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made, and collect the whole amount,whether
the paper ia taken from the office or not.
3. The courts have decided that refusing
to take newspaper* or periodicals from the
postoflee, or removing and leaving them
uncalled for is prime facie evidence of in
1 ntional fraud.
Another way to nettle the Indiau prob
lem in so have all the white folka killed
off.
The winter garden which the King of
the Belgians has had conssructed iu the
park of Lackcn is the largest structure
of the kind in Europe. The immense
cupola of iron and glass is 200 feet in di
ameter and 100 feet in height in the cen
ter. It in supported by 30 columns of
white stone, each over three feet in diam
eter.
It i6 said that an investigation of the
New York elevated railroads revealed
that the stock has been "watered” to the
extent of six or seven million dollars.
During the investigation some interesting
statistics were given. The fifteen miles
of track now in ojieration cost twelve
millions of dollars, and when the cc
struction is thoroughly completed it
thought that the expense will be fully a
million dollars to each mile of track. A
car costa $3,400; an engine over $5,000.
THE BITTER HERALD.
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‘LET THERE BE LIGHT."
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VOLUME IV.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER U, 1879.
NUMBER C.
MIITUKKN !*EWS ITEM*.
McCouib City, Mis.-., is to have a cot
ton factory.
Drummers arc relieved of taxation in
Montgomery, Ala.
Last week the tobacco manufacturers
of Durham, N. C\, bought internal revenue
BtAinp* to the amount of 417,419 00,
One hundred and fifty tons of railroad
iron for the Florida Central railroad urrived
iu Jacksonville .Saturday, on the schooner
Andrew Newbinger, from Philadelphia.
The net earning* of the Houston and
Texas Central Railroad Company for Sop-
M. Blanquz asserts that Jerome
Napoleon is more to be feared as a pre
tender than his late cousin. "This,”
says Ixmdon Truth, "tallies with the
language of one of the principal Bona-
partist Generals to a friend of mine.
‘The Prince Imperial,’ he said,’ was an
untried youth, and the supposed Ultra-
montanism of his mother alienated the
masses from him. Jerome is a shrewd,
able man, whose ideas are more in unison
with those of the majority of Fi
men. He wiUplay awaiting game, and
if the republic makes mistakes he will
know’ how to profit by them.”
Artesian wells are becoming numerous
throughout California, fresh ones being
dug daily, as well for irrigating purposes
iu the farming lands, asforgeneral water
purposes in San Francisco and other cities.
They cost $250 upward, and some furnish
250,000 gallons of the purest water daily
In the San Joaquin valley they are very
numerous, eleven being in full flow within
a tract of three miles by a mile and a half
in extent, and yet their proximity to each
other and the digging of new wells docs
not diminish their flow’ at all, a thing
that is not the case everywhere. The
novel experiment has been tried of form
ing an artificial lake with this water and
breeding fish in it, and it has been found
that the fish thrive as well in water drawn
from the subteraneau sources
other. >
H ow a New Hampshire boy became
Russian admiral makes an interesting ro
mance. The son of the Rev. Bimon Fin
lev Williams, a celebrated Massachusetts
clergyman, called to Meredith in 1790-
ran away from a Laconia employer be
cause the latter whipped him for spend
ing his evenings with the girls. He took
also $300 belonging to the chastiser, who
pursued him to Portland, reaching tlu*
two days after the youngster had shipped
on a Russian bark. The vessel was at-
attacked by pirates, but the boy of 17,
with the assistance of two sailors, mount
an old swivel, loaded it with old iron
sc raps and sauk two boat loads of the buc
caneers, thus saving his ship. For this
the Czar trained young Williams up
the royal navy, of which he became, the
head, his title beipg Count Zinchorschoff
He subsequently returned to this country
and paid the Laconia man his $800 and
interest, all in gold, saying I10 should re
turn to Russia an hopept man.
any
There is a cotton mill at Westminster,
South Carolina, which takes the cotton
from the seed, on the plantation where
it is grown, and converts it by a simple
and inexpensive process, into yarn. Af
tet this transformation the cotton is in
creased in value from three cents a pound
to from sixteen to seventeen cents per
pound. But this is not the only adv
tage gained. The seed cotton, were it
not made into yarn, must pay a tax for
ginning, compreessing, bagging, tying,
weighing, storage, wharfage, etc., and
other preparations incident to shipping.
Accordingly it is thought that just such
mills a* this one, scattered through the
cotton plantations, will do a great deal
to advance the interest of the cotton
growers, increase the work and earnings
of laborers, and prepare the way for the
establishment of the larger manufacto
ries, which are now talked of as possible
competitors with thoso of the great cor-
|K)rutious of New England.
Alaska explorers report one of the
largest riveis in the world, the Yukon,
as navigable for steamers, and at 500
miles from jt* mouth it receives a very
largo navigable tributary. The basin
formed by the confluence is twenty-four
miles wide. The Yukon is nearly as large
as our Miaswippi. Indians are every
where and war between tribes is a fixed
institution. There is snow for six months,
and without roads dog sledges find good
traveling. Game abounds, and Indians
have an easy life. From seven to nine
dogs make a team, the odd one being the
leader. The driver has to watch thisdog.
If it gets on the scent of game it is off
and the whole team is demoralized. Off
they scamper, through the woods and
thickets, upsetting the load,smashing the
sled, tearing the hnincss, and giving the
boss days of hunting to restore the status
quo. So vast a country, traversed by
navigable waters, will soon tempt restless
and speculative adventurers to explore it
Mibb Louiba Gioea, living with the
family of F. F. McClosky, at Lock
Haven, has been made an object for re
venge by some unknown person. She
defended the house against a thief some
weeks ago> and, it is thought, wounded
him. At 4 o’clock on Saturday morning,
1 week ago, the young woman was shot
on suspicioi
mngs .
Rail row
12,878 71
eight per
year.
