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EDITORI AL_E AG LETS.
Mrs. Hancock was formerly Miss
Elmira Russell and was reared in St.
Louis, Mo.
Henry Ward Beecher believes he
will live long enough to vote for
Grant again for president before he
• dies.
Every other paper you pick up
explains just how its town failed to
show up as many inhabitants as had
been claimed for it.
Augusta is disappointed because
the census shows her population to
be about 23,000 only, when she be
lieved it to be 30,000. In 1870 it
was 15,389.
The Washington Post says the
spectacle of Grant clubs going over
in a body to Hancock is more edify
ing than the hippodrome when it
was on the road in all the glory of
big guns, brass horns and brass
vnounted orators.
The New York Herald gives the
names of seven New York republi
cans who called on Hancock to as
sure him of their support. They
declared that, with one exception,
none of their number hac ever voted
a democratic ticket.
The number of religious establish
ments broken up under the opera
tion of the anti Jesuit decrees in
France is thirty-nine. About thirty
remain, but, being educational insti
tutions, they are allowed until the
31st of August to wind up their
affairs.
Both Ohio and Illinois claim the
third place in population among the
States. In 1870 Ohio was slightly
ahead, but Illinois has increased
more rapidly since. Each State is
claiming a population of 3,000,000
and it will require an official count
to settle the dispute.
The attorney general of New York
has rendered an opinion to the effect
that telegraph poles and wires are
taxable as real estate in the towns in
which they are situated, and are to
be assessed in the name of the com
pany owning them and not as “non
residents.”
General Hancock has a busy time
of it just now reading the congratu
latory messages that pour into him
from all quarters of the country.
They are coming at the rate of five
hundred a day from comrades in the
army, friends and public men, be
longing to both political parties.
A New Jersey mother named Mary
O’Coni or, living at Jersey City,
killed her three children on last Fri
day, by cutting their throats with a
razor. She gives as a reason for
killing them that she was sick and
unable to take care of her children,
and that by killing them they would
go to heaven. She was committed
to jail.
Some of the leading republican
papers insist that the republican na
tional committee will fail of its duty
if it does not send some of the ablest
and most stalwart of republican
speakers into the Southern States at
an early day in the canvass. If this
should be done these speakers will
soon find that it is an up-hill busi
ness.
The damage caused by the break
ing of the Sny levee on the Missis
sippi, near Hannibal, is great—fully
one-third of the area protected by
the levee, embracing an extent of
country seventy miles long and five
to twelve miles wide, is under water.
Some persons are believt d to be lost,
and the destruction of horses, hogs
and cattle is immense.
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The name of Hancock is an his
toric name. It is linked to the dec
laration of independence. From the
birth of the republic till now it has
been the representative of freedom.
It means liberty. Winfield Scott
Hancock means “liberty and union,
now and forever, one and insepara
ble. It means, also, “Let us have
peace. ’ — Cincinnati Enquirer.
—
Ihe governor of Texas has been
notified of anticipated trouble on the
Rio Grande, growing out of the con
st! notion of dams in the river, on the
American side, near Brownsville,
which the Mexican authorities com
plain of as causing damage to the
Mexican side, in consequence of the
increased current diverted to that
side of the river. The matter has
been referred to the Washington au
thorities.
Texas proposes that the Southern
States shall east their votes solid for
Hancock, and the Wilmington (Del,)
Gazette suggests that nothing could
be more reasonable, adding: “Let
the Northern States vote for him,
100. That is the way to makeup
the union. The South doesn’t ask
the North to vote for a Southern
general; they only asked that the
most honorable, able and liberable un
ion man be proposed and they would
cast their votes for him.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
Two elegant locomotives were re
cently manufactured at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, for the Paronai rail
way, in Japan.
The inaugural address at the open
ing of the Science College, at Bir
mingham, on October let, will be
delivered by Prof. Huxley.
Excavations at Pompeii are in
progress and it has been estimated
that it will require 70 years of time
and the expenditure of at least one
million of dollars to complete the
work.
