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GENERAL DIRECTORY.
JUDICIARY.
Hon. Georgo D. Rice, Judge 8. 0. Western Circuit.
A. lis. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OFFIOKRB.
f. B. M. Wtcburn, Ordinary; John L. Gainos,
Sheriff; t. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff; J. J. Mayne,
dock Superior Conn ; W. 8. PickreU, Deputy Cler*
Superior Court; N. B. Clark, Tax Collector ;-J R.
H. Luck, Tax Receiver; Gideon Harrison, Sur
veyor ; Edward Lowry, Coroner; B. C. Young,
Treasurer.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Dr. H. 8. Bradley, Mayor.
Alderman—Dr. H. J. Long, W. B. Clement*, T.
A. Panel, W. H. Henderson,W. G. Henderson,
T. M. Merck.
A. B. O. Dorsey, Clerk; J. R. Boone, Trressurer; T.
N.Hanie, Marshal; Henry Perry, City At.oney.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Pmbbttiuman Church— Rev. T. P. Cleveland.
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and
night, except the second Sabbath. Su day School,
at 9a. nt. Prayer meeting Wednesday evoning at 4
•’clock.
MbthodictChubch— Rev. W. W. Wadsworth, Pas
ter. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Baptist Church Rev. W. 0. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday
Bchool at 9a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening
at i o'clock.
GAINEBVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
I. B. Estes, President; Henry Perry, Librsrian.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION,
A. M. Ja'ckbon, President; R. C. Maddox, Vice
President) W. B. Clements, Secretary. *■
Regular services every Sabbath evening a’s one
of the Churches. Cottage prayer meeting* iverj
Tuesday night iu "Old Town,” and Fr.day night
near tha depot
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Floweby Bkanch Lodge Nr.. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS„
meets every Monday night, Joel Laseteb, N. G.
B. F. Steduam, Sec.
ALLteHANY Royal Abch Chavis* meets on the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings iu each
month.
H. 8. Bbadley, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwill, H. P.
Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A.'. F.\ M, - .,
meets m the First a nd Third Tuesday evening in
t ha month
R, PaLMOub, Sec’y. R. E Green, W. M.
Air-Line Lodge, No. 64 ,1. O. O. JF., meets
aver/ Friday evening.
C. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Habbibon, N. G.
GAINESVILLE FOST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlan
ta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, tho following
Will ba the schedule from date:
A Hall train No. 1, going east, leaves 7:47 p. m.
Mall for Ihls train closes at 7:00 "
Mail train No. 3, going east, 1eave5....8:36 a. m.
No mail by this train.
Mail train No. 1< going west, leaves 6:51 a. m.
Mail for this train closes at 9:30 p. m.
Mall train No. 2, going west, le-.ves... .9:05 p. m.
Mall for this train closes at 7.30 “
Office hours from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p m.
General delivery open on Sundays from B>£ to9Jj.
Departure of malls from this olli -e:
Dahlonoga and Gilmer county, daily r. m
Dahlouega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday... Ba. m
Jefferson A Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. m
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes
vlUe, N. C., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawsonville and Dawson county, Saturday Ba. m
Homer, Banks oonnty, Saturday 1 p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday.. 1 p.m
M. K. ABCHEK, P.M.
i) r l e,
—ON THE —
Atlanta and Charlotte
AIK-LINE,
Double Daily Trains
now run over the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-
Line Railway, as follows:
FAST Tn^-lisr
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 5:00 p. m.
Arrive at Gainesville 7:47 p. m.
GOING WEST.
Arrive at Gainesville G:sl a. m-
Arrive at Atlanta 9:10 a. m
SECOND
GOING EAST.
Leave Atlanta 6:00 a. nr
Arrive at Gainesville 8:35 a. m.
GOING WEST.
Arrive at Gainesville 9:05 p. in.
Arrive at Atlanta 11:30 p. m.
Passengers leaving Atlanta by Mail Train
at 5 p. m., will arrive in New York at 9:35 a.
m., second morning.
Passengers leaving Atlanta by Day Train
at 6 a. m., will dine in Washington City the
following day and arrive in New York ,at
10:05 p. m., same evena -Sat
Acoommodtion Train leaving heretofore at
7 am., is discontinued.
G. J. FOBEAOBE, General Manager.
W. J. HOUSTON, General Pass, and Ticket Agent.
NORTHEASTETN RAILROAD!
Change of Schedule.
SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE, 1
Athens, Ga , Bept. 29, 1877. J
ON and after Monday, October Ist, 1877, trains on
the Northeastern Bailroad will run as follows.
AU trains daily except Sunday :
MORNING TRAIN.
Leave Athens 2:35 a. m.
Arrive st Luis 4:50 •
Arrive at Atlanta, (via Air Line B. B.) 8:35 “
Leave Lula - 5:45 •
Arriva|at Athens .......8:15 “
EVENING TRAIN.
Leave Athens 4:00 p. m
Arrive at Luis - 6:30 “
Leave Atlanta (via Air Line R. B.) 4:00 “
Leave Lula 7:15 „
Arrive at Athen5......... 9:30 “
Oloaa connection at Lula with paasenger train*
on Air Line Ba lroad. J. M. EDWARDS,
Superintendent.
