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Clmmtctg anb Sentinel!
WEDNESDAY JUNE 24, 1874.
AN ACKF.ONTIC.
0, If my love offended me,
And we had words together,
To show I would master be
I’d whip her with a feather 1
If then she, Uke a naughty girl,
Would tyranny declare it,
I'd give my love a cross of pearl,
And make her always bear it!
If still she tried to sulk and sigh,
And threw away my posies.
I’d catch my darling on the sly.
And smother her with roses .
But should she clench her dimpled fists,
Or contradict her betters,
I’d menacle her tiny wrists
With dainty golden fetters!
And if she dared her lips to pout,
Like manv pert young misses.
I’d wind my’arm her waist abont
And punish her with kisses.
WOMEN AND WINK.
BY MAKY KYLE DALLAS.
Pop ! went the gay C jrk flying.
Sparkled the gay champagne.
By the light of a day tha was dying,
He filled up their goblets again.
Let the last, best toast he woman,
“Woman, dear woman,” said hi ;
“Empty vour glass, my darling, „
When you drink to your sex with me,
But she caught his strong brown fingers,
And held him tight as in fear.
And through the gathering twilight
Her voice fell on his car :
Nav ere you drink. I implore you,
By all that you hold divine,
Pledge a woman in tear-drops,
Bather by far than in wine.
By the woes of the drunkard's mother,
By his children who beg for bread.
By the fate of her whose beloved one
Looks on the wine when 'tis red,
Bv the kisses changed to curses.
'By the tears more bitter than brine,
By many a food heart broken,
Pledge no woman in wine.
. What has wine brought to woman ?
Nothing hut tears and pain.
It'has torn from her heart her lover,
An?l proven her prayers in vain ;
And her household goods all scattered,
Lis tangled up in the vine.
Oh ! I prithee, pledge no woman
In tho curse of so many. wine.
THE CHILDLESS MOTHEK.
I lav my tasks down one by ono,
I uit in the mlence i* twilights grace ;
Out of it« shadow soft and dun.
Hteali like a star my baby’s faco.
Mocking cold are the world's poor joys,
How poor to mo all its pomp and pride!
In my lap be the baby’s idle toys.
In this very room the baby died.
I will shot these broken toys away
Under the lid where they mutely bide ;
I will smile in the face of the noisy day,
Jnst if baby had never did.
I will take up my work once more,
As if 1 hail never laid it. down ;
Who will dream that X ever wore
Mothoi hood’s fine and holy crown .’
Who will deem my life ever bore j
Fruit the sweeter in grief and in pain ?
The flitting smile that the baby wore
Outrayed the light of the loftiest brain.
I’ll meet him in the world’s rude din,
Who hath outlived his mother’s kiss,
Who hath forsaken her love for sin—
I will ho spared her pang in this.
Man's way is hard and sore beset:
Many must fall, but few can win.
Thanks, dear Shepherd 1 my lamb is safe,
Safe from sorrow and safe from sin.
Nevertheless, the way is long,
And tears leap up in the light of the sun,
I'd givo my world for a cradle song,
And a kiss from baby—only ono.
[Mary Clnnmer Ainft,
BEFOIIE SUNRISE.
And now, at dawn, upon the beach again,
Kneeling I wait the coming of the sun,
Watching the looser folded buds, and fain
r lg see the marvel of their day begun.
Rod lips of roses waiting to ho kissed
Ily early sunshine, soon in smiles will broak.
But O. ye morning glories, that keep tryst
With the first ray of daybreak, ye awako.
O, hells of triumph, ringing noiseless peals
Os unimared music to the day!
Almost I could b lievo each blossom feels
The same delight that sweeps my soul away.
O, hells of triumph ! delicate trumpets thrown
Hoavonward and earthward, turned east,
west, north, south
In lavish beauty, who through you lias blown
This sweet cheer of the morning with calm
mouth?
Tis Qod who breathes the triumph ; Ho who
wrought _
The louder curves, and laid tho tints divine
Along tho lovely lines ; the Eternal Thought
That troubles all our lives with wise design.
Yea, out of pafn and death llis beauty springs,
And out of doubt a deathless confidence ;
Though we are shod with leaden cares, our
wings
Shall lift us yet out of our deep suspense !
Thou groat Creator 1 Pardou us who reach
For oilier Heaven beyond this world of
thine,
This matchless world, whero thy loast touch
doth teach
Thy solemn lessons clearly, lino ou lino.
And help ns to be grateful, wo who live
Such sordid, fretful lives of discontent.
Nor see the sunshine nor the flower, nor strive
To tied tho love thy bitterchastening meant.
| Celia Tnaxter.
WEARY, LONELY. RESTLESS,
HOMELESS.
Weary hearts! weary hearts ! by oaros of lifo
oppressed,
Ye are wandering in the shadows, ye aro sigh
ing for the rest ;
There is darkeness in tllo lioavens and the
earth is bleak b> low.
And the joys we taste to-day may to-morrow
turn to woo.
Weary hearts! God is rest.
Lonely hearts ! lonely hearts ! ’tis but a laud of
grief ;
Ye are pining for roposo, yo aro longing for
relief :
What the world hath never given, kneel and
ask of God above.
And your grief Hhall turn to gladness, if you
lean upon His love.
Loucly hearts! God is love.
Restless hearts' rostless lioarts ! ye are toiling
night and day.
And the flowers of lifo all withered, leave but
thorns along your way ;
Ye are wtfting, yo aro waiting till your toilings
hero shall cease.
And your over restless throbbing is a sad. sad
prayer for peace.
Restless hearts ! God is peace.
lti'oken lioarts! brokou hearts! ye are dosolate
aud lone,
And low voices from the past o’er your present
rums moan ;
In the sweetest of your pleasures there was
bitterest alloy.
And a starless night hath followed on tho snu
set of your joy.
Broken hoarts! God is joy.
Homeless hoarts! homeless hearts! through
the dreary years.
Ye are lonely, lonely wanderers, and your way
is wet with tears;
In bright or blighted places, wheresoever ye
may roam.
Ye look away from eartliland and yo murmur,
“Where is home ?”
Homeless hearts! God is home.
THE OL1) COAT OF GRAY,
It lies there alone—it is rusty and faded — j
With a patch on the elbow, a hole in the side, i
But we flunk of the bravo boy that wore it, and i
ever I
Look on it with pleasure and touch it with j
pride.
A history clings to it—over and over.
Wo see a proud youth hurried off to tho fray, j
With his form liko the oak, his eye like tho '
eagle's, ' !
How gallant ho rode in the ranks of the
"Gray.''
It is rough, it is worn, it is tattered in places
But I mve it the more for the story it bears
A story of courage in struggle with sorrows
And a heart that bore bravely its burden of
cares ;
It is nigged aud rusty, but ah ' it was shining
In the silkiest skeen when he wore it away.
And his smile was as bright as the glad sum
mer morning.
When ho sprang to his place in the ranks of
the "Ur»v."
There's a rip in the sleeve, and the color is
tarnished.
The buttons all gone with their glitter and
gold.
Tis a thing of the past, and we reveren' ly lay it
Away with the treasures and relics of old,
As the gifts of a love, solemn, sweet and un
spoken
Are cherished as leaves from a long, a vanish
ed day.
Who rode in the van of the ranks of the
"Gray."
Shot through with a bullet—right heie in the
shoulder.
And down there, the pocket is splattered and
soiled.
Ah! more, see the lining is stained and dis
colored !
It came when he rode at the head of the
column.
Charging down in the battle one deadliest day.
When squadrons of foemeu were broken
asunder.
And victory rode with the ranks of the "Gray."
Its memory is sweetness and sorrow com
mingled ;
To me it is precious—more precious than
gold.
In the rent and the shot-hole a volume is
written.
On the stains on the lining is agony told :
That was ten years ago when in life's Bunny
m mine
He rode with his comrades down into the
And the*oki coat he wore and the good sword
he wielded.
