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Th 6 Gainesville Eagle.
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CiK\ ERA \j 1)1 RECTORY.
JUDICIARY.
Hrm. George D. Rice, Judge H. C. Westoru Circuit.
A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. E. M. Wlnburu, Ordinary ; John L. Gaines,
Sheriff; J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff; 1. J. Mayuo,
Clerk Superior Court; VV. H. Pickrcll, Deputy Cler
Haportor Court ; N. 11. Clark, Tax Collector ; -J R.
11. Luck, Tax Receiver; Gideon Harrlvou. Sur
veyor ; Edward Lowry, Coroner ; It. C. Young,
Treasurer.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Dr. 11. 8. Bradley, Mayor.
Aldermen—Dr. H. J. Long, W. 11. Clements, T.
A. Panel, W. H. Henderson,W. U. Henderson,
T. M. Merck.
A. B. 0. Dorsey, Clerk; J. R. Boone, Trreasnror; T.
N.llanie, Marshal; Henry Perry, City Atconoy.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Pueshytkuian Cudroh—Rev. T. P. Cleveland.
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and
night, except the second Sabbath. Sn day school,
at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4
o’clock.
Methodist Chuucu— Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, Pas
tor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday Hohool at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Baptist Church Kov. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaolilng Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School atS a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at 4 o'clock.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
J. 11. Estoe, President; Henry Perry, Librarian.
YOUNQ MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A.’ M. Jackson, President; R. C. Maddox, Vice
Dissident; W. B. Clements, Secretary.
Regular services every Sabbath evening at one
ef the Churches. Cottago prayer meetings every
Tuesday night iu “Old Town,’’ and Friday .night
near the depot
FRATERNAL RECORD.
FLOWERY Branch Loduk Nr. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS.,
m( erury Monday niglit, Jokl Laseteu, N. O.
B. F. Stidham:, Sec.
Ai.LEtinANr Royai. Arch Chaptbr meets on the
Seeoud and Fourth Tueaday evenings hi cacti
month.
and. 8. Bradley, Soc’y. A. W. Caidwell, H. I’.
Oaisiksvillb Lougn, No. 219, A. - . F.-. M, - .,
rncata sn the Fiit ml Third Tuesday evening In
the moutli
R. Paluo'jk, Soc’y. R. E Green, W. M.
Air-I, mi LodM, No. 64 ,I. O. O. IF., meets
erery Friday evening.
0. A. Lilly, Sec. W. 11. Harrison, N. <4.
GAINESVILLE TOST OFFICE.
Owing to recent chango of schedule on the Atlan
ta aud Charlotte Atr Line Railroad, the following
will be the schedule from date:
£ Mall train No. 1, going east, leaves 7:47 p. in.
Mall for this train closes a’ 7:0(1 “
Mail train No. 2, going oast, leaves 8:35 a. m.
No mail by this train.
Mail train No. 1‘ going west, 1eave5....0:51 a. m.
Mall for this train closes at 9:30 p. m.
Mail train No. 2, going west, la ve5....9:05 p. m.
Mail for this train closes at 7.30 “
Offlco hours from 7 a. m. to 5 :'■!(• p. in.
Geueral delivery open on Sundays from 3 1; to Oh .
Departure of mails from this office:
Dahlouega aud Gilmer county, daily 814 m
Dahlonega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday...BX a. in
Jefferson A Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns aud Hayes
vtlle, N. C., Tuoeilays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonvlllo aud Dawson county, Saturday Ba. m
Homer, Banks county, Saturday ..1 p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday.. 1 p.m
M. It. ARCHER, P.M.
—ON THE —
Atlanta and Charlotte
AIK-L.IN E,
Double Daily Trains
now ruu over the Atlanta and Charlotto Air-
Liuo Kail way, as follows:
FAST 2vl AJTXj
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 5:00 p. m.
Arrive at Gainesville 7:47 p. in.
GOING WEST.
Arrive at Gainesville G:sl a. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 9:10 a. m
SECOND TRAIN.
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 0:00 a. in.
Arrive at Gainesville 8:35 a. in.
GOING WEST.
Arrive at Gainesville 9:05 p. in.
Arrive at Atlanta 11:30 p. m.
l’ttssongers leaving Atlanta by Mail Train
at 5 p. in, will arrive in Now York at 0:35 a.
in., second moruiug.
Passengers leaving Atlanta by Day Train
at 0 a. in., will dine in Washington City the
following day aud arrive iu New York
10:05 p. m., same evena -Stii
Acconmiodtion Train leaving heretofore at
7 a. in., is discontinued.
G. J. FOUEACIIE, General Manager.
W. J. HOUSTON, General Pass, and Ticket Agent.
NORTHEASTETN RAILROAD!
Chango ot* Schedule.
SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE, |
Athens, Ga , Sept. 29, 1877.)
/AN and after Monday, October Ist, 1577, trains on
V * tbe Northeastern Railroad will ruu as follows.
All trains dally except Sunday :
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Athens 2:35 a. m.
Arrive at Lula 4:60 ••
Arrive at Atlanta, (via Air Lino R. R.) 8:35 “
Leave Lula 5:45 <■
Arrivejat Athens 8:15 “
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Alliens 4 :(M) p. m.
