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28. JACKSOX, MISSISSIPPI, SATU11 DAY, XOVEMBEIt 5, 1887. SI 50 PER YEAH. R. It.

I LEDGER LIXES. LARGE YIELD OF CORN. MIRROR OF THE STATE. AMONG THE EXCHANGES THE COUNTY FAIRS. WANT OF PROSPERITY.

have captured the prize over numerous competitors. What has been said in re gard to the colt exhibits is eaually applicable to this class. But for the postponement of Tuesday's programme both classes would have been well filled. The exhibits of Jacks is said by many who are well informed, to have been the best in the Southern States. The entries were by J.

A. Trice, of Monroe A. W. Allen, of Lee; A. G.

Harkreader, of Lee, and J. W. L)illis, of Pontotoc. They were all imported Spanish Jacks. Mr.

Trice received first premium and Mr. Harkreader second. F'or the best aged Jack, premium to Mr. Harkreader. In the cattle ring the exhibits of Jerseys was one of the best ev er made in the South, and attracted the attention of a score or more of stock and cattle owners who were upon the grounds.

There were several classes in all of which premiums were awarded. For Jersey bull, three years and over, premium to R. E. Houston, of Monroe. For bull one year and under two, the entries were by Chancellor Critz, Chancellor Baxter McFarland and Judge L.

E. Houston The first premium was awarded to Chancellor McFarland, second to Judge Houston, both of Monroe. F'irst premium wa3 awarded to Chancellor Critz, for Jersey bull calf; is a son of "Lactifera," and a splendid animal. F'or Jersey cows, three years old and over, the first premium was given to Chancellor Critz'8 cow, Lactifera, No. 17,333, as pretty a thing as was ever led into an exhi bition ring.

She has a record of fourteen pounds and thirteen ounces, 'vith second calf, and will doubtless soon be registered in the twenty-one pound class. She was tepted on the grounds and gave two and a half gallons of milk, besides what the calf claimed and appropriated. Lactifera is the head of Judge Crit herd and probably has no superior in the South. Jerseys two years and under three, entries by Chancellor Critz, Chancellor F'arland and George C. Paine.

First premium to McFarland; second to Paine. F'or Jersey's one year and under two, premium to R. E. Houston, of Monroe F'or heifer calf, Jersey, Chancellor Critz premium. .3 rrngraihs That are Intended to Dlnpell the IHuen.

When hens shed their feathers it is sometimes best to shed the hens. A river ia like some men. It don't get out of its bed till it is dry. Take care of the pence, and one fool thing or another will take care ot your pounds. A pumped out petroleum well, is like a man driven out of his native country, is an ex-ile.

The bathing suit resembles the bathing suit joke in that it often requires to be wrung out. We shall not In surprised to hear at any moment that the old man Stain wrote the Morey letter. The report that the Virginia tobacco crop has been ruined by frost will make sauerkraut dear. 'Ts your father a Christian asked the new minister. "No," replied the boy, "he sings in the choir." "I do wish," remarked the white horse, wearily, "that auburn-haired girlswould try-ami keep indoors more." Even the God of Nature helps to ccles brate the President's triumphal tour by giving us two full moons in Octoler.

Brown says that he would enjoy playing solitaire more if he could tell whether it was he or the other fellow that got heat. "I'm a lily," said tramp. "I toil not, neither do I spin, but I'll bet my boots that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like me." The solitare diamond cuts glass, and the base ball diamond cuts grass. One is used by the upper ten and the other by the base (ball) nine. The King of Siani has three thousand wives.

He is a monarch of extraordinary firmness and courage. These facts naturally group themselves. "Do unto others ns you imagine they would do unto you under the same circumstances," is a sort of a brass rulo more in use than the golden article. The St. Louis Browns must be feeling darkly, beautifully blue by this time.

As Muza said to Ferdinand the Catholic. "It's monotonous being licked consecutively." "Pa," said a New Hampshire farmer's daughter, "the laziest tramp 1 ever saw came into the yard to-day. lie stood there by the wood pile and let the dog undress him." Geologists say the rocks that abound here are of the Silurian age. From the way real estate dealers handle dirt we are led to the belief that the present is a Sel-lure-you-in age also. There set-ma to be something in every occupation that has its peculiar influence on the mind of men.

While actors often become crazy, shoemakers always retain their senses to the last. Guide (explaining the views of mountain to a party) And here is where a young lady jumped off and committed suicide. Lady From melancholy Guide No, ma'am; from Boston. "A pretty hard walk, wasn't it?" inquired a citizen of one of the parading firemen. "On the contrary," replied the red shirted hero, looking in search ot a bootblack; "it was decidedly a soft one." When an Irishman went into a Chinese laundry and told the Mongolian in charge to hurry up his washing, because he hadn't a clean shirt bosom to his back, that was a bull in a China shop, wasn't it? "I don't know what to do with the hired girl," said a young wife.

"She's absolutely useless, and yet I hate to discharge her.1' "Why don't you teach her to light the fire with inquired her husband. Citizen (to Sheriff) I suppose, Mr. Selle-mont, that the execution of a murderer is not only a most unpleasant duty, but one somewhat difficult to successfully per form, as well? Sheriff Not after you get the hang of it. A Wisconsin court has decided that a husband may open his wife's letters. That is all very well so far as it goes, but what this country wants is a law to protect a husband who forgets to mail his wile's letters.

There is a white horse at Roscommon, that visits a saloon daily for its glass of beer. This is all the more remarkable from the fact that the beer saloon is not -e-sided over by a red-headed woman. A Salvation Army girl wears upon her jersey the legend "No water in hell. There is no whisky in hell, either; but judging from the great amount of crime in the land, directly or indirectly traced to that beverage, there is considerable hell in wliis- "Mr. Snyilerly, I hear that you referred to me as a liar." "Yes, sir, I did.

What are you going to do about "I was going to ask you to put it down On paper for me, I ant to get a job in a Omaha real estate office, and I don't need a better recommendation." Why He Was Afraid Street car conductor (to countryman) If you saw him picking the gentleman's pocket why didn't you interfere, instead of letting him get away Countryman I saw that sign up there, 'Beware of an', b'gosh, I was 'fraid to. Mr. Wabash of Chicago Have you read Julian Hawthorne's story, "A Tragic Myss ten-" Miss Breezy? Miss Breezy Oh. yes I and I found it very interesting. I think his style has so much improved since he wrote "The Scarlet Utter." What pained him most "Kicked you out did he?" sympathized a friend with a walking delegate who had found himself suddenly projected to the sidewalk in front of a manufacturing establishment.

