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THE MONROE JaiL. ADVERTISER
GEORGE A. KING k 00.
VOL. XXJit.
Drugs, Etc.
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r d r tutt s i
[EXPECTORANT j
I- tlic inriNt genial balsam ever umcil by
sufferer* from iiulinunary dluraiin.
It In cumpoKOU of herbal jtroclueltt, wlilth
lih\c a h|ieciflc effeet on the throat ami
liiiitTM: detaches from the air cells all ir
ritating matter; causes It to be eipecto
rated, and atone* checks the ititlamioatluia
w Itlch produces the rough. A single <los
relieves the molt distressing paroxysm,
soothes lieiv ousne'sutld cult tiles the suf
ferer to enjoy Millet root at night. Iteing a
pleasant cordial. It tones tlic weak stom
ach, mid is specially recommended for
children.
What others say about
° TutVs Expectorant .
Had Aslhma Thirty Years.
RiLTlMnni, February 3,1875.
11 1 have had Asthma thirty years, and never lound
a medicine that had such a happy effect.”
W. F. HOGAN, Chtrlet Sf.
A Child’s Idea of Merit
New Omlkans, November it, iS~6.
I'iitt's Expectorant is a tamiliar name in my house.
XI y vile thinks it the best medicine in the world,
and the children say it is ‘ nicer than molasses
candy.’ ” NOAH WOODWARD, 101 N. Poydr*. St.
“Six, and all Croupy.”
“ I am the inotiier of six children ; all of them have
been croupy. Without Tult’s Kxpcctorant, { don't
think they conld liave survived some of the attack*,
it is a mother's blessing. "
MARY STEVENS, Frankfort, Ky.
A Doctor’s Advice.
“ In my practice, I advise all families to keep Tutt'a
Kxpectorant, in sudden emergencies, for coughs,
t roup, diphtheria, etc."
T. P. ELLIS, M.D., Newark, N, J,
bold by nil druyylaht. Price SI.OO. Oj/ita
bl!i Murray Street, Nmv York.
EIS
"THE TREE IS KNOWN BV ITS FRUIT."
“ Tull’s Pills are worth their weight in gold.”
f REV. I. R. SIMPSON, Louisville, Ky.
‘•Tutt'a Pills are a special blessing of the nine
let nth century/’— REV. F. R. OSGOOD, New York.
“ l have used Tutt’s" I‘ills for torpor ol' the liver.
They are superior to any medicine lor biliary dis
orders ever made/*
I. P. CARR, Attonieyat Law, Augusta, Ga.
" I have used Tutt*s Pills five years in my ftimilv.
1 hey arc uncounted for < ostiveness and biliousness.’*
f. R. WILSON, Georgetown, Texas.
“I have used Tutt’s Medicine with great benefit/*
W. W. MANN Editor Mobile Register.
"We sell fiftv hoxesTutPs PilU to five of all
others.**— SAYßE & CO., Cartersvilfe, Ga.
M Tutt*s Pills have onTyio’ be tried to establish
their merits. They work like magic/’
W. H. St. f Boston.
“ There is no medicine so well adapted to the cure
of bilious di-orders as Tint’s Pills/*
JOS. BRUMMEL, Richmond, Virginia.
AND A TtfSuSAND MORE.
Sold by druyyists. cents a box. Office
3!i Murray Street, New lock.
TIITTS HAIR DYE
lITCOKS3BD.
HIGH TESTIMONY.
FKOM nn: rji irir joi hau..
h.l,e M 'L^^ t ,^^TCw Ynrk ,
whl. ti restores \ mtliful Iwautv to the hair.
That eminent chemist has succeeded in
producing a Hair live which Imitates
nature to perfection. Old bachelors may
now rejoice.”
J‘rlee SI.OO. Oflic* !t,f Murray St.,
Neie York. Sohl by all druyyist*.
•COUGH, • COLD
Or Sore) Throat
IMffIEDIIR ATTENTION.
A contiuance for any length of time, causes
irritation of i he Lungs, or some chronic Throat
atVection. Neglect oftentimes results in some
incurable Lung disease* Brown’s Bronchial
Troches have proyetl their efficacy, by a test of
many years, ami will almost give immediate
relief. Obtain only Brown’s Bronchial Troches
rtii'l do not take any of the imitations that may
be offered, dec.4 4m.
FOUTZ’S
HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS,
Aro uiisqnaled for the et*o tad prevention ot
duMMS InHortM. CttleHos, Sheep, nd row 1*
DAVID S- Beiuotoro, Sid.
For sale by F O MAYS
B M- Wool.l.E\'s The haW% of using Morphine,
Gum Opium* 1 .aiul.u.um or Elix
-0 Painless ,ir of Opium cured painlessly, by
Vim mean thu improved remedy.
• . ~ .nmuuueiured *V otleia*. .o„
Plum at reduced Prices Nest
t lire or 1 m luiuareun ot cases. Uuar
, . n , meed. Particulars * KEE. Ad-
A llti CLOU. .Ires* B. 3d. Woolley, AtlantaQa
GKKENBACKS
FOR BOND HOLDERSI!
