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yy comprising the Flint .Indicia
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AN HOUR AT THE CENTRAL STATION
POLICE COURT.
A copy of Shakespeare had been
picked up on the street by one of the
ofiicers, and left sit the station for its
owner. After sweeping out, arrang
ing the chairs and giyingeach pris
oner a drink of water, Bijah sat
down and opened the volum e. He
read a few lines here and therefor
about five minutes, and then closed
the hook and muttered :
“Well, that Shakespeare wasted a
heap of time on this book. There
isn t a single adventure with the In
dians—nothing about a mail being
carried over Niagara Walls—no ghost
stories, and nothing about the last
war. Pd give just four cents a pound
for this book.”
He put it away with a disappoin
ted look, and when the boys came in
and one of them started to look
through it the old man called out :
“Let that right alone ! It’s all
about a feller named Romeo some
body or other, and there isn’t a pic
ture in it.”
“Leinine see if I can’t find a pic
ture of a hear chasing a boy,” plead
ed the youth.
“I know you can’t. It’s all full
of big words and poetry. I looked
it all through, hoping to find the pic
ture of a steamboat blowing up,
but there’s nothing there ’cept
trash.”
“Lots o' big folks buy such books,”
protested the boy.
“Well, let ’em buy 'em. When
I sit down to read a book I like to
find out about snakes, and (Sitting
Bull, and prize fights and tigers eat
ing up folks, and husbands murder
ing their wives, and how Jay Gould
got licked, and how James Gordon
Bennett is coming home. Goan sit
down and behave your character.*’
A WRONGED MAN.
John Fitch Hastings, of Adams
avenue, had the toothache. An old
snag in his jaw went on a strike, and
the way it jumped and a died and car
ried on.
Made Jolm Fitcli Hastings raving mad,
And the way he tore around
Brought all the boys from blocks away
To hear him swear and pound.
After a long night of suffering the
man sat down on his backstops in
the sun, his head bound up, a poul
tice on his cheek and the camphor
bottle in bis hand. The boys were
in the alley waiting for him, and one
of them called out :
“Ah ! how glad we are to behold
the beauties of the rising sun, but
don't forget to touch your tongue to
the camphor !”
A second boy raised his head above
the fence and said :
“The dew is on the grass, and all
nature is fresh for another day’s la
bor. How wonderful is Nature, and
why don’t you till that tooth with
hot soap ?”
Several other boys had remarks to
make, and by and by the man with
thetoothace resolved to kill fourteen
and wound seven or eight more. He
was pursuing them through the
streets when taken in charge, and
his incarceration didn’t help his tooth
ache any. llis Honor took a long
iook at him and said *
“I’ve been there. If I ever mur
der anybody it will be while I’m suf
ffeting with the toothache. Go
home and be as patient as you can.
Sii down in a cool corner and think
of cracking walnuts in your teeeth.
Just imagine the dentist prying
around the roots of that tooth with
a brad-awl. Reflect on how nice it
will feel as he fastens to it and bo
gins to twist and jerk and pull.—
That’s all—you may go.”
A MAN OF EASE.
A good housewife, on Atwater
street, sat in her parlor at even-time
and rocked to and fro and to and
fro, and
She sang a song of days gone by,
When butter was ten cents a pound,
And good men worked for a dollar a day,
And work was plenty around.
She sang of the days when (ramps were not,
And loafers were verj few,
When women’s fares were clear of paint,
And husbands were good and true.
The song she sang was soft aud low,
And a lump came up in her throat;
She wiped her eyes on her wrinkled hand,
And went out to pen up her goat.
She smelled smoke as she entered
the yard. It was the odor of an old
cigarstub, and the good woman soon
discovered a strange man lying at
THOMASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST is, 1877.
full length under the house. lie
was smoking away, had a loaf of
bread under his head and was tak
ing his priecly case.
“Come out o’ that!" tlie good wife called,
‘•Come out o’ that, ye stranger !”
But he chucked a chuckle and coftly said )
•‘l’m taking the case of a ranger.”
