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EDITORI AL EAGLETS.
The armyw orm is devastating farms
in different places in the Northern
States.
*, The Georgia delegation to Cincin
nati have their headquarters at the
Hotel Emery.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina,
was married a few days since to a
Kentucky lady.
It is claimed the census will show
that Philadelphia has a population
of over nine hundred thousand.
The best estimatesare that the cen
sus now being taken will show a pop
ulation in the United States of, from
45 to 50 millions.
Unless the people put on the
brakes, it is plain there are a few
amateur politicians in the State who
will “run away with the harness.”
The American flag has been fired
upon . twice recently by Spanish
vessels, off the Cuban coast, and a
speck of trouble is in the distance.
The New York Suu says the next
President of the United States may
not be an Ohio man, but he will bo
nominated on the banks of the Ohio.
The Greenback candidates, Gen.
B. Weaver, of lowa, for President
•and E. T. Chambers, of Texas, for
Vice-President have not yet electrified
the country.
The impression seems to be general
that the Cincinnati Convention will
name the next President of the
Lnited States, and hence never be
fore. probably, was greater interest
manifested in the action of a political
body.
The New York Herald still offers
the use of its columns to Mr. Garfield
Vo explain the Credit Mobilier and
DeGolyer contract transactions, and
insists that this must be done if he
expects to receive the support of the
country.
Mr. Hayes is said to be very much
dissatisfied with the course of Internal
Revenue Commissioner Raum, on
account of the active part he has re
cently taken in polities. The impres
sion prevails that the Commissioner
will have to go.
—♦ ♦
It is said that Dan Cameron went
into the sulks on account of Grants
defeat by the Chicago convention,
and peremtonally refused the Chair
manship of the Republican National
Committee, though asked by friends
of Gen. Garfield, to accept it.
The Senate snubbed Air. Hayes by
adjourning without taking any action
on his veto of the Marshals bill. The
democrats say they cau stand the
veto if the republicans can, and ex
press a perfect willingness to carry
the question before the people.
A few of the politicians who would
like to run Georgia, were terribly
shocked at the appointment of ex-
Gov. Brown to the United States
‘Senate, but since it is found that the
people by an overwhelming majority
approve it, there is a perceptible
cooling off.
A Washington dispatch says: “The
Democrats are preparing a pamphlet,
which will contain the testimony and
report in the Credit Mobilier busi
ness, and bo illustrated with copies
■of some of the Harper's Weekly car
toons of the time, and will also con
! tain editorial comments made on
| Garfield by the Republican papers at
that time.
It is estimated that Americans
J spend $50,000,000 annually in Europe
I chiefly for pleasure. It is also esti
| mated that in ,the three months of
I April, May and June, the Europeans
arriving in this country will number
not less than 200,000. As nearly all i
of them come to stay, and will spend
| their earnings in the United States,
jfthe balance is largely in our favor.
■ m
The New York Herald in an article
on the work performed during the
session of Congress recently adjourn
ed, pays this compliment to the
democracy: Like every session since
the democrats returned to the con
trol of the House, this one is notable
for the absence of jobbery. The
lobby has been starved out in Wash
ington under the economical and
"sojnetimes parsimonious management
of the democrats. The subsidy
Schemers no longer give dinners to
Congressmen and find it waste of
time to buttonhole members. The
democratic tendency to careful ap
propriations is sometimes carried to
extremes, but it is welcome to the
country and it is a very great chance
■from the laxity about public expendi-
I lures and the readiness to grant the
’public property for private uses
which characterized the republican
| rule and which occasioned a good
I many scandals in those days which
are now coming home to the party
leaders in a very unwelcome and em
jairatisffig way.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
To found and maintain meteor
ological stations at the mouth of the
Lena and on the Islands of New
Siberia, the government has granted
a yearly subsidy of 14,000 rubles, to
the Russian geographical society.
The irrigation with the discharge
from the sewers of Paris, of the pe
ninsula of Gennevilliers, has been
attended with splendid results, and
the municipal council propose to ir
rigate other lands in the forests of
St. Germain.
