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CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Presbyterian Church—Uov. T. P. Cleveland. Pas
tor. Preaching every Sabbath —morning and uight,
except the second Sabbath. Su day School at 9a. in.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock.
Methodist Church Rev. l>. D. Cox, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday
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Preaching Sunday morning. Buuday JSchool at 9 a.
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YOUNG MEN’S CIIBIBTUN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jackson, President,
li. C. Maddox, Vico President.
W. B. Clements, Secretary.
Regular services every Sabbath evening at one of
the Churches. Cottage prayer meetings every Tues
day uight in “Old Town," and Friday night near the
depot.
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowery Huanch Lodge No. 79, I. 0. 0. TANARUS., meets
every Monday uight, Joel Laseteb, N. G.
D. F. Stedham, Sec.
Am.*uanv Roval Arcu Chapter meets on the See
ond ami Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month.
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North-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 335 I. O. G. TANARUS.,
moots every Ist and 3d Saturday evenings, at Autioch
Church. F. 8. Hudson, W. C. T.
H. W. Rhodes, Secretary.
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MAHIiEU. Ac PERRY.
Attorneys at law, Gainesville, ga,
Office in the Court House. One or tlio other of
the firm always present. Will praetico in Hall and
adjoining counties. auf>2s-ly
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Polkville, Ga.,
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Spocial attention given to Chronic Diseases of j
women aud children. feblß-6m
DU. R. IS. ADAIII,
DENTIST,
Gainesville, On.
janli ly
MARSHAL L. SMITH,
A TTORNRV AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
J\_ Dawsonvllle, Dawson county, Ga.
janli tf
JOHN B. ESTES,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hall county,
Georgia.
c. ,i. \vkllb6rx~
4 TTOKNKY-AT-TvA.W, Blairsville, Uuioii county,
Georgia.
SAMUEL C. DUNLAP,
A TTORNKY AT LAW, Gainesville, Ga.
X\. Office in the Candler building, in the room
occupied by the Eagle in 1875. *}>rstf.
W. K. WILLIAMS,
A TTORNKY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
* V Cleveland , White Cos., Ga., will practice iu the
Courts of tlio Western Circuit, aud give prompt atteu
tiou to all busiuess entrusted to his care.
June 12, 1874-tf
WIER BOYD,
A TTORNKY AT LAW, Dahloncya. Ga.
x\. 1 will Practice in (he counties of Lumpkin,
Dawson, Gilmer. Fannin, Union and Towns counties
n the Blue Ridge Circuit ; aud Hall, White aud
Rabun in the Western Circuit-
May 1, 1874-tf.
HEY', A. MARTIN,
A TTORNEY AT LAW, Dahlonega, Ga.
A ju1y21,1871-tf
S. K. CHRISTOPHER,
A TTOHN EY AT LAW, Hiwassee, Ga.
J\. Will execute promptly all biieiueee entrusted to I
liis care. uovltitf j
THOMAS F. GREEK,
A TTORNEY AT LAW, AND SOLICITOR IN
Xll. Equity aiul Bankruptcy, EUijay, Ga. Will urac
tiee in the State Courts, atul in the District and Cir
e uit Courts of the IT. S., iu Atlanta, Ga.
June 20,1873-tf
M. YV. KIDEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gainesville, Georgia.
Jan. 1, 1876-1 y
” JAMES M. TOWERY,
Attorney at law,
Gainesville, G...
J. J. turnbul,!^
ATTORNEY 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,J.87C>-Ijg
JAMES A. BUTT,
Attorney at law a land agent, Wairwiiie
Ga. Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to his care. june 2,1871-tl
The Gainesville Eagle.
Devoted to I*oliti<-, News of the Day, The Farm Interests, Home Matters, and Clioiee Miseellany.
VOL, XI.
[Published by Request.]
THE CHRISTIAN TRAVELER.
Aib— "Fulfillment," “Christian Harmony,"
I mn a poor way faring stranger—
: I’m traveling through this world of woe,
; Hut there’s no sickness, toil nor danger
! In that good world to whence I go.
I’m going there to see my mother—
She said she’d meet me when I come.
Chorus— l’m just a goiug over Jordan,
I'm just a going over home.
