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EDITORIAL eaglets.
During the year 1879 there were
3,738 miles of railroad built in the
United States. It is a fact worthy
\ of notice that 728 miles of the new
toads were narrow gauge.
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Ihe Boston Post is opposed to
making states out of territories that
are as yet little more than mining
| camps. If more states are necessary
I it calls for a division of Texas.
According to statistics, Judge
' Lynch did nearly as much business
last year as all other judges com
bined, and all because the better men
01 4 his circuit arc too cowardly to re
strain the old ruffian.
As the new year came in, the com
positors in the office of the Savan
nah Aews did a neat thing by pre
senting Col. W. T. Thompson, the
veteran editor of that journal, with
a fine cane with appro
priate inscriptions.
young Americans, George
Green, of Texas, and Frank Seales,
of Boston, while in a mail coach in
Mexico recently, were attacked by a
• band of thirty highwaymen. The
two young <nen fought the ent.re
band, killing five, wounding several
and causing the remainder to retreat.
We* are getting heartily sick of this
lA'gro exodus question. If the ne
/groes want to go to Kansas or Indi
ana or anywhere else, let them go,
say we. If the negroes and radicals
can stand the change of base, tho
south can. We have no fears but
that the south will lead on the home
stretch.
There is a bill before tho Virginia
legislature to appropriate 475,000 for
the purpose of pensioning confeder
ate invalids and the widows and or-
of confederate soldiers. This
; bill is a measure of the readjusters.
The debt- payers ridicule it and insist
that the amount is wholly inade
quate. Ab a consequence they favor
a much larger appropriation.
The stock of the Edison electric
light- company, tho par value of which
is SIOO per share, has since Mr. Ed
ison’s late experiments bounced to
$3,500 per share, and has since gone
x as high as $5,500 per share. This is
a boom without precedent in stocks,
but it shows tho confidence that mon
ey has in tho success of an invention
which is one of the marvels of the
age.
The legislature of Alabama will
not moot for a year, and Gov. Cobb
will have tho appointment of a suc
vcensor to Senator Houston, who will
occupy a seat in tho senate until the
general assembly convenes. Among
the candidates lor the place are L. P.
Walker, J. L. Pugh, W. H. Forney
and ex-Congressman Bradford. It
is thought the first or last named
will be chosen.
Since tho beginning of December
tho Parisians have been experiencing
something approximating to arctic
k weather. Snow fell and ico formed
in the streets until they became al
most impassable It was a blockade
such as never before had been wit
nessed in the memory of the oldest
inhabitant, the pack of snow and of
ice hummocks being so great as to
ba file all the efforts of the street bri
gade to clear a passage way for ve
hicles.
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While casting about for a new land
of promise, where they maj rest for
a season undisturbed by the intrusive
Gentile, the Mormons are told by
the Mexican minister of foreign af
fairs that there is plenty of room for
f them in the northern part of Mexico
if they choose to occupy it, but that
they must leave polygamy behind
them. As that would be giving up
Morincnism, it would hardly be
worth while to migrate under the
circumstances.
,To behold a little narrow-faced
pwn-easter suffering from a severe
Attack of the gripes fills one with
emotions alternating between pity
and contempt, with the latter largely
predominating. Eugene Hale, of
Maine, is now suffering agonies be
cause he fears, as he says, that the
late action of Gov. Garcelon is but
the beginning of a conspiracy which
will not end until the electoral vote
of the union is secured to the de
mocracy this year. The bare idea
is too repulsive to contemplate.
The old government buildings and
garrison ’at Carlisle, Pa., have re
cently been taken and employed for
a school for educating the children
of Indians on the plan of the gov
ernment school at Hampton, Va.,
which has seemed'to work so well.
The site is a perfectly healthy and a
very beautiful one, and the govern
ment, by some simple and inexpen
sive alterations and rearrangeme ts
of the buildings, has been enabled
’v to provide dormitories and school
rc&’itSJor one hundred and fifty-eight
P’U’ils, ( ,l*vnom o e hundred and
hl teen "are boys and forty-three are
/girls.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
[Special Correspondence of the Eaglb.]
Washington, D. C , Jan. 5,1880.
Not for many years has there been
so little social gayety in Washington
as during so much of this session as
has passed. In fact, there was much
more of glitter and of what is known
to outsiders as Washington society
during any one of the years of Grant’s
second term than during what is
past of the present administration.
