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Macon. Georgia.
fcfce SdfflrapJt and pessrttgtr 7
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1882.
The unsafe boiler never explodes.
Undibwood’s counterfeit detector has
beoome almost a necessity to business
men.
The strongest better is reported from
Missouri. A ram assaulted an old German
and literally batted him to death.
Wore on the President's table! No won
der the tea villa of the departed Le Due
refuses to bloom for less than $9 a pound.
Wavs a man falls behind let him not
throw an obstacle in the way of a more
fortunate brother, but quicken his own
A Sr. Louis man who went to Denver to
start a newspaper baa changed his mind
and is now editing a tomato canning es
tablishment.
A little difficulty between a teacher and
one of hta patrons in Quitman came near
ending according to the code. Friends in-
'Umned and all thlngB are lovely now.
Does Editor Lanorr really believe that
the innocent cotton buyer pays for the
tagging and ties on a tale of cotton ? He
should oonsnlt with Editor Edwards as to
the sleight of hand nooeesary to calculate
the weight of undressed cotton.—Atlanta
Constitution.
In this city the farmer gets pay per found
for his bagging and ties the same as for
his cotton. They are included in the
weight of the bale of cotton they cover.
This is is also the rule in every city in the
Southern St ites. The intimation that the
weight of bagging and ties are deducted by
any “sleight of hand” process is untrue in
its application to Macon, and as we be
lieve eveyy other city. In free trade Eng
land, however, cotton h stripped of bag
ging and ties and sold at net weight.
“Gath,” the correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Enquirer, says there are “four groat
chapters of dark politics in our country.
The first was the rivalry between Jeffei son
and Hamilton; that between Calhoun,
Crawford and Jackson was the second; the
third wax the desperate attempt to defeat
Douglas for the Democratic nomination,
and the fourth was the scheme of Conk*
ling & Co. to break down Garfield and
Blaine.” It is a little singular that “Gath”
should have failed to include the darkest of
all chapters which contains the great
Presidential steal by the Stalwart Manufac
turing Company. As be is journeying to
ward Florid^ however, it may be that he
will find in that State something to remind
him that Ms declaration need^Unending.
Mb. Geo. L Sinet has given to
Island Historical Society Baron
magnificent work on the “Arohi
and Antiquities of France,” which was
sented by Louis Phillippe to Standisb,
Englishman, in 184L It consists cf twen
ty seven imperial folio volfimes, and cost
$2,400 in gold. But Mr. Seney has accom
panied it with another as superb, being
the copy of the nnrivalled collection of
nearly two thousand engravings by the
greatest of engravers, known os the “Cab
inet dnRoi.” This was also presented to
Mr. Standisb by King Louis Phillippe. No
perfect copy of the Cabinet da Rol has
eve'before been sold in America. It oom-
pris;s forty-nine volumes ia elephant folio,
half-bound ia red morocco.
It is said that Jay Gould onco sold |
•'mods® traps” for ft living, There has
been but a slight change In his business
since then. He now deals in “man-trape.”
Tux chronic fault-finder is a curse to his
raoe. Hit oourse through life can be traced
by a black line of disoonragement and fail
ure—discouragement of others, and failure
in his own work.
Ix is wiser to denounce he habits and
drunkenness which are of our own beget
ting and involving losses greater than that
inflicted upon ns by drought and flood,
which are beyo-.d our control. But it is
otherwise.
Oas of the four dark chapters in Ameri
can history mentioned by "Gath” was what
he terms the “scheme of Conkling A Co. to
break down Garfield and Blaine.” Does
Gath include Guiteau’s bullet in that
“scheme?”
A Georgia Legion of Honor.
The General Assembly o! South Caro
lina, at its last session, passed an act
which the empire State of the South, it
seems to us, could, with dignity and profit
to itself, regard as the basis for a somewhat
aimilarproceedlng. It provides for the pre
paration of rolls of troops furnished to the
Confederate armies end of the militia in
the service of that State. It is intended to
gather from one end of the commonwealth
to the other, the name of every enrolled
man who lifted his arm in defense of the
Confederacy and place it upon the State’s
great roll of honor. The organizations,
A sun who dredges oysters oat of season
or from private fishing gfounds is termed
on oyster pirate, and the Governor of Vir
ginia has organized a formidable fleet to
oust the Plrqtes operating atlbe month of
tye Rappahannock.
“These was a toolh-oms menu .and
wine for each guest,” says a reporter, re
ferring to Arthur’s first state dinner. In
the meantime Arthur ia considering the re
quest of the OMo ladies to hang Mrs. Hayes’
portrait in the East room.
Tin Quitman Free Press shon’d not
make invidions comparisons, es it did
when it raid there were More people at the
show and rope walking last Saturday night
than was in attendance at all tbe churches
in Quitman tbe next day.
Axxntm’s first state dinner, and wine,
actual, intoxicating exhilarating wine, be
fore the plate of each guest I Shade of the
lamented William K. Rodgers, lift th>
tear-stainol 'face from the basin of
thy bands, and tell as was there ever a
Hayes administration ?
“Tnx London Times thii ks.that Guitean
should be hong without question, but
doubts whether a nation that turned the
sufferings of his victim into food foraensa-
tioD, his crime into a jest, and his trial into
ft prolonged farce, is entitled to the. privi
lege of hanging him.”
The Columbus Enquirer mournfully asks
“what shall we do with our boys?” If
Cranberry had not asked such a hard ques
tion we conld have answered it. If he bad
only said "girls” we would have replied at
once, “Kiss them tende'rly and deliver
them a lecture on the Gainesborough bat.”
Texas goes one better lor the Jewish
refugees. Mr.J.W. Brown telegraphs to
Mayor King,'of Philadelphia, from Gal
veston, offering to each of the fifty families
of Russians about to land in that city ono
hundred acres of Texas land free. Florida
Will have to raise her bid of forty acres.
A DKLBomox of American champagne
nanufseturers is in Washington ttying “to
induce legislate n that will compel manu
facturers of inferior goods to stamp them
so that a consumer can distinguish be
tween the genuine and inferior articles.'
This paragraph from a Washington corres
pondent’s report looks like an insult to the
American wine drinkers.
POos Sam Marsden of Dallas! He was a
oolored man, drank, and fully conscious of
it. But when hs went to construct a cup
of recuperative coffee he missed the coffee
pot and set the kerosene can cn his red-
hot stove. In fifteen minutes he had the
Worst case of “bust bead” in Texas, and
there was not enough of his bouse left to
make a tan coop.
Tnx Eaton ion Mxssxnoxb.—This valu
able weekly paper comes to us In an entire
new drees this week. It looks oomeiy and
attractive, and deserves the liberal support
it must have to indulge in this new display.
We rojoice in its prosperity, and the good
people of Putnam would be guilty of great
Wrong to crippls its usefulness for want of
support. May it continue to prosper.
