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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, Etate School Commis
ssoner. . . i
J. N. Janes, Commissioner of Agricul
ture.
Thomas D. Little, State Geologist.
JUDICIAL.
BLUE RIDGE CIRCUIT.
Noel B. Knight, Judge.
C. D. Phillips, Solicitor General.
* lime of Holding Court.
tOfURDKEE — Fourth Monday in Febru
ary, and first Monday in August.
Cobb— Second Monday in March and
November.
Dawson— Third Monday m April and
second Monday in September.
Fannin— Third Monday in May and Oc
tober.
Forsyth —First Monday in April and
fourth Monday in August.
Gilmer —Second Monday in May and
October.
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
fieptember.j
Towns— Monday after fourth Monday in
May and October.
Union —Fourth Monday in May and Oc
tober.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
C. M. McClure, Ordinary. Regular court
first Monday in each month.
J. W. Hudson, Ckrk Superior Court.
M. P. Morris, Sheriff.
E. G. Gramling, Deputy Sheriff.
John G. Evans, Treasurer.
Wm. N. Wilson, Tax Receiver.
Joseph G. Dupree, Tax Collector.
Wm. W. Hawkins, Surveyor.
Wm. Rampley, Coroner.
JUSTICE COURT—CANTON DIS.
Joseph E. Hutson, J. P.
IL F. Daniel, N. P.
K. G. Daniel, L. C
TOWN GOVERNMENT.
v7. A. Teaseley, Mayor.
j. W. Hudson, Recorder.
James 11. Kilby,'.Tabes Galt, J. M. II »r
--dio, J. M. McAfee, Theodore Turk, Alder
«aen.
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.
Meeting* quarterly, in the court-house.
CHEROKEE TEACHERS’ ASSOCIA
TION.
James O. Dowd*, President.
M. B. Tuggle, Vice-President.
C. M. McClure, Secretary.
J. W. Attaway, Treasurer.
John D Attaway, Censor Morum.
Prof. James U. Vincent, Association Cor
respondent.
Regular meetings every second Saturday
*■ each month, at 10 a. in.
religious.
Baptist Church, Canton Ga., time of
•arvice fourth Sunday in each month.
Rev. M. B. Tuggle, Pastor.
M. E. Church, time of service, preachers
in charge.
Kov. R. 11. Johnson, first Sunday.
Rov. B. E. Ledbetter, second.
Rev. J, M. Hardin, third.
MASONIC.
Canton Lodge, No. 77, meets first and
third Monday nights in each month.
Joseph M. McAfee, W. M.
B. E. Ledbetter, Secretary.
fiixns Lodgk, No. 283, meets first and
-third Saturdays, 2 p. in.
41 S. Steele, W. M
O. W. Putman, Secretary.
GOOD TEMPLARS.
Canton Lodgk, No. 119, meets every
fblurday, 8 p. m.
Jaber. Galt. W. C. T.
W. H. Coppage, Secretary.
GRANGE.
Centon Grange No. 225, Canton Ga.
Jnbes Gall, Master.
Joseph M. MeAfee, Secretary.
Livery Stable!
N, J. GARRISON
Has opened a Livery Stable in Canton,
and is prepared to furnish Horses, Buggies,
and Wagon* to the public for reasonable
compensation. He will also do Hauling to
and from the railroad and elsewhere for
those desiring such service.
The starting ot a livery stable in Canton
h only an experiment, but Mr. Garrison
hop** by attention to business and satlsfac
«ary chargee to make his experiment a suc
cceaful undertaking. 23
JAMES o. DOWDA,
Attorney at Law,
CANTON, - . . GEORGIA.
WILL practice in the Superior Canns
ot Cherokee and adjotoiag oountie*.
Wil! fidtbfiiHy and promptly attend to the
coherition of all c'aims put in hi* hand*.
Office Lu ih« evurt-bouse. Canton, Ga.
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BLANCHE AND NELL.
BY PAUL H. HAYNE.
O Blanche is a city lady,
Bedecked in her silks and lace;
She walks with the mien of a stately queen
And a queen’s imperious grace.
But N&l is a country maiden,
Her dress from the farmstead loom ;
Her step is free as a breeze at sea,
And her face is a rose in bloom.
The house of Blanche is a marvel
Os marble from base to dome;
It hath all things fair, and costly, and rare,
But, alas! it is not —home!
