About Georgia weekly telegraph, journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1880-188? | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1882)
5= #- %kn (Usocgia Meekly ^leg^apt? im& 3fm,temtl & Me:53u?ttg£K. fUSdSAFH * HEUEKOER Pally »a1 Wcctely. *Avn axd MMMB l* published jr, exespt Monday, and weekly every Sax-M-g-.v If delivered by * h . e l c i£ exud postage free to nlMibaj at si per ^mtSh, JtSofor three months, 8-j lor Mx tmaedSa. or (10 a year. fteurli mailed to subscribers,poatage •am, aCa year and SI lor six months, aasm-xd advertisements wUl be token, fortoo BuOT. at ooo dollar per square of teni Una, fisswsyfc'Sw'SsfS'S! —trfomn advertisement* wintefl xor AffLcKramlcationi. intended for publication, anSbeoceompanlcd by the writer's name m*a uktre-K-, not lor publication, but as an —*7 '* L Sui^nidrn• l|t ""~ will not be returned. conUlning lmportont new*, ■wuiis of living top lea U solicited. mom be brief and be written upon but Meal the paper, to have attention. ' ipece should be made by Eprcss, Money < ’ m luXdonT'lumld'be addressed to FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1882. «w Federal beef-eaters were aa thick as hssasoind a beer keg in Atlanta on yes- iUranriB of Esculapius” is the latest, is max Escolapiua was a man of family, M. crop of redbngs is coming np lux- They will bo ready for use by fit inson. imrtm to ita last analysis, the question Ah Sin take in washing at less than ties?” copper-toed medals have been de- * Then it was tree after all, that haak studied astronomy on Wall street. iftmvivn has declined to lecture. Much for this, my lord. tanvu nothing above a colonel at to Markham House gathering. Where, rifc.1 ihtre was General Gartrcll ? tam« Brown, of Kentucky,one of the ■ft xl Chicago, is the author of the late loi ter ixfhe Washington Post, assailing the itea i« fr i' nf Garfield. teas is to have a marb'e playing tonr- nnil Give us n dny or two for chalking Hatfcanbs and oiling bis knee hinges, and me win sorter oar Unele Johnny Maund. T3sxCongressional committee has caught ■fciph*id, but the old man did not have tea kiodest-scented letter about his person. Imgton -nxm" made him absent- x Mason, in giving his descrip- i to the Albany prison authorities, said tea lied ao religion. He will find religion tee aafy comfort nbout the Albany peni- Tk the new Bliss is no better friend to teitear than the old Bliss was to Garfield, IteSScaans hnd best begin sending flowers teTMt David Davis. Kazut Longstrcet is running a coalition auras, some of his strikers slip ont and aSaokan old and unarmed man who was tesaSega washnotfnll of earn. Sun Wattxbsox claims to have dis- euiesed that Parisians eat jackasses. And mma you cannot get Henry to pass through iPetiv Kentucky, on anything slower than tee Igktning express. Tat question "la Gould solvent?” ha 1 to be heard on Wall street. Even sort narrow-minded of skeptics must win a man who can shake 3,000,OCO of the linir gs of his vest. The Outlook. From time to time our local columns havo indexed the improvements going forward In Macon, and have shewn a most gratifying prosperity. The truth Is, never in the history of the city has there been such an era of prosperity. Right and left, from the river to the railroads, from the swamps to the wooded hills, new buildings are springing np, new lots are being laid off, divisions and subdivisions by reason of demand, taklDg place. Standing upon an eminence overlooking the city, the eye is greeted with the glare of new shingles, the nose with the scent of fresh paint, and the car with the sound oftbobusy workman’s hammer beatiDg tattoo upon the nail. The merchants and the men of business generally mpre with a quickened pace, their faces wearing that look which mvanably accompanies a satisfactory condition of trade and ex change, while the laboring man goes whistling to the scene of his daily efiorts, cheerful over the fact that his time and skill are in demand everywhere. This condition of affairs is indeed gratifying, es pecially when is remembered the numer ous disastrous failures in adjoining com mercial centers, and tho of hard times which comes from manjQectlons of the State. Like all forward movements made by the city, this one has the quality of soundness. It is no sudden flurry in values, the reaction from which Is to equal the advance; but a rapid growth from reasonable and natural causes. The city Is peculiarly and happily situated, In the midst of a rich and populous district, close to the market it supplies—which means through rates upon its purchases, local rates on sales for short distances only, and a rapidly revolving purchasing power—without a rival who can stand the pace, the commercial centre of a com munity gradually becoming prosperous, and governed by liberal yet cautious business men, operating with home capi tal. Such are some of the advantages which she possesses to an extent not pos sible elsewhere in *he State. There is another cause, however. While neighboring cities have engaged largely in speculation this season, and havo lost heavily, Macon capitalists, whether from a previous lesson or be cause the people were loo busy, we are not prepared to say, avoided the tempta tion of stock ami cotton speculation with a singular unanimity. The recent de cline of stocks hurt nobody here, while cotton, when it tumbled, os wo are as sured by a prominent broker; carried with it less than $3,000 of Macon margins. The business gains and the surplus, which fn other cities went into the great i the hubbub over Garfield’s weak- ••subsides and his memory is left to ala aping of the Washington Republi ■t 3t is just possible the presence of tho ^administration will bn detected. Tnx are having a big to do ont West rererBoflitt, tho first surveyor of toe falls •f Ha Ohio. Somehow or other we have affray* associated a follow by that name ■ite tbe numerous falls in Kentucky. A Canadian paper prides itself on asking tekf Hell’s Gate should bo blown np and ariff retained. Onrfog-befozzledcon- is not good at pozzies. We Mbs ap Hell’s Gate to let the foreigners in trad i he Americans ont Skn Washington Republican is engaged low doable contest It is defending the Btewy-Brady ring on the one side and markld on tho other. Aa may be imngin- tsMte managers are not getting out a atessdj religious publication. 2L LH. Elizabeth, of Austria (no kin (■te L Kimball, of Fulton) threatens teas!end her fox hunt to America. Liz, *■* do ns proud. Come down to Bibb if and go snipe hunting with the boys. Wo guarantee you a Wmaasoa’s journal has taken the free ttedsdoctrire into the regions of poetry, ntproduees it in a couple of hop-and-go- fitedMt verses. Truthfully speaking, we are inclined to think that free trade be- teagp to poesy, and Watterson’q. refined of tbefact ought to be patted site back. A lkaqce offensive and defensive be tesas the straight Republicans and the in- dtesudents has been agreed upon. The- tteri* of it is that the straights take all of 11* federal offices, and the independents »*> enioy all the State patronage they ■ag he able to win ia-the coming cam- »«n. The regulars lay out the militia 03 ■aaL A Tennessee editor feel* himself driven tefb* conclusion that every man in Geor- colonel, and all of the colonels are for governor. It is evident that tea Tennessee editor has recently Ciseov- mmi sad broken up an Illicit distillery. A jcjfjcUy sober man would have discovered Mad Georgia colonels are the men who sit ^ above the printing press and play ten iteriwifh the gubernatorial candidal s. »man Keifer, like all Republicans, Tes that just so soon as he is —-—-1 office, ho becomes an autocrat, tella* Home- recently he threatened to reprimand Mr. Money, a member from dBsaasippi, and tho Democrats made it so aaan for him he hnd to explain away his test. His discomfiture has furnished tho f rem generally with