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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WIKLE & 00.. Prourietors,
CEDARTOWN. GEORGIA. RRTDAY FEBRUARY ->3, 1877.
VOL III. NO. 35.
XEWS SUMMARY. CONGEKSSIOXAI
During 1870 $13,000,000 were added
io I the tumble value of the property of
North Unroll UR.
J. B. Wigthan. of Corrie, l’a.' has
leaned several oil veils In Overtun county,
Tennessee, and will immediately being work.
The woman s Christian association of
Memphis issues a warning and appeal to the
mothers of that city not to allow their chil
dren to join in with the maskers on the oc-
cnaion of the coming Mardi Gras, either in
the scenes upon the streets or at the ball-
rooms. They claim that lh*se Indulgence*
are source# of sin and slume.
The Richmond Dispatch, in speaking
of the state debt of Virginia, humorously
says; The . j* a knotty one, and the
financiers will find it hard of solution. The
state will now rapidly improve, and the rev
enue sources will he multiplied. Hut she
has a remedy now at hand. She knows tlint
brandy—burnt or not—can save her. A
li<|uir tux cun make tnc state easy now, and
put her in a fine condition for further aid
from future prosperity. Put all the drinkers
of liquor nt tlm wheels of government and
they will be promptly and triumphantly
lifted out of the mire. If the financiers
should succeed in finding out “liow to do
it,” the state will be happy enough; hut if it
should not find out this important secret, we
can at least rally to the public snpport and
drink the state out o( embarrassment.
Florida Union; For tho past few
year* the mania for Florida oranges has been
so great that it was Impossible to supply the
steadily increasing demand at anything like
reasonable prices. In all northern and
Western market* good, and even fabulous,
price* have been obtained f..r this golden
fruit of Florida, while other oranges have
sold nt fair to nominal prices. This henry
demand and good sale of the Florida orange
hnve created considerable enthusiasm and a
■I’lrit of speculation in the mind* of a host
of fruit merchants, who this year have spec
ulated extensively, and to their sorrow, on
account r.f the dire frost, which has depre
ciated tne value of their contracted crops to
an unknown extent, making their venture*
very unreliable and subject to heavy loss,
a* frozen fruit is spongy, unsalable, unfit
both to eat nml ship, and it oa*i|y rots.
While these facts are no great drawback to
future orange culture, yet this year's prices
will inevitably n li e i t price* oi nucceediug
Tho North Carolina cotton product of
the past year was estimated at 250,000 hale*,
worth probably more than $13,000000 This
represent* hut n small fraction of the capac
ity of the state, in this direction, unde! a
bettor system of cultivation than now ex
ist*. To accomplish this result, efforts arc
being made to Induce the legi*lature to pass
a law providing for the establishment of ag
ricultural colleges* The great and little
dismal swamps embrace about 3,000,000 acres
of the richest land of the state, n lorgc por
tion of which, by n moderate outlay for
draining, could be made equal to tho most
fertile of Louisiana. Those lauds belong
chiefly to the literary or educational fund,
hut are of no present value to it. Gov
Vance is desirous of having them drained
and utilized, and will favor any reasonable
measure to that end.
The mineral resource* of North Caro
lina can scarcely he overestimated. Rich
veins of iron,'coni, copper, lend, tine, mica
and nickel are found in many oountics.
Gold and silver also abound, and their pro
duction is a source of livelihood to hun
dreds, nml of marked wealth fo many peo
ple, though the workers are mainly negroes,
hud their prove:sen for obtaining the pre
cious metals crude beyond description. A
well-known English mineralogist, who has
had over twenty-five years’ experience in
practical mining in South America, Mexico,
California, Nevada and Colorado, say* that
neither of the countries nor states named
w ill compare, in precious metals, with North
Carolina, lie has recently made large pur
chase* of mineral land* on Deep river, anil
is actively working them, the ore being
hand-dressed and shipped to Europe for re-
roKKIWN.
At the iihnunl nisoling of tho .Sheffield
chamber of commerce, on the third instant,
the preside nt said that the Sheffield manu
facturer* and workmen had only themselves
to blame for the loss of trade with America
and themicceMful American competition with
foreign countries. Sheffield workmen had
not come up to the make aud style required
bv customers.
The “Read-Ileal*' Danger.
In " Topic* of the Times," in •Scribner
for January, Dr. Holland discusses the
deadbeat: What are we to do with
these people ? How in thin disease to bo
treated ? These questions demand an
early answer, for the evils to which they
relate are increasing with alarming
rapidity. There is the general feeling
that they will take care of themselves w
sion an prosperous times shall return
but, us wo have already said, this is i
mistake. The dead-beat will never re
form. The tramp will be a traffic fo
life, shifting from country to city as hi*
comforts may demand, and ready to be
led into any mischief w hich will give
him grub and grog. There ought to be,
this very winter, in every state in the
union, such laws passed as will restrain
the wanderers, and force them to seE-
supportin some public institution. A
-tanding commission of vagrancy should
lie instituted in every large city and
every county in the land ; and institu
tions of industry established for the pur
pose of makingthe»e men self-supporting,
and of curing them of their xvrrtcbed
disease. We have lunatic asylum*, not
only for the benefit of lhe lunatics, but
f,r the relief of the community, and
among the dead beats urni tramps we
have an enormous number of men who
are just as truly diseased as the maddest
of men in Utica or at the Boomingdale
asylum. Something must be done with
them, and done at once, if we are to
have any com ort by day or safety by
night; for men who are so demoralized as
to bee from choice and die by profession,
have DUt to take n single step to land in
ruffianism. Already they intimidate,
and rob and murder, to g t the 'means tu
(support their useless lives.
