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ESTABLISHED IN 1S43.
THE COURIER has a Inrgc and steady circu
lation in Cherokee Georgia, and Is the best ad
vertising medium in this section.
Mr D W iiV KLL, Proprietor.
Wednesday Morning, —Jan. 9,1878
They say that Grant has gone to
Mount Vesuvius because he is fond of
the crater.
Tiie 8th of January, 1815, sixty-three
years ago, Gen. Jackson put cotton bales
to a good use at New Orleans.
We are glad to welcome the Atlanta
Daily Tribune to bur list of exchanges
It is published by the Tribune Pub
lishing Company, with Chas. H. Will
iams, manager, and is filled with inter
esting news. We wish it success.
Mr. Hayes is a regular deceiver. He
does right occasionally, which is a sore
disappointment to tho Radicals who
put him in office contrary to the voice
of the people, and does a little better
than honest men expected he would,
“Each New Englander looking into
the face of another New Englander
sees the reflection of the noblest speci
men of humanity,” said Mr. Evarts, in
his New England dmnetipeech. “Yes,”
says the Courier-Journal, “there is Ben
Butler looking into the face of George
Boutwell, for instance, and Billy Charidi
ler looking into the face of Daniel
Chamberlain,for instance.”
Anterior .to 1858 the production of
gold in the United States footed up, in
round numbers, 8530,000,000, of which
period, the greatest' production for one
year was 865,000,000, in 1S53. BVom
185S to 1875 the aggregate production,
in round numbers, was 8807,700,0Q0 of
gold (with 8260,450,000 in silver) mak
ing the aggregate of- coin yielded’ by
the country, to include 1875, $1,332,-
000,000, and of silver 8261,450,000. O;
this silver the Comstock lode has fur
nished 8199,824,304.
Recorder Hackett, of New York, on
Friday sentenced George Robinson for
stealing law books, or attempting to steal
them, from Ex-Governor Tilde::. He is
reported as usingthe following language:
“George Robinson, yon have pleaded
guilty to grand larcey. You were
caught in the act of stealing law books
from the office of Samuel J. Tilden.
Now, it was despicably mean for yon to
steal from the gentleman from whom the
Presidency of the United States had re
cently beej stolen... I sentence you to two
years and six months in State prison.”
had had the honesty to confess that be
is a great rascal, and the grace, to show
signs of contrition, Judge Brady could
hot even then have failed to award the
proper penalty in so flagrant a case.
But to attempt to browbeat a Judge into
mitigating his sentence . was equally
brazen and idiotic.
When this felon had concluded his
impudiift/speech Judge Brady pre-
faced his sentence with some very plain
and wholesome remjl^s. If the paan
had po38QBed~^rf5r'*4ftnUaiit:'of a-con
science he would have wilted under
Jiidge Brady’s characterization" 1 of lus
infamy. The Judge told him that he
had invited this severity of comment
by his harangue, the points of which
the Judge took up and demolished. • To
Lambert’s tirade against the press Judge
Brady replied that the press of the city
had simply done its duty in holding
op this swindler as a warning. Said
the Judge: ‘‘You have also denounced
and stigmatized the press. The press
was justly interested in your convic
tion.' The very instant you were con
victed the whole community had a
right to know that you received the
penalty of your crime, and the press,
as embodying the collective voice'of
the country, waB quite justified in com
menting with great severity -upon the
evidence on which you have been
proven guilty, and I do not mean to
express any other than decided appro
bation of the views the press has taken
$uj:liis subject.”
condition of the streets m that city.
'tote,of Bamesville, open-
Some of the calculations of profit to
come from the Eastern war have sad!
miscarried. Tiie suspension of the Jew
ell Brothers, proprietors of the Brooklyn
City Mills, the largest flouring establish
ment in the country, was owing mainly
to that cause. On the breaking out ot
the war thc7 hruupit Ijraln uorjr linuVlIy i
expec'ing an increased demand from
abroad arid au advance in prices. -In
stead of that tlieie was a falling off in
prices of twenty to thirty cents’a bushel
in wheat. These losses incurred, in
connection with others have forced the
concern into suspension.
New York uiapatch to the Baltimore
Sun: “It is quite patent now that the
temper of the cotton trade is again bull
ish. They snap their fingers, at the
big receipts last week—232,000 bales,
with a promise of 220,000 this week—
and take their stand on the statistical
position of the staple. The receipts are
now heard of because of the general
settling up with the hands for the year,
and cotton is hurried forward accord
ingly. January, however, it is pre
dicted, will witness a marked decrease
and an excited market. Some of our
bankers are investing In cotton, and
have been from 11.50 downwards.”
