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Savor S353S SUMMER. Around this lovelyvAlley rise The purple hills of Paradise. 0 soitly on yon banks of haze Her rosy face the Summer lays Becalmed along the assure Bky The argosies of cloudland lie, Whose shores with many a shininr rift Far off their pearl-white clifts upfilt Through all the long midsummer day The meadow eiHes are sweet with hay, 1 seek the coolest sheltered seat, Just where the field aud forest meet Where grow the pine trees tall and bland, The ancient oaks, austere and grand, And fringy roots and peboles fret The ripples of the rivulet. I watch the mowers as they go Through the tall grass, a wbite-sloevecl row With even rtroko their scythes they 6wing, In tune their merry whetstones ring, Behind, the nimble youngsters run, And toss the thick swaths in the tun. The cattle graze while warm and still Slopes the broad pasture, basks the hill, And bright, when Summer breezeb break, The green wheat crinkles like a lake. The butterfly and bumble-bee Come to the pleasant woods with me Quickly before me runs the quail. Her chickens skulk behind the rail, High up the lone wood-pigeon Bits, And the wood-pecker pecks aud flits Sweet woodland music sinks and swells. The Brooklet rings its tinkling bells. The swarming insects drone and hum, The partridge beats his throbbing drum, The squirrel leaps among the boughs. And chatters in his leafy house The oriole flashes by and look Into the mirror of the brook. Where the vain blue-bird trims his coat Two tiny feathers fall and float As Bilently, as tenderly, The dawn of peace descends on me, 0 this is peace! 1 have no need Of lrlend to talk, or book to read A dear Companion here abides, Close to my thrilling heart He hides The holy silence is his voice 1 lie, and listen and rejoice. J. T. Tvobrldge. FARM NOTES. It is said that every ton of dried tobac co leaves carried off exhausts from the soil in miueral matter, as much as is con tained in 14 tons of the gram of wheat. Only three things eat the tobacco plant, the Angora goat, the tobacco worm, Midman\--American Cultivator.-How about horses, deer, etc.? The fact is, a number, both of insects and animals, e. tobacco. French feeders, it is said, find that feeding the fowls with boiled or steamed carrots, chopped into small pieces, rapid fattens them and imparts an agreeable to *he flesh, rreatl relished by epicures, and the i'ov,!-, thus fed Bell more royidly than others. Tnat clover should be uit during the early flowering ot the plani will be seen by the following quotations irom Wolff, the well-known German chemist, who ays: "Red clover cut when it begins to flower, contains 55.48 per cent, of nutii tive food if cut in full flower it contains 46.07 per cent. Wheat-growing on a large scale has only been carried on in the Argentine Republic for two or three years, and yet, at last accounts, forty vessels were in the river La Plata loaded with wheat for Europe. Immigrants from Italy, Prance and Germany are fast filling up the coun try, and their grain shipments mav yet rival those of the United States.New England Farmer. Those who know the capability oi the West will smile at the tropical and hilly Argentine Republic rivaling the United States in growing grain. Imitation meerschaum pipes are now manufactured from potatoes in France. A peeled potato is placed in sulphuric acid aud water, in the proportion ot eight parts of the former to 100 of the latter. It remainB in this liquid thirty six hours to blacken, iB dried with blot ting paper, and submitted to a certain pressure, -vhen it becomes a material that can be readily carved. The counterfeit is said to be excellent. An imitation ivory sufliciently hard for billiard balls, ean be made by still greater pressure. A resemblance of coral is obtained by treat iag carrots in the same manner. Sometime since we stated that Dr. Manly Miles, late professor of Agricul ture at the Michigan Agricultural col lege, was to take charge of Houghton Farm, Mountainville, Orange county, N. Y. We now understand that the owner, Mr. Lawson Valentine, intends to insti tute and carry on scientific experiments there, somewhat on the plan of those at Rothamstead, England. The director ship has been given to Dr. Miles, whose previous labors in this direction, and many valuable contributions to scientific agriculture, most excellently qualify him for the position. Tongue Soup.Put a small tongue into a stewpan, with trimmings of any bones of fowl or veal, and stew for four hours, removing the scum take out the tongue, skin and clean it, and leave it to cool put back the trimmings and the root, with a carrot, a turnip, a head of celery and an onion, half a teaspoonful ot cayenne, and stew one hour more then ctrain the soup, and when cool remove the fat, and set it on to heat, with a tur nip and carrot cut in squares, and two ta blespoonfuls of grated tongue let it sim mer slowly for an hour, and servo with boiled rice. A useful and cheap soup. 