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The 'Gainesville Eagle
Published Every Friday Morning
BY REDW IX K & HAM
Tl>e Olfidil Organ ot . Hall, Bankß, Towns,
Rabun, Union and Dawnon counties, and the city
of Gainesville. Hat a large general circulation in
twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and
two counties In Western North Carolina.
KIJITOHIAL EAGLETS.
The spring poets do not seem to
be very unanimous for some reason
The man who dreamt he dwelt in
marble halls awoke to find himself in
jail.
Hail, gentle spring, provided you
did not bring the red-bugs with
you.
Song of the ladies: In the sweet
bay and buy, we shall meet in that
beautiful store.
G-ra ndfather’s Clock stopped short
when the old man died, because his
estate was insolvent, and it could not
go on tick any longer
By the way, has anybody consented
to run for Governor of Ohio ? Can
it be that there are none to hear
when their country calls.
It is a good idea to know that a }
door is open belore you start to
walk briskly through it in the dark,
or else wear an india-rubber nose.
Bridges Smith’s new song, “The
Sweet Face at the Window,” was
suggested by his wife calling to him
from the kitchen scuttle to hurry up
with that stovewood.
The Californians burnt Hayes in
effigy because he would not sign the
Chinese bill, which would seem to
imply that the Californians have
more combustibles than brains.
We would like to see all the men
who have “a matter of public inter
est” band together and start a news
paper. Our mailing clerk has orders
to put it on the exchange list the
moment it appears.
An Atbeus street naan went home
the other night, and told his wife
that be had been os the jury, ami
she believed him too, until he struck
a match and tried to light a plaster
paris bast of Bob Lee.
An Atlanta man soaped his side
walk when his mother-in-law wa
coming to dinner, and bis favorite
billy goat slipped up on it and broke
his collar bone Let ibis be a warmug
to irreverent sons-in- law.
O’Leary made a dead fhilure in
the recent walking match m New
York, and is no longer the champion.
He can use bis legs hereafter to havo
boils on, thus relieving other more
tender portions of Ins anatomy.
The man who cun stand on the
point of an inverted carpet-tack, and
hum Sunday school melodies may
not be on the wav to heaven, but it
will give Satan lots of trouble to in
vent a temptation that will jar his
morality.
Eyurts only awaits the assembling
of the extra session to make a few
remarks. Evarts is one of the fellows I
that has to rest his lower jaw on top !
of a fence, and put a weight on top
of his head, to keep his oracularity
in check.
A Florida mosquito walked- leis
urely into a blacksmith’s shop at
Tallahasee one day last week, aud
remarked that he would like to get
his bill pointed and sharpened, as
he was thinking of going up to Geor
gia on a visit, as soon as the weather
got settled.
If there is anything that will make
a fair yoang girl lose her grip on he:
good humor, it is to fall desperately
in love with a duck of a young man,
and then learn on inquiry that he is
a staid old drake with a duck of his
own, and throe or four blooming
ducklings beside.
Nebraska City women are not to be
trifled with. One of them not only
listened and peeped through a key
hole, but fired a pistol through it at i
a man whose talk offended her. Here j
John, drive a piece of stick in that ;
key-hole, and hand us that bundle of
old letters in the tray of the trunk
The familiar fa.es of M'lt Saylor j
and the bounding Banning are,
among the memories of the past, j
Milt can now go to the Cincinnati \
hilltops and get drunk with the Dutch j
at will, while Banning can retire to
his promontory in the classic shades \
of Cumminsville, and soak himself!
in Dodaworth’s sweet mash.
Bobnel Burdette—we beg pardon,!
Col. Burdette, of the Burlington j
Hawkeye, is wearing a white tie, a j
cut away coat, and bowing to large
and enthusiastic audiences from the .
western lecture platform. Bob is a
good one, and we would be glad to
have him drop down this way be- j
tween drinks, and help us to a smile j
or two.
The vernal equinox is fornrnst us,;
the peach tree bloom gives forth its
fragrance, the samll of the hollyhock
and the sweetness of the jonquil float
lazily in the ambient atmosphere,
while the flies, the fleas, the bed-bugs
and hnmHlehaea begin to pack their
Saratogas and go forth seeking whom
they may devour somebody. All
this leads us to believe that the j
spring time is coming, gentle Annie. |
The Gainesville Eagle
YOL, Xill.
DUKL TO THE DEATH.
THE TKAUIC EN D OP ANOTHER OF A
FAMOUS RACE OF KINGLY MEN.
Tlie Killing of Col. Alston.
The horrible tragedy whioh oooured
in Atlanta a week ago last Tuesday,
Dy which one of best citizens of the
State lost bis life, has been the
theme of conversation ever since,
among those who have been made
acquainted with the particulars. As
we have published nothing in refer
ence to it we give our readers a short
synopsis of the details of the sad af
fair.
It seems that Col. R A. Alston was
the agent of Gen. Gordon to sell
that gentlemen’s interest in the lease
of State convicts, he being a mem
ber of one of the Companies which
had contracted with the State. Col.
Alston had but recently returned to
the State from Washington, and had
opened negotiations for the sale of
Gen. Gordon’s' interost with a Mr.
