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YOL. XXIII-NO. 30.
The Cartersville Express.
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Address S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
BARTOW COUNTY—OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
County Officers.
Ordinary—J. A. Howard—Office,courthouse.*
Sheriff— Jas. Kennedy.
Deputy Sheriff—A. M. Franklin,
Clerk of Superior Court—Thos. A. Word.
Treasurer—Humphrey Cobb.
Tax Collector—W. W. ltich.
Tax Receiver—W. W. Ginn.
Commissioners—J. If. Wikle, secretary; A.
Knight; W. I. Benham ; A. C. Trimble; T.
C. Moore.
CITY OFFICERS—CARTERSVILLE.
Mayor—R. B. Trippe.
Board oi Aldermen—J. C.Woffford, E. Payne;
L. A. Chapman, A. L. Barron; Jno. A. Stover,
M. ll.Gilreath; W. C. Edwards, R. W. Satter
field.
Clerk —George Cobb.
Treasurer—Benjamin F. Mountcastle.
Marshals--' John A. Gladden, James D. Wil
kerson.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Methodist—Rev. P. M. Ryburn, pastor.
Preaching every Sunday at 11 o’clock a. m. and
8 o’clock, p. in. Sunday school every Sunday at
9 o’clock a. m. Prayer meeting on Wednesday
night.
Presbyterian--Rev. Thco. E. Smith, pastor.
Preaching every Sunday at 11 o’clock, a. m.
Sunday school every Sunday at 9 o’clock.
Prayer meeting on Wednesday night.
Baptist—Rev. R. B. Ilcaden, pastor. Preach
ing every Sunday at 11 o’clock, a. m., and 8 p.
m. Sunday school every Sunday at 9 o’clock,
Prayer meeting on Wednesday night.
Episcopal—A. W. Rees, Rector. Services oc
casionally.
SECRET SOCIETIES.
STAR LODGE, No. 322. I, O. G. T. Meets at
their hall oyer J. W. Jackson’s store, every
Thursday night.
J. C. IIENDON, W. (J. T.
S. M. CLAYTON, W. It. S.
A KNIGHTS OF HONOR.
® ar *' ovv C°. Lodge, No. 148, meets
V every Ist and 3rd Monday night
Curry’s Hall, east side of the
*"■ twt square, Cartersville, da.
W. L. Kirkpatrick, A. C. Smith,
Reporter. Dictator
American legion of honor, carters
ville Council, No. 152, meets every second
and fourth Monday nights in Curry’s hall.
Gxo. S. Cobb, J, W. Harris, jr.,
Secretary'. Commander.
POST OFFICE DIRECTORY.
Mails North open 7:30 a m 4:52 p m
Mails South open 10:10 a m 9:04 p in
Cherokee It. It. open 6.'KT> p m
M alls North close 7:00 am 4:00 p m
il ails South close 9:45 a m 8:30 p m
Jhcrokee R.R. close 7:30 a m
Reck Mail, via Fairmount,
leaves Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at
5:00 am. Arrives Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays at 5:00 p m.
Money Order and Registered Lotter
Office open from 8:45 amtos pm.
General Delivery open from 8 a m to 6
pm. Open on Sunday from 9am to 10:30 am.
J. li. WIKLE, P. M.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC K. R.
ON AND AFTER June2oth, 1880, trains on
this road will run as follows:
NORTH ward”
STATIONS. No. 1. No. 3, | No. 11.
Atlanta, 2 50pm 5 20am 7 50am 5 10pm
Marietta, 3 35 “ 6 0(1 “ 8 43 “ fi 09 “
Car tors v’e 4 30“ 7 23 “ 9 49 “ 7 22 “
Kingston, 500 “ 7 51“ 1018“ 800 “
Dalton, 628 “ 926 “ 12 03pm
Chatta’ga. 825 “ 10 56 “ 140“
SOUTHWARD. '
STATIONS. No. 2. | No. 4. No. 6. K 2cc.’