fun. Col. Looses, the great Amorican rail- aend traveler, was among the ipostprom- IsaBt'and distingue figures hovering about Ha coalition caucus in Atlanta on jester- tep. It is rumored that the Colonel will x* a vindicate for State treasurer. His j;-.cat feat of thrashing the Atlanta police i T<*>,by whacking them on the shins,takes ; ukiu by the deeds of prowess of Wiley ■wilding. now transpires that Gen. Skobeleff , not imprisoned for threatening to 7 -ns out all of Europe. On the contrary, ft Canr only pinched his ear nnd said, folly: “you naughty boy! Tickle me apaia.” Acting under this flattery, Skoby declared that he cannot on'y clean ont ternut«, but is willing to meet the Atlantic •ceas la a Grieco-Roman wrestling mr. ch. stly Skoby is a bigger man than old whirlpool of speculation, in this city have gone or are going into substantial dwellings, extended business operations, manufactures, new stores and general Improvements. It has been said here frequently of late by a class of people who would examine a hundred thousand gold dollars present ed them to ’detect one of light weight, that the boom will end without au echo, and real estate, which has-advanced so wonderfully, will shrink below its former value. We do not believe it, nor is there any reason for such a prophecy. Warned by the tight days of last summer—which, however, never shook a firm in Macon— the merchants are dealing with caution and not the dealers alone, but the pur chasers. The farmer, for instance, by the statements of several prominent agents, have purchased forty per cent, less of guano than they did last year, and in the division of their crops, evince au awaken ing to the importance of raising their own food. As we stand on tho einl nencc, gazing right and left, see the hills and valleys green with barley, oats, wheat and rye, and throughout the crop reports published in Sundayls Telegraph we remember the oft-repeated assertion received from every section, “such a grain crop was never be fore seen in Georgia.” This, and the promise of a largely increased acreago in corn, sums np a prophecy of better times for the farmers generally. When the far mer prospers, everybody prospers. We do not believe the enimatcs of the small grain crop are unsound. To our mind, the short sales in guano, to a certain ex tent, confirms them. It is not likely that the fanners have lost forty per cent, of their faith in guano for cotton, in one season, but they have never been over whelmingly in favor of guano for grain In dividing their crops more equally be tween cotton and grain, they have bad less use for guano. We have mentioned some of the signs of bright times. Let us consider ono more. Few there are. now but acknowledge the shortness qf tho crop of ’8l-’82. Fivo and three-quarter million bales is the gen eral estimate. Whether tbe speculators can run down the price of cotton is an open question; but when we consider that the whole Mississippi valley is inundated, the people impoverished and the fired unfit for cultivation for many weeks after tho wa ; tors have subsided and the le?ees built, we are frank to say we cannot s.o any chance for quotations to drop below the cost of production, while on the ether hand, there Is every reason to hope that they will keep tip. Taken all m all, we see no reason why we should look for cloudy days. In the centre of tho State, with seven railroads to tap tho surrounding district —with an eighth projected—with a healthy growth of manufactories, with work for every man, and a demand for all material offered, we refuse point-blank to be any* thing else than cheerful. Cotton Ntatement. According to the Financial Chronicle of Friday, March 17th, the receipts at all tho ports since September 1st, up to that date, were 4,174,CS9 bales, compared with 4,018,422 bales in 1881, and 4,394,250 bales in 1880, showing a falling off, com pared with last year, of 733,733 bales, and as compared with 1880 of 219,501 Chapter II. The manager of the Telegraph and Messenger Is making every eflort to place before its patrons one of the liveli est newspapers In the State. Neither spins nor expense is being spared to crowd its columns dally with fresh intelligence and general information of interest. With associated press dispatches, a 2ipst ol special correspondents, an extensive and comprehensive exchange list, reliable market reports, a full editorial staff and a fine corps of advertisers, the paper pre sents peculiar claims to tbe people of Georgia, more especially those ol ths cen tral, southern and southwestern portions. To tho citizens of Macon who propose to keep themselves informed, it is au abso lute necessity, and should be thrown upon the front porch of every residence in tho ity. To assist in carrying on tbe extending process, to which the Telegraph’s swelling subscription list is dally being subjected, it has been found necessary to employ an additional canvasser. The paper, we believe has been fortunate iu securing the services of Mr. Cosby W. Smith, Jr., a wide awake and energetic young graduate of Mercer University. Mr. Smith will devote his attention for a few weeks to the home district, aud will call in person upon every nonsubscriber re siding here. Wo especially commend him we to tbe public, and respectfully suggest that for tbe first time in many years, a daily paper fully abreast with the age is offered in this section, aud should receive a lib eral support. Thanking our friends for past favors we close the chapter. Receipts for the week ending on last Friday night were 67.454 bales, against 108,200 bales in 1881, and 40,011 hales in 1880. * Stocks In interior towns were, on last Friday night, 284,303, agalust 320,500 bales In I88L The total visible snpply up to tho 17tb Instant Is 2,088,782 bales against 3,080,858 bales in 1881, and 2,583,704 bales in 1880. These figures indicate a decrease in cotton in sight on last Friday night of 02,070 bales compared with last year, and an in crease of 404,088 bales as compared with 1880. , Middling cotton in Liverpool last Fri day night was 0 11-10, and same dale last year it was 0 3-10. ^ Fbitov and Gnrtrell are evidently look* in# for their unkissed kisses. • The Klee Interest. We have just received the last census bulletin, showing the production of rice in 1870, tbe census year. According to the report, there were produced In the United Stales during that year 110,131,373 pounds of rice. From Alabama came 810,889; Florida, 1,294,677; Georgia, 25,- 300,087; Louisiana, 23,188^11; Mississip pi, 1,718,951; North Carolina, 5,000,101; South Carolina, 52,077,615; Texas, 02,152. From this report It will be seen,that Georgia stands second in tbe list of pro ducers, and supplies about 23 per cent, of the entire crop. Tbe rice interests are protected very beneficially by tbe tariff, and to this protection Georgia is indebted for her prosperity in this branch. The total rice crop of the season 1805 00 was only 11,000,000 pounds. Now the crop of this State alone Is ^|uble that, while tbe tout crop is more than ten times as large. Colonel JohuScriven, of Savannah, in a speech delivered before the late tariff convention furnished some interesting comparisons and statements upon this question. We quote from him: “I may say that tbe whole or the American product of rice is consumed in this country, for but 150,000 pounds of American rice were exported last year. * * Tbe gross production of the Southern States from 1870 to 18S0 was 007,000,000 pounds, aud in the decade I have named there were imported into tbe United States 039,000,000. • • • • I have only to add that the total con sumption of rice in tbe United States at the present time is 135,000,000 to 145,- 000,000 pounds per year. We will as sume that nearly half this is foreign rice. It is plain that If you abolish the duty and take away the sustaining power af forded by it