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|The Gainesville Eagle Published Every Fndav Morning P B Y it £j)w i \ i: k na m The Official Organ of Hall, Hanks, Towns, Union and Dawuon counties, and the city of Gainesville. His a large general circulation in twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and two counties in Western North Carolina. K JDITORJ Al EAGLETS For 1880. Hog and Hominy. Two more months and the June bug cometh. Leaves have their time to fall, bat spring bonnets never, “You wound my feelings,” as the corn said to the tight boot. When un undertaker inters a colored man, does he go black bury ing. A drunken brakeman may be said to be an “elevated’’ railroad man. ♦ | ■ There is a dive-inity which shapes our ends, if we strike a rock at the bottom. How to make last spring’s tile this spring’s style is wha no fellow will ever find out. Did you ever think how much quicker a rat could get in a hole if he had no tail ? The “ Revolutionary element”seems to manage the senate with considera ble moderation after all. Simon Camorom seems to be, among other things, an amateur abortionist. A gay old galoot is Si mon. It has got so now that a good live ly, stringy man can earn more money with his legs than he can with his hands. An Atlanta man advertises “the prettiest thing in calico ever brought to this market.” He must have plump girls to sell. If accounts are to be credited, Mrs. Oliver was a naughty old girl, but how does that atone for the vene rable Simon Cameron’s wrongness? When whiskey and a dog fight will not make two men tangle, white winged peace is playing a most suc cessful engagement in the neighbor hood Old father Time is sharpening up his scythe preparatory to reaping his annual crop of spring poets who die unpublished, unwept and un sung. “Tho honest watch-dogs cheerful bark,” said the fashionable young lady as she looked at the dog-skin gloves which she had bought for the “finest kid.” There is a peculiarity about re pealing clauses which enables them when crowded out of the legislative coach to ride astraddle of the appro priation bills. The editors fire slowly but none the less surely coming to the fore. Mr. John C. Burch, of the Nashville American was elected secretary of the United States senate. “Ah, yes!” sighed the man who keeps the peanut stand at the corner of Market and Broad streets, “times are getting harder every day. Why, my business it at a stand, still!” Col. Will Peebles, the society edi tor of the Cincinnati Post , is in lively correspondence with an Atlanta fair one. Thus one by one are the Northern stalwarts becoming sub dued. The country would be relieved if Ben Butler would get the broom with which ho swept the yellow fever out of New Orleans, and sweep Si mon and the widow clear out of the courts and prints. A Tennessee man went to the sta ble in the dark to milk a cow, and got in the strong stall and tackled a mule. He said he would not have been so broken uo if the roof had not been nailed on so tight. We would like to know if Col. Dad Burnett, of the Cincinnati Post, is keeping up his end of the beer counter with his former conspicuous ability. A word from Dad on a postal card would refresh us much ly- Could not Col. Murat Halstead, 'the thunder builder of the Cincinnati Commercial, drop us an item or two about John Sherman’s chances for the Presidency ? Field Marshal Mu rat must not allow his bloody pen to rust. Take an ordinary sofa with a girl on one end, a young man on the other, and the girls pa in the room, and there is room enough between them to drive a wagon and team. Let the old man go out, and the old thing will get so short that it is with the utmost difficu’ty they can both wedge themselves into it. We may be killed for saying it, but just think what an immense amount of muscular force was wasted by the three men who have walked wearily, day and niebt, in Gilmore’s Garden ! Rightly applied, that labor would have done great and beneficial service, say, for instance, in digging the ground and planting potatoes. The Gainesville Eagle VOL. X 11. A STORY OF THE HE AD LIGHT. The Astonishing Vision that Appeared to Conductor Columbus Braun igan. Gray-haired Columbus Brannigan is as rough and ready a conductor as ever swung a lamp. For almost a quarter of a ceDtury he has run a Hudson River train between New York and Poughkeepsie, to the sat is fac' ; on of the company, the public and himself, and to tho terror of all who tried to circumvent the road. But of late years, while he has done his work as well as ever, Conductor Brannigan has felt that he is grow ing old, that his shoulders are not as plumb as they were, his limbs less suple, and he looks with a growing aversion upon the new men who are coming on, young fellows who wear their laced caps jauntily and give their signals in an of!