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WEDNESDAY. JUNE 2, 1875.
AFTER THE STORM.
After the storm a calm;
After the bruise a balm;
For the ill brings good in the Lord's own time.
m And the sigh becomes a psalm.
After the drouth the dew;
After the cloud the bine;
Foe the sky will smile u> the son's good time.
And the earth grow glad and new.
Bloom is the heir of blight.
Dawn to the child of night.
And the rolling change of the boar world j
Bid* the wrong yield back the right.
Under the foant of til
Many a rnp doth fill.
And the patient lip, though it drtaketh oft,
rinds only bitter still.
Truth seemed oft to sleep.
Blessings slow to reap.
Till the boors of waiting are weary to bear
And the courage is bard to keep.
Nevertheless!. I know
Out of the dark most grow.
800 tier or later, whatever is fair.
Bince the heavens ksve willed it so.
MOTHER IN-LAW.
Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law—
Dearest old lsdy that ev r I ssw!
Her dnger thrust into svsry pie ;
Each Huger bored by her gimlet eye:
And for every thing that amirs doth go.
The comforting murmur "Told you so.'*
I
Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law—
Dearest old lady that evar I ssw! ;
Mousing and meddling, and stirring up strifs,
Now wiib the husband now with the wife ;
Perennial spring of a family care
From the day she began our comforts to share. ,
Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law—
Dearest old lady that ever I saw!
And now she says she is going sway.
When I’ve dons so much to prolong her stay.
I gave her a room on the topmost floor,
With a hanging shatter and a lockless door;
Choked up the chimney for her dear sake,
And bought a cross watch-dog to keep her
awake.
Could a son do more ? She couldn't demand it.
And yet the old lady declares she can't stand it.
Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law—
Dearest old lady that ever I saw!
Coming each Christmas day to dine;
Now yon bring Joy to this heart of mine.
Which quite walls orer with grateful cheer
As 1 think that day only comes once a year.
THE SOLDIERS’ URAVJS.
Tread lightly—’tis a soldier’s grave,
A lonely, mossy mound—
And yet, Io hearts like mine and thine,
It should he holy ground.
Bpeak gently—let no careless laugh,
No idle, thoughtless jest,
Escape your lips, where sweetly sleeps
The kero in his rest.
For him no revello shall beat,
When morning beams shall come;
For him, at night, no tattoo rolls
Its thunder from the drum.
No costly marble marks the place
Recording deeds of fame,
But rudely on that bending tree
Is carved the soldier’s name.
A name—not dear to ns—but ah !
There may he lips that breathe
That name as sacredly and low
As vesi>er prayers at eve.
There may bo brows that wear for him
The mourning cyprehs vine:
And hearts that m ike this lonly grave
A holy pilgrim shrine.
Tbero may bo eyes that joyed to gaze
With love into his own,
Now keepiug midnight vigils lung
With silent griefs alone.
There may ho hands now clasp’d in prayer
This soldier’s hand have pressed.
And cheeks washed pale by sorrow's tears,
His own cold cheek caressed.
Tread lightly—for a man bequathed,
Ero laid beneath this sod,
His ashes to his native laud,
His gallant soul to God!
BARB IN THE LANE.
After the milking was over,
Annie would follows the cows
Half a mile down to the clover,
And turn them in to hrouse.
Neat little figure is Annie,
Han ding the bars in the lane,
Lotting down ever so many.
Just in the sunlight's wane.
Wild roses blooming boside her
Match not her cheeks' lovely red;
And the loaves trying to hide her,
Dance at her musical tread.
Witching cnrls peep from her bonnet—
Peep like bright birds from their nest!
And her heart—oh, to have won it! —
Beats with a gallant unrest.
Lips may be humming a ditty,
And faces may show unconcern,
Upt secrets there are—what a pity
That some are so easy to learn!
Now while the robins are nesting,
Why does she wait in the lane ?
Though, if white arms need a resting,
No one, of course, could complain.
Lights in the farm-house are gleaming,
And bars must be laid in their place,
But little Annie stands dreaming,
A blush oil her beautiful face.
It is late ? Not that she cares now;
Ah! merry eyes, mild and brown,
Gould you not tell why she wears now
Just "the least mite of a frown ?
Over the path by the hill-side,
Someone would waiider by night;
Someone who came from the null--uie,
Lured by two eyes that are bright.
Meadow and valley grow stiller
Under the early stars;
Would it be strange if the miller
Hoip Annie to pnt up the bars ?
"FOR I NEVER HAVE SEEN THE
GAME PLAYED.”
Harry Tinsley’s local in the Staunton Vimli
eator oil the Flight of King Pharo has called
forth the following in the Valley Virginian:
THAT LITTLE GAME.
"I wish I was dead.”
Were the first words he said,
A* a hand on his shoulder was laid ;
"Aud I wish I may die
If it ain't all a lie,
For I never have seen the game played.
“ 'Twas Tinsley, the cuss,
That raised all the muss,
And caused that abominable raid;
For he got up a local,
And things became vocal.
About a small game that was played.
"And'now they propose
To poke in their nose.
And see if a haul can't be made ;
But I’U skute from the town
Till the thing simmers down,
Tho" I never have seen the game played.”
The grand jury met.
In a terrible sweat.
And swore ’hat the fine should be paid,
But the witness had fled,
Aud nary’ a red
Came iu from the game that was played.
And so they dissolved,
And nothing evolved
Concerning a brisk little trade.
That with chips red and white,
For many a night,
Were used m that game that was played.
And now as the star
In the heavens afar
Peeps timidly out through the shade
Of night, can be seen
By eyes very keen.
Those fellows that saw tho game played.
Bnt if you are told
That these larkeys so bold
Of tho grasp of the law are afraid,
Put it down as a fib.
For mv mother Eve s rib
"They neper have seen the game played.”
RETROSPECTION.
Sit I alone ;
And, as I gaze iu the coals. I remember,
Here, in my snug little tire-lit chamber,
. Days long agone.
Saddening it is when the night has descended.
Thus to sit here.
Pensively musing on episodes ended
Many a year.
Btill in mr visions a golden-haired glory
' Flits to and fro :
She whom 1 loved—but 'tis just the old story.
Dead, long ago ?
Tis but the waiter of a love ; yet I linger.
(Thus passion errs.)
Foolishly kissing the ring on my finger—
Once it was hers.
Nothing has changed since her spirit departed.
Here, in this room.
Slave I, who. weary, and half broken-hearted,
Bit in the gloom.
Loud 'gainst the window the Winter rain dashes.
Dreary and cold;
Over the floor the red fire-light flashes
Just as of old.
Just as of old—bnt the embers are scattered
Whose ruddy blaze
Flashed over the floor where her fairy feet
pattered
In other days!
Then, her dear voice, like a silver chime ring
ing.
Melted away;
Often these waits have re-echoed her singing.
- Hushed now for aye S
Why should love bring aught bnt sorrow. I
'wonder?
Everything dies!
Time and death, sooner or later, most sunder
Holiest ties.
Tears have rooted by; lam wiser and older—
Wiser, but yet
Not till my heart and its feelings grow colder.
Can I forget.
So in my snug little fire-lit chamber.
Bit I atone;
Asd, as I gaze in the coals I remember
Days long agone!
At a meeting of the Philadelphia Cen
eunial Commission held the other day
Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar was elected one
of the orators of the day and Gen.
Joseph E. Johkston Master of Cere
monies.
DUGAS’ PATHOGNOMONIC SIGN
3f Dislocations of the Bhimlder-Joint
—By W. T. Briggs, M I)., Professor
ofihe Principles and Practice of Stnr
gery in the Medical Department of
the Unive;sity of Nashville and the
Vanderbilt University.
(From the Nashville Journal of Medicine and
Surgery, May, 1875. J
Notwithstanding the great progress in
onr diagnostic knowledge of injuries
about the joints in the last quarter of a
century, many errors are atill commit
ted, eveu by able practitioners. The per
sonal experience of every atrrgeon of
large practice will furnish numerous ex
amples of cases in which fractures about
the joint have been mistaken for dislo
cations, sod conversely, dislocations for
fractures, and simple contusions for
either. Now, the signs of each of these
injuries are so marked, when the patient
is seen early, that even the more inex
perienced can scarcely fail to differenti
ate them ; but iu a short time so mnch
tenderness and tumefaction supervene
that the signs which were so prominent
tiecome completely obliterated, to be
come prominent again when the tume
faction subsides.
