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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. TUi^JAY JANUARY 5, 18Sfi.—TWELVE PAGES.
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ble to H. C. Hanson, Manager.
“The authorities of a New England town
recently appliH, through their Congress
man, to the War Department for a trans
cript of the military records of the soldiers
furnished to the army by the town during
the war of the rebellion. To furnish these
was against the ordinary rules of the depart
ment, but as they were “for historical pur
poses, ** to be used at some approaching an
niversary, a concession was made. The
flies were examined, and disclosed the fact
them that a full victory is not yot achieved
It says: “It will he found impossible to
prevent, in anything like a satisfactory de
gree, the importation of liqour from adjoin*
ing States. This is a fundamental defect in
the local option plan and ia the State plan,
It compels to laying siege to the saloons,
the spying of neighbor upon neighbor.
National prohibition has hut two things to
do to stop the. manufacture of liquor, and
to stop its importation; and both of these
things are easily feasible."
And in order to accomplish this it pro
poses, that the prohibition party shall use
the custom and excise officials of the gov
ernment to prevent the manufacture of
liquor or its importation from any State
into another, or from any foreign country.
In plain English, the Voice, proposes as we
have said in these columns on another oc
casion, to destroy the internal revenue
system, so far os the manufacture of whisky,
brandy and wines are concerned.
Continuing, the Voice says to its Atlanta
brethren: “The second great difficulty in
Atlanta will he with the municipal officers.
The authorities will prove unwilling to en
force the luw. It is not the business of the
private citizens to enforce it. Our Atlanta
prohibitionists must not stumble here.
The law must be placed on the same basis
os laws against theft, gambling, licentious
ness. If the citizen is required to do the
work of the detective in order to secure the
enforcement, gradually he will tire of it,
and the conviction will as gradually form
the minds of many that prohibition is a
beautiful theory, but is impracticable.”
This would seem to be superfluous, for
the municipal officers of Atlanta all jumped
that the names of about sixty citizens of
the town had been drawn in the wheel, and I on the prohibition platform in order to save
twenty-four of these persons were upon
animation accepted. Further search dis
closed tho fact that twenty-three of them
furnished substitutes and the other fled to
Canada.” And these are the fellows who
aiug loudest at grand army banquets and
ta.k about setting up a free ballot in the
Hotith by the power of tbo bayonet.
The controversy over “All Quiet Along
the Potomac, To-Night,” is on again. Mr.
C. Elliott Deers, writes thus to the New
York Worid:
I. Thin poem wu written by mjr mohtor. Mr*.
JEtlit*l Lynn Beers, on tho 23d day of September,
1861, in my prenorue and that of another witncM,
who can be produced.
‘J. The manuscript was within a few day* from
Hint time seut to Harper k Brother, and it in there
jet.
3. It api*ared in Harper’s Weekly of November
00. UNtl, over the initial* “E. B."
4. It was paid for by the Harper’a December in,
1861, the form of receipt elating distinctly that tho
money waa paid for the "Picket Guard." A host
«f claimalnta have ariaen before aud since my
mother’* doath in 1879, and I had supposed that
the last of the proeoaaiou had passed into oblivion
long ago.
This ought to quiet it.
Our Frientl, the Jorseyman.
Away from the land of apple cider and
well tanned leather, where defaulting bank
officers are sent to the penitentiary, and the
giniu people vote ilia DtuiiOCFftltC ticket
every election, an admiriug friend sends
the following letter:
NkwrTKLD, Olouokhter Co., N. J., Dec. 31,1885.—
Editor Txlkohai-h—Dear Kir: The following arti
cle I find in the Philadelphia Record of December
'29 aud credited to the TkLkobai-h:
••While all this how -dn-dn ia being made over
vlhcraud silver coinage, the government might
make an experiment ami help the circulation of tho
-tuff at home. Mr. Manning might order, and ho
should do it. that the salaries of every employe and
official of tbe government should be paid in silver
dollars. Kspet tally should this rule be rigidly en
forced aa to the par mileage and porqulslte* of
Congressmen. In this way tho treasury vaults
cauld bo materially lightened of their load, at least
once in every thirty days."
Mr. Editor, In the foregoing article you struck
the Ley note to a speedy direct aud just solution of
the whole silver question.
Let congressmen be compelled to carry on their
persons a few pound* of detestabie silver dollars
for a few months and you would soon see the coin
age of the stuff cease forever.
