Newspaper Page Text
VOL. V.-NO. 49.
GENERAL NEWS.
A new directory puts the population
of Little Rock at 23,763.
Sassafras root is on a boom in Win
ston, Miss., where a mill has been star
tod to grind it.
Wilkes county, Ga, voted on the
stock law Monday, and gave a majority
of seventy for “no fence.”
In the southern part of Louisiana
many plantations will yield this year one
and a half hogsheads of sugar per acre.
The Pensacola, Fla., navy yard has
been virtually closed. Only enough
employes left to look after the property.
Fifty-two students are registered at
the colored National School at the Lin
coln Academy, at Tallahassee.
Col Klllebrew, of Tennessee, has
gone to Mexico to work the Polk mines.
He says they are worth 83,000,000.
It is claimed in Atlanta that Atlanta
people own at least twenty silver mines
in Mexico, all believed to be very pro
ductive.
The Lady Ensley mining and manu
facturing company have purchased 75,-
000 acres of ore’land in Franklin,Colbert
and Marion counties, Ala.
It will require four cars to bring the
Escambia, county, Ala., big tree to the
Louisville Exposition. It is 117 feet
long, and will be used as a flag pole in
front of the exposition building.
Bids for building the new Navy Hos
pital at Hot Springs, Ark., are rapidly
coming in. There is an appropriation of
8100,000 for this purpose. Work is to
begin bv the 20th of August.
In a portion of Lake and Attala coun
ties, Ala., a worm resembling the cotton
worm has made its appearance. Several
head of mules have been killed recently
by eating oats with the insects on them.
A herd of 4,000 cattle, mostly cows
and heifers, passed through Fort Worth
Texas, the other day, for the New Mex
ico Land and Cattle Company, a Boston
corporation.
A company organized in Washington,
D. C., lately has purchased six thousand
acres of land in Polk county, Fla., and
will raise oranges, limes, lemons and
other tropical fruits.
The total number of failures in South
Carolina the past six months is forty
eight, with liabilities amounting to $657,
755. The number of failures for the
corresponding period of 1882 was sixty
eight, and the liabilities amounted to
$626,517.
The Board of Health have issued a
proclammation that all vessels from in
fected ports arriving at Pensacola with
yellow fever on board shall remain at the
quaranteen station until frost. The re
gret is general that Ship Island station
for infected vessels has been closed.
At the United States Land Office at
Gainesville, Fla,, during the month
ending Jund 30, 134 homestead entries
were made, embracing 17,704.08 acres.
Forty-six final proofs were made, con
taining 4,977.96 acres. The total re
ceipts of the oflice for the month were
$75,018.27.
The Peters place at Enterprise, Fla.,
was sold recently, under foreclosure of
mortgage for $12,000, bought by Fred
erick de Bary. The mortgagor had be
fore refused $19,000 for it. It is said
Lord Peters spent too much time and
money in Jacksonville to make an orange
grove successful.
A circular giving an exhibit of the
trade in crude and manufactured phos
phates in South Carolina shows the
shipments of fertilizers to have increased
from 22,589 in 1871 to 130,000 tons in
1883. The shipments of crude phos
phates rose from 132,626 tons in 1876 to
355,333 tons in 1883. Much of it goes
abroad.
T. G. Bush,'of Mobile, luis bought the
plantation of W. F. Higgins, one mile
from Oxford, Ala., for $15,000 cash, and
will remove his tine herd of Jersey cattle
to it. He has one of the finest herds in
the South and has bought some of the
finest land in North Alabama. It is un
derstood that he will improve the place
for a summer resort.
Sallie Parmer, of Kosse, Tex., about
ten years old, an adopted daughter of M.
L. Jackson, while climbing in the door
of the crib, accidentally stuck a needle
which was sticking in the bosom of her
dress against the door, running the nee
dle about an inch and a quarter into her
breast, striking the base of the heart.
Medical attention was procured immedi
ately, but she died in about an hour
after the accident.
