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Address, THE PEOPLE,
Barnwell C. II., S. C.
VOL. II.
South Carolina Railroad.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Up Day Passengers.
(This Train does not connect with Train for
,Columbia at Hranchville.)
Leave Charleston
“ Branohville
“ Midway
“ Bamberg
" ’ Graham's
“ Lees
“ Black ville
, +' Elko
. _ *' Wiliiston
“ Wjndsor „
“ Montmorcnci
“ Aiken
Arrive Augusta
Down Day Passengers.
(This Train does not connect with
Columbia at Branch ville.)
Leave Augusta
“ Aiken -
Montmorenci
Windsor
Wiliiston
Elko
Blackville
Lee’s
Graham's
“ Bamberg
** ^Midway
“ Branchville
Arrive Charleston
C.45 a m
0.55 a m
10.20 a m
10.28 a ro
10.43 a m
10-.57 a m
11.08 a m
11.17 a m
11.2C a m
11.48 a m
12.08 p m
12.21 pm
1.25 p m
Train for
u
u
4i
ii
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3.80 p m
4.40 p m
4.58 p m
5.18 p ra
6.31 p in
5.42 p m
5.59 p in
6.07 p m
6.21 p m
6.87 p m
6^15 p m
7.25 p m
lO.lOp m
HIOHT sxrnBss.'
Leave Charleston
Arrive Augusta
Leave Augusta
Arrive Charleston
I>own Leave Blackville
Up Leave Blackville
Connects with Trains at Branchville for
Columbia.
10.15 p m
8 20 a m
7.80 p m
6.Oil a m
11.25p m
4.30 a m
rEiicnr ivn accomhodatiox.
Leave Charlestua. ...
Arrive Augusta
Leave Augusta
Arrive Charleston
Down Leave Blackville
Up Leave Blackville
Copnocta at Hranchville with
Columbia.
7.4Aa ro-
9.35 p m
6.00 a in
ti.l5 p m
10.21 am
4.56 p m
Train for
Magnolia Passenger Iloute.
Nearer Jtly €>od To Thee.
BY L’ETFAKT PEBDU.
A girl’s sweet voice like the song of a bird.
The soft gray garments of evening
stirred.
A song t hat thrilled like an angel’s prayer
As it floated on the warm spring air
Triumphant, yet humble, and -grandly
sweet,
My soul drunk In its melody.
And seemed tin rest in the golden street.
Nearer nfy fcod'ldThobr
Only a wanderer passing by,
A stranger alike to cross and crown,
Weary and worn from years that fly,
Watching the gray light full slowly
down;
The sun’s last kiss in the distant West,
When the sweet voice rang exultingly
E’en though a stone by my place of rest,
Nearer my God to Thee!
Perchance, to singer the words wore
naught,
But empty sound to be hushed ore long,
To mo with a deeper moaning fraught
The throb of a soul poured out iu song,
From one who welcomed ihe bittqr cup.
Nor paused at the stormiest sea;
So the dark waves bor the toller up
Nearer dry God to Thee!
Grander sermon has never been taught,
Since life by the dear Christ blood was
brought.
And the thorn crown pressed the fainting
head
That L-r our sake lay among the dead.
Never was echoed a grander song
Since together the stars sang free,
Nor will till the ransomed millions throng,
Noaior my God to Thee!
NInrder and Cruelty.
TORT ROYAL RAILROAD, )
Acqcsta, Ga., Jan. 4, 1879. f
Tlie following passenger schedule will be
operated on and after t/iis dates
Baldoc » 12 07 Down
Haldoc 3 80 Up
Allendale. 12 30 Down
Allendale 3 00 Up
DAILY PASSENOKn TEAIV.