Nell lives in a lonely cottage,
On the shores of a wave-washed isle;
And the life she leads, with its living deeds,
The angels behold and smile.
Blanche finds her palace a prison,
And oft, through the dreary years,
In her burdened breast there is sad unrest,
And her eyes are dimmed with tears.
But to Nell her toils are pastime,
(Though never till night they cease,)
And her soul’s afloat like a buoyant boat
On the crystal tides of peace.
Ah ! Blanche hath many a lover,
But she broodeth o’er old regret;
And the shy, sweet red on her cheek is dead,
For the day-star of hope is set.
Fair Nell! but a single lover
Huth she in the wide, wide world ;
Yet warmly apart in her glowing heart
Love bides, with his pinions furled.
To Blanche all life seems shadowed,
And she but a ghost therein ;
Through the misty gray of her autumn day
Steal voices of grief and sin.
To Nell all life is sunshine.
All earth like a fairy sod,
Where the roses grow, and the violets blow
In the softest breath of God.
What mcaneth this mighty contrast
Os lives that we meet ami mark ?
One bright as the flowers from May-tide
showers,
One i ay less, somber, and dark.
O, folly ©f mortal wisdom
That neither will break nor bow ;
That riddle hath vexed the thought per
plexed
Os millions of souls ere now 1
0, folly of mortal wj«*om ’
From your guesses what good can come ?
We can learn no more than the wise of
yore:
’Tis better to trust, and—be dumb !
—aH-
THE OAK CLOSET.
Margaret Gray was in some soit an up
per servant in the household of Judge
Wallace. The Judge lived in a handsome
house in the suburbs of the little country
village of Thorndale.
Margaret was left an orphan at an early
age, and the Judge and bis wife had taken
her into their house to save her from being
thrown upon the charity of the town.
They bad done their part well for her.
They had two children ot their own—Alice
and Algernon, twins—and Margaret had
enjoyed every advantage of education in
common with the brother and sister.
As she grew older and began to realize
bow much she owed the Judge and his
wife, she fait a desire to be able in some
way to make them a return for their kind
ness, end, as she was a strong, active girl,
she soon became very useful about the do
mestic affairs of the household. Mrs. Wal
lace was a feeble woman, and very willingly
resigned some of the cares and burdens to
Margaret, and in due course of time the
young girl came to be trusted and depend
ed upon, untilf by the time she was twenty,
she was really the head cf the establish
ment, though Mrs. Wallace still did the
honors in her quiet, lady-like way, and
poured the tea and coffee at the head of
the table.
Alice had married early and gone west
with her husband ; Algernon was finishing
his medical studies at the German univer
sity ; and only the Judge and his wife and
Margaret, besides the tnau and woman ser
vants, who had been with them for years,
remained at home.
Some unfortunate speculations indulged
in, when the Judge was quite a young man,
had encumbered the old estate with a mort
gage, and thia it was the Judge’s ambition
to discharge. He wanted to leave the
place, totally free from debt, to his son Al
gernon.
The strictest economy had been prac
ticed for years in the household with this
end in view, and at last the Judge held in
his hand the money with which to liquidate
the claim.
It was late on Saturday night when he
brought it home, and said to his wife, as he
swung before her eyes the little black
leather trunk containing it:
“Well, Annie, at last we are to be free
from debt ’ There are SB,OOO in that trunk,
snd on Monday i shall pay Jone* in full,
and we shall burn the abominable mort
gage together, you and I. Annie It will
be the happiest day in my life.”
“But if anything should happen, Will
iam,” said Mrs. Wallace, nervously. “Do
put the money in some safe place. It has
coal ns dear enough to scrape it together.’’
Tue Judice hent down and patted the
anxious little woman on the bead.
, ‘‘l ahi going to pul it iu the little oak
Virtue and Intelligence—The Safeguards of Liberty.
CANTON, CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1876.
closet, Annie. It has a spring-lock, and, if
by chance a burglar should errter'the house,
h'j would never dream of finding anything
of value in a little, stifled-up closet at the
head of the garret stairs.”
And with a light heart the Judge went
off to deposit his treasure.
Margaret was sitting in the room, darn
ing the Judge’s stockings, when this com
versation took place, and of course she
heard where the money was to be placed,
though she gave little heed to it.
