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THE PAULDING NEW ERA.
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VOLUME IV.
DALLAS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1886.
NUMBER 16.
By the Sea.
I at by the M when the min shone bright
And flooded Mb depths with a blaze of light,
And the golden sheen and emerald green,
Like gems in the crown of a tairy queen,
Flashed forth in glittering splendor;
And the soft winds sighed on the shining tide,
And the mourning waves to the breeze replied
In tonee that were low and tender.
I stood by the sea when the moon was high,
And the stars shone out from the midnight
sky,
And a wonderous sight was that shimmering
light
That flashed from the crests of the surges
bright,
Like the stars in trembling motion;
And the moon's soft ray on the waters lay,
And its gleaming track made a bright
highway
Across the slumbering ocean.
I stood by the sea when the lightning flashed,
And the waves ran feigb and the thunder
crashed,
And the blinding spray that was dqahed
away
By the howling wind in the furious fray,
Brought death to the hardy toiler,
When his ship, at last, by the stormy blast,
A dismantled wreck on the rock was cast,
A prey to the ruthless spoiler.
The beautiful sea! the treacherous seat
A joy and n terror it is to me.
A beautiful sight, by day or by night,
Is the tranquil sea, by whose margin bright
The fisherman loves to wander;
A terrible thing when its rage doth bring
The angel of death with his sable wing
To darken the homsteads yonder.
—Thomas Burke, in Detroit Free Pres*.
AMY’S HERO,
A dissatisfied expression was on Amy
Carroll’s countenance us she sat listening
to her lover, John Wentworth. She had
been indolently dreaming over Tenny
son's poems all the afternoon, and her
real seemed prosaic compared with ideals.
The shimmering moonlight and the soft
zephyrs, perfumed with the brenth of
June roses and lilies, failed to cast their
usual glamour.
There was an upheaval in her soul.
Her nature clamored for a life removed
from the commonplace, untarnished by
the actualities of labor, and filled with
romance and luxury. The babble and
childish laughter floating up from the
miners’ cottages struck discordantly upon
her ear. What romance and poetry was
there among those women, absorbed in
household cares, and those grimy, hard-
handed men? True, those men some
times met terrors in the mines, but they
meditated no more upon them than oxen,
and stolidly plodded on in the race for
bread. Why could not she have been
born a princess, instead of the daughter
of the mine superintendent, without rank
and without wealth, though comfortably
circumstanced?
And what was her lover but an honest,
hard-working, mining engineer? He
looked quite picturesque, fanning him
self in the moonlight, but he had never
performed a heroic deed, never went on
chivalrous quests, nor battled for the
fair. She wanted a hero-lover—chival
rous, knightly, daring; and he was only
a neatly-dressed, intelligent, every day
sort of a man, whose greatest ambition
was to succeed in his business and to
make u cosy home for his Amy. How
could she listen patiently to his relation
of his plans and of the prospects of the
mine, while visions of Sir Launcelot and
Sir Galahad haunted her?
She was sensible little girl, and did not
trouble her lover with her dissatisfied
thoughts; but. there was an indifference
in her manner and a petulance in her tone
that he noticed and felt.
“Amy, what is the matter?” he asked
anxiously.
“Nothing,” she answered freezingly.
At that moment Mr. Carroll called in
an excited tone,
“Wentworth, come quickly; there’s a
fire in the miners’ row!”
Wenthworth hastily ran down the
stepij,
fire. Amy went to an opposite room,
where she found her mother gazing at the
rapidly increasing flames.
“Amy, let us go there.” she said: per
haps we may be of some aid to the suffer
ers.”
They found nearly all the villagers
gathered around j fire, a few squares
distant. Men we carrying furniture
• out of the burning building and dashing
water upon the neighboring houses. Mrs.
Carroll and Amy hastened to join tho
group standing around the mistress of the
cottage, sitting with a babe in her arms
and two frightened children clinging to
her skirts.
“They can’t save the house,” explained
the woman to Mrs. Carroll, “but they’re
gettin’ most of the things out. They car
ried mommy out first of all,” glancing
affectionately at her old, bed-ridden
mother.
“Yes,” chimed the invalid, “my boy
and Mr. Wentworth carried me out easy
as a baby.”
Amy’s eyes kindled, but something
mockingly whispered, “No heroism in
that, for there was not the least danger.”
