About The Northeast Georgian. (Athens, Ga.) 1872-1875 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1873)
i|orth-fa?t fl^rjon, J ' PUBLl- h^ERY SATURDAY MORNING DY rj’.w.& r r.L.©Ai J Ei'.torn ond Fropr.etor^. Unis orsrnsrKn-TioX: '•“* „ $ 2 OO lONE COPY, OK« Yr “ ; ir " 8 78 [FIVE COPIES, One • 1BOO ITEN COPIES, " wbew subsoriptioD - j tit.. ' &*?» ftt , { •?.{. *• ?.-■ n A MAP, OF BfcSSY LIFE. '• ' * ’ ' n-n . i . i’h.i jtsSfef-hfe ^aiJcrJ stefti iJSfo. ‘ t#T iMheateS, •'©eof'gia; Saturday; -» i,». 4pgsj| , °r - T € Lear ling to Walk Only bn.'inninj; tlif j t ' llrnr X I Many a mil.’ K>f°i (a.I h,,»' H'ey P»H« r . r I Wan.lcring to and Wo rrying ag-’in s " ' ,r * v *' 7 ’ l.-ugliing in It-* 1 ’?' »* cC l Hiding H» in .uolheP.Up, Jokes for the Jolly. i bal'J i bo. failsi n ~th* ol ' u “ sl ^ngaago j.; vr r before was hea d ; , i in ill r—you’d hardly think i f «darslands every word. Don’t Slam the Gate. Vo* «"h >r’io, pray, don’t laugh at me; jtui when you go out late, I with you w .uM be careful, dear, To never alain thm >£ite. IT' 1 '' " Kut Annie listen* every night,‘ And so docs teasing Kate, Ti* oil me next day, what o'clock Tuey he «r«l you slant the gute. For all the neighbor* hearing it Will say (iur future late We’ve IfCt-n discussing—so I beg Vou will not slant the gale. For though it may he very true, 1 Whli that they would wait To canvas our affairs until Well—pray don’t slain the gate. At least, not now ; but by-and-by, When in “our ho: a«j” I wait Your coming, 1 .shall always like To bear you slant the gate. ,r whether you go out or in, At early hour or late, in* whole world will not tease me then, About that horrid gale ! A Song for the Times. II i> I.VII.T to Grin Ihua to Growl. bet hard times assail us, bet poverty nail us Like mystical horse-shoes to every old wall; bet deep tribulation Ami fierce desolation .read • ver all lands like a funeral pall ; Though empty our purses, l hmtgli creditors curse us, it-1 >|u trier* arc squeezed 'till the eagles all howl, bet's hare merry feces And smiles for all places, U«*>ueit)<M*ring ’tis better to grin titan to growl. What though the lianks are breaking And “big house-*” quaking, -i -».ie lay undo all they ever have done: oar crossness can’t mend it, Mar weepings won’t end it, ,i> n •! take t.»e right aide and call it all fun ? Will forfeited pleasures Or intbejalc measures utg hack our lost coitfi lenco, lift the «lark cowl ? No, no ; to-day's sorrow brings no brighter morrow : io n tniugs will go Itad let oagrin and not growl. Uut lei us keep thinking. That thougu we are sinking, i* an t go much further, because it won’t pay ; The old saw not forgetting, Tnai’s cured lots of fretting. Toe l»our i> the darkest just before day.” Though vacant our purses, Though creditors curse us, id quarters are squeezed till the eagles all liowl, Lot’s k op merry faces. And -miles lor all places, j.irely i- i he t r to grin man to growl. Osceola’s Grave.—A merry j' irty picnicking on the island one lay, wandering around the walls f Fort Moultrie, were suddenly hushed in their "lee as they came upon a lowly grave, covered with tint white stone hearing simply die name " Osceola.” The young nv-i reverently uncovered thcni- > and the maidens gently [ilwcl (lowers on the mound, while wit \ dimmed eyes and low '"!<• s -.hey told over the story of tlie euninred chieftain. How, niidd ud with gri -f and rage at a cru-d w • n ■ done to him, e had threatened vengeance, and " is sirzed by order of the United >t ites officer and imprisoned for six dais; how in desperation lie had killed hi.- oppressor and then ad d an atta.-k .nraiust the whit a ; low for niuia than a year he 'ondaiicd tile unequal struggle •'iih s perhiiiii’ energy and skill, 1 1 at last, wh ie In ldingnconfer- en ■ ’ui 'e a flag of truce, trusi- ia;r to th • honor of his foe, he " as treacherously siezed and car- ri d in chains to Fort Moultrie, where he languished and died a captive. Was it reserved for the Modoc chief in 18711 to ho the revenger of the treachery shown ihe Seminole brave in lt<38? "The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small.”.—Hearth$a*& Home. 'nit ,* --- '•— L>ss of a -(Continent.—Plato s ‘‘iit down to posterity a tradition “f his day that a great continent "huh occupied the space now ''"'•red by the Atlantic ocean "uVWnl v sank down out of sight .«* further says that it was an ; uul called Atlantis. On it were n m ''",'us and organized govern- ,. UMlI V "'ealth, arts, and civiliza- I, 0 ."’ ms, iMitly lost to human sight. : '* u "' v opinion of the lead- "‘ogist—those mostadvauc- i-i i.t; R K ‘ ,,c< '—biat the American ‘‘‘PPeared when the At- . " , ' l c s r us!ied into the enor- - < ,u lf y or df’pression on the . , 1 * M,, duce now tilled by salt ' er ‘ Koekv Mountains Ihen the ron which —Domestic broils make poor dinners. ---The best iron tonics for fashiona ble ladies—the flat iron. —What cups is a man pretty sure of after cups of liquor? Hiccups. —The right man in the right place— A husband at home in the evening. —“ Woman ! If we had her for a toast, we won’task for any but-her 1” —Stokes’ sftng in the Tombs—“ It may lie four years, and it may be for ever 1" - ; i 11 ‘ - —A good motto for the'door of a foundling asylum: “Thus far—and no fath*q., . . ; —Somebody asks, “ WhJ does not God kill the devil? We are free to admit that we do not know. — A man in the up-country has been so frightened with a mad dog that he is afraid of the hark of a tree. —“ Husband, where shall I get the ticking for our new feather bed?” “At any place you can get the tick.” —An Irishman, trying to put out a ga -light with his fingers, cried out: “ Och, murther! ther’s niver a wick in it!” —Many homes would lie happier if men met their wives with “ smiles” in their eyes, instead of in their stomachs. —We know a boy who said that he liked “a good rainy day—too rainy to go to school, an just rainy enough to go fishing.” —“Maria, have you given the fish es any fresh water ? “ No, sir ; what’s the use? They havn’t drank up what’s in there yet.” —“I could a tail unfold.” Could you ? Then lose not a moment, but go instantly to Mr. Darwin. He will be delighted to-seeyou. —What did Adam and Eve do when they were turned out of Para dise? They raised Cain! When they got AM, they stopped this business. —The gentleman who “fired at random” did not hit it; and, in dis gust, lent his rifle to the youth who determined to “ aim at immortality.” —“ 1 sa_\, ToiB, did you ever hap pen to he caught wh re it was raining fitehforks?” “No, hut I’ve often been caught where hailing omnibu.-e was ail tlie go.” -—A Claiksvillian astounded a gro cer by entering his store with this re quest: “ My Groves, would you lind me an empty barrel of flour to make a hen-coop for mv dog?” —A worthy old farmer, who was worried in his cross-examination by a lawyer in Maine, exclaimed: “Look fere, Squir, don’t you ask a good many f *ii-hquestions?” —A fop just returned to Ei gland from a continental tour, was as ken how- lie liked the ruins of Pompeii. “ Not very well,” was the reply; “they are so dreadfully out of repair.” —Joe Smithson, up in Banks coun ty. is a believer in the maxim t bat “ practice makes perfect.” His twen ty-second haby took the first premium at th • Greene County Fair.” —“John,” saida doting parent to tier rather insatiable boy, “can you eat that puddii) 1 ' with impunity?” on’t know,” replied young ’ •• but I guess 1 can with a spoon —The Dos Moines Quartette were mewhat startled tlie other evening by tindiiur that the selection, “ When wearied wretches sink to sleep,” had been printed on their programmes, “ When married wretches, etc.” —An At liens negro told a doctor that the reason he had not paid his bill was because he had to huv an “italic” cof fin oi Mr. Wood for his haby, and it d been so expensive that he couldn’t ink "uh do luxury ob dc medicine ,!»*, Washington. I - - Ex-Prcsldent Johnson Replies to the Attacks of Judge Holt. Waskin«rtqn Qkrpnide in re^ that of Jndge Holt, pnWishc h bottom of an ,.v , — v* rose with marine of -.! '' S it ! ls an, l other products or >gin. that are found fa t n'* ' strewed there, and in a’ a ovor korth and South the Tl' Ucruna »ts of Atlantis. beli..v l 7V Urgt, d continent, are reeownf j ?° me scientists to be the tv hit ^ \r U tlie Adirondacks, longing to hi th° U k ° PP J ng8 bo_ that ,? , other boundaries of . “ntrt g n'i fon T “ What 2; ^! lere 18 nt > knowing r >et bTm n U ri nd - lng dla . covcri es may yci dc made m coming ages cor- rohorative ” Plato’s nar^tive — .V Milwaukee servant girl has ah onioned tier place because for six \h:>!e weeks she never went to but t!ir<e circuses, four prayer-meetings, even picnics and two steamboat ex- i-ursi'ins. Slie said «be wants to have li tie lime to herself. —“ Mv dear friend,” said a geutle- inn to a bankrupt the other day, • I am sorrv to hear of your misfortune. Your family have my warmest -sympathies.” “ Oh, don’t trouble vourself about my family, I looked out • •r them, you bet! Just save vour mpathies for tbe families of* my creditors. ” — The mihle editor of the Kokomo 'n iiana) Trih„ne has ad:ipt<-d his ••mis to the ino.