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Surgeon and Physician, 1NMIL CN DA It TO 11 *V, d A. I -=fes« "J® Mill lift INSURAHCE tO,, CEDARTOWN RECORD. W, S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors, CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1875. VOLUME II. NUMBER 22. TIMELY TOPICS. Till! public debt was reduced a^.tt *ur millions during tltu month ol' (\- Tm; l'nvdman- Dank at Washingt *a» Commenced paying lo depositors t wenty per cent, dividend decided ouio i I »r.N’. (Jaufiki.h say' that he intends In move a repeal of the law increasing the jM.Htaw upon newspapers a- soon as cou- •pess li'v-omldos. They lmve recently had the seventh annual eat show in the Crystal Unlace. I-ondon. The highest priced eat was cal m'd bv its owner at *50,000, hut itdidn’t get the first prize. "Tommy l)odd,” aged nine years, valued at *500 was the win ner. There wire over five hundred eats exhibited. Coffee drinker.-' will please remember that the crop reports do not holdout any eoiuforting assnram-es. A falling oil'has Ihvii rejMirtisl all around. Of old lava there i* a considerable falling off. Bio shows a »till more marked diminution, though there is some codec of the pre vious crop left over. The islands near Java show a decrease of about fifty per cent, in prodtieliou. lr is a significant fact that the grain trade of New York law fallen off this year 18,772,510 bushel-? as compared with last year, while the delivery at Haiti more Is greater than last last. Philadelphia also allows a gain. When our southern niil- wav System is made wlmt it ought to he. < harlesUm, Port lloval and Savannah will export mute grain, Hour and meat than -my other Atlantic cities Vkoim.i: who wyRo letters will find in struction in the met* shown in therejsirt of the dead letter olfice last year. Some LATEST NEWS SUMMA RY norm. The returns front nil palls of Missouri slum tlutl tin* new constitution of that state lias been adopted by a large majority. The new cable between Key West and Porto Basil lias been laid, and the second cubic repaired and restored, making dupli cate telegraphic rnmmnnicnlion with the West Indias and South America. Arrangements are lieing made for a fast mail from Washington to New Orleans, by the intlnenee of Senator Patterson, of will pass through Pi At la * Will s seven hours and a half between Columbia and Washington. A special from Virginia says building is going on rapidly. The burnt side is dotted with shanties. Work is plenty and wages high. The people are recovering their spirits, belief is coming in freely. As soon as provisions and money have become plenty, no more aid will be needed. The town will l» • all right in a week or two. The Home Mutual Insurance company, of this city, says i dim itid at • 10>,0(X), and hits cash available to pay in full. The t'oinmer- $'V.,»HX), assets four hundred and seventy- eight thousand. The relief movement is on hoi leaf tobanv says: The cable i Immediate predecessor, though it will be remembered with very different feelings. A season of shrinkage and loss everywhere to these engaged in handling the staple, it is in striking contrast witli the buoyancy and pro fits in trade which distinguished the former; but if we incliidu the vast majority o£ our population, and the large preponderance of capital invested in cultivating tobacco, in stead of buying and trading in it, the results the a ill fai tliai Idle Hi n ilensncss in directing. There was taken mil of these letters the aston ishingly huge sum of $1,500,001). All of this was returned to its owners with the exception i/f $-100,000, which remains as H profit to the Po-t-office Department. character. 'Ike successful crops and declin ing pricus of 1875 a (lord better grounds for congratulations than the ruined crops and buoyant markets of Is71, hut as regards the iiiiimct proper, nearly tne only agreeable feature to which we can refer is the fact that l/ouisville has continued to lead the van of the primary markets of the world. There has been a small crop to bundle, but she 1ms controlled a larger proportion of that than in former years. En , believed t have l>een chid in the organization of the whiskey ring ut El. Louis, went Into court Tuesday, ■and, to the. dismay of his counsel, pleaded guilty to all the counts in the indictment against himself. Thorpe, a late store keeper, iil.