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THK WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING. JULY 17,—TWELVE PAGES.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Nominatiod for Representa
tive in Scriven.
COL J. R. HUMPHREYS THE MAN
Dentil of Major Nrnry, nt His Home In
Hancock—Festival nt Eaotman—
Closing Kxerdae* at Uclle-
view Academy.
13YLVANIA, July 11.—Col. John R. Hum
phreys was nominated fur the House of
Representatives, a few days ago, by a ma
jority of thirly-eight votes.
Miss Anna Elisa Black and sister, who
tits been visiting Miss Georgia Black, of
• this place, returned home to Melettsville,
S.C., on Monday last.
W. H. singleton, Es<|., will leave for
Melettsville, 8. C., in a few days, for his
tiealtk.
Closing Exercises at Bellevlew Academy—
Incidents of the Occasion.
Helleview, July 11.—The closing exer
cises of Belleview Academy took place
July 4 A large and intelligent audience
assembled at an early hour of the day to
listen to the recitationsof the school. The
students, by their every act, showed a high
state of discipline and most thorough train
ing, eliciting Words of commendation from
dearly everyone present. Prizes were de
livered to .Misses Alamie McDowell, Susie
Joues and Evalan McDosell for perfect
most happy manner delivered a prize to
Miss Minnie Jones for perfect lessons in
orthography, and the prize for the greatest
progress mpcnniannhip was awarded to
William Leanard, Jr.
The Hon. A. A. Carson, of Butler, was
•then introduced by T. H. AfcDowell, Esq ,
in some very appropriate remarks, as the
orator of the day. Col, Carson selected
for his theme “Life,” which, he said, was
as broad as the heavens above ns, and deep
as the mighty ocea* beneath us. It was
a grand effort, and most nobly did the
speaker maintain his reputation as an ex
cellent orator.
About noon, the announcement that a
"feast would be spread in the grove hard
try a bold spring of limpid waters” brought
■down the house, and caused a smile of
f uneral approval. Kepairirg thither we
ound iced lemonade hy the barrel, free to
all, and the richest and most abundant
repast that it was ever our good fortune
■Co behold.
Speeches and dialogues by their fine ren
dition were highly entertaining, and re
flected great credit upon this school, and
especially the instructress.
We cannot refrain from mentioning the
aetulrtiug of the piece "Where's Annette?”
by Miss Evalan McDowell. It was recited
with so much pathos that it moved many
sympathetic hearts to tears, and made a
■deep .impression upon every hearer.
The music was furnished by Messrs. W.
•P. Mahone andj. Hardy Bryan, and while
they are young performers tliev deserve
special mention for their skillfnf perform
ance on this occasion.,
This school is under the'supervision of
Miss Carrie Heath, of Howard, Ua., and
by tier indefatigable attention to her
duties in the school room, she has won an
enviable reputation of being one of the
best teachers in the county. By her untir
ing efforts and heroic devotion to the in
terest of her school she has won the adrni-
•ration and esteem of all true lovers of “the
(beautiful, the true and the good.” Being
•too modest to appear before the public,
.she secured - the services ot Mr. W. 8.
'Brooks a* master of ceremonies during the
•morningexercises, and T. H. McDowell,
(Esq., officiated in asimilarcapacity during
ithe exhibition in the evening.
t Dentil of MnJ. Near;.
■Spahta, July 11.—Mr. W. J. Neary,
of the shoulder-bone district of this coun
ty, died at his residence about 1 o’clock
.'yesterday. He had been atliicted with
‘dropsyTor about two years and had'shown
(great vitality in resisting the disease, but
(gradually grew worse unlit yesterday,
when the end came quite suddenly. lie
■was about sixty years old and had a Urge
(family, several of whom ard still children,
•while five are grown and away. One of
his sons is Lieut. Wm. Neary, of the Uni
ted States army, now stationed in Mon
tana.
Msj. Neary was well thought of by a
large circle of friends and was much es-
■ teemed for his good sense, fine talent and
excellent judgment.
There is some complaint hereabouts for
-want of rain, though ir. some sections good
■seasons have come recently.
‘Hun. Wm. Pitt Eastman (lone to New
Hainpslitre for the Hummer— Festival*
(Eastman, July 11.—Hon. William Pitt
'Eastman leaves to-day for his nsual sum
. taer vacation in the invigorating air of his
nalrvd New Hampshire. Mr. Eastman
' |uts been in feeble health for several
months and his numero ■ friends, both at
home and abroad, wish for him a speedy
rrstoration to his wonted tine health. No
man commands a higher or more uniform
respect than Mr. Eastman. Hie aocont
G lobed daughter, Mrs. J. M. Ogden, of
[aeon, and her children, will accompany
, him. .
