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VOLUME IV.
Railroads.
Chickasaw Route,
VIA
MEMPHIS & CHARLESTON R, R,
two PASBENGFR TRAINS DAILY
MEM RAIS, TENN.
1 PASS. EX.
17 Chattanooga 830 a m 810 p m
ST Stevenson 10 00 am 9 45pm
I, Scottaboro 10 35 a m 10 22 p m
I, Huntsv-l!e 1205 p m...„1l 55pm
u 5, ecatar 125 pm 100 am
Florence 12 00 n’n 2 10am
„ £ orin j h T 5 31pm 521 am
Urand Junction..., 727 p m 725 a m
Arr Memphis ,\. 930 p m 945 a m
se 010 connection is made at Memphis
with the Memphis & Little Rock
Railroad for all points in
ARKANSAS, AND TEXAS.
The time by this line from Chattanoo
sra to Memphis, Little Rock, and points
beyond, is five hours quicker than by any
other line.
Through Passenger Coaches and Baggage
Cars from
CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROCK
Without Change.
No Other Line Offers these
Advantages.
tickets now selling at
the lowest rates.
For further information call on or
write to J. M. SUTTON,
Passenper Agt., Chickasaw Route,
P- O. Box 224. Chattonooga, Tenn.
Alai Seat Sonthem E’y
Time Card,
Taking effect January 15tb, 1882.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 1. Mail.
Arrive. Depart.
Chattanooga A M 8 25
Wauhatchie 840 do 841
Morganviile 869 do’”"* 900
Trenton 916 do 917
Biting Fawn 937 do 938
Attalla 12 20 do 12 35
Birmingham 265 do 301
Tuscaloosa 523 flb 525
Meridian 10 00 do
Charles B. Wallace, H.Collbran,
Superintendent. Gen’l Pass. Agt
KaskTille, Cbattancoea Si Si. lonis R’y.
AHEAD OK ALL COMPETITORS.
BUSINESS MEN, TOURISTS, n CM rM orn
EMIGRANTS, FA MI LI MS, 11 L 111 t IYI Dt K
The Meat Route to Lmiaville, Cincinnati. Indi
anapolia, Chicago, and the North, is via Nh-
Tllle,
t LT *!?** ’*■< to S. Louis and the West is
via McKenzie.
*'““'** ,s Went Tennessee and Ki-
Jr' 8 ' 881 ? 1 - Arkansas and Texas roints is
via McKenzie.
DON’T FORGET IT.
—By this Line you secure the—
MAY I MUM ° f Safity,
111 HAI In U 111 Comfor, Satisf ad lon
MINIMUM or Expense. Anxiety,
m I If I lIMJ In Rother, Fatlerne.
Re sure to buy your tickets over tne
N. C. So St. L. R’y.
THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV
ELER need not go amiss ; few changes
nre necessary, and such as aie unavoida
ble are made in Union Depots.
Sleepers
BETWEEN—
Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta snd Lou
ißville,, Nashville and St. Louis, via Co
lumbus, Nashville and Louisville, Nash
ville and Memphis, Martin and St. Louis,
Union City and St. Louis, McKenzie and
Little Rock, where connection is made
wi th Through Sleepers to all Texas pionts.
p 5 Call on or address
A. B. Wrenn, Atlanta, Ga.
J. H. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Tenn.
W. T. Rogers, P. A. Chatanoopa, Tenn.
W. L. Danley, G. P. and T. A.,
Nashville, Tenn.
Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293, meels
first and third Saturday nights of each
month. J. W. Russey, W. M.
S. H. Thurman, Sec’ty.
Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meeta once a
a month en Friday night on or before
the full moon.
W. U. Jacovay. W. M.
i G. M. Ora ' pee, Sec’ty.
Trenton Chapter No. I R. A. 'M.,
meets on the third Wed esiay night of
each month,
M. A. B. Tat uni, H. P.
W. U. Jacoway, Sec’ty.
Court of Ordinary meets on firsts Mon
day cf each month.
G. M. Crabtree Ordinary.
S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk
B. P‘ Majors, Sheriff,
Joseph Coleman. Tx Receiver,
D. E. Tatum, Tax Collector,
Joseph Kiser, Coroner.
Wm. Morrison, Surveyor.
RISING FAWN. DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1882
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Selma, Ala., has sixty artesian wells.
