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- ■ ' ''".if - *-.'Ujr ' - ■ ‘ ‘ • ... : - :t5‘- THE WEEKLY NEWS AND ADVERT — The ALBANY NEWS established 1845, The ALBAN Y ADVERTISER, established 1877, < Consolidated Sept. 9, T, } McIntosh & Evans. A Family and Political .Journal Devoted to the Interests of Southwest Geoi»;l a Year. Volume 1. ALBANY. GA.. SATURDAY, APRIL 1C, 1881. gvofcssional (gavds. William JS. Smith, Attorney at Law, ALBANY, OA. O FFICE: In front of the Court Houjw, up aiain, over Telegraph Office. jahl-Ijr O J. WRIGHT. !>.»• WPE WRIGHT & POPE, j Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, OA. A dispatch to the Evening Eews J of the 9th announces the death of j General Martin W. Gary at Edgefield, j S. 0., last night of congestion. He was ■ about fifty-two years old, aud one of he leading politicians in that State. The Alabama Railroad Commission- I ers are in Atlanta on a visit to the | Georgia Commissioners. The object of I the visit, as we learn from the Post- Appeal, is to consult with our Com- I mission regarding thtf working of such bodies. The opponents of Senator Brown urged as one objection to his election that he would turn Republican if the Republicans were in power—lie would | desert the. Democratic parly for Spoils of the victors. It now turns out that Attorneys at Law, ; he is on the side of right, lighting 1 Mahonism with all the ardor he pos- ] senses. In fact he is a true-blue Detno- I crat. OFFICE:—Ov^r 8. Mayer A Glauber’* flure, cor ner Broad and Washington SU. Dec. 2d, JSSO-dlWwly W. T. JONES, JESSE W. WALTERS. JONES & WALTERS, ALBANY, GA. Office over Centra* Railroad Bank. fanl6-ly D . A. VAfiON A. ILALFRIEND VASoy it- a L,Finnyi) I Attorneys at Law, ALBANY, GA. I Active and prompt attention given to col- I leotioiiH .tml nil general business, Practice 1 in all the courts. oillco over Southe n Express office, oi»i»o- ait(_• Court House. janG-utf James Callaway, Attorney at L aw. CAMILLA, GA. lebii?. ./ OSlJPji AC It ONK, | A-TTOrilTET a-t laATJV Ill BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA. Practices in all the State Courts. Refers to lion. T. M. Norwood. apSIlzm POWER. Its Delights and Discomforts. AMNOYANGES CSTOLB ASD THREATENED TO GAR FIELD Arrogance, Insolence ami Spoils to United States Senators. - AND GENERAL . COBHIPTIOS AND BOTTESNESS ,N THE TUB BODY POLITIC Revolt of the Better Element** Agaluftt the Bale of the Bon*, ee and Bummer*. The Stalwart Seratortal Revolt lu Be half of a Virginia ,R*pu<liator and a California Kearney Bolter. & I Albany, |o - - Georgia. KFIFE—OVER l’OST OFFICE, WASHING TON STREET. . J«n8wlydl ITrowbridgc & Hollinslicd DENTISTS, IWAYCROSS, - - - - GEORGIA. _cotli extracted without pain. All work ■ warranted. Terms moderate. Will go *ny- I where on It. A A. anti S. F. & W. Railroads. apl8-12m A. A. STROTHER, li.D. ALBANY, GEORGIA. JffiBS over Gilljert’s Drug Store I K.\ orders left at tbo Drug Storo will receive [prompt tti ntton. jan 7-1 y [Dr. i,. W. AL.FRIEJN'D, ■ ESI*EG f FUELY tenders his scrricos, in Hie various branches ol bis profession, to the tlssn* Mbany andsurroundingcountry. Of- :e opposite ;.mrt House, on.rinchlreet. HOTELS. [“HE JOHNSON HOUSE' SJIITHVILLE. GA., 11 io plnceto stop and get. a GOOD QUA UK MEAL. ’HEALBANY HOUSE! ■lev ricle Barnes, Proprietor Albany, Georgia. phis lloiise is well furnished and in ev- [_ , i \ way prepared for the accommo- ition ot the traveling public. Entire sat- laction gnjianteed. The table Ls sup- ied with the best the country affords, ul the servants are unsurpassed in po ll- ness and attention to the wants of lests. Omnibuses convey passengers to ul from the different railroads prompt* •, free ol charge. Charges to snit the es. sep29 if mmi\ BLINDS! lement, Plaster, High living in London has-brought ! Lord Beaconfielcl to death’s door with j the gout. He should come to Georgia ! and run a country newspaper for a I season, and if that don’t knock the high* I Iifed disease out of him ho will at least i have the sweet consolation of dying with a firmly-fixed consciousness that ; his ailment was something worse than gout. The Democrats elected ('ni ter Har rison Mayor of Chicago by a handsome I majority. They also were successful in the city election at Columbus, and I secured control of the municipal gov- | eminent of Omaha. In St. Louis the i greater part of the Republican ticket I was elected by nearly 15,000 majority. This result was brought about through dissatisfaction with Overstdllz, the Democratic candidate for Mayor, and in the manner of the nomination and j consequent divisions