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HOS, J. WATSON, Editor
VOLUME IV.
It ail roads,
Chickasaw^Route^
MEMPHIS & CHARLESTON R, R.
TWO PASSENGFR TRAINS DAILY
TO
memhais, tenn.
T U Chattanoasra 830 a m 8 lO X p m
U Jenson 10 00 am 9 45pm
Scottsboro 10 35 a m 10 22 pm
Huntsville 1205 pm 1155 pm
Decatur 125 pm 100 am
Florence 12 00 n’n 2 10am
„ 2 #n "* h 1 v 5 31pm 521 am
Gvand .Junction.... 727 pm 725 am
Arr Memphis 930 p m 945 a m
ae HMo connection is made at Memphis
with the Memphis & Little Rock
Railroad lor all points in
ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
The time by this line from Chattanoo
ga to Mem phis, Little Rock, and points
beyond, is five hours quicker than by any
*other line.
Through Passenger Coaches and Baggage
(Jars 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
W'iteto J. M. SUTTON, i
Passenger Agt., Chickasaw Route,
P. O. Box 224. Chattonooga, Tenn.
Alai feat Soattiern E'y
'Time Card,
Taking effect January 15tb, 1882.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 1. Mail.
Arrive. Depart.
Chattanooga AM 8 25
Wauhatehie 840 do 8 41
Morganville 859 do Z/T 900
"Trenton. SIC do Ml 7
Rising Fawn 937 do 938
Attalla 12 20 do 12 35
Birmingham 255 do 301
Tuscaloosa 523 do 525
Meridian 10 00 do
Charles B. Wali.ace, H. Colt.bran,
Superintendent. Gen’l Pass. Agt
Mile. (Mamma s st. Louis R’y,
■B USIN essmkn’t. db T hts!d f M r M n U D
emigrants, familims, nLlflEmDLn
t 0 touieville, Cincinnati. Indi
vine ’ Ullc, ‘- 10 ’ an<l ,I,e North, vi
T srX’k?„ o vi* to s - Lou:s 8,1,1 ,he West is
♦ West Tennessee aid Ken
...I: Miaatgsipi, Arkansas and | Tesi s loints
via NeKenile.
DON’T FORGET IT.
—By tlii 3 Line you secure IhQ—
MAYIMIIM ° f
111 HAI In U If! Coml'or, Sallsfaotin
MINIMUM Eipense Anxiety,
Ifl 1 PI I It! U 111 Bother, Fatigue.
Be sure to buy your ticxets over me
N. C. & St. L. R’y.
THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV
ELER need not go amiss; few changes
are necessary, snd such as ate unavoida.
ble are made in Union Depots.
Sleepers
—BETWEEN —
Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou
isville,, Nashville and St. Louis, via Co
lumbus, Nashville and Louisville, Nash
ville and Memphis, Martin and St. Louie,
Union City and St. Louis, McKenzie an-o
Little Rock, where connection is ror.de
with Through Sleepers to all Texas pionte.
Call on or address
A. B. Wrenn. Atlanta, Ga
J. H. Peebles, T. A. Chattanooga, Tenn.
W. T. Rogfhs, P. A. Chatanooga, Tenn.
W. L. Danlky, G. P. and T. A.,
Nashville, Tenn.
Rising Fawn Lodge, No. 293, meets
first and third Saturday nights of each
month. J. W. Rttssey, W. M.
S. H. 1 hurman, Sec’ty.
Trenton No. 179, meets once a
a month cn Friday k night on or before
the full mooD.
W. U. Jacoway, W. M.
G. M. Cra ' PEE, Sec’ty.
Trenton Chapter No. I P. A.'M.,
meets on the third Wed cs iay night of
each month,
M. A. B. Tatttm, H. P.
W. U. Jacoway, Sec’ty.
Court of Ordinary meets on first Mon
day of each month.
G. M. Cpa btree Ordinary.
S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Olerk
B. P- Majors, Sheriff,
Joseph Coleman, Tax Receiver,
D. E. Tatum, Tax Collector,
Joseph Ks er, Coroner,
Win, Morrison, Surveyor.
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1882.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
.. The county jail at Atlanta contains
216 prisoners.
Tennessee is extensively shipping cat
tle and hogs to Florida.
James B. Pace is announced as the
wealthiest man in Virginia.