■lOUNM.
In the house, on tho 3d, tin* session
»n* resumed nt 10 o’clock, and the house im
mediately went into committee of the whole,
Mr. Regan in the chair, on legislative, judi
cial and executive appropriation bill. After
having disposed of ilie hill the committee
rose and tcported it to the house. Amend
ment* fixing the salary of senators and rep
resentatives at $5,000 were agreed to. An
amendment incrensiutr the cnmnotwwllnn of
the p
47, nt....
until Monday
In tho house, on the Mb, rcccs* was
prolt ngeil till 11:50 u.m., when Mr. Hanning
presented a petition of twenty-eight hanking
institutinnsof Cincinnati, for the law taxing
hanks. The senate amendments to the for-
tifiriition appropriation hill and tin* military
iii-adeniy hill were non-concurred In. At
I 50 p.m. the house took a recess until to
morrow.
In the house, on tin* tltli, after tin*
usual extension of recess the house went
into committee of the whole, Mr. Eaton in
the chair, on deficiency appropriated, $1,-
117,000. The two largest appropriations
0 for dofieienev ill navy
ho have lost limbs. With
out disposing of the bill tho committee rose.
A recess was taken until ten o’clock to-
inorow.
in tho house, on the 7th, Mr. Waldron,
from committee on appropriations, reported
hock the senate hill appropriating $350,000
for deficiency in tiie appropriation for gov
ernment printing and binding for the pres
ent fiscal year. Mr. Vance, chairman of the
committee on printing, oflered an amend
ment providing that after the close of the.
present congress no greater price shall he
paid for labor by tliv government printer
than I* paid in the cities of New York,
Philadelphia nml lialtimore. The amend
ment was adopted—yens, UK; nays, 105, aud
the hill was passed. Mr. Hloiint, from com
mittee on appropriations, reported navy ap
propriation toll. Referred to committee on
whole. The hill appropriates $12,40-1,752.
Adjourned till 10 u.m. to-morrow.
NKNATt'.
In the senate, on the 3d, Mr. Hamlin
submitted an amendment to the pos'office
appropriation hill, appropriating $500,000
for steamship mail service between San
Francisco, Japan and China for one year
nnd authorizing a contract with the Pacific
mail steamship company for transporting a
monihlj- mail between the ports designated,
lie also submitted uu amendment appropri
ating $550,000 from the revenues of the great
trunk line* for railway nostnlllce service
during the fi«oal year ending .lime SO, 1*78.
Referred A hill for the sale m njpsrt of the
Fort Dallas military reservation, O/ogon,
wa* discussed until expiration of the morn-
nit? hour, when n brief executive session was
held, followed by rect**s till Monday morning.
Ill the senate, on the Atli, at the expi
ration of the morning hour, consideration
was resumed of unfinished business, the hill
to amend tho Pacific trail road nets so as to
create a sinking fund for the liquidation of
unit btednesN due to the "government by the
Pacific railroad companies. Mr. Christ fancy
spoke in favor of the Dill reported by the
judiciary committee, and against that of the
railroad committee. When Mr. ChritUancy
concluded, the hill was laid aside informally
and the senate considered hills of a private
nature. The senate at 2 o’clock went into
executive session and soon lifter took a re
cess till to-morrow.
In tho senate, on tho tltli, Mr.
Win.lorn, from the committee on appro
priation*, reported adversely on the house
bill to provide for the payment of .lames B.
Eads for construction of the jetties at South
I 1 ,inn on the Mississippi river, aud was placet!
on the calendar with the adverse report. It
authorizes the secretary of the treasury to
pay out of any unappropriated money in the
treasury $.500,000 to said Ends, whenever the
secretary of war shall determine that
amount is due raid En I* by the terms of the
contract. At the expiration of tho morn'ng
hour the bill to amend the Pacific railroad
net so as to provide a sinking fund for the
liquidation of indebtedness due the gov
ernment was taken tip and Mr. Hitchcock
spoke tu opposition to the bill of the judi
ciary committee. After debate the hill was
laid aside informally, with the understand
ing that it should be unfinished bu-dnest to
morrow. "Mr. Ingalls said| the hill abol
isliing the hoard of metropolitan police
commissioners of tho District of Columbia,
with the president’s veto, was lying upon
the table, the committee having recom
mended that it he paused, notwith
standing the objections of the president
thereto. The subject wa* discussed at some
length, and the question being shall the hill
pp*, notwithstanding the objections of the
president thereto, ii wa* decided in the neg
ative. yeas 33, nay* 22, two-third* not voting
in affirmative. The senate went into execu
tive session and when the doors were re
opened took a recess till 10 o’clock tremor-
In the senate, ou tho 7th, Mr. Dor. cy
introduced a hill to repeal the net to incor
porate the National Capital Life Insurance
company, and to provide for winding up it*
affair*. Referred. The bill providing pay
ment to .lames B Rada for the construction
of the jetties at South !’**«, Mississippi
river, was discussed at some length, hut soon
efier expi alion of the morning hour Mr.