Ufllton -Xraus.
The Arkansas sheriffs have been in
formed by Gov. Berry that the suppres
sion of the lawlessness now prevailing in
that State must be affected by their own
efforts and those of law' abiding citizens
of then- respective counties. The Gov
ernor sees no necessity for calling out
the malitia to arrest outlaws at a heavy
expense to the State, when the sheriffs
have authority to summon as many per
sons as may be needed to take despera
does into custody.
Florida Times-Union : One of the
best things that has been done by the
Georgia Railroad Commission is the re
cent adopti on of an order requiring the
railroads of that State to furnish means
for protecting merchandise offered for
shipment from damage by the weather.
A Northern or Western railroad which
failed to do this woidd be considered
behind the times, but in the South it is
common to leave cotton, for instance,
exposed to rain and dust w hile awaiting
shipment, of course greatly to its injury.
By such regulations as this, the commis
sion is justifying its existence.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
In an elaborate review' of the pros
pects of the cotton crop, the New York
Financial Chronicle puts the total acreage
this year at 17,449,000 acres, against 16,-
590,000 acres last year—an increase of
5.18 per cent. Texas comes first with
3,102,000 acres, and Georgia comes next
with 2,977,000. As to maturity, the
plant is backward, but of late the growth
has been rapid.
The postoffice department has issued
a circular notifying postmasters of the
proposed reduction in rates, which goes
into effect on the first of October. The
object of the department is to have the
present stock of material reduced to as
low a point as possible. The new two
cent stamps will be ready for delivery on
the fifteenth of September.
The Cremation Society, of Philadel
phia, is gradually grow ing, and now has
a membership of over forty. The offi
cers say that the prejudice against cre
mation is daily growing less bitter, and
express the hope that with time and
patience they may at length succeed in
estabfishing a crematory in Philadelphia.
The directors of the Suez Canal Com
pany unanimously approved the agree
ment relating to a second canal arrived
at between DeLesseps and the English
government, but the scheme grows in
unpopularity in England.
w 1
Forced Labor In Egypt.
The conditions of forced labor do not
seem to differ much in the different parts
of the country. Nowhere do the labor
ers receive any pay, or food, or shelter,
while their treatment by the : r task-mas
ters would seem to be simply brutal.
Mr. Stuart describes the systi m as he
saw' it in operation in the province of
Keneh, in Upper Egypt, where a new
canal was being excavated. A cut of
about eighteen feet in depth had been
made through a conglomerate of sand
and gravel; this was flanked right and
left by high embankments constructed of
the material removed from the trench,
and along the bottom and on the slopes,
“men swarmed thickly, like bees on a
honey-comb, for a distance of about a
mile in length.” The entire strength of
the impressable labor in the province,
amounting to about 40,000 men, was
concentrated on this work. The men
toiled from sunrise to sunset, with the
thermometer at 82 degrees in the shade,
having only a brief interval at midday
for a meal of bread soaked in unfiltered
Nile water. This, with a similar meal
before beginning and after leaving off,
constituted the day’s dietary. The la
borers provided their own baskets for
carrying the excavated soil, and their
own tools, when they used any, bnt most
employed their fingers. Overseers walked
about among them armed with sticks,
with which they struck the men whih
they were carrying loads upon their
heads, often without any apparent rea
son. At night they slept upon tin
ground almost without clothing and
quite without shelter, though the ail
was often very cold. Mr. Stuart has
seen negro slaves at work in the cotton
plantations of Cuba, and the convicts at
Portland, and both were to be envied, in
his opinion, by the Egyptian fellahs.
The Pope’s Circular.