Going South,
LesiTe Augusta
Arrive At YemaMce
10
oo
a
m
O
05
P
m
Leave Yem&ssoe
2
10
P
in
Arrive SawnnaK
1
35
P
tn
Leave Savannah
4
45
P
IU
ArrivoJacksonvillo
8
00
A
m
Arrive (’harlefton
9
OQ
P
m
Leave Yomaesee
*>
45
P
in
Arrive Beaufort
4
02
l'
tn
Arrive I’orl Hoyal
4
17
P
m
Arrive Augusta
6
8©
P
in
Leave Vefnasveo
1
80
P
m
Arrive 1ema*«ce
1
20
P
m
Leave Savannah
10
25
a
m
Arrive Savannah
10
15
ft
ni
Leave Jackeonvllle
6
50
P
m
Leave Charleston
t
15
a
m
Arrive Yemftesee
1
00
P
,n
l<eave Beaufort
11
23
a
m
Leave 1’ort Loyal
11
00
a
m
Trains run through between Augusta And
Savannah without change, making close con
nection at Savannah with A. & G. K. R. train
for all points in Florida
Baggage checked through.
Through tickets for sale at all princi
pal ticket offices.
Itonr.iiT G. Flkmimi,
General Superintendent.
J. 8. Dataht,
General Passenger Agent.
[Si»ecial Dispatch to The News and Courier.]
Bhukson, July 22.—A shooting affray
took place hero this afternoon between
two negroes, Griffin Frlester and Is
mael Ellis, in which the latter was
mortally wounded. Tho facts seem
about as follows ; Fricstor had taken
up and was living with Susan Daniels,
who left her Husband about a week
ago. Frlester was away last night,
and on returning tc-day learned that
Ellis had spent the night at his house.
They met hero this afternoon and
some words followed which resulted in
their deciding t6 go out of tho incor
poration and fight out. They went
alone. Soon after a pistol and then a
gun shot was heard. Frlester returned
and stated that EUla had iald his gun
against tho fence to rest and it had
fallen and shot him. Ho begged that
some (jpe would go at onco with him
aud hear Ellis say that it was his own
accident, thinking he of course would
be dead when they got there. Ellis
was, however, rational, and stated that
be had laid his gun down aud offered
Friester a fair fight. Frieater took ad
vantage of his being unarmed, ran up
aud shot him in the side with a pistol,
then taking tho gun fired it off. As
soon as Prieeter saw that Ellis was
alive aud able to make a statement he
hofted for tho woods and made good
his escape. All the parties concerned
seem to be of bad character, A num
ber of colored people gathered around
the wounded man, but none would al
low him to be taken to their houses,
consequently he is still lying on the
ground where he was shot, with no
medical aid.
I.ANT WEEK
.MEMPHIS
Th«» Fceliws: After the Fln»t Out
break and Before the Siecond
Panic.
Memphis, July 16.—The recent sud
den appearance of yellow fever here
has wrought much distrust as to our
immunityjien after, and will result in cruet and premature announcement of
a great deal of distress to the rank
and file of our population. Those who
do not get away at the first warning
are meeting the embarrassments inci
dent to the great falling off in business,
and of those who were able to put
miles betwben themselves and home,
many are already -out of money and
eating the bread of dependence. The
trade of Memphis, as an original mar
ket, is based altogether upon cotton,
other products forming so small a
factor in the reckoning as to bo not
worth mention. Upon the handheg of
the fleecy staple, then, are built our
hopes. When cotton ceases to come
we cease in a measure to exist. Sep
tember is the opening month for oper
ations, when by wagon, by rail and
f$oat the bales begin to roll in, aud Oc
tober sees a perfect rush of business.
Think what a desperate strait many
poor people are put to whose means of
living depend upon this movement!
July and August I pass over, because
then there is virtually oothing in the
best of times, but the two following
mouths are the most prosperous of
the year. Now we may not have any
further cases of fever, yet la any event
izan, W. B. Waldran, Esq., living on
the Boulevard or Poplar street turn
pike, one mile from the city limits, re
ported as suffering from typho-mala-
rial fever.