Make sauce for the goose sauce for the gander and
• great portion of the high-toned nonsense enacted
into what is termed law at tho nation’s capltol
would become extinct. Most respectfully, your
obedient sorvaut, Thomas Hill.
The fact of the btiHiuess is, as any hon
est Georgian will tell you, the Telegraph
generally gets at the truo core of all issues
Affecting men and measures. It is a habit
it hah which it cannot throw off if it would.
The fact that so good a journal as the
1‘hiUulclphiu Record finds frequent occa
sion to quoto it, is corroborative testimony
of a high order.
If our Jersey friend will send down a bar
rel of cider wo will send him tho daily, and
he w ill see that the Telegraph is right
three hundred and sixty-flvo days in the
year. But we caunot exactly agree with
our Jersey friend that the silver dollar is
*‘detestable,” It is very inconvenient after
getting above the numeral live, and it is a
fraud, being twenty cents below par as it
were. But it is the best silver dollar that
we have, and so long as the government
will coin it, we think it should bo paid out
to everyono whom the government owes.
A ailver dollar or so in an old stocking, or
under tho door sill, or up in the loft, is a
very good thing in case of wars, rainy days,
Christmas and such things,but it looks very
nnbusiness like to pile them up in vaults by
the tui'lion, or force men to take them for
one hundred cents, who can only pay them
out for eighty.
We have been trying the coinage of them
for several years, in a rather unsatisfactory
swt of way, • and we do not see why Mr.
C leveland's plan to stop it for awhile, might
not be tried.
If it does not work well we can go to
coining again. Mr. Cleveland means busi
ness. Congress, unfortunately, m.-ans
nothing bat politics, and the people are
busied and fretted, correcting the mistakes
of Congress.
••The Unfinished Battle of Atlanta.**
Cnder the above heading the Voice, tho
organ of the Prohibitionists, reads a lesson
to the Atlanta Prohibitionists, covering two
columns or more.
We cannot reproduce the article entire,
but propose to give its salient points. The
onw congratulates its friends and follow-
on the gallant fight made, but warns
th°ir
places, but the “Voice'
pays: “Don’t trust law and order
societies (good in their way), nor
to a citizen’s volunteer police system. If
you do, it will be but a question of time
when you will be overwhelmingly defeated.
This is one reossn why it is a necessity, in
evitably so, to carry p: hibitiou into poli
tics.”
But in order to make prohibition safe and
all powerful forever, the “Voice” notifies
its Atlantu friends that the Democratic party,
which is opposed to sumptuary laws, must
be destroyed. We again quote the “Voice.”
It says:
“What is the remedy for Atlanta? There
is but one. There is but one rero iy that
will sftve prohibition in Iowa, in Kansas and
in Georgia. It is tho forcing of the ques
tion openly and boldly into State and Na
tional politics; the abandonment by the
prohibitionists of the Democratic party and
the Republican party South and North; the
reorganization of parties at the whisky
line, thus compelling the liquor men to take
themselves and their corrupting power en
tirely into one party. Draw the line cace
there, and victory is as sure as that the
gravitation in the moral universe is up
ward. Secure prohibition by that method,
then self-interest, if no higher motive, will
compel the politician to crush the saloons.
“There is uu hops save this. The Prohi
bitionists in Iowa must make up their mind
to let the Republican party dio; the Prohi
bitionists in Georgia must mnke up their
mind to let the liquor men slay the National
Democratic party. The Prohibitionists,
North and South, must join hands in the
National Prohibition party—a party that
will carry prohibition into the State, and
into tho Federal constitution, and will see
to it that tho men in authority enforce the
luw.”
And in this is compressed the point of
tho Hituation. The Atlanta prohibitionists
are counseled to go to work nnd destroy tho
Democratic party. How silly, in tho face of
this order from headquart.rs,is the cry that
tho nnti-Prohibitionititi< nro trying to forco
the issuo into politics.
The Democratic party, that lias stood as n
bulwark against political fanatics nnd
iconoclasts for more than a quarter of a
century, and wbich has just won a victory
that promises reform in all branches of the
government must be torn down and
trampled upon, and a prohibition party,
mndo up of discordant elements, united in
but one impracticable idea, be put in
charge of the administration of the govern
ment. The prospect must be pleasing to the
South, after having wrested her State
governments from Aliens nnd scoundrels,
and after having overthrown coalitions of
white nnd black men, she shall be plunged
into a long a tedious fight, with honest
fanatics and dishonest politicians, to
protect what she has saved from the
wreck of war, nnd the cupidity and
scoundrelisui of unprincipled men.
