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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Gaiuesville, Hall county,
Georgia.
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June 12, 1874-tf
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ATTORNEY' AT LAW, Dahlottega, Ga.
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nthe Blue Ridge Circuit; and Hall, White and
Rabun in the Western Circuit.
May 1, 1874-tf.
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VTTORNEY AT LAW. Homer, Ga.
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July 21,1871-tf
S. K. CHRISTOPHER,
A TTOHNEY AT LAW, Hiwaesee, Ga.
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THOMAS F. GREER,
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-A Equity and Bankruptcy, KUijay, Ga. Will prac
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cuit Oeurts of the U. S., in Atlanta, da.
June 20,1873-tf
m. wTriden,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, GtriHasvil/e, Georgia.
Jan. 1,1876-ly
,lAIVIES M. TOWERY,
A TTORNFV AT LAW,
Gainesville, G-.
J. J. TI KNBI IJL, "
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Homer , Ga — Will practice
iu all the counties composing the Western Cir
■ouit. Prompt attention given to all claims entrusted
to his care.
Jan. I, 1875-ly.
JAMES A. BUTT\
Attorney at law a land agent, Btaim-uie
Ga. Prompt attention given to all business
enttusted to his care. June 2,1271-t-l
The Gainesville Eagle.
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VOL, X.
MY MOTHER’S SMILE.
Though many ytars have passed away,
Since died my mother, loved so well,
Her smile is for me every day—
So sweet, I have not words to tell;
When pain and anguish wring my brow,
And life seems weary, dreary gain,
And I am staggering from some blow,
Dealt me by the mean and vain—■
Tis then that matchless loving smile,
Dispels my gloom from usage vile.
It may be, that ’tis fancy all,
That she I loved next to my God,
Has perished as the leaf does fail,
To rise no more than it from sod;
It may be, that the soul is light,
Which, as a candle’s, wastes away,
And all our beamy hopes so bright,
Are nothing more than senseless clay !
let, my mother’s smile, it seems to be,
Eternal, as the stars I see.
That gentle son!, that gracious heart,
My boyhood’s wayward spirit led,
And plumed me for an honest part
Through this sad world, in sin so dead 1
It was her smile which ruled me then,
It is her smile that guides me now,
And though I’m grieved by ways of men,
Her memory crowns with peace my brow—
For, oh, my mother’s smile, I know
Points to rest from sin and woe !
A life where figares will not lie,
Where meanness shall not enter in,
Where Friendships are not born to die,
For there the soul is free from sin;
A life where beauty cannot curse,
Where genius shall have gentle care,
And where the inspired art of verse
Shall not, as here, so roughly fare—
My Mother’s smile, that life to me,
Makes clear as things so pure can be.
There are who live and die like brutes,
Who see in Christ no “word of life;”
Whose work and talents yield but fruits,
Growing from unholy strife;
What’s he who thrives by cunning arts,
Wronging those he should treat fair—
How from such souls the light departs,
To make of Death a dark despair !
No sainted mother’s gracious s nile.
Could peace secure, or fears beguile.
A MERRY HEART.
Id rather be poor and merry, than
inherit the wealth of the Indies with a
discontented spirit. A merry heart, a
cheerful spirit, from which laughter
wells up as naturally as bubbles the
springs of Saratoga, is worth all the
money-bags, stocks, and mortgages of
Wall street. The man who laughs is
a doctor, with a diploma endorsed by
the school of Nature; his face doefj
more good in a sick room than a
pound of powders or a gallon of bitter
draughts. If things go right, he
laughs, because he is pleased; if things
go wrong, he laughs, because it is
cheaper and better than crying.—
People are always glad to see him,
their hands instinctively go half way
out to meet his grasp, while they turn
involuntarily from the clammy touch
of the dyspeptic, who spreads on the
groaning key. He laughs you out of
your faults, while you never dream of
being offended by him; it seems as if
sunshine came into the room with
him, and you never know what a pleas
ant world you are living in until he
points out the sunny streaks on its
pathway. Who can help loving the
whole-souled, genial laughter? Not
the buffoon, nor the man who classes
noise with mirth—but the cheery, con
tented man of sense and mind! A
goodhumored laugh is the key to all
breasts. The truth is, that people like
to be laughed at iu a genial sort of a
way. If you are making yourself ri
diculous, you want to be told of it in a
pleasant manner, not sneered at. And
it is astonishing how frankly the
laughing population can talk without
treading on the sensative toes of their
neighbors ! Why will people put on
long faces, when it is so much easier
and more comfortable to laugh ? Tears
come to us unsought and unbidden.
