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XEWS,
c tree flfc Micfuiopy,
[ > bushels of figs every year.
tl)6nam
[. Uflage recently located on
Ue-eeatebs are given a job on
in Georgia—one year for each
^tisemen t.
, uii n ois Central railroad shops at
.
fater Valley, Miss., are turning out
twenty-ton coal cars every twenty
fcartoiu'S.
It is reported from San Francisco
IJ in the last has ten been years smuggled $6,000,000 into.
r rth 0 { opium
[fcat I port- hree cities and towns in Tex-
1 ForU-t separate control of their
„ assumed conduct them independ
Uiiools and will
Lf State system.
The rice crop of Jefferson parish, La.,
■.feiag harvested and will be very large.
Prospects are that the yield of sugar will
! le the largest since the war.
fire German carp sent to Florida by
He pish Commission does not thrive in
lie everglades. The Alligators scare
to death and the turtles eat them..
{ hitting company a
jear ■ Cold Springs, Greene county, Tenn.
tothe depth of six feet in a rook, and
struck a large ve : n of silver that
taw
W at that depth $34.71 per ton.
I The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says
liit liiiat it is au uncommon thing to find in
city a negro who can not read and
Inite, Imiiing while there is much illiteracy
the whites.
I Over 250 dwellings have been erected
I luring the past year wituin the city lim¬
its of Savannah Ga., at an approximate
| [08 t of $300,000, including $175,000
l wo rth of property improved upon within
Ifc city boundaries.
I The fruit growers of Florida are pre
|paring [protection to form an business. association for the
of their The asso
[ [jbinped ciation will have charge of all goods
from local points, arrange for
[fteir sale and secure careful handling.
Warren’ Bailey, a colored man of
hngusta, Ga., is creating quite a sen
nation by his aquatic gyrations and div
ingfeats. Ho catches fish by diving for
them, aud gives regular exhibitions,
which are attended by large numbers of
citizens.
Georgia has just completed a building
(ouinining 500 rooms, for her colored
[insane citizens, at Milledgeville. After
the colored lunatics were transfered to
i their new quarters the work of remodel¬
ing their old asylum began, and in which
the white lunatics will be eared for.
[ Pulaski, (Tenn.) Citizen: We have in
: tie Southern States in operation, or in
course of erection, 191 cotton factories.
This outnumbers by twenty-seven all
the cotton factories in New England
outside of Massachusetts, and exceeds
by sixteen the number in that State.
Selsia (Ala.) Times; To narrow
gauge railroads this State must look for
the eoiiipletest developements of its re¬
sources. We havn’t got the capital to
build broad gauges for feeders for local
I convenience, but we can and must send
j ["hero narrow-gauges out into every section
it will pay.
MAjor G. K. Dutton’s turpentine
firm, near Live Oak, embraces 18,000
acres of land, upon which five stills are
operated and work given to 250 hands,
42 mules, 6 horses, wagons, carts, etc.
The annual production is estimated at
1(5,000 galons of turpentine and 14,000
barrels of rosin.
I Charleston, (S. O.) News and Cou¬
rier; The system of hiring out convicts
is a blot upon the civilization of the
South, whether the prisoners are pen
| ned pLate up in a coal mine, digging up phos
! rock or in building railroads. It
■ is cruel, inhuman aud murderous. It
[ [ should better. be abolished, and the sooner the
Apalachicola (Fla.) Tribune; Mr. J
(. Bray ton owns a place a short dist ance
from the city, near Mr. W. S. Turner’s
that abounds in hickory trees. Some¬
time ago Mr. Brayton grafted the pecan
into these trees. The experiment thus
ferhas proven entirely successful. The
trees at present are having a magnificent
foliage, and they premise to bear pec ans
in large quantities.
Aiken (S. C.) Recorder: An alligator
I measuring ten feet and seven inches in
| |®gth Rilled in and weighing 300 pounds, was
Aiken county last week. The
existence of this saurian reptile in Glov
| er s pond has been known for twenty
seven years, and many is the load of
[ | buckshot that has been fired at him, but
^ was reserved for the good marksman-
1 a Mp and long rang rifle of Capt. George
to terminate liis depredations. The rep
; hie must, not have been less than fifty,
1 an '^ u °t improbably seventy-five years
old.