Arrive at Lula 0:30 “
Leave Atlauta (via Air Lino R. R.) 1:00 “
Leave Lula 7:15
Arrive at At1ieu5....„...„ 9:30 “
Close conuectiou at Lula with passenger trains
ou Air Line Ra lroad. J. M. EDWARDS,
Superintendent.
Dropsy ('tired.
I will guarantee u euro iu eveiy variety
and form of Dropsy, after examining pa
tient* A- J. bnAk’iiiGi, M D., Gainesville.
The Gainesville Eagle.
VOL XIL
RESIGNATION.
,Since tbv Father’s hand sustains thee,
Peaceful be; j
When a chastening hand restrains thee,
It is He.
Know His love, in full completeness,
Fills the measure of thy weakness;
If He wound thy spirit sore,
Trust Him more.
Without murmur, uncomplaiuing,
In His hand
Lay whatever things thou ean’st not
Understand.
Though the world thy folly spurneth,
From thy faith in pity turneth,
Pence thy inmost soul shall fill
Lying still.
Like an infant, if thou think’st
Thou ean’st stand—
Childlike, proudly pushing back
The offered hand;
Courage soon is changed to fear;
Strength does feebleness appear.
Iu His love if thou abide,
Ho will guide.
Fear st sometimes that thy Father
Hath forgot V
When the clouds around the gather,
Doubt Him not.
Always bath the daylight broken,
Always hath He comfort spoken;
m Better hath He been for years
Than thy fears.
Therefore, whatsoe’er betideth,
Nigbt or day,
Know His love for thee provideth
Good alwuy.
Crown of sorrow glmlly take,
Grateful wear it for His sake,
Sweetly bending to His will,
Lying still.
To Ilis own the Saviour giveth
Daily strength;
To each Christian soul there livefh
Peace at length.
Weary limbs have largest share
Of this tender Shepherd's care;
Ask Him not, then, when or how—
Only bow.
—■ j-y
--“ Put Yourself in my Place.
“I cannot wait aDy longer. I mast
have my money, and if you cannot
pay it 1 must foreclose the mortgage
and sell the place,” said Mr. Mer
ton.
“In that case,’’ said Mr. Bishop, “it
will, of course, be sold at a great sac
rifice, and after all the struggles I
have made, my family will again be
homeless. It is hard. I only wish
you had to earn your money as Ido
mine; you might then know some
thing of the hard life of a poor
man. If you could, ouly in imagi
nation, put yourself iu my place, I
think you would have a little mercy
on we. r
“It is useless talking; I extended
this one year and I can do so no
longer,” replied Mr. Merton, as he
turned to his desk and continued
writing.
The poor man rose from his seat
and walked sadly out of Mr. Mer
ton’s office. His last hope was gone.
He had just recovered from a long
illness which had swallowed up the
means with which he had intended to
make Dtj, last .payment on his house.
True, Ml-; Merton had waited one
year when he had failed to meet the
demand owing to illness in his fami
iy, aud he had felt very much ob
liged to him for doing so. This year
he had been laid up for seven months,
during which time he could earn
nothing, and all his savings were
then needed for the support of his
family. Again he failed, and now he
would again be homeless, and have
to begin the world anew. Had
heaven forsaken him, aud given him
over to the tender mercies of the
wicked ?
After be bad left tbe oflice, Mr.
Merton could not drive away from
bis thoughts tbe remark to which
tbe poor man in bis grief gave utter
ance, “I wish yon bad to earn your
money as I do mine.’’
In tbe midst of a row of figures,
“Put yourself iu my place,” intru
ded.
Once after it had crossed bis mind
bo laid down bis pen, saying, “Well,
I thiuk I should bud it rather bard.
I have a mind to drop in there this
afternoon aud see bow it fares with
bis family; that man has aroused my
curiosity.”
About five o’clock be put on a gray
wig aud some old cast-off clothes and
walked to tbe dooi\ Mrs. Bishop, a
pale, weary-looking woman, opened
it. Tbe poor old man requested per
mission to enter and rest awhile, say
ing be was very tired with bis long
journey, for be be walked many miles
that day.
Mrs. Bishop cordially invited him
iu, and gave him tbe best seat the
room afforded; she then began to
make preparation for tea.
Tbe old gentleman watched her
attentively. He saw there was no
elasticity in her step, no hope in her
movements, and pity for her began
to steal into bis heart. When her
husband entered, her features re
laxed into a smile, aud she forced a
cbeerfulnoss into her manner. The
'traveler noted it all, and be was
forced to admire this woman who
could assume a cheerfulness she did
not feel for her husband’s sake. Af
ter the table was prepared, there
wus nothing on it but bread and but
ter and tea. They invited tbe stran
ger to eat with them, saying, “We
have not much to offer you, but a cup
of tea will refresh you after your long
journey.”
He accepted their hospitality, and,
as they discussed the frugal meal,
led them, without seeming to do so,
to talk of their affairs.
