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Newspaper Page TextjS oftl| Qeoikjia-n, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ’ -AT- ■ ,T BELLTON, GF A.. Bv MYERS &, BUICE. DR. D. M. BREAKER, Editor, .. Office in the Smith building, east of the depot. TERMS—SI.OO per annum, 60 cents for aix mouths, IN advance. After three mouths, $1.26; after six months, $1.50 per annum. Fdty numhers to the volume. THE TOPICS OF DAY. The drouth is still affecting coal, it seems. Hogs are high but not too awfully plentiful. The proofs of Guiteau’s sanity are overwhelming. Philadelphia is overrun with pro fessional beggars. Senator Wade Hampfjn's daughter is preparing for the stage. Office-sekkbrs make very little head way with President Arthur. The citizens of Montreal will give a dinner in honor of Mark Twain. Yes, President Arthur is very deliber ate-ideas long drawn out, you know. General Gbant will probably visit the Atlanta Exposition before its close. It appears that Patti is itching to ap pear before a Cincinnati audience. Ohio does not get many offices, but when she does get them, she gets good ones. Mackey, the bonanza king, is casting about with a view to buying a portion of Texas. The restrictions up >n tuo importation of American pork to France are soon to be removed. - 1 *'■' ' ----- The estimated expenses of the Govern ment for the year ending June 30, 1883, are 8340,462,507. P. T. Barnum, who used to be a pro hibitionist, has come out in favor of a limited license law. David Davis is again in the matri monial murket. What a fat take he will make for some woman. The Cabinet does not appear to be getting reconstructed very' fast. Arthur is very deliberate in his acts. Philadelphia may be a poky place, but still she has just enterprise enough to light up the entire city with electricity. ■ The main portion of the President’s message was printed in the London pa pers the day following its delivery to Congress. ♦ Or late it seems that Vennor’s weather predictions are missing oftener than they hit. We shall have to erase his name from the list pretty soon. Printers in the Government printing office are getting pretty particular. They demand sixty cents an hour for labor performed after midnight. Mrs. Garfield has seen and approved a proof of the new five-cent postage stamp, which bears upon its face an ac curate likeness of the late President. There has been no lack of rebuttal testimony in the Guiteau case to prove that the prisoner, and all the other mem bers of the Guiteau family, were per fectly sane. ■' ■ - Ten years of the sentence of the Tichborne claimant expired October 29, and by a continuance of good marks he will have three years and eight months more to serve before he is free. Jeff. Davis, who has returned from Europe, and experienced a most stormy passage, will devote himself henceforth to ms plantation in Tennessee, and the business growing out of the publication of his work. Thb Liberal idea is looming up in Texas. It is proposed to Mahonize the State. Hon. Geo. W. Jones, member of Congress from Texas, will resign his seat in the House to become the Liberal candidate for Governor. Keely, of motor fame, has squandered 8150,000 stockholders’ money in experi menting with his invention, and by his repeated failure to fulfill his promises of success, the stockholders now bring suit to recover their money. It is stated that $15,000,000 of the fractional currency has not been pre sented for redemption. The greater tmrt of this amount has been lost or de stroyed, while much of it has been filed away to be held as a reminiscence. It is all owing to how the indictment reads. A Wisconsin man stole thirty nine sheep and a steer, but the warrant charged him with stealing thirty-nine steers and » sheep, and he left ■ the court-room with all his reputation re stored. -' The North Georgian. VOL. IV; ' Capt. Howgatb's trial is in progress. Mr. Howgite will endeavor to explain to the Government what he and an ex pensive mistress did with 8150.050 Gov ernment money while his family were being neglected. Oh,but this country is fnll of rogues ! Halstead of the Cincinnati Commer cial, wants Guiteau hanged forthwith. The assassin suffered from too much turkey Thanksgiving, and with .Christ mas here at hand?