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The Burr-Hamiltoa Duel.
i On tlio 4th day of July, 1804, Alex¬
ander Hamilton and Aaron Burr had
met ters for the last time as public Cincinnati. charac¬
at the dinner of the
The arrangements for the duel, which
were of the most secret character, had
then been fully made, but not one guest
at the dinner would have suspected their
existence. Eye-witnesses long af terward
recalled the imperturbable face of Burr
and the vivacity of Hamilton, who was
in tho chair, and over the walnuts and
the wine sang the ballad of “ The
Drum. ” Eleven days later the antago¬
nists met at Weehawken—the beauties
of which, as sung by Halleck and Rob¬
ert C. Sands, the local poets of the pe¬
riod, have long been destroyed. Tlie
rocks on which the adversaries stood
have been made into blocks of Weehaw¬
ken granite and pave tho streets of the
metropolis. eight William P. Van Ness, who
filled years afterward filled the office
now second by Judge Choate, was Burr’s
on that dark day, and Judge
Nathaniel Pendleton, the grandfather of
Senator Pendleton, was Hamilton’s sec¬
ond. Matthew L. Davis, “tho spy at
closely Washington,” a journalist thought to be
connected with Burr, and the
famous Dr. Hosack waited in a dell be¬
low the dueling ground near the water’s
edge, where wonderingly sat the boat¬
men who had ferried the parties over.
At twelve paces the rivals faced each
other—Hamilton placed so that he took
his last look at the city. Burr fired as
the lips of Judge Pendleton closed on
the word “ Present,” and Hamilton was
shot dead before he could bring
his pistol to a level. It is
doubtful whether he meant to fire
at Ml on the first exchange of shots, for
when Judge Pendleton had inquired
•‘Shall I set tho hair trigger?” his prin
eipal„had time.” The meanmgly wound said pronounced “Not this
was soon
mortal by Drs. Hosack and Wright Post
and certain consulting surgeons of emi¬
nence whom Gen, Key, the French Con¬
sul, summoned from three French frig¬
ates which had anchored in- the harbor.
In thirty hours after the encounter
Hamilton was dead. Possibly Ms death
agonies, which the surgeons described
as acute, were intensified by the re¬
membrance that loss than three years
previously also his eldest son, Philip, had
been killed in a duel. By his bed¬
side stood his fifth child, John Church
Hamilton, who still lives at the age of
88 years. Among tho other children by
the bedside were Angelica, who died un¬
married; Alexander, Jr., who left no
children; James Alexander, who mar¬
ried Miss Mary Morris, and died at
Dobb’s Ferry two or three years ago,
leaving Alexander, four daughters and one son.
William Stephan, a distinguished who lawyer;
died a bachelor
in California ; Eliza, who became Mrs.
est, Augustus who Holly, and Philip, the young¬
married the daughter of Louis
Lane McLane, and whose son, Dr. Allan Mc
ician in Hamilton, is a well-known phys¬
this city. The verdict of the
Coroner’s jury, “ that Aaron Burr, Vice
President of the United States, was
guilty ilton, of the murder of Alexander Ham¬
and that William P. Van Ness
and Nathaniel Pendleton were accessor¬
ies, > ’ lies now the musty files
the Court of among General of
York World. Sessions.— New
Mills for Marbles.
Almost all the marbles with wMeh
boys everywhere amuse themselves, in
season and out of season, on sidewalks
and in shady spots, are made at Ober
stein, Germany. There are large agate
quarries and mills in that neighborhood,
and the refuse is turned to good account
in providing the small stone balls for
experts to “knuckle” witli. Tlie Btono
is broken into small cubes, by Mows of
a light hammer. These small blocks of
stone are thrown by the shovelful into
tho hopper of a small mill, formed of a
bedstone, having ; ts surface grooved
with concentrate furrows. Above this
is the “runner,” which is of some hard
wood, having a level face on its lower
surface. The upper block is made to
revolve rapidly, water being delivered
upon the grooves of the bedstone where
the marbles are being rounded. It takes
about fifteen minutes to finish half a
bushel of good marbles, ready for the
boy’s knuckles. One mill will turn out
169,000 marbles per week. Tlie veiy
hardest “crackers,” as the boys call
them, are made by a slower process,
somewhat analogous to t he ot her.
Ants.
The agricultural ant is a pattern ot
neatness. The most minute particles of
dirt are carefully removed, and the
whole body frequently and thoroughly and sleep¬
cleaned especially after eating
ing. They assist each other in the gen
eral cleansing, and the attitude of the
ant under operation is one of intense
satisfaction, a perfect picture of muscular
surrender and ease. An ant has been
to kneel down before another, and
thrust forward- the head under the face
of the other, and lie motionless, express¬
ing the desire to he cleaned; the other
ant understood this and went to work.
