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■amg SNIRIFrt MlI.J. SVBSCBIPTIOII BATCH One year $1 50 8lx month* 75 Three month* 40 BenaiMper Law Decision* 1. Any peraon who take* a paper regular ly irom the poatoffioe—whether directed to hia name or another**, or whether he haa anb* eenbed or aot—laieaponiible for the amonnt. 2. If a peraon ordera hia paper diaeontinued he moat pay all arrearage*, or the publiaher may continue to aend it until payment ia made, and collect the whole amount,whether the paper ia taken from the office or not S. The court* have decided that refuaing to take newspaper* or periodical from the poatoffloe, or removing and leaving them uncalled for la pritua facie evidence of in* natlotnel fraud. TOPICS OF THE HAY. Texas expects its tax on commercial travelers to yield $00,000 a year. One of hia ardent admirers lately sent Prof. Huxley a check for $5,(00. It is said that Bret Harte ia more popular in England than Irving aver was. Southern California papers are agi tating the project of forming a new State. There are now six telegraph cables connecting the United States with Europe. Ex-Governor Brown, the Georgia Senator, is the richest man in hia State. The net profits of Ingersoll’a two lectures in Booth's Theater, New York, were $3,500. Three caasa of leprosy have been discovered in Chinatown, San Fran cisco, within a mo^th. THE BUTLER HERALD W. N. BENNS, 1AMES D. RUSS, Editors. LET TIU.RE HE LIGHT.” Subscription, $1.50 in Advance. VOLUME IV. BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1880. N UMBER 38. The Brooklyn bridge will cost about $2,000,000 more, or $13,250,000 in all. Ita central span is 1,595 feet long, or GOO feet longer than the next largest in Cincinnati. It will probably be all completed within a yenr. Mr. Archibald Forres, the well- 15 now ii war correspondent of the London Daily News, proposes visiting this coun try in September, ar.d intends to give here a new lecture entitled “ Iioynl People I Have Met.” A ferocious bulldog broke his chain at Wheeling, Va., and attacked a vdry old woman. She made all the defense she could, but he threw her down, bit her with savage fury, and finally killed her. Her son, maddened by the R : ght ; chopped the brute to pieces. The law dors not show a wiso dis crimination in the matter of prize fighting. Those who tight should be permitted to indulge in the sport lo their heart’s content, but every one looking on at a fight should be arrested and punished severely. SOUTHERN NEWS. Remember that tidal wave which is to sweep over Coney Island July 22 Vennor has predicted it. Friends of - Governor Wilts, of Louisiana, havo paid $15,000 for a house in New Orleans, and will present it to his wife. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is reported to have made a profit of $2,000 an acre out of her orange grove in Florida during the past year. The L ndon Globe has come to the conclusion that the working classes in the United States are far more thrifty than those of Great Britain. The Cincinnati Industrial Exposition of Art and Industry will open in their grand permanent buildings on Septem ber 8, and continue till October 9. The value of weather signals is ac knowledged by increased appropriations and increased interest in the subject, both in this country and in Europe. Prof. Shaler treats in the Atlantic of the future of the mining of precious metals on the American continent. He predict* a vast increase in the produc tion of the precious metals; that of silver to be the most important, that of gold to te the more steady. They have a man down in Georgia who is said to be one huidred and twenty-five years old. His name is James Ingraham, and ho lives at Wynn’s Mill. Mark Twain says that he can’t write in a “fixed up” room. When he needs inspiration he tabes his paper and pens and retires to an unfurnished room in his stable. Tiie proposed ship canal across the 8tate of Florida has been surveyed, and the cost estimated at $50,000,000. That would be a pretty good price to pay for the State. General Melikoff lately submitted to the Czar a proposal for the establish ment of a two-house assembly, but the Emperor only reproached him for mak ing the suggestion. Prince Napoleon has left Paris to escape, it is said, being compromised by the threatened Commuuistic demonstra tion which the Bonapartists are reported to be stirring up. The London .Lancet, which is as good authority as can be found, calls it cruelty to women to make them stand all day, as those employed in retail stores are obliged to do. Mihs Kate Field will soon go to Europe to consult