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ANNOi'NCXMRKT.—All bills for advertis
ing in this paper are due on the first appear*
Wee cf the auvortiseiuent, when the money
is needed. .
Of Talmage, tho Glasgow Mail says:
“Compared with Moody he wants earn
estness, with Spurgeon originality and
with Gough tho knowledge of platform
effect. Generally speaking, had we not
known that it was tho celebrated Ameri
can orator who was lecturing, we might
have mistaken him for an ordinary
Presbyterian minister making a humor
ous address at a first-class soiree. The
audience, however, knew it was Tal
mage, and so laughed ‘conpuraedly.’ ”
Louise, Victoria and MAud, the young
daughters of the Trinceof Wales, rarely
appear in public in any but the simplest
of drcsB’H. They are sometimes seen
with their mother at the theatre in plain
white linen or cotton sailor dresses, with
a littlo red trimming, aud they are often
met ri-liug and driving in neat sailor
drcs’cs of dark blue woolen. They went
with their father and mother to the
French fair in gowns of plain pink cam
brie, with sashes of crimson harmonizing
with tho pink.
This Empress of Austria likes a soli*
tary hunting expedition. With her fa
vorite rifle in hand sbe goes deep into
the wooded mountains and solitary val
leys which stretch round the imperial
domain in every direction. Pressed in
tho rough costume of the Tyrol she
will often make excursions of two or
three days’ duration, staying at night at
eomo distant cot, where the only fare,
besides the gamo she brings with her, is
goat cheese and milk with black bread.
Cincinnati has a society for the pro
motion oi matrimony, which was organ
ized two years ago, and has had the
support of good people. Its president is
a member of the city council, and all
the other i Hirers are men of local prom
inence. Over 2,000 have joined, and
there are branches in forty cities. A
picnic is to be given in commemoration
of the second annivenary of the organi
sation, and on the occasion it is ex
pected there will be over a hundred
Couples publicly joined in matrimony.
The growing crops of every nation In
Europe are deficient, those of Ruqjia
particulariy so, and Russia has long been
•mo of the sources from which large sup
plies of wheat have been drawn by the
western nations. The complaints of crop
failures in France, Austria and Germa
ny and England are so numerous as to
t e alnioat unanimous. List year we ex
ported agricultural products to the im
mense aggregate of $592,175 813 and the
prospects now are there will be even an
increase upon theee figures during the
coming year.
It is reported that a grotesque genius
sono jeus ago conceived the idea of
importing and utilizing ostriches for the
United States cavalry instead of horses,
and actually imported eighteen of there
long-legged bird*. These laid numerous
eggs in the sands of New Mexico, and
tho flock of ostriches now numbers 117
stalwart members. It is added that
Colonel Hatch, of the Ninth regiment of
cavalry, is about to mount one of his
companies on ostriches. They, are
strong, docile, fleet aH a horse, will live
for lays without eating or drinking, and
noe.1 little or no grooming. Perhaps
this 1 ia enough of the story for such warm
weather.
The quarrel over -the late Brigham
Young's property has been greatly com
plicated by tho bringing of a suit on the
part of the trustees of the Mormon
church against tho heirs, legatees and
execu t >rs of tho estato to recover over
$1,000,009 worth of properly from them.
The plaintiffs ask that the alleged heirs
be en joined from taking po session of the
property. Tho affair creates great ex
citement in tho Mormondom, and the
peoplo teem to sympathize with the
church, believing that the organization
is in danger of being swindled out of its
rights in Brigham’s estate. The Salt
Lake Herald prints a fat supplement
containing the plea of the plaintiff-.
FHE BUTLER HERALD.
W. I. HENNA. . rrtl#AM
JAMES l>. KUSH, | Editor*.
‘LET THERE BE LIGHT.”
Subscription, $1.50 in Advance.
VOLUME III.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1879.
NUMBER 145.
baUle-fields of Armenia and Bulgaria
during the Russo-Turklsh war. The
writer referred to takes the ground that
yellow fever and “black death” only
differ in the method used by nature te
eliminate the poison in the liver. The
diseases doubtless have their origin in the
poison emanating from decaying vege
table and animal material, but the
“black death,” so called, continues its
destructive progress in the winter
months, while yellow fever is potential-
ized by a high temperature.
The circular letter of Hon. Eugone
Underwood, of Louisville, Ky„ relative
to the duties of the board of commis
sioners representing the states Interested
in the improvement of the Mississippi
river and tributaries, has been favorably
received and commented on by leading
journals. This board is to act as an aid
to the Mississippi river improvement
commission, and the governors of the
United States are gradually making up,
by appointment, the list of commis
sioners, Mr. Underwood having received
recently many additional names. It 1b
proposed to organize the commission on
October 13, at Mammoth cave. The
states of Minnesota, Missouri, Illinois,
Arkansas and Louisiana are not yet
represented on the valley states commis
sion. The Wheeling Intelligencer, after
stating the suggestions of Mr. Under
wood, says: “We have given consider
able space to commissioner Underwood’s
suggestions, believing them to be both
practical and valuable. The movement
is one in which the people of this sec
tion are largely interested, and we hope
to see it pushed vigorously forward.”
