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EIJITORIAL EAGLETS.
Grunt and Stanley beat tbe world
as travelers.
Senator Edmonds, who is regarded
one of the bitterest partisans iD
the United States senate, is actively
log-rolling for a seat on the supreme
bench.
There is great destitution and suf
* sering in Ireland, and yet the Brit
ish government instead of feeding its
poor, takes the money to light bar
barians.
/ If it reqaires three governors, two
legislatures and one military satrap
to,run a little down-east state like
Maine, how much steam will be nec
essary to run a cotton factory down
south with a Clement attachment'?
Tbe Washington Star figures out
that Senator David Davis, of Illinois,
and Senator elect Mahone- of Vir
ginia, will in all probability hold the
balance of power in the Federal Sen
ate for the two years after the 4tb
of March, 1881.
The New York Times comments
rather severely on the payment of
Senator Sharon’s salary by the re
publican secretary of the senate,
Gorham, when the law forbade such
payment to one wilfully and without
permission absent from his duties.
Tho adverse report of senate finace
on Senator Bayard’s res
olution withdrawing the legal tender
quality from greenbacks, will give
that senator and a few others a
chance to enlighten the country on
this subject, but the resolution will
be defeated, nevertheless.
Tbe preliminary taxable valua
tions of New 7 York real estato tor
1880, ju6t completed by the assessors
show an increase for every ward in
csity, ranging from $43,G00 in the
I Thirteenth, to $9,348,520 in tbe Nine
teenth ward. The Aggregate increase
is $29,188,417, or about three per
cent, on the valuation of last year.
Blaine will go back, Rays the Cou
rier Journal, to Washington with tbe
worst record he has ever succeeded
in making for himself, and vulnerable
at every point. His frantic and puffy
oratory will avail him nothing. “In
4. every republican state law and order
prevails,” say the republican organ?.
How beautifully Maine illustrates
that proposition !
The new constitution of California
took effect last New Year’s day, and
one defect was discovered before it
was half a day old. The code of civil
procedure provides for the issue of
v marriage iiceuces by the clerk of the
ffiounty court. The new constitution
abolishes tho county court. If there
is no court there can be no clerk, and
if no clerk, uo marriages without
punishment under the penal code of
the State.
Public Printer Defrees has pro
nounced against Grant and for Sher
man, and it begins to be rather more
than probable that but a brief time
*- will elapse before the entire federal
machinery will be ranged in the anti-
Grant ranks and in lively operation
iu the Sherman interest. It is a
powerful political element, and, com
bined with the other elements of
anti-Grantism, will probably deal a
death blow to third termism.
Louisiana leads off in practically
discontinuing the grand jury system.
Tho new constitution, recently adop
ted, provides that grand juries may
bo called in each parish once a year (
and that their power of indictment
shall continue,but this,.in reality, is no
more than the privilege of scrutiniz
ing the acts of public officers. Crimi
nal causes are taken from the juris
diction of the grand jury, aud all
offenses heretofore required to be
prosecuted by indictment are to be
begun before a magistrate aud tried
by a petit jury. It is also provided
that three-fourths of a jury may re
turn a verdict in civil cases, and iu
criminal cases below felonies a jury
may be waived.
The readjusters in the Virginia
legislature are, apparently, afraid to
take hold of the subject of state
finances, and this hesitation is already
causing some dissatisfaction among
their supporters throughout tho state.
The readjusters rasLdy promised the
people, in the event of their success
at the polls, speedy relief from finan
cial evils. The state owed a large
J public debt, and the treasury was
i.tmpty. Iu this condition of affairs
•the people, like an individual long
suffering from some chronic disease,
were ready to try any quack doctor
who would guara tee a cure. The
legislature has frittered away more
than a mouth in dividing up the
spoils of office, but there is no sign
of relit f for the suffering people.
The impression seems to be growing
among all classes that the readjustee
care more for office than for the in
terests of the state. The party, like
a quack octor, has obtained its fee,
aud is ready to admit, in a whining
tone, that the case is really incurable.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
THE NATION’;-, CAPITAL.
[Special Correspondence of tlie Eagle.]
Washington, D.C , Jan. 20, 1880.
Mr. Bayard j’esterday made a spe
cial request that his greenback reso
lution be acted on by the senate
finance committee and reported to
the senate, whether favorably or
unfavorably. The opponents of 4he
measure on the committee are six in
number, its friends three. It will be
reported without recommendation.
