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EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
Col. J. H. Blount, of Bibb county,
has been renominated for congress
in the sixth district.
London has a larger population
than the four largest cities in the
United States combined.
> A war cloud large, r than a man's
hand is looming up in eastern Eu
rope. The Turks will have to go.
Richmond county has been claim
ing a population of 80,000, but the
' census enumerators could find only
63.570.
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Now that her Southern railroad
is completed Cincinnati is making
her arrangement to become a cotton
market.
Thomas T. Crittenden has been
chosen as the nominee for governor
by the State democratic convention
of Missouri.
Two hundred thousand pounds
sterling in gold was purchased in
London a few days since for ship
ment to this country.
The city of Little Rock has de
faulted in the payment of about ten
thousand dollars on its bonded in
debtedness, due in July.
From the indications now out.
f -'cropping, the democrats will have to
make a vigorous canvass to retain
power in South Carolina.
The democratic national commit
tee has established its headquarters
in New York City, and is preparing
to open an active campaign.
Secretary Sherman's report shows
that be now has piled up 44,000,000
in silver dollars, over 50,000,000 in
paper and 126,000,000 in gold.
A personal friend of Gon. Grant’s
says that the ex-president will never
allow his name to go before another
convention and will never again take
an active part in politics.
The Athens Banner says that the
people of that end of the district
would gladly aid the people of the
mountains in naming Col. W. P.
Price as a candidate for congress.
The Mormon population of Utah
" has increased 45 per cent, in the last
ten years, and the non-Mormon popu
lation 200 per cent. There are nearly
four Mormons, however, to one Gen
tile in the territory.
One of the most encouraging signs
of the time is the renewed activity in
the iron trade. Iron enters into so
many of the industries of the coun
try that it has become an almost
unfailing barometer of the business
outlook.
The Supreme court of Massachu
setts recently decided that a man
traveling on Sunday, except to and
from church, cannot recover dama
ges for injuries received on the high
way owing to defective bridges and
r roads.
Mr. Samuel Watkins, of Nashville,
Tenn., has given SIOO,OOO for the
erection of a public library in that
city. He has already at an expense
of $30,000 purchased a beautiful
building site for the proposed library
building.
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A Washington dispatch says the
national board of health authorities
feel very hopeful that the Southern
cities will escape a yellow fever epi
demic this year. It is held that, if a
rigid quarantine is maintained at the
various ports against vessels coming
from suspected ports, the precau
tions taken by the health authori
ties will keep yellow fever from visit
- ing New Orleans and Memphis this
summer.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald at Columbus, Ohio, reviewing
the political situation, saye the “most
significant fact in connection with
z national politics in the State at pres
ent is the wavering of the Germans
who have been voting the republican
ticket for the past few years The
thread which has held them to the
party has been slender and it now
seems likely to break. Garfield is
not popular with the Germans, while
Hancock is, and a stampede to him
seems imminent ”
Says the Columbus Enquirer: “XNv
publish the letter of George Turner,
chairman of the republican execu
tive committee of Alabama, that
democrats may know what to expect.
He advises his followers to support
the independents wherever found,
and to vote for the greenback labor
candidates for State officers. Those
who are aiding independents and
fighting nominees are doing just
what the radicals would have them.
They are adding strength to the
enemy. Let all true democrats rally
around the party flag. The radicals
hope to divide beyond repair the
democratic party, and surely demo
crats will not help them. They do
by promoting the claims of indepen
dents.
1 he Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
‘One million and a half of small
American oysters were recently “sown
out” on the Schleswig coast, near the
Danish frontier.
Prof. Graham Bell, of telephone
fame, has been awarded the Volta
prize of 50,000 francs, by the French
government, for his electrical inven
tion.
The largest sheet of plate glass in
the world was recently manufactured
in France. It weighed 1573 pounds
and measured 22x14 feet across its
face.
The discovery of a very rich goid
field has been made on the Sefton
river, by a prospecting party dis
patched by the Queenland govern
ment, in the north of the colony.
The manufacture of coal tar dyes
has become an important branch of
industry in Germany, one establish
ment employing eleven hundred
workmen in its manufacture.
The monument of the late M.
Quetelet was recently unvailed m the
gardens of the Brussels academy
buildings and is said to be an ex
traordiuarily fine piece of workman
ship.
Signor Dario Mazzie, stenogra
pher to the Italian senate, is said
to have invented s machine which
will record a speech as fast ac spo
ken, and in the regular printed char
acters.
