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SENERAL DIRECTORY.
lion. George 1). Rice, Judge S. C. Western Circuit.
A. L. Mitchel, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. 1".. M. Wiuburn, Ordinary.
John L. Gaiuas, Sheriff.
J. F. Dnekutt, Deputy Sheriff.
J. J. Mayue, Clerk Superior Court.
N. IS. Clark. Tax Collector.
J. K. H. Luck, Tax Receiver.
Oideou Harrison, Surveyor.
Edward Lowry, Coroner.
It. C. Young, Treasurer.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
I'll its urn rtiAS Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland. Pas
tor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and night,
except the second Sabbath, bn day School at i) a. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock.
Methodist Cmillou Rev. I). D. Cox, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School ata. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday night.
11 ai*i’[ht Cuuaou Rev. W. 0. Wilkes, Pastor.
l. .(I- ig Suuday morning. Sunday School at i) a.
m. Prayer mooting Thursday evening at 4 o’clock.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jackson, President.
R. C. Maddox, Vice President.
W. B. Clements, Secretary.
Regular services every Sabbath evening at one of
the Churches. Cottage jirayer meetings every Tues
day night in “old Town,” and Friday uiglit near the
depot.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Ai.lkomanv Uoyai. Aucii Ojupter meets on the Sec
ond ami Fourth Tuesday evenings in eaeh month.
W. M. ProKKTT, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P.
U vinesville Lodge, No. 213, A.*. F.*. M.-., meets
on Urn First and Third Tuesday evening in the mouth
R. Pai.moub, Sec’y. R. E Gkf.en, W. M.
Air- Line Lodge, No. 64, I. O. O. F., meets every
Friday evening.
O. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Habeison, N. G.
Morning Star Lodgo, No. 313, 1. O. G.T., meets ev
ery Thursday evening.
Claud Ester, W. S. J. I*. Caldwell, W. C. T.
North-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS.,
moots every Ist and 3d Saturdav evenings, at Antioch
Church. p\ S. Hudson, W. C. T.
H. W. Rhodes, Secretary.
GAINESVILLE FOST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlanta
and Richmond Air Line Raiirood, the following will
he the suhodnlo from date:
Mall fro n Atlanta [last] 5.11 p. m.
Mail for Atlanta [fast] 11.20 a. m.
Office hours: From 7 a. in. to 12 in., and from
1 >4 p. m. to 7 p. ni.
No office hours on Suuday for guucral delivery
window.
All cross mailß leavo ns heretofore.
mails close:
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Professional and Business Cards.
MAULEH A: PERRY.
1 TTORNEYB AT LAW, GAINESVILLE, GA,
Office in the Court Houmi. One or the other of
thu finu always present. Will practice in Hall aud
adjoining counties. ang2s~ly
A . .T . SIIAF FlO H,
3T3E3C'K*JSSXOI^%.ISr
AND
S IT K G EO N,
(Siviiuisvilloj Cft.
Office and Rooms at Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga.
jau2l-ly
I IN FI R MARY,
FOIt THE TREAT At ENT OF DISEASES OF WOMEN,
AND OPERATIVE SURGERY,
At the Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga, by
Jan'2B tf A. J. SHAFFER, M. D.
V. D. LOCKHART, M. I).,
I'olkvillc, (In.,
WILL PRACTICE MEDICINE in all its branches.
.Spool* l attentiou given to Chronic Diseases of
women aiui children. feblß-Gin
l)R. R. 11. ADAIR,
DENTWT,
Gainesville, Ga.
janlt ly
MARSHAL 1.. SMITH,
VTTOUNRY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Damonville, Ihimon county, Ga.
jnli tt'
JOHN B. ESTES,
VTTO RN EY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hall county,
Georgia.
C. .1. WELLBORN,
4 TTOBNEY-AT-I.AW, Blairsvillo, Union county,
TV. Georgia.
SAMUEL DUNLAP,
Attorney at law, Gainesville, an.
Oltieo in the Candler building, in the room
occupied by the Eagle in 1875. aprStf.
\V. K. WILLIAMS,
* TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
TV Cleveland, White. Cos., Ga., will practice in the
Courts of the Western Circuit, and give prompt atten
tion to all business entrusted to his care.
June 12, 1874-tf
WlF.lt BOYD,
V TTORNEY AT LAW, Dahlonega, Oa.
I will Practice in the counties of Lumpkin,
Dawson, Gilmer, Fannin, Union and Towns counties
n the Hlue Ridge Circuit; ami Ha!!, White and
Rabun in the Western Circuit.