to tbe Southern producer, the result will naturally be the establishment of tbe same monopoly which brought large quantities of foreign rice into the United States during tbe late war. What was the result of that? Simply that prices of rice then rated at 13 to 17 cents. What do we see now? The average price of rice in this country is about 6 to 64 cents per pound. That is brought about for the benefit of the American people; and 1 believe solely and entirely from the beneficial influences of your tariff.” Fleecing the Farmers. Wo are always ready to welcome men from every section who come to assist us In developing our resources and building up the material interests of our State. Many have come and not only invested their money, but are taxing their muscles in this laudable undertaking. More re cently another class has come among us, and graciously proposes to assist the farmer in his Impoverished condition, To the average mind their plan is quite plausible, and many have become victims of theso Sbylocks. The company pro poses to lend any sum of money from $500 up to $2,000, payable in five years, by securing them with mortgage on the fanner’s property. The farmer pays on this amount 12J per cent, interest tho first year, and 8 per cent, for the four re maining years. The amount let out is about one-third the market value of the farmer’s possessions. Say the fanner owns real estate worth $0,000, these com panies only let him havo $2,000. The Interest on this the first year would be $250. Tho four years at 8 per cent, would ho $040, amounting In all to $S90 interest. In order to pay this the farmer must make $200 over and above his expenses every year. If by misfor tune or sickness his crop should fail, he would be utterly ruined. These*Sbylocks would demand “their pound or flesh” and the law would sustain them in it. There is no business that can be work ed successfully at such a ruinous rate of interest, and especially fanning, la which success is suspended upon so many con tingencies. Let our farmiug friends look well into this matter before they commit theussclves to the teuder mercy of these money-lcndeis. One company has already withdrawn from the State because of a State law prohibiting any persons own ing more than 5,000 acres of land unless they were incorporated, showing plainly that “fleecing” and not helping the laud owner was their main object. Tbe FowA Pevey Cant. We desire to call especial attention to the Foss & Pevey card, owned by John M. Pevey, Esq., of Loweil, Massachusetts, whose advertisement will bo found in to day’s issue. « Tho Bibb Manufacturing Company, of this city, havo in operation forty.two of these cords, which are performing to tho entire satisfaction of the company. The principal advantages of this card over tbe ordinary top flat card are thCMmail spaco occupied in proportion to the work per formed, the saving in card clothing, shaft ing, halting, power, etc. They are bnilt by nil the leading machine shops of the conn- try, and have been adopted by many lead ing mills, both North and South. The Selma Messenger says that mint ju lep, with a strawberry attachment, “coat* the warm brow’’ of the Selmian young man. Yes, and it will warm the coat of tbe stomach of that raifis young man. laSIleaee. If anything could have added to tbs glory won by the'women of the - South as ministering angels amidst suffering and death In the hospitals, or as industri ous workers In homes, oft times saddened and darkened by distressful tidings from the battle’s front, it was that touching devotion to tha memory or their dead husbands, others sweethearts and ions, that made memorial day” shed Its soft and consoling <ght upon a desolated country, as the sunburst ol Geavcu pierces and dispels tbe storm clouds of nature. Bowed, down by disaster and defeat, with hearts crushed almost beyond tbe power of pulsation, men would have left their dead behind them. Stirred and im pelled by the stern duty of providing for the helpless ones dependent upon them, they would have set their eyes to the fa- tore, stretched ont their arms in search of business and employment, and would have left to generations to come the sa cred duty of embalming the deeds of comrades who were left dead on the field of honor and of duty. But with an instinct tinged, with the divinity, which glorified the great agedy on Calvary, the women whoYt oravely and silently borne the cross or years, yearned to do Christ ian rites of sepulture. And out of this came the suggestion which has ripen ed into custom, of decorating with floral tributes the graves of Confederate sol diers on the 20th of April. From tbe bat tle fields of tbe war, from Virginia to Texas, the sacred dust of “warriors tried and true” has been gathered and put to rest in the cities of the dead, in every town, village and hamlet of the South, and the mounds which mark the places have been dressed with garlands and wreaths by tender and iovlDg hands, at each suc cessive anniversary of the honored occa sion. A custom so touching and beautiful in itself, and one that appeals so strongly and closely to the finqr sentiments of our na ture Is not likely to soon fade awnday, a if there was nothing else to transmit to generations ;yet unborn,’.the simple and still grand story of _tho soldier of the Confederacy, we might safely trnst that the spring flowers will waft, it with their fragrances sweet, to all who may come af ter us. But Southern women, inspired by a spirit and ambition sterner than that which established - this beau tiful rite, determined to rear monu ments whose mute eloquence should carry to a distant age tho story of this one. Slowly, patiently and perfectly, tho work hat been dona and completed. In every city of note, in every village, in the rural graveyards everywhere, monumen tal piles and shafts havo been erected and commemorated with military and relig ious rites. The eloquence of the orator, the fancy of the poet, the pen of the essay ist, the prayer of the priest and the power of tbe press, all these potent agencies havo been put under contribution to weave to gether tho story of dead heroes In such shape as it shall best reach the hands of the historian of tho future. In obedience to that instinct "Which makes the memory of the dead A sacred trust with all the living," the women and the men of this day havo done their duty to their dead. Dc famation can no more blur tbe stainless shield of the Confederate soldier than the blare of trumpets or the roar of artillery can awake him to life and to action again In all sincerity and seriousness, we put it to our conntrywomen of the South, if the time has not come when it is proper, nay even necessary, to dispense with the oratorical feature of the celebration of Memorial Day? Tliero is no danger that yonr children will not learn the history of the Confed erate soldier. If poet never sang again, if orators were henceforth dumb, and the records of the war were destroyed, never to be reproduced, the marble shafts, si lent sentinels over the memories of the dead, with mute eloquence would still portray their virtues and sacrifices, to tho living. The man docs not live who in tbe time allotted to the speech on a memorial oc casion can do justice to the dea'D, and yet there are many men who, In' half the time, can bring trouble and mortification to the living. Our brethren now, our enemies In the late atnfe, have seized upon tho idea sug gested by the women of the Sooth, and under the name of “Decoration Day” have instituted a political ceremony, far Lg ns guard this one occasion from tbe intrusion of speech, that may profane the sad silence which should enwrap in its embrace, the memory of an affliction which has become part and parcel of our lives, more mischievous than tho frequent gatherings of their political society the “Grand Army of the Republic.” Year by year