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4~‘- /ok . $1 61 1 V,t inbmht ........ #. 76 * (Three months 40 *> v Ye* spaprr j^tw DtcliUu 11. Any ptrion wflUlAei a paper Aular- * .ij froni\ieJpostoffije-whether directed io htimine or another’*, or whether he-hza sub scribed or vofr-lsiesf*ntible for the amount. 1 2. If a | erson orders bis paper discontinued * he mutt pay nil arrearages, or the publisher Vnay continue to send It Until payment ie /nsde, and colle ^tbe whole amount,whether the pnperis tato-ft from the office or not. ' »3. 'Ate court* have decided that refusing .{tike newspapers or periodicals from the pOMtofflce, or reraoring end leering them uncalled for is priuia facie eridence of in* uatiotnel fraud. Oich pitch—that the California pine tr<*ee. , A woman stung he nearest ap- A woman etung he proach to perpetual ion, You cau always te clerk in a dry W. N. BENNS, JAMES D. RUSS, Editor* “ LET THr.HE BE EIGHT.” Subscription, $1.50 in Advance. VOLUME IV. BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. MAY 4, 1880. NUMBER 31. TOPICS OF THE BAY. Jay Gould’s income is now estimated at |2,000 per day. seen the birth and death of 125 daily newspapers. Ilut three aro now in ex- istance that were published in 1837. Only nine counties in Texas are without newspapers. Business iu Chicago is reported to be exceedingly active. Gen. Garfield is President of erary society in Washington. An insect plague is prevailing in some of the parishes of Louisiana. Jay Gould now controls 8,168 miles of railroad, and is reaching out for more. Euas, in Dead wood, on Easter Sun day, the Pioneer says, sold for a dollar a dozen. Mu. Edison, it is reported, is going to California to try a new process of ex tracting gold. Tite Court has decided that Mias Jessie Raymond may keep her name be fore the country. Cincinnati recently held a Widows’ Home Fair, upon which it realized a net profit of $25,000. Minister Marsh lias' just completed the nineteenth year of his diplomatic service in Italy. Mbs. Van Cott, the revivalist, is now said to be manufacturing nnd selling a patent medicine. As high as fifty dollars were paid for ticket* to hear Mr. Gladstone at Edin burg the other day. San Fra’ncisco has shipped 100,000 gallons of wine to’ Germany, the first shipment of the kind ever made. Judge Wrigiit, fined and imprisoned for assaulting ex-secretary Delano, has been pardoned by the President. If we didn’t have any Government officials in this country, we could save $32,000,000 a year, besides the stealings. The wheat crop on the highlands of North Missouri looks very bad, and many fields will bo. plowed up aud put into corn. Governor General Lorne’h salary is $50,000, nnd this sum the members of 'The Canadian Parliament talk of reduc ing to $32,000. The Kentucky Legislature has re duced the salaries of Judges of the Court of Appeals to $4,000, and the Circuit Judges to $2,400. *•' Judging from the turn of things, General Grant is to be known hereafter ns the Duke of America, instead of by his usual title. A syndicate of New York and Lon don speculators arc.QBgfuwd >in-getting ■p a“ corner” in opium, with a view to putting up prices. According to the report of Secretary Sherman to Congress, the exports of cattle for the last six years have aggre gated in value $23,000,000. Ma. James Fisk, of Brattleboro, Vt, father of the late James Fisk, jr., in tends toon to begin a tour through the country with a tent and show. It is stated that the Chicago dailies have contracted for one hundred loads of print paper from the mills at Montreal, Canada. Herein “ protection” is a failure. Says the Cincinnati Gazette: “ The guarantee funds for the approaching May Festival and Industrial Exposition are coming on handsomely. Cincinnati has faith in those enterprises.” After-the National Conventions have been held it will be very intejpsting to see what all the people who aro now running themselves for President of the United States will do for a living. The Liberals in England have secured a Dot gain of eighty one scats to date. This indicates that they will have a clear majority over Conservatives and Home Rulers, a thing not hitherto counted upon. Joseph Widmer, seven feet tall, the tallest man in Missouri, died the other day. ~\yhile serving in the war, his Colonel, noticing that he stood licud nnd shoulders above all others, yelled out: “ You rascal, get down from thatstump.” Somebody should score one for Van derbilt. During the contest a few days since in New York for the O’Leary