—why. of course it would be an outrage. Let the Christ mas turkey be forestalled. an association "lTas“iteeii formed In Dublin for the relief of widows and un married ladies, annuitants and holders of mortgages on Irish estates, a number of whom are rendered destitute through the non-payment of rents. Lady Cow per was present and subscribed £IOO. The total number of land owners in Ireland is 68.758, of whom 36.144 are the possessors of lessthanone acre each, or only about 9,000 acres all told. It follows, then, that, with this relatively insignificant exception, the nearly 21,- 000,000 acres of Irish soil are owned by 32,614 persons. Guiteau has experienced more real en joyment and more solid satisfaction in the notoriety which his trial has given him than he had in all his life preceding that event. If left to choose, he doubt less would give the balance of his life in preference to a denial the pleasures his trial has afforded him. It is sincerely Coped that Congress will do something to facilitate the send ing by mail of fractional currency. Sil ver is too heavy to enclose in a letter, and its sate transmission by such means is questionable. This want is small, al though a common one, and should be promptly attended to. Revenge is sweet. Windfield S. Cox, of Passaic County, N. J., who was op posed lor the office of shentt by a num ber of prominent men of Paterson, con sisting of insurance men, manufacturers, bankers, etc., has placed them on his first petit jury list to serve at $2 a day, at the neglect of their large business interests. According to the testinioney in the Guiteau trial, while Guiteau was so everlastingly religious, in 1875, he was lounging about afflicted with a loathsome disease and squander ing money on lewd womeh that his wife was earning as an employe in a hotel. It seems to have been more a case of moral depravity than of religious insan ity- Smallpox seems to be raging in all quarters, and if the greatest precaution is not taken to prevent its spread, the probabilities are that during the present winter the death rate from that cause will be something alarming. In every instance where there is a patient af flicted with the dread disease a yellow flag should lie hoisted to prevent others from unnecessarily coming in contact with it. An electric wirecamein contact with a telephone wire, in Cincinnati, and the lightning traveled both ways on the tele phone. Fortunately no one had the telephone trumpet to his ear, or there is no telling what the effect of the flame that burst forth from the trumpet a’dis tance of six inches, would have been. Wires in large cities are getting to be entirely too plentiful for the enjoyment of first-class health. The past two months have been un pleasant ones to those who have been to sea. The great steamers have been ar riving at New York days and even weeks behind time, and soma huVs been com pelled toput back with broken machinery. The officers of one of the arrivals mention as a significant fact of their stormy voyage that they did not see a sailing vessel during the voyage. It is only too prob able tliat more than one bark of this class will never be heard from. A Rule That Works Both Ways. “ That must be a false rule,” says the Interior, “ requiring virtue, cleanliness and good temper and conduct in women, while many men may go on to any length almost, and society one and all wink, if not blink, at our faults. What ever degrades a woman also degrades a man. Take some of the vices and hab its of the day. A man smokes a filthy cigar, or carries aliout a half an ounce of tobacco in his cheek, and yet expects his wife to preserve a clean mouth and a sweet breath. Again, a young man starts out to spend the evening with hia adored Evelina. Should he find h< r not at home, but in the neighboring saloon, however genteel it might be, that would be his last visit In his estimation she would have sunk below his level, and yet that young man himself is a daily visitor to that same saloon, and engages in all its exercises.” An exchange speaks of ‘‘a male train.” The sex of trains has always been a matter of some doubt; but a train should not be called a male because it suiokss ud “ohwM." BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY. GA., DECEMBER 15. 