A dispatch of eleven words was re
cently transmitted from London,
England, to New York City, over the
Cable telegraph line in 25 seconds.
Pretty rapid traveling that even for
lightning.
An air pump passing down to a
diving bell, at Cale Harbor, N. S.,
was struck by lightning, a few days
since. The diver who was at the
time in the bell, a considerable dis
tance down in the water, was badly
though not fatally injured by the
electric current.
An eleven year old boy named
Jacques Inandy, who can neither
read nor write, is astonishing the
people of France with his marvelous
faculty of reconing. His calculating
power is wonderful and it is said,
will rival that of Mondeaux, Buxton
or Colburn, of that class.
A submarine volcanic eruption re
cently took place and lasted about
an hour near Corsica. The sea was
tossed to and fro at a furious rate
and great volumes of sulphurious
smoke belched forth from the bow
els of the ocean presenting a grand
but frightful appearance.
Scientists who have been engaged
for some time in making observa
tions and comparing calculations
have determined the height at which
the Auroraborealis has its greatest
brilliancy to be about 38 miles. At
that height its brilliancy would be
plainly visible a distance of 600
miles. Not al! displays of the north
ern lights are of this height, how
ever, but will vary from a few thous
and feet to a hundred miles.
A singular effect in photography
has been produced by a Paris artist.
A negative is taken of a person with
both eyes open, and without moving
the position of sitter, another nega
tive is taken with both eyes closed.
Thin or transparent paper is used
and one of these is printed on each
side in such a manner that when
held before a light but one picture
can be seen. By alternately illumi
nating the two sides with a light, a
winking portrait is shown, producing
a singular spectacle.
A singular epidemic and one that
is balHing the skill of physicians, is
reported as having broken out in the
Ursaline convent, a famous Catholic
institution, in Brown county, Ohio.
The disease is that known as St.
Vitus dance. Over twenty of the
pupils and a dozen of the sisters had
been attacked at last accounts, with
this strange and unaccountable dis
ease which had grown to be an epi
demic, causing the schools to be
closed to prevent its spread. But
one fatal case has been reported.
A dilute solution of tonnic acid
is pronounced an excellent test for
organic impurities in water. The
test solution should contain five per
cent, of tannin, and five parts of it
should be added to one hundred of
the water. If the water is impure,
and contains organic matter, a pel
licle or scum will rapidly form. In
every sample of water where this
scum is formed, or where a fungoid
growth occurs soon after the addi
tion of the tannin solution, it is a
sure evidence that organic matter is
present.
Making use particularly of certain
annual death rates which have been
kept in Sweden since 1774, Dr. Ar
thur Ransome, an eminent physician
of Manchester, finds in them, “inter
nal evidence of accuracy in the char
acteristic peculiarities of the course
of each disease,’’ and holds that “they
bear ample witness to the fact of the
regular succession of epidemics in
distinct cyclical periods.” His past
predictions of epidemic cycles, of
various diseases, it is said, have sub
sequently been very generally veri
fied thus adding much strength to
his theory.
The “Gulnare,” the chosen vessel
to convey the Howgate colony to the
Arctic regions, a Clyde built steamer
of 230 tons, started on its hazardous
journey June 10th. Some forty per
sons were on the vessel, consisting
of United States officers, astrono
mers. naturalists, artists, and enlisted
men as a working party. The steam
er had recently been overhauled and
specially strengthened for the service
and was loaded with a two-years
supply of provisions, notwithstand
ing the party expects to make the
voyage in six months. The results
of this voyage will be awaited with
considerable interest.
Il an cock’s Personal Appear
ance.
Hancock, in personal appearance,
is tall, well formed and very hand
some. His height cannot be less
than six feet two inches, and weighs
fully two hundred and forty pounds.
He will make the finest looking
president who ever sat in the white
house, except, possibly, George
Washington. His form towers above
other men, and he attracts attention
by his mere looks wherever he goes.
His eyes are blue and have a benig
nant and mild expression when in
repose, but inspiring when in dan
ger. His manner is dignified and
knightly, and he is courtesy itself.
