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4 The Gainesville Eagle. Published Every Friday Morning. BY . J . K. REDWINK. 4 liatcs of Subscription : One copy one year *2 00 One* copy six months 1 oo One copy three months 50 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. Adyortlsini; H«to»» sd»«ni»Aßa#nt» charged seventy-fivo cents l>er hundred word* or frsetios thereof each iu*t>r tlon for the Arst four lnaertiona. and thirty-fly*, centa fer each subsequent InaerttoD. Tranaient advertising will be charged $1 per Inch * for the Aral, and fifty cent* for each subsequent iniortion. Advertisers desiring Wrger «}**•« for a longer feme than one month will receive a liberal deduction front regular rates. All bllla due upon tho Arat appearance of the ad vertisement, and will be presented at the pleasure of th* proprietor. Tranaient advertiseri'enta fr.ra unknown parties must bo paid for in advance. NO. 4 TH E ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. During tho coming year -a year that will 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 information. Why not get the Ixwt ? Abroad Thb Cowmrt’Tio* is rceogulasd, referred to and qnotef an the leading southern journal —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 paper, and this particular feature will be 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 —newsy, original end piquant. It nirns particularly to give the news impartially and fully, and to beep ita readers informed of the drift of current discussion by liberal but concise quotations from all its coutem porarica. It aims, in short, to more than ever deserve to b* know** as “the leading aontbern newspaper.” llill Arp will con tinue to contribute his unique letter*, which grow in savory humor week by week. “Old Si” will add bia quaint fuu to the collection of goad things, aad “Uuele Uemaa” ties in preparation a series of negro myth legends, illustrating the folk-loro at tlie old planta tion. In every respect Tub Constitution for 1880 will be better thau over. Thb Wmu Ceignnmos is a carefully edited compendium of the news of tho week and contains the beat and freshest matter to be found in any other weekly from a daily niiloe. Its news aad miscellaneous contents are the freshest and its market reports the latest. THE SOUTHERN C ULTIVATOR. This, the best, the most reliable and most popular of southern agricultural journals, is issued from tho priuting establishment of Thk OoNSTiTUTios. It is a till edited by Mr. W. L. Jones, and is devoted to the best in terests of the farmers of the south. It s Hent at reduced rates with the Weekly edi tion of Thb Constitution. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Daily Constitution $lO 00 a year “ •• 5 00 0 m’« “ “ 2 50 3 m’s Weekly Constitution 1 50 a year “ “ 1 00 6 m’s “ “ Clubs ot 10, 12 50 a year “ “ Clubs of 20, 20 00 “ Southern Cultivator 150 “ “ “ Clubs of 10, 12 20 “ •• “ Clubs of 20, 20 00 “ Weekly Constitutiou ami Cul tivator to sarno address 2 50 “ Address THE CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga. 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There is a page devoted to all the latest phases of the business inirkets, crops, merchandise, etc., etc. A valuable feature is found in the specially reported prices and conditions of THE PRODUCE MARKET. Sporting News at home and abroad, to gether with a Story every week, a Sermon by some eminont divine. Literary, Musical, Dramatic., Personal and Sea Notes. There is uo 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. PIAHQS & ORGANS FROM FACTORY TO PLMItSER. EVERY MAN HIS OWN AGENT Ludden A Baths’ Gkand Intboduction Sale continued nntii Nov. 1, 1880. Only sale of the kind ever successfully carried out in America 5,000 superb instruments at factory rate* tor Introduction and Adver tisement. New plan of selling: No Ag* ills ! No Coin missions ? Instruments shipped direct from Factory to purchasers. Middle men’s profits sieved. Agent’s rates to all. Ouly house South selling on this plan. .PIANOS, 7 oct. $125, 71 oct $155; Square Grands $227. ORGANS, 0 stops $57; 15 stops s7l; 13 stops. Mirror Top Case, SBO. New, handsome, durable. 8 years' guaran tee. 15 days’ test trial. Purchasers choice from ten lendim/ makers and 2(H) different .styles. Join this gigantic club of 5,000 pur chasers and secure an instrument „t whole sale rates. Special terms to Music Teach ers, Churches and Pastors. Address for Introduction Sale circulars LUDDEN & BATES, Savannah, Ga. dtclO 4t TREMONT HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. C. This popular hotel has beou entirely re fitted, having accommodations for 300 guests, and will continue to be the only First -class house in the city at moderate rates. Terms $2.50 per day. F. P. HILL, Proprietor. t'reii OmuibuN at Depots, uov‘22 ts