May 1,1874-tf.
BEV, A. MARTIN,
V TTORNEY AT LAW, Dahlonega, Ga.
jtily’Jl, IS7I-tf
S. K 7 CHRISTOPHFit,
V TTORNEY AT LAW, Huoassee, Ga.
Will execute promptly all busiuess entrusted to
his care. novlfitf
THOMAS F. (IRFFIt,
4 TTORNEY AT LAW, AND SOLICITOR IN
Equity and Bankruptcy, Ellijay. Ga. Will prac
tice in the Slate Courts, and in the District ami Cir
cs uit Courts of the U. S., in Atlanta, Ga.
June 20,1873-tf
m. W. KIDEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gainesville, Georgia.
Jan. 1,1876-1 y
.lAMFS M. TOWERyT -
Attorney at law,
Gainesville, G-.
J. .1. TURNBULL,
A TTORNEY AT LAW, Homer, Ga —Will practice
xYin all the counties composing the Western Cir
cuit. Prompt attention given to all claims entrusted
to his care.
Jan. 1. 1875-ly.
JAMES A. BUTT,
Attorney at law & land agent, Biairiviiu
Ga. Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted t o his care. j une 2,1871-tl
The Gainesville Eagle
Devoted to Polities, News of the Day, The Farm Interests, Home Matters, and Choice ]\lisc‘llaiiy.
VOL, XI.
LITTLE CHILDREN.
There is music, there is sunshine,
Where the little children dwell,
In the cottage, in the mansion,
In the hut or in the cell;
There is music in their voices,
There is sunshine iu their love,
And a joy forever round them,
Like a glory from above.
Little children ! yes, we love them
For their spirits’ ceaseless flow,
l or the joy that ever lingers
Where their bounding footsteps go,
’Tis the sunshine of their presence
Makes the lowly cottage fair,
And the palace is a prison
If no little one is there.
Oh ! I wonder not the Savior,
He, the beautifnl, the meek,
To the precious little children,
Tender, loving words did speak,
’Tis a pleasant thing to teach them
Unto him to bend the knee.
Since he spoke the words of blossing,
‘Suffer them to come to me.’
\ea, of such is heaven’s kingdom,
And if we could enter there,
We must seek the sinless garment
hich the little child doth wear,
l ather, bless the little children,
Bless them everywhere they dwell—
In the palace, in the mansion,
In the hut or in the cell;
May the clouds of sin and sorrow
Never darken o’er their way,
And in Leart may we bo like them,
Pure and innocent as they.
WHINING.
There is a class of persons in this
world, by no means small, whose promi
nent peculiarity is whining. They
whine because they are poor; or, if rich,
because they have no health to enjoy
their riches; they whine because it is
too shiny; they whine because they
have “no luck,” and other’s prosperity
exceeds theirs; they whine because
some friends have died and they are
still living; they whine because they
have aches and pains, and they have
aches and pains because they whine,
and they whine no one can tell why.
Now we would like to say a word to
those whining persons: First, leave off
whining; it is no use, this everlasting
complaining, fretting, fault-finding,
and whining. Why, you are the most
deluded set of creatures that ever
lived. Do you not known that it is a
well settled principle of physiology and
common sense that these habits are
more exhausting to nervous vitality
than almost any other violation of
physiological law ? And do you not
know that life is pretty much as you
make it and take if? You can make it
dark and shadowy. This life is only
meant to discipline us—to fit us for a
higher and purer state of being. Then
leave off whioing and fretting, and go
on your way, happy and rejoicing.
TEARS.
Thero is a sacredness iu tears. They
are not the marks of weakness but of
power. They are messages of over
whelming grief, of deep contrition, of
unspeakable lovo. If there were want
ing any argument to prove that man
was not mortal, I would look for it in
the strong, convulsive emotion of the
breast when the soul has been agi
tated, when the fountains of feeling are
rising and tears are gushing forth in
crystal streams. Oh, speak not harsh
ly of the stricken one weeping in silence.
Break not the solemnity by rude laugh-*
ter or intrusive footsteps. Despise
no woman’s tears; they are what make
her an angel. Scoff not if the stern
heart of manhood is sometimes melted
into tears; they are what elevate him
above the brute. I love to see tears of
affection. They are painful tokens,
but still more holy. There is pleasure
iu tears-—an awful pleasure. If there
were none on earth to shed tears for
me, I should be loth to live; and if no
oue to weep over my grave, I could
never die in peace.
