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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