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Hard Times in America and Europe—The meat and more milk, vegetables and fruits. Let
Cause and the Remedy.—Under the suggestive ' them be more careful of their stock; produce
JOns H. SEALS, - Editor and Proprietor.
W. B. SEALS, • - Business Manager.
MRS. MARY E. BRYAK (*) Associate Editor.
A. L. HAMILTON, D. D., - Associate Editor
And Manager of Agencies.
ATLANTA. GA„ SATURDAY, MAY 19. 1877.
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is exceedingly troublesome to us to return it.
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is taking subscriptions below Savannah
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ity, it was given to him under a total
misunderstanding as to his intentions,
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his acts.
head of “One per cent, a month,” a writer in
the Cotemporary Review takes cognizance of the
almost unparalleled “hard times,” which not
only America but England, Germany and the
other European countries are now suffering.
wool, meat, hay and grain in plenty for winter
consumption. Above all, let them practice a
wise but not penurious economy. It is no sav
ing to half starve one's self. Nutritious food
should always be eaten, if possible; but the
EDITORIAL MENTION.
Stagnation in trade, reduction in business, la- ' most nourishing food is not the dearest, and
borers out of employment, scanty wages, re- ; the soups and savory stews of the French peas-
I)r. Harrison’s Letters.—The “Notes by the
Wayside,” from our able and distinguished Dr.
Harrison, are attracting universal attention.
They are exceedingly interesting, and every one
reads them with peculiar pleasure. We give
two this week on the opposite page.
Sketches of Florida.—Major Sidney Herbert,
the regular correspondent of the Savannah News,
is preparing a series of letters or papers for that
popular paper on Florida, where he spent sev
eral months during the past winter. He is a
fascinating writer, and these articles will be
most readable and perfectly reliable.
Major Herbert has also promised to make sim
ilar contributions to The Sunny South. He will
also write up Southwest Georgia for the Xews.
Air-Ship of the Future.—Our first-page en
graving is an illustration of the air-ship of the
future, as described in the vision of progress
contained in Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall:”
<■ For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could
see:
Saw a vision of the earth and the w onders that shall be;
Saw the heavens filled with commerce, argosies of magic
sails—
Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly
bales;
Saw the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a
ghastly dew
From the nation’s airy navies grappling in the central
blue.”
duced comforts, bankruptcy, and actual suffer
ing, are among the features of the times now
upon us. The Review finds the cause of this
not in gold or its movements, nor in a series of
bad harvests, nor in political commotion and
the people’s shaken confidence in their rulers.
The root of the evil—the sole, primeval cause of
the present low ebb of our prosperity is over
spending by the Government—consuming more
wealth than is produced. Says the Review :
“The first offender against the law that to
consume more than one makes must land man
or nation in difficulties and impoverishment,
was America. She constructed an enormous
ant are not half so expensive as our ordinary
farmer’s diet of this country.
Bon Piatt’s Advlte to Government Plaee-Hnnters.—
| Don Piatt gives this advice to the young men and
women of the country who are eager to rush to
Washington to procure a “ place ” and get a slice
i of government pie:
My advice to all women is to pick hops, scrub
floors, do anything, rather than come here and
j swell the crowd who are clamoring for admission
j to the departments.
Seventy-five dollars looks like a vast sum to out-
| siders. Many a farmer who is considered well off
does not clear half of that; but, my dears, if you
length of railways, which she carried out into j come }j ere you Sn j that the seventy-five dol
Only One of a Family.— Secretary Sherman
says he will not have more than one of a family
in Government Departments, and this has been
carried out strictly when it struck women or
men without influence. Let me call his atten
tion to a fact—yes, a whole family of facts that
have been for years, and are now fattening at
the public crib.
Mr. J. M. McGrew is sixth auditor, and as an
act of obligation to Uncle Sam for holding that
position, he draws $3,600 a year. His son Ben,
in the fourth auditor’s office, draws merely, of
course, as a side speculation, SI, 600. Andrew,
commonly called Andy for short, draws from
the Indian Bureau (which I have some facts on)
$1,200. Burt, the baby of the family, obliges
his country by drawing $1,200. My friend Mc
Grew is unfortunate in not having more sons,
because the family might have had a greater
hold on the public money.—The Capital.
