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_The Gainesville Eagle Published Every F.idav Morning B \ RED VV I\ K At II AM. p U* e Official Organ of Hall, Banks, Towns, nfaX’.Yr, 1 ,? 11 Diwoll counties, and the city 1 le ' Hm * l * r ß e E eueral circulation in twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and two counties in Western North Carolina. editorial, eaglets Several roosters went to the New Orleans Murder Gras. Some of them died suddenly. . Kid gloves are now worn to the elbow. It must take a large kid to grow a glove as long as your arm. “The new-born babe is the creature of suck-em-stances.” Whitehall Times. They have changed the name since we were a baby. When old Lickshingle’e boy knock ed him down with a ftnce-rail, hs sent for the doctor and explained to him that he had a sonstroke. Mrs. Felton wants to know if Bel va Lockwood can practice law, why sbe cannot practice politics. Both are high and noble professions. If Mac amateur poeLed© tq spring that which he could not pay, it were better to have said so like a man, than to write mean verses about it. We would like to know what all the poor hens did last week while their noble lords were dueling in New Orleans. It must have been very lonesome. Eggs are fifty-seven cents a dozen in Burlington, and only five cents in Dahlonega, Burlington hens are too busy dodgiDg Burdette’s Hawk eye to devote much time to business. Samoa is a nice place to live. You can eat roots and herbs, and all the clothing you need is a cocoanut apron and a necklace of bird’s claws. Belles and beaux dress exactly alike. Why do American cottons go to England ? asks an able financial ex change. We can tell you easy. They get on ships, the wind blows the ship over, and the cottons can’t help themselves. It will be timo enough for women to talk about voting when-they learn to wear their skirts short enough to keep them out of the mud. Trains would be very much out of place at a crowded poll. Lee Crandall is (secretary of the national greenback executive commit tee. Let Lee bring in his building blocks, now, and erect the concern with mimic mansard roof aud other neat juvenile adornments. Burdette's engraved heading, “Hawk-eyotema, ’ has a bit of filagree hanging down under the larboard end liko a capital J. We have a hor rible suspicion that be is about to go into competition with Wilhelmj. When they arrested a Macon boy with an Alabama sling, he justified himself by saying that a neighbor’s boy had stood on the dividing fence and announced himself as a Goliah, and he was going over to Davidize him. The Nebraska grangers want coun try produce as a circulating medium, aud tho price aud pro rata fixed. Good idea. Wo hope the system will be extended so a3 to prevent the rural subscriber from palming off a fifty-cent load of wood for a two dollar subscription. One of the most beautiful tributes to the life, character and public ser vices of Hon. Julian Hartridge came from Hon. W. P. Frye, a Maine re publican. It fairly glowed and sparkled with beautiful thoughts and kindly feeling. If this sort of thing is to continue the bloody shi t will ere long be buried, oven in the land of Blaine. A Florida man named his little country store Cedar Bluff, and when somebody undertook to send him a letter it went all over the Union, brought up at the dead-letter office, and was returned to the writer. As the letter contained an account of sales, he had lain out of the use of his money for months, by his own folly. Hereafter he will give his postoffice address, iustead of imagin ary and fanciful names. The regeneration of the Gulf States has begun- A correspondent of the Boston Journal has just telegraphed from that section that a Georgia white man went to work last week. The Master’s gold year cannot be far away. —Burlington Hawk eye. Yes, the regeneration commenced some time ago, and one of its first fruits was to learn us to attend to our own business, and not slander honest people in other sections. Robert W. Cri ssvvell, who has made the Oil City Derrick its wide reputation, has accepted an engage ment on the Cincinnati Enquirer. The Derrick, however, seems to be still lively. It gives this explana tion in a recent issue: Our “funny man” being away from home on a lit tle “funny business,” nad our obitu ary writer having not yet been re leased from the lock-up, the reader will this morning be compelled to search the Scriptures aud advertise ments for humorous items. The Gainesville Eagle VOL. Xiir. Accidentally Innocent. No lawyer likes going into court with a thoroughly bad case, yet how can he help it sometimes? I should have more patience with the question, “Do you ever think it right to defend a man whom .you be lieve to be guilty?” Were it les3 fre quently put by people who spend six days of the week seeking to get the upper hand of their neighbors, and the seventh trying to circumvent their Maker. To the honest inquirer I recommend the answer Dr. .Johnson once gave to Boswell: “Sir, the law- yer is not the judge.” Was it my place when George Gil bert’s little careworn wife came with tears glistening in her eyes, to be seech me to do what I could for her imprisoned husband, virtually to turn my back and