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Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and
Carolina have all cut and housed
fine tobacco crops.
Eight hundred bales of tobacco were
brought to Key West from Havana by
one steamer recently.
The State tax of Florida is to be re
duced this year two mills on the dollar,
an aggregate reduction of SBO,OOO.
A Nashville colored preacher is suing
a member of his church for the payment
ol a subscription to the pastor’s salary.
N. P. Overton (white) and Noah Tay
lor (colored) are to be hung at Washing*
ton. N. C, November 2, lor the murder
of Grimes in 1874.
In the years 1876-’77, the State of
North Carolina produced 125,000 bushels
of peanuts; Virginia, 180 bushels ; and
Tennessee, 500,000 bushels.
It would be interesting to know how
many cetton-gins are burned in the south
every year. Nearly every paper from
the cotton section records one or more
such fires.
Petersburg, Va., has 180 Moflfet reg
isters, which show that that city took
between September 27th aud October
10th 35 354 alcoholic potations—tax,
$858,85; malt, 10,753 —tax, $54 27.
Raleigh (N. C.) News: Since the mil
itary display at tho fair grounds this
week, the adjutant general has received
applications for the organization of five
new companies at different points in the
Rev. Wallace Duncan, professor in
IV oitsrd College, 8. C., has declined the
presidency of Itandolph-Macon college,
Va., made vacant by the recent death of
bis distinguished brother, Dr. James A.
Duncan.
The Richmond Enquirer notes this
“ remarkable ” occurrence: A member
of the legislature for the session of 1874-
75 yesterday drew #IOO, which was due
him on account of his pay. This balance
has Btood to his credit' ever Bince the
adjournment, of the legislature at the
session of ’75.
San Antonio, Tex., has a society of
Free thinkers, and a dispatch from there
to the Galveston News says a hand of
titty Christian kuklux took a leading
Free Thinker of Bell county out the
other night, hit him fifty lashes and gave
notice if there were any more infidel lec
tures in that county somebody would
hang.
A short time ngo a school girl died in
Macon, Ga., and a number of her com
panions made ill by eating icc cream that
had stood over night. Now eight more
Persons have been made ill from the same
cause. Poison was suspected, but Dr.
Mettaur states that similar results are
likely to follow from eating anything in
an incipient stnte of fermentation.
New Orleans Democrat: A few more
such cool days as the three last will
groatly Improve the prospects of our
sugar planters and enable them to com
mence gringing their heavy crop of too
green cane so ns to make the juice gran
ulate into sugar. The few attempts
made last week failed to produce. Not
in the memory of the oldest planter was
♦he cane ever known to be so green so
late in the season.
Savannah News: There were in port
yesterday thirty-seven vessels, of which
four were steamships, nine ships, seven
teen barks, three brigs and four schooners.
Eleven of these were under the flag of
the United States, thirteen that of Great
Britain, seven of Germany, two of Spain,
two of Norway and hue of Sweden.
Fonrten of them were loading for Liver
pool, two for Havre, four for the United
Kingdom, two for Antwerp, five for ports
in Europe, and the remainder for coast
wise ports, ready for loading.
A meeting of colored people was held
in Key West last, week, the object of
which was to “morally and materially
sustain Rev. H. 11. Garnet in hisphilan
thropical design ol making an appeal to
the. United States of America to exert
all its influence and intervention toward
the government of Spain, to incline the
mind of tho latter to decree at once and
forever the freedom of three hundred
thousand of our brothers who are now
suffering under the most horrid servitude
in the island of Cuba.”
All Sorts.
The Mecanitile library of New York
uow contains nearly 175,000 volumes.
The New York Herald has been mulct
in SIO,OOO for a libel contained as a
“personal” that charged blackmail on
Mrs. Phoebe Robertson, a boardinghouse
keeper. An appeal was taken.
The amount of tax paid on men
servants in England in 1876-7 shows
that their number has been reduced by
42,000 —a proof of hard times.
A deposit of tine white marble with
amber-colored veins has been discovered
at Tehachepa, Kem county, California.
It is said to be identical with tne ancient
yellow marble of Italy, which is highly
prized by antiquarians,' but the original
source of which has been for centuries
unknown.
Switzerland has several renowned
watch schools, where the old-fashioned
system of watchmaking was taught to
inquiring minds. These schools are,
however, rapidly fading in repute, as ma
chinery of American invention has gen
erally superceded the old process.
