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NEWS ITEMS.
Tub pottery craze has struck Nicboliv
Viltc. People there are enthusiastic over China
•bemp seed.
"We believe his loss to be onrgalc,”
U the touching way a Grant county paper wind*
up an obituary.
Tue publication may be expected
shortly of an important work by Carlisle,hitherto
? ultc unknown, describing a tour in Ireland in
»».
Tub story Is afloat that Patti wept bit
terly orer her (allure to rent the New York
.Stock Exchange (or a concert, became the seats
.arc worth SW.UUO apiece.—Veneer Tribunt.
Tub American Register says that a
11 Wl lum American Journalist was lately ac-
tuully made to cat Ills own words, being threat
ened with hanging unless lie devoured his pa
per.
New Oiu.eans people aro this week
gazing with wonder on the whale which was
caplurvd off Pmvincetown more than a year
aj?u ..d tius inrun exhibited in nearly every city
west of Huston.
A mono the rejected candidates for the
tdfiee o( ehle( constable (or Birmingham, In the
place o( Major Bond, at a salary o{ £700 a year,
was I xml Si. Ixxinurd*. grandson o( Uic (anious
latwyer Sugdcn.
Tub London Directoiy of Directors for
Isd, shows that one gentleman is chairman o(
ten companies, and a director o( five more.
Ollier |H.-oplc have from ten to sixteen compa
res against their names.
Gen. George McDonald is called the
■■fulhcr” of the English unny. He Is in his tisth
year, and entered the service In lsoi. lie
(ought in the war of tsU, and was three times
woiindeil nt Waterloo. Admiral Robert Ixmcy
of tlio Uiilisli navy entered the service in IPs;
Second marriages by Hindoo widows
are steadily increasing, twool these ceremonies
linving been eclchrateil last month in Bombay
mid Calcutta, while a third will take place this
month ill Ixiliorv. At the Calcutta welding the
bride had been married at V years old, mnl lie
came a widow six months later.
In the new London hansoms, which are
roomy, und into which three passenger* can
be put, there are to lie found small looking
glasses, trays for cigar ashes, mid matches.
Homo drivers go further, and supply mgs to
cover the legs of their faros, and utli.ra huve
small clothes brushes for th. |.nsMing«r to brash
himself up with on u muddy day. *
An old woman took a blackened clay
pita; out of her traveling hag in a St. Louis rail
road station, and began to smoke. She was
told that smoking was not allowed in thut room.
Without taking tliu pi|ie from her mouth, she
drew a long knife and laid it across her Ian.
She was allowed to puff uway until her train
came along.
London Truth: “Jeweled epaulets
arc the newest feature of cveuing dress. This
decoration assists the effect of square shoulders,
to attain which lias for some lime been n prin-
ciiml aim of fashionable women. EiMiuIets
without sleeves may appear an inconsistency
to many, lint fashion goes on her capricious
way without troubling herself us to whut is con
sistent.''
Young blood is wr.li rcpresenledjn the
British army. It appears that the p
of men under JO years of age in the wiiofe
is pit |*t 1,010. nml Hint the great lmlk of the
men—that is t.Ji i* r l,i»lO—are lietween thenge*
of -j) und Jit. There cannot lie much fear for
the physique of mi army of which more than
one half consists of men In the prime of their
strength.
Henby Sullivan, a miner of Lead-
villc, lived alone and owned a large steel trap
for catching liears. The trap iiud laid open in
Id* lint fora long time, and had tiecome rusty.
.Sullivan, in trying to shut it. hammered it,
and, carelessly putting his foot on the spring,
it closed, die teeth clutching him just above the
■inkle. He nearly fainted from pain, and, af
ter vain efforts to pull the jaws open, he luckily
found a heavy wrench within reach, und final
ly succeeded In screwing the Ihills of the trap,
and Ids leg was released. His foot will proba
bly have to lie amputated.
Mr. George n. Case, of Laurel Ilill
uvenue, Norwich. Conn., anticipating that the
mild weather of die post few days would result
in the return of the song sj,arrows to the
hedges, visited their feeding-grounds on Wed
nesday morning and £}'ol them on hand,
bright and chipper. Just tiro days earlier than
in lssl, their date of return having lieen Feb
ruary Jo. lint die song sparrow was not alone,
lie riqairts having seeii robins, bluebirds, pine
linnets, and two golden crowned kinglets, hath
ing together by a brook, ns if paired. Thursday
morning lie saw half a dozen cedar birds, und.
In-fore die fog came up from the cosl, ducks
flying by twos und threes northward.
The parish church of Carlsruhe has
Mibl its famous golden chalice to Baron lu-tlu-
cliild of Frankfort for ?..J,i«K). It is a unique
specimen, of Gothic shape, enamelled, and
ornamented with precious stones. On its foot
is u cross in brilliants mid tlie Mcttcrnich coat
of arms, t udenientli is the iii-eription: "Adol
phus Wold dietns Mcttcrnh-h DccnnnsSpircnsis
Anno Pius.” It was presented by the Grand
Dukcliirl Friedrich, as whose successor the
present Grand Duke mid die See of Freiburg
licrmittcd the sale on account of financial
necessities, the recent renovations of dm church
having caused mi expense of several hundred
thousand marks. The giver little reckoned
thut it would ikiss to u Jew.
Yesterday forenoon a citizen who
was Hurried und angry entered a grocery store
on Antoine street and called out to the owner:
"Why do you keep a dog around here to cat
folk* up?" "DIdt my dog eat you oop*’’ was
Hie innocent query in reply. "Not quite; hut
lie tore luy coat hull oil’ my buck, and you've
got to pay for it!” "How much7” "Well, it
will cost as much ns 82 to get it rymlrol. You'll
either pay for it or I’ll have the dog shot.”
"Oh, I ll pay dot,” said the grocer, and he did,
hut the man was hardly out of sight la-fore tic
jumped a foot high and culled out: "Dniuler
mol Iditzcn, but I vhos tier greatest slmekass in
America! Why. I sells dot dog to my fader in
law more as six weeks ago!”
Among the trophies which the Uussiau
army carried off after the occupation of Berlin
in ITCH, was a splendid car presented by Fred
erick William I. thirty years previously to Ills
corps of field artillery for the accommodation.
of their drums and colon on extraordinary oc
casions, such as reviews or grand parades. In
shape resembling a shell, and painted n bright
scarlet, this ear, drawn by four gray stallions.
’ with tlgcr-skiu trapping* and tall red and white
B e*, used to precede the artillery column
g its march post the saluting llim, mid the
lass of it was a source of great mortification to
the Fnissian soldiers. The (Tar has lately Inti
mated his Intention of returning this relie to its
rightful owner, the Emperor of Germany, and
it will tic brought to Berlin by a Russian guard
of honor.