tbe harangues delivered by politi cal hacks on these occasions become more virulent and bitter, and the danger is that tbe desecration may come, in turn, to ns. There are no restraints of decency or .good manners that epu control political factions. William Mahone, a man who won all of bis fame as a Confederate soldier, after dishonoring his mother, Vir ginia, has written a letter, the ink upon which la scarcely dry, so shameless in language and sentiment as to call for re buke from a journal published ’ In Bea ton, Massachusetts. If we must quarrel over tbe effort to set the South aright in tbe march of tho new destiny that Is ahead of her, let not the strife come near tbe graves of onr dead. Tbe soul shrinks with horror at tbe clash of the swords of Hamlet and Laertes,over tho gravo of tho gentle bat unhappy Ophelia. The wo men of the South have done, and all honor to them, what the men of no age or generation havo accomplished. They have perpetuated* In lasting monuments the history of an internecine strife. They have reared shafts to the vanquished, which tower iu beauty and pride by the side of those built by the government to ita dead and living de fenders. . Wo are thoroughly alive tb tbe fact that wo are trenching near a senti ment tinder and delicate to approach or touch, but Ann in the faith and con sciousness of duty, we have not shrunk from its performance. The letter which made tbe suggestion out of which Memorial Day has ripened into a sacred rite, came fresh from the hands of the illustrious woman who wrote It to tbe hand that pons these lines. It was our honor, our pleasure, our duty, to put to print the first editorial indorsement of it. The occasion, now that Mrs. hlsry Ann Williams sleeps by the side of the objects of her more than motherly care, commends Itself to us with something of closer and fresher inspiration. ! Let the strewing of flowers he perpet uated, but in silence. Let there be a welling up of emotions as profuse as the wealth of blossoms that a generous spring Tbe Mob. Since the shooting ol President Garfield in July last, tbe spirit of tbe mob has been rampant in tbe Northern section of the county. During tho days of the President’s sickness, and after his death, this lawless spirit was fed and fostered by tbe press, until tbe Gnltoau trial gave it more than it could gorge. Now that the miserable lunatic Is re moved from the popular gaze, the mob finds vent for its pent-up pus in extrava gant expressions of sympathy for Mason, the man who has been jnstly condemned for a violation of law, that has not a sin gle palliating circumstance connected with it. • It must be borne in mind that this man was a soldier of such service as to under* stand and appreciate the importance and necessity of discipline and obedience. He was an'orderly sergeant, an officer Into whose hands extraordinary powers are placed by our military system. More than this, he was one of the men upon whom the government relied to es tablish and maintain peace and order, whenever the. civil authorities became powerless in the face of the law less elements of the community. He was of sound mind and discretion and with the best of health, and seems to have been without any prominent weakness save that of a somewhat inordinate vani ty. Translating the utterances of a ribald and unscrupulous press into the voice and language of pnblic opinion, while In the discharge of bis soldierly duties with the superincumbent responsibility of guarding the life of a man in tbe hands of tho law, from a mob, he deliberately and with all the malice that human speech and action is capable of giving expression to, attempt ed to murder the man placed under his supervision. He thought to become tbe hero of tho hour, and that money and praises would flow in equal streams to his hands. Failing In tho attempt, he railed at his lost opportunity and loudly protested his regret that the bullet bad missed its mark. Tho crim inal records of tho country present no attempt at a heinous crime, in which the elements of intent and attempt were more fully set forth. Tho punishment for this offense by tbe statutes of many of the States is declared to be confinement in the.penitentiary, for a term of years not less than two or more than twenty. A court-martial gave Ma son less than half of tho extreme limit. And yet the mob clamors for bis release, his pardon,*.hls promotion. Nothing since the stealing of the Presidency by a com mission or judges and partisans, and the acquiescence of tbe country in the out rage, has developed a demoralization so dangerous in that element of tho Ameri can pcoplo from which mob3 are made. This is sufficient to raise grave appre hensions iu tho miuds of conservative cit izens everywhere. But when tho Legis latures of Ohio aud New York, two great States, whoso members are selected to make laws for the people, pass resolutions demanding that Mason shall not be pun ished, it is about time that tbe country was gathering itself together and taking observations, so as to ascertain whither it is drifting. Tbe mania on this subject has floated across the frontier line of our northern bolder, for we find that on Sun day last, in Toronto, Canada, Rev. W. B Affleck, in his sermon at Elm Street Church, said it was a libel on justice that Sergeant Mason should be degraded aud sent to prison for having discharged his rifle at tbe grinning assassin Gulteau. His remarks were applauded. The mattei has been broached m the balls of Congress, and combined effort is being made to bring a pressure to bear upon tho President strong enough to make him succumb. A late Washington dispatch says: “W. E. Dickson, special messenger in behalf of the citizens of Chicago, has arrived in this city with a petition for the pardon of Sergeant Mason. It bears 120,000 signa tures, and is 240 feet in length. Dickson will present It to the President to-mor row, together with a smaller petition signed by 3,000 citizens of Ogle county, Illinois.” Mason and his case promise to become lively issues between tho contending fac tions of the Republican party. In retali ation for the damning exposures the stal warts have uncovered in reply to Blaine’s eulogy on Garfield, the hall breeds are at tempting to force Arthur to throw open the prison doors to a criminal who has no plea in his own defense, and who defiant ly proclaims that he will despise a pardon from “a Gulteau President.” In New York, the great metropolis of tbe country, the excitement Is being in dustriously cultivated, and all known agencies are being used to stir tho un thinking masses. The New York Sun, of Monday, says: The rooms ol the Garfield Club were thronged all day yesterday with sympathizers with tho movement to secure the pardon of Sergeant Mason, who fired on Gulteau. There were many requests for petitions, but tho supply of printed blanks hod been exhausted, and tho printer had fulled to furnish tho now lot os he had promised. Tho names of all persons de siring petitions were recorded, and they will be supplied to-day. The applicants came from Brooklyn, Jersey City, Yonkers, and all neigh boring places, and two were soldiers from Gov ernor’s Island. As it was Sunday no mall was received, but one letter was left at the club rooms. It was from a train dispatcher of the Manhattan Elevated road asking for petitions for the employes to sigh. Mr. J. B. Johnson desired a peUtton for the Society of Colored Bohemians. Tho superintendent of the Singer sewing machine factory, at Elizabeth, N. J. wroto that his 1,700 employes would sign. The superintendent of tho Ansonla Clock Company reported that 1,200 signatures were waiting there. Many of the men who called said that they could easily secure five hundred signs turns each. The facts wo havo grouped together present a picture to our mind most hor rible to contemplate. They suggests that onr republic, that