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calisxy. A whimper broke the air— A soft, light tone and low, Yet barbed with shame and woe. Ah me ! a quick and eager ear Caught up the little meaning sound ; Another voice had breathed it clear, And so it wandered rouud From ear to lip, from lip to car, Until it reached i gentle heart, And that—it broke. “WOILDIT voi r” He told tne my face was the purest And tairest he ever had known : The bobolink envied my sinsrinig, The nightingale mimicked its tone: >1 dimples they quarreled witn cherries, just under eye* tender and bine : My tresses they angered the sunbeams: j rii.il lon him then, “wouldn’t you?” Ue told me my fingers were dainty ; My lips only modeled to kiss ; “And would I give one of the sweetest For such a poor bauble as this ?” M *vbe I ought not to vc done it, But he looked sc< beseeching and true, And the ring was so pretty I took tt, Ami gave him a kiss, “wouldn’t you ?” lie told me there was a dear cottage Ju.it down near the rocks by the sea, Where the sweet roses nodded a welcome, And the mocking-birds waited tor me, With himself, of course, lor the master— ’Tw in made plenty large for ** two ; 1 forgot what I said, but I’m thinking i ki-sed him again, “wouldn’t you ?” (OMIENSED TELEGRAMS. PoconkEF.ih-iE, Aug. 14— John H. Ray mond, President and professor of mental and moral philosophy in Vasscr college, is dead. Washington, Aug 14.— I The President has received a letter from the king of Spain an uouucin : t:.e death ot his well belovid spouse. New Yokk. Aug. 14. Butler denies he has deserted the Republican party, but he takes di,.metric opposition to the party on the finan ced question. Kearney is not endorsed by him. N’nv Yokk, Aug". 14.—John R. Cecil and George W. Cecil, bankers and brokers, have lc ! thrown into bankruptcy. Liabilities, 1300,000. R Cincinnati, Aug. 14. —R. W. Booth &Cos ive assigned to He ward Douglas*. The assets and liabilities are not given. The assignees bond Is #IOO.OOO. Washington, Aug. 14.- A report i circn lated tiiat Mr*. Jenks has been appointed to a detective’s position under the treasury, but the report is officially denied, Indianaholis, Aug. 13 —The first national microscopical congress convened iu this city to-day. About KW delegates from different part* of the country are present. Cincinnati, Aug. 14.—A vote was taken to- j day on the question of issuing #3,000,000 of * houds for completing the Cincinnati Southern j rai; road, and for confirming the contract to complete the road. The total vote cast was 30,019; majority in favor of the measure, 5,800. Ban Francisco, August 14—The dele gates elect of the workingman’s party to the constitutional convention have forwarded to Washington a memorial setting forth the evils of Chinese immigration, and requesting immediate steps to abrogate the Burlingamo j treaty. New Haven, Aug. 14.--The state conven- | tion ot the national greenback party assern- j bled here to-day. Eighty delegates present, j and a platform was adopted embodying all ! the principles of the national labor greenback party. New Orleans, Aug. 16.—A special to the Timi - from Grenada says that ouly about 700 j white citizens remain in Grenada. Of these 1 about 135 have the Ever. Twenty-six deaths j have sccurred. Nkw Orleans, August 10.—One hundred 1 and thirty-tour new cases of fever and twenty l deaths have been reported during the past 34 hours. Weather unfavorable. Mretrats, Aug. 16.—A special to the Ava- i lanche, late to-night, reports seven deaths and | eight new cases in the last twenty-four hours | at Grenada, and the indications are that eight I or nine will die before noou, to-morrow, with j from twelve to fifteen new eases. So far, none J have got well. The fever is reported at Can ton aud Wioua, Miss. Four cases of black vomit arc reported by | Dr. Hughes, which he says cannot recover, j Business is entirely suspended, and trains pass by without noticing the place. The distress j is truly appalling. Memphis, Aug. 1G -The board of health report three deaths and nine new cases since ; yesterday. The square in which these cases occum G was thoroughly fumugated aud dis infected and quarantined against all outside | communication. The most stringent measures I have been adopted to keep the disease from spreading. Some excitement prevails, and some*bf tfH^pani-ky people are leaving the city. an Appeal from Grenada. Gken u*a, Aug. 15.—Owing to the sickness of the m tyor and councllmen, the undersign-! (.<] have been appointed by the citizens of Grenada, at a general meeting, to receive and j distribute whatever pecuniary aid can be ob tained for those suffering from yellow fever. The disease is in its most malignant form. The sick are so numerous aud destitute as to make it utterly impossible for Grenada, uuassitsted, to remove or relieve them. The assistance of the charitable is respectfully solicited, and the press are asked to copy this dispatch gen erally. (Signed,) Robert Mullen, R. S. Ringold, M. D., Health Officer. . Thomas Walker. Memphis, August 17.—There are thirty three new cases and six deaths in the twenty four hours ending at nine o’clock last night. The Memphis and Greneda and Little Rock railroads have stopped running their trains. Hearty alj the towns In ail directions are quar antined against us. Several of the largest business houses in the city will close to-day and remain closed until alter the frost. The Commercial hotel closed yesterday. Later.—The following telegram has been ! sent: To Hon. Geo. W. McCrary, Secretary of war, Washington—Death is making rapid j strides through our streets. Tiie towns have been quarantined against us. Cau you not order one thousand tcuts into which to re- j move the poor ? R. F. Patterson, Collector lut. Rev. 1 R. A. Thompson, Postmaster. Since ihc above was sent, Postmaster Thompson sent another telegram askiug for ratious’ with a view of supplying and getting .all the poor people out of town. Twenty seven new cases and six deaths have been re ported in the last twenty-four hours. The Becretar; af war will respond favorably to the petitions for aid and proper officers will be instructed to supply the teuts aud other articles needed. New York, August 13.