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EDITORIAL. EAGLETS.
It is stated that Jay Gould's prof
its in stock speculations for the last
year am unt to $11,000,000.
——— ♦
Dispatches state that old man
Bender, the notorious Kansas mur
derer and outlaw, was captured a
few days ago in Nebraska.
It has leaked out that General
Weaver, who is canvassing for the
presidency on the greenback ticket,
is supplied with funds by the nation
al republican committee.
Senator Pryor, who succeeded
Senator Houston, of Alabama, most
positively declines to be re-elected.
He prefers his farm and law prac
tice to the dubious honors of the
senate.
The control of the house of repre
sentatives is next in importance to
the presidency—hence great care
should be taken that none but good
and true men are elected to the next
congress.
Mr. Le Due, the commissioner of
agriculture, believes, from the ex
periments made within the last few
years, that tea culture will soon be
come an important industry in por
tions of the south.
The New York Sun unhesitatingly
pronounces Gen. Hancock’s letter to
Gen. Sherman “the most excellent
-and extraordinary letter on the con
stitution, on law, and on public mili
tary and civil duties ever written by
an American general.”
Gen. Weaver predicted that the
independent State ticket would be
elected in Alabama. It turns out,
however, that the democratic ma
jority will exceed sixty thousand.
The opposition was a combination oi
radicals, greenbacktrs and indepen
dents.
<•- -«»-
Senator Johnson, of Virginia, is
firm in the opinion that the old do
minion will be carried by Hancock
and English. He believes the
strength of the readjusters has been
greatly overestimated, and that with
out the help of the radicals, the ifa
hone party will soon dwindle to a
small following.
At a meeting of the democratic
State executive committee of New
York, held on Friday of last week,
measures were taken for the com
plete unification of the party on both
the State and national tickets. A
committee from Tammany was re
ceived and it was resolved to heal all
local differences and unite, in the
coming campaign.
The census returns, thus far, do
not indicate that the south will suf
fer any serious loss in representation
under the new appointment. The
general gains throughout the south,
with the exception of South Caro
lina, are far in excess of the esti
mates, and show that, in spite of
every drawback, this section has
fairly held its own with the rest of
the country.
A most extraordinary case in the
history of trusts has just come to
light in Philadelphia. Tho estate of
a gentleman who died there less than
a year ago, amounting to something
over $5,000,000, was settled up this
week, without a contest of any kind,
and the whole amount paid over to
the heirs intact, less the sum of $lO,-
000 allowed by the court to the ex
ecutors as compensation, and thirty
dollars court costs.
On the 4th instant, the wife of
Mr. Woodson L. Gunnels, a well-to
do farmer of Sumpter county, in the
absence of her husband, drugged
her nine children with morphia
mixed with lemonade, and afterwards
drank of the poisonous mixture her
self. The woman and three of the
children died, all efforts to resusci
tate them proving ineffectual. Six
of the children were restored to
consciousness and will probably
recover. Insanity is supposed to have
been the cause of this unnatural act.
Senator Geo. H. Pendleton, in a
speech recently delivered at Cincin
cinnati, said: “Mr. Jefferson, eighty
years ago, defined a democrat as one
who maintains equal and exact jus
tice to all men; the support of the
State governments in all their rights;
the preservation of the general gov
ernment in its whole constitutional
vigor; a jealous care of the right of
election by the people; absolute ac
quiescence in the decisions of the
majority; the supremacy of the civil
over the military authority; economy
in the public expense; tho honest
payment of our debts, and the sacred
preservation of the public faith;
freedom of religion; freedom of the
press; freedom of the person under
the protection of the habeas corpus,
and trials by juries impartially selec
ted. This is the very portrait of
Hancock. He is the incarnation of
the supremacy of the civil over the
military authority. He is the em
bodiment of the definition of civil
liberty.”
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
A shower of meteoric dust, con
taining fragments of metalic iron
together with organic particles, visi
ted Catania, in Sicily, recently, to the
amazement and wonder of tltw in
habitants of that region.
Recent discoveries have developed
the fact that the ancient races of
Chaldeans and Babylonians made a
practical use of the moon, in the
keeping up of a system of regular ob
servations, which showed that the
changes in the weather was due to
lunar influences.