Nashville has a total indebtednes fo
$1,526,277.78.
Six editors will hold seats in the next
Georgia Legislature.
The city tax ia Tallahassee, Florada,
is but seven mills on the SIOO.
Gadsden, Alabama, has doubled its
population in the last twelve months.
Georgia’s surplus crop of sweet pota
toes will reach 400;000 bushels this year.
Wall Hing and Tin Sing, two China
men, have embarked in the grocery bus
iness at Nashville.
Florida is making preparations to re
ceive an unusually large number of new
settlers this winter.
The Georgia prohibitionists have
nominated legislative candidates in
tweuty-nine counties.
A meteor fell a few day* ago near
Orange City, Florida, killing a colored
women, whom it struck.
The waterworks at Hot Spring*,
Arkansas, are completed, and are said
to be the best in the State.
Annie Hubbard, who murdered her
ehild in Colbert county, Ala., goes to
the penitentiary for ten years.
The Vicksburg Commercial says la
borers were never in such demand inithe
valley of the Lower Mississippi aa&fow.
A complaint comes fromNwffral por
tions of Florida that the orange crop is
turning out bad, and will be short about
one-third.
The ashes of a common weed, known
by some in Florida as sickle weed, are
almost pure potash, being as strong as
baking soda.
It is believed that the orange crop of
Florida will this year be worth nearly
double that of 1880, which brought over
$672,000.
A West Indian ha* purchased ten
acres af ground near Tampa, Fla., which
he will plant in mulberrie* for the pur
pose of raising silk-worms.
The Vicksburg, Mississippi, papers
complain that, with a population of
from 15,000 to 18,000, they can count
upon but one mail per week.
A cow fell into a pit near Cedar Key,
Fla., and remained there forty'two days
without food or water. When discov
ered the animal presented a pitable pict
ure of pelt and bones, but was still able
to walk.
Dr. W. H Bennett, an eccentric citi
citizen of Meridian, Miss., died a day
or two ago, and his estate, valued at
$50,000- was left to a negro cook, cut
ting off his wife and heirs. The will is
to be contested.
Georgia’s corn crop is the largest
since 1859, and will reach 30,000,000
bushels. The oat crop reached 8,000,000
bushels, and the wheat crop 5,500,000
bushels. It is thought 1,000,000 bales of
cotton will be raised.
Mrs. Ann Talley, of Spottsylvania
county, Va., aged seventy years and in
robust health, became impressed with
the idea that she would die at a certain
hour on a certain day. She prepared
for the anticipated event, and, to
her premonition, her death came.
Goldsboro, (N. C.,) Messenger: A pe
culiar and frightful disease has appear
ed in Northampton and other counties
in the northeastern part of the State.
It is called yellow chills or hemorrhagic
fever, and is generally fatal in its re
sults. Persons affected turn yellow and
vomit blood.
New Orleans will experiment with
mesquite wood for paving streets It
is a native of Texas, partakes almost of
the hardness of iron, is very durable,
and it is believed will make a better
street than granite. It grows abun
dantly in Texas, and can be easily and
cheaply transported.
Mrs. Lizzie Walley, convicted at
Nashville and sentenced to a term of
three years in the pen tentiary for al
leged cohabitation with Gwen Prentis*,
ex-city editor of the World, is said to
be a neice of the distinguished Codfed
erate General Bragg. It is hinted that
Prentiss will be released on bend, and
the case against him will never come to
a trial.
At Columbus, Texas, about twenty
boys, whose ages range from ten to six
teen years, about six months ago organ
ized a band of robbers, and since tha
time have been engaged in stealing.
They undertook to rob a freight car,
which led to their discovery. They had
a cave abross the river where they de-
“Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against Wrong*
posited their plunder. These boys are
sons of respected citizens, and had no
object in theiving other than to gratify
a desire for adventure, which they had
formed from reading dime novels, a
number of which were found in their
headquarters—the cave.
A writer in tne Industrial Review
advises the introduction of the bamboe
in the Southern States. Though capa
ble of growing on the uplands, it is said
to be especially suited to and valuable
for low-lying, marshy regions, such
as fringe the South Atlantic and Gulf
States. Its uses are numerous. Asa
timber for building and construction
purposes, for tools, implements, etc., it
is well known. As an article of food
its young shoots serve as substitutes for
vegetables, and are pronounced as deli
cious. Bamboo curry and chow-chow
are excellent. The growing plant is
invaluable also as a defense against ma
j a ria, sweeping fires and cyclones.