“I bought this piece of land,’’ said
Mr. Bishop, “at a very low price,
and instead of waiting, as I ought to
have done, until I saved the money
to build, I thought I would borrow a
few hundred dollars. The interest
on the money would not be near as
much as the rent I was paying, and
I would bes ving something by it.—
I did not think there would be any
difficulty iu paying back the money;
but the first year my wife and one of
my children were ill, and the ex
pense left me without means to pay
the debt. Mr. Merton agreed to
wait another year if I would pay the
interest, which I did. This year I
was for seven mouths unable to work
at my trade and earn anything, and,
of course, when pay-day comes
round—and that will be very soon—l
shall be unable to meet the demand.”
“But,” said the stranger, “will not
Mr. Merton wait another year, if you
make all the circumstances known
to him i ”
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1878.
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“No, Bir,’' replied Mr. Bishop; “I
| saw him this morning, and he said
he must have the money and should
be obliged to foreclose/’
“He must be very hard hearted, ’
remarked the traveler.
“Not necessarily so,” replied Mr.
Bishop. “The fact is, these rich
men know nothing of the struggles
of the poor. They are men, just like
the rest of mankind, and I am sure,
if they had but the faintest idea of
what the poor have to pass through,
their hearts and purses would open.
You know it has passed into a pro
verb—‘When a poor man needs as
sistance, he Bhouid apply to the poor.’
The reason is obvious: Only the poor
know the curse of poverty. They
know how heavily it falls, crushing
the heart of men, and (to U9e my
favorite expression,) they can at once
put themselves in the unfortunate
one’s place and appreciate difficulties,
and are therefore always ready to
render assistance, as far as they are
able. If Mr. Merton had the least
idea what I and my family had to
pass through, I think he would be
willing to wait several years for his
money rather than distress us.”
With what emotion the stringer
listened may be imagined. Anew
world was being opened to him. He
was passing through an experience
that had never been his before.
Shortly after the conclusion of the
meal he arose to take his leave,
thanking Mr. aDd Mrs. Bishop for
their hospitality. The}’ invited him
to stay all night, telling him he was
welcome to what they had.
He thanked them and said: “I will
tresspass on your kindness no lon
ger. I think I can reach the next
village before dark, and be so much
further on my journey.”
Mr. Merton did not sleep much
that night. He lay awake thinking.
He had received anew revelation
The poor had always associated in
his mind with stupidity aud igno
rance, and the first poor family he
had found far in advance, in intelli
gent sympathy and real politeness,
of the exquisite and fashionable but
terilies of the day;
The next day a boy called at the
cottage and left a package in a large
blue envelope, addressed to Mr.
Bishop.
Mrs. Bishop was very much
alarmed when she took it, for large
blue envelopes were associated iu her
mind with law and lawyers, and she
thought that it boded no good. She
put it away until her husband came
home from his work, when she hand
ed it to him.
He opened it in silence, read its
contents, and said fervently, “Thank
heaven !”
“What is it, John ?" inquired his
wife.
“Good news,” replied John. ‘ Such
news ak I never hoped or even
dreamed of.”
“What is it—what is it? Tell me
quick ! I want to hear, if it is any
thing good.”
“Mr. Merton has cancelled the
mortgage—release t me from the
debt, both interest and principal—
and says that if I ever need further
assistance, and will let him know it I
shall have it.”
“I am so glad! It has put new
life into me,” said the now happy
wife. “But what can have come over
Mr. Merton ?”
“I do not know. It seems strange
atfer the way he talked to me yester
day morning. I will go right over
to Mr. Merton’s and tell him how
happy he has made us.”
He found Mr. Merton in, aud ex
pressed his gratitude in glowing
terms.
“What could have induced you to
show us so much kindness?” he
asked.
Mr. Merton replied: “I followed
your suggestion and put myself in
your place. I expect that it will as
tonish you very much to learn that
the strange traveler to whom you
showed so much kindness yesterday
was myself.”
“Indeed! Can that be true ? How
did you disguise yourself so well ?"
exclaimed Mr. Bishop.
“I was not so much disguised, af
ter all; but you could not very well
associate Mr. Merton, the lawyer,
with a poor, wayfaring man,” laughed
Mr. Merton.
“Well, it is a good joke,” said Mr.
Bishop; “good iu more senses than
one. It has terminated very pleas
antly for me.”
“I was surprised,” said Mr. Merton,
“at the broad and liberal views you
expressed of men and their actions
generally. I supposed I had greatly
the advantage over you in means
and education; yet how cramped and
narrow-minded have been my views
beside yours! That wife of youis
is an estimable woman, and your
boy will be an honor to any man. I
tell you, Bishop, you are rich—rich
beyond what money could make you,
you have ti’easures that gold will not
buy. I tell you, you owe me no
thanks. Somehow I seem to have
lived years since yesterday morning.
What I have learned at your house
is worth more than you owe me, and
lam your debtor yet. Hereafter I
shall take as my motto, ‘But yourself
iu his place,’ and try to {regulate my
actions by it.’’
The House committee on coinage
is considering and drawing up a bill,
the principle features of which are
the issue of money certificates on tho
deposit of iiue silver bullion, the
repeal of the law authorizing the
coinage of trade dollars, and the
withdrawal of the three, five and
twenty cent silver pieces, and also
the trade dollar in ciculation by
making them exchangeable at the
mints for fractional silver coin of the
denominations of ten, twenty-live and
fifty cents.