The full text of the Pope’s anti-Parnell
circular as sent from Rome to Ireland is
given. His Holiness directly condemns
the Parnell testimonial fund now being
raised in Ireland and the United States,
and savs it cannot be tolerated that any
ecclesiastic should promote it. His Holi
ness also gives a reminder of his man
late absolutely condemning every
collection raised to inflame popular pas
ion or to aid rebellion, and warns the
clergy of their duty to curb the excited
feelings of the multitude. The news
'rom Ireland leads to the belief that this
circular of the Pope has had the desired
effect, and that the Irish clergy have
wholly withdrawn from the political
work in which many of them have l>een
engaged.
DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1883.
CORONACH.
He is gone to the mountain,
He is lost to the forest,
Like a summer-dried fountain,
When our need is the sorest.
The fount re-appearing
From the rain-drops shall borrow ;
But to us comes no cheering,
To Duncan no morrow !
The hand of the reaper
Takes the ears that are hoary,
But the voice of the weeper
Wails manhood in glory.
The autumn winds rushing,
Waft the leaves that are nearest,
But our flower was in flushing,
When blighting was nearest.
Fleet foot on the correi,
Sage counsel in cumber,
Red hand in the foray,
How sound is thy slumber?
Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou are gone, and forever.
Walter Scott.
Ralph Terrill’s Courtship.
In front a moonlit, dimpling sea; on
cither hand a stretch of level beach,
ghostly and dim; behind, the mighty,
black-browned cliff’s, with here and
there a tree leaning f ir out, as though
half tempted to try the fearful leap
toward the sea benath; and between
sea and cliff a pair of lovers.
Happy, yet trembling ; trusting all to
the rosy god, yet dreading to dare pater
familias!
“It won’t do, Nell. He’ll never con
sent ! You remember he told me last
spring that he did not care for money,
but that the man who Avon his daughter
mist have performed some valorous deed
to prove his worthiness of the precious
trust. It’s a queer notion, pet. Why,
my beloved, it is an insult to talk ol
winning you! I love you, but to win
you I never hope, except by the power
of that love!”
The handsome fellow bent his sac
toward the girl at his side and a suspi
cions sound danced out across the glim
mering waves.
“But, Ralph dear, perhaps fathei
will—”
“ No, Nell, no ; he never will,” inter
rupted her lover, again drawing hei
close to him. “ I know what you would
say—that he may change. But it’s im
possible. Darling, we must either waif,
wait indefinitely, or else—”
A second time he bent toward the
sweet cheek and whispered a few words
in the listening ear.
The girl started.
“Oh, Ralph! don’t—don’t! You know
that I could never dothat! What! run
away—elope? Oh, my darling, do not
speak of such a thing! I shall love yon
for ever, but this I cannot do?”
The young man soothed his com
nanion with low words and tender, and
plead his love and longing as a reason
for the proposal, but when the moon,
whose blushing face had been hidden
behind a great rift of cloud, peeped forth
again, the lovers had risen and were
moving along the beach toward the
more frequented part of the shore.
Ralph Terrill was only a young lawyer
struggling into practice, while Nellie
Trevillion was the beautiful daughter oi
old Jeremiah Trevillion, one of the
wealthiest men in the State.
By chance the young people had met.
ind meeting had loved ; bnt how hope
lessly those only knew who had learned
the foibles of old Jeremy, when over his
wine his tongue was loosened. As Ter
rill had said, he cared little for money
with a son-in-law; but for some unknown
reason he had fixed upon a hero for his
daughter’s husband. To win Nellie
Trevillion a man must first prove him
self-a knight of “ye olden time;” and
the chances of attaining such fame were
few enough in the nineteenth century.
Nevertheless, so ran the edict; and al
though Terrill had, by his gentlemanly
bearing and successful pleading of cer
tain cases, gained the esteem of his de
sired father-in-law, yet he knew too well
that any hint of his affection for Nellie
would at once turn him from the door.
And so it was that the young people
might, as yet, only love and hope, but
not marry.
One ally, however, they had in Nellie’s
uncle, a retired merchant and an old
“bach”—Dwight Trevillion—and to
him they confided all their troubles.
