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Hon. George V Kice, Judge S. C. Westetn Circuit.
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COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. B. M. Wiuburn, Ordinary.
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tor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and night,
♦•xerpt the second Sabbath. 8u day School at 9a. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o'clock.
Methodist Church Rev. 1). D. Cox, Pastor.
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J. T. Wilson, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P.
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R. Palmoub, Bec’y. J. E Kkdwink, W. M.
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Gainesville Grange No. 340, meets on the Third
Htiturdny and First'Tuesday in each month, at one
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K. 1). (Wesiiire, Sec.
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North-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS.,
nieota every Jst and 3d Saturday evenings, at Antioch
Church. A. Smith, W. C, T.
It. F. Gittknr, W. 8.
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Professional and Business Cards.
MAItLEB & PERRY.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. GAINESVILLK, GA,
Office in the Court House. One or the other of
the firm always present. Will practice in Hall and
adjoining counties. aug23-ly
A. .T . SHAFFER,
PHYSICIAN
AND
SURGEON,
Gninuiiyille, G
Office and Rooms at Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga.
jan‘2l-ly
INFIRMARY,
FOU TEIK TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF WOMEN,
AND OPERATIVE SURGERY,
At the Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga, by
jn2S tf A. J. SHAFFER, M. D.
V. I). LOCKHART, M. D.,
Polkville, Ga.,
WIDE PRACTICE MEDICINE in all its brandies.
Special attention given to Chrouie Diseases of
women aud obiUli eu. feblH-tlui
l)R. R. B. ADAIR,
DENTIST,
Gnineriville, Ga.
janll ly
MARSHAL L. SMITH,
Attorney and counsellor at law,
Datosnnville , Dawson county, Ga.
janl4-tf _
JOHN B. ESTES,
A TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hall county,
jA. Georgia.
C. J. WE LI BORN,
VTTORNKY-AT-LAW, Blairsville, Union county,
Georgia.
SAMI KL(\ DIINLAF,
VTTORNKY AT LAW, Gainesville, Ga.
Office in the Candler building, in the room
occupied by the Eagle iu 1375. aprStf.
W. K. WILLIAMS,
VTTORNKY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Cleveland, White Cos., Ga., will practice iu the
Courts of the Westeru Circuit, aud give prompt atten
tion to all business entrusted to his care.
June 12, 1874-tf
WYER BOYD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Dahlonctja. Ga.
I will Practice in the counties of Lumpkin,
Dawson. Gilmer, Fannin, Union and Town.spounties
nthe Blue Ridge Circuit; and. Hall, White and
Rabun iu the Western Circuit.
May 1,1874-tf.
B. F. WOFFORD,
A TTORNEY AT LAW, Homer, Ga.
JA Will execute promptly, all business entrusted
to his care. Mareh *2l, 1871-lv.
BEV. A. MARTIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Dahlonega , Ga.
July 21,1871-tf
s. K. ( IIRISTOPHER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Himatut. Ga.
Will execute promptly all business entrusted to
bis care. novl6tf
THOM AS F. GREER,
A TTORNEY AT LAW, AND SOLICITOR IN
J\. Equity and Bankruptcy, Ellijay. Ga. Will prac
tice in the State Court?*, and in the District ana Cir
cuit Courts of the L T . S., in Atlanta, Ga.
June 90,1873-tf
M. W. RIDEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gainesville, Georgia.
Jan. 1,1876-ly
~ J AMES M. TOW’ERY,
A TTORNFY AT LAW,
Gbiuesrille, G.
J. J. TURNBULL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Homer, Ga —Will practice
in all the counties composing the Western Cir
ouit. Prompt attention given to all claims entrusted
lo his care.
Jan. 1. 1875-ly.
JAMES A. BUTT,
V TTORNEY AT LAW A LAND AGENT, Blairsville
Ga. Prompt attention given to all business
euti - listed to his care. }uue 2,1371 U
The Gaines?ille Eagle.
