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(This Train docs not connect with Train for Columbia at Branphyille.) 4< 4a <4 Leave Augusta •* Aiken “ Montmorenci “ Windsor “ Williston Elko lllackville Lee’s “ Graham's “ Bamberg “ M id way “ Branchville Arrive Charleston »IGUT EXPRESS. Leave Charleston Arrive Angusta Leave Augusta Arrive Charleston Down Leave Blackville Up Leave Blackville Connects Columbia. 3.30 p m 4.40 p m 4.53 p m 6.13 p m 6.34 p m 6.42 p m 5.69 p m 6.07 p m 6.21 p m 6.87 pm 6 46 p m 7.25 pm lO.lOp m 10.15 p m 8.20 am 7.80 p m 6.0ti a m 11.25 p m 4.30 a m with Trains at Branchville for FRBIGUT AXD ACCOMMODATION. Leave Charleston. Arrive Augusta Leave Augusta Arrive Charleston Dywn Leave Blackville Up Leave Blackville Connects at Branchville Columbia. with 7.40 a m 9.35 p m 6.00 a m 6.15 p m 10.24 a m 4.56 p m Train for Magnolia Passenger Route. following pusenger schedule will be eu on and after this date : PORT ROYAL RAILROAp, 1 . Augusta, Ga., Jan. 4, 1879. j The foj operate^ Daldoe 12-07 Down Haldoc ^ 3 34 Up Allendale Alh-ndale 3 QO Up 1IAILT PASSENGER TRAIN. Going South, Leave Augusta Arrive at Yemassee Leave YemaSsec Arrive Savannah Leave Savannah Arrive Jacksonville Arrive Charleston l.eave Yemassee Arrive Beaufort Arrive Port Royal Arrive Augusta Leave Yemassee A rrive 1 emassee • l.eave Savannah Arrive Savannah Leave Jacksonville Lfitt! Charleston Arrive Yemassee Leave Beaufort Leave Pott Loyal 10 CO a m 2 03 p m 2 10 p m 4 35 p m £ &KfS 9 00 p m •2 46 pm 4 02 p in 4 17 p m 6 30 p m I 30 p in 1 20 p m 10 25 a m JO 15am 6 50 p in 7 loam 1 <K> p m 11 23 a m II 00 a in Trains run lb rough bet ween Augusta and Savannah withdtC change, making close con nection at Savanntth with A. & G. 11. R. train lorall points in Baggage checked Ihrougli. JU^T"Through tickets for sale al all priuci pal ticket offices. Robert G. Fusmino, General Snpori,nteudent. J. S. Datant, \ General Pawcnger Agent. Oiiirlotte, Columbia & Augusta R P, 'sta R. R. 1 PM EXT. ‘ > .27,1878. ) Oft I’ve heard a gentle mother. As the twilight hours b'-gan, Pleadlug with a son on duty, Urging him to be a man; But unto her blue eyed daughter, Though with lore’s words quite as ready, Points she out the other duty— " “Strive, my love, to lie a Lady.” What’s a lady? Is it something Made of hoops and silks and airs, Used to decorate the parlor, Like the fancy rings and chairs? Is It one that wastes on novels Every feeling that Is human? If ’tls this to be a lady, ’TJa not this to be a woman. Mother, then, unto your daughter Speak of something higher far Than to be mere fashion’s lady— Woman Is the brightest star. If you. In your strong affection. Urge your son to t e a true man, Urge your daughter no less strongly To arise and be a woman. Yes, a woman! brightest model Of that high and and perfect beauty, Where the mind and soul and body Blend to work out life’s great duty. Be a woman! Naught Is higher, On the gilded creSt of time; On the catalogue of virtue There’s no brighter, holier name. — “Our Dead.'’ [News and Courlcf.l The Springfield Republican utters noble sentiments. Would that the time had come, as it will come, when “the valor, the discipline, the fidelity to right, as it was given to each to see thej:UiUt”.oI.liiQ Northern and South • ern soldiers should be regarded as “the common American Inheritance.” The predent generation, however, will never learn to regard a Sherman or a Sheri dan In the light in which the North is expected to regard a Jackson or a Lee. All of them were generals high In rank, but they difL-red iu character and con duct. Until Ireland forgets Cromwell, the South will not forget the “ March to the Sea,” and the destruction of the fair A alley of Virginia. Against Mr. Lincoln and Gen. Grant there is not the same feeling. They were not vin dictive or cruel, and where capable of magnanimous acts. Of coursa It wlil- be urged that the ravages and raids of Sherman and Sheridan were necessi ties of war. The South cannot so re gard them and H is best to say so fraukly. None will go farther than we will go, l the fine mark«ii mi) )y> n-.rmif assacTiusetls, and Fi.zbugh Lee ox Virginia. The Southern soldier looks with admiration upon the valor and fortitude of his quondam opponents. Upon the achievements of the Federal armies, as a whole, the South cau look wit h complacency,as the North can look upon the achievements of the Confed erate annks. When we come to par ticularize it is a different matter. • The South in choosing geherals whose names should adorn a National Pan theon would select the McClellan?, the Meades, the Ilancocks, and the Thom ases, and never the Shermans and the Sheridans. There Is no aversion to any Federal officer, because of his rank or victories. The officers whom the South abhors ore those, and only those, who allowed quiet homes to be wantonly pillaged and burned, and helpless women to be insulted and maltreated. KIVKR8 DESTRUCTION!. