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EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
Jfr-ank Leslie, the noted publisher
|New York, died on Saturday
I
- maine is now trying on military
government with Major-General
Chamberlain commanding.
We would like for some financial
expert"to show the difference be
tween Senator Bayardjand
Sherman on one of the vital ques
tions of day.
/ Grant having "givcff’Atlanta the
go-by, the good people of that city
propose to show wbat they can do
in the way of a reception to Mr.
Parnell, the great Irish agitator.
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Recent experiments have demon
strated that photographs can be ta
ken at night by the electric light.
The pictures are said to be as clear
and distinct as if taken in the sun
light.
The editor of the Cumming Clarion
has been for some time wrestling
with the question as to. what consti-.
tutes an independent journal, but
. the solution, like seme treacherous
“Will-with the-wisp” seems to elude
his grasp.
We rise to inquire whether it is
New England or down-east virtue
that is now being exemplified and
illustrated in Maine. Turbulence
avd bribery seem to be leading ele
ments and hence we arc at a loss as
to its proper classification.
Our exchanges are filled with dis
cussions of the probable effect of the
late railroad combinations, by which
a through line from St. Louis to Sa
vannah is established, under one
management. Col. Cole is getting
to be a bigger man than Grant* In
£act his successful maneuvering has
> completely eclipsed the ex-president’s
southern tour.
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, There are fifty-three cotton mills
in successful operation in North
Carolina. They used, the past year,
38,484 bales of the fleecy staple,
which is an increase of 16,644 over
the previous year. There are, also,
three more large cotton mills now
building, with a fair prospect of
xquitc a number more. North Caro
lina is on the up grade.
The Maine republicans have been
caught and exposed in the work of
bribing members of the legislature—
the price being SI,OOO per member.
While claiming a high state of “cul
ture’ and purity these stubborn facts
have come to light. Under their
Yfcule of nu.als the gravity of the of
fense consists probably, not in of
fering the bribes, but in being
caught.
Mr. Nordhoff writes to the New
York Herald, exposing the weakness
of the Grint movement. In the first
place Sherman is strongly opposed
to a third term, both on principle
and on his own account. Blaine is
e yially opposed, and has not author
*■ izod any movement to withdraw his
name in case Grant runs. Mr. Hayes
stands Joef as usual in politics, but
does not favor Grant, and does not
oppose Sherman.
It was the hybrid pol.„ <*ns who
raised all the hue end cry about the
blunders of the democratic leaders in
forcing the extra session of last year.
These mongrels were trying to ride
two horses and did not want to take
positions on important political ques
tions. The truth is, when the ques
tions which made the extra session a
necessity, are examined, it will be
found that the democrats did not
blunder at all unless it be a blunder
to stand firmly to sound principles.
The news from Europe is interest
ing. Russia is concentrating large
bodies of men and great quantities
'f war material on her western fron
tier, and Russian soldiers in the
frontier towns are talking of war
with Germany and Austria as among
the certainties of the near future.
The German press has recently con
tained some significant articles re
flecting upon Russia, and warlike
utterances have characterized the
Austrian press and people for some
time, Taken altogether, the pros
pects for continued peace between
the three Emperors is by no means
brilliant.
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■khe Washington Post of Tuesday
says: “It is authoritatively stated
i ’hat there will be no report at the
present session from the senate fi
nati'c. committee on any of the vari
ous prepositions regarding the cur
rency It is positively asserted that
the sial us quo will be rigidly main
tained by the committee, and that
Senator Waliuce, who has been re
lied upon to side with Mr. Bavard in
his effort to destroy the legal tender
power of the greenback, has returned
here fully satisfied that it would be
unwise and inexpedient to disturb
the existing conditions of things
and try experiments when tho coun
try is in a prosperous condition.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
Florida Correspondence.
St. Augustine, Fla., Jan. 7,1880.
Editor Eagle—Perhaps there is no
spot on the continent of America
that haq, a more delightful, wiater
climate than that of St. Augustine.