Mrs. Hayes Excluding Wine.—The Saturday
Evening Gall says : It was to have been expected
that the newspapers would make sport of Mrs.
Hayes’ action in reference to the exclusion of
intoxicating drinks at her table. Nowadays
they make sport of everything. But, seriously,
most of them approve it, and accord her a high
degree of praise for the noble stand she has
taken. She has shown a moral courage highly
commendable. If every wife and sister who
believes as Mrs. Hayes does, that intemperance
is a vice which is doing untold evil to our coun
try, will follow her illustrious example, abolish
wine from the dinner table, from parties, New
Year receptions, and every other place where
heretofore the influence of woman has, through
her lack of that moral courage, been brought to
bear to foster and cherish a habit which is so
pregnant of evil results—an amount of good
will be done, the value of which cannot be over
estimated.
He Bit off Her Nose—A Moral.—In our cor
respondents’ column, we have times, without
number, warned onr young female readers to
beware of allowing any advances beyond proper
bounds from the opposite sex, no matter how
soon they are to be united or what may be the
relationship existing between them. But it
never occurred to ns to assign, among other
reasons, the probability or possibility of their
losing their smellers by it, and in failing to do
so we omitted a strong point. But having a
case of the kind in hand, we take the earliest
opportunity of urging it upon their attention.
It would certainly be very damaging to a hand
some face to lose the nose, the central figure,
and we beg all our young lady friends to take
warning from the following case reported in the
telegrams from Iowa. A young lady should
smell a mouse before allowing a young man to
kiss her, for she might not be able to smel him
afterwards:
Dubuque, May 14.—A young lady school
teacher in Allamakee county had a lover whose
affection turned to rage in a singular manner.
Last Tuesday, declining to receive his attention
any more, she gave him the mitten. This sorely
perplexed the young man. He packed up his
duds for leaving the country, but before going,
called at the school to say farewell. After a few
minutes' conversation he requested the favor of
a parting kiss, and reached out to embrace her,
when she struggled, under bashful modesty.
Seizing the opportunity, he drew her face to
his and bit her nose nearly off. The end part,
a good mouthful, hung by the gristle, and was
® ¥ * (1 i n place by a neighboring surgeon. With
the best possible care, she will be disfigured for
the wilderness. In no country, ever before or
since, has such a rush into railway-making ever
been witnessed. Nor did the passion fall on
railways only; docks and canals, elevators and
warehouses, wharves and gigantic stores, were
impelled forward by the same whirlwind. Un
der these impulses she consumed a vast quantity
of food and clothing for laborers. She destroy
ed coal and machinery in making iron. She
fed and rewarded with the contents of her shops
and stores a large army of promoters, engineers,
managers, book-keepers, brokers, bankers, and
other functionaries of every kind. What had
she at the end of the operation ? Long lines of
iron carried over a vast extent of country, holes
made in the ground and tunnels, embankments
and buildings. What all these laborers and
functionaries had eaten, drunken, worn, or used
up as materials, was gone forever; the rails that
replaced this consumption could bring no means
of living till after they were in operation for a
long period. The nation was plunged into pov
erty to the extent of what the railways had de
voured in constructing. In the wilderness there
was no traffic; and even if the lines had been
made in a populous district, many years must
have elapsed before the shops, warehouses and
factories could contain the same identical wealth
as the rails had destroyed.
Up to the extent of the savings of the nation,
expenditure on railways can do no economical
or financial harm; and these invaluable devel
opers of wealth may, on such a basis,Jbe ration
ally acquired for the public good. Any outlay
made out of savings, be it what it may, is inno
cent of mischief; it may do no good, but it does
not impoverish. But what are savings? The
surplus of wealth made over wealth consumed.