Dominie Stimson’s Wit.
Yesterday’s meeting of the Baptist
ministers was opened with prayer by
Father Stimson, of Kansas. Father
Stimson is eighty years old, and has
breached for fifty years. Stories are
Hold of him in which those who expect
ed to raise a laugh at the old Dominie
found the tables turned against them
selves in the most unexpected manner.
One runs as follows:
Father Stimson owned a good horse,
but the keeping of the beast was some
what of a drain on the Dominie’s pock
et. and he was in the habit of dropping
a hint to his parishioners once in a
while that a little hay would be accept
able. One day a church member asked
him to bring Mrs. Stimson to dinner.
“Certainly,” said Father Stimson.
“and, as it’s haying time, I guess I’ll
Eut some hay on the wagon when I go
ack home.”
"All right. Father,” replied the
church member, “but bring a one
horse wagon.”
Father Stimson took his wife to sup
per in a wagon with an ample hay-rick
that would lurid a hay-stack.
“See here,” said the parishioner, as
he helped Mrs. Stimson out of the hay
rick, “you sa ! d you were going to
bring a one-horse wagon, and now
you’vo p|--?u,vo*i with the matt pupa.,
cious hay apparatus 1 ever saw.”
“Oh, I’ve brought the one-horse
wagon,” said Father Stimson, “but the
hay-rick—that’s a two-liorse hay-rick.”
He drove away after supper with
twenty-two hundred pounds of hay.
Father Srimson was the first to use
Gospel tents in the West. Fie put them
up himself. A fellow who passed him
one mom’ng as he was hard at work on
his tent called to him in a loud voice:
“ Hullo there! Are you going to have
a circus?”
“ Yes,” said the preacher, continuing
his work without looking up, “ and I'm
looking for a baboon. Don’t you want
to hire your.-elf for one?”
The preacher was Chaplain in the
Ninth New York Cavalry in the war.
The Colonel was fond of leading the
soldiers through deep puddles at the
regular drill, and the Chaplain one day
rode around the puddle, and thereby
fell out of the regular order. The Col
onel noticed it, and at the close of the
drill, when the officers came together,
said, with a sneer:
“If Captain Stimson is afraid to ride
through muddy water for soil
ing his clothing, I will carry him across
the puddle myself.”
“Thank you,” the Chaplain Said;
“but as the Government provides
horses, 1 don t see any reason why I
should ride on a iackass.”— N. Y. Sun.
The Kx pensive mss of Modern Warfare.
The cost of modern warfare is fo
great it probably deters nations from
getting into scr.o.is troubles, and for
that reason aids in making arbitration
popular Some idea of the expensive
ness of the bombardment of A’exandria
in .July last may be gathered from the
cost of each round fired by the iron-clad
fleet. Every round fire l from the
eighty-ton guns on the Indexible cost
$127.50 per gun. Tiie tvventv-five-ton
guns, of which the Alexandra carries
two, the Monarch four and the Teme
raire four, cost $35 per round per gun.
The eighteen-ton guns, of which the
Alexandra carries ten, the Sultan eight,
the Superb sixteen, and the Temeraire
four, cost $26.25 per round per gun.
The twelve ton gun , of which the In
vincible carries ten, the Monarch two,
and the Sultan four, cost $lB per roun 1
per gun. The Penelope, which alone
carries nine-ton guns, has eight of them,
which were di-charged at a co<t of
$13.75 per round per gun. The Mon
arch anil the Bittern each fired one >ix
and one-half-ton gun, the co-t being
$8.85 per round per gun. The Beacon
;mcl the Cygnet *liave two sixty-four
pounders each, the cost of discharging
which was $4.50 per round per gun.
The Penelope carries three forty-pound
ers, the Beacon two forty-pounders, and
the Bittern two forty-pounders, theco t
of discharging which was $3 per round
per gun. In addition to this there is a
sum to be calculated for the firing of
the smaller armaments of the Cygnet,
Condor and Decoy. 80-ides the dam
age done to public arid private buildings
ii? Alexandria by the bombardment,
Egypt will have an enormous billto pay
for missiles ami powder expended by
the fleet in causing the destruction on
shore. — Exchange.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Eight ladies have clerkships in the
Oregon Legislature. ...
