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except the second Sal'bath. Sue day School at 9 a. m.
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Mktuodikt Church ltev. D. D. Cox, Pastor.
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YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION,
A. M. Jackson, President.
It. C. Maddox, Vice President.
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Regular services every Sabbath evening at one of
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Church. IF. S. Hudson, W. C. T.
H. VV. Rhodes, Secretary.
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Attorneys at law, Gainesville, ga,
Office ill the Court House. One or the other of
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adjoining counties. aug2s ly
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AND
S U It (l E( N ,
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AND OPERATIVE SURGERY,
At the Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga, by
janJH tf A. J. SHAFFER, M. D.
V. S>. LOUKIIAKT, M. D.,
I'olla ill**, Ga.,
UriLL PRACTICE MEDICINE in all its iiranches. I
Special attention given to Chronio Diseases of I
women and children. feblß -Gin
D K It. li. AI) A I It,
DENTIMT,
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janl4 iy
ill V USUAL L. SMITH,
VTTORNRY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
DawsomnUe, ltawson county, Ga.
Janl4-tf
JOHN B, ESTJES,
4 T I'OKN KY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hull county,
XX Georgia.
(’. J. A\ l'-LLUOKN,
VTTOUNKY-AT-Ii.VW, Blairsville, Union county,
Georgia.
S A :>!l F, I. ('. DUNLAP,
VTTOHXEY AT LAW, Gainesville, Ga.
Office in the Gaudier building, in the room
occupied by the l'.aglo in 1875. apr6tf.
W. K. WILLIAMS,
* TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
A •Greta,uj White Go., Ga., will practice in the
Courts ol the u ostcni Circuit, mui glvo prompt atteu
tion to all business entrusted to his care.
Juuel’2, 1874-tf
3YIFR BOYD,
VTTORNI-A A T I.AW, Dahlonega, Ga.
1 will ITacm-e In Iho counties of Lumpkin,
I>aw*nn. Gilmer, Fannin. Union and Townseountins
nili.' Him- Hiilge Circuit; and Hall, White and
Raima in the Western Circuit.
May 1. 1874-tf.
BRV. A. MARTIN,
V I t'ORNKY AT LAW, Dahlonega, Ga.
xA jnlyjl, 1871-t.f
S. Iv. CHRISTOPHER,
VTTORNF.Y AT LAW. Himassee. Ga.'
Will execute promptly all business entrusted to
bis care. novictf
TIIO.HAS F. GREER,'
VTToKNKY \T LAW, ANi> SOLICITOR IN
Kquity and Bankruptcy. Eltija t/, Ga. Will prac
tice in the Slate Courts, and in the District and Cir
cuit Courts of the U. S., in Atlanta, Ua.
June 20,187.1-tf
>l. W. UI DEN,
ATTORN KY AT LAW, Gainesville, Georgia.
Jan. 1.1876-1 y
JAMES M. TOW FRY,
A TTORNFY AT LAW,
Gainesville, tL.
J. J. TI K.MM U,
ATTORNEV AT LAW. Homer , Ga. —Will practice
in all the, counties composing the Western Cir
cuit. Prompt attention given to all claims entrusted
to his care.
Jan. 1. 187S-ty.
JAMES A. HCTT,
Attorney at law & land agent, Biairsvuu
Ga. Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to his care. june 2,1871-tl
The Gainesville Eagle.
Devoted to Polities, News of tlie Day, The Farm Interests.. Home Matters., and Olioiee Iktiseellany.
VOL. XL
A I* R A ¥ E R .
BY A QUAKER.
O, that inino ev-es migLt closed bo
To what concerns me not to see;
That deafness mi"ht possess mine ear
To what concerns me not to hear:
That truth mine tongue uniy always lie
; From ever speaking foolishly;
That no vain thought wonld ever rest,
Or be conceived within my breast;
That by each word, and deed, and thought,
j Glory may to my God be brought.
| But what are wishes? Lord miue eye,
j On Thee is fixed, to Thee I cry;
I Wash, Lord and pnrify my heart.
And make it clean in every part;
And when ’tis clean Lord keep it so.
For that is more than I can do.
TELL YOUR WIFE.