Walters of the lower part of the
State.
Mr. Ed Cox of DeKalb, county
owned a similar interest to Gen. Gor
don’s, aud was one of the same com
pany. He was also anxious to sell
and when he knew of the trade that
Col Alston was about to make with
Mr. Walters, he also went to see the
latter gentleman and induced him to
agree that if he bought Gen. Gor
don’s interost, he would also take his
(Cox’s) at the same price. The re
ports state that Col. Alstou and Mr.
Walters agreed on a price at one
time, but when the trade came to be
consummated,Mr.Walters backed out
aud declined to purchase Col. Als
ton was anxious to dispose ot the in-,
tore fit he represented as quickly as
possible and when hs found that Mr.
WAlters would not buy, he began to
look out for another purchaser. He
finally found one in the person o*
Col. Howard, and a pries was agreed
on between them and part of the
money paid.
As soon as Cox heard that Walters
had declined uuying and Alston had
made a trade with Howard he went
to Howard to get him also to agree
to buy his interest if he bought Als
ton’s. This Col. Howard and dined to
talk about however, and Cox then
went to see Col. Alston with the pur
pose of getting him to resciud the
trade with. Col Howard, aud sell to
Walters anyhow.
Cox found Col. Alstou ou the day
of the tragedy in a brber shop in
Atlanta, and taking him into a back
room told him his mission, remark"
mg that Alston had to do as he (Cox)
wished; that if he did not sell his in
terest he would be ruined, aud he
had come to force Alston to accede to
his proposition. Alston told him he
could not do so; that Walters had
positively declined to buy and that
he had already consummated the trade
with Howard. At this Cox became
violently angry and threatened Als.
ton’s life. He told Alston to go and
arm himself aud meet him in a few
minutes Alstou tried to conciliate
him but Cox was raging and desper
ate. Alston went off and stayed
away, telling several gentlemen of
Cox’s behavior and tuat he was anx
ious to avoid him. Cox bought a
pistol and for three or four hours
hunted for Alston. The latter kept
. utofhis wav as long as possible )
but finally C x <■ me up on him in
the tre ir is office in the Capitol.
There were olny two or three other
men present, and they state that
when Cox came in the room, ne be
gan the quarrel again with Alston
and told him he had come for a diffi
culty and wrs bound to have it.
Again Alston tried to pacify him,
even going to the extent of gently
laying his hand- on his breast and
saying: “Ed, let’s drop this matter, I
don't want to kill you and don’t
want you to kill me,"but Cox persist
ed and urged the difficulty till there
was no alternative but for Col. Al
ston to be killed without an effort
or to defend himself. And when he
saw that he was obliged to fight, he
stood up like a man and met his
death with a co trage and bravery
that were as conspicuous as his desire
to avoid the difficulty had been.
Col. Alston shot five times, wound
ing Cox in two or three places; and
Cox shot twice, the second shot
striking Col. Alston in the temple
and passing through his brain.
The death of Col. Alston was a sad
blow to his family and to the State.
He was a noble, honorable and use
ful citizen, true in all the relations of
life, and tears of anguish have been
shed for him all over the State, and
wherever he was known. We wish
our space would allow us to pflblish a
beautiful sketch of bis life and a
tribute to his memory written by Mr.
Henry TV. Grady.
Col. Alston was buried on Thurs
day at Dtcatur, with impressive cere
monies and hundreds joined in pay
ing the last tribute of respect to the
man whom all loved so dearly.
At the inquest held over his body,
the evidence developed the details of
the whole affair which we have sum
med us iu the above brief synopsis.
The jury returned a verdict of willful
and premeditated murder against
Cox.
Cox is in jail and will be tried in a
few weeks in Fulton Superior Court*
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1879.
THE FAITHFUL GUEST.
There was something, I forget
what, to take my grandfather and
grandmother away from home one
day in October of the year I lived
with them in Burn’s Hollow. It may
have been a funeral or some relig
ious meeting, for they both drove off
dressed in their best, in the gig, with
old Ajax harnessed to it; and after I
had tucked in grandma’s iron-gray
silk skirt and ran back to the house
for grandpa's spectacles, and had
seen the gig vanish in the distance, I
felt lonely. Burn's Hollow was a
lonesome, rambling mansion, which
might have sheltered a regiment,
and had a ghostly air about it when
one wandered through the upper
rooms alone.
There were but two servants iu
the kitchen, Hannah Oakes and the
Irish lad Anthony. I heard them
laughing merrily together, for, Han
nah was an old woman, she was full
of fun and iu five minutes the door
opened and Hannah came in with the
tray.
“Please, miss,” said she, as she set
it down, “may I run over to Maple
ton to night? My sister’s daughter
had a boy last night, they say, aud I
want to see it, nat’rally—its the first
I’ve ever had of grandniece or neph
ew.”
“Who brought the news?” I ask
ed.
“Anthony, miss,” said Hannah.
