces of waste. The
second premium of 8150 was awarded to Mrs.
U. Button, of Camden. She had 105 cocoons,
with a yield of one and seven thirty-two ounces
of silk and two twenty-five thirty-second eunces
of waste. Charles Krause, of tig Harbor, New
Jersey, received the third premium of 8100,
He lmd 157 cocoons, which yielded one and
one-sixteenth ounces of-silk to the quarter-
pound and two and fifteen-sixteenths ounces
of waste. The fourth premium of 850 was
awarded to Miss Lily Titus, of Camden, for 200
cocoons with a yield of one and one-eighth
ounces of silk and two and seven-eighths
ounces of waste. The Association premium of
$23 was awarded to Mrs. Joseph Leaning, of
Hridesburg. Miss Hannah Taylor, of Cam
bridge, X. J., took the 815 premium, and Mrs.
J. B. Kenner, of Pennsylvania, the 810 pre
mium.
Tho ladies of California arc also active
ly engaged in this honorable and useful
employment, and we trust their example
may be speedily aud profitably emu
lated in Georgia. There is an activo de
mand for the cocoons, ana for silk worm
eggs, aud the mulberry tree to feed the
worm upon may be raistd as rapidly and
easily as a crop of Irish potatoes. There
is no reason why silk should not shjw up
as one of the industrial resources of Geor
gia by thb coming fall.
BoMud to Attract,
Philadelphia Press (Pep.)
“Ills counsel and liLs-purse are open to ills
party,” says Mr. Wattersoti of Mr. Tilden. His
• Iff ...
purse! If that won't catch ’em nothing will.
Apply ft to the TarlfTtlaealion.
Washington Star.
The unanimity with which the English press
condemns the “Blaine policy” has altogether a
suspicious look. English interests in South
America render the British press very unsafe
advisers for the Uuited States.
Holding Mill Nose.
A'hent Watchman.
Wo admit that our Creator adorned our not
very handsome face with what is denominated
I a "mug nose ” But thank God we have too
much self respect aud independence to keep
our proboscis sneezing every time Mr. Speer
treasures ol tne galleries or isun pe cannot
A Washington dispatch says :A vote cast
against the Democrats in the Senate to-day
on the resolution to eleot Nell H. Brown
chief eletk of that body, is constrned by
some into an indication that Senator
Brown, of Georgia, was entering upon tbe
independent role. The fact is that Senator
Brown voted as he did in order to avoid
the precipitation of u deadlock, whioh
would have been inaugurate d by the Repub
licans had he voted with the Democrats.
The matter was not settled by to-day’s vote,
bnt will come np again, when Senator
Brown’s position will be o!earl> shown.
be brought here, nor will the finest pieces
of painting and statuary from the
private collections of our country be sent,
but a fine, large and intcrestiug exhibi
tion of art in all departments can be ob
tained easily and at trilling cost. A com
munication in our issue of Saturday
morning sets forth the fact in a very plain
and practical way. In the larger cities of
the North, exhibitions of this kind are
now in successful operation, and ou the
15th prox. one is to be inaugurated for
a run of thirty days in the city of New
Orleans. Shall the South, in this the day of
her grand opportunity, lag behind in tho
competition for all that is useful and
beautiful in life? Tho gentlemen who
have the opera house scheme in charge
will perhaps havo to send to the North
for a designer and an architect, for the
South is behind in architecture and archi
tects. The scene painter, the fresco
paiuter and the decorative artist will be
sought in the same direction. They ought
to be found right here.
The designs for the Christmas, birthday,
New Year and Easter cards, which wo
pesent to our families and friends are the
work of the amateur artists of tho North,
young men and young women, boys and
girls, who find compensation for their la
bor iu this way. Tho illuminated ad
vertising cards used by our merchants
come from thesamesource. Why should
not our boys and girls have the advan
tage of such an industry ?
All over the State girls from eight to
seventeen years of ago are strumming on
pianos, the most imperfect, if the most
popular of musical instruments. It is
safe to say that not one out oi an hundred
will become even an indifferent performer.
A tithe ol tbe money thus spent would of
itself furnish an Art Exhibition in Macon.
We cadbot have originals of the Greek
Slave, the Apollo Belvidero, the
Venus de Medici, or of the Immacu
late Conception, tha Last Supper or
many of what are known as tbe mas-
terpieceses of art. Millions of people
in this world have not, seen these, and
will not see them; but there are copies
almost as good as tho originals, and there
are thousands of pictures in oil and water
colors, and statues, that would find their
way to our exhibition if its doors were
once open. The Cotton Exposition at
Atlanta was international only in name.
