About Georgia weekly telegraph, journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1880-188? | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1882)
(Heacgtsi ^Ljeljegtaplj »kS 3fxm£tta!l & JKfe^«ssrttg«)tr THE TIXEQBAPII ft HEWE.MUEK Dally ml Weekly. TbeTnE-.i-.Arii jvn Mi-i.smi: 1* published mqr day, except Monday, and weekly every Friday. Tnt Daily Is delivered by carriers In the city nr mailed postaga free to subscribers at J1 per month, fi50 fur three months. Si for six months, or ?10 a year. Tna Weekly is mailed to subscribers, postage free, at $2 a year and $1 for six months. Transient advertisements will be taken, for the Daily, at one dollar per square of ten lines, nr less, for the first Insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent Insertion; and for the Weekly at one dollar per square for each In sertion. Liberal rates to contractor*. Only tinplo column advertisements wanted for the Weekly. All communications, intended tor publication, must lx; accompanied by the writer's name and nddress, not tor publication, but as an evidence of good faith. Rejected communications will not be returned. Correspondence containing Important newr. and discussions of living topic*, to •elicited, but must 1* brief and be written upon but one sldeof the paper, to have attention. Remittances should be made by Epress, Money Order, or Registered Letter. All communications should bo addressed to J. r. IUhbO.fi. Manatees-. Macon, Georgia. She gfifflranh anti ffirescnflfr 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. '' . ' .