-sure. He takes rab- bits, squirrels, ducks, etc., on subscrip ts ns, advertises merchants in exchange for dry goods boxes, and then barbe cues his game hy a roaring fire made of the boxes, in order to entertain his -taff. compositors, and the public cenerally. -A Connecticut genius is said to :avo found his way to Paris, with a patent reaJv made hilly and bul'et ■r i. -el(Erecting street barricade, •iirown up in two minutes by the most mniilitary reformer, and, hy- touching a spring, will fly any flag—Bourbon. Orleans, red or tri-odor—and play unes all the way from Marseilles to ■'yria. —A eelebiated dandy was in com- l any with a young lady, and observing her kiss lit r favorite poodle, lie ad vanced, and begged the like favor, re marking that she ought to have as much charity for him as she had shown to a dog. “Sir,’’said the belle, I never kissed my dog when he was a puppy.” ( The fellow took the hint and left iustaiitef. —A man in Eldora, Iowa, married igain the week after hjs wife’s death, and his neighbors gave him a deafen ing • har ivari. The bridegroom finally app-ared at a window, aud adminis- tcied a sc uhing rebuke to the crowd, in this manner; “Aiu’tyou ashamed of yourself to be making a noise about my house, when a funeral took place here but four dayB ago ?” Washington, November 11. Ex-President Johnson has* ad dressed a communication to the o led in the same paper in August last, on the subject ^of the execution of Mrs. Surratt as one of the assas sins of President Liuc-oln. After reviewing the evidence adduced by-Judge IloltpJohnson says, iu his search for testimony, Holt succeeded itf'discovering only 6he witness who said he saw the re cord of the case, with the petition attached, in the President’s office. This witness is lion. James Speed, then Attorney General, who is undoubtedly mistaken iu his statements, for, as is already shown, the findings aud sentences of the court were submitted on the 5th of July, lie and I being alone, w r ere then and there handed to the Executive, and taken by the .Judge Advocate General to the War Department, where, on the same afternoon, the order to carry them into effect was issued. Mr. Speed doubtless saw the re cord, hut it must have been in the Department of War, and not in the Executive oliicc. The record of the court was submitted to me hy Judge Holt in the afternoon of the 5th day of May, 18(55. In stead of entering the Executive oliicc, the examination of the papers took place in the library, and he and I were alone present. The sentences of tlie court in the cases of Harold, Atzerott aud Payne were considered in the or- dev named, and then the sentence in the case of Mrs. Surratt. In acting upon her case, no recom mendation for a commutation of her punishment was mentioned oV submitted to me, hut the question of her sex, which has already been adverted to and discussed hy the newspaper columns, presented itself, and was commented upon both by Judge Holt and myself. With peculiar force and solemnity, he urged the fact that though the criminal was a woman, it was itself no excuse or palliation. That when a woman unsexed herself and entered the arena of crime, it was rather an aggravation than a mitigation of the offence. That the law was not made to punish men only, lint all, without regard to sex, who violated its provisions. That to discriminate in favor of Mrs. Surratt and against Harold, Atzerott and Payne, who were sentenced hy the same court and at that time to suffer the penalty of death, would bo to offer a premium to the fe male sex*to cngiige in crime aud “ I I bribe the principal actors in its hope ul, commission. That since the re bellion began, in some portions of the country, females had been prominent in aiding and abetting traitors, and he thought the time had come when it was absolutely necessary, in a case so clearly and conclusively established, to set an example which would have a salu tary influence. He was not only in favor of the approval of the sentence, but its execution at the earliest practicable day. Upon tlie termination of our consultation, Judge Holt wrote the order approving the sentence of the court, and I affixed my namo to it, and rolling up the pa per, he took his leave, carrying the record with him, and depart ing as he came, through the fami ly or private entrance. From the above statement, it will be noted that the papers were not submitted in the usual way by the Secretary of War, but were brought to the President by the Judge Advocate General, tui der, of course, the instructions of Mr. Stanton. This, doubtless, was done to save time and hasten tlie execution, and evinces the spirit which animated Judge Holt. During the entire proceedings, who can doubt that if his name and that of Judge Bingham had been attached to the petition, signed