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North PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY -AT BELLTON, GA, Bv MYERS &, BT’ICE. DU. D. M. BREAKER Editor. Office in the S-nith building, east of ihe cepot, ™T K u MS ~ ,l J 00 per 9couaj > 50 cents for six months, in advance. Fifty numbers t Q t» dc volume. TOPICS OF THE DAY. The murder record of the Apaches is still good. (rt iieau was never known to use s profane word. The Illustrated London News is con ducted by a widow, Hartmans proposes to convert ths American idea to his idea. Baltimore girls are .the belles at ths watering places this year. ♦ Ire grape yield in Ohio will bo about one-third of a crop. A strange cattle disease, resulting in blindness, has appeared in Illinois. Yellow fever has created a vacancy in the American Consulship nt Vera Cruz, Ex-United States Treasurer Spin living quietly at his home in T lorida. ♦ France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Den mark, Hungary and Bulgaria all hold general elections this year. * A conventionof the short-hand writers of the United States and Canada is to be held at Chicago during September. 1 EOPLE who tnlk a good deal occasion ally get misrepresented by the press, and that seems to be the fate of Dr. Bliss. The Northwest is a groat country. The Minnesota wheat crop is in excess of that of 1880 more than 10,000,000 bushels. Kansas farmers have agreed to sus pend the cultivation of wheat for a time, in order to eradicate the chinch bug pest. Nineteen preachers and one editor departed on a steamer for Europe the other day. The thing was pretty evenly balanced. There have been twenty-two murders in Chicago since New Year’s Day. How ever, it. is thought that the business will look up a little this fall. Dan Rice’s third wife, a bride of three weeks, is suing for a divorce. There is evidently something wrong with the old showman. Sitting Bull has two wives, J{,> says that thus he is enabled show more I children on the ground nt the payment : of annuities and can draw mon- inom v. I — Cincinnati is looking forward to her 'Exposition with considerable pride. The demands for space nre greater than the Board of Commissioners will be able to meet. —— Southland, New Zealand, rep its eighty bushels of oats and wheat t • the I acre, ami in on district, one hunre 1 an J ' seventeen bushels to the acre. Report , we say. Great numbers of draught horses, i English ami Norman breed . have b n imported into this country. The breed ing of these animals has become an important industry in Illinois. The Indiauopolis ll< raid holds that : the word “ mean” can be most appro- i priately applied to the temperature of | the past month. It can. The mean tern- : perature was contemptible. A horse-cab driver of Toronto was once a Jesuit priest well-known in Eng- I land and Ireland, and he says that a late j conductor was a Dominican friar and in : sacred orders. Thus do we ascend the , ladder of fame. Although guilty of one hundred and I thirty seductions, Spotted Tail was re- , garded as a pretty good sort of an In dian. From this the reader can draw bis own conclusion as to what would con- : stitute a bad Indian. The Czar is provoked lieyond endur ance. He has lately received models of i different weapons and engines of assass- j ination, accompanied by a polite request to select the one he chooses to be used upon his own person. Among the pyrotechnic dilutions at I the Yorktown Centennial will be > representation of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, forty feet square. Eight set pieces will be displayed from rafts or canal boats in the river. ♦ The Dallas Gazette asks this easy one; “Can a man, with his hide full of bad whisky, make a correct report of ths i happenings in the city of Dallas for a newspaper ?’’ Well, we should say not. Good whisky is bad enough. That or nothing. The North Georgian. VOL. IV. — It is estimated that the loss to the : corn crop of Ohio for 1881, on account I of bad seed, will not be less than 40,- 000,000 bushels, and in Illinois, 60,000- i 000. If would seem from such alarming , totals that in future it would pay well I to make more careful selections of seed. i Adelina Patti, the prhna donna of the lyric stage, in her American tour, wifi not visit Cincinnati. Why, does I not appear. This fact is rather aston- ■ ishing when wo consider that Cincinnati i people claim to bo peculiarly of a mu- ■ sical disposition, and possessed of an ! exquisite musical taste. A Baltu-tot: ■ millionaire named David , CaiToll l<‘ft a sensible will. In it he set I aside §IOO,OOO with which to defend the I will against possible litigation. In ease there is no litigation, the §IOO.OOO is to be divided equally among the heirs. It may bn depended upon, there will bo no litigation under the oirennistanoes. There is a man in New York who sig nifies a desire to become Guiteau's bondsman, provided that when ho is released he will bo set perfectly free, undisguised and not protected by guards or the military. Wo do not. think that any one will object to tills. It is a pretty good scheme. What a blessing it is that wo can al ways grumble at the weather, and yet, not without reason. It is too hot, too cold, too wet or too changeable. It never is just right, and it never will be. But we have a right to grumble, and as long as it don’t cost anything, wo are going to do it. Tue electric lights attracted so many flies to the hotels in St. Louis that they had to be discontinued. Now th 'ii yon can figure out what we mean, whether it was the flies; hotels, or lights that were discontinued ; and just about half the paragrapliers in the country put things in this ambiguous shape. The “ Melleuninm Springs,” in Ar kansas, makes those who drink of its waters, hug, and kiss and frisk about. It also makes them drunk. People have been doing these things too much since the time of Adam and we can nut fortiie Life of us sec what goo.l can come of the discovery. We shall all be a pack of I fools some day. We are shocked at the Cincinnati Gazette. It says: “It is a sorrowful fact that the barrooms are more honest with their lemons than the temperance i picnics.” This is a sad commentary. ■ We know that the church bad had a i similar charge set over against it, but we never thought it would go any further. According to a paper read by Dr. J. S. Billings, of Washington, at the In : ternational Medical Conference in Lon i don, there are 180,0011 physicians in the ; world, of whom 11,600 are producers of I medical literature or contributors to it. j In ei ntific medical literature Germany ! 'ends; in practical medical literatum | France is foremost. The mystery surrounding the death of Tennie Cram r, at N w Haven, Ct., is attracting considerable attention. The Mallery brothers, the sons of a rich mer chant, one of whom wa Jennie's suitor and seducer, and Miss Clements atlas | Blanche Douglass, a fast woman from I New Y’ork, suspicion strongly points to ias her murderers. Miss Cramer was the belle of New Haven. I Work on De Lessep’s canal is not j progressing satisfactorily. Four em- I ployes have died, M. Etienne, sub-con j tractor, at Aspinwall, of softening of ; the brain ; Mr. Bertrand, his Secretary, I of malaria, and Messrs. Barrier and Di ' lembowski, from overwork. The cli mate is malarious, the rolling stock anfi i quoted, and the engineering poor with i work unsystematized, Americana will i have to do that job yet. — The -alt Lake H raid tells a remark- ■ ; able story. Among the many pros 1 I peetors in Utah a year ago were four j young men, who were rewarded by the . iiscov-ry of a valuable mine n -ar Hailey. | One of the young men had a lady friend, : find it was decided to name the mine after her, and to so fix the title that, in ' ease of their death, it should be hers, i Last winter, while working upon their I ' claim, the whole party was buried be- , i neath a snow-slide ; and now the young t lady is planning what good she wdl do with the §65,000 that has been offered her for her neat little legacy. The hip pocket is having things all its own way in Chicago. They don’t ! consider it much of a day now when i there isn't at least one murder in that , citv. and ia most of the cases they never seem to find the fellow. When now and th- n some one declines to make his ■ escape, and is locked up in jail, the ladies in Chicago overwhelm him with BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY. GA.. AUGUST 25. 