Summer glides so imperceptibly into
autumn and autumn into winter that
we scarcely realize the transition
from the heat of summer to the soft
and balmy atmosphere of winter. A
winter’s day in St. Augustine reminds
one of the lazy days of “Indian sum
mer’* in the middle states, except
the sky here is clear and the atmos
phere a little more bracing. During
the present winter we’ve had no cold
weather at all, the thermometer rare
ly if at falling below 50 degrees Fah
renheit, and ranging from that to 70,
in the shade. There has been scarcely
a day this winter that fire was r eeded
for comfort, and white dresses and
linen are worn daily upon our streets.
Vegetation, joung and tender, is
growing luxuriantly in the gardens,
and the most delicate flowers are
blooming profusely in the open air.
Cabbage heads are whitening in the
vegetable farms, and we had green
peas, fresh from the vine, on our ta
ble to-day for dinner. Every variety
of cultivated flowers is now in full
bloom, and the neighboring wild
woods have on the garments of
spring.
A few days since we took a drive
two miles into the country, to enjoy
a little of the freedom of nature’s
wide domain, and were amply com
pensated by the tropical appearance
of the country everywhere, to say
nothing of the beautiful orange
groves along the-way at every farm
house, loaded down with their wealth
of golden fruit, ripe and yellow,
bending so temptingly over the pay
ings and fences, as if to tantalize the
passers by. When- beyond tho su
burban villages we came upon the
most delightful forests of evergreens
—live-oaks, green-bay and magnolia
—with theit dark green foliage con
trasting so beautifully with the dra
pery of the long moss, tossed by the
breezes and swooping so majestically
from the tallest branches, made us
foel as though we had surely caught
a glimpse of fairy-land. Occasionally
wo would come upon a clump of na
tive cedars or hawthorn that looked
as if they had been rounded off by
the pruning shears of a skilful nur
seryman, while the grassy lawn bo
neath looked like a green carpet be
spangled with wild flowers of varied 1
hues.
To say nothing of the pleasant- '
ness of tho climate, St. Augustine
has peculiar attractions that are !
strangely fascinating. Tho stranger
who has once visited this antiquated 1
old town rarely fails to come again, '
and one can scarcely say he has been '
to Florida who cannot tell of Fort 1
St. Marco (now Fort Marion), the 1
old Spanish cathedral, the quaint old
Coquina houses, the narrow and
crooked streets, beautiful moonlight
nights, the enjoyable sen-wall prome
nades, a stroll on the shell bound
shore of North beach. “What, been
to Florida, and not seen the old, an
cient city of St. Augustine!” was the
astonished ejaculation of a lady to a
fellow passenger as they were return
ing north after a winter’s campaign
in Florida. “Why, you’ve missed
one of the most interesting as well
as the most plea ant places on the
whole Atlantic coast!” You can
scarcely be in St. Augustine a single
day without hearing some one speak
of the pleasantness of the weather.
For many years it has been a fa
vorite resort for invalids and seekers
of pleasure, and each winter brings
its thousands of visitors, who throng
our hotels and boarding houses,
spend their time in sailing upon the
bay and rivers, driving, shooting,
fishing, gathering shells upon the
beach, gathering curiosities, visiting
the old Spanish fort, the cathedral,
the convent, the barracks, the orange
groves, and many other places vastly
interesting to the tourist.
We have but little rain during the
winter months, and our soil sandy,
so we are troubh d with neither mud
nor dust. , ,
As is usually the case at al! water
ing places, our people have made it
their study to please and accommo
date strangers. Some of the most
commodious hotels have been erected,
where first-class accommodations can
be had at reasonable rates, and
smaller boarding houses furnish them
at much less figures. Among the
first-class' hotels are the St. Augus
tine, the Florida House, and the
Magnolia. Boardinghouses are too
numerous to mention.
Our “sailor boys” are amply sup
plied with neat and handsome little
pleasure yachts, and one of the most
enjoyable pastimes is sailing on the
bay to North beach, the light-house,
the Coquina quarries, etc. The boys
work amazingly cheap, and never fail
to give you your money’s worth.
Another branch of our enterprise
is the “curiosity shops.” These fur
nish shells, orange canes, native jew
elry, sea-beans, young alligators, alli
gators teeth, feather-fans, etc., etc.