The bale of cottoi:
benefit of the orphan* t
sold and res old seven
realizing $1,000. Theu
Waco.
the 1
donated for the
General Hood was
times at Houston,
it was shipped to
Memphis Ledger
Mississippi, Arkansan
at once oe called to meet in special season to
enact laws wherebv Holly .Springs, Forrest
City, Hopcfield and Hickman maybe sewered
before noxt summer.
Augusta Chronicle: We are pleased
to know that our honored and distinguished
Representative, Hon. Alex. II. Stephens, is
in lair health, He ia now enjoying the quiet
and rest of Liberty Hall, lie Ims travelved
extensively North and West since the ad
journment of congress.
San Antonio Herald: It is said the G.
L. and 8. A. Railway Company will appoint
an agent to proceed to Germany to induce
emigration to the lands of the company along
the railwuv, und that the position will be
offered to Judge A. Sieim-ring, of the Freie
Rresse.
Hickory (N. C.) Press: The Catawba
Manufacturing Company, near t'ntawhn Sta
tion, is now putting up fifty-eight now looms
in the factory. These, in nddition to the
other machinery, will make a liue display.
This company is now muking some very line
plaid goods.
Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: The
planters of our state are pursuing a
course since the dark days which
the close of the war. A large 11
them are buying good ldoodcd c
will be prescut on the 10th of
the State fair with the money in
to make further purchases of thii
Little Rock Gazette : Day 1
terday, a mad dog bit seven pert
Perkuis place, about fifteen mi
city. Tne following named p
bitten, and came into town y»
applied to Dr. Wiggs’ drug st<
meut: Mr. Reynolds, truding-b<
a little girl, Sandy Wallers, Sim £
his wife and a colored
names unknown.
Jackson (Tenn.) Tribune-Su
Robert Reaves shot and killed
near McClanahan’s le vee, a veri
patrel,” that had evidently been wafted
the wings of some storm current froi
oceau to these inhospitable shores. It
ured four feet from tin to tip, its wings being
exceedingly long and beautiful. Its eolor
was bright gray, and the down on its neck
and breast os soft ns a swan’s.
Monroo (Tenn.) Democrat: Large
quantities of soap-stone, brought here by
wagon from Murphy, N. C.. is being shinped
to ^Cincinnati. Two car-loads have been
shipped in the Inst two weeks. This stone is
found in great abundance in the mountains,
six miles above Murphy. It is worth about
, delivered on the car at this place,
Helena, the Arkansas Midland, Mobile
and Northwestern, and the Iron Moun
tain and Helena, which place us, in
point of railroad enterprise, iu Advance
of every’ place in the Btate but Little
Rock, and we should be on a par with
the State capital if these roads Lad out
side connection* which we trust is not in
the distant future.
A Baltimore company lw* found a
copper houauza in the mines at Ore
Knob, Ashe county, North Carolina,
where 700 men are employed, and about
$300,000 are annually disbursed to the
inhabitants for fuel, etc. A correspon
dent of the Baltimore Anierii-m si vs
six additional furnaces are to l>e erected,
and a railroad being built to connect
the mines with Greensboro. The month
ly product of pure copper is 150,000
pounds.
Helena (Ark.) World: As the chan
nel of the Mississippi runs very near the
sand-bar immediately in front of the
city, and as it is becoming more ap
parent daily that our cotton shipping
facilities from below are getting worse
and worse on account of the rapid
change in the river there, it is proposed
by those of our shipping people who have
a great amount of cotton to haul to build
a tramway across the bar to the water’s
edge, and have the steamers receive from
there.
Charlotte (N. 0.) Observer: The cot
ton compress has done a big business since
the opening of tie cotton Beason. Up to
date it has compifssed 10,000 bales,which
is more than it did throughout the whole
of last season. It is still running con
stantly, and is paving the owners hand
somely. When the cotton is compressed
fifty-five bales can be put into a car,
against twenty-five, the limit when the
bales have not been compressed.
Richmond (Va.) Dispatch Man
chester news: .Saturday morning a part
fiscal quarter ending September 30,1878,
the duties on imported inerthandice col
lected «t this port were only $5,078,97.
For the quarter commencing July 1
and ending September 30, 1879, the du
ties collected on imports at Galveston
amount to $42,228—an increase of $37,-
000 or 1879. It is pleasant to learn, also,
/hat costly and varied cargoes are now in
transit to Galveston from foreign lands,
on which duties amounting to $70,000
will be collectable.
.St. Paul Pioneer Press: Mr. E. A.
Fulton, of Minneapolis is the representa
tive of the colony of colored people which
has been organized in that county, who
are seeking hid in the North to enable
them to remove to Southern Nebraska.
Mr. Fulton is a colored man, though
then- is hut a faint trace of African lineage
in his complexion or features. While
a boy he fled from Kentucky to Chicago
where he lived for eleven years, being cm
ployed in the office of the Democratic
Press, Deacon Bross’ paper. After the
war he went South and settled in Drew
county, Arkansas. He is now United
States Deputy Marshal of the Southern
District of Arkansas.
Mr. Fendel Horn writes to Dr. Mer-
cter, of New Orleans, who introduced
the seed of Egvtian cotton: "I have
been handed a sample of the Egyptian
cotton raised on the plantation of Col.
Claiborne—Dunbarton plantation—near
Natchez, Miss. He and Gen. Stephen
D. Lee, another experienced planter
living near Columbus, Miss., planted the
original seed last year, and both report
the plant grew very tall, rank and with
hut few bolls. This year they have
planted about one acre each with seed
taken from the last year’s plant and both
report that it has improved very much.
The plant is not so large, fruits well,
and they say from the one acre one-half
of cotton and a much better quality is
•btained.”
SUNDAY HEADING.
It is often said that it makes no differ
ence what a man believe* if he only acts
right. Now, while not admitting the
truth of this, I am ready to sav that it
makes no difference,what a man lie ieves
if he does not act right.—[8. 8. Times.