RtSCAUTy BREWING.
We all found out early in 1877 that
S was more than 7, and another iUus-
tration of the same principle in mathe
matics was given us when Patterson
was awarded a seat in Congress as a
Senator from South Carolina. Now,
Patterson is sick, and has been for a
long time, and perhaps tho twangs of
conscience have caused him to speak of
resigning the office he knows he ought
not to hold, before he is taken hence,
in order to do something toward re
storing what he has wrongfully taken
The Senate is so nearly even on a polit
ical division that the Radicals at Wash
ington are trying to hatch up an excuse
for keeping out a Democrat, who would
succeed Patterson, if he should resign.
With the vote of Mr. Wheeler, acting
as Vice-President, the credentials of
Patterson’s successor could be referred
to a committee, and that committee
could pigeon-hole the matter as long as
it might be nece-sary to subserve the
purposes of Mr. Conkling and other
haters of tho South, trutli and justice.
FOST-MOHTEH.
One bleak winter night a poor ‘exile
from Erin sat, shivering and blue, over
the smouldering embers of a dying fire.
He had about given 'up-all : hope of
success in life, and,in the’fullness of
his heart, poured out his sorrows to an
equally unfortunate friend', who sat By
his side.. ‘’Teddy;’’ said he,' “I am not
long for this world, indade I would not
be surprised to wake up in .the morn-,
ing and find'myself dead.” We were
not so well prepared as was the Hiber
nian to wake up yesterday morning
:.nd find ourself dead. But such is the
fact, and the Tribune did it, and did it
with a few bricks thrown in the inter
est of Mr. Hill. ..Ail 'hat we can say
now wiil not alter our condition, but a
decent regard for our memory compels
us to pen these few lines, just to eay
that.when we wrote what we did about
Mr. Hill’s views on the silver , and re
sumption question, we had not read
the editorial in the Atlanta Constitu
tion which the Tribune charges us
witlj; rehashing. The article was
written as we read the “proof 1
of'tho Interview with Mr. Hill, and the
remarks were suggested by what we
thought its apparent thinness. We
were also fully advised as to the option
of the Government to call in and pay
off five-twenty bonds at any. time after
five j’ears from their issuance, and of
the same option after ten years in re
gard to the ten-forties. But at the rate
they are being called in it would take
about two thousand .years to get them
all in, and we did not feel like we had
time to wait so long to see the end of
this paying of interest in gold.
It is well known that bonds at a low
rate of interest hive been put on the
market'and kept th'erff foV "some’ time,
but nobody wants them. About all
that is done is just about enough to
make a living for some people, or some
syndicate, that gets a commission for
selling them. The present bonded d“bt
of the United States is near two thou
sand millions of dollars, and at the rate
of progress made in the last few years,
the conversion of the present bonds
into bonds paying a lower rate of inter
est might be accomplished, a3 before
said, in about two thounsar.d years.
In his interview Mr. Hill says:
“If we continue the bonds at the
present high rate, wo continue the
chances of these hond-holders getting
all the benefits of a premium on gold
thirty or forty years hence, which is
certainly madness.
In our remarks upon that subject, last
Tuesday morning, we said: “The idea
that a bond due thirty to forty years
hence, bearing six per cent, would he
exchanged for one bearing only four
per cent, seems to us absurd. There is
no business sense in such a transaction.
This might occur if the bond had
reached maturity? but Mr. Hill takes
mm
GEORGIA GLIMPSES.
Spalding county is out of debt
' The Atlant#^a| 1 '
of the
Gordon
ed, it is reported, with 200 pupils.
The Odd Fellows of Marietta bad a
plasant re-unnion and supper on the 27th
ult.
The Post-office receipts at Savannah
for 1877 were $47,271.60, the' expensts,
827J>2£29.^^^ ^ jaressed bacon.
The.EIherton .Gazette rejoices over the
fact .that the railroad tp^apfSbct that town
salt and 100 lbs. land plaster, and such
manure as he gets about, the bam-yard
and wood-pile and brush settlings.
He burn3 his own lime, and gets land
plaster from Saltville, Va. He saves
his cotton eeed for wheat and com land
He does not make cotton to sell at 9
cents when it coats him 13 cents to pro-
duce it, as the Bureau at Atlanta
shown; when corn costs 81 per bushel
and pressed bacon 15 to 18 cents per
.poppL By ihp way, the Legislature
ought to ffeIonize Ahe party who
STRICT JUSTICE.
