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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. Transient advertisements will be Inserted st SI.OO per sqture for first, end 60 cents for subse quent insertions. Large space and long time wil * receive liberal deduction, Legal advertisements at established rates and rules. 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.