Wl Times says Selma has the most
^underfill J 0 se P a rate artesian streams well of in the world.
Jff water flow from
of entirely different i roperties.
efieet is produced by the insertion
J 1 a e inch larger pipe pipe within descends a four
- 460
the water has no mineral properties
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and is very cold. The inner pipe de¬
scends 700 feet; the water strongly im¬
pregnated with sulphur anil iron, and,
compared with the temperature of the
twin stream, is quite warm.
Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union: Sa¬
vannah is alarmed at the rapidity with
which Norfolk and other Virginia ports
are drawing the cotton business away
from Charleston. The News think
much of the cotton which goes to Nor¬
folk is diverted from its natural outlet at
Savannah, and that this diversion is due
mainly to the pooling system adopted by
the railways which transport the cotton
thither. It intimates that strong press
ure will be brought to bear upon the
railways to induce them to abandon it.
editorial notes.
Foe the six months ended August 15,
160 persons were killed and 401 injured
on railroads in the State of New York.
The failure of the Edmunds law to de¬
stroy the evil power of Mormonism in
Utah has revived the proposed plan of
governing that Territory by a Congress
ional commission. Gov. Murray is un¬
derstood to favor the plan as the one
most likely to weaken and eventually
kill tlie baleful system of wholesale pros¬
titution which is practiced there under
the cloak of a so-called religion.
The Egyptian plague, having number¬
ed about 35,003 persons among its vic¬
tims, is beginning to abate in the towns
first infected, but at Alexandria is in¬
creasing in violence. Medical men are
disposed to believe that the disease is
not Asiatic cholera, but the result of lo¬
cal causes, which belief has occasioned
a sense of relief in Europe as well as in
this country. At the same t me, clean¬
liness is as much a duty with every one
ns though the plague had reachod our
shores.
DOWN UNDER WATER.
What a Diver Saw that Very Badly Frl«lit*
ened Him.
“Several years ago, about the bagin
nin’ of the war,” says a diver. “I got an
order to go down to New Orleans, and
from there down the Gulf, to overhaul
a steamer that had gone down. She’d
been claimed by a party who found her
topmasts out: but whether she was full
of cottcn or iron, a gunboat or merchant¬
man, worth a pound or a thousand no¬
called body knowed. I was loafin’ at a place
Petit Ause at the time, and was
on the spot in less’u four days, with a
young lad, who, accordin’ to his own
lingo and general talk, was barehanded
the best diver in the State. At that
time mostly bells was used, but we didn’t
have any, and concluded to try and float
her by haulin’ down kegs. So we laid
along-side in a schooner, and young
Grampus—he was a black chap—offered
to go down and see how she looked. I
gave him a hook block to fasten to her to
lead the barrels, and with a ten-pound
bar as a sinker he slipped off her to’ gal¬
lant crosstrees, which was all clear at
ebb tide. For about two minutes I fol¬
lowed him by the air bubbles, and saw
he was a workin’ aft, and then all at
once come a reg’lar boil, and I knew he’d
bust, and a second later up he come,
risin’ half his length out, and gave a
yell that made the cook spile his duff and
thought brought all hands up a-standin’. I first
a shark had him, but afore I
could say a word he was alongside and
jerked aboard. turned I ain’t goin’ to say his
wool was white, but ef ever a
black man turned pale that was the
a-shakin’ time. He was groanin’, literally and failin’ I’m to blessed pieces;
and
ef he wouldn’t a-come all apart ef we
hadn’t stopped his guff with aguardi
ente.
“ ‘Don’task me to go down agin,’ was
the first word he spoke. Tse seen do
debble; jes’ put me ashore. ’
“When he kind o’ cooled down he let
on how he struck the fore hatch and
found her a side wheeler, and when he
worked aft, there was the devil, horns
and all, a-breathin’ fire out of the starn
companion way. Of course we all gev
him the laugh, but he wouldn’t go down
again, an’, between you and me, I begun
to feel kind o’ queer about it myself.