of the Democracy. Georgia is just now enjoying the quint and rest of an off-year in politics. The press and the people are at peace with each other,"the politicians are mum, the office-seekers have taken back seats, and business is the order of the day. This is a convenient time for reflection, a time for reasoning togeth er, a time to blot out and to prepare forfuture action. We do not believe the internal strife of 1880 wiU be re peated in 1882, but that harmony will exist between the belter class of our people, regardless of race, color or previous conditions and persuasions. So mote it be. ( They are discussing the liQuor ques tion in Canada. In order to tost the effect and workings of the prohibitory law in Maine and Vermont, the Toron to Globe sent two reporters to these States to interview and to investigate. One of these reporters was a Bohemian with a strong liking for his toddy; the other, a strict temperance man. The Globe has just received news from both these messengers. The Bohemian telegraphs from Portland, Me., that, in pursuance of instructions, lie is glori ously drunk and will remain so as long as he is in the State, while the unfor tunate prohibitionist sorrowfully ad mits that he has encountered a good many toddies and punches amid the mountains ol Vermont. The dead-lock in the United States Senate continues, with no prospect that it will be broken. The debate is stale, and very much resembles that of the average country debating society. Nearly three hundred nominations have been sent to the Senate since the present executive session began, and of this number only about twenty-five have been acted upon. These were disposed of before the dc-ad-lock arose, and now about all the members do is to quarrel over State debts and quib ble over matters of no consequence to the country. Up to the present time the Democrats have made somewhere in the neighborhood of forty attempts to proceed to the consideration -of ex ecutive session business, but all such motions have been promptly voted down by Mat one and the Republicans. The war of races in Peru, South JED. S. SREENWOOS. America, resulted in the death of over two thousand Chinamen. These wero barbarously murdered by negroes and Cholos. On one plantation six hun dred inoffensive men were murdered in cold blood/ All tbc cano Holds, sugar houses, machinery, etc., have * been burned and destroyed, and prop- i ertv to the value of millions have been wrecked by these miscreants. All the j foreigners have fled the valley, which is one of the most fertile and produc tive in Peru. Some of them have been FOR SALE BY 3tfcp Thifti£ren^5£2J£-2» i £ in either Liquid or Dry Form nets n* the same time on the diseases of the Live? nr, - — I This combined cction circs U wonderful jOKvr to cure ad diseases. WHY ARE WE SICK? _ Jicctrtse ire allow these great organs to be- cfoggt dor torpid, amt poisonous hit mors Irt/y thct\iureforced into the blood that should ~c cxjKl.’td n'uturalhj. IBILIOUSNESS, PILES, CONSTIPATION, KIDNEY COMPLAINTS, URINARY DISEASES, FEMALE WEAKNESS* ry JVXD NERVOUS DISORDERS, | tj causing free action qf these organs Grid j restoring their power to throw qf disease- ITliy Suffer Bilious pains and aches* K Why tormented with Piles, Constipation? I Why frightened over disordered Kidneys? Whj endure nerroas or sick headaches! IVhjr hare sleepless nights! i Use KIDNEY-WORT and rvoice ir. he I E7*of medicine. I f^RorYlie^conTenltfuceotthesetfiat^SSt j t3fUj*UjieTfcrn^ JQET IT OF YOUR DRUGGIST. PRICE. £1.00. WELLS, RICHARDSON A CO., Prop’s, BtmiSCTOS, TV. | (WUl tend the dry post-paid.) killed. Full j articulars are not yet at ; hand, as the work of murder and plnn- : der is still going on. It is feared the adjacent valley of Chir.cha will suffer next The Chillians refuse to send troops to quiet tho disturbances. Mr. Henry Swayne is a heavy loser. A number of women and children sought refuge on board a couple of vessels, which were at anchor at Corro Azul, and Mr. Swayno has chartered the steamer Ilo and sent her to that port to bring the refugee* to Callao. It is feared similar scenes will be enacted throughout Peru. Even if the Chillians leave Lima, foreigners will certainly have to fitht for their lives and pot down the canallc, who arc already boasting of what they intend doing as soon as the Cbillian troops leave Lima. AH plun derers caught are soundly flogged, and under this system the streets are safer than they were a few weeks ago.’’ I was talking with a New York State Congressman yesterday, who had just yetnrned from Washing ton, about (lie situation there. He said : “I saw General Garfield once, but had not the check to go again. The man is being killed by office- seekers, and it would always look as if there was an intention to kill him by the persistency with which ilioy crowd him down on thor oughly selfish errands. It is a mon strous* thing that tho President of the United States, whe is looked to for wisdom and decision, in the great questions of the time, should he made a mere door mat and dish washer often thousand people, be sieging him for office. It would be unnatural if he did not look sick, and he does—and wc don't want '.hi.-- country to fall into the hands ‘.ho next in succession just now.” 1 asked if Hoberston would be confirmed. “Yes, he will, unless they keep tip this dead-lock, which I suspect to be only intended to stavo .off the confirmation of Judge Itobertstou and a few others. Tho party whip is cracked, and the tbe party called to rally to Mahonc’s support, while in reality it is one of Conk- ling’s devices to keep au aide man nut of the New York custom House. Public opinion is calling loudly on the Senate; but I question whether tho Senate has any sensibility to public opinion. In fact, that body is becoming a dangerous influence on our country, It has made its own laws and comity for the pur pose ofjstrcngthening every Senator in his power over the patronage. The Senators hardly consult the Congressmen at all, and effect all die appointments they can, and what they don’t iiko they stave off, and worry down or reject. You take Mr. Platt, for instance, who was selected yesterday for six years —not from any public call, but by the direction of Mr. Conkling. He is to sit in the Senate for six years. You can’t get him out hut by some revolution. Now. six years iu a rapid country like ours, where everything is forgotten in a week or two, it is equal to a whole genera tion or a lifetime Senatorship in any other country; yet for two years beyond the term of Garfield’s office Mr. Platt has one-half the power over everything effecting ‘.he five millions of people in New York State; and before he goes out of office there will probably bo sev en millions in that State. He never came before the public, like a Con gressman, to bo elected to the Sen ate, but it wns done in a little cau cus held in the government’s honse, or a hotel at Albany. “The Senate is .not only an ag- gressivo body,” continued this gen tleman, “but", being small and so powerful, it is a purchasable body, possibly, and, from what we know, a large portion of its members get their scats by the use of money, or by corrupt bargains in which cor porations exert themselves. Yet, really, the whole power resides there. We have just had an elec tion that has shaken the country from one end to the other to make a President; and what is he now that we have got him ? A man of the best intentions and good under standing, but it is not a month since his inauguration, and there sits the Senate, indifferent to everything in the whole country except two or three little offices around the Senate —the pen-wipers and common ste wards. It is all the President can do to get sleep enough with the thousands of office-holders rushing at his gates impelled by thoso same Senators.” I asked this gentleman if he saw any prospects of divisions in the Re publican party. “I don’t know that I do,” ho re plied. “I don’t suppose that wo sbalisec a (^Independent Convention called: hut if things don’t get bet ter here, there will be a silent glid ing off from our State tickets—eith er by men who will stay at home, or slip their ballots in for the Demo crats. The whole thing lies iu a nutshell. If the Democratic partv coulil make honest nominations, abovejthe rangeof its|managing poli ticians, there are very many thous and Republican votes that might get to it You see, the Liberal bolt of 1872 has been outrageously used against every body who went into it by the Stalwarts. They let the Liberals come and vote with the partv, but if one of them is nomi nated to any office, the cry is at once raised, 'Ho wasaGreeieyitoinlS72.’ Now, some of the strongest men wc had, and much of the original cle ment that made the Republican par ty, went off in that movement, but finding no comfort with the Demo cracy, they came back again. These jneu perceive that, as soon as the Liberal is put forward, he is howled down by tbe Stalwarts. On the other hand, these Stalwarts are ju»t as much incensed against Judge Robertson as against Fenton or Greeley. Robertson never left the party. He voted foi Grant, and supported hin in 1872. They say he is not a regular because lie would not support Grant at Chicago. So the selfishness of our organization is felt all through it, and wo wiu our victories ch'cfly through tho ever aggressiveness of the Demo cratic party. If Randall had show ed them how to make a moderate, prndent Congress, we would have had hard work to have _carried the country last fall. “Do vou know,” said n.y infor mant, “that these Stalwarts arc now using against Frank Hiscock the point that he was a Liberal in 1872, notwithstanding he lias come back and worked in the regular harness, and Jjas the full confidence of all honest men in the State. They are pressing him on the point that he was a Liberal. If lie is beaten on that ground it will be understood, and have its effect. On the other hand, here is Conkling pressing George Gorham for Secretary of tne Senate—a man who abandoned our ticket in California, and went in the SooialistB. and played second liildie In Dennis Kearney. The whole United States Senate is stand ing still—not to support Mr. Mahone though they are made to think so— hut to put in Mr. Graham. Now, where .is the ‘regularity’ about that?” 1 asked if Hiscock would prob ably be elected Speaker. “Yes, 1 think ho will, lie is a man of honesty, address, ability and popularity. The New York delega tion is going in for him. lie has supporters in all States, I think. Not much known in Congress now of Mr. Ivasson, who is said to be a candidate. The only other names talked much of are Reed, of Maine, and Kiefer, ot Ohio. It looks as if Hiscock had the best-prospect. He thinks lie is sure of his election, if Pyre hud not gone into the Semite he would have unquestionably been the Speaker of the House, and in most respects had superior qualifi cations for the place. Wo lost onr very best men by the late Senatorial election—Garfield, Conger, Frye and Hale.” Making a turn into Wall street yesterday, I called at one of the "largest banking-houses, where there were several magnates in the pri vate office, and one of them gave me sonic fiscal and political informa tion which you will not find in the newspaper files. “What is the outlook financially?”. I asked. “Very good. Speculative prices are a little ragged, but the general market stays up well, and the ten dency to be a ball is irresistable. The people work up their confi dence as they work up their fears, aud when they have got it bad you cannot shak^fkem. Yon see, there are no signs or weakness anywhere. There has been no big failure of any financial house. The business of the country how extends farther over the world than could ever have been supposed. American capital and American laboraud pro duction, working together, drive our products into the farthest known countries. You will see Western pork for sale in Egypt, and Ameri can flour for sale iu Asia Minor and on the Caspian • Sea. The fiscal force to drive this trade has grown up side by side with tho power of our entire country and industrious people to make tho crops. Euro pean capital is coming here to get into the channels by which to di vide some of the profits with us. New York is the starting point. Capita] from all the old fiscal cen tres is getting into the habit of com ing to New York in the bullion, and startinghcnce around the world and make interest and profit. That is why everything is held high in the way of railroad shares. Money is up "again, and C per cent is tho gen eral rate of interest of time loans with gilt-edged security.” GATH ON GEOBGIA STATESMEN." What Ha Saya or Tbe Present Tri bune—Hill, Brown and Col quitt. Correspondent Cincinnati Enquirer. The general opinion in. Atlanta of Ben Hill is that ho is a smart man, but without any affection for any body but Ben Hill. Henry Grady, probably the cleverest newspaper writer in the South, who goes in for anybody he likes with ull his might, ’ took a prominent part in electing Hiil over Norwood. It is said tlut, after the election, he, in a way, remarked to Hill that he’ had done all he could tor him. “Yes you did,” replied Hiil; “you did a "great, deal of work, and tho people ought to thank you for it, Grady. You have done a great deal of good work in accomplishing this work, Grady.” Ben Hill, however, did not give Grady a particle of thanks for liim6elf. The debate between Hill and Ma hone has strengthened Hill in Geor gia, and it was the general belief that Hill would be re-elected, although I have learned that Gov ernor Colquitt is coming out against him. In Georgia everybody must belong to some church to figure in politics at all. The Baptist and the Methodist churches appropriate all the politicians. Ilill, Brown