Were ail that came back from tha ranks of
the "Gray,"
And it liee there alone: I will reverence it ever.
The patch on the elbow, and the hole in the
For a gallanter heart never beat than the loved
one, ... , ~
Who wore it with honor and soldierly pride
Let me brush off the dust from its tatters and
tarnish.
Let me fold it up closely and lay it away,
It is all that is left of the loet one,
Who fought for the right in the ranks of
the “Gray,”
NEBRASKA.
The following letter from a Georgian
relative to this new State may be inter
esting to many of our readers. It was
written from Omaha, Nebraska, to the
Atlanta Herald,:
Omaha, March 7, 1874.
For two years past I have from time
to time received from various sources
publicatious eulogizing in unmeasured
terms the natural resources of the new
State of Nebraska, and representing it
as offering, from the wondrous fertility
of the soil and low prices at which lands
were attainable, rare inducements to set-’
tiers. Becoming interested in these
published accounts, I sought personal
correspondence with parties residing in
the State. Every letter I received con
tinued the fair reports I had previously
read. This inclined me to visit Ne
braska with a view of settling in the
State, should I find it as desirable as
represented. I promised quite a num
ber of friends an account of my observa
tions when I should have prospected the
coantry, and thinking that such a sketch
may be interesting to the readers of the
Herald, I shall make it my medium for
communicating the information asked of
me.
i left Atlanta the middle of February
for Omaha, the eastern terminus of the
Uni .n Pacific Railroad, which connects,
a thousand miles west, with the Central
Pacific—the two railroads, with their
eastern connections, formiug an unbro
ken iron rail between the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts. Aud—pausing for a few
lines of reflection before proceeding to
a formal description of the country—it
lias not yet ceased to be novel and won
derful, this all rail transportation, and
the brief time en route to California.
Formerly weeks of perilous ocean voy
age, or of rough and tumble staging,
lay between east of the Mississippi aud
die famous gold coast. Now, here on
the banks of the Missouri, immense trains
of superb passenger coaches and Pull
man palace sleepers receive their human
freight, to be landed without change,
and in odlv four days’ time, at Ban
Francisco, a distance of nineteen hun
dred and fourteen miles. I wonder what
must have been the meditations of “Old
Ben Holliday,” the pioneer and veteran
California line stage coaeher, on the day
when the first through train sped over
the rail, leaving him, like Othello, with
his occupation gone ! And poor Lo ! as
the iron horse careered past him, o’er
his Western hunting grounds, I wonder
if he did not seek the retirement of his
wigwam in moody reverie over the com
pletion of this manacle about his free
domain! This road is a grand triumph
for tho company, the Government, and
the ago. It is a highway of the world’s
travel—a direeter and nearer medium
for exchanging the products of China,
Japan and all Asia, and American manu
factures; and it has performed a grand
mission in opening up to settlement it
wonderfully rich belt of lands, both
mineral aud agricultural, which, without
such a road opening them, would have
remained in their wild and unserviceable
condition.
XIIE AGRICULTURAL LANDS OF NEBRASKA.
Leaving Omaha via the Union Pacific
Road, I got my first view of the famous
Valley of the Platte, which we traverse
for nearly five hundred miles. The
Platte itself is a wide, shallow stream,
which never at any time of the year
rises out of its banks. The Valley of
the Platte is from five to twenty miles in
width and five hundred miles in length,
and presents to the eye a picture of in
describable beauty. The surface is as
level almost as a floor, and the soil fabu
lously deep aud fertile. On either side
of the road for miles and miles away the
cottage homes of the settlers dot the
plain, while we are very rarely out of
sight of a church or school house.
The valley proper is terminated on each
side the Platte by bluffs or gradual ascent
to a height of from seventy-five to one
hundred and fifty feet. The top of these
bluffs is the beginning of the table
lands, which is only excelled in the lev
elness and evenness of surface by the
valley below. For miles and miles away,
the scene presented to view in the valley
is repeated on the table lands, aud so
over nineteen-twentieths of the lands of
the State. The most level country in
Georgia is as much brokeii as the most
uneven county in Nebraska.
The settler has no expensive and la
borious cutting and clearing away of
timber from the lands to perform, it be
ing entirely bare of timber except narrow
belts of forests along the streams. There
are no rocks at all to come in contact
with the hoe or plow; no stumps or gal
leys to evade. The soil cannot be washed
off by rain.
FERTILITY AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
SOIL.
The most level and highly cultivated
garden in our State is in no better con
dition for cultivation than millions of
acres of Nebraska after the first or sod
plowing. The soil is of a rich alluvial
character, dark colored, easily worked,
of great depth, and of inexhaustible
fertility. There is no need of commer
cial fertilizers to stimulate it to produc
tiveness, nor of doses of costly chemicals
to supply “plant food’’ for corn, wheat
or the grasses. The soil, like that of
Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, with,
however,’ greater fertility than that of
either of the States named, is adapted
for tho production of the cereal crops
and grasses.
[And I diverge just here to remark,
that from the days of Abraham to the
preseut time those sections that have
been eminent for producing cereals and
raising live stock have been in all ages,
and aro in our own day, those that
abound in plenty. It was with a con
viction of this truth that I have, to the
utmost of my abilities, labored since
1867, in the press, to persuade the farm
era of Georgia to plant less cotton and
more grain, and to cultivate clover and
the grasses.] The cost of cultivating
crops is very light. The plowing of
corn i3 usually done with two-liorse
sulky cultivators, with which one man
aud team can plow over from six to eight
acres per day. One hand can and does
cultivate from fifty to sixty acres in
corn, which will yield on almost any
laud here from thirty to fifty bushels per
acre. Instances are numerous where
eighty bushels per acre is made. Corn
aud small grain are, as a rule, seeded,
and the latter harvested by machinery.
When a farmer is unable to buy a corn
planter, grain drill, cultivator or reaper,
as the case may be, he will perhaps fiud
one or more new settlers near by who
are just in his fix, and the two or more
clubbing together purchase tho ma
chines, and all have the use of them un
til each is able to buy for himself. A
j very little while is required for any far
j mer to be independent who will only
| attend to his business. He raises at
; home his corn, oats, wheat, barley, rye,
! hay, stock, cattle, hogs, turkeys, chick- i
; ens, butter, eggs, fruit, vegetables, aud j
j may have some of each to sell every
| year. His expenses are light. It costs
j comparatively nothing to feed his live
I stock, as they can graze upon the farm i
I three-fourths of the year, and the labor
i is the only cost of saving in Summer an
ample simply of as flue hay as grows
anywhere’ for Winter feeding. I visit
ed’ n farm last week, on which the owner
of it, with a young son and one hired j
man, cultivated last year one hundred j
and twentv aeres in corn and one hun- j
dred in wheat, besides taking care of |
over a hundred head of cattle. The |
surplus of the corn and wheat crop was
marketed, and netted the farmer more j
than thiee thousand dollars.
It is pleasant to go among the farmers :
and note their contentment aud thrifti- I
ness. They all have abundance at home, '
and there are men comfortably situated j
upon farms of their own, and out of
; debt, who three or four years since came |
to the Mate with absolutely no means
whatever, and they have made all they ;
I have upon their farms. Such men had |
! to “rough it” for the first, year or two.
j But there are hundreds of just such in
stances, and will be many more. —
Still I would not advise any one
I to come to Nebraska to farm with less
; than five hundred dollars. That amount ;
is sufficient to give any industrious man j
! a hold upon eighty to one hundred and
! sixty acres of land, a room to live in,
and some sort of a team to work with.—
i But a man coming to Nebraska with a
thousand dollars need know very little
real hardships, and any one with much
over that amount, no hardships at all.
Farmers of Georgia, or any other
State, who are comfortably situated, and
making money enough do, not need to
j change. But there are hundreds of
farmers, and men who have not farms,
in Georgia and other Southern States,
, who would do well to remove to the
: state. When I have witnessed for so
j long importation of bread and meat into
; m v native State, and the farmers strug
| giiug year after year under liens and
mortgages, given to secure the payment
; of high priced provisions aud commer
| cial fertilizers, I can but coutrast their
condition with farmers here, who with
much lesa laud and less labor, are in
creasing in property every year.
