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T'olume 2.
POETBY.
LITTLE ROSE.
sho comes with fairy footsteps—
, Softly their echoes fall—
And her shadow plays like summer shade
A cross the garden well.
The golden light is dancing bright
, ’Mid the mazes of her hair.
And her fair young locks waiving free
To the wooing of the Air.
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Like a sportful fawn she boundelh
So gleefully along;
Asa wild young bird-she caroloth
The burden of a song,,:
The summer flowers are clustering thick
Around her dancing feet,
And on her cheeks the summer breeze
Is breathing Soft arid sweet.
The sunbeams seem to linger
Above the holy head,
And the "did flowers at her coining
Their richest fragrance shed.
,AadOh ! how lovely light and fragrance
Mingle m the life within;
Oh I how fondly do they nestle
Sound the soul that knows no sin.
fene c'cmes— the spirit of onr childhood—
A thing of mortal birth.
Yet bearing still the breath of Heavon,
i To redtjep her from earth.
She cornea ip bright-robed innocence,
. Unpo'icd.by blot or blight,
And passeth, by our waytpard path)
A gleam of angel light,
r i • •’t i, j •
Oh i blessed things aye children—
The gifts of heavenly love ;
They stand betwixt our world-hearts
And better things abov^;
They link us With.the, spirit world
I3y purity and truth,
And keep our hearts still fresh and young
With the presence of the youth.
— Blackwood's Magazine.
I- MISCELLANY.
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ROGUES AND BEASTS.
■From Gen. D. H. Hill’s Southern Home.]
■ Grant made his brother-in law, a low
jfellow, United States Minister to Copen
hagen. The Danes socn found out that
Sic American representative was a ruffian
■ml expressed their disgust at his co3rse
■ess anil bo Irish uess. Grant sent Sick
les as United States Minister to Spain—
a drunken debauchee and gambler, who
lived with his adulterous wife after he
Bad slain her paramour. lie. sent Gen.
Behenck as Minister to England, and
Jichenck used his offioial position to in
lluce the English people to take stock in
Ifae bogus Emma mine. Schenck has
seen recalled by request of the British
■government, and is now on his way
pome a detected felon. Grant made Bel
knap Secretary of War, and his crony
lias been exposed in selling places for
money, has resigned and has been im
peached. The ‘•Confederate House” is
Investigating, with remorseless cruelty,
the Attorney General, the Postmaster
Sreneral and the Secretary of the Navy.
Il'hese three rogues will eventually be
Inn veiled and disgraced. Columbus De
lano, the late Commissioner ot Internal
Revenue, stepped oat of office through
Grant’s connivance, in time to escape the
penitentiary. So did Attorney General
Williams the general Ku Klux hunter.
I lint though Williams escaped the striped
[jacket,he bears the stigma ot a nickname,
uud will be known in history as “Lau
daulet" Williams because he paid for his
wife’s landaulet with government mouey.
Time would tail us to speak ol Grant’s
boon companion, Jim Fisk, the royster
ing rogue who with Grant’s aid, ruined
so many hundreds of “Black Friday.”
Mrs. Ulysses made $6,000 by the wicked
operation, though many were beggared
and some driven into madness and sui
cide. Jim and Uiysses fell out alter this
partnership job aud Jiin always spoke
Of him subsequently as the “national
hog 1” Nor can we speak of Graiit e
crony, Jay Gould, the sharper aud swind
ler, whom he ulads government ftgent
abroad after he (Gould) waS a Stench in
the nostrils of the American peoole.
We must pass tightly .over Other com
panions of Ulysses j Boss Shepherd, the
most shameful thief of the age ; confis
dential Secretary Babcock, whom Grant
Baved from the penitentiary by the whole
power of the Executive exerted in his
favor; Gen. HbWaid-„the pious philan
thropist, who robbed poor negroes;
Credit Mobilier Congressmen ; the offi
cial rogues of the whisky ring, of Seneca
atone contracts, of Pacific mail subsidies,
&c., &c. If ulaety-nine out of a hun
dred of Grant’s.appointees were sentenced
to the penitentiary for life, more injustice
would be done in the case of the hun
dredth man than of the ninety and nine.