This is perhaps singular, remember
ing that there is more real prosperi
ty than before, and that Washington
is growing in population and wealth
But the society one read of in the
newspapers three or four years ago
was a society led by a few conspicu
ously rich people, whose notable dis
plays is succeeded by a quieter en
joyment of social pleasures. In this
respect, Mr. Hayes, in the selection
of members of his cabinet and in
other ways, is a vast improvement on
President Grant.
And speaking of the Grant times,
your readers will be interested in
knowing that ‘'Castle Stewart,’’
which, with its ornate furnishings,
cost some half a million dollars, and
whose occupants pushed themselves
by the sheer force of wealth to the
head of society here in 1873 and later
years, was burned last night. But it
is not more completely destroyed
than the social condition which it
symbolized.
The Maine republicans who pro
posed violence as a means of revers
ing certain official acts of Governor
Garcelon, are quieter now. There is
a report of one backwoods militia
company which is to march on the
capital of the state with repeating
rifles; but they won’t march. The
enormous conservative influence of
Portland, the most important city of
the state, the personal regard for
and confidence in Governor Garce
lon, and the sober second thought of
the people generally, is rapidly over
coming the temporary frenzy in
spired by violent speeches in Bangor
and a few other cities and towns.
The governor has just removed un
molested the state arms from Bangor,
and was not even asked to consult
the supreme court as to bis right to
do so. A week ago, the same arms,
on a first attempt to move them, were
stopped in the streets of Bangor by
a mob.
We cannot doubt but that we shall
have an Indian war. One is sure to
occur in the near future, if the uni
versal opinion of army officers—the
only public servants who really know
anything about the Indians—is to be
accepted. The people, in such an
event, ought to impress upon Mr.
Hayes their son eof the inefficient
conduct of our Indian affairs under
Secretary Schurz. If the Indian bu
reau, which manages Indian affairs,
is not to be put in charge of the war
department, where it belongs, some
competent man should be put in
charge of the Indian bureau.
Rex
Practical Experiment with Ed
isoir’s Electric Light.
Edison already has his perfected
electric lamps in operation at Menlo
Park, New Jersey, and it is reported
that he will, within a week, light up
all the houses and street lamps in
Menlo Park, and publicly demonstrate
that he can do all he claims with his
horse-shoe light. One of his charred
paper burners has been glowing
steadily for several days without
change. Another was made to run
about eighteen-candle power to such
a pitch of luminosity that a person
could read the advertisements in the
daily papers at a distance of seventy
five feet. Edison hopes in practice
to feed eight lamps with each horse
power he uses. It is claimed the
electricity that will run one gas-jet
will run a sewing machine, rock a
cradle, or do other light work, and
cost only four cents a day. Edison
says he will sell the light all night
and the power all day. “I have a
little motor,” he says, “with which I
have been raising five gallons of wa
ter fifty feet high every minute. It
was at work, and the electricity used
was exactly the amount required to
iun one gas jet. That is just one
eighth horse-power, for I reckon
eight gas-jets for every horse-power.”
An Electric Executioner.
The adoption of electricity as a
mode of capital punishment has en
thusiastic advocates in Germany, as
well as in France and the United
States, as witness the following de
scription of a method proposed by a
German writer: “In a dark room,
draped with black, and which is
lighted only by a single torch—the
chamber of execution —there shall
stand an iron image of Justice, with
her scales and sword. Stern justice
is supposed to have no bowels, but
the German goddess will carry a
powerful battery in her inside; and
this battery will be connected with
an armchair—the seat of death. In
front of the chair shall stand the
judge’s tribunal, and only the judge,
jury and other officers shall be pres
ent with the criminal during the cer
iinony of execution. This will con
.-ist in the judge reading the story of
the crime committed by the prisoner,
who will be rigidly manacled to the
aforesaid armchair, and when this is
done the judge will break his rod of
office and toss it into one of the
scale-pans of justice, at the same
time ( xtinguishing the solitary torch.
The descent of the pan will complete
the electric circuit and shock the
wretch into the next world.”
IP FROM THE BANKS OF THE
RIVER.
Down to the banks of the river.
The river whose waters are dyed
With the sins of the millions whose footsteps
Have passed to the other side,
I wandered, all footsore and weary—
Eyes tear-dimmed, heart world-worn and cold,
Brain burning, and grief like a garment
Enclosed me in many a fold.