He is always magnetic, and draws
men to him by bis kindness and
gentle interest in their affairs. His
sympathies are easily aroused, and
he becomes intently concerned for
the sorrows and misfortunes of oth
ers. striving in every way to relieve
them, as though their troubles were
his own. Hancock’s kindness to his
subordinates always won not only
their love, but also their confidence,
and caused them to rely on him as a
friend as well as a commander. He
gave a man a good opinion of him
self, and made each one feel he was
of more importance than he ever
before expected. It was this which
caused him to have such power over
his officers and men in battle, and
made them prefer rather to die
than forfeit the good opinion of their
leader.
Gen. Hancock had two children—
Russell Hancock and Ada Elizabeth
Hancock. The latter died in New
York, of typhoid fever, when 18 years
of age. She was a young lady of
great promise. Russell Hancock, the
general’s only son, is living, and is a
planter in Mississippi.
MRS. HANCOCK.
Mrs. Hancock, the wife of the gen
eral, is a few years his junior in ago,
and as a woman is as imposing in
appearance as he is as a man. Tall
and well proportioned, with a most
winsome smile, a manner that puts
you at your ease at once, and a pair
of eyes that animate every line of a
handsome face, she is still a beauty,
although her hair is becoming
streaked with gray. She was mar
ried when the general was but a
young lieutenant doing duty in the
far west. It was entirely a love
match, and neither of them have since
regretted it—in fact, their home is
one of the happiest imaginable.
Airs. Hancock has always been op
posed to her husbands becoming a
candidate for the presidency, and
she is even above the weakness of
wishing to be the mistress of the
white house. She dreads the worry
of the canvass, and if her husband is
elected, she thinks that the honor
which the position brings, will be
dearly purchased by the renuncia
tion of all domestic life for four years
to come, and of his position as senior
major-general and his chances of
soon becoming chief of the army.
While she prefers her own home ex
istence, however, there is no one bet
ter qualified to play the hostess on a
grand scale than she. A society
belle, even after her marriage, she
has all the self-con findence and re
sources needed to entertain the most
varied company. There is nothing
in the range of conversation about
which she does now know something.
Her greatest charm, however, is—
and it is the general’s also—the art
of making every individual atom feel
as if he were the one sole object of
her attentions.
President Johnson’s Special!
Message to Congress.
Gentlemen of the Senate and of the
House of Representatives:
“An official copy of the order is
sued by Major General Windfield S.
Hancock, commander of the Fifth
Military District, dated headquarters
in New Orleans, La., on the 29th day
of November, has reached me through
the regular channels of the War De
partment,, and I herewith communi
cate it to Congress for such action as
may seem to be proper in view of all
the circumstances.
“It will be perceived that Gen.
Hancock announces that he will
make the law the rule of hisconduct;
that he will uphold the courts and
other civil authorities in the perform
ance of their proper duties, and that
he will use his military power only to
preserve the peace and enforce the
law. He declares very explicitly
that the sacred right of the trial by
jury and the privilege of the writ of
habeas corpus shall not be crushed out.
or trodden under foot. He goes
further, and in one comprehensive
sentence asserts that the principles
of American liberty are still the in
heritance of this people and ever
should be.
“When a great soldier, with unre
stricted power in his hands to op
press his fellow men, voluntarily
foregoes his chance of gratifying his
selfish ambition and devotes himself
to the duty of building up the liber
ties and strenghening the laws of his l
country, he presents an example of
the highest public virture that hu-
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 9, 1880.
man nature is capable of practicing
The strongest, claim of Washington
to be ‘first in war, first in peace, and
first in the hearts of his countrymen,’
is founded on the great fact that in
all his illustrious career he scrupu
lously abstained from violating the
legal and constitutional rights of his
fellow citizens. When he surrender
ed his commission to Congress, the
President of that body spoke his
highest praise in saying that he had
‘always regarded the rights of the
civil authorities through all dangers
and disasters.’ Whenever power
above the law courted hie acceptance,
he calmly put the temper aside. By
such magnanimous acts of forbear
ance. he won the universal admira
tion of mankind and left a name
which has no rival in the history of
the world.
