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OLD FAhMEk SHOWN.
*T Ino INK 3. Hall.
Prom th harvest.find. old Farmer Brown came
home with m look of care;
He threw hla bat ou tho fl.x>r, aud sat down In bit
old splint-bottomed chair;
He wiped the sweat from uiw dripping brow, and
pulled ont his old jack-knife;
He whittled away to himself awhile, and called to
his little wife.
From her quaint and tidy kitchen, she came through
the open door,
With her sleeves pinned np to her shoulder* and
her shirt pinned np t:clbre.
She looked as ferted, wrinitled sad worn as the felds
of her gingham gown,
When she saw the haggard and hopeless look on
the face of Farmer Brown.
Than down in her rocking-chair she sank, in a sort
of a bolplsss way,
Nor spoke one word, but listened and looked to
hear what be might nay.
" Hannah, I’m sick e-Lina’ hero, and a-workin’ from
spriug to fall,
A-raisin' ’tatt rs an’ corn to sell, that don’t bring
nothin’ at all.
Here we hav worked together, tot forty years, like
a pair of slaves,
Au’ that old mortgage ain't lifted yet, that I owe to
Qideou Graves,
That Ju*t#rant note o’ Deacon UounV will soon be
. . .. iaiUq’,dU 45,.
An’ where the money's a ootnin’ from, why, I cant
tell, nor you.
I’m kept in sech a worry an’ fret by all o' those sort
o’ things,
That I nave to sell the stmT that 1 raise right off for
what it brings. . . ,
It cost- no much for my taiee cow, an’ to keep the
wolf away.
That I haven’t no chance to make a cent, an’ that is
what’s to pay.
Hannah, we’ve both on us grown old, an’ our chil
dren all are gone;
There is no one now that is left at home for us to
depend upon.
I ain’t as strong an I used to be, nor as able to work,
lknow;
But I’ve got to eot them matters square, and the
farm ’ll have to go.
“ Hall o’ the world lives idle, with plenty to eat an’
wear,
An’ the ones who work the hardest have often the
lease to spare. ,
The farmers work till their forms are bout, an’ their
hands are hard aui brown; ’ ' 9* **~
The workmen delve in the dust an’ smoke o’ the
wo.-k-.bopa in the town;
The sturdy Bailors bring to our shore* the wealth
••<v ’ >reigu lands;
An the * naif o’ tne world subsist** by the work
hands.
An’ this is one o T twsj-easonß why I can’t pay what I
owe.
While you an’ I are a-gettin’ old, and the farm ’ll
have to go.
** worked in tne woods in the winter.Ume, I’ve
plowed an’ Bowed In the spring,
I’ve hoed and dug through summer an’ fail, au’ I
, haven't made** thing.
Uemetunea I lie awake all night, an’ worry an’ fuss
an’fret,
An* never a Biugle wink o’ sleep nor a bit o' rest I
get.
I think o’ our grown-up children, on’ the life they’ve
Jest begun;
They’ve got to noe the same hard row aa yon an’ I
have none.
1 thiuk o’ the politicians, an’ the way they rob an’
steal,
An’ the more I think o’ farmin', the poorer it makes
me feel.
The speculators buy up our cheese, our butter, our
wool an’ nay,
An’ they sell ’em igm for woro’a twice a.* much as
they bad to pay.
They bleed us in transportation, they fleece ns
every-whOre;
They cueat ns on our provisions an’ they very
clothes we wear.
They live in their lofty houbes, on the best shat can
be found,
Their wives wear dazzlin’ diamor an’ thnir chil
dren loaf around;
in the summer they go to the eeskore an’ the (
spring*, to make a show,
An’ that 1- the way our butter an’ cheese, oar
corn an’ taters go.
“ We worn la tiie sun *u anmmer. tiuae “
corn on shares,
That the railroads an’ politicians may cheat r,s an’
put ou airs.
They carry the reins o’ power, and will till w* fill
our grave®; ,
They rule an' ruin the markets, an’ wo are a pack o’
slaves. .
What’s to be done ? God only knows. I’ve failed
In many ways
In tryiu’ to lay a ieetle by to ease my declinin’ days.
I never have been a shiftless man ; I’ve figgered,
I’ve worked an’ tried,
While tbo old farm’s been a rnnuin’ down sinoe the
day that father died.
I’ve borrowed money to pay my debts, an I\e
Watched the Interest grow;
Till it I airly got the start o’ me, and the farm 11
have to go.”
Then the little wife of Farmer Drown atood ap upon
the floor,
And she looked at him in a kind of a way that she
never bad before.
The furrows tlud from her shriveled cheeks, and her
lace grew all aglow:
,l \ never will sign the deed, John, and the farm
Bhall never go.
There’s Jest otje thing to be done, ft* Bure as you an’
I are born:
You munt Join the Orange an’ -vot9, John, if yon
would sell your ooru.
Hope au’ prayer are good, John, for tho man who
digs an' delves,
But heaven will never nelp us, John, unless we help
ouruelves.
2 ain’t as chipper, an’ smart au’ spry, nor as strong
* as I used to be,
But I’ve got a heap o’ spunk, John, when it’s Btarted
np in me.”
