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EDITORIAL. EAGLETS.
The Maine trouble is the election.
Since Maine has spoken the repub
licans are whistling to keep their
courage up.
Even Gen. Raum, the Commission
er of Internal Revenue, is campaign
ing for Mr. Garfield.
The effort to unite the two faction*
in Virginia on the same electoral tick
et will most likely fail.
The democrats of New Hampshire
have nominated Hon. Frank Jones at
their candidate for Goveenor.
Hon. Geo. R. Black, of Screven
county, has received the nomination
for Congress in the first district.
Maj. R. J. Moses, who is zealously
canvassing for Gov. Colquitt, is a
most eloquent and forcible speaker.
- ..
The Abend Post, a daily German
, paper, at Cincinnati, heretofore re
publican, has repudiated Garfield and
declared for Hancock.
Blaine says that Barnum, did tht
work in Maine. Others say that it
was Mr. Tilden’s bar’l. One thing is
certain, lightning did strike.
Senator Brown has been “perse
cuting” ex-Governor Smith by silenc
ing and squelching a number of James
- M.’s fictions.— Augusta Chronicle.
The paternity of the “Convict cate
chism” is becoming a vital question.
The double back action strikes with
such force that no one is willing to
admit its authorship.
From the present condition of the
cotton crop it is now estimated that
the total crop will not be above 5,250,-
000 bales, whereas it has been esti
mated at 6,000,000 bales.
The Seaport Appeal which started
out for Mr. Norwood, calls a halt
when it finds that one of the pur
poses of the minority is the defeat ol
Gov. Brown for the United States
Senate.
It looks as if Dr. H. V. M. Miller
even, was getting a little tired. The
announcement that Gen. Lawton
had been selected to occupy Senatoi
Brown’s chair, exhausted the Doctor’s
strength.
The Milledgeville Recorder spanks
the ametuer police4.l thus: "If
some of the young men c~uld pick
cotton as fast as they talk politics,
there would be more money in the
land and less noise in the air.’’
The next most important thing to
the election of Hancock and English,
is a good working majority of tru<
and tried democrats in the House oi
Representatives. Here is where most
of the reforms must originate.
The labored address of Mr. Nor
cross to the colored voter does not
seam to attract their attention, but
in the eyes of some of the organs of
the minority, it has made its author
nearly as big a man as Mr. Norwood
Your “Uncle,” Jonathan Norcross,
is becoming a man of parts with some
of Mr. Norwood’s supporters, who
insist that the colored voter should
heed the old gentlemans sage advice,
and vote for the minority candidate.
In a recent speech delivered at
Utica, New York, Hon. Horatio Sey
mour knocked the fillen out of Secre
tary Sherman’s claim, that the present
prosperous condition of the country
was due to his financial management.
Since it has become known that one
of the leading objects to be accom
plished by the minority, is the defeat
of Gov. Brown, and that Gen. Law
ton has been selected as the instru
ment for its accomplishment, the ar
dor of many has perceptibly cooled.
It is acting like a wet blanket as it
were.
From the published accounts, the
canvass in Indian a is certainly one
of the hottest and most exciting the
country has witnessed in many a
day. The State seems to have gone
bodily into politics, and mass meet
ings, and public speaking prevade
the commonwealth from one end to
the other.
The railroads of the United States
have enjoyed their full share of the
.« return of prosperity. The gross earn
ings of the railroads for 1879 were
|529 000,000, an increase of $39,000,-
000 over the preceding year. It is
predicted that the gross earnings of
this year will show an increase of
$50,000 000 over last year.
Frank Hurd has to say about Han
cock after an afternoon’s talk: "There
is none of the military atmosphere
about him. He is socisl, straight
forward and entertaining, and wins
you by his natural easy manner. I
was surprised at his conversation on
law and civil subject. His talk dem
onalrated that he >s a great student.”
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
POPULAR SCIENCE NOTES.
Jupiter is now a splendid object
in the evening sky.
Mr, Seibert, of France, has in
vented an apparatus for registering
the law of motion of a projectile,
either in the bore of a gun or in a
resistant medium.
Extensive emery beds have recent
ly been discovered near Peekskill,,
New York, to which considerable
importance is being attached by
manufacturers who use large quanti
ties of the article.