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Th vulotte, Columbia & Auguhta R. R .General Passenger Dkpamtm Columbia, 8. C., Dec tti* following passenger schedule will be (Operated on and after this date - JV*. |—fltj/tl Express, South. J>aveOh*riotte 1:00 am Arrive Columbia 6:00 a tn liPiive Ccftnmbia 6:05 a m Arrive Augusta 10:00 a m Jf«. 2—Express, North. Ijcave Augusta 6:55 p m Arrive Columbia. 10:00 p m fjeaveColumbia... ..... 10:10 p m Arrive Charlotte 3:10 a m No. 3—Dag P+ttCHfer, South. :J ' Ijeave Charlotte............... .. ..11:27 a m AnriwColumbia... 4:10 pm Leave Columbia. 4:15 p m Arrive Augusta. 8:30 p tn No. I—Dag Esmenpfr, Jfotih. leave Augusta. 5:03 a m Arrive Columbia 1^0 pm 1 .cave Columbia. 1:30 p ra Arrive Cfcattotte. 6:30 p to These traios stop only at Fort Mill, Rock HtH, Chester, Wlnusboro, Bldse- <way, Leesville, Batesburg, Rtcige Hprlng, Johoetoo. Trenton and Gfan- itevllle. All other stations wHl be re cognized as flag stations. T. D. KLINE, Buprt;. John B. Macmuroo. Gen. Pas. Agent. Savannah and Charleston Railroad Co. CHANGE OFBOHEDULE. . January 1, 1S79. The following SeUdule is in effect at this date: v- , Fast Mul, Baity. Leave CharUstea " * - • 716a.nr. Arrive at SavaanA - - - 1 00 p. m. Arrive Port Reywl - * •- 4 17 p. tn. Arrive Jacksonville » » - - 8 35 a.ni -^Arrive at Augusta . * • - - 6 30p. m ’Leave Savannah • - * - 3 16 p: m. Arrive Charleston - - « 9 00 p. m‘ Fight Traia, Daily. , • Leave Charleston - » -8 10 p. m Arriva Savannah » * - 6 40* m Leave Savannah '' - - 9 00'p. ra - Arrive Charleston - - - 8 00 a. m Pullmaaewson all Night Trains. C. 8. GADSDEN, Engr. and Supt. Si C. A $“ nt ' IZailrwud <>|)pre»Mion. The Winasboro’ News und Herald says : “ Col. J. B. Palmer, president of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, came up to WiaDuboro’ one day last week, and had an interview with Messrs. James Beaty and G. H, McMaster, on the subject of the dif ferences between the railroad and the merchants. They had a long confer ence and fully discussed all the points at issue. Coi. Palmer is reported to have said that the grievances should have been submitted to him before auy steps were taken in the courts; that the publicity of the quarrel would injure Winnsboro’ as well as the road } that the road had the law on its side and that the merchants would only lodlie money by the fight; and lastly, that the estimate by built would not make freights higher thau an estimate by the weight. The answers were that repeated remonstrances in the past had produced no effect; that all those who trade with Winnsboro’ have known of the disadvantages It labored under in affording a market, and therefore the town has nothing to lose by ad ditional publicity, and that it had no reason to be careful of the interests of of the railroad. The merchants do not believe that the law is with the railroad, and, as for the cost, they have calculated it beforehand, and have all the money necessary to prose cute the case to a conclusion. Other points were discussed. The result of the conference was to leave things precisely as before. ___ ... A new tarriff has been published which is said to be very liberal. It is a tub to the whale, but the whale has been harpooned so often before that It refuses to be beguiled any longer.” ** Winter,” says a Nevada paper, “is now after summer with an icicle.-” The I.avn From Active Ftna Flowing: Slowly bat Surely. Rome, June 7.—The full accounts of the destruction caused by the terrible eruption of Mount Etna are he^rtrend ing. Catania was ono of the provinces of Italy where there was a promise of a good harvest, but now the green fields and vineyards are burled under a heavy weight of hard, gray lava. The possessions of the Sicilians living on the---eldes or at the foot of the mountains are destroyed; ahd many n proprietor who in May was rich, in June is as poor as the humblest of bis servants. The story, only one of many, Is told of a proprietor, the father of nine children, who yesterday saw ev erything he possessed, houses, barns, cabins, olive trees, corn and wheat fields and vineyards, all destroyed. The inhabitants of