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lion, George D. Kioe, Judge S. C. Western Circuit.
Emory Speer, Solicitor, Athens, (la.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
.1. ft. M. Winburn, Ordinary.
J. L. Waters, Sheriff.
J. .1. 51 ayne, Clerk Superior Court.
N. B. Clark, Tax Collector.
S. Simmons, lax Receiver.
V. Whelchel, Surveyor.
Edward dowry, Coroner.
Samuel Lesser, Treasurer.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Presbyterian Church—-Rev. T. P. Cleveland, Pas
tor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and night,
except the secoinl Sabbath. Bn day School at 9a. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock.
Mi.iH.MUHT Church ltev. I>. D. Cox, Pastor.
I*reaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday night.
Baptist Chi imh— Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaching Sunday morning. Sunday School at 9 a.
m. Prayer mooting Thursday evening at 4 o’clock.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jackson, President.
It. C. Maddox, Vice President.
W. li. Clements, Secretary.
Regular serviceß every Sabbath evening at one of
the Churches. Cottage prayer meetings every Tues
day night in “Old Town,” ami Fr.day night near the
depot.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Ailegmany Royal Arch Chapter meets on the Sec
ond and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month.
J. T. Wilson, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. I*.
Gainesville Lodok, No. 219, A.*. F.*. M.\, meets
ou the Firet ami Third Tuesday evening in the mouth
U. Palmoou, Sec’y. J. E Rkdwhve, W. M.
Air-Link Loins k, No. 04, I. O. 0. F., meets every
Friday evening.
O. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Harrison, N. G.
Gainesville Grange No. 340, meets ou the Third
Saturday and First Tuesday in each month, at one
clock, p. m. J. E. Rkdwink, Mastei.
E. D. Cheshire, Sec.
Morning Star Lodge, No. 111, 1.0. G.T., meets ev
ery Thursday evening.
Claud Ebtus, W. S. J. P. Caldwell, \V. C. T.
North-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS.,
meets every Ist and 3d Saturday evoningH, at Antioch
Church. J. A. Smith. W. C, T.
It. F. Gittenh, W. 8.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of schedule ou tlie Atlauta j
am! Richmond Air Line KailrooJ, the following will j
be the schedule from date:
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Otttce hours: From 7 a. m. to 12 m., and from
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Wahoo “ “ 5:00 a.m.
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1 M. It. ARCHER. P. 51.
Professional and Business Cards,
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ATTOUNI.YS AT LAW, GAINESVILLE, GA,
Otllce in thu Conet Houma*. One or the other of
the firm always present. Will practice in Hall and
adjoining countioH. au#2s-ly
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wouieu and children. leblrt tlm
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jault ly
MARSHAL 1.. SMITH,
VTTOKNUY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Dawson t'iUe, lhi tv son county, da.
JauH-tf
JOHN It. ESTES,
VTTORNEY -AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hall county,
Georgia,
C. .1. ellbokn7
A TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Ulairsville, Uuion county,
Georgia.
SAMVEL C. DUNLAP,
VTTORNEY AT LAW, Gainesville, Ga.
Office in the Candler building, in the room
occupied by the Eagle iu 1875. aprotf.
W. l\. WILLI A MS,
VTTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR Al' LAW,
Cleeelaml, White Cos., Ga., will practice in the
Courts of the Western Circuit, and give prompt atten
tion to all business entrusted to his care.
Jnue 12, 1874-tf
WI£R BOYD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Dahlonega. Go.
1 will Practice in the conation of Lumpkin,
Dawson. Gilmer, Fannin, Union and Town*counties
u the Blue Ridge Circuit; and Hall, White and
Rabun iu the Western Circuit.
May l. IST I tf.
BEV. A. M ARTIN,
4 TTORNKY AT LAW, Dahlonego , Go.
j£\. ju1y21,1371-tl*
S. K. V H RISTOPIIE R^
Attorney at law, mwassee, Ga.
Will execute promptly all businees entrusted to
his care. novl6tf
THOMAS F. GREER,
4 TTORNKY AT LAW, AND SOLICITOR IN
TV Equity and Bankruptcy, EtliJat/, Ga. Will prac
tice ill the Slate Court-*, and in the District and Cir
c nit Courts of the 0. S., iu Atlanta. (Ja.