“I am far from saying that General
Hancock is the only officer of the
American army who is influenced by
the example of Washington. Doubt
less thousands of them are faithfully
devoted to the principles for which
the men of the revolution laid down
their lives. But the distinguished
honor belongs to him of being the
first officer in high command south
of the Potomac since the close of the
civil war, who has given utterance to
these noble sentiments in the form of
a military order.
I respectfully suggest to Congress
that tome public recognition of Gen.
Hancock’s patriotic conduct is due, if
not to him, to the friends of law and
justice throughout the country. Os
such an act as his, at such a time, it
is but fit that the dignity should be
vindicated and the virtue proclaimed,
so that its value as an example may
not be lost to the nation.
Andrew Johnson.
‘‘Washington, D. C, Dec. 18, 1867.”
Striking Below the Belt.
Slander and calumny are of all
others ths greatest and most dastar
dly sins against society. Under
their baleful influence no man’s rep
utation is sate. The Savior had one
traitor and maligner even among his
chosen twelve apostles. The loveli
est exemplars of religion in the pul
pit are shamefully traduced. The
merchant “on change,’’ it matters not
how upright he may be, has to sub
mit to the malicious whispers of those
who wish him ill. The ermine of the
judge is no protection to the shafts
of the disappointed litigant. The
statesman who has labored long and
faithfully for his country is often
wrongfully denounced and assaulted.
The editor who seeks to do his duty
by exposing fraud and stands up
bravely for the right, is often made
the victim of base innuendoes and
ungenerous flings, even from men of
his own profession who dare not at
tack him openly. The student at
college and the miss in her semina
ry, too, if straightforward and atten
tive to their duties, often come undei
the ban of envious associates. Even
the private citizen, however worthy,
if he possesses anything positive in
his character, will have enemies, and
some of these are bound to slander
him
All men in this wicked world must
expect to be thus dealt with. But
what recourse is there under such
circumstances? We answer, if the
slanders are tangible and can be
traced directly home, at all hazards,
refute and expose them if their au
thors are worthy of notice. If they
are covert lies that are simply
breathed out behind your back, per
haps, by seeming friends, who thus
wield the blade of Joab to your hurt,
quietly Ziue them down.
Any man w.th a clear conscience
can afford to do this, and the reme
dy, though slow, is nevertheless cer
tain. Conscious rectitude will make
even the timid brave and serene,
even though the victims of the vilest
detraction.
The Germans for Hancock.
It was supposed by some that the
nomination of Gen. Hancock would
meet with the disapproval of the Ger
mans, on account of their opposition,
to military men holding power and
administering government. The Ger
mans, however, appear to view the
military career of Gen. Hancock as a
small matter when compared to his
splendid record in upholding of the
civil power as superior to military
rule, and they will give to him a cor
dial generous support.
At a meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the German-American In
dependent Association of New York
city, held at their rooms Saturday
last, resolutions were adopted, in
which it was asserted that the past
history of Garfield and Arthur, the
nominees of the Republicans, was no
guarantee of a pure administration
in case of elections, but that the un
blemished character and indisputable
integrity of Hancock and English are
guarantees of an honest and efficient
administration under their leader
ship, and that in consequence, they
delight in their nomination, and will
organize themselves into district
campaign clubs, so that the* cause of
honest govern met may be triumphant
next November.
Getting Bid of Him.
In Febuary, 1868, it was determin
ed by the violent partisans surround
ing President Johnson at Washing
ton, to get rid of Gen, Hancock, then
in command of the Department of
the Gulf. His prudent and cousti
tutional administration in Louisiana
and Texas was deemed an obstacle
in the way of the Gongre sionai plat
of reconstruction, which contem
plated the complete suppression of
the civil authorities of those States,
and the substitution of military com
missions. General Garfield, the
Chairman of the Military Committee
in the House of Representatives, in
troduced a bill to reduce the number
of Major-Generals in the army, with
the avowed object of getting rid of
Hancock, and thus punish him for
his steadfast subordination of the
military to the civil jurisdiction.