Half a million a month continues to
he spent in barren stock in vain search for bo
nanzas in the numerous mines on the Comstock
silver vein, in Nevada, below an average depth
of 2,200 feet under the surfnec of Mount David
son. The 5,000,000 dally gallons of water is
very hot everywhere below MOO feet, and, with
a single exception, no lance body of paying ore
has been found below that level. At this time
combined cflurts are pushing explorations with
fourfold activity and streaks of quartz are met
in the dark porphyTy, giving hopes. But the
stofk market is set back by t lie new theory of
Expert James Dolevnn, viz: "No bonanzas
will he found where the water has so high tem
perature and all boring Is money thrown away."
Scientific reasons are given. Two of the mines
liave reached .1.000 feet in confirmation of this
theory and die bottom has dropped out of die
mining stock market.
While Mr. William L. Reid, of Craig’s
Creek, Va., was hunting on the mountain in
Jils neighborhood recently, and a heavy snow
lay on the ground, he came across a spof, about
ten or fifteen feet square, from which the snow
had melted, and, laying bis gun on the ground
>to give himself a rest, he found that In a few
minutes tome ice that had frozen hard upon it
also melted. Upon examination he found that
a slight current of worm air was rising from the
S ound, and that the ground alto was warm.
c also noticed that the limbs overhanging
this spot were filled with icicles instead of
snow, caused by the warm atmosphere melting
the snow in the day, probably, and freezing at
night. Home days after this dlccvery Mr. Retd
again visited the spot, aiter another heavy snow
had fallen, and found the same condition of
things existing. He also noticed that the trees
surrounding the spot had been blazed, from
their appearance many years ago, as if to Idcn '
tify the place.
A man was once before the late Judge
Kent of Maine on a charge of having burglar
iously entered a lumberman’s camp and stolen
clothing and money. The witness for the gov
ernment testified that be saw the prisoner’s
head, right arm, and shoulder thrust through
an opening he had made in theeabin, and that
the stolen article* disappeared with them. Here
the prosecution rested. Whereupon the pris
oners counsel went to the Jury gravely protest
ing that there was no case; that to make out a
- .case of burglary the prosecution must show an
entrance ofthe whole man-at least the larger
part of him: the feet as well as the head must
have been within the cabin. Judge Kent In
structed the Jury to return a verdict of guilty to
• the extent which the evidence would warrant
After a brief abaeuee die Jury returned a ver
dict of guilty against the prisoner as to his right
.arm, right shoulder, and.head, and the Judge
sen ten col the arm, shoulder, and head to the
State prison for two yew. The prisoner might
do with the remainder of his body as he pleased.
‘•Jlucliupalb*.”
New, quick, complote cure four Jays,
urinary alfcctions, smarting, frequent or
difficult urination, kidney diseases. $1.
Druggists. Depot: Lamar, Bankiu &
Xamar, Macon. dawly
Brother Allen's Trip to Chattnuoojn.
Leksbubg, February 21,1882.
In the upper part of Walker, close to
the Tennessee line, there dwells a dense
ly populated settlement of as clever col
ored people as the world contains. They
possess a full measure of the ignorance
and superstition belonging to the race,
but they are au honest, industrious, debt
paying people. At the time of the oc
currence I am now to relate, brother Dick
Allen had for many years been their
spiritual shepherd and, in the absence of
any temptation to err, bad thus far led an
orderly and blameless life.
* Jetjkins, colored, who contracted to
preach and teach school until the first
day of July, when the patrons and con
gregation stipulated to pay for bis servi
ces in such marketable commodities as
would find a ready sale iu Chattanooga,
seven miles from the church Jenkins,
tbough black, was a ntan of lovely char
acter. He was an carnejt Christian,
labored to advance tne tem
poral and spiritual interests
of bia fellow creatures, and seemed
impressed with the necessity of rendering
himself useful in his day and generation.
Under Ids inspiriting influence the church
and the school both prospered with ex
ceeding great prosperity, and his popular
ity was unbounded. Thursday, the last
day of June, at length came ou. The
brethren and sisters assembled at the
school-house to witness the closing exer
cises of the school. It was a solemn occa
sion. Everybody was impressed with the
loss they would sustain in the departure
of Brother Jenkins-everybody vied with
each other in kindly offices towards him.
One sister gave him a silk tobacco pouch,
another an ingeniously-carved pipe, an
other a Bible, and Brother Dick Allen
generously proposed tc go around and
collect up the clerical and scholastic dues
in conformity with the terms of the con
tract, provided he could get a team and
conveyance. Sister E!sy Williams offered
her large cart and stalwart steers for the
work, and exhibited symptoms of holy
rapture when the offer was accepted.
Brother Alien was to gather tho contribu
tions and haul them to the boarding
house of Jenkins, who, soon the next
morning, would convey them to the Chat
tanooga market.
Accordingly, satirise Friday morning
found Rev. Dick Alien moving on his
pious mission. All were willing to con
tribute liberally; under the prestige of
Brother Allen’s earnest, Christian exhor
tations they gave lavishly.
Late that afternoon Alien was seen
wending his way towards Chattanooga
The cart was loaded so full of wheat,
coru, pork, butter, eggs, chickens, etc.,
that the oxen with difficulty dragged
their ponderous load
Three days afterwards Allan was found
to lie .n-ni'i jn -lagfiSman of his hjppy
IT cart, u6 stcen,
^commodities, no perquisites put in an
appearance. Alien answered no ques
tions, and submitted to no interview.
Charges were preferred against him in the
church, and tlie day of trial came.
I* was proven that Jenkins had served
faithfully in both his callings; had earth'd
all that had been contributed; that Allen,
assuming the trust, bad collected and con
verted to bis own use the entire sa.ary of
Jeiikii s, and had, without permisdon,
sold the cart and stee rs of sister E!sy
Williams aud refused even to pay her tlie
money. Tlie evidence closed. Alien of
fered no testimony m rebuttal. I sympa
thized with tho offending brother. I was
pained to see so great a weight of infamy
resting on a human conscience, and 1
wondered with what feeble, faltering
words he would yield, submissive to the
great impeachment. I was mistaken in
my reckoning. He rose with a look of
Christian meekness, resignation and sell-
possession, looked leisurely, calmly asid
innocently all around and began to sing,
"How firm a foundation ye saints oi the Lord.”
lie sang the song through to the etui
with au unction, a power, au eloquence I
never heard before from the music of
mortal lips. I ccuid see that the wa
ters were being troubled and the anxious
throng was moved by tho potency of that
exalted strain. “Brethren,” said he, “we
all uv ns sinned and come short oh de
glory ob God. Wo all de time axin’ him
to forgive us and we’re a-neediu’jest twist
as much forgiveness as we axes. How
you speck de Lord gwine to forgive
you ef you don’t forgive one another?
For de word say liow dat you got to forgive
ef you wculd he forgiven yousef-ah. My
friends, you all know do devil’s agwmc
about like a roarin’ lion, seekiu’ whom he
may devour somebody all. An he leads us
poor hobblin’ christon* as well as de bell-
howiin’ sinners, and be leads us hither
and yau and here yander. He lead Jacop
to swindle his brother oat’eu his birtli-
riglit with a tness uv potash-ah. He lead
David to kill Goltar for to git his wife-ah.
