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FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1882.
Special Notice*
We sradonta large number of this
week's laaue ss sample copies to those
•four friends whs are not snbscrners,
hoping that many ol them will be-
teme such after seeing the six© and
character ol the IIKEKEY TVL.E-
UilAVMi AS1*StESSESOKlt. Price
only 92 per year; or 91 for six months.
Clnbs ten to one poslollice address 915
Tint difficulty of Mr. Pleasant stepping
into Mr. E. C. Wade’s shoes is that Mr.
Pleasant’s foot is black. ,
Youb Uncle Wm. M. lies at Boling’oroke
and smiles up at the ceiling when he hears
the morning freights shrieking on the same
old schedule.
Tn cue enght to be a howl tbronghont tho
Republican North. The "nigger” was not
allowed to take the first prize in the late
alleged walking match.
Gapt. A. Ivxbsom B&anham, principal of
the Buena Vista High School, dropped in
yesterday to shake hands with his old lovs,
the Telegram and Messenger.
Am test ha tic young man in Cedar town has
had his Wilde sensioilities shocked by some
oocupant of the pulpit, and gives vent to
hia lacerated feelings in the Advertiser.
Tnx Peach Orchard correspondent of the
Oonstitution i« recommended to try a lit
tle pink root and a few drops of pare-
gorio. Next to fame, comfort is most to
be desired.
Jcd. Clements, of the seventh, becomes
the member of the Congressional cam
paign committee. That is his reward for
beating Dr. Felton. He is the onlyono
that has ever been able to do it.
Am indignant "fence man” in Rockdale
county -prings this question in the Conyers
Examiner: “Whether it is right to jail op
the stock without having committed any
crime is a matter of conjecture?” The
crime consists in tho owner's turning them
out and forcing them to become thieves.
Judge Toubgee is impressed with the
growing distinctivenens of American
thought and feeling in literature.” Many
other people are impressed the same way,
and some are even disconrged at it when
they remember Tonrgee’s first effort and its
isolated assininity.
Tnx Savannah bull dce3 not look well
sinco he attempted to butt Mr. Wadley's
engine off the track. Both of bis horns
ere gone, one eyo is missing, there is a mel
ancholy bobbed appearance abort his tail,
end the only reason ho does not limp is be
cause be is lame in all four of his legs.
The report of small grain in the head
comes from southwestern Georgia, and it
is in the boot elsewhere, for lack of postur
ing. A hard freeze, which is not unlikely
late in March or in early April, will pnt
this country on the edge of a calamity
greater than the Mississippi flood.
Hart, the colored walkist, owed his for
mer trainer $313. When tho walking
match was over, and while the creditor
was elbowing his way through the crowd,
Hart put on an overcoat, a plug hat, stack
a cigar in his mouth, and having knocked a
hole through the top of his quarters, crawl
ed out, dropped to the ground and slid
through a side door. It will be remember
ed that Hart is a Georgia moke.
Because the smaU^boys arewading in
the academy branch, you need not search
for last summer’s straw bat. If you snw a
lizsrd lolling on tbe south side of the ash-
hopper, it is no reason for you to yell out
for your alpaca sack. The fact that the
Swallows twittered about sundown on Mon
day, and a bee-martin was chasing a horse
fly around on yesterday, does look sum-
fiery, but before you throw the pine bark
and clap hoards from yiur snap bsan
patch, over the garden fenoe, jmt w lit till
you see your Unole Scott Clark punching
down a wasp nest from the "gabrlele end'*
of a salt house.
The chair has awarded the floor three
separate and distinct times to Colonel
Thornton, and if the noise and confusion
does not cease the chair will be csmpelled
to mention by name tbe delegate from the
oounty of Hall, James Longs tree t, and the
gentleman holding the postmaster’s proxy
from the county of Clarke, Mr. Emory
Speer. And the chair takes occasion to state
that if Smith Clayton and Steve Boston
again call for three cheers and a tiger for
General Gartrell while Dr. Miller is putting
Elder Hook in nomination, the chair will
order the Sergeent-at-Arms, Col. Pledger
to clear the galleries. It does the chair
proud to know and to announce that this
convention has given the oolored man and
brother an office without any pay. Col,
Thornton will now proceed in order.
A crotous occurrence took place in the
opper part of Jonee county a day or two
since. A gentleman, F. B. Haskiil by
nan e, set a trap to catch a partridge or so,
and wandered of home. On the following
accruing ho visited the spot and found
Within tbe trap two sheepish looking crows.
The case is, we learn, without parallel or
precedent, and indicates hard times in
Jonee. When a crow will invade an ordi
nary bird-trap for food, ’ you may wager
your inwards that there is not much out
side.
Bxroxixa somewhat excited over C. T. L.
and tbe foeail’s attack on the Teliobam's
correspondent, tbe Atlanta Constitution is
betrayed into the assertion that ‘ the Uni-
teraity at Athens has been the Alma Mater
nf nearly every Georgian who has any claim I 10 that 1 Ul ° unIv eraity, and tlie crowded
Of nearly e ry rg* commencements and fine si-hoLiEtir- .ttAn.T.nM.
Tbe Latest Coalition.
A correspondent of the A’lanta Consti
tution signing himself C. T. L., whose
principal efforts hitherto have been di
rected toward the peach orchards and
carp ponds in the neighborhood of Griffin,
has recently journeyed to Athens in search
cf an item, and possibly notoriety. As
long as the concspondent aforesaid con
fined himself to the neighborhood ot Grif
fin, he gave evidence of being on the right
path In his laadablo efforts to attain
prominence in his profession, but in in
evil moment, stimulated probably by an
occasional paragraph upon tho narrowness
of his sphere, he went • forth to new
fields, and tell into the hands of
a Pliillistine. In short, the cor
respondent, when he reached Athens,
was skilfully snared by a fossil whoso at
tention was attracted by the gaudy trap
pings and newness of the adventurer, and
who used him to gratify a wounded van©
lty, although tbe wound was some seven
months old, and should have showed signs
of healing ere this. Dr. Mell was not pres
ent to pio'.cct the young roan; hence tbe
evil which befell him. It seems the iossll
and the fresh correspondent met; tlie one
eager to divulge, the other eager to receive.
Under the circumstances it cannot..there
fore, be a matter of wonder that
view was formulated, and the x
thunder of a comparatively terrific
plosion followed. Like produces like,
arc sometimes reminded, and the
view, which we propose briefly to discuss,
bears the earmarks of fossilism and fresh
ness.
