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busini'ss increased with amazing rapidity. For ten
yearn past I have spent £3H,000 yearlv to keep my
superior wares bcfnre the public, ilad 1 been timid in
advertising, I never should have possessed my fortune
of £-3511,000”. — McLeod Helton, Birmingham.
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skillful use of printer’s ink, is to success In b tastiness.” —
Beecher.
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Without the aid of advertisements I could have done
nothin" in my -peculations. I have the most complete
fii h In “printers’ink.” Advertising is bhe “royal road
to business ”—Barnntn.
Professional Pards.
DR T R KENDALL offers his profes
sional services tc. the citirens of Thomaston and
iwronnding country. May be found during the day at
‘ D. Hardaway’s itore, at night at the former resi
dence of Charles Wilson. jan 14 ly
K REPDINd, Attorney at Law,
M • Barnesvtl'o, Pike co, Ga. Will practice in the
" unties comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, and
i -ewhere by special ontract AH business promptly
fended to. Office in Eider's building, over Chamber’s
? is Store. aug*. y .
rriOMAS BEALL. Attorney at Law,
4- Thomaston, Ga. Will practice in the Flint Cir
■ »nd elsewhere by special contract aug27-ly
Y\ I\ WEAVER. Attorney at Law,
« ; • Thomaston, Ga. Will practice in all the
" r, sos the Flint Circuit, and elsewhere by special
M!Uract - ] U ne2s-ly
JOHN I. HALL, Attorney and Counsellor
[Y r, kaw Will practice in the counties composing
_ mt (irenit. in the Supreme Court of Georgia,
.-"‘he District Court of the United States for the
T L lern *nd Southern Districts of Georgia,
i thomaston, Ga., June 18th, IS7O-ly.
JOSEPFI H. SMITH. Attorney and
.Counsellor at Law. Office Corner Whitehall and
, ' * streets Atbm'a, Ga. Will practice *n 'he Su-
Courts of Coweta and Flint, Circuits, the Su
otirtof the State, and the United States 1 Fds
i; . n,n ! , 1 All corn l unlcations addressed to him at
1 will receive prompt attention. april9-ly
A PERSON & McCALL A. Attorneys
P'A at Law, Covington, Georgia. Will attend retru
&n'i l‘ra< tice in the Superior Courts of the
»p"" (*f Newton, Butts, IB rtry, Spalding. Pike,
m °e* Upsum IMorgan, DeKalb, Gwinnotte and Jas-
' declO-ly
J'MES M. MATHEWS, Attorney at
. Laws, Talbotton, Ga.. will practice all the counties
Chattahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by
a| contract. declO-ly
U lEUS & WILLIS, Attorneys at Law
k bilbott.on, Ga. Prompt attention given to
placed in our hands. decl(t-ly
PoiKar' P. TRIPPE, Attorney at Law
t , Ga. Will practice in the State Courts
l»r« nn T united States’ District Court at Atlanta and
dec 0-ly
•I* Attorney at Law, Barnes^
Flint of G& practice in all the counties of
urcuit and Supreme Court of the State.
UARION BETHUNE, Attorney at
Talboton,' Ga. Will practice in all the
*",k tlle Chattahoochee Circuit, and Upson and
‘her counties. declß-ly
JyuooEßs" will continue the practice
s bre. ‘ Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug
'— dectß-1y .
T. Hannah, is pleased to
n Pticticp of Upson that he will continue
l “°iDa s t<,n n Medicine in its various branches at
dec 18-1 y
jf S ; WALKER. Attorney at Law
***State." nv*' r ' a ; w fll practice in Cireutt Courts o
v ,Q United states District Courts.
iJ 1 have moved up to
n's ar n T V ssrß Cheney and Allen’s new tnrfld
pf'-na,- 5 h J 7 en 2 a ged in the practfce of rnedl
if | to go at any time. Persons wishing
i at in ra y office, can call on Messrs.