leave her tired troubled heart to break or not as it might. I was neither a priest or a Levite to find a ready excuse for passing by on the other side. Yet what could I do? George Gilbert had been sent an a collecting tour and had gambled away money re ceived for his employers. It was a plain case of embezz’ement, and the penalty was a term of years in the State’s prison. “I am sure he never meant to be dishonest*" pleaded the loyal little woman; “he was tempted by a crafty and designing man, but instead of running away as others would have done, he came back and confessed his fault, offering to let his whole salary go toward making up the lost money till every cent was paid. Mr. Meek, the junior partner, was willing to be merciful, but Mr. Mangle, the head of tho house, who just returned then after a year’s absence, insisted that the law should take its course.” I gave her what consolation I could, for lawyers, like doctors, must keep their patients’ courage up at times. “In the first place, I’ll see Messrs. Mangle & Meek,” I said. “Mr. Mangle may be brought to hear rea son, after all—if he can only be made to sea his interest in it. The pale despondent face cheered no a little. My words seemed to have inspired a sort of undefined hope that I was far from feeling my self. Mr. Mangle received me with stony politeness. “Young- man,” his manner said, “don’t waste any time in appeals to sentiment; you won’t if you’ll ouly just look at me.” I took the hint and came at once to business, repeated Gilbert’s offer, and put it as strongly as possible that more was to be gained by len iency than harshness—ail of which Mr Mangie hsteued to with a con scientious scowl. “I cannot be a party to compound iug a felony,” he answered with a solemn intonation. “Nor have I asked you,” I replied not a little nettled. “I have merely mentioned a plan of paying back your own, leaving it to your gener osity to press or not to press this prosecution.” “Oh, it’s ail the same,” was the con temptuoue rejoinder—‘‘anybody bat a lawyer, with his head full of quibs and quiblets, could see that. Besides there was something rather cool in the proposal to retain your friend in our employ under pre tence of working out the money he has stolen, with the opportunity of filching twice as much in the mean time.” I felt my temper rising, and not caring to imperil my client’s interest by an outright quarrel, I took a hasty leave H and I been in the prisoner's place on the morning fixed for the trial, I could hardly have ascended the courthouse steps with moi 3 reluct ance than I did. And whin I en tered the court-room aud lound Gil bert and his wife already there, and noted the hopeful look with which the latter greeted my coming, my heart sickened ;;t tho thought of the bitter c:?npr>ointrnent coming. “The p u ; ; e is Gilbert, ” called out 1 judge, alter disposing of some loiujai matters. A jury was immediately impaneled and the case opened bv the District Attorney. Mr. Meek was the first witness. The nervous, hesitating manner in which he gave his evidence would have greatly damaged its effect had it not evidently arisen from a dispo sition to do the prisoner as little hurt as possible. But no softening could break the terrible force of facts he was compelled to relate. In his partner’s absence he had employed George Gilbert as a clerk; had found him competent and trust wortay; had sent him on a trip to make collections; after receiving a considerable sum, be was induced by a respectable looking gentleman, with whom he had casually fallen in, to join a social game of cards; at first they played for amusement, then for money, aud after losing all his own, in hope of retrieving his loss, with the fatal infatuation of that dreadful voice whose end is swift destruction, he had hazarded and lost the last dollar of money he had in trust for his employers. Mr. Meek’s voice faltered as he closed his narrative. He was about to say someihing about the prison er’s good character when a disap proving glance from Mr. Mangle brought him to a halt. Just then the prisoner chanced to turn his head, and catching a glimpse of tho senior partner, who had just entered aud was standing among the crowd, he started quickly, then whispered hurriedly in my ear: “Turn aside your face,” I whis pered back. And the case for the prosecution being closed. "Have you any witness for the de fence?” inquired the judge. “I will call Hezekiah Mangle,” I replied. A buzz of surprise greeted the an nouncement, in the midst of which Mr. Mangle stepped forward and was sworn. “You have been absent for the past year, Mr. Mangle?” I began. “I have,’’ GAINESVILLE, GA., FBIDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 1879. “Traveling in different parts.’, “Yes. sir.” “The prisoner was employed by your partner in your absence, and was arrested about the time of your return?” “Such was the case.” “Have yon ever seen him?” “Not to my knowledge.” “Or met him in your travels?” “If he will turn his head this way I can tell better.” At my bidding Gilbert turned and faced the witness. The effect was electrical. Mr. Mangle turned red and pale by turns, “One other question, Mr. Mangle,” I resumed. “Do you recognize in the prisoner a