The fashion news from Paris repre
sents everything as in a state of confu
sion—not only for men, who are always
confused about the fashions, but for
women, who are not often troubled to
understand what is the newest or the
most desirable. The difficulty seems to
be that' there are too many leaders of
fashion and too many inventors of new
designs, and these are in such number
and variety that everybody is at a loss
which to accept. This 1b a difficulty
that is likely to grow with each recurr
ing season, and it may some day come
to the point whore women will be left
free to exercise an intelligent taste and
attire themselves as will become them,
regardless of what may be the particular
style. Formerly whatever the Empress
Eugenie wore had to be worn by eveiy
lady in France, as nearly as possible,
and then the pattern was handed over
the water to upset the minds of the our
republican wives and daughters and to
distract the purses of our republican hus
bands and fathers. The ladies of France-
have no empress now, and they seem un
willing to be lead by the simple wifo of
the president; therefore they are setting
the fashions for themselves, and doing
it in eueh a way, in many instances, that
it is impossible for anybjdy to follow
them. Worth, in a state of distraction
over the situation, has adopted a severe
simplicity of style for designs, doubtless
with the hope that he will be able to re
duce the confusion down to some sort of
system. Worth’s simplicity, however,
does not essentially mean economy; he
has no ambition that way. Meantime
It is & matter of satisfaction—or ought to
be—that the women of this country are
not depending upon the foreign fashion
designers as much as was formerly the
case. Some of the prettieet and most
elaborate costumes worn by American
women are wholly the creation of Amer
ican skill, and our designers are getting
so numerous that we may before long
h ive the same confusion of■ things here
that they are now experiencing in
France.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Texas has 206 newspapers.
Montgomery, Ala., is erecting over
00 new buildings.
Toere are 11,000 colored Catholics in
me ward in New Orleans.
Lucy Stone has been payinK avi.it 1 Foie, are over running the country
to Weileeiey college for womeninYlu. 3£” d ,. Flir:river ' i “ Li “ c ° rn < ’ on " 1 ’’ *“*
Hflchugptts. She gives a little account
of what she saw there in the Woman’s
Journal. At this college “the cooks are
men, the professors are women. The
visitors are invited to look at the micron
scope work of the Ecbooi. The giris
have more than fifty microscopes con
stantly in use, and give an exhibit of
animals, mineral and vegetable speci
mens which are much to their credit
They aDo have row-boats each with its
own colors, captain and crew. The
girls are accustomed to exercise them**
selves at their oars, on the lake, every
evening, and are said to look very rosy
and healthy.
A WRITER in the 8t. Louis Globe-
Demcicrst, in an elaborate discussion of
tho yeDow fever, arrives at the conclu
sion that the disease is identical with the
“black death” disease which devastated
Russia last year. We believe the Euro
pean doctor* long since determined that
the so cabled ; 1 black death” was not that
(Vuu«a« at all) but a form of typhus
known an the ‘ oriental,” and engendered
from the V'treT/$ng' corpses felt op the | traveling Texaaward]
. : : ' '•* I.N
Two hundred citizens of Dallas have
signed a petition to the Governor to call an
extrA session of the legislature to repeal the
Bunday law.
The Herald says that twelve camels
(Texas born and bred) passed through Den
nison the other day, northward bound to
join a circus.
There was recently found in a corn
field, nine miles east of Dallas, a little white
baby about one month old. The child had
evidently been left there to die,
bone, bad having just life enough to wail
out a feeble cry. Large red ants had nearly
devoured it, aud yet, it is alive and doing
well.
Austin (Texas) Statesmen: “J. J.
Dimmitt” will no longer be seen in golden
letters on the little engine that tags away at
Raleigh (N. O.) News : A curious
sight was seen by the reporter yesterday
morning. A countryman’s oart, unoccupied,
baeked np in front of the market, the owner
being at a neighboring store purchasing
goods. The reins of the double team were
held by a small colt three months old. At
first it bad the appearanoe of an accident,
buto
colt had been trained by its owner to do
this.
Memphis Appeal : Throughout the
entire country, outside of Memphis, they
see “Yellow Jack” written upon every case
of summer complaint or consumption.
Every gnat that sips the perspiration from
their heated brow is a yellow fever germ in
disguise. A Memphis paper is as terrible in
their eyes a9 a coffin-plate with their names
engraved thereon. A Memphis citizen is to
them as appalling as a skull aud cross-
bones.
Rome (Ga.) Courier: Tho street
hands digging the sewer in the rear of Berry
& Norton’s yesterday unearthed the bones
of some of the aborigines of Cherokee, Ga.