has just begun to approach emancipation from the hands of a desperate taction, which seized it at the end of an exhaustive civil struggle, is iu great and immediate danger of becom ing the plaything for the passing pas sions and humors of a mobrocracy. No lawyer in the whole country has had tbe courage to illustrate the chivalry of an honored profession by moving to give Gulteau, what he is entitled to, a fair trial, lest the mob may attack^hlm. No poliilcian has so far dared to raise his voice In behalf of the vindication of outraged law, while it Is patent that the law officers of the District of Columbia are afraid to try Bill Jones and tbe jail guard, who are each as guilty as Mason. It is left to that portion of the press which may yet be honest and tearless to combat a movement which, backed by a sickly sentimentality and a malevolent partlsan- PERSOXAL. —Archibald Forbes is visiting some of the friendly Indians on the plains. —Sergeant Mason bas been put to work In tho shoeshop of the Albany penitentiary. —Pp WwWjr TbonpratiorBimjtll*, S. C., am\ a cousin o! United States Senator Butler, of that State, died Friday lost. —Mrs. Marvin widow, of the late Bishop E. M. Man-in, of the M. 'E. Church South, died at Krcdcrickstown, Mo., last Friday, —Mr. W.L. Royal 1 lain Richmond,Vs., and, as counsel for English bondholders, will institute measures te-ting the validity of tho Readjustee' debt-settlement bills. —Capt. Bogardus, the pigeon-shot, has arranged at Cincinnati for a match to take place April 5 for S2.V) aside. Ho will nndortako to break 500 clay pigeons in thirty minutes. —Ross Raymond, tbe well-known cor respondent, is in jail in Philadelphia. lie was arrested by a correspondent of tho Xsw YozJc Herald for obtaining money under false pretenses. —Josh H*rt, editor of the New York paper called Truth, who published the Morey letter and swore to its genuineness for some days, has been elected a member of the Repub lican Central Committee of New York City. —Mr. Benjamin Rush Flovd, a nephew of the lato Gen. John B. Floyd, died In Talla hassee, Fla., Saturday last, of consumpUon. Ho graduated with the highest honors at the Vir ginia Military Institute in 18SO, and was after wards professor of mathematics and tactics. —The Astors psy taxes in New York on £11,500,000 worth of property; W. II. Van- derbilton £1.250,000; A. T. Stewart's widow on 5-5,2)0,000; Amos R. Eno, 41,000,000: J. G. Ben nett, 81,200,000, and so on. The bulk of their wealth, however, consists of securities which are not included In tho personal cstato taxa ble in New York. —Ex-Governer Hendricks, of Indiana, while in Chicago denied In an Interview the rumor that ho had been converted from free trade to prelection. “That,” ho said, ."would be Impossible, ns he had never been a free trader.” He dellped his posiUon as midway between the two extremes, and added that ho was "In favor of protection only to a judicious and beneficial extent” —William Drake was the optimist of optimists. Ho looked upon tho bright side of everything, from a hundred dollar bank note, a pretty girl's check or a gootl dinner to death Itself, lfeat last becamo known locally In Trimble county, Ky„ as “the laughing man.” This most popular person was in the midst of mirthful chat at his home last Thursday, when he dropped dead from heart disease. —Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, is a thoughtful and considerate civic magistrate, lie wrote os follows on tho commitment of a woman to the city prison: “The city physician reports that the prisoner is about to become a mother. Tt may be a boy. The boy might become President of wlie I’nltcd States. Must ho be born in the Bridewell? Her name is Harrison—May Harrison. The boy might be mayor. He must not be bofn in tho Bridewell Never! Never!! Never!!!" The woman was released. The child Is a girl. —H. S. Montgomery, president of tho Merchants' Compress and Storage Company, stated that ho thought that not more than a half crop of cotton could be raised this year. The overflowed district, he said, B reduces over one million hales; and, even it tc waters subside rapidly, of which there Is no prospect, not more than half tho acreage of, last year can be planted. Other persons,^how ever take a dilt'erent view of the situation, and think the land can be prepared fn sea son for planting and that a fair average crop will be raised. —Max Meretzek has hnrt Cincinnati’s feelings. “The College of Music,” he ssys, "has no music illusions for me. Its crest is a lion rampant, with a lion in its paws, and be neath the lyre is the line, ‘C. C. of Music.' I bothered a long wlilltfr over the significance of the crest. Why should a Hon be connected with an educational institution, and. if he is, why should the beast ramp? This I never could fathom. As for ‘C. C. of music,’ I have at lost made up my mind what tbe letters stand for— they label the institution fitly, ‘Cincinnati Cir cus of Music.*” —Mrs. Haggart Is an Indiana woman’s rights agitator. She teccntlv headed a delega tion to urge the passage by the .Legislature of a measure faw>rub!e to her sex. She says; “Twenty or Thirty women left everything to attend the Legislature; they might have been called the third House. If a man had auy doubts, we mode him the object of special at tention. Two or three slstcis were detailed to look uftcr tho doubting. We hnd nice cakes nnd ices and evening entertainments, to which we invited the mem tiers of the ' ‘ The desired legislation The Modern A'onh, r from Helena war* rowing arty from licit ghtioring bo saw a large bottom-lands last box moored to As a rescuing pa< across the ncighl Wednesday, they sr the branches of n tree. When the boat had ap proached within earshot the gray wool of an old darkey popped into view. Tho rescuers said: "What are ye doin’ hcali, ole boss?” “I’so ole Noah an’ dls am dc a'k,” was the reply; "de rain hab been a failin’ fur fo'ty days an’ fo'ty nights, but de Lo'd sabed ole Noah." The rescuers thought that the darkcv was pok ing. When they took him Into the boat, how ever, they soon learned that the poor fellow was daft Fear and exposure had overturned a mind already weakened by age. Colonel Jack Brown eL al. thiladelphia Timet. Tills informant further says that the pesky chaps calling themselves Southern Republicans who appear from time to time at the White House, claiming to be members of State oi izatlons, are among the most pcnlstent office- seeking cormorants that infest the premises. Tbcv all havo a title. There’s Colonel Jack this, Major-General tliaf. Judge the other, nnd so on to the end of the list, every one of whom as they tell tho story, fought, blod. and nearly died to establish nnd maintain the Republi can party In the South, and every mother's son of them wants a big office ns a reward. The President has discovered that they arc generally worthless, threadbare, curbstone gossips and hotel saloon loungers, who have been hanging around Washington for years and haven't been in Georgia. Alabama or any other South ern State since the war. Balancing the Hooka. At the end of last year, when an Ohio bank cashier could not make his books balance, the president sat down with him and said: "Mr. Symonds, It Is evident that you havo made a clerical error somewhere." “But I have verified my figures over and over again," protested tho calhlor. “Just so. but yet you have overlooked the error. According to your books this bank is -700.22 short?" Yes. sir." And according to my private memoranda you arc a MOO trotting horse and a - 300 dia mond pin abend; while the rats probably ate up tho 20 cents. Please correct tho error and fur nish a clean balance sheet” Mr Symonds Isn't a bank cashier any more. Ills health was so bad that he had to have out door employment The Man In the flpeaker’a C hair. Wathington eor. Philadelphia Timet The Speaker has a