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Tlio Gainesville Eagle. ri IHi I S!< i; I:. v i;ItV FKIDAY MOKSI S(j. ■ I . E3 . aBD W I N E, Kdiior and Proprietor* JOHN H L A T 8 , Publisher. I EBMB : s■'! A-Vpar, in Advance. OFFICE lip stairs in Candler Hall building, north-west corntr Public Square. Agents for The Eagle. •J. M. Rich. Dlairsville, oa.; J. D. Howard, Hiwas* ®. W. M. HAfsr>r.n*ov, Hayaville, N. C.; Db. N. €. Osßouar, BufoM, Oa. The aboye ijauioil gentlemen are authorized to nia!i4:olf.f<itiQ<|f. rtooive and receipt for subscription t o Tar smt office. ~nm - ■ ■ f-J - Kalcii ot* Advei'tifilug. Onn a<>i:*r pir *l<i*ra fox flrt insertion, and dftjr cuts hr *afc**oiiuent taMßtion. 107[T/' T MteHaFs-nottire. and ohltiiarte* ertvemlfifTfx Titter will be charged for as advertisements. Personal or abusive communications will not be inserted at any Communications of general or local interest, under a genuine signature r4peifatljr solicited from any aourfce. Kate* of l-cgal Advertising. HUeritf’s sales for each levy often lines or less $2 50 . Jfiaoh Miibsoquont teft lines or less - - 2 60 Mortgage aaled (6u days) per square - * 5 00 Each subsequent teu lines or less • 600 Aara’r'a, KxVsor Guard’n’s sales, (40 days) pr sq 5 00 Notice to debtors and creditors - - 5 00 Oitat's for let'ra of adm’n or gnard’ns’p (4 wks) 400 Leave to sell real estate - - - 6 00 Let'rs of dfsm’u of adm'n or guard'n (3 mo.) 0 00 Betray notices 300 Citations (unrepresented e.-tates) - - 400 lliile nisi in divorce cases - • - 6 00 Fractiona of a square (or inch) are charged in ail \ c uses as full squares or inches. Notices of Ordinaries calling attention of adminis trators, executors and guardians to making th-ir an nual returns; and of Sheriffs in regard to provisions , sections 3640, of the Code, published fkek for the j aUttriffrt and (Jrdfnariea who patronize the Eagle. Advertisers who desire a specified space for 3, 6 or 12 months will receive a liberal deduction from our I regular rates. 4* All bills .lue after first insertion, unless special i contract to the contrary be made. OI.NURAE DIRECTORY'. Hon. George V Kice, Judge S. C. Westetn Circuit. Emofy Spoer, Solicitor, Athens, (is. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. B. M. Wiuburn, Ordinary. J. It. Waters, Sheriff. J. J. Mayne, Clerk Hupei lor Court. N. B. Ularli, Tax Collector. J. H. Simmons, Tax Receiver. V. Whelchel, Surveyor. Bilward Lowry, Coroner. Samuel Lesser, Treasurer. CHURCH DIRECTORY. PttKHiiTTEiHAB Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland, Pas 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. Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at 9a. ui. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. Baptist Church Kev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor. Preaching Sunday morning. Sunday School at 9 a. ui. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 4 o'clock. FRATERNAL RECORD. Ai.lkuhavy Royal Arch Chapter meets on the Sec ond and Fourth 'fuesday evenings in each month. J. T. Wilson, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P. Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A.*. F.*. M.\, meets on the First and Third Tuesday evening in the month R. Palmoub, Bec’y. J. E Kkdwink, W. M. Aik-Line Lodge, No. 64, I. O. O. F., meets every Friday evening. C. A. Lilly, .Sec. W. H. Harrison, N. G. Gainesville Grange No. 340, meets on the Third Htiturdny and First'Tuesday in each month, at one clock, p. m. J. E. Redwine, Master. K. 1). (Wesiiire, Sec. Morning Star Lodge, No. 313, I. 0. G.T., meets ev ery Thura lay evening. Claud Ehtf.r, W. S. J. P. Caldwell, W. C. T. 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. GAINESVILLE POBT OFFICE, owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlanta mid Richmond Air Line RaUrood, the following will be the schedule frohi date: Mail fro n Atlanta (fast] d.li p. m. Mail for Atlanta (fasti .. .'11.20 a. m. Office hours: From 7 a. m. to 12 m., and from 1 )■% p, m. to 7 p. m. No office hours on Sunday for general delivery window. All cross mails leave as heretofore. MAILS CLOSE: Dahlouega (Stage, Daily) - * - 8:30 a.m. Jeffers on, (Htago, Wednesday and Saturday) 9:00 p. m. Cleveland, (Stage, Monday aud Friday) 8:0ff a. m. Homer, (Horse, Friday) 12:30 p. m. Wahoo “ M -i ■-f • s:ooa.ra. Dawsonville, (Horse, Saturday)' - 7 30 •* mailsarrive: * • Dahlouega, - 3:00p.m. Jeffersou ( Wednesday aud Sat rday) 6:00 p. m. Cleveland, (Monday aud Thursday) - &dK) “. Horner, (Friday) - - 12T00 m. WahOo *• * 6:00 a.m. £-B*ug9ouYUle, (Friday) - - 0:00 p.m. M. R. ARCHER, P.M. 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. _ng thus 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. NO. 46