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Published Every Friday Morning. ST k oTrT?rj = ii aSt The Official Organ of Hall, Banka, Towns, Kabun, Union and Dawson counties, anrtthe city jdf Gainesville. Has a Urge geurcal circulation in | twr jve othsfr jii 3'irth<ast, and thrse counties It WeateinNlrth I kfoMiu. ' _-j rs fl. J ', a. A-dvortisiiig Hates. In aecbrt&uce with the recent act of the general assembly regulating the prices of legal advebtis ise, the charges will lx»ceaUef bo seymty-five cents per hundred wMds of ftaciien thereof each inser tion foe the flesk foor inse»tioiiK,-*ufi thirty-five cents for each subsequent insertion. At these rates advertisements noted below will cost as follows: Sheriffs’ sales (100 words or less) $3 00 Over 100 words, ?< cent per word each insertion. Executors’, administrators’ and guardians’ sales, aam? a* above. 4 B7- * •; Notice to debtors and creditors (TOO words or less).., ....... 00 Citations, all kinds (103 words or leas) 3 00, Notices for dismissioq, leave to sell, etc., same as above. Estray notices (100 words or less) 3.0 flay The law authorizes county officers to col lest advertising fees in advance, and we hold the officers responsible for all advertising sent ns. flfl- Notices of ordinaries calling attention of ad ministrators, executors and guardians to making their annual returns; and of sheriffs calling atten tion to section3o49 of the Code, published. free for officers who patronize the Eagle. flflr Transient advertising, other than legal no tices, will be charged $1 per inch for the first, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion. Adver tisers desiring large space for a longer time than one month, will receive a liberal -deduction from regular rates. flfl ■ /• 11 bills are due upon the first appearance of the advertisement, unless there is a special con tract io tha contrary, and will be presented at the pleasure of the proprietors. Advertisements sent In without instructions will be published until or dered out, and charged for accordingly. Transient advertisements from unknown parties must be paid for in advance. , ~i flfl- Address all orders and remittances to REDWINE A HAM, Gainesville, Ga. B DITOUt A L EAG LEI’S. Market reports show that a deal of money has been made on the ryes in whiskey. —— The Qhioago Tribune classes Judge as a democrat , We . 1 iot so labs hita hero. j kj How rapidly a man loses ail in terest in politics, remarks a philoso pher when he sums the door, on his OWAtbU*. - ♦ Gail Hamilton says no husband of hers shall stay ont election nights. All very nice to say, Gail, but how would 50U r pfevent him I i • < The Yonkers Gazette says that a Boston condensing company is thaw ing Charles Francis Adams for the next presidential The Cimtinnai-i < Saturday iNight asks: “If Edison can reader sound available in so many ways, why doesn’t he utilize the howling wilder ness ?” Col. Ingersoll is certainly orthodox upon one point. He said tp a re porter of the Chicago Times'. “I think the .pcppltf hiVfi rad enough of Ohio for a few years to come.’’ Qne disadvantage about bfjing a great man is* that, when you die, your body is toted around to such a number of places. Better be one pf the smal| fry, and get interred quiet ly and decently from the family boarding-house. " 7 -y-t - rr- i Air. Tilde’n gives it ns his deliber ate opinion that “John Sherman’s a rascal.” Mr. Tilden cannot’ get up any argumenlj uji this point. Even the Sage of Liberty Hall can shake hands with the Sage of Gramercy Park on the proposition. A man ’ at IJloqnjiygton, Ind.,jhiis for several years believed he was a dog. The people did not object, as long as he confined his demonstra tions io barking at those who passed ilia house,, but when be began to. bite them, they locked him up. - The touching sentiment, “Our first ! in ojwieafefl after. j uary iroticf/'in trPhuadelpma p'&pi i and the father of the child «Bme into the office raging mad. It was the third death in the family, and he de sired to know of the clerk he supposed the other'two had gone. ■ ' Mr. Bayard seems to strike the I proper key in the discussion of na- j tiofial poiitite. He wants to regard) the union as a fixed fact and not as ; an experiment, and he thinks the people can be trusted to take care of thehxßefvfis without a national poAel ’ or “a strong arm.’ The latest discovered El Dorado • is said to be Mojada in Mexico. It is said to abound in rich mines of gold silver, and the fame of its wealth ) is attracting th-msan The ; and 1 inclu tea a portion of the States of Chihuahua, Coahuila and Durango, j A ballot box has been invented I and patented which meouanicaHy registers and numbers each ballot j as it is deposited. It also rings a ; bell when a ticket is received. Those | who have carefully inspected it are agreed that repeating and stuffing is impossible without being detected. | tlie truest diffiAity dao i; a fraud be successfully practiced where this box is in use. If an elec tion is contested it enables every ballot to be unmistakably identi- I tied. | irl/* P. < j‘ ■ { Y The plan adopted to worry delin- • quents to pay up their dues, by ad- i vertising them, was originally ad >pt ed by a Nashville,. Tenn., paper. About thirty -five yPars MtayTJtq Reid, the now famous novelist, taught dancing in that city, and failed to pay for his advertisement. The paper in question j ing record of subscribers and adver-: tisers who failed to settle, which it | 1 called “the black list,” and Reid's name figured in it for some time after he had distinguished himself in the , TiieGaixesvii.i.i-: Eagle - ' ! .1 ■ . it. , . ■ ' JI - -.