Chatta’ga. 5 25pm 7 05am 6 45am
Dalton, 7 15“ 837 “ 1013“
Kingston, 843 “ 1016“ 107 pm 5 30am
Carte rsv’e 907 “ 10 46 “ 202 “ 604 “
Marietta, 1012“ 1151“ 429 “ 733 “
Atlanta, 11 00 “ 12 40pm 615 “ 850 “
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
Oflicc Cherokee Railroad,!
August 30th, 1879. (
ON AND AFTER Monday,September 1,1879,
the train on this road will run daily, ex
cept Sunday, as follows:
LEAVING.
Cartersville 7:10 a m
Arrive ac Stilesboro 8:30 a m
Arrive at Taylorsville 8:52 a m
Arrive at Rockmart 10:00 a m
Arrive at terminus 10:50 a m
RETURNING,
Leave terminus 3:00 p m
Arrive at Rockmart 3:40 p m
Arrive at Taylorsville 4:45 p m
Arrive at Stilesboro 5:13 p m
Arrive at Cartersville 6:00 p m
HOME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Monday, Nov. 17, trains on this
Itoad will run as follows:
MORNING TRAIN—EVERY DAY.
Reaves Rome 6.30 a m
Arrives at Rome 10.00 a m
EVENING TRAIN—SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.
Leaves Rome 5:00 am
Arrives at Rome 8:00 p m
Both trains will make connection at Kings
ton with trains on the YV. and A. Railroad, to
and from Atlanta and points South.
Eben Hillyer, Pres.
Jas. A. Smith, G. P. Agt.
TANARUS, W. MILNER. J. W. HARRIS, JR.
ItllLNKlft fc HARRIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office on West Main street, above Erwin.
A. W. FITE
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA,,
Office:—With Col. A. Johnson, West side
public square. When not at office, can be found
at office of Cartersville Express, Opera House.
IATIOIAL HOTEL,
DALTON, GA.
J. Q. A. LEWIS, Proprietor.
The only first class hotel in the
City. Large, well ventilated rooms, splen
did sample rooms for commercial travelers,
polite waiters and excellent pure w r ater.
fjgg* Rates moderate. scpl9tf
ST. JAMES HOTEL,
(CARTERSVILLE, EORGIA,)
The undersigned has recently
taken charge of this elegant new hotel. It
has been newly furnished and is first class in
all respects,
SAMPLE ROOM FOR COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS.
favorable terms to traveling theatrical coiu
ompames. l. c, HOSS, Proprietor.
The Cartersville Express.
YELLOW FEVEB-Blaok Vomit.
Tt is too soon to forget the ravages of this
terrible disease, which will no doubt return in
a more malignant and virulent form in the fall
months of 1879.
MURRELL’S IIEPATINE, a Remedy dis
covered m Southern Nubia and used with such
wonderful results in South America where the
most aggravated cases of fever are found,
causes lrom one to two ounces of bile to be fil
tered or strained lrom the blood each time it
passes through the Liver, as long as an excess
of bile exists. By its wonderful action on the
Liver and Stomach the Hepatine not only pre
vents to a certainty any kind of Fever and
Black Vomit, but also cures Headache, Consti
pation of the Bowels, Dyspepsia and all Ma
larial diseases.
No one need fear Yellow Fever who will ex
pel the Malarial Poison and excess of bile from
the blood by using Murrell’s Hepatine, which
is sold by all Druggists in 25 cent and SI.OO bot
tles, or will be sent by express by the Proprie
tors, A. F, MERRELL &, CO. ,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dr. Pen Mon’s Shlllngla or Queen’s Deliglt
The reports of wonderful cures of Rheu
matism, Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Syphilis, Cancer
Ulcers and Sores, that come from all parts ol
the country, are not only remarkable but so
miraculous as to be doubted was it not for the
abundance ot proof.
REMARKABLE CURE OF SCROFULA.&c.
Case of Colonel J, C. Branson.
Kingston, Ga., September 15,1871.
Gents: —For 16 years 1 have been a greatsuf
ferer from Scrofula in its most distressing
forms. I have been confined to my room and
bed for 15 years with scrofulous ulcerations.
