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No. 64 k Athens, Georgia, Saturday, November 8,
5 OLD SERIES—Volume Lit! **
X NEW SE|UESr^VoLUME ff.;.
The old Forsaken School-llonso,
>ft the •cho<*l-hou*e 1
r bullets at tbo matter's time-
Th „.„ ;,n .nc < UarUe, .here
Ani»h<* •>« V»P* r
h “ ; which It hung, the muter
The h *>k I* on
sl^er ,h H°"
krt can never cast a shadow
• v p huilt a new. Imposing one—the pride of
* 1 th<» town,
j auKhinji lad* and lassies go its broad step*
nirsnddown; » , \
A t>ver crowns Its summit with a new, -
in oistcr bell,
Th.il youthful ears in distant homes, iraj bear
Wit and Humor.
iu music swell.
I'm • iitlnt in the old one, with its battered
bin.:*leas door;
The windows ar • all broken snd the stones lie
on the floor:
I, alou*% of sll tho merry boys that romped, and
studied here, * .
It<-m«incii to see it battered up and lea ao lone
snd drear.
Via sbtin* on the itme old bedch where we eat
side by side
And carved our names upon the bench when not
t»j master eyed ;
Since then a dozen boys have sought there great
skill to di*|dsy.
And like the foot-prints on the sand, our names
have passe 1 away.
’ Twas here we learned to conjugate * amo, amas,
a mat.* «
While glance* from the loraies made our hearts
go pil-ti-pat;
’r*a«hore weffell n love, you know, with girls
who looked us through—
Your* with her piercing eyes of black, sod mine
w ith eyes of blue.
Our sweethearts—pretty girl* were they—to us
how wry dear—
H>w d**wn your head with me my boy, and shed
for them a tear ;
With them the earthly school is out; each lovely
m lid now stands
ft.fore the one Great Master, in the house not
unde with han da.
Yon iell me von aTC far out West, a lawyer deep
in'Uws,
Wv\h .to who sat behind us here and tickled ua
with straws ;
l,„>k out for number one.^boys : may wealth come
at v >iiT touch,
Du with your lone, strong legal straw, don’t
tickle men too much.
Here to the ri-;ht sat Jimmy Jones—yo^ must re-
innnl»er Jim—
H i. teaching now, and punishing, as master
punched him :
What an unlucky lad he was! his sky was dark
with woes ;
Who rer did the sinning It waa Jim who got the
Mows.
Th.
.lays are all gone by, my boys; life’s bills
wri-'re coinr down,
ih ‘ ere snd there a silver hair amid the school
h«y brown;
m-»r.» *ries can never die; so we’ll talk o’er
th**j^vs
•hared together In this house, when you and
I were boys.
T.iough ruthless hands may tear it down—this
h » .s • *o old and dre »r—
The 11 n t destroy the characters that sorted out
■nm here;
T>n-’s angry waves may sweep the shore and
rash out all beside—
Mru-ht a* the star* that shine above, they shall for
aye abide.
• seen ;he new house, Charlie; ’tis the pride of
:i I the town,
>1 laughing lads and lxsslcs go its broad steps
uf* and down ;
t vou nor 1. my dear old friend, can’t love it
half so well ,
this condemned, forsaken one, with crackad
and tongueless bell.
Last words of Jack—“ Fll be hanged
if I go up on that platform.*^ *
When are skipping lambs like liter
ary volumes ? When they nre boun
din’ sheep.
An Indiana jury recently returned a
verdict of “Mode to pieces by a biler
busting.”
Many a roan, who thought he had
made a bargain buying silks, found
that he had got worsted.
A Fort Plain merchant advertises
his goods at oxyun. That man has al*
ways steered clear of newspapers, r.-.v
Basilioonthaumaturgist is the title
by which a conjurer of Harrisburg,
Penn., chooses to advertise himself.
A green-grocer advertises “ Ham
and cigars, smoked and unsmoked, for
sale.”
A thief who stolen tanner’s water
melons sent the seeds back in a letter,
requesting him to plant them for uext
year.
A North Carolina baby was born
with its false hair on, thus establishing
the genuineness of the divinity that
doth hedge a woman.
A Michigan manufacturer has eigh
teen thousand broom-handles ready
for shipment. This ought to set hus
bands to thinking about comiug home
early.
In passing through a .'lark tunnel on
a Pennsylvania rail raid, a woman’s
voice was heard exelniining : “Don’t
you fool around ! I airy a pistol in my
punier! ’’
The King of Dahomey adorns his
prepossessing person by posting the
labels of medicine bottles over it,
which is quite right, his majesty being
an unmitigated puke.
At a hotel table one hoarder remark
ed io his neighbor: “This must be a
healthy place for chickens.” “.Why ?”
asked the other. “ Because I never
see any dead ones hereabouts.’’
An exchange says: “A Michigan
railroad is haunted by a ghost that
doesn’t pay its fare.” Which is not
surprising, considering that all ghosts
are “dead-heads.”
A correspondent entered an office
and accused the compositor of not hav
ing punctuated his communication,
when the typo earnestly replied: “ I’m
linter, I’in a setter.”
Paris Letter
FROM THE
European Correspondent
—of—
The North-East Georgian.
Paris, September 24th, 1873.