The only question after that is as to
the length of debate on the subject,
I don’t believo it will be very long
There is a clear majority of senators
who wish to have little if any cur
rency legislation at this session and
as little delay in adjournment, and
they are beginning to understand
that their object can be accomplished
most readily by votiDg instead of
talking.
A Now England senator on Tues
day j resented a resolution of inquiry
as to the practicability of floating a
bond bearing leas than four per cent,
interest. The contest is just now
warm, and threatens to be warmer,
between the secretary of the treasury
and those who believe in a three and
one-half per cent. bond.
Od Monday the house authorizes
a special committee of seven members
to enquire into the pension system. It
is beginning to be understood that
the government is pensioning out
over thirty millions per year, with a
reasonable prospect that the amount
will become fifty millions, and that a
single officer, whose work is not in
any way revised or reviewed, is re
sponsible for every allowance. It is
the only office under government
where such a state of things prevails.
Besides, the work of the office is
much delayed, and members of con
gress are kept busy in looking after
individual claims. A thorough in
vestigation will be bad, and remedies
applied if possible.
It is found that the revised rules,
now before the house for adoption,
will, if rigidly enforced, take away
from very many committees a portion
of the desirable work now entrusted
to them. The chief gainer by the
changes would seem to be the com
mittee on appropriations, but other
committees have fcheir responsibilities
and consequence increased. On tho
whole, it is hardly likely that the
rules as reported will be adopted
without farther amendment.
Before this reaches your readers
the judges of the supreme court of
Maine will have given their opinions
upon the questions submitted to them
by the revo'utionary body known as
the republican legislature. At this
writing it seems likely that the opin
ion, whatever it is, though in uo
sense binding, will result in a settle
ment of the existing troubles.
Congress will start an investigation
of the Ute ludiuu question to day.
Congress is tired of the slow action
of Schurz, and so takes matters into
its own hands. Rex.
Home Life a Him deed Y'ears
Ago.
One hundred years ago, says an ex
change, not a pound of coal or a cu
bic foot of illuminating gas had
been burned in the country. No iron
stoves were used, and no contrivances
for economizing heat were employed
until Dr. Franklin invented tbe iron
framed fireplace which still bears hia
name. All the cooking and warming
in town, as well as in the country,
were done by the aid of a fire kin
dled on the brick hearth or in the
ovens. Pine knots or tallow can
dies furnished the lights for the long
winter nights, and sanded floors sup
plied the place of rugs and carpets.
The water used for household pur
poses was drawn from deep wells by
the creaking sweep. No form of
pnmp was used in this country, so
far as we can learn, until after the
commencement of the present cen
tury. There were uo friction match
es in those early days, by the aid of
which a fire could be easily kindled,
and if the tire went out upon the
hearth over night, and the tinder
was damp, so that the spark would
not catch, the alternative remained
of wading through the snow a mile
or so to borrow a brand of a neigh
j bor. Only one room in any house
: was warm, unless soma member of
the family was ill; in all the rest the
[ temperature was at zero during many
nights in winter. The men and wo
men of a hudred years ago undressed
and went to their beds in a temper
ature colder than that of our barns
and wood-sheds, and they never
complained.
Not One Enemy.
Heaven help the man who imagines
he can dodge enemies by trying to
please everybody. If such an indi
vidual ever succeeded, we shoul 1 be
glad of it—not that one should be
going through the world trying to
fiud beams to knock and thump his
poor head against, disputing every
man’s opinion, fighting and elbowing,
and crowding all who differ with him.
| That, again, is another extreme.
Other people have a right to their
i opinions—so have you; don’t fall into
the error of supposing they will
respect you more for turning your
coat every day to match the color of
theirs. "Wear your own colors in
spile of winds aud weather, storm
and sunshine. It costs the vacilla
ting and irresolute ten times the
trouble to wind and shuffle aud twist
that it does honest., manly independ
ence to stand its ground.
REST.
My feet are wearied, and my hands are tired—
My soul oppressed;
And with desire have I long desired
Rest—only rest.
’Tie hard to toil, when toil is almost raia,
In barren ways;
’Tis hard to sow, and nerer garner grain
In harvest days.
The burden of my dayß is hard to bear,
But God knows best;
And I have pray’d, but vain has been my prayer.
For rest—s veet rest.