Home of these bones crumbled at the touch
o.f a finger, while others (the jaw bones and
teeth) seemed solid aud well preserved. The
sight of these relies of the past made us re
member a day, long gone by, when a little
boy, wo sat by the bedside of a grandfather
who told us the story of the battle with the
Cherokee Indians at the plaoe where Rome
now stands, and showed a wound in the
arm made by the first bullet from the enemy
while he stood sentry on the banks of the
Etowah, and how “Jack Sevier” and his
Tenneasee&ut ‘ fought like brave men”
long and well, and drove the Indians
buck and down the high hill at the junc
tion,
Raleigh Observer : Mormonism has
brokon out in this state too. In the coun
ties of Clay and Cherokee this muoh and
frequent marrying sect hrs began to mnlti-
ply to an extent that wa* very gratifying to
them and full of danger to the community.
So the people turned on these Latter Day
Saints and threatened to make It hotter for
them than the thermometer indicated if they
didn't shut up and put out. They
mi^ht arrange their North Carolina affairs
previous to their departure to the Saline
Lake. Thereupon one of the elders writes
a letter to Governor Jarvis, bitterly com-
plsiog of this abridgment of their religious
liberty, and requesting the governor to in
terfere in behalf of his people, especially
the new converts. Ttie governor has writen
the solicitor o! the district and the sheriffs
of the two counties to see that the laws are
C reserved and the pnbtio peace is not
roken. This is all he can do.
(OREIUS NOTES.
Official returns show that 20 officers
and 430 men died of oholera and other dis
eases on their return inarch from the Afghan
campaign, while only 103 men were killed
in the a'cti<
The famine in Jerusalem has been
so great that the chief llabbis and the pres-
ideuts of the two principal congregations
barley and other food,
The Paris municipal council has
rebaptized a large number of streets, in
cluding the Boulevard Ilaussmann, named
during the reign of Bonaparte. One will
he named in memory of ex-President Lin
coln.
The city of Hamburgh, its harbpr,
and the broad tracks of laud around it, rest
upon a sunken foreBt, now buried at a great
depth below the surface of the earth. New
is similarly situated, the work of
thousands of years.
It is confidently believed by many
scientists that this oountry was originally
settled by the Egyptians. Their taste and
skill in building would indicate this as
well as the fact that in mauy caves bodies
have been found preserved muoh after the
Egyptian mode.
The correspondent of the Times at Paris
reports that M. De Le.aepa, speaking at
Beauvais, said there were energetic Latin
races in Ametica who were greatly inter
ested in the Pansma canal. He said he had
proofs that the United Statea does not thiok
of resisting the udertaking. Such a coarse
would expose them to the censure of the
whole southern population of the new
world.
There has been a terrible loss of cam
els in the Afghan campaign. Already the
ULTIMA VERITAS.
In the bittw
i toaifd about
oy me tuuen winds that bio
From the decolate ihores o
IJknow that rl<ht ia right;
it Rood ti
alter thi_ .
And a neighbor than a
I know that pinion r
The Ieaah i f a robei
I know that generous dnn<ta
e reward will lied;
That the rulers mint obey ;
For the beautiful feet of peace
In the darkot night of the yeai
When the atara have al‘
That courage la better thi
That ialth li
r light,
I know that t
Have the unlver.e on their side;
And that aomewhere, beyond the (tors,
la a love that ia better than fate;
When the night unit eke hr r bars
„ I ataall see him, and I wilt wait.
—Rev. Washington Gladden in Sunday Afterncoi
SUMMER PLANN.
With wlndi that set the Iravee aati.
In nature's ceaeeleaa inurmurinKB
(Like eomo melodious dulcimer
Whose music dirs upon the strings)
With bird-song sweet, in siuiliug May
Our term of toil (hall rasa away.
Then, stropIng near some phinttve stream
With her who seems divinely fat
Aud lingeiicg in the lesly gre
We'll ti II once more the tala ot lo
Or, when the twilight dlnio the iky,
. .... -. - r dusky bjri
And ulgnt let
'"l ga?.e upon t
That ahruie the splendor of the si
While from the drowsy fortst n
Resoum’eth nature’s lullaby.
KUBENSTKIN’S PIANO PLAYING.
Brown’i Description Thereof.
“Jud, they say you heard Rubenstein
play when you were in New York.
Well, tel’ us about it.”
“What, me? I might’s well telFyou
about the creations of the world.”
“Comb, now; no mock modesty. Go
ahead.”
“Well, sir, he had the biamedeat, big
gest, cattj corncdost planner you ever
laid eyes on. Somethin’ like a distracted
billiard table on. three legs. The lid
was h’isted—and mighty well it was.
If It hadn’t bsen, he’d a-tore the intire
insides clean out and tcattered ’em to
the four winds of heaven.”
