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nu uh lu* The Gainesville Eagle. i* Published! Every Friday Morning. BY J. E. REDWINE. Rates of Subscription : One copy one year $2 00 One copy six months 1 00 Ono copy three months 50 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. r. ♦— ♦ -—— 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. -«-<■- , 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. ♦ •+> ■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. • - - ■ — 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.’’ -! ♦ 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" , ■■ - 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. ortißlng Hntoß. 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Abroad The Constitution is recognized, referred to and quotep as the leading southern journal —as the organ and vehicle of the best ( southern thought and opinion—and at home its columns are consulted for the latest news, the freshest comment, and for all matters of special and current interest. The Constitution contains more and later telegraphic news than any other Georgia paper, and this particular feature will be . largely added to during the coming year. All its facilities for gathering the latest news from all parts of the country will be en -1 larged and supplemented. Thb Constitu tion is both chronicler and commentator. ; Its editorial opinions, its contributions to the drift of current discussion, its humorous and satirical paragraphs, are copied from one and of the country to the other. It aims always to be the brightest and the best —newsy, original and piquant It nims particularly to give the news impartially and fully, and to keep its readers informed of the drift of current discussion by liberal but concise quotations from all its contem poraries. It aims, in short, to more than ever deserve to be known as “the leading southern newspaper.” Bill Arp will con tinue to contribute his unique letters, which grow in sayory humor week by week. “Old Si” will add his quaint fun to the collection of good things, and “Uncle Remus” has in preparation a series of negro myth legends, illustrating the folk-lore of the old planta tion. In every respect The Constitution for 1880 will be better than ever. ’ The Weekly Constitution is a carefully edited compendium of the news of the week and contains the best and freshest matter to be found in any other weekly from a daily office. Its news and miscellaneous contents are the freshest and its market reports the latest. THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. This, the best, the most reliable and most popular of southern agricultural journals, is issued from the printing establishment of The Constitution. It is still edited by Mr. W. L. Jones, and is devoted to the best in terests of the farmers of the south. It s sent at reduced rates with the Weekly edi tion of The Constitution. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily .Constitution $lO 00 a year “ “ 5 00 6 m’s " “ 2 50 3 m’s Weekly Constitution. 1 50 a year “ “ 100 6 m’s “ “ Clubs of 10, 12 50 a year “ “ Clubs of 20, 20 00 “ ‘Southern Cultivator 150 “ “ “ Clubs of 10, 12 20 “ “ Clubs of 20, 20 00 “ Weekly Constitution and Cul- tivator to same address.... 250 “ Address THE CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga. NEW YORK WEEKLY HERALD. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, Th6 circulation of this popular newspa per has more than trebled during the past year. It contains all the leading news con tained in the Daily Herald, and is arranged in bandy departments. 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Sporting News at home and abroad, to gether with a Story every week, a Sermon by some eminent divine, Literary, Musical, Dramatic, Personal and Sea Notes. There is no paper in the,world which contains so much news mat er every week as the Weekly Herald, which is sent, postage free, for One Dollar. Yon can subscribe at any time. THE NEW YORK HERALD, in a weekly form, ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. Address NEW YORK HERALD, Broadway and Ann St, New York. PIANOS & ORGANS FROM FACTORY TO PURCHASEB. EVERY MAN HIS OWN AGENT Ludden & Bates' Gband Introduction Sale continued until Nov. 1, 1880. Only sale of the kind ever successfully carried out in America. 5,000 superb instruments at factory rates to r Introduction and Adver tisement. New plan of selling: No Agents I No Commissions ? Instruments shipped direct from Factory to purchasers. Middle men’s profits saved. Agent’s rates to all. Only house South selling on this plan. PIANOS, 7 oct. $125, 7i oct. $155; Square Grands $227. 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