A patent has been obtained for the
preparation of maize leaf, as a substitute
for tobacco. It is said to be of anti-ner
vous effect, and to be a very pleasant
tonic to the system. It is "sweet and
pungent.
A refrigerator car, so arranged that
thirty carcasses can be hung up, as in
shambles, and kept at a few degrees
above freezing point, has heen sent by
same Nevada cattle dealers to Chicago
ss an experiment. If it is successful, the
Healers will ship meat further east, this
fall and winter.
The new archbishop of Baltimore,
James Gibbons, is but 43 years of age,
and the youngest archbishop in the Uni
te! States. Bishop Gibbons was trans
ferred from North Carolina, where he
was vicar apostolic, to succeed the late
Bishop McGill as the fourth bishop of
Richmond on the 20th of October, 1872.
He was then 38 years of age, and the
voungest eoelesias't iu the United States
wearing the mitre.
THE ELLIJAY COURIER.
VOLUME 11.
Kerosene, benzine, naphtha, etc, are
all products of distillation of petroleum.
When petroleum is heated in the retort,
the lighter oils, such as gasoline and
naphtha, distil over first, and are con
densed in pipes surrounded by cold
water. At a higher temperature oils of
greater specific gravity (heavier) such as
liaphtha, benzine, etc., come over; as the
temperature increases, kerosene distils.
The residue in the retort contains tar,
paraffin, and lubricating oils.
The re as in why Saxe-Holm disowns
herself has been discovered by the Spring
field Republican. She wrote in one of
her stories : “ Women have a perpetual
craving to be recognized, to be admired;
and a large part of their ceaseless chat
ter is no more or loss than a surface de
vice to call your attention to them, as
little ch'ldrea continually pull their
gown t<# make you look at them.” The
author ot this statement may well seek
to preserve her incognito.
It has often been a cause of surprise
that so manv Jewish synagogues in New
York and other cities should be without
ministers. But an advertisement in an
exchange throws somo light on this mat
ter. A congregation in Dea Moines,
lowa, want “ a gentleman capable to
officiate in the capacities of lecturer,
chazan, teacher, schochet, and Mohel,
and to conduct services according to the
Minliig America.” And for this service,
of at. least three men they offer the lib
eral salary of SSOO a year—leas than $lO
a week.
Public opinion in London is strongly
in favor of the Turks. At the music
hall and other places where war sougs
form part of the nightly programme, the
Russian anthem is invariably hissed, nnd
the czar’s flag howled at, while the cres
cent and the star como in for an enor
mouß amount et cheering, and the Turk
ish national hymn is npplauded to the
echo. Most ot the music nail proprietors
have started subscription lists in aid of
the Turkish compassionate fund. Al
ready, although the lists have only heon
put up a few days, a considerable sum of
money has been collected.
ItclKlons.
Holy water from the fountain at Lour
des is advertised for sale in Berlin.
Amadeus, ex-king of Spnin, has written
to the pope that ho has resolved, in con
sequence of the death of his wife, a gentle
and lovely lady, whose loss he greatly
feels, to take holy orders and enter a
cloister.
The rapidity with which the Germans
adopt every improvement in means and
methods of warfaro is shown by the fact
that all tho guns carried by the ships ol
the German navy, or mounted in the
fortifications on the shores of Germany,
are breech-londing rifled ordinance.
Mr. Robert Cross, in a report to the
British government upon the India
rubber trees of South nnd Control
America, asserts that the most favorable
conditions exist for raising them In
various parts of southern India, and
especially in the low grouuds of tlie
region around Mndras. India-rubber
trees thrive best in the hottest climates.
News from Japan announces the birth
of an imperial prince. The Mikado,
according to traditional law, has twelve
wives besides the legitimate empress.
To one of these “subordinate mothers”
the new prince belongs. The object of
this polygamic system is to provide lor
the contingencies of non-succession.
Dom Pedro, emperor of Brazil, is again
at home, after an absence of a year and a
half. He is the only potentate in the
world’s history who lias absented himself
from his country for so long a period
purely for persona! relaxation aud enjoy
ment. During his absence no political
troubles have occurred, and he resumes
the hoadship of his government with the
universal respect ol his people.
Mr. W. T. Harris said in his address
at the Massachusetts state normal school:
“ It is in education as in other depart
ments of the business of civil society. In
the long run, skill, preparation nnd brains
will tell. The professional teacher will,
after nwhile, furnish the only standard,
and the make shift teacher will be valued
and remunerated like the make-shift
shoemakeror mechanic,lawyer or doctor.”
