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Rome Still Reaching Out.
Latest accounts report that the track laying
on the Rome & Decatur road lacks 1,800 feet
from Cathey's Gap, which is about fifteen miles
from the city- Ten more miles of rails are on
the cars in Rome.
A Southern Paper in New York.
From New Orleans and New York dispatches
we learn that several prominent Southern
newspaper men have held conferences in New
York in reference to establishing a daily paper
in that city which should be a representative
Southern journal. It would be a good move,
and probably a successful financial enterprise,
if sectional crimination and recrimination and
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Railway Construction.
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months of the present year. Between Janua
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3,754 miles of new main line track besides sev
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A New Story.
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Chattanooga Stretching Southward.
We observe that a syndicate composed of
New York and London hankers has agreed to
furnish the money to build the Chattanooga,
Rome & Columbus railway, and that a com
pany has been organized having in contempla
tion the building of a road from Chattanooga,
up the valley of the Little Chicamauga (known
as McLemore’s Cove, between Lookout and
Pigeon mountain,) in Walker county, to An
niston, Alabama—to be called the Chattanooga
Southern, of which Wm. Crutchfield has been
elected President.
These two lines, if built, will not only be of
great value to Chattanooga, hut, if possible of
yet greater value to Georgia. Both traverse
territory in Georgia and Alabama remarkably
rich in mineral and other natural resources;
and the construction of the line from Chat
tanooga to Columbus will render the building
of the line South from Columbus, via Bain-
bridge to the Gulf a dead certainty—simply a
question of time—affording the surest and
shortest route for Chattanooga and the vast
territory north of and tributary to her to the
Gulf and to Florida, whose western, or Gulf
coast will before many years he the gateway
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Southern Methodist Book Agent.
On the 12th inst. the Southern Methodist
Publishing House Book Committee, on the
twenty-seventh ballot, selected Rev. J. D Bar
bee, D. D., of Nashville, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Dr. J. B. McFerrin.
Before becoming an election, the action of the
committee has to be submitted to the Bishops,
who hold a meeting at the Vanderbilt this
morning.
If the College of Bishops shall confirm the
election of Dr. Barbee, the universal opinion is
that the place of Dr. McFerrin has been well
and wisely filled. The position, we under
stand, is a most important one, he who fills it
being constantly brought before the public in
various ways, besides the responsible duties
immediately connected with the Publishing
House.
For nearly four years Dr. Barbee has been
the pastor of Mclvendree church in Nashville,
ancl he is among the very strongest men in the
church. There is, perhaps, no man in any
profession in this city who can state a proposi
tion with more clearness than he, and when
his premise is once conceded there is no
meeting his logic. He is esteemed as one of
the greatest ornaments of the church he has
served so long and so faithfully.
The people of Fairmount, Indiana, have
adopted an unique method of enforcing prohi
bition in their midst. They have never had a
saloon in their town until recently, and now
conits a report that that one has been blown
up and completely destroyed by dynamite.
This high-handed act is said to be the result of
a determination on the part of the people of
Fairmount to exclude the liquor traffic from
that town.
Mr. Bradshaw, of the Great Head Yacht
Club, sailed his yacht Erminia in the champi
onship pennant regatta with a crew composed
of women. The yacht came in last.
Having a Good Time of It.
They are very much in error who assert that
all people enjoy about the same amount of
happiness. Some people are endowed—we
may say cursed—with temperaments that for
bid them ever to be happy. Others have a
sunniness and elasticity of spirit that enables
them to get no small share of enjoyment out of
the most unlikely surroundings. There are
those, too, who seem to have decided that to
have a good time is what they are here for, and
they bring themselves to the accomplishment
of this purpose with no small force of will.
They do not look upon life as a period when
serious work is to be performed and great pur
poses to be accomplished. They regard not
themselves as active factors in the solution of
the world’s great problems. In schemes for
making humanity more blessed and existence
more sublime in its unselfish aspirations they
take no part nor lot. Their sole concern is to
be amused. Their ambition is to get through
the years with the least pain and the most en
joyment. ’Tisaneasy, pleasant kind of phi
losophy. It will lead to nothing grand or en
nobling in thought or in action. But those of
such temperament that they can yield them
selves to its fascinations, get out of existence
an amount of happiness which the busy and
the anxious cannot but envy.
That men and women should be ambitious—
should be ever dissatisfied with what they have
attained, in their craving for something higher—
is quite needful for the world’s advancement.