"Yes; but that wasn't the worst of it." "No?" "What pains me most is the fact that the boot he kicked me with wasn't union made." Chicago policemen are now having what they call an "Anarchist drill." They meet in squads every other day and are instructed in the use of Winchester rifles, with which every polieeman on the fo.ee is said to be supplied. In order that they may lie-come proficient in the drill the city should urnish them with a few Anarchists to practice on. They couldn't be devoted to a better purpose. Gulf auil Ship Island Railroad. Biloxl Herald.l A few days ago we had occasion to visit Gulfport, and were most agreeably received by that gallant gentleman, Gen.

Argyle Smith, and his associate in business, Col. Hyatt. After breakfast wo were invited by Mr. Hoskins to take a trip over the road to Bayou Bernard, where the trestle bridge waa in course of construction. We mounted a flat car of the train conducted and engineered by Mr.

Hoskins, in the company of Gen. Smith, a friend, and some gentlemen who wore zebra clothes, and after a pleasant ride of six miles reached Bayou Bernard, where a force were employed in driving piles for the trestle bridge, which was more than two-thirds finished, and will be completed in two or three days. We were informed that the road-bed is graded and cross-ties distributed for a con tinous distance of twenty-five milen. During the coming week Little Biloxiwill be reached by the track-laying and the short trestle bridge be built across that stream. Twenty miles of iron rails are on the ground and willl soon be laid down on the road-bed.

In addition to all their present engagements the road has borrowed $7,000,000 from a New York syndicate, and mortgaged the road franchises for it. This and their other facilities will enable them to build the entire line in a short time. Gen. Smith informed "us that many enquiries for lots for residences and business houses are received daily, and quite a number have already been sold to people living on the coast Gulfport is destined to be an important city. Another town has been named alter Postmaster General Vilas.

As far as the present administration it concerned, the name of Vilas has been conferred on the largest number of towns, while the name ot Cleveland stands at the head of the list as regards babies What In Keing Done on th Northern li. vision A Great Enterprise. Cherry Creek, Nov. 3, 1837. Editor of the State Ledger I thought perhaps that a line at this mo ment would not be amiss, as the general public seem all interested in the advance ment and material prosperity of the State, more than politics, or rather, who shall hold the offices.

For in most counties in this State the question is not one of politics. or difference of opinion in matters of government or principle, but as to what Denis ocrats shall hold the offices. Where any- contrary rule appears, it is mainly the fault of some ring organization, which has put forward a man that Democrats don't want to vote for, and whom they deem nnsuited for the position to which he has been nom inated, perhaps by undue influence, and perhaps by jobbery. The Democratic party-have everything their own way. Great care should always be taken to nominate men who, beyond question, have the confidence of the Democratic masses, and then bolters and independents will have no show.

Otherwise there will, and ought to be left at home, the man who does not in fact and fairly represent his people. Union and Pontotoc counties have ex cellent men for all offices nominated, and the legislative tickets are excellent. In Chickasaw, however, there is much dissatisfaction, and there is talk of an Indcpen dent ticket, for the Legislature at least. Much of this opposition is engendered by Capt. Burkett, one of the candidates for representative, on account of his opposition to the A.

and M. College and the rirls school at Columbus, and his continued at tacks on the State administration. In fact Capt Burkett is a first class kicker, and kicks at almost everything. The people in the western portion of the county and at Houston, have struggled for years, trying to get some means of transportion, and during the last Legislature, when all the members of the House representing the central portion of the State were endeav oring to tret on foot the Gulf and Ship island katlroad, Captain Burkett was un yielding in his opposition The people living, along the line of the Mobile and Ohio, and Illinois Central roads, of course, have no interest in this line. In fact these roads and their allies don't want this interior line built, nor do the merchants on these railroad towns, for the reason that it will take off back trade, and take away freights from these roads, as well as travel.

The bitter enemies of the Gulf and Ship Island road came from the towns on these roads, and although the people of Houston, and all the western part of the country, and many in Okolona wanted this road, apt. Hurkitt fought it to the last. McW hirter, McArther, Gordan, McDonald, all of the members from the interior, used their efforts to get this enterprise on but the Captain never gave up until run over by a large majority. Many people believe now, that Captain Burkitt is not in ympatliv with the interest of many ot the people of Chickasaw, ami they have reason to fear his election. '1 he people down in Chickasaw have seen that the Gulf and Ship Island road is a reality, is coming, and they don't propose that any one shall rep-respnt them who has an idea that, because they have transportation facilities, that coun try farmers must be compelled to haul everything to market and back all the sup plies that they consume from eighteen to ttnrty miles.

he record of Captain iurs kitt in the last Legislature was not satisfactory in many way s. The Gulf and Ship Island road has now track laid lo within nine miles of Pontotoc, and is pushing ahead rapidly. So it will not be long before the dream of that good man, Uncle Jell. Wilson's life, will be real ized, and the snort of the iron horse will resound through the vermillion bills of Pon totoc hat a blessing to Mississippi this great central road will be and to the peo-of the entire interior of the State its benefits will be incalculable. Opening a seaport of our own, on Mississippi's Gulf coast, where the wealth of commerce, which for all these years, we have poured intc the laps of neighboring States, will concentrate on our own shores, and enrich our own State and eople.

This is no idle dream, although it has long suspended, almost in ideality for half a century. It is feasable, and practicable, and its accomplishment certain as anything can be in the future, if the peo pie directly interested in the result will do their duty, sustaiu and encourage this great undertaking as its necessity and unimportance demands. The whole State is interested, but especially dear is this enter prise to all the counties in central Missis iippi from Tennessee to the Gulf. The success of this undertaking brings to them the blessings that flow from easy and rapid transportation facilities, that to a farming people is the very essence of wealth and prosperity. I fhave made this letter longer than I started out to do, but all this portion of North Mississippi is so determined to carry out this enterprise that I grow enthusiastic on the subject.

Our people, all of them, are bent on putting the Gulf and Ship Island Kailroad through to deep water, and we want every man and every county to give us a helping hand. hverv countv, especially those in cen tral Mississippi, all between the Mobile and Ohio and the Illinois Central, should see to it beyond question, that its representatives go instructed by the people, that this great enterprise shall not lag or fall through be-cause of want of proper aid, encourgement and assistance as far as the State may be able to render through her Legislature; especially should this great work not be hampered by hostile legislation. Cherrymax. Literary Notes. With the current number of The Century Magazine begins its eighteenth year and thirty-fith volume.

