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TOPICS OF TIIE HAT.
The owner of the finest peach orchard
in Milan County, Texas, pronounces the
peach cr'p a failure in thut section.
Aw effort to reduce the President’s sil-
ary from $5G,000 to #25,000 per annum
■wan defeated in the House by a vote of
25 to 78.
Asad comment ou newspaper meu is
the statement that there are more edi
tors in the Russian prisons than there
are out.
A proposition looking to the reduc
tion of salaries of Congressmen has been
frowned down “by a large majority”
in that body.
The German Government has decided
to increase the circulation of silver
twenty per cent.
Captain Eads is slid trying to per
suade Congress what a glorious thing »
ship canal would be.
X New Jersey has not suffered for
years so great damages from forest fires
as during the present season.
THE BUTLER HERALD.
W. N. BENNS, JAMES D. RUSS. Editor*.
“LET THi-.RE IiE LIGHT.”
Subscription, $1.50 in Advance.
VOLUME IV.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1880.
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A low story—the basement.
Dead issues— old newspapers.
The home, stretch—potting op a
clothes line.
A u riiORS are spoken of aa dwelling in
attics, because so few of them are able
I to live on their first story
• Life on the ^laine,” a bookjust
out. won't be mucl of a success Only
six Indians killed in ‘.be first chapter.
In rending the personals and depar-
' tuies in the newspapers one discovers
, that distinguished visitors, like looee
powder, go off with a puff.
When a Georgina man geta too
j to split u watermelon open with
held at Cincinnati in June. It prom
ises to be an occaslou of great import
ance. Every machine recorded in the
history of milling, it is claimed, will he
exhibited, making the largest display
in this department of industrial art the
world has ever known.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
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Joseph Emmet s spree in Pittsburr
cost him 16.0.0. Nearly all of tin
eats were sold for a week of his per
formance at the Opera-hou8e,nnd the
house had to be cloreJ, the money being
refunded. Persuasive efforts did not
avail, and he was sent to a hospital,
where Le was put into condition *o act
during the ensuing week.
The philosopher of the Cincinnati
Gazette says: Our esteemed contem
porary, the Commercial, declares that it
is not in favor of free trade iu general,
but is for free tride only in an article
which it uses. But if every one were
In favor of free trade in the article
which he consumes, and for duties ou
those only which other people use, the
result would be free trade.
Col. John B. Brown low denies very
vigorously Gen. Stecdman’e story that
Parson Brownlow bore a “serpentine”
mark on his body.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood has b-en re
fused admission to practice by the Gen
eral Term of the New York Supreme
Court at Poughkeepsie.
General Charles Ai.ams, /ate
Special Agent of the Utes, fears trouble
with them again unless Congress ^peed
ily ratifies the new treaty.
Captain Eai* is ttill agitating his
scheme fer a ship railway acrosa tie
Isthmus of Darieu and a few more mil
lions of Govern men t money.
One Samuel S. Stunton sues Secretary
Scburz at St. Louis for #20,000 dam
ages for imprisoning, him in Fort Rus
sell, near Cheyfenne, without cause.
The famous Tuileries of Paris, which
have been in ruins since the reign of the
Commune, are to be restored, a dispatch
states, and converted into a museum-
Correspondence is published in
New Vo.k allowing that last March
Gen. Kilpatrick was tendered and de
clined the Governorship of Washington
Territory. _
Home of the Pittsburg glass men talk
of shutting down their works during
the months of July and August, to re
lievo the operatives from labor during
the heated term. **
Cincinnati Gazette: Kentucky has
a right to boast of the champion Legis
lature. It has just adjourned after pats
ing 1,608 acts, an average of a little
more than twelve for each day of the
session, fever so many Legislatures
have undertaken to make a score like
this, hut so* far as known none have
i-ucceeded. The Kentucky body ought
to have the belt for the mawy-act cham
pionship.
Henry Clay, a grandson of the
“Mill Boy of the Slashes,” will accom
pany the Howgate Arctic Expedition
as an aid to Lieut. Howgate. Mr. Clay,
who is known in Kentucky as “Young
Barry Clay,” is twenty-nine years cf
a|e. He was born in Lisbon. Portugal,
when his father was minister to that
country. He is now prosecuting attor
ney ?n Louisville, being a man of gem
crous nature and varied accomplish
ments. _
There are benefits in being a mem
ter of Parliament in England other
than appear on the face of that honor.