Dr. Thompson relates that on one oc
casion he had climbed nearly to the top
of a steep mountain, lifting his feet care
fully over the projecting rocks, when
faintly from below he heard a silvery
voice call out, "Take the safe path,father;
I’m coming after you.” His heart stood
still as he realized the danger of his pre
cious boy. If fathers only remembered
that the boys are indeed coining afte
them, how differently they would walk
If they drink, or ui* profane language
thev must expect it in the boys. If the;
get angry, they will see the same thing
A BOLD. BAD MAN.
> SVninle Atllrr, II-
1 theii
end-
“stormy
1 the c
quality.
Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times: The pop-
ulation of Chattanooga lias increased iu two
years from 11, 88 to 12,879, a gain of 1,391.
Considering all the drawbacks, th s is doing
well. It wonld double us in ten years. The
increase of whites has been 319, of blacks
1;073. The preponderance of increase of the
latter is of itself au industrial straw of value.
For, while we have added all these strong
bunds to the workers, we have less idlers
than ever before.
Fort Smith (Ark.) Elevator: The peo
ple of Little Rock contributed 200 or 300
pounds of bams and $1(50 or $200 cosh, aud
sent a train to within a mile of Forrest City,
and made a deposit of the hams and the
money, and also a lantern on top of it. The
train moved baek slowly, and us it went sonic
one cume up to the hams and waved the
lantern us a signal of thanks, and the con
ductor returned it in the same manner, and
continued his jourrtey to Little Rock.
Montgomery Advertiser: The rains
we have bad recently are unprecedented in
whe history of Alabama. September rains
and warm weather we have nearly every
year, but to have July weather on the 20th
of October, accompanied by April showers,
is something mt unusual that philosophers
are at a loss to account for it. The damage
done to the crops by this strange mid un
natural weather is enormous. In many fields
the gronnd is whito with cotton, beaten from
the stalkBjWhile corn-fields arc sadly wrecked
instances. The injury to the cotton
fields will curtail the crop considerably in
this section, and we very much fear that our
receipts will not show no as we bad hoped
and expected they would.
Orleans Democrat: Home years
ago theexpsrt of cedar from Louisiana was a
large and popular trade. The war and its
consequences diverted the attention of the
people from that branch of industry, and our
cedar trees were left to grow in ’nil their
natural luxuriance. We nre glnd to note
that the old trade in thut article is about to
reopened. The United States Consul at
Hamburg, in his dispatch to the Department
of State, dated September 24, 1879, reports
the arrivul of a vessel laden with cedar wood,
shipped from New Orleans, and cut on the
banks of the Mississippi. This is believed to
be the first venture of the kind. The Consul
reason why the cedar of America
be in great demand in Europe, like
the’ mahogany of Brazil.
Louisville Medical News: There ia
only one piece where the colored man and
the brother hua his particular medical school,
and that happens w here of ail pluees it was
mo»t likely to happen, at Nashville? home of
the Meoical University, birthplnee of journals
thereto. The school is intended for the
education of colored physicians; and if there
is any faith to be put in circulars, it is in
tended for their very good education. The
standard named is quite up to that of most of
the colleges >11 the country. Three years'
study is required, and the course is graded.
Recitations and monthly written examina
tions form prominent features. Examination
for the degree is also conducted in writing.
Columbus (Ala.) Times: California
aud other Racine States have so long kept
the eyes of the gold-hunting world in that
direction, that the rich veins of the precious
i_ u—. .. iexhauitibIe
metal, which run in broad
lines through Aiahnma. have almost been lost
sight of. We have often been told by old
Ualiforoians that, with the same machinery
and effort, more gold could be taken from
iome of the Tallapoosa mines than tuken
from many of the most popular on the Pacific
coast. In former yer/s we knew something
of the gold veins of obi Tallapoosa, especially
of those about tho once famous Log Pit
mine, and can say that they, unskillfullv
worked, yielded many thousand dollars’ worth
of gold. , *
Columbia (8. C.) Register: A practi
cal test was made yesterday of the utility of
the Georgia brown coal by Dr. Jackson. He
took three or four of the lumps which Prof.
Bibikov bad sent him, broke them up anti
*—a fin* out of them in bis stove. They
easily kindled with a little wood, when
first ignited burned with a (lame, but after
ward settled down to a nice be I of coals.
The ashes produced was white. The stove
ule for the purpose of burning
anthracite coal. The burning produced
something of a smell, but this could no doubt
edict! by having stoves properly con
structed, with a view to prevent the gas
coming into the room. The quantify of
brown coni used was just enough to fill the
love, anil this quantity
, ... . 1... hwn . rom 8 o’clock a. m. till
by a button on her uft „ ,2 m .
jUntnred SjrJfc* ball | H<1tu ^ ) World: Tniu nre
mental rent and refreshment
will no doubt lie peculiarly grateful to
him. He is at present in this city on a
visit to liia daughter, Mrs. Verdery,
where lit* will remain for a few days be
fore returning to New York to prepare
for his journey.
Ban Antonio Herald: A farmer named
Thomas, who came into Terrel yesterday
to see the Great Ixmdon hIiow paid rather
dear for his sight-seeing. He Drought in
two hales of cotton, and hitching his
team,. started for the Bhow, jierfqctly
carried away with the appearance of
things and in he went. While he was
enjoying the sights a reekless sort of an
individual took charge of his cotton,
drove down on the square and fold it for
$15, which he jioeketcd and skipped out
with it.
Dallas (Tex.) Herald: The Indians
depredating upon and threatening our
Texas frontier are all residents of Mexico,
and raid into Texas from that country.
This being so, i« not t ne Mexican Govern
ment responsible to this Government
therefor? But does this Government
hold the Mexican Government responsi
ble for anything it might do 01 counton
nnco against Texas? Suppose a hand of
Indians under the jurisdiction of our
Government was to invade Canfula, would
not the British Government hold
responsible and make us makef amend:
Memphis Avalanche: Gf»v. Marks
will prolmbly call an extra session of the
Legislature when the citizens of Memphis
decide precisely the legislation that ’
quired. If it is a one per. cent,
four cent, tax, let that be settled. Or, if
the Legislature is to l»e aske£ to donate
the state taxes levied in Memphis for the
next five years for the sanitary improve
ment of the city, the citizens can so say,
The plan once agreed upon, the Gover
nor can not refuse so reasonable a request
to assemble the Legislature for the
salvation of the chief city of the state.
