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THE FOREIGN WAR.

The London Times, in a leading edito
rial, offers the following opinion: off the
Russians had captured Kars and Batoum
they would have been strongly tempted to
offer easy terms of peace; butnow they have
been so far bafled, they must strike with
all their might in Europe, and everything
tends to show that they intend to strike very
hard indeed"
The Mussulmans are preparing to flee
from the scenes of last years atrocities in
Bulgaria, fearing the vengeance OF the Rus
slams and Bulgarians.
The porte has promised Minister Lay
ard that it will take measures to assure the
safety of Christians.
Over 10000 Russians have crossed
the Danube at Simnitza, with an immense
train of artillery, comprising some pieces of
very heavy calibre, The enthusiasm of the
Russian troopsis very great.
Many Turks while working their guns
at Rustchuk, have been killed by the rifle
fire from houses adjacent to the fort. These
mysterious assassinations are causing bad
blood against the Bulgarians.
The Grand Duke Nicholas has received
the grand cross of st. George for the passage
of the Danube; his son the military cross,
and General Nepokoischitzky, chief OF staff,
the grand cross of st. George of the third
class, The emperor has taken up his resi-.
dence at Drajo, near acknowledgement.
Fifteen hundred Russian cavalry who
endeavored to relieve Bayazid have been
beaten by the Kurds, with a loss of sixty
killed and two hundred wounded.
The Austrian Lloyd steamer landed
at Corfu, for the Turkish government, one !
and ninety-three cases of arms,
it is intended to reship for Prevasa,
n Albania, but the Russian consul protested
o the Greek government against the use of
territory as a depot for the arms of
belligerent. The government %thereupon
rdered the detention of the arms, and the
aptain of the Austrian ship in which they
ad already been re.embarked, on hearing
he protest, unloaded them into boats. Aus.
ia endorses the course Of the Greek gov
nment in the retention of the arms.
The hey of Tunis has requested the
ttoman government to send him vessels to
nyey a present of mules from Tunis to
'~nstantinople. The British and French
nsuls are stated to have recommended the
y to observe neutrality.
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SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES.
An I~nterestius Paper on the subjsct b.
Hon. u. Il. Trezeynut, of Ark ansas-
Cotton Growing tales Compared
with Man ufacturtn States,

The Hon. ]. T. T~rezevant, of Arkan,
sas, in a series of articles on the products
of the south and the manufactures OF
the north compared, published in the
Memphis Appeal, writes as follows:
Perhaps the facts found in the follow
ing tables, from the census report of
1870, may serve to stimulate the active
interest already manifested by some of
our leading citizens. That the facts
may be seen in their most striking light,
| have compared the three small states of
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode
Island with the three larger ones of
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. These
last illustrate the c0tton-growing inter
ests the Others, the cotton-manufactur-
ing interests. The manufacturing states
have a cold climate, and a soil not suited
to the higher conditions of agriculture. |
The cotton states have a soft, delightful
climate, and a soil so fertile as to pro.
duce, in unlimited amount, under good
culture, all the grains, grasses and fruits,
besides rice, sugar and cotton. When
we consider that the one item Of cotton,
in some form or other, has ~frGighted and
still treights more ships, sinks more
mines, builds more machinery, organizes
more mOneyed institutions, creates more
commerce, and clothes more people than
any other product OF the earth, we may
well wonder why those who grow it do {
not also measurably control its manutac- {
ture. The tables below are so arranged l
Is to invite attention without confusing -
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An Escape.

Capt. Gunson, of the ship P~atterdale,
relates a thrilling story of the escape OF
one of his ships boys from the NAV of a
shark. The ship was in the tropics, with
wind enough to keep the canvass from
Topping, and n of the apprentices
was owe the weather side, cleaning off.
The captain, standing on the poop
deck, noticed that the boy was careless,
and warned him to look out for himself
and not tumble overheard. The shin
was going about three knots an hour, and
the sea almost as calm as a mill. pond.
The lad, in a moment of carelessness, lost
his balance, and fell from the platform
slung over the side. The captain saw
the accident, and threw him a ladder.
which the boy grasped, and clambered
up on the rounds as the ship left him
astern.
No sooner had the boy settled himself
on the ladder than a brace of large blue
sharks ranged up alongside, and actually
reared their heads out of the water in
their eagerness to taste the young sailor. |
The boy screamed Justify, and grew half
frantic from terror. The ship was hove
to, and a boat was lowered. Still the
boy hung unto the ladder, irving to
keep his legs free from the swapping of
the vicious sharks, which seemed actu.
ally to jump out of the water to get at
him.. After some twenty-five minutes of
suspense, a boat was lowered,
md he got int it. As soon as the bow
ound himself safe be tainted. II was a
earthly narrow escape.
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Who Ate Roger williams,

