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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH? TI T F«DAY, JULY
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A Sparrow Kxperlenco.
West Chester, Pennsylvania, is another
pretty little borough that has had a sparrow
experience. The proposition to bring the
little emigrant, to West Chester was made
years ago and met with an enthnsiaatio re
ception. A few couples, all that.' could be
then obtained, were established in snng lit
tle boxes and tho hope was expressed that
they would multiply and catch the bugs,
which, in a vague sort of way, the West
Oheaterlings believed were devouring tho
trees about the country.
Tbs sparrow plant was a very small one,
and the knowing ones did not have much
faith in the snccess of the scheme. It did
not seem possible that anything shorter
then s century would suffice to accumulate
a healthy and effective working corps of
sparrows—tho plant was so very small In
the meantime, the bug would eat up the
trees.
Hut there was nothing to do but to wait
and feed the little colony, and so the hope
ful, likewise the gloomy citizens, fed and
waited.
Pretty soon it was noted that the emi
grants were building nests; the building
began about seven minutes nfter the little
foreigners were set free. All the townsmen
tamed oat to watch the process, and, fign-
Tstivoly speaking, to pat the little laborers
on the backs. In about two days, adven
turous boys ascended to the boxes and shout
ed the Information that eggs were to be
seen, and we may imagino that a thrill ran
down the back of the assembled commu
nity. In about a week more tbe chirps of
infantile sparrows wore heard and everybody
smiled and shook bunds with the oommittee
tbat supplied tho sparrow-plant. Had there
been an election pending these gentlemen
eonld probably have gone to the Legislature
upon the riling tide of popular approval,
for had they not definitely proved that the
English sparrow would thrive in West Ches
ter, and were not the trees in a fair way to
beaaved?
In two weeks the little brood was ont and
full grown, and where Weet Chester had
formerly six sparrows she now had eighteen.
Then it was noticed that the whole colony
wit fighting for the boxes, end old people
suggested that more be put up. This was
done and peace reigned again. Then came
forth another brood and grew up and fought
and again more boxes were supplied, and
so on. By the end of the summer the
original emigrants were great great grand
fathers and grand-mothers, and West Ches
ter, to far as aparrows were concerned, was
thoroughly anglicized.
Up to this time nothing in the way of la
bor had been required of the emigrants and
their progeny, and when they began to
swarm over the town and take sand baths
and run about under the vehicles, the
question of compensation was raised. Home-
how nobody ever eonld catch one of these
fellows in the act of staying a hag. They
seemed to prefer the tender vegetation and
(rails, and acted altogether as if they owned
tbe town. It is affirmed tbat they drove
away other feathered setters and bnilt ncsta
in houses, where they ehed their mitee lib'
erally upon the inmates.
So passed a year or two, and then the
community arose as one man and voted the
sparrow s fraud and a nuisance. The com
mittee that brought them in eonld not bare
been elected dog catcher! in an open con
.teat Ur. Warren, of the West Chester Mi
eroscopleal Society, went to work to analyse
the aparrow and see what he was doing for
his adopted land, with this result;
“Ilia satepalM of Hrenty'Sn sparrows rsnslsd
la aeraty-three grain and vegetable material,
•olelf. Each of the other two had la their rtotr
ache, which wan distended with wheat a beetle.
B, tble eertee of eismlaeilose it will be eeea otljr
twoaeveoty-ftfthe of the btrde dlseected had any
laaect food, aad that la a minimum proportion. T’ue
vegetable material referred to wee bode end bice
eonie of the papa vine, the plum. pear, peach aad
bait trees; also soma little graaa aad a few of the
earlier annual plants.'* To satisfy those who con
tend that the aparrow te graulverooa only fn winter,
whan, In order to euatain existence, he is obliged to
live on a grain dial. Mr. Warren examined City
sparrows in March. April, May and Jana, and foaod
in lorty-scrsn of them cereal and vegetable food
In one, a beetle In conjnnctton with wheat, while
the food recaptscloe of the three remaining birds
wars empty.
Wo have been enabled to write np West
Chester's experience because it to much
resembles Macon'*. We shall watch with
interest tbe remedies applied there.
The Progress of a Slander.
Somewhere in the olden days we road of
man who slandered bis neighbor, and, re
penting, undertook to do penance. His
priest carried him into tho fields and gath
ering a handful of the winged seed of the
thistle cut them to tbe four winds. Borne
aloft, they were scattered and wafted in ev
ery direction. "Go now," said the priest,
and gather all theae seed.'' This was the
penance decreed.