belt, Mr. Vanderbilt quietly slipped a $500 bill into the hand of Hart, the negro boy pedestrian. The boy quietly submitted. No member of the English Cabinet possesses an acre of Irish property, un less, indeed, Lord Cairns (whoso father lives near Belfast) muy have a few acres; but he never lives there. Scotland is represented by the Duke of Richmond aud Gordon. We quote from the Philadelphia Chronicle-Herald: If some one would successfully start the report that ice cream spoiled the complexion nnd made women bow-legged it would be thousands of dollars in the pockets of our poor but love-stricken young men. The proposition is advanced that the outrage upon Cadet Whittaker, at West Point, was perpetrated by himself in order that he might escapo coming ex aminations. Whittaker, however, has demanded a Court of Inquiry, and an investigation is in progress. Since the Ohio Legislature met over fifty bills have been introdneed authoriz ing townships to build railroads, the ag gregate oxpense of which, if the object in each instance be accomplished, will reach fully $3,000,000. This is a con siderable amount to be distributed as d township debt over the State. W. J. Shaw, the newspaper corres pondent, is domiciled for a time in Canada where he is completing a novel based on fact, that has Tom Buford, the judge killer, for a central character. It is expected to satirise the practical work ing of our judicial system, and will be entitled “The Gentlemen of Adair; 'or,, the Science of Delay.” Woman suffrage seems to have en countered some drawbacks iu Mass achusetts. Ten years ago there were lixty-eiglit members of the Lower House n favor of woman suffrage, and last year the number had grown to eighty- two, but now it is down again to about sixty. The movement seems to be doing as well as could be expected, however, other parts of the country. Thf.ke are cowsheds in the most densely populated portions of London, where year in and year out the poor beasts never see the sun, and never taste of green grass. Now some benevolent persons are talking of holidays in the country for cows. Farmers could tell them that a day in a good pasture, would, if it did not make the cows se riously sick, throw them “ off their feed ” for days. Some months since an order was issued forbidding the presence of regular news paper correspondents with the English army in Afghanistan, and directing that information for the press should be sup plied by staff officers. And now the Duicc of Cambridge has ordered that army officers cannot be permitted to write for the newspapers. His Grace has not the remotes idea of gagging the press—oh, dear no! At last Charles Bradlaugh has suc ceeded in his desire to enter the British Parliament. Defeated over nnd over again, he has renewed the contest at every opportunity. He makes no con cealment of his animosity against the existing form of government in Great Britain, and of his desire to establish in its place a Republic, of which he fesses he believes it is not improbable he may be the head. The English historian Froude, in his recent life of Bunyan, shows that his prison life was an easy ono and that the restraint was merely a nominal one, which one word from Bunyan could have ended. CONGRESSMAN R. W. TOWNSEND, of Illinois, the champion of cheap paper, cheap books, and untaxed education, was a page on the floor of the House of Representatives during the sessions of 1866-67 and 1857-58. . been Another cotton factory, baa established in South Uttolina. The Four dime-novel heroes, all uuder twelve years of age, started from Bene dict farms, Connecticut, on a campaign, armed with a revolver and a butcher- knife. In the outskirts of'Westport they built a but, and set out on a forag ing expedition. An old hen was suc cessfully chased, but unluekjly the owner popneed upon the boys, had them arreat/cdjihnd they Were fined each $7 and costa, which their parents paid. Put . the Brakes. There is an impreation among in Air shrewd thinkers, writes Iho New Yorl correspondent of the Buffalo Cornier, that we are reviving t ) fast. The spirit of speculation has broken out ngain aud the mania for “rushing things” seems to be nearly as active as it was before the big t mash of nearly seven years ago. Our imports have lately been goiug up with a rush, and threatening to wipe out the big balano of trade that was sup posed to have done ho much toward bringing back better times. Foreign luxuries aro again pouriug in by the shipload, and the dealers in such things find a rapidly