MACON CITY, Mo, May 81, 1S77.-What is
meant by the question, " Who ate Roge,
W!iliams"" Answer in your paper, and
oblige ANOTHER IsorIPEP
Last week we did not know Roger
Williams had been eaten, and so an
swered. Since that time a friend has
given us information of the event, and it
occurred in this wise: Roger Williams
was a native of Whales, was a Puritan,
and the founder of the colony of Rhode
Island. He died in Providence 1888.
Many years afterwards, the pri yate bury
ing ground where he was inferred was
searched for the remains of himself
and wife, for the purpose of erecting a
monument over them. Very little was
fonnd. The shape of the collins could
only be traced by a black line in the
earth. The rusted hinges and nails and
a round wooden knot alone remained in
one grave, while a single lock OF braided
hair was found in the other. Near the
grave stood an apple tree, the larger
root of which pushed its way to the pre-
else spot occupied by the skull of Roger
Williams, and, turning, passed around it
and followed the direction of the back
bone to the hips. Here it divided into
two branches, sending one along each leg
to the heel, when the roots turned up
ward to the toes, the whole bearing a
striking resemblance to the human form.
These roots are now deposited in the
OF Brown university. 1t was
thus found that the organic matter-thc
1esh, the bones, of Roger Williams-had
passed into an apple tree, transmitted
nto woody fibre, bloomed in fragrant
blossoms, and bore luscious fruit, which
rom year to year has been gathered and
aten' Those, therefore, who ate the
pples from this tree ate Roger Williams.
/ Columbia No. Statesman.
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THE RATTLE.
TRANSLATED PROM SCHILLER ny BuLwKR.

IEANsLATED fhoM htblLLEk ny BuLWHR.
Heavy and solemn,
A cloudy column.
Through the green plain they marching como
h,easnreless spread, like a table dread,
For the wild grim dice OF the iron game,
Looks are bent on the shaking ground,
Hearts beat low with a knelling sound
swift by the breast that must bear the brunt,
GAllops the Major along the front.
"Haltin
And iettered they stand at the stark command,
And the warriors silent, halt.
Irond is the blush Of morning glowing,
what on the hill-iop shines in tiowiug2
See you the foeman's banner waying7
We see the toeman's banner wavinRl
God be with your children and wife -
Hark to the music-the drum and fife
How they ring through the ranks, which they reus
to the strife?
! thrilling the sound, with their glorious tone,
Thrilling they go through the marrow and bone
Brothers, God grant, when this life is DER,
In the life to come that we may meet once more
See the smoke, how the lightning is Cleaving asunderI
Harkl the guns, peal on peal, how they boom in theI
thunder,
From host to host with kindling sound,
The shouted signal circles round
Freer already breathes,the BREATH
The war is raging, slaughter waging,
And heavy through the reeking pail
The iron death dice falli
Victory!
Close Is the hrunt Of the glorious fight;
And the day, like a conqueror, bursts on the night
Trumpet and fife swelling choral along,
The triumph already sweeps marching in song.
Farewell, fallen brothers though this life be DER,
There's another, IN which we shall meet you once
more.
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1t is presented because Memphis has
some of the largest and most reliable
boot and shoe houses in the Mississippi
valley-houses whose constantly growing
trade shows that they possess the
full confidence of the retail merchants
trading here. Massachusetts, had but
100000 cattle in 1870, Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi had inward of $500, 900.
Yet, the dry hides are sent from the
south to Massachusetts, where they
are tanned, dressed and made into boots
and shoes for the very people who slaught-
cred the animals; and now the hair from
their bodies is often sent back to us for
plastering purposes. 1t should create no
surprise if the bones were gathered up
and sent to the Yankee mills for CONVEX
sion into powder to be used for fertilizing
the very fields the cattle once grazed
upon. Should we not convert most of
these hides into boots and shoes? And
would not such an industry start others
Would it not start other and different
manufactures, and thus add to our pop
ulation by diversifying our industries?
ask such questions is to answer them.
Now let us look at
The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-07-13

W. H.. Chapman & Co., of New York
fruit importers, have failed. Liabilitie.
$4,000.
The Portsmouth On. H. light ar
tillery, organized in 1776, has accepted an
invitation of the mayor of Portsmouth, En-.
gland, to visit that city and enjoy its hospi.
tahties.
The proprietors of the New York
Herald have reduced its wages paid to en-,
ployes from Acc. per 1000 ems to Ace. for
night work, and 33c. for day work.
Joseph Potter, of Whitehall, a Justice
OF the Vermont supreme court, has been
adJudged bankrupt. Liabilities $4,000
above assets.
BY the explosion of the boiler of a
steamer on Silver lake, near Boston, a few
days since, several persons were seriously
injured, but none fatally.
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ROBERT FULTON.
An Account or the First Steamboat TriI
Hetwecn New York and Albany.