Behind the bedroom door was the
shot-gun of her fathers. It was loa
ded with buckshot and tho sight was
raised to kill at six hundred yards.
She pushed about sixteen feet of the
barrel under the house, pulled back
the hammer and softly sang :
“The top of your head will lly far away
In about two seconds or three :
And a coroner bold an inquest wRI hold,
And the papers will Itemize me.”
lie began to crawl. He thought
it was the longest gun-barrel in
America, and he kindly remarked :
“Please pint that weepin’ the ’to!her way,
And plea.-e don't alarm the police.
For I’m sorrowful now and I don’t desire
M y sadness of heart to increase.
She turned him over to the author
ities and when the court had heard
all the testimony in the ease he
said :
“Your name seems to be George
Robert, and you seem to he the
meanest kind of a vagrant.”
“Oh. no I ain’t., Judge.’’
“You must be pretty low-down to
crawl under an old house to pass the
night. You are ragged, dirty,mean
looking and probably wicked,
and—”
“Your Honor, I’m perfectly will
ing to swear that,l’m all right,” in
termitted the prisoner.
“No doubt of, it, sir ; but that
wouldn’t go the sixteenth of an inch
in this—”
“Judge, I’m all right. If you
don’t believe it I'll swear to it on
the Bible.”
“Don’t you interrupt me again,
and the sentence is sixty days in the
House of Correction.”
“That’s awful—that's worse than
butchery !” gasped the prisoner*, and
he wanted someone to lend him
live dollars to feo a lawyer with—
When seated in the corridor he
mournfully sang :
“I wish that woman had tired at me,
And fatally shot me dead—
I wish I was drowned in the moaning sea,
And a shark on my body had fed.”
The boys beard him, and looking
through the bars they sang :
“I w s i he had soap and a fine, flue comb.
And someone to cut his hair—
And someone to pure his red, red nose.
And his ears—Oh ! cracky ! —see there !”
Aii Interesting Historical Fact.
Under this head, the New York
Sun, of Saturday prints the follow
ing double leaded article :
After Uie argument upon the Flor
ida case before the late Electoral
Commission in Washington, Judge
Bradley wrote out his opinion and
his decision in full. He concluded it
at about 0 o’clock in the evening on
the day before the judgement of the
Commission was to he announced,
and read it to Judge Clifford and
Judge Field, who were likewise mem
hers of the commission. It contain
ed first, an argument, and, second
ly, a conclusion. The argument,
was precisely tho same as that which
appears in the published document. ;
but Judge Braudley’s conclusion was
that Uie voters of the Tilden elec
tors in Florida were the only votes
which ought to be counted as com
ing from the State.
This was the character of the pa.,
per when Judge Bradley finished it,
and when he communicated it to
his colleagues. During the whole of
that night Judge Bradley’s house in
Washington was surrounded by the
carriages of visitors who came to see
him apparently about the decision cf
the Electoral Commission, which, as
ve have said, was to be announced
the next day. These visitors inclu
ded leading Republicans as well as
persons deeply interested in tho Tex
as Pacific Railroad scheme.
When the Commission assembled
the next morning, and when the
judgemment was declared, Judge
Bradley gave his voice in favor of
counting the votes of the Hayes elec
tors m Florida ! The argument lie
did not deliver at the time ; but
when it came to be printed subse
quently it was found to be precise
ly the same as the argument which
he had originally drawn up, and on
which he had based his first conclu
sion in favor of the Tilden electors.
11. 11. Ilonorc, the father in-law of
Fred Grant and Potter Palmer, will
be one of the big bankrupts of the
year, his debts exceeding two million
dollars in amount, one million five
thousand dollars of the sum being
secured.
Avery remarkable family of crim
inals, known as the “The Jukes,”
has been developed in New York.
Records of their history during sev
en generations past show that the
family has turned out seven hundred
and nine criminals, while some
even place the number at twelve
hundred.