’mberof Parliament cannot be ar
rested or imprisoned on any civil action
Lnbouchere, the editor of Truth, is de
fendant in ft couple of libel suits, and
the object in each of theiocasoiis to
imprison the lively Labby. Now the
plaintiffs must content themselves with
a fin# if they get a verdict, aa Labou-
chere is a member of Parliament.
The steamship City of London, just
arrived at New York, reports having
seen <?n tho voyage an iceberg three
hundred feet in height and seven hun
dred feet in length.
Babnum won a glorious victory In
Springfield. A clergyman, who had
been a missionary in South Africa,
tested the Zulus by addressing-them in
their native tongue, and found them
genuine. _
Cbicago Inter^Ocran: Clarence Da
vis got five years in the penitentiary and
#1,000 fine for having three wives. Can
non, M. C., has four wives, geta two
years in Congress and #5,000 a year,
Have we a privileged class in this coun
try ? _
The Erapreisof Russia keeps alive
by breathing oxygeD gas mixed with*
acid and turpentine, which is adminis
tered to her four times a day. The
physicians sav that her death cannot be
much longer postponed by this artificial
process.
And now the Russians are complain
ing of American competition in the grain
markets of that country. Our merchants
are shipping corn to OdessA. Freights
are so high that the Russian marebants
find it cheaper to bring grain from
America.
James Rsduaih siys that by the
present system in Ireland 7,000 land
lords get out of the land #90,000,000 a
year, and the Government extracts
#35,000,000 more. This leaves only
#60,000,000 to feed and clothe 5,000,000
inhabitants.
Thirty families from Finland ar
rived at New York recently en route for
Minnesota, where they will engage in
farming. That State seems to be pre-
erred abive all others by the Scan di
navians. Doubtless the climate has
/something to do with their location.
Louisville bds just completed its
hundredth-year* an is as lively as a girl
of 'seN|ent^e.n|. jhe place was incorpor
ated in 1780, by the Legislature of Vir
ginia, which named it from our “ great
and ^ood friend,’ 1 Louis XVI., King of
France and Navkre. I’he settlement
began in 1778, under the celebrated
General George Rogers Clarke, one of
the belt pf the many leading Virgin
ians of those long-taniBhed dayB. It is
a city of msrveloi* growth and alike
prosperous and be^itiful.
The classes in Tale College are di
vided into four divisions, according to
scholarship, and thi statistics in regard
to the use of tobacct in the junior class
were recently taken. Of twenty-s'x in
the lowest division, ill but four smoked ;
of twenty-seven in tie second, eighteen
smoked.; of forty ii the first, only ten
smoked. Whether hie results from the
fact that those who anoke do not iiko to
study, or that those who study do not
like to smoke, is notintirely clear; but
the effect of Bmolcingpn German scho’ar-
ship is not usuall; regarded as so
marked as this.*
And now California is exporting wine
to Germany, the first shipment of
100,000 gallons being forwarded a week
or two since. The Germans are largely
engaged in grape-growing in the Golden
State, and claim for their wine all of
the qualities possessed by that made in
Germany. _
Kalloch, the Mayor of San Fran
cisco, is having a docidedly serious
time of it. In addition to the numerous
chargee brought against him, imputing
hie honesty, patriotism, etd., -a young
woman now comes to the front whose
case promises to break the monotony of
the prosecution,
M ITCH
Jdjllete 1
Tom Buford's eetond trial for the
assassination of Juige. Elliott of the
Supreme Court of Kentucky is set for
the 5th day of Ju,y next. “Shad,”
who, during the pint few years, has
spqnt the greater ftrtion of his time in
the mountains of Kentucky and con
tributed extensively to metropolitan
journals of the Stale’s crimes and crimi
nals, has made Judj© Elliott thp central
character fa His fothcoming novel, en
titled “The Gentkican of Adair; or,
the deled#* of Deliw’ Kentucky cele
brities comprise its If a ma tit pereomE, and
it is understood tha the undercurrent
of the aiory will sjtirise the practical
working of dur judical system.
London Life, a so-called society
journal, haa taken tD Victoria Wood-
hutl'and announces tlat she is about to
marry a prominent ^Englishman and
become one of the “ qieen’s of society.”
