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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