It is during the stage of inflammation
and tumefaction that so many errors are
made, especially in dislocation of the
shoulder-joint; the taxation is left un
reduced, and the patient remains a liv
ing memorial of the surgeon’s ignorance
or inattention. Almost all authors con
cur in the opinion that it is not always
an easy matter to make a correct diag
nosis in shonlder-joint dislocations. In
1832. Sir Astley Cooper, in his great
work on dislocation, after discussing
the diagnosis of Bhoulder-joint disloca
tion, writes: “Yet it would be an act of
injustice not to acknowledge that the
tumefaction arising from extravasation
of blood, aud the tension resulting from
the inflammation which frequently en
sues, will, in the ear’y days of the acci
dent, render it difficult for the best sur
geon perfectly to ascertain the exact ex
tent of the injury.” In 1872, Dr. Gross,
in his masterly work on surgery, says:
“Although the signs of this dislocation
are generally well marked, there are few
accidents which are so liable to be mis
taken, and no paiDS should, therefore,
be spared to establish a correct diag
nosis.”
Aud Ashurst, in his excellent work on
surgery, says: “Although by a careful
and systematic examination tiie true
nature of the injury may almost always
be eventually determined, the surgeon
should hesita e before criticising
another practitioner for a mistake that
may have been unavoidable under other
circnmstances.”
Such is the opinion of almost every
writer on the subject, and if we depend
alone on the signs usually mentioned,
mistakes will be constantly made. For
tunately, howaver, we have a sign upon
which we can rely implicitly, under all
circumstances—one which wo have been
teaching and practicing for many years
with so much confi lence that we would
he willing to base a diagnosis on this
one sign alone. We, of course, refer to
Dugas’ sign. In the March number
(1856) of the Southern Medical and
Surgical Journal, we find au article, by
Prof. L. A. Dugas, on anew principle of
diagnosis in shoulder-joint dislocations.
Iu Slay, 1857, be made a report on the
same subject to the American Medical
Association. It is astonishing that so
clear and lucid au exposition of a princi
ple of diagnosis so important to the
surgical world—nay, to the whole medi
cal world—should have received so little
attention from surgical writers. Smith,
in liis excellent Surgery, barely men
tions Dugas’ paper. Gross, who is
usually so correct in all his writings, in
his great work on surgery, states the
principle' wrong when he says : “An
other sign, although net au infallible
one. first pointed out by Dugas, of
Georgia, is the inability which the
patient experiences in touching the
sound shoulder with the hand of tho
injured limb.” Ashurst, who is always
willing to give honor to whom honor !s
due, does not refer to it in his work.
Nor do any of the European writers on
surgery mention it. Hamilton, in liis
incomparable work on fractures and
dislocations, refers very properly to
Dugas’ sign, and in his Surgery gives
him full credit for priority, and copies
largely from his report to the American
Medical Association.
We are satisfied that the profession
generally do not appreciate its great
value, and even Professors of Surgery
have often failed to avail themselves of
it in their teaching. Dugas pathogno
monic sign of shoulder-joint dislocations
may bo stated as follows : If the fingers
of the injured limb can be placed by the
patient, or by the surgeon, upon the
sound shoulder, while the elbow touches
the thorax, there can be no dislocation ;
and if this cannot be done, there must,
be a dislocation. In other words, it is
physically impossible tobringthe elbow
in contact with the sternum, or frout of
the thorax, if there be a dislocation ;
aud the inability to do this is proof posi
tive of the existence of dislocation, in
asmuch as no other injury of the shoui
der-joint can induce this inability. The
proposition is so lucidly and powerfully
sustained by the author, in his report,
that we take the liberty of quoting it in
full :
“In order to make these propo
positions apparent, I beg leave to
present drawings, taken from the skele
ton, showing the relative position of the
bones in the natural state, and in the
several dislocations of the shoulder.—
The evidence thus obtained in support
of my principle would be still stronger
if the bones were invested with their
normal coverings and attachments.—
Let ns then look at figure 1, and we
may observe that while the head of the
humerus occupies the glenoid cavity,
and the fingers rest upon the other
shoulder, the elbow and lower end of
the humerus lie upon the thorax with
out difficulty, because of the circum
stance that the head of the humerus,
when in its natural position, is removed
several inches from the ribs. In conse
quence of the rotundity of the thoracic
walls it is physically impossible that
both ends of the humerus should, at the
came time, come iu contact with the
chest. We see, therefore, in figure 1,
that in the absence of any dislocation,
the upper half of the bone does not
touch the thorax, and that the lower
half does so without the least difficulty.
“By now referring to figure 2, which
represents a dislocation into the axilla,
we find that, the lingers being placed
upon the opposite shoulder, the elbow
is forced so far forwards that it cannot
touch the thorax. Iu this state of
things the upper end of the humerus
alone touches the riba, while the lower
eud is proportionately removed from the
chest. Auy attempt to force the elbow
against the thorax must be fruitless,
unless at the expense of a disruption of
ail the soft parts by which the head of
the humerus is held down; for, as 1 have
already stated, it is physically impos
sible for both ends of the humerus to
touch the thoracic walls at the same
time.
“Wo have represented, in figure 3, a
dislocation forwards, or below the
clavicle; aud here again sve find the
upper end of the humerus resting upon
the ribs—the elbow being consequently
removed from the chest. The i tpqcr
half of the humerus touches the thorax,
and so long as this is the case it is
physically impossible for the lower por
tion of the humerus also to do it. In
dislocations of this kind, it is very dif
ficult to carry the fingers upon the op
posite shoulder, even though the elbow
be allowed to project forward, because
of the resistance offered by the strong
muscles which pull back the humerus.
I have, however, represented the bones
of the skeleton in this position for the
purpose of showing the effect, in case it
could be assumed, in the living subject.
“Dislocations of the humerus upon
the dorsum of the scapula, although
| very rare, should be carefully studied.
I have, therefore, represented this acci
dent ia figure 4, by which it may be
seen that the same principles ere appli
cable also to it. Here, as well as in
the other instances, it is only the upper
end of the humeras that touches the
thorax, aud the elbow projects strongly
forwards. In this dislocation it might
be possible to bring the elbow against
the side of the trunk, by carrying the
humerus down parallel with the axis of
the body; but any contact of the elbow
with the chest is impossible, if tho fin
gers be directed towards, or placed sp
oil the sound shoulder, for then the
form of the thorax woqld offer an insu
perable obstacle. Having bow, I trust,
sufficiently demonstrated the truth of
the proposition that it is physically im
possible to bring the elbow against the
froat of the thora* in dislocations of
the shoulder, I would simply add that
it is equally true that no other injury
of the shoulder-joint than a dislocation
cau induce this physical impossibili
ty. It ia obvious, that a mere contu
sion of the soft parts may render motion
of the joint ao painful as to deter the
patient from the effort necessary to carry
the finger* upon the other shoulder.—
I But there can be no dU&oaky on the
part of the surgeon in placing the limb
in this position, and an anaesthetic
might be used, if desirable, so as to ren
der manipulation painless. £he same
may be said of fractures of the upper
end of the humeras of the acromion, of
the coracoid process, and of the neck of
the scapula. In neither of these acci
deut* can there be any physical impedi
ment ia the way of bringing the elbow
iu contact wuii'tjje front of the chest, for
in naif her of them cap the upper end
of the humerus be so fixed against the
ribs as to make it impossible /or the
lower end to touch the chest. Nothing,
therefore, but a dislocation can prevent
the limb from being placed in the posi
tion indicated. If it be justly esteemed
a matter of great importance to be in
possession of correct principles of diag
nosis in occult diseases, it is certainly
not the less so with regard to surgical
accidents, especially alien these demand
prompt interference. Our professional
records unfortunately establish too con
clusively the imperfection of our diag
nostic resources in injuries of the joints
to permit any indifference on the sub
ject. If, therefore, the views here pre
sented may facilitate, in the least de
gree, the detection of injuries confessed
ly more or less obscure, my object will
have been attained.”
The principle upon which this im
portant diagnostic sign is based is true.
The sign is pathognomonic iu every va
riety of dislocation of the shoulder-joint.
It is simply perfect and infallible.
Western surgeons* have done much for
the general advancement of surgery.
McDowell, Sims, Dtaderick and Smythe
have made their names immortal by
their glorious deeds; but Dugas has con
ferred more benefit on the profession,
by pointing ont this true sign of dislo
cated shoulder-joint, than either of
those distinguished men. It should be
known, and handed down to all future
generations, as Dugas’ Sign.
*Dr. Bowling was the first to call at
tention to the fact that American snr
gery owes most of its progress and
glory, during this century, to those who
lived in towns and villages of slave
States. He calls the names of his heroes
his “string of beads.”
A DISTINGUISHED DEFAULTER.
One of Boston’s “Bine Blood” Law
yers Embezzles aud Absconds—Jack
son’s Little Game Evidences of
Fraud, Forgery and Betrayal of
Trust.