Dropsy Cured.
I will guarantee a cure in every variety
and form of Dropsy, after examining pa
tients. A. J. Shaff&b, M. D., Gainesville.
The Gainesville Eagle.
VOL. XIL
THE BEAUTIFUL LAND.
There's a beautiful land, by the Spoiler nn
trod,
Unpolluted by sorrow or care;
It is lighted alone by the presence of God,
Whose throne and whose temple are there;
Its crystalline streams, with a murmurous
flow,
Meander through rallies of green,
And is mountains of jasper are bright in the
glow
Of splendor no mortal hath seen.
Ana throngs of glad singers, with jubilant
breath,
Make the air with their melodies rife;
And one known on earth as the Angel of
Death,
Shines here as the Angel of Life;
And infinite tenderness beams from his
eyes,
On his brow is an infinite calm;
And his voice, as it thrills through the
depths of the skies.
Is as sweet as the Seraphim's psalm.
Through the amaranth groves of this Beau
tiful Land,
Walk the souls who were faithful in this;
And tin ir foreheads, star-crowned, by the
zephyrs are fauned,
That evermore murmur of bliss.
They tsste the rich fruitage that hangs from
the trets,
And breathe the sweet odors of flowers,
More fragrant than ever were kissed by the
bre< ze,
Iu Araby's loveliest bowers.
Old prophets, whose words were a spirit of
flame
Hlazing out o'er the darkness of time;
And martyrs, whose courage no torture
could tame,
Nor turn irom their purpose sublime;
And saints and confessors, a numberless
throng,
Who were loyal to truth and to right,
And left, as they walked through the dark
ness ol' wrong,
Their foootprints encircled with light.
And the dear little children, who went to
their rest
Ere their lives had b en sullied by sin—
While tie Angel of Morning still tarried a
guest
Their spirits’ pure temple within—
All are there, all are there, in the Beautiful
Land,
The laud by the spoiler untrod;
And their foreheads, star-crowned, by the
sephyrs are fanned
That blow irom the Garden of God.
My soul hath looked in, through the gate
way of dreams,
On the City all brilliant with gold,
And heard the sweet flow of its murmurous
streams,
As through the green valleys they rolled;
Aud though it still waits on this desolate
strand,
A pilgrim and stranger on earth,
Yet it knew in that glimpse of the Beautiful
Laud,
That it gazed on the home of its birth.
His Elopement and What Came of it.
I am an old man now. Folks
used to be more romantic when I
was young. They used to fight du
els instead of going tojiaw, and they
used to elope instead of waiting and
watching until they got sick of wait
ing, or giving up and marrying to
suit the old folks.
It wasn’t so ctqrjpus about Miran
da Bates eloping, but the things that
came of fuiray. -- c
You Grandfather Batfes would
not have anything to say to Jeremi
ah Jones .when he asked him whether
or no he could’nt have Miranda
And so she just packed up her bun
dle, and he was to have the carriage
waiting at the gate at twelve o’clock
to carry her off to the parson’s
Well, she was all packed up and
ready in a big cloak and hood, and
was creeping down stairs when she
perceived another person stealing
down before her.
It was her grandmother, old Mrs.
Bates,going out to pick herbs. Some
herbs which folks knew in those
days, wouldn’t do any good as med
icine if they weren’t picked at mid
night.
So that was her idea; but, of
course, Miranda was scared back and
hid behind the door, and old Mrs.
Bates went pottering about looking
out for her herbs, and up drove the
carriage. She didn’t hear it; she
waß deaf as a post; but it so hap
pened Grandfather Bates did, and
up went his window.
“Who is there?” bellowed he, and
Jeremiah Jones, scared to death,
and taking old Mrs. Bates for Mir
anda, jumped out, caught her by
the waist, cramed her into the car
riage and was driven away like
mad.
Miranda saw it all, and so did
Batee. Miranda shrieked, old Bates
bellowed; downstairs he rushed and
met Miranda coming up.
“Who was at the gate?” he yell
ed.
“Ob, grandpa!” screamed Miran
da, “Jeremiah Jones has carried off
grandma.”
Now Mrs. Bates had been very
pretty, and old Mr. Bates had been
very jealous, and it all came back.
He stormed and swore and got his
pistols, and wouldn’t listen to a word
that Miranda said, and mounted
his horse and rod t after the carri
age
Inside it was pitch dark, and old
Mrs. Bates was as deaf as a post, and
thought robbers had carried her
off.
Jeremiah kept her rapped in her
cloak, and called her his sweetest,
and his duck and dove, and all the
time she thought he was threatening
to kill her, and didu’t dare to speak,
only sobbed and cried; and when
they got out on the road apiece, clat
ter, clatter, came a horses heel be
hind them, aDd—
“Stop!” yelled old Grandfather
Bates, “Stop! I demand that la
dy-”
Jeremiah looked out of the win
dow.
“Never” said he.
We’ll see,” cried old Bates and
fired at him.
The ball missed him.
“Drive faster,” said Jeremiah to
the coachman.
Don’t weep Mirranda,” he said.
“Ho shall not take you from me.
Oh, that it was only daylight, that I
might see your face.’’
