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EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
This seems to be a prosperous
year for watering-places generally.
All the indications point to a vig
f orous canvass in all the doubtful
States.
And now the democrats claim that
Michigan can be carried if the proper
effort be made.
From thirty to fifty concerts are
daily given in London during the
summer season.
* Secretary Sherman tells a newspa
per reporter that he himself was
by hia friends at Chi
cago.
r Gen. Sherman denies the hob
gobling story about Gen. Hancock
writing him a revolutionary letter in
1876.
On account of bad health Dr, H.
H. Carlton has retired from the Ath
ene Banner, and is aucceeded by Dr.
E. D. Newton.
The leading republican journals
are trying to keep up the courage of
their readers by .assuring them that
the Hancock boom will die out after
a while.
Col. John W. Forney, the con
verted republican, called on General
Hancock n few days ago. Mr. For-
sees the way perfectly clear to
the general election.
Senator Barnum,who managed the
canvass for Mr. Tilden in 1876, is
retained as chairman of the national
executive committee. Mr. Barnum
is an untiring worker, is quite
wealthy and withal is the right man
in the right place.
Its funny to notice how some of
the so-called independents are trying
•Ao blarney ex-Gov. Brown. First,
they coax, then flatter, and at last
propose to make a child’s bargain
with him. “You let us alone and
we’ll let you alone.’’
James A. Garfield is one of the
eight members of the electoral com
mission who conspired together to
cheat Samuel J. Tilden out of the
presidency, to which ho had teen
legally chosen. People who believe
- in honest elections will now have an
_ opportunity to deal with Garfield for
this crime.
-♦ ♦—
The executive committee of the
Lynchburg (Va.) Agricultural So- \
ciety has extended an invitation to i
General Hancock to attend the exhi- s
bition of that society, to take place t
mi October next, and the municipal i
authorities have invited the General I
to accept the hospitalities of Lynch- (
burg on that occasion. j
The democrats and greenbackers
of Maine have formed an allegiance, '
the conditions of which are, if the '
combination carries the State at the 1
next election, the greenbackers are
to have the governor and four of the
seven electoral votes, and the demo
crats, the United States senator to
succeed Hamlin, and the other three
electoral votes.
—♦ +
Mr. Speer promised to tear the
internal laws into shreds when he
got to congress, and yet every reve
nue officer in the district was his
ardent supporter, That these offi
cials should have aided in electing a
man who was to bring their occupa
tion to an end, was singular to say
the least. This may explain the
absence of the brass band statesman
at the time the question came up.
The republicans are not hopeful of
electing Mr. Garfield, but they pro
pose to put forth all their energies
to secure the house of representa
' fives and to control State legislatures '
so as to reduce if not destroy the i
democratic majority in the senate.
It is of the highest importance there
fore that none but the true and tried
should be elected to congress. Let '
the people see to it that all doubtful
material be rejected.
I
Until the nomination of Gen. Han- 1
cock, says the Savannah News, the 1
republican managers were so confi
dent of a “solid north” that they '
proposed to pay no attention what- '
ever to the Southern States. But 1
now, with New York, New Jersey, 1
C onnecticut, Pennsylvania and In- '
diana firmly located’ in the Hancock
column, and such States as Maine,
Illinois, California and Oregon al’
most assuredly lost to the republican
ticket, the managers see the necessi
ty of a change of campaign plans.
They propose to canvass the South
ern States, their alleged plan being
to form coalitions with “independent
democrats” wherever that remarka
bly feeble element now exists, and
to solidify the colored vote if possi
ble. They profess to be able at the
least, to gain a few seats in the house.
The movement, whether actually in
the Garfield interest or an attempt
to capture the house, demonstrates
the hopeless condition of the repub
lican campaign.
The Gainesville Eagle
: vol. xiv.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
i As president of the London Geo
graphical Society, it is understood
that Lord Aberdare will succeed the
I Earl of Northbrook.
An important discovery of an ex
ceedingly rich bank of corals has
■ just been made some twelve miles
south of Sciacca, on the coast of
Sicily.
> A rich gold mine was recently dis-
> covered near Sydney, New South
Wales. A large and costly diamond
was also found in one of the mines
of that region.