’Tis hard to plant in spring, and never reap
The autumn yield;
'Tis hard to till, and when ’tis tilled to weep
O’er fruitless field.
And so I cry, a weak and human cry.
So heart-oppressed;
And so I sigh, a weak and human sigh,*
For rest—for rest.
My way has wound across the desert years,
And cares infest
My path; and through the flowing of hot tears
I pine for rest.
’Twas always so—when still a child I laid
On mother’s breast
My wearied little head—e’en tlrm I prayed,
As now, for rest.
And I am restless still—’twill soon be o’er,
For, down the west,
Life’s sun is setting, and I see the shore,
When I shall rest.
Bro. Gardner’s Lime-Kiln Club.
[Detroit Free Press.)
The janitor was seen in close con
sultation with Brother Gardner and
Sir Isaac Walpole before the meeting
opened, and directly that the triangle
had sounded tho president arose and
said:
“Gem’len, I hole in my han’ writ
ten charges agin Pickles Smith, Will
Pickles step dis way.”
Pickleß came forward bis tongue
out and a look of amazement on his
face, and the president continued:
‘’'Brudder Smith, you am charged
by de janitor wid beiu foun’ drunk
in Paradise Had."
“What?” exclaimed the defendant
as he came square down on his heels.
“De charges go on to say dat
when de janitor came in heah
to sweep de hall, yon were
drunk and asleep on a bench. De
janitor ran out to call an officer, an’
doorin’ de meanwhile you lit out and
tied and vanished."
“Bring forth my black-faced accu
ser,” demanded Pickles, as he waved
his hand toward the ante-room.
The janitor was lent for.
“Sah ! look me in de face !” com
manded Pickles; look right in de eye,
an’ tell dis club if you saw me in dis
hall Thursday night!’’
“De chap looked like yon,” was the
hesitating reply.
“Did you go nigh him!”
“No., call.’’
“Did you git a fa’r look at his
face?"
“Not very.”
“Didn’t you run off do minit you
opened de doah an’ seed a man Id
heah
“I —I—yes, sah.”
“Gemlen,’’ said Smith as he turned
to the club, “I war’out to Pontiac
Thursday and half of Friday, an’ yit
dis vile caitiff hez brought dis charge
agin me !”
Pickles took his scat, and the jani
ter stood alone, the center of all eyes
and a target for all frowns. After a
long silence the President said:
“You am hereby broken of your
office and fined two dollars ? Let
dis be a warnin’ to you as long as you
live, an’ de smaller heap yon kin git
into for de next six month do better
it will be for you. Take a seat on a
back stool and’ keep your mind
quiet.’’
A NEW OFFICER.
An election being odered for the
selection of a new janitor, ballots
were prepared, the hat passed, and
the vote resulted in the election of
Doxbury. D Tuffruff, an old but re
liable man who came here from Vir
ginio only a few months ago.
PETITIONS.
Among the dozens or more peti
tions was tha u of C. M. Tyler, of
Midland, Virginia, whose character
was described as:
“He is not fond of possum—knows
all abougkt steam engines and thrash
ing machines. He is a first-rate
singer, and frequently leads iu pray
at Ebenezer church, in Franquier Co.,
Va., and voted against readjustment
of the state debt. He is very fond of
literature.”
Another from Georgia read as fol
lows:
Bro. Gardner, Pres. Lime-Kiln Club:
“Dear Old Hose—l se long been
iu the notion ob jining your clnb if I
cud git tbruo de beau box all O. K.
Now, I’ll jist say iu de fust place, I
ain’t no bigger, has no gun, no dog,
an’ duz nothin but keep a ferry, an’
don’ do dat very mech, but I makes
a livin’ outen h t, widout runuin’
roun’ to hen roosts or resort in to de
woods for wild hogs.
I ain’t no member to congress, an’
don' spec ter be soon; don’ want any
offis, ’ceptin’ Squire May sbud peg
out, den I might be injuced to be a
squire.
Hopin’ dese few lines may reach
you enjoyin’ de same blessin’ I is, I’se
yours in de true nigger color,
Samuel Turnipseed ”
“I doan’ ’zactly like dc ’spreshun
ob ‘Old Hoss,’ ’’ explained the presi
dent, “but I ’spect Samuel might
make a likely member, an’ his peti
shun will go to de propper commit
tee. Dat Jawgy has given us ober
forty members, an’ dev hez all turned
out well.”