—'The tug C. Hen dersou exploded her boiler last night, oppo site Staten Island. Her crew of six men were all terribly scalded. Tw o have since died. Boston, August 15. —Pelatiah U. Waitt, 05 years old, quarrelled with his wife last night, in Wyoming, Mass., beat out her braius witu t an iron bar and shot himself three times. Chicago, August 15 —E. B. Clark, a resi- i dent of LaGrange, was murdered last night j by a horse-thief tramp who shot Clark as he : was going into his stable. The murderer cs- j caped. Cherry Valley, N. Y.. August 15 —Ten thousand people w itnessed the unveiling ot the monument erected on the scene of the massacre ot IT7S. Ex-Gov. Seymour delivered un historical address. Washington, August 15. Postmaster General Key kit Washington to-night on a visit to Tennessee aud through the West. South FkamtnghAs, Mass., August 15.— j ( F. a nd M. E. Cutler’s grain elevator and j steam mill burned w ith all the sheds, out- ; buildings and a large stock of grain and one ; freight car, to-day.' I.oss, SSO,OOO : insurance about #40,090. About one thousand barrels of ' flour were saved. Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, August 15.—The entire White Sulphur ”Drii gs property was again offered lor sale Jv, morning, under decree of the United q,.,.,- ."'‘strict Court. The sale is indefinitely postponed, because of an inadequate bid, namely, * p.,,,.. it -Iu the awards of the ! Sb. ** •* TT'r al exhibit has received a of honor and the United States et’ucan ‘ aal ex ‘ ‘ gold medal. Of the eleven objeck" 01 au J. Jl ' Fered by the agricultural society of F,' Hn< r e lor exceptional merit in agricultural uaach.T e, 7> iu the recent field trials eight have been awa.'**- cd to American inventors. Dr. Edward H. Knight, American juror of class No. <6, has j been authorized to announce the award. They i are as follows : McCormick’s binding reaper, j Wood’s binder, Osborne’s binder, Johnson’s harvester, Whitley’s harvester, Deeres’ gang j plow, Dcderiek’s hay press, the Chicago hay i press. Nashville, Aug. 15 -The Democratic State j Convention to day was the largest ever held, j there not being room for all delegations. The i two largest, those of Nashville and Memphis, j occupied positions in the galleries. Holmes Cummius, of Tipton, was chosen permanent chairman. After the appointment of commit tees, the Convention, at G p. m., took recess until 8. Augusta, Aug. 15. —A dispatch to the sec ond edition of the Evemug News contains the proceedings of the Thomson Convention which is being held to-day. The convention met at 11 o’clock, every county being repre sented except Hart. The News said that a committee, composed of one delegate from each eouuly, was appointed to dealt resolu tions. Alter a half hour the committee return ed and reported a series of resolutions endors- Mr. Stephens aud declaring him the choice ot the eighth congressional districj for congress. The resolution* were unanimously and enthu siastically adopted, with the exception of ouc vole from Washington couuty. i?ix Francisco, August 13. —H. J. Mon tague, actor, seized w ith another hemorrhage, died last night at the Palace hotel. His hotly wilt be embalmed aud sent east. VOLUME XIX.] CURRENT PARAGRAPHS- The political outlook in the 2d is enough to encourage us all. Washington couuty Democracy adopts anti-Stephens resolutions, aud sends anti-Stephens delegates to the Thomson Convention. The election in [North Carolina, on the Ist instant, went overwhelmingly Democratic—both branches of the Legislature Democratic by large ma ; jorities. A bill allowing women to vote in i school meetings has passed the Mew Hampshire Legislature. This is the first victory the strong-minded have gained in New England. It is estimated if anything like the present demand for the new 4 per cent, of the government continues for the remainder of this year, there will be at least $200,000,000 of the public debt bearing two per cent, lower interest on January 1, 1879, than it did two years ago. j A bill has been introduced into the Pennsylvania Legislature making the cremation of a human body a crime punishable by heavy fine and imprisonment. Mr. Bryant was probably the j wealthiest poet this country has pro duced, and perhaps, with the excep lions of Samuel Rogers and Lord Bryon, the wealthiest, or among the wealthiest of ithe Old World. His estate is said to be worth five hun dred thousand dollars. New York papers complain that of the nearly ten thousand emigrants who landed at that port in May, only those who possessed money and health proceeded Westward, while the destitute and feeble remained with them. They think a Congres sional appropriation would be in order. James E. Jones, colored, of La grange, Texas, has been hung for the murder of another colored man in 1870. Just before he was swung off he said he was “a stranger to the crowd, but with Christ he was ac quainted, and could see .the chariots of heaven coming to carry his soul to glory.” Ex-Congressmen Charles Hays, of Alabama, has, it is reported, chal lenged Mr. W. W. Screws, editor of the Montgomery Advertiser to a duel. Hays is aggrieved at an ar ticle regarding himself which appear ed in the paper. The Augusta News says sixteen negroes who returned from Liberia on the “Azor” paased through that city on Wednesday morning on their way to Mississippi. One of them said he had carried away a thousand dollars some years ago, and now brought back nothing; till said they had had enough of Liberia. Small-pox and diptlieria have been very prevalent ami fatal lately in London. Since New Year’s there have 1,134 fatal cases of small-pox within fifteen miles of Charing Ctos-*, while there were but eight deaths of that disease in the same period in nineteen provincial towns of Eng land having an aggregate population equal to the metropolis. The Globe-Democrat says there were 400 deaths from sun-stroke last week in Chicago. This is more than the Chicago papers reported. It won’t do to trust the papers of those cities when they are speakiug of themselves, but all they say in the way of showing each other up is probably true. Mr. Brantley Chalfant, au ingenius citizen of Williamsport, Pal, has se cured letters-pateut on an invention of an apparatus which, it is claimed cau turn out 17,640,800 match sticks in ten hours. Coinage was executed at the Uni ted States mints during the month of July as follows: Of gold (double eagles,) 89,000 pieces, with a value of $1,780,000; standard silver dollars, 1,847,000. Minor coins—Five cent pieces, $10; three cent pieces, $6; and one cent pieces, $967; The total number of pieces coined during the month was 2,033,100, and their value $3,627,982. A little eight-y