“He met George—that’s my niece's
husband—when he was out after the
cow, straying ns she always is, and
told him to toll Hannah ‘ she was a
grandaunt.’ ”
“Yon may go." I said, “but don’t
stay late. Grandpa aud grandma
may be away all night, and I feel
uervous. To be sure there is Antho
ny but I never rely on him. Be cer
tain not to stay late.” 1 repeated
this injunction with a sort of fright
stealing over me —a presentiment of
evil, I might say —and something
prompted me to add: “Bo back by
9.” Why, I cannot say; but I felt as
if by 9 I should be in some peculiar
danger.
Hannah promised, and after doing
all I required, went away, and I hoard
her heavy shoes on the garden walk
outside.
Early as it was, I bad dropped the
curtain and lighted the wax candle
on the mantle, and I sat long after
my to#, finding a certain companion
ship in it, as womeuof all ages will.
I sat thus a long, time, and was
startled from my reverie by a rap at
he door—a timid sort of rap, so I
knew at ouce that it was not a
member of the house nor an intimate
friend. I wuited eXiieoting Anthony
to open the door, lint finding he did
not I went to it myself.
It had grown quite dark, and the
moon rose late that night. At first I
could only make out ft crouching
figure at, the bottom of|the porohjbut
when I spoko it advanced, and by
the light of the hall lamp I saw a
black man. I had always had a sort
of fear of a negro, and instinctively
shrunk away, but as I did so he spoko
in a husky whisper: “This is Massa
Morton’s isn’t it?"
“Yes,” I replied, “but, grandfather
is out."
I retreated as he advanced.
“Please, miss,” he said, “Judge, B.
sent me here. He said massa ud
help me on. Let me stay here a
night, miss. Is trabbled five days
siuoe I left him, hidiu’ like, i’s aw
ful hungry. 'Pears like I’d drop,
and ole masaa’s arter me. For de
lub ob heabeu miss, let me bide
somewhere, and gib me jes’ a crust.
Massa Morton ’ud help me, and it’s
kept me up. Missus will, I know. ’
I knew that grandfattier had given
succor to some of these poor wretches
before; bnt I felt tha' I might be do
ing wrong by admitting a stranger in
bis absence.
Caution and pity struggled with
mo. At last 1 said, “You have a
note from the Judge I suppose sir?”
"I had some writin’ on a paper,
said the man, “but I’s lost it de night
it rained so. Ah! miss I's tellin’ the
truff, been helped along so far, and
pears like I get to Canady. Can’t
go back noways. Wife’s dar, and
young uns. Got clar year ago.
Miss, I’ll pray for you obry day of
my life ef you'll bo so good to me.
Tank you, miss.”
For some bow when he spoko of
wife and children I Lad stepped back
and let him iu.
It was the back hall door to which
the rap had come, and the kitchen
was close at hand. I led him thith
er. When I saw how worn ho was,
how wretched, how his eyes glisten
ed, and how under his rough blue
shirt his heart beat so that you
could count the pulses, I forgot my
caution. I brought out cold bread
aud meat, drew a mug of cider, and
spread them on the table. Tbe negro
ate, and I left him to find Anthony,
to whom I intended to give direc
tions for his lodging throughout the
night.
To my surprise, Anthony was no
where about the house or garden,
Hannah must have taken him with
her across the lonely road to Maple
ton.
It was natural, but I was angry.
Yet I longed for Hannah’s return,
and listened very anxiously until
the clock struck 9. Then instead of
her footsteps, I heard the patter of
raindrops and the rumbling thunder,
and looking, out saw that a heavy
storm wascoming on.
Now certainly, grandma and
grandpa would not come, and Han
nah, waiting for the storm to pass,
would not be bere for hours. How
ever, my fear of the negro was quite
gone, and I felt a certain pride in
conducting myself bravely under
these trying circumstances.
Accordingly I went up stairs
found in tbe attic Bundry pillows
and bolsters and carried them kitch
enwa rd.
“Here,” I said, “make yourselfa
bed on the settee yonder, and be ea
sy for the night. No one wifi follow
you in such a terrible storm as this
and, no doubt, giandpa will assist
you when he returns home. Good
night”
“Good night, and God bless you,
miss,” still speaking in a very husky
whisper. And so I left him.
But I did not go up stairs to my
bedroom. I intended for that night
to remain undressed, and sit up in
grandpa’s arm chair, with candles
and a hook for oompany. Therefore
Hocked the door, opening a volume,
composed myself to read.
Reading, I fell asleep. How long
I slept, I can not tell. I was awak
ened by a low sound like the prying
of a chisel.
At first it mixed with my dream so
completely that I took no heed of it,
but at last I understood that some
one was at work upon look of the
door,
I sat perfectly motionless, the
blood curdling in my veins, and still
chip, chip, chip, went the terrible
little instrument, until at last I knew
whence the sound eame.
Back of the sitting room was
grandpapa’s study. There, in a
great oldfashioned ohest, were stored
the family plate, grandma’s jewelry
and sundry sums of money aud valu
able papers. The safe itself stood iu
a closet recess, and at the closet the
thief was now at work.
The thief—ah, without doubt, the
uesro I had fed and sheltered.
Perhaps tbo next act would be to
murder me if I listened. The storm
was still raging, but though the road
was lonely, bettor that than this
house with such company. I oould
not save my grandfather’s property,
but I could Bave my own life.