A new street sweeping machine
has been invented, which promises
to greatly reduce the cost of keeping
streets clean. The machine is pro
pelled by two horses, is attended by
two men and will, it is claimed, clean
over a mile of street in an hour, and
do its work thoroughly- The dirt is
swept by revolving brushes upon a
traveling canvass on which it is car
ried to a cart, attached to the rear of
the machine.
M. Pinart, a French scientist has
been at work on the Pacific coast for
more than a year, gathering prehis
toric treasures from Alaska to Pa
nama, and it is said has already sent
over to Paris nearly a shipload of
specimens. This field for explora
tion has been considered one of the
most important on the globe, but to
the present time no systematic effort
has been made by American scien
tists to gather together the valuable
treasures to bo found along the Pa
cific slope, and our country is sadly
neglecting the treasuring up of her
own historical monuments.
In the Jonian Islands, in the
neighborhood of Argostute, water
power is utilized in a peculiar man
ner. A swift stream of water run
ning through a rocky channel for
a short distance into the island,
suddenly sinks into the earth, in a
downward course, and goes no one
knows where. The earth has been
cleared away for some distance down
in a kind of shaft and the body of
water being conducted through an
artificial tunnel, is forced in a single
stream beneath an undershot wheel.
Thus power enough has been ob
tained to drive two mills which are
now in successful operation.
The advance in the price of paper
which presses hardest upon newspa
per publishers may be accounted for
in a measure by the varied and con
tinued new uses to which that article
is applied. Among the thousands of
articles of this material, some of the
latest are car wheels, water buckets,
window shutters, boats, bath tubs,
wash basins, blankets, etc. But the
very latest use of this material is in
the manufacture of stoves, which is
being successfully accomplished by
German paper-makers. A writer
says of this new invention that fire
blazes cheerfully without inflicting
the slightest damage to the paper
that incases it.
Mr- Henry G. Vennor, a meteor
ologist of Montreal, whose weather
prophicies have hetetofore been pret
ty generally verified, makes some
direful predictions of storms, heat,
cold, etc., for June and July. In a
late letter he says: “I believe that
June will be an intensely hot month,
on the whole, but the end of May
and probably the first of June, will
be fall-like with frosts. July will be
a terrible month for storms, with
terms of intense heat, but another
fail-like relapse, with frosts, will in
all likelihood occur a few days before
the 20th. I fear the storms of thun
der and hail will be of unusual se
verity during July. I must claim
the verification of my prediction
relative to a cold wave with frosts,
over a large portion of the United
States, between the 10th and 15th of
May. The relapse toward the close
of the present month will be more
severe than that just past.
A new process for copying trac
ings, drawings, pictures, writing,
etc., 6n the photographic plan has
been recently introduced in this
country that is not only of much
value in many ways, but is an inter
esting amusement and pastime for
young people in producing duplicate
pictures, portraits, etc. The process
in brief is about as follows: The
copying paper is prepared with a
sensible solution composed of lg
ounces citrate of iron and ammonia
and 8 ounces of clean water; and
also 1| ounces red prussiate of pot
ash and 8 ounces clean water: dis
solve these separately and mix them,
keeping the solution in a dark place.
Apply a coating of this to the paper
with a sponge. Keep this in a dark
place also until dry. Make your
drawing on thin or transparent pa
per to render picture to be copied
transparent. Place the drawing over
the sensitized sheet which has been
stretched on a smooth surface, place
a glass over the whole to keep the
paper down smoothly and expose
them to sunlight some four or five
minutes. This having been done,
wash the sensitized sheet in clean
water and the result will be surpris
ing*
In the Mountains of the moon.