This business s carried on extensive-
ly, and to perfection. And stiff an
other branch of native industry is the
( manufacture of palmetto goods. The
most beautiful ladies’ hats are made
. from thp palmetto leaf, and tripamiid
with wild grasses and grass plumes.
Chief among the attractions of the
place is the old Spanish fort, whose
massive and sombre walls, for more
than two hundred years, have frowned
heavily above the dark waters of the
bay of St. Augustine;' but of this
ancient landmark I will not attempt
a description, as so much has been
written recently upon that subject.
Worthy of special mention is the
St. Augustine yacht club. This pralse
worthyj.‘institution's composed of a
few gentlemen who furnish, at their
own expense, sports and amusements
for the entertainment of strangers,
such as boat racing, masqur rading,
hurdle chases, sack races, donkey
races, greasy-pole climbing, tourna
ment exercises, etc., with a grand
display of fire-works on the bay at
night to dose the festivities of the
gala day. R. H. G.
THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
[Special Correspondence of the Eagle.]
Washington, D. C., Jan. 101880.
There has been an unwanted ap
pearance of business about the senate
since * the re-asHeritbflngt*' ’S&rtitor*
Davis has matured and presented a
bill to increase the number of judges
in the circuit courts of the United
States, and enlarging jurisdiction
below the Supreme court, so as to
prevent the sending to the latter of
so many cases of minor importance.
Senator Pendleton offered
a bill giving'tho : court of fclafms ‘ju
risdiction in claims against the gov
ernment when, in the opinion of the
head of the department, important
questions of law or fact were involved.
A department of agriculture and
commerce were suggested by Sena
tors Davis, of West Va., and Win
dom of Minnisota.
In the house extraordinary inter
est has been shown in the subject of
Pension laws. This is not strange.
This is not strange as the annual ex
penditures for pensions is over $30,000
and increasing and likely to increase.
Secretary Schurz is likely to
achieve immortally by his treatment
of the Ute question. He has now waited
five weeks and more for the Indians
to come in who committed murder
and worse crimes upon the Meeker
party. He will on Monday next re
ceive and entertain in this city, a psr
ty of the tribe, and th ; s ensures an
other week or more of time for
the guilty Indians to escape or pre- .
pare for war. There never syas be
fore such an exhibition of iimbecility
as this. If Mr. Schurz threatened
resignation unless the afiair. was left
entirely in his hands, as is believed,
so much the greater-discredit upon
an administration which yielded to
him. The indians .ought to have
been captured and punished long
ago, as every one knows. It is a dis
grace to every member of the admin
istration that they were not.
The parties opposing the republic
can party in Maine yesterday, organ
ized the two houses of the legislature,
there being a quorum of members
present in each house. Public at
tention has of late been called to the
methods of Governor Garcelon in
deciding upon questions involving
the legal rights of candidates to seats.
Tho supreme court of the state, has
condemned those methods. Therein
it condemned republican governors
from 1855 forward, 'all ‘of whom in
some particular cases, had adopted
the same methods It condemned
the late republican candidate for
governor, who. as a member of the
legislature, had made a report op the ,
principle of which Governor Garce
lon acted, In short, Gov. Garcelon
had his and his predecessor’s inter
pretation of the law. and the eon->
stitution to back him. He has suc
ceeded, A man less, firm would have
failed because the radical howl—they
call it public sentiment in Marne—
would have frightened him.
To Governor Garcelon, therefore,
is due much of the credit of the pres
ent conservativeyjptory in. Maine—
a victory which.l believe to be the
only one of many. . » - >■- Rex.
Have Animals Souls.
Montaigne, in one of his essays,
thus touches a most suggestive sub
ject:
‘‘Chyssippus, though in other
things as scornful a judge of the con
dition of animals as any other phi-’ *
losopher whatever, considering the
motions of a dog, who coming to a
place where three ways met, either
to hunt after the master he has lost,
or in pursuit of some game that flies
before him, goes snuffing first in one
of the ways and then in another, and
after having made himself sure of
two, without finding the trace of
what he seeks, dashes into the third
without examination —is forced to
confess this reasoning is in the dog;
‘I have traced my master t > this
place; he must of necessity have gone
one of these ways; he has not gone
this way nor that; he must infallibly
be gone this other;’ and that assur
ing himself by this conclusion, he
makes no use of his nose in the third
way, nor ever lays it to the ground,
but suffers himself to be carried on
there by the force of reason. This
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1880.
sally, purely logical, and this use of
propositions divided and conjoined,
and the right enumeration of parts
is it not every whit as good that the
dog knows all this of himself as if he
obtained it from the learned Greek,
Trapszuntius ?”