The key to tLe whole occurrence, if
we may be allowed to apply so calm a
description to what had been intended
for a disaster, was the fact that last July,
the Telegraph and Messenger sent a
staff correspondent to tbe Athens com
mencement to observe and report. That
the correspondent observed and reported
can be demonstrated by the files of the
paper, even bad not the coalition between
the fossil and the fresh correspondent
quoted from it. To stale It in proper
order, the Telegraph’s correspondent
reported and then observed From day
to day he reported tbe proceedings as thoy
occurred, and when the dost of departing
feet were being shaken by the visitors,
handed in bis observations. Something in
the report aroused the ire of an interested
party, and lie seized upon the observations
as a pretext to weep an hastily formed
tear. A careful examination led us to
select tbe following from the ipport as
the shaft which fell upon his tender sen
sibilities:
Taken altogether, the speaking was fully up
to the Sophomore standard. There was one
tiling, however, that detracted from the exhi
bition, and tbat was the extreme age of the se
lection. A glance through the preceding pro
gramme will show you what I mean. "Amer
ica” is getting a little too old for a Sophomore
to handle, and there are newer and more ap
propriate remarks upon the “Union” than
those of Webster. “Liberty” Is a little thread
bare. We are told that the price of liberty Is
eternal vigilance; tho selecting committee
would haye us suppose that the price is eternal
repetition. This country doubtless owes a debt
of gratitude to Chatham, Webster and Henry,
but Athens alone in the last fifty years has
paid that debt. The walls of the college build
ings have been bombarded wltit their words,
and the annual assemblages have been bored
with them, until a general rest all around is
imperative, unless the University Is desirous ot
dropping to tho rear. Somebody ought to ex
plode a bomb nnder the responsible parties to
call their attention to modem subjects and
newer ideas. And there Is too much sameness
In the selections. In yesterday's programme
there was not the slightest touch or trace of hu
mor. It was simply a steady stream of anti
quated eloquence, dotted here and there with
gestures and punctuated with faint applause.
Do not mistake me. The oratory was good and
the eloquence was burning. But people do not
like to be burned every year with the same el
oquence They prefer being burned with new
eloquence every year.
Our correspondent alter wards explained
that being recently in attendance upon
Mercer’s, Wesleyan’s and tbe Middle Geor
gia Mechanical and Agricultural College
commencements, the want oi a delicious
newness at Athens, so to speak, impressed
him forcibly. Hence tbe language of the
teport. But we digress. Let us hurry
on to the climax. When the smoke of
the commencement had blown away and
a list ot casualties could be obtained, our
correspondent handed in tbe following:
The “decay of the university” is a subject I
have heard discussed frequently during my
brief stay in Athens. I know not, except upon
the assurance of others, that there is decay, but
the charge is not only made but admitted
among the nmmnl of tho university, who re
member tbe institution when it was crowded,
and tho city on commencement day when
every available sleeping apartment was fully
occupied. I must admit that my prophecy of
a brilliant commencement this year was not
fulfilled. I nm_afrafd It was made upon the
assurances of others, and the first brief rush of
visitors. Tho truth Is, the crowd this year is
small. This, of itself, is looked upon as decay.
The two causes which operate to the detriment
of the university, it strikes me, arc these:
First, though it Is second In weight, there arc
too many prominent politicians among the
trustees, men who have received their elections
as honors and hold them os such, rather than
through any peculiar fitness for the position o
devotion to their trusts. This year the trustees
were conspicuously absent. A few doubtless
have causes to keep them away,but many have
not. The greatest mistake, however, the uni
versity makes Is Its failure to advertise. I do not
mean to criticise the action or want of action
on tbe part of any one, for It may be tbat the
institution cannot afford to advertise, butccr-
tain it Is that the failure operates overwhelm
ingly against the institution. If there Is any
one thoroughly established troth It isthatevery
business needs advertising to make it a success.
Even heaven itself must be painted In attrac
tive colon, and it Is done so weekly year in and
year out. I have been unable to find the slight
est trace of advertising on the part of the uni
versity. I did not even know that Hon. J. II.
Cox or J. C. Rutherford were to address the stu
dents until the one put in his appearance and
the other failed. Even the programme was not
published In tho papers here. Perhaps some
will say this shows want of enterprise on the
part of the press; that it Is tho paper's
business to keep the public Interfiled.
I do not think such an assertion, however, can
be Justified. Publishing a newspaper Is a busi
ness as well as educating the people, and it is a
business In srhlch men invest their money aud
labor, and have a right to expect a return. If
tho university docs not see fit to placo Us
claims and attractions before the people, It is
no more the paper's -business to do It than it
would be to single out a close-dealing merchant
and boost him along. A paper cannot afford
to float a town and its business because the
people subscribe to It. The fact that pcoplo
may think so does not alter the case. The
books of the newspaper are tho best evidences
that It cannot be done. The action of our
Middle Georgia colleges Is In marked contrast
to dAtinetton.” A more ridiculous asser
tion ooald hardly have been promulgated.
There it a host of distinguished Georgians
vho have never even seen Athens. Fromi-
aant those who do not claim her
flor an Alma Mater, we oan now remember
ganator Colquitt, Judge J. H. Lumpkin,
JndgoH-J. Warner, Senator L.Q. C. Ia-
mar, Jodge Martin J. Crawford, Congress j here reaches only the small number of eighty"
'* ° unless there Is an error in the direction indi
cated?
commencements and fine scholastic attendance
ts evidence that their advertisements pay.
It has been said here tbat the result Is the
same; that, while the university loses, Its
branches gain. As far as the cause of educa
tion is concerned, it may be the some, but It Is
not the same to the university.
In pointof faculty and accommodations, tho
University of Georgia Is equnl to any in the
South. Why, then, is it that the attendance
man Julian Hartridge, Jesse Mercer, Ben
£?Joe Brown, Kx-Govsmor J. M. Smith
•ad tn flenet-rr Norwood. Editor Harris
hae won an enviable distinction
riotaa from Athens. Tbeuni-
P mom eolwtenHst than
One reason given for the failure to attract a
crowd this year i* that the rumor bad gotten
out that no hotels would be open. It may be
■o, but a S3 advertisement would have reme
died even that
These arc the facts as we have gathered
them together. The coalition between J
the fossil and tho fresh correspondent took f
place at Athens, presumably last week,
ami a column and & half in the Constitu
tion, over the signature C. T. L., was Lite
result. In this column and a half the
Teleghapii’s letter, repubil.hcd above,
was denominated "a gross outrage,”
"most sensational in character,” "a high
ly colored story,” “a piece of hurnbng-
gery,” the-emanation of a “disordered
brain,” and so forth, and, In fact, so on.
The coalition even went so far as to in
clude In our report the charge that
"tlie faculty was waning, the buildings
crumbling, and the wliule university
decaying.” Overwhelmed with tho In
spiring tale which the fossil poured Into his
willing ear, the fresh correspondent went to
pieces at this point. To reverse and para
phrase, old wine was ponred lqto a new hoU
tie and the bottle burst. Burning with the
wrongs of bis quondam friend, be snpple-
mentd^iis indignation with a voluble his
tory of the claims of Athens and her won
derful prosperity. Then he went home,
while the fossil, placing a finger upon the
side of his nose, gave expression to a wink
as long and intense as that which is sup
posed to grace the face of a man who has
temporarily mislaid his glass optic.
Properly, the story should end here.
The letter of our correspondent, which in
itself gives the lie to what hss been writ-
n concerning it, Is near the head of
this column and speaks for itself. A few
comments, however, may not be Improp
er. First, C. T. L. bases his whole effqrl
upon the supposition tbat our correspon
dent had glared tbe “decay of tbe Uni
versity” aMuid, when really in tbe first
four lines h^mecllned to make such a
charge. Secon^ no where does it ap
pear that anyt^K lias been charged
against the facuIty^wiveDiences and ac
commodations of th^kivarsity. On the
contrary, it was asscrtmPthal, “in point of
faculty and accommodations, the Univer
sity of Geotgia Is equal to any in tbe
South.”