increasing demand for them, not nlone in New York, but from customers all over the country as well. The IcsHon of hard times—or rather of the result of extravagance and specu lative trading—seems almost forgotten already. Wall street lias been as wild during the past year as it was any time •revious to the Jay Cooke crash, which ;nocked the bottom out of everything months will \>e the wildest i. .... known. The enormous influx of for eign capital or its equivalent last year and the year before, under the name of balance of trade, had much to do with the revival of speculation in Wall street and elsewhere And the general advance id prices which became “noticeable last fall and has been going on steadily ever since. While the balance was largely our favor we beard a great deal about it, but now tlmt the scales are turning the other way no one has a word to say. We hear of nothing but better times, though this very rush to ward better times may really be worse for all of us than the quiet of a few years ago. But a sermon on the sub ject would not do a bit of good. When a spirited horse takes the bit between his teeth and starts for a good run the chances are that he will have his own way about it, even at the risk of break ing his own neck. It is to bo hoped that he won’t break the neck of better times by rushing ahead too fast. The New Home of Adolph Sutro. Adolph Sutro, who, since its incep tion, has been the life of the Sutro Tun nel, is at present living with his family in elegant style at his new home on the northwest corner of Hayes and Fillmore streets, San Francisco. The residence is described by a writer in the Sutro In dependent as being one of the most gor geous iu San Francisco, and is furnished without consideration of expense. Mr. Sutro is a great lover of the beautiful in art, and while his home is supplied with an immense library purchased re cently in New York, and with other of the stabler commodities, it is, in the way of its art contents, a perfect won der. Among his collections are paint ings, large and small, by old masters; -•aintings by artists who have but one •articular style, and that to perfection; eautiful landscapes, Among all of which can be seen now and then a pro duction of his daughter, Miss Katie, who has becomo an adept in the aecom- pliahmcnt. Among his articles of stat uary is one of “The Amazon,” purchased recently by him in Europe aud valued at $5,000. Iu last week’s Independent a denial of Mr. Sutro’s having purchOld a place • ka Umlunn Diva. V i > nr Vj the Hudson River, New York, was made. The informant was mistaken. Mr. Sutro has purchased one of the finest places on that romantic stream, the eame to bn the home of his aged mother for the remain der of her days. It is opposite the Pali sades, and is said to present a charm ingly beautiful view. How They Undress Before tho (Jncen, Lady Lonsdale was universally ac knowledged ns,the beauty of both draw ing-rooms. Ladies were not less decolle.tee at this second drawing-room than at the first. One, in pressing forward, posi- of her dress, and had to be shroudei shawls. Ivord Beaconsfield, who seemed in high spirits, appeared this time in a ITEMS OP INTEREST. The annual interests of the public debt of Pennsylvania amounts to $1,- 200,004. The collection of Chinese works in the British Museum includes 20,000 volumes. It is estimated that the money paid for Texas cattle during the past five years amounts to $180,000,000. Andrew Stetson, of Duxbury. Mass., is ninety-two years old, and steadily works at shoemakiug in the shop he has occupied for seventy years. Londoners who, six years ago, looked upon ice wateras an unhealthy beverage, and stared when Americans ordered it, now find it indispensable. The report of the librarian of Con gress for last year shows thut in 1870 only 6.600 copy-rights were issued in the United States, while in 1879 over 18,000 were issued. The Paterson Mills of New Jersey raploy.ten thousand hands, besides about three thousand who work at their own homes. The annual production of these mills reaches the total of $14,000,- 000. Princeton College is to have a new telescope, costing $25,000. The money to purchase the instrument has been subscribed by the friends of the college. Robert Bonner heading the list with $10,000. Nearly 1,000,000 cwt. of palm oil. valued at $7,600,000, is yearly exported from the west coast of Africa to England. It is chiefly used in caudle-making aud soap manufacture. The rolling stock of the Lehigh Val ley Railroad consists of 