* hand fashion that is painfully unlike the clear free sweep of the lamp that characterizes the old style. These last two weeks bo has felt worse than usual, and his eyes have bother ed him a great deal. On one occa sion, for instance, he saw two lights, a red and a green, at a point where he knew there could be only a green. At another time he thought that fire was spurting from the engine when really the llame was only the flaring torch of the fireman who was put ting oil into the cups. When he re flected upon these things he was troubled; for if he should get worse he might have to give up his train. He couldn’t live away from the road. Once off and he knew what would happen then, it would not be long before the Great Engineer would blow brakes on him forever. This condition of mind wrought an astonishing change in Conductor B annigan’s demeanor'. Before if he encountered on his train a man who was trying to ride without paying, he put him off without ceremony; now he was inclined to be lenient, and if the poor iraveier told a plausi ble story he would let him pass. Formerly lie was brusque and dicta torial to his baggage master, and made that overworked servant of the company sort and count his tickets for him, and Btand around generally; now he is gentle and forbearing, and did his work himself all to the great amazement of Augustus Forgarty, the placid but gigantic trunk dest"oy er, whoso thoughts wero so engross ed by this new departure that one day he carelessly dropped a trunk on the wrong corner, and gave it, not the gaping collapse that marks good work, but what is known as the steamboat split, a term of contempt applied to the bungling work done by steamboat deck hands and bag gage masters on short feeder roads. Chagrined by this unfortunate acci dent, Forgarty gave closer attention to his duties; but he never ceased wondering what was the matter with the conductor. Conductor Brannigan pulled out of the Grand Central depot yesterday afternoon on time. He takes tho east track going up. Waymonk de pot, which he reached about two hours after dark, stands alongside the west track, so that baggage for Waymonk from up traius is sot off on the down track, and removed thence t~> the station platform by the agent. Forgarty set out last upon the down track 17 trunks, 7 carpet bags, and 4 band-boxes, making a neat pile about the size of a log cab in. As Conductor Brannigan passed the depot ou his way along down his t - aiu to see if everything was all right, he saw the station agent com ing out for the trunks, and theu in the darkness he lost sight and thought of them altogether. Turn ing at the rear car, he lifted his lamp and gave his engineer the sig nal to go ahead, and at the same mo ment he saw the glare of a headlight coming around the curve just norih of the dep it “St. Louis,” he said to himself, as he stepped upon the rear plat orra, aud then as his train gathered headway he forgot St. Lou is as he had done a hundred times before, and started for the baggage cab. While he was passing from the front platform of the rear car to the rear platform of the next the St. Louis shot by, and at the same in stant he heard a crackling sound, and thought he saw trnuks flying in every direction, When Conductor Brannigan reach ed the baggage car he sat down his lamp with a injected air, and sank wearily in his elixir. “.Justus,” he said, ‘ I’m getting old. Something’s the matter with my eyes, I don’t know what, but I’m afraid I’ve got to give up running. If I have to go off the road I’ll do what I can to get the train for you, for you ve always been faithful to me. I don’t know what ails me, but lately I’ve seen all sorts of things. About ten days ago I thought I saw two lights at the junc tion; then I thought the engine was afire; to night, as I was coming through the train, I thought I saw trunks flying around in the air; aud “Speaking of truuks,” said the wrestler (he thought the conductor was fooling with him), “I happened to be looking out of the side door when tho express passed us, and I thought I saw a few trunks myself a floating around, and there might have been six or eight carpet bags mixed in, for I sat seven of ’em along with the trunks. I thought tbere’d be trouble when that baggage wasn’t got ofi the track sharp, and when S'. Louis showed around the curve there wasn’t any help for it. I knew by the whistle it was 79, for Jim Beettop can get more screech to the pound of steam than any man on the road, and when he’s making time he don’t waste any of it blowing for wav stations. When she went by her furnace door was open, and the fire man was stuffing coal into her. Jim sat on hie bench, hand on the throt tle, and eyes ahead, and the way he was bouncing her for New York was beautiful to look at. The instant lie struck the straight lie saw that pile of baggage He shut „ her off and opened her air pump with oue hand GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MOKNING, MAKCH 28, L 879. and reversed her with the other, but he might just as weli have tried to stop a comet. For about a second that pile of trunks stood out in the headlight, and then ” “Then them was real trunks I saw in the air?” and the conductor jump ed to his feet a changed man. “Real trunks!” said Fogarty, amazed that anybody could doubt it. “Real trunks!” and he added mourn fully. “I tnought I could break up a trunk pretty fine, but I want to give up railroading now ” Conductor Brannigan gave a vici ous yank on the bell cord, and as he felt the brakes gripping