It was essentially a Georgia show. In
spite of Its imported managers and offi
cers, it would have been a ridiculous
failure but that Georgia railroads carried
the people of Georgia to see it aud sus
tain it by their presenee and their money.
Art has grown with astonishing rapidity
in tho United States within the last few
years. The pictures of artist3 that once
sold for a song now command thousands
of dollars. The studios of Rome are
crowded with American students of att.
In the Corcoran gallery at Washington
numbers of young and ambitious men
and women may be dally seen copying the
treasures which hang on the walls. Aud
all of these are aliens to the South though
of a common brotherhood. This should
not be. The South has made her mark in
statesmanship, in war, in letters, in naval
architecture, and even in mechanics, but
she occupies an undistinguished place in
art—not for the need of talent, but for
tho want of opportunity for its. develop
ment. Will Macon pass this golden op-,
portunity over to the hands of other more
energetic and ambitious people ?
She may be justly said to be the repre
sentative city of Georgia. Her past Js J
full of glorious memories of which her
takes a bail cold.
Grant rot an Absorl*er. %
Air to Port Star, (Dent.)
The Tribune lias darcil to do tt. It has cou
pled Gen. Grant’s name with the Peruvian gu
ano schemes of Mulligan Blaine. The infant:
Grant really 1
there wou
now.
aestiou is clearly apparent: for liar I
llv been connected with that ring
ild hare been little left to quarrel over
Western Hensons for Thlnfclnir Sallf
van Would Win.
Chicago Tribune.
The betting on to-morrow’s prize fight is in
favor of Sullivan. This young man comes from
Boston, and it is believed that his suiicrtor cul
ture will enable him to engage Ryan’s attention
by some,interesting remarks on Tyndall's the
ory of atomic motion, und then slug him under
the ear when he isn’t looking.
Ko BnrnlnK Question.
ATew* and Courier.
There is no burning question in Georgia so
far, aud we do not expect that one will soon
arise. There will be commotion and churning
up. healthy attrition aud confiict of opinion,
which will pave the way for a re-arrangement
of iHirties, but there is no sign that cither the
Democratic or Republican party has any idea
of giving up the ghost, though it is quite likely
thnt persons now in one camp will wander into
the other.
Why Mo Cessed.
Peek’s Sun. '
A young man at Elkhard, Ind., has started
a six-eolmnn weekly pajicr, with tho avowed
object of “restoring to the republic its wonted
grandeur and prosperity.” You can’t do it,
young fellow. We trier! for six years to restore
the republic to its wonted cmndi
perity by publishing the ablest paper in'this
country anil taking turnips and slab wood on
subscription, and never hail money enough to
buy a dog; but of late j-ears we have let the
wonted grandeur of the republic shirk far It
self and January 1 we had over ., 6. ,
Mroklug Its Beard.
Times-Democrat
Altogether the Crescent City covered itself
with laurels. The visitors from distant parts
were os charmed as they were astonished. They
were prepared to sec the tiling done as is cus
tomary nt the North, where prize fights arc
gatherings for all tho thugs and hoodlums
witiiin a hundred miles, and where the bloodi
est outbreaks are imminent probabilities more
often realized than not. It was a matter of
universal comment that the New Orleans peo
ple not only behaved well und creditably them'
selves, but impressed others with the prudence
of adopting their example We think “the
boys” deservo formal compliment for this, and
wo herewith tender iu Gixal behavior, even
at a prize fight, is commendable, and we are
proud to know that upon an occasion so sug
gestive of violence, and under circumstances
where hoodlum instincts might so naturally
hare been indulged, our boys conducted them
selves with meekness that would have shed un
dying lustre on a Sunday-school.
BBBVITIICS
An apportionment bill, fixing the num
ber uf members at M<. is likely W lue* the
House.
A DORN Caihleri A devil-fish with arms
’iirtV-two foot lotig has been caught on the
bants of Newfoundland- What a cashier ho
would hive niadSi—liiiflib
—Gen. Elijah Ward died at Roslyii, L.
I., Tuesday morning.
