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Inc IftSh I'OtI inca IN OuOttH. dpThs 1coz-
T. o'Do'cALLAHAN.
Dead! The fond heart stilIed forever
OF poet great and grand
Noble scion of the old sept McCaura!
End of life of high endeavor
For 1.-THE old songs of our land
And the heart of the Gael's wrapped in sorrow.
Not since Davis ceased his singing,
And resigned his poet soul,
In death. to Gods everls sting keeping,
Innisiail's heart has been wIinging
With such bitter, bitter dole
Her eyes e'er been fearful with such weeping.
Since Time s immemorial morning,
When the stars together sang
Scofingly reviled creations story
Long the poet line extending
In array adown the years
Most regal Of all lines terrestrial;
One by one their music blending
With the music of the spheres"
Ana the melody OF golden harPs celestial;
In the listening ear of Earth,
still keeping their beacon fires a-burniDg;
Enrapturing by their singing
PIOudest souls of royal birth,
And exc poorer. humber hearts amounting
| Not one amongst them ever
Trilled the harp with subtler pow'r,
Than thou, dead bard. acr, IS the ocean;
Coarsely sang their muse, o never
Never servile since the hour
| You first smote your Irish harp with fond de-
Entranced in boyhoods dream-time
With thy lays of love and war,
And thy ballads rolling on like Shannon 4
Mid all changes of the meantime
| have fondly watched thy star
| Beaming ptly with pure light ever;
Conscious of thy power poetic.
| Knowing the grandeur of thy soul,
And thy fond pott heart, stilled forever;
| Conscious of thy names magnetic
| While the ''changeful Seasons roll,
May thy memory in Wonderland die neveri
| And while Pillar Towers rise grandly
| In that green isle of our love,
May thy fame survive, o glorious McCaura,
| Renewing its youth hood blandlyi
And thy soul in Heaven above
| Rest forever free from mundane woe and soT
row.
| This tribute, dear departed.
Trite and trivial though it be,
From the heart of brother bard is springiDg
| Here in the West great-hearted,
| Where the exiled Gael roams free,
The songs Of our dear old Island singing,
| Your fame-though by ocean parted
| From the land of Liberty
| Is only in its infantile beginning.
wAsHINGTOS HIGHTs, n. Y, April -, 1882.
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city for quarantining her house In consequence
of smallpox. FIVE of her boarders who each
lost his wages for eighteen days have entered
suit also There have been no new cases
of smallpox in Tadetown for week; Green
Riley, one Of the patients, died Yesterday.
Brownsville Democrat: "The cool days
and nights for the past week or two have
chilled cotton, and in some Localities so
damaged il that il will have to be replanted.
49, Gold has been discovered on the place
of the Rev. w. III. Armstrong, near Browns
Vile, and il causing some excitement The
gold was found in the bed OF deep gulch or
gully, and was in rich quantities, pound OF
the soil washing out eight grains OF gold
party went yesterday evening 10 further IN
vestigate the matter"
At RogersvilIe alittle twelve-year-old son
of W. w. Charles was bearing of lumber
from the saw at his fathers saw mill, when,
by some misstep he was caught by the saw
and before he could he rescued, had his body
cut nearly in two, causing instant death
| Mr.. Harvey Shanks had placed rat poison
upon some bread, and put it about the house
| for the purpose of destroying rats. Mrs
Shanzs, while busting off the mantelpiece
/ laid piece of the bread in a chair, and
while her back was turned upon their little
| baby-perhaps a year old-the little fellow
ate part of the bread, and died a shor
time after eating it.
Franklin Progress: 'In the war time DIR
J. II. Conn buried on his farm, in this county
| for safety, two vessels, one containing hi
silver spoons, etc, and the other about $3.50
| in gold, silver and paper currency. Whel
| peace came he never could find the exac
spot again. He died last week; in diggin
his grave the silver-spoon vessel was com
upon, but the spoons had been found an
stolen. Since then the other vessel has bee
unearthed, near the place where DR.. Con
was buried, and when opened was found I
contain about $500 in gold and silver and
mass of rotten paper, sufficiently preserved
however, TO show that they bad once bee
bills on the old Planters Bank of Tel
| -
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A New Feature I'm Arkansas Politics.