The most approved remedies for such cases had
been used, and the most eminent Physicians
consulted, without any decided benefit. Thus
prostrated, distressed, desponding, I was ad
vised by Dr. Ayer, of Floyd county, Ga., to
commence the use of your Compound Extract
Stillingia. Language is as insufficient to de
scribe the relief 1 obtained from the use of the
Stillingia as it is to convey an adequate idea 01
the intensity of my suffering before using your
medicine; sufficient to say, I abandoned all
other remedies and continued the use of your
Extract of Stillingia, until I can say truly, “I
am cured of all disease, with nothing to ob
struct the active pursuit of my profession.
More than eight months have elapsed since
this remarkable cure, without any return of
the disease.
For the truth of the above statement, I refer
to any gentleman in Bartow county, Ga., and
to the members of the <>ar of Cherokee Circuit,
who are acquainted with me. 1 shall ever re
main, with the deepest gratitude, Your obedi
ent servant,
J. C. BRANSON, Att’y at Law.
A MIRACLE.
Gents:— My daughter was taken on the 25th
day ot June, 1863, with what was supposed to
be Acute Rheumatism, and was treated for the
same with no success. In March, following,
pieces of bone began to work out of the right
arm, and continued to appear till all the
bone from the elbow to the shoulder joint came
out. Many pieces of bone came out of the
right loot and leg. The case was the upro
nounced one of White Swelling. After hav
ing been confined about six years to her bed,
and the case considered hopeless, I was in
duced to try Dr. Pemberton’s Compound Ex
tract of Stillingia, and was so well satisfied
with its effects that I have continued use of the
it until the present.
My daughter was confined to her bed about
six years before she sat up or even turned over
without help. She now sits up all day, and
sews most of her time—has walked across the
room. Her general health is now good, and I
believe she will, as her limbs gain strength,
walk well. I attribute her recovery, with the
blessing of God, to tho uc nf ynnr invaluable
medicine. With gratitude, I am, vours truly,
W. B. BLANTON.
West Point, Ga„ Sept. 16,1870.
Gents:— The above certificate o* Mr. W. B.
Blanton we know and certijv to as being true.
The thing is so; hundreds of the most respected
citizens will certify to it. As much reference
can bo given as may be required. Yours truly,
CRAWFORD & WALKER, Druggists,
lion. 11. D. WILLIAMS.
r®. Mr- PEMBERTON’S STILLINGIA is
prepared by A. F. MERRELL & GO., Phila*,
Pa. Sold by all Druggists in SI.OO bottles, or
sent by express. Agents wanted to canvass
everywhere.
Send for Book—“ Curious Story”—free to all.
Medicines sent to poor people, payebus in in
stallments.
For sale by D. W. Curry,Cartersville,Ga.
TO THEIS
Adapted in chronic diarrhoea, constipation,
and scrofula.—lly. Latham, M. D.
Successfully used in Dyspepsia, Chronic Diar
rhoea and Scrofula.—Prof. S. Jackson, Univer
sity, Pa.
Efficient in anaemia; excellent appetizer and
blood purifier.—ll. Fisher, M. D., Ga.
Valuable in nervous prostration, indigestion
and chlorosis.—G. E. Mathews, M. D., N. C.
A fine tonic and alterative, very valuable in
diseases peculiar to females, chronic fever and
ague, bronchitis and diseases of the digestive
organs.—J. F. Roughton, M. D., Ala.
Very beneficial in strengthening and improv
ing a reduced system.—Rev. Jno. W. Beck
with, Bishop of Ga.
Invaluable as a nervous tonic.—Hon. I. C.
Fowler, Tcnn.
Recommended as a pryphylactic in Malarial
districts.”—l). R. Fairex, M. 1), N. O.
Restores debilitated systems to health. —T. C.
Mercer, M. D,, Ind.
“Used with great benefit In Malarial Fever
and DiptlierJa.’ ’ —S. F. Dupon, M. D., Ga.
Prince of mineral tonics.—Francis Gillam,
M. I>„ N. C.
Of great curatiye virtue.—Tlios. F. Rumbold,
M. D., St. Louis.
Beneficial in uterine derangements and ma
larious conditions.—G. M. Vail, M. D., Ohio.
Best remedy ever used in diseases of the
throat. —P. A. Siflerd, M. D., N. C.
Tonic, alterative, diuretic; one of natures
greatest remedies. —Medical Association ot
Lynchburg, Virginia.
