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EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
Pennsylvania furnished the last,
' as she will the next democratic
president.
K Gen. Hancock is not a Catholic as
has been reported, but is a commu
oant of the Protestant Episcopal
church.
t And now the Utica Herald wants
Gen. Logan to resign bis seat in the
senate in order that Gen. Grant
may be appointed to fill his place.
Hon. A. H. Stephens favored the
f nomination of Gen. Hancock in 1868
and has been for him ever since. He
is much elated at the action of the
j Cincinnati convention.
' The divisions and wrangling in
the Chicago convention, and the har
mony and good sense shown at Cin
cinnati assure the success of the
democratic ticket in November.
Montreal has lighted its wharves
with the electric light placed on the
tops of telegraph poles three hun
dred yards apart, and ships now un
load as readily by night as by day.
- We told our readers last week be
>» fore a nomination was made that the
Ci; cinnati convention would present
a good and grand ticket. Does any
body want us to modify that state
ment ?
-The nomination of Hancock has
’nealed all divisions and solidified the
New York democracy. From this
time forth Tammany and anti-Tam
many will work together for the
success of the ticket.
On this page we present the demo
cratic platform adopted at Cincin
nati, which will meet the hearty
approval of every true democrat and
every good citizen throughout the
length and breadth of the land.
' -
Gen. Hancock is one of the major
generals in the United States army.
Sherman and Sheridan are the only
officers who outrank him. He now
has command of the department of
the east, with headquarters in New
York.
Col. Lander?, whom the democrats
of Indiana have nominated as their
candidate for governor, is so popular
with the masses of the people,that the
republicans are about to fail to get a
"candidate of any respectability to
oppose him.
There was no rule or ruin foolish
ness in the Cincinnati convention.
All were hunting the man to lead
the party to victory. There were in
the convention 738 delegates. On
the second ballot Hancock received
705; Hendricks, 30; Bayard, 2; Til
den, 1.
Arrangements have been comple
ted for holding national temperance
camp-meetings at Asbury Park and
Island Heights, N. J., under the di
rection of the national temperance
society. The meeting at Asbury
Park opens July 6th and closes July
9th. The meeting at Island Heights
' opens July 14th and closes the 18th
<■ of the same month.
Mr. David Dougherty, of Pennsyl
vania in presenting the name of Gen.
Hancock to the Cincinnati conven
tion among many other good things
said: “If you nominate him he will
be elected, and if elected he will
take his seat.” This is the kind of
Jacksonian timber we want for a
candidate and then for president.
- Judge O. A Lochrane, who worked
earnestly for Grant’s nomination and
who was not a little disappointed
and chagrined at the failure of the
third-termers at Chicago, now comes
out for Hancock and English. On
being reminded of his political sum
mersault, the Judge replied that he
had rather be right than to be con
sistent.
The candidates for the presidency
now before the country are as fol
lows: Republican—James A. Gar
, field, of Ohio, for president; Chester
A. Arthur, of New York, for vice
president. Greenback—James A.
TV eaver, of lowa, for president; E.
J. Chambers, of Texas, for vice
president. Prohibition—Neal Dow,
of Maine, for president; A. M.
Thomson, of Ohio, for vice-presi
dent. Democratic—W. S. Hancock,
of Pennsylvania, for president; Wm.
H. English, of Indiana, for vice
president.
The Pittsburg Post names three
things the republicans ask the coun
try to do: First, approve the Credit
Mobilier transaction; second, en
dorse the right of the chairman of
the committee on appropriations to
take money from contractors in or
der to have their doubtful claims
paid, and the obliquity of moral ner
coptions which sees no impropriety
in such transactions; third, to bestow
the country’s highest honor on one
who was instrumental in cheating
the people out of a president of their
choice, and who was a bold defender
of all the frauds and crimes at the
base of Hayes’ presidential title.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
Observances have demonstrated
that an increased activity takes place
in the volcanic eruptions of Vesuvius,
at the time of each full moon.
Paper air cushions are being
manufactured in Japan that are pro
nounced superior to those made of
rubber in many respects. Their
strength is said to be marvelous—
it requiring some 200 pounds weight
to burst one.
Scientists claim that intemperance
and educational cramming, produce
more cases of insanity than all other
causes combined. At least, the rule
has been found to hold good in
Prussia and other foreign countries
where more thorough observances
have been made".