Oar correspondent went farther and ex
plained why tbe crowd was small and
pointed out the remedy. He did^riticise
tbe policy which led the management to
refrain from puttins forward in the city
press the attractions of the day, and his
report was made to say there were but
eighty pupils iu attendance at Athens.
The criticism was just aud respectful. The
number of pupils in attendance, when
placed at eighty, was a typographical error,
and openly corrected upon his retft-n from
Athens. In fact, not one assertiem of his
report has been disproved, or has anyone
attended to disprove it in any particular.
Mr. C. T. L. says he was led to write
his letter because of tbat maxim, "When
a lie is given the rein, it will travel round
the world ten times while the truth is put
ting on Its boots.” Very well. We have
placed boots upon the truth, and li
the coalition can make its letter travel
ronnd the world ten times as fast as the
Telegraph the maxim will have been
proved again. It Is, with us, always a
pleasure to prove these old maxims.
Cotton Statement.
According to tho Financial Chronicle
of Friday, March 3rd, the receipts at all
the porta since September 1st, up to that
date were 4,038,483 bales compared with
4,G70,0£C hales in 1SS0, showing a falling
off compared with last year ot 611,598,
and as compared with 1880,221,783 bales.
The receipts for the week were 51,080
bales against 133,031 bales last year, and
78,451 bales in 18S0.
Stocks in interior towns on last Friday
were 343,072 bales against 322,45S bales
last year.
The total visible supply is 3.122,121
bales, against 2,078,352 bales last year,
and 2,013,052 bales in 1880. These fig
ures indicate an Increase in cotton in
sight on last Friday night, of 143,709
bales as compared with 1881, and of 508,-
400, as compared with corresponding date
of 1880.
Middling cotton In Liverpool last Fri
day was QJ, at the same date last year 6 j.
Tbe Bnema Vista Railroad.
We regret to learn that our friends in
th6 neighborhood of Buena Vista have
suffered themselves to pause in their ef
forts to obtain a railroad, when success is
almost at hand. If our information is
correct, there is lacking only the paltry
sum of five thousand dollars of the amount
necessary to start the road, and connect
the thriving town and banner county with
cheap and ready markets. For the sum
of $51,000 a road-bed eighteen miles in
Ieogth, and extending to Geneva, can be
graded aud cross-ties placed upon it.
When this is done, the Central railroad
promises to supply rails, equip the road,
and run it. -Of the sum demanded
by contractors, $10,000 has been
raised by strenuous efforts, and
only a trifle yet remains unsubscribed.
While not authorized to speak for anyone,
we do not donbt bat that a largo part of
this amount could be raised by a commit
tee in Macon. Our city has a fine trade
in all tho section known as Southwest
Georgia, and especially in Buena Vista,
and our people would doubtless gladly
render additional assistance to the roadi
which besides doing much to bnild up
Marion county, would greatly lessen the
expenses of tbe many drummers who
have to hire private conveyances when
traveling to the county site. We trust the
managers will not lay aside the work ss
impossible. Tho day of opposition to
railroads has long since passed, and
they are universally regarded, and justly
so, as the greatest developers known to
man. The road In question, besides giv
ing Buena Vista an outlet fur its large
cotton crop, some of which is new hauled
all the way by wagou to Columbus, will
afford also a market for every variety of
farm produce aud quick transportation for
travelers. Pull of your coats again, gen
tlemen, and put tbe road through.
Tbe SMsqr Lanier Henserlnl Concert.
Elsewhere In our columns will be found
an announcement which will be received
with pleasuro by Macon’s musie-loving
people. The friends of the late lamented
Sidney Lanier have banded together to
swell the fund now being accumulated
fir the benefit of his family in many
parts of the country. Very appropriate
is tbe method they have adopted—poesy
and music, so dignified and honored by
the deceased poet-musician.
A reference to the programme will dis
cover that a musical treat is store for all
who will attend tho proposed concert.
The high order of tho selections made,
and the undisputed skill and genius of
tbe artists engaged, tears no room for
doubt as to tbe result. Tbe concert will
be under the direction of a gentleman a
large portion of whose life has been de
voted to such work, and in tbe list of those
who will assist we find the names of nearly
all of Macon’s finest musicians and vocal
ists. Among them is one, who, though a
skillful and graceful performer, has nev
er appeared in public.
We note with pleasure the hearty re
sponse made to the call by our musicians,
and trustrthat the public will honor them
and tbeir cause with a large attendance.
Battling; Old Hickory'* Bones.
The taint odor of peach blossoms which
one catches on the sweet south wind is
not more premonitory of a rapidly ap
proaching spring tbau are tbo newspaper
interviews, hints, dispatches, etc., that
early preparations will be made for the
Presidential campaign of 1SS3. With
keen appreciation of tbe situation, Gen.
Hancock’s friends on his recent and hasty
run through the South lauded him, and
the country has been treated to some very
nice oratory by wire, in behalf of the suf
ferers by the floods, and a quick and
heavy appropriation for tbe Mississippi
river. The note of preparation thus
sounded has fallen upon other aud eager
ears, an l tbe first primary is to be held
In Chicago on tbe ICtb day of March,
tbe birthday of Andrew Jackson,
popularly known as, and called
Old Hickory. As tba faithful and foot
sore pilgrim drags Lis weary way to
Mecca, to draw new inspiration and
strength fiom the worship of tho Prophet,
and the zealous Catholic seeks a shrine
at which to kneel and implore tbat some
of the virtues of his patron saint may be
given as blessings to him, so a syndicato
of Democrats are to gather about tbe
hospitable board of the Iroquois Club, at
the Palmer House, Chicago, to rattle the
bones of Old Hickory, in tbe hope that
from his history and example his follow
ers of to-day may take courage and hope
to gird themselves for victory in
the coming and great campaign.
‘■Gentl eman George” Pendleton is to
he there with his boyish figure and face,
aud Jere Black, bewigged on the outside
of a head crammed with sage and witty
epigrams; and the ubiquitous and restless
Wattersou, chief fugleman of Mr. lilden,
aud Mr. Breckenridge. of Kentucky, ot
tho many prefixes in the way of names,
the same gentleman whose untimely and
effervescent oratory turned the Cincinnati
convention Into a lunatic asylum almost
In tbe twinkling of an eye. And besides
these, Mr. Thurman will wave his red
bandanna over h's nickel plated snuffbox,
while Bayard will be proper and severe,
and tbe scholarly Lamar will look un
happy and gloomy because Bayard is
his friend, aud the romance
of his nature has forced him to believe it
personal treachery not to support his
friend for president. Col. W. F. Villara
will have a napkin aud 5 boutonnaire,
bat we confess ourselves unknown, for
tbe sufficient reason tbat we do not know
Col. W. F. Villara. There will be the
roseate letter from Horatio Seymour and
the cool and crafty note of regret from
Samuel Tilden. Why Sam Cox was not
invited to help the fizz and sparkle of tlie
champagne, and Sam Randall, to act
as a wet blanket when tbe ca
rousal should threaten to degenerate
from affairs of state to a coarser and broad
er level,is not given out. Why the pilgrim
age to Chicago, whoso people do not know
of Andrew Jackson, or care for his great
fame, does not appear. Why the wicked
city, which is controlled generally by the
uncouth and implacable Logan, and sctnl-
occasionaliy by tbe loquacious aud un
balanced Carter Harrison, should have
been selected as tbe ttyst, is left to con
jecture, aud we scorn the suggestion, tbat
because tbe professionals have been put
under the ban, tbe keen scent of Watter-
son gave the point to where a quiet ama
teur game of draw might be most safely
Indulged.