young man from whom you won a thousand dollars at ‘poker’ while on your travels?” aud I named the time and place at which the prisoner had met with the mis fortune. The man of iron nerve hesitated worse than hya more amiable partner had doijie. He was halting between a point blank lie, which might en tail the penalties of perjury, and the truth, which would cost him money. Cowardice performed the office of conscience, and the truth came out. The firm’s money, which George Gil bert had lost, had been won by the senior partner; and the court in structed the jury that, as the sum in question had actually been delivered to one of the joint owners, who was bound to account to his associate, the prisoner could not be convicted. “God bless you Mr. Parkes!” fal tered the happy little wife “I knew you would bring us out all right-” It was evident the truthful wo man s nature gave me all the credit of- a result iu whose achievement my share had been next to nothing. The lesson was not lost on George Gilbert. His false step was the last; and the richest fee I ever received was the heartfelt gratitude of his noble, faithful wife. An Ingenious Ruse. A correspondent of the Hartford Times says: “Mrs. Isadore Middle ton, a vary beautiful woman, and one of the acknowledged leaders of fashion in Mobile, can certainly boast of the possession of as much nerve and true moral courage as are often vouchsafed to any of her sex. One evening she was in her bou doir putting away some articles of jewelry, when she noticed that the peculiar position of a library lamp that was burning upon a chair in the back part of the room had thrown upon the floor, almost directly at her feet, the shadow of a man who was crouching under a broad-topped or namental table in the centre of the room. She also remarked that the open baud of the shadow had bnt two fingers, and remembered that several desperate burglaries had recently been committed in the neighborhood, suppositiously by a negro desperado, who was notoiious as having loot two fingers of his right hand. Mr. MiddletoD was absent from the city, and, besides herself in the house there was but a single maid-borvant. Instead of fainting with fear, or shrieking for the brave lady seated herself at the very table un derneath which the miscreant was concealed and rang for the servant. “Hand me writing materials, Brid get,” said she, with perfect calmness, I want you to take a note this instant to Mr. Forfair, the jeweler, and have him send you back with my diamond necklace and eardrops which I left there for repairs several days ago.— Bring them with you, no matter if ful y repaired or not. They are by twenty-iold the most valuable arti cles of jewelry that I possess, and I do not wish to pass another night without having them in a bureau drawer. The note was at once written and dispatched, but instead of being in the tenor that she had signified (on purpose for the concealed robber to overhear, for she had no jewelry un der repair), it was a hasty note to the jeweier, an intimate friend, in which she succinctly stated her terri ble position, and urged him to has ten to her relief, with the requisite police assistance, immediately on re ceipt of the missive. The agonies which that refined and delicate woman underwent when left alone in the house, with the con sciousness of the presence of that desperate robber, perhaps assassin as well, crouched under the very table upon which she leaned, and perhaps touched by her skirts, can only be left to the reader’s imagination; but her iron nerve sustained her through the ordeal. She yawned, hummed an operatic air, turned over the leaves of a novel, and in other ways lulled the lurker into a sense of per fect security and expectancy, and waited, waited with a wildly beating heart and her eyes fastened upon the hands of her little ormulu clock with a greedy, feverish gaze. At last, however, came the prayed for relief. There was a ring at the door bell, and she strolled carelessly into the hall and down stairs to open it. The ruse had been a success.— She not only admitted Bridget, but also Mr. Forfair and three stalwart policemen. The latter passed steal thily up stairs in the boudoir, where they suddenly pounced upon the concealed burglar so unexpectedly as to secure him with hardly a strug gle. The prisoner proved to be a negro criminal named Clapman, but mostly known as Two Fingered Jeff, who was in groat request about that time for several robberies committed in the neighborhood a short time before and he is now serving a twenty years’ sentence in the Alabama State prison. Leisure without learning is death, and idleness the grave of the living man. It was a brave saying of Scipio—and every scholar can say it —that he was never less alone than when alone. We pity those who spend themselves and misspend their time in doing nothing—who are al ways idle or ill employed. CARRYING PISTOLS. I A Georgia Judge’* Way f Enforcing the Law. | Our reform legislature, among the many good things that it proposes to do for the people, is trying, I be lieve, to amend the law in reference to canying pistols. A prominent Georgian told me an incident the other day that may be of interest, and which he assures me