War nnd anarchy may be attendants, but
not mourners, at the funeral of the Dem
ocratic party.
The United States Supreme Court Upholds
.Monopolies.
Now that there is an outcry against mo
nopolies, and yet the various State Legisla
tures at ever>* session are urged to create
new ones, some late decisions upon the sub
ject may not be uninteresting to those as
piring to take part in public life. Tho New
York Herald condenses the points and lan
guage of these decisions and puts them in
very intelligible shape, even to the unpro
fessional reader.
In 1879 the people of Louisiana aimed a
blow at monopolies. They embodied in
their fundamental law the declaration that
‘the monopoly features in the charter of
any corporation now existieg in this State,
save such as may be contained in the char
ter of railroad companies, are hereby abol
ished.’
Trior to the adoption of this constitu
tional provision the Legislature of the
State had granted to the New Orleans Gas
Light Company the exclusive right of sup
plying that city with gas light for fifty
years from 1875, and to the New Orleans
Water Works Company the sole privilege
of furnishing the city with water from the
Mississippi River for fifty yean, beginning
in 1877.
“Each oneef these monopolize is now up
held by the United States Supreme Court
in spite of the anti-monopoly provision in
the constitution of 1879. The court de
cides in er-ch instance timt the legislative
grunt was a contract which
could not he broken even by
the representatives of tbe people
in constitutional convention without violat
ing that clause of the Federal constitution
which forbids a State to impair the obliga
tion of contracts. In one of the cases the
court held that not even the lessees of the
St. Charles Hotel, though clothed with
municipal authority, had the right to sup
ply their own house with water drnwn from
the Mississippi through pipes laid by them
selves. Every water consumer and every
gas consumer was bound to take from the
monopoly company or go without light and
water.
“Tho same principle was affirmed in a
Kentucky case. In 1809 the Legislature
granted to the Louisville Gas Light Com
pany tho exclusive privilege of supplying
that city with gas light for twenty years.
In 1872 the Citizens’ Gas Light Company of
Louisville was chartered by the Legisla
ture, and the validity of the charter was
affirmed by the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
The decision is reversed and the monopoly
of the first company is upheld by the United
States Supreme Court.”
In order that the state may avoid the
difficulties growing out of these decisions,
th# court further says : “If, as the mo
nopoly clause of tbo State indicates to be
the judgment of the State, tho publio in
terest will be best subserved by an entire
abandonment of tho policy of granting ex
clusive pnviliges to corporations other than
railroad companies, in consideration of
service to be performed by them for the
public, the way is open for the accomplish
ment of that result with respect to corpo
rations whose contracts with the State are
unaffected by that change in the organic
haw, let the lights ond franchises which
have become vested upon the fuith of such
contract be taken and paid for by the pub
lic under the State’s power of eminent do
main. In that way the plighted faith of
the public will be kspt with those who have
made large investments upon the assurance
by the State that tho contract with them
should not be violated.”
sible to secure men to serve as directors in
our corporations who have either the time
or the disposititn to become acquainted
with the details of business.
Individual control naturally results from
this fact, and until directors are paid for
tneir time and trouble in looking
after the affairs of corporations
and made responsible for any failure to
perform their duties, we cannot see how
rascally presidents and cashiers can be
prevented from appropriating tbe money of
institutions under their control.
Beyond this something else will be re
quired, for however carefully affairs are
managed, instances will occur in which all
precautions will fail, aud robberies will
occur.
The administration of law should result
in more speedy trial and certain conviction
and punishment, than at present. It is too
true that men who have misappropriated
the funds of institutions, in which they were
employed, have under some pretext or
technicality escaped punishment, when there
no doubt with reference to their
guilt.
The whole moral fabric of the country
seems honeycombed with corruption.
Sham and hyprocrisy taint fhe action of all
classes in church and state, from the high
est to the lowest. We do not believe that
people are worse now than formerly, ex
cept by reason of increased facilities and
opportunities for the development of de-
priavty. This should be offset by im
proved methods for protecting the weak
frpm temptation and for the punishment
of crime wherever it may occur.