The ingenius speculations of the
ancient philosopher and characteris
tic comment of the wise old Gascon,
seemed to have provoked no inquiry
in the same direction until within a
comparatively recent period. Those
of us who are on the wrong side of
forty remember that our tachers nev
er credited the animal creatien with
anything above instinct, and insisted
that between instinct and reason
there was a wide and impassable gulf.
They did not tell us, however, when
and where instinct stopped or reason
began; but were only quite sure that
whatever looked like reason in an
animal W merely a higher or the
highest, form of instinct. Such has
been the prevailing opinion ; we
might say such is—for probably nine
persons out of ten would ridicule the
idea that the reasoning faculty is not
monopolized by man. Yet every one
who has an intimate acquaintance
with dogs and horses, know that they
frequently exhibit a quantity and
quality of intelligence worthy of hu
man beings; and hundreds of well
authenticated anecdotes prove that
these quadrupeds have what, in hu
man beings, is called “mind”—and
use it promptly and effectively when
ever occasion requires. The veteran
showman, Dan Rice, who has had a
experience with
horses of the circus variety than any
other man living or dead, is as thor
oughly convinced, to use' his own
phrase, “that they can do everything
but talk,” as he is of his own talking
powers. Nor does he hesitate to say
—perhaps with pardonable exagera
tions—that the best horses he has
known have not only more sense, but
more soul than the majority of men.
And, singularly ‘enough, science
now beginning to reinforce the show
man though its conclusions have not
yet been pushed quite so far. Sci
entific observers in this department
are not content with claiming for the
lower animals—such as dogs, cats,
&c.—simply reason, but declare that
they have a moral sense. Mr. W.
Lauder Lindsay, F. R. S. E, has
published a work in two volumes en
titled, “Mind in the Lower Animals;”
and in the course pf his argument
says, “Agassiz grants the morals;
Frounde speakes of their principles
of morality; Brodie refers to the mor
al sentiments as occuring in grega
rious animals; Shaftesbury allows
them a sense es practice of moral rec
titude; Watson gives instance of their
moral feeling, and Wood of their
conscience.” Mr. Lindsay also
says : t
“Temptation frequently begets in
the dog, cat and other animals the
sa’mrtkindof mental or moral agita
tion, and the same sort of result as
in man. Sometimes we can see, in the
dog for instance, the whole play of
the animals mind—the battle be
tween its virtuous and vicious pro
pensities, its pomptinge to the right
and its endeavors to stick by the
right,- its’longing for the wrong—for
titbiff which it knows it would be
improper to steal—and the final tri
umph either of virtue or temptation.
The poor animal, knowing or feeling
the weakness of flesh, sometimes has
the moral strength, the force of
character, the good sense, to avoid
temptation altogether. But dogs
like men; are apt to have the most
trying temptations thrust unexpect
edly upon them, and then comes the
tug of war of the apetites and
passions—the turmoil that may make
a shipwreck of or strengthen virtue.
Sometimes, then, by the dog, as by
the man, temptation is sucossfuily
resisted after perhaps a series of pro
tracted and painful moral struggles
-that have been very apparent to the
onlooker. Unfortunately, however,
equally in dog and man, the resist
ance of temptation is less common
by far than non-resistance or non
success in resistance, the result of
which is various forms or degrees of
wrong doing.”
The same author gives illustrations
—based on unimpeachable authority
—of the remorse and repentance,
shame and sorrow, gratitude and
generosity of animals. In short, he
assigns to them a moral nature very
similar to that of man, but of course
•in many respects greatly inferior.