«o threw himsfclf on the mercy of the court. This action is considered »t St. Louis as the most significant epi sode in the downfall of the once formid able underground organization. civ the muds, at I’hiladflohia. A sale of real estate, amounting to lots, ot New York, this week, showed a neeiatioo of from 25 to 50 percent, within in. The real estate pinch is almost New York as anyw here In the conn- s had y, if i t the - A <• iMP.MMTivi: analysis of the public debt statement published show- a de crease in legal tenders during the last. | month of #705.000. and in fractional cur rency of $10”,000. The Treasury bal ance increased nearly *11,000,000. The j live-twenties of 1802 have disappeared j from tie 1 interest bearing debt, having ! been absorbed by the new fives. The j *10,000,000 of ISO l bonds called ill, leave I but iilsnit *12,0110,000 of the new fivesl not taken. There are alioul *8,000,000 j of the new '(Ms -till outstanding, and j they will Ik? called in Ix'forc the 15th Says nn English paper: A sample of condensed milk, weighing about one bun- [ hundred isnmds, wn* exhibited at the j rooms of the Society of Arts, and an in- tvre ting experiment made thereon. This I prepared by Hooker', process. It had j constant sire ng through Mi i Illinois and In The Egyptian army has invaded Aliys- A bit of revolution has broken out in N'-w Grenada, South America. 'I'he ravages of the cult In disease in England have been terrible. For the qtinr- ter ending Oct. Id, there were over five hun dred thousand cu-MS of disease, and tin money damage w-> estimated at a million dollars. King Louis, of Bavaria, is not ashamed idtramoiitam in (ho diet, lb- lias canned his indorsement of their course to lie placarded all over (lie kingdom, and has ordered p t file bishop permitting the archbishop of three quality was so excellent that in a few minutes it was resolved, by churning, into good fresh butter. This trial was only one of a -cries made at the Interna tional Exhibition,Smith Kensington, and elsewhere. In each can* the same satis factory result was obtained. rob quantities . Cuba. Tim r foil load, mid I pro seque; • the -a • of the desti In . i Ha hundred and fifty thousand troops, it is -urmisod that the provisions arc intended for them. The cereals taken out include rice and wheat in vast quantities, and when the seven thousand more Spanish troops land, it i- supjKised that the ex- adsttiff- will L- doubled. Ail p.rt Ha •rs which have r Imve been pm admit. The tie rs. hilled to leav ailed fo •d as fa books in the dark ag them are recorded a, o-ity, deserving perj: Otto the king of X. tual c of signal t humberland gave of land for one lss»k containing of the world. A countess of A n- 800 sheep and n large pared of fora volume of homilies; 120 icre given for a single l*.ok of '() crowns of gold for a Concord- I 10 crowns for a satirical poem loinauce of the Hose.’ n Bible was valued at €.‘50, at a time when two arches of London bridge were built for less money ; at a time, too, when t lie wages of a laborer were only throe balf|snce a day, and when, of railed the oilld bA< Bible. L- could try (there being !,'■ I'l l»iI Catliolies and 1, .'t 12,51*2 Protestants), a large portion of th< Catholic population L anti-ultramoiitaue, a is evident from t'ne fact that this partv mil 1 has a majority of two in the diet. The decree of the, Madrid government ordering a general election to take place I. rather farcical when placed in eonneetioi graph, to the effort that the republican-, wil not he allowed to hold electoral meeting. It remain- to be seen what will he the ell'ee of this order. ‘Die new cortex will e .ill go through the of r of the lower The new body legalizing the ate- that the numerous places, among otliei IV. Fm-ln, Odessa. Ria/ju. and ; nine of the prisoners resisted, and one, lit- eved to he a leader of the socialist n is lit, defended hiliis-lf so desperately that e had to be killed. The police are reported nder the impression that they Imve st-iiek low at the very stronghold and center i ie movement, which will put nil effectual A hand of Cheyenne Indians arc on tin The direct United States cabin ha en grappa pled and buoyed, and the chance it will soon again be in working order. Extensive and destructive prairie fire are raging in Southern Kansas along the lim of the Ft. Seott railroad. The fire cnugli from locomotives amt at last account hai uwept over miles of country, destroying houses, fenced and crops. The |Kistnfiice department i - di result of and assista onfoi r giMU-rnl'VVm expected that the s ation by the first day of December. Commissioner Smith, of the Indian bureau, says tho Indians reported ns defeat* ing our troops from Fort I laves, are a band of between scvon!y-five and one hundred Cheyenne warriors, who nearly a year ago were