As we are promised reform by the pres
ent administration, no better commence
ment could be made than tbe filling of the
two mud puddles, which raise malaria for
Washington City, and carp for Southern
Congressman.
“The ItarlmrUm of New York."
On Christmas the New York Times had
something to say about “the barbarism of
Southern cities,” all on account of the tin
horn, and the fellow behind it.
It now gives further another wail thusly:
The eight of Thanksgiving day was made hide*
ots by gangs of men and boys armed with fish-
horns. The infliction theu amounted to a serious
nuiaance. aud should have admonished the police
to look out for a repetition of it But it waa re
peat.' d last uight, nevertheless, and in an exag
erated form From early evening until midnight
tL« -treeis ui Now Yoifc •»"•« iu posses
sion of a tooting mob. It is disgraceful to the
police that this should have been permitted. There
is no more excuse for disorderly conduct on
first of January than on any other day. Gunpowder
on the fourth of July has been a nuisance for many
years. But the more recent plague of fish horn*
other holidays has not yet become a “vested inter
est, ’’ and it ought to be suppressed.
We respectfully suggest that the South
furnished neither the horns nor Ihe per
formers.
lias been
Fen.nonable .Collection*.
What’s tho use ot going to Florida for
balmy atmosphere, when right here in
Macon the narcissus, Roman hyacinths
and roses are blossoming in the open air.
January 1st at hand and the spring flowers
all smiling up from the sod!
Every day brings intelligence of the
frozen North; accidents by freezing, in
creased death rates, the suffering of the
poor, the extortion of plumbers and
all the el cetera.* of a bitter winter. Swift
trains boar through our midst thousands of
fleeing delicates, bound for the Southern
peninsula, whilo overhead the red breast
ed robin hurls himself in the same direc
tion in search of a more temperate home.
The robin will not go far. lie will begin
to sweat under the wings Bodfi, turn' back
and muko him a winter homo in our swamps
ond valleys, furnishing cheerful notes and
delicate pies. But the passengers
by tranis are armed with through
tickets and will not tarry. They may begin
to chnck their hot bricks out of tho car
window soon after leaving tho cold damp
regions of Atlanta, may empty hot water
from their bottles, shuck overcoats and
nnatkenmtize their itching flannels when
they get to Macon, but to no good end.
Through they go, to drift back months
later and bless these hills and pleasant val
leys after encountering tho sands and
sharks of Florida. As far as profit is con-
corned, they are consequently of little ser-
ico to this region. There is pie in the
robin redbreast, but tho tourist merely
drops a hot brick and glides away.
This evidences miserable management.
Hero is the proper home for the people who
came from hilly countries to escape the ex
cessive cold of winter. It possesses soft
pleas Ant breezes that invigorate. It ought
to possess all the comforts and conveniences
of life, fine hotels and accommodations
such as make up Florida; but it don’t. It
ought to possess live business men ready to
seize and take advantage of tho opportuni
ties yearly offered for diverting to this sec
tion large bodies of moneys-pending tour
ists; but it don’t.
And so winter after winter, tho soft
breezes blow, the hyacinths, narcissus nnd
roses bloom out in the open air, tho robins
vhistle in our midst, and the tourists, drop
ping hot bricks at every station, bat bag
ging fat pocket-books close to their itching
flannels, pour into Florida. What’s the
matter with our capitalists?
Fraud.
Almost ever}’ day the press dispatches
contain accounts of defalcations on the
part of cashiers and presidents of banks
and other moneyed institutions throughout
the country. A complete list of these offi
cials who have “gono to Canada” in the
post year or two, would prove of interest,
and in number would surprise most peo
ple.
Enough has occurred to shake the confi
dence of tho publio in the integrity of bank
officials and furthermore to raise the ques
tion, “Who can be trusted?”
We have not lost faith in human nature
yet. Neither do we believe that men ore
worse now than at any preceding period in
the history of the race. But we are sur
rounded by circumstances that indicate
unmistakably the importance of some refor
mation in the methods of business by
which onr moneyed institutions are to be
protected, and in the administration of
justice, though which criminals ore to be
detected and punished.
There ore few corporations in which some
one or more officials are not permitted to
exercise too much control. Boards of direc
tors, os a general rule, ore ignorant of the
affairs of the institution* which they are
supposed to overlook. It is almost impoa-
Death of Colonel A. J. Lane.