The wisest art in life is to cultivate
smiles; to find tho flowers where oth
ers shrink away for fear of thorns.
BEGIN AT HOME.
W hy do you begin to do good so far
off? This is a ruling error. Begin at
the center and work outward. If you
do not love your wife, do not pretend
to such love for the people of the anti
podes. If you let some family grudge,
some peccadillo, some undesirable
gesture, sour your visage toward a sis
ter or daughter, pray cease to teach
beneficence on a large scale. Begin not
at the next door, but within your own
door, then with your next neighbor,
whether relative, servant, or superior.
Account the man you meet the man
you are to bless. Give him such
things as you have. ‘How can I make
him or her happier?’ This is the
question. If a dollar will do it give a
dollar; if advice will do it give advice;
if a look, a smile, or a warm pressure
of the hand, or a tear will do it, give
the look, smile, hand, or tear; but
never forget that the happiuess of our
world is a mountain of golden sand,
and that it is your part to cast some
contributory atom every moment.
It always happens that he who has
the good luck to have a quiet imper
turbable nature, has also the further
good luck of being praised for it as
for a Christian virtue, while he who
has the ill-fortune to be born with irri
table nerves, has the further ill-fortune
of always being considered a sinner on
account of it.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY' MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1876.
ROOM AT THE TOP.
The following article, written by Dr.
J. G. Holland of Scribner’s Monthly, is
fall of suggestions which every young
man should ponder:
To the young men, annually making
their entrance upon active life, with
great ambitions, conscious capacities
and high hopes, the prospect is, in
ninety-nine cases in a hundred, most
perplexing. % They see every avenue to
prosperity thronged with their superi
ors in experience, in social advantages
and in the possession of all the ele
ments and conditions of success.
Every post is occupied, every office fill
ed, every path crowded. Where shall
they find room ? It is related of Mr.
Webster, that when a young lawyer
suggested to him that the profession
to which he had devoted himself was
overcrowded, the great man replied:
“Young man there is always room at
the top.” Never was a more wiser or
more suggestive word said. There
undoubtedly is always room enough
where excellence lives. Mr. Webster
was not troubled for lack of room. Mr.
Clay and Mr. Calhoun were never
crowded. Mr. Everts, Mr. Cushing
and Mr. O’Conor have plenty of space
around them.
The first years of every man’s busi
ness or professional life are years of
education. They are intended to be in
the order of nature and Providence.
Doors do not open to a man until he
is prepared to enter them. The man
without a wedding garment may get in
surrepitously, but he immediately goes
out with a flee iu his ear. We think it
is the experience of most successful
men who have watched the course of
their lives in retrospect, that whenever
they arrive at a point where they were
thoroughly prepared to go up higher,
the door to a higher place had swung
back of itself, and they have heard the
call to enter. The old die, or volunta
rily retire for rest. The best men
who stand ready to take their places
will succeed to their positions and its
honors and emolument.
The young men will say that only
a few will reach the top. That is true
but it is also true that the further from
the bottom one goes, the more scatter
ing the neighborhood. One can fan
cy, for illustration, that every profes
sion and every calling is pyramidal in
its living constituency, and that while
only one man is at top, there are sev
eral ties of men below him who have
plenty of elbowroom, an that it is only
at the base that men are so thick that
they pick the meat out of one another’s
teeth to keep them from starving. If
a man has no power to get out of the
rabble at the bottom, then he is self
convicted of having chosen a calling
or profession to whose duties he haß
no adaptation.