“I hain’t got any money with me,’’
sobbed the old lady, but fcflU didn’t
hear her.
On they drove faster, and after
them rode the old man, fasltr and
faster, too. At last, on the high r jad,
in a lonely place, with no body near
and the parson’s bouse miles away,
off came one of the carriage wheels,
over went the carriage all on one
side, and there was an end of the
running away. As eoon as he found
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 29. 1878.
there was no help for it, Jeremiah
jumped out of the carriage, shut the
door on poor Gradnmother Bates,
and stood out in the road with a pis
tol in his hand, ready to meet old
Bates. Up came the old gentlemen
more farious than ever, and jumped
down from his horse, and stood fac
ing him with his pistol.
“Yillian!’’cries he, “1 demand that
lady.”
“Sir*” replied Jeremiah, “she is
mine, I respect you, but I will never
yield.”
“Wait a moment. Does she go
with you of her own free will ? Don’t
dare to lie!.
“Yes, sir, of her own free will and
choice,” replied Jeremiah. “Do you
think me a highwayman to carry off
a lady against her wish ?
And now they were yelling so
loudly that even deaf old grandmoth-
Bates, who had managed to get the
window down, heard every word.
Out came her head above the door.
The hood of the cloak had fallen off,
and under it was her cap. I don’t
know what the moon had been do
ing before, but now she shone bright
and clear, and everything as plain
to be seen as at noonday. Out
came the old lady’s head in tli9
moonlight.
“That is a dreadful falsehood,” she
said. “I did not come with him of
my own accord. He picked me up and
carried me off while I was picking
herbs in the garden for the lotion for
your rheumatism, Squire. I’ve been
screaming all the way, and he has
been kissing me, the wretch. To
think this should have happened to
me at my age, when I have been so
properly conducted all my life !’’
“Lord have mercy on us all!” says
Jeremiah; “is that you, Mrs. Bates ?”
He flew to the carriage door and
opened it.
He said to the Squire, “Sir, I am
willing to meet you wherever you
please. You have the right to chal
lenge me. I have insulted you—l
have insulted this lady; but uninten
tionally, sir. I beg ten thousand
pardons. I believed that I had car
ried off your granddaughter, Miss
Miranda, who has promised to be my
wife.’’
Just then up rattled a little gig,
driven by the hired man, with Miran
da in it.
“Oh, thank heaven!” 6he cried,
“no one is killed. Ob, dear grandma
—oh, dear grandpa, forgive me. Jere
miah—Mr. Jones—l trust you have
explained all.”
“Madam, I have,” said Jeremiah,
bowing.
Now it seemed to the young folks
that the end of all things had come,
but it was just the happy turning
point.
The old gentleman liked a joke,
and here was a good one; and the
ifil.d ladffi.yftH xery__jQauch pleased at
oeing mistaken for a young Ilady of
eighteen.
“Husband,” she said, tucking heY
hand under his arm, “we were young
ourselves once, and you know
you would have run off with
me if you could not have had me
otherwise.;’
“So I would, indeed; you were
twice as pretty as Miranda, iu those
days.’’
“Well, perhaps I was,” replied the
old lady. “But now, my dear, to
please me, let Mr. Jones know that
you will consent to his marriage with
Miranda.”
And with that the old gentleman
offered his hand to Jeremiah, and
there was a wedding there before
Christmas day.
Use of Silence.
A pity *hat so few people understand
the full effect of well-tim ed silence!
How eloquent it is in reality! Ac
quiescence, contradicting, difference,
disdain, embarrasment and awe may
all be expressed by saying nothing.
It may be necessary to illustrate this
apparent paradox by a few examples
Should you hear an assertion which
you may deem false, made by some
one of whoso varacity politen3 may
withhold you from openly declaring
your doubt, you denote a difference
of opinion by remaining silent. Are
you receiving a repremand from a
superior ? You mark your respect
by au attentive silence. Are you
compelled to listen to the frivulous
conversation of a fop ? You signify
your opinion of him by treating his
loquacity with silence. Again, how
much domestic strife might have
been prevented, how often might the
quarrel which by mutual aggrava
tion has, perhaps, terminated in
blood-shed, had it been checked in
the commencement by a judicious si
lence ! Those persons only who have
experienced them are aware of the
beneficial effects of that forbearance,
which to the exasperating threat, the
malicious sneer, or the unjustly im
putated culpability, shall never an
swer a wotd. A soft answer turns
away wrath; but sometimes erring
humanity connot give this soft an
swer in moments of irritation; in
such cases, there staads the fortress
of silence, with doors wide open, as
a ref uge of the tired spirit until calm
er moments come. Think of this se
riously you who glory in having “the
last word.”
Our young girls do not understand
the witchery of bright eyes and rosy
lips, but set off their beauty by all the
artificial means in their power, never
reflecting that by so doing they de
stroy their principal charm—that of
innocence. The rounded cheeks, the
bright eyes of a girl in her teens need
but the simplest setting. Rich fabrics
are more for the matron, her dress
gaining in ample fold and graceful
sweep as she puts on the dignity of
years. The seasons teach something
here, if we go to nature for an object
lesson. How different her charm
from the deep, maturing summer,
when the hues are decided, and the
air is loaded with perfume from a
thousand censors. The school girl is
only on the threshold of summer—she
has not crossed it yet. Let her copy
the sweet grace of the spring on her
graduation day, and discard artifici
ality for nature.