GREENBACKS CMI
FOR GOLD GAMBLERS!
GREENBACKS’
FOR NATIONAL BANKERS !
GREENBACKS
FOR THE PEOPLE !
greenbacks
FOR ALL PURPOSES!
For which money is used inter*hangable at
pai with G old u.*i gilvei. iii a sufficient quan
u;\ .v t* promote industry. invite immigration
~n ' .1 vtlop the rest a ices ot the country /s
what Uie
tIN INN ATI KV QUIREU
Claims is tin- only remedy for the ills brought
upm the country’by Legislation and Laws, en
acted lor the benefit of a Monied Class, and the
oppression of Labor and Industry.
Governn ni Credit sustains our Bonds for
i<| iii Tit ul the wealthy, let the Credit
Sustain Greenbacks
For the benefit of the People who sustain the
Government.
Dally Enquirer, per year, $12,00
Weekly Enquirer. “ *. I*
Free of postage.
Agents wanted,
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CINCINNATI, O.
BRICK WORK AND PLASTERINC.
—{of—
o. F. Evans, Contractor,
C3-JK
i aIIDEHS from any part of the Slate
V ) nromptly Attended to. Address me, t are
JEW'LIT & ROGERS, Macon Ga. mch!22t
Where the People’* Money Ce.
[New York Sun ]
A s : ngle illustration will suffice to 9how
bow wilfully and recklessly the public money
b squandered, and how daring is the fraud
which, under false pretenses and fabricated
figures and ccoked Reports, saddles oit the
country a rotton thing called a navy, which
lias none of the attribute, oj' elements of a
navy, except the assumed name, a p*yfo)l pf
seven and a half millions a year, and
mous appropriations to till the pockets of job
hers.
The United States ship Bi nif ia at Male
Island was surveyed regularly by a board of
officers, and repairs were recommended to the
extent of fifty-six thousand dollars. Instead
of putting her in dock and testing her sound
ness below the wafer line to determine if the
hull was in proper condition, the top work
went on where she lay, until forty two thou
sand dollars were expended. Then she was
docked and bored, and found to be utterly rot
ten aiul worthless!
Now, a formal board of survey will be or
dered at Washington to pronounce the ship
wholly unseaworthy and to condemn her for
sale, and when stripped of the copper she will
probably not fetch a fourth part of the cost of
the recent repairs. This is a fair sample of
millions in the lust ten years in
the name of repairs for mW bpjlg Utterly unfit
for any service at sea.
What is to bt thought of officers who make
such surveys as this is shown to be, and of
other officers under whose direction the peo
ple’s money u thus criminally thrown away?
They form part of un ofganiged combination
to impose a sham on the country, because
without it their occupation would be gone. In
the real, professional and practical sense, there
is no navy existing to day fit to contend on
the ocean with even a secondary power like
Spain. We have about thirty so catted ships,
which can neither fight nor run away, and less
than a dozen irouclads that dare not venture
to sea.
Yet in the last decade, two hundred and
thirty five millions of dollars, or more than
one-tenth part of the national debt, were voted
to keep up this patched and worn cut thing,
and every report in that time glorified the
navy as progressing to perfection, while Mr.
Hale and other friends of Secor liobesou, in
Congress denounce adverse criticism as unjust
and unfounded. We have now reached the
point where concealment is no longer possible
and deception is dangerous. The naked truth
stands out before all the world and is confessed
by the Department. The thing called a navy,
like the thing called a President, is a huge
fraud
■
W’lio Discovered America.
A Wall street broker laid a wager the other
day that Christopher Columbus discovered the
continent rf North America, and of course lost
it. It is surprising how many intelligent per
sons entertain the same error. Knowing that
he discovered a number of Islands in the
western hemisphere, they think that he must
of necessity have discovered this continent
also. They forget that he died in ignorance
of the real grandeur of his acltievment, be
lieving Cuba, Terra Firma, and the other lands
he had found to be remote parts of Asia.
Amerigo Vespucci, after whom North and
South America is named, did not discover tbis
continent proper either. The land he dis
covered lay near the equator, and he, too, was
deluded with the notion that it was a portion
of Asia. Jtihn Cabot was the discoverer of
North America (some time in May, 1497),
which he likewise supposed to belong to the
dominions of the Grand Cham. lie sailed
along the coast for three hundred leagues, and
went ashore wit boat finding any human be
ings, though he believed the country inhabited,
It is remarkable that the three great discover
ers of the Western World should have been
Italian.: Columbus having been born in
Genoa, Vespucci in Florance, and Cabot, pre
sumably in Venice- The birth of Cabot is un
certain, as arqhis age and the place and time
of his death. Bat the fact 'that the license
granted him by Henry VII. cads bimKabotto,
Ner.etian, would seem to determine the ques
tion of his nativity. —Xeic York Times.
Daniel Webster.