Dr. Lambert, President of the Popu
lar Life Insurance Company, was re
cently convicted of perjury in swearing
to false returns of the company, and
sentenced to five years in the peniten
tiary. The New York Herald deals
with him with gloves off, Eaying: The
notorious Dr. Lambert, convicted of
perjury- last week, when called up for
sentence managed to create a scene
which is quite unusual on such occa
sions. We doubt if there ever existed
a man who was quite his equal in im
pudence. He always had the com
bined impudence of a charlatan and a
tremendous bore, but he yesterday
added to this the triple brass of a case-
hardened criminal. He stood up and
made a jaunty speech of two hours at
Judge Brady, in which he tried to pro
cures- m>ld sentence by the hopeful
method of brazenly denying his guilt
and abusing the jury, thp .Witnesses, the
Judge himself, and especially the press
gity ffhich J|ad commented on
forty years to run.” And for a special
purpose and reason we referred to Mr.
Hill’s idea of bonds at the present high
rate of interest, payable thirty or forty
years hence, which purpose and rea
son, we think, are more apparent to
even a casual observer by bringing the
two extracts so nearly together.
Another question used to puzzle us,
and that is, if bonds bearing five and
six per cent, in gold can be converted
into the same kind of hoods bearing
four per cent, in gold, why cannot five
and six per cent, bonds, payable in
silver and gold, be converted into four
per cent, bonds payable in silver and
gold 1 We always had a suspicion that
the only’ question with the bond-hold
er was how long would the United
States continue to pay five and six per
cent, interest in gold, and that his pur
pose and aim were to deceive the peo
ple by having tho Treasurer sell a mill
ion or so of four per cent, bonds, in or
der to keep the people quiet, and make
them think “conversion” was going on.
But always thought that was thin.
The suddenness of our taking off yes
terday was no more a surprise to us
than the source whence it came. We
had thought that the Tribune was con
ducted and ruled in the same gentle
spirit that made “Uncle Toby” immor
tal, and that it would humanely raise
the window to liberate the meanest
creature. But we are gone, and kissing
our band to those we leave behind, like
Chops, the dwarf, we will “go three
times round the carawan, and retire
behind the curtain.”
with the Air-Line is nearly completed.
Augusta wants a goverment building
erected for the use of the national busi
ness departments.. Hen. A. H. Stephens
has been applied to...
Five of. the merchants of Montezuma,
says tno Weekly, have been forced by cir
cumstances and the Sheriff to close door*
during the past month.
RSI »lil
The Earner’s Club of Morgan Coun
ty,^ prosperous organization, is said to
baVe a library of one hundred volumes
and six monthly magazines.
The Marietta Journal says some par
ties were vexed because .George Frown
was not hung’last Friday. His case is
taken to the Supreme Court .
The County'Coinmissroneis of Tike._
have given au order on the Treasurer for
8180 to Mr. IV, P, Bussey, who finally
secured the murderer of Mft Ballard ot
that county B ! f«WMrwtk« ag6.
Mining operations in North Georgia
have been somewhat interfered with by
recent rains, bnt aside from this, remarks
the Gainesville' Southron, there hefter was
so much activity in, the. upper Georgia
mines as to-day, nor with moro uniform
success.' .'t-.i n •» ;.-.it
J jiugusta News: A few.daysagoa
mad dog. was discovered bating and
creating havoc among some - cattle and
hogs in Beech .Island, about - a mile
from Capt. Paul HammondVriisideDee
The dog ran at a little boy and bit him,
fearfully, lacerating his neck and arms.’
A negro man passing near in a wagon,
seeing this, boldly leaped down aud
fearlessly seizing the dog by the neck
cut his throat and put an end to hie
mad career. The boy who was bitten
has felt none of the effects of the bite
as yet. and no symptoms of hydropho
bia have appeared, but it is feared that
the disease will come upon him. The
colored man who rescued him and
killed the dog deserves the highest
praise for his noble and perilous deed
Letter from Bartow County.-
Taylorsville, Dec. 29,1877.