MARKETS.
Not only are the lands very produc
tive, but farm products of every kind
find a ready and excellent market. The
Uuion Pacific Road transports immense
quantities of snpplies West, to the min
ing regions and to the Indian agencies.
On account of this, Nebraska farmers
realize better prices for their product*,
and will continue to do so, than is paid
in the States immediately East. Again,
the superior quality of the small grain
grown in this State commands for it an
extra price. Along the line of the
Union Pacifie Bond, com is now selling
at 45 to 55 cents, aud wheat at $1 10 to
SI 25 per bushel.
can southern people live in nesraska ?
Perhaps a sufficient answer to this in
quiry would be in the simple etatenieot
that there are residents here from every
Southern State. But they not only can
live here, bnt tell me that, after one
year’s residence, they like the climate
better than the climate of the South.—
There are quite a number of ex-Confed
erate soldiers in the State. I have had
the pleasure of meeting many of them,
and I have not seen one who is not pros
pering, and pleased with the country
and the people. And, just here, I must
say that the people of Nebraska are
very different from my preconceived
ideas of them. The State being new, I
had expected to find in the settlers a
rude class of society. I have never met,
anywhere, a more intelligent, polite, or
hopitable peopl# than in this State.—
t here is a reason too for the existence
of such a class of people here. The
worse class of men go anywhere else to
live than to agricultural sections, and
particularly is this beautiful open prai
rie coantry unsuited for the habitations
of those whose ways are dark. The
crowded cities, or fastnesses of the
mountains and forests are better abodes
for vicious men.
HOW FARMS ARE OBTAINED.
The State of Nebraska has an area of
about 76,000 square miles, or nearly fif
ty million acres (nearly one-third more
than Georgia) of the best farming and
grazing lands in America. The lands not
already settled belong to the Govern
ment and to railroad companies, in al
ternate s ctions of 640 acres. These
railroad lands have been acquired by
the companies in grants from Congress
to aid in the construction of railroads. —
These railroad lands can be bought at
from two to ten dollars per acre, on ten
years time, one-tenth, with interest atJO
per cent., to be paid at the end of each
year. Any desired quantity, from forty
acres up, may be purchased. The Gov
ernment lands are given away to actual
settlers. All that is required of the
head of a family is to pay fourteen dol
lars for filing his claim upon land, and
to settle upon it to entitle him to eighty
acres, if within twenty miles of a rail
road, or one hundred and sixty acres
if over twenty miles from the
road, of as fine lands as are in Ameri
ca. The Governmentlamlß within tenor
twelve miles of the railroad are pretty
generally settled. Homesteads are still
obtainable further off. But the Uuion
Pacific Land Company owns yet several
millions acres convenient to the road,
which are sold on the easy terms already
mentioned.
EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES.
In no Btate in the Union lias more
ample provision been made to meet the
educational wants of the people than in
Nebraska. One-eighteenth of the en
tire area of the lands of the State has
been donated by the Greneral Govern
ment to the Btate, and been set apart as
a permanent endowment of the public
schools. Every community has a good
school house, the expense of building
which, as well the expenses of the
school, being paid by the State and
county.
CLIMATE.
The Winters are considerably colder
than in the South, but warmer than in
the Eastern States of like latitude, and
very dry. No rain ha3 fallen in any
section of the State I have visited since
October. A dry snow falls frequently
during the Winter months. But the
air is so very dry and pure that I do not
find so great a difference as I had an
ticipated between the Winter here and
in the South, although the coldest
weather of the present Winter set in
soon after I reached here. During the
Spring and Summer months there is
sufficient rain for the growing crops.
GENERAL NOTES.
A charming feature of the country is
in tlio evenness and excellence of the
roads. A few miles distant from the
railroad is little inconvenience to the
farmer. It is fun to drive over the
country. I have traveled for many
miles without encountering an ascent
that would cause the horses to slacken
their trot. The question with the farm
er is not how much his team will draw,
but how ranch his wagon will bear up.
The growth of the towns and cities is
commensurate with the rapid increase
of the population and wealth of the
State. There are numbers of towns of
from five hundred to three thousand
population that have been built up en
tire since 1869. These towns furnish
fiue openings for every branch of mer
chandising and manufactures, for as the
country becomes more thickly settled,
the towns grow and trade enlarges.
The healthfulness of the State is un
questionable. The water is freestone,
clear and fiue. Malarious diseases are
unknown, and the dryness of the Win
ters is unproductive of pneumonia or
pulmonary diseases.
The Indian troubles we read of in the
newspapers are considerably west of Ne
braska. The people of this State feel no
more fear of Indian raids than we do in
Georgia.
The increase of population is exceed
ingly rapid. The people of the older
States are beginning to realize the ex
traordinary agricultural resources of
Nebraska. I had no conception of them
before I visited the State, and went in
to the different sections of it.
In conclusion, I will add that I shall
make my home in Nebraska. If any
one who may read this letter should de
sire any further information than I have
herein given, I shall be pleased to an
swer sny letter of inquiry. I expect to
return to Atlanta by the middle of the
month, and will remain several weeks
before moving. Very truly yours,
S. A. Echols.
DASHED TO DEATH.
Tlie Heart of Marie Daron—The Hard
Battle of Weary-Foot Common
“Death for Love is a Charming
Death.”—Out of the Window into
Eterqity.
[From St. Louis Republican.]
One of the most frightful and deter
mined suicides it has ever been the dis
agreeable duty of the Republican to
chronicle occurred yesterday morning,
and it is oLe in which mystery aud in
terest go hand in hand. Our reporters
were so fortunate as to hit the trail
which, it will be found on perusal, gave
the clue to the heart of the mystery. On
the 11th of April last there arrived at
the French hotel and restaurant of J. B.
Guilloz, 112 Walnut street, in this city,
a pretty little French woman, who regis
tered her name as Marie Daron. She
was from New Orleans, and represented
herself as a governess who had failed to
find employment for her attainments in
Louisiana, in consequence of the dis
turbed condition of society there, aud
had come toot. Lonisinthe hope of find
ing encouragement and a home, at least
for a time. Mdnie. Guilloz is not in the
habit of entertaining ladies traveling
alone, but Marie Daron was so lady-like
in her deportment, so charming in her
manner, and withal bore such evident
marks of refinement and culture, that
the warm hearted hostess became so
deeply interested iu the stranger from
her own native land that she consented
at once to receive her as a guest.
She spoke no English, but she was an
expert linguist and conversed fluently in
the French, Italian and Russian lan
guages. She dressed with the prover
bial French neatness, if not elegance,
was about thirty in years, short aud
stout in person, with brown hair cut re
markably short and worn frizzed or
curled, dark blue eyes, au aquiline nose,
dimpled chin, a bright, clearoomplexion
and prettily moulded hands that evident
ly had never been accustomed to labor.
Such was Marie Daron in the last week
of her life, a woman with the unmistaka
ble bearing and looks of a lady.—
Madame Guilioz advised her guest to
apply to Mr. Emil Karst, the French
Vice-Consul, to advertise, and gave to
her the names of some ladies as likely
to assist her inquiries after employment
as a family governess. R hether or not
she followed either suggestion is not
known. Certain it is that she remained
without occupation, but she conducted ;
herself at all times, so far as the Guiilo
zes knew, is an irreproachable manner.
She came and went quietly, took her
meals at the table d’hote, paid her bills
regularly, and was unexceptionable.—
While she continuer] thus idle, her poor
means were frittering away, and employ
ment for her accomplishments seemed
to recede farther and farther, day by
day, from her eager but almost fainting
grasp. How many a one there is at this
moment, like poor Marie Jjaron, wearily >
walking the streets of this and every
large city, faltering in spirit at every
step, as the hope deferred falls sharply
like a hundred living deaths on the
sickened, withering heart.
