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THE PAULDING NEW ERA. Wm. A. BRECKENRIBGE, Publisher. “Onward and Upward.” SUBSCRIPTION : $1.50 Per Anenm VOLUME L DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, MAY ‘24. 1883. NUMBER 25. NEWS GLEANINGS. Danville, Va., lias two cotton mill* in operation and la erecting a third on . Gov. Boynton’s brido in worth $60,- 000 in her own right. Pile la about 40 years o d. The firft cotton factory In Wisconsin was opened a few days ago at Sheboy gan Falls. Mr J. H. Henderson, of Covington county, Ala., D sixty-three years of age and since 1845 has killed 412 deer Gen Fit/.hugh I/C3 added about $3,- 010 to the funds of the Southern nis torical Society by his recent lecturiu, tour through the South. The Key West, Fla., sponge fleet, numbering seventy vessels and Bix bun dred men, is out on a cruise. A larg catch of sponge brings about $300,000 into that city. It is said that a Vermont farmer sends more than an average of 2,00o pounds of butter to one hotel In Gcor gia every week during tho yenr. Within eighteen months 060 miles o' railroad have been under conBtruclioi in Mississippi, over $2 ',000,000 beinr invested. During tho fifteen years pre vious only 79 miles of road were buil . J, T. VanS ycb, of Texas, is caryimr 47,000 Bheep from Arizona to Grahau county,Tex. He paid 75 cents each, o $32,090 for the whole lot. Gen. E T. Sturdivant, of Orlando Fla , recently took $19 worth of hone out of one boo hive, and yet left honey enough to keep the colony in good spir its and working dondition. In every tobacco factory at Key West "thcro la a ’’reader.” Cubans cannot talk without gesticulating, and in order to keep them from talking a person i employed to rend aloud to the hand during working hours. A negro woman at Powder Springs Ga., stuck a kni e through her hue band’s heart, and then aroused the village by her yells'over his dead body The bloody knife was found concealed in her bosom. Smith Island, in Smith Take, near Ocala, Fla., containing eighty acres, thirty five of which are in an orange grove, sold a few days ago for $12,00 Five years ago it could have been bought for $700. The Sswannoo coal scam, of Tenne see, covers an area of 3,000 square miles in which there are 1,920,000 acres, which, at a low estimate, will yield an average of three thousand tons per ncre, or a sum total of fifty-seven billion six hundred million tons. Talbotton (Ga.) New Era: Capt. N p. Carreker presents J. W. T. Jones, Talbot’s antiquarian, with a couple ot no rifiod owls, perched on petrified limbs. The feathers on the birds and the leaves on tho limbs lo ok perfectly natural. Fifteen years ago an enterprising Mobilian brought a little Jersey cow that city, and was laughed at. To-day the wealthiest men in Mobile own lierdi of Jerseys, and it is estimated that there are nearly 5,000 registerea ani mals and numberless grades in Mobile county, worth near $500,000. Tavares (Fla.) fisherman have institu ted a new and novel method ef catching fidi, which seems, however, to be very successful. A fire is built on a board across a long row-boat, and the fish, * attiacted by the bright light, leap to ward it, fall into the boat and are ca p- t u red. Rice planting in South Carolina and Georgia is becoming precarious, an 1, except in the cases of very rich men, it is thought that the industry in .he two States will die our. Louisiana and Florida will become the rice States par excellence. The coast plantors of Geor gia and South Carolina will have '.o imitate Mr, Robert Gourdin—dra n theia fields and convi rt them into mead- A Little Whirligig. In the whirligig of time many strange companionships are formed says the N. Y. Sun. Here we have Gen. Roger A. Pryor, who twenty years ago was looking for Ben Butler lo get $20,000 for hi* head, in the intimate relations of friend ship with tho ancient ruler of New Orleans; and now the dashing leader of the Black Horse Cavalry, who made such terrible raidB npon the Union forces, is slinking hands with veterans of tho other side. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and his staff from Virginia have gone home after such an experience, with champagne poured out by old warriors of tho other side, that, as they reflect over tho times and feelings of twenty years ago, they must doubt whether tiiey have not been pass ing through a dream. TOPICS OK TUB IIA V. The New Yorkers have besu seven years trying to raiso $250,000 for the onstruction of the pedestal of Bartiiol ’s great statue of “Liberty Enlightcn- ng the World,’’ to be placed on Bedloe’s stand. Tho Garfield Monument Committee of be Society of the Army of tho Cum erland havo selected Mr. J. Q. A. Ward, of New Y’ork, to design and omplote the monument at a cost not to exceed $50,009. Switzerland used to beat the world in the consumption of fire water, but elgium lias forged ahend. There is a rinking shop there for every 12 persons ml eighty per cent of tho hospital liior- lity is attributed by tho physicians in ttendance to alcoholism. The functions of the Signal Service ureau have been seriously crippled by lie failure of Congress to makoasuf cient appropriation for its support ull reports will be resumed after ,Tulv »t, when the anuual appropriation ecomcs available. Charles H. Welling, who failed in <few York in 1803 for $400,000, paying nly 6 1 ' cents on the dollnr, lias recently ought out his old creditors and paid hem nearly in full As he was under legal obligation to do so, the majority f people who are familiar with the facts ro overcome with omaz ment. people all over the world, and cannot upply the demand fast eneugh Ou a visit, the ranclic seems like a kitten nur sety on a Urge scale. A YbTKKAN OF NSW YORK. William K. Dodge, the noted merchant, who died suddenly at his homo in Now York, was au eminent representative of the roligious riek men who form a con- Uuder the Taveru Licence bill n ently ptssed by the Pennsylvania Leg islature, all tlie licence money from | aidornbio uud influential class In the taverns, liquor retailers, eating house*, | metropolis, sustaining its churches and its charities, nor lacking to its popular enterprises; and prominent in national moral movements—not always so wise us they are earnest, Mr. Dodge was born in Hartford, Ct., A COLD DAY. BRADS LIKE A NOVEL. Haw ike Hawkers Man NiiataOae ap Thnl , Tke aisrr a ••Prominent t'lllaaa” ToU aa He lllneaveriMl, J Allnuln Hepnrlnr. brewers, auctioneers, patent medicine*, pediers and billiard rooms goes to the several counties instesd of tho Stati Treasury Iu Philadelphia these sour „ _ . , ■ »"*“■«! l-lWf&bS* yenr to the State, and it is stated by the father aud mudo clerk In a wholesah Bulletin of that city, that if the licens law is enforced the sum can be doubled It would nppoar that this new law, by which so much additioual money is se cured for local purpo«es, will have the effect of interesting the different com munities to see that the legal liconce* are obtained, especially from tho many iquor saloons which evade tho law That is one of the ellective ways of educing the number of saloon*. A Country Banco In Vermont. Six men and one woman in I’hliadel- liia have organized the “National Cre mation Society,” which is in substane- sort of iusuranco company. Member- re admitted upon payments graduated ccording to the expectation of life- hose 21 years old for $3 a year, those 3b it $4, and so on—and nt their death the ocicty will furnish coffin, hearse an me carriage, pay all expenses and have the person's remains cremated. The opium dealers havo been lnyin ■ n largo stocks of the drug in view of die increaso in the duty on July 1 I 'rom IG to $10 a pound. It is estimated hat enough opium to supply tho trade nr five years is already stored at San Frnncisco, and large lots are received -onstantlv and will be until July Is . San Francisco firm recently paid $98,- ffO in duties on *240,0(10 worth of op 'im received on one steamer The new English decoration of th ■Royal Red Cross,” which is to he eon- erred for special services in nursing the •ick and wounded of the army air' navy, Consists of a cross, enamels’ •rimson, edged with gold, hearing o" he arms the words, “Faith, Hope an ' Charity,” with the date of the institu- ■lon of the decoration, and in the cento he queen’s cflicy. On the center o' he reverse tho royal and imperial arm ■ppcar in relief. The cross is to he a - ached to a dark blue ribbon edge ’ with red, and worn on the lcftshoulde The first cotton mill in