The Ladies’ Aid Society gave an ice
cream festival at Lietch’s Hall last night
proved to Le - decided success.
Seasonable Snake Stories.
’From the Llthonta New Era.
A gentleman living on Uncle Lewis
.Tlaahe'ii plantation had a hen to come oil'
•with thirteen chickens, one morning re-
■““rts *■<• on the following day eleven
of the chickens were misdng. A snake was
seep on the place and killed and cut open
and the eleven missing chickens were found
jnside of the snake.
He Venture* s Itemarb.
from tbs lzraUville News.
After tramping aronnd and taking in
some of the neighboring towns, we return
home feeling that after all oars is the
.prettiest and neatest town in the State
And as the madam is 2u0 miles away, we
venture to say our young ladies will’ com-
• pare moat favorably with those of our sis-
■ ter towns.
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is FOR MAN 4 BEAST. PENETRATES
- muscle a rn\RF,xo the vert bone.
England’s progress
words are on your lips, takes up again his ,
And wondrous it was, for all have heard j CllRtlgCS Mfidfi ill til 6 PflSt
the marvelous stories ol bis memory. Not 1
only as to the treasures he had stored
there, but the trifles also, all of which he
Twenty Years
Chats on Stunners and Tilings.
From the Chicago Herald.
“Sir, we had good talk,” replied Dr.
Johnson to Boswell’s inquiry concerning a
meeting of the club. It was his highest
idea of social happiness.
It isoften said nowadays that converse- t
tion is a lost art, and men may think so j held at instant command. Whether it was nnirinnurtiro nnnmnrn
when they read of the teats of Johnson, , a 8tate paper or a'street ballad, a great GREATER DEVELOPMENTS PROMISED
Coleridge, Macaulay, Sydney Smith and a . war or a back stair intrigue, all v»re at!
host of other great talkers. Their con- ■ 1,,, fingers’ ends, with name* and listen and
versati m is the lasting charm of their j ever y particular. Ilis.erudition was not
biographies. It is what has made Bos-1 M v jy, that ot some of the German
well’s great book as immortal as the tug- ^holers, but wha’ he knew—and the vol-
lish langauge. ' I u me of his knowledge was immense—he
With Johnson conversation was a game, k new w ith absolute accuracy, and he
at which the readiest player won. 11 was con 1 tl tell it as well as he knew it. To
said of him that when Ins pistol missed m08t men it was a marvel of delight to
fire he would knock hla adversary down h ear Mm alk. To rival talkera not always
with the butt end of it. That is, by some gQ delightful.
witty sally, or some persona allusion re- ( jj ut j g not gj ven everyone to be a
mote from the queatiou, he would reek to conver8ert though the-talent may be cultj-
pflflfllifl when too closely cornelcd f lie <ra«nH ‘’SupppIi in ailvnr.i and silence 18
For the Future, Though the Physical As
pect Is but Little Altered, Great
Chauges Hare Taken Place
In the People.
To one who knew England as it was and
revisits it now, after nineteen years’ ab
sence, the changes are deep, says a writer
in the New York Times. The physical
escape when Uto closely corneied He 7aTed'.'"'“Si^ch i.".'UT«7 and^ilence is «P“t is little altered. London has grown
talked for victory and he possessed the am- g 0 ij en » j„ 8 till t ), c mo u ( , 0 f many, good | lar g er i lta railroads have multiplied,streets
bidextrous ingenuity of u lawyer, in being j, ea j s< yon Moltke, it is said, is silent in have been widened where traffic ib heavi-
ever ready to take either side of the argu- #even , J J fJV* re n t languages, though he could
ment. He threw himself soul and body BS y much and to the point should he chose
into conversation, ike a gladiator in the to 8 p ea ^ , n an y one of them,
arena, and the pages of _ Boswell gleam j Carlylesaid: “Thou whowearest that
with his brilli*' t and epigrammatic say- cunn j n g heaven-made organ, speak not, I
ings and retorts. After an iliueis be once pnaflionaielv entreat thee, till some mean-
said, “It would kill me to meet Burke ■ J n g | a y behind it. No idlest words that
now,” meaning that he had not the strength thou speakest but is a seed cast into time,
for protract.d argument. And at another and ernwg t0 a u eternity.”