Over the old man’s furrowed face the tears began to
* 4&w,
He never bad felt more strong and proud since
their wedding loug ago;
A golden gleam of heavenly hope Illumined his
■soul’s despair,
And kneeling down on the time-worn floor, both
bowed tlieir beads in prayer.
The Castle-Builders of Padua.
Oiulio aiid Ippolito were eons of a
farmer living near Padua. The old
man was of a quiet and placable tem
per. rarely suffering any mischance to
ruffle him, but, in the firm and placid
hope of the future, tranquilizing him
self under the evil of the present. If a
blight came upon his corn one year, he
would say ’twere a rare thing to have
blights in two successive seasons ; and
so he would hope that the next harvest,
in its abundance, might more than com
pensate for the scarcity of the last.
Thus he lived from boyhood to age, and
retained in the features of the old man
a something of the lightness and vivac
ity of youth. His sons, however, bore
no resemblance to their father. In
stead of laboring on the farm, they was
ted their time in idly wishing that for
tune had made them, in lien of healthy
honest sons of a farmer, the children
of some rich magnifioo, that so they
might have passed their days in all the
sports of the times, in jousting, hunt
ing and in studying the fashions of brave
apparel. They were of a humor at ofloe
impetuous and sulky, and would either
idly mope about the farm, or violently
abuse and illtreat whomsoever accident
might throw in their way. The old
man was inly g ieved at the wil fulness
and disobedience of his sons, but, with
his usual dispos tion, hoped that time
" might remedy the evil; and so, but
rarely reproving them, they were left
sole masters of their hours and actions.
One night, after supper, the brothers
walked into the garden to give loose their
idle fancies, always yearning after mat
ters visouary and improbable. It was
a glorious night, the moon was at the
full, and myriads of stars glowed in
the de p blue firmament. The air stirr
ed among the trees and flowers
waifting abroad ' their sweetness; the
dew glittered on the leaves, and a
deepvoiced nightingale, perched in
...a citrop .tree, purred fourth a torrent
ioL.* ag ripon the air. It was an .hour
f >r good thoughts and holy aspirations,
v Qtul io threw inins-lf upou a bank, ami,
gazing with intentness at the sky
2‘w.claitufd,—, .
V ' oiu.’ that, f had fisldi ample W the
By R. S. BURTON.
VOLUME I. EASTMAN, DODGE CO., GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1873. NUMBER 41.
“I would,” rejoined Jppolito,
as many sheep as there are stars. ”
,;“And what,” asked Giulio, with a sar
castic Rmilo, “ would your wisdom do
With thorn?”
“ Marry,” replied Ippolito, “ I would
pasture them iu your sageship’s fields.”
“ What! ” exclaimed Giulio, sudden
ly rising upon hia elbow, and looking
with an eye of fire upon his brother,
“ whether 1 wonld or not?”
“ Truly, ay, ” aaid Ippolito, with a
stubborn significance of manner.
“ Hare a oaro,” cried Giulio, “ have
a oare, Ippolito ; do not thwart mo.
Am I not your elder brother ?”
“Yea; and marry, what of that?
Though yon came first into the world,
I trow you left some manhood for him
who followed after.”
“ You do not mean to insist that, de
spite my will, despite the determination
of your elder brother, yott will pasture
jonr nheep in ray grounds ?”
“ In truth, but I do.”
“And that,” rejoined Giulio, his
cheek flushing, and his lips tremulous,
“ and that without fee or recompense V”
“ Assuredly.”
Giulio leaped to his feet, and, dash
ing his clenched hand against a tree,
With a face full of passion, and in a
voice made terrible by rage, he scream
ed, rather than said, “By the blessed
Virgin you do not 3 ”
“ And by St. Ursula and her eleven
ihonsand virgins, I protest I will.”
This was uttered by Ippolito iu a tone
of banter and bravado that for a mo
ment mode the excited frame of Giulio
quiver from head to foot. He gazed at
the features of Ippolito, all drawn into
a sneer, and for a moment gnashed his
teeth. He was hastily approaching the
BooffeV, when, by an apparently strong
effort, he arrested himself, and, turn
ing upon his heel, struck hastily down
another path, whore he might be seen
pacing with short, quick steps, while
Ippolito, leaning against a tree, careless
ly sang a few lines cf a serenata. This
indifference was too much for Giulio ;
he stopped short, turned and then rapid
ly came up to Ippolito, and, with a man
ner of attempted tranquillity, said,
“Ippolito, 1 do not wish to quarrel
with yon; I am your eider brother;
then give up the point.”
“ Not I,” replied Ippolito, with the
same immovable smile.
“ What, then, you are determined
that your sheep snail, in very despite
of me, pasture in my fields ? ”
“ They shall.”
“Viilian 1 ’’raved Giulio, and ere the
word was well uttered he had dashed
his cJeuohed hand in his br< other’s face.