A shower of meteoric dust con
taining fragments of metalic iron
together with organic particles, visi
ted Cantania, Sicily, recently to the
amazement and astonishment of the
inhabitants of that region.
The "zoogyroscope” is a newly in
vented instrument for taking instan
taneous photographs of moving ob
jects, and has been found to be
valuable in showing the various po
sitions of running horses, athletes,
etc.
A gentleman in Paris has invented
a telephone which he calls an electro
phone and which works “With an in
duction coil. The induction current
is sent from a long distance and the
hearing is said to be very satisfac
tory.
Workers in iron at Titusville, Pa.,
have learned by experience that a
barrel of petroleum will generate
heat sufficient for making a ton of
iron, while it would require a ton
and a quarter of coal to produce the
same result.
The young shoots on most of the
vines in the vineyards along the
banks of the Rhine and its tributa
taries, were killed by frost on the
night of May 18th and 19th last, and
in consequence of which the grape
crop in that country is pronounced a
failure.
Two of the trustees of the State of
Vermont University have offered
$l5O in prizes to boys not over sev
enteen years of age for the best crops
of potatoes and corn on one-eighth
of an acre. A similar practice in
other of our States would doubtless
prove of much benefit to our agricul
tural interests.
Dr. Calantariants, of Scarborough,
England, has invented a crystaline
substance to bo used as a substitute ;
for ice in skating rinks. Tho mixt- ;
uro consists mainly of carbonate and
sulphate of soda, which when laid as
a floor by his plan, can be skated on
with ordinary ice-skates, and a wri
ter states that by moonlight it has
all tho appearance and effect of real
ice.
A new fiber plant has been discov
ered in Mexico, a species of cactus,
commonly called “pita,” which promi
ses to add materially to the re
sources of that country. The fibres
are strong and silky, many of them
being fully sixteen feet in length.
Handkerchiefs recently made from
this fiber, were strong and extremely
beautiful, appearing more like silver
tissue than like linen. Millions of
acres of this plant are said to be
growing wild in that country.
Dr. J. H. Girdner, of New York,
has obtained some wonderful results
in skin grafting during the past few
months. In the treatment of a large
ulcer recently, he cut a piece of skin
from a man who had been dead a
few hours, laid it on the granulated
surface of the ulcer and bandaged
the leg up firmly. In three days the
graft began to show signs of life, a
perfect union having taken place and
in a week a splendid skin, smooth
and elastic, had grown over the ul
cerated part, making a complete cure
and leaving no scar behind
A new use of electricity as a mo
tive power is suggested in the paving
of streets with iron and in such a
manner as to form a continual elec
trical conductor, the same to be
charged with electricity by powerful
stationary steam engines and dyna
mo machines. It is claimed that
wagons, carriages, fire-engines and
other vehicles provided with electri
cal driving wheels, could be run over
a pavement of this kind in any de
sired direction and with more ease
and safety than by the present sys
tem of horse locomotion. What
next ?
The indestructability of matter
may be readily demonstrated by pre
paring two glass tubes of equal
weight ns follows: Fill both with
oxygen, containing a few particles of
carbon free from ash—that prepared
from the fine loaf sugar gives the
best results. Hermetically seal the
tubes, then heat one of them until
the charcoal is caused to burn and
ultimately disappear. By weighing
both tubes at this stage of the ex
periment, they will exactly balance
each other, and the one in which the
matter had been burned up will bei
found to have lost nothing in weight |
by the destruction of its contents. I
His New Hat.