time he said: “1 like Thurlow. He fairly i And yet man would become an intellec-
puts his mind to yours. When l am to ( Ua | hedgehog if he did not at times aban-
meet him I always like to know a day or don himself to banter and chaff, and in
so beforehand,” showing that he preferred jj rae 0 j g rea t conversational drought even
to make some preparatiau for an import- | going so far as some of Boswell’s fool-
ant contest, though no man ever went hab- questions. For we cannot always
itually better equipped for general conver- be learne d ( n or always instructive. The
satron. He had the full mmd which Ba- : mu8 t be kept rolling, and talk, good,
con shows must ever accompany Ihe ready ( ba( j or xadifferent, must flood the streets,
tongue. i the courts, the pulpits and drawing rooms
Boswell himself was not a good con-1 T h 0U gh the better the talk the better for
verser, nor indeed a converter at all in the ; a jj CO n Cerne d.
sense that Johnson was, but he had the | . ^y e are no , gorr y that Boswell taught us
critics have been wide as tha poles asunder
in their estimates of every other feature of
his character and attainments. But if he
was not a converser he was an incessant
talker, and was possessed of an insatiable
curiosity and a collosal impudence. He
loved g>od talk, and would say anything
to draw Johnson out, often to the Doctor s
liveliest disgust. “Sir,” said Johnson to
him once, “I will not be baited with what
and why. Why is a cow’s tail loqg?
Why is a fox’s tail bushy?” And for the
moment he shut him up. At another
time one of Boswell’B questions was: “If,
sir, you were shut up in a castle and a
new-born baby with you, what would you
do?”
This question has been much admired
by a very great critic, as showing that a
man capable of preferring such a remark
to silence, helps to keep the ball rolling.
Johnson’s very natural reply was, “Sir,
you are an idiot.” A
“Who is this Scotch cur at Johnson’s
heels?” said some one. “He is not a cur,”
replied Goldsmith, “he is a bur. Tom
Davies flung him at Johnson in snort, and
be has the faculty of sticking.” Slick he
did, until the end of Johnson’s life, and
•hen published his world famous biogra
phy, which has made Johnson more fa
miliarly known to succeeding generations
than he was to Ins ovs.
Goldsmith said innumerable good things
—as good and better than that above
((noted—but Garrick’s famous saying that 1
“he wrote like an angel and talked like
poor Foil” has settled the question for all
time. Unjustly, doubtless, for a man that
can write like an angel cannot always
talk like poor Poll, and in certain com
panies Goldsmith’s conversation must have
been delightful. But awed hy Johnson,
and, bullied by Boswell, it is not strange
that he sometimes talked foolishly, as Bos
well has very carefully recorded.
Addison, a greater writer than Gold
smith, could not converse well. He him
self knew it; but he always knew how
much he possessed to set of! the deficiency.
“I haven't got nine-pence in my pocket,”
he once said, “bat I can write you a check
for a thousand pounds.”
It his probably happened to everybody
at least once, and to a.good many of us
much oftener, to think of a good witticism
baby?” W. have puzzled over that qnes-
on ever since we have been familiar with
ur Boswell. We wish the Doctor had
nswere.1 it. ■ •
Sir. Stills Speech.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
New York was fortunate among cities
in the matter of Fourth of July orators.
Senator Vest, Mr. Watterson and Con
gressmen Mills, Collins, Hooker, Cox and
McCreary, constitute a group of speakers
hard to equal and all their addresses were
most felicitous. It is at once a tribute to
the ability of the Texan statesman and a
proof of the viably and popularity of the
cause with which he is especially identi
fied, that among all the speeches deliv
ered Mr. Mills’ was the most effective, al
though it was the longest and almost en
tirely devoted to a consideration of the
tariff question in all its details and rami
fications.
That Mr. Mills could hold a Fourth of
July nudience for more than an hour on
this' theme, and then be urged to go on at
greater length, proves tha the tariff isem-
phatically a live issue, and a.so that Mr.
Mills is an orator of no couHuyii power.
The quick appreciation of his many fell
ing points, showed that the audience un
derstood the si bject, and was in'no danger
of being deceived in regard to it by the
agents and organs of the favored monopo
lists who have secured control of the Re
publican party, and who are trying hv its
aid to catch.the whole government of the
country.