Nevertheless, she watched her lover’s cool
and energetic movements with admira
tion, and gave little heed to the disjoint
ed chat around her.
At length the building was pronounced
unsafe to enter, and the men slowly edged
toward the group of women.
“Amy, you here?" exclaimed Went
worth, seeing her there for the first time.
“I came with mother,” she replied,
cordially.
“We’ve got 'most the things out,”
cried the owner, cheerily, to his wife.
“ Tisn’t much matter ’bout the oldshnn-
ty. I’ll have to build a new housu a
beetle sooner, is all.” A sudden pallor
flashed over his swarthy face, and he
shouted, “Good heavens 1 there’s half a
hundred cask of powder in tho pantry I
clear forgot! Run for your lives 1”
A srick of terror sounded; men and
women snatched up their children or
some household treasure, and ran in all
directions, frightened und bewildered,
seeking a place of safety.
Amy felt John Wentworth wring her
hand, heard him whisper huskily, “Amy,
go quickly; Heaven bless you, my dar
ling I” and saw him dart toward the burn
ing house.
“Amy, come—cornel” cried her moth
er.
“Yes,” she answered, mechanically,
but stood still, watching John entering
the house. He disappeared—the roof
seemed ready to fall—Amy thought him
lost, and' reproached herself. “I was
so wayward, and grieved him. Oh,
John 1 my darling, I cannot live without
you,” and her soul wrestled in an agony
of prayer. It seemed hours to her before
John emerged carrying the cask. Some
of the fugitives glanced back, like Lot’s
wife, saw him, and raising a wild huzza,
heurtly returned to aid him. The mo
ment the powder was out of danger,
John sank exhausted, and the crowd j
rushed up, overflowing with curiosity
and gratitude; but Amy was first at his
side.
“Are you hurt?” she ashed, supporting
his head.
“I believe not,” he gasped; “the excite
ment makes me weak. In five minutes
more the powder would have caught fire l”
A shudder ran through the crowd at
the thought of the devastation they had
escaped.
“Oh! your hands?” exclaimed Amy,
pityingly.
He hold them up. horribly burned, but
he only said, “The cusk was hot-.”
In a few minutes John recovered suffi
ciently to walk to Mr. Corroll’s, where
Amy bandanged the poor, blistered
hands.
“John, did you know how much you
risked?”
“Yes, I realized it all in a second; but
I determined to give up my chance of
escape for the small ]X)ssibility of saving
the others. Amy, why did you not go
with the rest?”
“I could not seek safety while you
were in peril.”
The next day she told him all her
dreaming and discontent of the evening
before, adding,
“I am prouder of my hero than I
-j ~‘ ~~"
“Why, Amy?”
“Sir Galahad gave his life to a phan
tom quest, but you offered yours on be
half of humanity.”
Telephonic communication has been
established between Paris and Rheims, a
distance of about 115 miles, and the
transmission of sound is said to be per
fect.
Tk« Prubrn How.
One of the most beautiful features of
tho face is a shapely, fne-cut uoso. If
this is deformed, the whale face is injured,
however perfect otherwise. But a bad
nose is the portion of every habitual tip
pler. It takes on a hatod red (more in-
tense as the years go on), becomes coarse
with pimples, or swells out with disgust
ing and livid protuberances—“toddy
blossoms,” in the ept and picturesque
lauguage of the common people. The
tippler may try ever so hard to conoeal
his habits, but his nose is qjt emblazoned
signal, proclamlng the fact to every new
comer.
The explanation Is this: The alcohol
increases the action of the heart and ar
teries about one-fifth, thus driving the
blood to the surface faster than the veins
can bring it back. Hence the countless
capillaries, whose minuteness makes them
normally invisible, an distended with
impure blood, ore kept in a state of per
manent congestion, and give rise to pim
ples and blotches.
But the nose is not alone in dishonoi
and suffering. Every organ of the body
is in a similar condition. The head there
fore aches; the sleep is disturbed; the ap
petite is poor; the liver j» disordered; the
tongue is coated; the throat is dry; the
heart has s|>clls of palpitation; tho back
and limbs suffer frequent pains; and the
lungs become inflamed from the slightest
exposure. This is not a more deformity,
nor simply a prominent sign of a degrad
ing habit; it is a note of warning to its
possessor that his whole system is dis
eased, and is getting ready for the drunk
ard’s grave.