1881. Vaccination, Primitive and Modern. Nearly a century has elapsed since the discovery' of Dr. Jenner that vaccine virus was an antidote for smallpox so moved the gratitude of the British Gov ernment that it gave him nearly half as much money as our own people raised for Mrs. Garfield. When he died a splendid monument was erected to his memory, and he is ranked everywhere among the benefactors of humanity. Yet it is only fair to say that the experi ence of late years has not sustained all the hopes at first entertained. We have been told by an aged physician, whose studies began while vaccination was still a novelty, that his instructor advised him not to waste much time in reading about smallpox, as it would soon disap pear from among men. The failure of this prediction has arisen n part from the neglect of vaccination, and in part, also, from the fact that what is recognized as virus has been weakened by transmission through a long line of human subjects. It has also been more than once combined with diseases far worse than that which it wan intended to keep off. People who have been more than once vaccinated, or who have supposed that they were, have been at tacked with smallpox in severe, and perhaps fatal forms, while others have been made wretched invalids for life. These facto have led to an organized opposition to vaccination, which has its headquarters in England, though its ramifications extend to other countries, our own among the number. It publishes tracts and reports, helps poor people to fight the agents of compulsory vaccina tion, and boldly asserts that unmodified smallpox is preferable to that which may come after vaccination, pet'haps with deplorable accompaniments. Os course this is exaggeration and absurdity. One has only to glance at the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to find abundant evidence of the fearful ravages of variola, and of the terror which it inspired in palace and in hovel. Still, it may be questioned whether much of what passes for vaccine virus is really such. If long humanized it may have become inert, if not impure. Recognizing this possibility, it has be come the fi> hion to bike virus directly from the cow, and the severity of the symptoms following vaccination from this source has been thought to prove the wisdom of the step. Yet it does not follow that every pustule found on a cow is identical with that observed and ex perimented from by Jenner. It is cer tainly true that while in the early duvs oi vaccination one operation wns uiougut enough to protect one during life, it is now held that repeated vaccinations are essential—that the process should lie gone through with at least as often as smallpox threatens to became epidemic. This may be a conclusion established by more careful observation, but if, seems to indicate that the quality of the virus has been impaired. We have been told of a mafi who was vaccinated in the early years < f this century by .'nutter brought direct from Jenner. When his arm was well, to test the value of the process, he was inoculated with smallpox virus. He went to a pest house to await results. He did not have varioloid, even in its mildest form. Could as much bo hoped from much of the vaccination of the present day?— Exchange. A Japanese Hotel. In imagining a Japanese hotel, good reader, phase dismiss alW'architectural ideas derived from the Continental or Fifth Avenue. Our hotels in Japan, outwardly, at least, are wooden struct ures, two stories high, often but one. Their roofs are usually thatched, though the city caravansaries are tiled. They are entirely open on the front ground floor, and about six feet from the sill or threshold rises a platform about a foot and a half high, upon which may be seen the proprietor, seated on his heels, busy with his account books. If it is winter, he is engaged in that absorbing occupa tion of all Japanese tradesmen at that time of the year, warming lite hands over a charcoal fire in a low brazier. The kitchen is usually just next to the front room, often separated from the street, by only a latticed partition. In evolving a Japanese kitchen out of his or her imag ination the resxter must oust away the rising conception of Bridget’s realm. Blissful, indeed, is the thought as we enter the Japanese hotel that neither the typical servant girl nor the American hotel clerk is to be found here. The landlord comes to meet us, falling on his hands and knees, bows his head to the floor. One or two of the prettygirlsout of the bevy usually seen in the Japanese hotels comes to assist us and take oun traps. Welcomes, invitations and plen ty of fun greet us as wo sit down to take off our shoes, as all good Japanese do, and as those filthy foreigners don’t, who tramp on the clean mats with muddy