If it is turned into capital and applied to in
creased production, the nation becomes richer;
if it is expended on any luxury or any folly, the
nation is where it was. But if the outlay, how
ever wise and ultimately profitable, once passes
the limits of saving, harm instantly begins.
There arises a loss of wealth which is taken
from capital; the means of producing are di
minished; fewer goods are made; there is less
for merchants, with their ships and their rail
way wagons, to exchange; there is less to divide
among the people, poverty has actually set in,
and it may he long before the natiGn is restored
to prosperity.
In England, the collapse is due to the enor
mous expenditure of a few years back in the erec
tion of more factories, work-shops and other in
dustries than home need or foreign demand re
quired.
Germany has exhausted herself by her war
with France of a few years previous. The vast
scale of her war preparations; the labor taken
from the fields and work-shops; the creation,
the armament and maintenance of the immense
numbers of troops, rapidly empoverished the
country, so that commercial distress and par
alyzed enterprise are the consequence.
But the question that most nearly interests
us, is how our own prosperity, which is now at
what seems the lowest ebb, can he made to rise
again. How shall we recuperate ? The condi
tion of one single European country affords the
best clue to a solution of this often uttered ques
tion. France is prosperous. Amid the univer
sal stagnation, France is buoyant and active.
The war with Germany, that has proved the
dearest of victories to the conquering Teuton,
has bean a blessing in disguise to the conquered
Gaul. Says the Review:
The war had been infinitely more oppressive
to France than to Germany, for it had been
waged within her territory. ' She had lost two
valuable provinces and their resources at its
termination. A fine of unheard-of magnitude
had been imposed and paid. Thirty additional
millions of taxation had been added to a budget
already severe. Much of the fixed capital of
the nation, of its factories and machinery, had
been destroyed or injured by the war. Where
could ruin and depression be more naturally
leoked for ? Yet what a spectacle does France
offer to the observer? The piled-up load of
taxation is borne with ease. Her industry is
in full play. No sense of poverty weighs down
the people. Her army is undergoing a thorough
and successful transformation; guns and mili
tary stores—what they cost in these days is
known to all—are swiftly being accumulated.
Great has been the astonishment at Berlin.
Eighteen months ago a violent scare sprang up
in that town; the conqueror fell into vehement
fear of the conquered. Germany awoke from
her dream of security. The great military chiefs
loudly called for a second war to break up an
enemy whom neither defeat nor chastisement
could crush. To what was this most unlooked-
for and most astounding sight due? To the
practice of one of the very greatest of econom
ical virtues. She had saved. Her eight millions
of peasant-proprietors had lifted their country
out of the depths of adversity by invigorated
energy and reduced consumption. If more had
to he paid to the tax-gatherer, the peasant gave
up meat or other indulgences rather than di
minish his means of maintaining his farm or
his vineyard at its former level of efficiency.
Here is a lesson and a stimulus to onr farmers.
The farmers of France have saved their country
from ruin and bankruptcy. By patience, cour
age, industry and endurance they have tided
over the terrible crisis in their national life, and
now have succeeded in placing their country on
a sure basis of prosperity. It required more
heroism than to win a campaign, and it proves
the sterling worth that underlies the surface
frivolity of the French character. Will not our
own farmers imitate these French peasants ?
Will they not by gallantly putting their shoulder
to the wheel, help their country from the slough
of despond ? Let them bend all their energies
to the improvement of their farms. Let them
be open to suggestions; aecepUthe aid of scien
tific knowledge in their agricultural operations; ’
raise abundant food supplies ; consume less j
lars is Dead Sea fruit; and if you only knew how
few lived on that—where and how the surplus
comes is not mine. But listen to me and don’t
come here. Stay at home with the old father and
mother; wear that pink calico you sold eggs to
buy; put a pretty bow in your brown hair, and
marry that nice young man who has been casting
sheep eyes at you, and commence housekeeping
in one room.