8ucli addresses are -educational in the
truest sense of the word, and they should
be spread broadcast over the country dnr-
in„' tin- canipai^ii. Mr. Mills began In
laying, down the principle that 1 taxation
should be limited to the actual necessities
of the government. Because the party in
power wishes to make a slight r. ilm ti. .n
in taxation, in conformity with this prim
oiple, the opposition raise the cry of “free
trade,” and obviously inland to depend on
this cry as their main reliance in the cam
paign. Mr. Mills showed how false the
accusation of “free trade” is. The total
reduction now contemplated is oily from
a 47 per cent, tarifl to a 40 per cent, tariff,
while the Republicans themselves, so late
or a brilliant repartee the next morning,' as 1881, proposed a reduction of
or when it was everlastingly too late. For
these weapons, to be of use in the game uf
conversation, must be at instant haud, and
as swift and keen as a Damascus blade. It
is hard to say which is the moft painful
predicament, not to be alilo to tnir.k of
from 20 to 25 per cent., and until tli?
present year every prominent leader of
that y»arty has counselled s gradual re
duction of the tariff But now, in the
face of these facts while the Democrats
have taken the field as champions of tarifl
the right thiog to say, or to think of it reform, the Republicans are forced by the
after the occasion has passed. I monopolists to go hack on their record and
We have shown how Johnson sometimes ■ their lifelong professions, and demand in-
prepared himself for a keen encounter, j creased taxation and permanent high tar-
Moore has told us that this was Sheridan’s iff. Their only hope of succesk depends
habitual practice—a plan sometimes re- | on their ability to deceive the people with
commended to those who are liable to be | the “free trade” cry. The wide circula
caught speechless at a critical moment. 1 tion of speeches like that of Mr. Mills will
One, of course,cannot always foresee the 1 he of great avail in counterkcting this dis-
whole ground the conversational battle j honest and desperate attempt to becloud
will be fought over, but a general knowl- ; and mitrepresent the issue before the coun
edge of its topography, of the roads, ; try.
ravines and pitfalls likely to be met, I _
will be of immense value ' OM> KBFHHI.ICAN8 FOB CLEVELAND
and so a few fine things conned Four Grand Itnplda Gentlemen who Can-
by rote will do no harm. Then, too, one I not Stand the Republican Platform,
can sometimes pick out the battlefield and .Special to the New York World
draw all tireforces on the ground, with | Grand Rapids, Mich., July 7.—Local
every step of which he is familiar. This * i;,:„„i •„i„„ .. ’’ . 3 .j ing, beesuse the Democratic masses have
was Sheridan’s great art, and has been im- “ lcal clrc1 ® 9 are discussing the open become a voting power; the caucus system
Stated with great success by . men not so , r . ltlol ? B °‘ Ur. C. S. Haseltine, Wm.
celebrated as he. Many a diner out of ,, iddicomb, G. M. Lemon and Joseph
the present day has won his fame in social *I» rll n that they will vote for Cleveland,
circles by adopting this plan. One who They have been staunch Republicans, nnd
will take the pains to get up a subject of " ave •jjj" huh in social nnd political cir-
some popular m erest thoroughly when *■**• ” iddicomb was the Republican can
going out to dine or to meet friends so- ‘ or mayor six years «go. They say
cmlly will soon find his account in it. lie cannot stand the Republican plat-
will speedily become a social lion. Moore ; ro,n > a ““ have great admiration for Pres-
has shown us in Sheridan’s commonplace *“£?,* Ulevelsnd a business administration,
book how carefully snd studiously he 1 The announcement made by these gen-
worked, over and over again, some of his Hcmen pas greatly agitated the Repuhli-
most celebrated witticisms and retoris. It ? an politicians. As t dd in the World a
seems st<ange that a man can evolve and few days ago, the free whisky plank in
have in mind a retort before an occasion *“ e Chicago platform has given cold sbiv-
arises for it. blit it wsa Sli»rid»n’* good ® re to many a tempoi-.ooo Republican who
fortune and good management on more *tuck to his party because he thought
than one occasion to have a very telling mor e practical temperance legislation
one ready. ! be obtained from it than from the
Sidney Smith and Macaulay were the *“> a *jff Prohibition party. Any consider-
great rival conversen of their day. Smith able defection of such Republicans, either
wittily said: “We both talk a great deal, to the Prohibitionists or the Democrats,
but I don’t believe Macaulay ever aid hear would make ihe Stale Democratic. Even
my voice. Sometimes, when 1 have told a Republican manager* do not claim it by
good story, I have thought to myself: Poor more than 5,000. Such a defection, if
Macaulay; he will be very sorry Home day once started, would probably be wide-
to have uiiaied hearing that." spread.