Scientists, from close observations,
are of the opinion that pines and
other needle-leaved trees have a
stronger attraction for watery vapor
than other trees, and that those con
taining resinous matter absorb much
more water, and exhale it more rap
idly than other species.
One of the newest inventions in
this country, and one of great prac
tical value and good, is the “Dam
poscope,’’ which is used for detecting
fire-damp and determining the quan
tity of light carburetted hydrogen in
the air. Its construction is said to
be simple while its action is perfect,
and accurate, the least trace of gas
being indicated at once, and minute
ly by the instrument.
With a view to the protection of
the birds of the country, the French
government has taken action, and
has enacted laws prohibiting the
killing of other than birds of pas
sage, and those only under certain
limitation. The law is much more
stringent than the so-called game
laws in this country, and is strictly
enforced against all offenders, no
matter how trivial the violation.
A summer school of Biology will
be opened at Drury College, in
Springfield, Missouri, on July Ist,
and will continue about two months.
The chief means employed for carry
ing on the work will be laboratory
study, lectures and excursions, and
tho studies will consist of Micros
copy, vertebrate and invertebrate
zoology, crytogramic and Phseno
gramic Botany and instructions in
methods of teaching elementary sci
ence will be given. \
Some Wonderful relicts of an an
cient race of people have recently
been discovered in eastern New
York. A writer from that section
enumerates a number of arrow-heads,
small copper awls, a sea-shell adapted
to use as a drinking vessel, several
bone-awls, fragments of deer-horn
instruments, a gouge made of bone,
a necklace or head-dress composed
of copper and shell beads, and many
other articles, all of which wera un
like any ever found in Indian bury
ing grounds. In one grave was
found eighty-nine arrow-heads.
Since there are so many copying
processes being invented these days
and as there seems to be a mania for
duplicating and multiplying letters,
circulars, etc., we feel like giving out
readers the benefit of all we can
learn on the subject. Hence we
give herewith the art of zinzography,
a simple and easy mode of printing,
by which mode any number of copies
of a letter, drawing or circular may
bo produced. Our authority is Prof.
Thomas Bolas, in F. C. S., who re
cently read a paper before the Lon
don Society of Arts, describing this
process in the following manner:
Zincography, he said, is similar to
lithography, except that a zinc plate
is employed in the place of the
lithographic stone. The so-called
transfer paper is merely a moderate
ly fine paper which has been brushed
over on one side with a mucilaginous
mixture prepared by boiling to
gether 1,000 parrs of water, 100 of
starch, 6 of gambage and 1 of glue.
This paper is written upon with the
ordinary commercial lithographic
writing ink, which has been rubbed
up with water like an artists water
color. The writing being dry, it is
necessary to moisten the back of the
transfer by means of a damp sponge,
after which it is laid face downward
on a sheet of ordinary roofing zinc,
which has been previously cleaned by
means of emery cloth. Both being
now passed together under the roller
of a small press, the transfer adheres
to the metal plate; but on dampen
ing the back of the paper.it becomes
easily removeable, leaving the writ
ing on the zinc. The face of the
zinc plate is now gently rubbed over
with mucilage of gum arabic, which
is all the batter for being sour, and
the excess of gum having been
sponged off, an India rubber inking
roller, charged with ordinary print-J
er s ink, is passed over the still damp
zinc plate a few times. The ink
takes only on the lines of the trans
ferred writing, and it is now merely
necessary to lay a sheet of white pa
per ou the plate and to pass through
the press to obtain an impression—
an exact reproduction of the origi
nal writing. Any number of copies
can be printed by repeating the
operations of dampening and inking.
Zincography, thus simplified, is rap
id, economical and within the reach
of every one.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 13, 1880.
GENERAL HANCOCK.
How He Proposed to Act tn 1876—Kin
Celebrated Letter to Gen. Sherman.