Says the Medical Reporter, “It is a
medical fact that as the influence of alco
hol reddens the drnm-rlrinkcr’s nose, and
changes its appearance, so it reddens and
changes the appearauco of evory organ of
the body; and as the nose thus affected is
not in a natural or healthy condition, so
every organ of his body is changed from
a natural and healthy condition to an un
natural and diseased condition; and as
the skin of the nose takes on unhealthy
action, so tho substance and covering of
the internal organs take on diseased ac
tlon, which results in the full develop
ment of incurable diseases, such as insan
ity, diseases of the heart, Bright’s disease
of the kidneys, hobnail liver, and slow
inflammation of the stomach. All these
diseases exist at the same time in the
dram-drinker, but the organ most dis
eased is apt to take the lead in the prei
cess of morbid action.”—-Youth's Com
panion. _____
Mind Food.
Have something for the mind to reeu
upon—something te» look forward to and
live for, besides the daily round of labor
or the counting of profit and loss. If
we have not any talent for writing
splendid works on political economy or
social science, or the genius for creating
a good story or a fine poem, the next
best thing—and, in fact, almost as good
a thing—is to possess an appreciation of
these things! So have good books and
good newspapers, and read them—if
only in snatches—and talk about them
at. dinner limn or by the evening fire.
Cultivate choice flowers and fruits, and
hell) some poor neighbor to seeds and
cuttings; or take an interest in bees,
or fine poultry, or trout culture. And
study always farm and household sci
ence, and take advantage of the new
and helpful things, that are every little
while coming to light.—Mrs. E. II.
Leland.
It Cored the Cat.
A man recently cured his cat of get
ting upon the table in search of proven
der. He left some nitro-glycerine in a
saucer close to the edge of the table
and poured a little milk on it, then went
out and waited. As he peeked through
the w'pdow he. s‘iw_.?.h“ eat Jump upon
the table. He smiled. Soon the cat
found the milk, and in drinking it put
its paw into the saucer. The man
laughed aloud with glee. Then he
heard a noise, and slowly got up from a
corn-field over the fence, picked several
cords of splinters out of himself and
started into the house to see how the cat
felt, but whs surprised when he found
the cat had gone wind taken the house
with her.
THE NEWS.
Interesting Happenings from all Palate
USTIBM AND Ml DDLS STATES.
Tlx entire collection of the late Mrs. Mor-
K 1 * pictures, specimens of oriental art,
Urn ceramics, books, etchings and en
gravings, sold at auction In now York,
renUssd $1,207,053.
Tnn total losses Incurred by tbs slaking at
the Cunard steamer Oregon in a collision with
atchooner off the Long bland short, are esti
mated at over $8,0Q0J»0.
A telephone now connects New York
city with Washington, the distance be
tween the two cities being 238 miles.
Mbs. BANonorr, wife of tho aged histor
ian, George Bancroft, is dead.
Tn^Grant national monument fund ooen-
mlttea eo far has received 1130,000.
Tnn Connecticut amenably ho* pemed a
MU prohibiting the employment of children
under thirteen years of age.
Laura a Miller, a pretty nineteen-year-
old girl of Buffalo, N. Y, committed suicide
because she was not permitted to attend n
■hating rink.
Tux New York leasts passed resolutions
favoring ths passage by Congress of a bill to
reimburse the State to the amount of $5,000,-
000 far canal Improvement
St. Patrice’s day was celebrated by tho
New York Irishmen this year with an unusu
ally large procession, banquets and speeches,
In other places, too, the day was observed
more than ever on account of the present
agitation for Irish horns rula
Alderman H. W. Jakhnb, of the New
York board of aldermen, has betn arrested
upon the district attorney's complaint that
he had taken a bribe of $20,000 for voting to
give the Broadway horse-car oorapany its
franchise. The arrest was ths culmination
of the legislature committee's investigation
into charges of bribery against several aldar-
men and ax-aldermen,a number of whom left
the State to avoid examination. The arrest
of Jaehne was made upon what was consid
ered conclusive evidence of hie guilt. It took
place on the 18th, and other arreeta were
then imminent.