Boston, Mass., May 20.—Commercial,
financial and social circles have been
shocked this afternoon by the exposure
of a series of gigantic frauds and defal
cations by one of the most noble, and
heretofore one of the most reputable,
lawyers of Boston. The offending mem
ber is Abraham Jackson, an old and es
tablished blue blood of the Beacon Hill
stripe, and his frauds upon those who
trasted and reposed in him are likely to
reach hundreds of thousands of dollars
in amount; in fact, his peculations have
been so numerous, enormous and of
long duration that it will be impossible
for several days to ascertain the full
amount of his swindles or the exact
number of his victims- Each hour,
almost, unfolds some new story affect
ing the integrity of the man, and show
ing how persistently, yet methodically,
lie has carried on his system of decep
tion. It is urged that liis embarrass
ments are temporary, and that though
he not been seen since last Friday,
he will yet return and make honorable
restitution. The great mystery in the
case is, what possible disposal has he
made of the money ? He has not
been known as a speculator, and his
habits have been snch as to prelude the
possibility of extravagant expenditure.
The perfect confidence that has bean re
posed in him only aggravates his acts,
which seem inexplicable upon any other
theory than that of fraudulent intent.
The Safe Manufacturing Company.
His connection with the American
Steam Safe Manufacturing Company as
its President first excited suspicion.—
The misfortunes of that corporation
were such that it was voted to wind it
up, last July. Upon investigation of its
affairs it was discovered that Mr. Jack
son bad induced the Directors to sign
the notes of the company, jointly aud
severally binding themselves to pay.
Among the Directors was a retired mer
chant of large wealth, who, placing the
most implicit confidence in the honor
and integrity of the President, was in
duced to yield to almost any request
that was made. In addition to signing
the notes, under the plea that the com
pany needed money, the merchant
loaned at once $17,000 worth of United
States gold bonds. It was subsequently
ascertained that Jackson used these
bonds to secure loans for his own per
sonal use, and the $17,000 worth of
bonds were only recovered after a pay
ment of $15,000 in currency. Jackson
was appealed to in vain, giving his word
only to break it, aud seeking, by prom
ises never fulfilled, to gain time, as sup
posed, to relieve himself from his em
barrassments in the management of the
company. He appears to have in
geniously made many personally re
sponsible for his acts, and, through his
skill as a lawyer, to place in jeopardy
large amounts of money, when it was
supposed lie was in reality liquidating
the indebtedness of tho corporation.
The retired merchant will scarcely escape
without a loss of some §50,000 or more.
Widows and Orphans.
The character of Mr. Jackson has
been so high that he was the trusted
custodian of tho property of widows and
orphans. On Friday afternoon a lady,
whose husband is laboring under men
tal affliction, discovered that there was
something wrong in the management of
his affairs, and she made a direct
appeal to the alleged defaulter to tell
her why lie had sought to take from her
the little she depended upon for her
support. He gave no satisfactory re
sponse, and since that night he has not
been heard from. A lady who resides
in Keene, N. H., is also a sufferer from
his want of fidelity to his trust. It is
stated that he has used bogus mort
gages to deceive those who trusted him
with their investments; it is also said
that trust money, originally invested in
bank stock, was sold six years ago,
though the lawyer has paid the divi
dends to his clients with marked regu
larity.
A New Move in Finance.
One of the operations of the missing
Jackson develops the possibility of car
rying on financial opera!ions and un
folds an entirely new method of making
one note answer the purpose of four.
He held a mortgage note of $5,000, and,
as is sometimes the case whfre there is
no question of the integrity of the par
ty, a bank will loan money upon the
note, the mortgagee holding the mort
gage as it were in trust, as mortgagee.
He borrowed money upon a $5,000 note
of this description very recently. The
party holding the note accidentally dis
covered that another party held a note
for the same amount, secured by the
same mortgage. As they compared
notes it was impossible to tell which
was the original, and while leaving the
question open for adjustment they heard
that a bank on State street had a third
note, identical in amount, and purport
ing to be given and secured by the mort
gage of the same property. Upon com
paring these notes it was thought that,
there was prima facie evidence that the
note held by the bank was the original.
Here was $15,000, SIO,OOO of which was,
of course, not genuine; but the eud was
uot yet. The gentleman who gave the
note was called upon to identify his sig
nature, when, to the astonishment of the
three parties in interest, he exhibited a
receipt signed by the missing lawyer,
acknowledging the payment of the
money, with a promise to return the
note. This is certainly anew method
of financiering, and it is interesting to
those who invest money to know the
fact, that they may be on their guard.
Some few months since a gentleman
who had oceasjpn to look into the affairs
of the missing lawyer obtained a
schedule of his property, and it was
then estimated that it amounted in
value to mors than $200,000. Since i
then some of it has disappeared aud at
tachments have been put upon what re
mains, The fact stated regarding his
habits throws a very great mystery over
the whole affair, jje has been noted as
a conservative, steady going man, whose
conusel was sought by investors, aud
whose guard of trust property stood
second to none in the confidence of the
community. There is little probability
that he will return to the city, for the
more liis affairs sue u';.e/igated the
more complicated they benouip. par
ties holding his notes are of comae
reticent; bnt from what is already known
it is oppareut that such a course of un
accountably dishonesty has never before
been brought to light in this city, and
were it told in a work of fiction as hay
ing occurred in Boston would be ridi
culed as too absurd for belief. The loss
to several families will be severely felt,
for iu two instances it takes from
them nearly all their wordly means.
Y. M. C. A.
The International Convention— Large
Attendance— The Organization— Mr.
LocKhart. Assistant Secretary.
KieKMOND, May 26 —The rnternationl
Convention of the Young Men’s Chris
tian Association met here to-day. It was
called to order by F. D. Taylor, of De
troit, President of the last Convention.
The 'Convention adjourned until 4, p.
m.. to await trains with the Northern
delegates, at which hour it reassembled.
Over four hundred delegates are in at
tenee, representing thirty States, Terri
tories and Provinces. After devotional
exercises and temporary bnsiness, the
following permanent officers were
1 chosen: President, Joseph Hardee, of
i Selma, Alabama; Vice-Presidents, R. K.
Remington, oi Massachusetts ; M. R.
Jessupfof New York; J. B. Morrow, of
Nova Scotia; L. W. Munhall, of In
diana; George Hague, of Ontario; M, S,
Crosbv, of Michigan ; D. C. English, of
NewJersev: J. B. O'Bryan, of Tennes
see* D. A- 'Waldron, of Rhode Island;
John L. Wheat, of Kentucky; D. R.
Noyes, of Minnesota; W. P. Munford,
of Virginia; Recording Secretary, J. B.
L Graham, of Maryland; Assistant Seo
| retaries, H. L. Porter, of Mas&aehu-
I setts; P. T. Lockhart, of Georgia, and
I J. W. Jones, of Bicbmond.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
HIS ADDRESS AT THE TEXAS
STATE FAIR.
A Brief Allusion io the War. and Sev
eral to the Ladies-The Nobility of
Labor—Need of Manufaclorie i in the
South.
The Galveston Mews brings ns a fair
synopsis of the address delivered by the
Hon. Jefferson Davis at the Texas State
Fair, in Houston, on the 11th instant.
He avoided reference to contemporary
politics, and alluded but once only,
and then briefly, to the late war. He
said:
Indies, Countrymen, Friends and
Fellow-Citizens ¥ Texas— for I am
proud to be one: I have had too many
evidences of yotir affection not to be en
titled to that honor. I have for many
years desired to pay a visit to your
State. I was prepared for all that hos
pitality could offer. I was prepared for
all that generosity could give Iu the
day of trouble and disaster you would
not turn your backs upon me. This is
your honor, that while other nations
have held their leaders responsible and
received them with curses as the au
thors of their misfortunes, you have not
chosen to hold me responsible for yonr
miseries. The welcome with which you
have received me makes me almost un
fit for utterance. You are the descen
dants of those brave men who, true to
their Anglo-Saxon instincts, achieved a
glorious victory on the soil cf Texas,
from the smoke of which the Lone Star
rose and shone with bright effulgence.
With the recognition of your indepen
dence yon became fit to take a place
among nations. You achieved all that
could be achieved; but your hearts
yearned back toward the Union from
which you came. Four times aud thrice
happy to stand in the presence of such
men. Five times and four am I proud.
It has been said that the last war was a
war of women. If so, I hug the charge
to my breast; I am proud of it.
I was told that I was not expected to
deliver you a formal address ; nor shall
Ido it. But upon coming here I find
that this is the opening of the State Fair,
anil it would be like the play of “Rich
ard” with King Richard left out if I did
not make a speech. Your purposes are
agriculture, mechanics, commerce. Agri
culture was the first employment of man.