California! about to he built nt Oakland, near Sa- Francisco. A large number of persons have gone into the cotton growing bust ness in Califirnis, ths southern half of •ho State being climatically favoraV to the culture of "oHon. ft is said til I here is a gain in weight of the crops f 20 per cent, and the shipping faeiiitic for tne Asiatic market make the eucc5 of a cotton mill very certain It i- elaimed by Californians that sea islan-i cotton can he grown in the State The special feature of the new ohse- vatory at Columbia college will he i paper dome. There are only three oth ers in the world. They are at the Tr >y Polytechnic institute, the West Point academy, and Beliot college, Wis., Th dome at Wen Point is the largest, bn' that of Columbia will be the best in construction and arrangement. The inside diameter of the dome is 20 fee , and its height 11 feet it is 8.32 of an iuch thick, and so light that the hand can turn it. The method used in the preparation of the paper is a taade se cret, protected by patent. Few even among sporting people know that there is a Shetland pony ranche in this country At Leon Springs, Baxter county, Texas, Baron Yon Raub, an old time sporting gentleman, has a ranche of 8,000 acres, all under fence, and stocked with beautiful Shetland and spotted ponies His breeding stock con sists of seven thoroughbred stallion*, forty-five mares and 200 small spotted pony mares. He is now raising a rcce of striped and spotted ponies to pleas- A letter from Burlington, Vermont, says: Lot ns present ourselves nt a genuine country dance ill Vermont. Thu musicians have just come in and taken tho seats provided for them oil II slightly raised pi it form at One end of tho lung hall. About fllty or sixty "couples” el yenng people are scattered about through tlie hall, somo in merry groups, talking) otliovs, more bashful, clinging to oaeli others arms and waiting in siieuoo for tho mnsio to strike up. After the usual prelude of shrilling and tooting, tho lender of tlie little orchestra noils to tho floor manager, who promptly steps lor- ward and shouts, "Gentlemen, plenso take partners for ——as tiio dance may lie. If it, is a waltz tho expectant swain awkwardly and blnahingly encir cles tlie fair one with bin arm and begins to swi g, with n sort of rythmic apology for tho premntnroness of tho embrace. She timidly places her hand in his and undulates slightly iu sympathy with his impatience. At luat die leader of the orchestra looks significantly around his little hand of artist*, noils his head upon ids violin, draws his bow with an emphatic gesture and tho music strikes in. About half tho couples in the room havo caught the rhythm of the music; tho othois swing hopelessly round, changing step and bumping into ouch other, till something like a conglomerated dcad-loek ensues in mo pnrt of tho room, and the daucers •(imposing it disengage thunaelves and wonder away with many blushes to a more open space, where they try it again. Vobodv seems to notice die little by play. All are dancing or trying to dance, uui liavo enough to do to attend to their own motions. Hero >s a couple, neither if whom know how to waltz or havo die (lightest idea of tho magic power of rhythm ; hut that does nut seem to dis tal b them in tlie lenst. Round aud round they swing, executing die simplest \i d of a circle with endl ss rep tithm. Presently they both grow so dizzy dint ttiey stagger against the wall and stand hero panting and perspiring till their ■'quilihrium and their breath is rocov ered, when they laiuich upon a new so ries of revolutions. But there ore plenty of good danoeri on the floor whom it is a pleasure ti watch. They do not adopt the limp oesthetieal attitude and lazy lope of th fashionable city waltzcr, but go whirling down tho floor'at a good lively pace and, even where tlie crowd is thicki at, carom from couple to couple like billiard b dls. The lady does not lay her cheek nflo t.ionately on tho young man’s shoulder nor stretch out her lily-white arm and fenthorod fan in the direction of tin- polar star, where it meets her partner's at in qnally iuconvenient and ridiculous aid lulu, but aho dances in a natur 1 position -lightly inclined forward and supportei Py her partner’s arm, while one hand