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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
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W. S, D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors.
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CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1875.
VOLUME II. NUMBER 20.
TIMELY TOPICS.
'1 in: completion of tlio Ohio legislature
i* Anally settled. The republicans have
a majority of flvo in the senate and nine
teen in the house. The majority for
Haves in the state is 0,007. Sain t’aicv
"M beaten for lieutenaiit-governbr l»v
about 12,000.
Tut: influcn
distemper among the
throughout the country, and, though
lijit to .be i.iiuparpd in severity to the
epidemic of two years ago, it is still the
cause of .
loft
iderahle
We iK-gin, also, to hear of fatal re
sults from the disease; and horse-breed
ers repot the whole season unfavorable
to the successful rearing of oolU from
the fatal prevalence t»f the trouble
among them.
The
used
1 of the big
from tlieli
A section
California hie
to Philadelphia, where it will far exhibited at
the eentounial. It is Id feet loin;) with a
diameter of 20 feet. It w as taken from u tree
2»t» feet high with a diameter at the base of
i-d hv yearly r
2,1*0 v
old. The >
1 her
s hollo'
which will he converted int>
and elegantly fit
Prof. Walk.
,d up.
,de fo.
of the
d expedition to ih. Illaek Hills, and
11 the hills and made thorough exam-
of the whole eoantry, ami mapped
lhdle l’oarehe to tile south fork of
emu* river, lie reports a gold Held
g forty miles north of Hardee’s Peak
tv miles wide, that eotitain gold that
from three to four dollars per day to
bars that will puv
r supplies ani-
. and the fall suf-
froin the topmost
he readily disposed
aid easily separated
The professor has
and there
re than that
Wa
The gold
: pnrpe
1 with 1
An ass M
Etuis Times, in referring to
the late visit of .lay (build, Sidney Dillon,
< diver Ames and other railroad magnates,
«avs the main object of their visit was to
perfect arrangements to run throdflicnis
from ben* to r»an Francisco via the M.
Emis and Kan-us City ami Northern
and l uion and Paeilie railroads without
change, and ultimately from New York
via New York Central through this city, they will support thousands
It is further said that this project is »ho government open* them
tics tine* I to forestall the action of the 11,0 vnl,,, . vs im ' al1 ''dupt.-d
national railroad convention to be held i Mml ! " ul ,4 ' M ‘"' k ruW,, l&
| Rainfall plentiful. Ills nfltVlal report will
| made from Nt w York, probithly before eon-
Ml lilje 1
ninth,
the Sout
which ]|Ul
Til Eli
I'm
He railroad projt ct!
ng friend* hen-.
1 he run ns
I It is said that fully .1,000,000 cubic yards
of levees will lie needed for the Mississippi
river alone, the coating season to say nothing
I the Ateliitfiil-
eat |Niwera of western Kuro|tc Alexander II. Stephens,
linvo exerted their combined influence to I seriously ill, is now out of dm
smother the Servian rcMIion and pro- The lialtimoro and (>!
lecl the dominion of the Turk a little ani * Missi»ti|*|»i railroads will
longer. It is easy to imagine how the
C/ar smiles in his sleeve at their jeal-
s»li-v and the secret intrigues it leads to
in order to prevent Kussiu from getting
a foothofd on the Mediterranean, espec
ially n*v very year nho is ext. tuliug her
empire to (.Yntrul Asia and throwing the
net of her diplomacy down towards the
ocean and Persian Gulf. These flank
movements art of vast, importance, and
if eoiitiimo^u «|unrter of a century will
make it of very;little moment wlu»t the
great lowers gay. THcro.lft'liUlo use in
defending the front door When the-fronoy
has captured all tlm rest of tfichotiBO.
Wi: are indebted, say* the New Orleans
Times, to the state registrar of Emisinnu
for an advance copy of a tablo showing
the population of Louisiana, according to I
Mtalo ceii.su, of 187T». We present the
totals Mow, comparing them with the
figures of the 1'uited Statescciurosof 1800
and 1870. They show a very large in
crease during the five years, hut Itismu-
fmed chiefly to the rural parishes, that.if
< Menu*, 00mprising the city of Now Or
leans, Ijoirig only 12 021:
1 Methodist
of the WHltlic
sed t.-n th.msiiml dollars for
miument ehtirch, Havaaiiiih,
Dr. Clark'
church, has 1
the AVol. y
Georgia, by Ills tour north.
A field of 00,000 acres is the property
of a gentleiimn in Nii.-cch county, T-cxiim,
and In: reeeiitiy tilled an order by telegraph
for 20,1X10 hoove*.
The interest in narrow-gauge railroads
Ts being revived. We learn that It Is pro
pose.I (4) Imild 11 narrow-gauge road from
isippi r
mill I'r
The following 1
from Memphis
I860. |.s:n.
l'Vil7 :wV,210
Phiiioienml India
Total
Total..
