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gpWIN MARTIN, Proprietor". Devoted, to Home Interests and Culture. TWO DOLLARS A. Year in Advance, VOLUME IX. PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27,1879. NUMBER 13. New Advertisements. POOR GEE AT MEN. The undersigned will be found at his old stand in Perry*, With a complete stock of groceries, provisions, dry: GOODS, « SHOES, & HATS, Which he proposes to sell as cheap «8 any other house in. Perry for Cash. All persons wanting goods on Time B „ B t make good papers—Such as I can use. FRESH MEAT. I will also at nil times in season keep FRESH BEEF, MUTTON, and KIDS, as I expect 10 keep up a reg ular meat market, aDd ask the peo ple to patronize and euconrago me to d ° B0 ' J. W. MANN, c. C.ANDEK80N, ATTOBHKt AT LAW, HawkinsviUe, Go. Will practice In the courts of Pulaski, Hone- tot tad adjoining counties. J0BS0N, F, A Abtisau, ' Perry, Georgia. Sewing Machined, Jewelry, Gone, I-ochs. and ev erything In ids lino repaired and fitted up in the uorttuhi uo«t tubfdantial manner. All work not called for In ten days after being finished will be sold to pay charges. US* All work done promptly and at the lowcs rices for cash, F80 ITU RE FREIGHT FREE. ZNTIRELY SEW AND ELEGANT STOCK Or PTTR.KTITXm33 fast received and for sale at Fo price*. BSJY AT HOME. COPFIMB. A Hearse can be furnished to order ot any time oti abort unticc. I can lie found in the day time at -my Htore, next to the hotel; at uiglit at my residence Riljuiuiug Dr. Htivis. Furniture Made to Order, remirecl nt short notice. Burial Clothes, ready &uule, for ladies, gentlemen ami children. BARTLET’S UNRIVALLED SPRING BEDS. GEORGE PATfL, PERKY. GEORGIA. re ft 4Y NURSERY STOCK is very largo and fiuo this It A season, and if you wish to plant acclimated reca and such variotics as arc best adapted to home ad market uses, you cau procure them at the 1)1 wing extraordinary low prices: 3PB.ICE LIST: APPLES. Single Trees $ 15. Kr Hundred 1003. PEACHES. Single Trees.. *ar Hundred . PEARS. THE DIAMOND SWINDLER. Standard Twa years old 50 cents each. •- Oua " 30 cents each. Dwarf Two Years Old -.40 cents each. “ Ono “ Socents each. Account or Chinese Sand Pear $100 each. Potnegrauatesahd Grapes 25 cents finms, Quinces, Mulberries and Pigs.... 23 cents Strawberries.—Per Hundred $ 1,00 “ « lhcusaud...... 8.08 Special Rates Given for Large Orde a. *feeGriptive CfcWogue «ent free on application. Address S.V5UJEL II. HUMPH, ■“Willow Lake Smsery, Marshallvilie, Ga. OrT. O. SKELLIE, Port Talley, Ga. NEW HARNESS SHOP J.F. HUMPHREYS, Perry, - Georgia. u , the «torc W-JSS"* * Bro., I tespsdtruUy solicit-a liberal Jat ® of the public patronage. I keep on hand SADDLES, BY JAMES FABTON. A year or two before the panic, being at the beautiful city of Providence in Rhode Island, I was assured by un aged fesident of the place that Providence was tho richest city in the world. I suppose I looked increduloas, for he immediately added: What I mean is this: Divide the property in Providence equally usnong its inhabitants, and we find fifteen hundred and fifty dollars apiece; and this is the largest average which the census tables of any country exhibit. ” At that time almost all property was over-estimated, particularly real estate. But reducing the old gentleman’s aver age to a thousand dollars for each in habitant, he could have made oat a very good case for his claim. Id is estima ted by statisticians that the whole amount of property in the world, divi ded equally among its inhabitants, would give to each individual consider ably less than a hundred dollars. In deed, there are extensive provinces of civilized countries where the average man does uo f possess so much. A few days after this, visit to Provi dence I mentioned the old gentleman’s remark to a Boston lawyer, noted for his knowledge of statistics. Be was disposed to admit the ctaim for Provi dence, but maintained that, as a com monwealth, the State of Massachusetts was then the most prosperous in the world. He adduced many facts from the census in support of this opinion, and, warming with his subject, conclu de d with the following statement: • “At the present time Massachusetts is increasing’ her wealth at the rate of three cents a day for each inhabitant— an increase without parallel in the his tory of man.” Upon looking into the subject after wards, I have found reasons for bcliev ing these gentlemen were both very much in the right. It is a fact that the human race is and has been very poor. It is also a fact that no community can ever ba so rich that poverty will not be the lot of a majority of its inhabitants. The renson of this is plain: Prosperi ty brings increase of numbers, as well as increase of wealth. As soon as there is more food there are more mouths.