The United States jail at Ft. Smith,
j Ark., contains 100 prisoners.
| The late Gen. Holt, of Macon, Ga.,
■ left an estate valued at $500,000.
Montgomery, Ala., expects to handle
140,000 bales of cotton this season,
Maryville, Tenn., has a factory where
buttons are made of muscle shells.
A carload of German carp have ar
rive at Nashville for distribution.
The New Orleans police are making an
effort to break up the opium aens of
that city.
Most of the levee work on the Missis
sippi river below Natchez, Miss., is un
der headway.
Fulton county, Ga., is taking care of
216 prisoners who are awaiting trial on
different criminal charges.
A law in Florida requires that the
tickets of candidates for county officers
bo printed on colored paper.
Nineteen Indian hoys have been tak
en to Trinity College, North Carolina,
where they will be educated.
The New Orleans papers complain be
cause the Charity Hospital at that place
is overrun by patients from other States.
Nashville has no water for fire pur
poses, and the underwriters are discuss
ing the advisability of advancing their
rates.
Several mo re Mormon elders have ar
rived at Chattanooga and joined the
band of Mormon missionaries now work
ing up converts in the South.
Lord Houghton, of England, has pur
chased 60,000 acres of land in South
ern Florida, and intends going exten
sively into S\lgar culture, inventing at
least $1,000,000.
The British steamer Gastello left Sa
( vannah, Ga., Monday, with the most
valuable cargos ever cleared from the
port. The cargo was 7,100 bales of up
| land cotton, valued at $406,037 32.
A bill to be introduced at the present
! session of the Georgia Legislature will
! provide for a registration law, which
! will debar any person from voting who
I has not paid his taxes in full. It is
thought this bill will be easily passed.
A Mr. Johnston, of A tlanta, a cousin
of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, is the fa
ther of twenty-two children, r the young
est of them being an infant. Mr. John
ston has been married but once, and his
wife isnow livingand in excellent health.
One of the four silver half dollars
coined by the Confederate States gov
ernment is in the possession of a gen
tleman living in Cartersville, Ga. He
has been offered on several occasions the
comfortable sum of SSOO by numismatic
collectors for the coin.
Work on the Mobile harbor progresses
satisfactorily. The present dimensions
of the channell are seventy-five feet
wide by seventeen deep from the mouth
of the liver to deep water down the bay.
together wither with an additonal short
cut of forty feet wide near the mouth
of the river.
There are now 979 patients in the
Georgia Insane Asylum, 257 of whom
were received during the present year.
Chatham county furnishes the" largest
number, sixty-four; Fulton follows
with forty eight, and Richmond with
forty six. The patients range from fif
teen to ninety years of age.
The Picayune is informed that a dan
gerous $lO conterfeit Treasury note is
in circulation in New Orleans. The
note is of the same manufacture which
appeared in Chicago in 1880, the printer
of them being arrested with *25,000 of
the money in his possession. They have
since appeared in many of the larger
cities.
By a recent decision of the Supreme
Court of South Carolina, characterized
by the Charleston News and Courier as
‘the most important judicial deliver
ance that has been had since the adop
tion of the new constitution,” no felon
in future has the right to vote. This
law is being generally adopted in the
Southern States.
. Suit has been brought against the
Tennessee Brokerage Association, at
Nashville, by .Calvin Morgan, who seeks
to recover $3,150 lost on ,:orn deals dur
ing the month of October. The com-
“Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against Wrong.”
plainant alleges that the transactions in
which the money was lost were not bona
fide, as no real delivery was contracted
for.
Charleston News and Courier: The
skeleton of a full grown mastodon has
been found in the Cowee tunnel, on the
Ducktown branch of the Western North
Carolina railroad. When the monster
was discovered the convicts fled in ter
foT, and it was by hard work that they
could be induced to return to their
picks, It was found six feet below the
surface of the earth. It was in a per
ect state of preservation, and crumbled
to (fust as soon aS exposed to the air.
A Singular Confession.
