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JThe Gainesville Eagle Published Every Fiidav Morning _ —y ■ by Re D U liV E &~11 A3l The Official Organ of j-Hall, Banks, Towns, Rabun, Union and Dawson counties, and the city of Gainesville, lias a large general circulation in twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and two counties in Western North Carolina. Valedictory Address. We give below Ihe valedictory address de livered by Mr. G. H Haigher, at the com mencement exercises of Hicksville High School, Hayeexiile, N. 0., May 30th, IS7'J- Fellow-school-mates: It is with sad feeling that I appear before you on this stugo perhaps for the last time in life. J know it will be the last time with some of you ; and as it is very likely my school days are now over it will probably be the last time with any of you. And as we have gotten along so smoothly aud agreea bly, and have formed attachments that will last so long as life lasts, and as the happiest moments of my life have been spent in school, you can imagine my feelings on this occa sion. To-morrow we will separate, and all of us will never meet together at Hicksviile again, nor nowhere else this side of that univeral meeting. Sad thought. VV> are on tire rolling billows of time, and of course they will widely separate us, But fellow students shou'd vast and trackless wilds intervene between ut, you will ever be fresh in my memory, and as I have the pleasure and honor of being numbered among your friends now, I hope you will ever retain some memory of me, which I thmk you will. Some hard hearted writer has said, ‘ friendship is an empty name,’’ but I think friendship and attach ments formed in school are more lasting than any other qualities of man. One kind word spoken in school will never bo forgotten, but perhaps cheer with its memory a long life. I kuow there have been words of kindness spoken to me dur ing this term both by our teacher and you that will never bo forgot ten. Fellow school-mates, we are going to leave this place; wj wiil not havo our kind teacher to instruct us, but let us still work on, let us strive for excellence. I know the road is a rugged end rough one, and it takes labor to travel it, but without labor we can accomplish nothing. It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes evey thing possessed of exchang able value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condi tion of the savage; labor has changed the desert and the forest into culti vated fields; labor has covered the earth with cities and the ocean with’ ships. Libor has given us plenty comfort and eloquence, instead of want, misery and barbarism. It is to labor that we owe everything. And toil is a thousaud times reward- cd by the pleasures it bestows. The very ntcesity which overcomes our natural sloth is a blessing. W e are happier with the sterility which we can overcome by industry than we would have been with spontaneous plenty and unbounded prolusion. Aud to accomplish anything in the way of knowledge, it takes labor; study affliction of the mind, because all great men are meu of thought as well as men of action; as the mag nificent river rolling in the pride of its mighty waters owes its greatness the hidden springs of the monutaiu nook, so does the wide spreading in iluence of distinguished meu date its origin back to hours of privacy, reso lutely employed in efforts after self development. We have to dig for knowledge as men search for conceal ed gold. Some will say 1 have not the time, I have not the means to go to school; I am what the world calls poor, but what of that? Almost all those great and illustrious men whose names are to day immortalized on the glorious pages of history, were the very children of poverty. Cipt. Cook, the circumnavigator of the globe, was born in a mad hut, and started in life as a oibin boy. Lord Eldon, the greatest man that ever sat in the British parliament, was the son of a coal merchant. Franklin, the philosopher, diplomatist, and statesman, was but a poor soap ma kers boy, whose highest luxury at one time was a penny’s worth of bread eaten in tliß streets of Pniladolph ia- Johnson, Goldsmith, Coleridge and multitudes of others of high renown knew and felt the pressure of limited circumstances and have demonstrated that poverty even was no insuperable obstacle to success. Look at Joe Brown,of Ga., Abx-aham Lincoln, An drew Johnson, aud hundreds of oth ers of high renown, were the very children of abject poverty. How is it we attain perfection in any of the arts and sciences ? What is it that disarms the lightning of its power ? that raises valleys aud depresses hills? heaves the ocean and ascends the sky ? What is it we behold in every elegant and useful art in the dresses aud decoratious of our per sons and houses ? In every imple ment of husbandry or war ? In the subterr rneous aqueducL or the heav en kissiug monument, in the anima ted canvaser, the speaking marble ? What are these but ihe fruits of toil? Scienco is indeed to us what the great orb of day is to the natural world ; and as the extinction of the latter would necessarily be followed by univeral darkuoss aud decay, so