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UKNE RA Is 1)1 K ECTO It V.
JUDICIARY.
Hun. George D. Rice, Judge 8. 0. Western Circuit.
A. L. Mitchell, Solicitor, Athens, Ga.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
J. B. M. Winburu, Ordinary; John L. Gaines,
Sheriff; J. F. Duckett, Deputy Sheriff; J. J. May lie,
Clerk Superior Ooun; W 8. Pickrell, Deputy (Her
Superior Court ; N. B. Clark, Tax Collector ; -I It.
H. Luck, Tax Receiver; Gideon Harrison, Sur
veyor ; Edward Lowry, Coroner ; R. 0. Young,
Treasurer.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Dr. 11. 3. 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, Trreasurer; T.
N.Haute, Marshal; ilvury Perry, City Attorney.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Puesbvtkiuan Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland.
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and
night, except the second Sabbath, bu day School,
at Va. tn. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4
o'clock.
Mktuodikt Church—Rev. W. W. Wadsworth. Pas
tor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night.
Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes
day night.
Baptist Ohuboh Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor.
Preaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday
School atw a. in Prayer uieetiug Thursday evening
at 4 o'clock.
GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
J. B. Estes, President; Henry Perry, Librarian.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A. M. Jackson, President; R. C. Maddox, Vice
President; W. B. Clements, Secretary.
Regular services every Sabbath at one
of the Churches O itage prayer mooting! every
ue,lay night in “Old Town," uud Friday night
near the depot
FRATERNAL RECORD.
Flowkrv Buancu Lodge No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS.,
lueets every Monday night, Joel Lasetku, N. G.
ii. F. Htkdham, Sec.
ALi.nohany Royal Arch Chapter meets 011 the
Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings 111 each
month.
tl. S. Bradley, Sec'y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P.
Gainesville Loduk, No. 219, A.-. F.-. M.\,
meets >u the First a ml Third Tuesday evening in
the mouth
It. Palmouk, Sec’y. R. E Green, W. M.
Air-Link Lodob, No. 64 ,1. O. O. JF., meets
everf Friday evening.
0. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Harrison, N. (J.
GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE.
Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlan
ta and Charlotte Air Line Railroad, the following
will tee the schedule from date:
MMall train No. 1, going east, leaves 7 :47 p. hi.
Mail for Ibis train closes at." 7:00 ••
Mail train No. 2, going east, leaves 8:35 a. 111.
| No mail by this train.
Mail train No. 1‘ going west, leaves 6:51 a. in.
Mail for tli s train closes at 9:30 p. 111.
Mall train No. 2, going west, le .Vos... .9:06 p. 111.
Mail for this train closes at 7.30 “
Office hours from 7 a. in. to 5:30 p 111.
General delivery open on Sundays from 8)4 to 9'..
Departure of mails from this office:
Dahlouega and Gilmer county, daily 814 a. 111
Dahlouega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday. .. Ba. m
Jetfersou A Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday 7 a. in
Cleveland, White, Union, Towns anil llayes
villo, N. C-, Tuesdays and Fridays 7 a. m
Dawson vllle and Dawson county, Saturday Ba. hi
Horner, Batiks couuty, Saturday 1 p. m
Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday.. 1 p.m
M. R. ARCHER, P.M.
Atlanta and Charlotte
A IK-LIN K,
Passenger Trains will run us follows on and
after
SUNDAY, JUNK t>, IS7S.
GOING EAST.
Arrive at Gainesville 4:55 p. m.
Leave Gainesville 4:5(i p. m.
GOING WEST.
Arrive at Gainesville 9:54 a. in.
Leave Gainesville 9:55 a. in.
Local Freight auil Accommodation
Train.
GOING EAST.
Ariive at Gainesville 11:50 a. m.
Leave Gainesville 12:17 p. in.
GOING WEST.
Arrive at Gainesville 11:21 a. in.
Leave Gainesville 11:50 a. m.
Close connection at Atlanta for all points
West, and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. Foreacre, General M mager
W. J. Houston, Gen. P. A T. A’gt.
Northeastern Railroad of Georgia.
TUMI IE TABLE.
Taking effect Monday, June 10, 1878. All
traius run daily except Suuday.
Tit AIN NO. 1.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. I LEAVE.
1 A. M.
Athens I 7 00
Center 7 211 722
Nicholson... 7 30[ 739
Harmony Grove 759 807
Maysville 827 832
Gillsville 849 850
Lula 9 15
TKAUX NO. ti.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE.
P. M
Lula 5 25
Gillsville | 542 i 545
Alaysville 602 008
Harmony Grove tl 30 ti 40
Nicholson 701 707
Center 722 725
Athens j 7 45|
Dropsy Cured.
1 will guarantee a cure iu eveiy variety
and term of Dropsy, after examining pa
tianta. A. J. Shaffer, M. D., Gainesville.
The Gainesville Eagle.
VOL. XII.
CONSTANCY.
Never to 1 ee then, or tliv voice to heur,
lo touch thy hand or speak thy name —
ah, never !
Io he content to know that thou art near,
And love thee ever !
