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[Extract
from Initiation of “Ancient Order of
Humility.”]
SHOUI I) THE SPIRIT OF
° u: " "h'oktal be proiju.
. . v {,y should the spirit of mortal be proud ?
Like V swift fleeting meteor, like a fast flying
cloud,
. .i ,'f the lightning, a hrcik of the wave,
Heliasse* from life to rest in his grave.
_ of the oak and the willow shall fade,
A ' ' ,]'■■■ re around, and tiguthor be laid ;
young aLd the old, the low and the
Mali moifldcr to dust, and together shall lie.
J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1877.
ESTABLISH L a650.
7he infan
t a mother attended and loved,
T \ , r that mother and infant who biest,
!»! a, a 1 tire away to thit dwelling to rest.
Ti e mai
a i.d on whose brow, on whose cheek, In
> u ose eve,
,, • tuty and pleasure—her triumphs are by;
• 16m the minds of the living erased
‘Jre tlie mem'riea of those who loved her and
I»raised.
The hand of the king that the sceptre hath
borne,
-i ,, I,-,w ot the priest that the miter hath worn,
of the sage, and the heart of The brave,
A r, ’dden and lost in the depths of the grave.
ant whose lot was to sow and to reap,
-.•simm, who climbed with his goats up
the ste p.
'dr, \\ho wandered in search of his
br-arl,
Have taded away like the grass that we tread.
Tb
S() . j.,. mi:.f ade goes like the flower or the weed
1 . i mts away to let others succeed;
iltitude comes, even those we behold,
i’o rt j'c it every tale that has often been told.
For we are the same that our fathers have been,
We- the same sights that our lathers have
seen;
\V dni.k tue same stream, we see the same sun,
Ami run the sume course our fathers have run.
The thoughts we are thinking, our fathers did
t ink,
p.om the death we are shrinking our fathers did
shrink;
To the life we are clinging, our fathers did
dim:,
But it speeds from us all, 1 ke the bird on the
wing
Thcv lived—but the story they cannot unfol 1;
■j!; '•■pc rued—but the heart r.f the haughty is
cold;
Thi-j Liieverl—but no wail from their slumbers
will come;
They i i\« d—but the voice of their gladness is
aamb.
They died—ah I they died—and we mortals who
now
Are treading the turf that ties over their brow.
Aiid make in their dwellings our transient
abode.
Meet the things they have met on their pilgrim
age road.
Yes. hope and despondency, pleasure and pain,
Arc mingled together in sunshine and rain;
And the smile and the tear, and the song and the
d'rge,
.Still fodow each other like surge upon surge.
’Tis the wink of an eye, ’bis the draught of a
breath, 1
From the blossom of health to the pallor of
dea h,
From ttie gilded saloon to the bier aDd the
.“hroud;
Oh : why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Affairs iii Georgia.
Mr.C. E. Lucas, of Atlanta^Georgia, has
Vec.ivcd letters patent from Washington for
a lavatory for sleeping cars.
The enure set of passenger train officials
on the Air-Line Road, from conductors
down to brakesmen, have been dressed in
neat blue uniforms, with brass buttons.
Every man has on his cap a badge of bis
position.
Tl: annual commencement of the North
'r /-ia Agricultural College will begin on
Sunday, July 2d, and promises to be a very
interesting affair. Bishop Pierce will preach
the sermon and Dr. A. G. Haygood, Presi
dent of Emory College, will address the
Literary Society.
Nathan L. Gober will bo hung at Elijay on
the 231, and the editor of the Dahlonega
Signal promises his reader* fall details of
the affair.
The first early peaches were received
i Macon, on Monday, from the counties of
Houston, Jones and Twiggs.
Mr. S. A. White, who formerly lived in
Biidwin county, was murdered by a negro
o Cu'hbert on the firth of May. The negro
kai been tried and convicted, and sentenced
to bo hung on the 15 li instant. Swift
justice has overtaken him. Surely all can
affjrd to awiit the results of law, when
trials can be speedily had aud violators so
swiftly punished.
A colored man named Tom Stevens, who
La i been employed by Dr. Burroughs, of
Effingham couatv, was killed under peculiar
circumstances on ast Friday. In cutting
d. .. . i tree in order to get the honey which
be found that bees were secreting there a
iir_e limb of a tree near by was broken off.
In his eagerness to get the honey, he passed
immediately under it, and as it fell it strack.
Urn upon the head, knocking him down.
Hi. wife, who was near by, ran to him and
tried to arouse him, but was unable to do so.
H*: was at once taken home, but in less than
a naif boar after he had received the blow
ae was dead. He was a hard working, in
dustrious colored man and was highly
esieemed by all who knew him.
There was a very heavy washing rain
■ah'jwer of an hour’s duration Sunday morn-
in Macon, during which a large amount
4 lain fell—probably an inch or more.
Mr. C. J. Gaines, who was a few days
&-o brought from Florida on a demand
from Governor Colquitt, broke jail in Miller
county on last Sunday night and made good
his escape. The only tools used by the
prisoner was a hand saw file and a case
knife. Mr. Gaines was charged with the
offence of assault with intent, to murder.
Atlanta policemen sometimes do doable
duty. Two negroes—a festive Lothario and
a gushing damsel—who had led a somewhat
•rrt.”uUr life were arrested on Monday and
taken to the barracks. While there in du
rance vile they concluded to alone for the
past and become lawfully married, which
soltuin ceremony was performed by Police
man J. SV. McCreary, a Methodist minister,
now on the police force. He appeared in his
uniform, and in a most impressive manner
married the couple by the regular ceremony
°f the Methodist Church, concluding with
*n earnest exhortation to the new pair to live
m the beauty of holy wedlock.
Ihe rainfall at Columbus on Saturday and
Sunday was 2.06 inches to the square inch,
we learn from the Columbus Times.
& man named James O. White was ar-
rfce ‘ e d in Athens on Tuesday last charged
w *’* i infanticide. It seems that the body of
a white male infant, new born, was found
Siting in the Oconee river, tied up in a
It was subequeutly ascertained that
r - w&a the child of a Mrs. Freeman, living
utar the Georgia Railroad, who admitted
having g i ven birtli to the child, whose father
* as the above mentioned White, and who
‘Ook the child away immediately after its
uirih. White is a member of the church,
Lut it seems that he is one of those who
atta ‘ the livery of Heaven to serve the devil
The burglars aud thieves are rampant in
Augusta since the abolishment of the §e-
^ret detective police force of the city, and
! Q Chronicle and Constitutionalist, after
** lvir 3 the particulars of numerous forcible
eQt, ies into the premises of the citizens,
aD( i the carrying away in almost every in-
* nce quantities of family supplies, says:
robbed daring th9 past two months, and no
cine whatever to the thieves has been ob
tained. Fcr a number of years several de
tectives were employed by the city, and the
police always found it a comparatively easy
matter, with them, to ferret out thieves and
briDg them to speedy punishment.”