hard time of it Beset with foes from within nnd without his party, heis certainly at times an object of sympathy. This thing and that has been suggested as n remedy for the daily disorders on tbe floor, but the secret is In the tact that Keifer has not the respect of tho body over which ha presides. Ho Is getting further and further away from it every day. If ho does not mind his own he will be driven from the Speaker’s chair In dis grace. Tills want of respect Is first for the man; second, because nf tho bargains which made him Speaker; third, the palpable unfairness and disgraceful favoritism In the formation of the committees: fourth, hfs Incompetence as a presiding officer, nis threat toward a member of tho House on Wednesday, for which, after a deal of petty quibbling and dogged Irresolution he was compelled to apologize on Thursday, has injured him beyond calculation. The Man Who Bellevedj'IIe -Weis Woman. Seneca fS. C.) Journal Quite n play of imagination occurred the other day with a well-to-do farmer In Pickens county. Very portly in size, he was taken sick —a general let-down of the nervous system— nnd, to the surprise of hts friends, he imagined himself a woman, and so Impressed was ho with tho belief that he drovo every male doctor out of the house and sent three miles after n good old lady who for years had been nursing tho sick, and nothing would do hut she must rub him and "dortorfy” him exactly ns If he was a woman. Tho old woman humored his whims even to making him hot teas and gruel, nnd after rubbing him on hour or two she finally persuaded him the crisis was over and that instead of a woman he was a large, full- grown man. The regular physician rode home with mouth stretched, and the whole neighbor hood got in such a titter that the portly and dignified gentleman cannot appear on the church-ground Sundays without a smile all around. Dr Kolger pronounces it tho only ease of mulcrlfic mania ho has ever known recorded In this country. Waihtaftaa’i QeeurataO**. Jhinbun S'noi. An English turfman visiting Mount Vernon engaged in conversation «ithii native and after a lew preliminary remarks observed: "I dare sav Mr. Washington didn't care much for 'orses. You cawn't tell me, I suppose, if he was hover a’orse breaker?" The Virginian eye-1 him a fotv H’VOilds doubtfully and then answered: “I ain't much on history, but to the best of my recollection the General was a lion tamer." InteraatlMusl Literary Affair*. The Athenaeum. The next meeting of the International Lit erary Congress will be held in Rome In May. Notwithstanding semi-official deqlals of the suspension of negotiations for a copvright con vention between tho United States and Eng land, there is no likelihood of any convention being satisfactorily concluded. Tlio Daily yeint says the publishers In the Eastern States of America arc desirous of a treaty which will be acceptable to the English authorities. How Bed* are Wade BeaaUfal. Rollon Adverliter. A great deal of decoratlvo color is now fash ionable for bed coverings. Silk coverings of embroidery or of rich damasks arc used over the entire bed. If a white spread is preferred, It is b.-ightened by a scarf drapery of rich, dark brocade, that is thrown carelessly across tho toot of the bed.-Tho Japanese embroidered quilts, ami those done with gilt threads in ta pestry designs, are especially handsome. An tique laces combined with white muslin arc uwd over colored silk linings for bed spreads. With pillow spreads to match. A border of red plush, upon which the lacc edgo falls, is a pretty finish; when not lined, these lace spreads are used over down comfortables that are covered with rose, blue or red silk. A Woman’* Noblest Clift. Chicago Tribune. What arc tho noblest gifts which noblo wo men can bestow on men. Lord Boacousficld declares that all his successes gave him satis faction only in so far as he could lay hts laurels at the feet of his wife. Women themselves are rarely aware of the supreme charms which they exert, not only upon tho imagination and sen timent of men, but upon their individual tal ents and their reason. Schclltng, perhaps the most inspired writer In the whole literature of Georgia, began to write when he saw his wife; when she died he ceased to bo an author. Tho profundity and the marvelous depth of a wo- man's affection are notorious. More Ornamental Than Useful. A'ew York Herald. Our Panama correspondent describes how De Lcaseps Is now building tho Panama Canal. A small army of engineers aro on the ground looking very wise, but three-fourths of them aro purely ornamental. The workmen are few, poorly paid and, of course, discontented. Tho machinery that has been sent out is rotting at AspinwaH. It would be Impossible, told, to discover even with a t a trace of the “canal works.' however, looks magnificent on maps of De Lessens, and fortunately for the famous projector tlio French people are among the most imaginative In the world. we are An Expensive Luxury. Philadelphia Record. A deal of Interest Is manifested among the yonngcrofilccrscf the army respecting the bill to retire, at an earlier age, the senior officer* In our little standing army there arc now near ly two thomand tw* hundred oOean, and there arc four hundred retired officers. With so many officers promotion is necessarily very- slow, and there are many lieutenants over to yean of age and can tains of much nutecr years. An ambitious officer of such affpeun- uot be content with this low rank, and some more rapid system of promotion seems necessa ry to keep up tho morale of the army. The trouble, however, resolves itself into a question oi ready cash. Our little army is a costly thing as at present organized. Dresden’* Famous China, Dretden letter in the Providence Star. Tho history of Dresden china dates back to the rear 1710. Until recently the work bos Been carried on in the old castle where the charmed secret of "how to make It” was discovered. A number of commodious buildings arc now used for the work and occupied by 700 work men, wc bad almost said artists, for they cer tainly deserve that name. The china is com posed of a mixture of feldspar and “kaoUcn.” The process of nuking Is very similar to that used in the makingoiany china. The prf pal charm is the skill and care which is u When one sees the numberless processes of moulding, trimming, baking, decorating and polishing through which each piece of china, and, Indeed, each tiny flower passe*, we do the Legislature.” not wonder at its great cost. This china has ibtaincd, been imitated very widely, but one can always tell the genuine article by the royal mark, which is two swords crossed. There are two qualities of Dresden china, the second can be distinguished from the first by the addition of two little grooves running at right angles with the swords. Tho difference between these, classes arises simply from the fact that in baking tho second-class articles have not retained their perfect form. Tbe de mand for china is greater than can be supplied, and the majority of theso orders come from England and the United States. sun brings. II tears must came, let them ship, threatens to tear down all tbe bar- be os refined from tbe passious of the | rlera that tbe written law has built about hour as tbe dews di-tilied from heaven, tbe citizen and the government. (town* In tb* Sinking or Which X* tare’* Anatomy is Distressingly at Fault. Jf. r. Evening Post. In fancy springandsummer fabrics are many Istriklngand novel designs, showing odd geo metrical figures, moons, fishes, birds, bntter- lllcs ait-1 the like, some of which nre quite pret- but thoso which show figure* of horses. eer, dogs and other animals aro more amus ing than attractive, anatomical construction being conspicuous by its absence: and, to make Imatten worse, in die exigencies oi her profes sion, tho modiste in making up her zoological