ear-old colored boy was found locked in a freight car at the South Carolina Railroad, in Au gusta, Friday night. lie said he had gotton in the car the morning pre vious at Summerville, and he would in all probability have been there yet if he had not attracted the atten tion of a .policeman to his unfortu nate condition by lustily yelling “murder.” He had gone without food or drink from the time of board ing the train until released. Stonewall Jackson’s cape of Con federate cloth, which has several bullet holes through it, is now among the relics in the armory of New York’s Old Guard, Col. Wil liams, of Jackson’s staff, having pre served the garment meanwhile. While twenty-five years ago Washington could scarcely enumer ate 50,000 persons, to-day it reckons 165,000 and ranks as twelfth in the list of the great cities. The rate of mortality among the negroes is posi tively alarming when compared to the ratio among ihe whites, the latter being 18.27 per cent, the former 44.50. Unhealthy localities and residences account for this partiality. The Consul General at Constanti nople reports that the plague of small-pox, typhus fever and other diseases that have been raging in and about that city among the refugees who fled there during the late war are subsiding, and the refugees are being sent to their homes by the government. A disease resembling epizootic,' which prevailed among the horses of this counlry a few years ago, is prevalent in Turkey. The Bristol News is glad to an nounce that a Joint Stock Company has leased the Border Fair Grounds, and will at once take vigorous and active measures to secure a splendid exhibition about the first of October. Live men have tukeu the matter in hand. They mean business and will get up a rousing aud splendid enter tainment: VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. THE CAMPAIGN IN MURRAY COUNTY. Dalton, Ga., Aug. 13, 1878. Editors Express:— l heard Dr. Felton aud General Wofford speak to au audience of 300 at Spring l'lace to-day. When Felton closed after a bitter attack upon Judge Lester a - .out arose from the assembled crowd of “Hurrah for Lester” that hushed every other sound. Felton’s name could hardly be heard, and Felton’s strength in Murray was nearly all present. I could not find a man in the crowd who wavered in his faith in Judge Lester. After the speaking Lester men could be heard all over the grounds speaking in terms of praise and respect for ‘.he gallant old hero, and they seemed in high spirits and con fident of carrying the county by 500 majority. Felton’s speech was a failure so far as making votes were concerned. 11. Ringold, Ga., July 15,1877. Editors Express : Hon. George N. Lester spoke to about one thous and people iu the court house yes terday, making friends aud votes on all sides and entirely refuting the charges made by Dr. Felton against him. lie also come out square on the financial policy, viz: Iu favor of reducing all salaries, paying off the bonds in greenback or some other National currency, good for all pub lic and private dues and also for the entire abolishment of the National Bank system which he contends is a fraud and an imposition upon the people. Upon the close of his address Col. A. T. Ilackett advanced to the stand and requested all in favor of George N. Lester for Cougress to rise to their feet, whereupon all but eight or ten out of about one thousand rose to their feet and gave three rousing cheers for Lester. The county is en thusiastic and are confident of giving him four hundred majority. Vox. LESTER VS FELTON. Cartersville, July IG, 1878. Editors Express -.—The two can didates whose names head this com munication are engaged in a warm political contest, each seeking a n election to a seat iu the 46th Congress of the United States. Disclaiming any personal ill-will towards Dr. Fel tou, the writer believes the course pursued by him towards Judge Les ter to be unfair. In his discussion with Judge Lester at Cartersville, Dr. Felton saw fit to prefer very grave charges against the former, in volving not only his political, but his personal integrity! While Dr. Felton did not repeat the charges in a subsequent discussion with Judge Lester at Dalton, the writer is in- i formed that he has repeated them at other times and places, iu the ab sence of Judge Lester, and the read ing public well know that the Fel ton newspapers in this Congressional District are continually repeating the same charges. After the Dalton dis cussion Judge Lester addressed a note to Dr. Felton asking for a joint discussion before the people. Dr. Felton refused to accept the invita tion on the ground that a joint dis cussion through the long and heated term was not desirable at that time. Since then, however, Dr. Felton has continued to address the people almost daily, repeating the grave charges against Judge Lester’s per sonal and political integrity. It is not the purpose of the writer to dis cuss Dr. Felton’s motives for refusing to have a joint canvass before the people, but simply to call attention to the unfairness involved in the re fusal, and the unfairness exists whether Dr. Felton’s motives are right or wrong. It is a principle of right derived from the remotest antiquity that no man ought to be coudemed without a hearing in his own behalf, and in the presence of his accuser before the tribunal asked to condemn him. This right often extorted from unwilling tyrants in the ages past, and now held sacred by millions of freemen, Dr. Felton witholds from his opponent, for he is Judge Lester’s accuser, and yet he refuses to face him in joint discus sion before the people whose con demnation he invokes. Is this the spirit of Jeffersonian Democracy, or is it an improvement, sought to be engrafted by Dr. Felton into the cachings of the great Apostle of Democracy ? Would the great Jef ferson have treated a political antag onist in such a manner? The letter and the teachings alike rebuke such conduct. Will not Dr. Felton re-consider his position and accept his opponents polite invitation ? The writer desires to see nothing but fair play, and if Judge Lester is guilty of the charges preferred against him by Dr. Felton, let the people know it and pass condemnation on him, but only after a fair hearing in broad open daylight in the presence of his accuser and before the people. Observer. The Richmond (Va.) folks have been surning up their drinking ca pacity for eleven monthsending July 31 last, as