ELECTION.
The following candidates were
quietly run through the mill: Ebene
Short, Tortugas Smith, Andrew Ma
jor, Jerusalem Johnson and Calkins
Adams.
A NEW ALMANAC.
A communication from a New
York publisher stated that he had
prepared a Lime Kiln Club almanac
for the year 1780, and he desired to
leave the matter of eclipses with the
club. He would put in as many as
they desired or have none at all. Ac
cordin to his figuring the colored
man’s year did not begin until the
Ist of April, and the almanac would
begin with that date.
“It am werry kind in the gentle
man,” observed the president, “an’
de question am open for debate by de
club.”
“In de fust place, began Way
down Bebee, as ho took tho floor.
“I want to know if dat Free Frees re
portin’ dar am gwiue to consider dat
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, 1880.
eclipses hev anythin’ to do wid chick
ens ?”
The reporter replied that he could
not possibly see what effect chickens
could have upon eclipses or eclipses
on chickens, and Waydown contin
ued:
“Well, dat settles dat. lis in fa
vor of about twelve eclipses fur de
present y’ar, aud I’ll take ’em all at
night on a full m >on.’’
“I ’spect dat six eclipses would be
plenty,” observed Trustee Pullback
as he rose up. “We doan’ want to
take more dan our sheer. De white
folks hez got to hev a few, anyhow.”
“An’ I’de like some of de ’clipsee
in de day-time,” remarked Elder
Huckleberry in his pompous wav.
“De women folks 6Djoy sick things
same as we do,”
“I go in fo’ ’clp es on de Fo’th ob
July i” put iu Samuel Shin from his
corner.
The Hon. Singer Smith, Aaron
Jones and the Rev. Penstock were
appointed a committee to consider
aud report, and after due considera
tion they reported in favor of two
eclipses per month the year through,
half to occur iu the daytime and the
rest at night. Tho report was adopted
and ordered forwarded to New York.
COLDLY REJECTED.
The secretary announced a com
munication from Hannah Lee, a col
ored widow in Raciue, who said that
her husband was for a year or more
an honorary member of the club. At
his death she was left with nothing
but a feather-bed and a dog. She
had braced up and tried to get along
without asking any favors of any
body, but just now she was in a
pinch. Shs wanted a hat to lay back
on her head and a pair of club skates,
and after passing several sleepless
nights she had timidly decided to
appeal to the generosity of the club.
“De appeal am not well taken,”
promptly replied the president. “If
dat woman doan’ go skatin’ till we
buy her de art’kles she won’t break
down any mill pons dis y’ar nor bust
any hearts wid dat lay-back hat. De
ideah itself am positively disturbed.”
“1 presume de cha’r meant absurd,”
reinsrked the Rev. Penstock.
“De cha’r didn’t mean nuffin of de
6crt, sah ! De cha’r said disturbed.
De you want to disturb de meetin’
“Oh, no.’’
“Den sot down ! Dis am no place
to try to show off your Latin. On
varus occasions you haz sought to
’krect de language of dis cha’r, aD’
your conduct bez bin open to sharp
culchurcism.’’
“You mean criticism.’’
Brother Gardner drew himself up
seven feet high, bent forward about
four feet, and the Rev. Penstock
wilted right away under that one
awful look. After a long silence, he
said:
“Sound de triangle an’ we’ll main
tain a dispersion fur de interval of
one week.”
Kow Marriage Relations are
Severed in Different Coun
tries.
Australians —Divorces have never
been sanctioned in Australia.
Jews —In olden times the Jews
had a discretionary power of di
vorcing their wives.
Javans—lf tbe wife be dissatisfied
she can obtain a divorce by paying a
certain sum.
Thibetans —Divorces are seldom
allowed, unless with the consent of
both parties—neither of whom can
afterwards remarry.
Moors—ls the wife does not be
come the mother of a boy she may
be divorced with the consent of the
tribe, and she can marry again.
Abyssinians—No form of marriage
is necessary. The connection may
be dissolved aud renewed as often as
the parties think proper.
Siberians —If the man be dissatis
fied with the most trifling acts of his
wife he tears her cap or veil from
her head, and tlria constitutes a di
vorce,
Corean —The husbund can divorce
his wife, or treasure, and leave her
the charge of maintaining the chil
dren. If she proves unfaithful he
can put her to death.