About two weeks ago she made the
acquaintance of a Frenchman doing
business in the city, and for him she
appears to, have formed a warm attach
ment. Whether he returned it, or any
part of it, is unknown; but the proba
bility is that he regarded her as the
mere plaything of the hour, to be taken
!on and thrown off at will. We do not
, know tflat there was anything more
than a mere French Platonicism exist
| ing between them; but we are informed,
[ through a source which we deem reli
able, that this person informed her that
ho could not marry her nor receive her
I under hi* protection. Poor Marie Da
| ron lies a mangled corpse in the stable
I of the coroner, let us judge her tender
; ly. She was alone in "the 4nd of
strangers, not even speaking our ian
guage, with her poor means exhausted.
She had met with one of her own peo
i pie, she asked his confidence and gave
' her own in return. Nothing js known to
I us of wrong on her part, but if there
was, let us think of Him who stayed the
hands of those who would have thrown
the stone at that other Mary, and let us
over the memory of this poor woman
throw uotiiing but the sympathy of
Christian thoughts,
Last Monday she paid her bill to the
Gnillozes and informed them that she
would leave for New York, but she
changed her mind. Perhaps there was
a reason for it. It was her impression
that the friend that she had met was
going to Europe, and she had intended
to follow him. How and with what pe
cuniary resources is not known. When j
she discovered that he was not going \
she changed her mind and remained. A
coolness sprung up on her part, but it
did not prevent her makiDg an appoint
ment to meet him at his room on Thurs
day. She did not keep her word, how
ever, nor on Friday nor on Saturday, al
though the man was waiting there. On
Sunday there was a French pic-nic, and
the friend of Marie Daron was one of
the party. She called at his room on
Sunday afternoon and remained there
two hours, bui; he was enjoying himself
at the pic-nic, and the fond woman left
without seeing him, with madness in
her brain and *he fire of consuming
jealousy at her heart. She returned to
her lodging, supped as usual, and re
tired .to her little room at night, and
that was the last seen of Marie Daron
by the familv of the Guillozes. On yes
day morning at Jules Leppell, fore
man for Stemiae & Saunders, dealers in
tarpaulins on the south comer of the
levee and Elm, unlocked the door from
Commercial alley and went up stairs to
commence the labors of the day. On
entering the room on the third floor
from the levee front and opening the
windows, he heard the light ascending
sounds of footsteps. He went to the
door and looked up the steep stairway
leading to the fourth and fifth floors,
but seeing nobody, returned to his own
room in time to hear the noise of a
heavy thud on the sidewalk ! He looked
out of the window and saw to his
horror and astonishment the form of a
woman lying close to the wall and im-
I mediately in front of the door on the
| sidewalk below. Jules Leppell ran
j down, lifted the poor, ble ding, mangled,
misshapen mass of fast-fading life into
a sitting posture, but mercy came to
her in the quick death of a few moments,
for while the policeman kept back the
small crowd of early levee workers, the
woman gasped a few convulsive gasps
and her spirit fled to plead before her
Maker. The remains of our sister were
taken to the Chesnut street station aud
from thence to t{je coroner’s stable, on
Seventh near Park avenue, where the
inquest will be held to-day.
She must have risen early—her bed
had been slept in—and the determina
tion had taken possession of her poor
distempered fancy to die. And to die
by jumping from a height as we shall
show presently. She could have had no
clear idea of committing suicide from
that particular house, but chancing to
see Julius Lappell open the street door,
the easy access to the upper floor must
have flashed across her, and she stealthi
ly followed him. She was horribly
prompt in her action. Placing her neat
little parasol in the corner of the bare,
rude room, opening the middle window
—it was low and near the ground, she
stepped over the sill, extending her
hands as it were, supplicating toward
Heaven, and then fell crashing down
wards through the morning air to the
merciless stones beneath. So much was
seen of the black horror by men work
ing ou the levee by the boats.
On the morning before, Sunday, her
desperate condition had well nigh tempt
ed her to destruction. She rose at about
3 o’clock aud passed on to the rear roof
of Mr. Guilloz’s premises aud in doing
so awakened the cook, who watched
her. She passed up ail inclined roof,
looked into an alley, then crossed to an
adjoining roof and peered into the
street from a dizzy height of 50 or 60
feet. She might have ended her weary
waudering then, but she detected the
cook in very scanty night-clothes watch
ing her—so intimately does the ludic
rous chime in with dusky death—and
she went back to her room.
A Republican reporter visited the
room which Marie Daron occupied, by
the courtesy of Mme. Guilloz. There
was a small common trunk, scantily lialf
filled Avith superior underclothing,
everything being embroidered, not
marked, with M. D. iu red; there was a
heavy black silk skirt and a blue redin
gote hanging on the wall and a small
variety of line underclothing on the bed,
and ou the table there were odds and
ends of woman’s sewing paraphernalia
and writing materials. There were two
books. A small French lexicon and
“ L’Amour” by Michelet. In this last
there were significant marginal notes
which served to show how fascinated
she was with the thoughts of death. At
the chapter lieadtd “Do Vamour par
dela la Mori" she had written “Char
mant chaptre ,” and at another bearing
the caption “La Mort et le Deuil,” she
had written in pencil “Admirable."
On the fly leaf of the work was written
these words, which may serve to identi
fy her: “July, 1872. Read coming from
Paris on board the steamer Washing
ton.” The word “July” is in the French
(■.biographic form, but the other words
seem to be written by an American or an
Englishman. They were probably not
written by her, but may have been .by
somebody accompanying her.
HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
A Word About Family Marketing—
How to Make Your Purchases.
The Charleston News and Courier
has a writer who is familiar with the
mysteries of marketing and as his arti
cle applies —mutatis mutandis —to Au
gusta as well as Charleston, we give
them for the benefit of young and
timid housekeepers who have not yet
learned the ropes :
A housekeeper complains that the
family market quotations published in
this paper every Saturday are not cor
rect—that prices are quoted below the
prices that are asked in the market. To
a certain extent this is true ; but a
word of explanation will serve not only
to set the housekeeper right, but to in
form other housekeepers upon a
very important department of their
duties. In the first place, the weekly
family market reports for the News
and Courier are prepared by a sharp
and experienced housekeeper, and the
public may be assured that the com
modities in the market can always be
purchased at the figures given. To be
gin with, marketing is as much of an
art as painting or drawing is, and just
as there is a fundamental principle un
derlying the acquisition of every art, so
a foundation must be laid for acquiring
this art of marketing. It is the pur
pose of this article to teach housekeep
ers liow to market. To market success
fully, one must never pay the price de
manded for an article by the hucksters
in the market. It is safe to say that in
eight cases out of ten the price asked
for a pound of meat, or a quart of toma
toes, or a dozen ears of green corn, is
from two to ten cents above the price
that the article named can actually be
purchased for. The actual value of
meat is the price that it will bring, and
it is the duty of the butcher to make it
bring as high a price as he can get.
When a consumer goes to a stall, there
fore, and asks the price of
POUTER HOUSE STEAKS
The prompt answer will be “twenty
cents.” If the customer pays the price,
there is an end of the transaction, and
the heart of the butcher is made glad.
But if the customer is thoroughly up in
the ways of butchers he will not pay the
price. ’ Let him remonstrate mildly and
the butcher will turn away from him
with contempt. But let the customer
literally seize the bull by the horns and
turn away from the stall with some such
light remark as “Oh, nonsense! I can
buy better steaks for fifteen o.ents,” and
the situation becomes instantly changed.