Tex courts have oandemned onto death
the man who shot Garfield in the back, yet
amatuer poets are allowed to cum their mis
siles at tta dead President day after day,
and scarcely a protest is beard. The fact
is, nothing wonld so appease the gods as to
serve up Guiteau with a sauce of tender
poet*, and we trust that every rhyme on
Garfleld sen t into a newspaper office will at
once be pi reed into the hands of a detective
and the author ferreted out.
Thx Constitution haa a great deal to say
about monopolies. Amongst others, it
calls tbe manufacture of cotton ties a
'Pennsylvania monopoly.” We would sug
gest that the Constitution go into tho man-
nfactare of ootton ties and to show that
the business is not monopolized, wo will
guarantee they stall have the same advan
tages enjoyed by any Pennsylvania manu
facturer. It requires exclusive privileges
O constitute monopoly. Tta Constitution
Will go into this business if it is sincere in
the adjutant-general will shape together,
under tbe names of tbe various commands
and divisions to which tboy belonged, and
to tbe friends and surviving members of
each company will be entrusted tbe duty
of reporting all transfers, promotions,
wounds received, deaths and their causes,
and all other particulars. Tbe entire re
port will be printed in book form, and tbe
history of Carolina’s defenders preserved.
We say the State of Georgia could with
dignity imitate its neighbor, and should.
It owes to its Confederate soldiers at
least tbe preservation of tbeir names and
the recording of their deeds. Every year
that passes renders an accurate record of
these names and deeds more difficult.
Fighting, a€ did these men on the losing
side, their organizations were destroyed
and their recorJs scattered. In many in
stances all that remains to tell tbe true
story of long campaigns is a tattered diary
or a bundle of old letters. To a great ex
tent tbelr bistory remains duly in the
memory of surviving comrades who, day
by day, are dropping by the wayside, car
rying with them precious burdens of facts
wbicb can never more be resurrected.
What is done, should be done at once,
and oblivion be cheated of those who
have crowned the South, nay, the whole
country, with immortelles. While the
deeds of our heroes have set tbe world’s
pnlse bounding, let us not place tbe deeds
higher than those who were capable of
them. To us these men are dearer than
their deeds, and we view with pain the
tardiness of the State which renders it
possible for “Unknown,” to he scribbled
all ever her history. Gecrgia should at
once proceed to gather up, atom by atom,
every organization which came forward
in her defense, and following the exam
pie of Carolina, place them on record for
the benefitof that historian who is yet to
appear. Tbe time will come when this
people will be as eager for such action as
they are now careless of its necessity. As
time passes, tbe romance of tbe late
struggle will deepen and yet
brighter colors enshrine the names
of every man who wore the gray. The
great revolution of TO has famished the
writers with characters and details around
which have been woven stories to delight
the world. The great revolution of ’61,
with its terrific straggles and brilliant
personnels, will be tbe^writer’s paradise
when this generation shall have passed
away, and its acts seen through the
lengthening years stand forth In their
true propertfons.
With its history perfectly recorded, its
organization preserved, and every name
on file, tho Northern army will present at
traction to tbe host of unborn writers,
which our waning memories and tradi
tions cannot oppose. Tbe main outlines of
our history are safe, bat the personal deeds
of Southern men will sink to rise no more
unless preserved by those who witnessed
them. English literature buried the he
roism of the Welsh and Irish; that of
Rome has slain tho personality of every
nation that fell beneath the power of
Rome. There is but little told of tbe
personal arder of tbe Aztecs and Peru
vians in the history of Spain, and the un
written history of the despised American
Indian is a sealed mausoleum of personal
valor which no mortal can ever enter.
Our own history cannot suffer to such an
extent os these, bat it can and will be de
■polled, uuiess we give to history .such
facts as will ommand notice and defeat
misrepresentation. Lei the name of every
Georgian who wore the gray be placed
on record, and the history of every com
pany that went forth be written. It will
not be found an impossibility. Under
sanction o: State authority and by tbe
State’s assistance, men from every organi
zation will come forward and produce
the facts nesded.
Tenacity ot Prejudice.
There is nothing in our whole mental
make-up so wonderful as memory. It Is
the representative faculty of our being—
that peculiar power of mental action
whereby the sensations and perceptions
of the past are reproduced to thought.
Tbe earlier impressions are the most last.
!ng.~ The scenes of boyhood, when tbe
mind was impressible, are more vivid to
the octogenarian than the most thrilling
adventures of tbe last decade. The les
sons of our childhood are more sacred
because they grow with our growth, and
ripen with our matnrer manhood. Hence
the likes and dislikes of the child cling
to the man with unparalleled tenacity.
And it Is just as impossible for S/tnaa to
place himself outside of this charmed
circle, as it wonld be to ignore his own
identity. If there is any mental process
by which a man can demonstrate mathe
matically that bo is not himself, and re
tain bis reason, then he may claim relief,
to some degree, from tbe prejudices of
bis earlier life.
no class of people are these facts
more clearly demonstrated than in writ
ers of fiction. They claim that what
they have written is bora of the fancy,
and independent of every other
faculty of their ‘being but im
agination, when in reality it Is bnl
a reflex of llielr own feelings and moods
In tho earlier stages of life. Their preju
dices give coloring to tbe entire picture,
and although some writers labor, and labor
honestly, to lay aside these tints which
mar the whole design, they find it imposs-
>le to accomplish it. This defect is not
ined to any particular class or section
ten. All history’ is tainted with it.
It only a national bat a natural de
fect pe^ft[ar to our mental composition the
world
TheretoMUie prejudices of tbe writer
are intermin^t with all his conceptions
of honor or j«e, and give shade and
color to every dStaalionof these noble
qualities. It is js^as impossible tor a
Southerner born amlcAe peculiar fascina
tions and surroundingSf plantation life
to adopt New EnglsndlK&s of life, her
modes of thought and exSaston, or be;
manner of action, as It Is foWfeNew Eng
lander to assume the lmp**Ve nature,
the high conception of honor luil tbe pe
culiar mental composition of ^Southerner
with his pride of character aid prejudice
developed under a Southern! sun. The
earlier impressions being the songer and
more strikingly defined, thejlenter into
every delineation of cbaractefor descrip
tion of the peculiarities of
Tbe foregolDg thoughts bajh been sug
gested by a perusal of a book entitled
“JMm Eax,” by Albion W. Tourgee, pub
lished by Messrs. Fields, Howard & Qul-
hurt, New York.
In this volume Mr. Tourgee bas endeav
ored, In a way, to atone somewhat for
his misrepresentations of the South and
Southern life in his “Fool’s Errand.” In
this volume there is tho absence of that
vindictiveness and malicious misrepresen
tation, bora of disappointment and re
venge,which characterized his former fmb-
lications. Yet the prejudices of his youth
and the habits of his maturer years will
crop out in spite of all effort to hide them.