hy five members of the court, and the prayev had been brought to the attention of the President, such au application would have been duly weighed hy the Executive before final action i the premises. Mr. Johnson says,in conclusion, it being absolutely certain if the petition was attached to the origi nal record before it was submitted to the President, it is not to be found in the printed record author ized by Judge Holt and certified to hy Col. Burnett, Special Judge Advocate of the Commission. The question arises which of the two is authentic and genuine If the i ecord in possession of the Judge Advocate General is true, then that is false which he has given to.the public. If, on the other hand, the record published with his official sanction is true then that in his bureau is false, necessarily. Judge Holt is at liberty to ac cept either alternative, and to es cape as Be may fhe Jirtivftlitffe con- 1 elusion that he did not only’fail to submit £be* petition to tlie Presi- The dent, hut suppressed aud with held it from- tfio pfficial history of the most important trial in the an nals of the Nation. The Curse of Drink. The appetite for strong' drink in man has spoiled the life of more women—ruined more hopes for them, scattered more fortunes for them, brought them to more sorrow, shame and hardship than ^ADVERTISING: r %!<■»* '(»ne lnch) first ln«rtl«o. | | 00 tMh subsequent insertion 7* l Square 1 'month j j.-, & i;; jS •» 3 3 r -1* «o „ 3# Of* - •»» 71 CO 30 UO ............ 39 on 40 00 » 00 -..-.„400 00 iftferop£phagical. cast ol the Counlhah of the Marquesas Islands. >b ; Wo a£e indebted, says a San Fraucisco paper, to Captain Hodg- kins .for.|y following particulars of the cauifl aud result of this bel- ligcrcnt Jnovement of the Bruat agniust the Cannibals of the Island of Dominique : . SliortlyoY before the arrival of Captain Hfcdgkins an incident oc curred on the island peculiar to the natives* and • hot uncommon, although seldom occurring open- any other eyH that lives: . The country numbers"tens—fiSV/lnlTiM ,. _ dreds of thousands—of women! H^kmd of AS Crawford & Co., an who are widows to-day, and sit Captain Rickie, who trades among in hopeless weeds, because their husbands have been slain hy strong drink. There are hundreds of homes scattered over the land, in which women live lives of torture, going through till the changes of suffering that lies between the ex tremes of fear and despair, because those whom they love, love wine better than the}’ do the women they have sworn to love. There are women hy thousands who dread to hear the step that once thrilled them with pleasure, because that step has learned to reel under the influence of the seductive poison. There are women groaning with pain while wc xvrite these words, from bruises and brutalities in flicted by husbands made mad hy drink. There can lie no exagger ation in any statement in regard to this matter, because no human’s imagination can create anything worse than the truth. The sor- the Marqu?sas group, gave to Cap tain Hodgkins the details of the Cannibal incident. Captain Hart, an American, has a large plantation on the Island of Dominique, on which he employs Chinamen and natives to raise cotton. There are two or three tribes of natives on the island, who at this time are on unfriendly relations with each other. One wears the emblem of revenge, sweet and unadulterated. When a tribe proposes to go on the war-path, and have the liver and lights of their fellow-country men for food, the members of said tribe let the hair on one side ot the head grow long, and keep the other side closely clipped. When the hair has grown to fight ing length, war and man-eating begin. Shortly before the visit of the French corvette, one of the tribes wore the hair in ^fighting, revengeful, man-eating fashion row’s of a wife with a drunken bus- j liat ives employed by Captain band, or a mother with a drunken i Hart were not ot that tribe, hut it was against them that this spirit husband, or a mother with a drunken son, are as near the reali zation of hell as can he reached in this world at least. The shame, the indignation, the sorrow, and the sense of disgrace for herself and children, the poverty, and not infrequently the beggary—the fear and the fact of violence, the ling ering, life-long struggle and des pair of countless women, with drunken husbands, are enough to make all women curse wine, and engage unitedly to oppose it 111 everywhere as the worst enemy of their sex. Noah’s Ante.