When one looks at the moon
through a powerful telescope furn
ished with a prism eyepiece, he seems
to be suspended in mid air and look
ing down upon the lunar plains and
mountains .Tom an enormous height,
The falling away of the surface to
ward the edges of the great ball
sometimes produces the sensation
that is experienced in standing on
the brink of a giddy precipice. If
the magnifying power used is 500
diameters, the effect is about the
same as if the abserver were in a
balloon 500 miles above the surface
of the moon. Below him lie moun
tains greater than Mount Blanc and
Chimborazo, looking no larger than
pebbles. Ancient sea bottoms are
spread beneath him like smooth
floors, dotted here and there with
elevations that may once have been
islands, and surrounded by table
lands, planes, and mountain chains
that ebow where the old sea-coast
was flat and marshy, where it was
full of harbors, and where it was iron
bound and perilous. Great naked
plains stretch out in various direc
tions as smooth as our praties, and
in other places there are reaches of
hilly country, and then trem mdous
mountain masses. The great topo
graphical features remain, as in the
days when the moon was young and
full of life like the earth; but the
coasts are silent as the mountain
peaks, the seas are empty, the fruit
ful soil is gone, all that ancient teem
ing life has vanished, and the whole
land is void of air. It is only the
rocky skeleton of a dead world, and
a picture of what our earth will be
hundreds of millions of years hence
It is this last consideration—that the
moon furnishes ns a sort of prophetic
page wherein the earth's future can
be read—which makes the study of
lunar scenery only interesting
than it would be if our telescopes re
vealed to us cities and cultivated
fields and all the evidences of man’s
presence in the moon.
The scenery of the moon is not on
ly less interesting than it would be if
our telescopes revealed to us cities
and cultivated fields and all the evi
dences of man’s presence in the
moon.
The scenery of the moon is not on
ly wonderful, but exceedingly beauti
ful, when viewed from the lofty perch
that the observer with a telescope
seems to occupy. This is (.specially
true of the mountains. There being
no air on those rocky heights, there
is no gradation of light and the shad
ows are absolutely black. There
fore, night and day confront one an
other without any intervening twi
light. If one could stand upon a
lunar mountain, he might be in the
full blaze of the sun on the summit,
while ten feet below all would be
buried in the blackest night. The
scene recalls the Plague of Darkness
that was sent upon Egypt when the
habitations of the Israelites were fil
led with light, while the adjoining
lands of the Egyptians were walled
up in night. The effect of this sharp
contrast of light and shadow in the
moon is wonderfully beautiful. A
chain of mountains just at the edge
of the illuminated portion lies under
the telescope pictured in silhouette
upon the adjacent plain by the long
shadows that are as sharp in outline
as if cut from black paper. Yet
more beautiful are the circular moun
tains, or craters, that are the char
acteristic features of lunar scenery.
Some of these are forty or fifty miles
in diameter, and in the centre of the
flat floor enclosed by the ring-moun
tain rise one or more high peaks.
The effects of the light and shade
among these craters are almost end
less in diversity.
With a good three-inch telescope,
and a little practice in the manage
ment of the magnifying powers, one
may easily see all the famous mouo •
tains of the moon, and most of the
strange-looking objects that have at
different times been taken for fortifi
cations, roads, and other works of
man. There are a number of excel
lent maps of the moon, by whose aid
every conspicuous object may be re
cognized. The point of greatest in
terest to the observer is the long,
jagged line, called the terminator,
that marks the sharp division between
day and night. If you watch that
line for an hour or two you will be
astonished at the changes that have
taken place under your eye. You
will see the sunshine creeping down
the steep inner side of a ringed
mountain, until the floor of the vast
basin, which had before been perfec
tly black, looking like a hole right
through the moon, is reached and
lighted up, while the rocky flanks of
the central peak, or cluster of peaks,
come into view, and begin to cast
long, spiry shadows over the crater
floor. A lofty mountain, whose sum
mit, gilded by the sunlight, has been
visible for an hour, shining out of
the dense obscurity that covers the
region about it which is yet steeped
in night, like a little island lying off
a sunny coast, gradually swings into
view, and the line of sunshine goes
sweeping up its craggy sides, chasing
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the shadows, and revealing rocky
spires and precipitous gorges deeper
than the valley of the Mer de Glace.
The vast, dark plains, which werS
formerly supposed to be real seas,
but in which modern astronomers
see only the bottoms of seas whose
waters disappeared ages ago, retain
their old romantic names. There is
the Ocean of storms, covering a vast
region in the eastern hemisphere.