THE COUNTRY.
A young man from the country, who
had recently come into possession of a
few thousand dollars, visited an uncle
in the city, an old merchant, to get his
advice about investing his capital in
business. ‘Go back to the country,
young man,’ said the merchant, ‘and
invest your money in land. Buy a
farm, settle down on it, and do a safe
business. I have been in business here
nearly forty years and have accumu
lated a fortune, but it has been done
by fearful risk, heavy responsibility,
constant toil and worrying anxieties.
A dozen times I have been on the verge
of bankruptcy, and twice I have been
sorely tempted to take my own life. Of
ten men who commenced business here
when I did, only oue besides myself
succeeded. The rest all failed, one after
another, some dragging their families
down to poverty aud disgrace. Take
my advice—keep away from the city
and its delusive busiuess avenues.—
Quiet contentment on a moderate com
petency in the country is the best for
tune I could wish you ’
Nearly twenty thousand tons of
American rooting slate were sent last
year to Eugland and Ireland, and
found a ready market. Seveial ship
ments were made direct to Cardiff,
Wales, the great centre of the slate
trade of the world.
COURT-ROOM ‘SAS'i.’
A quick and ready wit is an almost
indispensable endowment in a good
cross-examining counsel, but the
quickest and readiest sometimes finds
his match. ‘Oh, you say this gentle
man was about 55,’ said Canning to a
pert young woman in the witness-box,’
and I suppose now you consider your
self a pretty good judge of ages, eh?
Ah, just so. Well, now, how old
should you take me to be ?’
‘Judging by your appearance, sir,’
replied the witness, ‘I should take you
to be about GO. By your question I
should suppose you were about 16.’
Whether counsel had any more
questions for this lady is not recorded.
‘Now,’ began another learned gen-
tleman, rising slowly from among his
professional brethren, and looking very
profound, ‘now, are you prepared to
swear that this mare was three years
old ?’
‘Swear ?’ returned the stableman in
the box, ‘yes, I’ll swear she was.’
‘And pray, sir, upon what authority
are you prepared to swear it ?’
‘What authority?’ echoed the wit
ness.
‘Yes, sir, upon what authority ? You
are to give me an answer, and not re
peat my question.’
‘I don’t see as a man can be expected
to answer a question before he has had
time to turn it over.’
‘Nothing can be simpler than the
question put to you, Upon what au
thority, I repeat, do you swear to this
animal’s age ?’
‘On very good authority.’
‘Then, why this evasion ? Why not
state it at once ?’
‘Well, if you must have it’
‘Must have it ?’ interrupted the man
of law, ‘I will have it.’
‘Well, then, if you must and will
have it,’ said the hostler, with deliber
ate gravity, ‘I had it from the mare’s
own mouth.’
A particularly witty reply was once
made by a well know English archi
tect, who had been giving an imuor
tant opinion, and whose professional
statue Mr. Sergeant Garrow, the op
posing counsel, was anxious to depre
ciate.
‘You are a builder, I believe,’ began
the sergeant.
‘No, sir, I am not a builder; I am an
architect.’
‘Ah, well, builder or architect, arch
itect or builder, they aro pretty much
the same, I suppose.’
‘I beg your pardon, sir, I can’t ad
mit that; I consider them to be totally
different.’
‘Oh, indeed; perhaps you will state
wherein this great difference consists ?’
‘An architect, sir, conceives the de
sign, prepares the plan, draws out the
specifications—in short, supplies the
mind. The builder is merely the ma
chine; the architect the power that
puts the machine together and sets it
going.’
‘Oh, very well, Mr. Architect, that
will do; an ingenious distinction with
out a difference. Do you happen to
know who was the architect of the
Tower of Babel ?’
‘There was no architect, sir,’ replied
the witness, ‘ hence the confusion
there.’
As the train stopped for ten minutes,
and that individual who goes along
tapping the wheels with his hammer
was passing rapidly by the smoking
car, one of the windows was hoisted
and a torrent of tobacco spit was
ejected which completely deluged him.
The machinist paused for a moment,
and wiping some of the streams from
his person, said to the offender:
‘Mister, what part of the country did
you come from ?’
‘Me ?’ said the spitter, puckering
his lips for another expectoration, ‘I
come from Kansas.’
‘I thought so, ’ said the machinist,
‘for if you had lived in Massachusetts
or Connectfcut they would have had
a water-wheel iu your mouth long
ago. ’
After a Detroit small boy had leaned
up against a wall for two full hours, a
policeman asked if he was waiting for
any one in particular.