Ah, my beloved brethren and sisters, dc
Lord is a forgivin’ Lord-ab, aud lie for
give de rightious Jonah when dc devil
lead him to go sa'lin’ on de watery sea-
ah, and some on you’s better’ll
do Lord-ab. You c-a-n-t forgive
your old paster if do devil
lead him to go to Cbatianocgy-ah. De
holy Jacop driv off de cattle uv Lxbun an
de Lord forgive him. borne uv you
wouldn’t a doue dat-ah. De sons uv
Aburham sold dare brother Joseph aud de
Lord forgive em-ah. Some people don't
want to forgive anybody ef dey jist^only
drive offyour oxen and sell your carts
and steers and truck-ah. Oh, my breth
ren and sisters, yon cot to come out of
dat-ah. And now I’m a gwino to make
dis a forgivin’meetin’, whar everybody’s
got to forgive everybody all dar onforbid-
fn’ ways-ab. I’m a gwine to siug dat
good old song—
"When I kin read my tide cler
Tis mentioned in de skies—”
anil while I’m a-singin’ let all dem dat
wants to forgive everything come up and
e ve old Dick Allen your band and you
id better come quick—de gospel ingin’s
a-blowin’. De train’s about to start and
yau got to be quick ur you all ect left-ah
And dar sets old Aunt Elsy Williams—sin
knows de time when dc dcvtl had her and
I shuck him off and shot him wid de heb-
enly gun and I seed; delight uv righteous
ness a sliinin down de muzzlo uv her
soul-ab.”
At that moment Jhe dusky lips of tlie
rockine Elsy sent forth a boisterous poly
syllabic: “Y-e-s,” and the crowd, wait
ing not for the promised song,
bore down like an avalanche
upon the holy, happy Allen. The hand
ahaking and forgiveness wax universal,
and unutterably enthusiastic. Jenkins
was the last to advance. “ Well,” said
he, “soctns like de Lord forgive him, an’
dc brethren forgive him, an’ Jenkins ain’t
no better’n them,” and he gave to the of
fending Alien a cordial and fraternal grip.
That is said to have been the happiest,
most glorious meeting ever witnessed there,
and Brother Allen, resuming his pastoral
dnties, was enabled to build a new par
sonage from the proceeds of the Jenkins
collection. X.
Decisions of the Kiipreme Court of
Gcorirln, Rendered February Slat,
1M3
Abridged for the Telegraph and Messenger by
II. C. Peeples, of the Atlanta Par.
Finch, et al., vs. B.-all. Equity, from
Clarke.
Spzeb, J.—1. When A sold to B an
acre of land, receiving part payment
therefor and giving his bond for titles, and
B sold one-fourth acre to C, one-fourth
acre to D, and one-half acre to E; aud E,
promising to protect C and D, procured
B to assign to him A’a bond for titles, and.
paying to A balance due for tho laud,
took » deed from A the entire we,
there was equity in a bill filed by C, set
ting up these facts, aud alleging ho had
paid part of the purchase money for his
one-fourth acre, had gone into possession
of it aud improved it, and that E, know
ing these facts when said E purchased, re
fused to make him a deed and was confed
erating with B to turn him out, and which
prayed that on payment by C of balance of
purchase money due by him, A bo decreed
to make a deed direct to him, C, and that
A’s deed to E be caucelled so far as C’s
purchase was concerned.
2. Actual possession of land is notice to
all tho world of rights the occupant really
has. When E purchased with notice of
C’s rights, he stood in tho shoes of B, and
cannot in equity be protected as against
the riebts of C. Judgment affirmed.
FfiOM WASHINGTON.
Groves, Ordinary, to use, etc., vs. Will
iams, principal, et al. Debt, from
White.
Speer, J.—1. To a suit brought a gain it
an administrator and bis security it could
be pleaded that the decree obtained
against the administrator for a certain
sum to be decreased upon the happening
of a certain contingency, should be held to
be satisfied because such contingency had
happened and operated to satisfy said de
cree. This, although there had been no
supplemental proceeding to modify or
change said decree.
2. To establish a devastavit against au
administrator and his security m a suit
upon his bond, a mere evidence of indebt
edness—such as a dormant j udgment—does
not suffice. Plaintiff must go further and
show either inability or refusal on the
part of the administrator to pay, and if lie
roles on a return of nulla bona on the
judgment he must show that such return
was made before the judgment became
dormant.
While, ordinarily, ono cannot be
both complainant and defendant in the
same suit, yet one tnay be complainant
as administrator of one person and de
fendant as administrator of another.
Judgment affirmed.
Bonner et ah, vs. Holland et ah Equity,
from Hail.
Speer, J.—1. The jury having found
defendants to be bona fide purchasers, for
value, without notice, we will not dis
turb the verdict on the ground that it is
contrary to evidence
2. In a contest where It is sought to
show that trust property was illegally
sold by the tru-.tee and was bought with
notice of the trust, it was not error to ad
mit evidence tcuding to show that the
money paid was invested for the benefi
ciaries of the trust aud has been enjoyed
by them ; especially is this so when it ap
pears that the trustee had power to sell
and reinvest or like uses. Judgment
affirmed.
Childers vs. the State. Carrying con
cealed weapons, from Dawson.
Crawford, J.—When a' new trial is
sought on the ground of newly discovered
evidence, tlie party as well as bis counsel
must negative all knowledge thereof to
bring themselves within the rule. Judg
ment affirmed.
Ham vs. Parkerson et al. Certiorari, from
flail.
Crawford, J.—Fraud voids all con
tracts and may be pleaded aud proved as
against a written contract, where the
same exists in the execution thereof. To
hold parties to a contract iutended by
neither, and unknown to both, would ba
in violation of all law. Judgement af
firmed.
York,
A Squaw Said to be 150 Years
Old Captain Joe, Abe local chief of tire
Washoe tribe, informs us that there is
squaw nearly one hundred and fifty years
old living on the outskirts of Carson. He
says she has not been on Carson street for
nearly twenty years; enjoys good health,
and eats and sleeps well. Her grandson
at the age of sixty years was one of Gen
eral Fremont’s guides when he crossed
the plains forty years ago. If Capt. Joe
is not mistaken in the squaw’s age she is
certainly the oldest pemon living.—Car-
son Appeal.
Fees and Doctors.
The fees of doctors is an item that
very many persons are interested in just
at present. We believe the schedule foi
visits is $3, which would tax a man con
fined to his bed for a voar, aud in need of
daily visits, over $1,000 a year for medical
attendance alone! And one single bottle
of Hop Bilters taken In time would save
the $1,000 and al! the year’s sickness.—
Pott.
Fob throat diseases and coughs,
“Brown’s Bronchial Troches,” like all
other really good things, are Imitated, and
purchasers should be careful to obtain the
genuine article prepared by John I. Brown
3c Sons.
the State. Bastardy, from
White.