With its equatorial situation, and
surrounded by some of the most
gigantic mountains in the moon, it
may have been, before its waters were
stolen away, as tempestuous as its
name implies, On the south of the
Ocean of Storms projects a large bay
of a remarkably green hue, which is
called the Sea of Moisture, while
on the north the ocean runs into the
narrow Bay of Dew. Then there is
the Sea of Showers, the largest of the
moon,s seas, or sea bottoms. Be
tween the Sea of Showers and that
brilliant portion of the moon called
the Land of Hoar Frost, lies the Bay
of Rainbows, which, as the celebrated
observers Beer and Aladler thought,
furnishes the most magnificent land
scape in the moon. It is surrounded
by lofty, shining cliffs. In the cen
tre of the moon are the Sea of Va
pors and the Bay of Tides. In the
north are Plato, or the Greater Black
Lake, the Sea of Cold, and the Marsh
of Sleep, the latter being remarkable
for its reddish hue. In the east are
the Sea of Serenity, the Sea of Tran
quility, the Sea of Fertility, the Sea
of Nectar, and the dark Crisian Sea.
The last-named, judging from its
unusual depression, was probably the
deepest of all the lunar seas, although
its greatest length is only about 350
miles.
Around ail these seas cluster ring
ed mountains, craters, and moun
tain ranges, whose shadows are
thrown upon their level surfaces,
varying in length and shape and
number with every hour. The whole
southern quarter of the moon is oc
cupied by the great mountain region
that has the tremendous crater Ty
cho for its centre. Here the amate
ur telescopist may spend hours
among the glittering peaks. It is
like looking down into the heart of
the Adirondacks, with the mountains
increased ten fold in magnitude and
a thousand fold in number. The
mountain wall that surrounds Tycho
is a perfect ring fifty-four miles in di
ameter, and three miles high. Ex
actly in the centre of the great flat
floor, inclosed within the ring, rises a
mountain peak a mile it height that
shines brilliantly in the sunlight’ In
a good three-inch telescope, Tycho is
an object of surprising beauty and
ever varying interest as the sunshine
creeps up its outer wall, leaps down
the terraced slope of the opposite
side of the ring, and, sliding across
the broad, level floor, climbs the cen
tral peak, and throws its long-pointed
shadow clear across the crater. For
hundreds of miles on every side of
Tycho the whole surface of the moon
is broken and upheaved into jagged
mountain masses, in which are many
peaks loftier than the highest Alps,
and some that equal the mightiest of
the Andes. The spectacle of the sun
rise upon these mountains is magnifi
cent beyond description.
Some of the highest mountains in
the moon lie along the edge of the
disk, and are seen as in profile
against the sky. Such are the Doer
ful Mountains and the Leibnitz
Range south of Tycho, which rival
our Himalayas in height. In the tel
escope they give the edge of the moon
a broken or scalloped appearance.
These are but a few of the wonderful
objects in our satellite that are fam
iliar to astronomers. Any one who
is not an astronomer may spend
many pleasurable hours in studying
them with the aid of a small tele
scope.—New York Sun.
Talmagj ou Politics.
A short time ago a political ser
mon of Talmage’s was published. In
it be lays down some rules for the
selection of candidates and gives us
some directions to guide us in vo
ting. The sermon was delivered
before the result of the Chicago con
vention was known. We republish
an extract from it, this week in or
der that our readers may have an
able standard by which to judge
Garfield and Arthur.
“The question with a vast multi
tude of people is, who ought to be
the next president of the United
States? I remark, in the first place,
he ought io be a man of established
moral character. It is a matter of
congratulation that the most of the
candidates on both sides are moral
men. Some of us can look back to
the time when for gubernatorial or
presidential positions, men were
named who were libertines and
drunkards and gamblers. One of
our vice-presidents was sworn in
drunk. A United States secretary
of State was once carried from his
office in a beastly state of intoxica
tion. The American congress again
and again has been digraced by men
who could not walK straight, yet pre
tending to represent Delaware, Illi-
I noie and York, lam glad that
now the question of moral comes
into the political discussion. I care
not how much telent a man has if he
is bad. Genius is worse than stu
pidity if it move in the wrong direc
tion. A nation of homes needs over
it a man who has regard for the
sanctity of the domestic circle. A
nation of young men looking up for
example needs over it a man of undis
puted integrity. A man who cannot
govern himself cannot govern forty
million. Our churches, our schools,
and our home-steads must vote for
good morals.