An Account or the First stenmbont Tri
Retwecn New York aud Albany.
r In the Suffolk Gazette, printed Mt Sa
Harbor, on the east end of Long Islant
s October ~. 1907, is a letter from Rober
| Fulton to Joel Barlow, giving an accoun
OF the first trip of the first steamboat o.
| the Hudson river. 1t is as follows:
t To JOEL BARLOW, PHILADELPHIA.
New YORK, 22d Aug, 1907.
MY DEAR FRIEND: Ny steambea
voyage to Albany and back has turned
out rather more favorable than | hac
calculated. The distance from New Yorl
to Albany is $50 miles / ran it up in 3.
hours and down in 30 hours. The latte,
is just 8 miles an hour. | had a light
breeze against me the whole way going
and coming, so that no use was made OF
my sails and the voyage has been per.
formed wholly by the pc ver of the steam
engine. l overlook many sloops and
sehooners bearing to windward, and
passed them as if they had been at
anchor.
The powerof propelling boats by steam
is now fully proved. The morning | left
New York there were not perhaps thirty
persons in the city who believed
that the boat would ever move one
mile an hour or be of the least utility.
Ana while we were putting off from the
wharf, which was crowded with specta-
tors, heard a number of sarcastic re-
marks; this is the way you know in
when ignorant men compliment what
they call philosophers and projectors.
laying employed much time and
money and zeal in accomplishing this
work, it gives me, as it will Won great
pleasure to see it SO fully answer nv ex-
pectations. 1t will give a quick and
cheap conveyance to merchandise on the
Mississippi, Missouri, and other great
which are o laying open their
treasures to the enterprise of our coun-
trymen. And although the prospect of
personal emolument has been some
lnducement to me, yet | feel infinitely
more pleasure in rejecting with you on
the Immense advantage that nv country
Will derive from the invention.
However, | will not admit that il ;s
half SO important as the torpedo system
81 defense and attack for out of this will
grow the liberty of the seas; an object of
Ihhalte Importance to the welfare of
America and every civilized country,
But thousands of persons have now
'een the steamboat in rapid movement.
they believe-but they have not
zen a ship of war destroyed by a tor
'edo, and they do not believe. We can
expect people in general to have a
knowledge OF physic, or power of mind to
combine ideas and reasons from causes to
fleets. But in case we have war, and
ne enemy's ships come into our waters. if
government will give me reasonable
means OF action, l will soon convince the
'orid that we have surer and cheaper
nodes OF defense than they are aware of.
Yours, etc, ROBERT FULToN.
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The object In presenting this is not SC
much to illustrate the great importance
of manufactures as to show how carelesslv
we use the advantages we have. Is there
any good reason why the mich COW of
Connecticut should annually yield sixty
seven pounds of butter, while the cow Of
Mississippi yields but fifteen pounds ,
Is there any good reason why the cow of
New York should annually Weld eighty
pounds of butter, while that of Tennessee
yields but forty, that of Georgia but
twenty, and that of Alabama %fifteen9 T.
there any good reason why Massachusetts
should sell 15,000,000 gallons of milk
from her 115,000 mich cows. wbila
Georgia sells 10000 gallons from inst
twice as many COWS? The butter cron
of New York, in 1870, was worth SOC
100000 at twenty-five cents per pound.
The cotton crop of Georgia, that wear
worth but $685. 900, 600. The butter
and milk of New York. for that
year, were worth 1920 0 900, if sold even
1t present prices. The cotton crop of
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ofaska' The rate is highest in the south,
ana lowest in states having dog laws.
The public debt statement for June
shows a reduction of s3,229, lo9.
The following is the letter of the Pres,
ldent suspending Col. wilkins from the
office Of Collector OF the Baltimore District;
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington JUly2.
SE':-Yon are hereby suspended from the
office OF Collector Of Customs for the District
OF Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, in
accordance with the terms of section 1853
Revised Statutes of the United States, and
subject to all the provisions of the law appli-
cable thereto. r, B. HAYES.
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WASHINGTON

ihe investigation into the losses ef
curing the past year shows a total of
neAfiy 100000 sheep and lambs were de.
si'yea by dogs and wolves and vsriory,
- ane the aggregate money value of
Heahy Ss'eOO.oo0. The average pereentaaa
.. loss vas nearly s. The proportion il ~
highest respectively in North Ca.nr
fIorlda' and Louisiana, and ranges from -
per cent in the former state to 3 40 in ~
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| have selected this table because on