Ippolito sprang like a wild beast at
Giulio, and for some moments they
stood with a hand at each other’s throat
and their eyes, in the words of the
psalmist, were “whetted” on one anoth
er, They stood but to gain breath,
then grappled closer. Ippolito threw
hit* brother to the earth, huddling his
knees upon him; furious blows were ex
changed, but scarce a sound was ut
tered, save at intervals a blasphemous
oath or a half-strangled groan. Giulio
was completely overpowered by the su
perior strength and cooler temper of his
brother; but lying prostrate and con
quered, his hands pinioned bis breast,
and Ippolito glaring at him with mali
cious triumph, he cursed and spat at
him. Ippolito removed his hand from
his brother’s throat, and, ere his pulse
could beat, Gmlio’s poniard was in bis
brother’s heart. He g<vo a loud shriek,
and fell a streaming oorpse upon his
murderer. The father, aroused by the
sound, came hurrying to the garden ;
Giulio, leaping from under the dead
body, rushed by the old man, who was
all too speedily bending over his dead
child. From that hour hope and tran
quility forsook the father: he became
a brainsick, querulous creature, and
in a few months died almost an idiot.
Giulio joined a party of robbers, and,
after a brief but dark career of crime,
was shot by the spirri.
Ye who would build castles in the
air—who wonld slay your hours with
foolish and unprofitable longings- pon
der on the visionaiw fields, the idle
sheep of Giulio and Ippolitd.—Doug
las Jerrold. rjr
The Bed Biver Baft.
One of the great improvements of
the days is the removal of the Red
river "raft.” This raft is formed by
the accumulation of trees, roots
and debris of all kinds, in the channel
of the river. This raft grows year by
year, and deposits of mud thioken upon
tho logs and vegetation springs up, un
til islands are formed miles in length.
In 1805 the raft was more than a hun
dred miles long. It consisted of accu
mulations of the up-country forests
throughout all time. In 1885 the gov
ernment set to work to clear the river.
Capt. Shreve, after whom the town of'
Shreveport took its name, was at the
head of tte work. From that time to
the present, spasmodic attempts have
been made from time to time to remove
these raf s, at immense labor and ex
pense. The present raft region is thir
ty-five miles in length, and extends
from a point forty miles above Shreve
port to the Arkansas state line. Navi
gation can only be accomplished
through the raft region through the
bayous at high water. At other times
the river is entirely blockaded. In 1872,
Lieutenant Woodruff made a survey of
the raft, and submitted plans for re
moving it. An appropriation was voted
aud the work begun. The raft is com
posed of logs, roots ami snags of every
description, which had been crowded
and jammed into a tangled mass, be
coming more 1 compact each year as the
pressure from above increased. Annual
freshets had brought down mud and de
posited it in and over thiß mass until,
in places, the rait itself had become
entirely oovered with earth, small is
lands, or tow heads,” thus being
formed. Upon these tow-heads were
growing trees, usually three
feet and more in circumference. The
means used for the the removal of these
obstructions are various. Blasting
powder was used at first, and failed
Dynamite was substituted but was
found to bo ineffectual. At last re
course was bad to n|tr<j-pl roe ripe. This
failed to wo k. The work has
progressed , rapidly, Lieutenant
Woodruffs management, and a few
weeks will suffice to clear the channel
entirely, so that na . d ? on will be un
interrupted from Bhr v eport, Lovj*iana,
to Jefferson, Texas, During the war,
this sam stream oame to grh vous no
tice through the disastrous failure ol
banks, and the brilliant feet of engi
neering whereby a great flotilla of gun-
Apats was successfully carried out of
Tne clutches of the enemy and absolute
ly floated over a fall of sixty or seventy
feet, which had for days been very near
ly bare. The name of Bailey was im
mortalized by that feat, and the run
itself made historic.
A Piece of Sponge.
There is a regular fishing season for
sponge in the Mediterranean, aiid at
one time it used nearly all to go to
Smyrna, and be sold os Turkey sponge:
but now, when the rocks of Syria and
the Grecian isles have been well
dredged, and the collected sponge Is
dried, it is shipped off at once for Euro
/pean markets. We know, principally
by eight, two kinds of sponge: the fine,
close, elastic; and the dark, open
sponge, familiar to us as “honey-comb.”
To the uninitiated it would seem that
these were the produce of different
countries ; but it is not so, for the two
qualities are found growing together,
side by side, upon the same rook, and
are dredged with the same net. The
fishing season lasts for about four
months, and is carried on in a rough,
primitive fashion, but with tolerably
satisfactory results, though the thick,
ooarse, honey-comb sponge is far infe
rior in commercial value to its close
grained, firm brother, the Turkey sponge
par excellence.
Probably for want of research, the
supply of sponge is almost confined to
the Mediterranean and the West Indies.
Florida and the neighborhood of the
Bahamas form the sponge-hunter’s
ground, and it is probably the case that
the turtle may make his resting-place
among the jelly- ike groves of the
sponge. To see the late contents of a
case of sponge after being moistened,
one is tempted into comparisons with
the genius of the Arabian Nights who
escaped from the vessel that bore Solo
mon s seal—inasmuch as the dry sponge j
is close, compact, and tightly packed
in, while the application of water swells
it out to a largo bulk several times the
original. We have pretty good samples
of this in the woll-puffed-out pieces of
fered for sale by street vendors ; and,
by-the-way, strange stories of these
pieces of sponge are told, as to their be
ing refuse cleaned up for sale—tales
that have very little foundation in fact,
for the pieces are for the most part new.