The following advice from a corres
pondent of the Country Gentleman is
well worthy of acceptance, but we
would add a little more to it in the
form of a suggestion, that in case you
are a farmer and have no wife—get
one;
“If you are in any trouble or quan
dary, tell your wife—that is if yon
have one—all about it at once. Ten
to one her invention will solve your
difficulty sooner tbaa all your logic.
The wit of woman has been praised,
but her instincts are quicker and
keener than her reason. Counsel with
your wife, or your mother, or sister,
and be assured light will hash upon
your darkness. Women are too com
monly adjudged verdant in all but
purely womanship affairs. No philoso
phical students of the sex thus judge
them. Their intuitions or insights are
tho most subtle, and if they cannot see
a cat in the meal, there is no cat there.
I advise a man to keep none of his
affairs a secret from his wife. Many a
home has been happily saved, and
many a fortune retrieved, by a man’s
full confidence in his wife. Woman is
far more a seer and a profit than man,
if she be given a fair chance. Asa
general rule, wives confide the minutest
of their plans and thoughts to their
husbands. Why not reciprocate, if but
lor tho pleasure of meeting confidence
with confidence? I am certain no man
succeeds so well in the world as he
who, taking a partner for life, makes
her tho partner of his purposes and
hopes. What is wrong of his impulse
or judgment, she will check and set
right with her almost universally right
instincts. And wlmt she most craves
and most deserves is confidence, with
out which, love is never free from a
shadow.”
Nothing shows a greater abjectness
of spirit than an overbearing temper
appearing in a person’s behavior to
inferiors. To insult or abuse those
who dare not answer again, is as sure
a mark of cowardice, as it would be to
attack with a drawn sword a woman
or child; and whenever you see a per
son given to insult his inferiors, you
may assure yourself he will creep to
his superiors, for the same baseness of
mind will lead him to act the part of
coward to those who he can. But
though servants and other dependents
may not have it in their power to re
tort in the same taste, the injurious
usage they receive from their superiors,
they are sure to be even with them, by
the contempt they themselves have for
them, and the character they spread
abroad of them through* the world.
Upon the whole, the proper behavior
to inferiors is to treat them with
generosity and humanity; but by no
means with familiarity on one hand or
insolence on the other.
A Frenchman who liad won a high
rank among men of science, jet who
denied the God who is the author of
all science, was crossing the Great Sa
hara in company with an Arab guide.
He noticed with a sneer that at times
his guide, whatever obstacles might
arise, put them all aside, and kneeling
on the burning sands, called on his
God. Day after day passed, and still
the Arab never failed; till at last one
evening the philosopher, when ho rose
from his knees, asked him, with a con
temptuous smile, ‘How do you know
there is a God?’ The guide fixed his
beaming eyes on the scoffer for a mo
ment in wonder, and then said solemn
ly, ‘How do I know there is a God ?
How do I know that a man, and not a
camel, passed my hut last night in the
darkness ? Was it not by the print of
his feet in the sand ? Even so’—and
he pointed to the sun, whose last rays
were flashing over the lonely desert—
‘that foot-point is not of a man.’
The Courier-Journal says: “The frog
ponds in the vicinity of Columbus are
alive with the news about Haves. Far
into the night may be heard the deep
base of the taurine batrachian convej*-
iQg the information, and the small frog
reiterating their question. Thus they
go: ‘Hayes Jumps—Hayes flumps in !’
‘How did-he-git-it ?’ ‘How did-be-git
it ?’ ‘Aliunde ! Aliunde !’ ”
The Queen’s state saloon od the
, Great Western Railway, England, is
made entirely of boiler plate, and so
I lined and padded that if the carriage
were to go over an embankment and
roll to the bottom the chances are that
| the occupants would escape uninjured.
A TALE FOUNDED ON FACT.
(From the Philadelphia Tim on. J
“Recent advices from the Pacific givi
some .interesting particulars of the dis
turbance which has arisen concerning
the succession to the Crown of thi
Cannibal Islands. It is known that foi
many years great uneasiness has beei
felt among the faithful subjects of Hii
Majesty the King, because he was with
out an heir, and when it was at lengtl
announced that the Queen was aboui
to present him with the hoped-for child
every one awaited the interesting evenl
with the utmost anxiety, and especially
the King himself and his household,
who dreaded the dynasty that must oc
cur should the King die without an
j heir male. There was a considerable
party in the kingdom, however, to
whom the idea of a change was not dis
tasteful, and who therefore rather
hoped that the child might prove a girl.