were art aud science lost. Society would inevitably relapse into the The Gainesville Eagle VOL. XI IT. est boast to have elevated and re deemed it. Fellow 7 students as many of us are about to launch out into the world let’s set our mark high and try to not fall below that mark. Now is the timo we are to build our char acters either good or bad, and that is discretionary with us; a man can be a man, or be can be a vagabond Each and every one of ns have a character of our own which we are not to charge or mold into that of an other but to develop and exalt into the highest form of which it is capa ble, Nothing is more fatal to strenth of mind than to part with our individuality and try to fashion ourselves upon another model. Self reliance is perfectly compatible with humanity, and the more we feel our own deficiences, the greater necesity do we find for personal effortb. We can do for ourselves what no other person can do for U3, and we rever ence our own moral natures anti use alloiernal influence as a means of quickening our internal energy strenghtening our faculties, and de veloping the beat that is in us, socie ty will have fulfilled her time and for us in exalting the individual nature which she too often depresses. Fel low-mates, let us follow good exam ples that we may set good ones for others iu our turn. The influence of a good example is far reaching. Our experience and conflicts with the world lead us at times to indulge misanthropic sentiments, and charge all men with selfish and impure mo tives. The play of pride, passion and pre judice, aud the eagerness manifested by the great majority of men to ad vance their own interests often at the expense of others and in violation of the Golden Hale, cause us to look with suspicion upon the best intents of others. Arrogance, hypocrisy, treachery aud violence every day outrage justice till we are almost dis posed to distrust human nature, But amid all that is sad and dishearten ing iu this busy, noisy world, now and then there Is presented to us a life of such virtue that we recognize in it a character that gives hope for the perfect development and ultimate regeneration of our race. Such characters are precious anu such ex ample* should be held up t,n the world for its admiration and its imi tation; they should be snatched from oblivion and treasured in the hearts and thoughts of all who are in pro cess of forming habits and maturing character. Be then, fellow students bold iu spirit, indulge no doubts, lose no time, remember laureis nev er grow for sluggards; remember re nown is not the child of indolence. And in the pursuit of our high aim let’s never step aside from it in the slightest instance but keep straight forward never slackening the reins, and some day, sooner or later, we wiil reach the topmost pinnacle. There is a desire withiu us and with in all mankind not to be remember ed only while living but after death, and the gratifying of this desire lies within our power if we will only use it. It will not be by the magnificent tomb or the sculptured marble or the inscription thereon, that others may place over our mouldering frames, because the noblest monuments of art that the world uas ever known are mouldering beneath the sod for twenty centuries. It is by what we, ourselves, do, that we shall bo re inembered. How was it that Greece obtained the bright palm of art ? How was it A-thens learned to please the world with her p9n ? How was it Demosthenes and Cicero could awe the nations with their tongues ? How was it majes'iic R)me rose and flourished her sceptre o’er the spread ing nations ? How was it George Washington saved America from tne bonds of slavery ? How is it tUat the United States of America has rison to be the brightest star among the nations ? Was it by indolence ? No, fellow students, it was by energy, firmness and perseverance. Now fellow schoolmates 1 have to leave you. I hope to meet you all again, I thank you many times for the kind ness you have shown me during the past terra. And I especially thank you Professor for the instruction you have given mo, aud the kindness you have shown me. G. H. Haigler. Considerable sensation has been caused at Lile and throughout the north of Franco by the escape of a uui from the convent of the Sisters of St. Claire, who are known by the name of Les Clarises. This nun had been detained in the convent, the rule of which is of the strictest, for twenty-five years. Her escape took place under remarkable circumstan ces. The Sisterhood had bought t a house contiguous to their convent, and bricklayers were employed to pull down the wall between the two buildings so as to make them com municate. After the fashion o' French workmen, the bricklayers went to sleep after their dinner, when the refractory sister stepped through an opening in the wall, and walking out, proceeded to lier fath ers house iu the town, which she had left a quarter of a oeatury be fore, aud where she now remains.