There on the banks of the river,
The river whose waters run wide,
The world far behind, and before me
The rush of the dark swelling tide,
I stood, while the death angel fluttered
Her dark pinions over my head,
’Till my vision grew dark and I fainted,
O’ercome with a terrible dread.
Then on the banks of the river,
lhe river whose waters are deep,
I prayed for the rest that is promised—
The peace of the grave, and its sleep.
Then I thought of the Mount, and the Martyr,
Two wounds, and the blood shed for me—
Os the pain and the anguish He suffered
That I, even I, should be free.
Then from the banks of the river,
The river whose waters are cold,
I ro»e with a new strength within me,
The half of which never was told.
I saw a nsw earth and new heaven,
My soul had been purged of its sin—
Now “the glory of God is about me,”
The light of His love is within.
UNCLE REMUS’ FOLK LORE.
Tlie Story of the Deluge anil How it.
Caine About.
J. C. Harris, in the Atlanta Constitution.
“One time,” said Uncle Remus,
adjusting his spectacles so as to be
able to see how to thread a large
darning needle with which he was
patching his coat—“one time, way
back yander, ’fo’ you wuz borned,
honey, en ’io’ Mars John er Miss
Sally wuz borned —way back yander,
’fo’ enny un us wuz borned, de ane
mils en de beasteses sorter ’lecshun
eer ’roun’ ’mong deyselves, ’twell at
las’ dey ’greed fer ter have a ’sembly.
In dem days,” continued the old
man, observing a look of incredulity
on the little boy’s face—“in dem days
creeturs had lots mo’ sense dan dey
got now; let ’lone dat, dey had sense
same like folks. Hit wuz teeb en go
wid um, too, mon, en w’en dey made
up der mines w’at had ter bo done
’twan’t mo’n menshun’d ’fo’ hit wuz
done. Weil, dey ’lected dat dey had
ter hole er ’sembly fcr ter sorter
straighten out marters en hear de
complaints, en w’en de day come
dey wuz on han’. De Lion he wuz
dere, kaze he wuz de king, en he had
ter be dere. De Rhinossyhoss ho
wuz dere, en de Elephent, he wuz
dere, en de Cammils, en de Cows, en
plum down ter de Crawfishes, dey
wuz dere. Dey wuz all dere. En
w’en de Lion shuck his mana en
tuck his seat in de big cheer, den de
sesshun begun fer ter commence ”
“What did they do, Uncle Re
mus ?” asked the little boy.
“I kin scacely call ter mind zackly
what they did do, but dey spoke
speeches, en hollered, en cust, en
flung der langwidge ’roun’ des like
w’en yo’ daddy wuz gwine to run fer
de legislator en got lef. Howsom
ever dey arranged der ’fairs, en
splain der bizness. Bimeby, w’ile
dey wuz ’sputin’ ’longer wunner nud
der, de elephent tromped on wunner
de crawfishes. Co’se w’en dat cree
tur put his fut down w’atsumever’s
under dere is boun fer ter be squshed
and dey wuzn’t enough of the craw
fish lef fer ter tell dat he’d been
dar.
Dis made de udder crawfishes
mighty mad, en dey swamed terged
der en draw’d up a kinder peramble
wid some wharfoes in it, en re’d her
out in de ’sembly. But bless gra
shus ! sech a racket wuz a gwine on
dat nobody never dear it, ’ceptin’ may
be de mud turkle en de spring lizzud
en dere enfloons wuz pow’ful lack
in’.
“Bimeby, w’ile de Nunicorn wuz
’sputin’ wid de lion, en w’ile de Hye
ner wuz a Jaffin ter hisse’f, de ele
phen squshed under one ob de craw
fishes, en little mo' en he’d ruint de
mud turkle. Den de crawfishes,
w’at dey was left on um, swamed
tergedder en drawed up anudder pa
ramblewid some more wharfo’es, but
dey might ez well sung Ole Dan
Tucker ter a harrycane. De udder
creeturs wuz too bizzy wid der fus
sin’ fer ter ’spon’ unto de crawfishes.
So dar dey wuz, de crawfishes, en
dey didn’t know w’at minnit wuz
gwine ter be de nex’; en dey kep’
on gittin’ madder en madder en
skearder en skearder, tel bimeby dey
give de wink ter de mud turkle en
de spring lizzud, en dey bo’d hole in
de groun’ en went down outer
sight.”