Editors North-East Georgian:
The Comte de Chainbord after being
all his life a complete letter-writer, re
mains .as sileat. i*. a sphinx, when a
note, not intended for publicity, to a
devoted follower is anxiously expected, and ingenuity iu
He does not even give a burleighshake! |L ni * appliances for
was compromised by his Bonapartism,
and hence, why many of his obituary
notices are measured, and a few for
getful of de mortuis nil nisi bonum.
He died of Bright’s disease, and kuew
well his recovery was hopeless: It has
been remarked tbat is a malady not
uncommon among the distinguished
dead of the medical profession. The
deceased was eminent in France, but
perhaps pre-eminent only out of it.
He was more celebrated as au opera
tor, than as a lecturer or a writer, and
fits best works are his clinical notes,
taken and edited by his pupils, but
most important all the same. As an
operator he was remarkable fur fun
sangfroid, which gave confidence to his
the famous four Sergeants of Rochelle.
The pftal was intended, but not under
stood, at a voluntary in houor of ‘the
liberation ofFrance. ; ham-
The Jews ore at present celebrating
New Teat’s day, which as in the case
of thetGTeekt, Arabs, and primitive
nations, is calculated by the revolutions
of the .moons. The fate in question is
considered to be the occasion when God
judges the conduct of men and fixes
their destinies, and when men by pen
itence and humiliation returns to purity
and inhoceuce; examines his life, his
conduct, the road he is pursuing, and
thefattlTOons that influence. Gentiles
might -worsHp -hcre
with.profit. The republicans pure, date
tile revolutionary calendar from this
ra«LWUFS ashantee trouble.
vd '
What is it all About.’
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J.fvr
Great nations can: but rarely afford
to venture upon little wars, As a rule
they cost mure Qian this benefited to
accrue from them are worth. -The
British Government, has had a partic
ularly large and varied experience in
this respect, but it does not appear to
greatly profit by it. * The war against
the scmhbarbarihns of Abyssinia, a
few years ago, is to have its counter
part* now in a hostile demonstration
against the half, or two-thirds, savages
of the African Gofd Coast ; and, as if
history had nothing to do but to re
peat itself the memorable inarch to Mag.
dila thou is to be supplemented with a
campaign now against Coomasic, the
capital of the Ashautees. War is not
formally declared as yet, but as all
the necessary preparations for it have
been made without any indications of
a disposition on the part of the
Ashautees to do anything to avert it,
we may as well take it for granted that
there will he no susj>ension of opera
tions until “ the hitter end ”—whatever
or whenever that may he—is reached.
And now tho question arises, what
is it all about? The answer would be
less difficult if one could hear the
Asliantecs relate their version of the
case but as it is, we have nothing to
reply upon save the one-sided repre
sentations of the other party iu interest
to enable us to understand the real
causes of the quarrel. It is easy to
see, however, that it h the old story
again—a thirst ior dominion and power
on the one hand, and a natural resist
ance to its gratification on the other.
That is what the metaphysicians and
the political philosopher, would call the
morale of the matter. Leaving the
abstract question of right or wrong for
matters of fact, however, it is well to
bear in mind that this is not the first
time Her Majesty’s Government has
taken the Ashautees to task. The
English connection with the Gold
Coast dates back to 1672, and for a
long period it was of a purely commer
cial character. In that year the Royal
African Company waa established,
under whose auspices Forts Accra,
Dix Cove, Secondee, Arrombe, Com-
mendah and Winnebah were built.
This company prosecuted its operations
until 1750, when it gave place to an
other known as the Great African
Company, which lasted down to 1821.
Both these associations were liberally
subsidized by Government, and up to
1807 they were permitted to trade in
slaves, as well as in gold and other
commodities. At the abolition of the
slaves trade the subsidy was increased
to £20,000 per annum as a sort of re
compense for losses thereby incurred.
Meauwhile other nations were attract
ed to the coast, and in course of time
the French, Dutch. Danish and Portu
guese had establishments which kept
up a sharp competition with one
another. Iu 1821, the Brittish Gov
ern men t placed these various settlements
under the protection of the Crown,
and from that moment trouble with
the Ashautees began. The Govern
ment of the Gold Coast was place<l un
der that of Sierra, .Leone, and the
Ashautees, having subdued all the
weaker tribes in the interior, liegan to
CO mein hostile contact with the Europe
ans. Sir Charles McCarthy, the Gov
ernor then undertook tj deal with
them by force, and this (1824) was the
first war. McCarthy’s troops were
beaten at the start, but afterwards the
enemy was driven off to the interior.
In view of the trouble, loss and disas
ters incurred by these hostilities, the
home government seriously contem
plated abandoning the Gold Coast
altogether. The merchants, however,
persuaded it to centinui nominal gov
ernment, leaving the actual adminis
tration wilh them. Then (1831) n
treity was made with the Ashantee
king, by which the independence of
the Fan tees and other tribes was ac
knowledged ; the paths were to be
open to all for lawlul traffic, and all
disputes were to lie referred to the
English. This treaty worked very
well for a long time; and for twelve
years, or up to 1842, affairs on the
Coast went on smoothly. But, unhap
pily, the government resolved once
more to assume the direct administra
tion of the settlements, and this wjs
done in 1844. At first they were
C ‘ ed under tho jurisdiction of Sierra
ne, but in 1850 they were made
into a distinct government, with legis
lative and executive councils, and so
forth, an arrangement that continued
until recently, when the settlements
were again placed under the govern
ment of Sierra Leone. The next
Ashantee war was in 1863, and was
patient, and above all for his readiness
discovering means j month also. It was at midnight on the
every emergency. 21st of September, 1789, that commen-
LIFE IN THE COUNTRY.