The Macon Telegraph says: “Walnut
creek has been very much swollen by the
late rains. Yesterday morning while a ne
gro man, his wife and child, were in the act
of crossing it, at a point seven miles above
Macon, the wife lost her balance, fell into
the stream aud was instantly swept out of
sight. The husband, having the child in
his arms, escaped with it. He was restrain
ed from making an effort to save his wife,
from fear of losing that ot himself and
child. The body ot the woman has not
been recovered.”
Gainesville Eagle: “Wednesday even
ing Gen. Longstreet fell from a step-ladder
painluliy braising his head and shoulders.
He was insensible for some minutes, but
rallied, and is now doing very well.”
The Berrien County News says : “It is dis
tressingly sad to see some ot oar farmers
out of corn aud bacon this early in the year,
and have to buy on a credit at ruinously
high prices. Tuev should learn a lesson
from this, that raising cotton to buy meat
and bread is a losing business.”
The Montezuma Weekly says : “On last
Sunday this section was blessed with a de
lightful ram, ihe first that has fallen for
more than a month.”
The Thomasville Enterprise says ; “On
last Saturday the drought, which had al
most deetroyed gardens and was beginning
to be felt by all field crops, gave place to
gentle aud refreshing showers. These con
tinued at intervals until the season was
complete, and all vegetation once more
looks fresh and green.”
The Toccoa Herald says: “Jarrett’s
bridge, which for many years has spanned
the Tugalo river, six miles from this place,
was on last Thursday night lifted from its
pillars by a severe wind aud set flat down in
the river. The bridge was covered, and
over three hundred feet in length.”
The Milledgeville Union and Recorder
says ; “A good rain rejoiced the hearts of
our people last Sunday. Crops are small
but clean. With good seasons from now.
good crops may confidently be expected.”
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger Las
received the following on a postal card from
Baxter Springs, Kansas: “J. D. Roddey, a
gentleman from Georgia, and his little son
Bob, were drowned on Sunday night, May
27th, in Lee’s creek, below here. It was
dark and the creek was very swift. He got
too low down and his horse was washed
down. He was a fine swimmer, and made
every effort to save his son,whom ha seemed
bo devoted to, but his feet got tangled in the
reins, and in spite of everything he was
lost. He has been making a reputation fast
in this country as a criminal lawyer. He
was a fine speaker, and succeeded iu gaining
every case he represented. He was a
promising young lawyer, and would have
made a name here. No one here
knew what part of the State he was from.
Your paper having a large circulation, per
haps some of his relatives or friends may tee
the account of this sad occurrence. I have
the photograph of hia little son which I will
send to any of his relatives if they will send
me their address. Nothing else was found
except old letters which had no name signed
to them. The photograph was in one of the
letters. I think his trunk was left by Mr.
R. In Nebraska while traveling throu*
there. Where, I don’t know. Yours, re
spectfully, Eugene Davis."
The following we tak8 from the Atlanta
Constitution of the 12th : “ Yesterday morn
ing two ageuts of the government arrived
by the Kennesaw route from Washington
upon a mission which we hope to see often
repeated. They brought with them six large
cans of fine white shad, which will be de
voted to ntocking the Yellow and Alcova
rivers. The water iu which the fish were
eeemed at first sight to be perfectly clear
but upon close inspection thousands upon
thousands of little fish just distinguishable
bv the naked eye, could he seen swimming
about. A teacup of the water must have
contained a thousand of these littie crea
tures, who seemed to be ceaseless in their
wiggling. Mr. Sanford Bell, the conductor
who brought down the train, procured about
two gallons of the water aud bad enou *
fish to stock the ponds on bis farm. The
fish were viewed with considerable curi
osity by a crowd at the passenger depot. In
order to preserve the life of these minute ani
mals, the water was changed several times a
day in each ot the cans by means of a pump
which prevented the escape of the fisb. It
is said that in two years the fish will acquire
their fail growth aud develop into the fiuest
specimens of the finny tribe. It is estima
ted that in the cans brought down yester
day there are enough fish to supply quite a
stock for the two rivers into winch they will
be emptied. The agents took their cans
down on the woruiug Georgia train. Yel
low river will receive some of the fish at a
point about three miles this side of Coving
ton; the remainder will be placed in the
Alcova river, a clear but slender stream
which crosses the Georgia Road about four
miles below Covington. Both streams now
contain few fish. It is stated that the other
rivers in Middle Georgia will receive fish
before the summer is over. The subject of
fish culture has never properly been pre
sented to the people and few of them appre
ciate its importance. Our rivers can easily
be made the source of an almost boundless
wealth.”
LETTER FROM MIDDLE GEORGIA.
The Crop Prospect—Gordon Institute—
Military—Death of Old Citizens, Etc.
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
GOV. HENDRICKS’ SPEECH AT THE
MANHATTAN RECEPTION.
DEDICATION OF A CONFED.
EE ATE CEMETERY.
The Winding up of a Cable Company.
PRINCE GOETSCHAKOFE’S LETTER
The Ascot Races.
‘These
are 0Ill - ¥ a few °f the instances
i, j 18 “^predations have been committed,
‘east fifteen or twenty houses bays been
The Cross and the Crescent.
[From the Philadelphia Press.]
It is usual, among recent writers, to
name “The Cross ’ aDd “The Crescent”
to distinguish the respective creeds in the
present Tureo-Eussian war. In fact,
these several, symbols plainly mark the
Christian and the Ottoman faiths. The
question when and why the Ottomans
adopted the Crescent has been much dis
cussed long before now. It was alleged
that Mohammed broke the disc of the
moon and caught half of it falling from
heaven in his sleeve—this is stated in the
Koran, andseemsto indicate that Mahorn-
med made the young moon a sign of
his divine authority. The crescent,
or half moon, with the horns turned
upward, was a religious symbol,
however, long before the Turkish
empire began. It was reported that
Sultan (Jthman, founder of that empire,
A D. 1299, dreamed that he saw
a orescent moon, which waxed until its
splendor illuminated the whole world
from east to west; that he then adopted
the crescent and emblazoned it on his
standard, with the motto, Donee Eeplsat
Orbem or “until it fills the world.” But
the crescent moon had been a symbol
well known to the ancient worshipers of
Diana in the ancient mythology of Greece
and Rome. There are old statues of her
with the up-pointiDg crescent over her
brow. Another account is that Philip of
Mace'don, father of Alexander the Great,
was engaged one dark night in under
mining the wails of Byzantium, which he
was besieging, and his operations were
discovered to those within by a sudden ap
pearance of a young moon, and that in
gratitude for this timely light the Byzan
tines commemorated the frustration of
Philip’s hostile design by creating a tem
ple to Diana, and by adopting her ores
cent as the symbol of the State. It has
also been alleged that, in 1446, when the
Turks took Byzantium, they adopted the
crescent standard which they found there
and which the Janizar.es had borne for
more than a century previous. Undoubt
edlv then, the crescent was the emblem of
Greek previous to thes uperiority of the
Turkish rule. Oddly enough, at the pre
sent day the crescent is to be seen on and
in churches in Moscow and other parts of
old Russia, generally surmounted by the
cross thus unquestionably marking the
Byzantine origin of the Russian Church.