declared outlaws belli by the bureau agents and military authorities. They sur rendered to the military last spring and were placed upon the Cheyenne agency, but ran ell one morning and regaining n quantity of fire-arms wlituli they bad sderuted before stir- rendering, fought the troops from behind sand banks all ilitV altd itlatle good their escape at night. They have proved to be Imrd fighters, and the commissioner consid ers it of great imporUiuee that they should now he thoroughly whipped and subjugated. The secretary of the treasury Ims Is sued a call for the redemption of five million coupon and five million registered ponds, a total of ten million of the 5-20 bonds of 18(5-1 The bonds included in tills call are of tin* act of dune 30, 18(5-1, as follows: t'oupon hands, $50, No. 3,701 to 1,300, both inclusive; $100, No. 12,001 to 17,200, both inclusive; $31 w, No. 1,800 to 2,200, both inclusive; $1,000, No. 0.8,001 to .31,100, both inclusive. Total, live millions: $ ,0, No. 151 to 370, llotll Inclusive ; $100, No. 1,001 to 2,100, both inclusive ; $500 No. 751 to 1,000, both inclusive; $1,000, No, l,t»0l to 8,350, both inclusive; $.1,000, No. 2,101 to 3,105, both inclusive; $10,000, No 1,001 to 0,000, both inclusive. Total, live IM.mnnrck’s Plan for Strengthening; (ho KnipiiT. When, laat May, the (Icrnian papers began to thunder against France, it was difficult to Isdiove that the real Jupiter was not the great Prince Bismarck liim- self. At any rate, those shift- til the (ierntau press, its sodden animations and its sudden collapses, are quite in keeping with tin* character of Prince Bismarck, as it is being gradually revealed to his contemporaries. Eeclilv conscious of the greatness of his ability, ami of the eminence of the position whit'll he has won, violent bv nature, a hitler hater, indifferent to the claims of friends or de pendent*, contemptuous of the roles by which ordinary people restrain mind mid Uxly, and haunted by the thought that assassination or disease may cut short an astonishing career, he leads, and loves to lea*I, a tempestuous life. He has always a lluummid schemes mi hand a thousand irons in the lire, lie longs to use for great purposes the enormous machinery at his disposal, and finds in the quiet routine of Herman polities in sufficient room fur its action. Like Alex ander, lie does not feel quite himself un less he has a new world to conquor. (>n till? other hand, he has a singular width of political grasp. He sees European l»olities a- a whole, and forbears from ruining great corporations in order to gratify temporary and trivial freaks, lit? has also a curious renditions to accept compromise, and is perfectly willing to get what he ran rather than get nothing. When he is beaten lie does not trouble himself, lie merely sets himself to work at something els-, lie Ims only taken one of his thousand irons out of the lire and found it colder than lie expected. Last May he thought the iron of a new French war was hot ; hill he found ho was mistaken, and put it hack again. Helms too much confidence in himself not to believe that the next time he tries an iron lie may Ik? more lucky. It is not surprising that a presswliifh has to rolled the changing sentiments and pro ducts of such a mind should he somewhat hazy, a speckled mid uncomfortable sort of mirror. Since the close of the French war (Jcrmmiy has been going on, in some ■spoi power bee Cllglll, ■ SS diduted •onipmod with that of Aus tria or l' ranee, is fur greater than in 18(5(5 or 1870. It Ims done what its former rivals merely proposed to do. Enormous sums and unrivaled military skill li.ve Ih'oii freely expended on the perfecting of fortresses. Mel/., Btrusbiirg mid Elm bristle with new works on the most mag nificent ami extensive scale. The Her man artillery is now as much superior to the Herman artillery of 1870 as tin* Her man artillery of that date was superior to llm artillery of France, 'flic reserves of the army have been largely augmented and made more easily available, and tho aniiv is really more popular with the people. The army and the jieoplearc felt to lie one, ami the men present at the Silesian niano'uvres have been treated as the guests, not the incumbrances,of those on whom they were quartered. Hreat 1 ionic Is- successful must be national. Even in Bavaria, which of all parts of Uernmny is least within the national fold, there is a growing feeling that it is of no use to think of resisting Uermmiy and Bis marck, and that the lot which has fallen to Bavaria mu-I In- accepted. In Alsace itself, time ami despair are working