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WEDNESDAY ...OCTOBER 6, 1875.
A RESTING PLACE.
A sea of shade, with hollfcw heights above.
I Where floats the redwood's airy roof away,
Whose feathery lace the drowsy breezes move.
And softly through the azure windows plays;
No nearer sbr than yon white cloud astray,
No closer sound than sob of distant dove.
I only live as the deep forest's swoon
Dreams me amid its dream ; for all things
fade,
Nor pulse of mine disturbs the unconscious
noon.
IfEven love and hope are still—albeit they
made
My heart beat yesterday—in slumber laid.
Like yon dim ghost that last night was the
moon.
Only the bending grass, grown gray and sear,
Nods now and then, where at my feet it
swinge,
Pleased that another like itself is here.
Unseen among the mighty forest things—
Another fruitless life, that fading clings
To earth and Autumn days in doubt and fear.
Dream on, O wood ! O wind, stay in thy west.
Nor wake the shadowy spirit of the fern.
Asleep along the fallen pine tree's breast !
That, till the sun go down, and night stars
burn,
And the chill drawn breath from the sea re
turn,
Tired earth may taste heaven's honey dew of
rest.
THE AULD KIRKYARD.
There's a charm for every woe —
There's a kiss for every blow—
And there's peace for them below.
In the auld kirkyard.
Por there the weary rest,
Wi’ nae carlcin care oppressed—
The puir man's as guide the best
In the auid kirkyard.
They may rear and they may deck
Their tributes o’ respeck.
O'er humanity's frail wreck.
In the auld kirkyard.
But what the’ a stane they rear—
It's nae worth an honest tear
Shed by friendship o'er the bier.
In the auld kirkyard.
E'en the bonnie flow’rs that bloom,
Like sweet mem'ries frae the tomb,
Dispersin’ a’ the gloom,
In the auld kirkyard.
Are a fitter mark, I wean,
For the bed o’ dear lo’od frien’
Wi’ its coverlet o’ green, <
In the auld kirkyard.
As they spring in prond array
They laughin’ seem to say—
We bloom but to decay,
In the auld kirkyard.
But when Winter’s winds are blawn,
And Spring waves its fairy waun,
Then we’U blush like rosy dawn,
In the auld kirkyard.
For man as weel as floo rs,
There are gladsome Summer boors,
But they pass and then he coors.
In the auld kirkyard.
LAVENDER.
How prone wo are to hide and hoard
Each little token love lias stored,
To tell of happy hours:
We lay aside with tender care
A tattered book, a curl of hair,
A bunch of faded flowers.
When Death has led with pulseless hand
Our darlings to the silent land,
Awhile we sit bereft.
But time goes on ; anon we rise,
Our dead being buried from our eyes,
We gather what is left.
The books they loved, the songs they sang.
The little lute whose music rang
80 cheerily of old :
The pictures we liavo watched thorn paint.
The last-plucked flower, with odor faint,
That fell from fingers cold.
We smooth and fold with reveront care
The robes they, living, used to wear ;
And painful pulses stir.
As o'er the relics of our dead,
With bitter rain of tears, we spread
Palo purple lavender.
And when wo come in after yoars,
With only tender April tears
On cheeks once whito with care,
To look at treasures put away
Despairing of that far-off day,
A subtle scent is there.
Dew-wet and fresh we gather them,
These fragrant flowers —now every stem
Is bare of all its bloom.
Tear-wet and sweet wo strowed thorn here,
To lend our rolics'sacred, dear,
Their beautiful perfume.
That scent abides on book and lute,
On curl, and flower, and with its mute
But eloquent appeal, •
It wins from us a deeper sob
For our lost dead—a sharper throb ,
Than we are wont to feel.
It whispers of the long ago,
Its love, its loss, its aching woe,
And buried sorrows stir ;
And tears like thoso wo shod of old
801 l down our cheeks as we behold
Our faded lavendor. [All Vie Year Hound.
THE TEXAS EDITOR.
The wild young Toxas oditor, with manners
bold and free
As the winds which sweep the boundless
plains unchecked by mound or tree ;
With a stalwart form, and a grace, withal, like
the waving prairie grass,
And a tongue to make a foeman quail, or woo
a lovely lass.
His heart is as big as a buffalo’s, and as free
as tho Liano Estacado is of trees ; and his
hand can wield a pistol as well as a pen ;
he loves his friends and hates his enemies;
will not "take things back,” and is as keen
on the trail of au Indian as on that of an
item—
This wild young Texas oditor, from tho county
Lampasas.
Ho drives a splendid four-in-hand, of shaggy
buffaloes.
And makes them go a thundering gait, with
war whoops and hallos;
Four fierce Comanche chiefs hang on and act
for him as grooms.
All dooked with scalps and buckskin “togs, ’
and eagle feather plumes.
While ho flies through the Lone Star like Sam
Houston, he plays poker, drinks aqua
vitie, damns tho Kickapoos and Moxicaiis,
writes editorials, items, stories, poems,
aud sich, in style,
The wild young Texas oditor, who dwells whore
the orange blooms.
When Yellow Jack, Oreasors and Satanta rove
the land,
You will find him on his mustang, with his
weapons in his hand;
Two Colts, hawk quills, a roam of cap and a
jug of rye and ink ;
He writes, fights, drinks with equal vim, and
will ne'er from duty shrink,
When Kickapoos and Big Troo are quiot, In
dian agents honest, McKenzie no more on
the raid, and copy plenty, he fights all the
duels he had left over from last year
shoots all his enemies, troats his friends,
aud hands political frauds to the devil ou
on his pen point,
This wild young Texas editor, who lives on tho
Brazos' brink.
The country Texas oditor. he has a little farm
Of teu or more thousand acres, where the
climate is so warm
That oranges and lemons, and cotton luxuri
antly grow.
While we up here are freezing, and the grouud
is white with snow ;
Besides, he has ouo thousand short-legged
mustangs, ten thousand long-horned
steers, ono hundred saddles, fifty pairs of
spurs and pistols, miles of lariat and sheep,
till you can't rest, consequently he does
not
Waste his genius calling on people for that
“little bill" or load of wood.
O! happy Texas editor, from tho Bio Grando,
hi, O!
“SING THE INGLESIDE FOR ME.”
BY ST. CLAIK.
When the evening shadows gather
Darkly on the soft grav walls,
When, without, upon the silence,
Some one’s passing footstep falls;
When the curtains all are gathered
And the lamps are lit for tea.
Think of one who sat beside voa—
Think of one who thinks of thee.
And when others cluster round you.
When yon sit, at evening-tide.
In the Temple of thy Priestess—
Music —and thy hand shall glide
O’er the kevs in goldeu cadence.
Sing what they may ask of thee ;
Bat. when theirs are done, dear Mamie,
Sing the "Ingleside" for me.
Sing it as you used to sing it
When your eyes looked into mine.
Filled with ail their mystic music,
And thy gift of song divine.
But should others ever ask yen
If the song is known to thee.
Answer nothing—sing some other—
Keep the "Ingleside” for me.
I should never ask this of thee
Were it not, dear little friend.
That to know thou didst it for me
Would to life a beauty lend.
Such as golden Summer sunsets
Lend to all the land aud sea :
Sing for others what they ask you—
Keep the "Ingleside" for me.
Often, when you lingered idly,
In the room I love so well,
(Since ’twas thinel I've sat and watched you
When the slanting sunbeams fell
On the loosened chestnut glory
Of your hair, that, falling free.
Hid the dear Ups that so sweetly
Sang the -Ingleside" for me.
And my heart howed down before you.
Touched to something almost pain.
By thy race's magic sweetness.
Soft and low as Summer rain
Falling on the silver surface
Of some purple sun-lit sea.
Ah 1 'twas worth a world to hear thee
Sing the “Ingleside" for me.
But. “some day" in the hereafter.
Some day in the future years.
You will miss me from tiie loved ones
Whom vour music touched to tears.