Ther« are two stories under one cover,
“John Eax” and “Mamelon.” They are
very cleverly told, but not more so than
hundreds of others which are turned oat
from newspapers and magazines almost
every day in the year. That he has not
so high an appreciation of Southern char
acteristics as of Northern we can very
readily conceive and excuse. It is not in
tbe nature of things that be should have.
“John Eax” is tbe author's estimate of
Judge Tourgee’a character, retoucled and
revamped for the occasion. There are
several fallacies in its teachings, which
wonld not profit those who read tho b«ok,
if they were refuted, becauso they, the
readers, would never see the refutation,
and if they did would not believe It. It
is the best of Tourgee’a books, and with
this we leave it.
soli, or, as an exchange suggests, lias been ■
swallowed up by tbe ocean, in pursuit of
commerce. The amount of gold at the
beginning of tbe Christian era, the writer
says, is estimated at $427,000,000. When
America was discovered this sum had dwin
died to $57,000,000; in 1000 it had crown
to $106,000,000; one hundred years later
the estimated amouut of gold in the world
was $351,000,000; at tta beginning of the
next century it was $1,125,000,OOOfin 1853
$3,000,000,000, and now the grand
total is believed to ta $7,095,000,000-
The valne of gold and silver of the
world is named at $13,270,000,000.
Tbe magnitude of tbe valne of the sum is
almost beyond hnjnan conception, and
yet if this grand total of precious metals
were melted together a cable block could
be formed tbe dimensions of whlgh would
not be much over one hundred 'and fifty
feet. Tbe annual production of gold
about 1492 was but $100,000. The subse
quent discoveries In Mexico and Peru
swelled tbe comparative bagatelle into the
millions, until in 1800 (he annua] produc
tion amounted to $17,000,000, and in
1853, after the California discoveries, to
$230,000,000. This production was tho
maximum. Tbe total amount of precious
metals obtained from the earliest date,
down to the present timo is estimated at
$25,073,373,000. The difference between
this total and the $13,270,000,000 is pat
down as the waste.
Cotton Statement. >
According to the Financial Chronicle
of last Friday, the receipts at all the porta
since September 1st, up to that date, were
3,040,348 bales, compared with 4,300,600
bales in 1881, and 4,098,825 In I860, show
ing a falling off compared with last year
of 449,458 bales, and as compared whb
1SS0, of 152,477 bales.
The receipts for the week were 72,031
bales, against 140,530 last year, andll5,307
In 1880.
Stocks in Interior towns were 372,454,
against 312,550.
The total visible auppfy is 3,127,706
bales, against 2,852,371 last year, and
2,599,020 In 1880. These figures indicate
an Increase In cotton in sight last Friday
night of 275,835 bales, as compared with
1881, and of 628,077 compared with the
same week in 1880.
Middling cotton in Liverpool lost Friday
was 0 7-10; at samo date last year It was
the same, 6 7-10.
fear of being whipped out of her own
front yard. We believe the solution of
the present naval question is swiftness
and streugtl) against strength and clumsi
ness.
Wx have received from R.B. Beppa-d,
Esq, consnl of Ohili, at Savannah, Geor
gia, a copy of the circular addressed by tbe
minister of foreign affairs of Chili to the
diplomatic agent* of the Republic abroad,
It is a lengthy document setting forth the
Chilian view of the situation, and tta
oaoses of the late war. It ia a valuable
Light Ahead
In tCe case of Huff vs. tbe Mayor and
Connell of the city of Macon, the petition
of sundry, citizens to bo made parties de
fendant was withdrawn at chambers yes
terday. Judge Simmons held that as the
answer to tbe petition on the part of tbe
mayor and council made the very ques
tion which tho petitioners alleged they,
the mayor and council wonld not make,
there was no ground upon which to grant
the petition at present. He stated,
however, that be would not ah
low these defenses, sought to he intro
duced by the petitioners, withdrawn, and
intimated in decided terms that if in the
progress of the case it became necessary
to renew the application to be made par
ties he would entertain the petition. As
we understand it, this is a declaration
that unless the city, through its proper of
ficials, plead whatever defenses are avail
able in the conduct of this case, he will
allow tbe petitioning citizens to become
parties and plead them.
This may all be true, and the intention
of Judge Simmons a fair one, but there
is bne question which yet remains unset
tled, and a contingency lor which no pro
vision has been made. Suppose, in de
ciding the case, Judge Simmons should
conclude, as did the mayor and council
originally, to override the Jewett bill
which Capt. Harris so aptly described as
tbe “people’s bulwark,” and render a do
cree in favor of Hoff; in what manner,
such being the decision, will it be possible
for the citizens of Macon, who doubt
tbe wisdom of their council,
get their rights, and Judge Sim
mons’ decision before the Supreme
Court? What is there to prevent the
council from passing a resolution declar
ing itself satisfied with this conrt’s decis
ion and instructing its lawyers not to
carry It up for reviewal? Nothing, what
ever. On the contrary, there is a glowing
reason to believe that if a decision favora
ble to Huff and detrimental to the city’s
interests be reached In the lower court,
the council will take such action. Their
actiou in withdrawing tbe former bill of
exceptions irom the Supreme Court leaves
no doubt but that they will withdraw the
next.
_ document to those who are seeking correct
estimate of profits, when talking to views upon this question now agitating
Southern planters. I this country.
Tb« World'* Gold.
Something like an estimate of the
amount of gold visible in tbe world has
been made by a writer in the Boston
Economist, and some curious comparisons
and statistics are furnished. From tbe
figures given, it would appear that those
who fear an overstocking of treasuries and
a depreciation of the metal may quiet
themselves, since the maximum of produc-
tion was reached twenty-seven years ago,
and Is now only about half of what it then
was. Moreover, tta figures show that
hail the gold accounted for since the
Tbe American Nary.
From the amount of attention the sub
ject is now receiving from the press and
Congress, it is reasonable to presume that
some action will be taken at this session
toward reconstructing the American
navy. The naval committee of the House
have been in consultation for sometime
with competent engineers and,' officers,
and will, it ia believed, recommend the
expenditure ot thirty million dollars in
fitting out the navy anew.
