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THE MACON WLEKLY TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1886.-TWELVE PAGES. THE TELEGRAPH, rUKUtBV.D CTSBT DAT tV THX TV AS AMD WKKKLT Telegraph and Messenger Publishing Co., 97 Mulberry Street. Macon, Qa. The Daily 1* delivered by carrier* In the city or mailed postage free to subscribers, for $1 per month, $2.50 for throe month*. $5 for aix month*, or $10 a year. Tax Wekklt is mailed to subscribers, postage free, at $1.25 a year and 75 cent* for six mouths, Transient advertisement* will be taken for the Dally at $1 per square of 10 lines or lees for the Arst insertion, and 50 cent* for e&oh subsequent in sertion, and for the Weekly at $1 for each insertion, Notices of deaths, funerals, marriages and births, $1. Rejected communications will not be returned. Correspondence containing Important news and discussions of living topic* is solicited, but must be brief and written upon but one side of the paper to h*7e attention. BemitUndes should be made by ex prose, postal ■ota,: <oney order or registered letter. Atlanta Bureau 17 X Peachtree street. 411; communications should be addressed to * THE TELEGRAPH, Macon, Ga. Money orders, checks, etc., should be made pay*- bit |o H. C. Hanson, Manager. Tbb Columbus Enquirer announces Thos. "W. Grimes, Esq., as a candidate for Congress in the Fourth district. Mr. Grimes is strong, popular and experienced in public life, Lav ing served with distinction in the Legisla ture. The Enquirer backs up his claims, and he will be a formidable man in the can vass, aa Columbus, the main city in the dis trict/nhonld have a chance at ; the Repre sentative^ Thr Reverend Samuel Small’s attempt to use the peculiar rhetoric of the Reverend 8am Jones has canned a commotion. A Columbus, Miss., special says: “The Democrat, a prohibition paper, attacked tho celebrated divine, condemning his language, and said that Columbus did not require such religion, ns it was a moral city and did not requirtrttam Small to pilot the citizens to heaven with a helm full of blasphemy. This attack was answered by Small in lan guage very emphatic. It is understood that the Democrat will reply to-morrow in lan guage mofe emphatic, and war is looked for.” The polico have already had to at tend to the Salvation Army In maty places. In view of the death of the Poet Priest, Father Ryan, how touching are his words: "Some day In Spring "When earth is f*lr aud glad, "And aweet bird* sing • ‘And fewer hearts are sad— "Shall I die then? "I know It will be sweet "To leave the homes of tj^an "And rest beneath the sod. "To kneel and kt*s Thy foot "in Thy Home! Oh: my God. "Haste, death, lie fleet, "1 know it will be sweet r To rest beneath the sod— "To kneel »nd kiss Thy feet "in Heaven, Ohl my Oml. Ohio, like many other States, has a bar association. The member, of this associo- tion hold some peculiar views, but wo can not say that they ore open to criticism. A Cincinnati diapateh says: "Mr. Washing ton T. Porter, an attorney and secretary of the Cincinnati Bar Association, was * ex pelled from that body by a vote of 27 to 24 at a meeting to-night for violation of a rule of the association Which says that a mem ber that seeks the nomination (or a judge- ship shall be liable (o expulsion. Mr. For ter sought the nomination of tbs Republi can convention lost fall and refused to ex plain to the association.’' Down here in Georgia we hare a bar asaociation, bat law yers and judges are permitted to seek any thing in the way of political preferment that they may take a fancy for. If our bar association is indisposed or unsble to cor rect the evil, perhaps the people may un dertake the job. If they do so in earnest the work will be complete. Mb. Cleveland is undergoing another ordeal, the reanlt of which will bo watched with interest by the Democratic party. The New York 8nn says: "The term of Post master McLeer of Brooklyn terminated more than a week ago. The regular Demo cratic organization in Brooklyn and the Democratic Congressman have made a for, mal request for the nomination of former County Clerk John Delmar. President Cleveland was informed that Delmar was the man whom the united Democracy of the dUtrictwiahW to see appointed to the place. Yesterday Beecher said he had written to the President on Saturday urg ing him to renominate McLeer, and that it was his purpose to go to Washington and press the adoption of his views on the Ad ministration os on act of public policy. All the Mugwumps are supporting McLeer, hut the Democratic leaders cannot bring themselves to believe that the President will ignore their wishes in regard to the postmastership, particularly aa Gen. Mc Leer was so conspicuous a partisan during the last Presidential campaign. A Small but Important Blatter. Mr. Vilas, the Postmaster