Devoted to T*olitio, News of tlo Day, r i"lie Imprests*, Home Matters, and Oltoioe Miscellany.
VOL. X.
AT THB LAST.
I Tlie stream is carmest when it nears the tide
! Aud flowers ar* sweetest at the eventide,
f An 4 liirds most inusicsl at close of day,
j Aud saints diviaest when they pass away.
j Morning is holy, but a holier charm
j Lies folded close iu Evening’s robe of balm,
And weary man must ever love her best
For morning calls to toil, but night to rest.
She comes from heaven,' aud on her wings
doth bear
A boly fragrance, like ‘.he breath of prayer
Footsteps of angels follow in her trace,
To shut the weary eyes of day in peace.
I All tbiDgs are hushed before her as she throws
! O’er earth aud sky her mantle of repose;
j There is a calmer beauty aud power
Ii That morning kno\V3 not, in the Evening
heirr.
Until the Evening we must weep and toil—
Plow life’s stern furrow, dig the weedy soil—
Tread with sad feet our rough and thorny
way
And bear the heat and burden of the day.
i
j Oh ! when otir sun is setting may we glide,
| Like Summer Evening down the golden tide;
I And leave behind us, as we pass away,
j Sweet, starry twilight round our sleeping clay.
THE LESSOJi OF UK IFF.
We hold it to be a truth of great im
; portance that, while grief ill borne
demoralizes and deteriorates, grief
well borne borne with fortitude,
patience and wisdom—yields the soul
a bountiful harvest of compensation.
Increased moral power is developed
by this battle with pain. It is easy to
surrender aud give way to despair;
easy to complain and mope and forget
the wants of the world in our own pri
vate misery! easy to become so ab
sorbed in the indulgence of our own
emotions that by degrees wo lose the
consciousness of high duty to man
kind. But it is very hard to suppress
the pain iu our hearts and pluck out
j of the wound the barb that has pierced
us. Yet grief is disintegration of char
acter unless we subject it to this heroic
treatment. Before the first burst of
tempest we are overborne, and we in
dict useless agony on ourselves if wo
choose to break rather than to bend.
In a stern struggle with disaster,
nevertheless, lies its only power to
bless us to the end. The effort we
must make, painful as it is to get the
mastery of our own souls. There is no
sadder sight than to see one perma
nently crushed and broken in spirit
under sorrow;'and there is no grander
spectacle than that of a free soul rieiog
superior to evil, distilling honey, like'
ofSamarcafld. !T n>rr'oi j
aud death. Vigor of will and nobility
of character are to be learned nowhere
but in the stern school of misfortune.
THE MISTER.
♦
No household is complete without a
sister. She gives the finish to the
family. A sister’s love, a sister’s influ
ence—what can be more hallowed ? A
sister’s watchful care—can anything be
more tender ? A sister’s kindness—
does the world show us anything
purer? Who would live without a sis
ter? A sister that is a sister in fideli
ty, in part, in love—is a sort of guar
dian angal in the home circle. Her
presence condemns vice. She is
quickener of good resolutions, the sun
shine iu tho pathway of home. To
every brother she is light and life.
Her heart is the treasury house of
confidence. In her he finds a fast
friend, a charitable, forgiving, tender,
though often severe, friend. In her he
finds a ready companion. Her sympa
thy is open as day, and sweet as fra
grance of flowers. We pity the brother
who has no sister, no sister’s love. We
feel sorry for the home that is not en
livened by a sister’s prsence. A sister
office is a noble one. It is hers to
persuade to virtue, to win to wisdom’s
ways; gently to lead where duty calls;
to guard the citadel of home with her
sleepless vigilance of virtue; to gather
graces and strew flowers around the
home altar. To be a sister is to hold
a sweet place in the heart of home. It
is to minister iu a holy office.
Gov. Vance and Judge Settle were
itt the same buggy, going to meet an
appointment in the backwoods of a
mountain county, saw a mountaineer
in a field some (list'nee off. Vance
stood up and shouted, ‘Hallo! Hallo!