under him, he started back. Sitting humbly in the uncomfortable end seat at the rear of the last car was a lean and tired tramp, whose piteous plea for a free ride had just been granted by the conductor. Looking up as the door opened he saw the same con ductor coming towards him, bub so changed that he hardly recognized the man who a few minutes before, had been kind to him. That was Conductor Brannigan who sick and downcast himself, sympathised with those in distress; this was the Con ductor Brannigan who had discover ed that it was not growing infirmi ties but digestion that ailed his eye sight. “You can’t beat the company on my train. Come out o’ this!” he shouted as he dragged the trembling tramp along the aisl?, and when the train slacked up he pitched him off the platform into a snow bank. Then ho yanked the bell cord again to go ahead, went back to the bag gage car, set his lamp on the floor, tipped back in his chair, and placed his feet on the highest trunk in the corner; and as he scratched a match on the bottom of the chair to light his cigar with, Conductor Branni gan pulled a lot of loose tickets out of his pocket threw them iuto his box and said to the astounded bag gage cruncher: “Fogarty if you can’t learn to sort tickets quicker, I’m going to pat on a man who can!” —N. Y. Sun. A Patriotic Speech. In moving that the nomination of Mr. Randall for the Speakership be made uuanimous in the democratic caucus Mr. Blackburn, his competi tor, made a most eloquent, magnani mous and patriotic speech. It is said to have made some members regret having voted against him. It was brief, but was made in the broad est and most catholic spirit. It was, ho said, partisan, but it was country loving. Perhaps it was sectional, for “I had hoped,’’ said he, “that it might have been the pleasure of this house to impose the responsibilities and duties of the Speakership upon one from the section and people with whom lam identified.’’ Mr. Black burn has been called an “extremist” among Southern people, but we find him, as the gallant but beaten can didate for the Speakership, express ing simply the longing for opportu nity to “prove to the people of this country that the South might safely be trusted with the formation oi these committees, and to shape the legislation of the land.” And this Southern “extremist,” in the moment of his defeat, names the guiding principle which would have controlled him had he been intrusted with the task: “Had I been selected for this ser vice, it would have been my duty, as as it certainly would have been my pleasure, to wield the great powers that pertain to this station in such a way as to put all sections and fac tions behind me, and to promote the general interests of a common coun try in which citizens all hold equal rights, and to which each citizen should tender a common allegiance. I would have endeavored to prove to those generous friends from the North who stood by me in this con test that their confidence was not misplaced; for I should earnestly have endeavored to bury the melan choly memories of the terrible past in those trenches where the mol dering remains of those who gave their lives to those struggles to day are resting.” This is the language of that “hot headed Southron,” that “fire-eater,’ ’ that “dangerous representative of the South.” Those who know Mr. Blackburn know that he is earnest and honest, and that these are not unmeaning words. He would have done precisely what he says he would have endeavored to do. There is something in this attitude of a prominent Southern representative, who came near being Speaker of the House, that ought to command the respect of the country.— Cincinnati Enquirer. Big Gnus and Big Ships. There is a big gun in India—or a gun which long ago was thought to be big—and which on a memorable occasion some years back was fired with a heavy charge. It is general ly supposed iu the neighborhood that the ball is flying yet. The new Krupp gun which is to be tried next Saturdry at Meppen, in Westphalia, may not rival this, but it will certain ly surpass all other guns. This gun is 32 feet long and weighs 72 tons. Its charge is 385 pounds of prismat ic powder, and it is to throw a chill ed iron shell 1,660 pounds. It is as serted that this monstrous cannon, if set to an angle of 43 degrees to the horizen, will throw a ball a dis tance of fifteen miles. The materi al is steel, and the piece is heavier by sixteen tons than the heavist Krupp guns heretofore made. Guns as well as ships still run to bigness, and it is hard to say when the ten dency will be arrested. It was thought after the partial failure of the Great Eastern that a reaction would take place iu favor of small ships. For a time there were signs of this, but only for a time; and now the movement is decidedly toward greater size. The newest steamship of the Williams & Guion Line is, we believe the largest, though not the longest, of tne Atlantic fleet, and a still larger vessel is to be built this year on the Clyde. Railroad to Lula City. It will be seen by reference to an other column that notice is given that application will be made to the next general assembly of Georgia for a