Nay, with the great majority of the children of
men the hard struggle for existence precludes
the question of enjoyment. Only the favored
ones can afford to pause in the race, even for a
brief period, that they may look out upon the
world’s scenes of beauty and listen to its pleas
ing sounds. While stopping to see and hear,
they who have to struggle may be pushed aside
and left. A few are endowed with wealth and
not endowed with ambition. These can enjoy
ease and float along upon currents whose gen
tle flow no adverse winds disturb. But those
who find life so very pleasant a scene are not
they who are laboring with hand, heart and
brain for some great purpose. They who suc
ceed in the aim of having a good time of life
forego all the glory arising from a life of use
fulness. * •
mE BUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA. GAm SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 30,1887
MUSINGS OF MY EVENTIDE.
Destructive Fire at Bessemer, Ala.
Early on Wednesday morning (the 20th) a
fire broke out in an upper room in a hotel.
The building was of wood, part of a block of
about twenty, also of wood; and the wood
being quite inflammable and the wind pretty
strong, the entire block was destroyed before
the flames were arrested. The buildings be
longed to the Carolina or New Orleans &
Natchez Improvement Company, and was val
ued at 5^0,000. A number of persons were
seriously injured, hat none, so far as known,
fatally.
Bessemer, it will he remembered, is a new
town, just sprung np by magic, as it were, in
the woods, abont twelve miles south of Bir
mingham. The seriousness of the loss is not
to be estimated by the comparatively small
sum involved.
Snow Storm and Sunstroke.
A London dispatch dated the 19th says that
snow storms have been raging recently in
Switzerland among the mountains and news is
recqi,vpd of the loss of a party of six tonrists,
Including three sons and-the-director of Zurich
College. Several relief parties have been sent
to search for them, but without success.
On the same day in the United States the
thermometer stood at one hundred in the
shade, in the forenoon, and in many parts of
the country was followed in the afternoon by
storm clouds which hurst with terrible fury,
with thunder rolling, the lightning flashing, and
the wind blowing a gale, accompanied with
rain and hail. Lightning struck trees and
houses and played havoc with the telegraph,
electric light and telephone wires, causing con
siderable fright as it popped and snapped
around.
A Syndicate to Buy Peru.
One of the boldest strokes of business enter
prise on record is the contract very recently
made by a speculating company to shoulder
the complete national debt of Peru, estimated
at about $200,000,000, in return for valuable
national franchises. The company, composed
to a great extent of bondholders, (among
whom are ex-Mayor Grace, of New York, and a
younger brother, who is credited with having
negotiated the contract,) will secure control
over seven hundred miles of railroad for a pe
riod of sixty^six years. For the same term
the company will have the mines of all the gu
ano product not already provided for, and of
one-haft of that provided for in the treaty
with Chili. Subject to various taxes, the com
pany will work perpetually mines of coal and
of the useful and precious metals. The com
pany may choose four million acres of land
within four years, and an additional bounty of
four hundred acres for every family brought
into the country. The managers of the com
pany estimate that an outlay of $12,000,000
will be required during the next five years.
The national Congress will consider the con
tract in less than a month, and no doubt of a
prompt ratification is expressed.
Secresy About Engagements.
Parties who are purposing to marry usually
try to keep the matter a secret to the latest
day possible. This is not very easy to do.
However sly a young man may he, the fact
that he is visiting a young lady with matrimo
nial intentions Is almost sure to transpire.
Speculation becomes rife as to the probable
issue, and the more discerning are apt to per
ceive the direction of the wind. Often a whole
community are apprised that a couple is going
to wed, when they think that they are keeping
it all to themselves. At this stage it is no
uncommon thing for some “tall lying” to be
done by the persons who ere going to marry
and by their families. They will, not unsel-
dom, make the most innocent expressions of
ignorance even after preparations for the mar
riage feast are well nrxtar way. Having chos
en the plan of keeping the matter secret, some
fibbing is almost unavoidable. The imperti
nently curious are almost sure to ask ques
tions that are “Hard to get around” if you do
not wish to tell the plain truth. “You are
about to have orange blossoms at your house,’’
some one will say with a knowing smiie. It
would be very easy to shame the devil by a
plain “yes, I suppose so.” But almost un
consciously there pops out the conventional
falsehood, “not that I know of,” which is
spoken without the faintest hope of deceiving.