This bill, however, was never pressed
to its passage, being deemed by
those friendly to its object as too
likely to excite a popular demonstra
tion in favor of the persecuted iudi
viduat. A safer method was adopt
ed. General Grant, having been in
vested by Congress with extraordina
ry powers, so as to be no longer re
sponsible to the President, his con
stitutional Commander-in-Chief, was
induced to interfere in such manner
with General Hancock’s official action
as to humilate him before the people
he was sent to govern. This natur
ally soon led to General Hancock’s
application to be relieved of his com
mand.
With the lapse of time, however,
which has demolished the dynasties
of force, we see established “the de
cisions of nature” and of law. The
civil government of Louisiana, de
fended by Hancock in ‘IB6B, was lib
erated in 1877, nine years after, and
the military chieftain who propped
up the bayonets of this last usurpa
tion, has been remanded to private
life by his own party, which consid
ered his election to a third term un
wise and inexpedient. An humbler
instrument of the government of
force has been placed over him in
the nomination of the Republican
party, and to day we see Garfield,
the blind partisan who, in 1868, at
tempted, in an underhanded way, to
get rid of the Commander of the
Gulf, confronted face to face by that
soldier statesman—Winfield S.
Hancock. How will Garfield get rid
of him now? Without a blemish up
on his reputation—civil or military—
without a single indiscretion resul
ting from party zeal or personal
weakness, Hancock does not present
one vulnerable weak point to his pol
itical antagonist. Then Garfield was
favored by a vacillating President
and a scheming Administration ; now
Hancock is sustained by the people
whose authority is unimpeachable,
and whose will is the law of the land.
K imln ess.
He who along the pathway of life,
sows tares can never reap the golden
grain of true content. A selfish soul
like the owl prefers the darkness to
the day—for in the gloom the mean
er passions can revel. A kindly
nature is in sympathy with the sun
and like the lark sings the sweetest
the higher it soars. Kindness and
goodness are rarely seen dissociated,
but like twin sisters grow together
side by side. True manhood is crown
ed with kindness; true nobility is
stamped with charity. A mean man
is suspicious, crafty, unkind, cruel.
He lives in a realm where wasps
sting and adders hiss. His breast is
never stirred by a generous impulse;
his heart never thrilled by a kindly
emotion. He forms friendships to
secure selfish ends and uses whatever
power he possesses to accumulate
gain at the expense of others. A
selfish man can be all things to all
men if it will promote personal ad
vantage. He can weep with the suf
fering, smile with the gay, be decorous
to the moral and blatent in all
measures of reform if he is to be bene
fited thereby. He livies tribute at
every opportunity and takes toll
from every friend. Such men are
never happy; it is impossible that
they should be. Their great self
esteem craves honors they will never
wear, and homage they will never re
ceive. They are not the favorites in
the social circle, and in business they
are shunned and hated. In the great
law of recompense that runs through
this state of beings the measure they
meted out to others of suspicion, dis
trust and uncharitableness is meted
out to them, and they ever fail to se
cure the confidence, support and
sympathy of warm and true friends.
Kindness on the other hand begets
sympathy, love, friendship, happi
ness. It is the golden chain in the
web of life and gleams the brightest
where shadows darken and glooms
invade. To dry the tear of sorrow,
to still the throb of pain, to throw
sunshine into darkened homes, this
is the office and work of kindness.
The noblest deeds are done through
the ministry of charity, a human
soul that lifts up the fallen, comforts
the weary and gives consolation to
the despairing, wears a coronation
grander than kings. The sweetest
joy the heart can feel is the consbious
ness of having done good to others,
and the monuments that kindness
builds in the lives of the suffering
never decay. Man approaches the
devine as he becomes generous and
kind; he descends to the base and
cruel as he becomes mean and selfish.
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Thurman’s Patriotic Speech-A
Splendid Tribute to llaucock.