♦ ♦
The number of Southern pension
ers of the war of 1812 restored to the
rolls by the recent act of Congress is
4,440, distributed as follows: Alaba
ma, 705; Arkansas, 104; Florida, 173;
Georgia, 730; Louisiana, G 75; Mis
sissippi, 484; South Carolina, 301;
Texas, 417- Georgia as is uusually
the case, leads the van.
How Matches are Made.
A match is a small thing. We sel
dom pause to think, after it has pel
formed its m : ssion, and we have
carelessly thrown it away, that it
has a history of its own, and thttt,
like some more pretentious things,
its journey from the forest to the
match-safe is full of changes.
The match of to-day has a story
far more interesting than that of the
old-fashioned match. As we haye
said, much of the timber used in the
manufacture comes from the im
mense tracts of forest in the Hudson
Buy Territory. It is floated down
the water courses to the lakes,
through which it is towed in great
log rafts. These rafts are divided;
soma parts are pulled through the
canals, and some by other means are
taken to market. When well through
the seasoning process, which occu
pies from ono to two years, the p ; ne
is cut up into blocks twice as long as
a match and about eight inches wide,
by two inches thick. These blocks
arc passed through a machine which
cuts them up into “splints” rounder
equaro, of just the thickness of a
match but twice its length, T"ais
machine is capable, as we are told of
making about two million
a day. This number seems immense
when compared with the most that
can be made the old way—by hand.
The splints are then taken to Hie
“setting” machine, and this foils
them into bundles about eighteen
inches in diameter, every splint sepa
rated from its neighbors by little
spaces, so that there may be no
sticking together after the “dipping.”
In the operation of “setting,” a rib
bon of coarse stuff about an inch
thick is rolled up, the splints being
laid across the ribbon between each
two courses leaving about a quarter
of an inch between adjoining splints.
From the “setting” machines the
bundles go to the “dipping room.
After the ends of the splints f ave
been poundod down to make t.'iem
even, the bundles are dipped—both
ends —into the molten sulphur, and
then into the phosphorus solu/on,
which is spread over a large iron
plate. Next they are hung 71 a
frame to dry. When dried the/ are
placed in a machine which, as it un
rolls the ribbon, cut the sticks in
two across the middle, thus making
two complete matches of each splint.
The match is made. The towering
pine which listened to the whisper
of the south wind and swayed in the
cold northern blast, has been s“ di
vided that we can take it bit by bit
and lightly twirl it between two fin
gers. But what it has lost in sfeo it
has gained in use. The little flame
it carries, and which looks so harm
less, flashing into brief existence, has
a latent power more terrible ban
the. vyLii-Lvitid which p&x
the tall pine-tree crashing to the
ground.
But the story is not yet closed.—
From the machine which completed
the matches they are taken to the
“boxers”—mostly girls and women—
who place them in little boxes. The
speed with which this is done is sur
prising. With one hand they pick
up an empty case and remove the
cover, while with the other they
seize just a sufficient number of
matches, and, by a peculiar shuffling
motion, arrange them evenly, then—
’tis done!
The little packages of sleeping fire
are taken to another room, where on
each one is place a stamp certifying
the payment to the government of
one cent revenue tax. Equipped
with these passes the boxes are
placed in larger ones, and these again
in wooden cases, which are to be
shipped to all parts of the country,
and over seas.
All this trouble over such little
things as matches! Yet on these
fire tipped bits of wood millions of
people depend for warmth, cooked
food and light. They have become a
necessity, and tho day of Hint, steel
and tinder seems almost as far away
in the past as are the bow and fire
stick of the Indian.
How apt to our subject is that al
most worn out Latin phrase, multum
in parvo--much in little ! Much la
bor, much skill and much usefulness,
all in a little piece of wood scarcely
one-eighth of an inch thick and pbout
two inches long.—[F. H. C., St. Nich
olas for March.
A bill has been passed by Congress
which goes into operation at once,
granting pensions to all surviving offi
cers, and enlisted aud drafted men,
without regard to color, including
militia and volunteers, of the military
and naval service of the United States
who served for fourteen days in the
war with Great Britain of 181 g, or
who were in any engagement, ‘and
were honorably discharged, any sur
viving widows of such officers and
enlisted and drafted men. The loss
or lack of a certificate of discharge
will not deprive the applicant under
this act from its benefits, provided
other proof can be made of service.
This bill also places on the pension
list any widow of a Revolutionary
soldier who served fourteen days or
was iu any engagement; and it justly,
after long delay, restores to the pen
sion rolls al! soldiers heretofore re
ceiving pensions who fought in the
war against Great Britain of 1812, or
m any of the Indian Wars, but who
by an act of Congress were dropped
from the pension rolls for taking up
arms against the government, “or in
any manner encouraging the rebels.”
It also provides for the widows of
soldier whose names have not been
placed on the rolls as provided for in
the bill, putting iu a claim for the
pensions for which their liurbands
had been cut off.
The Finance committee of the Vir
ginia House of delegates has report
ed a bill imposing a tax of one cent
for each cigar sold, aud two cents for
each package of cigarettes sold, the
cigar dealer to be furnished with a
Moffett Register, and to ring the bell
every time a cigar or a package of ci
garettes is sold. That is, they are re
quired to use the register for selling
cigars as the liquor dealors do when
1 drinks are sold.