As for the men, I wish the text I am preaching
from could fall on the ear of every young man
who ha9 brains and a right arm strong enough to
earn sufficient to keep him in bread and meat, to
keep life in him. I would say to him, “ My friend,
sell your old clothes or work until you earn five
dollars, then start a peanut stand ; do anything
rather than come to Washington.”
The Jews Going Back to Palestine.—The
announcement that Russia has given an invita
tion to the Jews to return to, and re-occupy
Palestine, is attracting attention. The popula
tion of Palestine is double what it was ten years
ago, the new comers being Jews, and chiefly
from Russia. Three years ago such an influx
took place to Saphed, one of the four holy
cities in Galilee, that there were not houses to
receive the immigrants, and many had to camp
out. A plat of giound was sold to them for
twenty times its former price, and building
goes on now by night as well as day. Two little
colonies have settled just outside of Jaffa Gate.
It is evident that a large proportion of the new
emigrants are animated by religious enthusiasm,
though the immediate cause of the movement
now is that until recently no Jew could own
land in Palestine without becoming a Turkish
subject. The divine plan for the Jewish race,
as expounded by the Jewish missionary in Cin
cinnati, Mr. Neil, is that six thousand years of
prevailing evil are now to be followed by a mil-
lenium of 360,000 literal years. It would in
deed be a grand spectacle of the triumph of di
vine justice to see these people re-established in
the world as a nation^ and holding the high j(o-
sition their intelligence entitles them to.
Speech of Pr&Me^t Hayes—Better Times
Coming.—At the annual banquet of the Cham
ber of Commerce of New York, on the loth,
Mr. Hayes said ; “Mr. President, it is a grati
fication to have the opportunity to meet such
an assemblage of the business men of the city
of New York. I wish to make my acknowledge
ments to them for their invitation to enjoy with
them their annual social meeting. I wish to
assure them that this hearty greeting is very
welcome to me. [Cheers.] At peace with all
the nations of the world; with an honest pur
pose on the part of our people and the part of
the government, [Loud cheers.] to strive for
the restoration of the ancient concord within
our own limits, [Hurrahs and great applause.]
I believe that notwithstanding the unfortunate
array of figures which has been disentombed,
we may confidently look for early decidedly en
couraging evidences of reviving business pros
perity throughout our country.”
It has been ascertained beyond question that
invitations to attend the Chamber of Commerce
were sent to Gov. Tilden, Gov. Robinson and
all the leading officials of the State, but they all
declined, lest their presence should seem an in
dorsement of Mr. Haves’ election.
Artificial Stone—A New Era in Building.—
Have you ever seen or heard of men manufac
turing solid granite for building purposes?
They are certainly doing it most successfully,
and our grand old Stone Mountain, which has
so long supplied so much of this material will ere
long be voted entirely out of the ring as too
slow. When a granite block, which would re
quire weeks of patient toil with the hammer and
pick to produce it from the rough state, can be
turned from the moulds in a few hours, more
polished and finished, and of any pattern
which architectural taste may demand, and from
one-third to three-fourths of the cost, we may
safely predict a new era in building.
We have seen the granite and the process.
Mr. J. C. Jamison, who is selling rights under
the patent, has been filling large orders for the
ornamental granite in some of the finest build
ings now in process of erection in this city.
Four parts of sand and one of cement are mixed,
and then moistened with a saponaceous solution
to a proper consistency for the moulds, which
are made to any size or shape, and keyed to
gether. When packed full and hard, these
moulds are taken off and we have a solid block
of granite, which being drenched with water,
becomes as hard and flinty as the granite from
onr mountains and hills. The process is ex
ceedingly simple, but its results are astonish
ing.
Mr. D. B. Ladd, of Atlanta, whom we know to
be a faithful and honorable gentleman, is Mr.
Jamison’s authorized agent for the sale of State,
county and individual rights under Leather’s
patent of June 6, 1876, and No. 178,307.
Mr. Jamison can be addressed at Athens, Ga.,
and we advise all who contemplate building to
communicate with him or Mr. Ladd.
(For the Sunny South.)