I know dark clouds will gather round me,
I know my way ii rough aud steep,
Unt beauteous fields lie just before me—
God’s redeem-ed vigils keep.
I’m going there to seo my children;
I hoy ro near my Heavenly Father’s throne.
Chorus.
I ieel my sins arc all forgiven—
My hope is placed on things above—
I want to dwell in yon bright Heaven,
Where all is peace and joy aud love.
I want to go to meet my class-mates—
I know they’re gone there one by one.
Chorus.
I want to wear a crown of glory
When I get home to that good land;
1 want to sing salvation’s story
In concert with that blood-washed baud.
I'm going there to meet my Father,
I’m goiug there no more to roam.
Chorus.
I’ll soon be freed from every trial—
My body’li sleep in the old ohurch yard—
I’ll drop the cross of self-denial
And enter on my great reward.
I’m going there to see my Saviour,
He’s sitting on His great white throne.
Chorus.
PREREQUISITES OF SUCCESS.
Integrity of character and truth in
the inner man are the prerequisites of
success in any calling, and especially
so in that of the merchant. These are
attributes which never fail to com
mand respect and win admiration. No
one fails to appreciate them, and if
they “do not pay”„in the vulgar sense
of tne phrase, they;bring an amount of
satisfaction and peace to the owner
that all the wealth of Croesus could not
yield.
There is no better stock in trade
than these principles; no capital goes
so far or pays so well, cr is so exempt
from bankruptcy and loss. When
known, they give credit and confidence,
and in the hardest of times will honor
your paper in bank. They give you
an unlimited capital to do buisness
upon, and everybody will endorse your
paper, and the general faith of man
kind will be your guaranty that you
will n*;t fail. Let every youoig man,
upon commencing buisness, look well
to these indispensable elements of suc
cess, and defend them as he would the
apple of his eye. If inattentive and reck
less here, he will imperil everything.
Bankruptcy in character is seldom re
paired in an ordinary lifetime. A man
may sutler in reputation and recover;
not so the man who suffers in charac
ter.
Be just and truthful. Let these be
the ruling and predominating princi
ples of your life and the reward will be
certain, either in the happiness they
bring to your own bosom, or the suc
cess which will attend upon all your
busiuess operations in life, or both.
Sleepless people—and there are
many in America—should court the
sun. The very worst soporific is lauda
num, the very best is sunshine. There
fore it is very plain that poor sleepers
should pass as many hours of the day
as possible in the sunshine, and few as
possible in the shade. Many women
are martyrs, aud do not know it. They
shut the sunshine out of their houses
aud their hearts; they wear veils, they
carry parasols; they do all that is pos
sible to keep off the subtlest and yet
the most potent influence which is in
tended to give them strength and
beauty aud cheerfulness. Is it not
time to change all this, and so get
roses and color in our pale cheeks,
strength in our backs and courage
in our weak souls V The women of
America are pale and delicate. They
may be blooming and strong, and the
sunlight will be a potent influence in
, this transformation.
All wealth, properly so called, is the
product of intelligent labor, and comes,
for the most part, out of the ground.
While a nation of shopkeepers, of brok
ers and bankers, or of manufacturers,
would surely and slowly starve a nation
of farmers would continue to live and
thrive, prosper and be happy. It is
true, the grocer and the banker give
to the farmer some luxuries and con
veniences which he would be obliged
to dispense with, were these men ab
sent from the body politic, but still
each ana all of them could be spared
better than he. National Agriculture,
then, is the basis of national glory and
prosperity. He who helps and encour
ages the farmer, helps the whole na
tional commonwealth iu all of its vital
and essential economic relations.—
Southern Live Stock Journal.
A late issue of the Houston Texas
Age says there are ten thousand men
in Texas out of employment. This is
rather poor encouragement to those
who, because they have no money
j here, think they can tiy to Texas and
pick it off the trees. They had better
remain here and try to make the best
| of the situation.
MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA.
A correspondent upon a kind of
rambling visit to Georgia, thus writes
to the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Union-Argus.