There has been much unfavorable
comment here toward the board of
health for what is termed the indle-
tho fever a week ago. I have beard
tho growling principally from the mer
chants. They say It has killed busi
ness until frost, whether we have sick
ness or not. Tho board of health did
exactly right. - It has in its council*
our best physicians—men who have
worked through many perttous visita
tions, and it has long been understood
that the first genuine case should ho
Fran* In the National Treasury
reported through the papers, that all ® e ^ rcta ’y Bout well
who could might get ,3y. Th.!™""" D ' p ‘ rlm
roll-coil before frost^which usually oc- lues them, and all who are sound go
president of the Legislative Council
(occupying a similar position to mayor
in our city government,) as well as tho
board, were committed to this prom
ise. The sacrifice of life had been too
terrible last year not to guard agalust
a recurrence by all possible means.
Our State laws, recently enacted, have
gone into operation, and all persons
are examined at the several depots by
medical men before leaving on train*,
no one with any symptom of the dis
ease being allowed to go. Each one
passing muster 1* furnished with a
clean bill of health, which is examined
by the conductor and checked. Five
miles from town the passengers are
disembarked, another physician exam
Hiarlottf, Columbia & Augusta R. P,
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
CmaLOTTi!, Columbia & Acarm R. TT. )
GiMKKAL PaSSESCIHR DtrAKTMKNT. y
Columbia, 8. C., Dec. 27, IbTH. J
Ths following passenger schedule will he
operated on and after this date : #
JVb. 1—Night Express, Smith.
Leave Charlotte, 1:00 a m
Arrive Columbia. 6:00 a tn
Leave Columbia 6:05 a m
Arrive Augusta 10:00 a m
No. 2—Night Express, North.
Leave Augusta 5:55 p m
Arrive Columbia 10:00 p m
Lrfiave Columbia............. 10:10 p m
Arrive Charlotte...^.,,..... 8:10 a m
No. 3—Day Passenger, South.
Leave Charlotte 11:27 a m
Arrive Columbia 4:10 p m
Leave Columbia....., 4.15 pm
Arrive Augusta. \ 8:30pm
. i No. 4-—Pay Datatnger, North.
Leave Augusta 9:03 a m
Arrive Columbia 1:20 p m
I icave Columbia. 1:80 p m
A rrive Charlotte 6:80 p in
These trains stop, only at Fort Mill,
Hook Hill, Chester, tWnnsboro, Ridge
way, Leeeville, Batesburg, Ridge
Mprlng, Johnston, Trenton and Gran-
itevUlo. All other stations will be re
cognised os flag ItntloiiM.
1 ^T. D. KLINE, Sup’t.
John R. Machttbdo, Qen. Fas. Agent.
Savannah and Charleston Railroad Co.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
January 1, 1S79.
The following Schedule is in effect at this
data:
Fast Nail, Daily.
Leave Charleston - - - -
Arrive at Savannah - - -
Arriv* Port Royal •
t Arrive Jacksonville
jsA.rrive at Augusta - . - -
J Ueave Savannah. - - - -
Arrive Charleston »
Sight Train, Daily.
Leave Charleston •• -
Arrive Savannah ^ -
Le*ve Savannah ~ -
Arrive Charleston • - »
Pullman cart on *11 Night Trains.
C. 8. GADSDEN, Engr. and Supt.
8. C. Botutoi, G. F. and T. Agent.
7 15 a. ra.
1 00 p. m.
4 17 p. m.
0 85 a. m
6 80 p. m.
3 15 p- tn.
9 00 p. m-
8 10 p. m.
6 40 a. m.
9 00 p. in.
8 00 a. m.
The l-cnt'ral Outlook.
In view of the probable failure of
the eern crop in many sections of tho
State, the outlook is somewhat gloomy.
But with proper economy in the use of
present gupplles, by utilizing all the
resources of summer and fall crops,
and sowing early and largely of small
grain, the apprehended scarcity of
next spirng may be anticipated, and,
in a great measure,If not fu’ly met.
It is not too late to sow peas In drills
for forage, aud farmers should avail
themselves of seasons to put in large
areas for this purpose. Pea vine bay,
though somewhat difficult to cure
properly, is highly nutritious. Rich
lota near tho farm-house or lot should
be sown Iu bat joy or rye in August,
and will furnish large quantities of
green food. *
We must rely chiefly on oats to sup
plement the short corn crop next sea
son,and farmers are advised to sow ear
ly ami fertilize well, that the crop may
be secured against winter freezing and
bo avallabe as early as possible next
spring.