To the Editor of The Courier:
I have been here about twenty days,
and wish to give you an account of this
village and Rockmart and their sur
roundings. This place is situated on
the Cartersville and Cherokee railroad,
jles fiom the former place,
pieasantnuie~ town,
with good’blue limestone water, and a
population about like Kingston, Ga.,
and situated about one mile from the
celebrated Euharlee creek, so famous
for good lapdj gnd slightly famous for
a few chills occasionally. - 'This is
healthy place, and the water is good for
constitutions requiring an antacid to
promote digestion. The citizens are
thrifty, energetic and hospitable, and
number several very excellent business
men. The town is noted for its lum
ber and timber business, shipping im
mense quantities of planed timber,
rough lumber, shingles, laths, and even
an auundance of the finest torch pine im
aginable. Oh, what a luxury to live
in a toich-pine region, compared to the
bleak, rocky, pineless country in which
I did live lately. Quantities of lumber
and bridge timber are shipped from
this place to Memphis, Nashville and
to the lumber yards of Atlanta. The
pice is of the long-leaf variety, and is
as sound, straight, clear of knots as any
you can find in lower Georgia. There
are some four or five circular saw mills
in this vicinity, and all do a fine and
prosperous business, affording good
employment for many persons, and
also for many teams.
Lime is made here in gteat abund-
us an example bonds with thirty to ance - Several farmers bum their own
lime, and mix it liberally with fertil
izers.
Senator McDonald, in a speech at
Indianapolis last week, predicted the
passage of the silver bill,-if necessary,
over the veto of the President and the
repeal of the resumption act, with mod
ifications.
Churches are plenty in the neighbor
hood, and are mostly Baptist and Meth
odist. I saw one Hard Shell church
while en route to Rockmart lately. I
attended the Baptist, church lately at
Salem and heard Parson Owens preach
a decidedly interesting sermon of a
length not very popular, as he occupied
two hours on a day not very balmy.
This town gives evidence of intelli
gence, as they have an excellent acad
emy, large enough to accommodate 60
pupils, which shows clearly and emphat
ically that the schoolmaster is abroad.
I understand that they have a school
here to teach double-entry book-keep
ing, and that it is patronized by the
citizens.
The morals of the town are very
good, and the order kept is like the
day3 of Sam Stewart at Rome. At
night the town is as still as a planta
tion. If a man makes a noise here he
is dealt with instanter, and before he
knows it he is boused for the night.
The artisans of the town seem gener
ally busy, and there is room for mo r e
good mechanics to keep the work going.
The lands around are generally level
and productive, especially the lands on
the Euharlee. The cultivator plow
would run finely here, as there are very
rock. Mr. Israel Davis, an old gentle^
man of 70, (I would not say so if he
was a widower) has some splendid
land on Hill’s creek, about one and
one-half miles from' this place. He has
grown rich by farming, and told me that
he.commenced life with nothing be
yond his physical endowments. He
does not use the imported guanos that
contain. more s°nd and ashes than
phosphoric acid, but U3es a compound
of his own, and made as follows: To 6
bushels of slacked lime he puts 100 lbs.
555w^Veiyf proof that she has
got; the famouB and celebrated “Bill
clohd^d throughout the day. The air
was ciisp but not cold, and everybody
th?t could be tempted out by favorable
er was early abroad. The crowd
White House rivalled those of
mes in size and variety of make-
he decorations for the observance
: silver weddiug of the evening
had been left fn situ, and the
profusion of flowers everywhere
lie about the rooms imparted a
of.tropical mildness. The regula-
irogramme was observed throngh-
the admission of callers. Mem-
of foreign legations, Judges of the
tame Court, representatives of the
ibered among her citizens.,, army and navy, officers of the District
lie mineral resources of this countyT&irta, Court of Claims, survivors of
are.fine, Abounding in all the valuable war of 1812, Senators and Repre-
and most nsefuL There have been sev
eral kaolin and mica specimens shown
me, beside the paint stone * formatic
of which I have. seen. gMd apecimenfcf t
ot the red and white varieties. Not
some Northern confpany would,
these specimens and^have 500
of each in Ne w York id a short 1
This railroad has passed it
hands of Messrs. Crew & Co.