robes is compelled to sever these animals in a most indiscriminate manner. In joining the seams tho mutilated parts, of course, fit lmphnzunl, so that a giraffe s leg it often apparently growing out of a grinning monkey’s ear, and again wo are treated to the pleturo of a monstrosity in the shape of a double-headed animal pussy cat one side, bull frog, minus his mouth, the other; theso inter esting heads urq>cnded to the remains of the body tin long-legged stork, who Is “marching on” through yfirdsof demoralized quadrupeds, regardless of the loss of one claw, in the en deavor to catch tip with a big yellow bum ble-bee fastened to the "better hair’ of a guinea . ig. One solemn, lonely eye of u grave old owl peers out from between a moon its first quarter and u eow In its last quarter, white a little di*g laughs to see the flue sport, although a roaring ilon, cut bias just behind his eers. Is iu close proximity. A Woman’* Opinion or Mr#. Langtry, Zmcy Hooper. I hear from friends ia London that Mrs. Langtry will positively not visit tbe United States for the present, and possibly not at all, wherein she makes a great mistake. I think, however, that the American public would have been disappointed In her. so far as-her beauty is concerned. It was the praise of a prince that cavo her her reputation for ex ceeding loveliness, and not her own supera bundant charms. In America, where very lovely women are anything but rare, she would have attracted but little notice, had it not been for the pother that lias been raised about her. Not that she is not a handsome woman, for that the certainly is, but de cidedly she has but few claims to be ranked among the handsomcst)of her sex. Her face is iKKllivcly defective, tho beautiful hair and large lovely eyes being counterbabmccd by the broad, heavy jaw. and by no means smal mouth. Her figure is fine, and her complexion is (or at least was, two years ago, when I last saw the lady)pcrfectly wonderful In its camel lia-lea! purity and smoothness. I am told that an the stage she is extremely handsome, but the best of critics aver privately that she can act no more titan a broomstick. She Is inordinate ly vain, and poses perpetually. 1 have seen her in the lobby of the Covont Garden Opera House once while waiting tor her carriage, leaning against the wall In her favorite attitude, posing as though sitting for her picture, her head turned ao as to show her profile, and her chin depress ed for the purpose of keeping the defective lines of her jaw-bone iu the background. Peo- K le formed a ring around her and starred at ■cr, but she let them stare. It was her nro- feasion to be a beauty, and she was practicing her profession with all her might 1 nave been told that she has been heard to lament in pa thetic terms her hard lot in not being able to find an creature on earth as lovely as sho her self. I think, if she comes to tho United States, her yearnings will be more than sat isfied. _ Wbat Is Jay Gun Id Worth? Globe-Democrat Letter. Nobody can say—not even himself, tt hen n man Iras such colossal wealth and directs so many enterprises, his property can only be estimated. Sixty to eighty millions would be a I reasonable computation of It, and lie can con trol more than twico that sum. His love of money is solely for the power It yields him, for his household expcn.«cs-do not probably exceed (50,000 a year, lie regards the republic os au accomplished chess-player regards a chess board on which the pieces represent so manv corporations, actual or potential. To form certain combinations to achieve certain re sults, b his aim, his recreation, his delight. He bends himself to his task, careless of all consequences savo his own ultimate sucres.-.-. He is not immoral, heis totally unmoral. His view oi the world and of life ta entirely finan cial; tbe first and last duty of man ts to sec what he can do with capital. AU who can read aro acquainted with tbe aystem of railroads and telegraphs ami less mighty undertakings. If he were to live a thousand years he might own the North Amer ican continent. He is credited with controlling three of the leading city dailies and seeking for a fourth so as togoTCrn tlio New York Asso ciated l’ress. Recently ho lilts been in league with tt'm. H. Vanderbilt, Cyms W. Field and others; but it will not last, for lie Is easily their master iu mental grasp and reach, lie lias no friends, nor does he want them, for he is aware that business admits not oi friendship. Ifc has many foes, though ho hates no ono: cold intellect is devoid of hatred. Wall street for merly abused him: now it fears him and as cribes a thousand moves to him that ho Iras no hand in. Ho is neither a good nor a taut man, ha is merely a financier. Wall street is his hab. itat. He could not live without it. If there were no Wall street, he would create one. A Child Demon. Cincinnati Enouirer, Ed nallen, a five-year old negro boy residing nenr tt'oodlawn. Thom, ten miles north of here, went int-> the house of a iH'lghlmring col- ored woman during her temporary absence, and taking her infant from the cradle enrried it off toward the railroad depot. On the moth er’s return she gave tlio alarm, and began pur suit. The chUa was finally found In a fence comer with its eyes punched out. in a dying condition. The young demon, not old enough for legal punishment, was caught and carried home to his mother, who said the boy had a penchant for putting out eyes; that if he got nold oi a chicken his first act was to punch out ilseyos. A flogging within an inch of his life by his motlierls tho only punishment tlio jtt- vonilo cut-throat Is likely to receive tor his murderous deed. A Tear in Mew Yerfc, H. Y. Sun. During US, 38.GM deaths occurred in New Y'ork City, and .15,000 births were reported. For the education oi children some 81,000.000 was expended, while the drinking places, of which there arc 9,21.5, absorbed, it U estimated, the enormous sum of 800,000,000. Of the army of wine bibbers who east their substance into this ]>ool 32,391 were committed to the Tombs. The amount expended in public amusements of all sorts amounted to (T.ttJO.OOO. In the police stations 120,084 persons asked for and were furnished with lodgisgs, and 21,- 000 outdoor is»r were relieved. In the police stations 67,135 persons were ar raigned. • rimes of violence were committed ty 5,819 persons. Charity sent to the almshouses, hospitals, nurseries, schools and asylums, 131,7(o per rons. One feature of the great flood has been funerals by skiffs. Iron (London) says that American railroad companies are treating with Austrian manufacturers for 170 locomotives. There are thirty-two ice factories in the South, which have virtually driven North ern ice from tho markets where they are lo cated. ' ... ,55% . . . J* A LITTLE Livingston county girl anx iously asked, the other day. “Ma. If a bear should swallow me. would ho go to heaven too?” It is stated that tbe Memphis and Lit tle Rock railroad will be damaged full-threo quarters of a million of dollars by the Missis sippi overflow. In the vicinity of the eity of Durango, Mexico, thcro is a mountain of almost pure ran, estimated to contain 200,000,000 tons, A young couple were baptized together at Trousdale, Tenn., aud immediately after ward were married, insheirdripping garments, by the same clergyman. A tattle boy who had been used to receiving hts elder brother's toys and clothes, recently remarked: “Ma, will I havo to marry his widow when ho dies?" The English complain that leather ia found in American sausage*; and American manufacturers will bo so good after this aa to take off tbe collar before using. There was no attempt to deceive the guests as to tho ages of tho bride aud bridegroom at a wedding at Elgin, 111. Tho cards of in vitation taidr "Smith Jamison 84, to Sarah Steward, 83." Tmc Iron Hand is the name of a New York