The Audinet is the latest inven
tion to enable the deaf to hear and
the mute to speak. It is like a fan
in appearance, is pressed against
the teeth when used, and is said
to do its work wonderfully, and
well. c
Under the auspices of the "Ger
man African society,’’ a wealthy or
ganization of Germany, not Jess thar
six different expeditions have been
equipped, and are now traveling and
exploring central and southern Afri
ca, and a report of their doings is
anxiously awaited.
The proposition of Prof. Lookroy,
that a sum of 3,700,000 francc, origi
nally intended to rebuild the palace
of the Tuileries, should be devoted
to enlarge the national library, has
been adopted by the French Cham
ber of Deputies, and the f auction ol
the senate has been asked for.
A large and elegant Obelisk has
been erected by the New South
Wales government, on the spot oc
cupied by the transit instrument in
the old observatory at Parramatta,
established in 1872, by Sir Thomae
McDougall Brisbane, the building
having long since been swept away.
Excavations are being made for a
tunnel under the English channel,
between France and England, the
starting point being near Callais.
Working is being prosecuted with
great activity and it is thought that
the success of the undertaking is
fully assured,,and its completion,
though quite a long time off, will
be looked forward to with much
anxiety.
Quite a sensation has been created
in the Paris scientific world, by a
recent decision of M. Tisard, the |
minister of agriculture and com •
tnerce, causing the removal of M.
Iresca, whose name has been famil
iarly connected with the Conservative
des Arts et Metiers for the past
twenty-five years.
January Ist, 1881, has been set for
the time of taking the International
Simultaneous Meteorological Ob
servations throughout the world, by
weather observers of all nations
wherever such observances are made.
Notes will be exchanged and fre
quent observations of this kind will
take place, henceforth for the benefit
and development of Meteorological
Science.
It is said that there exists a curi
ous intermittant spring, on the slope*
of the Volcano of San Salvador, in
central America, which flows in a
stream, almost the size to be called a
river, for seven consecutive years,
when it dries up and ceases to flow i
for seven more years. At the end
of another period of seven years, tht
water again commences to flow, thut
alternating with seven years of flow
and a like period of dryness.
It is authoritatively stated that
there are now 1,724,000,000 acres ol
government lands in the United
States, unoccupied and open to set- 1
tlemerd to those who may wish to
occupy them. The uneurveyed por
tion of Montana alone is claimed to
oe larger than the area of Great
Britain and Ireland combined, and
yet there are thousands of families :
in thia country who are without
homes, who could easily possess
one for the trying. Why are matters
thus.
To make muslin curtaini or other
materials or cloths fire-resisting, dip
them in a hot solution of the follow-1
ing: 80 parts of pure tuiphate of
ammonia, 25 parts of carbonate of
ammonia, 30 of boracic acid, 12 of
pure of borax, 20 of starch and 1,000
parts of distilled or pure wat r.
Thoroughly impregnate the article
and when sufficiently dry, iron as
you would ordinary starched fabrics.
A strong flame ; may be held
constantly to articles prepared with
this solution without setting them on
fire.
The surveys have been made and
work will soon begin on the long
talked-of tunnel under the St. Law
rence river, at Montreal. The line
extends from the Liverpool wharf,
Montreal, to the Hudson cotton fac
tory, at Hocbelaga, and the tunnel
will be 40 feet below the bottom of
the river, which has a depth of 42
feet at this point. The South Shore
railway and Tunnel company have
undertaken the work, and with Wal
ter Shanley, well known through hie
connection with the Hoosac tunnel,
as chief engineer, tbe undertaking
will doubtless prove a successful
one.
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1880.
Benjamin F. Suddatli.
From the North Georgian.
The subject of this sketch was born
on the plantation upon which he now
resides, on Grove river, in Banks
county, on the 22d day of November,
1840, and is consequently now in his
fortieth year. His father being a poor
man, his educational advantages were
few. He attended the common
schools of his county “after the crops
laid by,” until 1868, when he attend
ed school at Carnesville, Ga., for a
year under the tutelage of John B.
Estes.
