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Ii^WSTlNCTT p1 ^ THE WEEKLY I CONSTITUTION. VOLUME XIY TUESDAY MORNTN'G, MARCH 28, 18S2. PRICE 5 CENTS. THE WEEK EPITOMIZED. nahrating.the history of sev en DAYS. Procecdirc. at Home and Abroad—The Politic* and PerreroiilM of the Old World -Tn. Way. of the People at Home, and the Crimea and Amusements in which They Indulge. under the present administration is idle talk. GEORGIA'S CONGRESSMEN. While the congressmen from Georgia felt a I delicacy in expressing their wishes on the question whether or not the state should be redistricted before the next election, I be lieve every one of them approves the decis ion of the governor that an extra session of the legislature is not to be desired. The de- 1 cision has given perfect satisfaction among Georgians in Washington. The assumption VILLA RICA’S HORROR. STORY OF THE CARROLL COUNTY TRAGEDY. The Body of the Woman Pound In the Copper nine Proved to Be Known—A Coroner’. Jury Find* That a Negro Parsmour Murdered Her At Her Father’s Instigation. THE r.EVOI.CTIONAKV REPUBLICS. Revolution is reported as living imminent ill Venezuela. The president of Hayti has been shot at. In Santo Domingo anarchy reigns. Mexico alone seems to be at peace. TUEl.U'K SAVING service. Ity the ellbrts of Senator Drown the life- having service hill has liven thoroughly sifted, with a view of doing justice to the "southern const service. As a result eight additional light houses will lie established south of Char les ton. ALLIANCES SUGGESTED. The Nuova Andelogiaof Dome publishes a remarkable article by the secretary of the general staff, urging the prompt completion of military organization and an alliance of Italy with Germany, and Austria against a probable Frnnco-Russian alliance. VICTOR Ill’GO TOASTS THE C/AR. While Victor Hugo was entertaining the stall of the Rappel (newspaper) last evening a telegram was received from St. Petersburg an nouncing thnt the czar had spared the lives of three nihilists in whose behalf Victor Hu- f hud pleaded. On hearing the news Victor ugo toasted the czar. THE COLOUR!’ CARETS. The judge-advocate general of the army lias dismissed tbe proceedings against Whittaker, the colored cadet, who was accused of cutting off his own ears in West Point military acad emy, in order to win sympathy. The presi dent followed up this decision of the judge advocate by dismissing Whittaker from the service for deficiencies in his studies. TIIE PRESIDENT AND THE OFFICE SEEKERS. The president has intimated that hereafter lie will rely more upon his own judgment In making appointment to office. He is. partic ularly disgusted witli the class of ‘’union” loyalists from the south, who are continually seeking solace in the shape of well-salaried offices, with nothing to do. THE LCI.U rosT-OFFICK CASE. The attorney general lius declined to inter fere to procure a continuance in the case of Young Rice, of Lulu, which is set for trial at the district court in Atlanta Monday. Rice is charged witli embezzlement from the mail, and the attorney general says he cannot act without the consent of the post-office depart ment and without the advice of the district attorney. v DISTURBANCES IN ITALY. There have been serious disturbances at Ra venna, owing to the collection of a number •of people tii celebrate the anniversary of the Paris commune. The people present at the meeting refused to obey the summons of the authorities to disperse, and a collision ensued in which one of the military was killed, and another was wounded. Many persons have been arrested. ON MATTERS OF EDUCATION. State School Commissioner Orr. of Georgia, has been in Washington. He was called be fore the house committee on education, when he advocated an immediate appropriation out of the treasury for the benefit of education, u> lie distributed on the basis of illiteracy. Representative Clements is also doing active work in this cause. It is confidently believed that the present congress will take some step In this direction. AN IMPERIAL FETE. On the 22d of March the ciuperor of Ger- R^atafyCt-felirtited hiS sMi birthday.’ The occa sion was made one of congratulation by the various crowned heads of Europe, prominent . among whom was the emperor of Russia. In a speech to a deputation of the rcichstag, the aged monarch referred to the assassination of • ‘the late President Garfield, who was the elect of the people, as an example of the dangers to which all rulers arc subject. ' lllLL AND BLACK. Senator Hill has returned to Philadelphia from Washington in order to be under the direct treatment, of Dr.Gross. Nevertheless, his physicians assure him that he is in no danger whatever, and that lie has before him many years of life. Representative Rlnck of the Savannah district, who has been suffering from paralysis, almost reached the point of death during the week, but rallying from the danger, he is now supposed to be in a fair way of recovery. THE ApnORNEY GENERAL. Attorney-General Brewster has addressed a letter to tl’ie district attorney of South Caro lina, in relation to the prosecution of parties implicated in election frauds. The attorney general insists that suits should be prosecuted against the rich and well-to-do violators of law, and not against the humble and obscure, who are but the tools of those in higher soci- •ety. In response the district attorney states that he lias been governed in all his prosecu tions bv an eye to this result. BLAINE ON FRKUNOHL’YSEN. The late secretary of state publishes an in terview wherein he