IosoKE. ARK. Nav There is a new
feature in the political situation in Arksn-
sas. The State is pulling away from ques-
tions connected with the war and reconstruc-
ton, and addressing herself more nearly to
the business elements of politics. In evidences
of this is the energy and avidity with which
the proposition to make G. X. breckenridge,
OF Jefferson county, the Democratic nominee
for congressman-at-large is progressing. Al
though a faithful ex-Confederate, and
member of q political family of several
generations identity, yet he has been
associated exclusively with the planting
and commercial interests of the State.
To elect him TO Congress would be
real departure from the past policy of the
State, which has not had and at present has
not any diversity in its delegation. All
of her members OF the House OF
Representatives and both of her sena-
tors are lawyers, as if no questions were
expected to arise which could not be best
treated by men of legal qualifications and
experience All of his competitors are OF
the same profession. 1t Is as II cabinet
were composed exclusively OF attorneys-gen-
eral, or at least of men of only legal train
ing. They recognize that questions OF law
and the constitution are no logger the only
ones requiring the attention OF her delegates
in Cbnsress, but that the business parted
nolitics. the leyee question, the tariff, etc.
now must be looked after in all their aspects
or else the people perish, and they seem dis
nosed 10 diversity their delegation sccord'
ingly. His speeches are said to be almost %
entirely about the business interests OF the
people. and the good attendance reported IN
dicates that they are ready for the discus Is
sion. A party platform or practice which =
negIects free trade, governmental cont5ol BIO o.
NE Mississippi river, its tribgiaries, ana gen
nine civil service reform, Will never sausls
the people if this spirit gels wen apro"'
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SCRUB OAK FIRES.
Houses Destroyed and Much Other
Damage Innicted by Sparks from
Railroad Engines.

New YORK, May Ga vast extent Of
level country in the vicinity of Bellport, L..
l., has within the past thirty hours been
swept by fire. Fortunately the greater part
of it il waste land, covered with thin
growth of scrub oak and but doz m or so
of houses, two of which were burned. For
thirty wears this part of Long Island has
been afflicted periodically by coniagrations,
generally very costly in their effects. The
farmers who have suffered from them at
tribute them invariably 10 the careiessDess
or mischievousBess of stokers and engineers
on the Long Island railroad. The last cal
amity of this kind proceeded, they say, from
this cause. and suits for damages against the
company are already threatened.
The FIRE was first observed about O'Clock
ON Tuesday on the old line of the Long
IaIaud railroad, between MedfOrd and Bart
lett A strong northwest wind was blowing,
and as the shrubbery in which il started was
yerv dry it gathered force and fury very
rapidly. 1t swept in eighty curved line
toward the southeast, and during the night
the red glow could he seen for many miles
The inhabitants of Patchogue, who imagined
themselves directly in the track OF lis ad
vance, were for several hours in a state O
suspense. Much of the smoke was blown
into the village. and they could distinct,
hear the cracking OF the flames. IL passes
them at distance OF two or three miles
however, and threatened more seriously
Brookhaven, a small settlement 10 the east
ward, near the southern branch of the rail
road. Here the wilderness of shrubbery i
cut by an old by-road, which Joins highwa,
/ a short distance from the hamlet Boil
| formed a sort of barrier TO the flames, whicl
they respected in the main.
| Just north of the railroad. however, stoo'
the house Of Mr.. Joshua Carman, in which
| he resided with his wife and daughter, an
4 quarter Of mile further on that of Nj
jeremiah Glover, which was unoecupieS
Mr.. Carman's barn was on the west side {
the read, while hrs house was on the cas-
The former WAS apparently in the more ez
posed situation, and all Of his efforts were
irst directed toward saving il. While b
was hard at work cleaning away the brus
behind his barn he happened 70 glsnee
the house, and cav it in flames. In half 4
hour it was reduced 10 ashes, and ohlY
. small portion Of its contents was saved. ~
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WORKOUT SOIL.