actually occurred: Georgia has a stringent pistol law. The penalty is the for feiture of the pistol, a fine of fifty dollars, and, at the discretion of the court, imprisonment for thirty days. A short time after this law went into effect, Judge Lester was holding court in one of the mountain conn ties of north Georgia, and, right in the midst of the trial of a cause, he asked the attorneys to suspend a few moments, and told the sheriff to lock the court-house door and let no man pass out without permission from him. Then said tne judge in his firm, decided way: “Gentlemen, I saw a pistol on a nan in this room a few moments ago, a dl cannot recon cile it to my sense o.t duty as a peaev officer to let such a violation of fclifi. law pass unnoticed. It may be that it is my duty to go before the grand jury and indict him, but if that man will walk up to this stand and lay his pistol and a fine of one dollar down here, I will let him off tkiß time; oth erwise I will go before the grand jury and testify against him.” The judge paused, and an attorney who was sitting down just before the stand got up, slipped His hand in his hip-pocket, drew out a neat ivory handled Smith & Wesson six-shooter and laid it and a dollar down before the judge. “This is all right,” remarked the judge, “but you are not the man that I saw with the pistol.” At this another attorney, sitting immediately in front of the judge, got up, and, drawing out a small Colt’s revolver, laid it and a dollar bill up on the stand. “This is right again,” Baid the judge, “but you are not the man I speak of.” Thereupon, a large men just out side of the bar walked around, ran hi3 hand in his bosom, and, drawing out a huge old army pistol, laid it and a dollar on the stand. “I declare," continued the judge, “if this don’t beat all; you have done right, my friend but you are not the man that I saw with the pis tol.” This process went on until nine teen pistols and nineteen dollars were lying on the judge’s stand. Then there was a pause, aud it ap peared as if the crowd was pretty well disarmed; at least, if there were any more pistols in the house their owners did not seem disposed to give them up. in “Gentlemen,” resumed the judge, “here are nineteen persons who have acted like men in this business, but the man that I saw with the pistol has not come up yet, and now,’’ con tinued he, pulling out hi3 watch and looking toward the far side of the court house, “I will give him one minute to accept my proposition, and if he does not do it in tnat time, I will point him out to tiie sheriff tad order him to take him in to custody.” Immediately two men from the back part of the house began to move towards the judge’s stand. Once they stopped and looked at each other, and then, coming slowly for ward, laid down their pistols and their dollars. As they turned to leave the judge said: “This man with the black whiskers is the one that I saw with the pistol.’’ Then Judge Lester gave a short lecture upon the cowardly, foolish and wicked habit of carrying con cealed weapons, and assured his audience that in the future the law would be strictly enforced. The court proceeded with its regular business, and it is needless to add that in that county the habit of car rying pistols was broken up. Jan. Why William Sharp went to lied. The passion of love often reacts strangely on undisciplined minds, and frequently produces on them most unlooked-for results At Keith ley, at the beginning of the present century, lived a young man named William Sharp. He fell desperately in love with a girl, the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Every thing' went smoothly till the wedding | morning, when the fathers'eould not; agree how much to give the young j couple to start them in life; and lit eraliy at the last moment in church the match was broken off, This was too much for the weak mind of Wil liam Sharp; he went home, went to his bed, and never rose from it again. He was just thirty when he thus isolated himself from active life, and he died in his bed at the age of seventy-five. His room was about nine feet square. The floor was stone, and generally damp. The window was permanently fastened; some of the panes were filled in with wood; and at the time of his death it had not been opened for thirty eight years. In this dreary cell did this strange being immure himself. He obstinately refused to speak, and gradually every trace of intelligence faded away. His father left an am ple provision for his eccentric son, and he was well looked after. He ate as much as an ordinary day-la borer, and at his death weighed above sixteen stone. In Harrogate, several years ago, lived a woman who for the same caused behaved in exactly the same manner. Her pa rents having prevented her marriage with a worthless character, she took to her bed, and nad kept it for fiftea years; and, if not dead, is probably keeping it still.— Chambers' Journal . They do things with dispatch in Texas. A man in a certain neigh borhood, who had lost a valuable mare, received the following tele gram : “Mare here. Come get her. Thief hung.’ 1 I SMALL BITS. I Or Va-ioa Kinds Carelessly thrown To. gether. Anew broom sweeps dirt. I If a small boy is a lad, is a large boy a ladder ? Pistol firing on the streets are the off-shoots of a bad education. The convict’s serenade to the war den: “How can I leave thee?’’ Tne improvident man is hard to kill because he will not die worth a cent.” A hen 25 years old is a Western curiosity. Never used tobacco in any form. “You flatter me,’’ as the orange said to Judge Davis when he sat down upon it. Forty saloons and ten faro banks already enliven the young mining town of Bodie, Cal. & Tiqies are spoken of as very hard whin a loafer announces that be is fi#\ing to work for his board. * ikjere is only one to appear to be virtuous ana happy, and that is to really be so. A bad boy becomes a bad man about as easily and almost as inevi tably as a tadpole becomes a frog. The girl of the . is the girl who makes a— for the grate and puts the : whenever her beaux, ’round to see her. More timber is used under ground in the Comstock lode tnan has been employed in the construction of San Francisco. The immaculate purity of politics is indicated by the modern motto of office-holder, “United we steal, divi ded we can’t.” From the debris of their coal mines France makes aunually 700,- 000 tons of excellent fuel, and Bel gium 500,000 tons. It may sesm a little late to express sympathy, bnt if Job ever had a ripe aud blooming boil square on his Adam’s apples he has our heartiest condolence. The Norristown Herald indicates its belief in the oriental origin of man by stating the well-known fact that both the poppy and the mummy come from the east. Iu Kentucky, when a mule gets so lazy that he won’t work more than nine or ten hours a day, they trim his ears down and sell him to a Chi cago man for a carriage horse. “Your late husband, madame,” be gan her lawyer. “Yes, I know he was always late oat o’ nights, but now that he’s dead don’t let us up braid him,” said his charitable wid- Lw. Temperance societies have lately been formed in Hanover and Got tingan, with a view, not of prevent ing the use of beer, bnt of reducing its consumption to moderate propor tions. In the cars which stood on the track at Etie, snowbound for four days, there w*ra nine tons of silver bars and $300,000 in gold coin be longing to the government. Not a dollar was lost. These mornings are not remarka ble for their torrid temperature, and when a man washes him self up stairs and then has to walk clear down to the kitchen for the towel, there is apt to be war in the mansion, A four-year old girl, left alone witn an infant in Urbana, 0., said to the mother on her return: “Oh, baby’s all broke.’’ The baby was dead, having fal'en from the little gills arms and had its neck broken. Little four-year-old Mary com plained to mamma that her button shoes were "hurting.” “Why, Mary, you’ve put them on the wrong feet.” Puzzled and ready to cry, she made answer, “What’ll I do mamma ? They’g all the feet I’ve got!” He was getting a certificate from the clerk, and in reply to the usual question, “First or second mar riage?” he said: “It’s my second marriage, I’m sorry to say; but my first wife requested me to marry again, and I’m going to do it.” “No, thank you, I never waltz. Ma says if any one of the young men want to hog me they must do it on the sly; she won’t have them mussing my dress up and leaving finger marks on my white waist so long as she does the washing and has to sup port me.” ,‘What kind of testimony do you call that ?” said the county attorney to one of the witnesses before the grand jury, wno was inclined to be a little evasive. “Jackson’s Best,” was the prompo reply. The lawyers who were in the habit of using tobacc o saw the point and smiled all over their faces. Mr. Spurgeon is credited with this this design on hubby’s happiness: “When I am marrying young couples I generally ted the young lady to let her husband be the head, for that is according to Scripture and nature; but I always advis9 her to be the neck, and twist him round which way she likes.” John was a nice boy. He prac ticed salf-de-ni-al. Do you know what it is to practice r,elf-de-ni-al ? No, you say. Well, I will tell you. John and his kind aunt went to church one day. Aunt Jane gave John a dime to put in a box for the hea-then. She also gave John a loz-enge. John liked loz-enges. Some boys would have eaten the loz-enge right up. But John did not. He prac-ticed self-denial. He put the loz-enge in the box. He ►kept the dims in his pock-et, So, ,you see, by practicing self-de-ni-al and go-ing without his loz-enge that day, John could buy all the loz-enges he wanted the next day. He could buy a top and some mar-bies ai-so. Now you know what self-de-ni-al is- A Stubborn Man. From Mr. A. J. Twiggs, we learn that Pimonti, the Italian who was convicted of attempting to murder Joseph Guiffrida, with a hatchet, and sentenced to ten years at hard labor in the penitentiary, refuses to work and has eaten nothing since last Monday morning. At that time he ate a hearty breakfast and worked afterwards for about ten minutes, but then threw down the spade and declared that he would work no more. He was tied up and severely whipped, but this had no effect what ever. He laughed during the inflic tion of the punishment and told his guards it was no use. He was