In 1801 the Sultan, Selim III., having
previously presented Lord Nelson with a
orescent richly adorned with diamonds,
founded the order of the crescent which,
a° Mohammedans are not allowed to carry
such marks of distinction, has been con
ferred on Christians alone. The Turkish
order of Med j idle, founded by Abdul
Mediid in 1852, and liberally conferred
upon French, English and Italian oflicers
after the Crimean war, bears a crescent
and a silver sun of seven triple rays. As-
buredly the crescent dates from the time
of Endymion.
The Express ha3 a prominent detective
who says : “Aristocratic English couple
eloped and had a child; rioh grandfather
would not forgive his daughter, but made
his grandson his heir; grandson died and
fortune would have gone elsewhere; death
was hushed up; desperadoes were sent U>
scour two continents to find a child that
looked like dead grandson; abducted
Charley Ross; Charley inherited; Mr
Ross knows all this now and is keeping it
quiet.” ^
Queen Victoria has just . be 8^ n usin £
note paper and envelopes with the mono
gram V R. L (Victoria Regina et Impera-
trix) stamped thereon.
GOV. HENDRICKS’ SPEECH AT THE MANHAT
TAN CLUB.
New York, June 13.—Mr. Hendricks hav
ing returned thanks for the honor done him,
alluded to the Presidential election, and
said: ‘The result as declared iu Louisiana
aud Florida aud at Washington is not
aud canuot. be made satisfactory to
the country, for the obvious reason
that it was not true. A great aud
sincere people will rest their final judg
ment only upon troth, and never upoD frauds
successful through technicality. Even
should the President and his Cabinet adopt
a part or the whole of the policies aud
purposes for which the Democratic party
has ’ been contending for many years,
and which became so distinctly defined
last year, even that can’t remove or quiet
the public discontent. The Democrats will
make no factious opposition, nor will they
seek to embarrass the de facto administra
tion, but will sustain it in what is right,
because it is right and for the welfare of the
country, aud not at all because of any fealty
to the party that stands defeated and con
demned by the people. The people cannot
allow the selection of their Chief Magistrate
to beooaie a thing of chauce, or of sharp
practice. The fraud first triumphant iu
American history must be assigned to its
proper place among the crime., against
popular government, aDd made so odions
that uo party will dare to attempt its repe
tition. He who is elected President must
be inaugurated. Until that is settled and
made sure, no Democrat can be seduced
from his devotion and allegiance in any
way—not by allurements of offioe, nor even
by the strong appeal in the abandonment
by the administration of vicious principles
and dangerous policies, and the adoption
of better doctrines aud just measures.
Democrats will not entrust their most
cherished principles Q the keeping of a
power widen is attained by vicious aud cor
rupt means; they will rather continue their
faith iu the right- of the majority to rule in
accordance with the constitutional pro
visions. All Democrats rejoice with un
bounded joy that free republican govern
ments are once more allowed to the States
of South Carolina and Louisiana.
They rejoice in the good fruits
that must follow. They know that peace
and good order will prevail; that capital will
bo made secure, and labor safe, contented
and happy; that enterprise will revive, and
the cruel’buidens of the government and
public corruption will be lifted from the
shoulders of "labor, aod that production will
increase and lands advance in price; but
they know that in the language of Governor
Morton it had become inevitable. Good
government in the States was not a free will
offering upon the altars of the country.
For years the Democrats had contended
in Congress and before the people for free
republican States throughout the South;
finally it became inevitable, because the
right and truth were too strong to be longer
suppressed. In this Democrats find a rea-
sou to stand more firmly with their party.
Out of power, with no patronage to dis
pense, and no money to distribute, but ani
mated bv the spirit of our institutions, aud
inspired by the sentiment of the right of
local self-government as an inherent right of
the people, the Democratic party during the
past ten years has restored one State after an
other,until nowthe treat of soldiers is heard
in uo legislative hall, hut in every State the
people are governed by laws of their own
enacting and by officers of their own choos
ing.” Mr. Hendricks oonclnded with the
declaration that we had no sectional senti
ment; no Eastern and Western policies; the
East and the West and the South were one;
a wise and just policy would alike promote
the prosperity of each.
DEDICATION OF WASHINGTON CEMETERY AT
HAGERSTOWN.
Baltimore, June 13.—The Washington
Cemetery at Hagerstown, where the Con
federate dead, killed in the battles of Antie
tam and South Mountain, are interred, was
formally dedicated yesterday with appro
priate memorial oertmonies, and tho graves
were strawn with flowers. An oration was
delivered Dy General Fitzbugn Lee, of Vir
ginia. About four thousand persons were
present. The cemetry was incorporated in
1870 by the Legislature of Maryland, with
an aDpropriation of five thousand dollars,
which has since been increased to ten thou
sand. The States of Virginia and West Vir
ginia have also made appropriations. A
handsome marble monument adorns the
grounds, in which about twenty-five hundred
Confederate dead are buried. •
PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF’s LETTER.
London, June 13.—The limes' Vienna
correspondent says: “Prince GortschakofFs
letter has been officially communicated to
the other Cabinets. It seems it has not
given such complete satisfaction as was ex
pected. The wording on the points reia live
to Constantinople and Dardanelles has
not been found qu'te so clear and precise as
to exclude ambiguous rendering and set
donbts at rest.”
WINDING DP THE DIRECT UNITED STATES
CABLE COMPANY.
London, June 13.—An extraordinary
meeting of the Direct United StateB Cable
Company will he held on Tuesday, 26:h of
June, when resolutions winding up the com
pany etc., will be presented. If the resolu
tions are adopted they will be confirmed at
a second extraordinary meeting.
DISABLED.
London, f June 13.—The National Line
steamship Spain, from New York for Liver
pool, passed Crook Haven at 6 a. m. to-day
having in tow the .Inman Liue steamship
City of Berlin, also from New York for
Liverpool. The City of Berlin is disabled.
FAILED.
New York, June 13.—Frederick Prentice,
President of the Producers’Land and Petre-
lenm Company, has failed. Liabilities half a
million dollars.
THE ASCOT BlCES.
London, Jane 13.—At Aeoot heath to-day,
the second of the meeting, the race for she
Roval bant cap was won by Cradle, button
second, and Prince George third.
THE GOATS OF GOTHAM.
Babnesville, Ga., June 11.—Editor
Morning News : In response to your no
tice, I have concluded to give you a brief
statement of crop prospects in Middle
Georgia. The drouth, connected with the
unprecedented cool nights, retarded the
growth of corn and cotton so much that
these crops are smaller than I have ever
known before; I allude to the weed. The
corn, however, despite these drawbacks,
has kept green and healthy, and now that
rams have fallen generally, bids fair to
yield finely. There being a larger acreage
planted than usual, insures a more than
rage crop prospect of this staple
production. The cotton looks sickly, the
stand imperfect, and the outlook not at
all favorable. Thtre are but few patches
in this section of the State that will aver
age half leg high. The oat crop of fall
planting, where good stands were secured,
is exceedingly fine; but the spring crop is
sadly damaged by the May drouth. The
wheat crop is by far the best since 1862.