— THE NATION’S CAPITAL. (Jopespond^njqjcf WaShlncwon, D. C .fiJlov. 39,1879. .Would not the seleotioa of a dem ocratic presidential tho ranks, from among the number less excellent and competent gentle men not already named for the posi tion, be advisable. At least there is danger in the many “booms”< thatj are now heard in behalf of very prominent gentlemen who are not favorable to eaqh other’s candidacy. Enemies of the republican have said that every government, de partment would this year ask for an increased appropriation. This is an error,.for the department of justifife asks for SIOO less than last year. At torney General Devens will be read put of the party, even for sb sn?fth ia proposed reduction as this.- It is dot in the line of radical reform. The lifw bafi* been decided to be unconstitutional under which protec-- tion has been given by the govern ment to persons and firms registering trade-marks in the patent offiqp f Congress will be asked to furnish pro tection ’in some other way. A per equspr firm’s nisllt -in p. trade-mark iris a oSiwuLi piWenttan: aA Common law, but i!. is expensive and tedious in its operation. The postmaster general will re :om mend i< bis high pay nifenra to Amerftairvessels for carry ing mails to the West Indies and Spanish main. So will Mr. Hayes in his annual message to congress. •Ah I have befoieistaljed, Gfcn. Sher man is of opinion that a blood} and expensive war with the Indians is Lkely to occur. He believes tlie Utes are acting in bad faith. Expressions pf. opitiou by, inembs.’rs. now here, and of others by letters, m<4ke it a»m6st ‘e^i'taiu 1 that tite’ In dian bureau will bo transferred to the war department. It is gain said that Secretary Schurz will resigh as soon as the present Indian d’ffi :ulty is over, or sooner, if not supported in his policy by Mr, Hayes;' it is be liev d. : . . I Bkine is reported as say ing that i? Gen. Grant desired the republican nomination ne.xt'ysar, he (Blaine) would aotjatand in his way. This is taifen as one of many indica tions that the ex-president has been nr to Le ofhtrwisfe provided for and will, not ho a candidate. The I I «.- f * -I schema to eliminaie Grftilt from the presidential contest by creating the office psi mffiiffial is certainly not the one agreed upon, fur Hayes cp,uld , not be' relied upon to appoint Grant to the place. An Ohio man would get it. j T e city was crowded yesterday persons doing honor- to tha mdmory of that hero and democrat, Gen. Geo H. Thomas. tS-aYfield," Matliews and Taft, the republican cafedidfite fob ! aS successor tb Judge. Thur man, are here. I put tW names in order of their- probable chance for success, as bUieved’fie’rib Consider ing tbai Garfield, the oldest of the list, is to be successful, it is still to .beregretted that Tfiuramiur services hoVlielorJtry at»to Rex. HALF MAN, HALF BIRD. ,b Human Being on the Right Side. Bird ofVrej-yni the latftj-<)ne ofthe Stran. ’ gist Luii najnirrcUroer Investigated. A coEimtitee of German physicians, says a foreign exchange, has just con ciyjed, Lbp.., jmto the caitse bf th’e KMct'n ’Herr Emt! Boetticher of Noschkowitz. and tlie result of ..heir labors has given the wo; d one of the most remarkable of children that 'the history o’ mankind affords, To j tel! the story clearly it must be iSfJt * understood that the grandfather of the monstrosity was an officer in the Prussian army which defeated Napo- ' leon at Leipsig, and that he waer* markable for his hot temper and ut ter lack of contentment. The son was a yffisS^s^^^quick-terft violent man—a sort of Hotspur without Hot- I spur s seif-controle. He was ffiftA-i ried to a singularly beautiful wd- I man, and the couple resided in Nuschkowitz, in the suburbs of Meis i scenes so varied and pfcVp turesque as to remind the traveller of Switzerland. One evening in the < summer of 1835 Herr Boettichei gal loped into the court yard of his resi- 1 deuce- He was so much excited i that bis groom was afraid 1 proach him. He went stamping and i He was furious. He burst into the ; drawing-room. His wife was an. « ; sofa playing with her favorite faicorf. I He grabbed the bird by the legs, and, i using it as a weapon, struck his wife* i Jo ver the face and neck, I: until! the bird was reduced to frag- i ments, and the floor, walls, sofa and < his wife were covered with blood and i feathers. The sharp, hooked beak I of the creature had been driven i ly., in to tlie delicatefehe* was I disn s 'Ufed forum B-fore im- terri- 1 bie ordeal was over she fainted. On the wall opposite the sofa whereon ( the brutal attack was hung a beautiful picture of John the B|q)tist. The figure was nude, with; the exception of the loins which were i encircled with the girdle of oame||, hair supported by a single strap pass ing over his shoulder. In some- i what over three months the laSy i died in giving; birth to her only childu Th A attended thte ah'T I<HAWESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 28. 1879. fortunate lady were, slow -to that the child to whom she gave birth t -pn>digT, ( On.