‘Waitin’ for a runaway to come
along,’ replied the boy.
‘You want to see a team run away,
do you ?’
‘I want to see a truck team come
zippin’ along here, hit that peanut
stand in the middle, and while the
sympathetic public are picking up the
Italian I want to be picking up the
peanuts,’ was the frank reply.
The officer decided to enforce the
twenty-second joint rule, and the boy
was made to move on.—Detroit Press.
Misses A D. and M. O. Marschalk,
with the devotion of noble daughters,
have relieved their infirm father of the
labor and vexations of publishing the
Acworth Advocate by assuming charge
of it themselves. We gladly welcome
the young ladies to the tripod, where
they will certainly meet the kindliest
consideration of the press of the whole
State. ‘Luck aud a big success’ to yon,
ladies.—Cartersville Express.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 9. 1877.
“1 CAN’T GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE
MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH.”
So said a lady, who had recently
been admitted by letter into the mem
bership of a large church, to the pas
tor.
‘I am very sorry, my sister,’ was the
reply; ‘the members are generally con
sidered quite friendly, and there is
much pleasant social intercourse
among them.’
‘But scarcely any of them speak to
me, or seem to know me when I come
to church, or meet them in the streets.’
‘Do you speak to them ?’
‘I do not like to speak first. It was
so very different in the first church I
joined.’
‘Where you passed the days of your
childhood and youth, you were of
course more widely known; and when
your were baptized, it was a more
direct introduction to the Christian
sympathies and affection of the
church. Do you attend your prayer
meetings ?’
‘No; I have not been yet.’
‘The best place to form acquain
tances amoDg the members is at the
prayer-meetings. The Sabbath con
gregations are so large, and so many
strangers attend, that members can
scarcely become familiar with each
other, if they meet only there. Bui* if
you are seen regularly at the prayer
meeting, you will soon be recognized
and welcomed. Have you been to the
Dorcas Society ?
‘Oh no ! Ido not like to go where
all are strangers to me.’
‘But how are they to become ac
quainted with you, if you do not give
them an opportunity. I hope y r ou have
visited the Sabbath School.’
‘No; I should like to take a class,
but have been waiting for an invita
tion.’
‘My dear friend, do you not perceive
that you are Jar more to blame for re
maining a comparative stranger among
us than the members of the church
generally can be ? You are waiting
for advances to be made by those to
whom you give scarcely an opportuni
tv for friendly intercourse. You give
them no reason to think that yt u de
sire an acquaintanceship Now, my
advice to you is, attend the more fam
iliar meetings of the church, manifest
an interest in its spirituality and pros
perity, kindly recognize any whom you
know to be members, dispense with the
worldly courtesy that requires a formal
introduction to these disciples of Jesus,
if they remain indifferent to you, the
blame will rest with them.—Watchman
and Reflector.
‘Can’t stop; I’m iu a awful hurry,’ said
a clever agent of the Associated Press.
“Must get to the office right away;
send otlice the news. Yellow and pois
oned, aud runaway team broke a store
window.” Aud the electric wire Hashed
the tidings over the broad continent.
The colored voter of Louisiana wept
over the fate of the yellow dog and the
frontiersman amid the wilds of Oregon
laid aside his axe, and forgot Cronin to
read the thrilling account of the run
away. Such are the subtle links which
knit mankind in the firmer bonds of
brotherhood.
This laconic but sensible German
ought to be sent out to lecture among
the people:
“I sail tell you how it vas. I drink
mine lager; den I put mine hand on
mine head, and dere was vosh vone
pain. Den I put mine ban on mine
body, an dere vosh another pain. Den
I put mine hand I mine pocket and
dere vash notting. So I jine mit de
demperance. Now dere is no pain more
iu mine head, and de pain in mine body
vas all gone away. I put mine hand in
mine pocket, and dere vas dwenty dol
lars So I stay mit de demperance.”
Those newspapers that are abusing
Judge Bradley for his partisan course
tin the Commission should take warning
from an anecdote told of an irascible
Justice if Peace, who, iu going through
the street, was accosted by a boy in a
manner not altogether delereutial.
‘Young man,’ said his honor, ‘I fine
you five dollars for contempt of Court.’
‘Why, Judge,’said the offender,‘you
are not in session.’ ‘This Court,’ res
ponded the Judge, thoroughly irri
tated, ‘is always in session, and conse
quently always an object of contempt!’