— As soon as there is more cloth there are more hacks. Poverty must., therefore, forever be the common lot of man. do not say destitution. I do not say pinching and degrading poverty. But. probably, any family of five persons that has a clear income of fifteen dollars a week is richer than the average family can ever be in any extensive and popu lous country: Americans, even now, after tlie last- five distressing years, cau form no idea of what poverty is iu older and more densely peopled countries. One of our thriving German fellow-citizens told me, some iime ago, how he came to this country when he was a youDg man. At twenty-one he was a jourm-yman lock smith, earning about as much as me chanics m Germany usually do—that is, a subsistence, pins a little tobacco and beer. He made up his mind to emi grate to America, and began at once to save money for th-.-.t purpose. Upon in quiry he fonnd that to get to the sea- coast and cross the ocean to New York would cost forty-two dollars. He saved everv possible cent, and occasionally worked a little on liis own account in the evening; but after four years of the most intense exertion and severe econo my, he was still twelve dollavs short of the sum required. These twelve- dol lars he borrowed of a comrade, who was also saving money for the same .pur pose. He landed iu New York with scarcely any£money and still less Eng lish, and walked the streets seven months before obtaining employment, going in. debt for his board. The Ger mans are so honest a people that they trust one another in a surprising man ner. At length he got a job of chop ping sausage meat from a First Avenue grocer, and having thus obtained a foot hold, soon chopped himself into the good graces of his employer and belter wages. He paid his debts and got into bnsiness. When he told me this story he had just bought a lot ou Madison. Avenue for forty-five thousand dollars, which transaction called to his mind the story of his emigration. This gave me a more vivid idea of honest poverty than I had ever before had. Think of a man’s working hard and saving hard for four years to get thirty dollars. Bnt even then he was nearly up to the Massachusetts standard of an increase of three cents a day. At such a time as this, when large numbers of virntous people ore obliged to economize with extreme severity, it is of little use to fix our eyes upon the few individuals who have more than they need. It is more profitable at I was reading the other day of the I early life’ of the poet Wordsworth and | —— jpjJ&VS his sister, the faithful companion of his • Death of the Man who made a . FoB- poverty and toils. Upon coming out of J tone by Salting a Valley with college he tried to earn his subsistence! .Jewels. - by literature; but failing in all bis en- j deavors, be was looking for an engage-! Philip Arnold died in his beautifal ment upon a newspaper when he re- home in Elizabethtown, in this State, bridles, *®»i*lhenrto-order. and harness, and promptly done. PRICES LOW- ceivcd a legacy of nine hundred pounds. He invested this sum so that it produc ed him about two hundred and twenty dollars a year, and he was able to earn about seventy-five dollars a year more by his pen. His revenue, therefore, was less than three hundred dollars a year; but both himself and his sister lived upon it with much comfort and perfect dignity for eight years. After wards he was appointed to an office; bnt to the end of his days he generally had little more than the income of a Wash ington clerkship of the lowest rank.— He found his income sufficient because he was perfectly free from all false shame about it. Miss M-artineau relates how he kept himself from being eaten out of house nnd home by the host of visitors whom bis celebrity attracted, He would address them thus: Now, my friends, I can give you a cup of tea, and you are welcome to it; but if you have come to stay, you must pay your board.” The venerable poet used to be a good deal laughed at for this honest mode of proceeding. But what was he tc do?