The soil of a cemetery in England,
in which no interment had been
made for thirty years, was recently
analyzed by an eminent chemist, and
the products of animal decomposi
tion were found to still exist to a
considerable degree.
An extensive company is being
formed in Germany for a North
Polar expedition. The ship “Willem
Barends, 1 ’ which has already made
two trips to the northern seas, is
being equipped for the occasion, and
the party will embark about the first
week in July.
An exhibition will be opened in
Glasgow in August and remain in
session for six months, for the pur
pose of promoting an exhibition of
naval and marine engineering mod
els of that section and will be under
the supervision of a large and influ
ential committee of shipbuilders and
marine engineers.
For their improved and safe meth
od of manufacturing nitro-glycerine,
Boutmy & Foucher have been
awarded a prize of 2,000 francs, by
the French Academy of Sciences.
These gentlemen have been engaged
in the manufacture of this article at
Vonges, the past six years, without
meeting with a single accident.
A balloon for navigation, having
three cars attached has been in
vented by Herr Baumgartner, a
German. Each car is supplied with
rings and fans to be set in motion by
cranks, and the whole will be guided
by means of sails specially arranged.
The inventor is sanguine of succeed
ing in navigating the air in a most
successful manner.
A price indicator for gas meters
is a new Invention and has just been
patented in this country. The ap
paratus is said to be quite simple
and perfectly accurate in its work
ings, enabling the consumer to tell
at any moment the quantity of gas
consumed and the amount in dollars
and cents of his indebtedness to the
manufacturer.
A petrified shark some six feet in
length and weighing about 200
pounds was found recently at the La
Panza diggings, in California. When
it was taken from the ground, parts
-of the tail and nose were broken off
and its original length was about
eight feet. It has also been stated
that a petrified whale some forty feet
in length, is imbedded in the side of
the same mountain.
Army worms by the millions are
invading Long Island, and also the
shore country of New Jersey and
Connecticut, and in their onward
march totally destroy grass, corn,
oats, clover, garden crops and all
succulent vegetation, leaving the rav
aged territory brown and bare. Such
destruction was never before caused
in this country by these pests.
It has been learned that fully five
per cent, of cows advanced in life
suffer ftom tubercular disease, and
as it is a well known fact that the
affection may be communicated to
human beings by the drinking of the
milk, it stands farmers and others
in hand to keep their bovines in a
healthy condition, and see that no
milk is used that comes from an un
healthy animal
A new and novel method of heat
ing railway ears has just been pat
ented in Europe, and is being placed
upon the Paris—Lyons and other
routes in France. It consists in
using the acetate of soda in foot
warmers In dissolving in water
this substance absorbs or renders
latent a large amount of heat which
continues for a considerable length
of time—say from 15 to 20 hours
without being renewed.
An appropriation bill providing
for the survey of the Gulf stream
from its origin to its final whirl
around the Sargasso sea, has just
been passed by the house of repre
sentatives. This is an important
step and it is to be hoped that a lib
eral appropriation may be made and
that the work may be faithfully and
minutely carried out. The plan em
braces current observations, deep
sea temperatures, soundings, etc.,
and when done the work will doubt
less prove an important one —adding
to the nation s record of scientific 1
exploration, another valuable and
interesting chapter.
Mr. Tilden’s Letter.
We give below the full text of Mr.
Tilden’s letter to the Cinc nnati Con
vention, declining a nomination by
that body. It is written with a force
and power but rarely equalled, and
breathes a spirit of patrotism which
can but command the highest admira
tion:
New York, June 18. 1880.
To the Delegates from the State of New
York to the Democratic National Con
vention:
Your first assembling is an occasion
on which it is proper for me to state
to you my relation to the nomination
for the Presidency, which you and
your associates are commissioned to
make in behalf of the Democratic
party of the United States. Having
passed my early years in an atmos
phere filled with traditions of the war
which secured our National indepen
dence and cf the struggles which
made our continental system a gov
ernment for the people, by the people.
I learned to idolize the institutions of
my country, and was educated to be
lieve it the duty of each citizen of the
Republic to take his fair allotment
of care and trouble in public, affairs.