The collection of sponge in the Le
vant is dignified by tlio title of fishing,
and partakes very much of the nature
of the process practiced to obtain
pearls ; nasmuefc as divers go down in
some eight or ten fathoms of water,
taking with them a triangular-shaped
piece of stone to oonquer the buoyancy.
A. rope is attached to this stole and held
by companions in the boat. Once down,
the diver’s object is to wade rapidly to
the pieces of rock bearing the growing
sponge ; this he rapidly tears off, till he
has as much as ho can conveniently car
ry, or till his power of remaining below
is exhausted, when he pulls his rope,
and is rapidly hauled up into the boat
In some parts of tbo east, though, the
diving is not practiced, but the sponges
are collected from shallower water by
means of a fork at the end of a long
pole. In this way the pieces are forced
or dragged from the rock, but very of
ten at the expense of the sponge, which
is thus made ragged and unsalable. A
similar process is followed out in the
West Indies, a long fork being used in
place of the diving.
A Business Fact.
A good advertisement, in a widely
circulated newspaper is the best of all
possible salesmen. It is a salesman
who never sleeps, and is never weary;
who goes after business early and late;
who accosts the merchant in his shop,
the scholar in lib study, the lawyer in
his office, the lady at her breakfast
table ; who can be in a thousand places
at once, and speak to a million people
every morning, saying to each one the
best thing in the best maimer.
A good advertisement insures a busi
ness connection on the most permanent
and independent basis, and it ia in a
certain sense a guarantee to the custo
mer of fair and moderate prices. Ex
perience has shown that the dealer
whose wares have obtained a public ce
lebrity is not only able to sell, but can
afford to sell at a" small profit, because
he sells largely. The seller of wares
with celebrity is compelled to keep and
offer good waxes to maintain their repu
tation. It is therefore to the interest
of the purchaser to buy from the mer
chant who advertises liberally, both on
the score of ecomomy and the merit of
the articles. A worthless article was
never made good by advertising; but
good articles are always extensively
sold by making the public acquainted
with their value and the place of sale
through the widely circulated newspa
per.
A Botanist’s Protest. —Mr. Atkin
son, an eminent English botanist, pro
tests against the extirpation of rare wild
plants though the eagerness of incon
siderate specimen hunters. This work
of destruction is enoouraged by the per
sistent offer of prizes for the la. gest and
best collection, by botanic societies,
thus often leading collectors, in their
anxiety to defeat their competitors,
into the habit of destroying such pre
cious plants as cannot conveniently be
taken away. The indignant botanist
adds : The absurd notion seems to pre
vail that botany consists in the getting
together, no matter by what means, of
as many specimens as possible, especi
ally of the rarer species, and calling
them by their scientific names; and this
without the least pretension to a knowl
edge of tlieir intimate nature, as if mere
physiognomy were quite above physi
ology. Accordingly, money is offered
to encourage a system which, so far
from being a test of the knowledge oi
the candidate, or likely to direct them
in the right road for its pursuit, only
tends to foster mere vanity and to lend
the miii 1 from the true path of science.
This last aud moat essential point might
be gaiib and, and the knowledge of tbe
c mpetite a tested far more effectually
bv meads at once easy aud rational, and
wi'lnmMhe least damage t) those rar6
plaut.a which it is bur duty to protect
aud preserve,
In God we Trust.
Old Clothes Market.
A correspondent of the Baltimore
American thus describe* ihe marche de
Vieux Linge in Paris : Tt is a market
for old clothes, and stuffs, shoes and
tools, and is a very ex easivo affair. It
l about seven hundred feet long by
two hundred feet brogd, built in iron
pavillions, and contains two thousand
four hundred places for dea’ers, each of
about thirteen square and all
these stalls are filled w'th dealers,
from which some idea car. be obtained
of the seme her© presented. This was
built a3 a speculation, the oitv .grant
ing the contractor the right to build it
and receive the rents for fifty years, at
the same time paying the city two hun
dred thousand francs per aunuin, and
the whole to revert to. the city at the
expiration of fifty years. It "cost the
contractor iiiree million five hundred
thousand ira&eei. The new ct&lls set
up for the dealers are so elegant, and
the articles olfei ed for sale so cleverly
renovated,” that the vifdtor can scarce
ly believe himself to be in an “old
clothes” mart. It has been a very suc
cessful speculation, an<l the poor man
can here procure a very rf spec table out
fit for a very small outlay. These
dealers are constantly on the lookout
for the contents of rubbish rooms, old
cloths, and all the odds and ends that
accumulate in an easy living household.
The space occupied by this structure is
two entire blocks, the street passing
th-ongh it being roofed with iron, glass
and zinc. It is a very elegant struct
ure, built on t! model of the Grand
Central market, entirely of iron. The
roof is about forty l'eefc high, with a
great elevation in the center, where
there is an immense open gallery,
reached by two flights ot iron stairs.
Seeing that there was a crowd of peo
ple up there, wo ascended, and found a
door-keeper, who required one sou ad
mission, This proved to be a place for
the sale of A clothes too far gone for
renovation, pd, the articles were piled
up in lines along the floor, through
which the purchasers, to the number of
probably a thousand, were circulating.
