Georgia Historic Newspapers

    VOL. 2.
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BE HAPPY AM YOU CAN.
This life is not all sunshine;
Nor is it yet all showers.
But storms aud calms alternate,
As thorns among the flowers.
And while we seek the roses.
The thorns mil oft we scan;
Still let us, though they wound us.
Be happy as we can.
This life has heavy crosaes
As well as Joys to share,
And griefh and disappointments
Which you and 1 must besr.
Yet, if misfortune's lsvs
Entombs hope’s desrest plsn,
Lot us, with whst is left ns,
Be happy as we can.
The sum of our enjoyment
Is made of little things,
As oft the broadest rivers
Are formed from smallest springs.
By treasuring small waters
The rivers reach their epau;
Bo increase our pleasures
Enjoying what we can.
There may be burning deserts
Through which our feet must go,
But there are greeu roses
-- Where pleasant palin trees grow.
And if we may not follow
The path our hearts would plan,
Let us make all around ns
As happy as we can.
Perhaps we may not climb with
Ambition to its goal.
So let us answer ••Present'
When duty calls the roll !
And, whatever appointment.
Be nothing less than man.
And, cheerful in submission,
Be happy aa we can.
THK STOinfF A KING.
It seeinod to me the most ufortu
uate position in the world.
I bud arrived, about ten minutes
before, at the bouse of an aunt whom
I had never seen, and who was sick.
I was to be ber nurse and compan
ion. Her servant had shown me into
this wretched trap, as I now called it,
in un anguish of spirit, though it was
really a pretty, cheerful little roera,
opened by a curtained arch from the
parlor, informing me that the house
keeper would be there immediately
tpeouduct meto my auut. Aud here
was I, an utter stranger, assisting at
a lovers’ quarrel.
It wo persons bad entered the room
an instant after I had seated myself.
It was twilight, and the lamps were
not yet lighted. I was wholly invisi
ble, and they evidently imagined
themselves to possess the solitude
befitting their conversation.
“The farce may as well end here,”
had said a woman’s voice at the mo
ment of her crossing the threshold.
“For my part I am weary of the play.
I no longer love you, and I will not
pretend affection, merely to feed
your vanity, which is as limited as
your impertinencein persisting in at
tentions that you see I detest.”
it was the most intolerably proud
voice That could be imagined.
“I still love you, and you know it.
And have far too much faith in your
former professions to credit the words
put in your rnowth by the aDger of an
unfortunate moment. You are utter
ly mistaken in your supposition. My
love for you is always ”
“Four love for me! Your love/"
with an acceut of angry Scorn that
delies description. “Never dare to
mention to me again a word that you
cannot comprehend. It is an insuit
to me to hear it—an insult that I will
not endure. Aud to cure your appre
hension of my repentance let me tell
you that I. who know the meauing of
this word that you uttter so glibly—/
love someone else.”
She stepped swiftly to the window
and threw it open. There was an in
stant’s silence. There was audible
the rustic of her sleeve as she tossed
something from her with force.
“I have thrown your ring away,”
she explained with a nonchalance iu
extraordinary contrast with her for
mer violence. “I threw it toward
the cistern. Possibly it has slipped
through some crevice or other, and
down into the water. I hope so. In
that case it Is Impossible that the
sight of it can ever again insult me
with the remembrance that f have
worn it. Permit me to wish you an
exceedingly good evening!”
It was easy to imagine the mocking
reverence of the courtesy she now
swept him; then she was gone. Im
mediately after, and silently, he also
left, the apartment.
They did not go too soon, whoever
they were. A cold perspiration
dampened my forehead; I really
trembled. The vehemence of the
feelings engaged, the certainty felt
by the actors of their complete iso
lation, and my own innocent guilt in
overhearing, all quite overpowered
me.
Half a minute did not elapse after
the last sound of the gentleman’s
footsteps before the parlor door
again opened, an#* a prim litthe wo
man entered, with a lamp in her
hand. She looked in all the corners,
as one might search,for a dropped
pocket-handkerchief, and at last per
ceived the new-comer.
“Ah, miss, I have kept you wait
ing quite a time, to be sure! But
your aunt took a sudden notion to
put mustard draughts on her ankles
—though Hr. Kichardson bad just
gone, and he never thought of order
ing them!-and have *6ll she must.
And I supposed you’d be comforta
ble here. ’
“Quite comfortable, thank yon.
The servant said you would come
!reently.”
“Wall, you’d best have some tea
before you see your aunt. She told
me to give you some. I shall try to
find something you like; though
what with ail these people flying
about the bouse that have got no
business here—this company, I mean
—I don’t know whether lam on my
head or feet.”
I received the refreshments she
brought me gratefully, after which
I was conducted to my aunt’s rooom.
Consideration for the feelings of
other people was not one of the old
lady’s characteristics, and after a
few disparaging remarks on my per-
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sonal appearance. I was dismissed
for the night.
The sun waa just risen next, morn
ing when I took courage to step out
side nd look about me. The gruss
was very wet with dew, but how it
sparkled in that fresh light! All at
once I stopped aud stared before me.