■.' ca r^ w !‘ ssa d Sawyer’s and obtain informa-
dfliy^j 8 me, * a 8 e there, which will
DR. J. O. HUNT.
The systems of liver
Cl I II Iff A V fl ql complaint are uneasiness
■ the Shoulder, and is nd*.
The stomach 7rSaJdT!?h .01 Y henm *tiara.
Ts- i “J,
with lax. The head is troubles with pain amt
sensation considerable loss of memore * '
pamed wah painful "sensation of hav?n™left .nT*
something which ought to bav e been done Of>l 6
pL.»mng..t weakness, d.-bilitv. and low> spinS Some-
times, some of the above
I I If II |*ymptom* attend thetlfcu
Ii I V til H | at other times
11 1 * Li II | very few of them; b n t
B Un ‘ Liver is generally the
C "ret he Li veT^'-h" 1 ' "" ° rgan m 0 8 1 involved.
DR. SIMMONS’
Liver Regulator,
Tv r d h r- w *™« *>»«***.
iy x ecetame, and mn do no injury to acynns
It, has >een used hv httru'-v’ snd .
35 years as one of the most reliable, efficacious JJS
harmless preparations ever offered to the suffering Jf
!■ is sure to cure ? ‘
I-™ Dyspepsia, headache,
UWUTttJKera*
bladder, camp dysentery
WWWSllHUSfcfcin.'jijiwJlMJjqHWll affections of the kidiiev»’
c .v r ' rv< > usnc ; ss ’ chll,s . diseases of the skin. Impurity
of the blood, melancholy, or depression oT spirits, heart
burn, nolle, or pains in the Weis, pain in the head
fever and ague, dropsy, boils, pain in back and limbs
asthma erysipelas, female affections, and bilious dis
eases generally. Prepared only bv
J. 13. ZEILIV & CO.,
Trice «1: by mail $1.85. Druggists, Macon, fin.
1 he following highly respectable persons can fnllv at
i/ent. to the virtues of this valuable medicine, and to
whom we most respectfully refer 1
D <Jen r W S. Holt, President S. W. R. R. Company;
R‘v • . holder Perry, Qa.; Col E. K Sparks, Albany
<ta.; George • I Lunsford. Esq., Conductor 8 W R R-
C Masterson. Esq. Sh-riff Bibb county; j' A. Bntta
Rainbridge, Ga ; Dykes * Snarhawk. Editors Floridian’
lallahassee; Rev. .1 W. Burke. Macon, Ga- ViMl
Powers Esq , Supertntend«nt S. W. R. R ; Daniel Rul
laril, Bollard s Station, Macon and Brunswick R R
Twiggs county, Ga.; Grenville Wood, Wood’s Factory’
Macon, Ga ; Rev. E F. Easterlinn, P. E. Florida Con
ference; Major A. F. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor
Macon Telegraph.
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«OUR FATHER’S HOUSE;”
or, THE UNWRITTEN WORD.
By Daniel March. D. D., Author of the popular
“ Night Scenes.”
THIS master in thought and lancruaffe
shows us untold riches and beauties in the
Great House, with its Blooming flowers. Singing birds,
Waving palms. Rolling clouds, Beautiful bows Sacred
mountains, Delightful rivers, Mighty oceans, Thunder
ing voices. Blazing heavens and vast universe with
countlesss beings in millions of worlds, and reads to us
in each the Unwritten World, Rose-tinted paper, or
nate engravings and superb binding. “Rich and varied
in thought.” ‘H haste.” “Easy and graceful in style.”
“Correct, pure and elevating in its tendency.” “Beau
tiful and good.” “A household treasure.” Commenda
tions like the above from College Presidents and Pro
fessor, ministers of all denominations, and the religious
and secular press all over the country. Its freshness,
purity of language, with clear, open type, flue steel en
gravings, substantial binding, and low price, make it the
book tor the masses. Agents are selling from 50 to 150
per week. We want Clergymen, School Teachers,
smart young men and ladies to introduce the work for
us in every township, and we will pay liberally. No
intelligent man or woman need be without a paying
business. Bend for circular, full description, and terms.