He was a large, tall man with a head w hose
beetling brow and deep-set, burning eye# and
unusual’y swarthy skin marked him as no
common man. In rough hunting suit, with
high boots incasing his pantaloons, and his
face often marked with powder stains, from
the habit be had, common with many sports
men raised on tbeoTd fashioned single-barreled
flint lock fowling piece, of blowing into the
muzzle of his gun after its discharge, be was
an uncanny person to meet on a wild and lone
ly marsh near sunset One day when he had
been shunting at the birds that flew by his cot
ert, a flock flew bv at a low level; discharging
his gun, he heard the next moment an outcry
from the beach be’ow him. He sprung up and
rushing over tht bank discovered a man rob
bing his shoulder. “My dear sir, did I hit
you ?’’ be exclaimed. The man gave a single
glance at the sportsmen, and replied, excitedly,
“ Yes, you did hit me; and from your looks I
should think that l am uot the first man you
have shot, either! ”
A Justice of the Pence in New York has
given a warning to the citizens who, having
recovered stolen property, fails to appear and
prosecute the tuief. A wealthy citizen was
robbed of a quantity of lead pipe, and the
people succeeded in arresting the thief and re
covering tlte property. Thereupon the man
who was robbed declined to prosecute, but
the Justice decided that, as tin re was no proof
of ownership of the propeity out the fact that
it was in the possession of the thief, the latter
must be discharged and must be allowed to
take away the lead pipe. It had been in bis
possession and be was legally eutitled to it
until proof of other ownership should be sut*
milled. If this rule should be more strictly
followed out by aldermen and magistrates,
there would be fewer cases of stealing “act
lied" outside of the courts, aud fewer to “ set
tle" anywhere.
-
Ju-J tu-ior* Zeller, the Titfiu embezzler, left
with S4i,CH)O of the bank money, he called his
only daughter, who was making preparations
to many a young minister, upstairs, and pre
sented her w ith an elegant diamond ring, say
ing, ’* Pm going away, and don't know when
I will return, so I will anticipate your weddiug
by this present.”— Clevetaud Plaindealer.
FORSYTH. GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING. MAY 21 1878
Crop Prospects at Home and
A broad.
* [Baltimore Sun ]
Investigation carefully instituted into the
prospects of the growing crops of .cereals at
home and abroad, they may be at
this time speculative In pan, .yet a&H'd fqif
ground for a rough estimate of what may bo
expected from the coming harvest. This is
the more important, so far as foreign crops are
inasmuch as the promise of an
abundant or a scanty yield J)U| a sensible effect
upon our ow n exports of grain and the prices
it might bring. Another considerable factor
in the matter is necessarily the political c(r>-
dition of the gaviptrjes that are the buyers of
grain on the one hand and tqe adihi’S fif }t PB
the other. In respect to the promise of the
European harvests it is thought from a general
survey of the field, to be far from satisfactory.
In England allhough the spring was cold and
wet, Sl} heavy lands t he crops have sul
fered more or less, a faU- ynmi thqugfj' sqi;;p
--w hat below the average, is anticipated. But
althc'Ugh the crops are looking weiL the yield
tb£}-e js always dependant on the state of the
weather at harvest time, 4s [he \yheat is not
fit for the reaper until the first week m August
the heavy and continuous rains that not un
frequently fall after it is cut and in sheaf, and
before it can be stacked or housed, i. ake the
days of the English wheat harvest the most
anxious in the year. In France the cold and
wet spring fa# ijlg growth of
the cereals, hut has not as yet injured them.
In Germany the crops have been seriously in
jured by frost and wet and cold. In Spain ow
ing to a protracted period of drought, the
WReut iij looking badly, and at this time a
small yield is anticipated. FfPlfi Russia there
are as yet no trust worthy advices, but the
surplus stored at the Baltic and Black Sea
ports and in the interior is supposed to be
about fifty ffijee jnjlljons of bushels. The
Australian harvest is over and the yield is
found to be small, leaving only for export
some five millions of bushels.
The two great sources of wheat supply for
the markets of Western Europe are Russia
and the United Slates—the chief market lor
both being England. Our own crops almost
every where promise well, and the acreage in
wheat is said to he laigely in excess of last
year. How much of our surplus of wheat and
corn will be wanted will greatly depend on
the eolution of the controversy now pending
between Russia and England. The latter in
nny event, will have to make up her annual
ut-ficiency in breadstuff’s by drawing upon the
markets in which she has been accustomed to
buy. On the continent of Europe there does
not appear to be a prospect of larger crops than
those countries ordinarily consume, and in
some of them there wiU, in all probability,
be a greater or less deficiency to be made up
from imports. Already vast numbers of
Russiuns have been drawn from the pursuit of
agriculture and are either now with the army
in the field or are in training as reserves, and
all this force of consumers tend not only to
diminish cultivation, but in respect to t he
crops on hand, if war with England should
ensue, the Russian Government will be obliged
to prohibit the export of any part of them. If
this result should occur, England, as well as
other countries of Europe deficient in food
supplies, will have to depend upon the products
of the United States; and even if peace be
maintained, there seems, from present appear
ances, to be a reasonable expectation of amore
than ordinarily large demand for our bread
stuffs and provisions for foreign consumption.