If August and Beptembcr shall prove
seasonable, as they probably will, sow
ings of sat-tail millet and German mil
let may still be made for soiling pur
poses. The drafts on tho corn crib
and fodder house should be relied, as
far as practicable, by pasturing and
soiling tho mules and horses. Where
the corn has failed to produce ears,
the stalks, blade and all should be cut
and cured for forage. By prudent
foresight and prompt action, much
may" be done in tho way of supple
menting short corn crops and provid
ing against the ruinous expedient of
relying on the West for supplies for
our stock.—Augusta Evening News.
It said that the Empress Eugenie,
acting on the advice of her friends, in
tend* to leave Chiselhurst soon to re
pair for tho summer to the Castle of
Babacz, in Crotia, which *be bought
lately while staying at Vienqa. Her
friends insisted on her departure at
once from au residence eo full of sad
meiuorles as Camden Place. But this
1* more than they have been able to
obtain from the Empress, who has ex
pressed her intention of again seeing
her dead son and praying on his grave.
curs here about October 20) will find
the sinews of trade absent.
A week ago to-day some of tho
knowing ones were observed to buy
railroad tickets to distant poiuts, and
whisper some close friend, after a sol
emn promise of twenty-four hours’
secrecy, that yellow fever was here,
and the first case had been fatal, Tbo
allotted time fully absolved the trou
bled mind of the friend. By six o’clock
on Thursday the news bad got out,
and then commenced one of the most
exciting scenes on record. During that
day and night more than 5,000 people
left. The panic beggars description.
Many of the public prints have allud
ed to the commotion as disgraceful,
and all I have indulged in. decrying
the excitement. I see nothing to won
der at. The man or woman who wit
nessed last yeai’s chapter Vof horror*
cannot, in sober sense, laugh at a com
munity who seek to flee a liao impend
ing wrath. The gloom and desolation
of those days stand like some tall pil
lar of rock, some rugged outbreak of
nature’s wild mood, to mark where her
throes were most terrible. We don’t
want a repetition of it; wo can’t stand
it financially many more times ; but in
God’s uamo let us never see it acqui
esced by tho people standing on the
order of their going. To return to my
narrative, the first case was a man
named Mulbrandon.a shoemaker, who
died Wednesday, and was buried that
night. The patient lived on DeSoto
street, near Vance, and had been no
where but to his shop—was out of tho
city during the fever of 1878, and did
not return until November. His wife
inherited the household effects of some
family who were victims then. It was
reported that tho beds, etc., thus ob
tained had never been aired or sunned
until the extreme hot weather, and
that wen they were exposed the stains
of human excreta were plainly visible.
This was regarded as a clincher in the
Mulbrandon case, to fasten the origin,
but the family published a denial that
they put the things out to sun.
Next in order was Charles F. Ray,
twelve years ajd,scm of Judge J. E. R.
Ray, of tho Criminal Court, residing
on the Hernando road. Ho was sick,
not like Mulbrandon, the allotted five
days, but tho poison made short work
of him. He died Thursday morning
before daylight. Then came Michael
Tobin, a middle-aged nlan, a laborer,
living on Bradford street On the Bun-
day before ho was drunk; the next
day he was attacked. Doubt was ex
pressed a* to tbegenuinees of his case,
but a careful diagnosis and a final
post-mortem fully satisfied the people
that his physician bad not been wrong.
Quickly following came the deaths of
Mrs. Tobin, wife of the above, and
Judge Ray, the latter occurring Sun
day night.
As to localities, it will b* remember
ed that last year, and at every preced
ing epidemic, the first case occurred
near the river front. Not one of these
present victims resided nearer than a
mile of it. Mulbrandon’s and Judge
Ray’s residences were in the south,
eastern portion of the city and sepa
rated half the mile. Tobin lived in
the extreme northeastern part. Judge
Ray was taken sick on the bench on
Monday preceding his dieath and thus
suffered longer than any. Hi* son, J.