With vacant eager arms that long for thee -
Arms t l.at may fold thy worshipped form
ah, never !
To know these yearning arms must vacant
be,
Yet love thee ever !
Never to know the sweetness of those tears,
m Tears not embittered by a hopeless never,
hears of despair to shed through joyless
years
And love thee ever !
Never to see thee, or thy voice to hear,
To touch thy Land, or speak thy name—
ah, never !
But with a love mere tender still, and dear,
To love thee ever !
The Organized Democracy.
The Democratic party redeemed
the State of Georgia. This assertion
needs no demonstration to prove its
correctness. It is a proposition so
apparent and so fully recognized that
even a fool will not question its ac
curacy. The State was redeemed by
and through the instrumentality of
the orgenized Democracy. The
good people exf Georgia would have
been powerless to have worked out
their political salvation unless they
formed themselves into an organiza
tion, representing the great princi
ples of the Democratic party. Every
couuty and every district in the State
was thoroughly organized. This
was not the result of a few months
work. It wts the result of several
years’ hard label’. Without party
organization tho people would not
have been able to have driven the
Radical par y from power. The or
ganized Democracy has accomplished
a great and glorious work in Geor
gia. Wo enjoy tho fruits of the vie
tory. We have the blessings of good
government. The people of every
class and condition are protected in
all their rights. Wo have an honest
government, and tho laws are impar
tially and faithfully administered.
All tho peoplo—white and black
enjoy the blessings of libei’ty, and
they are fully protected in all their
rights of person and property.—
Tbt pe are the fruits of Democratic
rule—these are the results achieved
by the organized Democracy. The
power of the honest people was in
voked and expressed at the polls by
the instrumentality of couuty, dis
trict and .State Conventions. The
people were united, the supreme ef
fort was made and the State was re
deemed as a necessary consequence
of the thorough and complete or
ganization of the Democratic party.
Conventions are as necessary for
the preservation of the party in the
Districts as in the State. If you
abolish tho Convention system in
the Districts, then why tho necessi
ty, or rather the consistency in call
ing a Convention to nominate a can
didate for Governor ?
We notice a desire upon the part
of many aspiring politicians in dif
ferent parts of the State to cut loose
from the organized Democracy and
run upon the hybrid or independent
platform. These men wear their
Democracy loosely. They wore it
loosely in 18(58; and many of them
found it convenient to remain as si
lent as the sphinx during tho years
in which the Radicals remained in
power, and by their silent acquies
cence gave aid and encouragement
to our enemies. These men did
very little toward redeeming the
State. They did not by word or
deed aid in tho victory. Whilst oth
ers were nobly bearing the heat and
burden of the contest, these indepen
dent Democrats sulked in their
homes and saw no hope in the future
of the State, or of the country. Lib
erty was dead; there was no resur
rection morn for it. Republican
government was no more, and a
military dictatorship was to rise
upons its ruins. In a word, the
whole country was lost. These cra
ven cries deterred not tho people.
They frightened not the Democracy.
Tho sunshine of victory perched
upon its banners, and these men
who say no ray of hope before for
the success of the party, came out
from their hiding places, and placed
themselves in the van of the victori
ous column. They were crowned
with the laurel wreaths and received
political preferment at the hands of
that grand party which they did so
little to lead on to victory.
Has the time come —will it over
come in the history of this country—
when the people who claim to be
Democrats can afford to abolish Con
ventions? What constitutes party?
Does the mere ipse dixit of one man
constitute a political rule of conduct
fer the people? If that day does
come, when one man can defy the
Democratic party, then surely it is
and it ought to be dead. The doc
trine of “I am the State,’’ “I am tlm
Democratic Party,” will never be
submitted to by the people of Geor
gia. The Democratic people speak
through the Democratic party, and
the Democratic party speaks through
its regularly constituted Conventions,
whether said Conventions, be called
for the consideration of matters per
taining to county, district, State or
Federal political affairs. Democrat
ic Conventions, fairly and honestly
constituted, are the only authorized
bodies to speak authoritatively for
the Democratic people of this coun
try. No one man has this authority,
and when any one man arrogates
this power and says ‘‘l am the l’ar
tj’, lam even the greater than the
Party, he should be made to under
stand that he has made a mistake.
No man is higher than the party
which has given him office. Some
thing is clue to party allegiance
Party supremacy is above or ought
to be above the political dogmatism
of any individual member of the
party. — Chronicle and Constitutionalist
Ilev. O. 13. Fiothingham thinks
there are no classes and no caste dis
tinction in the country. Just let him
put ou a last year’s winter suit and a
straw hat and ask the hotel clerk to
ivt him have a room ou the parlor
floor, that’s all. He will learn some
thing about the infinity of distance
that never occurred to him before.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 28. 1878.
T he l'liotiogrupli.
That very remarkable instrument,
the phonograph, was exhibited yes
terday altemoon to the members of
the p-iess and a few others at the
Telephone exchange, 417 Olive Btreet.