It is now mid-harvest, and satisfactory
conclusions as to the extent of this crop
can be almost accurately ascertained. I
think I hazard nothing of truth in saying
that the wheat crop in Middle Georgia
is j ust as good as the' land is capable of
producing. Many farmers have made
from fifteen to twenty-five bushels
per acre, apd it would not sur
prise me to see the crop through
out this section average twelve
bushels per acre. A larger area was sown
than usual, consequently there will be
a sufficiency of wheat, if no disaster *
befall it while being harvested, to
supply home wants and a consid
erable amount to spare for ship
ment. The potato crop looks unpromis
ing. There was no rain scarcely in May,
and transplanting was thereby shortened.
The present seasons will enable oar far
mers to transplant extensively, and every
slip that can be obtained will be set.
There is a great demand for slips. The
peach crop is good—equally as good as it
was in 1875. From the present prospect
I have no doubt that thirty thousand dol
lars’ worth of dried peaches will be ship
ped from this place the incoming season.
So, upon the whole, despite the backward
spring, and the dry, cool, windy May, the
crop prospect in this section is hopeful.
This city continues to improve, and
sustains its well earned -reputation of
being one of the most pleasant and health
ful towns in Middle Georgia. Gordon
Institute, one of the best schools in the
State under its present management, is
well attendtM. It has an average attend
ance of two hundred students, one-third
of whom are from abroad. The com
mencement exercises of this school,
which promise to be unusually interest
ing, will be ushered in by a commence
ment sermon from Dr. Tucker, Chancel
lor of the State University, on
Sunday, the first of July. Hon.
T. Hardeman delivers the annual ad
dress on Wednesday thereafter. The
interim will be enlivened by sophomore,
junior and senior exhibitions, with con
certs, etc., at night. A large attendance
is expected, and our people, than whom
no more hospitable are to be found, will
be prepared to entertain all who may
come. We would be pleased to have one
or more of the News corps with ns on
that occasion, and, by way of parenthe
sis, I open my humble cottage to them,
coupled with the promise to make their
sojourn as pleasant as it will prove
agreeable to me. So cotne along.
A week or two ago the volunteer corps of
Griffin and Forsyth met our home organi
zation here with a view of organizing a
battalion. It will doubtless be formed
and officered in a few weeks. When
formed it will be one of the best battalions
in Georgia.
We have lost by death several of our old
est citizens this year. Each died full of
years and honors. Several citizens are
still quite sick. Miss Anna Blackburn,
who was seriously ill, I- am happy to say,
is now convalescent. Her father, Dr. J.
C. C. Blackburn, who has been in wretch
ed health since last October, is gradually
recovering. I mention this to account for
the non-appearance of “The Pen Sketches
of Pike’s Illustrious Dead,” which the
Doctor is getting ready for publication.
When published, the pamphlet will prove
interesting to Pikers at least. Hoping to
see some of the News’ staff with us dur
ing commencement week, I am years,
etc., „ Occasional.
Suicide of a Baptist Clergyman.
The Rev. W. R. Morden, a Baptist cler
gyman of Norfolk county, went to Lon
don Out., the other day, dressed himself
iu fine broadcloth, with white kid gloves
and a white tie, and shot himself on the
public street at high noon. On a crum
pled sheet of paper in his pocket was the
following singular note:
“Almighty and Everlasting God, my
Heavenly Father, accept the sacrifice
which to thee I bring and let thy wrath
ful indignation pass away from an entire
world, and especially from thine ancient
spouse the Catholic Church, and give al!
repentance unto life. A sacrifice not only
for mine own sins, but for the errors of
ail of the people. And unto him he said,
Behold I have caused thine iniquity to
pass from thee. Zaeh. iii., 4. Let this
be the dav when the iniquity of that Land
shall pass away. t>o let the kingdoms of
this world become the kingdoms of Our
Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign
forever and ever. Rev. xi.,.15. Be
cause I lay down my life that I
might take it again. No man tak-
eth it from me but I lay it down,
and I have power to take it again. This
commandment have I received from my
father. John x„ 17, 18. Let no man or
person blaspheme thy name saying he
gave his own because he could not with
hold him. Let no person dare attempt
to bury me with this ring on my huger,
and yet let no person dare to attempt to
take it off. And they of the people and
kindreds and tongues and nations shall
s«e their dead bodies three days and a
half, and shall not suffer their dead
bodies to be put in graves »ev. xi., 9.
And he arose and* came to his father.
And when he was a great way off his fa
ther saw him, and had compassion; ran
and fell on his neck, and kissed him
Take xv •■><>. Let this be granted, great
God in ‘this year of grace, 1877 Amen
T et this be granted, or let there be a great*
f hnnake and the graves disgorge their
dead* (te’v 13) Me ask it through
Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. Amen.
NEW ISSUES IN POLITICS.
Opposition to the Resuuipiion Policy of the
Administration.
[Washington Correspondence N. Y. Graphic.]
From the responses which come from
all parts of the country, it is very easy to
see that the Southern question will not
disturb the politics of tne country nearly
so much as any one of a half dozen other
questions which will demand settlement.
Secretary Sherman, iu his determination
to bring about resumption in 1879, finds
he has a difficult task before him. It is
clear that he fears the meeting of Con
gress, and it is not likely that he will ask
for any additional legislation to help on
resumption for fear of a defeat of that
policy on account of the hard times.
It is reported here that the withdrawal
of the one and two dollar notes, and the
substitution therefor of silver change, is
intended as a step in the direction of re
sumption. The withdrawal of the small
notes will especially excite opposition in
the West and South, for however re
dundant currency and small change may
be in the centres of population, espe
cially along the Eastern coast, there has
never been a time when there was an
excess in the rural districts. The with
drawal of the notes will be deemed a
serious hardship by people transacting
retail trade all through the interior.
The silver question is also exciting a
great deal of interest all over the coun
try, and the battle is raging earnestly be
tween the gold interest, represented by
the syndicate and the holders of the pub
lic debt on the one side, and the debtor
class, including the agricultural and retail
trading interest, on the other. It is be
lieved here that when Congress meets
there will be a two-thirds majority in
both houses for the rem metization of
silver.
A Policeman Bewafleth Him of Che Goat
that Brotmetb on the Rocke—Why He
Don’t I.tlie Goata—An Unsuccessful Im
pounding Expedition.
On Tuesday afternoon a substantial
citizen, plethoric as to his person, red as
to his face and wrathful as to his manner,
with lightning in one eye and thunder in
the other, stepped into the Twelfth Pre
cinct Station House with a heavy tread.
He laid his umbrella on the Sergeant’s
desk and mopped his face with a large
handkerchief. The Sergeant laid down
his pen. He thought he was going to
hear a charge of murder.
“Dam’ those goats!” said the citizen.
A small chorus of policemen at once re
sponded “Dam’ those goats
This curious unanimity of opinion be
tween policemen and a citizen required
explanation, and after the citizen had
eased his mind and gone, the reporter
asked the handsome Sergeant to explain.
“Goats,” he said, “are a nuisance—a
confounded nuisance. You see a large
part of the suburbs of the city consists of
a mountainous region, interspersed with
barren valleys, and the only vegetation
that flourishes in this region is rocks.