Sometimes this is combined with acrobatic
feats, in wMch these ants excel, jumping
alxmt and clinging in a remarkable fash¬
ion to blades of grass. Sometimes the
cleansing ant hangs downward from the
grass, and to her the ant operated upon
clings, reacMng over and up with great
agility Evidently to submit to her friend's offices.
moisture from the mouth is
used for washing.
Early Rising.
A German investigating physician of qelebrity has
lately been and the subject of
early elusion rising, lias come to the con
that, far from making a man
quite "healthy, the wealthy and wise,” it has
life contrary effect, and shortens
instead of prolonging it. In the
majority tigated, of cases which he lias inves¬
the long-livers have indulged in
late hours, and at least eight out of
every ten persons who attained the age
of 80 and upward were in tlie habit of
not retiring to rest uiftil tfc,. small hours,
and remaining in bed until the day was
far advanced. He has no doubt what¬
ever that early for those rising who is a inoat ls*<l perni¬
cious habit go to late,
and, like (baric* Latah, thinks think* it twittei
and, like ('Igukat Lamb, it better
for wi rylipriy to d>d*t getting up until
|,i >tiitmr ha* had a chnuoa to he
cutac anil atrod.
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
A ULSP OP CABBOS,
Tell me, lump of carbon burning
Lurid in the glowing grate,
While thy flames rise twisting, turning,
Quench in me this curious yearning,
Ages past elucidate.
Tell me of the time when waving
Thou, High above tlie primal world.
a giant palm-tree, lifting
Thy proud head above tho shifting
Of the storm -cloud’s lightning hurled,
While the tropic sea, hot laving,
Round thy roots its billows curled.
Tell me, did the mammoth, straying
Near that mighty trunk of yours,
On the verdure stop and gaze,
Which thy ample base displays,
Or his weary liu\b9 down laying,
Sleep away the tardy hours ?
Perchance some monstrous saurian, sliding,
Waddled up the neighboring str&ud,
Or leapt into its native sea
With something of agility,
Though all ungainly on tho land;
While near y0lir roots, in blood-stained fray,
Maybe two ichthyc beasts colliding,
Bit and fought their lives away.
Tell me, ancient palm-corpse, was there
In that world of yours primeval,
Aught of man in perfect shape ?
Was thero good ? and was thoro evil ?
Was there man ? or was it ape ?
Tell me, lump of oar lion, burning
Lurid in tho glowing grate,
Lies there in each human face
Something Tell have of the monkey’s trace ?
me we lost a link ?
Stir thy coaly brain and think.
While thy red-flames rise and sink.
Ages ua»t elucidate.
Just in Time,
Dinner was over at last, and Mr. Wal¬
ter Currie, English station, Commissioner at the
up-country Northern India, had at Huttee-Bagli, in
gone upon tho ve¬
randa with Ms wife and his two guests,
the Colonel and Major of the-th light
infantry, ing. to enjoy tlie cool of the even¬
On three sides the house was sur
rounded by its compound, a large in¬
closed space serving the purpose of a
courtyard, but the fourth was only sep¬
arated by a small patch of garden from
the road, along which a number of native
women pitchers were their passing with their little
on heads.
The sight of them naturally turned the
conversation upon a favorite subject
with all Anglo-Indians, viz., the char¬
acter of the natives and the best mode of
dealing with them.
“ There s only one way,” said the
Colonel, emphatically. “Tell ’em what
thrash they are ’em to do, make if ’em do it, and
well they don’t. That’s
my way.” Well, I
“ venture to differ from you
there, Colonel,” said Mr. Currie, quietly.
“ I had to do some thrashing once or
twice, I own, but most of my native ser¬
vants they get along very well without it,
and seem to serve me excellently, I
assure you.”
“I wish you had been in my place,
then,” retorted the Colonel; “you’d
have changed your opinion, I warrant.
Why, charge the year before last, when I hail
of two battalions of the rascals
down at Suttepoor, because there wasn’t
another Queen’s officer within reach—
just like my confounded luck!—there
was did it no myself. gettmg anything done unless I
be By Jove, sir! I had to
everything at once—my own Quarter¬
master, my own Sergeant Major, my
own caterer, and—”
“And your own trumpeter, Col. An¬
nesley smile. ? ” asked Mrs. Currie, with an
arch
The Colonel’s broad face reddened
ominously, imminent, aud an explosion seemed
when a sudden clamor of
angry voices from the road below drew
them all to the front veranda.
The cause of the disturbance was visi¬
ble at a glance. Two half-drunken En¬
glish soldiers, swaggering along the
road, had native come into violent contact
with a who was running past;
and one of them, enraged at the collis¬
ion, had felled the poor lad to the
ground, and was unclasping his own
belt with the evident intention of beat¬
ing him unmercifully.
“Served the young whelp right,”
shouted the Colonel, rubbing hishands ;
“ that’s just what they all want.”