Well do the people of Georgia remem
ber Sherman’s thievish and un warlike,
and we may say infamous march. Had
he and bis Generals but observed the
usages of war, there would be no cause
for the bitter rankling hatred engen
dered. The insults to our wives and
daughters will never be forgiven while
a Southern man honors woman. But
to the correspondence:
Covington, Newton County, Ga.,
March 10.—The section of country
where your correspondent is now resid
ing was the scene of Gen. Sherman’s
route to the sea. Some weeks bofore
this march commenced quite a body of
spies were sent forward over the route,
dressed in rebel gray, and pretending
to be Wheeler’s men inquiring for sup
plies for the Confederate army; thus
Sherman, when he commenced his
march, not only had the way well
marked out, but he really knew the
amount of supplies, as well as the per
feet safety of the march.
On the arrival of the main army to
this country orders were given to sup
ply the army by foraging on the ene
my, and all supplies to our army were
stopped from the commissary, except
sugar and coffee. An army of foragers
preceded the main army, and for a dis
tance of four or five miles on each side
of the track everything was seized that
could give sustenance to the soldiers
and the horses; all the corn, fodder,
potatoes, chickens; all the cattle—hor
ses, mules, hogs and sheep—in fact
everything eatable that would iu any
way serve to sustain them in their
march. But the soldiers did not stop
here. They destroyed everything that
came in their way that was valuable.
If they found a house deserted by its
inhabitants they took it as evidence
that they were in the army of the Con
federacy, and destroyed the house
and its contents that did not serve
them.
They took with them all the able
bodied colored men, and thus the
whole land was unprotected and made
desolate. The cotton was generally
protected and saved, as it was consid
ered captured property and belonging
to the United States. After these for
agers followed the main army, so if
there was anything left by them it was
immediately confiscated. During the
whole year previous to this grand
march the poor Confederate planters
had been sponged of everything they
were willing to sell, for the support of
their own army, for which they re
ceived a liberal amount of bonds and
scrip, that had then depreciated two
or three hundred per cent.
As there were only old men and de
fenceless women in the route of this
army, General Sherman had properly
given orders to protect all who desired
a guard, so that their persons should
be secure from all injury during the
passage of the army, and no harm was
allowed to any one unless he attempt
ed resistance. A few gin houses and
dwellings were destroyed, where any
opposition was made to the passage of
the army, or where they were found
deserted. But there were compara
tively few dwellings burned in the
State. The greatest loss to the inhab
itants was in the horses, mules, cattle,
sheep aud hogs, and productions of
the soil; and when the horses were
taken, the carriages and wagons were
taken also, and well loaded with pro
visions for the army. You can thus
imagine the destitution that followed
in the track of this army. It is amus
ing to hear those who witnessed this
march describe its appearance as it
‘went marching along.’ All kinds and
classes of vehicles, a conglomeration of
horses, mules, oxen, sheep aud hogs,
and all heavily loaded with everything
that had been plundered from the
houses; all kinds of furniture aud
household stuff’, everything eatable,
6uch as ham-quarters of meat, of sheep
and cattle and hogs; bags of potatoes,
and all kinds of fruit aud garden sauce;
chickeus and other fowls, dead and
alive; baby caniages loaded with plun
der; one soldier with a live goat on his
shoulders, balling as he marched along;
others with a chicken or turkey on
the point of their bavonots; in fine,
everything took the fancy of the for
agers.
In this way the Yankee soldiers
marched to the sea. The track of this
motley army was marked everywhere
by the castaway and broken vehicles,
dead horses, cattle and hogs, and the
debris of a desolating army. While
strict orders were given to the soldiers
not to molest private houses or to des
troy anything that could not be of ser
vice to the army, yet there was a most
wanton devastation of private property
that could not probably be prevented.
The soldiers would sneak around into
the smoke-houses and destroy what
they could not carry off, such as mo
lasses, vinegar, crockery, preserves; in
tine, everything that came in their way.
If any remonstrance was made by the
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1877.
inhabitants the reply was, ‘We came
to destroy.’
A great number of the inhabitants
hurriedly buried in the ground their
money and articles of value, but they
say our soldiers were remarkably sa
gacious in finding these buried treas
ures. The people remarked that the
Yankees could smell out the location
of hidden goods like bloodhounds;
that they were sure to push their
bayonets or swords into the very spot
where the precious articles were
buried.