Experience as told by the Danhnry
News.
of the head. We want to know on
what conditions he would condescend
to sit on the throne of France, what
submission he requires from a repen
tant people, what concessions he would
make to our feebleness, errors aud
prejudices. Are his promises to live
and die in the folds of the white flag,
to eschew modern society asbclial, like
pie-crust or as eternal as Benedick’s
vows against matrimony ? Is he like
the braves on the stage who, acknow
ledging the moment has come to show
themselves, agree to hide? So many
miracles have occurred of late, that
the conversion of Henri V. to liber
alism would not be surprising; there
has been the strange spectacle of the
Bonapartists being taken into partner
ship with a coalition of “ honest men
of Thiers being scurvily treated for
liberating aud reorganizing his coun
try ; ofOrleauists Princes selling their
liberalism, or rather that of Louis
The case of Garibaldi is tho most fa
mous illustration, where with a white
porcelain probe, blackening on touch
ing lead, he proved to Dr. Partridge
and fifteen other incredulous surgeons,
that the ball Garibaldi received at
Aspromonte in 1862, was in the
wound. The French were naturally
very proud of this triumph. The
Prince Imperial, life lie saved iu 1867;
the Prince had taken the habit in the
riding school, of making the poney
keep so close to the panelling as to rub
his leg against it; in vain his mother
and father begged of him to desist, but
all to no purpose. At last the Prince
was observed to halt; Nelaton was
called in ; at once made an iucUion in
the leg, keeping the wound open. On
allowing the latter to heal, the patient
exhibited symptoms of fevers; the
blood had undergone purulent infec
tion. Without a moments hesitation,
Nelaton made a more profound incis-
sion, to remedy perhaps the imperfec
tion of the first, aud the Prince rapidly
recovered. Nelat< n was rewarded
with a Senatorship, an office only ex
acting “yes” to every imperial decree
j presented. Not being a poor man re-
Philippe, for a mess of potage; and of | quiring the salary of the office—for
The city man who goes into the
o.ni-iirv to spend the Summer must
m ike up his mind to learn something
o t'ie routine of rural life. A New
Y rk man who is spending the hot
weather season with a family on Pine
-I reel, wai asked by the lady of the
l>"ii'0 if he would take a hen off the
ne-t, a* it wanted to set, and she didn’t
v. >a: it to. “ Certainly,” said he. and
• ..aiisliatelv started out to the ham
when? the hens were kept, tocrush out
the maternal prospects of this particu
lar one. He went straight to the nest
• hi. her off, and reached out his
'•an i or that purpose, hut immediate-
I;, drew it kick again, and tucked it
‘••'■hr n,e other arm, and sqeezed it n
1 rV, w ; ,it . lie Jrexi- up his lips as if
ah at to vbigtfe something. Then he
I !->"d <!i« eand stared at the hen, and
* '■ J‘fce.1 up her head, and stared back
lf a a. wiiuing her eye with singular
velocity. •• Get off, won’t you ? ” said
he, after a pause. She made no re-
s|m"-o. lie drew out his baud and
h"'ke.l at a red spot on one of the
kiiunties, and then put the knuckle in
iih mouth to mol it, looking all the
Mhiie a: the hen, and wondering how-
mi earth she moved so quickly. The
longer lie eyed her, the Jess inclined he
i“!t to touch her, and finally he climb
ed up a post to a beam which ran over
lh.* ne-t. and working hi* way out on
it till he got just above the hen, took
iff his hat and shook it at her, and
tdvi-ed her to get. But she only
.Hiked up at him, one eye at a time,
in.) clucked omniously. He told her
t she didu’t leave he would come
lown there and kick her through the
lam, but immediately gave up the
>1 nod-thirsty design when he reflected
that it was a dumb animal, and could
ti n reason like a human being. Then
he happened to think of his pants.
*hich were white linen, and rubbed
this fiogirs on the beam to fiud them
f»'l "f black dust, which led him to
his body around to look at the
nut*. while making this very uat-
M move, he suddenly slipped, made
kf v'V® renew his hold, shrieked
mt ’ ^'Pl*** a gain, and then came
to P of the hen and the nest,
8 them both to the floor, up-
Lj.v barrel, and filling the air
kriek Ust * (eal hers, hen noises and
im it '' ' wn ‘b® family reached the
uuetliin* ,M Ilf,,rlunale Ilj an, looking
wK'V 1 -Poster on legs.
Bund i" s i^ 1 ’ a,ul was turning
X “ri rubbin S head in an
racted manner, anti every time he
ise cains'L °™ e ^ tte ®" white linen
P in tlie vv ^' e the hen stood
I a Io. i/' i ere ? t COn,er °n one leg,
Ll , 0 ^ lain gl«d astonishment
not a pointer,
“ Vegetable pills!" exclaimed an old
lady: “ don’t talk to me of such stuff!
The best vegetable pill ever made is
apple-dumpling. For destroying a
gnawing in the stomach, there is noth
ing like it. It always can be relied on.
It has been remarked that ladies
have generally a great fear of lightning,
and this has been superficially ascribed
to their natural timidity ; but the great
truth is, that it arises from their con
sciousness of lieing attractive.
A young gentleman having called
in his physician, said: "Now sir, 1
want no trifling; 1 wish you to strike
at the cause. It shall be done,” replied
the doctor, and lifting his cane,
smasher! the decanter of wiue upon the
table.