Oscar Wilds has cleared about
000 out of his lectures alohe.
It is said that there are one million
more pauper* in England than voters.
A orayon portrait of Garfield ha*
been, by suggestion of the Queen, placed
in Westminster Abbey.
Gen. Grant has given it out at
Philadelphia again that he has no inter
est in politics or in the present cam
paign.
It is said that the Rev. Joseph Cook
is to be the editor of the new Congrega
tionalist paper whioh is to be started in
Boston.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Mabel Bayard, daughter of Senator
Bayard, to Mr. Samuel D. of
Boston.
Miss Norton, the young American
prima donna, is meeting with a gireat and
increasing success at the Grand Opera
house, Paris.
Matthew Arnold has discovered that
the great want of the French is moral
ity ; of the Germans civil courage, and
of the English lucidity.
It is said that the invention and sub
sequent improvements of the American
plow made a'saving on laat'/year’s crop in
this country of $90,000,000.
—f
Some one has suggested that Saturday
replace Thursday as ThankegivingrDay.
The idea is not a bad one, as the Combi
nation of two holidays would be a satis
factory combination to most people.
Mr. Henri, V illard, President of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, has of
fered to endow Oregon University with
$50,000 if the State will increase its an
nual legislative allowance from $2,500 to
$5,Q00.
31 -*> toam yacht for .Toy ue
pleted by spring, will be
of i>on and Bteel, and have Ineel boilers.
It will be 210 feet long, 27 feet beam,
and 16 feet deep, and will have 1,500 in
dicated horse ppwer.
The fastest long run by railway ever
made west of Chicago was that by the
Burlington special train which brought
the Vanderbilt party from Burlington—
-207 miies—at the average rate of fifty
nine miles per hour. ’ “•
y--*—
By the death of Sir George Gray, Mr.
Gladstone now sits at the Privy Council
as the senior commoner, having “ kissed
hands on his appointment forty-one
years ago last September, when the
queen had been only four years on the
throne.
The late Daniel Cook, of San Fran
cisco, left a fortune of about $1,500,000.
He was as poor as poverty itself in 1858,
but between that time and his death, at
the age of forty-five years, acquired
from books an education, and from mines
piles of gold.
Mb. Telden is described by the
Yonkers Gazette as greatly enjoying the
newspaper reports of his feebleness,
wliile he takes two carriage drives a day,
usually an hour’s walk, and frequently a
ride of some distance. His eye is bright,
and his mind clear and quick.
The wampum belt which Wm. Penn
gave the Indians in part payment for the
territory now known as Pennsylvania,
afterward reclaimed and held as an heir
loom in the Penn family in England
until 1856, is in the museum of the His
torical Society of Pennsylvania.
Abdul Kerim Pasha El-Zahar, who
is shortly coming to this country to
make arrangements for the emigration of
certain of Arabi Bey’s followers, is one
of the most noted Oriental scholars. He
was graduated at Cambridge University,
England, and he has translated Homer
Into Arabic.
An English artist has come over to
make studies for a painting of the battle
; in Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864 —Far-
-1 ragut’s great victory. The painting is a
private commission, bnt, when com
pleted, an engraving will be published at
London, and the work itself may be ex
hibited in America. . _
Estimates of the damage done at
Alexandria during and after the bombard
ment vary widely. Claims made by the
owners loot np to nearly $17,500,000;
bnt it is said that an eminent authority
has expressed a willingness to rebuild
and refurnish the-.entire property de
stroyed for $6,250,000.
A villain, who claims to bo an officer
in the British army that invaded Egypt,
made a cold-blooded confession to the
London Vanity Fair. “ After some
Egyptian wounded fired on our men,”
he-says, “I ordered every wounded man
to be bayoneted. No end of officers and
men were killed in that way.”
Alexander H. Stephen* declared in
a recent speech at Macon, Ga., that the
rheumatism whiah has disabled him
from walking for the past twelve years,
was contracted during hi* imprisonment
in Fort Warren after the war. “I was
put in a dungeon low down,” he says,
“ damp, dripping with water ; walls five
feet thick. I was there three months.
That,” he added, “is a part of my war
reoord.” _
Anna Dickinson writes to the Phila
delphia Press to say that she has been
slandered by the report that she had
declared against woman’s suffrage. ‘‘No
one but a fool would believe the story,”
she adds. She may have remarked that
there was too muoh voting, but if veual
men have the right, venal women should
enjoy the same privilege. The life com
panions of male brutes “should have on
hand a staff of protection and defense.”