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: During last
week, at the First Baptist colored church,
an institute was held for the training of
colored misisters. They were being in
structed hv Rev. Dr. 8. W. Marston, the
:nt of the American Baptist Home
Mission Society (North), and by Rev.
Dr. W. H. Robert, formerly a resident
of this citv, now under commision of the
Southern Baptists to aid Dr. Miu>t<
this work of holding intitutes. It
auspicious omen to see these* two minis
ters working harmoniously together,
from different sections of the land.
The Elbertnn (Ga.) Gazette tells "how
to double the price of our cotton crops”
as follows: .Supposing our crops to reach
8,000 hales, at ton cents, it would bring
toour county $320,000. If this crop was
used up by factories in the county it would
hr ing. instead of $320,000, a return of ncar-
ly$700,000.This being the case it behooves
every farmer in the i*ountv to use his
exertions for the establishment of cotton
factories right here at home. With their
crops vicloingsuch handsome amounts,
those who are behind-liand—slaves to
their factors—would soon lie able to throw
nffthe shacklies of debt and serfdom.
New Orleans Democrat: The owners
of real estate in New Orleans, who have
for many years been compelled to liear
a heavy burden of taxation on assess
ments based on ideas of valuation
which obtained during prosperous years,
will no doubt Ik* pleased to observe that
the present Board of Assessors have re
duced the citv valuation on jiroperty to
#91,000,000. or about #20,000,000, below
the previous assessment. This, it will
be generally conceded, is a very fair val
uation when the extremely depressed
condition 0? all kinds of business for the
|>a«t ten years is taken’into consideration.
Columbia (8. C.) Register: The bus
iness of makuig baskets from osier wil-
jow twign ia one which seems to be spec
ially adapted to the south, and we under
stand that it is now being carried on in
this state on d small scale. We have al
so heard of a movement looking to the
extension of this industry. At present
the twigs or rods used for Imskct making
here are brought from abroad, sonic of
them from Eimqie, hut the willow tree
grows hero very readily, some varieties
f rowing wild without any cultivation.
f the matter won* properly taken hold
of a large and paying industry might he
built up in basket making from native
twigs.
■Galveston News: The increase in
custom receipts at the port of Galveston,
from July 1 to Gtfkolicr I, 1879, com-
pwM .wItl, the Mine period of time "
lirough on their homeward journey yes
terday morning, and propose to stay in
the sunny south as long as they have a
grip on life.
Charlotte ( N. C. ) Observer: Capt.
Jaa. O. Moore, chief engineer of the Win
ston and Salem and Moorcsville railroad,
went up the Richmond and Danville
railroad yesterday morning to meet Mr.
Garrett of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road company, and receiver Barbour, of
the Virginia Midland, for the purpoeeof
conferring with them with a view to in
ducing them to utilize the road l»cd of
his road, its much thereof as is completed,
in their proposed extension of the Vir
ginia Midland from Danville through
parts of this state. About twenty-two
miles of the Winston and Salem and
Moorcsville railroad are already graded,
and Capt. Moore reports having on hand
and attainable a sufficient amount to
grade the road to n point between Moores-
villeand Winston—fifty-five miles in "
• running now upon three railroads out of 1878, is something remarkable. For (he
MISUELL ' N E0U8.
Sharon’s reception to Grant cost $40,-
uOO.
Ashland farm, Henry Clay’s old home,
We shall soon begin sending wine to
Fiance. The nine product of California
alone this season is estimated at 10,000,000
gallons. France should put that fact in h<*r
glass and drink it.*,
In the two years preceding the panic
of 1873 the price of middling upland cotton
in Liverpool ranged between 9d and lid,
with a million hales more cotton in sight than
there arc at present.
The entrails of sheep" are now used in
California foi% mnehine belting, in place of
hemp, which is said to be much less durable.
A three-fourth-inch rope made from it will
Goldsmith Maid was on the go, in the
ears, for thirteen years, from one end of the
country to the other, traveling over one hun
dred thousand milcs-ulways taking her regular
rest on the cars as if in her box stall. She
netted to her owner over $7. r >,000, after paying
all her expenses and giving Budd Dohle one-
half.
Of the total of 8,431 sets of woolen
machinery in the United States, 1,418 are in
Massachusetts; 331 in Maine, Mb in New
Hampshire, 175 in Vermont, 4(59 in Rhod‘
• in Co
nd r
1 of 11
len machinery in the entir*
•ountry.
One gas company supplies nil Paris at
j\ rate of about #1.62 per 1,000 feet. The
last yearly dividend was equal to 31J per
centum on the originnl price of the
shares.
Dr. R. V. Pierce went to Buffalo in
186(5 penniless. In 1872 he spent $159.-
000 in advertising, and now he is worth
a million and is a member of Congress.
Moral.
A little girl who was sent out to look
for eggs came hack unsuccessful, und
complained that “there were lots of liens
standing around doing nothing.
Daily bulletins of current events, with
lists of liooks pertinent to the subjects,
hung up in the Hartford public li
brary. This is done to encourage tho
reading of instructive matter.
Morgan, the lwnker, has
sold to Mr. D. O. Mills, the California
millionaire, his mansion on Fifth avenue,
ppositc the cathedral, New York, fullv
furnished, for$875,000.
Iaist vear there wore 17,090 cases of
/cllow fever and 5,100 deaths in Mem
phis. This year the number of cases was
1,003 and there were 498 deaths. The
iflicial notice of the end of the yellow
fever epidemic in Memphis comes four
lays earlier than the similar one of Oc
tober 29, 1878.
Ixicomotives are used on canal tow-
paths of France. They are of light
build, not weighingover four or five tons,
and arc oqsily managed by one man.
Barges are tlius drawn at a speed of two
miles an hour, nlxiut twice the moan rate
so on the tow-path. Any empty
drawn hix miles an hour, hut a
greater speed would damage the lmnks
of the canal.