boots. We stand up unshod, and are led by the laughing girte along the smooth corridors, across an arched bridge which spans an open space in which is a rookery, garden and pond stocked with goldfish, turtles and ma rine plants. The room which our fair guides choose for us is at the rear end of the house, overlooking the grand scen ery for which Kanozan is justly noted all over the empire. Ninety-nine valleys are said to be visible from the mountain top on wtiieh the hotel is situated, and we suspect that multiplication by ten would scarcely be an exaggeration. A world of blue water and pines, and the detailed loveliness of the rolling land, form a picture which I lack power to paint with words. The water seemed the type of repose, the earth of motion. —Li opincoti. He who can heroically endure adver sity will bear prosperity with equal 'greatness of sotd. Hoffenstein’s Prize Brogan. Hofl’enstein was busily engaged mark ing the selling price on some clothing which had just arrived, when suddenly stopping in his work he turned to the clerk and said : . “Herman, I had forgot if ve sell and I all us dose plack jean bants vat vas dam- | aged. Vas any more us dem in de adore j yet?” “Yes, Misder Hoffenstein. I dink I dero vas dree bairs left. I has been dry- i ing to sell dem but de beople say dey I don’t vant to go around de sdreet mit bints on vat makes dem look like a cir o<Ss brocession. Dere vas yellow spots nil Qfer de bants," you know.” “Veil, subbose dey hes got spots on dem, vas you going to let de beople dink dey vas damaged? My gr-r-acious, Herman, de longer yon vas in do pisness de more yon don’t learn noding. Vy, ven a man comes in de adore mid dells , me dot dose bants vas damaged I dells him he vas misdaken und I asks him if lie know a biece us quadruple, vox finish, needle point, hand dwisted vool from a biece vat vas vou ply, cotton stitched und mit a beveled edge. Ven I ask him dot ho don’t can say noding. Den I dell him dot de bants vas not damaged, und dot dey vas made us vot vas called in de old vorld Spanish spot vool, de best ardiole made dere. In a gouple us minutes afder I dalk to de gustomer he buys de bants, und I half sell nine bairs in dot vay.” Hoffenstein had scarcely finished speaking when a negro with a bundle in his hand and considerably excited en tered the store. “Veil, my frent, vat can I do for you?” said Hoffenstein, advancing toward him and smiling pleasantly. “You can’t do anything fur me,” re plied the negro,- angrily, “but 1 want yer to gib me back my money what I paid fur des hyar shoes or I’se gwine to take de matter fore de law. I gib four dollars for dem shoes an’ I nebber wore it.nl but six days fore de soles drapped off, an’ when I ’zainined dem dar waru’t a God s blessed ting dar but paper. I’se bin cheated, and when a man thinks he can come miratin’ around me an’ I ain’t gwine to say miffin’ he’s apt to find hisself in de nine hole.” “My frent,” said Hoffenstein, quietly, “did you find any ding in de soles us dem shoes ?” “ No, sah,” replied the negro. “ Veil, dot vas a biece us hard luck, my frent. De shoes vat you buy vas de Louisiana brize shoe, und ven you duke a bair us dem you vas liable at any mo ment to find a dwenty <i.4Ur gold biece in de soles us dem. If do soles us de brize shoes vas made us hard ledder, dey vouldn’t vear out, and <te gonsequeuce vould be you don’t can find de dwenty dollar biece, und dot vas de reason de soles vas made of bapsr so dot dey vill vear oud soon, mid let de beople know if dey git a brize, you know.” “ Is dese hyar shoes de regerler prize shoes ?” inquired the negro, greatly in terested. “Veil, my frent, if ye see a man vat come in de od r day und show me a gouple us dwendy dollar bieees vot he got oud us dem shoes, you vould say dey vas a gold mine.” “ If de shoes is do regerler prize shoes, I’ll take ’or nudder pair.” “Certainly, my frent. Herman, wrap de sheutlemau up a bair us dose Louisi ana brize shoes, and dako dose vat you dink de money vas in." When the shoes had been paid for and the negro had gone, Hofl’enstein said : “Herman, did you see how I vork off dose old star brogans ?” “Yes, Misder Hoffenstein.” “ Veil, ven efer a gustomer comes in do sdoro, recgolleck dot dey vas de Lou isiana brize shoe mit a dwenty dollar gold biece in do s flo us dem. I think I vill learn you someding about de busi ness yet.”