The twenty ninth meeting of the
American association for the ad
vancement of science will be held in
the Massachusetts institution of tech
nology, at Boston, beginning on Au
gust 25. 1880.
Workmen who are engaged in
handling lead and mercury com
pounds should take daily doses of
iodide of potassium, as it is said this
i salt dissolves the leader mercurial
compounds and effects their removal
from the system.
If you wish to test the purity
of sugar, place a piece of what you
know to be pure sugar in the mouth
and when it is thoroughly dissolved
a pinch of suspected sugar. If ibis
contains adulterations, a distinctly
bitter taste will be present.
The twelfth meeting of the Scan
dinavian naturalists and physicians
took place last week at Stockholm.
The attendance was particularly large
from Denmark and Norway, while a
goodly number were present even
from the United States.
The aualyzatioa of specimens of
the volcanic ashes which rained
down recently upon Dominica, show
them to be rich in chloride of pot
tassium. The predominant constitu
ants of the solid parts were silicates
and pyrites in perfectly defined cubic
crystals.
Plans are being arranged for the
the holding of one of the largest
Horticultural exhibitions at Bremen,
Germany, in 1882, ever held in Eu
rope. The occasion will be the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the foun
dation of the Horticultural Society
of that city.
It proposed to construct a mon
ster floating railway station, capable
of carrying trains across the English
channel at the rate of fourteen knots
an hour. According to the scheme,
each train would provide accommo
dations for 2,000 passengers, and
would require sixty or more coaches.
A ship canal across the peninsula
of Florida has been proposed. The
survey has already been made under
the direction of Gen. O A. Gilmore,
who reports in favor of the work. By
its construction, some five hundred
miles will be saved in the passage
from our Atlantic ports to Gulf ports,
while the dangerous passage through
Florida straits will be avoided. The
canal will be one hundred and sixty
nine miles in length.
From a late Paris journal we learn i
that the French Forestry depart
ment has arrived at the conclusion
that forests greatly increase the water
supply wherever found. From close
observations made it is found that
rain falls much oftener and mor *
abundant in wooded tracts, and that,
while the leaves and branches give
back the water quickly to the air,
they prevent rapid evaporation from
the ground, and are thus favorable
to the formation of springs.
On the 18th of June last, the
schooner “Eddie Pierce,” en route
from Boston to Cuba, met with a i
strange circumstance. When som
300 miles from Nantucket, a firkin
of butter was seen to rise in the wa
ter. Others followed until three
hundred and twenty-seven camo to
the surface, which were closely fol
lowed by twenty-four boxes of cheese.
Both butter and cheese were in a
healthy state of preservation but
• ore evidence of having been in the
water a long time, the marks on the
boxes being illegible. It is supposed
that the packages had just been re
leased by the breaking up of some
vessel that had been lost there some
time previous.
Defence of the People of the
Ninth District.
(On April 30tb, 1880, the House
had under consideration the bill to
revise the laws relating to the inter
nal revenue, when the following ex
tract was read at the instance of Mr.
Van Voorhis, a Republican, from New
York State] and to which Gen. Philip
Cook, t f the 3d Georgia District, re
j plied under the five minute rule.]
i Mr. Van I believe the
i people fire honest down in the re
I States, and I also believe there are
■ exemptions enough. I have some in
formation on the subject which I
take from a very influential and rfi
iiaole paper, published in Washing
ton, the National Republican of
yesterday, and I send it to the Clerk’s
desk to be read as a part of my
speech.
The Clerk read as follows:
MOONSHINE VIOLENCE IN NORTHERN GEOR-
» GIA.
Since Representative Speer, of
Georgia, received the reply of Com-i
missioner Rtum to ais inquiry as io
the reason of employing force to col
lect the revenue in his district, anew
series of attacks on United States
officers have occurred. In four coua- I
ties of Northern Georgia a reign of I
terror exists, owing to the fact that i
the illicit distillers have banded
themselves together to maltreat all
who harbor United States officers, by
giving them so )d or lodging either i
for themselves cr horses, and all who |
give the least information. For of-j
fenaes of this kind one deputy collec
tor had his store, house and barn I
burned, and his family fired on and •
driven out. ‘ One citizen had a barn!
and four farm houses burned, and j
when he hud some of the marauders i
arrested and taken before a justice of!