The Bishop of the Roman Catho
lic church foi the diocese, of Cleve
land, Ohio, has issued an order to the
clergy and laity of hisdiocse in rela
tion to picnics, in which he says:
“All kinds of round dancing,
night dancing, d.meiug in hulls or
ball rooms, fur the purpose of rais
ing money for church purposes or
public charities, are strictly and uil
qualiiiedly forbidden. The rale of
wine, beer, or any kind of mtoxicats
ing li(|iio’s ;,t church picnics, etc.,
is also strictly forbidden, and will
not be permitted under any pretenc
es whatever.
Georgia to Her Yew Senator.
Don’t 50 it too strong, O Benjurnin Hill.
That Georgia that honored may honor you still,
But not if your tongue is too lavish with pnlee
Of the artful devices of Rutherford n.tyes.
Of earpetlag thieves there i at length surcease,
And Georgia has joy in her sister's release,
Though she isn’t b>- any meaus ready to swear
Thut it’s due to the fraud in the President’s chair.
From the bondage of years, from tu-- wrong and
the grief,
To be free once again is a precious rtlief;
But reason must fail ere our tongue can applaud
The creature w hose forehead is bianded with fraud
Don’t go it too strong, then, O’Benjamin Ilill,
That the State which has honored may honor yon
still;
Asa mother she speaks to a dutiful child.
And teaches the wisdom of drawing it mild.
— N. Y. Sun.
BY THE §AI> SEA-WAVES.
Walking along the white sands of
Coney Islund, I saw him occasionally
stop, pick up a clam-shell and throw
it into the sad sea-waves, I did not
need to he told that he was a philan
thropist. It made itself apparent to
me from his face, his figure and
clothing. Goodness beamed through
the green gloss that covered his eyes
and gentleness hung about the lines
of his mouth. His voice pumped up
tender tones and he said to me.
“How full of grandeur is this
scene!”
I loked along the barren beach,
and then on to the waters, where
the Jersy shore is visible, and other
foreign countries are hidden from
view, and I then answered:
“It is, indeed!”
“And yet,” he mused, stooping to
pick up a shell—“ and yet it fills me
with sadness when I reflect that
here, in the face of the mighty ocean
where the breezes blow and nature
offers such glorious recreation, there
should be sharks lying in wait for
those they may devour.”
“Sharks?” I repeated In amaze
ment.
“Yes, my young friend, sharks
Not of the piscatorial type, but of a
much more dangerous call meter.
Sharks who walk over these sands
in the shape of men—land sharks.’’
“I see*’ said I.
“This very day,’’ lie continued,
“have I been beset by one of these
monsters. 1 was wandering alone
on the upper part of the island, lis
tening to the murmur of the waves,
when i was accosted by the said
shark. He invited me to join m a
little game which was played with
three cards, and called, 1 think,
monkey. ”
“Monte,” I interposed.
“You are right,” replied tho phil
anthropist. “It was monte. I am
a stranger to such things, and it is
not surprising that ,1 mistake the
name. Well, I listened to the voice
of a siren—that is to the voice of a
shark—and 1 was lost. So was the
five dollars which I wagered. The
shark was positive that I could not
toll where ihe card was with the pic
ture of a woman—”
“The queen,” I interrupted.
“ You are right—the queen. He
was confident that 1 could not.
Our individual confidences amount
ed to five dollars each. And —and
1 lost!”
“This was unfortunate,'’ said I
“But three-card-monte is a deceitful
game.”
“It is indeed,” answered the philan
thropist. “And my indignation to
ward ttie shark rose to such a pitch
that I came very near strangling
him. As it was lie took to Ins keels,
dropping his cards as he ran. Af
terwards I picked them up, and —
and I have them here!”
And as he spoke he drew forth
from the inner pocket of his coat a
nine-spot of diamonds, deuce of
hearts and queen of spades.
“There is some satisfaction in get
ting hohl of the implements of evil,”
I remarked.
“There is indeed—but there was
no satisfaction m knowing how to
.use those implements. Neverthe
less, since I came in possession of
these cards 1 have been practic
ing—merely for my own amusement,
you understand —the manner in
which the shark threw them, I am
convinced that it was owing to the
skillful, or perhaps I should say to
the deceitful way in which he han
dled them, that I lost all my mon
ey. ”
By this time the philanthropist
and I had reached a spot on the
island where visitors seldom go.
