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MACON, GA., OCTOBER 29 1878.
THE) GEORGIA PRESS.
The Constitution says:
“jesso w. Jackson and a negto named
Treadtroll, two of the meanest radicals in
Georgia, have joined Colonel Arnold's
band of stampers. They are to canvass
In Monroe and Spalding. Colonel Ar
nold’s cause is certainly beoomicg des
perate.”
Savannah had a bit of cyclone last
Tuesday night, which disabled and drove
out to Rea the bark New Eepnblio,
loaded with lamber and bound from
Brunswick to Rio Janeiro.
Gov- Colquitt writes to Augusta lhat
ho will bo in that city on the 31st in
stant, to take part in the ceremonies of
unveiling the Confederate monument.
AbbsdT op Counterfeitebs.—The
Savannah Neics Bays:
* On Taeaday morning Captain Charles
J. White, special operative of the secret
■erviee United States Treasury Depart
ment, Brrested » negro named Mack
Wright on the charge of makiDg and
passing counterfeit five and ten cent
ptcoes, a number of which were found on
bis person. It appears (hat Mack has
been doing a pretty good thing in this
line, and ancceeded in getting rid of a
quantity of his leaden ooin. He evident
ly believes in “flat money.” and thinks
that an lorg as his Usden five oent and
ten oent pieces piss as ciokels and silver
they aro equally as good. He was dom-
ELitted to jail to await examination by
United States Commissioner Uontmollm.
Ho bad a confederate at Jesnp, and Cap
tain \Vhite left for that paint on Tuesday
afternoon for the purpose cf securing him.
His mission was successful, and he re
turned to the city yesteidsy evening on
the Gulf traiD, having in custody John
Oats, colored, who elso had some of the
counterfeit coin on bis person.
W* find the following letter in tho
Chronicle and Constitutionalist of Thurs
day«
A Card from Hon. Herschkll V.
Johnson .—Editors Chronicle and Consti
tutionalist : A letter received from a friend
to-day imparts to me the following infor
mation, to wit: “It is stated with great
poaitiveness, that yon (r) wrote for Cap
tain Corker hia letter accepting the nomi
nation for Congress of the Greenback-
Labor faction ot the First District.” Per
mit me to say that the statement is false,
end that it is a3 unjust to Capt. Corker
as it is to myself. I never Eaw his letter
of acceptance until it appeared in print.
I never interchanged a word with him in
relation to it directly or indirectly, neith
er by latter nor in manner whatsoever.
Respectfa.ly, etc.
Herechell V. Johnson.
Tax storehouse of Felton & Evans, at
Winchester on the Southwestern Bail-
road, was robbed last Sunday of $100 in
money, and 5300 in goods.
The Carteraville Free Press ease:
Mr. L. W. Gains, nn old resident of
Euharlee, was stricken with paralysis last
Wednesday night, while kneeling in pray
er at the Baptist Church at Taylorsville.
He was picked up and carried home in
sensible, where he is now lying in a very
critical condition. His physician has bat
little hope of his recovery.
The Dalton Citizen says there W33
ie&7y frost and iC9 lest Sunday morning
in that section. Also that partridges aro
very plentiful, and “pnnkin” pies will
euon be in season.
A meeting of tho atockboliera of the
Macon and Augusta railway baa been
called to meet in Augusta, the second
Wednesday in November.
Tire Catbbert True Southron has these
ifemB:
Sam McNeil ate eo much chicken pie
at the convention last Sunday that, on
Sunday night, be was dreaming and sing
ing : “In the sweet bye and bye, chioken-
pjtj n ehicken-pie, till I die.”
Mii Jasper Hill, of Quitman county,
had his gin house burned on last Thurs
day, Some twenty-five or thirty bales of
cotton were consumed with the house.
Thb Warrenton Clipper announoes the
death last week of the Bev. J- D. Rhodes
and' Mr. Baiph O’Shields, old and much
esteemed citizens of that county.
The Albany Afart has information of
the finding of the “remains of some un
known man, ten miles south of Ty Ty,
by Mt. W. E. Williams. No particulars
accompanied the news. Our correspond
ent stated that "he has been dead eo
long that his bones were literally scat
tered over a quarter of an acre of ground,
and were bleached and whitened by the
Tains and sun.” Scattered about over a
considerable space were found a valise,
* violin, some clock-makers’ implements,
and various papers. His identity could
not be traced on any of them. Tho pa
pers were old and dim, and the lettering
obliterated br exposure to weather.”
Gsneeal Cook at Eastman.—We find
in the last Eastman Times the following
notice of Genera! Cook's appearance at
that place lest Taeeday:
Promptly in accordance with pnblish-
ed programme, this distinguished publio
oerrant appeared on Tuesday, at the
Conrt House at 11 o’clock, a. m., and af
ter shaking bands with a great many of
his old friends and admirets, waa intro
duced to the andienoe by Dr. H. Fisher,
and proceeded to review, in a speech of
an hour’s length, the main political issues
and events of the present day and of the
recent past. We cannot review at length
the items of that speech, but we do say,
and most heartily, that in all respects it
was just what our people wiehed to hear,
and presented in a way that just suited
them; and in its presentation eminently
showed the General’s keen appreciation
of time, and plaoe, and people.
We were never more interested, and no
number of men conld have shown a deep
er interest in everything that was said.
Here ia the secret of his power among
the yeomanry of this goodly land.
Every word of bis mouth, each linea
ment of hia swarthy and weather-worn
;ace, and the expression of the whole
combined, conveys to the intuitive mind
of the listener the idea of a veteran true
and tried in the fiery ordeals of his event
ful life. Hi* record confirms the im
pression that his contonr creates.
Guessing, we would say General Cook
was approaching fifty years old. He baa
a Boldierly bearing, with light complex
ion, grey eyes, long, sandy beard and
heavy moustache, both heavily touched
with the silver of approaching age, his
lace looking more like a man who had
just come out of Confederate serrioe,
than one accustomed to the frescoed walla
al the committee rooms at Washington.
In faot, he is a splendid specimen of what
systematic writers on physiology call the
sanguine temperament, one noted in all
time for being unambitious as to place
and power, but when once exalted and
trusted, faithful to that high trust and
all ite obligations. History does not
furnish a specimen of it from Cincinnatus
to Washington and Lee, who did not re
sign his authority without treachery or
rovolt, when duty no longer urged him
to maintain it.
We are ready to- risk oar reputation
for knowing anything, that when the
voice of a great majority no longer esttw
General Cook to high positions, the* he
will retire to private life with * gates
and a complacency that will not only
illustrate the true greatness of th* man.
but will ehow that he is trne to the rec
ord of the claes to which be belongs.
He is a trne man, an honest xtan; as
susk enjoys in the highest degree the
confidence of his ;constituents, and el*
though as yet without opposition, we en
treat you everywhere to oome out on
Taeeday, November bib, and give him
the rousing vote he deserve*.
Bats the Ls&rtmgo Reporter:
The Augusta Evening Sew* says Ben
SBl wrote his Utter eoneemmg Hayes,
betmes be found out he ootid not use
Magee. Mr. Hill eaya he has never
Hayes to appoint any man to
But perhaps the News knows
that than Mr. Hill does
Thb Chronicle and Constitutionalist
says two hundred shares of Georgia rail
way stock were eold last Wednesday at
$78 to $78J, and that the market is quite
irregular and excited.