—A scientific wri ter gives it as liis opinion, found ed on certain Biblical facts, tiiat the ark was smaller than the Great Eastern. It had three decks, and was divided into numerous com partments by longitudinal and transverse bulkheads, for the safe ty and order of its occupants. It was built of gopher wood, a species of evergreen timber resembling the pine in length and strength of trunk, and the white cedar in lightness. In model, it was all that a great carrier could be, chest like, with lines straight and angles square, hut tlie bottom and top were elliptical in outline, present ing convexity to the, earth and sky. After giving the dimensions ind the model of construction of tlie several parts, this authority tells us, as if he were equally cer tain on this point, that the ark ''is now in a good state of preservat tion, but lying under an eternal mantle of snow, hundreds of feet deep, at an altitude of seventeen thousand five hundred feet above the level of the sea. Ever since the flood dried up, the climate of Armenia has been colder,, and snow r always covers the top of Ararat, rendering it impossible for any of Noah’s descendants to go up and find the ark. A little boy in the Bishop Scott Grammar School at Portland, Oregon, has composed the follow- ng essay on " Oxen” Oxen is a very slow animal. They are very good to break up the ground. I would rather have horses if they didn’t have colic, which they say is wind collected in a hunch which makes it dangerser to keep horses than oxen. If thex-c were no horses people would have to wheel their wood on a wheel-bar row. It would take them two or three days to wheel a cord a mile. Cows are useful too. I heard some people say that if they had to be a ox or a cow they wood sooner he a cow, but I think when it come to be milked on a cold winter morning I think they would sooner be oxen, for a oxen don’t huve to raise calves. If I had to be a ox or a cow I wood be a heffer, but if I could not he a heffer and had to be both I would be a ox. A gentleman, last Saturday, carried his wife, children and mother-in-law to* Lent’s circus While viewing the cage of ani mals known as the " happy family,” containing monkeys, cats, dogs and coons, the old lady exclaimed, " Oh 1 isn’t it strange that they should live so happihr and peace fully together?” The affectionate son-in-law replied, ** Not at all they have no mother-in-law living with them.” There was a savage look/ and then the qualities of the elephant was next discussed Rome Commercial. of revenge had been nursed, and war was to he made. One of the belligerent tribe, by an indiscicet haste to satiate his appetite with a steak cut off a victim, precipi tated the unequal contest between his tribe and tlie French. He visited Captain Hart's plantation, and took with him a heavy hatch et, which he asked, one of the plantation hands, a native, to sharpen. He took the hatchet, reduced it to a keen edge, and handed, it, hack to the warlike camribah*^The latter said: “Is this well done ?” The former mswered, "It is.” Scarcely had the last word been spoken when tlie cannibal raised the hatchet, whirled it in the air, and, aiming i blow at him who sharpened it, struck him on the neck and almost severed his head from his body. Another (stroke of the hatchet aud the prostrate cannibal was in con dition to be cooked, His wife was then assaulted and murdered, vnd the Cannibal buried bis vic tims "to keep for future use.” After - the lapse of two or three days the wily savage returned, took up his victims aud carried them to a convenient valley, roast ed them, and, assisted hy others of the tribe, devoured them with revengeful relish. Captain Hart reported,the matter to the French officiate on the island, who im mediately informed the officers of the Government at Tahiti. The corvette Bruat was at once dis patched to punish the natives for this fresh outburst of cannibalism. It arrived before the Maggie John son, and for seven days an in cessant lire was kept up on-the island. The tribe flew first to the hills, supposing they could uot lie awe * reached there, but they were soon more disabused of this idea. They abandoned their favorite positions and took to the valleys; but they were no safer. Shot and shell fol-. lowed them everywhere, and they i rertiser. were finally compelled to surren- ' der. It is not know’—was not when the Maggie Johnson left— how many of the man-eaters, if any, we'rfe killcd or wounded; hut as wounded means killed—because unable to protect themselves they will certainly he killed and de voured—this general term will answer for both. The Marquesas Islands belong to the French, and this disposition to punish native treachery will protect those who settle on them. There are six prominent islands of the group which arc visited by merchant’s