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THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER. Dally and Weekly. Thi T ki.f.o n a i ll and Messenger if publish ed every day, except Monday, and Weekly every Friday. The Daily la delivered by carriers in the city or mailed postage free to mbacrlbeni attl per month, ?2.S0 for three months, $5 for alx months. or |10 a year. The Weekly la mailed to subscribers, post age free, at |1.25 a year, 75 cents for six months. To clubs of five. $1, and to clubs of ten, $1 per gear and an extra copy to getter up of clubs of The date on which subscriptions expire will be found on the address tag on each paper, and subscribers are requested to forward the money for renewals of the same in time to Tench this office not later tban^tbe date on which their subscriptions expire. Transient advertisements will be taken for the Daily attl per square of ten lines or less, for the first insertion, and 50 cents for each ■nbaeqaent lnseition; and for the Weekly at $1 per square for each insertion. Liberal rates to contractors.: Rejected communications will not be re turned. ortant news Inconsistent Democrats. A subscriber has sent us the sub joined communication for publication. Wo have received letters from other parties iu the State calling attention to similar movements: Albany, Ua., March 16th.—Editoss Tele- oraph AND Messenger: Ihave been so forcibly Impressed of late with the incon. h latency of Georgia Democracy, tba I feel constrained to make public wbcreln this inconsistency consUts. For instance, a few weeks ago a howl of censure went up from all parts of the State over tbo appointment of Emory Speer to a Judgeship in the federal courts. Senator Brown has been woefully abused, and very propci ly too, for the part he took in securing Speer’s confirmation. Of course the people feel that they have been outraged and are Justly indignant. But I find some of these very people now clamoring and petitioning to have some of the Speer stripe Macon, Money orders, checks, etc., should be made payable to 11. C. Hanson. Manager. The appointment mill grinds slowly, but ^he griat is tolerably good. Vaxdirbilt is building him a two hun dred and fifty thousand dollar tomb. Psurcxss Beatrice, as soon as married, will take her petty-coart to Balmoral. Sam J. Tildxn and General Grant are said to be preparing for a great change. It is the poor man who now threatens to build “liberty” a pedestal. He labors with all his mite. Editor Dana's cat, up to date, has not had anything flung to it by the new ad ministration. uiu uiKuttiuui ui ut iuk 11 Euui;ni-u,uui. * ^iiaaova ai |iubiiuuicii. i hSLltteEtLSE 0 ” bUl ° ne ,ld<! 0f ,nd Th,t0 T "? * ,mo PO»*m««ten Remlitaucci .hould be made by expreu, b » Te tor ?«*>» kept U>e Bepubllctn p.rtj in money order or registered letter. power by the use of money, and by keeping paid/ Poitmasteri are especially reqneited to know. thu lh0 Republican party in Oeor- write for terms. gia has been defunct lor years, except 10 y l . t . h “ b « n drilled,.ndkep. to,ether *>? ,0a. Radical poatmaatera. Yes, the wdrk of these very fellows a (e* years ago kept our people In constant dread oi an outbreak. Tbo liver 0! even our wives and children wereendati gored by the work tbeie fellows were required to do, and nothing but the work of a bold and united people deterred them Irom banding the State of Georgia over body aod soul to the cor rupt taskmasters they were required to serve and obey. The tablci are turned at last, and we see the terrible spectacle of Intelligent peo pie asking II r. C'eveland to keep the men In of* lice who paid their money to secure blsdefcst. Ob, but they are good D mocrata now Yes, they will do anything and be anything keep their places. Ihls depones A!7erhc tn of fice and don't want one,bo neartlly disgust ed with people claiming to be Democrats abut- Ing Joe Brown for befriending Speer and then asking thst the Radical postmasters of the State be retained. cSssistekcv. There can be no donbt that Georgia has her full share ot Democrats for of fice only, and they do not care by what means paying places can be obtained, which wilt keep their occupants from honest labor. It has been patent to every observer that a ring in Georgia has been enabled to hold power for many years by trading and dividing offices with the Republicans, and by using their votes and influence. The honest people have felt the weight of this coirupt coalition on more occasions than one. In Speer’s case, which was a most shameless one, the excuse was held out that ho would become a good Democrat under a Dem ocratic administration, just ns he had disgraced and dishonored his people for office under a Republican adminis tration. If it is impossible now to find a Re publican in Washington City they will be correspondingly scarce in Georgia. There will be attempts to swap offices and influences here and to keep kins men and henchmen in place and power. The coalition ia not going to surrender its power without a struggle. Rut the administration intends to be Democratic. There will be attempts, canning and insidioua ones, backed by petitions and letters to mislead and to deceive Mr. Cleveland and his cabinet. If these are not promptly met and uncovered, they may in some cases bosuccessful. But the people have the preventive in thetr own hands. Whenever and wherever political chicanery and trick ery such as is alluded to by our cor respondent is attempted, the proper authorities at Washington should be fully informed of it. Ko swapping or trading of officea will he sanctioned, and