and Colquitt arc said to be exhortists in their several churches. Joe Browu is regarded as at the head of Georgia .public men. He was a judge originally, aud it is said a most inflexible one, giving severe sentences. He adopted a homely address and style, and has some points of character resembling tbc East Tennesseeans. For some time there were rumors that be had gone to the Seuatc on a bargain, but I find the prevailing belief now to be that he and Colquitt had put their heads together to rule the Bourbons out and have Liberal De mocracy. Indeed, the reputation of Henry Clay was hardly higher during his lifetime than it is now in many parts of the South, where the struggle to establish manufactories and have home economy going on. A prominent man said to me in the State House of Georgia: “If we had only had the sense to follow Henry Clay, instead of Calhoun, we would have been ready for the war, with mills in operation all through the South and we would have man ufactured everything we wanted, instead of p&yiug enomous prices in gold to England.”^ Another man said to me that he believed the futnre alliance would not be between the South and the West, but between tho South and East, on account of the desire for manufactories in tbe Southern States, which had to look to New England for machinery, superinten dence, etc. AN INTEBESTINC INTERVIEW WITH A WVO.HIXC CAT- TI.B-GBOH-ER. Great Lmot Sleek on ttje Plalne In Coneeqnence ol tbe Hard Win- lee—Some lit! nsT About Sheep Rale- Ins la the 11>»I—Taltle-Rreedlna la Texas, etc. St. Louis fi.'inblican. A prominent cattle-grower in Wyoming territory was met by a Itepvbfcjcrn reporter yesterday "af ternoon, and in a conversation the former denietr that the cattle on the plains were getting along all right, aud said that on tho contrary the cittle were dying by thousands from cold and starvation. He said: “Statements appear in all the papers j to the effect that the loss among | ealtle in the west is not very large. ; These statement* aie made by men u ho evidently have not been out on the plains and seen the cattle dying hy the hundreds on every side. I have sustained losses, and so have the growers iu my vicinity. This is one of the hardest winters the stock men in the west have ever known.” ‘‘Could yon give me some infor mation in relation to the mortality of ealtle in the west,” “With regard to the loss of cattle lids year, it will amount, on the whole, at a low estimate, to about twenty-five per cent, with the ex ception of winter beeves. Last year the loss did not exceed 8 per cent. Some.districts of the plains will come off much better while others will fare worse. There are reports from the Yellowstone and Powder river and Niobrara and Wood riv ers in Nebraska, saying that the loss was from 50 to GO per cent, np to the 1st of March. The dealers on Laramie plains and South Platte river'and South Colorado and deal ers in Montana and Oregon report heavy losses also. “The winter beeves and the cattle in general are in a very thin condi tion, owing to the severi'y of tho winter. Between Jule'sburg, Neb., and North Platte City, a distance of about sixty miles, there were on tbe 1st of March about 5,000 or 7,000 dead cattle, und more were dying. A great many cattle will die be tween now and new grass time in May.” “How about the calf crop this year?” “The loss on calves will be pretty heavy, on accounlkof the death of so much stock. Tbe yield in calves will not bo over 40 per cent. thU year, while last year it was abont 50 per cent The winter beeves will be very late this year, as they too, are coming ont in a very thin condition.” “How abont the profits of the cattle trade this year?” •‘There have been many errone ous reports circulated as to the profits. These reports have been made by dealers who live in the cities, and who never visited tbe ranges, and who receive flowery reports from well-paid superintend ents, whose interest it is to show themselves off in a good light Dealers who understand their busi ness, and carry on thoir business with their own capita), estimate their profits at tbo present time from three to fifteen per cent. It requires a thorough business man, with thorough business men work ing for him, to make fifteen percent profit.’’ “Which is the best place for cattle raising in the west?” “In raising calves thcre'is mnch in favor of Texas. On the plains last year the calf crop did not aver age over 50 per cent, to the hundred cows whilo in Texas the calf crop averages from 80 to 85 per cent I have raised cattle in both places. It is nothing uncommon' for the calf crop to average 90 or 85 per cent, in Texas. In ten years in the Lone Star State I saw the calf crop aver age 83 per cent, to the hundred cows. On the plains in six years the high est average of the crop was 60 per cent., and tho lowest was 40 per cent. It required more labor aud work to raise 60 per cent, on the plains than it did to raise 83 per cent, in Texas. The loss on Dur ham bulls from the States is tremen dous. It is estimated that abont three-fourths of them have died. The principal canse of this is that besides the severity of this winter, there is a shortness of feed, and the plains are overstocked with cittle. All tho grass was eaten off before the winter in some places and the ground is so bare that you can’t find enough grass in an acre to fill a good-sized boot.” “These facts may appear strange as I have told them to you, but I tell the plain truth. Ii is to the in terest of some companies of stock- growers to make reports of a flow ery nature—say that they are mak ing a good profit, etc. Theso are all falsehoods. There has been only one company that has paid a divi dend, and after paying a dividend of 25 per cent, they make an assess ment of 50 per cent, in order to make up for it.” “How about the sheep crop on the plains ?” “Well, as to the sheep crop, as near as can be estimated, from 40 to 50 per cent, have died np to the present time, and they are still dy ing rapidly. The sheep which have been saved havo been fed in the ranges for abont five or six months with hay at a cost of from $5 to $20 per ton.” j “Is sheep-raising a profitable bus iness?” “Taking it on the whole sheep raising on the plains is not, as has been reported, a profitable business. Sheep seem to thrive and do well as a geueral thing, but the .treachery of tbe climate causes a disaster every three or four years. Those disasters come with striking regu larity and kill whole herds at a time. There have been a few exceptions to this rule, but the dealers who gen erally escape theso disasters are small dealers, and their sheep droves being small, they are kept in close proximity to the house and in barns and shed, and can be given more attention titan large herds. Two young men in my neighbor hood started in 1874 with 3,000 head of sheep.- They ran them until March, 1877, increasing the herd to 9,000. A storm came upon them on March 7,1877, after a spell of fine weather, aud swept-the whole herd away. Not a single sheep was sav ed. A New England compsuy were in the same vicinity with good sheds,- water and range, and plenty ofhay. They ran ‘the herds with excellent success for about three years and iiad a herd of 5,500 first- tlass sheep. On May 22,18n, after shearing time, (the weather having been fine and grass abundant) there came a hail storm and destroyed all but a few. All sheep dealers have experienced these disasters, and say that, although fora short time the sheep business is profitable, in the end the profits are generally noth ing.” “flow abont sheep raising in Texas ?” “Texas is a good sheep raising country. Ten men in that State have made money on sheep, where ono man on the plains has made anything like a reasonable profit. On the whole, you may say that never was there such a hard winter in the West, and you may say that generally the cattle men are not very hopeful, although they may pay that they will pull through all right.” Number 32. —- niUl.'RNINC PATRIARCHS. Fanny Death Scones. Nr in Crinkle 1 *. It seems to me the most ludicrous accidents and situations on the stage occur in death scenes, and this is probably owing to the fact that the great contrast makes the humor more perceptible. Two instances illustrating this comes to my mind. The first oc curred many years ago, when most of our sterling actors were only aspirants to fame. The Forest Amateur Dramatic Association of Philadelphia was playing Venice Preserved. J. Z. Little and a young man named, I think, White, assumed the parts of “Pierre” and “Jnffier.” In the last scene, where both conspirators die, Little had to give up the ghost first, which he did to the great satisfac tion of the groundlings, staggering all over the place, and giving con vulsive gasps, taking eare, however, to give his last expiring kick in the exact center of the stage. Ihe other tragedian then commenc ed his go-as-you-please walk around preparatory to shuffling offi It seems that he also had made calcu lations to die on this desirable spot, and, finding himself balked in this, he determined to fall as near the center as possible. As the circle of White’s staggering became smaller Little became visibly