June 20,1878-tf
M. W. RIDEN,
4 TTORNKY AT LAW, Gainesville, Georgia.
J\. Jan. 1, 1870-ly
.1 AMES M. TOWERY,
VTTORNEY AT LAW,
Gainesville, G-.
.1. I. TURNBULL,
4 TTORNKY AT LAW, Homer, Ga.—Will practice
i\_in all the bounties composing the Western Cir
cuit. Prompt attention given to all claims entrusted
to his care.
Jau. 1. 1875-ly.
JAMES A. BUTT,
4 TTORNEY AT LAW A LAND AGENT, BlairseiUe
Ga Prompt attentiou ghren to all business
entrusted i c his cave. jane 2,1371-tl
The Gainesville Eagle.
Devoted lo v Politios, IVews of the Day, The Farm Interests, Home Matters, and Choice Miseellanv.
VOL. XI.
AT LAST.
Wherefore this bitter aching of the heart
When our beloved depart,
i To whom our souls hare grown through years
and years
Of toils and tears ?
Why weep for those who happily forget
Life’s tedious wear and fret—
Who lay aside, with joy, those loads of ill
Which cramp us still !
Wash not, oh t< ars, these white and ijaiet feet,
Which, clean from dust and heat,
Shall climb, through all the round of coming
days,
No more rough ways.
Lave not, oh tears, these calrny folded hands,
Slipped from their fettering bands,
Which, whether want would pinch oi wrong
despoil,
Know uo more toil.
Fall not, oh tears, above the pulseless heart
Forgetful of its smart,
Which shall forever, while (he alow years wane.
Know no more pain.
Stain not, on tears, this fair and peaceful face,
Pure from all earthly trace.
Which shall through all the cycles of the years
Know no more tears.
For ah, it matters not how much we claim
Of wealth, and love anil fame—
What boon at last so dear to mortal breast,
As this—of i:est!
happiness.
Every one tlesires to be happy. The
j condition of heaven is the ambition of
earth. \\ hat the angels have men
| iong to acquire. Religion as a source
of happiness comes to men, therefore,
with a great natural advantage in its
favor; for men crave from instinct the
very experience it is calculated to bes
tow. But how is it in point of fact?
Why, the fact is, it is not made to
seem iu the popular mind as the
source of happiness. Men naturally
look to its examples to apprehend its
| true character, and they are not made
I to apprehend it in that way. On the
other hand, the impression made upon
them is often precisely the reverse.
They are thus repelled from, instead of
being attracted to it; and religion must
approach them ever after at a great
disadvantage.
Now, it cannot be too often repeat
ed, and emphasized by the testimony
and life oi Christians, that religion
does make a person happy. The
moods and tempers it fosters are those
of happiness. It lightens one’s bur
dens, consoles him in sorrow, blesses
him with a great hope, and fills him
with peace. The practice of religion
never fails one.
You may learn a trade, hoping there
by to gain wealth, and you may fail;
you may study, hoping thereby to
become famous, and you may never
see the fame you desire; you may as
pire to the honors of the forum, and
the applause of the populace may be
withheld; but no one ever studied the
principles of holiness and acted up to
its knowledge, and failed his reward.
Ho who does business for God can
never be bankrupt. All else may fail
us, but the pleasures of Christian hope
and the consolation of Christian faith
can never be takou from us. The vir
tuous man can lose nothing, for his
virtues are his reward.
YEA IIS AMI YEAKS.
How long the years seeui when we
are young! To wait a year—‘a whole
year’—for anything appears to fifteen
like an interminable probation. Look
ing back when one is fifty, a lifetime
seems scarcely longer than a twelve
month seemed iu youth. As we grow
older the years between us and the
‘great unknown future’ are so few that
we can almost see their moments slip-1
ping away from us as the saud drops
iu an hour glass. Children have no
idea of economizing time. Time and
eternity looks to them all as one—
there is plenty of space in which to fiy
kites and dress dolls. The middle aged
man Hies his kite also—fancies, dreams,
speculations, he calls them; and the
middle aged woman dresses her dolls,
and is, perhaps, the ga est doll of all
herself; but the middle aged take their
pleasure solemnly, but none the less
earnestly. The year 1876 has gone
out and 1877 come iu. It means fun
and frolic, hope to one-half the world;
to the other half it means sadness,
and longing, and memory—at the
best, peace.