-one side the babe was perfect and beautiful; on the other he resspjtfied a y-pung ea gle. He was not covered with feath 1 but the skin, was of peculiar ■ 'OdtmeM chaHder observable in fowl? . when dressed. His left arm re?em bl&d &»4mmatu4TJ #ing» Thb toes of his left foot.wejre claws. The column 1 or fleshy extreffiity ofthe cartilage of the nose was o/ftepdor<lprp, like a ■ soft beak on one side, *ana exhibited . a normal, healthy appearance on the right side. The left eye was the eye * of a hawk; the tight eye was the soft , faaael eye of his .- deceased - mother. • Whether admonished* by life father [ or whether actuated by the proses i sional reticence peculiar to the medi cal profession dpes not, appgar, but -5 the fact is certain that tidings of the abnormal birth did not travel beyond [ the walls of the mansion. All that . was known in tjiq neighborhood was thxt tHe WJr'Had died in childbirth, ' and that the baby was living, but del icate. Years passed, and nobody i seems to have sought to supplement this knowledge, . It was aastomed on efif sides that the yohth’was in deli cate, health and could not attend school nor indulge in open-air exer cjfiQ. The father and the faithful domestics encouraged the duplicity. When the bird boy was fifteen his father died and he was left heir to his estate. The lawyers visited Nosch kowitz,. transacted the necessary busi ness, received their fees, btit eaid not a word about the young heir, for whom a guardian was appointed. The old servants kept their places, all but the aged house-keeper; she was pensioned off and a handsome young fraeulein appointed in her place. After this rumors began to reach the outside world and to take form. There frequent changes of house-keepers, and no one could t?U whether they were dismissed or left voluntarily. It was noisedaround that the young Herr Boetticher was very fond, of raw meat, and as he never attended church he was set down in public estimation as a savage brute and a monumental sinner. One day during the spring of 1854 a young lady appeared before Justice Von Koanig, of the court of appeals, in Meissen. She was accompanied by her mother, The justice, after hear ing a portion of her complaint with evident astonishment, took the wo men into his retiring-room and heard their extraordinary statement. The consequence was that a warrant was issued for the arrest of Herr Emil Boetticher for ferocious criminal as sault. The offieers of the law who, entered the mansion in the execution of that order subsequently told their experience in court, from which all reporters were excluded. Not a word was published in the German papers. Young Boetticher was one of the greatest novelties ever heard of in the entire catalogue of physical and psychological phenom-na. He com bined the instincts of a bird of prey with the intelligence of a man/ At one time he took his food raw, with his beak and talons; at another he fed himself like a human being. Whan he desired to gorge himself wjtli reeking b|oojl and quivering flish (■ hes ietirfid .■ to iaix 1 ap&rtment known among the servants as “The chamber of blood,” the walls and floors of which were literally covered with blood. He would tear fowls to ! pifebesjtend yefung kids, Gand scream like a hawk while he gorged himself with blood and muscle. He would retain the instincts of a bird of preyj for a week at a time; for another week he would do most abject pen ance, bemoaning his terrible fate and his terrible appearance. He would then be amenable advice, and would permit hit valet to dress him in the attire of a gentleman, blit he never could be induced towear a sus pender over the left shoulder. If he put on a pair they wfire bo Th worn over the right shoulder—on the shoulder, in fact, that supports the strap in the picture of John the Bap tist. When the instinct of the hawk returned he became a demon, and the outrages he perpetrated on the fe males of his establishment must per force remain, unchronicled here. In the case of the complaint already re ferred to, he had fearfully treated her. This was the secret of the change of house-keepers. A few vears since monster die4;&nd the | paragraph went the rounds of the papers to the effect that “the deceased gentleman was a confirmed recluse, £ Why He .<l*4 «ot Marry Again. Yes, mum, I know perticklers, and these are them: ?a dyin’ 's&esaia'td Mr. Browriley: 1 5 “Aminadab, don’t you ever matry again, or I’Jl scalp her;” ,apd Amina- BfbWprtey hrilffidj i < 5 “No, Almina; I won’t never think on’t. I set too much by you.” And I suppose be meant it then, but widowers will be widowers, and after Mrs. Brownley had been dead a year Mr. Biowntey took th A drape off his hat and took to calling on Garline Cushing, ( and ajl the said to <*a!dtF kAher, ‘ ‘Did ycfu etir ?” “My goodness 1” and “I want to know.” 7 i Brownley he fore h%nded7 arid Carline she wasn’t so mighty young, and it seemed as if she was going to have him, but all of a sudden he didn’t go there no more aijfl Mr. Brownley looked awful sol emn and put the crape on his hat again, and all the neighbors wanted to know how things really was, and Bst|? if 'em pallet ph s mo tner, Widow vushing, and says to Ustfi >‘l » -I*l “it sehms, Inum/tO us as if Cariine uarn’c going to ofl, ail. I '.' ’’ app&r HAt'' says Widow Cushing. is euri of test--agin widow- ‘ ers, we reckon,” said