“Who did, Uncle Remus ?” asked
the little boy.
“De Crawfishes, honey. Dey bo’d
inter de groun’ en kep’ on bo’in twell
dey onloosened de fountains er de
ears; en de waters squirted out, en
riz higher en higher twell de hills
wuz kivered, on de creeturs all wuz
drownded; en all bekezo dey let on
’mong deyselves dat dey wuz bigger
dan de Crawfishes,”
Then the old man blew the ashes
from a smoking yam and proceeded
to remove the peeling.
“Where was the ark, Uncle Re
mus ?’’ the little boy inquired pres
ently.
“W’ich ark’s dat ? ’ asked the old
man in a tone of well-feigned curi
osity.
“Noah’s ark,” replied the child.
“Don’t you pester wid ole man
Noah, honey. I boun’ he tuck keer
er dat ark, Dat’s w’at he wuz dere
fer, en dat’s w’at he done. Leas’ways
dat’s w’at dey tells me. But don’t
you bodder longer dat ark ’ceppin’ yo’
mammy fetches it up. Dey mout er
bin two deloojes and den agin dey
moutent. Es dey wuz enny ark in
dis w’at de Crawfishes brung on, I
aint heern tell un it, en w’en dey aint
no arks ’roun, I aint got time fer ter
make um an’ put um in dere. Hit’s
gittin’ yo bedtime, honey.”
The Next Democratic Conven
tion—Financial Views.
A Washington dispatch says the
democrats are beginning to discuss
the time and place for holding their
next national convention. Cincinnati
and Indianapolis are mentioned,
those who advocate these cities claim
ing that the democracy would be
strengthened in Ohio and Indiana
by the selection of either. It is re
ported that Mr. Tilden wants the
convention held at Louisville, because
of the local sympathy and support
he would receive there.
Senator Kellogg has asked to have
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 9, 1880.
an opportunity to present more testi
mony, and this the democrats on the
committee can hardly refuse. Ben
Hill, however, says Kellogg will
surely be out before the last of Feb
ruary, and he is supposed to speak
for the democrats who are on the
committee with him.
There has been a good deal of
quiet caucusing among senators, the
object being to inculcate a financial
proposition of some kind which will
prove a compromise between the ex
treme position taken by Senator Bay
ard and his anti legal tender resolu
tion and the Butler resolution, which
recognizes all the elements of the
destruction of the legal tender fea
ture of the greenback, but postpones
its execution until 1885. Among the
plans hinted at is a resolution as
follows:
Resolved, That coins of gold and
silver of the weight and fineness as
fixed by congress are the constitu
tional currency of the country.
Resolved, That all paper money
required for the purposes of trade
and commerce should be issued by
the government of the United States,
and should be in the nature of treas
ury notes, not a legal tender unless
expressly stipulated in the contract,
but receivable for all dues to the
United States, and redeemable in
coin at the office of the assistant
treasurer in New York city; and that
this paper should be of a uniform
character, and in denominations to
be fixed by law.
Resolved, That sound policy re
quires that the governm nt should
always keep in reserve coin to the
extent of 34|- per cent, of outstand
ing certificates for its redemption.
Resolved, That the changes pro
posed in regard to the currency shall
not go into effect prior to 1883.
It will be seen at a glance that if
a resolu‘ion embodying the under
lying principles of the foregoing is
adopted, it will be a direct blow at
the national banks. The charters of
the majority of these banks expires
in 1883, so that their existence would
end with the expiration of their
charters. Those who favor a resrlu
tion of this kind say that if the ultra
hard-money men want only hard
money, they cannot fail to support
the resolutions. It forces just this
fight: That the government shall
alone omit notes of demit, based on
a gold obligation, and shall supply
the only paper money used in the
demands of trade. The friends of
the scheme say that it ought to re
ceive the support of those who are
called “soft-money” men, inasmuch
as it retains a paper circulation, but
recognizes that the United States and
not chartered corporations shall issue
it.
Tlie Almanac.
Whether the almanac is a descend
ant of the Roman Kalends, of the
Arabic Almanach, to count, or of the
Saxon Almonaught, a square of wood
upon which was carved the annual
courses of the moon, blessed be the
man who invented it! What trouble
has he not saved us by his observa
tions and computations. Without
him would not the tides steal many
a march upon us, eclipses fall on us
like the “red Pawnee,” the sun swing
round the circle of the zodiac without
telegraphing ns of his progress, the
planets pass into conjunction without
notifying us, the moon spend her
last quarter—borrowed silver though
it be—without being interviewed ?