But there wasn’t much hanky-panky in fif
about me, so I dropped deck. over, I and aft,
teen seconds was on swum
and when I turned the way I’m dan gee?
ef I didn’t for a minute get the cold
chills. It was kind o’ dark, and there,
a-lookin’ out of the -way, was a critter
with horns, and all covered with fire.
And what do you reckon it was ? Give it
up? Well, it wasn’t nuthin’ but a big
Texas steer a-lodged in the hold. His
head was clear and a-wabblin’ up and
down, and bis long horns a-scrapin’
against the woodwork. He certain did
look the old boy himself.”
“But the light,” suggested the re¬
porter. the light. You the critter
“Aye, covered with this ’ere see, pliophores
was
eence, that you see on dead fish. She
was an old coaster, loaded with cattle,
about two hundred head I reckoned, and
the wreckers gev her up, an’ I believe
she was raised two years after by a Mex¬
ican company.”
“B’lieve I’ll try to mend some of my
bad habits,” said ‘Jones in a fit of pen¬
itence. “I wouldn’t, dear,” replied bad his
superior fraction, sweetly, excellent “your state
habits are certainly in an
of repair.”
CON YERS, GA.. AUGUST 84, 1883.
A WISE MAE'S FORTUNE.
You can’t surmise
Sly great surprise
The first time that I advertised.
Right after nice
They formed in line
Customers and old friends of mine.
Ail eager to buy,
For the reason why,
That I was wise
To advertise.
I do suppose
We shall dispose
Of all the goods in store.
In this event I am hound to rent
My neighbor's house next door.
You may take the hint,
If you want a mint
Of money, be, as I was, wise,
And go to the pres3 and advertise.
PERVERSITY OF PARTNERS.
BY WILTON BURTON.
“How yon cornin’ on deze days, Marso
Jimmie?”
“Pretty well, Uncle Toby.”
“Looks like you got a powerful sight
o’ stuff in dis yer sto’.”
“Well, yes; we have a large stock of
goods—more than we shall ever sell, I’m
afraid.”
former The speakers were a merchant and bis
slave. The latter had walked to
the back part of the store, and, with the
air of one that feels himself a privileged
character, had taken a seat unbidden in
the best chair by the fire.
The appearance of the store justified
the comment. In one corner, by the
fireplace, was an island of bacon sur¬
rounded by a miniature sea of brine; in
the other, a group of syrup-casks, one of
which rested horizontally on t wo billets of
wood, and shed its contents, drop by
drop, through a leaky faucet and into a fin
can. Between the fireplace the ends
of the two counters, that ran lengthwise
of the room, was a tangled maze of
flour-barrels, sugar hogsheads, and
cracker-boxes, threaded by a narrow
footpath that piled led to high the with door. The
counters were “domes¬
tics,” gayly-colored calico and ready¬
made clothing, so that there was scarce¬
ly room for the two broken show- cases,
with their display of cigars, neckties,
pocket cutlery, and pinchbeck jewelry.
The shelves were filled to their utmost
capacity, and up above the cornice the
spiders had woven a net of cobwebs over
a long array of dusty crockery and wood
enware. Truly, there was a “powerful
sight o’ stufl” in the store.
For some time Uncle Toby sat silently
smoking a clay pipe. and Presently f the fire
made him drowsy, he ell to nodding.
This pastime might have continued in¬
definitely had not his pipe fallen from
his lips ’ to the hearth. The crash
aroused him, and ho resumed the conver¬
sation;
“Seem like to mo I ain’t never been
see no better fire to roas’ a tater in dan
what dis yer fire is, ef I des had do
tater.”
“There are some in that barrel— help
yourself.” .“Thanky, sail.”
And Uncle Toby buried a potato in
the ashes and put two or three others in
liis pockets for his wife, “Marthy Ann,”
he said.