When that day shall come, dear Mamie.
Draw my recant chair near thee.
And. when it is close beside you,
Sing the “Ingleside " for me.
Sing it as you sang it for me
In the sunny Summer days.
When I learned to love thy music,
Thee, and all thy soft sweet ways ;
But should others ever ask you’
If the song is known to thee.
Answer nothing—sing some other—
Keep the "Ingleside for me.
August 14. 1875.
Not strange—that a man with three
“schooners” of lager should find it hard
to navigate when he’s half seas over.
THE FOREST CITY.
[Special Correspondent* Chronicle and Serdiml.]
Ex Passant, Sept 25th.
Our trip to Savannah over the smooth
and well adjusted track of the Central
road was pleasant; pleasant was the
night-breeze that wafted upern its wings
none of the cinders of the engine and
dust of the rolling train; pleasant was
the midnight lnnch of biscuit and fried
chicken wo got at Miilen from Aunt
Phillis and mnnehed in the moonlight
while waiting two hours for connecting
lines; and more than pleasant was it
chatting with a bonny bride of three
weeks from the Palmetto State, coming
down to her new home on the salts, white
her contented lord and master snoozed
on two seats on the other side of the
coach.
Yonr correspondent did not find the
Forrest City dull or dead. He met
cheerful faces, grasped cordial hands
and marked the evidences of Business
activity and substantial progress. It
has become a popular habit to speak of
Savannah as slow and easy, and for ; her
sons to acquiesce in this damning her
with faint praise; and yet, returning
after five months’ absence, and that too
during the dullest season of the year,
your correspondent beheld superb edi
fices, new to his sight, that had gone up,
and saw on many sides handsome build
ings pushing their walls of brick Bud
mortar to the skies to the stirring music
of trowel and hammer. The elegant
rooms of the Cotton Exchange, in the
new Commercial Bnilding, corner of
Bay and Drayton, are hardly surpassed
even in New York, while that five-story
superstructure itself covering a quarter
of a block is a model of architectural
beauty, erected at a cost of more than
fifty thonsand dollars. It is into this
range that the post office is to be moved.
Some small stores that formerly
held place on Whitaker half a block to
Congress Lane have been demolished
and in their stead a superb three-story
brick edifice is nearing completion. A
handsome four story building for a
boarding house, large in its proportions
aud perfect in its appointments, is tak
ing the place of that antiquated and
storm-beaten tenement that has occu
pied the northeast corner of Broughton
and Drayton for years;, the Lutheran
Church is being enlarged and beautified,
and the new Catholic Cathedral is over
shadowing with its magnificent and
colossal proportions the fine residences
in its vicinity and tho beautiful convent
of the Sisters of Mercy on Liberty
street. The success of the Coast Line
Railway has brought Thunderbolt,
Greenwich Platz, Bouaventnre and the
Cathedral Cemeteries within easy access,
a half hour’s ride by rail taking one to
tho most distant of these delightful
places, and has opened quick communi
cation with all the seaside resorts of
Savannah. The east end of the Central
passenger depot is at last being finished
and will furnish ample and long needed
saloons for the accommodation of pass
engers waiting for trains, as well as
offices for the servants of that big cor
poration. Small houses and other
less pretentious improvements are
noticeable as completed or under way jn
all districts of the city, giving direct
and positive contradiction to the slaiiilpr
that Savannah is either dead or sleeping.
The grand old Forest City, with her
ships and steamers, and railroads, and
wharves, aud ship yards, and saw mills,
and grist mills, and iron foundries, aud
paper, and cotton factory, and merchant
princes, and leafy avenues, and splash
ing fountains, makes quiet and solid
progress, satisfied to be behind the
younger cities of Georgia in rush aud
gush and clamor, conscious of the steady
achievements she is accomplishing.—
Though nearer the sea, there is teas
blow about her than some of her inland
sisters.
The absorption of the Savannah Ad
vertiser by the Morning News, though
not wholly unanticipated, created a
journalistic sensation. The occurrence
has developed a host of friends to the
defunct paper—friends one day after
date, who indulge in open-mouthed la
mentations over its demise, vowing it’s
a shame for such a city as Savannah to
have only one daily, aud yet these latter
day pnbiic spirited individuals refused
to accord as clever a gentleman (Mr.
Geo. N. Nichols) as ever was victimized
in such enterprise tho timely and ifoeral
support that would have saved him and
his journal. It remiuds one of the fate of
the blind old bard of Scio’s rocky isle:
“Seven cities claimed a Homer dead,
Through which a living Homer* begged, his
bread."
The triumph of Mr. Estill in this
matter was as assured as the result of a
properly made mathematical calculation,
for his paper is thoroughly systematised
in its editorial and business depart
ments, and each of those is nicely aud
accurately adjusted in sub-divisions that
work as harmoniously and smoothly as
a whole as the finely balanced machin
ery of a well-built engine. The pro
prietor has kept and constantly keeps
each department aud division of his
journal well in hand, and thus safely
drives ahead at a spanking gait, with
every bolt and Bcrew of his vehicle and
every member of his team attentively
guarded, well oiled, not over-worked,
and excellently kept. Ho is not too
niggardly to pay good men good salaries,
and sensibly eschews the pen Dy-wise
and pound-foolish programme of not a
low jonrnals in compensating brain
work and editorial labor at figures that
a negro farm hand would elevate his
flat-nose at ; and liis journal is evidence
of the fidelity, devotion and ability of
the heads and hands his liberal policy
commands.
In the extended park and reached by
a broad walk paved with many oyster
shells stands the monument to “Our
Confederate Dead” erected by the ladies
of Savannah aud recently finished.
About its base is a mound neatly turfed
and fresh in its green verdure, granite
steps leading up it from four sides, and
around it is au enclosure encircled with
a wide walk also paved with shells. The
monument is of gray sandstone elabor
ately carved to u temple supported by
four pillars and surmounted by a col
umn of the same material. Ou the four
corners just below the temple are four
urns of flowers and creepers that bloom
in tho sunlight and wave in the wind
under the loving care of the noble guar
dians of the memories of the slain it
there rises to honor. On top of the
column above the temple Is a marble
statue of Fame, with her scroll in her
left hand dependent by her side on
which the names and deeds of these
fallen Southrons have been inscribed,
while her right hand holds her trump
just taken from her lips that
has sent forth a blast to the
limits of the world that must echo
the prowess aud devotion of these
heroes through all the coming ages.
The goddess looks upward towards the
heavens in a listening attitude, as if
dwelling with rapture upon the mellow
notes she has made to ring abroad.—
Within the temple beneath is a marble
figure of Freedom’s Y T estal Virgin, whose
torch still burning is held downwards in
her left hand, while the finger of her
right rests upon her lips to enjoin si
lence and reverence at the spot where
she keeps unending vigils for the noble
spirits that baptized with their flowing
blood the land we love and the cause we
lost. Both these figures face towards
the north, whether from design or acci
dent the writer cannot say; but thus it
is that they gaze forever towards the
ensanguined battle-fields where fell the
greatest number of “ .our Confederate
dead,” towards the city which was the
capital of our Southern Confederacy,
and towards the little Virginia village of
Appomattox where the starry cross was
furled to wave no more. J. D. C.
POLITICAL MISSIONARIES.
Gordon and Lamar Going North.
[St. IjCmis Hi-pubbcan.]
It is reported that Senator Gordon, of
Georgia, and Mr. L, Q. O. Lamar, of
Mississippi, will lecture iu various cities
of the North during the Fall months
preceding the assembling of Congress.