Shooting Stars.
The lecturer reminded his hearers
that, besides the stars we see on a
clear night and besides those the
telescope makes known, there are
countless bodies moving through
space which eveu the most powerful
telescope fails to reveal till they come
either in the orbit of the earth or of
its atmosphere. These are what are
meteorites and shooting stars, and
it is important to distinguish clearly
between the two. They are alike
luminous from the same cause, that
of friction in passing through the at
mosphere, though but few people
have ever seen a meteorite falling.—
The number of shooting stars is in
finitely greater than is usually sup
posed, for observors with telescopes
often see them flash across the field
in dimensions too small to be seen
with the naked eye. We know that
shooting stars undergo combustion
in passing through our atmosphere.
What becomes of the debris ? The
snow of the Alps, far away from fur
uaces, contains globules of iron, and
dust that has quietly accumulated iu
exposed places contains them also.—
It is supposed they represent some
of the debris. Though we may
grumble at our atmosphere in bad
weather, we must recollect it, at
least, does this—it burns up these
bodies that are pelting down upon
us at a rate one hundred times great
er than the missiles of an eighty-one
ton gun, and,- but for this burning
up, they would be at any rate awk
ward for U3. In lookiog at the knowl
edge accumulated with regard to
shooting stars, the first point to no
tice, Professor Ball says, is that cer
tain great showers are periodical,
and always come from the same
parts of the heavens. According to
the constellation from which they
apppear to come, they are called
Lyriads, Perseids, Orionids, Leonids,
etc. The inference from these re
curring periods is that the orbit of
the earth then cuts the orbit in
which a mass of these is moving.—
With this fact of recurrence it must
be noticed that certain comets are
periodical, and from a comparison of
their supposed orbits with those of
groups of thesa bodies, a connection
between them is inferred, whatever
may be the origin of the comets,
which is not yet known. Meteorites,
on the contrary, are never known to
come from the direction of a comet
path. If a meteorite is c irefullv ex
amined, it is seen to be a fragment
of some rock, and that of one closely
analogous to our earth’s volcanic
rocks. If we consider in turn the
volcanic sources from which they
could have come, we see the sun
vyould have force enough to drive off
fragments;'but it is hardly likely
that they are solid rocks there to
ernre oil. Jules Turc -, its *
fes3or Bali says, in calculating that a
body driven up from the earth with
a force equal to six miles a second
would not return. From Ceres three
miles a second would be sufficient.—
Examining all the planets in turn, it
seems improbable that the meteorites
originate from any of them. It
seems much more likely that they
were in former times of greater vol
canic activity driven up from the
earth itself, and they again, after
lapse of ages, meet the earth in its
orbit. The theory that they come in
from unlimited space is, Professor
Ball thinks, highly improbable.—
[Professor Ball’s Lecture before the
London Institution.
Hints to Visitors.
Try without being too familiar, to
make yourself so much like one of
the family that no one shall feel you
to be in the way; and, at the same
time, be observant of those small
courtesies and kindnesses which all
together make up what the world
agrees to call manners.
Regulate your hours of rising and
retiring by the custom of the house.
Do not keep your friends sitting up
until later than usual, and do not be
roaming about the house an hour or
two before breakfast-time, unless yon
are very sure that your presence in
the parlor will not be unwelcome
Write in large letters, in a prominent
place irnyour mind, “be punctual.”
A visitor has no excuse for keeping a
whole family waiting, and it is un
pardonable negligence not to be
prompt at the table. Here is a place
to test good manners, and any man
ifestation of illbreeding here will be
noticed and remembered. Do not
"be too ready to express your likes
and dislikes for the various dishes
before you. The wife of a certain
United States Senator once visiting
acquaintances at some distance
from her native wilds, made a lasting
impression upon the family by re
marking at the breakfast-table that
“she would starve before sho would
eat mush,” and that sho “never heard
of cooking mutton before she came
East.”
Had a Copper Bill, too.
The other day when the silver bill
passed the Senate, a citizen who
wanted a glass of beer entered a sa
loon on Randolph street, threw down
a half dollar and asked:
“Heard about the passage of the
silver bill?”
“Not vhat I knows of,” was the
calm reply.
“Well, it has passed, and that
half dollar is now worth fifty-five
cents.”
Tne saloonest looked hard at the
money made change very slowly, and
asked:
“You heard about do bassage of
dot copper pill, eh ?,’
“No! What bill is that ?”
“It vosh a bill vhat says all der
coppers in der gountry are wort
dree cents apiece ”
He handed out three cents, a nick
el, and fivo pennies counting each
penny three, and returning, accord
ing to this count, fifty cents. The
drinker slowly scraped the money
off the counter coughed and tried to
9mile and as he slowly sauntered out
he was heard muttering a hope that
the Red Ribbon movement would
continue to prosper.— Detroit Free
Press.
Japanese Wonders.
We have just returned from a visit
to Naraone of the capitals of the Em
pire distant about thirty-six miles.