Siamese —The first wife may be
divorced, not sold, as the others may
be. She then may claim the first,
third and fifth child, and the alter
nate children are yielded to the hus
band.
Arctic Region—When a man de
sires a divorce he leaves the house
in anger and does not return for
several days. The wife understands
the hint, packs her clothes and
leaves.
Druse and Turkomeu Among
the so people, il a wife asks her hus
band’s permission to go out, and he
says “Go,” without adding, “but
come back again, she is divorced.
Though both parties desire it, they
cannot live together wi bout being
remarried.
Cochin Chinese—ls the parties
choose to separate, they break a pair
of cuop-sticks or a copper coin in
the presence of witnesses, by which
action the union is dissolved. Tbe
husband must restore to the wife the
property belonging to her prior to
her marriage.
American Indians —Among some
tribes the pieces of sticks given the
witnessed of the marriage are burnt
as a sign of divorce. Usually new
connections are formed without the
old ones beiDg dissolved. A man
never divorces his wife if she has
borne him sons.
Tartars—The husband may put
away his partner and seek another
when it pleases him, and the wife
may do the same. If the be ill
treated she complains to the magis
trate, who, attended by the principal
people, accompanies her to the house
and pronounces a formal divorce.
Chinese—Divorces are allowed in
all cases of criminality, mutual dis
likes, jealousy, incompatibility of
temper, or too much loquacity on
the part of the wife. The husband
cannot sell hie wife until she leaves
him and becomes a slave to him by
j action of the law for desertion. A
| sou is bound to divorce bis wife if
I she displeases his parents.
Starvation iu Ireland.
The correspondents of the Press
Association reports that the distress
in Ireland is increasing. Five hun
dred inhabitants of the Skulebog
District, County Limerick, are on
the brink of starvation. They pro
ceeded to-day in a body to Croum,
and obtained four cartloads of bread
by the earnest representation of
their extremity.
The streets of Cork are patrolled
by mounted police, and the magis
trates of that city have passed reso
lutions urging greater activity in
suppressing demonstrations partak
ing of the nature of bread riots, and
asking for tbe appointment of addi
tional police.
At a meeting at Birkenhead, the
Mayor presiding, it was resolved to
raise a subscription for the Duchess
of Marlborough fund.
Messrs. Davitt, Daly, Killen. and
Brennan received notices command
ing them to appear before th9 Court
of Queens Bench, Dublin, on the
16th inst.
A dispatch from Cork says that
large bodies of men are parading the
streets carrying black flags and
loaves of bread stuck on poles, as
symbols of the popular ideas and
purposes on the food question among
the masses who are out of work.
Much anxiety is expressed as to the
result of these threatn ng demonstra
tisns, and fears are entertained of
serious bread riots unless relief is im
mediately provided. The provision
shops and bakeries eithsr remain
closed or under strong guard.
Despatches from Connemara say
that Serious rioting is also feared in
that district and at Maara, owing to
the determined resistance offered by
the people to the process servers.
Fifty additional constables have been
drafted at Connemera, and prepara
tions are in progress to meet the vi
olent popular outbreaks whioh are
expected.
At the Roman Catholic churches
in tbe Diocese of Southwark a letter
from the Bishop to the clergy on the
subject of the distress in Ir land was
read, and a fund collected, which, it
is i.nticipaLod, will reach 421,000.
A large force of constabulary,
armed with swords, rifles, and bay
onets, accompanied a process server
to the district of Urris, in the north
ern part of county Majo, on Satur
day. On attempting to serve the
notices to quit on the enraged tea
ants, a most determined attack was
made on the process server and his
posse. So fierce was tho onslaught
that the police were almost overpow
ered and were compelled to use
sword and bayonet iiberally. As at
Limerick, in the days of Sarefleld,
the women fought before tho men, and
many of them were severely wound
ed. The sight of the blood of the
poor desperate women maddened the
hearts of the men, and it was with
difficulty that a terrible loss of life
was avoided.
Grave apprehensione are enter
tained concerning the serving of
ejectments on tenantry of the late
lord Leitrim in Maam, County Gal
way. There is a little hope that
bloodshed can be avoided. A large
force of constabulary has been con
centrated in Maam, which is situated
in the bleak district of Connemara.
The passions of the people are exci
ted to a dangerous degree, and
crowds are pouring in from tba ad
joining district, ali determined to re
sist eviction to extremities.