Now goats like rocks. Iu this region
dwells a tribe of Ashantee Irish and Ger-
man—mostly Irish. There are hundreds
of families belonging to it. They like
goats, and they have ever so many thous
ands of them. Each family has a ke-
goat and a she-goat, and quantities of
little goatees. These goats are wild, shy
birds, that have no attachment for their
homes excepting for purposes of lodging.
They roam. Their lives are spent in
prancing from rock to rock, and in eating
anything at all, and in the wanton de
struction of gardens.
“The Ashantee tribe value their goats
more than they do their children, or even
their dogs. Why? Because they milk
Vm, and because when they get hard up
they kill a littie goatee and eat it in a pie.
You can’t get milk from a child, and a
dog is no good in a pie. So they cliDg to
their goats with devotion and tenacity.
Now, a goat will eat. Ha doesn't care
what he eats so long as there is enough of
it, but tho only things {here are for him
to eat in the mountains and valleys where
he resides are garbage and cast-off cloth
ing, boots and things. These he eats
with" avidity, and his appetite being
thereby whetted, he marauds. He is a
lawless bird as well as shy. With no
fear of city ordinances, at which he sniffs
in disdain, he preys on bill-boards. _ He
tears from them huge sandwiches of pa
per and paste, and with them regales
himself. But his great game is trespass.
The common law is no more feared by
him than a city ordinance, and he vaults
over a six-foot fence lightly, and browses
the face of a garden bald. Mauy of our
citizens have costly gardens, with tropi
cal and exotic gew-gaws in them.
“Now, right here,” continued the Ser
geant, lapsing from humor to wrath, “is
where our trouble begins. A man’s garden
is eaten up, and, of course, he’s mad.
He wants to kill a goat, but the proba
bility is he can’t. So he complains to the
police. Now, it isn’t against the law for
a man to keep a goat.”
“Well, then, what’s your trouble ?”
asked the reporter.
“There is a law—an old city ordinance—
providing that if a goat is found at large,
he may be captured and taken to the
pound the same as any other vagabond
animal. A citizen wouldn’t capture agoat
aud take him to the pound if he could ;
aud tho chances are that he couldn’t if he
would, so the police have to do it.”
The reporter laughed.
“ Well, you may laugh if you like,”
said tho Sergeant, very red in the face,
“ but it’s a disgrace to the force to have
to go skirmishing around among the
rocks after goats. It is degrading to the
dignity of the force and it spoils their
clothes. It is very difficult and some
times dangerous. The Ashantees rise np
against ns with broomsticks and boulders
aud sometimes saily forth with pitchforks
to battle for the goats.”
Ttie description promised well, and the
reporter arranged to accompany the next
raid to be made against goats on the fol
lowing morning, it appearing that squads
of six and eight policemen went cut at
once.
Early the following morning the squad
sallied out. Down Madison avenue to
One Hundred and Twenty-third street
they went, and on the corner a youngster
of questionable sex piped out from a
stony eminence, “Hi! cops. Are j’af ther
goats ?”
There was no reply, but the youngster
understood the silence.
“Hi! Billy, Billy, Biller/” shouted he,
she or it at the top of a voice.
It was enough. The goats for blocks
round heard and understood, and it
seemed idle to try to put salt on their
tails. To tho uninitiated eye further
chasing appeared idle. Worse than that,
the populace heard the alarm. No de
monstration of force was made, for there
appeared to be considerable confidence in
the nimbleness of the goats, but from all
sorts of hovels in all sorts of places came
great numbers of old men, old aud young
women and children, and for a few
minutes the morning breeze was laden
with billingsgate of the choicest.
The policemen bore it well. There was
a reporter present. They made no reply
to the abuse but doggedly continued the
chase. It was exciting. The goats would
stand as if unconscious of pursuit until
they were almost caught, and then would
vault through the air with the greatest cf
ease, alighting on boulders as lofty as
trees. Winged sqnirrels may be set down
as slothful in comparison. At length,
however, as one stood on an isolated rock
seven policemen surrounded it. Six stood
guard while one clambered up. Billy
stood his ground until the last moment,
and then made a leap only to find a stal
wart hand on his horn when he alighted.
Two hours hard work and one goat
caught.
“Bad cess to thim,” said au old man,
arrayed in fifteen different kinds of cloth
ing. “They bees afther the poor man’s
cattle stout enough. Bedad it’s little
harrum a goat is, and good galore. We
can’t get milk av thim av we tie ’em up,
an’ if we let thim loose they’re pounded.
Ochone ! Wirresthru !”
And the old man was left weeping.
An Infant Mubdeeee.—Another case
of child killing by a child has been dis
covered in Boston, the victim being a
boy named Charles Fagerstrom, aged
three years, and the slayer a boy named
Welch, aged two years and six months.
Whether the children were in the habit
of quarreling does not appear, but a sis
ter of Mrs. Welch instructed her daugh
ter L’zzie to drive away the Fagerstrom
boy whenever he came there. This dis
play of hostility toward the Fagerstrom
bov doubtless made a strong impression
upon the Welch boy, and last Wednesday
evening the latter picked up a fragment
of brick having a sharp edge, and, going
np to the Fagerstrom boy, struck him on
the head with it just alfbve the left eye,
fracturing his skull. He was taken home,
and died the next morning from the
effects of the blow. Coroner Bradford
was calUd upon, bnt on learning the par
ticulars of the case decided that an in
quest would be unnecessary, owing to the
irresponsible age of the Welch boy.
Sad Suicide.—The body of Julia Hup-
puch, a beautiful young lady, aged twenty
years, w.ho has been missing for two
weeks past, was found in the canal at
Buffalo, N. Y., on Saturday. The cause
of the suicide is supposed to have been
parental cruelty, she having been
whipped by her father on the night pre
vious to being last seen for alleged inti
macy with a young min who was objec
tionable to her parents.
When introducing a deputation of the
Anglo-Oriental Society for the Supression
of the Opium Trade to the Chinese Am
bassador, Lord Shaftesbury asked, on be
half of the society, for the opinion of the
embassy as to whether opium smoking
was really so baneful, and its progress so
great a national calamity, as the society
believed it to be. In reply, the Ambas
sador said that the use of the drug was a
very great evil, and that tho Chinese
Government was perfectly sincere in its
desire to put a stop to it; but that in a
large country like China, where its use
had become almost universal, it was a
subject surrounded by many difficulties.
“Tne use of opium in China,” said he,
“is ar. evil which is increasing even more
rapidly than that of alcoholic drinks in
tins country, and the difficulty of dealing
with it is even greater, inasmuch a3 the
drag takes a firmer hold of its victims
than alcohol does upon Englishmen/’
Train at Rochester.
Some of our esteemed contemporaries
are scolding and others are making fun
of the good people of Rochester on ac
count of an incident which occurred at
one of Mr. Train’s soothing lectures re
cently delivered in that oity. The lec
turer declared, doubtless iu an exposition
of the popular religious opinions of the
world, that there would only be about
three million saints in Heaven, and that
a'l the rest of the human race would be
condemned to the infernal regions.
