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the mercury. Vntored as seeond-elass matter at the San- J ' dors villa PoetoiBce, AprU 27, 1880. Sandersrllle, Washington County, Ga. PUBLISHED BT JERNIGAN & SCARBOROUGH. Subscription. .$1.50 per Tear. THE MERCIJnW. A. J. JERNIGAN, Proprietor DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. $1.50 PER ANNUM. VOL. I. SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1880. NO. 21. G. W. H. WHITAKER, DENTIST, 8andersville, Ga. Terms Cash. Offloe at his residence on Harris Street. April 3, 1830. B. D. EVANS, Attorney at Law, April 3, 1880* Sandoraville, 6a. DR. WM. RAWLINGS, Physician & Surgeon, Sandoraville, Ga. Offloe at Sandoraville Hotel. April 10, 1880. ~ E. A. SULLIVAN, NOTARY PUBLIC. Sanderaville, Ga. Special attention given to collection ol claims. Offlco In the Court.llonse. 0. H. ROGERS, Attorney at Law, Sanderaville, Ga. Prompt attention given to all business. Ofllco in northwest room ol Court-House. May 4, 1880. C. C. BROWN, Attorney at Law, Sandoraville, Ga. Will prnctico in the State and United Statos Courts. Oflloo in Court-House. H. N. HOLLIFIELD, Physician & Surgeon, Sandorsville,Ga. e.lloo noxt door to Mrs. Bayne's millinery Bloro *on limns Street. DR. J. B. ROBERTS, Physician & Surgeon, Sanderaville, Ga. May lio cooH iltod at his ofllro on Haynes slreot, in lliu M . soldo Lot'go building, iroin 9 a m to 1 p ni, mid Irom 3 to 5 p m; during other boms at bin residence, ou Chinch street, wiim not prolos-iumilly ongHgcd. Apr I 3 18S0 Watches, Clocks /ND JEWELRY IlEl’A!JIICI) BY JERNIGAN. 1‘OSTOFFIGE HOURS. 7:00 to II :30 a. m, 1:30 to 6:00 p. in. d E. A. 8i7M.ivan, P. M. Subscribe for the MERCURY, Only $1.50 por annum. PUBLISHED BT JERNIGAN & SCARBOROUGH. BUY YOUR Spectacles, Spectacles, FROM JERNIGAN. 5®*“None genuine without our Trado M a On hand and for sale, Spectacles. Nose Glasses, Etc, Music, Musi GO XO JERNIGAN FOR VIOLINS, ACCORDEONS, BOWS, STRINGS, - gOSIN BOXES, ETC. Machine Needles, OIL and SHUTTLES, Vor all kinds of Machines, lor sale. I will 11 80 oi'der parts of Machines that get broke, and now pieces are wanted. A* J- JERNIGAN. he present style ol coat has a great i shortening in the tail, which is a god-send to men who have cccasion to gat over picket fences in a hurry. Arkansas society is agitated over the question of whether or not the groom at * wedding should wear j his revolver t inside or outside of his dress coat. An old lady with several marriageable aughters feeds them on iish diet be ta S .V fc * a phosphorus, which Match e,,ent ^ l hing in making Why Must It Be 7 A dream—as trail as sweet A sad iarowell— A laded rose—oast under lc IjOvo'b dying knell j A promise nover kvpt, Made in spring-bloom— Then when tho winds ol autumn swept, Rest—in the tomb. Can God's love bo so great That tiny things Fall not nnsoon—yot leave to lato Life’s hiddon springs ? Must tondor, loving hoarts Fade 'noath tho breath Ol wicked wilos, insensate arts That ond in death? Must love, whoso home is heaven, Wrock life lor age ? And she, whose sins hor soul has shriven, Bo cast away ? Nay, question not—He knows! I.ot that suffice. Through ’wildorlng roads a salat olt goes To Paradise. —Lilia wV. Cushman. A WOMAN, AFTER ALL. “ Take off that hideous bonnet, Doro thy. I want to see your sweet little fnce without it.” “ Thou shouldst not speak so Charles. It is very wrong.” "Why, little DorothyP Tell why.” "Thou knowest favor is deceitful and beauty vain. We ought to bear testi mony against the vanity of personal looks.” "Ought wcP Then tell mo why it pleased Providence to make you so beautiful, my small cousin." “Hush, Charles, I will not permit thee to speak to me in this manner.” And little Dorothy Hioks, the Quaker ess, put on the gravest nir and strug gled valiantly to turn tho corners of her mouth down when they wanted to turn up. "Don’t look so serious, little girl You positively alarm me,” And Charles Maynard burst into a hearty laugli that echoed though the poplar trees in the old garden. “ Now tell mo, Dorothy— i insist upon knowing, ns a member of your family, I consider that I have the l ight to bo informed—are you going to marry BroadbrimP" “Friend Ephraim is an estimable man, Charles; thou must not speak ol him thus.” " Look Dorothy. There he Is. I wil quote no proverbs, but the rim of his ii vt just turned the corner ns I spoke Now don’t look as if you intended to go back to the house, for you are not going, i’ll tell you a secret. When I was down to tho river this morning I found a boat with a tempting pair of oars lying in it, ind I made up my mind that Dorothy Hicks and her wicked, worldly cousin Irom the populous