measured by the Moffett register, and are gratified at the fol lowing exhibit of results: 1,443,945 alcoholic drinks and 1,567,120 malt drinks, netting the handsome total tax of $43,037.06. This is the drink ing capacity of Richmond alone. The record shows October to be the hardest drinking month, but it may be that the barkeepers had not mas tered the register then. A reduction from 439,520 drinks in October to 248,973, must indicate either that or hard times. Fruits gathered in the afternoon are less acid than when gathered in the morning, because fruits are ripen ed by the conversion of the acid they contain into the sugar, aud, since it requiies the aid of light and heat, the i intervening hours between morning i and afternoon produce the difference in their ripeness. CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST *2’2, IMS. RELIGIOIS MEETING IX WHITFIELD COUNTY. Dalton, Ga., July 15,1878. Editors Express :—For ten days past I have attended quite a revival at Dug Gap church, three miles southwest of Dalton, which was con ducted by' our frieud Rev. W. C. Luther. There has been great and much good done, sinners have been convicted, mourners converted, and graciously has Providence blessed bis people. Several have joined the church, the Christian has been re vived, and the cause of our blessed Master much advanced. The meet ing is yet iu progress. We have at tended the meeting all the time, and can say without flattery, that we never in all our life saw a meeting better conducted than has been this one. Brother Luther has labored faithfully and earnestly for the salva tion of souls. He has p:eached all the time, except a few sermons that were preached by Rev. R. T. Hanks, of Dalton, and 11. D. Gilbert. Bro. Luther is still going ahead, willing to keep on in the good work. lie is very energetic and preaches “ourth the words of truth and soberness. His sermons are excellent, and have been deep, sound, and logical. Prospects bid fair for him to become one of the first, and most distiguisli ed divines in the land. We are proud of him, and Bartow county should be proud of her son. He is universally beloved by all here. I close for the present, hoping to give you a few dois in the future. Yours, W. W. The Cartersville Free Press is re quested to copy. DEBATE AT DIG GAP. Dalton, Whitfield Cos., Ga., ) August 14th, 1878. ) Editors Cartersville Express: —As you have solicited news in gen eral from your Daltou friends, I feel no hesitancy in writing a brief ac count of Saturday’s proceedings for your excellent paper. Having received an invitation to attend a joint debate of the “Dug Gap” and “Mill Creek” debating societies, we repaired to the grounds at a tolerable late hour Saturday morning, The grounds were pretty well tilled when we arrived, and this together with small crowds huddled together in different places gave in dication of the coming, important event. After deciding that the crowd had all gathered, and putting the question to both societies, “are you ready,” the meeting was called to order. The question was contain ed upon the challenge sent by “Mill Creek” to “Dug Gap” and read, “Which affords the strongest proof of a living God, Nature or Revelationi.” The speakers was then introduced from the two societies alternataly, and each did uianlully sustain his side of the question. After a debate of over three hours in length, the corps of judges rendered their decis ion iu favor of Ihe affirmatives after complimenting the negative in the highest terms. We then repaired to a table ‘‘rich with viands,” and un der the circumstances, one that a King might have enjoyed. We have never met with a more goniai, clever, well-behaved people titan those of Mill Creek Valley. The very best order prevailed throughout the day and tiiey only regretted that there was not more to do for their visitors enjoyment. Here surely flows the blood of iionest yeo manry and we sincerely hope that it may be the good fortune of every stranger to fall among such a deserv ing, honest, people. Yours, etc., Visitor. SOME FACTS ABOUT THE SIX. She sun is 320,000 times as large as this earth. The sun is 400 times as far off as the the moon. A lady who weighs 100 pounds here would weigh 2,700 pounds if on the surface of the sun. Tne heat given off by the sun would melt 287,200,000 cubic inches of ice every second. The diameter of the earth bears the same relation to the distance from the sun as the breadth of a hair to 125 feet. A railroad train traveling without stopping, at the rate of forty miles an hour, would get to the sun in 2G3 years. The sun is believed to become 250 feet smaller every year. This contraction would be sufficient to generate the enormous quantity of heat which it radiates. Another theory is that comets atul meteoric matter, falling into the sun, may be its ailment to offset the tre mendous loss which combustion cer tainly involves. It w’ould require the combustion of thirty feet of coal over the entire surface of the sun every second to generate the same heat. The stars are supposed to average larger than our sun, and to have planetary systems like this. The nearest star is 250,000 times as far ofi as our sun. It takes light 18 minutes to come from the sun, but it must hare re quired 50,000 years to come from the farthest visible star. When the eleven year storms on the suu occur, the magnetic needle on the earth is variable, and some times considerably deflected. The earth is flying around the sun at the rate of a thousand miles a minute. The sun and all the stars are mov ing through space accompanied by their planetary system at a rate vary ing from 20 to 200 miles a second. Some of the sun-spots (craters) are 100,000 miles in di araeter, and one of them would easily swallow up the whole of the planets, Jupiter himself only making a mouthful. Maedler’s curious and brilliant speculation is that th - star Alcyone is the central suu of our universe, aud that our sun and the visible stars are swinging around it in orbits measured by millions of years. COUNTRY LIFE AXD CITY LIFE. It is a good sign that the public taste for rural homes is rapidly ad vancing, and the rich and varied charms of the country are beginning to draw many thoughtful and weal thy men to tiie enjoyments of rural life. The excessive passion for city life and the ambition lor easier lives and more genteel employments has brought ruin to multitudes and fi nancial disaster to the nation. The growing tendency