itatives, the Oldest Inhabitants' As-
ion, and the “sovereigns” by thon-
1 were there and were admitted in
order of the precedence to which
ial ettiquette has assigned them,
foreign diplomats were in “fnll
art dress” with swords dangliDg at
heels and covered with the dec-
ions won in the military, naval or
vil service by intrigue and finesse, or
York. I hope the narrow gauge'.Jca 01 won at tat accorded through
n ' a. III vJ _ L _1 IIL- 'J -J il Aiimnnam Tho eVintir nf rri 11 anrl hrOQQ
Rockmart wili he abolished, and the:
no more unloading.care-Kt:this
I have no doubt the iron
CedartoWn Will takestock.if ,
and ■ extend the ' road .«•- tq'-Getfai^
which, no doubts will be a tarn ee
long, as it is in. close proximity t»a
LVorirism. The show of gilt and braes
other tinsel trappinge by the heroes
our own army and navy was quite
inffident for all the requirements rf
taste and modesty. The manner
d dress of the dignified legislator,
in the black broadcloth deemed
good cotton.'reigibn. The furnaces thee - ! essential to establish his character as a
(isn’t afford tb-hanl, by wagon, irono>X&ntleman, were in sharp contrast with
Rockmart much' longer. I suppose*™ old Maryland or Virginia ^grienl-
Genf McRea. of the State Road, is ap-Wiet who humidly got inside his
pointed superintendent of this road. Tome-spun and home-made “best suit ’
I I cannot close without referring to W 86611 service on man Y BimUar
the bind hospitality which greeted mef°P a8i ° D8 in P 38 * y ( ? r3 ’ and l “*
by one.of the oldest and beet citizens of ^ wash his face or hands or black his
Van Wert, who formerly lived at Rome ooots, came to town early, joined the
Dr'S B -Pearce^ •; a .: t wrong at the White House, marched
• !•! * :?:v - Bartow County. l^p ^ his turn to shake hands with
j? . -> : — , 9m' ^ ■ ' Mrs. Hayes and then to mix in the
Wa shineton Correspondence, i in the “East Room ”
-«fTfaere was also the snob and young
Washington, Dec. 31,1877.
A nameless outrage was recently ]
■ swell “got up regardlec*,” etc., his
lpty head already fuddled by his
petrated in the northeast section of thislearly potations, which finally floored
city. The victim] a girl a v out sixteen.,him at a later hour in the day. The
years of age, was waylaid soon aftei typical tramp was also present, filthy
dark, dragged into an alley, aud lt-fl and ragged, bnt happy withal in con-
nearly dead from the brutal treatment templating the “creature comforts” that
to which she was subjected, and from awaited his presence, at the residences
fright. The better class of resident! of those keeping “open house,” and
were much ' excited, and lynch la-
was openly advocated. A negro sui
pected of the crime was arrested an>i
tried, but the evidence was not suffi
cient to secure conviction. The im
pression was made that bad it been
much more conclusive the colored jury :
men would - have resisted a verdict
guilty. This appears founded on
generally prevalent feeling that the
matter of color would have unconscious:
ly influenced them, even were they
conscientiously striving to render
verdict in accordance with the law
evidence. The acquittal of the accuse 1
exasperated many, and this feeling
distrust .seems to have extended to the
whole colored population. Last
iwuiun li&l
rage, bnt more brutal and revolt
was committed in the same neighbor
hood. The girl was knocked down and
■beaten till unconscious, and she was
found in that condition half sunk in
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the‘“mud-bed' where ehe bKH-MM feented, whose highest ambition .is' to gentlemen, right here and now.” hnebJ
dragged by her miscreant captor. Tie
barking of a dog first attracted the at
tention of some one happening by, who
immediately summoned police aid.
The girl is very seriously, though prob
ably not critically injured. This new
provocation aroused the vicinity, and
had the offending beast been caught he
would have been summarily punished
at the nearest lamp-post or tree,
the two men arrested the first was lib
erated when the victim declared him
innocent of the assault; she was not
satisfied as to the identity of the other,
and it was only this doubt she express
ed that saved him. He now awaits
her recovery, in a station-house; and
should she then decide himguily, only
the most ample police protection will
insure him against bodily harm,
large meeting of the residents of that
section was held Saturday, at which
many speeches were made, opeDly or
tacitly encouraging this lynch law spir-
The colored residents are to be
notified by 500 conspicuously posted
notifications that they must disprove
the suspicions now harbored against
them by zealously co-operating in the
efforts to capture and punish the brute,
or they will be accounted in sympathy
with him and treated accordingly. Vol
unteer patrolmen were designated for
duty in addition to the insufficient po
lice force allowed that part of the city;
contributions were solicited and made
to carry out the various suggestions
dopted by the meeting; and Congress
is to be memorialized to change the
penalty for this crime from imprison
ment to hanging. The fact is these are
only incidents of the general spirit of
reckless criminality laigely dominating
the national capital. Hundreds of re
spectable people declined leaving tbeir
homes Christmas day—were virtually
prisoners in their own homes—because
of the control exercised that day by the
ruffian element Drunkenness is ram
pant, and on the increase. Gamblers
are warned of every raid meditated
against their establish meets in some
mysterious manner; and, altogether,
morals were rarely at a lower ebb.
Knox.
Washington, Jan. 2,1878.