— She is sulieriug from effects of GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1879. Rabun Gap. This is one of the most singular geological freaks of nature anywhere to be seen, and the mass of mankind are entirely ignorant of its existence. A few miles north of Clayton you reach the water-shed which separates the streams which flow into the Atlan tic ocean on one hand.,and those which wind their way through the moun tains and valleys into the Gulf of Mexico, Beyond this plateau some miles you com 3 to Rabun Gap where the Appalachian Chain has been rent in twain by volcanic force, and gave passage to the Tennessee river, a tributary of the Ohio and Mississip pi, nearly 3000 miles fiom the Gulf, whilst southward the Tallulah and Savannah rush madly down the mountain slopes for nearly 300 miles to the ocean. The Gap is 2000 feet above the sea, and the mountain peaks range from 2000 to 5000 feet in height. Many years ago > u obm ter was obtained for a Ra :I road from Charleston, S. C., through this Gap and down the Tennessee river valley to the pass of the Smoky Mountains, thence to Knoxville, and Cincinnati, Ohio, but want of capital has thus far prevented its completion; only about 100 miles through the mom tains to Marysville remain which would give a direct route from Char leston to the great West. Some years before the war, a farmer on the head waters of the Tallulah built a grist and saw mill, which, for want of water power, was unprofitable, upon which he cut a canal or ditch and turned the Tennessee rive: into the Tallulah at a cost of less than SIOO. The farmers and millers on the Tennessee obtaiuod an injunction and filled up the ditch aud restored the river to its natural channel, where it continues to this day. M. F. Stephenson. ENVELOPED IN FLAMES. A Terrißle Tragedy In Clayton. County. Jonesboro, June 23—This morn ing a large glare of light was observ ed rising above the trees a few miles from this point. The citizens of Jonesboro were aroused by the cry of fire and turned out eu masse. A few moments sufficed for many of them to reach the projective point.— Upon arriving there the scene was perfectly terrible. The handsome residence of Mr. FL-ct '-r I'. A.o/a olds was discovered to be enveloped in a perfect cloud of Are, and cries from himself and family were heard coming from the building, whese by degrees they were being roasted alive. In one of the windows was seen the daughter of Mr. Reynolds crying for assistance, while on eith er side of the window the weather boarding of the residence was envel oped in flames. Cries from the crowd below of “jump out!” were heard by the score. The child eith er did not hear or from fright didn’t know how to act, and soon she was was smothered by the smoke and fire aud burned to death. A few mo ments after this Mr, Fletcher Reyn olds came out of the house beariug his almost lifeless wife in his arms. A sister of Mrs, Reynolds was smothered with smoke while in her bed, and was burned to death before she was aware of the approaching danger. Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds were both badly burned and barely escap ed with their lives. The house was burned to the ground, and all the furniture and effects were totally de stroyed. As soon as practicable the remains of the two unfortunate fe males were taken from the debris and carried to a residence near by where preparations were made for their burial. Their remains have been sent to Covington for interment. Mr. Reyn olds was severely injured by the fire iu endeavoring to rescue his little daughter and the young lady.— Nothing was saved from the burning. There was no insurance on the house. Great sympathy is expressed by our people and nearly everybody in Jonesboro has been out to-day.— Mr. Reynolds and family left by pri vate conveyance for Atlanta this ev ening in company with Colonel It. F. Maddox and wife. The origin of the fire is unknown. When first discovered it was in one of the rooms of the ground floor. The inmates were in their rooms on the upper floor and it was impos sible to reach them, as no ladder could be procured with which to as cend to the windows. The most popular theory of the fire is tha it originated from sparks from a stove which was left burning in Ihe kifcih ;n when the family retired for the night. The fire and the fatal effects wL.sh followed, cast a sad and lasting gloom over this community. — Atlan ta Constitution. Fulfilling a Promise. I heard of a rather amusing reply given the other evening at a ball by an American girl in London society who had strayed away from the ball room. Her mother subsequently dis covered her in a remote nook with a gentleman, who had his arm around her waist while she rested the tips of her pretty little fingers on his manly shoulder. “Daughter what’s all this ?” exclamed the irate mama. Sauey Cheeks looked up calmly, and replied: “Mamma, allow me to intro duce Captain X. to you. I had promised him a dance, but I was so tired that I couldn’t keep my word, and I am just giving him a silting still waltz instead. Speak of a man’s marble brow, and he will glow with conscious pride; but allude to his marble head, and he’s mad in a minute.— Language is a slippery thing to fool Memory’s Queer Freaks. Tuere is one remarkable effect of or r peculiar climate that has proba bly stuck everybody, and yet we have never seen it referred to in print.