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DIRECTORY-
STATE GOVERNMENT.
James M. Smith, Governor.
N. C. Barnet, Secretary of State.
J. W. Goldsmith, Comptroller General.
John Jones, Treasurer.
Joel Branham, Librarian.
John T. Brown, Principal Keeper of the
Penitentiary.
Gustavus J. Orr, State School Commis
sioner.
J. N. Janes, Commissioner of Agricul
ture.
Thomas D. Little, State Geologist.
JUDICIAL.
BLUE RIDGE CIRCUIT.
Noel B. Knight, Judge.
U. D. Phillips, Solicitor General.
Time of Holding Court.
Cherokee —Fourth Monday in Febru
ary, and first Monday in August.
Cobb—Second Monday in March and
November.
Dawson—Third Monday in April and
second onday in September.
Fannin —Third Monday in May and Oc
tober.
Forsyth—First Monday in April and
fourth Mo nd y in August.
Gil'.ier —Second Monday in May and
October. i
Lumpkin—Second Monday in April and
first Monday in September.
Milton —Fourth Monday in March and
third Monday in August.
Pickens —Fourth Monday in April and
September.
Towns—Monday after fourth Monday iu
Mav and October.
Union —Fourth Monday in Mav and Oc
tober.
COUNTY’ OFFICERS.
C. M. McClure, Ordinary. Regular court
first Monday in each month.
J. W. Hudson, Chrk Superior Court.
M. P. Morris, Sheriff.
E. G. Gramling, Deputy Sheriff.
J-'hn G. Evans, Treasurer.
Wm N. Wilson, Tax Receiver.
Joseph G. Dupree, Tax Collector.
Wm. W. Hawkins, Surveyor.
* Wm. Hampley, Coroner.
JUSTICE COURT—CANTON DIS.
Joseph E Hutwni, J. P.
R. F. Daniel. N. P.
H. G. Daniel, L. C
TOWN GOVERNMENT.
W. A. Teaseley, Mayor.
J. W. Hudson, Recorder.
James 11. Kilby, Jabcz Gal-. J. M. Har
din, j. M. McAtee, Theodore Turk, Alder
men.
COUNTY’ BOARD OF EDUCATION.
James O. Dowda, President.
James W. Hudson, County School Com
missioner.
Prof. James U. Vincent, Examiner.
Joseph M. McAfee, Allen Keith, Joseph
J. Maddox, John R. Moore.
Meetings quarterly, in the court-house.
CHEROKEE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIA
TION.
James O. Dowda, President.
M. B. Tuggle, Vice-President.
6. M. McClure, Secretary.
J. W. Attaway, Treasurer.
John D. Attaway, Censor Morum.
Prof. James U. Vincent, Association Cor
respondent
Regular meetings every second Saturday
in tach month, at 10 a. m.
RELIGIOUS.
Baptist Church, Canton Ga., time of
service fourth Sunday in each month.
Rev. M. B. Tuggk', Pastor.
M. E. Chinch, time of service, preachers
iu charge.
Rev. W. G. Hanson, fiist Sunday.
Rev. B. E. Istdbelter, second.
Rev. J. M. Hardin, third.
MASONIC.
Canton Lodok, No. 77, meets first and
third Monday nights in each month.
James A. Stephens, W. M.
Joacpb M. McAtee, Secretary.
Sixes Lodge. No. 283, meets first and
third Saturdays, 2 p. in.
C. M. McClure, W. M.
O. W. Puttuftu, Secretary.
* * GOOD TEMPLARS.
Canton Lodge, No. 119, meets every
Saturday, 8 p. in.
B. E. Lcdlx tier, W. C. T.
James W. Hudson, Secretary.
GRANGE.
CanUm Grange No. 235, Canton Ga.
Jabva Galt. Master. ,
M. JkA&v, Secretary.
The Cherokee Georgian.
THE A UTUMN OF THE WORLD.
The last wan petals leave the rose,
The latest swallows plume for flight,
The summer’s gone where no one knows.
With dead men's love, and spent year’s
light,
And warm hearts buried out of sight
Red roses are the crown of youth ;
The warm light strike* on lovers’ lips ;
Laiigh though, and fondle happy mouth,
And yet, remember, sweet time slips,
Death hurries on with full eclipse
So short, so sad ! Oh, let not death
Find only faded flowers and wine,
When, hungry for the joyous breath
That dreams not of the year’s decline,
He lays his cold white mouth to thine 1
Cling to the flying hours; and yet
Let one pure hope, one great desire,
Like song on dying lips be set.