I crept across the room and into
the hall, an to the door. There,
softly as I could, I unfastened tbe
bars" aud bolts, but, alas! one was
above my reach. I wuited and list
ened. Then I moved a hall chair to
the spot, and climbed upon it. Iu
doing sol struok my shoulder against
tha door frame.
It was a Blight noise, but at that
moment the chip of the chisel stop
pod. I heard u gliding foot, and,
horror of horrors 1 a man came in
fr- m the study, sprung towards me,
and clutched mo with both hands,
holding my arms as iu a vice, while
ho hissed in my oar: “You'd tell,
would you? You'd Cull help? You
might better havo slept, you had; for
you see, you’ve got to pay up for
wakiug; I’d rather have lot a chick
liko you off;J but you know me now
andl can’t let you live.”
I stared up with horror, ming
led with an awful surprise; for now
that it was close to mo I saw not the
negro but our own hired man, An
thony—Anthony, whom I supposed
to be miles away with Hannah. He
was little more than a youth, and I
had given him many a present, and
had always treated him well.
I pleaded with him kindly.
“Anthoay, T never did yen any
harm. I am yomig; 1 am a girl.
Don’t kill me. Antheny Take the
money; don’t kill mo, for poor grand
ma’s sake.”
“You'll tell on mo,” said Anthony,
doggedly; “likely I'd bo caugbt. No
I have got to kill you.”
As bo spoke he took his hands from
my shoulders, and clutched my
throat fiercely.
I had time to uttor one suffocating
shriek, aud theu I was struggling,
dying with sparks in my eyes, and a
sound of roaring water in my ears,
and theu—what had sprung upon my
assassin, wiih the swift silence of a
leopard? Wbat had clutched me
from behind, and stood over him with
something glittering above bis heart?
The mist cleared away—the blurred
mist that-had gathered over my eyes
us sight returned I sow the negro
with his foot upon Anthony’s breast.
The fugitive whom I had homed
and fed had saved my life.
Ten minutes after—ten rninutos in
which, but for tbo poor slave’s pres
ence, I would buve been hurried out
of life—the rattle of wheels aud tbo
tardy feet of old Ajax hoard without
and my grandparents were with
me.
It is needless to say that we were
not ungrateful to our preserver; need
leas, also, to toll Anthony’s punish
ment.
It came out during his trial that he
had long contemplated the robbery;
that, the absence of my grandpa
rents appearing to afford an oppor
tunity, ho had decoyed Hannah away
with a lie, and hid in the study.
Ho know nothing of the negro’s
presence in the house, and being
naturally superstitious, had actually
funciod my protector a feature from
the other world, and submitted
without a struggle.
Anecdote told by the late Emperor
Napoieon: “Once upon a time before I
was President of the Republic, Thiers
arid Mole invited me to dine with
them at the house of the former. ‘We
shall be by ourselves, said Thiers;
come a little early; we will go up
stairs to my room and meet Mole,
who will he there, and we can talk
over some important matters. I went,
and ascended in due course to M.
Thiers’ snuggery, which as you know
was at the top of the house. He took
the right of the fireplace and Mole
the left; I sat between them waiting
for the grave commuication that two
peoplejof such consequence must have
to make to me. Thiers began the
conversation. ITe drew a picture of
modem society, in which he strove to
show that the civil element pre
dominated and even essentially
characterized it. Passing from the
character of society to that which
leaders and rulers of men are bound
to adopt to be in harmony therewith,
he expressed himself as strongly of
opinion that a ruler should repudiate
all military appearances. ‘You will, he
continued, he most certainly elevated
to the Presidency of the Republic.
Now, in order to put yourself in
keeping with the actual state and
tendency of society Mole and I think
you should cut off your mustaches. If
he or I were elected we would not
I think of wearing them. The Emper
or burst out laughing, and they never
I forgave him.
HMAlffi BITS.
Or Varioui Kiiuls CarcAosuly lluownTo
lVj* grthcr-
A littlo impatience subverts groat
undertakings.
| Do not anxiously kopo for what
has not yet come.
Every man sees the fault of others,
but cannot discern his own.
Batter not be than be nothing.
True gold does not fear fire.
The full moon does not last, and
the blight cloud soon vanishes.
The “sweet bye and bye” is now
spoken of as the “saccharine future.”
He who speaks without modesty
will find it difficult to make his words
good.
To bo poor withoat murmuring is
difficult. To bo rich without being
proud is easy.
-< To havo faults and uot to reform
ihein—this indeed should bo pro
nounced having faults.
If you wish to know what most
ougages a man's thoughts, you have
only to listen to his conversation,
The mau who says it don’t hurt to
have a tooth filled is meaner thau
four liars aud a horse thief. — Detroit
Free Press.
Music hath charms to sooth the
Sjivage; but a double-barreled shot
guu does the work a good deal quick
er, and at about half the expense.
,A. AY. Faber, who invented the
first lead pencil in the United States,
ia/'lead. Will there ever be an A.
W Faber, No. 2. Washington Capi
tal.
