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v EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
Since the beginning of the present
-■ x year nearly 2,000 miles of railroad
have been built.
The United States internal revenue
- "‘collections for the fiscal year ending
June 30th, aggregate $123,963,134.
The republicans are preparing to
make a desperate effort to carry In
' diana by a lavish use of money and
the importation of Kentucky ne
groes.
The present census shows that
z the population of the State of New-
York is about equal to that of the
whole United States at the begin
ning of the present century.
o w
, it is certainly a very high compli
ment to the democratic candidates
that the radical press, after the most
thorough sifting, can find no serious
charge to urge against them.
Hon. H. G. Turner, of Brooks
county, has been nominated for con
gress in the second district. Mr.
Turner has served several terms in
the Georgia legislature, and during
k the last session was chairman of the
■ , judiciary committee.
«C3» ♦—
General Hancock wrote a letter in
1868 cordially endorsing the nomina
tion of Seymour and Blair, and
declaring that he would “commit a
crime against his country” if he did
pet acquiesce in the work of the
convention which made the nomina
tion.
There are 62 cities in the United
States with a population exceeding
30,000; there are 44 cities with more
that 40,000; 34 with more than 50,-
000; 27 with more than 60,000; 24
with more than 75,000; 20 with
more than 100,000; 4 with more than
500,000, and 1 with more than
1,000,000.
The tw’o wings of the democratic i
party of Massachusetts have adopted
the affiliation policy, and will hold a
genera) convention at Worcester,
September Ist, at which it is pro
posed that the general committee of
, both wings resign and one new com
mittee be appointed to conduct the
campaign.
It was the Rational Republican at
- Washington, one of the bitterest of
radical sheets ‘hat published the
slanders on the people of North
Georgia, which called forth Gen.
Phil Cook s defense of our people.
And yet this journal petted and flat
tered Mr. Speer for his course on
the questions which Mr. McMahon
boldly charged were stabs' at the
democratic party.
♦ •«»►-
Marshall Jewell is said to hare
told the Massachusetts republicans,
after dinner, that New York is a
Garfield State. He also told his
Massachusetts friends, after dinner,
that ho believed the republicans
would carry “every Northern and
two or three Southern St.tea.” When I
Marshall Jewell ic among compara
tive strangers, he should try not to
z seem unnecessarily foolish.— New
v York Sun.
Dtiring the fiscal year ended June
30.4,8*0, the United States exported
$12,500,000 of coin and bullion, and
imported from foreign countries $85,-
500,000 of the same, making a net
gain, over and above the productions
of our own mines, of $73,000,000 of
coin and bullion for the year. The
exports, exclusive of coin, were $830,-
000,000, imports $660,000,000, a
balance of trade, as the phrase
goes, in our favor of $170,000,000
over and above the coin and bullion
balance.
The return to capital punishment
of jet another of the Swiss cantons
is significant of a wholesome revul
• Sion from the amiable sentimental
ism which lavishes upon the mur
derer that pity which he denies to
his victim. There is no country in
Europe, nor indeed in Christendom,
which enjoys a more truly enlight-
L , ened civilization than Switzerland,
and the generally diffused culture
and intelligence of its people is bal
lasted with a goodly amount of com
mon sense. The abolition of hanging
has been tried there, and the experi
ment appears to have turned out a
failure. Society cannot well do witb
x out the death penalty.
The disaster to the English forces
by the annihilation of Gen. Burrows’
* command at Candahar by the Af
ghans, under Ayoob Kahn, has
caused the greatest excitement
throughout the British empire. The
journals have devoted leading edito
rials to the situation as it now exists
m Afghanistan, in the House of
of Commons and the House of Lords
the subject is discussed. Reinforce
ments have been ordered to the
scene of the disaster. The fate of
afidahar, and the Lopes of a speedy
settlement of Afghan affairs, have
been dissipated, and a state of gener-
J f lO , 001 OVM the prospect is mani
fested m ail the dispatches bearing
Qn the subject. b
The GainesvilleTLagi .e
VOL. XIV.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
After twenty-five years of labor,
the Canal de le Merced, in Chili, has
just been completed at a cost of
$400,000.
Au exhibition will be opened at
Berlin, in August, that will be illus
trative of Prehistoric German An
thropology.