That, ere we fall in scattered fire,
Our hopes may lift the world’s heart
higher.
Here, in the autumn month of time, ,
i Before the great new year can break,
Some little way our feet should climb,
Some, little mark our words should make
For liberty and manhood’s sake !
Clear brain and sympathetic heart,
A spirit on flame with love for man,
Hand swift to labor, slow to pait —
If any good since time began,
The soul can fashion, such souls can.
And so, when we are dead and past.
The undying w rid will some day reach
Its glorious hour of dawn at last,
And we across Time’s sunken beach
May smile, one moment, each to each.
* ’Cor firmat ion s S’ rong. ”
Early in June, 1815, says L. B. P-octor
in the Buffalo Cornier, Chancellor Kent
and bis wife, in a private carriage, left their
home in the city of New Y r ork on a tour to
the “Country of the Genesee,” as Western
New York was then called. At that time,
though the distance did not exceed 370
miles, the journey was more toilsome, pro
tracted and dangerous than a trip Horn New
York to Kansas, Dakota, Oregon, Colorado
or California now is. Canaoda’gua, or
Canaibigna, as it was then called, was a
frontier town, surrounded by an a'most in
term'uable forest, and Buffalo a place that
marked the most distant boundary of the
far, far west.
On the fifth day of their jomney the
travelers reached then that wond-t fill struct
ure, Cayuga bridge, pieced there fifteen
years previously by the celebrated Manhat
tan company of New Y’oik city.
Crossing the biidge the travelers contin
ued their join ney, hoping to reach Caniulai
gua before n'glit. But unfortunately the
chance’lor mistook the road he had been
di>ec ed to fake, lost his way, and night
oveitook hnn while yet many mi’es from
Ids place of destination. As he was natu
rally adventurous and daring, the d°ep,
dink woodlands a.ound gave him no fetus.
Not so with Mie. Kent. Iler life had been
spent in the city of New Y’ork. The chan
cellor urged his weary hoises onwa'd with
the hope of gaining some place of safety
:.nd sheber fur the night, wu’lc b’s w»fc
clung in tenor to his a.m.
But the daikoess became so deep that if
was impossible to proceed, and the travel
iis believed themselves doomed to spend
the n’ght in the open forest exposed to all
its ho ros and dangeis. But just as
Kent brought his horses to a halt, a light
suddenly gleamed out of interstices between
the trees, a short distance ahead. Pushing
onwaid once moie, the tiavelvs focud
themselves in a few moments in front of a
coin To. table log house standing rear the
roadside.
A woman apparently tbhty years of pge,
with a lighted candle iu her hand, comes to
the door.
“My good woman, myself and my wife,
the lady in with me, are uavel
eis on our w.iy to Canadaigua, but we have
lost the wry: night is upon us and we can
go bo limber. Can you give us shelter for
the n’ ;ht some supper and something for
our hoises?” ssked Kent.
‘We ere poor folks,’ said the woman, end
I'm a’one. My man is chopping over in
the Eill'nt,B scSllement, three miles oT, and
he won’t be home in an hour. Y’ou are
Strengers, and I don’t—but you look like
respectable people, and I guess you can stay
he e. 1H give you something to eat, if it
ria’t quite so good, and I'll fodder your
hoises, too Y’our woman there had better
g«t out and come in, while I put the horses
io the stable.’
Ms. Kent obeyed. W'«h the help of
Kent the horses w’ere unbainessed, led to
the stable and fed. In a short time the wo
man prepared a homely but acceptable
supper for her guests. When the meal
was finished she said:
‘I ’spose you’re tit ed and waut to go to
bed. Thai’s our bed in the coiner there,
but you can sleep in it to-night. I and my
man can sleep oveihead. I’ll just set his
supper on the table; when he conies he 11
eat it, but be won’t disturb you; then he 11
come up to be w here I am.’
So saying she placed her man's evening's
repast on the table, lit another candle, then
aset nded a ladder leading to a soil of scut
tle hole, thiough which she crawled. In a
few moments she w.xs in bed lost in sleep.
TUv trawlers also retired to rest Tired
CANTOxV, CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1875.
Virtue and Intelligence—-The Safeguards of Liberty.
nature hurried them swiftly on to the land
of dreams. Suddenly the Chancellor started
up, exclaiming:
‘Bessi ’, that outside door is not fastened.
