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ijllijay Courier, rrai.iNHn eveny rai*v. I'*** Per Innas. J C. ALLEN, KUitor niu< Proprietor. NEWS SUMMARY. TNK ■OITII. Bob Toodlea has married Marine Noodle*, in Musoogee, a. A Texan hat contrived a machine for taking wood on trains without their stopping. Captain McNally, the celebrated Texas •rout, was but twenty-right when he died. Diphtheria in a malignant form has made its appearance along the Tennessee border in Lee county, Va. The Tredegar works, at Richmond, Va., are building three hundred ours for the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Une. Five persons have been hanged in Abbeville, 8. C., duriae the past four years, and still the murderers follow their business. The Marietta (Ga.) Journal says that German millet is '-sing used as rice in lower Georgia. The husks are removed and the grain is palatable food. Dr. Kenilworth, a celebrated physi cian of Jacksonville, has given one hundred dollars toward the trial of Col. Hardee’s theory of concussion, as destractive ot the germs of disease. Jacksonville has formed a military cordon around the city to prevent the ingress of refugees from Fernandina. The military and fire companies have volunteered to do this service. The city attorney of Galveston has given it as his opinion that the city is not liable for $2,2;0 worth of scrip issued to pay the expenses of entertaining the Kansas delegation in 1875. A colossal statue of the late Andrew Johnson is to be set up as a monument to his memory near his olu Tennessee home. It is of white marble, and is being carved in Philadelphia. Hon. M. J. Crawford and Miss Salmon, of Cartersville, Ga., were riding in a buggv a few days since. Miss Selmon raised her parasol suddenly, and the horses ran away, throwing both out. He was killed instantly, his neck being broken, and she was fatally injured. The New Orleans Picayune says John vv esley Hardin, the Texas desperado, is a very finely organised person. One of his victims he killed for snoring. He did not like to be disturbed in his sleep, so he arose in the Bilent night and slew the enorer. The Danville Express*lcams that Col. 8. Samuel and Representative Barnes have sold their large estate in Charlotte county, Va. (Barnesville), comprising be tween 7,000 and 8,000 acres, to a Philadelphia Catholic) colony. The sum realised from this sale is $71,000. A Corpus Christie special says: Asa bridal party were returning last evening from church, Mexican men drove up near them iu a carriage and opened fire upon men, women and Children with six-shooters. One of the groomsmen was stiot through the baek and will die. The groom fled. The Vicksburg Herald states that the S tamers near that city are suffering from the epredations of thieves, who steal their cot ton in the seed and take it to the city, where it is eagerly purchased by parties who ought to know better thau to encourage the thieves. Under the Moffat bell-punch in Vir ginia saloons, the price of liquor has gone up, but the law really seems to be enforced. The penalties are severe. A failure to tnrn the orauk entails a fine of from S2O to SIOO for the first offence, and forfeiture of Jisense for the second. Steamboat navigation of the Suwannee river, Florida, has been resumed after a long suspension. This is one of the bodies of water that would be utilised in the construc tion of the proposed Atlantic and Gulf ship canal, and the extent of its nnvigable ca pacity is an interesting question. A young fellow in love with a widow Sot so jealous at n hall in Houston, Texas, le other night, that he got a license and a fireacher, anu, going to the widow’s home a ittle before day, informed her that she must marry him iustanter or lie would make a lead mine of the other fellow, She married him. The statistician of the department of agriculture at Washington reports the con dition of the cotton crop the first week in September as averaging the surne as at the qame time last year. The worm is repotted in all the gulf states, but has done but little damage, except in Texas and several parishes in Louisiana. The Savannah News says, outside of any special call, Savannah has gone to the relief of Fernandina. Her physicians and nurses only await the demand when they will be forthgoing. The disease is epidemic in Fernandina, and it is the grand self-sacri fice that prompts the departure of phvsiciana and nurses to our afflicted sister city. The Lancaster (S. C.) Ledger says “we learn that Ezekiel Mayhew, a colored man with some little education, and formerly a school teacher in Cane creek township, left for Liberia on Monday last. As we under stand, he is sent out to view the promised land, and is to return and report his observ ations by the first of next year.” The Asheville (N. G.) Pioneer says that last week, while a number of colored persons, both male and female, were digging tor medical roots in the Bee Tree range of Craggy mouutain, one of their number, named Elvira Seneca, better known as Yira Lytic, was struck by a rattlesnake upon her right leg, just below the knee. She died, leaving four destitute children. The Charlotte (N. C.) Observer savs it is a surprising fact that there were four mortgages upon crops of 1878 lately recorded in the office of the register of deeds. The crops, of course, will not be put into the ground until next spring. It is a bad show ing for the farmers that they should be mort gaging that which they themselves have not, and will not have for twelve months, to se cure supplies for the present. The