Be this as It may, tbe meeting will be
held, la common with all good and
loyal Democrats we trust tbat old Hick
ory may be present in spirit, and tbat as
our representatives stow away the prairie
chickens and Fommcry &c of the Iro
quois club, they may become imbued
with some of that masterful and unquail-
Ing courage which made the name of
Jackson a synonym with success and the
shibboleth of victory. And if his spirit
cannot be invoked for tbe occasion, it is
to be hoped that tbe little knot of states
men will tarn deaf ears when Watterson
gracefully builds Mosaics with red and
while chips, and may proceed to the
Douglas monument to dance around its
base as they did in childhood to tbe
happy refrain of “Here we go ronnd tbe
gooseberry bush.”
As tbo mission of these self-const!luted
and self-invited gentlemen to take charge
of tbe memory of Andrew Jackson and
tbe Democratic party at one and the same
time is a public one, and has been herald
ed abroad throughout tbe land, we trust it
may not ba amiss for the lay members of
the party to send in contributions.
So we beg the gentlemen, when assem
bled, to bear in mind tbe fact thatjno An
drew Jackson, or any near approach to
him, will bo present. That the country
has produced but one Andrew Jackson,
and tbat it is a question of more than serf
oiu doubt if it can again undergo the pains
of maternity with the hope of a similar
result. Further, tbat the party that An
drew Jackson made and led stands Ibis
day cowed and abashed in the presence of
an usurper, and for tbe teason tbat it has
had no great leader with the courage to
announce a policy and the capacity to
carry it out. We beg of them to remem
ber.before tbe cracking of nuts and jckes
and bon mots, sad before tbe
fun reaches a point the memory
of which may be distasteful ou the mor
row, that the Democrat Who now has tbe
most of Old Hickory in him, is a New
Englander by birth. That from tbe posi
tion of Alcalde without commission, save
by consent to rule a mob of cut throats,
up to tho bench ot the Supreme Court of
the United States, upon every and all
occasions, in every emergency calculated
to try to the core all ot human courage,
consistency, character and capacity, Ste
phen J. Field Is the only name on the
Democratic rolls which suggests a man
of the necessary qualifications to bring
this country back to tbe constitution
again, aud to biud them together in unity
aui harmony.
Parson Felton gives evidence of being
a reader of tbe Sparta Ishmaelile. It can
not therefore be charged tbat the Parson
is totally depraved and lost beyond redemp
tion. The faot is the old inoeudiary is tbe
pouched dime of Georgia politics. The
metal is good, bnt even the oolored brother
rejects it.
Dr. William T. Bruutljr.
The death of this distinguished divine
so long a resident of Georgia, and so well j
known to a large number in our State j
renders a bi ief tribute to his memory be
coming to this paper.
William T. Brantly, Jr., was the son of
Dr. William T. Brantly, tho elder, nomcn
clarum etzencrablle, for years pastor of tbe
Augusta Baptist Church, and of Anna Me
Donald Brantly, a sister of Hon. Charles
J. McDonald, Goverrnor of
Georgia from 1S39 to 1813,
He was born in Beaufort, S. C.>
May IStb, 1810. Ia 1820, at ten years of
age, he moved from Augusta to Philadel
phia, when bis father succeeded the la
mented Henry Holcorue, D.D., as pastor
of the First Baptist church of that city.
Iu Philadelphia, therefore, and at Brown
University, Rhode Island, Dr. Brantly,
the younger, received his education. He
received a full course,'both literary and
theological, At Brown University, under
the distinguished Dr. Francis Wayland,
graduating with high honors in 1840. Im
mediately after being graduated be be
came pa3tor of the Baptist Church at Au
gusta, which position ho occupied eight
year*, doubling the membership of the
church and securing a costly extension to
the buhdir.g. In 1848 he was elected
professor of Bells-Lettres, history and
Oratory In tbe State University, which
position ho resigned in 1850 to accept the
pastorate of tbo Tabernaclo Church.
Philadelphia, one of the largest and most
important churches iu that city. Ha fill
ed his chair, while in our State Universi
ty, with great distinction to himself and
With credit to the institution, and those
eight years of professorial labors may be
reckoned as by no means the least, honora
ble and useful portion of his valuable
earthly career.
When the tocsin of war sounded in 1861
Dr. Brantly immediately resigned his
charge of tbe Taberoacie Church and re
turned to Georgia with bis family, becom
ing tbe beloved and popular pastor of the
Second Baptist Church of Atlanta. He
remained iu Atlanta, with the exception
of the time when it was occupied by the
Federal army, until 1871, wjieu he moved
to Baltimore end succeeded Dr. Richard
Fuller as pastor of the Seventh Baptist
Churcii, when that great orator and nobid
man took charge of tbe Eutaw Place
Church.
Tbe memory of Dr. Brantly is yet most
fragrant in Atlanta, where ho resided so
many years, and duriDg such turbulent
and tumultuous times; and there, as well
as in Augusta, there are those who weep
over his departure. The move to Balti
more iu 1S71 was his last. After nearly
eleven years of great and unvaried success
and usefulness there as preacher and pas
tor, he, on Monday last, fell asleep—
—‘‘that blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep.”
In person Dr. Brantly was
strikingly handsome, and, in manners, he
was eminently polite and courteous, agree
able and companionable. Without being
especially learned, ho was in tho highest
degree cultivated, and was at home in
Latin,Greek aud French, as well as iu the
arts and sciences. He was a perfect
belles lettres scholar, a finished elocution
ist, and bis stylo of spcakiug and writing
possessed a charming polish rnssfc delight
ful to the cultivated mind. To classic cul
ture he added a thorough acquaintance,
with polite literature, and to eminent pul
pit ability united the pleasing graces tbat
charm and delight the social circle. His
pure style aud felicitous diction wero
the admiration of all Ins bearers,
as his graceful aud courteous manners,
his polite gentility and his agreeable and
affable demeanor won tbe hearts of all
with whom he came in contact.
Twice was he most happily marilejl—
first to Miss Mary Ann Turpin, of Au
gusta, a daughter of Dr. William Turpin,
who became his wife in 1841, and died In
I860, leaving two children, a son and
daughter, both of whom are still alive.
His second wife was Mrs. Mattie Marston,
formerly Miss Mattie Walker, a daughter
of Colonel John B. Walker, ot Madison.
She survives him, a lady of great beauty
and elegance, with one child.