There, glittering ir. the grass, lava
ring. 1 stood like ouo fascinated,
gazing at it very foolishly, fori knew
well what ring it was. Presently I
heard someone calling far off, and
not stopping to think, I picked the
ring up, ami run back to the house,
alt trembling.
At breakfast I endeavored to dis
cover the hero und heroine of last
evening’s drama. Two of the ladies
were sisters, tall, languid blonds,
very beautifully dressed, and very
dainty. They trifled elegantly with
their knives and forks, and carried
on airy Summer morning flirtations
with two gentlemen, who were each
dark, and, like the ladies, dressed
with care a little too exquisite. The
third lady, Miss Huntington, was a
little person, with soft, pleasant,
vivacious manners, iu whoso conver
sation was always a concealed sar
casm. But it was far too iudiiterejot
and too good-natured to belong to
the lady of last night. Besides, her
sweet mocking voice was different
as possible from the deep, passion
ate tones that had so thrilled me.
And of the four gentlemon present,
certainly not one at all resembled
the portrait I had painted for my
hero. I was puzzled, aud felt sadly
guilty again as I thought of the ring
lying all silently there in my pocket
and carrying every where with it a
story which I knew and had no right
to know.
Day followed day, _and the days
melted gradually into weeks. When
the novelty of my position was over,
It proved not nearly so terrible ns it
bad seemed at llrst. Aunt Agnes
said many harsh things, but she did
not mean them all, and the good
ness of her heart compensated in
some measure for the asperities of
her tongue,
I saw u great deal of Dr. Richard
son. He was more than kind. He
thought ray life lonesomo and joy
less, and brought me many books
that I had longed for, and interested
himself in little thiDgs that hap
pened, talking with me often, and
always leuving me happier than he
found me.
But there was one thing that
troubled me much. I sometimes
fancied—and with unaccountable
distress—that In Dr. Richardson I
had found the owner of the ring.
Certain tones of his voice pierced me
like a sudden pain, they carried mo
back so vividly to that unfortunate
hour in the dim little alcove. Yet
when I looked into his face again,
and into his eyes, so content, so
frankly happy, this imagination
melted into a sweeter dream. But it
returned aguin and again, aud al
ways with deeper pain.
The visitors I found on my arrival
wore long since gone. Miss Hunt
ington lived in the neignborhood;
and it would, perhaps, be proper to
say that we were become quite inti
mate. had not all the talk and reve
lation been on her side. I, for mv
part, had had no adventures, and ft
seemed to me not interesting to offer
theories to one who epulu narrate
facts.
One day she upbraided me for my
want, of confidence, but I really had
nothing to tell, until at last I be
thought myself of the story of the
ring.
“How very curious!” cried Miss
Huutingtori, when 1 had ended, her
brown eyes oi>euing wide. “Do let
me see it. I shall certainly know it
if I have ever seen it before.”
So I took it from the case where it
lay glittering and pnt it into her
hands. And it. was with a strange,
foolish pang tiiat I saw her examine
it, and heard her chatter concerning
it. She looked at it with unfeigned
interest.
“It la really beautiful.”" she said,
“and most uncommon.. No, there is
not one among my acquaintance
that I have ever seen wear such a
ring. It is iheodtlest thing! And it
all happened the evening you ar
rived ? ’
She had turned quite away from
me, and was looking out of the win
dow. I could not see her face at all.
"Miss Huntington,” I said, grave
ly, with an emotion which I conceal
ed as well as I was able, “will you
answer me a question truthfully?”
“Any question that a friendshould
ask I will answer truthfully.” She
did not turn toward me as she spoke.
“Well, then, whs it not you your
self that threw this ring away?’ r
Now she did turn, aud looked me
frankly in the eyes.
“Truthfully, it was not I.”
“Thank you—oh, thank you.”
Why did I furitively kiss the ring?
Why, if she had said “Yes.” would.!,
in turn, have thrown it paSsiohately
away? Ah! the reader guesses.
It was perhaps a fortnight after
that that I sat alone at my window
watching the sun set beyond the
hills, white with snow, but seeing it
as one sees iu a dream. All ray
thoughts were wandering toward a
happy hour last evening.- when Dr.
Richardson had asked me to be his
wife.
From thence the days fled by like
a dream. They were so happy, but
so short-that was all I had to com
plain of; and they too rapidly
brought near a day that I longed for
and yet dreaded. And—it is a sad
confession—for the first time in my
life I looked at myself often in the
mirror. It seemed as if I had sud
denly grown almost pretty. There
wasa pink color in my cheeks; my
pale eyes had darkened and bright
ened. One day—think how foolish!
—I really leaned over and kissed my
own lips; it seemed so delightful to
be a little handsome that I felt
grateful to the mirror.
"Do not you wish I were beautiful?”
I said, one afternoon, to Dr. Rich
ardson, with a wistful longing that
he should tell me he thought me so.
We were standing near the open
door of the parlor, just as he was
taking leave.
“Indeed I do not,” he answered,
frankly. “I love you just as you
are.” - >
That was pleasant, but not what I
wished to hear.