Some parts of Wisconsin and other por-
tions of the wheat States complain that their
lands are wearing out. The farmers who
thus complain, if strict justice were rendered,
would themselves be complained of and,
when found guilty, punished by the law
and be held in society as disgraced. The
land in the farmers hands should be helping
to sustain the community by adding to its
wealth; il should be the resource of his
children and their children, and generations
after them both. These Western lands came
into their owners hands as rich az nature
could make them, and they yielded bounti-
fully, yet these men, while drawing COM
Portable living from these lands, had not the
Justice, the good sense, nor even the honesty
to themselves, to keep the soil up 10 the
mark they found it when they first
put pillow into its bosom. Nature gave
them an advantageous start, but they
took no care to keep and transmit the kindly
gift. On they went, year after year, draw
ing from earth's kindly store the plenteous
harvest, casting with impious and prodigal
hand the straw into the river or
burning it up. Every year the soil was
plundered of it's treasure. They gave it no
rest; they did not let clover or other green
crops give back some of the Ingredients SO
lavishly abused. They were like man
going 10 cistern every day and never turn
ing on the spout coming from The roof so
that heavens rain should find its way there
At length he complains" that his cistern is
empty, and he feels aggrieved and thinks
heaven is dealing hard with him. Such is
the ingratitude and the folly of mani In
the South, too, is heard the same complaint,
and its injustice is often very great.
Imagine a man who has never scratched
deeper into his soil than bare six inches
complaining that his farm is worn outl
Under that six inches live twelve
more inches of soil rich and good. Take
your ox-team and your subsoil pillow and let
the air OF heaven into the ground; give the
roots chance TO strike below, where ordI-
nEy drouth cannot reach them. While you
ask much of mother earth-food, clothing
and something to put by-give her back a
little, if it is but for your childrens sake.
Plow deep, manure your acres, alternate
your crops, make a barlyard to distribute
straw on at intervals, and have stock that
will make the straw into manure; then you
viii not complain" of wornout land, but
you will transmit the farm 10 your children
in as good heart and filth" as you yourself
received it." "Wornout land" is verdict
OF guilty upon the farmer that owns it.
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"ONLY AN ENGINEER

ELLEN E. HEBRON.
engineer Of lie Il, fdted steamer Golden City.
Only an Engineer
Who never quailed TO fear,
As clear and loud he gave the cry
To startled pilot standing high,
FOR GODS SAKE QUICKLY LAND!
Then in his courage grand
Stood like some hero sentinel
His own bright, deathless fame to tell.
Only an Engineer!
While flames are leaping near,
And madden d wild beasts plunge and tear
To break their furnace-cases there,
And human beings sink
Beneath the pillows brink
Whose deadly seething could not queli
Only an Engineer!
God grant we all may herr
In thunder-tOne from Great Unknown
The words forever now his own,
FOR GODS SAKE QUICKLY LAND.
Ye who may doubling stand
While fires eternal blaze and leap
Beside your almost fatal sleep.
Only an Engineer!
In highest human sphere,
The sphere that martyrs grandly find
In nobly dying for their kind,
While men shall speak his praise
Along with his alike renowned,
Montague the Hero-Pilot crownedi
Only an Engineer?
High TO the clouds let's rear
A monument beside the waves
Where both immortals found their graves,
Wheremen who dare to die
For men when dangers nigh
Shall wake in Heaven to find their worth
Forever blest and loved on earth!
GREESvILLE, MISS, April Is, 1882
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The Thirteen-af.Dipner FafaIIlx.