A Connecticut thread manufacturing
company had planned to exhibit at tho
Boston fair the . old fashioned way of
Bpinning and weaving cotton in the
South, but have struck an unlooked for
snag. Their Georgia agent writes them :
“I had arranged with one negro man
and four negro women to go to the Bos
ton fair to spin and weave, and should
have been there now, but some fool
circulated a story that they would be
sold when I got them to Boston, and all
thunder couldn’t convince* them to the
contrary.”
In several provincial district of Fin
land a religions sect has appeared, based
upon the fundamental principal of “fe
male supremacy and male subjection.”
Husbands and lovers bind themselves
by oath to wear whatever yoke their part
ners choose to place upon them, and
furthermore to make unrserved
confession oncs a week of all delinquen
cies, A woman who has been chosen by
nor sls*r ruleio to exorcise unlimited
authority within the community, allots
the! penalties, which are promptly in
flicted by resolute matrons.
Fruit Juices.
There is often a decided objection to
the use of our coarsest fruits, especially
in sickness, or when the stomach or
bowels may be in a sensitive state, on
account of the irritation of the angular
and sharp seeds, and peel or skin. Like
the hull of the wheat—or hulls, as
there are five different layers, which
should be removed, in most if not all
cases, from the flour —these seeds and
rinds are often sources of irritation to
the sensitive coats of the stomach, caus
ing many forms of disease, particularly
in the hot weather. It is exceedingly
fortunate that these juioes do not re
quire digestion like the solids, but, like
water, enter the system unohanged,
there to he assimilated, of course afford
ing nutrition, with no use of the digest
ive apparatus, or but slight effort, that
of absorption. (If desirable, these
juices may be prepared at this season,
thoroughly scalded, canned like fruit,
kept from the air and in a cool place,
and used in the following spring, when
such are exceedingly valuable, especially
for those having debilitated digestion.)
It is very plain that jf they demand
no digestion, still containing 111 of the
nourishment of the berry, securing rest
for the stomach, the dyspeptic, etc.,
may well use this juice as a substitute
for solids, for such a part of the time
as will allow rest, time for the digestive
organs to recuperate and become suffi
ciently strong to perform their usual
amount of labor.
I will here remark that their use all
the time, instead of at the last meal, or
when the appetite may be particularly
imperfect,|would tend to debilitate the
stomach, since, like all unused organs
the time would come when it would lose
the power of action. Asa general
principle, the substitution of these for
solids for one or two meals at most,
using the simplest form of solids, as the
raw egg, or boiled rice, would be as
much as would be advisable, save in
extreme cases, when such nourishment
for a week or less would be a choice of
evils.
Milk should not be regarded as of this
class, since it is solidified before diges
tion. It is not a proper drink between
meals, since it requires digestion like
solids. When there is much feverish
ness, with some appetite, the more acid
juices, like that of the strawberry or the
currant, may prove of gfeafc value with
out sugar, for that is a “heater.” These
tend to reduce feverishness, though, if
too acid, they may irritated.be stomach,
producing the canker.
The fresh juice of the apple—not fer
mented juice, or cider —is very appro
priate and use<pl, the apple containing
more nourishment than the potato.
These juices may be used with great
propriety when the appetite seems wan
ing, or when but little food is indicated,
for nourishment is obtained without
labor. — Gohien Rule.,
W hen we asked onr girl to marry us
she said she didn’t mind- -and we have
since found out that she didn’t. Toledo
American,
TERMS—SI.OO par Annum strictly in Advance.
WIT AND WitttWH.
—An exchange asks: “ What-is Pe
troleum?” It is a very easv method of
getting rid of fire-kindling servants.—
Marathon Independent.
—A Baltimore belle has married a
policeman. His beat was in front of
her house for over a year, and she no
ticed that ha merer snored. —Philadel
phia News- —*>
—ln 1859 eleven ears managed to
ship all the peach crop of Delaware that
was sent outside of the rail.
To-day it takes sixteen engineer4oo cars
and ninety-six men.
—A correspondent wants to know
“how we pronounce Ras-el-Tin?”.,. We
don’t pronounce it at all; we only write
it. Do you suppose we read the
papers to the subscribers?— Courier
Journal.