The army encamped for one uight
on the plantation where your corres
pondent is now staying, and the widow
who was residing here at the time
gives us a most woeful account of the
destruction made by the army. They
burned her fences, tore every door off
the hinges from all the cabins and
houses on the place, marched through
her field and trod down everything
growing, killed her hogs and sheep,
took all her mules and horses, robbed
her of all her corn and grain, every
chicken was captured, all her bacon
was taken, a barrel of syrup was turn
ed out upon the ground and mixed up
with a box of old letters and papers,
her vinegar barrel was emptied upon
the ground; they even invaded the
baby house of the children and carried
off the toys found there. Such are
some of the incidents that may occur
iu the track of an invading army even
in a civilized nation. I. M. C.
JOE JOHNSTON.
It was hardly to be expected that
Gen. Joe Johnston should be selected
for a cabinet position, having been so
prominent a Confederate commander.
But this is the only charge which can
lie against him; in his private life and
strict honesty, as a man of truth aud
exalted character, no man North or
South, is more deserving the public
confidence. Asa man of military
genius, the history of the war bears
ample testimony. His arrival on the
field changed the battle of Bull Run
from a glorious victory for our arms
into a complete rout, for the Confed
erates were retreating when he came
up. Though he was badly wounded
before Richmond, it was not until Mc-
Clellan’s army had been forced tc
abandfc)2*4t& olwusL w*4lv a defensive’
campaign. Disabled from service for
a long time, he was called to take com
mand of Bragg’s army after its defeat
at Mission Ridge. To him belongs the
credit of the Confederate arms during
Sherman’s march to Atlanta. Our im
mense army under Sherman, consist
ing of Thomas’ army, Grant’s old army,
commenced its advance early in April,
and until the middle of July, was occu
pied iu advancing only one hundred
miles. Nearly four months were con
sumed in a march which, without re
sistance, might have been accomplished
in a week. Johnston realized the axiom
of Frederick the Great that a defensive
army ought to fight as often as there
were good positions, and that such
usually occurred every five miles. Ia
no case of the many contests did Gen.
Johnston allow his army to be com
promised by a general engagement
with his gigantic opponents. The
news of his removal by Jeff Davis, Ire
cause he would not risk a general bat
tle with a certainty of defeat, but pre
ferred to fall back from Atlanta to
Macon, and thus gather bis strength
while weakening his opponent, was
considered at our headquarters as the
presage of victory for our arms. Had
Johnston been allowed to carry out
his plan, it is very doubtful whether
the ‘march to the sea’ could have been
accomplished, and the war brought
thereby to a close. We cau well un
derstand the magnanimous conduct of
Gen. Sherman iu styling Joe Johnston
the ablest General of the Southern
army. But what can we say of that
proscribed Confederate General, polit
ically disabled from holding any office
iu the United States, when he declined
the tempting offer of the Khedive, of
the command of the Lg.Vj tian army,
on a salary of i.50,000 a year'—a re
fusal based ou his determination to
live an Americau citizen ? The flesh
pots of Egypt, full of gold, were refused
for a salary as agent of a life iusura l ce
company, because he est emetl simple
Americau citizenship, even under po
litical disability, preferable to oriental
wealth and power.—Boston Herald.
A prominent and experienced agri
culturist says that frogs me ixcctd
iugly valuable iu fields and gardens,
for the destruction of insects, and ie
commends their untiliziliou for this
purpose. He suggests that two or
three be placed iu each garden whole,
if provided with a damp locality in the
day time, they will remain contented,
doing the needed labor of destroying
inects of many years. They come out
from their hiding place iu the cool of
the eveing, and do there service rap
idly and successfully.
The Bostou reporters steal into Hr.
Moody’s inquiry meeting iu the dis
guise of sinners, aud the good man
doesn’s discover the deception.
HUMAN DESTINY.
b arewitted labor and uuceasing
vigilance are the lowest prices at
which man, in this world, can obtain
happiness and safety. The primeval
curse, ‘lu the sweat of thy face shalt
thou eat bread,’ includes within its
scope not only the bodily, but the
mental and moralppo r ers of man; and
reason and philosophy not less than
revelation, clearly demonstrate that
all nature, both vvithiu us and with
out, is l j formed aud constituted as to
enforce this destiny.