Colonel A. J. Lnno died at Sparta, on yes
terday morning, in the sixty-third year of
his age, and the State of Georgia and the
city of Macon suffer the loss of a valued
public citizen. He was born in Virginia in
1823, but moved to Georgia in his child
hood, and the best years of his life were
spent in the village where he died; nnd
where for years, as a large and successful
planter, he dispensed an unbounded hospi
tality. Few men had a larger list of friends,
and none deserved tlem more.
By a unanimous vote he was selected as
the colonel of the 4.9th regiment of Geor
gia volunteers, and was severely wounded
on the second of the seven days fight around
Richmond, having his left elbow shattered.
After the war Colonel Lane, associating
with himself the late George Hozlchurst,
Esq., devoted himself to railroad enterprises.
They built the Macon and Augusta, the
Brunswick and Macon, the Eufaula and
Montgomery, New Orleans Pacific from
New Orleans to Hhrevesport, tho St. Johns
and Lake Enstis and Pensacola and Atlan
tic in Florida. He was for a time the pres
ident of the Eufaula and Montgomery
road, taking control when the bonds
were quoted at 40, and eventually
selling the road to the Georgia Central for
$2,100,000. He was also for a time presi
dent of the St. John [and Lake Eustis rood.
At the time of his death he was president
of the proposed M«con and Florida Air-
Line road, had propositions from outside
parties to build it, and hut for his failing
health tho work would have been under
way. Such is tho history of a useful nnd
busy life, which has made an indelible
uiArk upon the fortune and resources of his
native State and the South. For about a year
bis health had beep rapidly breaking down.
When fully aware, that his end was ap
proaching, he mot it with tho calm compos
ure and heroism of one sustained by tho
consciousness of a well spent life.
His home had been in Macon but a fow
years, but such was tho esteem in which he
was held, that he was called upon to rep
resent the county in the State Legislature,
a place he had filled as u Representative
from Hancock county many years ago.
But a few days ago, impressed no doubt
with the approaching end, he went to
Sparta to die aiuid the scenes in which
the best years of his life
had been passed, and surrounded
by the friends to whom ho was most at
tached. And hero the summons came. As
a citizen, Colonel Lane was just, upright,
honorable and publio apirited. As a friend
and companion, amiable, true, generous
and charitable,nnd as a husband and father
loving, kind and indulgent.
He illustrated at homo and abroad the
qualities and characteristics of mind and
heart, of the men who did honor to Georgia
in her days of prosperity; who defended
her in danger, and who resolutely devoted
every energy to building her up after she
had been ravaged.
About Carp.
Our Atlanta correspondent must have col
lided with an Atlanta reader of the Tel&-
(huell, for he has imbibed the ideas often
expressed in these columns of the car}),
called a fish bat really a reptile.
About the only thing that may be said in
favor of the cur}) is that it beats no fish ut
all, but as we have many better varieties of
fish, we don't want the car}). In fact, if half
of what is said of its fecundity be true,
Georgia can never possibly get out of stock
of this scavenger and Mormon.
We had hoped that the accounts of Pro
fessor Biiird, the fish commissioner, might
have been tbe subject of serious controversy,
insomuch as to prevent him from giving
anymore Southern Congressmen buckets
of small carp to electioneer with. The fine
varieties of fish go to the North, while the
South is expected to dig ont malarious mud-
holes to hive the carp.
We are supposed to have a fish commis
sioner in Georgia. Occasionally we hear of
him going down to visit the Florida shad.
Again he flits about collecting pantalette
trimmings for Colonel LivingBton’s fair,
and daring a political campaign he is
ubiquitous and unanimous. If some Con
gressman has not sense or pla<*k sufficient
to do it, why cannot this commissioner de
mand that our riven and streams be stock
ed with shad, salmon trout, brook trout,
boss, bream and pickerel? These are fish
fit to tackle and to eat.
Mb. Dior Townshknd, M.
airing his pet scheme down at New Orleans,
as appears by this from the Times-Demo-
crat:
Mr. Townshend’s measure referred to is his pro
posed Zollvereln, looking to tbe esribl'^hment if
an American customs and commercial union among
the States of South and Central America, the Re
public of Mexico and the United States, and there
by securing the freedom of trade among the na
tions on this continent that exists among the dif
ferent States of this Union. The measure would
establish a common basis of tariff duties against all
other countries and with this protection against the
competition of European countries the supremacy
of the United States in the trade with her Southern
neighbors and continent kinsmen would, in Mr.