Both b.iyer and seller pay on** sou ad
mission, which defrays the expense of
this branch of the establishment. Mus
ty-looking >/ ■* rjhoQS by the cart load
were here old hats, and all
manner or. woman’s apparel. They
were doin - an extensive business, how
ever. and daring our ramble we were
frequently invited to purchase some
threadbare garment, from which it may
be judged how shabby the European
iravoler gets ,+ n his outward appearance
by the time he 1 tplies Pans. The
goods displayed ii *c two thousand
four hundred stales below looked as
bright and new, almost, as the display
in the windows on the boul varda, though
many of them were slightly out of
fashion,
The King nf the SB4 rskinds.
Two weeks ago we had a ball at the
palace of our king, Lunalilo I. He
is my friend. When he was still mere
ly crown prince I loaned him once $2
—only for a day, as ho said. When I
met him a year afterward I reminded
him of the loan, but ho told me to wait
till he should have become king, of
which the prospects were then very
slight. But now he is king, and I
have silently made him a present of
the s2—cheap friendship, considering
he is a king. It was a fine ball, which
he gave in honor of the English admi
ral, and the king was the first who got
gloriously drunk ; next came the musi
cians, then the guests, and finally I my
self began to feel a little unsteady.
I saw a young English naval officer oc
cupy the kingly throne, with a Hono
lulu girl by his side, while the king and
and Queen Emma sat at his feet. Then
the king took a brum and walked around
the floor beating the tattoo. Finally
the musicians began quarrelling and
fighting in regular John Bull style, so
that the admiral could not part them ;
aud all this in the midst of the court
ball. But our king is said to have
amused himself exceedingly, particular
ly as lots of drinkables remained for
him to consume himself, though an aw
fttl quantity was drank. Whether he
did consume it all, I don’t know ; but
I it is said that he was not sober for two
; weeks afterward, though ho can stand
a vast amount! Otherwise the king
is a good fellow, and likes us Germans
particularly, probably because we
"treated” him so often when he was
merely crown prince. He has even
learned some German songs, which he
sings passably; for instance, "When
the swallows homeward fly,” and out of
the tavern I’ve just stepped to-night,—
Honalulu lettter.
Beauty in Greek Art. —Be it truth
or fable that love made the first attempt
in the imitative arts, thus much is cer
tain ; that she never tired of guiding
the hand of the great master of antiqui
ty. For although painting, as the art
which reproduces objects upon fiat sur
faces, is now practiced in the broadest
sense of that definition, yet the wise
Greek set much narrower bounds to it.
He confined it strictly to the imitation
of beauty, The Greek artist represen
ted nothing that was not beautiful.
Even the vulgarly beautiful—the beauty
of inferior types—he copied only inci
dentally for practice or recreation. The
perfection of the subject must charm in
his work. He was too great to require
the beholders to be satisfied with the
mere barren pleasure arising from a
successful likeness or from considera
tion of the artist’s skill. Nothing in his
art was dearer to him or seemed more
noble than the ends of art! Who would
want to paint you, when no one wants
to look at you : l say an old epigramma
tist to a misshapen. Many a modern
artist would sky, "No matter how mis
shapen yon are, I will paint you.
Though people may not like to look at
y on, they r/iii be glad to look at my
picture, not as _a port]ait of you, but as
a proof of my skill fu making so close a
copy ol such i monster. 1 ’ — lasting.
Guano Not the Excrement of feEA
birds.—The lotig-rcccived opinion that
guano is the deposit ß oi myriads of sea
birds, accumulating through long ages,
is rendered untenable by the recent in
vestigations of Dr. Hubei. AfteT treat
ing the guano with an acid, microscopi
cal and chemical examination revealed
hat the insoluble residue was composed
ot fossil sponges turn other marine am-
| male and plants precisely similar, in
1 constitution to suoli as still exist in
those sea*. The fact that the anchors
of ships in the neighborhood of the
guano islands often bring np guano
from the bottom of the ocean, is quite
in opposition to the prevalent belief.
Dr. Habel therefore considers that the
deposits of guano must be the result of
the accumulation of fossil plants and
animals whose organic matter has been
transformed into nitrogenous substance,
the mineral portion remaining intact.
A Thunder Storm in Nebraska.
The following vivid description of an
electrical thunder storm in Nebraaba is
from the pen of the ltev. Alexander
dark, editor of the Methodist Keeor
der : One of the peculiar grandeurs of
Nebraska is witnessed in its electrical
phenomena. On Uae first a ter
our arrival at Linooln, just before twi
light, it was our privilege to behold the
magnificent play of the lightnings. In
timberless regions, like this, the atmos
phere is surcharged with electricity.
Especially after a sultry day, as Thurs
day, September 18, the conditions are
favorable for the blaze and quiver of
the lightning. To the west and south,
rimming the vast prairies, the dark
clouds lay in convolvulating folds
against the sky. The winds had lulled
and silence pervaded the expanse, save
as the distant rumbling of thunder was
heard, like attracting and answering
volleys of artillery. The whole firma
ment, in the direction of the storm,
flashed in fire, flame challenging flame,
from the zenith all around to the earth.