1 liosmn an.l Boston poiuln, *>7 ecu
1 Col. .lack < ocke, who was
terrible enuountcr with It. Melle
I utohia, Mins.. ,md kilfrd Mellei
{ knife nfn-r being shot, died last
hi*wounds. Me w«n n prosperoti
; mill his Ions will lie deeply felt in
j sissippi.
! At Renatobln, Miss., on the lflth, 11
I fiital sitSVny nraurml ii (-..Inm l .1. II
j Cockn,n prominent no-reliant of that place,
I mid II. M'Henry. Severn! •hots were fired by
I lioth parties, M'll
»i....... .. .
mini i.i.um:iu in.
Passenger fare lietwcen the east and
west will go up above the old rates Nov. 1.
A further advance in freight rates has
been decided on hv (lie trunk lines between
New York nail the " cst.
The next class of Cnitod States bonds
which will he called In for eimviir*|im and
redemption, will he the 5-20's of lSii.’i. The
amount outstanding is $102;C32,520.
It is Kcmt-nflicially announced that
an arrangement lias been made hv which the
ladiaiuipoliN and Si. Louis and the Vanilntla
railroads will p iss under one mmmgemeiit oil
the 1st of Nov.
The commissioner of internal revenue
will iiistruet ollieers of the bureau not to
seize rigors paekeil either ill paper or I in
boxes for tin* present, where they may he
salislieil that the taxes have been paid. He
will recommend to congress In Ids iiiinual re
port a modification of the law, so us to per
mit the use of Hindi boxes.
According to the hist census, there
were in the United States seven cities with
a united population exceeding three million
two liunilml thousand, and fifty-three other
cities e.ii li with n population of over twen
ty live ihoitsinul; the whole number of per
sons residing in towns exceeding twenty-five
thousand inhabitants being nearly six mil
lion two hundred thousand. That Is, nearly
-i vteen per cent, of our population live in
vhig i
for the fiscal
nopals of the all
uding June
i l‘res
ideal
'rib Min-
171,.
I. fit*
shots
j ing Col. (Vi
- him almost
rely, if not mortally wound-
•ke.
I’.doiicl (
»«ke Bu i
stockholders of the Western
Union telegraph company: Gross receipts
from nil sources, except from Hide of
bonds, $«>/,*! 1,57-1; gross expenses $tb,
l ib. 11*. tin- difference $.’1,220,loll, being the
net profit; all sums paid us rental for leased
lines are included In the gross expenses.
Compared with the preceeiling fiscal year,
there was mi increase In the gross receipts of
$■'101,020 and a decrease ill expense* of $120,
310, and mi ineveaM' in net profits of $722,-
A statement of the receipts and ex-
peiiilituri the post-oflieu department for
the fiscal year ending June 20, |H75, Inis just
been prepared for the aim mil report, from
which we learn that the receipts amounted to
$27,1*411..102 4)8 mid tlm expenditures to $33,.
011,300 15. the deficiency balance being $ii,-
0-10,804] 77. The bahiiieo-slieel prepared a
n few days ago should have boon stated as
expenses fin* mail service, instead of for the
whole department. Railway mail service lias
been ordered from Delano, by way of Bakers’
field, to (.'alieiite, Uiiliforniu, on IhuFoulheni
Vaflflc railroad, HAV-foiir
The |Kistmiwtor*gonerul 1ms directed, in
oouipliaaiic wiLlt the rcqnr.'t of the postmaster
lit St. Louis, that a ru-urraiigenieiit of tin* fast
mail Herv ice between New York,SI. Loii!hand
the southwest, ho made priorto the 1st pro*,,
for all Ktieli mutter us nnlimdlv belongs to the
I 1 vii ii lit mini, mill orders it to lie sent
by that line, ItiHteiul of the New York central
and lake shore. This will save the depart
ment the expense of an iimn'i'essary long
Haiti, and ensure quicker delivery of the mail
between the east anil southwest, and points
mi or near the line between St. lands and
I’iit-hiirg, to which closed pouches ore soul.
It will also prevent delays, now euused hv
tin- lack of railway postal car service, between
Pittsburg and 8t. Louis. Tin* director-gen
eral of the I'l'iitcnnial has suggested to the
.‘•ecritarv of the interior the propriety of pro
viding for representation at the exhibition of
those organ!Rations formed during the war,
for the purpose of mitigating tlm sufferings
of tlm nick ami wounded on the hiitlic-iiolih
i::tt
Miiji
-, in a speech at. • P;
ii., the other day, stated that in less
■ years a "nnrrow-gntige railroad" w
built from < tiro to the Louisville
aphis road. It would go where
It might t
Tin: return to the Pundnru from n
nil-summer expedition to the arctic zoi
with nothing disci*vend hut a war
euriimt, n vessel of Hoff's expedith... , ,, .. , ,,
tw-nly-fiv.! L .....li rirhZ’ I,
**4tH stuck in the ice, and the headstones j lllfmt , lsH j aUllCe KIV ,. n .
*'‘ r •h , h» Franklin’s buried „ r it might goto Me Keiule.
u* n t L the Inst brief and uninteresting , Tlm committee on stali.-l
account of a brief and ituroninn tic cruise j New Orleans cotton exchange
in rather hackneyed was. Tlm Pandora n " elaborate statement, hearing
••xjKiJitiuji went within about 1,OOQ. mlien ' wid projpects of the
*>f flip pole, or therealxiut, and readied
'> f “ i tern longitude of the lied river
ti"Atb'in.*nL pas-ning perhaps on
the tt»y westward throiigli the
eirritfv north of Victoria
TifWu/'r the Fandom mm
had tlie nor thorn l*et
hv ice or fogs she could,
compiiM of tlm gltHic,
gh from Daflin's Ha
mid
Clcrk-s’ Wages in New York.