Worth with regard to establishing relations between the London and New York Ladies’ Co operative Dress Association. We arc now told that the Egyptian obelisk has been placed on board a ves sel which will sail for New York. It is certainly time. We have almost gotten tired hearing about this thing. Some trouble is anticipated in get ting a correct census of the Chinese ir California, as they do not understand what the information is wanted for, and suspect that ft'l is not right. The good offices of the Chinese Minister will doubtless be invoked to remove the sus picions of hie fellow-countrymen. The following squib is go : ng the rounds: “A Dakota mar. has a novel Indian relic in the shape of a perfectly formed skull, with an arrow shot into the eve and piercing the brain.” Now, if some one will get another skull and run an arrow into the ear, “ piercing the brain,” almost any museum will be ready to set up a correspondence with him. H. G. Vernor, the weather prognos ticator of Montreal, has predicted that the first of June will be fall-like, with frosts. July will be a terrible month for storms, with terms of intense heat, but another fall-1 ike relapse, with frosts, will in all probability occur about the 20th of the month. He says: “I fear the storms of thunder and hail will be of unusual severity during July.” Southern Indiana and Ohio promise an increase of 20 per cent, in the yield of wheat this year over last. It is now predicted that the harvest of 1880 in the West will be the largest ever known. A correspondent of the Nebraska Farmer says: “Nebraska farmers seem to have gone back to the primitive mode of sowing (wheat) by hand, and some are even using cradles to harvest with Palestine can be bought $25,000,000, and by judicious management could be made to pay handsome dividends. Borne millionaire out of employment should avail himself of the opportunity, Since 'the opposition of Sir Henry Wolf, Fowler and O’Donnell to Charles Bradlaugh being admitted to his seat in the English Parliaim nt, they have re ceived numerous letters threatening murder. All the great powers of Europe have united in a determination to com bine, by force if necessary, to compel Turkey to comply with the reforms or other stipulatbnspf the Berlin treaty of 1878. Business is in a flourishing condition in Alabama. In almost every county labor is in demand, and there is an un usual amonnt of building in the towns. Stesm is more generally used torus the cotton gint. The acquittal of John Link, after a long and exciting trial in Hillsboro, Ohio, proves the tendency to sympathize with men who commit crime in behalf of women. Link’s stepfather and step brother threatened and abused his mother. He fought them and killed them. The jury heard the evidence and pronounced him not guilty, and public Bentiment will be very apt to sup port the jury. The Superintendent of the New Jersey Central Railroad has established a sensible rule for the prevention and control of forest fires. He has directed the removal of all brush and other in flammable substances for a space of 25 feet on either side of the railroad tracks, and the storing of hose and other apparatus, which is to be kept in constant readiness to put out fires, at specified stations on his line In Ohio Township, Madison County, Iowa, a few weeks ago, a cow gave birth to thirty-five calves all at one time, one of them being about two-thirds the size usually attained by calves at birth, one about the size of a lamb, and the remainder of them about the size of rats and mice. They were all perfectly formed, the little ones looking as much like calves in everything except size as anything could look. The mother and entire litter were dead when found. The people of Canada are grumbling sorely at the great increase in their government expenses in the past nine years. While those of the United States have been considerably cut down, the increase in the cost of “running the government” in Canada is over 60 per cent. Judicial expenses have increased 83 per cent, and penitentiary expenses 43 per cent., while the public debt has sprung from $77,000,000 to $170,000,- 000. Says Peck's Sun: Congress found it easy enough to suspend the rules the other day and p&BBthe river and harbor appropriation bill. This bill had to be passed or Congressmen would have stood a poor show for re-election, but the paper bill was defeated because Congressmen voted against it “ on prin ciple.” When it comes to an extrava gant river and harbor bill, though, every Congressman’s principles are that way. _ We are in the midst of another season of remarkable