Crawford, J.—1. When one was ar
rested on a warrant for bastardy and taken
before a justice where, without being
called on to give bond to maintain the
child, lie waived examination aud gave
bond to appear at the Superior Court
such waiver and giving bond was insuffi
cient to justify his beiug found guilty of
bastardy.
2. To make one guilty of the crime of
bastardy he must be called ou in terms of
the law to give bond to maintain the
child, and must have refused to do so.
Judgment affirmed.
HatLhric vs. the State. Assault with in
tent to murder, from Pickens.
Speer, J.—The verdict is supported by
the cvtdeuce, and the law was correctly
given in charge to the jury. Judgment
affirmed.
Johnson vs. Fight. Ejectment, from Hall.
Speer, J.—1. A verdict in ejectment iu
the words, “we, the jury, find for the
plaintiff, and the defendant, E. M.
Johnson, to pay the cost,” was sufficiently
certain. Its legal intendment was a find
ing for the plaintiff of the premises in dis
pute, tlie premises being clearly described
and set out in the declaration.
2. A verdict in ejectment may rest on
parol proof alone, where a mere wrong
doer or trespasser is sought to be ejected.
Judgment affirmed.
Tlio Rate of tho Natural Bridge.
Richmond (Va.) Dispatch.
The Natural bridge property has been
again sold, this time by the Alleghany
c"al and iron company, to Mr. H. C. Par
sons, for $55,000 cash. The first owner
of record was Thomas Jefferson, and he
made frequent visits to the place, prizing
it highly—in one of his letters, recently
discovered, placing Its value at $30,000,
and saying that peoplo would cross the
seas to visit it. It has been sold repeat
edly at ftotn $15,000 to $40,000, at which
price it was reported at one time sold to
Joliu Garret, when the Valley railroad
was located near it. About a year ago it
was sold by the Hannan estate to tho
present purchaser for about $18,000,
and by him immediately sold to the
Alleghany coal aud iron company
for $20,000. The recent purchase
carries the improvements that were put
upon it the last season. The object of tlie
g urchaser is to organize a new company to
e called the Natural Bridge Forest Com
pany, to insure more extensive improve
ments. Tho property contains nearly
1,200 acres, a largo part of which is origi
nal forest. It lies in the great circle of
hills lifted six hundred feet above the
valley, and 1,000 feet above the sea. From
the highest point there is a view ot the
Blue Ridge for seventy miles, and the
place will form a shaded and breezy
summer resort, convenient to Lynchburg
and Kichmoud, Danville and New York.
Tlio Natural bridge is 215 feet high and
witli a span of about SO feet, aud is tiO feet
wide, carrying a wide road, and has long
been classed among the wonders of this
country.
Washington, February 23.—In the
Senate, Mr. Allison, from the appropria
tion committee, reported with amend
ments the immediate deficiency bill, and
gave notice that he would call up the
same at 11:30 o’clock to-morrow.
Mr. Harris presented a memorial re
port of the Memphis Cotton Exchange
upon the danger to the river front oi
Memphis from the encroachments' of the
Mississippi.
Mr. George introduced a Joint resolu
tion, authorizing tlie Secretary of War to
issue rations for the relief of the laboring
classes in the district overflowed by the
Mississippi river, which was read, a3 also
a telegram from Governor Lowery, of
Mississippi, urging immediate measures
of relief, representing tlie destruction of
property and stock as immense and star
vation imminent, ?as *the overflowed
country comprises the best portion of
Mississippi, aud whites aud blacks
are suffering. Mr. Geotge explained the
magnitude of the disaster, and sfdd the
district inundated embraced alt tlie Mis-
sisdppi delta bet- e u Mem; his and Vicks
burg, about 100 miles iu length and 40
miles in breadth- This entire area was
now either under water or would be in a
short time. Four-filths of its population
i3 composed of colored laborers, who have
not the means cf support d uring the period
for which this overflow will necessarily
Interrupt labor.
Mr. Ingalls inquired as to the estima
ted number of laborers rendered destitute.
Mr. George thought it would range from
50,000 to 75,000. He added that overflows
in that section of the Mississippi bottom
generally continued from four to six
weeks. Until the subsidence of the water
there is a total suspension of labor. He
baa confined his remarks to the destitu
tion in Mississippi. Contiguous districts
on the opposite side of the river in Atkan-
sas were also suffering.
Mr. Garland spoke of the wide spread
destruction marked by the overflow as
absolutely appalling and unprecedented.
It had swept away barnes, granaries and
the stock of farmers. He urged prompt
action extending relief, though he was
not prepared to say what form measures
of relief should take.
Mr. Hampton explained that a great
part of the valley under water was the
most productive of the finest cotton-grow
ing counties in Mississippi. At that point
the water extended from the Yazoo hills
on one side to the Arkansas Bluffs on the
other, aud if tho river was as high as tho
dispatches this morning represented, there
would be hardly auy laud within a strip
of 150uiilc3 iu width visible above the
overflow. The destruction, not only of
stock but of the incoming crop, .woa’d be
so great,in liisjopiuion.that he liailuo hesi
tation in saying that the dispatch from the
Governor of Mississippi gave but a faint
idea of the destitution aud starvation that
would follow.
Mr. Allison, of Iowa, suggested, in
view of the desirableness of prompt ac
tion, the reference of the subject to the
military committee, who could consult
with tho Secretary of War upon provis
ions for issuing and transporting rations
to points at which they ate most needed.
If tlie sufferers were to bo relieved by the
United States government, the relief could
only be extended through the Secretary
of War, and he thought it would be found
that this relief was demanded not only as
to the Mississippi valley but those of sev
eral of its tributaries. The suggestion of
Mr. Allison being acceptable to Mr.
George was agreed to, aud its reference
to the military committee ordered.
The Senate then took up the calendar
and bills were passed to authorize the
Secretary of War to sell the military bar-
backs and the la:id3 upon which they aro
located :n Savannah, and permitting the
United States Treasurer to pay Congres
sional salaries, etc., in a contingency such
as that which arose in tlie death of the
late Secretary of the Senate.
Ti e Senate bill to amend section 2,133
of tlie revised statutes, relating to Indian
traders, was passed. It prohibits any per
son other than an Indiau from trading ou
any Indian reservation without a license,
but especially excepts traders with the
five civilized tribes in the Indiau Terri
tory.
The unfinished business (the Grant re-
ttreiueut bill) was taken up. Mi. Bayard
moved to amend by substituting therefor
a provision to pay to every President of
the United States who sLall liave served
or may hereafter serve in said office, and
who shall liave retired from tho same, a
sum annually during his life equal to the
one-fourth part of the aunual Presiden
tial salary, hut this not to be paid in case
of a second Presidential term. After a
long debate, Mr. Bayard’s amendment
was rejected—ayes 5, noas 51. An
amendment by Mr. Sherman prevailed
without discussion, making the proposed
retirement additional to the number au
thorized by law. The bill then passed'
ayes 35, noes 17. Brown, Call, Davis, of
Illinois, Jones, of Florida, and Ransom
voted aye with tlie Republicans. Other
wise the vote was a party one.