As usual the November number is especially notable. Great value and, at this time, wide popular interest, attaches to Mr. Ken nan's paper on the "The Last Appeal of the Russian Liberals." The frontispiece this month is a portrait of Washington by Wright of Phila delphia, made in 17S4, and now for the first time engraved. Additional results of Mr. Kemble's visit to Louisiana in the interests of "The Century" are seen in the striking drawings which are given with a paper by E.

V. Smalley on "Sugar-making in Louiss lana. omaiiey supplements these pictures bj descriptions of the actual processes of the industry, and brings to light, in compact form, many interesting facts and considerations in relation to sugar-making. Louisa M. Alcott contributes one of her charming stories, entitled "Pansies," to the first number of the new volume of St.

Nicholas. It is followed by a bewildering array of short stories, entertaining sketches and bright jingles and verses. How Marie Obtained Miss Alcott's Autograph" tells how an ingenious boy secured the coveted signature for his sister without the assistance of the popular authoress; "lime and Tommy" is the description, by Delia W. Lyman, of the remarkable adventures of a boy who suddenly finds that the world has been turned backward and is revolving from east to west; "Little Matti of Finland" is a delightful tale of a little known land, with clever silhouette illustrations by Helen M. Hinds "Wkat happened to the Bridegroom" is a melancholy tragedv in white frosting and wedding cake, by William Theodore Peters.

Mr. Powderlv, in a public speech in Cleveland, in referring to the prohibition question, said "It is not my desire to in terfere with a man's right to drink when ever and wherever he desires, so long as by the exercise of that right does not infringe upon any right of mine. I am not a pro hibitionist, I would not legislate against any man's appetite. I am, however, to the extent a prohibi ionist, that I always have and always will prohibit any intoxicating ftllUlr 11UU1 pUUlU UJJ DJBICIU' r.Ktonn of cukukxt evkxts CAIiKFl'LLY tON'WKNSKI). News, Notes and Opinion3 Culled From All Parts of Mississippi What Our Friends arc Saying and Doing A Great Deal Told in a Very Few Words.

A telephone line is being erected between and Gloster. The gae receipts of the Noxubee County aggregated about $lti00. An -nraviiiii of the United States Sens is to be raffled off' at Natchez. 1 ii Th. Kusci'i-ko Star entered twinkling second volume on the 4th inst.

Warren County Circuit Court ad-d hist Saturday, aftera session of four A attempt was made Cherry Street public Vi. k-; -irg. I he South Mississippi last week to burn school building at Fair at Summit comn hi Monday thr iiigh the week. and continued A srheuie is on fxt to build a railroad from Moss Point to Sernntoii. Such a road be of great advantage to the lumber Mr.

Mathias K. Garry, r' of I.amlenlali one; Cjf the oldest county, tlieij in Meridian la.t Monday. Mr Logan ('line, an old citizen of Ma-of a stroke of dead on the street paralysis last mlny. S'-v ral persons were slightly in jured by -eidentF during the races at the Noxubee Fair, last week. I.sieien M.

Ross, son of State Senators. M. lloss. died at his home in Coffeevi lie last Fiiday of typhoid fever. Hanley, a Leflore county farmer, -i ll a yellow yam potato which weighed niii" and a half pounds.

The IIaptiets of West Point are already making arrangements to rebuild their church which was recently destroyed by-fire. Sparks from a steamlioal set fire to some ciMM.n at Bolivar Landing, last Saturday, and ninety bales and 500 sacks of seed were bin tied. Work on the cotton factory at Columbus has been very much delayed, says the Diss paled, on account of the in the "supply of brick. Hons. H.

S. Van Eaton and T. C. Cacth-I tijr addressed I hi citizens of Warren county at Magnolia Hall, Yicksburg, last Wednesday evening. Mr.

Geo. Lipscomb, of Columbus, State (rganizer of the Y. M. C. has gone to Springfield, to spend a year attending the for Christian workers.

Capt. W. II. Haidy, president of the Gulf Ship Island railroad, returned to Meridian last Saturday, and immediately left for Gulfport. 1 he Tupelo Journal says the compress and the presence of wholesale cotton buyers in that city 5aves thoi.

sands of dollars annually to the farmers of that section. C. 1. Percy, a government surveyor, has arrived at Columbus for the put pose of making a survey of the Tombigby to Vienna, with a view of making it navigable. .1.

R. McGregor has retired from the Pittsborough Banner, and that paper wilt in future be published by I. A. Sims and edited by W. K.

Bostwiek. Miss (eurgia Foote was awarded the State Leimikk prize for being the handsomest young lady at the Macon Fair. The prize was a life-time subscription to the State I eimjeh. The Presbytery of Central Mississippi, which met at Greenwood, adjourned last Saturday. On Friday Chas.

Ilyland, a young man of Warren county, was ordained minister. The Phoenix Independent Steam F'ire No. 7, of Natchez, are about to retire their old engine, Will T. Martin, which has seen many ears of service, and purchase a more modern apparatus. The Kosedale Leader says the tinners have commenced work on the roof of the new jail.

The walls are being plastered, and the cell builders will soon have the last cane riveted and bolted ince Brady was tried in the justice court at Natchez, last week, charged with stealing a copy of the Democrat from under the door of a subscriber, and upon being convicted was fined oti dollar and costs. The recent rains in Adams county, says the Natchez Democrat, have been the severest ever known on the bridges across the streams and bayous, injuring and washing away a great many. Her. Sam Small was invited by the Y. M.

C. A. of Natchez, to visit that city at an early day. He made a promise to pay them a visit next spring, and that Sam Jones would be with him. I he Macon Beacon says that during the month of October the butter made by the Macon Creamery has sold at 27 cents per pound, and that one order was tilled for a per.Mtn living at Troy, New York.

During the October term of the United Stales Court at Aberdeen, the grand jury found one hundred and fifty-seven true bills, principally for violations of the postal and revenue laws. The Madison County Fair opened last week on Thursday the 27th. and contiuued through the week-; it was a great success, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather. The opening address was made by Hon. C.

E. Hooker. The Moss Point Advertiser says it begins to look as if Moss Point would be unable to get the benefit of the free school, as the trustees cannot secure a suitable house for the school to be held in. The Aberdeen Fair began on Wednesday of last week and continued through the week. The attendance was good, considering the bad weather, and the display of farm products and stock considered extraordinarily fine.