The Woodhull manajes to get herself
written up very liberally in English
papers, beginning wth her egregious
sell on the eminent!; respectable Ex
aminer, which gravejr announced her
probable choice bj the American
people as their next President. A re
ligious paper, the Chiittum Union,, fol
lowed with a high eultgy of her virtues
as a pietist. How tht worn ad seeuies
such notices is a mytery—but she is
careful to have nttneroua marked
copies sent to the newspapers of this
country.
An old woman wht went into the
poultry business, thinking she could
make a fortune by sellikg ej
maxe a xortune oy seJlilg eggs, gave it
wJW djegust, beraasc, is she said, “ the
h interest is ex F reared In C? JL^IsUy wH«a eggs «e dear,
(nWuational Ei,billon to bl ' ‘fr* b, **“ “ *•» " “*
Frogs are shipped North from Bed
ford, Tenn.
Tiie new court-house at Corsicana,
Tex., will cost #40,000.
The culture of peanuts is becoming
more general in Virginia.
The proceeds of the Frog opera in
New Orleans amounted to #1,250.
Texas 6 per cent, bonds are quoted
at 102 and aro scarce in the market.
Only one ho*el in Jacksonville, Fla.,
will remain open during the summer.
Unmuzzled dogs on the streets of
Memphis are shot down without mercy.
N&arly 2,000 workmen are emyloyed
upon new buildings going up in At
lanta.
The summer uniform of the police
Richmond, Va., includes wnitc
gloves.
It is estimated that the present rice
crop in Louisiana will be double that of
last year.
A cotton compress, costing #40,000,
will be erected at Brenham, Texas, this
summer.
Fisk University, at Nashville, has
been presented with a bell weighing
2,000 pounds.
During this year 4#0,000 bushels of
corn have been shipped to Europe from
Richmond, Va.
Virginia is set down for #326,000 in
the Congressional River and Harbor Ap
propriation Bill.
A good quality of white porcelain
clay has been discovered in Forsyth
County, N. C.
A grand agricultural and mechani
cal fair is to be Held at San Antonio,
Tex>s, next fall.
Mrs. SallieGray,of Meridian, Mass.,
is 117 years old and still engages in
letter-writing.
In Henry County, Ga-, a whole drove
of hogs, while lying in a heap, were
killed by lightning.
Long staple seed cotton Is so scarce in
East Florida, but one-third tho usual
crop will be planted.
New Orleans has shipped v France
and Italy within a year 2,400.000 gal
lons of cotton seed oil.
An evening paper has been established
at Lynchburg, Va., making three dailies
now published there.
The Hon. John N. Hudson, State
Senator from Amcricus, Ga., has been
sent to lunytic asylum.
Therf is - lady postmaster at Elon,
Amherst County, Virginia. Her last
predecessor was also a lady.
Tns Legislative Council of Memphis
^as passed an ordinance abolishing
all hanging signs from over the side
walks.
A colored barber at Macon, Ga., was
stabbed to death with an umbrella
while engaged in a quarrel with another
man.
A Confederate Memorial Associ
ation is to be organized at Memphis to
care for the heroic dead in Elmwood
Cemetery.
The average yield of the oats crop in
the vicinity of Austin, Texas, this year
is from eighty to one hundred bushels
per acre.
J. F. West, who killed a negro some
time ago at Barnesville, Ga., has been
refused bail and is now in jail at
Griffin.
A farmer in Montgomery County,
Tenn., drove the bugs from his tobacco-
plant beds by treating them to a dose of
rotten eggs.
Tub water in Wolf River, so long de
tested by Memphians, has been officially
pronounced the “ third best water in the
United States.”
The plantera of Alabama and North
ern Mississippi are more engrossed than
ever in the cotton crop, and are neglect
ing everything else for it.
The President of the Mississippi
State Agricultural College, at Stark-
ville, receives an annual salary of #2,500,
and the professors #2,000 each.
Over #400,000 has been raised in the
North for the construction of the new
Sibley mills in Augusta, Ga., and the
remaining $200,000 is promised.
The cotton mills at Carrollton, Miss.,
have been bonght by one King, •
Georgia manufacturer, who will add 200
oporative to the working force.
The credit of the State of Mississippi
is at par. Her warrants are equal to
currency and are paid on demand. Her
bonds command a premium in the mar
ket.
There is not a single liquor saloon
in any town on the line of East Tennes
see and Georgia railroad, between Chat
tanooga and Knoxville, a distance of
il2 miles.