In due time the child was born, and
the certificate of royal physician and
the royal nurse set forth the welcome
fact that it was a boy. Great was the
rejoicing m the King’s household; but
soon it began to be whispered abroad
that the physician and nurse had either
made a mistake or had told a lie. One
of the ladies-in-waiting had declared
her belief that the child was a girl.
The consulting physician had thrown
out the same idea. The matter got
into the newspapers, and became the
subject of excited discussion in Parlia
ment. The King and liis counselors
stuck to it that the heir was born and
all was well, but the popular excite
ment became so great that it was evi
dent that some steps must be taken
to settle the controversy. It was ac
cordingly agreed, with the concurrence
of all parties, that a High Commission,
composed of fifteen eminent physicians,
should be appointed to examine the
child, and, that there should be no ap
pearance of partiality, seven were to be
chosen by the opposition. So fair an
arrangement did this seem that the
whole public readily acquiesced. It
would require but to view the infant
to decide the case, and surely fifteen
pairs of scientific eyes could not be
all deceived. And so the High Com
mission was convened, and the nation
quietly abided the result.
“The Queen was duly int’ormea-.r
Royal Inquisition that was about to
visit her, and all was made in readiness
for their reception. The chosen fifteen
put on their stateliest robes of office,
and proceeded upon their mission, and
with due dignity approached the portal
of the Royal bed-chamber. But here it
was that the Kiug’s adherents showed
the wisdom and sasty of their action.
‘Halt,’ said the fifteenth Commissioner;
‘know you that the law is written which
forbids our entrance here? No foot of
man less sacred than the King’s or his
own physician’s dare cross the border
of the Queen’s apartment. It is not for
us to enter here. The law forbids.
We must seek for evidence, but within
the law.’
“‘Yes,’ said an objector, ‘but see the
purpose for which we were appointed.
The law which created us knew it were
impossible to decide the issue without
an entrance here. It certainly was its
intent that we should do so. Is not
every thing made ready for reception ?
The power vested in us is our author
ity.’
“ ‘Nay, not so,’ was the reply. ‘Let
us seek the evidence we have. See
here, this certificate bears all the marks
of legal requirement; its signatures are
those of the lawful officers; it says the
child is a boy, and so must our decision
be. What says the Court?’
“And eight responded; ‘So think
we,’ and seven answered ‘No.’ And
thus was given in the verdict that the
child must be a boy.
“So it happens that the Cannibal
Islands are filled with mutterings of
discontent, since it is now known that
the child was a girl, and it is generally
thought that the change of dynasty has
only been delayed ”
The latest and most effective coun
terblast against tobacco was delivered
by a ladj r in a Sixth avenue car on
Saturday. One of those noble speci
mens of manhood who chew the weed
and with impartial mind distribute
saliva upon everything and everybody
within range, was sitting opposite the
lady. From his capacious mouth, at
regular intervals, a stream of amber
juice fell upon her dress. Her look of
blank amazement soon gave place to
one of wrath; a frown blacker than
midnight gathered upon her face.—
Patience ceasing to be a virtue, she at
last rose, carefully gathered up her
dress so as to lose not a drop of the
fragrant liquid, and leaning toward
her vis-a-vis, wiped his face with the
garment he had desecrated, and then
deliberately resumed her seat. The
astonished man roared with rage and
pain, vainly tried to wipe the tobacco
juice from his smarting eyes, and at
last rushed from the car, followed by
roars of laughter from the passengers.
Out iu Illinois they are making su- 1
gar from common corn. A bushel of
AJorn yields thirty pounds of sugar.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 16. 1877.
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
The best and sweetest friend of the
laborer is economy. Save a little every
day, lay it by, and it will soon become
self-accumulating, by the safe and
generous principle of compound inter
est. It is astonishing, with such a
habit once formed, how soon the la
borer may find himself enjoying all the
pecuniary faculties which he has been
in the habit of envying in the capital
ist. We know that such a course in
volves self-denial, no indulgence in li
quor, no sacrifice to superfluous fan
cies, no riotous living; but yet it does
admit of all necessities and the intelli
gent cultivation of the mind. Indeed,
this last purpose should never be lost
sight of. If we know how to spend
less than, we receive, we have the phi
losopher’s stone, says the stoic. Any
thing which is not absolutely needed is
dear, no matter what the price may be;
or, in other words, nothing is cheap
which is superfluous.