Cabondelet P. 0., St. Louis,)
December 28,1876. )
My Dear General: Your favor |of
the 4th inst., reached me in New
York on the sth, the day before I left
for the west. I intended to reply to
it before leaving* but cares incident
to departure interfered. Then, again,
since my arrival here, I have been so
occupied with tho personal affairs of
a business nature, that I have defer
red writing from day to day until
this moment, and now I find myself
in debt to you another letter in ac
knowledgment of your favor of the
17th, received a few days since. I
have concluded to leave here on the
29th (to-morrow evening), so that I
may be expected in New York on the
31st instant. It has been cold and
dreary since my arrival here. I have
worked like a Turk, fl presume that
means hard work) in the country in
making fences, catting down trees
repairing buildings, etc., and am at
least able to say that St. Louis is the
coldest place in winter, and it is the
hottest in summer, of any that I have
encoutrfertd in a temperate zone. I
have knoyvn St. Louis in December
to have genial weather throughout
the month. This December has been
frigid and the river has been frozen
more solid than I have ever known
it.
When I heard the rumor that I was
ordered to the Pacific coast, I thought
it probably true, considering the past
discussion on that subject, possibili
ties seemed to me to point that way.
Had it been true I should, of course,
have presented no complaint, nor
made resistance of any kind. I would
have gone quickly, if not prepared to
go promptly. I certainly would have
been relieved from the responsibility
and anxieties concerning presidential
matters, which may fall to those near
the throne, or in authority within the
next four months, as well as from
other incidents or matters which I
could not control, and the action con
cerning which, I might not approve.
I was not exactly prepared to go to
the Pacific, however, and I therefore
felt relieved when I received your note
informing me that there was no truth
in the rumors. Then I did not wish
to appear to be escaping from the
responsibilities and possible dangers
which may cluster around military
commanders in the east, especially in
the critical period fast approaching.
“All’s well that ends well.”
The whole matter of the presidency
seems to me to be simple, and to ad
mit of a peaceful solution. The ma
chinery for such a contingency as
threatens to present itself has been
carefully prepared. It only requires
lubrication, owing to disuse.
Tlfe army should have nothing to
do with the election or inauguration
of presidents. The people elect a
president, and congress declares in
joint session who he is. We. of the
army have only to obey his mandates,
and are protected in so doing only so
far as they may be lawful. Our com
missions express that.
I like Jefferson’s way of inaugura
tion. It suits our system. He rode
alone on horseback to the capitol, (I
fear it was old capitol,) tied his horse
to a rail fence, entered and was duly
sworn. Then he rode to the execu
tive mansion and took possession.
He inaugurated himself simply by
taking the oath of office.
There is no other legal inaugration
in our system. The people or politi
cians may institute parades in honor
of the event, and public officials may
add to the pageant by assembling
troops and banners, but all that only
comes properly after the inaugura
tion, not before, and it is not a part
of it.
Our system does not provide that
one president should inaugurate an
other. There might be danger in
that, and it was studiously left out of
the charter.
But you are placed in an exception
ally important position in connection
with coming events. The capital is
’in my jurisdiction also, but I am a
subordidate and not on the spot, and
if I were so, one also would be my
superior in authority, for there is the
station of the general-inchief.
On the principle that a regularly
elected president’s term of office ex
pires with the third of March, (of
which I have not the slightest doubt)
and which the laws bearing on the
subject uniformly recognize, and in
consideration of the possibility that
the lawfully elected president
not appear until the fifth of March, a
great deal of responsibility may neces
sarily fall upon you. You hold over;
you will have power and prestige to
support you. The secretary of war,
too, probably holds over. But if no
president appears, be may not be
able to exercise the functions in the
name of the president, for his proper
acts are those of a known superior—
a lawful president. You act on your
own responsibility and by virtue of a
commission only restricted by the
law. The secretary of war is a mouth
piece *f a president. You are not.
If neither candidate has a constitu
tional majority of the electoral col-
lege, or the senate and house on the
» occasion of the count do not unite in
declaring some person legally elected
by the people, there is a lawful ma
chinery already provided to meet
. that contingency and decide the quea
t tion peacefully. It has not been re
cently used, no occasion presenting
’ itself, but our forefathers provided it.