When the war broke out, our hero
was in Thomas county, following his
adopted calling—farming. He at
once volunteered in what was after
wards known as Company “C” 29th
Regiment of Georgia Volunteers. Hie
regiment was at once ordered to the
Western army and became a part of
the renowned corps commanded by
Gen. Hardee. It participated in all
the battles of Johnson’s army, and
young Suddath was present at all
times and under all circumstances.
At the battle of Chickamauga, our
hero was a sergeant of his company,
and when the commissioned officers
were disabled in the conflict, he took
command, and was publicly compli
mented for "gallant and meritorious
conduct.” Promotion soon followed,
and he was elected a Lieutenant, in
which capacity he served until the
surrender. When he returned to hi*
home, after the war, he went to work
*.6 once with a smiling countenance
and a vim that knows no such word
as fail.
In August, 1865, Miss Chapman, a
most estimable young lady of Hail
county, agreed to share his fortunes
for good or bad, and they were mar
ried, and have since “climbed the hill
together” in such away as to con
vince the world that they were each
happy in their choice of life compan
ions.
As was stated in the beginning ol
this sketch, Mr. Suddath (or Dock,
as he is familiarly called by his
friends) lives on tbe farm on .which
was born. It is not intended to con-,
vey the idea that he inherited the
place by any means. No, his father
was a poor man, and was never able
to help him in any enterprise to the
amount of a dollar. He, by his in
domitable energy and nerve, actually
dug his farm out of the earth, and
hks added to it until he has one ol
the largest, best improved and most
productive farms in his county. He
has been engaged in the lumber busi- j
uess and other enterprises that always
pay under the manipulation of hit,
magic hand.
Mr. Suddath is a strict and con
sistent member of the Baptist church
and it can be said of him truthfully
that no man in this section gives
more freely of his means for the ad
vancement of the work of his Master’*
kingdom. He recently contributed
the sum of SIOO to assist iu building
the Baptist church at Gillsville.
Mr. Suddath is the embodiment oi
energy and perseverance, an .1 when
not away from his home on business
he can always be found plowing, hoe
ing or some other, farm work. He is
a farmer in the strictest sense, and
nofa mere looker on, (from the shady
side of the fence,) while a lot of hired
people or renters make bis bread for •
him with tbe sweat of their brows.
He was raised to work and not to
"oversee,’’ and now in the bloom of
manhood, he would certainly make a
proper representative for the labor
ing masses of the 33rd senatorial dis
trict He is a landlord, and therefore
can appreciate tbe wants and require
ments of that class of our people.
Mr. Suddath is not an orator —
(neither was old Joe Duaegan, who
represented Hall county so success
fully as long as he would consent to
run) —and the same may be truthful
ly said of John W. Pruitt, Robt.
Allen, Samuel Stephens, Gen. Wof
ford, deceased; Samuel Knox, E. W.
Morris and others that could be men
tioned, and who made more success
ful and influential representatives
than they? He knows the value of a
dollar, and is truly and emphatically
a representative of the great laboring
class of Northeast Georgia. He
knows the wants of the poor people
on the subject of education, and
would do all in his power to supply
those wants. In short, if elected, he
would do honor to his section by re
maining at all times in his seat, and
watching closely after the rights of
his constituents, and when called on
to vote would support such measures
as would increase our educational ad
vantages and lessen taxes.
Self-Edncation.
The farmers’ children are too apt
to give up the idea of securing a
good education because they cannot
be sent to the high schools and col
leges as are the children of rich men
in the towns and cities. This is all
wrong. The Kansas Farmer says
the man or womanjwho has learned to
read can master tlmosi any branch
of knowledge if possessing average
natural abilities. Books are cheap
and abundant which treat on any
branch of arbor science*the student
may choose to pursue. And in ad- I
dition to standard works on all
branches of useful and practical
knowledge, there are periodicals spe
cially devoted to dispensing informa
tion on those branches of art or sci
ence, which give all the details and
experiments relating to every new
discovery that takes place in their
particular field of labor.