The Board of Supervisors of Attala county made an investigation of the Sheriffs books last week, and found a deficit of which the county attorney was directed to collect. The rumor circulated recently that the Slate Lecturer of the Farmers Alliance had been authorized and empowered to organize the colored people into Alliances, has been denied by the officers of the State Alliance. dime circus established itself last week in ater Valley, near the Baptist church, during a protracted meeting. The Progress says the influence of the church was brought to bear and it was forced to move. I erry County Circuit Court was in ses sion last week.

The Hattiesburg Democrat "J3 uuge lerrell, in his charge to the urand jury, dwelt especially upon the sub- 11 selling, which.it carried out would cause great annoyance to the drug gists. who disappeared some ago irom Okolona, recently reappeared there uu 5iatea that he had been taken from the aluolona, and put upon the train oy two men who chloroformed him and "uelfe returned to consciousness, near icksburg and all his money Rune. he as t0 hoist car on the incli me me wharf boat to the elevator at wuue me cur r- uf me incline loauexi witn "eight The bulk head of the whnrfboat ti7 uocKeu out and a negro woman rlver and considerable "vuSU, uamaged. A prominent no.n i 11 billed last week at Stur- called a meting of negroes advii purpose ot considering the shot emigrating to Liberia. The "other negro who wa8 would report him for Lttll.

ymMWp.W,nt last SnoffcT. SeU Boyle, She. Ue man- waa charged by "egress, with having made I 1 a an daughter lL and her eight year the Bylewaa arrested, and wl officer ETM investigated before ieB and shot the heart and made his old hile an wo es Johu W. Matbis Tells How He Made 98 Bushels to an Acre. Mr.

John Mathis, of Crystal Springs, who had the second largest yield of corn to the acre at the State Fair, making 98 bushels to an acre, has favored us with his mode of cultivation, as follows: Put 100 bushels cotton seed $10.00 cost of preparing, chopping and cleaning $2.00. I ran twice in the same place with a four and a half inch shovel, theft bedded out eight farrows to the row. Then ran a hars row over it once to the row; opened with drill block and planted dropped it as near as I could about fourteen inches apart. Had three little boys to cover with hoes; extra cost of covering 25 cents. Work done since barred off at four furrows to the row, then scraped in the usual way, leaving one stalk a place.

Cost of plowing and hoeing $2.00. When it was about six inches high I ran round it with the same four and a half scooter as close as I could get. In a few days I swept the middles out to the corn, then let it stand until the last of May and swept it out again with four furrows to the row very shallow with a eighteen inch sweep. On the loth of June I run the same scooter in the middle of the row as deep as one mule could pull it. Then 1 distributed one sack of Stern's super-phosphate of bone dust and two.sacks of bat guano in the center furrow.

I then ran a heavy harrow with a board behind, covering up the fertilizer, bringing my rows nearly on a level, which wa3 as near four and a half feet as I could get them in width. 1 believe that had it not have been for a four weeks drouth, commencing the last week in May, I would have made 125 bushols of corn on the piece of ground. As I didn't say how I distributed my cotton seed, will say that I put them in the scooter furrows right under the corn. The scooter furrow was done with two horses as deep as I could get it-I broke out with the eight furrows as deep as I could get it. I could have raised about forty bushels of corn on same piece of land without any fertilizers if it had been a good season.

I could not have done it this year, planted at the time I planted, owing to the four weeks drouth that we had right in the most critical time when it was silking and tasseling. The land is good fresh branch land. It has been in cultivation four years. Cost of fertilizers, cotton seed $10 00 Super phosphate 3 50 Best guano 3 00 The whole cost 16 50 Cost of working and clearing trees off the land and work 6 90 Fertilizers and work $23 00 Corn raised, ninety-eight bushels and fif- teen pounds. Jonx W.

Mathis. MODE OF CULTURE. Commenced the last days in March the pre paration. I he grounds were in cotton the year before, rows three feet apart. The hrst plow used was a lour and a halt inch scuter with one horse, pulling it, followed with an eight inch shovel with one horse.

Then distributed twelve bushels of cotton seed to the acre, one hundred pounds of Standard's commercial fertilizer. Broke out middles with a one-horse cast plow, size three-fourths, made at Jackson, with a four and a half inch scuter, six furrows to the row with plow, and same with scuter, which was twelve furrows to the row, opened with scuter with one horse, drilled, the corn covered with harrow with board behind, barred off in usual way with four furrows to the row, then scraped in the usual way, leaving one stalk in a place run round with a diamond shovel. I then distributed one hundred pounds of Standard's fertilizer in the scuter furrow. I then broke out the middles with a half shovel with two furrows at different times until plowed out. I then put 200 pounds of Standard's fertilizer in the middle of the row.

I then used a side harrow, running twelve to the row. I then kept the weeds down with a hoe. Clerk of the House. Columbus, Nov. 1, 1887.

Editor of the State Ledger: Among the candidates for the office of Clerk of the House of Representatives I am gratified to note that Mr. E. L. Martin seems to be the subject of favorable mention in this connection upon the part of many of those who represent every variety of opinion upon matters of public interest. He is a sound Democrat, a progressive thinker, an upright man and a public spirited citizen.

Though comparatively young in years, he early addressed his mind to the study of the practical problems which involve the wants and the interests of the people of Mississippi. His labor forms a goodly part of the substantial results which have been worked out in the industrial and political prosperity of the TT 1 Tl 1 1 State L'liseinsniy ne nas participated with a signal vigor and direction of purpose in the great movements on behalf of every class ot our people for the benefit and unity of all. No extremist, no froward and pretentious censor of men and measures, but he bends his strength in a proper spirit to the un building of his community, county and State, the ally of no clique or clan, "but a genuine brick of Democracy, he goes into the contest standing upon his merits and thus submitting himself to the consideration and suffrage of his party-. Unless the thing goes by favor, narrowed down to the mere matter of personal favor or clanish localism. and we cannot pay tribute to these with official patronage, Mr.

Martin will occupy a position in the contest where the counties may readily harmonize upon him and secure an officer whose general ability, clerical tack, skill and accuracy will lighten the labor and expedite the dispatch of legislation. Jf. Washington's liedchamber The November Century opens with two illustrated articles on "The Home and the Haunts of ashington' and "Mount Ver non as it is. From them we quote the following: "The interest of the whole house centers in the room where Washington died. 'The gen'al's room, the room I likes de bes' in de as the servitor call nd it in a tone of genuine and reverent affection.