The American navy as it now exists, is
but a shadow. It Is really in ^no danger
from foreign attacks, as the whole of it
conld be run up a good size creek, hid be
hind tbe willows and defended by a land
battery. .Bat in the light of recent events,
it has become evident that America needs
a navy, not so much for defense as for
attack. Within tbe last twenty years
there bas been a complete revolution
in naval warfare and arms. Tho gigantic
double-deckers, with their seventy guns
and hundreds of marines, have been found
of little use when brought into conflict
with smalt iron boats armed with one or
more powerful weapons and msnped by a
few determined lfieli. Nor can they be
operated where torpedo boats are to be
had. Tbe great hulls, once pierced by
rams, or lorn by submarine explosions,
become total wrecks, their crews prison
ers, and all the vast and valuable para
phernalia of war a hopeless lots. The
ileirimac, in its descent upon the Cum
berland, rang up the curtain for a new
era of naval architecture, and tbe iron
clad vessels which ran by the river fortifi
cations later, demonstrated that tho change
in inlaud defenses was also at band. Eng
land fought long for her vast treasures
locked up in the floating forts. Engineers
in the Turko-Russian war tried every
means that invention could supply to
re-empower wooden vessels. Powerful
lights were rigged upon warships lying at
anchor to render the approach of unobr
served torpedo boats impossiole. Float
ing buoys with running nets between were
suggested to surround vessels at au-
chor and projecting spars with seines to
precede them when in motion. All in
vain. Tbe submarine torpedo boat, the
torpedo driven under water and other de
vices sapped the strength of counter in
ventions and the wooden vessel for war
became doomed. True they yet exist,
but only because England and America
have had no cause to do away with them.
In peace, when doing guard and consul
duty, they are and perhaps will be always
preferable, but in war they wl’l in their
present abapo recelvo but little
attention. When the weakness of wood-
en vessels bad been forced upon tbe
powers, they took the hint thrown out by
the successful resistance made to the Mcr-
rimac by the Monitor, and low pitched
turret boats came into fashion. As In
ventors developed tbe idea afforded, these
grew in size. The light guns changed to
immense weapons, worked by machinery,
and the turrets became impregnable for
tresses in which the gunnors were expos
ed only at the supreme moment of fifing.
The five incli armor became twelve Inch.
Heavier erew tho annainents until an
overloaded vessel sank like a stone when
brought to battlo with tbe waves, and the
limit was found to have been reached.
To-day the great powers rely upon these
iron vessels, and it is needless to point
oat that America, iti building herself a
navy, bas got to contend with her own
idea perfected. To build anything less
than a navy which can oppose existing
navies wonld bo worse than useless.
Wo believe one great principle has been
thoroughly demonstrated in the many
changes which have of late years taken
place in naval architecture and Warfare,
viz: That no vessel has ever been con
structed and floated which conld resist
the force of projectiles hurled from the
best of modern guns. With this principle
in mind the American government should
consider the question, would not three
small steel vessels, built to run twenty-two
knots an hoar, and armed each with two
of the most powerful guns known to in
ventors, be more than a match for any
armed vessel that floats ? Tbe most pow
erful warships of the age are not built for
extraordinary speed. If we remember
correctly note of the giants can make
fourteen Tcnots, and their cost is all
the way up from two millions to thirty-two
Fo«r Hundred ami Filly Million Dol
lars liMt Form er.
The poverty of tbe Sontheni agricul
turist forms a fruitful theme for a certain
class of newspapers in the South, whose
highest aim is evidently to drift with the
tide. Every other interest in tho country,
is traduced and denounced because the
Southern farmer does not prosper.
It may be well to state one or two car
dinal doctrines, which are accepted and
the precepts of which are practiced by all
industries that thrive in this or any other
section of the country, and by comparison
determine if the thrifeiessness of a large
class of our farming population is not
owing to disregard, on their part, of the
laws that underlie all prosperity rather
than, as they are often told, to any artifi
cial circumstances in their snrrouudings.
Tbe only source of wealth is labor.
Tbo recuperative power of any section is
measured by its population, the proportion
of that population steadily employed and
the rate of wages earned.
For a want of avast diversity of inter
ests. agriculture supplies the largest de
mand for labor in the Southern States.
Its wages at best are small compared
with wages in the mechanic arts. This
being the case, steady and persistent
work are tbe only means that will secure
a comfortable living. This may be
truthfully said of all classea of labor en
gaged in tbo varied industries of tho
country. On our railroads, in our foundries
and machine shops, and in our factories,
the laboring classes work six days in tbe
week. It is also true of merchants, bank
ers, printere, publisheis and the innu
merable classes that go to make np the
multifarious divisions cf national Indus
try.
How is it with the agricultural popula
tion of tbe South? There are excep
tions, it is true, but as a general rule the
agricultural classes of to-day only work
five days in the week, and from nine to
eleven months in the year. It may be
safely estimated that one-sixlh to one-
fifth of the valuable time of farm labor is
wasted in idleness. The country towns
and cross-roads grocery in some cases
claim even one-fourth of their time.
What is the result? From sixteen to
twenty percent, or their Income is thus
cut oil, aud they are deprived of its bene
fits, and the country loses just so rauJi in
the aggregate of accumulated wealth
from year to year.
If this proposition is trne (and who can
gainsay It) it is at once apparent that we
are losing one crop in every five, or, at tbe
outside, one in every six. This ratio bas
already deprived the Sonth of two and a
half crops since the war, or 10,000,090
bales of cotton, or $450,000,000—the esti-
mated price being $45 per bale. These
are enoimous figures, but who can doabt
their correctness ? Will any man say that
the time computed has not been lost ? It
so he is certainly Iguorant of tbe ways aud
methods pursued by the majority of South
ern farmers. If true, then onr calculation
must be nearly correct. Think of it, font
hundred and fifty millions of dollars of
time wasted by one cTasa of onr laborers
since the war 1 No wonder that they are
poor. They are certainly just that
amount poorer than they would have
been if they had employed their time as
they should. Can they ever hops to be
in a better condition until their methods
change ? We think not.
We do not make these suggestions in
other than a desire to direct attention to
the proper cause of poverty and apparent
want visible among the agriculturists of
the South. We desire nothing but their
prosperity, for upon the success of their
vocation all other industries depend. Nor
are they sinners aiwve other men. Tho
same causes that are at work to keep tho
farming population poor—Ulteucss— are to
be found in other classes. There are in
Georgia to-day, at a moderate calculation,
one hundred thousand unemployed peepie
who could earn at least fifty cents per day,
This would add at least $50,000 daily to
the acilvo capital in the Stale. This would
amount to $16,000,000 annually and would
add $90,000,000 to tbe trade of the people,
supposing that every person who got bold
of a dollar of this amount should keep it
thirty days.
Who is to blame for this condition of
affairs? It is not chargeable to our snr-
ronndlngs, as some of our contemporaries
would believe, but to the indolence of tbs
peoplo themselves. Surely the people are
not sensible of tho great crime they are
committing against themselves and the
State by failure to convert their timo by
industrious employment into money.
Gnrlrell lor Governor.