The crowd we had left behind, and
feeling somewhat weary with our
long walk, we sat down upon the
ruins of the bathing house, which
the waves had washed up on the
beach. There, with the cards in his
hand, my compauion began to ex
plain to me what he thought he un
derstood about the game of three
card-monte.
“It was in some such way as this,”
lie said, “that the shark threw the
cards,” whereupon he made every
mingling effort to imitate manipula
tions of a professional player.
“I fear that yon would have to be
more dexterous than that in order to
deceive any one.”
“But I have no desire to deceive
any one. I am practicing this sin
fnl game for a purpose —a noble and
philanthropic purpose.” Here he
again threw the cards with even less
of success than before.
“If I could become an adept at
this game I would spend niv leisure
hours in walking lip and down the
beach here, warning others against
the tribe of sharks. I would first
show thorn how certaiu tney are to
lose their money, and then, having
Avon it, I would return it to them,
together with a little wholesome ad
vice. In this way I should accom
plish a world of good. I should save
others from losses similar to that
which I have suffered myself.
During this speech the philanthro
pist con tinned to pick up and throw
down the cards, making very little
progress, however, in skillful manip
ulations.
“ You see that lain improving,"
he said, “and that in a short time
I shall ho able to deceive the shar, ost
eyes. Do you think that you could
pick out the queen now yourself ?"
I did as he desired without a mo
ment’s hesitation. The experiment
was repeated a half dozen times,
and as often I selected the winning
card.
“I am afraid, sir,*’ I said laugh
ingly, “if yen were to pul im your
money on your skill it would be a
very expensive amusement.”
“And yet,” he joined, throwing
the cards again, “if it were not for
conscientious scruples against bel
ting, 1 would he willing to wager
you ten dollars that you cannot tell
me which is the queen!”
“My dear sir,” I answered. “I uni
myself morally opposed to belting,
and yet I am halt tempted to accept
your offer, simply to show you how
sadly mistaken you are.”
“If this wager is made at all,”
said he, “it will boon my part, at
least, from philanthropic motives.”
And I covered his wager.
“Now, then,” said tie, “which is
the queen?”
My eye had been fixed upon the
card along, “Indeed, a small black
spot, on one corner enabled me to
identify it with as much certainty
as though the face had been turned
lT
“Which is the queen?” replied the
philanthropist.
“ This,” said I lifting the caul
with the spot.
It was the nine spot of diamonds!
Quietly my companion slid off of
the bathing-house, and made his
way along the white sands of Coney
Island. When I came to enter the
the expenses of that day in my jour
nal, I put down, along with the
clam roast and lager, this item:
“To Dpilantliropy,
The Trouble in the Hilling Be
gum*.
The people of Wilkcsbarro .‘ire pay
ing the penalty of having chosen an
unfit man for Mayor. The Mayor
of Scranton promptly met the mob,
and all is now quiet tlieic. At Wil
kesbarro the rioters were allowed to
gain headway, with the result of con
tinned violence. We are very sorry
for the poor men who have been mis
led into rioting and violence ; and
sorrier yet for their families, and for
the workmen who have been driven
out of the shops and from the mines
and trains by the mob. It is all a
had business ; but what right has
any body of men to prevent others
from working ? That is an inexcu
sable wrong ; a direct and danger
ous attack on the rights of the work
inginen ; and those who do so can
expect no sympathy from honest
workingmen, or from the sensible
public. \Vc repeat what wo have so
often had to say during these strikes
Every man has aright to stop work ;
but he has no right to prevent- any
one else from working ; and he lias
no right to attack the property of
others. If he gets into trouble In
duing so he has himself to blame,
The only sensible course now is for
everybody who wants work to go to
work at once ; and for those who do
not want to work to stand still and
keep their hands off.
The North Carolina Kilken
ny Cats. —'l he summer dullness of
Washington lias been enlivened for
the past week or more by scores of
North Carolina gentlemen, the ma
jority of them democrats, who want
otlice. First came Judge Leech.—
He wanted an oflice awful bad.