E. R., Jr., was the sixth case, and al
though he hovered for several days
betwixt life and death, he la reported
thia morning decidedly better, with
Strong hopes of recovery. The only
death from any febrile cause occurring
since the first outbreak Is that of Miss
I Waldran, daughter of a prominent cit-
through without further trouble, being
transferred to different ears. Any per
son with an evident symptom of the
fevir ccmrs back to tho city; anyhow,
ia detained. Freight outward bound
is rwblpped^ffaT^lnt not lose than
fifty milsa'from the city.
Tho Auxiliary Sanitary Association,
a society of citizens organized to as
sist tho city govornment with money
and otherwise, is la constant session
every day. At the suggestion of Gen.
Colton Greene, a popular insurance
agent and a member of the body, there
will be a novel expedient resorted feo
to-raorrow for cleansing out the Bayou
Gayoso, a small creek that traverses
the town from south to north, and
which is always the receptaclo of much
filth. A big dam is being constructed
at the croesing of Elliott streetBouth
Memphis, whiuh the water
have promised to Dll up with their
pipes. When charged to repletion the
dam will be knocked away, and the
flood let to pour through the filthy aud
now nearly dry channel, which, It is
hoped, will carry off much that is detri
mental.
The New Y*rk Star of the 6th Inst.,
devotes nine column* closely printed
to the publication of the suppressed
report of tho Glover Congressional
Committee upon the affairs of our Na
tional Treasury which reveals an ex
hibit of systematized thievery, besides
which tfce peculations of ,the Tweed
Ring of New York sink Into compara
tive insignificance. The Star claims
that this report is not the product of
any partisan conspiracy or Journalis
tic sensation, but the fruition of pa
tient and sober inquiry, conducted un
der the auspices and by direction of
our highest legislative tribunal. Binoe
the administration of the Republican
the books of tbs
Treasury Department have been kept
by such a system that no man has
been able to tell the precise status of
our national finances, Frauds were
naturally suspected, but Speaker Col
fax and Blaine always took care to ap
point committees wjiich would not
delve below the suffuce. After the
House of Representatlvo became Dem
ocratic every conceivable Intrigue was
resorted to by tho Republicans In or
der to Impede and paralyze the search
which Mr. Glover’s earnest honesty
rendered inevitable, and for awhile the
effort to stifle the report It has at last
reached tho light. ; . i; .'.
The report shows that the swindling
Bureau of Engraving and Printing has
absorbed twenty-serea millions of pub
lic money, the greater part of which
•• NIGGSEK.*
THE
What n Northern Joarnnl
Think* of Him.
iUuiaf* (OHkO fcntiif*'. R»p.J
While tho amiable idiocy that pro-
It okows that ^ Totw ftt an
States bonds has
PEOPLE STRUGGLING FOR PRECEDENCE—
BLOODSHED ONLY PREVENTED BY A
STRONG GUARD. /
McKenzie, Tenn., July 21.—Train af
ter train load of Memphians now al
most hourly pass through here, leav
ing a crowd of anxious people at the
plague-stricken city waiting at the de
pot there for the first chance to g^
away. Memphians say that so deter
mined are the people to get out of that
city that they clamor with one another
as a mob, and those passengers with
the most strength and determination
are those who run over the multitude
of mors timid people and escape. Peo
ple have crowded about tho depot for
twenty-four hours before being abl,6 to
got on the train. Overcome with heat
aud fatigue men, women, and children
sleep, closely huddled together, until
aroused and told that the hour of their
liberation is near at hand. A frteh
train has been mode up, and they pass
out to the transfer station, which is
also always crowded. Instead of wait
ing for trains to carry them thlthwr,
they go out by every conceivable con
veyance, and by that means often take
the places of those who have been
forced to come out on the trains, only
to find that they have been deprived
of a possibility of their early escape to
a more healthy climate. Rcstlvo and
combative under these circumstances
men grow desperate and fight like ti
gers. Revolvers are drawn in the most
savage deteimitation, and bloodshed
is only prevealed by the Interference
of a strong guard. People are ro
cldhely sandwiched in the trains that
tho heat becomes intolerable, passen
gers get restive, and almost any one
who makes it known can be easily ac
commodated with a knock down. A
general scramble for seats continues
all along the various lines until the
conductor gets jld of the Jam by drop
ping them here, there and everywhere.