* Played well, did be?”
“You bet he did ; but don’t interrup 1
me. When he first set down he ’peared
to keer mighty little ’bout play, and
wisht he Hadn’t come. He tweedle*
— tweedle>
leedled le-oodle’d snne on the bass; just
foolin' and bnxin' Gia thiiui’a Im.
foolin’ and boxin’ the thing’s j iws" for
being in his way. And 1 saystoaman
eittin’ next to me, s’ I ‘what sort of a
fool playin’ is that ?’ and he says ‘Hee’sh ! ’
But present] v his hands commenced cha
sin’ one ’nother up and down the keys,
like a paesel of rats champerin’ through
a garret very swift. Parts ol it was
sweet, though, und reminded one of a
sugar turnin’ the wheel of a candy
cage.
*• ‘Now,’ I says to my neighbor, ‘he’s
showin’ off. He thinks he's a doin’ of
it, but he ain’t £ot no idee or no plan of
got together at high prices and great diffi
cutty, it is easy to understand the incon
venience that will be occasioned on the
frontier.
The Czar continues to be troubled
about the control of the Russian press, and
a commission has been appointed to devise
means to give the Government abundant
control of newspaper utterances, and yet.
allow the latter greater latitude. ’That will
be a difficult matter for the Government to
accomplish. Prince Metternich would have
settled this newspaper business by wiping'
outthepreBs altogether. His idea of ab
sorption was correct. He did not believe
in any haifxwny measures. His policy
to the central \
MISCELLANEOUS.
The financial d.flic'-lties of Arch
bishop Purcell will make it necessary to
close the Archriiocesan Heminary of Mt.
St Marcs of the West for at least one year.
A whole family, consisting of E. 1 J .
Lesuere, wife and two children, were struck
by lightning at Rochester, Minn.
nothing’. If he’d play me up „
some kind or other, I’d—*
“But my neighbor «aya ‘Hee’sh !’ very
impertinent.
“I was just about to git up and go
home, bein’ tired of that foolishness,
when I heard a little bird waken up
away off in the woods and callin’ sleepy-
Hie to his mate, and looked up and I
see Reuben was beginnin’ to take seme
interest in his business, and I set down
again. It was the peep o’ day. The
light come faint from the east. The
breeze blowed gentle and fresh. Some
more birds waked up in the orchard;
then some mole in tho trees near the
house, and all begun singin’ to gather.
People begun to stir, and the gal opened
the shutters. Just then the first beam
of the sun fell upon the blossoms a little
more, and it techt the roses on the
bushes, and the next thing it was broad
day. The aun fairly blazed; tho birds
sang like they'd split their little throats;
all the leaves was movin’ and flaahin'
diamonds of dew, and the whole wide
world was bright and happy as a king,
deemed to me like there was a breakfast
in everv house in the land, and not a
sick child or a woman anywhere. It
was a fine mornin’. And I says to my
nflio'hhnr. ‘that's mnnirv f at ia *
night of the 3rd. The wife and children are
both dead, and Lesuere will probably die.
Cotton has off his kingly crown.
The reports for the . past year show that
wheat and other cereals of the great west have
already mounted the commercial throne.
We now export more breadstuffs than we
do cotton and tobacco combined.
A common way ot imposing your ig
norant prospeotors in the mining regions of
Nevada is to shoot gold filings in the ground
from a gun. Even brass is made to serve
purpose ; and by this means many
thless cla’~*
worthless claim is sold at a high price.
Tulare Lake, California, is still said
to be receding. Should it continue to fall
"tpidljr as it has in the last two years.
the train between Austin and Georgetown.
Colonel Demitt, being childless, wished to
see his name thus handed down to posterity,
bnt Mr. Dilly paid $1 more for the road than
Colonel Demitt could possibly raise, and so
it is that the glory has departed.
Dallas correspondence of the Galves
ton News: A number of fre admen from
Kansas passed through last nisrht on the
Texas Pacific en route to Fort Worth, from
which point tliey seek homeB in Texas.
Tboy exodied frdra Mississippi, and went to
Kansas with great expectations, only to
find that they had been deceived 6y the , c -
pubhenn erohsarUs who had induced them
immigrate. Hundreds of the deluded are
it will be but a few years till the bottom ol
the largo lake will be dry land. Crops
being raised this year on land over whit
steamer sailed three years ago.