Not only does this uncultivated earth
bi -.a forth thorns and thistles rather
pi fruit, but its tempting fruits, un
le: s discriminated, may poison us; and
the air we breathe, the fire that warms
us and the innumerable other objects
which are essential to our existence or
enjoyment, must be for the most part
laboriously sought, and must all be
cautiously distinguished and appro
priated, and used, if we would secure
benefits and escape the mischiefs
which in some form, each has the
power to occasion.
And if we seek for happiness in the
exercise of the menial and moral
powers, the same toil and danger
await us. Tho temple of science
stands at the summit of an almost in
aectiisible mountain. ‘Truth lies at
the bottom of a well.’ Moral rectitude
is a critical medium, the two extremes
fi om which are vices. And even the
P;‘th to heaven, as we are instructed
bom the sacred desk is narrow and
difficult, with a broad road leading
from it to perdition; so that earth and
beaveu are legibly inscribed by the
finger of the Creator with the sub
lunary doom of man—toil and watch
fulness.
And yet, such is the intrinsic con
stitution of human nature, that this
apparently severe destiny is the cause
of its highest dignity and happiness.
Perils and impediments in our path
prompts us to vigilant and energetic
action. Our chief happiness consists
ia successful effort—in acquiring the
desirable objects around us, not in
their supine enjoyment—in eluding or
grappling with and overcoming dan
icr r *‘ n °t in a quiet, lifeless exemption
from it-
They haul * tough subject in the in
quir • room last week. Moody wrestled
with him and Sankey sang with him,
but the man seemed to despair of for
giveness. Finally, Moody asked him
what heavy sin burdened his mind,
and he confessed to having beat a
newspaper publisher out of four years
subscription. The evangelist informed
him that they did not profess to per
form miracles, but if he would settle
up his dues, with compound interest,
and pay for four years more in ad
vance, although they could not open
the doors of the church to him, per
haps he might be snaked in under the
canvass.—Boston Bulletin.
A correspondent relates in the Star,
of St. Helena, California, a story of a
wonderful dog iu Pope valley. The
owner kept sheep and the dog herded
them. Finally the sheep were sold to
a Berryessa man (an adjacent valley
some ten miles away.) The owner
and the dog delivered the sheep and
returned home. Soon after the man
missed his dog and searched for him
in vain. He was a valuable dog, and
his loss was mourned for a couple of
days, when, behold, up ho came from
Berryessa with the whole ilock of
sheep, which he had brought safely
home again.
A writer in a Boston paper says that
closets in a house are a great nuisance.
From which it may be inferred that the
writer aforesaid is an old bachelor, has
only one suit of clothos, and is com
pelled to lie in bed when his shirt is
washed. Should he ever get a wife,
and see a frock on one chair, and her
peti-what-you-call-it on another, aud
other feminine fixtures on the tables,
sofas, beds and other articles of furni
ture, he will soon conclude that it is
much more convenient, if not healthy,
to have a house four-fifths clossets.
It is singular fact that the first daily
newspaper in the English language was
founded by a woman—Elizabeth Mal
let, of London. It was called the
Dally Courant, and appeared March,
1702, during the regin of Queen Anne.
It was not devoted to woman’s rights
or wrongs, but was as much for man’s
relief as anybody’s; for it was printed,
as its frank and fair proprietor stated,
‘to spare the public at least half the
impertinences which the ordinary pa
pers coniain.’
A book agent, who has retired from
active labor upon the hard earned ac
cumulations of a life of industrious
cheek, says that the great secret of
his success was that when he went to a
house where the female head of the
family presented herself, he always
opened by saying: ‘I beg your pardon,
miss; but it was your mother I wanted
to see.’ ‘That always used to get ’em.
They not only subscribed for my books
themselves, but told me where 1 could
find more customers.’
PINCHBACK ON LOUISIANA.
Pinchback, when questioned by the
Times’ reporter as to whether he had
any news from Louisiana, replied; “I
have no news, and that is good news.