Magistrate—“ You may have been
intoxicated ; but the officer testifies
that you were not so tipsy a not to
know what you were about.” Prison
er—“ Oh, if I had known that was an
objection, i could easily have taken
another drink or two.”
A Cincinnati firm received a letter
from a correspondent in Mississippi,
saving—“Gentlemen, I am Due you
826 10-100 which pleas hold upon me
a few days I happen to a misfortune
this day 2 weeks ago & I had to kill a
man in Self Defence which my Law
yer fee cost me 500.00 which throws
me behind a little I am all right now.”
A Michigan butcher takesth^bones
out of his meat before selling it now.
He had a dream the other night, in
which he found himself at the celestial
gate, but confronted by a mountain of
bones, which a tenant spirit said were
what he had sold to customers, and he
must climb over them if ha would en
ter heaven.
t^?** °* lier countenance,
minutes of industrious ap-
FWwk with
. a chi P. the gentleman
^ned into the house, where
con.f *, a8 ^bed with spirits, and
Million* generally attended to.
4orir"^ T 47?' he ^ i8 * singular
^ acres
ater Tk 6 on th o surface of the
•»nt*rriM ‘i**? “ ®°*ered with
tet idth ’wkl th ?r e ar etre« fifteen
r lowered .» the «* raised
Whrf »: * l da™ °f the pond the
£ua fi e, *u1 frtowith UT Itaf-
Srf^^terfor fish, Urge nu,
le are J c * u 8 ht by boring .
’»inS filhMI8 doWn trough the too
Just the worst typographical error
on record has befallen the Niles, (Ind.)
Democrat, which printed a pathetic
obituary closing with a statement made
hv the compositor on his own respon
sibility, that the lamented and lost “ is
not dead but squeaketb,” which re
minds us of the dead squeaking and
gibbering in the Roman streets.
See what pluck and enterprise will
do. An indolentsort of a cha,* in a
neighboring county, who ind the repu
tation of never having earned a cent
in his life, went into the poultry busi
ness the other day and raised fifty fine
chickens during one night. There
were more on the roost, but some got
away.
A man about fifty years of age, ac
companied by his wite, who looked still
older, applied for tickets to Pittsburg.
When told the price he demured;
and, after withdrawing for a consulta
tion, he returned to the window and
asked, " Well, won’t you knock off a
dollar if the old woman will ride on
the platform ? ”
A Texas editor, whose midnight oil
must have failed him just os he was
going to press, prints the following en
ergetic opinion : “ The man who would
water petroleum and sell it, would
sneak into the palace of the king of
kings and steal the gilding from the
wings of angels.” The sufferer could
hardly have been more vigorous in
his denunciation if he had caught
somebodyflmterin^is whiskey.
Mrs. Sarah Briggs (who is perusing
the Jones county Eagle),—*• Bakes are *
alive, I wouldn’t, no more name a
child Alias than nothin’ in the world!
They’re always cuttin’ op some caper!
Hera’s Alias Thompson, Alias Wil
liams, Alias the Nignt utwit, afl heen
took up for steelin’. Mary Jane, don't
ye never name none o’ yer children
Alias.” 7
a fortuitous majority in the Assembly
inclined to restore a regime, or better
principles, repudiated not only by
France but by tbe world, and hesita
ting to consult the nation that elected
it to sign a peace, and to abstain
through sovereign, from dabbing in
constitution-making. Will the Count
cede, or not cede, that is the question;
is he made for thirty-six millions of
people, or three millions for him; is
Providence interested in the white flag
aud the Divine Right abuses, that the
vox popidi, asserted also to be the ro.r
clei, swept away in 1789?
The Comte de Chambord has never
been the political jurist he pretends
now to he; advancing age and an
ascetic life have made him imagine he
i8 an infallibility. It is a popular er
ror, and notice alas in addition, to be
lieve he is the depositary of any polit
(cal idea, or unites in himself a legacy
of ancestral traditions. Henri IV.
negotiated with the League, the
Church, and Paris; Louis XIV. never
would allow the Gallican Church to be
the obedient servant of Rome; and
Louis XVI., unless his-life were a lie,
accepted sincerely some of the first
lessons of the Involution. Iu 1844,
the Comte de Chambord appeared on
the political stage, like any other pre
tender, and then according to the “au
thorized collection of his letters,” now
published at two sous, he claimed
merit and good service as his distinc
tions ;” i.i 1848, he was prepared “to
bow to the wants of society, as de-
elopcd by the changes of half a cen
tury;” in 1851, he urged the clergy
to avoid mixing themselves up with
politics, that they ought to have no
concern with temporal matters, such
being contrary to religion and the in
terests of the Statein 1857, he wrote
to the due de Nemours touchiug the
white flag now inseperable from his
honor, “that belonged to these ques
tions, which the interests and wishes of
the country will resolve, and that one
cannot dispose of France without her
consent.” Within twenty years he
has passed from an acceptable to an
impossible pretender, incompatible
with modern society, that no varnish
of concessions can place in harmony
with France. Paul was converted on
the road to Damascus; even suppo
sing an equal miracle in the case of
Henri V., it is not the possibility of
being restored that should occupy him,
but how long he could keep his seat
The dissolution of the Assembly, and
combination of MacMahon aud
Thiers are the ends to which thoughts
arc turned.