when places are to be filled, the administration desires to fill them with capable Democrats npon whose record their is no stain Mr. Cleveland will not countenance or support the Democratic-Republican coalition in this Stato by making the appointments it desires and asks for. We thank our correspondent for calling the attention of the public this important matter, and our columns are at the disposal of any one who desires to expose simi lar trickery. Wo shall be (laid to pub lish facts about all of the combinations now being made to retain Republicans in office, or to get them in, by conni vance with so-called Democrats. ScsDBT editors are advising the grom d hog to come forth, but the ground hog re lies on Instinct, not sdvice. The Fresldent informed some Virginian! that the office of bommissioner of agricul ture will go to a Northwest) rb State. The handle ot the spoon nsed by Mr. Cleveland in feeding ent the patronage pudding li not long enough to reach Georgia. Turns ia one Richmond lets in the field. John W., of the Salvation Army, has been locked np for obtaining goods under false pretenses. Tnx feed in some of the troughs of the Augean stables is getting to be “powerful akeerce.” The noble steeds will have to go to gross. Mb. Vabdxbbilt merely called upon the Fresldent to' pay bis respect). Rnmor has it that Van la gettiog down to where he can't pay anything else. Ir it is true that the star-eyed goddess is droopy, the Tkleobafh recommends thst during the spring months cornhread be substituted for her matutinal aourmash. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times has come to the conclu sion that the Mew York post-office is “scarcely likely to be given to anybody but an tmmistakablo Democrat.” The lack of plums tossed to the Western section ought to chill the enthusiasm of tho youngsters who contemplate going out to grow up with the country. Bettercome South boys and grow up with a poet-office. It is said that the coal fields tn Ken tucky supply two-thtrds ot tha consump tion in MaahviUe, Tenn. But this is not etrange. The cold fields of tha Northwest supply nearly all the consumption In Florida. What Cleveland's policy to the lady clerks Is to be has not jet been developed. It is the fond belief of tbe fair sex that it can fill any office, bnt it will certainly look strange to ate females acting as mail agents. Ahcsihemtooiiio people will hear this with tenor: Colonel Jack Haverly has organized a minstrel company of fifty people—the old familiar “SO, count ’em, SO' —and will devote bis personal attention to them hereatter. the telegraph and messenger: Friday, march27, 1885. is remembered that this is a greater case might serve aa a warning to otuers near er home, who have made themselves public nuisances, even 11 they have not been guilty oi the same degree of Indecency. Ko one la more Intereited m seeing tbe profession rid of these fellows tbsn high-toned journalists and conscientious correspondents themselves. Gee. William F. Rouses, of Beflaio.and member of tbe late Congress, wants toauc- ceed Martin I. Townsend as United Slates marshal for the northern district of New York. Somebody should speedily succeed the old ruffian, Tub New York World leys Col. Hcoby Thompson will not be made collector of the port of New York. Tbie it in the straight directloh of civil service reform One trouble with Colonel Booby ie, that he collects too much for Colonel Hooby. Tub free trade organs are busy denying that Randall had anything to do with the defeat ot Phil Thompson. Well, let Mr. Cleveland have foil credit for tbe good work. Little FhU will not get aplace. Mr. Durham, ot the Treasury Department, ie from his Congressional district. Hob. David Dcdlxt Field hu announc ed that under no circumstances will he ac cept the poet of minister to England. Dud ley’s chlliren to the third end fourth gen eration will now be able to proudly relate that their distinguished ancestor “once de clined the position of minister to Eng- ’and.” The ninth volume ot tbe tenth cenma rrpert, just issued, shows that the forest product of thla country for the census year amounted to 1700,000,000 In value, while the wheat harvest, valuing the product even at 71 a bushel, amounted to only 7150,000,000, and onr Iron and steel pro duction is leas than 7500,000,000, All our coal, soft and hard, for the year, was valued at 7100,000.000, while onr wood burned for domestic purposes alone was estimated to be worth more than three times that snm. The Philadelphia Press makes this good point: “About the beet testimony that President Cleveland could offer of bis tin- eerily In the matter of civil service reform would be tbe prompt discharge of Leoni das D. Thoman, Democratic member of the dvil service commission. Thoman not only violated tbe epirit of the dvil vice hy making flaming partisan speeches in Ohio last tel 1 , but be ia charged by a leading Democratic joornal, tbe Cincin nati Enquirer. with being little better then a habitual drunkard and with having nsed the com mission's mousy for his per sonal benefit without accenting for ft Simpathv for Macon Tbe recent dirty aasanlt upon this community hu called forth the follow ing wordi of sympathy from the Water- bury (Conn.) American, a clean and honorable journal. It says: We have a profound sympathy for Itacon, Ga. That city has been suffering Irom that In fliction of modem Journal lam, known as tha special correspondent. Of course there are special correspondents and special correspon dents. Some of them an as canful to tell nothing bnt tbe truth aa tl they were writing fora local