Presently the man of the house w ill return,
and seeing me in bed here w’ith you, he will
of course think you are his wife, and, Bes
sie, he won’t relish that. B -ing a wood
chopper, he will have his axe with him, and
before I can explain matters, the Chancellor
of this state will stand a pretty good chance
to be chopped to pieces—not a pleasant
thing to think of, Bessie.’
‘lt is a bad matter. While he is chop
ping you up he may include me in the ex
ercise. ‘What can you do?’ said Mrs.
Kent.’
‘I tell you, Bessie, what I’ll do. I’ll push
that table against the door. When the
tn.an comes it will take him some time to
remove it. YVlu’le be is doing so I can e.r
plain maVe sto him,’ said the Chancellor.
Accoidingly he arose, took hold of the
tab’e to push it against the door. While in
the ret he heard heavy footsteps approach
ing; the next instant a man of gigantic size,
in his shirt sleeves, wearing a bear-skin cap
on his head, pushed the door open and en
tend the room. The first object that
greeted his sight was the Chancellor, with
no cloth’ng on him bu t his shirt. Glancing
nt the bed, he saw’, as he supposed, his wife
there, and the situation became painfully
apparent to him. Furious with jealousy,
he exclaimed:
‘Who the devil are you. in my house in
your sh’rt-tail this time of night? Damn
you! I’ve caught you, whoever you are.’
‘lt’s all light, my good sir,’said Kent,
tiying to explain matters. ‘lt’s all right. I
am— ’
‘AH I'ght! AH right? You be d—d,’
thundered the man. ‘I sec—didn’t expect
me home. Thought you’d fasten me out
when I did come—was going to have
things your ow’n way, hey ? But I caught
you—happened round at the nick of time.’
‘P.ay let me explain, si’,’ said the Chan
cellor. and my wife there.’
‘Your wife! Your w'fe! Good Gol!
What a bold cus n - you are. I know who
you a e now. You’re Sam Flickner, that
use to couit my wife, a« I beard ted. Now,
Fl'c’iner, what have you to say for you.seif,
you cuss?’
“My name is no. Flickner. It is James
Kent. lam the Chancellor of the state of
New York. That is my wife, Bessie, that
is in bed there. Your wife is up stairs all
light There is your supper on the table.
Eat it for gracious sake !’ said Kent in a
binried manner.
‘Chancellor of the state of New York,
hoy ? What the devil is the Chancellor of
New Y’ork doing in my house this time of
night in lus shirt-tail ? Damn pretty way
to get out of a sciape—lay it to the Chancel
lor of New Yon;, hey? If he had caught
you in his house as I have caught you,
he’d chancel you. I say you are Bam
Flickner, and I’ll lick hell out of you,’ said
the man advancing toward Kent with a fist
that looked like a sledge-hammer. At this
ciiiical moment his wife put her head down
the hatchway, exclaiming, ‘Hold on, Jim '
I’m un here all right; he hain’t been near
me, and I’m all straight and right. They
have lost their way; I guess they are good
folks, and I’ve given cm our bed ; eat your
supper and come uirhere to bed; don’t
make such a bear of yourself. If I hadn’t
been sound asleep when you came all this
fuss wouldn’t have happened.’ This ad
dress brought things to a proper un.’er
s anding. The man anologized for his
hastiness; said he‘didn’t believe his wife
was that kind of a woman, though at first
things looked awfully against her ; besides
that, he knowed Sam Flickner was a cuss.’
The Chancellor went to bed. The man
sat down to his supper, and when it was
finished retired quietly to his bed up stabs ;
and soon all the inmates of the house were
wrapped in slumber. The next morning
the hostess prepared he- gucs‘3 a comfort
able breakfast. Iler man repeated his apol
ogies of the last night, gave them careful di
rections regarding their toad, and with
many good wishes,hade them adieu. A few
hours’ ride brought them to Canadaigua,
where they became the guests of John C.
Spencer.
Fridax Not an Unlucky Day.—Fri
day, long regarded as a day of ill omen,
has been an eventful one in American his
toiy.
Friday, Christopher Columbus sailed on
his voyage of discovering America.
Friday, Hemy VIII. of England gave
John Cabot hi» commission which led to
the discovery of North America.
Friday, the Mayflower, with the pilgrims,
arrived at Plymouth.
Friday, they signed the August compact,
the forerunner of the present constitution.
Friday, George Washington was born.
Friday, Bunker hill was seized and forti
fied.
Friday, the sun coder of Saratoga was
made.
Friday, the surrender of Cornwallis oc
curred at Yorktown.
