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William L.uhl was the prcsi-feiA of,
tho American Peace Sreiety, and lie
believed that tho principles of peace,
carried out, would maintain good will
among neighbors as well as nations.
But there was a time when he had not
fully considered this subject—had
not thought much about it, as I dare
sav my young readers havo not; and
he believed that, if a man struck him
a blow, it was best, and fair, to strike
right back again, without considering
if there were not some better way ot
overcoming the offender, or, it a man
did him any injury, why, as people
commonly say, he would ‘‘give him
as good as he sent.”
lie then had a farm ; and a poor
man. who lived on land adjoining his,
neglected to keep up a fence which it
was his business to keep in order, ttnd
in consequence, his sheep got into
William Ladd’s wheat field and did
much mischief. AN iljiam Ladd told
his man Sam to go to the neighbor
and tell him he must mend the fence
and keep tho sheep out. But the
sheepiCtyine again, and William Ladd,
•jarffywSa verytralcrly man himself,
was provoked. “S mi,” he said, “go
to that fellow and tell him it he don’t
keep his sheep out of my wheat field,
I’ll have them shot.” Even this did
not do ; the sheep w. re in again. ‘Sam’
said William Ladd, ‘take my gun
and shoot them sheep.”
'1 would rather not,’ said Sam.
‘Rather not, Sim! Why, thire are
inti three ; it’s no great job.’
•No, sir; but the poor man has but
three in the world, and I am not the
person that likes to shoot a poor man’s
sIlO'p.’
‘Then the poor man should take the
proper care ot them.^yl gave him
warning. Why didn’t he mend j his
fence ?’
‘Well, sir, I guess it was because you
sent him a rough kind of message. It
made him mail, and so lie wouldn’t
do it.’
' • I considered a few minutes,’ said
Wiiliara Ladd, ‘ and then 1 told Sam
to put the horse in the buggy.’
• Shall I put in the gun V’ said Sara.
■ No, said I. I shiv Sam halfsmiK
vd, but I said nothing. 1 got into
the buggy and drove up to my neigh
bor’s; he lived a mile i tf, and I had a
good deal of time to think the matter
over. When I drove up to his house,
the man was e!topping wood. There
were few sticks ot wood, and the
house was poor, and my heart was
softened. * Neighbor,’ I called out.
The man looked sulky and did not
lift up his head. ‘Come, come,neigh-
hor,’ said 1, ‘ I have come with frieud-
ly feelings to you, and you inns; meet
me half-way.” lie perceived I was
in earnest, laid down his axe, aud
came to the wagon. ‘ No, neighbor,’
said I, ‘ ue have both been in the
wrong; you neglected your lence, and
1 got angry, aud sent you a provoking
message. Now let’s both lace about,
and both do light, and both teel right
I’ll forgive you, aud you shall forgive
me. Now, let's shake hands.’ He
didn’t teel quite like giving me his
hand, but be let me take it. ‘Now,’
mid I, ‘ neighbor, drive your sheep
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down to my south pasture; they shall
share with my sheep until next
spring; and you shall have the yield,
and next summer we’ll start fair.’ His
hand was no longer dead in mine, he
gave me a good friendly grasp. The
tears came into his eyes, aud he said,
‘ I guess you ate a Christian, William
Ladd, alter all.’
‘ And that little fracas with my
neighbor abont the sheep wap,’ said
William Ladd, ‘the first step to my
devoting myself to the Peace Society.’
RIFLES WITH QUEER
NAMES.
Au interesting collection of Bibles
was recently exhibited in London,
which comprised copies of all the edi
tions that because of peculiar errors
of the printers, or from some other
reason, have been known by strange
names. Among the Bibles on exhi
bition are the following :
The Guttenberg Bible.—The earli
est book known printed from movable
metal typos, is the Latin Bible Issneff
by Guttenberg at Marts, A. D. 1450.
The Bug Bible.—Was .go called
from the rendering of Psalms Xci. :
“Afraid of Bugs by Night.” Our
present version reads, “Terror by
Night.” A. D.. 1551.
The Breeches Bible.—The Geneva
version is that popularity known as
tits Breeches Bible from its rendering
ofGenesis iii., 7: “Making themselves
breeches out of fig leaves,” making
translations of the Scriptures—the re.
suit of the labors of the English exiles
at Geneva—was the English family
Bible during tho reign of the present
authorized version of King James I.
The Placemakera’ Bible.—From
remarkable typographical error
which occHrs in Matthew v., 9
“ B essed arc the placemakers,” in
stead of peacemakers. A. D., 1562.
The Treacle Bible.—From its ren
dering of Jeremiah viiL 22; “Is there
no treacle (instead of balm) in Gil
ead?” A. D., 1567.
The Ro«in Bible.—From the same
text,' but translated “ rosha’Mn the
Dutiay vffi ’ “
A simple little sentence is thim to
be sure, and yet it may be consider
ed as one of the most insidious ene
mies with which people have to deal
It is very plea-ant to have all the lit
tle commodities offered for sale in the
market, and it is sometimes hard to
deny one’s self of the saute, when they
can be obtain«1 by saying ‘“charge
fb” But tU«? habit of fttlmg articles,
howcvfcr small the uiifirgt may he,’
without paying for them, k.;eps one’s
funds in a low state most of the time
‘ I have no money to day but should
like the article much,’ says a young
man who happens to go into a store
and secs something which strikes his
fancy.