237 engines, 71 passenger cars, 36 baggage and express ears, 84,461 coal cars, 1,098 eight-wheel house cars, 1,349 stock, platform and other cars. The North German Gazette says that the French papers, which have said so much about the increase of the German army, ignore the fact that while in 1870 the French army estimates barely reached $100,000,000, they are now nearly double that sum. The school population of Virginia numbers 480,000, about three-ten tbs being colored. The enrollment in the 00,000, one-third of this number being colored. Male teachers get an average montnly salary of $89; female teachers receive $24 75. The Empress of Austria has a passion for dogs as well as horses, and has them of all the rarest breeds. They say some of her pet dogs sleep in heT bed-room, and [dates are arranged near the walls with the favorite food of each. One of her favorites and a tali negro footman always accompany her in her daily walks. Over fifty patents have been granted foi different kinds of cow-milkers, thir-. teen in England and forty in America. These machines have been divided into three classes: First, tube-milkers; sec ond, sucking machines; third, mechan ical hand-milkers. The first are tap pers, the second suckers, and the third tqueezers and strippers. Borne devices are formed cf combinations of these classes. Pennsylvania has an elaborate case of witchcraft. A girl named Kildey, living in Btony Greek Valley, near Har risburg, claims that a woman named Boyer has bewitched her, and that she (Kildey) is possessed of a devil, which is more than probable. Hundreds of people are said to believe firmly in Mrs. Boyer’s accomplishments as a witch, and the whole valley seems to be in a tumult over the matter. The European life insurance compan ies charge ten per cent, extra premium on crowned heads, to cover the risk of assassination, and M. llouher, who acts diplomatic uniform. One poor lady was dreadfully ill be fore every one, and another malheureuee found her gown coming undone, and, while she couriered to the Queen, the ushers and men standing about had fear ful revelations. As I was walking along St. James street on the morning of the drawing room, I observed a crowd surrounding a brougham. In it was seated a lady alone. Never have I, in civilized society and in daylight, seen a lady with so small an amount of clothing. Surely she might have covered her nakedness with a shawl. The common people, who do not penetrate within the charmed portals of St. James Palace, stared at her in astonishment, and one somewhat dingy looking individual suggested that she ought to be suppressed as a “ vice.’ How a Married Woman Goes to Bleep. There is an article going the rounds entitled, “How Girls Go to Sleep.” The manner in which they go to sleep, according to the article, can’t hold a candle to the way a married woman goes to sleep. Instead of thinking of what she should have attended to before iTe she is revolving these matters in bed, the old man is scratching his legs in front of tho fire, and wondering how he will pay the next month’s rent. Sud denly ebe says “James, did you lock the door?” 1 Which door?” “ The cellar door,” says she. “ No,” says James. it, for I heard some one in the back yard last night.” stairs and locks the door. About the time James returns and is going to get into bed she remarks: Did you shut the stair door?” No, says James. Well, if it is not shut the cat will get up into the bed-room.” "Let her come up. then,” says James, she’ [y goodness, no!” returns the wife, d Buck the baby’s breath!” Then James paddles down stairs again, and steps on a tack, and closes the stair door, and curses the cat ; and returns to the bed-room. Just as he begins to climb into his couch his wife observes: Suppose you bring some in the big tin.” And so James, with a muttered curse, goes down into the dark kitchen, and falls over a chair, and rasps all the tin ware off the wall, in search of the “ big ” tin, and then he jerks the stair door open and howls: “ Where the deuce are the matches?” She gives him minute directions where to find the matches, and adds that she would rather go and get the water her self than have the neighborhood raised about it. After which James finds the stairs, and plunges into bed. Presently his wife says: about money matters. Now, next ? I’ve got to pay”— t know what you’ve got to pay, 1 don' and I don’t care,” shouts James, m he lurches around and jams his face against the frail; “all^wpnt is to go to sleep.” “ That’s all lily well for you,” snaps his wife, as she pulls the oovers vicious- „ I have. And there’s Ar&menta, who I believe is taking the measles.” “ Let her take’em,” says James, stick ing his legs out as straight as two ram- “ It seems to me you have no sense o feeling,” whineH his wife, “and if you nad any respect for me you wouldn’t eat onions before you come to bed. The atmosphere of the room from the smell of onions is horrid. 