Adapted in certain affections of the kidneys
and bladder; dyspepsia, lupus, chlorosis,
scrofulous and cutaneous affections,—Prof. J.
J. J. Moorman, M, D., Va.
Relieves headache, promptly—both sick and
nervous. —liev. E. C. Dodson, Va.
Sample supply sent free to any physician de
siring to test. Pamphlets sent free. Analysis
with each package. Water as it comes from
the Springs $1 per case of 6 gallons in glass—
s2.so for 5 galons, $1 for 10 galons, $7 for 20 gal
lons in casks, Mass 50 cents and $1; $2.50 and
$5 for half doz. Pills, pure sugar coated 25c.
50c. and $1 package; $1,25, $2.50 and $5 half doz.
Sent postpaid anywhere. This Mass and Pills
contains in reduced space all the curative
powers of the water,and is convenient,palata
ble and soluble.
Springs open for visitors June Ist. Boavd SBO
per month. Special rates to families and par
ties. Carriages meet visitors at Forest and
Lawyer’s depot, each lour miles from Springs,
upon ad\ ice of arrivals
Address
A. M. DAVIS, Pres, of the Cos..
72 Main St., Lynchburg, Va.
Sold by D. W. Curry, druggist, Cartersville,
Ga. jel. 1880-6.
CAETEESVILLE, GA., THUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1880.
MOSQUITOES AND FLIES,
How To Rid the Room of these Winged
Tormentors.
[Nashville American.]
One of the American's counting
room staff, having read the follow
ing in the last Harper's Bazar ,
was induced to test the remedy for
mosquitoes, proposed, and finding
a package of the Persian
•burnt a pinch of it in his reading
room, and has rejoiced to find him
self no more troubled with mosqui
toes- They fell dead about him and
on the pages of the book he was read
ing, as thick as leaves in Vallainbros
sa. We reproduce the Bazar's arti
cle for the benefit of our readers:
With the rest of the world, your
writer has suffered greatly this and
other years from theso insatiable
summer pests, mosquitoes ; but now
out of all his agony he can calmly
gather shreds of experience, and jot
down a few facts that may help some
poor mortal to weather through the
season until divine nature rids us of
our tormentors.
There is a remedy even for these
ills, and it is quite probable that hun
dreds of your readers now have it in
their houses, though ignorant of sall
its uses, and the relief that is lying
just at their hands.
The Pyrethrum roseum , or “Persi
an camomile,” is the powdered leaf
of a harmless flower growing in Cau
casian Asia in great profusion, where
for centuries it has been used to rid
the natives of unwelcome guests
from the insect world. It can be pur
chased of almost any reliable drug
gist at about 70 cents per pound, all
ready prepared for use.
With a finely powdered dust made
from the flowers, tho mosquito, the
house-fly, the wicked flea, and the
disgusting Cimex lectularius may all
be promptly put to flight or calmly
murdered—a murder conferring on
the human heart a joy too deep for
words; for certainly it is a joy to sit,
as I do now, at my writing table this
hot July night watching the expir-
ngfonlca of inserts, nud rarely
feel a retributive sting to warn one
of their presence.
In order to enjoy this vengeful,
licious sport, it is only necessary to
heap up into a little cone one tea
spoonful of the blessed drug pyre
thrum, touch it with a lighted match
and watch the thin blue line of
smoke as it rises to the ceiling and is
wafted through the air, changing the
busy drone of insect life into a weak
wail of insect wo*. Pretty soon
down they come plump on to the ta
ble and over our paper, spin on their
tiny backs, and then sheaUi their
lancets, curl up their hair-like legs,
and interest one no more.
Up stairs our little ones sleep un
molested, though there are thousands
of mosquitoes in the room; the pests
are sick unto death, and cling sadly
to the walls, too feeble to think ot
tapping the rich, warm blood that
glows in ruddy little limbs just be
low; the fume of the pyrethrum
has settled their business; and while
it lingers in the room ontsiders are
unwilling to make an entry, though
the windows are raised and the lat
tices only half closed.
Gauze bars were long since banish
ed from our beds; indeed, we have
not used them for nearly seven years.