Mr. Mason of this city brought from
the East a day or two ago one of the
machines, and both of these were
operated yesterday, Mr. Mason him
self officiating at one of the ma
chines and Mr. Durant of the Dis
trict Telegraph company at the oth
er.
The phonograph, marvel though it
be, is not imposing in appearance.
There is a cylinder of iron, which is
turned by a small crank. A thread
cut upon the crank causes the cylin
der to move slowly to the right or
left, corresponding with the direction
in which the crank is turned. Upon
the cylinder itself a thread is also
cut. Adjusted so that it presses
close to tne cylinder, is a mouth-piece
similar in appearance to that of the
telephone, already a tolerably famil
iar object to tbe public. The mouth
piece of the phonograph differs some
what, however, from that of the
telephone in its construction.—
Speaking iuto it the tones of the
voice agitate a diaphragm from
which projects a short needle. The
needle is close to the cylinder.—
When, therefore, the diaphragm is
moved by the voice, the needle pro
jecting out suddenly with each note
of the voice comes in actual contact
with the cylinder. This is the tele
phone. To operate the machine a
sheet of tinfoil is first pasted closely
around the Cylinder. Then the
crank is turned wbilo the voice or
whatever sound is to bo reproduced
is made in tbe mouthpiece. The
needle, following the threads in the
cylinder, dots its way rapidly over
the tin-foil, leaving a track as it
goes. Then the machine is reversed,
a funnel, merely to increase tho
sound, is inserted in the mouthpiece
and tho crank is turned again. The
needle follows in the track it has al
ready made, tho same movement is
given tho diaphragm as it received
when the voice acted upon it, and
thore issues from the funnel tho voice
again. Tho machine talks.
Adjusting the tinfoil carefully and
then speaking into tho mouthpiece
as he turned the crank, Mr. Mason
remarked confidentially to the pho
nograph: “ ‘Now is the winter of our
discontent made glorious summer by
this son of York,’ ha, ha, ha!’’the
terminating laugh being something
astonishing. Then he inserted the
funnel and turned the crank. A
voice bearing no resemblance to that
of Mr. Mason, but distinct enough,
at once shrieked from the lunuel:
“Now is the winter of our discontent
made glorious summer by this sou
of York,” and then followed a laugh
which for pure diabolism could not
be surpassed. A laugh as repro
duced by the phonograph is some
thing weird and Mepaistophilean, a
wehr-wolf of a laugh, to give a baby
spasms or make an iinagintive per
son shudder.
Other experiments followed upon
the phonograph operated by Mrs.
Mason and that of Mr. Durant. All
manner of proper things were said
and repeated. A bugler played a
tane or two in the mouthpiece and
the machine gave the airs again,
though scarcely so well defined as
when first played. One gentleman
whistled iu the instrument and it
reproduced the whistle rather faint
ly. It did not appear to be afted as
a whistler. Another sang a distress
ing legend, in which “Modoc” and
“Big Injun” figured prominently,
and the song was repeated. The ex
periments continued for an hour or
two.
The phonograph exceeded the ex
pectations of some in what it did and
fell short of the hopes of others. As
yet the phonograph is simply a mar
vellous discovery the results of which
have not been fully utilized. The
experiments yesterday showed that
the thing was a wonder, the presen
tation of which at its best was not
always secured. To obtain a dis
tinct enunciation from the instru
ment it was necessary that it should
be spoken into iu the clearest of
tones and that wheu the sound was
reproduced the crank should be
turned with the same speed as wheu
the instrument was receiving its les
son. To accomplish this perfectly
was a practical impossibility. Iu
phouogr iphs wich have been sent to
the Paris exposition, the revolutions
of the cylinder are regulated by
clock-work, which must add greatly
to accuracy in the reproduction of
sounds. As regards the loudness of
the sound giveu by the phonograph,
it could be heard throughout a tol
erably large hall. The main difficul
ty is iu securing clearness of enun
ciation, and the means for this end
will undoubtedly be found in time,
as also the means for increasing the
volume of sound. Some of the de
fects can be very easily remedied.
The cylinders upon which the tinfoil
is placed are of cast-iron, and the
thread is so imperfect that breaks
occur and the tinfoil is occasionally
torn by the needle. Upon cylinders
of gun metal or brass, perfectly
threaded and polished, the needle
would work better and its indenta
tions reproduce the tones of the voice
more perfectly. The means for mak
ing the rate of speed iu the cylinder’s
revolutions invariable are also sim
ple.
To find fault with the phonograph,
though, is ungracious. It is the
great discovery of the day, as won
derful iu what it does as has been
claimed. Had Mr. Edison lived long
enough ago he would have been
burned as they burned witches. As
it is, he will probably live to perfect
his discoveries, than which none have
been more wonderful.
The Democrats of Maine talk much
Democratic common sense ou the
question of the investigation into the
Presidential election frauds of 187fi.
declaring that tho inquiry must be
pressed till the truth is obtaiued, and
that all persons found .guilty of com
plicity in those frauds must be pun
ished.
The Aristocracy of Crime.