I fulfilled that duty to the best of my
ability for forty years as a private
citizen. Although during all my life
giving at least as much thought and
effort to public affairs as to all other
objects, I have never accepted official
service except for a brief period for a
special purpose, and only when the
occasion seemed to require of me that
sacrifice of private preferences to
public interests. My life has been
substantially that of a private citizen.
It was, I presume, the success of the
efforts in which as a private citizen I
had shared to over throw the corrupt
combination then holding dominion
in our metropolis, and to purify its
judiciary which had becomi its tool,
that induced the Democracy of the
State in 1874 to nominate me for
Governor. This was done in spite of
the protests of the minority that the
part I had borne in those reforms,
had created antagonisms fatal to me
as a candidate. I felt constrained to
accept the nomination as the most
certain means of putting the power
of the Gubernatorial office on the side
of reform and of removing tho im
pression, wherever it prevailed, that
the faithful dischaigeof one’s duty a a
a citizen, is fatal to his usefulness as
a public servant. Tho breaking up
of the canal ring, the better manage
ment of our public works, the large
reduction of taxes and other reforms
accomplished during my administra
tion, doubtless occasioned my nomi
nation for the Presidency by the
Democracy of the Union, in the hope
that similar processes would be ap
plied to the Federal Government.
From the responsibilities of such an
undertaking, appalling as it seemed
to me, I did not feel at liberty to
shrink. In the canvass which ensued,
the Democratic party represented re
form in the administration of the
Federal Government and the resto
ration of our complex political system
to the pure ideas of its founders.
Upon these issues the people of the
United States, by a majority of more
than a quarter of a million, chose a
majority of the electors to cast their
votes for the Democratic candidates
for President and Vice-President. It
is my right and privilege here to say
that I was nominated and elected to
the Presidency, absolutely free from
any engagement in respect to the
exercise of its powers or the disposal
of its patronage. Through the whole
period of my relation ro the Presi
dency, I did everything in my power
to elevate and nothing to lower the
moral standaids in competition of
parties. By what nefarious means
the basis for a false count was laid in
several of the States, I need not recite.
These are now matters of history
about which whatever diversity of
opinion may have existed in either
of the great parties of the country at
the time of their consummation, has
since pratically disappeared. I re
fused to ransom from the Returning
Boards of Southern States documen
tary evidence by the suppression of
which and by the substitution of
fraudulent and forged papers, a pre
text was made for the perpetuation
of the false count. The Constitu
tional duty of the two Houses of
Congress to count the electoral votes
as cast and to give effect to the will
of the people as expressed by their
suffrages, was never fulfilled. An
electoral Commission for the ex
istence of which I have no responsi
bility, was formed and to it the two
Houses of Congress abdicated their
duty to make the count by a law en
acting that the count of the Commis
sion should stand as final unless over
ruled by the concurrent action of the
two Houses. Its false count was not
overruled owing to the complicity of
the Republican Senate with the Re
publican majority of the Commission,
controlled by its Republican majority
of eight to seven. The Electoral
Commission counted out the men
elected by the people and counted in
the men not elected by the people.
That subversion of the election
created a new issue for tho decision
of the people of the United States,
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 2, 1880.