Local option has proven a success in
Jasper County, Texas. Not a case of
drunkenness bfs been seen on the
streets of the town of Jasper during the
present year.
The people of Charleston, 8. G\, have
subscribed about *500 for the relief of
the familiee o* the two negroes who died
from foul air in cleaning out one of the
fire wells in that city.
The sculptor Clark Mills claims to be
something of a horseman, and to be pre
pared to defend his bronze horse against
aU adverse criticisms by judges of
horses in Tennessee. .
A brick the else of an ordinary cigsf
box, made of the counterfeit nickeb j
lected in the street-car cash-boxes, is >ne
, ^ UMBIjR. 3b, j relatives bogin to look around at L
— -. . — - . --- ' see wh&tfc the best they can doonahead-J
of the curiosities which sdorns the new sticks lor guns, when he casually asked I Terrible Scene In a Theater. I 8 %
streetcar office in Memphie. them what they were doing, and re- : A , L . rri , )Ic xenc took place in the ’ Indv, “le the St ™puTr color’for I '
The Sunday liquor law is being ] ceived the reply: “Weis playin' rev’- I Teatro del Circo at Madrid n few days | bride.” We may bo a little particular
rigidly enforced in Columbia, 8. C. One
nan was fined $10 for delivering m
Sunday morning a bottle of liquoi that
he had sold the evening before.
New Orleans has a cork manutac-
tory employing fifteen men and turning
out 2,500 dozen corks per day, which
Joes not even supply the local demand.
The establishment Is soon to be cr.-
laiged.
Two South Carolinians, who have
betn at law four years for the possession
of a bull, are still at it. The costs
exceed $1,000, exclusive of counsel Tees,
and the bull is dead. It has been
stuffed, and is to be produced in court
Mrs. Rogers and one of her daugh
ters, of Buncombe, N. C., made by their
own labor, during last season, from two
and a half acres of land, $684 worth >f
tobacco. This amonnt was realized
alter paying a rent of one-third of the
crop.
The man at Luray, Va., who has
kisjted nobody during his entire man
hood has conscioutious scruples in be
matter. He became convinced in hi
youth that kissing was wicked beenuse
Christ was betrayed by a kiss.
At a business meeting held last Sun
day in the First African Baptist Church
of Richmond, Va., attended by 2,500
people, the confusion being so great
that the Mayor sent a large detachment
of police into the building to.preaerve
order.
Clark Mills, the sculptor, ie seventy
yearn old. ‘ Until his fortieth ]|ear he
was a plasterer, and n^ver had any idea
of becoming a sculptok. At the time he
undertook his first equestrian statue of
Jackson, he had never seen the General
nor an equestrian statue.
It is stated that a Mr. Willis, now
living in Bradford County, Ga., is 106
years old. He is able to walk Jo town,
some six miles, and alro able to support
Himself by his own labor< He has 135
descendants in GeorgU and thirty-two
in Florida.
In Middle Tonnessee a drunkard fled
to the woods while wild with delirium
tiemens, dug a grave and was found n
it dead. His wife w»a reude'.cd (ramie
b r the sight, and prayed that she m'ght
Richmond has a University Club,
composed of graduates of that institu
tion, who are trying tp aid in the prising
of funds to make available the trne tele-
irdope, Bijd,.tc bo the,beet,in 'America,
presented ,to thejr Alma jfater by Mr.
McCormick, of Chicago. .
TfiE last grand jury of Telfair dounty,
Ga^frecppMehded.ttejt, Rep
resentative and Senator use their influ
ence securing the passage of a bill by
the Legislature fixing the liquor license
in that county at $5,000 a year.
The Young Men’s Library Associa
tion of Atlanta, Ga., received from all
sources during the year ended, $6,312.-
77. The increase in the number o!
volumes during the year was 1,035. Misi
Emma Abbott is a paid-up life member
of the association.
Fannie Hunter and Macha Thomp
son, colored, who were convicted ol
burglary-«tid sentenced to the penitenj
tiary for life at Anderson, S. C., in the
fall of 1878, have been pardoned by the
Governor upon the recommendation of
the Judge and a numerously-signed pe
tition.
Mibb Sarah Martin, a Cherokee
gill, wrote a letter to tht Evangelist, E.
L. Moody The letter w*s shown to a
wealthy friend of Mr. Moody, who was
so well pleased wRh it that he placed
$1,000 at the disposal of Mr. Moody for
the continuation of Miss Martin’s edu
cation.