occurrences-or Htories. North Carolina comes to the front with the latest, it being stated that a woman who was exhumed by grave robbers, after having been buried two days, arose and walked home, assisted by the would-be robbers aa soon as they bad sufficiently recovered from their fright to render that service. Tmc last Mississippi legislature passed seven hundred pages of new laws. The sportsmen of Alabama have or ganized a State Association. Three are seven or eight candidate* for State Auditor in North Carolina. Reports of the wheat cjrop in Tennes see are still gloomy. The hourcsin Charleston, 8. C., are to be renumbered. South Carolina has 20,000 colored Good Templars. Eight y-two houses wore built during the past year at Athens, Ga. Clark Mills proposes to undertake aii equestrian statue of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. The glass works of Wheeling, W. Va., are unable to fill the orders made for their products There will he moro grain and cotton raised in Texas this year than during anv three previous years. The authorized capital of the Sibley Cotton Mills, at Augusta, Ga., lias been increased to $1,000,000. Only two cotton faiWorion arc in operation in Louisiana, both of which are located in Now Orleans. The United States Fish Oommissioner is depositing a large number of young fish in the streams of South. Carolina. The Sherman (Texas) Oil Mill is nearly completed. Its owners have on hand 000,000 bushels of cotton seed. New Orleans papers state that from the present outlook a magnificent crop of sugar will be harvested this season. Almoht the entire wheat crop on the line of the. Nashville [and Chattanooga Railroad is seriously effected with the rust. The Pratt Coal and Coak Company, of Jefferson County, Alabama, are now setting out three hundred tons of coal daily. One hundred tons of mangnnsio were mined, washed and shipped to England last week, from Augusta Conn- ty, Va. The proposed ship canal across th e northern end of the peninsula of Florida just now attracting a great deal ctf at tention. George Senkinb, of Bnrboifr Coun ty, Ala., killed a rattlesnake which weighed forty-two pounds and had four teen rattles. The orange grove of Mis. Harriet Bcccher Stowe, at Mandarin, on the St. Johns, Florida, yielded last year $2,000 to the aero. The old Colonial church, at Halifax, N. C., ia over a century old. In the church-yard there is a tomb stone erected in 1772. The Alabama State Fa*r Association will hold an attractive exhibition this year at Montgomery, coiivnenuing on the 8th of November. Mrs. Delila McKinney, of Dallas County, Ala., will bo one hundred years old on the 7th of November. >She is a native of Tennessee. In some pnrtsof Middlo Tennessee tho farmers have plowed tip their wheat fields, having install hopes of a crop, and have planted vegetables A gang of negro robbers 1ms been discovered iu\Tallahassee, Fin. They had fu’se keys, with which every door in the town could be opened. In Baker County, (ia., wltere Inst year’s cotton stalks have been left stand ing, they havo put out new leaves and have plenty of squares on tiacm. The .South Carolina Penitentiary 1ms received orders for palmetto lmts from the States of New York, Georgia, In diana, North Carolina and other States. Miller B. Grant, who has been in tho Savannah jail for a year on tho charge of embezzlement and forgery to the amount of $13,000, has been adjudged insane. Adamr Corbett, a miser, died near Falkland, Pitt County, N. O., aged seventy. Over $7,000 were found which he had secreted, also $40,000 in Con federate notes. A popular vote in Powhatan County, Va., on the question of subscribing $50,- 000 to nid tho Richmond and South western Railroad resulted in a large majority in favor of such aid. A YOUNG man married, plowing, his wife hoeing, and his baby sleeping in the fence corner in n cradle, is what a gentleman saw near Hartwell, l.<a , cently. Rice is becoming one of the most im portant grain crops planted in southwest Georgia. The rains have given it a good start, and the largest crop ever made in that section is expected this season. There is a movement on foot to es- tnblish a large cotton factory at Clarks ville, Tciin., which will employ from four to five hundred hands. The move is headed by men of means and business tact. The splendid Gordon setter, hi owned by T. F. Taylor, of Richmond, Va., is dead. She probably was one of the most “ valuable ” dogs in America, having earned upwards of $2,000 ir prizes and from sales of her progeny. The town council of Jonesboro, Ga. Methodist minister at Galveston, in his rceeut