Mbs. B. Gallagher, one of the oldest
residents of Augusts, died last Wednes
day, aged 82 years.
Thb interest on the bonds of the North-
Eastern railway, due November 1st, will
be paid at the Mechanics’ National Bank,
Now York, or the First National Bank of
Athene.
Br tho burning of Person & Dozier’s
steam saw mill at Talbotton last week,
fourteen bales of cotton, ono hundred
and ninety bushels of wheat, one hun
dred bushels of corn, and five hundred
bushels of cotton seed were lost, on
wnich there was no insurance. Neither
was there any insurance on the mill.
Qualification of Voters. — Under
this head we find the following apropos
article in the Columbus limes;
We thank the correspondent who
sends us the following for his timely con
tribution. It will be seen that ho is of
the opinion that voters of this year are
required to pay last year’s taxes. We
will merely remark, without disenssing
the matter, that some persons are of a
different opinion. They contend that
tho word "hereafter” in the first part of
the paragraph, and the limitation as to
time in the oath, make the requirement
apply to this year’s taxes as the first that
have to be paid in order to qualify, and
as payment for this year is expressly ex
cepted until next year’s election, the vo
ter is net required to pay any taxes as a
qualification for voting next month.
We regaid tho paragraph as one of those
muddles which peoplo sometimes perpe
trate when they attempt to be exceeding
ly formal or precise. All that is in the
paragraph conld -have bean cxpresiod
more clearly in half the space:
Editor Times:—I send to yon for publi
cation Paragraph 2, of Article 2, of the
Constitution of the State of Georgia, that
voters may know that they will have to
vote in the county in which they live, and
will have to haTe paid all taxes for last
year. C. T. Pattillo.
West Point, Ga, October 21.
ARTICLE 2.—ELECTION FRANCHISE.
Par. 2.—Every male citizen of the
United States (except as hereinafter pro
vided) twenty-one years of age, who shall
have resided in this Stato one year next
preceding the election, and shall .have re
sided six months in the county in which
he offers to vote, and shall have paid all
taxes which may hereafter be required of
him, and which he may have bad an op
portunity of paying, agreeably to law,
except for the year of tbe election, shell
be deemed an elector: Provided, That
no soldier, sailor or marine in the milita
ry or naval service of the United States
shall acquire the rights of an elector by
reason of being stationed on duty in thiB
State; and no person shall vote who, if
challenged, shall refuse to take the fol
lowing oath or affirmation: “I do swear
(or affirm) that I am twenty-one years of
age, have resided in this State one year,
and in thi3 county six months next pre
ceding this eleetioc; I have paid all caxes
which since the adoption of the present
constitution of this State have been re
quired of me, previous to this year, and
which I have had an opportunity to pay,
and I have not voted at this eleotion.”
An Atlanta correspondent of the Au
gusta News makes these statements:
I wish to mention a faot probably not
well known—I know it is not. Wm.
Longstreet, grandfather of Gen- Jame3
lioogtreet, who resided in Augusta in
1790, was the first man to apply tne steam
power to working steamboat?. In the lat
ter part of tho last century be oonrsed
the Savannah river with a steamboat of
h)3 own constmotion. being twelve cr fif
teen years before Poitou went np the
Hudson.
The sewing machine is also a Georgia
Invention; and the inventor is now living
—Dr- Wm. Gonldicg, author of t the
“Young Maroonera,” is the maD. Sever
al other renowned and Important inyen*
tions—such as tho cotton gin—were made
by Georgians.
Thb Chronicle and Constitutionalist
says the attorney of the Macon and Wes
tern railway has been instructed to ap
ply for an injunction to prevent the sale
of the road, which has been advertised to
take place in Decembsr.
The same paper quotes tho following
from the New York Herald:
“Letters from Georgia report that efforts
are making to defeat Senator Gordon’s
re-election on the ground that he “bar
gained away the Presidency.” Well, no;
it was not General Gordon who bargained
away the Presidency; tbe present Presi
dency. we mean. But General Gordon
has done a good deal to bargain away the
next Presidency by his greenback infla
tion speeches in the Senate and elsewhere.
If tbe Georgia Democrats hare a hard
money man fit to be United States Sena
tor we advise them to put him in General
Gordon's place. If they want the Demo
crats to elect the next President the
sooner they send the inflation and green
back people to the rear the better the
chances will b9 to see their wishes ful
filled.”
And comments thereon xs follows:
New York has more information abont
the Senatorial election than Georgia. If
efforts are being made to defeat General
Gordon’s re-election on the ground that
he bargained away the Presidency, they
are conducted so quietly as to escape the
attention of the people of this State, end
the day of election is now near at hand.
The Herald thinks the wrong charge has
been made—that General Gordon should
not bs defeated for bargaining away the
present Presidency, but for bargaining
away the next Presidency by his "green*
back inflation speeches.” If wo under
stand General Gordon’s financial position
he denies being an inflationist, hut
claims to be an exponent Of the "Ohio
idea,” He favors the repeal of the re
sumption act, tbe substitution of green
backs for national bank aotep, and
x volume of currency equal to
the demand* of trade. In New
York this would be considered
inflation, but in Georgia we have much
more malignant type* of tha disease.
As * matter of truth some of the opposi
tion to General Gordon grows out of the
f*ot that be opposes the election of the
ultra Greenback candidates in the First
and Fifth districts. * It will probably be
impossible to gratify the Herald by put
ting a hard money Candidas*ix the field
for United States Senator. We state
confidentially to tbe Herald that bard
money men are aa scarce in Georgia as
prominent citisena in a yellow fe
ver epidemic. Wa know of but two
newspapers is the State—the Chronicle
and the Borne Tribune—that do not fa
vor the repeal of the reexmpticn act.
All the politicians with Senatorial timber
ia their composition are earnest advo
cates of repeal. The people, tbe pres3
tsd the politicians ail agree that the
ckarteisof tbe National Banks should
•el he renewed, and most of the people
an quite willing to have “more money.”
Mr. Mill fa th* nearest approach to the
Northern idea of a hard money man, Lut
Mr. Hill oan only occupy one seat in the
Senate at a time. It ia very evident to
those who know anything ef Georgia
politics that General Gordon cannot ba
beaten on financial issue*.
JmBaowxand Bill Harrington, two
bibulous genU of Columbus, collided in
a barroom last Friday, and if the latter’s
little Barlow hadn’t been eo dull Jim
woatd have joined the majority, as he
waa eat jest above the carotid artery.
Mm. Lock W*xn?, formerly of Colom
bo*, and Was Ltxsia Winn; a Obsttahoo-
ohee county belle, were married last Toes ■
day. v ' ;p";
Livxlt Tines at LaGramoe.— The
Reporter has tha following notice of a re
sent political meeting in LaGrange, at
whioh Major Mesa? spoke in the interests >
of Captain Persons, candidate for Con--
greES in that district:
During Major Moses’ speech he was in
terrupted repeatedly, and in many cases
impertinently. He was (oo sharp to be
upset, and in every case he ‘'chawed” tbe
one who interrupted him. Whenever he
was applauded, a large number of the
audience would cry “Hurrah tor Harris 1”
and frequently the shouting would con
tinue two or three minutes, utterly pre
venting him from speaking. He never
got ruffled, however, but he would wait
calmly till the noise subsided, and then
proceed. He gained the victory over the
crowd, though eome of them tried hard
to bowl him down.