charter incorporating the “Dahlon ega Air-Line Railroad Company,” from Dahlonega and to connect with the Air Line road at Lnla City. A list of the corporators’ names appear in the advertisement. This portion of Northeast Georgia will be no longer tampered with in the matter of building a railroad to this point. The proposed route from here to Gainesville has been surveyed and pronounced a practicable one, all of which is very good so far as it goes; but this is overbalanced by the in difference of the people of Hall coun ty about the enterprise. That sec tion, after ostensibly favoring the construction of a road from Dahlon ega to Gainesville some years ago, frustrated the movement, and they are now, judging from their present state of inactivity, pursuing the same course. A railroad is what Dahlonega wants, needs and must have. She does not care the snap of a finger where it comes from, just so it comes; and just now Lula City, Athens, and other intermediate points are offering superior inducements. We should look to our interest and embrace the opportunity while it is presented. Substantial aid from reliable people will be extended the enterprise, and action and co-operation instead o* indifference will be given us. When we wero least expecting it, anew party of railroad surveyors suddenly made their appearance in our midst. On Wednesday evening the surveyors cn the proposed line from Lula to Dahlonega rode into town like they meant business. They did not ask us to help them ; survey the route, but took it upon themselves to do the work. This looks like bus iness. Dahlonega wants a road, and she is determined to have it if she can get it, in a very short time. If Gainesville does not want our road to come to her doors, we can make it to our advantage to go to Lula, where the road naturally ought to go. If Gainesville don’t want it we ! won’t force it on her, but will allow;* her share to bs poured “back in the jug.” If Gainesville would act for her good she will not permit the road to go anywhere else. We will tap the Air-line, if not at Gainecville at some other point, aud she must begin to help pretty quick.— Dahlonega Signal. Moral Courage. Have the courage to discharge a debt while you have the money in your pocket. To do without that which you do not need, however much you may admire it. To speak your mind when it is necessary that you should do so, and to hold your tongue when it is better that vou should be silent. To speak to a poor friend in a threadbare coat, even in the street, and when a rich one is nigh. The effort is less than many take it to be, and the act is worthy a King. To face a difficulty, lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. Difficulties, like thieves, often disappear at a glance. To leave a convivial party at a proper hour for so doing, however great the sacrifice; and to stay away from one, upon the slightest grounds for objection, how ever great the temptation to go. To dance with ugly people, if you dance at all; and to decline dancing, if you dislike the performance, or cannot accomplish it to your satis faction. To tell a man why you will not lend him money he will respect you more than if you tell him you cannot. To cut the most agreeable acquaintance you possess when he convinces you that he lacks principle. “A friend should bear with a friend’s infirmities,” not his vices. To wear your old garments till you can pay for new ones. To pass the bottle without filling your glass when you have reasons for so doing, and to laugh at those who urge you to the contrary. To wear thick boots in winter, and to insist upon your wife and daughters doing the like. To decline playing at cards for money when “money is an object,’’ or to cease p’aying when your losses amount to as much as you can afford to lose. Lastly, have the courage to prefer propriety to fashion—one is but the abuse of the other. Tlie Ways of Trade. When young Hyson, who is a com mission merchant and an importer, came home to dinner one evening last week, he found Mrs. Hyson just parting with a caller and de scribing some “lovely” Ch-uese lan terns she had bought at Veneer’s, on Washington street. Hyson’s face grew dark as the narrative proceeded, and when the door closed upon the visitor he turned to Mrs. H, with lowering brow, and asked: ‘What have you been fooling money away on at Ve neer’s ?” “Don’t be such a bear, Harry,” said Mrs. H., “I only bought a dozen of these lovely lanterns, nice for ornaments, and pretty to use in the country next summer, and they were only a dollar each; did you ever see any like them before ?” “See ’em !’’ groaned Hyson, “ it; they sent me four thousand of ’em iu the Mandarin, and 1 have only sold one lot, and that was a hundred to Veneer for fifteen dol lars.” Tears and tableau.— Boston Com, Bulletin. SMALL BITS. Or Various Kinds carelessly thrown To. getlier. One smile for the living is worth a dozen tears for the dead. Laziness is a premature death. To be in no action, is not to live. A man owes his success in his life work to the woman who walks be side him. The sweetest thing on earth is a little child when it has learned to know and love. Nature writes the best spring po etry on green leaves, illustrated with flowers.