The bill authorizes Hie President, in
recognition of tlie eminent public services
of U. S. Grant, late general of the army,
to nonnrate and by aud with the advice
aud consent of the Senate to appoint him
to the anny witii the rank and grade of
general, to be placed on the retired list
with pay accordingly.
Mr. Logan reported back from the mili
tary committee the joint resolution intro
duced earlier in the day by Mr. George to
provide relief on accouut of the overflow
of the Mississippi, with au amendment iu
the nature of a substitute. The joint res
olution was at once taken up, tiie substi
tute adopted, and tlie same passed without
amounts appropriated in various divis- believe him to be honest. His olevation to
ions cf tlie postal service were proposed, ! the Supreme bench, said Hoar, with great
ail of which were voted down. Pending ’ excitemeut of manner, and pounding his
action on the bill tho committee rose. A ! desk by way of emphasis, would oo a dis-
number of petitions were presented by i grace to the judicial ermine, and he tbere-
diffeient members asking the repeal ot fore interposed an objection to prevent the
the tax on bank deposits and on checks
and drafts. On motion of Mr. King, of
Louisiana, tho Senate joint resolution
api ropriatlng $100,000 to enable the Seo-
ret try of War to isiue rations for tlie re
lict of the destitute persons in the district
consideration of the nomination, and in
sisted that it should taka the regular
coarse of reference to the judl
clary committee. A single objec
tion being sufficient to prevent
Immediate consideration, the nomination
overflowed by the Mississippi river was [ was accordingly referred to that commit-
taken from the Speaker’s table and! tee under the rules, without an opportunl-
passed. The House then, at 5 o’clock, ty for debate or auy reply to Mr. Hoar’s
took a reetti until 7 30. The evening [ remarks. The nomination of ex-8enator
session Is for tlio consideration of the Dis- Sargent as minister to Germany was then
A. Sleeping Tree.—A Western wri
ter tells the story, which no ether would
be likely to do with equal felicity, of a
tree recently brought from Australia to
Nevada, “which has been in tho habit, at
night, ot going to roost like the chickens.
The leaves fold together, and the ends of
the tender twigs coil themselves up like
the tail of a well conditioned pig. After
one of the twigs had been stroked or
bandied the leaves move uneasily and
are in a sort of a mild commotion for
minute or more. Indignant of havlnj;
been transplanted the other day, It had
hardly been placed in its new quarters
before the leaves began to stand up like
the hair of an angry cat, and soon the
whole plant was in a quiver. It gave oat
a most pungent odor, which filled the
house, and was so sickening that it was
found necessary to open the doors and
windows. It was fully an hour before
the plant calmed and folded its leaves in
peace. It would probably not have
e ven up the tight oven then had it not
:cn that its time for going to roost had
arrived. The whole household now
standi in awe of that plant.
debate. It appropriates $100,000 to be
used by the Secretary of War in tho pur
chase and distribution of subsistence
stores fbr the relief of destitute persons in
tho district overflowed by the Mississippi
river and tributaries, and authorizes the
Secretary to co-operate with the authori
ties of tho several States of which such
district is a part in making the diatrlbu
tion of the same. As reported, the meas
ure provided this relief for the laboring
classes, but upon the suggestions of Messrs.
Hoar and Sherman tho change was made
as stated.
After an executive session, tho Senate
adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Chalmers, of Mississippi, sent to
site clerk’s desk and bad read a telegram
from Whitman county, Mississippi, statint;
that the Mississippi river has overflowed
at that point and that thousands of col
ored persons were starving and asking for
assistance. He then Introduced and asked
for immediate consideration of a joint
resolution authorizing the President to is-
sue temporary supplies of food and disused
army clothing sufficient to prevent starva
tion aud suffering of destituto persons liv
ing on or near tho lower Mississippi river
who have been rendered so by reason of
the present overflow of that river.
Mr. Marsh, of III., saw no reason why
assistance should be confined to persons
living on tho lower Mississippi, and, on
suggestion of Mr. Kasson, ot Iowa, the
resolution was referred to the committee
on military affairs with leave to report at
any time.
The House at 12:40 went into commit
tee of the whole, Mr. Calkins of Indiana,
in tho chair, on tho post-office appropria
tion bill. Mr. Holman’s amendment,
offered Taesday, providing for the substi
tution of the snb-contractor for the original
bidder whenever it shall be ascertained
that the contract is sublet at less than tho
original price, was under consideration,
Mr. Bland’s substitute, prohibiting sub
letting contracts,was ruled out on a point
of order. Mr. Holman accepted Mr. At
kins’ amendment, offered Tuesday, as
part of ins amendment. Several other
amendments and substitutes were present
ed and refected or ruled out in the
course of a long discussion which follow
ed. Mr. Holman’s amendment, at
amended by Mr. Atkins was finally pass
ed by a vote of 00 to 83
Mr. Atkins offered an amendment pro
viding that if a contract is declared void
on account of having been sublet the con
tractor shall not be entitled to one month’s
extra pay as now provided by law.
Adopted.
Several amendments increasing the
trict of Columbia code bill,
Washington, February 23.—General
Rucker was to-day placed on the retired
list, and General lugalls was nominated
for quartermaster general.
•The President to-day nominated to be
postmasters, Jas. L. Edwards, Ennis,
Texas ; Christopher J. Terrell, Terrell,
Texas; Adrian N. Garvls, Novasota,
Texas.
Anew collector of internal revenue for
the second district of Georgia will be
nominated by the President to-morrow,
in the place ot Andrew Clark. It Is the
g eneral impression that the name of Win.
[. Johnson, of Georgia, will be sent in.
Washington, February 24.—An effort
was made to get up the bill pensioning
Mrs. Garfield, but the motion was rejected
and the calendar was proceeded with.
Mr. Bayard offered tho following:
Whereas, publication has been widely
made by the public press of the United
States of certain alleged commercial con
tracts between certain companies and
copartnerships of individuals relative to
tho etport of guano and nitrates from
Peru, in which mediation by tho govern
ment of the United States between tho
governments of Peru, Bolivia and Chili is
declared to ha a condition for the effectua
tion and continuation of said contracts,
therefore be it
llesolved, That the committee on for
eign relations be and hereby is instruct
ed to inquire whether any promise or
stipulation by which interven
tion by the United States in
the controversies existing between
Chili and Peru or Chill and Bolivia has
been expressly or impliedly given by any
person or persons officially connected with
the government of tho United States, or
whether the influence of tho gowrnment
ot ’ the United States has been
in any way exerted, promised or in
timated in connection with or in relation
to said contracts by any one officially con
nected with the government ol the United
States, and whether any one officially
conncected with the government • of tho
United States is interested di
rectly or indirectly with any
such alleged contracts, in which the medi
ation as aforesaid of the United States
recited to be a condition, and that
said committee have power to send for
pei sons and papers and make a report of
their proceedings in tlie premises to tho
Senate at the earliest possible day.
