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m m J. T. "WATEKMAN, PROPRIETOR. 8i ao - Per Aritium ^rr W fc* k vie* .ft S- UNIVF.RSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY Ho n t o MAKE UFA QUAR REL. --- j»|" i / y * e r 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 ^,«; r —,— —* —r—■— —r,' jn — : "WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION « c Volume LXIV. ■ - - ■ ■ -» : 11 11 —— t i ■ — ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1880. < w . ■■■■■ ■■ ■ Number 47. ‘ - i • * < . T. WATHRMAN, PROPRIETOR. 81.50 - - - Per Annum CHARGE IT. 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 * » r.-4» . 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.