flogged a second and a third time, but with like result. Mr. Twiggs seeing that Pimonti was determined iu his course and that punishment availed nothing, told tne keeper not to whip him any more. He says that he does not intend to eat again unless he is given anew trial. He is getting very weak, and cannot live much longer if he perseveres. Mr. .Twiggs asked him Friday afternoon, if 'k*- juGfr'Caffer hunger. **N6,” he said, “hurt Three days; ’ ery nice now’-nothing no hurt me.” Then, piling up a handful of live coals from the fire and holding them out in the palm of his baud, he said to Mr. Twiggs, “Can you do that ?” Upon Mr. Twiggs answering in the negative, he smiled and con tinued to hold the coals until they turned black and then tossed them towards one of the guards, remark ing as he did so: “You hab plenty dem when you go down stairs, (meaning the abode of his Satanic majesty.) Mr. Twiggs says the smoke from the burning skin and flesh rose up from Pimonti’s hand while he held the fire, but he did not wince a particle. Mr. Twiggs asked him if he wanted to kill himself why fie didn’t run by the guards, and then he would be shot. “Den me go down stairs,” was jthe reply. “But won’t you die if you don’t eat any thing ?” said Mr. Twiggs. “Yes, but me no killee myself; magistrate and guards do ic,” said he, “Christ go into Jerusalem when he know Jews going to crucify him, but he no kil lee himself. Well, de magistrate and da guards, dey de Jew, dey killee me.” He insists that he didn’t have a fair trial; that he had two “prov ers” who would have sworn that Guiffrida had threatened to kill him on sight. He says that he doesn’t mind working ten years, but that a negro named Williams, who was con victed of larceny, at the same term of the court, was only sentenced to fonr years. This, he contends, was not right, as the negro’s crime was far worse than his. He is under the impression that if he were sent to Atlanta he would get another trial. Mr. Twiggs told him if he would eat lie would write to the governor, but Pimonti only smiled and said: “Well, you write. Me live five or six days longer.” “But,’’ said Mr. Twiggs, “you may be dead when the answer gets back.” “Then,’’ replied Pimon ti, “you write to magistrate (gover nor) and tell him man dead; take no more trouble.’’ Mr. Twiggs says it is undoubtedly certain that he has not eaten a morsel since Monday morning. He is not at all violent and gives no trouble beyond his re fusal to eat or work. Whenever told that he must go to work, he shrugs his shoulders aud says: “Bring de strap,” meaning that he is ready for punishment.” Francis C. Barlow and John B. Gordon. You may not be aware that it was Gen. Gordon’s command which struck the flank of the Eleventh Corps on the afternoon of the first day at Gettysburg, and after a short but desperate conflict broke its line and swept it from the field. In that fight Gen. Barlow, of New York, commander of the First Divis ion, fell dangerously and, it was thought, mortally wounded. He was shot directly through the body. Two of his men attempted to bear him through that Bhower of lead from the field; but one was instant ly killed, and Gen. Barlow mag animously said to the other: “You can do me no good; save yourself if you can.’ Gordon’s brigade of Geor gians, in its wild charge, swept over him, and he was found by Gen. Gor don himself, lying with upturned face in the hot July sun, nearly par alyzed and apparently dying. Gen. Gordon dismounted from his horse, gave him a drink of water from his canteen, and inquired of Gen. Bar low his name and wishes. Gen. Barlow said; “I shall proba bly live but a short time. Please take from my breast pocket the package of my wife’s letters and read one of them to me;’’ which was done. He then asked that the oth ers be torn up, as he did not wish them to fall into other hands. This Gen. Gordon did, and then asked: “Can Ido anything else for you, General ?” “Yes,” replied Gen. Bar low, earnestly. “My wife is behind our army. Can you send a message through the lines ? “Certainly I will,” said Gordon, and he did. Then directing Gen. Barlow to be borne to the shade of a tree at the rear, he rode on with his command. The wife received the message and came harmlessly through both lines of battle and found her husband, who eventually recovered. Since Gen. Gordon’s election to the United States Senate, both he and Gen. Barlow were invited to a dinner party in Washington, and occupied opposite seats at the table. After introductions, Gen. Gordon said: “Gen. Barlow, are you related to the officer of your name w'ho was killed at Gettysburg?” “lam the man,” said Barlow. “Are you rela ted to the Gordon who is supposed to have killed me ?” “I am the man,” said Gen. Gordon. The hearty greeting which followed the touch ing story, as related to the interested guests by Gen. Barlow, and the thrilling effect upon the company, can better be imagined than de scribed.