The butcher will this time put in
A MILD REMONSTRANCE,
And will ask “how much, for instance,
would you like to buy.” If you still
turu your back and make a demonstra
tion as if you were going off, that same
-butcher w“ill further amend his proposi
tion by offering the same porter house
steaks, kidney* and all, at fourteen
cents; and this is why porterhouse
steaks are reported in the News and
Courier family market report at fifteen
cents instead of twenty cents. Tms, o
course, is UQt the case with every
butcher in the market. There are a
number of stalls presided over by good
men, white as well os oolored, who put
a price on their meat and stick to it,
and very often stick to the meat too.—
But *he‘average butcher is always will
ing tp listen bo argument and come down
in his prices, provided the argument is
put to him in a sufficiently forcible man
ner. The maumas who presijle o*ef the
VEGETABLE STALLS
Are inst as easy to manage as the aver
age butcher is; but in this instance, too
some little finesse must be used. Os
late years this class of trailers have en
tirely ignored the fact that there is such
piece of coin in existence SS the five
cent nickel—at least they have ignored
its use, save for the purpose of making
change. They never offer their vegeta
bles at five cents. Ten cents, is the
minimum of their money values. At
Sis season of the year, when the supply
of Irish potatoes is far in excess of the
demand, and hundreds of •
and are thrown away daily, they stiff ask
ten cents a quart for them, and many
people pay that price in entire prance
of the fact that they can buy them for
five cents by merely offering that price.
The same process described in the pur
chase of the porter house steaks will in va
riably produce a similar result m the
purchase of vegetables If “ market
woman offers you a quart of early okra
for sixty cents, say to h6r in a bullying
sort of way: „
“bah ! i’ll give you forty cents,
And show her the money, and in nine
cases out of ten she will accept the offer.
Some may scowl and turn up their noses
—many often do—bnt the sight of the
money invariably results in a trade. If
one of them offers you five years of green
corn for twenty-five cents, go through
the same process, and offer her twenty
five cents for eight ears. If yon find
that she won’t accept it, go to another
stall and repeat the experiment; it will
succeed. This is the way to market suc
cessfully, and the housekeeper who
markets in any other manner is inva
riably taken in.
THE FISHERMEN.
The only dealers in the market who
keep a stiff upper lip and won’t come
down in prices are the fishmongers.
They are an extremely flinty-hearted set
of men, and, being so few in number,
they keep up a kind of corner in prices
and never lower them. The price of fish
scarcely ever varies from one year to
the other, except when the prevalence of
a heavy easterly wind prevents the
taking of the usual supply; then the
screws are put on, and people who eat
fish have to pay for every bone in the
article.
A REMARKABLE ROBBERY.
A Swedish Sea Captain Drugged and
Robbed of sls,tioo Worth of Dia
monds—The Daylight Dangers of
Broadway.
I
[New York Herald.]
The people of this city have for
months past been accustomed to read of
daring robberies perpetrated in this city
under circumstances of unusual bold
ness. Familiarity with these narratives
has caused these sensational stories to
be read with little evidence of surprise.
The incidents recited below, were they
not verified by the most corroborative
testimony, would arouse suspicion as to
their truthfulness in the mind of the
least suspecting reader. They are, how
ever, worthy of credence, and are
worthy of the reflection of every one
who cares for the reputation of the city
as to the character of its police vigil
ance.
Charles Anderson, a retired Swedish
sea captain, settled down in this city
and became engaged in business. For
over fifteen years he had been captain
of Swedish merchantmen, and in that
capacity has visited nearly every corner
of the globe. The well known charac
ter of the Swedes as trading people was
likewise exhibited in Captain Ander
son’s nature, and in passing to and fro
from many East India and other ports
lie embarked in small business ventures
on his own account. The purchase of
rough, uncut diamonds became al
ways with him a sort of an en
terprise, and, as he passed the
diamond regions very frequently, he
made many investments. In Africa he
traded with the natives on many occa
sions, always for the sparkling gems,
and in time had accumulated some 375
excellent specimens of African dia
monds, though in their normal state. —
Y T isiting Ceylon, in India, and the coast
of Brazil, he made similar purchases of
rough diamonds, so that by the time lie
arrived in this city, nine weeks ago, he
had in his possession some 565 dia
monds, rough and uncut, and worth, on a
rough calculation, about $15,000. Capt.
Anderson for a time looked for a pur
chaser for liis treasures, but, as New
York just now is a decidedly poor
market for diamonds, he could not find
a purchaser. He made up his mind
then to take them at some future day to
Amsterdam, in Holland, the famous dia
mond mart. Matters progressed smooth
ly with him, and on Pfinstag Monday he
was quietly married to a prepossessing
New York lady, and took quarters at
Sweeny’s Hotel, in Chatham street. Ho
then determined to dispose of a portion
of his diamonds in order to accumulate
ready money to go on an extended
BRIDAL TOUR
Through Germany and other countries
in Europe. The rest of the diamonds
ho would reserve until his arrival in
Amsterdam, where he determined to
have them, polished and cut, for per
sonal use. A week ago last Monday, a
week after his marriage, he made up his
mind to start out in search of a purcha
ser. He left his wife about 11 o’clock,
at her pareuts’ residence, ou the east
side, near Houston street, and started
across to Broadway. Ho had observed
that a diamond broker had an office on
that thoroughfare, at No. 710, between
Fourth street and Washington place,
and at once proceeded there. His dia
monds were safely parcelled in his panta
loons pocket. He entered the building,
and while going up stairs a young man,
very well dressed, rather tall, of slender
build, with light hair and light mus
tache, accosted him on the stairway and
asked him if he was going to the dia
mond broker’s office, and wanted to
know of Mr. Anderson if he intended to
purchase some diamonds, as he was a
clerk in the broker’s office. Mr. Ander
son replied that his object in coming
there was to sell some diamonds, when
the young man ‘old him that the broker
was out, but would be in his office be
tween four and five o’clock in the after
noon. Mr. Anderson agreed to call at
that time, and went back to his wife at
her parents’ residence. At four o’clock
he again started out, and while in Hous
ton street, midway between Bowery and
Elizabeth street, he was hailed in a
rather loud tone of voice, an , on turn
ing to whence the sound came, he ob
served the same young man whom he
had met on the stairway of the broker’s
office iu the morning. This time, how
ever, the young man was accompanied
b y
A LADY
Elegantly attired iu a black silk dress,
with heavy gold chain and other mas
sive jewelry. The young man inquired
of Anderson if he was going to the bro
ker’s office, and, being answered in the
affirmative, he said that he only lived a
couple of blocks away, when he would
take his wife home and go with him to
the office. Mr. Anderson assented to
this and walked with the pair to Broad
way, which they crossed. The young
man then said that they lived only a
block down that street, and would not
Mr. Anderson accompany them ? The
idea of foul play never entoied his mind.
Broadway and the adjoining streets were
crowded with pedestrians and vehicles
of every kind. He started with them,
and they had only gone a few steps when
the woman took a small, round paste
board box from her pocket and taking
from it a pastil abont the size of a two
cent piece, put it in her mouth and of
fered one to the young man, who did
likewise. Would Mr. Anderson take
one ? Certainly, he had no objection,
still suspecting nothing, as both of the
others had, he supposed, eaten theirs.
A few seconds had hardly elapsed when
Mr. Anderson began to grow dizzy aud
a film gather before his eyes. The wo
man then took a lace handkerchief from
her pocket and said to Mr. Anderson,
“You have a little black or cigar ash on
your nose; let me wipe it off,” when she
drew her handkerchief gently across his
face. Mr. Anderson says that he remem
bered nothing m ire until he came to liis
senses in a room black with darkness.
Not
A RAT OF LIGHT
Was visible. The odor of the place was
so damp and unhealthy that it led him
to believe that he was in some dismal
cellar. Not a sound could he hear. He
could see nothing, and feeling around
found nothing but an empty barrel. He
had only a little more than a dim con
sciousness of where he was and what
had occurred. He hammered away with
his fists on the wall long and earnestly.