— New Orleans Times. The Pleasures of the Table. The simplest food will not suffice to maintain a community in mental and phvsical health, imd to produce the highest form of efforts. A people who live on rice will usually be found unfit to do anything better than grow rice. Monotony in food, as in other things, begets dullness. For all classes there must be something in life to look for ward to if men are not to become soured; and, constituted as we are at present, the pleasures of the table must continue to form an important element among the pleasures available for man. But if the uno of luxurous food be defensible on these grounds, absolute waste of food, at any rate, produces the ill effect pointed out, -without any compensating advantage. The dinner at every glut tonous city feast contributes his quota .to the already existing distress in some other part of the community. So does the guest at a charity dinner. The money he subscribes to the charity is merely a transfer of wealth which leaves the world neither rich nor poorer; the dinner he eats or leaves increases the poverty of his neighbor.— The Fort nightlg Iteview. An Edinburgh professor has discov ered that an animal struck by lightning or by an electric shook, under scientific direction, is rendered delightfully ten der in a moment. Read this paragraph out at supper in presence of the assem bled boarders, ft may startle the land lady, cause her to invest in an electric battery, and change the hard and stony hearted beefsteak from “ a thing of duty and a chaw forever” into a soft awl ten der-hearted dream of Mary’s little lamb. —New York Commercial Advertiser. The revised edition of the New Testa ment failed to catoh the popular favor that was expected. Copies of the work ■ are offered for sale in the East at greatly ■ reduced prices. i Praying Workmen of Constantinople. Lu the bazars of Stamboul the work men and sidesmen (there are no women employed in these bazars—Turkish opin ion will not permit ib) are of the male | sex only. Eunuchs arc not infrequent, i and are easily recognized at a glance i from dther black men, but are never , other than herein servants or managers | of the household. As one loiters through | t he.so bazars some .queer things are seen, j The bazars, properly so called, are nar i row streets of shops, covered from rain by arched roofs, and continuous for miles one with another, so that without umbrella (for sunshine or rain) one can go through them protected. The floors are damp stones or packed clay—they are dark and one goes up'and down steps from one to another so that progression is unpleasant. The personal solicitation of the salesmen is something painful and very annoying—until one learns, as i he soon does, to pay not the slightest nt- I teiition to any one, but to look around ■ him, apparently indifferent and unob servant of the remarks and exhibitions of goods—while inwardly you feel a yearning desire to knock over some im- I pudent man who takes you for a fool. i While you pass along looking at some ! workman making something in the skill ful yet clumsy way they work, with tools unlike, often, anything you ever saw— using feet as if they were hands and making complex furniture, veneered beautifully with the simplest of tools, (so sow as to make the work seem incredible) —lol—the worker will turn about with his back to the door and crowd—seem to read his Koran—and lose himself in prayer!—or walk off, leaving his pur chaser at the door, and enter the nearest mosque ami say his prayers. (Infernally aggravating when you have about con cluded a desirable purchase !) In the mosques one sees them enter, after wash ing their feet, pray reverently and ab sorboilly towards Mecca, (the altar of the mosque is always placed so that praying towards it is praying towards Mecca,) and reverently depart, putting on their shoes again at the door as they go out. I several times felt a strong inward temptation, when at the door of some pop ular mosque, to gather up the queer col 1» ct ion of worshippers’ shoes and fly with them to start a museum with. On the boats, at sunset, the Moslem teem in the midst of the crowd, utterly oblivious apparently, of surroundings, bow to the earth repeatedly, seemingly uttering prayers toward Mecca, and three times touching the earth with the fore head. The bazar workmen are, however, by no means always Turkish, or even Mo hammedan. They are of every race: ui.iuy Jews, some Americans and Eng lish, who have crept in. The fiuit-siiil ers of the city are mostly