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‘The Gainesville Eagle* Pub'ished Every Fiiday Morning -p jn ICE -—' l |>Htuirn In Candler Hall Building, Northwest Corner of Public Square. tW The Official Organ of Hall, Bauks, 'White, Towns, Union and Dawson counties, and the city of Gainesville. H r a large general circula lon in twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and two counties in Western North Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION. Owe Yeah s2,< O Six Months $1(0. Thbee Months...™ 5Cc. IN ADVANCE, DELIVERED BY CABBIEK OB PBEPAID BY MAII. All papers are stopped at the expiration of the time paid for without further notice. Mail sub scribers will please observe the dates on their wrapper*. Persons wishing the paper will have their orders dromptly attended to by remmitiing the amount for the time desired. ADVERTISING. SEVEN WOBDB MASK A LINE. Ordinary advertisement*, per Nonpareil line, 10 cents. Legal Official Auction and Amusement advertise meats and Special Notices, per. Nonpa reil line, IS cents. Reeding notices per line, Nonpareil type 15 cent! Local notices, per line, Brevier type, 15 cents. A discount made on advertisements continued for longer than one week. REMITTANCES For subscriptions or advertising can be made by Post Office order, Registered Letter or Express, at our risk. All letters should be addressee J. E. REDWINE, Gainesville, Ga. REVISED RATES For Legal’ Advertising In tlie Eagle. From, and including this date, the .rates of legal advertising in the Eagle will be as follows : Sheriff’s sales for each levy of 1 Inch $2 50. Kach additional Inch or less •' 00. Mortgage sales (do days) one inch 5 00. Each additional inch or less :j 00. Adm'r’a, ExVs.Guard’n’a sales, 4 weeks, 1 inch 4 00 Each additional inch 2 60 Notice tp debtors and creditors 4 00. Oitat’a for let’rs of adm’n or guard’ns’p (4 wk) 4 00. Leave to sell roal estate 4 00 Lat'rs of dism’u of adm’n or guard’n (it iuc. oo. Eatray notices 4 00. Citations (unrepresented estates) 4 00. Rule nisi in divorce cases 0 00. Homestead Exemption, 2 weeks, 2 00. Rule Nlal to foreclose, monthly 4 mos., per in... 4 00: Notice* of Ordinaries calling attention of admin, latrators, executors and guardians to making their annual returns; and of Sheriffs in regard to provis ions sections 3040, of the Code, published fuse for the Sheriffs pus Ordinaries who patronize the Xaolh. 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.