Yet if we concede to them any moral
nature, such as pertains to humanity,
then they must have what in hu
manity is termed a “soul”—and then
how can we so consistently deny to
that soul immortality ? This is a
startling proposition, and no attempt
will be in kdb'to’demonstate it; but It L
certainly looks like the logical result
of reasoning drawn from indisputa
ble facts. Henry Ward Beacher is
reported'to have accepted that result;
at least to the extent of not being
willing to deny immortality to .ani
mals—some of whom, he thinks, de
serve it more than the bipeds who
use and abuse them.
In this connection we may remark
that the metempsychosis which, ac
cording to Montaigne, Pythagoras
borrowed from the Egyptians, fur
nished animals temporarily with hu
man souls. Thus, if the soul had
been valiant in the human body, it
‘was; after death, “lodged in a lyon;
if voluptuous;-in a hog; if J timorous,
in a hart or hare:if subtle, in that of
a fox, and so of the rest*, till, having
been purified by this chastisement, it
again entered the body of some oth
er man.” One of the cardinal doc
trines of a religion which to-day sat
isfies the spiritual wants of more than
a third of the worlds inhabitant close
ly resembles the Pythegorean met
empsychosis; for the followers of
“Lord Buddha—Prince Siddartha
styled on earth—” believed that the
soul when disembodied may pass
through every form of existence,
from a clod to a divinity, before .it js
deemed worthy to’ enter into the eter
nal rest of Nirvana, Now from 4he
belief that human souls dwell in ani- (
mals for punishment or probation, '
to the bel-ef that animals have souls
of their own, is but a short step; and
it may be that the two were original
ly united. It is certainly curious
that after the lapse of twenty-four
centuries a theory which may have
been entertained by-the Hindoo re
former and the Greek philosopher
should be strongly suggested by the
investigations of modern science. So
much that we think is new turns out
to be old—very old. Mr Lindsay’s
book promises to provoke a lively
controversy; not because it claimes
mind for animals, but because if that
claim is admited a much more im
portant one cannot easily be denied.
At any rate, Pope’s “poor Indian”—
so long on the poetical war path—
who see
“Beyond the cloud-topped hill, a humbler heaven;
And thinks admitted to that equal sky,.
His faithful dog shall bear him company, 4 ’
need not be laughed at as persist
ently as heretofore, until the final
scientific verdict is rendered against
him.— St. Louis Republican.
The Healing Power of Imagina
tion.
The records of medical practice
are full of illustrations of the influ
ence of the imagination, for good or
evil, over the functions of the body,
and philosophy finds in them a key
to the wonderful persistence of many
popular superstitions. The firm be
lief that any disastrous physiological
result, even death itself, will surely
follow a given act or occurrence, is
very apt to bring about the dreadful
calamity; and every repetition of the
seeming sequence of cause and effect
tends to confirm, and strengthen the
mischievous belief. As a means of
counteracting this tendency of per
verted imagination, charms for avert
ing evil often play a really beneficial
part. The protection is as imagina
ry as the dreaded evil;but, assuming
a belief in the fictitious danger—a
belief strongly tending to make the
danger real, the charm substitutes a
more hopeful belief, and the danger
ceases. A curious illustration of this
action of the mind is reported from
San Francisco, in connection with a
case of transfusion of blood. An
aged negro, at the point of death,
was saved by this operation, the
blood about eight ounces—being ta
ken from his wife’s arm. The man
recovered, but the woman went into
a curious decline, against which ton
ics and nourishing food were of no
avail. At last tho patient confided
to the doctor the secret of her ail
ment, which kept her from resting
day or night. “I tell you doctor,”
she said wbisperingly, “its that blood
of mine the old man is carrying
about inside of him; and doctor when
that old man comes back, I want you
to give me my blood back,” The
doctor, seeing that the woman would
not be appeased unless he complied
with her request, promised to return
the next day, first informing her of
the dangers of the operation and that
it was resorted to only in the most
urgent cases. She would not hear
of no explana ions, but demanded
that tho operation be gone through
with. It was accordingly done the
day, the doctor taking from the man
about half an ounce of. blood, and
transfusing it into the woman’s veins.