A Goon Year fob Eclipses.—This
interest on United
been fraudulently collected for years
by an outside ring operating in col
lusion with Treasury employees.’ It
shows that the thieves were protected
by high officials. It directly Implicates
John Sherman, who not only perpet
uated the corruption be found before
him, but multiplied Jt for the purpose
of rewarding partisan services. It
demonstrates that the Federal Secret
Service Bureau is a sink of rottenness
and blackmail, in which no honest man
can attempt to perform his duty with
out incurring the penalty of certain
dismissal. It examines tbo Bouthern
cotton seizures and shows where mil
Hone were stolen from the government
by its officials. It shows that nineteen
million dollars in excees of the author-
volume of ourrency has been afloat
one time. Many rtfber over issue*
as well as deficits, In various depart
mentfl, have been concealed under false
entrles^and forced balances In tho
Tiensury books.
On the whole, a more scandalous ex
hibit of jobbery has never been pre
sented to any civilized nation. It is
humiliating to us as a people that such
thievery has been so long tolerated,
but it would be unspeakably Infamous
to cloak or condone it.- Let the light
shine through and through.—Lexing
ton Dispatch.
vailed in Cosgreso during reconstruc
tion days was at Its height the Bigger
was enfranchised. .
Uo was {nvefited with the ballol ph
the petty theory that he was a rnkn
and brother, with an Infusion of sand
In his make-up. -
It was given him on the school-girl
notion that affection for the party that
gave hlttr bis freedom wotrtd make him
Its perpetual Instrument.
But the nigger is less serviceable to
tho Republican party as a voter than
he was as a slave.
f * 1 *
He needs too much codding—too
much protection. **
Ho can ohly vote the Republican
ticket when surrounded by a oordOn
of Republican bayonets.
There Is no grit In him.
There is more voting energy and
party strength Jn a dozen raw Irish
man than in a thousand well-fed nig
gers.
Thsre Is not an ounee of Stalwatt-
ism,In a ton of nigger. ■ t
The mote nigger the lees strength.,!
As B slave, the picturesque misery
of the negro was an unfailing armory,
of party weapona—as a freeman there
U no romance in him—cowardice is not
romantic.
AH over the South he fs throwing
hie ballot for rebels and traitors, when
The ■atnaeputlij’ of I.oaGow.
Of all the gteht cities,London, on
the whole, contains the most to Inter
est and Instruct Araericaaig - It has
doubled In population In the memory
of men still young. Most readers re
covered with house*. New York is
equal In population to the aggregate
of Maine and New Hampshire.
London equals Maine, Now Hamp-
WMfte . Vermont, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Massachusetts' and Cali
fornia alltogether. To equal the dty
of London, bote We should have to
bring together the people of the fol
lowing dtlee; New York, Philadel
phia, Brooklyn, St. Louie, Chicago,
Boston, BtdUmore, ClnclnnatV New
He it two cowardly to vote his con
victions or too stupid te have convic
tions.
When the stalwarts get Into power
in 1880 he must be either dlsfrauchlsed
or compelled to vote right.
The free negro is a fraud.
Tfk* Quiet Stranger.
Adiniuifctratlen Plan for Carry
ing Kontli Carolina.
A special dispatch from Washington
to the New York Sun says :
There Is to be a sweeping chango in
the Federal officers in South Carolina.
This change will soon be announced.
Certain South Carolina Republicans
have been iq this city within the last
few days, representing that South Ca
rolina could bo carried for the Repub
licans in 1680 in case the right kind of
Federal office-holders are placed In
authority. Those now In pla<?e are
men who arc timid and lukewarm in
their Republicanism ; and have not
the requisite backbone to stand up
against the tlss a e-ballot frauds and
intimidating processes or the chivalry.