I Hurrah for Settle!’ The man stopped
and looked back. Vance shouted again,
‘Hurrah for Settle!’ ‘Dod blast your
Radical fly-trap,’ says the big moun
tain man, ‘if you’ll stop till I git thar
I’ll settle your gas-bag for you.’
A few evenings ago a policeman in
Richmond discovered an Irishman
kneeling before the bronze statute of
Stonewall Jackson in that city. The
officer at first thought the man was in
sane, but presently the latter arose
and said: “He was my old ginerald,
and I thought as I was passing I
would stop and pray for him”
Conscience has a thousand witness
es. A good conscience is to the soul
what health is to the body. It pre
serves a constant ease and serenity
within as, and more than countervails
all the calamities and afflictions that
can befall us.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MOINING, NOVEMBER 17, 1876.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS.
j Asa general rule, says the New York
Mai], the majorities in the electoral vote
have been very decided. To Washing
ton there was no opposition; but John
Adams got in by a close squeeze. Mr.
Adam3 had seventy-one, and Jefferson
sixty-eight votes. One of Adams’ votes
was from Virginia and one from North
Carolina. Had these two been given—
as it was natural they should have
been—to Jefferson, the Cavalier, in
stead of the PuritaD, would have been
Washington’s successor, and the Old
Dominion would have had an un
broken succession of Presidents for
thirty-six years. One of the Adams
electors in Maryland was chosen by
only four majority. In 1800, Jefferson
defeated Adams by only eight major
ity, the electoral vote being: Jefferson
73, Adams 05. In 1812, a change of
twenty votes in the colleges would
have prevented the re-election of Pre
sident Madison, who received 128 elec
toral votes, while DeWitt Clinton got
98. In 183 G, Mr. Van Buren would
have failed of an election had there
been a change of 23 electoral votes, as
he had but 22 over the number neces
sary to a choice—and Pennsylvania,
having thirty such votes, gave him but
a small popular majority. A change
of 3,000 in that State’s popular vote
would have defeated him in the col
leges, by sending thirty Whig electors
to the Pennsylvania college. As it was,
Col Johnson, the Democratic candi
date for the Vice-Presidency, was de
feated in the colleges, because Virginia
would not support him, her twenty
three votes being given for William
Smith, of Alabama. Colonel Johnson
was chosen by the Senate, the
stance of the kind known iy,,
tory. Great as was the po *
jority and the electoral majjjj’,
for General Harrison -' aa,ic ?'
would have been i
leges had it been
some eight or nii,
the four States oj'
vania, Maine ans
States cast 88 eft
added to the sixty
Buren received, would have the
just the number necessary t'.d
and yet there would have beeri-t
lar majority of moi*> than one ‘is
thousand against him. The'foul
named gave a populai*'Vtff oi :
100,000, thoijgh ttefi united ms,
fdV Gen. HaiTwinn did V.nt much
16,000 —New York giving him
more than 13,000, New Jersey
2,300, Maine 410 and Penns;
343. In 1844, Mr. Polk was gj
through the aid of the New Y &
tors, who were thirty-six in ni
and as Mr. Polk had 170 votes, $
number necessary to a chc
the whole number of electors * tl
he would have had but 134 vgt
New York decided against l , hivf
Clay had 105 votes, and had
ceived New York’s vote he would have
been chosen by 141 votes, or by a ma
jority of only five votes The vote of
New York was lost to Clay by the
running of James G. Birney as an
abolitionist candidate. The vote of
the State was: Clay, 232,482; Birney,
15,812; Clay and Birney, 248,294, and
Polk, 237,588. So Polk got the elec
toral vote, though not a majority of
the popular vote. The voters for Bir
ney were nearly all Whigs. In 1848,
nineteen electoral votes would have
given the Presidency to Gen. Cass, as
Gen. Taylor’s vote was 163, and that
of Gen. Cass 127, and some of Taylor’s
votes were got by small majorities. All
know that Mr. Lincoln did not get a
majority of the votes of the people iu
1860, though his electoral majority was
very decided, being 180 to 123 for
Breckinridge, Bell and Douglas. The
180 electors for Lincoln represented
1,866,452 votes, while the 123 for the
other candidates represented 2,813,741
voters, not counting South Carolina,
where the Legislature chose the elec
tors.