Thankb' to the Loudon (England)
Examiner, but there isn't any room in our
w#gou—not even on the back seat—for Can
ada. That paper, speaking of the Dominion,
says: “Her connection with the mother
country disturbs her, while to us she is a
expense. Absorption into the American
Union would prove benefioial to her in a
high degree. Canada needs new life, fresh
impulses and increased population,
these advantages would D&turally'and i
itnbly ensue were her destinies united
witii those of her neighbor. As it is, Canada
is but dragging out a miserable existence,
struggling, ns it were against fate, and going
from had to worse with every tentative at
tempt made by her statesmen m order to in
sure her prosperity, progress nod entra-
omy.
moaned and wept like—a lone child for
its dead mother, and he could a-got up
then and there and preached a better ser
mon than any 11 ver listened to. There
wasn’t a thing in tho world left to live
for, not a blame thing, and yet I didn't
want the music to atop one bit. It was
happier to be miserable than to be
hapnv without being miserable I
couldn’t understand it. I bung my
bead . and pulled out my hand
kerchief and blowed my noae loud to
keep from cryin’. My eyes is weak,
anyway. I didn’t want anybody to
be a gazin’ at mo a-snivlin, and it s
nobody’s bunnesa what I do with ray
none. It’a mine. But some, several
glared at me, mad as Tucker. Then
all of a-sudden, old Reuben changed Lis
tune. Ho lipped and be raired, he
tipped and he ta’rd, he pranced and he
charged like the grand entry at a circus.
Peered to me that all the gas in the
house was turned on at once, things got
bo bright, and I hilt up my head, ready
to look any man in the face, and not
afeared of nothin’,’ It was a circus and
a brass band, and a big bail, all goin’ at
tho same time. He lit into them keys
like a thousand of brick; ho gave 'em
no rest day or night; he set every livin’
joint in me agoin’, and not bein’ able to
Htand it no longer, I jumpt, sprang onto
mv s*at, and just hollered, “Go it, my
Rube l”
“Every blamed man, woman and
child in the bouse stared at mo, and
shouted, ‘put himout! put him out! 1
‘Put your grandmothers g
grizzly, gray
greenish cat into the middle of next
month I’ I says, 'Tetch me if you dare!
I paid my money and you just come
a-nigh me.’
“With that, some several p’licemen
run up, and I had to simmer down.
But I would a fit auy fool that laid
hands on mo, for I was bound to hear
Ruby out or die. He had changed his
tune again. He hopt, like ladies, and
tip a toed fine from eend to eend of the
key-board. He played soft and low and
solemn. I heard the church bells over
tl.e hills. Tho candles in the heaven
was lit up one by one; I saw the stars
rise; the great organ of eternity began
to play from the world’s end to the
world’s end, and all the angels went to
prayers. Then the music went to water,
full of feeling that couldn’t be thought,
and begun to drop, drip, drop, drop,
clear and sweet, lixe tears of j >y failin’
into a lake of glory. It was sweeter
than that; it was as sweet as a sweet
heart’s sweetuin* sweetness, with white
sugar mixt with powdered silver and
seed diamond*. It was too sweet, I
tell you, the audience cheered. Rsuben
he kinder bowed, liko he wanted to aay,
‘Much obleeged, but I’d rather you
wouldn’t interrupt me.’
He stopped a minute or two to fetch
breath. Then he got mad; he run his
fingers through his hair; he shoved up
his sleeves; he opened bis coattail a-
leetle further ;he drug up his stool; he
leaned over, aud sir, he just went for that
old planner. He slapt her face, boxed
her jaws, he pulled her nose, he pinched
her ears and he scratched her cheeks
till she fairly yelled. He knocked her
down, and he stamped on her shameful.
Bhe bellowed like a bull, Bhe b.'eated
like a calf, she howled like a hound, she
squealed like a pig, she shrieked like a
rat, and thou he wouldn’t let her up.
Ho run a quarter stretch down the low
grounds ot the bass, till he got clean
neighbor, 'that’s music, t at is.'
“ But he glared at me like he'd like
to cut my throat.
“ Presently the wind turned; it be
gun to thicken up, and a kind of gray
“J'i nuu " »iuu Ul K'«J
mist come ovor things; I got low-
spirited d’rectly. Then a silver rain
began to fall. I could ses the drop;
touch tho ground ; some flashed up like
long pear eai-ringe, and the rest rolled
away like round rubies. It was pretty,
but melancholy. Then the pearlB
gathered themselves into long strands
and necklaces, and then they melted
into thin silver streams running between
f ;olden gravels, and then the streams
oined each other at the bottom, snd
made a brook that fl owed silent except
that you could kinder see the music,
specially when the music went along
down the valley. I could smell the
flowers in the meadow. But the Bun
didn't shine, nor the birds sing; it was a
UIUU v DUIUO, uui buu UJIUO D1UJC , lb watt A
foggy day, but not cold. The moHt
curious thing was the little white angel
boy, like you see in pictures, than ran
ahead of the music book, and led it on,
away out of the world, where no man
was—I never was; certain ; I could see
that just as plain as I see) you. Then
moonlight came without any sunset, and
shone on the graveyards, where some few
ghcits lifted their hands and went^over
the wall and between the black sharps
top splendid msrble houses rose up,
with tine ladies in the fine lift-up win
dows. and men that loved ’em, and
p!ayed on guitars under the trees, and
made me that miserable I could a-tcried,
because I wanted to love somebody, I
din't know who, better than the
into the bowels of the earth, and you
heard thunder gallopin’ after thun
der through the hollows and caves
of perdition; and then he fox-
chased his right band with bis
le t, till he got way out of the
treble into the cloudB, wbar the notes
wee fleer than the points of
cambric neeules, and you couldn’t hear
nothin’ but the shaddetH of ’em. And
then he wouldu’t let the old planner go.