1 It has been exercised and has been
’ recognised and submitted to as law-
• ful on every hand. That maebiaery
would probably elect Mr. Tilden
' president and Mr. Wheeler vice pres
‘ ident. That would be right enough ,i
for the law provides that in the fail
ure to elect duly by the pebple, the
' house shall immediately elect a presi
dent and the senate a vice president.
' The same tribunal must decide
whether the people have duly elected
• a president. I presume, of course,
1 that it is in joint affirmative action
3 of the senate and house, for why arc
1 they present to witness the count, if
1 not to see that it is fair and just ?
1 If a failure to agree arises between
u the two bodies, there can be no law
-3 ful affirmative decision that the peo
-3 pie have elected a president, and the
3 house must then proceed to act, not
’ the senate. The senate elects vice
f presidents, not presidents. Doubt
“ less in the case cf failure by the house
1 to elect a president by the fourth of
1 March, the president of the senate
1 (if there bo one) would be a legitimate
person to exercise presidential au
’ thority for the time being, or until
the appearance of a lawful president,
or for the time laid down in the con
stitution. Such courses would be
' peaceful, and, I have firm belief, law
ful.
I have no doubt Governor Hayes
1 would make an excellent president. I
’ have met him and know of him. For
’ a brief period he served under my
command, but as the matter stands,
I can’t see any likelihood of bis being
duly declared elected by the people,
’ unless the senate and house come to
1 be in accord as to that fact, and.the
house would of course, not otherwise
' elect him. What the people want is
• a peaceful determination of this mat
’ ter, as fair a determination as possi
’ ble, and a lawful one. No other de
-3 termination could stand the test. The
1 country, if not plunged into revolu
1 tion, would become poorer day by
3 day. Business would languish and
3 our bonds would come home to find
a depreciated market.
i I was not in favor of the military
action in South Carolina recently,
and if General Ruger had telegraph-
- ed to me, or asked for advice, I would
have advised him not, under any cir
cumstances, to allow himself, or his
i troops, to determine who were the
i lawful members of a state legislature.
> I could not have given hint better
advice than to refer him to the
» special message of the president in
i the case of Louisiana sometime be
i fore. But in South Carolina he had
i the question settled by a decision of
i the supreme court of the state—the
, highest tribunal which had acted on
> the question. So that this line of
- duty seemed even to be clearer than
in tho action in the Louisiana case. If
- the federal court had interfered and
j overruled the decision of the state
L court, there might have been a doubt
j certainly, but the federal court iater-
sered to complicate, not to decide or
. overrule. Anyhow, it is no business
. of the army to enter upon such ques
-7 tions; and even if it might be so, in
any event, if the civil authority is
i supreme, as the constitution declares
■ it to be, the South Carolina case was
• one in which the army had a plain
7 duty. Had General Ruger asked me
; for advice, and if I had given it. I
r should of course, have notified you of
■ my action immediately, so that it
t could have been promptly overruled,
if it been deemed inad
t visable by you, or others superior In
- authority. Gen. Ruger did not ask
i for my advice, and I infered from
i that, and other facts, that he did not
desire it, or that being in direct enm-
- munieatioa with my military supe
i riors at the seat of government, who
i were nearer to him in time and dist
i ance than I was, he deemed it un
-1 necessary. As General Ruger had
7 the ultimate responsibility of action
3 and had really the greater danger to
confront in the final action in the
f matter, I did not venture to embar-
- rass him by suggestions. He was a
f department commander and the law
) ful head of the military administra-
> tion within the limits of the depart
i ment. But besides, I knew that he
t had been called to Washington for
r consultation before taking the com
k mand, and was probably aware of
- the views of the to
; the civil affairs in his command. I
> know that he was in direct commu
, meal: on with my superiors in author
) ity in reference to the delicate sub
-3 jects presented for his consideration,
i or had ideas of his own which he be
r lieved to be sufficiently in accord
- with the views of our common Supe
r riors to enable him to act intellig&it
i ly, according to his judgment and
3 without suggestions from those not
• on the spot, and not as fully ac
quainted with the facts as himself.