This Cruel War, and 0 Them
Names!
The Spibits Exposed.—Our people must not
forget that on Thursday and Saturday nights of
this week Professor S. S. and Clara Baldwin will
bring those troublesome spirits from behind the
scenes, and give ns an introduction to them in
their proper colors. They have long perplexed
the brains of many susceptible subjects, and we
hope Professor Baldwin can relieve them of all
such hallucinations, and make them more con
tent to dwell with mortals. The Professor comes
highly recommended, and his expose will doubt
less he deeply interesting and altogether satis
factory. Those who profess to be mediums per
form some very astonishing feats, as do all skill
ful jugglers, and we should like to see a com
plete exposure of them. The last medium who
recently came along, however, calling himself
Everett, exposed himself thoroughly, and per
petrated the most unblushing swindle ever
known in the way of a public entertainment,
and should have been incarcerated on the spot.
Professor Baldwin need not expose such as he.
Many who were present that night would be
glad of a chance to recover their money. Let
all turn out and witness the exposures promised.
This Turko-Russian war is a cruel piece of
business to more people than the active bellig
erents. What a sad lot, for instance, is that of
the poor telegraph operator who is forced to
wrestle incessantly in pulling off the wires such
diabolical words as Prince Gotoriundchitum-
inderi; and think of the helpless Atlantic cable
under the afflictions, writhing out there in the
lonesome deep. Verily, if I were the signal
service man I should always, in making up my
weather programme, look to these cable convul
sions, and their influence on the tides, etc.
As a conscientious student and observer, of
course I desire to keep abreast of the times, but
this European war is beginning to discourage
me. Daily I retire within my inner closet, and
there, with daily papers and maps and diction
aries ranged around me, begin operations, and
lay siege to these savage Russians and Turks.
But long before I have mastered the position of
the Army of the Upper Tedderwitchorvatvasit-
anyhow, or have understood the battle of Hoop-
lachawumupchin, the afternoon paper arrives
with the news that the forces of General
have crossed the river , and are advancing
upon , and that the Turks near —
are on the rampage, under the leadership of
but the tears begin to well up in
The Geoegia Entespkise.—The May number
of this attractive and popular periodical, devoted
to fruit-growing and the development of home
interests, will appear next week. The proprie
tor had hoped to have it ready in time to attend
the Thomasville fair on the 23d, as his energies
have been directed towards encouraging and
building up such institutions, and he has prom
ised many friends to meet them there. But the
tardiness of correspondents and other circum
stances have deprived him of this pleasure. If
conscientiousness, untiring perseverance, tact,
and devotion to a universally acknowledged
good work, are effective elements in accomplish
ing his ends, Mr. Jenkins’success will he unpar
alleled. He is receiving warm commendations
from the people generally, and his paper richly
deserves the patronage of all those interested
in Southern progress. The May number will
have a new and attractive feature, in addition
to general agricultural information, and letters
from several distinguished writers, which will
make it worth keeping. The price is only ten
cents per copy, and its value is five times this
amount. Newsdealers should order it.
my eyes, and I sigh and sadly leave my papers
and things, wondering what war was invented
for anyhow, and why those bloody beings over
the ocean can’t wait till a fellow can get through
one or two of their names before pitching into
new fights and sending more of their horrible
| etymological sausage machines to grind and en-
j rage him. They fight too fast for me; I am al-
j ready two weeks behind. Alas !
j And then when I look solemn and wise, and
I begin to explain to my friends the “situation,”
I and heave out this nomenclature—well, you may
have had the cramp colic, but you cant correctly
appreciate my feelings, unless, sometime in
your life, you have had a live porcupine turned
loose in your stomach, which, after wandering
around awhile, tried to force its way up your
throat backwards.
And think what scanty opportunities this war
affords the poets. How would “Bingen on the
Rhine” sound rendered:
For I was born at Grnksti,
Fair Gruksti on the Kurgskiviggavondish.
These Russians, in their boasted martial zeal
for the welfare of the Christians in Turkey, evi
dently think nothing of the miseries they are
inflicting on the Christians in the rest of the
world.