severely criticises the for eign policy of his successor in regard to South American' matters. He declares that the United States has permitted English interests to obtain full control of South American -commerce, when, by a little firmness, it might as well have come to New York as gone to Liverpool- The ex-secretary believes Tn an aggressive foreign policy, aud that the United' Slates should be u native abroad as well as at home. AN ERA OF CRIME. The last week has been prolific of crime. In Maine a jealous suitor murdered his sweetheart. In Wisconsina Scotchman mur dered his wife and then committed suicide. In Arizona a white man robbed and killed a Chinaman. In Arkansas a father killed his wife and daughter. In New Orleans sea captain shot and killed a four year old boy for stealing plums. In Washington terri tory a party of men broke open a jail and lynched two prisoners. Crimes of lesser grade a're reported from all sections. PAYING TIIE PENALTY. 1 On Friday the hangman was busily ployed. In Middleburg, Pa., Jonathan Mayer was executed for the murder, in 1877, of John Kintzlcr and his wife. In Harrisburg. Pa., Frank Rumberger and his brother Henry were both hanged fc r the murder of Daniel Troutman, in 1880. In Clearfield, Pa., John A. Neveling was hanged for the murder’d Samuel Pennington, in 1880. In Pittsburg, Pa., Edgar F. Small was executed for the murder of Nicholas Jacoby, in 1879. In. An gelina, New York, John McCarty, was hanged for the murder of Robert Mackay. In Rock Island, 111., William Heilmayon was hanged for the murder of his daughter-in- law. CONKUNG’S AIMS. A prominent republican, a close and confi dential friend of ex-Senator Conkling, and who stood by the latter faithfully while both were in congress, and who has seen Conkling almost daily of late, says that Conkling does not want and would not take any office at present. He says that had the president’s letter offering Conkling the supreme judgeship reached the latter before the nomination was known, Conk ling would have declined then, and the public would have known nothing about it. He says Conkling’s ambition is to return to the United States senate from New Y’ork. His plan is to devote himself to law practice and to accumulate money enough to make hint independently rich tor the next senato rial election in New York. Meanwhile, he gressman at large, an extra session is necessa- I Douglasville, March 23. The copper ry, is laughable in the light of a dozen prece-1 mines in the northwest corner of Doug- ilents. In 1310 Georgia elected congressmen I las county have been the scene of the most at large in the face of a congress- 1 ional statute that they should be elected by districts, and they were consequence of finding the remains of a wo- ndmitted. California elected ail of its con-I man and child in one of the shafts which hare gressmen atlargeup tolS64 and they never I been abandoned for the last twenty-five years, had to wait in the lobby. Congress has al- L_, . . , , . ways exercised the right to amend the elec- I T* lc circumstances are about these tion laws of the states as they relate to the I From 1S50 to 1835, extensive work was choice of representatives. Congress has time I done about two miles uortlieast of Villa Rica, Tsarsr .£» Sjssa s <«.«*•* *-»•* «•»** <« «*** exist now in Georgia. No delegate at large nnning. About ISoo the work was stopped, was ever kept out because his state had no I and • the mines lay idle and unproductive special law authorizing his election. Kansas 1 until some two months since, when is going to send four congressmen at large I, . without any statute to authorize their elec-1 filing lnto ,b e hands of some capitalist, tion. Maine looses one and is going to they have been reopened and work on them elect all her members by the general vote I begun again. In 1805, there lived three miles without the least fear of a difficult entrance I nor thwest of Villa Rica, a Miss Bagwell, a for them. Tha apportionment bill distinctly I , , _ , ® declares that mcm bers may be elected at large, I w° n,an about _ , years of age. L nfortunately and if any further ize such election inent, and the history ol congress . uv >u<i « ,, - „ - score of precedents for thus amending almost I ‘Y 88 an Y, / .J 11 Carroll county, any defect. Persons acquainted with the laws I f,, ... or , “61 she gave birth of North Carolina say nothing can be found I illegitimate child. In I860, more in them to demand an extra session, though I tuna --Y st . • the attorney general of the state lias decided H. W. LONGFELLOW DEAD POET’S LIFE ENDED. cott, with whom he also read law. He re- | moved from Florida to Augusta in 1835, and was for a short time connected w>th the L States Rights Sentinel, a paper at that time I THE CELEBRATED NEW ENGLAND edited by the late Judge A. B. Longstreet. Upon the breaking out of the Seminole war lie volunteered as a member of the Richmond Blues, and served through the campaign of 1835-6. In the spring of the latter year he entered the office of Judge Longstree't with a view of making the law his professsion, but his plans were frustrated by the judge’s aban donment of the law business for the ministry. In the fall of 1836, Col. Thompson began An Account of Hi* Family, Youth, Education and First Life-work—HI* Two Professorship*—A list of His Works and Translations—Hta Horn* and Appearance—About Evangeline. About to an In - 1865, more unfor- it was ascertained that she would soon become the mother of another child, and to add to the deep mortification of her family and