— If lie bad given only a dinner to all his admirers who called to see him during the summer seasoD, his family must ei ther have lived upon baked potatoes the rest of the year, or else they must have gone into debt. ' It is consoling to think in times like these of the little that human nature ready requires, and how comfortably a a family can live upon little when they work together in harmony for the com mon good. I wish some, one would write a little book that could be sold fo rfifteen cents, showing how much farther a dollar will go when it is spent in the best manner, than when it spent carelessly. Half of ns do not un derstand the ,/sae art of economy. Pe ter Parley tells his readers that his fa ther, a Connecticut clergyman, had an average salary, during the fifty years of his ministry, of four hundred and fifty dollars a year; upon which he brought up and educated eight children, and left an estate of four thousand dollars. What was ihe secret? There were two secrets. First, he had eight children, all of whom, after their sixth year, did .heir little share of work for the gener al welfare.- Secondly-, lie had the of a little piece of land, about twenty acres of land, Tvhich was part of. his emolument. Put an intelligent, vigo rous family, with no nonsense about them, upon twenty acres of land, with a little salary coming iu for groceries and cloth, aud they may be relied on to work iheir way, first to comfort, and finally to wealth. There are a good many young men now in colleges who are sorely pnt to it to subsist; but there are very few among them who are undergoing such a grind of poverty as the Webster brothers, Daniel «nd Ezekiel, endured, eighty- years ago. In the year 1803, Ezekiel Webster taught a' school six hours a day in Boston, had an evening school for sailors, kept up with his class in Dart mouth College, and graduated with honor three years after entering. His brother Daniel, meanwhile, was eking out his subsistence bv copying deeds in the eveniug, at the rate of two dollars for four long evenings’ work. When ever he had a little mouey he gave it to his brother to help him through col lege; aud when Ezekiel had gathered a small surplus, he shared it with Daniel; both of them occasionally giving a lift to the old folks at home. The best of it all was that they passed through this experience with unflagging gayety and courage. Henry Clay, too, about that time- was earning a very slender livelihood by copying legal documents. Eis day dream was to get such a law practice that he could earu a hundred pounds a year; bnt even this was unattainable for a long time. Of all the public men of America none has had so bitter au experience of poverty as Abraham Lincoln. I often think of him as a young man borrowing a little life of Washington, and, after reading it with avidity at every odd moment, hiding it away at night on a shelf in the log cabin. The min came through a chink and soaked the book through, and he was obliged to work three days for the owner to make good the damage. Poverty is the common lot of man. I am sorry it is so;.but so it is. A just prosperity is greatly to be desired; it is so great a boon as to be worth almost any amout of patience-and exertion to win it. We find, nevertheless, that poverty is not incompatible with hap- GREENLAND COURTSHIP. present to reflect upon the countless piness, and that a great number of the multitudes in every conntrv, .the ut most exertion of whose faculties jnst enables them to keep alive. It is con doling, also, to consider how poor have been, in every age and country, the men we are proudest of. "We can hardly mention a man of the first many of them remained poor all their lives. on Saturday last, of pneumonia. Sev en or eight years ago his diamond mine speculation made liis name as well known throughout the world as was ev er that of John Law, or any other shrewd schemer who successfully im posed on credulous speculators. Ar nold was born in Hardin county about fifty years ago, and was bred there, be ing apprenticed to a hatter. Ho ran away before his term of service expired, and enlisted as a soldier, in the Mexi can war. After peace was fieclared he went to California, aud remained there until 1872, when he appeared in Eliza bethtown and opened a large account in the local bank. It was said that he had discovered an immense diamond field in California, and had come home to enjoy, among his old friends, the fruits, of bis fortune. Speedily, howev er, on the heels of this rumor came the allegations of J. B. Cooper, a San Fran cisco bookkeeper, who made affidavits that the diamond field was a gigantic swindle, that Arnold had planned and persuaded him to help carry out. Arnold sailed for Europe with §40,n 000, and bribed two sailors to go amoDg the London jewelers and buy what dia monds they could in thetrough. He got together this