Probably the meanest trick that was
ever played on a white man was play
ed last week in this city, and the fact
that there is no vigilance committee
here is the only reason the perpetra
tors of the trick are alive. A business
man bad purchased a new silk hat,
and he went into a saloon with half a
1 dozen friends to fit the hat on his head
They all took beer and passed the
hat round so all could see it. One of
the meanest men that ever held a
country office went to the bar-tender
and had a thin slice of Limberger
cheese cut off, and when the party
were looking at the frescoed ceiling
through the beer glasses the wicked
person slipped the cheese under the
sweat leather of the hat, and the man
put it on and walked out. The man
who owned the hat is one of our nerv
ous people, who is always complain
ing of being sick and who feels as
though some dreadful disease was go
ing to take possession of him and
carry him off'. He went back to his
place of business, took off his hat and
laid it on the table and proceeded to
answer some letters. He thought he
detected a smell, and when his part
ner asked him if he didn’t feel sick,
he said he believed he did. A clerk
said it was evident somebody’s feet
needed washing. The man turned
pale and said he guessed ho would go
home. He met a man on the side
walk who said the air was full of
miasma, and in the street car a man
who sat next to him moved away to
the end of the car and asked him if
he had just come from Chicago. The
man with the hat said that ho had
not, when the stranger said they were
havihg a great deal of small-pox
there and he guessed he would get
out and walk, and he pulled the bell
and jumped off. The cold perspira
tion broke out on the forehead of the
man with the new hat, and he took it
off to wipe his forehead, when the
whole piece of cheese seemed to roll
over and .breathe, and the man got
the full benefit of it and came near
fainting away. He got home, and
his wife met him and asked what was
the matter. He said ho believed
mortification had sot in, and she took
one whiff, as he took off his hat, and
aaid that she should think it had.
She got his clothes off, soaked his
feet in mustard water and he slept.
The hat was lying on the centre table,
and the children would come in and
get a smell of it and look at each
other with reproachful glances, and,
go out and play. The man slept,
and dreamed that a small-pox flag
was hung in front of his house, and
that he was riding in a butcher wagon
to the pest house. The woman sent
for a doctor, and when the man of
pills arrived she told him all about
the case. The doctor picked up the
patient’s new hat, tried it on, and got
a sniff He said the hat was picked
before it was ripe. The doctor and
the wife held a post mortem exami
nation of the hat, and found the slice
of Limbnrger. “Few and short
were the prayers they said.” They
woke the patient and, to prepare his
mind for the revelation that was
about to be made, the doctor asked
him if his worldly affairs were arrang
ed in a satisfactory condition. He
gasped and said they were. The doc
tor asked him if he had made his
will. He said that he had not, but
he wanted a lawyer sent for at once.
The doctor had asked him if he felt
as though he was prepared to shuffle
off. The man said he had always
tried to be done by tho same as he
would do it himself, but that he might
have made a mistake some way, and
that he would like to have a minister
sent for to take account of stock.
Then the doctor brought to the
bedside the hat, opened up the sweat
leather, and showed the dying man
what it was that smelled, and told
him that he was as well as any man
in the city The patient pinched
himself to see if he was alive, and
jumped out of bed and called for his
revolver, and the doctor couldn’t keep
up with him on the way down town.
The last we saw of the odoriferous
citizen he was trying to bribe the
bar-tender to tell him which one of
those pelicans it was that put that
slice of cheese in his hat-lining.—
Little Rock {Ark.} Gazette.
♦
Russian Funeral Customs.
A despatch from St. Petersburg,
dated June 11 and published in the
London Standard, said, in speaking
of the death of the empress;
This being the ninth day since the
decease of the empress, a solemn ser
vice was again celebrated in the
Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, in
the presence of the Emperor, the im
perial family and tbe foreign diplo
matists. It is a tenet of the Ortho
dox church that the soul is not final
ly divorced from the body after death
for forty days—the term of Christ’s
sojourn upon earth after his resurrec
tion; a service for the dead is there
fore repeated on the ninth, twentieth
and fortieth days, The latter, how
ever. by no means puts an end to
the prayers for tho departed, as the
Russians believe in the perfectibility
iof the human soul in a future state,
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1880
-without admitting the Roman idea
of purgatory.
The Rev. N. Bjerring, priest of the
Russian chapel in Second avenue,
near Fiftieth street, New York, was
asked by a reported what special
services had been held in New York.
He replied that in the services which
had been held by him since the death
of the empress, on the 2d inst, he
had remembered her in the prayers
of the mass. As services are held on
ly on Sundays and holydays in the
chapel, prayers for the dead empress
had been said only on Sundays.
NO SPECIAL PRAYERS
beyond those laid down in the ritual
.for use m the case of any member of
the church are used.
Father Bjerring was then asked,
“Is it a tenet of the oriental church
that the soul and body remain in
company for forty days after death?”