— New Orleans Picay une. The modern golden rule is, “Let you due unto others be as much as others du© unto you.”— Whitehall Times. 1 know not which of the twain lifts man the higher, genius or gentleness; genius lifts him above others, gentle ness out of himself. Ho who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will see the defect when the weaving of a lifetime is unrolled. Noah, we learn from the Boston Commercial, observed Lent very strictly—he lived on water forty days and forty nights. He that hath really felt the bitter ness of sin, will fear to commit it; and be that hath felt the sweetness of mercy will fear to offend it. A little poem in an exchange, signed “Gertie,” asks “Will you love me forever ?” We can’t prom ise Gertie, we might not live that long. There are some people whose lives are like molacsas with a spoonful of vinegar in it, and others whose lives are like vinegar with a spoonful of molasses in it. Very kind gent—“ix> you know, my and ar, that we have to-day the shortest day of the year ?’’ Lady —“Very true! But your presence makes me forget it.” If the man who will go into a bar ber-shop on Saturday night or San pay morning and have his hair cut hasn’t any enemies he certainly ought to have.— Waterloo Observer. Did you over know the courts to punish a man for crime who had either money or friends ? Never! What? Never? Well, hardly ever. “If you please,” said a Baltimore young woman politely, as she laid her gloved hand on a pick-pocket’s '..boulder, “I’ll take the purse that you just stole out of my pocket.” He “gave up the booty. “I never thought but once,” said old Deacon Webbing, “that it was a sin to steal an umbrella.” “And when was that ?” asked a friend. “It was when a pesky thief stole my new silk one,” answered the deacon. There is one matrimonial rule which can be depended on as of universal application. A husband will never find any difficulty in footing his wife’s bills, provided the wife is so put together that she is not ashamed to foot her husband’s stock ings. You cannot make yourself better by simply resolving to be better at some time or other any more than a farmer can plough his field by sim ply turning it over in his own mind. A good resolution is a line starting poiat, but as a terminus it has no value. When we think of the political in stitutions and aims of Americans we are proud, but when we think of our political tricksters we feel like using the words of Horace Wal pole: ‘I should love my country very much if it were not for my country men.’ You are more sure of success in the end if you regard yourself as a man of ordinary talent, with plenty of hard work to do,than if you think yourself a man of genius, and spend too much time in watching your hair grow long, that you may convince people that you are not like other folks. Two gifts are offered to men in this world; they very seldom can have both. One is success, with weariness; the other failure, with hope. The last is much the best. The man who succeeds, finds that his success does not amount to a great deal; the man who fails, but keeps his hopes, is the happy man. “Are you engaged ?” said a gentle man to a young lady from Maysville at a ball the other evening. “I was, but if that Pete Johnson thinks I’m going to sit here and see him squeeze that freckled-faced Wil kins girl’s hand all the evening, he’ll be mistaken, soltaire or no soltaire !” The gentleman explained and went out to get air. If you must smoke do it in the way to give most pleasure to your self. Place a little tobacco in the bottom of the pipe and light it. When well afire fill the pipe to the top. The tobacco will in that way burn up slowly if there is an oeea sional puff outward through the stem, and the taste will be more pleasing. So “they say.’’ This is the way in which a Louis ville girl disposes of a young man, according to the Courier-Journal-. “You have asked me pointedly if I can marry you, and I have answered you pointedly that I can. I can marry a man who makes lOV6 to a different girl every month. I can marry a man whose main occupation seems to be to join in gauntlet in front of churches and theatres, and comment audibly on the people who are compelled to pass through it. I can marry a man whose only means of support is an aged father. I can marry a man who boasts that any girl can be won with the help of a good tailor and an expert tongue. I can marry such a man but I w—o-n-t!” How to Mind a Baby. First, a man must have one to take care of. It isn’t every one you know that is fortunate enough to have one, and when he does his wife is always wanting to run over to a neighbor’s only five minutes, and he has to at tend to the baby. Sometimes she caresses him and oftener she 3ays sternly, “John, take good care of the child until I return.’’ .You want to remonstrate, but can not pluck up courage while that aw ful female’s eye is upon you; so you prudently refrain and merely re mark. She is scarcely out of sight when the luckless babe opens its eyes, and its mouth also, and emits a yell which causes the cat to bounce out of the door as if something had stung it. You timidly lift the cherub and sing an operatic air; he does not ap preciate it but yells the louder. You try to bribe him with a bit of sugar; not a bit of use; he spits it out. You get wrothy and shake him. He stops a second and you venture another; when, good heaven! he sets up such a roar that the passers-by look up in astonishment. You feel desperate; your hair stands on end, and the perspiration oozes out of every pore as the agonizing thought comes over you, what if the luckless child should have a fit! You try Daby talk; but “itty litty lamby” has uo effect, for he stretches as if a red hot poker had been laid upon his spine, and still he yells. You are afraid the neighborhood will be alarmed, and give him your gold watch as a last resource, just in time to save your whiskers; though he throws down a handful of your cherished mustache to taka the watch and you thankfully find an ea sy chair to rest your aching limbs, when down comes that costly watch on the floor, and the cause of all the trouble breaks into an ear splitting roar, and you set your teeth and prepare to administer personal chastisement, when in rushes the happy woman known as your wife, snatches the long suffering child from your willing arms, and, sitting down, stills it by magic, while you gaze mournfully at the remains of your watch and cherished mustache, and muttering a malediction on ba by-kind in general and on the i>fcage of his father in particular, vow nev er to take care of a baby until the next time. A Sensible Young Lady. A young lady was addressed by a man who, though agreeble to her, was disliked by her father, who would not consent to their union, and she determined to elope. The night was fixed, the hour came, he placed the ladder to the window and in e few mm a tea waa in bis arms. They mounted a doable horse, and were soon some distance from the house. After some time, the lady broke the silence by saying: “Well, you see what proof I have given you of my affection; I hope you will make me a good husband.” He was a surly fellow, and gruffly answered: “Perhaps I may, and per haps not.” She made no reply, but, after a silence of some minutes, she suddenly exclaimed: “Oh! what shall we do ? I have left my money behind me in my room !” “Then,’’ said he, “we must go back and fetch it.” They were soon again at the house, the ladder was again placed, the lady remounted, while the ill natured lover remained below. But she delayed to come, and so he gent ly called: “Are you coming?” when she looked out of the window and said: “Perhaps I may, and perhaps not;” and then shut down the win dow, and left him to return on the double horse aione. Uncle liernus. Waiting for the rain to ceaso yes terday, Uncle Remus seated himself on the coal box and went to sleep, finally his hat fell off and a piece of dropped out. One of our your men, more curious than the rest, picked it up and subjected it to what the lawyers call a very severe examination. It proved to be verse, and was read aloud. The comment it caused had the effect of arousing Uncle Remus,and he was asked about it. He pleaded ignorance, and the verses were read to him. “Some er dem dere w’ite boys done gone and rung dat in on me. Beyer gwine ter keep on m’anderin roun wid dere foolishness ’fcwe.l c!ey gits hurted—you mine w’at I tell ye. You ain’t gwine ter put dat in de paper is you?” The old man was told that such was the intention. “Well, den, I jes might as well sa’nter out home and git fixed, kase when dat comes out hit’ll be me an’ Brer John Henry fer it. Here's bleedzd ter be trubble amongst up, an hit’s too late in de day fer me to go to wah onprep ir’d.’' We give the foregoing in order to set Uncle Remus right with Brer John Hoary, and herewith append the fragment found m the old man’s hat. It is called DE BIG BETHEL CHU’CH. De Big Bethel chu’ch ! de Big Bethel chu’oh ! Done pat ole Satan behine ma; Ef a s uner git loose from euny ulder chu’ch, Do Big Bethel chu’ch will tine um ! Hit's good to be dere, an’ it’s sweet to be dere, Wid de sisterin’ all aroun’ you— A sliakin’ dem shackles er massy an’ love Wharwid de Lord is boun’ you. Hit’s sweet to be dere and lissen to de hymes An’ hear dem mo’ners a shoutin’— Dey done reach de place whar dere aint no room Fer euny mo’ weepin’ an’ doubtin.’ Hit’s good to be dete w’en de sinners ali jine Wi’d de brudderin in dere singin’, An’ it look like Gaberl gwine ter rack up an’ blow An’ set dem heaven bells ter ringin’ ! Oh, de Big Bethel chu’ch ! da Big Bethel chu’ch ! Done put ole Satan behind um; Ef a sinner git loose from enuy udder chu’ch De Big Bethel chu’ch will fine um ! J. C. Harris, in Constitution. Arrival of a Distinguished Traveler. The most wonderful of all wild creatures and the nearest approach to humanity of all known animals, is the quaint chimpanzee. Hitherto it has been almost impossible to keep them alive in civilized coun tries. About a year ago Messrs. Reiche & Bro., at a great expense, brought five of them to the New York Aquarium, and but one only now remains. On Saturday after noon one more was received who had just arrived from Central Africa, and there was much curiosity to see how they