Three oil tanks on a freight train near
Reading, Penn., caught Are and six employee
of the road were severely in lured.
FXRSOHAL HENTlb.
Don Pedro, emperor of Brasil, is te
found a big fins arts academy at Rio.
Major-General Pore, of the United
States army, hoe been put upon the retired
list.
Lonqpellow’b son rnsstlj submitted ton
vsry elaborate tattoo decoration et Yeko-
OSHATVSS DAWTBS, lUgB
are going to Cuba as the i
blued rail and steamship I
the mails to Havana.
WAMIILNHTON-
Rev. Charles Dewitt Huntley, chap
lain of the United States Senate, has resign
ed, having been appointed pastor of a church
in auotliur city.
Ex'-Goveknoh Michael Hahn, the only
Republican member of Congress from Louisi
ana, wus found dead in his room at Willlard’s
hotel, Washington, on tho 15th, death result
ing from the rupture of a blood vessel. He
was born in Bavaria in lsfii.
Tiie cost to tho government of the conduct
of tho funeral of tho late Senator Miller, of
California, is estimated at $20,000.
The House committee on agriculture ap-
pr.ivos of an iio'n in tho appropriation bill
of $2.10,000 for the destruction of diseased
cattle.
Out of the 7,000 bills introduced in the
5 resent Congress three up to recent date
ad become laws.
The President lias completed the reorgan
ization of the civil service commission by the
appointment of John H. Oberly, of Illinois,to
fill the *vacancy caused by the nomination of
Commissioner Trenholm to the coruptroller-
fhip of tho currency, and by the appointment
of Charles Lyman, of Connecticut, tobecivil
service commissioner in place of Dorman B.
Eaton, resigned.
The secretary of the navy has dismissed
four cadets from the naval academy at An
napolis for “hazing” another cadet.
President Cleveland celebrated his
forty-ninth birthday on the 18th by attending
a performance of “Mikado" at the New Na
tional theatre.
The Senate, in executive session, on the
18th confirmed the following nominations:
John D. Anderson to be pension agent at
Augusta, Me.: Cornelius Voorhis to be col-
leeter of bjtema! ro-wma-, fourth dirirhst of
Missouri; John Woessner, of Texas, to be
consul at Saltillo; Henry W. Mc-
Corry to be attorney for the Western
district of Tennessee; William C. Jones
to be marshal for the district of Kansas;
Robert W. Hutchins, of Eureka, Cel,, to be
receiver of public monies at Humboldt, Cal.;
Daniel O. Barr to be purveyor of customs in
the district of Pittsburg; V. O. King, of
Texas, to be secretary of legation and con
sul-general at Bogota ; Brigadier- General
Alfred H. Terry to be major-general, as
successor to the late General Hancock; An
drew Welch to be collector of internal rev
enue for the second district of Illinois. A
number of postmasters were also confirmed.
Henry B. Courtnry, the Delaware match
manufacturer, recently deceased, leaves aa
estate worth $5,000,000;
Tee Duka of Portland, with a million and
n quarter annually from ground rente alone,
is the richest nobleman In Britain.
Senators Sawyer, Ingalls and Baulsbury
.— " ■ guests of the oom-
. uni which carries
Havana.
Mm. Mart Grant Cramer, siaUr «i
General Grant, Is lecturing in MamachueeMi
under the auscioee of tho women’s Christina
Temperance Union.
Dr. Oliver Wbrdrll Holmm will go
abroad April 21, with his daughter, Mrs.
Sargent, to be absent all summer His last
visit to Europe was in 1836.
Bmhop Petbrkin. of West Virginia, hat
undertaken to found a hospital, orphanage
and home in the Kanawha valley, the neart ot
the great mining region of Wat Virginia.
Secretary Lamar is credited with having
lately rebuked Colonel IngereoU for his ag
gressive infidelity, and expressed n hope that
be will some day become a Christian
preacher.
Henry Ward Breoher’r earning! during
the lest forty years are estimated as follows:
Salary as preacher, >120,000, lecture fees,
$340,000; sundry publications, $100,000, wed
ding fees, $90,000; incidentals, $40,000; total
$760,000.
Mims Klla Breorinridou, daughter of
the Congressman from Kentucky, is a bril
liantly beautiful brunette, now completing
her college life at Wellesley. She will enter
the law office of her father as soon as her
stndiee are completed.