The resolution was referred to the for
eign relations committee. After the morn
ing hour, Mr. Allison, who, as a member
cf the appropriations committee in charge
ol the iramedate deficiency bill, was
awarded the floor, yielded temporarily to
Mr. VanWyck, who addressed tlie Senate
upon tho necessity for an investigation of
tho subject by that committee.
The Senate then took up the immediate
deficiency appropriation bill, and the
amendments of the Senate committee
were read aud agreed to. Additional
items for the subsistence and education
of tho Iudian tribes are inserted; also one
of $30,000 to expedite the construction of
exhibition cases in the new building for
the National Museum,and $60,000 for the
necessary expenses of the Garfield and
Burnside funeral. The bill was Anally
passed without objection.
After some contention between Mr.
Bayard and Mr. Miller, of California,
upon their claims to priority of considera
tion fir the tariff commission and the
Chinese bill, a motion by Mr. Miller to
take up tlie Chinese bill prevailed (ayes
35, noes 16), and the measure was laid
over as unfinished business.
The Senate then, at 4 o’clock, went into
executive session, aud at 4:45 adjourned
until Monday.
HOUSE.
Mr. Belmont introduced a resolution
calling tor information relative to the
Peruvian correspondence. Mr. Kasson of
fered as a substitute the following resolu
tion:
Whereas, it is alleged in connection
with the Chili-Peruviau correspondence
recently officially published on the call of
the two houses of Congress, that one or
more ministers plenipotentiary of the
United States were either personally in
terested or improperly connected with a
business transaction in which tho inter
vention of this government was requested
or expected; and whereas,it is alleged that
certain papers in relation to the sarno
subject have been improperly lost or re
moved from the files of the State Depart
ment, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the committee on for
eign affairs he instructed to inquire mto
said allegations and ascertain the facts
relating'thereto, and report tlie same,
with such recommendations as they may
deem proper, and they shall have power
to send for persons and papers.
Mr. Belmont accepted the substitute,
upon a statement by Mr. Kasson that it
was intended to cover all tho ground cov
ered by his resolution, and tho substitute
was thereupon adopted without a divi
sion.
Several private bills were reported from
committees and referred to tho private
calendar, among them one for the relief
of Mvra Clark Games. Tho House then,
at 1:15, went into committee of tho whole
on tho privato calendar. At 4:30 the
committee rose, and after passing a num
ber of bills ofa private nature, tho House
djourned.
Tho President to-day sent to the Senate
tho following nominations: Roscoe
Conklin”, to be an associate justice of the
United Slates Supremo Court, and A. A-
Sargent to be minister to Germany. Also
Walter H. Johnson, to he collector of
internal revenue for the second district of
Georgia, and Harry T. Griscom, to be
postmaster at Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Senate to-day confirmed Henry F.
Hariot as collector of customs for the dis
trict of Georgetown, South Carolina.
Conkllng’s nomination for the Supreme
bench was a surprise to every one at tho
capltol to-day except a very few Senators
who had recently received an intimation
of it from the President, but who kept the
secret inviolably. It was this afternoon
au absorbing piece of comment. There
seems to be no difference of opin<on
among Senators as to ConkliDg’s eminent
fitness for the position, but in view of his
declination of the chief justiceship when
offered to him by President Grant, some
doubt is expressed by several of his inti
mate friends as to whether he will ac
cept tho present appointment. The gen
oral belief is, however, that he has accept
ed it in advance of his nomination. 'Xhe
nomination of ex-Seuator Sargent to the
German mission was also unexpected at
the capitol. His friends were taken by
surprise,as he had not sought it or expect
ed any other office than that of secretary
of the interior. It is understood that he
will accept the place tendered him, and is
rather gratified to thus escape from the
storm which has been raging about the
interior department and the hard work
attendant upon the position for which his
nomination was expected.
The House committee on elections
spent nearly the entire day on the Utah
contest, and late in the afternoon decided
to report to the House that neither Can
non nor Campbell is entitled to a seat,
and declaring the seat vacant.
When the nomination of Senator Conk-
)lng as associate justice of the Supreme
Coart was read in the executive session
of the Senate this afternoon, a motion was
made to take it up for immediate confirm
ation. Senator Hoar thereupon took the
floor, and warmly said that while he
referred to the committee on foreign rela-
tions, under an objection to its immediate
consideration, which was interposed by
Mr. Cameron, of Pennsylvania, who is
understood to be fdeadly both to hlmind
to Mr. Cenkling, but who desired to pre
vent the appeaiance of any invidious dis
tinction between the cases of the two
Senators. Prominent members of both
political parties in the Senate predict that
the two nominations will be confirmed by
overwhelming majorities whenever they
are reached for final action.
The amounts alio wed by the committee
to audit the expenses of the Jjifkness and
burial of President Garfield to the attend
ing surgeons is stated by a member of the
committee to be as follows: To Dr. Bliss,
$25,000: to Drs. Hamilton and Agnew,
$15,000 c«ch; to Drs. Reyburn and Boyn
ton, $10,000 each; to Mrs. Dr. Edsou, $5,-
000. Mr. Crump, steward, is allowed $3,-
000, and the other employes of ihe Exec
utive Mansion two months’ extra paj
The committee recommends the appoinj
mentof Surgeon-General Barnes to
rank of rarjir general and his retire:
at that grade, and tho promotion ’
Woodward to the rank of
colonel. The committee has
to grant to Mrs. Garfield the rcnuBTder of
her husband’s salary for the enfent year.
Tlie report will not be jKanimous.
Messrs. Springer and Blackhyi will sub
mit a minority report, opting most of
the items allowed.
11 played poker was with
The Heavy Drop _
Nashville
the
Diilsvllle a-d
Speculative
The ma
first, i
feet* A'oio York Special.
I has mTbeen a more disastrous
since tho February
: ago. Without a fearful
: storm added to the gloom,
t began to decline at the very
a young panic was under way in
Shares were pitched over-
the thousand, aud the entire list
off. An especial drive was made
it Louisville and Nashville,
rumors noticed in these dis-
yesterday being repeated,
tho addition that large quantities of
company’s paper were being offered in
thp street indorsed by a Western Car
Trust Company. President Baldwin de
nied the story that there were dissensions
in the board of directors, but it is plain
S i there is one. Baldwin was asked
ut the company’s floating debt, aud
reply was: “The less said about It
better,” which was all thd reply he
would give. The feeling In the street is
that the stock is ju3t a3 likely to go much
lower as to stop. It is plaiuljfcuuder the
control o! those whs are manipulating it,
and if they desire to drop it a dozen
points more they may do so without op
position.