for Ucrmany. The population i- rapidly netting over the pang of separat ion from France. It is the acquiescing in the ne cessity of being Herman, ami to retain French sympathies is beginning to be regarded by the mass of people as one of the luxurious fancies of the rich. Last ly, the church question haft not produced so much internal discord as might ha been expected. It has, no doubt, excit much painful feeling. In some districts the j tower of the priests is unbroken, am many Hermans who approve of the gen eral tenor of the ecclesiastical laws think that they have been shajied and executed with needless and imprudent rigor. But, on the whole, the Herman notion of the state, and a passion for a united Uer- inany, have a stronger control over the general mind than ecclesiastical sympa thies. The Hermans of the present day have not, indeed, many of the qualities which make ecclesiastical martyrs. They think it unnatural to resist the state as a red Indian would think it to wear even ing clothes. They have Ix-en tortured into acquiescence from their cradles, and what the lav.- orders and tin- police en force they accept l/nulnn ttitiwbnj U>- crluln I toil > -• W i ll us lituitl tin world toilti doin' rv,| yo you lip a And hold t Hut |dn 'ton? ol Hold. ioiikIi ot shilling hiiiII, ll|o|>0 ii not'l I vo on'yol low diliT ’ ilvod with |inror ihliiji*, «• who I'llivs up \vixi 1111 iiloiio of ion Imve to -land tils colter elicit, and own ■ « " hullt 111hiii llio Nilul. " - od to H|H<nk tn friendly gult*o a . i ll should hind tIn* hiiiiiaii mind, love link limn to mini. Kill . toll Mot II '* ioeds w ........ >' who pities NlnmtlK birds, The Lit ilissls with lntinuaijr lie One wl Hhotild s. <1 a lieiptllg hand, TUB TWO NEIGHBORS, One evening as the twilight was dusk ing into deeper shades, Farmer Weltnn stood in his doorvard, with a gun in his hands, and saw a dog coining out from his shed. It was nut his dog, for his was of a light color, while this Was surely black. The shed alluded to was open in front, with double dours for the passage ol carts, mid a wicket for pedestrians at the back; ami this shed Was part of a coil* llllttotls stt'lieltire eoilfitR'lliig the barn with the house. Around back of this house was the. sheep-fold. There had been trouble upon fanner Wi lton’s place. Dogs had been killing Ids sheep mid some of the very best til flint, lie had declared, in his Wrath, that lie would shoot Ihe first stray dog lie found prowling around his premises. On this evening, bv chance, ho had been carrying his gnu front the house to the barn, when the canine intruder appeared. Aye, mid in the htlrii lie had been taking Ihe skin from a valuable sheep which had been killed and mangled with tigerish ferocity. So, when he saw (.lie strange dog com ing through his shed, lie brought the gnu to his shoulder, mid, with quick sure aim, fired. The dug gave a leap and a howl, and having r thro In a tangent, yol pi soon lost fo sight. "Hallo! what’s that vItIskcd around limes, he bounded of! g painfully, and was ' Ye Bee shuntin' somethin,’ iiint " I’ve shot a dog. I think.'* " Ye. o-h. I seed him seootin off. It was Brackett's, I reckon.” Before the farmer could make, any fur ther remark, his wife railed to him from flu* porch, and he Went In. Very shortly afterward a hoy and a girl came out through the shed, as (lie dog had canto. Down hack of Wei ton’s farm, distant half a mile, or so, was a saw mid grist mill, with quite a little Hottlomont around it ; mid people having occasion to go on foot from that section to the farms on the hill could cut off a long dis tance by crossing Wclton’s lot. The boy anti girl were children of Mr. Bracket!. When they reached home they were met by a scene of dire confu sion. Old Carlo, tlm grand old New foundland dog l lie loving mid tin- loved the trill* and the faithful Imd nunc homo shot through the head, mid was dying. The children throw themselves upon their shaggy mate, mid wept and moaned in agony. Mr. Brackett arrived just jih the dog breathed his last. One of flic older boys stood by with a lighted lantern - -for it had grown iiiiite dark now and the farmer saw what hud liuppe ingly ‘Who did this 7” lie asked, groai ' But i lie Og r killdt sheep- ill? down there?” " fie went over to the, mill with Sis and me,” said the younger boy, sobbing jih In* spoke; "mid he was running on ahead of ih toward home. I heard a gun just before we got to .Mr. Wclton’s, but oh! I didn’t think lie could have shot poor ('itrlo J” Mr. Brackett was fairly beside him self. To say lie was angry would not express it. He loved