their friends, Madam Rumor said the child, when born, would be a negro. Matters went on from bad to worse, until in July, 1865, it was announced that .Miss Mary Bagwell had left the paternal roof, and gone' to Atlanta with a party of negroes, who were then going to the federals in Atlanta. Among these negroes was one Barney Hargraves, the reputed father of Miss Bagwell’s child. A day or two after she had disappeared. Barney went back to Bagwell’s, where he had been employed, and remained there until the early spring of 1866, when he left again, and went to Atlanta, where lie remained for several years. No effort was ever made by the family of Mary Bagwell, to find her, as it was gen erally rumored that she was off living with Barney Hargraves, al though many thought that she had been put out of the way. Her memory gradually Hied away, except "among those who knew and. loved her when she was a winsome, virtuous girl, and many young people around Villa Rica never even heard her name mentioned it necessary. A congressman at layge from any state in the union will be as good for his ] seat in the next congress as any man chosen by a district. Donaentlc. In a steamboat explosion, Thursday, four men were killed. The Tennessee low tax democrats have called a convention for May 11. The acting postmaster at Oealee, Florida, com mitted suicide lost week. The Northern Pacific road has been blockaded by snow.' For several days trains was suspended. Mrs. H. L. Marvin, widow of the late Bishop Mar vin, died In Frederiekburg, Mo., March 15th. The trains along the Northern Pacific road have been detained by an immense snow blockade. General McDowell will soon be placed on the re tired list. He will be succeeded by General Pope. The president has signed the anti-Mormon bill, and it is now a law. The anti-Chinese bill has also finally passed into law. Congress has voted to pay M. 0. Butler S3,500 and W. I*. Kellogg S'J.500 for expenses incurred in eon tests for seats in the senate. Chicago has forwarded to the president a petition, . .... — ... — —— — —— 2,100 feet in length, praying for the pardon of I until within the last few days. On Thursday, Mason, Guiteau’s assainuit. I the Kith instant, the company which isreopen- O11 Friday, March IGth, Govempr Blackburn, of I fog the copper mines, while tvorking in what ^ c J2ViM^hi > ™^w„i^ e {;. , „^id twe “ tymin "h 8 known as the Hill shaft, found utes before he was to have been hanged. ninety feet below the surface the The eleventh anniversary of the Paris commune 1 “2, I LtwtU nf , “ ’ „ * wascelebrated inNew York on the I8thby a gather-I f e V ,ains ’ or bones, of a woman and ing of the German and English*socialists. I baby, covered with dirt, leaves, rocks, and The Garfield memorial window has been placed I water that had run into the shaft through the in the St. James Episcopal church. The window copper ore. They were brought to the surface, contains u fine likeness of the late president. I and as soon as they were ascertained to he The strikes among laborers of various linet ] human bones the coroner, F. M. Mitchell, throughout the north have continued throughous I w’as notified, who went and took charge 6f outlook'is'threatening 011011 splnnius branches tbe | them. Immediately all the rumors’concera- Forclan. The queen of England Is in France. Prince Leopold of England is to be married on Cm* 27th cf April. AU Jewish chemists in Bussla have been ordered to close out business The Levant Herald, an English daily newspaper in Constantinople has been suppressed. The pending difficulties between Guatemala and Mexico are in way of peaceable adjustment. Immense floods are reported in the Brazilian rivers, doing great damage to all kinds of property. M. Daniel Wilson, son-in-law of President Gravy, has been elected president of the budget commit tee. Testifying by affirmation, instead of by oath, is to be permissible In France hereafter, if the gov ernment can have its way. Serious disturbances have broken out on the southwestern border of Transvaal, and it is said that the trouble is rapidly spreading. The primary education bill has become a law in France. It brings all educational institutions di rectly undercoutiol ol the state. The committee on petitions of the French cham bers of deputies, after conferring with M. Da Frey- cinet, the prime minister, relative to the best means of ending the scandal of the Monaco gaming tables, has decided that the subject is not one for the con sideration of the Chambers, but for diplomatic action. There have been continual disturbances in Gal way between the eighty-eighth regiment (Con- Boston, March 24.—Henry W. Longfellow, the poet, at 4 o’clock this morning, was in a the publication of the Augusta Mirror, "the I dying condition and death is momentarily ex first purely literary paper ever published in pected. His bedside was surrounded by his Georgia. In. the summer of 1837 1 ... , j. he married Miss Caroline A. Carrie, fam,Ij ” He has been ailing for some tunc daughter of the late Joseph Carrie, of Bor-I past, but yesterday sank very rapidly, and at deaux, prance, and for many years a promi- midnight all hopes of his recoverv abandon- nent merchant of Augusta and Barnwell, S. I e( j ^ ^eMirror, while it was a literary site- Later.