The other officer, Maj. Armstrong—
popularly called Maj, Strongarm—was a
huge, brawny, silent man, whose forte
lay in acting the rather whole than talking.
like During discussion he had sat
a great bronze statue, never utter¬
ing ill-using a word; tMs but, child, at ho sight woke of this man
up rather
low, To leap to the ground the garden, twelve feet vault be¬
to dart across to
over the Mgh stockade beyond, was the
work of a moment for the athletic Major,
and in another instant he had raised the
boy ing tenderly from the soldier, ground, while say¬
to the foremost in the low,
compressed tone of a man who means
what he says :
“Bo off with von.”
“ And who the deuce are you, shovin’
yer nose in where you ain’t wanted ?”
roared the infuriated ruffian, to whose
eyes the Major’s plain evening dress bore
no token of Ms being an officer. “ Jist
you—” The
sentence was never finished.
At the sound of that insolent defiance
Armstrong’s altogether, sorely-tried and the powerful patience right gave
hand way which had hewed its through
way
a whole squadron of HMv cavalry fell
liae a sledge-hammer upon Mb oppo
nent s face, dashing him to the ground
as if he had been blown from the mouth
°
“Welldone, . , Maj. ,, . Armstrong, , , „ shouted . , ,
Mr. Currie from above. You deserve
your name, and no mistake.
At that formidable name the soldier
took to Ms heels at once, aud Armstrong,
without even looking at bis prostrate an
tagonwt, proceeded to look at the hurts
of 6
™ The latter , was sorely , bruised . m many
places, and the blood was trickling free
Iy over still his did swarthy his best face ; stand but the little and
hero to erect,
to keep down every sign of the pain
which he was enduring. lad, and
" You’re a brave you’ll make
a soldier some day," said “Gome the Major with to
him in Hindoostauee. me,
and I’ll see that no one mok-ste you
•ffaiu. ”
The iwl seized the huge brown hanfl
iuul hlifl ho hwvdy,
and the kissed it with tl» deepest revenmee;
and two walked sway together,
Mix months have com*- and gone, and
Mr. C urriv'* hospital-in home prwe-ute a
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, JANUARY 18, 1881.
different spectacle. ~ The
garden very is trampled into dust and pretty mire,
and the bodies of men and horses are
lying half-destroyed thick among the fragments of the
stockade.
All the windows of the house are
blocked up, and through the loop-holed
walls peer the muzzles of ready rifles,
showing how steadily the besieged gar¬
rison stands at bay against tho countless
enemies, whose dark, fleree faces and
glittering weapons are visible amid the
half-ruined building and matted thick¬
ets all around.
The Sepoy mutiny of 1857 is blazrn
sky-high over Northern India, an
Col. Annesley is blockaded in Huttee
Bagh, with a certainty of a hideous death
for himself and every man of the few
who are still true to him, unless help
comes Day speedily. just
whispered was breaking when two men
held a council in one of the
upper rooms.
“No fear of the water running short,”
said Maj. Armstrong, “ but, even upon
half rations, the food will be out in four
days “And more."
then we’ll just go right at them,
and cut our way through or die for it!”
growled the old Colonel, with a grim
smile on his iron face, for, with all his
harshness and injustice, Col. Annesley
was “grit” to the backbone. “We
mustn’t say anything to them about it,
though,” added he, with a side glance at
Mr. Currie, who, standing in the further
corner, face was of anxiously his sleeping watching wife. tho thin,
worn
At that moment a loud cheer from
below startled them both, and the next
moment Ismail (the “Major’s bey,” as
every one now called him) burst into the
room with a glow of unwonted excite¬
ment on his dark face.
“Sahib,” cried he, “there is hope for
us yet! A detachment of Ingleez (En¬
glish) the are coming if up send the word other to bank them of
river; we can
as they pass we are saved.”
“How do you know?” asked the Major
eagerly. “I heard
tho Sepoys say so, while I
der,” was lying answered hid among the bushes yon¬
the lad.
“Among the bushes yonder?” roared
the Colonel, facing around. “Have yon
really been villains in the listening midst of those cut¬
throat to what they
said. Whatever did you do that for?”
“I did it for Sahib Armstrong’s sake,”
replied the boy, proudly; “because he
was good to me.” turned
The Colonel hastily away to
hide tho flush of not unmanly shame
that overspread his hard face; and Arm¬
strong smiled slightly as he heard him
mutter; *
“By Jove! these chaps aren’t so black
as they’re painted, after all.”
“But if the troops are beyond the
river how can we communicate with
them?” asked Mrs. Currie, who, awakened
by the shouting, had arisen and joined
the group. “They may not pass near
enough to hear the firing, and we have
no means of sending them word.”
“Pear nothing for that, mem-sahib”
(madam), quietly, answered the Hindoo boy,
“I will carry them word my¬
self. ”
“But how can you possibly do it?”
cried Mrs. Currie, thunderstruck by tlie
confident tone in which this mere child
spoko of a task from which the hardiest
veteran might well have shrunk.
“Listen, Sahib,” answered Ismail.