The late summer in the Northwest
has been a remarkable one. Hardly a
week passed during May, June and
July, as well as since, that peoplei
were not obliged to keep on fires in
the evenings, and often all day, owing
to the cold weather. The summer (if
it could be called such) was very short
with very hot days; only on two days
in July did the thermometer reach 95
degrees in the shade, and rarely was
it above 70 to 75 degrees July 7th a
heavy frost nipped what crops were up
pretty badly.
‘What do you know of the defendant
Mr. Thompson ? Do you consider him
a good musician?’ ‘On that point I
wish to swear with great care. Ido
not wish to insinuate that Mr. Van
slopes is not a good musician—not at
all! But I could not help observing
(people will observe queer things at
times) that, after he commenced play
ing on the clarionet, a saw-filer, who
lived next door, left homo, and has not
yet been heard of.’
No man can long keep locked up in
his heart a strong desire to do good;
it will show itself iu action.
MEN AND ANIMALS.
! That them is strong sympathy, often
; ripening into affection, between man
i and the domestic animals, says the
j Live Stock Journal, goes far to prove
that the Author of the world is a good
being, or that He delights in the affec
tions of his creatures. The attachment
existing between man and the animals
on which his very existence depends,
is one of the sweetest aspects of na-
ture. Like the summer sunset, it r&s
fleets upon the spiritual sphere an
efi’able charm of loveliness; but it ih
*o
not a mere lifeless mingling of color
however soft and beautiful, but a ehetf’ L
of love, for whose matchless
the languages of earth have no word.
It is felt; and that is saying a grea _
deal.
The farmer loves his horses, poultry
and herds, not merely because they are j
valuable in a pecuniary sense, but be
cause their honest faces, gentle eyes,
profound content, and graceful, not to
say grateful manners, touch his heart.
They all regard him as their friend and
protector. They acknowledge his lord
ship over them, and appear to rejoice
in it. Often they will quit their food
and come into their master’s presence
to signify that they worship him from
pure hearts.
There is a line of rapid communica
tion between the human and animal
intelligence, and along this line the
nobleman in ai
word, and employ
useful creatures ti-he i j -■* aud refine
both himself and his family. There are
plenty of means of refinement, if we
were wise and good enough to use
them, and no one in any station of life
has a fairer chance to become truly
noble and god-like than the farmer. If
he is coarse and savage it is his own
fault; for nature gave him every essen
tial means of rising in the scale of
being.
1 lie Proposed Conversion of the Baliars
Desert Into a Bea.
The proposed piercing of the Isthmus
of Suez, and the scheme of reconvert
ing the Sahara into a sea has induced
Dr. Reclam, the well known advocate
of cremation, to write an article in his
periodical called Gesundheit (Health.)
He points to a remarkable change in
the climate of Straits, be
tween Australia and New Guinea,
which, iu 1606, were only beset by
twenty-six coral islands, now aug
mented to one hundred and six. The
gradual deviation of a warm current
of sea water, owing to this successive
stopping up of the Torres passage, has
already wrought a great alteration of
the climate in those quarters.
Dr. Reclam apprehends a similar
danger for the European, and special
ly for the German, climate from the
deviation of the Galf Stream after the
piercing of the Isthmus of Suez. He
says Europe owes its moderate climate
partly to the warm water heating by
the Gulf Stream, partly to the hot r
heating by the wind from the African
desert. That hot wind known in
Switzerland as the Fohn is a snow
devourer and glacier-destroyer. With
out it the sun and the summer would
not suffice to stop the progress of a
glacier formation.