Just where the great man lay a-dying eighty-eight years ago. the bed now stands, and beside it the Tight stand On which are the rings left by his medicine-glasses, unchanged since that day. The secretary at which he wrote, the hair-covered trunk in which he carried his posses sions, the surveyor a tripod he had used, the cloak he threw about his shoulders when he went about the farm, the leathern chair in which he sat, the covering cut away by vandal hands, are all there. There was something, in spite of these few discordant notes, that seemed peculiar to that room. I could not feel that thousands of eyes had looked upon it with idle curiosity, but as though it had been kept sacred all these years, and was yet redolent of the memories which have set it apart forever.

'Many Baid our guide, 'why Mrs. Wash ton died np in de atic. and not in de gen'al's room. It was de custom in de family to shut up a room two years after a death happened it, an dis room was shut up. Mrs.

Wash'n'ton went ud in attic and dere she staid for eighteerr mu till she died dere. She never had no fire in de winter, an' in de summer it was very hot, but dere she staid wif only her cat fur comp ny. "The corner cut off from the lower part of the door he showed ns was for -the easy egress and ingress of this familiar friend. The attic room is pretty and attractive-looking, but has in it now only one piece of furniture used by Mjs. Washing ton.

Mrs. Cleveland Growing Rotund, tsy me way, a little horseback exercise would do Mrs. Cleveland no harm. It is rather a hateful thing to say. but I am go ing to tell the truth at all events Mrs.

Cleveland is growing fat She is no longer the willowy, girlish White House bride, but a solid 17ft-pounder of the settled married woman type. The gushers who spout about the President's schoolgirl wife will have to revise their opinions if they are desirous of stating the truth the change in Mrs. Cleveland's figure adds to her beauty, and she never looked as well in her life as she does totday. Washington Letter. THE CREAM OF THE MISSISSIPPI STATE PRESS.

Editorial Expressions Reduced to the Smallest Possible Space A Variety of Interesting Thought, Gathered for the Readers of the State Ledger. Crystal Springs Meteor: If the State owes the University, the debt should be paid, but ou the other hand, if the State does not owe the University, it is mean, dishonest and unpatriotic to try to make it pay a debt that has already Debt or no debt, the University should be sustained by a fair and reasonable appropriation. Canton Citizen We think the world would be more benefitted if there was more Christianlike preaching and less denunciation of those who do not toe the mark of human creeds. There is just as much room in heaven for the weary little actress as there is for the Pharisee and she is just as likely to get there. Meridian News: While the question of subsidizing ships and sugar is up it would be a good time for the cotton grower to stop in and ask for a subsidy.

Only one bale out of every three grown is consumed in this country. Sujipo.se the cotton growers ask for a subsidy of one cent for every pound of cottan consumed at home. This would encourage manufacture by cheapening cotton to the manufacturers. Corinth Herald: It does really seem that the Government should in some way put the brakes on this wholesale gambling on fictitious stocks or commodities. It may not affect the average price in the hands of the producer though it evidently pioduces fluctuations and irregularities.

Besides there is such a vast amount of capital employed in these gambling operations that ought to be employed in legitimate business. Sardis Reporter: Nobody really wants tree whiskey and free tobacco, and the revenue tax should not be removed from ei ther. But, the duty on every article of prime necessity that is imported from abroad, should be reduced to the lowest possible minimum, and no suiplus should be wrung from the people, to be made a bone of contention in Congress, and tempt the cupidity of officials. YaToo Herald: The Yazoo Valley has entered upon the grand march ol improvement and progress, due to the building ot a line of levees protecting its land from Vicks-burg to Memphis. We cordially rejoice in the prosperity of that section and hope to Ree the levet- system constantly improved.

Yicksburg Herald: Some of the Radical papers are claiming that the Radicals will be able to carry some of the Southern States next year, and some of them are abusing and slandering the South in every possible way. After all the able bodied Radical liars die off, and the balance of the Radicals advocate unquestioned white supremacy, they might carry some of the Southern States. Pittsboro Banner: We favor the Con1-stitiuion of the Agricultural Relief, but abhor any secret political party, and deprecate the action of what is called the Relief, in violating its own Constitution, Tupelo Journal: The Alliance has undoubtedly been of great benefit in one respect, at least, and that is in influencing farmers to buy less and pay ns they go. Kosciusko Star: Among the things for which Mississippians are pining, is an opportunity to elect their Judges That some who now occupy- the bench, would do so no more, goes without saying. Hattiesburg Courier: What influence can an "Independent" have in a Democratic Legislature Just none at all.

If he proposes a measure for the good of his constituents, he has no influence to carry it out. His opposition to any measure will be as a straw before the wind. Shnbuta Messenger The Secretary of the United States Treasury has no right to be monkeying with the private financial affairs and conditions. It is true that the speculators in Wall street, New York combinations of grasping bankers and capitalists, trusts and syndicates may precipitate trouble among the poor, but the Treasurer of the United States is only the custo dian of the people's money collected for the purpose of running the government. Kosciusko Messenger Suppose now that in the November election, each Democrat should support only those nominees who were his choice in the primary election.

Any ten year old boy could easily tell you that the result would be the defeat of every one who has opposition. In union alone is there party strength. To preserve this union, each member of the party must defer his wishes to the will of the majority. Water Valley Progress The Cincinnati party, so-called Union Labor, does not specially strike the fancy of the colored voter. He can't see how it, is that they change their names and principles so often.

Although they have put on a different dress, they rccgnize in them the same old voice of pointed oflice-seekers and chronic kickers thai have been fighting the Democrats lo, these many years. Fayette Chronicle We can continue to raise cotton and corn, but king cotton, who has ruled with such supreme and disastrous power, will be dethroned, and the one-crop system of toil and poverty be relegated to the things of the past. Grenada Sentinel It. seems that in the Indian country the United States forces might be properly employed in putting down the organized bands of white robbers. They go in squads of twenty more, well mounted and well armed, and take at the point of the ri He, cattle, horses, goods or whatever suits them, while the settler is without redress.

Batesviile Panolian The question is frequently asked why lands are so cheap in the South. The answer is simple enough. There is more land than people. It is not because the soil is poor and unproductive, for it is, on the contrary, very rich, and capable of raising all kinds of crops and fruits, and needs the people to develop it. The more the country is settled, the higher the lands will become in price.