Townshend’a opinion, be incontestably secured.
8peaking on tho subject to-day to the Tlmes-Deiuo-
crat correspondent, Mr. Townsheud said:
“I feel that I can champion my measure warmly
without being considered vain, because it has been
so highly and generally indorsed by others. The
greatest newspai«rs of this country, without regard
to politics, have spokon well of it, and distinguish
ed writers on cither side of the tariff question give
it their cordial and unreserved approval. The free
trader cannot object to it, because by the enlarge
ment of new trade to the extent proposed and cer
tain to follow bis dream and aim would be realized,
aud the protectionist kindly consents to it because
it is designed to protect us ogaluat the pauper labor
of Europe.
'•My information from Spanish American coun
tries is that the measure is favored by them. There
is every reason why it should be. Those countries
would prefer to trade with us and will gladly do so
upon well matured commercial principles. They
see, as we should see, that true reciprocity of trade
rests on longitudinal rather than on latitudinal
lines.
“It is the plainest sort of a proposition. Coun
tries lying east and west of each other cannot sup
ply that needful diversity of products that countries
lying uorth and south of each other can. I can tell
you that I am greatly encouraged by expressions of
approval of my measure that I havo received and I
shall make a sturdy fight to pass the bill at this
session of Congress."
Shred* and Patches.
A few more days of happiness and then Congress
will meet again.—Philadelphia Times.
There’s many a slipper ’twlxt mother and son in
every veil-regulated household.—Exchange.
The trouble In politics Is that the square man is
never round when he is wonted.* New Orleans
Picayune.
The Cblnrso can make the most elaborate bows,
but it is noticed that tluir clothes are fitted for it.—
New Orleans Picgyune.
Homebody sends us a circular which begins. “Are
yon troubled with fullness in the stomach?" And
this to an editor? Ye gods'—Evansville Argus.
In his will Mr. Vanderbilt left no money to tlie
lawyers. Let us tako back all the mean things we
have said of Mr. Vanderbilt.—Minneapolis Tribune.
The socialists claim to be half a million strong in
this country, but we don't believe it. The fool-
killer docira’t loaf all the time.—Philadelphia Pros*.
Readers of fiction must have noticed during the
past several months that the late Hugh Conway
L >tea great many more stories after his death than
while he was living.—Norristown Herald.
A band of cowboys ont in Montana hung up a
horse thiefs stocking Christmas Eve. As the owner
of the socks happened to be in them at the time
Hants Claus didn't speak as ho passed by.—Ht. Paul
Herald.
Murdera and murderous assaults iu Massachu
setts are getting so numerous that eulogists of the
commonwealth will need to dilute slightly the
strong doses they administer to outside barbarians,
Boston ltecord.
Stic performances in tbo Monnaie the!
till the other da/, when the courts J
into mourning for the death of the Kind
Spain, has, thanks to the telephone, y
able to follow the representations wity
leaving the chateau of Laekeu, the pj
being in telephone communication witfcf
leading Brussels thentie.
Experiments have recently been madj
London in the use of oil as fuel forj
going vessels. A steamer was fitted tl
oil tanks and piping, and the several trj
that have been made have proved satkf]
tor}'. The greatest objection is that it tij
a dense smoke, but it is believed that bjj
introduction of a jet of steam into the]
pipes, and causing the oil to be distribtJ
in spray form, complete combustiou will]
effected.
Dr. S. F. Pendergrass, of KingstreeJ
C., had a singular venture with a fox ai
dftvs ago while hunting birds. His &
pointed at wiiai the doctor supposed to 1
a bird, but ou ordering the dog to flush i
large fox ran and was shot and wound
The dog pursued it, but soon return
with the tox running after him. When tl
dog reached tbe doctor tho fox attack
him and was killed with a light wood kul
Dr. Pendergrass says he is an old huntA
but this is the first time he ever knev j
fox to attack a man.
JUMBLE.
XKW YKAB BKMOLUTIOXrt.
There were three little folks, long ago.
Who oolemnly sat in a row.
On a December ulght,
And attempted to write
For the new year a good resolution.
“1 will try not to make ao much noise,
» of the quietcat boys,"
n hone uproarious glee
Waa the cause or uo end or confusion.