New York Times: "Actuary Harvey, Of
the Missouri insurance department, has been
testing the force of the fatal thirteen st-din-
ner superstition by means OF mortality labl
in common use in this country. He shows
quite conclusively that if at an ordinary
dinner gathering one out of the thirteen dit 3
within the course OF the year, il is not due
to any law of average. That is TO say, ia
accordance with the mortality experience Of
insurance companies, the thirteen dinets
would need to have an average age of MOI e
than seventy years in order 10 make such
fatal conclusion probable. IL the average
age OF the guests was forty year,, there would
| have 10 be about 100 of them present in or
der to make death within year a prob 4
bic event. The intent Of this calculation il
to show that the superstition does not have
its rise in any doctrine OF Chances. II
premises conclusion which in the ordinary
course Of nature are not likely 10 happen
No good reason can be shown for the fear
and yet, like many other strange fzncies, II
still continues to exist in spite of increased
| intelligence and scientific trsiuingD
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POLITICAL POINTS
Picked Up Over Various Southern States
A New Feature in Arkansas
POlitics-Hit at Malone.
Billy Moore, VI. c., the Only Original
SKINNY Fresh''-The Tennessee
Debt Question.

DALLAS, May "a letter Is being shown
here from the Hon. g. Wash Jones, member
of the Texas congressional delegation, dated
Washington, April 18th, in which he signifies
his willingness to make the race for governor
independent, against what he pleases
to term Bourbon Democracy. This letter
contains the statement that he recedes from
a former conditional declaration written to
the same person, based on the consideration
that some other candidate Of more recent
Democratic record should be found, but as
no such man has come TO the front he obeys
the call of duty and is ready TO do the bid
ding of what he terms the people. Local
Republican leaders met in secret session here
last night and concluded not TO make nomi-
nations, but to support the independent Dem
ocratic candidates for county and Legislative
ticket. 1t has leaked out that two former
Democratic divines Colonel w. q. Veal and
General W. b. Gano, were ceutersd upon for
anti-Democratic support for the Legislature
and that the temperance vote il also TO be
secured for them. These gentlemen have
not formally announced, but this ia what the
Republicans did, and it may be without con-
sultinp them
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Stealing a Congressman.

We were not surprised at the unseating OF
General Chalmers by the Republican House.
General Chalmers was clearly elected under
the laws of Mississippi, and the Supreme
Court of that State affirmed the legality of
his election. But majority of votes had
been illegally cast for Lynch, and the Re-
publicans in the House entirely ignored the
laws of Mississippi and the decision of her
Supreme Court, and seated partisan of
their own. The action of the Republican
majority of the House was as plain blow
at State rights was the action of the
electoral commission of 1877. The latter
stole the electoral votes of four States, but
the former has stolen a congressman and
proposes, in the same manner, to steal seve-
raj others The President and his faction
of the Republican party-have, time and
again. expressed, not only desire, but man
ifested purpose, TO create an Independent,
if not a Republican, party in the South.
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Isif auit AZ Mahnne =

NlIBlhlau
We hold that honest methods, in all things,
are to be preferred to trickery and fraud in
anything. There should be political as we'll
as moral honesty; for no man can associate
the two. And yet some people utterly fail
to perceive the close connection between pol
itics (which should mean the science of gov
ernment), and the honest administration of
private affairs in everyday life. A political
huckster, a trading politician, a man who
has no conscience in politics, can hardly be
relied upon in anything; and it is quite GER
tain that he will not be more honest in his
private affairs than the law requires him 10
be. And 80 it should be the aim of every
well-wisher of society, every friend of his
State and people, to preserve the purity Of
the body polite. That our politics have
not always been kept on this high plane, is
deeply to be regretted. That self-seeking
demsgogues, corrupt politicians, dishonest
place-seekers, have led many Of the people
of Virginia astray, is too patent for contra
diction, since the evidence is about US on
every hand
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The mania for decorative art has at
length reached its eliminating point. Bank
$50 have been found that are about an inch
short of the proper dimensions. The deco
rative maniacs (?) cut two-thirds from one
bill, and about an eighth from another bill
of the same denomination, and the decora-
ton consists in making another bill of the
pieces thus cut out, and is carefully pursued
so that five 81 bills are made to produce SI2,
and five SO bills are converted into $50;
and this is much more remuneratiye thar
inhalipg the fragrance of lilies and wearing
pants cut like the bills, and it makes the
receiver of the notes Wild(e) too, -.
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE
At Racine, Wis.-Large Extent OF Terri
tory Burned over