Asheville (N. C.) Pioneer says that at the last term of the court Alexander Shaft was tried and convicted of fornica tion and adultery, and sentenced by Judge Furches to six months' imprisonment in the county jail. At lhe first meeting of the board of county commissioners thereafter, on application of Shaft's wife, he was hired ont to her at $5 per month. The Galveston News says that the question of prohibition continues to be a leading issue in some of the northwestern counties, where the local option law is still before the the people. The papers quote a sentence from the charge of Judge Clark to the grand jury of Hopkins county, as fol lows: You may visit the graves of criminals, and with propriety might write above the remains of ninety-nine on* of every hun dred : A bottle of whisky; a deck of cards; a six-shooter: a violent death : eternal rain. The following is the estimated damage by the late cyclone aronnd Galveston : The government works in Balvar channel, in cluding a portion of the fleet, $75,000; the Galveston, Houston and Henderson railroad, loss of track and bay bridge, $20,000; Golf of Colorado and Santa Fe railroad, loss of track and bridge, $z0,000; cotton presses, $18,500; uncompleted Cuiidines in the citv $21,500; bath houses on the beach, *3,500’; twenty small schooners capsized, $5,000; private buildinzs and propertv, SIO,OOO. Total $132,000. ' niMII.MITOS. Both houses of congress are nearly ready for occupancy. The ventilation of both has been materially improved. THE ELLIJAY COURIER. VOLUME 11. There la not the slightest apprehension felt by the department of state ot aay carious difficulty with the Dias government, which is only to* anxious to msintala friendly relations with us. Thirty temporary clerks ware dropped from the treasury department last week, and fifty more will be discharged at the end of this month. The freedmen’a bureau commissioners say they have enough to pay a 10 per cent, divided to depositors, but not enough to pay a dividend of 20 per cent. If they could pay a dividend of 20 per cent, they would imme diately declare it, but it is extremely doubt ful if the declaration of a 10 per cent divi dend would be judicious. This they say is well known to alt except the smaller de positors The secretary of tha interior has given a decision that when a homestead oiaimant’s land has become valueless for farming pur poses by reason ef overflow or backwater of a river, he will be allowed to make another entry, with credit for lees and commissions. In the event of anew entry, he will be re quired to show compliance with the law, as though he had made no previous entry. Special revenue agents of the internal revenue bureau have been engaged in ex aminations in various parts of the Union, particnlarly in the sontnern states, to ascer tain and report as to the locality and condi tion of titles, values, etc., of the large amount of real estate whioh kas been acquired by the government through violntious of the revenue laws by owners of the property. The aggregate value of this real estate is set at high figures, and the objeot of this inves tigation is to enable the government to ascertain its value and condition, prepara tory to offering it for sale. PCIWOXAUTIKS. Theodore Thomas coueiders Beethoven the boss oomposer. James Gordon Bennet is on his way home and may be expected shortly. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has at last got tired of trying to compromise with the holders of her property in New Orleans, and is now going for them to the full extent of the law. Alexander H. Stephens is at Catoosa Spriugs, Georgia, He will make the jour ney to Washington by easy stages, visiting friends on the way. He will find the cars easier than stages. Edmund de Rothschild is about to marry Mile. Adelaide de Rothschild, the (laughter of Baron Willy de Rothschild, of Frankfort. Edmund de Rothschild’s father, Baron James da Rothschild, married his own niece, Bette, the daughter of Baron Solomon de Rotnechifd. ner brother’s daughter mar ried Baron Willy de Rothichild, and now her son is going to marry Boron Willy's daugh ter. This system of intermarriage is likely to give the family more money than brains. There is a tempest in a teapot at Salt Lake city, caused by the public knowledge ot the fact that John W. Young intends to be sealed to a Miss Cobb, a voluptnons looking girl of sixteen, a stepdaughter of his father, and granddaughter of Mis. Augustus LA'obb, one of Brigham’s mistresses, known in Mor mondom as the woman who desired to be sealed to Jesus Christ. The contemplated eeremony has caused John W. Young’s wife to desert him aud return to her father, a Mr. Canfield, who is a railroad engineer, living in Philadelphia. It would seem that the Nez Perces de mon is hardly of so somber a hue as he is gen erally painted: A letter from Montana gives an unexpected example of their clemency. A council of five debated for some time on the question of the release of several prison ers in their possession, and at last, bv a ma jority of one, decided to let them go! Fear ing that they would regret their deaision White Bird, the chief, said to the trembling captives: “ You go quick --go by this trail— don’t stop to camp or eat oe-water your po nies—don’tgo up the river—hurry to the Hot Springs arid join your people there—get away—hurrv!’ He then gave them some bread and matches and guided them a mile from the camp. Ralph Waldo Emerson twenty years ago addressed a literary society at Middle bury, Vermont, dnring commencement, and when he ended, the president called upon a clergyman to conclude the service with prayer. A Massachusetts minister answered the request as follows: “We beseech thee, O Lord, to deliver us from ever hearing any more such transcendental nonsense as that we have just listened to from this sacred desk.” After the benedietion Mr. Emerson asked his next neighbor the name of the officiating clergyman, and, when falteringly answered, with gentle simplicity, remarked: “He seemed a very conscientious, plain- Epoken aian,” an- went his peaceful way. rOBEISN. Nearly all th# regiments in the British service are going to have new helmets. They will be more or less similar to those of the German troops. Queen Victoria will, it is reported, go to Berlin shortly to witness the marriage of her grand-danghter, PrinceßS Charlotte, to the Prince of Meningen. A dispatch from Stanley, the American explorer, dated Emborama, in Congo, west coast of Africa, August 10, states that he has completely navigated the Lsalaba, and suc ceeded in proving it to be identical with the Congo. The chief raw material wealth of northern Mexico is the mines, more espe cially the silver mines, whiolf never have had a fair chance of development under the so-called governments, Spanish and Dative, which have oursed and crushed the volcanic nation since the flag of Castile first glittered on her shores. Mr. E. W. Blyden, the new Librian embassador to England, is the first minister ever accredited to that country by a negro state. He is of pure negro blood, aud was educated chiefly in Liberia. He has excel lent ability, has been a professor in the col lege of Liberia, has contributed very clever articles to Fraser and has served in the Li berian government. He has just been re ceived by Lord Derby. THE WAI. Chefvet Pasha, the leader in the Bul garian massacres, has been sent to command Osman Pasha’s reserves at Orkanich, and guard his communications; probably, also, with the view of keeping an eye on Servia. The battle reported at Duborik, in which the Russians were said to have been defeated, must have been, if it all. a vil lage five miles northwest of Vatza, on the Rahova road. Reporta say Osman Pasha has a fortified position almost impregnable, nat urally, at Vatza, on which he will retire if driven from Plevna. Anyhow, the Rouma nian attempt to cut his communication seems to have failed. imCELLAitZOUK. Experiment* with electric light* lately took place at Cronstadt The apparatus was fixed on board the Peter the Great, and was of such intensity that unall print could be read on a vessel moored four cables off. It is contemplated to furnish all the forta at I Cronstadt with this light. i Frank Leslie, the NewY.-.rk publisher, 1 lias gone into bankruptcy. Canse—unfor tunate real estate speculations. His various j publications will he continued without l change. “ Error Ceases to be Dangerous When Reason is Left Free to Combat It.”—Jefferson. ELLIJAY, GEORGIA, OCTOBER I*2* 1877. Sitting Bull is said to be encamped at Polat Hone Buttas, one hundred and twenty miles from Fort Walsh, on British territory, and has no intention of going upon the war path. A California paper describes “ the latest thing out ” as anew horse-shoe made out of three thicknesses of rawhide, com pressed together by heavy pressure. It is said to last longer, weighs only one-fonrth as much os the common shoes, never splits the hoof, and has no bad influence on the foot. It is so elastic that the horse’s step is never uncertain. Masked men boarded the U. and P. train near Big Springs, and at the pistol point got away with $60,000. A reward of SIO,OOO ia offered for the robbers. The pas sengers in the coaches were also visited and relieved of their oash and valuables. The plunder taken from tha passengers is stated to be $1,300 in cash, fonr gold watohes and a tioket to Chicago. James Newby, a negro newsboy, who went abroad Irom New London, Conn., with Moody and San key, studied for the church of England ministry at London, passed an examination before the bishops, which prompted the bishop of London to say, “ I would to God all our clergymen were like this young man.” Newby has since sailed for Africa to be assistant to Bishop Crowthef. An artesian well, sunk by D. B. Lowell in Nevada, on Eei river island, at the depth of one hundred and twenty feet, struck a current of gas which, when ignited, sent np a flftne Jet thirty-six feet high. A strong wind failed to blow it oat, and an eight hours’s rain did not extinguish it In the night a newspaper conld be read by its light one hundred feet away. American beef is seeking other chan nels of transportation to Europe. A line Of steamers is ndw in operation between Mar seilles, France, and the river Plata, in South America, for the purpose of carrying frozen fresh meat. There are two methods of re ducing the temperature on these steamers. One by the evaporation of ammonia, the other by the ventilization of ether. By the former process the temperature can be made so low that the meat becomes sheeted with ice. WHQOM AND I’HI RrIIM. Thirty Chinese merchants in San Francisco have united ih an appeal to the hoard of education to have "public schools opened for the instruction of Chinese youth. The American home missionary society reports its treasury to be "behind” to the extent of $40,000. About 400 missionaries are dependent on the receipts for their support. Bishop Simpson’s long-promised Cyclo pedia of Methodism has got on to the ex tent of one hundred and sixty royal octnvo pages In print, and the whole book, which will have 1,000 pages, will