the towns and country houses near the course of the lava are discouraged at the extent of their misfortunes. They remove all the household gobds that can be trans ported, the cattle, the wine in the cel lars, and even the tiles on the roofs of the houses. The roads near the ad vancing lava are llke x a battlefield. Wagons laden with goods, herds of cattle, crowds of weeping women and children fleeing from their homes. Innumerable strangers from every na tion, on the contrary, eo forward on the £opd and advance bo near That Ibe guaFda afe obliged to send them back. Although they can advance so near as to light a cigar at the stream of lava it Is dangerous, as the lava, which at one moment looks dark and dull, is liable atThe next to burst open by its own weight and make a new path for Itself where it is not expected. Regiments of soidlefs are stationed all along the roads to keep order, and linen of them guard the edges of the stream. A correspondent from' Re.n- dazzo describee how the inhabitants of that town and of Llnguagfosea stood on’the national road watching the lava slowly advance, and ns It began to cover the Toad they sadly shook hands and said farewell when the fiery si ream separated them. There was a cry of despair from the people at this point when the bridge of Piciara was burned, and the lava fell from a little height Into lovely vineyards and filled them The mountain has been distoroea for five months. On the 221 of May the crater threw out with a great noise a vast quantity of dense salt and smoking mud. This made an inter- mittiog fountain rising sometimes twenty-four feet above the level of the soil. Occasionally great balls of mud filled with gas grew larger aud larger until they burst. The river of mud constantly fed from the crater descend ed the sides of the mountain, and for a distance of four miles filled up the canals used for irrigation. The fright ened country people, unconscious of the worse Ills that were coming upon them, sought* to defend their fields from the entrance of the enemy by building walls of stones. On the af ternoon of the 26th of May the erup tion began, which Is said to be the most violent of this Century. The peo ple were startled by-repeated shocks of earthquake, loud thunder, high wind and a heavy rain. Two new cra ters were then seen on the northwest part of the mountain, which vomited lava, smoke and fine ashes. The next day three columns of smoke were seen on the back of the mountairvaud the lava began to descend. The move ment of this Incandescent stream was at first rapid, but as it increased In siz^ and spread out over the lower part of. the mountain and the plains It became slower. Its advance is now estimated at forty-five feet an hour, and the width of the three streams Into which It Is divided are variously estimated. Tnat which threatens the town of Molo, with two hundred inhabb tants, and the river Alcantara is said to be flften hundred feet wide, and this width continually increases on account of the height of the stream, If the river Alcantara, which te «fieof the principal streams of Sicily, and sup plies several large towns, gardens, ffnd mills with water, Is filled up the ca lamity will be Incalculable. The lava is already within a few hundred feet of the shore, and slowly advancing; but it is hoped that It may (urn and run along the bank, or not have strength to reach the water, the Vio lence of the eruption having dimin ished. One of the streams of lava has travelled a distance of thirteen miles from tha crater ; it Is estimated that in less than four days more than two hundred and thirty trillion cubic yards of lava have been thrown out. The ipectacle of this tremeisdous convulsioo of nature is wonderfully and fearfully beautiful. It la especial ly Impressive at night, when the fiery current often throws up In Its pro gress greaC masses of molten stone. The column of smoke and floe black sand which follows the lava reflects the red tint of the fire, and looks like *an aurora boreallis. From the craters on the top of the mountain rise dense columns of smoke, bow very white and again densely black, and often pierced by sharp streaks of electricity. The travellers who hare flocked Thither view these wonders with ecstacy, but the poor contadlnl or the rich man re duced to beggary weep over the ruin of tkelr homes. In the daytime the cloud of smoke and Band is so dense that the sun is invisible, and the day seems te be almost like the night. Spec tacles and umbrellas are necessary pro tections for whoever walks out In