Mrs. Russell. - ‘tWelk I d’np as the Widow Cushing. Says she: “Carline is in her twenty-seventh year, and ( she’s been disappointed twine, and siiekiader thought & widower- would fr& w'as steady and and forehanded; but singular things has occurred, ladies, singular things 1 ha i oecunredu to know,” says they, a “Very singular things,” says Wid ow Cashing. ; “Cariine kinder felt ■ thet she hadn't-orter risk no more; but .ladips, take off' your bonnets, and,) Aiirory, you set the tea-table, and I’ll just tell you all about it over our meal.” ’ So they sdidjhow thdy would stay, since she was so pressing, and they took their things off, and then they all sat down; and considering it was pot-lack, I’ve heard it was real aioo tea. But I rather reckon that Widow Cushing must hev guessed somebody would be over to ask particklers. So the ladies they sat by, and the widow she poured out, and says Mrs Brisle, says she: “Well, about them perticklers, Mrs. Cushing “Well,” says Widow Cushing first ly, “when Mr."Brownley came a-court ing our Carline, he used to praise her hair. She has a fine suit, as black as coal, you know, and as wavy as wavy kin be, and he used ter say hpw handsome it was. “Well, Carline was pleased at. the compliment, bat after awhile it was sort of curious. “Whenever he made a remark about it she d feel as if there was a cold wind bloNviOg over her, and then as if sonie dn6 was tugging kinder soft like at her hair, and that night arter she’d gone to bed she’d invaria ble feel every now and- then as if some one was pulling a hair out. f “One morning she says to me: “ ‘Ma,’ says she, ‘do you think a mouse or a rat or anything could pull my hair in the night ?’ “Says I, ‘I hope not, Oarline.’ “ ‘Well,’ says she, ‘somebody or something does, for this morning I found lots of long hairs on my pil low-’ “ ‘lt’s only your hair failin’ out be cause you won’t wear night-c*ps, Cariine,’ says I. “Says she, ‘lt may be, ma, but I don't think it.’ > > t > 4 “And the next day I found Her a cryin’, and as many as twenty long, black hairs layin’ in a row on f?he counterpane. •. • ■ “ ‘That’s the way they laid when I woke up, ma,’ says sHfiT”*’ “ ‘lt’s you that pulls ’em out in your sleep, Carline, ’ says I. Bat she shook her head. "And that evening when Mr. Brownley called she had her hair all tucked up in a tight twist, as if she wanted tb tpde it. 1 t /‘ /Why, my dear Carline,’ says he ‘never let me see you with that there glory of womanhood, as they on the restorative bottles, so put 01A of sight agin. Wear it as you generally do, for it is the pride of my eyes'/ “Then I saw Carline shudder all over and get pale, and I couldn’t think what ailed the girl. “But when Mr. Brownley was’gone she come to me, and says she: “ ‘Ma, I’m goin’ to ask you to do something sing’lar, I wapt you to sleep along.with me to-night, and to watch what happens.’ My hair was pulled out by the handful last night, and something must do it.’ I “ ‘Why, Carline, my child,’ says I, of course I will.’ “So I went to her room with her, and I made up my mind to keep awake, but of course I didn’t. “I fell off asleep, and I might hev slept all night if I hadn’t been waked up by a cold wind a-blowing over my Jace, ; I opened my eyes and locked at the door, thinking it had sprung open. “But the cold air didn’t come from that way, and I turned my head the other way, and there I saw something that took the strength out of me. “There was somebody sitting on the bedside along near Oarline. The moon was shinin’ through the cur tains, and I could see it as plain as day. “It was Mrs. Brownley in her Sun day dress—blue, with a green plaid in it—with her worked collar on and the brooch with ap angel eatin’a bunch pf grapes tfiatsheffised to wear, rand her hair was in the same little frizzes, and she had her false teeth in. “If I hadn’t knowed she was gone I should hev thought it was her, but now, of course, I knowed ’twas a ghost.’ “She sat down by Carline and she looked at the clock. " ‘Twelve,’ says she, ‘and I must go by daybreak; but I’ll have time to .get a good many out first,’ and then she went to work. “She took Carline’s hair in her hand and began to pull the hairs out one by one. “She had got as many as a dozen of ’em out before -I got str ngth enough to sit up in bed or voice enough to screech, but I did it at last, and the minute I did she was gope like a soap. babble,, and poor Carline sat up, frightened to death and shaking all over. “ ‘Oh, ma,’ says she. “ ‘Oh, Carlins,’ says I, ‘you’re right. I’ve seen it done. Oh, Carline, it’s Mrs, Brownley. I watched her pull ’em out, one by one.’ ‘I knowed it,’ says Oarline. ‘Mr. Brownley told me what Mrs. Brown ley said when she was dying, and I’ve expected it ever since. Ma,. I can’t marry Mr, Brownley—not if it’s my last chance. I’m sure she’ll leave me bald-headed if I do.’ “Well, I couldn’t but agree with her, and next day we put the case before Mr. Brownley, and he saw it as we did. i, “He said Mrs. Brownley's hair wa* thin, and she was always jealous of Carline’s fine lot of ringlets, and he thought that was what she meant by her last remarks. So they said good bye and had it over. “Tlie doctor said I dreamt a dream and Carline was skeered, and being -feverish made her hair fall oat, and that vte’re all fools together. “Bat since she broke off with Mr. Brownley and need the herewort tea I made for her as a wash, why, it is stopped coming out, and I think it jwaa Mite.lßrownlej’s ghost.” > !s So the rest of the lUdi'es they said ) they reckoned it must be, and some ! took Mrs. Brownley’s side and some Carline’s when they was a tellin’ it arter wards. , SELLING A HORSE. How a Countryman was Treated by a Crowd—Plenty of Drinks, but no Sale. A tall, lank, old granger riding a wretchd horse stopped in front of the Fifth street horse market, yesterday, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, and asked what the prospects were for selling a good, quiet, family nag. "Where’s the nag? ’ called out sev eral men in the crowd. “Right here he is,” replied the lank old man, clasping his long legs affectionately around the body of the animal upon which he was seated. The auctioneers in the six stables were unable to hold their audiences, and all hands gathered around the man and his horse. The rider was evidently about sixty-five years of age and the horse about the same. Both were gray. Various comments were made on the "team,” and the crowd plied the old man with ques tions with reference to the animal something as follows: “Does he remember Gen. Wash ington?” “Can he walk without cratches ?” “Does he carry an ear trumpet ?’’ “Do you have to chew his food for him etc. One man looked in the horse’s mouth and announced that he was “too old last spring.” The lank old farmer appeared to be much pleased with the attention he was receiving, and, taking off a battered plug, bowed his acknowl edgements to the crowd. “Fetch in the winged Pegasus,” yelled an auctioneer, “and wo’ll see what he’ll bring.” An avenue was quickly made through the crowd, as many men as could take hold of the horse’s bridle, one or two twisted his tail, eight or ten touched him up with their whips, and thus was the grand entry made into the stable, the old man bowing to the right and left, and plugging the sad-eyed animal in the flanks with his boot heels. A bid of twenty-five cents was made. “Shake up Bucephalus,” said the auctioneer, “and let the gentleman look at his paces.” The old man belabored the beas to tha rear end of the stable and re turn, while a dozen watches were pulled on him, and a dispute fol lowed as to whether the time was 2.17 or 17.02. "This horse doesn’t usually take the whole end of the barn to turn in,” explained the auctioneer, “but he has a touch of the rheumatism at present. He’ll be all right in the spring. lam bid twenty-five cents. Now that you have seen him move, does the gentleman wish to with- • draw his bid ?” The old man said he didn’t like the auctioneer’s style, and, as he ) used to be in the business himself, he would, if he wasn’t so tired and 1 thirsty, get into the box and sell the horse himself. j At thia suggestion, he was dragged from the saddle, carried to the auc tioneer’s stand, and that functionary requested to make room for his un cle. ‘ “I must have a drink of—water,’’ I said the lank old party, as he spat a 1 sixpence and coughed feebly. < “Water be blowed !” cried one of < the crowd; “we’ll get you the regu- i lar old juice of the juniperberry that will make your breath smell like a I night-blooming cereus,’’ and he dis- 1 appeared in a saloon adjoining. The old party said water was I plenty good enough for him, but the : other article was produced and he drank it, with a here’s to you, cour tesy to the crowd. “How much do T hear for this 1 magnificent specimen of boss flesh : which we have before us ?” began 1 the old man with a flourish- “Ex- 1 amine him closely for blood or bone 1 span, poll evil, scratches, quarter crack, splint, heaves, thumps, mumps, < bumps, dumps, and when you And < one I’ll eat it.’’ i “Fetch grandfather a cocktail,” 1 said a voice, and a cocktail was 1 brought and drained to the dregs, ) the old man murmuring softly, “here’s looking at you I ” ' “Now, gents, be good enough to 1 bid up lively. My boss may not be ! a perfect quadruped described in the I poem by Byron, Burns and George ] Francis Train but he corner of the 1 same family and I have his pedigree ’ at home, and it runs back to the time of Henry V.” “Fetch him a sour-mash 1” “I really ought not to drink any more, but as you say, it isn’t often I come to town, therefore—my re , garde1 “Oblige me by bidding up sharp.” | “Thirty cents!” yelled a voice. j “Thank you. Thirty cents lam . bid. Gentlemen, you needn’t be afraid of him. This is an anima! I j can recommend. He won’t run < down at the heel, cut in the ej eor , shrink in the wash’n. He is gentle as ] the suckin’ dove, and pulls like a five cent cigar.’’ < “A gin-sling for the ancient marl- ' uer!” "Gentlemen, your liberality is only ] exceeded by your generosity, and if ( my old woman knew I was feastin’ ( and drinkin’ with the immortal gods 1 she would sweep down us like a ! besom of destruction in a red petti coat; but here’s hopin’ we may ali j live to see politics and religion pari- , fied and the red ribbon of temoer- , ance encompass the round earth j from Qaadalquiver to Kansas City—” , "Fall back for a Tom and Jerrj !’’ “Really, gentlemen, I can’t permit this expense to be all one side, like the handle of a coffee pot, and the moment I sell this horse I’ll recipro cate, if I have to walk home, and I live iu the back end of the next coun ty; however —many happy returns!” and the Tom and Jerry disappeared from the eyes of them. "Now, gents, what do I hear for this—” “Take this life-everiastin’,” ex- ) claimed a Kentuckian, and he passed j up a glass of Robertson county. Tbe lank old man raised the glass to a level with his lips, and flhid: “I don’t care seein' it’s you. I will put myself outside of this elixir, and then I’ll show you what this boss can do under the saddle when he knows somethin’is * expected of him. In tbe meantirne—here’s my opinion!” 11 The farmer was helped to mount his nag, the crowd fell apart to allow the pageant to pass in the street, where it could have elbow room, aud as it ambled along tbe old man was heard to observe: “A whiskey straight, a cocktail, a gin-sling, a sour mash, a Thomas and Jeremiah, life everlastin’ from Robertson county—and the King of the Cannibal Island himself couldn’t tell what else—ain’t so bad, by jin go !” and the old sin ner turned half around in the saddle, kissed his hand to the crowd, and shouted: “I’ll call around again about half past two o’clock next spring, and while you’re waiting you might lay iu a new stock of gin slings and cor dials, for them’s the things that strike your grandfather right where he lives!” Memory in old Person*. The brain is the instrument of the mind. Every thought and feeling is dependent on certain changes that take place between it and the blood. Mental activity may be quickened or retarded, exalted or depressed, by the action of drags upon the brain. Singular are produced by cerebral disease. Age works permanent changes in the brain; its shrinks its bulk and , hardens its substance. In conse quence of this there is a change of mental manifestations. The mind acts more slowly iu old persons. ; It does not turn readily to new I subjects, and is not capable of as protracted or as lofty efforts. The feelings, too. are much lessened in susceptibility. But in tho memory the most 1 marked changes occur. Some per- j sons who have been more than ordi- 1 narily gifted in this respect in old I age become peculiarly deficient in t memory. With the aged recent 1 facts and events are not so readily f taken up into the mental storehouse, 1 and what is learned is sooner for- « gotten. | At the same time the past stands j out in vivid contrast with the pres- i eu>. Ear’y habits return again. ] For instance, the pronunciation or t the spelling of youth often reap- j pears, to the surprise of friends. ( Sins, early repented of and forsaken, ] obtrude themselves painfully on the f memory. t From this we see how important it r is that tho associations and habits of c youth are such as shall give only t pleasure in old age. t If one would not sink into imbe- t cility when the brain begins to sink, f let him cultivate all his powers right a iloqg through life. ti The aged should take special t pains to keep up their mental r.c- c tivity. C Tire Mountain Utes. An officer in the army, who has spent a good many years on the fron tier, says the Sioux are afrajd of the mountain Utes, their dread of them dating back fifty years. In those days both tribes found choice hunt ing on the Lnramie plains. The Utes were disposed to regard the Sioux as intruders, and finally for bade them coming into that region for tbe purpose, of hunting. The Sioux continued io coma there, dis regarding the claims of the. Utes, and challenging them to contest with bow aud arrow, the! fitb-arki being unknown among them at that time. One summer the Utes got wind of an intended fiujut by tbe Sioux, and sent out to intercept the enemy. A party us several hundre i rode up into tbe mountains north of where Fort Steele nbw is, and ambuscaded in a narrow canon, the sides’of which were cov ered with a thick growth of timber, affording the most perfect conceal ment. The Sioux strong—came filing down through the canon, whep, at a signal, the Utes, from their concealed position, opened upon them with arrows. The surprise was so complete that over. 100 of the Sionx were slain then and there. The Sioux have since become proficient in the same kind of tactics in warring with the whites, but to this day they are fraid of mountain Utes. Treatment of Crime and (Jrim inals in the Future. Basing his opinion on what he re gards as the legitimate teaching of the doctrine of heredity, a writer in the Journal of Science believes that the criminal legislation of the future —unless dominated by those who pander to crime—will do something like this: The lineage and connec tions of every offender, especially of every habitual’criminal, will be care fully scrutinized, and all surviving members wiil be subjected to an un obtrusive but penetrating scrutiny. The younger members of the race will be, as far as possible, •urrounded by such moral and religious influences as will most effectually check and counteract their probable inbred ten dency to crime. Courts of justice, he says, will have their criminal ge neologists, whose records will shed a new and most valuable light on not a few unsolved problems both of bi ology aud mental science. It is to ba hoped that, when “the future” comes, it will be able to use such a power wisely and without malice. But the author is more radical still “As for the mai»,” he declares, “who has once formally declared war against society, hoisting, so to speak, the black flag, care will be taken that he shall neither repeat his offense nor, after its commission, become a par ent.” ; ; , The New York Telegram says the least offensive brass band is a dotlar slore byAcelet.'