The next day, John and Su«an, the two
servants, had a holiday, to visit a married
d i ugh ter of theirs, who resided fifteen or
twenty miles away, and, as it was Novem
ber, and the days were short, they would
not return until Monday night.
Some time after the servants set out,
there came an imperative message for the
Judge from his sister, saying that she was
very ill and desired to see him without de
lay. Her home was in Shelby, eight or ten
miles off, and of course the Judge lost no
time in obeying the summons. He took
his wife with him, leaving Margaret alone
in the house.
“It is barely possible, Margaret, we may
remain all night. It looks very much like
a storm, and in that case we shall certainly
stay ; and. if so, you had better get Salite
Turner to stay with you for conipany.”
But though Margaret would have liked
Sallie’s company well enough, she at once
decided not to ask for it Sallie’s brother
would be sure Io come along, and the less
-he saw of Willie Turner the better she
was pleased. Willie was an honest, indus
trious sort of a fellow, and hi* was Marga
ret’s most devoted admirer but with thc«
usual inconsistency of her sex she utterly
refused to see what was best for her.
The afternoon wire slowly away. Mar
garet read a little, ami driimnud a f’ w
tunes listlessly on the old fashioned jViano,
played with the black and white kittens,
anil held the old cat curled up in her lap
like a sleepy caterpillar, and at last it was
sunset —time to milk the cows and shut the
barn doors for the night.
It was evident enough that there was go
ing to be a storm, for the north and west
were dark and gloomy
clouds, and the west winds sighed drearily
in the pine woods back of the house. And,
indeed, before Margaret had done up her
jobs at the barn, the first gnat drops of
froz n rain began to fall, and by the time
she had strained her milk and eaten her
supper, t! e st- rin had s< t in in good earnest.
She closed and barred the d* or, the win
dows being already fastened, drew the
shutters, and piled the kitchen fire full of
dry hickory.
The kittens had gone to sleep in a cor
er, and the old black cat sat on the hearth,
blinking her eyes at the cheerful blaze.
Mwuaret read a little and dreamed a
trreat deal, as girls of her age are prone to
do when left to themselves. She made a
very pretty picture, if only there had been
some one to see her.
Her soft brown hair was unbound and
fell rippling to her waist; her fair, round
features were tinted as d< licately pink as
the inside of a sea-sin 11; her brown eyes
were dreamy and full of languor, and her
red lips were sweet and womanly enough
for any true lover to find his rarest delight
in kissing.
Slowly, at length, the old coflin-shaped
clock in the corner struck 10. Margaret
started up. She had no thought it was so
late. The evening had gone off so much
quicker than she had expected it would.
It was not so dreadful to stay alone, after
all, sh« said to herseJ.
She opened a shutter and peered out into
'ln* night. It was dark as Erebus, and the
wind and rain beat against the pane in a
perfect torrent. The Judge would not
think of returning on such a night.
“Well, Tommy,” she said to the cat, “I
guess you and I and the kitties will go to
bed. W- must be up betimes in the morn
in », you know, since there’ll be none but us
lo do the chores.”
As she spoke she stooped to stroke old
Tommy, but, to her infininitc surprise, she
saw that the animal’s hair and tail were
erect, his eyes had tinned to a glassy green
of rage and terror, and with slow, panther
like tread he whs making his way toward
the door which opened upon the cellar
stairway.
And while she gazed, Margaret saw with
horror that the latch was slowly rising, and
the next moment the door swung open
with an ominous creak, and a man stepped
into the room. He was a short, thick-set
fellow, with sandy hair and whiskers, and
a pale, ferocious-looking blue eye, set far '
back in bis bead.
' So, my dear,” said the intruder, “you ;
are sole proprieti r, it appears ?”
Fur a moment Margaret’s heart stood '
still, but she was naturally brave, and she I
i was proud as well, and she would not al
i low this man to see that she feared him.
‘I have that honor,” she said, coolly.
, “ Who are you, and what do you want ?"
“I trust you will excuse me if I neglect;
to introduce myse’l,’’ said the man, with
much courtesy. “As to my business. lam
i quit-* happy tv Inform you about that; I
want the $8,060 the Judge brought home
from the Ridgby bank last night, and I will
depend on you to point it out to me.”
The indignant blood rushed to Margaret’s
face, and she answered him sharply :
“J will die before 1 de as you ask
“You shall have your choice!”