Without his aid should we know
when to hunt for the trailing arbu
tus, when to kindle the Yuleog, to
pay our new year’s calls, to bake the
Twelfth-night cake, test All-hallow
een spells, write our valentines, lei
off Fourth of July rockets, eat Lea
ten fare, or paint our Easter eggs ?
Was he not ‘he first proprietor and
publisher of a kind of court journal
of tho natural heavens, which warn
us when Venus will take her evening
constitutional, at what hour Jupiter
will see fit to rise in the morning, or
when red Mars will show us the
light of his countenance? A journ
al teat even Julius Cieesar and Au
gusta worked upon ; on which a host
of successors have tried their hand,
adding theories of religien and tid
bits of prophecy about human affairs
—abuses having crept in, perhaps, in
the shape of a column devoted to
sublunary things and people, since
we find that Henry the Third of
France forbade almanac makers from
using the gift of prophecy. What a
gulf separator the calendar of to-day
from the Clog almanac, supposed to
have been introduced into England
by the Danish invaders, a square of
wood to be suspended in the parlor,
or carried by the dandy of the time
as a portion of a walking-stick, upon
which St Valentine’s day was indica
ted by trae-lover’s knot, St. Law
rence’s by a gridiron, while the first
of May betrayed itself by a bough,
and St. Catherine’s wheel revealed
the twenty fifth of August, Primi
tive as this may seem, no doubt it
proved a boon to the generation that
consul! ed it ; and though the stock
of information in the almanac of the
present era may appear limited to
dwellers in the great centers of busi
ness where knowledge floats in the
air, and is taken in at the pores, yet
to others, in remote country places,
far from circulating libraries and
newspaper depots, its appearance is
as anxiously expected, perhaps, as
the monthly issue of the most popu
lar magazine in less sequestered re
gions. Though “Probabilities” has
put its weather reports somewhat out
of countenance, does it not give us
biography and history in a nutshell ?
It is, in brief, a periodical which nev
er waxes prosy, which always affords
scope for thought, it deals mainly
with the affairs of nature, whose
common places are miracles, whose
often repeated events are as fresh
and surprising as when God first
said; “Let there be light!’
The total product of American
agricultural industry in 1879 is es
timateci at $1,904,400,659, nearly
eight times as great as the agricul
tural productions of England, and
three times as great as those of
France.
Chambers of the French Senate.
The Luxembourg Palace, where
the Senate of the French republic
met for the first time in November,
was built in 1612 by Marie de Medi
cis and made over by her son, Gas
ton d’Orleans, when she was sent
into exile through the influence of
Cardinal Richelieu. At his death
the palace became the property of
his daughters, Mille. de Montpent
eier and Elizabeth de Guise, by the
last named of whom it was made
over to Louis XIV and so became
crown property. The regent, Duke
of Orleans, allowed his daughter, the
Duchess de Berry, to occupy it ; and
from 1733 to the revolution it was
the residence of several princes, the
last occupant being the Count de
Provence, afterwards Louis XVIII.
When he fled from France, the Pal
lais du Luxembourg was converted
into a prison, and among the persons
confined there, and afterwards guil
lotined, were the Vicomte Bcauhar
nais, first husband of the Empress
Josephene, and General de Broglie,
grandfather of the present duke;
while a year or two later it was from
the Luxembourg that Danton, Cam
ille Desmoulins, and others were led
out to execution. The directory
had its official residence there in
1795, as after the ninth Thermidor
the Luxembourg had ceased to be a
prison ; while after the eighteenth
Brumair, Napoleon had the words,
“Palace of the Directory ’’ effaced and
“Palace of the Consulate” engraved
in their stead over the central porti
co. Soon afterwards the decree of
Council of Five Hundred allotted the
Luxembourg as the seat of the Con
servative Senate; and when, in 1814
Louis XVIII re-established the
Chamber of Peers, the Luxembourg
was chosen as their residence, and
up to 1848 the palace was issued for
the same purpose; while after the
coup d’etat of 1851 the imperial Sen
ate held its sittings there until after
the war of 1870 and the revolution of
September 4th swept away empire
and Senate togi ther. A great deal
of d .mage was done to the palace
during the communist insurrection,
since which time it has been the offi
cial residence of the perfect of the
Seine; and within the last eight years
a sum of £50,000 has been spent up
on repairs and alternations. The
return of the Senate to Paris has ne
cessitated the further expenditure of
£20,000 most of which has been re
quired for fitting up the chamber in
which the Senate will sit, and for
providing committee rooms and ac
commodations for the press. The
grand staircase, leading to what was
formerly the throne room and to the
Senatorial Chamber, has been redec
orated, and the imperial eagles have
been replaced by the letters R. F.