Prof. Schulte has written a confession
of the burning of the pavilion at Ter
race Springs, Napa. After saying he
set fire to the building to obtain the in
surance, $750, he says:
“Now, who could do such a deed
such a wrong deed? one who has al
ready reached the evening of life, proba
bly not distant far from the very hour
when night completely and forever
shrouds the earthly form—one who thus
during almost three score years has
never been accused of any act offensive
to the law ? How Could do such a deed
one who from the early days of student
life steadily walked in the paths of sci
ence, literature and even art, the litera
ture of all nations, ancient and modern,
the vernacular of he practically
knows and speaks? How could do such
a deed one with such attainments, such
culture—one who ever since he in the
fog of battle had torn from him a limb,
returnable to mother earth, when be
longing to a medical staff some twenty
six years ago; who ever since, I say,
became an able lecturer, a most able in
structor, and as such active and success
ful, more than twenty years in the pri
vate high schools of this State, such as
the old College of California, (now the
Department of Letters in the State Uni
versity,) the defunct Female College of
the Pacific, the Mills Seminary, etc.,
and during his residence in this town,
in the Collegiate Institute, the Ladies’
Seminary, and Oak Mound Academy.
(Alas! that instead of myself another
were to state all this as has in the past
been done, when, indeed, not needed;
my cktwl uudoi all ottim di
cumstances truly immodest self-lauding,
admitting of no other apology but my
being confined behind prison bars, lone
and severed from friends and the world,
no one having as yet been able to raise
voice in mv behalf.) How then, in fine,
could do that wrongful deed one who
was always known—latest in this very
town—to be a man exemplary in his
habit, religious even, in harmony, how
ever, with the advanced and enlightened
convictions of the times; an ever faithful
husband, a good and solicitous father,
who purest happiness found at home
alone; one punctual in his professional
duties, ever industrious and persevering,
affable and honest in all his dealings.
How then? How in the name of all
that’s good and true? How could such
a one do such a deed ? A deed most
wrong and most condemnable! What
could make it possible, not excusable?
Despair! Despair! Despair unuttera
ble! Despair unknown! Despair not
fully understood even by his own fam
ily ! ! * * * I recoiled, wrongfully
recoiled, and as wrongfully conceived
that by a rich insurance company the
loss of a few hundred dollars would not
be felt, lean. The condemnable deed
was done. Yet when the flames sur
rounded the massive structure, although
unoccupied and uninhabited, when the
flames chased darkness, illumining sky
and distant horizon all around, pangs
of conscience almost overpowered me.
I hastened from the scene. On the fol
lowing day I had to, and did, publicly
dilate, not with my usual enthusiasm in
deed, on “Beauties of Modern Litera
ture,” English, German, French, Span
ish and Italian, comparatively with these
in the language of the ancients. To
day, in the solitude of my barred cell, I
inwardly dilate on the prospective hor
ror and privations of a state prison,
with sufferings heightened by the cease
less pangs of bitterest remorse. (Sic
semper justitia\ Yet might not, with
general weightycondemnation,one wee,
light grain of pity mingle?”— San Fran
cisco Call.
Cinders in the Eye.
Persons traveling by railway are sub
ject to continued annoyance from Hying
cinders. On getting into the eyes these
are not only painfu 1 for the moment, but
are often the cause of long .suffering that
ends in a total loss of sight. Avery
simple and effective cure is within the
reach of every one, and would prevent
much suffering and expense were it gen
erally known. It is simply one or two
grains of flaxseed. These may be placed
in the eye without injury or pain to that
delicate organ, and shortly they begin
swell ana dissolve a glutinous sub
stance that covers the ball of the eye,
enveloping any foreign substance that
may be in it. The irritation of cutting
the membrane is thus prevented and the
annoyance may soon be washed out. A
dozen of these stowed away in the vest
pocket may prove in an emergency
worth their number in gold. - Auteui
“ What’s your name ? ” asked one little
four-year-old miss of another. “I do
declare ! ” replied the Recond little girl,
“ you are as inquisitive as grown peoples.
They always askses my names, where I
got my new boots, and all such tings,
; until I’m almost as’amed of ’em. ”
TOPICS OF TH£ DAY.
Sentinels still guard President Gar
field’s tomb:
A business man in Rochester is seven
feet two inches in height.
Mrs. Langtry, it is said, will go to
Australia and N-iw Zealand after liei
American tour.
The wife of President Gonzales, oi
Mexico, is studying medicine and sur
gery in Chicago.
Mbs. Langtry is said to have received
$6,000 from Sarony for the privilege of
photographing her.