Men who use their muscles imagine
that men who use their braius are
strangers to hard work. Never was
there a greater mistake. Every suc
cessful merchant does more real hard
work iu the first ten years of his bus
iness career than a farmer or black
smith ever dreamed of. Make np your
mind to work early and late, if necess
ary, that you may thoroughly master
every detail of the business upon
which you purpose to enter. The habit
of persistent, rapid work once formed,
you have gained a momentum that will
carry you very successfully through
many a pinch iu business where a less
, persistent worker would find it vastly
easier to lie down and fail.
The happiest moment in the life of a
girl is when she is in possession of a'
lover, a chair that holds twice at once,
j and a pa who trusts to her experience.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2. 1877.
GENTEEL WORK.
A prodigious amount of laziness,
false pride and greed are concealed
I under this phrase. Many thousand
hands are to-day idle, waiting for
something to do. And in spite of com
mercial depression the country has
work waiting, enough for a million
hands. The farmers are calling for
help; the tra les are deficient in first
class workmen; our kitchens are poor
ly supplied with domestic service; and
yet the market-places is full of the un
employed Why ?
If a merchant advertises for a book
keeper, a hundred competent persons
step forward at once. If an author
seeks, for au amanuensis, he must
choose bet ween as many eager appli
cants. Every Government officer who
controls the appointment of clerks, Ims
more names on his list than there are
details in a month’s work.
The demand is for something that
will not soil the hands, that will not
start perspiration, that will secure a
livelihood without involving much ex
ertion. Genuine hard work is regarded
as only semi respectable. Men do not
seek work; the look for a ‘situation,’ in
which they may avoid work. They do
their best to maintain the appearance
of enjoying elegant leisure. But if an
absolute sinecure cannot be found,they
endeavor to give their employments an
air of dignity, of repose, of freedom
from homely fatigues. In a word, they
seek a ‘light’ business.
This false standard of respectability
indicated by the word ‘genteel,’ de
grades manhood. Young men are
ashamed of that which should be their
glory. It is not he who does the least
for the most money, who can wear the
best clothes while at his daily avoca
tion—whose business iuvolves the least
display of streuuous effort; it is not he
that is the most to be respected. The
salary without real labor is a disgrace.
Partial idleness, however, concealed
under a show of business, is a misfor
tune, and, if purposely indulged in, a
shame not to be countenanced. Clean
hands that will not engage in genuine
labor, are already covered with a stain
that water will not wash out. The re
finement that draws back from manual
employment and prefers mental dawd
ling is a sham, and should not have
social recognition. Better be a grimy
blacksmith doing thorough work than
titled officer enjoying a large income
as a return for nominal services. Better
be a day laborer than a pensioned loaf
er. Better be earning a comfortable
livelihood by the sweat of one’s face
upon a farm, or in the kitchen, than
depending on the uncertainties of
desk-work iu au overcrowded city.
Better be a simple carpenter than a
hair-splitting scribe or pharisee.
We wish this evil spirit of ‘genteel’
laziness might be exorcised, drived out
of common conversation, expelled from
popular thought, and cast down from
its shameful throne of power. Its sway
is anti-Christian, and its cry is the old
one: ‘What have we to do with thee,
thou Jesus of Nazareth?’ There is
not a ‘genteel’ idler in the land who
does not wish to be let alone. They
ought to be stirred up. —Exchange.
The Rev. Dr. Stonv, in Brooklyn,
recently, spoke eloquently of the grow
ing disposition among cultured and in
telligent persons to believe that so long
as they abstain from the gross sins of
the world they will be cared for by
God in His infinite goodness at the
close of their lives. The reasoning,
he contended, was fallacious and dan
gerous. It was contrary to the expe
rience of this world, which showed
that all munificent and delightful re
sults were obtained only by strong,
continuous endeavor. Had it been
God’s plan to save the world by any
such means, he would not have em
ployed the plan of redemption in the
death of Christ. The belief that He
meant we should idly pass through
life without striving to so train our
hearts and souls iu the image of devo
tion, love and purity, is to convict God
of unwisdom. The theory contradicts
the very essence of the doefrine of
salvation.—New York Sun.
It has been said that the man who
governs his thoughts when alone can
control his tongue when in company.
It is just as true, and far more impor
tant, that the man who keeps his
thoughts pure will keep bis hands
from sin. Now and then society is
startled by a crime which explodes
the reputation of someone who had
stood high in its esteem. But such
explosions are no spontaneous affairs
of an instant. The train of powder
was slowly laid. No man commits
embezzlement who has not allowed
himself, unself-rebuked, to think of
embezzlement.