“You ain’t got no pardner in yer, is
you, Marse Jimmie?”
“Yes; Mr. Humpkery owns a half in¬
terest.”
The negro grunted disapprovingly.
“Mr. Rnmpl ss mighty hol’in’ clever his man. horse
He gin me a quarter for
onct. I ain’t a-sayin’ nothin’ agin him,
an’ I’m hopes you an’ him’ll git along
harmonikle; but ef ever you year tell o’
me a-goin’ caboot ’long of a yuther nig¬
ger agin, you can make a hen nes’ out’n
my ole hat.”
“ Did you ever have a partner, Uncle
Toby?” had
“Yas, sab, I a partner onct—a
erappin’ pardner—an’ could me fix an’ it.” him couldn’t
’grec That no ways bad.” we
“ was
“ Hit was bad, but it couldn’t be hope,
bekase pardners is naicherly worl’. But de meanes’
folks in this newited I ain’t
a ‘sputin’ blit what Mr. Rumpless mighty
clever man,”
‘ ‘ I suppose you think Mr. Humphrey
may be au exception to the rule. ”
“To be sho’.”
“ I can’t vouch for that; but what did
you and your partner disagree about.”
“ Well", sab, ef you wants and set to know down all in
about dat, take a seat
dat cheer, bekase dat tater ’ll have plenty
time to roas’ ’fore I git done tellin’ you
’bout Sandy Brooks.”
“ Was that your partner’s name ?”
“Dem was his entitlements, an’ he was
a biggity nigger, too. He use more
big“words dan what deze yere Mefhodis’
circus-riders use. He think hissef some
punkins bekase lie could read au’ write.
He Tow he knowed it all.
“ I declar’ to gracious, Marso Jimmie,
dem cheese smells so good I don’t b’lieve
I kin tell you ’bout Sandy ’thought de o’ 1
has a slishe of ’em to toas’ on een’
dis stick.
“Thanky, sah. Deze cheese is good,
sho’; but cheese looks sorter lonesome
’cep’n’ you has crackers to go Tong wid
’em. Thanky, sah. I always knowed
you was de free-handest one o’ old
moster’s boys. Ax Marthy Ann ef I
didn’t tole her so.
“ Well, dat Sandy nigger he w’ar sto’
dose, an’ he smoke seegyars ever’ time
he could pick up a ole stump on de
groun’. “In clays Mr. Waggintire to
dem use
keep a sto’ in dis yer same town.”
“Yes, I remember, McIntyre and
Wagner,”
“Yes, sail; dem’s um, only dey fell
out, an’ Mr. Waggintire lie tuck an’ tuck
(lie whole sto’ to liissef.
“Well Mr. Waggintire he had a piece
o’ _ lan’, an’ he rent it to me an’ Sandy for
the fo’tli o’ what we. could make on it.
Sandy had two big stroppin’ gals, named
Ritter and Suse, which he Tow dey was
es good a fiel’ ban’s es Mr. Anybody, in
lie put liissef an’ dem in, an’ I put
mysef. I was* to git de fo’th an’ Sandy
was to have three fo’ths, bakase he wuk
three ban's, Mr. Waggintire ’vance for
•us.
“ ’Twarn’t long fore I seed Sandy was
gwine to git de egwantage o’ me. Ever 1
day Marthy lie sen’ to de sto’ aftersump’nnet’er.
Ann Tow we better buy ever*,
thing we wants, or Sandy ’d git it all.
Sandy but keep his ’count in a little ole book;
ever’ time I buy a dollar worth I
make a tolerable long mark ou de ckim
bly wid a fire coal. Ef it warn’t dat
much I make a sorter short mark, ’cord¬
in’ to de ’mount. I know my ’count was
de kereckes’.
“No sooner we start to pitch de crap
de fuss begin. I want to plant de long
slipe by de branch in cotton, an’ Sandy
want to plant co’n dar; I want to plant
de chaneyberry fiel’ in co’n an’ faters an'
goobers, an’ Sandy swar by the pint o’
his knife hit got to be plant in cotton.