A bar of gold was recently cast in
Nevada City, Cal., which weighed 450
pounds, and is said to be the largest ever
cast in this country.
Arnold’s “Light of Asia” has reached
its tenth edition in London. More than
100,000 copies of the poem are said to
have been disposed of in America.
A rose bush bearing 1,000 buds is the
pride of a gardener in Charlestown,
Mass. It is thirty-five years old and
covers over 100 square feet of ground.
Beecher has looked over several
Sunday school libraries, and it is his
candid opinion that eighteen books out
of every twenty are too boshy for any
intelligent child to read.
At a recent test of plain boiler flues
in England against corrugated flues the
former collapsed at 225 pounds per
square inch, while the latter withstood
1,020 pounds per square inch.
The oldest printer actively engaged in
his profession is Grandpa Prescott, in
lowa, who, at the age of ninety years,
sets type every working day in the com
posing room of the Coming Gazette.
The wife of the Chinese Minister at
Washington is seventeen years of age.
She dees not receive visitors, of course,
but with an attendant she drives out.
Sh*is studying the English language;.
Mr. Edwin Booth the
Christmas holidays in and soon
after go to Germany, where engage
men ts have been made for him at Ber
lin, Hamburg, Leipsic, and several other
large cities.*
Mr. Edward Atkinson has written a
letter to the managers of the proposed
Cotton Exchange in Louisville, Ken
tucky, warmly approving of the project,
and making some valuable suggestions
as to the construction of the building.
The immente cost of living in Evvpt
is a very serious matter for the British
troops who will have to remain there. The
prices for everything are enormous, and
the whole day’s pay of a subaltern will
purchase him but one meal at a hotel.
“Plunger” Walton lost $7,500 on
his first horse race wager during his
present visit to England, according to a
correspondent of the Boston lieml<l, and
for several days his luck was generally
bad, but by winning $40,000 on a single
horse he came out $15,000 ahead on the
whole week.
A bill is before the Vermont Legisla
ture prohibiting a divorced person from
marrying within a year, and a person
from whom a divorce is obtained from
marrying within five years or ever, if
the ground of complaint is a crime, in
which case criminal prosecution must
follow the divorce proceedings.
Baby insurance compauies are becom
ing quite popular in New England. The
lives of children from one to twelve
years of age are insured to amounts not
exceeding $250, the charges being a few
cents weekly. It is expected that the
business will become a profitable accom
paniment of the baby farming industry.
It is stated that a pastry cook, at
Bologna has produced a very novel sub
stitute for a newspaper. It is composed
of very delicate leaves of pastry, on
which w itty articles are printed, not with
ink, but with chocolate liquor. Thus,
after its literary contents are devoured,
the reader may devour the production
itself.
The latest phase of the Egyptian
question is the complicity of the Sultan
in Arabi Bey’s revolutionary movement.
This has been often affirmed, though as
often denied, and it is now maintained
by Arabi’s counsel that direct encour
agement was given him from the Sultan
as well as from the Egyptian people and
clergy.
A few miles away from Philadelphia
are living a family of triplets, two men
and a woman, who are sixty years of age.
They are the children of an old Lutheran
clergyman named Rollers, and are all
hale and hearty. These triplets have
always lived together. The brothers are
TERMS—SI.OO par Annum strictly in Advance.
married, but the sister has remained a
spinster.
An exhibition of skill with the lariat
at Texas, a few days ago, drew
a crowd of 10,000 persons. Ten cowboys
coate-ited for a silver trimhied saddle
worth S3OO, to be given to him who
roped, threw and tied down a steer iu
the shortest space of time. The winner
Accomplished the feat in one minute and
forty-five seconds.
Eight children named Fogarty, the
eldest eighteen years and the youngest
only ten months, arrived at New York
recently from Ireland, having been com
pelled to make the voyage alone by the
father being arrested, charged with
abducting a young girl whom he had
hired to nurse the infant. The father
has since arrived to take charge of his
family.
The Ting Yueng. the formidable iron
clad that lias just been built in Germany
for the Chinese Government, is to be
lighted by 240 Edison eiectrio lamps.
This mysterious method of illumination
will probably be as satisfactory evidence
to the magnates of the Flowery King
dom that there is something in Western
civilization as any that could be fur
nished.