General, is re ported to havo gone to Virginia to devoto two weeks to recreation and fishing. It is almost too early for angling in Virginia, and besides tho moon and other signs are not right for this popular and contempla tive sport. Bat just as soon as he can return re freshed and invigorated, we would invite bis attention to n small but important matter. Upon the first signs of life in the approaching gubernatorial campaign in this State a complaint was lodged against sn in ternal revenue collector to the effect that he and bis deputies were taking part in a fac tional o ntest. There is reason to believe that this charge was unfounded, in fact, and it is more than suspected that the offense of the collector was a refusal to take the part assigned him by sundry political managers. Be this as it may, it seems that he was warned from tho Treasury department. About the same time the Attorney-General found it convenient to attempt to pat a brake npon some of the underlings of bis department. It is held by the administra tion that those enjoying "public trusts” shall not take an active part in State Federal polities. We do not come to argue the wisdom or efficiency of the rule, but to ask its impartial enforcement. It is well established that the most efficient strikers of the Republican party _were tho fourth-cl&ss postmasters. These officials frequently run rural pa pers, preside over country stores, write deeds, pull teeth, doctor horses, cut hair and perform inauy other chores, which bring them into frequent contact with tho people of their vicinity, and thus enjoy unusual advantages for booming their candidates and politicians to whom they may be undor obligations for official preferment. Mr. Vilas has made a number of fourth class postmasters in Georgia, and the Presi dent has appointed others of a higher grade. There may not have been any design in these appointments, but regarding them as to the past affiliations of the appointees, the very inrge majority hnve been selected from one division of the Democratic party in this State. These will make up a form idable array of active canvassers if they are not restrained by orders from hoadquarters. We furnish an instance in point Mr. J. Dorsey Alexander is the editor of n small weekly paper. Editor Alexander is also postmaster at Thomaston. Now, Mr. Editor and Postmaster Alexander is a most noisy and industrious partisan of Mr. Blount for Congressman and whoever Mr. Blonnt may desire for Governor or other official posi tions. Tho publication presided over by Mr. J. Dorsey Alexander, P. M., takes a very advanced and pronounced position, and is virulent and onesided. True, it does not amonnt to much, bnt if Postmaster- Editor J. Dorsey Alexander is permitted to become "an offensive partisan,” others may claim the same privilege. Wo trust we have made the point plain. After Mr. Vilas has placed his fishing- poles in the chimney corner, wound np his lines and hid his bait gourd trader the ush- liopper, perhaps he may find timo to issue an order to his fourth-class assistant post masters in this State to cease any active politicul work until we hnve this guberna torial question settled. As the whisky gangers and deputy mar shals have been ordered to uttend to official business, will not Mr. Vilas instruct his fourth-doss strikers to "hands off?’ A Little Black Cloud. The remark. of the colored Methovllat BUhop Tur ner at the Richmond Conference disclose to view upon the Southern political horizon a little cloud, now no bigger than > man’s hand, but dark with the portent of "considerable of a shower." The Bishop denounced the Republican Supreme Court for nullifying the civil rlghta law, and declared that for himself he was "neither a Republican nor a Democrat," but a Prohibitionist. If the colored vote should take an exodus in this direction, what would become of the Republican party at the South, and of tho bourbon Democracy ?—Boston Herald. The question is pertinent; and behind it is one yet more pertinent. What will be come of society? Intemmirance is crime; no one should deny this, And all wise ef forts to put down intemperance should command the support of people of every raoe and both sexes, bnt let it not ho for gotten that thero larks in this age and sec tion a danger that threatens white woman hood more terrible than even intemper ance. It is easy to understand that the white women who, on the streets or else where, lay hands upon negro men to pin up on their coats the badges of reform, or meet them in tho lunch-rooms, or stand with them npon a level, aro actuated by tbe highest of motives, aud that they heroically sacrifice much to popularize a principle; bnt clothed in its best,' this experiment must ever^eem deplorable. The exorcism thnt lays one devil and frees ton thousand worse had better be left