They are hot, stuffy things at best,
and one must be sadly driven to at
tempt to sleep under such cover, then
as we all know, the mosquito always
finds his way through, no matter
how carefully one may tuck up its
folds about the couch,
Smoke from the Persian camomile,
or its dusty powder, we have found
most efficacious, and your readers
will bless me when once they try it.
The purity of the drug must be as
sured. This can readily be tested,
it must have a bright buff color, be
light, readily burned, and give a
pleasant tea-like fragrance; one pinch
should kill a dozen flies* confined in
a bottle, at once; where it fails of
these properties, it has been adulter
ated.
In common use in large or breezy
rooms, where from great dilution it
fails to kill, it nevertheless produces
on insect life, through its volatilized
essential oil or resin, undoubted nau
sea, vertigo, respiratory spasm, and
paralysis. It acts upon them through
the minute spiracles, the breathing
tubes, that stud the surfaces of their
little bodies, and form the delicate
net-work of veins in their tiny wings.
To human beings it is so far as I
can ascertain, entirely innoxious and
not disagreeable. That we—a family
of eight persons infants and adults —
have lived for several weeks in an
atmosphere of pyrethrum dust and
smoke combined, during this present
summer, is sufficient proof of my
statement.
To the skeptic I recommend an in
teresting experiment: Puff the py
rethrum into a close warm room,
where flies most love to swarm, just
after dark, shut the door, and make
another visit in thirty minutes. The
sight of seeming millions of dead and
squirming vermin on the floor will
do his heart good—that is, if he is
human, and not an angel.
Having drafted our plan of battle
against these little foes, it becomes
proper to speak of the care of the
wounded. To cure musquito stings
I know of nothing belter than a
twenty per cent, solution, in either
oil or water of pure carbolic acid.
This to be rubbed well on the pain'*
ful spot. To bathe one’s tingling
hands and smarting limbs with this
solution gives a cooling, grateful sen
sation that is hard to describe. Car
bolic soap will do almost as well, or
an ointment compounded of carbol,
camphor and cosmoline.
Whatever preparation may be se
lected—and perhaps the simplest is
the best—in the carbol lies all the
virtue, because of its localized anses
thetie action on terminal nerve loops
or fibres. Carbol, however, has no
power, that I am aware of, to drive
mosquitoes away, and its careless use
in large quantities might be
dangerous.
Profits of Free Labor in Cotton.
Speaking of Marlboro county, S. C.,
the Charleston JVewssstys: “Since the
war the land has improved fully 50
per cent, in value and productiveness.
The yield of cotton has been greatly
increased. The largest crop produced
before the war was 12,000 bales, and
the yield of last year amounted to
nearly 18,000 bales. This large in
crease was brought about by high
fertilizing, deep cultivation, good
drainage, and improved implements
of husbandry. The average yield of
cotton to the acre is 800 pounds in
tho sippH. or. upon land that bus been
brought into a high state of fertility,
from 1,200 to 1,500 pounds, or one
bale of ginned cotton to the acre. The
staple always commands a good price-
The average cost of production count
ing in the value of slave property un :
der the old system has not been re
duced, but the profits have increased.
The crop is now ready to market
three weeks earlier than before the
.var,while the transportation is cheap
er and more direct, and the profits on
the improved fertilizing, making and
gathering the crop, will aggregate
fully 50 per cent. Ten per cent, pro
fit on the investment was a full aver
age until 1860, but the per centage of
clear profit will now reach not less
than 25 per cent. The cost of labor,
which is well regulated and remuner
ative, is $lO a month for first-rate
hands, with comfortable quarters.
The farm year consists of eight
months, during which the laborers
are paid regular wages, the remaining
four months belong to the laborers,
except there is work to be done on
the plantation upon which they are
employed, which must be given the
preference, and for which they are
paid at the rate of their regular
monthly wages. The laborers are all
colored, and are thrifty, willing
workers.”
Smaller Than Tom Thumb.