There are now /ilt.OOO derkH in this
e.ity, oni'-ti'iith of whom are out of em
ployment. Those who are so fortunate
as to retain their situations arc working
Tlfo largest employer
in iiariiiv he considered a favorable I from $-S0(»
a good ileal of damage has been Hli'l
ty rains, frost, alekaes* among labor- * H 1,1 ^i
third of its, ele. Still the erop.it L thought Will be mi [J mv * 11
it i.' the j' s Stewart, whom! pay-roll, in Isitli
" ' conlaiiM nearly l.OOfhimtieH. and requires
l ’."' j $12,000 per week. 4 'lullin is next in im
to Paris, ; portaneo, and his pay-roll is equal to
j $fj,000 |mt week. Entry clerks receive
of the .*'>00; salesmen, $800 to $1,200. Home
• I- forth of these, who s<dl on commiHaioii, make
the con- til*ni $2,000 to $3,000, the cximmiiuioii
rop. The la*iiig
i $1,200. In every large con-
i the In-ad Isiok-kcepcr, who
confidence of the firm, and
large salary, generally $2,."*4)0.
who uw! the |k»ii,
„ | It fron, tlio Olllrinl f,,,,,,- | &
ed rapidly, and j On- • --t <-f levees in Eaiisiana from IMiii; to • p int( rc tail store. A Imlf-dozcn men are
n linohstructerl I 1,ils l, ci u $10,074t,«X)«; yet with all that | . iii|*loyi'd to answer letters. Four men
that r.-c!n.-.-.l | l " 1 "
l,,.,,. i j ll “'
I In fact the pres
Amej
the utni
i litre-
) the Hu
SSI'III 1
by* »t tail
£he sailed nix
gnes in twelve days, with ail sorts of In
emUirnummcnta and stoppages. Heven I >-
•lcgrces more .,f .training over «|ually
sh-»rt parallel* would have carried lu r
quite through land obstructions to the I
sujjpo.sititiously oj>en Polar a on the '
longitude of Hitka and inid-Paciflc
»'X|»edition was Eadv Franklin's
E-t we can say of it is that it was in-1
fclligently and humanely directed that
i'apt. Young brought home his vei*el
and bis men.
LATEST NEWS' SUMMARY.
md <:x)>t'inl(!il, there still re-
<»ity of u vast future outlay,
lit M'-tein, desultory ami im-
voidahly is, threatens to i*n-
*f taxation upon the people
toil, uitfioi
the
era I
diamonds which the
l of the judicial screw i
■CS Tweed worse off tka
• last hoj>e for tl ;
C of the Boss ii
WEST.
e thirteenth oensusof lo 1
I. hows a population, in
Ci, and si nee 1870 of 117,1
e supreme court of Iowa
rOHKIUX.
llndstone avers that he will never
in nsMiimc tin; liberal leadership in the
I ltritisli parliament.
j The sugar refinery of J. Hcdpath &
Son, Montreal, will close next Monday on ae-
eouiit of hard times.
j Twenty-one persons were lost during
, the post week by the wrecking of a French
| s'-hooner on the const of France.
General Doregarry, formerly one of the
lost prominent of the furlist g< nerals, lias
••eii flapped in prison hv order of Don
arloi.
j It is rei*orte<l that sixty tons of small
, irfii- nod ammunition for the Chinese was
| shipp' d from I»ndon a- merchandise, and
; lamb d at Shanghnl. The British government
I are investigating the matter.
News res|»ecting the Turkish difficulty
j in Herzegovina is very confiieting, and not
i much to be trusted. One thing is clear, there
! i- s no cessation of the insurrection, nml, ac-
i fording to present appearances, the irixurrcc-
! lionisUare iletermined t»> olitain a redress of
! their grievances before they lay down their
arm'. There- i-. no doubt there is grave eausi-s
j for complaint, and tlm «»oner the Turkish
government applies itself to (lie ratification
of these complaint*, the better will it prove
I for itself. The end is „<,t yet.
fill up bunk checks and to attend to fi-
nnncoH. Alsait thirty are at the. hooka,
steadily twisting and drawing ofTaceountH,
and till tiiCN! are tinder the mastery of a
chief accountant, whose salary is said fo
Is; $1,000. A very large part of the
wholesale domestic trade is done in the
basement, which is very tin wholesome,
and yet alxiut mxtv men are here most of
the time. A clerk is at last a floating
character. They shift from <#ie place to
another, and generally get broken down
early in life. It is a mystery what l>c-
contes of that crowd of youth which every
season flocks to the metropolis in pursuit
of wealth, but it may lx* said that few
ever reach suctcsh, and a very large pro*
(xirtion go to ruin.