It was a fine illuitration, and the slander
uttered against Jefferson Davis in Mont
gomery by Norman Porter, a sleeping car
conductor, recalls the flight of these thistle
seeds. Porter was drunk when in Mont
gomery. The writer, who was in tho city,
remembers the affray which occurred. It
was late at night and tbe city was quiet,
when this man, iu a drunken carousal, was
slightly stabbed or cut. He immediately
telegraphed a Pennsylvania paper that Mr.
Davis had uttered fiery and treasonable
sentiments, and that when he (Porter) de
nounced the speech, he was set upon and
stabbed nearly to death.
The paper that published this telegram
denounced its correspondent when assured
of bis charurter auu the falsity of his re
port, and nearly every repntable paper that
opiedit promptly followed its example,
but still tbe slander traveled and until this
day is published in remote sections. We
presume that it will continue to be pub
lished and credited.
The loaf journal heard from in this con
nection is the Allegan (Michigan) Journal
and Tribune, which not only published the
slander, but likewise a fierce article npon
Mr. Davis, in which certain statements were
made that drew from him the following let
ter;
D. C. Uendcraon, aad outers. Publishers—Gen
tlemen: la tbe AUegsn Journal end Tribune of
June '-'ttb. 1 Dud It editorially eta ted that 1 have not
deulod tbe use of tbe language attributed to me by
Noriueu Porter; further, in rapport of tbe position
that 1 bare not been misrepresented. It Is stated
tbat my spare ties, copies of wblcb, published In
Southern Democratic papers, can be seen at the
Journal and Tribune oBlce. If you will bare tho
goodness to send me one sucb paper, containing
report of any speech of mine la which such lan
guage as tbat Imputed to me by Norm so Porter, is
to be louud, I will send you an exhaustive exposure
of the falsehood of Porter’s allegation sod of tbe
Southern Democratic editor who has asserted any
thing the least like Porter’s ecandaL
Koapectfolly, Jxrrxiuos Davis,
Thus cornered, the Allegan paper en
deavors to make excase;
’Wo here a copy of tbe Weekly Chron
icle of Augusta, Georgia, of May stb, con
taining the published speeches of Mr. Davta during
hie Southern tour and they were far from loyal In
their tone, but do not find any speech containing
tba sentiments alleged to hero been uttered by Mr.
Davis At Montgomery.’’
Snob Is tbe acknowledgment which in
Michigan is deemed an honorable amende.
BHltEUS AND PATCHES.
asstroll. along tbe mooellt send
where breaks the see In frosty foam;
M. r ... »•» in rrosty f
HU love u In tba Southern land-
A pebbly brook flows peat her'home.
He etrolle along, unconsciously
The night’s pale glory dleappevs.
And o'er tbe roaring of tbe a«t
Tbe murmur of tbe brook be been.
Ae a mesne of Involuntary suicide, the Ice cream
can threatens to supersede the toy ptatcl.-Portland
Argus.
A newspaper at Pekin, China wee started In the
year Ml, Ben. Perley Poore bee tome interesting
personal reminiscences of IU first editor.-Sew
York World.
Swlnbume received two hundred guineas for e
poem which would not hare been worth a couple
of Shanghai roosters If written by an unknown
bard.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A roach gotlnto a hoary Ironstona ohtna cup at
Sefloor on Hudday night, and tho aides being too
slick for him to crawl ont, he gnawed a hole clear
through tho bottom.—Tampa (Fla-)'Tribune.
He was a carpenter. He bad lifted hu hammer
to strike snail. Did ho strike? Not much! He
paused, then returned the hammer to his box, Tho 12
o clock whistle had blown. He WAS working by the
day.—Tid-Biu.
Somebody says that the odor of fresh paint may
be removed from a room by placing a eancer of
ground coffee In tho apartment. Now we under-
eUnd why it U a inau generally chews ground coffee
when he U painting tbe town rod.—BockUnd (Me.)
Courier.
An honest rancher wee In Pioche on Friday. He
offered to swap hU eighteen-year-old boy. who
smoked cigarettes,to any person for a dog. and find
ing no Ukerest that eren up. he offered ft to boot,
but cron then couldn't make a trade San Fran
cisco A] u.
Little Phil had always mentioned each member of
tho family in hU evening prayer, but the other night
he left out tho baby. "Why, Phil, you forgot your
dear little brother!” Hie black eyes flashed with
the answer: "There’s no room in my prayer for my
little brother: there's no room In tba house for him;
and what la more, thero never hu been!”—Newton
(Man.) Graphic.