‘’ ’ ohii ' 4 "• 1 The Reporter’s Gospel. How manifold are thy works, O reporter, and bow dost thou compass the people cf the earth around about Thy name is legion, thou art every where at once, thy fat is a joy unto the printer and thy lean hangeth upon the hook until it be dead. In the day dost thou gird thyself and travel into far countries and sit with lawgivers and money changers in the temple; thy hand is against every man and every man is against thee. Thou climbest the stairs at night, yea, even seven flights of stairs climb est thou up and maxest thyself to sit in a chamber whereunto the roaches and mosquitoes do apper tain. If so be the sou of man prevaileth upon thee to look upon the wine when it is red, it being but the third hour of the day, thou art full as a tick and thy masters dp dock thee as to thy wages. The foolish reporter sayeth in his heart: My work albeit being done I will tarry awhile hereabouts, lest hap ly there being a fire or murder, the paper shall be scooped of an item And as he tarrieth, 10, there comes a fire and he hustleth out upon the war path and they squirteth water upon his raiment and entreat him sore, but he writeth up anon and aweateth much, for he is a foolish re porter. But the wise reporter, whensoever his task be done, skippeth for home and lieth upon his couch and sleepeth the sleep of the righteous man. And when the fire cometh and the murder descendeth, he laugheth them to scorn and no man saith unto him go and he goeth or come and he cometh, or scoop and he scoopeth it. For he was a wise reporter and he maketh merry with himself and all his ways are ways of pleasantness and all his paths are peace.— St. Louis Times-Journal. All That Glitters is not Gold. ’ r . ■ » '• One of the beauties and charms of an editor s life is in his dead heading it on all occasions. No one who has never tasted of the sweets of that bliss can begin to take in its glory and its happiness. He does SIOO worth of advertising for a railroad, gets a “pass”' for a year, rides $25 worth; and then he is looked upon as a dead-head or a half-blown dead beat. He “puffs’’ a concert troupe $lO worth and gets $1 in “compli mentaries,” and is thus passed “iree.” If the hall is crowded he is begrudged the room he occupies, for if his com plimentaries were paying tickets the troupe would be so much in pocket He bl >ws and puffs a church festival free to any desired extent, and does the poster printing at half rates, and rarely gets a “thank you" for it. It goes as a part of hie duty ns an edi tor. He does more work gratui tously for the town and community than all the rest of the population put together, and gets cursed for it all, while in many instances where a man who donates a few dollars for the fourth of July, base ball club or church is gratefully remembered. Oh, it is a sweet thing to be an edi tor. He passes “free,” yon know.— Utica Observer. A White Race in Africa. “Are they then really white?" asked a Paris reporter of Major Pinto, the Portuguese explorer of Africa, with reference to his widely-published sto ry about a white race in the dark continent. “Absolutely white,’’ re plied the major. “I have seen a young girl who -was whiter than I am They are not Albinos, because they have black hair. They resemble the ugliest of the negroes. The are hid eous, and the most savage people that I have met with. In order to see them I was compelled to seize two of them, by force. I kept thorn for some days and loaded them with at tontions. Then they consented to take me into their camp, but on con dition that I should go entirely alone, because they were afraid of my escort. I went there and , passed two days with them. They are poor devils without industry, living by the chase, and have no fixed habitation. Their hair is woolly, their foreheads ’ re treating, their eyes resemble those of the Chinese, their cheekbones are prominent and their lower lip hangs dowri. They are very strong, and can bury an arrow in the body of an elephant.’’ Hint to Ungraceful Walkers. An English lady, an acquaintance of M. Ingres, the well known French paiqter, had a most awkward gait. The gentleman recommended her daily to take a long walk, balancing meanwhile on her head a pitcher of water. This he said would give the true poise to the figure and necessi tate the upright carriage of the head and a smooth, firm step. An emi nent French actor wbc prepares young girls for the stage has taken M. Ingres'hint, and his pupils every day at a certain time have to walk about with vessels of water on their heads. The Negro as a Voter. The Springfield (Mass.) AepuWiccm seems to us to strike the true point in local and national government in the following paragraph : “The negro at the South is igno rant, pliant and dependent; it is not natural that he should be permitted to go on misgoverning South Caroli and Louisiana in order to furnish the Republican party at Washington a few more’Totes in Congress We have no apologies or excuses for Southern terroism, but it is vain for the Republicans to expect that the colored race, making a failure of lo cal government, can be held together to vote the Republican ticket to keep the party in power over a distant na tionality." “Touch