Drr Urantly’s death was sudden and
unexpected, for he was in the full vigor of
manhood, looking twenty years younger
than liis actual age. In all tbat he un
dertook in life he succet ded, and gloriously
so. He had reached the topmost round of
life’s ladder, as far as honor, usefulness
and success were concerned. And yet ho
acknowledged that all the mere honors of
life were nothing worth, aud tbat Ills
highest ambition was to be an humble
preacher of tbo gospel and an instrument
In saving souls, and at last finish his course
with joy.
Tbs desire of his heart was granted, for
he was one who could resign himself to
the final sleep of tho Christian, like one
"Who wraps tho drapery of ills couch about
him,
And lies down to pleasant dreams,"
certificate of character,” vs< the quick 5
and witty response. The country failed r
to endorse Conkliug. His party refused,I
and though he stalks off disdainfully, he
carries a mortal wound under bis broad
expanse of shirt front. Tbo political
wheel must revolve again beforo lie can
come to the fore.
MeellHK of tbe LecUlsture.
Advices from Atlanta Indicate that the
Governor will call the Legislature togeth
er to redistnst the State under the new
Apportionment bill. The reasons for this
ourae are many and patent, and there are
no reasons worthy of mention or consider
ation against it. If tbe General Assem
bly Is convened it would be best that It
should meet in the early part of tlie month
of May. This will be convenient to tho
farming element and will allow sufficient
tlme.to do the work and to.do it thoroug-
ly, before the party nominating conven
tions are called, wLlch will probably be
in the month ot June. The catl should
specify that the sesssion shall be devoted
to the work of redislricting and that uo
general or local legislation shall bo en
tered into. .
Coukllna Declines.
■The lofty Conkliug declines a position
for which by common oouseDt he was un
fit by reason of lack of preparation and an
unsuitable temper.
His action has but confirmed our opin
ion of tbe proceeding. Arthur raised him
to the beuch in order to parry a blow
which it was supposed tbat Blaine was
going to make iu the Garfield eulogy.
It is a common practice, and of long
standing in Washington to give decaying
politicians an endorsement by way of a
prop. The modus operandi is about
this: A man is given an apfwlntment,
which is duly heralded in tbo coart jour
nal. But before tbe matter ‘is made
public, the appointee is required
to write and deliver his resignation. Tbe
honor ia reaped, but not so with the emol
uments. Arthur has sounded public
opinion as to his friend Conkliug, aud tbe
Tbe Until on Central Stock.
Since the meeting of the stockholders
of flie Central railroad, which took place
In December last, and at which tho plans
and purposes of General Alexander &
Co. were made plain, the tendency of
Central stock has been downward. More
recently it has dropped rapidly, and there
are no healthful indications tbat it has
begun to touch a bottom so firm tbat a
reaction may be looked for.
Tbo main leasou for this recent rapid
declino is tbat, as wc took occasion to
predict sometime siuce, Gea. Alexander
has been unable to meet tbe expectations
of tbe speculator and brokers who were
following his lead. Ho has not been able
to deliver tbe promised goods. There
will be no division of debentures or traf
ficking in interest certificates, based upon
tbe property and earnings of the Ocean
Steamship Company. If we are
correctly informed, and wo incline
to the opinion tbat our information
is reliable, the young Napoleon
wbo has shot like a blazing meteor
athwart tbe railroad horizon, has, togeth
er with his followers, come to grief. lie
has faced bis Waterloo. At a late meet
ing of the Directory of the Central rail
road, the newly elected directors, and
those who were joined to tho Alexander
movement from fear lest they might lose
their positions upon the board, gave
the most solemn pledges, bearing all of
the force and solemnity of a legal docu
ment, that they would at once and for all
time, abandon the attempt to issue deben
tures or interest certificates, or to draw
quarterly cash dividends as represented or
guaranteed by some document drawn up
and deposited in tho vaults of the Central
Bank, Tbe issue came squarely between
the policy of stripping and squeezing the
Central railroad and tbe Ocean Steam
ship Company, and tbe wise and con
servative management which has hereto
fore conducted these great enterprises.
Gen. Alexander was not present, but
signaled his acceptance of the situation,
and at the signing and sealing of the
document aud at the subsequent collatii
of wbat one of bis adherents was pleased
to denominate as “cold crow,” he was
present by proxy, and partook of his full
share of tbe not toothsome dish.
The result of this action must of neces
sity be the dropping of the shares of stock
held for speculative purposes only, and
when they shall reach such a point as
will attract permanent Investors the mar-
jeet wilt become quiet. Under the stimu
lus of a promising crop and trade year it
may; advance, but these indicia are not at
present within tbe scope of human vision.
One year ago this present month, Central
stock was thought to be well sold at $110
per share, and this figure was difficult to
obtain. Since then the stockholders have
received an 8 per cent, cash dividend. In
addition to this the road has issued its
bills payable to tbe amount 0184,000,000
to the stockholders ot-the Central aud
Southwestern railroads. This $4,000,000
is equal to $0133-100 per share of indebt
edness.
Can any safe aud capable business
man give to himself or any one else a
sufficient teason why tbe stock should be
worth more wtib this liability titan without
it? It is a matter or genuine surprise to
us that with these facts stariug them in
the face, men engaged in the study and
practice of finance, should have persisted
in a plan until tho protection of the law
had to be iuvoked against them.
We are simply astonished tbat anyone
after tbe Screven Houso conference,
should have been willing to follow a lead
er who proved to he armed only with
a Quaker guu, when it was pop
ularly supposed tbat ho carried
charged Gatlings in his right aud left
hands. The legal proceedings hare not
been dismissed, nor will they be. It has
been deemed both wise and prudent to
keep them on guard, as a pledge of peace
aud good faith during the painful and
perhaps somewhat prolonged process of
delivering the brokers and speculators. It
Is a matter of gratulatlon, that a move-
•aent which not only Imperiled
tbe welfare of a great corporation,
but all of tbe varied interests of Georgia
dependent upon it, has .beeu successfully
met and thwarted, we may say, complete
ly overthrown. A similar one is not like
ly to court the same fate, soou again, and
the management of the Central road is
left free to adopt such measures as mav
seem best calculated to meet a declining
business aud active competition, so as to
protect tbe stockholders and to earn fair
dividends, if possible.
Our Supreme Court Deports.
On Wednesday morning of each week
we publish a list of the cases decided on
tbe day previous by tho Supreme Court,
giving tbo circuit, county, names of parties
litigaut with tbe judgment of reversal or
affirmed as tho case may be, aud also
sucb head notes of decisions as can be
prepared in time. On Thursday morning
the head notes of all cases decided on
tho Tuesday previous will be given in
full.
At considerable care and expense we
have b3cn enabled to add this feature to
our journal for tbe benefit of our subscrib
ers of ibe legal profession.
Tbe gentleman entrusted with this
work is capable, intelligent and conscien
tious, to which is added experience; aud
wo have the assurance of many gentle
men of tbe bar tbat liis work is done in a
style which, for intelligence, conciseness
and a full statement of tbe points decided,
cannot be surpassed.