Armenian. The strong-muscled porters (herculean many of them) whom one sees overy ‘ where in the streets carrying loads that ! a tender-hearted man would not force his horse to pull, are many of them Wal lachian, Servian, Bulgarian or Roume lnui. The merchants and artificers, as a class intelligent-looking and pleasant countenances—are Greek. This is a place of conglomerate nationality—the Turk ruling—the middle class 1 irgcly Greek—the under classes Macedonian, etc., —with mixturesill each class. The Circassian always either soldier, or, if woman, a bought wife in the harem (pro nounced ha ream,) the negro, (of all shades of color) Persian, Indian, Egyp tian, European, American (a few), et are commingled, and a very picturesque crowd is the visible result.—Constanti nople Letter in Kokomo Tribune. How an Indian Boy Shoots. The remarkable shooting of the young Nez Perces Indian boy, Otto, was wit nessed by a large audience of those in terested in rifle shooting. The most re markable feature of tho exhibition was the lightning quickness of the boy. But very few of the attempts failed. The first shot was at a fivo-cent piece on the head ' of a figure representing a man, and was hit, the distance being fifteen paces. The I next was the cutting of a striug that sus ' pended a figure at the rear of the stage. ' Tbs rifle was picked up from the stage by the Jaxl after he had turned a somer sault, and the shot was fired almost in i stantiy. The most remarkable shot of : the evening was accomplished by tbs use ' of peculiarly placed appliances, in the following manner: In a small steel frame a pistol-barrel was suspended ; be hind the barrel u razor had been fixed, and on either side of, it was BUBpended a glass ball. The boy was theu taken to the front of the stage and blindfolded, with his face to the audience. At the command "about face,” he turned, raised his rifle, and, after only u mo mentary hesitation, fired. The ball I passed through the pistol, was split by the razor, and each glass ball was broken j by half the bullet. This shot is said to be due the boy’s wonderful gift of the i power of location. The precision of the J aim is secured by taking a position di- I rectly in front oi the object, and aim is | taken by a certain pressure of the r fle | stock against the shoulder and cheek. ' An exhibition bayonet drill followed. The boy was applauded for his marks | mansliip and dexterity.— San Erancinvo Call. Practical Arithmetic. "You can’t add differmit things to gether,” said an Attßtin school teacher. “ If you add a sheep and a cow together, it does not make too sheep or two cows.” A little boy, the son of an Austin av enue milkman, held up his hand, and said: • '<) . ! , “ That may do with sheep and cows, but if you add a quart of milk and a quart of water, ft makes two quarts of I milk. Tve seeti’tt triad.” >. Georgian RATES OF ADVERTISING. — —— SPADE. Imo ImoOno I >’r. AririScb. 1 s 2 i> t 3 ■<> t7 so «16«1 Ew taeue-. 375 7M 0«i I*oo Tlireii i SO 100 112 So 20 00 ■Ftturtwnies, 6no non ISO. 25 00 Fourth Column, 7So 15 "0 20 00 30 00 Hilftdolu »n, 11 00 20 00 10011 6000 O r coinmil. soil 3'loo 60 001 IDOOO jr#“Ail bdlp duC after fi sc in ertion. Transient idvertisements (strictly in ad vance) $1 per inch for the first insertion; 50 cents per inoh for each additional insertion. Local reading notices 10 cents per line. Ann unoements $5 each. Marriage' notices and obituaries exceeding six lines will be charged for as advertise rs NO. &0. BITS OF INFORMATION. Point lace is the oldest variety of lacn known. It was the work of nuns during the latter part of the fourteenth century. American deer, both male and female, shed their horns every year from the latter part of January to about the 15th of February only. The “ freedom of a city” is an honorary distinction conferred on some illustrious man. It is usually bestowed through a certificate or diploma signed by the municipal authorities and suitably mounted. It is presented on the occasion of a visit or may be for warded. It makes the recipient an honorary citizen. It may be awarded a countryman or a stranger. _ <_ Thb engagement ring is supposed to be of a Roman origin, and to have sprung from the ancient custom of using rings in making agreements, grants, etc. Its primitive form was that of a seal or signet ring. Betrothal rings were fre quently exchanged by lovers in ancient times. It is also believed that the Romans originated