the peace, the latter ruled out the l
evidence of all his witnesses en the ■
ground that they were not to be be-1
lioved under oath, because they bad ■
given United States officers informa- i
tion about illicit stills. One citizen i
w e shot because be had been sub-J
pceuaed as a witness against distil-i
levs. One entire family has been ■
driven from its home for selling rove-j
nue officers food. One was shot for
reporting a still, and the property of
another was burned because he was
suspected of having furnished in
formation. In one ease of house-burn
ing the band that did it organized
at the house of a justice of the peace,
and this officer acted as leader of the i
bond. One distiller, whose still was
seized- near Clarksville, went into
that town and swore out a warrant
against the officers for carrying con
cealed weapons, and he was appointed
a deputy to help make the arrest of
the deputy marshal.
The United States marshal for
Northern Georgia has been lax in
the discharge of his duty, refusing
either to aireat these men or depu
tize the revenue officers to do it.
To-day Attorney-General Devens
telegraphed, ordering him to see that
arrests in these eases were promptly
made.
Commissioner Raum has sent
Revenue Agents Whitfield, Kellogg,
and Chapman to report to Agent
Wagner, now in charge of the dis
trict, and n. force is to be organized
under each us them, and armed for a
lively campaign iu the northeastern :
counties of the State.
Mr. Cook—Mr. Chairman, tbaV;
whole statement has been proved to :
be absolutely false, and a scandalon.: !
and unwarranted attack upon the!
people of that part of the State, i
do not represent that district. Ido!
live in reach of tli.it* people. I1 vo
in a country which has nothin ’nt
apples and fruit of which liquor
could be distilled. Tao people of
my district, therefore, are not con j
cerned in the manufacture, '.but I \
know that the . taiement which has
just been read is a false accusation
against- the people who live in that
part of the State. It refers to a dis
trict which defeated the regular
democratic nominee in the last elec- 1
lion, and sent a man here who op
posed him. But there are many
good people there, and though there
may have been and doubtless have
bee a violations us the law iu some
few instances, yet it is unjust to
make a sweeping charge of that kind
against the whole community. 1 will
venture the assertion that there is
more illicit distillaiiou in one day in
the city of Cincinnati or New York,
and other large cities of this count iy,
than is carried on in twelve months
in the whole State of Georgia.
Why. witbin the last year right
here, almost under the very walls of
the Capitoi and in sight of the Treas
ury Department, the officers have
tracked up a distillery which has a
capacity greater than ail tbo moun
tain recesses combined in the State
of Georgia. I say that thia statement
has been shown to ba false.- The
governor of the State, the attorney
general, and the marshal of the State,
who is recognized as an honorable
man, and who made his report to the
Attorney-General, (aji« his conduct
to this Government was as faithful as
any man iu its service,) investigated
this matter, and show that this state
meat in] every important par ticular
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDA Y MORNING, JULY 30, 1880.
was absolutely untrue It is a politi
cal steal, if I may so use the word. Il
is a base suggestion to ibuse n th;‘-
way and vilify the virtuous and good
people of that section who are faith
ful to their obligations to this Gov
ernment with the exception of here
and there, as is found in every com
munity, a man who may be engaged
iu some unlawful pursuit, such as
illicit distillation. And it is an out
rage to make the charge.
1 am surprised, I am astonished —
k not say indignant, because a
‘decpuL man fom no. right to bo indig
■aapi at anything eaid or dene here,
[iaagLfoar and ] —but I do
iSay-Abat I am OHtonhhed, and I re
gret io ice that a gentleman of char
acter and standing as u member of
this House should pul forth as apart
oi hie speech the statement that has
just beenaoad here.
j_L re the hammer fell.]
No Military Noiiseme.
Gen. Hancock is presented io tne
elector;; oi iffi* country as a fit person
to be president, not because of his
great qualities as a soldier, displayed
as they were on muny histone fields,
but because of bis greater qualities
as a law-respecting public rui r, dit
piayeu when, having absolute power
thrust upon him in a district com
prising, an important part ul the
union, he d -liberate!} decided in fa
vor of a civil instead of a military
government. He knows, as we ail
know, that the nominee of the Cin
cinnat conv-ifi ion is n ?t Hancock the
captain, hut Hancock the citizen;
not the hero of Gettysburg, but the
self-contaiued patriot who declared
riiat “tho “ipht o', tri;;! by jury, the
habeas corpus, the liberty of the
press,-the freedom ts speech, the
natural rights of persons, and the
rights of -aiperfy must be pre
served.”