“No, ’’ he replied; “it is not a doc
trine; call it, rather, a pious belief
come down from old time. It is not
taught, of course, by any doctrine of
the church, for it could not be found
ed on any rational belief. It is a
tradition to some extent among old
followers of the oriental church who
love to symbolize in that way the ex
istence of Christ between the resur
rection and the ascension. I think
even this belief is dying out, except
among a few of the more devout
members of the church.’’
“How did thejbelief originate?”
“I cannot say.”
“Are particular days selected for
prayers for the dead ?’ ’
“Where there is a special attention
to ceremonial those days are marked;
but prayers may be said on any day,
either in the regular service or at
special services. Roman Catholics
will understand this. I have no
doubt that prayers will be said for
tb.e dead empress in some churches
on every day during this gent ration.
It is perfectly proper, according to
the doctrine of the church, and such
a course might be followed for any
member of the church who bad died
penitent.”
“What is the truth in regard to the
belief mentioned in the despatch as to
the perfectibility cf
THE HUMAN SOUL IN A FUTURE STATE;?
“We have such a belief. We do
not call that intermediate state pur
gatory, however. We believe the
soul must remain for a time in dark •
ness until it is cleansed, before pass
ing into the presence of its God.
We do not hold, as Protestants do,
that the soul ascends at once into
the presence of the Maker, but we
hold to the intermediate stage where
all souls are purified. It is very rare
that the orthodox Christian in Russia
dies without receiving the last sacra
ments, and most remarkable is the
manner in which people of that nation
prepare themselves for death. If any
one is dangerously ill, and expects to
die, he is cleanly attired and removed
upon his bed into the corner where
the holy pictures usually are hang
ing. Here h i waits the arrival of the
priest to receive the holy communion.
Many desire, struggling with death,
the last unction, which, however, by
no means must bo the last one, for
according to the meaning as also the
purpose of the sacrament, this unc
tion is to serve as a means of restor
ing io health. He who is anointed
with the holy oil is regarded as whol
ly prepared for death’ For this
reason when he is dead the clothing
even in which he is anointed is not
changed. The corpse of a dead Chris
tian is treated in Russia with tbe
deepest respect. They consider their
dead simply absent, and pray for
them to God witout ceasing, and be
fore burial it is a great offence if the
body is not constantly watched and
surrounded by mourners. The Rus
sians would rather reward persons
for being constantly near the body,
if none offer themselves freely, than
to see it all alone. It is customary
in most cases immediately after death
for the reading of the Psalms ovei’
the body to begin, and this lasts day
and night uninterruptedly for six
weeks.’
An Arkansas ’Xaniination.
“Cap’n,” said a colored man en
tering the office of a school examiner
whose skin was so black that to see
him you would think he had spent
his life in boiling crows for dissatis
fied politicians—“Cap’n,” repeated
the visitor, lightly tapping on the
door-casing,
“Weil, sah, what is hit ?”
‘Tse called round to be ’zam
moned. I’s a ’fessional school
teacher.”
“Did you know dat hit’s a mighty
hot cross-fit to stan’ under the range
ob de batteries ob my knowledge ?”
“Yes, Cap n,” said the applicant,
“an’being proud ob my complish
meut, I hez sought you ’stead ob
goin to de onedycated white ’les
sor.”
“Yer action is dat of a wise man
an fur sich wisdom I ’zibited in de
very bud ob de eddycafaon rose. Oh,
Ize flowery; 111 struct my secretary
to make yer one on de sheepkin
stifikit ov knowledge. Dis am fig
erative. We se all sheepskins,
and in her place we hab substituted
’coonskins, tanned by a Arkansas
niggar an’ ketched by a justice ob de
peace. Do hit sticks you in de stom
ach ob recognatiou ?”
“Yas, Cap’n, 5 ’
“Wall, now ter de zamination.
Secretary, git down dat brass pen
wid a dogwood holder an’ fetch bit
heah, fur I, in de cordance wid dem
’structions, is gwine ter tote dis man
through the new groan’ ob knowl
edge whar de briers am thick and
whar dar’s many a toenail lying
’mung de grubs. Now for de fust.
Does yer understan’ jogafy ?”
“Ob, yessah, dat’s my holt.”
“What does yer know ob gram
mar ? Keep yer mouf open for I’se
do eddycational dentist zaminin’ de
tees ob yer larnin? ’
“I eats up grammer like a man
han’lin’ greens.”