Few persons know that there is such a
church as the Congregational Methodist
church in this country. There is such an
organization, however, nnd it is said to
have 10,000 members. A newspaper is
published in its interest at Cave Spring.
Ga. The doctrines and usages of this
church are Methodist; its polity is Con
gregational, under a general conference,
which prescribes uniform rules for the
whole body.
llnniiifftN Interests.
The finest crop of raisins ever produced
in California is promised this fall.
Within ten years tobacco culture has
become a most important industry in
Pennsylvania.
There are over eight hundred Chinese
laundries in New York city, giving em
ployment to about 4,000 persons.
The total number of coal mines in
England and Wales is 2,088, with an
annual rental of £3,393,690.
It is estimated that the wheat crop o
Ohio this season will be worth $120,000,
000, and hay $20,000,000.
Over 1,000,000 gallons of petroleum oil
are daily exported from New York. The
aggregate exports this year are 121,000,-
000, against 84,000,000 gallons last year.
The world’s annual production of sugar
; aggregates 2,150,000 tons of cane sugar.
: 1,320 000 tons of beet-root sugar, 150,000
tons of date sugar, 20,000 tons of manle
sugar and 20,000 tons of sorghum sugar.
The cotton manufactures of the world
ruD a total of 65,000,000 cotton spindles,
and spin 2,676,000 pounds of cotton
annually. Of the spindles, 35,000,000,
or more than one-half, are operated in
England.
California’s wool growth is becoming
one of her greatest industries, the ex
ports last year having been over 50.000,-
1 000 pounds, worth $8,000,000. There
are several wool growers who own from
i 30,000 to 40,000 sheep each.
During the year of 1876 the sugar ex
portation from this country amounted to
•wer 73,000,000 pounds, on which the
drawback trader the law of 1875 was
$2,009,876. The sugars thus sent abroad
; were mostly of the higher grndes.
“ Error Ceases to be Dangerous When Reason is Left Free to Combat It."—Jefferson.
ELLIJAY, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER sl, 1577.
It is estimated that 20.000 oil well*
have thus far hern dug in Pennsylvania
and West Virginia, at an aggregate coat
of $192,000,000. They have yielded
about 88,000,000 barrels of oil, valued at
the wells at $300,000,000, or $400,000,-
000 at the seaboard.
In addition to the home production,
opium is imported into China to the
annual value of over $40,000,000, prin
c.pally from British India. More than
$1,000,000 worth ia annually imported
into California for the use of the Chinese
in that state.
The bullion product cf the Pacific
coast mines (or the past eight months,
according to the tally kept uy the San
Francisco Bulletin, has been as follows:
January, 15 mines 13,106,000
February, 16 mines 2,635,500
March, 10 mines 3,683,000
April. 10 mines .'1,060,000
May, 21 mines 4,105,000
June, 2t mines 4,121,800
July, 24 mines 3,054,000
August, 29 mines 4,377,100
Total $30,251,300
There are some seven hundred carpet
making establishments in the United
States which, in prosperous times, furnish
employment to between 160,000 and
200,000 operatives—men, women and
children. Thirteen million dollars is in
vested in the business, which includes
buildings and machinery, while $4,700,-
000 is expended yearly for wages. The
annual production is valued at between
$22,000,000 and $24,000,000. Philadel
phia represents three fourths ol the busi
ness, ami the other fourth is divided up
in different manufacturing cities of New
England, the two most prominently con
nected with carpet manufacturing being
Hartford, Connecticut, and Lowell,
Massachusetts.
FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
THE SENATE.
1 n the sennte, on tho 23d, hills intro
duced and referred—To equalize the
bounties of soldiers who served in the
late war for tho union. Amending the
revised statutes of the United States In
regard to the militia. To provide a law
ful note and coin currency for the United
States. To authorize a long bond for
tho investment of savings. To enable
the Indians to become citizans of the
United States. Adjourned till Thurs
day,
In tbo senate, on the 25th, Senator
Conkliug presented a petition from the
citizens of New York against tho repeal
of tho bankrupt law, and praying that it
bo amended. Referred. Senator Mitchell
submitted a resolution authorizing tho
committee on privileges ami elections
in the cases of Messrs. Kellogg nnd Hpof
ford, claiming seats from Ismisiana, to
send for persons and papers, and admin
ister oaths, that the committee may
decide upon the merits of tho title of
ench contestant. Senator Kerimn, by
request, Introduced a bill re-establishing
the court of commissioners on the Ala
bama clsiins, and for a re-distribution of
the unappropriated moneys. A number
of unimportant bills were introduced,
nnd the Benate adjourned until Monday.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
In the house, on the 24th, after read
ing the journal, consideration of the
Colorado case was resumed, and Mr.