For one word a mau is often
deemed to be wise, and for one word
he is often deemed to bo foolish. We
ought to be careful indeed in what
we Bay.
Said an old friend: “I don’t like
a man who is intimate on short ac
quaintance, bocauso he is almost sure
to be ‘short’ on iutimato acquaint
ance.”
He commenced with, “Oh 1 can
those lovely eyes of thiue—” when
she stopped him short and told him
she wasn't canning that kind of fruit
just then. ,
When we see men of worth, wo
should think of equaling thorn; when
we see men of a contrary character,
we should turn iuward aud examine
ourselves.
Tho Boston Post says: “Julia Ward
Howe has gone to bathe her feet iu
!Lj river Jordan. We shall next
hear that the holy river is overflow
ing its banks.
The popular idea that tramps
won't work if they have a ehauoe is
very erroneous. They havo been
k.si-tvte i-> Jig through jail srWf a
ten-penny nail.
The force of habit is so great that
some families will scud a servant two
blocks beyond a grocery store for
tho purpose of borrowing a little tea
from a neighbor.
AVe are perfectly willing to believe
the California stories about women
who kill bears; but we defy the coun
try to show the woman who has
slaughtered a mouse.
Kerosene, it is said will euro diph
theria. Many a servant girl who
might havo died from diphtheria has
been saved by a timely use of kero
sene and kindling wood.
A mau will sit ou a picket fonce
all the afternoon to soa a ball match,
but put him iu a ohuroh-pew for
three quarters of au hour aud ha will
wabble all over the seat.
“A slipper in tbe hand is worth
two os my feet,” says the stern moth
er, as nho doubles her youngster into
a parabolic curvo across her knee.
Then knee set up a howl.
A Chinaman with blonde hair is
the latest Han Francisco novelty.
Turn him loose in the lecture field;
is bo not by education, birth and na
ture a yellow cue-tionist ?
A weather phrophet is tho only
mau who never gets discouraged. If
he hits the case ouce in fifty times,
ho is perfectly satisfied there is a
great future in store for him.”
Man, with all his grand endow
ments, finds it difficult to tread the
perilous edge of an orange peel
and keep his nose pointed in tho
direction his Creator intended it to
point.
A pretty girl down oast is a ‘mind
reader.’ She said to a bashful beau,
the other night:
“La ! I believe you are going to
kiss me!”
She was right.
The first time a fellow kisses tbe
girl of his choice the sensation is not
unlike tbe chill that courses through
the veins of the wight whoso head
has just been seized by tbo Lon
clamps of the photographer. —Boston
Transcript.
“What can you say of the second
law of thought?” Student: “It can
not both be and not be. For exam
ple, tho door over there must be
either shut or open. In cannot be
both ehut and open.’’ Tutor: “Give
another illustration.’’ Student:
“Well, take the case of another
door.’’
“Where do you expect to go when
you die, young man?” said a minis
ter sternly to an ungodiy scoffer. “I
expect," was the reply, “to the grave,
but tbe chances are that I’ll pull up
in some blamed medical college or
other.” The preacher retired to
write a sermon on the flippancy of
tbe times.
The following lines were seen a
few days since over a dead hawk,
which was lying on the fonce near
the residence ef Mr. J. R. Echols,
“jf anybody can make any money in
the surrounding country raising
chickens, all right;—l chall not inter
fere any more. lam done with this
world and I am gone where all good
birds go. John Echols, a blame fool,
shot mo this morning.”— Gumming
Clarion.
“Asa Shock of Corn Cometh in
its Season.”
The annexed extract is so beauti
ful that, by every one who roads it,
it will be preserved. It fell from the
lips of Rev. Dr. Charles Wadsworth
of Philadelphia. The text taken by
him was, “Ab a shock of corn cometh
iu its season.”
In His moral tillage, lie said, God
cultivate* many flowers, seemingly
only for their exquisite beauty and
fragrance. For when bathed in soft
sunshine they have burst into blos
som, then the Divine Hand gathers
them from the earthly fields to be
kept in crystal vases in blessed man
sions above, Thus little children die
—some in the sweet bud, some in
fuller blossom; but never too oarly to
make Leaven fairer and sweeter
with the immortal bloom.
Verily, to the eye of Faith nothing
is fairer thau the death of young
children. Sight and sense, indeed
recoil from it. The flower that, like
a breathiug rose, filled heart and
home with an exquisite delight, alas!
wo are stricken with sore anguish to
find its stem broken and the blossom
gone. But unto Faith, eagle eyed
beyond mental vision, und winged
to mount like tho singing lark even
this is touchingly lovely.
Tho child’s earthly ministry was
well done, for the rose does work as
grandly iu blossom as the vine with
its fruit. And having helped to
sanctify and lift heavenward the very
hearts that broke as its farewell, it
has gone from this troublesome
sphere ere the winds chilled or the
rains stained it, leaving the world it
blessed and tho skies through which
it passed still sweet with its lingering
fragrance, to its glory as an evor-uu
fokling flower in the blessed garden
of God. Surely, prolonged life on
earth hath no boon like this! For
such mortal loveliness to put on im
mortality—to rise from the carnal
with so little memory of earth that
the mother’s cradle seemed to have
been rocked iu the house of many
mansions—to have no experience of
a wearied mind aud chilled affections,
but from a child’s joyous heart grow
ing up into the power of an archan
gelie intellect—to be raptured as a
blessed babe through the gates of
Paradise —ah ! this is better thau to
walch as an old prophet for the car
of tiro in the Valley of Jordan.