(Republican Francaise.)
An Arizona Sensation.
Some excitement is being created
among the Mexican population of
Phoenix by the story of a Mexican
who arrived last evening from Reno
Mountains. He came into town un
der cover of darkness, as he was
nearly naked. His hands and feet
were torn and bloody, and his face
was gashed in a fearful manner. His
story was told with the air of a man
who had been terribly frightened and
had not recovered. With a compan
ion, he had started out prospecting
about a month ago, going up Salt
river. They left the river when op
posite the Superstitious Mountain.
Their prospecting began at this point.
While climbing up the mountain, in
a little gully, through black sand,
and down which a large stream of
water had evidently passed years
ago, they were astonished so find that
in this sand were large quantities of
fine gold. In some places the sand
was only about half an inch deep
over the granite. The gold, in pieces
the size of a bean and smaller, was
found in the little fissures in the face
ot the bed-rock. Very little washing
was necessary, and they found a lit
tle spring of water which furnished
them with what they needed. They
obtained, they think, about six hun
dred dollars’ worth in half a day’s
work. About 2 o’clock in the after
noon they were surprised to see an
Indian woman come to the top of the
gulch above the spring and start to
come down. Upon seeing them she
ran back over the hill. In less than
ten minutes they were surrounded by
fifty or sixty savages. The Indians
were very small, and seemed to be
of a different nature than they had
ever seen in Arizona. The Mexicans
were not armed except with knives,
and the survivor says they were al
most instantly caught with lariats.
The Indians took them up the moun
tain and put them in a cave. They
tortured and killed his companion,
and his fate would have been the
same but for his escape. He suc
ceeded in getting away with only a
few knife gashes on his face. They
lost their gold, with all their outfit.
The Indians seemed to be cave dwell
ers, and were evidently excited over
the place being found by outsiders.
Our reporter’s limited knowledge of
the Spanish language makes it im
possible for us to obtain all the par
ticulars of the affair. For the benefit
of non-residents we will say that
Superstitious Mountain derives its
name from the fact that no white
man has ever been seen again who
attempted its ascension. It is a tra
dition among the Mexicans that large
deposits of free gold are to be found
in its gulchc-s and ravines. It is not
known whether there is any water
there or not. — Phcenix {Ariz.} Her
ald.
Tlie Population of Africa.
It cannot be expected for many
years yet to have anything like accu
rate statistics on the population of
Africa. Several regions, the popula
tion of which is certainly great, will
probably long escape anything like a
thorough examination. There are,
for example, in the regions of the
Great Lakes, countries quite as thick
ly peopled as many of the states of
Europe. Stanley tells us of coun
tries of relatively small extent, and
which yet possess millions of inhab-
itants. When we shall have suc
ceeded in making an approximate
census of all the populations, we
shall probably reach a figure consid
• rably higher than the present esti
mate. Some authorities accord to
Africa nor more than 100,000.000 in
habitants; others less still. German
geographers suppose that Africa con
tains somewhat more than 200,000,-
000 inhabitants; the latest English
publications estimate the population
at 186,000,000, which, for an area of
11,500,000 square miles, gives an av
erage of 16 inhabitants per square
mile, or a specific population 111
times less than that of France. AL
rica, which has 57 times the area of
France, has probably scarcely eight
times the population. The suppres
sion of the slave trade and the in
fluence of European civilization may
lead to an increase of population
very rapid and very great. It should
be observed that the approximate
figure of the specie population, ap
plied to the whole of the American
continent, will not give a just idea of
the compact character of the popu
lation of the interior. According to
Behna, the negro regions are by far
the most populous parts of the con
tinent. If the populations are sparse
in the desert parts, they are very
dense in other regions. Thus, in the
Soudan, the population is estimated
at 80,000,000, or about 53 per square
mile; the town of Bida, on the Niga,
has a population of 80,000 inhabit
ants. The population of East Africa
is estimated at about 30,000,000, an
that of Equatorial Africa at 40.000,-
000. One of tho latest authorities
divides the population of Africa as
follows among the great families into
which ethnologists have divided the
peoples: Negroes, 130,000,000; Ham
ites, 20,000,000; Bantus, 13,000,000;
Fulahs, 8,000,000; Nubians, 1,500,-
000; Hottentots, 50,000. This would
give a total population of 172,55*,
000. These figures are, of course,
only approximate, and may be much
modified by new and more precise
information. The Bantus, for exam
ple, who, according to F. M. Muller,
form at least one-quarter of the pop
ulation of Africa, might be found to
number 50,000,000.