'Is She Pious?" Two women were overheard discussing family affairs at a watering-place, last rammer. One was a ist and the oth er's sect the bishop, with pronounced courtesy, declined to "give a. name to" in that audience. The son ot the ist has recently become engaged to marry a church girl, and en inquiry the nameless sectary found that the prospective moth er-in-law approved tbe match. "Yes, Bister Jones, she really does seem to be a nice girl, and I don't know as John could have done better." Silence reigned supreme for some minutes, to be broken by sister Jones's voice demanding, in tones deepened and muffled to becoming solemnity, "Ishepious?" John's mother obviously winced and writhed under this home thrust, but at last ral' lied sufficiently to stammer out, "Well he's 'PiBcopal pious." How true are the words ot Pickwick and with what appalling vividness they coino back to us after a stoimy time. Either Dickens had a sad experience in his married life, or the man who sug gested the character had weathered many ft tempest. "Yen you're a married man. fiftHdvel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't undeistand now but vethcr it'B worth while going through so much to learn so little, as the charity boy said ven ho got to the end of the al phabet, is a matter of taste. 1 rayther think it isn't." "Sockery" Setting a Hen. Meetter Verris: I see dot iuo6d ef ferpoty wrides someding for de slack en bapers nowtays, and I tought praps meppe I can do dot, too, so I wrulo all apout vot took blace mil me lasht summer you knowoder uf you dond know, den I dell youdot Katrina (dot is mine vrow) und me, ve keep some shickens for along dime ago, una von tay she sait to me -'Soukevy" (dot is mem name), "vy dond you put some uf de aigs under dot olt plue hen shickens, I dinks she vants to sate." "Veil," I sait, meppe I guess I vill" so I bicked out sonic uf He best aigs und dook um oud do de parn fere de olt hen make her nesht in de side uf de haymow, pout five six feet up now you see I never vas ferry big up und down, but I vas booty pig all de vay around in de middle, so I couldn't reash up till I vent und got a parrel do standt on veil, I klimet me on de parrel, und ven my lied rise up py de nesht dot olt hen she gave me such a bick dot my nose rims all ofer my face mit plood, und ven I todge pack dot plasted olt parrel het preak, und I vent town kershlam, py cholly. I didn't tink I kood go insite a parrel pofore, put dere I vos, und I fit so dite dot I koodn't git me oud efferway, my feat (vest) vas bushed vay up unter my arm holes ven I fount I vas dite shtuck, I holler "Katrina 1 Katrina!" und yen she koom .and see me shtuck in de parrel up to my arm-holes, mit my face all plood and aigs, py cholly, she chust lait town on de hay und lai't, und Iaft, till I got so mat I sait, "Vot you lay dere und laf like a olt vool, eh? vy dond you koom ball me oud?" und she set up und sait, "Oh, vipe off your chin, and bull your fest town den she lait pack und laft like she vood shpht herself more as ever. Mat as I vas I tought to myself, Katrina, she sbeak English pooty goot. but I only sait, mit my greatest digni tude, "Katrina, viil you bull me oud dis parrel?" und she see dot I took booty red, so she sait, "of course I vill, Sock- ery," den she lait me und de parrel town on our site, und I dook holt do door sill, und Katrina she bull on de parrel, but de first bull she mate I yellet, "donuer and blixen, sthop dat by golly dere is nails in the parrel!" You see the nails bent dowd when I whnt in, but ven I koom out dey achtics in me nil de vay rount veil, to make a short story long^ I told Katrina to go and dell naypor Hansman to pring a saw and saw me dis parrel off, veil, he koom and he like to shbht himself with laugh too, but he roll mo ober and saw de parreil all de way around off, und I get up mit haff a parrel arount my vaist, den Katrina she say, Sockery, wait a little till I get a battern of dot new oferskirt you haf on," but I didn't seit a vord, I shust got a nife out und vittle hoops off and shling dot confounded olt parreil in de voot pile. Pimeby ven I koom in de house, Ka trina she said, so soft like, "Sockery, don i you go in to put some aigs under dot olt plue hen?" den I sait in my deepest voice. "Katrina, uff you effer say dot to me again I'll git a pillf rom you so help me dummy eracious," and I dell you, she didn't say dot to me any more. Veil, Mr. Verris, von 1 step on a