Ah, me ! “ when this cruel war is over !”
Quipple Yaebow.
Picnic to the Watek-Woeks.—Last Saturday,
Mr. John McGuire and his Sunday-school
class picnicked to the Atlanta Water-Works,
four miles from the city, starting in the dewy
freshness of the early morning, in an immense
wagon with four strong, spirited horses, and re
turning in the cool, late evening, refreshed by a
day of varied enjoyments, comprising a delight
ful row in a bateau upon the lake-like reservoir,
an examination of the ingenious machinery of
the water-works, a fine dinner, and delicious
rambles in the woods and tete-a-tetes under the
trees. Saturday will long be remembered as a
gala day by the happy party.
The Aie-Line Railboad.—The public verdict
is altogether complimentary to the new manage
ment of this road. Col. Foreacre seems to have
the general confidence of the people, as well as
of the owners of this great line. He is thor
oughly conversant, from long experience, with
all the details of railroad management, and his
great energy will make him a most valuable
man to that corporation.
Mr. Wash Houston, long connected with the
West Point Railroad, is the master of transpor
tation, and is filling the position with distin
guished ability.
The Geoegia Ratleoad.—This great corpora
tion has again reflected credit upon itself by re
electing that great and good man, Col. John P.
King, president; and that faithful and energetic
man, S. K Jonston, superintendent. The in
terests of stockholders could not be placed in
better hands.
Letter from Farmville, Va.
In a journal which calls itself The Sunny
South, it may not be amiss to say a word con
cerning the pretty town of Farmville, now build
ing np more rapidly than any other in the Old
Dominion.” and gathering to itself a population
distinguished for its culture and urbanity.
Prince Edward county has stood Alma Mater
for a full share of the valor and virtue that have
made Virginia famous She gave Gen. Joseph
E. Johnson and General Price to the war, and
she furnished to the more private ranks of the
army a host of noble hearts whose watch-word
was “ ducit amor patricv.” Now it is more than
! probable that her distinguished son, Col. Berke-
ly, will be the next Governor of this State.
Judge Watkins is another peerless and faith
ful son, tried by Ithuriel’s spear and found
faultless as Aristides the Just.
We have here the Prsbyterians and Independ
ents of Cromwell’s time, represented by the
Rev. Mr. Haws, brother of the popular and ad
mired authoress, Marion Harland, and John
Wesley, that seceding star from the Episcopal
Church, by the Rev. Mr, Twitty, and John Bun-
yanis ably represented by the Rev. Mr. Nelson;
though, unlike the rough-featured “Pilgrim,”
this minister has Absalomic beauty of person, a
gift of nature which he cannot help, though it
may smack too much of Vanity Fair for old John
Bunyan. The three churches dwell together in
delightful harmony. The descendants of Knox
and Bunyan are more friendly than Banyan in
his dream ever prefigured, and John Wesley,
with a glow of exceeding beauty from the Old
Church still lingering around his parting steps,
smiles benignantly upon both parties, with a
hand of true fellowship for each one.
The Presbyter}' has been in session here now
for some time. Thirty-five or forty of the Eccle
siastical body were present, and as many of the
Ruling Elders in the various churches. An
august body of learned men they were, filling
the highest positions in the land: Ambassadors
and servitors in a cause, the first announcement
of which caused silence, even in Heaven, “for
the space of half an hour.”
We have a large and flourishing female college
here, conducted by the Rev. Dr. Whitehead, of
the Methodist church. This institution is a
very old one, and is now in a very prosperous
condition. Six or seven miles from here we
have Hamden Sydney College and the Theolog
ical Seminary. Both institutions are filled with
students.
The farmers around here were once wealthy
share-owners, andglived in a state equal to the
feudal barons of old England; and they are
still in more flourishing circumstances than any
of the surrounding counties.
