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BRUNSWICK ADVERTISES.
BRUNSWICK, . , GEORGIA.
PROM ALL SOURCES.
A lady will do many things which
a gentleman could not bring himself to do.
There is no gentlemen in Springfield, for in
stance, who could walk through Main street
draiiins part of his raiment- on the ground
after him Any gentleman would consider
himself defiled* by such a performance. No
gentleman wouid care to parade the street
in such attire that one hand was constantly
occupied in reefing the slack of his breeches,
after the manner of holding up shirts at the
present time. American gentlemen attach
the character of gambler oil a man who
wears many jewels and rings, and recognize
a cognate vulgarity in the lady who similarly
-over-pads herself on occasions when personal
adornment is not in keeping. What we
mean is that there is a modesty and sobriety
of attire and even of bearing among recog
nized gentlemen which the recognized lady
has not yet attained.—Springfield, Republican.
It is probable that the project of
constructing a ship canal across the isthmus
of Darien will ere long assume tangible shape.
A large amount of money has been expended
by the United States government in surveys
mu! voluminous reports, and, in fact, so far
has this country gone in the matter that it
will not look well to abandon the enterprise
to foreign powers, who will surely obtain the
honor which the construction of such a valu
able world’s highway will give them if the
United States does not act. A commission of
engineers will meet in Washington next
month to take into consideration the various
routes which have been surveyed, and they
will then make a report in January as to the
feasibility of the project. The Colombian
government lias made an appropriation for
surveys, and has expressed its willingness to
co-operate with the United States government
in the prosecution of this great work, which
is of equal importance with the Suez Canal.
Ill the long run the most comfort
able people are the most moral. Those who
live in good houses and are well fed are they
who most obey the decalogue. It has been no
ticed in New York, as well as in London,
Petkin, and other large cities, that over
crowding produces moral degeneracy. Ten
years ago Glasgow, Scotland, suddenly awoke
to the fact that the criminals in densely pop
ulated districts were peculiarly reckless and
ferocious; whereupon the city authorities
ordered tire destruction of those neighbor
hoods and a redistribution of population.
In five years four thousand rookeries were
condemned and removed, and during the
next three years the crimes fell off from 10,-
89.0 to 7,86!)j those who removed to comfort
able houses giving up their vicious habits.
There seems to be as much science in the |
history of crime as in the perturbation of the
stars.
A raspy Cincinnati woman thus
speaks her mind, after a ride on the railroad:
“ We have seen the married man, after seat
ing Ids wife, leave her and go into the smok
ing car, which is prima facie evidence that
his love for tohaceo predominates over the
•entertainment afforded by his traveling com
panion. We have also observed a married
man comfortably seat himself alongside an
other masculine, while his wife, for the waut
of a seat, was left to lean on the arm of the
•chair. We have noticed married men, when
accompanied by their wives on tire train,
occupy their time by reading, or looking
vacantly out of the window, instead cf con
versing' with their wives ; white at other
times, and in company with other ladies,
their merry laugh ami repartee could be
heard over the shrill whistle of the locomo
tive.”
The difficulty between England and
'China, which seriously threatened at one
time to lead to war, has been adjusted. The
Chinese government, yielding to the demands
of the British embassador, consents to send a
political mission to England, charged with
the delivery of a letter to Queen Victoria
containing a public and full apology for the
past; a commission of inquiry is to he dis
patched from Pekin to inquire into the cir
cumstances of Mr. Margarv’s murder; this
commission is to lie composed of high rank
...■ a of cominnnicaticnbetween
Hin-.loosthn. Birmah and China is to he open
ed; and foreigners and the foreign trade in
China are ut ne tieated hciicefurih m « just
and liberal spirit. These are very large con
cessions, and denote the conviction'on the
part of the Chinese government that “out
side barbarians" can no longer be treated
with contumely and injustice.
The recent attempt of the Turkish
government to extricate itself from financial
embarrassment by an act of repudiation has
stirred up the creditors to such an extent
that if the Porte holds to the plan of sup
pressing half the interest on the debt of one
thousand millions and giving the bondhold
ers bonds at five per cent, at par, in lieu
thereof, it is very likely that the governments
who hare been furnishing the Sultan money
lor his harems and summer palaces will
come to the conclusion that it does not pay
to uphold a rotten, Asiastic government in
Europe. Turkish five per cents, are now
down to 29, and holders of those securities
who take 2 X A per cent, in each and 2M in
bonds will naturally suffer very materially
It will be hard for Turkey to obtain a new
loan.
The birth of a daughter to the
duchess of Edinburgh increases the tally of
the queen’s grandchildren to twenty-seven,
twenty-four of whom are still alive, and that
of her total living progeny to thirty-three,
including three unmarried children and the
Princess Louise, who is married but without
family. The duke and duchess of Edinburgh
were married at St. Petersburg, January 23,
1874, and the first child, a son, was horn to
them upon the 15th of the following October.
Tiie cost of maintaining a limited monarchy
in England is apparently increasing at an
alarming ratio.