Gen. Hancock knows very well the
jealousy toward military presidents,
and especially the jealousy tower
kitchen cabinet:: made up of irre
sponsible military men, which per
vades the American people He
knows that upo?; that rock Grant
split bis administration, and he
knows that no succeisor of Grant
can pursue a similar course without
splitting his. Vv e are sure that
President Hancock will have no
Babcocks and Porters managing hie
administration, and no military rings
plundering the treasury. President
Hancock will not keep about him a
cabinet of civilian knaves and no
bodies, as President Grant did, leav
ing the real power of direction in a
little coterie oi army cronies He
will bring to his id th.; foremost
statesman of iue nation, the greatest
experience-, the ripest ititrning, and
the purest characters, to be drawn
from the leaders of the great party
which shall hiivo elected him. Mere
dabsters in politics from West Point
or Annapolis, whose professional
traini’ig unfits them for any success
io; management of the great concerns
oi’ government, will take tho seat that
justly belongs to them; and they
will keep it and no other to the end
of Hancock s mimiijistration.—A Y.
Sun
of tine Sea.
Old wives of th? sea eoast hold
many superstitions concerning the
“hollow sounding and mysterious
main- ‘ Thue Dickons tells us that
Barkis in bi: dying until the
tuFTi of tue tide, ahen, ‘ho tide going
out, Barkiii went cut with it Iu New
England it iti unlucky to k.il a pig m
the wave of \moon or at tboebbirg
of the tide, t c pork will shrink n
the boiling, v v.A-r in t: o dinnor-oct
evcpafiitns mgr? rapidly over t;v- fire
when tiie tide m “dead low,” It is
unlucky to eat frern the head
downward; it onves away the fish
from the :: o:■ of
the tide without going .•. * *i;o beach,
look in u cals -.yes; th;* orml
intelligent c /■Lgat.cu when
the tide is at the flood. Never count
a catch until :he day’s work, or snort,
is done. Otherwise the sport is
spoiled. Simii it’]y tin* ccasids farmer
never count iiis lambs until the sea
son for their ■. ”oppwg is over. But
it is not alone in rural communities
teat mrm and worn?;, ceep up customs
and rites founded on gagan supersti
tions. Among i-Le ancient Greeks and
Romans it was i common custom for
the bridegroom to give his bride, cn
the wedding night, a conffidorable
sum of money byway of purchase
for her person From this usig-*, no
doubt, wo have derived the custom oi
making wedding presents, under
'which so many people groan. Thu
ancient basons gave a betrothal ring,
or other gift -which wrm called “a
wed’’ and from which we have deriv
a very charming word. Fifth avenue
throws an old shoe after the depart
ing bride. Is this because our sterner
forefathers ordained that the bride
groom should tap his new-made wife
on the head with hie shoe as a token
of her submission to her lord ?
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There isn't much difference be
tween a grass widow and a grasshop
per, alter all. Either will jump at
the first chance.
. A VV eddiug in Samoa.
A gr-. at wedding was about to
come off in Samoa, according to the
latest news from the islands. A lead
ing clues of Falefa bad been courting
Moe, daughter of the High Chief of
Apia. As the chief is an old man,
and Moe about nineteen, it has re
quired the most strenous efforts of
both families to bring about the
match. The Falefa family have car
ried to Apia over three hundred pigs,
killed and cocked, and distributed
them among tho young lady’a rela
tione. In ui o for ilieee, the family
of the expected bride must give fine
m-its, and they have been busily eg
lecting them from ail over
ths i.fitM.us till the Governor’s house
is half full. A vast deal of ceremony
is connected with these weddings.
Ail the me-idens from Falefa went in
procession to the Governor’s house,
each carryi?jg a- stick, with a bunch of
red feathers suspended from the end.
At the wedding some member of tho
government reads a chapter from the
Bible, and then reads a ceremony.
Th; -cmplc being married aie seated
>-.U the time, and join hands toward
the close of the cersmony, as in more
civilized countries. In this instance
the young lady is amiable and inter
esting. When the Governor was
asked why he did not marry Moe to
a young chief, he replied that if she
did not like her old husband she
could run away from him, and it
would be no disgrace, while a young
husband might tako a fancy for an
other wife, and it would be a shame
to the family to have him leave her.
A ycuiij chief generally has wives
t-cattered through the islands.