way §37,000 worth of cheap stones, something like a bushel in quantity, and sailed back again to California. Some months afterwards a number of wealthy San Francisco spec ulators, among whom were William Ralston and William M. Lent, 'were told that Arnold aDd a friend of his named Slack, also an Elizabethtown boy, had stumbled upon a valley in which diamonds, sapphires, and gems of various kinds and values were to be picked up with only the trouble of stooping for them. The lucky tinders had a bagful of the jewels in their pos session that they claimed to have gath ered in the valley, and they were dis played iu such profusion that one of the speculators said they covered one ead of a billiard table an inch deep. Arnold took his bag of gems to New York, and a company with §10,000,000 enpifal, was suggested to work the mine. Nearly 8100,000 was subscribed, and Henry Jauin, an expert, was engaged to explore the valley and report upon the prospect. Arnold led the expedi tion that was fitted out for the purpose. They started" from Denver, Col., on May 3S. 1872, and after travelling nine days, Arnold told them they .were on on the spot. They afterwards ascer tained that they were only thirty miles from the point of departure. But the valley more than fulfilled their anticipa - tions. They spent seven days there, and gathered 1,000 carats of diamonds and 6,000 carats of other precious stones. Janie’s report wss an enthusiastic one. There had already been paid to Arnold §250,000, and on Janin’s report §400,- 000 worth more of the stock was sold, of which Arnold got §300,000. Information of the alleged discovery soon reached England, and the Lon don Times demonstrated the geological impossibility of so many jewels being of such various kinds iu one locality, nod further exposed the swindle by ma king known the fact that persons from California had attracted attention the year before in London by buying up all the rough diamonds to be found in the city. The managers cf the company then sent Clarence King, United States Geologist, to visit the valley. He soon ascertained that the ground had been plainly “salted,” Holes had been poked with a common stick into the clay, the jewels dumped into them, and then stopped up again. A few weeks after the exposure sever al California capitalists sued Arnold and Slack in the Kentucky courts for the recovery of §350,000. ■_ The.snit was e<mpromised by the payment of §150,- 000. No criminal action was ever be gun against either of them. Arnold established a bank in Eliza bethtown, and heiween him aud L. M. Longshaw, who had also a bank there, there had been much rivalry and bad feeling. A letter to a commercial agency, in June last, reflecting on the financial standing of Arnold’s bank, he attributed to his rival, and began a suit against him for §35,000 damages. H. N. Holdsworth, one of Longshaw’s cleiks, took an active part in the con troversy, and Arnold cowhided him in the Btreete. They met again in a bar room August- 22d last, and Arnold knocked Holdsworth down. . Holds worth ran to the bank, got a shot-gun, and fired at Arnold as he came from the b irrcom. Arnold returned the fire with his pistol shooting five times. None of theshffts kit Holdsworth, but one of them struck John Anderson, a fanner, passing entirely through his stomach. The second time Holdsworth fired the When the Danish missionaries had se cured the confidence of the Greenland ers mariaage was made a religions cere mony. Formerly the man married the woman as the Romans did the Sabine woman, by force. One of the mission aries' writing to his journal, describes the style of present courtship as fol lows; The suitor, coming to the missionary, said. I should like to have a wife. The man named the woman. “Has thou spoken to her? Sometimes the man will answer. ‘Yes she is not unwilling, but thou kuowest womanhood. More frequent ly the answer is. No: “Why not? It is difficult ; girls are prudish. Thou must speak to her. The missionary summons the girl, and after a little conversation says. I think it time to have thee mar ried. I won’t marry. “What a pity! I had a suitor for thee. “Whom?,’ The missionary names the man who has sought his aid. He is good for nothing, I won’t have him. But, replies the missionary “he is a good provider, he throws his harpoon with skill, and he loves thee.’ Though listening to his praises with evident pleasure, the girl answered, “I won’t marry, I wont have him.” “Well, I wont force thee. I shall soon find a wife for such a clever fel low.” The missionary remains silent as though he understood her “no” to have ended the matter. At last, with a sigh, she vhisptrs, 'Just as thou wilt have it, missionary.’ “No,” replied the clegyman, as thou wilt, “I’ll not persuade thee.” Then with a deep • groan, came the “yes” and the matter is settled. CAN OYSTERS WHISTLE? The shop was first established by a Mr. Pearkes in 1825. “It appears,” says a writer in the Daily Telegraph, “that about the year 1840 the proprie tor of the house in question, which had then as it has now a great name for the superior excellence of its* delicate little ‘•native,” heard a strange and unusnal sound preceding from one of the tubs in which the shell-fish lay plied in lay ers one over the other, placidly , fatten ing upon oatmeal and awaiting the in evitable advent of tho remorseless knife. Mi. Pearkes, the landlord, listened, hardly at first believing his ears. There was, however, uo doubt about the mat ter; one of the oysters was distinctly whistling, or, at any rate, producing a sort of sifflement with its shell. It was not difficult to detect this phenomenal bivalve and in a very few minutes he was triumphantly picked out from amongst his fellows and put by himself in a spacious tub, with a plentiful sup ply of brine and water. The news spread through the town and for some days the fortunate Mr. Pearkes found his house besieged by curious crowds. *• * * Douglas Jerrold’s suggestion was that the said oyster had been cross ed in love and now whistled to keep up appearances with an idea of showing that it did not care.” Thackeray used to declare that he was once actually in the shop when au American came in to see phenomenon, as everybody else was doing, and after hearing the talented molluskgo though his usual perfor mance strolled contemptuously out, de claring “it is nothing to an oyster • he knew of in Massachusetts, which whis tied “Yankee Doodle” right though and followed its master about lhe house like a dog.” Rats Sucking a Horse’s Blood.—A prominent horse denier of this city told ns the following curious story this mor ning about the fancy his rats fas he calls them) have for a change of diet: He keeps a horse, aud noticed lately that it showed symptoms of lameness in his fore legs. He examined him caiefully, but could not discover the cause. On going to the stable one day, he, before entering, looked in throngh the window; then, to his astonishment, lie counted eleven rats stuck on the horses legs, sucking his blood. He waited, expecting every moment that the horse would shake them off, but instead of doing this he remained motionless and seemed to enjoy the strange visitors. A rap on the window sent the rats scurrying off. On exam ination of the horse’s legs he found twenty-one little boles, from eleven of which the blood was flowing. The horse was removed to another stable and soot: recovered from the sores, but strange to say, bis appetite basal- most failed him. He refuses oats, as a consequence, has fallen off m flesh, so much so that now he is almost useless. —Montreal [Can.) Post. Tee iast number of the Congression al Record was not completed nntil last Thursday, because during the last twen ty-four hours of the session members of Congress obtained leave to print many speeches that had never been de livered. Members are allowed to have a certain number of their speeches prin ted in pamphlet form and for all addi tional copies are required to pay cost price. On the last day orders were giv en for 260,000 copies of speeches, Mr. Hewitt, of New York, ordering 47,000 copies of his speech on the Federal elec tion laws, and Mr. Garfield 10,000 cop ies cf his speech on the sngar tariff. There were orders for about 100,000 copies of the speeches made in the Sen ate debate upon the exclusion of Jeffer son Davis from the Mexico war pension list. Pruning the Peach Trees.—Obser vation and experience has satisfied ns that_peuch trees shonld not be thinned out, but “headed in,” or cut back. Our readers who have had experience in growing peach trees will notice, after a few years, the tree will throw'out three to four limbs, tall and spindling, and these^are easily broken down or split off, and then the fruit becomes smaller. A remedy for this is to keep the tree cut back; that is, in the fall cut back at least half of all new growth. \Ye hear mnch said about thinning out the fruit to grow first-class fruit, very simple way is to pass around the tree, and, with a long pole pruning knife, cut off part of the bearing twigs When in blossom.. This causes the bal ance of the fruits on the bearing twigs to grow much larger and finer. A still better way is to cut off half the growth that has formed in August. (We speak for this litito.de, Rochester, New Pork.) This causes better development, of wood and bud on tho part that is left; unu, too, this entting back will keep the tree more compact, and prevent such a long spindling growth of limbs. Try it reader, auother year, and if you have any donbt of our statements being cor rect, trim one tree as wa have directed, and leave one of the same age and in the same locality without trimming Fruit Recorder. worthiest of onr race have lived long and gloriously upon very slender and precarious resources.