It is the prevailing belief that the
cholera is rapidly declining, which is
more important* than the King-ques
tion. Official figures, ever to be sus
l*ected from a good motive, corrobo
rate the disappearance of that unwel
coine guest. The city is very salubri
ous, and if the danger has been con
jured, it is largely due to treating all
cases of diarrhoea promptly, whether
in hospitals or homes, and to the gen
era! extra cleansing and disinfecting
of would-be cholera nests. A medical
gentleman assured roe, that it was
more by change of dietary, attention
to drink, and personal hygiene, rather
than to medicaments that the profes
sion in Paris have so successfully com
bated the enemy. Citizens boast that
it is necessary to go to Vienna to fell
a victim to cholera, as several distin
guished Frenchmen have died there of
that malady within the last few
months. Work is still very slack in
Paris, although manufacturers have
their hands full of foreign orders, and
pending the political atmosphere clear
ing np matters must remain as they
are. Thera ia not the slightest fear
that order will be troubled ao long as
MacMahon is in power.
It is true that Dr. Nelaton has pot
had troops of friends. He was natu
rally a retiring man, did not much rel
ish society, loved Greek anthors more,
and waa most happy in the quiet so
ds family.
elusion of bis:
30,000 fr’s per year—and the appoint
ment commanding no popular respect,
he was considered to have made a great
mistake, especial y as he was after all
only ranked at the Tuileries in the
category of friends of the “second de
gree. He was more respected than
popular with the medical students, and
was estimated by confreres, in the man
ner that every distinguished member
of a profession ts envied by his less
fortunate brethren. He had the good
chance to catch an heiress with a for
tune of uearly two miliious of francs,
and to wed her the day after lie re
ceived his diploma. This luck did
not make him friends dither, though
lie accommodated needy Bob Sawyers
with small loans, and thus made them
his enemies for life. His youthful
days were a hard struggle ; his father
fell at Waterloo; the widow was poor,
and the son during session lived in a
miserable garret, like tbe youth of other
eminent men, Thiers to wit. He oc
cupied once the attic wherein Dulxiurg
a few years ago assassinated his adul
terous wife. As a student he worked
assiduously, and his bed, made of a
deal plauk resting on two cane chairs,
on which he read till he was drowsy,
and that upset when he dropped asleep,
and so wakened him, is a common
anecdote in the quarlier Latin.
Profane science has taken verbrage
at the miracles performed at Laurels
and Salette, and publishes the list of
miraculous cures affected in hospitals
and other places independent of shrines
and relics. It is admitted that paraly
sis can be cured by a powerful effort of
imagination, ora moral shock carefully
prejiared. The Hotel dien in Paris
lassuch a reputation in France, that
invalids believ 3 if once within its walls,
they will recover. And several have
been admitted ior a week; entering
with loss of speech and locomotion,
they have been d sclmrged with the
recovery of both, having received no
medical treatment whatsoever. Faith
saved. At Arras a fetv years ago a
wwder magazine exploded, and a para-
ytic woman, acting on Mrs. Chicks’
advice “made an effort,” jumped out of
her bed, and was encountered ruuuing
like a hare two miles out of the town,
a half naked condition. Many
bed-ridden and tongue-tied persona
during the late invasion recovered mo
tion and speech at the terrible news
that, “the Prussians were coming.”
An indignant mother, has not unfre-
quently astonished a naughty child by
soundly boxing its ears with her para
lysed hand. If Henri V. succeeds to
:ed the “first year ot liberty anti in
1792, this* was further altered to the
fourth year of liberty and the first of
ejuality.” Both the liberty and equal
ity for France exist to-day only in the
calendar, or painted so high on public
buildings, as not to pay the expenses
of obliteration. The months in the
year ofGrace Four, were named after
the Bastille, Canon, People, Justice,
Regeneration, &c., later they were bap
tized after the seasons. Iu addition,
each day of the year was named after
an implement ot agriculture; plough,
shovel, rake, Ac.; after a useful ani
mal ; horse, dog, cow, cat, ass ; also
after grateful vegetables; cabbage,
potatoes—the disease was then un
known—wheat, grapes, turnips, Brus
sels’ sprouts, parsnips, artichokes aud
cauliflowers, instead of Saints Peter,
Paul, John, Jaiucs, etc, days.” “Ban
yan day ” is the only vegetable we
Georgians chant a twenty four hours
to—but not for a joy. Conte’s human
itarian almanac was as positive, he
had Homer aud Shakspeare days, Ac.
Had he lived we must have had the
Ides of Bismarck : the pilgrims would
claim the dies nefasti, aud patriots
longing for alsace could insist on a few
dies prodiales, sacred to the memory of
Hoch, Isurdan, aud Moreau.
The markets continue to be well sup
plied with game : seagulls fetch 22 sous
each ; herons, cormorants, bitterns, and
birds worthless for either wasting or
boiling, or that these operations can
iu no way alter, 18 sous; crows, thresh
es, and robbin red-breasts sell by the
half-dozen; wcazels and squirrels cost
half a franc, the same price as a dozen
of filed frogs thighs. The grape season
being well in, tbe suails its usual arc
out.
In the exhibition of Oriental curiosi
ties, busts of M. M. Theirs and his
Minister Du fa tire are placed on each
sideof a figure of Buddha.