At last the door opened and two men
entered. All he could see of them was
the dark figures—one tall and the other
of medium stature, rather thin. They
wore handkerchiefs over their eyes,
which fell loosely over their faces like
masks. He told them that he wanted to
go out. They answered him that if he
did not keep quiet they would kill him,
but if he made no noise they would do
him no harm. He then asked for a
glass of water, which they brought. One
of them asked him if he would have a
cup of coffee. He answered in the af
firmative, as he was burning with third,
and his lungs seemed on fire, he was so
hot inwardly. The coffee was brought,
which he drank. They then left him,
when he fell asleep. How long he slept
he does not know. The next he remem
bers, with much vagueness, was being
shaken by the two men. They tied his
hands, one across the other, at the wrist
with stout cord, and tied a handkerchief
tightly over his eyes. They attempted
to put a gag in his mouth for fear he
might cry out, they said; but as he
promised faithfully to make no sound or
outcry they did not use the gag. He
then observed a strong smell of chloro
form as the pien threw some over the
bandage on his eyes, oyer his shirt
and emptied
A BIG PHIAL
Os it over his coat. In fact, he was
completely saturated with the liquid.—
He then remembers vaguely that he was
put into a coach, for he has an idea that
he felt the uncomfortable ride over the
stony pavement. His senses then swam.
From what spot he was driven, or where
they alighted with him, he does not
know. His next recollection was find
ing himself, at one o’clock on Wednes
day morning, leaning against the fence
around the new Tribune building in
Spruce street. Tho smell oi chloroform
a3 so great, he says', as to be sicken
ing. His shirt was drenched with it, as
was also his coat. He reeled like a
drunken man past Franklin’s statute and
into Citv Hall Park, where he stumbled
across a’policeman, whom he aco .sted.
This guardian of the peace advised him
to go home, as he had taken a drop too
much. He asked to be directed to a
near drug store, and protested that he
hadn’t touched a drop of liquor of any
kind, and in fact never does. The po
liceman then directed him to Hudnut s
pharmacy, in the Herald * building, to
which he staggered. He told the clerk
what had happened. Some medicine
and coffee were given him, when he was
advised to go home. He then started
for Sweeny’s Hotel, bat, growing faint
and dizzy on the way, he called in theaid
of a policeman, who assisted him there.
He then went to bed, aud did not awake
until the afternoon. He made an ex
amination of his pantaloons pocket in
order to ascertain if his diamonds were
there, but found that not only had they
been stolen, but his three diamond shirt
studs, three rings, liis sleeve buttons and
his gold watch and chain were gone as
well. It was
THE FIRST MOMENT
That he was conscious of his loss. He
had been a captive from Monday after
noon until Wednesday morning, and
was minus valuables worth nearly SIG,-
000. In company with Mr. James Swee
ny, he went to police headquarters aud
reported his loss to Chief Matsell. The
matter was at once placed in the hands
of the detectives, but thus far without
success. One day since, while at the
Central Office, one of the detectives told
him that they had got hold of some
uncut Brazilian diamonds. He asked to
see them, thinking they might possibly
be a part of those he had lost. But the
detectives answered that they were satis
fied the stones were not his. and refused
to allow him to see them. Not satisfied
with the efforts made by the police de
tectives, Mr. Anderson has called in the
aid of a private detective agency, whom
he thinks will succeed better, and if it is
possible obtain him his valuables. He
lias ofiered to the police authorities one
half the value of ttie stones if they will
recover them. Captain Anderson is a
gentleman of considerable intellgeuce,
and tells his story with a degree of ear
nestness that leaves no doubt of its en
tire truthfulness. It is certainly one of
the most remarkable robberies that has
yet taken place in this city, and the pub
lic will look with interest for the arrest
of the parties who have perpetrated this
bold act of thieverv.
THE “OLD THIUD.”
Meeting of the Dawson Ureys, Com
pany “C,” Third Georgia ltegiment.
Penftet.d, Ga., June 13, 1874.
In conformity to previous notice, a
number of the surviving members of
Company “C,” Third Georgia Regiment,
met at Penfiekl this day, for the purpose
of taking such action as might be deemed
necessary, looking to a reunion of said
regiment at Union Point on the 30th
July next.
Upon motion of Major 11. L. McWlior
ter, Captain J. R. Sanders was called to
the Chair, and Sergeant Joseph Davison
requested to act as Secretary.
The following resolutions were present
ed by Lieut. J. F. Cheney and unani
mously adopted:
Resolved, That we heartily and cor
dially endorse the suggestion made in
relation to the reunion of the surviving
members of the Third Georgia Regi
ment, at Union Point, on the 30th day
of July next, and as it is desirable
that every member of Company “C”
be present on that occasion; be it,
therefore,
Resolved, That tlio Chairman be re
quested to appoint a committee of five,
whose duty it shall be to notify every
surviving member of said company and
request their attendance at Union Point
upon the occasion.
The Chair appointed the following
named persons the committee of five, in
conformity to said resolution, viz : Capt.
D. N. Sanders, Lieut. J. F. Cheney,
Sergeant Joseph Davison, Sergeant C.
B. Mitchell, and J. L. Wilson.
On motion of Lieut. Cheney :
Resolved, That Lieut. A. S. Morgan,
as the representative of Company C, be
requested to deliver an address of wel
come to the Third Georgia Regiment ap
propriate to the occasion, and that the
Secretary be requested to notify Lieut.
Morgan of liis appointment for that
purpose, and to request his acceptance
of the same.
Upon motion of Major McWhorter :
Resolved, That the Secretary furnish
a copy of the proceedings of this meet
ing for publication to the Greenesboro
Herald and the Chronicle and Senti
nel, and that the meeting do now ad
journ subject to the call of the Chair
man. J. R. Sanders, Ch’rnn.
Joseph Davison, Sec’y.
THE TWO DUOMIOS.
A Sharp Colored Troop.
Some time during the first part of last
January two colored men, named respec
tively Bill Price and Caesar Cousins,
came to Augusta from Thomasville and
obtained work on the canal. They were
thrifty negroes and saved up their wages.
About a month ago Price had accumu
lated fifty-five dollars, which he sent to
an old negro woman, named Margaret
James, in Thomasville, for safe keeping.
A little over a week ago Price went to
Thomasville on a visit and met liis fe
male banker, whose first words on seeing
him were, “Did you get your money
all right?” Surprised at the question,
Price asked the old woman what she
meant, and was informed that she had
received a letter about a week previous,
signed Bill Price, and telling lier to send
the money by Express to Crosar Cousins
at Augusta. The money had according
ly been sent, and the womau produced
the Express receipt as evidence. Price
immediately posted back to Augusta
aud sought out Caesar Cousins, who de
nied all knowledge of the transaction.
Price, therefore, went to a lawyer and had
Cousins arrested. The latter still assert
ed liis innocence, but in order to keep
from being sent to jail, offered to turn
over forty dollars of his own, which he
lyid in bank, to Price. The offer was
accepted and the prisoner released. The
lawyer, however, was so strongly im
pressed with Cousins’ assertion that he
carried him to the Express office and
asked if that was the party to whom the
money package had been delivered.
Answer was made in the negative,
and the affair began to wear an air
of mystery. The Express officials stated
that the party who received the package
had been identified by Mr. Toomer, one
of the street car drivers. The lawyer
thereupon sought out Mr. Toomer, in
company with Caesar Cousins, and asked
him if he knew anything about him. To
this Mr. Toomer answered no. The ne
gro who had received the money pack
age at the Express office worked with
him for some time on the Port Royal
Railroad. He had always gone by the
name of Caesar, as far as he knew. He
went to him a short time since and told
him that he had a package of money at
the Express office, but that the officials
would not deliver it to him unless he was
identified. Mr. Toomer, then, at the
uegro’srequest, met the money clerk of
the Express office and informed him that
he knew the colored troop, having work
ed with him for some time. The pack
age was then turned over to the negro.
Upon this statement of facts the lawyer
had a warrant issued for the arrest of
Caesar, No. 2, and he was captured by
Lieut. Prather, of the police force, yester
day, and taken before Justice Olin for a
preliminary examination. lie confessed
that he had written the letter to the old
woman and had received the money.
The latter, he said, was in an old bottle
on one of the banks of the canal. This
statement, however, was not credited.