— 1 It is the absence of any noticeable change in the seasons. One meets a friend on ihe street corner to-day and next year meets him fresh from a trip around the wor’d, and is rath er surprised to find him in another suit of clothes—the pattern of the old being as fresh in our mind’s eye" as if we had seen it yesterday. The other day a Front-street merchant and his wife were seated in a street car, when another gentleman step ped in. The moment he saw the first mentioned party the latter said, eagerly : “Because it comes to the surface to blow. Thats the anwser isn’t it?” “Yes,” said the other, “but I didn't think you’d guess it.’’ “Why, what did that gentleman mean V ’ asked the merchant’s mys tified wife, after they had left the car. “Well, you see, down at the club the O’her day, X asked tliem all a co nundrum —first-rate thing,too : Why is a whale like a water-lily ? and none of them could guess it.’’ “Club ? Why you haven’t belong ed to a club for five years—not— since we were married.’’ “Haven’t I? That’s a fact, Now let me see when it was I asked Brown that conundrum,” and by a careful comparison of dates it was ascer tained that Brown had kept the an swer fresh in his mind for exactly six years and five months. This sto ry is literally true, and will be sent carefully stuffed to any museum in the country on receipt of the pos tage.—San Francisco Post. The Bauri Blast. Among the wonderful and useful inventions of the times is the common sand blast. Suppose you desire to letter a piece of marble for a grave stone; you cover the stone with a sheet of wax no thicker than a wafer, then cut iu the wax the name, date, etc., leaving the marble exposed. Now pass it under the blast, aud the wax wiil uot be injured at all, but the sand will cut letters deep into the stone. Or, if you desire raised letters, a flower or other emblem, cut the let ters, flowers, etc , in wax and stick them upon the stone; then pass the stone under the blast and the sand will cut it away. Remove the wax and you have the raised letters Take a piece of French plate glass, say two feet by six, and cover it with line iace, pass it under the blari, and not a tinvau of th° ” ” jure*. ** .’gp-g, ’eep ..o the ( glass wherever it is not covered by lace. Now remove the lace, and you have delicate and beautiful fig ure raised upon the glass. In thL way beautiful figures of all kinds o cut in glass and at a small expense. The workmen can hold their hands under the blast without harm, even when it is rapidly cutting away the hardest glass, iron or stone, but they must look out for finger nails, for they will be whittled off right hastily. If they put on steel thimbles to protect the nails, it will do little good, for tha sand will soon whittle them away, but if they wrap a piece of soft cotton around them they are safe. You will at once see the philosophy of it. The sand whittles away and destroys any hard substance, even glass, but does uot affect substances that are soft and yielding like wax, cotton or lino lace, or even the hu man hand .—Portland Argits Fairly Hit, Ohio. Mr. Henry Watterson, of the Courier-Journal, has made a fair hit iu journalism for the past few weeks. For several years the civilization of Kentucky has been belied by the pre-is of Cincinnati and of Ohio gen erally. Every carnal difficulty that occurred in the blue grass State wa3 magnified into a massacre, and was taken as the token ot a pervading epidemic of murder. The Kentucky papeis protested in vain. The men dacity of the Cincinnati papers was part of a sectional programme, and could not be abandoned. Refusing to get justice, Watterson bethought himself of reprisal. He determined to feed the journalists upon a little of their own f jod. And what was the result? In the Courier Journal of almost every day there appeared a column or so of Ohio horrors, of murders, rapes, ar sons, thefts, seductions, orgies, etc , that had takou place in the Buckeye State The record was made up from Ouio papers “thomselves and was a screaming record of brutality and tava r.co. It fairly astounded the general reader. But the climax was reached on last Sunday, when the Courier- Journal issued a full page supplement literally crowded with the report of Ohio crimes. Column after column succeeded, covering every sin in the decalogue, and hundreds never con templated when tne decalogue was written. The sum total was so enor mous, and the details so horrible, that they almost surpassed belief. But every fact was substantiated in the most particular manner as to locality aud date. These things need surprise nobody. There is much more crims in the north and west than in the south. Their population is composite, tran sient and mixed. Ours is steadfast, steadier and native. The trouble has been that heretofore no attention has been drawn to northern crime. It has bein accepted as a matter of course. On the contrary, everything in the south has been seized upon as a pretext for abuse, and as the out break of a hidden volcano. Mr. Wat terson has opened tne eaes of the public, north and south, and in doing so has performed a genuine service. —Sunday Gazette. The ilea says