—Roderick Outlaw, of Morgan county,
Ala., is ICO years old. j
—Jesse James, the cut-throat, is at
present tu Denver, resting from his labors, I
i ,^ hsrles for many years a J
' -a merehanl of New Orleans, La., is dead. J SHAKESPEARE modernized: The food
The affliction of M. Rouzaud, the ) die young. The 1>«.1 live t.. lie aixmt tho
aUstAnd Of Christine Nilsson, ts bruin iaral- I wentlier.aiui nry oi a.- tho ol.-ii-t inhuh-
j nams.—Aeie Orleans P cagune.
—Charley Hubbard, a ten-year-old son | New York improved bef aleigbing
ei * “* * Thursday, to the extent that 31,l» te6ms pass
of Gov. Hubbard, diodat Tvlcr, Texas, on tho
51st ult.
Iu Be Pension*.
Mobile Peg is ter.
No man North or South, or at least very few,
denies the responsibility resting upon the gen
eral government to care for those who fought
the battles of the Union, and who may be en
titled to pensions. We of the South, although
our own crippled and in many coses impover
ished veterans are forever debarred front gov
ernment relief, make no objection to bearing
our part of tbe burdens which the obligations
to the Union veterans entail. But we do ob
ject, and most decidedly, too, to being taxed
tor the support of btunmers and camp follow
ers, and ot frauds of every description. We do
not wish to assist in enriching claim agents,
pension lawyers aud a corrupt lobby. Tbe fact
Is notorious that a large proportion of the
claims against the government for pension ar
rears have been fraudulent, and no amount of
simulated interest lathe Union soldiers should
divert the attention of Congress from this fact
■Herman's Shin.
Washington Special to the American.
Pitney asked to be recalled, and when he ap-
r si red he stated he hail been informed that
pton and Lnmphere had contradicted his
testimony with regard to employes of the
treasury having done work for Secretary Sher
man, for which they were paid out of the con
tingent fund. He asked that a portion of tho
testimony of Upton and Lnmphere, referring
to his evidence, bo read to him. This was
done. It showed that Pitney had been cor
rectly informed, anil Upham and Lnmphere
had contradicted and had testified thnt no em
ployee of the treasury lmd ever been paid one
cent of the contingent fund for work done for
Sherman. Pitney then rcnllinncd his testi
mony, that they lmd done such work, and had
been paid for It out of that fund, and said lie
was prepared to prove it; and, also, to prove
that Secretary Sherman and Mrs. Sherman
knew that this work was being paid for.
Senator Hnlc sprang to tils feet, and, with
some show of Indignation, asked: “How dare
you charge that Mrs. Sherman knew this'."’
Pitney replied: “Bccaiiw I received notes
from her asking me to send men to do certain
work on different occasions, and I hare the
notes here now.” He then produced curtain
notes proven to have been written by Jits.
Sherman, and requesting that workmen be sent
to the a-i-taiH-e of tho Secretary. Pitney added
that he had received notes of the same kind
from Secretary Sherman, and also produced
them. Pitney then entered into tleiails with
regard to the work, and maintained that he
could prove by tho looks and records of the
| treasury thnt the work was paid for out of the
i contingent fond.
Paddt R tan's head is sore from'the at
tention of Prof. Sullivan's fist, but it is . .
comfortable as compared to the skulls of j people have a right to be proud. She can-
some budding statesmen wbo do not have ; afford to lower her crest in any e | _ Dr , Kenney has teen released from
theirboard, lodging and washing furnisjt- j that calls for tbe display or entefprue, vilmainham. Tobin, the Leeds Fenian, has
ed out of the publio funds. ' cultivation and liberality. j
—General Garibaldi, whose illness was
at one time alarming, is now thought to be
convalescent.
—Joint B. Gough’s health is now much
improved, and bo says he ts again ready to con
tinue his work.
—Speaker Keifer’s wife has more calls
on her reception day than any other lady In
Washington society.
—Dr. Boynton, one of Garfield’s physi
cians, is announced to remove to Kansas, where
he will go into the sheep business.
—Mr. L&rkin G. Mead, the well-known
American sculptor, has been made a professor
in the Florentine Academy of the Fine Arts.
—Cadet-Midshipman Cabinass, of the
United States steamer Swatara. was accidcnt-
nlly^hot and killed at Kabc, Japan, while at
—Tho Legislature of Mississippi has
passed and GoTemor Lowry has signed a hill
changing the name ol Sumner county to Web
ster.
—Mr. Andrew D. Hunt has. notified the
New York Stock Exchange that he was unable
to meet his engagements. He was short of
stocks.