‘Never mind,’ said the gentleman
ly cleik, * yen are good for it*
‘ Well, 1 will take it and you may
charge it.’
And so it is that little accounts are
opened at one place and another, till
the young man is surprised at his
liabilities; which though small in
detail, are sufficiently large in aggre
gate to reduce Lis cash materially
when settling day comes.
In many instances, if the cash were
required, the pnrehase would uot be
made even had the person the money
by him; but to some, getting an
article charged does not seem like
parting with au equivalent
Still, when pay-day comes, as al
ways it does, this illusion vanishes,
and a feeling is experienced of part
ing with money and receiving nothing
in return.
If there is an actual necessity of
making a purchase, and the means are
not at hand ; there is a reasonable
excuse tor obtaining tbe same on
credit, but wdien the article can be
dispensed with uutil payment can be
made, it is much to’ tbe advantage of
the purchaser to do so.
1 We must have a nice set of lur-
niture,’ says a young couple about to
be united in marriage, ‘but we have
uot the inenn«. However, we will
get it and have it charged.’
And so they start life with debt
hanging over them tor which there is
no occasion.
The habit once formed is difficult to
break away from, and whenever any
thing is. wished for, it is purchased
without considering that circumstan
ces may arise which will render the
payment impossible.
When there is a certainty of health
and a supply of labor, it would place
rather a different construction on the
matter. But considering tbe ttuctu-
atine character of business, making it
possible that a mechanic may be
thrown out of employment at any
time, it is certainly better to be pre
pared for such emergencies by keep
ing clear of debt.
Sickness may also overtake one at
any time, and the thought that num«
emus charges are standing against us,
aggravates the disease and renders
tbe misfortune harder to bear.
Taking this view of the matter is
it not better to forego tbe pleasure of
possessing articles which our taste
may prompt us to purchase until the
means are in hand ? It is easy to say
‘charge it,’ but uot always so easy to
pay it.
And this is always the ultimatum.
If payment is deferred too long the
very one who politely tells the pur
chaser that it will make uo difference
about ihe money, will say he had no
business to buy line feathers if he had
THE IDEAL.
I think the song that’s sweetest
Is the one that’s never sung;
That lies at the heart of tha auger
Too grand tor mortal tongne.
And sometimes in the silenoe,
Between the day and night,
He faneiee that ita measures
Bid farewell to the light.
A Picture that is fairer
Than all that have a part
Among the masterpieces
In the marble halls of art,
lathe joe thet hsunfs the paioUr
’'Bitty
A real picture teems.
The noblest, grandest poem,
Lies not in blue and gold.
Among the treasured Tolutnos
That rosewood bookshelves ho’d;
But in bright, glowing visions,
It comes to the poet’s brain,
And when lie tries to grasp it
He finds his effort vain.
dry 1
Beckons ns here and there,
And when we strive to clasp it
It vanishes into air.
And thus onr lair ideal
Floats always just before,
Ind we with longing spirits
ONE WA Y TO RLA Y
SUM.
’POS-
Nothing is more savory to a South
ern negro’s palate than a roasted fat
opossum. One old negro hunter cap
tured a fine specimen the other daj,
and feeling hungry stopped to cook
it in the woods. lie built a fire and
spitted bis mGat; but, being very tired
as well as hungry, ho fell asleep while
POLITICS IN THE BA1
BOOM.
•Well, say,’ said one of our 1
young tfteu at a North Hill shop
other evening, ‘you know’bout uj»
fellah Hancock ? Well, say, he ain’t
same one that’s president ol an insur
ance company, is he ?’
•New,* reifiicd.the best young
addressed, he’s man .that signeT
t »stitution of the United.States; .
politician, I reckon. Had a row
General Washington at the ba^je of
Monmouth.’ ( ’
‘Haw, no,’ interposed a third best
man, ‘taint that tellah. Gad, he’s dead,
man ; ’pou my soul he is.’
•Well, say!’ exclairred the first
best young man, ‘when’d he die?’
‘Can’t say, ’m sure,’ replied the
third best young man, who appeared
to lie a young man of broad informa
tion on general topics, ’but I know
he’s dead. This Hancock’s military
man; Colonel in the army and Gov
ernor of some island near New York.’
The other best youqg men gathered
around him with a common expresss
ion of the liveliest interest. Finally
one ot them asked:
‘Well, say, what’s he want to run
for President for, if lie’s Governor of
an island V
‘Don’t know,’ said the well-inform
ed best young men, ‘but guess he
has to B’lieve after a lellah’s been
Governor of an island lor ’bout so
long as ho, has to retire, an’ if he
thd ’possum was roasting. As he ! can’t get to be President, he has th—
slept, a “low-trash” negro came upon
the scene, doubtless attracted by tb(
fire and tbe smell of roasting meat.