It should be the aim of every
young man, and woman too, who
are just entering life, to make a spe
cial study of one or more branches
of knowledge, and in making this
choice it should always be with ref
erence to the line of business they
propose to pursue as a living occu
pation; that is the employment by
which they propose to earn their
daily bread. This point having been
determined definitely, a systematic
course of reading should be laid
down, and all books and periodicals
treating that particular branch of
knowledge should be sought and
carefully studied. Any young man
or woman who will pursue this
course for one year systematically,
devoting the spare hours to reading
and gathering all available informa
tion having a bearing on the object
of pursuit, while avoiding waste of
time m light, trifling and promiscu
ous reading as much as possible, will
be agreeably surprised at the amount
of solid knowledge that will have
been gained in the “idle hours” of
this short period. If you will in
quire into the lives of any of our
great specialties who have become
famous in some brach of science, as
explorers, inventors and discoverers
of new truths, you will find that they
have pursued diligently one or two
branches of knowledge, exploring
and tracing up every avenue care
fully until a thorough understanding
of the subject is obtained. This
complete learning is then put into
practice, and it almost invariably
proves a source of valuable income
for life, by which lafge fortunes are
frequently accumulated.
There is no class of persons pos
sessing so rare an opportunity for
this plan of study as farmers. Farm
work is such that it must be per
formed by the light of the sun.
When the shades of evening close
<round the farm active labor ceases
and a season of rest and idleness in
tervenes. if
A Rarely Beaanifßl Plaeno
nienon.
On the 25th of September will oc
cur the perihelion of Jupiter. That
great planet then reaches his nearest
point to tbe sun, and is also within a
few days of his opposition or nearest
point to the earth, Jupiter comes at
that epoch 56,000,000 miles nearer
the great central orb. He is then,
however, more than 450,000,000
miles from the sun, fortunately far
enough away to counteract and mol
lify the increar.ad force- of attraction
between two such mighty masses.
It is safe to fee! that the rubicon of
Jupiter’s perihelion is passed, for the
fifteen days yet to be completed
count as nothing in a revolution re
quiring nearly 11,000 of our days, or
twelve of our years. Nearly twelve
years must pass before the conditions
will again be as favorable for obser
vation. Jupiter comes buGD’ing above
the eastern horizon about 8 o’clock,
bright enough to cast a shadow and
afford a glimpse of his moons through
a good opera glass. Nothing can
be more interesting than to study
the phases of the four diamond
points of light that boar witness of
Jupiter’s moons. Jupiter turns on
its axis in about ten days, so that
an observer on hie equator would be
carried around at the rate of nearly
500 miles a minute, instead of the
seventeen miles that mark the com -
paratively moderate progress made
by an inhabitant at the earth’s equa
tor. Jupiter rises now about 8; at
the end of the month the rising will
be about 6. The September moon
fills on the 18th.
Something New—Barrels made of
pulp are among the latest inventions,
and as described by the Detroit
Tribune, they are likely to become an
important article of commerce. The
advantages claimed are lightness,
durability and cheapness. The body
of the barred is all made in one piece,
from coarse wood pulp. The pres
sure to which it is subjected is 400
ton.*. The heads are made of one
piece in the same way, and when
put together the barrels are exceed
ingly light, strong and satisfactory
in every way. There are two kinds,
one for fruit, flour and other dry
substances, the other for oil, lard
and liquids of ail kinds. A flour
barrel made in this way and filled
can be dropped from a wagon to
the pavement without injury. Fruit
packed in these recepticles keeps
longer than when put up in the us
ual way, being dryer and excluded
from the air. The barrels for liq
uid substances are made by subject
ing the first form to a simple process
and oil can be kept in them without
any leakage. The saving in cost is
about fifty per cent. Steps are be
ing taken for the formation of a
companyjto manufacture barrels,
tube, etc, by this new process.
The Auti-Colquitt Sore Heads.
It is a very remarkable fact that
so many of the distinguished gen
tlemen who are fighting Gov. Col
quitt, should be either persons disap
pointed in getting office at the hands
of the democratic party, or else
disappointed applicants for office
from Governor Colquitt himself.
Let ns notice some of them. We
will take the defeated ones first: Hon.
Thomas M. Norwood beaten by Mr.
Hill for U. S. Senate.
Ex-Governor James M. Smith,
ditto.
Dr. H. V. M. Miller, beaten by
Josh Hill for U. S. Senate.
Gen. Wm. T. Wofford, beaten for
Governor.