‘John Smith, the court, having con
sidered the offense whereof you stand
convicted, orders that you be impris
oned for the term of four years in the
State Prison, and that you stand com
mitted until sentence be performed.
Have you anything further to say ?’
Tt strikes me, your Honor,’ responds
John, ‘that question comes rather late.’
This illustrates one scene in the great
transaction at Washington, which will
go down to history and in which Jus
tice Bradley is the central figure, with
a written opinion in his hand, prep ired
before the c’osj of the case in order to
relieve him from being ‘nervous!’—
Boston Post.
God sends his rain in gentle drops,
else llowera would be beaten to pieces.
MARRIAGE and hard times.
The worst and most lasting effects
of the business depression are not seen
upon the surface. They lie deep in
social life, and are not easily tracted.
Unfortunately, there is as yet no per
fected system of statistics of marriages,
divorces, births, abortions, the causes
of sickness and death, prostitution,
other crimes. Such statis
tics”wouicl -throw' stronger light upon
the subject of human progress and
decay than any other facts, and it is
to be regretted that our census report,
admirable so far as it goes, does not
deal in these important figures. Indi
vidual investigators have collected val
uable social statistics of localities, but
there lias been no attempt at a general
system.
Buckle discovered that the number of
marriages in England fluctuated with
the price of corn, and that the great
social and religious institution of mat
rimony is swayed and controlled by
the price of food and by the rate of
wages. If we had all the facts before
us, we should discover that marriages,
births, school attendance and innocent
social enjoyments decrease as bank
ruptcy prevails and hard times in
creases prostitution, forgery, gambling,
abortion, murder, and every known
crime. The effect of business stagna
tion upon marriage is illustrated by
the following figures 1 ake from a re
cent issues of the New York Sun:
The statistics of marriages in the
city of New York from 1860 to the
present year afford an interesting sub
ject of study. In 1860 the number of
marriages was 4,088. Then it fell off
greatly during the four years of the
war, running from about 2,800 to 3,200
a year. After the war there was a
great increase iu the reperted mar
riages, 1866 showing 5,792, and 1867
the large number of 7,513, while in
1869 they leached 8,695, or more than
double the number of 1860. From
1850 up to 1874 the number averaged
between eight and nine thousand. In
1875 they fell off to 7,565, ana last
year they got down to 7,099. The laie
decline in marriages seems to have
sympathized with the decline in busi
ness prosperity. The number is not
only positively less than it was three
<|r four ago, but also compari
tively to the population of the city it
is very significantly reduced.
A short story with a moral—When
trade grew slack and notes fell due,the
merchaut’s face grew long and blue;
his dreams were troubled through the
night, with sheriff's bailiffs all in sight.
At last his wife unto him said: ‘Rise
up at once—get out of bed; and get
your paper, ink and pen, and say these
words unto all men: ‘My goods I
wish to sell to 3-0 1, and to your wives
and daughters, too; my prices are so
very low, that all will buy before they
go.’ ’ He did as by his wife advised,
aud in the papers advertised. Crowds
came and bought off all he had; his
notes were paid, his dreams were glad;
and he will tell you to this day how
well did printer’s ink repay. He told
us, with a knowing wink, how he was
saved by printer’s ink.
Petersburg Index and Appeal says
a gentleman of that city a day or two
ago, while walking over the battle
ground of the Crater, picked up a curi
ous and interesting relic of that fa
mous and hotly contested field. It
was two minnie balls flattened and
embedded in each other. One was a
Federal aud the other a Confederate
ball, and on being fired from opposite
directions had struck each other and
become embedded one in the other,
forming as it were a ring of lead, with
the balls projecting on either side,
and retaining sufficient traces to dis
tinguish the side to which they be
longed.
Dr. Tyng, Jr., tells a story on him
self which has some point in it to those
who are eager to preach before they
are ready. While studying in Virginia
he was in the habit of holding service
at a neighboring chapel. A friendly
old darkey used to pass his church,
and trudge a mile beyond to a Metho
dist meeting-house. When asked why
he did not go to her Massa Tyng he
made this shrewd reply: ‘Ah, no; don’t
catch dis nigger lettin’ de students
practice on him.’