—Mr. Jnstico Hunt has forwarded ids
resignation to the President under the bill for
its retirement. It was laid before the President
by Chief Justice Waite.
—The poet Stedman refuses to receive
tho Head Fool, who brings letters to him from
English friends, denouncing him as a pecu
niary adventurer and charlatan.
—M'"ss McGregor, of London, Ontario,
aged 10, and Mbs Thomas, of Syracuse, aged
25, both belonging to wealthy families, urc
causing great religious excitement in Leeds,
Ont., hy their preaching.
—The Empress Eugenio 13 at present
living in a small house within tho grounds of
Osborne, In the Isle of Wight, and is risltwh
ilnily by Queen Victoria, who lias proved a de
voted mend to the afflicted lady.
—Mrs. Blackmore, known in theatrical
circles as Eliza Newton, died Tuesday in Belle
vue Hospital, whither she had been taken for
treatmeut. She was bom iu Scotland in 1517.
—Prof. David Swing is or medium
height and spare, has a smoothly-shaved face,
and wears long bair. He says that George Mae-
donald. in his novels, has made hell out to be
much smaller than it used to be.
—On a writ of habeas corpus, Senator
Flshbume was released from jail at Columbia,
S. C., where hu had spent three nights. On
taking Ills scat iu the Senate ho apologized for
offending the dignity of that body.
—Mrs. Sparks, of Indiana, is nearly 100
years old, and states that she has twelve chil
dren, eighty-five grandchildren, about 1G0
great-grandchildren, fifty great-great grand
children, and a few Breat-great-great-grand-
chlldren.
—It is known that four employes of the
Treasury DepartmentJnne been requested to
resign: unvaoYge LTKdjarMttlpinof the watch;
the department —"
—Emir Pasha, who lias undertaken to
clear the neighliorhoisl of Smyrna of brigands,
has sent to Stamboui in semi-weekly install
ments, sixty-eight heads of the robbers os
vouchers Uiut he is attending to his business.
—King Kalakaua is fitting up the new
royal tmlacoat Honolulu, which has cost about
>2.>0,000, und lias sent his chamberlain to this
country after the furniture, which he expects
to buy New York, l’hiladelphta'and Boston.
—When Chief Justice Marshal died in
1835, the lawyers of America raised *3,000 to
pay for a monument to his memory. Thu sum
has rolled np interest unUl it has reached
$20,000, an.! the monument is to go up at Wash'
lugton at once.
—A judge and jury disagreed as to how
mnch Mr. Robinson, of Sidney, Ohio, ought to
pay Miss Allcnmn for having kissed her against
her will. The jury gavo her a verdict of four
hundred and fifty dollars and the judge reduc
ed the amount to two hundred dollars.
—Gen. Walter Gwynn, of Richmond,
Vo., the oldest graduate of West Point, died at
the Carrollton Hotel, Baltimore, on Monday
morning. Gen. Gwynn was born in Jefferson
county, va., in 1802, and was consequently in
the 80th year of his age. no was a distinguish
ed officer of the Confederacy.
—At the Bow Street Police Court, Lon-
don. a warrant was issued against the Marquis
of Huntley. Knight of the Thistle, for obtaining
money under false pretenses. This Is a separ
ate cose ftom tbe one pending nt tho Mansion
House, In wnich the Marquis is charged with
an offense of similar nature.
—Senator Logan has had moro Ilian his
share of troubles lately. His recommendations
for Federal offices in Illinois got him in hot
water; then General Grant’s stand in the Fltz
John Portercase hurt him; worse still, he lost a
little grandchild, of whom lie was exceedingly
fond, and notrhc Is In bed with rheumatism.
ml into Central Dark and tore along Its roads,
” ' ;ttfni ” '
the
tug of tho
—Continental papers announce the
death of a lady whose name was familiar In
tho mouths ofour grandfathers, Marie TagUonl,
the famous dancer, and later known as Connt-
csc de Tolsins. She was known iu the first
half of the century as tho Impersonation of
grace and the woman who redeemed a perilous
profession from even a suspicion of tbe indcli
cate.
—Jacob W.lson, the town crier of Bir
mingham, England, who has held the office
fifty-two years, is the sixth Jacob WILson who
has held tile place during the last 300 years,
each being tne youngest son of his parents,
nud succeeding without question to a place
that hod come to be recognized as hereditary.