Through them he becomes allied to
num: roue leading families and ac
quires extended influence, and when
b fall: out with one family he goes
to o other and finds a wife-awaiting
him. ’ Native dances were taking
(jlueii nightly, and are a part of the
wedding festivites. All the youag
dandies appear on the stage at such
times, and the maidens of the villages
assemble on ti e scene.
A-Riiilway Across Salmia.
To the objection raiaed by certain
ex: ‘.oxers, that a railway across the
Si-hit?: >ould be buried from time
to T i - n sand, and that the savage
inhabitants of Africa would interfere
with ibe construction and operation
of il line, even if it were desirable
& eoitimofcialenterprise its French,
numoters reply that the inconven
ience from sand can be but slight
compared with that from snow on
many of the American railroads, and
if it should prove serious, the same
mode of protection by sheds can be
employed against simoons, which is
found so useful against winter storms
iu the Rocky Mountains. As to the
natives, they will soon learn that
passenger trains are not sent to pro
vide them with “meat,” and annoy
ances from them will soon cease.
Ail this seems reasonable enough,
and there is no question that Africa
is -mi the brink of a vast and rapid
development. Already the route
which S : an ley put sued so painfully
is practically open to travel; many
others are being established; and if
we are not mistaken, railroad sup
plies have recently been shipped to
Z ir zibai- for use upon the continent.
We confoss to some personal disap
pointment at aeeiiig tbs prospect of a
Saharan Sea ia<ie away- To say
nothii g ->i the amelioration which it
war expected to work in the summer
climate < ; Snutkern Europe, the
thought <>f having to traveroe the de
s< t b inst : 1 of the water,
nV;?.: in a rauw.iv ew, has little that
if; attractive,
A Volcanic Lake.
M de Lesseps if credited with de
bieg cn hie return to Europe a
geological phenomenon. In
the republic of San Salvador there is
a lake called liopmago, and in Jan
uary of this year, after a few pre
monitory shocks of earthquake, three
craters sudd; nly opened in the mid
die of the lake, and belched forth
immense volumes of steam, dust and
fiery cinders. By and by the three
vents merged into one, and an islet
of “tuff” and lava uprose above the
surface of the waters. Attempts
were made to approach this young
volcanic island, but the feat was
found impossible, owing to the boil
i ing of the waters and the showers of
i lust and clouds of vapor enveloping
1 it. According to latest accounts the
; new volcano continues to vomit forth
: great quantities of steam and viru
i lent gases. All the fishes of the lake
■ are parboiled, and float upon the
■ surface of the water amid the bodies
lof the innumerable dead shell fish
and aquatic animals. It is a signifi-
■ cant tact that the outburst was pre
j ceded by an exceptional rise in the
level of the lake, owing to the rains.
This appears to be the first instance
i ■
je record of a volcanic bursting up
■ through the waters of an inland lake;
but submarine volcanoes breaking
out in the ocean bed are no very rare
phenomena.
«Mt>
A faint heart never won a fair
i lady, but a lain! whisper often catch
es her.
The Late Census-
The census returns, as they come,
afford abundant fool for study and
comparison, and it will be a long
while before all their lessons are told.
The growth of cities in the West is,
of course, a most notable feature of
the tabulated enumeration. The city
of greatest growth in the ten years I
was Denver, whose population in
creased 650 per cent. Next to Denver
comes Minneapolis, with an increase
of 400 per cent, but a part due to her
absorption of the town of St. Anthony,
which had a population of 5,013 in
1870. Then comes Oakland, in Oali
. jruia, whoso increase was 233 per
cent., and a long way after Oakland
is St. Paul, with an increase of 107
percent 1 , which is somewhat surpris
ingly matched by an Eastern city,
Camden. The great cities of 1870
are, of course, far behind any of
those in their rate of growth; thus
New York’s percentage is 24, Phila
delphia’s 21, Brooklyn's 40, Boston’s
10 and Baltimore’s 23, but Chicago <s
was as high as 69, and Cincinnati's
as low as 18 . New Orleans is still
the first city in population south of
Baltimore, but her percentage of in
crease is only 8, while St. Joseph’s is
'B7, Atlanta’s 78, Wheeling’s 62, Au
gustas 50 and Richmond’s 22. The
data at band are still far from com
plete, but it looks as though the total
population of the United States
under the census of 1880 could be
put down safely at not less than 48,-
000,000, as against 38,558,371 in 1870
and 31,443 in 1860. It may come
much nearer the grand total of 50,-
000,000.