This Ohkhnal “ Intervmjwkr.” —
Madame Koyallwas a distinguished char-
actor in Washington during the fourtli
and fifth decades of the present century,
being ti e widow of an army officer, tin
author of a book and the editorofa news-
j*a|*er. Madame Hoyulwasa short, plump
little ls»dy, with a round duinpling-faee
exceedingly sharp, piercing black eyes,
end other features 0* correspond. On the
approach of a session of congress, .'is soot
as the members |x*gan to arrive, .Madann
Koyall, wrapped in her immense shawl,
with her snug little lionnet, fitting closely
to her face, and tied trader her c '
with a long black riblxm, might lx; s
walking briskly along the pavement
her way to “interview" the newly-arrived
niemlxT, to provide the matter for an
itorial for the Huntress. To Mada
Koyall is undoubtedly due the honor of
the invention of this ingenious proce-
for providing material, which has of lat<
year- Iwen revived with brilliant flUCf ' -s
a- an original di-coverv.
FII.LIN'D T1IIJ4 DAI*.
As the political init liegins to hoil and
Imbhle, it hringrt vividly to my mind an
incident of the last campaign in which 1
took a part.
“oing naturally a vehement, as well as
loqucnt ettss, I was much in demand
with the “ speaker committee” in various
iHirtionsoftlie state,especially where hard
blows were wanted. It there was a forlorn
hope, I was sure to he ealled on, and given
to understand that the place was to he
d for our “ party,” or ruin would lie
the result.
One day, towards the close of the cum'*
paign, 1 received m ail frotU the chairman
if thestate committee. Tht*re was another
forlorn hope. The town of.Oowgrass had
he carried in spite of all opposition, if
e enemy were victorious m Cinvgrass
ir jig was up.
The t rain for there started at six o clock,
and it now lacked only ten minutes ofthat
hour. The depot was jiImuY? a mile away,
the whole responsibility of success
rested on me, 1 hailed a huckmati, and
liifled the ros|M>nHibility tetn|H»rarily
upon his shoulders.
1 shook a Pve-dollar hill at the driver,
d lie put on all the speed that could he
worried out of his horses. Luck was on
side. I was just in Unto to hand ii
dollar hill (by mistakoi of course, for
|>oliticiiiiiHurc alwues lioiicst)uiid to make
a dive after the train as it rushed out of
tlu> depot.
A brakemau snaked mo, losing his hat
by the operation, and making me nay live
dollars for it, anil without more than the
mill number of mishaps, 1 tVas landed in
good order at Umvgrass.
The town is an important^ono for those
who live iu it. There didn't appear to
lie much excitement around till' depot,
and I begun to have doubts ns to whether
xpei'ted or not. It was dark, nml
the heft of the town lay about a mile
. ay from the railroad.
1 found a coach driver who had In forest
ouglt iu “our party" to take me lo the
It lenient for fitly cents, being that hr
is just going that way, anil that was Ids
regular business. He was a reticent,
half mysterious old rooster, and I could
got lmt little iuformatioti out of him re
garding the situation.
Have you heard that anybody was
•cted here to H|*cnk to-night?” 1
ski'll.
! I did hear some-
Wal, ’|
thin* 'hoot it.’’
Where Is tlio hull?”
Wo go putty nigh onto it. lie you
milt up hero by the
lie looked at me somowhrtt oddly, I
thought, as ho gave thu rehi|v«n extra
j(Tk. and'' his irff hUrso nt/ eftrfl touch
with the whip.
“ ft must ho nigh onto time you war
thar,” lie muttered, jerking tlio reins
again.
" What time is tlm mooting called ?”
“ I lull-past seven, I b'lirve.”
“ Why, good gracious! it Height now.”
“ Is it? Wal, I guess as how is is. < i it
up, llohl Httre you ain't fast, mister?”
“Fast! I wish I was faster, or that
your horses were!”
(Jit up, Hob,” was Ids only reply,
.ftcr being bumped and jumped for
about ten minutes more, tlio driver held
i front of u little hull, A few half-
grown lmys wore loitering uIhmiI the en
trance, and everything was as quiet us a
Quaker mooting.’
‘Good heavens!” I exclaimed; “it is
wonder they want a stirring up here,
What is the matter?”
Wal, kinder ilon't-eure-a dam, I guess.
They want a regular overhauling and
slinking up. Give it tew ’uni, mister!”
’ I tlm driver, Cracking his lazy horses
and driving along.
By gracious!” thought I, “won’t f
stir the dry Ixines of Cowgrass, won’t 1?”