On a Coffee Plantation.
Coffee culture is very interesting, and the
growing crop is very beautiful. - The trees, at
maturity are from live to eight feet high; they
are well shaped and busbey, with a glossy
dark-green foliage, and planted eight or nine
feet apart, The flowers are in clusters at the
root of the leaves, and are small, but pure
white and very fragrant. The fruit lias a rich
color and resembles a small cherry or large
cranberry; it grows in clusters close to the
branches, and when it becomes a deep red is
ripe and ready to be gathered The trees are
raised from seed, and do not begin to yield
until the third year. In Central America they
bear well for twelve or fifteen years, although
in exceptiojal cases, trees twenty years old
will yield an abundance of fruit The tree is
particularly beautiful when in full bloom, or
when laden with ripe fruit
The process of preparing coffee for market
is as follows: the ripe berries when picked are
first'put through a machine called a “ despul
pador,” which removes the pulp; the coffee
grains, of which there are two in each berry,
are still covered with a sort of glutinous sub
stance which adheres to the bean; they are
now spread out on large “pathos,” made
specially for this purpose, and left there, be
ing occasionally tossed about anil turned over
with wooden shovels, until they are perfectly
dry. They are then gathered up and put into
the “ retrilla,” a circular trough in which a
heavy wooden wheel, shod with steel is made
to revolve, so as to throughly break the husk
w ithout crushing the bean. Tlie chaff is se
parated from the grain by means of fanning
mills, and the coffee is now’ dry and clean.
After this, it is "the custom of some planters
to have it spread out on long tables and care
fully picked over by the Indian women and
children, all the bad beans being thrown out.
It only remains then to have it put into bags,
weighed anil marked, before it is ready for
shipment to the port- On some of the larger
plantations this process is greatly simplified,
with considerable saving in time anil labor,
by the use of improved machinery for drying
and cleaning the coffee-
Who Waul* Silk Worms?
The Commissioner of Agriculture at Wash
ington recently received from Japan a ship
ment of silk worms. They are now being
hatched for distribution in different sections
of the country wjjere people are beginning to
take an interest in this industry. silk worms
are raised successfully in Alabama and Utah.
In Silkviile, Kansas, a French colony have
been carrying on this industry for a number
of years, and ship large quantities of eggs to
foreign countries. The great difficulty in the
way of this industry 1s the necessity of plant
ing mulberry trees to furnish the proper food
for the worms. It has been discovered that a
certain species thrive on the leaves of the Osage
orange, which is now used for hedging pur*
poaea.
fc ‘ln G-od we Trust ”
Have You a Mother?
Have vou a mother? love her well,
While she is spared on earth ;
Wait not till death shall call her hence,
To know her precious worth.
Wait not till she lies cold and still,
Most beautiful though dead,
To think at whip yoq should have done,
Before the dear life fled.
Think how much she should be loved,
And prize her as you ought,
Or else your life when she is gone.
With sorrow shall be fraught.
Gh' watch her, guard Rgf with yoijr Jove
While with her you are left,
For when she leaves you life will seem
Of every joy bereft.
Q!i: S o Qt'i her ip hey hours of pain,
Be gentle and be mild \-
How sweet ’twill be for you to think
You’ve been a faithful child.
Fifty Year*.
Zion’s Herald presents the following brief
but inspiring summary o# pig acfiieymenta pt
Christianity among the heathen during the
last half century—and yet, all over our land
there are professing Christians wli® are “op
posed to Foreign Mtamuns," as they
say, “ results prove that it Is money thrown
away!”
Japan was sealed for the Gospel fifty one
years ago. Dr. Morrison was allowed to enter
China, but as the servent of the East India
Company, and there was no missionary besides,
juctson and his wife were prisoners in Bur
ntah, where there were only eighteen Chris
tian natives. In India even Heber was com
pelled to decline baptizing a native convert,
lest he might “ excite the jealousy of those
whom it was desired to conciliate.” From
[nclia [q Syria, there was pot a missionary of
the cross; Turkey was without a missionary,
and the Sultan had issued an anathema against
all Christian books; two or three missionaries
were along the west ooast of Africa, and two
or three more in the South ; Madagascar had
scarcely been entered; the Church Missionary
Society was rejoicing over its first convert in
New Zealand ; and only the first fruits were
being slowly gathered in the South Seas. Out
side of Guiana and the West Indies there were
put fi.QOO Christiana ip the whole heathen
world.
What changes have been wrought in the
last fifty years! In China to clay there are
thirty Christian Churches at work, and the
number of Christians is increasing six fold
every ten years. Japan welcomes every Chris
tian teacher, arcl proclaims the Sabbath as the
weekly festival. For every convert there was
then in Burmah there are now a thousand;
there are 350 churches, and nine tenths of the
work ia clone by native missionaries. There
are 2,500 missionary stations in India, and
nearly 2,000 of them manned by native labor
ers, while Christians are increasing by more
than a hundred thousand in ten years. There
are self-supporting Christian congregations in
Persia and on the Black Sea; the>'e are 5,000
communicants gathered into ! the mission
churches of Syria. Gambia, Sierra Leone and
Liberia have large Christian communities, ag
gressive upon the neighboring heathen with
the aggression of the Gospel. There are 40,-
000 communicants in the churches of South
Africa, and 45,000 children in the schools.