An admirer of our actress passed a
day with her in the country, and was
most niggardly in paying for carriages,
breakfasts, Ac. In the evening he beg
ged her—-his angel, to look up to heav
en anti see his star. She did so, aud at
once recognise 1 “ the Great Dog Star.”
G. R. N.
“Make former tiiae* slake hinds with latter,
Ami that which was before, cotue after,"
the pilgrim movement will be contin
ued; if otherwise, the “revival” in
France may be considered at an end.
The only really new incident in the
Bazaine affair is, the number of can
dles that his friends supply to be burn
ed, in the church of Natre Dame der
Victories, to implore his triumph;
there is one taper for every count in
the indictment, so the spectacle of some
sixty tall and slender war lights i<
brilliant. Even Gambetta does not
believe his “grand traitor,” or lules
Favre that, “our glorious Bazaine”
will be found guilty on all the issues.
There is less interest felt in the verdict
by the populace, who seem to believe
it is not worth while in any case shoot
ing him after such a lapse of time.
The whole trial is perhaps now less po
litical, than to vindicate the honor of
the army. The Bazaine reporters are
all at their posts; one journal will pub-
COMPENSATIOX FOR EMANCIPA
TION.—Iii the recent speech by ex-
Senator R. M. T. Hunter, of Virgin
ia, at the Winchester Agricultural
Fair, the following statement was
made: In the interview at Old Point
Comfort, between Mr. Lincoln and
Mr. Seward and the Commissioners of
the Confederate States (of whom I was
one) this subject of compensation for
emancipated slaves was introduced by
Mr. Lincoln himself. He said that a
prominent citizen of New York, whose
name, if given, would probably sur
prise us, had written to him to say
that if the slaves were emancipated
8400,000,000 ought to be distributed
among their former owners. The
money, as well an I remember, was
proposed to be given to the States in
proportion to the number of negroes
freed within their borders, and by
them to be distributed among the in
dividual owners. That this would
have be n n very inaduequate compen
sation for 4,590,000 slaves is evident to
alb But who can estimat the relief which
it would have afforded to the despoiled
South? If distributed to them just
after the war it would have been of in
estimable value. Mr. Lincoln said he
had no authority to speak for any one
but himself, but he himself was in
favor of it. Mr. Seward expressed
some impatence, saying that the Gov
ernment paid enough in the expenses
of the war, which 1 suppose he felt to
have been waged T5r negro emanci
pation—a poor excuse to be made in
regard to the claims of any of the
States, bjit none ccrtaiuly in the cases
of Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and
Delaware, which never seceded, and
were never called rebellious. To this
Mr. Lincoln replied with equal earn
estness, “I know you say it was
we liafl 7 agreed to give thwn by the
treaty of 1831. But even then a con
flict ought have, been warded off had.
we acted with prudence and diplomatic
courtesy. The King of Ashantee did
ntft invade us the moment we interfer
ed with his long established plans and
arrangements at Elmina. He wrote
to our authorities, and he never was
properly answered. We sent to him,
as a king of ambassador, a nia n who
waa notoriously his enemy. And, iu
fact, whether we meant it or not, we
did almost all that, could.be . done to
provqke what has ao unnecessarily and
unfortunately happened.
TMsbs a sorrysuo wing serfttr ft* right
and wrong are concerned. But it is tt*o
lute to dwell on that nsjrcct of the
case. Tho expedition to chastise the
Ashautees is under way, and from
present indication- a march into the
interior is inevitable. Wc have no
doubt the Asliantecs will be soundly
beaten—if they will only stand up anti
fight—but at an expenditure of blood
and treasure which may well appall the
average Brittish mind to contemplate.
As for ourselves, we have hut little
immediate interest ill tiie affair, apart,
perhaps, from the sentimental aspira
tion that our own race and lineage in
all such contests with barbarism may
come out on the winning side. That
aspiration, it is said to reflect, is not
always in strict harmony with ethics or
with the abstract principles of justice,
but it is part of our imperfect human
nature, and that is about nil that can
be said of it.—N. Y. Bulletin.
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Eight Years \Y ithout Eating—
Remarkable Cask of Abstinence
from Food—There is a young woman
uamed Mary Faucher, residing at tho
corner of Gates avenue and Downing
street,‘Brooklyn, who has, it is assert
ed by her physician, I)r. S. F. Spier
taken no food for eight years. She is
twenty-five years of age, bright and in
telligent. As a girl she was a close
applicant to her studies, and was wont
to abandon her meals to ponder over
her books until the strain upon her in
tellectual and physical strength over
came her. She also sustained injuries
by being thrown from a horse. Sub
sequently she fell oft’a Fulton avenue
car, and was dragged along the street
for a distance of forty feet by her
crinoline catching in the car. She was
then afflicted by absolute nervous pros
tration, and has since been confined to
her lied. Her legs are twisted and
her hands arc drawn up behind her
head. She sleeps but little, and
About Dolls.—Some dolUM«»d»r
are made of wqpdt-thaflO-jyp called
wooden dolls. Wood comes from
tr«M, which are found in tb« country.
Trees have leaves also; they grow up, .
but dolls do not grow. Mottle 1 trace
are pine, some apple, some pine-apple, !
and some inurhogganv, a hard word to
spell. These- heads aro very hard,
and you can pound them without hurt
ing. 1 >r
Some dolls’ heads are made of wax,
and are called wax-dolla. The wax
come from a litt'e/ aaifiial called tbe
bee,' that lias wings. Sometimes it Is
called the busy bee, because it buzzes.