Gordon demanded the regular order, and
Eads’ hill wa* laid over. The bill to amend
the Pacilie railroad acts, so ns to create a
■inking fund for liquidation of indebtedness
dmen’s Hsving’s and Trust company
in certain real estate and other proper-
nd to sell the same nt public or private
| sajp. He submitted an amendment, provid
ing that no rale of real estate shall he made
by the commissioner* except at public auc
tion, unless tuch sale and term* thereof shall
be first approved by one of the justices of
the supreme court. Agreed to. The bill
! ihen posted. Mr. Clayton called up senate
I hill to authorize and empower the ueerctary
of tiie interior to adjust and settle the ac-
| counts of the K*sk*ski*. Peoria, Pianke-
j ► haw and Wea Indians. Passed.
The Jewish Restoration.
A curious rumor i* afloat, for which
we do not vouch, that tiie porte, in its
eagerness for money, has offered to sell
the hereditary pashalic of the holy land
to any candidate accepted by the Jews
in return for ft loan. The transaction
would be one of the moat singular in
history, but it is not beyond the range
of possibility. Palestine needs nothing
but irrigation and trees, and though the
Jews dislike agriculture, fellaheen suffi-
| cient might be attracted from Egypt.
The restoration of the Jews, with Lord
i Beaconsfleld for first king, would be an
i incident romantic enough to satisfy
' even the Imagination of the author of
’Alroy."—1/nnlnn S^datoi.
SPEl’lK PAYMENT,
ni-wiiKi' from ttu- t‘re*liteiil-ir I'nrrmr;
nml l oin Nlinulil IInm-Ii t:< ( intl Vnl-
ii a. Il Hn,» Itrounir Aaltimthlr
lo l»*»-«-<-■ Iti-aitntiHinn,
The following 1.* the president'* message to
congress on the subject of specie payments;
prove for the resumption of spe
cie payment*, the 1st of January, 1870, 1*
tho date when such resumption is
upon tho government
Handing legal tender notes in coin, on pre
sentation; hut it is certainly most desirable,
and will provide most beneficial to every no-
Military interest ol tin* country, to hasten the
lay when the paper circulation of the coun
try nnd good coin shall liave equal value, it
might become advisable to authorize, or di
rect the resumption.
I believe the time has come when, by a
simple net of llie legislative branch of tin*
government, this most desirable result can
he attained. I am strengthened in this view
by tiie course trade lias taken in the last two
years, and by the strength of the credit of
the United Suite* nt home nml abroad.
For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876,
the exports of the United Slates exceeded
the imports by $120,213,102. hut our exports
include $-10,609,021 of specie and hiiliimi in
ices-, of import* of the same commodities
or six mouths of the present li»e*i year,
•'rum July 1,1870, to January 1,1877, tho
xeesH of exports over import* amounted to
$10,541 860, and the imports of specie and
bullion ex seeded exports of precious nictnU
l»y $6,102.H7 in the same time. The actual
excess of exports over imports for six
months, exclusive of specie nnd bullion,
amounted to $113,737,040, showing for the
time being the accumulation of specie mid
bullion in the country amounting to more
tliaii $6,000,000, iu addition to the natural
product of these metals for tho same period,
a total increase of gold and silver for six
months not fir short of $60,000,000. It is
blent thnl unless UiIn great increase
of precious metals cun he utilized nt homo
in such a way ns to make il in some mniiucr
remunerative to holders, it must seek a for
eign market as surely as would any Jollier
product of the mil or manufactory. ’ Any
legislation which will keep coin and’ lull 1 loti
at home will, in my judgment, scon bring
about practical resumption, and will udd the
colli of the country to the circulating me
dium. thus securing -I healthy iiillation of
•und currency, to the great advantage of
cry legitimate business interest. The not
provide for the resumption of specie
payment* authorized the secretary of tho
treasury to nsuo ho mi* of either ol the do-
rlptlons named in the act of congress up-
ov.-d July 1. 137t), entitled “An net to au
thorize the refunding of the national debt"
it less than par ill gold. \\ ith the pre-
value of -I'.j per cent, bonds III tiie
market* of the world, they could lie ex-
ingcil at par for gold, thus strengthening
■ iiensurr to meet the final resumption,
I keep the excess of coin over the demand
pending its permanent use as a circulating
medium nt home. All. Hint would lie re-
pilred would he to reduce the volume of the
legal tender notes in circuit lion. To ac-
pli*di this I would suggest mi act author
izing the secretary of the treasury to Issue
iMiudsVitli forty year* to run
ty, to he exchanged for legal
tender uotosj whenever presented in sum*
of $00 or any multiple thereof, tho whole,
nniniiiit of such bond*, however, not to ex-
il $250,000,000. To Increase (he home de
mand for such bond* I would recommend
Hint they tic nvnilnhle for deposit in the
United Htnte* treasury for hanking purpose*
under the various provisions of the lax? re
lating to national bank*. I would suggest
further that tiie national hanks he required
retain a certain part of (lie coin Interest
•eived by them from bonds deposited with
e treasury to secure their circulation. 1
would iiImi reootriliieml the repeal of the
third section of the joint resolution for the
issue of silver coin, approved July 22,1870,
limiting sunsidiarv coin and fractional cur-
t-ncy to $.50,000,000. I am satisfied that if
•oiigrcN* will enact some such law a* will no*
'omplish the end suggested they will give re-
icf to the enuntry iuslan.taneotl*!n its « fleet
mid for which they will receive the gratitude
of the whole people. U. H. Grant.
Executive Mansion, Fell. 3, 1877.