Moffatt waited for years for a Bingle conver
sion, and he left behind him populations that
cultivate the habits of civilized life, and read
the Bible in their own tongue. There are
70,000 Christians gathered into the churches
of Madagascar. Polynesia is almost entirely
Christian. There are not less than 2,000,000
connected with the Christian settlements in
in heathen lands.
—•—i
The May-Pole in England.
Great were the doings in old times around
the May pole, for which the tallest tree was
selected. It was drawn to its place by as
many as thirty or forty yoke of oxen, their
horns decorated with flowers, followed by all
the lads and lassies of the village. The pole,
was wound or painted with gay colors, and
trimmed with garlands, bright handkerchiefs,
and ribbon streamers, from top to bottom.
With great ceremonies and shouts of joy, it
was lifted to its place by ropes and pulleys,
arid set up firmly in the ground ; and then the
people joined hands and danced around it.
The whole day was given ujj to merriment,
every one dressed in holiday clothes, doors
and windows were adorned with green boughs
and flowers, the bells rang, processions of
people in grotesque dresses were arranged,
and the famous Morris dancers performed.
In this dance the people assumed certain
characters. There was always Robin nood,
the great hero of the rustics; Maid Marian,
the queen with gilt crown on lie' head ; Friar
Tuck; a fool with his fool’s cap and hells; and
above all the hobby-horse. This animal was
made of pasteboarJ, painted a sort of pink
color, and propelled by a man inside, who
made him perform various tricks not common
to horses, such a threading a needle and hold
ing a ladle in his mouth for pennies.
The various characters labored to suppors
their parts. The friar gave solemn advice
the queen imitated lady like manners, the fool
joked and made fun, and the horse pranced
in true horsey style.
The Morris dance is supposed to have been
brought in early times from Spain, where the
Moors danced it, and where it 3till survives a
thp “ fandango ’’
In other places, wreaths were made on hcoj ■
with a g-aily dressed doll in the middle of each,
and carried about by girls, the little owners
singing a ballad which had been sung since
the time of Queen Bess—and expecting a
shower of pennies of course.
All this May day merriment came to an end
when our grim Puritan fathers had power in
England. Dancing aronnd the May-pole
looked to them like heathen adoration of an
idol. Parliament made a law against it, and
all the May poles in the Island were laid in
the dust- The common people had their turn,
when a few years latter, under anew king,
the prohibitory law was repealed, and anew
May-pole, the highest ever in England (one
hundred and thirty four feet), was aet up in
ile Sirand, London, with great pomp. But
the English people were fast outgrowing the
sport, and the customs have been dying nut
ever since. Now, a very few May-poles in
obscure villages are all that can be found —St.
Xitfe’at.
„ —*•*
One of the greatest pedestrian feats on record
was accomplished in this city yesterday. Aa
old toper passed a saloon without walking in
The “Man Eater” Shot.
A' dispatch from Middletown, N. Y , says:
The Hambeltonion stallion “ Risingham,” one
•f the finest bred horses in Orange county,
was kitted by his owner, Dr. J. A. Schultz, in
this place last night. This horse was twenty
one years old. An offer of $7,000 was once
refused him. At two years of age he was
considered the coming successor of Old Ham
bktonian, his sire. Nineteen years ago, how
eyer, he began to exhibit signs of viciousness
that increased as he became older. Finally
he became almost entirely unmanageable, and
has siqoe beep kuotyp as the " man eater”
He had kitted three men, and wounded, crip
pled and disfigured twenty others. For four
teen years no one dared to put him to a wagon
until a short time ago. Dr. Shultz, who
had owned him but a short time, with
the aid of several men, got him in har
ness and to a wagon, and tried to drive him !
It was a dear experiment. Tire stallion broke
everything to pieces, and the Doctor Was hfm
*elf saved by the iqeresjt ehpupe. Many of
the leading horse trainers of the country had
tried their skill at subduing hin\ tie con
quered them all, and nearly killed one of them.
One of his latest exploits was the seizing of a
negro groom who had undertaken to keep
him, tearing off the man’s cheek and destroy
ing the right eye, and stringing the flesh from
his right arm. The groom became blind and
paralyzed. The three men whp, preceded the
npgfo ag gfqqms ail narrowly escaped with
their lives. One lost an ear, another had three
fingers and a thumb taken off, and the third
left his arm from the elbow in the jaws of the
horse. It became impossible to get a groom
for the stallion. No one new at-what moment
the brute would pttapk him. Dr Schultz at
last made up his mind that “Risingham” was
chronically insane, and concluded to kill him
before he claimed another victim.