Judge Hiram Warner, beaten by
Gov. Colquitt, for Governor.
Hon. Rufus E. Lester, ditto.
Dr. H. H. Carlton, beaten for Con
gress.
Milton A. Candler, beaten for Con
gress.
Tom Glenn, beaten for Attorney-
General.
Os those who failed to get office
from Gov. Colquitt we find many
who are speaking against him.
Col. Geo. W. Adair, wanted to be
R. R Commissioner. Col. D. E.
Butler, wanted to be R. R. Commis
sioner. Judge D. Harrall, wanted to
be Judge Superior Court. T. W.
Grimes, wanted to be Solicitor Gen
eral. L. F. Garrard, wanted to be
Solicitor General. W. Dessau, want
ed to be Solicitor General. W. M.
Bray, wanted to be Justice of the
Peace. James Banks, wanted to be
State Librarian. H. Van Epps,
wanted to be Solicitor of the City
Court. D. P. Hill, wanted to be
Solicitor General. C. H. Williams,
wanted to be Solicitor General. J.
Ganahl, wanted to be Judge Superior
Court. W. M. Tumlin, wanted to be
Keeper of Penitentiary.— The Critic.
The Supports of Religion.
When the pulse beats high, and we
are flashed with youth, and health,
and Vigor, when all goes on prosper
ously, and success seems almost to
anticipate our wishes, then we feel
not the want of the consolations of
religion; but when fortune frowns, or
friends forsake us, when sorrow or
sickness, or old age comes upon us,
then it is that the superiority of the.
pleasures of religion is established
over those of dissipation and vanity,
which are very apt to fly from us
when we are most in want of their
aid. There is scarcely a more mel
ancholy sight to a considerate mind
than that of an old man who is a
stranger to those only true sources of
satisfaction. How affecting, and at
the same time how disgusting, is it
co see such a one awkwardly catch
ing at the pleasures of his younger
years, which are now beyond his
reach; or feebly attempting to retain
them, while they mock his endeavors
and elude his grasp ? To such a one
gloomily, indeed, does the evening
of life set in 1 All is sour and cheer
less. Ho can neither look backward
with complacency, nor forward with
hope; while the aged Christian, re
lying on the assured mercy of his
Redeemer, can calmly reflect that
his dismission is at hand; that his
redemption draweth nigh. While
hia strength declines, and his facul
ties decay, he can quietly repose him
self on the fidelity of God; and at the
very entrance of the valley of the
shadow of death, he can lift up an
eye, dim perhaps and feeble, yet. oc
casionally sparkling with [hope, and
confidently looking forward to the
near possession of his heavenly in
heritance, “to those joys which eye
hath not seen, nor ear hoard, neither
have entered into the heart of man.”
What striking lessons have we had
of the precarious tenure of all sublu
nary possessions 1 Wealth, and
power, and prosperity, how peculiar
ly transitory and uncertain I But re
ligion dispenses her choicest cordials
in the the seasons of exigence, in
poverty, in exile, in sickness, and in
death. The essential superiority of
that support which is derived from
religion is less felt, at least it is less
apperent, when the Christian is in
full possession of riches,and splendor,
and rank, and all the gifts of nature
and fortune. But when all these are
swept away by the rude hand oi time
or the rough blasts of adversity, the
true Christian stands, like the glory
of the forest, erect and vigorous;
stripped, indeed, of his summer
foliage, but more than ever discover
ing the observing eye the solid
strength of his substantial texture.—
Wilberforce.
"In closin’ disjneetin’,” said tbe
president of the Lime-Liln Club, as
tbe usual hour was marked by the
clock, “let ebery one o’ you bar in
mind dat blowin’ up a bladder doan’
make a bar’l. Git it as full o’ wind
as you may, an’ it’snuffin’ but a blad
der. De Lawd made each one for a
speshul purpose, an’de chap who was
created to use a shovel will git busted (
ebery time he believes dat he was cut
out for a statesman. We will now
be scattered.”