paper, printing Ilea which would bring immediate nlutatlona and unsleaaant consequences npon tba head of the reaponal. Me editor. Bnt many of these special makers of news have no conscience at al>. All they can about la that their stories may spicy enough to make catchy bead- ■ and sensational reading. They nly upon the fact that the yams an printed at a convenient distance from the scene of the plot and npon conceding their own Identity to Insure them against the honest Indignation of their victims. Connecticut hav suffered. It la near enough to New York so that iheae sensations may be lent by mall, saving the cost o! telegnpMng. Waterbary baa suf- farad. There [ore we say we have a profound sympathy with Macon, Ua. That city has been victimized by a special correspondent named Brown. lie wrote ft np for the Cincinnati En- qulrer, especially any social gossip that he eonld manufacture or rake from the sewers. When Ms articles appeared they came out nnder inch head-lines aa: “Scandals Bumping Againtat Each Other In the Air,” “Serious Charges Against an Aged Gentleman," “An Injured Husband Gunning for His Rival," “Editor Lamar Provokes a Duel and Then Takes Water." etc. The owner of the Inquirer, Hr. McLean, waa made to apol ogize, ao hot was the Indignation. But this did not satisfy the focal paper, the Macon TELEonarn. It soya that before the apology le accepted Mr. McLean, must “deliver the correspondent (Brown) tothe legal authorities and have the sources of hU Information <—-)y known." It also remarks that “U tbo borae- whlp ermnot correct tbo evil, tbeabotgnn wlU.” While, of course, no one could Justify tho lat ter, the public eonld hear with greet equanim ity of a vigorous application of tho former. Florida Railroads nnd Land Ornnts. fS Senator VanWyck, who ie very bold and independent, is likely to stir up a sensation in Florida. His resolution has been referred to the committee on public lands, bnt he will pursue the subject at the next session. The Florida Railway and Navigation Company came under discussion in the Senate last week under a motion in reference to its land grant. This cor poration having advertised for sale large tracts of Florida lands occupied by numerous settlers with orange groves and other agricultural ventu res a motion was made to instruct the S ec- retary of the Interior to intervene with a stay of proceedings until the rights of the company and the settlers could be investigated. , This company appears to he one of those peculiar institutions whose func tion in this busy sphere is chiefly to illustrate the ductility and elasticity of private rights and franchisfes under American law. It is a corporation which has been once or twice reorgan ized, and appears now to flourish un der certain aliases, which vary accord ing to the matter in hand. In the ad vertised sale of land its title is the At lantic and Gulf West India Transit Company. The stockholders of the present incorporation are the same par ties, with one or two exceptions, who owned the stock of its predecessors. It has never cost any of them a cent, as it appears the United States and the State of Florida presented the concern with.the property which forms its re sources of credit, and the State has also spent about 71,000,000 in carrying iron and other material for tho con struction of the road. In 1850 there were 20,000,000 ac^i of swamp and overflowed lands ceded to the State of Florida by the United States, and of this territory 700,000 acres were granted to this railroad. The projected route was between Amelia Island, Cedar Keys and Tampa Bay. Ia addition to this grant there was a cession subsequently of 1,100,000 acres conditioned on the completion of the road within ten years, that is to say, by tho year 1800. A short branch road was constructed, but about fifteen years had elapsed before even a begin ning had been made in building the main line, tho construction of which formed the consideration of the grant of 1,100,000 acres. About sixty miles ot the main, or Tampa Bay, line have been constructed by a com pany claiming to be the assignee ot the original grantees. In the meanwhile, other railroads have been built through that section; the lands conditionally granted the company have been settled up and improved, and are now worth from 75 to 750 per acre. The value of these lands at the date of the condi tional grant, and indeed at the expira tion of the ten years which were al lowed the company for perfecting their tile, waa nil—they wero wholly worth less and unsalable; and the present valuation of 75 to 750 per acre, accord ing to location, represents the wealth increment which has been created by agricultural development, in a period when the railroad was merely an unex ecuted grant, or thing on paper. Senator Call illustrated tho general status of the company’s finances by re viewing the pod lullum reorganization, He says: “The railroad was sold in 1800, under n provisional State govern ment,without any dccreo of any court, without any authority oflaw, and in ex press violation ot the statutes.” Tho railroad, 150 miles in length, was sold for 7520,000, payable in State improve ment bonds, rated at 20 cents to the dollar, and the State of Florida be came the only paid up stockholder, The State subsequently paid about 71 000,000 for th-i rails and other materii used in constructing the road. Senatok Caii maintains that the present -corpo ration haa never paid a cent of its own for the property, haa never established a shadow of title to tho land In ques tion, and is proceeding in a high hand ed way to sell the holdings