Address ZIEGLER A McCURDY,
16 S. Bixth street, Philadelphia Pa.
189 Race street, Cincinnati, Ohio,
69 Monroe street, Chicago, 111..
503 N. Bixth street, Bt Louis, Mo.
seplo-4m or, 102 Main street, Springfield, Mass.
“THE MONROE ADVERTISER?
YTOILXTTvdIE FIFTEEN.
A Rrst-Class Democratic Newspaper!
r- TMIE Crtmpaijrn which will soon be innu-
L gurated, and whi;h will culminate in the election
of Congtessional and Legislative Representatives in
November, promises tube one of the most important
and interesting epochs in the history of tjie State. In
view of this fact, it is the duty of every person to sub
scribe for some available newspaper. To the people of
this section, Tiif. Monroe Advertiser presents superior
claims. , , _
No pains will be spared to render the Tiie Advertiser
a reliable and efficient newspaper, and each issue will
embrace a fair epitome ol the week’s news, both foreign
and domestic. .... ~, ~.. _
As heretofore, the local new6 of ibis and the adjoining
counties will be made a specialty.
TnE Advertiser is published in a very populous and
wealthy section, and is one of the most available
advertising mediums
in Middle Georgia. To the merchants of Macon and
Atlanta, it offers superior inducement for reaching a
large, intelligent and prosperous class ot peopie. terms
of idventoiDg ‘•^E^^HARIUSON.
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TIIOMASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1871.
pOET^Y.
THE WHOLE STORY.
From Hearth and Home.]
Oh ! yes—l’ll tell you the story,
The Very words that Were said.
T ou see the supper was cooking,
And I was slicing some bread.
And Richard came into the pantry,
Ills face was exceedingly red.
And he opened his half-shut fingers,
And gave me a glimpse of a ring;
And then—oh! yes, I remember,
The kettle began to sing,
And Fanny came in with her baby,
The cunningest bunch of a things
And the biscuits were out in a minute—
Weil, what came next! Let me see—
Oh! Fanny wu" there with her baby,
.And we alt sat down to tea;
And Grandma looked over her glasses
So queer at Richard and me !
1
But it wasn’t till after milking
That he said what he had to say.
How was it? Oh! Fanny had taken
The baby and gone away—
The funniest rogue -f a fellow
He had anew tooth that day.
We were standing under the plum-tree,
And Richard said something low,
But I was tired and flustered,
Anxl trembled, I almost know;
For old Red is the hardest of milkers,
And Brindle so horribly slow.
And then—let me see—where was I?
Oh ! the stars grew thick overhead,
And we two stood under the plum-tree
TiJl the chickens flew up to bed.
Well, he loves me,and we’re to be married,
And that is— about w’hat he said !
jVIISCELLANEOUS.
Odds and Ends.
The Pope is said to bs an excellent bil
liard player.
The leading paper of Aberdeen, Scotland,
is un ier the control of an American.
A Masonic Lodge has been established in
New Zealand.
Washington oysters are termed “epigas
tric ecstasy.”
The “one flesh” that an Indiana couple
were recently made, weighed 1000 pounds.
A Chicago sausage-maker with unusual
candor advertises his wares as “dog cheap.”
Baron von Beust, the Austrian Premier,
smokes forty cigars a day.
A learned physicist announces that this
globe will support life for 26,000,000 years
longer.
A Colorado editor avenges himself on a
rival by publishing his marriage under the
head of “Crimes and Casualties.”
S.im Houston, eldest son of the old hero
of San Jscinto, is editor of the Georgetown
(Texas) Watchman.
Horse-traders of Missouri put a little oil
of vitriol on the animal’s hoof to make him
show off his uncontrollable spirit.