A little Magazine street girl uked her mother, the
other day. how It was that Adam and Ere came to
leave tho Garden of Eden, and was told that the
devil enUred the garden In the form of a serpent
and tempted them, and God banished them. The
little child pondered over the reply for a few mo-
menU, and tbon looking up uld: "Mamma why
didn't God send the devil away instead of Adam
and Eve? They were la tho garden first.’’—New
Orleans flutes.
“I AM A DEMOCRAT,”
Alabama's Gubernatorial Candidate's An-
awor to the Gtiery Whether He was
Wet or Dry.
Anniston, July 12.—Thomas Seay, Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Alabama,
addressed the people at tho Annie ton Opera
House to-day on the pnblio affairs of the
State. He gave a retrospective view of the
condition of Alabama nndcr Republican
rule when the latter impoverished tho com
monwealth, and compared the happy
changes which have taken place since un
der Democratic administrations. He
favored increased legislation for education.
He also reviewed tho
which he thinks
As to Journalism,
The New York Herald lays down this
proposition. It is one that no intelligent
man will attempt to oppose;
The editor of a newspaper ought to be the ex-
dualvo proprietor of hta own brains. If be rente
them to any man, and aelU himself to the advoca
cy ot a causa la publle which in privets be repudi
ates, bt prostitutes the high ofilce of journalism
and loware himself to the pUne ot a mere adven
turer.
The adrertutng columns of a paper are at the
•ervlce of tba public, within certain limitations,
but iu editorial columns should constltuto a dead
line which no man can pass, though bU bank ac
count bo aa long as (ram here to the moon. That
U the pUtfonn of real journalism, and Its only
platform.
This is a refreshing acknowledgment of
the true principles of honorable journalism.
That paper whose editorial oslmnna are
leased by any candidate at so much per line,
whose expreaaions an paid for by corpora
tions, and an for sale to any man with a
scheme or enterprise, ii ot no service to the
public. It con neither anppoit honest
measures or men efficiently, nor can it
command public reaped.
The people of Georgia have more than
once suffered from commercial journals.
Unless they pnt their teal of disapproval
open each methods they will continue to
suffer and see their beat interests betrayed.
Opinions that can be swayed by money are
net purchased by men who have the pnblio
welfare at heart.
‘From Chi-
I tho prohibition agitation,
should not bo intermingled
with the political questions of the day. At
the time he waa engaged npon this latter
snbjeot, an old gentleman arose and asked
Mr. Seay as to whether he was wet or dry.
Advancing to the edge of tho platform,
Mr. Seay replied: “Standing here with the
brilliant record of the party behind, with
my face towards tho dawn and sunrise of
the coming glories of our matchless State, I
answer this direct que-lion by tUgroapunso’.
I am a Democrat.” [Immense choers.1 Af
ter paying a noble tribnto to President
Cleveland sadminis (ration, he retired amidst
deafening cheers.
He was followed by Major Shorter, who
entertained the audience in a lengthy, well-
timed and learned dlsensaion on State and
I edcrui politics, interpvraed with many hu
morous allusions to some of the Republican
candidates, not forgetting, however, the
Prohibitionists, whom he advised to leave
their cause ont of State politics.
Mr. Seay and Major Shorter apeak at Rir-
mingham to-morrow. Quite a number of
prominent people of the State paid their re
spects to Mr. Seay at bis headquarters in
tno beantiful inn.
Tux Washington Star lays:
cago cornea the statement tbat tbe novelette
attributed to Miss Cleveland, copious ex
tracts from which have lately been pub
lished in the daily papers, Is not the work
of that lady at all, bat the joint production
of Eugene Field and Ten Eyck White, two
waggish journalists of Chicago.'
Aa some one remarked abont the situa
tion, there's too much rain, bnt what abont
il? If the Almighty ahonld give ns the
rope to the flood gate* of Heaven, we could
never agree among onrselvea when to pnll
it.
Ax esteemed contemporary complains
tbat tbe American naval force has a too
passionate fondness for land. The con
temporary has evidently never thumped an
American man-o'-war.
FALSE CABINET HUMORS.
0, 1886.-TWELVE5PAGES.
THE “HONORED” MORMON WIFE.
No Changes Contemplated by the Presi
dent.
Washington Special to New York Times.
Rumors about cabinet changes that begin
with the displacement of Mr. Manning fol
low with the withdrawal of Mr Bayard and
end with the expulsion of Mr. Garland,
wing their way into sight here pretty regu
larly once a week, and have to ho about o»
often as thgt circumstantially denied, in
order to relieve the pnblio of the impres
sion that the relations of tbe present cabi
net family are to be changed. The stories
abont Mr. Manning are based npon the
ii8snmption that his health will not be a ef
ficiently restored to enable him
resumo his duties in the
Treasnry Department. Those about Mr,,
Bayard ate in nearly every ease in
spired l>y motives of hostility, and have not
been allowed to rest for a moment since
they started, soon after be failed to make
Mr. William Henry Hurlbert, the friend of
Mr. C, A. Dana, minister to Italy, and
Hnnniflil /^Koplno 1111-non tl,a An.l 1Tm
Few of the Horror* of Polycamy an Pm*.
ilced in Utah. c
From a Utah Letter.