Extreme measures defeat them
selves. If, by any extraordinary com
bination, workmen should succeed in
establishing five hours per day as the
legal representative of a day’s labor, is
any intelligent person so blind as to
suppose, for a single moment, that the
laborer has really and pecuniarily ben
efited himself, though he gets as much
for his five hours as he did formerly
for ten hours faithful work ? The truth
is very simple; he who runs may read.
The man’s dollars, which he receives
for circumscribed production, are
worth just so much less as the amount
of labor which he gives for them is di
minished and he will inevitably find
their purchasing power to be in that
exact ratio. Money is but the circu
lating medium; his labor is the crite
rion of value. The loss of five hours,
more or less, as the case may be, is just
so much loss of real wealth in the
world; and so long as the workman
lives be is as much a loser as the capi
talist who employs him.
Of course five hours will not produce 1
so many shoes, hats or potatoes. ”*. ,
1 . itinval o;
,„e% it mil 4TS^g, ttl , of M
dollars to cover hr/ . , ,
. ■, i * . rfionous victory for our
feed him. A. 15 , , , , .. „
. . „id mplete rout, for the Gc
him just so
as his limitdP eß,Z * treatlu When he
the value of# ou f? h be v/as baUly w ° l
All associl? iichmond > lk ' vas Qot Untl
must be upon aV rm ? had b< ) en
. . • Amusi. a den
bargain that is one-SKYeXt. vo. f
, , .irorn servi
sonable can never be made to
all the legal documents that could be
drawn upon that basis would be as
naught. The laws of compensation are
inevitable, and the rule of justification
will come in, by and by, and assert
itself.
Employers and employed, master
and men, are equally amenable to this
great and good law of Providence. Be
sure there is always a third, silent par
ty all of our bargains.—American Cul
tivator.
Miss Cora Dickson, a young girl of
22, arrived in Paris the other day from
South America. Her life has thus far
been a checkered one. At the age of
15, tired of the monotony of home, she
ran away from her father’s house with
a large sum of money. She cut her
hair short and donned a boy’s garb.
After becoming in succession a cabin
boy, a clerk, and a horse dealer, she
turned up iu Buenos Ayres, where she
entered the army, still disguised. She
distinguished herself in the service,
and became a colonel. Some months
ago, at a meeting of officers, she quar
relled with one of those present. A
duel followed, and she killed her ad
versary. On examining the dead man’s
papers, she found that she had killed
her oldest brother, who had left home
when she was two years of age. Hor
ror-stricken, she threw herself at the
bishops feet, who promised to intercede
with her father.
You hear that a man has died worth
a million. Why, my dear friends, he
was not worth anything when he died.
Ho was worth nothing at all the min
ute after he died. All he was worth
then was what he had laid up yonder.
If a man isn’t right toward God he
dies a pauper. If our hearts are set
ou things down here, we don’t grow
spiritually, and we are dwarfed and
crimped as we should not be if we laid
up treasures in Heaven. lam told
that those men who go up in balloons
take up sandbags with them, and as
they want to go higher they throw out
sand. I advise some of these rich men
to throw out sand. You have too much
sand. Give out your money if you
want to be rich toward God, rich eter
nally.—Moody.
The average price of land in a few
counties in Northwest Georgia, where
they raise grain and hay, is as follows:
Bartow county, per acre, $7.30; Chat
tooga S4.GO; Dade $0.25; Floyd $0.92;
Polk $0 98. The average price in South
west Georgia, the best cotton region
in the State: Dooly county, per acre,
$2.04; Lee $2.99; Macon $2.87; Ran
dolph $2.84. This exhibit shows beyond
a doubt that grain culture is more
profitable than cotton.
HAYES AND HANGMAN’S DAY.
One more Friday must be added to
the long and really remarkable list of
the days of fate which for Returning
Board Hayes have fallen on that omin
ous ‘hangman’s day.’ We find upon
consulting the Republican ‘camgaign
biography’ of His Fraudulency (the
Cyclopaedia overlooks him entirely)
that R. B. H. was ‘born’ on the 4th of
October, 1822; and the 4th of October,
1822, was a Friday!