From the recordof creation—that record
which we know to be true—we learn that
when the Creator had separated the
land from the water, created the fishes
and the birds, one thing more was
wanted to utilize this creation—man to
till the soil. Right well has your Presi
dent told you of the honor and the duty
of work. "But there was still one thing
more wanted. Man was created out of
the dust of the earth and made a living
spirit. But something more was re
quired, something nooler, for the crea
tion of woman—that dust etherealized
and ennobled was used for the creation
of woman, and we are all the descend
ants of the Adamic race. By tilling the
soil wealth is created; manufactures
change the condition of the products of
the soil, and increase their value ; com
merce interchanges their location, aud
thus increases their value; but agricul
ture alone produces wealth. But it may
not be that agriculture shall look down
on commerce and manufactures. That
would boas if the hand should sav to
the head aud the heart, what use have I
for thee ? Mechanics and commerce
follow in the footsteps of agriculture.
One of the two sons of Jdam kept flocks
and herds, and so you who live iu the
vast plains of Texas are included in the
list of laborers. You have now reached
a point where manufactures are spring
ing up in Texas. Asa Southern man I
have often been ashamed that the very
broomeorn which grows in our fields is
taken to a Northern village, where tim
ber is less plenty than it is with us, and
made into brooms, brought back, and
that onr blessed women are required to
sweep their floors with a Yankee broom.
Why not make our own wagons, car
riages and wheelbarrows ? Why not
spin our own yarns ? The profit would
be greater and the freight less. Then,
you may go on and make cloth; but it
will not be until you have a crowded
population that you can produce the
finer fabrics. I am not of those who
would have you turn away from fields
co seek the profits which agriculture
would give you more readily. Ido not
intend to tax your patience by telling
you p.ll I know about farming.
[Mr. Davis here made ft graceful allu
sion to the Grangers, and the advanta
ges to be derived from a concentration
and accumulation of capital.]
I hope the time will come, he contin
ued, when Texas will make all her own
agricultural implements, and that our
women may have time to read as many
novels as they please, without being
forced to help their husbands compete
with Illinois in the cultivation of their
fields. To get our full benefit of good
we must have direct trade. Direct
trade will increase the profits and dimin
ish the cost. Direct trade will enable
you to send out ships, which, like Noah’s
dove, will go to and fro over the earth,
promoting the peace of nations. Then,
if ever, are nations to be unified, swords
beaten into ploughshares and spears into
pruning hooks. But to do this we must,
have ports, and we will have them. I
am glad to see that the works begun for
the improvement of the harbor of Gal
veston are successful, and that there is
an equal prospect of the improvement
of your own bayou. The river Clyde
was a smaller stream than your bayou,
suitable only only for sloops and schoon
ers; but they have dredged it out until
its artificial channel accommodates the
largest ship yards of the English navy.
Mr. Davis here alluded at some length
to the invention of a ship which pro
posed to carry 10,000 bales on sixteen
feet of water. By the aid of such ships
he thought that the harbors of the Gulf
would be served. This ship had been
tried and found to succeed, making one
knot more to the hour than other ves
sels. Their great breadth of beam, so
he argued, would accommodate immi
grants in large numbers. This brought
Mr. Davis to the question of immigra
tion, aud he urged upon the people the
necessity of providing for immigrants,
establishing agencies in Europe, and
argued that it would be better even to
pay for the passage of immigrants than
not to get them at all. Mr. Davis laid
great stress upon the necessity of mak
ing no promise which could not be sa
credly kept. He showed how the rail
roads had succeeded in bringing immi
grants to the country, and he thought
that if they could do it to Northern
lands, Texans, who had the advantage
of them in soil, climate and other facili
ties, could do more. Passing in brief
he reviewed the products of the country,
and said : “ But it is only after you have
raised everything a man wants to eat
that you can do this. When you go to
an inhabitant of Great Britain aud tell
him that Texas produces all kinds of
fruit and grain, and then that yon im
port.your meat and flour from the North,
he may not tell you that he don’t believe
you, but he hardly does. You must not
buy a barrel of beef and pork or of flour;
you must have a plenty to feed the hun
gry in all parts of the State.” Passing
from agriculture to mining, Mr. Davis,
in a rapid review, referred to the devel
opment of the metallic resources of the
State. He prophesied that when arte
sian wells shall have been dug the arid
plains will become great grape-growing
regious, and that there was a man on the
platform abundantly able to bring arte
sian water to the surface. In conclusion,
the orator returned, in a voice all tremu
lous with emotion, his heartfelt thanks
for the sympathy extended to him and
the honor and hospitality of bis recep
tion.
OLD CORBIN.
Something About One of the Presiden
tial Brothers-ln-Law— How He Ma
nipulated the Administration for
Black Friday.
[•‘Gath" in the Philadelphia Times.]
Amongst the resident villa owners in
this umbrageous city of Elizabeth is the
rich brother-in-law of the president of
the United States, Abel R. Corbin. Here
he resides with the President’s elder or
eldest sister, a lady unmarried until the
afternoon of life, but a good Christian
woman, with the family strength of Jes
se Grant and her mother. It is an old
story that Mr. Corbin made the ac
quaintance of Miss Grant alter the
General became great, and that the ele
vation of the brother to the Presidency
and the sister to metropolitan matron
hood were nearly abreast of each other
in time. It is wholly to Mr. Corbin that
this incident refers. A short time ago
I was walking in Elizabeth, when his
house was pointed to me. My infor
mant had a personal acquaintance with
; Mr. Corbin, which a public writer could
; never attain with such a shrewd, crafty
aud suspicious old worthy. Said my
iu formant: “Do you know that old Cor
bin is one of the most interesting men
we have? His knowledge of politics,
finance, law, journals and literature is
remarkable. His manner is cool, plau
sible, desirous and rather chuckling.
Upon my word, his abilities of their
kind are prodigious.” You will remem
ber that Mr. Corbin was a native of the
interior of New York, and moved to St.
Louis, where be married a widow of
property, his senior, and with grown-up
children. These he had taught at a pri
vate school attached to the church
their mother attended. Afterward Corbin
attached himself to Senator Thomas
Banton, and edited an organ for
him of great obsequiousness. Benton
found him of uncertain loyalty, and Cor
bin then became clerk of a House com
mittee, from which he was relieved by
an investigating committee, of which the
late Benjamin Stanton was chairman.
The committee reported that Mr. Cor
bin had been a mild type of “ striker,”
and bad received SI,OOO for alleged ser
vices, not rendered, on the passage of a
tariff bill. Corbin then disappeared un
til he became, after a lapse of years,
one of the heroes of Black Friday, with
Fisk, Gould k Cos. The notoriety he
drew at that time was the means of iden
tifying him as the obliging individual
who had suggested the propriety of pre
senting a bouse at Washington to Gen.
Grant, had indicated the house as well,
and finally, had got, the for it.
Corbin made 300 per cent. onThis prop
erty, and it was afterward bought from
Gen. Grant for Gen. Sherman, whom it
almost beggard, for $65,000, having
originally cost Corbiu $12,000. This ex
traordinary real estate performance on
the national gratitude plan was all Cor
bin’s. I never believed that the Presi
dent knew anything about the modus
opirandi. Gen. Dan Butterfield, sub
treasurer of the United States, held the
Sherman fund and was subject to Cor
bin’s manipulations, as he also was on
“Black Friday,” whereby Butterfield had
to resign his office and submit to political
disgrace. This topic is recapitulated to
introduce what is new matter to me—the
Corbin side of Black Friday.
My Elizabeth City informant contin
ued : “Corbin makes me sympathize
with Grant’s want of worldly wisdom.
A crude mau of courage and a soldier,
meeting a wealthy citizen, his elder in
years, who has just become a member
of his father’s family, could hardly mas
ter the fact that this new brother-in-law
was merely using him for a dupe to pro
mote a speculation. Corbin, after leav
ing Wash ngton under a cloud, took up
real estate here in Jersey and showed
financial snap. He took a fine house in
New York, near the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
after he was married, aud there" he con
trived, with Fisk and Gould, the great
Black Friday job of September, 1569
The big chaps were to carry the goid
while Corbin was to keep the Adminis
tration from relieving the market with
Treasury gold. He was to go iu the
pool for his influence. Now, really, he
did nothing but print some financial rea
soning on the theory that it would be to
onr advantage, in exchange, to have gold
go up in the Fall of the year, while we
were shipping the crops to Europe. The
old fellow, Corbin, rang this into the
ears of such officials as he could see, the
President inclusive. The idea did not
take well, but it mystified action at
Washington until Boutwell rolled in his
relief. Now, Corbin talks of the matter
in the most plausible manner to this day.
He holds to his crop moving theory, aud
says that the only mistake of the specu
lation was the greed of Fisk and Gould.
Instead of stopping at about 145, they
grew crazy and forced the premium up
to 160 and beyond, and then the bubble
burst and broke the reckless operators,
Albert Speyer, with $47,00u,000, and
Belden with $50,000,000, were examples
of that frightful affair. Corbin himself
had moderate rapacity, and made
money while Fisk aud Gould were next
to ruined.” “Then, I suppose, they
were the parlies who exposed Corbin ?”