Among the latter, such men as Byron and
Franklin would certainly be found, and
Train, in his enthusiasm for these great
men, exclaimed, “I want to be able to
gras p their extended hands if I have to
go to h— to do it. And, by the way, all
those in favor of going to h— with me
say aye !” The audience responded with
a unanimous “aye!” that made the hall
ring; and hence the question has-
arisen, Is Rochester such a dread
ful place tc live in that its inhabi
tants look forward to Hades as a
happy change ? Rochester invented
spirit-rapping, to be sure, but it was.
hoped that the people had repented and
amended their lives. In the spirit of
charity we have considered this remark
able demonstration, and have endeavored
to find some less painful explanation of
it. The most obvious theory is that the
audience was so earned away by Train’s
eloquence that they followed his lead
without reflection, as the children of
Hamelin did the pied piper. This help
lessness of audiences in the hands of a
great speaker is a well-established
psychological fact, not peculiar to
Rochester. A celebrated Catholic
preacher once called upon the members
cf the congregation to which he was
preaching to hold up their hands as a
sign that they wished to be saved
and to register a vow th it they would
remain steadfast. He then, with
a terrible and menacing voice,
solemnly invoked the Archangel Michael,
ihe chief of the hosts of heaven, to de
scend from his place on high, and with
his sharp sword cut off every hand rafted
iu the spirit of hypocrisy. Every arm in
the vast church dropped at once as if at
the stroke of the celestial scimitar. H
we suppose the citizens of Rochester
who were listening to Mr. Train’s lecture
to have been so magnetized that they
were no longer any more responsible for
their actions than he for his words, the
guilt of their consent to his sinful invita
tion may be removed from them. There
is, however, still another possible explana
tion. Perhaps the Kochesterians merely ex
pressed in this wild enthusiatic way their
somewhat heterogeneous admiration for
Byron, Franklin and George Franois
Train as types of intellect. Whether
Byron and Franklin would reciprocate if
tbe chance were offered may be doubtful,
but the country will be half inclined to
deal gently with the blasphemy of the
R ichesterians, in its surprise and satis
faction at finding so much literary enthu
siasm of any sort in a town which has
refused to maintain a public library.
From Boston we might have expected
this, but not from Rochester.
In this view of the case the outburst
of Mr. Train’s audience recalls the im
passioned devotion of Burns to a friend :
, “With such as he, where’er he be,
May I be saved or dammed !”
and the wild outcry of Burger’s Leonore:
“With thee, with thee, is Paradise;”
“And Hell it is without thee I”
But the most obvious is after a'l, we sus
pect the most accurate view, and there is
such food for pretty serious reflection in
it as goes lar to justify the opinion of
the starch old Connecticut Democrats
who plumply refused to contribute to
wards an oratorical hall at Yale College
on the ground that “gab had done harm
enough in this country already.”—N. T.
World.
The World makes a very plausable ex
planation of the Rochester affair, bnt if
such a blasphemous demonstration had
taken place in a Southern community the
Radical press of the North would have
held it up as a proof of Southern bar
barism and infidelity.
An old bachelor seeing the words
“families supplied” over the door of a
shop, stepped in and said he wonld take
a wife and two children.
A Social Sensation in Louisville.—
There are apparently well authenticated
rumors current in Louisville, Kentucky,
that the name of a prominent Kentucky
gentleman, an ex-United States Senator,
has been forged to notes amounting, it is
said, to some $90,000. The alleged
criminal is a lady of high social position,
bat who, it is also said, is not to be con-
sid red responsible for her acts. No
money is yet known to have passed, and
it is probable that the entire matter will
be straightened without legal procedure.
There were" thirty- one failures in New
York city in May, with liabilities of
$1,354,024, and assets of $534,751. As
signments and adjudications m bank
ruptcy increased these liabilities by
$650,000. There is an increase of fifty
last month’s record, while the liabilities
are about forty per cent. less. The total
liabilities for the month is, in round
numbers, $2,000,000.
Measurement of Time.
A question has been lately addressed to
us as to tbe ancient mode of the measure
ment of time. Water clocks have be6n
in use in the Eastfor about two thousand
years. These have been gradually im
proved to this present period. The sub
stitution of a weight for the water to
turn the wheel is supposed to h tve been
the work of the Saracens, though it may
have been introduced some tim<‘ before,
for Archimedes had discovered the ad
vantage of weight in the turning of smail
machines Borne centuries earlier. The
clepsydra, supposed to have been used
among the Chaldeans, was employed ex
tensively by the Greeks and Romans.
This .instrument measured time by the
gradual flaw of water through a small
orifice. It is still used in China, and
anciently had in some instances a musical
attachment, by which attention was
called to the hour as by the stroke of a
bell in our clocks. They were introduced
in Rome about 158 B. C. Eighteen
years later they were improved by tbe
addition of a toothed wheel and index
driven by the water which flowed from
the bottom of the jar. Then came the
substitution of the weight, as has been
already mentioned.
At a very early period men began to di
vide the day into several portions, and
soon the night also. These divisions
were at first of about three or four hours
each, but after a time tbe division of
night and day into twelve hours each was
found to be more convenient, and then
there came the necessity for means of mea
suring eachof these divisions of time. The
first in use was the dial, the use of which
was learned by the Greeks from the Chal
deans. This instrument shows the hours
of the day by the shadow of a gnomon or
style cast by the sun on a graduated arc.
The object in the construction of a dial
is to find the sun’s distance from the me
ridian by means of the shadow. This
being known the hour is also known. It
is true that the shadow can never be so
well defined that its limits can be ascer
tained with astronomical precision. Prac
tically the error may not be of great ac
count. It is believed that thestyle orpin
of the sun dial, which by its shadow in
dicates the hour of the day, was probably
the first astronomical instrument, and it
appears to have been in much nse among
the Egyptians, the Chinese, and even the
Peruvians.
It is not necessary to trace the history
of the clock from the time of the substi
tution of a weight for water to turn the
toothed wheel. Various difficulties in the
construction were afterwards rectified.
The ingenuity of our own countrymen
has been exercised in bringing tbe clock
to its present state of perfection. The
clock, as has been justly said, was the
mother of the watch. When it was
made, in 1477, by Peter Hele, a clock-
maker of Nuremburg, it was called his
“animated egg,” and was considered one
of the wonders of the world. The pro
duction cf this “pocket clock” cost a
year's labor; was abont the siza and shape
of a goose egg; varied nearly an hoar a
day from the true time, and the price wsa
equal to about fifteen hundred dollars in
gold of to-day. It is needless to trace
its improvements from that period to the
present, but, as in the clock, so in the
watch, the American makes are now com
peting successfully with all others in tbe
markets of tbe world. Chronometers are
watches adjusted to the variations of tem
perature, and many of American make
have proved as accurate as any timepieces
ever made.—Baltimore Sun.
Says the Mobile Register: “The man
who killed Clark Swayze. in Kansas, has
been honorably acquitted. It is patheti
cally said that Swayze printed a Repub
lican paper in the heart of Georgia at one
time, but he had to go to Kansas to get
killed. ”
Fmpleomauifl os an American Disease.
[From the New York World.]