The Ancient World We Dwell
On-
The Israelites all over the earth
have celebrated the anniversary of
the creation of the world. Their com
mon acceptation is that the world
was made 5,641 years ago. They
reckon time by lunar months. The
coming of the day varies under our
calendar, which is fixed by solar pe
riods, and consequently does not fall
on the same date in September every
year. It is well for the people to
have occasional holidays and religious
services, for they add to health and
mental growth, and accuracy is not
so much a point of importance as
general agreement. We have some
times wondered why it was that the
Hebrews, famous for their celebra
tion of notable events, had no festival
in honor of the births of Adam and
Eve, who were created on the sixth
day, according to Genesis. Mark
Twain is now very anxious to have a
monument erected to Adam, the pro
genitor of tbe race. If the men do
this the women of the land should
prepare a memorial to Eve, whence
sprang a 1 the beautiful maidens who
run hearts distracted.
How old the world is none have
been able to tell. Christian, Jew and
gentile differ widely. Sine A. D.
169, the date of the first Christian at
tempt, we have one hundred and
forty chronological calculations for
ascertaining the date of creation. In
1830 Dr. Hales tabulated no less than
one hundred and twenty attempts
for determining the exact date of that
event, founded on Hebrew manu
scripts, and each differing. The com
mon Christian computation (the
Usher chronology) makes it 5,884
years ago. We commonly say 6,000.
The Jewish chronologists vary 1,649
years. The gentiles vary as widely.
Usher, Ouimet and Lloyd give the
world’s age at 5,884; Montanus 5,729
years; Crawford 14,830, and Baron
Bunson 21,880.
The Egyptians, give the age of the
world at 32,310 years; the Chinese
104,181; the Chaldeans 469,581,whi1e
the Brahmic chronology of the Hin
doos reaches the sublime period of
432,000. This last is an approxima
tion to the theories of the modern
geologists, who count aeons beyond
the computation of members, in com
parison with which our little six thou
sand circles of the sun dwindled into
a cipher. The Hebrew observance is
a reminder of the great work of the
Divine First Cause which said “Let
there be light and there was light.”
The world is growing older, but
human beings live much faster, and
longer, and better. The boy of to
day knows more than the man of a
half century ago. He who reaches
thirty years is a condensed Methusa
lah. Any one can see now what the
old merely dreamed of. Going
around the world is created into a
pleasure. We are learning to live
now. We are the ancients. Those
here before were moderns. We know
whau they did and far more besides.
Drinks for the Sick.
The sick, especially those afflicted
with fever, often suffer from intense
thirst. The quenching of thhis with
out injuring the patient is a matter
which requires knowledge and good
judgment. Dr, H. H. Kane says that
plain water, when taken beyond a
certain amount, is very apt to disor
der the etc mack and bowels, especial
ly in fevers, where much fluid and
little solid food is taken. Enough
water to quench the thirst would cer
tainly be enough in most cases to dis
order digestion, or, rather, further
disorder, and so important is the lit
tle that remains of this function that
we cannot afford to abuse it. Small
pieces of ice held in the mouth and
allowed to dissolve sometimes answer
the purpose, but not in the majority
of cases. Up to a certain point the
action of water taken internally in
fevers is excellent. Aside from allay
ing irritation by quenching thirst, it
flushes the kidneys, carrying off much
of tho effete matter produded by the
high temperature, It has been found
that the addition of certain substances
to water greatly increases its power
to quench thirst. This is especially
the case with acids. One drachm of
hydrochloric acid added to a quart of
water will give it sufficient acidity to
accomplish the desired purpose,while
at the same time it adds to its pleas
antness, and sometimes relieves
nausea. The use of acids in fevers is
highly commended by some authors,
and this is, I think, the best way to
administer them. The same amount
of sulphurous acid may be added to
a quart of water when the bowels are
loose or there is a tendency that way.
In these cases acidulated barley water
is pleasant and nourishing. The
same may be said of toast water. In
constipation, oat meal water may be
used in the same manner. A few
tamarinds added to a glass of water
will often assuage thirst and open the
bowels gently. Theory and experience
both show that drinks made slightly
bitter and somewhat acid slake thirst
most effectually. A weak infusion of
cascarilly or orage peel, acidulated
tlightly with hydrochloric acid, was
with Graves of Dublin a favorite
thirst-allaying drink for fever pa
tients. Raspberry vinegar is a use
ful drink. Sucking ice is very grate
ful. Swiet fruits, although at first
agreeable and refreshing, must be
taken with care and moderation, for
they often give rise to a disagreeable
taste, and are apt to produce flatu
lence and diarrhoea.
