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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*.