Beware of Cold.
There is no greater fallacy than the
opinion held by many, particularly
the young and strong and vigorous,
that winter—especially a sharp,frosty
one, with plenty of snow—is the
most healthy season of the year.
Very few persons seem to realize the
the fact that cold is the condition of
death, and that, in both, warm and
cold climates, it is our unconscious
effort to maintain our bodily heat at
a temperature, of ninety eight de
grees that wears us out. To this
temperature, called “blood heat”
every cubic inch of oxigen that serves
to vitalize our blood must be raised
by our own bodily heat, or life ceases.
Since in cold weather the mainten
ance of a sufficiently elevated bodily
temperature becomes very often a
difficulty too great for our strength,
the advent of a severe winter is real
ly more to be dreaded than the visi
tation of a pestilence.
The saying, “Heat is life—cold is
death,” has a' striking illustration
and confirmation in the reports now
regularly submitted by Dr. Russell
to the Glasgow Sanitary Committee.
The death rate rises and falls with
the regularity of the thermometer.
So many degrees less heat, so many
more deaths, and vice versa In a
recent fortnightly report Mr. Russell
says: “The death rate in the first
week of the fortnight was twenty-one,
and in the second week twenty-five.
The mean temperature in the former
week was 40 8 degrees Farenheit iu
the latter 39.5 degrees.” He attri
butes the low rate of the first week
to the high mean temperature of the
prececding fortnight, which was 47.3
degrees, and adds: “This is a good
illustration of a law which wa fre
quently observe in these reports of
temperatures and death rates —that
a week of low temperature produ
ces a rise in mortality the week fol
lowing.”
In our climate it would probably
be difficult to find a more frequent
cause of serious ailments than taking
cold. Whatever weak place we Lave,
whatever constitutional disorder we
be subject to, cold will surely discov
er. We take cold because our vital
ity is too low to ward off the effects
of the reduced temperature around
us. Asa matter of the first impor
tance, then, to resist cold and the
various derangements consequent,
it is necessary by proper nutrition
to maintain our natural animal heat;
second, to retain this heat by a suffi
cient quantity of clothing; third, to
regulate with care the temperature
of the air we breathe. Contrary to
the opinion current among lovers of
cold weather, a fire in a bedroom in
the winter is cheaper aud better than
a doctor’s bill; for, owing to our in
active condition during sleep, the cir
culation of the vitalized blood is both
danger of talcing cold
cold air is greatly increased. i„
A cold is the beginning of every
thing that is
scious of having caught one feelfc
cold chills creeping up the back, let
him apply a mustard plaster to the
bottom of the spine and lower Apart
of the back at once; and by so doing
he may avert a dangerous illness be
fore it is too late and medical advice
can be procured. It should never
be forgotten that “Heat is life-#old
is death.” I
The Famine in China.
A gentleman in Shanghai writes to
a friend in San Francisco,recently:
The great question which at pres
ent agitates the Flowery Kingdom is
the famine at the North. For lour
years past a part of four of Chma’s
northern provinces has yielded either
a small crop or none at all. A year
ago the suffering was something
dreadful among these poor people,
who are won?e off than slaves. At
that time about $70,000 was raised by
foreign communites at the open ports
and forwarded to disbursing agents,
woo made good use of the money.
This year the famine is still worse.
Over a country that embraces a pop
ulation of some fifteen millionp of
people, absolute destitution prevails.
People are actually eating each
other. Bab ; es are cut up and sold
by the pound. There seems to be no
remedy. The Chinese authorities are
doing something, but it is only a drop
in the bucket. The foreign commu
nity has elected canvassing commit
tees, and the subscriptions will be up
in the thousands. From last years
experience it is estimated that a Jife
can be saved for about $1 50, so&at
all that can be done will be to Save
only a few out of the millions. In the
Central provinc s there is an abun
dance of rice, which is being shipped
to the suffering districts, but it takes
a month to reach them, and it costs
nearly three times the price of the
rice to carry it to ita destination—no
railroads, no canals, not even a car
riage road. Within the past fifteen
years the Chinese government has
spent money enough on fortifications,
ships, improved arms and ammuni
tion, to have built a road from Shan
ghai to Pekin, with branches leading
through the famine districts The
ships are useless; so are the fortifica
tions; they both serve only for an ex
cuse to pay fat salaries to lazy offi
cials. The arms and ammunition are
stored away, rusting so as to be
worthless, and China’s millions are
starving. Chinese officials do not
wish to change the order of things—
why should they ? The merchants
and tradesmen desire it, but they
have very little to say in the matter.
If I am rightly informed, with ail the
government workshops and arsenals,
there has never been an agricultural
tool or implement made. Guns, tor
pedoes, ships, etc., seem to be their
end and aim. The official class grow
richer and richer each year, and the
lower classes poorer and poorer. No
wonder that such numbers are willing
to go to the Pacific coast, where in a
few years, they can earn a life com
petence and lie down and die in their
own land, with the millions taken
from the poor laboring classes in our
own country. What kind of people
is it who regard with cool nonchal
ance their neighbois devouring their
' own children. *
Russia’s Greatness.