tluit doe—if had been the chief pet of his household for years, lie was not a mini in the habit cut fierce oath id they bad be *u friends, loo. Belwc the of love j families the •d bond nd it spirit of fraternal kindness and regard had marked their intercourse. Both the farmers were hard-working men, with strong feelings and positive, characterist ics, They belonged to the same religious ,-oeiety, mid -vnipalhizcd in polities. They bad bad Warm discussions, but never yet a direct falling out. Of'the two, Wei ton wa- the more intellectual, and, perhaps, a little more tinged with pride than was liis neighbor. But, the were both hearty men, enjoying life for the good it ga Mr. Welton entered his kitchen, and stood the empty gun up behind the door. " What’s tlio matter, John ?” his wife asked, ft« she saw his troubled face. " I’m afraid I’ve done a bad tiling?” lie replied regretfully. " I fear I have shot Brackett's dog.” “ ()h, John!” “ But I didn’t know whoso dog it, was. I saw him coming out from the shed—it was too dark to see more than that it was a dog. I only thought of the sheep I hud lost, and I fired.” " I am sorry, John. O, how Mrs. Brackett and the children will feel. They set every thing by old Carlo. But you <:*?(> Ye, ;pla Mr. Wei to mug his barn with a lighted lantern Ins hand, lie was thinking of the re cent Unfortunate occurrence, mid was surely worried and perplexed. What would his neighbor say? He hoped there might be no trouble. lie was relli'ctlng thus when Mr. Brackett ap peared before him, coming up quickly, and stopping with an angry stamp of the foot. Now there may he a volume of electric influence even iti the stamp of a foot, and there was such an influence in the stamp which Brackett gave; and Welton It'll, it, and braced himself against it. There was, moreover, an atmosphere exhaling from the presence of the irate man at ionee repellaul nud aggravating. % .lohn Welton! you have shot mv The words were hissed forth I Welton, icily. How dared you do it?” I dare shoot any dog that comes • l! 1 buildings, especially ly sheep killed by kvlieu I hllV ttheni.” “ But my dog never troubled your sheep, and you know it.” " I low should I know it?” " You know that he never did harm to a sheep. It wasn't in his nature. It was a moan, cowardly act, and (an oath) you jfhull sutler for it!” " Brackett, you don’t know to whom you are talking.” "Oho!” (another oath) "We'll find out! We’ll see! Don’t put on airs, John Welton. You ain't a saint. I’ll have satisfaction, if I have to take it out ".Peter, you’d lietter go homo and cool off. You aro making yourself ridicu lous.” ’ Now, really, this was the unkimlest cut of all. Not all the mad words of Brackett pul together Were so hard as this single sentence; and John Welton put all the hitter sarcasm of the com mand into it. Brackett hurst, forth into a torrent of invectives, mid then turned away. Half alt hour later John Weltnn ac knowledged to himself that he had not done exactly right. Had lie, in the out set—In answer to Bracket I’s first out burst-told the simple truth that he Imd shot the dog by mistake; that 1m was sorry ; and that he was willing to do anything in his power to make amends - lin'd lie done this, his neighbor would probably have softened at once. But it was too late now. The blow had been struck; he had been grossly insulted; and lie would not hack down. Mr. Brackett was not so much reflec tive. lie only felt his wrath, which ho nursed to keep it warm. That evening he hitched his horse to a job-wagon anil went down to the village after a barrel of flour. Having transacted his store business, he calico upon Liilmit Pepper, a U?wyer,-Jo whom he narrated the facts of the shooting of Ids dog. Pepper was a mail anxious for fees, lie had no sympathy or soul above that. " You snv your dog was in company with t wo ol'yotir children ?” " And Ibis passage over Mr. Wclton’s land, mid thi'oiigli Ids shod, lias been freely yielded by him iih ii right of way to Ids neighbors'/” "Then, i liable. 