The ice-period of Europe explains
itself by assuming that the Sahara was
then covered with sea water. That ice
period would return if the desert were
reconverted into a lake. Dr. Reelam,
who is a friend of Fire, has decidedly
an objection to the extension of the
domain of V ater.—London fclxaminer.
iSTORH AL QUARREL.
if the most amusing of the Con-
squabbles was between two
who were never excited by
ftcofig prink —Jefferson Davis and
Henry,}. Foote. They wore sitting
in a,.ropi together at Wiliiard’s in
1848, * r £ into a discussion over a
letterAjgg j a V General Taylor, then
a.can,j^ ene th r he Presidency. One
*#sUe T another, and soon
iu .v reverend’ Senators were
rom the shoulder at each
?ai. noise of the encounter
inmates of the
5 ]ar |, and the combatants
coutfmd after some en-
and made friends.
Foote, ‘I should
f such a thing as
,he had not pass-
mistaken about that?’
It, apologetically.
j-Ot,’ retorted the im
j ,e.
r eaion that you struck
' s ’Mr. Davis.
Ft was you ! ’
i you.’
’Davis, I’ll swear it was
■ • Foote, would swear it
trike first.’
►strike first.’
Mr. Foote, ‘tl~
-.V.: and melting, Tha andU ’ - ve i es ’ OU S ht
, •ardlycomr" rai e ten out ’ He
stood
stock, q o hung clar dowu to
his nose. r ,o once I heerd a kind
o’ a ‘tear-rdfc and so help me pard,
thet cuss went rite through the yoke,
leavin’ his thole hide lay in’ thar
quiverin’ beside the tongue o’ the
wagon, and he stood thar without
hair or hide on him ahind o’ whar the
yoke sot. I got the skin open an’
backed him inter it, but he hasn’t been
the same steer since, an’ don’t seem to
thrive wuth a cuss, Us a fact, pard,
and I kin proved 011 1 ‘ y other steer
in the team ‘git up January
—whoo-boy—’
And the tea® moved off to an out-
fitting Louse.—Oheyenne Leader
Dabnur s witt listened to a long po
litical wbilfe riding down
town one day laid wee£, and at dinner
she said to her husbanJ: ‘Well, eight
clays more will decide this election.’
‘ln a measure,’ was Lis guarded reply.
‘l’m awful glad,’she continued. ‘You
commenced going out nights about
the first of March, and you’ve kept it
up ever since. I’ll be one happy wo
man about the *ygbth of November.’—
‘Charlotte,’ solemnly interrupted the
husband, ‘can’t you understand this
thing ? The election will occur on the
seventh of November, of course. Af
ter that date I must help count up the
returns, verify them, put our clubs in
training for the next campaign, exam
ine )he lies of the opposition, and so
forth, and it may be next April before
I get through. You must have pa
tience, for everything is working all
right.’ What could she do but burst
into tears ?
it is eertaia that Tilden’s popular
majority is more than a quarter of a
million. He will not be the President
of a minority of the people. In his
work of reform he will represent the
will of much more than half of the
American republic, and no doubt the
wishes and hopes of hundreds of
thousand who did not vote for him.—
New York Sun.
j CUITIUAL PERIODS OF LIFE.
From some elaborate tables drawn
up by Dr. Farr it would seem, as far
as can be made out, there are certain
very critical periods in our career. A
baby, for instance, has a very small
chance indeed of growing up. But,
ou the other huud, the period between
the tenth aud fifteenth years inclusive
is that in which the death average is
the smallest. At about thirty-five we
must begin to take care of ourselves
At this period constitutional changes
set in; our hair and teeth begin to fail
us; our digestion is no longer what it
used to be; we lose the vigor of youth
and neglect out-door exercise; abova
all, the cares of life begin to make
themselves perceptibility felt. It, is
at this time that deaths from suicide
take a marked place in the returns of
mortality, and there is also considera
ble reason to believe that habits of in
temperance are apt to suddenly devel
op themselves. The picture, however,
has its sunshiny side. It would take
of course a professed actuary to de
duce from Dr. Farr’s tables their ex
act result. It appears however, that
if a man tides over his fiftieth year he
may make tolerably certain of living
to seventy; while if he reaches his sev
enty-fifth year there is very strong
presumption that he will either turn
his ninetieth birthtday or very near it.