One of these women, "highly honored
and tenderly cared for,” lay dying in her
husband's house. For weeks she had been
left without medicine, without a nurse and
without proper food. Then hor mother
herself a poor widow, hearing of her wretch
ed condition, came and took iter away. She
was carried from her miserable bed to the
wagon at the door by strangers and her
husband did not even turn his head tc look
at her. She was no emaciated and in anch
condition through neglect that kind
neighbors grew sick at heart'as they tried to
minister to her wants. In her 'mother’s
house everything that love could suggest
was done for her, but she was already be
yond human help, and in a few davs
breathed htr last. • '
General Charles Gibson, the friend of Mr.
1’nlitzeL.miniater to Austria. The desire
to get Mr. Garland out of theeabinet seems
to be general, bnt it is most zealously ex
pressed by persons who have made argu
ments against the proseention of the Bell
telephone Bnit brought by tbe government,
and who are at the tame time
clamoring for the appointment as his suc
cessor of ex-Senator Jos. E. McDonald, one
of the counsel for the Bell Telephone Com
pany, This fact alone would appear to be
an obstacle to Mr. McDonald's preferment
for a cabinet position, even if it were not
true that ho has a large practice in Wanh-
• • • ft
iugton which calls him freqnontiy to the
departments and to the'floor of the Honae
and the Senate. He was counsel for Ward
er and Stealey in tho case in which a com
mittee recommended that Warder be dis
missed from a place in the House for using
money to influence legislation. Ho is coun
sel forthe Weil and La Abra claims, and
has other lnorative business that he
would not be likely to part with even if
the President entertained tho slightest no
tion of taking him out of hia place as leg
islative attorney to put him in the cabinet.
From a source that entitles the assertions
to the fullest belief, it is ascertained that
there is absolutely no foundation for any of
the rumors about cabinet changes. It is
certain that Mr. Bayard has not the slight
est intention of withdrawing. Hia relations
with the President and all the members of
the cabinet are peculiarly pleasant, and tbe
domestic afflictions from which he has
suffered have seemed to bind him to them
with an affection which has been most
marked. Rumors affecting Mr. Bayard's
departure from theeabinet may be set aside
i entirely worthless and incorrect
As to Mr. Manning, the most that can be
Baid in regard to his place is that there will
be uncertainty until October. The Presi
dent hopes and expects that he will be able
to resume bfajlaties at that time, and Mr.
Manning's nearest friends will live in that
expectation until the fall It is known that
dnring tbe half hour’s conversation which the
President had with Mr. Manning when he
passed through this city on his way from
tbe West Virginia Springs to Albany, there
was no remark made by either gentleman
that eonld have been construed as conclu
sive that Mr. Manning would not return to
tho Treasury. It is also certain that the
President has never considered the name of
any person for the place, as be has clung
tenaciously to the hope that Mr. Manning
would be completely restored nnd able onoe
more to take hold of his department.
Ex-Senator McDonald hu not been called
to Washington by the President or by any
one epeaking for him. He has, as hu been
said, private interests which call him often
to this city. He frequently calls ujion the
President, nnd is not only cordial in hia ex
pressions of friendship for Mr. Cleveland,
bnt with hia friends says he is a warm sup
porter of the President and the objects of
his administration. There is no to-day no
more reason for a story that the cabinet is
abont to undergo a change than there was
on tho day it wu founded, except, perhaps,
in regard to the. place of the Secretary of
the Treunry, in which a change may be
come necessary, depending altogether npon
the restoration to health ot Mr. Manning
or his continued disability.
Now had the husband of this woman been
asked to obey the law and give up polyg
amy, ho would have been tho first to pro
test that he could not break such sacred
ties, and that it would be the act of a cow
ard and a traitor to give up the women who
had confided their iinppiu
ing.
Not long ago tho plnral wives of one of
our citizens complained that they were dis
turbed in the evening by a Bhadowy figure
flitting throngh their grounds, and a wild
face looking in at their windows. Tho face
and form were those of the first wife, who
had been driven insane by tho miseries of
polygamy, and who, whenever she could
escape fropi those who cared for her, would
reviait the place tbat was once her homo,
and look in upon tho women who had
usurped her place. Who will say that tho
husband of this woman ought to be com- Wratai* «7"«“
pelljd by law to sever tho endowing re” 1“ _-^““?^V J nB ? nn K fr ™
ALL SORTS.