As Risingham stood in his stall glaring over
the manger at the spectators who had entered
the stable to see the man-eater die, five large
pistol balls were shot into his head, directly
between his eyes. They failed to bring him
down, and, uttering the fiercest of neighs, lie
made frantic efforts to get over the manger
among the bystanders, as a man drew the
attention of the horse away, Dr. Schultz, by a
skillful thrust of a long knife, severed his
jugular vein, and the blood spurted out in a
large stream. For a long time Riseingham
stood up under tire great flow of blood, relax
ing no efforts to get at the men. At length he
settled to the floor, but to the last maintained
his fierce disposition. The last movement he
made was to attempt to seize Dr. Schultz with
his teeth, the Dr having gone into the stall.
Horse men say that but for the temper of this
horse he would have been worth $30,000. •
\ot a Joint in hi* Body.
“ It’s a remarkabJe case,” J. H. Eberle of
Buffalo said in the rotunda of the Astor House,
“ but it’s a fact that Jonathan R. Bass of Cam
bria, Niagara county, hasn’t u joint in his body.
He went to bed in 18-57, and has never been
out of it since. IV can’t move even a finger.
I remember whe*.. ie ran as Captain of a canal
boat between Buffalo and Rochester, in 1830.
He was getting stiff then, and couldn’t do any
work He had to quit canaling, and then he
went to bookkeeping His joints just kept
getting stiffer and stiffer. Doctors couldn’t do
him any good. At last he had to give up, and
for twenty one years he has been abed at the
farm homestead of his family between Lock
port and Lewiston. His trouble commence*!
in ’4B- A pain shot through the bottom of his
right fool that tumbled him to the ground.
The foot commenced to swell, and got to be
almost twice its natural size. The stiffness in
the joints followed. Now Bass is literally a
bone man. There is no more bend to his legs,
aims and body than there is to a marble statue.
You can take hold of his feet, and, someone
else having his head, lift him up like a stick
of wood. His arms are as fast to his sides as
if they were nailed there. For eight years
after he went to bed he could move his arms,
but the joints finally became solid bone. They
have to feed him with a spoon. His jaws are
as immovable as his other joints. There is a
space between his teeth that is just wide enough
to get victuals through. In 18C9 he became
blind, His mind is sound, and he'll talk all
day with you, if you have the patience to wait
for him, as he speaks with difficulty.”— N. Y.
Sun •
Perils of the Time.
The first danger threatening young men
said a lecturer, was shallowness, the result of
the great bustle and intense activity of the
times in which we live. In the multiplicity of
business they fail to perfect themselves in any
one thing, and thus make the development of
Individual capacity impossible- He advised
young men to be masters, at least, of some
thing Another danger arose from a miscon
ception of the true elements of success. Money
is too often associated with the ideal of suc
cess, and false notion* prevail on the subject
of gentility. He had been informed that
throughout New England at the present time
it is extremely difficult to persuade young men
to become mechanics, farmers or laborers.
They are filled with ideas that they are going
to the big cities, and on Wall street or similar
places, they are somehow very soon to make
large fortunes. This is an unhealthy condi
tion of affairs. He noticed when his church
was repaired that the workmen were foreign*
ers many of whom received from $3 to $4
a day, whereas many well educated young
men are very glad to get emplo3meat at $lO a
week If wealth and gentility are the chief
objects of work, then soon will arise a dispo
sition to attain them at any means. All hon
est work is honorable.
They tell a fair story on one of the beat
Mississippi pilots: During a dense fog the
S‘earner took a landing A traveler, aDxious
to go ahead, came up to the unperturbed man
ager of the wheel and asked why the boat had
stopped. Too much fog; gan’t see the river,
answered him of the helm. But you can see
the stars overhead, came back from him who
had pail his fare. Yes, replied the urbane
pil *. but till the oiler busts we ain’t going
that way Passenger went to bed satisfied.
Mr. William H. Dana, of Mttioa, Ohio, a
relative of Charles A Dana, of the New 1 ork
Suu, recently committed suicide because of
disappointment in love. So learning, socia'
prominence an l wealth are.not strongholds
behi i which one can hide with safety from
the unerring darts of Cupid.
How to Cure a Cold.
One of our citizens who has Ireen troubled,
with a severe cold on the lungs effected his
recovery in the following simple manner. He
boiled a little boneset and hoarhound together
and drank freely of the tea before going to
bed. The next day he took five pills, put one
king of a plaster under his breast and another
under his arms, and still another on his
bacd. Under advice from an experienced old
lady be took all those off with an oyster knife
in the afternoon, and slipped on a mustard
plaster instead. His mother put some onion
drafts on his feet and gave him a lump of tar
to swallow. Then he put hot bricks to his
feet and went to bed. Next morning another
old lady came in with a bottle of goose oil,
and gave him a dose of it in a quill, and an
aunt arrived about the same time from Bethel
with a bundle of sweet fern, which she made
into a tea, and gave him every half hour, until
noon, when he took a big dose of salts.. After
dinner his wife, who bad seen an old lady of
grest experience in doctering, on Franklin
street,gave him two pills of her make, about
the size of an English walnut and of similar
shape, and two tablespoonfuls of home made
balsam to keep them down. Then he took a
half pint of hot rum at the suggestion of an
old sea captain in the next house, and steamed
his legs in an alcohol bath, At this crisis two
of|tbe neighbors arrived v?ho at once saw that
his blood was out of order ; and gave him a
half gallon of spearment tea and a big dose of
castor oil. Before going to bed betook “ight
of anew kind of pills, wrapped about his neck
a flannel soaked in hot vinegar und salt, and
feathers burnt on a shovel in ht 9 room He is
now thoroughly cured and full of gratitude.