A still more interesting question is
opened by the series of tables which
show the average mortality in differ
ent professions and pursuits. Game
keepers are for obvious reasons the
. 'ffhiest class of our whole popula-
clergymen and agricultural la
£come next, and are followed by
_”s; solicitors and business
fortunate; while at the
male come unheal-
a curious
following
ordinary speci-
! r shape or figure
e enormous mass
he was enveloped.
a har certainly several pounds
pi of jewelry hanging on her
lders and chest. Her wrists were
encumbered with massive manacles of
,jgdd and silver, - ary one of hen
H-gers wer'e covereu with rings up*? o
the 6ret knuckle. Her face painted
! chety white all over, and her cheeks
arsely daubed with vermillion.
I r eyes and eyebrows
‘ r , Tier forehead, be
and another on her
her eyes were opened,
iuld see them, they were as
nd expressionless as the orbs
or .-<i’ax figure.
No wonder Philadelphia feels regret
to lose the Centennial Exibition. She
has made a good thiDg of it. A gen
tleman well versed in figures, and anx
ious to find out her pecuniary gains
iu the premises, calculates that the
sum expended ou account of the great
show, hotel and restuarant bills, hack
hire, side amusements, street car fares,
mementoes and other incidentals, will
amount to about $95,000,000. Besides
this, he estimates that over $25,000,-
000 was taken in by the railroad trans
portation lines carrying passengers and
freight to and from the exhibition. It
is reported still further, that the Brit
ish will present their exibititien build
ing to the city, which example is likely
to be followed by some of the other
nations and States of the Union. In
cases where these structures are not
given to Philadelphia outright, she
will have an opportunity to purchase
them at cheap rates, and be ready to
hold any other State, inter Stateß or
even international exposition at com
paratively trifling cost.
The phenomenon of flesh falling
from a cloudless sky, occurred in Gas
ton county, N. C., last Saturday after
noon. The shower, if such we may
term it, fell in a cotton field belonging
to James Hannah, who lives near Gas
tonia. The flesh —for such it certainly
is —fell for several minutes, descending
somewhat in the manner of hailstones
falling, and sprinkled a space of ground
equal to a square rod. Mr. Hannah,
who saw the shower as it fell, says it
was perfectly clear at the time, and that
there was nothing unusual visible in
the sky at the place of the singular oc
currence. Mr. R. Frank Clark, of this
place, returned from Gaston county
last Monday, and brought a specimen
of the flesh with him. A microscopic
examination indicates that it resembles
the flesh of a cow, and a gentleman in
town, who had the temerity to taste
it, says the taste is similar to that
of beef. —Yorkville (S. C.) Enquirer.
The most popular general -General
Holiday.
DEATH AMONG THE MODOC’S.
Three years ago they were removed
from Oregon to a reservation near Se
neca, Mo. At that time they number
ed 153. Of this number fifty-eight
have died since then, and the mortali
ty last mouth was greater than ever.
As in the case of the Fiji Islanders, dis
eases to which they have not be. n ac
customed, and of which they are en
tirely ignorant, have attacked them.
The comparatively inocuous malady
of whooping-cough prevails among
them, and eight have died of it. The
saddest feature of their case is that
there is no physician at the reservation
to care for them, and, as they know
nothing of the disease that have attac
ted them, they readily fall victims to
them. It would seem to be the part
of simple humanity for the Govern
ment to look into this matter. If it can
furnish ponies, food and ammunition
and arms to hostile Indians, it ought,
at least, to furnish medical aid to
this little hand full of Indians who are
dwelling peacefully on their reserva
tion.—Chicago Tunes.