Fi iday, the .notion w is made in Congress
that the United States were, an J ought to '
be, free and independent
Man Not Degenerating.
There never was a delusion with less
evidence for it, except a permanent impres
sion among mankind, which is often the
result, not of accumulated experience, but
of an ever-ienew’ing discontent with the
actual state of things. There, is not the
slightest evidence anywhere that man was
ever bigger, stronger, swifter, or more en
during under the same conditions of food
and climate than he is now.
As to the bigness, the evidence is posi
tive. Modern Egyptians arc as big as the
nnimmfrs who were conquerors in their
day, and modern Englishmen are bigger.
There arc not m existence a thousand coats
of aimor which an English regiment could
put on. Very few moderns can use ancient
swoids, because the hilts are too small for
the’r hands. Endless wealth and ski l ! weie
expended in picking gladiators, and there
is no evidence that a man among them was
as big or as strong as Shaw. No skeleton,
no statue, no picture, indicates that men
in general were bigger. The Jews of to
day are as large as they were in Egypt, or
larger. The people of the Romagna have
all the bearing and more than the size of
the Roman "oldiery. No feat is recorded
as usual with Greek athletes which English
aciobats could not peifoi m now.
There is no naked savage tribe which
naked Cornish men or Yorkshiremen could
not s tangle. No race existed of which a
thousand men similarly armed would de
feat an English, or German, or Russian
regiment of equal numbers. Nothing is
recoided of our forefathers here in England
wired Englishmen can not do, unless it be
some feats of archery, which were the re
sults of a long training of the eye contin
ued for generations. The most civilised
and luxurious family that ever existed (the
European royal casts, for instance,) is phys
ically as big, healthy, and as powerful as
any people of whom wc have any account
that science can accept. Thieis’s French
men are equal to those in Caesar’s Gaul in
all bodily conditions, and with an increased
power of keeping alive, which may be
partly owing to improved condition of liv
ing, but is probably owing still more to
developed vitality. There is no evidence
that even the feeble races are feebler than
they became after their first acclimatization.
The Bengalee was what we know him
twelve hundred years ago, and the China
man was represented on poicelain just as
he is now before the birth of Christ. No
iace ever multiplied like the Anglo-Saxon,
which has had no advantage of climate,
and ti'l lately no particular advantage of
food. Physical condition depends on phys
ical conditions, and why should a race
better fed, better clothed, and better housed
thanitever was before degeneiate? Be
cause it eats corn instead of berries ? Com
pare the California and the Digger Indian.
Because it wears clothes? The wearing of
clothes, if burdensome—which the experi
ence of army doctois in India as to the best
costume for matching makes excessively
doubtful, they declaring unanimously that
breechless men suffer fiom varicose veins,
as men wearing trousers do not —must op
eiatc as a permanent physical tunning.
Y’ou cairy weight habitually. Because
they keep indoors? Compare English pio
fessionals with Tasmanian savages, living
in identically the same climate, but living
out of doors.
The conditions of civilization not only
do not prohibit Captain Webb, who would
have oit-walked, out-swum, or strangled
any German that Tacitus ever romanced
about, but they enabled him to live to sev
enty instead of dying at forty-five, as two
thousand yeais ago he, then probably a
s!ave bred for the arena, would have done.
That the human race, even under the
best conditions, advances very little in phys
ical capacities, is true; but then it is true
also that those conditions are not fatal to
the most poweifulof the old improving
forces, the survival of the fittest. Still an
advance is perceptible in vital power, and
we question whether a Greek swimmer
would ever have crossed ftom Dover to
Calais, just as strongly as we question
whether the ancient woild ever possessed
a horse which would have achieved a place
at Epsom. Why should men glow feeble
in civilization any more than hoises. —
[ London Spectator.
Who is Rich.—The man with good,/hm
health is rich.
So is the man with a clear conscience.
So is the parent of rigorous children.
So is the editor of a paper with a big
subscription list-
So is the clergyman whose coat the chil
dren pluck as he passes them in their play-
So is the wife who has the whole heart
of a good husband.
So is the child who goes to sleep with a
kiss on its lips, and for w’hose waking a
blessing aweits.
So is the maiden whose horizon is not
bounded by the coming man, but who has •
a purpose in life, whether she meets him or 1
not
So is the young man who, laying his
hand upon bis heart, can say, “I hive treat
ed every woman I ever met as I should
wish my sister treated by other men.”
Dr. Pierce ou Pin-Backs.