We cannot help thinking this attempt at se
cresy both unnecessary and unwise. While a
courtship is uncertain in its issue, there is good
reason for not allowing it to become a subject of
gossip. The young man does not wish it to be
known that he has wooed without winning,
and the young lady fears, even up to the mo
ment of declaration, that the devoted attention
may he but her gallant’s amusement. But when
the affair has reached so serious a point as an
engagement, it is better that it should be
known. If openly declared it will be talked
about far less than when passed from mouth
to mouth as a great secret. Paui Pry will care
nothing about looking into a room thrown
open to his gaze. There is, however, with
people as much fondness for having se
crets, as for inquiring into them. This is the
true explanation of persistence in a practice
which involves no small amount of inconve
nience, to say nothing of evasion and false
hood. * *
The Doctrine of Averages.
Buckle had strong faith in what is known as
“the doctrine of averages,” and in his “History
of Civilization in England” he assumes that
human actions and social phenomena are gov
erned by laws as fixed and unalterable as those
which rule the physical world. To establish
this theory he asserts that in a given number
of years, in a given population, the number of
suicides, murders and other crimes will he
about the same each year. In other words,
that the number of such crimes will not vary
appreciably one year from another. There
seems to be some foundation for this theory in
the number of accidents occurring on the rail
roads in Great Britain in the years 1885 and
1886, which have recently been compiled from
official sources and published by the Board of
Trade of L radon. Here are some of the com
parative results:
Passengers injured -
Railroad servants killed - -
Railroad servants injured
Persons killed at crossings -
Persons injured at crossings -
These figures show a marvelous uniformity
between the casualties of the two years, while
the totals of the killed and wounded of passen
gers, railway servan’s and others show a like
uniformity, thus:
1885.
1886.
- - 102
95
- 1,129
1,342
- - 438
421
- 2,036
1,929
- - 58
81
- - 21
25
1885.
1886.
938
3,467
3,539
4,424
4,477
ivilled - - - - ~
Injured - - - -
Total - - - -
It will strike the reader as remarkable that
there should he such slight variations in the
casualties on the railroads of an entire nation;
and it is said that a like uniformity is shown
by the statistics of casualties on the railroads
of the United States and other countries.
These statistics certainly give a good deal of
force to Buckle’s theory.
A journeyman shoemaker in Bingen (on the
Rhine) has invented a water velocipede, with
which he has made successful trial trips, and
which promises to lead to a regular aquatic
sport.
A Sense of Duty.
It is said of the first Napoleon that he had
no apprehension whatever of any other motives
of human action than the love of money, the
love of glory and fear. The man who was
controlled by no one of these was to him in
comprehensible. He could not take in the
idea that one would do an unpleasant thing
because it was right or refuse to do a pleasant
thing because wrong. It must, we fear, he ad
mitted that he did not meet a great many who
were much above his estimate of human na
ture. The number of men with whom duty is
the primary consideration, is not large. With
the vast majority,-it stands second, third or
even fourth. Of those who claim that it ranks
all other motives, we fear the greater number
are insincere. Our public men, for instance,
are wont to speak much of their regard for
duty, and we are not prepared to allege that
this has no place in their minds. Bat they
rarely, we apprehend, seek positions of power
merely, or even mainly, that they may benefit
their fellow citizens. In front of this stands
the desire for gain and glory. Neither of these
is a base motive. One should desire remuner
ation for the work that he does for the public
as much as for the work he does for private in
dividuals. There is nothing at all amiss in
one’s craving praise and honor for what he
does well. The occasion for censure comes in
from his not making these motives secondary
to the desire to do good. A minister of the
gospel is severely blamed whenever it crops
out that he is more concerned about the fleece
than the flock, and the blame is altogether just.
But the lawyer who is mor# concerned about
getting a fee than about securing justice for
his client, is just-fl® deserving of censure. The
physician should certainly be paid for his ser
vices; hut he is un worthy of his calling if a
sympathy for human suffering and a desire to
lessen ittedoes not overshadow his wish to
make money. The farmer assuredly plants
and cultivates that he may fill store-house and
barn; but his foremost incentive to labor should
be a desire to feed the hungry and clothe the
naked. Many, as we said in the outset, do
subordinate duty to other considerations.
But these will never rise to the highest type of
manhood. They commit the unwisdom of
acting from a lu if, groveling motive when they
might he acting from a higher one. * *
Trances and Death.