11- will step in suit toninici Mr. •I at < sir, Welton iH clearly II with me, we larllold’tt and have a rfield was the trial iustico. All this happened on Friday evening. On Saturday it Imd become noised abroad in the* farming district that there was not only serious trouble between neighbors Welton and Brackett but that they were going lo law about it. On Sunday morning John Welton told Ids wife he would not attend church. She could go if she liked. She had'no need to jihIc her husband why he would not go out. She knew he was unhappy, and that he could not hear to meet nis old neighbor in the house of Hod while the dark cloud was upon him. Nor did she wish to meet either Mr.or Mrs. Brack- hot Ii stayed at homo. • Brackett - able than John Welton, though perhaps lie did not know it. lie held m close companionship the very worst demon a limn can embrace the demon of wrath ful vengeance; mill in order to maintain himself at the. strain to which he Imd set Ids feelings, he was obliged to nurse the monster, lie did not attend church on that day, nor did Ids wife. Two or three times during the calm, beautiful Sab bath, as lie glanced over toward his neighbor’s dwelling, in? found himsell beginning to wish that he Imd not gone to see John Welton in such a heat ol anger; but lie put the wish away, mid nursed hack Ids wrath. On Monday, toward noon, the consta ble. nunc up from I lie village, mid read to John Welton mi ini|Kising legal document. It was a summons issued by Win. Unr- lleld, Esq., a justice of the. peace, mid quorum, ordering the said John Welton to appear before him, at two o’clock, on Wednesday, Jit his office, then and there to answer to the complaint of Peter Brackett, etc. The ollicer read the sum mons, and left with the defendant n copy. 11 wa ever bet first lie mile first time John Welton hud upon to fact? the law. AI id asked him wlmt it trickcn, and then lie Id himself tlmt ho would light it to the hitler cm tried to nurse his wrath, unhappy than before. On Tuesday evening, Parson Surely called upon Air. Welton. The good i lin'd heard of the trouble, and was exc ingly exercised in spirit. Both the i were of his flock, and he loved and speeied them both. He snt liown alone with Welton, ' meant. "Tell me calmly mid candidly all aljout it," lie said. After a little reflection, Mr. Welton told the story. He knew the old clergy man for a true man and whole-hearted friend, and lie told everything just understood it. "Ami neighbor Brackett thinks now, that you shot the dog knowing it "I suppose "If you imd told him the exact facts in the beginning, do you tiling he would have held his anger?” 'This was ji hard question for John Wel ton,* but. he answered it. manfully. ‘■Truly, parson, I do not think he j,\"Wore you over more unhappy it your life than you have boon since (hi trouble on me?” "I think not.” "And, if possible, neighbor Bracket 1 more unhappy than you.” ■ think s lie is most angry and and tlien the parson re vengeful. A brief j: stimed: " Brother Welton, with you are needed hut few words. You are a stronger man than brother Brackett. Do you not believe ho Ims a good heart? ” " Yes ” " I wish you 'could show him how true and good your heart is.” " Parson! ” " 1 wish you could show him that you .possess true Christian courage.” " Parson, wlmt do you mean?” "I wish you had the eon rage to meet him and conquer him.” " How would you have me do it?” " First, conquer yourself. You are not offended ?” "No. Ho on.” And thereupon the good old clergy man drew up his arm chair and laid his hand upon his friend’s arm, and told him just what he would have him do. He spoke earnestly, and with tears in his " Brother Welton, have you the heart and courage to do this?” The farmer arose and took two or three turns across the floor; and finally he said: " I will do it I ” On the following day, towards the middle of the forenoon, Peter Brackett stood in his door-vard with his head bent. He was thinking whether he should harness Ids horso and ho off be fore dinner, or whether he would wait until afternoon, lie could not work; he could not even put his ntlml to ordinary chores. " I wonder,” he said to himself, " how the trial will come out! I s'pose Welton ’ll hire old Whitman to take his case. Of course the olfice ’ll ho crowded. Tom Frost says it’s noised everywhere, and that everybody Ml bo there. Plague take it! I wish-—” His meditations were interrupted I*,/ approaching steps, and on looking up lie beheld neighbor Welton. " (loud morning, Peter.” Brackett gasped, and finally answered: " < loud morning,” (hough ratiier crustily. Welton went on, frankly and pleas antly : " You will go to the village to-day?” " I s’pose so.” " I have boon summoned by Justice Otirfiold lo ix? there, also; hut really, Pclcr, 1 don’t want lo go. One of us will ho enough, (larfluhlisa fair man, and when he knows the facts ho will do \tlmt is right. Now, you can staff) them as well as I can, and whatever his decis ion is, I will ahido by it. You can tell him llml I shot your dog, and tlmt your dog had done mo no harm.” "Do you acknowledge tlmt old Carlo never harmed you- -tlmt lie never troub led your sheep?” inquired