city of New York, were going for a row in that very boat this evening. It is neighbor Han cock’s boat." " Y-e-s. But, Charles, I fear it is my duty—" "No, it isn’t. You know you don’t want to spend this lovely evening in the house ontertaining Broadbrim, and you want to go with me and watch the sun set on the river." Dorothy Iookb doubtfully toward the iiouso and wistfully toward the river. "Femme qui hesiteestperdue," Doro thy, whioh means “if wo don’t hurry, Graycoat will come out and catch us.” Charles takes Dorothy’s hand in his,and in a moment they are on their way to the shoro. “ But, Chafles, see that cloud in the south. If there were to be a 3tormP” “ But there will not; come, jump in.” The oars were lifted into the row-locks, Dorothy takes the management of the ru,dder in her hands, and soon they are gliding over the smooth surface of the water, leaving a track of silvery bub bles behind them. It is a lovely even ing. The misty shadows of twilight are gathering in the dost and the west; the clouds, blood-red and purp’e, are cast ing a rosy light all over the broad river; a fresh breeze is blowing round their faces, and waves splash against the sides of their boat, like low, monotonous music. Cliarles is talking about his home, telling Dorothy about his aunts and cousinB he has not seen for a long time, and amusing her with stories of his college days, and his efforts to make his way in his profession, which were so unsuccessful at first. Neither of them notices that the breeze grows fresher, and that the dark cloud in the south has spread over the horizon, and is covering it with darkness. Presently a low, muttering growl of thunder startles them from the dream into which they had fallen. “Turn back, Charles, turn back!” screamed Dorothy, “ the storm is upon us!” They had been rowing with the tide. The river is very wide, and the increasing force of the waves and the wind together is so strong that when they attempt to turn about the water uslies into the tiny boat. Both faces grow pale in the murky light- as they see the danger. “ It is impossible; you can’t do it! "Tell me, Dorothy, what is that dark object just ahead P” »it is a ledge of rocks, but when the tide comes in from the sea it will be covered,” and with a low moan Dorothy sank from her seat and covered her face with her hands. "We will try and land there. The ide will not turn fur an hour." Th* effort was §ueee*sful. The ledge s reached, and Charles carries Doro h y to the very highest rock and lays her gently down.” "My love, my little love,” he cried kissing her helpless hands, "I have killed youP” "Stop!” she exclaimed. "Listen There is a boat! It is coming this way.’ Dorothy is upon her knees, and a wild cry of thanksgiving comes from her lips. Ephriam Ford had followed them the heavy boat with its single occu pant is strong enough to resist the waves, and as ho nears them, they go down to meet him. “BackI” ho cries, "I will not take but one of you; it is not safi.” The grim Quaker, with his stern emotionless face, wrenches away the slender hands that oling to Charles, and clasping Dorothy tightly in his arms lays her at his own feet in the bottom of the boat. Not a word is spoken until they reach tho opposite shore. Then he takes her up again and carries her to the nearest fisher’s hut up the beach. As thet stand within the shelter of the little cabin, Dorothy looks at him with wild eyes, and a cry of torture issues from hor white lips. 'Go back, go buck I You will go back for him P” “ Go back for your elegant city lover, whose ignorant carelessness would have cost you your life but for meP” Dorothy falls on her knees and grasps his cold hands in agony of en treaty. " Go back, go back!" " Promise mo first that you will not marry him. Swear it as the world’s people do.” He takes her hand and holds it up to l' n f ven, nnd waits for the oath. L n-othy’s lips movo, but no sound come from them. Dorot h y had fainted The fisherman’s wile takes the uncon scious girl and layB her on her own bed, and Ephraim Ford goes upon his errand of mercy with murder in his heart. The storm has lulled for a moment. It comes on so gradually, stopping every now nnd then, as if to make the earth believe that it were doubtful of its power, nnd can nfford to wait. Ephraim looks at the sky. It ii still red in tho west; the waves aro ris’ng steadily, but his stout built boat, di rected by his powerful strength, can yet make its way through f'om. There is plenty of time; the tide will not turn for half an hour. Ephraim fights his battle with temp tation and wins the victory; for, twenty minutes later the sturdy boat plows its way back to the Bhore, and two