The Jolly murder is still the absorb
ing topic of interest at Decatur, Ga.
The general opinion in that section is
that Weaver was also con erned in the
murder of Victoria Norris, snd it is
probable that he will be indicted by
the next grand jury.
The St. Lawrence Presbytery, In
connection with the Southern Presby
terian Church of Texas, has passed
resolutions condemning the use of
tdbacco by ministers, and directing tht
Committee on Education not to recom
mend any candidate for help in his
education who uses it
At Newbern, N. C., J. L. Rheen
planted a crop of peas on the 1st of Feb
ruary and finished gathering the product
on the 20th of April. He then cut the
vines from forty-five acres, and cured
them for forage, and on the evening ol
April 80 had the ground planted in
cotton.
The principal plank in the platform
of the Rev. Jefferson Washington, col
ored, independent candidate for Con
gress in the Fifth Georgia District, is
thus stated by him: “ i am opposed to
having our children gobbled up by these
medicated students, and I’m bound to
stop it”
At Argents, Ark., an immense cotton
seed oil mill is to be erected immedi
ately by Memphis and Little Rook capi
talists. They will also erect a powerful
cotton compress, the prose coating #80,-
000, and having a pressure of twenty-
five hundred tons to the inch—capable
of reducing a bale of cotton to six and
a half inches.
A gentleman passing a oolored
school at Tocooa, Ga., aaw a number of
nue men hunting for Jicker." j ago
The evangelism Moody and*Sankey
passed through Indian Territory last
week, and while at Muscogee in the
Creek nation, Mr. Moody arranged to
eceive ten Indian girls from that na
tion, for whom he will provide frre
ducation at the Young Ladies’ Semi
nary established by him at Northfield,
Mass.
The colored Republicans of Missis
sippi demand that Blanche K. Bruce,
now a United States Senator from that
State, shall have the second place on the
Grant ticket. Bruue is a colored man
of limited education, a native of Vir
ginia, and a Mississippi planter Binco
the war His term of service as Senator
will expire next March.
A newspaper in Georgia says that if
the farmers of that State would devote
less of their energies to the raising of
cotton and give more attention to the
cultivation of sugar-cane, rice, arrow-
root, the tea plant, wine-growing, and
the production of early fruits, vegeta
bles and melons for the Northern mar
ket, they would be much more inde
pendent and happy.
A force of men stationed by the
United States Bureau of Internal Rev
enue in Fanni, Union, Towns and'Rabun
Counties, Ga., to break up the illicit
distilleries in those counties and to
bring the offenders to trial, is being raid
#5,000 a month. These men look uron
their occupation as a “ fat job,” and
will hardly apply for a discharge until
the appropriation runs out.
At the office of the Commissioner of
Immigration for Florida, were rec ived
on Siturday two letters which were
somewhat unique as to the requests con
tained in them. One was from a Greek
firm iu London, which wanted a cargo
of orange-wood sticks, and the other
from a gentleman in Kentucky who
wished a water monkey forwarded to
him.
The season for elopements has beguu
in Virginia. In that State such even
are much more likely to ocf , » , * f during
the cheap excursiona.- i n A ummer 10
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During the performance a in <1- in such matters’, but we should prefer •
forced his way into the house, white one.
| armed with a hatchet, and contrived to j If Bismarck insists on his resignation,
c.imb from the auditorium upon the j the Emperor William knows our address,
stage, where, brandishing his weapon I Up two (lights of stairs, and knock at
furiously, he announced linn-elf to the ! the right-hand door. Don’t kick the
terrified audience us “the Avenger of j panda.—liurdetle.
Upon one of tho attendants | Yury red-haired passenger—“ I tajr,
Man hind.’
approaching hfn with the object of p
sunding him to withdraw from tho stage j jv,
he smoti the unfortunate man to tho ! ,,
earth with one deadly blow; and lie
managed to keep the police off*, when
they attempted to arrest him, by whir -
ing his hatchet round his head with such
force and swiftness that none of tl:o
‘ agents of authority ’ dared to rush in
upon him. Presently, however, a party
of soldiers made its appearance iu lie
theater, under the command of un of
ficer, who Hummo-.ed the raging maniac
to give up his weapon and surrender
himrelf, but in vain; wliereup
detachment received orders to fire at
with blai-k cartridge, in the hope
Good gracious, sirl
, . r head in; how can you expect
to go on while the danger signal is out? ’
“ I know a victim to tobacco,” said a
lecturer, “who hasn’t tastdd food for
thirty years.” “How do you know he
hasn't?” asked an auditor. “Because
tobacco killed him in 1850,” was the
reply.