Potash Fakbow has indited another let
ter reiterating the charge tbat Colquitt ran
off to Washington and hid the governor- j resa j t mas t be disappointing and roortify-
slup behind Aleck Stephens roller chair, ( A j e w days since we asked
white the bound, were no. ng around for * the ^ U Conk-
it in Georgia. Farrow u exhibiting as *
much solicitude for the "organised” as If wnuld acc.pt. “Urt.lnly,” be ro
be belonged to the omen chon*. ( P«ied. “And why?” asked we. “As a
Uncle Remus has clinched with a man
with his hat pulled over his eyes who calls
himself “Uncle Pete,” and they are grunt
ing and tearing up the sand like two fore
hands at a com shacking or a log rolling.
We venture to predict that when Uncle Re
mus flings him and pulls off his hat, it will
prove to be "Hightower Bill” who, believos
or pretends to believe that tho negro owes
nq duty to the State, but to vote for the
coalition party.
Thebe was a "postponed on account of
the weather” look about tbe English spar
row as he sat on the lee aide of his box
yesterday, and we infer that the chilly
winds have interfered with his proposed
honeymoon. Evidently he does cot rely
on the Txlkobaph for opinions, or he would
not, so to warble, be thus inclined to sit up
with Mr. U. E. Morse. It will be remem
bered that we called the early crocus a liar
more then a week since.
“No wobk on the public roads for tBe
negro” ia tbe last plank in the formulated
coalition platform.
EEKSOXAE |
—Kate .Field has taken to writing about
1 'r 'VS 1 . . IT ! . V T-y , s
—Mr. Gladstone otiered Mr. W. Cham- i
tmWQsaitrNAsnu,] knighthood, but 1
ho declined. * ]
—A son of Bishop Elliott, of tho Epis
copal Church of West Tcxa*, has been annuin'
cd to the cadetship at West Point.
“Mrs. Swltabeltn is out in another
card, assailing A'orahnm. She declares Hint
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham wen; a mural pv-ri-
leucc.
—Oscar wilt never forgive the paper
that said: "Occasionally, when he grev.* ani
mated, tlie can of tho leciurer pcekedthroiisb
hlshair."
—Robert Ratcliff, who was midshipman
on the English man-of-war which took Xapo-
leon to bt Helena, died a few days ago at
Nantucket.
—She wants to marry him, and her
name b Clan Augusta Davit. Ol course wc
moan the baudsoiao young lady who wrote the
letter to Gultcau.
—Gen. Hancock has returned to Gov
ernor's Island from his Western and Southera
trip.
—Mr. Swinburne Is writing a narrative
oem in nine books on the everlasting theme
of Trislam and IseulL
—John Kenny has sent his friend, Gen.
Spinola, a lovely Florida alligator, probably to
vHmuy k** aJmlrntlou tot Spioda'a services ot
—Gen. Swaim will leave Washington
to-day tor Cleveland, where he will visit Mrs.
Garfield in relation to tho settlement of her late
husband’s estate.
—Prince Leopold has been made a
colonel In the British army. It wouldn't do to
let tho young man marry without teaching
bun eomethlag about war.
—Henry Irving, the actor, and Dr.
Robertson Smith, the Scotch Pre.sbytcrian Bib
lical writer, have just been elected to the
Athciueumflub of London.
—Mr. Blamo says that the word por
trait of a murderer used In his oration was
quoted from a speech by Daniel Webster deliv
ered at a murder trial iu New England.
—The Hon. J. W. Book waiter Is not
dead. He Is not even sick. He lias purchased
a rolling-mill at Atlanta, Ga., and will further
demonstrate his ability as a wire puller.
LT—Governor Fester is sa'ul to be the
choice of tho Republican* of the present Ohio
Legislature for tho United States Senate In
place of Mr. Pendleton.
—A report comes from Boston that
General Duller is to take charge of the defense
in tho Gultcau case; also that new evidence of
Gultcau'* Insanity has been discovered,
upon which a motion will be made for a new
—It is asserted tbat instead of the fifth
this is the seventh attempt to take the life of
England's Queen. In the six instances the
cranks have been pronounced insane, and that
will probably be the judgment iu tho case of
MacLean.
—The Rev. W. M. Taylor, D. D., pas-
torof the Broadway Tabernacle In Now York,
has a salary of -10,000 a year with which to
keep tlie wolf from the door. His church lias
I, 032 members.
—Loudon Truth goes into raptures
OTer MrJaj|Mjj«^tho_llovelist, because he
Hivb
girls and plcasairri.rr-01,®F.
—The Dally Nines says: “The Queen
will shortly leave England fora few weeks’
rest and refreshment. She will have the grati
fication of carrying with her the best wishes of
the English people, all the warmer and all the
stronger for the Insult she has endured and the
lieril she has escaped."
—Dr. Brown-Seqnsi-d Las had con
ferred on him by tho Paris Academic dcs
Sciences the distinguished honor of the Grand
Prix Lecaze. This prize, valued at about 32,-
000, is given only In recognition of a lifelong
devotion to physiological science which has re
sulted in Important discoveries.
—Mr. Angell, president of Ann Harbor
University, was given a rousing reception bv
the townspeople and students upon his arriva'l
at that place the other day. Nearly three
thousand persons attended tho evening recep
tion iu hi* honor,
—Mr. J. T. Sweat publishes a frank
card in a South Carolina paper, reading: "La
dles and gentlemen of Hampton county: Allow
me most respectfully to inform you that I am a
candidate for school comwisrionerof this coun
ty for the next terra. Help! help! help!”
—Schiller’s letters to iris doctor, Privy
Councillor Stark, are not to be printed after
all. They arc owned by Prof. Martin, of I©lp-
sic, who says “that good taste and piety* silko
prevent him from giving lo tho world these
confidential communications from a patient
to his physician.
—Tho Rev. Joseph Cook got excited
and angry while speaking before an English
audience in Poona, India, recently, because
his hearer.; dissented with cries of “No!” “no!"
Mr. Cook at last exclaimed that "it is no uso
costing pearls before swine” and started off,
followed by cries of "who arc the swlnct” as
well as by groans and hisses.
—Milton J. Latham, who bad been suc
cessively a Congressman, Governor of Califor
nia, and a Federal Senator from that State, and
who removed to New York several years ago to
engage tn the banking business in Wall street,
died ut his residence in Fifth avenue. Now
York, Saturday, In the fifty-tlfth year of ills
age. Mr. Latham was a native of Ohio.
—Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, is a
man with respectable white side whiskers. His
style is lucid, smooth aua classical. It is en
tirely without color or warmth, and when ho
becomes impulsive he is slmDly bitter, incisive
and intensely cool, and hts declamation is like
a small hailstorm. Senator Hoar has an Idea
that in being classical of style he is without
faults. He Is as cool as iced vinegar.
—Henry James, the novelist, while i
Washington lately, is wickedly said by the Bo"
ton Oazttle to have asked a clever yonng lady
If there was not a river near tho etty called the
Potomac. "Oh, yes,” she said, "and I should
think you would know all about lt,bccausc there
isaplacennitcnlled Mount Vernon, where a
man named Washington lived. You nre sure
to have heard of him, 1 know, because his fath
er was an Englishman.”