John Chinaman may be caught
stealing, but nothing short of a surgi
cal operation will extract the goods
from his person and raiment. A San
Francisco correspondent of the Chica
go Tribune gives a case in point: A
Chinaman entered a cigar store, and
while asking his way to a certain
street, slipped a box of cigars up his
sleeve. A mirror betrayed him, and
a policeman was called. ‘Me honest
boy—allee same—belly good—no oiga
lee. ’ The box was in neither right
nor left sleeve, nor in either trousers
leg. The left elbow suddenly moved;
the policeman squeezed the bone;
John smiled; no box. The right
shoulder was agitated; the policeman ,
made a dash in that direction; another
smile; no box. Suddenly the cigar
dealer saw something creeping across
the Chinaman’s back, and clapped his
hand on it; another smile; lo ! the ci
gars ! At the police station the officers
found two more boxes—one under
each arm pit.
In no city in the United States is
the travelsta ned, weary traveler taken
as good care of as he is in a San An
tonia hotel. The manners and cus
toms of the guests are carefully stud
ied. A young man from the frontier,
stopping at one of the hotels, told the
clerk, the other evening, that we was
going to be out late. “Just wait a
minute,” replied the accommodating
clerk, and he rushed off, but soon ap
peared again with a large envelope,
which he placed iu the guest’s breast
pocket with the remark: “That is a
bond for your appearance before the
recorder, properly signed. As soon
as you are arrested for being drunk
and disorderly, just give the bond
to the policeman, mention my name
to him, and he will bring you home in
a hack. Good night! God bless you.”
Thar iz no cure for being or lazy
ness; death cuius the nearest to it ov
ennythiug that has been diskovered
yet. It iz hard to tell whether a lazy
man iz alive or not; and az for liars,
they hav been known to lie still after
they had been dead for centarys.—
Gittiug married to an aktive widder
has been known to shake the dust out
ova lazy man for a short period, but
he Boon settles down into a korner
agin, az quiet az a oobweb, and leaves
the widder to spank the yung ones and
weed out the garden to suit herself.—
Billings.
An agent for tho sale of some house
hold article attempted to mount the
steps of house receuty, but a dog came
around the corner and took half a yard
of cloth from the back of his coat.
The man was sliding out when the
owner of the house came aud asked:
“Did dose dog bite you?’’ “He didn’t
bite me, but he ruined my coat,” was
the reply. My goot friend, excuse
doze dog if he didn’t bide you. He
ish a young clog now, but by and by
he shall take holt of some agents
and eat der pones lide oud of them.
He bides a coot now, but he shall soon
do petter.”
“Ah” said the worthy old Mis.
Stubbs, as she stood staring at a
placard on which was inscribed “Youth
wanted”—"yes I dessay. Most on us
who have got a bit oldish, as you may
say, might carry a ticket about with
‘Youth wanted’ printed on it. But
what with old Father Time, aud what
with troubles and trials, most on us
will have to go on saying ‘Youth wan
ted,’ I expect, for a long time to
come.”
How pleasant his smile and with
what cordiality he grasps the hand of
every one he meets. Benevolence
sticks straight out from every point of
his face, aud he seems to love the
whole world. Aud yet he is not a hu
manitarian or a philanthropist. He is
a candidate.
Beal estate, it is estimated, will ad
vance 25 per cent, within the next
ninety days, in consequence of the
Democratic victory.
Jiing and lile
anner.
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nose.
Pepnlsive
t.riangu
dof half
part of
;ited in a
She had a
FEATHERS.
Hayes felicitates himself that ho
didn’t resign the Governorship.
They are making a crusade against
physicians in Manchester, England.
It pays to make people happy, and
it can be done ou small capital.
Tildeu, Thanksgiving and turkey,
a tuneful, toastful trio, talismanio to
aT.
Wisdom is the talent of buying
virtuous pleasures at the cheapest
rate.
The Minneapolis street car company
has issued half fare tickets for school
children.
Gambling in Oregon is to be totally
suppressed, if the provisions of anew
law are enforced.