The Monthyon prize has been
awarded to M. CamilleFlamarion, by
the Paris Academy of Sciences, for
the work entitled “Astronomie Popu
late,” 40,000 copies of which were
sold the first year.
The discovery of a large number
of pearls was recently made in Oak
iey creek, New Zealand, which are
said to bo unusual in form and color,
not perfectly round, but far more
brilliant than ordinary pearls.
A new breed of whales is said to
have appeared in the Arctic seas,
supposed to have emigrated from the
open sea at the poles. They are de
scribed as very mueh larger than the
old whales, are very gentle and con
fiding and easily captured.
The annual exhibition of the
American institute, of the city of
New York, will open on September
15th next. One of the most promis
ing features of tl e occasion will be
an exhibition of the works of ama
teurs and apprentices in all branches
of mechanical, industrial and decora
tive art.
Professor Spencer J. Baird, of the
United States Fishery commission at
Gloucester, Mass., received the first
prize of honor given by the Emperor,
at the Berlin Fishery exposition.
The prize consists of a beautiful crys
tal epergue, elaborately ornamented
wiih gold, silver, pearls and precious
stones, and is valued at $2,000.
From observations extending over
several years, it has been ascertained
i that Australian trees flourish as well
in California as in their native coun
try and vice versa. Also that the
native vegetation including wheat
and other grain may be successfully
acclimatized from one country to the
other, and that the crops which suc
ceed in the one will do as well in the
other.
The convention of sugar cane into
paper is attracting considerable at
tention in Louisiana and other
Southern States. It is estimated
that the cane for each hogshead of
sugar, will yield one ton of paper,
and as Louisiana alone produces
200,000 hogsheads of sugar annually,
some idea may be formed of the im
portance attached to the manufacture
of paper from this article.
The subscription for the statute of
Liberty to be erected on Bedloe’s
Island, New York harbor, has just
been completed in France. It is
announced that the statue will be
finished in 1883, on a monumental
pedestal, provided the American pub
lic comply with the request to pre
pare a suitable foundation. It is
hoped there may be no delay in the
work, caused by the action of the
proper authorities in this country.
The well known writer of books of
adventure and travel, Captain Mayne
Reid, has been engaged the past
three years in experimenting with
v view to escape the blight which has
been so disastrous to the potato crop
in England and Ireland. As a result
of his experience, those brought from
Mexico, alone showed not a spot of
blight, all the other kinds having
een found to be diseased in a great
er or less degree. The Mexican po
tato, he claims, will yield almost
double as many bushels to the acre,
and suggests that the government
take in hand the importation of the
seed in large quantities,
Difficulties, apparently unsur
mountable, have supervened in the
construction of the St. Gothard tun
nel, which threaten seriously to re
tard the completion of the undertak
ing. The vaulting has given away
several times, at a point where a
formation of white stone has been
encountered, and it has required the
greatest care and constant staying
with timber to prevent the passage
thereabouts from completely collaps
ing. A wall six feet thick succumbed
to the pressure of the superincum
bent mass of white stone, and now
the engineers are at their wit’s end
how to overcome the difficulty.
There is a man near Newton, New
Jersey, an interesting ravine, in
which it is said natural ice remains
throughout the summer. It lies at
the foot of Blue Mountain, is several
hundred yards long, from ten to
thirty feet deep, with caves and clefts
in the rocks, filled with ice. Near
the gorge, a spring of delicious,
sparkling water, tasting slightly cf
iron bubbles up and stands 34 de
grees by the thermometer. The
shade at the gorge is described as
very dense, the sun apparently never
penetrating it. The locality would
certainly be a pleasant resort for
invalids and others who wish to es
cape the excessively warm days of
summer.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1880.
Wearing wall Street.
St. LouU Bepublican's New York Letter.
Life here moves at electric speed.
Two hours in Wall street has made a
man a fortune; two hours has sent a
man to his home in despair. When
every tick of the tape means a loss
that will give mental agony and sleep
less nights, the Wall street men say
they always think of going down to
the boiling surf at the beach and rest
ing their weary heads upon the
bosom of the ocean, give themselves
up to the waves, to be borne to the
shores of eternity. The salt water,
however, gets the beet of such a no
tion, and if the broker doesn’t go
back to the hotel for a gin cocktail,
he isn’t true to his genius* Cross
ing the Wall street ferry, a few days
ago,l met a broker who,three months
ago, seemed the ideal of prosperity.