I am never uneasy about Louisiana
until I see telegrams beginning to
come. Then I know it’s getting too
warm to be healthy. These Packard
fellows think they are very smart,”
continued the natty quadroon. “They
have been going to Hayes with a story
that I have just taken the trouble to
upset They say that if the President
will only give them the moral recogni
tion of the government, they will not
need any troops. That’s bright, ain’t
it ? Why, the Nicholls government
would snuff them out iu five minutes
if the President took the troops off.
If he set ’em up again, the Nicholls
folks would tumble ’em down again
and again and again twenty times a
week if necessary. Why, the Nicholls
people say openly that they would
prefer a military governor to Packard.
If the President recognizes Packard,
he may just propose to either back
down from his recognition or to keep
about half of the regular army iu
Louisiana as long as he prepares to
make his recognition good; and the
other half, I think, would be needed
in South Carolina. Why, sir, there are
G,OOO of the best troops in America iu
New Orleans to-day ready to do what
Nicholls tells them, and they can be
brought together by twenty-one taps
of the fire bells quicker than a regi
ment lying on its arms could get into
ranks.”
No man has studied the Southern
question more intelligently than Mr.
Redfield, and his views are well worthy
of consideration. In a letter to the
Cincinnati Commercial, he says: “The
Southern negro makes a good servant
and laborer, but the attempt to crowd
him forward as a statesman is a ridicul
ous failure. The problem we have got
into and got him into is a solemn one.
The road which led to the present con
dition of things is plain enough look
ing back, but forward we cannot see
out. I often think of what the foreign
student said, after spending a time
studying our peculiar institutions,
namely, that by looking to America
the world could see the strauge
spectacle of a proud and intelligent
people in danger of losing their own
liberty while squabbling over that of
the negro’s. Something in it, for
every time we have seemed about to
go to pieces upon the breakers, the
colored question, in one shape or an
other, has been tho trouble. And to
day that question in our politics over
shadows all others a thousandfold; and
so far from its being nearly settled, we
are just now getting into the merits
of it.”
WOMAN’S RIGHTS.
The rights of husbands aud wives to
property which they respectively bring
into the family have been further de
fined and limited by a bill which has
just passed both houses of the Connec
ticut Legislature. It provides that
husband and wife shall not acquire by
marriage any right to each other’s
property; that the husband shall be
liable for all debts incurred for the
joint maintenance of husband, wife and
children; that the separate earnings of
the wife shall be her own property;
that the wife may make contracts or
sell her real or personal property; that
all her property shall be liable for her
debts; that the husband shall be liable
for none of her debts contracted be
fore marriage nor fur those contracted
after marriage, except for articles for
the support of the family, or for the
joint benefit of both; aud that the
husband aud wife respectively, upon
the death of the other, sha'l each in
herit during the remainder of life
the use of one-third of the other’s
property.
That a great English-speaking em
pire is fast growing up in the Austra
lias is apparent from the marvelous
showing those colonies already make.
Their total amount of trade is $450,-
000,000, dug from the bowels of the
earth or gathered from its surface.—
Of that total one-half, or $225,000,000,
consists of the precious metals. There
are gold, copper, tin and iron in all
the colonies, and silver in New Zeal
and. In miscellaneous products they
have wool, tallow, sugar, hides, pre
served meats and wine. In all the
colonies there were last year 05,000,-
000 sheep and 7,000,000 cattle. The
population of Australia and Tasmania
numbers 2,000,000, and New Zealand
400,000. The public revenue of the
whole group is $05,000,000 annually.
An Irish review says that in Dublin
society the professional classes are
everything and the commercial classes
nothing; that wealthy tradespeople are
always persistently endeavoing to gain
a social footing in Dublin, but are
sternly resisted by the ‘professionotra
cy,’ that no seamstress works so hard
as the wives of rich Dublin traders
trying to tight their way into the
charmed ring of lawyers and doctors.
LAYING FOR HIM.
It haviug come to the ears of the
United States officials at this point
that Big English, the hook black, had
a handful of lead nickels in his posses
sion, the bov was yesterday interview
ed on the subject.
‘Yes; I’ve got nineteen bad nickels
in my towsers pocket,’ was his prompt
reply.