The record shows that the Cnnard
steamers have, since the organization
of the line, made over 4,000 trips, a
distance of 12,000,000 miles, and have
i carried over 2,000,000 passengers to
and fro on the Atlantic without losing
a life, or even a letter in the mails in
trusted to them.
! TRUE AND FALSE STANDARDS.
The civilization which the world to
day fosters is utilitarian. Utility is its
god. YY T hatever can assist in the de
| velopment of the material resources,in
(esthetic culture, iu external adorn
ment, power, and grace, is prized.
Whatever does not directly do this is
contemned. What is he good for?
What can he do ? How much can he
give ? These are the questions upon
every lip, touching our fellow-men.
Amid such a state of things a power
ful pressure is put upon us to worship
skill, faculty, force, —the capacities or
attributes of the man, and not the man
himself. If a man has not capacity,
j who cares for him ? If he cannot sup
ply society some needed skill, or tact,
or grace, what does he amount to? He
is a nonentity.
YVe submit if this is not, iu the main,
a just analysis of our civilization. Its
object is to make scholars, poets, ora
tors, skilled mechanics, successful mer
chants ; and the rewards it offers are
the ones best calculated to stimulate
men to supply what it needs Whoev
er knocks at the door of society is ask
ed, what can you do ? what can you
give me ? Attributes, and not nature,
give him admittance. To be an im
mortal soul is not enough; yon must
be able to model the clay, color the
canvas, or rule the forces of commerce,
or no one thinks of you as worthy of
regard. And this evil, this inadequate
estimation of men, is so woven in and
connected with what is right and es
sential, that it is universally accepted
as the true one; and yet it is radically
false. God does not value men by this
rule. Man was worth very little to
society when Christ came. Judged by
the utilitarian, the American rule,
ninety-five hundredths of all the race
were of no accouLt. Yet God saw
something in them to love. In the
eyes of the Saviour the great mass of \
ordinary, uncultivated, unskilled peo
ple that swarmed over the globe, were
not lacking dignity. There was some-,
thing so lofty, so divine in human ua- ]
ture, even ivj its lost estate,-—.a££n
thing so essentially noble in man, how-'
ever debased he might be, —that none]
might despise him.
‘Whosoever shall say unto hisl
brother, Ilaca, shall be in danger ofjj
the council; but whosoever shall tigH
Thou fool, shall be in danger of liell-1
fire.’ All this seems very trite to us; j
but when He spoke those words they J
were startlingly novel. No other man,
prophet or sage, had ever inculcated ’
such views of human nature. In them
we are taught God’s estimate of man l
as man, independent of all his sur- j
roundings.
SUNDAY SCHOOL RECI TATION.
- i
‘Who led out the Israelites?’
‘Moses,’ was the prompt reply.
‘And where did he lead them ?’
‘To the Promised Land.’
‘That’s right, my little dears. Now
what did the land flow with ?’
‘With honey answered three or four.
‘And what else ?’ (Here was a stick
—no reply.) ‘Come children, some of
you surely remember. Wheu you were
babies what did your mothers give you?
What else did the promised Land ffow
wfith besides honey ?’
‘I know,’ said a little five-years-old
springing to his feet and elevating his
hand. ‘I know what it wath, thir: I
know thir.’
‘I was sure some of you would give
the correct answer,’ said the teacher.
‘What was it my dear ?’
‘Why, it wath titty thir!’
The Superintendent proceeded to
change the subject by singing the
hymn beginning:
‘Children of the Heavenly King
As we journey sweetly sing.’
The Marquis of Waterford annoys
English railway managers by always
riding third class, as it diminishes
their first and second class travel.
One day the Marquis appeared at
Waterford Station and bought a third
class ticket to Dublin. The railway
men thought to teach him a lesson,
and for that purpose, sat a sweep
down beside him in the car, thinking
to drive him out. The Marquis sur
veyed his traveling companion for a
moment and then started for the
ticket office. ‘Give me a first class
ticket to Dublin,’ said he. They
thought they had him, sure, but he
simply returned to the third class car
and making the sweep a present of
the ticket escorted him and his brushes
to the first class carriage, and leaving
him there returned to his favorite com
partment.