Macaulay’s talk, as every one who ever J , know in juLY.
heard him bean witness, was wonder, ul,
but it was monologue. Charles Sumner Lon,,on Working I'o M Reputation n* a
was of opinion, after bearing him, that he | Leading summer Resort,
had been correctly described as “a great' London, July It.—The weather through-
machine for colloquial oppression.” “He out England is abnormally cold. Snow has
Cowed along like Horace's river,” »mi» f.ll. n in the znburis of Loudon and the
Sumner,“snd while we, the company, like peaks of Skiddaw and other mountains are
the jmor rustics mentioned by tbc same covered with snow.
poet, in their simplicity, waited for the U the first time snoa is known to have
river fo stop, it still went on with its vol- f a B* n » this country in July.
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HEALS INFLAMMATION. OLD SORES, CURES FOOT ROT, SHOULDER-ROT,
CARED BREASTS A INSECT BITES t • SCREW-WORM AND SCAB IN SHEEP 1
est and the improvement is still going on;
but these things are unimportant. The
gre at change is in the people; in the struct
ure of society. England is not the Eng
land of twenty years ago, and the changes
are yet only beginning. In ten to fifteen
years they will have worked themselves
out and effected a moral and political rev
olution in society. England to-day is in
the early stages of a great mental awaken
ing, manifesting itself in politics, in
religion and in economics. The
old division of classes are fast
disappearing, and this movement
will progress with accelerated pace as it
goes forward. The first-class iB not coming
down, but the classes below it are being
leveled up. This appears in the railroad
travel. The railroad .companies have
found that numbers pay, anu no longer
cater for the exclusive and expensive first-
class travel. The old first-class cars on
some roads are inferior to their new second-
class, and on all roads the third-class cars
are as well fitted up as the second-class
cars used to be in the olden times. One
great railroad system, the Midland, has
reduced its equipment to two classes—first
and third. This really means the consoli
dation of the old first and second, and the
leveling up of the thijji to what this old
second used to be. All the roads will
work into this system.
Just such a change is going on through
the whole structure ol English society.
The railroads are merely an illustration of
it. The lower levels are being raised. The
cause is partially political, though the
great extension of the franchise, for it is
now practically manhood suffrage in Eng
land, but the roots of such great move
ments as are now transforming society lie
very deep and are hard to trace. What
does appear is that the England of to-day
is politically changed from the England of
twenty years ago in the most radical de
gree. Furthermore, the changes are barely
more than begun. I hey are great, but the
really great opes a e to come. The whole
body politic will be transformed when
these movements have worked themselves
ont. The old exclusive system is broken
uuwu turn iiie new organization on a new
and broader basis is in progress.
In the old time—those of twenty years
or so ago-(-the elective franchise was the
privilege of the comparative few and the
ballot was unknown. Tho right to vote
for members ol Parliament was varionsiy
and unequally distributed, but in London
it left out a vast class of intelligent and
industrious mett whose means did not en
able them to meet the property qualifica
tions of the franchise. Within the past
few years sweeping changes have so
broadened Ihe representation that every
mxxtkrlio livarin a boos* aod pays rent for
the whole or part of it has the right to
vote. This is very nearly manhood suffrage
—about as near it as needs be. The ef
fects are showing themselves most striking
ly. 1 lie enfranchised population are the
working clause*, and they are destined to
revolutionize English politics. They arc
not yet organized politically, at least
not in London, but they arc organizing
and educating. Revisiting the country
after long absence, and walking through
once familiar neighborhoods, one sees over
numerous small shops, which have been
roughly converted into meeting halls, such
(ignso8“The Islington Radical Club,”
“The Workingmen’s Liberal Club," “The
Liberal Conservative Club,” “The Radical
Liberal Club,’’’etc. These things are new
to one who knew England only as it was
in the old times. He begins to inquire.
Ilis informant smiles. “This is a growth
since you left. The old exclusive system
hos gone, and these are political clubs for
the discussion of public questions. They
are mainly made up of workingmen. Then
we have a sort of local parliaments, which
meet every week for debate, and have reg
ular presiding officers and all the parlia
mentary forms.”
This b new light. One begins to under
stand all the talk and discussion which
has filled so much space in English papers
and magazines of late year- about the
growing tide of Democracy, the introduc
tion of the caucus, the Americanization of
English politics, and so forth. It is all
true. The tide ol Democracy is really ris-
is coming into vogue because a great army
must have a more elaborate organization
than a small force, and the so-called
Americanization of English politics is
merely the adoption of methods which a
large and active political constituency
needs to make it act efficiently. _
It is natural that the main direction of
these political clubs should he toward ‘.he
radical side of politics. A newly enfran
chised class will instinctively favor the
party which has enfranchised them, or
which has been the cause of it, if not the
actual enacten of the new measures, and
they will favor the more advanced section
u> that pai>y. Hence it comes that most
of the I-ondon political clubs call them
selves Liberal and Radical; very few are
Conservative. The new inovement has
given an impulse to the Radical party, or
rather it htu created it. Twenty years ago
a few members of Psriiament were known
as Radicals, but they did not represent
a party, nor had they any uni
ted policy. They were eccentric
gentlemen, each with a hobby, |wliich he
rode in season and out of season, and it
was r.Out personal peculiari ies than any
general ideas which took them out of line
with the two regular parly organizations.