1 “ Well, go down and sleep in the kitchen, then, and let me alone,” says James. ng into a gentle doze she punches him in the ribs with her elbow, and says: “ Did you hear that scandal about Mr*. Jones?” “ What Jones?” says James, sleepily. “Why, Mrs. Jones. “ Where?*' inquires James. “ I declare,” says his wife, “ you arc getting more stupid every day.^ You Jones that lives at No. 21 Well, day before yesterday, Busan Smith toll Mrs. Thompson that Sam Baker had «aid that Mrs. Jones had”— Here she pauses and listens. James is snoring in profound slumber. With Fou'het/i «« MpSHt w«king op to the wet th^ fl,ey can save enormous sums of money hy doing their mannfao* turing for them^ives. Eraktuh Bi Express, says tbj nalistic expei 8, of the New York /orty yean of jour- in that city, he has There seems to be good evidence that some newspaper men who have received passes from railroad companies have sold them to scalpere'or given them to unauthorized persons to use, while others have procured free transportation by false pretenses. To check this the Western Association, covering all the territory west of Buffalo, Pittsburg and Wheeling, have instituted a black list, on which is entered the names of ail persons guilty of the above men tioned bad faith, and those thus regis tered will be deniedlree transportation on any of the many roads included in the Association. The transfer of Any'pass, trip or season, issued to any one by name is held to be “guilty of a crime that can not be overlooked by any rail road nun or company.” No More Arsenic In His. An Oil City man took home some ar senic the other day for rats. He opened the package on the table where he snt down, and played in the white stuff with hiB fingers until his wife came down. Then with u sad expression he said: “Dearest, I’ve got tired of living and have taken some of this arsenic, and-*” But his wife darted out so suddenly and screamed so loudly that he didn’t finish the sentence. Her fright caused him so much merriment that when the neigh bors, whom his wife called, came in he was nearly doubled up with laughter. The next moment they seized him, threw him on the lounge ant tried to force a couple 6f raw eggs down his throat. He spit them out and attempted to explain, bat a six-foot neighbor sat down on his stomach and grabbed the man’s nostrils between his fingers and before they let him up they had made him swallow half-a-dozen raw eggs, a pint of whisky a quart of soap-suds and a half-a-dozen other remedies. They poured so much stuff down his throat in five minutes that it took him half a day to throw it up, and he came out of the struggle so hollow that when his wife slapped him on the back it sounded like a bass drum. applied to the French companies, who carry heavy risks on her life, for the re mission of this extra charge, on the ground that Bhe is out of the range of king-killers. Mr. McKellerowhs the actual Cape of Good Hope and much land adjoining, whereon he has a lartre ostrich farm. A kick from an ostrich is well known to be very dangerous. Mr. McKellar said that the only thing to do when attacked without means of aefenso was to lie flat down and let the bird walk on you un til he is tired. The busines is profitable. From ten pairs of full grown birds, which one man may look after, an income of $10,000 or $16,000 may be reckoned on. At a recent meeting of the Southern Historical Society, in Louisiana, an apron made in the semblance of a Con federate flag was shown, and its history told. In the spring of 1863 the 11th Virginia Cavalry passed Hagerstown, wearied, discouraged, aud pursued by Federal troops. A young girl stood in the doorway, wearing this apron. The soldiers cheered enthusiastically, aud the Colonel asked her to give him a ■ iece of it for a memento. “ You may ave it ail,” she said, and it was carried with the regimental colors into a battle the following day. The youthful sol dier who wore it was mortally wounded, but ho Baved the apron irom capture by biding it in his bosom. him, wraps hersel awake until 2 a. m., thinking bow bad ly abused she is. Aud that is the way a