The new comer approached cautiously
with one ej e on the ’possum and the
other on Uncle Eph, who slumbered.
First, he shook the old man, who
turned to an easier position, .but
would not wake. The stranger took
in the situation, and then proceeded
to take in the ’possum. He too, was
a ’possum eater, and lie made short
work of the dainty roast. He ate and
ate till but the bones were left. Uncle
Eph was still sleeping, and it occurred
to the vandal that he would make
Eph think that lie had been to supper,
so that when he awoke he would not
suspect ;the tiielt. Then the “low-
trash’’ negro proceeded to ’possum-
grease .Eph’s hands and face aud
mouth, aud to pile in the old man’s 1 know, ’m sure-”
hasn’t got nothing to do, you know,
I don’t know just how it is.’
‘Well, say, who’s this preacher fel
lah, Garfield, that’s runnin’ the Demo
crats for President ?” asked the first
best young man, alter ad intelligent
pau-e.
‘Don’t know much ’bout him,” said
ihe well-informed young man; ‘he’s
lu-en President once, I know.’
‘Talkin’ man or dancin’ man ?’
asked the third best young man.’
‘Ohio man, I b’lieve they call him,’
said the well-inlormeil best young
man.
‘What’s that?’ asked the other best
young men, in intelligent chorous.
1 ‘Pon my soul, I don’t know,’ re
plied the well-informed best young
man, frankly. ‘Some kind ol a—er,
ih—er—kind of a in.-.n— I don’t
lap the gnawed bones.
Nights have mornings, and sleeping
must have its waking. Uncle Eph
And just then the band struck up
and the three best wattzere in the
room ceasi-d talking politics and abans
- LOCKED UP.
VThe following amusing thing hap-
pened daring one of tbe Prince’s visits
to the capital of the Czars: Count
Adlerberg had given the Prince a
snpper which lasted till daybreak.
About 4 o’clock in the morning the
> Prince took leave of the company,
rnped into a carriage, and startec
the Winter Palace. Ilis'Royal
_ iriess bad done such honor to the
winev*nd especially to the foamiug
champagne, that.his ideas were a lit'
tie mixed. As he was passing tlte
Palace of the Holy Synod he thoucht
he recognized the facade of the impe
rial palace, and he halted the carriage.
The coachman said something to him,
but the Prinoe did not understand
Russian. He got out, dismissed the
coachman, and then marched up to
the door.
A moDk, half asleep, opened the
door and asked him what he wanted ;
but tbe Prince did not understand the
monk’s Russian any better than he
had that of the coachman. Without
answering his questions he advanced,
not too steadily, into the interior of
the edifice, thiuking that he could find
his way to his apartment. The monk
undertook to stop him. The Prince
is one ofthe best boxeisof the United
Kingdom. His first blow laid ont the
mons, who, believing that he was face
to face with the devil, shouted lustily
for help. You can fancy the uproar.
The police were soon on the ground.
As the Prince couldn’t make himself
understood, and was not recognized,
he was taken to the nearest police
station.
Fancy the stupefaction at court in
the morning when it was discovered
that the Priuce had not returned to
the palace. The Emperor was very
uneasy. He scolded the Governor of
the palace roundly for having allowed
the Prince to set out alone. Then
the Grand Master of Police, Fedor
Feodorowitch-Trepoffi had a happy
thought. He gave orders for a
search among the police stations, and
the heir of the crown of England was
found fast asleep among the levellers
of low degree.
The Emperor laughed heartily, but
not too loudly, over the adventure,
and steps were promptly takeu to
bush it up.
awoke and immediately thought of; doited the profound study ; of mWtcs
his’possum. It was not on the fire; 1 cra f t i 0 jom the g'ddy mazes of the
it was not anywhere to be seen ; but dance. The glory of the land of free-
thcrein his lap were ^the bones that j dom and the ,, r ;ilc of society ’fs its
young men.—Ilaxekeye.
no prospect of paying. _
And in a measure this is true,
pursuing such a course a person
never independent; the host of little
debts are ever ready to perplex and
worry him, when that for which they
were incurred has been Used, Hence
it may be said that the .custom of
charging is unjust both to purchaser
and seller as the one loses his peace of
mind and the other oftentimes loses
his money. Getting in debt is easy, but
getting pot la just the .inverse; and for
that t eason it would be well for people
to ask when about to make a purchase
in a manner alluded to, is it not best
for me ip wait until I have the raon
ey, and then not have' to order the
seller to ‘charge it V
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THE MOST ABSENT MIND
ED WOMAN.
(Columbus Enquirer.)
A case of akscucc of mind has just
occurred at lied Clay, Gn., which
immeasurably surpasses everything of
previous record. Near a large planing
mill in that uwn lives a family named
Rose. Several days ago Mrs. Rose
carry-
had been gnawed. On his hands,
lips and beard was grease and the
smell of ’possum. lie was self-con
victed. He concluded that he had
eaten tbe possum, yet he could not
remember the pleasure the eating had
given him. Weighing all circumstan
tial evidence carefully, the old man
slowly pronounced judgment.