Her vast territory contains not less
than 6,750,000 square miles, or more
than one-sixth part of all the land
of the globe. Russia is connected
with the commerce of tha world by
the Baltic sea with Europe and all
countries bordering on the Atlantic;
eastward to Japan, China, the Pacif
ic islands, and the entire western
shores of our own continent. Her
vast territory is traversed with riv
ers, lakes and island seas, through
which the commerce of the outer
world may be transported into the
very heart of the country. A distin
guished writer has said, “It is appa
rent that nothing more is wanting
but the possession of Constantino
ple, and the control of the Dardanel
les, to complete a territorial outline
of the most imposing character that
earth has ever seen in possession of
a single power.”
She now sustains a population of
one hundred millions. In an inter
esting calculation of Sir Achibald Al
ison, in which he rejects two thirds
of Asiatic Russia as unproductive, he
proceeds to show that if Russia in
Europe were peopled as dense as
Germany now is, it would contain
150,000,000 souls; if as dense as
Geeat Britain, the number would be
321,000,000. That portion of Asiat
ic Russia which is capable of culti
vation, if populated as densely as
Great Britain, will sustain a popula
tion of 500,000,000. Thus there is
a sufficient good territory iu Russia
to sustain a population if as densely
settled as Great Britain, of more
than 800,000,000. Her vast forests
and mines will furnish timber for
her ships and iron to bind them to
gether, and fuel for her population
for generations to come. The Mus
covite empire is in the hands of one
dominant race, whose ‘social affini
ties are strong enough to produce
one compact national unity.” Rus
sia’s military and national powers,
her rapidly advancing civilization,
and the immense influence of the
Russian Church in molding the
great empire of the north, present
the spectacle of an empire hardly
equaled by any in ancient or modern
times.
The Spirit Humbug'.
Some of the “unexplained forces
in spiritualism,” as the mediums say,
have been explained in Chicago. One
Watkins, a mind-reader, and one
Huntoon, a cabinet performer, have
come to grief. The former was de
tected by a smart man of Chicago,
who hadn’t enough nonsense in his
nature to be gulled, aud just as soou
as Huntoon learned that a calcium
light had been turned on some of
Watkins’ dark ways he owned up,and
made a clean confession that all his
materializing performances were a
"girttering ft A nd, ifnd pr omiae*T J ‘W
break up his cabinet and retire from
business. •
Huutoon has been the most suc
cessful materializer who ever prac
ticed vain tricks in Chicago, and
many of that city’s prominent char
acters are among his victims and
they must read his confessions with
some interest. Huntoon has no hes
itation in saying that hi3 business
was to humbug the public, which he
found iu a state of great anxiety to
be humbugged; he had a wife and
child, for whose maintenance he was
responsible, and he could see no such
comfortable way of making an honest
living in these hard times as that of
fered in the thrifty business of mate
rializing spirits for the astonishment
of an endless array of fools, whose
money was constantly pouring into
his pockets. He did not like the
bu iness; his wife hourly protested
against it; but he could get no hon
est thing to do that would begin to
bring him an equal income, and he
kept it up in spite of his feelings.
It is useless to comment upon the
various features of this case, or to
hope that the idiotic part of the
community has learned a lessou that
will be useful to it in the future; that
portion rarely learns anything, and
the joyful crowd that goes marching
into the ever-open jaws of humbug
never diminishes.
Turkish Customs.
The Turkish salutation may be,
and is, addressed indifferently to all
men. And this is the way of it.—
When you enter a room you make a
gesture as though to stoop and take
up the hem of the garment of the
person you desire to salute, and you
carry your hand to your lips and
your forehead. This is repeated all
round, and you then sit down. But
once you are seated, the host and all
the other persons, who have again
seated themselves after rising to sa
lute you on your entrance, again in
dividually repeat the salutation to
you, which you individually answer
again. It is this which puzzles the
foreigner, who does not reflect that
we also, when we shake the hande of
each other, say at the same time,
“How de do ?” which is what the
second salutation amounts to. After
this comes the inevitable cigarettes
(for the chipouque or long pipe has
all but disappeared from the smarter
Turkish circles) and coffee. A ser
vant brings in the latter with some
solemnity. He carries a tray (an
other modern innovation) on which
are a number of silver egg-cups, and
standing separately beside them an
equal number of small china cups
without handles, which contain the
coffee, a thimbleful of smoking tawny
concoction, which looks thick and
gritty. You take the coffee cap,
place it in the silver egg cup, remove
both together from the trap, and find
that the coffee itself is of the most
delicate taste and aroma; but you
must not drain the cup, or you will
swallow the whole of the soft coffee
mud which lies at the bottom. The
servant having handed the cups
round, retires backward till the cof
fee is drunk, when he again presents
the tray, on which you place your
egg-cup and then remove the coffee
cup therefrom and put it down sepa
rately. With his tray the servant
then retires, still going backward,
and real conversation begins.
What Washiugttfn Knew.