Tho secretary of the treasury says he lins
sufficient silver to meet legitimate demands,
and declines to re-exchange United Htnte*
mites for silver brought to the department
in Mini* vuryihg from $10 to $.500.
Tltt* Hill I way 8 of Hit* World.
Dr. < J. Stncrmcr, of Bromberg, I’rus-
a, ha* collected statistica of the rail-
ays of tin* world, at tho cud of 187/),
irl wc make the following excerpt:
NOItT/t AM Kill CV
c KNntAJ. AMERICA ,
knglli-h
other canines which have long dwelt
with man, the Spitz Hoorn* incnpubli* of'
forming a lasting friendship with hisj i
Iwnefartor. It i* well ascertained that
he is liable to tutu upon hi* master at
MAllltlKIM.II K IN AUSTRALIA.
r Knuilslt XVouiiin'm lliipp.s K«|>e-
' -•-••• -I • | A voting woman who emigrated from
. moim-ut, nml tlio-o wlm iiivp vUllo.11 |-„ u .,:, n< i |„„ wr |n«i In-,.
linuwBwhrwIlM! Spilt him « ... mil ' „ lit |„ lv f r | c „,| B i„ ||m old
t«l "» ",l*‘ yrobnbly onU-rlnhicl u lively ; .|, lnil w i,| c |, nro prlnlml In llio
Middlesex Hegiater. She tells her sister
impression ol hi* nronoiMircd hostility to
stranger*. The beauty of this animal
is well calculated to make him a favorite
with the ladies, who do not think of the
terrible peril to which the possession of
their pet exposes them. In the case of
children the danger i* particularly great,
a* tho young people always make a friend
of a dog, and are always given to in-
.ltilging in nmctlenl jokes at theexpense
England, who talk* of joining her, that
she may as well make her wedding dress
Indore she leaves, as wives are badly
needed in that distant colony. “And
now with regard to your luggage, (let a
good, strong wood or tin box, and pack
in all the things you do not want on the
voyage—do not open the box. llavo a
large caiqvctbng with what things you
want for tho voyage. Leave home in n
thick dress and have a thin dress in tho
of tiieir canine companions. In the
of thoroughly domesticated dogs this is
not ntlornM will, imv norlm.n ronultn |, n g (hr ,|„. wonllmr. Aim, nomn chmir
liecmitjo llio ilogn Inkn In il kindly ; ml little ten
tin* Milieu and snappish nature of tiie 1
•Spitz may litany time break out and
result in injury to the children involving
u horrible death. And death seems to
vault inevitably from the bite of the
Spit* dog. He is a public enemy.- .V
r. //miW.
THE MOUTH lMH.K.
of ills-
ol'nii Aiitiirrttc roiilliicnl
Not so much for the nur|H>-e
,-overlng now lands in the south, as to
ibtain information conct*rning the south
inngneticjmla— aumttorol much ini|*)rt-
anee to science, the British government
fitted out the Erebus and Terror, mid
placed them under James Ross, with
(’ro/.ier as his second in command. They
left England in 1889, nnd did not
again for four years.
Wonderful it was to see a raging vol
cano in such a region. A long stretch of
land was seen to lie marked hy two mag
nificent mountains ; one of which,
and sugar, a lew aweeta nnd biscuits, and
a piece of good cheese you will find the
nicest. Don’t forget In bring some bak
ing powder; you will find It very usoful
on the voyage. You will not want any
thing for seasickness. If you are ill the
doctor will see that you want for nothing.
You may hrintr all your clothes out wlfli
you, as you will waiit warm ones as well
its thin ones. If you have any hooks,
bring them, as they will help you to pass
many a dreary hour. 1 would not bring
any new dresses, aa they nro about the
same price out herons iu England."
Ill a letter to her expected sister In-law,
the same lady speaks of the superior hap
piness of wedded life. " Wedded Ufa re
minds mo of a horse with his feet hobbled
—you inny go fo far. but not any further,
ft | You may laugh and talk with your old
fricndH ashing ns you like; hut you must
not go out with them to places of amuse
incut, or above all, accept a present from
any. That will never do. But alter all
its a jolly, happy life for one, to have a
tivo volcano, twelve thousand loot high, | home of your own, some one to look after
ileved the name of Mount Erchua; ( you. and homo ono to look after, and I
while tho other, an extinct volcano of find, that we girls arc better inn tried than
somewhat less height, wiih named after j sinirle.” She sneaks of the wilderness ol
an panion ship Terror. An munis- J tho country mid their rude domestic nr-
takable volcano was Erebus. Such a I rnngenients: “1 like the hush, nnd I
ignificont combination of volcanic fir*! jhnve a first rate huinper to live in. We
1 endless ice probably never before b«vo a bed room and a sitting room, and
thuninn eye, lor Mount lleota, in Ire- I cook out of doors. The humpey Is a
land, must lai far inferior to it. slab one, with a bark roof nnd a slab
did not winter in that remote floor. Between some of the slabs there
region; indeed, so far as is known, no are cracks large enough to put your hand
human living ever passed n winter among in ; but I like the hush, nnd Harry likes
the nntnrtic let*. Itosa spent tlireo kiiiii it because lie can have plenty of slioof
mors in his exploration, while he housed ing. lie often brings homo a couple ol
his ship for tin* intervening winters,! ducks or water hens, and FometlmcH n
either at Tasmania or the Falkland I turkey, and nt other tlinca only two or
islands. Among the early explorers ol three parrots. I am keeping tliolr wings
the mysterious Southern ocean won* and tails to send homo to you ; they wl I
Juan Vermindcz, Dirk (lerritz. Bedro | do for your lutta. You n*k whether tho
Fernandez de (Jiiinis, (’apt. (’is»k. Wed- hiiii shines from three o’clock in the
dell, Dumont d'llurvillr and Wilkes ! morning lo seven in the evening. No,
We might also, if their discoveries had but it does from five in tho morning till
borne such fruit, notice more fully the j seven iu the evening, and thero is no
pedition of Kerguelen, who discovered twilight in this country. It is dark
the bland named after him a little
than, a century.figoj uujiIho those ol
Hmitli, Vowel), minM- nnd DellittgliMD
sen, fifty s ! x yeurU ago. resulting In the
discovery of Booth Hhetbind, Month
Orkney, VnlniqrVland, and Alexander
land. Those fitted, nut hy Mosars. En-
ilflrby, fho lilnjial’lind energetic promo
ters of whale nnd Heal fishing In tho
Houihorn ocean, are worthy ol brief re
cord ; for two veVaCls, placed by them
under Captains Htecpound Balleny, willed
into regions xvhieji led to the dlscovi*—
of Ennerhy lattiJ^Jfialle
hrirui land.
