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r> THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH? TI T F«DAY, JULY •j7TE TELEQBAPII, IMMIHID XTXBY DAT I* THE TEA* AKD WEEKLY ■X TUB It vnpii and Messenger Publishing Co., 97 Mnlburry Street, Mmob, Or. **>t Dally la dellrered by carrier* In the city or mv'M pottage free to subscribers, for $1 per H ; :>h, $3.60 for three month*, $6 for *U month*, tf $I0ayear. Tex Weekly i* mailed to ■abecribert, pottage f f Mb at $1.36 a year and 76 cent* for tix month*. Tranoiant advertisements will be taken for the 9 ,1/ at $1 per square of 10 line* or lot* for the i r. ’ucertlon, and 60 cent* for each subsequent In* I iriioa.and for the Weekly at $1 for each insertion. flrtttea of death*, funeral*, marriage* and birth*, • L •.ejected communication* will not be returned. Qjrtupondenoe containing important new* and i‘.mat Ion i of living topic* la *olicited, but mu*t be »:ii* and written upon but one aide of the paper to kite attention. ieiiiittanoea should be made by exp roe*, postal ■ lie, money order or registered letter. Atlanta Barean 17K Peachtree street. Ail communication* should be addressed to THE TELEGRAPH, Macon, 0*. H jo*y order*, checks, etcshould be made pays- pH |3 H. 0. Hasson, Manager. 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