parreil now, I dond step on it, I git a box. Wery truly yours, SOCKEKY \DACUT. en Betting on a Dead Thing. One ot the frequenters ot a broker's of fice in this eity is a man who will bet on any kind oi a proposition. When he en ters the office in the morning he greets the gentlemen present by saying, "Morn in', boys! Is there anything any of yc want to bet on this mornin'?" And he hangs round all day watching for chances to bet and, if a man ventures an opinion about the stock market, hints that per haps Sierra Nevada may sell for forty next week, he will pounce on him like a hawk on a June-bug, and offer to bet him a hundred that it don't sell for forty in six years. The other day the boys put upajobonhim. They got a fly, dipped its feet in mucilage, and stuck it on a sash-frame in the office. Flies are pretty thick around this office. Of course there's not much for a fly to aat in a broker's office but, between ink, and, mucilage, and the breath of the cierks, they manage to eke out a subsistence. Pretty soon another fly sailed through the front door from a restaurant around the corner, and settled down on the sash near the fly that the boys had fixed, and in a few moments the betting-man dropped in, with his usual salutation about betting. And after some preliminary skir mishing about not being on the gamble, being busted in stocks, and other little by-plays to make the betting man think they wore not anxious for a wager, one of the boys spoke up and said: "Pard, I'll tell you what I will do I'll bet you that that fly in the corner of that sash moves before that other fly abou six inches from him does." Tne fly in the corner was the fly from the restaurant, and the other was the fly with the mucilage on its feet. "Its a whack I' said the betting man. "Bet you a hundied my fly moves first." The money was put up, aiad all eyes were intently bent on the window. Pret ty soon the mucilage fly made a struggle to free itself, and succeeded in dragging itself about half its length on the sash frame. "My money l'* exclaimed the betting man. The others did not want to give it up, as the movement had only been barely perceptible. "Do you want to keep me here all day bef.ing against a dead fly?" said the bet ting man. The boys rushed to the window to ex amine their fly. It was dead 1 Wild chickens numbered by thousands are hunted as wild game in Comanche county, Texas. A few years ago a large number of domestic chickens were de serted for some reason, by their owners when they took to the brush, and the woods are now full of them. fV LITTLE BAltllAUA Pretty Barbara, rlpo and rod, i With sweet, small mouth, like the hues abed, And full of nectar and honey dew Bo pretty a thing, I dare not swear To the art of the ribbon that ties her hair, Or the buckle that binds her shoo So like each trinket she has to wear, It recms just as if It grew Like arose in its petals and pollen dust, That wears its beauty because it inuot, And something like Bulbars, too. As she dips her small tin bucket lu The little fountain of woven glass, u Like webs that the spiders weave ana spin To hang on the shining blades of Brass, A face as bright and happy as hers, In the net of the silken gossamers, Looks out of the water's smooth eclipse, As if it was happy lo hold within it The soft verbena red of her lips, And kiss and caress her just for a minute, In the arms of the dimples smooth And stil Ere it goeB and sohe rlytums the mill. For life to her in the honey.dow Is nothing yet but the way-Bide spring, between the upper and under b'ue, That makes a fiction of every thing, As perfectly like as if it grew And she is too happy to see with!. it The shape of her small, sweet self a minute, From the bow in the hair to the tie of her shoe, To know that the marvelous shadows mean, The simple inner beauty that shows But now in the colorof a rose, And now like the water's sniooth eclipse, In hearts that hold her picture still, As we go and soberly turn the mill. arper'H tot* Att gust. Old Pugsley'g Trick. "There's old Pugsley." r_ "Where?" "Where! Can't you think of anything you haven't your eyeB on. Where is he usually at this time ot night, Joe Beards ley." "Drunk at the Occidental, with a dirty Srink,oI ack cards turning him up another never saw such luck." "He does play well, that's a fact." "Play well? Playing cards is easy when you get 'em? Did you ever see me make a missplay? or Ned. over there? I tell you it's luck?" "It's something," said Jfed Holder, doubtfully. "And something that always wins," went n Beardsley. "He'll sit there with his dilapidated old stovepipe mashed over those black eyes, and wink any card in the pack into his hand. I believe he ehakes hands with the jacks and kings." "I think you've had enough punch to night, Joe," said Holder, lighting a cigar, "You think I'm drunk! Did you ever play with him? I have and I say, if he had a thousand or so to begin with, he'd buy out all the boys in a month provided he'd keep sober. 