The times aro sadly out of joint of
late as regards those who have bro
ken the laws. There was a day when
punishment followed swiftly upon the
heels of transgression and was meted
out to all by the same measure; whey
prison cells and iron bars fulfilled
their intention; when the sentence
was carried out both iu the letter
and tbe spirit, and did not mean lux
ury and ease and pomp, and almost
freedom, if the guilty one had the
money to purchase indulgence; when
justice was more than a mere shadow
of a name, and the wisdom (?) of the
bar and looseness of legislation, did
not give tbe widest latitude for delay
and evasion and escape when the
masses of ruankiud did not look upon
the great criminal as a demi-god, and
the one who pilfered titles as a mis
erable wretch for whom nothing was
bad encugh.
There were severely just men in
other days who would have no com
merce with vice come in what shape
it might. The law was to them
something more than a dead letter
upon tne statute book; something
more thau a medium for the exercise
of legal chicanery and judicial wit;
something more thau a decree to be
avoided if posssible and tortured to
a different interpretation to fit the
case of the rich and poor. The guil
ty must suffer alike. That was how
they read and understood the mat
ter.
There was not to beany discrim
ination in crime, save that the greater
the moral turpitude the greater
and more indexible the doom. Pity,
if at all. was with the poor wretch
who stole a loaf to keep his wife
and little ones from starving, not
with him who robbed and beg
gared thousands, and Haunted his
shame iu purple and line linen. The
enormity of the transgression was
the basis for the sentence; the higher
the position tho more the downfall,
and the will of the majority was not
lightly to be set aside by tbe ipse
dixit of the few, or the cause of jus
tice to bo safely tampered with.—
Bribery was a thing unknown, and
a resort to it would have been dan
gerous. There was a severe moral
rectitude that frowned down such a
course, and prison bolts and bars
wore not turned back with oiled
smoothness by a golden key, no mat
ter how massive.
But one by one errors crept in un
til the entire fabric was changed.
Prison bars became as cobwebs; pris
on walls were bung with silken cur
tains, coarse prison fare was improv
ed to a luxurious cuisine, to be eaten
from costly dishes and washed down
with rosy wine; the bread and water
was a dream of past barbaric days,
and the straw, changed by the touch
of a Midas’ wand, into the softest of
down, and spring mattresses and all
other sybarite spells to induce slum
ber. Gold exorcised tbe demon of
punishment; the narrow cell widened
iuio a parlor, solitude btcarno peopled
with friends, tho prison but an emp
ty name, and justice was beaten back
until her scales became an unmeaning
emblem.
True, trilling crimes are punished
as of yore. Poverty is dealt just as
hardly with, and for it tho law has
not changed a single iota, save it
may have grown more unrelenting.
Not so with tho one who‘approbates,
(stealing is an obselete term, entirely
too harsh a one for the aristocracy
iu crime!) hundreds of thousands
and causes the trusting poor of a
city to famish. The taking of a large
amount is looked on as something al
most worthy of praise. The one who
bankrupts a bank or insurance com
pany or any large enterprise can
bold his head high; has the requisite
to employ the best legal talent; can
dazzle the eyes of the judge, can find
some loophole to creep out of and
live in luxury the remainder of his
days; car. clothe his wife and daugh
ters in silk and satins and laces and
diamonds; can ride in his carriage;
keep his box at tho opera; be courted
by society and fawned upon by tbe
mammon worshipping age.
But for the pauper criminal—away
with him to the prison and hard la
bor and coarse and scanty food.
Truly the aristocracy of crime is
great and to the law it is the richest
of all, palaces.’
Ilow Indians Hunt Hulfaln.
The commandant of a post gener
ally gives the Indians under his con
trol permission to go on a buffalo
hunt about twice a year. A party of
from two hundred to three huudred
are allowed to go out at once, and
may be out from thirty to ninety
days, beiug during that time accom
panied by two or three soldiers from
the garrison. The party is divided
and the herd is surreunded, the cir
cuit being almost a half a mile in di
ameter. When about half way
around the signal is giveu to charge,
and the bucks commence to ply their
arrows. The excited buffaloes ruu
backward tmd forward, uutil proba
bly one-fifth of them are killed, when
tho hunt is temporarily over, at
least.
The squaws have, in the mean
time, come along and picked up
their husband’s clothing, and follow
after to complete the work of the
chase. The buck, having shot his
buffalo, rushes forward to pass the
animal over so that ho will not fall
on the side which the arrow has
pierced and break it. He cuts the
arrow out of its place, puts its back
iu bis quiver, and then marks the
bufi'alo with his peculiar brand, which
may be cut iu the nostril, in the ear,
thigh or some other yart of the body.
Here again, then, the squaw gets her
onerous share of the working. She
distinguishes the animal her buck
has slain, skins it, cuts the meat
away from the bones in the most
convenient and hurried manner, and
packs it to where the bucks have
already made a permanent camp,
in the vicinity of the nearest wa
ter.
It is the confession of a widower,
who has been thrice married, that
the first wife cures a man’s romance,
the second teaches humility, and the
third makes him a philosopher.
Georgia in Paris.