Cut-Throat Depot is the cheerful and at
tractive name of a town in Southern Califor
nia.
Bristol, a town which is partly in Tenn
essee and partly in Virginia, has one repre*
seutative in the at Nsshville
and another in Richmond.
The London Times remarks that there are
not ten Irishmen in Ireland who do not
think of coming to America some time or
other.
Rothermel’s immense picture of the bat
tle of Gettysburg will be unveiled at the
Philadelphia Academy of Music on Monday.
It covers 512 square feet of canvass.
The Supreme Court of lowa has decided
that if a juryman drinks intoxicating
liquors during a trial, the verdict may be
set aside and anew trial ordered.
-#
A lady aged 61, in England, finding her
self in the wrong railway train, leaped from
it when it was running at a speed of 40
miles an hour, and escaped without any in
jury-
A gentleman at Fremont, Ohio, had a
reception at his house the other evening,
and when the guests went away, it took the
host all night to wash the tar and pick the
feathers off his person.
Mrs. Myra Bradwell, the femalo lawyer
of Chicago, says she “does not believe in
divorcing till God divorces,” and conse
quently will not consent to act as counsel
in a divorce case.
The Canadians are having their usual
winter snow-shoes races, and are getting
both health and recreation from them. They
prefer this exercise to skating, of which
they have also an abundance.
An Indiana sheriff, taking a horse thief to
the State prison, fell asleep in the railroad
car, and when he woke up the prisoner was
gone. He thinks he must have got off at a
station for a drink, and got left.
One Youssee, at Montieello, lowa, gives
everybody notice that he has made his wife
a “free gift of $5,000,” and nobody need
send him any of her bills, for he won’t pay
them.
An Arkansas editor lately issued his pa
per without editorial matter, but with a
paragraph at the head of the leading column
in which he declared that the wives of his
subscribers had so occupied his attention
in calling to show their babies that he had
no time to attend to anything else.
A man in Fort M ayne, Ind., lost his wife,
and" had a stone ereetel over her grave. He
manned a seemd wife, and when she died
he bad the gravestone split, and it then
served for the two departed. He proposed
to the third yesterday, and the lady quaint
ly remarked. “I do not believe that stone
will split again.”
Edwin Forrest recently acted in Chatta
nooga, and an envious Knoxville paper in
sists that when he appeared on the stage,
and many of the audience saw that he upon
whom they looked was not the cavalry
leader Gen. N. B. Forrest, the only great
man of that name of whom they had ever
beard, they jumped to their feet and declar
ed they had been Bold.
- Risraclt as a “Swell. M
• ihs impression five and twenty years
ago that a stranger, looking down from the
Speaker’s gallery, gained of Mr. fiUraeli,
from his showy dress, jeweled
lesp iinen, and longibtkes of curling, black
hair, was that of emasculated affectation.
Pride is generally associated with lofty
bearing. He is produced by a totally oppo
site appearance, lie stoops. His gait is
unsteady. There were never movements
as noiseless. He sits with his head rigid,
body contracted, arms pinned to nis side,
and’ whole appearance as quiescent as a
store figure of aneieDt Egypt. There is no
gazing around, no rolling in his seat. No
body converses with him. Isolation and
self-absorption are the ideas the observer
gains of him so long as he occupies his seat.
He to live iu a world of his own, and
to f« a the appetite for association which is
natural to man with the fruit of his own
thoughts. When he rises to speak it is
scarcely different. There is intellectual
power in his aspect, but it seems almost fat
uous. Like Shyloek, in the judgment
scene, he stoops, almost crouches, darts
furtive glances from eyes that flash some
concealed purpose. The forehead, eyes,
mouth, and chin, hang. The head hang?
on the breast, the shoulders on the body.
If men carry a table of contents in their
external aspect, that of Mr. Disraeli, when
he rises to address the House, is that of a
blank leaf. But when he makes his points
the manner change*. lie becomes anima
ted. The thumbs are removed from the
arm-holes of the y a st-con*. The m st del
icate inflexions of his voice can be detected.