- He desired, too, to be free to act, as
- he had eventually greater responsi-
bility, and bo the matter was govern -
ed as between him and myself
As I have been writing thus freely
to you, I may still unbosom myself
by stating that I have not thought it
lawful or wise to use federal troops
in such matters as have transpired
east of the Mississippi within the last
few months, save so far as they may
be brought into action under the
article of the constitution which con
templates a meeting of armed resist
ance, or invasion of a state, more
powerful than the state authorities
can subdue by ordinary processes
And then only when requested by a
legislature, or, if it could not be con
vened in session, by the governor.
When the president* of the United
States intervenes in that manner it is
a state of war not peace. The army
is laboring and
has been used unlawfully at times.
In the judgment of the people (in
mine certainly,) and we have lost a
great deal of kindly feeling, which
the community at large once felt for
us.
It is time to stop and unload. Offi
cers in command of troops often find
it difficult to act wisely and safely
when superiors in authority have dif
ferent views of the law from theirs,
and when legislation has sanctioned
action, seeming in conflict with the
fundamental law, and they generally
defer to the known judgment of their
superior. Officers of the army are so
regarded in such great crisis, and
are held to such responsibility, es
pecially those at or near the head of
it, that it is necessary on such
momentous occasions to dare to de
termine for themselves what is lawful
and what is not lawful.
Under our system, if the military
authorities should be invoked, as
might possibly be the case in such ex
ceptional when there existed
such divergent views as to the correct
result, the army will suffer from its
past action, if it has acted wrongfully.
Our regular army has little hold upon
the affections of the people of to-day,
and its superior officers should cer
tainly, as far as lies in their power,
legally and with righteous intent, aid
to defend the right, which to us ie
the law and the insttutions which
they represent. It is a well meaing
institution, and it would be well if it
should have an opportunity to be re
cognized as a bulwark in support of
the rights of the people and of the
law. lam truly yours,
[Signed]
Winfield S. Hancock.
To Gen. W. T. Sherman, command
ing the army of the United States,
Washington, D. C.
A Romance of the South.
He who created the fragrance and
flowers and music of Paradise in a
clime so cloudless and sunny that
tradition has located it in the peren
nial bloom of Southern Asia—He
who has clustered around the Medi
terranean Sea such gorgeous vinta
ges, such melodies of song, such ce
rulean skies, and above all, awe
inspiring memories and associations
of ruined Greece and Rome, of the
voiceful vales of Palestine, of the
tombs of the Nile, of the echoing
Parnassus and Helicon and Olympus,
of the name of Caesar, Hannibal,
Pyrrhus and Alexander—He who
has drawn a belt of bewitching ro
mance, of beauty, and of glory, along
the Southern shores of the Old
World, has also woven a web of
scenic and historic splendor, no less
grandly interesting, no less mysteri
ously fascinating, about the borders
of the lower Mississippi and Roan
oke, the Savannah, tho Gulf of Mex
ico, and the Spanish Main; over the
isles consecrated forever by Colum
bus; the gold-ribbed mountains which
DeSoto vainly sought; the everglades
of Marion’s men, and the Virginia
hills of Stonewall Jackson’s wild ri
ders; the land of the pine, the pal
metto, and the vine, the “sweet home’’
of the South, which is endeared to us
by its very sunshine and its name
Thanks be to God for the romance
of the South! It sings in the wind
harp that sweeps her ocean of dark
green pines. It looks out from tho
pure lustre of her starry skies, from
her Floridian seas of fadeless bloom,
from the bright eyes of her daugh
ters, fairer than the maids of Circas
sia, Italy or Spain. It broods above
the wildwood graves of the heroes of
the two great revolutions of ’76 and
'6l, and it hallows the sculptured
shrines where repose the ashes of a
long line of Presidents, Authors,
Statesmen and Warriors.
It atones, in a measure, for a lack
of those superior advantages of edu
cation and refinement which States,
older and more favorably situated
for commerce, have long enjoyed. It
soothes the wounds of the feuds of
sections, and reconciles us to the
loss of wealth and position through
the dread doings of the demon of
War. It wipes away the tear-drop
that rises at the remembrance of
those who sleep in silent phalanx
along the Potomac, the Rappahan
nock, and the James. It hovers
above the snowy cotton-field, the lus
cious and. balmy scented orange
'grove, the lar-reaching rice -vista, the
green tobacco and cane plantation,
the lordly mansion of the white man
and the low log-cabin of the negro,
the heights of Arlington and the
swamps of New Orleans.