Me an’ him ’sprite an’ ’spute about dat
tell Mr. Waggintire had to come au’
’eide ’twix’ us. An’ lie ’cide jes’ like
Sandy waut it, too. Deze yer pardners
dey favor kin always git somebody to ’cide in
o’ dere 3ide.
“ Ever’ Sat’dy Sandy seem like he jes
Tileeged to take holiday.”
“Didn’tyou take holiday every Sat¬
too?”
“Yas, sail; but don’t you see, ever’
time Sandy stop three ban’s stop; when
I stop kit was jes’ me one.
‘ 1 When we was layin’ by de plowin’, co’n de
sun was powerful hot. I was
an’ Sandy wid an’ his two gals was follerin’
me de hoes. Ever’ few minutes
Sandy gwine to de b ranch atter a drink
o’ water. Den liis two gals dey stop an’
listen at de peckerwood tappin’ on de
dead tree tell he come back.
“ After a while I says, says I, ‘ Sandy,
you must be got de tarryfy fever f’om de
way you drinkin’ de branch dry,’
‘ : lie ’low, ‘ You ain’t got no lamin’,
nigger. Don’t you know water’s a good
Sude-er-ritter for to make you sweat an’
keep off de sunstroke ?’
“1 says, says I, * Ef you talkin’ ’bout
Suse an’ Ritter, dey look mighty jack
de nn’-dipper, leanin’ growin’.’ on dey hoehan’ls an’
crab grass a
“Well, sail, dat nigger like to bust
liissef laffin’. I was a great a mine • to
make a rock zoon by his head, jes’ to let
him year how it soun’. But I hilt mysef
in dat time.
“ Atter dat Sandy kick up a rumpus
’bout sump’n nigh ever’ day. Dey
warn’t no livin’ in peace wid him. His
wife she had to have a han’ in de fuss.
She Tow my ole ’possum dog suck her
aigs. Marthy Ann tuck it up, an’ dey
had it. When womens gets mix up in n
’spute hits bound to git wuss an’ wuss.
but My ole I ain’t ’oman payin’ Tow I ougliter ’tention whip Sandy,
no to what
she sayin’, bekase always I knows jes' how
womens is. Dey anxious for dey
husbands to fight a ner’er man what dey
’spises, but dey don’t never tink ’bout
ter’er man fightin’ back.
“When we went to gether de co’n
Sandy says, says he, ‘ Look yere, I wants
to have ever’thing fa’r an’ squar now,
an’ I wants you to onderstand all ’bout
it.’
“ I Tow, 1 Dat’s all right,’
(( ( Well,’ says ’e, ‘you know Mr. Wag¬
gintire gits one fo’th of ever’thing.’
<*T eot.n ontraT ‘T Irnnwro A n *■ > 0Q o-.ro T
‘an’ I gits a ner’er fo’th, an’ you to its de
yuther three fo’ths.’
“Sandy sorter smile to bissef.
<< k Well,’ says ’e, ‘de way for us to do
when we hauls up de co’n is to put three
loads in one ner’er pile for pile me for and Mr. you, Waggin¬ an’ one
load in a
tire.’
“I says, ah’ says I, ‘What de useo’ mixin’
mine yone? Dat jes’ be makin’ doub¬
le trouble for nothin’. Let me ’vide dis
co’n. an’ I’ll ’vide it right.’
it f How you gwine ’vide it ?’ he says,
says ’e.
“ I says, says I, ‘Mr, Waggintire
gits a fo’th an’ I gits a ner’er fo’th.
Ever’ time we puts a load on his pile we
inns’ put a load on my pile. Den all de
balauce’ll be vone.’
“He says, ‘Dat- won’t do,’ says ’e,
‘bekase dat er way you’ll git more de ’n yo’
share. You got to pay part rent
same es me.’
“I says, says I, ‘I sees what you up
to. You wants to take out Air. Wag¬
gintire’s part, an’ den you ain’t a gwine
to give me hut de third. But Ise gwine
te have my rights ef somebody nose have
to be mashed for it.’