What is needed, these Republicans say,
is a class of men brave enough to en
force the national election In the face
of death. Intimidation and personal In
sult. It is claimed that the present
Federal office-holders In that State
are either overawed by the Democrat*
who are now in power, or else have
formed affiliations With them that de
stroy their party usefulnees.
Although tble Is a strictly civil ser-
viee Administration, John Bberman
has succeeded In eo representing mat
ters t<y Hayes that there Is high au
thority for the statement that a sweep
ing change will be made throoghoat
the country. Where dose contests
are probable, the Federal marshal-
ships are to be made as strohg as pos
sible. Upon the rigid enforcement of
the National election law In 1880 de
pends the sucess of the RepubUoans.
At least this Is the view taken by the
National committee.
The race Is not always to the swift
not the battlo to the strong, nor Is it
the man with the largest mouth who
gets the most favors in this world.
Yesterday forenoon a very quiet etran-
ger entered a real estate office on Gris
wold street, and softly asked If he
could nee a blotting pad a moment
One was handed him, and he sat down
to a tabls, looked around and said,
“Ah J (hanks ; but have you a pen and
Ink?”’ They were handed him. He
tried the pen on the pad, shock the
luk around and modestly continued, “if
you could spare a sheet of paper?”
A sheet of paper was handed him.
He wrote a brief letter, folded ap end
whispered, “I shall have to beg an en
velope of you.” An envelope was
passed over, and when he had directed
It, he looked all over the table, under
member when MoOauley’* history ap
peared. 4 In bis first Tblumo the au
thor contrasted the grandeur ioTthe
modern city with the London of
Charles 11. and boasted that the num
ber of Inhabitants had increased from
little more than five thousand to at
least one mlllloo nine b«&dredthotMK
and. In the brief time that has pass
ed since McCauley wrote, ihe one mil
lion nine hundred has become four
millions.
A few contrasts taken from the beet
estimates will give some suggestions
of the Immense magnitude of tho dty;
Is aptly described as a ‘province
It
Orleans, Buffalo, Ban Francisco, Wwb
Ington and Louisville. The transient
people In New York ar# about thirty
thousand; In London ope hundred
and sixty thousand. In New York a
baby te bbrn every fifteen minutes'ana
a death occurs every seveateea min
utes. In London a birth occurs every
six minutes and a death every eight
The drinking places In Naw York set
in one street would extend seventeen
miles; those in London seventy-three
miles.
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The vulgar negro who murdered
Mrs. Hull la odd blood Is now besoms
a very hero. People long to see him.
Women, who hsvea morbid enjoyment
in the butchering of their sex and are
powerfully attracted to the butcher,
keep him supplied with button hole
bouquets, cigars and other luxuries,
and are delighted with the reward of
a smllo. The fellow cannot read or
write, bat his opinions are quoted os
of ths gravest importance. HU coun
sel have concluded that he was Insane
when he murdered Mrs. Hull, and ho
is just beginning to think so himself.
Tho sooner the wretch is hanged by
the neck until dead the better it will
be for surviving humanity.—Chicago
Times.
tho table, up at the celling, and inqui
red, “You couldn’t lend me a stamp,
could you?” A three center was ban
ded out, and when it had been fasten
ed on tbo stranger rose and started
out, saying, “As you have no office
boy, I suppose 1 shall have to take
this letter to the office myself.”
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looks like business. The almanacs for
1880 are beginning to appear. There
will be seven ecllpeee in tho year which
may be counted on as a certainty—four
of the sun, two of the moon, and one
of the Republican party.
When a Texas man tells his wife
that there will be company ia the even
ing, she bustles around and gets the
shot-gun tn order, while he takes the
shovel and Bailies forth to dig a few
[graves.
The President’s Gbxat Grandfather.
—Ezekiel iiaye, the great grandfather
of the President, was a auccessful me
chanic la Connecticut, and kepta num
ber of apprentices. It is said that
sometimes, like apprentices in all ages,
they felt that they bad long work and
short rations. At one time a new
cheese was put on the table whole.