But why is it that here in the
South with its utter poverty and fin
ancial ruin, its rugged manners and
its want of the amenities and com
forts of life generally, the romantic ,
feeling rises in ns so strongly and ir
repressibly, and binds us to the dear
old iand with such indissoluble chains
of heartfelt affection ? The answer to
this question is full of that wisdom
that books and schools never teach.
It is simply this: “In certain wild
and partially cultivated places, man’s
chief occupation and converses arc
with Nature; whereas, in richer
places, where there is more to tempt
worldly ambition and worldly enter
prise, Art is his chief occupation, and
becomes by habit his chief enjoyment.
—Musical Monthly.
The Spread of Mahoiuiuedan*
ism.
In Africa, tho Arab missionaries
are indefatigable; they penetrate in
to regions which no European has
ever seen, and they convert whole
tribes at once, raising those tribes, it
should be added, decidedly in the
scale of civilization. A Houssa, for
example, is far beyond any other no
gro of the Western coast. There is
more than a possibility, a strong
probability, that they will before
many generations have elapsed, Lave
converted all the remaining Pagan
tribes of Africa and have made that
continent Abyssinia excepted, Mus
sulman from the Mediterranean to
the Zambesi; and possibly, though
that is a different question, have
built up very extensive kingdoms.
In Arabia, the creed tends constan
tly to become more fanatical and ear
nest. In India, as is well under
stood from the census records, Mus
sulman expansion never ceases.
Their peculiar philosophy, with its
sovereign deity unbound even by hie
own laws, sole source of right, as
well as sole claimant of loyalty, at
tracts the Indian mine; while their
dogma of equality within the faith is
irresistible to casts which suffer day
by day from the pressure of the so
cial hierarchy, A Aariah who be
comes a Mussulman becomes also a
respectable man. It was stated 40
years ago by very acute missionaries
that Islan gained more in India than
it lost in the remainder of the world;
Sir George Campbell declared official
ly that Bengal was becoming a Mus
sulman province, with Hindus inter
spersed; and in Madras whole vil
lages become Mussulman at once
There must be more than 50,000,000
of Mussulmans in India, the conver
sions have gone on throughout the
great Hindu revival which has atten
ded our rule, and the possibility that
all India might become Mussulman
has been repeatedly discussed. Our
own impression is, we confess, that
this will be the case; that this form
of theism has for dark races an at
traction which the Gospel has not,
and that the death blow of the oldest
Paganism will come not from Chris
tianity, but from the only form of
monotheism which Indians seem able
both to comprehend and approve.
Even if the Mussulmans should win
only the bulk of the lower classes, as
they have done in many Bengalee
districts, the position of the Brahmins
will become a painful one, while the
British chance of peaceful ascenden
cy will be materially diminished.
Mussulmans can live in peace with
Hindus, and even imbibe some of
their ideas, such as the naturalness
of caste; but their tendency is to rule,
and their spiritual pride, when com
pressed, is apt to devalop into over
mastering passion. They will bear
oppression from their own people, as
we see in Turkey, and even from
foreigners, as regards their civil or
political rights, but to be oppressed
because they are Mussulmans excites
them beyond all bearing.
The Sultan of Turkey.
A friend of mine who has just re
turned from Turkey, and who had
occasion to be brought in contact
with the Sultan and many of his
Ministers, tells me that the Com
raander of the Faithful is, without
exception, the most utterly faithless
scamp in his dominions. Whenever
he appoints a Minister, he says- to
him: “You must find means to resist
all demands for reform, and your
tenure of office will depend upon the
length of time that you can do this
without compromising me. Event
ually, the Ambassadors will com
plain of you, when I shall pretend to
be most indignant at your not having
carried out my policy, and shall sac
rifice yon for having deceived me.”
The Sultan is the son of an Arme
nian mother, and it is generally sup
posed that his real father was ‘also
an Armenian. He is neither a drunk
ard or a voluptuary, and although
by no means an able man, he has a
considerable amount of low cunning.