] farrison made an address advocating Mr.
Patterson’s right to the seat. Mr. Gar
field supported Mr. llelford ns having a
prlma facie right, and after further dis
cussion, without action, adjourned.
In the house, on the 25th, Mr. Mills,
of Texas, spoke on the Colorado case.
He held that neither Be!ford nor Patter
son presented a primn facie case, and that
their seats should be declared vncant.
Life Among' the Lowly.
The Selma Times gives the following
interesting information in regard to the
domestic economy of the negroes:
It has often been n matter of wonder
to many people how so many idle negroes
subsist about this city.
We have an old negro man who visits
our premises once a”week and performs a
small job for which we pay a quarter.
We had the curiosty to interview him
the other day as to his finances and sub
sistence.
“How are you getting on, Uncle
Aleck?” said we.
“ Ah, thank God, 1 make out to get
’nuff to eat," said Aleck, "Sum days I
make a quarter, some days more or less
and some days nuflin. But indurin’ the
week I gets ’miff to buy ’visions for me
und de ole ’omun.”
“Well, Uncle Aleck, how much pro
visions do you buy, tell me exacily. I
want to make calculation ?”
Aleck then gave the following items as
his weekly purchase for himself and Wife:
rent®.
Onehulf pork m) 10
One und one-hnlf pounds must lo
Onor ,nt °f noliwv 12J4
Ono (found MUfitir
One-naif |>ound 10
Uoftbe lO}**
Total 81^
I asked him if he had plenty. “ O la,
yes, roassa; my wife is a good cook. I
tell you, sail, she is a good cook. She
used to cook for ole miss in slavery time,
and we has a good table. I tell you, sah,
we lives as well as most colored people I
j knows of; as good—well, as der hack
drivers. We have ‘ greens’ from our
garden, and sometimes I eats dc gravy
and leaves all de meat for the ole ’ouiau.’
And this is the way the darkies iive—
by doing little jobs. A small amount of
cheap meat and bread will subsist them—
many times some of them have bread
alone. Many idle men, who do little
jobs, or follow politics, are supported
mainly by their wives at the wash-tub.
It would astonish anyone to count up
■ the money paid out every week for wash
i ing. Washing, cooking, and nursing
; babies support a large portion of the
‘ negro population of Selma.
III.BMKD ABB THKT THAT MOCIR,
O, derm out thee art bleat al<X>*
warn* llTct • (—ratal tenor hp;
Tbo Power who pUM wo baa ahow n
A hlrmlna far the trra I bat wrap.
Tb* lUbt of rallar .hull ail aaMa
Tba IIS. that oration with Man;
And m ty boara ol *aa and pain
An prvmlm of happier jroan.
Ttarr* la a day of lunny rapt
For every dark and troubtrd night;
And *rlef mar bids an arnn nan,
But Joy thaU c-oma *l:h enrly light.
And thou, who, o’er thy trtond’a low Mar,
Shaddrat tba biltrr drops llksrain,
Hope that a hrlgtrr, happier aph*n
will glrc him to thy araie again.
Nor lot tht good man's trust draart,
Though lire It. common tlludmy—
Though with a plaroad and bloating haart,
And apurnol ol man ba fort to die.
For Mod hath marksd eaoh sonisrlng day
And numbrrad awry arrrot War,
And hanrrn's long ago ot hilaa Mill pay
For all hit children atifl'ar hard
SCIENCE ANI> INDtjkj’ltY.
Spectra of the nebula.— lt is well
known that, before the announcement of
the discovery of bright linos in the spectra
of nebula), it waa generally, if not uni
versally, accepted as a fact that nebulie
were merely stellar clusters, Irresolvable
on account of their great distances.