married woman goes to sleep. A Letter Without an Owner. [Por (Me.) Argua.l dressed "to the Handsomest Yohnj Lady at Rockland, Maine,” was receive. at the postoffice in the latter city last week. After a consultation between the chief of the office and his subordinates, the former official ordered the missive to be displayed through the glass window, that some maiden with confidence in her Bkogars description—the story of a tnunp. Why is a Zulu belle like & prophet of old ? Because she has not much on’az* in her own country. A Touching Story. [Cincl A touching story of self-denial and heroism on the part of a little child was revealed yesterday to the officers of Hammond-street Station. About 7 o’clock in the morning the mother of Mamie Fahey, a girl seven years of age, The Novelist Hardy and America. A London letter to the Philadelphia Press says: Thomas Hardy, author of “A Pair of Blue Eyes,” “ Far from the Madding Crow-I,” etc., etc., is a native English novelist, whose works have a wider reading in our own land than his own, and who would probably receive more personal attention among us than he does in England. When I spoke to him of his wide fame and innumerable readers across the Atlantic I found he knew all about it, nnd only wished lie had even a very minute royalty from all the American editions of the novels. If I mistake not, I have seen them in some of the cheap ten-cent circulating periodicals of the West. I urged him to consider the glory of a fame which extended over prairies, and wigwams, and log cabins, untarnished by the touch of lucre; but these modern authors are intensely practical, and he said, un- blushingly, he preferred shillings. Mr. Hardy is a young man of thirty- three or thirty-six, who started life in an engineer’s office, but, as Sir Walter Scott abandoned the law, so Hardy left surveying and conveyancing for some thing more genial. His plots and char acters, however, often, by force of asso ciation, turn on engineering, where his He is a man of unassuming manners, and extremely laborious and consci entious in working out the details of his work. My attention was first direct ed to him before I had ever met or seen him, by hearing a gentleman at tempting to settle, with the aid of a knot of Friends, what was the wine or drink at a dinner of a well-to-do English merchant in the sixteenth century. It was Hardy foraging for a new novel. Mr. Hardy writes specially of the life of the middle and lower middle classes England, drawing his ecenes and characters mainly from them, it is this fact which gives him his hold on the general Amercan public, who readily recognize and aDpreciate the picturing of a life that comes most neatly to their own. As a sympathetic pAinter of English village and rural life, he has few, if any, equals ..OQ\ among contemporary English novel 1 Iu conversation Mr. Hardy expressed much modest gratification at the-popu- cherishes a strong hope seme day to oomeand see us. I hope it will be soon. Boys Smoking. When boys are advised not to smoke on hygienie grounds, they laugh at the advice, and speak of its (rivers as old fogies. But careful experiments, lately made by a physician of repute, prove took for his purpose from nine to nfteen, who had bren iu t habit of smoking, and examined them closely. In twenty-seven he found ob vious hurtful effects; twenty-two having various disorders of the circulation and digestion, palpitation of the heart, and more or less craviug for strong drink; twelve of the boys were frequently troubled with bleeding at the nose: ten had disturbed sleep; twelve had slight ulceration o! the mucous membrane of the mouth, which disappeared after dis continuation of tobacco for ten oi twelve days. The physician treated them all for weakness and nervousness, though with little avail, until they had relinquished smoking, when health and strength was speedily restored. Even if it be granted that smoking is not harm 1 ful to adults, there is no doubt of its harmfulness to the young. Dr. Rank ing, Dr. Richardson, and others, who have made a special study of the sub ject, all agree in declaring that it causes in them impairment of growth, prema ture virility, and physical degradation. One of the’worst qttects is the provoca tion of an appetite for liquor, which, in deed, is not confined to the young, but which grown persons are better able to manage. Where boys drink to excess, they are almost invariably smokers, nnd it ib very rare to find a man over fond of spirits who is not adicted to tobacco. Men who want to give up drinking usually have to give up smoking at the same time; for they say that a cigar prietor by the goodithes the clerk wears. “AA,” he groane’ never tell me afcain about the ‘wide smite’ being a ■mall affair. I’d rat be kicked by a hippopotamus!”