His favorite diversion seemed to be
to hang around the lobby of the Eb
bitt house, and, surrounded by a
score of hungry “tar heels/’ expa
tiate on how he could wake up the
dead whig party in the Old North
State, which would carry everything
before it like a whirlwind, provided
each member who fell into the ranks
could have an olliee. Leech exhaus
ted himself in about a fortnight,
went- home disgusted, and is evi
dently now ruminating how presi
dent Hayes can expect to succeed tin
less Leech gets an oflice and galvan
izes the corpse of the defunct politi
cal party. Next came a score of
worn out jrolitical hacks with charg
es against Colonel Douglass. They
fought him persistently for a week
or more, and when it was developed
that the Attorney General wanted
the evidence of more than a detec
tive under a cloud to remove him,
they, too, became solicitous as to the
righteousness of the southern policy,
actually borrowed money from the
very one they had been persecuting,
and then went home dejected.—
Some still remain, however, who
don’t give up so easily, Day after
day the President is bored with sonic
North Carolina gentleman, “be
gawd sir,’’ who “fit, in the confed
eracy, who makes promises of what
he can do if he is only saddled on the
public crib. By some strange coin
cidence three of them are after the
same oflice. They meet on the street
have social converse together, drink
Apple Jack out of the same bottle,
and simply go to the President and
berate one another. r I he upshot i
that the President has apparently
come to the conclusion that the
North Carolina gang are a bad lot,
and takes the evidence they them
selves give him for tnat very logical
conclusion. In view of the political
majority North kkmdina didn't give
for Have?, he is doubtless willing to
let theotliee hunters from that state
wait a while to the end that he may
ascertain who'xro and who are not
worthy of his confidence. It* they
keen on aimsing one another as t! os
have, done he will soon lose all f nth
m the goodness of any of them.
Tlie President'* Cabinet.
TV ('hieagi/TriouiK' has t!(y fol
lowing ;
A correspondent at T'a ruling ton,
Id., requests a brief sfatefnent of the
duties connected with the office of
eaelTgt the mem hers of the I’resi-*
dent’s cabinet. Tt.o secretary of
State maintains all correspondence
with foreign agents of our govern
ment , iMkf and iceords all
commission letters of appointment,
pardons* passports and nominations
to the Senate : has charge of the
fields of the United States ;of Ter
ritorial business ;of immigration
anil registered seamen, and of statis
tics relating to foreign commerce.—
attorney-general is at iho head of the
Department of .Justice, and controls
United States marshal and district
attorneys ; defends and prosecutes
for .lie government in the supreme
court ; delivers written opinions on
law when required ; examines the
titles of all lands purchased for the
I'nited States, and passes upon ap
plications for pardons and for ap
pointments in offices relating t) the
legal and judicial business of the
United States. Tlie. secretary of
the interior has charge of the public*
lands, pensions, patents and the In
dians. The secretary of the treasu
ry has general supervision of the fis
cal transactions of the government,
and of the execution of laws con
cerning the commerce and naviga-i
lion of the United States, the cuast
survey, the marine hospitals, and
the construction of public buildings
customs, revenue and disbursements;
the mode of keeping and rendering
accounts in all the other depart
ments : the custody of the moneys
of the United States ; the accounts
of receipts and expenditures ; all civ
il suits commenced by the United
States, except those arising in the
Post-Office department; the build
ing and repairing of lightouses,
buoys, etc., ; weights and measures ;
the coining of money, etc.—The
Post-office department establishes
and discontinues post-roads, arrang
es the mail service by contract , and
has special care of the conveyance of
all mail-matter; money-orders, etc.
The business of the Navy depart
ment is distributed through eight bn
reaus, the titles of which sufficiently
indicate the functions of each —
They are : Yards and docks, navi
gation, ordnance, construction and
repair, equipment and recruiting,
provisions and clothing, steam-en
gineering, medicine and surgery.—
The business of the War depart
ment is transacted through the com
manding-genera!, who superintends
the arrangement of the forces, rc
cru’ting, court-martials, and disci
pline ; the adjutant-general, who
keeps all the records which refer to
the personnel of the army, the quar
termaster general, who insures a suf
ficient supply, and gives facility and
effect to the movements of the army;
the paymaster-general, the commissa
ry-gcneral, who simply uurchases
and issues rations ; the surgeon-gen
eral, the engineer’s office, the topo
graphical office and the ordnance of
fice. Those are the separate duties
of the seven cabinet officers their
most important duty, of course, is
consultation with the President on
questions of public policy affecting
one or all the departments in an
equal degree.