‘And what are you doing with them?’
‘Holding right to ’em. You needn’t
think you’ve got a case again me, for
you haven’t.
‘How did you get those bad pieces?’
‘Rich man, who shall be nameless—
black his boots every morning—hands
me out a lead uiukel—thinks he’s got
a soft thing on me, but I’m layin’ for
him !’
‘How ?’
‘Why, lie’s got a daughter 'bout my
age. I’ll bo thinking of marrying in
two or three years more, and I’ll
shoulder a bag of his nickles, walk into
the parlor, gently say: ‘Mister man, I
love thy fair daughter, and I demand
her hand in marriage. Behold the
proofs of your vile perfidy, ami come
up to the rack or go the jug!’ You
just keep still and let him shower out
his bogus coins. I ain’t handsome but
I’m a terror to plan!’—Detroit Free
Press.
A HIGH SENSE OF HONOR.
The Duke of Wellington had a sense
of honor in all money dealings, and
would sutler none of his agents to do
a mean thing in his name. His stew
art once bought some land adjoining
his country estate, and was boasting
of having made a very tine bargain,
from the seller being in straitened cir
cumstances.
‘What did you pay for it?’ asked the
Duke.
‘Eight huudred pounds,’ was the
answer.
‘And how much was it worth ?’
‘Eleven hundred pounds,’ said the
stewurd, nibbing his h inds in glee at
the thought of the good bargain.
‘Then take three hundred pounds
and carry them to the seller, with
my compliments, and don’t ever ven
ture to talk to me of cheap land
again.’
The steward was confounded and
COUkl Miui ucij orodifi liiw oivii oaiv.
The idea that any one could refuse to
profit by a sharp bargain, and throw
money away in paying more than was
agreed on, was hard for him to com
prehend.
SEVERE REPRIMAND.
Chief Justice Marshall was in tlie
habit of going to market himself, and
carrying home his purchases. Fre
quently he would be seen returning at
sunrise, with poultry in one hand and
vegetables in the other. On one of
these occasions, a fashionable young
man who had recently removed to
Richmond, was swearing violently be
cause be could find no oue to cany
home his turkey.
Marshall stepped up and asking him
where he lived, ‘That is my way and
I will take it for you.’
When they came to the house the
young man inquired, ‘What shall I
pay you V’
‘Oh, nothing’ said the Chief Justice,
‘you are welcome, it was my way and
no trouble.’
‘Who’s that old man, who brought
home my turkey for me ?’ inquired the
young man of a bystander.
‘That,’ replied he, ‘is Mr. Marshall,
Chief Justice of the United States.’
‘Why did he bring home my
turkey V’
‘To give you a severe reprimand,and
teach you to attend to your own bus
iness,’ was the reply.
A DONKEY RACK.
The officers of a cavalry regiment
stationed at a dull English garrison
town, lately got up a donkey race for
their amusement, and very amusing it
proved to be. One donkey took the
lead from the start and rapidly neared
the goal amid the wildest shouting.
When within a few feet of the winning
post his rider thought to pur on a tine
spurt, and so gave the beast the spur,
but with disastrous effect. The brute
put his head down, kicked furiously,
stopped dead short and would not
budge an inch ! Those who were run
ning second aud third siw their com
rade’s difficulty, and redoubled their
efforts. Slowly but surely they came
along, every stride bringing them
neartr the goal'? At last the rider of
donkey number one came to the con
clusion that some action ought to be
taken, aud that at one?. Should he
let the prize slip from his hand’s
grasp ? He sprang to the ground
without a moment’s hesitation, and,
seizing his steed’s tail, put it over his
shoulder aud dragged him past ihe
post. An objection was lodged but
the decision was given in favor of the
winner.
He, and he only, is safe from a
drunkard’s death who never tastes a
1 drop of anything that can intoxicate.
P E A T 11 BUS.
He has hard work who has nothing
to do.
Rhode Island’s election occurs on
Wednesday, April 4.
The cradle is the first rock we strike
in the voyage of life.
Lawyers should sleep well. It is im
material on which side they lie.
The ladies, heaven bless ’em, fairly
revel in the ‘sweet buy and buy.’