—Boston Transcript . Badly Demoralized. The insurance agents are not “chronic grumblers,” but there is an element of discontent among them that has a tendency to elongate their faces and make some of them ill-na tured at the supper-table. Our re porter was hanging around one of the prominent insurance offices last week and overheard the following conversation. Applicant for insurance steps in and addresses the agent—How much will you charge for $5,000 insurance on my house up on “the Reserve” for three years ? Agent (smilingly)—How much are you willing to pay ? Appliacn—l am not wililng to pay any thing. I want to know how cheap it can be done. Agent—(tremblingly(My dear sir, our rate has been 1 cent for each SIOO. With my policy I shall pre sent you with a piano-forte, a sewing machine, an organ, a bed-room set, a live baby in a patent jumper, or a tax title of 160 acres of stump lands out of our gift department if you leave the risk to me. “You pays your money and takes your choice. ' Will you allow us, sir, to write the risk 1- ? Applicant (turning to Rave) —No; I will look about a little first, and perhaps I can do better. The agent sank into his chair ex hausted, and asked our reporter if he could lend him a half a dollar with which to increase the “bait.” Marriage. We are too apt to treat marriage too light, and as a subject of jest or ridicule. When a man marries, he marries for heaven or hell. Build not your hopes on the color of a sparkling eye, or the flush of a fair cheek. The time will come when you will want not a pet or doll, but a genuine heroine in your homes; when you return from the store sor rowful and in despair at losses, and you need sympathy and encourage ment—a help that will give a fore taste of that heaven where bank ruptcy never comes. You will want a wife then who can sing just as before. There are women whose lives have been so sanctified by mis forture, that they got more harmony out of a Wheeler and Wilson than they can get out of a Chicker ing Grand or a Steinway. [Laugh ter and subdued applause.] Some of you will never know what homes are until trouble comes. The wife may have been found of gayety and life; but one touch of trouble will turn her into a Miriath’ shouting her songs of triumph by the banks of the Red Sea. Cry unto God for assist ance. Make a mistake here and you yinlrp i< forever. They who .marry in Christ shall walk together in that day when the Church takes the hand of the Lamb of God and walks amid the swinging of golden censers. — Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. Electric Commmiicatitm with Trains in Motion. M. de Bailleuache a French scien tist, has invented a mode of com municating with a moving train, which has been tried with success on the Western Railroad of Paris. Along the center of the line between the rails, runs an ordinary telegraph wire, placed so near the ground that the ash-pan of the locomotive passer over the wire freely’ but it is very careful isolate. In the train is a van containing a telegraph apparatus, attended by a competent clerk. From it descends a movable metallic lever with a conducting pad, which runs along in contact with the wire, the ends of which are in communication with a special appartus at the various stations, so that a constant circuit is kept up and a transmission of messages between the train and the station is as easy as between any two fixed points on land. As soon as the train has passed a station the communication is cut oft’, so that nothing may impede its intercourse with the one it is approach ing. Notice can be sent to the moving train to stop in case the track is impeded, and the train can give notice of its whereabouts at any giv en moment by the ringing of a bell or by sending a message. flow Franklin was Cured. Somebody has brought out the fol lowing interesting remainiseence: “When Benjamin Franklin was a lad he began to study philosophy, and soon became very fond of applying technical names to common objects. One evening when he had mentioned to his father that he had swallowed some acephalous mollusks, the old man was much alarmed, and suddenly seizing him, called loudly for help. Mrs. Franklin came with warm water, and the hired man ruthed in with the garden pump. They forced half a gal lon down Benjamin’s throat, then held him by the heels over the edge of the porch, and shook him, while the old man sad: “If we don’t get them things out of Benny he will be pizened sure.” When they wore out, and Ben jamin explained that the articles re ferred to were oysters’ his father fon dled him for an hour with a trunk strap for scaring the family. Ever afterwards Franklin’s language was marvelously simple and explicit.” It is a striking truth that he who would benefit his fellow man must walk by f dth, sowing his seed in the morning, and in the evening with holding not his hand—knowing that in God’s good time the harvest shall spring up and ripen; if not for him self, yet for others, who, as they bind the full sheaves and gather in the heavy clusters, may, perchance, re member him with gratitude and set up stones of memorial on the fields of his toil and sacrifice. RATES OF ADVERTISIN’ (Transient advertisements will be inserted at SI.OO per square for first, and 50 cents for subse quent inset tions. large spree and long time will receive liberal deduction, Legal advertisements at established rates and rules. Bills due upon first appearance of advertisement unless otherwise contracted for. NEWS IN GENERAL. Yellow