the Boston Trani crijjl is the politician of the inset*' world. He is ever itching for plac| creates no end of disturbances, an|j A MODERN ARABIAN NIGHT. The Misadventures of Abau Tamerlik ami ltiiuninl cm I’lili. It was daring the reign of the good Caliph, when Abou Tamtrlik came to the city of Bagdad, threw hi. grip sack on the counter, and ; as he registered, spake cheerfully unto the clerk,saying : “A sample room on the first floor, aud send my keyster up right away, and call me for the G:2B train east in the morning.” And Basler el Jab, the clerk, look ed at him but went away to the mir ror and gazed at his new diamond. And Abou Tamerlik hied him i forth and went into the booths and j bazars, aud laid hold upon the mer | chants and enticed them into his 1 )om and spread out his samples and besought them to buy. And when night was come he slept. Be cause, he said, it is a dead town and there is no place to go. And before the second watch of the night, Rhumul em Upb, the por ter, smote one of the panels of his door, and cried aloud , j “Oh, Abou Tamerlik, arise aud drees, for it ia train time.’’ - Aud Abou rose and girt his rai ment about him and hastened down stairs and crept into the ’bus. And he marveled he was so sleepy, because he knew he went to bed ex eeedingly early and marvelously so ber. And when they got to the depot 10, it was the mail west, and it was 10:25 i*. m. And Abou Tamerlik swore aad reache I for the porter, that he might smite him, and he said unto him : “Carry me back to my own room, and Bee that thou call me at 0:28 a. m. or thou diest.” And ere he had been asleep even until the midnight watch, Rhumul em Uph smote again upon the panels of his door and cried aloud : “Awake, Abou Tamerlik, for the time waneth, and the train stayeth for no man. Awake and haste, for slumber overtook thy servant, and the way is long, and the ’bus gone.” And Abou Tamerlik arose and dressed, and girded up his loins, and set forth with great speed, for his heart was anxious. Nevertheless the gave Rhumul em Uph a quarter aud made him carry his grip, and he cursed him for a driveling laggard. And when they were come to the train it was 11:46 p m. and it was a way freight going south. And Abou Tamerlik fell upon Rhu mul em Uph and smote him and en treated Jiim rougbjy, and said : “On! r>ale gray ass or all asses, the Prophet pity thee if thou callest e once mor9 before the 0:28 a. m f st;” * An I he gat him into his bed. Now, when sleep fell heavily np6n Abou Tamerlik, for he was sore dis couraged, Rhumul em Uph kicked fiercely against the paneL of his door and said : “Oh! Abou Tamerlik, the drum mull, awake and dress with all speed It is night in the valleys but the day star shines on the mountains. Tru ly, thy train is even now due at the depot, but the ’bus is indeed gone.”. And Abou Tamerlik, the drum uiuh, swore himself awake and put on his robes and hastened to the de pot, while Rhumul em Uph, the portei - , went before with a lantern. For it was pitch dark and raining like a house afire. And when they reached the de pot it was a gravel train going west, aud the clock in the steeple tolled 2 a. u. And Abou Tamerlik fell upon Rhumul em Uph, the porter, and beat him all the way home, aud pelt ed him with mud and broke his lan tern and cursed him, and he got him to bed and slept. Now, when Abou Tamerlik awoke the sun was high, and the noise of the street car rattled in the street. And his heart smote him, and he went down stairs, and the clerk said to him : “Oh, Abou Tamerlik, live in peace. It is too late for breakfast and too early for dinuer, nevertheless, it wood make any difference in my bill.’ And Abou Tamerlik the drummnb, sought Rhumul em Uph, the porter, and caught him by the beard, and said unto him : “Ob, chuck el edded pup (which is ‘Thou that sleepest at train time)! why hast thou forgotten me ? And Rhumul em Uph was angry and said : “Oh, Abou Tamerlik, the drurn muh, hasty in speech and slow to think, wherefore shouldest thou gob up at daybreak, when there is anotb • er train goes the same way to-mor row morning ?" But abou Tamerlik would not hearken unto Him, but paid bis bill and hired a team and a man to take him to the next town. And he hir ed the team of the livery stable and be cursed the house that he had put up at. Now, the livery stable belong sd to the landlord, all the same. But Abou Tamerlik, the drummub, wist not that it was so. Youthful EUopers. A girl fourteen years old, named Emma Simonson, residing at Flint, Michigan, was detected at Buffalo, N. Y., in male attire, and was arrest ed just as she was about to take the train for St. Thomas, Canada. She was accompanied by Thomas Clark, aged seventeen, also of Flint, They both confessed to the police that they had eloped, leaving Flint, si*ending the night in the same room in a boarding house. Emma says she changed her clothes on the cars and put on a boy’s suit to disguise her self. A seedy looking individual stepped into one of our gentleman’s furnish ing store® rocoutly and asked for a r air of four-ply cuffs. The articles were handed, him and examining them he “See t >re, '.hose '■ ' I U„ ' The Verdict in the Duer