rests firmly on biH shoulder anil die other s clasped by Lin disengaged hand I'hera is a spring and spirit, and cn Inranco and evident enjoyment about hose country dances which you will look or in vain in the eneivnting and per fumed air of the fashioualilo salon. Liieso young people, will dance all night long and tic ready for another ball tlie next night. store on Pearl straot, at a time when the city had hut 120,000 inhabitants anil ex tended but a little ways north of Canal street. Mr. Dodge thus began his business life very young; lie was a diligent clerk, uud when lie set Up in the same lino for himself, with a partner, when 22 years old, industry, economy, system and sound judgment characterized Ids course. He married a daughter of Alison G. I’lielps, and in lH3il became Ills partner In the linn of Phelps, Dodge fi Co., importers of metals, with which hia whole subse- quont hnsiuoas life 1ms been connected, and which hits made him Wealthy, his properly being catimatcd at from 10 to 15 millions of dollars. Mr, Dodge was a practical benefactor of his kind in th unostentatious work of helping young filch out of bad circumstances anil habits, ami ho was also prominently before tlie mblie in connection witli a groat mini- ier of religious ami reforming assoeia tions, being president of tlie National Tcfitperanco Society, during tho war connected with tho Christian commission. director of tlie Union Theological Seminary, and of tho Presbyterian lies- pitul, n trustee of Lincoln University, vice-president of tlie American Board oi Foreign Missions, and otherwise con cerned iu similar organizations too many to catalogue hero. He was a Presbyterian, and ids re ligions principles were continually active ill his business, and lie repeatedly sev ered Ids relations with railroad mid other miturpriacH on account of them, lint recently ill a letter written to a Hnbliii- tariiui convention ho related how ho left tho direction of tho Erie, then of the New Jersey Control, and of other rail roads hecauso they begun to run Bumloy trains, lie resigned from tho Union Leaguo Club years ago on tho gloiuid that tlie sale of wines and other liquors was olio of its sources of revenue. Tfo was a Republieau in polities, but ho never held an office except that of mem ber of tho 39th Congress. He was for some time President of the Chamber of Commerce, anil in this connection tho fact that ills firm were comp lint to pay nearly $300,000 to tlie United States Treasure for alleged falso invoices will be rcealli d. It was assorted at tho tiino that tho errors in tho invoices were accidental anil without fraudulent intent, and that the money wns paid only to ea upo. a teditms litigation, and Mr. Dodge’s fellow-mer- clmnts fully accepted this explanation. One-half of Huh nuin went to tlio in former and othe rs under tho moiety Blockades no Longer Possible, According to an dftieial report lately published in tlie Marine Fcnrdnunph Ilia'/, it is the opinion of German naval authorities tlmt fur tho future an effec tive blockade has become impossible. Tne reasons given are that a fleet would always lie obliged nt suusi-t to gain the open sen, and to remain sufficiently for off to prevent torpedo lioatn issuing from tho harbor coming up to tlie vessels in tlie darkness; and not even a single ship e mid lie left ou guard insight of the pnrt without tlie risk, almost amounting to certainty, of lining sunk during tho night; while tlio port would remain open not only to light and speedy cruisers, but to any ship whose on trance might ho de sired. Under such circumstances, the probability of a few torpedo boatH being hidden along the coast, would, it is thought, he sufficient to paralyze the action of the most powerful squadron and prevent tho possibility of any serious operations. As wo whirl out of Now York, on rente for Dundee, tlio thermometer begins to go down, though for why, nobody Knows; it's cold enough up where it is. But cold uud colder grows the night, and iiy daylight n red-hot stove feels like nn ioielo, ami tho merry note of the ear muff is hoard hi the land. Ami it isn't u grin s note, neither, too. Uneasy lies tho foot that wears a chilblain. Even tho fool who any*, " Ih this cold enough for you?” now only looks nt