The expenditures of the postoffice is
a subject of much concern to the postmaster
general, and it does not seem to be easy to
reduce the annual charge of $8,000,000 upon
the treasury. The increase of postage re
ceipts, instead of being 5 per cent, as used to
be customary, has' fallen to \\i per cent.
This is largely attributed to a decrease of
letter postage consequent upon the depres
sion in business, hut is partly attributable to
the loss to the revenue by franking the coun
try newspapers.
Prof. R. W. Raymond, the mining
commissioner, sets the yield of gold and
silver for four years, from all of our territo
ries as follows:
1860 $61,600,000 I 1871 $66,663,000
1870 66,000,000 | 1872 63,943,857
Since then the yield has been about an
average of these four years, until this year,
when it was believed that it would be in
creased to nearly $100,000,000. To what ex
tent the fire at Virginia City will influence
the product can not yet be determined.
Some light is wanted in Porto Rico.
The authorities do not like Freemasonry.
La Monde Macconnique states that fourteen
persons have been convicted of violating the
ordinances-of religion promulgated from the
Vatican by being Free Masons, and have
been variously stntenced to four and two
yens’ imprisonment. High-stepping goals
for initiation purposes are evidently not
wanted down that way. Also, greasy poles.
It must be delightful to live in Nica
ragua. The whole country is overrun with
robbers who quietly select their plunder,
place it in boats and vehicles, and his them
away to new fields. Last mouth a party of
them entered the town of San Jan del Norte,
perforated the governor with -bullets, whipped
the police, and broke down the jail doors
and liberated all the prisoners. If Senor
Soto intends to take Nicaragua into his new
Central American republic, there will have to
be some heavy reconstruction done to make
the companionship safe.
The steady and rapid growth of the
wealth of New Yerk has scarcely any par
allel in the history of commerce. We hold
the commercial sceptre over 40,000,000 peo
ple. We are the principal factor of a coun
try which grows 4,000,000 bales of cotton,
and the quantity is constantly increasing.
It is to a certain extent a national monopoly.
Without it the manufacturing wealth of
England would languish and gradually be-
become almost extinct.—New York World.
It is said that in Cochin China the
men’s and women’s dresses are so much alike
that it is almost impossible to say wliieh is
which, and that lately several French officers
having proposed for the hand and fortune of
natives, discovered that they had proposed
for the hand of the sterner sex. For the
future, therefore, the men are to have their
hair tied with a different colored ribbon from
that of the ladies.
The impression prevails in some
parts of the country that the printing of
actional currency 1ms been discontinued
especially as to the denominations of ten
and fifty cents. There lias been a delay in
printing a new plate of the fiftv-cent notes
necessary on account of counterfeits, hut the
printing of all other issues, according to n
Washington telegram, is proceeding as usual.
It is impossible for Moody and San key
to accept the pressing invitations that reach
them from almost every city in the United
States. The pressure upon them is tremen
dous. Every city, east and west, thinks that
it has the most urgent necessity for them,
that it is the very best place for tnem to work
in, and is sure to reward them with signal
success.
The Temecula Indians are all right
now. Commissioner Smith has authorized
the expenditure of $500 to relieve them.
This is about seventeen cents and a fraction
apiece. It is to be hoped that they won't
spend the money in reckless extravagance
and riotous debauchery.
Iu order to evade the Maine liquor
law an ingenious contrivance has been in
vented at Bangor. It consists of a barrel
within a barrel, furnished with a faucet,
which, when turned one way supplies sweet
eider, and when turned in another supplies
lager beer.
BIGOTRYm TRADE.
TUe Commercial Standing of the Hebrew
Race.
A weekly contemporary sees fit to
make recent failures in the dry goods
market the text for a homily on the
trade morals of Hebrew merchants.
For our own part, we are unable to see
the sense of classifying merchants, or
judging their honesty, by their religious
creeds. Experience does not warrant
the conclusion that trade honor has any
very direct dependence on private be
liefs ; and it is therefore as gratuitous
as it is invidious to charge that failures
and bad settlements belong to one class
or sect more than another. When in
sinuations of this kind are made, the
insinuators need to institute a little self
investigation; for there is reason enough
to suspect that religious bigotry—the
most petty and ungenerous of all sins—
has got the better of them. The truth
is that the worst of recent failures must
be sought outside the class thus stig
matized. The Hebrews, we presume,
make as many bad failures as any other
class; but, if for this they are to be
held up for exclusive censure, it would
seem to imply that they are to be
judged by a higher moral standard than
others; to which we must demur. If,
however, the Jewish religion alone must
be held responsible for the trade sins
of its disciples, in all fairness let it have
the credit of the large majority who
are innocent of such transgressions.
Our merchants do not need to be told
that, among the merchants and bankers
of this city, Hebrews occupy no sec
ondary position for honor and probity.