Fully aroused to the importnucOm tlio
occasion, I darted up-stairs into the hall,
ms only a small affair; with, perhaps,
hundred men and women quietly
mbled there. They looked as though
they were sleepy, and without, waiting
n introduction, I resolved lo make
ray to the platform and cornea little
stage business mid George Francis Train
at tlii-iii. I'd wake ’cia up.
As I entered the room, the moderator
tppeared to have just said someth ing and
lien s.'it down. I darted tip the aisle,
mounted the platform, threw inyhat ami
rorcoat into a heap at the back of the
lace, came to tin: front and exclaimed,
Fellow-citizens!” amid tlm most intense
icitouicnt.
“ Fellow-citizens! why do we stand
hero idle? Wlnit is it that tax-payers
want? Whitt, would they have? Is life
•ar, or pence so sweet, us to Imj bought
at the price of chains ami slavery? Not
I. n»
“That’.-' right! Hoiihc,ye 4!owgrnssians!
House, ye slaves! Get up and shake this
political sloth from your bodies! You
are dying with the potato-rut! Our ene
mies, like potuto-lmgH, ire in our midst
and are gnawing at oilr b it seed ends!
The issue of this campaign is narrowed
down to these four points ”
“II beg pardon, ^ir,” put in the
moderator, who had got up courage
enough to s|M'jik, “ but this is not a |wdit-
ical meeting!”
“ I should say not! I should say that
you were a set of old grandmothers, who
ncverexiMwicnccdanyUiing more exciting
than tiding a pinch of snuff! Hitt. I
have been sent up here to shake yourdry
and musty bones ; to show you wherein
the danger, lies; to strip the mask from
the face of our enemies, and knock their
political harangues into u cocked-lmt!
Bring me an opponent, bring mo the best,
and see me snuff him him out and place
the glittering rati of lilierty and of tri
umph tijKiii the brow of our own parly !”
“ But him out!” shouted two or three
xybom I had roused.
“Good! let me have opposition, for
that will whet me for victory!” said I,
while the moderator again approached.
“ .Sir, you have evidently made a mis
take. There is a political meeting being
held on the other side of town. This is
a church meeting, held to make arrange
ments for giving our minister a dona
tion!”
The situation flashed upon me. Every
thing confirmed it. f had put my foot
into it the worst way. I seized my hat.
and coat and rushed for the door. I
caught one of those hoys who stood grin
ning at me by the door as 1 went out,
and, taking him by the corft-eollnr, I
compelled him, on pain of instant mini-
hilation, to run with me to the other
hall, lie wanted fo live, and so went
with me.
1 rushed into the hall. There was a
noisy crowd, and I felt that I was right
this’time, Httre. They were on tlio point
of hustling out an old rooster who had
bored them with a speech on being good
to their pastors, ami who said the com
mittee had sent him to speak. We com
pared notes fur a moment. We had tuiu-
taken anil got upon each other's stump,
lie should have gone, to the donation
eonfuh, and 1 should have E'en here, lie
went and 1 stayed. 1 was fairly armiHcd
and at once began to let off tnv rockets
Tin.
down the house, and it
the two speakers from New York found
out their mistakes, or both meetings
would have been dead failures.
NKW PARIS.
Tlie Woiiili'iTtlMI«'cii|M‘nillY«> I'.iii'i'ith*** nf
1 have boon moflt impressed for these
few days with the French facility of
mending. It is wonderful. Itso chanced
that in the year 1871 I passed a few
hours in Paris,returning homeward from
it hurried trip to Switzerland. It. was
just after the city had been delivered
from the deslolatiug sovereignty of the
commune. The saddest of the sights
was Paris then. On every side were
evidences of the ilestruction which
Frenchmen had dealt to their own chief
city. The Tuieleries were a ghastly and
almost still smoking ruin. The hotel de
Ville, which had boon iierlmps the most
sumptuous building in the world, was
scattered and smashed into distorted
heaps of blackened stones. The proud
column of Vomlomc, wreathed aliout
with the long record of the victories of
the first Napoleon, was broken into mi-
distinguishable bits, Its pedestal alone
remaining. Matty oilier nubile build
ings stood with staring window and halls
des|x»llod by lire and blackened walls.
Private houses iu every street were sway
ing and tottering in various wreck. The
fronts of those Htill standing were pitted
from top to bottom with the Hears of
shells and bullets, Tlm magnificent
statues in the garden of the Tuilcrics, iu
the wonderful Palace do la I'oncordo,
and iu the public parks were, here head
less, there armless, yonder legl
the gates, where the fighting had been
most severe, the scene of confusion
indescribable. There was not a church
which did not bear in broken windows
and shattered columns and peeled nml
tlm Prussians spured Paris, out of pity
for tl'and out of reverence' fbri Its Itlige
treasures of architect tire and art, French
men t,hcmselvcH had set rioting through
all its pleasant places. No description
cun do justice to the imnii'iise destruc
tion which French vandalism and French
fury had wrought in their own beautiful
capital. But what was Paris then you
would searculy recognize as Paris now.