The glances of the lightning scarred the
face of the heavens at every angle, as if
mighty swords were swung by invisible
arms. Vertical lines of zigzagging fire;
wide, level, billowy waves of A me, cir
cling like seatides out to the horizon;
irregular and centers of radiating light,
all combined to make a picture, the
like of which, for magnificence and awe,
we have seldom seen. No obtruding
hills obscured the view; no interposing
forests diverted or divided the intensity;
no descending showers relieved the
shade, or dimished the agitation ; and
this display of the celestial forces and
glories was, for the space of half an
hour, grand and impressive beyond ex
pression. At length the gathering
power •of the air retreated to the far
southeast, the list lingering thunder
sound died into midnight silence, and
the quiet stars appeared. Other lands
had the benefit of the rain, while ours
had enjoyed the splendor of the pre
paration.
Russia and the Tureomaas,
A letter from Sam&rcand in the Goloss
saya that so far from the Busman c&m-
Eaign against Khiva being at an end, it
as hardly begun. The alleged victo
ries of Gen’l Kauffmoim and Golo* ?.t~
ehrJ o 7CT the Tareccaiftns were not, the
correspondent asserts, by any mesne as
complete as the official reports repre
sent them to have been, and the gov
ernment would probably have as great
a dread as Pyrrhus of the repetition of
Ruch victories. “ Not a single officer
in the column of GenT Golovaicheff, who
was himself severely wounded by two
sword-cuts in the head and shoulder,
returned from the expedition uninjured.
Several of them, such as Lieut.-Col.
l aipoff, Ensign Kamentzky, and others,
were literally cut to pieces. That the
losses in the ranks must have been cor
respondingly great is evident. The
Turcomans fought with indescribable
fury; women fought by the side of men
in the ranks, and even surpassed them
in reckless courage. Nor did our army
gain mueh when they entered the towns
of the Turcomans by putting all the in
habitants to the sword. While peace
was being restored in this terrible man
ner in one district, on insurrection broke
out in another. * * * The troops
are compelled to make long and exhaust
ing marches to which the sufferings
they had to endure up to the capture of
Khiva were mere child’s nlay. Five
thousand camels have already perished,
and the troops have hardly any means
of transport for their baggage; the offi
cers are only allowed to take with them
two shirts and a linen haversack.” The
correspondent concludes, from the above
facts, that it will be impossible for Rus
sia to establish order permanently in
Khiva, or derive any -advantage from its
conquest, so long as Bokhara, which ex
tends along the whole eastern frontier
of Khiva, is not made Russian territory.
—The best news that wo have seen
from South Carolina for a long time is
that two first-class locomotives have
lately been turned out of the South
Carolina railroad shops at Charleston,
at a cost considerably below Philadel
phia prices, and the Charleston papers
say, fully equal to the best northern
built engines. The more of such items
the south can furnish the better is the
guarantee for her future permanent
prosperity. Many millions of dollars
would be kept in the southern etates by
tne establishment of work-shops, such
as in the northern states gives employ
ment to thousands of mechanics, and
the work once fairly begun, it will be
found that the home-manufactured arti
cle will be in most cases not only aa
good as that which is now brought from
abroad, but actually cheaper.- Courier
Journal.
A Puzzle.— A couple of scientific
Frenchmen (of course!) have been pros
ing themselves and each other with the
question as to where a man who,
traveling west from any place at the
rate of a thousand miles an*hour, would
find Monday pass into Tuesday. If he
started at noon on Monday the sun
would always be in the meridian, be
cause he would journey with equal
rapidity with the earth's motion, and
the gun would, therefore, be at rest, so
far as he would be concerned. It
would, therefore, be always Monday
noon to him, but when he completed
his journey it would be Tuesday noon.
These unhappy individuals cannot find
out whafe Monday night occurs to the
traveler.
i .—Prof. Hitchcock states that the to
■ t,kl area of the coalfields of the United
States amounts to 230,659 square miles,
besides the strata which belong to other
formations than the carboniferous, aa
for instance those of Virginia, of the
territories west oi the Missouri river,
and those in California,
$ 2 00 per Annum.
English Avarice and the A&hantees.
Moaouiw I). Conway writes of the
British war with King OoiToe ; Daring
the late civil war in America wo used to
attribute the liberal sale of munitions
of war to the confederates by British
manufacturers to their moral sympathy
with the south; but wo peril ans gave
too muoh credit to the British trades
man’s sentiment. It now appears that
ever since this Aslumtee war breeze
sprung up a largo trade has been carried
on in Birmingham in the export qf guns
to those savages who are arrayed against
the queen. The trims shipped are, in
deed, not of the most civilised kind;
they are not of such a scientific kind as
is demanded by other nations more ad
vanced in humanity and enlightenment;
they are “ Africans” or “ park palings,”
and consist of a long iron barrel, breech
stock, and flint look: bn* they arc as
deadly as any other gum at I short ranges,
and it is almost certain that every
weapon recently used against the Eng
lish boats’ crews, which suffered so
much at the coast, was manufactured
in England. The guns are made at a
cost of ten shillings each, imd also
“ matehet knives,” two feet long, at one
shilling, are exported for the Africans.