“Dai’s a fac’. I’se been eatin’ dat
’possum. I’se been eatihg it it* my
sleep.’’
But then his stomach; why did it
not stand ont as a witness in the case ?
It felt empty, and yet it should be
full.
“It’s certain sho’r I’ve done rat up
that ’possum. Most have done it
when I’se sleep. But, and the old
man placed his hand sadly over his
really empty stomach, but it interferes
les’n any ’possum I eber did eat.’’—
New 0/ leans IHcayune. *
THE RECORD.
LAND-GRA BRING.
THE HEATHEN_ CHINEE.
DR. TALMAGE PUT8 IK A GOOD WORD
FOB HIM.
‘A keen lawyer had .Christ under
the sharp fire of cross-examination
when he asked. ‘Who is my neigh-
said 'Dr. Talmage in the
"*1yb TabernActeycsterday-room-
irig. ‘The answer which Christ gave
enlarged the world’s idea of neighbor
hood. The means of intercommuni
cation have made the whole earth one
neighborhood. Is the Chinaman a
neighbor ? Must he be welcomed or
driven back ? The answer must soon
attract as much attention on the At
lantic as on the Pacific coast. I want
you to start right in your opinions,
and therefore I shall give yon the re
sult of my observations in California,
where the Chinese have become an
important factor. I do not think there
was a half hour of my stay in which
I was not brought iato the presence
of this subject by committee, by let
ter, or by talking, so that few men
have had so good an opportunity for
seeing both sides. I saw Chinatown,
as tbe Chinese quarter is called, not
partly concealed, as Hayes saw it, but
open and above board, the worst of
it. I tell yon it is bad enough, and
vile enough, and dreadful enough,
but I tell you, as I told tbe people of
San Francisco in their Grand Opera
House, underground New York life
is fifty per cent, worse than China
town The white iniquity o’ our
Atlantic cities is more brazen than the
yellow iniquity of San Francisco. As
to the mal-odors, it is the difference
between the mal-odor of whiskey and
the mal-odor of opium. To me the
mal-odor of whiskey is more offen
sive than the mal-odor of opium. The
crowded tenements of New York are
more crowded and more abominable
than the crowded Chinese quarters of
San Fraucisoo. If 500 special police
men were to go out in San Francisco
in. one nighi, in addition to the 320
regular policemen, they could extirpate
the worst iniquity ol Chinatown in one
uight. Do you tell me that 280,000
good men San Francisco can’t put
dowu 2,000 bad men ? I give it to
you as my opinion, corroborated by
10,000 people of California, that of all
the foreign populations which have
come to oiji shores in the last forty
years none are more industrious, more
sober, more warm-hearted, more boh-
A GLOOMY MAN.
he city,” the other has it that He densome, sne faid it in
y the mill, forgetting all about the child.
14.) for which the prtntcflmfraS’ ffheri
£300. A. D. 1641.
The Thumb Bible. Being one
inch square and half an inch thick,
was published at Aberdeen. , A. ,D.
1670. 'VI ill 21 AS
The Vinegar Bible.-^-^o named
from the 20th chapter of Luke, which
reads as the “Parable of the Vintgar,”
instead of Ihe Vineyard. A.-D. 1771.
The Printers’ Bible.—We are told
by Cottou Mather that in a Bible
printed prior to 1702, a blundering
typographer made King David ex
claim that , “Priutcrs (instead .of
princes) persecuted him' without 9
cause.” See Psalm cxix, 161.
The Murderer’s Bible.—So called
- from an error in tire sixteenth verse
ol the Epistle of Jude, the word mur
derers being used, instead of mur-
mninrs.
The Claxton Memorial Bible.—
Wholly printed and Jivimd jn twe!
hours, but only 1
no further uneasiness. At supper the
father eame.-bwt wish to ~ch*kL and
he disclaurieS” nnf ItnWWlpnff its
whereabouts. Upon her telling him
whareTsYe had lftid it, and Where in all
priAmbilky if was etill lyln&A sudden
pallor overspread his face, and it was
with the greatest difficulty that be
could tW her that a few momenta
Before he had emptied several bushels
of meal in that self-same box and in
all probability tbe child had died from
suffocation. A doctor was hurriedly
sent for, the box was sought, and in
it, undy/t^e iriej, WQs BSP
tfiSuJUily! The (J
making things lively in Indiana.
. ie makes a little mistake that might
hurt him, the Norwood men abuse
Hendri&a U onrtbe.atanipand b 4tim#o.«nt«5l¥Jl*^ a reaction
Republican organs, remarks the
Bridgeport Farmer, will consult their
parly’s interests by “ going slowly” in
any attempt to fix the characterizes
tion of “negro hater and defender of
slavery” upon Hon. Wm. H. English.
Charges ot that kind are ot the boom
erang order, when the records are full
ot such matter as follows:
“I have never been an anti-slavery
man.”—Gen. Grant to Hon. E. B.
Washburns.