They are managed with exquisite art to
give effect to the irony of the moment. An
almost imperceptible motion of the body
and hands grows in subtle harmony with
the tones. He convulses his hearers with
merriment without a smile on his face.
11 is shaft is aimed with deadly precision,
while himself is imderturbnbly cool. The
pr tcess by . which he deliberately tortures
his antagonist is feiine. But he can be
argumentative as wcJL In the accepted
sense he is not an orator, lie never rises
into the eloquence of the stump speaker.
But on abstract subjects —when the theme
is literature, or science, or philosophy—he
attains a loftiness of thought equal to the
occasion.— lndependent .
Extravagance Among Business Men.
Extragance in living is rapidly becoming
the besetting sin of all our large cities.* In
fact is getting to be one of our national
characteristics, and even foreigners who
visit us, and who are familiar with the
luxurious habits of the upper classes of
European society, are astonished at the
recklessness with which Americans now
a-days spend their money.
In this respect, things are different with
us from what they were in former times.
The days of Republican simplicity and
frugality, when our fathers were content
with the gains of legitimate business, and
honesty among the commercial classes was
the rule rather than the exception, having
given place to ao era of fast living, as well
as acquiring wealth. But the great trouble
with us is, that the personal and familv
expenses of a large portion of our business
men during the last few years, have in
creased much faster in proportion than
their means of indulgence.
Formerly, the partners of every well-to
do mercantile firm were in the habit of
allowing a large portion of tbeir annual
profits to be re-invested as additional capi
tal in their business, and of living plainly
and economically upon the balance until
able to retire upon a competency. Now,
every young man, as soon as he becomes
established in business, in order to secuie
his entree into society, must affect a prince
ly style of living, which compels him to
spend all his income, and sometimes to en
croach upon his capital.
It is a notorious fact, since the close of
the war, with the great falling off in busi
ness profits consequent upon the general
shrinkage of value, a great many merchants
and manufacturers have been living beyond
their incomes. They know very well if
they continue to go on in this way they
will soon have ruin and bankruptcy star
ing them in the face, But they prefer to
run the risk, and trust to better times, or
in some lucky stroke of speculation to re
trieve their fortunes rather than retrench.
They are men of the world, courting popu
larity and influence, whose wives and
daughters move in the charmed circle of
fashionable society, and they cannot bear
to give up any portion, however trifling, of
their outward display of opulence, for fear
of losing caste.
International Chess Congress.
It is proposed to hold a graud interna
tional chess congress next summer, and the
following circular has bepn issued to the
chess clubs of the United States by the
Brooklyn Club : “At a recent meeting of
Chess Club, it was resolved that in conse
quence of the increasing popularity of chess
throughout the country, measures should be
taken for the purpose of inaugurating a
Giand International Chess Congress, to be
held in the city of New York during the
coming year ; and a committee was subse
quently appointed to communicate with
other chess clubo in the United States, re
questing their aid and assistance in the
furtherance of the scheme. It has been
estimated that a sum of from four to five
thousand dollars will be amply sufficient to
cover all expenses. We therefore take the
liberty of addressing you, with the hope
that you will bring tha subject to the con
sideration of the various members of your
clubs.”
XYliat is Home I
“Home,” says Robertson, in his sermons,
“is the place in all this world where hearts
are sure of each otaer. It is the place of
confidence. It is the place where we tear
ofl - that mask of guarded and- suspicious
coldness which the world forces us to wear
in self-defence, and where we pour out the
unreserved communications of lull and con
fiding hearts. It is the spot where expres
sions of tenderness gush out without any
sensation of awkwardness, and without any
dread of ridicule. Let a man travel where
be will, home is the piece to which ‘his
heart untravelled fondly turns,’ He is to
double all pleasure there. He is to divide
all pain. A happy home is the single spot
of rest which a man as upon this earth fe r
the cultivation of hia noblest sensibilities.”