“ I will slip out of- tho house and make
a dash into the enemy’s lines, as if I
were deserting tell from people you to fire them, shot and
you can your to a or
two after me with blank cartridge as I
go. Then the Sepoys will receive me
kindly, dying and thirst, I’ll tell them that you’re all
of and that they must only
wait one day more to make sure of you,
so that they won’t care to make another
attack. Then, when they have no sus¬
picion, selves, I’ll and steal think I’m quite Blip one of them¬
away and across the
river.”
will “ But believe are you you?” quite sure the Maj. Sepoys
asked Arm¬
strong, “They’ll doubtfully. believe this, anyhow,”
re¬
plied gash the in boy, his bare deliberately shoulder making and stain¬ a
deep white frock with blood he
ing his the as
glided from the room, followed by Arm¬
The plan was soon explained to the
men below, and a moment later Ismail’s
dark figure was seen darting like an ar¬
row across the open space in front of the
building, blank followed by a quick discharge
of cartridges from marksmen at
the loopholes. The sound of the firing
drew the attention of the Sepoys, sev¬
eral of whom ran forward to meet him.
In another instant he was in the midst
of them. *
“ I can scarcely see for those hashes,”
said Col. Annesley, “but he seems
to be showing them the wound on Ms
shoulder, and telling them it was our
doing.”
At that moment an exulting yell from
the enemy came pealing through the air.
“ That's the story of our lieing short
of water, for a guinea 1” said the Major;
“it was a very good thought of his. If
it only delays their attack two days lon¬
ger, there may be time for help to arrive
yet.” Slowly and wearily the long
hours of
that fearful day wore on. The heat was
m terrible that even the native soldiers
(){ the g arriBOB could barely hold their
own against it, and the handful of En
g]i 8 ) irne n were also helpless. Had the
g<ipoys attacked them, all would have
been over at one blow ; but hour passed
hour there was no sign of an a«
sau ' At’length, p
as afternoon gave place to
evening, a movement began to show
itself in the enemy’s lines. Then curls
of Hraok() above t he trees showed
that tlie evening's meal was in priqmra
Ron ; then several figures with pitchers
in their hands were seen going Colonel’s toward
the river, among whom the
keen eyes detected Ismail.
“ By George !’’ cried the old soldier,
slapping Us knee exultingly, gold There's “that lad’s
worth his weight in right 1 him his
WU y flown to tlie river open to
without the least chance of suspicion,
Why, he’s a born gentleman—nothing
y*
Every eye within the walls was now
turtiod anxiously upon tlie distant
group, fearing to see at any moment
movement which would show that
the trick was detected. How did Ismail
mean Would to accomplish boldly hi* into the purpose ?
he plunge river,
further without any disguise, preparation? or had he some
stratagem in No
one could say.
his Suddenly, light wooden ns Ismail dipper stooped into the to plunge
it water,
slipped from his liandB and wont float¬
ing away down the stream. A cry of dis¬
may, a loud laugh from tho Sepoys,
and then tho boy was seen running
frantically along the bank and trying in
vain to cateli the vessel as it floated past.
“ What on earth’s he up to ? ” grunt
ed “I the Colonel, ” cried completely Maj. mystified. tri¬
umphantly; see ! “there’s Armstrong, yonder
a boat
among Well done, the reeds, brave and boy! lie’s making ” for it.
that my
But at moment a yell of rage
from the Sepoys told that tlie trick was
discovered.
their Luckily pieces those on the bank had left
would have behind, been disposed or poor Ismail
soon of; but
the alarm instantly brought up a crowd
of their armed comrades, whose bullets
fell like hail around the boat and its
gallant little pilot.
“ Let us fire a volley and make a
show of sallying out,” said tho Colonel;
“ it’ll take their attention from him.”
But in this he was mistaken.
Tho first rattle of musketry from be¬
hind the house did indeed recall most of
Ismail’s assailants, but at least a dozen
ing, were left, who kept up an incessant tir¬
All striking the boat again and again.
at once the Colonel dashed his
glass to the floor with a frightful oath.
Between the two gusts of smoko he
had seen the boat turn suddenly over.
and go whirling down tho river, keel
upward.
“ There’s an end of thepoor lad,” mut¬
tered the veteran brokenly. “ God bless
Mm for a brave little fellow. And now,
old friend, we must just die hard, for
there’s no hope left.”
The first few hours of the night passed
quietly, and tho exhausted defenders,
utterly with worn out, slept as if drugged
the quick opium. But of tho a little two veteran after midnight officers
oars
-—the only watchers in tho whole gar¬
rison except tho sentries themselves—
caught ing a faint stirring in the surround¬
thickets, which seemed to argue some
movement on tlie part of the enemy.
they Listening felt intently for a few moments,
certain that they were right,
and lost no time in arousing their men.