silent mon struggled against the wind up the beach to the fisherman’s hut. Dorothy Is waiting for them. Her outstretched arms would wind them selves about both, but tho stern, fixed look in Ephraim’s eyes restrained her. nnd Charles turns from her and fixes Ills eyes upon tho ground. It is atorrible moment for Dorothy. She knows they both love her, and ilie shivers at the suffering in both faces. Then she remembers the oatli she did not speak, and a wild sort of terror takes possession of her soul. She speaks at last, nnd tries to thank Ephraim for tho service he had done them. “Spare mo Lliy gratitude, D jrotliy,” he commands, in n slow, solemn tone, peculiar to his people. "I know I have done thee a service. I would not hear ot it again. I tried to make thee swear an oath. Dorothy, I am glad it was not spoken. Tell me now, though, dost thou love this young manP Wilt thou forswear thy religion, forsake the faith of thy forefathers’s and become one of the world’s people P” Dorothy’s eyes looked toward Charles with a mute appeal. He has saved both our lives, dear,’ answers ttie young man, iu reply to her glance, " and he’s worthy of your love.” Then his eyes seek the floor again. He has received his life from this man’s hands, and now he will speak no word to rob him of his treasure. Speak, Dorothy,” Ephraim repeats. " It is for you to choose.” Dprothy’s voice is ohoked with tears and her breast shaken with sobs, as she answers: “It is very, very wicked of me, Eph raim, but I love him so!” Then she stretched out her helpless hands, and the Bweet lips whisper, Charles." Only a single word, but it decides her life. In a moment Bhe is in her lover’s arms, and for the second time that night unconscious. The nobler man of the two goes un heeded out in the storm to conquer his henrtache alone. CURRENT NOTES. Mr. Fambro, of Sandenville, Ky.,has 1 large rattlesnake, about five feet long, whioh he captured last October, and which he haa kept in a bob with a wire net front ever since that time. Though he has had it ten months, the snake has never eaten anything at all since it was captured. It "lives on air," and if it could be converted into the genus homo, retaining its natural habits, it would make a splendid newspaper man. A Frenchman, who resides on a farm noar Paris,and has n fancy for picking up old animals, has a mule aged seventy- three, n goose aged thirty-soven, a cow aged thirty-six, a hog aged twenty- seven, a bullfinch aged twenty-eight, and a sparrow aged thirty-one. This last acoounts for the millions of spar rows in the world. A couple of healthy sparrows, produoing twenty or thirty young a year for thirty years, is some thing sad to contemplate. State elections will occur this year ns follows: Alabama, first Monday in August; Arkansas, first Monday in September; Vermont, first Tuesday in September; Maine, second Tuesday in September; Colorado, first Tuesday in October; Indiana, Ohio and West Vir ginia second Tuesday in October; Call, fornia Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ne braska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ten nessee, Texas and Virginia, November 9; Georgia, November 3. The Detroit Free Frets remarks that when 900 people are killed or wounded in a railroad disaster, the community shudders. If ten such should liappon during a twolve.month in any one State, the world would be ehooked and hor rified at the slaughter. The difference, however, between calamities whioh come " os single spies,” and those which come " in battalions ” is illustrated by the fact that on the Pennsylvania rail roads 9,000 persons were killod or wounded during the year 1870, and, ex cept outside of the families and friends thus bereaved or aflHctcd, not a pang or emotion ot any sort is felt from one end ot tho continent to the other. Turkish offioers do not enjoy tho con sideration at home enjoyed by their pro fession elsowhero in Europe. A Turkish captain is regarded by his senior offi cers with but little more respeot than a private, and is sometimes struck by colonel or general in u moment of anger. Even a major is barely secure from such treatment. Tho pay of an officer under the rank of general is very inadequate anil irregularly received. The families of offioers in garrisoned towns are generally with them, and the latter are often sorely pushed to feed their charges. They may be seen dally with baskets returning from market- seedy and partially buttonless. John Dye,tho export in counterfeiting, says that a close study of good notes is ticcessnry for those who would readily detect bad ones. Some of tho latter ore fully as fine as tho former in workman ship, and it is only