Dr. W. A. Hammond, formerly Surgeon-
General of the United States Army declares
that “there is no excuse for any one being
buried alive,” and his reason for this asser
tion is because “the tests have been brought
down to such a point that any competent phy
sician would have no difficulty in accurately
determining whether or not death had taken
place.” And yet physicians whose standing
in the profession stamps them as “competent,”
have been deceived in regard to this matter.
Only a few weeks ago we printed the particu
lars in regard to the supposed death of a young
man in Providence, R. I., who was pronounced
dead by two or three physicians, but was
saved from premature burial by his brother,
also a physician, who persistently refused to
allow the burial to take place. So that even
doctors of repute are liable to be deceived by
appearances which seem to indicate death.
There is one infallible indication of death, and
that is that decomposition invariably takes
place shortly after the body dies. This is an
indication about which there could, or should,
he no mistake by a physician; and in the ab
sence of this indication a person supposed to
he dead should not be buried.
Dr. Hammond expresses the belief that peo
ple are sometimes buried alive, hut that “it is
not by any means of frequent occurrence—not
nearly so freouent as some people imagine;”
and he frankly confesses ’hat “the physician
is entirely to blame when it does occur.” The
fact that bodies have been found turned over
in their coffins, which leads many to believe
that such persons were buried alive, is not re
garded by Dr. Hammond as conclusive by any
means; but it is probably the work of the gases
ooming from the bodies. Pent up in a coffin,
Dr. Hammond says, these gases become very
powerful, and it is almost singular that they
Jo not move bodies around more than they do.
“Then,” it was said to him, “you do not take
any stock in the stories of men who come to
life under the ground, of their terrib’e strug
gles to get free, and their horrible death at
last." To which he replied:
That’s ail bosh. Poe wrote of graveyard’s
trembling with the struggles of the buried
alive. That’s all bosh, too. When people are
buried alive, as they certainly have beeD, they
never wake up to know it. When in a trance-
state their vitality must be so weak that when
they begin to regain consciousness and attempt
to breathe they die of suffocation immediately,
and never know that they came to life again.
Buried for dead, they practically are dead.”
Touching the possibility for men to get into
trances that could be mistaken for death, Dr.
Hammond expresses this opinion:
“Yes; it is quite certain that an apparent
cessation of all the vital functions may take
place without the entire loss of vitality, which
would leave the organism in the coLdition of a
dead body, to be speedily disintegrated by the
operation of chemical or physical agencies.
The state of syncope is at times so complete
that the heart’s action can not be perceived,
nor any respiratory movements be observed,
all the power of movement being for the time
abolished, and yet recovery has spontaneously
taken place, which could scarcely be the case
if all vital action had been suspended. The
best authenticated case of this kind is that of
Col. Townsend, that occurred in the early part
of this century, and of which the world has
about lost sight. It is described by Dr. Ceorge
Cheyne, who was an eye-witness. He says
the Colonel possessed the remarkable faculty
of throwing himself in a trance at pleasure.
The heart ceased apparently to throo at his
bidding; respiration seemed at an end. His
whole frame assumed the icy chill and rigidity
of death, while his features became colorless
and ghastly, and his eyes fixed and glazed.
Even his mind cers d to manifest itself, for
during the trance it was willingly as-devoid of
consciousness as his body of animation. A
polished mirror held before his mouth was not
ia the least dimmed. The physicians were
about leaving him for dead, when there were
signs of returning animation. He came back
slowly to perfect life again after being in the
trance-state for half an hour.”
Western Arkansas.
Of late there has been great activity in Wes
tern Arkansas, as well as in other parts of the
South—both in real estate transfers, and rail
way construction. Early in July a $48,000
deal was consummated between the St. Louis
& San Francisco and Fort Smith & Southern
railways. The Fort Smith & Southern, for the
above consideration, reliquishes to the St.
Louis & San Francisco all its rights and privi
leges, and thirteen miles of road finished and
equipped.
But the largest single sale of property yet
made at Fort Smith, was that of a tract ad
joining the city consisting of 150 acres, to a
New York syndicate, at $500 an acre, or $57,-
500. The tract lies one mile from the busi
ness centre of the city, on the summit of a
gradual incline, and presents a beautiful view
of the city and surroundings for many miles. It
is the intention of the purchasers to build a
line of street railway through it. Surveyors
are at work laying it out in town lots, aud
choppers and graders are at work grading
streets and cutting out undergrowth so as to
bring it into the market. Lots here will no
doubt be in big demand.