lecture against Ingersoll, said a ought to be passed making it high teoAson against the Government for any mn to c i press open disbelief in the Diblo. In Wheeling, W. Va., a huge bull dog, weighing over 100 pounds, owned by a man named Gillespie, attacked the the mother of Gillespie, and almost killed her before assistance arrived. The dog then at’ncked his owner, and bit five or six other men before he could be killed Near Chattanooga, Tenn., Capt. C. 8. Peak and wife were driving on a steep turnpike near a precipice forty feet high, when their horse became unman ageable. Tho Captain and his wife had only timo to leap from the buggy when the horse ran over the edge of the precipice and was killed. Sleep and Sleeplessness. Too much sleep is very injurious in its effects. The whole nervous system be comes blunted, so that the muscular energy is enfeebled and the sensations und moral and intellectual manifesta tions are obtunded. All the bad effects of inaction become developed The functions are exerted with less energy, the digestion is torpid, the cxecrctions nre diminished, while, in some instances, tlie secretion of fat accumulates to an inordinate exleut. The memory is im paired, the powers of imagination are dormant and the mind falls into a kind of hebetude, chiefly because the fuuc tioiis of the intellect arc not sufficiently exerted when sleep is too prolonged or too often repeated. To sletp much is not necessarily to be a good sleeper. Generally they are the, poorest sleeper. 1 wlni remain Vbngest in bed— i >., they awaken les* refreshed than if the time of arising were earlier by an hour or two. While it is true that children and young people require mV re sleep than their elders, yet it shou’d be the care of parents that over indulgence be not permitted. Whatever over-stimu- lntes the eirfcirntion of the brain‘causes imperfect sleep, if not absolute sleepless- ness. Although sleep is a natural and involuntary state, it may be greatly promoted by maintaining a good state of health; by daily open air exercise, or by riding or sailing with tho face exposed to the air; by having the stomach free from a heavy meal or anv indigestible substance, and by thcmir.d being undis turbed with cures. Over-fatigue, indul gence in food or drink beyond wlmt nature requires, want of proper exercise, mental disquietude, are all causes of sleeplessness Breathing in a confined or overheated apartment ia also a not unusual cause ot broken slumber The temperature most suitable for sleep is about sixty degrees, which gives the sensation oi neither heat nor cold, and admits of a moderate amount of bed clothes boing used. Tho best posture of sleep is to be on the right or left s do, with the arm crossed over the breast in front and the head well up on the pil low. 1 he mouth should be shut, so that 'the breathing may he cllrried on exclu sively through the nose. 8ome persons acquire a habit of sleeping with the mouth open, which causes the grotesque and offensive habit of snoring. Going to sleep while lying on the back should bo avoided; as, besides inducing the sleeper to snore, it is apt to cause dis turbing dreams. It isn well-ascertained fact that sleep begins at the extremities the feet sleep first, and then the rest of tlie person. On this account, in order to full asleep, we require not only to compose the thinking faculties, but to keep the feet still. The feet must also havo on agreeable warmth. A German physician of celebrity has lately been investigating the subject of early rising, and has come to the con clusion that, far from making i man “healthy, wealthy and wise, it has quite the contrary effect, and shortens life instead of prolonging it. In the majority of cases which he lias investi gated the long livers have indulged in late hours, und at least eight out of every ten persons who attained (lie age of 80 and upwafds were in the habit of not retiring to rest until the small hours, and remaining in bed until the day was fur advanced. He has no doubt whatever that early rising is a most pernicious habit for those who go to bed late; and, like Charles Lamb, thinks it better for everybody to delay getting up until the morning has had a chance to become well aired. BAT fLING WITH LIONS. I Exciting Encounter With Liana In the ! Jungles sf Africa. Mr. F. Falkner Carter, in charge of 1 the elephants attached to the Real Belgian expedition into Africa, gives the following excitin'* account of a sud den encounter which lie had with lions at Kerimn, Central Africa, at which place he and his caravan of one hun dred and eighty men had arrived, in a