The correspondent of the Balti
more Sun has the following upon
Georgia as represented at the great
Exposition:
“GEORGIA, PROUD GEORGIA.”
Tbe early relations of Georgia with
trading Europe when a corrupt King
and no less corrupt land company
imposed upon her fertile domain, are
not unknown either in France or En
gland. But a few days ago an intel
ligent French banker showed me old
parchment deeds liberally adorned
w.th immense royal beeswax seals
and carrying many coupons or sec
tional warrant grants to land in
Georgia, sold and resold here in
days when the savannahs were sought
by the Hugenots of France and the
burly loyalists of Briton. These land
grants have been the bete noir of titles
iu Georgia, and served to reflect on
the unquestionably good titles. Now,
by the intelligence afforded by the
pre'-s more than by the Legislature
of Georgia, her land titles proparly
understood. Her rich resources of
minerals, timber and agriculture, to
say nothing of her streams and water
for manufacturing, are the topics tbe
French and Euglish take no small in
terest in. Tbe coming week a lec
ture partly embracing the value of
Georgia’s kaolin alone for Ceramic
and China industries, will be deliv
eied here before a manufacturing
scientific body, and I hope to be
present.
Tbe woods exhibited here from
Georgia are very attractive, and may
yet be the inducement to anew class
of immigrants and industry. Tbe
grain, seeds and fruit industries of
Georgia are very important subjects
at home aud abroad. Her wheat of
sixty-eight pounds to the bushel and
some six feet high in stalk, her cot
ton, her tobacco, her timber and her
minerals to say nothing of her glo
rious men aud women, make my quo
tation of “Georgia, proud Georgia,”
more apt to-day than when the blind
old King repeated in regret when
this, his favorite colony give signs
of secession from the crown.
Telegraphic Eccentricities.
One of the chief eccentricities of
the telegraphic wire is frequently to
refuse to do its duty altogether, aud
pile on the battery power as you may,
probably not a vestige of current
reaches the distant end. Before the
transfer of the telegraphs to the gov
ernment, it was no uucommon thing
for the companies occupying tho
roads and canals to have half a dozen
repeaters or automatic clerks between
Loudon and the North, in order to
get their traffic through. Practically,
in fair weather, there is no limit to
the distance the curreut will travel;
’.Cut in bad fogs and wintry weather
the loss of current at the supporting
poles is so considerable that the
greatest difficulty is sometimes ex
perienced iu keeping up the commu
nication with distant centers. Spi
ders are the bane of the telegraph;
they choke up the cups of the insu
lators with their webs aud nests, and
in foggy weather render them con
ductors rather than insulators.
The tendency of the action of the
atmospheric electricity during thun
der storms, is generally to demag
netise the instruments, thereby caus
ing tho needles to move in a contrary
direction; or in the case of a Morse
instrument, to cause the paper slip
to record dots only instead of the
proper code of dots aud dashes. It
also sometimes causes the total or
partial destruction of the apparatus,
and as a consequence, scares the em
ployes present. Lightning, iu its ea
gerness to get to earth has been
known to blow the telegraph appa
ratus to pieces, fusing the wires that
form the electro magnets and char
ring the wood-work. Wlaere the
earth connection of the wire has been
made to a metal gas pipe, an occur
rence of this description has been
found to molt the pipe and lire the
gas; while on more than one such
occasion the flame of tho gas has in
its turn melted a contiguous water
pipe, and thus saved the people from
very serious damages if not from to
tal destruction. It may be added
that those earth connections which
are attached to water and gas mains
are considered the most reliable.
Curiosities of Earth.
At the city of Medina, in Italy, and
about four miles around it wherever
the earth is dug, when tho workmen
arrive at a distance of sixty-'hree
feet they come to a bed of chalk
which they bore with an anger, five
feet deep. They then withdraw
from the pit before the auger is re
moved, and upon its extraction the
water bursts up through the aperture
with great violence, and quickly fills
the newly-made well, which contin
ues full and is affected neither by
rains nor drought. But what is the
most remarkable in this operation is
the layers of earth as we descend.
At the depth of fourteen feet are
found the ruins of an ancient city,
paved streets, houses, floors, and dif
ferent pieces of mason-work. Under
this is found a soft, oozy earth, made
of vegetables, and at twenty-six feet
large trees entire, such as walnut
trees with the walnuts still sticking
to the stem, and the leaves and
branches in a perfect state of preser
vation. At twenty-eight feet deep a
soft chalk is found, mixed with a vast
quantity of shells, and the bed is
eleven feet thick. Under this, vege
tables are found again.
Our schoolmarm stands five feet
ten, and is prettier than an Arabian
colt. She is smarter than anybody,
and always makes tho School Super
intendent’s arm tired cutting notches
in his stick to tally the points she
makes on examination day. She can
ride bareback the cussedest mustang
that ever was foaled and can dance
anything from the dance of death
down to a square double-shulHe ou a
cedar puncheon. She can sing
psalm tunes like a tenoctive angel,
or beat any sport iu the State at
seven up. Now, does any other Cali
fornia ranch want to gamble on.
schooimarms ? — hjaincy Nolion.it J
*• Lorl, Keep 111 j Memory Green.”