“ If there be those who would not
ve tlie Union uulcss they could at
the same lime destroy slavery, I do
not apree with them. My paramount
object is to save the Union aud not
either to save or destroy slavery.” —
President Lincoln to Horace Qree>
ley.
“I am not, nor nevei have been,in
favor of making voters, or jurors of
negroes, nor of qualifying them to
bold office, nor intermarrying them
with white people, and I will say, in
addition to this, that there is a physi
cal difference between the white and
black races, which, I believe, will for-
erer forbid the two races living to
gether on terms of social and political
equality—and inasmuch as they can
not so live, while they do remain
together, there most be a position of
superior aud iuferior, and I, as much
as any other man, am in favor of hav
ing toe superior position assigned to
the white race.’’—Abraham Lincoln.
“ It would, in my opiuion be nnwise
to make the work of reconstruction
depend upon a condition of snch
donbltnl utility as negro suffrage.”—
Gov. (and afterward Senator, and
now deceased) Morton of Indiana.
In the House on July 22, 1861, a
resolution containing this clause,
“ that ibis war is not waged npon onr
part in any spirit of oppression, nor
tor any purpose of conquest or subju
gation, nor purpose of overthrowing
or interfering with the rights or «•
taUished institutions of thoie (South
erat States,” passed^ a heady 1 nuan
id, be- iraous vote, only two Republican
octor (Poltei aud Riddle) voting against it.
The census supervisor is a gloomy
feeling man. He imagines he is the
victim of several fatal diseases. Last
week he expressed his religious con
viction that he was dying, inch by
inch, with quick consumption, and
only recently he flushed a new enemy
—heart disease. He was painfully
impressed yesterday that he wouldn’t
live to vote at the tall election, and so
stated to all his friends.
Along in the wane of the afternoon
a waggish man discovered his melan
cholia, and prepared a piece of Mey
er’s rare old switzer and slipped it un
der the sweat-baud of the census
man’s Mackinaw, and it wasn’t long
afterwards until the ceusus man ‘be
gan to suiffthe breeze and finally de
clared-he smelled a bad smell. Then
be got up out of his batnboo and me
andered off down to welcome the 4
p. m. accommodation, and in a very
few moments he returned very hastily,
looked suspiciously up and down the
boulevard and called bis law partner
aside.
‘I think I am rapidly dissolving,’
he remarked, with forced calmness
and a nervous look.
‘ What’s up V
* My days are up—I know it; mor
tification has set in.’
* Set what ?*
* Heart disease 1 am awfully out
of gear; heart standing still— ain’t
struck a-lick in eight 'minutes ! Feel
my pulse.’
* Pulse all light.’
* Mebbe; but don’t you smell on
unkind smell f*
‘Primps so.’
* Hew fong do you (think I will
keepf’ • -
‘Sevenit day*.’ —H-rr
* This sort of weather? 1
* This weather.’
* I don’t think it. lam As mushy
now as n spoilt banana 1’
* You do smell awful!’
4 Decaying hnmanity. It is awful 1’
At a late hour yesterday the c. m.
was looking up four pall-bearers, and
a man to administer his estate, with
that mellow old switzer doing dnty
like a ton of rawbone superphosphate.
»t Columbia.) _
hat it is safe and es t, more cheerful* more courageous,
it that this Hind ot ours upon more obliging than the Chinese,
ich’we five, and of which all hu- “I have in my possession affidavits
man power cannot create one foot, do 0 f all classes of people in California,
you think it n Vit and just, do you j„ which they represent the truth, the
think it statesmanlike, do you think integrity, the love of order, and the
it patriotic, that millions of actes of industry ofthe Chinese people. They
fertile lands capable of bearing glor- have uo equal as laundry men or as
ious crops and filled with rich mines house help. O. e Chinese house ser
should be given away to a half dozen van t j s equal to three servants of an-
artificial bodies called railroad cor- other kind. What is tbe objection to
|>orations ? Is the text of the Ameri-* I them ? It is said that they* underbid
can people “Eat, drink and be merry, other laborers. There is no such large
lor to-morrow we die?” No, we wages paid to house servants in New
look to the future and we say that York or Brooklyn as is paid to Chi*,
this great domain shall be preserved nese servants in San Francisco. But
for future generations, that they may suppose they do underbid other la-
reap the fruit of our good guardian- borers; must we turn them back for
ship. Ihat is the doctrine of the j tVmt. ? )f so, we must destroy every
democratic party, but the doctrine of labor-saving machine. I, is absurd
the Republican party is to feed fat to say that Ihe Chinese have injured
those who do not need fattening; to American labor. I tell yon that’ the
make the strong stronger at the ex* wages in California have been higher
pense of the weak; to make the rich than in any State ofthe Union. When
richer at the expense of the poor; and W e have in this collection of cities, as
in proof of this I point to those land we shall have, twenty, thirty, or forty
gifte by act ot Congress from 1863 thousand Chinese workmen, wage*
until a democratic majority in the will be larger than ever. Again, it is
House put a slop to them< Fellow-1 objected that the Chinese don’t spend
citizens, this is not. a subject to be th^Tmoney inthis country, but send
discussed lightly; it is a subject upon it back to China. But in San Fran-
which we might spend more than a cisoo they pay $2,400,000 yearly rent,
day to show the terrible reckless W ould not the people of Brooklyn
course of this party that has made t i,; n k it grand to havo such a munici-
grants without regard to coming:gen.Lj contribution every year? The
erations. I ran recollect that when I Chinese pay to the State Government
first entered Congress, twelve years of Calilorrna tt,000,000 per year,
ago, how the lobby flaunted itself in The y m | n customs duties «9;400,r
the face of the public. Subsidies and qqq a year< Bnt suppose they do not
onr criticism of Mongolian con-picu-
osities. [Laughter]
“ But not only ao wo seek to in>*
terfere with their dress, bat their
religious belief. If this Government
is to survive, it mast protect alike the
Joes house, the Roman Catholic cathe
dral, the Quaker meeting, house, and
the churches ot Presbyterians. AI1
alike [shouting!] Do you want me
to iuak,e a choice between the religion
which Insults a man because of tbe
color of his skin, or the length of his
hair, or the industry and economy of
his habits, and the Paganism which
patiently endures all this, working
right on until death comes ? If you
want me to make the choice, I say
come Paganism! If you have a
superior Christianity, I say present it
to these people in a Christian way.