by tho variations that they can be distinguished. Ho repre sents counterfeiting as having greatly increased of late, and the operators as backed by plenty of capital. In the case of base coinage, he says that some of their product costs more than half its apparent value to make. He showed a oin that had exactly the weight, size and touch of a genuine five-dollar gold piece; but a cut into the edges showed that it was a shell of gold with a plati num filling. The actual value of the metal in it was two dollars and a half, and ithe making must have cost half a dollar more. We give below the population of the twenty-four leading cities of the United States in 1880, and of the same cities in 1870: 1880. 1870. Now York .. 847,000 975,292 Philadelphia 674,022 Brooklyn 395,099 Chicago .. 378,000 298,977 St. Louis 310 664 Boston 250,525 Baltimore 267,354 Cincinnati 216,239 San Franoisoo . 227,000 149,473 Now Orleans 191,418 Washington 109,199 Cleveland .. 158,000 92,827 Pittsburg 86,079 Buffalo 117,714 Newark ... 137,000 105,059 Louisville .. 126,000 100,763 Jersoy City.. 82,546 Milwaukee 71,440 Detroit 79,577 Providence .. 104,000 68,904 Albany 76,216 Rooliester 87,000 62,386 Allegheny Oily ... 75,000 53,189 Indianapolis 48,244 Ireland’* Eviction Lawi. The laws by which evictions for non payment of rent are authorized have been on the statute books in Ireland only thirty years. It was not until 1850 that quarter sessions were empowered to decree evictions for non-payment of rent, and it was not until 1800 that the same power was given to other courts. Tho attorney-general for Ireland in a recent debate laid stress on the fact that by the Roman civil law, and even the law of Scotland, if, through some super vening calamity, such as extreme in clemency of weather, a tenant’s crops does not repay his labor nnd his seed, he is not liable for the rent. In one case, where the tenant’s crop had been de stroyed by a tremendous fall of hail, the Scotch courts held that he had sufficient cause for not paying his rent. The London Echo contends that the English law of distress, as it applies to the land, is an unjust law. It gives the landlord a right accorded to no other creditor, for it permits him, by means cf a short, easy and summary process, to obtain his rents without the expense and delay of legal proceedings. But it is generosity itself compared with that under which the Irish tenant lives. Such a thing as ejectment for the non-payment of rent is unknown to the law of England. By the terms of the contract between land lord and tenant it is stipulated to observe the covenant; but, unless there is a covenant that he shall be ejected for non-payment of rent, he cannot be turned out, except after the usual notice, whereas in Ireland, provided he is a year’s rent in arrears, or four months behind the time when his rent is ordin arily paid, he cun b* aummarily evicted. CATCHING COD. An Interesting Description ot tile tVsy In which Cod are Caught. The able cralt Juliette, Captain Ed ward Fitoh, is one of the favorite smaoka for health eaters, and taking our traps on board we sail out of the q tiet harbor through the fleet of fishing craft on a sunny Monday morning for a cod cruise on Nantuoket shoals. The vessel has just returned from the sale of her last load of fish, and now, with fresh stores and her oapacious ice houses filled, her crew refreshed by a Sunday at home, enter upon the perils of another voyage with light spirits. By Tuesday night we have "iocd down” enough menhaden bait irom the fish traps at wild, romantic and isolated Martha’s Vineyard for our trip, and on the fol lowing morning the " tide in” over Nan tuoket bar to wait for a goodly supply of sea olaims, whioh aro a favorite bait for deep sea cod. Tho crew enjoy night maphap in the giddy ballroom of some wonderful rattletrap ot a hall n this dilapidated old town, and Thurs day morning leave regretfully for the pleasures and discomforts of the fishing ground. At sundown wo anobor within sound of the steam whistle on the South Shore lightboat, nnd on the following day fishing commences. Mayhap the fog dears up for a fow hours, but steam is always kept up at this time oi the year on the able and storm-defying light- boat, so some of tho keepers inform us is they board us in search of reading matter. Cod fishing is carried on at this season of the year by moans of hand lines, each man tending two, tho vessel being suffered to drive or drift with tho tide. The sawings of our lines have alrendy gashed the rails, yet we bavo not taken ns much ns a cunncr, tor bo it known, Gunners are just ns much of a nuisnuco here ns they are under tho old wharf at