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! The Jamesville Eagle. Published Every Friday Morning. UV Jr. IC. RE D W IIN K. Rntes of Subscriptions * ‘/One copy one year ?2<-0 sNp Ono copy six months 1 00 H One copy three months. 50 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.’ NO. 35