to depreciate coun try life has proved one of themofl unfortunate tendencies of our age. In the country dwell the vast major ity of the people. The country is constantly enriching the cities. The cities would die out without them. I have no sympathy with an article in one of our popular monthlies, in which the writer says: “I can pick out the farmers end their boys by their obyious pooiishness. Your far mer’s boy is like the oak tree grow ing out in a lot; but your city youth is fine and graceful” After reading that article I thought of a storm on Cape Cod—a storm that stripped the groves and made sad havoc with the stately pines, but did not disturb the sturdy oaks. And so I say your farmers’ boys wifi bieast a thousand storms, any one of which will strip your tender city youth. Day before yesterday I sow a little boy seven years old harnessing a horse ; aud he did it too, and drove him to the blacksmith’s shop. And they said he did it when he was six years old. I have seen two boys six and eight years of age, botii sons of affluence, with numberless servants, never get ting into a high chair alone, never putting on their own bibs or cutting their own meat—helpless, dependent. Twenty years hence, which will win the race, the one or the other? I once said that no historic name could be mentioned whose owner was not once a country boy. A friend took exception to my remark. I asked him if he could mention one. lie said, ‘‘Yes. Ben. Franklin.” I beg your pardon. Bun. Franklin grew up in a little country village, not so large as Woodstock. You call it Boston ; but it was a little village then.” Would Ben. Franklin have filled the bill he did if he had grown up in a city like Paris? Could Wash ington have achieved the successes for the country that lie did if he had grown up within the limits of Lon don ? I studied the kindergarten system pretty thoroughly when in Germany, and was pleased with it; but the kindergarten system was meant for the poor, unfortunate chil dren cooped up within brick walls in narrow streets. I tell you the best kindergarten in the world is the open fields of the country. I am continually counseling the wealthy sons of our cities to spend a year in the country, with its freer experi ence, its wider range; and, better still, to give one season to hard worn on the farm or in the shop. I say, the practical skill thus gained in contriving with few tools to do much and many thiDgs—it will pay for some loss of book knowledge and tend afterward to lead one to pursue text-books.with greater zest and prof it. The farm, the workshop is a grand school. Prof. Northrop. YELLOW FEVER AS A CONTAGION. Cincinnati Enquirer: As regards the question whether or not yellow fever is contagious, there is a great diversity of opinion among physi cians. One of tiie most eminent gentlemen of the profession said to an Enquirer reporter last evening that the statement made by certain peo ple that it is not infectious is not borne out by the facts, and the peo ple should not flatter themselves that it would not gain a foot-hold in this climate from imported cases. Pie says that a pair of stockings, or even cars on which yellow’ fever patients are transported, will spread the dis ease. It is just like the plague of Egypt, and will go anywhere it not guarded against. The only preven tative, he says, against its spread is the thickest kind of quarantine, and this should be resorted to without delay. lie cited the case of Phila delphia in the year 1795, at which time the city was almost depopulated by the destroyer. It gained afoot hold there for want of quarantine reaching Boston by way of the coast, f and soon after getting a start in the Quaker City. There is not much danger of infec tion by way of the rivei. Memphis aud Cairo are now quarantined, and the precautions taken at these points of course add to the safety of the ci ties above them. But as to travel by rail we are powerless. You can’t quarantine a railroad very easily. Most of the boats that ply between New Orleans and this point are laid up. Tiie only one known to be en route here is the Golden Rule, and she is not due until the early part of next week. The average human body is made up of several pails of water, a mass of charcoal sufficient tWbuok a good dinner, a quantity of hydrogen tiiat would float a small baloon, a piece of iron large enough to make a pocket knife, and a lump of phosphorus that would serve for half a dozen boxes of lucifer matches, also various propor tions of soda, potash, lime, magnesia, oxygen, chlorine and nitrogen. Atlanta is making arrangements to send a large excursion to Savan nah in Ssptember, upon the arrival in port of the new steamship, ‘‘Gate City.” Hon. Jefferson Davis and General Alfred Cummiug ltave have been elected honorary of the Augusta Confederate Survivors. “The Critic,” will be the name of the new Atlanta weekly. Au Arkansas man gave his poor, starved horse two miserable nubbins ol corn and five blades of hay, re marking as lie did so: “Thar, now, eat till you bust ” TWO REMARKABLE ACCIDENTS. In the transactions of the Medical Society of New Jersey, for 1877, Dr. Ryerson reports the case of a child which lived four weeks with over an inch of No. 1 sewing needle in the heart. Search for tiie needle liefore death was unsuccessful. At the au topsy it was found to have passed partially through the cartilage of the fourth rib, into the wall of the right ventricle. Pus swelled up through the perforated cartilage, and loose in au abscess holding an ounce or more of pus, in the muscular substance, lay the needle. It was supposed that until loosened by suppuration the broken end of the needle remained fixed in the rib, thus pinning the he irt to the chest wall. A still more remarkable accident, with recovery, is reported in the Transactions of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania, for the same year. In this case a boy of fourteen was im paled on the end of a carriage shaft, the point of tiie shaft entering one inch below the left nipple and coming out at the back. The victim was swung three times into the air by Hie rearing of the horses, then pushed himself off, and walked home with some assistance. No cough or he moptysis followed and apparantly littte shock. Effusion into the pleura occurred with the discharge of pus, front and back. Tiiis finally lessen ed, and finally both wounds closed, the one in the breast last. The boy has recovered lobast health. A