Trial. The jury iu the case of Mbs Lillie Duer, accused of the murder of Miss Ella Hearn, and hied at Snow Hill, Md., yesterday morning brought in a halt and hesitating verdict of man slaughter, with recommendation to the mercy of the court. It can at least be said that this verdict will be a surprise to nearly every one out side the limits of region of the trial, and there are many who will uot hesitate to say that the evidence did not warrant it. Such persons will claim that the pistol wound was not shown to have been the cause of death. It was not even clearly shown to have been the substantive cause of the apparently heroic treat ment which may have led to the death. But in addition to this if the evidence may be judged fully by the reports of it, the wound was by no means proved to have been intention al. The only evidence which point ed that way was the reputed dying declaration of a nervous girl mani festly excited by the excessive use of chloral, a drug which affects the mind even more tfian the body. TRia testimony waa not given to the jury directly. It waß not taken on oath before a Justice of the Peace, after acknowlegement that the suffer er knew she was dying. On the con trary, it came to the jury in the shape of fragmentary disjointed statements, related by persons who are not proved to have been impar tial. Such staten ents filtered through such minds, ought to have been received very cautiously aud with great reserve by the jury. Tuey should have been strengthened and corroborated on all sides by the other testimony for the State, but this does not appear to been done, and it is no wonder that the j iry halted ’n their verdict. The conrt has fully recognized the infirmity, of the case, the pressure exerted upon the jury by the irrelevant desire of counsel to display their peculiar tal ents, and the feeble verdict by act ing fully upon the recommendation to mercy and imposing a simple fine of SSOO as the only penalty for Ue alleged offense. This judgement however, lenient as it is, still leaves Miss Duer technically guilty of a deed which the majority of people be lieve she never wilfully committed. It is apparent that public feeling in Worcester ran strong in regard to to this matter, and that the atmos phere in the court room at Snow Hill was more or less affected by it. The New York Herald's correspon dent on the spot, after describing the intense interest of the whole com munity in the arguments on the last day of the trial, and the eager throngs that swarmed in the court room, numbers of them ladies, says t ' a * r-norted that some of the many lady * aumV/ers of young Mr. Page, the prosecuting attorney, “had intended to throw boquets to him at the close of bis address to the jury, but the Judges got notice of their design and sent bailiffs up through the gallery, with instructions that no such demonstrations would be per mitted.” This indicates an unwhole some state of the atmosphere where impartiality was sought, and it must be assumed that this remarkable case and trial has been prejudiced both for and against the prisoner by the social rivalries and petty but indus trious gossip of a remote aud quiet country town. Johnny’s Failles. Gotes huts, and Uncle Ned he said: “Johnny, one day there was a gote in a feeld, and it took after Bildad, wich you better xplain to yure bnited rea ders is the new dog. Bildad he run toward a hi fence for to git over, but the gote it cot him and buted him crml on the tail and he wirled over and over, and lit on the uther side of the fence but dident kno it cos he wos bewildered, and scrambled back over the fence agin, lifely as ever he cude, and the gote it let him have it a other time, and wocked a way. Bildad he was astonish dog, aud shake bis bed, much as to say: ‘i never soe so many buttigotes, one in evry feeld !”' If I was a gote I rather be a sheep cos gotes is milked, but sheeps is shingled, and the rose is red, and the vilets blu. But Billy says let him be a crookydile with fritelle teeths, and notches on iiis back like a saw. Mister Jonnice, wich has got the wuden leg, he says theres a dile wich was a sho, and it was in a pond. Jonnice he set on the egeof the pond a watchin the dilo swim, but the keper he said, the keper did: “Beter luk out for yure legs, sir, this ere dile is powerfie fond of legs, aud he don’t git menny here, pore feller.” So Mister Jonnice he take of his wuden leg and hid it, an wen the keper he cum round agin Mister Jon nice he sed, “You was rite bout that dile,’’ The keper he Inked and he was a stonish, and he said, “Shat I run for a doektor ?” Then Mister Jonnice he thot a wile and bime by he sed, “No I don’t think 1 wudo, not for a wile yet, en ny how. Diles is use to over eaten theirselfs.” The keper he sed, “You are the coolest man, wots left of you, wich I have ever saw.’’ Mister Jonnice he sed, “Well I have all ways W9ut on the principle its no use eryin for yure leg off, but Ide be mity bliged to you for a dram of whisky.” Wen the keper had brot it Mister Jonnice had put on his wuden leg agin, and was a staudin up lookin at the dile, an the keper he was a ston isher than ever, partickler wen Mis ter Jonnice sed he had ben standin there a our and had never see him a fore. One time ther was a rinosy ros met a cammie and it sed, tho rose did, ‘lf I had sech a rcr on my bac’ like *’■>*; *1 c : r: • Quite a Spectacle. One of the handsomest and best dressed gentlemen in the city is a worthy merchant, whose personal care of himself and his addiction to fine living have procured him a ro tundity which, while it detracts noth ng from his good looks, utterly con ceals from his own inspection his ex tremities. This circumstance was on Fr : day morning the occasion of, to him, a mortifying exposure, whilst others looked upon it as an amusing spectacle. Before breakfast he inva riably takes a morning walk, and his urbanity and polite recognition are looked for by early pedestrians with pleasure. Dressing himself therefore with great care, he sailed out, but, strange to say, every one he met turned their heads and laughed, and some ladies from the gallery of a residence over the way ran screaming into the house. What did it mean ? At last he met a little boy whose immoderate laughter drew from him the indignant inquiry: ‘‘What do you see about mo, you liltle scoundrel, that everybody laugh at ?*’ “Why Mr. D , you’ve forgot ten to put on your pants.” Overwhelmed with shame the gen tleman hurried home and eagerly sought out the mirror. Iu his haste he had carefully adjusted his attire but had forgotten his pants. Fortune Hunters. Judge Biroey, Minister at the Hague, has communicated to the State Department the result of his correspondence with the Orphan’s Court at the Hague, (which holds to ward estates in litigation the same status as American and English Chancery Courts.) He says that none of the forty claims from Ameri ca for fortunes held in trust awaiting heirs, have the slightest foundation on which to build. A New York journal, in this connection, says that out of one hundred claims against English fortunes (which newspapers always give at from three to ten million pounds,) made in the past five years by residents of America, there is not a single instance on rec ord of the claimants ever getting a C9nt. It is a well-known fact that there are certain men who make a business of starting these reports and getting hold of the fund raised to prosecute the inquiry for “missing links but they usually fail to find them, and after tie money is all us ed up aud they fail to secure anoth er appropriation, they give up the case and seek for other fields to ex plore—and it seems to be a wide and a rich one for them. Expectant heirs in this country will be wise if they make p. note of Minister Birneys information for future use. Womanly Modesty. Man loves the mystorioas. A cloudless sky aud the fail blown rose leave him unmoved; but the violet which hides its blushing beauties be hind the bush, and the moon when emerging from behind a cloud, are to him sources of inspiration and of pleasure. Modesty is to merit what shade is to figure in painting—it gives boldness and prominence. Nothing adds more to female beauty than modesty. It sheds around the countenance a halo of light which is borrowed from virtue. Botanists have given the rosy hue which tinges the cup of the white lily the name of “maiden blush.” This pure and delicate hue is the only paint Chris tian virtue should use. It is the richest ornament. A woman with out modesty is like a faded flower diffusing an unwholesome odor, which the prudent gardener will throw from him. Her destiny is melancholy, for it terminates in shame and repentance. Beauty passes like the flowers of the able, which bloom and die in a few hours but modesty give the female charms which supply the place of transitory freshness of youth. Few people are aware that the proud boast of Englishmen that the sun never sets on the British empire is equally applicable to the United States. Instead of being the west ern limit of the Union, San Francisco is only about midway between the furthest Aleutian isle, acquired by our purchase of Alaska, andEastport Maine. Our territory extends through over Dinety-seven degrees of longitude, or seventeen degrees more than half way round the globe. The Rocky Mountain Presbyterian, in commenting on this fact says: “When tho sun is giving its good night kiss to our westernmost isle, on the confines of Behring’s sea, it is already flooding the fields and for ests of Maine with its morning light and in the eastern part of that State is more than an hour high. At the very moment when the Aleutian fish erman, warned by the approaching shades of night, is pulling his canoe toward the shore the wool chopper of Maine is beginning to mxke the forest echo with the stirring music of his axe."’ An Anecdote of Kandolpli. Of John Randolph ofßoauoke Mr. E, P Whipple tells this story : “Isn’t it a shame, Mr President,” said he one day in the Senate, “that the no ble bulldogs of the Administration should waste their precious time in worrying the rats of the opposition.” Immediately the Senate was in an uproar, and he was clamorously call ed to order. The presiding officer, however, sustained him, and point ing his long, skinny finger at his op ponents, Randolph screamed out, “Rats, did I say ? Mice, m i '’~ ’ RATES OP ADVERTISING. Transient advertisements will be inserted a SI.OO per Bquire for first, and 56 cents for subse quent insertions. Large space and long time will receive liberal deduction. Legal advertisements at established rates and rules. Bills due up 3D first appearance of advertisement unless otherwise contracted for. SMALL BITS Of Various Kinils Carelessly thrown To. gctlier. Motto for grocers—Honest tea is the best policy. Why are boots aud shoes like door mats ?—Because they are worn by the feet. “What is truth ?” inquires au edi tor. It’s hard to tell. — Toledo Com mercial. What we have to do in this world is not to make our condifions, but to make the best of them. There’s one sphere that belongs to everybody—to women as well as men —and that’s the atmosphere. Can the clerk who reckons up the uickels properly be called a five-cent counter ? — Bridgeport Standard Fn those disappointments which to us are very grevious, God has often designs that are very gracious. “How can I leave thee?” said Adam to Eve. She made no reply but pointed calmly to a fig tree in the distance. The best natured man will get a trifle mad when his wife tells him she made ulsteyß for the boys oat of his last winter’s ear mult's. A condemned man, preparatory to his execution, being requested by the sheriff to step upon the scaffold, said he’d “be hanged if he did. An enthusiastic euchre player is apt to give himself away by the tri umphant manner iu which he slaps down his ticket at a church festival. If Ben Franklin were to walk into Philadelphia now, with his loaf of bread under each arm, he would be jugged with the rest of the tramps.— Meriden Recorder. Judge Hood has decided, after ar gument on a rule os. the Sheriff of Terrell county, that the transfer of wild land tax fi. fan. by the Comp troller-General was illegal. No comedian can make as laugh able a face as that made by the small boy when he brings a jelly jar down from the closet shelf aud discovers it to be full of teupenuy nails. A poetess sings. “Tho’ I were dead my heart would beat for thee. ” This would certaihly be a “dead beat;” and it strikes us the poetess assumes too much poetic license. A man with the process for dis covering counterfeit money, was in town Thursday. Wo are waiting for the man to come along who has a process for discovering real money. The worthy citizen who carries his umbrella on his shoulder or his cane behind his heels goes to a different pp”t of Heaven from those who don’t —a portion fenced off for his own in dividual use. NO. 26 He had hi3 girl at a fire and had just said, “See the cornice waving, Annie dear,” when an inscrutable Providence caused a hose to burst in his vicinity and he moved away be fore we could find a brick. A Michigan widow borrowed fifty six unset diamonds, placed them carelessly in a box on the centre ta ble, and in three months she was married to a man who believed he had struck a gclconda. Widows know how. The girl of the period who loves not wisely is she who rejects the hand of the silver-haired widower at the head of the firm, who has an insured in come of $50,000 per annum, and weds one of the junior clerks of the estab lishment who is in the fuii enjoyment of au uncertain salary of SSOO a year “How long will it be before you can get this work done?,, said a lady to an apprentice who was painting her house. “Well, 1 don’t know, ma’am,’, said he; “the boss has gone to look for another job. If he gets it; I’ll be done to-morrow, but if he don’t I’m afraid it will take me all next week.” “Gentlemen of the jury,” said Mr. Phelps to tee twelve men of Worth ington, Minn., who had convicted his daughter of selling cider without a license, “all I have got to say is, you are a set of jackasses, and you may wave your ears over that solemn truth.” Mr. Phelps was fined $lO for contempt of c~art. A Quakeress, jealous of her hus baud, watched his movements, and actually one morning discovered the truant kissing and hugging the ser vant girl. Broadbrim was not long in discovering the face of his wife, as she peeped through the half open door, and rising with all the coolness of a general, thus addressed he:: “Betsy, thee had better quit peeping, or else thee will cause a disturbance in tho family.” The Kentucky mule is beginning to appear on the tramways of England. Among the live stock recently landed at Liverpool were seventy mules, fine largo animals, with the drawing pow er of a horse, and much greater en durance. These mules stand the voyage well, all lauding in good con dition, precisely as shipped. Some hundreds have been shipped for Na tal, where they will be found useful in the present emergency. A newspaper editor that people don’t talk about and abuse is rather a poor concerns. The man and busi ness that an editor sometimes feels it a duty to defend, at a risk of mak ing enemies of another class, are of ten the very fitst to show ingrati tude. The editor who expects to re ceive much charity or gratitude will soon find out and say and do what he conscientiously tninks right with out regard to frowns and smiles. For several y . ><sf - tu Juvernm with the - •i. 'r ” .£