After Major Moses finished, the Harris
men began to oall for two or three gen
tlemen to speak. These attempted to re
spond, bnt tbe uproar was so great that
they could not be heard. Then followed a
scene which we will not attempt to de
scribe. Many of the audience on both
eides were drunk, many others acted that
way, and the howliDg was actually heard
two miles off. There was a general row,
and came near being a general fight. The
municipal anthorities—where were they ?
Altogether it waaa most disgraceful scene
and we hope never to see another snob.
It is but just to say that many of those
who were present do not live in La
Grange.
The first o3rgo of ootton shipped this
eason from Savannah to Bremen was
cleared on Friday, and consisted of 3,750
bales, valued at 5183,701.15. Tbe Brit
ish ship “Southern Bights” cleared for
Liverpool the samojday with 3,123 bales,
tbe eighteenth cargo she has cleared from
Savannah for the former port.
Wx find the following in the Henry
county Weekly:
Tbe down night freight train, whioh
passes here at eleven o'clock, ran. over a
negro man abont three miles this side of
Jonesboro Wednesday night, killing him
instantly. He was lying across tbe traok
apparently asleep.
Mr. William Wilson, of Snapping
Sboals, bad tbe good lack to wake np one
morning last week, and find in his trap
one hundred and twenty-five oatfiab.
Mayor Huff, of Macon, has threat
ened to “demolish Gordon at the proper
time.” The General has onr sympathies
in advance. How he must quake at such
threats! It is almost enongh to make
him think of hiding his diminished head
when such warlike preparations are being
made to undo him.
On Tuesday last tbe gin honso and
saw mill of Mr. J. N. Arnold, of Green
oonnty, gether with twenty-three balsa
of cotton, was burned by the car elf as use
of a match in the bands of a negro gill.
Loss $5,000 and no insuranoe.
Quitman County Itsab.—We find the
following in the Cutbbett Appeal:
Sunday evening last, as Dr. Rnther-
#:d and lady were returning home from
Spring Vale, the horse they were driv
ing took fright and ran sway, throwing
both from the buggy. Dr. Rutherford
bad his left arm broken. Mrs. R. escap
ed without any serious injury.
Mr. JaspxbN. Hill had hia gin house,
screw, gin, and sixteen bales of cotton
destroyed by fire last Thursday evening.
He doesn’t know how the fire originated,
nnles3 it was caused by a match that
eome careless negro m lighting his pipe
had let fall in a basket of cotton. Ho
estimates his loss at ?1,200.
Intelligence reached town last (Sat
urday morning that a dead negro bad
been found in the woods near the road,
just beyond- CoL Gaerry’s residence.
Two or three gentlemen drove to the
place and found the report to be true.
Considerable blood was on the ground,
and a suspicion arose in their minds
that he had bsen murdered. They made
an examination, bnt no marks of violence
were fonnd on his person. An inquest
was held over the body of the dead man,
and the jury returned a verdict that the
deceased came to his death from some
unknown cause. His name was Sam
Perry, and he lived at Mrs. Barlow’s, in
Stewart county. His wife 6aid he left
home the Sunday before for Cotton Hill,
where he was engaged to do some work.
It is supposed that he had finished the
work and wae on his way home when he
was taken sick and died.
Col. C. M. Davis, of Calhonn county;
produced from eight potatoes, which he
brought from Florida, one hundred bush
els. They were planted on the 11th of
Jnly. They are a cluster potato.
Tbe same paper says Dr. John B. Men-
roe. formerly of Cuthbert, died cf yellow
fever last Tuesday at Lake Charles,Louis
iana. He was on his way to Georgia to
aeo his parents.
Mr. B. F. Barksdale, of WilkeB county,
had hia arm broken in a gin last Thurs
day.
Wilkes county is putting on airs over an
eight and a half pound sweet potato,
whioh measured twenty-three and a half
inches in cironmference.
The Washington Gazelle says:
LirrrLX George Gunther, son of a
widow who lives on Zsb Colley’s plaoe
three miles from town, had his head ter
ribly mangled in the running gear of a
gin last Tuesday morning. The little fel
low was standing on the lever riding
around when he put hia head a little above
the larger oog wheel which crashed it
against tbe pieee of machinery in which
the journal of the band wheel work9.
The oheek bones of one side of his face
and the jaw bones were broken In sev
eral plsoes and tbe flesh all torn from
that side. The patient died the next
morning abont daylight. He was only
seven years old.
• The Lonlsville News and Farmer inci
dentally remarks that “a few years ago
the npright and intelligent people of
Georgia gave no quarters to soallawsgs
and carpetbaggers. Now, Independent
candidates are doing the same dirty work,
yet, many respeotable people, so-called,
follow them. What’s the difference in
the two animals ? Where is your Iogio?”
EDISON’S NEW LIGHT.
The Next Congress,
New York Times (Rad.)]
If we regard, then, only the chances
already made, and assnme that in No
vember each party will carry the dis
tricts whioh it now controls, we should
have in the House 163 Democrats and
Greenbackers to 1.30 E-publicans—a net
Iosb ef tan to the Republicans and a cor
responding gain to the Democrats. With
such an arrangement of parties, there
would be a majority of 33 against the
Republicans, instead of the 18 which now
exists. Bnt, obviously, it would be rash
to ssppose that things w ill remain as they
are in all the Southern districts now rep
resented by Republicans. There are ten
districts in tne Sonth from which Repub
licans are elected, namely, the First Flor
ida, the Second and Third Louisiana, the
Becond North Carolina, the First, Second
and Fifth Sonth Carolina, the First and
Second Tennessee, and the Fourth Vir
ginia. In South Carolina and Louisiana
it is boasted that the “Mississippi plan”
will prevent any Republicans being re
turned from there. In the ether States
the Republican party has certainly not
been strenghtened by the course of the
administration, and it wonld not be at all
surprising if, by one means andjanother,
the Democrats succeeded in changing ob
many as nine of these districts. Should
they do so, their strength in the next
House would ba 172 to 121, unless the
Republicans succeed in winning back
some of the districts now in Democratic
hands.
Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise.)
Wo were yesterday Bhown by Thomaa
Ralston, the well known insurance man
and stock-broker, a certificate of an as
say of Sierra Nevada ore made by Har
vey Harris, essayer, of Child Hill, which
is quite a cariosity, in that it shows a
string of a'x figure four*. Tho assay is
as follows: Silver, 82,931,<7; geld; $1,«
505,97; total: $4,444.4-1, Ten thousand
assays might he mads and the same array
of figures not b< again brought out.
Electricity to takn the Place
or Gas In All cities.
“Positively No Admittance” was the
disoonrsgiug greeting at the door of Edi
son’s labratory at Menlo Park, Saturday,
when the representative of the Graphic
entered and enoountered the pleasant raoe
of Mr. Batohelor, Edison’s indispensable
assistant, and Mr. Griffln. seotetsry and
correspondent.