i llio Him goes down.'
land and Ha
’ Helmed "BrcrfM.
One of tlm best schools for girls in Now
York city publishes in its regulations;
“ Mlmplo and easy-fitting dress required."
The principals Illustrate their precept hy
example, and wear, during school hours,
calico dresses. A writer, in giving advice
about school dross Insists that tho school •
room is not the iducc for the display of
wealth or fashion, and therefore, tho
school dress should ho marked by simplic
ity.
. r ut i ,, • ' Anything which diverts the niton-
Onon)tet 0 fSlr,!nn.ra IU* •■*!•.•• , ti 0 „ «r llio ptipil Iron, lmr ol .luUcn
lion w..«, II mMo. u, raid! tj.o nmilli; iM {„•„/„ but It will nccord
ninKiinllc |»nlo~u dlfli-ronl point from U ,„ J „l H ,. rv „ llo „ of u . nc | lc n. tlmt
|l.o HOlttli tntwtrlnl l«.li'. lhournal,, cllltll0B Wlirk l „i H ,.|,| 0 r to
CV lmrricr preAirtod llio ronllmt ••» s t | IJB lr w<-oror In tliln ro.|n>ct tin
tlmt Hone. A few yenrn n K <, I.lnuteminl | itI Thl . |,| K |,nlndod ol
Moore, in tin |>KOdn, not oil lo l.niku „ „ lu , n( .„ t lilllll(l g „ rb| while
magnetic obacffvittions **• * i ' n -••*••—*«'• 1 * °
circle tirnt had not U*ei
«, nnd rendciod jtront. „ „
hut did not got V Ithln 1.100 inllen nl the | T||cir , n(llh „ rs hnv( , b*,,, ,„ 0 himy with
tanUHizing pole. .... their clothes to pay much attention to
1 ho render .will re mom her tlmt twn ,, , braina , ThlH inninln novoro; would
years ago tho astronomers of tho whole . Wpro ^ truo!
world worn gromlylhlorontcd In n trim-, '.. Whllo'over-nllontlon In toilet mnt
Ven “";, norrord olnmrvntimm ul,, ,, „ ||hw Ktu()v „ cg || KOncu
wh.eli would, t won Jrollovcd, nffiird d.U.i u „ t | (UncM „ r ,, ulrc f u Uy to ho ivfildorl.
Inr oirleulnting the run dintnnoo o tho , )W . ll „|„|y m ,„i P not bh
'"V" 1 } W narth, nnd from nil tho Uxmnndvc, eitl'er ol thru, or money, nod
o her plunoU. ft win. denirnhln fo n.nko J r , ln clonnlihdrn In
the olworvntloun nt many d. lorom n|nd«,, , iu J ,|,. Uli | M j H „.|| llt „ VO rv pornun owoa
widely nepnrnt.nl lmtl. in h,III. do nnd ... , himHP | r „ r |,i, „„„ei„t,n.'
Iniigitildc; nnd nneol tho n|mtn noleotrd , „ u u ve , u . B | r „|, : „ t |,„ t t l,o pupil
■ ’ U, ft
i" m ?i .‘ I those be-ringed and hn-ruffed and stlier-
i visiteii; lie urn w j w , K ] )f>w *,|y attired are generally quite
! \a/? 4 ' Vi 111 rl'f 1 ; dostltuto *»t Intellectual Jiomo culture.
Thus it appears that 40} per cent, of
the railroad mileage of the world is in
the United States, 43J percent, in North
America, and 4ft} per cent, in all Amer
ica. Europe has 48J per cent., Africa
about 1 of 1 per cent., Australasia less
than 1 per cent.—Railway WorUl.
Beware of the Spitz Bog.
A careful examination of the statistics
of death from hydrophobia which we
publUli in the article entitled “Beware of
the dog,” will convince any reasonable
person of the danger attending the in
troduction into this country of the Bpttz
dog. Binco liis nd vent there has Wen an
alarming increase in the number of
deaths from hydrophobia. This is duo
to the savage habits of the animal, which
render him a most undesirable neighbor.
The Hpitz dog come* from the fore*ts of
Pome ran ia, where he exists in a semi-
savage state, and where he is in constant
contact with the still more savage w*»lf.