“Certainly. Fisk had no sort of doubt
that Corbin had secured the President,
and he believed that both Corbin and
Grant had played false. Fisk incited
the exposures, aud he was assisted by
one of Corbin’s step-sons, who thought
that the old man had not settled right
with the heirs. I believe he had made a
marriage contract with his first wife’s
family, by which he bound himself to
return her money and her children’s.
This he did, but not on.the basis of the
fortune he acquired by the use of it.”
“Well, did General Grant entertain
no suspicion of Corbin after that?”
“Probably only a trifle. The old fellow,
Corbin, affects, to be sure, that he was
merely speculating a bit, with a high na
tional motive. He lias been a considerate
husband, and the entente cordiale was
unbroken. Mrs. Corbin is very much
respected here in Elizabeth. She has
no children. The President comes here
some times. Such was the origin of one
of the occurrences which led to the
financial block of the Western world for
nearly a whole week.
A FRENCH ROBBERY.
[Pans Correspondence of the London Tijues.l
Stories of robberies are aljways
amusing for those who have not /been
the victims. A few days since a Parisian
jeweler was the victim of a robbery to
the amount of 106,000 francs, organized
with rare audacity and persistency.—
Wliat at the outset is curious and really
anyizes one, is that it is jewelers or
money changers who are always the ob
jects of the enterprises, and that these
plots, a thousand times revealed, sue
ceed the thousandth and first time. It
would seem that as soon as a man be
comes a jeweler or money-changer he
should calculate on being exposed to
the attempts of swindlers, and that con
sequently bis first care, his first notion
of business, should consist in defending
hirtaself against attacks so inevitable.—
Nothing of the kind. Here is a story of
yesterday, the moral of which is obvi
ons, and which shows that thieves keep
pace with the times and modify their
schemes so as to remain of a level with
a more refined civilization. A week or
so ago, a well dressed gentleman, ac
companied by a young and handsome
lady, very elegant and very shy, follow
ed by au irreproachably attired man
servant, installed themselves in apart
ments on the entresol of an apparently
very respectable house in the Avenue
d’Eylau. The rooms were completely
furnished, the rent, 65Df. a month, paid
in advance, and they were let for two
months. The gentleman, lady and ser
vant affected a marked English accent, a
circumstance which proves nothing as to
their nationality, for swindlers on a large
scale have long made it a point to imi
tate foreign accents to perfection, to
pass for French in England, for Ger
mans in Spain, for English in France,
and for Spaniards in Germany. Cos
tume, manners, gait and mode of salut
ing corresponding to their accent.
They brought with them numerous
trunks, conducting themselves as if they
m ant to make a long stay. The ser
vant, who expressed himself with diffi
culty in French, took hia meals with the
concierge, and soon became friendly
with everybody. He was thought to
have a little curiosity, but appeared
much attached and very respectful to
his master and mistress, and he was
very ready to stand a glass to the ser
vants of the rich houses around. Mon
sieur and Madame was out a good deal.
Shopmen almost every day brought arti
cles which they had bought and paid
cash for. Among these was a jeweler’s
employee who brought something or
other nearly every day, sometimes a
ring, at other times ear-rings, studs,
pins, etc. The concierge was more and
more deferential to Ins wealthy tenants.
He calculated that within a week they
must have spent about B,ooof. The
jeweler alone had supplied them with
articles worth 6,000f. As, however, the
old servant with his large blond whis
kers and his prepossessing air, always
stood at the door, as soon as a shopman
arrived he politely conducted him to the
entresol so as to save people the trouble
of accosting the concierge. Thanks to
this the tradesmen—above all the jewel
er—did not know but that their custom
ers occupied rooms furnished by them
selves. A few days ago Monsieur and
Madame treated for a set of diamonds,
for which the jeweler asked 112,000f.,
and for which they offered him 100,000f.
After several visits, Monsieur called and
offered 106,000f., which was accepted.
He wished to surprise Madame by giv
ing the extra 6,000f., for she was ill, and
he asked the jeweler to send the casket
and bill to the Avenue d’Eylau.
When the shopman arrived the servant
was at the door, and hastened to usher
him into the entresol. Monsieur was in
the drawing-room, which bore traoes of
Madame having been in it. An old
shawl was thrown on a chair, a work
basket was placed near the window, aud
on a table in the corner bundles, ap
parently of bank notes, were ia readi
ness for settling the bill. The shop
man entered. Monsieur took the-casket,
and, begging the shopman to wait, car
ried it to Madame, who was in bed.
The shopman waited, looking through
two or three newspapers which were on
a table beside the couch on which he
had been directed to sit. The reading
entertained him, but after glancing over
the three papers he raised his eyes, and,
looking at the timepiece, he perceived
that it was motionless. Seiz and with a !
vague uneasiness, he took out his watch, j
he had been waiting three-quarters of
an hour. He instinctively rushed to the
table containing the bank notes. He
began to count them, but perceived
they were only prospectuses. He hur- 1
ried to the door leading to madame’s
room ;it was locked. He went from
one door of the drawing-room to the
other ; all were locked. He tried to
ring. The bell-pull fell off into his
hand. He opened the window and call
ed the concierge. The concierge had
been sent to the Boulevard Malesherbes
by the incomparable domestic to get a
portmanteau repaired, and his lodge
was entrusted to a littlp girl. He leant
over to the street, perspiration on his
face, his countenance distorted by the
fear of how matters stood ; he josticu
lated, he cried, “lam robbed !” Pass
ers-by looked up at him, took him for a
lunatic, and laughed.
There was nothing to be done but to
wait for tjje concierge’s return. Three
quarters of an hour elapsed before the
concierge arrived. The stairs were as
cended with some precaution, the un
fortunate man was fonud locked in, and
no longer knowing what he said. A
thorough search was made. The occu
pants had disappeared. The neighbors
saw them quietly going out with boxes
under their arms, bowing politely, and
getting into a cab waiting at the corner.
They had been gone two hours. The
j dice consaiUsury of the district was
sent for, put his question and sealed
the apartmeuts. They were inspected
this afteruqon. Trunks were found en
tirely empty, and a little dirty linen
without any mark; in a closet there was
a man’s hat, without any hatter’s ad
dreess, some false light chestnut tufts
of hair, two or three pairs of whiskers
of various shades, a beggar’s ditto, a
lady’s old dress, an old shawl, carpet
ing, aud the famous bundle of bank
notes. Everything else had disappear
ed, aud the unfortunate jeweller swells
the list of victims of his class to simi
lar enterprises.
THE FOREST FIRES.
Details of the Loss and Suffering in
the Pennsylvania Mountains Vil
lages aud Settleineuts Burned—A
Town Entirely Surrounded by Fire
aud Retreat Cut Off—Narrow Escape
of the Inhabitants—The Noted tlauie
Region of Pennsylvania Swept Over
—Estimated Loss in Dwellings, Mills
aud Lumber Over $300,000.
Shohola, Pa., May 23, 1875.—Never
siuce the memorable Spring of 1862 has
this region of country been so devas
tated by forest fires as during the past
week. The raius of Friday night aud
yesterday morning have subdued the
flames; but thousands of acres of wood
land, numerous farm buildings, lumber
ing villages, tanneries aud saw mills
mark their track with smouldering
ruins. The fire in the mountains here
about appeared a week ago to-day in an
inconsiderable bush fire, which could
easily have been extinguished. Simul
taneously with that small fire others
sprang up in every direction, until the
high hills to the west, in the direction
of Bloomiug drove, the Sullivan county
mountains, and the lofty range border
ing the Delaware river four miles north
and south, were almost solid sheets of
flame. Iu this immediate vicinity the
fire was confined to the burning of tim
ber, cord wood, railroad ties, bark, &c.,
lying iu the woods, and it is estimated
that two thousand acres of land have
been burned over. A hundred men,
fighting the flames night and day, kept
them from sweeping down the moun
tains to the settlement, but were un
able to stay their progress through the
woods, westward. The farmers m the
valley, from Susquehanna depot to Port
Jervis, over a hundred miles, have been
obliged to neglect all farm work for a
week in order to fight the fires. The
unusual dryuess of the weather favored
the progress of the conflagration, and it
was only tin? fall of rain above men
tioned that saved not only acres of forest
and thousands of cords of wood and
bark, but villages and dwellings that
stood iu the path of the tires. To-day
has been the first in nearly a week that
the sun has appeared other than as a
dull crimson disk, seen through the
dense clouds of smoke that lowered over
this section of country, and last night
the first that a watch over villages,•farms,
mills, &e.. has not been necessary. The
air has been filled with cinders, and
firebrands in the shape of burning
branches have been a constant source of
danger for days.
A Village Consumed.