A Piedmontese and a Neapolitan
were discussing the relative charms of
their countries. ‘Naples!’ said the
former. ‘Naples is the dirtiest city in
the universe. You can’t set foot on its
streets without getting ankle deep in
filth.’ ‘Well, but look at our sky—that
carpet of the gods—so beautiful, so
eternally blue,’- ‘Yes, that carpet of
the gods is passably clean, I admit,
but that is only because you can’t spit
on it.’ . ,
The Freemasons of England support
three charities—one of which pays an
nuities to aged Masons and widows,
while the other two are schools for
chil lien of Masons, one for boys aud
oue for girls. The sum contributed last
year for their support was $195,000.
HOW 10 BRING UP BOYS.
The worst thing a parent can do to
a bo) r is to pamper him. A boy can be
fed to death and nursed to death. He
can be killed by motherly kindness aud
fatherly guardianship. Boys are only
young animals with mind, or with what
will one da}’ be minds. The most essen
tial part of a boy is his stomach. The
next important members of his organ
ism are his legs—good, strong, sturdy
legs, and a stomach able to digest any
thing in it, make an equation for bo}-
hood. Do not, then, keep } T our boy in
the house, doting father; but give him
a bat, a ball, a sled, a pair of skates,
anything he needs for outdoor amuse
ment and send him out of doors. Go
with him yourself, if possible. Skate
with him, race with him, be a boy with
him now, that he may be a man with
you by and by.
How often we have seen birds scold
and push their fledglings out of the
nest, compelling them thus to rely on
themselves. How they will flutter
around them, and make an occasional
shoot into the upper air to encourage
the little things to try their wings, by
showing them how easily it can be
done. Can }'ou not be as wise as
birds? Shall the dumb things beat
you at the game of parentage? Keep
your boy out of doors, father. Let him
mingle with other boys. It will do him
good to be buffeted aud abused a little
by his playmates. It will teach him to
stand up for his rights and give him
confidence iu himself. If will make
him cautious and wear}’ and self
reliant. A doll-bo}’ is liko a whip
lash—he is not worth a cent if lie has
not got the snap in him somewhere.
What is it that lias made } t ou succeed
in life ? And how was it developed in
you? You were not pampered such
when a boy, eh ? Well, be as wise to
your sou as your father was to his.
Give him a chance to be vigorous and
plucky. Start him right. ‘I write unto
you, young men, because ye are strong.’
CARELESSNESS OF BUSINESS MEN.
The report of the committee which
investigated IVIr. Hewitt’s charges
against the New York Post-office, con
tains the following statement,'of the
remarkable carelessness, business
men: “It is a surpri.y n tire. the
most careless persons V business
with the post-office in New York are
the business men, the bankers; and the
most valuable packages of letters are
often-times the most carelessly pre
pared for transmission. Mr. Forester,
superintendent of the registered letter
division, stated that he had two pack
ages of bank bills from the bank of
Nevada, San Francisco, addressed to
the bank of York. They were wrapped
up in a single thickness of brown paper.
Each package was about eight inches
thick in solid bank bills. The seals
were broken coming through the mails
and the ends of the packages exposed.
There was $150,000 in them. When
the committee were in New York, a
box containing $25,000 in gold was re
ceived. In 1873, gold coin to the
amount of $4,300,000 passed through
the New York Post-office; in 1874,
$4,800,000 passed through; and these
Mr. Forester calls small items of the
whole amount that passes through. A
short time ago forty-two packages of
bonds valued at between $600,000 and
SBOO,OOO, passed through; and large
amounts of United States bonds, not
registered, are sent to Europe through
the registered mails and returned to
this country in the same way, and yet,
he says there is about the same care
lessness as to those valuable letters as
to ordinary letters.”
From a paper read before the weekly
meeting of Methodists at the book
concern in New York city, on Monday
of last week, the following interesting
particulars of the revision of the Bible
by the Angly-Americau commission,
appointed for the purpose, were gleaned
by a World reporter. The commission
includes about fifty persons in this
country and England. In the United
States branch are Dr. Theodore Wool
sey, Philip Schaff, Dr. George E. Day,
of Yale College, and the Eev Dr. M. B.
Riddle, of Hartford. The revision is
being conducted in the most conserva
tive spirit; the alterations to be made
will be as few as possible, and it is
thought that when the new Bible is
read, ninety-five per cent, of the peo
ple will not know it from the present
revised.
The South has been so often deceived
that we can hardly venture to say that
we may not be again, oven in the
promises now held out to us. But
Gen. Grant, the most obstinate and
persistent man in the land, has thor
oughly tested the despotic system and
the rule of the South through igno
rance and dishonesty. He has at last
confessed that it is a failure, and we
can hardly suppose the new President
will attempt to continue a policy which
has failed under the direction of Grant
—Richmond Dispatch
Oddly enough, Simon Cameron is
78—just the figures of the ‘Tribunal.’