transcending in importance all ques
tions of administration. It involves
the vital principle of self-government
through elections by the people. The
immense growth of the means of
corrupt influence over the ballot box,
by which it is at the disposal of the
party having possession of the Execu
tive Administration, had already be
come a present evil and great danger,
tending to make elections irresponsi
ble to public opinions, hampering the
power of the people to change their
rulers and enabling men holding the
machinery of the Goverment to con
tinue and perpetuate their power. It
was my opinion in 1876 that the op
position attempting to change the
Administration, needed to include at
least two thirds of the voters at the
opening of the canvass in order to
retain a majority at the election. If,
after such obstacles had been over
come and a majority of the people
h.td voted to change the administra
tion of their Government, the men
in office could still procure a false
count founded upon fraud, perjury
and forgeries, furnishing a pretext
for documentary evidence on which
to base the false count, and if such a
transaction were not only success
ful, but if, after the allotments of i‘s
benefits were made to its contrivers,
abettors or apologists by the chief
beneficiary of the transactions, it
were condoned by the people, a
practical destruction of elections by
the people would have been accom
plished. The failure to install the
candidates chosen by the people, a
contingency consequent upon no act
or omission of mine and beyond my
control, has thus left me, for the last
three years and until now, when the
Democratic party, by its delegates in
the National Convention assembled,
shall choose a new leader, tho invol
untary, but necessary, representative
of this momentous issue, and as such
denied the immunities of private life,
without the powers conferred by
public station, subject to unceasing
falsehoods and calumnies from the
partisans of an administration labor
ing in vain to justify its existence. I
have nevertheless steadfastly endeav
ored to preserve to the Democratic
party of the United States the
supreme issue before the people for
their decision next November, wheth
er this shall boa government by the
sovereign people through elections
or a government by discarded ser
vants, holding over by force and
fraud, and I have with-held no sacri
fice. and neglected no opportunity,
to uphold, organize and consolidate
against the enemies of representative
institutions, the great party which
alone, under God, can effectually re
sist their overthrow. Having now
borne faithfully my full share of labor
and care in the public service, and
wearing the snarks of its burdens, I
desire nothing so much as an honor
able discharge I wish to lay down
the honors and toils of even a quasi
party leadership and to seek the re
pose of private life. In renouncing
renomination for the Presidency, I do
so with no doubt in my mind as to
the vote of tho State of New York or
of the United States, but because I
believe it is a renunciation of re-elec
tion to the Presidency. To those
who think my nomination and re
election indispensable to an effectual
vindication of the right of the people
to elect their rulers, violated in my
person, I have accorded as long a
reserve of my decision as possible,
but I cannot overcome my repugnance
to enter into a new engagement which
involves four years of ceaseless toil.
The dignity of the Presidential office
is above a merely personal ambition,
but it creates in me no illusion. Its
value is as a great power for good to
the country. I said four years ago
in accepting the nomination: “Know
ing as Ido, therefore, from fresh ex
perience how great the difference is
between gliding through an official
routine and working out a reform of
systems and policies, it is impossible
for me to contemplate what needs to
be done in the Federal administra
tion, without an anxious sense of the
difficulties, of the undertaking. If
summoned by the suffrages of my
countrymen to attempt this work, I
shall endeavor with Got ’a help to be
the efficient instrument.’’ Such a
work of renovation after many years
of misrule, such a reform of systems
and policies to which I would cheer
fully have sacrified all that remained
to me of health and life, is now I fear
beyond my strength. With unfeigned
thanks for the honors bestowed upon
me, with a heart swelling with emo
tions of gratitude to the Democratic
masses for the support they have
given to the cause I represent and
their confidence in every emergency,
I remain your fellow-citizen,
[Signed] Samuel J. Tilden.
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The latest rage among young ladies
is to possess an old-fashioned spin
ning wheel for a parlor ornament.
Thu desire to possess an old-fashion
ed wash-board and tub as a kitchen
ornament doesn’t rage much among
young ladies. They are about as
handsome as the spinning wheel, but
they are not fashionable. —Norristown
Herald
Democratic Platform.
We give below the Platform adopt
ed by the National Democratic Con
vention at Cincinnati
The democrats of the United States
in convention assembled, declare—
-Ist. We pledge ourselves to the
constitutional doctrines and tradi
tions of the Democratic party as illus
trated by the teaching and example
of along line of Democratic statesmen
and patriots, and embodied in the
platform of the last National Conven
ti ?n of the party.
2nd. Opposition to centralization
and to that dangerous spirit of en
croachment which tends to consoli
date the powers of all the departments
in one, and thus to create, whatever
be the form of government, a real
despotism; no sumptuary laws, sepa
ration of church and state for the
good of each; common schools foster
ed and protected.
3d. Home rule, honest money, the
strict maintenance of the public faith,
consisting of gold and tilver, and
paper convertible into coin on de
mand; a strict maintenance of the
public faith, state and national; and
a tariff for revenue only.
4th. The subordination of the
military to the civil power and a
general and thorough reform of tho
civil service.
sth. The right to a free ballot is
the right preservative of all rights,
and must and shall be maintained in
every one of the United States.
6th. The existing administration is
the representative of a conspiracy
only, and its claim of a right to sur
round the ballot-boxes with troops
and deputy marshals, to intimidate
and obstruct elections, and the un
precedented use of the veto to main
tain its corrupt and despotic power,
insults the people and imperils their
institutions.