Chis sage old party listened and advised,
but as yet no result had been reached
uni the future remained dim enough,
were it not for the light of glowing trust
md love. Thev would watch and wait
Early morning on the coast; ami as
the bright beams of the happy sun
kissed all the little waves awake, bright
ening the face of the smooth beach, two
stalwart figures were seen to emerge
from a cottage and turn toward the sea.
It was Jeremy and Dwight Trevillion,
the brothers, bound for a day’s fishing.
They entered their boat, spread their
canvas, and Were seen sailing gently
away before the light land breeze—alone
for these gentlemen were thorough
sportsmen, and desired no third party in
their trips. This morning, however, ere
they embarked, Dwight Trevillion had
expressed a half hope that some man
might be stirring, whose services they
could engage, “to attend to the boat
while thev fished.”
But his brother laughed him to scorn.
“Bosh, Dwi! Why should we need
a bothering ignoramus with us to-day
more than on Tuesday last, when w<
went crabbing ? ”
“Ob, no reason,” replied the oth-r,
hesitatingly, “only I thought if we
wanted to go far from our boat it would
be better.” t
| “Well, we can toss her anchor over,”
• replied Jeremy, “and she’ll wait for us.
Don’t let us have a man."
Just as the chimes of the far away
village clock rang across the smooth water
for six o’clock the Seagull ground her
forefoot upon the fine white sand of a
small sandbank, perceptible at low tide,
and the Trevillion brothers embarked.
“ Now for a jolly day,” said Jemmy,
as he prepared his tackle, undisturbed.
“ Stick that little anchor in the beach,
Dwi, and we’ll go to the lower point.”
The other obeyed, and with rods am
fines the gentlemen strolled away to
ward their destination.
A little later two young people met
upon the cool piazza of the Trevillion
cottage,
“My darling!” whispered Ralph
Terrill, stealing a kiss ; “ your bright
sweet face pales the beauty of this
glorious morning, even ! ’’
“Oh, Ralph!” cried Nell, laughing;
“ what a Persian compliment i And, my
love, may I not say that the brightest
morning is dull until I have seen your
face ? ”
“My queen!” ejaculated the young
lover, his eyes dancing. “But, dearest!
this day more than all others will, j
trust, be a bright one to us. Come,
sweetheart, sit here a moment and I will
tell you.” And he drew a chair to her
side. “I have a plan. If it succeeds
your father will have given his consent
to our marriage before another morning
brightens the earth I”
And with Nellie’s hand clasped in his,
Ralph half whispered the modus oper
and! in her ear.
“Splendid!—splendid! Oh, Ralph,
vou darling!” And her white, plump
■.rms wereabout his nock and two soft,
ripe lips repaid the recital ‘ Oh, my
love, then you will be with me always !”
she continued, witi a charming blush.
“ And Uncle Dwight helped ic Contiiv<
dl this ?”
“ Yes, sweet, it was his plan. I am
out a factor h. it. But it will be sure to
succeed if the weather remains fair.
Vnd now, silence. Notaword of it until
the end comes. Once safely wedded, i f
your father must know, we can tell him.
But a hint of any conspiracy now would
lose the day forever.”
With mutual promises of secrecy the
lovers parted.
Slowly the day wore on. The morn
ing sun grew older, and proud of his
strength, beat upon the earth beneath
with noon-day beams; then regretting
his passion as the hours flew by, he drove
rapidly down the western heavens—half
in sorrow—fleecy clouds attending him,
intil just as the crickets began to chirrup,
and the tide come in, he sank to rest in
a bank of rose-colored vapors far in the
distant horizon.
All day long Jeremy and Dwight Trt
villion had fished, lunching beneath the
shadow of the single point of rock that
the sand-bank boasted, and continuing
their sport until the shadows of the
coming night and the swift-rising tide
warned them to desist. Once during the
afternoon Jeremy had proposed return
ing to the boat, but to this Dwight ob
jected.
“ There’s no need. It’s high and dry
now, and will be until the tide turns.