“Now, what Is this inhoBpitablo sign
for? ’ they were asked.
“Yon see,” Batohelor said, “Edison is
altogether more amiable than it is wise to
be. He doesn’t want to bar anybody out
so be lets all sorts of inqnisilive people
come here and oocupy his time, when they
are moved by no motive higher than idle
curiosity. But at Important seasons like
this we oan induce him to keep some of
the people out.”
“He is particularly busy now, Is he ?'
asked the Graphic.
"Yea,” responded Batohelor; “the fact
is, for several weeks now he has been at
work night and day on this electrio light.
Ha has driven it into a pretty small cor
ner at last. Here he comes and oan
speak for himself.”
At this point Mr. Edison came clatter
ing doxn the stairs, glowing with
pleasant excitement and evidently just
emerged from his wizard’s osve. “Hello,
is that yon?” he said rapidly. “In a week
or two I’ll have my elcotrio light ready
for you to illustrate, if you oare to do so.”
“Yon seem to be making a paiiio
among the gas companies,” said tbe
Graphic.
Well, yes; thoso old fellows know what
they are abont. I've got ’em, certain,
and they are finding it out”
“Is there really any good canse for this
sadden tumble of gas stocks ?”
“It is a little precipitate, perhaps, bat
it was bound to come. The electric light
is the light of the future—and it will be
my light—unless,” ho added, with a con
ciliatory twinkle, “some other follow getB
up a better one. Still, tho gas stocks
need not decline. The companies can
just adopt electricity instead cf gas and
run our wires inside of their pipes. 1 "
“The American Gaslight Association
doesn’t believe in yon,” suggested a sci
entific gentleman who was present.
Those gentlemen are right from their
point of view,” said Edison, “but they
talked in tbe dark. They didn’t know
what I had got hold of. Batchelor was
at their meeting and was greatly
amused.”
“Howev'r, seeing is believing,” con
tinued he, “and I will show yon the eleo-
trio light and my methods of feeding and
regulating it, only stipulating that yon
shall give no descrip tion of it which shall
vitiate my patents in Germany, applied
for, buijao^ yet granted.”
He led tbe way np stairs again, to the
second floor of the laboratory, whioh baa
been lllastrated in the Graphic, and pas
sed before the benoh where he first hit on
the phonograph, and where he finished
the telephone. Three small brass stand
ards were there, six or eight inches high,
each with a small glass globe or oylinder
at the- top, enclosing a onrions nest of
wires. From each standard a wire de
scended through the floor.
“These are the lamps,” Baid the inven
tor, relighting the pipe which had gone
out and laying it on the bench where it
immediately perished agaiu. He touch
ed a lever on the bench. “Now the cur
rent is on this lamp,” he explained,
touching tho smallest; “it is lighted bnt
you do not see it.” Presently the nest of
wire at the top aesnmed a dull, crimson
glow. In another minute it was scarlet;
then it turned to afierco white heat.
"Of course there is no flame,” he said;
“the light is wholly from incandescence.
That light is just about equal to one gas
jet. I can increase or diminish it to any
extent. I can regnlato it with mathe
matical accuracy.”
“What is that wire that glows?”
"That is platina.”
“How long will it last?”
"Forever, almost. It will not burn
never oxydizes. *
Then ho tamed it down through all
shades of red, till the light vanished.
“You do not see it now,” he said; “bat
it is lighted. It is invisible, and the elec
tricity required is almost infinitely small,
but it is here, and a touch will recall it—
see!” and he tapped the lever, and the
illnmination returned, “How’s that for
a sick room?” he asked, with a broad
smile of pleasure.
He connected the circuit with the two
other lamps, and showed their different
patterns or capacities. Then be explain
ed the peculiarity which rendered this
electric light practicable and valuable,
and said, “If a statement cf that were
published, it might invalidate my foreign
patents.” He didn’t ask an “affidavy”
of secreoy, bnt seemed satisfied with the
negative affirmation of silence.
“This is exaotly what yon want it to be
then, is it ?’* a9ked ono of the party.
“Not exactly,” said Mr. Edison; "there
are three points to be perfected. I am
working on them now. One is an elec-
trioity meter. Yon see, this thing has to
be invented from the very beginning.”
“Where does this electricity come
from?” he was asked.
“Downstairs. It is famished by, our
engine. We nse Wallace’s machine—
William Wallace, of Ansonia; a woe fit
fully ingenious man. We use his gener
ator. It simply turns power into gas.
In actual operation, one large engine
would supply a whole town with light."
"How mush will your lights cost, Mr.
Edison?”
“They’ll coat a good deal less than gas.
How much less is now uncertain, nor is
it prudent to estimate it. But, confiden
tially, I will tell you that”—
[Mr. Edison here told how cheap he
thought the electric light could be fur
nished; hat the Graphic ambassador did
not tako notes, and is uncertain whether
he said it would cost four cents an hour
for 100 feet, or a cent for four hoars for
100 burners.]
We returned to the electrio lamps.
“Yon light one of these,” said Edison,
"by just turning a thumb screw. No
lighting of matches, no danger of suffoca
tion or damage if you have it turned on
full. And the beauty of it is,” said he,
taking up hia pipe and lighting it, "that
no electricity is wasted. What yon don’t
use, the other lamps in the circuit do.”
“Now,” he added, laying down the
pipe, where it presently went out; “I
wished I could give the public the whole
secret, but I can’t run any risk.. It is
impossible to tell the publie at pres
ent just what I have patented. Bnt
you may assure the readers of the Graphic
that this thing is within sight.” We fol
lowed him to the back window, where
he called onr attention to groups of work
men digging, and said, “I am putting up
anew bnilding there to perfect this elec
trio light. It will be 135 by 35 feet, and
will be equipped with two eighty-borse
power engines, an immense hydraulic
press and much other machinery. We
are going to pat electric lights all over
Menlo Park, and see how many cne-
horse power will feed. We want to know
exactly all abont it”
The return train whistled unexpected
ly, and the visitors rushed down soross
tbe field, followed by tbe warning voice
of tho Wizard, who shouted from the
porch, “Don’t give me away—till next
week 1”
It
The Next House,
Washington Stsr.1
Clerk Adams, of the House, la daily
xeoeiving the material from whioh he will
make up the rell of tbe Forty-sixth Con
gress. Already he ia in receipt of the
certificates of election of members of Con
gress from Maine, Oregon, Colorado and
Vermont. Thns far there are no dupli
cate certificates and no contestants. The
oredentlali of the members-eleot from
Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and West Virginia
have not yet been forwarded.
Chandler iShocKed.
N. Y. Stsr.J
Neither Mtd Wells, nor Oasenave, nor
any other person cf Returning Board
fame, has yet expressed his horror at the
wiokedneea of thoee cipher dispatches;
but cld Zioh Chsndlar says they're per
fectly awfol.
A CLERICAL NIMROD.
A California Preacher’s Vaca
Cion—A SnrprIBlnsr, Kxasper
at ing Male— Another Bear Si to
*-y.
Bev. W. J. Smith, writing from Visa
lia, Cal., to the Pittsburg (Pa.) Presbyte
rian Banner, communioates these person
al experiences:
“From my earliest boyhood I have
loved to hunt. When too unwell to work
at home, it was a delight for me to work
all day in tho woods for a few squirrel?.