Various stories were afloat as to the re
lation of Mr. Newcomb to the I/mbville
and Nashville interest. He was not long
ago president of tho concern and organ
ized the whole system. The failure yes
terday at Louisville of one of the greatest
of tho large distillery establishments of
the West, with which his name and family
are connected, prompted the story that ho
is compelled to throw overboard his sup-
>osed large holdings in the Louisville and
Nashville road. Again it Is said that he
has joined hands with Gould to crowd
down the stock, and that his action in do
ing so is one of the causes oi the row in
the board of directors. Of this row it is
said that one side charges, among other
things, that the dividends declared were
not fairly earned; or that they should
have been applied to reducing the floating
debt, and the other taking the ground that
the condition of the company warranted
the division.
One side of the contest combined with
the outsiders to depress’the stock—this
side including, it is said, the former pres
ident of the company. It has also been
rumored that the object of this side is to
secure the control of the company, and
oust the party which now has t{ie presi
dency, and brine the property into closer
relations with the roads controlled by Jay
Gould and C. P. Huntington. This con
test has been raging for several weeks, but
only recently did it show itself much in
the market price of the stock. The fact
that Louisville and Nashville stock has
been doubled withlu the last two years, al
though not now heavily capitalized per
mile, has made it comparatively easy
work to unsettle confidence in the price
of the new stock.
THE PIRATE Ktxa.
Henry Wntlerson'a Little Game ol
Poker.
Ouo of tho readiest observers of the hu
morous side or life, and the very cleverest
al describing funny things he sees, writes
"M. H. F.” to l!:r Chicago Tribune, is the
young comedian Nat Goodwin. He was
tellieg the other night of a little poker
party into which he dropped, where the
silent aud saturnine Shed Shook and the
gallant and intellectual Henry Wattersnn
were doing the heavy business.
Wattcrson had lately heard the opera ot
“Penzance,” and lallea in love all over
again with its melody; particularly was he
pleased with the Pirate’s song and ever
and anon he broke forth and warbled “I
am a Pirate King,” or he burst out and
whistied a bar or so, as be held his band
close to bis critical eye. Poker, a3 several
Chicagoans know, is not a conversational
game, but Mr. Watterson was m luck, and
no varied his musical outbreaks by an oc
casional reminiscence. Nat cheerfully
played in the amount he thought he could
contribute to the evening’s amusement,
left the table, and, as a looker-on, becan
to enjoy himself. Just then Tony Hart
and a young man named Billy Barry—
Ethiopian delineator and variety per
former—happened in. Barry was unac
quainted with tlie person of Mr. Watter
son, and probably never heard of the
Courier-Journal. Watterson had just
picked up the cards, passed them under
his eye, aud whistled a bar of his favorite
song, when he casually remarked:
*The last time I plaj
nt.”
*1 was with Grant, the old mansaid,’”
recited Barry—“I s’pose the general?”
“I said the general—General Grant,”
responded Watterson, lcfUly.
“Oh, bear him!” Barry addressed Hart.
“Just go on to that—Grant! I s’pose
Roscoe had a flush as usual, eh? Ob,
playdekiards!”
Mr. Watterson looked hoirified at the
low interruption, but relapsed mto Lis
meiody, and informed the party in A mi
nor, that he “was a Pirate King.”
At this juncture Tony Hart found he
held a pair of kings aud a pair of aces,
and began betting.
Watterson softly whistled and passed
his nose over his cards.
“I have ill reason that I can see to re
frain from seeing you and going $50 bet
ter. *1 am a Pirate King.’ ’•
Tony investigated ids hand again with
such good results that the stakes were
raised. By this time the other players
were out. Watterson and Tony had got
up »o $300. “The Pirate K*ng” was com
ing up with a piccolo precision from the
editor's^mchered lips; bis head was on
one side like a magpie, and that gentle,
soft expression, so often detected iu the
Courier-Journal, sat on the editorial face
as Tony called.”
“What have you got ?”
“Two pair,” auswered Watterson.
“So’ye I—can’t be beat either.”
“I am a Pirate King,” sang the editor,
as bo laid down two pairs—all jacks—aud
raked in the money. “I am a Pirate
King.”
“I’m paralyzed if you ain’t,” groaned
Tony, as the stakes disappeared, and Nat
Goodwin came away satisfied that if there
are auy pirate kings in tho poker tTade
Henry Watterson takes the little crown.
Mutual Benefits*
BEING desirous to ooavort a large portion
of their stock ot Dry Goods into CASH,
have determined to offer goods for the
Next Tliirty Days,
at eneh prices as cannot fail to attract pur
chasers.
WE WILL OPEN ON MONDAY AN
Extensive Bargain Counter
Whereon will bo displayed a variety of
goods, which tho limits of an advertisement
will not allow cs to ezmmorate
Wo wish it distinctly understood that we
are NOT SELLING OUT, nor is this ad
vertisement one of the ancient stratagems
to draw custom. .
Those in want of
Dry Goods
of any description will please favor ns with
a call on MONDAY, and be convinced that
we are prepared to make some sacrifices in
order to rodneo our stock. Respectfully,
J. W. RICE & CO.
febl9dAwly
^ BLESSING TO WOMANKIND.
Dr.
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br malt on receipt of price, hr.
Clarke Hedldns Company. K«W
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secondary o'rUTtrtryiara
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A SCEXE IX IltELAXD.
SInmmotb Cave.
Dithop lVarren.
One’s general idea of a cave Is that of an
open space under ground, or in a mount
ain side. Mammoth Cave is made up of
passages, avenues and tortuous crooks
rattier than ri vast open spaces. You cau
take the short route (seven miles), to be
done in two bouts, the long (aixteeu
miles), to be done in tour, or the combined
to be done Id from five or twelve or more.
Wo chose the combined. There are ave
nues down which one could drive a coach
and four if fairly cleared up on the floor.
There are places that are mere cracks,
justly named “fat man’s misery,” “tall
man’s abasement,” aud “corkscrews.”
Hero is the river Styx, Lake Lethe and
Echo river, running under an arch sc low
that a little rise In the water renders pas
sage impossible. Sometimes it rises un
expectedly and leaves parties in the dark
beyond the arches unable to return till the
wator subsides. I saw the eyeless fish of
tlieso dark rivers; their principal use in
this world being to servo Dr. Bushnell
for an illustration in his sermon on “the
extirpation of unused faculties.”
Here and there amid these long pas
sages are open spaces called “domes,”
where the water-carved rocks rise ninety,
or a hundred, or a hundred and thirty
feet from tlie floor. When these places
are lighted np by the brilliant Bengal
lights they are both weird and grand.
The variety of formations in this cave sur
passes anything I have ever witnessed.
In most caves the stalactite and stalag
mite systems are easily understood, but
the lower ends are delicately grooved in
various directions, by what process it is
impossible to imagine. Intermingled
with these ham-like figures are variously-
sized guttm, as delicately cut as those of
the Greeks on the l’artbenon.
In some parts of the cave the gypsum
has cryslralized into snow bails that glit
ter over the whole roof; in other places
there are delicate flowers, some eight
inches in diameter. The stalactite pillars
aro comparatively few, but exceedingly
curious. In one place a dozen form a
kind of bower, in which four couples have
been married. The first bride had prom
ised her mother not to be married while
she lived on the earth. A very foolish
promise, and this was her way to keep it,
and also get married.