Other places have not been so fortu
nate as this. In Sullivan county, New
York, across the river from this place,
settlements in the lumbering woods are
more numerous. Friday night the vil
lage of Gilman’s, which had been sur
rounded for two days with fire, was al
most totally consumed. The entire pop
ulation combated the flames successful
ly for forty-eight hours. A strong wind
from the west then arose which fanned
the extinguished fires again into flames
and drove the already furious fire from
the back woods rapidly toward the vil
lage. An attempt was made to obtain
aid-from the Port Jervis Fire Depart
ment, but before word eould be carried
to that place the lire had communicated
to oue or two dwellings occupied by em
ployees of Gilman’s tannery. From
these the spread of the conflagration
was rapid, aud in the space of ten min
utes after the fire reached the settle
ment the tannery, an immense structure,
together with all its adjacent buildings,
the extensive saw mill and ten dwellings
were in flames. They were all totally
destroyed, together with several hun
dred thousand feet of lumber, §12,000
worth of leather and 10,000 cords of
bark. The loss will not be less than
§125,000 at this one place. At Swamp
Mills, on Ten-mile river, the mountains
encircling the place had been burning
for three days, but the few families re
siding at the lumber settlement did not
feel alarmed for the consequences until
Friday afternoon. Some twenty men
were lighting the fire, but the stiff wind
that arose toward evening drove the
flames down the mountain with great
velocity and compelled them to aban
don the work and fly for their lives.
Fortunately the mill and the large
amount of lumber piled around it were
on the side of the stream opposite the
advancing flames, and the fire on the
mountains sloping up from the mill was
driven away from the building. By keep
ing the mill drenched with water, and
extinguishing th°> burning branches that
fell thick about it, it was saved; but
16,000 feet of lumber, piled on a dock
in the stream, were concerned, together
with with three small buildings. Geo.
Crane, while fighting the fire on Friday
a'ternoon, was caught beneath some
burning limbs which fell upon him, and
was terribly, if not fatally burned, be
fore he could be rescued.
It is reported that two tanneries, three
saw mills and a number of farm houses
in Rockland, Sullivan county, were de
stroyed on Friday night. A bridge
across the east branch of the Delaware,
near Shavertown, was also destroyed.—
lu Wayne county, Pennsylvania, six
miles from Narrowsburg, are the very
extensive steam saw mills of Ward &
Boyd. The village in which they are
situated is Eldred, containing about 200
inhabitants. Tlie mountain fires sur
rounding this place gradually reduced
the circle, despite the efforts of the in
habitants, until they threatened the de
struction of the village, and had
Cut Off Alf. Retreat
From it. Isolated buildings were con
sumed, and much lumber, piled on the
outskirts of the place, ready to be haul
ed to the river. The most intense ex
citement prevailed iu the village as the
fire steadily closed it. The peo
ple became panic stricken, and it was
with great difficulty that women aud
children could be kept from rushing into
the very flames to find some way out of
the doomed village. Men hurriedly
built “back fires,” and, forming bucket
lines around the place, drenched the
gtound with water. Others cleared
away the space between the approaching
fire and the village, taking out the inter
vening underbrush and combustible
stuff. It is doubtful if all this would
have caved the place and its inmates,
but a change in the wind,- which came
up from the west iu almost a gale, turn
ed the course of the conflagration, and
the village escaped with comparative
little damage. Taylortown. Pike county,
Pa., also suffered considerably. The
fire from the woods was driven by- the
wind down into the settlement, which is
on ground formerly belonging to the
late Horace Greeley, and where he es
tablished his unsuccessful Fourterite
Society some forty years ago. The
place consisted only of a large circular
saw mill and two or three houses. These
were all destroyed, together with 10,000
feet of manufactured lumber and as
many logs. The property was known
as the Ballet Mill property, and belong
ed to a Newark firm, whose loss is about
§15,000.
A herd of fifteen cows, belonging to
different farmers around Taylortown,
which were pasturing in an old clearing
made by the Fourierities, were sur
rounded by the fire, aud being unable
to escape, were bnrned up. James
Haney, who had been out beyond the
place lobking at some wild land he in
tended to purchase, was compelled to
run a gauntlet of fire for two miles, the
woods being in flames on either side.—
His horse fell dead a quarter of a mile
from where the road emerged from the
burning woods, and Haney was com
pelled to leave his wagon, in the bottom
of which he had been able to shield
himself somewhat from the heat, and
make the rest of the distance on foot,
reaching Taylortown just before the
mill was destroyed, almost dead from
his terrible experience. He was badly
burned. The fires through the
western part of this county with no lfiss
fury than that which characterized them
in the valley. The High Knob, the
loftiest eminence in Northeastern Penn
sylvania, being two thousand feet above
tide, was lit rally a mountain of fire. —
The seetion of which the Knob is the
centre is in the noted game region of
Pennsylvania, and where the lands of
the Bloomiug Grove Park are situated.
It is a complete wilderness, filled with
hear, deer and other wild game. The
fires drove large numbers of deer from
the woods to the numerous lakes in the
region, and they even sought refuge in
the clearings around farms on the out
skirts of the wilderness. Near Bloom
ing Grove village, in different pastures,
ten deer were counted last Friday feed
ing with the cattle. At the village of
Egypt, above Blooming Grove, two
large black bears and three young ones
emerged from the burning woods and
followed the pnblic road for a mile,
when they again entered the forest,
having passed beyond the burning dis
trict. They were followed by three
hunters, and several shots were fired at
hem without effect, the bears escaping
apparently uninjured, and eluding their
followers in the woods. Thursday and
Saturday the air was literally filled with
wild pigeons which had been driven
from their roosts in the depths of the
b* ♦ch woods west of Blooming Grove,
a*fl were flying northwa and in search of
ot.ier resting places. Hundreds were
killed, not only with guns, but with
clubs, by persons stauding on the brows
of high hills. It is feared that the fires
have ruined the prospects of a success
ful game season next Fall, as hundreds
of animals must have perished and par
tridge nests been totally destroyed. A
party of Philadelphia fishermen were en
camped on Bright Brook, a noted trout
stream sonth of the Knob. The fire
surrounded them and they were obliged
to desert their tents and seek safety by
climbing a mountain which had been
burned over, but which was yet covered
with smouldering fires and hot ashes,
stumps, &c. The party were forced to
make their way a mile in this way before
reaching a place of safety. Two men
from R'Chester, named Downs and
Beeves, who were spending a few days’
fishing in this vicinity, had
An Exciting Adventure
And narrow escapewhile fishingon Wed
nesday on Taylor’s creek. They had
Ashed up Dearly to the Babit Mill, when
they met the advaucing ferest fire that
destroyed that structure. They had
noticed the prevalence of the fires on the
mountain on both sides of the creek as
they came up, and had suffered consider
able inconvenience from the smoke and
heat, but did not dream of any dauger
from them. When they came upon the
vast tract of fire that had just swept
over Taylertown advancing on down the
stream, on both sides, they at once com
menced to retrace their steps. They
had not gone more than a quarter of a
mile before they noticed that the fires
dowu the creek had drawn nearer the
stream, aud finally found their retreat
entirely cut off. They were shut iu on
every sido by walls of fire. To escape
up the mountains, which rose on both
sides of the creek, was impossible, and
the fishermen awoke to the terrible na
ture of the situation. A horrible death
stared them in the face and they saw no
possible chance to escape. Their only
hope seemed to be that the fire from be
low, which was not so fierce or extensive
as the one coming down the stream,
would be stopped Dy an opening about
twenty feet wide, made by a ravine near
the spot where they were forced to halt,
when they thought they could wade
down the creek and get out of ihe burn
ing woods. This hope was soon dis
pelled, for the fire coming dowu the
stream made such rapid progress that it
was evideut that it would be upon
them before the lower fire reached
the opening. In this strait Downs
hit upon a plan that seemed
to offer them the only remnant of hope.
The creek where they were shut off by
the fire falls over a precipice about ten
feet high. It then spreads out into a
circular basiu about twenty feet ill di
ameter, and very deep. Downs’ plan
was for him and his companion to
plunge into the pool, and remain there
until the fury of the fire was spent,
which would he in a quarter of an hour,
as the approaching flames would meet
before that time, and having nothing
more to feed on along the creek would
climb higher up the mountains. He
thought that by keeping in the water,
diving and moving about, and shielding
themselves beneath the cascades that
they could pass the ordeal with safety,
and undergo very little suffering from
the heat. Unfortunately, Beeves could
not swim, but, as be said to liis compan
ion, he would rather run the risk of
drowning than be burned to death, he
found a piece of pine log, and, with the
support of Downs’ arm, pitched with
his companion in the stream. They
made their way up to the foot of the
falls, where Reeves found a projecting
rock, which he grasped with his hands
aud kept his head above water. By this
time the heat had become intense, and
the air was dense with smoke and filled
with burning twigs and branches, which
fell like a red hot shower in the pool.