Geo. W. Julian, in a recent oration,
made the following burst: ‘Angels and
ministers of grace defend us! Will
wonders never cease? John Sher
man and his confederate Republicans
preaching the gospel of State rights
and local self-government in Louisi
ana! The chief apostles of Federal
corruption and the Christianity of the
bayonet striving to hide the villanies
of a Republican returning board under
the mantle of Thomas Jefferson. Could
anything be more sublimely impudent
or charmingly Satanic ?’
EARLY MEMORIES.
Looking backward through the
shmbering shadows of time to the sea
son of childhood, the delights experi
enced in a retrospection of its bygone
scenes are seldom modified by sorrow
ful memories.
We do not.allow ourselves to brood
over its buried griefs, however poig
nant was their existence, but, uncon
sciously, our thoughts float back to its
seasons of happiness, glimpses of
whose vanished loveliness, seen
through the changeful web of the
drifting years, seem more like the va
gie splendor of a dream than what
K*s once tangible realty. All the little
troubles and disappointments are for
gotten, or if they linger, seem but the
*reck of trilies, while the bloom aud
light from blissful hours will e’iug
around and beautify the heart like
rare soul immortelles, that freshen and
bloom more brightly as the rolling
years seek to hide them deeper in the
dust of oblivion.
How often are the sternest hearts
pelted by the influence of tender re
collections ! -The wretch whose soul
lias been steeled against every soften
ing emotion by years of wrong doing
apcl contest with the world, may be
wholly overcome by a simple childhood
memory—called up, perhaps, by the
iisping prayer of a babe, leading
hhn back thi’ough the long dark years
lo the sacred hush of a twilight hour
i t his mother’s knee, when with rosy,
innocent lips he first murmured that
old, old prayer, more touching in its
divine simplicity than the loftiest in
iVcation—-
“Now I lay me down to sleep.”
lie feels again on his forehead tlje
/louch of his mother’s lips, long since
VVvathed with the smiles of eternity,
to the old home voices, the pat
tering of childish feet, aud his weary
and hear! fnrmt. all fh wnf
jmiu uetui iorgßL an me woes oi
fits life struggle, and long with pas
i donate yearning to be again a child at
luome. |
l Ah 1 childhood is indeed the golden j
jsfcffk MV.
pwestißew ha® faded, it will never re
r;;ve save in remembrance. When once
|ihe mirror of the soul* lias been dim-
Umed by care and the world’s solfish-
Jbeaa, it, will nevnr agin reflect so rad
jltantly the brightness of tbe skies. We
jfcan never experience the same zest, in
Icnjoymeut. The sweet trill of birds
"Til! have lost half its music, and the
Barest hot-house exotics will fail to
iarm with their bewildering perfume,
r s did the wild Mav roses by the brook
i
i where we used to wade.
i , , .. _
THE RESPONSIBILITY 01 THE PRESS.
I
Signs are not wanting that newspa
| per writers and reporters are not suf
! liciently impressed with the responsi
bilities of their work, position and
power. The following thoughtful state
ment by the late F. D. Maurice might
be read with profit by all journalists:
‘We feel tbe power of the newspaper
iu building up and pulling down char
acters, in afl'ecting the judgments of
men about the acts of rules; iu leading
them to change opinions which they
fancied were fixed. YVe see this kind
of influence going on. YVe are con
scious of it ourselves. YVe cannot tell
exactly whence it comes or how it
works. It is very mysterious aud uu
deflnable. Some man wrote it down,
perhaps, at his club, or iu his chamber,
perhaps, in a great hurry, when a mes
senger was waiting to take it to the
press. He might be at that moment
under some chance impulse of pleas
ure, of anger or of wiue. He might
be anxious to please some friend or
injure some enemy. His thoughts get
themselves put into his letters. The
letters are set in types. The next
morfling thousands of sheets carry
them East and West,North and South;
they are read by thousands of eyes;
they penetrate into thousands of
hearts; they beget new thoughts and
new words, and sometimes very fierce
acts. Are not newspapers very useful
if they bring that truth home to our
minds, if they make us feel that we, at
all events, have no right to say: ‘Our
words are our own, who is lord over
them '?’—Manufactures and Merchants
Advertiser.
Lactic acid is known to possess the
powei of removing or destroying the
incrustations which form on the arte
ries, cartilages and valves of the heart
aud as butter milk abounds in such
acid and is an acceptable kind of food,
its habitual use, it is urged by M.
liobrieg, a French chemist, will free
the system from these affections and
permit everybody to become a centen
nariau.