—New York Lcdg- Ps ogress of the low-necked style— 1st degree, nude shoulders; 2d order who was not bred iu poverty, and neuralgia; 3d’ pneumonia; 4th,. a entize lead lodged in Arnolds right breast and shoulder, He never thor oughly recovered from the effects of the wound, although it was not the imme diate cause of ins death. None of the persons’ engaged in the melee were prosecuted. Mr. .Arnold’s bank was one of the ” He was coffin; 5th, 6th, a new “We ought to have room for enthusiasts, even if they vio late every Tale of grammar. A grand, blundering, hammering, thundering, whole-hearted Boanerges is worth a dozen prim, reverend gentlemen, meek .anew holem the ground; jjs the-boast'fit Hardin county.—Louis- as miik and water and soft as a boiled angel somewhere. ■ vide Letter. parsnip.” * -very hospitable, and his stable was no- ! ted for i:s fast stock, and his fruit farm The Democratic members of the for ty-sixth Gongress are firm in their, op position to the obnoxious laws provid- irg for supervisors of.elections, jnrora test oath and the use of the army as a means of securing Radical successes. They will first pass acts repealing the laws as separate measures. These Hayes will veto. They will then di vide the legislative, executive and judi cial appropriation bill into three bills, ons appropriating mo ney to pay the legislative branch of the government, and another to pay the salaries of the Judiciary Department. The third to provide for paymeut of salaries in the Executive Department, which includes that of Hayes himself, will have incor porated in it the desired repeals. What Hayes will do under these circumstan ces excites some reforest. Its is thought likely, however, that he will hold out. TREES AND MIASMA. So much has been said within tlte last few years oi the value of eucalyptus or Austrrlaian gum tree, in destroying or neutralizing the miasma of malarial dis tricts, that it would bo well that experi ments be made with various plants for this purpose, especially those Having large, and particularly those having dowuy leaves, as well. The common sunflower is well known for its so-called value in preventing tho bad effects of miasma. There are undoubtedly many others as good, and that may as easily bo grown. Marshy lands are as harm less if the Vegitation, in decaying, does not give off putrescent gases, for mere moisture is not unhealthy. Hence marshes become pestiferous if accumulations of vegetable matter ex ist. which under, the effects of suffi cient heat and moisture, give off putre fying matter. In the North, marshes are not deadly, for the reason that the summer heat is not sufficient, as a rule, to produce putrid fermentation to a degree sufficient to produce any but the lighter forms of malarial diseases. The basiness of plants is to pump up and utilize tlioso noxious matters, and utilize them in their structure, while at the same time they give off oxygen by their leaves. Hence marshes which a- bound in a variety of plants are not un usually deadly. The most noxious are those which dry up in the summer and leave the mnd exposed to the action of the sun, Hence the most potent means of obviating its effects is to plant the margin with some broad leafed trees, and preferably those that are pubescent or downy, as the basswood. We have ' before this advised tho planting of sun flowers in miasmatic neighborhoods, aud hope to see it acted ou the coming season. We also hope that those who do so will make the result public.— Pra rie Farmer. How Colored Emigrants are De ceived.