— Vcood Pioneer. M. MEiseoNncm, the it French artist, “paint* very slowly.The same may the day, but this great artist. The ire and peaohops are ruined yearly, a.) mg with diaampagne crop, and it seems to Ideally doubtful whether we ever *ee nuine ice and peaches inihis couqti The following apir* in the Alla habad Pioneer: “wj.-d, a situation as a snake charmer In Herious family. N. B.—No objection i look after a camel.” / As you travel aroin.he country you are more and more messed with the conviction that theplf end of man is to paint patent mdiae signs on the fences.—Burlington ffrkcye. Wealthy cad-J‘Iok here—bring me some dinner, 4 loan. The best alraur—“ Dinner o you’ve got.” Restai la carte, Ai’sieu?| Jad—“Cart be hanged 1 Dinner a (erarriage 1” Who wouldn’t b| aoy? Think of the fun boys havej A responsibility. Clothed, led and hosed without a thought or a care slot it. Aud yet a boy is never contend,nd we wouldn’t give a fly for him iCheras. A yocno man ii A.ryland started out with horse nnd km and battle-ax to champion damilzn distress. He had not gone five mill when a red headed school ma’ati pled him off his steed and rolled himliahe mud. Professor—“ WbicV.s the more del icate of the sense?” 1 fcvhomore—“The touch.” Professor—*‘P.ve it.’’ Sopho more—“When you stt i a tack. You can’t hear it; you can’tee it; you can’t taste it; you can’t svll it; but it’s there.” On the planet Jupir one year is nearly as long as tweh of our years. By the amount of timsome people in this world take on theirromisfcorv note* 1 , it is evident that theytabor uuder the delusion that they ar inhabitants of Jupiter. Certain of our exunges advocate the leaving off what ey call super fluous titles, as “Mr and “ Esq.” Why, brethren, this wi work great in jury—to a certain els. Take away what is superfluous al there will be nothing left. "ITuar are likes trmTlc nld; —. Th« maldtn T*wn«l i. coold not $«1U, ^ Became jrou ru jfoo’d and iiti£dntt(rcd, The r<ni*is wan tbougit h« did it weft. *' uuw mart 1 nnd why ira you a tree That’s dead-’tU caayrmi peraeUe;” He me it up*, tfcea ana-crei nhe " Beeansp, young man you uever leare." After the jury had >een out all day, the judge very properl)sent theiu fc word, saying, “ Air. Foreman it is true I gave yo’u the case, but I did-’t intend you to keep it forever. If it i all the same to you, you will return i when yon get through with it.” “The smooth places made rough,” said Air. Himkins, as lo sat down sud denly at the suggestioi of a slid ding place on Alain street. And tue rough places made smooth,” continued the sage, as he considered the journey of life. Then he bmiled aid was glad he fell down. AIrh. Sachet, of Dowisville, Delaware County, aiummed her door to atid a gun standing behind it fell to the floor, dia- charging its contents into her leg, and making a wound wb ch necessitated amputation. Aloral: Always shut a door softly, ns though t iere whi sickness in the family. “ AIy friends,” said the political speaker, with the hurst oi ingenuous eloquence, “ I will be barest—” There were a large number f neighbor! pres ent, aud the terrific outburst of applause which followed this remark entirely up set the point which the orator was about to introduce. | A countryman, affer intently watch ing a sign in u boot and shoe sto^p in thia city the other day, which ren(i“ Find ings,” stepped in and told th^*proprie- tor he lmd loajt n hr in die ffeiler last week, and he would like to know what they would charge to huut her up? “ It doesn’t improve vegetable# to soak them in water,” says an exchange, and the New York Express adds that “it does improve a man.” Well, yes; tome men. We once saw a man who had been soaked in water two weeks. He was dead, but he was improved. He could no longer c'une home drunk and abuse his wife and children. Hearing that hoops are coming in style again a Steubenville girl visited Wellsburg the other day to have a pair built around the half-mile race track on the fair grounds. She wanted to get a set that would hide a portion of her feet. If it wasn’t for Steubenville girls half the tanneries this side of civilization would have to hang up their shutters.