In another column will be found the
announcement of Gen. L. J. Gartrell, in
dependent candidato for Governor. We
have several times intimated that this
gentleman would soon assume tho toga of
an independent warrior in the coming cam
paign, and tho announcement does not
take us by surprise. We believe if the
nomination of an independent candidate
had been left to tbe Democratic party,
Gartrell would have been the al
most unanimous choice. Be.ing thor
oughly in harmony with the organ
ized, we may, therefore, be considered
as gratified. To demolish him will
be a labor of love, and a task that
will not drain a drop of sweat from
the brows of our honest co-workers. On
the contrary,. It will afford jost the amount
of amusement and recreation to the body
politic as will keep its blood circulating
and pulrfe steady during tho summer
months. The General’s platform is not
now one. Ho lifts the demagogue
roundod utterances from tho well worn
grooves in which Felton left them, and
calmly takes a seat on the demagogue’s
platform, expressing the mild wish that
ids action will create no hullaballoo or
undue excitement. In this ho wlll.be
gratified. Nevertheless there will be some
few remarks passed in the audience, and
we may ourselves bo called upon to say
something in tho course of the meeting.
Rmltli oh Felton.
Ex-Goveraor Smith’s reply to Felton
will be found in this issue. Declining to
meet tho charges brought against him
until the Farson has stated his position^
Governor Smith strips him of his assumed
George Was Illusion's Birthday.
One hundred and filty years ago yester
day, Georgo Washington, the alleged fa
ther of this county, opened his eyes in
Westmoreland county, Virginia. A little
more than eighty-two years have passed
since he dosed them for the last time, at
Mt. Vernon, on the Potomac. A ban
died volumes might he written upon the
changes which have marked the history
of this country during the lapse ot time
lying between 1799 and 1682. Even a
bare mention of events would fill a dozen
newspapers like this. Two or three wars
have to some extent marred t!ie tranquilli
ty of the country. The Indian has been
abused in every State that formerly gave
him shelter. Tbe British have sailed
past the dead President’s tomb and pos
sessed the city which bears his name.
Around the county that gave him birth
and about tho land that received
bis motionless form, the thunders
of an inter-State strugglo have shaken the
land. Invention bas revolutionized the
world’s dull old ways. The steam engine’s
shriek echoes throughout his native State,
and the steamboat tolls its bell as it pass
es the simple tomb which, holding his re
mains, looks out in melancholy peaceful
ness upon the blue Potomac. Tbe simple
engines of war have given place to com
plicated and fearful creatures of destruc
tion; iron floats where formerly wood
was doubtful; war has beoome slaughter*
mechanical speed hrs usurped tbe labor of
muscle; thought is borne upon tbe light
ning’s wings, and the world which for
merly crept with tedions pace now rush
like tbe wind. The ways and
means which marked the era of the
lonely sleeper by Potomac’s wave, look
poor and weak beside the magnificent prog
ress of tho presont age. The little re
public, dodging dangerous Issues with for
eign governments has more than quad
rupled itself, and looks the whole world
smilingly and fearlessly in the face.
Changes there have been, changes and
wonderful progress. Fortune has smiled
upon the country that Washington created;
its bidding is heeded, its influence is felt
wherever throughout the world man’s
reign is known.
But not in all things have we progress
ed. These are dark biota upon onr coun
try, and burning shames which might well
be thought to stir the sleeper from his
long repose. We have had strifes born of
envy aud fanaticism; the great constiti
tion has been stretched and des]
misconstrued and amended, its meaning
perverted and its teachings disregarded,
until its namo alone remains as It was.
Tbe Union lias become to all intents tbe
Nation. A hundred crimes have made it
A thief has entered into the office
which Washington held, and bis acces
sories have ruled in high places. Twice
bfti the supreme head of the nation fall
en by an assassin’s hand, and about the
last there lingers a dcubt which casts dis
trust upon those wiio by the crime came
into possession of a power the people had
refused them. Nay, the very soil that
holds the bones of him whom on yester
day all tbe country honored, has. been lit
by the passion ot a contest between honor
and dishonor, and blackened by political
debauchery. The representation of a
pioud people bas by political rapine and
theft passad into the hands cf one who is
not worthy to stand in his shoes before
the tomb at Mt. Vernon.
Washington, were he to appear before
us to-day, would find much to astonish him
and bewilder. The great republic and its
wondeiful advance might thrill hia heart
with joy and pride, but when he had
glanced about him and entered upon a full
knowledge of all that had transpired and
now exists, it may bo possible tbai he
wonld willingly exchange again his
knowledge for the quiet oblivion of the
little tomb by the riverside.
Tlie Propriety or Protection.
Tbe Atlanta Post-Appeal, despito its
bias in State politics, has just and happy
Ideas on the tariff question as far as we
can judge from its occasional editorials
upon the subject. In a late issue wo find
the following:
The Macon Tklkohaph Is more than a match
for our neighbor, the Constitution, when they
lock horns in a tariff discussion. The Consti
tution, ttxa other day, attempted to make a
point against the protective policy that would
find favor with the cotton planters. It urged
that the present duties on Iron cotton tics are
enormous, and amount to the protection ot a
monopoly. In reply the Telegraph quietly
calls attention to the fact that during the past
season a ton of cotton ties cost the planter t?l
These tics were sold by the planner at the price
of cotton, ten cents a pound, the planter receiv
ing t£U per ton for tics that coat himouly -.70.
There is certainly nothing In this to cause any
dissatisfaction to tire planters.
But It ta not surpifsing that the Constitution
made inch an unfortunate’selection of on il
lustration of the evils of _ ft protective tartff.
The deeper we go into the question the more
apparent docs it become that 'Henry Clay was
right when he designated protection “the
American policy.” Under protection tho
formers of our country have outstripped in
prosperity those of any other country. Their
prosperity has been as marked as that ot tho
manufacturers. Not only are their products
Increasing, as the census reports emphatically
show, but they are all the time opening new
lands, developing the country, building
tortable bouses, educating their children, and
laying aside money In tho savings banks. This
flattering exhibit of the workings of protection
has had tta effect in Inducing 700,000 laborers
•from Kitrope to come hero within the vast year
and of that number 50,000 came front England,
e “blessings” of free
PERSONAL.
—Oliver Araea, a son ot Oakes Ames,
expects to have n fdO.OOO house erected in
Boston during tta spring and summer. Ho will
occupy the building as n residence.
—lion. S. S. Cox is about to publish an
illustrated volntne of travel, entitled “From
I’olo to Pyramid by Way of Palestine.”
—Judge Porter, of New York, is going
to Florida to recover from his exertions In the
Guiteau trial.
—Gath is suffering from gout. Some
thing always happens to the man who makes
war on the jut ragratilicr.
—Belle Boyd, the Confederate corre
spondent, spy and bloekade runner, lives now
In Corsicana, Texas, and frequently delivers ft
lecture or two.
—Tho mother oi ex-Senator Robert E.
Withers died in Buckingham county, V*. Wed
nesday, aged eighty-four years, and Mas.
Blanche T7Withers, wife of CoL Robert W.
Withers, died in Campbell connty a few days
ago.