*
A Ten-Acre Wife.
Yesterday Solomon Glass, a col
ored rfian whose experience in agri
cultural pursuits has enlightened his
neighborhood, came to town with
the view of getting a divorce from
his wife. When asked upon what
grounds, he replied:
Sufficient is de grounds of dis oc
casion. When I rented ten acres
and worked one mule I married a
’oman suitable for de occasion. Now
I rent sixty acres of lan’ and work
five mules. My fust wife is a mighty
good ten acre wife, but she dont suit
de occasion ob sixty acres. I needs
a ’oman what can spread more ”
When told by a lawyer that the
grounds were not sufficient, he re
marked:
“I kin produce de histry to show
whar I’m carect, i’s a learned man
and can read clar aroun’ de majority
ob de colored gentlemen an’ a great
many white fellers. De reasons be
long to de French history, an’, though
I doesn’t speak French I talks about
it, You know Napoleon first married
josephene, the Beauharis'”
“Yes.” said the lawyer, “but you
may become a trifle too historically
opulent if you proceed much far
ther.”
“Dat’s all right. An’ you know
dat when he got to de head ob de
gubernment an’ had charge of ail de
commiseries, he wanted a wife what
would spread more, an’ he got a dis
pensation from Josephine and hitched
onto Maria Louisa, case she could
spread more. Dar’s de history, an’
dar’s de precedent, an’ es a man can’t
git a dispensation on dese groun’s,
whar’s your court houses and whar’s
your law ? ’ —Little Rock (Ark.) Ga
zette.
—
The Relative Age of Animals.
The average age of cats is 15
years; of squirrels and hares, 7 or 8
years; of rabbits, 7; a bear rarelv
exceeds 20 years; a dog lives 20
years, a wolf 20, a fox 14 to 16; lions
are long-lived, the one known by the
name of Pompey living to the age of
70. Elephants have been known, it
is asserted, to live to the great age
of 400 years. When Alexander, the
Great, had conquered Porus, king of
India, he took a great elephant which
had fought valiantly for the king,
and named him Ajax, dedicated him
to the sun, and let him go with this
inscription: “Alexander, the sun of
Jupiter, dedicated Ajax to the sun.”
The elephant was found with this
inscription throe hundred and fifty
years after. Pigs have been known
to Jive to the age of 20, and the rhi
nocerus to 20; a horse has been
known to live to the age of 62, but
average 25 to 30; camels sometimes
live to the age of 100; stagi are very
long-lived; sheep seldom exceed the
age of 10; cows live about 15 years.
Cuv er considers it probable that
whales sometimes live 1,000 years.
The dolphin and porpoise to the age
of 30; an eagle at Vienna to the age
104; ravens frequently reach the age
of 100; swans have been known to
live 300 years. Mr. Malerton has
the skeleton of a swan that attained
the age of 200 years. Pelicins
are long-lived. A tortoise has been
known to live to the age of 107
years.
S cond Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Brady is reported to have
cleared $700,000 in the last six
months in telephone stock. He is a
very large shareholder in the Bell
Telephone company, and owns a
controlling interest in the local
branch which supplies New York,
Brooklyn and Jersey City with a
telephone service.
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A person known for the past twen
ty-five years as Charles Parkhurst,
and who has been a stage driver and
farmer in California during that time
died Sunday, near Watsonville, Cal.,
when it became known that the de
ceased was a woman.
SMALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together.
The spirit with which men hate
evil-doers is oftentimes worse, as a
crime, than the evil or the evil-doer
Women have been admitted to the
bar in eight states, and to the bar of
soap in every state and Territory in
the land.