According to Prof. Stone, one cf the
most eminent English astronomers, the
discovery in question instead of being in
consistent with the view formerly held
by astronomers, is rather oonfirmatury of
the correctness of that view, on tho fol
lowing grounds: The Bun is known to be
surrounded by a gaseous envelope of very
considerable extent. Similar envelopes
muHt surround the stars generally. Con
ceive n close stellar cluster. Each star,
if isolated, would be surroundod by its
own gaseous envelope, nnd these gaseous
envelopes might, in the case of a cluster,
form over the whole, or a part of the
cluster, a continuous mass of gas. So
long, therefore, as such a cluster was
within a certain distance from us, the
light from the Btellar masses would pre
dominate over that of the gaseous envel
opes; the spectrum would therefore be
an ordinary stellar spectrum. Supposing
such a cluster to be removed farther and
further from us, the light from each star
would be diminished in the proportion
of the inverse square of the distanoe; but
such would not be the case with the light
from the enveloping surface formed by
the gaseous envelopes.
The light from this envelope, receTvTii
on a slit in the focus of an object glass,
would bo sensibly constant, because the
contributing area would be ?iMrswd in
the same proportion that the light re
ceived from each part is diminished ; the
result would be that, at some definite
distance, nnd nil great distances, the pre
ponderating light received from such a
cluster would be derived from the gase
ous envelopes and not from the isolated
stellar masses. The spectrum of the
cluster would therefore become a linear
one, like that from the gaseous surround
ings of our own sum.
Improvements in aeronautics.— ln
respect to the gus balloon, uno of the
most important Improvements ia due to
the Ingenuity of M. Jobert, his plan
being to construct one side of the gas
holder ot white, and the other of black
stuff, since it is easy to turn the balloon
about its vertical axis by moans of a
small propeller, so as to keep either the
black side or the white side always facing
the sun, and thus, by the heating or
cooling, make the balloon cither to ascend
or descend to an extent depending upon
the difference in the reflecting or absorb
ing power of the two salves ol the balloon.
By this means, it is thought, the vertical
movements of the balloon may be con
trolled to a sufficient extent to render its
applications in meteorology of much im
portance. Numerous prominent aero
nauts have warmly advocated, of late,
the use of the hot-air balloon.
The Chinamen who have for five years
been in the employ of Sampson, the
North Adams shoe manufacturer, are
now out of work through his suspension
of business. They are preparing to re
turn to China, although muny of them
have become pretty thoroughly Ameri
canized, and have joined Christian
churches.
Mr. Robert Cross, in a report to the
British government upon the india-rub
ber trees of South and Central America,
asserts that the most favorable conditions
exist for raising them in various parts of
Southern India, and especially in the
low grounds of the region around Madras.
India-rubber trees thrive best in the hot
test climates.
Russia’s Financial Condition.
All recognize that for the moment
peace is impossible. Russia cannot re
tire from the contest until she has ac
complished something—until aha baa re
alized at least part of the progamme with
which she began the struggle.
Meanwhile her difficulties are increas
ing. The balance Blieet of the state bank
for .September 24th shows that the bank
has been again making advances to the
treasury. At that date the debt of the
treasury to the bank amousted to 117,-
259,105 roubles. This seems to show that
the money received from the second in
stallment of the eastern lean is already
spent. Whatever may be the cause, the
consequence is that the biuk has been
compelled to issue more ?a|>er money,
I and this stop haa naturally had an un
favorable influence on the foreign ex
change. It is interesting for the political
economist to observe how the issue of
paper money and the consequent fnll in
the rate of exchange influence prices.
The influence became, of course, at first
apparent in foreign articles, such as
wines, silks and the like. As the im
porters had to pay their foreign creditors
and the customhouse duoe in gold, they
had to raise the prices of articles im
ported. This did not immediately affect
articles of home production, but now the
influence is extending to them. The low
rote of exchange hue raised the nomina’
price of grain, because exporters are paid
in gold, and the price ot grain in Russia
is determined by the foreign markets.
As soon as grain, the first necessary of
life, rises in price, everything else must
do so likewise.— lx>ndon Time a.
Autumnal Tints.