Senator Thurman spoke at Colum
bus, Ohio, on the 25th ult, as fol
lows:
I want to speak as plainly as lean,
for you know that I am not given to
rhetorical speaking. I leave that to
younger men—to men who have
more fancy than I have. I want to
speak to you plainly and tell you why
Winfield Scott Hancock should be
elected president of the United States,
and Mr. English, of Indiana, should
be elected vice-president. First, who
is Winfield Scott Hancock ? There
is not a man in this audience, there
is not a boy in this audience, who
does not know that Winfield Scott
Hancock was one of the brighest, the
ablest and most daring and brave of
all the soldiers that went to the war
to maintain the union- [Applause.]
No man who ever commanded an
army ever displayed more courage,
more heroism, and ever displayed
more skill than Hancock displayed,
from the time he went into the war
until it was closed in triumph. Every
body knew that, but, my friends,
there is one thing that everybody
does not know. Hancock has been
in the army all his life, and therefore
you might not at once suspe.t what
is literally the truth, that Hancock is
not only a soldier, but a constitutional
lawyer and a good American states
man. [Cheers.] I call him an Amer
ican statesman, I call him a constitu
tional lawyer, and I have warrant for
for what I say. For when, after the
rebellion, he was placed as military
governor over Louisiana and Texas,
before were admitted to repre
sentation in congress and to exercise
their rights as states, he showed in
great contrast to what some other
military governors showed. He show
ed he knew there was such a thing as
the constitution of the United States;
that he knew there was such a thing
as a free republic; that he knew that
the true doctrine, the essential doc
trine, the vital doctrine of every free
republic and every ree government
is that the military must be subordi
nate to the civil power; that trial by
jury was the right of all American
citizens. [Applause.] Equal justice
in the courts is the right of the Amer
ican citizen. Freedom from unlaw
ful arrest is the right of an American
citizen. That is what makes him the
idol of the people of Louisiana and
Texas. That is what made Louis
iana the first state to nominate him
months ago in her state convention.
,When 1 say that General Hancock is
a statesman, I speak but the truth.
A Burial at Sea.
Ou the third day out, that saddest
of ail sad scenes occurred—a burial
at sea. The death of this poor young
girl who had shipped in the steerage
to go home to her friends in Ireland,
there to die of the fatal disease which
had long since made her its victim,
was only a link which binds us closer
to that other life which is always just
beyond. She had had every care and
attention from the ship’s srrgeon, the
stewards and her fellow-passengers,
as the awe-stricken women told me,
when I made my way down into the
steerage that bleak cold morning
The hours that the small coffin lay on
the forward deck shrouded in the
flag of her native land, were heavy
ones, and the occasional thoughtless
laughter and clatter of thecabin pas
sengers who were well enough to in
dulge therein, jarred and grated on
the nerves of those who could not
forget. But at 2 o’clock in the after
noon, the bell tolled slowly, the pas
sengers gathered from all parts of
our little floating world, the sweetly
solemn service was read by a clergy
man, and the light burden was slowly
lowered into the deep dark water. It
was sad, but it was not dreadful.
Many of the most painful features of
a death on land are wanting from a
death at sea. The slow, deliberate,
cold-blooded tortures of our modern
funerals are absent- Ail that respect
and affection for the dead can suggest
is Jouc, and all the terrible rest is left
un done.
A drag, driven by an elegantly at
tired lady, with a trim and neatly
dressed colored boy perched on the
footman’s seat behind, was passing
through the street, when it was es
pied by an old negro-woman. “Bress
de Lord!” she exclaimed, raising
her hands as she spoke. “Bress de
Lord I I never ’spected to see dat.
Wonder what dat young cullud gem
man pays dat young white ’oman for
driving dat kerridge ? I know’d it’d
come, but never ’spected to lib to see
it. Dis nigga’s ready to go ’way
now,’’
A French . traveller, who has just
co npleted a trip around the world,
says t bat the Americans are the most
serious people he encountered.
Hancock's Oratorical Advocate
When the call of Pei usGvs.nia was
m ide in the convention on Wednes
d -y, it was responded to by Dun
Dougherty, a well known lawyer of
Philadelphia, on his own account.
