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THE PAULDING NEW ERA. &*- *•>' 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.