This is Colorado’s best cat story: A
cat had alternately lived in three fam
ilies in a neighborhood. She had four
kittens, and, as soon as they were able
to take care of themselves, she carried
one to each of her two former residen
ces and left it, retaining two with her
self. She desired, it seems, to secure
good homes for her progeny.
AFRICAN WONDERS.
An inhabitant of the Gaboon has
reached Berlin, a live young gorilla,
and is now in the Beilin Aquarium.
Dr. Hermes says that he uods, clasps
his hands, wakes up and stretches him
self like a man; that he sleeps eight
hours, eats only what his keeper eats,
and requires him to be constantly by
him. He was taken sick, s and was re
stored by the use of that African spec
ific, quinine, and the Doctor says that
he showed his tougue and squeezed
the Doctor’s hand, as if to indicate
that he felt assured of his recovery.
Captain Burton ascended the Congo
to the rapids, and made a journey
through the gorilla country, of which
he has given an account. Captain Hay
has visited the district of Akem, in
NS est Africa, and found the country
rich in minerals and studded with well
built towns. He found a peculiar mal
formation among the male sex of this
people—a protuberance of the cheek
bones under the eyes, taking the form
of horns on either side of the uose—
and has sent two photographs of these
horned men to England.
The Rev. George Brown, a mission
ary who visited the islands of the
northeast coast of New Guinea, des
cribes the natives as nude savages of
the Oriefltal negro type, who live more
like beasts than human beings. He
found cannibalism prevailing through
out the islands, not, as among some
other savages, as a religious rite, but as
a means of subsistence. He has given,
the details of what he saw of this hor
rible practice, which are toa revolting
to repeat. He said he was assured by
tbe uatsves that there was in the
islands a race of human beings with
tails who were not monkeys; that the
tale was bony and inflexible, so that
those with this caudle appendage had
to dig a hole in the sand before they
could sit down, as they died if the tail
was broken. YVe have thus revival
the account of the men with tails here
.to exist in^Bmneo^ and
been given by a sailor east atirhy on
the coast of Borneo, and, like all such
information of little value.
SAM TArTsCYENCE.
Great cities are to-day destroyers of
the race. If it were uot for accessions
from the country they would become
depopulated. The growth of cities is
an intersting study. London grew in
the reign of Elizabeth, notwithstanding
new buildings were prohibited within
ten miles of the city, and new houses
had been ordered to be pulled down
within its limits. Sanitary science sug
gests the formation of villages out of
the cities, as in Euglaud, erected by
saniatry architects. The best, security
for civilization is the dwelliug. To im
prove the houses of the poor is the work
of the sanitarian. Let the courts and
alleys and streets that show the great
est mortality be pulled down. Houses
that produce death are not property.
They are no more 90 than diseased
meat. The time must come when the
population must be reduced to so many
to the acre. The poor must be educa
ted in the art of healthy living. The
sanitary missionary can do more than
the health officer. Homestead proprie
tors must closely scan the tax rate, and
investigate the qualifications of the can
didates for office. New York, a Baby
lon in construction and a Nineveh in
corruption, overthrew the mo t power
ful political organization in the world in
a day, though nine-tenths of the citizens
were w ithout laud. Homesteads for the
poor is the condition that most con
duces to the happiness of the people.
[Professor Stephen Smith: Address be
fore American Public Health Associa
tion Baltimore.
BORIN. OIN-KARRKLS.
Gnu-barrel boring and setting is an
operation of the utmost delicacy. A
military barrel must be bored with
such accuracy as to receive a plug
measuring 567-1000ths of an inch. It is
condemned as useless if it takes one of
080. A workman in this branch has
been known to earn £5 to £6 a week,
and this kind of skilled industry de
serves it. To ‘set’ a barrel—that is,
to straighten it—also requires great
skill. The practiced eye of the barrel
setter can detect a deviation from the
straight line which no mechanical con
trivance can discover. He accomplishes
his object by looking through the bar
rel while standing in front of a win
dow, and causing the shade of the up
per edge ef the window to traverse up
and down the tube. The irregulari
ties in the outline of the shade show
1 him where the inaccuracies exist,
j These he removes by well directed
blows of a hammer, the perfecting
blows being given with a light wooden
mallet. This mode of testing the ac
curacy of a gun barrel was discovered
by a Birmingham workman forty or
fifty years ago. The foolish fellow told
his secret—which was worth many
thousand pouuds—for five guineas and
a pot uf ale.