He is a born orator and a finished
rhetorician, ana worked up to the
name of Winfield feeoft Hancock with
consummate SK P, making the firt-t
genuine sensation of the session. M:.
Dougherty said:
“f rise to nominate one whose
name would reconcile all factions,
whose election would crush the last
embers of sectional strife and be
hailed as the dawning of the day of
perpetual brotherhood. With him
we can fling away our shields and
wage an aggressive war. We can
appeal to the supreme tribunal of the
American people against the corrup
tion of the Republican party and
their untold violations of constitu
tional liberty. With him as our chief
tain the bloody banner of the Repub
licans will fall from their palsied
grasp. Oh, my countrymen, in this
supreme moment, when the destinies
of the republic are at stake, when the
liberties of the people are imperiled,
I rise to present to the thoughtful
consideration of this convention the
name of one who, on the field of
battle, was styled the superb, yet who
has won a nobler renown as the mili
tary Governor, whose first act on as
suming command of Louisiana and
Texas was to salute the Constitution
by proclaiming amid the joyous
greeting of an oppressed people, that
the military save in actual war, shall
be subservient to the civil power
The plighted word of the soldier was
proved in the statesman’s acts. I
name him whose name will suppress
every faction, is alike acceptable to
the North and South, and will thrill
the land from end to end. The peo
ple hang breathless on your delibera
tion. Take heed! Make no misstep !
I nominate one who can carry every
Southern Slate and who can carry
Pennsylvania, Indiana, Connecticut,
New Jersey and New York—the
soldier statesman with a record as
stainless as his sword—Winfield
Scott Hancock, of Pennsylvania If
elected he will take bis seat - ” [That
is, the people will put the man in
that they elect. ]
For the next five minutes after
that telling sentence it was “Han
cock,” “Hancock,” “Hancock,’’ with
a series of yells that nearly raised
the roof from every head in the
place.
The American Girl.
The defects of the American girl
may be done away with by giving
less prominence to the purely intel
lectual or purely practical side of her
education. For while one class of
men is striving to solve the problems
of life by educating women intellect
ually, there is another class which is
shouting for education in domestic
matters. While the professors at
Harvard are rejoicing over some girl
who can take in their philosophies
or their mathematics, the newspaper
editor sings the praises of her who
can roast a turkey, bake bread or
make her own dresses. Neither,
gives the poor girl any chance to ex
ist, but only to work, with either
hand or brain. No one says to hers
‘ ‘You are not only yourself, but pos
sibly the future mother of other
beings. Do not therefore allow
yourself to be driven by either school
of apostles beyond what you may do
easily, comfortably, or pleasurably.
The healthy balance of your nervous
system is far more important to you
and your future family relations than
all the mathematics or dressmaking,
or even roasting of turkeys. Occupy
yourself steadfastly, but without
strain, without hurry, and without
emulation. As the apostle said (and
it must have been meant expressly,
for Americans,) ‘avoid emulation.’
Find out first what you can do best,
and even if it does not come up to
somebody else’s standard, learn to
content yourself with that. ’
A Dead Give Away.
She stood in the effulgent light of
a short tallow dip, waiting for him at
the front door la.m. He came. He
was husky. She didn’t mind that
He was drunk—she was used to it.
“Jim,” she said softly, knocking him
down so as to drag him up to bed
easier; “Jim, did you vote?” “Yeah,
dear.” “You’ve been along time.”
Yesh, love, poll didn’t close till jest
now. ” “Where’s the money?” “ What?’’
“The money’” “My I don’t
understand.” “Didn’t they pay you
for your vote?” “No.” She looked
at him playfully, with a boa constric
tor tickle in her eye. “It’s time
women had the franchise,” she mut
tered; “the men ain’t up to it.’ Then
she rolled him under the bed to be
out of the way, and in the morning
she got him into an asylum under the
new Punch and Judycature act. “He
gave his vote for nothing,” she said to
the Magistrate. “Dangerous luna
tic,” wrote his worship, and at the
next election’there was a voter short.
, The Queen of Italy lately made a
night excursion up Mount Vesuvius
by the new railway, to witness the
volcano illumined by electric light.