the neighborhood of the mountain, for the fine sand covers everything- with a heavy coating, and blows Into the eyes. The eruption Is accompanied by constant rumbling noises like the booming of artillery ; the earth trem bles, the sky is leiden. The mass of lava is from fifteen to thirty feet high, and, according to i s height or the time of day, varies la color from a bright, fiery red to a dull leaden shade. If it was not for the jets of smoke which Issue now and then from this mass It might be thought dead lava of half a century ago, but when It moves Its waves slide over each other and emit jets of fire. The Niaffnrn Full* Tragedy. About & o’clock yesterday morning the body of Mrs. Roliaad, the French lady who so mysteriously fell luto the Niagara River, and was ewept over the falls, on Bator lay last, was pecorered, In a good state of preservation, by a fistierman. Immediately after the trag ical occurrence, there were grave ru mors flying abound Niagara Falls as to the real cause of the lady’s fate, and even some of tho papers in this vicinity treated the conduct of Mr. Rolland rather severely. Now these unfavorable opinions are in the mouths of nearly every one around the Falls, and there may be something more than an accident in this case after all. It eeCms that the husband afifl wife went to the “ Three Sisters” at a very early and unusual' hour, but he did not return until after 9 o’clock, many hours after his wife had gone oter th6 falls. It is alleged hp did not report tho matter tot some time, and when hb did, displayed no agitation nor grief su6h as a loving husband would be apt to do under the circumstances He showed no >ieard iwwwopl/iw Ait ptutjaduffy come to the surface within a week; Quickly left (bo Falls, leaving no address by which communications could reach him. ile placed about $40 in the hands of the coroner, and desired that his wife be buried at the Falls, which was not very expressive of great love for the departed on tho part of a wealthy hus band. Moreover, the place where the lady fell Into the river, If fall It was, is the most unfrequented about the falls. It can be seen from no point on either the Canada or American aides, or even from auy distant part of the island it self. Where the body was discovered Is about midway between the Canada falls and the ferry. It Is thought some of tho lady’s valuable rings were miss ing, and hef husband, although tele graphed for yesterday, made no re sponse. Tho money left with the cor oner has already been expended, and, the unfortunate lady will have to be buried in the Potter’s Field ff her bus- band or some charitable persons do not come forwntd with aid. Altogeth er, we learn that the affair IS regarded rather supiclouely at tho Falls. In variably the general opinion Is favora ble to the husband. Some think she was not Holland’s wife, and that she committed suicide as the rash termi nation of a quarrel. At any rate, It would be more like an American hus band and man for him to return to the Fall and pay, at least, respect to the lady’s memory and explain his sudden departure.—Rochester Union. Cam This lie True? -a Very ugly rurrtors &re floating up the country from Charleston, Which cer tainly need explanation. It Is said that certain factions, calling them- selvs Democrats, are bidding respec tively for the Mackey and the Bowen wings of the dirty Radical party. Can this be true? Democracy must bo at a very low ebb In Charleston if all such plotters are not summarily read out of the party/ We were much surprised to learn that the chairman of the City Democratic Executive Committee par ticipated in Colonel Gayer’s meeting ; and experienced great relief at seeing his card the neXt day. We hops that hh will not be placed again In a false position ; as the mere report that the head of the Democratic machinery Is found ih such company, inflets such serious damage that snbsequent ex planations, however strong, Cannot remedy It. The eyes of tho State are fixed on Charleston. And the pare, unadulter ated/ stralghtout Democrats who are mllyhig under Captain Courtenay's banner, may be sure of the profoond- est sympathy and heartiest co-opera tion of the Democracy of the rest of Uio State. Cieorgla Doge Diving: Hammer. A very Intelligent pointer which Is owned by a gentleman lo Georgia Is so well trained that his master can send him home with a aote for any thing, and he always attends to his mission with the utmost promptness, Oue day his master, while walking around his premises, found a loose plank on his fence and sent the dog to the house with a note for a hammer and some nails. His mistress put the hammer ana nails in a basket: gave It to the dog. Qn returning to his master he bad to cross a narrow stream of water. Reaching the stream he gave a bound and was over. His owner, who was In sight, saw him set the basket down, and commence to jump from the bank into the stream. Ho contlnued’thls performance so long that his master hastened to the spot to see what It all meant. He discov ered that In jumping the stream the dog dropped the hammer from the basket into the water, and was diving after it. ^ News Jillson.