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4 / “V Hlz month*. 76 Throe month* 40 I««*p*pir Law hMtitou. !. Any parson who takes a paper regular ly from tbe postofliee- whether dirreted to ir another's, or whether he has sub- not— U i eaponai ble for the amount. scribed o 2.1f a r«r<oa orders his paper discontinued he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher may oenlinue to send it until payment is 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. Jt"iu I'Vi'u, | «««•»• ‘LET THERE BE LIGHT." Subscription, $1.50 in Advance. 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.” i Wl f Sa k J V. a