A.d vertl«ing Bates.
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NO. 31
SMALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together.
Sparking across a garden fence ad
mits of a good deal being said on
both sides.
Miss Sydney Paul Gill, author of
the hymu “I Want to be un Angel,”
ditd at Ji. N. J., lut-t wttk.
A Grant xupublicau club of sixty
five in Chicago, Lus adopted rctolu
lioLs pledging its support to Hancock
and English.
A St. Paul negro fell off a building
thirty feet to the pavement, striking
squarely on his head. He was all
right in a day or two.
Gai field was once a Cambellite
Baptist minister and Arthur is the
son of a Baptist minister. Method
ism in republican politics has receiv
ed a set back.
The man who is curious to see how
the world could get along without
him can find out by sticking a cam
brio needle into a mill pond and then
withdrawing it and looking at the
hole.
The Japanese students of Harvard
are very popular both in college and
in Boston society. Their facility in
assimilating themselves to the habits
and customs of a new country is
much commented on.
The most remarkable valentine is
fifty-five years old. Tnere is more
read and written about it now than
ever known. It is the Democratic
valentine, named Hancock, born Feb
ruary 14, 1824.
The latest from Washington is that
the chairmanship of the National Re
publican committee goes a begging.
It has been offered to Don Cameron,
\yiiliam E Chandler, Tom Platt and
by all of them refused.
A circus manager in tae West is
suspected of being in collusion with
the swindling gamblers who follow
his show, and at Decorah, lowa,he re
stored $2,200 to a gulled farmer rath
er than give bail to appear for trial.
Mrs. Katherine Kahley, a bride of
17, ended her honeymoon journey
very sorrowfully at Cincinnati, where
her husband stole her fortune of $2,-
500, for which he had married her in
Geimany, and absconded. He even
took away most of her trousseau.
A gang of men relaying the track
of the Illinois Central road in lowa,
pulled up a thousand feet of the old
rails, and then struck for higher
wages. They hai the company tem
porarily at ttuir mercy, and their de
mand was conceded.
The census enumerators count the
population of New York at one and a
half millions, Brooklyn between six
and seven hundred thousand, and
New York and its surrounding towns,
including Brooklyn, at about two and
a half millions.
A man in Chicago makes a living
as a searcher for lost things. He
goes to places of public resort, such
as parks whore free concerts have
been given, before daylight every
morning, looking for accidentally
dropped articles.
An undertaker at Grand Rapids,
Mich., who was directed by the
Superintendent of the Poor to give
deceased pauper burial, sold the r
mains to a doctor, and, going throe
a mock funeral ceremony, receive
addition the usual sum from
county.
The records of Dublin show that
the crimes in that city are ten times
as many as those of Belfast and Cork
combined. The last statistics proved
that there were less than 7,000 in
dictable offences committed in all
Ireland, and of that number more
than 3,500 were set down to the ac
count of Dublin.
The Sahara Railroad Cotrrmission
lately held a meeting in Paris, to hear
their agents report on their explora
tions. These gentlemen advocate a
telegraph line as a preparatory step
and M. de Lesseps supported this
move. The Parliamentary grant o
last year is exhausted, and $120,00C
will be asked for.
“Power may destroy the forms I
but not the principles of justice; tbesß
will live in spile of the sword.’’ Thiß
aphorism of Hancock would havß
done honor to the immortal WasM
iugton There is not the slighter®
squint toward imperialism in tl®
democratic soldier statesman. H
A stainless private life, un unblenß
isued public career and a brilliai®
military record are among Gen. Ha.H
cock’s claims to the confidence ol
people. His political views are wtM
defined, without being violently par
san; and his most earnest supported
will be the men who know him be:M
An aged colored man, hastenißl
heme from church, was asked
he was in such a hurry. “Oh, no|H
in pertickler, boss,” was bis
“on I jess heerd at Conference
Sam Johnson’s fell from grace, auH|
thought I’d get right homt ’s
could an’ lock my chickens up. D-BH
all.” M
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