Igo further and say our coming
president must have a heart large
enough to take in all the states and
territories. If he be a western man
and he despise the sea coasts, and is
chiefly anxious to change the com
mercial centre—if he be an eastern
man and he is disposed to denounce
all the west as in favor of repudia
tion—if he be a southern man and
think only of the north as an ignoble
generation—if he be a northern man
and he wants to keep the old grudge
up against the south and wants to
fight over again battles that were
settled seventeen years ago—that
man must not be backed by conven
tions or by ballot-box. The country
needs a bigger president than ever
before because the country is bigger.
When Washington took his seat as
charioteer he had only thirteen cour
sers to drive. Now there are thirty
eight, and some of them are very
skittish! Os course with the wire
bit of the telegraph they can be guid
ed much easier than one might sup
pose; but still there are increased
responsibilities. Three-fourths of
th'S century has been taken up with
sectional strife. Now let us have
twenty years for something else
Let the political orators get out their
old speeches that discussed dead is
sues, and send the n to the paper
mill and have them changed into
white sheets on which they shall
write one good, rousing speech about
the moral, or commercial, or agricul
tural, or mining prosperities that are
now about to burst upon us. Do not
let the despotism of politics make
you believe there are only one, or two,
or three, or four men that can save
this nation. There are a hundred
that can save it. In other words, it
is saved. The old ship of state has
get out into calm waters, and it docs
not require any very skillful naviga
tion. The flowers of this springtime
have covered up the northern and
southern graves, and let no hoof of
contention trample the flowers. In
pulpit, and on platform, and in con
vention, and at ballot-box, let us plant
amity. Why do we want to fight any
longer ? Is life so long that we are in
a hurry to get rid of a surplus of it ?
Is the sword better than the wheat
cradle. Can we not raise rich pas
turage except by mouldering human
bones, and the real rain of human
carnage ?
I pray God there may bo no more
use f»r the musket in this country
except for holiday turn cuts. I pray
God that the time may hasten on
when your navy-yards will be muse
ums containing ships that wero used
in barbaric ages when nations set
tled their quarrels by slaughter. I
pray the time may come when the ea
gle shall be taken off’ our coin and
there shall be substituted the dove,
the bird of blood giving away for the
bird of the olive branch. Peace once
established, lot it bo established for
ever.
Varieties From a Veteran.
A man talks as easily at the rate
of sixty miles an hour as he does at
an ordinary after dinner pace, and a
veteran railroad man who sat with
his feet cocked on an adjoining chair,
on the Ohio & Mississippi fast train
Saturday, let his recollections and
gossip flow entertainingly to a Cour
ier-Journal reporter.
“Ever in a smash-up?” asked the
veteran laconically.
“Neverl”
“That acouuts for your lack of ner
vousness. A child never dreads the
fire uhtil he is burned, and so it is
with every kind of danger. There
are two classes of engineers, who are
known on the road as ‘good runners
and ‘bad runners.’ A good runner
is always, sent out with special trains
and in other cases where fast time is
to be made. He is an engineer who
knows the road and his engine, and
will gauge the speed by the quality
of the track, taking a good many
chances on safety. I knew one of
these fellows, who was regarded as
the coolest and bravest man in the
business. He would take a light
ning special as safely through as an
other would a freight. Qne dark
night he was hauling the night ex
press around a curve like a meteor.
A tree had been blown across the
track by a storm, and he ran upon it
before it could be seen. The train
was smashed and he was badly hurt.
He got well in time, and took his
place at work, but lost it, and he
could’t get a passenger train on any
road. The accident killed his ‘nerve’,
and he couldn’t take a train through
on even schedule time. He was al
. ways lagging and be hind time. That
is the fate of a great many. A bad I
accident to a fast train nearly always
spoils a good engineer.”
“They are always in danger,” said
the reporter.
“Yes; if there’s an accident they
are almost sure to be killed. They
go through life on faith and by good
luck. Ona day, several years ago, I
went for a day’s hunting in the coun
try, and made arr mgements for an
engine to be sent out for me at 7
o’clock. It came, and, with three of
us aboard, started to make the run
of twenty-five miles an hour ahead
of the regular train. We got out a
mile or two and the headlight flick
cred and went down. The engine
was stopped and the lantern was
tinkered with, and we started again.