Neshoba Democrat: Equal laws and equal justice to all with special favors to none, is the great common sense platform upon which rests true Democracy Whatever in politics fails to come up to or to go beyond this is not Democracy but is born of an insatiate desire for personal aggrandisement. Natchez Banner Our duty to the working men and women demands that we at once reorganize the order of the Knights of Labor, on a basis which will secure the autonomy of the trades and sovereignty of the districts in all pertaining to their trade and local affairs and to prevent it from being used, in the future, as a machine to fill the coffers of designing and unscrupulous men, as it is by those now in power. East Mississippi Times Economy, from the teachings of our wisest and best men will direct us to give liberal support to all of our schools and colleges and use every means to increase the number of such institutions. Economy does not mean ruinous destruction of that which is the cornerstone of enlightenment and prosperity. Natchez Democrat Our country is one in which all can have an even start in the race for wealth that wealth is fickle, and while one is rich to-day and another is poor, the morrow may see the order reversed.

Kemper Herald The President's visit to the Sunny South has aroused an interest the like of which has not been seen for many years. His tour has been a succes lion grand receptions; and it is safe to say that he has a stronger hold upon the hearts of the people now than he had four years ago. He will no doubt be his own successor. Subsoiler and Democrat As we have said many times before, and will now Bay again, we have the location, and we cannot tee anything to prevent Corinth being a prominent, important and flourishing trade center, except the absence of that push, enterprise and determination, necessary to the success of any grand undertaking. Brooken Leader Dr.

Luther Sexton is the choice of the Wesson Argosy for Governor. The Doctor is one of the finest types ot the young Democracy, and the people might choose a much older head and do worse. SOME AWARDS MADE AT CAXTOK, MACON AXD ABERDEEN. All Showing the Wonderful Progress of the CountryGreat Displays of Blooded Stock and Fine Cattle Farm and Household Exhibits. The Fairs given at Canton, Macon and Aberdeen, last week, seem to have been successful in every way.

Below is published a partial list of the awards: maihson coxtxtt fair. W. J. Mosby, Shorthorn bull, first premium, 7.50 J. A.

Reid, second premium certificate. J. A. Reid, Hereford bull, first premium, $7.50. Dr.

Geo. C. Harris, Jersey bull, first premium, Dr. C. S.

Priestly, second premium certificate. Dr. T. W. Holland, Holstein bull, first premium, $7.50.

Jno. R. Cameron, Galloway bull, first premium, 7.50. Best bull, any age or breed with three of his get Dr. T.

W. Holland, first premium, $10.00. Best cow, any age or breed with one of her calves Dr. T. W.

Holland, first premium, $10.00. Best heifer, Dr. I W. Holland, first pre mium, 5.00. Best graded cow three years old and over, J.

M. Mills, first premium, J. 1 Priestly, second premium certificate. Best graded heifer one year old and un der two, J. W.

Downs, first premium, 5.00; Best calf, either sex, second premium cer tificate Best cow three years old and over, J. R. Cameron, first premium, 1 hos. Fey, second premium certificate. Best heifer one year old and under two, Jno.

R. Cameron, first premium, 5.00. Best calf either sex, Jno. K. Cameron, first premium, $5.00.

Best bullock four years old and over, Joe Lutz, first premium, $10 00. Best boar six months and upwards, J. A. Reid. first premium, $3 00.

best sow, Dr. G. W. Smith-Vaniz, first premium, $3 00. Best pig, either sex.

Dr. G. W. Smith-v aniz, first premium, $3 00. Best boar hrst premium $3 00 Sow, first premium 3 00 Pig, 3 00 To A.

H. Linn. Best boar any age or breed, J. A. Reid, first premium, $3 00.

Best sow any age or breed, Dr. G. W. Smith-Vaniz, first pre mium, .5 00. Best 1 lg, any age or breed, J.

A. Reid, first premium, $3 00. Best fat hog, J. A. Reid, hrst premium, $3 00.

Best pen of five hogs, B. F. Muse, first premium, $3 00. Best lamb, Jno. R.

Cameron, first premi um, -2 00; best ram two years, Dr. T. W. Holland, hrst premium, 2 00; best ewe. two years, lirst premium, Dr.

Holland. $2 00. Best lamb, first premium, $2 00 ram, hist premium, 2 00 ewe, 2 00 Dr. Smith-Vaniz. Best ram.

first premium, five dollars. Best herd of sheep, first premium, six dollars, Dr. Holland. Dr. C.

S. Priestly, buggy horse. Sleepy John," won in the speed ring, $25. For best thoroughbred stallions R. W.

Durfey Mountain Slasher and Almont Boy Bradley Maddock, hdgewood; L. Montgomery, Dixie. Al mont Boy' Jr. was awarded first premium, 10 OU, and Jbilgewood second certificate. There were ten entries for best saddle horse 6r mare, Jno, R.

Cameron's bay mare was awarded first premium, $10 00. Dr. W. J. Mhoon's grey gelding second premium certificate.

Best Shetland stallion, R. W. Durfey first premium, 5 00. Best mare, R. W.

D. first premium, $5 00. NOXUBEE COUNTY. Buck, one year and over, first, R. C.

Patty, second, J. R. Cockrell. Ewe, one year and over, R. C.

Patty. Ewe lamb, one year and over, R. C. Pat ty- Buck and two ewes, It. C.

Patty first, J. R. Cockrell second. Special premium bv M. Mahorner of Angora, buck for best trio ofthoroughbred sheep, awarded to R.

C. Patty. Hoar, one year and over, 1. S. Boggess.

Sow, one year and over, R. W. Dant- zler first, T. S. Boggess, second.

Sow under one year, M. Hambnck, first premium, T. S. Boggess second. 1 air pigs, under six months, N.

Scales. Best pair Angora goats, M. Mahorner first, Lancelot Minor, second. Best grade cow over three years, Mrs. B.

Harper first premium, L. L. Cole, second premium. Best grade Jersey heifer over two and under three years, Robert C. Patty.

Best grade Jersey heifer without calf, S. M. Irion. Best grade Jersey heifer any breed, over one and under two years, J. W.

Bridgers. Best grade Jersey heifer, any breed, un der one, J. N. Holman. Best grade heifer, Holstein.

over two and under three, J. W. Patty. SHORT HORN. Best bull, three years old and over, first.

Foote Foote, second S. M. Irion. Best bull over one and under two, first S. M.

Irion, second F'oote Foote. Best cow, three years old and over, first F'oote Foote, second Foote Foote. isesi cow, over one and under two. oote Foote. Best herd, one bull and three females.