—Mrs. Senator Mahone has a calling
suit ot deep purple velvet, and tho plumes of
the hat are pale-shaded pink.
—A California girl, who did not go out
of doors much elopod with a man who was
palntiug the side of tho house.
—General Sherman, accompanied by
General Foe aud Colonel Morrow of his staff,
wltl leave this city on the 1st of March next for
a tour ot Inspection' of the Departments of
NEWS ITEMS.
Engagements for dances at W,
ton gennans are sometimes mi
ranee of the occasions.
'Vaslii ng.
Texas, New
and Arizona, visiting all
occupy right or ten weeks.
—David Dudley Field,who celebrated his
77th birthday on Monday, tain excellenthcalth,
and walks the streets seemingly with the vigor
ot twenty year* ago. lie Is still working vigo
rously on the codes, which have beat lhe
great work of hi* life, and to which he has de
voted great attention for over forty yean.
—The Boston Gazette *ays Mrs. Wm.
K. Vanderbilt, who came into the Vanderbilt
family by marriage, to the only lady of the
name who ta admitted into the toner circles of
fashion ta New York, but that it ta acknowl
edged that Wm II. Vanderbilt will yet buy hto
way into the set which declined the Invitations
to his reception last week.
—Princess Louise has consented to be
come patroness of the women’s emigration So
ciety.
—Patti, Lucca, Albani and Minnie
Hauk are the only bearers of the title ot “Kara-
mcr Socngcrto” to the Imperial Court of Ger-
many.
—Henry Ward Beecher is out with a
new lecture, which he calls “The Moral Uses of
Luxury and Beauty.” It ta to bo delivered .to
Philadelphia at an early date.
—The numerous friends of D. A. God
dard, late editor of the Boston Advertiser. are
raising a testimonial for the widow as* tribute
ot respect for hto public service*. The amount
secured so far amounts to $10,000.
—Mr. Florence has resumed hts pro
fessional travels, which were suspended be
cause of the temporary ion of his voice. Ills
farewell engagement of the reason will be play
ed in Boston the week of March 27.
—Georgo W. Childs, Esq., of the Phila
delphia Ledger, seems to be never satisfied, ex
cept when doing good. During the recent
Christmas holidays he gave away$8,000 to em
ployes and others. Now he contributes $200 to
Sidney Lanier relief fund.
—Richard D. Blacktuore, the author of
‘Cradock Nowell,” “Chrfatowell,” “lows
San Franciscans are fond of Mexican
,.>ti'v when they can get it. That of CoUnuTh
thought to be as good us Mocha.
General Long street’s loss by the
burning of his tarn in Georgia ta about 11,500,
and he is far from being a rich man. ''
If I had tbe coutract for building a hell.
IM make it something like a ‘-tion future.—
Few Orleans Man WHO Got Left,
A gentle slaughier-hotise employe in
Chicago lias been fined for ’riding out the
eyes of cattle that objected to going forward to
he killed.
Courier-Journal: Tbe cigarette has
doqc so excellent service ns n f<«.] kilter that
the delegate from Wyoming has in trot I need a
bill to reduce the internal revenue fnx on it.
The production of anthracite coal In
Pennsylvania, whicli was over thirty millions
of tons last year, was less than two ihoasanfi
tons in 1>20.
The Indianapolis Joumed prints the
following base inslnttendo: “Patti is not ablo
to sing In Cincinnati yet. Possibly she ob-
eeta to having the director beat time with a
utm. Tho plaster Paris of America ta to a
furor.”
Austin, the reckless wretch who was
yesterday convicted to Garrard , county of the
murder of hta aged grand-aunt, extended to the
jury a cordial iuvitatlon to attend hta taking
off. A Kentuektan ta “a gentleman, belaud,
even unto the end. «
The Pope Is sboutto present the French
Catholic Church in Boston with a foe sLatte re
production of the famous statue of St Peter
lint stands against a pier, near the dome, in St.
Peter's Chnrch at Rome. Jl. Free Robert, of
Paris, ta the artist.
The kind of trash that gels into office
in the dtie* was brought to notlco to Milwau
kee Saturday night when a grogshop light waa
carried on bv twoaldermen, threeex-dIstrietat
torneys, and sundry minor city oOctal*.
One hundred and sixty three thousand
pounds of turtle were shipped to New York
from Key West to 1880. Tin- statistics for last
year have not jet been published, but they will
probably show an Increase to the traffic.
It is stated that Mezzofanti, tho wonder
ful Italian linguist, who knew Cl and talked 48
languages, turned hta attention to language be
cause, when a young priest, he found a foreign
suitor dying who wanted to confore. but conld
And no priest who conld understand him.
New York is seeing a brilliant social
season, and the display of wealth ta unprece
dented. Tbe Vanderbilts have issued a thou
sand invitations to ttieir ball on the 17th, when
three bands will play while the guests examine
that Fifth avenue palace. Mrs. Henry Viltard
gives a ball at the UMcl Brunswick on tho some
evening.
Statistics have conclusively shown
that the avenge life to English jails ta very
much higher than outside them; yet the brib-
to his fricmft'^SfewTOy
—Helen Faucit, now Lady ‘
Martin, made her first appearance on the stage
as Juliet at the Richmond Theatre. In her ar
dor she crushed the vfad to her hand to which
Friar Lawrence gave her the potion, severely
cut hereelf, and at tho sight of blood fainted,
and could not complete the part.
—The Burlington Is a new London
agazlnc. Its editor ta Mtas Helen Mathers,
jthor of “Cornin’ thro’ the Rye.” She ta said
to be “the most huxom of lady novelists, a
fair, round, genial lady, the very opposite of
the •cml-owtuctlc, qua*l-eUu*Jc figure which
adorns the front page of her magazine."
—The widow of General Caster is now
to receipt ot the pension of a lieutenant-colo
nel's widow, which Is a mere pittance. AU
that Mrs. Custer receives to addition to this ta
the salary paid her by the Society of Decorative
Art, to New York, which ta about equal to*
day laborer's pay. nothwlthstending the valua
ble arduous services she — '—
Hem. for Hush and Hilk Editor*.
Buffalo Courier.
There are three things which it ta perfectly
safe to attack—Guiteau, prize-fighting and Mor-
montern.
Tho Mon nod I amb Business.
Cincinnati Enquirer, Bern.
If tho harmony to tho grand old Republican
arty continues much longer, we fear some-
xxly will get hurt.
Iu the Majority or Cases.
Few York Herald-
If wc were to follow the absurd rule never to
speak until wc have something to say many of
us might Just os wdl have been born dumb.
Honorable Cntlinar II Honestly Fol
lowed
Few Haven Regitter.
The Albany Rennes says Whltelaw Reid
formerly peddled clam* As honorable a mode
of getting a living, perhaps, os editing a “shys
ter’ newspaper.