homo. By-nnd-bye we striko a school of dog-fish, half reptile, and after half an hour’s combat with these creatures, Captain Ed. gives up iu dis gust, the lielin is put up and we square away and run a mile or so off and then heave to again. By-and-bye the captain feels a strong 'pull and speedily begins to sway in on his line. All he says is, “I’ve got ’im,” and presently he flops a magnificent speci men of a speckled steak cod on deck, a genuine thirty pound white-bellied and grey-backed school fish. None of your Montauk Point giblets about this one. Soon another is caught, and at length we take the school with us, and each man is busy baiting gear and unhook ing fish. The olean lee side of tho ves sel speedily takes on n fishy appearance, and by-and-bye the hatches are thrown off and the fish thrown into the hold to provent them from rolling overboard off the pile wo have alroady taken. After tho first dozen pulls on tiiese gusty fish the hands begin to objsct. "Finger stalls” go on, but despite these yurn coverings, long bofore we leave the sohool the skin of our fingers is worn through in places and we wish the nibblcrs would go, but it is such fun to pull them tha': we wouldn’t dcsisi fa worlds. By-and-byo the fish stop biting all at onoe. " Halibut,” says Captain Ed., meaning that a halibut has been attracted to our hooks and the cod are frigl.toned away by him. It is so, and the monster flat fish strikes our line. He gives just one yank, nnd although we attempt to hold him it is useless, for as soon ns he feels tho hook he turns, plucks and darts off. “ Snub him oasy!” yells the captain, os we attempt to check the progress of the fish through fear of losing our line, “ Snub him easy, or you’ll make him tear out!” The fish finally stops nnd we gather in line slowly, When half way up he darts down again only to be once more drawn almost to the surlace of the water, when the captain takes our line, loth to trust the capture of a $35 fish in the hands of a greeny. We look over the rail and see the monster, which, through the clear green water, seems almost as broad ns our vessel, nnd quite ns long. Two of the crew stand on cither side of the captain with gaft hooks, and the instant the fish’s head is drawn up to a level with tho top of the water the cruel hooks seize its head, and the three men, after a severe struggle, land it upon the deck, where its brain is " muddled,” its throat cut, and it is speedily packed away in ice. a coveted prize. The codfish again thicken and tho slaughter continues till dark when, after casting anchor, we discuss a rare supper of coffee and delicious fried cod fish tongue, sucli as one can never en joy away from Nantucket shoals, and then repairing to the deck the catch of the day is headed, gutted and washed, and the iee being broken out of the house, is packed away in its cooling arms. Perhaps by midnight the labor is completed, and wet and tired and dis gusted with fog, we crawl into our berths and sleep soundly till four o’clock next morning, when the day’s labor is repeated, doubtless with poorer luck.— Detroit Free Press. Words ot Wisdom. A gilded frame makes a good picture in the eyes of nearly all the world. The soul of liberty is the Jove of law. The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity. Advice is like snow, the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind. The sun which ripens the corn and fills the succulent herb with nutriment, also pencils with beauty the violet and the rose. Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a brightness over everything, ft is the sweetner of toil and the soother of dis quietude. Concerning Members of Congress. Five thousand a year sounds like a little fortune itself to many a man in the South whose hard earnings annually fall to $500 or less. But as a rule Southern men coming to Congress since the war have come with depleted purseq or involved in debt. To such men lfjp in Washington is a continual struggle between motives of economy and‘a laudable desire to creditably represent their people in social and official ‘ life. Many of them striko a fortunate middle, ground between the prevalent extrava gance of the capital nnd that plainness which in a Senator or Representative is put down as meanness. Some live in high style, have a glorious time for a fow years, nnd unless they strike a lucky speculation in stocks or accumulate by fortuitous ways, peculiar to certain classes of legislation, go home deeply in debt, and have to borrow money for their next canvass. There are mem bers who take cheap quarters, spend little or no moaoy on receptions, thea ters, carriages, etc., take thirty-cent menls at