vessels. They contain a popula tion of about 10,000. The smaller ones are seldom visited, and but little is known of them. The na tives are cannibals, and although there are Catholic and Protestant missions established on the larger islands, there are but very few converts to Christianity. The natives love the Christian cere monies, which they call himiui, from the fact that they are so much made up of music, vocal an instrumental. They crowd to church, hut as cannibals, and they are more interested, while in at tendance, in-thte portly propor tions of the priest or minister, and in discussing the virtues of a steak cut from either, than in Christian doctrines. The chief missionary of the Catholic church is a fat,' portly, healthy man of about fifty summers. He is very- much loved by the natives, i They crowd to his church in large numbers; they sing - and. A Boy Bat-Eater, pray,And after service they talk] . ~—~ to the good old man, feel his arms i There lives in this city a boy—a and pronounoe him good to cat. c kild four years of age—whose They join in a general " Hula-1 for the abhorreuthas become lula”—a most immoral dance—) so disgustiug as to make even his after service, and consult almut. presence among his playmates the capturing, killing and devouring i s ^c na ^ f° r a nauseous revulsion of the fat dominie as a kind of ad-' deling; at least among the more denda to Christian ceremonies, i tMicate, In a word, he has be lt is said that this priest Would', ? om ? a veritable rat-eater, and, it have afforded sweet and nourish- j ^ relishes his disgustiugfood. ing food for the cannibals, only , 3 .an instance of the manner in that they are afraid of the terrible j w hich he deals with the loathsome punishment which would bo cer-! creatures, it is related by eye- tain to follow such an act. But • Witnesses that yesterday afternoon when they talk of the excellent' a grocer of the corner of Mason honfllffdnr’lfbr killing, of the }•*»»«. priest, their thirst for human flesh, cou ple of large, grey, ferocious, becomes so desperate that it must niangy rats, whose very appear- be satisfied hy one of their own a .nce would sicken a Scotch terrier, people. Only a short time before j grocer took the rats to the the visit of the French corvette,! s * rc . e * * u have them killed hy dogs, thirty natives were devoured at a, Seeing the approaching exeite- grand. barbecue, and the opinion j men U a crowd of urchins gather- of forcigncVs who have lived on the ! 83 usual on such occasions, islands is that the natives are as j aud among them was the little much cannibals to-day as they ! four-year-old fellow in question, ever were. When they cannot j H*s lips quivered aud his mouth get human flesh they substitute j began to moisten as ho saw the hogs ; hut they call this meat a j y crmin about t o he offered to yelp- very poor substitute indeed. They j ^ n g cur3. His little comrades heg- are cooked thus : A hole is dug in * ^ ie eaptor to give them one the earth and lined around with ^ 10 ru * s h»r their friend, aud red-hot stones. The liog is rolled up in banana leaves, laid on the Stones, covered with more hot rocks, and finally with earth. Here i f‘ lc storekeeper gave up one, and it remains until cooked. Captain ! ** ' Vils immediately taken trom the Hodgkins says they cook well, i by the unnatural hoy, seized man or hog. Tlie women of the thej r would have more fun than if the dogs got them both. Curious w and anxious tiq know the result, j o’clock in the forenoon, meet a few benevolent gentlemen at the side LA Singular Case. Several kind-hearted gentlemen of this city, says the New Haven Palladium, are at present wear ing upon their naked arms a device of a singular description. Our readers have not forgotten the terrible accident which occurred four or five weeks ago at the shirt factory of C. C. Darics & Co., in Court street, hy which a woman had the entire scalp aud a part of one car toru from her .head by an entanglement of her hair with some machinery. Though a great suf ferer, it Is possible that the life of this industrious and unfortunate woman fiiay be safe3, prokidiens sufficient number of persons pre sent'themselves at tlie bedside, in company with the surgeons who have charge of the case, and con sent to the removal of a little bit of their cuticle for transference to the skull of the patient. The surgeons are hopeful of saving the woman’s life, hut they do not have . as many generous offerings of cuti cle as are desired. A number of transferences arc doing well, the new skin taking on a healthy edge. The operation of giving in this singular sort of charity is exceed ingly simple and