MR. Dim A*D HIS WORK,
The Handsboro Democrat says, that
Mr. Davis intends taking up his abode
for a time on the beautiful Mississippi
coast, near ‘Mississippi City, in order
to engage in writing the Reminiscen
ces of his Public Career, which he has
consented 4 to do at the earnest solieita-
friends. The friends of the
so-called,‘Lost Cause,’ will with
gratification __that it is to be vindicated
by the able pen of the distinguished
gentleman who was the leader and
representative of that cause. A cause
which endeavored to assert the true
principles upon which this Government
was founded, which history will do it
the justice of according.
Mr, Davis’ Reminiscences, we sup
pose, will embrace the events in which
he has been a prominent actor in a
long publie career, and will be a most
valuable contribution to the history of
our country, In entering upon his
work, Mr, Davis seeks a quiet and
pleasant retreat by the seaside and
has rented a shall cottage at Beauvier,
where he will have the advantages of a
charming climate and the society of
agreeable, devoted friends. The Dem
ocrat informs us, that Mrs. Dorsey, a
most intelligent and highly educated
lady, and a delightful companion, has
proffered her services as Mr. Davis’
amenuensis, and that he will be assist
ed in gathering material by a promi
nent gentleman of Mobile, who, if our
surmise be correct, is fully capable
of rendering Mr. Davis valuable assis
tance.
The country at large will anticipate
the issuance of this work with eager
expectation.—Mobile Cycle.
Times go by turns. The N. ¥. Bul
letin, referringjo the improved condi
tion of Mland, says: ‘lt would be a
curious turn of affairs if Irish immi
gration fJ> America should ere long ex
' pprienoe a reverse movement—that is
V'vsay* emigration from the United
States to Ireland. Phenomena
as, Sthe Idling**an<iyiseem, it is Ly
f'-
slants appear to ye fin aping t’nem
selves to some such end. Certain it is
the old country is quietly working its
way back to a prosperity in almost all
of its domestic industries that con
trasts favorably wit h the wide depres
sion that exists among other peoples,
and it cannot be long before the fact
arrests the attention of all that class
who have heretofore acted upon the
conviction that ‘the best way to get on
in Ireland is to get out of it,’*and are
now bewailing their unprosperous con
dition in America.'
The large flocks of geese that are con -
stantly passing over the town are fre
quently shot at, but they generally fiy
at too high an altitude to be reached
by the leaden mssiles. Sometraes, how
ever, Ihe shots take effect. Tho other
day we were watch iug a Hock flyifia
southward, when the report of a gun
was heal'd, and we saw one of the geese
begin to fall slowly. The others, see
ing that 4 their comrade was wounded,
uttered shrill cries of distres, and abovt
a dozen of them flew under the wound,
ed bird, huddling together eo that their
backs formed a sort of bed, on which
the wounded one rested. They bonved
it up fo some time, the othrers looking
on and manifesting their concern by
uttering loud, discordant cries. Find
ing that their companion was unable
longer to accompany them in their
flight, they abandoned him to his fate,
and he fell into the arms of an expec
tant Chinaman. —-California paper.
Mr. Lincoln was one day during the
war called upon by a woman, who,
pushing aside other visitors, made a
very low courtesy to the President,and,
as gradually rising, began, in a loud
voice: ‘Mr. Lincoln, my grandfather
fought in the Revolutionary war, my
father fought in the war of 1812,1
have a brother now fighting in the
Federal army to put dowu this wicked
rebellion, and I want a commission for
my son.’ Mr. Lincoln looked up with a
smile, ‘Why, ma’am, you belong to a
fighting family. You have done your
share. Go home and learn the arts of
peace.’
‘Yes,’ said Wm. R. Travers, com
menting upon the weaknesses of a de
parted speculator, ‘brandy killed him !
Morning, noon and night—nothing
but brandy ! He took it straight, in
punch aud cocktails, hot and cold.
Poor fellow, the brandy burned out
the coatings of his stomach and
killed him at last. This brandy is the
worst kind of a drink !
‘Why didn’t he drink wine ?’ asked
an inquisitive bystander.
‘li-b-b-because no-no-uobody asked
him, 1 eu-po-po pose !’
An exchange kaviug asked, 'What,
constitutes a State?’ the Worcester
Press answers that ‘one white men
and two negroes, dignified by the title
of ‘Returning Board,’ and backed by
Federal bayonets, constitute a State
according to the modern acceptation
of the term,*
F F, A 1' H K R S.