nnuttered. The “little cloud, now no bigger than a man's hand," yet visible in Mossaclmsetts, is the Prohibition party in Georgia politics led by unscrupulous white men, enthusi asts, and followed by the negro race. It means n balance of power from the worst elements of society, and may mean a con flict before every white man’s door. To some people it mny seem better that a - man should be carried over his threshold dead than drunk, hut drunkards sometimes re form, while the dead return no more. What ever faults it may have, it must always be said of the Democratic party in Georgia that it has defended her womanhood and guaranteed it protection in every county. This is something, and since the danger it confronted is still active, perhaps it would be well to leave the party still on guard. SHREDS AND PATCHES. Sow e people are wearing their spring colds trim med with poroua plastors.—Philadelphia Herald. The campaign lu Pennsylvania is almost open, but 'twill ho an early and agile lie that eclipses the cyclone story of the gravestone blown from Bt. Cloud three miles across the Mississippi.—Philo. Uelphia News. TELEGRAPH BYPLAY. The editor of the Deseret News, Salt Lake, is in jail for supporting four wives. We will guarantee the payment of hia fine if he will give it away. Just let the profession know' how he supports four on one paper.—San Francisco Alta. When a Republican gets a government appoint ment under a Democratic administration the mem bers of Congress say he is an "expert," and politics have nothing to do with the cuse. Such men ap pointed aro expert* in getting places.—Picayune. Our Friend, the Mocking Bird. A great deal has been written in the Tble- aiiAPH during the last thTee years concern ing tho gradual extermination of the South s splendid songster, the mocking bird, or to be more definite, the Mimas Polyglottus. The Telegraph first called attention to the sub ject, and I see no reason to doubt that the theory then advanced to account for the growing scarcity of the birds was and is the true one. The reason given was the unchecked slaughter of the birds by negro "sportsmen,” and the destruction or capture t>f their young from wantonness or a desire for gain. Changed Hla Order: Temperance advocate (to young man in restaurant)—"My dear young friend, do you know that tbe Bible says, ‘Look not upon the wine when it la red?’" Voting man (surprised) —"No; does It? Here waiter, make that Rhine wine instead of claret-"—New York Times. The Mlnueapclis Tribune baits for new subscrib ers with a crosscut saw, and calls it tbe "grandest premium over offered by any newspaper." There is indeed little left for future newspaper conquer, on after this: but possibly something might be done with a cyclone pit—Boston Herald. " ’Deed, miss," ssld he addressing the daughter, 'ycu’so lookin’ mighty peart, you Is, and growod big 'ootnan, too, alnco 1 fust knowed ye. An' dar*s yo' mudder, too. Lawdt Lawdt 'stonlshin' how smart she looks. I ain't gwlne ter say 'at yon look 's old's yo' mudder, but I 'clar It am a sartiu fack yo' mudder looks ’■ young as yon." And the courtly old coon chuckled softly as ho resumed his shovel ing.—Detroit Free Press. The Washington correspondent of the New York World writes that Sec retary Lamar was at his department to-day. His Southern trip appears to tsif .improved his physical condi- • ioB very much. He ia in the beat of health andapirits. In speaking of the Sute of Oeorgia, recently visited by him, he said that he had seen nowhere in the South such evidences of growth and prosperity. He was asked: "In wbat way is tbe State pro gressing and prospering?" He replied "Throughout the State property is rapidly increasing in valne, business is good and the people appear to ba doing well. Yon see signs of thrift and prosperity in every village. Between Macon and Atlanta it is almost one continuous settlement .of new houses. The State is growing very rapidly in its manufacture*. There should be many more banka, so aa to afford better facilities to the people who desire credit. Money now commands altogether too high a rate of interest, considering the kind of security that can be given. This makes a heavy tax npon every bniiness.” Tuk l'ublic Ledger's correspondent writes from Washington as (oIIowb: "Mr. Ran dall to-day informed your correspondent that it was unquestionably true that the President had spoken to a number of mem bora about the necessity of tariff legisla tion at the present session and that somo of those thus addressed left the White House with the impression that the President fa vored the Morrison bill. Mr. Randall believes, however, that such efforts on the part of the Executive will have lit tie indnenee with the members, os they will vote according to the interests of their respective constituencies rather than follow