How a Process-Server Was Forced to
Eat HIM Writ.
Dublin Irish Times.
At the usual fortnightly petty sessions
held last week—the presiding magistrates
being Col. Stuart and Mr. T. B. Wilson—
three young men named Corbett and a
mau named Sena were charged with hav
ing murderously assaulted a process-ser
ver named Shcedy.
Patrick Sl’.eedy deposed that ho had re
sided in Carrick-on-Suir, and w&3 a pro
cess-server. Ou Thursday, the 20th of
-December last, he got a number of writs
to serve ou tlie tenants of Mr. Scally. The
writs were for rents-due. Iu the discharge
of that duty he proceeded to Ballyneal,
and served some of the tenants with
writs.
“While you were serving those writs
did auytbing happen to you?”
“I bad them all served but two—one
for Mrs. Shea and another. I got os far
Shea’s house, and as I entered the farm
bouse,Shea, the prisoner,met me. He said:
'Sncedy, I never thought I would see you
at this dirty work.’”
“Did anything happen to you then?”
“Yes; I heard voliei iu the kitchen, aud
I became frightened, and, turning, rau;
but before I got twenty yards I|was seized
by three or tour persons, aud dragged
back into the kitchen.”
“Were the writs taken from you?”
“Yea.”
“After you wore taken to the kitchen
did anything happen to you?”
“Yes; I was knocked down $n tho
broad of my back, and several parties
shouted, ‘Shove the writs down bis
throat.’ ”
“Can you say if the prisoners were tho
parties who shouted, ‘Shove them down
his throat?”’
“I was too terrified to know who did
it.”
“Were the prisoners there at all.”
“Yes; they were all in the kitchen.”
“You say that you were knocked down
in the kitchen. When you were down,
did anything happen to you?”
“Yes.”
“What.”
“As soon as they shouted, ‘Shove the
writs down his throat,’ I pleaded lor
mercy, but it was no use, and one of the
party stuck a writ into my mouth, and I
was held down until I swallowed it.”
“They made you sa allow the writ ? ”
“Yes; Shea’s writ.”
“Did any of the prisoners take part in
this?”
“It was not they that shoved tho writ
down my throat, but they assisted in
holding me while It was being pushed
down my throat.”
“Did you swallow more than one
writ ? ”
“I was kept down nntil I swallowed
tho other.”
“Did you get any water to wash them
down?” [Laughter.]
“Yes; alter 1 swallowed the first writ
somebody said to give me a drink of boil
ing water, ai d after that I got some dirty
water to drink.”
“And after yon got the water they made
you swallow the second writ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Did anything else happen to you ?”
“Yes; I was cuffed and beaten, and
threatened that If I ever was got st such
dirty work again I w ould not get off so
easily; and just as I was going out of the
kitchen running a kettle of boiling water
was thrown alter me, but it did not dome
any barm.”
“Had you to promise that you would
never again go writserving?”
“I had.”
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■For weakness of the Klii
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Inf recent o- loss staudiex. tbs to
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rjlllEKE IS A BALM IS GILEAD
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A cold or more throat may not seem to
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toUo’.TPd byctm>mu|iilnn or diphtheria.
No medicine has ever been discovered which
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FERRY DAVIS' PAIN KILLER. ThO
prompt use ot this invaluable remedy baa
saved thousands of lives.
PERRY DAVIS' PAIS KILLER Is
not on experiment. It has been before tho
public for forty years, and is most valued
Where It Is best known.
A lew extracts from voluntary testimonials
read os follows: i
Parc Killed has been my household remedy for
colds for tho put twenty-«ten year*, and havo
* CUfe '“
ForVcityi&w l have iwl Paik Killed, and
fouud it a tierer-fallim? remedy lor cold* aud rora
throat—Uartos Seaman. _ ,,
Hare reed red immediito relief from^eolds and
and <
sore thm-t. aud courldcr your l’-vix Kitiu aa
jural Uihlo remedy.—Ueo. B. Evzoeit. Uicklnson,
’ i invo rest recovered from a vtry severe add,'
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year*, and have never
I harm uaSStPaik Kills n In my family t
five years aro aud have used ltererstoca tm
found nomedirtDototnkoltopUak—BA
Aa Orator Dispute to be Settled.
Washington Star.
Since their colonal days Maryland and
Virginia have had an irritating subject of
controversy over their boundary line in
the Potomac river across Chesapeake
bay and in Potomac sound. The water
area in dispute contains some valuable
oyster bods, and dredgers from the two
States have frequently come in conflict
with each other’s supposed rights, or
rather the rights claimed for their States
respectively. Tb«re is now, happily, a
fair prospect of a compromise agreement
upon a boundary line. A report prepared
by arbitrators appointed some two years
or more ago, has been taken up by the
existing Legislatures of the two States,
and they have, through conference com
mittees, arrived at an agreement upon
compromise boundary line. It is the in-
conceded* Conkliug’s great ability, and ' tention of both States to put the terms of
that no man since Webster had tur- j this agreement into law very soon, and
passed h'ju in Intellectual force, thus settle forever a question of difference
hebelieved that Conkllng had used his , between the States that has at times
powers lor bad purposes, and he did not threatened to assume serious importance'
Five Phetty Girls Who Fainted
—A sleigh-riding party of young folks
from “on the bill” left this city for Creek
Locks, N. Tuesday evening, and on
their return the sleigh was completely
overturned. Those quickest to their feet
looked around for their companions, and,
recognizing Willie Winter’s feet projecting
above a tremendous snowdrift, extricated
the nearly smothered boy. Several lost
their dancing pnmpe, but giTe up the
search for them when they discovered that
five girls of the paity were missing. A
fruitless search in the snow greatly alarm
ed the party. The girls’names were called
ont over the wide expanse of cheerless
white, but no answer came. The other
girls began to cry, and the boys admitted
that they felt more like being at home.
At last Bishop, the driver, raised the box
of the sleigh, and there were fouod in a
dead faint, clasped in each other’s em
brace, with their hair rudely tossed about
their peaceful faces, the Misses Fanny
Yau lloesen, Annie Alulks, Lulu Wads
worth, Nettie McCausiand and Jennie
Winter. A wild cry of joy at the discov
ery, suddenly changed to sobs of grief and
terror at the stale of their companions,
awakened the unconscious girls, and the
young unfortunate pleasure-seekers sought
tbelr^homes.—Kingston Freeman.
«I move,” said a delegate iu a Virginia
couvention, “that our chairman take a
dose of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup; be is so
hoarse that I cannot understand him.”
The gentlemen had, no doubt, tried this ]
wonderful medicine. J
anti 'iff*r* taUojr ’s lew doses -lira* completely
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rail ill a rinpi* Instance. TUaii
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’act you should
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* and cold
derful care, and I wish it could be 1
poor mothers who are losing so many «
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Delays aro often dangerous. A bottle ot
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Sitters
Old fashionable remedies are rapidly
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