The A rgunicut of Mr. Napoleon,
WSio Didn’t Want io Pay a Bill
“Hole on dar,” saida colored man,
hailing an acquaintance. “Does yer
cross de street ebery time yer sees me
ter keep frum payin’ dat bill ?”
‘'No, I doesn’t.’’
‘ What fur, den ?’’
“Ter keep frum bein’ axed fur Lit.’’
“Mr. Napoleon,” said the creditor,
“I lent yer $lO three weeke ago Yer
promised an’ promised ter pay me.
D_ udder day you said dat ’pon yer
word an’ honor us a gen ieman yer’d
pay me ter day- Now, what’s yer
got ter say ?”
“I alers zsrves my honor. Yer’e
gettin’ yer lack of fiosofy an my honor
mixed."
“How’s dat ? ’
•‘Dona’ yer know dot de udder
day all de lime in town was changed?
Da fouu’ dat de time was wrong an’
da sent off an’ got what du calls a
transit aparatus. Since den ail de
watches an’ clocks hab been over
hauled. Hit hab been found dat our
lima is gis one day too fast. ’
“Dat’s got nuthin’ ter do wid my
money.”
“Course it hab. I promised ter
pay yer terday. De oberhauliu’ ob
de time shows dat dis ain’t terday.’’
“How do as yer make dat ?”
“Why, dis is termorrow. Doan,
yer see? Lemme tell yer, if yer goes
roun’ dis town showin’ such ig
nuncc ob fiosofy de people will laugh
at yer.”
“Well, when is yer gwine ter pay
me ?’’
“Jes ez soon tz we kin get the time
straightened up. Da’s workiu’ on
bit row, Jes take my advice, fur el
de people onst gits inter dar heads
data mar. is a fool, ten years ob
knoweldgo won't change hit.”
Says the Washington Post: While
farmers in some parts of the aoth
west are offering $3 a day for tie d
hands, this city is thronged with
ablebodied men who have no employ
ment. We have a large brigade of
idle negroes, with abundant mr.scle
and strength for any work. Our citi
zens would hail an exodus as a boon.
Bat the men who originated and car
ried on the movement of negroes from
North Carolina will pay no heed to
the miseries of that race in this dis
trict. The removal of colored voters
from this locality would not diminish
the voting power of the s»ath, hence
it is not desired by the Radical
brethren. Meantime the monthly
reports of the health officer show
that the colored people here are dy
teg off from two to four times as rap
idly as the whites in proportion to
their respective numbers.
Anxious to Save His Brother.
Yesterday about 1 o’clock a boy of
about 12 went up Market Street at
such a rate of speed that everybody
who saw him was satisfied he was
running for a doctor.
A man with a kindly expression of
countenance caught the flying boy by
the arm and asked him:
“Sonny, is there anybody right
sick at your house?”
“No, but there will be if you don’t
turn me loose.’’
“Who is it, bubby ?’’
“Will yer let me go if I tel| you ?’
“I will, my boy. ”
“Well, then, it s my brother Bob.
He will be a remains before night if
I don’t get home right off. You see,
we have cucumbers, green corn, clab
ber, watermelon and cabbage for
dinner, and if I ain’t there to get my
share he will founder himself and die.
Please let me go, so I can save my
little brother’s life.”— Galveston News.
Signs and Portent'-
It has already be. n shown t«> t.l e
superstitious that the t hr» e init al- «.f
W. S Hancock ;-tan '■ tor “Wi:; sue
need Hayes." Now, an Ohio cones
pondent of the New York Sun shows
that—
1. Taking all the Utters in the
name of Win field Scott Hine -ch, and
giving to each letter tht • cumber
its position in the alphabet, th< num
bers sum rq 215, which repi.srnts
the ch ctor a J votes claimed for Han
cock, 10-wit: those of Alabama, Ar
kansas, California, Connecticut, Del
aware, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi,
Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New
York, North Carolina,, Oirgon,
Sou|b Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
Virginia, West Virginia—23 States,
in all casting 215 hhetoral votes.
2. Taking in the sejue way the let
ters embraced i-> the uinc of James
Abraham Garfield, they lepicfeit
154, which m«k; up d.e electoral
ColLg*—the total b.img 369.