Surely, God is wise iu nil his
works, and oven amid our tears will
rejoice iu this harvest feast l hat
among us, as elsewhere, ho gat mrs
so largely tlie flowers iu thoir Rea
son.
Ami as of flowers, so of ii nits, in
their order aud after tlieir bud each
oometli in his season Some fruits
ripen early. Scarcely has the dolic
ious June poured its fuil glory over
the earth ere some rare and oehoioas
species are already ripened. And
sows ripen later. Xbre are l ree,
that do not blossom till midsummer.
And there are fruits that rmiiiu hard
and unsavory until God shakes
them in the wild autumnal wind and
treats them with the distressful min
istry of frost. Aud so it is in the
spiritual—souls develop and mature
differently. Some are ready for
gathering at life’s early summer;
some come not to tho eariug till the
time of the latter rain. And God
watches carefully that each shall
come in his season. AVe indeed some
times talk of untimely deaths of
Christians removed too early from
spheres of usefullnoss, as if the om
niscient husbandman did not know
when hia immortal grapes are purple
and his corn in the ear. Surely God
does the whole thing wisely, gather
ing oaoh spiritual growth just as it
comes into condition for its immortal
uses.
O, thought beautiful and comfort
ing l Death is not destruction, but
harvesting—the gathering from fields
of mortal tillage, ripe fruits in their
season. Aud why, then, should onr
harvest feast bo sad over garnered
immortality? AVhy should this
sweetly tolling bell, filling tho troub
led earthly airs with a gentle sound,
so startle and appal the trustful spir
it? God strengthen your faith so to
behold thiH mysterious thing in a
light from heaven, that its dark veil
shall seem transparent and a face
with soft eyes look forth loving and
bright as an angel.
Death is not destruction ! Death
is not even decay ! Death is harvest
ing ! Hear ye parents from whose
household sweet children havo been
rudely parted, hoar ye this: The Be
loved has gone down into His gar
den to gather lilies! Ye children
who havo lost revered parents, and
whose life is chilled in the shadow of
that dread thing—orphanage—hear
ye this: Asa shock of corn cometh
in his season, so are matured souls
gathered to the garner of God.
A few mornings ago a gentleman
stepped into Floyd’s restaurant and
took breakfast. As he came out, and
while lie was paying his bill, ho
marked: “Billy, that was very good
ground hog tho boy gave me for
breakfast. “
fGround hog! said Billy—Ground
hog! You never got any ground hog
here. No such a thing ever comes
into this house.”
The waiter was called and testified
that he had given the gentleman
nothing but some sausage.
“There,“ said Billy. I knew you
were mistaken.“
“Well,“ replied the customer,
“what is sausage but ground hog?
Don’t they have to grind the hog to
make sausage?”
Billy offered to treat to oysters the
next time his friend would call.
A correspondent writes: I painted
my wagon hubs with gastar paint last
year, filling cracks and joints thor
oughly. This kept the spokes tight
the rest of the season.
The mayor of Salt Lake City gets
$2,000 yearly and a number of new
wives.
Horace Greeley was never called
Colonel. _ „
NO. 12
(COMMUNICATED. )|
* Chinese Immigration.
Editors Eagle: Of all the evils that
have threatened the peace, and, in
faot, the existence of the liberties of
this nation, that of Chinese immigra
tion is the most alarming. Its effects
have already produced very great
uneasiness and alarm among all
classes of people, and, if persisted in
will, in a few years, culminate in a
oivil war. The dense population of
China can readily spare ten or even
twenty millions of her convicts and
strumpets, who are starving daily
for want of food, without missing
them; and under oorrupt legislation
our government would soon be forced
to yield to the withering blight of
dishonest rule, and become, like
Mexioo, a perfeot anarchy. The
veto of the Chinese Immigration bill
by President Hayes, shows him to
have but little respect for the rights,
liberty and happiness of the masses,
and a panderer to the dictation of
party. All denominations in religion
and politios petitioned him to release
them from the loathsome curse of
Chinese rule and demoralization.
Ten million voters, added to the ne
gro vote, would give any dishonest
party, or ring, the power to oontrol
the government, and reduce the peo
ple to absolute want and slavery.
We endorse the sentiment of the
people of the Pacific States, that no
one but a fanatic or a fool would
vote for or advocate negro, Indian or
Mongol equality. It saps the foun
dation of all good government, all
civilized society, all true religion,
and every vestige of moral principle.
This we know, as the Mongol has no
more conception of moral principle
than the jackass; and all the inferior
races are in the same category. Give
us Oauoassian government or give us
death. It is not surprising that
Hayes should veto the bill, as he is
the cat’s-paw of a corrupt ring,
which foisted him into the presiden
tial ohair by a perjured committee.
M. F. Stephenson.
Tlie New Senate.