Now is the time to plant out your
fruit trees.
I he great labor question of the day
is how to avoid labor.
A Chinaman never keeps in debt
long. Re prefers to commit suicide.
M omau s first choice is a fast man,
then a good man, and liually any man.
Words of a dying cannibal—write
me down as one who loves his fellow
men.
Texas Las only two woolen mills to
work up the wool from her 2,500,000
sheep.
As words can never be recalled,
speak only such as you will never wish
to recall.
Those who blow the coals of others’
strife may have the sparks fiy in their
own faces.
Never try’ to file ofi' the edges of a
sharp flight of steps by sliding down
them on your back.
NO. 5
The Catholics have 25 priests in
Georgia, 17 churches, one college and.
a number of academies.
Dr. Hall says a duel is a public
; calamity. The Dowell Courier says:
| ‘So it is when neither side hits.*
There is nothing that so convinces a
man that there is truth in religion as
to seß true religion in Christians.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, A
cross-eyed schoolLaa’am can keep twice
| the usual number of children in order
at once>*
Davis aud Hereford have been elect
ed United States Senators from West
Virginia, respectively, for Ibe
short terms.
There is no healthier or more hope
ful light, that a man can throw on his
own pathway or that of others than
cheerfulness. '
When a man is always finding fault
he exhibits small discretion, poor judg
ment, bad taste and but little-capacity
to appreciate.
Those who once turned all their
minutes into gold, will see the day
that they would gladly turn all their
gold into minutes.
The pretentious uickle, bearing the
motto, ‘ln God we trust,’ is continual
ly getting into contribution boxes in
place of half-dollars.
He that follows the Lord fully will
find that goodness aud mercy follow
him continually. For daily wants he
will find daily grace.
The way the King of the Sandwich
Islaydii -catves a chicken to Take
‘I hate parties at onr house,' said
little Tosu Whifet, ‘because, for days* ,
afterwards we have to .eed oh what
has been left from the supper.’
The opposition of the Radical to
the proposed settlement*of the Prc. -
dential question, when hunted down,
is because it makes an honest count,
possible.
It is said that the first thing a Phila
delphia politician does after getting to
Washington, is to figd out how many
pieces of lemon Simon Cameron takes
in a cocktail.
The Senate Committee will contend
that intimidation an.t fraud justified
the rejections of the J .ouisiana return
ing board, eg far as the electoral vote
is concerned.
Nothing was so dreaded in our school
boy days as to be punished by sitting
between two girls. Ah, the force of
education ! In after years we learn to
submit to such things without shed
ding a tear.
She was romantic, and he was prac
tical. She remarked dreamily that her
soul was troubled—that the forebod
ings of fate ware running through her
head. And he coldly advised her to
use a fine tooth comb.
The people of Switzerland are fam
ous letter writers. They carry on an
annual correspondence equivalent to
twenty-three letters for each person.
In the United Statqp the proportion is
nineteen letters to one person.
Rev. Dr. K. G. Taylor says, that while
visiting a colored school in the South,
he asked a tiny darkey what he studied
i for, and what was his object in attend
| ing school. Hesitating a moment, tho
! little fellow answered: ‘To git oflis.'
It is easier to raise a hundred dollars
for the purchase of a gold watch to be
| presented to somebody who does not
| need it than it is to collect the same
; amount for some poor man from the
| same persous who owe him the money.
Here is something said by Huxley:
: ‘Thoughtfulness for others, generosity,
i modesty and self-respect, are tho quali
ties which make a real gentleman or
lady, as distinguished from the veneer
ed article which commonly goes by that
name.’
A Western lawyer, who was defend
ing a man on trial for wife murder,
sought for some euphonious and inno
! cent phrase with which to describe Ins
client’s crime, and finally said: ‘Ho
winnowed her into Paradise with a
fence rail.’
People talk about Ike ‘dear old
school house’ and the ‘dear old oaki u
I bucket,’ and all that, but if we remem
ber aright, in our boyhood days it waa
j the ‘dear okl bridge’ under which we
used to hide away from school, and
• the ‘dear old mill pond,’ where we
| used to fish.
If we will take the good we find,
asking no questons, we will have heap
: ing masures. The greatest, gifts are
j not. got by analysis. Everything good
jis on the highway. The middle region
kof uar heiug is tha temperate zone