In default of one thousand dollars bail,
the defendant was“committed to jail to
await trial at the October term of the Supe
rior Court on the charge of perjury. The
Thomasville Caesar Cousins stated that
the prisoner’s real name was Emanuel
Mitchell. The latter worked on the
canal with Price and Cousins, and had
written a letter for the former to Mar
garet James, asking whether she had
received the money sent, hence his
knowledge of its being in her hands.
LETTER FROM DANIEL BOONE TO
HIS SISTER.
A Sterling Old Document.
Mr. L. A. Sidener, of Woodlawn,
Monroe County, Missouri, called on the
Monroe county Appeal , and showed an
interesting relic of olden time, it being
a letter written by the famous pioneer,
Daniel Boone, to his sister. The letter
came into Mr. Sidener’s possession
through his mother-iu-law, who was a
grandnice of the great hunter. We give
the letter :
October the 19th, 181 G.
Dear Sister —With pleasure I Red a
Later from your son Samuel Boone who
informs me that you are yet Living and
in good health considering your age. I
wright to you to Let you know I have
Not forgot you and to inform you of my
Situation Sinoe the Death of your Sister
Rebecca. I Live with slanders Calaway.
But am at present at my son Nathans
and in tolerable health. You can gess at
my feelings by your own as we are
so near one age I Need Not write you
of oar situation as Samuel Bradly or
James grimes Can inform you of every
snrcomstances Relating to our family
and how we Live in this World and
what chance we shall have in the next
we know not, for my part I am as igno
rant as a child, all the Religion I have,
to Love and fear Cod, believe ia Jesus
Christ. Do all the good to my Neigh
bors and myself that I can and do as
little harm as I can help, and trust on
God’s mercy for the rest, and I believe
God never made a man of prinsiple to
be lost, and I flatter myself Dear Sister
that you are well on your way in Chris
tianity give my Love to all your Chil
dren and all my friends, farewell my
Dear Sister. Daniel Boone.
Mrs. Sarah Boone.
N. B.—l Reed a letter yesterday from
Sister Hanah peninton by her grandson
Dal Ringe. She and all her Children
are Well at present. D. B.
FRANCE.
AN EXPLANATION OF THE RE
CENT AGITATION.
t
The Present State of French Parties.
Paris, May 15, 1874.
The Summer session has just com
menced, aud it is known that events of
great political importance must soon
happen. The new constitutional bills
have to be passed, an electoral law has
to be framed, aud, in short, an amount
of serious work has to be got through
which would require that every member
of the Assembly should be animated
with a clear purpose, and that each
party should be efficiently organized.
But no man seems to have any purpose,
nor can any party boast of an organiza
tion. Royalists, Bonapartists, Constitu
tionalists, Moderate Republicans and
Radicals are all blatant with loose talk
about tlio necessity for establishing a set
tied regime ; but they are like a gang of
masons, each carrying a hod full of bricks
and wrangling with one another as to
how they shall set about building a wall.
The idea of putting their bricks in com
mon and working harmoniously together
is the last which will occur to them ; for
each man wants to follow his own de
signs in erecting the wall, and will hear
of no compromise. The wall to be
built in this instance is, as above said,
The New Constitution.
That is the fourteenth Constitution
elaborated since 1789. By its provisions
France is to have two legislative cham
bers, viz : A Senate of 300 members, to
be called the Grand Council, and a
Lower House, also of 300 members,
which will retain the name of National
Assembly. The Deputies in the Lower
House are to be elected direct by the
universal suffrage of tliearondissoments;
but universal suffrage is to be “purified”
of about 2,000,000 voters by the elec
toral law, which raises the minimum
age of electors from twenty-one to twen
ty-five, disfranchises ail who have been
sentenced to fine or imprisonment for
drunkenness, sedition or even street
brawling, and imposes a three years’
residential qualification on the rest of
the electorate. Os the members of the
Grand Council 100 are to be appointed
for life by the Chief of the Executive;
fifty will be ex officio members, marshals,
admirals, chief justices, Are., and the
remaining 150 will be returned by a
Committee of Notables, formed of the
leading officials, merchants, judges and
clergy in each department. In case of
the President’s demise the President of
the Grand Council would temporarily
succeed him; and the Grand Council
and the National Assembly would be
convoked at the shortest possible notice
aud resolve themselves into a. “Con
gress” to elect his permanent successor
—a clause iu the constitutional bill
specially providing that the Congress
shall have power to alter the “title” of
the new Chief of the Executive and to
shorten or prolong the term of his office.
Now this clause simply menus that the
Congress will have power to
Change the President Into a Monarch,
And fierce debates may be expected on
it. The Prime Minister, Duke de Brog
lie, lias hoped that ny holding out the
prospect of the future Congress electing
a King to succeed MacMahon he may
conciliate the Royalists, and a cunning
proviso which implies that the Congress
might proceed to anew election in the
event, not only of MacMahon’s death,
but of his resignation, is intended to be
a further bait to them. But the Royalists
do not trust tlio Duke de Broglie, and,
on the other hand, that which might
tempt the Royalists would naturally alien
ate the Republicans, who command al
most one-half of the votes in the Assem
bly. The policy of the Royalists is to
thwart the Duke de Broglie in every
way, in order that he may resign and be
replaced by the Duke Decazes, whom
the Legitimists like, or, failing this,
they desire to bring about such a dead
lock that MacMahon will see it is im
possible to carry on the Government,
and so lend himself to some scheme for
1 restoring Henri V. The policy of
The Republicans
Is to keep MacMahon where lie is,. with
his present title of President of the Re
public, but to overthrow the Duke do
Broglie and get a more liberal Ministry,
with M. Casimir Perier at its head. As
to the Bonapartists, they are opposed to
the bill which cripples universal suf
frage, aud have also a strong wish to oc
casion a deadlock, to the end that. Mac-
Mahon may be driven in a moment of im
patience to appeal to the nation by plc
biscitum. On the whole, then, the situ
ation is pregnant with trouble, and
nothing is more likely than that on some
clause of the Constitution bills the ex
treme Royalists, the Republicans and
the Bonapartists may all vote together,
and turn out the Duke de Broglie.
The Situation.
Paris, June 17.—1 tis believed that
the Committee of Thirty will not report
for a for night on the bills referred to
it yesterday. The Left have abandoned
for the prese~t agitation for a dissolu
tion of the Assembly, because they hope
for the organization of a Republic. The
Presidents of the Bureaux of the Assem
bly have been appointed—B from mem
bers of the Right and 7 from the Left.,
including Laborelae, Perier and Bay.—
The Committee of Parliamentary Initia
tive was also appointed, and consists of
18 members of the Left, and 12 of the
Right. Rochefoucald’s Monarchial reso
lution of yesterday was finally referred
to this committee, but it is considered
certain the resolution will not be report
ed to the Assembly for discussion.
The fire in the forest of Fontainbleau
has been extinguished after destroying
ten acres of timber.
An amusing incident occurred on a
train in New York State recently. A
newly married couple entered the car
and took a seat. The husband, wanting
to smoke, left his wife and went into the
smoking car. The bride began to doze,
and while she slept a stranger entered the
car, and, as it was crowded, quietly took
a seat beside the young wife. Shortly
she began to nod, and, doubtless imag
ining that her husband was still in the
seat, gently reclined toward the stranger,
and soon her head fondly nestled on his
breast. At this juncture the husband
returned. lie stood in mute astonish
ment in the aisle until tho lady awoke,
and, realizing the situation, drew hack in
amazement, suffused with blushes.
Stranger explained, husband was satis
fied, and wife tried hard to appear un
concerned
An insurance case was recently tried
in the Court of Queen’s Bench, England,
wherein payment was disputed of a
policy upon the life of a woman, on the
plea that the man to whom it was made
payable had no insurable interest in her
life. The claimant averred that the de
ceased was his betrothed wife, and this
fact being established, the Court held
that tho claimant had an insurable in
terest in her life, and the policy must be
paid.