of Innocent settlers without a vestige of right. To arrest this wrong be seeks the inter vention of the Department of the Inte rior. iti pressure than is ever allowed upon brick foundations, the point will be understood. The wind pressure in high storms, it is stated, will increase the weight to fourteen tons. Mr. Goodridge evidently thinks that the varying and enormous pressure will in time displace the unequal foun dations. If it does, Washington will worse shaken up than when it waa announced that the Plumed Knight had measured his length in the dust and pulled out the pillars from under the roof of the Republican party. Thoman makes no denial of these accuia-, _ ... . . tiona. Can the administration afford to ,ell fT wb# * m * 11 Mdr ** n,u ■— anor “ “I fo»aciLialtoput,llahtoUi.»orMhunorl*ht« that hi* Tlctinu an hound to reapccL Browa't An (nslneai'a Foreboding. John C. Goodridge, Jr., who has patent process for renewing and strengthening the foundation of heavy structures, publishes a circular letter illustrated by diagrams to prove that the Washington monument cannot stand. Mr. Goodridge’s process, which he claims to have successfully used under many tall and heavy structures, was adopted in part when the foundations of the monument were strengthened prior to resuming work npon it. He claims now thst the introduction ot innovations in connection with his plan was a fatal error. Beton ia the name of the cement need by Goodridge. When a foundation ia to be aaaiated, narrow trenchea are dug un der it and the Beton introduced in plaitic shape. Aa tbe cement hardens into slabs, the work ia continued until a sub-foundation ia supplied. In thus treating the Washington monument, the engineers, it is claimed, introduced crushed stone into the cement and (ail ed to carry the slabs far enough under. A portion of the monnment therefore rests npon the original concrete founda tion, which doe* not extend down to bed rock, and the balance npon a foundation that haa been deprived of its lateral strength by the introduction of fragmentary atone. The pressure upon the foundation, without calculating wind pressure, is Mark A. Cooper. In the death of this distinguished gen tleman, Georgia haa lost almost the last of generation that gave latter to the name and fame of Georgia, and raised her to a prou l and honored position. He was the contemporary of Robert Flournoy, Gen. Blaikshesr, Wm. H. Crawford, Walter Colquitt, Judge Berrien, T. Butler King, R. W. Habersham, Lott Warren, Thomas Stocks, Jesse Mercer, Wrn. C. Dawson, Gov. C. J. Jenkins, Gen. Floyd, Gen. Mc- Dongald, John Howard, Ell Shorter, Christopher B. Strong, F.C. Cone, Seaborn Jones, Robert Toombs, E. A. Nisbet.Gov. Towns, Charles Gordon, Gov. Wilson Lumpkin and L. Q C. Lamar, all of whom and many more that might be mentioned, by their statesmanship, patriotism and eminent abilities honored and elevated their State. And it ia doubtful if, among them all, there was a spirit more heroic and patriotic or one that rendered the State more substantial service than Ma'k A, Cooper. When Governor Troop, 1425, called for volunteers to protect oni Southern border from the Beminole In dians, he tendered his services and throughout tbe campaign.served in the reg iment of Col. Evrard Hamilton, afterwards the old warehouse firm of Hamilton & Hardeman, of Macon. In 1830 he again responded to the demand dor volunteers, when the general government called on Georgia fortreops. Five companies, tbe Macon Volunteers in tbe number, were formed in Middle Georgia, and organized Macon, into a battalion, of vehich M. . Cooper was elected Major; and he serv ed through the campaign raado by Gener- Winficld Scott, against the Seminole In dians in Florida. Subsequently he enter ed successfully npon the practice of law at Eatonfon, Ga., snd was elected solicitor- general of the Ocmnlgee circuit by the Leg. isiatnre, as tbo succrssor of Colonel Gibson Clark. He served three years, and the prominence thus given him as a successful lawyer, in the Ocmuigee cironit under Judges Kennan, Harris, Longstreet, Shor ter and L. Q. C. Lamar, led to his election to Congress for two terms. Nominated for Congress by the State righto party, be was elected, together with Julius C. Alford, Edward J. Black, Walter Colquitt, Wm. C. Dawson, Richard W. Habersham, Thomas Bntler King, En- ginlus A. Nisbet and Lott Warren. This delegation became divided In Congress, and Cooper, Colquitt and Black voting to- f ether as Stale rights men, held tbe bal ance of power, tbe Whigs and Democrats being equal, and, by an arrangement be tween Henry A. Wise and M. A. Cooper, secured the election of R. M. T, Hunter to tbe.SFCtkerrhlp of the House, after a contest of many days. IS13, by the solicitation hie friends, he resigned bis seat in the House of Representa tives, and accepted the nomination for Governor in opposition to his old friend end classmate. George W. Crawford, bnt was defeated In tbe race. He then retired from politics and entered upon a civil career as farmer, banker and mannfac- tnrer, by which he did orach to develop and stimulate the Industries of Georgia. While practicing law in Eatonton, he, in connection with Charles I’. Gordon, ot Eatonton, uncle of Gen. J. B. Gordon, called a meeting of thedtlzeniof Putnam county to consider the project of building a rail road from Anguita, and at that meeting— the first of the kind held ia Georgia—he delivered the first public addreai in Georgia in favor of railroads. Soon after, he and Gordon were mainly In strumental, as members of tbe State Leg islature, in seenring the first