We advise our readers to cut this out and keep
it where it can he readily found when dangei
threatens —Danbery Nem '
'I he Great Showman.
Barnum, the great showman, was recently
interview ed by a Philadelphia Press reporter.
We extract the following ;
“ How many children people have you with
your present show ?"
“ Between 800 and 700—men, women and
children—of these there are about 140 per
formers, the remainder being employed in
various other outside capacities about the
show.”
“ May I ask how much you Lave invested in
this speculation ?”
“ You would hardly believe it, but my pres
ent show represents nearly $1,500,000. The
expenses are about $3,000 a day. We have
been trying to keep it down to $2,700, but it is
hard work.”
“ How are the salaries of the various per
formers in the equestrian profession, Mr. Bar
num ?”
“ Well, I pay my best rider—be is the best
in the world—sloo a day, Sundays included :
that is S7OO a week. The leading lady eques
trienne gets S3O0 —they generally receive
about $' 50 to S2OO from other concerns. Pad
riders get about—well, say from SIOO to $125
per week.”
“ How are tbt acrobats and gyniHasts, and
that class of performer* paid ?”
“Fiom S6O to SIOO per week, according to
ability' and the danger of their performance.
There are a great many of them to be bad ;
always plenty on the market, eud I always
have the best.”
Do clowns receive ?”
“ Clowns always command good salaries,
and a really first class clown is woith $l5O to
$175 per week, anil some, such as Ted Almonte
—poor Ted! who died recently, was earning
more in the season.”
“ Advertising—”
“Ah!” said the great showman, with half
a sigh, “ advettising is a heavy drain, lnit if I
didn’t advertise I wouldn't make anything.
My pictorial printing this year has already
cost me $43.000 —but my newspaper bills in a
season amount to a great deal more. My ex
penses on my trip three years ago amounted to
$650,000, and in the last year, in six months,
the profit was $50,000.
No Use fop ’Em.
At a meeting of the Sazerac Lying Club
last evening, the medical member, when it
came to his turn to spout, delivered liim-elf of
the following, which, whether it was original
or not, is worthy of publication :
Once when I w>s practicin’ over in Brefra
count}’, California, a fellow got caved on by a
bank aud got his skull fractured clean out of
shape. They picked him up and brung him
to me, and I made a diagnosis of his case, and
found that his brain, which was exposed, was
full of dirt and rock. There wasn’t nothing
t > d<> but to take it out and clean it, the idea
of a man going round with the action of his
brain bein’ interfered with time or four
pounds of clay and gravel was clean out of
the question, and I set two much s‘ore on my
medical reputation to consent to any such do
in’s. I took out the brain and put it in a tin
pan, and while I was a washing of it the
patient seed a feller across the street what he
had some business with, and went over to
have a talk with him. He forgot to come
back after his briins, and I did not see him
again for two months, when one day bein’ in
county, I seed him. I bailed him and told him
them thar brains was up in my office, and if
he wanted ’em he’d better come and git ’em
“Don’t wbnt 'em,” said he
“ Why not,” said I.
“Wal, you see,” said he, “I’m runnin’ for an
office now, an 1 I don’t need ’em; fact is,
they’d be an incumbrance under the circum
stances.”
Explosive Quality of Dust. —A prize
was lately awarded to Professor R. Weber, of
Berlin, for bis investigations into the causes
of mill fires. He has shown that all sorts of
Hour in dust clouds are inflammable, and that
some of the explosions in coal mines, supposed
to be due to fire damp, Lave really been caused
by clouds of coal dust. A contemporary refers
to the fact that closely following these results
was the great mill fire in Minnesota, a few
days ago, in which the investigation of some
eminent American scientists reached similar
conclusions, attributing the conflagration to
the inflammability of flour in dust clouds. The
extent to which science has thrown light upon
the ordinary modes of life is remarkable.
“ Good morning,” said a compositor to the
head of a flourishing family, “ have you any
daughters who would n ake good type setters ?”
“ No, but I h ve a wife that would make a
| very good devil ”
PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS
An Etliiwr’g Mall.
The morning mail of the editor of a leadin'*
daily is not complete unless it contains, in ad
dition to its substantial business, letted from
the following well-known correspondents:
I. The man who wants to empty his old
scrap book into you.
• 3. The woman with a•• piece ”of poetry.
8. The respectable dead beat lecturer who
will furnish his old uotes interlarded with vig
orous puffs of himself, and wants to be paid
for it
4- 1 lie man with a currency scheme six col
umns long.
5. The man with a National finance system
ditto.
6- The man with an ohl sermon.