you, weeps with iiiB nose and says nothing. Tho hrnkeinnn, touched by the shiver ing appearance of tho gradually freezing passengers, only hold the ear door open ii litllo longer than usual. When the train steps the chilled brakes let go mi easily and slowly, aud there is a concert of wails ami groans ami sighs under tlie ear that is enough to wake n night watchman. Tlie train hoy comes along with n troy of oranges. Everybody shudders. That hoy will he sun struck one of tin so days. Tlio man whi> sita eloseat to tlio stove lays tlie rubber soles of his Arctics rigid against its glowing sides. Nobody com plains. Anything that amelia of the tiro taal s good. Tho fat passenger makes two or three drsperato efforts to ait on his freezing feet, but with a heart-rending groan givi-H it up. mid puth them on Ins valise and looks tho picture, tho tall, thin pas- snnger remarks, of an over-fed iceberg, or a fat smnv man. Tho fat passenger stilleH n groan to say that ho hopes ho may turn into a snow mall before ho lives to look like an icielo on a Dr. Tanner diet. The tall, thin piiaarngcr says no more, lint sits with his shoulders drawn up to ilia enis, his hands tliruat deep into his pockets, his Illicit hmvod, drumming a wild, woird improvization lor two drums on tlio floor witli Iris feet. Tho mail with tlio mindy goalee strokes that ornamental nppomliigo witli his shivering hands so constantly tlmt the cross passenger asks him if lie is trying to warm them at it. Tlio cross passenger curlH up in a knot at ono end of tlio scat, and had It fight with tlio conductor rather than pull olio of ins hands out of liis worm pocket to show liia ticket. Tlio Had pnsHongor shivers iu pensive, uncomplaining ailoiieo, like a clipped terrier looking ill nt tlio kitchen window. Once in a while lie thaws a hole in the frost on tlio car window with lii« tonguo, and looks out with ono eyu at tlio deso late wintry landscape flying past, and sighs, hut lie Hays never a word. The man on tho wood-box shudders n litllo i very tirno anyone goes in or out, Imt for the most of tlm time hu shields his face from tlio glowing heat with his hat, and looks down at. his smoking shins wi ll great satisfaction. For once bn 1ms llu boss seal-in tlio front row. And ho offers to yield it to no man. 'Tlio woman who bilks bass sits bolt upright-, slmii'lit na a ramrod; her hands are iu her muff; In r feet arc twin blocks of ice ; her nose is tipped with blue ; her ai’o scarlet anil her eyes are set, cars Hl'o scarlet aim nor eyes are _ Only ono man had the teim rily to ask if law a procedure which lie ply outing- cl i aim wore oohl, Ami thou, without turn- public b'aliment ami led to ill ■ abolition jug her head, aim answered Dim will public of tho practice of giving a moiety of tlio sum recovered to tlm agents of flic gov- rnment. Mr. Dodge loaves a wife uud -veil sons. His fortune is estimated at from $10,000,0U() to *12,000,000. lie gavo away in charity over *100,000 u ycur. The Complaints of Labor. F. K. Foster, secretary of tho Fedora linn’of Trade and Labor Unions of Mass sin U an awful, icy croak, that it chilled tlio warm life-blood ill Bis throbbing veins, and bo is now riding on tho front platform trying to freeze h.mself to death. , , Brethren, ns sure ns you’re horn, it is a oold day. Tlie Adirondack Wilderness, Tho urgent necessity for protecting h. mis mony i’ 1 mio uic u. | {1 f up j m . )()r [aj,t rivers, and especially ot 8. Somite Committee ou Ldueanon ami preserving in its natural condition, the i... ..r tlm Llii/di.lluimut uvkt.-m ' *. ,. • . *i * .i i . r * . . ... .. .. •u tii_ ... , . , . , — . employees who had been prominent. 