A Dublin dispatch to the Daily
A 'etas says although the government
have sumoned Messrs. Davitt. Daly,
Killen and Brennen to appear before
the Court of Queen’s Bench, it is not
expected that any further proceed
ings will be taken against them.
Tlie Fading Away of Antique
London.
London is steadily and rapidly un
dergoing a transformation. Its old
voice has already been changed. Un
til lately one could fully understand
in London alone what was meant by
the roar of a great city. Ths never
ceasing rattle of omnibuses and cabs
over granulated stone paveme ts
made it necessary for people to shout
at each other when they tried to talk
on the streets and in counting houses,
and conversation was a verbal ex
change of loud and compact reports.
But long ago many of the omnibuses
were superceded by the trains run
ning silently underground, and those
that remain and the cabs that glide
softly over asphalte from one end of
London to the other. The ancient
roar has subsided into distant and
unfrequented streets. The old dark
ness which in the autumn season
used to envelope London, and which
gas could not dispel, has yielded to
the electric lights which have long
lit up several dense thoroughfares
and the Thames embankment, and
last night illuminated the Waterloo
bridge. The river is now gliding
under bright daylight—the electric
lamps, burning at three pence the
hour, are in frosted glass, which de
stroys only 35 per cent of their bril
liancy—and it is likely that the river
boats will presently begin to run by
night. The old land-marks, or city
marks, are disappearing. It is im
possible to recognize the Charing
Cross of ten years ago. Temple Bar
is a thing of the past, and the great
architecture of the new law courts
glorifies what was once a dingy little
street. Any one who passes near
Field Lane over the fine electric
lighted Holborn viaduct, or by Smith
field market, would say that Charles
Dickens must have drawn largely on
his imagination in depicting the
scenes amid which Fagin and the
Artful Dodger carried on their ex
ploits. There is no more the old
London of dens and thieves’ quar
ters, of darkness and eternal din.
Antiquity begins to be a novelty.
The desire to hold on to or recall
what was beautiful in it finds its
chief response in the new village of
Bedford Park in the western suburbs,
where artists, art lovers and literary
men have built them picturesqe
home) in wh&t is called the Queen
Anne style—red brick gables, tiles,
little porches, aud so forth.
Masculine and Feminine Mor
ality.
I could never understand tha oppo
site system of weights and measures
which have baan established for
guaging morality among men and
among women. Tha strictest among
us allow that a young man should
sow his wild oats; but who ever ad
mitted the same neoessity of girls ?
We say that men should have their
amusements—his clubs, cigars, horse
races, flirtations and liquarings; but
suppose our women and girls came
to us reking in tobacco? Supposing
they openly addicted themselves to
nips of grog and absinthe when their
spirits were low ? Supposing they
are down to quiet rubbers of whist
or ecarte, gambling away their house
hold money to while off dull hours.
We demand so much excellence of
our women that the worst of them
are etill better than the average
man.
I have known some women who
were social outcasts, and who in
point of heart, conduct and general
moral rectitude, might have furnished
stuff for tbe making of very upright
gentlemen indeed. They had fallen
once, it is true, but what a fearful
penalty they had to pay for one slip,
while, by comparison, ths kiudn d
penalties of men are so slight. If a
young man gets mixed op in some
disgraceful entanglement, breaks a
heart, and throws a yoong girl upon
the streets after having rained her
life, people say of him by and bye:
“He was so young when he did it,
and now he has turned over a new
leaf;” but if an inexperienced girl, a
mere child of sixteen or seventeen,
comes to harm through a moment’s
weakness, born of too much love and
over confidence in her betrayer,
who ever thinks of pleading her
youth as an excuse ? Who ever ur
ges seriously that a girl has turned
over a now leaf ?
Influence of the Woods.
After all, the woods ar* the best re
formatory, better than stone walls,
or iron grates, or police systom.