Engla iKlVTrntpfr.
England is arming. But the Times insists j
on peace. Perhaps this may be be because
the Thunderer has been looking over the j
master rolls of the Czar. These show a
total of regular and local troops equal to !
1,169,230. In addition the Cossacks and j
irregular forces are put down at 188.427,
making a grand aggregate of 1,357.657.
It is now affirmed that 800,000 men of all
afms are Under orders, or actaally in motion
toward? the coast? of the Euxine, and the*
waters of that sea are to be whitened with
the sails of a Russian fleet. Under these
circumstances we are not surprised that
England is anxious to adjust all unsettled
questions with the United States, fob this
country has a power in its position, it? nat
ural resources, and the martial temper of
its masses, which commands, especially at
this time, the profound r©-*»nect of John
Bull. With this fact before them, we trust
General Grant, and his new Minister will
utterly repudiate the cruel policy which has
been suggested by Dr. Butler, and proceed,
in a spirit of wise humanity, to secure all
that this country can fairly claim, and at
once remove any cause of irritation between
the two nations. We have had enough of
war.
About Noses.
Washington’s nose was 2js inches ; but
the Presidential average has. so far, been
what we have stated above—Jefferson, for
example, representing the longs, ynd Fill
more the shorts. Wellington and Napoleon
differ only the sixteenth of an inch, both
being above the average; Lord Brougham,
who is an enclycoptedia of general informa
tion, follows a feature three inches in
length ; the average nose of the Century
Club is 2 9-16; Thackeray’s nose is 2$
precisely the length of the nose of the
‘Father of his country.’ President John
son’s is 2 2-16 ; Irving’s, 2 7-12 ; Brvant’s,
2 6-11; Dicken’s, 2f ; Durand’s, 2 7-13 ;
General Scott’s, 2 5-10; Longfellow’s 2
6- General Sherman’s, 2J ; Macau ley’s,
2 5-9 ; Farragut’s, 2|; Commodore Wise’s,
1 7-12; Tennyson’s, 2 4-7; Hoffman’s, 2
7- : the average magazine nose of this
city is If : in Philadelphia, If; McClel
lan’s is 2 8-12 ; Yerplank’s, 2f ; Bayard
Taylor’s, 2 6-11; we shall have Fredrika
Bremer’s by next steamer ; the nose of the
Academy of Design, 2 5-9; Browning’s,
2 5-9; M iss Murlock has a very respeeta- I
ble feature for a woman, being 2f ; Jean
Inglow, 2f ; Bonner’s 2| ; Seward’s, nearly
3 inches, and our own a snub.”
A B«*u mt i fu l Theory.
Music is tbe most beautiful language in
the world, and the mind that thinks in mel
ody must be the pleasantest place on earth.
There is a beautiful theory that musical
sounds never die ; that when once tlie har
monious waves and echoes of music are
gathered up they swell immortal in the
great orchestra of Heaven.
This world of ours is full of melody if we
had only souls to hear and appreciate ; the
calmest noon, and the night that lies breath
less under the throbbing stars, the loneli
est cape of the green, and the boldest
promontory jutting out from the heaven,
have their trobadours and their minstrelsy ;
bugles are blown from among the summer
leaves ; trumpets are sounded from fallen
trees; love-making goes on in the grass at
our feet; bridal bolls ring in the air over
our heads; and accents of war come to us .
from some tiny “Redan” of moss, or some
little “Malakoff” of a hillock.
Capt. Hall’s Arctic Expedition.
Capt. Ilall, the Artie explorer, in his
lecture at Brooklyn, said he should start on
his third trip about the first of May, and
will never cease his labors until he has put
his foot upon the 90th paralell of north
latitude. lie will go fir?t to Newfoundland
and stay for about a week to obtain some
sealers to make up his party; from thence
he will proceed to the western coast of
Greenland to procure some skins and a
supply of stock fish. From Greenland he
will cross Davis’s Straits and obtain dogs
from the Esquimaux, then cross Baffin’s
Bay to Smith’s Island, thence westward
through Jones’ Sound, and go to the north
as far as possible before the winter sets in.