He for’ard twod, he cros’t over first
g entleman, cros’t over first lady; he
alanced topards; chassade right, left,
back to places; he all hanus’d aroun’;
ladies to the right; promenade all, in
and out, here and there, hack and forth,
up aud down, perpetual motion doubled
and twiBted and tied down, and turned
a id lacked and tangled into forty-’leven
thousand mixtery. And then he
wouldn’t let the old pianner go. He
fetcht up his right wing; he fetcht up
his left wing; lie fetcht up his reserves.
He fired by files; he fired by platoons,
by companv, by regiments, and by
brigades. Ho opened his cannon, siege
guns tlisr, Napoleons here, twelve
pouniers yonder, big guns, little guns,
middle-size gnus, round shot, sheds,
grapnels, grape, canister, mortar, mines
and mags/.ine's, every fivin’ battery and
bomb a goin’ at the same time.
“The house trembled, the light
danced, the walls sunk, the floor came
up, the ceilin’ come down, tho sky split,
the ground rockt, heavens and earth,
creation, sweet potatoes, Moses, nine-
ponces, glory, teDpenny nails, my Mary
Ann, hallelujah, htamson in a 'simmon
tree, Jeroosal’m, Tramp Thompson in a
tumblecart, roadie oo He oodle«oedle*oo-
dle ruddle-uddle-uddle-uddle uddle-rad-
dle-addle-aadle-addle-addle^riddle-iddle
iddle*reotle-eetle-eetle eetle—p rrr ri
lang ! p r r r r lang 1 per lang ! poi
lang I prrrrrrr lang! hang I
“With that bang 1 lie lifted himself
bodily in the air, and he come down
with hi- knees, his ten fingers his ten
toes, his elbows and his nose, striking
every single, solitary peg on that
pianner at the same time. The thing
busted and went off into seventeen
hundred and forty-two hemi-Jem!-3emi-
? uavers, and I know’d no mo’. When
come two I were under ground about
twenty foot, in a place they cull Oyster
Bay, treatin’ a Yankee that I never laid
eyes on before, au’ never expect to agin,
Day was a breakin’ by the time I got to
the St. Nicb’iaB Hotel, and I pledge you
my word I didn’t know my name. The
man asked me the number of my room.
I told him, ‘Hot music un the hal.-jhell
for two.’ I pointedly did.”
THE SAINTS IN A RAGE
idle Fcr*erailon---Tbe Chnrch
ind llic ilon Times ua Evnrla’
a tirealar.
The London Times, discussing the
reported impending circular from the
United States on Mormon immigration,
says the suggestion that European
governments should exert their influence
to prevent continued accessions of the
deluded adherents to Mormonism is
easily made, but as soon as we examine
it we are confronted with new diffioulties
which would apparently impede its
adoption. No European government
can be otherwise than desirous that
gross superstition should to speedily
dissipated, but wo do not see any way to
an interference, though the migration
commissioners might distribute tracts at
our ports. Furthermore, it the United
States should determine to forbid the
landing of any Mormon proselytes, it
would be necessary for them to declare
the profession of Mormonisr.i to be an
offense in itself, and to institut3 a kind
of inquisition into the religious opinions
of immigrants. It is scarcely conceiva
ble that legislation should go this leneth,
yet such measures alone would be effica
cious, Whatever may be done by con
gress, the British parliament would
never give executive power to interfere
with Mormon immigrants. When the
suggestions of the United States are
before us in detail, they may modify the
impression produced by the telegram.
At present we sec many difficulties, and
the owners of transatlantic lines may
suggest others. Their obligations as
public carriers may constrain thtm to
take all passengers who offer themselves.
An Ogden paper says: The conviction
and imprisonment of Reynolds Iot poly
gamy, the murder of Standing, the
Mormon preacher in Georgia, the im
prisonment of George G. Gannon, deli-
gate to coDgrens, and other executors ol
the Brigham Young estate, for contempt,
havo caused a bitter feeling, and the
News, the leading church paper, has
lately contained threatening articles,
and inflammatory speeches have been
made as to EvaHs and the Mormon
circular to foreign countries. It iB
treated with contempt, and claimed that
it would be abiurd to suppose that any
European government would undertake
to establish an inquisition to determine
the religious faith of emigrants. All
that intend enter into polygamy, and
there is no evidence of any intervention
of forcible resistance to the government,
but the Mormons have a good military
organ’/.ition, and mostly well armed.