Put a villain into the forsst, fence him
about with solitnde, leave him to his
own reflections, allow him no human
confederates and he will generally be
softened into a man again. Put a
drunkard there, let a mountain
stream leap and play before his eabin
door, and he will return to his early
tastes. Put a miser there, leave him
alone with his hunger, and he will
forget the value of coined metal; like
tho misanthrope Timon, digging in
the earth and finding gold, ne will
curse his luck that it was not roots
instead. Send into this exile one of
those rhymers of small talk, of the
vers de societe now so popular, and he
will be redeemed from his devotion
to his gay mistress’ society, and he
will in time return to the poet’s first
and only frdF TtfVdf nafore. It may
take years to recall him, but he will
come at last, and learn to mourn
over his wasted life. To some men,
nature is like some women, inasmuch
as it may be necessary to thrust
them into her acquaintance and im
prison them before they will learn to
appreciate her worth, but then, so
great is the revelation, they will call
themselves stupid for not loving her
before.
Bishop Coxe. of western New Y«>rk,
holds that Christianity is neither
deai nor dying, though the
scientific tailors of Tooley street flat
ter themselves that they hav) dug its
grave. The unbelievers of Germany
are becoming believers; the “eondi
tion of France in ultimate analysis is
the produot of scorn;” in England,
Mr. Gladstone is a believer; in
this country, church bells are heard
where once the bison and the bear
were un disturbed; and in Australia
grand cathedrals are rising. The
intellect of Christendom is hardly
excited enough by “Modern
Thought” to gird up its loins for a
conflict with it; but the scientific
quacks are patting edge tools into
tho hands of the populace, and this
has its perils. The venerable BPhop
is not at all alarmed at the state of
things as he surveys the world from
his Protestant Episcopal watch tower.
It will strengthen many timid mem
bers of the clergy to know that this
champion of the faith scorns the men
aces of the enemies of the Church.
The king of Denmark is greatly be
loved as a monarch and a man. He
is more of a “citizen king” than
even Louis Philippe. He has some
knowledge of science, has a cultiva
ted taste for art, has the material in
terests of his subjects at heart, chats
ia a friendly manner with the citizen
class on the public promenade, and,
it is said, seldom declines to stand
godfather to tho child of any Dane
who makes the request that he should
do so. A Berlin paper, which givis
a number of details about the life of
the royal family in Copenhagen, ob
server that “ the king’s daughters
woo, as maidens, an unusual degree
of popularity in their father-land.
The good Danes were extraordinarily
proud of the beauty of their princes
ses, and rejoiced heartily with them
when the ‘Herr Papa,’ whose civil
list ie of very small dimensions, and
who is compelled to be very thrifty
in his domestic expenses bestowed
upon either daughter a new dress or
gold ornament for a birthday gift.”
Sir John Lubbock, in Nineteenth
Century, credits the Chinese with
the invention of bank notes. It is
related that about 119 B. C, the
court being in want of money, the
Halifax of the dav bit upou the
following device: When any prince
or courtier entered the impeial
presence it was customary to cover
the face with a piece of skin. It was
first decreed that for this purpose
the skin of a certain white deer, kept
in one of the royal parks, should
alone be employed, and then these
skins, which appear to have passed
from one noble to another, were sold
for a high price. True bank notes
are believed to have come into vogue
in China about 800 A. D., and were
called feyt aien, or flying money.
SMALL BITS
Os VmiiMiH Kinils I'Hirltsxly Tkruwn
Together.
Tho emperor of Germany ia the
ancle of the Czar of Rusa**.
Tho maximum war strength of
Russia, every element included, ii
2,249,000
Thore are in Ireland 520,623 ten
ants at-will, repiosenting considera
bly over two millions ot human bo
ings.
The authorities at Washington
bile an organ grinder, two fiddlers
and a harpist for the amusement of
the Ute Indians.
Subscribers to the telephone in St.
Louis pay six dollars a month for its
use, and the rate in Chiengo is sev
enty-five dollars a } T ear.
For every thousand inhabitant*,
this country contains 2,024 cattle,
sheep and swine. In European coun
tries the average is only 1,166.
Dennis Kearney solemnly asserts
that the Grant boom is a farce, and
there is nothing in it except “the
hireling associated press and blood
sucking corporations.
New Orleans Picayune: Hundreds
of meu engaged in polities are not
bad at heart. They would be will
ing to get an honest living if they
could get it without work.
The whole number of persons
bearing tho titles of duke, marquis,
earl, viscouut, baron, and lord in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Irelaud is somewhere about
900.
An unknown man who had forgot
ten his name for six months has been
identified in an infirmary at (Jlairs
ville, Ohio. Ho was tinkled almost
to death when told what his name
was.
Mr. Alvan Clark, of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, is making a twenty
nino-iuch reflecting glass for the
Yale College telescope. This will
be the largest gluss of the kiud in
America.