letter received from him by the last mail, dated from that station, lie men tions tlie difficulties ho had experienced in procuring animal food for his men. “Our only food,” lie says, “ consists of Indian coin, pounded between two stones, with a good share of sand, and only Balt with It. It is well to have even this, but still, men accustomed all their lives to good animal food cannot live on such poor fair, and so I go out every second or third day with my gun and kill a zebra, eland, water-buck, etc. One of any of these enables us to live in clover for’a single day. A recent ex pedition of this kind, however, nearly cost me my life. I felt that 1 must go in search oi food, as there was not at the time a morsel in camp, and so forth I sallied. Mv first shot was at a giraffe, into which 1 put two bullets, und then followed him over hill and dale until lioo:i, when heat, thirst and want oi food obliged me to give up the chase. After smoking a pij»c and taking st 1 # off zebra, but should month Africa. Rutin ing for the po should meet had nothing u-d hinV. 0t Thc^zebm, I , is the best disheartened. hollow-eyed fellows 1 my return, for whom I the shape of food, Just From Dead wood. A Brooklyn boy, who had spent some six months in the Black Hills, struck home last week and sauntered up Fulton street. He was dressed in nn antelope skin sliirt, a pair of black tnil deer skin pantaloon^ beaded moccasins and a white felt hat with a brim like a wagon wheel. He wandered into a saloon, thumped his fist on the counter and howled for tan juice with a glittering eye. Will y< said to thro- ... r nt a table, adding as r ev hesitated reckon ye’d better. ^AViUi means liquor t ting blood. turned toward camp, und just at 3:30 1 words, but ef )*< p. m. a fine boar dashed past me. I sent thingr io * a bullet through him nt once, but on he [ went. 1 know, however, we shou’d-ftml him dead a few hundred yards ahead, by tlie quantity of blood in tlie long grass; so I followed, but just then sighted three zebras—so dropped pig- gie’s trail and went off to try and stalk the zebras. In about ten minutes after 1 heard a fearful row, and my two gun- bearers said it was a rhinoceros. I laid hold of my No. 10 bore, handing my ‘express’ to my bearer, telling him and the man carrying the smooth bore to keep close to me. I glided silently through the grass, over six feet high, until close to the spot; then I knew that if it were a rhinoceros he was lying down, ns l could not see a sign of him, so I decided it must be two wild boars fightings. Something told me they could not make such a i. irrible noise, which actually seemed to shake the ground and rend the very air around me. Strange to say, it never struck me that tho noise might havo proceeded from lions, although the place it full of them, so I advanced boldly, dividing the grass with my rifle. 1 then discov ered three lions devouring tlie pig 1 had shot, und in that short time hud finished half of ft. The two nearest were within two feet of me, and the furthest three nnd a half feet. Tlie brutes’ beards, chests and claws were covered witli blood. Though startled at first, I was perfectly cool, nnd yet felt perfectly PASSING SMILES. The rest of the week—Sunday. General to-pics—chiropodist*. A two-foot-rulb—don’t stumble. Every tramp carries a roamin’ no*e. Tib very easy to re-cover an old tun- bre.la. Dutchmen are but boya of lagei growth. The carriage-makor never tire*. Tht blacksmith does that for him. “After Cincinnati, what?” aak* a political exchange. O., of course. No, Mary Ann, a newspaper dress it not made of prints, however suggestive. “The nearer tho bone tho sweeter the meat,” said the thin girl to her country lover. A man may be right, and yet be left Among the recognized small vices are Vice-Presidents. The holes in our harbor fortifications were made for big guns. That is why they bold the fort. A printer’s girl fell exhausted into his arms at a bull. It was a feint to work in un cm braco. Joaquin Miller is said to be very busy writing a war poem. Mr. Miller was very recently married. Few spectacles iu this world, says the Albany Journal, arc so imposing as that of a college boy with his first cane. The cashier of an Eastern bank ran away with all the funds and the direc* tors* placarded the door, “No Cashier. - Jackson—“ But feny, who gave away .he brideV” Jones—“I forgot, but at any rate il was a perfect give-away.” CROQUET, says the Boston C’ommer- eial Jim din, will be popular this season notwithstanding that it is played out. When Webster said “ there is always room at the top, ’ lie was not referring to