“He says, ‘Who nose gwine to bo
mash ?’ says ’e.
“I ’low, ‘I speck you ’ll ha’ter fur¬
nish de nose. ’
. “We kep a ’sputin’ an’ ’sputin’. awhile One
word brung on a ner’er, an’ after
Marthy Ann jine in, an’ de fus’thing you
know me an’ Sandy hitched. ”
“You fought, did you?”
“Yas, sab, we fit—but I speck it’s time
for me to lie knockin’ Tong home. I wish Dis
yer tater look like hit’s done.
you mighty well, Marse Jimmie, au’ I’m
hopes you an’ Mr, Rumpless ’ll git along
harmonikle.”
“But wait. You haven’t told me about
the fight. Who got the best of it?”
“Well, sah, Sandy he tuck down an’cropetip with a’
on me an’ knocked me ax
hel’, an’ den he kick me in de short ribs.
Dat was toler’ble hard to take, as you
know yo’sef, Marse Jimmie, but I ain’t
sayin’ nothin’ tell Marthy Ann run up
like she gwine ter far up all creation,
an’ Sandy call her a old heifer. Dat
sorter ’xcite my riserbles. ”
NUMBER 22.
“What did you do then ?”
“I says, says I, ‘Go ’way f’om yer,
nigger, bekase you mought make me
mad, an’ ef I gets mad somebody ’ll git
hurt.’
“When you argy wid Mr. Rumpless
an’ try to show him how de bes’ way to
manidge, hel’, he do don’t he ?” knock you down wid
a ax’
“No, but he’s as stubborn as a mule,
vnd keeps on buying more goods in
spite of my protest.”
“Well, dat always de way with pard
lers. Dey de contraries’ folks I ever
lee.”
“How did you came out dividing the
mop ?”
“I come out de leetle en’o’de ho’n.
No sooner I git up off’n de groun’ an’
hresh my cloze I went to see lawyer King,
bekase hones’ ever’body gin him de name o’
bein' a man, what don’t know no
different ’twixt cullud genpleman an’ a
white man. I tole him all ’bout it, same
like I done tole you. All de whiles I
was talkin’ he setten’ dar scratcliin’ his
year wid his pen handle. Atter I git thu
lie Tow I couldn’t git no more than salt
an’ batter out’n dat case. I Tow I was
atter co’n an’ cotton. Salt an batter
wouldn’t satisfv me.
“When I got back home dar stand Mr.
Waggintire. Sandy He sent atter him whilst
I was gone. took an’ ’vide de crap
out jes’ like Sandy want him to, an’ what
’s more ’n dat he tuck all my share, be¬
kase, he say, I done trade it all out in de
sto’.
“Whenever you git a ner’er man to
come an’ settle ’twixt yon an’ yo’ pard¬
ner de pardner slio’ to get it all. Pard¬
ners is mos’ too ’ceivin’ for my use.”
“You are about right,” said the white
man. “At any rate, if I live to see New
Year’s this store shall be all mine or all
Humphrey’s, and I don’t care which. I
am tired of partners.”
“Nowyouheerd me,” exclaimed the
uegro. “Yen’s a talkin’ now, an’you
ain’t a was’in no bref. Fur as I’m con¬
cern, pardners kin go Tong Liza Jane.
“Marse Jimmie, you ain’t got nar ole
pa’r shoes ’roun’ yer settin’ in de corn
der gapin’ for bones, is you ? ’Kase ef
dey’s too little for me dey’ll ’bout lit Mar¬
thy Ann. ” believe pair in the
back “Yes, I there’s a
room yon can have. ”
As Toby passed out with the shoes he
said:
“I wish you mighty well, Marse Jim¬
mie, an’ I’m hopes you an’ Mr. Runqiless
’ll git-”
But he saw that nobody was giving any
heed to what he was saying, for Mr.
Humphrey had come in, and the dis¬ two
partners were engaged in a heated
cussion of some matter of business upon
which itwasevident they could not agree.