Of course, I did it all for my health. My
father said it was running so much that
’kept me ailing, but, of course, he was
wrong. What father was ever right, or
what boy ever agreed with him? But
Nimrodism has a strange fascination for
mo yet; and, oh! what a feast I have had
but it is not easy work. We killed five
deer upon the side of that rugged moun
tain. Next morning we start bright and
eaily to bring them into camp. Wo take
onr pack-male and try to lead him up
the slippery steeps. He is such a fanny
mule; he can turn round on eight feet of
rope and kick you twice with both feet,
turn rcuud and go to browsing on bine
brash with more esse and composure
than any mule I ever saw. Our stock of
patience ia very nearly exhausted.
We reach a great belt of slippery rock
where We can hardly stand, and we have
almoat an “old Adam” desire to see this
mule jump off the ledge and commit sui
cide to satisfy our vengeance, but he
merely took a little seam of rock, walked
down like a tight-rope performer, and
when at last he came to an almost per
pendicular descent, he stiffened his legs
and skated to the bottom in a manner
that would have done credit to a Green
lander on snow-shoes. Bat here we can
go no faither, and on foot we pack onr
game on onr backs for two miles. -It is
far in the night ere we retnrn. Panthers
follow ns along the cliffs with their hide
ous scream8, attracted by thefresbfmeat,
bat do not come within raDge of our gnus.
The bright moon looks down, and we
wrap ourselves in our blankets, with feet
to the firo, and how soundly we sleep.
Saturday I killed my first bear; he was
a noble fellow. He came round the
point of a hill, sprang upon a great log
took a good look at me, and started
shuffling off, when I sent a ball in the re'
gion of tho heart. That started him roll
ing down the hill, growling and bawling
in tho sgouies of death. It crested quite
a stir in the camp, as it was the first ono
killed. Deer are very plenty and fat,
and onr camp has the appearance of a
small drying and packing establishment
We killed seventeen in six days’ hunt-
ing. I had the gcod fortune to kill nice
of them.
“It was the last evening in camp,
picked up my rifle and walked down to
ward the river. As I reached a high
point I looked down the ravine and saw
a monster bear quietly browsing on the
growing clover. I crawled down as noise-
lessly as possible on my bands and knees,
got within abont 100 yards of him, and
interrupted his evening repast by putting
a ball behind his fore shoulder. He was
ponderous fellow, and Le raised his
head and looked at his side and began
turning round and round, as though he
didn’t know what in tbe world was the
matter with him. Finally he. lifted his
bead and saw me. There was a steep,
rocky gnlch of forty or fifty feet between
He conld not cross opposite, but
about a hundred yards below there was a
break in the gorgo with old logs fallen
across, down which led the bear trail. I
saw in a moment he was making for that
—to run was impossible, the brash was
so thick behind me. There was nothing
bnt my nerve and my rifle to depend on,
so I walked to the edge of the gulch and
pat another bullet full in bis side.
At this he howled and bellowed with
rage. I flung ia another cartridge and
planted tho third ball near his Bhoulder.
At this he stopped, and roaring fearfully,
tore up the ground in hi3 rage, sat do-»n
on his hage haunches, took up his hind
foot with his fore paws, and with his
tusks tore it and gashed it like a knife.
He had reaohed tho edge of the gnlch,and
was clambering the last ledge of rock to
descend. As he straighted up his neck
I aimed fall at it, and gave him my fourth
round. Iu a moment he loosened his
dutch, and came tumbling like a young
avalanche lo the bottom of the gulch, bel
lowing seemingly m the agonies of death.
I thought I had broken his neck, and af
ter a while walked dovn near
him, but when within eight or
ten feet, to my utter consterna
tion saw him rise to his feet, and I think
Providenoe gnided the ballet that went
crashing through his brain, and he
dropped dead at my feet. He was a giant
of the foreBt in size, over eight feet in
length, of the big brown speoies, as large
and ferooions as the grizzlieR. He wonld
weigh abont 8G0 pounds. Hts bind feet
were ten inches in length by five in width.
To our astonishment, when we skinned
him we found none of the balls bad gone
an inch benoath tbe thick skin. The one
in the neek bad only paralyzed tbe nerves,
Of oonrie, it was a trophy, bnt I do not
believe I care abont being present when
there’s another soare like that a bruin,
where yonr ballets flatten ont like wafers,
for it certainly was a bear esoape from a
fate similar to that of the hoodlums in
Elijah’s day, who cried, ‘Go up, thou
bald heed.’”
Firewoks in Japan excel anything of
the kind usually seen in this country,
and are of two kinds, ground displays
and rockets. Day fireworks are exclu
sively of the latter kind, as effect can
only be produced by them in the air and
at a distance; and as many of them con-
sist of more or less sombre imagery traced
is smoke or cloud, a clear sky is the best
background. The full success of this is
dependent not only upon a clear atmos
phere, but also on calm weather. Some
of these strange rockets were recently
exhibited, in San Francisco. Out of ono
of them burst clouds of variegated hue,
with fantastic accessories. From another
emerged a tncolor flag, which was seized
by the wind and borne rapidly away.
The rockets are shot into the air from
mortars. Perfect accuracy of flight is
thus scoured, a result hardly attainable
with atiok and self-propulsion. The
ordnance is m ade of wood. Tho ordinary
rouge is 1,200 yards, thong a higher
elevation can be attained by affixing wings
to the missile. A mortar of suitable bore
ie sponged ont, a charge of powder is
dropped (into the muzzle, and a quick
fuse is pnt into the touchhole. The
operator lets the firework carefully down
till it touohes (he 'charge. A flrestickis
applied to the fuse, and instantly the
contents of the gnn are hurried straight
into the air. The bursting charge is in
the globular portion cf the bomb, and
this part ia lowest in the gnn, so that its
tiipe fuse, communicating with the de-
tenants, may ignite with the discharge,
Bnt the whole case is so weighted that,
as it leaves the muzzle, top and bottom
are reversed, with the result that the
fuse burn?, and the explosion orexp’orions
take place upward.
One Kind cl Campaign Non
sense,
From Speech of Stewart L, Woodford .1
You fall in love with a very pretty girl.
You spend a good deal of lime in court
ing bar. By and by you ask her if she
will marry you, and aha makes yon glad
by her sweet "yes.” You reply “When?”
and the happy day ia fixed. When the
wedding day oomes yon go to claim your
bride. Rut no; your maiden replies:
"Oh, ne, I have joined the National par
ty. And so long aa you believe that my
promise is just aa good as the realizition,
and that courtship la as good as marriage,
only think that you have your wife, and
you have her.”
Count Eantzau, to whom Oounteae
Marie Bismarck, the Chancellor's only
daughter, ie to be married, la a first Idea-
tenant In the reserve of the Third Chian
Regiment* He baa served as secretary
of legation in Lisbon, Brussels and Mu
nich, and was present at tbe Congrea of
Berlin aa one of the secretaries. Sinoe
then he has been employed in tbe chan
cellery. He belongs to one of tbe oldest
Shhleswlc-Holslefc families, and waa born
ju 1843.
A Good Customer.