It stood uncut for a day or two,
Hajree saying at each meal, “that’s a
nice looking cheese. It’s a pity to cut
it.” The boys thought it rather mo
notonous, aud planned to show their
sentiments. The blacksmith hqd one
day got a bar of Iron nicely heated, and
laid it across the anvil to be out the
proper lengths. The beys, with chisel
and sledges, were to out It olL. But no
band was raised. Hayes asked why
they did not strike, and one of them
replied: “That te such a nice bar of
iron, it would be a pity to cut it.”
Hayes qufckly sow thq point, and
shouted, with a latlgh, “Strike, boys,
strike ! the obsess shall be cut.” ;
It Is estimated that fifty thousand
men and women are employed at
Philadelphia tn ths manufacture of
Senator Thurman baa pithily summa
rized the results of ths extra session t
“ In my Judgement no session of Goo-
grass has dqne more for the vldlcatlon
of the principles of the Amarioan lib
erty. We have 8UCceostullj'’malntaln-
ed tbo principle that the bayonet feball
not Control the ballot box; we have
repealed the Juror’s test oath; ire
have provided for impartial Juries in
Federal Courts, North and South, aud
we have maintained tbo principle tb&t
the Federal Government shall not In
terfere in the elections of ths officers
of the States. A greater declaration
In favor of tho popular liberty has not
been made since the adoption of Mag
na Charta.”
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A
country farmer called at the
Treasury Office In Washington, some
Urns sinoe, and said he wanted to in
vest some monsy in Government bonds.
On being told how much money the
farmer had, the dork asked him what
denomination he wanted. “Weil,”
said he, after thinking a moment, “I
am a Presbyterian, and will take a few
of that sort. Bat to please the old wo
man, you may give me a right smart
lot of the Hardshell Baptist kind.
That kind would suit her beet.”
clothing, and twenty million suits art
made there evsfy year. Cutting ma
chines are gradually finding their way
into all the largo manufacturing es
tablishments of the city. These ma-
ehiaes have a capability of cutting
nearly eighteen hundred garments In
a day of twelve boors, or about equal
to tbs combined results of the labor
of eight men. Button-holes, also, can
be worked by machinery at the rate of
one hundred and eighty per hour,
while by band It wotfid take the same
period to complete three holes. By
the catting machines folds of doth
forty-ply thickness can be easily eut
through. An Instance of the value
of machinery In expediting manofae-
ture Is afforded la the fact that the
establishment were cutting and but
t ton-hole machines ere used tarns out
one hundred sfilts ready for wear In
side of twelvB fiours.
The British Government Is now buil
ding two tteel-elad ships of war. Which
are to ooet $5,000,000 each, without
armament. They are to be plaited
with 16 inches of steel, to carry four
guns each, to b* of 9,100 tons measure
ment, with a speed Of IQ miles an bonr.
No sooner were those monsters laid oh
the stocks, however, than it was found
out that one of Sir Joseph WhitWotth’a
new guns was capable of driving •
boh of chilled steel through a elect
plate 24 Inches thick, qnd thus once
more the defensive side of naval war
making Is found to be at the mercy
of the offensive side.
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Samuel G. Grasty, a railroad and
commercial traveller of Atlanta. Ga.,
on the night of the ttOhoE a .man
named Read and his son Ram Read,
at Opelika, Ala. They attacked him
iu bis hotel zoom, for alleged intimacy
with Mies Bead. Grasty was badly
out on bta head and hands- He shoe
t^e eider Read to the eye and abdo
men, and the ybanglr under the right
jaw* The elder Read will dlo. Goaty
la under arrest.
X
The weather In England has been so
bad and se unfavorable to a product
ive harvest that the dreamatanoe la
treated as a national calamity, like
war or pestilence, and Archbishop
Tail, of Canterbury, has written to the
Bishops of soma of t^e Sogllsh dio
ceses, to request their clergy to offer
up special prayers for a more propit
ious season at the Ingathering of the
crops.
V-i
Mr. Christian Hunelrin, one of
most prominent German cUtseai
Augusta, died In that city on Sunday
aged forty-three. + .1 | ,
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