Now his head was drooping on one
side, his right eyelid hung like a loose
curtain and there was a dull, glassy
look in his eye. His voice was a
childish treble and his step was in
firm, yet he professed that he felt like
a new man, for he had just returned
from a long sea voyage around to San
Francisco, and had in the twenty-two
days in which he was at sea thought
tHUt he had gained a new lease of life.
He had a touch of incipent paralysis
of one of the lobes of his brain, and
he had thrown up all business to get
back his health. “I had been six
teen years upon the floor of the stock
exchange,” be said, “and I had seen
brokers drop under all about me, but
I felt that I had a charmed life. At
length my turn came. The doctor
said: ‘Give up business or die.’ I
didn’t want to die, and my business
was so big that I did not want to
give it up. I offered to go away and
leave my business with others, but
the doctor said that if I did not get
out altogether, I might as well get
ready to close my account with this
world. I felt that my life was not
worth two cents then, and so, bad as
it was, I followed his advice. I think
I am well now, but I had to be car
ried to the steamer, where for days
and days I lay upon the deck, with
about as much life and spirit as a
fool, and there were throe or four
other members of the exchange on the
same vessel who were not much bet
ter off.” The brokers are not a
healthy looking crowd* Nearly
every one has sharp, pointed eyes,
which are so active as to lose the del
icate shades of expression, and they
all seem to possess mercurial temper
aments: but few have the wholesome
appearance of perfect health. The
air of the exchange is not good. It
is never purified by a ray of sun
light, and the room is so crowded
that in the noise, the bustle, the jost
ling and the excitement, a man is
well buffeted about and his nerves
are well worn. Moreover he hasn’t
time to get a wholesome lunch. He
darts into Fisk.s dive New street,
where old fatty Fisk, once president
of the Fat Men’s Club, sits and feeds
himself apparently all day long, and
he (the broker; gets a hot roast beef
sand winch and drinks a John Collins,
which is a soda lemonade with a dash
of gin and Bugostura bitters in it,
and returns to the exchange without
having received much nourishment.
No wonder the men are bald headed.
No wonder that they tell you that
they are shaving their heads several
times a week, in the belief that when
they have made their fortune they
will have a splendid hirsute adorn
ment to exhibit on parade. It is
strange to see how these men pass
from grave to gay, from lively to se
vere. When the market looked bluest
to-day they gathered arounded a new
French member and began singing
“Aux armes citoyen.” They plunge
into diversion eagerly as though to
give their tired brain some play.
The other day they began to knock
each other’s hats off, and to throw
them at the chairman who stood,
book in hand, fining every member
detected. The new exchange addi
tion is proceeding rapidly, and in
about a year’s time will be ready for
use.
Winfield Scott Hancock.
Freemans Journal.
‘•There is a Providence that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we may!”
The nomination of Major-General
Winfield Scott Hancock is an aus
pice of a clear light out of a dark
clouding. We do not deny that we
desired the nomination of Judge
Thurman, United States Senator
from Ohio, His position made us
desire it, not any close knit persona]
attachment. His position is that of
the most profound, clearest, and
most executive, statesman developed
in our times. There may be others
as great, or greater— but the oppor
tunity has not afforded them the oc
casion for showing the combination
of knowledge and administrative abil
ity he has shown possessed of.
But, this notwithstanding, it looks
to us as if Providence had overruled
all our petty calculations, and laugh
ing at our attempts at wisdom, had
given us the standard-bearer that was
to restore to us a system of Free-
Government.
Repeatedly, in answer to the prop
osition of making Gen. Hancock the
standard-bearer of the Party of liber
ty, wo have said he was a most gal
lant and true gentleman, a man of
wise and considered qualifications; I
but that the fact that he was, from •
his youth, a military man, was an ob
jection, for us, to his being candidate
of the political party that asserted
the supremacy of the civil over the
military power.
Gen. Hancock’s nomination, strik
ing us, as it has struck the whole
country, as wise, just, and best, has
led us, carefully, to review the histo
ry of the past twenty years of our
country.
Our conclusion was right, that the
peace and happiness of the country
requires the restoration of the civil
is supreme over the military power.