fever of a severe type has broken out among the shipping at Rio Janeiro. Edison need not be in a hurry with his electric light. Lovers can make out with moonshine awhile longer. Mr. Sunsford and six of his chil dren were burned in his house at Nelsonville, Ohio, on the 28th. His wife and one child escaped. Charles Petree, a ticket clerk of St. Louis, stole 20,000 tickets and sold them for his own benefit. He was arrested. Gambling and fast .women did it. Terrific and destructive storms are reported in southern France and Spain, which have inflicted great loss ; and destruction on the people, and occasioned much fatalitv to human life. A rm on the New Orleans Savings Bank c >mmenced on the 24th, and in foui days a half million dollars was paid out. The officers say the bank is solvent, and the run was cause-, by a false rumor That Mr. McLeon, of Noxth Caro lina, v Ho has been convicted of hav ing nineteen wives, pleads that he was in a trance when he married each one. That might do for twelve or thirteen wives, but for nineteen— never. ]SO. 10. The New York Herald points out the fact that with two exceptions the vote of New York State the year pre vious to a Presidential election has foreshadowed the result of the fol lowing year. Ail eyes are on New York. The National members of the next congress held a meeting in Washing ton to consider how the tail can wag the dog. They have, as they claim, nineteen members represented by themselves or by letter. A few days ago they claimed twenty-one. Lord Beaconsfield to strangers is an amiable old gentleman. He has a loud, grating voice. He likes flowers perfumes and fruit. He eats and great deal of champagne jelly, and drinks a great deal of black coffee. He never smokes. He dresses to per fection. John G. Saxe, the wit, who has been in delicate heafth and has done no litierary work for some time, is now confined to his room in Brook lyn, suffering, it is said, from chronic melancholy, superinduced by iilness his own case and among members of his family. He will be sixty-three in June. Captain Boyton is performing some wonderful feats in his rubber swim mmg suit. He came near going un der the other day, however. He was floating down the Ohio river, and was caught in a gorge and nearlv orueueu lu uSm. x? was ficulty that ho extricated himself. Fifty persons in Illinois have been arrested for complicity in whiskey frauds. Some of them are among the most prominent and wealthy citizens. They represent every branch of business, and startling de velopments are promised. No occur rence has produced so much excite ment in that section for years. A Boston lady, contemplating pur chasing a Homestead in North Caro lina, wrote to an old settler in that vicinity, asking if it was true, as re ported, that the grass in that section was infested with “jiggers” which creep into the flesh. The reply was: “Yes; but all you have to do is to keep your legs greased, and they won’t trouble you.” She concluded not t o buy Father Ityan, the poet priest, is very ill at his home in Mobile from a partial paralysis of the throat. Re cently and prior to his severe attack he lias shown great delight in having the young gentlemen cf his acquaint ance meet at his house and discuss literary, religious and other topics with him. His conversation is said to be most interesting and instruc tive. Corbin has made a virtue of neces sity, and withdrawn his contest for Butler’s seat in the United States senate. He still claims to have been legally elected; but the senate has refused to act on his case this session, and Corbin thinks the jig is up. He remarks, as a parting shot, that if he had been admitted, he might have been of service to the colored people of South Carolina, now in need of assistance. The moral city of Chicago has just developed a horrid sensation. A doctor named Myers became intimate with the wife of one of patients, Mrs. Geldeman, and they plotted together to get rid of their legal partners, so that they could fully enjoy their illicit passions. The doctor undertook to carry out the plot, and by a process of slow poisoning first got rid of Mr. Geldeman, and then of his own wife. It was several months before the facts were found out and the guilty parties arrested. A dispatch to the Chicago Times reports Gov. Marks as saying that ho would hold every officer to a strict accountability who turned over to the receiver for the city, appointed by the United States court, any ef fects of the late city of Memphis, no matter by whom ordered. This in dicates that the State will appoint a receiver. A bill looking to that end is being prepared, and will be intro • duced in the legislature in a day or two. It is thought that this action of the governor will bring about a clash of authority between the re ceiver appointed by Judge Baxter, of the United States circuit court, and the receiver to be appointed by the governor. At all events the prospects are most flattering for a fight over the remains of the defunct corporation- The officers of the late city, by advice of counsel, will refuse to turn over what effects they may have in their possession, if a demand is made upon them by Judge La tham, the receiver lately appointed by Judge Baxter.