Mrs. Langtry is said to be getting fat
The board of trade—A shopkeeper’s sign.
Gam is the quid of contentment to wo-
San Francisco is adopting female bar
tenders.
Suspended animation—The girl in the
hammock.
Contentment is bettor than money, and
jnst abont as scarce.
Agree with your girl'e father in politics
and the mother in religion.
Holitnde is sweet, bat it is sweeter when
yon have somebody to enjoy it with yon.
Ocean steamer flirtations seldom end in
marriage, bat they are eoothing while they
Human nature is ao constituted that abet
is stronger proof of a man's belief than sn
oath.
There are u many kinds of ice creams
this season u there are religions denomina
tions.
Thero are more hotels at Atlsntio City
than at any other eeuide resort that can be
named.
Fashionable festivity at Newport jnat
now takes the form of elaborate dinner
parties.
Women who delight in immodesty are
now to be seen among the bathers at Long
Branch.
Lettuce in quantity prodaces drowsiness,
hcneels "highly recommended” for in-
The Albany Argus thinks that -fit _ „ ul ,
about time that the news pa pent let Sam Uolente.
Jones severely alone. He has hail his day,
and mast give place to some other mounte
bank."
Tax man who went overXiagam in a cask
was a fool. The nun who came ont ot the
whirlpool and tbe rapiJa waa a hero. So
tans the world. Success is the test'
Tux New York Star saj«: "Colonel Fred
Grant suggests that hix father’s tomb onght
to be a simple and solid structure, some
thing like the enb-treasnry in this city.
Tba idea of close association with tbe treas
nry seems to be one that runs in the Grant
family.”
Tax Philadelphia Press oay«: “Every
year the South «rn support of the free trade
movement grows weaker and weaker. The
tsriff tinker hoe only to sonnd Southern
■onUatev ,vm this question to find that
it is no forger solid."
It is not a singular fact that the men who
bed least to do with the battle of Gettye-
burg are now making moat fuss abont it.
Tnx Pennsylvania baby born with whit-
ken is dead. The only baby whose daddy
coaid pall whiskers with him la gone.
Tax Georgia climate jnat now la throwing
watermelon bombs into the North and East
by the cor load.
Tax pout-office robberies continue to oc
cur. Another reason for taming out the
Republicans.
Wbst do people care now whether or not
Sickles trotted or galloped at Gettysburg?
The main question is, where is this pension
business going to end?
Promenading on tbe beach after dark is
one of the things Aabury Park will not
As far aa truthfulness it concerned, a
weather proverb is worao Ht»n a campaign
promise.
One South American family at the West
End, Long Branch, nnuiU-rs nine little
children.
A terrible illustration nf the eflect of "law 1
is the reaalt of its attachment to the eweet
word mother.
A girl Imby at Akron, O., has its eon on
its lower jaw. It is not probable that the
baby will marry. 1
The Japanese are gnat bethels in their
own country, but they do not appear to
care for American water.
As we grow in yean and experience we
become more tolerant, for it ia rare to see i
fault we ourselves have not committed.
„ kin. Y. wea saving one day what a gen
tlemanly penon her baker was "Yea,"said
• **6. "a thorough-bread gentleman."
Chart Sing, Oneida's Chinese laundry-
moo, keeps his small change in his ear. He
can t cany $1 in dimes in his auricular or-
4rhe Comte de Paris and the Dae d’Au-
rnale* as predent men, not long ago mode
heavy investment* in every country except
laeii ovn.
Ne«»]*i! Orders.
Ont *h* swung from h*r mooring*,
And over tho harbor bar,
A* tbe moon waa slowly rlelng
Hhi faded from algbt afar.
And we traced her gleaming cann
uj the twinkling evening *tar.
None knew the port *he eellrd for,
Nor whither her cruiae would hi.
Her future couree wae shrouded
lu silence and mystery:
She wae Railing beneath “sealed order*,"
To he opened ont at see.
Someeonla, cut off from moorings,
Oo drifting into tbe night,
Darkneee before and around them.
With scarce a glimmer of light;
They are acting beneath **»ealed order*,"
And sailing by faith, not sight.
hruugb good and evil report,
Tb#y .ball rid# tba atonu, ont safely.
Be the vojase long or ,bort.
For tbe ablp tbat carrtM Ood'a order.
Shall anchor nt last in port.
—Htlan Chauncoy.
A Iloueymoon In a Boat,
From tba Hartford Time., July 10.