So much tor the rogues. Now let us
look at the beasts. Bishop Haven is
prooably the most influential man in
the most powerful denomination in the
loyal North. He is a chronic and irre
prtssible liar, and an outspoken advocate
of miscegenation, Rev. U. B. Foi thing
ham is another popular preacher among
the loyalists and draws vast crowds of
cultivated people to hear hitn. He
teaches that prayer is vanity and folly,
and that an inflexible God cannot be
tnived by it. He is the same fellow
who, assisted by Beecher, married the
dyiug adulterer Richardson to his victim
Mrs. McFarland. He himself then ut
tered a prayer and thanked God lor what
the two criminals had been to each oth
er. He prayed too that a God ot infinite
purity might enable these wretches ‘to
realize how much they had been to each
other.” Rev. Professor Swing has been
preaching the old heathen mythology in
Ohicargo. Prolessor Hopkins ot the
Presbyterian Theological College, at
Auburn, N. Y., teaches the candidates
tor the ministry that Christ has abolish
ed the Sabbath. ltev. Mr. Kalioch was
driven out ot Massachusetts lor beastiai
and unnatural crimes. He is a popula
preach 3r now in Kansas, and was a
Grant elector in 1872. What minister
ou this continent has received so much
flattery and admiration as has the beastly
CONYERS, GEORGIA: THURSDAY, MARCH 33, 1876.
Beecher? But if the testimony of more
than a dozen of his most intimate friends
and confidents can be believed, he is a
promiscuous adulterer, a treacherous
sneak, a foul slanderer of his benefactors,
n black-hearted purjurer and a Heaven
defying blasphemer. Certain it is, that
he has done more than any man now liv
ing to soil the Christian character and to
pervert the great truths of the Gospel.
Three religious papers, redolent with
royalty and draped in mourning tor
Southern sins, have had a vast circulation
among the loyal masses of the North,
and have exerted a mighty influence up
on them. The publisher of one of these
papers, Oliver Johnson, is, as it appeared
in evidence on the .Beecher trial, an infi
del of the humanitarian school and a dis
believer in Christianity. He wrqte .to.
Henl’T C. Bowen that it was impossible
to portray in tho black colors the charac
ter of Beecher, and yet lie: employed this
Beecher as the editor of his paper, and
espoused his cause in the famous adul
tery trial. The editor of the second
religions paper is the same Bowen. He
seems to be a miserable cur from bis
own Statements; he sat under Beecher’s
ministry and received the cup of com
munion at his hauds tor years after he
knew, as he himself says, that his pastor
had debauched many members of his
flock. The i bird editor is the notorious
Tilton, a free loveh in .the theoiy and
practice,who sa uctioned his own wife’s
dishonor and then black mailed her se
ducer! Beecher wrote .for all three
papers; the proprietors and publishets
knowing all the tinie’, as they admit
themselves, of his habitilhl licentious
ness ! . ,
When the cel bratioii of impure rites
was a part of the religion ef the heathen
world, we doubt whether there \vas as
much beas:iality among them as among
ibe religious preachers, teachers and
editors, who represent Beebherisin and
Grantisin at the royal North.
Thirty yeat s ago the abolition party
rejected the Bible because its teachings
did not accord with their views, and
therybv the flood-gates were opened to
let in all manner of roguery, blasphemy
and uncleanness. A christianized peo
ple, who reject the Bible, are necessarily
more wicked that a heathen people.
The worshippers of Mercury were not as
thievish as are the worshippers of Graut
ism. The worshippers ot Venus were
not as impure as are the worshippers of
Ueecherisiu. .
BREAKING THE PRESIDENTIAL IDOLS.
[Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
The iconoclast is abroad in Washing
ton to-day, breaking Presidential idols,
and Bristow is marked as the uext vic
tim. Blaine, Morton anl other aspi
rants have registered an Oath in hell tliA*
Bristow sha’l hot Smile Wlleh all Others
are wdeping add gnashing their teeth.
Men have beeii set to work to hum up
his record before tie was appointed Sec
retary of the Treasury.
lie was a claim agent lawyer here. It
is now alleged that the Secretary ct the
Treasury, Mr. BriStow, (lie high toned,
moral pressure statesman, the only one
lett in the Republican pArty, has been al
lowing cotton claims f:r SIBO,OOO, with
undue haste. It is further asserted that
BristOW gOt out ot this amount, a con
tingent fee of $25,000- Bristow’s salary
is SB,OOO per year. He drives blooded
horses, has liveried servants, and a $2,000
carriage’, and has a china set iu his house
imported, which cost $2,000. All this
“Republican Simplicity” on SB,OOO a year
When the committee on Crooked whisky
gets thfbtigti with Bristow, he will not
appeal in the role of such an ardent re
former, aud will not be so eager to ruin
men who are his supporters. I lie facts
stated above are In possession of the Sun
correspondent, who dare not publish
them, because that paper is backing Bris
tow tor the Presidency. The facts given
above come from a reliable source.