railroad char- ter granted by the G-neral Assembly. At their instance, that charter was drown np by William Williams, thin of Eatonton, sftsrwudof Athens. The com| any which built the Eatontoi factory-one of tbe firet built In theBtate- was organized by Mart A. Cooper, on plan - furnished by liha. FoFizvcral years he rciided in Coinmbns, Georgia, and waa tha president of a success ful hanking company In Colnm- bai, called 'The Western Iosnrance and Trust Company,” and lor many years he was the controlling genius of in exten sive Iron and Floor Manufacturing Com pany, at Etowah, Georgia, now In Bartow county. He was the first to open the Dade county coal mines, on the Team river, (or tbe shipment of coil to Georgia, for manntsctarlng purposes. He founded described would be accepted. It oc curs to us that any one who ebonld tender to Mr. Davis, or the average hearty ex-Conledcrate,honnty from the United States treasury or elsewhere, might be met with a rebuke that would bring to cheek the blush of shame. Mr. Davis and the men who fought with him in the late war are engaged at present in earning an honest living by tbe sweat of their brows. Of course among the great number of those who survive, there are some who follow questionable callings, but theso aro notable exceptions. Misfortune may make the best of men After the Chase. “X. I. E.” Night in the barrens and I. Tho weary limbs of the bound aro stretched in sleep. A pine cone falls, dies in a half rebonnd, conquered by the tilence that has seized its companions whom my weary feet have crushed for honrs. Alone and lost I It matters not. Nature kind. Her bosom is soft. Her breath warm. Bbe hovers her children where'er night finds them. How tbe dog sleeps! Natnre dees not own him. Here in tbe pathless barrens, close to the heart of nature, lie dog and man. Which is dearer? Which is hum bler? Which worlhier? It is a mystery. ke the beat of men paupers, bnt it ia an element in the make-op of a ma more lamentable than misfortune, tb impels him to place his name upon tL„ charity list, while poaaetaing the means or the strength to sustain himself. This element ia foreign to Jefferson Davis, and to the Southern people who to-day carry into business life the grit, independence and courage that made them conspicuous during the war. The only kind of charity ever de sired by the able-bodied men of the 8onth, was the charity of judgment. Did they receive it? A Wasbibotox special says o( the late Presidential reception: “There was more Democratic sir about tbe whole re cepUoo than has been observed for many yea/s. There was so me comment because some of the invitations sent out were printed on a type-writer instead of being expenses ly engraved, bnt this feature ■scared more appreciation from thinking people than otherwise from its apparent return to tbe oid-fathloned simplicity which coo trolled the White Home a qnar- ly eleven tons to the square foot. When I ter of a century ago.” Prepnrod for «he Telegraph nrd Messen ger by W. B. Hill, or the Macon Bor. New York city has a sensation some what similar to that which was created - -rooa.yn relates to a Melt — some year, ago by the publication of Cape tend the weddinw of )ll * ‘ h f re 10 «• Cod Folks. A little Yaukto woman went fnend wh^ fired in Mont. U * ht ’ ‘ U*.® N*w Eogland village as teacher, and I 11 Which ia guiltier? This morning the doe fled swift as the wind. Tbe fire of (right filmed in her eyes. The muscles of her neck stood forth In agony strained.- saw the moon once as I stood npon the seashore, riee above a cloudbank that banded the east in shadow. The light struck tbe ripples at my feet, then ran to aea, leaping from crest to crest nntil the eyes swam and tbe glint was lost. Bo fled the doe; and down her flanks rippled the changing lights that the pine fiogers weave in the barrens. A liv ing wave was she, the foam npon her lips. Bnt the rifle's bite overtook her, and tbe rifle’s voice outran. One spoke to ■train ing nerves; the other mocked before, be side, above, behind her, until, blind with horror, she leaped high, gasped, flung herself against the trees, and bleeding passed away. Then the hound IMnltiplying the echoes nntil the wilds about me rang with the re lentless, thirstfnl, vengeful cry of a phan tom pack. Rang untilhnmanity died, and the human throat gave baok cry for cry, What a vision! Well might I pause to see the great yellow beast, with nose to ground, sweep past, the foam of frenzy upon his Ups, the dream of hot blood reddening his swelling eyes! The blood is yet npon his month, and stains his great lore feet. I Know it, be cause he Bought me ont, when he came back slowly from Ills faraway banquet and dropped at my feet, as night spread her cloak. Vehich is guiltier? He sleeps. And I, straining every sense, stretch my limbs amid the gloom, In vain. Silence is absolute. Tbo cry of an owl, the bark of a fox, the night bird's cry wonid be music. But the barrens have no voice. I know that abont me, mile af ter mile, league after league, the round straight pines uplift their arms and mur mur unheard above the grim silence that bathes their feet, even as the still depths of ocean bathe mutely the limbs of the drowned. A wandering bat brashes my cheek with his uncertain wing. Does the blind fish in the depths, haunt the dead with the solemn circles of his wandeiiogs ? Where is thesoandof the world? Where is fight? Wifi It never again break in the.e depths? The palpable silence and darkness are walls of water; the waves swell noiselessly away np where tho pine fingers work in dumb pantomime. Tbo