“What about de science ob
botomy ? ’
“I walks all over dat science on
stilts.”
“What does you know ’bout mata
phyeics ?”
“De quilt ob my bed am patched
wid it."
“Mister Secretary,” said the exam
iner turning to that functionary,
“gin dis man a double stifikit. Rec
ommend him ter de people as de
ablest man I haz zumined dis yeah.
Dar’s yer papers, sah; an’ remember
dat de cloud ob eddycation am a
black one. A man dat shows such
a faimilarity wid science az you does
is bound one day to put his foot on a
white man’s shoulder, reach up an,
take de gown ob superiority from de
peg in de wardrobe ob life’s great
competition. Let’s see, five dollars
for de single ’dorsement an’ five dol
lars an’ a half for do double ’dorse
ment. Gimmy ten dollars.”
The money was cheerfully paid,
and the man with his blotted coon
skin went out into the world to en
gage in the tournament of letters.
[Little Rock Gazette.
The Inexorable Turk.
The Turk in Europe, says one of
the English quarterlies, does not rep
resent a notionality but Moslemism
—a religion—a fanaticism—a cru
sade against Christianity and civilli
zation. The revival of letters, arts
and arms after the dark ages in Eu- 1
rope,arrested the great wave of Ori
ental reaction which had deluged the
Southern portion of that continent;
but with a considerable refluence, tbe
Turk stands just where he was left—
the great obstruction to civillization
and improvement in Europe. He is
himself the best example of the influ
ence of his Mohomedan ideas —-for
he illustrates no movement except to
the rearward in civilization, science
and morale. The shadow of death
broods over the land which he occu
pies. Whatever of science once exis
ted in his oriental seat has died out
under the fatal influence of Mahome
danism. The Turk, therefore, is sim
ply an incubus, and must be lifted
back to his native orient.
The difficulty of the situation,
lies in the question of appropiating
his effects. All the powers view each <
other with a fatal jealonsy the mo- J
ment tbe question is approached or ‘
the state of affairs begins to point to .
it. The Tuik’s diplomacy consists i
merely in plying off one power
against the others—for every one I
prefers Turkish occupation to a divi- I
sion in which it does not at least
gain the advantage over all the rest, i
If the powers could agree upon ]
what should follow the Turkish exo
dus, it would take place before frost. '
But it must come soon. Everybody '
sees that the Turkish Empire in Eu
rope will inevitably be forced into as
signment and liquidations by natu
ral processes. If left alone anarchy
and chaos must come, and the results
must be left to the chapter of acci
dents, or be made the subject of tre
aty arrangements.
That is the so-called “Eastern
Question” —a question of dividing
Turkish effects in southern Europe,
and which is now substantially remit
ted to the chapter of accidents and
casualties each power watching for
itself for some key to a solution to
turn up—something to indicate con
trolling influences which must dic
tate a mode of settlement. The par
ticular thing in progress just now is
the slicing off of enough of eastern
European Turkey to content Greece,
and perhaps determine her position
between the powers in the final divi
sion* The whole question, however,
is more likely to be one of clubs be
fore it is settled. [—Telegraph and
Messenger,
The first duel in the United States
was fought at Plymouth Mass., on
the 18th of June 1621, between Ed
ward Doty and Edward Leicester,
two servants, both of whom were
wounded. For this outrage they were
sentenced to the punishment of hav
ing their head and feet tied together,
and of laying thus twenty-four hours
without food or drink. After suffer
ing, however, in that painful posture
one hour, at their masters’ interces
i sion and their own humble request
with the promise of amendment, they
, were released by the Governor.
The Business Outlook.
The New York Financial and Com
mercial Chronicle takes a very hopeful
view of the busines prospect. Its
views are condensed as follows: The
export of gold, which so many feared
has not occurred, and now all danger
from that direction has passed, ba
cause the heavy imports of foreign
goods have ceased, and merchandise
already imported, instead of going
into consumption, has been accumu
lated in bond and must await the de
mand of the country for such goods.
All this stock must be consumed be
fore much more can be bought. Prices
must adjust themselves to the do
maud for goods. In the meantime
the decline of prices has levived the
export trade, so that a considerable
balance will continue in our favor-
In view of these facts there is no real
danger of a drain upon our stock of
gold, but rather a prospect that late
in the summer and early in the fall
the flow of gold will bs toward this
country.