“But do not you wish I were as
handsome as—Miss Huntingdon for
instance ?” I persisted. “Think how
bright and laughing her brown eyes
art*) And what a gipsy color rises in
her cheeks when stie is excited! Bhe
looks afl.iine sometimes.”
“She does indeed,” said Dr. Rich
ardson, smiling; “but I am not a
salamander. I have no wish that you
should resemble her. Miss Hunting
don irtoo’ 7
“Too excellent for this world!”
cried that lady’s laughing voice out
side. She had just entered the hall,
and stopped a moment at the parlor
COLUMBUS, GrA., SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1876.
door. “Good afternoon. Dr. Rich
ardson. Is the patient up-stalrs bet
ter to-day ? I am on my way to see
her. I shall not tako you with me,
Agnes, in order to earn Dr. Richard
son’s good opinion over again—for
once he had a good opinion of me.”
She looked up at him sidewise and
laughed. She was wonderfully prey y
this afternoon—all sparkle and glow.
There was an instant’s, but only an
instant’s, odd constraint in Dr. Rich
ardson’s manner; then ho said, quite
gravely, “Y6u have not forfeited my
good opinion, Miss Huntingdon.”
“The truth is, Dr. Richardson,”
said Miss Huntingdon, her face all
lighted with saucy, inward laughter;
“the truth is, you owe me a debt of
gratitude deeper than you ever can
repay. Tell me now frankly, if it
were not for me, would you be at this
moment the happy man you are ?”
“Frankly, I would not ”
Dr. Richardsou was very serious.
Even Miss Huntingdon seemod to veil
some feeling under her gay mauuer.
I was troubled.
“Why do vou two talk in riddles ?”
I asked. “Do not you both know
that I have no talent for guessing ?”
“At least you shall not cultivate it
just now, dear,” said Miss Hunting
don. “Dr. Richardson will tell yon
when lam gone. I must go to your
aunt. It does her good to scold me.”
Sho turned away and moved a stop
or two, and then looked back with a
changed face. “Agnes,” she said,
wistfully, “would you mind kissing
me ?”
“Mind kissing you? What a ques
tion! But you are not going away
immediately?”
“Oh, I don’t know. Perhaps I had
better bid you good-by now.” She
kissed me twice.
“Good-by!” she said. Absolutely
the spurk in her eyes was quenched
in dew! “Agnes,’’she said, with an
odd sort of half-laughing seriousness,
if you should ever come to think that
Ananias'wasa mora lc.haracter in com
parison to myself, it would be impos
sible for you to love me any more,
would it not? But let ino assure you,
my dear, that some stories are told
with the best possible intentions.”
Then she lelt us,
“What can sljp mean, dear?” I
asked, turning in wonder to Dr. Rioh
ardsen.
He led mo to the chair I had quit
ted, aud piaoiug mo there again,
stood before me.
“Agnes, she means to confess to
you something that you need never
nave known; and yet, perhaps it is
better that you should. She meuns
that I onoe loved her.”
He went on talking for a few
minutes, but Ido not know wlmt he
said. My hands were cold, and ob
jocts'jbefore my eyes were blurred. She
had deceived me. It wus to her and
to him I had listened that oveningso
long ago. He had loved her, I who
had heard him declare it, knew the
depth of sincerity in the voice that
told her so. Had he sought my love
only as a solace (ortho wound she had
inflicted? Friend and lover—were
both to fail me?
"Have you nothing to say, Agnes?
Whv do you not answer me?"
“Wait for me one moment,” I re
plied, hearing my voice, but hardly
recognizing ir, “I will answer when I
return,”
I left him abruptly, going slowly
up stairs, my heart feeling broken.
I got the ring, and came down again,
not trembling at all, quite quiet, with
that dreadful calm which accepts de
spair. In the blind jealousy of the
moment it seemed impossible that lie
could really love her.
“It is usual, I believe,” I said, with
some sort of a smile, "to break an en
gagement by returning a ring. Would
you like that ours should be broken
so ? This is your ring, is it not ?”
“What do mean, Agnes? Where
did you get this ring ?” cried Dr.
Richardson, in great surprise.
“I was in the alcove there the night
that Miss Huntingdon threw it away.
I found it in the garden next morn
ing. I heard all that yon both said.
But she has deceived me. She said,
when I asked her, that this ring was
never hers. And you have deceived
me; you told me that you loved me.”
In another moment the sob in my
voice would have given place to mis
erable childish tears; but Dr. Rich
ardson folded mo in his arms and
kissed me, laughing. That comfort
ed mo more than any words could
have done.
“Poor trusting little one!” he cried.
The whole world is against you, is it
not? I shall play my role to the end,
however, and say that I love you for
ever.. And cannot you forgive Miss
Huntingdon? Is not she right when
she says that I owe my happiness to
her? And she may have told the
story that grieVes you for the very
purpose of making us happy. Can
not you forgive her ?”
Yes. When he had talked to me
an hour or two, jiarticularly when he
had reassured me as to the grounds
upon which I held his love, I freely
forgave her. Sitting there in the de
licious twilight, with that dear voice
soundiDg so lovingly in my ears,
whom and what could not have for
given ?