Foote Ioote. BUTTER. For best article worked butter; not less than three pounds, Mrs. L. W.

Griggs. or best article Dairy butter, not less than three pounds, Mrs. L. W. Griggs and Mrs.

F. Harper tied. For best article granulated butter, not less than three pounds, Mrs. B. F.

Harper. For best article Creamery butters not less than three pounds, River side Creamery. ABERDEEN FAIR. The following is taken from the Examiner For mares two year3 and under three. the entries were two by J.

A. Trice, of Chickasaw; H. H. Watson and W. P.

lim- berlake, of Monroe. On this exhibit there were ten ballots without result and other judges were called in before a decision could be arrived at The first premium was awarded to Capt. Timberlake and second to J. A. Trice.

It was a magnificent exhibit and would hare gained the admiration of fine lovers of the horses anywhere in the world. For colts one year old, first premium was awarded to Chancellor Critz. On Tuesday, when this class was to have been shown there were over one hundred colts on the grounds and in the city for entry, but most of the owners were farmers residing at more or less remote sections, and the torrents of rain that were falling throughout the day, served to discourage them, and with the impression that the Fair would be postponed or declared off, departed for their homes, vie are satisfied that there are over five hundred well bred colts in Monroe county, ander one year old, and but for the untoward circumstances there would have been a magnificent showing at the Fair grounds on xuesday. The entries of mares and geldings in harness were splendid, and attracted much at tention. They were made by Chancellor Critz, of Clay; E.

G. Smith, of Lowudes; W. Garth, of Noxubee; WT. H. Stevens, of Clay: and W.

O. Connell, of Clay. First premium to J. W. Garth, second to E.

G. brsith. For mules raised in Mississippi, two years -old and under three, first premium awarded to Mr. A. W.

Allen, of Lee county. and for one year old and under two, in the same class, first premium to A. W. Allen, and second to J. W.

Dillis, of Pontotoc county. For the best mule colt raised in'Miasis-aippi Mr. A. W. Allen made three entries and Mr.

Dillis one. The first and second premiums were awarded to Mr. Allen. For the best pair of Mississippi raised Mr. James P.

Sisk, of Monroe made the only exhibit and received the premium. They were hai.Jsome animals and would GEX. S. D. I.

EE TELLS WHY THE SOUTHERN FARMER IS POOR. What is Necessary For a Change The Fertility of the Land Must be Reclaimed Diversify crops and Raise Stock Live at Home, Etc. The College Refiector, published by students of the' A. M. College, prints the following excellent synopsis of an address recently delivered before the student body by the President Gen.

S. D. Lee: He commenced his discourse by laying down the fact that this is an agricultural state, that we are an agricultural people and must consequently rely upon agricultural resources for our support. -We have no mineral wealth like our sister state, Alabama, and our manufacturing enterprises are few. In traveling over our state we find the mass of the farmers are not prosperous, and especially those who raise the one crop, cotton, while the well-to-do farmers belong to that class who raise stock and follow the diversified system.

It is evident frani the present state of affairs that something is wrong with our system and a change must be made in it before peace and plenty can come to every household- To help bring abont this change the A. M. College was established, so as to inform the young of the state upon this question, for it is to them that we are to look for this change. Our fathers cannot make the change, at least the most of them are not doing it. Then it falls upon the young men to solve the most difficult problem that has ever confronted the agricultural world, by the adoption of new methods which will restore the lost fertility to our soil, or else go ou in the old rut trod by our become poorer and poorer, our condition more hopeless and our number greater in proportion to the whole population.

"We have not the same chance which our fathers had, because we are to fall heirs to the land which has been robbed of its fruitfulness," and must solve the restoration problem or lose our heritage. He then discussed at some length, farming in its different phases, and illustrated practically by samples of soil, the changes in color wh.ch the soil has undergone in retrograding from the black, rich, virgin soil which is full of vegetable matter and highly productive, to the yellow which has had nearly nil the vegetable mould worked out of it, and upon which it is hard for man to earn an honest living; and then to the red or brick dust so-1 which has been robbed of all its lruitfulness and is almost as bleak, barren and verdureless as the lava beds. There are two kinds of farming: 1. Special, or where you raise some one crop to which you look for all your income. In this cas all that is raised is sold off of the farm and consequently- it decreases in fertility every year unless you adopt some artificial means of supplying this loss.

This system can be kept up only so long as the fertility is kept up to that point where you can make and sell your crop for more than it costs. 2. The second kind is diversified, or where you grow several crops, especially the grains and the grasses iu connection with some kind of stock, and feed these food-staffs and convert them into animal products, such as milk, butter, beef, mutton, and manure which is returned to the soil from whence it came. In connection with this system it has been found very profitable to buy feeding materials outside of what is raised on your own farm and feed them to stock, thus increasing the amount of. animal products, which means more money, and at the same time adding largely to the value of the manure heap, which, when put on the farm, increases its productiveness, and enables you to make more feed the next year with very little more labor, for you have put something on there that did not come off, and is bound to increase its fertility.

It would be well to state here that animals, as a general rule, appropriate a small proportion of the fertilizing elements of the food eaten to the building up of the body, the supporting of the respiration and heat of the animal system and the production of the diferent products. But most of the valuable constituents for fertilizing are found in the refuse. If is an old axiom "that the more manure, the more and the reverse is equally as true. "The bank of the farmer is-the fertility of the soil." By allowing it to go down you increase your expenses and sink your capital. If the productiveness of your soil is decreased one-fourth, your expenses are not only increased one-fourth, but you have sunk one-fourth of your capital; for it now costs as much to make three-fourths of a bale of cotton (cotton being the product) as it formerly did to make a whole bale, and consequently your land is worth but three fourths its former value.

Nearly all the uplands of the state are now in such a condition that there is no money to be made in raising cotton and special crops of that kind until the fertility is improved. The question arises, how is this to be done? There are two ways; first, the artificial, or the application of commei cial fertilizers which is sometimes rather cosfly. especially where the farmer is inexperienced. There is then an objection to this method founded on the fact of its not being available to every one. But the second or natural way.

which is the use of restorative crops, such as clover, cow peas, Lespedeza, Bermuda grass, is within the reach of all, hence the necessity of diversified farming which is the growing of these restorative crops, thereby enabling you to raise more feed, to keep more stock, to ma kebtef, butter, milk, pork, wool manure with less labor; for we all know it costs but little to keep up pasture lands, or lands growing these crops as compared with cotton. All these products represent money just as much so as does cotton, and while making these we are increasing the fertility of our soil and adding to our capital. "The land he said, which cost the college 57 per acre and would not rent for any price when bought, is now paving the college $3 per acre, and growing richer every day. Do you ask what kind ot crops are beinggrown upon this once poor land, for it to make such enormous returns It is under pas ture, and. pays this in milk, butter and beet.