hound at my feet is dead, lying where he drowned and sank. Hark! A sound at last—the long, low lope of a deer! It comes! It passes! It comes again, swift as a shadow; persistent as a phantom. But I see It still. There is blood npon the throat, and tbe eyes give forth no luitre, tbe glazed eyes of a doe. And as I gaze, a fawn comes out of the barrens and lays Us lips npon the stiffened adder, snd walls tbst it yields no flow. The darkness weighs upon me, and out of the depths rises voice—“Which is guiltier ?” I lift my gun and send a ballet crushing through the pine fingers in the air. It may (all back as the raindrop in the ocean, bnt the spell is broken, and the chilled heart beats ■gain. Back and forth ths echoes spring, far and faint, faint and far, sounding, sound ing, sonndlrg, falling, fading, fainting, nntil I crouch again and pray for silence. And the itartled hound, turning thrice above his couch, links down restfnlly to sleep. I fire no more. The doe, the dream, the despair ia gone. Tbe niter silence ia gone. Voices come I faint at sheep belle beyond the eye reach listless ts dreams, uncertain as ths wind. And they weave themeelve* into a song that twlnee ia and ont ol harp notes from a sliver string. It is bnt a shiver of melo dy, the long of the pines. The dnmb prayer ot nature has ended, Ths forests sing their hymns. The breeze thst bears onward ths faint and Heeling melody has laid a kiss upon the fevered brow. It to sweet with tbe gift! of the woedand (nil of pleasant dreams, woman’s hand, cool and tender, lies nnder the mytery of the wind. And as I lie and listen, a faint flub strikes npon the steel In my hand. I tarn and see tbe giant trees loom np one by one in tbe paling gloom. In the far distance there is a glow in the pines. Behind me the shadows gronp and shrink. And etui the pale lUverr light grows in the silence, and still the hymn deepens. The dog'e form grows clearer. Tbe bright steel gleams as ths great warriors around go marching by. Where ia the Queen? She comes.. Up through the narrowing vista riaea the Em press of Night, Diana, barfing diamond point spears, and aettiis,-! her boundaries where the jewels fall! Hark I Ia it ths wind? Ie it a loader note from the silver string? No. It swells! It rises! It soars! It swells sgsin! It here. 'Tto the vole* of the elgnsl horn. Tbe grim beut at my feet lifts hte betd and tarns his eyes npon me. Again! and be rises, bat my hand la on his colter. Again! and he leaps to tbe sound. Bnt the colter i■ of leather, brass bound, and breaks not. Tugging be leads; bending I follow ont of the barrens, oat ot the depths. The New Orleans Picayune uye: “The schoolmuter’eideaof a soldier may be seen in the persons of boys who visit this dty u pnpUs from military schools. No two Icok alike. They wear colters, neckties and vests of various styles, coats open, hair every way, walk awkwardly, lounge abont, aod present moot unsoldterliko ap pearances; tbe very opposite of results expected of inch schools. A month of Wait Point discipline wonid set the kids np In soldier shape.” This in written before Gov. McDaniel evoluted tbe Oeor- gia PohHHlf. concluded she could make more money by writing up ihe people than abecou din her school. So, ia a qnaint and humorone way, eho pictured in a novel the inhabit ants of the town, Names were disguised, but there was no need to name photo graphs. Ooeol the aggrieved “charac ters" sued the publisher and obtained a small amount ot damages. The new novel, "The Money Makers," has stirred np the nabobs of New York in the tamo way. One of them got the publishers to alter one pago, so as to make a portrait css exact. The publishers refused to do it for others. One of the delineated offered to buy up the whole edition. It Is hkely that Messrs. Appleton & Co. may yet hear more in the courts of the consequence! of the publication of this audacious satire. A general and consolidated index of tbe records of the clerk’s office is a great want. An act was passed by tbe General Assem bly at its late session providing for this indispensable work, and the public at large has an interest in an early completion of the index. The pulling down of forty dif ferent books to examine a title is the “dirly work of legal business. I heard a lawyer threatening to eu* the county for neveral salts of clothes be bad ruined in this way. But it is not the lawyers only who feel the need of this work. It is a public necessity. Many of our citizens resort to the records to ascertain if there are Lens npon prop erty. There are many lawsuits over titles now pending and yet to be brought, caused by want of a methodical ana complete genera' iodex The cor mUsloners of ether counties, wha: «the t/insfer? of land are small compaicd to what they are in Bibb, hare long since provided their cit'zens with this time-aiTing and money-saving LEGAL NEWS AND NOTES. Bom, of the coon Th-’nu. 8old b , New York Broker. * A etory told abont Mr. Wm I! vs.. in Brooklyn relate, to after he bad aicended the stabs hell Hi* UP .he h.fi from the ferry, he weot i'.: In Montague terrace, and was i„ *f compelled toasklor directive. 