“Roberts,” tho weekly contribu
tor of “Gossip," in the Washington
Capital, expresses iu the following
bit of sentiment, a desire with which
many of us can fully sympathize:
“In walking around during the
past week or two I have stumbled
over iu different portions oi the city
a family of street musicians, consist
ing, as I suppose, of father, daughter
aud two sons. The father, a cripple,
plays on the flute and piccolo; the
boys on the violin and the daughter
sings. There was such a thread of
pathos aud sadness running through
the wliolo performance that it was a
perfect fascination for me; and I
watch as eagerly for the pennies to
rain down us does the old man, aud
as if it was a personal matter to me.
When the girl sings, I cannot help
the tears coining to my eyes, though
I fear, perhaps, my sentiment is
thrown away, for she has an eye to
business, and any future President of
a savings bank or insurance company,
in the shape of a small boy, who sits
down on a stray cent and thinks she
won’t know it, is instantly brought
to grief; still there is something in
tensely sad to me iu seeing a young
woman singing to a street rabble —
and the very refrain of her song
makes it more so; “This little wish
I ask of you; see that my grave’s
kept green”—earning her daily bread,
fighting the battle for life itself, with
an appeal for a little token of remem
brance when laid away iu their ever
lasting sleep that, after all our strug
gles for life, is certain to come at last.
I havo heard her sing that song
twenty times during the past two
weaks, and I always walk away sad
dened, picturing to myself my own
grave, and wondering, when the
blossoms were growing over me,
whether there were many dear hearts
who would remember me. lam sel
fish enough to want, when I “go
hence and am seen no more,” some
one to grieve for me. Charles Dick
ens’ prayer was, “Lord keep my
memory green,” and it is mine also.
Some people say, it does not matter,
when we die, where wo aro laid; but
I differ with them. It appears to
me that I should bo happier and bet
ter contented when laid away in that
little house that every one of us must
silently enter one of these days, to
know—and somehow I cannot help
thinking that we will know—that the
flowers are growing fresh over me,
aud that in some hearts a little ivy
is planted and kept green iu mem
ory of me.”
A Closely-Guarded Weight.
The conscience keeper of the Na
tion’s financial faith is deposited at
the Mint, Broad street, Philadelphia,
iu the form of a troy pound-weight,
which is kept uuder duplicate locks
and seals. There is a curious histo
ry connected with this weight. By
it is determined tho standard to
which tho accuracy of the gold aud
silver coins of the United States
must attain. The Commission ap
pointed by the President to test the
coins and make the annual assay use
this weight, and on these occasions it
is taken from its carefully-guarded
seclusion, and it shows the accuracy
or inaccuracy of the productions of
the various Mints in this country.
This little cylinder is copied from a
troy pound-weight preserved iu the
Tower of London, and on this latter
the coinage of Great Britain rests for
reliability. This exact witness of fi
nancial integrity is carefully pre
served and guarded from tampering
hands At tho conclusion of the
Assay Commission’s labors the weight
is intrusted to the care of a Judge of
the United States District Court, the
Collector of the Port and the Direc
tor of the Mint, locked up, aud sol
emnly sealed for another year, only
to appear twelve months after and
show which Mint has been derelict
in its work.
Well Put.
Ouo of the editors of the Atlanta
Gonsliiution, writing from 'Washing
ton City, June lGth, writes the fol
lowing:
It is rumored here that Gov. Col
quitt has been invited to Chauta
quan, N. Y., in August to attend the
annual Sunday School meeting which
takes place there. This is no doubt
the result of the very favorable im
pression made by the Governor at
the International Sunday School
convention. If he is invited I hope
he will attend. I heard Col. Bob In
gersoll promise Col. Bob Alston, yes
terday taat he would come to At
lanta this fall and deliver one of
his lectures. If Gcv. Colquitt will
go up North, and Col. Ingersoll come
South, the two sections would un
derstand more about the religious
sentiments of each other. Both of
these gentlemen preach; but they
preach from different stand-points.
One is afraid of hell and need not be;
the other is not afraid but ought
to be. If Col. Ingersoll can convince
our people there is no hell, he will
save them a great deal of troublo in
this world. If Gov. Colquitt can
convince the people of the north there
is a hell ho may save them a great
deal of trouble in the next world.
'J lie Cucumber.
Oh, a modest fruit is the cucum
ber, green as ever in auy garden was
seen ! It greenly grows on the run
ning vine, and you run and catch it
and say “How line!’ You slice it up
with many a grin; put vinegar on it,
and take it in. Bud the cucumber
green is an awful fraud as ever stalk
ed in this land abroad; for about the
time it roaches your craw you will
think you have swallowed a circular
saw; and at night as you lie ou your
restless bed you’ll think of the glory
of being dead. You will dream of
your aunt and your mother-iu-law
and the horrible use they make jof
the jaw. You’ll ho sorry that you
ate the cucumber green and wish you
ihad dined on a washing machine.