The contrast between Jan. 1, 1877,
and Jan. 1, 1878, meteorologically
speaking, was very marked, and the
evident partiality in our behalf yester
day was thoroughly appreciated by the
thousands crowding our streets from
daylight till the day ceased at midnight
The first day of the year just consigned
to the grave of dead years, was ushered
in by a driving, blinding snow storm,
rare far this latitude. The gale howled
all day, and before its close twelve
good inches of solid snow lay on the
streets and house-tops. New Year’s
calls were made under the most un
pleasant circumstances. Yesterday
morning broke fair and gentle; and the
genial fac6 of the sun remained tin-
>. upon this day of days, could not
tall choose their guests. Rspresenta-
of the gentler sex were numerous,
and clearly established tbeir ability to
take care of themselves in a crowd,
The wives of all the Secretaries having
such desirable encumbrances, were “at
home” to all comers; and those defi
cient in that respect were able to rely
on daughters to do the honors, or upon
lady friends who were temporarily and
to the extent necessary, improvised as
ves for the occasion. O’.her promi
nent citizens and sojourners here also
aononoced through the papers that
they would be happy to see their
friends; and still others, not prominent,
.bnt wishing to be thought so, made
eir means for getting througn the
winter, to enable them to staff a pro
miscuous company, which went from
its eating and drinking to ridicule and
deride the efforts of these shabbily
be classed with the upper crust, and
who made starving and pinching im
perative for an indefinite time by their
silly expenditures for yesterday’s enter
tainment; and the bitter reflection that
no one was deceived by their preten
sions, spread-eagle display, will ever
and anon be thru3t home by envious
neighbors, who will be only too happy
to repeat the verdict rendered by the
beneficiaries of this kind of hospitality.
This very prevalent disposition among
a portion of Washingtonians to shine
in borrowed plumage and appear what
they are not, asserts itself under such
cercumstances as would lead those less
aspiring to shrink from all display and
to court seclusion rather than publicity.
Even in the matter of funerals the
same spirit is shown. The means of
eking out a miserable sustenance for a
family deprived by death of its sup
porter are recklessly squandered on an
unscrupulous undertaker who cunning
ly appeals to their all-pervading weak
ness to stimulate more liberal orders in
the premises, particularly as to the
number of carriages to be provided for
a special class of dead beats who always
attend every funeral to secure a free
ride; and everything else connected
with the dismal business that is likely
to be noted by the public is provided
on a scale of magnificence that could
only be justified by the possession of
ample wealth. Perhaps “Society,”
rather than the individual, is to blame
for this; for its demands are potential
even down to the tomb’s entrance; and
if the bereaved ones haven’t one cent
left from the inroads made in tbeir lit
tle savings by long illness, there must
be a certain amount of “style” observed
in this closing act of life’s drama, or
they lose caste among their set, and are
assigned thereafter to a lower position.
Knox.
Han’ Moons.
When the telegraph
discovery by Prof Hall
boriog planet bad two
dispatch was read thfe
ten thousand Airferican b:
bles, what think yon was the e:
on the hearers T Some colloquy similar
to the following wss sore to occur:
Mars has two moons, hey? Pass me
the milk, Kitty. Strange, isn’t it, that
astronomers never saw them before?
Another chop, please. I wonder what
they’ll discovernext?«These com cakes
are excelled! what's 1 the latest from
become so accus-
tomed to startling
nouncements that , wo -take: them^aft
matter of -course. .Even truth .nu»t.
appear in flaming colors to make her
self seen. The virtues Of Dr. Pierce’s
G-ilden Medical Discovery and Pleasant
Pargative Pellets have btan tested in
ten thousand households, whose i/Or
mates will tell you that they consider
the discovely and introduction of these
remedies of far greater importance to
the world than the moons of Mate:
Shipman, III., June 13,1876.
Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.:
Dear Sib—Last lall onr daughter—
aged 18—was fast sinking, with con
sumption. Different physicians had
pronounced her case incurable. I ob
tained one-half dozen botttes 'of your
Gulden Medical Discovely. ! She com
menced improving at once, and.is now
as hardy as a pipe knot
capital takce holdoL the dejfilqppo.ent.
’which promisee to bein the near future.
; jwn-iioi qwb Snojfe ,. !0 7TSVS vhc.
'Nashy
at'NafehwiiJ VWWf M6V j5 sttf<!Ji‘’ffire 1 ’
o’clboiE.- 1 * 1 !! H .<f ■mien-.'-: 7d >
'Memphis Jan .3j-rAoaow-utenn sei
in atjpepn.tp-iJ^y^t JUeajphis^^nd j$U.