This is a special case, but may be applied generally all over the state. It is being done in many places and with astonishing results. That we may more clearly understand the value of these restorative crops, let us see what scientific investigation has done in this direction, and not wherein it accords with the practical results already obtained. Our professor of chemistry has by the analysis of both the roots and tops of the cow pea, clover, Japan clover and iiermu da grass, and by the results obtained, the same values which are given them in commercial fertilizers demonstrated that an ordinary crop of clover which is allowed to stand on an acre of land is worth about 512, the ow pea about the same, Japan clover $7.11 and Bermuda grass St. Thus we see that these crops improve out I land just as much as though we had taken that much money out of our pockeU.bought fertilizer to the amount ot their values and put it on the soil.

Then we can clearly see that by the use of stock with these crops, we have a "double restorative, which is the best way, the cheapest way, the poor man's way, is na tures way. "The land is sick, it's stubborn, requires skillful treatment, nursing, and you boys. said he, "are the ones to whom the state is to look to do this work, for jour training here is such as to fit you. by using good judgment to go to this work and be equal to the task. While Mrs.

Langtry is dying nightly as Lena Despara her husband la engaged in the life saving service at Queenstown. In this case the dying pays better than life- saving. '8? O1 y. BLIND PEOPLE. One of Them Tells of their Wonderful Memory.

From some open letters of peculiar interest to the blind by one of their number we quote the following from the Century "As partial compensation, in the midst of his many discouragements, the sightless pupil possesses one vital advantage over his companions. His memory, accustomed to seize and assimilate definitions, and mis cellaneous information at a single hearing. acquires both a marvelous alertness and a phenomenal reteutive capacity which en able him to master certain branches of study with singular ease and rapidity. Deprived of books and without any very ready and reliable method of making notes, he obtains a habit, often envied by the seeing, of appropriating intantaneously anything addressed to bis intellect through his hearing. Hence the proverbially good memory of the blind person.

His mind is his memorandum-book always at hand and always open. "To the present writer, who never remembers having a lesson in anythiug read over to him more than twice, nothing is more strange and more amusing than a room full of school children, with fingers crammed in their ears, buzzing over a lesson of three pages for the fifteenth time. Fqually incomprehensible is it to see a man making a note of a single address, or a lady referring to a shopping list. Such observations force on to the conclusion that the art of writ" ing, invaluable as it is, has been disastrous to the human memory. People have grown so to rely on a piece of white paper covered with black scratches, that if this be lost or misplaced, they are reduced almost to the condition of creatures without intellect.

"So marked is the advantage of the blind in this respect as almost to atone for their extra difficulties in others; that is, the sighless pupil will acquire scientific and philosophical studies with a rapidity which will counter-balance the greater amount of time demanded by his less facile method of writing out exercises in linguistic and ciph ering in methematical branches; so that in taking the regular course at the academy or university, he will require, all inrall, neither more time nor more labor than the average student. "Of not less value in after life is this extraordinarily trained and developed memory. It enables the blind to derive from lectures, conversation, and general reading ten times the benefit of others, on whose minds a single mention of facts and thoughts makes little or no impression. "Thus the law of compensation is seen working in all things, making good on one hand, approximately at least, what is wanting on the other; not by the special terious interference of Providence ot' power with natural conditions and processes, for the benefit of the individual, as many claim, but through the inevitable sequence of cause and effect, by which and faculties become, through unusual training, normally developed and their value radically enhanced." Jenny The mention of the serious illness of Jenny Lind, which may result fatally, will recall to many hundreds, many thousands of people the world's once favorite canta-trice. Madame Goldschinidt, better known by her maiden name of Jenny Lind, is the daughter of a teacher of languages in Stockholm in which city she was born Octos ber 21, 1821.

At three years of age she could sing correctly any piece of music she had once heard, and at nine she was placed, by the advice of Madame Lunburg, a celebrated artist actress at Stockholm, under Croclins, a famous teacher of music. Count Pilke, manager of the Court Theatre, felt disinclined to act on Croclins' recommendation of his youthful pupil, on account of personal attractions, but after hearing her her sing caused her name at once to be entered at the Musical Academy, where she made rapid progress. She acted repeatedly in children's parts on the Stockholm stage until her twelfth yesr, when her upper notes began lo lose their sweetness. For four years she studied theoretically, until on one occasion, when the fourth act of Myer-bier's "Robert De Diable" was to be performed at a grand concert, and the humble part of Alice was declined by th-- female vocalist of the city, Berg, the director of the Academy applied to Jenny Lind. Her performance showed that every note of her register had fully recovered its power and purity, and she was greeted with mnch enthusiasm.

Her next success was in the part of Agatha, in "Der Freisceiitz," and for a year and a half she continued the star of the opera at Stockholm. Having, by a series of concerts in Norwav and Sweden, obtained the means of going to Paris, she studied, not without someV previous discouragement, under Garcia. A year after her arrival in Paris she was introduced to Myerbeer, who was anxious to engage her for J3erlin, but she preferred returning to her native city, where she enjoyed a great triumph on her reappearance. In 1844 she went to Dresden, in 1845 sang at the fetes on the Rhine during the Queen of England's visit to Berlin; and afterwards at Frankfort, Cologne and Vienna; she first appeared before a London audience in May, 1845, as Alice in "Robert Le Diable," followed by a -series of unparalleled triumphs in nambula," "PuntauSj" etc. She sang in 1848 for the first time, in a sacred oratorio, "Elijah," which was given at Exeter Hall, for the purpose of landing' musical scholarships in honor of Mendelsohn.

She visited New York in 1850, under the auspices of Mr. Barnum, and waa enthusiastically received, but dissolved the engagement prematurely in 1851, and was married to M. Otto Gold-gchmidt, a skillful pianist and conductor, and retired from the stage. She reappeared in 1855, in 1861, in 1863. and in 1864 for a limited period.

She has shown a generous disposition, and has been instrumental in adding many thousands of pounds to the charitable institutions of every country which she haa visited. 1 it.