In the World of yesterday there was
a fall account of an interview between
the President and a delegation of colored
men from New Orleans, who came to de
mand that their raoe should be recognized
t.s entitled to a share of the spoils of
Federal office. It seems that Mr. Hayes
renewed to this delegation certain
promises which he had previously made
to John M. Langston, a negro resident of
Washington, to whom he pledged himself
that the colored people should be repre
sented in every department of the public
service. Indeed, it is intimated that
the President intends to place negroes
in all kinds of positions, from an Indian
agency to a foreign mission. It is
very difficult to reconcile these
promises to the colored people with
the .promises of civil service reform made
to the nation. But the promises of
an administration are things that will not
bear very close scrutiny, and perhaps it
is jnst as well to forget the earlier pledge
to recognize only the fitness of candidates
in making appointments to office when
considering tho philanthropic vow regis
tered on Friday to divide the spoils hon
estly among all good Republicans, without
respect to race, color or previous condi
tion of s^-vitude. Files of the New Or
leans papers, just come to hand, throw a
good deal of light on the recent transac
tions at the White House. It appears
that the colored politicians, when con
vinced that they were neglected by the
Collector of the port of New Orleans,
simply transferred their base of operations
for a share in the Federal patronage to
the national capital. It was not until
they convinced themselves that King, the
Collector appointed by Mr. Hayes, had
tamed against them that they ap
pealed to the President himself. On the
1st of June the same person who led the
delegation at the White House addressed
to the Collector a letter asking for a state
ment of his designs, complaining of the
fact that it had been impossible to pro
cure a personal interview with him, and
avowing the purpose of the writer and
his friends to proceed to headquarters
with their claims. This letter was signed
with the curiously significant name of
“Stamps,” President of the Representa
tive Colored Men’s Union. The demand
for a share of the plunder whiob the
party had won was plainly put, and on
the 5th instant Collector King delivered
his reply, excusing himself on account
of press of business for his apparent
discourtesies, acknowledging the jus
tice of the ‘claim of the colored
Republican* to recognition in the
distribution of offices, but asking
them to possess their souls in patience.
This answer was probably sent while tbe
pilgrims were on their way to Washing
ton, and it may be easily so interpreted
as to make it conform with the profes -
sions of the President made a few days
later. The whole story presents a re
markable picture of the inextinguishable
greed for office which prevails through
out the country. Collector King declares
that though he has been in office less than
three weeks he has been approached by
several thousand persons in search of
positions. Some of them caught him at
tbe custom house, others waylaid him in
the street and not a few besieged him at
his private residence. He has, moreover,
been compelled to open and read between
one thousand five hundred and two thou
sand letters written by applicants,
mostly men of color, for places, and
to submit to unnumbered consulta
tions with prominent politicians as well
as to a daily interview with the
reporters of the New Orleans papers. He
estimates that he will have on file at least
three thousand applications before the
custom house appointments are made.
These facts the unhappy Collector recites
in hopes to mollify the ire of the Hon.
T. B. Stamps and by way of explaining to
that eminent citizen why it was so diffi
cult for him to get a chance to talk to the
Collector. Mr. King says that the offices
for which these swarms of politicians are
clamoring number in all about one hun-
dred, and that the salary in many of them
is less than the wages of a laborer in New
Orleans. The letter teaches an impressive
lesson, and should be carefully studied.
Why should thousands of able-bodied
American citizens be infected with this
disease of empleomania, heretofore
thought to be the speoial scourge
of Spain? Why should there be
this wild desire on their part to
abandon honest labor to engage in the de
basing intrigues and numberless anxieties
of office seeking and to sink into months
of idlenes- in the hope of obtaining among
them a few petty offices ? Whence comes
this unhealthy hunger for official station
—this unhealthy repugnance to private
industry ? There was a time when the
Federal Government scarcely ever came
in contact with a citizen except through
the Post Office Department; but the last
fifteen years have wrought a tremendous
revolution, and now the Federal Govern
ment seems to be regarded not merely as
the source of honor but as the patron
and provider of all impecunious citizens.
The confessions of Collector King offer a
startling illustration of the fact that nine
the accession of the Republican party to
power politics have been exaggerated to
undue importance in American life. The
administration of public affairs, which
was once esteemed even by the best of
our public servants as a temporary honor,
an interlude or incident in men’s lives,
is now the trade of thousands of Ameri
cans. Collector King’s story makes it
perfectly plain hat no man in his po
sition can hope successfully to carry out
a policy of non-partisanship and re
trenchment in the faoe of this ravenous
horde of office-seekers. This particular
officer makes a few feeble protestations
to the effect that he found some good and
competent men in the custom house
when he took charge of it, and wonld be
loath to remove them, and that in any
event the investigation into the collection
of the revenue wnich is now going on is
a sufficient reason for his exercising cau
tion in the making of new appointments.
But at the close of his epistle he drops
into this abject promise to run the New
Orleans custom house, as it has for years
been run, in the interests of the Republi
can organization :
“But while endeavoring to accomplish
this, I shall incidentally look to the in
terests of the party of which the Presi
dent is the honored head ; and it is need
less to add, in conclusion, that I shall not
lose Bight of the interests of the colored
people, a portion of whom you repre
sent.”
No moderately discreet politician could
wf 11 say more than this and we commend
the paragraph to the attention of the
credalous who still believe, and of the
sanguine who still pretend to believe,
that the administration is in earnest in
its promise to bring abont what is com
monly called “civil service reform.”
The United Sta es Supreme Court has
made a decision in the case of the United
States, plaintiff in error, vs. Annie Fox
et al., in error to the Court of Appeals of
tbe State of New York. In February,
1870, Charles Fox, of the city of New
York, died possessed of certain personal
and real property situated in the States of
New York and Iowa. By his will he be
queathed the whole property, after the
payment of his debts, to the Government
of the United States, for the purpose of
assisting to discharge the debt created, by
the war of tbe rebellion. Upon the pe
tition of the District Attorney of. the
United States the will was pre
sented for probate before the Surrogate
of the city and county of New York.
The infant heirs of the deceased con
tested the will. The Surrogate decreed
that the will was inoperative and void as
a devise of real estate; that the United
States could not lawfully take and hold
the real estate as devisee under the will,
in trust or otherwise, and that it
descended to the heirs-at-law. He at
the same time decided that the will was
valid and operative as to the personal
estate of the testator, and tnat the
United States were tbe sole legatees, and
accordingly admitted the testament to
probate as a will of personal estate only.
On appeal from the Surrogate this decree
was affirmed by the Supreme Court and
afterwards by the Court of Appeals"
of the State. The United States
Supreme Court again affirmed it on the
gTouud that the statute of New Yo k pro
vides that a devise of lands may be made
“To any person capable by law of hold
ing real estate, but no devise to a corpo
ration shall be valid unless such corpora
tion be expressly authorized by i.ts char
ter or by statue to take by devise.” The
term “person,” as here used, applies to
natural persons and to artificial persons—
bodies politic, deriving their existence
and powers from legislation—but cannot
be so extended as to include within its
meaning the Federal Government. It
would require an express definition to
that effect to give it a sense thus extend
ed; and the term “corporation” in the
statue applies only to such corporations
as are created under the laws of the State.