It is very curious to observe the reg
ularity with which we are told in the
autumn that “ the first frost will change
the color of the leaves,” whereas the frost
has nothing to do with the change. It
has, indeed, sometimes happened in New
England that tho ioilage has chanced, as
if by magic, in a single night, so that,
upon lookiug out of the window in the
morning, the eye was surprised with
the spectacle of the world wellnigh on
fire; and since this transformation too*
place in connection with the mercury at
a low point, tho whole affair is referred
to the agency of Jack Frost. But why
not refer to this prestidigitator the grow
ing tints of the applo, the rich crimson
ol the velvet peach, and the purple of
the plum ? Many years ngo this error was
pointed out by an eminent botanist, who
showed that tho gorgerous color of the
autumn leaf camo in tho regular process of
ripening; and, though botany is generally
studied in schools, tho old notion comes
back with the beavers every yenr, allow
ing that error, in common with truth,
especially when supported by the vox
populi, will “rise again,” however de
servedly crushed to earth.
Leaves find their parallel in man, ns
already observed, and, like the human
species, they may ripen suddenly. If,
however, any one chooses to make a
mystery of tho intensity of the autumnal
colors, there should he no great difficulty
in explaining the variety. Indeed, the
apparent superiority ovor.the strength
of color in the foliage on the continent
of Europe ,may be attributed chiefly to
this variety. In Great Britain the
climate is evidently unfavorable to the
production of bright forest-tones, but in
parts of Germany the brillancy of certain
kinds of leaves is quite equal to that of
the corresponding varieties in North
America. At the same time Lhe greens
of Europe are q rite different from those
of our own land, where, beginning with
a burnt green in the south, wo pass north
ward along the Atlantic seaboard, reach
ing tho truo green of ‘.lie greatest of the
hay-producing states, the state of Maine.
Every one has noticed the unparalleled
green of the “ Emora’d Isle,” which be
comes a pale sea-green in Scotland, a
whitish green In the south of England
nnd Franco—only to change to an ashen
green in Germany, and a sober olive in
the Italian states.
But wo were remarking upon the var
iety of the autumnal tints in our own
country. This is explained by the fact
that, while in Europe there are enly
forty trees that attain to a height of
thirty feet, in north America there are
no less than one hundred and forty--
lienee our forests flash like the plane-tree
that “ the Persian adorned with his man
tles and jewels.”— Appleton*’ Journal.
A Highly Homan! ic Story from
Jennie June.
It is not often that fate blesses a man
with such entire completeness as hap
pened in the case of a New York jour
nalist a few months ago. He was a fine
looking fellow, handsome and distin
guished, with just that soupcon of Ho
hemianism in his appearance, that takes
with women. On a certain fortunate
morning he was sent to report the open
ing or something or other of a railroad,
whose president was a man of very large
fortune, and whose wife, much younger
than himself and very beautiful, was
among the most conspicuous of the
guests Our journalist, not troubled
with bashfulness, was presented; nat
urally, as journalists always do, he made
himself agreeable. The lady was
pleased, the attraction, to a certain ex
tent, was mutual, and by a singular
stroke wbich must have come from the
hand of destiny itself, the railroad mag
nate shortly after died, leaving his
young and fair widow to mourn and be
comforted. Our journalist though he
could do no less under the circumstances
than write a letter of condolence,
which was answered by a little note in
timating that after the lapse of a proper
time the lady would be pleased to have
him call. He did call, more than once,
and, fifteen months after the death of the
husband, proposed to the widow, was ac
cepted, and the two were married. What
is a little singular about the affair is, that
he never inquired the amount of the
lady’s fortune, Ad was considerably as-
NUMBER 19.
tonished on the dsy of the wedding to '
l*e presented with securities representing
91,700,1*00 in value. This amount the
lady desired to endow him with and
1 make his own by right, but the gallant
; young journalist absolutely refused to
j accept it. lie wouldn’t even go shares.
He instisted that the whole should be
I settled upon herself, and would consent
1 only to be the diaburser of the moneys
expended for their joint use and benefit.
The happy pair sailed lor Europe, and a
letter received from him the other day
from Vevay, in Switzerland, contained
the declaration that lie was the “ hap
piest dog alivethat his wife was the
best and most charming woman in the
world, and Vevay tho most enchanting
spot in the universe.
AN ANTEDILUVIAN JOBBER.
AVOfK,
Discovery l n Monster C'ontnlnlug
the Remit Ins or • Human Being.
Mr. Henry Woodard owns a stock I
ranch in the Indian territory, in that
Peoria nation, on which is situated the
big sulphur spring. The spring ia aur
rounded by a quagmire, which is vory
deep and “slushy," and so soft that it
will not bear any considerable weigiit.