The scanty stores of food were opened
once darkness, more, and, crouched together in tho
tho doomed men took what
they earth. fully believed to be their last meal
on
“ They’re straining coming his 1” said Maj. into Arm¬
strong, oyes tho
gloom through a loop-hole. “ I hear
them creeping forward, though I can’t
see them.”
“What the deuco was that?” ex¬
claimed the Colonel, suddenly, “It
looked like a fiery arrow flying past.”
“ It’s worse than that,” said the Ma¬
jor, in a low voice. “ The rascals are
shooting lighted chips of bamboo out on
to the roof to set it on fire. Send tho
women up with buckets to flood tho
thatch; there’s not a moment to lose. ”
“ I’ll go and see to it myself 1” cried
Mrs. Currie, hastening out of the room.
But the power of this new weapon had
already house become fatally old mamfest. and The
tinder was from an the prolonged one, dry as
and fast the flames heat,
in as as they broke were quenched
one place out ill another.
When the day dawned the fire had al¬
ready got a firm hold crushing of one corner of
the building, and a discharge
was poured upon while all who attempted to
extinguish it, tho triumphant yell
of the human tigers below told them
that they felt sure of their nrey.
“It’s all over with us, old fellow,’’said
the Colonel, grasping the old comrade's
hand; “ hut, at least, we shall have done
our ”
“ Give me one of E your pistols,” whis
pered Mrs. Currie to her husband, in a
voice that was not her own. “ I must
not fall into their hands alive."
At tliis moment Maj. Armstrong was
seen to start and bend forward, as if lis¬
tening though intently; could for he thought—al¬
he scarcely bolieve his
oars—that he had suddenly caught a
faint sound of distant firing.
In another instant he heard it again,
and this time thero could be no doubt,
for several of the others hud caught it
likewise, and a gleam of hope once
more lighted up their haggard faces and
bloodshot eyes. •
Louder and nearer came the welcome
sound, while the sudden terror and con¬
fusion visible among the enemy showed
that they, too, were at no loss to guess
the meaning.
Then high above the din arose th#
well-known “ hurrah 1 ” and through the
smoke-clouds broke a charging line of
glittering faces, sweeping bayonets and ruddy English
derers the away the cowardly morning mur¬
as sun chases the
mist.
“ That boy’s worth his weight in gold,”
said Col. Annesley, as, a few hours
later, he listened to Ismail’s account of
how he had dived under tho boat and
kept it lietween him and the Sepoys,
that they might think little him fellow drowned. I’ve
“He’s the pluckiest
seen, and, although he take belongs share to the
Major, I’m going to my of
helping him on, by Jove 1 ”
He Laughs Best Who Laughs Last.
Tlie train had started off, A young
infill i rushed breathlessly in. “ Got left,
responded. did Jfou?” “Well, Then ain’t said I he here?" could he
one go
across the bridge aud catch it, and an¬
other told him when tho next train would
go, aud made various suggestions. The
chap looked at the when disapjmaring somebody train a
few seconds, naked,
" Where were yon going?” Oh, I 'll ion the
wicked fellow said, “ fellow wasn’t going
in it, but there was a in the tram
to whom I promised to pay a bill,"
A witrrsu in Laud ami Water says .
“What* mistake it is to put marble
statue# in the open air in' Loudon I
Tin*fw in an tsBifcy of t)iu Qiujuii in the
Royal Exchange, In fine weather the
features Rre issit liegritned, and on wet
day* the water Hows tu dirty furrows
flown tlie cheeks."
SOUTHERN NEWS.
In Nortli Carolina a poll-tax qualifica¬
tion for suffrage is advocated.
It is estimated that the Indian-river
country of Florida will alone produce
this year (10,000 or 70,000 boxes of or¬
anges.
Of 25,125 population of Harrison
county, Texas, 17,208 arc colored ; while
of 38,108 persons in Grayson county
only 4,558 arc colored.
Good mules in Mississippi arc worth
about as much as four bales of cotton,
while one can be raised for less than it
costs to raise half a bale of cotton.
It is proposed to improve the Library
building at Augusta, Ga., borrowing
money for tlie purpose from the Orphan
Asylum and depending on increased in¬
come to gradually reduce tlie debt.
A new station-house is demanded at
Memphis. The present building was
formerly used as a slave market, and it
is said that in several instances death
lias resulted from a night’s confinement.
Arkansas is in the same belt with
Northern Africa, Southern Italy, Egypt
and Palestine, countries which, in for¬
mer days, were seats of the highest civ¬
ilization, and the granaries of the world.
Receipts of cotton at Madison, Ga..
| this season already aggregate more than
12,000 hales, and are likely to be more
than double those of last season, which
were not more than 7,000 bales up to
April.
Aii effort iH anticipated in the next
Legislature of North Carolina to estab¬
lish criminal courts for the whole State
or for the larger counties. Some change
seems to he made necessary by the heavy
dockets.