tbe dictation of the President It is not only inpolilic bn?, dangerous, Mr. Randall thinks, for the Executive to attempt to indnenee members upon any question pending before Congress, and particularly to attempt to imduence them upon such a question aa the tariff. "President Buchanan," said Mr. Randall, "took members by the throat and attempted to coerce them to support his policy touching the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and the result of his inter ference was not only to bring overwhelming defeat to his administration, but division and disaster to hia party. Mr. Cleveland will succeed no better then Mr. Buchanan. The Preeident may communicate to Con gress his views npon the tariff or any other public question, and may indnenee the body in this manner, bnt bs cannot with pro priety corral individual members and at tempt to coerce them into voting npon great public questions, intimately affecting tho material interests of tbe people, according to his individual views. The members of the House are in constant communication with the people end know whet they want and do not need advice npon the tariff from any executive officer." From these expres sions it will be seen that Mr. Randall is not likely to be swerved from his sense of daty by any efforts the President may make on liehalf of the Morrison bill. Mr. Randall ■ays there it no foundation for the report that the Democratic members from Penn sylvania are divided upon the tariff bill. He believes all of them will vote against that measure, and he is confident that it wilt be defeated.” Senator Coke may be put down as a rather sturdy Democrat He is quoted as follows: “The President may make as many Repnblican appointments as be pleases, but Pll be damned if I'll vote for them.” The New York Herald says: “Our wide awake contemporary, the Macon Tele graph, Bays that Macon men in Florida laugh to see the natives opening canned tomatoes in sight of tomato plants loaded with ripe fraih Then the said Macon men go to their homes and buy Florida shad—at Washing ton market prices—although their own river is full of them, and the Telegraph asks, ‘Is it not a little singular ?’ Bless yon, no! Tbe same sort of thing is going on nil over the country. There is not a year when hams and bacon do not bring higher prices in some great pork-prodneing counties of tho West than they do in New York. There are Southern counties where the water melon grows so easily that the stnaU boy scorns to steal it, yet in some towns in these counties a watermelon costs twice os much ns in any Northern city. There are cattle ranches in the West where milk—when thero is any—brings fifty cents a quart, and great grain farms on tho prai ries whose owners never in their lives tasted an ear of sweet corn. And—coming back to shnd—there are times, when these fish arc running up our own river by tens of thousands, that a breakfast of shnd costs more than one of beef-ateak, although the shnd comes right to town and needs only to be taken from n net, while the beef has to be fed at least three years and then brought half way across the continent by rail. No; there's nothing singular about it, except in the fact that whore food products most abound, human nature seems most incom petent to make full use of it« opportunities. America is, above ail others, a land of plenty, but no one would imagine it after looking at a price list of family supplies. Two day* before be died, Dennis Wilcox stood by tbe "ticker” in the ofllce of a broker with whom be had been on terms of social intimacy outside of Wall street for many years. He was silent a long time, watching tbe figures as they came ticking out on the "tape” from the Stock Exchange. Then wijh the air of a man disheartened he turned to his fnend and said: "If I had taken some advice and quit this speculation, I would have beeu a great deal better off to*day.” "Then why not stop now 1 will. I've had enough. I shall never touch another share." lie kept hi* word with the aid of hi* pis tol.—New York Times. A blatant, braying sample of tbe loud-voiced, self-conscious, look-at-me variety of men took his seat in a Philadelphia street car, and called to the conductor: "Does tills car go all the way up Eighth?,” "Yes, sir,” responded tho conductor, po litely. "Does it go up a* far a* Oxford street? want to get off there.” "Yes sir, wm the reply. "Well, 1 want you to tell me when you get there. You’d better stick a wafer on your nose, or put a straw in your mouth, or tie a knot in one of your lips, so that you won’t forget it.” "It would not be convenient for one 1n my position to do ao,” said tho conductor, courteously; "but if yon will kindly pin your ears around your neck, I think I will re member to tell you.” Amid the roar of the passen gers, tbe man said that bo had "foTgotten some thing,'’ and got off at the next corner.