We don’t like to be irreverent, but
would like to ask, what did our fore
fathers know ? What, for instance,
did George Washington know? He
never saw a steamboat; he never saw
a fast mail train; he never held his
ear to a telephone; he never sat for
his picture in a photograph gallery;
he never received a telegraph dis
patch; he never sighted a Krupp gun;
he never listened to the “fizz” of an
electric pen; he never saw a pretty
girl run a sewing machine, he never
saw a self-propelling engine go down
the street to a fire; he never he ird
of evolution; he never took laughing
gas; he never had a set of store
teeth; he never attended an Inter
national Exposition; he uever knew
Old Probs ;he . But why go on ?
No; when he took an excursion it was
on an oil flat-boat; when he went off
on a train it was a mule train; when
he wanted to talk to a man in Mil
waukee he went there; when he had
his picture taken it was done in pro
file with a piece of black paper and a
pair of shears; when he got the re
turns from the back counties they
were brought iu by a man in an ox
cart; When he took aim at the ene
my he had to trust crooked s barreled
old flint locks; when he wrote it was
with a goose-quill; when he had any
thing to mend his grandmother did
it with a darning needle; when he
went to a fire he stood in line and
passed buckets; when he looked at a
clam ho never dreamed it was any
relation of his; when he had a tooth
pulled he sat down and never left off
yelling; when he got out of teeth he
gummed his victuals; when he want
ed to know anything about the wea
ther he consulted the ground-hog or
the goose-bone. What did such a
man know? Who,was he, anyway?
The Metric System.
It is announced that the Commit
tee on Weights and Measures will
report in favor of adopting the
French metre as the standard of
weights and measures in this coun
try. It is a reform that has long
been needed. The French system
is precise, accurate, uniform in meas
urements of linear dimensions, sur
face or cubic; contents, solid or
liquid. It also measures weights by
the same metrical standard. The ad
vantages of this over feet and inches,
quarts aud gallons, pounds and ounces
is as great as the advantages which the
decimal system of doliars and cents
has over pouuds, shillings and pence.
The United States coast survey has
foun i the adoption of the metre al
most a necessity, and all the calcula
tions of geodetic surveys are simpli
fiedby ,'ts uie. There would be, of
course, a considerable time required
to bring the system into general use.
People would for a long time go. on
aflff" ®ches, quarts,
acres, and pounds and ouiices, just
as they btill speak of shillings, six
pences, levies aud fourpence-ha’pen
nies in preference to dimes; but they
would gradually accustom themselves
to the new standards. Even in
France, where the metre has long
been established, tho people still oc
casionally use colloquially the names
of the old measures. But the adop
tion in this country of the metre will
be a long step toward the general ac
ceptance of an international standard
of weights and measures which would
be of immense convenience to all
sorts of commercial transactions. It
is to be hoped that Congress will
give to the report of the committee
a most favorable consideration.—
Baltimore Gazette.
Official returns state that the Rus
sian losses in killed and wounded
during the late war amounted to 89,-
304 officers and men. Among these
were ten Generals killed and eleven
wounded. One Prince of the impe
rial family and thirty-four members
of the higher nobility of Russia fell
on the field of battle. Of the woun
ded, 36,824 are already perfectly re
covered, and 10,000 more will be
able to leave the hospitals during
the next few weeks. The proportion
of killed and wounded to the total
number engaged was very large, one
out of every six men who went into
action being either injured or left
dead on the field of battle. In the
great actions of the late Franco-Ger
man war the proportion of killed and
wounded to men engaged was very
nearly the same, being one-sixth in
the battles of Worth and Spicheren,
and one eighth in the battle of Mar -
la-Tour. The returns also show that
one out of every eleven wounded
men received into the Russian hos
pitals died from the effects of the in
juries received. During the whole
campaign only two men were pun
ished with death; one for the crime
of desertion, the other for robbery,
accompanied with violence. On the
other hand, 20,000 rewards were giv
en in the form of decorations promo
tions or awarded of money, the
Eighth Corps, which so long held
and defended the Shipka Pass, re
ceiving the greatest proportion.
One million dollars in gold weighs
3,685 5-7 pounds avoirdupois; 1,000-
000 trade dollars weighs 60,000; sl,-
000,000 of grains weighs 58,928
4-7; $1,000,000 in fractional. coins
weighs 55,114 n-7; $1,000,000 in five
cent nickels weighs 220,457 1-7; in
three cent nickels it weighs 142,857
1-7; in one cent pieces it 685,714 2-7.
A coinage of 4,000,000 of the new
silver dollars per month would
amount in a year to 2,828,571 3-7
pounds, or over tons, and if
the pieces were laid side by side they
would form a continuous string 1,-
136 J miles long.
The following decission in a close
ly contested debate over the rival
powers of the pen and sword was ar
rived at in a Louisville literary soci
ety the other day: “De committee
decide dat de swoard has de most
pints and de best backin,’ and dat
de pen is de most beneficial, an, dat
de whole ting is about a stan’-off.”
We mount to Heaven mostly on
the ruins of our cherished schemes,
1 finding our failures were successes.
The Loneliness of the Sea.