Germany now lays claim to the
smallest married couple that ever !
stood before an altar, in the person of j
a miniature “Marquis” and “Mar- j
chioness,” who have for some time !
past been exhibited on the Place du
Theatre at Odessa. The “Marquis,”
a native of Kiel, is thirty years old,
and weighs only nineteen pounds,
while his fairy-like consort, a young
lady born in Neumunster, some
twenty-two years ago, turns the scale
at thirteen pounds. Although they
are both German born wonders, leas
ed by their parents to traveling show
man at an early age, they never hap
pened to meet at the fairs and Kur
messen of their native land; but a
year ago, the “Marquis,” being on
exhibition at Moscow while Fraulein
Lilli was starring: at St. Petersburg,
they became aware of one another’s
existence through reading the news
paper notices, and entered into a cor
respondence, which soon led to a ren
dezvous and ultimately to the con
traction of a matrimonial engage
ment. Now they take their profes
sional rounds together, and are sav
ing their earnings, with the object of
retiring into private life in the Fath
erland.
THE STATE ROAD.
Ten years ago the legislature leas
ed the Western and Atlantic road for
the term of twenty years. One-half
of that time has expired aud the state
has received $3,000,000 in cash from
the lessees. The lease has ten years
j T et to run, and in that time the state
will receive $3,000,000 more in cash.
In the term of the lease it will have
paid the enormous sum of $6,000,000.
It is an essential part of this lease
that the road shall be run with abso
lute impartiality, and the humblest
citizen has the right to test the im
partiality of its management in the
courts. It is also “writ in the bond”
that tho road shall be returned at the
end of the lien in as good condition
as it was when first leased—the state
being put under no expense for re
pairs. It will be seen, therefore, that
we have a square income of $300,000
a year, without a dollar of outlay,
subject to no contingency and with
out any depreciation of the property.
A safer investment no state ever
made —a better investment Georgia
cannot make.
Aside from the fact that the state
should control in the interest of all
sections and all classes, this most im
portant railroad within her borders
the key, as it were, to its entire sys
tem of roads —is purely a financial
matter, the road should never be sold.
It could never bring, at any call,
more than $5,000,000, and most
probably not more than $3,000,-
000. The chances are that the few
men rich enough to make a serious
bid for the road would pool their
bids and carry it off for leas than
$3,000,000. But if it should bring $5-
000,000, we should be throwing up
what now pays 6 per cent, on that
sum. The state is floating 4 per cents
now aud to change an investment
that is paying 6 per cent and not im
pairing the property and fully pro
tecting the public rights would be a
criminal blunder. We have no idea
that any serious attempt will ever be
made to sell this valuable property.
If such an attempt is ever made the
Constitution will oppose sucli a plan
with all its soul and strength, and
before every tribunal.— Constitution.
A WIFE’S DEVOTION.
The Westfield correspondent of the
Springfied (Mass.) Republican tells
this story: “An illustration of what
a man can accomplish in spite of ad
verse circumstances and bodily afflic
tion, with a loving, willing wife to
aid him, is found in Dr. C. N. Ger
maine, for years one of our most re
spected and successful physicians.
Three years ago his eyes began to
fail, and gradually his sight weaken
ed, until about a year ago it was en
tirely lost. He had no means of
livelihood aside from his profession,
so as his sight grew dim his wife,
who is a woman of broad culture
and refinement; accompanied him
on his visits to patients to guide him.
Gradually accustoming herself to
note the various symptoms of the
sick, and by earnest study, she be
came fully competent when her hus
band’s sight w T as wholly gone to de
scribe all the outward symptoms of
patients to him, so that he has not
been obliged to give up practice, but
can be found every day going his
regular rounds with his wife by his
side. Ilis former patrons, with but
few exceptions, continue him as their
family physician, and his blindness
has not affected his skill and success
in treating various forms of disease,
although, of course, it prevents him
from practicing surgery. Every one
sympathizes with Dr. Germaine in
his affliction, and admire his courage
and his noble wife’s devotion and
energy.” B
He Cured the Rheumatism.
A few days since an Indian near
Major’s Ranch was suffering the pain
of rheumatism in one of his legs.
Concluding he could bear the loss of
the leg better than suffer longer, he
laid the leg across a log, and with an
ax chopped it entirely off a little be
low the knee, bleeding to death in a
few minutes. Each time he struck
the leg he hallooed, which attracted
attention, or the facts would never
have been known. And thus went
another aborigine to the happy hunt
ing ground. —SonarcL {Col.) Democrat.