—Puck. to raise young mocking birds i, D] feeding at too long intervals, and the wrong brad of food, tw'u, gives a worm every few minutes. gives egg and potatoes about three I LEVE ■ Mocking birds can be tanght aim™.. thing in the way of tnnes. “ MaconT boast of a bird that whistled Din?' years ago a Frenchman traveled aC, country playing airs npo n the piano *, his bird would follow accurately i, Pulaski House in Savannah a naora . keep a bird that would whistle » l!? to tunes his master whistled. 6 u plltS LAI fSdl >■ < , L- 1 "' Leol This theory has been combatted. It is stated by some that the English sparrow is driving out the singers. By others that the destruction of the forests has something to do with the evil. It is even suggested that hurricanes may be tbe real cause. None of these theories will stand the test. The Eng lish sparrow, in fact no bird, can drive out the mockers, .who belong to a game and bel ligerent family. The common mocking bird will attack dogs, cats, hawks, crows and buzzards when they invade his range, and I have never known one of them to give up the contest. But the sparrow theory is en tirely npset by the fact that the English emigrant of that family does not inhabit the country, but towns, villages and cities, as recently pointed out, and the additional fact that instead of becoming more numer ous in the rural districts, as they naturally would if driven from the business commu nities, the mocking birds are becoming scarcer everywhere. Nor will tbe hurricane theory do, since but few sections have suf fered from these storms, and that not more than before the war. The charge is often made that th. mocker will poison its young when th: ter has been caged. It would be had * prove this, and it is easy to account t* a youngster’s death, otherwise. that t One of the most populur errors iug the mocking bird is the belief has no song of bis own; that he ad„„n blends only the notes of other birds i song. This is pure nonsense. The » mocking birds reared in th; garrets oi cities and beyond the reach of the soi others, sing as do the natives in their dom, t though not as strongly they lack the inspiration of JJIISOT* jxintt [lion to 1 [fi the ■' coal "toff to -V. ■. I 2 o! , r offic< gotbci rttlemf a be the mellow' sunlight nnd hi* The destruction of forests has nothing to do with the loss of this bird. He is not u forest bird, bnt of the fields. He prefers an open situation and the haunts of man. The orchard, the hedge, a solitary haw bush, where he has plenty of sunlight and a breadth of view, suits him best. And it is in tho fields and orchards that he finds food. Of all nests his is probably the most care lessly built and little trouble is taken to con ceal it. He seems to feel that his song is the price of security, and this mistake is fast playing havoc with him. BACON IN THE LEAD The Recently Louisville, Ivy., was shocked by tho murder of a prominent sporting man on tho streets of that city by a hoodlum for the purpose of robbery. The trial has taken place, and with the usndl result. Tho wretch escaped the gallows, whereupon the Courier Journal indignantly says: "Nothing is as cheap in Kentucky us life. No crime is committed with sach impunity as murder. Yet it is impossible to secure a change of the law- from this Legislature. Criminal lawyers thwart the popular aense of jus tice at every step, yet the people are undoubtedly right and the lawyers are miserably wrong. There is not a county in the State from which there does not cry the blood of some murdered men. Ail in vain. Out power to punish the worst of crimes has departed.” Kentucky cannot corral her murderers until she depiives juries of the power to apportion punishments, and this is equally true of other States. Georgia has a clause in her criminal code which cheats the geUows of its victims. Juries dodge their responsibilities and render wroug ver dicts, because they are permitted to make recommendations for mercy to judges who ore looking for political preferment. For tlte Nomination for Governor Feeling In Macon. A correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle, under date of Macon, April 20th, writes to that paper as follows: Your correspondent is in a position to give a correct view of tho political field in the State. Matters aro certainly in good shape for the nomination by the convont.on of Hon. A'. O. Bacon for Governor; but thero is no disguising the fact that there are some infiuences which are very shrewdly endeavoring to shape opposition to him. The public mind is being very industri ously worked upon to produce tho impres sion that the antagonism between Judge Simmons and Major Bacon is ro great that tho division resalting therefrom offers an inviting opening toother candidates. Tho scheme of the