3 There is in t.im fact a singular
coincidence w-rl. the li»t Presiden
tial election, wj> is. Simnel ' T.l
den it. the min- .vc reprec.mte t- 203
electoral vote-', which i t aetual.y i;-
ceived ■ ; bough be rn ! b d of
nineteen,) m 3 R-.thrrioid B Hayts
166, which he > <e;ved hihl a en
titled to A 1 t i>..- i- !;mi y.
Tta - cVmaie AuiviSt
We thirdly lead ot aHP gle u L,»r
ess during the middle ague. in
those days female education was al
most entirely neglected, except in
rare instance:; If women possessed
talent they were compelled to bids
it. No female novelist worthy of the
name appeared in England iiutil t.h<
reign of George HI. The lady who
first had the courage to brave public
opinion was Frances Barney, the
friend of Garrick and Dr. J hi s m
Miss Barney remained unmarried
until she was forty y are ci
age. Romines is then supposed io
exercise a less lort-'. >at power, but
she nevertheless 1 i-.i :he imprudence
to espouse Moi-dear "A ’-ny, i-
French refuge , wl- .-e me con
sisted only of .i recarioqs anility
of $590 Tic m rrmg;', bow-w,
proved a very b. ppy ■•. a- M . ni»y
describes Monsieur dAibiey >»•-“an
honorable ;.nd amiablb .. ith s
handsome person, frank, s./idier Lke
manners, and some taste for letters.’’
The pair did not suffer from r verty;
the wife become the biv-vi-wr r.e-,
and not very long after her marriage
her third novel, ‘ CUmilia,” was pub
liahed, by which she is said to have
realized over $16,000.
The Greek question, in its utw
phases, may' be stated in a nut-shell.
Turkey has refused to obey the man
date of the last Berlin conference
and reconstruct the Greek frontier.
The territory proposed to be ceded to
Greece is not over seven hundred
square miles. The Turks are brave
but ignoranr and apathetic, includ
ing Bulgaria and Roumania, the
Christian population of Turkey in
Europe outnumbers the Osmanli;-
about fiftesn to one, and it is propos
ed, by Russia in particular, to let the-
Turks and Christians fight it out and
determine by force of arms which
shall bold the country south of the
Balkans. The only tribes that would
be likely to make much us a struggle
outside of Constantinople are the
Mohammedan Albanians, a hardy,
warlike, mountair.eeriug people, but
quite few io numbers The Albani
ans south of The Scoinbi for the most
part belong to the Greek Church,
and are in sympathy with the Greeks
across the frontier. Th Roumani
ans, Servians and Bulgarians are !..l
pretty well drilled now, and wohlc
naturally join in any general out
break for tho purpose of txpel.iiog the
Turks from Europe.
Poisonous cigarettes.
Cigarette smoking is now grown to
be a fashionable habit, and one which
is increasing at an alarming rate
among half grown boys, and it is the
opinion of well known physicians
thit if this habit is not checked ad
ditions to our asylums will be in or
der. The Franklin Repository says
that a physician to satisfy himself
that there was death in that form of
tobacco, had a cigarette analyed The
result was a startling one. The
tobacco was found to bo trongly im
pngnated wi’.h opium, while the
wrapper, which wie warreut?d to be
rice paper, was proven to be the
most ordinary quality of paper,
whitened with arsenic, the two
poisons combined being present in
sufficient quantities ♦-■create in ’he
smoker a habit so: u mg opium with
out his being aware of and which
craving can only be < ?tisii d b an
incessant consumption »f cigarettes.
The population of Penn-v vania,
according to the Lew census, about
4,226,000, an increase ot 20 per cen
tum in ten years. There .- but one
county, Venango, which dens not
show an increase of population, but
there are a dozen or more in which
1’ the increase in insignificant. Mc-
Kean county, iu the oil region, shows
an increase of 375 per cent.
/'Vclv ortislng Ratos.
Legal advertisements charged seveuty-flve cents
per hundred words or fraction thereof each infor
tion for the first four insertions, and thirty-five
jents for each rubseqnent insertion.
Transient advertising will be charged $1 per inch
fertbe first, and fifty for each snbseqnent
insertion Advertisers desiring larger space fur a
longer time than one month will.receive a liberal
deduction from regular rates.
Ail bills due upon tho first appearance of the ad -
vertisbnient, and will be presented at the pleasure
r.f the proprietor. Transient advertisements from
unknown parties must be paid for iu advance.
SM ALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
T'ogctliea.
A printera’ girl fell exhausted into
bij b-.ims at a ball. It was a feint to
work m en embrace.