This Jacob Wilson, however, ends the line,
the office has been’ abolished^!
—Hank Monk, the celebrated stage-
driver of the Pacific Slope, is trying to obtain
beta that he will be drfvlug as guyly os ever
ten years hence. Very many of the famous
men whom he once carried H
places have passed away.
—Senor Joaquin Nahrico, the eminent
Brazilian politician, has withdrawn from the
Chamber of Deputies anil from public life in
Brazil because he is unable to jicrsuado his fel
low-countrymen to emiinei|>ate the 1,500,000
slaves they hold. He has arrived in London, i
where he Intends to live in future, having
[shaken the dust of Brazil from his feet forever.
—Gen. Rucker, who succeeds to the
quartermaster generalship of the nrmv. is older
than Gen. Meigs, who retires, but it is under
stood that Gen. Rucker, who is the father-in-
law of Gen. Sheridan, will hold tho position
■i|| I H ' ‘ retire with the highest
lit. when Gen. Grant's
^■ifus Ingalls, will be pro
moted.
—Michael H. DeYoung, of tho JSao
Francisco Chronicle, has bonglit a $>0,000
dwelling in a swell comer of thnt city known
us Nob Hill. Mr. DeYoung has drawn about
•lltheahwp teeth that formerly made the
Chronicle feared among hoodlums and the
Sand-lot loafers. Kallocli. the mayor, recently
attacked tho paper, but Mr. DcYouug would
not permit a reply.
Madame Fattl went to hear Miss Em
ma Ablwtt sing in SL Louis the other evening.
At tho end of the second act the diva made her
way behind the scenes, and. ns a reporter
writes, “the artists kissed and kissed each oth-
“Thc Abbott stage kiss, with its wealth of
iiitnrcg ind mrmffi ’• nnntitiiiPK
lusclousncss and warmth. ’ continues the
reporter, “was moro than doubly discounted
every time the ladies’ lips met.” Madame IV»t-
tl called Mtss Abbott “my darling little pet”
and otherwise made a great to-do over her.
—Thomas Hughes still stoutly holds
Ills faith in Rugbv colony. He hoped better
things of it than have vet come to puss, but hu
blames those who made unauthorized repre
sentations of what tlio colony really was for a
great deni of tho disappointment felt by colo
nists.
— Sir Henry Parkes, the premier and
colonial secretary of New South Wales, who is
visiting this country, landed at Sydney in VOT.
Ho hail hardly a stitch of clmhing and not a
penny In his pocket. He happened to find a
sixpence bit In the street and that gave him his
start in tho world.
hilmiunUam. Tobin, the Leeds renian, lias could be found iu a single Issue oi
been sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude, j published anywhere in America.
—The Japanese journals state that
Hon. J. A. Bingham, the present United States
minister, will accept an npimintment on the
staffof the Japanese mini-try of justice. The
reorganization of the ministry has caused some
trouble. Its home minister lias liecn anony
mously threatened with assassination.
—Samuel Musseiman married Miss
Gochenour, of Pago county, Ya.. in 1812. They
afterwards removed to Ohio and are still living
and in tho enjoyment of good health. Mr.
Musseiman is now 97 years old, and his wife Is
about the same age. They have been living
together os man aiid wife for seventy years.
—Ffteen years ago Signora Yenturoll
was the bright particular star of tho gorgeous
Black Crook spectacle of Xiblo's Garden, her
beautiful form anil face being the talk of the
great town. To-day she creeps along the streets
of the same great city a feeble, decrepit, de
formed wreck, her face pulled awry- hy nervous
disease, begging for such alms as tne passers-by
may give.
—A reception was (riven In New York
Sunday evening to Miss JIary Anderson by Mr.
und Jtrs. D. G. Croly. Tne actress looked
charming in a robe of dark blue velvet,
trimmed with lace and blue crystal beads, and
with a shirred front of satin. She wore a cor
sage bouquet of roses and a diamond brooch.
There was a large company present. Oscar
Wilile arrived at the reception too late to see
Miss Anderson.
—Mr. Rufus Hatch, a well-known New
York broker and speculator, lias returned
home, after an absence of three months iu hu
llo says he bought all the morning and
evening papers iu London and tried to read
them but failed, and he is quoted as declaring
that by putting them altogether for a week one
could not get as mnch news out of them a*
could be found in a single Issue of a newspaper
between the rising and
sun.