Tlio drowBT am
•tad uk Iv
Lulled wt
And drow the lo
HART.
minor in the flowering limes
spoitive winds, whoje tinkling
the wandering beet
*nco end hold high carnival
st and fragrant bai»juet-bnll.
in the wall below,
dies down to show
Pol ed on light arching feet,
ig. green hi
’mid odon
, tiny miracle to touch and view—
The luitnmhg-bird'a small neat and perrliol blue.
Fair as the Bumnm'a sell she Blood, and smiled,
With <yna ilke summer (ky.
Willful snd glad, half-matron and half-chill,
Gentle and load and shy,
Her awret head framed against the blossoming
Uhe stood a moment—and sbe stands there now I
'Tis sixteen years since, trustful, unifrdl,
In her full noon of light,
Bhe I’l-scd beneath the grass's curtaining shade,
Uut of our mortal ilcht:
of light,^
mortal slght^
And long, long winters hare gone by since then
And each some little gift bas brought to drtsi
1 bid—
lady’e-tr
JTf *
■pllng leaf, o
That unfoigotten bid—
oue, or lady'e-'
of berries red,
. „ Jtaf, or Hiautl?, mire mil cold,
lowed snow, wrapped round it, fold ou fold.
Yet still die stands, a glid and radinnt shape.
Set In the morning falr-
Thit vanished morn which bad such swift (scope—
The arch, sweet amil\ the bending, gracelul head
i, why do I call h i deal?
•an Uooluige, in t hristlan Union.
A Memphis Martyr
Memphis Appeal,
It has happened more than
The number of guests was so large
that little Charley had to wait for the
second table. Charley was fond of pas*
tiy, and he peered around the corner of
the dining-room door, he shouted,
“Don’t you folkn eat up all that pie.”
A forbidding glance from hi* mother
made him best a hasty retreat, hut not
until he uaw a triangle of his favorite
..... ... .. mines pie placed on the plate of a visitor;
wllh the (MilUra dirt, alien the ami IIK | lie ?rimncl t j n npirit r* he slid out ol
the recent history of our unfortuuate
city that opportunity to do heroic work,
and out ol it to pass to the martyr’s
grave, has been soi/jd by many an ob
scure man or unknown woman of whom
there ia no earthly reward beyond the
mere name in the death-list. True in
1873, it became more notably truo in
that the names of many of our best
C \ truest are known to few, or it may
Le to none save God only. Of course
they are none the worse for this, but it
is the misfortune of the living to be left
without knowledgo of any inspiring ex
ample. It is with this feeling I wish to
put on record a little note ol one such
life and death. When the Tobin family,
on Bradford street, were seized with
tho fever, there was, of ciucac, no pro
vision lor hired nurses, since no one
looked for the fever so early in tho sea
son. Opposite tfr this family, on the
same street, lived a young girl about 17
years of age, named Evelyn \Vidrick, her
lather and liltie brother Freddy being
the only other members of tho household.
Evelyn had not had the fever, but she
went to her neighbors in their distress
and remained with them from the
begin!ag to the fatal ending, immedi
ately after tho last of tho Tobins was
buried, the iofectiou spread to the
family of Gods?y, living next door to
the Widricks. Without having rested,
Evelyn began duty there ana nursed
these young ladies with a pkill far
beyond her years. It was there last
Sunday morning 1 first saw the dear
child. I sent her relief and begged her
to go to rest. Returning in the a'ter
noon, I found the tireless girl still on
duty and sharing the labor with the
nurse. The same night the fatal fever relief
laid her prostrate. Last night in her
father's room he begged me to tell him
how his dear child was. I could say no
more than that she is resting—a tiuer
word than he thought I meant, but to-
uight they are both resting in Elmwood,
where aide by Bide we laid the two to'
day.
went down. It got dark. The wio<l| s ; ht { “there gopn another great hunk.’ 1
Don’t eat too much. Just so much
food can be digested. More than this
quantity takes into the atornach must
of necessity do harm more or less seri
ous. You need not always arise from
the table huogry, as some have advised,
but you may safely and beneficially
leave the table with a feeling that you
eon hi eat mow. T*Y it for a few month*.
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2. If a person orders hbjpaper discontinued
he mn&t pay all arrearages, or the publisher
may continue to send it until payment ia
made, and collect the whole amount,whether
the paper is taken from the office or not.
3. The court* have daoided that refuting
to take newspapers or periodical from the
postoflice, or removing and leaving them
uuealled for is prime facie evidence of in-
tfntional fraud.
. little ll«are plidcd through the hall I
A sob—Mipnrt-aaed ti
The quivering baby Hpe t—they had not meant
o that mother heart a atrai
a convicted thing.