The hoe does not, make the dolls, but
the wax. It goes in a straight lino - to
a flower, and pokes the honey out
with its sting. Then you feel glad you
arc not the (lower, because tho sting
hurts—it docs—that is the way it
makes the wax. But it ia not good to ■
put these doll- in the sun or over a
furnace.
Some dolls are made all over of Inf-'
ilia rubber, ami you can fling then*
about anyhow. They grow on s tree'/
the India rubber does, in India, where
they make India rubber boots. It is
a good kind to have, because you cant
throw it about like a ball. But then
the face is painted, and inay rub off
—some noses do.
Then there’s China dolls, made of
what ten sets are; but they don’t comer
fiom the China where they make the
fire-works, through they dk> make thw
tea. These might smash, if pounded
with a hammer. There’s another
kind I don’t know about, that Elsie’s
made of. It don’t matter, any way.
My aunt helped me about the spelling,
except murhoggany—that I knew. I
shall write auother volume, telling
more about trees and bees, and why
dolls should take care of themselves.
This is enough for oucc.—A Boy’s
Composition.
Donaldson and His Trip rff
Europe.—Donaldson announces that
he will make that trip to Europe iff
the Graphic’s silk balloon in the Spring,’
and in the meantime will make fre
quent ascensions in a paper balloon for
the purpose of testing the easterly cur
rent theory. The cotton balloon, by
the way, which ended its voyage so
disastrously throe weeks ago, fell
among the Philistines. When the
aeronauts attempted to gathev up their
property and take it back to New
York, all Canaan (Connecticut) was
aroused. The sharp nosed inhabitants
iieau. one sieeos um nine, anu is , , ■ ....
•, , i , 1 , ... i - . comedown tiiMin it with claims as uu-
said to be endowed with clairvoyant 1 , c .. ... i
merous as the sands oi the Sound
faculties. She works embroidery in
colors with great facility, anil has made
slippers and smoking caps with initials
worked in them. The doctor is [>osi-
tive that there is no deception in the
case, and has used every effort possible
to detect any sign of imposition, but to
no purjiose. The case has baffled the
skill of hundreds of physicians who
have examined it—. X. Y. Herald,
23d.
sinful to hold slaves, and, as there was
no right to do so, there is no justice in
the claims for compeu^ion. Now,”
said he, “if it was a sin in the South
to hold slaves, it was a sin in the North
to sell them, which they did to a very
great extent, as we all know. ”
lisb the trial every day in three ian-
A Procession of Turtles and
Frogs—For some days past the
weather had been dry, and the ponds
on the prairie failed in water. The
turtles and frogs that had been living
in the vicinity of one of these stood it far
a day or two, but it finally became too
dry for frogs and they decided to mi
grate. The nearest pound that con
tained water was three miles distant,
and to this the turtles aud frogs started
His popularity
guages—German excepted, and anoth
er will give daily illustrations of the
most graphic incidents, the marshal’s
portrait as he was in his halcyon clays,
after his defeat, and as a prisoner, will
permanently adorn th6 title page.
On Sunday last some amusement
was caused in, the city, by the church
bells ringing out a merry pea). On
consulting the calender , of the saints,
nothing remarkable was found; the
profane almanac, however, Indicated
the day was the anniversary for the
opening of the National Convention,
which abolished the monarchy in
France, and later, of the ojesutioa of*
in solitary procession, the turtles in
advance, sagaciously piloting the way,
and the frog* bringing up the rear, with
their deep bass and shrill tenor, cries:
"Go it!” “Go it!” “Water!
“Water!” The procession stretched
out over the prairie a quarter of a mile
long and steadily marched to the goal,
when such a roheking scene as ensued
can be better imagined than described.
—Logansporty (Ind) (Star.
Tiik Efficacy of Prayer.—The
Rev. Newman Hall is no follower of
Professor Tyndall ou the question of
prayer, as is shown by the following
extract from a lecture delivered bv him
in Baltimore last Saturday:
“ Not long since, a friend told him
of a case which occurred, at a place
called Newport, in Scotland. A poor
man wanted £39 to liquidate some little
debts and keep his family from want.
The man and liis wife engaged for some
time in prayer before going to lied,
calling upon God to rescue them from
their distressful condition. Just after
they had turned off the gas and gone
to bed, a knock was heard at the door.
The gas was relighted, the door opened,
and a sea captain presented himself in
search of seamen’s clothes.—Tlicontfits
required were furnished him, and the
money to pay for them, amounting to
just about £30, was counted nut and
paid. This the lecturer regarded a* a
direct answer to prayer. An instance
had occurred in his own family.
When he was young his dear mother was
stricken down by disease, and the physi
cians had given her up for lost. The
children and grand children were gath
ered round the bedside bidding her a
last farewell, when the distracted hus
band came iu, sinking on his knees at
the bed side, prayed fervently that God
would spare the dear wife and mother.