The yield of sugar per acre on the
Teche, in St. Mary parish, Louisiana, is
simply astonishing. On the left bank,
in several instances it lias averaged 4,000
pounds, and 3,500 pounds is said to be
not unusual.
A horrible death has occurred at Holly
Springs, Ga., traceable to Christmas ho'.
Mays’ imbibition of liquor. Peter Reece
fell asleep in a brush pile anil froze to
death. When ho was found the hogs
had torn out his bowels.
The Richmond State thinks it was the
late Judge Percy Walker, of Alabama,
who sent the famous dispatch north an¬
nouncing the attack on Fort Sumter:
“With cannon, mortar and petard,
Jeff Davis sends old Abe his Beauregard.”
A poor little boy in New Orleans
picked up a pocket-book containing
$332.25 in cash anil several promissory
notes. Mis mother restored it to the
owner, who gave the boy a complete sui
of clothes and the mother money to pay
three months’ rents dueand more besides.
The South Carolina Legislature is
commended for its bravery in passing the
anti-dueling law, the anti-whisky law,
the anti-concealed weapons law, and oth
er valuable measures which were enacted
in a session which is, by constitutional
limitation, very short indeed.
In Georgia there is no State law gov¬
erning commercial travelers, but power
of taxation is vested in municipalities.
In Athens the tax is $10 per week, $25
per month, $K>0 per year. No license is
required in Rome, Atlanta, Macon or
Columbus. In Savannah the license is
tiic same as that of resident dealers in
the same articles.
Three plans or systems of labor are
used in Louisiana. One is the share
system, under which the laborer is fur¬
nished with dwelling, land, tools, seed,
etc., to make a crop. Another is the
tenant system, paying a given rate per
acre. On these two systems four-fifths
of the cotton plantations in the Btate are
operated. Tlie third plan is that of hir¬
ing lalxirers by the month, which pre¬
vails in Bt. Mary and St. James parishes.
A meeting has lieen held at the rooms
of the Union Francais, at New Orleans
by the Charnbre Syndicate Consultative
du Commerce Francais, which approved
a report suggesting the appointment of a
resident committee in Paris to co-operate
with the Chamber, and also the appoint¬
ment of a special committee to furnish
to tlie French Consul in New Orleans
facte and figures to be laid before Euro¬
pean capitalists with a view to securing
the establishment of a French financial
institution on a large scale.
The purpose of the Atlantic eoast
steamlxiat canal company in Florida is to
construct a steamboat channel connect¬
ing Lake Worth with Indian river, In¬
dian river with Mosquito lagoon and
Halifax river, and Halifax with Miitiin
zas river, which would bring the naviga¬
tion up toBt. Augustine, thence through
North river, and from that point into
the Ht. John’s by a cut into Pablo erect
to Mayport, at the mouth of the Bt,
John's, or into Jullrigton creek, which
would bring in vessel* twelve or fourteen
miles south of Jaekssnvitle. It is »sid
that this projected work would iqs-ti up
for settlement a large extent of territory '
A nkvaoa Bishop ft says there milling is no Htate, Sun
flay in that Htate. is a
atui mining i* so im|*>rteht and control!
mg an interest tlmt religion has taken a
back scut,
NUMBER 46.
Canoeing in the United States.
When John Macgrogor, of tho Inner
Temple , published his entertaining ac¬
count of tho Rob Roy's thousand-mile
voyage on the hikes and rivers of Europe,
he established canoeing as a summer
pastime.
The introduction of canoeing in the
United States may be said to have taken
place in 1870, when tho Now York Canoe
Club wns founded by William L. Aldon.
The Indian birch and dug-out, it is true,
belong to tho canoe group, hut they are,
at best, rude craft, unfit for general
cruising, disuse, and and bad long before gone into
come to bo valued only as
relies of an uncivilized condition. Ameri¬
cans havo enthusiastically adopted tho
pastime, and it is only a question of time
when canoes will bo as frequently soon
on our boats. bays, Besides lakes, and rivers long as sail and
row immense our coast-line,
wo have an system of inland
water, a groat part of which is as yet
unexplored, and cannot for years bo ex¬
plored by any other craft than the light
and easily portaged canoe. There is no
one of tho States in which long cruises
may not ho mode.
It has beon stated, upon authority,
that summer cruises may he made upon
tho waters of Wisconsin alone for thirty
years without retracting or exhausting
the territory. In tho northern portion
of the State thero are almost numberless
unexplored that lakes, some of largo size,
are connected by rivers and smaller
streams. A canoe may for instance he
launched upon Pewaukoo Lake, a beau¬
tiful sheet of water about twenty miles
west of Milwaukee, and then follow a
winding course through a delightful coun¬
rivulet try, through lake to rivulet, and from
to lake, tho lakes varying in length
from three to eight miles, and in width
from one to four miles. Leaving the
lakes, tho canoe may follow Rock River,
and passing many beautiful towns and
villiages, striking the Mississippi at Rock
Island, Illinois. Many of the Western
Eastern, (notably and Minnesota Middle and Michigan), equally
States offer
attractive field for summer cruising.