not, taste not, intoxica ting drinks,” was among the maxims framed on the wall of Rothschild, I the bankef. ,J: •*' 1 " '• sMallbits Os Varluns Kinds Carelessly Thrown Together. An English astrologer predicts that Prince Bismarck will die in 1880. The prince is superstitious. It is asserted that Hon. L. F. Livingston, of Newton county, will ■ be an independent candidate for congress from the sixth district. ( It seems nowadays as if the onlv object in sending a man to prison for life was to give some board or the governor a chance to pardon him out. Most every one can be stylish and serve dinner in six different courses if the hired girl is posted on beginning with water and ending with baked apples. No will was left by Senator Chan dler, and his vast estate will pass to the hands of Mrs. Chandler and the only child, the wife of Eugene Hale, of Maine. In Sweden a bride has her pock ets filled with bread. It is supposed that every piece she gives to the poor on her way to church averts some misfortune. Gen. Loring, ex-officer of the ex- Khedive, has in ten years Egyptian service, it is said, acquired a com fortable fortune. His annual salary was SIO,OOO in gold. Edward C. Palmer, taie presi dent of the Louisiana Savings Bank, has been again indicted for making false entries on the books of the bank NO. 47 j for the purpose of deceiving deposi r tors. 1 Every good word and act and gen- I tie touch has its fruits, and serves • our kind; every smile that we shed upon a child is an act of devotion to our human providence and a deed of 1 charity. It is estimated that there are at i least fifteen hundred maimed confed erate soldiers now in Georgia, who are entitled to relief under the act passed by the legislature to provide for the cost of artificial limbs. “O, mamma, there goas the sky buss!” exclaimed a bright little girl the other day, as she watched a pass ing hearse that headed a funeral procession. “There goes the ’bus that takes people to heaven.’’ The highest inhabited house in the world is believed to be the one erected for the miners employed on Mount Lincoln, in the main range of the Rocky Mountains, Park coun ty, Cal. It is 14,157 feet above sea level. Very cheap straw Chinese hats have this year been the rage in Eng land, Duchesses wearing precisely the same article as dairy maids; “but,” explained one great lady, “none of those dreadful middle ■people wear them.” A Miss Whitten, now at Damaris cotta, Me., has probably the longest hair of any woman in the world. It is eight feet long, and when dressed in a French twist it passes six times around her head. The growth is perfectly natural. The gap in the Cincinnati South ern Railroad is being rapidly com pleted. The length of rail now' to be laid is less than twelve miles. The road will be in running order to Chattanooga before the contract time, December 10. The future Queen Christina of Spain is a wise and kindly young lady. She has begged her betrothed to economize as far as possible in the expenses of their wedding festivities, and to give the money to the suffer ers by the late floods in Spain. Dr. Johnson once silenced a fe male backbiter, who was condemn ing some of her friends for paint ing their cheeks, by the remark that it is a far less harmful thing for a lady to redden her own com plexion ,than to; blacken her neigh bor’s. The sale made last summer of the White Sulphur Springs, in West Virginia, has been refused coafirma tion by Judge Jackson, of the Uni ted States district court, at Charles ton. The property will be sold again next summer, and will be started at $300,000. Bishop Haven, in an address de livered a few days ago in Philadel phia, said that John Brown was a Saint, and that the Southern people, with the exception of the Northern 1 Methodist Episcopal Church, all agreed with Robert Toombs in re gard to the union. The cotton operatives of Switzer land say they are being ruined by English cheap cloth, and ask the government to increase the import duties on fabrics. This is poor poli cy. If they wish to drive English, goods out of the market they should make cheaper and better cloth The fact that little Norway ha { the second largest commercial fleet! in the world is alleged to be chiefly due to the fact that villages pool their savings to build or buy a ship, in stead of, as here, putting them int-.> a savings bank to provide fast horses, etc., for a delinquent mana ger. It is found by adding together the vote given respectively to Gov. Rob inson, John Kelly and the greenback and temperance candidates in New York State, that Cornell, the republi can governor to be, is in a minority of over seventy thousand! This does not look like a governor chosen of the people. The Chicago Tribune thinks Sena tor Hill’s services in rolling up re publican majorities this fall should be suitably acknowledged. “If the people of the United States do not take up a subscription to buy King Alfonso a silver plated cake basket or cased receiver, as a wedding gift, they can afford something for Ben Hill.” Gen, James Harding, Railroad Commissioner of Missouri, is doing his work in a novel manner. He is now on a 200 mile walk over the railroads of northwest Missouri, in specting the condition of the road beds, rails, ties, and bridges. The work, he claims, can’t be properly done in a palace car or from a car blatform. '• ■' 1