According to Professor Loomis,
storms move over the earth at the rate
of 26 miles an hour.
The Radical Treasurer, of Philadel
phia is proved a defaulter to the State
to the amount of $300,000.
Air aud scandal are much alike —the
oftener they are breathed the worse
and more poisonous they become.
It is Said that when a man is full of
whisky he can’t freeze. We daily
meet men who anticipate a terible cold
snap.
All the religious training of early
childhood vanishes from a man’s
memory when he takes hold of a Lot
lamp chimney.
The Democratic hammer has fallen
with weighty strokes, converting the
sword into the plough-share and the
bayonet iuto a priming hook.
Don’t, hard words come bubbling
right up in your throat when you
step dowu a low place in the side
walk, not knowing it was there ?
Two enterprising Californians, who
four years ago, planted a thousand
acres in walnuts and almonds, will net
over $250,000 from this year’s crop.
The great question is at last|settleJ.
A Pennsylvania woman says she can
walk twenty miles a day in men’s
clothes and only twelve in female
apparel.
Throughout the election day the
United States war vessels Canonicus
and Osipee lay at anchor at New Or
leans so as to command the principal
streets.
No more military despotism in the
South; no more starving workmen iu
the North; no more unconstitutional
laws; but peace, prosperity and justice
on every side.
Anew style of trowsers for boys has
been invented in Boston. The articles
have a copper seat sheet-iron knees,
riveted seams and water-proof pockets
to hold broken eggs.
‘Gamblers with National credit’ is
the name Mr. Belmont gives those Re
publicans who are predicting financial
ruin iu the case of Tildeu’s election.
The coat fits them, exactly.
A newspaper correspondent, who
saw Uncle Samuel a few days ago,
writes that the old governor’s step
is firm and elastic, and that he has
gained in flesh and vigor within the
last year.
‘lt is proof of the singular operation
of the human mind,’ says a mental
philosopher, ‘that when two men acci
dentally exchange hats, the man who
gets the worst is always the first to
discover the mistake.’
A party of Germans employed in a
mill at South Adams, Mass., went to
Pittsfield to be naturalized, and after
procuring their papers held a prayer
meetiug in which divine guidance as
voters was implored.
An unknown and mysterious rider,
mounted on a white horse is said to ap
pear among the Servians during battle
and to direct their movements, disap
pearing when the battle is over. He
is supposed to be an exiled Ku-Klux
‘What are you about ?’ inquired a
lunatic of a cook, who was industri
ously stripping the feathers from a
fowl. ‘Dressing a chicken,’ answered
the cook. ‘I should call that undress
ing,’ said tho crazy chap in reply. The
eook looked reflective.
Somebody in a distant part of the
State wrote to the White county (Ark. )
Record inquiring where the Rev. Ed
ward Thompson was, and got the fol
lowing reply: ‘This is Brudder Thomp
son, now in jail for stealing a poor
colored woman’s money.’
The biggest gun in the world, Vic
tor Emanuel’s 100-ton infant, has
fired its first shot at Spezzia with 330
pounds of powder and a ball weighing
2,000 pounds only. The hydraulic
machinery by which only the monster
can be moved worked perfectly.
The outlook for cheaper tea is good.
This plant was only introduced into
India forty years ago, and already two
thousand acres are covered with it on
the slopes of the Neilgherry hills. The
yield of the current year has been over
18,000,000 pounds, value $10,000,000.
The manufacture of iron in the
West is rapidly increasing in amount.
In Chicago alone there are two of the
ten Bessemer steel works iu the Uni
ted States, and these made 85,000 tons
of the 291,000 tons of the Bessemer
steel rails manufactured in Ibis coun
try last year.
A Maryland shoemaker has pegged
away ever since he was a boy, and al
though he is now 75 years old, and
never possessed $25 at a time, he is
quite happy and industrious.—Ex.
Heel do. He Las a contended sole,
and as he waxes to his end, the upper
feelings of his nature cling to the last.
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