Althoif£h dome*! ion ted the savage 1n-
Htiuctsof the brute remain, and, unlike
Kerguelen's bland, already
tinned, situated between the ('ape of
Coral Hope and Australia, but farther
south than cither. Astronomer* from
England, Germany and the United.
Htates landed on the Island and did good
work there, but (and this is the reason
why wo mention tho matter here) the
roughness of the climate was a great trial
to them. Although farther from the
south |Kilo thfln any purt of England is
from the uarth pole, the weather was
nearly always stormy, and tho tempera
ture verging on the freezing-point, even
in the summer of that hemisphere.
Astronomers are considering of appeal
ing .to the Southern ocean again five
years hence, when another transit of
Venus will take place, and when still
more advantage is expected to lie de
rived from the use of a situation a* near
the antarctic pole as possible. Jn order
to give these hard-working astronomer*
fair play, it would be no more than right
to send out nn expedition a year or two
in advance to accumulate as many useful
and geographical facto as might lx; at
tainable; and it is just possible tlmt, in
doing, Kir James Ross’ seventy eighth
degree of latitude might be overpassed,
eKpecially ab they might now have, what
Ross had not, Htoam power wherewith to
contend alike against calme and adverse
winds.
What we know of the south pole, then,
i-i simply this—that nobody has got with
in seven or eight hundred mile* of it;
that icy barrier* are met with quite eclips
ing anything known in the north frigid
zone; that mountains have been seen
(one shooting forth volcanic flames) lof
tier than anv discovered by our northern
exploits; that all the hind is covered
with snow at all season*; that no human
being ha* been met with beyond fifty-six
degrees of latitude ; that no vegetable
growth, except lichens, has been seen lie
yem'd ifilty-eiglit degrees of latitude; and
that no land quadruped is known to oxi*t
beyoiiy sixty-six degrees of latitude
Hchv a Bt. lyonis bankrupt got rid
of $0,bOO in three weeks wa- explained
to tlni satisfaction of the creditor* by a
wH'-'S*, whowid that fte
ft Mow.
should have at least two sphool suits,
in the crowded school-room the clothing
becomes wit it ruled wi th the exhala
tions float ing in the atmosphere, aud an
airing of the clothe* every two or three
days is necessary to keep them fresh and
sweet. E- pecially is this true of clothe*
that are. not put into the wash-tub, and
Of shoes. Wciirimrthipe after a day's sun
ning mid ailing will give one a tenaction
almost mi pleasant as that of putting on
clotliea.
As a rule, the more slmplv » child is
dressed, the more attractive it is to all
sensible people. The bewildering maze of
rnfiling and embroidery, and knife-plait
ing and shirring, and great broad, brown
sash, big enough to shroud tho child in,
’with which little girls and boy* in kilt*
are dressed, is simply shocking to the
people of correct taste. I**.t us not have
it in the school-room."
Eminent Uounsel.
The counsel employed to represent »lic
enses of the respective high contending
parties before tlm great court of arbitra
tion are men of distinction, and vet tiie
charters of tho gentlemen selected on the
different Hides are in some sort typical of
the character of tho caw*. <">n the dem
ocratic side the case will be in the hand*
of'JereS. Black, the ablest lawyer now
at the supreme court, a democrat ol tho
Buchanun school, and a keen, incisive
reasoner upon facts a* well a* principle*.
He will be assisted by Lyman Tmmmill.
who has no superior us a r.lear-hcHdfd
constitutional lawyer; Matt Carpenter,
the brilliant but erratic lawyer of the
northwest, who is one of the most cogent
reason rs at the bar. amazingly well
read in constitutional law, keen in logic
and sever** iu •I'luitiO'iHion; Judge Cain j:
bell, who has been himself an associnte-
jiistice of the supreme court, and lien
Butler, whoso peculiar |
(•client knowledge of the in* ami out* of
LouiMuna politics, of which he |iini*elf
whs in some -.art the founder, eminently
fit him to cross-examine the Louisiana
returning board. What Butler fails to
extort from Wells. Kenner. Anderson
will probably tu t D* w
plainly that the democrats intend to
present the law before the court in the
strongest shape, and rift the facts iu the
minutest manner. In a word, they
mean bunnies*, and wish everybody to
know that they think they have a wise,
aud intendt to preiont It In*tho best pnsri-
blo form. On the other hand, the re
publican case is to be confided 'to Mr.
William M. Evarts, the eminent coun
sel who led the forlorn hope to the de
fense of the Into Henry Ward Beecher
to Mr. Stoughton, of New York, who
has taken Eowiml I’lorrepont’s position
as the (hick-ami thin advocate ol Grant-
Dm in its last and first phases; and to
Mr. Boh Ingersoll, the corrupting sky
rocket of tly-up-tho-creek republicanism,
ho whose flowers ot oratory spring up
from fo«m1h homo to inaccessible shores
mi the hubbies of bosh. In other word*,
the democrats mean to present their
route in n legal way, and the republicans
iu a rhetorical way. One aide will take
to the supreme court; the other wide will
magniloquize to the select audience of
confederate X roads. One will hold up
the constitution ; tho other wrap itself
once more in tho bloodv shirt.— JluHinwr?
fin Hr'in.
The Finnitie in India.