7. The person who importunately asks the
insertion of a communication as a favor, and
then writes a worrying letter daily inquiring
to know why it is not in.
8. The man, woman or child that would
like a “ roving commission ” for the press, un
der the impression that henceforth they w’oul 1
have to pay no hotel bills or railway fare.
9. The lady who wants to be a watering
place correspondent with similar views.
10 Ten or twelve men who want to slip in
advertisements of lectures, religious meetings,
land associations, colony schemes, private in"
sututie, concerts, etc., under false pretense's.
11. The regular batcli of applications for
employment; (a) as a matter of charity; (b)
because the applicant has always been unsuc~
cessful at everything else; (c) from influ- ntial
friends who want to pension some poor rela
tion they are keeping afloat; (and) from the man
who thinks he would be an excellent journalist
because be has never bad any training in the
profession ; (e) from the school girl who would
like to be a Washington correspondent.
12 The innumerable host who want ‘‘a lit
tle notice.”
Mother’* Advice lo Eliza
“Eliza,” said a fond mother to her offspring
recently, as that offspring was about going off
in tow of a young man who worships the very
sidewalk she walks on, “go to the breadbox
and eat a big crust or bread before you go out."
“Why,” replied the blushing girl, “I don’t
feel the least hungry. We have only just had
lea. “ 1 know it, but you will be hungrr be
fore you get back ; anil when Adolphus takes
you into a restaurant you’ll eat ice cream and
sponge cuke, mid ham sandwiches and oysters
enough to scare him out of a year’s growth.
Beware how you sit down on the budding
flame of Cupid. Of course Adolphus will
spend the money you save him on billiards
and things but that makes nodifference W’hen
he asks yon to go in and have some oysters,
don’t. Say you do not approve of girls wast
ing the money of their futuie husbands on
trifles when it might be applied to furnishing
a house. Point out that for the price of an
oyster stew you might purchase a couple of
towels, now' that toweling is so cheap, and
that a Saddle Rook roast is equivalent to one
silver fork, plated cf course, but not easily
distinguished from solid silver. This always
tukes with the young men; it sets them to
thinking ot housekeeping and matrimony; it
makes them believe you are the incarnation of
economy and would make an excellent wife;
and so they often say things which gives you
a hold over them and are effective before any
jury Eliza treasured up the sagacious coun.
sels and acted upon them with such earnest
ness an effect that when she came home she
was an engaged woman.
Ratn Gauges. —An Austrian nv-teorlog'st
(M Dines) Ims called attention to a source of
error in the use of the rain gauge that mav un
der certain circumstances, decidedly vitiate its
reliability. He lias observed, namelv, that the
amount of rain fall which two instruments
will register will depend notably on their re
spective distances from the ground. From the
result of experimental trials conducted during
tine year, with two instruments plae *d re*pec
tively at the height of fifty feet and four
fei t from the ground, the lower gauge
registered twenty-seven per cent, more rain
fall than the upper one; and tha* o-casion
ally when a rain fall was accompanied by a
high wind, the lower one showed two and
even time times as much ns the tip; er He
attributes the discrepancy to the greater dis
turbance suff red by the elevated gsm’es from
the action of the wind, and caution meteor
ologists that the readings of rain gauges can
not be taken to be reliable unless n> de with
instruments suspended at a uniform height
from the ground.
The Poor Gentleman.— There are more
young American men in the penitentiaries of
this country learning trades than there is out
side of them. The principal causes of this
are that we are educating our young men foi
gentlemen—trying to make lawyers, preachers,
doctors and clerks out of material that nature
intended for blacksmiths, and bricklayers, car
penters, tailors, and other honest “ hewers of
wood and drawers of water.” It is a mistake
and a big one to teach boys and girls that to
lalior is disgraceful, and to do nothing for u
living is more becoming to society in which
they expect to move and have the respect of.
Hang such society! It is rotton to the core
to-day, and there arc many men’s sons and
daughters who are now being educated to play
the parts of “ leading lady” and “ walking
gentleman” in the great drama of life, who
will light out for a poor-houe or peni entiary
before they have played their parts and ths
curtain drops. Go to a ork.— Courier- Journo*.
Two gentlemen were in Leavenworth, Ark ,
sevt ral years ago. with about $-50 in their
pockets. They desired to get money enough
to go to California. They w ent to separate
hotels. One registered as a physician and ad
vertised a remedy for cholera The other put
up a large quantity of yeast pox-ders into small
packages, with a little cro’on oil in each, and
h red a boy to distribute them. Soon fatnilv
after family, affected by the croton oil felt
what they blieved were symptoms of chokra.
The snl -of the cholera r medv was enoriim'-s,
an<l ihe gamblers were enabled to go to CVd
fornia. They now t-ll the story through tlio
Virginia City papers— Lenrrnvcortk Appeal
>•.
A curious old maid named Miss Mnxvefl
Graham, of Willinmswood. England, has > t
SIOQ,OUO to four i hunt able societies, where* th
to relieve poor Protestants who are named
Hutchinson or M ixwed, and to educi te their
, children.
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