He is believer! to be accumulating a
considerable fund, for, although the
finances of his country are in a des
perate condition, taxes do come in >
and yet neither the army nor the
civil employes are paid. The sole
bold of the Sultan oy«r his subjects
is that he is the head of their reli
gion. The only man wfio can com
pete with him for thia position is the
Shereef of Mecca. The last Shereef
was an ambitious man, and it is be
lieved that he was assassinated in
consequence of orders received from
Constantinople. The present Shereef
is a young man, and the assassina
tion of bis predecessor has aroused
much feelingin his behalf. Through
out Arabia and in Syria the Turks of
Constantinople are detested, and it
would be a sound policy on our part
to encourage the separation of Ara
bia and Syria from Turkey. Were
these two countries, thanks to us,
independent of the Turks, the Eas
tern question would be solved; the
inhabitants of Asia Minor would
join the Arab kingdom, which would
become our firmest ally while in Eu
rope the empire of the Sultan would
collapse.
Palestine Pottery.
The Biblical descriptions of pot
tery are singularly applicative to the
present process of manufacture.
Now, in this nineteenth century, the
potter sits at his frame and turns the
wheel with his foot. Or, as we read
in the Apocrypha: “S> doth the pot
ter, sitting at his work and turning
the wheel about with his feet; he
fashioneth the clay with his arm.”
The potter had a heap of the pre
pared clay near him, and a pot of
water by his side. Taking a lump
in his hand he placed it on the top
of the wheel, which revolves hori
zontally, and smoothed it into a low
cone, like the upper end of a sugar
loaf; then thrusting his thumb into
top of it, he opened a hole down
through the center, and this he con
stantly widened by pressing the
edges of the revolving cone between
his hands. As it et larged and be
came thinner, be gave it whatever
shape he pleased, with the utmost
ease and expedition.
It is evident, from numerous ex
expressions in the Bible, that the
potter’s vessel was the synonym of
utter fragility; and to say, as Da
vid does, that Zion's King would
dash his enemies into pieces like
a potter’s vessel was to threaten
with ruinous and remediless destruc
tion.
We, who are accustomed to strong
stoneware of considerable value, can
scarcely appreciate some of these
Biblical references, but for Palestine
they are still as appropriate and for
cible as ever. Arab jars are so thin
and frail that they are literally dash
ed to shivers by the slightest strokes.
Water jars are often broken by mere
ly putting them down upon the floor;
and the servant frequently returns
from the fountain empty handed,
having had all his jars smashed to
atoms by some irregular behavior of
the donkey.
A correspondent writes to the Post
the following significant letter: “Gen
eral Winfield Soote Hancock was born
in 1824 Was nominated as a candi
date for president at the twenty
fourth presidential election. It is
twenty-four years since the Demo
crats have had a president. In Cin
cinnati, twenty'four years ago, the
Democratic party nominated a Penn
sylvanian for president an 1 elected
him. General Hancock was nomi
nated on the 24th of June, and will
carry the twenty-four states named
below at the November election:
Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut,
California, Delaware, Florida, Geor
gia, Indiana, Louisiana, Kentucky,
Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Missis
sippi, New York, New Jersey, North
Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
Virginia, West Virginia."
A young negro bootblack observed
a neighbor poring wisely over a
newspaper, where upon he addressed
him thus: “Julius, what are you look
ing at dat paperifor? You can’t read ”
“Go away,” cried the other indig
nantly: “guess I can read; I’s big
enuff for that.” “Big enuff,” retorted
the other, scornfully; “dat ain’t
nuffin. A cow’s big enuff to catch
mice, but she can’t.”
Chinese, Japanese and other East
ern publishers are rapidly becoming
proficient in producing books which
compare favorably with those of
European make 1 They import most
of their paper and print on both sides
of it.
There is a fortune in store for the
milliner who shall devise a bonnet
that can be worn in any part of the
church and always present tho trim
med side to the congregation.
The Graphic warns the world that
a reaction m railway stocks will soon
take place, but there is no indication
of such an event in this particular
region.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says that
a “foreigner might well think the
patron saint of America was St. An
niversary”
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Transient advertising will be charged >1 per inch
for the first, and fifty cents for each subsequent
insertion. Advertisers desiring larger spaec for a
longer time than one month will receive a liberal
deduction, from reguUr rates.