Surely wo ought to acquit English
manufacturers and ship-builders of an
extra partiality for the secesh tribe, un
less wo adopt the theory that the sup
plies they are sending out to the Ash
ahtees are sent from motives of philan
thropic sympathy with them against
civilized injustice. This latter theory
I find hardly probable. I fancy, how
ever, that the government will be rattier
more sharp and prompt in looking after
these generous Birminghamites than
they were in looking after those who
gave Jeff Davis such substantial aid,
ten years ago. Meanwhile the little
bill of account of King Coffee is run
ning up. The life insurance companies,
looking to their Abyssinian experience,
when they lost by increasing the rate on
those in service by from 20 to 30 per
cent., have resolved to cancel all insur
ances on those who go to the Cape Coast
war, and those who are drafted for that
service naturally demand of the govern
ment guarantors of the amounts for
which they are insured, to be paid to
their families in case of death.
A Crushing Blow.
“ Last evening,” relates the New! Or
leans Herald, “while the chief * ?en
gineer of a lung-tester was expatiating
upon the benefits to be derived from the
free use of his instruments, a cadaver
ous individual stepped out of the crowd
and remarked to him, 4 Mister, do you
think it would help me any to blow into
that can?’ ‘Yes, sir, certainly; it
would expand your chest, give elasticity
to the lungs, and lengthen your life.
Why, you and soon b© able to blow 50b
pounds, and win the $6 prize.' 4 Why.
does a fellow pet $5 vh- abe blow that
mam pounds?’ ‘Yes, sir; won dut
you like to make a trial ?’ with a know
ing wink to the crowd. 4 1 don’t care if
I do,’ said Greens, walking around and
planking down a dime of the greasy
shin-plaster sort. Then, taking the
mouthpiece in his hand, made ready.
He opened his mouth until the hole in
bis face looked like a dry dock for ocean
steamers, and began to take in wind.
The inflation was like that of the Daily
Graphic balloon, but not so disastrous.
That fellow’s chest began to grow and
distend until he resembled a pouter
pigeon more than a man, at which point
fee put the mouthpiece to his lips, and
blew with such force that his eyes came
out and stood around on his cheek
bones to see what was the matter. But
that can-top went up like a flash, and
the needle of that indicator spun around
like a button on a country school-house
door, until it stood still at 500 pounds!
The crowd cheered, and the keeper of
the can paid over the *5 in stamps, with
a mutter of astonishment. Bat Greens
pocketed them coolly, and, turning to
the spectator®, said, 44 Look here, gents,
that ain’t nothing to do at all for a man
who has been bugler in a deaf ond
dumb asylum for seven years, like mo!”
New Russian Iron-Clad.
Admiral Pope IT, the inventor oi the
round iron-clad, has at length the satis*
! faction of seeing his idea carried out •
j and scientific men will now have an op
| portunity of judging whether the Pb
| povka is likely to be studied aa a model
for other vessels of the same type, or
I whether she is only to serve as araonu
! ment of the inventor’s ingenuity. The
I Novgorod, as the new iron-clad is called
J was built at Nicolaielf, and sent
! from that port to Sebastopol, where she
I arrived on the 14th mat., amid the ac
! el area t ions of an immense crowd which
had been anxiously waiting to fee her.
This strange looking vessel, which lias
been so much talked about, is thus des
cribed by a correspondent of the Nico
lai eff Messenger:
“Imagine a large bowl sunk to its
edue in the water, covered with a sau
cer of the same diameter, turned up
side down, on the bottom of which is
placed a glass of a cylindrical form.
All this together forms the hull of a
vessel weighing more than 150,000
pounds—say 2,400 tons—bililt entirely
of iron. The saucer represents the
deck of the ship, and the glass the tur
ret, which is to be armed at Sebastopol
with two enormous 11-inch guns.”
The Popovka steams eight knots an
hour, and is easily manageable.
Dionitt of Wobk.— All work has a
humanitarian and honorable aspect;
runs paralled with the aims and uses of
providence; shares the dignity of na
ture’s processes ; and every true worker
is fellow to all the ranks, including the
deity himself. If any man reelaim i.au
acre of laud by irrigation, or o i bog by
draining, and makes it green and bloom
ing, let him currv his head erect oh his
shoulders, and see that- his work is no;
unworthy of him who, iu meadow and
prairie, has wrought to the same end.
This man with his hoe and spade is a
joint-creator of lieauty ami provender
for coming generations. -r&'vnuur Kilts.’
—ln Japan there are said to be trees
four hundred or five hundred years old,
which produce teas worth five dollars
a pound. Japanese writers say that the
tea tree was introduced into their coun
try from China nine hundred years ago.
The plant is utilized as a in the
lanes of the villages and around the
kite hen gardens. -
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Advertisement* Imertwl kt Uk- Gf. I > • , ' l . j’ < 7'
square for th# Jlret insertion, 75yntUU,
sTibseqnem rate. Tea Uihw or 1 ess constitute a
•quart 1 . t .. • j. .
Profe<i'Tnai cards, $15.00 aantun,. icr sir
months, SIO.OO, in advance* „
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.
—The Chicago Times thinks V the
iron infant " can run alone after
years of fiemrishment at "the public ex
pense. r • x
—The Detroit Free Press says : ‘.‘The
New York World discourages baby
shows, probably having a in
fant on its hands.” i *
—burgeon Duvall, of the. navy, has
been sentenced to a suspension of three
years for shooting two marines picking
blackberries in the enclosure of the
Annapolis academy. „ '
—The cause of Wilkie Collins; sick
ness is said to bo the statement of one
of his American acquaintances, mr his
presence, that he looked like the. pic
ture on a fifty-cent scrip.