One of our townsmen, it is averred, has dis
covered the secret of perpetual youth, so long
and vainly sought by Ponce de Leon and other
dreamers. His secret is having a pure con
science, and avoiding all matrimonial ties; and
revelling in the society of the rosy-lip and dew-
bright eye of sweet sixteen. He never speaks
to a woman that is twenty-five; declares there
is a care-worn look about her, that is as conta
gious as the small-pox; and that the visages of
care-worn people are not conducive to cheerful
ness, and, par consequence, to good health and
good looks. Much cannot be said for this gen
tleman’s constancy; he has seen many springs,
and every spring trings to him a fresh violet.
More anon from the “Happy Valley,” as I
have named this beautiful place.
Lucy Henby Woods.
For The Sunny South.
Rutherford College, in North Caro
lina, and Professor John Moffat,
the Great Scottish Orator.
Me. Editoe,—This distinguished scholar and
orator of world-wide reputation has consented
to lecture over the Southern States, during the
summer and fall, in the interest of the Ruther
ford College, in Burke county, North Carolina.
This college educates, free of charge, all the
minor children of ministers of all Christian
denominations—also all really indigent orphans;
in fact, all worthy poor who have not the means
of acquiring an education. In twenty-two years
it has instructed one thousand and four such
persons.
During the year 1875 the President borrowed
money and erected a large three-story building
for the accommodation of the increasing pat
ronage. For want of sufficient means, the house
was not completed till March, 1878, when a storm
of wind passed over that section and utterly
demolished the house, involving the college in
a debt of hundreds of dollars. A new building
has been again erected, and to pay for the work
and lumber, and also to pay the debt contracted
for the fallen house, Prof. Moffat has consented
to make the tour of lecturing.
The undersigned has given all his means and
forty-two years of his life to this charitable
work, and now takes the field with Prof. Moffat
to complete this worthy enterprise. As Prof.
Moffat is in his service, he will be pleased to
make arrangements, upon the best of terms,
with societies, temperance organizations, and
associations of all kinds looking to the moral
and intellectual interests of our people. The
subjects upon which the Professor lectures are
the following: “Social Influences,” “Israel’s
Poetic King,” “An Evening with the Poets,”
“The South,” “The Poet Burns,” “Temper
ance in all its Aspects.”
Prof. Moffat delivers Sabbath addresses free.
All who hear him say his lectures on Sunday
are the best of preaching.
The undersigned would he pleased to hear
from parties who may desire to have these lec
tures delivered in their midst. Where a free
house and a congregation of two or three hun
dred people can be had, the admission fee to
hear the lectures will be only twenty-five cents.
This money will go to aid the college.
My address is Happy Home, N. C.
R. L. Abebnethy,
President of Rutherford College.
“The Coming Woman ” was again presented,
by request, on the boards at the barracks on
Saturday evening last, and was witnessed by a
large and delighted audience.
The Rossini Club will give another one of
their splendid concerts on Friday night. A rare
musical treat is expected.
Chicago. — Read Rev. Dr. Harrison on this
fast city—this wicked city.
Handy Interest Rules.
For finding the interest on any principal for
any number of days. The answer in each case
being in cents, separate the two right hand fig
ures of the answer to express it in dollars and
cents:
Four per cent,—Multiply by the number of
days, and divide by seventy-two.
Six per cent.—Multiply by the number of
days, separate the right hand figure, and divide
by six.
Eight per cent.—Multiply by the number of
days, and divide by forty-five.
Nine per cent,—Multiply by the number of
days, separate the right hand figure, and divide
by four.
Ten per cent.—Multiply by the number of
days, and divide by thirty-five.
Twelve per cent.—Multiply by the number of
days, separate the right hand figure, and divide
by three.
Fifteen per cent.—Multiply by the number of
days, and divide by twenty-two.
Eighteen per cent.—Multiply by the number
of days, separatd the right hand figure, and
divide by two.
Twenty per cent.—Multiply by the number of
days, and divide by eighteen.
A Russian colonel gets four hundred dollars a
year, about as much as a section-man on a rail
road.
INSTINCT PRINT