Baltimore Bun.l
If hard times should compel Great
Britain to retrench all the world of oom-
meroe would suffer, for Great Britain ia
theb68t easterner that the commercial
world ha?. She sells to all tbe world, and
seeks naturally to make a profit upon all
that she sell*, but she (ally and complete
ly recognizes tbe faot that she must buy
in order that sbe may sell. Great Britain
is th9 chief and by far the best customer
of tbe Halted States, and a panio and a
cessation of consumption there would be
felt from tbe broad wheat fields of Minne
sota and tbe pine forests of Maine to tbe
ootton fields of Texas and the quarts lodes
of Nevada and California. Great Britain
in effect buys nearly all our surplus crops
of every description, and pays for them,
when she cannot pay in goods or in
Amerioan seonritie?, in the hardest kind
of hard cash.
During the year past Great Britain
has been the largest purchaser of bread*
stuffs that the world ever saw, and has
bought more than she ever did before.
The British expenditures for the past
season on account of breadstuffs are re
ported to have reached the enormous fig
ure of £64,718,000 ($313,335,129),against
£55,955.000 in „1875. Of this outlay
£38,500.-000 in 1878 went for wheat and
flour alone.
In late years the importation of Indian
corn (chiefly from tho United States) has
greatly increased in Great Britain. In
1863 the imports were 25,472,000 bushels.
In 1876 they had risen to 80,000,000
bushels, and for the season of 1878 they
amount to 81,492,000 bushels, valued at
162,000,000. It has been reoently dis
covered in Great Britain that corn is the
cheapest food for horses and com meal
one of tbe cheapest foods for human bs-
ings, audit may be expected that the im
portations of corn will steadily increase
for some time yet. The British imports
of barley for the past season were Talued
at £5 840.000, and of oats, peas and beans
at £6,500.000. The total exports of the
United States during the lait fiscal year
were $680 683.798, an excess over imports
of $257,832,667, and of these exports
Great Britain took the lirgerpait.
We could hardly afford to dispense
with such a customer as this, and if that
country were to retrench as severely as
we have been doing in the past five years
our commercial interests wonld suffer
materially. The British demand for
beef cattle alone from tho United States
now reaches $8,000,000 worth a year,
and a period of industrial depression
wonld cut this short. So with the de
mand for cheese, lard, beef, bacon,
canned goods, etc. Our interest in the
affairs of our best customer is tberefore
an intimate and personal one, and we
have every reason in the world to wish
her a long continuance of her commer
cial prosperity, which seems now going
under a cloud.
INDIANA DEMOCRATIC LEAD.
ERA.
How (be Senate Will stand.
New York World Washington Letter)
The com position of the Senate of the
Fortv-sixth Congro-s can be more ap
proximately ascertained now than that of
the Hvusa of Representatives. The Sen
ate being a perpetual body, always organ
ized and having a quorum of duly elected
Senator-, is nevertheless subjected to
radical changes every Congress, one-third
of the terms of its Senators expiring with
the end of- each Coneresj. The States,
therefore, elect for the new session of
tbe Senate, which may be convened on
March 4 next in executive session by
Presidential proclamation, twenty-five
Senators of the new class. Of this num
ber seven have been already elected, and
but two of 1885 re-elected, Mr. Morrill
in Vermont, and Mr. Allison from Iowa.
The States yet to e’eot are Alabama, Ark
ansas, Oolorada,Connecticnt,Florida,Gt:0-
gia, Indiana, Louisiana. Missouri, Nevada,
New Hampshire,New York,Pennsylvania,
South Carolina aud Wisconsin. A decid
ed majority of these will retnrn Demo
cratic Senators, Colorado aud Wisconsin,
alone being at all certain of electing Re.
public ins, and even in tbe latter State
tbe Senator promises to be the result of
a coalition. The present Senate stands
politically: Republicans, 39; Democrat?,
36; Independent, 1. To secure control
of the Senate, the Democrats do not re
quire more than forty votes. As they
will lose no State now represented by a
Democrat, all the gains will increase the
present representation. The Democratic
Senators already elected, therefore, in
California,Orego u and Ohio give the Dem
ocrats 42. The Republicans concede the
election of Democratic Senators in Ala
bama in place of Mr. Spencer, in Florida
in lien of Mr. Conover, in Sonth Carolina
in Mr. Patterson’s seat and Arkansas in
lien of Mr. Dorsey, thns increasing the
nnmber to 46, and leaving tho Republi
cans 30 Senators. On this showing
alone tho Democrats will have a majority
of 16, which is even larger than might be
estimated at the first glance. The Dem
ocrats, however, have a reasonable pros
pect of gaining a Senator in Illinois, New
York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin—
possibly Nevada. Bnt in any event a
large working majority is already as
sured, with a prospect of increasing it in
the class of 1881, whioh embraces vacan
cies in California, Mississippi, Nevada
and Wisoonsin. The Republicans are
making their calculations to hold on to
the offices of the Senate till December 2,
1879^when the Forty-sixth Congress con
venes), but this is hardly probable, as tbe
President generally convenes the Senate
m executive session, while the present
Congress may decide to provide for a new
session of both houses.
Breckinridge and Sheridan.
San Francisco Examiner.!
In the “Turf Topics” of tho Call the
writer mentions the splendid Kentucky
“Gray Eagle”—a horse “captured” or, in
plainer English, stolen, from .the farm of
the late great Kentucky statesman and
patriot, General John C. Breckinridge—
which is now in the possession of Lieu
tenant General Phil. H. Sheridan, and
remarks that “it would have been a
graceful act” for the latter to havo pre
sented his old opponent with the horse
he evidently thought so much of.” That
it would have been graceful, and, better
still, honest, in General Sheridan to have
relumed “Gray Eagle” lo his rightful
owner, will be tha opinion of honorable
men generally, but PhiL Sheridan has
never been known to do a graceful or
grateful act. It is not in his coarse and
cruol nature. General Breckinridge was
never an opponent of Sheridan’?. He
never fought down hill.
A SutMtllnte for a Will.
Philadelphia Times.)
A bag of silver ooin, having a rather
interesting history, was reoeived from an
Allentown bank for the pnrpose of ex
changing by Dunn, Smith A Co., Third
street bankers, yesterday. An old farmer
died in Lehigh county a short time ago,
and the family, being almost portionless,
thought of searching around tbe boose
for a will. A stocking fall of jingling
metal was discovered in tbe loft, and the
March, being thns encouraged, brought
out several more atooklngs, ail filled with
tbe valuable coin. It figures up a total of
$500 in gold and $1,500 in silver, aud
dates book from 1840 to tbe beginning of
the present century.
Carmiohaer* LirveConstlPUls relieve pa to
Biliousness, Heart hurn.Waterbrssh, 8ick Head
ache and all the diseases caused hy a disordered
We hereby certify that we have used Carml-
hael’s Liver Pills in onr families, and do not
hesitate to say they Rive entire satisfaction—are
eqnalif not superior to any wehMgsvw used.
JM HOLLIS,
JJ LEAST,
May 18,1878. W B DAVIS.