The grand mistake that young men
make during the first ten years of
their business and professional life, is
in idly waiting for their chance. They
seem to forget, or they do not know,
that during those ten years they en
joy the only leisure they will ever have.
After ten years in the natural course
of things, they will be absorbingly
busy. There will then be no time for
reading, culture, and study. If they
do not become thoroughly grounded
in the principles and practical details
of their profession during those years;
if they do not store their minds with
useful knowledge; if they do not pur
sue habits of reading and observation
and social intercourse, which result
in culture, the question whether they
will ever rise to occupy a place where
there is room enough for them will be
decided in the negative.
The young physicians and young
lawyers who sit idly in their offices,
and smoke and lounge away the time,
“waiting for something to turn up,”
are by that course fastening themselves
for life to the lower stratum, where
their struggle for a bare livelihood
is to be perpetual. The first ten years
are golden years, that should be filled
with systematic reading and observa
tion. Every thing that tends to pro
fessional and personal excellence
should be an object of daily pursuit.
To such men the doors of success open
of themselves at last. Work seeks the
best hands, as naturally as water runs
down hill; and it never seeks the
hands of a trifler, or of one whose only
recommendation for work is that he
needs it.
In the realm of eminent acquirments
and eminent integrity there is always
room enough. Let no young man of
industry and honesty despair because
his profession or calling is crowded.
Let him always remember that there
is room enough at the top, and that
the question whether he is ever to
reach the top, or rise above the crowd
at the base of the pyramid, will be de
cided by the way in which he improves
the first ten years of his active life in
securing to himself a thorough knowl
edge of his profession and a sound
moral and intelleetural culture.
Not to be able to bear poverty is a
shameful thing, but not to know how
to chase it away by work is a more
shameful thing.
THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT AND ITS
IVORY.
The ivory of the African elephant is
extremely valuable, and vast quantities
of it are imported into this country.
The male elephant, when full grown,
has tusk3 varying considerably in size
in different individuals, but most valu
able when they are large, straight and
light in color. A pair of tusks weigh
ing about 150 pounds will reward the 1
hunter with a sum of nearly £4O when
sold, so that the produce of a success
ful hunting campaign is not to despis
ed. On an average e::ch pair of full
grown tusks weigh from 70 to 120
pounds. The African tusks are more
esteemed for manufacturing purposes
than the Asiatic, being of closer tex
ture, and less liable to turn yellow.
The imports of tusks into this country
amounted in 1867 to 10,343 cwt. Tak
ing the weight of each tusk at 60
pounds, the number would be about
19,300 tusks, & fact which presumes
the slaughter of at least 9,500 male
elephants during one year. Inasmuch,
however, as this destruction fall only
on the males (or ‘tuskers,’ as they are
called), there is less foundation than
might at first be supposed for the sur
prise that has frequently been expres
sed that the breed of this noble pach
yderm has not been more diminished.
The imports from Western Africa into
Great Britain in 1866 amounted to 2,-
078 cwt. The East Coast furnishes
1,024 cwt., Egypt 3,628 cwt., and the
Cape 526 cwt. A good deal of ivory is
also exported from Zanzibar to Bom
bay. The chief consumption for ivory
in England is for the manufacture of
knife handles, 180 tons being annually
worked up in Sheffield for that purpose
alone.
But there are other seats of manu
facture where ivory is carved and turn
ed into chessmen, billiards balls, the
keys of musical instruments, thin
plates for minatures, mathematical and
other instruments, artificial teeth, cov
ers for church services, small frames,
and an immense variety of objects of
use, ornament, or amusement. Ivory
articles are said to be manufactured to
a greater extent and with better suc
cess at Dieppe than in any other place
in Europe. But the preparation of
beautiful substance is much better un
derstood by the Chinese than by any
other people. No European artist has
hitherto succeeded in cutting concen
tric balls after the manner of the Chi
nese; and their boxes, chessmen, and
other ivory articles are far superior to
any that are to be met with anywhere
else.