Canada is os yet almost unmapped.
Twenty-five Quebec miles to the northward of
the exploring canoeist is beyond
the bounds of civilization, and at tli'o en¬
trance to a region of picturesque lakes,
that, witli their connecting streams, form
a chain almost unbroken, savo by rapids
and falls, to either the Hudson Bay
country known territory or the Saguenay, still and tho little
to the northward.
Americans. Long cruises have been made by
The Kleine Fritz (A. If.
Siegfried) 1ms followed tho course of tlie
Mississippi to Rock island, from tho Illinois; extreme head-waters
the Maria
Theresa (N. H. Bishop) has cruised by
inland waters from Lansingburg, New
York, to tho mouth of tho Suwannee
River; tho Hubble (Charles E. Chase) in
1878 cruised from New York to Queboo
by connecting waterways, thence by por¬
tage, through tho valley of tho Chaudi
ere, to the head-waters of and down tho
Connecticut River, to and through Long
Island Sound, to New York. Mr. 0. H.
Farnlmm him recently conn ileted a
Canadian voyage embracing the Sagu¬
enay, its tributaries, and oilier water¬
courses. In 187!) Mr. Frank Zihlermade
a cruise of about 1200 nidus, from Racine,
Wisconsin, to New Orleans. Many less
extended cruises have been made, and
clubs have been orginized in the largr
citios.— C. Fj, Chase in Harper's Mayra
wine.
Charlotte Conhiy’s Dress.
Alcihiadcs is said to have cut off the
tail of his dog in order to give tho
Athenians something to talk about, and
to divert their attention from serious
topics. Happy the people whose minds
can take occasional rest from serious
subjects, like politics, in tho discussion
of trifles! At present the French press
is engaged in a grave controversy about
the quality and color of tho dress which
Charlotte Corday wore on the day when
she assassinated Marat. Everybody
knows that the great demagogue was in
Ms bath at tlie moment when Mile. Do
Corday called at Ms house, No. 21 Rue
do l’Ecole de Medicine, and craved an
audience through tlie medium of Ms old
housekeeper. what It is also known that she
wore is now called a mob-cap—an
article of apparel which came back into
fashion a few years ago in England, but
which was in 1792 tlie ordinary head¬
gear of young ladies bailing from Nor¬
mandy. Beyond the fact, however, that
Charlotte Corday wore a mob-cap, his¬
torical searchers can not agree as to her
attire. Some say that she presented
herself at Marat’s house in a dross of
striped calico, dusty from travel; others
affirm that on alighting in Paris from tho
Rouen stage she went to a hotel and
tricked white muslin, herself with out in a silk dress kerchief of spotless and
a
block mittens. TMs would havo beon
the most natural course in the case of a
young lady of cool mind; but the dispute
about Charlotte Corday’s dress turns
precisely girt upon the point as to whether
this was a lierome animated by an
implacable spirit of vengeance in a
patriotic cause, or a poor half-crazod
damsel who came up to Paris to kill
Marat simply because she feared for the
life of her lover Barbaroux. Bo red re¬
publicans who worship tho memory of
Marat maintain that she wore a rusty
red-striped others calico dress, whereas royalists
and who loathe the editor of L'Ami
du her PeupUt fell work , protest robed that in she wMte, weut like about
an
angel .—London News.
Tan Vienna correspondent of tho Lon¬
don Globe writes as follows: “Last
night “Philine”in Miss Kellogg was singing the part the
of Mignon, where, in
second act, sho has to open several bil¬
lets. One of these missives proved to
lie an eloquent tetter of eight puges love from with
a marquis who had long been in
her, in which ho once more pressed ids
suit in burning accents. This pretty
ruse was crowned with success, and now
It is an oism secret that tho great
American artiste has given her hand mid
heart to tlie lover who liaa wooed her
ever ■>»oo Urn early spring.”
Tniev have a novel way of treating
lunatics ill Scotland Instead of cotifln
mg them in cells like primmer#, they put
(hem in nest cottages with a plat of
ground to cultivate. All spi Maranee of
restraint is removed, though of rounui
they are closely admirably, watched. The plan is
muu to work
ffihc gMIunsmUe ^ilcance.
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True Lore.