1-81. • bouquets and go on so about him that ; the average Chicago man goes around with a well-loaded hip pocket for no other purpose in the world, seemingly, than to improve the first opportunity to make himself a pet of the ladies who, in Chicago, jnst dote on murder , ers. Up to date no law has been made to prevent people making fools of them selves. The miscellaneous collection of articles at the White House, consisting of beds, medicines and nearly everything else under the sun, sent from all over the country for the benefit of the President and his family, is a most ridiculous one, including «s it does two white puce, a stuffed humming bird, “to relieve the monotony of the sick-room,” and the blood of a black cat. But it would be unkind to laugh at it, as, notwithstand ing the absurd character of many con tributions, it represents the outpouring of the national heart. Doubtless the lady who sent the stuffed bird did what she thought was the best thing she could do. Just exactly what the cat’s blood was sent for is not clear, but there are many people in this country who behove in the working of charms, and as it was doubtless intended to promote some good to the patient, we should give the sender credit for carrying out the dicta tions of an honest opinion. As to the white mice, they may amuse the chil dren. The days of miracles, magio waters, etc., are returning. Hot Springs County, Arkansas, reports the existence, fifteen miles northeast of Witherspoon, of a spring that promises to bring about the millennium almost before wo get ready for it. John R. Yentts, a Baptist minis ter of some celebrity, who has visited the spring, says the spring flows from a mountain about four hundred feet high, comes out. of the ground about one hundred feet from the top of tho mountain on flic north side, and flows at the rate of about forty gallons per min ute, and tastes just like, apple brandy, and has the same effect. Those under the influence of the water aro perfectly ecstatic, and hugging and loving every thing they meet. He says: “ I never saw the like, children and boys ami girls hugging and kisußg teV'Cry w they : meet. Old men h«ml old women, young I men and young ladies, embracing each other by hugging and kissing, x met an old, white-haired man and woman—l. suppose about eighty years old—and ' they were hopping and skipping like lambs. I saw hundreds lying around the spring so drunk that they could not stand up, and they were lying and laugh ing and trying to slap their hands. Tho people call them the * Millenium Springs.’ ” All we ask of John is, just to please send us a barrel. ♦ What Wives Are Worth. The value of wives varies in different I countries. In America they aro often : expensive companions, but in the higher ; regions of the River Amar, mid on the i Ussuri, in Siberia, Recording to informa- j tion furnished to the British Scientific I Association by the Rev. Henry Lansdel), j the price of a wife is eight or ten dogs i a sledge, or two cases of brandy. In | anot her part of the world, according to j evidence furnished to the same associa- ! tion by Wilfred Powell, in New Britain I and the neighboring islands of the South ! Pacific, on the east coast of Guinea, the j wives are the absolute property of their j husbands, and aro bought, sold and eat en by their better halves. There was one New Britain young woman who re belled at her matrimonial relations, whereupon her husband said he could put her to better use, and straightway killed and ate her. Unfortunately, ae- ■ cording to the same authority, the eat- | ing in New Britain is not confined to wives. The natives are fond of mission ary meat, and think the English are un- I ntterably stupid because they are un willing to feast on such a delicacy as the human thigh, prepared with coc.oannt milk and dressed with banana leaves. Mr. Powell does not advise women te emigrate to New Britain. Writing for the Public. There is no work done in the world which expends vitality so fast as writing for the public. It ia a work which is i never done. It accompanies a man i upon his walks, goes with him to the I theater, gets into bed with him, and | possesses him in his dreams. If he stoops to kiss the baby, before he has readied the requisite angle a point oc curs to him, and he hangs in mid-air, with vacant face and mind distraught, “ What’s the matter?” says Mrs. Emer- I son, in the middle of the night, hearing i her husband groping about the room. 1 “Nothing, my dear, only an idea!” —.lames Purton, in Nerrth American Iteview. ' Never give way to rneloncholy; noth ing encroaches more ; I fight against it vigorously. One great remedy is to take short views of life. Are you hap py now ! Are you likely to you remain so till evening, or next week or next month, or next year? Then why des troy present happiness by a distant mi: cry which may never come at all, or you may m ver live to see it? For cv.