Our premises were wrong, that this
desired end were best, and surest,
gained by electing whatever civilian
as President. No ! Civilians they
were—men that could not drill an
“awkward squad,’’ nor knew on
which hip a sword should be worn,
that used the military power for
ignoble purposes; used them outside
of the military lines wherein alone
they had rightful auth )rity, to the
detriment of the inalienable rights
of freemen of the land: Used, or
tried to use them, to oppress and
hurt non-combativea, in regions
where war had been carried on, and
in regions wherein war was at an
end, and nothing but helpless suffer
ing remained.
We join with all best and truest of
our fellow-citizens in thinking it
right, fit, and of choicest advantage,
that, as military power has been used
to the hurt of civil rights, by the
arbitrary commands of civil officials,
so, now, by the hand of one foremost
as a soldier, second to none in gallant
ry or in euffeiings—a noble son of no
ble sires—whose deeds of heroism are
such as to stamp as utterly ignoble
whosoever is caitiff' enough to call
them, vainly in question;—yes by his
hand, a peerless soldier, by his elec
tion, as representative of a principle
that the late war seems to have put
in jeopardy—by Lis patriotic purpose
—against what seemed the result of
a wretched war; by his wisdom, we
hope, to restore what seemed to have
passed away forever—the liberties
that our grandfathers fought for.
Wl-field Scott Hancock made some
of his first acts of war under that
grand chieftain, after whom he was
calied, on fields in Mexico. In 1852,
we took a very active, and, in places,
effective part, for the election of
Franklin Pierce, for President,
against the grand old General, Win
field Scott—who was the candidate of
the wrong party. We had the per
sonal thanks of Gen. Pierce—unex
pected, and not wanted. But, in the
very heat of the campaign, some
vulgar fellow charged on Gen. Scott,
that ho Lad court-martialled, and
shot, some adopted citizens, among
others, for outrages committed on
non combatives in Mexico, —against
the Stringent orders, under such
penalties, announced in orders by
that great General.
In the very ffurry of that hot polit
ical campaign, we stopped, to say, in
the columns of the Freeman's Journal,
that Gen. Scott had done right in
thus severely punishing criminal ma
rauders. Our columns of 1852, show
it.
We have known, intimately, many
cf the comrades of Gan. H ancock, in
that war in Mexico. We are not sur
prised, therefore, that, governed by
the best traditions of the old Army,
though knowing it was to cost him
hostility, on the part of a Washington
Administration whose members had
never braved the fierceness of a ter
rible war, nor learned the lessons of
pity taught on fields of death and
mutilation in a war between men of
like blood and family—Gen. Hancock
—tetrible in war, asserted his prero
gative of mercy, and justice, in say
ing, as he had the right to say, on
the restoration of peace, these words,
of a grander significance, then, than
can be understood now.
Charity ofSpeech.
Charity of speech is as divine a
thing as charity of action. The ton
gue that speuketh no evil ig as lovely
as the hand which giveth alms. To
judge no one harshly, to misconceive
no man’s motives, to believe that
things are what they see m to be until
they are proved otherwise, to temper
judgme nt with mercy,—surely this is
as good as to build up churches, es
tablish asylums, and to found col
leges. Unkind wordfi do as much
harm as unkind deeds; many a heart
has been wounded beyond cure by
words; many a reputation has been
stabbed to death by a few little words.
They have separated families, parted
husbands and wives, and broken the
ties between the dearest friends.
There is a charity which consists in
with-holding words, in keeping back
harsh judgments, in abstaining from
speech, if in speaking is to condemn.
Such charity hears the whole tale of
slander, but repeats it not; it will
not be the one to help the ball to roll.
It listens in silence, bute forbears com.
ment, and it locks the unpleasant se
cret up in the very cfepths of the
heart While the busy, censorious
world is wagging its tongue, charity
< sits dump amid the clatter, refrain
img from passing judgment on that
of which ft has no proof, and which,
even if it iiad, would prefer throwing
the mantle’cff silbhce over the un
pleasant master.
Could it be possible for slander to
make the headway it does, if reti
cence, instead of pfbmulgation, was
the uniyerikl ruTe? Could report
be furnished with the hundred wings
jt has, if there were not so many
tongues wagging ? Silence can still
rumor; it iA speech that keeps it alive
and lends it vigHr. It is to the heart
that is kind' and gentle that charity
flies and broods quietly over it with
tjfie peacefulness of the dove. There
it make its home, and by the word
withheld tfhd the kindly word spo
ken we have the sign that the dove,
of peace is nestling in the heart.