be ready next sping. There is to be a southern educational convention in Atlanta on the seventh of No vember, for “ the purpose of considering the difficulties of the educational situation, and of devising the most effective means of sur mounting them, and establishing in every southern state a wise and efficient system of public education.” THE GRAND REPUBLIC. Details or the Drandenr and Capacity of tile Lout Streamer. The loss by fire of that pride and won der of the western waters—the steamer Grand Republic—the grandest craft that ever plied the Mississippi, continue* to be a leading topic of interest among our people. The magnificent vessel will never he likely to have her counterpart in point of grandeur, size and elegance for a gen eration, and perhaps never again as long as the western rivers are navigated. The cause and incidents of her destruction will, therefore, be a matter of interest to the people here, where the fine vessel may be considered to have partially be longed, as she was destined to boa New Orleans and Memphis packet during the cotton carrying season. A man named John Prather, who was the boat’s watchman, reports that about half-past 11 o’clock, last Wednesday night, he was on the lower deck of the Grand Republic, and smelling smoke, he went up stairs, and found that it was rolling through the panels and flooring of the bridal chamber in the ladies’ cabin, from whence the flames speedily broke through. In less than ten minutes the whole cabin and upper works were one mass of furious flames, and to keep from being roasted alive he had to get ashore as rapidly a* possible, losing a trunk full of clothes. The engineer and carpenter, also, lost their baggage. The vessel was totally destroyed, and the wreck sunk iu a very brief space of time. There had been no fire on the boat, except under the nigger boiler, and this had all been dout before dark. The watchman no knowledge of any fire being about the ladies’ cabin, and he could not give any reason as to how it originated there. The boat’s seven new steel boilers had been tested during the day. She had just come off the docks and was to have started south on the 6th day of October. The gorgeous vessel was fitted out with all modern improvements and inventions, fire alarms, soundings and speaking trumpets, wire tiller ropes, wire befi cords and complete steering outfit. It is estimated by experts that this nonpareil steamer could not be duplicated in even these times of depression and cheapness for $250,000. The original cost of the first boat was over $300,000, and the various alterations to machinery and hull, together with the new hull de stroyed, was in all over half a million dollars. To such a public spirited com mander as is Gapt. Thorwegan, who solely owned the splendid craft, the loss falls heavily, and the sympathy of a large number of iriends i* extended him.— Mcmpkii Avalanche. A Singular Fact. A correspondent of the London notes and queries quotes from Burckharrdt a curious fact in connection with Egyptian art. The author says: Araong~the in numerable paintings and sculptures in the temples and tombs of Egypt, I never met with a single representation of a camel. At Thebes, in the highest of the tombs, on the side of the Djebil Habow, called Abd el Gome, which has not, I believe, been mentioned by former trav elers, or by the French in their great work, t found all the domestic animals of the Egyptians represented together in one large painting upon a wall, forming the most interesting work of the kind which I saw in Egypt. A shepherd con ducts the whole herd into the presence of his master, who inspects them, while r slave is noting them down. Yet even here I looked in vain for the camel. WIUX TNI urr* HA VI au*Mß AWAY. WbM the taisU here rolled In splendor From the beauty ol the hlUe, And the sunshine, warm end tender, Falls in kttote on the HIU, We may read Lore's shining letter In the rainbow of the spray; Ws shall know each other better When the mlats hate cleared away. We shall know ss we ere known, Newer more to wslk alone, In the dawning of the morning. When the mists nave cleared away. If we err In human blindneas. And forget that we are dust, Ii we miss the law of kindness, When we struggle to be lust. Snowy winds of peace shall ootei All the pains that cloud oar day, When the weary watch is owee, And the mists hare cleared away. We shall know as we are kaowa, Newer more to walk alone, In the dawning of the morning, When the mlata hawe cleared away. When the silwery mis'a hawe wetjed ns From the faces of our own, Ott we deem their lowe has failed i:a, And we tread our path alons:A We should aeethem near and truiw, We would trust them day by day, Neither lowe or blame unduly, If the mists hawe cleared awaw. We shall know as we are kaowa, Newer more te walk alone, in the dawning of the morning, When the mists hawe cleared aaray. When the mists hawe risen abowe as, As our Father knows His own, Face to face with those that lowe ns, We shall kaow as we are known ; Jzowe beyond the orient meadows Floats the golden fringe of day; Heart to heart wo bide the chadews, 1111 the mists hawe cleared away. We shall know as we are kaowa, Newer more to walk alone, When the day ol light Is dawning, A nd the mists hawe cleared a tray. ‘ FIGHTING IN SHIPKA. PASS. Ttgeron*! Vferk-Snleinaa Pa*ba IM* reetlog m Battle. At the entrance of the pass the road was wide enough, but as we advanced it narrowed, and noon the defile reared its rocky sides in perpendicular masses high above our heads and close up to the