The Rev. Lovick Pi<-rce, D. D., has a long
farewell address to ladies in the Southern
Christian Advocate, in which he thus forci
bly and impertinently pays his respects to
the present abominable style of pin-back
dresses:
The graduates of the Wesleyan Ferna.e
Colb go have fully verified all I ever plead
in woman’s favor as to original mental en
dowmen's. but have utterly failed to estab
lish the moral evidence of a great mind by
the despising of little things, especially rid
iculous fashions, than which none more so
has ever dishonored your sex than the
present pin-back fashion Since 1807, at
which time I was stationed in Augusta and
when tight d’esses on young ladies was
carried so far that covering was all they
aimed at, concealment was ignored. This
outrage upon womanly propriety went on
until the lacerated sense of female mod . sty
left to the surviving matrons of the day and
the disgust of gentlemen who had a much
higher sense of worn tin’s place in society
than making herself the amusement of lib
ertines, airested it by unmistakable denun
ciation. These shameful dresses were na !e
tight wittingly. The pattern was as scant as
the dress. But the advance of
mental culture for sixty-eight years, all
th-t the fashion following women have
gained, is plenty of goods for a fu’l flowing
dress, but pinned back without any grace,
for a graceiul pinning-back, eveiy candid
woman will acknowledge, is a very natural
impossibility. Hence, to make tight, so as
to meet the most ridiculous demand of
fashion ever imposed on women, it is by
pinning-back an otherwise ample dress, so a
to force a covered display of close wrapped
joints and ankles. So has this mania seized
upon our women, that even elderly ladies,
that could not brook so glaring an exposure
will, nevertheless, pin-back a little. How
is this ? YVhy is this ? There is not a lady
in Georgia in whom the normal has not
been sacrificed as an offering to the abnor
mal, but what will admit that this pinning
back of dresses up to the tight point, is the
most supremely ridiculous and ugly fashion
ever taken on by our cuU’vated ladies.
<
A Good Story Spoiled.—Hon. L. B.
Minzer, Solona, California, has spoiled that
well-known little story about Gen. Taylor
sayhig at Buena Vista: “A little more
grape, Capt. Bragg.” Minzer was at a
banquet of Mexican war veterans in San
Francisco the other evening, and made the
following statement as to what Gen. Tay
lor did say :
“Holding the position of interpreter on
the staff of Gen. Taylo’-, I was seated on my
ho se, immediately near him, when Captain
Bragg dashed buiiiedly up, saluted the
Geneial; ‘Ge.ieial, I shall have to fa'l
back w'th my battery, or 1 >se it.” Severa'
of his guns bed a’ready been d smoua e 1, a
]a ge poiifon of bis bo;sc kU'ed an I about
tbiriy of bis men were p ositale on the
heath. On receiving the repojt, General
Tayfor tinned on bishoise and su’veved
the situation for a few seconds—he required
no field glass, fo r the scene of conflict was not
far removed—and the reply was: “Captain
Bragg, it is better to lo<e a batteiy than a
battle ” This was the interview on which
was based the famous slang phrase that was
uttered bv the General to whom it is im
puted. Captain Bragg returned to his bat
tei v with renewed determinatfon, and, by
the efforts of that gal’ant officer and his
brave command, the tide of the battle was
turned and the greatest victory of the war
was won.
Unfailing Weather Sicn. —For more
than twenty-five years we have known a
sign by which to determine the probability
Os rain forthat day, which wc have not
seen to fail in a single instance, and wc
publish it that others may verify its certain
ty, if they choose. Go out early in the
morning, in the spring, summer and fall, and
if the earth and field spideis haze, over
night, woven their fresh webs over the
grass, and about the bushes and fences, set
it down for a fair day, even if it looks like
the rain will pour down in five minutes
The instinct of the spiders never fools them.
They are wiser and surer than General
Myers and all of his calculations of proba
bilities. A knowledge of this fact may be
a sure guide to the farmer as to his day’s
work." —[Gallatin (Tenn.) Examiner.
Masonry.—The universality of Masonry
is well illustrated in the First Masonic
lodge of Jerusalem, the master of which is
an American, the past master an English
man, the senior warden a German, the
junior warden a native, the treasurer a
Turk, the secretary a Frenchman, the jun
ior deacon a Turk. There are Christians,
Jews and Mahometans in the lodge.
A tree in Ceylon is said to have been
standing more than two thousand years.
The Buddhist priests sell its leaves as a
panacea for sin, and it is a real bonanza to
these pious teachers.