I have been astonished beyond it teas Uro
at the change. There is scarcely a trace
of the ruin which had captured almost
tlio entire city. True, the hotel do Ville
has not yet completely risen from its
ashes, lmt it is rising. 4'crtainly, you
can see the rctitimtils of the storm which
smote the Tnilories, lmt these blackened
footprints are being rapidly effaced.
The Column Veiulome towers again,
with no trace of destruction left upon it,
save only that the summit, on which
stood the statue of Hie first Nannlcon,
is empty; just now tlicso uuocr French
people are in large doubt whom to place
there. You would never know there
had ever been a conflict in the streets
by the look of them. The houses have
been rebuilt. The wounded walls have
been healed with skillful plaster and
skillful stone. The statues have been so
deftly patched you would never know
they had over Ixteii touched by bullet.
The oldgayoty flashes and resounds along
the streets’. That singular recuperative
energy of the French, seizing the future
immediately, however had and disheart
ening has been the past, concentrating
the forces of the nation to the payment
of the enormous war indemnity almost
in a moment— that quick and indestruc
tible and heroic spirit which no disaster
can ever capture—has received no hotter
expression and illustration than iu this
sudden rebuilding of this marvelous city,
almost as desolate a little time ago as
was Jerusalem, when the Homans smote
it and gave its temples to the flames.
The CtirloHificH of Fever Inf'ccHon.
Men of science speak of epidemic
waves, and of scarlet fever being com
municated by the few drops of milk
which you pour into your ten, or the
cream diffused in a dish of strawberries.
On a lute occasion, at a fashionable dinner
party in London, as many as eight or ten
guests, and seven members of the house
hold, took scarlet fever. Obviously, the
infection must have been caught at the
dinner party ; but how was the puzzling
matter of inquiry, for no ono in the fam
ily of the host was known to have been
affected with the disorder. Was the dis
ease brought to the house by a waiter?
Was it conveyed in the table-linen from
tlio washerwoman ? Was it somehow in
corporated in the cream that had lieen
used iu tlm dessert? An investigation
on these and other joints, as we under
stand, was made, but not with any satis
factory result. The cream was thought
to Ik: the most likely vehicle of infec
tion ; but how could any one be certain
on the point? The cream employed in
fashionable dessert iu London is ixswibly
made up of half a dozen creams from
many dairies, and inquiry ends only
vain conjecture. Itather a Itazardo
thing, one would say, going out to dinner
when you may run the chance of being
| killed in a manner so very mysterious.
I People, in their innocence, are not aware
l of the manner iu which contagious dis-
I eav:s may he communicated by public
conveyances, by articles of dress, by
! dwellings, by the very atmosphere. We
I have just heard an instance of the com
munication of scarlet fever by means of
a “kist,” the name usually given in Root-
land to a servant’s trunk. A servant girl
in Morayshire fell ill with scarlet fever
and died. Her Hint, a painted wooden
box, containing all Iter worldly goods,
her later clothing included, was sent
home to her il lations, and lay for some
weeks at a station on the Speyffidc rail
way before an opportunity occurred for
fiundri
removing it by a cart to Iter mother’s
oottmw* among tlio hill. During this in
terval the station master's children, in
romping about, conducted their gambols
on the kist, which was a repository of
contagion, and in due course were struck
down with scarlet fever. At length the
fatal kist was conveyed lo Its destination,
and the contents wero dispersed among
friends and neighbors, '('lie donations
wore kindly meant, but they proved
fatal. No precautions hud been taken to
disinfect the articles, the result being
that wherever the clothes of the deceased
girl were taken ill scarlet fever found
Us victims. For several months the
fever raged, until the wave of its Infec
tion was expended. Now ensui'd a rc-
markablo event. The outbreak proved
to be an opposing barrier to the spread
of a more virulent type of scarlatina
advancing from another quarter at a litter
period or the year. On reaching the
lorntor scene of the disease, it was arrested
for want of material to feed upon, a
second attack being very unusual.
('hambcr'it Journal,
X HI ANT TURK.
One ol' flu* «‘ii 111'«» in I it <'iit-l»«llli'« l» Im>
Niton ii n( (In* 4'ciilt'iiiilnl.
There arrived in this city this morning
front Ualifornia a curiosity for the cen-
tonnial at 1'hiladclphia next year. It !h
a section of one of the boss trees of the
Golden HtntOf and is owned by and is iu
charge of Mr. M. Vivian, aftil his sou
Mr. T. Vivian, from whom we obtained
some interesting particulars concerning
The common name of this wonderful
tree growth is the " Hig Tree,” ami the
hutuuical name is m/uoui ijii/ualia. The
tree from which this section was cut
grew in tlui Kuwcnh and Kings river
grove, near the line of Fronso and Tul
are counties. California, on the west
slopo of the Hierro Nevadan, at an eleva
tion of six thousand live hundred feet
ulsivu the level of tlio sett, forty-live
miles from Visalia, the nearest railroad
station.