A descendant of Christopher Col
umbus was present at the king of
Spain’s marriage—Don Diego Colom
bo, gentleman of the Royal cham
ber.
When a lady sends a cake to a
church tea party she is mad aP the
evening if some one asks for another
piece of her neighbor’s cake and not
of hers.
The population of Jerusalem is
some twenty-five thousand, made up
of Mohammedans, Christians, and
Jews, the latter being far the most
numerous.
Miss Drever, a young lady belong
ing to fashionable society in San
Francisco, has shocked her friends
by announcing her betrothal to a
Chinaman.
A London journalist wrote up an
interview with Eugenie without hav
ing been within 300 miles of her, and
it read better than the accounts of
those on the spot.
Professor E. S. Morse thinks that
the original inhabitants of Japan
were of the same stock from which
sprang the Esquimaux and the Amer
ican Indians. But they have im
proved upon it.
There is a sudden cessation of
prosperity at Virginia city, Nev.
Mining stocks are down, work in
the mines has stopped, and the poor
are destitute in the midst of an un
commonly cold winter.
In the Saxon chamber a deputy
has proposed the restoration of the
silver standard, on the ground that
the gold standard had worked preju
dicially. The chamber decided on
entertaining the proposal.
The contributions in New York
for hospital purposes last Saturday
and Sunday will aggregate about
one hundred thousand dollars, of
which twenty thousand dollars were
collected in the Jewish synagogues.
A St. Alban’s wife, in reply to her
husband’s advertisement that he
would pay no debts of her contract
ing, published a card expressing sur
prise that ho had raised money
enough to pay the advertising bill.
Lotta, the actress, was a witness
in a St. Louis lawsuit. “What is
your age ?” she was asked. “People
might not believe me if I told,’’ she
replied, “for some say lam forty
five.’’ That was the only answer she
would give.
A dispatch from Ooroomiah, Per
sia, announces that the famine in
all that region is increasing daily,
and that unless strenuous efforts are
made to send help from England and
America a great number of people
must perish.
Prince Bismarck is reported to
have once said in one of his familiar
discourses: “In politics I act as I do
out duck shooting—l put my foot on
one bowlder, and do not take it off
till I see my way to another. When
Ido I step on to the new bowlder
and leave the old one behind, and so
on till I am out of the marsh.”
In Italy, during the p»ast nine
months of the current year, there
were 2,000 murders or attempts at
murder committed in the kingdom,
being an average of 10| a day. In
the same period of three quarters of
a year there occurred 1,900 cases of
highway robbery, of the perpetra
tors of which as many as 800 had
entirely escaped the hands of jus
tice.
A little boy starved to death, at
Pittsburg, in consequence of a throat
disease that prevented his swallow
ing anything. He lived four weeks
without eating or drinking. His
pleadings for food were pitiful, and
he frequently dreamed of enjoying
sumptuous repasts, only to awake to
dreadful hunger and thirst. Just
before he died ho asked his mother if
they would have a good dinner for
him in heaven.
The wisdom of the German postpl
and telegraph authorities in deter
mining to connect Berlin with the
chief cities of the empire, by means
of a system of underground telegraph
wires, has been fully confirmed during
the severe weather recently prevail
ing. While the violent storms of
wind and snow have, in many dis
tricts, been the cause of constant
stoppages in the telegraphic commu
nication between places connected by
overground wires, the traffic between
towns connected by subterranean
lines has gone on through the worst
weather, without the least interrup
tion or inconvenience. A consider
able extension of the underground
system is looked upon as probable
both in Germany and other conti
nental countries.
Singing is one of the healthiest
exercises in which men, women and
children can engage. The Medical
Woceencbrift, of St. Petersburg, has
an article based exhausted made by
Prof. Monassein, during the autumn
of 1878, when be examined 222
singers, ranging between the ages of
nine and fifty-three. He laid chief
weight upon the g.owthand absolute
circumference of the chest, upon the
comparative relation of the latter to
the tallness of the subject, and upon
the pneumatometric and spirometric
condition of the singer. It appears
to be an ascertained fact from Dr.
Monasseiu’s experiments that the
relative and even the absolute, cir
cumference of the chest is greater
among singers than among those
who do not sing, and that it in
creases with the growth and age of
the singer. The professor even says
that singing may be placed physical
ly, as the antithesis of drinking spir
ituous liquors. The latter hinders,
while the former promotes.
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