The Brooklyn Presbytery finds
that “common fame’’ i 9 likely to ere
ate a division in its ranks. Mr. Tal
mage is a decided thorn in the side
of tho church, judging from recent
developments.
Rye straw is as valuable as the
grain in Pennsylvania in the mauu
facture of paper. With the increased
acreage of the season just closed
(3,500,000 bushels) the yield is not
equal to tho demand.
The Japanese make a very curious
and handsome kind of copper by
casting it under water, the metal be
ing highly heated and the water
also being hot. The effect is a beau
tiful rose-colored tint, whiob is not
affected by exposure to the atmos
phre.
Eighteen of the States huve civil
damage liquor laws. Their provis
ions are substantially the same, mak
ing dealers responsible pecuniarily
for all harm resulting from the cale
of alcoholic beverages. New York,
Maine, Massachusetts and Illinois
have statutes precisely alike.
The New York Tribune, which is
the most stalwart republican anti-
Grant paper in tho country just now
except the Cincinnati Commercial ,
says the disposition to think twice
before making the next republican
nomination for the presidency be
comes more apparent every day.’’
The Princess Winnemucca is lec
turing in tho Pacific States on the
sorrows of the Indians. After tell
ing an audience at Winnemucca,
Nev., near the home of her tribe, of
the wrong that tho white muu had
done by introducing firewater among
her people, she got hilariously drunk
Chicago has a mystery. Mrs. Gale
has been ill of a nervous disorder, and
much of the time is iu a franco state.
Loud raps are frequently heard
around hbr bed, and the noise throws
her into severe convulsions. Report
ers are at work to discover fraud, but
thus far without success. They sus
poet the woman of deception, but
have not been able to catch her at
it.
The re is a student of natural his
tory at Chico, Cal., who believes that
the deer of Butte county know what
day the game law iuto effect.
He has gravely read a paper before
the California acad my of Sciences,
in which ho asserts that they stay
on the footbilh every year until Nov.
2, and then, knowing tint on and
after that date it is unlawful to shoot
them, go boldly down into the in
habited valleys.
Mrs. Etheridge’s boy walked on
stilts in front of Gray’s grocery, at
Dallas, Texas. This annoyed Gray,
and he whipped the boy. Mrs.
Etheridge sent her son back, and
posted herself, pistol, in hand, to
protect him in his diversion. Gray
got a big club and went out for a
combat with the woman. He re
ceived a bullet wound in his head,
and she was carried home dangerous
ly pouuded. But the boy still walks
on his stilts.
A young muu at Lodi, Teun, not
otherwise particular ab;ut his dress,
developed a strange concern as to
neckties. He bought them by the
dozen, spent hour after hour select
ing them, and chi se the brightest
colors. The mania grew upon him,
until at length there was no reason
to doubt his insanity upon that
point. He spent all his time and
money in procuring and displaying
ties of odd kinds, and was finally sent
to an asylum.
A drunkard at Battle Hill, Kan
sas, resolved to reform or die. Put
ting some deadly poison into a glass
with whiskey, he locked himself in a
room with the mixture. His plan
was to conquer his craving for alco
hol if possible, and, if his appetite
overpowered him, kill himself with
the drink that satisfied it. He was
alone with the poison for six hours,
and then he drank it. His life was
saved, however, by the timely efforts
of a physician, and he was sent to an
asylum for inebriates.
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witness ikt progress and euiuiiwatiou of the
moat taternfenf political contest that has
era* taken placa In %ta country -every cit
iesn and arerr thoughtful parson will be
compelled to rely upon the newspapers for
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Thb Cowmrt’Tio* is rceogulasd, referred to
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—as the organ and vehicle of tho beat
southern thought and nptmon—and at home
ita columns are consulted for the latest
news, tho freshest comment, and for all
matter* of special aad current interest.
Thb CoßßTrrrrion contain* more and later
telegraphic news than any other Georgia
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largely added to dart tig the coming year.
All its facilities for gathering the latest news
from all parts of the country will ho en
larged and sunpleuisutsd. Tns Constitu
tion is both cnroniclsr and commentator.
Ita editorial opinions, ita contributions to
the drift of currant discussion, its humorous
and aatirieal paragraphs, are copied from
one end of the counlay to rhe other. It
aims always to bo the brightest and the boat
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