—He died at 3:15 this afternoon, cess, proved to be a financial failure. The 1 }SS inally T, rged } he ?r am51y Henry Wadsworth Longfellow descended Companion, a monthly published in Macon, I, .. .. - _ , . and for a few months he edited the latter pe- I by lls mother irom John Alden, of colonial' riodical. He was finally induced, however, I fame. His father, Hon. Stephen Longfellow, to take charge of the Madison Miscellany, a was the leader of the Maine bar and was that Colonel Thompson wrote the series of where the poet was bom—February 27, 1807 letters which, envolumed, has charmed and is one of the oldest houses in Portland, Maine, amused so many thousands, and which is Young Longfellow was taught at one of the known as Major Jones s Courtship.” In 184o I XT t» i i * he prepared for the press “Hotchkiss’s Codifi-1 numerous ^ew England academies, the one cation of the Statute Laws of Georgia,” and aUe ?A e ?-, b ® ing t k< ;? t one Cushman, af- during the same year became connected with I all *? eV e v »i rk L' V ? mn § Park Benjamin, the poet, in the publication Post > imd b > Jacob Abbo ^> Ro »° book and of u large weekly paper in Baltimore called I t?* ^ aiue \ L he was the Western Continent, of which he filially I p !,n ied rapidly forward and entered Bowdotn become the sole editor and proprietor. He I ^ at ,„, tbe T a '’ e f ,°^ H - ,.,?’ S' A bbo.t, disposed of the Western Continent in 1850, Congressman Jonathan Cilley, George B. went to Savannah, and, in connec- noto ” e ty* and tion with the late John M. Cooper, I fbaniel Hawthorne, the novelist, were in his founded the Savannah Morning News, a I ? klss - ^ His college lile was uneventful, and paper with which he has been steadily con- I 0 e a an , t0 j°i n *J lbu t. e ' e rses to the nected as editor and proprietor, and as editor Portland papers ; and before lie had graduated to the present time, with the exception of six I i*, e bad contributed the Hymn of the Moravian months in the army, and during a seven | 1I '^’. w ani ^ ? T tb ® r .f 06 ™ 3 , to months’ absence in Europe. Colonel Thompson has never held a civil office. In the second year of the war he was appointed aid to Governor Brown, which po sition, lie held up to the fall of Savannah. While acting in this capacity, he was placed in command of Carr-p Davis, where lie or ganized four regiments and one bat talion for the confederate service. During the last twenty-eight years, Colonel Thompson the long since extinct United .States Literary Gazette. For these poems lie was paid two dollars each. He was graduated second in liis class of thirty-seven, and six months after graduation the eighteen year old boy was tendered the professorship of modem languages and literature by his alma mater. At the time he was study ing law in his father’s office. It was a metrical translation of Horace’s odes which has been engined in the laborious duty of cd- ^ chair and before accepting iting a daily nolitical paper, and has had but I l‘ e ,^ ent abr ° a d and studied French, German, slight opportunity to exercise his literary | fZt ™* “ n a lmU yeafS abilities. Major Jones s Courtship,” his first book, is one of the freshest and most delight ful books of American humor ever published, and it will hold its place long after a majority of the works in that line, of which it was the predecessor, have been forgotten. Its humor is homely, hut genu ine, and it is as ’popular to-day as when first written. It has passed through many edv in their native countries. HIS WORK BEGUN. In 1829 Mr. Longfellow is found at the be ginning of his life’s work, with all the culture of a fine-grained collegian polished by Euro pean study. One of his early students wrote: “His in tercourse witli the students was perfectly sim ple, frank and gentlemanly. He neither flat- tions, both in this" country and in Europe, | aeitller sought popu- and the demand for it is steady and continul 1- i VaS ,V l0Se , “u? ous. Colonel Thompson is also the author of mPnul ®f ,am ? b a ?A French lit- “Major Jones’s Travels,” “The Chronicles of J** « ays ?«dently enjoy- Pineville,” “The Live’Indian ” which ing the long lost Mary Bagwell were revived, and those who liad all the while supposed in to be dead, came to the front with their rto] sons for so believing. Coroner Mitchell J --rnnehcd a‘jury, and rct;:u.cd -Steionci ames to conduct the investigation on the part of the state. After three days hard work, and examining thirty-eight witnesses, the coroner’s jury returned the following ver dict: Georgia, Douglas county: We, the jury impanncled by F. M. Mitchell, coroner of said county, to hold an inquest over the re mains found in the copper mines known the Hill shaft, in said county, find that said remains are those of human beings, a woman and child ; we further find that said remains are those of Mary Bagwell and her unborn babe; we further find that she came to her death in the month of July, in the year 1865, by some foul means unknown to us; we further find that she came to her death at the hands of Barney Hargraves (colored), who, either alone by the help of others, threw her body into the Hill copper shaft, we further find that Willis Bagwell, Wiley Bagwell and Charles Bagwell, the father and brothers of the said Maiy Bagwell, were cognizant of the crime, and kept their knowledge of the same from the officers of the law. W. H. Nally, foreman; H. Ward, J. M. been pronounced the most successful Ameri can farce ever put upon the stage, and dramatization of the “Vicar of Wakefield.” Before the war, and until tbe amalgama tion of that party with the free soil element, -Colonel Thompson was a whig, hut has since been a states rights democrat. His political convictions are so intense, and he is so per sistent and bold. In expressing them, that he has often been’-.hargud with’ prejudice, - hi in reality he is one of ‘he most liberal .ail- conservative of men. ‘His career .'s’a^poltti- cal editbr is too well known in Georgia to , possessessmg mimierjr. He is beloved by him intimately. naught rangers) and the eighiy-fourth, an English I Prather I Z Newborn Charlie Willmmhbv regiment Thursday night the Connaughts, as- I w ’T w;!m.,„ui',? r A’ sisied by the mob, attacked tlie picket of the En- I Henry Hallman, \ V. J. \Villoughby, J. D. glishaud cheered for Ireland. There were several Carnes, T. C. Henslee, John Grubbs, W. H. jayonet wounds on both sides. | Hilderbraud, S. A. McLarty. The Paris Nationall says: “It is quite possible I Among the remains were,found a gold breast- that M. Koustan, the newly appointed minister to j pin, an old stvle guttapercha puff comb, and the United States, will never go to Washington. U s ilk neck ribbon about one yard long and It appears that he does not desire to cross the j , inches wide in a nerfect state Atlantic, and that the government, iu nominating I° or tnree incues wiue, in a periecc state him for Washington, were chiefly desirous of prov-I °f preservation, except being somewhat ing that by recalling him from Tunis they were I faded, all of which were recognized by the not inflicting any disgrace upon him. | old associates of Mary Bagwell as being her property. The coroner issued his warrant for the arrest of Barney Hargraves and the three Bagwells. It is un- . .. .. .. . - . derstood that the negro, Hargraves accident- superlative lemale excellence may lie accepted as ,, , . i killed himself some two or correct, Dr. Mary Austin is the most admirable I a l Y s n°t anu Killed nimsell some two or woman in France. This lady has just completed | three nnle« from Atlanta a few years since, her thirty-third year of wedded life, during which I The Bagwells were immediately arrested by period she has presented her husband with no I Deputy-Sheriff W. J. Kilgore and placed tton 01 tn'the ? P ring r o? ® foSr^^&H^ ?“? v er t l ^^™^“? P ( SSS 1Cellt ’ the marriage. Mary Austin, nee Klind, passed her final I J U I> form of Douglas superior court, examinations at the medical college of Orleans,and Uradstreet’s Summary of Reports on the Plantation Snpply. Special dispatch to The Constitution. New Y’ork, March 24.—Bradstreet’s has ceived its special report, on cotton from agents all over the cotton states, and their estimates show that only two and one-tenth per cent of tlie crop is now left on the planta tion. The above estimate makes the total of the crop about 5,300,000 bales, if. the estimate is correct. There is received up to last Friday 4,174,000 bales, recieved this week 61,000 bales, stock at interior towns 205,000. This is , , r „ -. , _ T . , . „ „ . . . the cotton actually in sight and amounts to I Voices of the Night, The Spanish Stu 4,500,000. The overland and consumption of | ‘Evangeline, Kavanagh, The last year was 777,000 bales. Make it the same I Golden Legend, besides several volumes of this year and add it and we have 5,277,000 I poems, an edition of Poets and Poetry of bales already received from the plantations I Europe, and not infrequent contributions to this year. Add the two and one-tenth per I fbe periodicals of the day, the North Ameri- cent estimated to he still on plantations, 110,- I can, the Knickerbocker, and Putnam’s. Nor The Mother of Forty-Four Children. From the Boston Transcript. If the Great Napoleon’s famous definition of superlative female excellence may be accepted as obtained diplomas authorizing her to practice in both branches of her profession. As soon as I the Franeo-Prussian war broke out she | joined the army with her husband, aud the prolific pair served with extraordinary dis tinction throughout the four years’ struggle—Dr. Austin in her surgical capacity and Colonel Austin as an active militant. At the conclusion of the war, the valiant doctor, having lost her left eye in the service of hercountry, returned to herprivate prac tice covered with glory and in the enjoyment of a staff officer’s pension. Since then she has lived in peace and honor, the pride of her fellow-citizens, and indefatigable in her endeavors to render her warrior lord the happiest of fathers. W. T. THOMPSON. A Demonstrative Bride and Groom. From the Cambridge News. A lad of Caroline wedded a lass of Galestown, Mil., at six p. m , on February 26, the kuot being . , tied by the Rev. E. C. Adkins, aud as soon as cere- I yonu the grave, mony'was over the happy couple started for the I engraved upon Georgia's history, church to attend divine worship, followed by an 1 v ' " ” " -* anxious crowd of boys, who inquired on every hand who the fellow was that had so unceremo niously entered their peaceful village on that quiet Sabbath evening and captured one of Gales- town’s fairest flowers. They soon learned, how ever, that he was from Caroline. The pair went to church, took a front seat, • listened attentively to tlie discourse, and at the conclusion of the service Death of Georgia’* Oldest Editor and Author. Special dispatch to The Constitution. Savannah, March 24. — Colonel AY. Thompson died at his home this evening, at half-past eight o’clock, after a painful illness of several months. HIS LAST HOURS. His last hours were peaceful, and his mind was clear almost to the end. He died as he had desired, with his loved ones around him and his eyes resting upon the noble wife who had been the ministering angel of his life and his consolation in his last trials. He passed away with a Christian's faith in the nfe be- The impression of his life is s.u.cu Georgia's history. He leaves to his family and his people the legacy of an honorable name. Colonel William Tappan Thompson, the editor of the Savannah Morning News, was born in Ravenna, Portage county, Ohio, on the 31st of August, 1S12. His father vras native of Virginia, and bis mother a native of returned home singing: “My heart to you is given. And jours is given to me; We have lockea them up together And thrown away the key.’’ They Mixed their Babies Up. From the Toronto'Globe. Mrs. Wilson came into the city by a late train one night last week from Belleville. 8he had several children with her. one oi them a baby in arms, which was snugly wrapped up in a huge shawL Another lady arrived from some point west, aud was also the owner of a baby. The ladies placed their babies in the waiting room while they went to look up their baggage. When they returned they took one another’s babies, and the lady from BellviUe drove to Parkdale. and the Dublin, Ireland. Her father took an active part in the revolution of ’9S, and came to this country as a political exile. Colonel Thomp son’s parents were among the pioneers who settled in what was then known as the New England Western re serve—a wilderness inhabited by Indians— and the subject of this sketch was the first white child bom in the township of Ravenna. Colonel Thompson’s mother died when he was 11 years old, and a year afterwards he went to Philadelphia, where he remained some four years. A part of the time he attended school, but his father dying in the meantime, he was deprived of the educational advantages he me inu> mui ueuvine iiniit nu ri»uuc. auu me i - , , j ., _____ , - __ lady from the west to the north end of Y’ouge sought, and was thrown upon bis own re- street. One of the children was a boy and the little girl, and they wen riedly when home was reached. other a little girl, and they were put tj bed hur- 1. The surprise of prove of tilts policy, and this gentleman says | the sex of their babies. Their children were not that the talk of Conkling s accepting office 1 “unmlxed” until Monday. sources. He entered the office of the Philadelphia Chronicle, where he remained about two years, acquiring, in the meantime, a fair knowledge of the printing business. In his seventeenth year he went to Florida as the private secretary of acting Governor West- all who know COTTON. sonable question about languages, authors, literature, mediaeval or modern history, more especially tlie former.” Nor was his influence confined to his col lege classes. He published a successful text book for their uses, occasional articles on lite rary subjects in what was then almost the sole avenue to the American public for the small but interesting coterie.of American ’tors, the “North American Review;” and 6r-iWQ,tran^atiQ«s. ..But. liis .workas an vathor can hgrtfw 1* widii have commenced vacant His passion for preparation had not forsaken him, and lie seized the occasion for another year of foreign travel. But the preparation proved fo he profounder than he had planned; the first great sorrow of his life overtook him in the death of liis young wife at Rotterdam. A PERIOD OF PRODUCTION. Up to this hour his life had been one of 'fiilrin u835 and two years later by “Hyperion.” English literature affords no specimen of greater beauty of simplicity in expression than these prose poems, the second of which Barry Corn wall was accustomed to read through’once a year for the sake of its style. Other works followed in rapid succession during the twen ty years of his Cambridge professorship— lodgers to eke out her scanty income. The house, with its great fireplaces, its generously proportioned rooms, its hospitable hall and aroad staircase, its quaint carvings and tiles is itself an historic poem. The study is a busy literary man’s workshop; the fable is piled with pamphlets and papers in orderly confusion; a high desk in one corner suggests a practice of standing while writing, and lives a hint of one secret of the poet’s singu larly erect form at an age when the body gen erally begins to stoop and th« shoulders to grow round; an orange tree stands in one window; near it a stuffed storfc keeps watch; by tbe side of tire open Sre is the “children's chair;” on the tabic is Coleridge’s inkstand;: upon the walls are crayon likenesses of Em erson, Hawthorne and Sumner; and in one of ' the book-cases, which fill all the spare wall- space an* occupies even one of the windows, are—rarest treasure- of all—the poet’s own works in their original manuscript, carefully preserved in handsome and substantial bind ings. v HCWFEVANGEL<7JK WAS WRITTEN. Colonel P, A. Burr, who reeently jg»d the poet a visit, soys: I hardly hod- time to run my eye ov*r the walls, clad with the rich mementoes of early times and full of the memories of great events, both in war and-peace, mad admire the sicnple comforts of the old parlor, furnished as in priioitive times where culture aud means re sided^ before an old gentleman stepped briskly across the hall from the room directly oppo site, and extending his hand heartily wel comed me to his interesting home. It was the author of “Evangeline.” I was disappointed in his appearance;, for I had fancied from ltis portraits a large, brawny man, something like Walt Whitman, barring the tendency of that eccentric genius to abandon in dress. In stead, here was a man of medium size, a lithe, finely moulded, rather than sturdy, form—“a man of genteel mould,” as it "were. Th* light in his eye and the warmth of his hand showed thnt the eighty years which have rolled over his head have not lttin heavily upon him. His face fa-full of genial expres sion, and the kindly eyes give it a charm: which cannot be pictured with words. “Step- into my library,” said he after the greeting, and he showed tlie way across the hall. Expressing a preference for his “Evangel ine,” I ventured to say, “I see you located the final scene of that beautiful story in Phil adelphia.’’ “Yes, sir. The poem- is one of my favorites also—as much, perltaps, on account of the manner in which I got the groundwork for it as anything else.” “What is the story, please?” “I will tell you. Haw thorne came to dine with me one day, and brought a friend with him from Salem. While at dinner Mr. Hawthorne’s friend said to me, ‘I have been trying to get Hawthorne to write a story about the banishment of tlie Acadians from Acadia, founded upon the life of .a young Acadian girl who was then separated from her lover, spent the balance of her life searching for him, and when both were old found him dying in a hospital.’ ‘Yes,’ said Hawthorne, ‘but there is nothing in that for a story.’ I caught the thought at once that it would make a striking picture if put in v?rse, and sttid, ‘Hawtliore, give it to me for a poem, and promise me that you will not write about it until I have written the poem, HIS WORKS. The sales of Longfellow’s works up to 1857, were 325,750, and of the four leading collected editions, the Diamond, Red Line, Household and Library 194,000 were sold up to the pres ent year. His works have been translated into the following languages: German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, French, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Latin, Hebrew. Marathi, Chinese, ind Sanscrit. He published in all 41 titles, and among them are: Elements ol French Grammar for other gramatical works; Coplas de Man- riques; Outre Mer; Hyperion; Voices of the Night; Ballads and Other Poems; Poems on Slavery; the Spanish Student; tlie Waif; Poets and Poetry of Europe; the Belfry of Bruges; the Estray; Evangeline; Kavanagh; the Seaside and Fireside; Golden Legend; Hiawatha; Courtship of Miles Standish; Tales of a Wayside Inn; Flower de Luce; New England Tragedies; Dantes Divina Corome- dia; the Divine Tragedy; Christus; Three Books of Song; Aftermath; tlie Masque of Pandora; Poems of Places; Keramos; Ulti ma Thule. 000 bales,and we have,as the grand total 5,387,- 000 bales. Under the Stock Law. was his professorship meanwhile a sinecure. I or its duties and labors lightly regarded by | either himself orothers. For 17 vears Longfellow held tlie professor- From the Campbell County News Letter. shi P a t Harvard. In 1842 he went to Europe The first case under the new stock law sys- I a 8 aln > an( l U 1 the next j ear he married for tern came before Justices James and Lee for a the second time* In 18o4 lie resigned his of- hearing last Monday. The facts are, in sub-1 Acebut continued to liveiin Cambridge. In stance, as follows: Mr. Joseph E. Brown is a tenant on Mr. Creel’s place. Miss Fannie Vincent and W. R. Vincent, who live on ad joining lands, had some cows which tres passed on Mr. Brown’s land. He took them 1868 he revisited Europe and received the de- g ree of D. C. L. for Oxford and ambridge universities, and a host of other honors. During his professorship his pen was prolific. Outre-Mer, Hyperion, bp and impounded them,'and notified the Voices of the Night Ballads, the Spanish Stu parties to come after them and pay the ex- d « n '- Poets and Foetry of Europe the Belfry penses and take them away. Misses Fannie I P r . u 8^?> Kavanagh. Seaside and Fireside Vincent and Ella Thomas went over and drove a nd the Golden Legend are among the letters the cows away, without Mr. Brown’s consent, I . bls volumes_ published in that and without ottering to pay damages. Brown I P? no< h Since his retirement came to town and sued out possessory war-1 b ls . professorship Mr. Longfellow has lived rants for the cattle, and the sheriff went up W'ep* 1 Cambridge the greater part of his and arrested the parties and brought them to ‘fe, being varied only by the production of 1 - - • 1 Ins volumes of verse. Mr. Longfellow s fanny town to try the case. After Rearing the evi- | dence in the case the court decided to restore the possession of the cattle to Mr. Brown. The parties will now have to either pay the costs of the suit and the damage and ex penses of keeping the cattle or pay tbe costs of this suit and give bond for the expense and damages to he assessed at the next regular session of the justiee court. SPRING MADRIGAL. The tree-tops are writing all over the sky, Ac’ a heigh ho! There’s* bud now and then flitting faster by, An' a heigh ho! The buds are rounder, and some are red On the places where last year’s leaves were dead; An’ a high ho, an’ a heigh! There’s a change in every bush in the hedge; An’ a heigh ho! The down has all gone from the last year’s sedge; An’a heigh ho! The nests have blown out of the apple-trees: The birds that are coming can bnild where they please; An'a heigh ho, an’a heigh! The aged man goes with a firmer gait; An’ a heigh ho! The young man is counting his hours to wait; An’ a heigh ho! Mothers are spinning and daughters are gay, And the sun hurries up with his lengthened day; An’ a heigh ho, an’ a heigh! The signs may be counted till days are done; An’ a heigh ho! And watchers can listen while waters run; An’ a heigh ho! Old men in sunshine may skip or tarry. Young men and maidens