We ran a few miles, and had to stop
and tinker with the confounded lamp
again. This time it went out clear,
and to our horror we discovered that
the regular train was within five
minutes of us, and there was no side
track near. It was as dark as ori
ginal chaos, not a star out. The en
geneer started carefully, worked the
throttle out gradually, ani, all of us
clinging to the cab for dear life, the
race began. For all that we could
see it was a plunge into space. The
engine snorted and rolled, and fairly
flew along the track, until the wel
come light of the home yards fell up
on us. We had run thirteen miles
on pure faith in nine minutes, and
the regular train was an hour and
forty minutes behind time 1”
“That was a c lose shave on
luck ? ’
“Yes; I don’t want to ride under
pressure again.”
ideals.
The ideal husband is a kind-hearted,
noble man, with the figure of an
Apollo and the beauty of an Adonis,
who pays the same delicate atten
tion to his wife that he did before
their troth was plighted; the real
husband is a round shouldered griz
zly looking fellow, who buys the
second quality of butter for the table,
eats his meals at a down town res
taurant, and only remembers that he
is married when he is obliged to pay
the household expenses.
The ideal housewife is a woman
who keeps her home in the most
delightful order, who cooks the most
delicious dinners and presides at the
tea table with the grace of a queen;
the real housewife is a woman whose
face is red and blazed with cooking
over a hot stove, whose voice is sharp
and earnest, and who just “slats”
things around anywhere, no matter
where, in order to get her work done
in season for a buzz over the back
yard. fence with the neighbors.
The ideal newspaper man is a man
whose brain is crammed solid full of
all things classical, social and politi
cal, whose pen can reef off poetry,
sentiment and sense to order, and
into whose presence we should come
with feelings of awe inspired by over
powering genius; the real newspaper
man is a worn out fragment of hu
manity, who carries a sickly smile
significant of hope deferred and fi
nancial depression, and wears a sev
enty five cent alapaca coat.
The ideal politician is a man whose
interest in the welfare of Ge country
is second only to his allegiance to
divine power; the real politician is
a man with his hands full of wires
pulling in all directions, from the
dram shop to the pulpit, to worm
himself into an official position with
big pay and lots of nothing to do.
The ideal baby is a little fellow
with the daintiest tinted cheeks,
curliest hair, sweetest little “coo”
and with angel’s wings just sprout
ing from his shoulders; the real baby
is a young wad of humanity with
open valves, screaming all the time,
fuzz on his bald head like thistle
down, and as for angel’s wings, well,
they don’t fasten them on with safety
pins.
The ideal clergyman is a man born
too good for this world, with the
virtues of Christianity bristling all
over his character and shining forth
like the rays of the noonday sun •
the real clergyman is a man who
preach his best sermons “on an ex
change in the hope of getting a call
with a bigger t alary.
Bro. Gardner’s Lime-Kiln Club.
“De odder nite, as I was ready to
blow de candle out an’ crawl inter
bed, a delegashum of cull’d men ar
rove to tell me dat de Cnicago con
venshun had bin nominated,’’ said
the President as the triangle called
the meeting to order. “In a short
time de Dimecrats will nominate dar’
convenshun, an’ den a second delega
shun will come whoopin’ along to
wake up de dog, track de front steps
an’ break de news. Why do dey
come to me wid sich news? Why
should dey go to any cull’d man who
airns his daily bread by de frickshun
of his elbows? Git an honest man
inter pollyticks if you wont to make a
rascal of him; git a laborin’ man to
whoopin’ fur some candydates if you
want to fi'l de poo’ house. What does
any man in dis club keer who am
( nominated or who am ’lected ? If de
Publicans git it de price of blackin’
stoves remains de same. If de Dime
crats git it, do price of white-washin’
won’t move up or down a peg. We
may whoop an’ yell an’ fight an’ poll
a woie dat weighs a pound, but when
de taters am gone next winter who
is to fill up de bin ? When de wood
am out who will buy mo? When de
flour-bar’i am empty will de Presi
dent fill it ? De cull’d man, take
him as he was bo’n, hasn’t any great
amount of brains to spar’. Doan’ let
us, darfore, now dat we know ’nuff to
take car’ of ourselves, become fools
to benefit anybody. Let ’em fight it
out. De kentry’s gwine to stay right
heah, no matter which side wins
One hour among de garden-truck
will do mo’ fur your nex’ winter dan
a week of whoopin’ fur somebody who
doan’ know ye an’ wouldn’t speak to
you if he did 1 Polly ticks buys beer,
but it won t buy bread. Candydates
pat ye on de back to-day, an’ tell ye
to morrow to go to de poo’ house I
doan's purtend to say how ye shall
vote, but de cull’d man who has any
sense will stick to his cabbages an’
let de whoopin’ be whooped up by
sich folks as injoy goin’ bar footed in
Jinuary.”— Detroit Free Press.