But the Radical element in Engliah ' poli
tics b not a Urge and growing force, due
to the enfranchisement of the working
classes; and these political clubs, no. thick
ly scattered throughout the unfashionable
districts of Ixmdon, are evidence of the
new onlerof things. You are told occa
sionally by some ardent partisan tint the
MUSTANG LINIMENT
XCXIUAN JtDSTANO LINIMENT. OufruM
Mux-let to tbs VergBom t Woalerfal! Inn'
Radical party b to be the great party of
the future in English politics. It certain
ly is. The force working <rom below is
destined to make a great upheaval in the
body politic.
It is difficult to Bay what, programme
the Radical party has. It does not seem
to have one. It is tpo new, too loosely or
ganized yet, to have one. It is, in ib
preseik shape, influencing the action of
the other parties rather than putting forth
a definite line of policy of its owe. The
disestablishment of the church of England
and a reorganization of tho House of
Lords are tho two objects which it seems
to liage most clearly in mind, and it may
be assumed as a certainty that os soon as
the party has attained thorough .cohesion
and chosen its leaders these tilings will be
done. Meantime the eflects of the new
force in politics are seen in many different
directions, and notably in the greater vig
or and broader management of the me
tropolis of London. The dry bones of
twenty years ago have had a great shaking
up there and ^he shaking is still proceed
ing vigorously. The system of public ed
ucation in that city is another product of
the new movement. In the old time no
such thing was thought of. I believe that
old jSnglaud is to have a new regeneration
throhgli the forces now at work.
The last period of great mental activity
gave England ihe celebrated reform bill of
1832. Tliat did not extend the suffrage,
but redistributed the representation in tho
House of Commons and revolutionized
that body. Then it was that great cities
like Manchester and Liverpool first sent
members to Parliament. The political
forces then started into effective action,
finally overthrew :he national economic
methods, abolished the corn laws, destroyed
the protective system, established freo
trade, and made a large step toward break
ing down class barriers, for many years
afterward the counlry was settling itself
down to the new system, and when this
had been done it ran along on these lines
in a species of sleepy contentedness. It
was iu this State twenty years ago.
Now it is going through another awak
ening even greater than that of fifty years
back. The last step lias been taken of en
franchising the working classes and serious
changes are impending. The question will
naturally be asked all what will they be,
what will be the end of this? I do not
pretend even to guess. The prophets may
tell us all about it, but the ordinary mind
can only conjecture. I am afraid even to
conjecture. The change seemed so far
reaching, the new forces at work so preg
nant with potential energy, that to one
who only knew England as it was twenty
years ago, it remains but to wonder. It is
not the same England that it was. It will
be less so in ten or fif epn years. What the
new England w-ill be I do not know, but I
feel that it will be greatly different from
the England of old. ’ .
Cromwell No Puritan.
From McMillan’s Magazine.
Among Cromwell’s soldiers were Anti-
nonmns, mystical Millenaries and Seekers;
there were al.-o Arminians, anti-Sabbata
rians,. anti-Scripturists, Familisle and
Skeptics. And these men were far from
keeping their opinions to themselves.
They were ail stout advocates of toleration
of religious differences; and in this Crom
well heartilv sympathized with them. But
to the strictly Puritan mind toleration was
a foreign idea which it vehemently and
consistently struggled against from first to
last. Neither the Parliament nor the
Westminster assembly could ever be
brought to give any countenance to the no
tion, They aimed at uniformity according
to tho Puritan model, «ml they had at
their back the intense Puritanisui of Scot
land keening them up to the mark. Wh*n
Cromwell came to be cliitf magistrate he
Ijlh adhered to his dear and decided
conviction that religious differences should
be .tolerated, and in the face of much oppo
sition from the geuuine Puritans aid what
he could to givo eflect to liis convic
tion. Hit church establishment was
distinguished by its freedom and compre
hensiveness. Ills mono was, “Live and
lot live." His State Church had room lor
Presbyterians. Independents and even the
Rectors and Vicars of the old Church of
England. And all who could not join the
Established Church were tolerated outside
it. Indeed his toleration was almost uni
versal ; he aimed at a toleration both of
Roman Catholics and Jews. Cromwell,
then, was uo Puritan in the true sense of
the word, but was possessed by the large
and mild spirit of true Catholicism. His
mind was magnificently comprehensive;
and his religious comprehensiveness was
all the more beautiful that he was him-
seli so tarmst a man and so clear and de
cided in his own religious beliefs. And
Milton was as little a Puritan in the prop
er sense ol the word as Cromwell. He had
jndeed all the fortitude, tranquility and
inflexible resolution that distinguished the
Puritans, but none of their spirit ol ex
clusiveness ; and he delighted with all his
soul iu all the arts and sciences and ail
those tastes and accomplishments that
tend to refine and adorn human life, but
which the Puritan regarded with severe
disapproval.—Macmillan’s Magazine.