And then, in the dusk, I heard her
light footstep on the stair, and the
rustle of her dress,
“Come in, dear Miss Huntington.”
I cried, “and let me kiss you once
more. I haveyour ring on my finger,
and love you more than I ever did in
my life.”
And we have been friends all our
days until now.
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Hint mu a FI erlit “In a More -mil-far
tory Manner.”
Waco, Texas, Sept. 5.— A party
composed of Walter Turner, Edward
Brown and Thompson, from Kauf
man county, had been on the Brazos
several days with horses. On Thurs
day last Frank and Lacy Robinson,
Taylor Campbell and Wyliy Norman,
of Hill county, went to the camp and
got into a dispute about a race,
which resulted in a fist-tight. The
parties agreed to settle the thing in a
more satisfactory manner. At 10
o’clock on Friday morning, when the
parties hadapproached within twenty
yards of each other, Taylor Cambell
tired at Turner and the battle com
menced. Turner leaped from his
horse and fired three shots with his
needle-carbine. The first shot went
through Campbell’s brain, the
second caused the instant death of
Frank Robinson and the last shot
mortally wounded Lacy Robinson;
by this time a ball from Thompson’s
revolver had passed through poor
Norman’s breast, a boy aged seven
teen years; and all of the Hunt oouu
ty party laid weltering in their blood.
Some twenty shots were fired alto
gether. More than half of the shots
were tired by the Hill countv party,
but strange to 3ay none of the Kauf
man county mien, all boys, none of
them being more than nineteen or
twenty years of age, were hurt.
THK TURKISH SITUATION.
TIIK MULTAN DEMANDS INDEMNITY
UK TRIBUTE.
The “Power*” YYUI Not Niikihlu III*
Demands.
11A1NH INTERFERING WITH THE CAM
PAIGN.
London, Sept. 16.—A Constantino
ple dispatch announces that the
sixth point in Iho Turkish basis of
peace, which was undecipherable in
the telegram received here yesterday,
stipulates for the payment by Servia
of a war indemnity, without fixing
the amount, or in lieu thereof an in
crease of Servia’s annual tribute.
Although tho Porte has refused to
grant an armistice, it is understood
that it would consent to a suspen
sion of hostilities.
Ragusa, Sept. 16. —1 t has rained in
cessantly in this section for the past
three days, and no fighting has oc
curred in that time.
London, Sept. 18 -A Belgrade dis
patch says rain hfa% been incessant
for two days. Morava valley is a
swamp, and by systematically burn
ing the villages, the Turks have de
stroyed what would have been their
shelter. Important military opera
tions are now impossible.
The Servians have supplies for a
year’s campaign at Doligrade and
Alexlnatz. Tho Turks aro obliged to
haul everything from Niscli. Their
withdrawal to Nisch is expected.
Tho Times additionally says; The
European powers cannot permit Tur
key to reoccupy the fortresses which
she held up to 1857.
A Vienna special to tho News, says:
Germany will not support Russia’s
demand on Turkey, and in case of
war will remain absolutely neutral.
The Timex publishes a letter from
Mr. Gladstone, on Derby’s speeches.
Gladstone finds fault with the Gov
ernment formally protecting and
remonstrating, and concludes: “The
time has come to say you must let
Europe define what is just and then
enact it,” Gladstone expresses the
belief that circumstances now de
mand the early re-assembliug of Par
liament.
London, Bept„ 18.—A dispatch from
Bt. Petersburg to Reuter’s Telegram
Cos., says: The existence of a treaty
between Russia and Germany, pro
viding for the settlement of tile East
ern Austria in case of war, is offi dally
denied.
THE SERVIANS CLAIM ADVANTAGES.
London. Sept. 16.—A dispatch to
Reuter’s Telegram Cos., from Bel
grade, says the batallions of Turks
were near Greditin, Southwest of
Alexinatz, on Thursday. The Ser
vians also claim that Gen. Horvata
vieh has turned the Turkish position
by crossing Zastabatz Hoights, and
that Col. Myrokowish, tho com
mander of the army of the Drina,
has defeated 'the Turks and driven
them across the Drina, recaptured
the Serviun redoubts at Little Zwor
wick, which had been taken by the
Turks. It is asserted that Servia has
obtained sixty thousand muskets and
several niitruilleures from Russia.
THE LONDON TIMES THREATENS TURKEY
—“THE POWERS THAT PROTECT
MUST COMMAND.”
London, Sept. 16.—The Timex to
day, in a leading article on the Turk
ish peace conditions, concludes as
follows;
“Although the Porte has said its
last word, the great Powers have not
said theirs. It remaias for them to
signify by a collective act what terms
of peace are admissible, und Turkay
will indeed have begun a new chap
ter of her history if she should resist
their united counsels. Her unbend
ing attitude almost warrants the sus
picion that to save her own dignity
in the presence of her vassal she is
waiting for the pressure of those
powers which, as they protect, must
also command. It would b<j gratify
ing to them that in such a crisis the
temper of our foreign office is firm
onough, and its purpose sufficiently
decided, to be truly representative of
the nation; but Mr. Gladstone’s let
ter is a formidable indictment, and
if the foreign office should continue
to resist tho popular wishes, his de
mand for an autumn session of Par
liament may speedily become tiiut of
the country,”
THE WAR CLOUD AND THE MONEY
MARKET.