The choice of ivory in the market is
accomplished with considerable uncer
tainty, even to experienced buyers.
The purchaser has to make the best
selection he can by choosing a tusk as
nearly straight, solid, and round as
possible, with a smooth rind and free
from cracks, and a point that gives evi
dence in the worn part that the tusk
is of the desired fineness of grain. Yet
with all these precautions it is only
after tho first cut of the saw that the
quality of the ivory can be determined.
The refuse scraps and waste arsing
from the sawing of ivory are burnt in
retorts for the purpose of making ivory
black, used in copper-plate printers’
ink.
A SCHOOLBOY ON CORNS.
Corns are of two kinds—vegetable
and animal. Vegetable corn grows in
rows, and animal corn grows on toes.
There are several kinds of corn; there
is the unicorn, capricorn, corn dodg
ers, field corn, and the corn, which is
the corn you feel the most. It is said,
I believe, that gophers like corn,
but persons having corns do not like
to “go fur” if they can help it. Corns
have kernels, and some colonels have
corns. Vegetable corn grows on ears,
but animal corn grows on the feet at
the other end of the body. Another
kind of corn is the acorn; these grows
on oaks, but there is no hoax about the
corn. The acorn is a corn with an in
definite article indeed. Try it and see.
Many a man when he has a corn wish
es it was an acorn. Folks that have
corns sometimes send for a doctor, and
if the doctor himself is corned he
probably won’t do so well as if he is'nt.
The doctor says corns are produced by
tight boots and shoes, which is proba
bly the reason why when a man is
tight they say he is corned. If a farmer
manages well he can get a great deal
of corn on an acre, but I know of a
farmer that has one corn that makes
the biggest acher on his farm. The
bigger crop of vegetable corn a man
raises the better he likes it; but the
bigger crop of animal corn he raises
the better he does not like it. An
other kind of corn is the corn dodger.
The way it is made is very simple,
and is as follows—that is if you want
to know: You go along the street and
meet a man you know has a corn,
and a rough character; then you step
on the toe that has a corn on it, and
see if you don’t have occasion to
dodge. In that way you will find out
what a corn dodger is.
. A (JUAKER TO HIS WATCHMAKER.
I herewith send my pocket-clock,
which greatly standeth in need of thy
friendly correction. The last time he
was at thy school he was in nowise
reformed, nor in the least benefited
thereby; for I perceive by the index of
his mind, that he is a liar, and the
truth is not in him; that his motions
are irregular and wavering; that his
pulse is somewhat slow, which beto
keneth not an even temper; at other
times it waxeth sluggish, notwith
standing I frequently urge him; when
he should be on his duty, as thou
fcnowest his name denoteth, I find him
slumbering, or, as the vanity of hu
man reason phrases it, I catch him
napping. Examine him, therefore,
and prove him, I beseech thee,
thoroughly, that thou mayest, being
well acquainted with nis inward frame
and disposition, draw him from the
error of his way, and show him the
path wherein he should go. It grieves
me to think, and when I ponder
thereon I am verily of the opinion that
he is foul, and that the whole mass is
corruption. Cleanse him, therefore,
with thy charming medicine, from all
pollution, that he may vibrate and cir
culate according to truth. I will place
him for a few days under thy care,
and pay foFhis board as thou requir-
est. I entreat thee, friend John, to
demean thyself on this occasion with
judgment, according to the gift which
is iu thee, and prove thyself to be a
workman. And when thou layest thy
correcting hand on him, let it be with
out passion, lest thou shouldest drive
him to destruction. Do thou regulate
his motion for a time to come, by the
motion of light that ruleth the day,
and when thou findesl him converted
from the error of his ways, and more
conformable to the above-mentioned
rules, then do thou send him home
with a just bill of the charge drawn
out with mederation, and it shall be
sent to thee in the root of all evil.