I Advertisements in cheap English
papers contain offers to teach ladies
t the habits ot good society.
Little Courtesies.
The art of ‘living together’ pleas
urably is greatly promoted by the
habitual exchanges of the little cour
tesies of this life; they are never un
important, never unacceptable, are
always grateful to the feeling in
every household. Shall brothers and
sisters be less careful of the feelings
of one another thau those of a stran
ger ? And between husband and
wife, should there bo less effort at
gentleness of deportment, suavity of
manner aud courtesy of expression,
than is extended to outsiders, who
have no special claims and may be
never again ? Shame upon any
member of any family who neglects
those affectionate attentions aud
those suavities of deportment toward
the members of the household, and
eveu to the lowest servant, which
cannot fail to elevate the giver, and
to draw from the receiver those
williug and spontaneous reciprocities
which of family associations a little
heaven below.
The Story
“How do you do, Mrs. Beggs '?—
Have you heard the story about Mrs.
Ludly ?“
“Why, no, really Mrs. Gad, what
is it—do toll ?”
“Oh, I promised not to tell for all
the world! Oh, I must never tell it,
I’m afraid it will get out.”
“No, I’ll never open my mouth
about it—never. Hope I’ll die this
minute!”
“ Well, if you’ll believe it, Mrs.
Fuddy told me last night that Mis.
Trot told her that her sister’s hus
band was told by a person who
dreamed it, that Mrs. Trouble’s eld
est daughter told Mrs. Fichens that
her grandmother heard by a letter
which she got from her sister’s second
husband’s oldest brother’s step
daughter, that it was reported by the
captain of a clamboat just arived
from the Feejee Islands, that the
mermaids about that section wear
crinoline made out of shark skins. ”
A Scrap-Book.
One who has never been accustom
ed to preserve short articles, poems,
tales, etc,, in a scrap-book can hardly
realize the pleasure it affords to Bit
down and turn over the pleasant,
familiar pages. Here a piece of poe
try meets the eye, which you would
long since have lost had it not been
for your scrap-book. There is a wit
ty anecdote—it does you good to
laugh over it, although it may be for
the twentieth time. Next is a valua
ble recipe you had almost forgotten,
and which you found just iu time to
save much perplexity. There is a
sweet little story, the memory of
which has cheered and encour
aged you when almost ready to des
pair uuder the pressure of life’s care.
Indeed, you can hardly take up a
single paper without re-perusing.
Then hoard with care the precious
gems, aud see at the end of the year
what a rich treasure you will have
accumulated.
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For the Feet.
Among the first things that strike
the traveler in Japan are the wooden
sandals worn by these .‘50,000,000 of
people. They have a separate com
partment for the great toe, and make
a clacking noise ou the street. Straw
slippers are also worn, and a traveler
setting out ou a journey will strap a
supply of them ou his back that he
may put on anew pair when the old
ones are worn out. They cost but
three farthings a pair, and leaving
the foot free to the air, we never see
those deformities of the foot in Japan
which are so frequent in this country.
They are never worn iu the house,
being left outside the door. Passing
down a street, you seu long rows ot
them at the doors, old and new, large
and small. It is surprising to see
how readily the Japs step out of them,
and pick them up again with their
feet, without stopping when leaving
the house. Constant habit makes
them dexterous.
The Late Storm.
Mr. Paul H. Hayne, who livas at
Copes Hill, sixteen miles up the
Georgia road, says of the Sunday
stor: “I wish I could describe the
scene through which we passed yes
terday. But no language cau prop
erly depict it. At half-past three
o’clock a tornado, with hail stones
as big as a man’s list suddenly came
up, and for five minutes everything
seemed lost. I thought that our roof
was destroyed, because the inner
ceiling cracked in every direction
and all our rooms but one were lit
erally covered with water. It was
awful. The sound of the hail beating
upon doors and roofs resembled a
furious discharge of round and grape
shot. My garden has been annihi
lated all my fruit trees have been
destroyed, a portion of tho library is
injured, and there has been the devil
to pay generally.
We never have a to-morrow; it is
simply a world of prophecies. It has
been said that the two pleasures of
living are in having something to
love; and something to hope for,
and the last of these is over before
us iu the promise of “to-morrow.”
To-morrow we way not know, and it
is well it is thus ordained to be, for
beyond the invisible veil that con
ceals alive its coming joys and sor
rows the coming trials and worldly
afflictions, that, could we anticipate
as fixed realities that were certain to
to come, would mar all our peace
and enjoyment of the present It
is well for us that we cau not with
draw the veil which hides our fu
ture.
Thirty years after Charles O’Couor,
of New York, ceased to be a newsboy
he was the leading barrister of the
country —a ray of hope for the hum
blest boy iu the land. One trait is
secure to a newsboy—he becomes
self reliant. Self reliance, industry,
perseverance aud economy bring
more men to the front in this coun
try than rich fathers and a luxurious
education.
Floating Feathers.
Wm. Cullen Bryant was the editor
of the New York /W for fifty-two
years.