JJe presented a pistol, which he cocked
dJsiherately, and pointed it at her head.
’‘Show me the place where the tin is hid
den, or I will blow your brains out!”
Like lightning a veiled train-of thoughts
passed through the head nf the girl; in
that one instant of time she thought of a
score of plans to evade the rascal, and as
soon as entertained discarded them as im
practicable.
There she was, alone and helpless, a
weak girl, almost a mile from any human
habitation, and in St storm. It was by no
means likely that any one would be pass
ing by from whom she could claim any
assistance.
For a moment she thought of risking
every thing to escape by the outer door, and,
trusting to the darkness and her knowledge
o£ the way, to attempt to reach Mr. Tur
ner’s and seek protection. But the man
seemed to divine her thoughts, for he step
ped between her and the door.
“No, my beauty, you can’t play that
game on met” he said, with a sardonic
smile “And now I’ll give you just three
minutes to decide what you’ll do. If you’ll
show me where the money is, I swear not
to harm you ; if you refuse, I swear to kill
you, and trust to luek for finding it without
your help”
He took out his watch and stood regard
ing it. and Margaret alternately. As she
tfiiood there faint and giddy with fear, a new
wtf*a penetrated Margaret’s brain, and she
w>.s in a state of desperation which stops
at no sacrifice, however great. Come life
or death, she must save the money for
wliich her friend had toiled so long and
earnestly, and the loss of which would in
volve him in ruin. As she thought, she
saw away to it, though it would compass
J;7r destruction.
•Y'ou may put up your pistol,” she said,
c '.inly ; “I will show yon where the money
is concealed.”
“That’s sensible, my dear,” said the man.
bot often t-iat sense and a pretty face
go together; but you are an exception.
Come, be lively, now.”
She took a candle from the table, selected
of a bunch of keys from a basket hang
ing from the wall, and badc him follow
ht\-.
She led him upstairs to the door of the
oak closet, applied the key, and opening
the door, pointed to a black box in the fur
ther corner of the closet.
“You will find what you seek there.”
She stepped back for him to enter, but
he seized her by the wrist and puiled her
along with him.
“I know your game,” unid he; “you
want to get me into that cussed hole, and
then lock the door on me. Take out the
key and fling it down stairs, and then in
with me. 1 sha’n’t cat you.”
She obeyed him literally, and, as they
stood together in the stifling place, which
was scarcely large enough to contain them,
Margaret, with the hand the man had left
free, seized the door and pulled it to. It
shut with a sharp click-shut and locked
at tnc same time.
A fierce oath burst from the lips of the
burglar.
“What do you mean?” he cried “Hell
and furies! I shall suffocate here! Open
the door, or I’ll shoot you!”
“Do as you please,” said Margaret, defi
antly ; “the door has a spring-lock, and can
on’y be opened on the outside, and, unless
some one comes io our relief, ws shall re
maia here until we die, which will only b®
a tew hours at the most!”
“You she-devil! Why did you do this ?”
he demanded, hoarse with rage. “Don’t
you know that you’ll die too ?”
“Certainly: but I prefer death to the
ruin of my best friends. If we die here—
which we shall without a doubt—the mon
ey will be saved.”
The oaths, and threats, and curses, of the
man were dreadful, but Margaret felt no
fear.
The close torpid air weighed upon her
like lead ; already had the wretch who was
her companion sunk stupefied to the floor.
All her past Hie came up before her —ahe
remembered some things long forgotten—
she saw faces dead and buried —she heard
voices mute beneath the grave-clod, and
the life and sense faded out, and sh® knew
no more.
Judge Wallace found bis sister better, but
the storm coming on, it was dsetned best
to remain all night, and early next morning
set nut for home, aicompanied by his wife.
Arriving in sight of the bouse, he was
surprised to see the abuturs still closed and
the chimney giving out no smoke of wel
come.
Al the gate a young man was tying his
horse, and the Judge exclaimed to hi* wife:
“Bieas my life, Ancle i that’s Algernon 1
There is no mistaking him! He’s horn® a
month earlier than we expected him But
1 greatly fear something is amis® with Mag.
She’s an early riser, and the shutters are
vet clveed.”
He whipped up his horse' and soon Lad
his son by the hand. The first warm greet
ing over, the Judge wrapped at the fast
ened door, but, eliciting no response, his
alarm increased, and, after shouting at the
top of his voice for Margaret and receiving
no reply, with Algernon’s help he burst
open the door and entered the kitchen.