Employments and Wages or Wo
men. —Miss Jennie Collins, in her
annual report of the management of
Boflin’s Bower, says the Boston Her
aid, refers to changes which occur'
red in industrial employments since
the close of the war, and says ; “Be
fore the civil war a girl’s wages rang
ed from $5 to 810 per week, and 82
was the cost of board. At present
her wages range from $G to S2O and
upward, but she is obliged to pay $5
for board, and all that she consumes
is indirectly taxed to make up the
five million dollars this State annual
ly pays to keep breath in the vast ar
my of non-producers. Women in
coarser grades of work are paid from
83 to 85 per week, on an average of
84, One of them when asked how
she could liye on that amount an
swered, ‘Like a mouse in the wall.’
Women have crowded men out of
their original domain, not only in
the professions, but in the industrial
branches. In this city alone seven
ty-live distinct crafts arc open to wo
men (men are only needed as assis
tants), while not more than nine or
ten are exclusively controled by the
sterner sex. There are sixty thou
sand more women than men in. the
commonwealth, buHn our hospitals,
almshouses and prisons the latter
outnumber the former two to one.”
At the present moment, 4,000,000
Hindoo and 100,000 Mohammedan
children are attending schools in
India, au 1 50,000 to 00,000 of them
are receiving instruction up to the
English Universities’ standard.
The Newii tn 11 raid says: “I he
State Agriet Itugal Convention will
meet in Now.urn on the 14th of Au
gust. EvervlMH.y is getting le.idy
for the reception and entertainment
of the delegates. From the indica
tions we noin.o in our exchanges, it
will be more fully attended than
any previous meeting of that body.”
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hir. You cau't afford to be with* ut fc
cricket a;:, hearth
It I* a mammoth lfi-par* iUrntrafori o
Uatyex'® Wtadilsa. u.cd watt LUu rimr' t
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ki.®w|. !*e. wit an humor, “nn
pworm In )’uude, garnc*. “ijejiiitar
Lively, eir. ii iinirw. imti-ino ni.d In
struct no. The larjttit, liandaojnoet, U*t *u.a *.a.4>-
it pnjWT of i* i las* joiMrstnsl. Only #1 jWr y.ar,
wiili choice ot ihreo |>r> tuiunaa ; the Ovautifni ww
cliromo. “Ye* or Not" size lOxlt* ib lies: ain one of
the celebrated novels by fharle* Dickens, rr an ele
traut box ot BJiUoucry. I'apcr without jm iu.um
only 75 ct. per year. Or will send it four months
on trtal fur oniy IS emmt*. IkW.-pecnm u copy **nt
ouVoccipt of at amp. Agents wanted Addr* ** FA M.
I.UPTON 4tCO..rut>’.ib*‘r.A7 Park TU*w, U Y
N<)
hpamtwf.
.Some year* ago, when the tree* m
our (Milks and aiieets uere tilled with
meaauriug worui& and tile pamnvj
wire assiduously cultivaU i to de
voitr them, a lad v fond of aiicqung
late in the morning, and who had
been wakened untimely by the twit
tering of the little binls, decly:\d to
a friend that on the wlipje ike
thought tiie sparrows as great a’'inn-,
uoyance is the worms, ‘*\Yh,u <t>
yon say?*' she asked a young gentk -
man comimg to make :i mhHlftw 1
call, “which vronla yon rather hn\c,
sparrows or worms?” The ingenu
ous youth blushed and hesitatingly
lVfdiderl that he couldn't say: he NWd
noAVr had the sparrows." We nr *
reminded of this old story bv techi!*
that Dr. HHiott Cones, ono of the
best American ornithologists, pro
tests, in a published letter, that w*
have too many sparrows. Ho points
out, what is known to Ik* trueitr ev
ery observing farmer uo.ir New York,
that the sparrow* are gradually dial
ing away pH the song birds. Taev
are very pugnacious, and there i>
reason to believe that they not oniy
attack thrushes, martins and other
birds, but that they dost rov tin: eggs
of robins and other of the large
birds. Custom, in some States law,
and everywhere the belief that they
extirpate the measuring worm, ha\e
given the sparrows a welcome and
safeguard. Nobody injures them or
interferes with their nests. Dr.
