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The Gainesville Eagle. PUBLISHED EV IKY Fit 10 AT HORS IS G. J-. 5 . Si STO W INE, ' Krtitoi anil Proprietor. rERMS : $2 A-Yeur, in Advance. OFFICE Up stairs iu Gaudier Hall building, north-west corner Public Square. Agents tor The Eagle. J. M. Itii h. lllairsville, G*.; J. D. Howard, Uiwas see, Ga.; W. M. Sanderson, llaysville, N. C.; Dr. N. C. Osborn, Duford, Ga. The above named gentlemen aro authorized to make collections, receive and receipt for subscription to The Eagle office. Kn ten <l* Advertising. One dollar per square for first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding six lines will be charged for as advertisements. Personal or abubivo communications will not be inserted at any price. Communications of general or local interest, under a genuine signature respectfully solicited from any source. Kates of Legal Advertising. Sheriff's sales for each levy of ten lines or loss $2 50 Each subsequent ten lines or less - - 2 60 Mortgage salos (6o days) per square - - 500 Ktoli subsequent ten lines or less - - 6 00 Adin’r's, Ex’r's or Guard’n’s sales, (40 days) pr sq 5 00 Notice to debtors and creditors - - 5 00 Oltat's for let’rs of adiu’u or guard'ns’p (4 wks) 400 Leavo to sell real estate - - - 6 00 Lot’rs of dism’n of adm’u or guard'n (3 mo.) 6 00 Estray notices 3 00 Citations (unrepresentedestates) - 4 00 Rule nisi in divorce cases - - - 6 00 0 0~ /''ructions nf a square lor inch) are charged in all cases as full squares or incites . -434 Notices of Ordinaries calling attention of adminis tr.it,irs, executors and guardians to making thir an nual returns; ami of Sheriffs in regard to provisions section:! 3640, 'i!* the Coda, published peek for the 8 tin riffs and Ordinaries who patronize the Eagle. Advertisers who desire a specified space for 3, 6 or 12 mouths will receive a liberal deduction from our regular rates. g rt~ All bills duo after first insertion, unless special contract to the contrary be made. 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: Dahlonega(Stage, Daily) - - 8:30 a.m. Jefferson, (stage, Wednesday and Saturday) 0:00 p. ni. Cleveland, (Stage, Monday and Friday) 8:00 a. m. Homer, (Horse, Friday) 12:30 p. in. Waltoo ■*•<--. 5:00 a.m. DawMonviUe, (Horse, Saturday) - 7 30 “ mails arrive: Dahlonega 3:00 p. in. Jefferson (Wednesday and Sat rilay) 0:00 p. in. Cleveland, (Monday and Thursday) - 0:00 “ llomer, (Friday) - - 12:00 m. Wahoo *• 6:00 a.m. Dawsonville, (Friday) - - fl:oop.m. M. It. AROHJSK, P.M. 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.’ ■R' r