restaurants, walk a mile or two to and from the Capitol, or on rainy days Indulgo In tho luxury of aflve-cent ride In tho street oars. Men like these save a considerable part of their sal aries, and at the cod of their terms are rioher ns well os wiser men. In the meantime their wives nnd children have been living In some country town, deprived of a share of enjoyment of tho honors the old man gains, and of the plcasuro of a fow years’ residence In the onpitol city. In most Instances they had really better be in tho country though they probably don't think so. I knew one Senator, a brilliant man, but indolent in habit nnd shabby- genteel in dress, who drew from bank at tho end of his six years’ term tbo comforablesum of twenty odd thousand dollars, accumulations of savings from his salary. Ho lived plainly ant! re mote from the Capitol, and would walk more than two mile3 to the Capitol when tho thermomoter stood in tho nineties. He said lie walked for his health. Ouoo I hunted up a cor tain member of this Congress for special reasons. He occupies a second-story room on a street that might almost be called No Thoroughfare. The entrance is through a narrow brown door adjoin ing the shop in the first story, and at the top of the dark stairway, whioh brings you to his chamber, you grope your way to the first door—tho one with a largo square holo in it, noar tho top, is his. There are no gis fixtures in tho room. At night tho long many-jointed fixture in the hall is drawn through the hole in the door, nnd being doubled baok sons not to interfere with the movement of tho door, is lighted. Long strips o* ancient papering hang down from the walls in some plaoes, and the furniture consists of a very plain bod, a few chairs, a square wooden washstand with holo in the- top almost losing the china bowl and the pitoher, and a small painted table,oovered with congressional bills and documents sprinkled with crumbs of smoking tobacco, stands on uncertain legs noar the centor of the chamber. Tho occupant of tills room receives a salary of $5,000 a year. He will not resign on acoount of peouninry dlstross. Members of Congress have many un ■ reasonable demands upon their purse3, merely beenuso they happen to be in (lie publio service. Day after day they are importuned. Often an unknown man asks for money to get back to Augusta, or Raleigh, or Cincinnati, or to some other place. Another wants his check indorsed, another wants a loan to go into business, another pleads his war record and poverty to extraot a loan. The forms of demands for money are as varied as they are numerous, and scarcely a cent is ever refunded.— Charleston News and Courier. 0- All communications intended for this paper mast be accompanied with the tall name ot the writer, not necessarily for publi cation, bat as a guarantee of good faith. We are in no way responsible lor the views cr opinions of correspondents. A Strange Scene In the House of Commons. The London Telegraph describes the scene in the houie of commons when Mr. Brad laugh “ affirmed ” as follows: Fora little while Mr. Bradlaugh stand ing quite alone, uncheered by a smile or sound of welcome, seemed in doubt as to what next it would be right for him to do. Presently he came slowly, very slowly up the floor, looking neither to right nor to left, halted near to the crown of the mace at the corner of the table on the ministerial side, and stood looking constrained and anxious for at least a minute. Then Sir Erskine May rose from the opposite end of tho table, and holding the printed form of afflr ma- tion in his right hand, went up to whtit Mr. Bradlaugh stood, aud repented the prescribed form of words to him, but in a voice inaudible to a majority of those present. Bowing somewhat stiffly to the clerk of the house, the no-longor- disputed junior member for Northamp ton, with much deliberation, signed the rolljof parliament; whereupon Sir Ers kine May preceded him a few steps to the speaker’s chair, saying: "Mr. Bradlaugh, member for Northampton.” The speaker, as in duty bound, held out his hand; Mr. Bradlaugh touched it formally, and still with the downcast look upon his face, passed out behind the chair, amid the same unbroken silence which had reigned during the very few minutes occupied by the pro ceeding. Allowing'.himsolf but sufficient time to traverse tho corridor, whioh runs parallel with the house, Mr. Brad laugh came boldly into the chamber, ooking now well pleased, hurriedly mounted to the end of tho bench on the third row from the floor on the liberal side bolow the gangway, and, without a friendly hand held out to welcome him, realized his triumph over parlia ment, and took his