Mr. W. lately undertook to curb up the
spring in order to get water more easily,
and while working in the mire came up
on what appeared to )>e an enormous
bone. Ho at once began an examination,
which dieclosed the startling fact that it
was the head of some mammoth beast.
His curiosity was aroused, and, with tho
assistance of three other men, he began
the work of excavation. Tor four days
they worked, but did not succeed in
bringing the monster to the surface.
They threw off the marl, but could not
lift tho head of this golilic giant. They
found tho skeleton well preserved and the
immense teeth still in the jaws. The
jaws were both in place, and the spinal
column attached to the cranium. The
earth was thrown ofT from tho body to the
length of twenty leet, but still the
gigantic skeleton remained beneath.
Three of the front ribs were lorced out,
and proved by measurement to he each
eight feet in length. The dirt was re
moved from the inside of the osseous
structure, and there lay the skeleton of a
human being, with one hundred and two
flint arrow points and fifteen flint knives.
The cranium indicated that it was the
skeleton of an Imlinn. It would have
been impossible for the man to have been
inside the animal without having been
swallowed by him, and his theory is
substantiated by tho fact that the bonatt
of his right side of the skeleton were
broken and mashed apparently by forca.
The monster, therefore, must have been
carnirerous, wiiich is also proven by the
teeth, which exhibit the marked char
acteristics, of a flesh-eating beast. A
largo molar and two incisors, taken from
the upper jaw, were exhibited to us at
our office yesterduy, the largest one
weighing eight pounds and measuring
eight by four inches in size. There are
two large molars and two blunt tusks on
each side of the jaw; the teeth between
tho molars and the tunics aie incisors,
linving from two to six points and Cor
responding prongs to each tooth. In
front of the tusks the teeth are similar to
those of most carniverous animals In
shape. All the bones indicate that they
have lain buried for an incredibly long
jwriod, as they crumble rapidly when
brought in contact with the atmosphere.
Every circumstance goes to show that
these are the largest animal remains evtr
resurrected, and the teeth, tusks and
structure of the head and jaws prove un
mistakably that itwaßof the carniverous
class.— Carthage. ( Ma. ) Patriot.
.. Avery pathetic description o( the
perils of life in the Black hills is given
in the following extract from the letter
of a miner there to his brother living in
in Nevada: “I’ve been spending
the last week in trying to think
of some plan which will enable me
to got home. If I only had (60) I could
get to Cheyenne, and then it would he
easy sailing into civilization. If you
send the money by express the Indians
are sure to get it, ns they split open a
Wells-Fargo coach every few days. ll'
you send it by mail I wouldn’t got it for
months, as the postmaster is off on a big
drunk most of the time, and can’t read,
auyhow. Don’t send a draft on the
bank, as it is liable to bust. If you have
some friend coming to the hills, don't
trust him with the cash, as he is sure to
gamble it all off at Cheyenne or get
robbed at Custer. If you can think of
some way of sending the money that it
will be sure to get here, s;nd it right
away: but unless you are sure don’t risk
it. Perhaps you had better come your
self and bring it.” The brother wrote
in reply: “ Just borrowed sl2 to settle
a board bill.”
Cannibalism in Persia.
The plain was treeless and desolate in
the extreme. We saw several dry
skeletons of travelers who had died on
the roadside aud been left to sot like
animals. We passed a small walled
village, where people had cateu all their
children in September, 1870. All the
men who bad the means bad left the
place, leaving only the women and
children, and the mothcis stole and ate
one another’s babes to save themselves
from perishing.— Captain Marsh.
(IRAVK AND tiAIT.
. New Often* I* built upon • tarsal •t
cypress tree*. For six hundred feet
'town this la the foundation 1 Row* upon
row* of the (tumps of the cypresa are
found growing over each other, superim
posed, each of which layers it la calcu
lated ha* required a thouaand year* to
form.
.. American hnmor keep* bubbling up
all over the country. It i* not by any
mcar.3 confined to the paragraphUts. For
iuatance, at Auburn, Ind., the other day,
“ a* Mr. Aalt and wife were walking on
the street, William Sjuire was on the
opposite aide carrying a shot gun, and
playfully pointed it at them, saying,
* Your money or your life!’ Tho gun
went off. instantly killing Mn. Ault, and
filling Mr. Ault’a head full of buckahot,
the effects of which will also prove fatal.
Squire thought the gun was not loaded."