To Francs* Cleveland.
Queens hare been fair. One rers t radiant head
Among Ihe mists snd shadows, heresi.d there,
Outshine Its crown. Down there among the
dead.
Ah me, queens have been fair I
Even In the world’s dust and ashes jet
•'lonot doubt that beauty grows and blooms
Sometimes * living flower nl tt, dew-wet,
Buds from the royal tombs.
Q ll 5 eI ’a mty be fstr, even in the cruel sun
Of tbla our day. But range them In a row:
One wears the rose of Knglatid-wHhcrtng.
One outglttter’a Russia's snow.
0» e held* the German cornflower. OneJorci
The .lustrlan edelwelaa. One shows the scar
Left by the jt»el ihurna of France, deep-prtst—
Forlorn as some dead star.
One hide* a gfrl'a face In Spain’s window-veil
one. who loves Virgil's song, haa hut in -t|r
Ol lift her goiuen bead, and the nightingale
Kings out nis h-art to her. *
These.Jf they shine (yea, ttese and all Ihe
Shine through crown-jewels and from height
of piace:
While you. O Udy shining in the Wet,
bbiuc but with your own grace.
Go If yon will, among them all and stand,
with juat a mountain wild-flowcr in your
hair,
w (* h fust the wedding-ring ou your right hand
Tho nation bids you wear.
Then from the Klyslan »irlds call Paris bark:
•■Kay who shall have the golden apple - who?"
Tboujh^Europe, armed, anould follow Iu his
He'd throw It straight to yon!
„ „ , 8ib»h it. B. Piatt.
—Reiford’a Magazine.
, Dalton’s First National.
Wasiiin.iton, July;il.—The Comptroller
of the Currency to-day authorized the First
National Bank of Dalton, Ga., to begin bush
ness with a capital of |50,0u0.
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nBHBWK
DESOLATION.
Terrible Destruction i n J
Flooded District.
WHOLE SECTIONS SWEPT Cll
Hundreds or I’eoplo Ilomeles, , ,
tute In Town and V wintry—Tl,* tui
Uurdened with the Float!.?" 1
Houses nnd Farm Wreck*
Parkersburg, W. Va., July „
storm on Monday night was the mop 7
trous of many which visited this region?
mg the past week, and the loss of
in a range of twelve counties hereaW
estimated at a quarter of a million <J|,
A bridge worth forty thousand dollar*
swept from its moorings here yes erd*. ’
day immense qua tlties of wheat U (
her floated past in a tangled mass Ain
every farm in the valley counties adioiir
this has been swept clean of its ornj„.
i The Middle I land Tie Company lo.uj
ties last night valued at $13,f00. a hum m
of trestles and bridges on the Columbia ul
Northern road, running into Harmoa onti "
Ohio side, are washed away, and travel i,|.|
difinately suspended. The Zansville U J
Ohio River road, just put into oper»Uo,,|
( bad *y washed oat, and it „iu J
several days hefore trade i, ?'
sumed. No train has comefrom the ea’ii
the Baltimore and Ohio road since M™’ *
morning. The town of Salem ii —^?L
homes Waterandthe Pe ° ple h * Te l *' 1 ’*4l
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
j Pittsburg, July tl.-The latest estinuJ
of the damage puts the total loss at over ,1
i million dollars. Wheeling reports the das!
i age in the vicinity of Grafton, W. Va stuL
less than 4250,000 and about Fairmont at til
much more. The loss at Brownville Pail
reported to be over *12.5,000 and at
burg $125,000. In this neighborhood it will
exceed $100,000 and it is not exageentin
to say that a fair estimate is that the J
will exceed one million dollars a* tbtl
flooded district covers an area of folly tnl
hundred and fifty miles. I
At McKeesport all themil’s are closed tuJ
hundred, are homeless and destitute. Tkil
Chartres natural gas main crossing the rivtrl
at that point was broken during the nirbtl
and an immense pressure of the gas forced!