111 j widely acknowledged. Tim Acicnl Jl<‘. labor organizations during the strikes j American draws tliia picture of som- •! were put on tho black listn, and no mu ■ ^ r.jaults which would follow ucontimi tor how good workmen they might Im, ; n]J00 () j 0 jj H yatem of strippi' g tlio they could lint find employment after- n ) ( ,m,kui,a |,y cutting down the forests: wal’d. He cited tho case of tlm strike in ; .I'X'lieriy is no question that tho gem nil the Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass stive forests would produce diets [From tlio Atlalit* (tin.) Constitution.] "Iu auto-war times there lived in Merlwetlu r Comity a ilon’t-cnro sort of a negro mimed Jack Wilson, who could m lilior read nor write. He had gained liia freedom in sumo way or other, and gained his livelihood l*y noting as a sort of dirootor-goiiorol to famous horse* in liis nctghliorliood. Jack beenmo attached to a servant gill who wns owned by a man iiiunod Gules, one of thoajyoaltlifest men iu Ocorgin, who owned thousands of acres ol land, mid with his family lived in lordly style. "Tho servant girl wns n bright mnlnt- to, and Jack was a shade darker. They made n mutch of it, and wore married under the order of tilings that existed in war times. At tho same timo Jack liail a slave-wife in Virginia, hut she wns ns black as coal. When tho war cloned and tlie slaves were declared free Jack took liis Georgia wife to lie his pnrtucr for life, mul by living witli her for a stated period she became liia wife accord ing to law. , _ , "As soon ns lie woh innmoil Jack sluuveil n sudden spirit of industry that astonished everybody. His careless hab its were thrown aside mal ho went to work witli a will. Tho wealthy Gates, liis master, died, and tlie hroiul acres Ml to tho possession of tho heirs. Jack still worked on tlio place, aud wus Huvhqj anil careful. , "Tlm Gules family hail lost everything except their land. IIlludl'odH of slave* were freed by tho now order of things, and the vast- and princely fortune wna none, Tlio boil's could not adopt them- Helves to tlio si 1 nation. Finally pri hsc<1, they sold 50 acres of land to'Jack; then limy wanted more money, and Jaok stood their security at tho Lo Orange Hank, mul when they were unable to pay ho would take up tlio notes at hank nnd trade for n piece of the Gates plantation. Ho worked with a vengeance mul nil his family worked. Old man Jack became a noted and honored citizen of tlie ooun- ly. Ho wns iiuluslrious and prospered. In the, meantime hia old master’s chil dren continued to sell him porta of the old homestead. Finally lie owned it all aud wns rich. "Tlii'i o years ago lie decided that It was his duly to provide for his old Virginia wife, so he sent for her, and she, with her children, onmo to him. Him was given n house on the plantation, i n 1 is well provided for. Jack owns now the mngnittoont place of ah* lit 1,500 seres in three miles of White Sul phur Springs, in Meriwether County, lie is (it) years eld, mid liis children are settled around him, and all are contented slid happy and industrious. He owns 15 or 1(1 mules, and iH noted for keeping th* best stock ill till! county. His credit nt tlm La Grange Bank is good, and ho can borrow nil tho money ho wants ou his simple note of hand.” How much is 1m worth ?” I should say nbout $30,000, and every cent of it lias been made since tho war. It ih a remnrknnlo Htory of how a slavo succeeds liis muster in tho owner- -hip of a vast landed estate. I passed die place Ik few months ago and tho Georgia wife came to the door to givo mo a drink of water. Everything was mat and cl nil nbout the place, tho yurd wus newly swept, tlm liarns appenrod filled, „nd in tlm lots I Haw pilos upon pil s of manure carefully sheltered. It is a model plantation. Why, I havo soon ou Jack's -l ice 180 mires of corn under one fence.” "Is lie educating liis children ?” "Yes, although lie cannot rend and write, lie sees the advantage of an edueo- lion, and is giving liis children the bene fit of schooling. The story is n truo one, mid shows what cun lm dono right hero m Georgia liv pluck and industry. Tim old adage is trim: 'There is more in tlie mull than there is in tho laud.’ ” last year, in illustration of this sysb m. I)ri ,t,.,.| To cure existing evils, Mr. Foster roc- ‘ ol t | 1() ommended the following remedies as tlio valleys of the str. inns flowing tlmrc- most practicable and desirable nt pres- f r( ,jn; i ff.