Indeed, if among so much false bigotry
the truth may be spoken, in proportion
to their numerical standing the world
over, there is no other class that ap
proaches this in its wealth and its com
mercial and financial power. Provi
dence has taken care that this sort of
success shall not come of dishonesty;
and with such an implied endorsement,
the Hebrews may afford to feel indiffer
ent to the sort of flings in which our
contemporary indulges. —New York
Bididin.
Prosperity in France.
Work, work, work, is the order of
the day in France. You see it in Paris,
you see it in the provinces, imprinted
in every face, and on every feature of
the country. “Labor, improbus la
bor,” is the all-powerful impulse which
predominates over and occupies the
population at the present moment;
emancipated as it is from, and, as I
have said, disgusted with, for the
nonce at least, the troubles and tur
moils of glory abroad or sedition at
home. Providence, too, fortunately,
has come in aid of these better and
repentant feelings and efforts, and has
crowned them and the year with an
abundant harvest, an increased fruit
crop and a splendid vintage. The
consequences of this happy combination
of national industry and fruitful sea
sons are becoming everywhere con
spicuous. Capital abounds and money
is to be had almost for the asking. I
cited last week two or three examples
of the way in which public subscrip
tions are filled in a few hours. The
other day it was a sight to see the
crowds of blouses and bonnets, men
and women of the working classes,
thronging the Bureaux to invest their
savings in the new lines of Paris tram
ways, which they regard, of course, as
peculiarly theirown affair, and intended
specially for their convenience. Build
ing operations, too, have burst forth
again almost with fnreur, stimulated by
high prices and the rise in rentals,
which, high as they were before, have
just made another decided step in ad
vance. I have mentioned before the
large increase in the Paris octroi, which,
levied as it mainly is, upon the neces
saries and comforts rather than the
luxuries of life, shows increased means
and consumption on the part of the
industrious classes. The payment in
advance of direct taxation is larger
than it has ever been before; and the
returns up to the present month of the
general revenue of the country display
an excess of little less than one hundred
millions over the preceding year. What
a pity it is, one feels almost tempted
to exclaim, that the French people can
not be persuaded to let “ war and
politics ” alone, not for “ a time ” only,
but for “ all time!”—Paris Cor. of Phil
adelphia Press.
England and the Eastern Question.
John Lemoinne, writing in the
Journal des Debats, says: Every one
must have been struck by the rapidity
and facility with which England has
thrown her traditional Eastern policy
overboard, and the public has seen the
country for which the integrity of the
Ottoman Empire had so long been a
dogma become suddenly the first to call
for the dismantling of the crumbling
edifice. There are several reasons for
this sudden change. In the first place,
the English, who are a positive people,
do as the rats do which forsake a falling
house; in the second place, they calcu
late that if they still wanted to save
the integrity of Turkey they would he
obliged to do so alone. Hence they
are ready to give up portions of the
Ottoman Empire that some part of it
may remain, and to make every kind of
sacrifice in order that the eternal East
ern question may not crop up while
they are isolated. The war of 1854
and 1855, the Crimean expedition, and
the siege of Sebastapol were episodes of
the personal policy of Napoleon IID
From a dynastic point of view, in an
interest absolutely distinct from that of
France, it was a rather clevercowp, for
it was tantamount to the dissolution of
the old coalition of Europe against the
Empire. It was, in fact, the price
)aid for the English alliance. The
Smperor of Russia did not believe,nor
would he ever believe, that England
could become the active ally of a
Napoleon. He refused to believe it
up to the Inst moment, and hurried on
the war. That blunder, dearly paid
for, has since been repaired in the dis
asters of France, and England, left
alone, has seen the treaty of Paris
torn to shreds and seen Russia retake
jossession of the Black Sea. Now,
if at the present time the integrity of
the Ottoman Empire was menaced,
France would not have the same mo
tives for recommending the Eastern
campaign, We have something else
to do, and England would have to un
dertake the job single-handed. It is
clear she is not disposed to undertake
it, and that explains the change in her
attitude and language.
The Home Doctor.
One ounce alcohol, two drachms
cayenne pepper, one ounce kerosene
oil; let it stand twenty-four hours after
mixing. It cures the worst toothache
ever known.
Depression of Spirits.—Sal Vol
atile, combined with camphor, is more
efficacious than most remedies in
affording relief in depression of spirits,
heartburn, spasms, palpitations, etc.
A simple remedy for neuralgia is
hoi’seradish. Grate and mix it in vin
egar, the same as for table purposes,
and apply to the temple when the face
or head is affected, or the wrist when
the pain is in the arm or shoulder.
A French physician expresses his
preference for lemon juice, as a local
application in uiptheiia, to chlorate of
potash, nitrate of silver, perehloride of
lime water. He uses it by dipping a
little plug of cottonwood, twisted
around a wire, in the juice, and press
ing it against the diseased surface four
or five times daily.
A wit once asked a peasant what part
he performed in the great drama of
life, “I mind my own business,” was
the reply.
It is computed that 18,000,000 hogs
will go into the pork barrels of the
United States before January 1st.