These ominous coincidences are really
curious. Of course no sensible person
believes in signs and omens; but it is
the obstinate feeling of all Christen
dom—call it superstitious or not— that
Friday is a day of ill-omen. It is a
sinister day in the calendar’. It bears
the reproach of having been the day
of the most awful event in Christian
annals. It has always been selected
for the hangman’s work. It is a sailor’s
superstition that a ship launched, or a
voyage begun, on Friday, is sure to
involve disaster—much after the ex
ample of Milton’s ‘perfidious bark’ that
wrecked and drowned ‘Lycidas’—
“Built in the eclipse, and l'igg’d with curses
dark.”
It seems that Returning Board Hax es
was (1) born on Friday—was (2) first
nominated for Governor of Ohio on
Friday, and (3) received his second
nomination on the same sinister day—
that (4) he was also nominated for the
Presidency on Friday, and (5) is in
debted to the same dark day for the
creation of the ‘Electoral Commis
sion;’ also that (G) that swindling con
trivance declared Florida for Hayes
on a Friday, and (7) counted Louisi
ana for him on another Friday, anti (8)
wriggled around Oregon for him on
still another Friday; also (9) that the
final declaration of his election to the
Presidency was made ou Friday, and
(10) that his entrance into Washing
ton, immediately thereafter, was made
on the same ill-starred day.
Perhaps Friday is the right day for
,tWI Penis ■d declaration of a fraudu
joars prompts us T hJ-as been a day of
l the ration. Our chief
Run in successful effort—in acquiri*.,
arms desirable objects around
nfed- (heir supine enjoyment Times,
came grappling with and c—
nded not in a quiet, lif’it ‘Greeks
1 Mc-| ( rom it„ ’ -"V^
had todgh sut.ject in f
u , _ quir • room last week. Mood”” lf
with him antlS*" 1 uoC taught
,°° m " but the - ,u6 y vvill scarcely be
dilate ' profit by the advice of
others. Their most trusted leaders
already spout the idea of building up a
Republican party at the South to aid
in perpetuating the power of the Mor
tons, Chandlers and Shermans. But
purely visionary as the Hayes ‘South
policy,’ as his friends have foreshad
owed it, may turn out to be, it would
have at least the merit of being less
law-defying than that of Grant, and by
so much the country would have sea
son to be glad of the change. It would
be a great mistake, nevertheless, for
Mr. Hayes to have any ‘Southern poli
cy’ at all, as contra-distiDguished from
an Eastern, Northern or Western poli
cy. If be will leave all the States free
to manage their own affairs and shape
their own destiny, favoring no one sec
tion at the expense of another, he will
have done all that can reasonably be
expected of him. The country is get
ting heartily tired of so much ‘policy’
and so little real statemanship.—Balti
more Sun.
A joint stock publishing company
has been started in Dundee, Michigan.
They propose to publish a newspaper,
and advertise for a first-class editor;
who can do fine job work; who will
take cash, instead of potatoes and
wood on subscription; who can’t be
bought off with a glass of five cent
beer from speaking the truth when a
sensational local item appears, and
who will work for $8 per week. Here
is a chance for someone of the many
active and self-denying journalists who
so frequently favor us with kind advice
how to run a newspaper.
Judge Brady, in a recent lecture,
told a story of an ambitious Yankee
who aspired to the State Senate. Like
a certain man we’ve read of, he gave
SIOO for the influence of a friend. His
hopes were high, and he most willing
ly parted with the money. But when
the returns came in he found he had
but three votes. He at once rushed to
his friend. ‘See here, I’ve but three
votes!’ Have you?’ was the reply.
‘Let me see—you voted for yourself
and I voted for but,-but who, iu thun
der, was the other fool ?’
Some of the regulars at the arsenal
appear to be among the last to surren
der the belief that Tilden is elected and
the commandant has had some trouble
in maintaining discipline. Some of the
soldiers yesterday were very violent in
hurrahing for Tilden and proclamiDg
that is the lawful President. A skirm
ish ensued in consequence, the result
of which was that several of the partici
pants wore ordered into confinement.
—Washington Cor. Baltimore Sun.
SUBLIME IMPERTINENCE.