7th. The great fraud of 1876-77,
by which, upon a false count of the
electoral votes of two states, the can
didate defeated at the polls was de
clared to be president, and for the
first time in American history the
will of the people was set aside under
a threat of military violence, struck a
deadly blow at our system of repre
sentative government. The demo
cratic party, to preserve the country
from civil war, submitted for the
time with firm and patriotic faith,
that the people would punish this
crime in 1880. This issue precedes
and dwarfs every other. It imposes
a more sacred duty upon the people
of the union than ever addressed the
conscience of a nation of freemen.
8th 1 We execrate the course of this
administration in making the places
in the civil service a reward for politi
cal crime, and demand a reform by
statute, which shall make it forever
impossible for a defeated candidate
to bribe his way to the seat of a
usurper by billeting the villians upon
the people. [This was read again in
response to demands and was receiv
ed with applause.]
9th. Thu resolution of Samuel J.
Tilden not again to be a candidate
for the exalted place to which he was
elected by a majority of his country
men, and from which he was exclud
ed by the leaders of the republican
party, is received by the democrats
of the United States with sensibilities,
and they declare their confidence in
his wisdom, patriotism and integrity,
unshaken by the assaults of a com
mon enemy, and they further assure
him that he is followed into the retire
ment which be has chosen for himself
by the sympathies and respect of his
fellow citizens, who regard him as
one who, by elevating tho standards
of public morality and adorning and
purifying the public service, merits
the lasting gratitude of his country
and his party.
10th- Free ships and a living chance
for American commerce on tho seas;
on the land no discrimination in
favor of transportation lines corpora
tions or monopolies.
11th. Amendment of the Burlin
game treaty; no more Chinese imi
gration except for travel, education
and foreign commerce and therein
carefully guarded.
12th. Public money and public
credit are for public purposes solely
and public land for actual settlers.
13th. The democratic party is the
friend of labor and the laboring man,
and pledges itself to protect him alike
against the cormorants and the com
mune.
14th. We congratulate the country
upon the honesty and thrift of the
democratic congress, which has re
duced the public expenditure $40,-
000,000 a year; upon the continua
tion of prosperity at home and
national honor abroad, and above all,
upon the promise of such a change
in the administration of the govern
ment as shall insure us a genuine and
lasting reform in every department
of the public service.
The secret of fashion is to surprise
and never to disappoint.
Truth is the foundation of' all
knowledge, and the cement of all
societies.
He that buys what ho does not
want, will soon want what be cannot
buy.
Do Something.
The Macon Telegraph of a late date
gives this sound and sensible advice:
“There is not a more deplorable
condition in which a young man can .
be placed than that of idleness—hav-,
mg nothing to do. And there is no |
necessity for a man to be placed in s
this position, for this is a busy world, I
too busy for anyone who has the abil
ity to word’ to be idle. And yet bow
often we see boys half grown und
men congregated on the streets en
gaged in what they call “killing
time.’’ Alas! it is murder more foul
than where blood is spilt. There is
something that you can do and some
thing for you to do—something
suited to your ability. A man has
only to open his eyes and look around,
and he will discover openings to en
gage his muscle, energy and time
If a man is without work in this
pushing, driving country of ours,
there is something radically wrong.
There has been a mistake either in
training or in execution. The par
ents have sadly neglected their duty,
or there has been carelessness in the
performance of the work assigned.
There are exceptional cases, we ad
mit, where misfortune enters in and
deprives a man of his situation or
business, but nine times out of ten
these very misfortunes are the result
of inattention to business.
We have our mind on some young
men now and with whom we have
conversed recently upon this subject,
and their excuses were that they
could get nothing to do. We felt
interested and asked why. Aud up
on investigation, wo found that one
or two of the number had been re
creant to the trust confided, but in
no criminal sense. In other words,
they had been inattentive to busi
ness, and their employers’ interests
had suffered. Some others could get
certain kind of work, but it didn’t
suit their taste, therefore they pre
ferred to remain in idleness. And in
almost every case a satisfactory rea
son could be assigned why they were
idle.
During an active life of over thirty
years, we have never been involun
tarily out of employment but one
month, and that was the month suc
ceeding Gen. Wilson’s occupancy of
Macon. Our rule was to do something.