••I resolve that I never will take
More than two or three pieces of cake,"
Wrote plump little Pete,
Whose tanto for the sweet
Waa a problem of puzzling solution.
The other, her paper to fill.
Began with. “Resolved, that I will—"
But right here she stopped,
Aud fast asleep dropped
‘ ‘
Ere she c
e conclusion.
fl
—{E. L. Benedict in New York Independent.
Hitting Bull nnd tribe of Sioux Indians
are on exhibition in a Berlin show.
Feane Spieuman, a lad of Washington,
who had both feet cat off by a train on the
Baltimore and Ohio road, sued for $20,000.
Ho Has been awarded $12,000 by the jury.
Edw'ard Slocum, of New Richmond,
Mich., who received in pay ns a soldier the
first one-dollar greenback issued, marked
Series A, No. 1, and dated August 1, 1862,
still has tho bill in his possession.
The justices of the SupremeCpurt are not
pleased wit\ the recent stories about their
excessive conviviality. Judge Miller insists
that nobodv drinks about the court or has
a sideboard there, and even the tradition
that there is a black bottle in the robe-room
is branded as foundationless.
A young lover nt Bath, Me., has just had
a melancholy experience of tho perils attend
ing upon courtship in that locality. He ex
pected to stay late when visiting his girl,
but he did not expect to be arrested and put
in the lock-up by a policeman, called bv her
mother; still less uid he count upon being
sentenced next morning to leave town, amid
the plaudits of the inhabitants.
According to a contemporary liar in the
French press two Parisian ladies quarreled
over the question of their rapidity of utter
ance, and decided the matter by three-hours
reading before judges. The winner is said
:ed or
to have pronounced over 290,(h)0 words and
tbe loser 203,DUO. To fnlly appreciate this
lie, one lrns but to watch a stenographer
following a 200-word a minute speaker.
The queen of the Belgians, who was one
of the most regular attendants at the oper-
Not every bridegroom is rattled byt:
marriage ceremony. A Montreal hacka
who took a couple to church the
night to be married, and quietly slipped d
during the wedding ceremony to cam a 1
tie extra money, was surprised on vetw
ing to hear the bridegroom boldly ask f
the money he had made while awAy. Tj
coachman, however, filing a constable c
hand, and not beiug desirous of becomi
defendant in a lawsuit, handed over i
cash, and^drove the newly wedded
home. Burlington Free Press.
A remarkable instance of religions dei
tion was exhibited tho other day at Indie
npolis by an old couple named Steinbe •;
who permitted themselves to did from hi
focation by coal gas because they would n
lift a hand on the Sabbath to adjust tl
stovepipe, which hnd fallen. When thj
neighbors found them they were so 1
gone that it was impossible to resnscita
them. Some clergymen we know wouj
rather die than read a Sunday newspapi
Some day it is to be hoped thnt we shallgl
beyond such absurd fanaticism.—Boskf
Herald.
A Remedy for Lung Disease.'
Dr. Robert Newton, late Prvaidentof tlie Ecli
College, of the city of New York, and formerly
Cincinnati, Ohio, nsed Da. Wsc. H ill’* B >
very extensively in his practice, as many of
patients, now living, and restored to health by
of this Invaluable medicine, can amply
He always said that so good a remedy onght
prescribed freely by every physician aa a sovi
remedy in all case* of lutig diseases. It
sumption, and ha* no equal for all pectoral
plaints.
SUFFERING
WOMEN.
Item! What tlie Great Method!
Divine anil Eminent Pliy-
clnn Says o(
DIt. J, BItADFIELD’S
Female Regulator!
ATLANTA, GA.. February 21.1881.
Dr. J. Brodfield—Dear Sir: Home fifteen yew
ago I examined tho recipe of Female Regulator, i *
carefully studM author!*?** in regard to iti ct
notion I*, aud then, as well a* n«rw. pronounced it U
be the mo«t scientific and skillful combination o
the really reliable remedial vegetable agents knowi
to scienco to act directly on the womb and aterim
organs, and the organs and part* sympathti
rectly with these parts; and, therefore, pre
a s)M‘clflc remedy for all diseases of tho womb, a
of the adjacent organ* aud parts. Yours truly,
JE8SE BORING, M. D., D. D.
CAUTION.
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Is a purely vegetable compound, and la onlylu-
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the’FEMALK S2T For their
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