Christ was not an American Christ,
or a German Christ, or an Italian
Christ, but an all-arouud the world
Christ.”
Both political parties had put antis
Chinese planks in their platforms to
catch the electo r al vote of California.
He was not astonished that the De
mocratic party had done this, but he
did wonder that the Republican party
had done it. On this point he said :
“ When I saw the Republican party
surrendering from th b yellow man
what they had demanded for the black
man, I wondered if the sceptre was
not departing.” [Applause.]
Dr. Talmage reviewed the various
efforts made by this Government to
opeu intercourse with China, and said
we had frequently put forth the in
vitation: “Do come. Come and
bring your work. Come and stay
with us. You dear Chinese, do come.
We are longing for you; we are
dreaming about you.” He described
the embassy ot Mr. Burlingame, and
said that when that distinguished
American died the Emperor of China
deified him, and he was one ot the
Chinese gods to-day. [Laughter.]
The Chinese were really overpersuad
ed to cotne here, and the great pre
judice against them had been raised
by the hoodlums, the most accursed
population that ever afflicted a city,
with Kearney as the ringleader. How
had tbe Chinese been treated ? They
had been brickbatted and. slandered ;
they had beer taxed before they land
ed ; taxed for street sweeping when
the Chinese quarter was m-ver swept;
taxed by tho United States Govern
ment, which refuses to protect them.
“ The United Spates Govern meaUtas,
in faet, broken its treaty,” Dr. Tal
mage said, “ and in the name of Al
mighty God, maker of nations, He
who hath made of one blood all the
people, I impeach this Government
for its pei fidy towards the Chinese.”
[Applause.]
SWAPPED "WIVES.
A WALKER COUNTY SENSATION.
The upper portion of McLemore’s
Cove, in Walker county, Georgia, has
recently been the scene of a matrimo
nial sensation which rivals anything of
the kind ever before known among
that steady-going, law-abiding and
God-eerving peocie. The circum
stances of the affair, as gathered from
citizens of the Cove, are substantially
as follows;
Less than a year Jago, two well-lo-
do young fanners, Robert Woods and
Joseph Colquitt, each took bimeelf a
wife and to a[l appearance was happy
in their respective alliances. The
yonrg ladies chosen by the two farm
ers were of respectable parentage, aud
.each, bore a good character as well ns
a reputation for intelligence and a
proper qualification for all -the duties
in their sphere of life. All went hap
py with the two young couples until
one night last week, when, they met
at a neighbor's house, where they had
been bidden io a frolic or party. Here *
tbe conversation turned on married
life and the respective merits of their
wives were freefy discussed by the
young hnsbaiids. In this conversation
Woods confessed a fondness for Co ■>
quilt’s wife and Colquitt ac
knowledged a preference for
Mrs. Woods. This resulted
in a proposition ‘and a mutual
bargain between the husbands to ex
change wives on the spot. Tbe women
were at once informed of the trade,
and Mrs. Colquitt heartily acquiesced
in the swap, resigning herself cheer
fully to the care and caresses of
Woods. Not so, however, with Mrs.
Woods, who indignantly refused tlte
proffered caresses of Colqunit, and
when violence would have been used
to compel her acquiescence, fled to
Iter friends and reported the loutra-
geous proceedings. Mrs. WeoJ’s
father took her under his proteclin
and invoked the law to bring the err
ing husbands to justice, but the Kus
klux intervened, and the wife traders
fled the country.
THE COLOR LINE AT SAR
ATOGA.
A Saratoga dispatch to the New
York Tribune says: “All Saratoga is
talking of an incideut which hap
pened last Friday uight. Two young
colored men, one a student in How
ard University at Wa-hingtou, the
other attending school at Dennison
University, Ohio, went into an ico
cream saloon kept by a man named
Ainsworth, and called for ice cream.