After the operation the woman
brightened up perceptibly, saying:
“I’ll be all right now doctor.” And
that the operation did prove a suc
cess was fully demonstrated by the
sick woman, who began work a few
hours afterward, declaring that the
“doctor was a wonderful man, and
now she’d got her owe blood back
again she was all right.
How the Captain’s Patents
Worked.
Having piped all bands to splice
the main brace the Cap’n had the
first mate of the farm tow out the ,
horse and wagon, and ascending the
quarter deck of the craft, he took
possession of the tiller-ropes (as he
styled the reins) and said:
“Now boys, my invention is very
simple—l might make a million (
dollars out of it. mebbe, but I ain’t
going to patent it; you can use it if j
you want to. I’ve simply fastened a ;
twenty fathom line on to the mizzen ,
axle of the craft, and put on a stout •
grapnel. I shall bring this ere boss ,
along the road under double-reefed ‘
topsails, and then one of you cusses ]
scare him—open an umbrella at him,
or something; then when he goes
tearing along, about twenty-five
knots an hour, and won’t answer to
his helm, I’ll just drop the anchor i
and ride out on the gale. Git up !’’ <
The horse came jogging gently I
down the road, when, according to
the programme, the first mate pushed i
out and hit him a belt over the nose
with a blanket. The terrified animal j
stood on his hind legs for .a momefit <
and then struck a course northwest by
north with great celerity. The
interested spectators- beheld the I
fearless Cap’n sitting unmoved, tho’ .
bent and careened by the breeze, i
then with a triumphant smile they I
saw him heave out the anchor with a i
merry “Yo,heave, ho!” The grapnel ■
slid for a few moments in the
treacherous sands of the road, then
caught in a rock. Cap’n Cornell rose :
into the air like a bird on the wing,
and sailed majestically forward,
alighting on his ear. The horse
stood on his head a second and then
resumed his onward course at the rate
of at least seventy miles an hour,
.and, amid a frightful crashing,
ripping, tearing and smashing, all
the wagon vanished into thin air,
except a piece of the mizzen axle, to
which the anchor had been fastened.
Captain Cornell can’t precisely
understand why, when the tackle
held, he wasn’t able to ride the gale,
but is not discouraged and will
repeat the experiment as soon as he
has a new buggy built upon lines of
his own designing. Life insurance
canvassers are bearing down upon
him from all quarters, and the
liveliest interest is manifested in the
neighborhood. We wish the gallant
captain all success. • - - ■
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Willing te Oblige.
Early yesterday morning a poorly
dressed and seedy-looking person,
about fifty years old, entered the I
- post office and proceeded to warm
j his hands at one of the registers He
- made no inquiries about the mail,
and pfter he had been loafing around
for two hours a policeman got hie
eye on him, and asked.-
“Say, old man, have you any busi
i ness here?”
“Well, no,” was the reply.
i “Any work to do ? ’
“No. I kinder thought I’d lay off
i this winter.”
“Any friends here ?”
“No.”'
“I think you are a vagrant,” con
tinued the officer, as he took another
look at him.
“Mebbe I am,” sighed the old
; man.
“And I think I’ll take you down.”
“Well, I’ll go along.”
The officer escorted him down to
the station house, registered his
name, and then proceeded to search
his pockets. Each one panned out a
“wad” of money, making a total of
. $1,600. .
“Why didn’t you tell me you ha d
this money ?” demanded the police
man.
“Why didn’t you ask me ?’’
“Didn’t I say I took you for a va
grant, and you didn’t deny it. ?”
“Well, I didn’t know anything
about your city laws,” quietly replied
the old man. “I’ve got two married
daughters, and I came in to buy
each of ’em a S6OO piano for New
Years but if its agin any of Your
laws I’ll take the next train for home.
I’m gitting party old, and I dont
want no fuss with anybody.”
“Well, you might have saved your
self all this trouble,” said the officer,
as he escorted him to the street.
“Dont mention it,” was the answer,
“If I took any trouble on your ac
count it's all right and you needn’t
thank me. I’m always willing to
oblige anybody who can appreciate
it. Party cold day isn’t it? ”
An Anxious Life.