A recently married conple from New
York greatly enjoyed a novel and advontu-
lions wedding trip in carry ing ont their
mutual tonte for nniliog. After the mar
riage ceremony they went on a New York
steamer to Fall River, front whence they
started alone on a email echooner-riggtd
rowboat only fourteen feet long, and cruised
throngh different waters until they reached
Point Judith, which woe rounded iu a se
vere gale of wind and nun. The little boat
rocked and danced over the rongh wavea in
a way to intimidate "a landswoman," bnt
the fearless little bride simply drew an
ulster orer her white nautical dress and
enjoyed the fun. They arrived in Hartford
daring this uuiqae honeymoon, and were
enthniiaatietdlT greeted by members ot tbe
Hartford Canoe Clab, who afterward towed
the schoouer rowboat, containing the htagh-
ing and sea-loving oonple, down the Con
necticut river by a tag-boat to tho banks of
their fatal? home.
A LETTER Ti) THE PRESIDENT.
citizens of Asheville Audrvie Cleveland
Pleasant Letter.
Abbeville, N. 0., July 14.—The fol
lowing bee been lent to President C'leve-
To Pusidxxt Cutelabd, Waanraoro*. D. c.—
air: Wfc Ike nndenbmed dtixeaa of Asheville, “
£ *» “J tbe mea-ags seat yoa by Mr!
Natl atklnaon doe. not voice lb. mtlmenta of tble
..... **'**■ ,. wtluJrmr ve?°<* ««r coert bouee
bUlU generally regretted. the confidence of tho
imUle In your nUdom end Justice remain, na-
abaken. Humid yon visit North CWoUaa at any
Urns, you wtmld raedrs a cordial wslcacna at SsbJ-
Villa. BosnoctfuU;
INgheJ by kTj. datuu, wa.ui, -iuu.1.
Boot! Murray. Davtd Uodoflo. W. FowoO.
U. A. Onager, *
BlohmondPe
- Aston, mayor; Olrdwood Konkin.
_ Fsaraon, Butts. Kapiesntatina; S.
berpWe. pfealdan, of Bosrd ot Trad.; J. A. Hill.
pnstdMt of Tobacco Aacoelalbm; J. t. Oavy.r,
president AabesUle Clab; :W. fi Brio-, pn.td.nt
of Fliea National Bank; l W. Belli* M. D„ Called
StaueXavy.
The following ia tbe meeeageof Atkinson,
to which the above refers; “Having sent
yon several invitations to come to Bnn-
cornbe county, believing you to be a wise
and jnst man, and having found ont tbat
yon are neither, ail invitations are with
drawn.”
tions between himself and those to whom
he had been sealed for time and eternity?
One of our neighbors, a wealthy nnd in
fluential representative of Mormonism, is t
gentleman who always haa an eye to busi
nesa, even in his love affairs. It was hia
custom for years to hire an attractive eer-
vant girl, keep hor until her wages amounted
to thirty or forty dollars, and then makeher
an offer of hia hand and heart in lieu of a
cash payment. If she accepted, she re
mained in tbe kitchen doing the work of
the family, without wages, until her.child
ren became troublesome, when she was
turned out to make room for a fresh im
portation. I have seen some of tho wives
of this man, one of the women who or-
"highly honored and tenderly cared for,”
ont in tho field on a bitter No
vember day hnsking corn on shares,
to earn a little food for her children.
Some years ago I hired the second wife of
farmer near by to assist me in household
dnties. She was a very capable woman, nn
excellent honaekeeper, and could have com
manded a good salary anywhere in that ca
pacity. She used go borne at night, after
finishing her day’s work, walk to town a
distance of four miles, to do various er
rands for hor husband, then get
np in the morning nnd feed and
water his cattle and hones be
fore coming over to net the breakfast for
onr family. The husband always collected
her wages, and he soon told me I must pay
him more than I had done for her services.
“Because,” he said, "I am obliged to
hire a man in her place to work in the field
while she is with you."
I think I have heard that thia man has
been indicted for violating the EdmnndH
law. If ao, what a aad spectacle it will be
when ho is torn from hie families, and his
w ives, who have been so tenderly cared for,
left to face the cold world alone.
THE IRISH RIOTS.
Boases Wreche.t .
mat. Kills s Con.t» bl . .‘.T 4 -
Dublin, Jqly u _n„ rf * 6
lu,t t night, between rio1
and Protestants, four tuv. ,« n Ca
of dwelling house, 11
police and soldiers charged
times, and at lost KUccvedrf ;" 0 ^'-^
main Btreets. J n the SvJlLlTNi
dangerous knots of men are
fean> of a renewal of the U ^ 1D & ii
entertained.