Let us improve our time while we may.’
And so, the fishing being good, they had
remained.
Now, however, they had waited too
long. Night was at hand and the tide
too. They must need hurry.
“We must walk fast,” said Dwight,
as they packed up their tackle and fast
ened their creels upon their shoulders ;
“ the tide is higher than I thought.”
“But you fastened the boat?” said the
other, in some trepidation. “You
dropped the anchor?”
“Yes,” replied the brother, “but it
was tripped, you know, and when the
water swings it clear there’s nothing to
keep the boat at her moorings. ”
“ You don’t mean to say that there’s a
chance of such a thing happening?"
said Mr. Trevillion the elder.
“Indeed, I do!” replied the other,
hurrying onward “for the sea is com
ing up rapidly. You know the tide cov
er's this place entirely. We must get to
the boat!”
“ Good heavens !” cried Jeremy; “this
is horrible ! Are we to drown, then ?”
The surf was now breaking upon the
little bank in long, steady wavi s;
each moment the strip of sand grew more
narrow, and behind there could be heard
the roar of the ocean among the rocks
where they had eaten dinner. Retreat
was no longer possible.
“ I mean to say this,” said the younger
man; “ we are in a trap, and unless we
gain our boat, or succor comes from tin*
shore, within twenty minutes the sea will
be upon us.”
“My poor Nellie!” groaned Jeremy; i
and together they ran onward.
Suddenly Dwight, who was in advance,
stopiied with a sharp, “ Look !
Through the night they could see be
fore them the outline of their boat. She
was twenty rods away, rocking upon the
swells and drifting from them !
Trevillion uttered a long, hoarse cry,
and threw up his arms in despair.
“We are lost!" he groaned; ' we
shall both be drowned I” And the waves
lapped their very feet.
“ Hold on !” said the brother; we ic
not lost yet. Can you swim ?”
“No!”
“ Neither can I. We must shout. Per
haps some fishing smack or passing boat |
mav hear us. Come, together—now . ;
Their oices rang out long and loud
over the growing roar of the surf about
them. No answer. .
“Again !” whispered Dwight, gathe
ing his breath. I
A second shout went blindly out in o
the darkness. This time it was faintly
answered. Jeremy seized his brother s
arm.
“ Listen ! Some one comes ! Heaven
be thanked I”
The old man was trembling from his
terrible fright. Another call brought a
second answer, and then, as the cries of
the two men continued, the sonnl of
oars was heard .tear and still nearer, un
til a small boat containing tw A men could
be distinguished ir the gloom. It stopped
outside the surf, which was now break
ing with a heavy roar upon the low sand
>anks each instant rising higher alanit
the Trevillions.
“Boat ahoy!” cried Dwight; “come
in and take us off! Our craft has drifted
away and we shall drown !”
“All right, sir!” responded a cheery
voice, “we’ll be there directly!” and
again the craft was headed toward
them.
“ That’s young Terrill I I know his
voice,” said Jeremy.
“A fine fellow, too,” replied Dwight.
“ He’ll'save us now, surely. He is brave
—Look out! Ah !”
The rescuers’ boat had been caught
by the tumbling surf and overturned.
Its occupants were seen clinging to the
side as it rolled and tossed in the break
ers.
There was a moment of wild strug
gling, and then, borne upon the crest of a
coming wave, boat and men were hurle<
into the sea of foam that frothed about
the Trevilfions and four half-drowned
adventurers stood knee deep in the rising
ocean.
“Great heavens !” cried the fair Nel
lie’s father, as he strove to keep his feet,
and grasped the arm of his would-be
son-in-law. “Great heavens ! now we
are lost!”
“Not so, sir I” cried young Terrill,
peering across the white line of breakers
into the night beyond—“not so, sir.
Deputed by your fair daughter to row
here and see that you were safe, I em
ployed this honest boatman and came—
came to find you in danger and to seek
to save the life of one precious to hei
whom I love better than life itself I And,
sir, my mission shall not be in vain !