THE LOUISIANA SENATOUSIIU*.
A report comes to-night that Kellogg
has determined to appoint Warmouth t j
till the vacancy in the Senate. Pinch
back is engaged in this movement, and is
determined to give the Republicans all
the trouble possible.
EFFORT TO DEFEAT iMPEACHMEETI
The Republicans in the House are
moving by concerted programme td
break down the impeachment of Belk
nap. Blaine has fully recovered from the
shook of last Week; and is exhaustiug his
resources in the most desperate attempt
to divert public sentiment from Beikriap
exposures by dragging in the names ot
prominent Democrats: The stories about
Headricks, in particular, have been care
fully traced up by leading Democrats,
and they an sitislied that Blaine was
the instigator of them.
The feeiing against Blaine is grow
ing very bitter among Democrats, and li£
is rapidly acquiring the status formerly
occupied by Ben Butler. Men are now
at work tracking Blaine, aud, although
he has been adroit in covering up bis
trail tor the last seven years, there are
many things in bis career which will not
bear close scrutiny, ’ibis is bound to
come, aud it is not iuipossib'e that before
the close of ibe a- ssion Blaine will be
thoroughly disgraced, if not expelled
from Gongress. Particulars can not now
be given, but will be forthcoming m
good time.
It may not have been so, but tfhen
tbe poet sang—
How doth the busy B’s
Improve each shining hour,
it is supposed, iroin their industrious
babits of rascality, that he referred to
Babcock and Belknap.
One ungrateful mau does an injury
, o all who are wretched
TURKISH RULES OF CONVERSATION.
Conversation in Europe has beeti de
scribed as a difeitn in an opera, in which
the two persons engaged in it are ta’k
ing to an imaginary third person, each
recounting a tale of his own. “I say
something and you say something else,
and wo will agree to call il a conversa
tion.” Now in Turkey there are certain
forms or canons of conversation, any vio
lation of which is considered an outrage,
and the sum of which constitutes their
code of politeness as applied to conver
sation. I will enumerate these one by
one.
1. Never to interrupt the speaker wheil
he is talking. However long-winded or
uninteresting his conversation may be to
you, politeness requires that you should
wait for his conclusion. You are not uu
der any obligations to enter into conver
sation with him at all j but if you do, it
is an understood condition pf your con
versational treaty that you should let him
have his say,. .. , ,
2. Never to diverge in the middle pi
a conversation, from the main thread of
a discourse into a collateral issue. The
breach of this rule is considered, by a
Turk as unpardonable rudeness. To drive
a red herring, as it were, across the scent
of conversation is, in his opinion, to oon<-
found all thought and render all profita
ble conversation impossible. This leads
as a corollary.
8. To allow short but Bufticlent pause
between the conclusions of a discussion
on one subject and the entering on anew
subject.
4. Never tell a person a thing he knows
already.
5. Not to excuse one’s self when con
victed of being in the wrong. How
very seldom you hear in Europe, “Yes,
I was in the wrong; lam sorry for it.”
Bat in Turkey it is considered a violation
of principle and and a breach of polite
ness to refuse to be convicted ot error.
The cailse of this difference lies in the
charactei’ cf tlie twro races ; in the ab
sence on the part of the Turk of petty
vanity and distracting self-esteem. The
proudest raec in the tYorid, they are en
tirely exenipt from vanity.
6. When you have nothing to say hold
your tongue. They never talk for the
sake ot talking. Empty, idle jabbering
is not an Ottoman practice. In Europe
it is considered de riyueur to “say some
thing,” whether that something is worth
saying or not. Not so in Turkey ;to say
something when yon have nothing to say,
worth saying is considered there a degr.i
dation to yourself and a rudeness to your
neighbor. —Pull Mull Gazette.
WOMEN WHO ARE EVER YOUNG.
[Jennie June in Baltimore American.]