S. H. Butcher, of Oxford University,
a young man of less than thirty-five, has
been elected to the Greek Professorship
at Edinburgh University, a place, says
the London Spectator, worth £2,000 a
year. “With Mr. Butcher at Edin
burgh, Jebb at Glasgow. Geddes at Ab
erdeen, and Lewis Campbell at St. An
drew’s, the new generation in Scotland
should know Greek.”
O-TRiCHES are worth $1,400 each, and
there is a duty of 20 pet cent, on their
feathers. A man from Buenos I vres has
just brought twenty-two of the birds to
this country, and will establish a farm
in the South. If his experiment suc
ceeds, it will find many imitators. It is
cheaper and pleasanter to run an ostrich
farm than to shoot down the wild birds
on the plains of Africa.
t'HE TJnaaJau "Royal (Jornmi-aiuti tO
abate drunkenness recommends : 1.
Liberty to committees to close all drink
ing shops. 2. Permission to communi
ties to establish communal monopolies
for the sale of drink. 3. No public
house to ho established above 25 pci
cent, in excess of one per 1,000 of the
population. 4. Tea and food to be sold
wherever drink is consumed on the
premises. 5. Rigorous supervision of
public houses.
The Postoffice authorities will urge
the Senate to pass, at as early a day as
possible, at the coming session, the bill
that passed the House for the modifica
tion of the money order system. Dr.
McDonald, the Chief of the Money Or
der Division, is of the opinion that if
that bill shall become a law the rates
will so largely increase the business of
the department as to he a large source
of revenue to the Government. An ef
fort is also to be made to pass the postal
currency bill at an early day. There is
a very urgent demand for this bill from
many quarters.
Six years ago an eccentric Spaniard
was in Keokuk, lowa. He died in Spain
last August. He had an only child, a
girl, twelve years old® It seems he
wanted her raistd a Protestor, and in
his eccentricity named George Blfud, a
colored blacksmith of Keokuk, as her
guardian. He made a contract with a
priest in Spain for carrying out his will.
The will provides that the priest is to re
ceive $68,000 in case the conditions of
the will are fulfilled, otherwise nothing.
George Bland, the colored man is to
have the same amount and the guardian
ship of the child, who gets $360,000 and
a large amount of diamonds and jewelry.
—The 4th of March, 1821, came on
Sunday. That was the second inaugu
ration of .lames Monroe. In 1849, the
year of the inauguration of General
i'aylor, the 4th of March came on Sun
day. It did not happen % tin until the
inauguration of President Hayes, in
1877. It will not occur again during
this century. In 1885 the 4th of March
comes on Wednesday; in 1809 the 4th
comes on Monday, the next inaugura
tion comes in 1893; the 4th comes on
Saturday. In 1897 the 4th of March
comes on Thursday. In 190.0 the 4th
of March fails on Sunday, but that is
not an inauguration year; that wiil be
in 1901, and that will bring the 4th of
March on Monday.— Chicago Journal.
— Vt. P. Fopoff has an article in ths
Critic showing that American literature
is read in Russja. Longfellow heads the
list. Cooper’s Indian tales are better
lik ed than any other foreign novels ; and
there are few educated Russians who
hove not read Mrs. Stowe’s “Uncle
Tom.” Bret Harte and Mark Twain also
are popular among the subjects of the
Cvsar; but we doubt if even they cau
make His Imperial Majesty laugh very
in ueh, while watching to hear w here the
ttixt Nihilist bomb will explode.— D&-
(toil Frv Press.
NUMBER 49.
HUMOROUS. j
—A young lady says that males ar#
of no account from the time the ladies
stop kissing them as infants till they
commence kissing them as lovers.
—A facetious boy asked one of hie
playmates how a hardware dealer dif
fered from a boot-maker. The latter,
somewhat puzzled, gave it up. “Why.”
said the other, “because the one sold
the nails, and the other nailed the
soles.”
—“Does your sister Annie ever say
anything about me, sissy?” asked an
anxious lover of a little girl. “Yes,”
was the reply. “She said if you had
rockers on your shoes they’d make such
a nice cradle for my doll.” — Ft. Y.
Ledger.
—An intelligent youth, recently en
gaged in a commercial office, rnaae out
a shipping bill for “fourty” barrels of
flour. His employer called his attention
to an error in the spelling of forty.
