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The Gainesville Eagle. Published Every Friday Morning ~ol.'p lCE __ ,n Hall Building, _____ Northwest Turner of l> u bli c P.jttarv. , <)r - an of Hall, Banks. White Mid subscription. °* K Vk * Six Monthh tl Three Months L’ IN ADVANCE, DELIVEBED BY CABHIF.R OH PhEPAID liY MAIL. Ail papers are stopped at tho expiration of the time paid for without further notice. Mail sub scribers will please observe tbe dates on their Wrappers. Persons wishing the paper will have their orders dromptiy attended to by remaining the amount ior the time desired. ADVERTISING. SEVEN WOBD3 HAKE A LINE. Ordinary advertisements, per Nonpareil line. 10 ceuts. Legal Official Auction and Amusement advertise meuts and Special Notices, per. Nonpa reil line, 15 cents. Beading notices per line. Nonpareil type 16 cent! J-ocal notices, per line, Brevier type, 15 cents. A discount made on advertisements continued for longer than one week. REMITTANCES 2nr subscriptions or advertising can be made by Bust Office order. Registered Letter or Express, at our risk. All letters should ba addressd, J. E. HEDWINE, Gainesville, Ga. REVISED RATES *’r i-csal Advertising In the Kugle. From, au<l including this date, the ( rutes of legal advertising in the Eagle will be as follows : HtiertU’s sales for each levy of 1 inch $2 50. EicU additional inch or less ‘ 60. Mortgage sales (He days) one inch 5 00. Each additional inch or less 3 00. AduTr’g, E.t'r’s Guard’n's sales, 4 weeks, 1 inch 4 00 Each additional inch 2 50 INotioe to debtors and creditors 4 00. illtat’s tor let'rs of adm’u or guard'us’p (4 wksi4 00. Leave to sell real estate 4 oo Lat'rsuf dlsui'u of aduTu or guard'n (B m0.)....H 00. Estray notices 4 00. Oltatious (unrepresented estates) 4 00. Rule nisi in divorce cases u 00. Uoiuestuad Exemption, 2 weeks, 2 00. Rule Nisi to foreclose, monthly 4 mos., per in.. 4 00 Notices of ordinaries calling attention of admin, istrators, executors and guardians to making thir puuual returns; and of Sheritfs in regard to provls ous sections 3040, of the Code, published puke (for tke Sheriff* pu Ordinaries who patronize the Baulk. 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. - ♦ 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.