The heart which i's filled with bitter
ness will give vent to it in words. It
sees nothing bright and beautiful,
because it. looks through a clouded
vision. Words are a pretty good
test of temper and habit of thought.
As “to the pure all things are pure,”
so to the malicious and ill-tempered
all things are black and unlovely,
and of ill repute. Words are the
signs of thought, and if the thoughts
be sweet and good the words will be
kind, gentle/ and free from malice
and uncharitableness. Therefore, by
our words .do we 'proclaim what we
are—the good *. fairly dropping dia
monds from her mouth, or the evil
fairly dropping toads.
A Sacred Mimbtr.
To begin with, the number seven
was by the Jews of old looked upon
as being in a measure a sacred num
ber. The seventh was the Sabbath,
and that of course was venerated as
the day of rest; but besides that
there was the week or period of seven
years, during the last of which the
earth was unworked, and left in a
state of repose. Then, too there was
the time of seven weeks of seven
years, or forty-nine years, at the ex
piration of which came the great
year of Jabilee.- When visited by
those wonderful visions which are
incorporated in the Apocalypse, the
exile of Patmos could not fail to have
noticed, as we do now, the singular
repetition of the number seven in
various places of the Revelation.
There were the seven churches to
which messages were sent, the seven
golden candlesticks with their seven
branches, the seven ever-burning
lamps, while in the figurative de
scription of the last day, St. John is
reported to have heard seven trum
pets sounded, to have seen the seven
vials of wrath poured out, the seven
stars falling from heaven, to have
watched the breaking of the seven
seals, and to have flown in spirit
with the seven executing angels. In
the days when holocausts were
looked upon as a pertinent form of
religion, the number seven was not
overlooked. Thus Job’s friends of
fered a sacrifice of seven calves and
seven heifers. David, at the time of
the translation of the ark of the
covenant, immolated the same num
ber of victims; and Abraham offered
a sacrifice of seven sheep when mak
ing an alliance with Prince Ahime
lecb, and similar instances might be
multiplied without end. By the bye,
the chief Israelitish feats of Passover
and Pentecost are separated by an
interval of several weeks.
Bro. Gardner’s Lime-Kiln Cl ub
COMMUNICATIONS.
Under this heading the Secretary
announced a communication from
Bushnell, la., stating that a local de
bating society of colored men had got
stuck on a question and desired the
assistance of the club. The society
had found itself unable to agree as to
which of the many almanacs put
forth contained the most trust-worthy
weather predictions, and it has been
agreed to adopt the one in use by the
Lime-Kiln Club.
“Gen’len,” said the President in re
ply, “I ’ink dat de inhabitants of dis
kentry am payin’ altogeder too much
'tenshun to dis wedder queshun.
Dar’s a groan o’dispair when it’s hot,
an’ a growl o’ displeashur when it’s
cold. If it rains somebody raises a
row, an’ if it’s dry somebody else has
a bone to pick wid de powers above.
Ebery red-headed, one-hoss white
man—ebery broken down old two
cent darkey, has got de ideah dat da
Lawd am boun’ to send long jist de
sort o’ wedder he wants, no matter
’bout de rest of de kentry. De ole
man Rubottom, libin’ up dar by my
cabin, has got about fifteen cents
worf o’ garden truck back of his
house, an’ when it’s hot or cold or
wet of dry he am so agitated dat he
forgits dat any odder soul in dis ken
try has sot out an onion or planted a
’.ater. Mo’ dan fifty y’ars ago I come
to de conclushun dat I mus’ put up
wid sich wedder as de Lawd gim me,
no matter whedder it brought on
chilblains or rheumatics, an’ it was a
great burden off my mind. I take it
jist as it comes, keepin’ de ole um
brella in good repair, an’ I doan’
know nuflfin’ ’bout almanacks an’ I
> doan want to."— Detroit Free Press.