The Paris Bourse is gradually assum
ing Its normal aspect. There lias been a great
rise is Suez canal shares. At Lyons, in conse
quence of many bankruptcies, the Bourse Is
virtually extinguished.
A dying man startled the people of St.
Albaus, Vt, by confessing various crimes of
which ho hail never been suspected, ranging
from petty larcenies up to a murder: aud there
is corrobativc evidence that he told the truth
The St. Louis board of trade received
a surprise party tho other day In liic shape of
locarloadsof wheat shipped by rail from ralt-
fornia. It netted the shippers a profit of two
cents a bushel and there is more coming.
Tue Rev. J. Kirkbam*j>oinls out that in
Shakespeare the actual suicide is of small ac
count compared with the mental ■conflict that
leads up to it, and be shows how many who
contemplate suicide in ohakespeare’s pages do
not commit thn deed.
The House committee on printing have
agreed to report to the House with a favorable
recommendation Representative McCord’s reso
lution. authorizing the commissioner of rail
roads to prepare a map embodying all tho mil
and water transportation routes in the United
States.
In the Queen’s speech to Parliament
she announces the approaching marriage of tho
Duke of Albany with the Princess Helene
daughter of the Prince of Waldeok. ITinco
Leoj>old, Duke of Albany, is the youngest child
but one of the Queen, and wo^rcccntly elevated
to dukedom.
An awful suspicion seems to bo slowly
dawning upon the minds of certain Congress •
men at Washington that the prudent Mormons
have for some years back keen maintaining a
corps of able detectives at the national capital
employed exclusively in the collection of in
formation ns to the personal habits of the hon
orable gentlemen who ore most vehement in
their denunciations of polygamy.
Denmark pmseses at tho present mo
ment not only thebest torpedo boats,but the best
scientific arrangements for launching fish tor
pedoes against the enemy. In rase of war.
though her licet is very insignificant, she would
be able by the use of fish torpedoes to virtually
close the entrance to the Baltic. The Dane*
also possess Islands in the neighborhood of the
great German naval station Kiel, which are a
standing menace to the German navy.
Princeton students appear to be get
ting into all kinds of scrapes nowadays and do
ing all sorts of odd things. Three of them went
to Trenton the other night aud appeared as
supernumeraries in tho play “Michael fitrogoff,"
deeming it quite a iokoJotenr around the stage
TJBu soldiers and wild Tartars. At least
.JUtlof them thought so. The third got into a
row with one of the “supers” and received a
black eye and was willing to go back to classic
pursuits without waiting for the twenty-five
cents to which he was entitled. Itis very evi
dent that Dr. McCosh’s students waut to see li to
In all its phases.
A South Carolina negro has been
dotnga profitable business with a phonograph.
He put one of these'talking Instruments inside a
rude figure of a devil, and attached a Hiring in
such a manner thnt tho cylinder would resolve
on being started without the use of a crank.
Thus provided, he set up os a fortune teller.
The negroes lmd never heard of a phonograph,
and its voice filled tiicm with superstitious owe,
particularly when the seer, hating drawn from
iii- dupe-, '•■inn- information on the subject of
their cnils, anil filled the machine with nston-
isliing answers, made it speak oracularly.
an abuse of the privilege of contesting
a congressional election, like that exposed in tho
Mabson-Oatcs ease In Alabama, where the con
testant palpably brought the appeal to obtain
notoriety and secure reimbursement for bis
election expensewmght to induce the House
to adopt a new id in these cases. If tire-con
testant understood thnt he would get nothing
unli 'S he made good his claim to a sent, there
would Be fewer of tlic.-e trumped-up t'li-e-. it
is simply putting n premium upon cupidity and
cheek for Congress to pay 510,out) nml expenses
to every defeated aspirant who can worzy a
committee with his alleged grievances. It isun
abuse that ought to be stopped, squarely aud
sharply.
The bill of the ways and nidabfi Com
mittee for the appointment of a commission to
investigate the question of the tariff provides
that the President of the United States shall by
and with the advice and consent of the Senate
appoint nine commissioners from civil' life,
the Unit named to be president of the commis
sion. The commissioner*are to receive Sin i>er
day when in active duty and actual traveling,
and other necessary expenses. It shall be the
duty of the commission to take into consldera-,
tion*ndtlior.>m:!i!y investigate all the various
questions relating to the agricultural, commer
cial, mercantile, manufacturing, mining nml
industrial interests of the United States, so far
as the same may be necessary to tire* establish
ment of n Judicious tariff, or revision of the ex
isting tariff laws, upon a scale of justice to all
Interests.