—The Boston Pilot , tells us that
John Brougham in his kindness of
heart shared the little burial plot for
himself and wife wrth a poor young
actress. Ho died last of all. It was
difficult to get room for his body in
the cemetery. So by his generosity
“he wa9 hampered even in the
grave,”
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
WHERE DOES THE DAY BEGIN?
Asa matter of fact, the day begins
all around the world—not at the
same instant, but just as the sun vis
its successive portions of the earth in
his journey from east to west. But
the travelers who cross the Pacific
ocean can give another answer to the
question; that on the one hundred
and eightieth degree longitude— one
half of the circumference of the globe,
starting from Greenwich east or west
—there is an arbitrary change or
dropping of a day, and that at this
point, if anywhere, the day may be
said to begin. It was with strango
feelings that the writer crossing the
Pacific, having gone to bed on Satur
day night, leaving everything per
taining to the almanac in a satisfac
tory condition, awoke on Monday
morning! Sunday had completely
dropped from our calendar for
that week at least. Every one
knows that la traveling round the
world from ea-t to west a day is lost,
and in order to adjust his reckon
ing to that of the place he has left,
one must drop a day as if he had not
lived it, when in reality the time has
passed by lengthening every day dur
iug the journey. For a long time it
was the custom for sailors to effect
this change pretty much where they
pleased; out now it has become a set
tled rule among American and En
glish navigators that the one hun
dred and eightieth degree a day must
be passed over if going west: and
one added if going east, in which lat
ter case the traveler enjoys two Sun
days or two Thursdays, as the ease
may be. It is urast likely that this
particular degree was decided on
from the fact that, except a few scat
tered islands of Polynesia, there are
large communities, with vast com
mercial and social transactions, to be
affected by the change.
An Intelligent Donkey.
A Spanish peasant living in the
suburbs of Madrid has long been in
the habit of repairing daily to the
city, accompanied by a donkey laden
with mlk for distribution among
certain customers. One day, how
ever, the master was takeu ill,where
upon his wife suggested that the ass
should be sent on his customary
journey alone. The panniers were
accordingly filled with cans of milk
as usual, and a bit of paper was at
tached to the donkey’s headstall re
questing the customers to help them
selves to their ordinary allowance of
milk, and to put back the cans into
the pannier. Off started the donkey,
and he returned in due course with
the cans empty and with everything
in order. The master found upon in
quiry that the trusty messenger had
called at the right doors without
missing one, and also that in some
instances he had pulled the bell with
his teeth wheu kept waiting. From
that day forward the donkey has
gone his rounds alone.
—The London Times , having read
the editorials in the New York World
and the New York Tribune , says:
“The two great parties of America
have made very poor nominations
this year. Mr. Han field, the repro
crat nominee, served ten years in the
penitentiary for attempting to kid
nap Mr. Oakes Ames’ daughter, M ss
Credit Mobilier Ames, while Mr.
Garcock, the demublican nominee,
was sentenced to be hanged for mur
dering a woman, and was reprieved
while on the way to the gallows.
He has been out of prison only four
days.” —Oil City Derick.
—Resting and rusting. —The Ger
man proverb “if I I rust,” ap
plies to many things beside the key.
If water rests it stagnates. If the
tree rests, it dies—for its winter-state
is only a half rest. If the eye rests,
it grows dim and blind. If the arm
rests, it weakens. If the lungs rest
we cease to breathe. If the heart
rests, we die! What is true living
but loving? And what is loving, but
growth in the likeness of God?
—A capital anecdote is told of a lit
tle fellow, who in turning over the
leaves of a scrap-book, came across
the well-known picture of some
chickens just out of the shell. My
companion examined the picture
carefully, ana then with a grave sa
gacious look at me, slowly remarked,
“they came out‘cos they was afraid
of being boiled.”
—The Ellijay Courier wants a rail
road from Murphy, North Carolina,
to Cartersville, via that town.
—The wife of ex-Governor Ja- M.
1 3mith, died a few days ago.