The three wonders of the world at pres
ent arc: How fluff accumulates in vest
pockets, where the pins go, and why when
one woman passes another she invariably
turns up her nose and looks back.
VOLUME 1.-NUMBER 14.
Eighteen Hnndred Years After* Death.
A correspondent of Appl ton’s Journal
writing of excavations at Pompeii says:
Among the most interesting of the objects
found recently are two skeletons, one of a
somewhat elderly man, the other of a wo
man. They were found in the Via Stabiw
among the ashes of the last eruption, evf--
dently ovei taken in their flight and burled
among the cinders. According to the usual
method employe 1 to preserve the extenml
appearance ot objects, liquid plaster was
poured into the cavity, which, serving as a
mold, a sac simile of the forms was obtained;;
and thus perfectly preserved the statue-like
bodies were placed in glass cases in the
Pompeii museum. While appreciating all
the horror of such a death, and the suffering
endured, as shown by the postion of the’
limbs, one cannot but imagine what would'
have been the astonishment of that man auaT
woman had some prophet informed them
that eighteen hundred years after their
death their forms and even as much of their
garments as were not consumed in the
eruption would be placed in a museum for
inspection by a multitude of sight-seers,
seme fiom lands the existence of which
they never dreamed of. The poor woman
is lying on her face, and even the form 61
her hair, put up behind, seen. One arm
shields her forehead, and she is supported
by the other. Her stony limbs are well
formed, and traces of a garment are seen
passing in folds around her. The man,
although placed on his back in the exhibit
tion, vhen found was turned on his side.
One arm rests on his hip; the other is up
lifted. The face is somewhat distorted, but
massive and smoothly shaven. Even the
form of the fastening of the sandals around
his ankle, and of the Jong button higher
up on the leg to bold them, is cfoarly seen.
The limbs are partly drawn up. The skel
eton of a tolerable If.rgc dog, also recently
found, is in the museum of Pompeii, his
whole form preserved in plaster, in the
same manner as those just mentioned. He
is lying on his back, writhing in suffering,
biting his hind leg. The rings in his collar
are plainly seen.
Paddy to the Front Again. —An>
Irishman had sold his farm, and moved all*
his personal property to one adjoining,,
which he had purchased.
He claimed that stable manure was per
sonal property and not real estate, and
commenced moving the same—a lawsuit
ensued, and the court decided against him..
His final remarks to the Judge, after the
jury had found a verdict against him, were
a? follows:
“Mr. Judge, a horse and a cow are pen*
sonal property!”
“Yes,” answered the Judge.
“Mr. Judge, corn, oats, hay, and so forth,
are personal property!”
“Yes,” responded the Judge.
“Then,” says Pat, “how in the devil can
personal property eat personal property and
produce real estate?”
Tnu term of “grass widow” is said to be
a corruption of “gr ace widow.” “Grace
widow” is the te’m applied to one who be
comes a widow hy grace or favor, and not
by the death of her husband, and orMnateif
in the early ages of European civilization,
when divorces were granted but seldom,
and wholly by the Catholic church. When
such a decree was granted to a woman, the
papal restrict stated “Vidua de gratia,**
which, interpreted, is “widow of grace.” In'
the law of the French it would read ‘Veuve
de grace,” or “grace widow,” “veuve” being
translated as “widow.”
An elephant in Calcutta, completely
blinded by a disease of the eyes, was treat
ed with nitrate of silver, and gave a most
extraordinary roar at the acute pain which
it occasioned. The application partly re
stored the animal’s sight, and the next day#
when he heard the doctor’s voice, he lay
down of himself, placed his enormous head
on one side, curled up his trunk, drew his
breath just like a man about to endure an
operation, gave a sigh of relief when it
was over, and then by trunk and gesture
evidently wished to express his gratitude.
TrrE whole number of locomotives in the
world is estimated at fifty thousand, of
which nearly fifteen thousand are in the
United States, and nearly eleven thousand
in Great Britain. The aggregate horse
power is estimated at ten millions, and all
the engines in the United States —locomo-
tives, marine, and stationary—are supposed
to foot up fourteen millions horse-power.
It is sa>d that the game of chess was in
vented by a tender woman, more than two
thousand years ago. She was a queen, and
played the first game with the teeth she
had extracted from one of her slaughtered
enemies.
On the last day of 1874 the printing of
the Old Testament in the Mandarin dialect
was completed, so that now the Cbinetft,
have the Scriptures entire, as the New Tes
tament has been already published.
To restore a common-place truth to its
first uncommon luster, you need only trans
late it into action. .