Ilis sailing-master has spent twenty years
in the Artie regions and his first and sec
ond officers ten years. If he cannot reach
the North Pole in 1872, he will stay another :
year, or, if necessary, five years.
A Religious Amendment to tlic Constitu
tion.
Avery determined effort is making to
secure embodiment in the constitution of
the United States of some verbal recogni
tion of God and Christianity. The national
association to further this object of which
Judge Strong, of the Supreme Court, is
president, has issued a call for a national
convention, which is signed by manv
prominent persons of all shades of belief
throughout the country. Among them we
notice Bishop Simpson, Methodist Episcopal
Church ; Bishop Hurrtingdon, of Central
N. Y., ; Bishop Eastburn, Massachusetts ;
Bishop Mellvaine, of Newark ; Rev. Dr.
Miner, of Boston, President o’Tufts (TJni
versalist) College; Geo. A. Stuart, E?q..
and Jay Cooke, Esq., of Philadelphia-; Cov.
Geary, Gov. McClurg, etc. The convention
is to meet in New York on the 13th inst.
The Way It Was Done.
This was the way in Britain, in the latter
part of the sixteenth century, whereby “A i
Maid could surely telle who was to be her j
Ilusdande ;” “Take a St. Thomas onion i
and lay it on a clean handkerchief under I
your pilUw ; put on a clean em ck ; and !
as you lie down, lay your arms abroad, and I
say these words *.
“‘Good St. Thomas, do mo rLht,
Aud bring me to nay love this night,
That I may view him in the face,
And ia my arms may him embrace
“Then, lying on your back, with your
arras abroad, go to sleep as soon as you }
can ; ar.d in your first sleep you shall dream
of him who is to be your husband ; and he j
will come and offer to kis? you: do not l
hinder him, but catch him in your arms,
and strive to hold him, for that is he. This
I have tried, and it was proved true.”
Too High l Too High !
A jury has fixed the price of “kissing
ladies for fun” at $150! They deoide that
it is apt to raise hopes of marriage, and
make a breach of promise good.
Intquthe RowrN of tl»e R«rth>
One? grandest triumphs of moderti
engineering skill has just been Accomplish
ed. The tunnel under Mount Cenis—more
than seven and a half miles—was virtually
completed two days ago. This tunnel, cut
through the mountain from St. Michel to
Susa, by means of diamond-pointed drills,
worked with compressed ndl cnlt
the difficult, and at times tWagercus pas
sage over the Alps, but shortens the dis
tance between the two points mentioned by
nearly ferty-three miles. As soon as the
railway is laid through the tunnel, to con
nect with that at Susa, on the eastern slopo
of the Alps, passengers and traffic will take
thir route to Italy in preference to any other.
The comnlerfcial advantage iVhich the tunnel
will give to France over Germany will also
be very great. It is estimated that the cost
of the tunnel, when entirely completed
and ready for business, will not be less
than twenty millions of dollars.
“1 Knows It.”
According to medical authority, about the
roost useful part of the human face is the
nose. One writer compares it to a custom
house officer—it detects at once all attempts
to introduce contraband goods into the
system, because it is highly sensitive to the
odor of the most poisonous substances. It
readily detects hemlock, henbane, monk’s
hood, and the plants containing prussic
acid ; it recognizes the fetid smells of
drains, and warns us not to smell tho pol
luted air. The nose is so sensitive that it
distinguishes air containing the 200,000 th
part of a grain of musk. It tells us in the
morning that our bedrooms are impure,
and oatches the fragrance of the morning
air, and conveys to us the invitation of the
flowers to go forth into the fie'ds and inhale
their sweet breath. To billed by the nose
has hitherto been used as a phrase of re
proach ; but to have a good nose, and to
follow its guidance, is one of the safest and
shortest ways to the enjoyment of health.