THE BUCKSHOT WAR.
About forty years ago there was in
Pennsylvania what was called the
“Buckshot War.” After the people
had decided at the ballot box that a
Democratic Governor was elected, the
pai\ty in power, headed by Thaddeus
St. 1 * SPa, determined they would not
gi‘*s up the game, and undertook to
chajnge the returns so as to make it
appear that Joseph Ritner, the Whig
and anti-Masoric candidate, was cho
sen by the people. Somehow or other
the honest yeomanry of the old Key
stone State got it into their heads that
the majority should rule, and in this
firm belief they swarmed to Harris
burg in resistless crowds to prevent
the consummation of the infamous
crime. They went there in their maj
esty and might, and asserted their
sovereign rights in such a posi
tive and unmistakable way that- very
soon the bold conspiracy melted be
fore the people’s wrath like snow
flakes before the morning sun. In
the meantime, while the snow was
melting, Thaddeus and two of his cow
ardly companions, overcome with ter
ror, jumped out of the back window
of the capitol and fled into the dark
ness, which protected them. The
storm then passed on, the Democratic
Governor was inaugurated, and all
was quiet on the Susquehanna. The
history of forty years ago may be re
peated iA the centennial year !—Balti
more Gazette.
GREAT BATTLES OF THE WORLD.
At Durham, 1846, there fell 15,000;
at Halidonhill and Agincourt, 20,000
each; Bauxen and Lepante, 25,000
each; at Austerlits, Jeon and Lutzen,
30,000 each; at Elyan, 60,000; at Wa
terloo and Quatre Bras, one engage
ment, 70,000; at Doredino, 80,000; at
Fontenoy, 100,000; at Yarmouth, 150,-
000; at Chalon, no less than 300,000 of
Attilla’s army alone. The Moors in
Spain, about the year 800, lost in one
battle 80,000; in another, four centu
ries later, 180,000, besides 50,000 pris
oners; and in a third, even 200,000.
Still greater was the carnage in ancient
times. At Cannae, 70,000 fell.
The Romans alone, in an engage
ment with the Cimbri and Tentones,
lost 80,000. The Carthagenians attack
ed Hymera in Sicily with an army o ?
300,000 men, and a fleet of 2,000 ships
and 3,000 ships and 3,000 transports;
but not a schooner or transport escaped
destruction, and of the troops only a
few in a small boat reached Carthage
with the melancholy tidings Marius
slew, in one battle, 140,000 Gauls, and
another 290,000. In the battle of
Issus, between Alexander and Darius,
210,000 were slain; in that of Arbela,
300,000. Julius Caesar once annihilated
an army of 362,000 Helvetians; in a
battle with the Usipetes he slew 400,-
000; and on another occasion he mas
sacred 430,000 Germans, who ‘had
crossed the Rhine with their herds and
flocks and little ones in quest of new
settlements.’
Revolutionary movements in Mexico
still continue.
MEABURING THE CONTINENT.
Mr. George A. Fairchild, of the
United States Coast Survey, is en
gaged in a trans-continental triangu
lation. The object of this survey is
to determine the length of the thirty
ninth parallel from the Atlantic and
Pacific coast, and connect the surveys
of the two coast lines. It will also
furnish additional data for determin
ing the shape of the earth’s surface,
and then all these triangulation points
will give accurate data for the surveys
of the different States. This will be
the longest triangulation ever made in
any country, the distance being some
three thousand miles. Eleven m^s-
urements of degrees, for the determi
nation of the curvature of the earth’s
surface, have been made by other
countries, of which nine only belong
to the present century. The present
triangulation across the continent was
commerced several years ago. On
the Atlantic coast the starting point
was on the Chesapeake, and the trian
gulation is completed to Harper’s Fer
ry, and from the latter point a special
reconnoissance has been made to the
Ohio River, striking it on the thirty
ninth parallel. Coming east from the
Pacific coast, Professor Davidson, of
the Coast Survey, is in charge of the
triangulation from a point above San
Francisco to the Sierra Nevada. Some
three or four years ago the survey
was started at St. Louis, working both
ways to join the work from the east
and west.