—The Egyptian war will give about a
hundred paragraphers the opportunity
to say that tne Bedouins are no great
sheiks, and that no matter how they arm
treated they will always Be-do-in some
thing atrocious and inexcusable. War
is, indeed, agreatevil.— Texas Siftings.
—A Chicago ladV who had,, gone into
the country at the invitation of some
relatives, wrote to her husband: “Dear
Charley—When I left home I forgot to
bring my slippers with me. Send them
at once.” She received a telegram thm
next day to the following effect: “Ex
press companies can’t spare the room
to transport thorn. Buy anew pair.”—
Brooklyn Eagle.
—Courage. —“Suffering sisters,” ex
claimed the speaker, energetically
shaking the hair pins from her head in
her excitement, “women will never ob
tain their rights lintil they display more
courage. Let me say to you, in the
words of a famous French orator,
‘Courage! courage! courage!* ” At this
stage of the proceedings somebody
threw a box of caterpillars upon tho
platform and the meeting broke up in
great terror and confusion.— N. Y. Tost.
—A nouveau riche had his house
robbed of several valuable pictures. He
appreciated them because they cost him
a great deal of money, and when he
made his appearance in an art-shop he
was in a very excited state. “I want
you to get my pictures for me,” he
said. “What do you mean?” replied
the polite attendant “Why, I was
robbed of them the other night, and I
oome to you for satisfaction,” was the
answer. “But, my dear sir, we are not
receivers of stolen goo.ls, nor are we
detective officers,” said the dealer.
“Then,” shouted the indignant million
aire, “you had better take in your
sign. ‘Oil-paintingsrestored.’”— Boston
Courier. . • .
PERSONAL A?a> LITERARY. 1
—Prof. Storer, a blind musician *f
North Adams, Mass., has been appoint
ed a teacher in the Royal College for
the Blind at London.
—Wilkie Collins is paying the pen
alty for trespassing upon tne capacity
of that most abused organ of the hu
man anatomy—the eye’ His sight is
failing, and he can no longer read or
write”. He is dependent upon an aman
uensis.—N. Y. Independent.
—Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, of
New York, insists that he is an old man,
and it is true that he suffers from physi
cal weakness in his legs, which disables
him seriously in walking; but he retains
his old simplicity of manner and con
versation. as well as vigor of mind.—
Chicago Journal.
—Mr. and Mrs. Squibbs,- of Sullivan
County, Tennessee, were married about
two years ago, and now seven little
Squibbses make it interesting for the
fond parents. Three of them were
born aboflt a year ago, and the quar
tets are but a week or two old. This
squib is the eighth.
—William S. Jett, the man who led
the soldiers to the hiding place of
Wilkes Booth after the assassination of
President Lincoln, and who, for hi-s
connection with the capture of Booth
and Harold, has been immortalized in
history, was a few days ago sent to the
Maryland State Insane Asylum'a raving
lunatic.— N. Y. Herald.
—One of. the most noted women in
New York journalism is Miss Middy
Morgan, who does the cattle repoxts for
four New York papers, among them the
Tribune and Times. She has acquired
a fund of knowledge of cattle and
horses, both on the fai-m and turf, which
may be envied by tile most experienced
male sportsmen. ,v
—Mr. Mudford, who controls the Lon
don Standard, is sometimes called the
“irresponsible editor.’V .Though he
owns no share in the paper, the late
proprietor’s confidence in him.was so
great that he provided in his will that
Sir. Mudford should have sole control
of the paper while* he lived, or as long
as he might see tit to retain it.
—lt is not generally known, says the
Philadelphia Press, that Mr. Joseph
Sailer, who has recently retired from
the financial editorship of the Phila
delphia Ledger, was riot only the oldest
editor in that position in this country,
bpt the first to write a regular money
article for any daily paper, as the.
Ledger was the first in this country to
print a money article.
—ln a littlef red cottage on the shore
of a lake called the Bowl, near Lenox,
Mass., Hawthorne wrote “The House
* of the Seven Gables.” Mr. J. T. Fields
used to tell of currying out tc him there
one hundred dollars in advance of work,
| but after accepting, Hawthorne’s sensi
-1 tiveness found the obligation irksome,
i and he handed it back. Take it,
| Fields.” said he; “the house isn’t big
! enough to hold it.”
NUMBER 46.