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and RELIEF is alwavs anxiously sought after.
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country will vouch for its being the PUREST
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Simmons’ Liver Regular, or Medicine,
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sure to cure if taken regularly, is no intoxicat
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moat delicate infant, does not interfere with
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behhd, bat loosens it, cleanses the lungs and allay*
irritation, thus removing the cause of the complaint
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Are the most beautiful iu style and perfect in tone
ever made. The CONCERTO STOP is the bust ever
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The Highest Medienl Authorities of Ktirop*
say the strongest Tonic, Purifier and Deobstruent
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The only Reliable Gift Distribution in the Country !
$ioo,7)oo oo
IN VALUABLE GIFTS!
TO BE DISTRIBUTED IN
D. WIN E» W
44rn SEMI-ANNUAL
GIFT ENTERPRISE!
To ba Drawn Saturday, July 4th, 1874.
One Grand Capital Prize, SIO,OOO
in Gold !
ONE PRIZE, $5,000 IN SILVER!
Five Prizes, SI,OOO 1
Five Frizes, SSOO r GREENBACKS.
Ten Prizes, SIOO each in )
Two Family Carnages and Matched Horses,
with Silver-Mounted Harness, worth $1,500
each ! Two Buggies, Horses, Ac.. worth SOOO
each! Two Fine-toned Rosewood Pianos, i
worth $550 each! Ten Family Sewing Machines,
worth SIOO each ! 1,500 Gold and Silver Lever '
Hunting Watches (in all), worth from S2O to i
S3OO each! Gold Chains, Silverware, Jew
elry, Ac., Ac.
Number of Gifts, 10,000. Tickets limited to
50,000.
Agents wanted to sell Tickets, to whom lib
eral premiums will be paid.
Single Tickets, $2; Six Tickets, $10; Twelve
Tickets. S2O; Twenty-tive Tickets, S4O.
Circulars containing a full list of prizes, a de
scription of the manner of drawing, and* other,
information in reference to the Distribution,
will be sent to any one ordering them. All !
letters must be addressed to
L. D. SINE,
Box 80. Cincinnati, Ohio.
Main Office. lOd W. Fifth Street.
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Summer Resort !|
THERE will be opened, at CLARKESVILLE,
GA., ON THE 15 HI OF JUNE, by MRS.
ANGUS McALPIN, a large, FIRST CLASS
Private Boarding House,
The House newly painted and furnished ; very
best Cooks, first class Servants in attendance,
and everything thoroughly clean, fresh and
comfortable.
TERMS—S3O per month, for adults—half
price for children and servants; $25 per !
month, each; forgentlemen. more than two in ’
a room, by the week. sl2; by the day, $2.
REFERENCES. — Bev. Dr. L S. K. Axsou, Bt. I
Rev. Bishop Beckwith. Gen. J. E. Johnston, i
Mr. Geo. S. Owens, Mr. Henry Hull. G e n. A. R.
Lawton. Mr. W. W. Gordon, Dr. H. H. Stei
ner, Augusta; Rev. Dr. B. Jl. Palmer. New
Orleans ; Mr. Allen 8. Izard, Mr. Daniel Hey
ward, Mr. Wm. C. Bee, Charleston.
Address, MRS. ANGUS McALPIN,
jn2-tuthAsa3w ClarkeuriUe, Ga.
New AdverllisementH.
EST’D. 1858 .
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Is put up in Full Weight Cana
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Makes F.legant Biscuits and Bolls.
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Makos Delicious Muffins, Griddle Cakes, Com
Bread. Ac.
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Mukos all kinds of Dumplings, Pot Pies, Cakes
and Pastry, nice, light and healthy.
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Is the Bost, because pnrfeo'ly pure.
DOOLEY’S YEAST POWDER
Ib the Cheapest, because full weight.
DOOLEY'S YEAST POWDER
Is guaranteed to give satisfaction.
Be suro to ask for
DOOLEY'S YEAST POWDER
and do not bo put, off with any other kind.
DOOLEY'S YEAST POWDER
Is put up iii Tin Cans of various sizes, suitahlo
for Families, Boarding Houses, Hotels,
Bestaurants and ltiver. Lake and
Ocean Vessels on short or
long vovageH.
Tho Market is Hooded with Cheap, Inforior
Baking and Yeast Powder of light or short
weigh. DOOLEY'S YEAST POWDER is war
ranted full strength and full weight.
Sold at wholesale and retail, generally
throughout tho United Stntes, by dealers in
Groceries and Family Supplies.
1
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ENDOWMENT SCHEME 1
FIFTH INI) LIST COiIiCEKT
IN AID OF TIIE
Pile Library of Kentncky.
JULY 31, 1874.
In announcing the Fifth and Inst of the do
ries of Clift Concerts given for tho’ benefit of
tho Public Library of Itentuoky, tho Trust,cos
and Manager refer with pride and pleasure to
the four which have been already given : The
first, December 10, 1871; the second, Decem
ber 2. 1872; the third, July 8, 1873 ; aud tho
fourth, Marcli :tlst. 1871.
Under their charter, grantod by a dpocial act
of tho Kentucky Legislature, March 1(1, 1871,
the Trustees are authorized to givo ONE
MOKE, and ONLY ONE MOltK Gift Con
cert. With the money arising from this Fifth
aud LAST Oonoert, the Library, Museum, and
other departments are to be enlarged and en
dowed with a lixed and certain annual income.
Such an endowment, fund is desired as will se
cure beyond peradventure not only the main
tenance nf this magnificent establishment hut
its constant growth.
THE FIFTH GIFT CONCERT
for the purposes mentioned, aud which is posi
tively and unequivocally announced as THE
LAST WHKill WILLEVEIUJE GIVEN UNDER
THIS CHART''It AND BY THE PRESENT
MANAGEMENT.
Will come off in tho Publio Library Hall, at
Louisville, Ky.,
Friday, July 31, 1874.
At tbiH final Concert everything will bo upon
a scale corresponding with its increased im
portance. Tho music will be rendered by an
orchestra consisting of one hundred perform
ers selected for their fame in different lauds,
aud tho unprecedented sum of
#a,Goo,ooo
divided into twenty thousand gifts, will bo dis
tributed among tlio ticket holilors.
LIST OF GIFTS.
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT *250,000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 100 000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 75 000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 60 000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 25,000
6 CASH GIFTS $20,000 each 100,000
10 CASH GIFTS 14,000 each 140,000
15 CASH GIFTS 10.000 each... . 150,000
20 CASH GIFTS 5.000 each 100,0(10
25 CASH GIFTS 4,000 each 100,000
80 CASH GIFTS 3.000 each 00,000
50 CASH GIFTS 2.000 each 100,000
100 CASH GIFTS 1.000 each 100,000
240 CASH GIFTS 500 each 120,000
500 CASH GIFTS 100 each 50,000
19,000 CASH GIF IS 50 each 050,000
GRAND TOTAL, 20,000 GIFTS, ALL
CASH $2,500,000
PHICE OF TICKETS.
Whole Tickets $ 50 00
Halves 25 00
Tenth, or each coupon...’ 5 00
11 Whole Tickets for 500 00
224 Tickets for 1,000 00
Tickets are now ready for sale, and orders
accompanied by cash will be promptly filled.
Liberal commissions will be allowoit to satis
factory agents.
Circulars containing full particulars furnish
ed on application.
THO. E. EKAMLETTE,
Agent and Manager.
Public Library Building, Louisville, Ky.
maylO-dtuAfrAwtd
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I s THE ONLY SPECIFIC YET PIBCOV
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FHE stomach is one of the most delicile or
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A STATE OF CHRONIC DISORDER,
Which is followed by a resoet to tonics and al
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however, that many of the medicines used for
this purpose contain alcohol, which, poured
into a diseased stomach, produces irritation,
t&reates inflamation, and does more injury than
good.
Oxygenated Bitters Contain No Al
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The OXYGENATED BITTERS have been the
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Price, $1 per bottle. Sold everywhere.
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