It is to be hoped that this report is true,
for it would be bard to find two gentle
men in the whole South more competent
to enforce the lesson the people of the
North are just learning, and convince
them that Southern Democrats are not
the bandits and negro-killers the Radi
cal press are so anxious to make them
oat. Senator Gordon was a brave and
gallant soldier in the war and has been
an honest and faithful citizen sine** a 1
good representative of a very large class I
throughout the Southern States. Lamar
is another notable representative of the I
same class—a class that would quickly !
regain for the South its olden wealth j
and prosperity if the reconstruction i
blockade were lifted and a chance giveD j
them to work. Gordon has been were- I
ral years in the United States Senate 1
now, and Lamar served in the last *
House, is a candidate for re-election, |
and will doubtless be returned. Both i
have done good service for the Sonth by i
the prudent and Conservative oourse i
which they have pursued; and the sue- j
cess which they have had in winning the i
friendship and confidence of their po
litical adversaries in Congress gives j
good reason to hope that their appear
ance on the platform in Northern cities
will be followed by the same happy re
sults. Lamar was the recognized leader
of the Southern members in the last
House, exercising a wonderful power
and control over them, and if he is re
elected he will doubtless hold a similar
commanding position in the next House
and receive the Chairmanship of some
important committees. It is a fine mis
sion he and Gordon are to go oat on,
and it will do much to cement the re
turning good feeling between the North
and South.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
SAXPEnsviLLB, Ga., September 23, 1875.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel c
In my peregrinations I chanced to
light at this place last week, and found
the Superior Court in session with His
Honor Governor H. V, Johnson presid
ing. I have been thrown in his company
several times since my sojourn at this
point, and have scrutinized him closely
on the Bench, and am not at all sur
prised at his wide spread influence and
reputation. He is evidently a profound
thinker, of great ability, and this, in
conjunction with his stern moral nature
at all times manifest, makes him a power
in the country to be respected and rever
ed. It would be fortunate just now if
he could be in the Senate of the United
States, to give the country the benefit of
his wise counsels. The South will be her
self once more when such men as H. V.
Johnson shall represent her in the Sen
ate, on the Supreme Bench of the United
States and in the Cabinet council! I see
his name now suggested in many pa
pers for the Governorship! While I
dare say this is pleasant to him, as a
manifestation of the unfaltering esteem
and confidence of the people of his na
tive State, still, it may be questioned
whether he would desire the position.
He twice filled the office under the most
complimentary circumstances and with
great credit to himself and advantage to
the State. It could confer no new honor
on him, and then it would not furnish
an arena for the exercise of his high
powers and expansive statesmanship,
like a place in the Cabinet or a seat in
the Senate of the United States. You
say, with surprise, what does this writer
mean by a place in the Cabinet ? I’ll
explain. It is now written upon the wall
of destiny that Grant and his adminis
tration are doomed to ignominious de
feat next year. The people all over the
land are tired of having the Government
run in the interest of bondholders and
stock jobbers ! They are unwilling to
see the laboring millions kept in abject
poverty and want, that gold tribute
shall be paid to a few bloated million
aires, the New York Democratic Con
vention (so-called) to the contrary not
withstanding ! The Democratic party
will be placed in power, who will see to
it that while the honor and obligations
of the Government shall be preserved,
the wants and rights of the poor laborer
shall be respected and vindicated. It is
to the new incoming Democratic Cab
inet that I refer; and if Governor John
son is not placed in the Senate by that
time the South will rejoice and the
whole country be satisfied to see him
occupying one of the most conspicuous
and important Bureaus in that now
council-board of the Eepublic, upon
which such high responsibilities will
devolve and from which so much will
be expected !
Speaking of the Governor’s office, I
saw a gentleman in attendance upon
this Court for a day or so who would
fiil the bill exactly. I allude to General
Henry R. Jackson, of Savannah. He
has been a man of mark for many years
past, and yet he may be said now only
to be in the full vigor of a matured
manhood. He is scarce sixty years of
age, and is as fresh physically and in
tellectually as if he were but forty. At
a very early age he was honored with
the position of Judge of the Superior
Courts of the Eastern Circuit, a position
responsible as it was, to which he showed
himself fully equal. Later he repre
sented the whole country in two quite
different fields, and won laurels for him
self in both. In one he drew his sword
and bared his breast before the leaden
hail of Mexican warriors, his plume
ever waving in the thickest of the fight;
and in the other, with his intellectual
armor bright, reflecting credit upon liis
country as its appointed and accredited
diplomat at the Court of Austria.
But later yet in the “War Between the
States” he illustrated both his own aud
the chivalry of the Southern people by
deeds of high daring and signal general
ship. General Jackson would grace the
Gubernatorial Obair. The blood of
Georgia’s Governors runs in his veins, and
to-day he stands a fit representative of
an illustrious ancestry. The Jacksons,
the Cobbs and the Lumpkins all related
and constituting one house, as
it were, have been for years in
Georgia to borrow a homely il
lustration of my idea —a “ high
roosting” family. The General has fill
ed every position ho has occupied with
distinction and credit, and would doubt
less give great satisfaction as Governor
of the State. Few, if any, have superior
attainments and scholarship and abso
lutely none, greater proficiency in the
use of his mother tongne. He is master
of the English language, and has no su
perior in the art of uttering and writing
smooth, polished and elegant sentences.
He is able and eloquent as a lawyer and
advocate, accomplished as a belle lettre
scholar and poet, chivalric and brave as
man and a soldier, patriotic and wise as
a citizen aud statesman, and should ho
be called to the Executive Chair of the
State would wield its sceptre with firm
ness and honor all over its mountains
and valleys, its broad fields and its
“red old hills,” which latter have been
consecrated by his gifted muse. Let
General Jackson be our next Governor.
The late disturbance with the colored
population in this section has blown
over, and everything is quiet once more.
Some few negroes affect to be dissatis
fied, and are talking about going else
where to try their fortunes. This class
got up a meeting here, of which you
have already heard,. and appointed a
committee to raise funds to defray ex
penses of a commissioner, who is to
visit other States and see what induce
ments may be offered them to immi
grate. Iu view of the large negro popu
lation in this county, it was gratifying
to see how small the meeting was!
There was one of the colored speakers
who showed much sense in the few prac
tical remarks ho made on the occasion.
He said, in substance, “That he had
traveled North and elsewhere a good
deal, and had seen how people of his
color weVe getting along. That where
they wore prudent and thrifty and took
care of their money, they did well, and
where they didn’t do this they were get
ting along badly; and that was just the
way here. That there was a plenty of
work here to do, and that all they had
to do was to go at it, and stick to it, and
do right in all things, and they’d find
this as good a country as any. For his
part he didn’t wish to leave here, and
want going to leave to try new places,
which, after all, would not prove any
better, if so good as this, their old
home, where they were born and raised,
and where their friends and relations
were.” This negro, who is named Wes
ley Simmons, I learned was once a can
didate for the Legislature here, and is
esteemed a clever, sensible man by both
black and white. It is quite likely that
his good advice and views will be heed
ed by his colored friends, and that the
meeting which he addressed will be the
last we shall hear of the emigration
movement for a long while.
The planters in this section have been
seriously injured by the late drouth.
Some have had their orops cut off one
half, and a few as much as two-thirds,
but they all keep a stiff upper lip and
with unfaltering faith in their energy
and the goodness and mercy of a kind
Providence, are still looking forward to
a brighter day coming.