almost without pain. The surgeons, at nine islands are as savage and as far removed from civilization as their lordly cannibal masters, hy wlionl they arc by turns respected and despised. They are excellent swimmers from the fact that through some supeqjgitious notion the men will not allow them to go into their boats. They will tow them through the water if neces sary, but into a boat they can not go. A Paris Sensation. One of the sensations in Paris just now is an Eastern juggler, who, with the assistance of a beautiful young lady, furnishes his audience with a very wonderful illusion. Tin* young lady, attired in a rich dress with flowing sleeves, stands on a dais resting on a broad square of Turkish carpet. Two supports ax-e placed under her elbows, and the magician makes a series of strange passes over her with liis wand, when she gradu ally closes her eyes and apparent ly falls asleep. Then the dais and one of the elbows supports' are removed, and the lithe and spiritu- elle figures is seen suspended in mid air. Capriciously still. Like the lone albatroes incumbent on night. She docs not remain stiffly poised in one position, hut the juggler gives her body the most graceful and poetical attitudes, culminating at the close with the striking representation of an angel in flight. Great white wings arc fixed to her shoulders, a golden trumpet is placed in her right hand, the lights in the theatre are turned low, a halo of pale gold streams upon the fair girl, and as the spectators gaze upon her glori fied face a breathless silence falls upon them, and they watch the beautiful picture as it lades away with an emotion that is akin to This illusion seems rather marvelous than auything shown us by Prof. Frikell, and wc hope that some enterprising entre preneur will induce the juggler ro visit this countrv.—Boston Ad- around the body hy the hand, while the other held fast to the back of the head, to prevent the animal from biting. Thus having secured his prey, the young mon ster sank his teeth in the neck, and gnawed away at the tough, fibrous liesh with as much apparent gusto, as though tearing open an orange. lie thus continued until he had literally eaten off the lat’s head. Nor did it take him long, for scarce had the disgust of the spectators seized them than the hoy held in one hand the bleeding carcass, and the other tlie mangled head, ami there held them as he stood gazing and laughing at those whose stomachs had turned during the process. It is hard to say how much further the youth would have gone—-perhaps eaten, the misavoryTTeslU—fcuhiat Old-drones' dispersed the crowd aud driven them home. Think of tlisrt young ster’s taste! Who, one almost imagines him picking rat’s hair and flesh from between his teeth for a day after liis meals.—Sun Fran cisco Californian. Tho Great Salt Lake. Served Him Right.—A Mr. E one evening visited a young lady, and, as he removed his over coat, etc., preparatory to enter ing the pai’lor, the lady overheard him utter the following remarks: Taking his overcoat and hanging it up, he said, "Hang there, you fifty dollar overcoat.” Pulling oil’ his gloves and putting them on the table, "Lay there, you five dollar gloves.” Placing his hat on the rack, "Hangthere,you ten dollar hat.” Putting his cane in the corner, " Stand there, you fif teen dollar cane.” Then entering the parlor, he xvas about to sit down, when the young lady pulled the chair from under him, and as she left the room, said, "Lay there, you ten cent fool.” He has not been seen arouud that house since. The Electric’ Mountains.— The explorers’ experience on the Electric mountains—a high aud much exposed range separating San Luis Park from Wet Moun tain valley, - in Colorado—was most amusing. They could scarce ly . handle their instruments, sparks being elicited at ever}’ touch; their rifles too snapped under the electric influence, and were-in continual danger of going off, while when caught in a -thun der storm their hair literally stood on end. The whole party ex perienced shocks, more 'or loss severe, hut noncyrere'Injured.'