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Tlie Gainesville Eagle. IM BUSHED r,vERI FRIDAY MORNING. J . m. RED w x neT Eilltor and Proprietor. .1 011 N B L ATS, Publisher. XKRMS : A*Year, in Advance. OFFICE Dp stairs in Candler Hall building, north-west corner Public Square. Agents for The Eagle. J. M. Rich, lilairayille, Oa.; J. D. Howaud, Hiwaa aee, Oa.; W. M. Sanderson, Haysviile, N. C.; Dr. N. C, Osborn, Butord, Ga. 9iT The above named gentlemen are authorized to make collections, receive and receipt for aubacriptlon to Tiik Eagle office, Rates of Advertising. One dollar per square for first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding Bix lines will be charged for as advertisements. Personal or abusive communications will not be Inserted at any price. Communications of general or local Interest, under a genuine signature respectfully solicited from any source. Rates of Legal Advertising. 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B4r All bills due after first insertion, anless special contract to the contrary be made. GENERAL DIRECTORY. Hon. George D. Rice, Judge S. C. Western Circuit. Emory Speer, Solicitor, Athens, oa. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. B. M. Winburn, Ordinary. J. L. Waters, Sheriff. J. J. Mayne, Clerk Superior Court. N. B. Clark, Tax Collector. J. S. Simmons, Tax Receiver. V. Whelchel, Surveyor. Edward Lowry, Corouer. Samuel Leaser, Treasurer. CHURCH DIRECTORY. PBBBBYtebian Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland. Pas tor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and night, except the second Sabbath. 8u day School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock. Methodist Church Rev. D. D. Cox, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. Baptist Church Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor. Preaching Sunday morning. Sunday School at 9 a. in. Prayer meeting Thursday eveulng at 4 o’clock. FRATERNAL RECORD. Alleghany Royal Arch Chapter meets on the Sec ond and Fourth Tuesday eyanings 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, Sec’y. J. E. Redwine, W. M. Air-Line Lodge, No. 64,1. O. O. F., meets every Friday evening. O. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Harrison, N. G. Gainesville Grange No. 340, meets on the Third Saturday and First Tuesday in each month, at one clock, p. m. J. E. Redwine, Master. E. D. Cheshire, Sec. Mornino Star Lodge, No. 313,1. 0. G.T., meets ev ery Thursday evening. Claud Estes, W. 8. J. P. Caldwell, W. C. T. North-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS., moots every Ist and 3d Saturday evenings, at Antioch Church. J. A. Smith, W. 0, T. R. F. Gittenh, W. 8. GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE. Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railrood, the following will be the schedule from date: Mall from Atlanta [fast] 5.11 p. m. ; Mall for Atlanta [fast] 11.20 a. m. Office hours: From 7 a. m. to 12 m., and from I>4 p. in. to 7 p. m. No office hours on Sunday for general delivery window. All cross mails leave as heretofore. m ails olosb: Dahlonega (Stage, Dally) - - 8:30 a.m. Jefferson, (*tage, Wednesday and Saturday) 9:00 p. m. Cleveland, (Stage, Monday and Friday) 8:00 a. m. Homer, (Horse, Friday) 12:30 p. m. Wahoo 5:00 a.m. Dawsonvllle, (Horse, Saturday) - 7 30 ** mails arrive: Dahlonega. 3:00 p.m. Jefferson ( Wednesday and Sat ;rday) 6:00 p. m. Cleveland, (Monday and Thursday) - 6:00 " Homer, (Friday) - - * 12:00 m. Wahoo •* 6:00 a.m. Dawsonvllle, (Friday) - • 6:00 p. m. M. R. ARCHER, P.M. Professional and Business Cards. MAKLEIt Ac PERRY. Attorneys at law. Gainesville , ga, Office in tho Court Houbo. One or the other of the firm always present. Will praetico in Hall and adjoining counties. ang2s-ly A. JT. HIIAFFEH, PirYSIOIAN" AND SURGEON, Guinosyille, On. Office ami Rooms at Gaines' Hotel, Gainesville, Ga. jan‘2l-ly IN FIRMARY, FOR THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF WOMEN, AND OPERATIVE SURGERY, At tho Gaiuoo’ Hotel, Gamoaviltn, Ga, by jau2S tf A. J. SHAFFER, M. D. v. and. Lockhart, m. l>., Polkvillc, Ga., WILE PRACTICE MEDICINE In all its branches. Special attention given to Chronlo Diseases of women ami children. feblß-6m DR. R. . ADAIR, DENTIST, Gttiuosvillo, Ga. janll ly M A USUAL L 7 SMITH, Attorney and counsellor at law, DawsonvilU \ Dawson coantu, Ga. Janl4-tf JOHN B. ESTES, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Gaiuesville, Hall county, Georgia. c7j. wellborn^ A TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Blairsville, Union county, I\. Georgia. SAMUEL V. DUNLAP, A TTORNEY AT LAW. Gainesville, Ga. Office in theOHndler bailding, In the room occupied by the Eagle in 1875. aprStf. >v. K. WILLIAMS, 4 TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. A Cleveland, White Cos., Ga., will practice in the Courts of tho Western Circuit, and give prompt atten tion to all business entrusted to his care. June 12, 1874-tf WIER BOYD, ATTORNEY' AT LAW, Dahlottega, Ga. 1 will Practice in the counties of Lumpkin, Dawson, rtilmer, Fannin, Union and Townseounties nthe Blue Ridge Circuit; and Hall, White and Rabun in the Western Circuit. May 1, 1874-tf. B. F. WOFFORD, VTTORNEY AT LAW. Homer, Ga. Will execute promptly, all business entrusted to his care. Mareh 21,1874-ly. BEV. A. M ARTIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Dahlonega, Ga. July 21,1871-tf S. K. CHRISTOPHER, A TTOHNEY AT LAW, Hiwaesee, Ga. >A Will execute promptly all business entrusted to bis care. novietf THOMAS F. GREER, A TTORNEY AT LAW, AND SOLICITOR IN -A Equity and Bankruptcy, KUijay, Ga. Will prac tice in the State Courts, and in the District and Cir 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. Devoted to Polities, News of tlie Day, The Farm Interests, Home Matters, ana Choice Miscellany. 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.