Downs, being able to move about in the
water, aud remain some time beneath
the surface, at no time having more of
his person exposed than was necessary
to obtain air, suffered nothing from the
heat or smoke. Reeves, on the contrary,
had only such protection to his face aud
hands as was afforded by the waters of
the cataract, behind which thin veil he
kept as much as possible. He had
no support for his feet, aud was
afraid to release his hands from
the rock, although he could feel them
blistering with the heat. For nearly
fifteen minutes he remained in this tor
turing situation, and then, saying lie
would rather drown than suffer any
longer, let go his hold and disappeared
beneath the water. When he reappear
ed he had reached the lower end of the
basin, and when he recovered his
breath he started as fast as he.could
down the creek, knocking aside burn
ing branches with his hands and keep
ing them away from his face as much as
possible. He soon disappeared from
view. About half an hour afterward
the worst of the fire was over. The op
posing conflagrations had met and taken
a course up the mountain. Downs tlieu
followed his companion down the
stream. The heat was still intense, and
the smoke almost suffocating. He found
no great difficulty in making his way
along, and found Reeves about a quar
ter of a mile below, lying on the ground
below the burned district. He was al
most exhausted, and his hands and face
were badly burned. His clothing was
full of holes, and there were several
blisters on his body and limbs, where
burning embers had fallen on him, and
burned through his clothing. His in
juries were not serious, however, and in
about an hour the fishermen had so
much recovered as to start on their way
to their boarding place, a farm lious *
near by. On Thursday they returned
to Rochester.
Near Hawley, Wayne county. Pa., on
the line of the gravity railroad of the
Pennsylvania Coal Company, a saw mill
belonging to the estate of J. T. Barnes
and $5,000 worth of mine props were de
stroyed. Tho fire for nearly two days
was only kept away from a number of
the stationary engine houses on the
road, at the heads of planes, by the
united efforts of a large foroe of em
ployees. Thousand of railroad ties were
destroyed along this road. On a branch
of the Eqununk creek, in WayDe county,
a circular saw mill and 8,000 feet of
manufactured lumber were burned. The
total loss in the destruction of mills,
lumber, &0., so far as known, cannot
fall below $300,000, while the loss in
standing timber, cord wood, tan bark,
railroad ties, and similar property can
not be estimated. When the full
measure of the damage done is known,
it will far exceed any calamity, in a
financial point of view, that ever befel
the region.
NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD.
[Northeast Georgian.]
We are pleased to note the earnest ef
forts which have been made in the city of
Augusta in behalf of our Northeastern
Railroad, by Dr. James P. Phillips, one
of the very best and most enterprising
Directors of tho road. We are also
pleased to know that the Chkonicius
and Sentinel, which is ever alive,
not only to the interest of its
own immediate connection, but to the
interest of Georgia at large, yea, and to
the interest of the whole South, has so
nobly assisted our representative Dr.
Phillips, and so faithfully urged his
claims in behalf of our road upon tho
citizens of Augusta. We have not
learned as yet what success Dr. Phillips
met with in securing aid to the road,
but feel assured from our knowledge of
him as a man of enteprise, and as a
most earnest advocate of the Northeast
ern Railroad, that every effort has been
expended on his part towards arousing
the oitizens of Augusta to a full realiza
tion of their direct interest in this road
and the immediate importance of rend
ering such aid as is within their power,
nnd which will inevitably return to them
a commercial benefit far more than com
mensurate with their most liberal con
tributions to this Northeastern feeder to
their city.
Are not the city of Augusta and the
Georgia Railroad natural allies of Athens
and the Northeastern Railroad ? Indeed
wonld not the completion of the North
eastern Road to its terminus at Rabun
Gap, thereby opening tip not only a
trade to Augusta from all North Georgia,
but supplying the long needed Western
communication, be really of as much, if
not more, importance to that city than
to Athens ? Certainly it will need no
argument to convince the commercial
men of Augusta that it is better for
them to avail themselves of this!
proffered aid to their interest j
than permit Savannah and the
Central Railroad to step in and i
wrest from them that enterprise, which
would prove such a valuable aud needed
stimulant to their business importance.
Oar road must find that ally which will |
guarantee the necessary Southern con
nection or outlet, and now with induce
ments of such unmistakable importance,
so forcibly and fairly presented, aud
our necessities so fully make knowD, as
doubtless they have been by Dr. Phil
lips as well as at other times, and in
other ways, it remains to be seen
whether Augusta, Savannah or Macon
will hecome the needed friend, and con
sequent recipient of the benefits of the
Northeastern Rail oad.
Pacific Mail.
New Yobk, May 26.—At the annual
meeting for election of Direotors of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, the
following were chosen : Sidney Dillon,
Geo. S. Scott, Jay Gould, Jas. D. Smith,
Chas. J. Osborn, Geo. J. Forrest, Rufus
Hatch, Oliver Ames, John Riley. About
ninety-six thousand shares were voted
in the election,
Modicnl.
KIDNEY COMPLAINT.
Probably there is no complaint that afflicts
the human system which is so little understood
at the present time as some of the varied forms
of Kidney Complaints.
There is no diseaso which cruses such acute
pam or more alarming in its results than when
tho kidneys fail to socreto from the blood the
urid acid and other poisonous substances which
the blood accumulates in its circulation through
tho system.
If from any cause the kidneys fail to per
fonn tho functions devolving upon them, the
cumulations are taken up by-the absorbents
aud the whole system thrown into a state of
disease, causing great pain aud suffering, and
very often immediate death. Hence tlie im
portance of keeping the kidneys and blood in
a healthy condition, through wiiich all the im
purities of the body must pass.
PAIN IN TOE BACK.
There is no remedy known to medical seieuce
which has proved itself more valuable in cases
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It acts directly upon the secretions, cleanses
and purities the blood, ai.d restores the whole
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The following extraordinary cure of great
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physicians as hopeles* cases, will speak tor
themselves, and should challenge tho most
profound attention of tho medical faculty, as
well as of those who are suffering from Kidney
Complaint.
THE REST MEDICINE.
East Maksiifikld, August 22.1870.
Mr. Stevens : Hear Sir I am sewnty-one
years of age: havo suffered many ye..rs with
Kidney Com plai.it, weakness in my hack and
stomach* I was induced by friends to try your
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all the complaints for which it is recommended.
Yours truly, JOSIAH H. SHERMAN.
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Boston. May 30. 1671.
H. 11. Stevens. Esq.: Dear Sir—i havo been
badly afflicted with Kidney Complaint for ten
years; have suffer and great pain in my back
hips a; and side, with great difficulty in passing
urine, which was often and in very small quan
tities. frequently accompanied with blood and
excruciating pain.
I have faithfully tried most, of the popular
remedies recommended for my compl out; 1
have been under the treatment of some ol‘ the
most skillful physicians in Boston. all<of whom
pronounced my * ase incurable. This was my
condition when I was advised by a friend to try
tho VEGETINE, and 1 could see the good ef
fects from the first < ose t took, and from that
moment I kept on improving untii I was en
tirely cured, taking in all, I should think, about
six bottles.
It is indeed a valuable medicine, a id if 1
should be afflicted again in the same way. 1 would
give a dollar a dose, if I could not get it with
out. Respectfully. J. M. GILE,
361 Third Street, South Boston.
NEARLY BLIND.
H. ti. Stevens : Dear Sir—ln expressing my
thanks to you for benefits derived from the
uso of VEGETINE, and to benefit others, I
will state:
When eight or nine years old I w’aa afflicted
with Scrofula, which made its appearance in
my eyes, face and head, and I was very near
blind for two years. Ail kinds of operations
were performed on my eyes, and all to no good
result. F nally tho disease principally settled
in my body, limbs aud feet, and at times in an
aggravated way.
Last Summer I was. from some cause, weak
iu my spine and kidneys, and it was at times
very hard to retain the urine. Seeing your ad
vertisement- in tlie *• Commercial,” I bought a
bottle of VEGETINE and commenced using
according to directions. In two or three days
I obtained great relief A ter using four or
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on the rough, scaly blotches on my body and
legs. I still used VEGETINE. and tlie humor
ous sores one after another disappeared until
they were all gone, and I attribute the cure of
the two diseases to VEGETINE, and nothing
else.
If I am ever affected with anything of the
kind again I shall try VEGETINi'i as the only
rehab o remedy. Once more accept mv thanks,
and believe me to bo, very respect f nilv.
AUSTIN PARROTT,
No. 35 Gano St., Cincinnati, Ohio.
December 1, 1872.
Diseosos of tho Kidneys. Bladder, etc., are
always unpleasant, and at times they become
tho most distressing and dangerous diseases
that can affect tlie human system. Most dis
ease' of the Kidneys arise from impurities in
tlie blood, causing humors which settle on
these parts. VEGETINE excels any known
remedy in tlie whole world for cleansing and
purifying the blood, thereby causing a healthy
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ai27—3tn
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31akes Elegant Biscuits and Boils.