Stand here, Owen,” he continued to his
boatman, “and assist these gentlemen.
As for me, I will swim to yonder boat,
which I can see tossing beyond thesi
cruel waves, and return with it or perish
in the attempt! Not a word, sir,” h<
went on, as Jermey Trevillion would have
spoken. “I love your daughter. Let
me show how much love can do for love’t
sake. Because I love her I will risk my
fife for yours, sir! I will gain that boat
and save you, or die !”
And with these tragic words, Ralph
plunged into the sea.
“Brave boy I —brave boy !” sobbed Mr.
Trevi llion, as the dauntless rescuer dis
appeared. “Oh, Dwight!—such a man
is a hero ! Such a man is worthy of Nellie,
and she shall marry him if she will, do
we but live to see the shore again.”
His brother only pressed his hand,
and the three figures stood silent, braced
against the hurrying waves that each
moment burst against them, rising
higher and higher. Suddenly a shout
rang in their ears, then another, and al
most before they could believe it, the
boat loomed through the night before
them.
“Men ahoy ! Stand by to take hold ol
this line!”
“Ay, ay, sir!”
A rope whirled through the air. The
boatman caught it, a little craft plunged
into the surf close at hand, there was a
general scramble, a flap of sails, and
then the Seagull bore away with four
drenched but happy men aboard, and
breakers tossed alone upon the shal
low.
Ralph had won his bride. The praise
of his prospective father-in-law knew no
bounds; nor did he offer a word of objec
tion to the proposal of the longing lover
that their nuptials be celebrated on the
earliest possible day.
“Take her, my boy. You have won
her,” said the happy old gentleman, on
the following morning, when the two
young people stood before him.
But to this day Uncle Dwight hns
kept silent as to liis part in Ralph’s
courtship, and his brothel will never
know that he purposely tripped th*
anchor short, so that the Seagull might
drift away; that Terrill was to be on
hand for a ret cue, and that the tide
never Covel's the sandbank to a greater
depth than four feet, except in the most
furious storms.
A Man With a Movable Interior.
A man who was brought into the mu
nicipal court recently by Officer McCar
thy is fearfully and wonderfully made,
surely enough, says the Minnesota, 1 ri
bune. The different parts of his internal
anatomy are so pliable and the ligaments
that hold them together so elastic, that
he can, when not satisfied with nature s
arrangement of his internal organs, re
arrange them apparently to suit himself.
He looks like an ordinary seal browi
negro, but claims to be a Zulu, and :
descendant of King Cetawavo. Before
the horrified magistrate he exhibit*
some wonderful feats. His heart ho
brought up to a position just in front oi
his right shoulder blade. He exhibited
a double set of ribs, the ordinary one tc
cover his pectoral region and anothe.
for the protection of his abdomen. He
was just going to pull his diaphragm
over his head like a nightcap, when the
terrified Judge thought he had seen
enough, and wisely determining that he
was a dangerous citizen to have around
St Paul sent him to the workhouse for
twentv-five days on the charge of drunk
and disorderly, but remitted the Density
ou condition of the poor fellow s leaving .
town.
TEEMS: SI.OO A YEAS.
A Little Money.
A woman ought to have her own purse,
great or small, whichever it may lie ;
ten, fifty, a hundred, or a thousand dol
lars, according to circumstances, but her
own, for which she accounts only to her
self.
Would you know “ why”—you gentle
men who make your wives render an ac
count of pins and farthings ?
Well, then ; A maid-servant knocks
down a teacup, a servant breaks a glass ;
or suddenly teapot, cup, and glass all at
once fall in pieces, and nobody has
broken them, and so on. The wife who
has not her own purse, goes to her hus
band, relates her misfortune, and begs
for a little to make good the damage.
He scolds the servants, his wife, who
ought to look after the servants.
“ Money, indeed ! A little money !