WONDER WHAT THEY’LL DO NEXT.’
[liwlianapolis Cor. Cincinnati Commercial.!
The negro minstrel, Thatcher, the
other evening told a ludicrous story to
a big audience at the Grand Opera
House here, and put a catch prase into
the mouth of the Imlianapolitans that
has kept them laughing ever since. It
is all about two sailors and a poll-par
rot, and the expression of the parrot
will illustrate perfectly the effect of
the Florida decision by-the Electoral
Commission upon the Democrats. Two
sailors who had a parrot with them
went into a magicians’ show, in an up
per room, in some foreign city. The
three constituted the entire audience.
After each feat of the magicians one of
the sailors would say, “That’s pretty
good; wonder what they’ll do next.”
Finally one of the sailors asked permis
sion to smoke, which the magicians
granted, forgetting that in the next
room beneath was stored an immense
quantity of gunpowder. The Jack
tars and the parrot continued to enjoy
the show, one sailor adding the pleas
ure of his pipe and the other remark
ing after each trick, “That’s pretty
good; wonder what they’ll do next.”
A spark from the smoker’s pipe
chanced to drop through a crack in
the lloor into the powder and some
thing suddenly occurred. Sailors and
magicians, parrot and all, “rose above
party prejudice,” aud were ali blown to
kingdom come in a million fragments.
All except the poll parrot. He landed
in a heap of bruised flesh and burnt
feathers on a potato patch three miles
away. He was terribly demoralized.
It took him some moments to collect
himself, and when ho had partially
done so he hopped limpingly upon a
fence rail and remarked, “That’s
pretty good; wonder what thev’ll do
next.”
AN INDIAN DUEL.
A citizen of Sioux City, who has
spent much time among the agencies
of the upriver Indians, says it is amus
ing, as well as touching, to hear an
Indian sing his death song.
Our informant was at Standing
Rock a few months since, and one day
he observed an unusual stir among the
Indians. Soon two bucks came forth
from different lodges, each with a gun
in Ills hand. ,i‘l>ey sv!ilked mil, (•nniH
little distance from the rest of the
Indians and took posts—distant from
each other about fifty yards At a
given signal they turned, raised their
rifles to their faces, and tired. Both
fell, wounded, one fatally. They were
immediately surrounded by friends,
who made no particular effort to bind
their wounds, but simply stood around
talking among themselves and gesticu
lating, while the wounded Indians, as
soon as they fell, began the death song.
There was little music in it. It was a
sort of deep down, unnatural tone of
voice, kept up for a half a minute or
so at a time, when it would cease, and
tho sufferers would in the interim
make a confession of all the evil deeds
they had ever done. They would tell
of tho massacres in which they had
been engaged—how many scalps they
had lifted from the heads of white
people—the number of ponies they
had stolen, together with all sorts of
important and unimportant evil doings
in their lifetime. This accomplished,
they were ready to give up the ghost.
Omaha Herald.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
A notable paper has been read be
fore the Protestant Episcopal clergy
at Trinity Church, Boston, by the Rev.
J. H. Ward, on the subject, “Shall the
Episcopal Church be Democratic ?”
The Boston Transcript makes the fol
lowing comments:
“We have been so little accustomed
to looking in this quarter for the church
of the people that wo confess that Mr.
Ward’s suggestions as to free preaching
and evangelists’ movements and the
generous sympathy with social life,
though not at all impracticable, seem
not a little odd, but if the new depart
ure which he so earnestly advocates,
and which certainly seem to be setting
in, can be successfully introduced, or,
as he would say, restored, there is no
question that the Episcopal Church
has a future in this country as the
people which its warmest friends have
hardly dared to hope for. Robert
Laird Collier said on Monday at the
Chestnut Street Club, that it only
needed to unite its conservatism with
the democratic life of the age to sweep
the country. The recent congress in
this city showed a surprising tendency
in this direction, and the leaders of
this congress are evidently to be the
leaders of their church in the near fu
ture.”
Mr. Benedict, a graduate of the New
York University, states that the Mor
mons believe the rainfall to have much
increased in Utah since their settle
ment of the territory, p.ud this seems
to be borne out by the statement that
whereas formerly three gallons of Sait
Lake water produced ou evaporation
one gallon of salt, it now requires four
1 gallons to produce the same quantity.