nar row causeway on both sides. On turn ing one of the curves of the road a loud report was heard in front, followed by another, and the order was given to cloee up and quicken the pace, the reverbera tion of the guns rolling like thunder, growing louder as we advanced. We hurrietf forward, passed another curve descend* l ' donl ! dty, ascender’ -t * passe'" jrn the vallt Abo eminenr tion of hkri. W g°awa?oHlC f which, with the aid'ot T#y could plainly distinguish the Ri ef Bt. Andrew. Along its front slopes of the hills, and covered by M. brushwood, could be seed the .constalG flecking of smoke, which indicated a rifle fusilade. About a quarter of a mile on this side could also be seen, by the ascending columns of smoke, accompanied with continual flashes, the artillery of Suleiman making a vain effort to silence the fire of the fort, while slanting up the hill could be seen the puff of the rifle discharged as its Moslem owner (distin guished by his Ted fez) worked slowly, upward and onward, to gain a position dominating the fort. When we got well up to the front and the solid shot from the fort began play ing baseball, with none of us willing to act as catcher, a Turkish officer, followed by a single orderly, rode rapidly up, ana, casting a quick, scrutinizing glaDce at our force as it moved past, halted our regiment and one battery of artillery. Ho was an ordinary-looking Turk, about forty years of age, sinewy, but with an unusually sharp, bright expression of countenance. Beckoning Selim Bey toward him, who approached very re spectfully, he appeared to give him some hurried orders, as I could see him ges ticulating toward the guns and pointing up the slope, now dotted along nearly to the summit with a fringe of smoke. Selim saluted and turned away as the horseman did the same, galloping back to the front; and soon the subject of the conversation was developed. The regi ment was ordered to follow the skir mishers up to the mountain side, get the guns up with them in the beet way they could, and to lose no opportunity to open fire on the fort. This was no joke of an order, I assure you, to get a battery of six guns and all its belongings up the slope ot a mountain for about six hun dred feet, with no road, over rocks and fallen trees, etc. However, with the Turks there is no demur; everything is “ please God,” or “ Insballah,” and soon half the regiment was engaged in straight ing out a sort of path, while the other laid itself out to assist the horses and artillerymen in pushing the pieces up the hill. By ten o’clock that night we had them in position and a decent little earthwork scraped up in front while all we waited for was sufficient daylight to open fire. While the men were straightening matters, I asked the colonel who was that officer who cave directions to him about the guns. Selim answered that he was Suleiman Pasha. I was surprised, for I expected to seen the general surrounded by a brilliant staff; however, I had seen Suleiman, and that was enough for me. Wrapping my rubber blanket about me, I “ turned in ” on a lee side of a rock, and soon fell asleep, regardless of scorpions or centipede, and while thus engaged soon fancied myself on Washing ton street, somewhere in the vicinity of Old South. A crash and roar, as if the steeple of the venerable meeting-house had fallen upon me, brought me to my leet with a bound and broke the charm. I was not ia Boston ; quite the contrary, I was on the Balkans, and not more than twelve yards from me was a twelve pound battery blazing away like fury, the men stripped off and working away like devils. Along, down in front and beyond the thicket was a perfect blaze of fire, as the Turkish riflemen kept ad vancing and firing, under cover, while in tha valley and on the opposite slope the Turks were moving and firing in the Hame way. It was now broad daylight (3 a. m.) and the Russian fort could be plainly seen, as it bleached forth shot and shell upon the assailants, and their in fantry replied vigorously <ll along their position, doing dreadful work among the advancing Turks ; and tliffy would have hail it all their own way Were it not for the fortnight of Suleiman, who directed our battery to be placed in its oommand jag position. Our fire being so plung ing and direct, necessarily drove the Russian gunners from that side of the fort opposite to the side that engaged us, and the nearest side being unable to sufficiently elevate, LM to endure our cannonade, but revenged themselves as Well as they could upon those showing themselves in the valley. This “sort of thing” went on in the same manner for three dayß and nights, Suleiman continually working his bat teries upward on both sides, covering all new movements from the old positions, till he conceived everything to be com- Slete, when, on the morning of the fourth ay, the valley sounded with the shouts of “ Allah” as the Turks rushed to the assault. Madly they dashed farward, but as heroically were they dashed back. Again and again they sprang forward, only to meet the same fate, our artillery in the meantime, from its commanding position, spreading death everywhere in the Russian batteries and ranks. Finally, Suleiman reluctantly gave the order to desist; he found that the position was inassaitable by storm, and therefore must be taken or turned in some other way. For this purpose he withdrew the in fantry from the main valley to more sheltered quarters in the ravines* and pushed his troops on the heights forward; so as to pas? by and overreach or outflank the Russian position.