—Jillson, who was formerly superintendent of educa tion in South Carolina, has got Into hot water as principal of the Day Street Grammar School in.Fitchburg, Maes. He has been charged with ex cessive punishments, faVoiItism and profanity, and, by a vote of five to twv.-ire got oarof It. An additional" charge of Indecent language against Jillson was rather in Jlllson’s favor, as the report la the Boston Herald of June 29 shows, but there was enough against our ex-superlatendent of edu cation to leave him a allm chance of re-election. Politics, says the Boston Herald, are said to have much to do with the feelings againsk Jillson, as he was “State Superintendent of the schools of South Carolina under Cham berlaln. and he shares in the unpleas ant notoriety which clings to that coWd of patriots.” Jillson has no doubt been a naughty fellow In this Instance, and he, like Chamberlain, will find himself wlthouf honor in his own home. It seems like these curses are going home to roost. Massachusetts is wel come to all such chickens.—Columbia Register. . PKYOK. eBNpftiJfclu Adv^es from Kent via London stcie that the ‘hop crop threatens * mqre disastrous failure than for yean past. The Atlanta Gazette treitoS that an effort will be made to Repeal the law of last ffbssion that allows the re commendation of mercy to cb&nge the deatff sentence to Icnprisontfienf for Hfe. Afie law hffs been trfed only ala months, brft ft Is dnfmed that It has virtually abolished capital punishment. Generifl Grant, 16 a fettef to O. W; Childs, dated from Singapore, April 5, •ays be will reach San Francisco about August ff, and intends to visit an pMbes of interest in Callfofnla, Nevada and Colorado, spending several months on the trip. lie maK6s no mention of tbe political domoostratlon preparing to meet him, but It to ptobsbte (hat he is Ignorant of It. f) ‘ i ^ * A short tlorte ago the Memphis Ava lanche contained a paragraph stating that tbe narffe of Jefferson Daria would be presented to the Mississippi Legis lature aff a candidate for the United States Senate. Mr. It. A Bonner, ed- itof of the fanola Star, addressed Ar. Davis a private letter, ebdoslojj the paragraph and calling his attention to it. Mr. Davis’s reply contains these' riords f “ You may contradict It ppsi- tlvely and by authority.’* i Twelve seU of telephones have been dsnt out to Sir Garnett tfolssley fof use at tbs seat of war tn SoutK Africa. The great advantage of fh« telephone over the telegraph is that tbe general can carry on confidential talk with tho officer at the district station, or a sol dier can creep out toward the enemy’s finfls ahd whisper back th« Informa tion aff to position. ▲ fine wire, the thinner the better, Is all that is needed. This the soldier carries oe a reel upon his back, a idle Weighing tmly * few pounds. This wiH bs the ffrst time the telephone has been used as Instru ments of warefars. who wereen. The clo «« <>(»«'h* Sr*ntlem«n who deavorlng to keep Congressman Dorr ftre watclllt ‘g Governor Tilden’s politl- It era ark able Nmcc*»« «r a Bril. Uaat i:&.4'onfederate la New York. / . In passing Tmay add that Gen. Pryor has proved how well a Southern man can sneced In New Ycr*. for he fs con ceded now one of the most brilliant men at the New York bar, With a large and lucrative practice on his hands. The war swept uwa^ eter^ veetlge of his property, and at tho return of peace he found himself With a family of seven children and wttho'ffi a dol lar. Then he was not a lawyer, for no sooner had he put up his shingle, when he was young, than he was taken up by the Virginians and sent to Congress aud kept there, An advertisement of a furnished house was tbe singular fact which led him to New York. He had no friends thereon whom he could calculate for aid, but this was no ob stacle, as It was not bis temperament to be dependent upoh'any ohe. Gen. Pryor had borrowed the law books which he needed to begin tbs study requisite