°°^i®R(KX a J*d?l?-^ T A fi&vf&di-
Rtorm prevailed alt "day avLKtle Rock
There is now five incbeaofsnpm-OB-the
' Yours, respectfully,,,
Rev. Isaac N. Anoim'iNX.'
Failures in' Chicago: w
The yearly review of the.banking and
business interests of Chicago show that
the city has certainly' maintained her
rank among the cities of the country in
commercial importance. In banking
failures and suspensions have been unus-
usually numerous during the year
among local banks. Chicago has been
compelled to pass through almost a sec
ond panic, equal to, and in many respects
entailing severer losses than that of Sep
tember, 1873. The Chicago institutions
that have closed their doors during the
year were among the largest of the cily.
The deposits of the banks of this class
aggregated at the time of suspension over
85,000,000, one-half or two-thirds of
which will be a complete loss to the de
positors. The year’s failures have left
three institutions still standing, with a
smaller patronage than they enjoyed at
the close of 1876. The deposits of the
National Banks which failed were. 81,-.
571,000. In addition to the foregoing,
three or four private bankers have closed
their doors during the year, hut their
business connections were quite limited.
The money market during the year has
fallen somewhat under au average figure:
After he bad talked half an hour,
one of the listeners who had kept track
of the number killed exhibited the
figures.
"I find,” he exclaimed, “that you
have killed fifteen hundred savages in
three months ” , . . . , .
“Is that all?” exclaimed the un
abashed Black-Hiller. “Why, I be
lieve yon have left out a week’s work
there somewhere.”
“If you had such good luck killing
Indians, why didn’t you stay there?”
demanded another.
“Well, the truth is, gentlemen, I was
afraid of ruining my left eye. I squint'
ed along my gun-barrel so much that
my face was being drawn out of shape,-
and the sight was so far gone that T had
to be led about by a dog.”
auu jruu -ktoot—Ilians while in
that condition ?”
*‘I did, though I always felt a little
mean about it I couldn’t see to shoot,
and so I ran ’em down and kicked ’em
to death. It wasn’t manly in me, and
Iwant to ask the forgiveness of-iyou,
' Tto-ra waa-.aiongapeU.gf ^appalling
si It-nee, and then some one said that
Epb Francis had bought a new ' coon
dog.—Bismarck (Col.) Tribune.
An English merchant prince lately en
gaged a risiug young painter for the pur
pose of conveying his own portrait to pos
terity. The terms were arranged.
“How long do you think it will takeF*
said the model.
“Perhaps fifteen days,” was the reply.
Sittiogs began, and the artist entered
so heartily into bis work that in eleven
days the portrait was done.
“ Why, asked Croesus, when the fact
was announced to him, “do you intend
suppressing four day’s work
“It does not matter at all; the portrait
is finished,” answered the painter.
“Well, sir, this is not business; we said
a hundred guineas, and fifteen days
work. I am quite ready to stand the
price but you ought not to spend an hour
less upon the work than was agreed
upon.”
There was no use in arguing with such
a man. Thepainter took his brush again,
aud spent four sittings more in lengthen
ing, little, by little, in the portrait, the
ears of his patron.
Oil Btgions.
t of the Titusville
n traveling for six
regions of Kentucky
writes that they are of
•ater eXtcnt than the Pennsyl-
- regions! About a year ago
there was a rush, of speculators in tha’
direction, and nowran area.extending
over one hundred miles in length mad
seventy'ittilts-W “width, ■has'.beid/l&isefl
preparatory to drilling by some of
Pennsylvania’s largest and moet prom-
KsOTJrJjmfcs;.
for practical engineers, machinists,
111111 BB11UB1J, BW1BI, lUJ.,
. .*Sx.' Petersburg, Jan. 1 4.'—A!' private
dispatch announces that 40.000 Turks'
have retired into Ruumania. The re
main! g Ottoomn forcee, ^otfmhering
70,QUO, .men, Tftorth.. iWM?*
have been distributed Mtion^Jjje foroey.
of Anandrake. "
Osman'Pasha will be cmitayed to
the town of RisSar, ■ hundred miles
south of MhecoWi wberer. bn cWiUi pass
bis.caiAivif*.