TLe people as a whole are prosper
ous. The increased receipts of the
railroads show this: our people arc
traveling more, and have more money
to spend. Consumption is new very
large, and the decline in prices will
stimulate it in many directions. The
building trade, which was checked a
few months since because of the ex
travagant prices, is now showing
signs of new activity. The Chronicle
says in conclusion:
“In a word, there never was a time
when the promise was greater. Man
ufacturers will not expect the profits
of the past year, nor on the other
hand, will they meet with the losses
in cotton, woo], iron, etc. Those who
have over-traded will not expect to ,
sell their stocks at the extravagant
prices at which they laid them in, .
but they will surely and speedily work
them oil at reasonable rates, either
througn this increased home con
sumption or through export. Thus
wo see that the whole situation is
last redeeming itself, and ah the fore
bodings which of late have been so
prevalent are like the scarce gold ex
ports, passing away.”
Tlte Pride of a Child.
A St. Louis paper tells a touching
story of school life. It illustrates
both the longing of children to ap
pear as well as their schoolmates
and the mental sufferings incident
to poverty. In one of the St. Louis
public schools many of the children
who came from a distance were ac
customed to bring a lunch, and thus
save a long walk Lome for dinner.
They generally ate it together and
had a merry time.
Among those who stopped one of
the teachers noticed a little girl who
never brought any lunch, but who
looked wistfully at her playmates as
they were eating the noon meal. But
one day the girl brought her bundle
also, wrapped in paper. At noon she
did not go with the others, but re
mained at her desk as if preferring 1
to eat alone. 1
The teacher, thinking her unso- *
cial, advised her to go to ths lunch j
room with her playmates, and walked
toward the desk to take the bundle. '
But the little girl, bursting into sobs, 1
said:
“Don’t touch it, teacher; and oh,
teacher, don’t tell, please. It’s only
blocks.”
The poor girl had no dinner to 1
bring, but wished to keep up “ap- '
pearances,” so as not to seem unlike 1
her schoolmates. And she was one '
of the best scholars in the school.
She was very dear to the teacher’s 1
heart after that incident. 1
Girls’ Manners.
If our little girls greet their broth
ers and sisters, and perhaps even <
their parets boisterously; if, instead <
of ‘‘Good morning,” they cry, “Hal <
100. papa! Halloo, Mama!” and call
to playmates in the streets in the
same rough manner, who will be sur
prised if this style follows them us
they grow up and appear as young
ladies? Referring to this unladylike
manner and mode of address, a gen
tleman writes that, passing two pret
ty, well-dressed stylish looking young
ladies in the public streets, he was
surprised to hear one meet the other
with “Halloo, Sid ! and the other
respond “Halloo, Tude!” to her
friend’s greeting; and he remarks: It
was just what two lounging young
men might have said, or stable boys,
lor that matter. It might not have
been so much out of the way for the
latter, but I confess it sounded very
odd and offensive in what I supposed
to be two well-bred young ladies;
as much so as if I had heard two
beautiful gay and rose-colored birds
begin to swear. It was so unnatural,
so out of place. It may be “the
style” for young girls or ladies to
greet each other with a “Halloo!’’
but I can’t like it or get used to it.
These things may seem but a trifle,
but they make all the difference be
tween nice things and very common
i things.
Miss Riviere of Charleston, 8. C.,
J has a court dress once worn by Mario
Antoinette. It is of purple satin,
I and is still in good condition.
Bro. Gariliiei'-. Limr-kiln Club.
.“L s nit< as do ole woman r n me
sot on de back steps t > co- >1 "ir L>•’, ’
began LLu President as the meeting
was opened, “Uncle Febus cum rush
in’ in wid his hat in his hand an’ hi?