If we could not get that kind of em
ploy ment which suited, we engaged
in that which we could get, even if it
was not desirable. The next rule
was to make our employer’s interest
our interest. This is the only secret
in being in constant demand.
We have a secret that we wou’d
like to whisper to our young friends.
One of the most prosperous business
men who ever lived in Macon told us
that he knew the conduct and char
acter of ever young man of the city.
He knew exactly what salary they re
ceived and their every day habits,
and could tell when a young man
was living beyond his income. He
knew every young man who was in
the habit of getting drunk, either in
the daytime or at night. He had
the name of every young man who
visited the faro bank or billiard sa
loon.
He sought this information to pro
tect Lis own interest. There are
other merchants and business men
who have and are gathering this in
formation. Be careful, or you will
be caught before you know it. Busi
ness men have no use for employes
who visit farobanks and go “on ben
ders.”
In conclnsion, don’t stand around
with your hands in your pockets and
say you can’t got anything to do,
when the world is full of activity and
opportunities. Go to work. Do
something.
Giri oik Boys.
Boys are not like girls; they are
different. A boy likes to spin a top,
fly a kite, or ride a horse, or go a
fishing; but if you call it work, then
they won’t unless they are whipped.
I don t think it would be fun to go
fishing aud fall in the creek . and not
get out, and drown, and have your
mother say you had been in swim
ming, through I expect they can
swim as well as boys, if they know
how. A turtle can swim faster than
a boy, but a dogfish cun beat them
both. Dogfishes are not good to eat,
but a dog can bite better than a
fish.
Boys like to go with girls; when
they don’t go with them, it is be
cause they don’t want to, not because
they can’t. Boys like to kiss girls.
One kissed me once; I see lots of
girls here that would like to be kis
sed, but they must not all depend
on—well, I won’t siy now. Some
body in this town told me it was no
fun to kiss a girl when her mother
was looking. I said: “Did you over
try it?’’ He said: “Y-e-s.”
When boys get married, they gen
erally marry a girl; though I have
known some old boys who marry a
girl’s mother. I guess that was be
cause tho mother was willing and
the girl wasn t
If I hadn’t been a girl, I guess I’d
been a boy. If 1 was a boy I would
like the girls. My ma calls me a
tomboy, but tomboys don’t like the
girls. That’s all I know about boys.
A Di’camer’s Senses
If ft strong light b * held b< f ie t! e
sle< p< r's «ye» he is niiuost »ureto
awuke, Lut at Ild 'eiy luuuieut he
may have a dream of some tremen
dous tire, perhaps that his house is
in flames. The ear of the dreamer is
generally on the alert, and proves a
gong to the mysterious spiiit to inakt
its airy rounds To some sleepers
the sound of a flute tills the air with
music, or tuej dream of a deligetful
concert. A loud noise will produce
terrific thunder and crashings un
utterable, and at the same time awake
the sleeper. According to Dr. Aber
crombie a gentleman who had been
a soldier dreamed that he heard a
signal gun, saw the proceedings for
displaying the signals, heard the
bustle of the streets, the assembling
of troops, etc- Just then he was
roused by his wife who had dreamed
precisely the same dream, with the
addition that she saw the enemy land
and a friend of her husband killed;
and she awoke in a fright. This oc
curred at Edinburg at the time when
a French invasion was feared, and it
had been decided to fire a signal gun
at the first approach of the foe.
This dream was caused, it appears,
by the fall of a pair of tongs in the
room above, and the excited state of
the public mind was quite sufficient
to account for both dreams turning
on the same subject. Au old lady, a
friend of the writer, relates a similar
dream which occurred to her just
bt fore the battle of Waterloo, when
the fear of an invasion by Napoleon
was at its height. She heard the
march of troops in the street, and
the screams of the populace. They
broke into her own house, ransacked
it, and pursued her with bayonets.
She fell on the floor an 1 pretended
to be dead. After sundry thrusts,
which seemed to her “royal spirit’’ to
be quite innocuous, the soldiers re
marked that she was “done for,” and
she escaped to consciousness. This
dream was no doubt caused in the
first instance by a noise in the house
or street, and the painless bayonet
thrusts by some slight irritation,
such as a hairpin or other adjunct to
dress Whispering in a sleeper’s ear
will of r en produce a dream; and there
are cases on record in which people
who sleep with their ears open have
been led through dreadful agonies at
the will of their wakeful tormentors.