We read of an old woman “up North” who
objects to seeding girls to Vassar College.
What “with their coats and vests and jockey
hats,” she says, “women is enough like men
new, ’thout makin’ bachelors of ’em.”
Bishop Pierce; Man and Book.
BY REV. A. A. LIPSCOMB, D. D.
FORTIEIH PAPER.
I.
The Rev. Dr. Haygood, in the introduction
to the Sermons and Addresses by Bishop
Pierce, says: “Three characteristic sermons
of Dr. Lovick Pierce are included in this vol
ume.* It was not a habit of the Doctor to
write his discourses and it is almost certain
that he never delivered one from manuscript.
Had he written more sermons, I doubt not,
that the “masterful discourses,” as Dr. Hay-
good very properly designates them, would
have had an enhanced value. I do not sup
pose that the pen would have enslaved his
free and eloquent tongue, or that, in any re
spect, the custom of memorizing would have
hampered his muscles and nerves in reading
off the pulpit effort from his brains. A manu
script recited from the memory, - or from the
written page before the preacher, is liable to
the same objection. It is always cramping,
abates force, and hinders the fluent grace of
naturalness. But, while Dr. P. was a singular
ly ready and effective speaker, I doubt not,
that his abilities, if disciplined by the pen,
would have been less laxative to him, and of
more permanent value to the country and the
church. The pen, rightly used, is the best ed
ucator of the tongue. That is infallible truth.
This volume of 394 pages reflects credit on
all concerned. Dr. Haygood, the editor, has
made an admirable selection from the manu
script and other documents at command, and
has presented what Dr. Quincy used to call a
characteresque book. Much the larger part of
the work is devoted to Sermons and Addresses
by the Bishop, but the grouping on the can
vas, with the concentration of the light, is so
well managed, that it combines the merits of
portrait and historical painting. Apart from
this, the juxtaposition of two so eminent in the
Methodist pulpit and such fine models of the
beautiful and nobis uses of talent aud charac
ter, is highly advantageous to a critical reader,
who will find delight and profit in studying
how far the elder and the younger Pierce are
alike, and, to what extent, the unlikeness helps
the similarity. Such an instance of resem
blance, shading off from heredity into personal
difference, strikes me as a most interesting
subject for analytic investigation. And for
one, I confess, that I much prefer to
see Mont Blanc and the Aiguille Verte
in Alpine nearness rather than the
Peak of Teneriffe rising from the soli
tude of the sea in its majestic isolation. “The
blood is the life thereof,” and I like to see the
blood transmitted, as in this typical case, from
a great father to a great son. The old Doctor
lived over ninety years, but, in a dual sense,
subordinate to peronality proper, how loDg did
he live in the Bishop, and what shall we say of
the interblended years that have claimed their
right of more perfect unity! Threescore, four
score added scores are in silent Psalms.
II.
I have only space enough allowed me in
these “Musings” to dwell on “Learning and
Religion,” the first address in the volume.
And the place becomes it, for, in various re
spects, it was a type of his best efforts. The
subject was always an inspiration to his finest
mutuality of emotional and intellectual thought;
and never did John Ruskin or Henry Ward
Beecher lay a more insistaut stress on the in
timate and absolute union of pure ideas aud
pure passions as the supreme need of talent
and culture, with character and conduct,
than the Bishop did whenever occasion of
fered. Often as I heard him (and, at times,
disappointingly), I rested complacently on the
inward assurance of a splendid outcome, if
his path led him to this fertile source
of his genius. On these themes, howevt r he
might lapse from his high estate by accidental
moods, he was uniformly up to his normal
measure. The s.,ul of the man, Christian and
patriot to the core, would instantly equip all
the warrior’s energies, “happy as a lover” in
Wordsworth’s famous poem, and he was quite
transfigured when he uttered a passage like
this: “But for the purpose of restramt, knowl
edge is nugatory. There is no moral quality
in intellect; there is no moral quality in sci
ence. While I would scout with indignation
the doctrine that‘ignorance is the mother of
devotion,' I am far from believing that learn
ing is favorable to piety, unless the process by
which it is acquired is strictly, literally, relig
ious education. To develop the resources of
mere mind is but to furnish incitements to
pride, increase to vanity, facilities to wicked
ness; it is to train soldiers for battle, and pro
vide ammunition for the war which error
wages with truth; man’s rough nature may he
softened into humanity, and the uncouthness
of his manners polished into grace; the can
nibal may become a man, the moral brute a
reasoning slave, but the same vices and the
same depravity modified and civilized perhaps,
which belong to a more rude and savage state,
will still nestle ia his heart, and leave the
venom of their nature on everything their
suakish teeth do touch.”