Judge Black’s speech before the elec
toral tribunal, ostensibly on the South
Carolina case, will be memorable as
the exhibition of the sublimest imper
tinence ever displayed before any dig
nified tribunal. He would not venture
to make any such reflections before an
average alderman or rural justice of
the peace, and yet he stood before
what should be the most reverenced
tribunal ever known under a govern
ment and pointed out to it, iu terms
which lacked even the pretense of
courtesy, how it had given its high
sanction to the most shameless fraud
and how it had disregarded the vital
principles of law in doing so. He
stripped from them tho thin guise of
technical protection ou which the deci
sions were based, and proclaimed to the
nation, through the argument before
the commission, that it had parleyed
only to find excuses for fraud, and had
invoked the execrations of the country
by a shameless disregard of duty; and
it was submitted to in silence. Even
Morton bore the keen stripes with
sealed lips, and five members of the
Supreme Court of tho United States,
acting in what Congress meant to be
a judicial capacity, had no taste for
claiming the protection that was due
to their position, to Ihuir duties and
to themselves. Indeed fifteen men
submitted to it because just fifteen
men felt that it was 100 just to be
questioned. Eight of the number did
not dare to dispute it, for they felt that
complaint would only arouse the coun
try the more to the examination of
their record, and seven doubtless wel
comed the merciless castigation. It
was a painful exhibition of the
cowardice that follows tho dethrone
ment of right.—Philadelphia Times.
MARRIAGE MAXIMS.
A good wife is the greatest earthly
blessing.
A man is what his wife makes him.
Its the mother who moulds the char
acter and destiny of the child.
Never make a remark at the expense
of the other, it is meanness.
Never part without loving words to
think of during your absence. Besides,
it may be that you may never meet
again in life.
Never both manifest anger ah once.
Never speak loud to one another un
less the house is on fire.
Never reflect on a past action which
was done with a good motive and with
the best judgment at the time.
Let each one strive to yield oftenest
to the wishes of the other, which is the
mutual cultivation of an absolute un
selfishness.
Never find fault, unless it is perfect
ly certain that a fault has been com
mitted, and even then preclude it with
a kiss and lovingly.
Marry into a different blood and
temperament from that of our own.
The Lynchburg (Virginia) News
says: We are cheerfully sitting on a
piece of as good steel-gray cassimere
as ever went into pantaloons, spun of
Virginia grown wool, and manufactur
ed in the town of Charlottesville. It
wears well, holds color, is as cheap as
any Northern cassimere. This morn
ing the proprietor of this paper is ar
rayed in a ‘Sunday-go-to-meeting’ suit
of navy-blue all-wool cassimere from
the same factory, made by a Lynch
burg tailor. It will take little enter
prise to introduce our own manufac
tures into general use. Most of our
merchants keep Virginia woolens. Let
tnem push them prominently to the
front in their advertisements and with
their customers. We will guarantee a
sale. Let our clothing men have
Southern goods manufactured, and let
the people know it, and we will insure
the people buy them. The people of
the South have had their folly flaunted
in their faces during the last three
months. They are in a proper frame
of mind to strike for commercial inde
pendence.
Ex-Senator Key was born and reared
in the old Democratic school, and we
doubt if he ever cast a Whig vote in a
political contest in his life. He was a
Breckinridge elector in 1800 and served
as Lieutenant-Colonel in the Confeder
ate service. He may serve the Repub
licans well as Postmastei’-General—
we know he will do it honestly—but
the additions he will bring to the stan
dard of Hayes, in the shape of Demo
cratic voters, may be conveniently
counted and remembered without the
aid of note-book and pencil. He need
not be astonished himself after the fail
ure of the little scheme has become
sufficiently apparent to Hayes’ disap
pointed vision, to find himself uncere
moniously whistled down the wiad.
When he fails to “draw,” like a played
out actor, he must quit the boards.
Sic transit!—Knoxville Tribune.
A gentleman saw an advertisement
that a recipe for the cure of dyspepsia
might be had by sending a postage
stamp to the advertisers. He sent the
stamp, and the answer was—‘dig in
your garden and let whisky alone.’
A DESCRIPTION OF DEAD WOOD,
‘Many saloons there ? Saloons all
over the place and whisky four bits a
drink. They put two barrels up on
end, nail a board across for a bar, and
deal it out. A miner who wants to
treat pours st.me gold dust on tire bar
rel head and says, ‘Set ‘t ni up.’ They
never weigh the dust. Sometimes a
man won’t put down enough dust, but
they never say a word, and if he’s a
little tight and pours out ten or fifteen
dollars’ worth they never mention it.