Nothing Left to Holler Ou.
An hour or so after the latest and
last from Chicago, yesterday after
noon, a policeman on Randolph
street halted at the door of a saloon
and asked the proprietor how he
liked the nomination.
“I dean’ care for bolitics any more,”
was the reply.
“Why, what’s the matter? You
were greatly excited yesterday.”
“If I vhas den I vhas a fool. Vhen
dot first pallet vhas daken I set up
der peer for de Grant crowd, for I
likes to sthaud vhell mit der poys.”
“Yes.”
“Den a pig crowdt rushes in here
und yells out dot Jim Plaine vhas de
coming man, und I hand out der
cigars, for mein poy vbants a blace
in der gustom-house oof Jim Plaine
vhas bresident.’’
“Yes, I see.”
“Vhell, pooty soon comes mein
brudder in und says I vhasa fool, for
dot feller Sherman would git all der
votes pooty queek. I tinks off Sher
man gits it mein poy has a blace in
der post office, sure, und I calls in der
poys und dells ’em to trink to my
gandidate.”
“Just so.”
“I feels goot vhen I goes to bedt,
but early in der morning some aider
mans come arouudt here und says:
‘Shake, tont pea fool. Edmundts
ish der man who vhill knock ’em all
to bieces.’ Und I opens a fresh keg
of lager und dells efery pody I vhas
an Edmunds mad, und I pet $lO he
vas voted in. Dis forenoon mein poy
vhas for Grant, mein brudder vhas
for Sherman und I vhas for Blaine,
und vhere pe dose five kegs of lager
dot I hadt dis morning? Vhen I
goes home mein vrow she saidt I
vhas swei fools, und I locks up der
saloon und goes to bedt.”
“Well, have you heard who was
nominated ?”
“Nein.”
“It was Garfield.”
“Garfeel ? Py Sheorge ! I dreats
avay seven kegs of lager und two
poxes of cigars, und it vhas Garfeel!
Wheel, dot ends me oop. If I efer
has some more to do mit boliticks den
I am as grazy as bedt-bugs. Garfeel!
Vhell—vhell - Vhat a fool I vhas dot
I save not mein peer und make a
zure blace for mein poy mit Garfeel!”
The platform of the democrats of
Illinois, which we give below in full,
is a model political document:
Patriotic duty and interest de
mand peace and reconciliation
through all the land. We pledge
ourselves to the following princi
ples:
No tariff for protection.
No third term.
Substantial reform of the civil ser
vice, so that federal officers shall be
the servants of the people and not of
a party.
Equal rights to all the States, and
no federal interference with the con
stitutional function of States.
A constitutional currency of gold
and silver, and of paper convertible
into coin.
No more land grants to monopo
lies
The will of the people must be su
preme, and majorities must rule un
der the constitutional method No
more (*ich frauds as that of 1876, no
more eight to seven.
Laws must be enacted to protect
laborers in the more prompt and
certain collection of their wages.
The Governor of the remote Rus
sian province of Orenburg r ports
that the cold of last winter has
caused such frightful havoc among
docks and herds that a famine is
imminent. The ciops, too, have
suffered, and corn has risen 500 and
hay 400 per cent, In the district of
Parlograd 1,000 camels, 61,000 cows
and oxen, 26,500 horses, and 51,000
sheep perished. It has been the same
throughout Turkestan.
A.tSL'v ortiwing Rates.
Legal advertisemt nt» charged seventy-live cents
per hundred werda or fraction thereof each inser
tion for the first four tnserti ns, and thirty-five
cents for each subsequent insertion.
Transient advertising will be charged $1 per inch
for the first, and fifty cents for each subsequent
insertion. Adxeitisers deairing larger space for a
longer time than one month wiil receive a liberal
deduction from regular rates.