tiie advertising page of a newspaper. The oleomargarine flies, with their brilliantly colored wings, are fluttering hi dim and thither, more especially thither We see at last that we must cease making jokes When it gets so they are likely to explode and scare horses it ii time to stop At a restaurant: “Take away the sauerkraut; there's a hair in it 1‘* “Mon- bieiu you astonish me. 1 thought 1 had picked them all out l” “Get up, my son! The earlybird- catches tho worm, you know!” “ 1 don’t wdftt to catch no worms, papa, and have .o take nasty medicine'.” Atmosphericai knowledge is not thoroughly distributed to our schools. ~ — - A boy being asked, “What is mist?” That’s hittin’ gilt every wash, | vaguely responded, “An umbrella.” i’t yer forgit it; you bet! ’ j a young man boasted that he had- ~ ‘ ^ well-stored mind, whereupon a young lady muttered, ‘What a pity we can t find out where he stored itl ’ The New Orleans Picayune discovert that while the country doctor goes about doing good, the country politician gots around talking about doing good. One glass of plain soda water costs one-tenth jf a cent, first price. Now we can understand why it is that a drug gist s clerk can use the most expensive kind of hair oil aud wear a very small ouchcd roared the •’d better They approached tlie bar, and all took beer, except one, who took cider, ex plaining that lie had nev spirits in his life. “ Wall, I’ll lie dogged skin decked traveler. “ Et yer me whar 1 hang out vc’d be hole. ’Cause tliar’s whar yer got ter drink, whether yer drink er not. ‘ Slack! ’ ” And he poured in tlie poison. “ Where are you from, if I might ask? - ’ inquired the cider man. ‘ From! right from the gulch. Tlie clean up put me a few thousand ahead and I’m wanderin’ to see tho sights. You bet!” ‘ From tho mines?” “ Straight from jist whar yer reckoned I was, stranger. I been inter the Hills. Panned big and now I’m in fer a reg’lai old He. You bet!” , „ “ How arc things in the Hills now? Is business depressed or are tilings flour ishing? ’ 1 don’t know nothin’ about them big rant fer ter know how .they’re thar; right thar I twenty ’millions o’ money taken out o’ my mine in fourteen hours. That’s trade! nnd don’ . “ How does Custer City seem to pro- “ l ain’t no bizness with no Custer City—I’m a miner, I am.” “ I saw in a recent paper that a num ber of troops have been moved to Fort Meade. Do they think there is any danger from Indians?” “Injuns, Injuns, pardl Why there’s mill!aiiu ftf Vtn until n certain that I must be killed, tamo lion is savage when eating his food. The lion opposite caught sight of me at once, curled liis lips, lashed his sides witli his tail, but what the others were doing I cannot say, as mv friend was in the act of springing, and 1 dare not take my eye off him for a second. At last ho crouched for the spring, and I let drive in his face, retreating a step to give me a chance with the other barrel nt one of the remaining two, determined to sell my life dearly, but, to my great delight these two sprang over the grass in opposite directions. I gave a sort of sigh of relief, looked around for my gun bearers, and there they were, fifty yards off, trembling with fear and blue with fright. Tho rascals had run away, nnd I had no gun to fall back upon. 1 returned to n ek up my dead lion, but found ho had crept away with a bullet through him. I followed his trail until tho jungle got too thick, and it was nearly dark.—London Standard. illions of ’em settiir around on the rocks waitin’ for a chance to litc in. Injuns! Why you don’t know nothin’about Injuns here. 1 seen ten hundred thousand troops killed in nil-hour nnd a half. Blit l don’t mind no Injuns! I tunneled under four tribes camped half n mile from my claim, and ’ iggcd oneof them went up blast. <giti bet! Ther v with n Hille an’t be la id don’t Dead wood! Dangerous! Pay, strnn- if yer ever learned to gamble, jist put ver money on the statement that The Coming Man Physically. In Prot. C. W Emerson's lecture on the “Coming Man,” delivered recently in Boston, before the Moral Educational Association, ho gave this outline of his vision ot tho coming mun physically: “ We cannot hope that his physical de velopment will be absolutely perfect, but he will be so far ahead of the pres ent man that, could we aee him in a vis ion, he would seem to us perfect, as in deed we ourselves would seem perfect to the people of ancient history. There must be great physical improvement in the future man, because all the hind rances of health are being taken away We are getting interested in the well being of our bodies, superstitions