A page of the Czar’s diary, if we
may believe the San Francisco News-
Letter, runs as follows: “Got Up at 7
а. m. and ordered my bath. Found
4 gallons of vitriol in it and did not
take it. Went to breakfast. The
Nihilists had placed two torpedoes
on the stairs, but I did not step un
them. The coffee smelt so strongly
of prussic acid that I was afraid to
drink it. Found a scorpion in my
left slipper, but luckily shook jt out
before putting it on Just before
stepping into the carriage to go for ;
my morning drive, it was blown into
the air, killing the coachman and
the horses instantly I did not
drive. Took a light lunch of
hermetically-sealed American canned
goods. They can’t fool me there.
Found a poisoned dagger in my ,
favorite chair, with the point ’
sticking out. Did not sit down on J
it. Had dinner at 6p. m , and made '
Baron Laisehounowonski taste every
dish. He died before the soup was
cleared away. Consumed some Bal
timore oysters and some London (
stout that I have had locked op for
five years. Went to the theatre, ,
and was shot at three times in the (
first act. Had the entire audience ,
hanged. Went home to bed and
slept all night on the roof of the
palace.’’
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Hounds vs. Men.
There are in England no less than
б, couples of fox hounds at
present. Some packs of hounds with ,
huntsmen cost as much as SIO,OOO a ,
year to keep up. The average eost is ,
set down at $4,000. It is ealeulated >
that fox hunting costs England ,
annually $5,000,000.
English farm laborers make so
more than $2.50 a week, and eat I
coarse bread, American chee •, a very 1
little American bacon (onee a day), (
with turnips and mangle wartze i ;
beete. '
$5,000,000 for hounds, eared for by i
keepers, and sheltered and made i
comfortable in warm kennels ! i
How much more fortunate are the 1
hounds than the English farm
laborer, who is bought for $2.50 a
week, and lives on a diet that the c
English aristocratic sport would not J
give hie brute! To this conditioh *
would Evarts have the American 1
laborer reduced.— Labor Tribune. ’
A Close Obseiver.
X., travelling through Brittany, t
asks an old woman who is peddling
crosses and medals at a church porch
the price of a certain trinket.
*ls it for your wife or your *
sweetheart ?” she a»ks.
“For my sweetheart,” replies X.,
not precisely seeing the drift of her <
question.
“Ten francs.”
“Ten francs—phew!” says X,
turning on his heel.
“Come back, come back !” cries the
old woman, “take it for three. You’ve
been lying to me, though; vou have j
no sweetheart—if it had been for her ]
you’d have bought it at once without f
legard to the price.” - - (
“I’ll take it-—here are your- three (
francs.” • - - j
“You haven’t a wife, either—if it [
had been for her you’d have beaten (
me down to two francs. Oh, you j
men, you men I" ,
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Eveniiig Parties.
One of the means by which young '
people especially find recreation and j
entertainment during the winter is ‘
the evening party. Young people (
must ..and will have recreation, and ,
the evening party is a proper..means,
of it. Parties should not be of too !
frequeut occurrence or held too late, j
What we have to say particularly
about parties is they should be
conducted with method and judg
ment, or they become worse than i
nothing. We do not approve of (
sending children to parties when |
they “do nothing.” Let there be ,
reading, games, short plays and mu- ,
sic, only let everything come in its
proper time, ajid let the whole
close at a suitable hour. Prudent
people can do their children much
good by arranging proper parties
I for their entertainment.
i SMALL BITS
? Os Various Kinds Csnlmly Thrown
, Together.
( Georgia has ten young officers in
the regular army, four of whom are
from Atlanta.
General Grant, when asked -.vhicb
city among all he had visited he
liked the beat, aaswered quickly:
f “Washington; I think it is the hand
somest city in the world.’’
There is increased activity in the
real estate market in the larger.east
’ ern cities, and it is predicted that
the building interest will be greatly
, revived in the spring.
Immigrants, in all 133,201, have
’ arrived in New York during the year.
So far this month 7,301 have come
• from the other side of the Atlantic
i Last year only 79,801 immigrants
arrived.