Origin of the American Dollar
Mark. *
The editor of the London White
hall Review has recently-added to the
several theories concerning the ori
gin of the $ mark another, which
may rank as the fourth of any im
portance which had been propounded
on this subject. He says ‘ The dol
lar mark is taken from the Spanish
dollar, and the sign is to be found la,
the associations of tjie Spanish.dol
lar. On the reverse of the latter is a
representation of each pillar and a
scroll with the inscription ‘Plus
ultra.’ This device in course of time
has degenerated into the sign which
stands for the American as well as
the Spanish dollar. The scroll, I
take it, represents the two serpents
sent by Juno to destroy Hercules in
bis cradle.”
Further research upon the subject
demonstrate to the understand
ing of the editor in question.—
First—That the Spanish dollar
does not, nor did it any time, bear
the pillars of Hercules, but that the
Spanish-Mexican dollar and its frac
tional pieces each have the pillars,
and that hence the sign of the dollar
is not “to be found in the associa
tions of the’ Spanish dollar.”
Second—lt is well known that,
during the early commercial inter
course between Americans and the
Spanish traders in the tropics, a
marked distinction existed between
the two coins—the Spanish and the
Mexican dollars. The latter, al
though nominally of the same value,
' was, intrinsically, more valuable than
tho Spanish dollar by weight of sil
ver in the coinage. American mer
chants and other, of this difference,
preferring the- “pillar” dollars, as
commonly called byway of distinc
tion; were careful to specify it,
(avoiding the Spanish dollar as
many now do tho trade dollar;)
hence in writing, a brief sign repre
senting the pillar dollars was re
quested, and the following was
adopted: The figure eight (always
used, signifying “piece of eight”
reals) w>Uiin two upright (often
slanting) strokes, thus—[B] Later
■ the pen was run through the figure,
and finally the strokes were first
made and then the serpentine 8
across them, resulting in the $ mark.
It was understood that the strokes
indicated pillar dollars or “pieces of
eight.”
The Corner in Opinion.
The enormous and increasing con
sumption of opium in this and other
countries has had the effect to create
a syndicate which has made a corner
on the world’s supply of Turkish opi
um. The average annual consump
tion of this drug is about nine hun
dred thousand pounds, or four hun
tred and fifty tons. The present
supply is only about half that quanti
ty, and as two months must elapse
before the new crop comes in, which
will not be more than two hundred
and seventy thousand pounds, there
will be only a little over six hundred
thousand pounds, deducting the two
months supply. The opium syndi
cate now hold two hundred and twen
ty-five thousand pounds here and
about one third as much in London
and Smyrna, where they havi agents
on hand to secure the new crop. The
price has already advanced to $6 50
per pound in bond ($1 duty). In
1868, when the crop was two hun
dred and eighty-five thousand
pounds, or fifteen thousand pounds
more than the present supply, the
price rose to sl2 50 in bond ($2 du
ty), and the premium on gold that
then existed brought the price up to
S2O per pound in currency. For
these reasons the syndflbte expect to
make a huge profit. JKone of the
members of the syndicate is worth
$20,000,000 and the others are weal
thy, they have plenty of funds at
their command.
Self-Winding- Clocks.
A clock- maker of Copenhagen,
named Louis Soenderberg, who for
seme time past has had charge of
that city’s electric time-keepers, has
just invented an ingenious appliance
which obviates the necessity of wind
ing up the regulator, from which the
clocks in question “take their time.’’
By a mechanical contrivance which
periodically cuts off the stream of
electric fluid emanating from thebat
terry, and brings an electric magnet
to bear upon the relaxed mainspring
in such away as to renew its tension
instantaneously, perpetual motion is
practically imparted to the works of
the regulator, that is to say, as long
as the batteries connected with it
are kept properly supplied with acids.
The discoverer of this important im
provement has satisfied himself, by
six months’ successful txperiraents in
his own workshops, that his system
works faultlessly, and has applied
for permission to adapt it to the elec
tric clocks set up by the municipality
in different parts of the Danish capi
tal. Electricity, under Mr. Soender
berg’s compulsion, is destined not
only to make the Copenhagen clocks
1 go, but to wind them up, with never
ending recurrence, until the “crack
of doom.’’
The Wonderiul Adaptability of
Paper.