EUROPEAN STOCKS DECLINED.
London, Sept. 16.— American Gov
ernment’s were firm and advanced i
to J. Some American railway’s how
ever, receded to-day. There was
considerable excitement in the
market in consequence of the uncer
tainty of the Eastern question.
Prices show a general fall. Consols
declined 3-16 to 5-16. English rail
ways were also lower. The foreign
market was generally heavy. The
principal changes were as follows:
Russian declined itol i; Hungarian
and Turkish 1 to Toward the close
Bnglish railways and Hungarian re
covered somewhat., but Turkish and
Russian further relapsed J to J.
Yellow Fever Report.
Savannah, Sept, 16.—Total inter
ments to-day 28, yellow fever 21.
The weather is very threatning,
with northeast winds and rain.
Bad for those who are sick.
TEFEURAIMIIC NUMMARY.
Half a million of the four-and-a
half bonds were substituted yester
day.
D. B. Bean, a merchant of Pater
son, N. J., with liabilities to the
amount of $319,621, has called a meet
ing of his creditors.
The referee in the suit of Victoria
Woodhull for absoluto divorce from
Col. Blood, on the grounds of adult
ery, has reported recommending tha
judgment asked. [lt would seem
that Vic. douted “free love” to
Blood.
Tho East Tennessee, Virginia &
Georgia Railroad bridge over the
Tennessee river at London wus fin
ished yosterduy, and two passenger
and six freight trains passed over.
At a meeting of the creditors of the
city of Memphis in New York, yes
terday, a com mitteo of bondholders
were appointed to hold a conference
with the Mayor of Memphis and
agree upon some settlement.
There were 9R891 pay admissions
to the Ceutonnial yesterday.
It is feared that Paymaster John
Breeze, who has been on duty with
the Atlantic squadron for four years,
has been robbed and murdered.
Commanders of vessels of the
North Atlhntic stations have been
instructed to have their vessels thor
oughly disinfected, also to keep their
vessels isolated from merchant
ships.
The Pennsylvania Coal Company
will sell on Wednesday next, 100,000
tons of coal to Albany.
John Walton, Proprietor of tho
London Timex, reached New York
yesterday on his way t.o Niagara
Falls.
The Now York State Fair, though
one of the best exhibitions ever held,
is found to liavo been a failure finan
cially.
The Centennial fair affected this
aud other home enterprises disas
trously.
Yellow Fever In llaltiniiirr.
New York, Sept. 16.—A special to
% the World from Baltimore, 15th says :
“The greatest apprehensions prevail
hero to-duv on account of tho preva
lence of some 15 cases of yellow fever
in the eastern section of the city, in
the loeulity and adjacent to the ship
wharves were hundreds of seafaring
men were found lodging. Nothing
was known of the presence of the
epidemic until to-day.
THE REPORT CONTRADICTED.
Baltimore, Sept. 16. -A telegram
having been sent from this city sta
ting that yellow fever prevailed here
and great apprehension was felt, the
Mayor and Health Department were
applied to this forenoon for an
official statement of facts. The May
or, General Ferdinand C. Latrobe,
states that no cases of yelow fever
prevails in Baltimore, that official
reports were made to him up to last
evening from Dr. Stewart, Health
Coimnisioner, aud Dr. Howard,
Quarantine Physician, and not one
case of yellow fever was reported or
has occurred.
In liis report submitted yesterday,
Dr. Stewart states that typtio-mala
rial fever prevailed to some extent in
a locality in East Baltimore fronting
tho back basin in a tenement house
at the foot of Thames, Dallas and
Caroline streets; that he visited this
locality yesterday and found twelve
or thirteen cases of this fever, which
originated from the bad sanitary con
dition of the neighborhood, most of
which were improving. Persons suf
fering were not stevedores, and none
of the eases could in any way be
traced to shipping in the harbor.
Tho disease is endemic and disap
pears on thorougn disinfection of the
locality, which has been applied.
Noulli Farollim llailleal*.
Columhia, Sept. 15. —The Republi
can State Convention nominated Gov.
Chamberlain for re-election, R. H.
Greaves, col., for Lieutenant Gov
ernor; Francis Cunfbzo, col., for
State Treasurer; Solomon L. Hodge,
for Comptroller General; Henry E.
Hayno.eol., for Secretary of Htige; H.
W. Parris, col., for Adjutant General;
Justus K. Jillson, for Superintendent
of Education ; and It. B. Elliot, for
Attorney General. All but the last
named are present officers.
This Awfully Dry Weather.
The world has seldom been dryer than
it is now. The dust is flying in all direc
tions, and vegetation of all sorts is
languishing for moisture. Tho streams
aro ail exceedingly low and without rain
soon, stock will begin to suffer for water
in many sections. But this is not all; per
sons owning valuable property should see
that it is well covered by insurance, for
fire is hard to stop when everything about
is like tinder. Cotton Gins and houses es
pecially should bo insured, and tho Times'
advertising columns will show the best
place to get sound policios.