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SMALL BITS
Os Various Klrii Carelessly Threwh
Together.
A fifty-dollar painted fan raises no
more wind than a five cent palm-leaf.
It is the roam ante of the thing
that makes a picnic dinner so much
better than a square meal at home.
Alex. McClure of the Philadelphia
Times is convinced that Indiana will
remain Democratic and that Ohio will
atay Republican.
Gen. Chambers, the candidate of
‘he greenbackers for the vice presi
dency, announces his intention of
withdrawing from the ticket.
It was found in Manchester, Eng
land, that the draining and paving of
twenty streets diminished tho mor
tality to the extent of 10 in 110.
As many as 32,000 emigrants left
Hamburg daring the first six months
of 1880. The number for the corre
sponding period of 1879 was 12,000.
New York stands first on the roll
of States, Pennsylvania next, while
the third place is contested by Illinois
and Ohio. Missouri is fifth on the
list.
The colored people of the South
neither know anything of Garfield
nor care anything about him. They
do not enthuse on anybody but
Grant.
“Ella,” said a fond mother, slicking
her head out of the bedroom door,
"it is one o’clock. Tell the young
man to please shut the door from the
outside.”
He was from the mountain side,
and was buying his first glass of
soda. "I wish you’d skim off that
skvm, boss; I ain’t paying for no
froth you bet.”
The estate of Robert Morris, the
revolutionary patriot, was settled the
other day, after seventy-four years of
litigation. The lawyers got millions
out of it, the hairs received SII,OOO.
Judge Black, in a letter from Paris
to the World, speaking of Hancock’s
orders in Louisiana, says: “If Wash
ington bad been in Hancock’s place,
he would have done what Hancock
did.’.’
The property standing in the name
of the Accountant-General of the
English Court of Chancery amounted
in 1750 to £1,666,000, in 1840 to
£41,000,000, and now reaches a far
greater sum.
Gen. Hancock has a very pleasant
suburban home, thirty minutes by
railroad from St. Louis. The house
is spacious, and is surrounded by
ample grounds which command a
view of the Mississippi,
A medical authority says: “Laugh
ter is one of the greatest helps of di
gestion, and the custom of our fore
fathers of exciting it at the table by
jesters and buffoons was founded on
true medical principles.”
The North Pole consists of a re
splendent mass of mineral substances
rising a hundred feet above the water,
and glistening like polished glass—
according to a Chicago clairvoyant,
who saw it plainly in a trance.
General Sherman positively de
clines to furnish for publication,
copies of the letters written by him in
December, 1876, to which the letter
of General Hancock, recently made
public through the World, was a reply.
Gen. Garfield is now traveling
round the county showing himself,
and all agree that it's a poor show,
but no charge for it. Tho Herald
says it's the universal remark that
few men have talked oftener and said
less in the same time.
Mrs. Wodehouse, nee King, of
Georgia, who was recently married
to the Marquis of Anglesey, received
as a bridal gift from her husband a
necklace of diamonds containing
thirty-five stones. It was originally
owned by the ex Queen Isabella, of
Spain, and is valued at about $20,000.
Howard Harroff, a murderer in
prison at Youngstown, Ohio, believes
that the ghost of his victim walks
through the grated door into his cell
every night. The conscience-stricken
wretch screams oat with terror, and
implores the jailors not to leave him
alone.
Jerusalem seems to be growing in
favor as a plaee of residence for for
eigners who find their native coun
tries uncomfortable. The foreign
Jewish population has, according to
Consul Moore, increased considera
bly cf late years. That community
is now estimated nt 15,000 including
Jews, against 10,000 in 1873.
The desire to avoid compulsory mili
tary service now enforced in most
European countries, and the right of
holding real property in Turkey, pro
bably account for the increased im
migration. The German colony at
Jerusalem now numbers nearly 400
persons, that at Jaffa about 300.
There is a third German settlement
at Caiffa of about equal number with
the last mentioned. The settlers are
mechanics, artificers, carriers, and
agriculturists, and are fairly prosper
ous-
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