Over five gallons of castor oil have
been used in oiling tho skates of the
Hartford rink. Wo are thankful that a
new iine of industry has opened to the
dreadful stuff’.—Danbury Newt.
He—“ Why, you see, the fact is, my
dear, I knocked your mediieval teapot
off the top shelf and broke—” She—
“Oh, my prophetic soul ! My teapot?’
Ho (liiilnrlvl^ 11 Vn Moralv mv hoiwl! 1
of frightening him intosubmiasio
this while lie was yelling at the top of
lii» voice, flourislii. g l»i rt hatchet, and
threatening to kill any body who should
approach him. KccugnUing the impos
sibility of overpowering him without
risking the soldiers lives, the officer in
command gave the oruer to load with
lml* and lire upon him. A minute later
the wretched man lay a corpse upon the
stage, three bullets having pu.ssc-d
through his head; and, this highly-sou- j y our face seems very familiar to me”
aitioual dramatic episode having been Customer-”Very likely, dr. lwaalong
thus brought to a close, the audience re- I n sheriffs officer. (Gent collapses.)
returned to their places from which ! » • a#- J
tliey kail fled in terrorwUen the madman I . A Oeumaj. traveler In Africa charac
inuue his tlrst und k»t ap^arnnee , I a ptople he j-arne .crow a. >n.
■ he.ug.,and.h.eveningperfu,,«,U |
He (bitterly)—” No. Merely my head! ’
4 See, mammal’ exclaimed a little
one, as puss, with arching spine und ele
vated rudder, strutted around the table,
“ J*ee, kitty’s eat so much she can’t shut
her tail down.”
Heavy swell—(to a customer of the
house)—“I think 1 have seen you before;
mod at the point at.vhi, l, they | P "jyrhjnc, propnathu^, diohotomnio
| ma
A young
i knocked down for less than
taeen a
that.
in who plunged Into the
ued a maiden who had
Heat on Bnlldlng-Sione. j Sf “J. Tar bottom,
The powers of the various kinds of by her hand. 8he couldn’t lioubt his
building-stone to resist pressure and at- | affection; she knew Kao was ready to dive
“aspheric influences are well kuown, ! for her.
but th* re scarcely ever occurs
does not emphasize the
effect of heat nti-Dn
ThU need
Hiram A. Cutt ' n 8> State Geologist of
,t undertaken to supply by
tne cneap excursions,- ■uuiiuor
Washington City the North. In
deed, Washing*- m regarded as a sort
of national Gretna Green. In many of
these cap dH 110 cru |l parents interpose
*n.t objections to the match, but the
hypothetical elopement was adopted
with a view of economy. It saved a
wedding outfit aud entertaiments that
usually follow marriages.
The Richmond (Va.) State attributes
the failure of foreign immigrants to
settle in the South to th® presence of
the negro as an important clement of
the population of Hut section. On the
other hand the Richmond H7*/<7 says:
“Prejudice against the negro is indige
nous only to the soil they inhabit, and
it is especially noticeable that the im
migrant class of foreigners when they
first come among us know little or noth
ing of such distinctions until they have
imbibed it from accociation with our
selves.’’
It is likely that a Congressional Com
mittee will be appointed to visit North
ern Georgia and North Carolina this
summer to make a thorough investiga
tion of the charges that have recent 1>
been made in regard to the lawless, re
bellions, cut-throat 44 moonshine” popu
lation said (o exist in that section.
These charges are now believed by the
Commissioners of Internal Revenue to
be false to a great extent, and to be
slanders upon a people that are iu the
main peaceable and law-abiding.
Em*»ibON says everything good in
wan leans on something higher. Emer
son is right. We have seen a man lean
ou u telegraph pole, and the only good
in him was beer. At least he said it
was good.
“ Hrav John, don’t rat thorn ertektn up,"
• Well." uid John,
Vermont \ , - ri -, .