-f v ‘ubstuntial grief has twenty shad- , and most of them shadows of your now making. Sidney Smith, I ■ Lunatics at Washington. I I Recent events at Washington cannot > have failod to call general attention to tho vast number of queer lards that habitually roost about tho Capital City, AU the mstorted mental action of this country appears to gravitate to Wash ington. Light-witted characters seem 1 : to be naturally thrown into that city on the top of a wave, like so many corks, and landed there. No one who has spent | any time at the Capital can have failed ' to "note them. They appear at every turn. Tho stranger who takes in the city “during the season” will seo varieties of human 1 nature enough to astonish him. Ho will • wish there were not so many varie ties. Perhaps ho drops in at a me<: ;■ of Indies, to hear tho woman sullhigists plead their cause. Nothing, apparently, could be more conducive to repose nnd quiet than that. But it will not be surprising at any moment to be { startled from his somnolency by tho ap ' paritiou of a female fury flourishing a I pistol in tho face of the fair speoeh ; makers, and declaring that she is a Com l mnnist, and means to kill somebody, so i she could get her rights. Such a cir cumstance happened not many winters ago. The Washington lunatic with a pistol is not confined to the masculine sex alone. Quack doctors, women in pantaloons, long-haired phrenologists, spiritualist lecturers, bewildei - the visitorat every ho tel and street corner, till ho begins to cast an anxious eye towards Cougrcss i men, and to wonder privately whether they are not going crazy too. t Tha man who attempted to assassinate President Jackson, in 1835, was an nn ! doubted lunatic. Many of them pester I the Patent Office. They come with tales of miraculousinventions they have made. i Men with wild eyes, and slimy hair and I clothing go about fancying they are the ■ President of the United States. Insome cases they go to tho Executive Mansion : itself, and demand that its occupant be turned out, and that they be given their | rightful place. | Tumbled-up looking women, with wild | hair standing out like quills upon the I fretful porcupine, nnd crazy bonnets, j haunt tho departmi nts with messages from the spirits to the Treasurer, or President, or General of the Aimy. They are usually controlled by thospirit of George Washington, and ho is anxi ous to show us through them how to boss this country. Newspaper corre spondents have often alluded to this strange horde of Junes about Washing ton. They have been allowed to come - sudtfin-everywhere, us they pleased, be ing merely laughed at and pitied. It has never been thought neo ssary heretofore to shut them up, not oven as far as their tongues uro concerned. But there ought to boa change in that respect now. i There is always a presstire of excitement at tlm Capital. Bonn times it brciiksout in scandals, sometimes in craziness. In a city where there is always more or less mental strain of the kind that is felt there, nobody can tell when a harmless lunatio may develop into a dangerous one. In fact, entirely harmless lunatics aro very rare. Hereafter, it will un doubtedly bo tho part, of wisdom to thrust behind the bars persons with a kink in their brains. Individuals with a mission and a roll of manuscript should i bo strictly watched. In one respect the pulpy-brained i idiots who drift to the Capital unani mously agree. They all have bound- I lessly exalted ideas of their own import ance. It is tho leading characteristic of : lunatics the world over. Perhaps, in i deed, one may safely conclude that per , sons who think great things of their i own abilities and merit, are always more j or Less cracked.