— The Continent.
Summer Dresses.
Prifited mull dresses, Harper’s Bazar
tells us, are the novelty for watering sheerest
place toilettes. This is the
white mull, as silky looking as gua/.e or
as India muslin, and on this transparent
surface are flowers of most natural hue
and design, printed makes there them by look some fine if
process that as
painted by hand. The great rose pat¬
terns are liked by young ladies, flower, while
their mothers wear the scabieuse
and purple fleur de Us, or hunches of
pansies or lilacs. These thin tissues are
made up over white silk, a separate white
under-waist answering with several
dresses, but the silk skirt lias the ma¬
terial placed directly on in each breadth,
and sewed up with it in its seams.
Flounces of scantily gathered white
lace are the trimmings, and the skirt
when finished is of scarcely perceptible
weight. Seven flounces of the lace cross
the front and sides, but only two full pass dra¬
around the skirt. The short
pery crosses in front, has a lace frill on
the edge, and its longer back breadths
are looped to represent a great sash bow
with ends. Some of the waists are
basques shirred in surplice shape, and
others are baby waists full and belted,
with the neck cut square. The waist
lining of silk is also high in the back,
but is cut out in a point or square to
match the outside waist. Rose or olive
satin ribbons are made into loops for
these dresses, matching either the flower
or its foilage in color. Dark velvet or
pansy colored velvet ribbons are used
when the flowers are of these dark
colors.
Of Interest to Depositors.
J. W. Smith, a depositor in the Brook¬
lyn Savings Bank, recently recovered
judgment for $1,050 against that institu¬
tion, most of which amount had been
paid to his brother, who had presented
plaintiff’s bank book. Appeal was taken
by defendant to the General Term of the
Brooklyn City Court. That tribunal re¬
versed the decision of the Court below
and granted the bank a new trial. The
General Term holds that all sums with¬
drawn from a bank and properly entered consid¬
in the depositor’s book must be
ered valid returns from the bank to the
depositor, though care and discretion
must be exercised by the authorities.
In commenting on the above the New
York Herald says; “This is rather a
startling decision. If it is a correct in¬
terpretation of the law, then the law
countenances part of exceedingly these institutions loose methods in deal¬
on the
ing with the money intrusted to their
keeping. The Court qualified its deci¬
sion by saying that the bank must exer¬
cise care and discretion. But thirf quali¬
fication amounts to little, if any person
by merely presenting a depositor’s belong book
can draw money which does not
to him, and the defrauded depositor is
left without recourse against the bank.”
Oveii the left—the roof of the railway
station.
HOW THE AMADOR WAS FOUND#
The IHIue wblcli Enriched .Senator Jooe*
and Alnny Others.
I have recently heard, says a news
newspaper touching the correspondent, a story
of Nevada which early life of Senator Jones and
is most interesting,
which I am told is true in every respect
and illustrative of the characteristics of
a class of men almost passed away—the
story: “forfcy-niners” in California. This is my
Jones had gone to California
with thousands of others when the won¬
derful discovery of gold in that far-off
land tlirillecT every hamlet aud village.
He had good and bad fortune. Among
those who went to seek their fortunes
there was a man n\amed Hayward, from
Vermont. He was rather the superior
of liis associates in education, and totally
unlike them in habits. They were
working first had in pretty good-pay dirt, and at
fair success, and fiually one
after another went to more promising
localities, until Jones and a few others,
among them Hayward, were left at the
old diggings. Hayward had a claim on
the mountain side that had as yet shown
no it. particular promise; still he stuck to
One hot summer day, when the Red
Hills were quivering with heat, Hay¬
ward came to see Jones. Said he:
“Jones, I am very near to a wonderful
vein. I know it; I feel it, but I am flat
broke, I want $2,000; with that I will
make both our fortunes.” “Now, old
fellow,” said Jones, “I have known just
1,000 men who were exactly in your fix.