A devise to the United States of real
property situated in that State, is there
fore, void. Mr. Justice Field delivered
the opinion.
A Reminiscence.
A few days ago, on the occasion of the
visit of one of the proprietors of the Re
publican to Cincinnati, a gentleman of
middle age politely accosted him and, af
ter introducing himself, related a pleas
ant little anecdote in which a distinguish
ed historical name curiously figures.
Thirty-one years ago there was a poor boy
in the hills of New Hampshire earning a
living and attempting to save enough to
educate himself by braiding straw hats—
a common occupation m that region at
that time. It was during the height of
Daniel Webster’s power and fame, aud as
good fortune would have it, that great
man, while revisiting his Granite State
birth place, stopped and stayed all night
at the house of the boy straw braider’s
father. During the evening he notiotd the
lad at work, aud kindly entered into con
versation with him about his age, his
schooling, and what he intended to do
when he became a man. The lad told the
statesman that he wanted an education,
but as his father was not able to give
it to him, he had taken to straw-braiding
as a means of securing it’ himself ; he
worked at the business all his spare
hours, laying aside his earnings, and with
these he intended to attend the academy,
secure as good an education as might be
within his reach, and then “go West” to
make hi3 fortune. Tbe statesman ap
plauded his ambition and volunteered the
advioe that when he got ready to go
West, he should locate at St. Louis, a
thriving and piomising city in Missouri.
The lad had St. Louis iu his head already,
and asked Mr. Webster if he knew
the name of any newspaper pub
lisher in that ciiy. He was given
the name of the Missouri Republican,
published by Chambers A Kuapp, and he
at once made a memorandum of it on a
little slip of paper. Next morning the
august guest took his departure, leaving
behind him a bottle of the contents of
which he had partaken occasionally du
ring his visit. That bottle the lad eager
ly appropriated as a memento of the
expounder’s visit, aud has preserved it
together with the little memorandum;
‘MissouriRepublican, Chambers A Knapp,
St. Louis, Mo.,” which he made at Mr.
Webster’s suggestion, through all the
vicissitudes aud experiences of thirty-one
years; “and that boy is the person who
tells you this story”—said he to tbe
Republican proprietor. He had lived
many years in the West, at St. Louis
and Cincinnati, had‘been successful in
his business, and is now the manager of
an important fiduciary trust for an Eng
lish corporation.—St. Louis Republican.
Parson Newman is consoling himself
j . for the loss of Grant by preaching bit-
per cent, in the number of failures ovefr iterly hostile sermons against the Roman
Catholic religion. As Parson Newman
has not yet attempted to preach the gos
pel of Christianity, it would be well for
him to make a virgin effort in that field.
A Drunkard s Suicide.—On Wednes
day last James Newton, aged thirty-seven
years, a boiler-maker by trade, was ad
mitted to the Inebriate Asylum on Ward’s
Island. He appeared to be suffering from
the effects of a prolonged debauch, and
acknowledged that he had been drinking
hard for three or four weeks. Yesterday
his wife visited him and had a long inter
view with him in a room on the third
floor. While the interview was in pro
gress some one on the floor below saw a
man fall to the ground, having appar
ently leaped from a window above. On
investigation it wa3 found that the unfor
tunate man was James Newton. Hiswife
said that during their interview, and
without the slightest warning, he ran to
the window and leaped out. He died
within an hour after the act was com
mitted.—
Waynie McVeagh—“You stole from
the government!" Bennie Butler—“You
got married to get a gal’s money!” Mrs.
Kep.—“There, there, boys ! Hush, now !
That old party, Mrs. Darn., is a-listening
at you, and the whole countrj ’U be
talkin’ about us ! ”
A huge mammoth has been discovered
in Siberia at a depth of twenty-two feet
beneath the surface. Its hide and flesh
at first bad a pink hue, but in a few days
it turned to a solid, white, argillaceous
mass. It is to be exhumed in September.
The Hand.
A well-made hand should be delicate
and somewhat long. The back should be
just plump enough to prevent, the veins
from being too prominent. The fingers
must be long and tapering. When the
hand i3 open there should be little dim
ples at the knuckles, which should be
slightly prominent when the hand is
closed. Much of the beauty of the
fingers and hand depends upon the pro
per care of the nails. These, if cut too
much, deform the finger ends, rendering
them stubby. The upper and free border
of the nail should always be left project
ing a line or so beyond the extremity of
the fingers, and should be pared only to a
slight curve, without encroaching too
much on the angles. Soap and the finger
brash are all that are necessary for clean
ing and polishing the nails. The habit of
biting the nails is as ugly as it is fatal to
them. They become excessively brittle
in consequence, not being allowed time
to acquire the natural toughness; and,
moreover, the ends of the fingers, being
unsupported, turn over, forming an ugly
rim of the hard flesh, which finally pre
vents the regular growth of the nail.
When this deformity is once established,
it is almost impossible to remedy it. The
skin of the hands, which should be soft,
smooth and flexible, is sometimes bard
and rough. This condition is not only
common among persons who are daily
engaged in work which exposes them to
the contact cf irritating substances, but
is not unusual with women of leisure.
Some seem to have a particular tendency
to a dryness of the skin, which on the
least exposure to change of temperature,
or any cause of irritation, however
slight, becomes roughened. Bach should
keep their hands almost constantly
gloved, and wash them always (but not
too often) with lukewarm water and fine
soap, to which may be added a little
bran. A little cold cream before going
to bed is a common and useful applica
tion.
Hydrophobia is a disease mentioned in
a Hindoo medical work as far back as
nine or ten centuries before the Christian
era, and it seems to be agreed that the
mode of its transmission in the vast ma
jority of instances is by inoculation from
one animal to another. At the same time
one of the best accounts of it was given
by a physician of the seventh century,
who divides it into two varieties, viz.:
that arising from inoculation, always fe
tal, and that due to nervous irritability,
capable of cure. A similar distinction is
now sometimes made, particularly by
French physicians. This last seems to be
the theory which is applied by some phy
sicians to the death ot Professor Alverg-
nat, recently bitten by a dog in Connec
ticut. But the question arises, what
practical difference does it make, so long
as nervous irritability cannot, in many
cases, be controlled, either by the patient
or by any resources within reach of med
ical art? Nervous diseases are among
the most difficult which phvsicians have
to handle, and mental affections have
come to be classed with nervous diseases.
People have been frightened to death by
a supposed spirit which some mischiev
ous imbecile in a white sheet has person
ated. It mattered little to the person
who died by this cause, whether the appa
rition was real or imaginary.—Baltimore
Hun. _
Professor W. C. Pike, the Chicago
Spiritualist who killed editor S. 8. Jones,
another Chicago Spiritualist, for the
alleged seduction of Medium Genevieve
Pike, another Chicago Spiritualist, bade
a reporter to his hospitable cell the other
evening and surprised him by saying: “I
would rather be hanged or sent to the
penitentiary than escape on any technical
plea of insanity. Do you think that if I
bad been insane I would have taken God’s
vengeance upon him who destroyed my
household peace ?”