We drove at a brisk trot for an hour
before a break occurred iu the line
of houses, when we crossed a brauch
of the Uji, river by a bridge about
a thousand feet long. We entered
a long street of what was once, a
thousand years ago, a great city.
Away up the slope of the hill it is
covered, wherever we went, with
walls and pavement as indestructi
ble as the hill itself. Granite stairs
lead into the wild forest which now
covers the site of vast temples of
wood—broad avenues, whose rocky
pavements were worn smooth by the
feet of devout pilgrims before Christ
was born.
Here was erected, 1,200 years ago,
the largest bronze figure the world
has ever known. It weighs 450 tons,
and the third temple now covers it,
without apparaut injury to the im
mense statute. We went around it,
but could make no estimate of its size.
Our Minister at Tokio told me that
it was sixty feet from the seat of
loftus leaves to the top of its head,
and that a man could climb through
the nostril. An officer is said to
have taken a chip of the casting, and
an analyses of it gave 500 pounds of
gold in the alloy. A great hallo of
gilded wood sets off the dark features
as they are revealed in the shadows
of the roof.
To day we rode to lake Bewa, dis
tant about seven miles, and our route
lay along the great Tokaido. Tiie
road is about twenty feet wide, well
macadamized, with the inevitable
walled ditch on either side. It is
the great thoroughfare from Osaka
to Tokio, and from the lake to Kioto
't was u continuous stream of
travel, many cattle, and a few horses
laden with goods of every discription.
We entered the town at the south
end of the lake, and were taken to a
flight of stone steps to climb to a
temple that overlooked the lake.
We ascended them, found ourselves
on the plateau excavated in the side
of the mountain and turned to look
upon the largest lake in Japan. It is
sixty miles iu length, but narrow at
the south end. It is surrounded by
rich alluvial lands Our guide next
led us to see a bell, which he told us,
had not been wrung in twelve hun
dred years, aud pointed to a small
wooden budding at the head of a
flight of wide ston9 steps. We’look
ed in through Wooden bars well
worn by curious visitors, and saw
supported on a strong wooden table
a bell about four feet high, with a
bad crack,which seemed to have been
caused by fire. It had on it a few
plain figures as ornaments. Our
guide informed us tin"//'as seven
-4-oon -hundred vc an*.y AT \ that it
had hung in an anctent .ruffatx/ft;ru
pie that once stood where it now lies.
For five hundred years its tones
floated over the placid lake, and
called the people along its shores to
worship. Then came a catastro
phe, and twelve centuries have pass
ed.
Curious Mortuary Facts.
The report of births, deaths and
marriages in England furnishes some
curious facts of interest to the gene
ral reader, which a contemporary has
compiled in the following:
Of a million children born in Eng
land, more than a fourth part ate re
moved by death before they reach
the age of five years. In the next
quintennial term, however, there is
an astonishing change, the number of
deaths being to those of the earlier
period only as one to seven. But
the maximum of vitality occnrs be
twen the ages of ten and fifteen, after
which the rate of mortality again in
creases, consumption and childbirth
being mainly chargeable with the ha
voc among women, while the more
dangerous occupations of men begin
to entail violent deaths. The period
from twenty to twenty-five seems to
be the supreme harvest time of con
sumption in England, that disease
being then accountable for nearly
one half of the whole mortality.
From this point to the age of forty -
five the deaths from pulmonary trou
bles still predominate, although not
in the same excessive ratio, diseases
of other principal organs now begin
ning to be conspicuous. Up to this
time, too, the quota of violent deaths
is much the same as at the date when
men first entered active life. It is
worth noting that on an average ev
ery person born in England has just
one chance in two of reaching the
decade from forty-five to fifty-five,
since out of a million births a moity
is found surviving at that period.
Few persons indeed will expect to
hear that out of a million not less
than 420,000 attain the age of fifty
five, and that even twenty years later
160,000, or nearly one-sixth of a given
generation, are still alive. In other
words, out of every six human beings
living in England, one is seventy-five
years old or upward. By the age of
eighty-five, however, the number of
survivors has diminished to about
one in twenty-five, and according to
this report only about 220 in a mil
lion gain the age of one hundred.
Even this proportion, being more
than one in fifty, is sufficiently aston
ishing. We need not say that these
figures represent the average state of
things all over England, the death
rates in London being much leß3 fav
orable to longevity, while those in
Manchester and Liverpool, are, it
appears, still higher.
Talking to the Telephone.
Prof. Youmans, in Popular science
Monthly for March says: When we
begin to use a telephone for the
first time, there is sense of oddity,
almost of foolishness, in the experi
ment The dignity of talking con
sists in having a listener and there
seems a kind of absurdity in ad
dressing a piece of iron, but we must
raise our respect for the metal, for it
is any thing but deaf. The dia
phragm of the telephone, the thin
iron plate is as sensative as the tym
panum to all the delicate refine
ments of souud. Nor does it depend
upon the thinness of the metallic
sheet, for a piece of thick boiler
plate will take up an trausmit the
motions of the air-particles in all the
grades of the subtlety. And not on
ly will it do the same thing as the
tympanum, but it will do vastly
more; the gross, dead metal proves,
in fact, to be a hundred times more
alive than the living mechanism of
speed and audition. This is no ex
aggeration. In quickness, in accu
racy, and even in grasp there is a
perfection of sensitive capacity in the
meta l , with which the organic in
strument cannot compare. We
speak of the proverbial “quicknes of
though,” but the telephone thinks
quicker than the nervous mechanism.