Voting Away tlie Acres.
From a statement compiled by the lion.
Geo. W. Julian, it appears that during the
present Congress the Senate has passed
twenty-three bills granting 75,000,320
acres of land to railroads. Os these the
House has as yet approved but two—one
making a supplementary gift of 1,000,000
acres to the Northern Pacific railroad, tho
other giving the Oregon Branch Pacific
railroad 4,760,< 00 acres. There are still
awaiting the Senate’s action thirty-two
other b ile, calling for 114,218,600 acres
more, making an agregate of 180,224,020
acres, or six times the area of Pennsylvania,
proposed to be given away by the Forty-
First Congress alone.
A Change of Lurk.
The once formidable Uhlans of the Ger
man ajmies, from being the hunters are
now the hunted. A correspondent of the
Cologne Gazette, Who is attached to the
Uhlans, writes to that paper that they are
now continually harrassed by Franc-tireurs,
and Mobiles, w T ho shoot them dow r n from
every bush, every tree and every ditch.
They are constantly marching and con
stantly losing men.
The Bavarians, says the correspondent,
and all the Uhlans are lustily praying for
peace and the capitulation of Paris.
Busiiiegg i* Bu»int-*K.
A Chicago lawyer ha& a model form for
divorce bills printed, leaving blanks for
names and dates, and including all the
causes for divorce known to the Illinois
laws. When he classes down a client, he
fills up his printed form with the parties’
names, date and place of marriage, and
cause of action, erasing those counts which
are not needed ; and with a few scratches
of the pen he has a bill ready co be filed in
proper form. In this way ho has been
known to prepare and tile as many as thirty
to forty divorce bills in one afternlhn.
A Home for tile Pope.
The rumors that King William, of Prus
sia has offered an asylum to the Pope are
confirmed. He has placed at the disposal
of his Holiness, in case he should decide to
abandon Rome, either of two cities—
Cologne or Fulda. Both of these cities are
famous in the annals of the Church. At
. the former, is one of the grandest and most
ancient cathedrals in Europe, and the latter
contains a venerable Episcopal palace. But
it is doubtful if the Pope will ever consent
to leave Rome, peculiar as is his situation
in that city at present.
A Tickle.
Tn an after-dinner speech at Atlanta, the
other day, Judge McCay said :
“Georgians are pretty smart. [Ap
plause.] An old Dutchman once camfe
down here who had lived in Switzerland.
He said the people there had a proverb that
it took ten Swiss to cheat a Jew. When
he came to New York they had a proverb
there that it took ten Jews to cheat a
Yankee, and noyr be had come to Georgia,
and he believed that it would take fen
Yankees to cheat a Georgian.” [Applause
and laughter ]
The Barber’s Pole,
Hundreds of people there are who do not
understand why the barber uses the red
striped pole. It originated from the fact
that, some centuries ago, it was customary
for barbers to bleed people, and the pole,
with alternate winding stripes of white and
red, represented the bandage of the phle
botomized victim. In the course of time
the apothecary excelled the barber as a
bb6l-letter; but the old sign of tbe craft
was retained by tbe latter after the function
which gave it significance had ceased.
A oi r lnsanity.
Til £ Berliner Bocrsoo Courier writes that
a sort of insanity is very prevalent in the
hospitals around Versailles It is caused
by the positions the extreme Outposts of the
German army have to occupy aronnd Paris.
Lying fiat on their belly, concealed behind
some long or stODe, the men have to be
perfectly still, keeping their bead motion
less, and gaze steadfastly at she hostile
lines. This exceedingly wearisome position,
in a good many cases, produced insanity.
One Kind of Sport.
Xenia, O, girls have a picesing habit of
kissing strangers in she street, and then
wildly screaming, “Oh, my ! I thought it
was cousin Cnariie !”
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