8 h “Ide.be to reach M-Montagne etreet ” bSSSKkwkk patent lack ot good ian„er. PI ’.V," *P- .t™tLou£lS d wilh « Aten witn gigantic schemes have him time and again. Onr* h. J. 0 ”*" 1 pealed fo by a wuileman who^amJd’S: sell a mine. He shoved all rh, andeald he hail taken 71000 OOf/rSo'* 1 ', mine. He waa » filing to*seutiu?n. 0ut ot lmo* u „r;‘jS derRbly tMn'krw^rd^^vjSrmrnr^te responded. ' lf *ven ./«S^^h' U n r «tt tewanit. over title. %£%££* ^ Trerere^;^ ‘h* np a street, w oatcd toy f etranger ir|I5 appliance. An amusing case was tried years ago in England involving the copyright to a jong which was then at the acme of popnlarby, “The fine old English Gentleman." Tom Cooke was called as ■ witness. Conn-el— Can you ting the song? Cooke—I'm not sore I could, unless I had a refresher (langbter). Counsel—Well, ityon couldn't sing It, could yon play it? Cooke—What ? At sight! ’ After some sparring a fiddle was bronght into court, and Cooke began to tune it. When he sounded the first note the pompons usher, to suppress a titter, cried "Silence!” Cooke—“What, must I play it?” He played the air slowly, and the judge remaiked, “Tnat teems simple enough.” “Yes," said Cooke, offer ing the violin and bow to the Jndge. “Willyonr Honor try It?” (Roara of langhter.) The counsel pressed Cooke to dtfine a melody. He protested he could not. Counsel—Csn you decline ave-b? Cooke (seemiog to think deeply)—Yes; I'm an ass, lie’s an ass (and pointing to the barrister), you’re an ass. Counsel— That witness can come down. The controversy between law and liter- atnre for the a ir-glance of certain choice spirits is a yet unwritten chapter in liter ary history. Bbakapearc came so nesr being a lawyer that not a few writers have been fonndT to claim that Shakspeare wrote Bacon. No loss than three books have appeared within the past year in which the "law in Shakspeare” is trested. The darling purpose which the father of G-iethe entertained for hte son was to make him a jurisconsult, but the young student bnsled himself daring the law lectnres which this parental ambition forced upon his impellent ear with drawingcsricatures of the learned lecturers. A memorial Is preserved In the Law Reports ol William Cnllen Bryant s legal career. As a lawyer would ssy Id hit brief, see to this point. Bloss vs. Tobey, 21 Pickering 320. Tho pen which genius guided so unerringly in Thenatopsls faltered and blundered in the “nice, sharp qnilleti of tbs tew." Mr. Tobey had charged Mr. Blots will arson, saying “he burnt his own store;’’ and Mr. Bioea employed young Bryant tosnehim for slander. Bnt alas! when Bryant drew the declaration he simply alleged that Tobey aald tbat Bloss burned bia own store, and utterly (ailed to lnseit a col loquium and an innuendo to the effect tbat said Toney meant to impute a felonious offense. Mr. Tobey gut a virdict, but whea Ihe cue went to tbe Supreme Coart of Mueachasetts tbe learned jndgeeeet ulde the verdict. They laid tnat a case might be imagined in which burning one's own store would not be criminal, and so they taught Mr. Widiam Cullen Bryant a lesaon In tbe nee of the English tengusge. He revenged himself by a Una In ttblchni spoke of a lawyer u drudging for tbe dregs ol men and scrawling strange words with a barbarous pen, and finally by quitting the profession. The names of Cnancer, Scott, Pioctor, Irving, Lowell, Landor, Southey, Corneille and many others would figure fn the record! of genius rescued for literature from Ihe bar. On the other hand Blackitone, in hte devotion to the jettons mistress. Is found bidding “Fare well to a Muse,” who had never (so far as others can tell) given him a nod of recog nition. The great) at lawyers have been lovers of poetry, snd in many ways have delighted to scatter the (towers of polite lit erature over the thorny brakes of Juris- prudence. Ereklnc and Choate were poets in all but the form of tbelr speech. Lord Coleridge hu written tbe beet critique ever made of Wordsworth, in which he generously confesses his indebtedness to tbat bard for the noblest inspirations of bis life. The i’hilllstlnism of clients will pet mil«lawser to iuve poetry; but to write it—never! Among recent decisions ere the follow ing: Any one owning or keepiog an ani mal that he know! to be of a ferocious die position, accustomed to attack or bite mankind, Is bound to restrain inch animal at hit peril. Allowing a dog to be kept on the premises does not render the owner of the premises liable for Injuries inflicted by ihe dog away from the premises, if such owner did not own or have control of the dog. The oans Is on the plaintiff to prove the knowledge of the owner or keeper of the vicious propensities of the animal, if it be of a domestic nature, tbongh Hte other- sriae, where it Is of a wild and untamable nature. 23 Am.LiwReg.191 A railway compaoy Is liable tor the loss ot a passen ger’s ordinary traveling baggage, but not for such articles as window curtains, blankets, cutlery, books, eta, even when these are packed with the baggage tor which they are liable. When goods re main at Ihe station at which a passenger alights, bnt It does not appear tbat the railway ompany has charged or teea- tiffed to charge lor storage, the company la not liable u warehousemen. Ik. 175. Sicxetasv Whitest hu pat Mr. Wm, Calhoan, a New York expert accountant, at work npon the bookx of the Navy De partment, and will keep him at work nntil be bu satisfied himself tbat the bnilneae of tbe deputment hu been conducted honestly, upon eonnd business principles and by correct methods. Mr. Whitney, It le said, propiees to spend a good deal money—not government money, bnt ont of hte own pocket—in tbe prouentlon of hte inquiries In the deputment of which he ia the bead. He eayi he knowi very little yet .boat the affairs he is to direct, and that be may discover nothing wrong. The inquiries to be made be enppoiee wlU re quire some time, u they cannot be har ried. While Mr. Whitney does not talk as If he expected to discover any grave fraudv. bis friends bare say tbat be hu ■tuted ont with a definite purpose, that be bu been supplied with vefnsble points, end believee tbu be srlfi get at an import ant history embracing tbe administrations of several of hte predecessors. “Meneunalneorpmedso;” "Aeonnd mind tn a e-rand body” is tha trade mark •f Allen's Brain Food, and we usnre oar readers that, it dissatisfied with either weakness of Brain or bofiliy powers, this remedy srlfi permanently strengthen both 7L At drnggiiu or by mall from J, It Alien, 315 First Are,, New York dty. witiv mr. Travers. ...wv. puunaug citizens who b *PE. ento bp for his earnin'v-9 m," Travers said alterwa d In dt- 8 the incident, “I b-Dfgan to on. was curying more liquor than ».» «JL'i* for him, end bad a hex ol cigar, uudefou •jtroeting,® y ° U * ^ ,ncoclc "ton?” ... replied.’ I m * H H4nC0<:k Travers " Weil iff. da n lucky tor yon. Tike a efiar; they are firet raters. I- m btSh'; r ., ra ,f t c o s o n ” idite ’ 1 am ' ® n ' Accepting the cigar without offense Travers walked on, bnt he,ring a row £ hind,, turned and looked back. He Hancock min pounding citizens who uid not h f -—-*■« * ^ “Then icribiog _ | | w erst-staud b-both ways of w-working!” Two raps for Henry Clews, tho banker, •rerecorded. It haa been a frequent b^ast of Mr. Clews that ho is a self-made min Travers beard him on one occasioo, and immediately dropped into a sort of reverv with his eyea fixed on Mr. Clews’s bald pate. “Well, what’s tbo matter. Traven?" Clews asked, somewhat impatiently. “H-Henry,” Travers inquired, “didn’t yon s-s-iay yon were a self-made ra-man?” “Certaiuiy; I made mysef,” Clews re plied warmiy. “Then, when yoo were ab-b*oat it, why d didn’t you p-pat m-more h-h-hair on the t- too of you r h- head?” The famous Vanderbilt ball exercised many gentlemen on tbe question of char acters and cosinmea. Mr. Clews was in a quandary, aud ho applied to Travers for a feugges’.ion. It appears that Travers had taien advantage of hia friendly relations with Wallaok. Mapleson and Abbey by sending inquiring friends to them for per mission to ‘elect from th**ir theatrical wardrobe*. Tho story goes tbat the man agers had mildly hinted to Travers that patience with ttie “fashionables” bad ceased to be a virtue, and Travers was not inclined to favor any more. “Clew*.” he said, after some reflection, why d-don’t you sh-ah-ug&r-coat yonr h- hend and g-goas a pill?” Ho doubt bis most severe remark touched on the reputation of a well-known lawyer. While itandlng at the wlodow of his office Travereaurpriud several friends, who were chatting at one aide, by a forcible exclamation. “ThereI” he added quickly, and point ing across the street: “There's ’8lem’ B-Bsrlow wita his h-hands in his own p-pockets.” B-sides knowing how to rap other*, Travers knows when he receive* a rap. Going up town with *eTeral broker*. Trav ers *pied a man selling parrots in front of St. Paul’* Church. “H-Hold on, boy*,” ha said, mysteri ously, “we’ll have some fun.” Hailing the ptrrot-tclli-r and indicating one of the birds, Travers asked: “C-Caa that p-parrot t-talk?” “Talk?” the man replied, with a con temptuous sorer, “If he can t talk better lh*n you can I’ll wring his blasted neck.” “G-Oome on, b-boy*,” ’l ravers called out; “this f-fnn is p-pos^poned until an other d-day.”— AVw York Tima. Theso ore Solid Facts. The belt blood purifier and system regu- Ia*-or ever placed within tho reach of suf fering humanity, truly is Kleotrto Bitters. Inactivity of tne Liver, biliousness Jaun dice, Constipation, Weak Kidneys, or any di ene of tne urinary organs, or whoever requires sn appetizer, tonic or rolid stimu lant, will always find Electric Bitters the best snd only certain cure known. They set surely nnd quickly, every bottle guaranteed to give entire satisfaction or money refunded 8old at fifty cents a bot tle by Lamar, Uankin & Lainar. Some Wonders of thw Lnnaunie* Indianapolis Journal. v Unless most carefully handled the Eng- inti ittugiinso is very ambiguous. The Macon (Ga) Telegraph tells of a water melon seed tbat was “found in tbo Inside ot a handle of a km fa carried by a man at the time of the death, twenty-eight years sgo.” There is nothing very stran.e in tbat, for tbe seed may have slipped into tho knife only last week. It would have been interesting bad a watermelon been found in the handle, with a vine several feet in length running along tho blade. In the same careless way the Waterbary (Conn.) Republican tells of a dog tbat “ran a fox Into a tree twenty feet high." A fox could probably run into a tree forty or even 100 feet high. From the context it appears that the fox i np the tree to a height of twenty feet, a performance qnite surprising. These are instance*) clipped from one paper, so thst it does not appear so absurd that a man should inadvertently advertise for sa e “a piano belonging to a widow with carved legs.” Wz depart from our usual practice and rei'oiiiineiul Hunt's Remedy «‘i attire cure for all kidney diseases.—Medical Gazette. — THE g BEST TONIC. - This modi'' ae, combining Iron with pare fipiM IssWb «HVjalJMlA|r C are* l>**prp^ln, ImlU« «t1on, Wmlanra*, Impare IU.)<*.!, .'Ul .rh.,7 iilil SO n«f Fevers, ftB<t Nrurnltfln. ICIfilawY* Un! V i f rfn< ^ *° r I>i*eaie*ofU:e It fv inv.t . •• for D ‘<-ases peculiar to ind ail who Itfisedrt.ury Urea U does not inj«* x the Ueth.casu.-e headache jar As.ce r r.’ Upeiton—ofA r /roe mediantuto. U enriches and purifies the blood, stimulate* fhe appetite, aid* the saetmnation of food.ro- • teres Heartburn and 1 • I tlcg, m.d *uu.**h- the wades ami nerve*, f .#r Xatenniutsu Keren. U*dtt .’.cnr.A&ff ti has coequal. IW-IJIUU BkC*XC