•w-^vi'ies of experiments, the first result j
of which is to confirm and give exact
ness to the general impression that gran- j
itc is a poor heat-register, and the second j
to show that there is wide choice—even 1
in granite-in this respect. He tested |
twenty two specimens of the best known
quarries, and found that while nil were !
unaffected by the 600° of heat, damage
u.ually began at fl00», « Kriou. and j pUi'y ‘-Pinafcr,- to thorn,
they still kept on growing, wo
■Atijr’a pap."
for ua^ * or < * 00, »
'i y u",*° about It. then?
baby'A pap?"
Fancy Farmer” asks: “How do you
keep weeds out of your garden ? ’ B'lewi
soul, we don't! We tried having a
frequent n't 800°, and »t 1,000°, all the : , “"“- or “ n n, ” v
■pecimon. wore ruined, the stone from ,, , • , , - -
Mount Desert .landing life tee-, p-rlmps 1 let SL? 10
Ik.tier thnn nnv other He p VC i it I --- llen ‘ gIW -
t water c
better than any other.
his opinion that the effect
heated granite is rafher*npnarent than j
real. The importance of this informa
tion is very great, especially to bu lders
and insurers. In spite of these hints,
this favorite stone will probably con
tinue to be used in “ fire-proof "’build
ings, and possibly without serious dan
ger, if it is only used iu very solid walls,
but to use it in buildings supporting
columns, especially withiu the walls, is
only to invite the gutting of the whole
interior of the building if a fire should
break out.
WIIKN the intellectual typo ian’t careful,
Ol the poet’aroluntaiy *1—— j™
He la pretty aui
For a printer’! wotk DoecimUd by tlmt
f^r
Gieeley and Long Writers.
Congdon says : When Mr. E. C.
Stedmun, who was then a much younger
writer than he now is, and by no means
so well known, offered his poem about
“Lager Bier, I remember that Mr.
Greeley waa much pleased with it,
which was the more remarkable because
he probably did not know the taste, even
if he knew tho smell, of the mild tipple
which Mr. Stedmun celebrated so melo
diously. He called out from his den
that the poem reminded him of Thack
eray's ballad of “Bouille Raise”—a re
mark worth repeating,--not because Mr.
Stedman’s poem is particularly like Mr.
Thackeray r s, but because it shows that
Mr. Greeley was familial with the great
novelist’s best things. 'J here was a wed-
dingabout that time which created much
sensation in New York society of a cer
tain class, and' which was very fully re
ported and magnified and glorified and
commented ireon in the New York
It was called “The Dia-
□g,” because the bride was
reported to have received most costly
gifts of diamonds. Mr. Stedman came
forward with a light satire upon fushion-
able frivolities and unequal matches,
which was printed. The young bard
meant no barm, but he nearly involved
the newspaper into a libel suit for which
there was not the least possible reason,
and himself in a duel with the irate*
papa of the bride, which would have
Dccn more unreasonable still. Alas!
this was a great many years ago, but I
remember that we had no end of fun out
of it at tho time. 1 cordially bear testi
mony to the fact that Mr. Stedman was
much pluckier about the matter than he
would probably be in a like affair just
now, since years have brought him mul
tiplied responsibilities, a literary reputa
tion well worth nursing, and, if he w‘ll
pardon me for saying to. just a little
more of the commodity called and known
aa common sense.
A BENEVOLENT Detroit dentist an
nounces that on a certain day he would
scnooi ai loccoa, us, saw a number ox u teeU) frce for poor persons and pro-
llttl. chap, pi.,log In the btulm-u II Vide laughing ga.. He ated 700 g.lfoni
the, were hunting (or eome one, tulng of gu end extracted 371 teeth.
1 Learned Coiftosllor.
George W Corom a Utica composi
tor, who lias been making his logs his
compasses and seeing the world, writes
to the Observer; “j am succeeding very
nicely at the Khedive's printing office,
and have been paid for my ten days
work in March, 385 piasters’or #2". I
havo frequently a chance to see the
American and European newspapers,
and find thorn very good company. The
banking system here is done ori the re
verse principle— they charge the deposi
tor a per ceniage for keeping his money.
The matter which I have to 4 set up ’ in
the composing room is most'y in the
French and Italian languages, snd I
have become pretty familiar with the
work. In the office a number of lan
guages are used promiscuously—French,
Italian, and Arabic, but vory little Eng
lish. The Arabic is much more gut'eral
than the others, and each of the charac
ters represent sounds as in ihort-liand.