BAD TEMPER.
There are few things more produc
tive of evil in domestic life than a
thoroughly bad temper. It does not
matter what form that temper may as
sume, whether it is of a sulky kind that
maintains perfect silence for many
days, or the madly passionate, which
vents itself in absolute violence. Ill
temper at any age is a bad thing; it
never does anybody any good, and
those who indulge in it feel no better
for it. After the passion has passed
away one sees that he has been very
foolish, and knows that others see it
too. Bad temper in the aged, is, per
haps, the most trying of all; it is in
deed a pitiable sight to see the wrin
led cheek of an old person aflame with
the fires of anger and passion. Since
anger is useless, and an unspeakable
misery to its victims, why should it be
indulged iu at all ?
A gentleman who was obliged to
ride over the Woonsocket branch of
the New York & New England Rail
road, and had been greatly annoyed
by having packages stolen from him
in the cars, concluded to trap the thief.
He procured a long, striped snake, put
him in a collar box, and on entering
the cars laid it on the seat beside him.
Soon a portly old lady came puffing
into the car and took a seat beside the
gentleman in question, who was ap
parently absorbed in reading an even
ing paper. It wasn’t long before the
box disappeared under her shawl, and
her curiosity soon led her to open the
box to look at her prize, and the snake
glided into her lap. The scene can
be better imagined than described,
but that man never lost any more
packages.
The current talk concerning the
disqualification of electors recalls the
manner in which John Randolph as
serted his rights to a seat in Congress
to which he was not eligible. When
he was elected for his first term he
was under the age of twenty-five, and
Henry Clay knew the fact. When he
made his appearance in the House he
was interrogated by Mr. Clay as to his
years. The gentleman from Roanoke,
haughty and impatient then as in his
latter years, simply answered: ‘I refer
you to my constituents for a reply.”—
The impudence of the man closed tho
mouths of all the members. Mr. Clay
did not push his inquiry and John
Randolph held his seat undisturbed.
The New York Express steadily as
serts that Tilden has been elected and
shall be inaugurated; that the decision
of the people shall not be reversed by
the Senate. It calls attention to the
fact that the House is a co-ordinate
branch and holds the purse and
sinews of war.
McKee, the editor of the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, has just been par
doned out of prison by Mr. Grant.
McKee was one of the most prominent
of the St. Louis whisky thieves. He
didn’t get out in time to vote for
Hayes. That is what beat him. Too
many of his supporters were in the
penitentiary.
Kentucky made a splendid record
in the recent election. Not only has
there been elected a solid Democratic
delegation to the next Congress, but
the State has given a Democratic ma
jority of 61,993. The Republican party
has indeed a poor showing in that glo
rious old commonwealth. It is a land
of Democracy and honest government.
The failure of oue Democrat to vote,
elects a Republican Congressmen in
the Fourth District of California.
THE CURE OF INEBRIATES.
Dr. George M. Beard says in the
Independent that there is a wide
spread delusion that inebrity is incur
able, and that the inebriate homes are
failures. Some suppose that nearly all
patients relapse as soon as they return
to active life; but he seeks to refute
that idea, and gives the following as
to the Franklin Home, in Philadel
phia: In four years 582 sufferers, all
males, have been admited. Of these
271 are regarded as cured, 76 have
been much benefited, 212 are put
down as doubtful, while of the remain
ing 24 nothing is known. A person is
called cured or reformed when he is
known not to have drank since leaving
the Home. Of these 271 who are re
garded as cured, 178 were periodical
and 93 constant drinkers. The aver
age time of using strong drink before
entering the Home was fifteen years
and ten months; the average time of
-linking to excess was six years and
seven months; the average daily quan
tity of liquor used by each person
was one and a half pints. The aver
age time of stay in the Home was
seven and a half weeks.” Dr. Beard
believes a third of those in all the
American institutions who submit to
the rules are cured, and he regards
alcoholio appetite as really a disease.