1 tell you 1" Holder filled his glass meditatively, and stopped with it half way to his lips to say, "I've got an idea, boys." His two companions started in mock unbelief, muttering something about too much beer, and shook their heads. We all want monoy for the races, and your old gents don't come down hand some any more than mine." "You couldn't copyright that, old boy," laughed Beardsley. "it is the way to get the stamps," ex claimed the matter-ot-fact Holder. "You'll listen, I suppose?" "Yes! yes!" said both in a breath. "How much money could we raise?" asked Holder. 4 -V4 His companions rattledf* the keys in their pockets and pondered*~*-*** 'I might produce a fifty by letting my board run," ventures one. "That's the length of my rope," said the other. "There's our watches," suggested Hol der. "We might spare them for a few days." "Is it safe?" "I think so." "Then there's fifty more apiece/' said Beardsley. "Would that do? three hun dred, you know." "The more the safer," said the plotter. "We might draw for an extra fifty, and say it's for books for advance studies,'' said Beardsley, at which they all laughed. They were notoriously the dullest "sophs" in the University. "That won't do with my ancestor," said Morgan. "He's been through the mill himself." "Then we might borrow and bring it up to five hundred," put in Beardsley. Holder thought that would be about right. "Then it's done," shouted Mor gan. "Now show up. How much will we make?" Double. Listen." And the worthv sophomores put their muddled heads to gether over the soppy restaurant table and held grave and low-voiced counsel. In an hour the party broke up. The result of the consultation was that by noon of the next day they had each con tributed one third of a joint fund of $500, and carried pawn tickets in their left hand waisc coat pockets where their gold repeaters should have been. Holder took the money and management into his own hands, and went after dinner for a pri vate interview with Mr. Pugsley in a back room of the "Occident,"' leaving his chums in a state of suspense on the out side. When he reappeared there was a complacent smile on his countenance that told of success. "You see," he said, "there's to be a champion billiard match here on Friday, and all the sports will be up. Theu's our time. Would you believo I had a regular battle with the sly old coon be tore I brought him round"? Said we put too high a value on his poor abilities, and all that! He'll bring us out all right!" And tho young gentlemen went off to ponder about anything but their lessons. They could not iigk worrying a little and being nervous. They had gone into speculation, and the mad houses would die out of neglect if speculation should cease. Friday morning came at last, and of course it could not always be that par ticular Friday, not even to spite them, nor to please others whose honeymoon perhaps it was nor still others whose life would go out with its light so the sun went down to give birth, in proper time, to other morning, and, in going down, laid a heavy, rainy night over the crowded streets of the university town. There was great excitement in the hotels and bar rooms over the chances oi the day, and into the heat of it the young gentlemen plunged. At 0 o'clock they were knocking at a green door in an up per story and were admitted into a glit tering gambling room. Pugsley was there but it was Pugsley transformed 1 Every art ot tailor, and hatter, and bootmaker, and barber had &&fc#*$n& msmsm A* combined to make his exterior unexcept ionable. From the polished tip of his neat boot to the starched purity ot his neckcloth and the glossy dash of his silk hat, he was incomparable. As they en tered, he tipped one lid over its black eye to imitate that he knew what he was about, and laised his antagonist $300 on two jacks and three aces. "He's a devil?" muttered Beardsley, and ordered tho waiter to bring bis best wine. Then they sat and smoked and chatted and watched him play. "There must be $2,000 at his right," said Holder. By and by tho man would play no more, and the two arose and walked up and down the room arm in arm, and pres ently Pugsley dropped out to where the two students were standing, made an ap pointment to meet him at the "Occiden tal" at 1 o'clock, and went off, with a polished bow to meet a friend at another place. It waB 10:80. The young men drank wine, but were too excited to get tipsy. The citv hall clpck had not yet struck one when they