The Weather To-Day.
A hurricane centre will probably
approach the North Carolina coast,
and' increasing Northeast to North
west winds, coolor, cloudy and rainy
weather, with falling barometer will
prevail, in the South Atlantic States.
In the Gulf States, falling barome
ter, North winds, possibly veering
to East with partly cloudy and slight
ly warmer weather.
Aii Important Change.
From tbe following (if it is riot a
jest) we suppose the Washington
Chronicle must have hoisted the flag
of Tiiden, Hendricks and reform :
“The honest men of Maine will
prove by their votes to-morrow that
they <lo not believe reform can possi
bly be found iu an organization engi
neered by perjurers, swindlers, prize
fighters, cut-throats and thieves.”
LOUD NEW# FROM INDIANA.
JUDGE NIULAOK THINKS IT WILL UO DEM
OCRATIC IN OCTOBER BY 15,000.
spcoittl dispatch to tho World.]
Washington, Sept. 12.— Judge Nib
lack, of Indiana, ono of tho ablest
aud olenrest-headod Demoorats that
ever served that State in Congress,
arrived this evening from Indiana,
and confirms the encouraging
advices qf a Democratic victo
ry in October. Ho predicts that
Williams’ majority will be at least
15,000. The ascendancy which the
Republicans conceded at the opening
of the campaign has beon not only
maintained by the latter hut steadily
increased. As high as seventy polit
ical meetings a day are held througu
out tho State, und tho campaign will
becomo more intense as tho time
approaches.
-iiitlVrliiit Hud llenili In the llrwrl.
San Francisco, Sept. 16.—A dis
patch from Los Angelos narrates a
tale of terrible suffering iu Colorado
desert. Henry Smith, from St. Louis,
with one companion and pack train,
left Yuma for Los Angelos, and wan
dered four days on tun desert, with
out water. Smith opened the veins
of his arms and drank the blood,
which clotted in his throat; he then
cut his windpipe to remove it, and
died iu a few hours. His companion
reached the station in the last stage
of exhaustion.
Nlurin at Norfolk
NoiiFOLK7Sept. 16.—A fearful storm
has been prevailing for tile lust
twenty-four hours. Rainfall here
three inches, and five inches at Cape
Henry,where the wind is blowing 15
mites an hour.
• ♦ ■——-
DITTKRNFmn.
Wo hear a great deal about the bit
terness of the Democratic press
partisan bitterness of the Democratic
orators and Southern people. All
these —the press, tho speakers aud
the people may, we think, be ex
cused for much bitterness. But few
tyrants tand these the worst) have
refused to the oppressed victims the
voice of complaint. The Jewish cap
tives uttered their bitterness and
huuged their harps upon the wil
lows, and refusing to sing, and the
good have never blamed them. Job
was bitter and his Maker never con
demned him for his wailing bitter
ness. Let the conqueror be just
if not magnanimous, before lie com
plains that the conquered who have
tost all of their rights aud pro
perty are bitter. Wo try to be just,
and that is all that our opponents
have the rigtit to ask. Wo admit
that most of tho rank and file of the
Republican party are as honest, as
disinterested, as patriotic as Demo
crats, and that at the North they are
as wealthy, educated and intelligent,
but we cannot make this latter ad
mission at the South. We know that
the body of tho party is ignorant
aud uninformed,and worse,thut they
are deluded aud led mainly by office
holders and office seekers direotly
and pecuniarily interested in their
votes. No sensible man believos,
that the Southern States have been
fairly and justly dealt with by the
Radical party as a government, or
by the leaders individually or person
ally. Ever) one now believes that
the constitutions forced on tho South
ern States by unconstitutional recon
struction laws, were outrageous aud
people's money, because, forsooth,
some of our people aud some of our
States are beuelltted by the expendi
ture ? Shall wo withhold the ex
posure of criminal officers, and de
cline to hold the party responsible,
because in our midst, tho party of
fice-holders are honest and capable?
We have great respaot for honest and
faithful men in public position, but
us there caunot be ten found in the
Republican Sodom, ail that can be
done will he to urge the individually
honest and reputable to fly to tho
mountains, and not to stop to look
back at Hayes and Wheeler. There
are many personally good men in the
Radical party; that aro doubtless
disgraceful to free government. We
all believe that tho system of Feder
al luxation was intended to benefit the
North and exact upon the South. We
ull know that as far as possible even
now all our best men are ostracised,
and us far as the Government was
concerned, interdicted from partici
pation in it. Aud now when tbe whole
rank and file of both parties, the
people, stand aghast at public crime
and public peculation, fraud and
dishonesty, shall we, because we are
Democrats and because some milk
and water trimmers and time-servers
—some loaf-lovers are afraid and say
we are too bitter to withold the naked
truth—shall we cry peace where war
is imminent? Shall wo cease to de
nounce a party that Is wasting the
faithful officers appointed aud now
discharging their duty, but the prin
ciples of the party are subversive of
the rights of tho people; tho admin
istration of the party is corrupt aud
demoralizing, tho system is rotten
and cannot bo reformed, and the hon
est and good men of the uarty must
choose between the pain of separat
ing from old party associations or
boariug the humiliation of the pub
lic exposure of their party leaders.