A Calcutta telegram to the Loudon
Times of tho fourteenth of January says:
The famine in the Deccan is assuming a
serious aspect. There is an ent ire failure
of the crops in one Bombay district—
namely Hliolaporo. Two others—name
ly, Kaladore and Dhnrwiir,—are nearly
as ill off. A partial failure involves se
vere distress in Khaudish, Nawdck,
Ahmednuggcr, I'ooiin, Batnra nnd Bel
gium!. Large relief workaam sanctioned.
About 287,000 |H*apIo nro on the relict
works in Bombay. The government is
not interfering with private trade, which
is |H)uring in large supplies of grain. The
total cost from loss of revenue and from
expenditure on relief worka in Bombay
ill probably lie over £2,000,000 sterling.
Matters arc still worse in Madras. Both
the southwest and northeast monsoon
have failed, thus causing famine iu
twelve districts. Large relief works
have been commenced which employ
over one million persons. Beside these,
many are’ receiving charitable relief
Probably the cost to the state in Madras
presidency alone will In* over £4,000,000
sterling. There is also considerable dis
tress in Mysore, aud the southern portion
of the Fiztini’s dominion.
Tho area of this territory, exclusive ol
native stales, comprise*) nlxMi*. 84,000
square miles, aud the total population
amounts to 8,000,000. ol which fi,000,000
are reported to he included in lhe tracts
immediately affected. Hitch being the
ease, belli governments have organized
with great activity relief works. Largo
gongs have been employed in making
roads, dljrglng wells, and constructing
and clearing tanks. Greater works,sueli
a* niilronds ond canals, ore in contempla
tion, and shnnld iiocessity- arise, they
will bo undertaken. By the lost accounts
the very large number of 840,000 men
aie rojKirted as employed on the relief
works of Madras and 200,000 on those of
Bombay.
Tho government is striving to turn llio
vast amount of unemployed labor to per
manent uses. India is n jmor country,
not only because much of its sail cannot
:fe profitable by the rude appli
ances of native husbandry, but also lie-
use it is badly supplied with railways,
even ronda; and above all, because no
sufficient provision lias been made against
the |M>riralieuil drouths. Much of it
might l>o made like a girden if the water
brought by the rainy season were stored
in a net work of canals to await the. next
time of scarcity. The value of such a
name- <„ ton | )Pa „ uoup,
point
FUG’S AND FA VC IK 4.
Bomb of tho Virginia girls sav Alexis
makes himself “really quite too’ liir more
than awfully agreeable."
Tim Berkshire (Mass.) ice product is
so clear that a newspaper may be read
through three teetot it.
Blatant conceit—The impression on
the part of our opponents that they have
a right, equally with ouniclves, to
opinions of tlioirown.
A Fbknch tourist, on a visit to tho
centennial last summer, wrote home:
“Americana live well up to their Income,
and insure their lives for tho balance."
It is perhaps true tlmt tho indiscrimin
ate charity (Idea more harm than good,
but- just lit present indiscriminate
charity i* not nrolific enough to justify
the hoisting of storm signals.
A wiwtkun paper, in describing an
accident recently, says, with much can
dor : “Dr. Jones was called, and under
Ida prompt and skillful treatment the
young man died on Wednesday night."
Tim Catholic. Directory for 1877 re
ports that the number of Catholic
churches in this country is ft.21)2; of
prie Is, ft 297. The estimated Catholic
l*ipuhition is 0,200,000.
A WlHHoNHlN lumberman offers thirty
dollars in cash for “a rattling good wife
—one who ia not loo high-nosed to grow
i." All tenmles reaching
go through without
change of ears.—Frcr f*rm.
Tijaciiku—Who was the first man?
Brown (head lmy)— Washington; ho wan
first in war, first in Teacher—No,
no! Adam was the lirat man. Brown —
Gli! If you’re talking of foreigners, I
’spose ho wav.
111511UBUT H 1*1'.NcK.it fills out liis para
graphs with Hitch words as “ondogomy,"
“exogamy,” “polygamy," “monogamy,"
“polyandry,” “polyguy" and “agna
tion," thus enabling imperfect mind* to
take in his meaning at a glance.
BuitillT-KYlifl, on being told that her
heart was like a garden, whore flowers
grew when she was good nnd weeds when
she was naughtv, rendered it to the ser
vant, “When 1 am naughty I have a
weed in my stomach.”
Tm: Danbury News niyn: “Wc are
all more or h ss conceited until uflor we
travel." Is travel, then, a hoverigu
remedy for conceit ? Dour James, come
wcHt and listen a few hours some busy
morning to the man who lins been at
the centennial.
Sthanhku, If you muat have a pet or
perish, git a young hedgehog—a main
olio iz preferable— nnd keep him housed
in a barrel,, nnd view him thru the bung-
hole' whenever yu feel loncHtim, nnd Tf
this don't make yu I’cel happy, It cer
tainly ain't pets that ails yu.—Jonh
A ciKiPf AtN' way to keep antn from
tmgnr' barrels, lard pans and preserve
jnr«, iiiya one who has tried it, is to tie a
siring wot with kerosene around the
barrel, can or jar. Repeat tho wetting
of tho st ring with the kerosene oil every
few days.
The chap bail legs like a pair of hIhIu-
jHincll*. Hniall hoy yelled to other small
hoy: “Huy, Billy, that roller’s got a
lloiipo’ courage to risk himself out on
such leg* as them, thin weather."
“Why?’ “Might freeze, break off,
stick in his body nnd bleed him to death.