seat for North ampton. Ths Grocer Boy. Miko Miller was a grocer’s boy, Well up in enrfant nonsense; But wlion his wrath was raisin’ high He Was devoid ol conscience. Ha went to ter a girl named Sal- Let soap ho Jo vc A hor trne; For, oh, she was tho sweetest flour That over Miller knew. Though (rue at steel Miss Sallte was, Like stoolsho had a temper, ''And thought whon Miller tried to teas A grocer salt was meant her. Then Miko his oonrnge mustard np; He’d shout nnd storm and stutter, And strive to ernoker on the head— Though none he wanted butter. Uien aha would scratch, and pull his hair With all hor strength and vim, The whila Bhe madly would exclaim t " Whoe’er olnnnmon liko him?” And thus they quarreled olt; Their love was not all spioo, But whon in making up they clove Together—oh, ’twas nioe! —JYorrittou>n Herald. MflCELLANEOUS. Cutting a swell—Lancing a boll.— Borne Sentinel. A person born this year cannot rote in the nineteenth century. Sixteen Waterloo officers are living. In France there are at least 500,000 wolves, who kill about 1,000 menevery year. The smaller tho calibre of mind the grentcr the bore of a perpetually open tnou h. A Philadelphia policeman who, in the discharge o( his duty, shot two rowdies, has become insane through remorse. The census of Berlin, taken at ths close of 1870, shows a population of 1,081,93. One-half of tho household, says * critic, does not know how the othjf hnlf lives. The number of living models employed in Paris, by painters, sculptors and photographers is 671. An Ohio shorHT who lately asslstod at a wcddingjsnappcd his fingers and called out: "The condemned will now step his way." Talented individuals who have woo golden opinions are never averse to ex changing them for greenbacks, or even for trado dollars. The other night, in a Missouri town,, a thiof, being caught in a man’s cellar, explained that he was there to got out of the way of n cyclone. Tho mean diameter of the earth i 7 018 miles; that of the moon, 9,161 n: i Ifs. The density of the moon is five- eighths that of tho earth. King Stauley, the ruler of all the gyp- sics in this country, lives in the midst of a settlement of his people near Dayton, Ohio. His daughter, who was to be come queen at his death, has lost her heritage by eloping with a man no ta gypsy. San Francisco assessors complain thot to escape tho coll tax Chinamen of thirty, and even forty years, claim to ba only oighteen or twenty. When objec tion Is made they say : "me sweatee.” As there are 20,000 Chinamen in San Francisco this fraud hits that city in a tender spot—its spot. Draining Lakes. One of the greatest engineering under takings of tho present century, well fit ted, says the Scientific Press, to rank with many attempted in Holland -not even excepting the projected draining of the Zuydcr Zee—is tho successful ac complishment of works by which the Appenine Lake Fucino has become a thing of the past, and some thirty-five thousand acres of the richest land re covered for cultivation. The labor of making the tunnel necessary for the task, and other works, has occupied nearly a quarter of a century, and the vast sum of ten million dollars has al ready been expended on the project. Ail the water has disappeared, except ing a small basin employed for draining the surrounding district. The greatest ength ot the lake was formerly some ten miles, and its breadth about seven, while the adjoining towns are no longer in danger from the sudden rising of the water in this volcanic region. The idea of draining this district is not anew one, and tho remains of the aqueduct constructed during the reign of the em peror Claudius were formerly Bhown to the traveler; this has been mndo use of in the present undertaking, and, after the lapse of so many centuries, the great project is an accomplished fact. Curing the Bl'e of a Copperhead, A little daughter of John Telford, of Moon township, Pa., was bitten by a copperhead snake. Her mother took her to a grocery store near by, where a salt mackerel was applied to the wound, and a pint of whisky forced down the child’s throat. In the meantime a chicken was caught and ripped open alive; the mackerel was taken off; the wound and the poison had turned it green; the warm entrails of the ohieken were then applied, and another chicken killed, and subsequently placed on the wound; the entrails of both were turn ed green. By this time the child was itupefiod in consequence of the liquor she had drank, but seemed to suffer no pain. She was taken home, and the leg that had been bitten was placed in salt and water. These prompt remedies had the desired effect, and thoehild was con- I *idercd out of danger.