— Boston I'rai'eltn tetter. The Progress or Turkey. It is thought by many that there has been no progress in Turkey. Without expressing any opinion, we cad state a few facts which, being facts, can not be contradicted. At the time of Suleiman the Magnificent, Turkey was, on the whole, very little, if stall, behind Europe. The horrors of the Inquisition and of St. Bartholomew, the cruelty of Philip 11. and Henry VIII., fully equalled any thing of the sort in Turkey at that time. Since that period Christendom has ad vanced in the arts and sciences beyond Turkey; while the appalling borrors of the French revolution, the commune, the Cuban war, American slavery and the Russian knout, and many other in stances too common, too awful and too recent to be forgotten, have Bhown its i ’ ' T * •X) much of the tiger blood 7 nature to enable us to 'demning Turkish atro {e fighting to preserve •steuce. But granting >' of the Greek revolu "Orpnletflv distanced that time .social changes , most of them iX MA('V.„SS key before it Ferns’*' > „ u ..ristendom, hns mammedans, and a u .J.rminn ,>ey accept any faith he ci !Ai 10 NJi actually protected in it. Sucu ... ..te toleration exists else where only in Great Britain, the United States, and Germany, and one or two of the minor states of Europe. Numerous periodicals have been established in Con stantinople, Smyrna, and elsewhere, and the censorship of the press ii less oppres sive than in France. Numerous works have been printed, and scholars like Achmet Vefik Pasha would be creditaule to any people. Mil itary and medical colleges, and numerous universities and educational institutions, supported by the government or by pri vate enterprises, have been founded, while the circulation of the bible and religious works of every manner of belief is carried on throughout the empire with jierfect freedom. The array and navy are organized and armed entirely upon European modes, with the exception of the irregular soldiery, and many of the officers and members of the government have been educated abroad. The slave trade in women has been practically Abolished, and there is a strong tendency to introduce reforms in the garb and regu lations of the harem itself. And, to crown all, a legislative body has been organized, and Moslem and Christian have been placed on an equality. These and numerous ether reforms have all been accomplished within forty years, and naturally met with opposition from the conservatives, while the brevity of the time that has since elapsed does not allow us yet fully to judge of the possible re sults. But it is only fair to the Turks to allow them credit for the reforms they have attempted to accomplish, and for the fact that if some of these reforms had depended upon the fanaticism of the native Christians, little would have been done in this direction.— S. O. W. Ben jamin in Harper'> Magazine. Sage Maternal Counsels. “ Eliza,” said a fond mother to her offspring on Saturday, as that offspring was about going forth in tow of a young man who worships the very sidewalk she walks, “ Eliza, go to the bread-box and eat a good big crust of bread before you fo out.” “ Why, maw,” replied the lushing girl, “ I dont’t feel the least bit hungry. We’ve only just had tea.” “I know it. but you will be hungrv be fore you get back, and when Adolphus takes you into a restaurant you’ll eat ice cream, and sponge-cake and ham sand wiches, and oysters enough to scare him out of a year’s growth. Ypu silly girls don’t think of this, but we experienced women do. I was once young and giddy myself, and but for sixty-five cents’ worth of maccaroons—a cake for which I have ever since entertained the most profound contempt—your paw would have been a congressman, with an aquiline nose and Hyperion’s curls. Beware how you sit down on the budding flame of Cupid. Of cout>e, Adolphus will spend the money you save him on billards and things, but tha* makes no difference. When he asks you to go in and have some oysters, even if you aie hungry, don’t. Say you do not approve of girls wasting the money of their futurehusbandson idle trifles, when it might be applied toward furnishing a house. Point out that for the eoat of an oyster stew you might purchase a couple ot towels; now that toweling is so cheap, and that a saddle-rock roast is the equiv alent uf a siher fork—plated, of course, but not easily distinguished from solid silver—or a glass sugar bowl. Thisalways takes the young men ; it sets them to thinkingorliouHekeepiugand matrimony; it make? them believe that you are the incarnation of economy, and would make NUMBER 43. an excellent wife ; and an they often ut things which give you a hold oyer them, or are effective before a jury." Elixa treasured up these sagacious counsels of the authoress of her being, and acted upon them with such earnestness and effect that when she came home she was an engaged woman.— Chicago Tribune. A IUKING ROBBERY. Ktpjro. Train an the Vnloa mettle Malt way Captarml l.v Thirteen Waeheil Nra.