walked into the "Occidental." There was no one there but the sleepy clerk. Tho clock struck, and the hands crept round to half past, but Pugsley did n^t come. They looked into each other's faces with bewildered eyes for a second, and then Beardsley Bpoke to the clerk "Has Mr. Pugsley been in lately?" "Pugsley?Pugsley? Yes, settled up and went East on the 10:30. They walked out without saying a word without daring to face each other. But when they all stood in a dejected group in tho hall, they all looked again each in to two ghastly faces, and Holden ex pressed the thoughts of every one in tbe short sentence "He's gone back on us! They crept away into their rooms with out another word. And the conductor of the 10:30 train, fifty miles away, was changing a very large bill for an elegant passenger who had plenty more of the same sort in his wallet, and was smiling serenely on his way to the races. He did not meet the students that season. The New "Annihilator." Detroit Free Press. Bright and early yesterday morning, Prof. James E. P. Burhngame made his appearance on several streets in Detroit almost at the same moment. You would have known bim to be a professor, even if you had seen him tangled up with the wheels of a butcher-cart. That tall plug hat, carrying the stains of years,that linen duster girted at the waist,his long hair hanging down to keep his shoulders warm, was a dead give-away on his title. The Professor came here to dispose of individual rights to use his "Fly Anni hilator," and he didn't let thoughts of the next Presidential election set him down on a bench. His piccalo voice in quired of a woman at the front door of a house on Congress street east: "Madam, have you ten seconds to spare this morning?" "No, sir!' was her prompt leply. "Very well, then you will miss seeing my Fly Annihilator," he remarked as he walked oft. "Thousands have missed it to their everlasting sorrowthousands have accepted it and been made happy for life." "It's some kind o' pizen!" she called after him down the street. "Warranted free from all drugs tr chemicals dangerous to the human sys tem, and recommended to people trjubled with sleeplessness," he called back as he briskly retraced his steps. "I've got screens in every window, aud yet the flies get in," she continued as he opened his satchel on the stej s. "Of course they do, of course. A fly is like a human being. Bar him out and he is seized with a desire to get in at anj price. Tell him he can't, and he will or break his neck. Fling away your screens and depend entirely on my fly-annihila tor, warranted to kill on sight, and canPhmzy be worked by a child 4 ear old. This is the application." He took from t'"o satchel an eight ounce bottle filled with a dark liquid and and provided with a small brush, and, holding it up, continued: "One 25-cent bottle does for twenty doors, and I give you directions how to make all you want. No poison here, nothing in this bottle to trot little chil dren up to the cemetery." "Why, you don't put it on the flies, do you?' she asked. "Not altogether, madam. Any child can use it, as I said before. Just watch me a moment. He 3wung the front door open,and with the brush applied the mixture to the back edge, giving it a thin coat from top to bottom. "Now then," he said, as he swung the door back, "flies like sweet. This mix turc is sweet. The fly alights on the* door, and you swing it shut aud he is jammed against the casing and crushed in an instant. Every door is capable of killing 1,009 flies per day. If you have twelve doors your aggregate of dead flies will be exactly 12,000. When you have crushed about 2,000 on a door, take an old knife and scrape them off and begin over again." "Do you suppose began the in dignant woman, but he interrupted her with: "Don't suppose anything about it, ex cept that it will mash flies and never miss. All you have to do is to open every door, appiy the mixture, and then shut them in succession. If you have twelve doors and twelve children you can leave it all to the children And only 25 cents per bottle." "Do you think I want all my doors daubed up with flics and moa lasses? she shouted, as she made a cufl at the bottle. 4 "Just as you prefer, madam," he quiet ly replied. "Some do and some don't. Some won't have it at any price, and oth ers even set up extra doors in the back yard in order to use lots of it. I'll war rant this liquid to diaw 'em, if you 11 on ly open and shut the doors." "I wont buy itI won't have it!" she shouted aB she jammed the broom agains the door. "Very well, madam, very well. If you prefer a fly on your nose to one on tho door I can raise no objections. Remem ber, however, that this is my farewell tour previous to appearing before the crowned beads of Europg, and yon will not havo another chance to secure the annihilator. All you have to do iB to take your sew ing on your lap and open and shut the dooi at regular intervals.'