— Cincinnati Commcr i e;lal. Cigar Stumps in Paris. I The market for cigar stumps, which I i looked in upon in the Place Maubert yesterday, is a veritable Parisian curios ity. The place is full of life and activ ity from 8 until 11 o’clock in tho fore noon. A kilogram of stumps is worth 1 franc 50 cenitmes to 2 fr. 50 c., accord ing to tho length of the stump. Cheap j er cigar stumps bring lower prices. ' There are four or five wholesale dealers in cigar stumps who have their heod i quarters in the nine saloons in the vicin ity of the market, and there deal with ' the old men and women, and ragged lit tle boys and girls, who go about tho streets picking up those stumps. Much ■ of the tobacco thus scraped together is I sold to exporters, who make it up in fine : cigarettes. There was once an old follow who bought cigar stumps for a living, who died worth 15,000 francs a year. These pickers-up of ends and half smoked cigarettes are quite a nuisance to those people who frequent the boulevard I cases. They are forever getting in one’s way, burrowing about one’s legs, hunt ing for the coveted stump. From tho heights of the Rue Mouffi-tard and the Rue Montmartre swarms of those laza roni swoop down upon Paris and make , us miserable with their intolerable pros- j ence.— Paris Letter. Immense Power. “Do you know,” said the Captain, “that a fathom of steel-wire rope, little thicker than your cane, and weighing half a pound a foot, will pull as much as a hemp rope half a foot thick and weigh ing a pound and a half a foot?” “ 1 have known a piece of wire, Cap,” said I, “no thicker than a straw, to draw a man weighing 200 pounds the whole length of Broadway.” “ Oh, come, now 1” exclaimed the ob tuse Briton. “ Yes, sir; it was a hair-pin,” Holman Hunt says: “I have always found that pc-, pie who delayed doing their work till after a certain period did nothing at all. ” M). 34. f Something About Kissing. This subject has recently attracted more attention than has usually been ac corded to it. It may be that a dearth of spring poetry has left tho editorial repertory without a suitable supply of sentimental material, and it may be the weather had something to do with it, but whatever the cause, tho fact remains that tho subject of kissing has been given unusual prominence by both tho pro vincial and metropolitan press. It may not have been a wise thing to do, for several very apparent reasons, chiefest of which has been the tendency to lower one’s estimate of the real value of the transaction by having - too much said about it, and thereby bringing it into general use. One can readily understand how' a pastime, sufficiently pleasant with seasonable iudulgeiigij, may lose half its sweetness by being allowed too mudii' freedom of expression. We object to being told that “kissing does not require an apt of Congress to make it legal.” So long as we can fool that some restraining power is neces sary, that the inclination does require, if not congressional enactmc it, at least some prohibitory measures, kissing will bo kept up to tho standard of genuine enjoyment. Nothing enhances tho pleas ures of some things more than a feeling that their indulgence is prohibted, or at least opposed by objections sufficiently strong to impart just a little flavor of naughtiness to the proceeding. Ever since tho transaction in the garden of Eilon forbidden pleasure have always been sweetest to tho daughters and sons of mon, and the great majority of peo ple would prefer some jurisdiction on the subject that would insure a continuance of the pleasurable emotions experienced by a kiss. Wo offer a few quotations to show how much pleasure some people derive from this source and deprecate any! liing which has a tendency to detract from such ex quisite enjoyment. “You kissed me! My soul, hi a bliss so divine, Reeled and swooned, like a drunken m.in foolish with wine; Anil I thought ’twere delicious to die there, if death Should come while my lips were yet moist with your breath 1 And these are the questions 1 ask day and night: Must u*y lips taste but once the exquisite delight Which thrlllod by whole soul with rupture and bliss As your lips clung to mine In that passionate kiss Would you care if your breast were my shelter, as tlien, And if you were here would you kiss mo again?” YVe aro inclined to think we would, even while not recommending just this stylo for general uso, as the reaction from such exhilaration would not be de sirable. YVe think it would have a tend ency to shorten life, aa our lives are measured iry henrt beat*, not by yearm. and anything that so stirs the blood and maddens tho pulse should bo held in reasonable subjection. Once or twice in a life-time would be all that ordinary mortals might hope te endure. Tennyson seems to have an apprecia tion