The hdaptab.l’ty < f pa: er to
impormvt and widely
varied uses is wonderful. What
other substance can be satisfactorily
substitutedfor, wood, iron and such
common to the extent that
paper ua? be ? Jt ia impossible to
and anything else which, like paper,
may be so differently and dexterously
prepared, as regards flexibility, thin
ness, strength,durability, impervious
ness to fire and water, etc., that it
Jan be readily made into pails, wash
| bowls, dishes, bricks, napkins, blank
ets, barrels,,houses, stoves, wearing
i ipparei, curtains, bonnets, newspaper
and writing sheets,.wrappers, car
pets, coating .for iron ships, flower
potp, boxqe, parchment, slates, cover
ings for the leads of pencils, jewelry,
lanterns, car wheels, dies for stamp
ing, uppers for shoes, rooting, and
many other things. It is this ten
dency oh The part of paper to take
the place of ever} thing else, to bt -
Come a universal substitute, so to
Speas, which leads to the conclusion
that tfoj future has u grand develop
ment in store f r it, and that in tLe
years to qomp its manufacture will
hold a magnificent position am mg
the great industrial interest < f the
world — Paper World.
Mrs. i'oiu Thumb
Mrs. Tom Thumb is described by
a correspondent as she appeared re
centiy in the stud. She is now a per
fect matron in minature. Her face,
though still pretty, shows her age,
and has a quaint motherly (xpres
sion. She is a realization, in a small
way, of fair, fat and forty. She wore
a suit of blue-gray, flannel, which
was jaunty and coquettish before it
got wet. Her arms were bare to the
tops of her shoulders, in each of
which was a pretty little dimple, and
there was a shapely taper down to
her wrists. Her small feet were un
covered' She had a comically dignfii
ed air,rnda stepped into the surf with
the air of a little queen. She waded
boldly until she met the first wave,
which soused her, flopped her down,
rolled her over and over, and finally
threw her up on the sand. All the
style bad been instantaneously
drenched out of her clothes, but
“take her altogether, she looked bet
ter after the ordeal than did most of
the bigger women.” Her busband is
enormously fat, wears whiskers, and
shows all of his fifty years. His
brother-in-law, Major Newell, who
was a dwarf of very small propor
tions when he married Minnie War
ren, has since grown to a stature of
five feet.
«.
Exports and Imports of Mer
chandise-
The preliminary report of the
Bureau of Statistics for the last fiscal
year shows that the value of the ex
ports of merchandise during the year
ended June 30, 1880, exceeded the
value of the exports of merchandise
during the preceding year about
$125,000,000, or 18 per cent.; and
that the value of the imports of mer
chandise during the year ended June
30, 1880, exceeded the value of such
import during the preceding year
about $222,000,000, or 50 per cent.
The increase in the value of the im
ports of merchandise exceeded the
increase in the value of the exports
nearly $97,000,000. The value of the
imports and exports of merchandise
during the fiscal year just closed ex
ceeded lhe value of such imports ex
ports during the preceding year about
$347,000,000—an increase of 30 per
cent. The rapid growth of the for
eign commerce of the country is
strikingly exhibited by ths fact that
the value of the imports and exports
of merchandise during the fiscal year
just closed amounted to $1,503,669,-
489, being about 81 per cent, greater
than the value of the imports and ex
ports of 1870, and nearly 119 per
cent, greater than the value of the
imports and exports of 1860.
Cotton Roping.
This article has been rapidly gain
ing favor in the American market.
Its principal advantages over hemp
cordage, are in its greater tensile
strength according to bulk, its light
ness, freedom from friction, and dur
ability. In all these essential points
it is superior to hemp. Its co tis 50
per cent, more per pound than that
of hemp, though it makes more
rope to the pound. Tiie first cost is
fully 33 per cent, more than that of
hemp, bat in the long run this is
more than balanced by its extra dur
ability. The government order au
thorizing its use in place of hemp in
the United States Navy will have no
effect on the market price. What
manufactories tnere are here already
arc sufficient, if at woik all the time,
to not only furnish roping here but
to all the navies in the world. But
little cotton roping is ixported, none
imported. It is confidently expected
’ by the trade that the time is not far
distant when cotton roping will be
‘ the only kind used in the country.
President Hancock will attend the
wedding of Miss Jennie Flood and
Ulysses Grant, Jr., in November.
Advertising Hatos.
Legal adTenisem.nta charged seventy-live cents
per hundred words or fraetio < thereof each inter
uon for the first lour insertions, aud thirty-ire
cents for each subsequent insertion.