The senate will be composed, per
sonally and politically, as follows:
ALABAMA. MISSIBSII'PI.
18H3 John T Morgan, D.lBBl B K Bruce, B.
1885 0 8 Uoailon, D. 1888 L Q 0 Lamar, D.
ARKANSAS. MISSOURI.
1883 A U airland, D. 1881 EM 000, rell, D.
1885 James D Walker, D.1885 OeolG Vast, D.
OALIVORBIA. NRBUAHKA.
1881 Nowtou Booth. B. 1881 A S Paddock, B.
1885 James T Earley, 11.1881 Alvin Maunders, B.
„WSUr.
1885 N V Bill, R. 1885 John P Jones, St.
OONNKOTIOUT. NIW H AMPSHtr, U
1881 Wu W Eaton, 11. 1883 Edward H Rollins. 1)
1886 Orville H Platte. 8.1885 A Ropnblioan.
DILAWABE. SAW JKRHBY,
1881 Thomas F Bayard, DlBBl T F Randolph, D.
1883 Ell Saulsbury, D. 1883 J B McPherson, D.
Florida. saw YORK.
1881 Ohas W Jonas, D. 188' Franala Kernan. D.
1885 Wilkinson Oall. I). 1886 Boscoe Oongling, B,
OSOBOIA. N IETO CAROLINA.
1883 B H Hill, D. 1883 H W Ransom, D.
1885 John B (Jordon, D.1886 Z B Vauoo, D.
ILLINOIS OHIO.
1883 David Davis, I, 1881 Allan (J Thurman, D
1886 Johu A Logan. R. 1835 Oao II Pendleton, D.
INDIANA. OBIOON.
1881 JE McDonald, D. 1883 Lafayetto Orovnr, D,
1885 D W Voarhees, D. 1885 Jamos H slater, D.
IOWA. PANNHTLN ANIA.
1883 H J Kirkwood, B. 1881 Wm A Walluoe, D.
1885 Wm Alllaou, B. 1896 J Don Oamoran. It.
KANSAS. BHODE ISLAND.
18s3 P B plumb, B. I*Bl A E Buruslde. R.
1886 John J Ingalls. R. 1883 H B Anthony, R.
KKNrucKT. soura Carolina.
1883 Jamos 1) Book, D. 1883 MO Butler, D.
1885 J 8 Williams, D. 1886 Wade Hampton, D.
LOUISIANA. TRNNRSSER.
1883 W P Kellogg, It. 1381 James E Bailey. D.
1885 B F Jonae, D. 1883 lshara O Carrie, D.
MAIMS. TMXAH.
1881 H Hamlin, It. 1831 Samuel B Maxey, D.
1883 JaAAiou a Blaine, It. 1883 KlcUard Ooke, D.
MARYLAND. VERMONT.
1881 Win P Whyte, D. IHBI Oe* F Edmunds, It.
1885 Jamos B Groom©, D.1885 Justin 8 Morrill, It.
MASSACHUSETTS. VIRGINIA.
1881 H L Dawes, It. 1881 It K Withers, D.
1888 Geo F Hoar, U. 1883 J W Johnston, D.
MICHIGAN. WMBT VIRGINIA.
1881 ZOhamiler.lt. 1881 Frank Hereford, D.
1883 T W Fsrry, it. 1888 Henry O Davis, D.
MINNESOTA. WISCONSIN.
18H1 J It McMillan It 1881 Angus Cameron, R.
1883 Wm Wiudom, It. 1886 M H Carpenter, It.
Senators Spencer, Sargent, Bar
uum, Conover, Ogleaby, McCreery,
Shields, Merrtmon, Mitchell, Dorsey,
Chaffey, Eustis, Dennis, Wadleigh,
Matthows, Patterson and Hows re
tire. The Senate will consist of for
ty-two democrats thirty-three radi
cals and one independent. New
Hampshire will be represented by
but one senator until June, when the
vacancy will be filled by the election
of a radical.
Senator McCreery.
Some days before the adjournment
of congress, as the story goes, good
natured aud ponderous Senator Mc-
Creery, of Kentucky, was waddling
down Pennsylvania avenue, when a
dapper young gent'eman, one of that
class which delights “society girls"
by exclaiming at intervals during a
fashionable reception: “Have you
been very gay this season?" ap
proached him with the question: “Ah,
Senator, how de do; I called on
you this morning. Did you get my
card ?’’
“Yes," said the Senator dryly,
“I got the card; but what did you
mean by writing ‘E. P.’ in the corner
of it ?”
“Oh, that,’’ said the young gentle
man, evidently delighted at being
able to give information, ‘that you
know, means 'en. personnel in other
words, ‘left in person.”’
“Yes, yes,” said the Senator, medi
tatively, “I see.”
The next day Mr. McCreery again
met the young man, and this time go
ing up to him, said, * ‘Ah, by the way,
I called ou you this morning; did
you get my card ?’’
“Yes sir; yes, was the reply, “I
got it; but, I say, Senator, what
in the world did you mean by writ
ing, ‘S. B. A. N.' in the corner of
it? ’
“What!” cried the old gentleman,
laughing all over his big face, “didn’t
you understand that? I’m surprised.