Jjet a word be pronounced for a per
son to repeat, and the telephone
will hear and speak it a hundred
miles away in a tenth part of the
time that the listener would need to
utter it. Give a man a series of half
a dozen notes to repeat, and he can
not do it accurately to save his life;
but the iron plate take them up,
transmits them to another plat*
hundreds of miles off, which sings
them forth instantaneously with ab
solute precision. The human ma
chine can hoar, and produce, in its
poor way, only a single series of
notes while the iron ear of the tele
phone will take up whole chords and
and strains of music, and, sending
them by lightening through the wire,
its iron tongue will emit them
through the wire, in perfect relations
of harmony.
What Hum
John B. Gough says: “A minister
of the gospel told me one of the most
thrilling incidents I have heard in
my life- A member of his congrega
tion came home for the first time in
his life intoxicated, and his boy met
him upon the door step, clapping his
hands and exclaiming, ‘Papa has
come home !’ He seized the boy by
the shoulder, swung him around,
staggered and fell in the hall. That
minister said to me: ‘I spent the
night it that house. I went out,
bared my brow that the night air
might fall upon it and cool it. I
walked up and down the hill. There
was his dead child ! There was his
wife in strong convulsion, and he
asleep ! A man of about thirty years
of age asleep, with a dead child in
the house, having a blue mark upon
the temple w'here the corner of the
marble steps had come in con
tact with the head as he swung
him round, and a wife upon the brink
of the grave! Mr. Gough,’ said my
friend, ‘I cursed the drink! He told
me that I must remain till he woke,
and I did. When lie awoke he passed
his hand over his face and exclaimed,
‘What is the matter ? Where am I ?
Where is my boy ?’ ‘You cannot see
lliLti. ' , r -j. X „:il
see my boy.’ To prevent confusion,
I took him to the child’s bed, and as
I turned down the sheet and showed
him the corpse, he uttered a wild
shriek, ‘Ah, my child !’ That minis
ter said further to me, ‘One year after
that lie was brought home from a lu
natic asylum to lie side by side with
his wife in one grave, aud I attended
his funeral.’ The minister of the gos
pel who told me that fact is to-day a
drunken hostler in a stable in Boston.
Now tell me what rum will not do.
It will debase, degrade, imbrute, and
damn everything that is noble, bright,
glorious aud God-like in a human
being There is nothing drink will
not do that is vile, dastardly, coward
ly sneaking and devilish. Then are
we not to fight it till the day of our
death ?”
William Penn’s Heed from the Indians.
This indenture witnesseth, that we,
Packenah Jaracoam, Sinkals, Parte
guesait, Jewis, Espennoch, Felkrov,
Hekellapau, Econus, Metchcougha,
Machlona, Hisa powey, Inkiau Kings,
Sachmakers, right owners of all land
from Quing Quangas, called Chester
Creek, all along by the west side of
Delaware river, and so between the
said creeks backwards as far as a man
can ride with a horse iu two days,
for and in consideration of these fol
lowing goods to us in hand paid by
Wm. Penn, proprietor and governor
of Pennsylvania and territories there
of, viz : 20 guns, 20 fathoms math
coat, 20 pounds powder, 100 bars of
lead, 40 tomahawks, 100 knives, 40
pairs of stockings, 1 barrel of beer,
20 barrels of red lead, 100 fathoms
of wampum, 30 glass bottles, 80 pew
ter spoons, 100 awl blades, 300 tobac
co pipes, 20 tobacco tongs, 20 steels,
200 flints, 30 pairs of scissors, 80
combs, 60 looking glasses, 200 nee
dles, one skipple of salt, 30 pounds
of sugar, 5 gallons of molasses, 20
tobacco boxes,loo jewsharps, 20 hoes,
30 gimblets, 30 wooden screw boxes,
100 strings of beads, do hereby ac
knowledge, etc. Given under our
hands etc., at New Castle, second day
of eighth month, 1689.
The above is a true copy, taken
from the original by Ephriam Mor
ton, now living in Washington, Pa.,
formerly a clerk in the land office,
which copy he gave to Wm. Stratton,
and from which the above was taken
in Little York, this 7th day of De
cember, 1813.
At night old Gumbo was accus
tomed to retire to his lonely cabin to
light his tallow candle and pore over
a dog-eared, dilapidated Bible, and
as he read he at brief intervals paused
and devoutly exclaimd, wfth tearful,
UDraised eyes: “O'n! cum de good
angel ob de Lord, and take old
Gumbo home to rest.” It happened
of a dark night, when by the light of
his tallow dip he was intently study
ing his Bible, there came three sol
emn, measured raps on the cabin
door. Gumbo hoard and grew pale
with fear, and immediately, with a
spasmodic jerk, blew out the light
and demanded to know: “Who am
dat knocking at dis yere door ?” A
sepulchral voice answered, “the good
angel of the Lord has come to take
poor Gumbo up to rest.” Trembling
with superstitious fear, believing that
the good angel of the Lord was really
standing at the door, he answered,
“I knows dat niggah Gumbo, but dat
ar niggah don't live heah. Why, dat
ar Gumbo am jes dun goneded dese
foah years. Yes, he am ! he jes gone
dead dese foah yeahs.”