Among the wounded laxt niob.
Rcant. It is thonght he cano£. , *«is
constable and many civilians V"? 1 "- J
vero weunds. ““ ree «rei
terford "forced^ private"^1
t.arrest two OrWemen ^
The latter eh, t and killed ’bSthtt.^
hie and soldier. The situation a w.!
is serums. The streets
police and cavalry P a ™°Uel |
Dublin Juiy 14.-A Nationalist
at stowartstown this morning
b> n mob. benons figh t j n( . K ”* *«*
the not act was read. Sererel””^
were injured in the encounter H
LATKn NEWS FROM BIL^
Belfast, July 11 —The citv i.' -
re y '„ , In , ve s%*tion allows that th^'k
the fightiDg waa done between th,®*]
and Orangemen, the latter asaaiBaoV" 81
eers because they prevented the Ora.
from attacking the Catholics,
Gardner, who was reported to ft*
killed, is not dead, but he is fatal it”
and is lying at the point of fctureH
civilians named McWilliams and bbt
were shot dead. Fifteen persona
in the hospitals suffering from d*n
injuries received during the riotW®,
Belfast, July 14.—A nroelam.,;
been issued which forbids tke ‘'M
semble in the streets, and warns
violation of this low will rendn the “li
to arrest. 11
news Tins mossing
increased. The wreckage caused brfi
yesterday, resembles the result of i
nado. Men, women and child,
struck down, braised and uL
still uttering cries of d,
and threats of revenge. The Protw
were beaten by sheer members, and.
of their houses were afterward wra,,
Twenty-three priaonere while on thur ‘
to the police station, sang “Rale
nia" and cursed tho Pope, Parnell
Sexton.
CONVICT WARD’S STORY.
n« Instate That Fi.h Has suit Plenty of
Honey I aft.
Ferdinand Ward has been interviewed at
Sing Sing prison with regard to James D.
Fish’s version of tho relations between the
two men, which was recently published in
the New York World. Ward prononneed
Fish’s statements false in detail nnd In im
plication. He prodneed a letter from Fish
n which the Utter asked tor 111)0,000 or
•150,000 for a few days, to straighten things
at tho bank with tho examiners. Ward said
he eonld easily have escaped with miUiona,
but did not keep a dollar, while he inauted
that Fish still bad plenty of money. He
■aid;
I made out a statement of Fish’s ac
count very carefully while I was in Ludlow
atreet jail, just the same aa I did in War
ner’s ease. When the decision was mado
against Warner my figures didn’t vary »100,-
000 from what he wae declared to have re
ceived. Remember that theae transactions
egated $60,000,000 and there were oev-
checks I could not find that hod been
lost somehow. Fish’s account could be
identified just tho same, for tho checks can
be traced, and thero are the entries in the
books. Now, what has become of the
•1,000,0001 figured ont he received? Aa I
amid, he couldn’t have spent it He alept
np over the bank in a room, the furniture
for which I afterwards had to pay for, nnd
he took his meals at my house. Bat he
was always making preoenU to his children.
M/ idea ia that they have got the money or
of it now. He aid not torn over
the most oi it now. He did not turn over
•300,000 to hia assignee, and he hoe plenty
of it stilt or where he eonld get it
•There are people right here in this
pneon who think I have got a lot of mono)
million or so stowad away. But I am
r; I haven’t anything, although I don’t
suppose yon eonld make the public think
»°- .They tell all sorts of stories about my
cloth. Tho wont part of mv punishment
is in being eo misrepresented. I am willing
to take the bUmo due me, bnt I ought not
to shield others who are walking aronnd
New York spending the money they made
by loaning Grant A Ward money at 20 per
cent a month.
. ,*£* «««:»«», can just as well
tell the pnbUc who sot that money as the
men themselves, and it U time it was done.
■ H ? £?* no 'to* 1 * ,hl *M any one. Here he
let W oreer slip throngh hU fingers. Tobey
!>“ gone off to South America, and he
thinks he can bush np the matter. Bnt Mr.
Johnston ia a fair man, and if Be once geU
“ter Davies be can moke him show the
. P"* “°“«y ought to have been
collected long ago and the creditors receive
something.