The vivid discription given of a young
officer so treated by his comrades is
both interesting and suggestive. In
changing our position, as we con
stantly do in slet p, we touch the bed
clothes, etc , perhaps the nose gets
tickled or the sole of the foot, and
dreams painful or pleasant are the
consequences. These may seem
trival causes, but it must be remem
bered that the mind is ready to fly
into the reaems of fancy at the slight
est intimation. People have often
dreamed of spending the severest
winters in Siberia, tind of joining the
expeditions to the North Pole, simply
because the bed clothes have been
thrown off during sleep. It is said
that a moderate heat applied to the
soles of the feet will generate dreams
of volcanoes, burning coal, etc. Dr.
Gregory dreamed of walking up the
crater of Mount Etna, and that he
felt the earth warm under his feet.
He bad placed a hot-water bottle at
his feet on going to bed. The memo
ry of the visit he bad paid to Mount
Vesuvius applied the mental picture.
Persons suffering from toothache im
agine that the operator is tugging at
the faulty tooth, and somehow can
not extract it; or, as in Dr* Gregory’s
case, he draws out the wrong one,
and leaves the aching tooth in statu
quo. A blister applied to the head is
highly suggestive of being scalped by
Indians, especially if Mayne Raid’s
ghastly details are at all fresh in the
memory
Naturalists assert that cabbage
grew wild in Siberia; celery origi
nated in Germany; the potato is a
native of Peru; the onion originated
in Egypt; tobacco is a native of South
America; millet was first discovered
in India; the nettle is a native of
Europe; the citron is a native of Asia;
oats originated in North Africa; rye
came from Siberia; parseley was first
discovered in Sardinir; the parsnip
is a native of Arabia; the sunflower
was brought from Peru; spinach was
first cultivated in Arabia; the horse
chestnut is a native of Thibet; the
quince came from the island of Crete;
the pear is supposed to be of Egyp
tian origin; the horse radish came
from the South of Europe.
Olive Logan, in a Paris letter to
the Cincinnati Enpuirer, says of the
French capital: “It is the most beauti
ful capital the hands of man have
ever reared. It is the wickedest city
that exists on the face of the earth. It
is a lovely place to visit, either for 'a
week or a twelvemonth. It is the
crudest spot in the world to pass a
lifetime in.
It is better to need relief than to
want heart to give it.
True happiness consists not in the
multitude of friends, but in their
worth and choice.
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NO. 30
Congratulations.
We select a few of the dispatches that have
flashed over the wires since Gen. Hancock’s
nomination to give our readers some faint
idea of the enthusiasm it has aroused.
New Yorl, Jane 24.—T0 Gen. W. S.
Hancock, Army Headquarters, Governor’s
Island: I cordially congratulate you npon
your nomination. Samuel J. Tilden.
CJolumbus, Oiiiq, June 24.—Accept my
sincere congratulations on your nomination.
Chat you will be elect d I have no doubt.
A. G.Thurman.
St. Paul, Minn., June 24, —My friend,
God be praised, the country is saved; your
election is sure.
H. H. Sibley, (ex-Gov.)
Clevklend, Ohio, June 24.—1 beg to
tender you my sincere congratulations on
you.r nomination. H. B. Payne.
Montgomery, Ala., June 24.—The young
democracy of Alabama send greetings to our
next President, and pledge a hearty and en
thusiastic support.
T. G. Foster,
Benj. Fitzpatrick.
Committee.
New Haven, Conn., June24.—New Haven
will give 3,500 majority, and Connecticut
six electoral votes. The “Elm Ctiy” is en
thusiastic for you. E. M. Graves.
New York, June 24.—A110w mp to efl'er
my cordial congratulations and Confident
predictions of your triumph in November.
Nobvin Greek.
Alexandria, Va., June 24.—Virginia con
gratulations. Great enthusiasm here over
your nomination. Virginia will do her fuli
duty. K Kemper.
Pittsbubg, Pa., June 24 Our warmest
congratulations. We go in this tight with
our whole heart, and we know that at last
success belongs to the party with you as
standard bearer.
Wm. McClelland,
<• S. A. Cosgrove,
P. N. Guthrie.
Auburn, N. Y., June 24.—Cowan’s old
battery boys send you greeting.