Action is the secret of immortality, and
how that women are entei'iiig the active
fields, they will cease to beoonie old', they
will remain young like men. There was
a time when women only lived five years
from eighteen to twenty, three. Before
that they were “chits;” after, they were
talked of pityinglv, as “o'd maids.”
Mm lied woiAeii were supposed to be on
of the wdrld altogether, to have no in
terest for any one but their husbands and
their children, and with the natural per
versity of human nature, when a woman
ceases to have an interest for any other
person than her husband, she quickly
ceases to have an interest for him.
The time has gone by when wjomen
ceased to be interesting because they had
passed girlhood. Womanhood is found
to be as much richer, as much finer and
more attractive when it is developed and
employed as summer tliau spring, or mau
hood than boyhood.
“This is my last call,” remaiked a flip
pant young gentleman to a young lady
who was Soon to be married on a recent
occasion, “i never call on married wo
men or unmarried ladies after they have
reached 25.”
“You do well, sir,” gravely remarked
an elder lady present. “At that age aud
after marriage they begin to knew the
Value of time aud do uot like to waste
it.”
Who Stop . td think whether George
Elliot (Mrs. L wes) is young or old 1
Who cares for noted women until they
are old, or at least until they have passed
their youth, for it is their experience and
the use to tVHicli they put it which makes
lueni worth knowing.
A TALL TENNESSEEMAN.
There is living in Perry county, Ten
riessee, savs the Somerville, Tednessee,
Falcon, j'ames Horner, the Tennessee
giant. At eighteen ha was a well-grown
man,'six feet high and weighed 180
pounds. At twenty-one ho was six
inches taller and weighed 210 pounds.
Any growth after that Wds not noticed
uutil he was twehty-fouf years old, and
ihen only by the smallness of Ins clothes,
and he then measured iu his stockings
six feet nine inches. Since then—he is
now thirty-one years of age—he has
attained the height of seven feet nine
inches, and is still growing, this being
an increase of about two inches annual
ly. Some years he grows rrfofe and
some less, but this is his average. While
he ought to weigh at least 300 pounds,
he weighs only 233; lie is exclusively
lank aud gaw‘<y, and possesses only one
quality in a large degree, and that is his
ability to walk: He thinks nothing of
walking from horde to Linden, the coun
ty seat, tWeiVe miles distant, aud back to
dinner.'
In file last number of the Internation
al Review there appears an exceedingly
able article on “The Old aud the New
South.” It is from tne pen of Mr. John
G. Ueed, of Union Point, Ga.
Subscribe tor the Register.
VICE PRESIDENT BRECKINRIDGE AM)
HIS MOTHER.
So much that was deserved has been
written about tho lato John 0. Brcokin
ridge, to whose name even Ins nflix of
“Hon ” is superfluous, that there seems
little that oan bo added to his immortal
name. We venture, however, to give
an incident, in the private lile of the
statesman, hero, and scholar that, has
never been in print. Mr. Breckinridge
had a noble mother, one of the true Spar
ta.i type, of whom Kontuoky has fur
nished many, who m contests where vie
torv or dath was involved, in which her
•children were honorably engaged, had
rather have seen them return upon their
shield, 'ban without them. Well, one
day, after honors hud clustered tniok and
fast upon the brow of tho voung states
man, and while lie was Vice-President
ot the United States, he went “shopping’
in this city with his mother, ‘or whom
he had a reverential love and a profound
respect. They went to ties store and to
1 hat. The selection was finally made and
wrapped up in a large bundle. With
that maternal prerogative exercised in’
his glorious boyhood, she turned to the
vice-President, and handing him the arti
cles, said, “Here, John, t.ako this Dun
die.”
The, great man wfio in courtly dignity
commanded listening Senates in times of
turbulence and storm, with the gentle
placidity of a girl took the bundle as di
rected, r,(tying, “It is yours to coalman ! ;
mine to obey,” Small as the circum
stance was, no incident in the eventful
life of Mr. Breckinridge more truly i’lus
trates his greatness of soul ami mind, or
more faithfully reveals the secret of his
mighty success, than does this. Boys
and youths will do well to bear it in
mind, find emulate the example.—Lex
ington Dispatch.
THE EDGE OF A FEARFUL TRAGEDY.
Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle.
“Nellie, please state to the court how
long you have lived in the house adjoin
ing Craze."
“Nellie, did you hear any loud noises
in Craze's house on the night of thetlgth
instant?”