eyes as big as dollars. Uncle Febut
J am a Bepubhkin, an’ some Dtmecrat
i had got at him an made him believi
dal Gtirfeei used to saw niggers ii
two at so much per head. D<- ok
man’s garden patch am all choked uj
wid weeds, and he’s purty hard up
for clothes, but he couldn’t put his
hand to work until he found out if
dat story war true. He hadn’t been
gone away an hour before old Daddy
Smith cum whoopin’ in by de alley
gate, lookin’ as wild as if a b’ar was
arter him. He am a Democrat, an’
some ’publican had got at him an’
made him almos’ b’lieve dat Gineral
Hancock would sell all de cullud
folkses into slavery if he war lected
President Ole Daddy lost hail a
day on a good job to trot aroun’ win
such u fuui-btuiy on his tongu ; an’
be needs mom yif anybody dots. It
makts me discouraged when I sit
what foots some mgguhs be Weal’s
de reason dat Daddy Smith, Uncle
Febus an' beiy udder daddy, ;.n
uncle ’mung de cu.iiid Isibt -.-ui I m>.
on de ft Lil's ttt<’ b-i d.-. wL.ts- iulks
fight dis till ? It Hili’. uU! 11.1 lb.
We Can’t gam i..<>r Jute h High
shillin’, no matter who tun Pu s'deut.
I tel! you agi: ■, an Imga mt i. . j
on teiim’ye., ihut the cu.lihi man
goes into politics am de white man's
fool. He may count one in a torch
ight purcessicn, but he will ako
count one in de crowd befo’ de poo’
master nex’ winter, Pollytick haint'
in us. We hain’t got de meanness to
stand’ up an promise an’ lie an’ cheat
an’ deceive. Our skulls am too thick,
an’ our tongues doan’ move fast ’null.
We will now at.ack de reg’lar order
of bizness.”— Detroit Free Press
The Political Capital of the
Country.
The arrangements of both great
parties for the Presidential canvass,
says the Herald, bear witness that
New York is in fact, though Wash
ington is in name, the political capi
tal of the United Stales. While the
federal city lies dormant on the Po
tomac, deserted by everybody except
luckless department clerks,whose on
ly important function in politics is to
pay assessment, New York and its
seaside suburbs are thronged with
the manufacturers and managers of
public opinion, on whose conferen
ces the complexion of the government
of the country for the next four years
depends. Here the two national
committees have pitched their head
quarters. Here even the so-calld
Congressional political committees
assemble. Here “visiting statesman”
congregate from every quarter of the
land. From this metropolis the
Presidential election is controlled.
Washington is merely an inconveni
ent spot artificially appointed by
statute for the registry and execution
of edicts which will be determined
and drawn in New York by virtue of
the “higher law” that designates this
city as the inevitable centre of all the
activity of the United States, in poli
tics no less than in commerce.
The Chinese Penal Code.
The studied harshness and cruelty
of the Chinese penal code is prover
bial, and if the following extract is
authentic it is not surprising that
the maltreated Chinese immigrant
makes no effort to obtain the rights
of American citizenship: “All per
sons renouncing their country and
allegiance, or devising the means
thereof shall be beheaded, and in
the punishment of this offense no
distinction shall be made between prin
cipal and accessories. The property
of such criminals shall be confisca
ted, and their wives and children
distributed as slaves to the great
officers of state. The parents, grand
parents, of such criminals, whether
habitually living with them u> der
the same roof or not, shall be per
petually banished to the distance of
of 2,000 leagues. All those who pur
posely conceal or connive at this
crime shall be strangled. Those who
inform against criminals of this class
shall be rewarded with the whole
of their property. If the crime is
contrived and not executed, the prin
cipals are to be strangled, and the
accessories punished with blows and
banishment
Japauese Fans.
Japanese fans have been in such
demand in England lately that last
year 3,000,000 were exported from
Hiogo and Yokohama, whereas in
former years the whole trade never
exceeded 10,000. The cheapest and
and most beautiful, by the way, are
made in Tokio. In the process of
manufacture one set of workmen pre
pare the plain bamboo stick and an
other ornaments the ribs and the
handle, while the artist chooses tue
colors and the decorations for the
back of the fan, and gives the design
( to the engraver to execute. The paper
, used is exclusively Japanese, foreign
papers having proved useless.
A.d v 2FL a, to si.
Legal idvertißetu. irtg charged Beveuty-rtre cents
per hundred wt>nl» or fraction thereof each iueer
tiou for the firft four insertion*, and thirty-fire
cents for each Mibsequent insertion.