The patient soon began to revive. She
opened her lips, nourishment was given
her, aud she finally recovered, living to
ba eighty-five before she died. The
p!u8 : cians said it was a miracle.”
shore. "One mail wanted'five hundred
dollars for damage to his fence ; an
other one hundred dollars for the liiutil-
ation of a tree; about one hundred
miners brought in claims of five dol
lars each for helping to catch tho bnl-
loon, and threatened to destroy every
thing if they were not paid. Evon
tbe sheriff thought R was a good oppor
tunity to mulct the scientific strangers,
and laid ou his fees. After bleeding
at
every pore of their pocketboofca,
Donolson and Lunt managed to rescue
their property, and departed ost of
Canaan vowing that the next time
they were obliged to alight tboy
would choose to do it among the sharks
of the sea rather than Imtd-sharks of
the Nuttmeg State. 11
brought ou by the Governor of Gold
Fourteen Years in I’uison fob
Another’s Crime.—Fourteen year#
ago Louis Waidenbcrger was arrested
in Egg Harbor city, N. J., on charge
of murdering his child, tried, hud
sentenced to be hanged. The sympa
thy of his neighbors was aroused.
They did not believe that he was guil
ty. ’ This feeling was so strong that
the court of pardons commuted hisaeu-
tcnce to imprisonment for life. Ix
these fourteen years that lie has been
.enreerated his wife has died/ and
many of his friends who had tried to
secure his freedom. From certain
statements made by bis wile, on her
death bed it is probable that she was the
guilty one. The inhabitants of Egg
Harbor are moving to secure bis re
lease. Ten of the jurymen who con
victed him have signed the petition,
one of them is dead, and the other has
departed for parts unknown.
There is living a native ofNewbprry
county, South Carolina, twenty year*
of age, who weighs only thirty-three
f ronds, bis height being six ^ inches.
da Tbuab is distanced.
Coast extending hospitality to a fugi
tire officer of the King of Ashantees.
On that occasion the enemy simply re
tired into the interior, leaving the Brit
tish troops to be used up by the climate.
Peace soon followed, but not long
afterward the Dutch settlements were
seized, with the view—as acknowledg
ed by tbe English themselves—of im
posing higher customs duties all along
tbe coast, so as to make the revenues
of tbe settlements more lucrative, and
of doing away with the antagonsim the
representatives of the Dutch aud Eng
lish. Thus in 1871 Elmina passed
into English. This place had previ
onsly been the headquarters of the
Ashantee coast trade. Thither they
bad been accustomed to come for many
years, apd .they had intimate relations
with the Dutch, there being mutual
obligations and liabilities recognized
between them. The London Morn
ing Herald, from which we condense
this historical retrospect, says:
“ When we took possession of Elmina
we ignored all these obligations and
liabilities. We increased the duties,
and we would not allow the Ashantees
to trade with and through those that
they had been accustomed to deal with.
In fact, we entirely disturbed the trad
ing and other arrangements of the
Ashantees, and virtually stopped them
|having thst fryLgrcr?= 5-,w^r,
Important to Bankrupts.—Per
sons who are indebted to a bankrupt
estate must be very careful how they
make payments to any one who claims
to represent it After commence
ment of proceedings in bankruptcy tbe
title to all such debts will rest in the
assignee, although he may not then be
appointed, and the payment to the in
solvent himself, or (o any other party
for him, after such time will be of no
avail to protect the debtor from pay
ing the same amount over again to the
assignee, who can sue for and receive
it. We know of a coal dealer here,
says a New York exchange, who sold
all his customers their Winter supply
of fuel, and then became insolvent,
and applied for the benefit of tbe hank
rupt act. After the proceedings were
commenced, and publio notioe had
been given in some obscure paper not
generally circulated, the dealer went
around ’and collected all bis bills. His
customers paid him in good faith,
knowing nothing of his pecuniary troub
les, andtook his receipt. Every ode of
them was obliged afterward to pay the
debt over again to the assignee, who had
the dealer’s books, and proceeded to
collect every dollar not paid to him
before tbe proceedings were commenc
ed.
A Lady who, the other day
bought a barrel of cabbages in ‘the
Georgetown, D. C., market found
live baby ia it, well dressed, with
milk bottle in its mouth, and so pro
tected by the manlier in which the cab
bage had been arranged as tJ prevent ,
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A Tallow Tree.—“Is it a make-
believe tree, made out ot tallow, liko
candles? ” you ask. Oh no; the tallow
tree is a real tree that grows from
twenty to forty feet high. Its native
place is China, but it has been trans
planted into some of our hot-house**.
The tallow comes from the seeds. They
are pounded and boiled in water, when
something like fat rises on the top..
This flit is skimmed off and when cold ib
is as white as snow and almost as soft..
The Chinese mix this vegetable tallow
with wax to harden it, and out of the-
mixture make candles, which give a
clear, bright light. Now, then, if you
want a candle, and you know any one
who has a hot-house with a tallow treo.
in it, it would be better for you to buy (
a candle ia a grocery store; for we do
not believe you could make one without’
wasting a great many tallow-plant'
seeds.
One of the latest additions to the nift-'
sen m of the State University Medical'
Department, at Iowa City, is a li+b
rattlesnake sent to Pfof. Clapp by Ex
press. It measures ten feCt in length,
and is said to be as big around as a
churn, and has a set of rattles as bigas
an ear of corn. The serpent was con
fined in a box which had girolet-holtoin
it to give him air. lf the box were
touched, be would make his rattles play
with a roar like a train oro'saing a
bridge. ;• *** - :
The application made at newspaper
offices fora “kpam paper” is donsider-
ed to be quite as unreasonable a call
upon a dry goods store for ’> spare
yard of ribbon, or a yard of tape.”
“ I declare, mother,” said a pretty
little girl, in a pretty little way, “ 'tis
too bad! You always send me to
bed when I am not sleepy, and y<ui
always make roe get up when I*4*uv