‘‘Nellie, did you hear cries of fire,
murder, water and police on tho night in
question ?"
“Nellie, tell all you know about tile
character of Craze’s house."
“Nellie, what is your occupation in
this city ?”
Those questions were sweetly ad
dressed (o a fair but frail beauty by law
yer Cowie during the trial of John Graze
charged with keeping a disorderly house.
“it the court please," remarked lawyer
Stephens, “I object to Mr. Gowie ad
dressing the witness m such a familiar
manner. It bears evidence ot something
behind it. The sweet, honeyed manner
in which Mr. Cowie addresses the wit
ness will cAu e lief to swear anything,
l'lle fascination of his manner may o’er
power lief an 1 contravene the ends of
justice. If l were Mr. Gowie s wile 1
would look on the proceedings with sus
picion, jealousy and rage."
“The devil 1” quoth Gowie, and a sud
den paleness overspread his face. “Mr.
Stephens," he replied, “I allow no one
to criticise my sty le of examining the
witness. A careful regard for my lists i
should keep you tram indulging in such
witty utterances. The lust man who
diaphragm 1 punctured lies urihonored
and unsung in au outcast's grave. A
disci’eet attitude on your part might pie
serve you from a similar bad end.”
“Let's go and wet up,” replied Ste
phens. And they wetted. A , fearful
tragedy Was thus aveited.
A VERY IMPROPER FRACTION.
Quitman Reporter.]
We will call him Sammy—he goes to
the Quitman academv, and is a boy of
good, clear mind on many subjects, but
fractions are bis especial aversion.
Among other qualifications Sammy pose
sesses a nose of large dimensions.
Sandford’s class No. 2 is called up and
fractions are discussed.
“What is an improper fraction ?”
“An improper fraction is one whose
numerator is equal to, or exceeds its de
nominator.”
Now Sammy will get fractions mixed
up, and tell him as often as you may, nu
merator and denominator are all the alike
to him. Finally the teacher became tired
of telling Sammy the same tiling over
and over again.
“Look here, Sammy, this thing mutt
be '.earned and 1 will give you anew rule
—let your nose, be considered the nume.
tor; do you undeerstand that?”
“Oh, yes, sir.”
“Let your mouth be considered the
dividing line.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Then let your chin be eo nsidered the
denominator and you will never forget
the relative position of numerator add
benominStor.”
Little Albert, a ten year old of the
same class, wbo was paying close atten
tion to the teacher's remarks, immediate
ly arose aud sad:
“That would be an improper fraction,
Wouldn’t it Mr.—?”
“"This,” said Major Voyer, of Quebec,
to a visitor, “is the pistol with which
Prot. VarrCau shot himself accidently
three years ago, and this is how he did
it.” And Major Voyer proceeded to
point the pistol just as Prof. VarreaU did,
and the pistol proceeded to go oft' acci
dentally just as Prof. Varreau’s pistol did,
and Major Voyer proceeded' to die just as
Prof. Varreiu did. The illustration was
too complete.
—
Snow last Sunday night.
HER MAJESTY'S WATCH.
It wss manufactured in Paris for
Queen Victoria and cost It
strikes the hours and quarters. It is as
beautiful as it is unique and oostlv. It;
waspurpbased however of the maker,
and carried to New York instead of
Buckingham palace. Thereby hangs a
talc. (Messrs. I'iflany it Cos., added a
very expensive chain, linked, together
with rubies and diamonds, to the witch,
and tl\e whole property was bought by
Mr. Ilulus Ingalls, then an assistant
quartermaster at New York, poor con
vivial, and presented to Mrs. Grant.
The New York Sun of last Wednesday
contains a lac simile of a memorandum
.which accompanied the gift- The mem
orandum was printed in New York on
beautiful white satin. Ingalls had it
printed in three colors that lie might se
lect the one ho liked the best One of
copies that, were not sent to Mrs., Grant
is now in the possession of tho Sun.
What was the result? Gen. Meigs,
an upright ami faithful officer, was then
at the head ot the quartermaster's de
partment. Not long after Ingalls' costly
pledge of friendship had gone to the
white house, efforts began to be made to
put Gen. Meigs on the shelf. He was
finally ordered abroad on a tour of in
spectiop, where he is at present, and In.
galls was t' ausft rred to Washington and
put in his place, which gave hint super
vision of the e'lormous conttacts forjanny
supplies. Rufus is one of those who are
now on ti.e ragged edge o:t account of
the investigations ordered by the pres
ent “uo-nothing democratic” house of
representatives. They propose to know
how he has supervised the contracts lor
rmy snpp’ies.