Transient advertising will ee charged $1 per luih
for the first, and fifty cents lor each subsequent
insertion. Advertisers desiring larger space for a
longer time than one mouth will receive a libera 1
deduction from regular rates.
Al! bills due upon the first appearance of tho ad -
vertisement, and will be presented at the pleasure
of the proprietor. Transient advertisements frem
* unknown parties must be paid for in advance.
SMALL BITS
Os Various Kinds Carelessly Thrown
| Togethei.
One hundred and fifty persons
> from around Gettysburg, Pa., will
settle in Fiordia.
Ivan Zenertych.a young Hungarian,
rode 1,200 miles on a velocipede and
accomplished the feat in 27 days.
The -Russian government has again
. prohibited the press from publishing
information in regard to its arma
ments against China.
Colonel L. W. Bradley, of Hudson,
N. ¥., heretofore an influential Re
’ publican, has written an open letter
pledging hs support to Hancock and
English.
The affairs of the bank of Havana
are in such a suspicious condition
that it takes $240 of their paper to
equal $1 in gold; a decline of thirty
cents since February.
Cotton has a history dating back
thousands of years. Herodotus, 484
years before Christ, says that the in
habitants of India wore garments
made from cotton.
Thirty-two grain vessels were lost
within the last twelve months. By
these disasters two hundred and fifty
lives and about one million and ahalf
bushels of grain were lost.
The Mayor of Cannes, in France, a
few days ago married M. Bruery, a
Catholic priest, aged 93, converted
two years ago to Protestantism, to
Mlle. Ver nett, a Protestant, 33 years
of age.
A citizen of Louisville, bitten by a
licensed dog. brings a suit against the
city for 10,000 damages. The point
involved is one of interest.
Near Galena, 111., a farmer said he
would plow corn to spite providence’
for sending a thunder shower, but ho
was yet in the first row when a bolt
of lightning killed both man and
horse.
Tobacco cultivation is now carried
on extensively and with increasing
success in Jamaica, although it has
only taken a place in the industries
of the colony within the last few
years
The pay rolls for the census enume
rators will be ready between the Ist
and 15th of August. This will indeed
be good news to about thirty-eight -
thousand persons wh) are directly
interested.
It is estimated by doctors and
philosophers that about nine-tenths
of humanity pass out of life as they
came into it, unconscious, Even
wuen consciousness is retained, the
bodily state is so changed that the
horror of death disappears
Dr. Paul of Philadelphia adver
tised himself us “the world-renownod
wizard of human destiny,” and offer
ed to conduct the love and marriage
effdirs of others; but he seems to
have mismanaged his own, for he is
now in jail for bigamy.
Vesuvius electrically illuminated
appears now nightly as the “moun
tain of light” of the Eastern fable.
The indescribable grandeur of the
spectacle attracts to Naples thou
sands of tourists from the most dis
tant countries of Europe and Amer
ica.
Napoleon lll.’s widow derives her
revenue from three sources—the pro
duct of savings and speculations, the
insurances on the Emperor’s life, and
the real estate which the Empress
bought in her own name when she
was on the throne.
The improved condition of the
country and the prospects of an abun
dant harvest in Ireland have caused
Irish relief committees to prepare to
dissolve. The money on hand will
be sufficient to meet all pressing de
mands.
The Mowbray Nitro—Glycerine
i Works at North Adams, Mass., have
been blown up three times. Os the
ten successive superintendents, eight
have been killed by explosions, one is
blind, and the other is now in
charge. The utmost care is main
' tained in the establishment but
danger is unavoidable.
The new passenger omnibuses for
Philadelphia are as handy as our old
fashioned omnibuses are unhandy.
They have immense wheels, between
which the body hangs close to the
ground. There is a low platform in
the rear, so that ingress is easy. The
roof is eight feet above the floor, af
fording comfort to tall men. There
are sea's for eight persons; one horse
draws .he vehicle.
“2 >.« next morning the judge of
the police court sent for me. I went
down and he received me cordially.
He said: ‘I have heard of the wonder
ful things you have accomplished by
knocking down five persons and'as
. saulting six others, and I am proud
I of you.' Then he offered a toasty
• ‘Guilty or not guilty?’ to which 1
, responded in a brief but elegant
speech, setting forth the importance
of the occasion that had brought uaf
3 together. After the usual
1 I was requested to lend the city
dollars.’
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