What should I mean but ‘sent by a
nigger.’’’
When I hear a man bragging about
what he did last year and what he’s
going to do next year, I ean tell pret
ty near what he's doing now.
hates of advertising.
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Legal advertisements at established rates and
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Bills due upon first appearance of advertisement
unless otherwise contracted for.
NEWBIN GENERAL,.
Where the hedge is the lowest the
devil leaps over.
Thirty paintings recently imported
by William H. Vanderbilt cost $240,-
000.
In Maine, Senator Hannibal Ham
lin is popularly supposed to be im
mortal.
A horse kicked Henry Bergh.
This, we believe, is the height of in
gratitude.
Contests for congressional seats
cost the country SBO,OOO during the
45th congress.
Paul Boyton’s swimming apparatus
is so perfect that it is feared he can
not possibly drown.
J. 8. Adams killed Frank C. Cash
in New Orleans on the 14th. Adams
was arrested and jailed.
A Chinaman, named A1 Ben, Wa4
haDged last Friday at Marysville,
Cal., tar the murder of John McOan
iels.
Darwin has just passed his 70th
year. The longer he lives the more
he L lieves in the survival of the
fittest.
Hon. Charles McLean, a prominent
lawyer of Massachusetts, took corro
sive sublimate by mistake aud is in a
critical condition.
The mint at New Orleans turned
out 41,000 silver dollars last month,
coined from Mexican and old dollars
of antique plate.
A dispatch from Washington states
that the brother of Gen. Grant is
there in a partially insane condition,
and is a pitiable object. -,, ,
Dr. W. B. Taylor, who was At
tached to the Hampton legion dur
ing the war, amputated both Sena
tor Butler’s aud Senator Hampton's
legs.
Mrs. Seals, of Nashville, lost a
thousand dollar diamond ring recent
ly. It was found by a poor widow
and the owner rewarded the finder
by giving her SIOO.
The remains of Bayard Taylor
were shipped on the 22nd ult., from
Hamburg on the steamer, Gellert,
and was expected in New York on
Wednesday the 12th.
John Swallow, a prominent mer
chant of St. Louis, has been sued for
SIO,OOO damages by a beautiful Cu
ban girl of sixteen whom he employed
as a saleswoman in his Btore and
whom he seduced.
Wm. H. Devlin was hung last
week at East Cambridge, Mass., for
the murder of his wife and child in
December, 1877, and John G. Pink
ham was huug the same day at Con
cord, N H, for the murder of a wid
t rr.'mm w .M years ago. *! "
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson and J.
Murray Forbes, Esq., two prominent
lawyers of Virginia, were arrested
and put under bonds to appear be
fore the polioe court, because they
were about to fight. The difficulty
originated in the court house during
a trial.
There are now six female lawyers
in the United States, and all are hav
iug a fair praotice. They are Mrs.
Lockwood, of Washington; Mrs.
Bradwell, of Chicago; Miss Phoebe
Oozzens, of St. Louis; Mrs. Foster,
of Iowa; Mrs. Goddell, of Wiscon
sin and Mrs. Foltz, of San Fran
cisco.
The Hon. Jefferson Davis, whom
Mr. Hoar and the senate excluded
from the benefits of the pension bill,
is living at Mississippi City, a small
station on the Mobile and New Or
leans railroad, near the coast, and in
circumstances which make him en
tirely independent of the benefits re
sulting from pension bills and such
special legislation.
Charles F. Bar .y, who committed
suioide in New Orleans, left the fol
lowing note to the coroner’s jury:
“Gentlemen, you oan bring in your
verdict without trouble or delay. I
have taken my own life by taking
morphine and laudanum. I tried
hard to make a living, but utterly
failed. No person had compassion
on my old age or would give me
employment. I was reduced to utter
destitution. There is not a cent to
bnrv me.”
On the 12th inst., the town of.
Szegedin, in Hungary, near Pestfa,
was visited by a terrible storm and
the river Theiss was so swollen that
it burst through the jetties and
inundated the whole place, washing
away houses and destroying hun
dreds of lives. The storm raged for
several days and the town remained
submerged so that people who bad
sought refuge in the strong houses
and high places could not get about.
Iu consequence there was great suf
fering because of their crowded con
dition and scarcity of food. Dis
patches represent three-fourths of
the town in ruins. Also that several
hundred persons have been drowned
and thousands are starving. One
or two other towns have also been
damaged.
A remarkable case of franco has
just occurred at Freelandsville, In
diana. Miss Flora Feihleman, who
had been at school sometime, re
turned home in a feeble condition
and was quite siok for sometime.
After awhile she also contracted
pneumonia and finally died, appa
rently. Preparations were made for
her ourial, but in order to allow
relatives to come from a distance the
funeral was postponed fire days. On
the day fixed for the burial and while
the preparations were going on, Miss
Feihleman suddenly became con
scions and sat up iu her coffin. She
was removed to a bed, became
exhausted and it was several hours
before she waked up again. When .
she did she could talk but could, noi
tell anything except of what hap- ,
pened before her trance. Muon ex
citement was caused by the remarka
ble phenomenon.