uneasy. He bore it manfully, however, until White began to totter as if ready to drop. Then hip courage left him, and casting aside every regard for appearances, he electrified the audi ence by sitting up suddenly and crawling nearer to the wings, when he again lays himself out. This- was too mnch for audience, and it is safe to say that never was a heavy tragedy ended amid such shouts of laughter as was Venice Pieserred that night. The other incident occurred at McVicker’s theatre, Chicago, in those onrished, and the hill was chang ed weekly. This necessitated a great deal of studying and hastily got up costumes. I don’t remember mnch abont the plot of the play, except that a young girl, in love with the hero, disguised herself as a page in order to follow him in a battle, whore she is slain. On the first night, Manager McVicker, who was and is very particular about matters of dress, discovered that the young woman who took the part of the page had slippers on. “Don’t you know any better than to wear slip pers on a field of battle ?” he de manded. She timidly replied that “she bad had neither time nor mon ey to got boots on such short notice.” “Well,” said McVicker, “yon must borrow a pair or do something, for I certainly shall not allow you to go on in those slippers.” Tho poor girl was in despair, nntil the good- natured leading man, seeing'her distress, tendered her the loan of a pair of top-boots, an offer which she gladly accepted, in lien of nothing better. They were rather large, to be sure, br.t she managed to navi gate in them pretty well, and things went smoothly until the scene of her death. While she she is lying dead on the battle-field the hero and his servant meander in, and discovering who she is, the former deliverers a touching eulogy over her remains, and then orders his servant to take her off, while he indulges in an effective soliloqny a la the melancholy Dane. As the man dragged her off by the armpits, the poor page found that in spite of her frantic efforts to keep them on, she was slowly and surely keingpulled out of her hoots! The man kept on .palling, however, antil he had her in the-wings, and the big boots were left on the stago with the disconsolate hero. Imagine her fe'clings! especially when a small voice from the gallery piped out, “She left them fn i^rememberances.” Tlie Jem In Oar School*. Springfield, (Hue,) Ecpabll&n. One-half of the boys picked from the New York grammar schools, to whom medals were given at the raising of the obelisk, were of Ger man extraction and one-third were of Jewish birth. One-third of the prize-takers in the New York Nor mal school are also Jews^ and yet neither in the normal school nor the grammar school are the Jewish chil dren over one-fiftieth of the whole. It would be interesting to know, however, before basing too much on these facts, whether Jewish families of training do not patron ize public schools more than like families who are not Jews. In other words, whether tbe children from families with an intellectual past which in other cases are sent to private schools are nit in the case of Jews sent to school at the public expense. Jewish boy* and girls are scarcely so common at onr colleges and preparatory schools as one would expect from the well- to-do circumstances of Jewish fam ilies. In after life Jews do certain ly not make the headway hore they do abroad. The Congress at "Wash ington, for instance,'is the only great national Legislature which ha*9 in it no conspicuon3 Jew. It i* said that a dimond worth $27,000 has been found in Webster county, Ga. A 'Vourliln- scene at tbe Faaeral ; ot Mr. 3. a. DeVoile—A Stricken ! Father an* HI* Aged Sjmpatlxer. Columbus Enquirer-Sun. At ilic funeral of Mr. DeVotie, <m Monday evening, on the front pew, next the bier, sat Mr. DeVotie, the revered father and only relative of the deceased who was present. A short distance to the rear, and in the midst of the large audience sat his long tried friend and broth er. Rev. T. B. Slade his head white with the four snows of fonr score winters. Just as the notes of the closing hymn died away tbe vener able form of Mr. Slade arose from the sea‘, and siooping with the in firmities of age, tottered along the aisle toward the space in front of the pulpit. Rev. Mr. Campbell, the officiating minister, who was ad vancing to sigual tho pall bearers to resume the procession to the ceme tery, instantly paused midway tbc spacious pulpit, and (with bowing iicad awaited the movements of the veuerable patriarch. The latter advanced towards the solitary mourner, their arms were affection ately