A. Humiliating; Fact.
Portland Adeertuer.
Doubtless Mahoue's success In Virginia has
encouraged the repudiators in Tennessee, and
It ta humiliating to remember that a Republi
can administration interfered to insure the tri
umph ot the original Read!outers.
A Cry of Distress.
av«o Haven Keaister.
From California there ta a loud demand for
Eastern girls to supply the place ot Chinamen
as housemaid* The real state of the ease it
that there ta uo possible romance in a
wife catching him kissing a Chinaman.
In a Deplorable Condition
Philadelphia Times.
happiness of the organization ta of a questiona
ble and uncertain sort. '
A Tory End National Habit.
Boston Herald, Ind.
It ta illogical and disgraceful to maintain our
military aud naval service with special refer
ence to the fitness and proper training of the
officers and turn our diplomatic and civil —
rice over to the spoilsmen and hammers.
Utterly Astonished.
Few York Tribune.
The amiable Oscar Wilde has teamed some
thing. At bis lecture In Buflhlo the other day
he wore an ordinary gray morning suit In
that dty he allowed his feelings to regard to
the newspapers to find severe expression. “I
WUde expect of a mere newspaper when even
the Atlantic ocean disappoints him?
hundred thousand dollars. The three j independent gsrb aud leaves him in the
vessels proposed to oppose them could be j Republican ranks, a renegade and a falsi-
bullt for the cost of one of the others. g er> letter is sharp and to the point.
Their speed would give them the advan- renders a reply from Felton absolutely
tage of position and retreat, and the loss ^ necessary, and makes it incumbent upon
of one of them would not be serious. Let j 0 define bis position. The lines
tradS 1 n i^)teetion i "ba*not'd'riven nt tliefarmcrs
and laborers of America to seek tbelr fortune;
toother lands,but on the contrary 11,000,000
foreigners have come here to share our prosper
ity. If we are growing rich and powerful un
der tho present system, ta It not the -part of
wisdom to let It aloncT
Editor Mauxin of the Rome Courier, in
taking soundings on tho convict question
say j : “ Before we determine that tho con
victs of the 8tate may jump out of the frying
pan, we want ts know what kind of fire
they aro going to jump into; and this is a
question which it would be well fo the con
victs themselva* to considei.” We didn’t
know that coLvicts conhl vote on nny ques
tion affecting their relations with lhe State,
and honco thoir consideration of the mat
ter wouldn't amount to much.
On February the 18th, ia Boston, Georgia
wool sold for 33 to 34 cents per pound, yet
the best quality of Ohio wool sold for 44K
cents per pound. This difference in price
is nttr.butablo to tho difference in breeds
and in attention to tbe flocks. -Sheep hus
bandry in Georgia conld be made one of
the most profitable industries in the South.
If our shoe? owners would take one-balf
the pains with their herds the Northern
farmer does, they conld compete in any
market in the world. It is astonishing how
little attention sheep receive in this coun
try.
Samuel W. Small, Esq., has bought tbs
interest of Col. W. J. Lawton in the Daily
Florida Union, of Jacksonville, aud will at
an early date take position upon its edi
torial staff. Small,atwe have haa occasion
AHother Gone Back on H or Bon
Few York Sun..
Mr. Sullivan's admission fee to Massachu
setts ta undetermined, but It may be '-.o»'
with the possible alternative of working it ou
in tall. The Boston Transcript publish
aecdon of a Massachusetts statute that pro
claims an inhabitant of the State, who leave
Its boundaries to fight a prize fight llAble t
imprisonment not exceeding live vents, or i
fine not exceeding $'>.000. If Ryan's conque
prefers to live onhaked beaus iu n jail in 1
ton rather than roam ns a renegade throt
the'other States of the Union, then we will
i of New England, tiiougt
know he is a true
hta name ta Sullivan.
agents, now
oakum, de-
qualitv. As the
d to the State a
sMktftft <
dare that they are “foot fit the grave young
men''already. But the government is pain-
fully tinsyinpatbatic.
Anqele Sibie is an orphan French girl,
20 years of age, wlto-for aomc time haa been s
maid servant to the house of a well-known
lady of Pari*. Fifteen years ago an elder
brother left her to seek hta fortune to the West
ern World. Thegirlrcccivedaielt. rla*tmonth
rom Cuba saying this brother had died there,
leaving her by will a fortune of 8,000,000 francs.
It is possible ibat another State will
soon be added to the cotton belt Experiments
in cotton-raising to Kansas have been very sue
ccasful. One plantei
shipped 100 bales of
colored refugees who flocked
year or two ago understand the cultivation of
he staple it Is thought cotton growing will be
largely introduced.
The Turkish superstition that when the
mosque of St. Sophia fulls iu ruins tbe Turkish
empire will be destroyed, ta vivified Just now
by finding that an examination of the venera
ble structure shows that tt Is Uabic to collapse
atony moment. The foil of this tnomue, to
the present >hnky condition of a Rain to
Turkey, might have a tremendous effect upon
the fate of the empire.
Fob a long time photographs of Mrs.
Langtry wve been displayed to certain Broad,
uay windows, and some of them are colored,
showing the peculiar blue of her eye and the
bcaullful brown of her hair. Veiy few men
have been heard to express an opinion; bat
many ladles have asked why she should be con
sidered so beautiful, and a few of them are s
x.-uriful themselves that they conld easll;
have aflOrded to be just and generous.
The final account or James U. Flood
and J. V. Coleman, executors of the yriU of
William 9. O'Brien, deceased, has been filed
to San Francisco, show hie the amount of money
that haa come into their hands and how it was
disbursed. The residuary Interest in this es
tate Is J<vTP0,578.‘ii, w hich b to be distributed as
follows: To Marla Coleman, ftk276.2lo.40, less
an advance of $736,437.33; to Mr*. Kate McDon
ough, $1,276,221.40. teas an advance of $*26,014.-
26. and to Joseph McDonough, $655,217.08.
Poor Causuls l
F. Y. Herald,
There Is an exceedingly painful rumor afi
to Canada that Her lfaJsity lia* determir
not to bestow any more titles on her uonjn-rt
hint nnerd subjects. It 1s to be imped tbe re
port Is unfounded. The ltighent ambition of a
Canadian Ls to add a “handle" to hts name end
to that way get, as he thinks, hi* head nlmve
the small crowd of politician* who, in sea-am
and out of reason, so noisily proclaim their
loyalty and devotion to the "mother country."
“Title*,"however, are bvcomiug very cheap iu
the Dominion. Almost every oilier man is a
"Sir” of some sort, and it i* probably a " iso
step to “bear" the market a little. One o' the
probable results of the movement will li
relop a strong anuexatte
the "Ifull" response to the ant
-title
t will be
policy.
—
The Scattering oi the IhaatlM.