Transient advertising will be charged *1 per in< h
so - the first, and fifty cents for each subsequent
ii eertion. Adror ti.-ers desiring larger spree for a
longer time than one month will receive a liberal
deduction (roar regular rate*.
All bills due upon the first appearance of the ad
vertisement, and will be presented at the pleasure
of the proprietor. Transient adverttsementa from
unknown parties must be paid for iu advance.
SMALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together.
The old maid who exclaimed, “My
life has been a deserted waist,” can
readily be believed.
Au insane street preacher at Den
ver, er raged tiecause his hearers were
lierespectful, drew a knife and killed
two of them.
The Rev. R. U. Moulton, a Michi
gan Congregational preacher, has
been deposed for profanity, d run kei -
ness and gambling.
An aged man was swindled out of
S3OO by gamblers at an Illinois fair,
and the loss grieved him so much
that he committed suicide.
Senator Blaine will try and arrange
matters so he can deliver several
speeches in California, Oregon and
Nevada next October
Death 1 ad "repentance is burning
the cand. of life in the service of the
devil, then blowing the snuff in the
face of Heaven.—[Lorenzo Dow.
The latest Hancock man says that
the initials of Hancock's name stand
for “Will Succeed Hayes.” He has
hit the nail square on the head.
A French traveller, who has just
completed a trip around the world,
says that the American people are
the most serious people he encoun
tered.
The Republicans are agonizing
over Indiana ard are preparing to
use any amount, of money and Ken
tucky negro to carry the State
for Garfield.
There are now more mackerel off
the Massachusetts coast than have
been seen before in sixteen years and
fishermen are having a happy time.
One of the meddlers with the ad
ministration of justice in Philadel
phia has been sent to thepeniteniary
for a year. He attempted to intimi
date a witness in a homicide case.
An expert swimmer allowed him
self to be affected by the taunts of
jokers, at Atlantic City, and to prove
his ability undertook to swim a cer
tain distance under water. He was
drowned.
The St. Louis policeman who club
bed a man for replying, when asked
what he was doing out late at night,
“It’s none of your business,’’ has
paid a fine of SSO and gone to the
penitentiary for six months.
A mine near Ancona, Italy, was
last month exploded with so powerful
a charge of powder that a small yacht
two miles off was lifted out of the
sea and capsized by the concussion.
Os all European sovereigns King
Humbert is the most addicted to
spectacular shows. He never fails to
attend horseraces, regattas, carnivals,
military parades, and grand theatri
cal performances.
A Loudon firm advertises that it
has for sale one of the identical
stamps by which George 111 attempt
ed to impose the obnoxious tax on
teas imported into British America.
The experiment vs open-air theatres
is successful in Boston, where five of
them at the vavious beaches are now
open, with attractions ranging from
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” to “The Pirates
of Penzance.”
If the President of the United
States, says the Boston Courier, felt
in proportion to his place as big as a
policeman in his new uniform, he’d
grow round-shouldered trying to
dodge the clouds.
Perspiration never rains, it simply
pores.— N. F. Express. And a boil
never flies, it sores.— Osweyo- Record.
And apples never fall without cores.
—Boston Journal of Commerce. And
a book agent is no gimlet, but be
bores.— Salem Sunbeam.
Mr. Gladstone's troubles appear to
be thickening rapidly. No sooner
are the Bradlaugh case and the Greek
boundary question settled than the
Irish land problem presents itself,
and in the East the Afghan difficulty
becomes more and more complicated.
Have we brought a new peril into
our homes in the seemingly innocent
telephone? A Hartford person un
dertook to talk through one in the
interstices of a lively thunder storm,
and was summarily knocked down.
Electricity did it.
The Philadelphia Times suggests
that the Republican papers cease
their attacks on Mr. Leonard W.
Jerome, of New York city, lest he
get “mad enough to give $50,000 for
the Hancock campaign fund, as he
did t» the Grant campaign fund in
1872.
The English Parliamentary oath is
no older than the days of Queen
Elizabeth, and was instituted as a
safeguard against Roman Catholic
conspirators. The act by which the
oath was made obligatory is entitled
“Au Act for the Assurance of the
Queen’s Maiesties Royal power over
all States and subjects within her
dominions.
The Rome Courier says 10.000 peo-
Iple witnessed the grand military dis
play there last Saturday.
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