twined around each other’s neck, and while they mingled their tears in silence, the weeping audi tors gazed uyon the spectacle with the solcm stillness of judgment day. The holy spell of heartmeit- ing sympathy was not disturbed by a sound or a motion till the aged men calmly released each other and took their seats side by side-. The pall bearers followed by the audi ence, then proceeded noiselessly from the house to bear this precious harden to its final resting place, doubtless every heart musihg upon the exalted natnre of a religion that binds man to hi3 brother in strong er and tenderer bonds as afflictions felt more heavily and earthly hopes recede farther and farther from the failing vision. Tbe filacon and Brunswick Exten sion and tbe Railroad Com* Savannah Newt. In its Thursday’s issue the. Macon Telegraph and Messenger publishes quite a lengthy interview with Mr. T. R. Wilson, one of the purchasers of the Macon and Brunswick rail road, regarding the extension of that tine from Macon to Atlanta. That gentleman sajrs in effect that nothing has been decided on regard ing such extension, and that a con ference is yet to be held between his co-purchaser. Col. McGhee, and himself to consider the matter be fore a final determination is arrived . Indeed, he admits that no ronte for the proposed extension has yet been settled upon, for he says closer surveys will have to he made, and then the subject will be again dis cussed. Mr. Wilson gives various reasons for the delay in commencing work on this extension, bnt the prime and real reason is tersely expressed in ft reply made by him to a question propounded by his interviewer as follows: “Wo shall probably go ahead and bnild, trusting to the Legislature to protect us. I do not believe the people ever intended to place in the hands of three men twenty million dollars worth of railroad property to control. It has the effect of re tarding the development of the State. Capital, as yon know, is sen sitive, and capitalists hesitate to in vest beyond their control. We may have good men to-day and bad to morrow.” This clearly means nothing more nor less than that so long as the £ resent Railroad Commission law i in force the extension of the Ma con and Brunswick Railroad from Macon to Atlanta will not be batik Mr. Wilson ntters (imply an axiom when he says that capital is sensi tive and capitalists do not lay out their money for sentiment, or when it is, after being expended, to pass beyond their control. - He might have gone farther, and said, what he and every one knows to be strictly true, that capitalists do not invest their money on contingen cies, unless they have very positive and unmistakable reasons—amount ing almost to certainties—for be lieving that such contingencies are in their favor. When he says, therefore, “that we shall probably go ahead and build, trusting to the Legislature to protect us,” he mere ly means to say that the work will he prosecuted provided his co-pnr- chaser and himself have positive guarantees that the Legislature will protect them from the Railroad Commission, and as such guaran tees are well nigh impossible to be given, it may, at once, be conclnded that the proposed extension will remain in abeyance nntil the Legis lature meets. If then the Commis sion Jaw is repealed or greatly mod ified the road will he completed. If not it will be abandoned, for any one can readily understand how the purchasers would infinite ly prefer to pay over their forfeit money of a few thousands rather than expend tens ot thousands in prosecuting a work, which, when finished and their money is expend ed, will quietly pass from beyond their control into the hands of three disinterested gentlemen. This is bnt a practical illustration of the trnth of the position we have always taken regarding tbe Rail road Commission law of Georgia, viz., that while it remains in force it must crash ont all future railway enterprises in this State, and conse quently prevent her future develop ment. The historjr of this Macon and Brunswick Railroad extension is undeniable proof of the justice of this conclusion. No State which has snch an arbitrary and nDjast law upon its statute books can make progress. Only when a State re gards the charters which it granU to railways as solemn covenants be tween herself and the corporations, and—so far from seeking in every way to violate those" charters in spirit, if not in reality—determine to protect the corporations in all their rights under their charters, will railroads be built and such Stato developed. 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