‘‘Fiah pntMda he waa ignorant abont
what this contract basin ess was. Well,
perhaps he waa; bnt if so, it was because he
.Trat d . t0 . b «’ He coaid have investigated
‘t H ha had cored to. But it that is so, why
did he go on borrowing money at 8, 10, 12,
and even 20 per cent, a month? Govern
ment con tracts such as we pretended to
have were the beet security yon eonld get,
and any one would let yon have all the
money you wanted for 2 per cent It’e ell
weUenongh to plead Ignorance now. But
tiah dttlntears where the money came
from ao long ache got hia monthly di,|.
denda. He wasn’t satisfied to vouch for
the contracts himself, bnt ha wonted to get
something to show aronnd that would in
dicate that General Grant knew os ranch
abont them as be did.”
prMMUra at tr»® of tl» brum fcv VVV*w
Alkock’, Porous l-lutor At the kock
NORTH CAROLINA FLOODS.
The Lowland Crops Nearly All 1
General Flood,,
Raleigh, July 14.—Rains in «,
tarts of North Carolina continn, t,
tave for over a month nast. Tbe inn
in many cases irreparable. Juno n
ed by such rainfall as wa, nenr b
known west of the Bine Ridge,
fallen for six weeks or more. S
Pender connty ia that for a fork
conetaDt rains have eo swollen tktr
na to flood great tractB of theeo
It is the greatest flood sine,’
Farmers on Cape Fear ri?er ,
lost nil their crops, nnd many inn I
fotced to leavo their homes on tecox
tho flood. Many distilleries in i
water, and atorea and dwelling* ut
sorted. The loee amounts to mu? t
sand dollar,, and there is laid to b<,
suffering. All lowland crops in the!
are injured, and only in a few Mctioci _
the stiff uplands is thero much promectl
any sort of crop. |
The damage in many icctioo, b \
nigh total, and others from one i
one half.
AN ABSCONDING CASHIER
A St. Louis IJsnk Officer of High !
l*u,ltlnn Is a Defaulter.
8t. Louis, July 14.—The Provident i
tags Bonk closed ita doors to-day,
made an assignment. A. B. Tbon.[i
cashier, has absconded. The I
coed the asset, by $40,000.
Thompson i« a graduate of Hamid C
lege, and since he has held hia r
poai.ion in this city has been :
man of aterlingfintegrity. He is pn
Howard Club of this city and 4 t
Cavalry, and a prominent Knight T«
He announced hie intention the ’
of last week of accompanying I
Cavalry to the Htate cnoampnunt,
waa generally supposed lie wu there
Advices from that point, however, i
that he has never been near the cemp,«
it ia supposed that he has joined the i
of defaulters ia Canada. No other <
for his de alcation can be assigned <
than fast living, for he wae uerer knonl
speculate. The directors of the beak h
filed a petition for a receiver.
FALL OF TilB K ASTILK
Celebrated Yesterday In Pari, With 1
oration.
Pabib, July 14.—The celebration <
97th anniversary of the tali of the i
woe opened at an early hour today 1
voa of artillery. The ceremony of d
ing provisions and money to the f
conducted on a scale of greet gr
Aro de Triomphe aad
dero were splendidly
Fair* were held in all the city eqnai
hat tullion of school boys wu drilled^
of the Hotel de Ville. Forty the
troops, including soldiers retorted i
Tonqnin, were reviewed it
Champa de Man. 1410 aristocrat* 1
ter of Paris was made
by the conduct of its inhabitants ia '
ing the day and tho object of the c
tion. Tbe hoaxes were not "
Tho quarter was less bright t
and many of the residences bad t
doted. The weather was far fl
out, being gusty and ahoweiy.
ATTACKING PARNELL
The Kuglteh Vapars Choree H
Deliberately Fal,lf?l«*’
London, July 14 —Tbe Timex,
ing on Parnell a denial of Lord H
assertion that tba Nationalists are
with the Fenian,, says: "Parnell«
aro mere waste of breath. It re**”?,
sary to remind him that, while the
of Harrington ia a man of
rand ven
convicted
honor and veracity, Parnell qjffJ j?
waa convicted of having deboer""-
repeatedly affirmed that which he W
be false.” . „
The ritandard says: Pam' 11
protestation of innocence to shew* ” ,
Th e u l. la »n have 1“?
question be onght to hej* .
wneiher or not he bos acquitted
the services or the moneys of
To accept money from Fenians ana ,,
disown them is not the courxe oc .
which oommende itself to Enguan**-
The Government's Heavy ..
Washixotox, July 15.—StateB*"*^
pared at tbe Treasury Departs«( _ ,
that the reoeipts of tbe gnvt-rnmee* (
this month are decidedly 1***
praditares, and that nnl»* »“
ment ocean before the end o( *»•
the public debt xUumtnb W
Angi- let will show little, “ *
fia^ua hare been MiasMtySZ^
'syr.-ei.ie here been unastuny
1*?,try .000 having been paid »« “■
a va pensions alone.
kick
ITASHIS
THti
e Sir* 1