can joy and marry; An’ a heigh ho, an’ a heigh! consisted of two sons, one of whom, Ernest, is a distinguished artist, and three daughters, one of whom married a son of R. H. Dana, Jr.; the other two lived with him in the cele brated Cragie house. LONGFELLOW AT HOME. About half a mile or so from Harvard col lege, a little hack from the elm-shaded avenue stands an old-fashioned square house with a broad piazza looking out upon its garden, arfd its front windows commanding a view of the quiet and unostentatious Charles river. This is the Craigie mansion, and it has been Mr. Longfellow’s home ever since 1836. It was then in the possession of the widow Craigie, a gentlewoman who had seen better days and was humbly proud of thelfact. Mr. Longfel low’s first application for lodging at her door was repulsed with the remark, “I do not take students,” but when the old lady learned that the youth of twenty-eight was a college pro fessor she relaxed her dignity trifle, and consented to let him chamber in the second story, which to this day serves as a sort of second library whither his volumes depart when placed on the retired list. It was Duilt, probably, not far from tbe middle of the last century; an iron in the back of one of the chimneys, bearing the date 1759, serves as a kind of birthmark. At the beginning of the revolu tion it was purchased by the colonial govern ment, and became Washington’s headquart ers alter the battle of Bunker Hill. The po et’s present study was Washington’s room the parlor opposite was Lady Washington’: parlor; the large room in the rear, now con- _ _ _ , _ , . _ _ verted into a family library;'was appropriated But J£f~. S somethili e uncounted, unseen, that to the a i de s-de-camp. After the revolution Mr. Craigie bought it with its two hundred comes; Au’ a heleh ho! If you leave it out you can’t prove your sums An’ a heigh ho! And this is the way to say it, or ring: “Oh, spring is the loveliest thing in spring!" An’ a heigh ho, an’ a heigh! —fi.H. IN GENERAL. acres; but the grandeur of the establishment was too much for his purse. When he left it to his widow the estate was re duced to eight acres, aud the widow to the necessity of taking In England king cotton is now known as Old Sandy?’ Huge sunflowers and lilies are fastened to the new Easter cards. At Cairo, Illinois, a huge catfish was caught in the parlor of the hotel. “If I rest, I rust,” is a German proverb. If 1 trust, I bust,” is the American version. The friends of Congressman Crapo, of .Mas sachusetts, are confident that he will be nominated for governor. The Chinese had circulating libraries six teen centuries ago, agents traveling around to dis tant points leaving the books, und later collecting them. The voters of Iowa have a little more than three months to consider whether they will vote for or against the prohibitory amendment to the con stitution. The election will be held on J une 27. Over 60 hours has elapsed since a confed erate 50-cent piece was bought in New York for $870,. and nota note of alarm has been sounded by either the Bangor annihilator or the Concord extermina tor.—Boston Post. There are in the world not far from 225,000 miles of railways; of this amount, as stated above, this country possesses about 100,000—a little less than half. New York state has almost as many miles of road as all Asia and more than all South America, while Massachusetts has more than all Africa A ranch of 8,000 acres located near Bexar county, Texas, is used for the breeding of saddle ponies. There are on the ranch forty-five Shetland mares and one hundred Zacatecas ponies, all for breeding purposes. The Zacatecas—spotted Mexi can ponies—are a small, hardy race, raised in the mountains of Mexico, and universally good saddle ponies. The Shetland, Arab and Zacatecas ponies are hardy as goats, cost no more to raise, and are very gentle. Dr. Hammond says: “Eat plenty of well- cooked and nourishing food. The nerves cannot bekepthealthyonslops. Gruels, panadas and teas are well enough in their way, but the nerves re quire for their proper nourishment undiluted ani mal and vegetable food; asa rule the former should predominate. Meat-eaters are rarely troubled with nervousness. Americans eat more vegetables than any other well-to-do people, and they are probably the most ‘nervous’ nation on the face of the earth.’ Mb. Fawcett, the postmaster general* of England, said in the honse of commons the other day that the female telegraphists and clerks em ployed by the post-office had given general satisfac tion. So much was that the case the employment of women had been gradually and steadily extend ed. Any claims they had to promotion would be carefully considered, and he could readily give an assurance that he would lose no opportunity ot ex tending the employment of women whenever it could be done with advantage to the public service. The sensation created last year in Parisian swelldom by the legal annulment of a runaway marriage contracted in England by a young beauty of noble family, Mile, d’lmecourt, and the son of MusurnsBey, the Turkish ambassador, is again brought to mind. It will be remembered that a few weeks after Mile. Imecourt’s marriage mater nal barbarity separated the lady from the husband •. of her heart, ana left her neither maid, mother, wife or widow, but alittle of all four. lime. Ime- court had seventeen fresh matrimonial proposals for her daughter’s hand. It is now rumored tha PriuceGalitzinistobe the happy man. Turkey has .grin lieen cutout by her traditional enemy, the Russian