opponents of Major Bacon is to get other candidates announced in different parts of the State whose local following will draw away from his support. Booms will bo started in certain sections where Major Bacon is strong, in favor of local candidates, the object being, if possi ble, to woaken bis strength, and thus pro- v. nt his nomination on the first ballot. It is thought, with several candidates in the field, that Bacon can he defeated in this way. While Bacon and Simmons have undoubt edly strong friends in Bibb, and while it is almost certain thnt Bacon will carry this connty, it is not true that there is either E :at excitement or greet bitterness between con and Simmons, or their friends and supporters respectively. Dispatches from Macon alleging mutual bitterness between Messrs. Bacon and Simmons and their friends are sent out for the purpose of cre ating the impression that it will be best for the intereat of the party to bring a new man into the race. All this is done for n purpose and tliat purpose is to defeat Bacon. The people of Macon are not bitter or ex cited, but they have settled down into the conviction that the general verdict of tho State is in favor of Major Bacon for Gov ernor. In tho language of the turf, tho field will be against Bacon, and the people over the State who are in favor of a new and square deal should understand that the various can didates who are or may be announced in this race between Simmons end Bacon will be used (although not themselves perhaps intending it) primarily to secure Bacon's defeat, and not for tbe advancement of the persons so used. All over the State Major Bacon has active, earnest snpporters, and, unless ell signs fail, yon cun teU the readers of the Chron icle that he will be the next Governor. The people will see to it that he is the nominee of tue Democratic State convention. I do not think the original theory is wrong. ITp to emancipation times, or rather the close of the war, mocking birds were plenti ful everywhere in Georgia. During the years that followed, freedom armed a race to whom guns had been forbidden. The negro became an enthusiastic hunter, hut he was unskilled and conld gratify his craze for destroying only npon birds that were nearest at band. Mocking birds, cardinals, jo-reels, cat-birds and thrashes went down as easy conquests before a class that had never been taught better, and had neither sentiment nor conscience. The negro hunt ers of to-day, with possibly a few exceptions, are not wing shots, and they fill their bags with birds that can bo killed in the trees. It goes without saying that theso are the birds that should be spared to the fields and to society. My observation has been that few, very few negroes will pass, gun in hand, anything that has feathers and is large enough to cook, and this is borne out by the fact that the blue-jay, the wood-peck and cat-bird are disappearing from the fields and woods almost as fast as the mocking bird proper. Tho destruction of the mocking bird has boon more rapid because liis nest has beon systematically robbed by parties of both colors for private gain or gratification. A yeor or two since wo noted ono shipment of these birds from Savannah, which con tained six or seven hundred. Upon tbe streets of this and all other cities thoy are openly sold every summer. Their song is in fact of songs, but entirely original, ever heard the divisions ot tbe birds song in any forest. That he sperses them with cat calls, the I screech, the whirr of the bull-bat and en’s melancholy “peep" and from other birds is true, hut t| are only characters in his recitative bi features in the romance of his summ< that he sings his parts backward and ward and combines them anew is also The mocking bird's song is to the ear theflSleideoscope is to the eye, and the binations of bis songs is ns endless a glass forms in the toy. But the song are the same. *This bird is probably the most coni ous singer in the world, bnt there are weeks out of every fifty-two when notl can tempt him to sing, and that is is molting. At such times he may moping in a secluded spot lost in melancholy. He looks, then, hot and and the only note he ntters is a short whistle, not unlike that which the fat makes as he removes his bat and mopi brow. Perhaps during this season tbe lays aside mockery, repents and makes resolutions. I of Hi r»nd[ ’ ben j rat'd Georgia has no law to protect hen singers, whose songs delight and astor the world. Some of our Southern i have laws to protect buzzards, and e them rigidly. The negro who by pullini trigger may banish more melody from 3 world than human lips can sound, man it with impunity, but it costs him $5 Blj « buzzard with a clod of dirt. X. 1.1 The loss of theso birds and others not named from tho fields is very unfortunate, if we consider the matter