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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH. TUi^JAY JANUARY 5, 18Sfi.—TWELVE PAGES. THE TELEGRAPH, fOBLtSHED KVKRY DAT IN THE TEAS AND WEEKLY »T THE Telegraph and Mesnenger Publishing Co., 97 Mulberry Street, Macon, Ox. The Dally la delivered by carrien In the city nailed postage free to subscribers, for (1 per month, $2.60 for three months, $5 for six mouth*, or $10 a year. The Weekly Is mailed to subscribers, pontage tree, at $1.25 a year and 75 cents for six months. Transiect adreiUsements will be taken for the Daily at $1 per square of 10 lines or less for the first insertion, and 60 cents for each subsequent in sertion, and for the Weekly at $1 for each insertion. Notices of deaths, funerals, marriages and births, $1- Jtejcctcd communications will not be returned. Correspondence containing important news and fiiscuHaions of living topics is solicited, but must be brief and written upon but one aide of the paper to have attention. Remittances should be made by express, postal BOte, money order or registered letter. ' Atlanta Bureau \1\% Peachtree street. All communications should !>e addressed to THE TELEGRAPH, Macon, Ga. Money orders, checks, etc., should be made paya 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. 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