of what u kiss should bo when he makes one of his heroines say: “0 Love, O fire! Onoo ho drew With on« long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight arlnkuth dew.” And Byron, also must have had some Buch experience in view when ho wrote: “Orieremna •( of Paradise still Ison earth, For Eden r< vives in tho sweet ki.ss of love.” Perhaps Joaquin Miner more fully understands tho inspiration lorn of a kiss when ho gives utterance to tho fol lowing: “Lot rd lips lift, proud curl- d to kiss In love too passionate for speech, Too full of blessedness and bli-s For anything but this, and this.” And again: “ Since man must die for some dark sin, Let my death-uiimc be one deep kiss.” But poets are not the only ones who understand and appreciate tho pleasure of a kiss. It is one of tho luxuries of life which all well-organized people have more or loss inclination, and people usually follow their inclinations. Tin y may not bo able to express their senti ments and experiences either in poetry or prose, but this is not at all necessary for absolute and perfect enjoyment. Temperament, surrounding circum stances, time and place, have, probably, more te do with it than poetry; though we do not pretend te deny that there is a great deal of poetry in a kiss.— Kansas City Times. How it Feels to Drown. It is not often that you hear of an editoi with a curiosity. Most of them accept < nrthquakes, tornadoes, murders, fires ami floods as every day occurrences, and even a nitroglycerine explosion next door would not interrupt tho routine work of the. sanctum very long. But a French editor, and tho editor 'if a Lyons paper nt that, had a curio-ity to know how a person feels when drowning. IL' tlieri fore put up a job on him.' elf. He arranged to come within a hair’s breath of drowning, but was to bo pulleel out in the nick of time, rolleel on a barrel, hauled over the sands, thumped on the stomach and otherwise resuscitated. All went we ll during the first act. He leapeul into the water, refused to struggle nnd i gradually sank from sight. At the prope r i moment he was hauled up by a ropo and act seeiond commenced. This was an occasion where an editor was too smart. They rolleel him according to programme, and seven or eight me n tired themselves emt with rubbing him and hanging up head downwards, but he was a dead man. He may know how it feels | to drown, but he’ll never trouble Ihe I public with a description of his fee lings. Died with His Hat On. ; William Weller, a prominent citizen I of Hiukletown, died suddenly on Thurs day morning, about 10 o’clock, of con- I sumption. He arose in the morning, i but immediately fell over and expired. He was 42, unmarried, and eccentric. I He would never take off his hat to eat, : and died with it on. Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer. KATEGF ADVERTISING. I Space. jl mo 3 mos S mos I vr. ■ I I One n . h. I $ Im * 5 i i.I » 760 »IO 00 r« i < 3 10 00 15 00 . Tbrenf ches, I oul in ul 12 50 20 00 S. u indie,. e, the 12501 |.'*<i 25 00 Fourtli Cnlumu, T ‘ 15 <»' VI HO 30 00 ll.nr coin'■>:>. no: 31 <k | 40 w 0000 1 ' >1 u ma, 1 . eo no 100 00 yG' All bills due after (i.st insertion.; Transient advertisements (strictly in ad vance) (1 per inch for the first insertion; 50 cents per inch for each additional insertion. Local reading notices 10 cents per line. Aunt nncements $5 each. Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding six Hues will be charged for as advertise ments. SCRAPS OF SCIENCE. The deepest known worked mine is In Australia— a shaft liaviug been sunk 8,200 feet. A member of the French Academy of , Sciences has discovered well marked sexmd differences in eels. Specimens of fossil woods and lignite are reported to have been brought to the surface from tho depth of 191 feet while boring an artesian well at Galveston, Texas. Experiments ut Woolwich have dem onstrated that the transmission of deto nation from one mass of gun cotton to another not in contact is so rapid that a row of gun cotton reaching from London to Edinburg could be fired in two minutes. . Biipltisd to the onestion wh>'thqr or not our ancestors were acquainted with tho peculiar physical condition known to us as somnambulism, Dr. Reynard, of Paris, said in a recent lecture that one of the most accurate descriptions of somnambulism in existence was the sleep-walking scene of Macbeth. Foub