Albauy and Thomasville both claim
to be the best wool market in the
State.
The lowa Republican Convention
contented itself with letting the Pres
ident severely alone.
M iss Lockie Rinkiu, of Tennessee,
goes as the first woman Methodist
missionary to China.
“Can love die?’ inquires Mary E.
Nealy iu a recently published poem.
It cauuot, though it gets dreadfully
adjourned occasionally.
Regular instruction iu practical
cookery is a part of the new system
iu London public schools.
Statisticians report that centena
rians are ou the iucrease everywhere
iu consequeuca of improved methods
of living
It is estimated that no less than
fifty persons were killed and two
hundred wounded by the late storm
in Wisconsin.
American silver quarters are cut
iu two by the Mexicans and freely
circulated as “bits” on the
Rio Grande frontier.
The State subsidy to the Roman
Catholic Church iu Belgium is over
$900,000; the Protestants get $15,-
000 and the Jews $2,700.
In and about Lyons, France, two
hundred thonsand women and girls
work from eleven to thirteen hours a
day for an average of forty cents.
Texas claims to have three millions
of inhabitants, and to be the third
now in population and tho first in
size among all the States in the
Union.
A tornado occurred in China a
few months ago, which destroyed
nearly nine hundred houses ami
killed between live and ten thousand
people.
A married man in Chicago has in
vented an iuiia rubber rolling pin
that will roll out the dough very
evenly and yet bend to the head
when it strikes.
Ten selected head of three-year-old
cattle, of an average weight of 2,178
pounds, have just beeu shipped from
Paris, Ky , for Paris, France, to take
part in the show.
Jefferson Davis has beon oloctod a
member of the association of tho
Confederate Army of Tennessoo, and
at its meeting in Now Orleans he
will be presented with a gold badge.
There are 43 graduates at West
Point, and only 18 vacancies in the
army. Forty-three cadets into 18
Second Lieutenauees, it won’t, and
25 over. Reduce tho army to ton
thousand men
Tho famine in India is slowly dy
ing oat everywhere; the survivors
are recovering health and strength,
and the small quantities of food im
ported show that the people have
sufficiency of grain.
Oregon is now thoroughly Demo
cratic, Governor, Congressman and
Legislature, aud Republican papers
contend that the conscientious Cro
nin has no right to go noseing around
iu his statesmanlike role.
A man may face death with com
posure, and adversity with smiles,
but the chances are that he will hop
and swear when he discovers that a
twenty-ceut silver piece has been
palmed off’ on him for a quarter.
It is very true that George Wash
ington never told a lie, but then his
wife never made him say he would
spade up the side flower beds and
the verbena mound iu the front
yard, before he weut down to the of
fice.
NO. 25.
To keep milk for six months, cork
in bottles and place these in a pan
of cold water, which is then to be
raised gradually to a boiling point.
Then take out the bottles and allow
them to cool before setting them iu a
cool place.
'Phe phonograph may bottle up
the voice and pass it down to future
ages, but the smile that twists the
face of a mau as he seeks solitude
and gazes upon his name iu print for
the first time, will always have to be
guessed at.— Waif,
On getting up in the morning tho
bed clothes should be thrown over a
chair by the open window, to air for
two or three hours before tho bed is
made up; otherwise the sheets and
coverlids and beds, being charged
with the moisture of perspiration,
become unwholesome.
The measures for the suppression
of Socialism taken by the German
Government, form the absorbing
topic of conversation iu Paris. Ger
man newspapers are still reporting
arrests of Socialiats, though a Social
ist journal—the New Press —asserts
that so far nothing has been shown
to prove that Nobeling was con
nected with tho Social Democrats.
A Baltimore Alderman, who had
sat speechless at the meetings of the
Board for years, was aroused by fre
quent droves of cattle passing his
house on Sunday, to this, hia first and
only oratorical effort: “Phwat I want
to know, your Honor, is, are the pay
pie of tho Faurteenth Ward to be
trod upon by oxen of a Sunday
morniug ? I move be jabbers, I guess
not !*’
The proprietor of the Natural
Bridge iu Virginia has failed. It
was probably the prospect of insol
vency which caused him to charge
the casual visitor the sum of oue dol
lar for the privilege of going under
the bridge and looking up, but this
tax on curiosity which he exacted
will cause him to lose the sympathy
of us iu his misfortunes. Collectors
of curiosities and other admirers of
nature’s wonders are informed that
the bridge may be purchased for
fourteen thousand dollars.
The Baltimore Gazelle says if it
should turu out that Ben Hill saved
the country from anarchy and civil
war during the electoral count, by
repressing the Southern members of
Congress, somethin'. l ' will have to be
done for him. The Gazelle thinks
Ben would look well as a candidate
for Vice President ou the ticket com
posed entirely of savers of the coun
try. Pshaw! Our Ben has saved
the country so often that he doesn’t
mind it auy more than Jack Bunsbv
did getting knocked overboard by
the spanker boom. Ban has saved
tho country more times thau he’s
gottiugers and toes, and yet he scorua
to mention it.— Savannah News.