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Th 6 Gainesville Eagle. Publithed Every Fiiday Morning -OFFICE Ipatuii. in ( ainilir Hall Bniltlliig, Northwest Corner of Public Square. gf The Official Orijan of Hall, Banka, White. Towns. Union and Dawson counties, and the city of Gainesville. Ursa large general circula'ion in twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and two counties In Western North Carolina. subscription . One Yeah $2,1.0 Six Months $1.(0. Three Months...— „ SCc. IN ADVANCE, DELIVERED BY CARRIER OB Pitl'ilD AU papers arc stopped at the expirst'ou of the time paid for without further uotice. Mail sub acribers will please observe the dates on their wrappers. Persons wishing the paper will have their orders dromptly attended to by remmitiing the amount for the time desired. ADVERTISING. SEVEN WORDS MAKE A LINE. OrdiuAry advertisements, per Nonpareil line, 10 cents. Legal Official Auction and Amusement ndvertise ments and Special Notices, per. Nonpa reil line, 10 cents. Heading notices per lino. Nonpareil type 15 cent! Local notices, per line, Brevier type, 15 cents. A discount made on advertisement* continued for longer than ono week. REMITTANCES For subscriptions or advertising can bo mado by Post Office order. Registered Letter or Express, at our risk. All letters should bn atldressd, J. E. REDWINK, Gainesville, Gs. REVIHKI) RATES E<n Legal< Advertising In tlie Esglr. From, and including this date, (ho .rates of legal advertising in the Eagle will be as follows : Sheriff’* tales for each levy of 1 inch $2 50. Kteh additional Inch or less 2 60. Mortgage tales (do days) one inch 5 00. Mach additional Inch or lesß ;i 00. Adru'r's, KxVs.Guard’u's sales, 4 weeks, 1 Inch 4 00 Each additional inch 2 50 Notice to debtors and creditors 4 00. Ullat's for let’rs of adm'n or guard'us’p (4 wks>4 00. Leave to anil real ostate * 4 00 Let’rs of dlam'u of adm'n or guard’n (3 m0.'....(i 00. Kstray notices 4 00. Citations (unrepresented estates) 4 00. Buie nisi In dlvjrc* cases 0 On. Homestead Exemption, 2 weeks, 2 00. little Nisi to foreclose, monthly 4 mos., per in... 400 Notices of Ordinaries calling attention of admin, lstrators, executors and guardians to making their annual returus; aud of Sheriffs in regard to provis ions sections 3849, of the Code, published fuse for the Sheriffs pus Ordinaries who patronize the Baulk. 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. ■ ' - ■— '■ " i ■— ■*' U - ■' ■ - “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.