-otH like lliono which, during cut: Tho establishment of a National ^j 1(J f i;w months, hove brought bureau of labor statistics; tho establish- dentil and desolation to so many Euro- ment ol bourdw of nrliitmtion whenever ngun fiver vhIIbvh, Tho riiinfn!] *f tlm practicable; the enforcement of tlio No- ^,[j|.ouduck region is great: the di 1 tioiinl Eight-Hour law; the abolition of H ]„|,ea arc shop; and without tlm cu - cliild labor, ho far us possible, bytegis- trolling and resisting influence of tlmox- lation, repeal of nil "conspiracy laws hivanips and forints about th ir which interfere witli tlie right of work- H(m rces, the rivers which drain this inginen to combine for their own protec- nu ythe r n wilderness would sl ow only tion, and tlm incorporation of tLoir gf,. a t mid sudden alternations of flooded unions like other corporations, and the U)K [ empty channels, destructive at ouco abolition of th convict labor contract to tho agriculture of Klieir volleys, to the system. I manufacturing interests which cluster Hcmitor Blair rend a letter from the ( j 01| g th,.;,- banks, and to tlio commerce witnesses now in attendance, saying it ()f t l,,. Hudson, tlio channel of which 1ms was evident that the great pressure of a i re(u ly been seriously obstructed by tho business in the Semite at this lute stage detritus washed in from the unprotected of the session, will not lenvo sufficient fiill slopes ond other spaces stripped of time for them to present their views fill- tlioir original forests.” lv, and therefore suggesting that their examination lie postponed to somo more convenient season. Tlie ci mmitteo thereupon agreed that it wus impossible at this time to give tlio witnesoes tlio It is foolish to strive with what w cannot avoid; we are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty; ho that does this shall lie free, safe and quiet; jhe children. He sells the increase to 1 a )l fiis actions shall succeed to his wishes. Postmahteks,—A bill introduced in tho United States House by Gen. Bingham neccHHOi'Y attention, and dismissed them to readjust tlio salaries of Postmasters witti the understanding tlmt they shall under tfie two-oent postage law proposes be given precedence in the future hear- that the salunos of Postmasters of the n„ of testimony first class slndl lie graduated from *3,000 ing of t y to 86/100, as receipts of their offices vary I from *40,0-X) to *1,000,000; second class We don't wish to alarm the American salaries to range from *2,000 to *2,900, people, and we don't wish to create a as receipts vary from *10,000 to 40,000; panic in commercial circles, but we third class salaries from *1,000 to *1,900, would like to sav, from a profound con- ns receipts vary from *2,000 to *10,000; lion trains, aud taken the woman to task viction of eternal truths aud imperative fourth class to bo fixed upon a basis of lw leaving behind articles that he had necessity, that “ now is the time to make box rents and canceled stumps and nqver meptionod before iu his life.— up clubs,” ’stamps sold. * Boston Globe, What to Do. Among the papors lately distributed by 1.. . Parly of Action in tho soldiers bar- iicks ul Paris are some wli oh en» le tho niing recruit to grasp the whole art of volution down to the minutest details. I'liere is one, for instance, whioh tells 1.. , revolutionary soldier what he ought lo do immediately there i* nowH of an in surrection, He must set fire to his bar rack. To enable him to do this, he must make for where tlie straw and other in- tlnininablo matter may lie lying. In any ca e ho must set lire to tlie mattresses. For making a fire lie must employ acom- pouml, if it is at hand, of petroleum and alcohol, of petroleum simply, or use a candle, if no better means are available. When the fire has commenced to burn up, ho must then turn on all the jets of pas in tlio corridors and apartments. In tlie miilHt of tho confusion he must cither force tho officers to join thorevolt, or slay tho recalcitrants, so that no oue shall remain standing. Ho mast then join the pcoplo in tlie street, and help to burn tlio public buildings, beginning with the polico offices. Besides alcohol ized petroleum he should be furnished with a yet deadlier agent, which is pe troleum csscnco saturated with white phosphorus. On a New York Central Railroad oar bom d East, the other day, a newly- wedded party furnished much merriment for the other passengers by their inoes- saiit hugging and kissing. Now, if it had been an old married couple, tho mini would probably have crowded the wife close against the window, swore ot the draughts of air, growled at accommoda- k»i trains, aud taken the woman to task