All was as he had left it the night before.
The black brands covered the hearth ; the
chamber door stood suggestively opei.
Father and son ascended the stairs, and,
half way up, the Judge stumbled over the
key of the oak closet.
“Good heavens 1” he exclaimed, “the k< y
of the closet where I left the money I I
greatly fear something has befallen Mar
garet I”
He found the closet-door locked, and to
their repeated knocking there came no re
sponse from within.
Algernon applied the key, and the open
door revealed a most fearful sight.
With frightfully distorted, purple face,
the robber lay on the floor, stone dead, and
near him, pale and quiet, lay Margaret.
Algernon bore her down stairs and into
the open air, but it was long before she
gave any sign of life; and it was a week
before she was able to give a detailed ac
count of what happened during that night
of horror in the oak closet.
But she had saved the money, and the
son undertook to pay the debt of gratitude
owed by the father. Before the winter was
over, Algernon married Margaret, and to
gether they live in the old homestead, and
on stormy nights they tell the children the
story of the Oak Closet.
Iron-Making in the South.
If some statements on the subject of iron
making; presented in a letter published by
Mr. George T. Lewis, of Tennessee, be cor
rect, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee ar
destined to become, if not the future center
of iron making, in the United States, the
seat of large and important furnace Jntercsts
at least. Mr Lewis has been engaged in
making iron in Tennessee for forty years,
and lias studied and experimented until he
professes to know all about it. ll® states
iron not only ean made, but
has been and is made in three Southern
States for less than sl6 per ton, a price far
below the cost of making it in the iron dis
tricts of the North and East. The cost of
producing iron in Pennsylvania is put down
$26 60 a ton ; at Youngstown, O ,'ut S3O 60
a ton, and i®, Indiana at $2850 a ton, vrhile
in the South it ranges from sl4 43 a ton in
Tennessee to sl6 in Georgia and Alabama.
The explanation of this greater cheapness
is found in the abundance of charcoal and
good stone coal in these States, both to be
had, with limestone, near the iron beds;
the mildness of the climate which makes
winter expenditures nearly as light as those
of summer, and the cheapness of colored la
bor. The Alabama and Tennessee ore is
said to be of a superior quality and a favor
ite in the market. When it is considered
that the Pennsylvania furnaces are now
forced to send to Missouri and Lake Supe
rior for orc to mix with the indifferent orcs
of that State, there would seem to be noth
ing needed but capital to transfer a large
portion of the iron manufacture of Penn
sylvania to these favored States of the
South.—[St. Louis Republican.
Self Conceit. —He isn’t much above
the medium height and he isn’t much be
low the average intellect. But he consid
ers himself a giant among men, and he
hasn’t the slightest doubt that his brain
power is several notches above what is us
ually styled genius. He owes something
to nature in the way es good looks, and
considerable more to his tailor and grocer
in the way of good clothes and eatables.
He calls himself a lawyer, and is really a
meddler. He attaches himself to a man
with money, in the guise of a disinterested
adviser: and, when a good chance comes,
he makes a dive for bis superior’s pocket,
in the hope of making enough, at one grab,
to enable him to be lazy for the rest of the
year. And then, when his mask is pulled
off, and he is dismissed iu disgrace, he bus
ies himself in misrepresenting and abusing
his former patron.
A cow-hide is too good to be worn out
on the back of such a thing; cremation
without waiting for th® usual preliminary
of death, might be the least cumbrous mode
of d isposing of h im. Living or dead, he de
serves the contempt and reprobation ol all
right-minded men.—[Exchange.
One hundred Georgia newspapers and
seven Georgia grand juries want a short
ening of criminal trials on the score of econ
omy ; good wagon roads; & dog law, as a
protection to sheep raising; and consolida
tion of county offices, for the purpose of ef
fecting economy in public expenditures.
H Ik latter proposition is cae seriously to be
considered by statesmen, eb is aho an addi
j tlonal one to consolidate weak counties ter
ritorially.—[N. Y. Herald.
IGivit the Pope credit for a good thing
done quietly. He has caused to be built
( in Rome at his own expense several house)
• for poor people and operatives.
VOLUME I.—NUMBER 24-
i mi. ' I! iI’MBW
General Intelligence.
The pig iron product of 1874 was 2,589#
412 tons.