The Sun compares Grant's acceptance
of the watch—for it wan practically giv
en to him—with tho course ot President
Buchanan. When a lady sent him a
pair,of slipners he not only returned
them, hut directed the messenger to
wait and get a receipt from the giver,
so lie might, have in his possession proof
that they were sent hack. Customs in
the White House have changed {since
Raonaiian’s term. They do literally sit
at the receipt of customs in that building
now-a-days.
G E.Y. SHERMAN'S IDEAS.
Somebody Las interviewed General
Sherman relative to a letter lot General
B auregavd, which bore very heavily up
on abuses on r/ie part of tho tforihevn
leaders in conducting the war. Speak
ing ot Smithern commanders ii>f proton,
nonce, Sherman said he felt, kindly to
ward all of them. At this point (lie bug
aboo ot Ji ff Davis rises before the vision
of the great Tecurnsoh, and causes him
to express himself thus:
“I do not know why it is that the
Northern people hate him so, but they
do, and will never get over their feeling
in this respect. Davis did no worse than
anybody else, but I suppose the people
are houn l to have somebody to bate.
For instance, tho Southern people bate
General Butler about as bad or worse
than the Northerners hate Davis. 1 sup
pose the two sections, while determined
to cultivate irif-iidly feelings among the
people at large, require on
which to expend the bate that will una
voidably show itself at intervals.
, As to tin' warlike charactrist I sof l e
North and South, the General gives the
following opinion:
“Put the Northern anil Southern sol
diers together and you have the strong
est clement, in a military sense, that
could be gotten together for any nation
al purpose. As fighters, they would be
invincible. The .Southerners are impet
uous, and w ill fight quicker and fiercer,
but they give out sooner; the Northern
ers arc slower, but they stay longer; they
have move endurance and tight steadier
and more stubbornly. In fighting quali
ties tlie South represents Fiance, and the
North England. Put the two together
and the devil couldn’t whip them.
The law of the table is beauty—a res
pect to the common soul ot all the
guests. Everything is unseasonable
which is private to two or three, or any
portion of the company. Tact never vi
olates for a moment this law ; never in
trudes the orders of the house, the vicer
of tho absent, ora tarifF of expenses; os
professional privaces; as wo say, we
never “talk shop” before company.
Lovers abstain from caresses, anil ha
ters from insults, whilst they sit in one
parlor with common friends. Would we
eodity the laws that should reign in
household; anil whose daily trrrisgressiou
annoys and mortifies us, md degrades
our household life—wo must learn to
adorn every day with sacrifices. Good
manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
—lt alp/l Waldo Emerson.
Mas. Belknap. —The unfortunate wif
of the ex-Secretary says if she has
sinned, others are guilty of double
crimes. She further states that her case
is of little importance compared with
the situation ot the others. The names
oi prominent men are threatened as
having secured offices for the ir fri ends
t 1 rough the influence of their presents
and their money. Mrs. Belknap says
that astounding facts will be brought to
light if the committee are anxious for
them, and that she is fat - from deserving
the deep condemnation that has been
heaped upon her by the public. VVe
dare say Mrs. Belknap will have an
opportunity of telling all she knows,
unless guilty parties club together and
make it worth her while to keep mum.
Now is the time to subscribe for the
Rockdale Reud ier,
ISTumluer. 35.
CURIOUS NOTIONS ABOUT THE DEAD.
Tit a Russian tale a grandmother says
to her granddaughter, who is threatened
by a fiend : “0(t, dear tne, my poor un
happy child ’ Go quickly to the pries',
and ask him this tavor-—that if von die,
your body sh ill not ho taken ou,t ihrou >h
the doorway, hilt that the ground sh t '
be dug away front, the threshold, !
that you shall ho dragged oi!t thfOli
the opening."
This was originally the common mod i
of proceeding among various natipns.
Tho thought that, the Spirit rould only
return by the name way that it went out
ot the house, and in order to prevent its
return, they took th. dead through an
opening that could he afterwards eh>s, ri
"I’’
The Tiski of Alaska always carry their
dead out, through a hole at the hack of
the hut, and then close up the hole wi'h
the greatest care. The Hottentotsbreak
un opening through the side of their hut
for the same purpose, mid (lie S anvsy,
not content with this, having taken the
dead body cut, hurry at hill speed round
to the other side of the house.