A waiter poiuled to an apartment in
the rear, aud asked the men to walk
in there. They retnsed and main
tained the right to stay where they
were. The proprietor then came to
them, . told them that he did not
eutertain colored people in that room,
and ordered them out. They again
refused, and the proprietor threatened
to call a policeman. They sat two or
lhfee jumutsaawailjtig jWMlfe. .»h.Mi>rii
i Ainsworth came back with
GEORGIA NEGROES.
George T. Barnes, the member of
the National Democratic Committee
from Georgia, has contributed an ex
cellent campaign document for the
canvass of his party in a communica
tion to the New York World npon
the condition of the negro in his State.
He shows that the number of children
enrolled in the poblio schools of the
State has risen from 19,755 in 1873,
to 62,430 iu 1877, the last year cov
ered by the State School Commission
er’s report. . This increase is gratify
ing, but the number enrolled is barely
half what it should be in proportion to
the negro population. Even taking
the total number on the school rolls in
Georgia (205,000) tbe proportion of
negro children should be 90,000 ; but
it is interesting to observe that tho
situation is constantly improving, so
that in five years the colored children
enrolled have doubled. Of like im
portance is the foot that the State
makes the same appropriation annu
ally to the colored State University aa
to the white. Georgia, like Massa
chusetts, requires a poll tax fiom all
reft'of alT 'seu: _ . .
applied every known, restorative, hut Among those who voted, for itepass-
at last accounts it BtilUayina coma* age were Col rax (afterwards Vioe-
tose state, with hardly a possibility of Pretfident), jCoukling (now Senator),
recovery- Dawes (oow Seuatoi), Delano (after-
—. wards Secretary of the Interior),
An old fanner raid yesterday: Sbennan (now Secretary ofthe Treas-
“The Lord is on Colquitt’s side. If
The “Convict Catechism” was evi
dently gotten up by some radical with
a view to win votes in the Nqrtb, and
the author or authors cunningly gulled
the N„rwoodiles into adopting this
radical document so that it might be
quoted as democratic authority—
charging peculation in offics apd bar
barity to our democratic stale admins
istiaiion. The wonder iq they sue*
cecdcd in finding, even on the Nor
wood Committee, a democrat so green
as not to discover the purpose of the
author. But they did and thus this,
infamous circular now floats around in
the North as democratic testimony on
the oorauptioq and cruelty of demo
cratic) rules and Georgia justice.—
Lumjtkin Independent.
is made in hu favor.”
n (now Secretary ofthe Ti
ury), and many other now well known
and prominent Republicans. In this
Senate, substantially the same’resolu
tion received the vote* of fcevery Re
publican but one.
grants of all sorts were distributed spend money here? How much money
with a lavish hand. No wonder the wou (d yon invest in a country where
wine ran freely and that >\ jsbington you were denied citizenship, and
was a “gay place,” and that the re- w j, ere any moment yon might suffer
publican party was popular with » t be outrage of expatriation? It is said
class-the class that was ffittemng on that they wiah t0 be buried in China,
this corruption. When the demo- Weli> if you and ]■ had been treated
crats came into power in 1875 in the „ the Cll i ne8e ba7e been in New York
House and put an end to all their and Brooklyn, we would not want to
grand dinners their power was gone. ^ bur5ed wilbm 3,000 miles of where
.... such an .indignity was enacted. Ii
THE NEXT, EMOF\ comes with a poor grace frqm us to
■B USSIA. . I blame the Chmfese tor sending home
——- — ut I their savings, when we have so long
In Russia the people haflfgly dare to been prawing ..other emigrants for
talk tbwit thair cqmjng syent. The doing the. same thing. How about
Czar is bound to marry the Priucess 1 American merchants in China t Do
Dolgorouky; that is regarded as cer- they n«t send their money home? As
tain. The Princess was his mistress | it matter of fact, many ot the Chinese
for some years before the death of the send their money home for the . pur*
Empress. She was in the Winter 1 pose of emancipating their parents.
Palace at the time of the Nihilist gun- who are serfs. Should we not rather
powder plot. His dalliance with her praise than blame them for that?
saved his life on that occasion, for it “ They are blamed for their severe
made him late to dinner and left the economy. Well, that is a crime that
powder to exnlode nnder an empty cannot be charged much on the Am-
roora. On Dolgorouky’s account the erican people. [Laughter.] These
Czar banished his dying- Empress and Chinese, come with a Tower order of
had a bitter quarrel with bis son and civilization; ’ they, are industrious;
heir. On her account he had ■ risked they pay rail their debts aud save
innumerable Nihilistic dangers*' He I something for a rainy, day. Such a
wears a coat cf mail, travels in iron- style of civilization we cannot abide!