Carmichael’s Pemale Tonic cure* painful, sup
pressed or irregular menstruation, leueorrhcea or
whites, lick headache, hysterics, palpitation of
the heart, swimming or giddiness ef the head
pale and feeble constitutions, and all diseases p*.
culiar to females. , ,
Forsyth, 1st June, 1878.
Hr Cabmichabi. Yonr Female Tonio hai
workod like a charm in my family and I would
not be without it for any coni (deration, and
therefore recommend it that others may be equal-
y blest.
unSSwSm
WH.HF SHIT
Senator McDonald on the Com#
plexloa of Ike Next Congress.
Indianapolis Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer
Senator McDonald ia at home again
from the East, where he has been looking
after the affairs of the National Deinc
oratio Committee. I met him at the
Bates House at dinner, to-day, and oalled
his attention to the paragraph in the £n.
qvirer asking “whether be or . Mr. Hen-
drioks repreeented the Indiana Democ
racy,” and intimating that he was gorg
ing the^Eaatem Demooraoy with hard-
money utterances and national bank ad vo-
oaoy.
“If your people can find any utterance
of mine ever made in favor of national
banks I will pay them well for it. I never
said one word in favor of national banks
or their money.”
“I understand tho Senator to demand
a national currency convertible into coin,”
interrupted Senator Yoorhees.
‘•You mean a Treasury note, do you
not?” remarked Mr. Hondriifei, who was
present.
"I mean,” said Mr. McDonald, “that
if we are to have a paper currency, that
it be a Treasury note, bnt that convert
ible.”
“One of the querries in the paragraph
is whether yoa or Mr. Hendries repre
sents the Democracy in this State.”
“We both represent the party. If it
is not exaotly with me, I am with it, for
Yoorhees and the measures of the party.”
Just at this moment Governor Hen
dricks was called ont, so the party had no
expression from him.
“Did yon see the printed statement
that the President said the next Hons a
will be Republican by a small majority?'’
I asked.
"Yes, and it shows how little he knows
of American politics. Tha Democrats
will have a majority of not leas'.than
thirty in the next House; too much of a
majority, in fact. I met Eugene Hale in
New York, and told him that the Enquir
er said he was trying to keep the Demo
crats from having a two-thirds majority
in the next House, and that I was sorry
March was not on our side. He replied
that Mr. March was a straight-out Dem
ocrat, and a man of decided original abil
ity. In fact, Hale speaks very kindly of
him.”
“What do you think of tbe prospects in
the November elections—that iB, what in
formation has the National Committee?”
t he representation iu New York, Il
linois and Pennsylvania will not be chang
ed. A few losses will occur in both par
ties in those States, bnt one will about
offset the other. The Democratic pros
pects are better in Connecticut and New
Hampshire than in any of the Eastern
Scat«. We will gain two Congressmen
m Michigan, one in Wisconsin and two
in Missouri.”
Will the Democrats hell a November
election in Iowa?
“No, they den’t intend doing anything
of tbe kind.”
“How will the Southern delegation
stand?'*
* The representation will be very much
as it is now. We will gain two in South
Carolina, one in Florida, and lose one in
Louisiana. Turner, the Republican can
didate in the Mt. Sterling (Kentucky)
District will be elected.”
“What are the reports from the Pacific
elope?”
“The California delegation will be
equally divided, but we will get the mem
ber from Nevada^ There will be no
change in Kansas or Nebraska.”
“It is reported that the Independents
or Nationals are strong in some of the
Southern States—that is, in particular
districts.”
“That is true, and they will elsot a few
members in tbe Sonib; bnt as they aro
all of Democratlo antecedent! they will
vote with the Demooraoy on all party
questions.”
“What do yon think of Butler’s chances
in Massaohuseti ?''
“I am not managing the canvass n
that State, and I don’t think I can give
an opinion.”
Senator Yoorhees was in fine spirits,
and well he may be, as the State Central
Committee has essuranoes from enough
members of the Legislature to seoure bis
eleotioa to tbe Senate ’ beyond a doubt.
-He has a certainty of abont eigbty votes,
and possibly eighty-fonr.
A Talk with Capt. Eads.
New York Tribune, Oct. 19)
Captain James B. Eads arrived in New
York from . Washington on Wednesday,
and yesterday he was asked abont
the report that, owing to a suspen
sion of the work cn the Mississippi
jetties on account of the prevalence of
yellow fever among |the workmen, the
jettiea had been injured to the extent cf
a million of dollars. ‘ I here is no foun
dation whatever,’ said Captain Ead?, ‘for
the report. We have a population of
150, including our workmen and their
families. Out of this population there
have been sixty-three cases of yellow
fever and twelve deaths. The men
deserted us in largo numbsrs when the
fever broke out, »nd at one time we had
only fifteen, who .were kept at work
pnmping ont the boats. At present we
have abont forty men on the works, all or
mostly all of whom ore convalescent
from the fever. Daring this suspension
of work the channel has remained practi
cally intact. The list survey showed a
channel 23J- feet deep and 160 feet wide
in the narrowest part. When theyelloy
fever is over, we shall push the work at
once, and I think we shall finish it in a
year, though of conrse, the progress of
the dredging will depend largely upon
the kind of weather we may have. In
order to facilitate operations, I am hav
ing new dredging machines made now,
and they will soon he in use.*
‘No/ added Captain Ead?, 'there is no
truth in the rnmor. There will have
been no dredging for five months, and no
repairs for four months, from the time
when the fever broke out.’ Still, the
channel ia the same, except at the upper
end, where it has improved. These facia
inspire the friends of the enterprise with
new faith in the success and stability of
the work.’
Tun WATER THATS PAST.
« oi Lawrence I™* in <Tha m
listen to the water mill
jrfe ■
jjjSwsSsg**
itaaSSff* hauntl
• spell is east,
Jhanmwfflnerar Rrind
" im the water that has passed.”
Take the lessen to thyself.
Loving heut and true.
U olden years are fleeting by.
Youth is passing too,
Learn to make the mast of life.
Lose no happy day.
Time will never bring thee back
Chances swept aw y.
Leave no tender word unsaid,
bnewhflelitsahan last,
fteyglwiUntVOT grind
" ith the water that has passed."
s vS£X.b.“S'“>“*'
Wait not till to-morrow’s sun
Beams upon the way.
All that thou canst call thy own
Lies in tby to day.
Power, intellect and health
May not, can not last,!
"The mill will never grind
With the water that has passed.”
Oh. the wasted hours ol life.
That have drifted by.
Oh. the good we misht havo dose.
Lost without a sigh,
Lovathal we might once havo saved
By a single word.
Thoughts conceived, but never nenntd,
Perishing unheard.
Take the proverb to thine hoart.
Take, oh, hold it fast!
"Tho mill will never grind
With tbe water that his passed.”
AFTER APPOMATTOX:
Richmond Dispatch, 1
“On hiB way to Richmond, General
Lee stopped for the night near the resi
dence of his brother, Mr. Carter Lee, of
Powhatan county; and, although impor
tuned by his brother to pssb the night
under his roof, the General persisted is
pitching his tent by the side of the rotd
and going into camp as usual.”—Taylor's
“Four Years Kith General Lee”page 154,
Upon a hilltop bold and free.
Ere that saa day ia done,
The soldier form and f»ce of Lee
Stand out against the sun.
The strong, grey head is carried high.