One initant, and a happv little face,
* * -*■ An
had place
Thrilled 'math unwonted kiioed rained above ;
U pet In tender inotBer love.
laifs
jlhims.
Laziness is a premature death. To
be in no action, is not to jive.
The chameleon assumes all colors
except white; the flatterer imitates all
except what iB good,
Chinese ladies, heathen though they
are, would sooner be sent to prison than
to put on red stockings and set their hats
back on their heads.
Always suspect a man who affects
great softness of manner, an unruffled
cvenees of temper, and an enunciation
studied, slow and deliberate.
Baltimore churches are always
wrangling about which has the tallest
steeple, but we don’t remember of seeing
snv dispute as to which has the most
religion.
If we had to judge from appearances,
we should say that some parents think
“bringing up a child iu the way ho
should go’’ is getting a butcher's grip on
his ear and elevating him up the reat
staircase two or three times a day.
A certain young iady who was
beh*nd hand iu her summer outfit sur*
prised her parenta the other day by ask
ing why she was unlike George Wash
ington. When they gave it up, sho
told them because she had no little hat
yet.
1 didn’t at all expect company to
day,” said a lady to her visitors, with a
not very pleasant look, “but I hope you
will make yourselves at home.” “Yes,
indeed,” replied one of them, starting
off, “I will make myself at home as
quick 1w possible.”
Irresolution is a*fatal habit; it. is
not vicious in itself, but it leaps to vice,
creeping upon its victims with a fatal
facility, the penalty of which many a
fine heart has paid at the scaffold. The
idler, the spendthrift, the epicurean
and the drunkard are among its victims.
Some fellows may follow tho fickle
goddeas ot fortune tor a whole lifetime
And never gets near enough to kiss the
hem of her garment, while flat-footed
luck pursues others with a club and
knocks the gilded balls of wealth
itraight into their hands at every clip.
If all mankind, minus one, were of
one opinion and only one person was of
the contrary opinion, mankind would
be no more justified in silencing that
one person than he. if he had the power,
would be justified in silencing mankind.
—|J. B. Mill.
0> e of the most beautiful compli
ments to woman was paid to Lady
EllziK*& ira-w-g.
ate.*. He ..id of her: "Though her
mton carries much more invitation than
crmm.ad, to behold her ie u Immedi.te
c j,eck to looee behavior, snd to love hef
i* a liberal education.”
A young fellow, whose better-haU
tad just presented him with a bouncing
pair o’ twins, attended church on Sun
day. During the diecouree the clergy
man looked directly at our innocent
friend, and said, in a tone of thrilling
eloquencs, “Young man, you have an
important responsibility thrust upon
you.” The newly-fledged dad, supposing
the preacher alluded to his peculiar
home event, considerably startled the
utidfanreby exc’aimnig,' Yos,I have two
of’em.” -
A Human Otter.
Joimobody writing from llwdy river.
. C., to the Charleston News and
najo . ...... -
stream for fish. Perhaps by - -
day’s fishing the angler may be rewarded
by one-half a dc/.*n little catfish. We
had a visit last week from the Raburn a
creejc fishing otter, VVm. Vaughn. He
said there was fish in tho river, and he
had conic after them. It was amusing
to sre him in the shoals, diving down
under the rock** and bringing up the
cats; sometimes he would come up with
one in each hand, and occasionally with
three ft ih, one in his mouth and one in
each hand. After fishing the shoal he
tried his hand on suckers and red horse
in the deeper water, diving down under
the banks, and bringing up the fish in
his hands. He caught about twenty-five
suckors, weighing one, two. three
pounds each. Vaugln Has been known
to catch as high as tix suckers at ono
time in his hands. Fe says, when under
the water ho can rub a sucker on the
side and it will lie as still as a pig when
you are scratching it* side. I think we
had better ship him down to the city
and let you make him a submarine
diver, li he was on the sea coast, where
fish are so plentiful, he would show
something extraordiaary in tho fishing
lin?.
Bishop Cliatnrd.’
A dispatch from New York states that
information had been received there
from trustworthy sources “ to the effect
that bishop Chatard, ol the diocese of
Vincennes, Ind., will be appointed by
Pope Lso XIII. as codjuator to the
venerabie archbishop Purcell, of Cincin
nati. Bishop Oaatard is personally
well known to the pope, and is. very
popular at the Vatican. He is a native
of this country, a „nod manager financi
ally and a man of profound learning.
He ia a bitter opponent of the free
public-school system of the United
States.”
Cardinal MoCloskey aud the editor of
the Freeman's Journal, both of whom
reside in New York, have special fail*
ities for getting uowb from R ime, and
the appointmont of bishop Chatard to
the coadjutorship, as foreshadowed in
the dispatch quoted from, is quite likely
to take place. The announcement '
tiie appointment will probably be d
layed much louver than has been e
pec ted.
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