* wtaiMMWtantwaiiaiiiWitiwat ao5Ka3a*ar*8a -IIA*AH "If my husband was here he'd he'd "He'd buy tie right for this county and make $30,000 in two months but, as he is not here, we'll bid you good day and pass on. Sorry, madam, but some folks prefer to kill their flies with a pitchfork, and the man with the pitchforks will cat! here in fifteen minutes." GEORGIA'S RICH HEN. A Correspondent'* Hunt for a Millionaire The Fortunes* of Some of the Wealthiest Men. A correspondent of the Atlanta (Ga.) Con stitution has been hunting for a millionaire in Georgia, and writeB of the result of his search as follows: A broker told me that in 1868 the income cf Judge John P. King, of Augusta, was $70,000 per annum. With an income of 970,000 ten years ago, he most have aesumu lated at least $500,000 by this iime, which, added (o his capital, would put him way over $1,000,000. There are in the commercial registers only two men in Georgia quoted at more than $600,000. These are quoted at "from $500,000 to $1,000,000. They are Mr.the John White, of Athens, and Mr. Green, of Savannah. There is one firm, Weed & Cornwall, quoted at these figures. There is not a single manor firm quoted at $1,000,- 000 or upward. I am inclined to think that Mr. White is probably the wealthiest man in the State. He has had the proprietorship of several prosperous enterprises for a number of years, and is a prudent liver and a wise in vestor. His profits on it ean never have been less than $8,000 to $10,000 per annam, and mast have often gone op to $25,000. Daring the war, of ooarse, tbe profits were enormous. If we have a millionaire, 1 pre sume he is the man. He is now an old man, and in wretched health, bat his restless lit tie figure is seen daily i-n Athens, hopping in and out of his boggy, and attending to busi ness with as earnest an air as if his rent was doe and he didn't have the money to pay it. He is a man of strong head, g^-od heart, and estimable in all of his relations. As to Mr. Green, of Savannah, I have no data except the statement of a gentleman who ought to know This man told me that, six years ago* he saw a schedule of Mr. Green's propertv, which footed up between $650,000 and $700,000. It must be noted, however, that in the commer cial registers we find no men Won of soon men as Gov. Brown, Mr. Fer dinand Phinizy, Gen. Toombs, and Judge King, who are not in active business. First, as to Gov. Brown. He is the onfixed bird of tbe aviarythe phinxes. Nobody knows anythirg about him. There is room enongh in his long old head for bis own badness, and be keeps it there. A harried glance around will show about $200,000 worth of real estate accredited to him. Then there are his shares in the State road lease his in terest in the Dade coal mines, where it is said $200,000 in capital has been laid down. 1 asked the Governor the other day plumply if he was worth a million. "No, sir," he said smiling "a million is a great deal." "Do yon think there is a man in Georgia worth a million?" "I doubt it. I know I am not. To amass a million dollars in the Sooth requires the constant and cautions accumulations of a long bfe time. A single accident or delay or misfortune will spoil the calculations. We people of the South have had a good many interruptions within the present eration. I doubt if there is a man in Geor gia that has accumulated a million." As for Gen. Toombs, I have his own word for it that be is worth from $300,000 to $500,000. I suppose this is correct. And yet Gen. Toombs has immense bodies of Texas lands that may prove themselves worth this much. Tbe general, while a close and sagacious man of business, has always been a lavish liver, and has been careless in the direction of his fees. Mr. Phmzy is generally considered the wealthiest man in Georgia. His property is in bonds and stocks mostly, and it is impos sible to form any estimate of what it is. He may be worth $500,000, or he may be worth double that. An Atlanta banker told me tbe other day that be knew in 1873 where Mr. had $375,000 worth of securities in one place. I think it may be set down that he has over $500,000. The only freak that I evtr knew Mr. Phinzy to indulge in was to almost build a church by himself, because they would insist on having an organ and a choir in the church that he had been attend ing. One of tbe richest men in Georgia is Col "Meriwether" Hill, of Washington, Wilkes A gentleman who has formerly been associat ed with him in business, counted up on his fingers for me the other day about $500,000 woath