are vanishing, we have learned that pesti lence and plague are the result ox bad sewerage and filth, and that the remedy lies within our reach. Statistics bear out this theory that man is advancing towards physical perfection. There js greater longevity now than in the past, nnd men of seventy are now stronger than one* men of sixty were. Phys ically, therefore, the coming man will be more robust. And by this is not meant more musular. but possessing moro vitality of the whole system. As man becomes more healthy, he will become less susceptible to baa lmblts and temp tations. A perfectly well man is never a criminal. It is when the nerves are deranged by drink evil habits, or to 1HKIOWU v„u,.v.. v. . baceo (for no man i. perfectly well who hae adopted ordinance^prohibiting | Battling with a Bull* A colored man, in the employ of Mr. Georgo Hubschniidt, in Bergan County, New Jersey, went out into a field to f drive a bull into a barnyard. The bull munications wholl was rather vicious, hut it had never at tacked the men. This time, however, | the animal made a plunge for the col ored man, knocking him to tlie ground, held him there with his fore feet, and attempted to gore him there with his sharp horns. The negro struggled and fought as best he could, nnd succeeded in dodging the blows several rimea But finally the horn penetrated the man’s cheek ubout nn inch from the mouth. 'J he brute then gave a savage plunge und tore tho flesh around the negro’s chin, from a point about two inches from the left end of liis mouth clear around to his right cur. This made a terrible wound, and the great arteries of the neck were narrowly missed. In spite of his wound the man continued to fight for his life. He succeeded iu reaching a stone, with which lie ham mered the bull in the eye until the ani mal, which was all this time holding his victim pinioned to the ground bend wood is dangerously placed. Y« win, pard. Yer’il scoop the pot cncn tussle, or count my judgment deuce box.” “ Going to he in Brooklyn any length of time?” “ Jiat come to take a squint at it. Fay, show me around. Show me to a f.iro lmnk. I’ve got too much dust fer com fort, and I’d like ter drop or pick up. Show me around, stranger, and I’ll make yer proud of yerself.” “I don’t think you would find me a vary good guide, for I’ve only been here n comparatively short time, but perhaps one of my friends who reside here, would”— . “ Don’t belong here? Whar yer from, stranger? Wliar’s yer tepee?’ “ I live in Dead wood/’ responded the stranger. “ I’m only—” If the young traveler will come around and pay for those drinks all will be for given. Third Class Mail Matter. John F. Logo, Postmaster at Cincin nati, says in the Cincinnati Gazette: So much unnecessary confusion and labor have been caused by misapprehensions of the law allow ing “commercial papers” to be mailed ns third class matter, that I request publication of the following One of the war songs of the Z "Dali! dob! dab! dah! ” : y«t 3 ‘ The enemy is supposed to take to ns soon as the soug is started. The Western girl who persis declared that she believed all t editors are uot only very liandso immensely wealthy, has been in.-une, says tho Hackensack When a fond parent little son has emulated the tlie father of liis country n arboicuhure, he rai-e diutely; tl..»* i» t-^say, in motion. An Irish gentleman told by an otlicer of a bank iliat he had overdrawn his account, replied that ho was uot in the lmbit ot twitting them when ho hud money in their vaults, and he did uot want to bo twitted by them when he had none. Nothing is more pathetic than to aee a gentleman rise in a street car and otler his seat to a lady who has been standing for si mile, overcome her protestations, and finally receive her gratitude, and then, with a benignant and satisfied smile, hop right otl at his own door. “Drinkwater is dead at lust,” re marked Jonesbury os ho entered the house the other evening. “Oh, dear,” exclaimed Mrs. J.; “but then his widow is left comfortable. He’s well off, isn’t he?” “lie is now," replied Jonesbury with an emphasis ou the “now,” that Mrs. Jonesbury didn’t more than like. 1. The matter must he partly printed. Ijetter postage is required upon nil com- ications wholly in writing, ft must contain no personal cor respondence. Any addition in writing to a bill, or invoice, or hill of lading, or statement of account, subjects it to letter postage. All written communications, such os “ Please remit,” “ lour account due,” “ Will draw on voi..” “Terms, thirtv days,” “Will ship with John Smith’s goods,” “ Will ship the balance of your goods in a fc>v days,” etc , are to be avoided, as they are in violation of law, and primafacie evidence of fraud. The law does not yermit the writing of letters, no matter how brief, upon third class matter. 