This city bears many evidences of
progressive improvement, and will, ere
long, rank with the most flourishing
couutrj towns of the State —if I may be
pardoned for classing it with towns—af
ter calling it a eity | I can say this,
however, by way of apology for my in
discretion, and that is—if it got ahead
of the music and was dubbed a city a
little too soon, it is -now in a fair way to
establish its right at an early period to
the distinction, and will doubtless wear
it well and gracefully. The Academy
bnilding is an ornament to the place. It
is a very pretty and commodious struc
ture, located in a roomy, central lot,
nicely laid off and ornamented with
shade trees. The school is conducted
bv au able corps of teachers, including
a professor of music of much eminence
in his department The aobool has just
opened its Fall session, and already a
hundred and twenty-five pupils have en
tered. Thus much to the honor and
credit of Sandersville. And now adieu
until I can find time to write to yon
Aqaix. ■’
Gov. Ames had better subside. It is
doubtful if, excepting Senator Morton
and the Washington organs, there is a
single public man or prominent journal
in the country that has any sympathy
for him. Even so devoted an organ as
i the Chicago Tribune says it is all on
i sense to say the negro can’t protect him
self, charges the whole troubles in Mis
! sissippi to the pusillanimity of Ames'
administration, and adds: “Instead of
| organizing a military force, and in per
i son punishing the ruffians —arresting
! the murderers, and killing them on the
\ spot, or bringing them to trial, ooovic
i tion and execution —the Governor, every
time there is a disturbance or a murder
lof a negro, hastens to the telegraph
j office and implores the President to send
i him troops. This,” in a State where hs
can pat 50,000 armed men in the field to
j execute laws, is child’s play, and the
j people of the country are, as the Preei
i dent says, ‘getting tired of it.’"
1 The New Orleans Picayune proposes
1 that the South partly begin a resump-
S tion of specie payments by selling the
1 incoming crop of cotton exclusively for
specie, saying: “New Orleans in olden
times gave the example of specie re
i sumption before the New York banks;
i let it now set a like precedent, in follow-
I ing the Texas line, by inaugurating or
completing the transaction of the cotton
' sales against specie funds, in the Golf
< coast States."
AN IRON JAW AND STOMACH.
[From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.]
Every New England village has its
notable “character,”- distinguished by
individualities more or less odd and
wonderfnl, but for purely amazing
powers of mastication, deglutition and
assimilation in a private citizen, who
has never made any pnbiic exhibition
or special boast of his capabilities,
Blandford begs leave to take the palm.
Nor is she likely to be disputed in it.
Her champion is John McDarby, a 65-
year-old Irishman of very pronounced
Celtic and stnpid appearance, having
scraggy chin whiskers and gray hair,
who is of medium height and marked
by a gaunt development of chest and
body; and this individual will eat a live
snake for yon, taking monthfnls from
its heady downward, will hold a bull
frog by its legs and crunch it down,
piece by piece, or will munch smaller
game in the way of bugs, grasshoppers,
etc-. But the massive strength of his
jaws and teeth is best illustrated when
he chews crockery, crashing and grind
ing it to powder with his ordinary food,
when so disposed. For sanitary rea
sons, however, he wisely refrained from
devouring glass. All of which, and
much more, is solemnly vouched for by
respectable tax payers of Blandford and
vicinity.
A deserter from the English army at
Quebec, McDarby first appeared in this
region about 40 years ago, and in his
escape it is said he ran 64 miles in 24
hours without food—which is credible,
perhaps, for he is possessed of an iron
constitution. He made an impression
upon the natives at South Hadley Falls
by calling for pie and cheese at the
hotel, or rather in what followed, when
he bit through plate and all. He has
since worked in Blandford and vicinity,
where he has displayed all his various
accomplishments. Just now he resides
with a sister at Russell and helps John
son Tiffany on his farm. He has four
children living, to none of whom, fortu
nately, have descended the father’s
tastes or strength of jaw." At Chester,
several years ago, with the utmost non
chalance, he lifted a barrel of pork by
the iron hoop, with his teeth; and then,
in a wager, put down three dozen eggs,
shells and all. He won a dollar bet at
North Blandford, too, by eating a raw,
two and one half pound pickerel. Aud,
even church members affirm that he has
been known to chew up—not exactly
“three tubs of ice and then call for
soda water”—but an earther porter bot
tle. McDarby served in the war—and
now draws a half pension for a leg
wound—making a very convenient sol
dier at times. He was with the mount
ed infantry, and when the exigencies of
the campaign put his horse upon short
rations, the obliging fellow would give
the faithful steed his human fodder, and
subsist himself upon animate snakes,
bull frogs, worms, rats, etc. Again,
while marching from Mobile to Florida,
a black snake disputed the way, and the
captain ordered the negroes to cut clubs
and slay the “sarpint”—so the story
runs—when the useful McDarby seized
It, and, amidst the atonishment of the
crowd, bit its head off. We are not
surprised either, when McD. tells us
that one of the witnesses of the feat ran
to his commander and demanded to
know “what kind of a snake eater
they had in camp?” After a battle, Mc-
Darby has been known to slice off a bit
of dead horse and subsist upon it with
apparent relish.
His marvellous strength is only in his
jaws, which are not malformed, ap
parently ; his teeth are good, though
he has lost two, which he knocked out
with a hammer when they showed signs
of decay. In conversation he will never
look at you, and cannot be drawn outj
directly to talk about himself. More,
than one attempt has been made to en
gage him by traveling shows, but he
refuses all such allurements. He used
to be very free to amuse any private
parties by devouring snakes or frogs,
but latterly insists that he is growing
old and must be paid for exhibitinghim
self. In this connection he is willing
to wager SSO that he “ will eat a tom
cat’s head off before it is done kicking !”
The man has never been sick but once
in his life, and, though a hard drinker
at times, has never had any after head
aches like common folks. Though the
stories told of him seem so highly im
probable, it certainly is a fact that well
nigh all are implicitly believed up Blan
ford way, where the people, indeed,
have seen much with their own eyes.
RECOLLECTIONS OF FAMOUS MEN.
[From the N. 0. Bulletin .]
I doubt if there are fifty persons in
the United States who know that John
Quincy Adams and Robert Barnwell
Rhett were cousins. These two men,
representing the extreme Northern and
tho extreme Southern doofcrinoe, and
who hated each other with intense bit
terness, were near relatives, as I shall
now show. The Rhetts, of South Caro
lina, having become extinct, their rela
tions, the Smiths, of Beaufort, South
Carolina, took the name of Rhett in the
year 1836. These Smiths were from
North Carolina. The brothers, Henry,
James, Robert Barnwell, and Albert,
changed tho name to Rhett, as I have
stated.
Their cousins, Abigail Smith, of
North Caroiana, married John Adams,
and was the mother of John Quincy
Adams. The partisan acrimony of these
two men was so intensely bitter that in
1833, when the South Carolina Nullify
ing Convention was debating the policy
of accepting the compromise bill just
passed by Congress, and favored by
Calhoun, Robert Barnwell Rhett said
that “before accepting that compromise
he would be shattered into bloody fig
ments on the battle field !” And John
Quincy Adams, in a letter to some old
woman in Massachusetts, named Thax
ter, in 1844, asserted “that slavery
should be abolished if it cost the lives
of five hundred thousand men!” In
fact, it may have been said of John
Quincy Adams, in the last years of his
life, as Antipater said of some old oia
tor, “that he was like a sacrifice, there
being nothing left of him but his
tongne and his paunch.”
In the year 1827 I saw the celebrated
Aaron Burr. He came to attend the ex
amination at Partridge’s Military Acade
my, where he had a ward named Francis
Burdett. He came with another ward—
he was always educating somebody—
who was a young lady, just grown to
womanhood, and who, I believe, subse
quently married Governor John L. Wil
son, of South Carolina. The appear
ance of Burr was striking, for he had
the classic outline of face which is pro
trayed in his likeness prefixed to his
“Life of Davis,” the once celebrated
“Spy in Washington.” Colonel Burr
was about five feet six inches in height,
and wore his hair in a queue.
When Calhoun was dying a young
preacher, named Butler, called to see
him. When Calhoun heard the name,
supposing the caller was his colleague,
Judge Andrew Pickens Butler, he said
to his private secretary, Scovil: “Show
him up—it is his privilege.” But ima
gine his amazement when the young
minister was ushered into the chamber
and announced his object being to con
verse with Calhoun on religion 1 Mr.
Scovil says that Mr. Calhoun became
very angry, and he heard him mutter
ing: “A boy—a boy—without a beard
on his face—to call on me, and wish to
speak about religion—a subject about
which I have been thinking all my life !”