into the air. The watchman of the Pittil
burg, McKeesport and Youvhiogeny railroad!
crossed the trestle at Saltsburg a short time|
after and his lantern ignited the gas, catM.|
ing a tremendous explosion. He was f»|
tally burned and the bridge set on fire, bull
the flames were extinguished before il wai|
destroyed. I
Traffic haa been almost suspended on the I
Pittsburg, Virginia and Charle.ton roads, no I
trains running south of Peters creek, nine-I
teen miles from here.
greatest ever ksowk.
A Wheeling dispatch says the freshet w.u|
the greatest ever known. The destruction I
to property is beyond computation, lmt|
enough U known to warrant ihe declaration!
(hat nearly every house and most of the I
fencing on ull the lowlands between that I
point and Clarksburg ou the west and as far I
east as Grafton on Valley river has here I
swept away. From early dawn until dark I
the Monongahela con ioued to Hie and d r-1
ing that time the channel was full of honiei, I
fences, timber, saw logs, shock* of aliesi, j
parte of bridge! and other debris, denoting 1
the havoc of the rushing water*. The water I
il jMVfUttogtt the head waters and the I
Worst is over. Since midnight the rivet si I
Brownsville has receded five feet. Ia this I
city there were twenty-two feet of water it I
2 o’clock tl)ls afternoon, and still riling. 1
IlDINED l’L \YiNU POKER.
A Rank President's Downfall—Fljlnj from
tlie Town.
From the St. Paul Olobe.
A term of the District Court of this j«-
■licial district, which was to have hern
opened one week ago, opened at Chamber
lain yesterday with quite a full docket.
One of tho cases to come up will he*r *
slight mention here.
H. IC. Gates, who was, until three dan
ago, nresident of the Farmers’ and Trad
ers’ Bank in this town, happened about a
year ago to be in Sioux Falls nt a meeting
of insurance men or of bankers, tnil dur
ing his stay, it is alleged, was struck with
the poker craze.
lie played with his usual shrewdness it
first, but before long be began to look for
bigger game. About this time a leirgrtm
was received here by the bank with »bich
he was connected, asking if a check tor
$500 signed by H. £. Gates, or words,to
that effect, would be good. An affirnistive
answer was given and nothing a.me was
thought of the matter. A few days later a
check of about that figure wm sent for col
lection, but through the opposition bsak
here, nnd when it was presented to the
Farmers and Traders’ they refused to
touch it. It then liecame painfully »PP*'
rent that Mr. Gates’s account was consider
ably overdrawn, or that his credit wm not
as good us repretp uted, or that he repudi
ated the paper {faint.
Of comae suit was at once brought by
this Sioux Falls bank and the case wm to
have been railed at the ImI term of court,
but wa* post pom d. Saturday a chanp
was made in the hank officials, whereby
Mr. Gates was left out of the rosier of the
officers, and he has entirely withdraw
from the institution, leaving the cMjtter,
L. A. Foote, in apparent great happuWj
of mind. Whether this move will »* **J
affect the suit or not, the writer coula not
nay, hut the defendant saw fit to at once go
east as far os Cleveland, O. ,
Some three months since a man by
name of W. A. Thompson, of middle sge
and respectable mien, appeared in town
nnd represented himself to be quite we* -
thy. Glancing over the stock of aTa , . •
female merchandise in town, he h* e ‘[ J u
longing eyes unon the comely snd weIl-«**
veloped figure of Widow Miller—a wontsa
who i» a devotee of that art which **»!
clean through all art*—in short, a ’
dry woman. They collared each other! ’
sighed on his nosom; he sighed on
yolqs; in short, it was love at first
He |mpped; hut she, before acquiew-t
nsked advice as to the step, because, a •
ing twice tie fore been fooled by base w *>
she wa t d t. go slow. Tiny were mtf
ried. For ten days he lived off her
Iter earnings; then, on a bright, PjJ* .
morning,-lie lit out for Sioux City at™
civilized East, leaving, the Lord k
how many, poor, disconsolate wide
mourn.
A Tram Hanged.
Kochektrr. N s Y., July 10.—
Deacons was hanged for murder
minutes before 11 o'clock fltie N
Deacons was a tramp and his victim,
Ada Stone, had refused to feed him
MUSTANG LINIMENT
SHOULD ALWAYS BE KEPT IN SHOD