Philadelphia Times
The leading “beauties." by th
ly to lie missed by the gay wot
lira.'Langtry had har.ll
, _ more than once to remark, is a fail fljiged
the American government put twenty-five dearly drawn, we have Governor .Smith’s ' act i versatile editor, and can make himself
such vessels on the ocean, arm her coast promise that they will be assaulted. The ' *h 6 right bower of any journal with which
eailiest date has disappeared and has ' defenses with long range guns atul liartiors thunder of some large guns may shortly be he oonnoct*. We waft him our best wishes
either followed the army of pin’s into the ' with torpedo corps, and she need have no expected. I for success in (ha “Landof Flowers.”
arc likt*-
IxmdoR.
Mrs. I*a:i:4try !ia«i hardly anmidonoi society for
the stage before Mrs. Cornwallis West, attacked
by pleurby, mint polo Algiers for the win
ter, and now the Earl of Lonsdale * sudden
death throws Ids widow into weeds for tho
year. Sir John l,iMer*Kave, who was loo sig
nificantly devoted to I .ad v Lonsdale during
her lord s absc
West Indies, came ov<
months ago and umrric
He ought to have const
horse fell on him while
broke his shoulder. I*i
left no child and his til
left of them—go. to hi
Lowther, whose wife h
of lluntly, just now notorious
all Of his property « n the turf,
mier Maniuls of Scotland, thirt
and a great fa
u tw
achtiug croixe in the.
York a ft;
Miss Nation Itznnga.
ted the astrologer. His
hunting last week and
>r debauched Lonsdale
•s and estates—what is
brother. Hugh Cecil
i sister of the Martinis
torious f«»r having V*t
He is the Pre-
four years old
illy, but ran away In*
to avoid arrest ou charge of ob
taining SPJO.WO by fnl-o pretences. He has been
cruising uNnit the Grecian inlands for a month
and a cable dispatch announced yesterday that
he intend* coining to the States and hiding
himself in the llocky mountains, where tome
of 111* pastoral compatriots will perhaps give
him a job of herding cattle.
of < omfortab
nstmetion.
Some
' :!•(
i rougn- ’i.nmetion.
l three
hun
1
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There is a new device, tho most dia
bolical one that has yet been heard of, fordriv-
tog the Indians from one ot their reservations. )
It ta a bnus band, manned by Indian* Four
teen full-blooded Stottx, after a practice of only
two months, are giving forth “Nancy Leo” fttul
“Wearing ol the Green” thron&h fourteen
brazen tubes at the Stabcton agency. It : , al-
cutated that on* togp hand g.M Indtan-powcr
other animals en.lowed with Zuseffi haartofc
off from about 10,000 acres of land. Is there to
no limit to tho pcreecution of the aborigines ?
A recent report sheds light upon the
influchce ol Buddhism on the education of i
people of British Burnish. Not only do '
Poncgyces (Buudhist monks) read the law
deliver addresses at stated seasons to (lie <
bled villagers, but their monasteries oi
many little seminar!. -, at which nearly (
Burman man or boy come, wider iustruS
of some sort for a part of his life. The rtc#
liberality b shown by the monks in freely
mltting English inspector* into their re: j
houses, ana la irnlriomlni educational
cue*
Preparations are being insula ta
hrste the third centenary of Mnrillo. in ScvUlo
to which city the great Spanish painter was
bom In 1618 and died in 1GS2. The cause of his
death was an accidental fall from a scaffold In
Cadix, wlu-ro he «*« psintimr over tbe high al
tar of the C.mv.jnt of the Capueins hta well-
known "Betrothalot Si. ( atlicnne." The main
feature of the event will be an exhibition ot all
the work, of Murillo which the municipal au
thorities are able to gather together by way of
loan or otherwise.
The revolver, according to a London
paper, 1, In all probability destined to be shortly
discarded from tue to the army, navy, Irish
constabulary and other governrueut services, to
favor ota new weapon, the mitrailleuse pistol,
In which there arc four 1-arreta, which are load
ed at once by a patent quadruple t artridge big
snoagh to nffiml u goo-l hold to the fingers.
Forty shots per minute can be rtlrehaigcd. und
tho empty cartridge’ 1 ejcct.-dC automatically.
A* there Is no opening through which any -.-as
can en ape, the weapon caubeus.il gun-fa-hion
when alining, an-1 there are no --rew*, ham-
lc.'-rs i.r hrfocotiou* In cr.tch lhe imins
or accoutrement*. Above ail, thereto no fear ot
a jam or the weapon Vomitig unserviceable
from overheating. The pistol will take the or
dinary government cartridge.
Japan hai a railroad in what wouidbd.
called working order, perhaps, but the benefits
likely to flow from it do not seem great cither
for the Japanese or for the cau-c oi railways to
the Host. Near the end --C the year 198(1 a line
22mill- lung was opened from O arutml toSap-
I-ir». it supports one ' rain each way daily and
cayrl-s an average oi 2eo psisncnu- :- aVmodeiatft
price*. Receipts accordingly --ail that
the P-ad isnoi Ubc-Ty cv, r to put tin .-■cpensCS
of running it. Nor i- it managed to a way
ti-.at promb-o* teincrco.«e its|H,puiurily Trains
frequently .tart one. two. and tin,-, hours be
hind time, and occupy two ,,r three 1 tours in
making the 22 miles. Rather than wait three
hour* for a train that mr.v take three hours in
running 22 mile*, cm- might • h iter walk.
More*, rer, passengers -ire not pro, ' ..-.r--
Myeh lU'itKNSTEi.v a Paterson (N. J.)
jeweler liau worn
Iiir <liamon<l pin
<lay lft*t he lost it,
cellar, but the do
lt-« wiiercfclmuU, alth<
cellar was thoruuj
>rt\rrt*i4 of onions ^
oxKmiiK'L Ycfctc
stain, while slttlnj
a.>krp. 1 n her c?rt*tt
rtambling here
and seemed to say, “You’ll rim! pa * pin in tho
sceonil tarrel of onions.” Mr*. UuU-nsU-in
awoke and Immediately wont ib»v\ u In the cel
lar. and from a barret ol onions which sho
overturned there rolled «»•»♦ -mine decayed on
ions. in one «>f which b*v the diamond pin,
firmly imljcdded in the ^»ft mass. Tin \ now lx>
llcve ii: the efficacy of tirvains iti the Kuben-
stein family.
A New York broker gav« a trajup an
order on a restaurant for a mer.1. and was iuv<
prised a few houm later by the presentation of
a hill from t£e proprietor for $2.25, Among
other things which tin* aesthetic tminngot away
with were a porterdurusw steak with mush-
room*, French green pe**, aspara^tpi, raw oys
ters, etc. The broker p«dd tbe bill, but decwin*
he intended ibe man to have A cup of caffe*
and a plate of hash/*