When I recall this scene, and remember
the matchless pre-eminence of Mr. Cal
houn, I cannot help repeating the line:
“Fools rush in where angels fear to
tread. ”
Military Strength of European Na
tions.
M. Amedee la Faure publishes in the
Prance an analysis of the military
strength of the various European na
tions in 1875. Germany has an army
comprising 469 battalions of infantry,
465 squadrons of cavalry, 300 campaign
batteries, 29 battalions of foot artillery,
18 battalions of pioneers, and 18 bat
talions of service corps. When are add
ed the reserves, the landsturm, the land
wehr and the navy, a total of 1,700,000
men is arrived at, with annual estimates of
twenty million pounds sterling. The
English army and navy, including
militia and volunteers, comprise
535,000 men, and cost £24,800,000; Aus
tria has 535,000 men, costing £10,800,-
000; Belgium, 48,000, with an expendi
ture of £1,659,200; Denmark, 54,000 men,
costing £366,000; Spain, according to
the regulations of 1870, possesses 270,-
000 men, with a yearly budget of £6,-
400,000. The law passed by the Cortes
in 1872 has as yet been imperfectly ap
plied. France has 132 regiments of in
fantry, 30 battalions of Chasseurs, 77
cavalry regiments, 40 regiments of artil
lery four of engineers, and 2U squadrons
of service corps. With the reserve and
navy the total effect! vestrengthof the
country is 1,700,000, costing £26 000JW0;
Greece, 51,000 men, and estimate, £36Q,-
000' Italv, 760,000 men, expenditure,
£9,840,000; Holland, 100,000 men, esti
mate £1,120,000; Portugal, 73,000 men,
costing £180,000; Russia has an army in
time of peace of 183 regiments Gf infan
try 82 battalions of riflemen, 48 battal
ion's for frontier service, 56 regiments of
cavalrv, 810 batteries of artillery, 14 bat
talions of engineers, besides irregulars
and reserves. With the fleet the effective
strength of the country is 1,000 000;with
a budget of £27,200,000 ; Sweden, 160,-
000 men, costing $1,120,000. The effec
tive strength of Switzerland is approxi
mately 180,000 men, costing only $360,-
000 • Turkey, 300,000 men, with esti
mates of £5,680,000. On a war footing,
therefore, the armies of Europe are 9,-
333,000; costing annually $136,804,000,
EXTRAORDINARY MURDER.
A WOMAN KILLED AND CUT IN
PIECES.
A Man is Fonnd in London With a Wo
man's Mutilated Body in a Cab—He
Refuses to Make Any Explanation—
The Woman Supposed to Have Been
a Ballet Girl.
The London pnbiic has lately been
profoundly excited at a murder which
has attracted an unusual amount of at
tention on account of its strange and
revolting features, and the complete
mystery which surrounds its com mission
and the preceding circumstances. The
story of the discovery is thus told by
the Daily News, of Monday, the 13th
inst.:
An extraordinary case of mutilation
was discovered by the police on Satur
day evening, under very peculiar cir
cumstances, and although the police
authorities are strongly of opinion that
a terrible murder has been committed,
the identity of the woman who is the
supposed victim is an open question.
It seems that at a house in Commercial
road East a Mr. Henry Wainwright
formerly resided with his wife and fami
ly. He carried on the business of brush
and harness maker, and was a contrac
tor to the Metropolitan Police. He re
moved from the house in question to
School House Lane, Chingford, Essex,
but continued to have access to his pre
vious residence in the Commercial road,
which is now empty. On Saturday
evening, between 5 and 6 o’clock,
Wainwright, who was walking in the
Commercial road, met a boy, whom
he engaged to carry two parcels to a
cab. The boy accordingly went with
him to the empty house in tlie Com
mercial road, in front of which a four
wheeled cab was waiting. In this the
boy placed the two parcels which he
brought from the house. Wainwright
then entered the cab, followed by a wo
man, who it has since been ascertain
ed is Alice Day, a dress maker, residing
at Queen’s Court, Commercial road. An
unpleasant smell from the parcels at
tracted the boy’s attention, and
he fancied something was wrong.
When the cab was driven away
the boy ran after it, following it
through Bishopsgate street, Grace
Church street, and over London Bridge.
On his way he mentioned his suspicions
to several police constables, who, how
ever, took no notice of the matter. Per
sistently following the vehicle into the
Borough High street, ho met Police
Constables Cox, No. 290, -and Turner,
No. 48, and asked them to “stop the
cab, there is something the matter.”
The lad farther said, “I’ll have nothing
to do with it for a hundred pounds,”
and then ran away at fuR speed. Such
strange conduct inducecnthe constables
to follow tho cab, which stopped near
the Town Hall. The man Wainwright
got out and was seen to enter an empty
house known as the “Hen and Chick
ens,” No. 54 High street, Borough, of
which he had the key. He carried with
him one of the parcels, and having left
it in the house, returned to the cab, and
was in the act of taking out the second
parcel when the constables approached
him. On the police insisting upon
searching the parcels, Wainwright ap
peared greatly confused, and offered the
officers £IOO each if they would let him
go. Having secured the man and wo
man, the police proceeded to open the
parcels, and in them they found the
body of a full-grown woman cut into
pieces. Neither the man nor the woman
with him offered any explanation. They
were removed to the police station at
Stone’s-end, Borough, as were also the
A parcels. The parcels, which were
red with American cloth, resembled
tiers’ packs, and on examining them
Larkin found no portion of the body
deficient. The pieces were iu a very de
composed condition, and the medical
man was of opinion that they had been
subject to the influence of quicklime,
and that death had taken place at least
two months ago. The trunk of the body
alone was in one of the parcels; the
head, legs, feet, arms and hands in the
other. Every limb had been disjointed,
and the right thigh bore indications of a
severe blow thereon. At the Police
Station the prisoners were charged with
murder. Wainwright did not betray the
slightest emotion at his position, and
said nothing explanatory of the reason
for his possession of the remains. The
woman was also reserved in her manner.
She, however, offered a vague explana
tion to the effect that she met the man
in the Commercial road, and he asked
her to accompany him in a ride, to which
she consented.
Wainwright and the woman were ex
amined before Magistrate Benson, Mon
day morning. Meanwhile it had beeu
discovered that Waiuwright’s house ad
joined the Pavilion Theatre, and that he
was on terms of questionable intimacy
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wife and five children. Alice Day, the
woman arrested with him, was a ballet
girl, and the common suspicion was
that tire murdered woman was also of
that vocation, though no light was
thrown upon the cause and circum
stances of her murder by any discoveries
in Court or out of it. The Division
Surgeon, Dr. Larkin, testified as fol
lows : The parcels contained the com
ponent parts of a human body in an ad
vanced Btateof decomposition; there had
evidently been means adopted to pre
vent the possibility of identification; it
seemed to me that chloride or some
other preparation of lime had been used
to promote decomposition; could not
form the slightest opinion as to the
cause of death; the body had been
literally chopped up by a person who
knew nothing whatever of anatomy, or
at least who did not use his knowledge.
THE BONANZA KING.
A correspondent of the Boston Her
ald tells a story of James C. Flood, of
the firm of Flood & O’Brien, who rule
the financial affairs of California and Ne
vada. He says: J. C. Flood is the name
of the man who is at the head of that
great monied institution in San Fran
cisco which was the cause of the break
ing of the Bank of California—l mean
the Bank of Nevada. The history of
that movement and all its results are
well known to the readers of the Herald.
But the history of the man who was the
prime mover of the whole affair has
never yet been printed. He was born,
it is believed, in Ireland, but on that
point my informant is not positive. He
made his appearance at Fort Hamilton
many years ago, when he was quite a
lad, and engaged himself as a workman
in the wheelwright shop of Colonel
Church. He was accounted a good boy,
that is, there was nothing particularly
bad about him. He was faithful in bis
work, aud was of rather an inquiring
mind, always wanting to know the why
and wherefore of everything. He could
not read or write, and the two sons of
Colonel Church were then'about his age.