to enable him'to do Justice to his clients, and he studied as he fought bravely. No man has burned the midnight dll mere and from being ne lawyer at all twelve years ago, he has grown to he a most accomplished and erudite member of the bar. In his great speech in the trial of Tilton RgSTfitF BeecRsf.fnrealatfrig the at tempt of William M. ivarts, of Beech er’s counsel, to prevent (he plaintiff frott' teetffylng, Gen. Pryor hurled law at the tftad of the present Secretary of State Which the latter, In all bis delving, hm not ranched, and Mr. Evarts relaxed his frigidity to warmly compliment Gen. Pr^of, hot only upon tbe brilliant presentatfph of the law, but upon his extended acquaintance with the authorities. Gen. Pfyor’s speech won the point for Tilton. Last week, before the Court of Appeals, Gen. Pryor, In arguing the case against the Brooklyn aldhrman probably not one in twenty of the per sons who iuduige to boating Oft holi days can sWim; proceeds to telf his readers ho ft to acequtro this accom plishment. “Nothing,” hs says, “is morS easy. When the air is out of a body its owner sinks ; when tbe air is In the body its owner fl >ats. Let any one slowly draw in his breath as he draws back bis legs and pushes for ward his arms, retain It while he Is preparing for the stiokh which is to propel him, and slowly allow it io go through his lips as his arms are passed back from before his head to his sides* and bis legs are stretched out. The action of the stroke should not be quite horizontal, but should be made on a slight decline downward. The real reason why people take weeks to learn how to swim Is because swim ming professors either do not know or do not choose to teach the philosophy of breathing, so as to render the body buoyant. I would engage to make any one a tolerable swimmer In an hour, unless he be a congenial idiot. i ra »■ — — 1 —-* The Zulu Jl84eo.u.—The shaft of this Instrument of warfare is about five feet long and about as thick as man’s little finger. It is made of wood known to botanists as the curtissa of fogtaea, not unlike the mahogany, brittle and elastic, the latter quality giving the spear a Vibratory motion, on which its accuracy of flight depends. Th6 head of the weapon is generally blade- shaped, with a raised edge along the centre, concave on one side and Ooft- vex on the other, being like the feath ers of an arrow. The tong of the head la made red-hot, and so burns its way into the wood, around which a band of wet rawhide Is bound, that contracting as ft dries holds the head as firmly as an iron ring. The Zulus fling these lei O’Reilly a member of their board at the same time he was serving in Wash ington, made an argument which ths habitues of the Court of Appeals pro* nounced as surpassingly powerful and eloquent, and which ellcltsd ajetfer n< It fs the b0bft of Geff. Pryot ftoi ta take ft Case usClteff he befteveff he caft win it. Lie established the novel poiht in the Courts of this city some time ago that it was cruelty within the meaning of the law for a man to false ly accuse bis wife of infidelity, and he made that the basis of a suit for limi ted divorce, which he won. Several hours a day he studies law aa though he needed it all on (he morrovMftd his researches are In the elemental books, for the principles, thft ramiflea- tlon of which he follows through all legal Icffft &o man la New York has a more brilliant future, and no man has eo completely carved out bis own way and made his own fortune. Tho politicians have bCen after Gen. Pryor as a good man to keep on band to win with, but a stftdlouff lawyCr and a New York politician are not natural com panions. Gen. Pryor bfiff neVer taken tho first fffep towafd pGltttcefl prefer ment, and to-day tests under tbe po litical disabilities imposed upon him at tbe close of the war, which he has never sought to have removed, Al though he needed but to ask to be freCd Item them. The South ea'ft be pteud oT this representative Southerner In New "frork ; and, indeed, his old Con gressional District has several times sought to secure his consent to a re- election to Congresa. x*r. V ra - ~ cal Interests are quite alarmed at tbe tone of some of the leading Southern journals with reference to hk reooori- natlon to the Presidency. Journals which they had supposed Could be re lied upon to advc Taking the Census.