Now, I call this sound English In soundest
strength of thought and style, and I like it as
a good specimen of the Bishop’s wonderful gift
of rich, sonorous, and picturesque language.
Yet, there is nothing of the siusher—nothing
of the foamy sensationalist—nothing of the
buncome or high-falutin. All his elaborate
passages are exquisite models of the most ap
proved forms of the English sentence. One
rarely finds him indulging in the pomp of
Johnson or of Cicero. Nor had he an excep
tionally great range, nor had he much versa
tility, but he perfectly understood his own
limits, cheerfully obeyed their boundaries,
and, within his “native heather,” it
would have been hard to find one whose elo
quence was more genuine, scholarly, and, in
the best sense, popular.
III.
In this Address (Learning and Religion), the
Bishop says: “Let us. then, reach the doc
trine, apply the motives, and enforce the
morals, of the Inspired Volume, and the annu
al revolutions of times, which shall evolve from
these literary retreats, virtuous citizens if not
pious saints. As the tree of knowledge was
the original instrument of temptation, let us
remember in all our aspirations after learning
that, as the society of the world approximates
nearer and nearer to that state when men are
governed by opinion rather than by law, it
becomes more and more necessary that the
process of education should become a living or
ganism, instinct with the spirit and power of
our holy religion.”
Moreover, his life corresponded, in the full
actuality of zealous labors, with this lofty ideal
of “learning and religion.” As President of
Emory College at one period, and of the insti
tution now known as Wesleyan Female Col
lege, and as an active and most useful member
of the board of trustees of the University of
Georgia, his great services—amounting to many
years of devotion—were highly appreciated by
the good people of the State.
I must crowd into this paper the closing par
agraphs of this celebrated address. But I trust
that many of our young people, to whom this
finely-endowed man is becoming a tradition of
power and blessing, will study and assimilate
the sermons and addresses of the great and
good Bishop. I am glad that Dr. Haygood has
produced such productions of the Bishop, in
the best style of his zenith days, as the dis
course on “Christ and Him Crucified” and the
platform address on “Learning and Religion.’
By comparing the thinker and the orator in
these two efforts the student reader—if the
blood in his arteries and brain vessels is fully
charged with electric vitality—will get quite a
complete and compassing view of the Platform
Pierce and the Pulpit Pierce. Hearing him
often in his finest efforts through a space of
twenty-five years, I close this essay with the
remark that these two efforts are to be regard
ed as the most magnificent in his career as a
preacher and as a platform speaker. If one
star differeth from another star in glory, it is
also true that the same star sometimes out
shines itself.
Wee Willie Cottage, Ga.
* “Bishop Pierce’s Sermons and Addresses,”
with a few special disc nurses by Dr. Pierce.
Edited by Rev. A. G. Haygood, D. D., L L. D.
Nashville, Tenn., S. M. Pub. House, 1887.
In spite of all efforts to the contrary, heart
less cruelty to animals continues. Mention
having been made in a Louisville paper of a
ninety-nine year old Kentuckian who has nev
er run for office, and the same paper contain
ing an item about a mule claimed to he one
hundred years old, a contemporary suggests
that “the two items refer to the same individ
ual.” This may be regarded as a case of wan
ton cruelty to animals. Where’s Bergh?
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The McGlynn incident is causing much un
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which McGlynn’s excommunication has been
treated by his parishioners, it is feared, will
cause the curse scene in Richelieu to fall flat.
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so demoralizing as fishing, because of the
temptations to falsify forced upon the victim.
Three years undisturbed possession of a setter
dog will destroy the veracity of the best man
in America.
The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette rises to
ask: “With microbes in the drinking water,
tyrotoxicon in the ice cream, malaria in wa
termelons, Bright’s disease in beer and paraly
sis in ice tea, wherewithal may the thirsty soul
refresh itself in summer time!”