Money does not grow out of the ground,
nor yet is it rained down from heaven.
Many small brooks make a great river,”
arid such like.
At last he gives a little money, and
remains often in a very ill humor.
Again, if the wife has her own little
purse, then such little vexations never
come near him. Children, servants,
misfortune, remain the same, but nodis
order is remarked—all is made right, as
at first—all is in order, and the head of
the house—who perhaps with the great
est ease could lay down a thousand dol
las at once—need not for a few pence,
squeezed out at different times, lose the
equipoise of his temper, which is as
invaluable to the whole house as to him
self.
And dost thou reckon as nothing, thou
unfeeling nabob, those little surpluses —
thpse little birth-day and name-day
pleasures with which thy wife can give
herself the delight of surprising thee—
those thousand small pleasures which,
unexpected as falling stars, gleam like
them on the heaven of home, and which
must all come to thee from the affection
of thy wife through a little money, which
thou must give to her in the gross in
order to receive again in the small, with
rich interest of comfort and happiness.
To every true woman’s heart it is i»
describably delightful to give— to feel
itself alive in the satisfaction and happi
ness of others ; it is the sunshine of the
heart. Besides this, a little freedom is
so refreshing.
-
The South American War.
A Chili correspondent says that if Ca
ceres’ bands had been put out of the way
earlier, peace between Chili and Peru
would have been drawn much nearer.
He has kept the whole of the depart
ments of Junin and Huarocbiri in an
archy during the past two years. He
has plundered for himself and officers,
while exposing the poor docile Indian
troops, with slings and shotguns, to the
withering fire of Gatling guns and re
peating rifles. He has allowed his men
to commit atrocities on wounded Chil
eans which have led to reprisals and to
whole villages being burned down and
their inhabitants scattered. In fact, if
he had never had command of a soldier
thousands of lives uselessly sacrificed
would have been saved. One instance
of his manner of fighting was afforded at
Chancay, where he made a fair bolt,- and
by the instructions he gave the few
poor wretches he left to guard the
mouths of the valleys leading to the in
terior. They strewed the road with tor
pedoes and waited to see the Chileans
blown up who were going to attack them.
Soldiers who see their comrades blown
in the air by these torpedoes are not in
clined as a rule to give quarter. They
are the same torpedoes which were used
in the defense of San Juan, where they
killed more Peruvians than Chileans.
The Young Men.
In a letter from Mississippi, M. Quad
says:“l want to speak a word for the
young men of Grenada, they are enter
prising, reliant and full of energy.
There are no idlers among them. They
run neither to drink nor cards nor
horses. They have accepted the situa
tion and taken the only way to better it.
And what is true of that town is true of
all towns in the State. I did not see
one case of intoxication among the
voung men of Mississippi in a two weeks’
tour. It was rare to find one out of em
ployment. It was an exception to find
one dissatisfied. On the contrary, it is
the young man who takes, the most
hopeful view, who bothers the least with
politics, and who is the most ready to
pull off his coat and give the wagon a
lift out of the rut. ”
What They Weighed.
The average weight of 20,000 men and
women weighed at Boston in 18(54 was .
Men J4lj pounds; women, 124 J pounds,
at the receut Cincinnati Industrial Ex
position the Department of Scientifi
and Educational Appliances detailed a
clerk to record the weights of Western
men and women. The numl»er weighet
was 22,115, and the total weight was
3,072,306 pounds. The men weighed
number 7,467, weighing 1,150,108
oounds The women weighed numbered
14 668, weighing 1,922,198 pounds.
The average weight o‘ each man was
154 02 The average weight of eacn
woman was 130.87. The average weight
of 141 men from Ohio was 157.38, the
average weight of 133-
26. The average weight of 124 men
from Southern Indiana and Illinois was
158 52 pounds ; the avera £® weight f
03 women was 133.55. The average
weight of 111 men from
158/82 pounds; the average weight of 188
vomen was 133.76.