They have since grown np, and keep the
hotel; are the judges, coroners,
sheriffs’ agents, agents of the Gov
ernment for many things ; are agents
of the Western Union Telegraph and of
the Associated Press there. Their father
is now dead. Young Flood prevailed on
Thomas G. Church to teach him to read
and write, and he proved a very apt
scholar. His learning enabled him to
take a front rank among his fellow work
men, and it is said there are a good
many wagons now in existence on Long
Island that have a peculiar finish put
upon certain parts of them by young
Flood. When the California fever broke
out there were three companies of troops
sent there from Fort Hamilton. In one
of these companies Flood enlisted and
went with them to California. After
serving his time he went into the mines,
and came back again to the wheel
wright shop at Fort Hamilton with
some $5,000 or $6,000. After staying a
short time he married, and soon after,
with his wife, went to San Francisco.
He there opened a bar-room and be
came quite popular, made money, and,
being naturally shrewd and careful of
investments, has risen now to be one of
the acknowledged powers of the Pacific
coast. There are several around Church’s
Hotel at Fort Hamilton who well re
member the young man, and who will
doubtless now agree that it was a good
place to emigrate from. He is now said
to be worth money enough to buy up
the whole region around Fort Hamilton,
and throw in Fort Lafayette as a chow
der depot, which is all it is fit for. His
history is like that of many another in
this free country—a poor, illiterate boy
—tanght his alphabet and to read, write
and cipher by Thomas G. Church, his
old employer’s son—now not a million
naire, but a ten or twenty millionnaire.
He has the consolation of knowing that
in case of accident he is a good wheel
wright, and can make a slpendid cock
tail! m a
The Savannah, Tenn., Transcript says
of the newspaper editor who tells his
readers that negroes have been shot in
the South for voting the Republican
ticket: “ Dog-on his hump-backed, cock
eved skin of him, he is a liar some more,
and his grandmother ain't no gentle
man.” This is by no means an elegant
sentence, but every candid reader, of
whatever section, will accept the truth
it conveys as an ample atonement for its
inelegance.
Gov. Tilden gave Mr. Willian Cullen
Bryant an elegant reception last Winter,
and the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser
charges that the Governor by this means
bought the influence of Mr. Bryant’s
paper, the New York Evening Post. The
mere fact that the Commercial Adverti
ser can be bought for a bottle of beer
affords no reason for supposing that the
Evening Post has been sold for a few
bottles of wine.
RETRIBUTION.
The Work of James Shell's Execution
ers—The Particulars of the Lynch
ing at Bellefontaine—A Doubt of His
Guilt.
[From the Columbus News.]
Shell was lodged in jail at Bellefon
taine on Thursday night, and on Friday,
as soon as the inquest was over, the
sturdy farmers jumped into their ve
hicles and began driving toward Belle
fontaine. By 6 o’clock the town was
full of people, in a state of excitement,
and evidently with one idea as to what
ought to be done. During the evening
groups of men stood round the streets,
conversing quietly, and in grim tones,
of the situation. There was no brag, no
bluster, and no whisky, but a settled
determination looked out from every
honest face, and gleamed from every
eye. 10 o’clock train from the
about a men
from along the road. About 11 o’clock
the most active participants went to a
brick kiln in the outskirts of the
town, and organized in four compa
nies of about twenty-five men each.
The companies and the men were all
numbered, just as in the Urbana af
fair. For masks they had handkerchiefs
tie?f“aerifes the lower half of the face,
and some had their coats turned inside
out and their hats slouched over their
eyes. Company One carried an iron rail
taken from some switch, and the proces
sion marched sternly and quietly through
the principal street of the town to the
CouitjEuse, turned down the street
immedTSßy south of it, and so round
in front of the jail, which is in the rear
of the Court House. Here they came
to a halt; and a man, who acted as
leader, stepped up to the jail door,
knocked called “Mr. Sheriff,”
in a loud times. No answer
being elicited, he turned round to the
quietly .flatting crowd and said, “Com
pany your duty.” Company
One advanced, carrying the rail. In
quick succession they delivered a series
of battering-ram blows, which no door
could long withstand, and soon forced it
from its hinges. With cold chisels and
sledge-hammers they hewed a path to
the cell where the doomed man lay. In
about twenty-five minutes from the time
when they had burstTn the outer dpor
the leader appeared at tho entranoe and
announced to the expectant crowd,
We’ve Got Him 1
“And will bring him out, and make him
confess this and other crimes.” This
announcement was received by the
populace with stern demonstrations of
approval; and, after a moment’s delay,
the committee appeared with their pris
oner. Emerging from the jail, they took
up their line of march back around the
Court House. Proceeding to the south
corner of the fence, they reached a
large tree whose boughs, destined to
bear such unnatural fruit, stretched out
over the street. In the twinkling of an
eye a long rope, with a noose attached,
was produced from some hiding place,
and the noose put around Shell’s neck.
A dry goods box was pushed forward,
and on this impromptu scaffold Shell
took his stand for his
Last Ten Minutes of Life.
As he stood there, facing his execu
tioners, with the flickering light of a
kerosiue lamp playing over his features,
his bearing was singularly stolid and
impressive. He was not a bad looking
man, with his dark eyes and hair, and
black mustache and beard. He was
dressed in a loose, dark sack coat, waist
coat, and black plush cap, turned up at
the edges. He was of medium height,
and compact, strongly-knit frame. Some
disposition was manifested to summa
rily run him up at once, but calmer
counsels prevailed, and his self-consti
tuted judges, informing him briefly that
he had but a few moments to live, in
vited him to improve the time by mak
ing a confession of the crime, or rather
crimes, for there was more than one
count in Judge Lynch’s indictment.
Thus urged, he opened liis lips, but only
to reiterate the denial of the charges,
and charged his wife with the com
mission of the murder, alleging that he
had once bought a pound of candy for
Miss Laughlin, and that his wife had
been jealous ever since. He was then
asked about the murder of Mr. Tor
rence, and denied all complicity in his
disappearance. The questioning then
became general. On being asked again
to confess, he replied, “Do •you suppose
I’d do’such a thing ? Mr. Laughlin was
my best friend.” Only four minutes of
his time were now left, and he was ask
ed what disposition was to be made of
his body. “I should like to be buried
by the side of my little boy,” said he.
“Write to my folks in Canada about
this.” Oft some one’s objecting that he
did not wish to let them know, “Yes, I
do,” he replied, emphatically. He
spoke in a low, monotonous voice, with
out the shade of a tremor. Pe,unisinn
was extended him to pray. In the same
monotone he said, “I hope the Lord
will have mercy on me, and on all of
you.” The ten minutes had now elaps
ed, and the leader, detailing four men,
whom he designated by numbers, cried:
“Push away the box.” At the word the
Box Was Shoved Away,
And James Shell was suspended in the
air, with his feet about two feet from
the ground. His body swung back and
forth like a pendulum, with the vibra
tory motion communicated to it by the
box, in being removed. His neck was
probably broken, and his head was
jerked back, so that the face lay hori
zontal. After hanging about eight min
utes, someone in the crowd, either
through sympathetic nervousness, or
from a secret friendship for Shell, cried
"Cut Him Down I”
The leader jumped on the box and
said in stern and convincing tones, “If
any man makes his appearance to cut
him down, I’ll put five balls through
that man,” and pointed and emphasized
his remark with a revolver. After Shell
had hung about fifteen minutes, a physi
cian pronounced him dead, upon which
the leader, turning to the people, said,
“Citizens, we have met and done jus
tice; now let us disperse peaceably to
our homes.” On this there was a gen
eral cry of “Home, Home,” and in a
short time all of the actors in this
midnight tragedy of one act had started
for their rural homes, leaving their
work hanging to the Court House tree.
The body was shortly after taken down,
and into the jail, the coroner was sum
moned, and impannelled a jury, who
rendered a verdict in accordance with
the facts.
Later.