—Yesterday morning brought in a large number of colored emigrants from the Mississippi. They were of the genuine old plantation kind and fall of belief of the various stories that had been told them before leaving their homes and caused them to come West. After all their baggage had been unload ed and piled away, and a good look at the depot taken by all, tmetof the party stepped over to the Kansas Pacific laud office, and Union avenue, and there ad dressed Frank Crane,; ‘Say, boss, wkar do dey get dem §500 and dat 160 acres of land. I’se come all de way from ole Mississippi with the woman and de pic- aninnies to get dat; and dey do tell me over dar (pointing to the Union depot) de Gobenor of dis State am a colored genelrnan; is dat so, boss?’ Frank Crane told him there must be some mistake, as at present they were not giving away any money or land. The honest -dar key’s countenance fell several feet, and he left, stating he ‘would leave de wo man here and see dat Govenor’—and, purchasing a ticket for Topeka, left on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe train for that point.—Eansa. CUy Times March 5. A Model Confession.—Seventy scars ago in a Vermont town, a young lawyer—S member of a large church- got drunk. The brethren said he must confess. He demured. He knew the members'to be a good people, but that they had their little faults, such as driv ing shaip bargains, screwing the labor er down to low wages, loaning money at illegal rates, misrepresenting articles they had for sale, etc. But they were a good people, and pressed tlie lawyer to come before the “church meetiug” to own .up to his sin of taking a glass too mack, for they were a temperance people before temperance societies ex isted. Tho sinner finally went to the the confession; found a large gathering .of brethren and sisters, whose bowed heads rose, and whose eyes glistened with healthy delight, as the lawyer be gan his confession. “I confess,” began he, “that I never took ten per cent, for money.”- (six was tho legal rate.) On this confession down went si brother's head with a groaD. “I never turned Ja poor man from my door who needed food or shelter!” Down went another head. “I confess I never sold a skim milk cheese for a new milk one.” Where upon a sister shriek ed for mercy. “But” concluded the sinner, “I have got drunk, and I am sorry for it.” Where upon the meeting was peaceably dismissed. Between this time and November there will be bnt four State elections. ’Ihe first is that in Louisiana, for mem bers of the Constitutional Convention; then will come the state election in Kentucky in August, and the California dection for members of Congress September. Ohio completes the list with .its election for Governor in Octo ber. In November quite -a number of States hold their elections for State offi cers, the most important, of course, be ing New York. The indianions are that immigration will set iu briskly from England in lhe spring. The labor unions are assisting all who desire to get a way. The im pression is that our country is on the eve of better Hm~s. and tins hope will j bring thousands who have no hope of employment abroad. Z - i ■ ■ . - • In 1776 there were iu the United States but thirty-seven newspapers of all grades. Seven were in Massachn- sotts, four in New York and nine in Pen a -1vania. One was a semi-weekly, the remainders were weeklies. To-day there are over 8,000 newspapers of att grades published in the country. New York has the largest number, Pennsyl vania next Massachusetts ranks seventh or eighth. A hundred years ago there was a paper printed for every' "30,000 inhabitants; now "one to every 5,000. Three years ago the combined circula tion of all the journals in the United States amounted fo over 1,250.000,000 copies. On an average for the five years preceedreg 1876 there were six newspapers started every day, bnt the actual increase ia the number daring the time was about 2,000. The -remain der died from 'various causes. Sheep As Beasts Of Burden.—In the “Colonies of India,” we find a note respecting the employment of sheep ns beasts of burden. In eastern Tnrkis- tan and Thibet, for instance, berax is borne on the hacks of sheep over moun tains to Leh, Kangra and Bampur on the Sutlej. Borax is fonnd at Ba- dok in Chaugthan, of such excellent quality that only 25 per cent, is lost in refining it. The Rudok borax ’ ~ ried on sheep to Rampor, x j. el at tbe rate or two miles a c 3 at, not withstanding the superior and the demand for it in Eu expenses attending-its transpo riously hamper tlie trade, which, but for the sheep, would hardly exist at all. In Jones county Iowa two formers had a quarrel about fourteen fence rails, alleged to lie worth about §1.40. They hired two lawyers and went to law hammer aud tongs. After a long con test the plaintiff got a verdict of one cent and the lawvers had pocketed §324. TSe farmers then elected timn. to the Legiriaturc. -