W. E. Webster.
Cincinnati, 0., June 24. —Gen Hancock:
Withall my soul I congratulate the Republic
rather than yourself upon your nomination.
E. John Ellis.
Reading, Pa., June 24.—Gen. Hancock:
The Hills of Bucks reverberate with one
bundled guns in honor of your victory.
Thanks to God for the triumph of the people
in November is assured.
8. E. Ancona.
Columbus, Miss , June 24.—Mississippi
is faithful to you and will do her whole
duty. Beverly Matthews.
Cincinnati, June 24.—Gen. Hancock:
Buell tells that Murat Halstead says Han
cock's nomination by Confederate Brigadiers
sets the old rebel yell to the music of the
Union. How is that for key-note of cam
paign ? It will be a solemn music for Re
publicans to face. Wm. A, Wallace.
Atchison, Kansaas, June 24.—Gen. Han
cock: The first Hancock Club organized in
the United States sends its gr« etings and
congratulations to the m xt President of the
United States.
(signed) B. H. Waggonep..
Mobile, Ala., June 24.—Gen. Hancock:
People of. Mobile are rejoiced at your nomi
nation
Thomas P. Herdon, (Mem. Congress).
Cincinnati, June 24.—Gen. Hancock:
With all my heart I congratulate you. I had
expected this result for the last twelve years.
You will be elected- D. W. Voobhees.
Cincinnati, June 24-—Gen, Hancock:
Please accept my heartiest congratulations.
Ohio is already booming for you.
Milton Sayleb.
Milwaukee, June 24.—Gen. Hancock:
Allow me to offer you my sincere congratu
lations. I may equally congratulate the
party and the country on the good fortune,
which led the Convention to the selection
it has made, and on the excellent prospect
of the ratification of its choice by the Ameri
can people. Alexander Mitchell.
San Francisco, June 24—Gen. Hancock;
Hearty congratulations, with enthusiasm
over your nomination. Californi i wheels
into line, and will give you her electoral
votes. William D. English.
Chairman Democratic State Committee.
Montgomery, Ala., June 24.—Gen. Han
cock: Alabama greets the peerless soldier
and statesman of the common country, and
when its drum beats roll call in November
she will resound with ten electoral votes
and 80,000 majority for our gallant standard
bearer.
R. W. Cobb and six others.
Portsmouth, Va., June 24.—Gen. Han
cock: We rejoice in your nomination. The
safety of the whole is assured. Reconcilia
tion and prosperity await your administra
tion. William W. Chamserlain.
St. Lguis, June 24.—Gen. Hancock: Ac
cept my heartiest congratulations on yonr
nomination. B. Gratz Brown.
Cincinnati, June 24.—Gen. Hancock:
Texas sends her warmest greetings. Sho
will give the ticket over 100,000 majoiity.
My State has long wished to pay this tribute
to the soldier who ceased fighting when the
war was over, and upheld the civil power.
We shall win. R B. Hubbard.
St. Louis, June 24.—General Winfield S.
Hancock, New York City—General: Accept
my heartiest congratulations upon your
nominations for chief magistrate of the
country, which you honor alike in devotion
to its flag and respect for its law.
Wm. R. Morrison.
Habtfoud, Conn., June 24 -Most hearty
congratulation; now for a republican Water
loo. Wm. Hamersley.
Mauch Chunck, Penn, June 24. -Han
cock’s prominence creates undoubted en
thusiasm. Nominate him and Pennsylvania
will be democratic.
E. R. Sievers, Chairman.
New Orleans, La., June 24 —Tremen
dous enthusiasm. Our candidates will
sweep the country. Salute of one hundred
guns being fired. Louisiana sends greet
ings and cougiatulatious.
Page M. Baker.
Morrisiana, N. Y., June 24.—General
Wm. F.Smith, Democratic Convention: All
honor to your noble efforts and actions in
assisting Hancock's nomination. A hun
dred guns to be fired to-night.
Jos. and Loris F. Kuntz.
Altoona, Penn., June 24.—Great enthu
siasm prevails over the result We will
carry the state. 8. M. Brophy.
Columbia, Penn., June 24. Gloriou
nomination. Thank God for it.
W. H. Grieb.