On examining some new flowcrsin the
garden of the Rev. Sydney Smith a beau
tiful girl who was of the party exclaimed,
‘Oh* Mr. Smith, this |»ea will never
. ronio to perfection!” “Permitme,then,"
Hystom may bo ^estimated from a single ; wl j,| |, 0i gently taking lior baud nnd
award the plant, “To lead i>or-
nccount of Orissa. In 1870-71
finished canal in tlmt province sufficed
to irrigate 100,000 acrea, nnd thus to
raise 700,000 hundred weight of rice.
During the fa in inn of 1800 all the re
source* of tho government were unable,
ii* we have said, to provide the people
with more than J70,060 hundred weight.
Had the canal existed in tho time of tho
famine it might have saved two or three
hundred thousand liven."
IT the native* had the energy of Euro
pean*. they would go long distances and
organize mean* of their own to get grain;
hut they seemed to lose all power* of selt-
holn, and to Imvo only a languid wish
for life when stricken down by tlumo ter
rible aeencleaof deetructloh which nature
periodically le.a loose on India.
A Mother’s Influence.
Another instance of a mother’s power
ful Influence is given In what hii Ameri
can minister says of hi* recent visit to
Stock well Orphanage, LftDdon “There
were five Hputgoons present, and all said
a few words; the father, John Spurgeon,
and hi* two sous, J.. A. Spurgeon and
Charles: then the two sons of Charles,
conversed together, as we walked
about the grounds, lor some considera
ble time. Of course, I asked him of his
family. He iu sixty-six years of age.
He has right living children. He 1ms
Fjx*nt his life in the ministry. In the
course of conversation he said : 'I had
boon from home a great deal, trying to
build up weak congregation*, and felt
that I was neglecting the religious train
ing of my own children while 1 toiled
for the-good of others. I returned home
with these feelings. I opened the door,
and wo* surprised to find none of the
children about the hall. Going quietly
up the hinira, I heard my wile's voice.
She was engaged in prayer with the
children. I heard her pray for thorn one
by one by name. Bhe. catne lo Charles,
and special I v prayed or him, lor he wa*
of Jiigh spirit and daring temper. 1
listened,' said tiie oM gentleman to n»e,
carefully, ’listened till she had feuded lit
lection to tho pea.”
Time, beginning of the year. First
sliident (to second ditto). “Glad to sen
you back.” Becond student, “Bo glad
you’re glad." First rIndent, “Glad
you're glad, I'm glad." Hecond student,
“.So glad you’re glad I’m glad you’re
glad." A realizing econo ot tho awful
inmnity to which they nro drifting hero
breaks of!’the coition tty.
After tho battle of Chattanooga tho
surgeons made several incisions in tho
leg of a soldier who hud been wounded
in the knee hy a musket bull. Out of
patience at last, tho soldier exclaimed:
“Why are you carving ino tip no?"
“We'ro trying to find tho ball," answer
ed a surgeon. “Why didn’t you ask for
the ball in the first place?" indignantly
cried tho soldier ; “hero it is In my
jsi.kct-'”
Tub late Jedodluh Bushnoll, pastor of
tho Congregational church ut Cornwall,
Vt., one ol the wisest aud bct>L of men,
on an occasion of some disturbance made
by tho crying of an infant, paused Iu his
sermon to *uy ; “Mothers, don’t stay
away from the house of God because
you have no one to leave your babies
Maater Thomas and Charles. It was an with. Bring them with you' and if they
interesting siaht. After the meeting C ry now and then it will not distress or
Mr Spurgeon introduced me to his father,
i much
cry now nnd t hen
discompose me half«
your place* vacant."
IIkkk is a little Turkish romunce in
a nutshell. The sister of the sultan
married Mahmoud Bey, and died dur
ing the honeymoon, of lung disease. The
lady in the, case was twenty-nine years
old, had been six years a widow, was
devotedly attached to the man who be
came her husband, and married him
when hho knew that she could live but a
lew .lays, and she did this that ho might
inherit her estate, estimated at $9,000,-
000.
Bad for the Soldiers.
A late Havana napor announces tho
return to Hpain of the remnant, of a once
celebrated regiment, the Chasseurs of
Andalusia, widen has been serving in
Cuba for the List seven year). It says :
‘ Thc-e one hundred and eighteen heroes
l- tho tole remnant nl the tecuud
Till* lit
of
cl rii*,
prayer, nml I >elt nil' 1 naidi ' Imr.l, I j ptrlitir.naty Irgion, whliA arrived on
will eo on with Th v w-r The children these shores ns won as Hpniji learrod of
will to cored fur.'" " t lie cry of Ynrn. Of the 1.5-00 eoldicrn
with which this battalion reached Cuba,
Tiiky were ut the art club. Him— those who have survived the fever, tho
‘ Yes. indeed, that is a tweet, pretty black vomit, lockjaw and tho steel of the
picture of the hay-field, and the girl enemy, sum ul) only one hundred and
raking hay. and the children. <)h, j right*on." Remnanta of other cole-
they're horrid, tumbling alKjiit m.| And j bra ted regiments, which all show about
ovef there .’’ He—‘ But., darling, j the same lihte of casualties, arc being
you are passing right by Norton’s beach j Hliipj>ed back from Cuba to .Spain at the
view. Seethe fog and " Him—“Oh, rate of from two to three hundred iu
ve* Jknnw ; I don't like such pictures, each mail steamer. No wonder Gen
They make me think the Imp I* nil Campos insists still • heavier re-
r<filling out of my iuiir " I info.ofluiont*.