The Political Revolution.
The old, staid, business and com
mercial daily, the New York Journal
of Commerce, in a recent editorial on
“The Political Outlook,” says, among
other things:
We believe that a large majority
of the people of the United States
desire a change of parties in the na
tional administration. The partisan
democrats of course are eager for it;
but there is ample evidence in our
correspondence from all sections of
the country that the large class < f
citizens who are not attached to
either party look upon such a change
as essential to our national prosperi
ty. And beyond this, and of still
greater political significance, not a
few of the more thoughtful members
of the present dominant party are
more or lees expressing their content
with the signs that indicate the com
ing revolution. The la:ter class have
been trying for years to effec reform
within tbeir own organ zition. They
have seen its worst elements in con
trol, not only of party measures, but
of public affairs. Political rewards
have been given to the notoriously,
corrupt and incompetent for unscrup
ulous devotion the leaders who
thus maintained their supremacy.
The solid sense and sound judgment
of the best men of the party have
gone for naught when weighed against
political device and trickery. Despair
ing of a better administration with
out the overthrow of those who have
used the republicans for their own
aelfish gain, theimcn pvho should be
at the front in this organization are
ready to accept the change as the
only means of effecting the desired
result.
With the non-partisan public the
feeling is one of intense desire for a
restoration of that peace and unity
between the several sections of the
country, and especially between the
Northern and Southern States which
is essential to our prosperity, but
which it seems impossible to obtain
under the present rolling organiza
tion.
A candidate for solicitor of the 7th
judicial circuit of Alabama, publishes
the following card:
“Whenever a patriot offers to im
molate himself upon the altar of bis
country, and accepts office at the
hands of an appreciative and intelli
gent constituency, it is customary
for his enemies to fly-blow his repu
tation with falsehood and daub his
character with calumny. To save
the breath of those Sagos (rather
Dogas) the plea of guilty is entered,
and the clemency of the general as
sembly vehemently invoked. It is
admitted that during the last “big
show” your unworthy candidate,
armed with a flint and steel horse
pistol “treed” an infirm grandfather
and kept him in a large oak tree all
night, so that his legs froze because
he voted for Victory Woodhull for
president. We confess to robbing
an aged woman in church of two
nickles and a pair of brass rimmed
spectacles. It is useless to deny mur
dering, in cold blood, nine lightning
rod peddlers with a bologna sausage
and a pair of patent office reports.
We concede that we invented the
13, 14, 15 puzzle, but we indignantly
scorn the allegation that we perform
on the accordeon. We plead guilty
to ail the crimes charged against us,
from being a “hay-maker” up to
treason, but we deny with wrath, in
cold blood and malice aforethought,
we revenged ourselves upon an inno
cent farmer by assisting to elect him
to the legislature, because he had
swapped us a blind mule, with deci
ded spavin tendencies. Further, we
do not attempt to refute the charge
that our ugliness is so extreme that
the bricks recoil from us with horror
as we tread the pavement; and we
frankly admit that our opponents,
the other candidates, are class-lead
ers, deacons, white-robed martyrs
and temperance lecturers.”
It is proposed in New York to es
tablish the whipping poet as a
means of punishment for wife beating
husbands. The Herald says: “It
would not keep men long enough
away from their families to subject
the latter to suffering fer lack of the
husband’s earnings, as sometimes
they do when one of these brutes is
imprisoned. A re-establishment of.
the wh pping post might seem a
step backward, but if it weie done
only for the benefit of wife beaters
no one would be likely to object, and
there would be no lack of men —and
even women —willing to handle the
‘cat* and see that the punishment
were properly inflicted.”
The longest bridge in the world,on
the Orenburg (Russia) Railroad over
the Volga, has been completed. The
construction began in 1877.
A d Hat o«
Legal advertisement* charged seventy-five cents
per hundred words or fraction thereof each inser
tion for the first four inaertions, and thirty-five
caate foreach subsequent insertion.
Transient advsrttainq will be charged $1 per inch
for the first, and fifty cents for each subsequent
insertion. Advertisers desiring larger space for a
longer time tttgti 4ne month will receive a liberal
deduction from regular rates.