BIG FISH STORY. We were making a voyage from the West Indies to New York, when the ship-fever broke out among the crew. One of the sailors, among the first victims, was accompanied by iiis son, a lad of fourteen years, who was strongly attached to his father, and remained with him clay and night, and never could bo persuaded to leave bis sick father for a moment. A largo shark was seen every day following the vessel, evidently for the purpose of devouring any one who should die and lie committed to the deep. After lingering a few dsys the sail or died. As was the custom at sea, he was sewed up in a blanket, and for the purpose of sinking him an old grind-stone and a carpenter’s ax were put in with him. The very iiftpressive service of the Episcopal Church was then read, and the body committed to the deep. The poor boy, who had watched the proceedings closely, plunged in after his father, when an enormous shark swallowed them both. The second day after this dreadful scene, as the shark continued to follow the vessel—for there were others sick in the ship—one of the sailors proposed as they had a sharp hook on board, to make an effort to take him. They fastened the hook to a large rope and baited it with a piece of pork, threw it into the sea, and the shark instantly swallowed it. Hav ing thus hooked him, by means of a windlass they hoisted him on board. After he was dead they pre pared to open him, when one of the sailors, stooping down for the pur pose, suddenly paused, and, after listening a few moments, declared most solemnly he heard a low, gut tural sound which appeared to pro ceed from the shark. The sailors, after enjoying a hearty laugh at his expense, proceeded to listen for them selves, when they were compelled to admit that they heard a similar sound. They then proceeded to open the shark, when the mystery was explained. It appears the sailor was not dead, but in a trance; and, his son, on mak ing this discovery, when inside the sharke, had by means of bis knife, ripped open the blanket. Having thus liberated his father, they both went to work and righted up the old grind-stone. The boy was turn ing, the father w r as holding on to the old ship-carpenter’s ax, sharpening it for the purpose of cutting their way out of their Jonah-like prison, which occasioned the noise heard by the sailor. As it was the hottest season of the year, and very little air stirring where they were at work, they were both sweating tremen dously. BRAIN STIMULANT. The best possible thing for a man to do when he feels too weak to carry anything through is to go to bed and sleep as long as he can. This is the only recuperation of brain power, the only actual recuperation of brain force, because during sleep the brain is in a state of rest, in a condition to receive-and appropriate particles of nutriment from the blood, which takes the place of those which have been consumed by previous labor, since the very act of thinking burns up solid panicles; as every turn of the wheel or screw of the steamer is the result of conspmptiou by fire ot the fuel in the furnace. The supply of consumed brain I substance can only be had from nutritive particles in ihe blood which were obtained from the food eaten previously, and the brain is so constituted that it can best receive and appropriate to itself those nutritive particles during the state of rest, of quiet, and stilness of sleep. Mere stimulants supply noth ing in themselves; they goad the brain, and force it to a greater con sumption of its substance, until it is so exhausted that there is not power enough leit to receive a supply. It took scarcely ten hours to try, convict and sentence a man accused, in an English court, of murder in the first degree. Within that time law yers examined and cross-examined their witnesses, made speeches for the prosecution and the defense, lis tened to a protracted charge from the judge, saw the jury returning with a verdict, and heard sentence pro nounced. Yet the London Times, in [its report of the affair, explains apologetically that because “there | was a great deal of evidence the trial lasted all day.” AX EX WISE BESTOWAL. The people who are always anx ious to bestow confidence in their neighbors are unmitigated nuisances. There are some things one does not care to know, and it is a great annoy ance to have a gossipping neighbor insist upon making you the deposito ry of such unpalatable secrets, and then perhaps, going on with a series of questions intended to worm out of you an opinion which you are not disposed to give. It is equally an noying to Lit vc a person”->f this sort intimate tiiat there is something which he might tell you that would greatly surprise and grieve you, but Which he will for the present with hold, out of ragard for your feelings. It is also an annoyance and an im pertinence to be questioned as to your views of a certain matter, it may be, in the presence of the very people before whom you would be most unwilling to state your opi c ion. DO YOU USE TOBACCO. Take your pencil, brother Patron, and we will figure on this tobacco question and farm business. Thous ands in our country consume one dollar’s worth of tobacco in one week while others will use twenty-five cents worth in the same time. To make a narrowly correct estimate of the value consumed per week, we will assume the medium of seventy live cents as a general average of to bacco consumers and proceed to figuring. It a person uses seventy five cents” worth of any worthless luxury in one week, in one year he will use fifty-two times seventy-five cents worth, which will equal thirty nine dollars. Take a habitual con sumer of tobacco, then, at eighteen years of age, place as principal the sum of $39, with compound interest, adding each year the sum of thirty nine dollars, and we have at the ex piration of ten years the snug little principal of $552.98, saved from quids and ashes. Continue the reckoning for ten years longer, and we have our hero at thirty-eight years of age with the sum of $1,470 91 to invest in a home, saved from self idulgence, filth and degradation of taste. Let every son of Adam keep strict ac count with his tobacco demands for one week and honestly compute the same, and see if we have over-esti mated the expenditure for indulging this sad habit. — Exchange. PRINTING OFFICE DIALOGUE. It is not alone printers and com positors that will enjoy the following. It is capital and very forcible .illus tration of