We hear that a microscopic examina
tion of some hair found clutched in Miss
Laughlin’s hand shows that it was
neither hers nor Shell’s but does corres
pond with Mrs. Shell’s. This fact has
raised considerable doubt in legal and
other minds as to her innocence, and
throws a painful shadow on the lynch
ing of Shell.
He Suffered Long.
[Detroit Free Dress.]
When it commenced to rain on Friday
a man stepped into an office on Gris
wold street and remarked : “This rain
will cool the atmosphere, won’t it?”
The proprietor agreed that it would. In
about five minutes another man came in
to borrow a paper, and he remarked :
“This rain will cool the atmosphere,
won’t it ?” The proprietor thought it
would, and had just dated a letter, when
a man called to ask the loan of an um
brella, and stood for a moment and re
marked : “This rain will cool the at
mosphere, won’t it ?” “I suppose it
will,” snapped|the office man, and he
turned to his letter again. He had
written four lines, when a man entered
and asked him the way to the City Hall,
and then remarked : “This rain will
cool the atmosphere, won’t it?” “Blam
ed if I care a cent whether it does or
not!” growled the bored man, and he
wrote five lines more, and was biting
his pen-holder when a man jumped into
the door, shook himself, and remarked :
“This rain will cool the atmosphere,
won’t it ?” “No, sir !” yelled the office
man at the top of his voice, and he said
he’d wollop the next man who said
“rain” to him. He had turned his let
ter over when along came a tall young
man, with a long nose. He looked into
the office, halted, and, as he stood in
the door and shook his umbrella, he
said; “Don’t you think this rain will
cool the at ?” “No ! blast your
two white eyes, I don’t!” yelled the man
who was writing, and he threw down his
pen and made ready for the next
one. Along came the man who has an
office above, and who is a very good man
and a worthy citizen, and he stuck his
head in the door and called out: “Ah !
we’il all sleep better to-night! Don’t
vou think the rain will ?” “No,
you old liar !” yelled the office man, and
he shut the door with such suddenness
that the inquirer fell off the step, and
rolled over his umbrella and sat on his
hat. He got up and wanted to lick
somebody, and said he thirsted for
blood, but the rain calmed him down,
and the office man locked his door and
hung up a sign reading : “Not a blamed
bit cooler than before. 1 ’
Noting the present of a silver cup to a
brother journalist, a Western editor
says : “He needs no cup. He can drink
from any vessel that contains liquor,
whether the neok of a bottle, the mouth
of a pickle jar, the Bpile of a keg, or a
bung of a barrel,”
A ohild, when told that God is every
where, asked, “In this room ?” “Yea.”
“In the closet ?” “Yes.” “In the draw
ers of my desk?” “Yes, everywhere,
He’s in your pocket now.” “No, he
ain't, though.” “And why not?”
“Tauth I aint’ dot no pottet,”
THE FIJIAN PLAGUE.
The Old Cannibals Starving—Forty
Thousand Deaths in Four Months
Deserted Villages—Burying People
Alive.
[From the Sidney Herald.]
Further information from Fiji conveys
still darker accounts of the plague which
has recently passed over the new colony.
A resident of long standing, writing to a
Victorian contemporary, says : “The
death rate is not yet made up, but the
probability is that 40,000 Fijians died
during the four months’ plague. The
native population of Fiji is now about
one-third only of what it was when I
landed here about twenty-five years
ago.” The accounts given of the magni
tude of the disaster are less harrowing
than those of the sufferings of the vic
tims. “Very few died of the measles,
the majority dying of subsequent disease
in the form of dysentery, congestion of
the lungs, <&c. Want of nourishment or
starvation carried off thousands." We
are told that all work was suspend
ed for two months. You could
pass through whole towns • without
meeting any one in the streets, which
were soon completely covered with gross.
Entering a house you would find men,
women and children all lying down in
discriminately, some just attacked, some
still in agony, and others dying. Some
who were strong enough attempted sui
cide, and not always unsuccessfully.”
We are further told that “as the scourge
became more permanent four or five
were buried together in one grave, and
generally without religious service. In
some cases the dead were buried in the
earthen floors of the houses, in others
just outside the house. The burials
were hurried, and the probability is that
some were buried alive. In many in
stances the husband, wife and children
all died. In one village all the women
died, and in another all the men.” It is
interesting to read of the different men
tal effects produced by the torture of
disease. It is not surprising to find
that “some made fruitless appeals to
their ancient god. Some inland tribes,
who had only recently embraced Chris
tianity, considered that the disease was
conveyed by their religious teachers,
and they dismissed them and then aban
doned their new religion. Among these
some were for killing the teachers, but
their wiser counsels prevailed. It is
said that one tribe buried alive one
teacher’s wife and child, whose husband
and father had died of the plague to
stop infection.” But while some in their
distress fell back on their former super
stitions, the greater number are said to
have borne their calamity with fortitude,
and to have suffered and died under the
influence of Christianity.
VEGETINE
PURIFIES THE BLOOD, RENOVATES AND
INVIGORATES THE WHOLE SYSTEM.
ITS MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARE
Alterative, Tonic, Solvent and
Diuretic.
VEGETINE is made exclusively from the
juices of carefully selected barks, roots and
herbs, and so strongly concentrated that it will
effectually eradicate from the system every
taint of Scrofula, Scrofulous Humor, Tumors,
Cancer, Cancerous Humor, Erysipelas, Sait
Rheum, Syphilitic diseases, Canker, Faintness
at the Stomach, and all diseases that arises
from impure blood. Sciatica, lullamatory and
Chronic Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Gout and
Spinal Complaints can only be effectually
cured through the blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptive Diseases of the
Skin, Pustules, Pimples, Blotches, Boils, Tet
ter, Scaldhead and Ringworms, VEGETINE
has never failed to effect a permanent cure.
For Pain in the Back, Kidney Complaintß,
Dropsy, Female Weakness, Leucorrhcoa, aris
ing from internal ulceration, and uterine
diseases and General Debility, VEGETINE
acts directly upon the causes of these com
plaints. It invigorates and strengthens the
whole system, acts upon secretive organs, al
lays inflammation, cures ulceration and regu
lates the bowels.
For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Costive
ness, Palpitation of the Heart, Headache,
riles. Nervousness aud General Prostration of
the Nervous System, no modicino has ever
given such perfect satisfaction as the VEGE
TINE. It puriiieß the blood, cleauses all of the
organs, and possesses a controlling power over
the nervous system.
The remarkakle cures affected by VEGE
TINE have induced many physicians and
apotliocaries whom we know to prescribe aud
use it in their own families.
In fact, VEGETINE is the best remedy yet
discovered for the above diseases, and is the
only reliable BLOOD PURIFIER yet placed be
fore the public.
Are not the many testimonials given for the
different complaints satisfactory to any reason
able person Buffering from any disease men
tioned above, that they can be cured ? Read
the different testimonials given, and no one
can doubt. In many of these cases the per
sons say that their pain and suffering cannot
be expressed, as in cases of Scrofula, where,
apparently, the whole body was one mass of
corruption. If VEGETINE will relieve pain,
cleanse, purify and can e such diseases, restor
ing the patient to perfect health after trying
diffAVent njlvsicispa- maaur. r.'nic.n. - ty,,.
for years, is it not conclusive proof, if you are
a sufforor. you can be cured ? Why is this
medicine performing such great cures ? It
works in the blood, in the circulating fluid. It
can truly be called the GREAT BLOOD PURI
FIEK. The great source of disease originates
in the blood ; and no medicine that does not
act directly upon it, to purify and renovate,
has any just claim upon public attention.—
When the blood becomos lifeless and stagnant,
either from change of weather or of climate,
want of exercise, irregular diet, or from any
other cause, the VEGETINE will renew the*
blood, carry off the putrid humors, cleanse the
stomach, regulate the bowels, and impart a
tone of vigor to the whole body. Tho convic
tion is, in the public mind as well as in the
medical profession, that the remedies supplied
by the Vegetable Kingdom aro more safe,
more successful in the cure of disease, than
mineral medicines. VEGETINE is composed
of roots, barks and herbs. It is pleasant to
take, and is perfectly safe to give an infant.—
Do you need it ? Do not hesitate to tiy it-.