A pretty story is told of the late *
Czarina, who, os is well known, was a
most faithful wife, in spite of the long
continued harsh treatment and neglect
of the Czar, and a wise and devoted
mother. Although a strict observer of
the rules of the Greek Church, she al¬
ways opposed the tendency to substitute
forms and ascetic ceremonies in religion,
in place of true feeling and domestio
every-day While duty.
for girls, visiting the Smolnoje Institute
some yeors ago, tho Empress,
during the examination of the pupils,
suddenly The asked, “What is love?”
young ladies blushed as though
an became improper question had been proposed,
Madame groatly Leontieff, confused, the and were silent.
ing, begged directress, kneel¬
leave to state to Her Majesty
that all knowledge of this dangerous suli ■
jeot all was prohibited by her, and that, in
know probability, the meaning the of pupils word. did not even
tlie
Tho Czarina frowned. “So far from
being said, a dangerous subject, madame," she
“love should be the pure main¬
spring of a woman’s life ; first, love for
her parents; then, love for her husband ;
lastly, God love for her children ; and love for
this, they always. If your pupils hove not
ties of life.” are badly prepared for the du¬
Tho Empress left tho Institute, aud
the next day, Madame Leontieff was re¬
moved as incompetent by the Imperial
Ministry In American of Education.
love is society, tho mention of
too often received by young girls
with a blush and a gigglo, which betray
the narrow and vulgar meaning which
simply tlioy attach to tho word. It is to them
a flirtation with some young man,
which may or may not end in a mer
ringo.
It is the fault of their mothers if they
are not taught to know and respect that
divine quality of devotion and self-sacri
flee, which alone can enhoblo a woman’s
life, and which, whether it is given to
parent, child, or lover, makes her more
akin to lior Master.
If we were asked for a typical picture
of love in tho present time, we should
choose, not a pretty little girl sitting by
a moustached youth in the moonlight,
hut helpless Mary Diller standing by her old
father on tho burning deck of the
Scatvanhaka, the flames wrapping her
like a garment, and burning her eyee
blind.— Youth's Companion.
M/o up. Mitchelii lias beon on the
stage for thirty years. She acknowledge#
to f< riy-throo, and as she has made a
great deal of money people wonder why
she docs not retire, The truth is that
sho is not as rieli as she was, and her
work now is for her children. Some
years ago her Place husband, I’addock, bought
the Forest at Long Branch, pay¬
ing seventy-five thousand thousand which dollars for it,
Time forty and of interest was and cash down.
ran on taxes with
it, but tho little commcdienno is in no
sense a business woman, and so she left
eve rything to her husband. One day
the remaining thirty-five thousand fell
due, and could not be met. The place
was sold on mortgage, and brought less
than her first payment, and Bhe awoke
to a realization of tho fact that she had a
hard time before her, and so the little
woman is still on the stage.
Maggie Mitchell, since her first great
success in New York, nineteen years ago,
lias been a carryall for her entire family.
Bhe feeds thorn, lodges them, and clothes
them. Bhe has an old father between
seventy Old Eccles,” and eighty who only is a veritable he
“ and tho way can
he kept' locking from giving him way and to his feeding weakness Mm
lies in up
on regular rations of whisky. In spite
of the familiarity Mitchell with is her still plays and the
acting Maggie one of
great paying stars of the stage. She
makes money constantly and lias everywhere,
and she deserves hi. Hho created a
school in acting, aud in her school she is
beyond imitation. Few women havs
given as great pleasure to the publio.
A Witty Judge.
Readers ofBhakespeare of have the always en¬
joyed tlie wit “Port) a,”in Merchant
of Venice, by which she saved “Antonio’*
from the knife of * ‘Biiylock. ” The pretend¬
ed judge affirmed tho right of “ Bhylock”
to his pound blood of he flesh, shed but added, should it, his a
drop of in taking
life would be forfeited. A California
judge has shown equal wit.
A hard character, well-known as a tMef,
was indicted for entering a miner’s tent,
and stealing proved. a bag He of hod gold been dust. The
theft was seen to
cut a slit in the tent and reach in and
take the bag. A bright defence. thought occured
to the counsel for the
“ How far did he get when he took the
dust ?"
“About half-way in, as he reached
over,” said the witness.
“ May it please your honor," said the
shrewd lawyer, “I shall demand the
acquittal of my client. The indictment
is not sustained. He did not enter the
tent. Can a man enter a house when
one-half of his body is in, and the othei
half out?
The jury aud judge were equal to the
emergency. The verdict of the jury
was, “Guilty as to one-half of Ms body,
and not guilty as to the other half.” The
sentence of the guilty judge was, of “ Imprison¬
ment for the part, two years.
The prisoner may leave the other part
liehind, or take it with him." The sharp
lawyer was outwitted.
Confections from Rag*
The manufacture of glucose from rags,
a novel industry, carried on in Germany,
is regarded with much disfavor, and it "is
understood that tho German Govern¬
ment will he The likely glucose to interfere with the
business. in said to be
chemically identified with grape sugar.
The process, wMoh is represented to be
very cheap, is as follows: Old linen
rags, which are composed of hard vege¬
table libers, are converted into dextrine
by the product application of sulphuric acid, and
the thus obtained is then washed
with milk ot lime. Next it is treated
with a stronger solution of the sulphuric
acid than that first used, when Uw ma¬
terial is immediately transformed aud
crystallized amsdiziug into a glucose, from winch
be jollies and tempting coulee*
tiohs unit made.