—Venie Claucy, the burlesque actress,
died on Wednesday at her home In southern
California. She v.-ns a native of Cincinnati,
and the daughter of C. R. Gardiner, now a the-'
alrical agent In this city. She appeared first In
ballet with the Oates Cootie Opera Company at
the 1'urk Theatre, and mv mouths later was a
singingsoubrette. She sang “Evangeline” in
Rice's burlesque at Booth's, and afterward
went with Mr. and Sirs. Nat Goodwin In their
"Hobbles” companv. Two years ago she mar
ried Mr. Rennie Deseainps. and they went to
live at Nordhoff, southern California. She was
22 years old
—The police have ascertained that
MacLean, who shot at Queen Victoria, was
formerly an inmate In the Wells Lunatic Asy
lum, and was only discharged In September
last. A solicitor ha* written to tlie mayor of
Windsor, stating that he defended a man
named Roderick MacLean at Maidstone iu
1874, charged with attempting to upset a train.
Since hi* discharge from tlie Wells asylum be
has been confined in the Wcston-Super-Mare
asylum. Tho London police have information
that he was incarcerated iu a Dublin asylum
many months. ,
Senator BUI.
J. R. S. ill Chronicle and Conetilutionahtt.
I called on Senator Hill recently. He ha*
had all tho glands on the left side ot the throat
removed, au operation which was painlessly
performed, thunks to the blessed discovery of
elher. His hopes are that the disease has
been eradicated from the tongue, aud that It
will not reappear again in the throat. But he
Is a man of nerve, and not dlsiaiscd to conceal
from himself or friends the doubtful character
of liis complaint. He says: “If I recover, It is
well. If Idle, it Is also well. While I think
it strange that a man whose constitution was
formedby physical labor on a farm, and who
up to a year ago, never had a day of ill health,
should be atlllcted with an inexplicable disor
der of the blood. 1 resign myself into tho hands
of my Creator, who will do with me what secina
best to Him, aud either raise me up
for further usefulness or summon me
away. I await with patience either
event.” Willie it Is true that Mr. llill
makes no complaint of bodily sui-
fering, liis mind, never more brilliant or sug
gestive, chafes against resiraint. and lie has to
be checked by Ids devoted wife when some
animated theme spurs him to copious and elo
quent utterance. He welcome* the visits of
liis friends and insists main earnest conversa
tion, but I am not so sure that this exertion is
beneficial to him. He is like a caged lion, ami
regret* that he could not have participated in
recent Senatorial debates. He is full of a
speech on the political condition o( Virginia.
"It ought to be made," he rays, "but I do not
know whether I will t>c able to rankc it or not "
1 told him that tlie Reputilican Congressmen
expressed much sympathy for him, and lie
smiled when 1 repeated what one of the stal
warts had suiil in my presence. It was to tlie
efl'ect that nature could show no stranger para
dox when sparing the longue of a most offensive
babbler [I omit the name!, and making war on
the most eloquent tongue in the United States.
The doctors who have had Mr. Hill in charge
express the opinion that his tongue is prob
ably secure from further disaster. Tliev also
think that llie wound in hi* throat will heal
healthily, and that the chances are greatly In
favor of a gradual and permanent cure. But
Mr. llill has all along insisted upon tho frank
est statement, and, from the beginning,assured
Dr. Gross that he could endure even a death
sentence from his litis without flinching. It
was inexpressibly pathetic to sec *o much in-
telleetunl and physical power held in sns-
IX'iise. Rut it w as also * grand sight lo behold
tlie strong man reverently surrendering his
will to that of God, and content to abide the
best or worst result. He Is missed from the
Senate by everybody, and there will be general
rejoicing w hen Mr. Frye shall have no further
reason to ray, a* he is called upon to vote :
"I am paired with the rhsuStor from Georgia,
Mr. Hill,” and when "our Ben,” alountdc
of Senator Brow n, can answer for himsell and
Georgia.
Preparations for important, changes
In tlie secret work of Odd-Fellowship are now
beitig made in Baltimore by a duly authorized
committee of the order. Judge Garay is the
chairman of the committee. The ritual has
been so far revised that portions of it have bees
placed in the hands of the printer for distribu
tion to lodges everywhere in • short while.
nanviiiKh.
The German troops will adopt the new
vi ivhig li'le wh'd. 'i ) • tig u-'-d by many
: the French . o ■ .
The Egyptian '.overntnerit Ira* declined
IC apple'll.hill !> • J,.—<-i~ l t; .li t til©
is boon arranqed
M, ’ on
inhabitants of
■ rv have express-
rumen: :o settle
the Thames, lo be pulled Slav
Onk hundred thousand
tlie new Chin -c Kuldja t.-rril
cd a wi -h to tin- KessJan govt
iu Russian territory.
A WOMAN has just walked with an in
fant child from Philadelphia !> Chicago. Ah
there Were no ouNhiiiding bet- on her. and no
gate money, she h:i 1 to go io the workhouse.
One of the interesting particulars in re
gard to the silver plates of which the tier. Dr.
Magoon was rcecnljsjrobbed is that they were
once used by LaFayctU-, who aie hi-, dinner
from them.
A florist will introduce next summer
tlie "Oscar Wilde sunflower.” Tiie plant is
dwariWi and pyramidal iu form; the flowers
nre small, with jet-black center, surrounded by
mi overlnuping row of broad, deep, golden vef-
low petuU.
Sandy Fairly (who has just put Half
a crown Into the church plate instead of u j>en-
ny, and who is not allowed to Like it berk):
"weel, week I'll get credit for tun fin' sax iu
Heaven!” The elder: ".Sa, na; you’ll only
get credit for a penny."
A conductor oa the Lake-shore road
locked a freight car door on two robbers niwl
carried them to Ashtabula, when • lively light
resulted from the attempt to transfer them to
jail. Both were finally secured uf: r one of
them had been shot three times.
A 'Western minister recently remark
ed from his pulpit; "When a couple of agnos
tics came and wanted me lo stay and argue
with them on ‘religious hypotheses' 1 -aid u»
one of them in the wonlsof the prophet, 'Abide
ye here with the ass while I go yonder and wor
ship.’ ”
A banquet in a steam boiler w as re
cently given by a German manufacturer in the
Duchy of Baden to celebrate tho completion of
one of tho largest steam boilers In toe world.
Inside the boiler a table was arranged fur thirty
guests, while racks for tho crockery and urines
were placed along the sides.
On tbe evening of March 3d., Leon Mil
ler, a merchant of Union City, went to the
woods, flung a noose over the limb of a tree,
fastened his legs and anus and then sprung off
a projection fifteen feet from the ground, nearly
pulling his lieud from the trunk. Be was sixty-
five years old. No cause can be assigned.
Amsno the American things that are ac
knowledged in England as having a dangerous
eomjictition with old English goods nre the
American magazines. Seme of the "Ameri
can” travelers who In European re'taiirunts
fondly and wistfully watch the little erven i>cas
roll mnllciously off tho blades of their knives,
may now shout "beef and brains.”