of stoeks and bonds that be held Besides this he has five miles square Oi as good land as there is in Wilkes, which most be worth an immense amount. Bat after running through the list of pro bable candidates, there is not one upon whom we can pat oar fingers, and say: 'This is a millionaire." There are two or three that we ean suspect of such a thing. Bat then there were many who thought that sturdy old Tom Alexander was worth a million. His estate barely made up $300,000. I am disposed todoabt whether we shall have a millionaire in Georgia for years. We do not make money rapidly, as in the large centres of specalation and capital. It is a notable fact that oat of the whole list of rieh men I have discovered there is not a single merchant. Cotton, in speculation or monufacture, and railroads have made these magnates. Georgia is a State of decorous ways and marginal opportunity. An income of $10,- 000 IB first-class for a lawyer, and $6,000 is not to be sneezed at. In fact, there are many lawyers who would eagerly sneeze at $3,000 the biggest fee ever made in Georgia that I can hear of were made by Ben Hill. He got $60,000 in cash in the Metcalf case, and waa entitled to more than doable that mnob. He got a cash fee of $65,000 in 1863, when it waa worth in gold about $60,- 000. He made $25,000 in the Kimball House litigation. Bat these were phenom enal fees. Wright & Alexander in Borne got cash fee of $10,000 in one ioolssure, and 1 suppose aevar.il fees of this size have paid. OAVS HIMSELF AWAY. Hovt a Murderer Confided in a Detecttee and Thus Convicted Himself of Crime. New York Special, 8ept. 11.1 A remarkable detective story waa told on the witness stand to-day, in the trial of William Boeholtz for the murder of the miser Soholte, at Bridgeport, Conn. Sohulte was worth $250,000, and was known to carry large sums of money on his person. One evening, some months ago, his servant, tbe prisoner Boo oltz, ran into a bouse near Bridgeport bleeding from wonnds and said that be and hia master had been set upon by some men and Sehalte btA been killed. Tbe old man's body waa found, and some day* later it was deemed beat to arrest Bu oholte, although, so far as the public knew, op to this day no positive evidence against him had been found. To-day, however. says a World dispatch from Bridgeport] a great sensation was created by the i pearance on the stand of Ernest StanJ German detective, who a while ago went through the form of being arrested for a supposititious crime, and was locked op in a cell with Bncboltz. Tbey became very in timate, and one night Bncboltz plaeed hit arm around the detective and said if he were oat of jail six boors he could get all ihs money both might want He then told [a singular etory about SchnUVa method of_ concealing his wealth. Surprising the miser one day, Bncboltz aaid he noticed that there was a hole in the floor of his room. Sehalte admitted that in this hole he kept his money. Bncboltz learned that in the hole was a box containing $60,000. Bucholtz promised that should he get a life sentence he would state where all of Schnltz's money was, for it would then be of no use to the possessor of the secret. On May 13tb~ the detective was released on bail. Bucholtz, being then told that the Sehalte property would be sold and that a new owner woald take immediate possession, proceeded to en lighten Somen concerning the hioing place of tbe money. Accompanied by another de tective the witness went to the Sehalte farm and found the aperture in the floor. It was ten inches long and wide enough to admit" passage of a band. The pocket-book was taken oat, carried to New York and opened in the presence of the German con sol general. It contained $4,737. Buchc', next revealed where more money conld be found. He drew another diagram of the barn and aaid that near one corner would be found a large atone and under that the money was concealed. Bueholtx wished the two pocket-books thrown where they would be seen, in order to divert suspicion to others. Tramps having been seen in a certain place near the scene of th murder, that locality was thought by Buc holtz to be the besi place for them to be fonnd. Boeholtz also thought it would be a good idea to throw an axe in the same place. He also wanted an old shirt procured for the same purpose, and said that he wonld stain it with his own blood, and would treat the axe in the same way. He was particular that human blood should be used, but said be had nsed chicken blood to stain the arti cles found in tbe woodswhen the second pocketbook was found it was also taken to New York and found to contain 204,000 marks, or a little over $60,000. All this money was on the person of Sehalte when killed. More developments are coming to morrow. MISTAKEN MOTHERHOOD. A Woman of Xvansvilte, Ind., Claims a* Her Daughter a Young Lady to Whom She Was an Entire StrangerSingular Corroboration of the Alleged Parent'r Story. LEvansnlle, Ind., Special, Sept. 1.