merely from the standpoint of economy. It is said, and any ono who has seen the mocking bird feed ing his yonng may readily believe it. that a worm or bug goes to its nest every five minutes during the day. T’hiH would give more than a hundred to the day for evory pair during the nest life of their young, three sets of which are raised every sum mer, When it is remembered that every bug or worm thus cut off may represent thousands, the value of the bird’s sendees can be understood. True, he takes figs and berries, bnt ho earns them. When, however, we look at him from a sentimental point, the wonder that anyone can harm a member of the mocking bird family increases. No Bong bird in the world can equal the sweetness of bis notes or sus tain a song so long. No bird known to naturalists can produce the notes of others and of fowls or even animals with sneh pre cision aud in sack combination. Tbe little gray singer that balances himself npon trei tops, or dances along the ridges of our houses seems to have all the binl notes of tho land at his tongue’s end and to delight in weaving them into new forms of beauty. That he has never been .the uoet’s theme to the extent that ho lark, the nightingale, or even the robin has, I attribute to his name. It is not fitted for verse, nor is it at all poetical. Had he home tbe name of Orpheus, aa does his cousin, of the Greater Antilles, he would have filled the song lore of the South. Paul Hayue, William Hamilton Hayne, and a few others have used him, but none have con quered his p ebian name. Sidney Lanier, who loved and observed every form of na ture, pays attention to him, and the descrip tion is so graphic and perfect it should he noted: INDICTING CHARITY. DEEDING AWAY HIS WIFE. Tbe President is st liberty to marry. Lav ing gotten a divorce from tbe Democratic party. A Philadelphia Brewer Siena Over Ills You as Spout* to a Fricud. Reams", April 21.—Max Rekstock, a Phil adelphia brewer, Frieda ltebstock, his wife, a prepossessing young woman, ami Albert Wolf of this city called nt Aldermnn Scheetz’a office here to-day and boil that of ficial settle a novel suit between them. Mr. and Mrs. ltebstock were married three years ago. She is twenty-fonr years of age and moved in excellent society among the Ger mans of Philadelphia. Wolf aud ltebstock were very clone friends for years. Lost year ltebstock sent hia wife on a European trip. Several years ago she first met Wolf, a band- some young German. A strong attachment sprung up between the two, which was q u -kly noticed by iUbstock. Alderman Hcliee:z was called npon to amicably adjust tl.cir marital difficulties. Mr. and Mr*, ltebstock signed a paper by which they agreed to separate, provided she gave him certain arti-lea which be bought her when they were married. Kebetock renounced all claim to the woman as his wife. He then left for Philadelphia. Mr*. Itebviock and Wolf were married this afternoon ami will make their residence in this city. The Work or 111* Thomas County Grand *lury. Which Has Adjourned. Thomabvillk, April 24. The last grand jury of Thomas county, which adjourned to-day, mode a special presentment of man who, as an act of charity, got np raffle for a diamond ring, the property of Northern man, whose money gave ont be fore he bought his ticket to go home, ami thus enabled him to sell it and get home. He is charged with keeping a gambling house. Likewise the board of directois oil the Library Association for allowing the ladies in charge to raffle some expensive articles that bad been donated. They managed to find several other cases of the same sort, hut no poker pluyrag or anjthing else of that ilk. As the solicitor ■aid, they got all the sheep bnt do wolves, and then wound up with a recommendation that the prohibition question be agitated immdiately. A Substitute lor Sugar Of late years many valuable products have been got out of ccal-tar. Sir Lyon Playfair rnnounced about a week ago in Liverpool that it has been discovered that a crystal can be extracted from it, an almost imperceptible amount of which i fully sweeten a considerable quantity solid or liquid food, and that this new sweetener has the advantage over sugar of passing so rapidly sway from the diges tive organs, that it neither fattens those who take it nor encourages rheumatism. This will be good news to the disciples ol Ranting who still have a hankering after sugar.—London Truth. Supreme Court of Ueorfla. Atlanta, April 22.