They have three faro bauks running all
the while. They don’t use checks for
the boys; when they won a pile of
checks they threw ’em all over the
place, and some were too drunk to
handle ’em. So the checks got played
out. Now a man puts a little gold
dust in a dollar greenback and it goes
for two dollars. Ten dollars’ worth of
dust in a ten dollar greenback goes for
twenty dollars, and so on. They never
weigh dust at all, but guess the
amount..’ ‘Have you a daily paper?’
‘Yes, sometimes it’s daily, and then
when the compositors get drunk it
don’t come out for several days. If a
man wants gun wadding he goes and
pays four bits for a paper. Whenever
they start anew city government they
print a lot of ordinances; then there’s
a grand rush for the paper. Some
times it comes out twice a week and
sometimes twice a day.’ ‘Much shoot
ing ?’ ‘Oh, yes, the boys are all on the
shoot. Every man carries about four
teen pounds of firearms hitched to his
belt, and they never pass any words.
The fellow that gets his gun out. first
is the best man, and they lug off the
other fellow’s body. Our graveyard is
a big institution, and a growing one.
Sometimes, however, the place is right
quiet. I’ve kuowu times when a man
wasn’t killed for twenty-four hours.
Then agaiu, perhaps, thej’d lay out
five or six a day. When a man gets
too handy with his shoutin' irons, and
kills five or six, they think he isn’t'
safe, and pop him over to lid the place
of him. They don’t kill him for what
he has done, but for what he’s liable to
do. I suppose that the average deaths
amount to about 100 a mouth; but the
Indians kill some.’—Virginia Enter
prise.
STRADDLING A BILL.
Dialogue between two colored mem
bers of the St. Louis Hotel Legisla
ture. First member introduces a bill.
Second Member—‘Mr. Speakah! Sar
I straddle dat bill.’
First Member—‘What do you mean?’
Second Member—‘Mr. Speakah! Sar
I’se ’posed to dat bill, and I straddle it
right hero ’fore it goes enny ladder.’
First Member—‘Mr. Speakah ! I rise
to pint order. De gerameu don't know
nut.hiu ’bout parlmenterry obfustica
tions, and I move dat de bill pass.’
Second Member—‘Mr. Speakah! Sar
I don’t want tu fite dat man, but I’d
jist like tu have dis fioor clar, so I
could git a good butt at him.’
First Member—‘You spose I’se gwine
to adjudercate myself to de unlionor
able position of butting my keranium
agin dat bullet head o’ yourn ? No,
sar.’
Second member violently demon
strative, and a posse of other members
capture him, conduct his wriggling
body down stairs, and bring into re
quisition the improved Babcock on the
ground floor, to throw water on his
aspii'atious, after novel legislative
honors.—New Orleans Picayune.
THE SAFE SIDE.
When the occupant of a business
place on Michigan avenue was yester
day asked why he didn’t hang out a
fiag in memory of Washington, he re
plied :
‘What do I know about George
Washington ?’
‘Why, you have read of him, haven’t
you T
‘I suppose I have, but you don’t
suppose I swallow all I read, do you?’
‘But everybody knows that Wash
ington was a great and good man,’
protested tho first.
‘I don’t know about (hat. I’ve heard
a good deal against him since I came
to Detroit, and I’m not going to run
the risk of offending some of my best
customers by waving any fiags around.
I’m just starting in here, and I don’t
want to make any bad moves.’
‘But, sir, but. ’
‘Please go on,’ interrupted the bus
iness man. ‘lf people hear you jaw
ing around my place they’ll think I’m
a politician and keep clear of me. I’m
neutral in politics and you can’t force
me into the Washington ring—mo sir.’
—Detroit Free Press.
The danger of a dictatorship is
over. The great crisis lias passed. The
third term bugbear no longer disturbs
anybody’s dreams. The man on horse
back is now afoot. In fact things are
beginnig to right themselves. Grant
is a private citizen that may molest no
one and none make afraid. And Hayes
has entered upon the third day of his
march from the height of iufamy to
the depth of oblivion. The world
moves after all.—Raleigh Observer.
F EATHERS.
Think for yourself—and think much
more than you talk.
Tennessee furnishes the Key to the
post-office department.
An eel is not as slippery as a politi
cian, but it. cai. live on water longer.