, Captain Charles Whiting, who died
at Eatonton a few weeks ago, engi
neered the first locomotive (from
Charleston to the Hamburg depot,
on the then South Carolina railroad)
ever run in the south.
From the report of Commissioner
Baum it is ascertained that Georgia
has paid $28,000,000 revenue to the
government since the war. This is
more than any other southern state
has paid, except Virginia.
Twenty kegs of gold were received
in Chicago from New York few
days ago. Each weighed about 360
pounds, and contained $75,000, mak
ing $1,500,000 in all. This money
was sent by Jim Keene in payment
for wheat.
_ It is curious to note how a flaming
new silk handkerchief will struggle
up from the deepest breast-pocket
into the light of day and linger
there, while the soiled cotton one
skulks at the bottom, making only
now and then a hasty sally-into the
open ajr.
Bishop McCloskey, of Louisville,
Ky., has issued a decree that, as soon
as possible, Catholic parochial schools
be established everywhere in the dio
cese. The decree causes much com
motion in Louisville, as about seven
thousand Catholic children attend
the public schools.
The bureau of statistics at Wash
ington has presented a report of the
appraised value of imports and ex
ports for the tea months ending with
October', The value of exports is
$596,571,171; that of imports $408,-
532,050; leaving a balance in our
favor of $193,036,112.
The exact cost of the new light the
inventor, Edison, has not made pub
lie, but it is characteristically summed
up in an answer which he was over
heard to give an inquirer: “After the
electric light goes into general use,”
said he, “none but the extravagant
will burn tallow candles.’’
Leadville boasts of aristocratic
waiters. At the Grand hotel is an
ex member of the New Jersey legis
lature, whose letters bear the prefix
of “Hon.” At the Clarendon the
guests are served at table by an ex
confederate general, a doctor of med
icine, a lawyer, and an ex judge from
Freeborn county, Minn.
There are 278 lawyers members of
the senate and house of congress to
gether. In the senate there are 59
practicing lawyers, out of the 76. Os
the 293 members of the house 219
are lawyers. Hayes and Wheeler
are both lawyers, and the heads of
the departments are all lawyers.
There are five editors, one in the
senate and four in the house.
He lookeed over all the papers on
the news stand, and not finding what
he wanted, said to the plump, pretty
girl clerk: “I want a Fireside Com
panion." “What, sir?” she blushed.
“I want a Fireside Companion," he
repeated. “O yes, sir, I hear you
now,” and ehe chewed the corner of
iser apron; “well—well—do you think
I would do ?” It turned happily.
When the Rev. D. Jacobs Ide was
ordained pastor of a church at Med- ,
way, Mass., eixty-three years ago, ;
his health was so bad that it was <
supposed he would die within a few 1
months; but he survived until last ’
Monday, attaining the age of ninety- ,
five. Os the 800 members of his
original congregation, he conducted
the funeral services of all except one. <
1
Dan Rice has carried the ways of .
the circus into his new business of '
evangelism. He uses letter head- 1
ings on which a circus clown is i
gaudily pictured on a skeleton horse, .
and in red letters are the words:
“Dan Rice’s New Departure—A Jump
from the Ring to the Rostrum.”
Brother Moody says that Pan is not
truly converted, but Dan insists that
he is. ,
Moody and Sankey have been la- j
boring for more than a month in St.
Louis, but without their customary
success. The meetings have been
crowded, but emotion has been scarce <
and conversons few. The local news
papers have printed full reports, and ;
the clergy of the city have generally ‘
countenanced the movement, but the ,
result is unsatisfactory to the evan
gelists
Laws for the suppression of men
dicancy are strictly enforced in Swit
zerland. Relief is refused to the
idle and dissipated, and the property i
of spendthrifts may be seized and
administered for tneir benefit, while
they are placed under official guar
dianship should there seem any like
lihood of their coming to want. On
the other hand, orphans are assisted
in every possible way.
.The demacratic state committee of
Ohio has concluded not to have any
convention for the electiop of dele
gates to the national convention. The
committe will name the four dele
gates at large—it will come handier —
and allow the congressional districts
to name their own delegates in their
own way. This will avoid a quarrel
and make it unlikely that anybody
will have a solid delegation from
that state.
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