The oldest rose tree in St. Augustine,
Fla., has just died, aged two hundred
years.
Those whose business it is to deal
with men in the aggregate are apt to
lack individual sympathy.
Of cane sugar, the world produced
last year 2,140,000 tons, and of molas
ses about 140.000,000 gallons.
The Archbishop of York says then,
is enough spent for intoxicating drinks
to lay $l5O on every letter in the Bible.
A pliable fabric cf fine-spun glass is
coming into use among chemists, to
aid in the filtration of liquids in labora
tories.
Few things are impracticable in
themselves; and it is for want of appli
tion, rather than of means, that men
fail of success.
A man might just as well attempt to
swallow his Adam’s apple as to do a
rneau thing under the impression that
he will escape punishment.
11 you are troubled with dyspepsia
eat a peeled applo every night before
going to bed. Should that fail to cure
try chopping wood by moonlight.
An Irish crier, being ordered to clear
the court room, did so by announcing:
‘Now, all you blackguards that are not
lawyers leave the court room at once.’
They tell the story in New York that
a mau dressed in female clothes had
his secret discovered because he
thanked a gentleman who offered him
a seat.
The greatest statemen are those who
not only develop national resources
favorable to the material interest of a
people, but also promote virtue, en
lightenment and patriotism.
Laziness grows on people. It begins
in cobwebs and ends in iron chains.
The more business a man Las to do
the more ho is able to accomplish, for
he learns to economize his time.
NO. 13
Men of age object too much, consult
too long, adventure too little, repent
too soon, and seldom drive business
home to the full period, but content
themselves with a mediocrity of suc
cess.
Louisiana has 76,300 horses, 79,900
mules. 89,600 o milch cows, 171,900 oxen
and other cattle, 68,800 sheep and
222,600 hogs. All these are less than
is possessed by any State South, save
South Carolina and Florida.
If you cannot speak well or your'
neighbors, do not speak of them at all.
A cross neighbor may become a kind
one b3 7 kind treatment.. The true way
to be happy is to make others happy.
To be good is a luxury.
Thos. M. Butler, of Freedonia, Ky.,
has a spring of water fifteen feet in
diameter, whose bottom has never
been reached, although weights with
ropes three hundred feet long have
been lowered into it.
A young American piima donna,
who took lessons in Milan a few years
ago, and returned to this country dis
gusted with the tyranny of Italian
music teachers, has beeu engaged as a
substitute for a steam-whistle in a
Massachusetts boot factory.
We never heard man or woman much
abused that we were not inclined to
think the better of them, and to trans
fer any suspicion or dislike to the per
son who appeared to take delight in
pointing out the defects of a fellow
creature.
The Japanese Minister in Washing
ton is described as looking not over
twenty years old, and about the size
of an American boy of fourteen. He
wears cream colored trousers, seamed
with cold, and a black coat with a gold
collar.
The P. I. man of the New York
Herald must have been disappointed
with Texas when he was there, or he
wouldn’t have written this: “Scene in
Texas. Hotel table- ‘Good morning,
stranger; it looks like rain.’ Stranger—
‘l think not.’ A shot is heard, and the
stranger is rolled out of the back door.
Moral—Texas is a fine graziog coun
try.”
‘lf I was a horse now,’ mused a big
boy as he struggled up a Detroit street,
‘l’d be stabled, rubbed down and fed;
but I’m a boy and I’ve got io go home,
clean off the snow, bring in wood, tote
water aud rock the baby for an hour
or two.’
There never was any heart truly
great, and generous that was not also
tender and compassionate. It is this
noble quality that makes all men to be
of one kind; for every man would be a
distinct species to himself, were there
no sympathy among individuals.
A worthy Quaker thus wrote: ‘I ex
pect to pass through this world but
once; if, therefore, there be any kind
ness I can show, or any good thing I
can do any fellow human being, let me
do it now. Let me not defer or neg
lect it, for I ahull not pass this way
again.’
Eminent Georgia statisticians have
calculated that the amount of ingenui
ty and labor expended by impecunious
topers in getting free drinks would, if
devoted to any honorable and useful
pursuit, pay off the State debt in little
less than six years and eight months.