A father never thinks hia ten-vear-ojd
son is stronger than a horse until he em
ploys him to turn the grindstone to
sliarpen an old axe that is about 11s sharp
at one end as the other. The old man
bears on until the Lid’s eyes hang out and
his tn*wi«rs’ buckle flies off, and just lie-
fore he hurst* a blood vessel - his father
encourages him with the remark, “Docs
—it-»turo—hard?" Thousands of-hdvs
Iuiyc run away from home and lx»come
pirates and grecnhackern in order to es
cape a second siege at the grindstone -
fNorristown Herald.
parent’s keeping to he fitted for an ei
less future. The thought of that fact
ought never to bo absent from a Christian
parent’s mind.—[Christian Herald.
In our Lord Jesus we see the glory of
God in the wondrous blending of the
attributes. Behold His mercy, for Hedies
for sinners; hut see His justice, for If
sits as judge of quick and dead. Oliserv
His immutability, for He is the sain
yesterday, to-day, and forever; and se
His power, for His voice shakes not only
earth, hut also heaven. See how infinite
is his love, for He espouses His chosen;
hut how terrible His wrath, for He con
sumes His adversaries. All the attributes
of Deity are in him; power that can
the tempest, and tenderness that can
e little children. The charaete
Christ is a wonderful combination of all
perfections making up one perfection;
uid we see the glorv of God in the face
»f Jesus Christ, for this is God’s glory,
that in Him nothing is excessive and
nothing is defici< nt. He is all that
good and great; in Him is light, and
darkness at all.—LSpurgcon.
The story is told of a certain noble
man of Alexandria, who complained bit
terly to the bishop of that city of his
enemies. While 111 the midst of his
tale the liell sounded for prayers, and
bishop and nobleman dropped to their
knees, the former leading in the Lord’s
Prayer, and the latter leaving for the
time his story untold. When tne bishop
came to the petition, “ Forgive us our
trespasses,” he stopped suddenly, leav
ing the other to go on alone. The no
bleman attempted to continue, but start
led by tlu* sound of his own unaccom
panied voice and recalled by his com
panion’s silence to the significance of the
petition, stammered, ceased praying, and
rose from his knees, a hopeless man—un
til he afterwards found hope in a better
disposition towards his neighlr- T * : “
trespa:
* taken
thing to say, “ Forgive us our
8 ” by rote; it is difficult, some
times, to say it understandinglv.
stop at this petition until we ha^
in the idea of it, bow many of us will
go on?—[Christian Herald.
The old style of ehurcli’will not do
the work. We might as well now try to
take all the passengers from New York to
Buffalo by stage coach, or all the passen
gers from Albany to Buffalo by canal
boat, or do all the battling in the world
with bow and arrow, as with theold style
of church to meet the exigencies of this
day. Unless the church in our day will
adapt itself to the time it will become
extinct The people reading newspaj>ers
and books all the week, in alert, pic
turesque and resounding style, will have
no patience with Sabbath humdrum. We
have no objections to hands and surplice
and all the paraphanalia of clerical life;
luit these things make no imprewrion—
make no more impression on the great
masses of the people than the ordinary
business suit you wear in Wall street. A
tailor cannot make a minister. Some of
the poorest prenchcrewcar the best clothes
und many a backwoodsman has dismount
ed from the saddle-bags, and in his linen
duster preached a sermon that shook
•arth and heaven with its eloquence. No
icw Gospel, only theold Gospel in a way
suited to the time. No new yhurch, hut
Lurch to lx* the asylum,* the inspira
tion, the practical sympathy, and tho^
eternal help of the people.—[Talmagc.
BOWK BOOT’S ums.
1 HmIuii AriUMrall
Railroads In France and the United
States.
Of all the industries and enterprise*
v,.-v it,. ! undertaken in the United States, there
\ ork Time* givea the partic- , j g no one that so conspicuoualy shows tho
nMt.on th*t hu recently | energy ol’our pebpl. a. th.
progress that has been made in the con
struction of railroad's. These modern
euiencee for the promotion of
dressmaker of the HulT employed an at-!
tractive young woman whose specialty it
1 Boston by which nearly a
The New
ulars of a
transpired
hundred of the most fashionable ladi<
became the victims of a blackmailing I
operation. A ^^o^MHonabla | rior inte „ have£eeu re8or ,ed to » 7
civilized nations iu proportion to their
enlightened appreciation of the benefit*
arising from that rapid and cheap inter
communication, which invite* the ex
change of commodities and the extension
of social communion. The Railroad
Gazette uses an official report just made
in France on the railroad system iu that
country, in instituting a comparison of
1 so me of its imix/rlunt points with thoso
of the system here, in every view tho
—.. . #. a • superiority seems to he with us. The
S nl “M f • Ov.,raM e ;^t«.t, in some repents ar.
to call at the residences of her
tomers and cut and fit their dresses.
Miss Annie, as she was called, was a
great favorite, aud no dress was con
sidered complete unless it had the touch
of her artistic fingers in “ taking in”
here and “ letting out” there, it was
noted that she Lad a note-book which
•he handled as deftly as Julian Hardy,
"Fatinitza,” und was con-
und whalebone required to fill out the
ideal curves and irregularities of surface
constituting the highest type ofa full-
dressed beauty. These memorandums,
she explained, were nccessaiy to prevent
her losing the recollection of any sudden
inspirations as to the delicate insertion
of a gusset, or the bold cutting of a
shoulder piece on the Lias. The business
of the employing dressmaker who had
the good fortune of employing Miss
Annie increased rapidly. It became a
test of true culture among Boston ladies
to have their dresses made exclusively at
her establishment, and the result was an
apparent increase of Bostonian beauty,
both in breadth and thickness, without
much increase in weight. One dark and
dreadful day that will long
bered by the patronesses of Miss Annie,
each of the ladies received at home one
of her cards, and was told that a young
gentleman wished to see them in ’lie
parlor. Each lady had an interview
with a young man who was instantly re
cognized as the hitherto Miss Annie,
and was, of couise, terribly surprised.
surprising. We ouote from the Gazette:
The French railroad system, according
to the official report just published,
produced the following results in 1878
compared with 1877:
1878 1877 Iner. P.S.