According to the calculations of
, Peteimm the pcpultition of the whole
i w- r’d i- 1,424,089,000.
in matters of prudence lust
i -lr< ugbts are best; in morality your
first tb< ughte art best.
i Says a French critic: “I like a girl
before sue gets womanish, and a wo
man i?efore she gets girlish.”
Enormous natural caverns, one 600 / * i
feet long, have lately been found
near Wells, Somerset, England.
In the poor house at Milwaukee is
one Joseph Daws, who before the
war was reputed worth over $3,000,-
000.
Secretary Sbermun is building in
A asbington, near his present resi
dence, a substantial red brick house
which is to cost about $25,000.
This year’s yield of tea in India is
estimate ! at 79,000,000 pounds, near
ly double that of 1878. Ten years
ago it was under 14 000,000.
General Garfield iu congress—The
Chinese shall remain. General Gar
field io hie letter of acceptance—On
the -whole, the Chinese had better go.
The New York T/tbune says that
the Republican party has renewed its
youth, and presents a more solid and
united front than it has since 1860.
It is claimed that a new Swedish
i;un (adopted by the Russian navy)
is even more deadly than the Gatling.
It can be carried up into the maintop
if necesaary.
The fact that nature only put one
elbow in a man s arm is sufficient to
indicate that she never intended him
to fasten the collar button on the
back I his shirt.
A New York Chinaman was asked
ag«', for th< census. He thought
ii -. . ■ draft, and wishing exemp
tion, -ipiied, “90 years oldee, alee
timee.’
A I ion was recently presented
to Parliament rom tho British Med
ieHl Associntion, signed by seven
th medical men, against vac •
cination.
“Sooner or later” says a French
v. iter, “everything is found out.’’
Just to, A married man, for instance
is generally found out laler—about
three hours later—than he should be.
Senator Bia r, republic in, of New j
Hampshire, says the contest in that
State will be one of the hardest that
ever took place, and says it will be
■absolutely necessary for the republi-
C-.. 23 to strain every nerve to succeed.
“I should like to see somebody
abduct me,’ said Mrs. Smith at the
breakfast table, the other morning.
“H’m ! so should I my dear, so should
I, ’ said Mr. Smith, with exceeding
earm-sint hs fl
There are said to be no fewer than
eighteen members of the Vanderbilt
family now staying at the Hotel Bris
tol, Paris, and even the suite of apart
ments usually reserved for the Prince ”
of Waits has bean given up to the
American millionaire.
The New York financial market
shows, according to the Post's load- J
ing finiuici'ii report, a grailfying pros- H
ptct of ?l, e opening of the fall trade, H
ano the- necessary means for moving H
I hi-coming crops of the country. The H
New Yor’: bank , have a surplus of slaj
reveiiti. am iuntiug to eighteen and a,
millions of dollars. ;
President Roberts, of the Penney!-
v&Dia Radroad Company, has issued BH
n circular auiiounclng that, in ac- HH
eordance with a resolution of the
board of director?, the business of Bl
the company’ f ’-“d politics must be Bl
soparatf , and that no officer or em- El
ploye is permitted to mix in polities Bl
or bring in the name of the company
with any scheme in behalf of any
party or candidate
The Columbus Fact tells how on fll
Dfesbach’s menagerie entering New- Bfl
ask, Ohio, ihe elephant’s keeper fell
into a fit, when the elephant wouldn't
aiiow any one to approach him, but BB
ut first baking him up tenderly with Bfl
bis trunk tried to put him on his
♦ risk?, and finding he was insensible H|
put in:i' ‘jcntly down again, and
M'owrd great distress. At length
the man r>-'.ive*.i enough to speak to BU
the. •nimai, «ind to tell him to let Ml
peoj approach.
ri«m young Boston bachelor,
w bi.ui b'-.i modest, was taking his
I ba. b '.mt morning when his telephone
' ILm Ho sprang from the tub Mm
V-, Li.i’iified to hear that a lady,
| wife <;! a distinguished New York
Democr««:c b inker, was at the othtr |M|
m' ■ o ■he wire, air de away. It would |MI
r evti do for him to carry on a con-
I ver?.!-.:ion with a lady m his present M 9
co.'.ditim “Excuse me. A thousand MV
; ardoii-1 he cried aghast. He don
m■» ii;s dressing gown and then re
pair' itol he telephone and conversed jfll
without fear of molestation. 4M
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