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<j>ggggfa (Eetegicaplj #«& Smormtl & ^S^sjs^nfipcr THE TfXEOttPH dt MBWEMCBB, Mlpral Weekly. Thi Truer, rai-h and Mcssf-nckr ta published every day, except Monday, and fMdjr cTery Friday. Tire Daily is delivered by carriers In the dty or mailed postage free to aftterri U r* at $t per month, $U0 for three months, $5 for six I'months, or tlO a year. The Weekly Is mailed to tnhacribera. postage free, at 72a year and St for six months. Transient advertlsemenU will be taken, for the Daily, at one dollar per square of ten lines, or less, for the Ant Insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion; and for the Weekly at one dollar per square for each In sertion. Liberal rates to contractors. Only single column advertisements wanted for theweekly. All communications. Intended for publication, must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not for publication, but as an evidence or good faith. Rejected communications will not be returned. Correspondence containing important newt and discussions of living topics, ts solicited, but must be brief and be written upon but one side of the paper, to have attention. Remittances should be made by Epress, Money Order*, or Resristered Letter. * All communications should be addressed to 3. It. HAKHOSi. Xsaagsr. 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 dty-dol- or the test ,12 >v:trs. On Sun- as he whil o in tho »cst MV.rv.ii failed to disclose &Uho\i i,zU < everythin- In tho ;hly ov ethi lUJed. :iud •ovcral re re ei: npti< i .l and ear h onion iil ay j nor nil'.,' Mrs Kulient- ; In u c -hair ore fell cam- a YOU mi? tjirl. mi mewhat rn dun; n'htv r. upiK’.tro- < to her 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/*