— Lynchburg News.
Woman'* Work.
The ono duty of the race is its own
elevation. Man does this indirectly
by material work; woman does it di
rectly by moral work. Thousands
of men would find themselves with
out profit under the sun, except the
accumulation of stupid and useless
fortunes, were it not for the wonder
ful wives at home, who transmute
this fortune into intelligence, educa
tion, elegance and so give the family
position and power. Thousands of
men, left to themselves, could oDly
compass their own grave-stones, but
east by kindly fate into the hands of
able women, tbe quarried rock is
fashioned into a monument more du
rable than brass,intoalivingtemple,
whose corner-stone is sure, whose
head-stones shall be brought forth
with shoutings, whose
“Dome of many colored glass
Stains tho white radiance of eternity.”
—Gail Hamilton.
TilUon anil Hayes.
Washington, Sept. 16.—A most
amazing occurrence In the National
Theatre to-night, Is probably attrib
utable to the large number of visitors
in the dity. The pictures of Hayes
and Tiiden were displayed during
the play. Hayes’ was as heartily
hissed as Tiiden was applauded.
IM
COMMERCIAL.
vmi.llT .i.i.f j my.
BY TELEGRAPH TO THi* DAILY TIMES.
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MONEY AMI TOCkB.
LONDON, Sept. 16. Noon-Erte 9#.
PAULS, Sept. 16 Rentes lOOf. BQc.
NEW YORK,Sept. 16.—Noon—Gold opened 10 #.
Stocks Active, unsettled; money 1.4; gold 10;
exchange, long, 4.83#, abort, 4.86: governments
dull aud steady; State bonds dull.
COTTON. |
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 16,-Nom—Market dull
aud easier; middling uplauds 6d; Orleans
6 8-16d.; Bales 6,000; speculation and exports
1,000; receipts - ; futures partially l-16d cheaper,
inidddliug uplands, low middling clause, Sep
tember. October and November dolivery, 5 27-32d;
September delivery s#; new crop, shipped
October and November, per sail, 6 16-16d
shipped November aud December, per sail, 6 16;
16d.; December aud January, per sail, 6 31-32d.
1:30 p, M.—Hales American 3,300.
2 p. m dull; new crop, middling up
lands. low middling clause, shipped October and
November, per sail, 6 29-3‘id.
NEW YOItK, Sept. 16. Noon—Cotton quiet;
salts 800; uplands U#; Orleans 11 9-16. Fu
tures opened shade easier; September 11 8-16(<£
7-32; November 11 7-32a ; December ll#a9-32;
January ll#al3-92.
NEW YORK, Sept, l4.—Evening— Cotton—Net
and gross receipts —. Futures doted quiet and
Nteady; sales 18,600; September 11 7-62; Octo
ber 11 3-10@752; November 11 3-16@7-32; De
cember 11 #@9-82; January 11 13-3*2; February
1119-32; March 11 April U 31-32;
May 12'„a6-82; June 12 5-16<fc* 11-32; July 12#
August 12 *,<s2l -32.
GALVESTON, Bept. 16.—Cotton weak; mid
dling 10#; net receipta 2,367; salea Hl7; ex
ports coastwise 777.
NORFOLK, Sept. 16.—Evening—Cotton quiot;
middling ll#c.; net receipts. 424; sales 83; ex
ports coastwise 340.
BALTIMORE,Sept. 16.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling lit,; not receipts—; gross receipts
83; sales 140; sales spinners 76.
BOSTON, Sept. 16.—Evening—Cotton steady;
middling 11#; net receipts 43; gross receipts
303; exports Great Britain 400.
WILMINGTON, Sept. 10.—Evening—Cotton
quiet and nominal; middling lot'; net receipts
88; sales —; exports coastwise 182.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10.—Evening—Cotton
quiet; middling 11 %; net receipts 11; gross re
ceipts 624.
HAVANNAH, Sept. 16.—Evening—Cotton quiet
and firm; middling 10.#; net receipts 1,502;
sales 967; exports coastwise 1,237.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 16.-Evening—Cotton
in fair demand; juiddliug 10#; net receipts 988;
gross receipts 1,303; sales 1,400; low middling
10#; good ordinary 9%.
MOBILE, Sept. 10.—Evening—Cotton quiet;
middling 10%; net receipts 631; sales 1,000; ex
ports coastwise 135.
MEMPHIS, Kept. 16.—Kvnnlug—Cotton easier;
middling 10/,; receipts 283; shipments 370; sales
500.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 15.—Evening—Cotton active;
middling 10 #a#; receipts 616; sales 761.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 16.—Evening—Cotton
steady; middling 10#a#; exports coastwise
250.
PROVISION*. Aii .
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—Noon—Flour quiet
and steady; wheat firm; corn firm;| pork dull;
lard heavy, steam 10.76; spirits turpentine firm,
33; rosin firm; freights stead*.