—A man in mouse—<scene Baris, of
course—present* a bottle of pcrfunic to
his beloved, saying.: “ When you epnell
this you will regret that your • Creator
did not make you all nose ”
“ —The courts of Illinois are reported
to have already over 8,000 divorce oases
on their dockets, with accessions of new
applications at the rate of 20,000 per
annum. . : "
—Mrs. Cady Stanton is reported as
announcing that “When physical mon
strosities are born; the physician thinks
it is perfectly just, to put thorn out of
the world.”
—A baby was born on a street railway
car in St. Louis. If it’s a boy it ought
to be christened H’os-car.— World. But
as it’s a girl the mother has determined
to namo it Car’line.
—Any man who raises hens in BoStou
is an agriculturist. They take him into
the 44 Grange” right away, and that en
ables the members to get T eggs at half
price. —Brooklyn Bogle.
—Reading in his morning paper that
Thalberg had been embalmed by his
widow, Muggins remarked that he
knew several married men who were
kept alive in a pickle by their wives.
—Mrs. Louisa Chandler nay a that
4 * she who rocks the cradle rules. Let
the strong-minded sisterhood beware,
then, how thev surrender the prrviligo
of rocking the cradlo to their miserable
husbands. r'
—The Lacon Home Journal man has
made this norve-quieting discovery :
“If anybody sees a row of buttons com
ing down street, let him preserve his
equilibrium and think not of supernatu
ral agencies. There’s a woman behind
them.”
—An alterative femalo. letter-writer
saya that, if she could driest herself of
her troubles and petticoats and be a mar
for o twelve-month, she would choose
for that space to occupy the “pulpit,
pantaloons and perquisition of Henry
Ward Beecher.
I want to be a granger.
And *“* ‘g* Iranger stand,
, —■
Wjw -f, r f acy it***—.
Beneath fhe tali tomato tree
I’ll r\vin a the gutter jo; a
And smite the wild pofoto-bug
As he skips o’er the ‘.now. i ; .;.
I’ve bong Jit myself a I"irhfcjly ram
And> gray alpaca eow, ‘ ' ‘ ■'
A lock-stitch Osage ;>ruiigo ,
, Ami a patent-leather plow'.
—Ocn’l Oustar was a listener at Du
luth to a lecture on how to save the
Indians. Ho admitted that the lectur
er’s doctrines were good for the interior
of a church, but insisted that r man
could, not practice them upon the, plains
and save his hair.
—The people of Chicago arc getting
more from their great lake tunnel than
anticipated. It not only supplies them
with water, but the Tribane says that
people “spoon fish out of their coffee
and catch small eels in their mustaches
as they quaff the sparkling water.”
-—ln Hot Springs, those who are not
prosperous express it in this w ise; “ I’m
J. Cooked; I’m Tuckered; I’m City
Reripped ; I’m Graphieisod; I’m jun
jammed, btirsfced, suspended, played
out. financially the worst treated and
most unfortunate cuss of the can’f-pay
class in the country.”.
—A young lady it Foil du Lao, while
out walking with her lover, was attacked
by a savage dog. Who -seized Tier by the
breast and tore it from her body. Tho
lover fainted with horror at the right,
but the young lady, much mortified,
went for the dog with a picket, remark
ing that “ That ‘ero cost a dollar and a
half, and want made for no dog to
ohaw up.”
—l>r. Neal, while iu Vienna, asked
the waiter if there were any Baptists in
the city, and he vas referred to the
“head cook.”. This reminds us of the
fur-trader out west who, after buying
skins of the woman, in the absence of
her husband, asked if there were any
Presbyterians about there. “ T guess
not,” was the reply; “my husband
never shot any.”
-—Some idea of the Galifornm wine
and grape trade may be formed from
the fact that this year there will be pro
duced theze twelve million gallons of
wine, two million pounds of grapes for
table use, and two hundred and fifty
thousand pounds of besides the
brandy of wlfich we hav no Btativtien.
Forty thousand acres are in vineyard,
and the area is constantly increasing.
—Pheasant shooting is now in set- ou
in England, and the woods abound with
that favorite game, but a true western
hunter, who has been accustomed to hit
a deer running,'or a prairie chicken on
tho wing, will be disgusted to Yd ad that
many indolent English sportsmen aru
in the habit of shooting from
chairs, with two or three loaded guns
near, on attendant to hand them to him,
and several other attendants to drive
the game past his coign of vantage.
—Among the first who hastened to
the relief of the Shreveport sufferers
was a beautiful young lady of Philadel
phia, who wft3 willing to brave even the
terror of death to give aid and comfor*
to the helpless ■wetitts of n terrible
scourge. Sin* was Agues, the daughter
of a United States naval officer, de
eeased, and was adopted by S. and
Agnes Arnold of Philadelphia, \then
Hcareeiy three yeais pld. At Shreve
port her noble bravery and devotion
gained father the title of Angel Agnes.
One night, while walking with a sick
. child jn jhei; arms, she fell down a stair
way and* fractured her spine, and died
in great agony. Only a few day s’pre
vious,' her intended husband,' who had
followed her to Shreveport, died with
the fever.