They only needed $1,000, anil some¬
times only $100, to make their eternal
all.” Hay ward entreated. Finally Jones
said: “I will give you this money. I
have $3,000 buried under the fireplace,
aud when the fire goes out and my
Chinaman leaves I will get it out for
yon, but don’t ask me for any more; I
cannot afford to lose more than that-, and
I give it to you with the utmost hearti¬
ness, don’t ask mo for any more.”
Hayward got the money and said:
“When I strike it I will give you a
quarter interest.”
One afternoon about a month after
this happened Jones was sitting in his
cabin, when Hayward suddenly burst in
as white as a sheet, “Jones,” said he,
“I have struck it.”
“Struck what ?” said Jones.
“I don’t know just what yet,” an¬
swered Hayward, “but I have struck the
richest vein I have ever seen. ”
They went together to look at it, and,
sure immense enough, bonanza, Hayward had struck au
gold. or “pocket,” of pure
Jones, with his experience, saw
it was the richest mine in California.
They sent to San Francisco for Eugene
Kelly, then a young mining expert of
great ability. He pronounced it tho
greatest strike in his time. Hayward
had found the New Amador, the richest
gold mine in the world. He sold it to
Wells, Fargo and some others for
and the day tho sale was
made he gave Jones $1,250,000. Jones
ard married Hayward’s daughter.
But this is tho the history of tho New life Ama¬
and of great start in of
of Nevada.
A Notable Western State.
Iowa is so filled up with people from
the Eastern States that the following
item will interest many of our readers;—
The semi-centennial celebration in Bur¬
lington, Iowa, on tho 1st hist, was a
very spirited occasion. It was in com¬
memoration of the treaty w ith tho Sao
and Fox Indians, which went into effect
on June 1, 1833, and which gave over
most of the present State of Iowa to the
occupation of white congratulation. men. The State has
good reason for Fifty
years ago it was in the possession of the
savages. been Tlvirfy admitted six years the ago Union it had
only just with population to of as
a State, I'o-day a it has population some
116,000. a of
1,600,000, aud of a singular excellent
character, sober, intelligent, brief energetic,
and prosperous. During her career
as a State, Iowa has furnished to the na¬
tional Government some of tho ablest
men that have taken part in it. Seven¬
ty-five thousand of her people fought in
the national armies, of whom more than
12,000 gave tlieir lives to the country.
A few years since Iowa was on
the extreme frontier of the great North¬
west. To-day slie must be ranked with
the main body of the vast peaceful army
which is moving steadily to take vigor, posses¬ in¬
sion if the continent, and in
telligence, and civic virtue her people
give assurance sf a future progress even
more impressive than that of her com¬
paratively brief past
Not One Missing.
It is a common belief in Mexico that
Montezuma, at the time of the Cortes’s
invasion, ordered all his treasures to bo
bidden. After his order had been
obeyed, lie put to death those employed
in carrying it out, so that only two per¬
sons, himself and hiding-place. the higli-priest, were
cognizant Occasionally of the stories told which
are
seem to indicate that some of the Mexi¬
can Indians know where Montezuma’s
treasures are conoealod. Some fifty
years ago, a priest received several valu
uable contributions to his church from
the poorest of his congregation^ The
priest learning through the confessional
that the valuables were procured from a
cave, and were supposed to Ho be persuaded part of
Montezuma’s Treasures.
a man to lead him to the cave, on con¬
dition that he, the priest, should be
blindfolded.
The clever priest, thinking to outwit
the Mexican guide, contrived took several rosaries
with him, and the to drop the
beads one by one on road. After
seeing the cave and its treasures, and
returning home blindfolded, the shrewd
priest was thus addressed by his
shrewder have guide: kept faith with Rever¬
“I your
ence; you had the misfortune to break
your rosary, and drop the beads on the
' I picked them all and
the way. up,
return them to you; you will not find
one missing:.”
‘ Thebe is one thing connected with
your table,” said a drummer to a West¬
ern landlord, “that is not suspassed even
by the best hotels in Chicago.” “Yes?”
replied the pleased landlord; “and what
is that?” “Thesalt.”