—Gen. Walker, Huperfnteodent of the CCftsutf, Is tak ing measures to obtain returns from ail the practicing physicians and sur geons in tbe United States, number ing 00,000 or 70,000, as to the deaths occurring in their practice doting the year which vtllf end off the fllst of May, 1880, to be in Incorporated In the next ^ _ census. The blsnkff whfch will be fur- weapons wltagfeSfagcoracy, and they] nlahed tbe physicians calf for the place cafry oval rawfrlde stifelds impervious to these darts to Cover their entire bodies. Besides three or four missis affsagais a Zulu soldier carries a sbof t- er and stronger stabbing assegai. A System of Insurancs for girls has existed fot several generations among the Danish nobiHty of Copenhagen. A nobleman upbn (fie birth of a daugh ter, enrolls her name with the Insu rance society, paying at the time a fee and subsequently an annual sum until she reaches 21. She then becomes en titled to a fixed Income ftem the so ciety, and to apart menu in the large boilJing of the association, which is surrounded by gardens and a park. Should her father die In her chfidhobd she may immediately occupy tbe apartments fl she so desire*.* Should she die or marry, the income and the right to * home both lapse. The plan is very advantageous for women lead- I tag a single life. and date of death, the name; eft*, race or color, age, with date ot bfrth, ffhd occupation of decased, the cause of death, etc, By tbe adoption of this plaffffff of motion wfif be obtained from a Class of men of high average intelli gence, and the particulars of death can be recorded either at the time of occurrence or very soon thereafter. This suggestion of the Census Com missioner was warmly endorsed at the session ot the American Association at Atlanta, Ga. tn May last The Augusta Chronicle and Coftati- tutionalfst will appear in a new dress on the SI1 of September, and wilt here after be published as an eight-page paper. The ffrst Issue of the new paper will be deVoted to the trade In terests ot Augusta, and will contain Important statistical information con cerning tbe merchantlle, manufactu ring and mechanical advantages that city, belllon. Id this leepioC the situation Is so tferiofis that we are told that It has been deemed necessary to send somebody down here at once to see what Iff the matter and try to afreet the tfflschfef. The people of Augusta fot'nd! (hem- selves In a terrible predlcamSftt last Sunday. Saturday the water main on Broad street, at (ts intersection with Cftmphell, burst, and, after hard work to atop the leak, It was found neces sary to shut off the water In order to tepalr (be damage. During that afgbt and un(fl late In (be day Sunday; therefore, (he city had to depend (or Its ffupply upon pumpa and Yarckned Springs hydrants. ‘ This stoppage Compelled tbe Augusta IC« Company to suspend operations tor the time,- and tbe pfeople found, to their cooatet- * nation early on Sunday, that they Were not only short on water, but that there ftas a freeze out on Ice. It WaS hot a nice situation, hut there was nothing to do but bear ft, Botoe months ago ft Maft foiling himself J. H. Carter, Cf Nft’w York; repreieffttng himffelf to bft a master mechanic in search ef health, Settled In Hendersonville, N. O. By hii good address affd brilliant conversational powers he established htnmelf tn so ciety,- and in March (fia(rled Misa Jo sephine Bund, of llenderson bounty. He died some time after his marriage, and ft now -‘tfaaffplrfo (hat he w»a really tfin. fL Wheatly, and ek-mtl- llonare of Brooklyn 7 n fogHfve ffofftf the State of New York r • poM*y floM** n the New York lAfft IneuranOs Com pany for 100,000; tbe builder of Sr; teter’s P. E. Chftrcb ef Brooklyft and former leader of society,- and the lusband of a living wife In thOt city. This wife visited Hendersonville anif ( the remains exhumed aftd taken to New York. The defence of the murdttei 6f Mrs. Hull is certainly fftgfoiotn. He waa Insane when he killed Ifift- woman, and then be did not feafiy occasion her death, aa itrt died of fright This fortalaly hsti the merit of ingenotry. If nothing more. It la also an MusUatloa of (be ftew style of defence 1ft such trials, the plan being fin oases of murder)! to ascribe death to other causei When Ftak waaabot, Stoke’s lawyer claimed that the un fortunate man tias really the vietim of Surgical malpractice. This was also the plfo when Landis wee tried for the murder of Editor Carruth, at ( Vineland. It is certainly cruel to ofler ’ hope based on ewh a defence to the murderer ol Mr*. Hutt. He ha* no chance of eeca plug tbft ipdfcwe «X<*pt by intervening death. ttlllQ gi**a*_- little delay aa p:sefflt% tbe trial will o take plaoe Ot (be Oooit of General tteseioas at oac*«