the custom of giving rings with mottoes or posies engraved on them to their lady loves. Forks were invented in Italy in the fifteenth century', but were not employed in England until the middle of the seventeeth century; then only by the higher classes. As late as the eighteenth century, forks, as well as knives, were kept on so meager a acale by country inns in Scotland that it was customary for persons traveling to carry with them a knife and a fork in a shagreen case, and a small knife and fork still forms part of th 3 ornamental equipment in the Highland costume. The bridge or covered gallery which connects the ducal palace and the prison of Venice is high above the water and divided by a stone wall into a passage and A cell. The state dungeons were sunk into the thick walls of the palace, and the prisoners when taken out to die were conducted across the gallery to the other side, upon the bridge, and were there strangled. The low portal through which the criminal was taken into the cell is now walled up, but the passage is open, and is still known by the name of the “ Bridge of Sighs.” The origin of the cant name, “Uncle Sam,” was us follows : Immediately after the declaration of war with England, Elbert Anderson, of New York, then a contractor, visited Troy, where wns con centrated, and where he purchased, a large quantity of provisions—lieef, pork, etc. The inspectors of these articles at that place were Messrs. Ebenezer and Samuel Wilson. The latter gentleman (invariably known as “Uncle Sam”) gen erally superintended, in person, a large number of workmen, who, on this occa sion, were employed iu overhauling the provisions purchased by the contractor for the army. The casks were marked “E. A.—U. S.” The work fell to the lot of a facetious fellow in the employ of the Messrs. Wilson, who, on being asked by some of his fellow-workmen the meaning of the mark (for the letters U. 8., for United States, were then almost entirely now to them), said : “ He did not know, unless it meant Elliert Anderson and Uncle Sam”—alluding exclusively, then, to the said “ Uncle Sam ” Wilson. The joke took among the workmen, and passed currently; and “Uncle Sam” himself being present was occasionally rallied by them on the increasing extent of his possessions. Many of these work mei being of character denominated "food for powder,” were found shortly after following the recruiting drum, and pushing toward tho frontier lines for the double purpose of meeting the enemy and of eating the provisions they had lately labored to put in good order. Their old jokes accompanied them, and before the first campaign ended this identical one first appeared in print; it gained favor rapidly, till it. penetrated and was recognized in every part of the country, and will, no doubt, continue so while the United States remains a nation. The Weigh of the Transgress. By almost universal consent, the light weight championship is conceded to deal ers in coal. As water unto milk, and glucose to the lager beer, so are the platform scales to the coal cart. It would be unjust to large numbers of honest and reputable dealers to say that their coal is like the fellow who said that when he was mad, he weighed a ton, but the conduct of disreputable and dis honest dealers has a tendency to throw suspicion upon all of them. According to the,statement of one who has tried it, it requires the spirit of a martyr to be an honest dealer, at least in New York. He tells a doleful story of the difficulties, not to say the dangers, he encountered in trying to deliver 2,000 pounds for a toy to his costumers. He began by an nouncing that any one buying coal of him could test its weight at any of the public scales. The result was astonish ing. Orders came in from all directions and not more than one in ten ever wanted to test it When cartmen came from other yards he had to enlarge their carts. For these offenses he was set ujion by a member of the Coal Associa tion and beaten ; his cartmen were got away from hin>; they tried to prevent his vessels from landing ; broke his der ricks, and he had good reason to think that they cither shot at him or hail him shot at. So that it is not the weigh of transgressor, but the other man’s, that is hard. Rboobds show that in thirteen Sep tembers in the past thirty-one years no rain fell in San Francisco. The rain in the remaining eighteen Septembers 1 ranged froth 02 of an inoh to 1.08 ißOhe*. . ... .