One who has never traveled upon
the ocean expects to liml it somewhat
thickly populated. He thinks of the
vast traffic and travel that goes over
the waters, and he is ready to im
agine that the great deep is alive
with the hurrying to aud fro of na
tions. He reads of lands whose com
merce whitens every sea, and he is
ready to think that the ocean itself is
as full of sails a* the harbor of some
mighty metropolis. But he finds his
mistake. As he leaves the land, the
ships begin to disappear; as he goes
on his way they soon all vanish, and
there is nothing about him but the
blue sea and the bended sky. Some
times he may meet or overtake a soli
tary ship through the day, but then,
again, there will be many days when
not a single sail will be seen. There
are spaces measured by thousands of
miles over which no ship has ever
passed. The idea of a nation’s com
merce whitening every sei is the
wildest fancy, if all the ships ever
built were brought together in a eiu
gle fleet, they would whiten but a
hand’s-breadth of the ocean. The
space, therefore, that min aud his
works occupy on the s -a is so small
in its extent that the hold on it by its
power is slight and superficial. Both
together are as nothing. The ocean
covers three-fourths of the surface of
the globe, and by far the greater por
tion of this vast expanse is, aud has
ever been, entirely free from mau’-
presence.
Russian Progress Eastward.
The New York Times thinks the
Turk is getting to be of the opinion
that Russia is evidently to be the
great power in Asia, aud that the
Sultan will be his dependaut and ally.
This new arrangement, if formed,
will aflect all Asia. Indeed, it is al
ready said to have reached Indiarin
its influence. Shir Ali, the Emir of
Afghanistan, is reported to have re
cently held an audience with the
Turkish ambassador, iu which the
latter urged the probability of pow
erful assistance by the British gov
ernment against the attacks of the
Czar. The Emir, however, is re
ported to have replied that the Brit
ish government was more ready with
promises than deeds, and that she
would have aided earlier if she had
intended to aid at all. He gave the
impression that in the opinion of
Orientals the great power of Asia was
the one which had so long been
steadily advancing toward the East.
This feeling is said to be so strong
that Afghanistan is believed to be al
ready won over to the Russian side
Russian agents are said to be tra
versing India, taking sketches of for
tresses, and preparing plans for fu
ture invasion. The Times is of the
opinion that Russia is now the great
po\se* of the East, and that “when
at length she wins Constantinople, as
she is sure to do, she will be the in
termediate power between Asia and
Europe.” Wherever she extends her
territory she will substitute military
order and law for barbarism and dis
order. Central Asia will b3 civilized
by her.
Wliat a Dying Child Saw.
In the death of little Charlie Thor
ton, noticed elsewhere, which oc
curred near this place last Friday,
was presented a most beautiful phe
nomenon which may often transpire,
but is seldom so impressively exhibi
ted to mortal beings The little boy,
only four years old, had been a crip
ple from infancy, but was a bright
child mentally though very illiterate.
He was violently ill of croup, and as
the hour of death drew near, the
little sufferer seemed to forget his
pain and was the spectator of a
grand and beautiful panoramic vis
ion behind the veil of death. He
was in perfect consciousness of all
surroundings, and talked in a per
fectly composed manner to his moth
er and father. He told them that a
beautiful being resembling a bird,
had come with a message to him,
and in a moment he declared that a
large number of strangely beautiful
children resembling “birds,” were at
his bed, and were beckoning to him
to come to them. He begged his
mother who held him in her arms to
take him to the little bed, that he
might go away with his visionary
visitors. His mother complied with
the request, and as soon as she had
laid him down, he bade his parents
“good-bye,” telliug them he was go
ing away, at that moment expired
with a bright smile upon his face.—
Alexandria (Fa,) Senlind.
The diamonds of South Africa are
found over many hundred square
miles of territory.?! They are mostly
imbedded in ferruginous gravel, and
are found at depths varying from two
to twenty feet below the surface, the
usual depth being from two to six
feet. In working the mines a claim
or piece of ground thirty feet square
is occupied by two diggers, assisted
by their black servants. They re
move the loose blocks of stone, take
up the graval, sift it thoroughly in a
sieve rocked by a cradle. When the
pebbles have thus been separated
from the sand, they are cleaned and
placed upon the sorting table, to be
carefully examined for the diamonds
that may be among them.
A caucus of the committee of thir
teen, appointed by the recent House
Democratic caucus, was held Tues
day night, to discuss Banning’s army
bill, with a view to sustaining it as a
party measure in the House. The
committee agreed to support the bill
in substantially the form in which it
was introduced by Banning. As
agreed upon, it fixes the pay of the
General of the army at $12,000 per
year instead of SIB,OOO, as at pres
ent; the Lieutenant-General at SB,-
000; Major-Generals, $6,000; Briga
dier-Generals, $5,000; Colonels. $3,-
500; Lieutenant-Colonels, $3,0(56;
Major, $2,600; and Captains, $2,000.
The aggregate saving effected by the
bill is about $1,400,000.
A baby iz a necessity, but twins al
wuss did seem to me to be ova
spekulative natur. —Josh Billings.
A little boy in Pike couu ! y fell
down with an fix the other day, am
putating his wrist.
It is a iid that a now and improved
“edition” of the Moll’ett punch regis
ters the names of all its patrons.