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Makes Delicious Muffins, Griddle Cakes, Corn
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Makes all kinds of Dumplings, l’ol Pies, Cakes
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and do not be put off with any other kind.
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Is put up in Tin Cans of various sizes, suitable
for Families, Boarding Houses, Hotels,
Restaurants and River, Lake and
Ocean Vessels on short or
long voyages.
The 3larket is flooded with Cheap, Inferior
Baking and Yeast Powder of light or short
weight. D.iOLEY’H YEAST POWDER is war
ranted full strength aud full weight.
So'd at wholesale and retail, generally
throughout the United States, by dealers in
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'O9//EW'ST. NEW YORK.
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W. M. & M. P. REEKK Wa-liington. Of.
W. G. JOHNSON Lexington,
J. T. JORDAN Spnrri.. G*
J T. KF.IL. CrawfoKlvilio. Ga.
GEO. F. PIEKCE, Jr. ...Sparta. Ga
JURIAH A. CASEY Thomson. Ga.
F. L. LITTLE Sparta. Ga.
It. O. LOVETT Waynesboro. Ga.
BILLUPS & BROBBTON Madison. Ga.
C. E. KINNEBItEW, Greeneshoro. Ga
WM. H. 13RANCH Greenesboro, Ga.
CRAWFORD A- WILLIAMKON.. Mlllotlgeville.
PAULO. HUDSON Thomi-on. Ga.
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Emory Uollegc-1874-75,
OXFORD, GEORGIA.
One Mile from Covington Depot, Georgia R. R.
Q BRING TEEM, JANUARY 20TH TO JULY
k_) 23d. fs74. Two new lteeitation Halls and
anew Day Chapel are among tlie improved la
cilitiea of the Institution. Tlie lec ure room
in these halls are large, well ventilated, lighted
aud warmed. A third halifor tlie use of the Hci
lenuiia Department, it is expect,: , will be
ready for occupancy by the beginning of the
Term.
Attention is called to the desirableness of
Oxford as a place to educate youth, its location
and healthfuhiess. as well as its social and re
ligious features offering peculiar advantages.
FACULTY.
Rev. O. li. SMITH. D. D.. President shd Pro
fessor of Mental and Moral Science, and of
English Literature
Rev. GEO. AY. W. STONE. A. M., Vice-Presi
dent and Professor of Mathematics.
Rev. ALEX. MEANS, M. D., D. D., LL. D.,
Professor Emeritus of Natural Hoi nee.
Rev. I. S. HOPKINS, A. 31., 31. D., Professor
of Natural Science.
Rev. MORGAN CALLAWAY, D. D., Profes
sor of Latin Language.
Me. JOHN M. DOGGETT, A. M., Professor
of Greek Language.
Mb RUFUS W. SMITH, A. 31., Principal of
Academic Department.
Tuition, Spring Term, in Collego Classes,s4s.
Tuition, Spring Term, iu Academic Classes,
s3l.
Board, including ail expenses for fuel, lights
and washing, from sl6 to S2O per month.
A year's Tuition in College may be awarded
by the Principals of the Academic Department,
and of Collinsworth Institute, at Xaluotton. to
the beat scholar in those schools. Two free
scholarships are offered to Local Preachers
aud Laymen in each Presiding Elder’s District
of the North Georgia, South Georgia and
Florida Conferences.
For particulars, consult Presiding Elders.
For further information, address
Rev. O. L. SMITH, President.
I. S. HOPKINS, Secretary. dec2U-tf
jV <“ W A(iv<'rflt4e>nentß
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SIMMONS’ LIVER REGULATOR,
For all Diseases of the Liver, Stomach
and Spleen.
It is eminently a Family Medi
cine ; and by being kepi ready for
immediate resort will save many
an hour of hufieriii!/ and many a
dollar in time and doctors’ bids.
After Forty Years trial it i* still
re (riving tlio most unqualified tes
timonials of its virtues fr in per
sons of ihe highest character and
responsibility. Eminent physicians
commend it as tho most
KlTeotnal Npeeiilc
For Constipation, Headache. Pain
in the Shoulders, Dizziness. Sour
Stomach, bad taste in ilie Mouth.
Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the
Heart, pain in the region of ihe
Kidneys, i espondency. Lorn and
forebodings of evil, all of which
are- tho offspring of a diseased
Liver.
If you feel Dull. Drowsy. Debili
tated. have fro uent Headache,
Mouth Tastes badly. Poor Appet to
and Tongue Coated, you arc suf
fering from Torpid Liver, or *Tkli-
usi.osV’ and nothing will cure
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The Liver, the largest organ in
the body, is i enerally tho seat of
the disease, and if not Bcgnlated
in time, great suffering, wretched
ness and Death will ensue.*
Armed with this ANT DOTE, all climates and
changes of water and food may be faced with
out tear. Asa Remedy in MALARIuTJS FE
VERS. BOWEL COMPLAINTS, RESTLESS
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The < beapest, Purest nnd Blest Family >Wdl
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“I have never seen or tried
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life.”—U. Haineh, St. Louis, Mo.
Hon. Alex. H. Stephens.
“I occasionally use. when my
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Liver Regulator. with good effect.”
—Hon. Alex. 11. Stephens.
Govern on of Alabama.
‘•Your Begulator has been in
use m my family for some time.and
1 am persuaded it is a valuable ad
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Gov. J. Gill Shouter, Ala.
“I have used the Begulator in
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years 1 can safely recommend it
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1 have ever used for that class
of diseases it purports to cure.”—
11. F. Thigpen.
President of City Bank.
“Simmons’ Liver Begulator has
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Druggist.
“Wo have been acquainted with
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ho tho best I fiver Begulator of
fered to the public.”—M. U. Lyon
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S I M M O N S’
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For rtYKPLPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaun
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IT HAS NO EQUAL.
Ts a faultless family medicine,
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Js sure to cure if taken regularly,
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The Symptoms of Liver Com
plainfare uneasiness and pain in tho
side Sometimes the pam is iu tho
shoulder, and is mistaken for rl.eu
matism. 'Jhe stomach is affected
with loss of appetite and sickness,
bowels in general costive, some
times alternating with lax. The
head is troubled with pain, aud
dull, heavy sensation, considerable
loss of memory, accompanied with
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undone something which ought
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i>w spirits. Home imes many of
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few or them; but the, Liver is
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The Ci.kiioy.
“My wife and self have used the t’ogitlaf-'l
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Rev. J. R. Felder, Perry, Ga.
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THE MOST PERFECT ALARM CASH DRAWER.
Miles alarm till co.’s. aio, Her
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Letter Pj esses. Fairbanks’ Standard Scales,
Manufacturers. F. AT, Fairbanks & To.. St.
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Foster’s Second Texas Drawing!
$200,000 GOLD COIN ! HOUSES AND LANDS!
POSITIVELY THE
FAST POSTPOSKME-Yr l
Air ILL draw, without fail, at Houston,
VV Texas, June 30th, 187.) We did not
sell quite ab om Tickers in time todr.isv on the
13th of May : but r o eerta n are we of success,
and iu evidence of our good faith and inten
tions, wo will receive in payment for Tickets,
certificates of d©i onits in any lirvt class bark
in the U. S wi h tins ndornemeDfc : Payable
only when Foster's Texas Drawing takes place”
>io Scaling of Prizes, but every one paid in
full.
Over 60.000 acres of choice land, centrally
located, near ra-lroads, 17 Houses, 2,32.) Gold
Coi.i prizes, among them one of SIO,OOO and
one of $5 000. Our enterprise is endorsed by
tho City Conn il. Reliable Agents wanted
Send for irculars. 'Jhey will convince you we
are both reliable and responsible. 'Tickets
oolvsL Eleven for $lO and 23for S2O. No
connection with any other j-imilar enterprise.
Commexdatoky —Having, from our long ac
quaintance with J. K. Foster, every confidence
in his integrity, we feel justified in saying we
be ievo he ill carry out his Distribution
honestly and fairly. Signed by the Mayor,
Hon. J. T. D. Wilson, and the City Council.
We are specially desirons that parties inter
ested would write to the Batiks. Merchants and
Postmaster of this place (where we have Jived
15 years) lor information as toonr reliability.
J. E. FOSTEIi, Manager.
mylß-d<fcwlm Houston, i exas.
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WOOL WANTED.
ON and after May the 20<h we will CARD
WOOL for One Fourth Toll, or for Ten
Cent* Per Pound.
Will pay market value for W T ool or Exchange
for Good- ? t reduced prices.
W< ii shipping Wo* 1 to us by Railroad to bo
Carded or Lxch nged. mark you- name and ad
dress piaiidy on th-u bundle and ship to May
field. _ ,
4-4 Sheeting , J Shirtings, 8 ounce Osnaburgs,
Yarns. Kerseys, and Jeans lor sale at Lowest
Market Kate*. Orders solicited.
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