Miles worked Dec. SI 13,788 13,352 434 *.*
Ar. worked during year... 13,498 13,058 440 3.4
lUwlptM par mile 13,018 12,562 456 8.8
The gross receipts were: 1878, *175,741,733; 1877,
$101,.33,375; iucretue, 111,7c"i,358; per ceut. 7.1.
France has an ares of 204,000 square
miles, and ha* 86.000,000 inhabitants;
and the most thickly peopled nnrtof the
The wicked young man who had
cessfully masqueraded as a dressmaker’s
assistant, explained with much apparent
penitence that he had been delected and
discharged, aud that his sole desire was
to hide himself in California. To do
this money was required, and he pre
sented a small hill for materials which
he had furnished at his own expense.
Cotton was charged for at the rate of #3
a pound, and whalebone at $5. On pay
ment of the bill he would instantly send
from his note-book the memoranda re
lating to her dresses and depart on the
first train for the l’ncific Slope. The
story goes that he made a complete round
of his former customers, and that his
collections exceeded $1,000 from the ter
rified fair ones.
Type of Character on Railroad Tratni«
There are certain general type* of
character which are observable on almost
every railroad train, and with which we
are so familiar that we pay them little
attention. There is the man of many
bundles—a family man of course—who
bears in Iris countenance the painful
consciousness of having lost something
or forgotten something, and who, in a
desperate endeavi r to recover a parcel
which has slipped down from one *rm,
scatters upon tne car floor an assortment
|of parcels which escape from the other,
ptly trodd^^l
ted States, that cast of Indiana aud
that north of the Ohio and the Potomac
—New England, the middle fcstates,
11 Maryland and Ohio—have 222,000 square
* 1 miles, and, by the census of 1870, 15,-
870.000 inhabitants, aud now probably
18,500,000; and they now have 25,809
miles of railroad. France then has one
mile of railroad to 14.8 square miles of
territory and 2,620inhabitants; tho east
ern United States one mile of road to
8.06 square miles of area and to 718 in
habitants. There is nearly twice as much
land and nearly four times as many
people to support a railroad in France,
as in the most thickly populated portion
of the United States of similar area.
The average contribution per square mile
of area and per inhabitant to the earn
ings of the French railroads, was $864
per square mile (#1.35 per acre) and
$4.90 per inhabitant. Iu the United
State* territory referred to, the earn
ings of the roads were $9,128 per mile
(and so much larger in the aggregate,
from about twice the mileage, than the
earnings of the Flench roaas, though
nearly a third less per mile); and the
average per square mile of area was
$1.09? ($1.07 per acre), and #13.17 per
inhabitant—the latter nearly three times
as much as in France, where there are
nearly four times as many people per
mile of road.
Iu the United States, however, a very
large portion of the earnings of the roads
is from traffic coming from beyond this
district, which is not the case in Franco.
About one-half of the total earnings of
50.000 miles of railroads in the United
States go to the roads of the states
named, having one-third of the total |
mileage.
nu a
1 by *
Too by half waaho who cam
For he thought ao little of htmaeU
I Irurnei! to abare Ilia acorn.
At night I hint a unitor, rata
As the Tainnat in the land;
Almost h«> aremM to condeecen*
lu tbe oflsr of hia hand.
In one who pveMed hti auft I inland
Courage uud manly pride;
AikI how could ^ thinjt^of auch a on<
'orahtpper
_ truet,
•earned not a
udoubtin* truat,
knelt he e«
n the duat.
>0 smooth nor rou*li;
uut so good waa he,
wn fault enough.
He scarcely cotta me nlntl
ll<* lintli such alna and weaknemes
As morlHl man befall;
Hi* hath a thousand faults, and ye*
R»k my heart and holds my hear*
tn t I bow, m needs I
In proud humility,
>.vos might Ur*'**
To manhood's
'jolty i
Building Materials.
One thousand and fifty laths will cover
seventy yards of surface, and eleven
pounds of nails put them on.
Eight bushels of good lime, fifteen
bushels sand, And one bushel hair makes
enough good mortar to plaster one hun
dred square yards.
A cord of *tone, three bushels lime,
and a cubic yard of *and will lay one
hundred cubic feet of wall.
One thousand shingle* laid four inches
to the weather will cover one hundred
square feet of surface, and five |>ounds
of nail* will fasten them on.
One-fifth more flooring and siding is
needed than the number*of square feet
of surface, because of the lap in the sid
ing and the matching of the floor.
Five courses of brick will lay one foot
in height on a chimney; six bricks in a
course will make a Hue four inches wide
and twelve inches long; eight bricks in
a course make a flue eight iuches wide
and sixteen inches lone.
“How did you like the hymns?” asked
Charles of his city cousin as thev left the
church on Sunday. “One of them was
just splendid,” replied she with enthu
siasm. "Ahwhieft one!” "The one in
the next.pew with black, curly hair and
•uch killing black eyes. Oh! I think he
was the nuwt fascinating ‘him’ of all.”
Charley became too much confused to
pursue the conversatiou any further.
hasty wretch behind him.
man who is alwavr late, and who, drop
ping breathlessly into a scat after a brief
race with the retreating train, wipes his
perspiring brow, and recites to his
neighbor the circumstances of his deten
tion aud hurry. There is the nervous
woman, who, after having studied all
the time-tables, scrutinized the placards
on the cars, and -harassed the ticket-
agent to the verge of insanity, afilictc
her fellow-passengers w’ith shrill and
tremulous inquiries as to whether the
train runs through to Albany, and
whether the car she is in is the right
one. Hapless and careworn individual!