The firm hand grasps the rein.
Earth nowhere holds such majesty.
And nowhere hides such pun,
A little onward now he rides,
For he alono would be.
But something more than space divides
His ttafl from Bobcrt Lee.
Scarce can he tell the way ho goes.
Scarce feels the April air.
Heap’d in his breast kis country’s woes
Havo filled him with despair.
Tho purple mountains fade behind.
Before him lies the sen.
In all this world a fata unkind
Leaves home nor hope to- Lee,
The rosy flush dies on the plain,
And dismal shadows tt&rt,
What tumult in his riven brain,
What torture In his heart.
The oright’niog stars are naught to him,
Nor aught the sweet moonlight,
His star has grown a sudden dim—
He nevermore shall fight.
Hi < work seems done, his day seems spent
What matters night or day?
He will betake him to his tent.
And, kneeling there, will pray.
Tbe cries that upward went that night
Unto the great White Throne—
Tho tears for guidance and for light—
To God alone are known.
. Sacred, throughout all oming time.
Those sleepless hours shall be,
For who can tell, in words sublime.
The agony ot Lea? „ _
_ Geo W Bagsy.
Me Set ’Em Up.
Boston Globe.)
BSPOSB.
Gayly tbe candidate
Secketh the bar.
Where thirsty citizens
Throng from afar,
Singing, "In search of thee.
Hither we come.
Candidate, candidate.
Set up the rum."
ares.
Hark, ’tis the candid ate
Hastening hone
Vainly the citizens
Seeking him. roam.
“Light is my pocketbook.
Lighter mj vote:
• Citizens, no you don’t,
Not it lknnw’t ”
PRETTY AND YOUNG
In every feature but the hair, whioh had
grown white from fever. This lady at
35 writes us: “I have used Parker b Hair
Balsam six months and am more than
pleased with it. It has restored the nat
ural brown color of my bur and given it
a silky softness, nicer than ever before.
There is so Dandruff, no falling hair, and
it leaves the scalp so clean, nice and cool
that I am ever se much pleased, and I
feel and look like myself again.” Diain-
fectant properties that enter chemically
into (Lia preparation render it healing,
oleanaing and healthful, and the heauti*
ful, freak and vigorous hair it produces,
together with its property of restoring
the hair to its natural youthful color,
living the head entirely fried from Dan
druff, clean and healthy, surprises no
lees than it please?. Buy a bottle from
your druggist, ROLAND B. HALL, and
test its merits.
THE AGED, THE FEEBLE AND CON-
YALBSCENT
Find just the help they need in the
health and strength giving properties of
Parker’s Ginger Tonic. This comforting
invigorant diffuses warmth and vigor
through the system, soothes the nerves
banishes melancholy and givea strength
snd elasticity to the worn out frame. It
is incomparably superior to wines or liq
uors and does not intoxicate. Every
mother will not only strengthen and com
fort herself but will relieve and pacify
her nursing babe by the free use of this
excellent tonic. Boy a $1.00 bottle from
your druggist, ROLAND B. HALL, or a
■ample bottle at 15 oents and teat its mer
it?. oot8 3m
Am English Lord (Chnrahill) has sued
the manager of a theatre for the pries of
two stalls whioh he had bought, but
whioh he left when hie wife waa required
to take her bonnet off and leave it in the
waiting room. He demanded ihie money
back on leaving tbe theatre, and not get
ting It brought pait for its recovery.
It i3 not tne quality eaten mat gives
strength life, blood aud healib. It is tho
thorough digestion of the food taken, let
t bo ranch or little. Therefore, do to
stimulate up, the stomaoh to crave food,
bnt rather assist d'gesticn after eating, by
taking Simmon’s Liver Regulator.
Genuine, prepared by cnly J. H. Zalin
& Co., Philadelphia. 0C122 lw
lYell-Toued Systems.
Systems toned sad renovated with Hos
tetler's Stomach Bitters ate most effectu
ally defended from disease. That su
preme invigorant. soon overcomes that
distressing feebleness consequent upon
ailments which impoverish the blood and
relax the mnsolea. Vigor, appetite, sleep,
retnrn to the wasted frame and every
physical faculty gains greater aotivity
through its benign it. flaenoe. Nor is this
al), for the Bitters have a most genial and
cheering effect upon the mind of the des-
ponent invalid whioh is the natural effect
of tbe increased bodily vitality which they
produoe. Nervous symptoms disappear
in consequence of tbe nse of this medi
cine, and the evil oonseqnenoes sore to
result from a premature decay of the phy
sical energies are.averted. Dyspepsia,
liver complaints, rheumatic ailments,
urinary and uterine irregularities, mala
rial disease?, snd many other disordered
conditions of the system, are remedied by
the Bitters. < oct22 lw
The Great Family Medicine.—Doc
tor Wilhoft’a Anti-Periodic or Fever and
Ague TonicJ No case cf incurable Chills
has yet presented itself, where thissjien-
tifio aud safe medicine has been employ
ed. No case has been so obstinate as to
resist its prompt and masterly action.
No man has bein so reduced by malarial
influences, but with its use has come up
perfectly reconstruo:ei._ No pills or pur
gative required with this medicine.
Wkelock. Finlay & Co.,
Proprietors, New Orleans.
For gale by all draggiate. octl7-2w
Emanuel county Notes.
A former apprentice and graduate ia
the printing art from the Telegraph and
Messenger Offios talks thu3 of Swains-
boro: _ .
This is a very plsassnt little place, and
haB a good oolleotion of olever and indus
trious citizens. The farmers, generally,
have made unusually good crops, and an
seem to be happy. We are having quite
a lively time, just at this writing, the ex-
oitement being Nicholla find 0aiker.
Colonel Nioholis addressed the citi
zens of thiB oonnty yesterday at noon
just after the adjournment of the Su
perior Court, whioh Is now In session
here, for dinner. He delivered a veiy
eloquent address, and it tock well. Ev
erybody hero is for Nioholis. Colonel J-
D. Ashton replied to-day, not having
time to do ao yesterday. He spoke for
Colonel Corker, the G.eenbaok candidate,
who was unable to be present. His ad
dress was a very fine one, several times
enoored. Jadge Johnson opened tne
session cf the court in his usual pleasant
manner. His oharge to the jury was very
plain and impartial. Tne town is full ot
people from every quarter, many being
Interested in guano oases to be tried at
this session ot the conrt. The doeketa
generally are very small. The jail has
otily eight inmates. ' “*
livekiVkisg
The Liver is tha imperial organ ef ths
whole human Bjttjm, as it control tne
life, health and happiness of men. wnen
it is disturbed in its proper action, an
kinds of ailments are the natural result.
The digestion of food, the movements oi
the heart and blood, the aotion of the
brain and nervous system, are eB. 1 ® .
diately connected with the. wor b in 3^
the Liver. It has been aucoosafoliy p 1 ^
ed that Green’s August Flower ls una
quailed in curing all persons afflw«“
with Dyspepsia or Liver ComphuntvW
all the numerous symptoms that reeu^
from an annealthy condition of the Livm
and Stomaoh. Sample bottles to try. ^
cents. Positively sold In all town . g
the Western Continent. &
will prove that It ia just what you naa
dawly