Brackett, with startled surprise. " It was not his nature to do harm to anything. I am sure lie would Imve sooner saved one of my sheep llmii have killed it.” "Then what did you shoot him for?” "Tlmt is wlmt I was just coming at. " Peter. You will tell the Justice that I Imd lost so ve nil of my hestshcop—killed by dogs—tlmt I Imd just boon taking Ilia skin from a I'at, valuable wether that Imd been so killed and mangled—-tlmt I was on my way from my Imrn to my house, with my gun in my hand, when I saw a dog come out from my slictl. My first thought was tlmt ho Imd come from my sheep-fold. It was almost dark and I could not see plainly. Tell the Justice I Imd no idea it was your dog. I never dreamed that I Imd tired Hint cruel shot at old Carlo until Tom Frost told me.” "How? You didn’t know it was my ilol!?" " Peter, Imve you thought so Imrd of mi 1 as to think tlmt I could knowingly and willingly Imve harmed tlmt grand old dog? I would sooner have shot one of shown tlmt diluted sulphuric acid taken internally is a valuable prophylactic. Al kaline foods are, on the contrary, favorable to the contraction and spread of tin? disease. Tho points which are here given in brief are very thoroughly and clearly elaborated by Dr. Wood- worth, ami the pamphlet deserves the attention of medical men. my own oxen. “ But, you didn’t tell Why didn’t you?" " Because you i suddenly—” " (), pslmw !” stamp of his foot. at first. I, out J it ■ you so like a ho lied Brackett, with a " Why don’t you spit Say I came down on iet that von hadn't it I was a blamed fool J-- banco to think, that’s wlmt F was.” "And I was another, Peter; If I hadn’t been I should have told you the truth at once, instead of Haring up. But we will understand it now. You can sco the Justice—” “Justice be hanged !-John - Dang -loot's it nil! what’s the* end it so!” From her window Mrs. Brackett imd seen the two men come together, and she trembled for tho result. By and by she ” ( saw her husband, as though Hushed ami h excited, put out his hand. Mercy! was he going to strike bin neighbor? She was ready to cry out with affright—the ry was almost ii|ton her litis—when she beheld a scene that (tailed forth rejoicing instead. Ami this was wlmt she saw: Elio saw these two strong men grasp one another by tho hand, and she saw big, bright tears rolling down their checks; and she knew that the fearful storm was passed, mid that the warm sunshine of love and tranquility would come again. The History of fMiolera. The causes and prevention of cholera arc well set forth in a report on the chol era epidemic of 1878, by Supervisor Surgeon Woodworth, which has just been published by the United States Treasury Department. Dr. Woodworth claims it to lie an established fact that cholera b occasioned by the access of a specific poison to the alimentary canal, which ih developed s|>ontnncouHly in Hindustan. As far jih the world outside of that country is concerned, the jhmkoii is con lamed in the ejections of the sick. Tin poison may Ih: communicated through tin: air or through food and drink. Acids are the best antidote to the poison, and may be contained in water or soil, n atmospheric gases, and the secretions ol the stomach. This may also be artificial ly, administered, and experience has The llaiiging-Ganlcns of Haliyhm. Our pretty hanging-baskets, with their suspension-wires completely draped indel icate-climbing ivies and standing mosses, with (heir masses of beautiful trail ing plants, (trooping grasses, vincas, mimosas, musk-scouted ami covered with brilliant golden flowers, though liliputian in size, are literally Imnging-gamlens. But, even should they he made a million times larger, their plan is so utterly dif ferent, that they could never suggest tho faintest notion of the hanging gardens of Babylon, aiioiil tho very name of which there is a ring of pootfo grandeur and a flavor of oriental magnilicence. They were literally paradises or pleastire-gar dens. Xenophon mentions those of Bele sis, governor of Syria; and such iih he be held them, apparently, wo find them de scribed by Umirdin and other modern travlers. 'The hanging-gardens of Hnb- lyon were limply a very costly variety of tho paradise, such as only princely wealth could a fiord. ’The orgm is attrib uted to Hem Irani iH by some; others say that lhey were invited by a king of Syria to elmrm the melancholy of one of his wives, of Persian origin, who sighed to behold again tho verdant mountains <ol her native land. Strabo and Didorns Siculus have written about these famous hanging-gardens, Philo of By/.anliiim. and many others. 