\ Considerable excitement was created late last nnjht by a singular case which the pob were called upon to investigate. When th tram from St. Louis was about to leave the depot a party of four ladies came to the de pot. They were Misses Mattie and Jenni* Kerr, Mrs. Anderson, of Mount Camel, who is engaged in the millinery business, and Miss Ellen Downs, a young girl of 19, who has been living with the Misses Kerr and their brother in this city for some time. Mrs. Anderson has been visiting tbe Misses Kerr also, and was about to depart zx her home. The others had come to the depot to bid her farewell. While waiting for the train to go, an old ladv named Mrs. Williams came into the depot crying and in great distress, and applied to the officers to assist her. She said Miss Downs was her daughter, and that the other ladies were going to send her away to Mount Carmel to get her out of her reach. Mrs. Anderson was allowed to go, bat the others were taken to the polios station. In conversation with the officers making the ar rest tbe old lady described her daughter and marks upon her person, telling them that it they die not find these marks as she had described them to let the woman go. The marks on her daughter were a mole on her breast, a speck in one of her eyes and ac injured finger, which had been cut nearly off and after the severest examination these marks were found, just as she had described them. Her tale as she related it at the Central station is as fol lows: About eighteen months ago my daughter was taken sick, and tbe physician tbat I called in commenced giving her morphine and quinine. I saw tbat she was not im proving, but gradually wasting away, and finally the physician announced her dead. I would not believe it, as when I felt the body it was perfectly warm, and I would not permit her burial but tbe doctor said I was crazy, and the burial preparations were has tened, and she was buried. I was allowed to go to the grave, but she was taken away before it was filled in. Tbe trench was shal low, and I am satisfied my child was taken up and carried away for immoral purposes. Tbe old lady's story was related so simply and persisted in under such strong crosv qu stioniDg, besides being borne out by the identifying marks, that the police were puz zled to understand it. The Misses Kerr and Miss Downs told their story, which waa that the latter was the daughter of a fanner liv ing near Carmi, III., and had lived with the Misses Kerr here for some time, attending school. A physician who was treating her for sore eyes substantiated this, and said he was acquainted with her parents. At 1 o'clock this morning all the parties were sent home, the girl with her friends, under protection of tbe officers. To-day the police have con cluded inquiries, which go to show that the girl's story is true, and they think Mrs. Wil liams orazy but this is thefirstevidence of her insanity, and the fact of her describing marks on the girl makes it a remarkabk case. Mrs. Williams and tbe girl never saw each other but once beiore, and then only a moment's conversation occurred. Mrs. Williams' condition will be inquired into. Strange Changes a Man's Hair, IHarrkburg Patriot.] Obadiah J. tarhng is 38 yearsold and by radea plasterer. By reference to tbe eity directory it will be seen that he resides at tbe corner of Benn street and Sayford avenue. He served in tbe army and daring his term of service suffered from a severe attack of scarlet fever. When the fever left bim he found that his hair, which had for merly been a bright auburn hi color, waa changed to a decided gray. Several weeks ago he employed John A. Herman, a young lawyer of this eity, to make application for a pension which is due him. The application containing a description of applicant as a gray-haired man, was duly forwarded, and Mr. Herman saw nothing more of his client for some time. Tbe other day Farling walked into the lawyer's office, and, aa he took off his hat and remarked that he had just recovered from an attack of inflamma tory rheumatism, Mr. Herman waaastound ed to discover that the man whom he had recently described in the pension application as gray-headed now possessed a crop of bright auburn hair, with not a gray look on his head. Tbe man is unable to give an ex planation of the change, and Mr. Herman is naturally somewhat concerned aboot tbe discrepancy between his description sad the aotaalappearanoeof his client, 'vf^STrtA^-^ j*asuis* l"1" *-M"rsnR9l!^aftWte