The idea is perfectly horxible !
The depreciated Turkish paper
money is valued at $2 00 agaiut $1 00
gold; that of Russia at $100; of Aus
tiia, $119; aud of Italy, slll.
NO. 13.
No less than 247 Indians have
bittin the dust in frontier wars dur
ing the last year. And each bite
cost the United .States $11,478 24.
The married ladies of a western
city have formed a “Come-home-hus
band Club.” It is about four feet
long, and has a brush on the end of
it.
Eccentric persons who propose to
make their wills are advised by the
New York World to leave their mon
ey direct to the Bar Association to
save trouble.
Sitting Bull’s forces are reported
to aggregate seven thousand lighting
men. They will not fight unless their
path is crossed, but the situation is
regarded as critical.
A Colorado man who was caught
in a snow-shd9 and carried a mile
and a half, likens the sensation to a
man being shot from a cannon along
with a barrel of flour.
Tyudale, the translator of the En
glish B.ble, once said: “Banish mo
to the poore t corner of the world, if
you wiil, but let me teach little chil
dren, and preach the gospel.”
Last year Mr. Mills a New York
broker, made a European trip iu his
own yacht. This year he is wonder
ing where he cm get his breakfast.—
He spetu'ated too much.
Truth m ets with but little favor
on her first appearance, aud although
her subsequent advance may be sure,
and her final success certain yet in
the interim how tardy is her pace.
“Why don’t when they
are alone ?” asks Dr. Talmago. Did
Dr. Talmage ever lie around the
fence corners and see a farmer pick
up a bumble-bee? If so what did
that farmer say?
Many a true heart that would have
come back like a dove to the ark,
after its first transgression, ha3
been frightened beyond recall by
the savage charity of an unforgiving
spirit.
The Peabody educational fund, de
voted to educational purposes in the
South, which in 1870 yielded au in
come of SIOO,OOO has produced only
$60,000 for 1877, and promises a yet
smaller sum for 1878. Depreciation
of real estate i3 the cause.
When you see a woman balanc
ing herself on one foot kicking the
other wildly out behind her, aud
skilfully swoop up in her hand a fan
tail train, don’t be alarmed; she isnt
going to have a fit—she is about to
cross a twelve-inch gutter.
The Farmers’ Club of western
Massachusetts, excited by recent
cases of hydrophobia, have resolved
that a tax of S3O a year ought to be
imposed on the owner of every dog,
and bonds exacted for the payment
of possible damages. ,
The Turks have sacked several
Grecian villages and massacred all
the inhabitants except those who es
caped to the mountains. As these
are covered with snow, unless relief
is sent the refugees they must perish
of cold and hunger.
A school boy gave his teacher this
illustrative definition of “responsibili
ty.’’ “Boys has two buttons for
their s’penders so’s to keep their
pants up. When one button comes
off, why there’s a deal of responsibili
ty resting on the other button.”
Judge Underwood denies that he
acted improperly at the execution of
Gus Johnson, the Floyd county mur
derer. He admits giving the con
demned man a drink o? whisky while
the latter was iu the wagon going to
the gallows, bat did it to prevent a
scene.
A man scared to death in Berry
ville, Mo. He was passing a grave
yard at midnight, when two men
sprang from behind a monument and
shouted at him. Ha ran home and
went to bed, but was so nervous that
he could not sleep, and before morn
ing he-died in convulsions.
Mr. Pillgildor went home the oth
er night consideraby intoxicated and
afflicted with double vision. He sat
for some time with his sleepy gaze
riveted on Mrs. Pillgilder and then
quietly remarked: “Well (hie) I hope
t’holler ’f you two old gals don’t look
enuff alike to be (hie; twins !”
Every time a Kentucky politician
visits Chicago after the adoption of
the bell-punch, chink will go fifty
cents into the city strong box. — Chi
cago Inter Ocean. And then the Chi
cago politician will walk up to the
strong box, and chink will come that
fifty cents out again. —Courier Jour
nal.
The Executive Mansion at Frank
fort, Ky., is a rickety old edifice,
built in 1808, and two of the work
men engaged in i!s construction,
Metcalf aud Letcher, afterward occu
pied it as Governors, the former
working on the stone masonry, the
other carrying mortar in a hod for
the bricklayers.
According to anew law in C >n
uecticut divorces can henceforth only
be granted by reason of adultery,
fraudulent contract, wilful desertion
for three years, seven years’ absence
and not heard from, habitual iutem
perence, intolerable cruelty, and im
prisonment for inf imous crime iu the
State prison.
Of the quota of twenty young men
sent out by the Cherokee Nation to
be educated, four are at the Park
High School, Tuskegee, Ala. One is
a full-blooded Indian; the others are
of mixed blood. Their expenses are
paid by the United States, by war
rants drawn directly on the United
States Sub-Treasury.
There have been fifty-six Atlan iu
steamers lost during the past thi.- v
seven years in which 4,430 person
perished. Nine vessels were n
heard from after leaving port, four
were burned, thirty wrecked, five
lost through collision with other ves
sels and two by collision with ice
bergs, two foundered, and two were
lost in f >g. Of nationalities, forty
two were British, five American, four
French, four German, one Belgian.