Small {rood docs the journey do her, for
tue tratn has hardly started before she
discovers that she has lost her ticket;
and it i* not until she is well along to
ward her destination, and has coaded
the conductor into a frenzy and herself
iteto tears, that she finds the hit of paste
board in some unexplored recess of her
traveling-hag, where she had placed it
for safe-keeping. There is the woman
who will have the window open, and the
iraseible old gentleman immediately be
hind her who will have it shut. T'here
is the market-woman with gigantic
baskets odorous of herring and onions,
and other delicacies. There is the man
who sleeps the sleep of intoxication, and
who, yielding only an inarticulate re
sponse to the protosts of the conductor,
and disclosing about his person no trr.ee
of a ticket, is presently bundled off’ by
the brake men. Anil therein the multi
tudinous infant—weary, wide awake,
and vociferous—an object of loathing
and detestation to every bachelor in the
car.
Wonderful Inventions.
There is nothing like inventions in
these days. A man out West has in
vented a medicine which etviblcs deaf
people to hear as well as a watch-dog.
The funniest part oi tho thing is, how
ever, that it lias no affect at all upon tho
aural tube. It so acta that a man hear*
with his teeth. This is what makes it
charming beyond description, as itj will
enable deaf people to go the opera. Of
course it will look a little odd to sec tho
auditorium crowded with people whose
mouths are wide open, with clothes-pin*
inserted to keen them from closing. But
suppose u man nad artificial tooth, then
how will the audophonc work? In that
case it will he necessary to get up a ma
chine by which a man can hear with his
nails, or with his hoot heels. Then again
if a man’s teeth liappeu to fall out, would
it not he a good idea to have an inven
tion which will enable him to eat with
his eyes, or if he should lose a leg would
it not bo a great boon to him to be
enabled to walk on his lungs; or if he
should lose his eye*, how nice it would ho
for him to be able to sec and wink at
girls with his kidneys through eyo-glaBscj.
There is no use talking, Edison ought to
be employed by tho government to keep
up a continual flowot inventions.
A Female Blacksmith.
A woman died in Richmond, Va., a
few days ago, who had chosen the black*
imith’s forge as a means of earning a
living. Her name was Rachel Yent.
Her father came to this country from
Germany and opened a blacksmith shop
in Richmond. She teamed the trade in
her girlhood, and became as good a
worker as any man. As her father grew
old she took charge of the shop and sup
ported the family by her own labor.
She wore a tight fittirg woolen dress
and a blacksmith’* leather apron, und
frequently smoked a short clay pipe .i*
she toiled. When the eld man died she
still stuck to the trade, but a few months
ago she grew enfeebled and rapidly
sunk. Her work had given her iu her
beat days the muscular *trcngth of a
She had eligible oflet* for
I.rteAI. ADVIBTIIHEIia.
WHl be inserted at the following r
Hheriff sale*, per square. e
HherifP* mortgage fahw 6 r * :
Application for letter* of aduamratioB t »
Application for letters of guarliaMhip 5 (X.
Dismission froa administration * f ' *
Dismiaaion from ganrOhMuiiip i
For leave to sell land 4 0O
Appticat'on for homestead 4011
Notice to debtors and creditors 4 00
Sale of retd estate by administrators,
executors and guardians, por square IM
Bale of perishable property, ten days... 2|00
Estray notice, thirty davs * 00
Anxooncbmkxt.—All bill* for advertis
ing in tbia paper are due on the first appear*
ance cf the advertisement, when the money
is needed.
BETTER OB VTOBflE.
Ia » man % bit the oetter
For liia hoard of golden aalna,
For hia acrea and in* palace,
If Ida heart be cold and callous—
Ia a man a bit the better?
jgh he clalmi 110 lordly rental,
a heart be kind aud seiiUs-
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
Egos come in layer*.
A i*aik off- an eloping couple.
It is spring that bring* re-leaf to th#
tree.
Which ia the moai ancient of tree*?
The elder.
Tiie Board of Education—a school
master's shingle.
The flower of the family is generally
found in a aacque.
The man with no teeth is alwayn
looking for a soft thing.
Th* new broom sweep* clean when It
is properly handled.
The trapeze performer ia »ometii
heels over head m business.
A Columbus (Ohio) y
r want«
Severe Droughts.
An interesting record is that of sovero
droughts as far Lack as the landing of
the Pilgrims. “How many thousand
times are observations made like tho fol
lowing: “Such a cold season!” "Such a
hot season!” “.Such dry weather!” or
“Such wet weather!” “Such high winds
or calms!” etc. All those that think
the dry spoil we had last spring waa tho
longest ever known, will do well to
the following:
In the summer of 1621, 24 days in
succession without rain.
Iu the summer of 1630, 41 day
In the summer of 1657, 75 days in suc
cession without rain.
In the summer of 1662,80 days
cession without rain.
In tho summer of 1674,45 days
cession without rain.
In the summer of 1680, 81 days
In the summer of 1694,62 days
cession without rain.
In the summer of 1705, 40 days
cession without rain.
In tho summer of 1715,61 days
cession without rain.
In the summer of 1728,61 day* in suc
cession without rain.
In the summer of 1730, 92 days in suc
cession without
In the summer of 1741, 72 day*in sue*
cession without rain.
In tho summer of 1749,108 days in suc
cession without rain.
In the summer of 1755,42 dayi
cession without rain.
In thoflummerof 1762,123 days in suc
cession without rain.
In the summer of 17’
cession without rain.
lu the summer of 1791, 82days in suc
cession without rain.
111 the summer of 1802, 23 days in suc
cession without rain.
In the summer of 1812, 28 days in sue-
cession without rain.
In tho summer of 1856, 24 days in suc
cession without rain.
in the summer of 1871, 42 days in suc
cession without rain.
in the summer of 1875, 26 days in suc
cession without rain.
In the summer of 1876, 27 days in suc
cession without ruin.
It will be seen that the longest drought
that ever occurred in America was in the
summer of 1762. No rain fell from the
first of May to the first of September,
making 123 days without rain. Many
of the inhabitant* scut to England for
hay aud grain.
The Multiplied Dangers.
’ Uurtlu£ton Hawkaya.j
then, Captain
yes, ma’am; fought
g lady w*
to kiss Joe Jefferson. Let her, Rip.