When Bertbold Auerbach set out for
Mentone he resolved, it is said, never to rclurn
to his native country, so mortified was lie with
her Internal condition, and, above all, w ith the
treatment accorded to tlie Jews. It is also sahl
•riiat he declared that he desired it to be made
JJnovvn niter his death that he died of -u-roiv
and shame for the present state of the father
land, in the future of which lie had lost all
faith.
Mb. Hollow at of England, in mem
ory ofhis deceased wife,has endowed at Ihiglinm
an Institution for the higher education of wo.
men. Tlie college buildings nre palatini in
size. The principal is to l-e a woman, and qual
ified female phy-u ians are to reside at Uio col
lege. Mr. Holloway has conveyed to the lms*
tees a sum of £400,OtiO. Tho students are to be
auosred to choose their own places of w unu.ip.
A hunter Darned Mix, who lives in
Weldon canyon, Solano county, Cal., near
Pleasant Valley, met with a panther or Cali
fornia lion one day last week and shot at him,
hitting him in one foot. He then took after'
Mix In a manner indicative of tieliL Mix ran
through tbo brush until he arrived ut a safe
place, when he faced the brute nml gave him
another shot, killing him. The lion was a
large one, measuring ten feet from tip to tip.
It is smcelly pleasant to read that
Rev. Sthcplien Gladstone, rector of Ilawarden,
has been good enough lo return ten i>cr cent*
of liis tithes the fumicr, of that extensive
parish. Looking to the fact that this enmpara-
tirely young gentleman is paid more Unm c|,-
0CJ a year for Conducting tv, < > service* i 'er week,
ho can allbrd this little bit of extravagance,
especially since English farmc:s are hi-Riming
toast themsolmwilythayshonid pay tithes at
all.
Professor Gyrus Thomas bus made
a study of tho Mexican manuscript called tbo
“Manuscript Troano," which was gUsroftnd
by the Abbe Bresseur de IJourbourg In INGA nnd
has concluded that it is a genuine Mava doca-
incut: and that- it is a rctigi.uis eihudar of
some kind. In which the day characters are
used for the puriiosc of designating the days
and not for the signification of the word-, and
tlmt it confirms the substantia] correctness of
Lauda's characters for the day. He has begun
the attempt to decipher hlerogtvphi; - of tho
text.
Tjie Chicago Inter-Ocean draws tbe
tlie following picture of Ihe delightful .-i.nation
of affairs in that city: All over the city man
are to lie found ready to insult any ladv w iinm
they find v.nprutccte t. They represent thieves,
niet-pockeis and cheap mashers, who are at
large ui>on straw ball for None eriir c. nr nt lib-
criy by reason oLucquiual on a technicality.
A gentleman in Paris owns a liattd-
He
some and valuable dog named Blsi
recently received a note from the Gan.:n em
bassy Inviting him to remove the name front
the dog’s collar, and to cea*© callini: tlie ani
mal by it. under pain of prosecution, uih.ii the-
ground liiat the patronymic belongs c:.. fusivcly
lo the German Chancellor, and tlf embassy
cannot allow It to be publicly applied to a dog.
“Malaria,” "malarial f. vor" and
"nervous prostration” have become unpopular
terms in Washington, because pcoplo haver
cynically come to. believe that they they indl-|
cate tlmt the patient, if a man. Is onlv suffering
from the effects of much ivint'at tanner. Sit
thnt when a Washington person lias an attack'
of honest chill* and fever he prefers thn' It
should b« tiellcved that lie ha> pneumonia,
small-i>ox or some other innocent ili-ease; but
he shudders at "malaria."
Amena, the daughter of the chief o£
the Algerian revolt, is the great licauty of the
Arab tribet. She appears to be distinguished,
above all her rivals, not only for her loveliness,
hotter her accomplishment* llkewlra, laing a
lKHitcsM of no mean order, and for Iter courage
in the field, where she takes her piaee t.y her
father's side and gallop* fi’arlcshh on her Arab
courier, a* licet and powerful a* his own. The
picture Is worthy of lluracv Yen: t. the French-
men ray who have piireucd the llyiug host un
der But! Amelia's command—the'chivt with Ills
white t».unions flying behind him, and the red
ami purple tassels of his horse gear dancing In
the wind : while the dark litse and while
striped veil of tlie girl, with its gold Uinler,
flashes in the sun ns it floats out hevond the
long streaming tail of her flying steel.’
Ire Scuwindelmkyer is a relative of
old manSchwindelmeyer, of the well known
Galveston firm of Sehwlndelmeyer ,v Co. Ike
Is a recent importation from Germany, and
travels for tlie fine, lie lias a ver\ great opin
ion of himself, and thinks that Schwindelmeyer
owns this world and has a builder's lien on tlie
next. Not long since young Ike S liwindie
mever visited Houston. On the morning of his
arrival, after breakfast, he started up the ave
nue. it hupi-eucd that the funeral procession
of a promlnant citizen was also proceeding up
the avenue. Ike was abreast of the hr..r>e, and
the gentlemen on tlie tides remove 1 their hats
and remained uncovered until the hi jn© had
passed. Ike took all this to tiiiiiseii'. aud po
litely returned the salutations with suuic plea*-
ent remark, as “A beautiful morn ing, -luiitie-
mens!” or "How ish yerself to-day v” There
was a larger crowd of gentlemen nt the comet
of Pecan street, ar.d when Ike and the hearse
nine they all took off theli hats reverently.
Ike wa« moved at tills universal !:■ mage, arid
exclaimed half-con Aden tinny to himself: "I
vouder who tele ’em X v’ash traveling for
Schwindelmeyer A t o.”
Experiments show that the new
chrome leather—the result of the new tanning
process by bichromate of potadi—exceeds in
tensile strength the hark tanned article; also
that after it lias set under the necessary stress
it still retains an cxtraordiiiarv amount of
elasticity, which is available for lightening
machinery ladling on pulley,. As illustrating
this statement, the fact Is shown Altai a piece ol
chrome leather bore an ultimate stress of 2,297
iKiunds per square Inch—this example prov
ing the examples of the chrome-tanned leather
to be stronger than (lxc berk-tauned hr some hi
]ht cent.
Additional details are published con
cerning the late Bradlaugh Incident In the
House of Commons. While the result of the
division on Mr. Labonchcre's motion was being
made known Mr. Bradlaugh rose from the scat
which he occupied on the cross bench below
the bar and advanced rapidly to the table. | n
s moment ai I eyes w«e upon him. Tho House,
taken completely by surprise, expected that ho
would address them. Instead lie dipped his
right hand suddenly into the left breast pocket
of Ills frock coat, pulled out a small, dark, shiny
octavo volume, with red edges, which he tran»
ferred to his disengaged hand, made a second
dive and brought forth a piece of paper, made
a third dive and drew from his waist-coat Docket
a stump ot pencil, and amid exclamations of
astonishment, not unmlngied with groans of
derision. ”*abbled“ throuih a form of wont*,
inaudible above the din of dissent, kissed t£S
little book? towed it behind the crowunf SS
mace and held up the piece of paper in tba *L
rectloii of the chair, gt the same tin# —is—
out in an excited though triumphant vutree ‘d
tender that as the oath.” "*»■*. ra.
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