NEW YORK, Sept. 1.--Eveningo—Flur
—spring wheat and Minnesota firm, other grades
steady; fair exports and home trade demand 4.90
aG.OO for common to fair, extra Southern 6.06a
8.50, good to choice do. What a shade firmer, lit
tle better, export and milling inquiry transac
tions res lrioted by indifference on the part of
holders to realize, spring 1.05, very inferior red
Western 1.22a1.26, new winter red Western, part
to arrive, 1.25, new winter red St. Louis corn
less active aud scarcely so firm, prices however
are without decided change. Oats-old. active aud
firm, new, heavy and lower 38a44, new mixed
Western 36a45, new white do. Pork lower, new
mess 17.00. also sellers year 15.60a 66, closing
16.65a60. Lard decidedly lower, closing steady,
prime steam spot 10.60. Coffee quiet aud firm.
Sugar dull. Rice steady and in fair demand.
Molasses dull. Turpentine steady. Rosin firmer
1.70*80. Freights without decided change.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 10.—Flour active, not
quotsbly higher for high grades. Wheat steady
and firm, red $1.03, amber scarce, wanted, fl.Ofia
sl.lO, white sl.lO. Corn quiet, white 43, mixed
42. Pork in active demand, $17,51% SIB.OO.
Bulb Bhoulders 7#, clear rib sides 9.#, clear
sides 9#a#. Bacon firm; shoulders 8, clear rib
sides 10, clear sides Sugar cured hams
firmer, 16#@16. Lard quiet; tierces 12.#.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 16.—Oats scarce and firm;
provisions quiet aud unchanged; coffee strong
and bouyaut, 15#al9#; whisxey steady, 11; su
gar quiet and firm, ll@ll#.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—Loans increased 1 %
million; specie decreased % millions; legal ten
ders decreased 10 % millions; deposits increased
0% millions; reserve increased % million.
RIO JANEIRO, Sept. 16.—Coffee firm, anima
ted.
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 16.—Evening—Flour active
not quotably higer Wheat active; No. 2
red fall 1.16@#, spot 1.16%, October No. 3
l.Ufla U bid, September corn firm and unchanged.
Oats—demand light, holders firm, No. 2, 94#
bid, spot 34# bid. Whiskey steady 1.08. Pork
steady, good job trade $17.76, Lard quiet, city
steam 10%, assorted sales to arrive 10 s *- Bulk
meats dull and nominal; bacon dull; shoulders
7#aß, clear rib aud sides 9#a# and 10#a#.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 16.—Evening—Flour firm.
Wheat quiet and firm; sl.lO. Corn dull. 46
Oata steady and in fair demand 33a42. Pork
easier, $16.75. Lard dull; steam 10#,kettle 12a
#. Bulk meats active and in fitir demand;
shoulders, clear rib aides 8%, clear sides 9#
Bacon steady and in good demand; shoulders
9%. clear rib sides 9#, clear sides 16#; Whis
key in fair demand and firmer, 1.09- Butter
firm and unchanged. Hogs steady, firm and un
changed ; receipts 790, shipments 320.
COLUMBUS WHOLESALE MABBET.
(CORRECTED DAILY.)
BACON—Clear rib sides 11 %
Shoulders 9
Bulk clear rib sides 10#
Bulk shoulders .none
H. C. canvassed hams 17
Plain hams 14 14#
CORN—*By car load 45 60
Small lots 00 65
MEAL 60 60
OATS—Yellow and mixed 40
FLOUR-Extra family per bbl 7 0U
Family, d0..... 6 60
Extra, per do 6 60 6 00
Superfine, do
LARD—Leaf, in tierces 13#a 14
Leaf, in tub 5.............. 14
Leaf, in buckets 15a 16#
Tin pails, 10 lbs 1
Tin pails, 6 lbs 16#
Tin pails, 3 lbs 17
MOLASBES—Choice Cuba, hhds.... 42
Choice New Orleans 65
Florida caue 60
SUGAR—Yellow 0 11
C. coffee i 11#
Extra C. White 12
Staudard |A 12#
Granulated 12#
Powdered and crushed........ 13
COFFEE—Common 20
Fair 21
Good ... 22
Prime 22#a 23
Java .35
SOAPS-Per lb 6 a 8
CHEESE— '.. 14#
Factory 15#
CRACKERS—Soda o#a 1
Cream 11
Ginger 11
POTASH—BaIIs (4 doz case) 6 00
Cans dO .6 00
SARDINES—Qnaters (case 100) 16 60
CAN DLEB—Star 17
STARCH 6a 6#
PEPPER.. 25
SPICE 20
GINGER 18
NUTMEGS 1 50
CLOVES 60
CIGARS—Per M 22 QGa75 00
CHEROOTS 15 00
SNUFF—Lorillard’s, jar... 73
Lorillard's foil - 78
TOBACCO—Common 4<a 45
Fine 66a 1 00
SALT—Virrginia 2 00
Liverpool 1 50
MACKEREL-Kits 1 10a 1 40
Half-barrels * 6 00a 8 00
Barrels 9 00
WELL-BUCKETS—Per do* 6 09
BAGGING—Heavy, 2# 1b......... 14
“ a# lb 13#
•• 2 lb 13
Second-hand
TlES—Arrow 6#
l’ioced. 5#
Second-hand:.......