Another strange oustopi in Russ : a is
this: When a person mi fiefs a very lin
gering death, in order to render his
departure more easy, they let a black
dog by a cord down through tho root
over the dying person's head. They
regard a black dog art the rml lem
ol the human spirit, andithoir action is
intond- and to show tile departing spirit
w' icli way to go. •
The Chinese and tlie North American
Indians have also the idea that the Spirit
always leaves through the roof, suppps
ing that tho life must depart iu the samo
way that it came—from above.
In ancient Home, a person who had.
boon believed to be dead could only bo
j permitted to return through tho roof.
lln Get many, the general belief is that
the soul departs through the window,
j When a person dies, the window of tho
room is at once thrown open, and some,
times a oup of water is plaood on the
sill, for the refreshment of the spirit as
| it enters upon its “long journey."
—"T .
W.i't it ! ali.kd.—Col. Lumigan was
a Florida planter, wealthy and hospita
ble. Toward the poor he was always
kind, and even the shilllcss lie would not
tgriv coldly away. A man who bad often
been tho object of bis bounty was named
I Jake Hartruff. Jake was a squatter in
the woods, whore lie had a log cabin and
!:i Biuntl olvurln/r. Upon thin him} ho
I sometimes raised corn, and with his gun
lie captured game. Of the game ho ato
j flush, arid the skins lie traded for whisky,
j Long before the winter was over he was
! sure to be oqt of coin, in which emer
gency he would bring hi? bag to tho
Colonel for a supply, which ,was general
ly furnished. Once upon a tinjo Jack
Came with his bag very early in the sea
son—in fact, winter had just set in.
“Why, how's this, Jake?" demanded
Finiiigan. “Seems to me you are rather
early in your call for corn/’
“Well, Colonel, fact is my crop failed
this yer season.”
“Failed ! How is that? I thought this
had been au uncommonly good season
fur corn."
‘‘Yans; I s'pose it has, Colonel. But
y'soe I forgot to plant,"
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Why Fltun Oit.iNt was Sunt West—
No authentic explanation of the sudden
and unexpected departure of Col. Fred
Grant tor the plains has yet been ob
tained, but that there was a very import
ant reason will nndoubted'y appear in
due time. The fact that all the real es
tate operations of the President and the
family aie about to be investigated, may
have something to do with this hasty de
parture of the young man for t he frontier.
The investigation of the real estate nool
which is now going on will not stop short
of some highly important disclosures, and
among the things likely to be shown is
that Fred, (inint received a large sum of
money fiom Boss Shepherd! . which he
put into real estate. This is understood
to have been ostensibly a gitt by Boss
Shepherd, and it is furthermore behoved
that it was this kind of an obligation
which has attached the President so firm
ly to the late Governor of the District of
Columbia.
THE MINISTER’S WIPE.
Uuder tlm head of • “Tho Minister’s
Wile,” the London Jlaptist Magazine
lids tlie following hit of pleasant satire :
“The minister's wife ought to bo se
lected by a committee of the church.
She should l> warranted never to have
fieadaelie, or neuralgia ; she should have
nerves of wire and sinews of iron ; sho
should never be tired nor sleepy, and
should lie everybody's cheerful drudge:
she should be cheerful, intellectual, pious
and domesticated ; she should be able to
keep her husband’s house, darn his stock
ings, make his shirts, coqk his dinner,
light, his fire, and copy his sermons; sho
should keep up the stylo of a lady on
the wages of a day laborer, and bo al -
ways at leisure for ‘good work, anil
ready to roceivo morning calls; .sho
should be secretary to tlje Band of Hope,
the Dorcas Society, and the Home Mis
sion ; site should conduct Bible classes
and mothers’ meetings; should mlko
clothing for tho poor and gruel for the
sick t and finally, she should bo pleased
witli everybody and everything, and
never desire and reward beyond the
satisfaction of having done her own duty
and other people’s loo.”
“That’s goingjtoo far,” as tho Boston
man, said when his wife ran awaw to
San Francisco with another man.
Mr. John 11. James gives $5,000 an
ti' ally to the “-onfot Adsnta,