would act at their first meeting. A number of scientific gentlemen were present to witness the intro duction. When the stranger was put in the cage “Tommy,” the old inhabitant, loosed at him for a mo ment with some little distrust. Then he approached nearer, and after a little hesitation threw one arm over his shoulder in a manner that was almost human. They looked in each other’s deep, searching eyes for a second with serious faces, and then clasped their long arms about each other, took a long embrace and then they separated, and “Tommy,” ex tending his hand, the new comer took it, and then they shooks hands precisely as two Christians would. All this called forth roars of laughter from outsiders, but the “chimps” paid not the slightest attention to them. Then “Tommy" offered the courtesies of his cage to the now comer, gave him a part of his blanket and the remains of his dinner, and after that they settled down for a good old-fashioned chat. When the young fellow was given his first bath he objecte l strongly, and fought against soap and water and brush and comb like an obsti nate child, while “Tommy,” who “had been there,” looked on in great glee, and seemed to enjoy the opera tion immensely. At ten at night, the hour for closing, the little one was wrapped up in his blanket sleep ing soundly, and “Tommy," with his blanket pulled over his shoulders, sat a*few feet away, watching him with all the solitude of an anxious father. A Candid Opinion. A Detroit lawyer, famous for his wise and candid opinions, was the other day visited by a young attor ney, who explained: “I was admitted to the bar two years ago, and I think I know some thing about law, yet the minute I arise to address a jury I forget all my points and can say nothing. Now, I want to ask you if this doesn’t show lack of confidence in myself, and how can I overcome it ?” The wise attorney .shut his eyes an,l sindiad the case for a moment before answering: “My young friend, if it is lack of confidence in yourself it will some day vanish, but if it is lack of brains you had better sell out your office effects and buy a pick ax and a long handled shovel.’’ “But how ami to determine?” anxiously asked the young man. “I’d buy the pick-ax anyhow and run my chances!’’ whispered the aged adviser, as he moved over to the peg for his overcoat. - I Look for Her. The true girl has to be sought for. She does not parade herself to show goods. She is not fashionable. Gen erally she is not rich, but oh, what a heart she has when you find her—so large and pure and womanly. When you see it you wonder if those things outside were women. If you can gaia her love your two thousands are millions. She’ll not ask for a carriage or a first-class house. She will wear simple dresses, and turn them if nec essary, with no vulgar magnificial to frown upon her economy. She will keep everything neat and nice in your sky parlor, and will give you such a welcome when you come home that you will think your parlor higher than ever. She will entertain your friends on a dollar, and astonish you with the new thought of how little happiness depends on money. She will make you love home (if you do not you are a brute) and teach you how to pity while you scorn a poor, fashionable society that thinks itself rich and vainly tries to make itself happy. A prominent horse dealer of this city told us the following curious story this morning about the fancy his rats (as he calls them) have to change of diet: He keeps a horse, and noticed lately that it showed symptoms of lameness in his fore legs. He examined him carefully, but could not discover the cause. On going to the stable one day, he, before entering, looked in through the window; then to his astonishment, he counted eleven rats stuck on the horse’s legs, sucking his blood He waited, expecting every moment that the horse would shake them off, but instead of doing this he remained motionless and seemed to enjoy the strange visitors. A rap on the window sent the rats scampering off On examination of the horse’s legs he found twentytwo little holes, from eleven of which the blood was flowing The horse was removed to another stable and soon recovered from the sores, but strange to say, his appetite has almost failed him. He refuses oats, and, as a consequence has fallen off in flesh so much so that now he is almost ueless. A little girl, when her father’s ta ble was honored with an esteemed friend, began talking very earnest ly at the first pause in the conver sation. Her father checked her rather sharply, saying, “Why is it that you talk so much?” “Tause I’ve dot something to say,” was the innocent reply. Matthews Creed, a store keeper at Jamestown, Ky., found a burglar be hind his counter at night and gave him a dose of fifteen buckshot. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Transient advertisements will be inserted at SI.OO per squire for first, and 50 cents for subse quent insertions. Large space and long time will receive liberal deduction. Legal advertisements at established rates and rules. Bills due upon first appearance of advertisemeut unless otherwise contracted for. NEWS IN GENERAL. Capital punishment has been re stored in Switzerland. Mr. Chas. Jacobs ha3 been nomi nated by the republicans for Mayor of Cincinnati. Louisiana is to have a Constitu • tional Convention, composed of about one hundred democrats aud thirty four republicans and independents. St. Louis pays her city officials $1,350,000 a year in salaries, and confesses herself to be the worst governed city in the United States. Andrew Johnson, Jr., the last sur viving sou of the late ex-President, died in Tennessee last week. Ho was for some time an editor in that State. Monticello, the home of Thomas Jfffsrsor. has been sold at Charlott esville,'S ~ and was bought by Jef ferson M. Levy, one of the heirs, for $10,050 Mr. C lumbus Upseu has been nominated for congress in the sixth (Texas) district, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Gustavo Schleicher. A prarie fire in Lincoln county Kansas, destroyed the house aud ail the property of a Mr. Montgomery, besides much other property. Mr. Montgomery, his little boy aud a Mr Pfaff were burned to death. “It is intimated that Zach Chand ler is preparing a bill declaring Jeff Davis an outlaw, and requiring him to pay full rent for the use of the quarters occupied by him in Fortress Monroe in 1865.” —Baltimore Gazette. The Kentucky Supremo Court has decided that the statute against gam ing, which enables a person losing ( at a faro table to recover his losses from the proprietor, will not work the other way, and allow the proprietor to recover losses from the fortunate players. Some of police commissioners of New York city, being charged with a dereliction of duty, were brought be fore Mayor Cooper for trial. Tho Mayor refused to allow them to havo council, and the Sun s-tys it is ail outrage which concerns every citizen and that the case was prejudged. At Vicksburg, Miss., last week, three men, W. F. Fitzgerald on one side and W. L, Andrews and W. L. Green, on the other, members of tho Hibernian Society, had a difficulty about au office in the society, when Andrews and Green were both killed by Fitzgerald and the latter was severely wounded. ]S T O. 13 A report having been circulated that Wade Hampton, Jr., took part in certain festivities in honor of Gen. Sherman during the recout tour, that nrentleman writes to the Charl eston News and Courier': “Please deny, on my authority, ihat I was present at a ball given to Gen. Sher man at Jacksonville, Fla. I would certainly have avoided meeting tho man who was guilty of burning Co lumbia and the cowardice of denying it.” King Alfonso of Spain, according to a London telegram, has been be trothed to Princess Marie-Amelea d’Orleaus, daughter of the Count of Paris, and consequently niece of his recently deceased wife. The report is one to be taken with a grain of salt. Tne young Princes is but 14 years old. She is the daughtor _,f the eldest sister of the late Queen Mercedes, and a great-grand-daugh ter of the French King Louis Philip pe. Ttii’ee burglars entered the dwell ing of Hon. Heury Hottenstein, in Reading, Pa., at night, when the eld est danghter of the household, a beautiful young lady, heard the noise they made down stairs, aud taking a lamp she went to the dining room to see about it. As she opened tho door one of the men knocked the lamp out of her hand and stabbed her twice very severely. She had pres ence of mind to run and slam the door behind her. The alarm was raised but the burglars escaped. A press dispatch from New Or leans states that Mr. B. C. Porter, of the Warde and Barrymore Diploma cy Combination, was shot and killed, in Marshall, Texas, by James Currie, who made slighting remarks about an actress attached to the company, to which Porter and Barrymore took exception. Currie also shot aud severely wounded Maurice Barry more. This troupe played diploma cy in most of the cities of Georgia a short time since, and was very popu lar. It was an outrageous pffair. Ex-Senator McDonald of Arkan sas represents his State as in a poor condition. I took a fortune there he says, an;.l have lost most of it. I bought plantations which wore thought to be dirt cheap at $30,000 and have offered them at SIO,OOO a->iece since and had no takers. They can’t sell their land until people with means are willing to accept tho society, and that I don’t 5 believe Northern people will ever do iu any numbers until there is more general intelligence. The Washington Review says Mr. Nathan R. Scott and wife, respecta ble citizens, and advanced in years, died a few days ago at their resi dence, Riley’s Creek, in Pender coun ty. They have been married over twenty years, and left three grown children —one daughter and two sons. The wife died two days before the husband. From the day of their marriage up to the day of the death of the wife these devoted people had never been separated a single night from the same roof. The daughter had never slept but one night away from the paternal roof. The sons had never been absent a single night from the household up to the death of their parents. If any county in or out of North Carolina can do as well as this, or furnish a parallel case, let us know the county and the case that equals this in family unity and affection.