* As we neared tlie Rocky Moun tains, says a traveler, a thin blue' streak appeared beyond the marsh es. It was the Great Salt Lake. Gradually the streak expanded until the surface of the sea was spread before us. A strong wind came from the northwest, and caps of foam danced upon the bosom of the waters. They were of daz zling whiteness. The lake, how ever, was as blue as indigo. In some places it was streaked with green as though veined with streams of sulphur water. We drove along the base of the moun tains, which throw their rocky spurs to the shore line. Looking to the north nothing could be seen hut the water heaving against a dear sky. It was like gazing upon the ocean at Long Branch. The lake stretches toward the Central Pacific road over a hundred and twenty-five miles. Fifty miles west it washes the borders of the great American Desert. It is a large body of water. Delaware and Rhode Island might he thrown into its depths aud there would still be room for a fair slice of New Jersey. On our right was-Church Island, a mountain etched with sparkling springs and green val leys, nearly thirty miles long. A similar island arose on the left. The lake is dotted with these mountain islands. Profile Rock is a cliff which pro jects into the lake about twenty miles from the Tabernacle. Black Rock rears its head from the water several hundred feet from the foot of the cliff'. The waves dashed against these rocks with great fury, creating a noise not unlike the roar 'of the ‘ocean surf. The beach is white sand, though in some places it is ridged with peb hies of variegated colors. Along the marshes the action of the water has thrown up breastworks of white sand, which Uuofbe shore for miles. All the stories about men riding down to the shores of the lake and shoveling up bushels of clear salt are false. The sand beyond the reach of the breakers hits a coating of salt, but it is as thin as a sheet of foolscap. Parties, however, go to the boach aud boil down the water in large kettles, getting about 33 per cent-, of salt; but it cau only he used for curing beef and pork. It must he refin ed before it is fit for table iqse. The water tastes like spoiled brine, aiid smells like the seaweed of Long Island Sound at low tide. entrance of the shirt-fiictory. After reaching the sufferer’s bed room coats are taken oft’ and shirt sleeves rolled iqi. With a sur prising delicacy of manipulation one of the surgeons segregates it hit of the desired commodity not larger than a half dime from the benevolent person’s arm, no blood being drawn: Another surgeon immediately applies a round patch to the place where the skin is not and a strip of adhesive plaster is put on over it. In a few days the benevolent, who has perhaps been a little annoyed at the irritation, removes the surgical chevron, and he has the pleasure of kmiwing that he has contributed something of himself (the truest charity iu the world) towards relieving a dreadful distress and prolonging a useful life. A Sad Sight. " — D. F. Powell, Assistant Sur geon, United States Army, gives the following particulars of the Sioux Pawnee battle: " I was scouting with Capt. Charles Meinhold and Company B. Third Cavalry, on the Republi can,. when, on the 5th of August, a party of Pawnees came gallop ing up to us and told Capt. Mein- hold that about 1,500 Sioux war riors had attacked them while be tween the Republican and French man, and had killed sixty of their braves, women and children. Wo marched nearly twenty miles lie- fore reaching the battle field. It was a horrible sight. Dead war riors lay grim in death, with bows still grasped in thoir stiffened fingers. Sucking infants wc*? pinned with arrows to their mother’s breasts. Some lay on the ground, dead from ghastly wounds made by knives. Others presented to us their skinless heads, the red blood glazed upon the skull where the scalp had been torn oil'. In a canon, as we rode up, the first object that attracted our attention was a dead squaw; and, its wc advanced along the ravine, wc counted fifty-nine other dead bodies. They were in every possible position, having fallen where shot, and apparently ex pired in great agony. One squaw, with her pappoose, was found in the weeds, badly wounded hut still alive. Wc made her as com fortable as possible and proceeded up the ravine, hut when we re turned the baby was dead, aiid had on its head marks of fresh violence. The mother had killed it to save it from further pain ?” He is Able.—God is able of these stones to I’aise up seed to Abraham. Able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him. What He has promised He is able to perform. Able to make all graces abound reward you, that you, having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace, who is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all them that arc sanctified. Able to keep that which I have committed unto Him. Able to keep you from falling, aud present you faultless before, the presence of His glory, with, exceeding joy. * Able to succor them that are. tempted. Able to keep all whom the* Father hath given Kim, so that He will lose not one. Able to do exceeding abundant-, ly above all that we ask ox think.. Believe ye that He is, able 1& do this ?