Jourdan glycerine barometers nre now in uso in or near Loudon. One is at Kew, in the- museum of practical geology, one at South Kensington, and one in the office of the London Times. Tho enormous scale of tho barometer enables changes scarcely visible in the mercurial instrument to be detected with ease. Rossetti has found that the tempera ture of the positive carlion of the elect ric aro is between 2,400 degrees and 3,000 degrees centrigrado, and that of the negative carbon between 2,500 de grees and 3,900 degrees, making, there fore, tho temperatures of tho extreme points of the electrodes not below 2,500 degrees and 3,900 degrees. Experiments have been made on ani mals with pure hydrocianio acid by M. Brama. The bodies of those killed with it remained unaffected by decomposition for about a month. During that time the- acid remained in the tissues, and especially in the stomach. It could be easily settled to distillation, but much more readily from the tissues of herbiv orous than of caraiverous animals. In a communication to the St. Peters burg Technical Society, Prof. Beilstein recommends tho uso of sulphate or alumnia as the best practical disinfec tant. Ho states that tho best method of making the salt for disinfecting pur poses is to mix red olay with four per cent, of sulphuric acid and to add to the mixture some carbolic acid for destroy ing the smell of the matter to be disin fected. A scientist in tho Magazine of Phar macy asserts that tho usual physico chemical methods for determining the potable nature of water have proved themselves to bo quite insufficient, and he says that “ recourse must bo had to tho microscope and to the culture-glasses used by physiologists in their inocula tion experiments, before any really sound and valuable knowledge can be gained by tho examination of waters” as to their purity or impurity. Alarm with indignation has arisen Halle regarding tarletans rendered pois onous by the introduction of copper arsenite in their production. Dr. Rei man has attempted to allay the general outcry by stating that copper arsenite is not a splendid green color, and as for such goods as tarletans, Guignet’s green, which contains no arsonic, has quite dis placed the poisonous Schweinfurt green. The authority for the statement that after tlic extraction of the niter from gunpowder the residue cannot be dried at 200 degrees, without a slight loss o the sulphur, is Fresenius. Herr A. Wagner, on the contrary, rises from hia experiments with tho conviction that no such loss has ever been observed at or below tho temperature given. Above that temperature the residue suffers a notable diminution, in weight. —a.'-. 1 1- -—.--rig Was Booth Insane? Probably the only history which gives color to tho theory that Booth was insane is that by J. S. Blackburn, principal of • my at Alexandria, Va., and W. N. McDonald, principal of a male high school at Louisville, Ky. In their his tory, which is being extensively used in Southern schools, they say: “Booth committed the act under the fanatical idea that tho war would terminate and the South gain her freedom if Lincoln ' were killed.” This same history ad vances, among the causes of tho failure ’ of the rebels, tho following: “The primary cause of the failure of the Con federacy was that the people of tho South were not unanimous in their efforts to gain their liberty. In the history of the world a united people, struggling for liberty, have never been subjugated.” The italics are the work of Messrs. Blackburn and McDonald. Booth was 1 shot in a barn at Garrett’s farm, near Bowling Green, nnd died soon after. That was April 26, 1865.— Chicago In ’ ter-Ocean. i > Evangeline. ’ Longfellow said “Evangeline” was 1 sii''gcnted to him by a gentleman with ! whom ho and Hawthorne were dining, • and who urged the novelist to write a 1 novel on the theme of the exiled young ’ Acadian girl who spent the remainder of h< r life searching for her lover. “I I caught the thought at once,” the poet said, “ that it would make a striking 1 picture if put in verse, and said, ‘ Haw thorne, give it to me for a poem, and ’ promise me you will not write about it • until I have, written the poem.’ Haw- • thorne readily assented to my request, and it wa- agreed that I should use his > friend’s story for verse whenever I had > [the time anil inclination to write it,”— Philadelphia Press.