The age of tlio tree as indicated by the
ly rings was about two thousand two
tired and fitly years, the rings being
n,. dost) on the outer edge that it was al
most impossible to count them. The
height was two hundred and Hoveuty-six
feet. The diameter at the surface of the
ground was twenty-six feet; ton feet
above the ground the diameter was
twenty feet; one hundred feet above the
ground, where the first limb projects,
the diameter is fourteen foot} and two
hundred foot abovo the ground the di
ameter was nine feet.
It was perfectly sound and solid. Tito
hark average one foot in thickness, and
in come places it was .sixteen inchca
thick. The hark ofsonio of this species
of tree is three fei t thick. Tlio estimated
utimher of lumber feet that it would
make was three hundred and seventy-
live thousand, and the number of cubic
feet about thirty-one thousand, enough
to make lumber and posts for sixteen
miles of ordinary fence. The weight
of the wood when first cut was seventy-
two pounds per cubic foot, making the
weight of the lumlter producing portion,
two million two hundred and thirty-
two pounds.
It took two men, splendid uxmcii, ton
day’s hard work to fell the tree, and
when it fell it broke in several pieces,
with a terrible crash. This section was
taken from tlm tree ten feet above the
ground to t wenty-six feet abovo tlio
ground. The diameter at tlio huso is
twenty feet. It was hollowed into a
cylinder, and then cut into sections,
making when put together the. body of
the tree complete, the wood thus left 1m*-
itig from six to eight inches thick, exclu
sive of the Imrk. It cost five hundred
dollars to cut it down and haul it to Vis
alia, ami seven hundred there to Omaha,
two fiat cars being used for its transpor
tation. It leaves this evening for Ht.
Etuis, where it will lie converted into a
circular house, finished oil' very neatly
on Hie interior, while tho outside will l>c
left in its natural state. It will he ott
exhibition for a time in that city, and
tIll'll it will 1 m! sent to Philadelphia,
whore it will he exhibited during the
centennial. It will no doubt prove a
great curiosity, and a successful financial
venture for the Messrs. Vivian, the sole
proprietors. Although an individual
enterprise, this wonderful specimen of
tree growth will bo one ol the best curi
osities that California could send lo the
centennial.
The Dorinun Ocean.
The German ocean or North sea, like
the English channel, is supposed to have
been once an inland plain or valley
raised far ulxive tlio sea level. The sen
has lmt recently invaded this pressing
plain, submerged its forests, and super
seded its river courses. The Imried
trees of its sunken forests are still stand
ing, rooted in their own vegetable soil,
although beneath the waves. Cromer
forest, which dips into the waters from
the coast of Norfolk, is the most fatuous
of the submerged forests of the German
ocean. A t certain seasons, and especially
after great storms, the stumps of oak,
alder, yew, and Hcotch fir are seen stand
ing upright iu tlio water. The condition
of tlio wood and of tho fir cones (some
of the latter obviously bitten by animals)
tell us that Hit! sinking of tlie land hero
occurred nt no distant js-riod iu the phys
ical history of our country.
The remains of laud animals, too, as
well as of the forests they inhabited, are
discovered in the lied of the German
ocean. In his "Physical Geography <f
Norfolk” Mr. Woodward tells us that iu
less than fifteen years the fishermen of
the village of Happishiirgh dredged op
from their oyster i>ed ns many as two
thousand teeth of mammoths. Hones
and tusks of mammoths have also been
fished up from these watery depths,
takes us hack to the time when the Ei
ropeim mainland, instead of terminating,
as it does to-day, with the coast, of Nor
way and France, st retehed far westward
in the unbroken area beyond the. present
coast of Ireland. These wero |tlie flour
ishing days of the forests of oak, chest
nut, alder and yew, which are now sub
merged in the German ocean and tlie
English channel.
Thouohtkulnkhh for others, generos
ity, modesty, and sulf-rcspect are the
qualities which make a real gentleman or
lady, iw distinguished from the veneered
article which commonly goes by that
USEFUL KNOW!,KIMIM.
It is always important lo know how to
boose meat In buying. Ox lieef should
ho of fino grain or fiber, the flesh of a
bright red and firm; the fat white and
distributed throughout the lean; it
should list be yellow or semi-fluid. If
tlie meat is entirely lean it will be tough
nml its nutritive power low. Veal is dry
if fresh, it should he close grained. If
tiie meat is moist and flabby it is stale.
Mutton should 1h> of u clear, deep pink
tint, firm, and with a liberal supply of
fat. Fine wether mutton may he recog
nised by a small mass of fat on the upper
part of the leg. It is more nutrition*
than ordinary mutton, and iIn* darker
tlio tint the finer the Haver. Pork should
bo of a palo pink tint, and the fat very
firm. If it is soft, or if the fat is yellow,
the meat is had. If it is semi-fluid the
animal has probably boon fed on flesh.