You will never regret it.
WOULD NOT BE WITHOUT
VEGETINE
FOR TEN TIMES ITS COST.
The great benefit I have received from the
use of VEGETINE induces mo to give my tes
timony in its favor. I believe it to be not only
of great value for restoring the health, but a
preventive of diseases peculiar to the Spring
and Summer seasons.
I would not be without it for ten times its
cost. EDWARD TILDEN,
Attorney and General Agent for Massachusetts
of the Craftsmen’s Life Assurance Com
pany, No. 49 Sear’s Building, Boston, Mass.
VEGETINE 18 SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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M. A. STOVALL,
Warehouse & Commission Merchant,
No. 1 Warren Block, Augusta, Ga.
THANKFUL for the liberal patronage here
tofore bestowed, would take this occasion
to notify the Planters of Georgia and Carolina
that he continues the Commission Business in
all its branches (except buying and selling fu
tures), and solicits consignments of Cotton for
sale or storage. He will give the selling of
cotton his personal attention, ne is, as here
tofore, Agent for the justly celebrated Patapsco
Guano and Grange Mixture.
augls-w3m • M. A. STOVALL.
TIIE .IAS. LEFFEi„
Double Turbine Water Wheel.
Q POOLE & HUNT,
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ffm n Simple, Strong, Durable,
Sjfrp j always reliable and eatia-
Manufacturers, also, 01
Portable a stationary
Engines, Steam Boilers,
& Grist Mills, Min.
®i n gMachinery,Gearing
for Cotton Mills, Flour,
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I il Mill Machinery, Hydraulic and other
Presses,&c. Shifting, Pulleys and Hangers
a specialty. Machine made Gearing; accu
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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA,
SEVENTY-FIFTH YEAR.
FACULTY.
H. H. TUCKER. D. D.. Chancellor.
W. H. WADDELL, A M., Prof, of Latin.
CHABLEB MORRIS, A. M., Prof, of Greek.
C. P. WILLCOX, A. M., Prof, of Modem
Languages.
E. W. SPEER, D. D., Prof, of Belles-Letters.
P. H. MELL, D. D., L.L. D.,’ Prof, of Meta
physics.
W. L. BROUN, L.L. D., Prof, of Natural
Philosophy and President Georgia State Col
lege Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
WMS. RUTHERFORD, A. M., Prof, [of
Mathematics.
L. H. CHABBONNIEB, A. M., Prof, of En
gineering.
H. C. WHITE, C. and M. E., Prof, of Chem
istry and Geology.
W. M. BBOWNE. A. M., Prof, of History.
E. M. PENDLETON, M. D., Prof, of Agri
culture.
W. W. LUMPKIN, A. M., Prof, of English
Literature.
W. L. MITCHELL, A. M.. Prof, of Law.
The next Term opens on OCTOBER 6th,
1875. Tuition in Academic Department, 575,
payable in advanee, viz: 435 on October 6th,
with 45 Library fee, and 440 on March Ist,
1876, Fifty beneficiaries from the State ad
mitted without fee. The State College of Agri
culture and the Mechanic Arts forms a part of
the University, and opens October 6th. Law
School opens August 16th, 1875 ; second term
opens February 21st, 1876. Fees, 460 per term.
Every branch of a liberal and professional edu
cation afforded. For catalogues, etc., address.
W. H. WADDELL,
aul7-tuAwtf Sec. Faculty, Athens, Ga.
ESTABLISHED IN 1847.
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WHOLESALE PAPER WAREHOUSE,
25 BEEKMAN STREET,
NEAR NASSAU STBEET, SiEW YORK.
AGENTB for Owens, Jessup A Laflin, L.
L. Brown A Cos., Byron Weston’s, Ben
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River and Salmon Biver Mills, and Crane’s
Bond Papers. Sole Agents for Carson's old
Berkshire Mills, established in 1801.
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IN ew Advertisements.
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Embroideries, Edgings and Insert
ings, from 10c. per yard to $1.25.
James A. Gray & Cos.,
. 194 and 196 Broad St._
NEW DRESS GOODS—Figure J
Mohairs 25c. per yard, English Mat
telaise Suitings 35c. per yard,
Plaid Regent Suitings, Plaid Pongu
Suitings, Figured Pongu Suitings,
Black Bearritz and Balmoral
Crepes, Ladies’ Silk Neck Ties in
great variety, new Ruchings and
Rufflings, in great variety at great
ly reduced prices.
JAMES A. GRAY & CO.
scplO
Iffljortant to tie Boot, Shoe and Hat Trade.
WE ABE NOW PREPARED TO SUPPLY OUR FRIENDS AND THE
TRADE GENERALLY WITH
Boots, Shoes, Hats and Trunks
AT
GlffiA r I'LY REDUCED PRICES.
OUR WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT
IS COMPLETE, AND WE WILL SELL TO THE TRADE AT
New York Jobbers Prices.
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IS WELL SUPPLIED WITH MILES A SONS’ BOOTS, SHOES AND GAITERS; ZEIGLEIt
BBOS. LADIES’ BUTTONED AND LACE BOOTS, SHOES AND GAITERS ; DUNBAItIt A CO.’S
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SMALL PROFITS AND LARGE SALES IS OUB MOTTO.
NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS.
AN EXAMINATION OF OUB GOODS AND PRICES INVITED.
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WHITE SHIRTINGS.
"W E HAVE RECEIVED TWENTY CASES OF YARD WIDE BLEACHED SHIBTINGB,
WHICH WE WILL SELL AT 10c,
These Shirtiuga Lave been ackowledged by all our cuafcomora to be SUPERIOR to FRUIT
OF THE LOOM, LONSDALE and HILL’B SEMPER IDEM.
There ia no uae in paying 15 per cent, extra on Shirting merely for a name or brand. Wo are
therefore determined to sell these Goods on their merits and by that means save the consumers
15 per cent., and at tho same time supply our ustomors with a superior grade of Goods.
CHRISTOPHER GRAY & CO.
We have received an excellent assortment of BLACK SILKS at all prices.
Our stock of these goods will compare favorably with anything ever offered in tills market.
We call special attention to five pieces of that famous Black Silk at $2 00 per yard. So cheap
that most people thought it was smuggled.
We have also received a full stock of BLACK DRESS GOODS at prices much lower than
last year. Bombazines, Caehmeres, Alpacas, Mohairs, Ac.
We offer the best TOWEL ever sold in Augusta at the price, 25c.
Fine TOWELS and LINEN GOODS generally in large quantities.
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THE IMPROVED
Oottou Crlii I !
Is ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE THE BEST BY ALL WHO USE IT, or have
seen it in operation. It is now the LEADING COTTON GIN in the South.
VERY LARGE REDUCTION IN PRICES—ONLY *3 50 PER SAW, DE
LIVERED.
THE WINSHIP COTTON PRESS,
The Best and Cheapest WROUGHT IRON COTTON SCREW in the market,
made to work by Hand, Horse, Steam or Water Power. Prices
reduced to suit the times, and now Very Low.
SIOO EACH AND UPWARDS, according to style of Press wanted.
EVERY GIN AND PRESS WARRANTED.
For further information and terms, apply to
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jyl-w2m AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
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Goldsmith’s Patent Cotton Ties.
THE undersigned has now on hand and will receive a full supply of GOLDSMITH’S PATENT
COTTON TILS.
1,500 Bundles Wedge Ties, patented 1873.
3,000 Bundles T Tics, patented 1874
2,000 Bundles Spliced Ties.
Purchasers are invited to call and examino Uese Ties and Price List before ordering else
where J. H. OPPENHEIM, General #?ent,
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