All bills due upon the first appearance of the ad •
vertiseiuent, and wilt be presented at the pleasure
of the proprietor. Transient advertisements from
unknown parties must be paid for in advance.
SMALL BITS
Os Varloaa Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together.
A newspaper in the Persian ton
gue is to he published in London, •
for dissemination in Persian speak
ing countries.
Cuba Reports another conspiracy,
•tnd will continue to be the source of
similar stories until it ceases to be
something besides a bank for Spain
to draw upon.
A fine lady is a squirrel-headed
thing, with small airs and small no
tions. about as applicable to the bu
siness of life as a pair of tweezers to
the clearing of a forest.
Mr. Jefferson Davis, in the peace
ful character of an agriculturist, is
showing some of his Beauvoir grapes,
oranges and sea-coast corn at the
Fruit Exhibition in St. Louis.
The Rome Courier wants to know
of Dr* Felton what he thinks of his
decisive staUun nt in 1879 that the
financial question will be the key
note of the campaign in 1880.
The Boston Herald, an Independ
ent Republican paper, plainly says
that New England men, like Blaine
and Co., n> ed not talk any more
about buying colored men’s votes in
the South.
Tbe wife of a wealthy Boston su
gar refiner was caught stealing a
lace shawl in a store, though her wal- -
let was crammed full of money, and
her husband permitted her to spend
all she wanted to.
The wag’s definition of bigotry is
as good and as inclusive as that of
Webster’s Dictionary. “A bigot!’’
says he; “why he’s a man who knows
100 much for one and not quite
enough for two.”
Dispatches from New York state
the German mass-meeting at Cooper
Institute Friday evening was the
largest of the campaign in that city
with the exception of the greit mass
meeting of July 28 at the Academy
of Music.
Secretary Sherman returned to
Washington on Sunday from Ohio
ind Indiana, where he has been
making campaign speeches for tbe
Republican party. He does not ex
pect to leave the city again daring
the campaign.
A correspondent of the London
Builder estimates that the number
of bricks annually used for building
purposes in that part of London
comprised within a radius of four or
five miles from London Bridge is
eight hundred millions.
When a man wants to make his
enemy unhappy he poisons his ene
my’s dog, but a woman chooses a
very different way to make hers un
happy. She buys some new clothes
chat her enemy can’t afford, and sits
in front of her enemy at church.
The American Manufacturer says
that John B. Jervis, who ordered the
first locomotive in America to be
made, is living, aged over 80, at Rome
N. Y.. and Horatio Allen, who saw
the order carried out, and who ran
the pioneer locomotive, is living at
East Orange, N. J., aged over 70.
The railroad commissioners of
the State of Kentucky, who have
oeen going over the State examining
the condition of the roads and hear
ing the complaints of shippers, will
recoommend the reduction of four to
three cents a mile, and it is said the
railroad managers will comply with
their request. The rates are now
much too high for the railroads’ best
interest.
The South became colid in self
defence, just as New York city be
came solid against the '1 weed rob
bers. Pinned down by Federal bay
onets,plundered by carpet-baggers,
politically outlawed by the whole
policy and practice of tbe Republi
can party, the white Jpeople of tbe
Seuth could do no more avoid being
Democrats than they could have
avoided being born white.
A farm servant ploughing near
Rosenborg, in West Prussia, a few
days ago, turned up a earthenware
pot containing about six thousand
gold coins. They were so * called
“hollow pennies” of the old Teutonic
knights, and belonged to the 14 and
15th centuries. The “hollow penny
is a silver coin with a raised rim
around it; the centre displays the
arms of tbe Grand Master of the
Order for the time being. There
were twenty-one different sorts
among tbe coins found.
A very curious invention has just
found birth in tbe brain of a German
scientist. He has obtained a chemi
cal composition by means of which
a mirror image may be fixed and
the back part of it receives a coating
of oil. The mirror thus prepared is
held before the person to be photo
graphed. The oil coating evaporates
and the likeness of the person re
mains in natural colors on the light
surface. The image so fixed is
brought into a bath, and is exposed
for half an hour in the sunlight
wb« n it is ready for delivery.
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