The otlier day we experienced a hurri
cane, the first blow of the hot, dry wind
from the desert called the Khainscne.
This generally occurs at tho beginning
of summer. The sight of its effects here
wss very striking. Suddeuly tho galo,
laden with fine, yellow sand, swept
through the city. The streets, narrow,
dirty, and dotted with mud holes, were
tlronged with peuple of every descrip
tion and nation, carriages, carts, camels,
donkeys, goats und dogs. They pre
sented a lively appearance ns they hur
ried in every direction, their movements
accompanied by the slamming of doors
and blinds, breaking of glass, etc. As I
walk about the city wearing my turban,
I am generally taken for a Turk or
Greek, and so escape many of the beg
gars and their picas for buckshcesh a
gift of money.”
A Succcsg'ul Plonoer.
An old Elmirinn writes to t^^^drrr-
tien from Kansas ns follows*^^^ \ e
been in the West twenty-five yeitWTjind
do not know that I am any more liable
to be blown up here thnn the editor of
tho Advrrtiser is in his sanctum. 1 have
been in Kansas six vears, the grasshopper
year included, and have made enough
(luring that brief pcriol here, so that
men who have lived all their lives in
Chemung County, and ore now the old
men there, and have delayed and slaved
all their lives among the stumps Hnd
stones for a precious living, cannot to'
day buy out my last five years’ accumu
lations. And I can point the editor to
young man, literally within a stone's
throw of Elmira, who to-day arc work
ing hard on the best farms there are
there, and who are barely making a
living from hand to mouth; and who if
they were here, could put themselves on
a basis at once to grow up with the
country, and become thrifty and inde
pendent farmer* within the next five
year*.
. time,
A man out West obtained a divorce
from his wife, and married again within
three days after the decree was granted.
An Irisman commenting on the man's
action, remarked: “Bedad, he couldn’t
have had much respect for his first wife,
to l»e marryin’ again so soon after laviu’
her.”
He win little lawyer man.
Who meekly blushed whjle he began
Her |>oor dead huibanilTwill lotfcmh
no ■mill'd while thinking of hie tv
Then said to her, so tenderly.
" You hare a nice fat legacy.”
And when he lay next day In bed,
With plasters on hla broken head,
He wondered what on euth he’d nld.
Colonel Ingersoll says he doesn’t
see 44 how it is possible for a man to die
worth * " O,0Oi» or $10,000,000 in a city
full of want.” Nor do we. Editors
should club together and resolve not to
die worth $5,U00,00O or #10,000,000.
We would rather not die at all than to
leave this world worth that much money.
—Norristown Herald.
A War Anecdote.
During the late war General McLaws,
now postmaster at Savannah, was riding
down his picket line, and encountered a
genuine son of the Old Pine Tree State
on duty, who hud tuken his gun apart,
with the intention of giving it a thorough
cleaning. Tho General halted in front
of him, when the following conversation
< nsued:
“ Look here, man, are you not a senti
nel on duty?”
“ Well, y-a-s, a bit of one!”
44 Don’t you know its nr °nf5 to take
your gun apart while on duty?”
44 Well, now. who the deuce are you?”
The General saw his chance, and with
a sly twinkle of the eye, replied: 44 I’m a
bit of a General.”
44 Well, Gineral, you must excuie me.
You see thsris so many Warned, fodh>
ridin’ ’round here a feller can’t tell
Gineral and who ain’t. 1! y6tfll jisfir
wait till I git Betsy Jane fixed ^ jjitl-
give you a bit of a s’lute.”
The General smiled and rode on, firmly
convinced that that Benbiuql wqpld prove
e(|ual to any emergency — IfyvannaM
Tho Darwin Jerk. M ’
A new method of saltiting ladies on
the street has lately been adopted by the
nobbiest swcllgent lemon pf tender years.
It is done in one time mid four motions.
The bat, bv a right hand grasp, is lifted
from the head, brought forward on a
line wi ll the nose and then suddenly
lowered to the pit of the stomach, then,
ns sudden y, the hat is returned to its
place, following the same angular route.
The head, at the same time,, must be
bobbed forward about three inches, and
immediately sprung back to Its natural
position. TTie beauty and perfection of
this sulution depends upon the rapidity
of the execution of its niove
is known as the “Darwin
hand-otgau monkeys pu
their littlo caps with the a
motion.
Fubtio is j
tree which grows i
West indies;