l have selected this table because one
of the largest branches of the Memphis
wholesale trade is in cotton goods. 1t
shows where they are mostly nanufac,
tured. A month ago | asked two of our
well-known and leading dry goods firms
where they bought their Georgia cotton
goods, and the reply of both was "in
New York" These merchants have a
large and steadiIy-growing trade with
the retail merchants of Tennessee, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Arkansas, and if
such goods could be manufactured here
the wholesale trade of these merchants
would soon be quadaupled. Look at
amountof operatives, and the amount
paid out for the raw cotton. With cot
ton factories here, would not a demand
or other factories, greater or smaller,
pring up? Has not the trade in straw
here built up a large manufacture
# boxes, baskets, etc, and given an adj
litional demand for lumber and work
men? Here is
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When lovely woman stoops to folly in
Greece, she has the same inalienabls
right to perforate her betrayer that she
possesses in the United States. Miss
Canavassogion destroyed her destroyer,
a captain in the Greek army, shooting
him in the public street. She was
promptly acquitted and conducted home
in triumph by a large and enthusiastic
crowd.
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GENERAL NOTES.


What vas dis bug In mein podado field.
Dat eats so much altho' he Is so leetle
what's dat you ray Mcln Got Mein Got Ma.
Is dis dat awful Colorado beetle2
Veil, veil, adeau to mein pddado field.
III sect me down und like a Yankee wboo,,.
Or like n Yankee cut mein sticks und nm ''"'
Nhile all is eat by dis woracious beetle,
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The above table suggests several dues.
lions: First--Why the cold and com.
paratively unproductive states of Mas.
sachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode
Island are so much more populous thar
the three states of Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi, with a rich soil and gem
lal climate, where everything supporting
life grows in vast abundance? Whv is
it that rocky, bleak Massachusetts,, with
but one-eight the area, has nearly ten
times as many people to the square mile
as delightful, fertile Georgia-both of the
cold Thirteen ?" Why is it that cold,
stormy, sterile Rhode Island, with her
five counties, has nearly ten times as
many people to the square mile as fertile
Mississippi? Again, why is it that the
three New England utates, :;ithail their
disadvantages of soil and climate, have
from four to eight times more wealth,
per head, than the named southern
states, with all their superior
advantages of soil and climate ?
1t cannot be on account of any pecu-
llarity In the two people of the two
sections. The south has always eoualed
TIE north in statesman, jurists, orators,
generals. The answer to the foregoing
question, is found in the following tables
two, three, four and five. They sneak
lor themselves, and show what a people
can do when resovled to do:
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IItTe IIIs sure UuaI m I6IU Massachu.
sets had nearly six hundred million
dollars invested in manufacturers, and
the three states more than eight hundred
millions, thus invested while the three
cotton states had but ifty-two millions
thu invested; Tennessee having nearly
as much as Georgia, Alabama and Mis-
sissippi combined. These manufactured
industries of the three Yankee states
create a demand for all kinds of food
and hence thesman farmers and gardeners
there, have markets right at their doors
for everything they or the thousand of
factory-hands need in the way of food.
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The sunlower fights nobly at Indian
apolis, and the pigweed strives by the
union depot.
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A DESCENDANT or WASHINGTON IN NEW
YoRK.-The tea party given At tie Academy OF
Music, in New York, on tho 22d instant to re-
plen1sh the funds Of St Johns Guild was n
grand affair. The Russian Grand Dukes ALEXIS
and Constantine, and number of distinguished
naval officers OF the ststis of those roy"i person
sges wsre present Gen. Roger a. Pryor and
party, including Mrs. ElIs b, Washington, of
Jefferson county. West Va. grand niece Of
General Washington and great grand nIeco Il
Martha Washington, wore among the prominent
persons in attendance. Mrs. Washington was
introduced TO Alexis and gave him pinch OF
snufI out of q snuff box presented by Alexanl or
II. of Russia To Judge Bushrod Washington, OF
Virginia The " I'D mentions Mrs Whshing,,
ton IS first among the distinguished guests, ana
another paper described her rs dressed with
elegant simplicity in black silk and white i';ce
with white fan ard gloves, cslls lily in h"r
hair, aud bouquet bonded OF white hyscilthS
and purple violet"
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MEDICAL.
TAKE
SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR

'or all diseases ofthe Liver, Stomach and Splet
WILL CURE
DYSPEPSIA.
UNJUST OWN that your
Simmons Liver Regulator
fully deserves the populsri-
ty it has attained. AS FAM
iiy medicine it has no equal.
1t cured my wifo Of maa.
dy 1 had counted incurable
that wolEbane Of our Am
erican people. Dyspepsia.
A. E. p. ALBERT,
Professor in Nicholas Pub
lie School, Parish of Ter
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CONSTIPATION.

TESTIMONY OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE
OF GEORGIA.-I have used Simmons Liver
Regulator for constipation of my bowels, caused
by 8 temporary arrangement Of the liver, for
the last three or four years, and always when
used according 10 the directions, with decided
benefit l think it is good medicine tor the
arrangement of the liver-at least such has been
nv personal experience in the use of it.
HIRAM WARNER,
rhiaf Justice of GeOrpia.