—No. 2, Pataulacirci You vs. Baldwin. Argued. W. C. Woi for plaintiff, A. Hood ASon contra. No. 3, Patnula circuit. Mosely rs. ders. Argued. E. C: Bower for phi Bacon A Rutherford contra. No. ii, Patauia circuit. McLenuoa Stokes. Argued. D. A. Vason, 8imni< Gnerry for plaintiff, Hawkins ® Hawk) E. G. Simmons, J. G. Parks contra. No. 7, Patuula circuit. Cox vs. J Argued. D. A. Vason for plaintiff. Wooten contra. southwestern circuit. No. 10 (continued), Southwestern Dismissed. ‘Nos. I, 2 and 3, Southwestern Marshall et al. vs. Livingston. Arqi: 8. Wallace A Son for plaintiff, B. B. A. A. Carson, contra. No. 5, Southwestern- cireuit. Bl vs. State. Argued. B. B. Hinton, McCorkle^B. H. Wilkinson for plaintiff,; B. Hudson, Solicitor-General, C. And Attorney-General, contra. Court then adjourned to t> o'clock a. morrow. The Albany circuit may he reached morrow. Atlanta, April 23.—No. 4, Southwest circuit. Johnson vs. the- State. Arg J. W. Brady, S. C. Elam, B. B. Hinton plaintiff; C. B. Hudson, solicitor-gen W. A. Hawkins. No. H, Southwestern cirenit. Bis) No. 'J, Southwestern cirenit. Kind vs. the State. Argued. E. G. Sinn for plaintiff; C. B. Hudson, solicitor-gei by Hawkins, No. 10, Southwestern circuit. Li' ston vs. Frick A Co, Argued. Be Lumpkin, B. It. Hinton, Charles R. Crary for plaintiff; E. J. Reagan, 11 Hammond contra. No. 11, Southwestern circuit, vs. B.irfield. Argued. J. W. Dnl’ Simmons for plaintiff; John W. IUji contra. ., No. 29, Southwestern circuit. Confine*] Gay vs, Gilmore. Argued. E. 0. mons, Hawkins A Hawkins for plaint T. Snead contra. ALBANI CIRCUIT. , No. 131 continued), Albany circuit. drawn. ,, No. 14 (continued), Albany circuit. drawn. . No. I, Albany circuit. Moody vs. Travi Argued. Gurley A Talbert for plaintiff. 0-, F. Westmoreland contra. No. 2, Albany circuit. Continued- No. 3, Albany circuit. Continued •Superb and sole upon a plumed spray That o’er tbe general leafage boldly grew. He summed the wood* in song; or typie drew Tbe watcb of hungry hawks, the lone dismay Of languid dove* whose lovera a tray. Or all birds' passion plays that sprinkle dew At morn in brake or bosky avenue. Wbat e’er birda did, or dreamed, this bird could say. Then down he shot, bounced airily along Tbe eward. twitched grasshopper, made song 'Mid flight, perched, prinked and to his art aj^in. Bweet science, this large riddle read me plain, How may the death of that dnl) inaect be. The life of yon trim Bhakeepere on tbe tree.” Court then adjourned to 9 o’clock to-morrow. . The heel of the docket will be retch* 1 * morrow. . , Atlanta, April 24.-No. 6. (ContiaW Oconee circuit Bowen vh. Penny, pued. J. W. DuPre, Jno. B. Holme*. A. Hawkins for plaintiff; R, Q. Orier, jin A Hall contra. u i Nos. 1 and 2. Oconee circuit tree*" A Sons vs Roebuck et al Argued. R ir,.T H ntainuff; Another and a tenderer mention does he make ot a pet mocking bird that met death in the grasp of a cat; "Rethinks I **e the* fresh from death's de.plte Perched in . palm grove, wild with pantomtne O'er blissful companies couched in .had? thyme. Rethink. I hear thy .liver whistling bright, Hla with the mighty dleconrve of the wire. TUI broad Beethoven, deaf no more, and Keate, 'Mhlat mnch talk, uplift their emillng eyea. And mark the muale of thy wood concert.. And half-way pauee on Mime larfe courteoue word And call thee "Brother." O, Utou heavenly bird." Most Southern people are familiar with the habits of these birds, but it will be news to many to be told, aa in tho Encyclo pedia Britar ira, that they go to New Eng land in the summer to breed and return fn No. 4 Rome cireuit. Keans • J £ the fall. Andubon's statement was that Argued. W. D. Elam for plaia • some of them “go north," and this term Applied to the migration of birds means with him northward. In Maryland and Virginia the bird can be found in summer, but he comes southward in tbe autumn. I am inclined to think that some pass ns and go to Florida in very cold weather. I have seen them late in the antnmn Hying south ward high in air and northward early in the spring. Audubon says that tbe stay at home birds of the family fight these migra tory fellows upon their return. The gnat mistake made in the attempts i, J. H. Lumpkin for plaintiff Martin contra. ,, , No. 3. Oconee circuit. Yoongblo^J ministratrix vs. Youngblood et aL j Hawkins A Hawkins, Dnncan A for plaintiff; J. II. Martin contra. nurssw lev. oineun. No. I. Brunswick circuit l> Chess Csrley Company. ArtrieA Sweat by Harrison A Peeples 'for W. R. Lane, Denmark A Adams conus- No. 2. Brunswick circuit SkipPX ^ Chess Carley Company. Argued. . Sweat by Hamsun A Peeples for Denmark A Adams, W. R. Lane -onlta HEEL OF BRUNSWICK. . n No. 6. Macon circuit. Lamar et Lanier Honse Company. Argued A Gresham for plaintiff; Dessau contra. HEEL or ENTIRE KOCEKT, Keans Jo:- I Wright contra. No. 7. Rome cireuit Mooj>e7 0 Rome Railroad Company. Argued- A Denny, W. D. Elam. Dabney * for plaintiff; C. A. Featheiston by Hillyer contra. , ^ * I Court then adjourned to 8SW oc to-morrow. Advice to Mothers. Hr*. Winslow** Hoothtof ijr«P^ c w . oi(4 for children Urtfclaf ** ^ I toft*** the turns, allajsallp*^*'^*. * ^ I mad U th* beat remeJj for durrfcw* |