clad railway cars, and seem*) insane We don’t want our American styleof
with fear sometimes, but he trembles civilization Interfered with—that style
more on Dolgorouky’s a'count than of civilization that allows a man to
he does on bis own. Now that tbe spend feur times the amount ot money
marriage
hardly aignjiy a change in their rela- the time and pays tea debts. [Laugli-
tfens, and as* the Czar is anxious to ter.] Again, it. is said, that the
Permanently Divided.—Practi
cally the democratic party is perman
ently divided in Georgia, and it is only
a question of time as to whether one
or the other ofthe contending factions
shall, unite with a majority af the re
publicans to fcorrii anew party.—New
York Times. • ■
tbe shame ind dhfiMe^ lD ’wbicb ita I nets ot jroaagraadmolbem, the knee
autocratic in titutionshave’brought buckles pf your grandfathers? At
it, no one can tell. Natftrally, the different times in this country there
people are watching the prPoeedidgs | had been a laborious .'overtoppittg and
of the amorous monarch ■ with an
eyes.—Chicago Times.
voters. In 1879 85,522 colored men
paid this tax and these tax payers
owned 541,199 acres. In other words,
from one-half to two-thirds of the
male negroes are tax payers and
iroperty holders. It is difficult to
jelieve that a race which has accuin-
ilished this in filleen years since they
>egun owning themselves can be
ground very far into the dust. Year
by year also the property they hold
increases. It has risen by regular
yearly increments from 396,658 acres
held by negroes in 1874 to the amount
uow held, an average increase of
nearly eight per cent, annually. Dur
ing this period the State has been
under unquestioned Democratic con
trol,, aad while there has doubtless
been oppression and wrong in the
treatment of the negro, as there a!
Ways wilt be in the case of a race
slowly learning hojv to defend itself,
thrifty^ffccumulation of property slow,
but sure, tells its owu story of aavano
ing prosperity.
i ' ■1 • ~'
Judge Reese vs. tue State Ag
ricultural Society—In Greens
boro last week, during the session of
the superior court, the people bad an
abundance of speeches, and, among
others, one from Judgo Reese. The
Home Journal sayc:
Oil Tuesday, daring the recess of
o-urt, Hon. Augustus Reese address
ed a goodly number of citizens upon
the present condition of our industries
and the wants of the people. He de
plored the present system of hushaud
ry, and tbe policy of relying upon
commercial manure in cropping, and
predicted that unless this policy was
abandoned the people and their lands
would grow poorer and phorfer, and
the young men of the Country bocom-
‘ 'led: to seek other fields of Tabor and
_ie touched briefly upon the waste
Of time Wd money in keeping hp the
State agricultural society, granges,
etc., and stated that their benefits
.. „ wete mostly confined to a few capital*
appalling mystery of woman’s head- \ ists and office faoldeni, and. did not
gear that onght to make ns lenient in benefit the masses. ^
cane in his hand, took hold of one of
the men and jerked him towards the
door. The man who was seized
snatched the cane from his assailant, .
and during the struggle Ainsworth’s
eye was blackened, but whether in
tentionally or by accident is not
known. Ainsworth says that he has
kept a hotel, and knows how to do
such things, and that he never al
lowed colored people to be served in
his parlors.”
DID YOU EVEBf
Did yon ever see a bald-headed
man who didn’t have such «i “ beau
tiful head of hair ’’ till “ that fever ”
or that something or other took it off?
Did you ever know a man who
habitually tells all he knows, who did
not everlastingly repeat himself?
Did yon ever know a roan who
talked much of himself who did not
have a poor subject for his conversa
tion?
Did you ever see another do the
same thing three times without think-
ing you could do it much better ?
Did you ever know a young lady
with a new and neatly fitting waist
who thought the weather was cold
enough for a wrap ?
Did yon ever see a man with large
feet who did not declare that his boots
were two sizes too big—that ho likes
them easy, you know ?
Did you ever think that men are
the biggest fools in creation, and that
the women enjoy the fun of letting
them remain unconscieus ot it ?
Did you ever see a drinker or
smoker who couldn’t leave off at any
time, if he only wanted to?
Did you ever think what horrid
children good people have?
Did you ever lote your temper but
what you feltjlonesome without it?
Did you ever think?
WOBDS OF WISDOM.
Hard workers are usually honest.
Iudnstry lifts them above temptation.
Earthly pride is like the passing
flower that springs to fall, and blos
soms but to die.
There is a certain noble pride
through which merits shine brighter
than through modesty.
There is ,a paradox in pride—it
makes some men ridiculous, but pre
vents others from becoming so.
Labor is one of the great elements
of society—the great substantial in
terest on which we all stand.
Excess m apparel is another costly
folly. The very trimming of tbe vain
world would clothe all the naked
ones.
He that blows the coals in quarrels
he has nothing to do with, has no right
to complain if the sparks fly in bis
face.
A patient and humble temper gath
ers blessings that are marred by the
peevish and overlooked by tho aspir-
It is pride which fills the world with
po much harshness aud severity. We
are rigorous (D offenses, aa if W« had
ofibnded* r> -r rn*- j.) -
Pride, like ambition, is sometimes
vicious, according to tbs character in
which it it found, aud ; the object to
which it is directed.
ii-*—
A great Ne'fr York paper notices
the scarcity of i small bills. Poor
people who havo,,marketing to do,
hate noticed the raino thing.