secret society which has voted to not only removo tho inscription from Mr. Field's'Andro monument, but to remove tho monument It self. A resolution was offered In the New York Assembly Thursday asking the President of tho United States to reduce tho punishment of Sergeant Masoii to dismissal from the army. It was laid ou tho table. In tbe winter of 1864, twenty-eight years ago. Dr. tt’. C. Avery, of Greensboro, Ala,, while hunting, lost a gold watch, a hunting- case English lever. This watch was returned to him on Fridav U-t. by Tom Armstrong, col ored, who found it on that day, about one mile from the house, in the woods. The watch is in good condition and, considering tire length of time it UAS been exposed to the weather, is coat* pumtively bright, it was Identified by tho in itials of the owner, engraved on the outside of the case. The Boston papers say the girls of that city have begun to wear the police helmet hats. Then should the Boston pnpears warn tho Bos ton girls If they go to imitating the Boston police, they will never catch a man. A cRotv that could speak a dozc-n words plainly has just died at Bedford, Mass. Ho might have become famous in his lifetime, but for his shocking profanity, which made his se- elusion necessary. Ills early cuucatlou iiau twin bid* A Boston man seeing another man with a fine umbrella raised over his heat dur ing a shower, and thinking that lie was a friend ran up to him, and, for a Joke, said, “I'll taka that umbrella, please.” The victim proved to bo a stranger, but he immediately handed it over, and said, "Oh! its yours, is it?” and broke away. At tbe mneral of one of the aristocratic rich men of New Y'ork, tho other day, a lady occupied a rear scat in the church, crying bit terly. None of his relatives knew wbothelady was, or that tlio dead man. had ever married; but tho weeping woman was his wife, and a sensation is promised when she makes her de mands os such. A large white swan was shot in Grand river, near Falncsvillc, Ohio, a few days ago, that measured 7 feet from tip to tip of wing. Through one of its wings was about to inches of a copper-pointed .bone arrow, which is un like any ever seen in that part of tho country, and is supposed to be a kind used by some of the tribes of Northwestern Indian*. The flesh had grown firmly around it. A LOT of farmers who had been listen ing to a railroad land agent's praise ot Arkan sas Valley soil, at last asked him, sarcastically, if there was anpthiug that wouldn't grow there. "Y’ea,” said tho agent quickly, "pumpkins wor.'t.IL “Why not?” “The soil Is so rich, and andnhvines grow so fast that they wear out the pumpkins, dragging them over the ground.” There is danger that the phylloxera may appear In North Africa, where fairly sat isfactory red and white wines have of late years been produced, to tho great convenience and satisfaction or thccolomsta. Indeed, they have been led to look forward to wine-culture as one of the most promising fields for their industry. Alarmed by the appearance of the phylloxera, the governor-general has formed a vigilance committee to keep a sharp lookout, A YOUNG farmer near Spring Geld, Mass., says he was working in a field when a man and a woman came along in a carriage. Tho man asked him If he would marry tho woman tor f 600; he consented, and they went to the near* cst justice, who performed the ceremony. Ho shows tHa: BOO as proof, aud the justice bears him out in the strange story. The mysterious bride and her companion rode away im diatcly after the marriage and no more Is km of them. • Not a little indignation is felt among the pcoplo of New Rochelle regarding the pres ence of the Andre monument in their vicinity and tho vindictive prosecution by Cyras 5V. Field of the defaced IL tmnifi town indignation meeting was hold on nuiucsuay, which was generally attended by reptesentallve citizens of the place, lieu. George K. Stakes, the venerable father of Gen eral Daniel E Sickles, presided, and resolutions dctiouneieg tho monument and its owner, and eulogizing Its would-be destroyer, were unani mously adopted. Yesterday a colored draymaa bad considerable trouble with his mule. Tho old^ man was standing on the sidewalk, engaged j religious discussion with a preacher. Thome kicked at a boy. “tt'hoa, dah I” yelled til owner, “ain’t yer got no tno’sense den to pi*, a fuss wid a chile? Dat mule is awful brtg- gerty ob late.” Turning and taking up the thread of his discourse, he was again dL-turbcd by the animal. “Keep on I" he yelled, "time I aud off two years ob corn from ver feed ycr tvou’tbososkylarkish."—Little Rock GastUe Paragraphs havo appeared In many new.qmners during the past six weeks regard ing tho distribution of the medals to the "306" delegates who voted for General Grant at the Chicago convention. As a matter of fact these medals have neither been distributed nor all coined as yet. Mr. Ckasncsy I. PUlcy. w ho has had tho matter in charge, Iras been til In W ashington for some weeks nnd unable to look after the completion of the medals. Mr. Fillcy expects, however, that all the medals will be coined and be ready for distribution within a very short time. A society of “La boxe Franeaise” is about to proceed to England front Paris to defy the British bruisers. The French method owes Us origin to the ancient manner of combating known as the eacate. The feet as well as tho hands arc used in the fight, as the name indi cates. The professors of savate, of which art many are In fuh employment ia Parts, declare that the leg and foot should be the principal dependence in the combat, aud that tho arms ami-hands should be only their agents. An Englishman, they sav, loses all the advantage to be derived from the muscles of the leg, while the Frenchman relies on them alone—the hands being evidently intended by nature to be used for defense only, and not fur attack. The newest fashionable shade is of golden brown, between the tints of old copper and old gold. For a dress it is trimmed with beaver, and tlio bonnet has pale blue flowers. The wearer U a blonde. London Truth's edi tor satv at a fashionable wedding that the bride's wutst was at least three inches smaller than he hail ever seen it before, .-he had al ways objected to tight lacing, aud on her re turn from, the church she fainted. It appeared hat the fashionable milliner had refused to end out of her establishment a dress to be vom in public measuring twenty-seven inches around the waist, ami the bride’ was lltp-d to the one she sent. A friend traveling in Y’ueatau told me that he once had a mule with very fine ears so long that they met behind his back. They were continually in his way, as the mule couldn’t help flapping them, nnd freqnentlv my friend—who Is a very amid and oil his saddle. 'Veil, he thought lUHt then hit upon a plan. He ith a *»vnrt, kn truthful man over it awhll< noculatcd on :>t that mule's < ns a slit in the other, ho haci in, buttonhole, by dutuk Ut’-s taii n ‘Th‘ e w U,u ^ toe nit s bill. Tins was very for awhit*» for my friend—but he so,„, mw hu, mistake The wart kept growing, and he had to extend the buttonhole to keep pace with it, until t^2 ears were- hanliv anything else but wart -hi buttonhole. He found himself In thc -ame ,?^ Sitlon AS the friend, of Gen. Gran ' been trying for yean, to get his mouth o®££ U U shuL'‘ trW& ' bCCUase W® A little hand, a fair, soft hand Dimpled Rnd sweet to kiss- ’ No sculptor ever carved from stone A lovelier hand than this no A hand as Idle and as white As lilies on their stems- • Dazzling with rosy finger-tips. Dazzling with crusted earns Another hand-* Bred old hand, tt ritten with many Hues - - hful. weary hand, whereon ps In the chrysalis, ' i IKis UHL, Vritten with many ilue« ■ A faithful, weary turad, whereon The p.-***- 1 nf For fol Sleeps Within (his little palm t __ That lovelier hand than this« -Harriot PrtteoU