An undertaker at a wedding is th#
rite* man in the wrong place.
Why is a ship the politest thing in
the world? Because she always advance*
with a bow.
The time is coming when a buffalo
robe will cover two hearts that beat a*
one.
Nero, Pompey and Caisar are common
names for dogs, but wouldn’t Agrippa
be more appropriate.
There are a great many people who
will never go to heaven unless they can
go at excursion rates.
A man’s faith is often shown by th®
length of time for which he subscribe#
for hij paper and pays for it in advance.
Falling down stairs gives a follow*
wonderful insight into tho starry king
dom.
A wicked Fhllad*-lphian wants to
know if there are any Lr — capelin the
next world.
"You don’t seem to like me when I
mould,” the ink replied te the angry
scribe.
Love may he blind before marriage,
but—ah, yes, we forgot—there is no love
after marriage.
“A fraud in silks,” is the startling
headline in an exchange. Ah! Went
back on you, did she?
A young man is apt to think the
time* are hard when ho cannot get a soft
place.
Since the decline in cotton one meet*
a great many well-developed girls on the
•treet.
“What’s more sacred than matri
mony f’ asks an exchange. Divorce*.
Ask us one with a Gordian knot.
The Whitehall Times has learned whr
Samson waa so strong. He never took
the trouble to batho in the Jordan.
A Bridgeport grave-yard is used for
the pasturing of goats. Goats 1
1 resting place.—Danbury
!, 80 days
“ You were in the
MrKillen?”
“Oh, yes, in a
all through it.”
" Is there not,” she asked hesitatingly,
“a great deal of danger in a battle?”
• W . II, yes,” the Captain replied, re-
flectivcly, “ there is, there is. 80 many
men standing around you, you know,
and such careless handling of firearms a*
is almost sure to occur during a battle,
makes it really very unsafe.”
Miss Lollipop shuddered, und then re
nt mod:
“ Are not some people severely injured
at times?”
“ Yes,” the Captain said, “they are.
I once had a friend who was hurt so
badly that he couldn’t leave his room for
several days.”
And then she said she thought there
ought to be a law against them, and he
said he believed the Legislature of Iowa
contemplated passing some sue)’, law at
its next session.
And she said she was so glnd.
partial to 1
General Schenck can brng of hi*
skill at poker, hut wo know a man who
has never been beaten a game. Ho never
played.
A book entitled "Letters from a Cat**
is announced. It will probably give uw
the other side of the boot-jack ami back
yard question.
It is stated that Robert Bonner is tho
happy possessor of over eighty horses, all
of which have record*. Who can boost
of as many fast friends?
The Hackensack Itcj/ubUem speaks ol
“a smile as long as a summer day.’*
That’s a very delicate way to refer to #
cask of Jersey lightning.
Man wants but little here lielow.
True, and salcratus in the breakfast
biscuit is no exception to tho general
rule.
A wag who had lent a minister a
horse that had run away and thrown tho
clergyman, claimed credit for spreading
tho gospel.
^ The supremo moment of a loafer’s
life is when a candidate asks for the uho
of his influence with the workingmen of
his v
A Wisconsin city, in order to avoid
scandals in the pirV schools has decided
that the leading teachers shall bo
women. They want principals, not men.
A Colorado man dropped dead
recently. The jury thought something
ailed his heart, and were unable to ascer
tain the name of the man behind tho
tree at the time of the occurrence.
Tho Storm* of Life.
Dark, angry clouds overspread tho
sky, illumined at intervals by
flashes of lightning; peals of thunder
rent the air like the voices of angry
^odai while the trees and flowers fell De-
" Clem 1 is dem punkins mcllcr?’*
“Why, dem ain’t punkins; dcm'* aigs.”
"Aigsl go’ way Clem, you’m stoopin' on
fax; why, nigs don’t kum wid yaller
shells.” “O yes, Fompy dem C’niney
, v . , . fellers duz up chores differen’ from us,
nags when young, but preferred to re- iU) - d( q r chickens alters draps doir aim
main single and provid# for the family. w i<i' de yelk turned out”
tho heavy gusts of wind and rain
like grain before a sickle.
The awful grandeur of the seen®
struck terror to hearts heretofore un
known to fear. For more than an hour
the storm raged on till it had spent its
fury, when the wind and rain abated,
and here and there tiny rifts appeared
in tho clouds, growing larger and still
larger, till tho sun broke in glorious
effulgence, brightening the face of nature
with dazzling brilliancy. Myriads of
diamonds hung in tho trees and glistened
on tho grass and flowers. Never was
sunshine more beautiful.
Tho terrific storm, so fearful in its
wrath, had purified and washed the
whole earth and decked in the ocautiful
jewels which a shower alone can give,
and though in the east a rain was falling,
it only enhanced tho beauty of tho
scene; for the cloud was spanned by a
beautiful bow—beautiful, not only on
account of its lovely combination of
colors, hut as a sign of a glorious promise
made by him who rulcih the storm by
his infinite power.
Human life has its storms. Adversity,
temptation and sorrow sweep over the
soul, filling it with fear aud dread.
But, after a time, tiny rifts of God’s
mercy pierce the clouds around us, and
if we in patience wuit, the entire sun
shine of nis lovo will break in beaut?
over our heads, and spanning the clouds
that aro drifting away from us, we shall
ice the rainbows of precious promise.
Changes in Fowling Pieces.
J Rilttmor* OaMttt.)
“ It is quite remarkable,” said Senator
Roscoe Conkling, sitting on his front
porch in Utica tho other evening clou
ting with ons of his neighbors, “ to note
the changes which are constantly being
made in the construction of fowling
pieces. When I was a lad I remember
ws used to have shotguns with a boro
not larger, I should say, than the end of
my thumb. Passing through Rhod®
Island the other day L saw a little rod-
nosed man, evidently going snipe-hunt
ing, who had a double-barreled shotgun,
tho barrels of which, % should say, from
the passing observation that I obtained,
had a diameter fully equal to the cro 1
of my hat.”
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