'They were called Imuging-gardons, doubtless, because of the huge branching palms and other trees, overhanging the balustrade on tho summit of tho high walls that inclosed tho paradise. These walls were about one hundred and thirty feet long on each of tho four sides, twenty-one feel thick, and fifty cubits high, or over ninety-one feot nccording to the Hebrew cubit; by the Roman or by tho English cubit, a little less. Around tho intoror on all sides, rose terrace above terrace to tho number of twenty, tho top one resting on the outer walls, ami even with tho bal ustrade. 'Tho terraces were upheld by immensely strong galleries, whoso ceil ings wore termed of hewn stones sixteen foot long and four feet wide. Resting on these stones was a layer of reeds, mixed with a great quantity of asphalt, and on this was a doulile floor of Ii re-dried bricks laid in mortar; finally, a floor of lead plates to prevent any moisture from penetrating the foundations of tin ter races, the soil of which rested directly on the leaden floor, and was of sufficient depth to hold and nourish trees fifty feet high,.and thousands pf rare plants culled from fill parts of the known world. All these wore kept in a perennially flourish ing condition, we are informed, by water raised from tho Euphrates through the aid of machinery coneoiilcd from view in rtain rooms made in tin* galleries. The galleries also contain many royal apart ments, variously decorated and fur nished. Decently lighted they could not Imvo been; hut one can easily im agine that a walk around these upper terraces on a fine moonlight night, senses harmed by soft music and by wave of perfume rising from tho wilderness of flowers and shrubs below, in’-st have cnclHSiting.—Marie J lowland. A Little'Romance. article in the Builder on Miss Milford and her pretty cottage at Bead ing, tho following pretty story is told: Nor can you have forgotten how " a whimsical experiment in legislation,” making a preliminary visit to Swallow- field C’ottngo essential to all the inhabi tants ol " Our Village” who wore aliout to murrv, introduced many a blushing belle and awkward beau to the notice of tho inhabitants. Tho romantic story of llniiniih was probably the most striking of all tho village love stories with which that little old cottage thus became asso- .iated. One morning tho limping parish lerk introduced to the little hail on u matter of business in tho matrimonial way a pair of lovers; he a fine handsome athletic young man, holding the hand of his young woman, " who, with her head jiiilf buried in a geranium in tho window, turning bashfully away.” Miss Mil ford was crossing tho hall; " tho shrink ing grace of that bonding figure was not to be mistaken.” She cried in surprise, 'Hannah!" and, with u woman’s eager uriosity and interest, at once took tho pretty, lady-like village girl aside to hear love story. It wits very short. 'The young man, who said he was it journey man natter, Imd come to “.Our Village’ to sec the cricketers, whom Dr. Milford took delight in patronizing. He saw I.liiiiiitili, and came again. Hiinmih’s hard working, widowed mother liked him; in fnet, ns lliinimh gushingly said, "every body liked Iter William,” and so she was 'oing to— " Was it wrong?” she anxious- y asked. “Certainly not,” wits the em phatic response. William had expressed a fear lest Hannah should find Ins poor home in some narrow street or lane, in Beading a sad exchange for her cottage home at Three-Mile Cross; hut, said Hannah, “Ho little thinks, any whore--” and broke off, finishing with a clasping of tho pretty hands and blushing of the soft cheeks, f ur more eloquent than words. You remember the rest of that romantic, lovostory,how tho “Journeyman” turned out to ho the son of a “Great Ilatter," who lived in tho market-place of Read ing, and hud much wcilth; and how, when Miss Mitford visited the happy blushing bride in that town, she found her so prettily quaint and awkward as tho mistress of one of the beat houses in Reading, with fine servants, fine furni turo, fine clothes, fine gardens, and more money than "she knew wlmt to do with. A touching little story that, perfectly true, and, one fairly belonging to tins little old house.—Daily Graphic A Belgian has invented a machine by which the movements of the vocal organs in speaking are mechanically recorded. It is placed in juxtaposition to the tongue, larynx, or lips, and it is not necessary to speak aloud. Tho writing consists o« dots and dashes. Kkiioi.enk and powdered lime, whit ing or wood ashes, will scour tins with the least labor.