And a Vast Amount of Property De-
stroyed-NO Lives Lost
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CINCINNATI, May 6.-The first case under
the Smith law, which prohibits the sale Of
intoxicating liquors on Sunday, received
sentence to-day in the Police Court. 1t wa'
Fredolin Schumann, one of the leading
saloon keepers, who was found guilty by q
jury several days ago. The Judge imposed
the full sentence of the law-SI00 fine and
thirty days imprisonment. Execution was
suspended to enable the defendant to take
the case to the Common Pleas Court.
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barn and the sheds aud hay racks surround
ing 1t were all untouched. Mr. Glover's
house was burned about the same time, but
another empty dwelling within hundred
yards OF 1t and nearer the blazing woods was
spared. a small building in the edge OF the
woods, occupied by a negro family, was LETT
unscorched, while everything about it was
blackened and burned. 1t is said that all
that protected the hamlet of Brookhaven IT.
self is newly cleared field owned by Mr..
Nathaniel Miller, a brother-in law OF Mr..
Carman. The lattsr's loss is about $1,000
over and above all insurance of $1,000. The
other burned dwelling was valued at 5000.
A change Of wind checked the flames early
this morning, and at the present time they
are apparently extinct. The distance which
they travelled is in a straight line about six
miles. Mr.. Carman and his family found
shelter at the house of Mr.. Nathaniel Miller
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ST. LOUIS, May 6.-Ihe severest storm
that has visited this section for many years
passed over the city last evening, and did
Immense damage TO window-glass, trees and
gardens. Hail fell for nearly half an hour
and many of the stones were as large as full.
sized marbles. Thousands of windows wers
shattered, and large numbers of shade treei
we're stripped OF their foliage. Very heavy
rain accompanied the hail. The storm
passed over the central part Of the city only
and went east, where it did CONSIDERABLE,
DAMAGE 10 crOt,s
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TENNESSEE NEWS.

Bunker Hill is suffering from malaria, and
colds are prevalent.
jackson Tribune: The City Council Is
going to close the barber shops on Sundays"
Pulaski Democrat: The weeks 90 by and
no movement ia made toward purchasing a
Gre engine for this village. 1t seems as il
the heavy losses of October last shonld con-
vince people
Chattanooga Times: "A boardinghouse'
keeper having obtained damages against The
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A Person Strictly Fresh.

Congressman Moore, of Memphis. who was
possessed of the insane idea some months
ago that President Arthur would call him TO
his cabinet as postmaster-general,a and has
been earning the reputation of person
strictly fresh, lectured the administration
some time ago upon what he called its
failure TO uphold representative Southern
Republicans with that most sturdy of props,
the Federal offices. He wanted the postmas-
ter at Memphis removed instanter. The in
cumbent is the widow of aformer postmaster,
who died during the scourge of yellow-fever;
bat how could she, all voteless as she was,
build up the Republican party in Tennessee?
Her place should be given TO a Stalwart, and
Moore could name the very man. 1t is now
found that his candidate is his own brother
in-law, and his professions of love for the
old party are fully understood to mean the
party who is related TO Mr.. Moore.
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nm sonlhern IIIinnls.

CHICAGO, May 6.-Reports from the storm
in southern Illinois say that strong wind
bail, thunder and lightning, accompanied
the heavy rainfall and made the night on
of terror. Farm work is stopped in com
sections. Grave fears are entertained a
Vandslia that the Okaw and other stream
may overflow and food the farm bottoms
At Marshall the creeks have overlooked thei
banks and flooded the farms for the fifth tim
this season.