All bills due upon the first appearance of the ad
vertisement, and will be presented at the pleasure
of the proprietor. Transient advertisement from
unknown parties must be paid for in advanct
NO. 26
Georgia Graduates at West
Point.
At the graduation exercises at the
United States Military Academy, at
West Point, New York, last week,
there were two graduates from Geor
gia, Elgar Hubett, of Cedartown,
Polk county, who stood seventeenth,
and J imes B. E win, of Savannah,
who stood twenty-second. There were
fifty in the cla°s. At the time of
graduation there were sixty-five
vacant lioutenantcies in the army, so
each graduate will at once receive a
commission as second lieutenant.
“Old Dominion.”
This term, which is so expressive and
significant to every Virginian, is said
to have had its origin as follows:
During the protectorate of Cromwell,
the colony of Virginia refused to ac
knowledge his authority, and de
clared itself independent. Shortly
after, when Cromwell threatened to
send a fleet and army to reduce Vir
ginia to (objection, the Virginians
sent a messenger to Charles 11, who
was then an exile in Flanders, invi
ting him to return on the ship with
the messenger, and be King of Vir
ginia. Charles accepted the invita
tion, and was on the eve of embark
ing when be was called to the throne
of England, As soon as he was fair
ly seated on the throne in gratitude
for and recognition of the loyalty of
Virginia, he caused her coai-of arms
to be quartered with those of En
gland, Scotland and Ireland, as an
independent member of the empire,
a distant portion of the Old Domin
ion. Hence arose the origin of the
term. Copper coins of Virginia
w re issued even as late as the reign
of George 11., which have on one
side the coat-of-arms, of England,
Ireland, Scotland and Virginia.
SHALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together .
Whiskey is the best cure for snake
bite.
Henry Ward Beecher has already
taken to the stump in favor of Gar
field.
American exports to China tor the
years 1877 and 1878 were valued at
nearly $7,000,000, and the incerease
in 1870 was rapid and heavy.
Col. Fred Grant is represented by
the Boston Globe as murmuring
mournfully: “Father’s gone up and
I’m liable to be ordered where there’s
danger.”
In the next fifteen years almost all
the Russian railroads now in opera
tion will undergo the process of re
demption and become Government
property.
The London 'Dimes gives an account
of a method of reporting late debates
in the House of Commons by tele
phone lately adopted in the office o
that journal.
The editor of the Springfield Re
publican waggishly says that Senator
Ferry, of Michican, got his black eye
by stumbling, so to speak, in the
path of rectitude.
The Latin taught in the schools of
New York is so interspersed with
tight-lacing, banged hair and love
ballads that it cannot be said to be of
any value to pupils.
“Household art decoration is what
takes with my boarders,” said Mrs.
Gildersleeve, as she made a bread
pudding and called her eldest daught
er down stairs to paint raisins on it.
During the past year thirty divers
in the pearl fishery of the Persian
Gulf lost their lives, most of them by
sharks. The value of the pearls
taken in the Persian Gulf in 1879 is
estimated at $1,500,000.
Now is the time when very young
lawyers can be boasted into the re
gions of eetatic bliss very cheaply.
Just hint to that some village
committee has mentioned their names
in connection with the Fourth of
July oration.
Life's lessons are cut and carved
on things inanimate—seen in the
leaf and flower; painted on the land
scape; chanted in the murmuring
brook; heard in the viewless wind;
revealed in a passing cloud or flit
ting shadow.
No man has such control of his
own being as the man who can say
“Thy will be done.’’ The man who
can say that in every part of his life
has found himself, has come to him
self, his true se f, his strong self, his
happy self, and his enduring self.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is credited
with saying of that dashing Confed
erate cavalryman, Gen. Forres*, that
“he was the brightest military genius
the war produced on either side, if
we are to judge him by the rule of
accomplishing the largest results
with the least material.”
A liberal citizen of Philadelphia
recently subscribed SSOO annually for
ten years for the srpport of a fellow
ship in Washington and Lee Univer
sity, of Lexington, Virginia. It is
his purpose to give, in the meantime,
such a sum as will yield a permanent
income of SSOO annually for the
fellowship,