FEATH E K S.
House rent in Atlant is lower than
at any time since ISGS.
‘Returning Board Hayes' and ‘Will
ing Accomplice Wheeler’ are designa
tions that, designate.
To keep moths out of old clothing,
it is recommended to give the clothing
to the poor.
England has 500,000 Freemason and
1,600 lodges. Who says that Freema
souay is not growing?
A Wall street man wants to know
what, is the difference between the day
rate of gold and the nitrate of silver.
English butchers are prejudiced
agaiust. American beef for the reason
that it so much better than the native
cow.
An English chess player plays eight
games at once, but that’s no worse
than listening to three women at the
same time.
The London Times says that Hayes’
inauguration “cannot excite enthusi
asm except with those who regard pol
itics a gambling, tricky game.”
We have had some remarkably cold
weather this winter, but none cold
enough to induce a woman with dia
mond ear-rings to wear a head-cover
ing.
NO. 10
The two hottest days ever known in
Australia were the 15th and 16th of
January, when the thermometer regis
tered 105 degrees iu the shade iu Mel
bourne.
The Montana Legislature changed
the name of the Little Big Horn river
to Custer river, iu memory of the brave
cavalry leader who met his death on
its banks.
The count was completed on Friday.
Hayes was nominated on Friday.—
Florida was stolen on Friday—like
wise Louisiana and Oregon. A great
many good people have been hung on
Friday.
It. is said that a few nights ago some
one hung a piece of crape on the door
of Justice Bradley’s house with a slip
ofj paper, on which was written, “Jus
tice is dead.”
Hayes, the Fraudulent President, will
be the first occupant of that office who
ever entered upon it with a majority of
the House of Representatives hostile
to his administration.
‘Are you uot afraid your wife will
get married again when you die?’ ‘I
hope she may, because I know there
will then be one man in the world who
knows how to pity me.’
A man was boasting that he sprung
from a high family. ‘Yes,’ remarked a
bystander, ‘I have seen some of your
family so high that their feet couldn’t
touch the ground.’
An Oshkosh lady, who was reading
to some friends, encountered the words
lUugelied letalogy,’ aud cautious
ly removed her teeth before attempting
to pronounce them.
It is with gloomy views of the future
that the young Boston man, after lay
ing out 75 cents in caramels for his
sweetheart, learns from her own lips
that kissing is aliunde.
The cotton manufactories of the
world run a total of 64,089,000 spin
dles and spin 2,660,000,000 pounds of
cotton. England operates 35,000,000
spindles, or more than one-half.
Europe wants for 1877 at least 5,772,-
500 bales of cotton, and upon the basis
of 4,350,000 bales for America and lit
eral estimates elsewhere, it is calculated
there will be a deficiency of 515,000.
A New York doctor says that a per
son with a sore throat shouldn’t kiss
one whose throat is all right, as the
complaint can be communicated. Girls
with sore throats should wear a bell.
The New York Herald notes the
rapid growth of Free Love in New
England aud the Middle States. Well,
how can you expect anything else when
the Supreme bench has become prosti
tuted ?
This is ‘Washerwoman’s’ year, be
cause it contains fifty three Mondays,
but with half the young men wearing
scarfs to cover their entire shirt fronts,
the laundresses do not feel much en
couraged.
A traveler stepped off a train and
asked a boy: Sonny, what is the
quickest way to get to the Central
depotV’ ‘Run!’he answered, and set
the example by getting out of the way
pretty fast.
Each grave on the broad breast of
the whole earth, whether men have
marked it or forgotten it, is in God’s
keeping; briers and weeds can not
hide it from his eyes, neglect and
desolation can not cover it from his
care.
The improvements in the long-range
fire arms have made the bayonet and
sabre comparatively innocent play
things. During the Franco-Prussian
war only twenty-one men were killed
on the Germau side by the bayonet
and lance, and but six in cavalry
charges.
The flower of the Raffiesia Arnoldi,
discovered by Dr. Arnold in the island
of Sumatia, is the largest known. It
is nearly forty inches in diameter and
the central cup holds six quai ls of
liquid, while the total weight is over
fifteeu pounds.
A gentleman wai digging in his gar
den the other day when his wife came
to tht> door and shouted: ‘Come, you
old fraud, come to dinner!’ As he did
not come, she opened the door pretty
soon and yelled: ‘Haiu’t you coming
to dinner, you blasted’—she saw a
neighbor in the gardeu with her hus
band and finished—‘old darling you.’
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