a printing office dialogue : Foreman of the office —Jones, what are you at now? Compositor—l’m setting a “House on Fire;” ’most done. Foremau —What is Smith about? Compositor—He Is engaged on “A Horrid Murder.” Foreman—Finish as quick as pos sible, and help Morse through with his telegraph. Bob, what are you try ing to get up? Bob—“A panic in the Money Mar ket.” Foreman—Tom, what are you dis tributing f Tom—“ Prizes in tne Great Lot tery.” Foreman —Stop that and take hold of this “Runaway Horse.” Slocum, what in creation have you been about for the last half hour? Slocum—Justifying the “Compro mise Measures” which my “sub” set up. Foreman —Y'ou chap on the stool there, what are you on now ? Chap on the stool—On the “Table” that you gave me. Foreman—Lay it on tiie table for present; no room for it. Compositor—How about those “Municipal Candidates?” Foreman—Run ’em in. What did you say, Slocum ? Slocum —Shall I lead these “Men of Boston?” Foreman —No; they are “solid,” of course. Compositor—Do you want a “full face” head to “Jenny Lind’s Fam ily?” Foreman—No; put ’em in “small caps.” John have you got up that “Capital Joke? John—No, sir; I’m out of “sorts.” Foreman —Well, throw in this “Million of California Gold,” and when you get through with it I’ll give you some more, Wilson, have you finished “The Coalition?” Wilson—Yes, sir; “The Coalition” is all up. Editor—What do you want now? l’r. Devil—More copy, sir. Editor—Have you completed that “Eloquent Thanksgiving Discourse?” I’r. Devil —Yes, sir; and I’ve just got up “A Warm Winter.” — N. Y. Graphic. 1 DON’T CARE. “I am sorry to see my son give way to anger;” said the patient mother. “I don’t care,” replied the passion ate child. “You will become an ignorant man unless you study better,” said the faithful teacher. “I don’t care,” lie muttered under his breath. “These boys are not the right sort of companions for you,” said tiie pastor. “I don’t care,” he said, turning on his heel. “It is dangerous to taste wine,” said his friend warningly. “I don’t care,” was his still obsti nate reply. A few years later lie was a worth less drunkard, plugged into every sort of excess, and finally ending a miserable life of crime without hope. “I don’t care,” was his ruin, as it is the ruin of thousands. Look out for it beys and girls. Keep away from it. Don’t let it find a place in your hearts, or pass your lips. Al ways care. Care to do right, and care when you have done wrong. Remember that the repeal of the bankrupt act takes effect on the 15th of September. [XUMBEK 30. I'ASH ION NOTES. Brunet ts should not wear'plaiu lluon collars. There is a fancy for transparent sleeves just now. Kiit-plaited gowns for children have no scarf drapery. Derby hats are shown again for young girls with oval faces. Reversible fringes in two colors are shown for polonaises. Pririeesse morning dresses have the Watteau pleat at the hack. Hats of muslin shirred on fine wire, are worn with muslin dresses. The ball and chain hairpins become more and more fashionable. Serge is the best material for a j bathing suit. It will dry in half an hour. Shoes with the sandal top and im ; mouse bows, are shown for .-triad wearing. Pompadour squares and scarf dra peries are finishing points for prin cesse dresses. Polonaises worn with kilt pleated skirts are cut much shorter than ' other models of this mode. Percale collars and cuffs, with bright figures on a white ground, are shown to wear with blue flannel gowns. When the bride does not wear full dress the groom should not, and their gloves should be of the same tint. Bracelets should not be worn in the street, outside of long-wristed gloves, under pretence of keeping them in place. They are not in good taste in a ball-room. Overskirts figure largely in the world of dress—those made of gren adine and bourette fabrics should present more more fullness than skirts disposed in other materials. A colony ofSwedes have purchased a tract of land containing about 5,000 acres, on the Blue Mountain, extend ing from the Delaware Water Gap west to the Wind Gap. The parly will take possession in a few weeks. It is reported that they intend to en ter extensively into raising and grazing goats, and from goat’s milk they will manufacture Sehweitzer cheese. The location is said to be par ticularly favorable to goat-raising. A Scotch murderer was acquitted two weeks ago in Edinburg on the ground that he was asleep when he seized his little child and dashed its head against a stone wall. The ver dict was that the prisoner had killed his child while in a condition of som nambulism. when he was uncon scious of the nature of the act. London is laughing over a suit for breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiff was a widow of seventy years, who wore a wig, her hair, as testified, having fallen out in conse quence of her grief at the inconstan cy of her suitor, a Romeo of three score and ten. The jury gave her SSO. What are you about? angrily ex claimed a country editor the other day to his wife, who was touching up her complexion before the mirror. Only getting up my patent outside, dear, was the reply. Humboldt says that he saw on the slope of the Cerra Drida shirt trees fifty feet high. The Indians cutoff cylindricle pieces two feet in diam eter, from which they peel the red and fibrous bark, without making any longitudinal incision. This bark affords them a sort of garment which resembles a sack of very coarse tex ture, and without a seam. The up per opening serves for a head, and two lateral holes are cut to admit the arms. The natives wear these shirts of Marina in the rainy season ; they have the form of the ponchos and manos of cotton which are so com mon in New Grenada, at Quito, and in Peru. As in this climate the rich es and beneficence of nature are re garded as the primary causes of the indolence of the inhabitants, the mis sionaries do not fail to say, in show ing the shirts of Marina, “in the for ests of Oroonoko, garments are found ready made upon the trees.” The Washington Star of Monday jsays: “Since Treasurer Gilfi'lan, in the latter part of last week, sent out notifications to the national banks that they could obtain as many sil ver dollars—free of transportation— for greenbacks as they wanted, or ders for them have como in at a ra pid rate considering the short time intervening between the present date and last Thursday, when the notifica tions were sent out by mail. Up to the close of business to-day twenty banks had responded, the amount of : silver taken by them being $310,000. | The orders received which make up this amount came from national banks in Vermont, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee aud Connecticut. A Connecticut firm writes to Mr. Gilfillan: ‘We will take $5,000 in silver, but the Lord only knows what wo are going to do with it.’ There is no doubt hut that the long neglected silver dollar will soon begin to circulate freely.” An Irishman who stood near the third base watching a game of base ball, was sent togras3by a foul which struck him under the fifth rib. “A fowl, wazit? Begorra I thought it waz a mule.” Girls whose opinions about such things are always valuable, say that there’s too much ssliirt collar and too little young man in the present day to suit their taste. ■ A shoemaker advertises “medi icinal boots-” The virtue is in the heel. An Irish agricultural journal ad vertises anew washing machine under the heading, “Every man his own wash-woman,” and in its cult*; | nary department says that “potatoes should always he boiled in cold water. ” wrawana. \ Augusta taxes dogs $1.20 each. The King of Spain is dangerously ill. The public debt statement for July s lows h decrease of $200,307. There are 07,000 exhibitors at Paris Exhibition. The Empire of Japan is made up of 3,800 islands. The Marietta paper mills are again running full time, night and day. 1 rmcia of Ogh Ihorpti hold thitr v\ heat at $1.25. Troup county gives 300 majority for Harris. Milledgeville has two colored mil itary companies with arms. A snake with two tails has been captured in Rockdale county. A cantaloupe grown on a cucumber vine is among the LaGrango curiosi ties. It is estimated that American tourists will leave $20,000,000 i t Europe this year. A bu.-l of William Cullen Bryant is to ho erected in Central Park by the Century Club. Two young Chinamen in San Finn cisco are preparing for the Episcopal ministry. The Chinese say that they knew about the telephone nine hundred years ago, and cal'ed it shumsien. A rain, pronounced to he the heav iest of the season, fell in Columbus ou Tuesday :i fternoon. Mr. A C. Bell, of Americas, sold 350 bushels of his last year’s corn crop one day last week. It is suggested that a monument be erected over the grave of Admiral Sem rues at Mobile. Everybody seem to think himself a moral half bushel to measure tho world’s fraiities. Temperance pays some people John 11. Gough has made $200,000 by lecturing on that subject. A frisky Briton bit bis wife’s nose off, and the patient woman testified in court that she bit it off herself. The Washington authorities, it isf said, threatened to suppress the sale of Dr. Mary Walker’s new book, “Unmasked.” Henry Ward Beecher receives SIO,OOO and expenses for ten lectures in California. He is more profitable than a whole menagerie. A fund for the defense of the par ties charged with the murder of Lord Leitrim in Ireland is being raised in Augusta. A Monroe county man made last year, with six plows, one hundred and six bales of cotton and a good supply of corn. Postmasters have been ordered to send all three cent pieces to Washing ton in order that these coins may bo withdrawn from circulation. The Atlanta Bornological Society is growing in prominence. A fine display of fruit at its meeting on the third instant. They are hatching out chickens in Rutherford county without bother ing the hens, simply using tho natural warmth of the sun. Several deaths by sunstroke oc curred in Augusta,Georgia,last week among tho convict negroes while at work. The new five dollar counterfeits on the Manufacturers’ National Bank of Amsterdam, N. Y., have been issued, and are well calculated to deceive. Fifty-one metals are now known to exist, thirty of which have been discovered within the present centu ry. Four hundred years ago but seven were known. Somebody prints a book to show how to get “twenty-five cent dinners for families.” Now let somebody print a book showing now to get twenty-five cents. There was made in the United States mints in July 89,000 double eagles and 1,857,000 standard silver dollars. Including minor coins, the value of the coinage was $2,027,038 Recently at Janesville, Wisconsin, a little girl, May Thomas, aged nine years, weighing forty-eight pounds walked twenty-five miles in five hours and fifty minutes. Maggie Mitchel, has concluded tho purchase of M. Louis Vider’s new play, with which she will commence her season in San Francisco 'early in the autumn. According to official statistics, forty seven persons died in England and Wales of hydrophobia in 1875, and fifty-three in 1870. The total in tho eleven years, 1800-70, was 387. King Alfonso proposes to erect a monument to his wife, the State voting $50,000 per annum towards building it until it is finished, the King giving 40,000. The Methodists are spending about SI,OOO a month for missionary work in Calcutta. i'hey have recently rented a large building at $2,400 a year for sailors’ meetings. Sitting Bull is reported to be in Canada in a destitute condition, and wants to return to an American res ervation. It is thought that a crisis is fast approaching, and the hostilcs must either starve, fight or yield. Washington territory is] repre sented by her newspapers as anxious to become a State, but her population still falls short of 124,000, the num ber on which representation in Con gress is based. The average daily wages earned by 2,042,209 workingmen, as shown by the last census of 100 cities of Amer ica, was only ninety-seven cents, and each had an average of only 180 day’s employment a year. Barnutn pays his best riders S7OO a week and clowns $l5O to $175. Ho adds $25 to the salary of the latter every time he gets off anew joke,but he lias no occasion to pay the extra $25 during the whole course of his life as a show-man. Anew clerk in a drug store was discharged the other day becausolio didn’t know how to look wise, roll his eyes, and say “74 cents” without turning red in the face as he handed out a little powder that had cost tho concern about two cents and a frat:- tion. Emotion and business don’t? jingle. A thousand Chinamen are emM slantly employed off Point St. Fedtf* California, gathering and drying;* shrimps, they are bugged and boater# to Sail Francisco. Among the freight' for China, by tho mid-June steamer, were five hundred tons of shrimps. This peculiar occupation il not be grudged to the Mongolain face.