Gov. Tilden takes his ordinary tx
ercise, and was never more cheerful.
Pictures of Hampton sell for $2;
pictures of Haves at five cents. About
right.
A butcher’s sign out West reads as
lollows: ‘John Jacobs kills pigs like
his father.’
A diamond feather for the hair, at
tiffany a, New Aork, is offered at only
$15,000.
Over 4,000,000 sewing machines
have been sold since they were first in
troduced in 1853.
The composition among the sewing
machines is lively, prices have declined
fully fifty per cent.
Have the courage to own you are
poor, aud thus disarm poverty of its
sharpest sting.
Brigham Young grants divorces for
$lO per case. A reduction is made to
steady customers.
A late boak is entiile‘Half Hour i
with Insects.’ What a lively half 1 our
one can have with a bee!
New York city eats 70,000,000 of
eggs per year, and several million:,
more are used iu ‘morning drinks.’
Among the notable things in tbe ex
port liue is the shipment of lumber
from Florida to Norway.
The late Geo. Dawson, of England,
said he hated theology and botany, but
loved religion and flowers.
NO. 11
Over one and a half million dozen
eggs were shipped from Nashville dur
ing the month of February.
Out of fifty-five samples of so-called
wine sent from Hamburg to England,
twenty-four proved to be no wine at
all.
Have the courage to speak to a friend
in a ‘seedy’ coat, even though you are
iu company with a rich one and richly
attired.
A beautiful woman is the true glory
of angels; but when you step ou her
train—but just try it and see how it is
yourself.
Kerosene keeps dropping lower and
lower, and the men who make tomb
stones go round with a broad grin on
their faces.
Labor is the law of the world, and
he who lives by other men’s means is
of less value to the world than the buz
zing, busy insect.
\Y eudell Phillips’ club, Boston, is
indignant because the Franklin Typo
graphical Society, same city, will not
admit, gentlemen of color.
I here are said to be only twenty ex-
Confederates— including Jefferson Da
vis and Kobert Toombs—whose disa
bilities have not been removed.
Well might the sun in darkness
hide, and shut his glories in, when
Hayes, the President by fraud, was
counted in by sin.—Baltimore Gazette.
She was telling a female friend how
Mary Jane quarreled with her ‘feller,’
and said she, ‘Why, if you heard ’em
talk, you’d think they were married.’
The Rochester Democrat says: ‘The
sale of Bibles in Chicago is said to be
three times as great as it was a year
ago. Mr. Moody drew attention to the
work and they think it is anew bock.’
The Albany Argus editor is reported
to have knocked down a wandering
glazier for oftering to put in some
missing window panes in the sanct
um, and asking if seven to eight would
do.
‘Yes,’ remarked a tramp as he quiet
ly stretched out to sleep on a seat in
the Senate gallery, ‘the glorious palla
dium of our liberties must be pre
served. We can’t watch these politi
cians too closely; in fact, I think I
shall stay here all night.’
An experienced lady observes that a
good way to pick out a husband is to
see how patiently the man waits for
dinner when it is behind time. Her
husband remarks that a good way to
pick out a wife is to see whether the
woman has dinner ready in time.
Red field writes to the Cincinnati
Commercial that of the three hundred
members of Cougress there is only
about thirty, or say ten per cent, who
command the attention of the House
and the galleries when they speak.
The increase in the supply of gold in
the past twenty-eight, years is greater
than the increase of the previous one
hundred and forty years, which is en
couraging as a basis for a substantial
circulating medium in this as well as
in other countries.
‘I had nine children to support, and
it kept me busy,’ said Smith to Jones,
as they met, ‘but one of the girls got
married, and now I have—’ ‘eight,’ in
terrupted Joaes. No, ten-—counting
the son-in-law!’ said Smith with a sigh
which might have been heard afar off.
Two Baltimore men bet SI,OOO on
the result of t.hb presidential election,
and being unable to amicably agree
which bad won, the case was taken
into a court. Tnen the district attor
ney, under a law, took possession of
the stakes and turned the money over
to the city treasury.
In the United States, where a whisky
shop, a blacksmith’s shop, a grocery,
and two or three residences, constitute
many a city, it is strange to read that
! the English are only now talking of
elevating the great port of Liverpool
to civic dignity. Yet such is the fact,
Liverpool is only a town.