Couos, who is high authority, be
lieves that they kill no move worms
than other birds; that wo might
more safely depend upon other insert
tiverous birds, and that, unless spee
dy and effectual war is made upon the
sparrows, they will expel from our
woods and fields all the songsters
which make the country pleasant.
Wc believe Dr. (’ones is right.
We have heard of instance?, near
New Yoik. where this English spar
row*, being introduced and fostered
presently took pos;Cssion of the mar
tea boxes, and, after some years, all
the song birds-disappeared, evidently
driven out by this restless
g ressi vc strati ger. —lit raid.
Tiie Voice of tiif. Law.— At tho
close ot the hearing of several of the
Pittsburg rioters, on Wednesday,
Judge Ewing said: —“These men
seem to have been laboring under a
total misapprehension of their rights,
and, possibly, if they had not had
very bad advisers this difficulty would
not have happened. Men have a
right to quit work, with or without a
reason for quitting, hut they have no
right to go upon the property of
their employers after they had ceas
ed work, either singly or in crowds.
Going upon the company's property
in this case whether they lifted a
hand or not, made them trespassers.
If three or more of them consulted
together, and agreed to interfere
with the movement of trains, they
were conspirators. If they commit
ted any aet3 of violence, whereby
they intimidated or prevented others
from going to work, they were guil
ty of riot. And there can he only
two sides of the riot—those engaged
in it, with their aiders and abettors
and those opposing it. 'There c m
be no innocent spectators to a not.’
Too ml* it money.— Secretary
Sherman and Assistant Secretary
McCormick have recently called at
tention to the fact that nerly GO,OOO
-in legal tender notes, against
which certificates of deposit have
been issued, lie idly in the vaults of
the Treasury department. They
have interpreted this as indicating
that the volume of currency in the
country is, to say the least, not too
contracted. Indeed, this large sur
plus shows, in their estimation, that
about one-sixth of the entire volume
of the legal tender notes is not need
ed for circulation at all. Anti-con*
tractionists criticise this interpreta
tion of the issue of certificates of de
posit, and deny that it indicates any
plethora of legal tender currency.
Some excitement on Wall Street,
New York, last Thursday in conse
quence of J Gould, being attacked
by Major Selover. Gould had been
getting the better of Selover in the
stock business, and hence the drub
bing.
The Atlanta I {dependent publishes
a series of letters purporting to have
been written by Tbeo. li. Davis an at
torney in Washington and A. B.
Clark, Assessor First District, ►Savan
nah, Ga., in 1872. it is clear from
their letters that Clark and Davis had
combined in cheating the Govern
ment. Davis writes Clark that he
planned to go into prosecution of In
ternal revenue eases and asks Clark to
throw all the business of his district to
him, at the same time agreeing to give
Clark half the fees. Clark accepts and
gives Davis a case against the Central
Railroad and Banking Cos. Olark
writes Davis that theCantral Railroad
will compromise for 8-10,000, the claim
for the back taxes against them. The
Independent gives the correspondence?
that passed in this ease and says that
A. B. Clark and Andrew Clark, who
is an official in this district, at this
time were joint informers in theeare
against the Central Road, and got
81 ,0.10 from the goverment and $3,000
from the Central Railroad.
It now behooves the Claris to piove
the fal-ity of these charges.
The Virginia Democratic Convention
was held in Richmond last week to
nominate a candidate tor Governor.
Several candidates were in the field.
On the seventh ballot, lion. F. M.
Holiday was nominated.