“Sure enough.” replied the promising,
clerk, “I left out the gh."
Nearly $9,500,000 is invested in the
printing and publishing trade in Boston,
and the yearly product is valued at $5,-
467,000. * This does not include the
amount paid to writers who furnish the
matter for printing and publishing, and
which, if all added together, aggregates
several hundred dollars more.—Phila
delphia News.
—A promising youth of five summers,
being about to retire for the evening,
was asked by hi3 mother to kneel by
her side and repeat the Lord’s prayer.
The little chap, whose mind was evi
dently intent on the beauties of the na
tionnl game, having reached the middle
of the prayer, paused, looked into his
mother’s face and exclaimed: “Billy
Brown is a boss short-stop,” and pro
ceeded with his devotions as if nothing
unusual had transpired.— Boston Post.
—A little five-year-old friend who was
alwaj s allowed to choose the prettiest
kitten for his pet and playmate before
the other nurslings were drowned was
taken to his mother’s room the other
morning to see the two, tiny twin new
babes. He looked reflectively from one
to the other for a minute or two, then
poking his chubby finger into the cheek
of the plumpest baby he said, decided
ly: “ have this one. ” Chicago Tribune.
— H. M., Selma, Ala.: “How can 1
permanently remove an indelible grease
spot from a broadcloth coat?” The
only way to permanently remove an in
define -mot from a coat is to ,
it out of the coat, but that wuum possi
bly injure the coat. On the other hand,
if you would saw' the coat from the
grease spot—but really we feel inade
quate to the task of furnishing the right
brand of advice in this case.— Texas
Siftings. ___________
WIT AND WISDOM.
—The time wasted by men in feeling
in the wrong pocket would make the
next generation rich if they had it.
— A great many people in this com
munity would like to tind out just how
much money it would take to spoil
them. We do not speak for ourselves,
but for our poor relations. — N. Y. Her
ald.
—A traveler stopping at a village inn
during a thunder-storm, said to a by
stander: “Why, you have very heavy
thuuder here.” "“Yes,” replied the
man, “we do, considering the number of
inhabitants.”
—The Philadelph : a News argues that
if a man had the strength of an insect
in proportion to his size he could jump
higher than a mountain. It is quite pos
sible, as mountains are not very high
jumpers.— N. O. Picayune.
—Scene in Court: “Now, Mr. Blank,
you say that on that day, at noon, you
saw a woman ride past your house at a
furious pace, and you have given us a
detailed inscription of her costume.
Please tell us what was the color of the
house.” “1 do not remember.” “Well,
was the woman white or black?” “I
did not notice; she went so fast that I
only had time to see how she was
dressed. ’ ’ — Chicago Tribune.
—“What have you that’s good?”
said a hungry traveler, as he seated
himself at table d’ hote at a Salt Lake
City hotel. “O!” said the waiter,
“we’ve roast beef,' roast mutton, roast
pork and broiled curlews. “What’s a
curlew?” said the traveler. “ Why, a
*bird; something like a snipe ” “Could
it fly?” “Yes.’ Did it have wings?”
“Yei!” “Then I'don’t want any cur
lew. Anything that had wings and could
fly and didn’t leave this country I don't
want for my dinner.”
“Ah, how are you this morning?”
said a Fifth avenue" man to his friend
from Jersey. “Pretty well, pretty
well,” he replied; “but my wife is
suffering from a severe cold,” he con
tinued, as his face beamed with delight.
“Now, that’s too bad,” exclaimed the
New Yorker; “ but why do you seem so
happy over it?” Taking his friend by
the arm, the Jerseyman replied, as
tears of joy rolled down his apple-jack
flushed face: “ Happy! Don’t mention
it! Why, she hasn't been able to speak
above a whisper for six days.— N. Y.
Commercial Advertiser.
—Lord Chelmsford was walking
down St James street, when a stranger
accosted him. saving: “Mr. Birch, I
believe?” “If you believe that, sir,
you’ll believe "anything,” the ex-
Chancellor ’•eplied as he passed ou.
London Society.
—The mercantile stock exchange, the
first in the Republic of Mexico, has
been opened. It has been organized
with native capital, and starts with
twenty active members of Mexican
brokers and fifty outside subscribers.
| All classes of securities will be dealt in.