.. Uncle Jessie Lyon married a second
wile the third day after the funeral of
the first, whereat the neighbors serenaded
him with tin-pana, horse-fiddles and yells,
to signify their indignation. Uncle
Jessie stood it ns long as ha could, and
then went forth and spoke thus: " Boys,
If you care nothing for the joys of a
bridegroom, I think you ought to reaect
the feelings of a widower, the late partner
of whoee bosom ia yet hardly cold in her
grave I" The boy* were stunned, and
silently departed.
.. This tremendous piece of informa
tion comes from the New York Home
| Journal: “ There may be circumstances
I when a gentleman' may lift bis hat to a
passing lady, even though he oan not
bow to her. Hhe may be offended with
him, and yet he may respect and feel
kindly to her. He may deserve her dis
regard, and it is permitted him to express
his continued reverence by unoovering
his head in her presence; but he has no
right to look at her as she paasss him.
He must drop his eyes."
. .Prayer is too pure and holy an ordi
nance ta bo made the tool of supernatur
alists. It is the simplest and most nat
ural law within the graap of weak
humanity, and the benefits it confers are
inestimable ; but it never spreads a table,
pays a debt, builds a church, or sustains
an orphan asylum. It can nourish the
spiritual system with its invisible food
until the recipient ifl enabled to make a
long journey in the desert of life upon
the strength received therefrom, but it
will never make the sun less intense, ner
remove the burning sand. It is the only
way by which the finite may approach
the infinite and commune with the un
seen, and it is nothing less than desecra
tion to endow it with tho powers of mate
rial jugglery. The true arid spiritually
minded Christian should leave tho won
der stories and all accounts of miracu
lous interpositions to the sect that makes
spiritual transformations a specialty and
themselves the medium of its operation,
and should feel that it is a privilege to
oommune with Uod lu the simplest and
sweetest way that man will over know—
Alliance.
v.Mt; Tennyson is qut4-l4s writing,
a few yoars ago, to Mr. Benjamin Blood,
of Amsterdam, N. Y., that he haa fre
quently had, Bom boyhood lip, a kind of
"waking trance" when be haa been
alone. “ This," he says, in the letter
printed in the Times, of Hartford, "haa
often came upon me through repeating
my own nume to myself silently, till ell
at once, ns It wfei’B, out of the intobtlly
of the consciousness of individuality, the
individuality iteelf seemed to diwotve
and fade away into boundless balljp; and
this not a confused state, but the clear
est of the clearest, the surest of the
surest, utterly beyond words—whose
death was an almost laughable imporai
bllity—the loss of personality (If It so
were) teeming no extinction, but only
true life. I am ashamed of my fisebte
description. Have I not mid the state is
lteyond word? Bui in a moment, when
I come back into my normal condition <(
sanity, 1 am ready to I fight for 1 Maine
Liebe Ich,’ and hold that It will last for
leans of icons."
SUoboh-fV.
The Skobeleffs have a singular origin.
In 188!) the Emperor Nicholas, while at
a review of his whole army, ordered a
Gen. Hkobcleff to select the finest men
in the army to form into a body of im
perial guards. In the first regiment
examined, the general came across a
stalwart young soldier, who far surpassed
bis comrades in appearance. The soldier
said that his name was Kobeleff, and
that he came from a village in the pro
vince of Novgorod. The general, upon
hearing this reply to an inquiry he hi and
made, reemed greatly interested, and Is
ing told that it was only the youth of
Kobeleff that had hindered his advance
ment from the ranks, at once gave orders
that he should be made a non commis
sioned officer. That eveniug Gen.
Hkobeleff, at a dinner given to the officers
of the regiment to wbich Kobtleff be
longed, told an anecdote. He said that
many years before, when he was a
private soldier, he was on guard one day
at the winter palace. While keeping
guard the empress passed ky, and, after
looking at him a few moments, asked
him his name. He replied that it
Kobeleff. “ Kobeleff,” said the empress;
“ I don't like the sound of that name;
for the future you arc to be called Bkdbc
leff.” From that time the empress
look an interest in his welfare, and
eventually, through hcrfavoi, be beoMne
aide-de-camp to the czar. “I have
only one remark to make,” said the gen
eral, “and that is the young fallow
whom I raised to be an officer to-day is
! the sun of the brother I left at home to
' look after our village homestead.” The
nephew teek his uncle’s name, and
subsequently himself became a general.
It is his son, “ Skobeleff the youngdr,'
who has just distinguished himself be
lore Plevna. .