Keeping Poultuy in OitniAitiw.—
(Sonic farmers make it a practice to keep
their poultry iu orchards from early
spring until winter sets in, and find it
,'s lor so doing. A picket fence could
Imilt around the orchard high enough
to prevent their Hying over, with suitable
house or shed in one eornor of tlie yard
In shelter them at night. Thussiluatcd,
the poultry will thrive and prosper, keep
ing themselves in good condition, and the
increase in eggs will he greatly aug
mented, and their owners pleased on
account of tho fiiyrlfids of Insects and
worms they destroy, and which will more
than ropav the cost of the building of the
fences, lly keeping them inclosed in
tills manner a large number of fowls may
lie retained in mi orchard, and ll^con
tinual scratching which is done bynhom
II prove advantageous both to the soil
mid trees themselves.
Swallowing a Cent.—Dr. Gibbs,
io of the editors of Hall's Journal of
Health, who Is himself an educated
physician mid surgeon, while on a rail
road train the other flay, was consulted
by one of the employes on tlio train in
relation to his little hoy, who had that
morning swallowed a edit. “ What have
dnno for him?” asked the doctor,
e gave him a dose of castor-oil,” was
reply. "Good practice so far; as
as you reach home givq him the
whites of three raw eggs daily; let his
diet lie bread and milk, and nothing
” The directions were followed
faithfully, the whites of the eggs re
pented every day, and the dose of oil at
night; and on iho fourth day the cent
was discharged. It was one of the now
copper coins, mid considerably corroded
by the act ion of the gastric juices. .Since
falal results often follow the swallowing
of a copper coin, tho judicious treatment
ndviseif in this instance should be rcnicm-
loyed bv all who Iiiiyc the euro of chil
dren. The essential 'points to be borne
in mind nro simply these : Albumen, nr
tlie whites of eggs, a bland diet free from
acids, and castor-nil,
Hiiape-Treeh.—Many farmcrs.now sett
bow they have mWd it b.v permitting
the wholesale destruction of Ii*rest-trees
upon their lands. From the imkednesa
of tlio country droughts are becoming
common. From the scarcity of timber-
trees tho cost of fencing mid creeling
buildings is annually increasing. But
there is one way whereby amends may
bo partly made. Let there he one united
plan to have rows of bountiful anil use
ful trees set mil on both sides of all our
public highways. Let sugar-trees, wal
nut-trees, chestnut-trees, locust-trees,
silver-leafed poplar-trees, etc., stretch
their long avenues in every direction all
over the country. How It would relieve
the nakedness of the land! What*a
grateful shade they would give to the
weary traveler! The value of farms
would become almost immediately en
hanced ns soon as those rows of beautiful
i were planted out. And in the dis
tant future, when those trees should
arrive at maturity of growth, the value
of the limber itself would become a most
important item. Lot grangers and others
take liold of this matter.
An Anecdote of Jules Janfn.
Nevertheless, ke had a keen eye to his
mi interest, as the following story will
show : When quite a young man a cer
tain nelghls)r of Ills owed him fifty francs.
One day when lie wont to ask for it lie
found liis debtor iu great trouble. ‘ I
mt pay you," groaned tlie man. " I
have no money; I am ruined; in a few
hours my landlord will distrain for his
rout, mid carry away all I possess in the
world." Jules' face fell, for his finances
were very low just thou, .Suddenly mi.
idea struck him. " You have a dozen or
two of excellent wine in your cellar, you
me the other day ; lot me have that
and i will give you an acquittance fin*
the fifty francs." “Impossible; the
|>orterwill not let it pass out." "I will
take my clianec of that if you will agree
to my proposition.” The debtor did
agree and the receipt was signed. An
hour afterward a man in a workman's
dress with his hat slouched over his eyes,
appeared at the door with two wine-bns-
keIs filled with’bottles. “I have eomo
to change some wine that was seal in to
Mods.- " (mentioning the debtor’s
name) “tlio other day by mistake," ho
says in a gruff voice. The porter, inno
cent nml unsuspecting, shows Ihe way fo
tho collar; the man deposits the bottle*
he has brought, takes away those ho finds
there, and goes oil his way rejoicing.
The man was Jules Junin,and the bot
tles he left behind were filled with very
excellent—wat:r! — Temple liar.
Aiiout eighteen miles from Port Gib*
.sou, and one mile from Brandywine
nprings, on the place of Mr. O’Quin,
the existence of a great number of blocks
of cut stone bus been known for nil in
definite time, and the }>eople in the
neighborhood have used them jib props
for their houses. Mr. James Gage, Jr.,
went out tlmre a few days ago to explore,
and had a specimen stone brought to
town. It is About three feet lone by
twenty inches square, resemblingin shop"
a bar of soap. It is probably a iiniiv
sandstone. Mr. Gage took this bloc!
himself from beneuth the roots of a larg"
pine tree. It formed a }>ortion of a wall
ubout twenty feet broad on the top.
which Mr. Gage traced fora distance of
two hand rod and fifty yards. The infer
cnee that ono would naturally draw from
this superficial view is that this must
have been a city wall, but deep explora
tion might show it to be a portion
of a fort, temple, or other build .
ing. Anyway, its antiquity is probably
immense, antedating the history of tin:
red men,^-Port QUrnon Standard.