< _a-«T - Jsi-.i notiupuabi iw
“Crazy Horse, an exchange' says,
“was the possresdrof thirty fotlr scalps;
not counting his Own; and- the- Indians
considered bitn'qnite fetich wan.” And
the cream of the thing is,,U»jsf Jhlnpted
scalp:.holder yvttSi .the architect .of.Ate
own fortune. Every' lock of hair he
possessed was of his diirt ‘folribjj:"’
ffill .. 7 /ll7/
■rHeniy Hickey; the Boston boy who
killed his., playfellpw, .had read the
cheap romances of border life until ‘he
v jJjDj: 'IT.
become ambitious to “do some bloody
deed-hfiilself. He'toM a esunpaaid/i
that he intended to-kill-somebody, and
live in a cave m an outlaw.
trM&Mf 1 ®''WadMiy
who was com-'eUed to use oonsiderabl
violence to restrain her., :Afterward
she had him .arrested on fe charge ot
assault, v o
Two tramps stopped at’tbe houser ! of
a Iona widow, and one went in to beg.
Very soon be came, ont .with, a black
eye. “Well, did you get anything.
Jack ?” asked the other. “Yes,”growled
the poor snfferer, “I 'g6t the widow’s
might”
Bogf.rt. Jan. 4—The Turks still oc
cupy the line of Kpra, Lqp» river, and •«“«*•
carefully guard its bridges on'the roads
to Shumla. ’ . , ’
Heavy 1 ice continues running in the
Danube.
Let us pray God that He would root
out of our hearts everything of onr own
planting, and set ont there, with His
own hands, the tree of life bearing all
manner of fruits.—Fenelon.
Experience proves that an uninter
rupted and extraordinary flow of pros-
u perity is more fatal to generosity or in-
| *^tere#in otnerelbananvthing else tnat
can befall man here below. ; ->j
The little village of Antwerp, • N-.-Y
contains sixty-two widows. No be 1
agent'or sew tug machine man, they s
ever goes into the place'without coming
o’
The Wilmingtou: (Ji, ,C ). Star says
Archibald Gordon, of Gaiuesville. iu.
that stale, is'the father of twenty-seven”
sons, by one wife.
Some British shipping in the Savan
nah harbor was decorated with coder,
and green branches Christmas, in honor
of the day.
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LAND OASES, LAND WARRANTS
’■ AND SCRIP:
A gentleman visited an unhappy
man in jail awaiting his trial. “Sir,”
said the prisoner, teats running down
his cheeks, “I had a good horns educa
tion; it was my street education that
rained me. I used to slip out of the
house and go off with the boys in the
street. In the street I learned to lounge:
in the street I learnod to swear; in the
street I learned to gamble; in the street
I learned to pilfer. Oh sir, it is in the
street the devil lurks to work ruin of
the young.”
Storm on the New England
Coast.
BOSTON, January 3.—The snow storm
last night was quite severe on the coast,
the wind blowing hard from the North,
wnich rendered navigation to inward
mariners extremely hazardous. A dis
patch from Orleans, Cape Cod, states that
two vessels went ashore at Nanzefdnring
tbe storm. One is supposed to be a
British brig, and the other a schooner.
Tbe crewB of both vessels are supposed
to be lost. The brig has gone to pieces.
A dispatch from Nanzet reports a large
schooner at anchor close in shore. Name
not ascertained.
1 onddn, Jan. 5.—The Advertiser
hears, on reliable authority, that official
information has been received in St.
Petersburg that the Chinese have mas
sacred 15,000 men, women and children
at the Kashgarian town of Manas, com
mitting tbe mosttghtful atrocities.
The Tennessee Historical association
has on its shelves a policy on the steamer
Andrew Jackson, issued by. tiie Louis
iana insurance-JWnpany, and dated
May 2,1825.
“Your’s is a very perilous life,” re
marked a lady passenger to tiie con
ductor, “doesn’t it require a great deal
of courage on your part ?”
“Oh, yes, ma’am.” replied the con
ductor, as he gently but firmly charged
her ten cents extra for neglecting to get
a ticket; “yes, ma’am, none but the
brave deserve the fare.”
And as he passed on she blushed,
and wondered if he meant that piece
of impudence for a compliment.
Inquiiy into the wicked ways of
Philadelphia’s mock auction men re
vealed that they hired two or three
women to attend tbe sales, carefully
inspect articles that were to be sold,
start the bidding at the article’s cost
price, and run it up among themselves
until an outsider put in a bid.,. It was
then promptly knocked down—to the
outsider.
The bank of Bartlett A Smith, in
Columbus, Ohio, went to pieces last
spring, and tbe cause was a mystery'.
Now one member of tbe firm snes the
proprietors of fonr gambling establish
ments to recover about 8100,000. He
says that the teller, the cashier, and
his partner gambled away the bank’s
money.
The Selma (Ala.) Southern Argus re
ports a demoralized condition of affaire
in Franklin county and savB the people
there will not testify against one another
in conitk.' 'f'
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