He tells of a superintendent of a New
England asylum who, after a patient
attains a proper degree of improve
ment, gives him a bottle of rum to
carry in his pocket, telling him to take
it out and look at it as often as he
wishes, but not to drink it. This is,
he thinks, a strengthening exercise of
the will.
The following, under the head of
“treatment of diptheria,” is published
in the Macon Telegraph: This terrible
devastator, diptheria, unfortunately is
very imperfectly understood by the
majority of physicians, and hence so
many cases result fatally. The symp
toms are chill, more or less fever, no
cough, sore throat, and, upon making
an examination, the mouth and throat
present an unnatural appearance—
white patches of membrane are seen
upon the roof of the mouth and tonsils,
which are usually enlarged. As the
disease progresses the whole throat
becomes involved and frequently the
passage in tho nose is entirely closed,
so that breathing through that organ
is imposible.
The treatment necessary is very sim
ple, but positive, as I have used it in
over three hundred cases, and never
lost a case. Take of pure sulpuric
acid twenty drops, cold water one
pint, of which give a large table spoon
ful every thirty minutes to au adult,
and a teaspeonful to a child. The
acid treatment acts by coadgulating
the diptherio membrane, which is easily
removed by coughing.
There are many causes which tend
to impair the health, vigor and radiant
beauty of the eye. Among these
causes arc the following: Insufficient
sleep, severe study, writing and read
ing by gaslight, reading in bed, paint
ing the eyelids, ill health. We see
the fires of aloohol in the eyes as well
as on the nose of the drunkard. All
kinds of excesses are sure to be reflec
ted in that delicate and sensitive or
gan, the eye. No person can violate
the physical laws and escape the pen
alty. Nature is arbitrary in her legis
lation, and makes no exceptions in
the measure of her punishments. If
the king gets drunk, he will have red
ness of eyes, notwithstanding the roy
al blood in his veins. If the beggar
keeps good hours, and obeys the phys
ical laws, she will have clear and
handsome eyes, brighter than the
diamonds flashing in the queens coro
net. It is a physiological fact that
plain food, abundant rest, and a
cheerful temper, are the principal
aids in the staff of health, and that
good health insures good eyesight.
The culture of silk has been tried in
North Carolina with marked success,
and in Louisiana the rearing and ex
portation of silk worms to Europe has
carried on for some time. With such
successful experiments, those who are
about to introduce the industry on a
large scale have every reason to expect
a profitable business. With two such
staples as cotton and silk raised with
in her territory, the Southern people
should also establish manufactories ior
working it into merchantable goods.
She would then be relieved of com
mercial bondage, her people would
have permanent and prfitable employ
ment, and a reign of wealth and pros
perity would commence.
To polish furniture use equal parts
of boiled linseed oil and kerosene. Ap
ply with a flannel and rub dry with
another flannel. It will remove all
white marks and all the scratches,
and should be kept always ready
for use. It gives the room a fresh ap
pearance to rub all the furniture with
this preparation. One feels well re
warded for the labor. If any white
spots are so firmly fixed that the pol
ish does not remove them, it can be
done by rubbing with turpentine;
then holding a hot shovel over them.
FEATHERS.
The profit on wool-growing in Geor
gia is 63 per cent, on the capital in
vested.
We must always think our opinions
are right, but not think our opinions
are right always.
A gentleman remarked, ‘moonlight
nights are not so good as dark ones
for lovers who love to kiss.’
The Savannah News states that not
a single book agent died of yellow
fever during the epidemic.
Ten hours a day steady labor is the
best remedy for hard times —provided
you don’t drink up the money after
ward.