The aggregate relied iron product in 1874
was 1,989,560.
Chicago handles 90,000,000 bushels of
grain annually.
The exportation of live cattle to England
has proved a success.
At Dundee, Scotland, 100,000 tons of jut®'
are worked up annually.
Less than one-fourth of the lauds of Lott
idana are under cultivation.
Cuba in a single year exported beeswax
to the amount of fifty thousand dollars;
The Pittsburg belt works which cost $400,-
000 have been sold for SIOO,OOO.
France has 123,000 industrial establish
ments giving work to about 1,800,000 tnen.
A Masonic Congress, with delegates from
all parts of the world, will be held iu Lon
don, in 1877.
T he Minnesota log cut, which last year
amounted to 155,000,000, promises to go up*
to 200,000,000 this year.
The trade in New York oysters is <X
pected to reach 4,000,000 bushels this year.
The bivalves are of a superior quality.
The aggregate imports of silk la it year
fell off $50,000,000, but the imports of the.
silks classed as broad goods increased $3,-
000,000.
The Louisiana sugar crop for 1874-75 is
estimated at 116,867 hogsheads, against 89'.-
498 last year. The molasses crop is esti
mated at 11 616,828 gallons.
The following is the list of Vice Presi
dents who have died while in office; Georg®
Clinton died April, 1812; Eldridge Gerry
died November, 1814; W. R. King in 1853;;
Henry Wilson, December, 1875.
The best gutta percha comes from th®
banks ofthe Amazon river. Brazil produ
ces annually about 14,000,000 pounds, and
the Central American Slates, Africa and the
East Indies together about 15,000,000/
pounds.
Judge Hill, of the United States District
court for Mississippi, has literally changed
the complexion of the juries in that court
by adopting a rule which excludes from th®
panel all who cannot read, write and com
pute interest.
Chicago, the largest grain market in the:
world, handles about 90,000,000 bushels an
nually, and has now in operation eighteen
steam elevators, with a capacity of 15,000,-
000 bushels, or more than the average pro
duct of 1,000,000 acres.
The amount of business in glass works
annually in this country is about $25,000,-
000. The capital employed by the man
ufactures and merchants is $12,000,000. The
production of the entire United States is
set down at $22,000,000.
Tax-payers in Chicago are perfectly fran**-
tic over their rates, which are six per cent,
on a full valuation for city and State. Every
thing of a taxable nature is taxed in Chicago,
and a man who does business there is kept
chronically on the ragged edge.
An amendment to the German penal code
is pending, intended to check emigration to
America. It is already penal to entice Ger
mans to emigrate by means of false repre
sentations. Now it is proposed to punish
even true representations, when accompa
nied by any sort of encouragement.
A frog catcher of Troy, New York
caught in one month last year, 1,600 pounds
of dressed frogs, for which he got 30 cents
per pound, making S4BO for his month’s
work. In one week, recently, near th®
Hudson, he caught upwards of five hundred
pounds, and sold them for $l6O, or an &ier«
age of thirty-two cents a pound.
The annual statement of the business of
Richmond, Virginia, for the year 1875
shows an increase in the products of its
manufactures of $6,042,514 as compared
with 1874. Its commerce has also increased,
and it boasts of both a large number of ves
sels and of a greater amount of tonnage—
the latter by about thirty per cent.
There are now five cables connecting
Europe with America, three running from
Newfoundland to Ireland, one from Brest
(France) to Duxbury (Mass.) by way ot St.
Pierre, and the direct cables recently laid.
The cables from Newfoundland Me about
3,000 miles long, the direct cable 3,060 miles
long, and the French cable 3,330 miles in
length.
Some genius has been writing to the
newspapers to show that if the centennial
commissioners are going to consult leligious
ideas we can have no exhibition at all, “for
while most of th® Christiana observe Sun
day as a Sabbath, and would have the gates
shut against the public on that day, the
Grecians observe Monday, the Persians ob
serve Tuesday, the Assyrians observe Wed
nesday, the Egyptians observe Thursday,
all the Mohammedan nations ob»erv® Fri
day, and th® Jews and Seventh Day Baptist
observe Saturday. It h well known that
Grecians, Persians, Assyriana, Egyptians
and such constitute a large proportion of
the population of Philadelphia, and that
their customs prevail extensively among
us.—[Philadelphia Times.