There are fifty-nine Confederate
soldiers in CoDgress—ten in the
Senate aud forty-nine in the House.
A little three year old daughter of
Mr. William Hall, of Elbert county,
was killed by lightning one day last
week.
lowa has restored capital punish
ment, on the ground that keeping a
boarding house for murderers did
not pay.
Never frown when you can smile;
the former ruffles the features, while
the latter may surround you with
friends.
Mrs. Key, the wife of the Post-
Master General, is said to bo the
most elegantly graceful woman iu
Washington.
More than $190,000 in gold notes
were found in Pius IX ’a apartment.
The entire amount he has left is esti
mated at near $25,000,000.
The Hart county Sun makes the
announcement that the Hardshell
Baptist is the only church in Georgia
that turns out a member for dishon
esty.
It is said that the the kind mo
thers down East are grown so affec
tionate that they give their children
chloroform previous to whipping
them. J
It is alleged that over 100,000
colored people are enrolled iu an as
sociation for emigration to Liberia,
The first load of 250 will sail in a
few days.
Well, welt, we have been expecting
it, and now it ba3 come. We learn,
from private sources, that Prof. Dar
win is in favor of remonkeytizing
man. Horrible tail!
Bankers generally roll their hard
money in paper, and make it look
like so many spools. We roiled our
hard mouey up the other day, and it
looked like a button.
“Old Col. Hopkins,” once Private
Secretary to President Polk, is now
a street beggar in Santa Fe, New
Mexico. “We know what we are,
but we know not what we will be.”
The mucilage on postage stamps
is, in part, made of peach brandy;
but the man who can lick enough pos
tage stamps to get drunk, can lick
Russia with one hand tied behind
him.
NO. 12.
The Galveston News suggests that
after James Gordon Bennett has
discovered the North pole he will
probably start Stanley on an expe
dition to ascertain whether there is
really sucli a place as hell.
An Irishman being badly hurt in a
railroad accident, on being asked
why he did not sue the company for
damages, replied: “Sue them for
damages ? Bedad, I’ve had damages
enough; I’ll sue them for repairs.”
Josh Billiugs says: There is oue
thing about hens that looks like
wisdom—they don’t kackel much till
they have laid their eggs. Sum
p hoiks are always bragging a*nd cack
ling what they are going t# do be
forehand.
Hayes has gored tne other fellow s
ox again, by the removal of ex-S9n
ator Thayer from the governorship
of Wyoming, and the appointment of
Prof. John W. Hoyt, of Wisconsin;
and the Nebraska Senators have
raised the war-whoop.
The religious observance of Sunday
practically ends at noon in San Fran
cisco. In the afternoon the law per
mits all public amusements, and race
courses, theaters aud other resorts
are open. Sunday evening sermons
are called lectures there.
A bill has been agreed npon in
committee which makes an impor
tant change in compensation of Unit
ed States Marshals. All fees and
allowances are abolished, and the
pay of Marshals fixed at $5,000 a
year and of deputies at $1,500.
What a beautiful example of sim
plicity in dress is shown some of the
followers of fashion by that domestic
animal, the cat, which rises iu the
morning, washes its face with its
right hand, gives its tail three jerks
and is ready dressed for the day.
Dr. Newman, Grant’s old pastor in
Washington, aspired to the Presiding
Eldership, but the parson of the
Foundry Church, where the Hayes
family worship, carried off the prize,
and Newman takes a back seat as
agent of the Metropolitan Methodist
Church.
Notice is given from Washington
that vigorous measures are about to
be adopted to enforce the laws against
the transmission of lottery tickets
and circulars through the mails, and
that as soon as the cases are properly
worked up the lottery mail matter
will be seized.
“Bob,” the veritable sorrel war
horse which Stonewall Jackson was
riding when he received his fatal
wound, is still living, at the age of
twenty-three, and retains much of
his old-time vigor. He is owned by
a brother-in-law of the General, in
Lincoln county, N. C.
People make a great mistake
about heaven. They think it begins
up yonder, but it really begins down
here. If you can be happy iu the
basement story, you are fitted to en
joy the happiness of the other stories.
But if you whine and moan here, hea
ven cannot change your mind.
An Ohio court has just granted a
man’s petition for divorce from his
wife on the ground of her habi'ual
drunkness, the intoxication arising
from the incessive U3e of morphine.
The Court held that it makes no dif
in law whether the intoxication pro
ceeds from the use of strong drink
or from narcotic.
The United States Courts do a
thriving business in Georgia. For
the four years ending July, 1877, the
United States District and Circuit
Courts in this State rendered judg
ments amounting to nearly six mil
lions of dollars—more than half as
much as the judgments obtained iu
all the Southern States.
An early meeting of the European
Congress is now considered improb
able. Russia is not anxious for it
because of the demands of England
and Austria that the whole treaty be
submitted. Neither power seems
disposed to give way, and unless a
compromise is effected fresh and se
rious difficulties may be expected.