-lllily-flTfiThoaaiiad IMI - ■ Wold Coin Taken from Iho IxiiffM tkr. The Cheyenne east-bound passenger train was stopped and robbed by thirteen •naked men at Big Springs, Neb. on the night of the 18th. The robbers first took possession of the station at the springs, destroying all the telegraph instruments and compelling the agent to hang out a red light. When the train stopped, the robbers took possession, putting the train and passengers under guard. Theexpress car was broken into, and the Bate robbed of about $76,000. The passengers were also robbed. To delay the train reaching the next station and the alarm beiug given, the fire in the locomotive wna wet down. A freight train overtaking the express, its engine went to Ogallala, from which point a report of the robbery was made. The robbers are believed to have gone north. The railway company offers a reward of $5,000 for the arrest of the thieves. SIXTY THOUSAND DOI.LAR* HOLD OOfN TAKEN. The train arrived at Big Springs about 10 p. m. The express car was entered by naif a dozen masked men with drawn revolvers, who threatened to shoot mes senger Miller, and compelled him to un lock the sate, containing SCO,OOO in gold coin, and succeeded in eweaning with the whole amount. A telegraph operator at the station was compelled to break his instruments to prevent his reporting the occurrence. About a dozen men were in the party. They went northward, but this is believed to be a feint, and it is suspected that tlieir ultimate destina tion is southward. E. Mnrsman, super intendent ol the Union Pacific express, offers SIO,OOO reward for the capture of tbo parties and for .the return of the money. P,o rain, of said reward will be paid for the return of a portion of the money or the capture of any of the men. PARTICULARS OK THE ROBUERY. Big Springs, the station where Uio rob bery of the express train was committed, is a water station one hundred and sixty two miles east of Cheyenne. There are only one or two houses beside the station. The robbers rode to the station in the evening, and took possession of every thing, tearing the telegraph instrument out and throwing it away. A red light was then hung out to stop the train, which readied there about eleven o’clock. Oil the conductor stepping off to see wbat was wanted, he was confronted bv men armed with revolvers, who ordered him to throw up his hands. The engineer and firemen were secured, and a guard placed at the end-coach door. Tho station agent was compelled to knock on the express doer, and, on its Itcing opened for him, the robbers rushed in, overpowering mes senger Miller, and taking possession of the car. They secured $65,000 in coin, and about SSOO in currency, from the express car. Tim through safe, which is stationary and has a combination lock, lltey left undisturbed. It contained a very large sum of money. The passengers in the coaches were then visited, and re lieved of cash and valuables. The plunder taken from the passengers is stated to be SI,BOO in cash, four gold watches, and a ticket to Chicago. One man, named Morris, lost a gold watch and S4BO in money. The arrival of a freight train evidently interfered with their plans; for, after putting out the fire in the loco motive of the express, they mounted and rode away without disturbing the oc cupants of the slceping-car. The Union Pacific railway company offer a reward of SIO,OOO for the arrest of the thieves and the recovery of the money, a pro rota of reward t he paid for the recovery, and a portion of the money for the capture of any of the robbers. The sheriffs of the surrounding counties and the commanding officers of military posts throughout, Nebraska and Wyoming, and along the Union Pacific railway, have been notified of the robbery, and’every thing possible will be done to effect arrests. Light TB. Bacteria. Messrs. Downes and Blunt have i>een engaged for some time in investigations upon the influence of light upon the development of bacteria, as bearing more particularly upon the researches of the late papers of Tyndall, Bastian, and others. Among the provisional condu sions reached by them were that light is inimical to the development of bacteria, and that, under favorable conditions, it may prevent it entirely, or at least re tard it. The direct insulation, however, is necessary for the production of the full effect of th<' light. The conditions tend ing to neutralize the action of light are the same as are known to favor tne pro cess of fermentation and putrefaction, but the fitness of the solution to serve as a nidus is not destroyed by insulation. The anthors claim, as their discovery, that light is absolutely inimical to the production of bacteria.-- Harper’s Weekly. Temper. A cheerful temper in a house is like perpetual sunshine, gladdening and en livening every one, in the presence of which you forget your troubles and would be ashamed to remember your annoyance; but a bad temper spoils everything. OfTense taken at airy noth ings, impatience under unavoidable wor ries, mail things/ made into great ones by the magni ying powers of suspicion, sullenness, irritability, ill-bumor—who can say that all this has no irfluenoe? You might as well deny the stinging power of a midge or the penetrating quality of dust as deny the depressing effect of ill-humer wherever it is found, and the corresponding good influence of sweet temper. Also, tne imitation of either the one or the other, as it may 1 chance which rules, is very sure to break out in the yonnger and weaker of the family PAm ASI FAM'I EM. ■r Urn. Whtt aiskks tail mM m 4rw tM l t Wiij tm I a**vr, mw (M ? WMt |. Ii 4rls oh Msrlr at4f Mr Mr! Wk? M I MnH u 4 Mb u 4 4th, 'M vtah. ik! wlsk that I nlfkt 41* * Why would I pswi from anh, O, fit T Mr it wi Wkai |> It O. rnj health doth nu- j ThM COMM la farm ol roof k |U wbtaaa ; Thun aukn me think Pre RrishC. dfcaaaat Mj Itrar f Whenm is this •small* in my hand f Wn an mjF pul-™ slmu-t .tm ? " l>r doth nr sunscii Ini Ilk* Im4 T Mr 11 nr 1 Whsl Disks ms ai|n rsrkrw, And tMickwhpftt c*km *nri nine* pl*\ too. And er'rj thin* that's nlc*; hoot My Utw! What is it, day and night inUnt And •T'pjf ton of derllinant, IKth ail the ilia to me present ? Mr liver! HKan freer*# At all time* confidence and truth are better preventive* o jealousy than oon cealment. Measure not men by Sundays, with out regarding what they do all the week after. Thf. origin of half the “ first loves ” of young hearts is Ignorance, and their death blow experience. Fashion is very weil while one is young and in health ; but of what use is it in old agt,-nnd sickness. Thebe is but one worse reception of a compliment than a calm silence, and that is to request its repetition. Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as tfley say. One of the most popular eating houses in Japan is owned by a woman, and.has accommodations lor two thousand customers at once.. The " bill of fare ” includes about tweuty different dishes. No meat is served, but fowls are cooked in various waya. Tbe restaurant looks most attractive at night, when tbe rows of lanterns under the eaves, and the illuminations of the whole building show ing through panes of colored glass, present a very gay appearance. The l,ondon Lancet calls attention to Die danger there ia of the spread of infectious diseases by means of laundries. A visit to tiie homes of several washer women revealed many painful facte. In one instance, where sinail-pox was in the house,blankets were washed and returned to a gentleman’s house, aud table cloths and napkins to the keeper of a restau rant. “ Thus," remarks the Lancet. “ even at our meals, if we escape being )K>isoned by our cink, we may catch small-pox from the table linen." While the emperors of Germany and Austria were visiting at Itclii, a lady desired to present the former with a costly bouquet, but her courage failed her at the last moment, and she begged an oflicnr in Prussian uniform to perform the office for her. He at once complied, gave Emperor William the present, and returned to express his majesty’s thanks to the fair donor, who was rather sur prineW to net thin Piumivti BUIIT ofDuor enter the emperor's carriage and take a seat beside him. On asking who he was, she discovered that it was the emperor of Austria in Prussian uniform. It would conduce greatly to the comlort of citizens generally if our muni cipal government could in some respects imitate that of some foreign cities. A visitor in Paris thus writes: “There •re no drunkards here. Rum and rum shops in New York are the principal causes of crime, filling our prisons and poor-houses, and adding ten-folds to our taxes. We have been in Paris three weeks, and have not seen a man drunk, or even under the influence of liquor; we have not met a beggar or a tramp. Beggars and tramps are taken care of by the government, and will be in the United States when they have been endured long enough. Very little strong liquor is drunk here, except by lor eigneis. The people drink the light French wine; it satisfies, and create* no tnorbid appetite for more.” Plevna. A correspondent who waa present at the battle of Plevna, telegraphing from Bucharest, Sept. 17, says: The Russian-Roumanian army haa abandoned uow even a pretence of pros ecuting the attempt against Plevna, and fallen back into poaitionsoccupied before the commencement of the bombardment. The field artillery still remains in some of the positions of the bombardment. It is announced that a third renewal is in tended on the arrival of the imperial guard in a fortnight. I have great doubt whether another attempt will be made, and very much stronger doubt if it can be made to succeed. The Turks are bet ter soldieis individually than the Rus sians. Of that, after seeing not a few battles, I stand assured. The strategy ol both, perhaps, is equally bad, but as re gards both major and minor tactics, the Turks are simply immeasurably supe rior. They are Detter armed than the Russians, both in great and small ama- They have engineers who can design admirable defensive positions. Russian engineers seem incapable of repairing a a hole in a bridge. The Turks seem as well provisioned as the Russians, and are flushed with success. The Russians are depressed by failure after failure, nor is this all that impairs the Rus sian soldiers’ dash that is becoming im paired. My reluctant personal observa tion of war can testify that there is no braver man than the Russian soldier, but a brave soldier cannot continually face more than fair chances of war. The Russian is called on to face these, and dangers in addition, which appeal with infinitely greater intensity of horror to his imagination. He knows if he but receives a bullet in the ankle joint, when he is in front of an unsuccessful attack, the chances are that he will die the death of torture, humiliation and mutilation. No moral courage, no mental hardihood can stand against this horrible conscious ness, and in the attack of the 11th inst.. I distinctly observed his reluctance to begin the storming. The Pacific Mammoth CaTe. We learn that the immense under ground recess recently discovered in Jo sephine county has been more thoroughly explored. It has been found to be over five miles in extent, and tbe exploration is not yet completed. The stalacite for mation overhead is said to be unique, being similar to that in other caves of 1 which more is known. A party will i shortly make a thorough investigation of this mammoth cave. -JarktoneiUt (Ore ' yon) Sentinel. Sora frequent the Virginia marshes about first Beptembrr, and leave about the time of frost. Nearly ail of those offered in the market are killed with l | addles at night.