3. It must not be the “ expression of monetATy value.” Ilcncc, receipts, re ceipted bills and statements, letters of acknowledgment, notes, acceptances, checks, drafts and orders for payment of money er other valuable consideration, completed deeds and insurance policies and uher papers representing value, or ng a claim to anything ot value, rc- whispering or other disorder in the rear of churches during divine service, and the town marshal has signified his in tension to enforce the order strictly. 1 Rev. G. W. Briggs, the Southern crime follows.” Love, undying, solid love, whose root is virtu*, can no more die than vir tue itself. -^Erasmus. forced to let go. The bull then ran to the opposite side of the field, tossing his head and roaring with pain, the eye^ be ing almost entirely destroyed. The negro subsequently remarked that he made a square bull’s-eye every time. Two men who happened along in t other field went us far as the fence, but were afraid to go to the colored nv. assistance, even after the bull ha<-' i away. He got up and staggered across the field to tho fence, and tiier; lie sank benseltss. Dr. Van Gieson, of Patter son, was sent for, and he dressed i ho wound. Dr. Van Gieson says he thinks the negro will recove/, although he says “the reproduction upon paper, by any it was one of the narrowest escapes he process except that of handwriting, of ever saw, as the man’s windpipe was any words, letters, characters, figures, or actually grazed by the sharp point of images, or any combination thereof, not the bull’s horn. having the character of actual and per- sonal correspondence.” We are told .hat “ahrouda have no 7. 1 ! 0 “manifoUl prove™" and “ typ.- pockele ” And thia will probably con writing” are held to to handwriting, tinue to be toe fashion until a corpse causes an unpleasantness at a funeral by i Tub man who never reads the auvei- refusing to t>e buried in a pocketles- tisements in his newspaper generally •broud.-—Norristown Herald. I nay# two prices for everything he buyB. stating quire letter postage. A credit entry upon a bill or statement of account sub jects the same to letter postage. It will be well for our merchants to note these limitations, and caution their clerks and bookkeepers, as it may be come necessary to enforce tho penalty— $10 for each offense. Circulars, which are defined to be “ printed letters sent in identical terms to several persons, ’ do not lose their character us such when tlie date, tho signature, and the name of tlie addressed are in writing. Printed matter” is defined to be A Clincher. One day u party of gentlemen were smoking together in a hotel somewhere in Connecticut. “ Young men,” said the inevitable, social statistician who was present, “smoking is an extrava gant habit. Don't you think it h wrong? Don’t you think you ahoulJ give it up?” One of those addressed removed his cigar from his lips ami coollv replied in behalf of the company that he “ couldn’t see it.” “ Well, ’ re- turned the statist eal person, “ I will give you nn example which is within my own knowledge: flight h«r« a.;, very town, lives a l’ricnd of mine whe used to be a groat smoker. One day he determined to abandon the habit and save the money which lie would other wise havo spent for cigars At the end of fifteen years he bought n very nict house with the money saved in thii way. What do you* think of that?* The spokesman of the smokers ought U have been crushed, but lie wasn’t. “ H* Mbs the house,’ he said, “ hut you rnusi admit that he hasn't hud the cigars.’ —Hartford. Poet A Petrified Body Found. Not long ago it was deemed desirable to remove tho remains of Police-Officer William Blanford, who djtw JuniTD, 1874, of para’ysis, and hiywife, Rebecca Blansford, who died February 15, last, of lung disease, from t li/ Philanthropic to fne Mount Moriah/Cemetery. Dur ing the progress of v'oc disinterment it was found that the Remains of the man hud undergone pc trifac tion, and had been entirely preserved, while his wife’s were in a stnte of d-^ay. The corpse of the former weighed nearly five hundred pounds. Its condition is attributed to the dampness «>i the earth in which it was buried, .similar discoveries having been made there in the last fev» years. —Philadelphia News. Central Kentucky > se the bh region, returned d fippointed jected. He had “ ~ ' J A ~ miles and never gross. All thej *rcen—just t tifid e