Howard credits Inspector Byrnes with hav
ing worked such a change in Wall street that
not a ten cent piece has been taken from there
by a professional thief in three months. Prob
ably not, but how many railroads have been
stolen in Wall street in that period!
The champion receiver lives in Washington.
After working three years over the books of a
bankrupt concern, he has found out that there
are only enough assets to pay the creditors
one cent on the dollar. He is undoubtedly an
exceptionally able receiver. The time of his
departure for Canada has not transpired.
The Nashville American announces the death
in that city of Mrs. Jane Marshall, who, that
paper says, “was a sister of Mrs. Judge Cat
ron, the famous jurist, who rose to a seat on
the Supreme Bench.” The reports are singu
larly reticent as to the decisions rendered by
this judge.
A medical journal says that “going to bed
on an empty stomach is a good way to invite
sleeplessness.” Another medical authority
says that “eating just before retiring prevents
sleep ” Now, what shall one do! Must a
body go to bed without one’s stomach in order
to get a good sleep? The duration of the
“sleep” invests the alternative with intense in
terest.
Old newspaper men never miss a chance to
make a point—he sticks to his colors, even in
the penitentiary—though one seldom gets
there. Ross Raymond is in Sing Sing, and
has kept his mind busy by writing up the dis
tinguished gentlemen who are now wearing
the uniform of that great reformatory. Ross
says New York has more brains in Sing Sing
than in her Legislature. Ross is there him
self, you know.
A South-West Georgia negro declares that
Congressmen are a curse to the country. “Dar
wuz a time,” says "he, “w’en de watermillion
gro’d close to de fence, but dis here long an’
short haul bizness is made de farmers plant
em in de middle ob de fiel', an’ w’en er nigger
wants a watermillion w’at aint bis’n, de hawl’s
so long he's libeled to be cotched. I’m er gin
de Congressmen fum dis time fo’th.”
Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, is getting
ready to introduce his educational bill as soon
as Congress meets. The bill was first intro
duced six years ago, and provided for a dis
tribution of $105,000,000 in ten years. Three
years afterwards the Senate reduced the
amount to $77,000,000, to be distributed in
eight years, and passed it. The following
year it added $2,000,000 with which to build
school houses. Neither the Blair hill nor the
Willis bill, which was a substitute for it, ever
passed the House. Senator Blair can be de-
pended upon to push the bill as long as he re
mains in the Senate, but it is by no means
certain that he wifi succeed in getting it passed.
You are frightened at that loud, roaring
noise, are you? Think it’s an earthquake be
cause it jars the windows, hey? Well, it isn’t—
it’s simply a prominent citizen down at the
court house paying his taxes. He has found
out that they are $1.75, and he is making all
that noise about it. He paid $15 for cigars last
month and his bar bill was $40, and only last
week he was fined $10 for being drunk and
and disorderly, and he paid all these things
and never even a little roar—not even a growl.
But, great Scott! listen to him now when he
finds his taxes are $1.75! Just hear him howl!
He says the government, general and local, is
a fraud and a snare and a delusion. Taxes
$1.75! He won’t stand it! He knows when he’s
oppressed and ground down! A dollar and
seventy-five cen(p for a whole year’s taxes!
Great heavens, he says, no wonder men are
Socialists!—Dakota Bell.
Hon. R. M. T. Hunter Dead.
Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, died at
his home, Fount Hill, Essex county, Va., on
the 18th inst.
Mr. Hunter was bom in Essex county, Vir
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to Congress in 1837, and in 1839 was elected
Speaker of the House of Representatives. He
was elected Senator for the term beginning
March 4th, 1847, and in 1849 was made chair
man of the committee on finance, which posi
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cussions of that period. He was ballotted for
for presidential candidate at the Democratic
Convention in Charleston in 1860—on several
ballots receiving the next highest vote to Mr.
Douglas. He was a leading secessionist, and
in July, 1861, was formally expelled from the
United States Senate. He succeeded Mr.
Toombs as Confederate Secretary of State, but
was soon elected to the Confederate Senate,
and, with Stephens and Campbell, was ap
pointed to confer with President Lincoln and
Mr. Seward to negotiate for peace. He was
arrested and imprisoned after the war, was
liberated on parole, pardoned by President
Johnson, served as treasurer of Virginia sev
eral times, and made an unsuccessful race for
U. S. Senator in 1874. Since then he has been
in private life. In the death of Mr. Hunter
Virginia loses another one of the truest, ablest
and worthiest of her citizens.
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