— Wheeling Leader. “ It was years ago, my children,” said a silver-haired old man to his grandsons some time along in 1968, “ when an In dian out iu Colorado met the United States army, and in the pitiless pride of his own superior strength, reached out and scalped both of him.” And then the old man went on to explain how for □early seven years preceding that sad occurrence, Congress had b:en support ing the army at a total expapse of $1.76 a year for the soldiers and $666,000 a week for tho contractors.—BuningUm Hawkey e. liquor very hard to control. a desire for The Story of a Brink. charms might step up and boldly demand her property. The Courier, which is one of the brightest little papers in Maine, by the way, says “crowds of women have looked at that envelope, but none has dared called for it. Maiden ladies in false teeth and falser hair have stood and gazed at the magic direction, and then walked meditatively up and down the corridors, endeavoring to Fully muster up courage to face the awl penetrating eye of the man at the de livery window. Handsome young women with rosy cheeks and laughing eyes have seen it and speculated as to why it was not given to them without further delay. Young men with girls have step up and ask for what is clearly their own. The amount of trouble and worry which that little envelope has created in our city is simply incalculable. And meantime the letter tanta'izingly hangs in the window, while the Cerberus at the delivery window awaits with uneasiness and impatience the dreadful moment when some woman shall demand the troublesome document, and be shall be forced to compel her to show cause, if any, why he should consider her the party named in the Writ.” Rather 81iin. At the matinee a long, gaunt in dividual, with legs as thin as whittled matches, came into the theater and stood in front of some gentlemen, shutting out their view of the stage. One of the living at 808 feast Pearl strtet, went to market, locking in the room Aiamie and her baby sister, us is the necessity of poor women who have no means to pay for watching their children. The little child found some loose matches, and in playing with them set firo to her dress. The flames burnt off her clothes, and her body, from the feet to the neck to a crisp; and then having accomplished ibis cruel work, died out. When the _ ...... mother returned at 8 o’clock the child another, and the thin man began to move was still alive, and able to speak. The aside. mother asked her why she did not cry “ Next to boarding-bouae soup it’s the for help. The little one answered, “ I thineet thing I’ve set,n,” said a third was afraid of wakiog the baby.” In a | party, and the slim man got uneasy and sat down. party said: “ If you guess what that is Defore us, I’ll put a label on it.” “ It’s a plumb-line somebody has dropped down from the family circle,” remarked few moments she was dead. During the war our townsman, James P. Aloore, on one occasion weut out in front of our lines to give some water to a wounded Yankee, who was lying in forces and from which they had recently been driven. The mun was crying pite ously for wRter, and the bullets were rattling around from both armies. Moore said he intended to risk the ex posure to do the deed of mercy and went out to him. It proved to be a captain of a Pennsylvania regiment, who was profuse with thunks and of fered Moore his gold watch, which the f allant confederate declined. He or his name, that he might, if bo sur vived the war, remember him. This he wrotedown in his memorandum book. The captain recently wrote here to know if Moore was living; said he was rich, but dying of consumption, and doslred to provide for him in his will. Air. Moore wrote to him and received a friendly letter in reply, telling him that there was $10,000 set apart for his use, to be paid in installments of $2,000 The Federal officer has since diet the other day the payment of $! A \ A Trlek Well A St. Louis railroad conductors was asked by two men known to him as gamblers to cash two $1,000 Hi - States bonds. The conductor toon bonds across the way to a broker,] even a cup of col spirit.” } L Eureka district was discovered in 1865. It was as good as abandoned 1869. Now it is the great mining cente; of Eastern Nevada, producing annually millions of dollars, aod supporting a population variously estimated at irom 6,000 to 8,000. A familiar instance of color-blind ness is that of a man taking a brown silk umbrella and leaving a green ham in its place. Last year twelve persons in United States and Europe gave an «j gate of $8,000,000 to the cause o r ' missions.