Tbo Pall Mall Gazelle observes in *
recent Issue: “The Americans nro cutting us
out of another market. For many years the
demand of France and Germany for remounts
has been confidently calculated upon by our
horse-breeders; but it would seem that in this
market also wc nre being undersold by Amer
ica. French agents are out West with orders
for no fewer than 5,000 iforses for the French
army. They ar,• to Bo shipped to Havre in
batches of 250 at a time. These American
horses, as a shipper says, are Just the thing to
carry a Frenchman Into or out of fit fight, as
they aro hardy and spirited. Three years ago
2.0W American horse* were shipped to London
to tha Metropolitan Tramway Corananv. and a
letter is quoted from Jlr. C. A. Smith,
of the company, to the effect that ‘the A uteri- ’
can horses arc the toughest and most hardy of
any thnt we can get. I would give two French
horses for one American one any day.’ It
would seem that it is not only on the race
course that tlie transatlantic horse-breeder dis
tances his Rritlsh eomi>etit*r.”
The rural districts of tbe Norlb have
husking bees, with their exhilarating rewards
to the finder; ot Uie red care, tafiy pullings, at
which the viscid strings are not the only sweets
passing nhnnt. and apple-butter bolliugg, at
which the pairing of youths and maidens in
taking turns nt stirring the pot may bring to
gether lasting helpmates: but the far South
may have nil these If it chooses, together with a
merrymaking of its own that can never be in
troduced at the North. It is nn orange wrap
ping. Hies of tile golden fruit anil packages of
tissue paper are furnished, and the young folks
at each dexterous twist enclose an orange in its
paper cover. A darkv musician strums a banjo
accompaniment to the songs the workers sing
and picks time for die reels that follow the
evening’s task. As forrefreshments. while there
may bee lock of doughnuts ami elder, who
would not enjoy fragrant, juicy pineapples,
ut, luscious bananas,
fully ritieneil befo
plumped and sugared by the suit in a wav
North gets no idea of, and hig oranges, red ;
nd big oranges, red and
lolicttte for shipmeut to market, but
(Jap£ Daniel Kadacsi, wbo died tbe
other flay at Klausenburg in hU 1Q2<1 year, was
the last survivor of the military eacort that ac*
companies the first Emperor Napoleon to Elba.
Four years before the conclusion of the eigh
teenth century he entered the Aubtrhin army
as a cadet, and served with distinction through
out the ware wa#ed by the Holy Alliance against
France. For acts of valor at the battle of Way-
ram he was promoted to the rank of first lieu
tenant; hut, although he remained iu the ser
vice until 18an, he only obtained one additional
step, and eventually retired ujw>n a captain's
)amsion at tho close of u thirty years’ military
career. While his regiment was quartered in
Tuscany, then an Austrian ditchy, he became
very intimate with Giovanni Mastai Forretti. at
ihat time a handsome young officer in the Pon
tifical cavalry, and subsequently Pope under the
title of Pin* IX. Capt. Kadacsi, in shaking of
his former friend, Forretti, was wont to describe
him as a “good-natured, sentimental lad, ob
viously unfit for a soldier’s life and the butt of
his moEdfcpiritcd and vivacious comrades."
admiral Am men’ has been paying bis
respects to (‘apt. Eads, lie ridicules not only
his application to Congress fur an indorsement
of the txJiuls of liia proposed ship railway across
the isthmus, hut he also criticises, with even
more pungency, the prnetieability of such a
railway. The proposition to mortgage the rail
way to the government os security for the in
dorsed bonds Admiral Ammen egards of no
value whatever, and would like to know, in
the event of the foilure of the work, what the
government would do with 8 half-finished rail
way on its hands. As Capt. Ends says he can
get all the money he wants in England to carry
out his project, but would rather that it should
be au American affair. Admiral Ammen advises
him to take all tho English capitalists offer him,
and spare this government the prospective loss.
Tlie pungency of Admiral Ammon’s comments
is sharpened bv the knowledge that if Ends gets
tlie indorsement ho asks for. the cutting of tho
Nicaraguan ship-canal, which Admiral Ammen
favors, would be out of the question. It U now
Capt. Bads’ turn to review Admiral Amman's
cans! project. When rivals criticise each eth
er’s schemes there is a chance for the public to
become enlightened as to the demerit* ot both
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