NO. 48
Peter Cooper’s vote in the United
States is estimated at 170,000. This
is more than the abolitionists polled
in 1840.
A protest has been served upon the
Governor of Vermont against issuing
an elector’s certificate to Postmaster
Sollace.
Chandler to Kellogg, Stearns and
Chamberlain: ‘Count in Hayes by fair
means or foul, bat whatever you do,
count in Hayes.’
Women were not allowed to speak
in the Episcopal Congress in Boston,
and thirty of them have held an indig
nation meeting.
Said one man to another, ‘lf it wasn’t
Sunday, how much would you take
for that lumber ?’ ‘lf it wasn’t Sun
day, I’d tell you,’ was the very proper
reply.
A Darien man being told that Til
den’s election was doubtful, swore that
he’d still stake his ox cart upon Hen
dricks. He wouldn’t give up the
whole ticket anyway.
We don’t know that it was the epi
zooty that affected him; but he said
with some violence: “If that nose was
running for office, it would be elected
by a handsome majority.”
The almanacs are good enough to
tell when the sun rises and sets, but
they furnish no information as to how
long a wood pile ought to last in a
thickly-settled neighborhood.
There. has been someth'ng of a
change in the political sentiment of
Pennsylvania. Four years ago, the
State gave Grant a majority of 138,-
000. This year Hayes’ majority is leas
than 11,000.
The Worcester (Mass.) Press peers
into the future and says that just as
sure as the sun rises on the day of the
inauguration of the next President,
just so sure will Samuel J. Tilden be
inaugurated.
Zinc that is used under stoves
should never be dampened If it be
comes soiled or dim, rub with a flan
nel and a little fresh lard. Iu this
way it will always look as new and
bright as when first purchas and.
Thus says the Gnfflu News: It is
no use tryieg to buck against the
solid SoutL. There is a Georgia wo
man fifteen years old who has five
children, having first given birth to
triplets and eleven months afterwards
to twins.
Crook’s army is preparing to hiber
nate upon the plans. It is about time
that Crook should be ordered to
Washington. We fear that the au
thorities are preparing to count him
out and leave him out in the cold for
the Indians to scalp.
A smooth sea never made a skillful
mariner. Neither do uninterrupted
prosperity and happiness qualify a
man for usefulness and happiness. The
storms of adversity, like the storms of
the ocean, arouse the faoulties and ex
cite the invention, prudence, skill and
fortitude of the voyager.
It will be proven to the next House
of Representatives that Rainey was
elected in the First District of South
Carolina and Smalls in the Fifth by
the grossest fraud and that their seats
rightfully belong to the opposing can
didates. South Carolina will have
four Democrats in the Forty-fifth Con
gress.
The election of Mr. Tilden, if he is
elected, will be simply the protest of
the public conscience against a state
of things which has lasted too long.—
It will also be the vengeance of public
virtue upon the unheard-of immortali
ty of the Administration represented
here by the susceptible Mr. Washburn.
—Paris Figaro.
The Washington Star said it was
asserted that General Butler had re
marked that Tilden was honestly elec
ted, but that ho would be counted out.
It supplemented the statement with
the information that the General was
then in the city and could deny the
assertion if it was not true.
The Cincinnati Commercial gives as
an utterance of Mr. Hayes the follow
ing: ‘At Athens, Ohio, the other day,
Governor Hayes very promptly but
quietly said, ‘Any man fit to be Presi
dent, or even a candidate of a great
party for the office, would prefer to be
counted out by fraud rather than be
counted in by fraud, of which there is
a reasonable suspicion.’
It is well known that there were
very extensive Republican election
frauds in California, and the warning
of the Republican Chairman seems to
indicate that, if investigation were
vigorously pushed, the majority might
be reserved. There is manifestly
something wrong in California, and the
apprehension that all the frauds perpe
trated there may be uncovered may
check the Southern canvassing boards
in the course which they have marked
out to carry their States by book or
crook for the Republican ticket.