Admiral Daniel Ammen, the naval offi
cer, le now living In quiet retirement at'e
beautiful country place called Ammendale.
near Beltsville, Mil. His brother. General
Ammen, who distinguished himself at ths
battle of Shiloh, lives near the admiral.
MOIITII . Nil tVIS-T.
Ex-Governoii William Erwin, of Cali
fornia, died at Ills home in Han Francisco a
fsw days since. He pas born in Ohio, went
to California in 1863, and was elected gov
ernor on the Democratic ticket In 1876.
Captain James I. Waddell, commander
of the Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, died
the other day at Annapolis, Md., aged sixty-
two years.
A New Orleans dispatch of the 17th said
the strike on the Gould system of railroads
was likely to bo settled by arbitration.
A Carrollton (Miss.) dispatch says that
during, a trial there in the J. M. Leddell case
fifty white men rode up to the court house
ana fired into tho room, killing instantly ten
negroes. Three others died soou after. Seven
others were injured. Leddell, a young law
yer, had been wounded in a quarrel with
some negroes weeks before in which shots
were exchanged.
Governor Murray, of Utah, has resigned
at the President's request.
The wife of Eugene Bohrnmn, of Avon
dale, Ohio, while deranged, killed her four
teen-year-old son, Albert, dangerously
wounded another son, and then committed
suicide.
Ireland’* Confidence.
p* RNKLL'N POM I THIN IN THE DR I TIM I'
PARLIAMENT.
The prominent members of the Nations
pin ty held their anuunl banquet In honor o|
St. Patrick at Loudon on the 17th,
260 i persons being present. Many telo-
grunw of congratulation and expres
sing confidence in Mr. Parnell
and his colleagues were received from all
pm-ts of the United Kingdom and Ainoiica,
mi t their reading provoked the wildest en
thusiasm. Mr. Parnell’s absence, bo nuse
of illnoss, was Atuoh regretted.
Mr. Edmund Dwyer Gray, M. P.,
replying to tho toast, “Ireland a Nation,”
aroused the enthusiasm of the gathering
to tho highest pitch by declaring that
Ireland was never more determined
than now to obtain her rights, aud
proili -ting that the day was not
far distant when Ireland would take her
place among the independent nations of the
cm !i. In conclusion, Mr. Gray expressed
: tin-.hope that Mr. Gladstone might sjiocdily
' be enabled t5 hoIvo the Irish problem, but
said Hint its solution could not much longer
; be deferred.
Mr. William O’Brieii, M. P., presided over
a meeting of 4,000 Irishmen held iu Bt.
George’s Hall, Bradford, England. In taking
the chair Mr. O’Brien said that Ire
land’s prospects were never brighter
than now, and it would not
| lie the fault or the Parnellites If the most
I promising chance of effecting a reconcilia
tion between the Irish and the English r.eo-
! pies which had ever been presented should be
madly and wickedly destroyed.
The Presidential Term.
A PROPOSITION TO HAVE IT BEGI)
ON APRIL 30.
In tho United States Senate on the 15th
Mr. Ingalls submitted the following .joint
resolution:
Wheiieah, The first President of the
United Btates was not inaugurated until the
JiOth day of April, in the year 1789, and
Whereas, The day which was chosen by
'the Continental Congress for the installation
of the new government then established by
the constitution, the 4th day of March, does
now cause public inconvenience in unduly
curtailing and limiting the second session ot
every Congress; and
W HEitKAH, It is fitting that the one hun
dredth anniversary of the inauguration of
George Washington as the first President of
the United State) be commemorated by the
inauguration of his successor in 1889 upon
the same day aud that this should be tho day-
hereafter or tho beginning of successive ad
ministrations jrf,
Resolved, tic., That the following article
be proposed to the legislatures of the several
Btates as an amendment to tho Constitution
of the United States, as part of the Constitu
tion, namely:
•Art. X’vi. That tl e t- rm of office of the
President and the second session of the
Fiftieth Congress shall continue until the 30th
day of April, in the year 1889, and the 30th
of April shall thereafter be substituted for
the 4th of March as the commencement of the
official term of the successive Presidents and
Vice-Presidents and Congresses of the United
States.
The resolution was referred to the commit
tee on privileges and elections.
