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V ; 034> SmiES-^OL. -VI. NO. 47.{Si _. R FKEFMAS, Editor * Proprietor. r ( . ■ * j KTfffUJl ran . : *. •-• >.j» ? • CEDARTOWN, GA.,’FEBRUARY- a, 1880. * lUKSJfJSSIWJUJWfi*. ids to actions: h won dsiaaq S! M TSK*t«jd ivtwtmo wt) to tort jf!=Mrf» ate f niwn|s.<'> bi’4 » W*| ! - i- •••- '■ r — !r»ri«i j -{<« bnbmoil wt'* fads ri Tl * ' 1 ‘ * — ~ is wjluu*. L"TS" tmdrteK M. Bertillon, the French savant, says that the number of suicides in France i* Rb tho-rate Of 628 per l,OOOj(Mjd for.widower^, 273 for bachelors and 249 for married men. : It yrill be poted from these fibres Jhat less married men.com* mit suicide than either bachelors or wid- Alexander Jenkins and Ed. Jenkins, I Little Bock Gazette: George Harvey on examining trial at Bastrop, Texas, for a citizen of Faulkner county, says that ° *1,1 1 i-m I 1 n»n tnm man /oQVrwu T/T nifi The efforts of Horn Pedro to increase the. imjwrialtyevjjpnes have been mgt by resistance in Bio, the people objecting to a head tax on street-car passengers. Besides constructing a new system of internal taxation, the -Brazilian Finance. Minister lias recently produced a new taSH£hf$i prohibitory to a great jJ' e 0 f his church, extent, and will bear heavily on foreign commerce, especially articles from the United States, . -■ ■ . i the shooting of the McDonald brothers, were released on a bond of $2,000 each. Some of this best citizens of the county volunteered to ga on their bonds. The ice factory in New Orleans has introduced a new way of shipping fish, >articularly red - snappers. They are dozen in cakes of ice, or rather cake3 of ice are frozen around the fish, and in this condition they axe forwarded to all sections of the 'country. Wilmington (N. C.) Star: Sheriff Manning t ransferred the ten dollars al lowed him by law' for the hanging _of Allen Mathis to Rev. J. W. FrKrijf St. Stephen’s - A. M. E. church, one ’ of the 1 spiritual advisers of the doomed niaJi, for The widow of ex-President Tyler has asked Congress for a pension, on the grounds of the immense,depression in the valued f her real estate, the mortgage ' on her northern property having been foreclosed; and those on her. southern property constantly troubling her. She says: “ I find I have scarcely anything whatever left to live upon. The Duke of Argyll, who made brief visit to this country last summer, thinks the extravagance of our rich peo ple exceeds anything known to the na bobs of the old world. Would the duke know why ? Well, the most of our rich people are not used to being rich. Af ter all, the extravagance of . the rich is not to be deplored. It is the extrava gance of the poof people that breeds mis ery- ___________ „ -.SOUTHERN NEWS. Charlotte, N. C., has twenty-two licensed bar rooms and twelve churches. The coal- fislds of Alabama are estimat ed to contain 52,000,000,000 bushels of coal. The venerable oaks in the court house yard at Americus, Ga., are filled with mistietoe. “At one fell swoop” twenty-five appli cants have been admitted to the South Carolina bar. During the last three months over 1,000 negroes have left the depot at West Point, Mississippi. Over 500 mules arrived in Atlanta Monday night, and all of them were sold next day. .Of the 134 members of the two houses of the Louisiana Legislature, only thir teen are Republicans. The Fish Commissioner of.Georgia is distributing a large shipment of carp in the streams of that State. The State Lunatic Asylum of South Carolina, contains 375 patients, of wh- 252 are white and 123 colored. There are 100 prisoners in the jail in Knox county, Tenn., awaiting trial by the United States Circuit Court. The monthly income of the Police Court at Little Bock, Ark., is $700, a sum sufficient to pay the police force A great mauy cattle are dying in Cherokee county, Texas. Their death is supposed to be caused by eating acorns. The South Carolina Board of Agricul ture has permanently employed a chem ist that a uniform analysis of commercial fer ilizers may be obtained. Tue annual report of the Mayor of Shreveport, La., shows that during the past year the revenue of the city exceed ed itft-expenditurcs $139.56. North Carolina has six newspapers edited by negroes, Louisiana three, Ten nessee and Texas two each, and Virginia, Alabama and Mississippi one eaeh. Henry S. Noble, of New Jersey, has purchased 2,100 acres of Lick Mountain land in Virginia, with a view of devel oping its great coal and iron deposits. One t.hoaisand tons of granite has re cently been sent from quarries near Col umbia, S. C., to 'Washington City, to be used in some of the public buildings. The Emmet Benevolent A sociation of Galveston, Texas, has appropriated $100 to be sent to the Irish Land League in Ireland, for distribution among -the po r in that country. Terrell county, Ga., is out of debt and has $2,000 in f-e treasury besides. As a result, the price of real estate has ad vanced nearly fity per cent in the last year. Baylor Thornton, a subordinate officer in the Virginia House of Delegates, is under arrest for abducting and commit ting an outrage upon a young lady of Richmond. The Waring plan of sewerage has been unanimously adopted by the Legislative Council of Memphis. Whether the pipes shall be iron, brick or vitrified is yet to be determined. The Savannah and Charleston Rail road is to be sold on the first Monday in June next by a decree of Judge Aldrich, of the Court of Common Pleas, of Charleston county, S. C. Two young men in San Saba . county, Texas, named Harkev and Barbee, en gaged in a fight with pistols, which proved fatal to both. Harkev was shot four times and Barbee once. ' Memphis Avalanche: Off the rotting Nickolson pavement the streets are prac tically impassable for vehicles, unless empty, and even then there is no cer tainty of pulling through without an ac cident. The rapidity with which the new sew ers of Memphis will be constructed will depend on the promptness of the tax payers. The first installment of the special tax for ‘.his purpose will be due February 1. New Orleans Times: Most of the far mers of Lincoln parish now raise all their own meat. Unfortunately, all who had killed thiir cattle in the earlier part of the win to have had the meat spoil on their hands. Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen: The unpre cedented varrn weather and the late rains are laving the effect to injure seri ously thegrowing wheat. Its effects are apt to tel in the yield, however fortu nate the changes that may come. At Bmtsville, Texas, J. J. Elkins, ex Sheriff of Walker county, Texas, was shot aid killed by Peter Greer, a farmer. The hooting was the result of a per sonal difference which has long existed between the parties. jelma Times: Doctor J. H. Henry is preparing an elaborate anil exhaustive piiiphlet on the gold fields of Alabama. AtSan Diego, Tex., a party of masked men took possession of the county jail and 1 jailer and released five prisoners. Two prisoner;- w - ere left in jail—one a woman charged with perjury and one a lunatic committed for murder. The whole affair is enveloped in a gr^at deal, of mystery. The New Orleans Times estimates that at least two-thirds of the available lauds of Louisiana are lying idle, or rather, have never been brought into cultiva tion. The legislature now in session will be strongly urged to adopt some lib eral provision for the encouragement of immigratien.. Judge G. T. Harris, of Georgetown, Texas, while returning home on horse back from a neighboring town, was stopped after nightfall by three men and robbed of $2,400. The robbers were well armed, and are supposed to be the men who have recently committed several outrages in Bosque county. Memphis Appeal: The work of sew erage will be commenced within a week. Hundreds of poor people will secure la bor thereby. Ten thousand dollars scat tered among the laboring people is of more financial value to our city than could possibly be derived from* $1,000,- 000 locked up in our banks. In Dallas, Texas, a merchant abused a little boy named Etheridge for walking on stilts in front of his st re, claiming to be annoyed thereby. Mrs. Etheridge came to the reseue, and received several blows from a stick in the hands of the merchant, when she drew a pistol and wounded him in the forehead. It has been estimated by reports re ceived at the Agricultural Department of Georgia that eighty per cent, of the farmers who raise their own supplies make money by farming. Seventy-five per cent, of those who give liens and mortages and pay high rates of interest on supplies fail to make expenses. Last week thirty-two families of col ored exodusters to Kansas, who had gone from the southern counties of Texas, passed through Dallas returning home. Their home passage was paid by the farmers in the counties, in which they had left, on the condition that they would work for them at specified rates Savannah News: A new way of avoid- ing tire dntj- of ocr-ring tire country ae a juror now is to establish a branch house in some other city, and when summoned, take an affidavit that you are not a citi zen of the county. A dealer who has been doing business in Savannah for about twelve years adopted this plan. New Orleans Times: As regularly as the sun shines, every year the colored la borers in Terrebonne parish break up and move from one plantation to another ; in fact, there is a general changing of hands. There is apparently no reasonable cause for this periodical moving, and the col ored people themselves give no explana tion of their conduct. several nights ago two men came to his house and asked for supper. His wife had gone to Bed. He informed the men -of this fact, but they told him that un less supper was prepared they would burn his house. Mrs. Harvey prepared supper, and, after the men had eaten, they demanded"money. Mr. Harvey had none. Then they searched the house, and, finding ho. mitaey, carried away a brace of silver-mounted deringers. They were evidently tramps. Charlotte <N. Q.) Observer: Recent ly a large number of negroes, probably 200, have passed through Charlotte en route, to the tupentine fields of Georgia, which are now being extensively devel oped, They come from the piny woods regions of North Carolina,-and are gen erally an able-bodied set. The last party, composed of about120, passed down the road day before yestjrday. It is stated that quite a number left the State for the same destination last year. They are prefered to the Georgia laborers on account of their experience and knowledge of the turpentine business. Dallas (Texas) Herald: A number of colored people who had gone from this state to Kansas, returned last night on the south-bound passenger train over the Central road. They numbered thirty- three, men, women and children, and had gone from Washington county. They stopped at Parsons, and were thoroughly disgusted with the country and the promises that had been held out to them, and were glad to get back. Sandy Osborn, who appeared to be the leader, said that those of his race who could, were leaving every day, and there was great suffering among those who re mained. Dr. C. M. Vaiden has made a gener ous offer, either to the legislature of Mississippi of the various churches of the state, proposing to $50,000 towards the erection # of a college at Vaiden, provided that either the churches or the lawmakers will give the other $5,000 required. It is likely the churches will accept the offer. Savannah (Ga.) News: H. G. Ev erett, who was yesterday admitted to plead and practice in the several courts in Georgia, has been working at his trade—that of a carpenter, at the Cen tral railroad car-shops—up to the 1st inst. He is a married man, and thirty- two years of age, and certainly displayed indomitable perseverance in acquiring the rudiments of the law while support ing himself and family. The .Tewi^i young ladies of Chatta nooga, Tenn., organized ajleap-year party, hired a hall, ordered a supper, and went around in carriages to hunt up the young men to compel them to come in. Every thing was lovely until the committee went to. settle the bills, when they learned that the young men had already paid them. The young ladies say now that it was “ real mean ” in the boys, and declare that they will never give another leap-year party. Lynchburg (Va.) News: A gentle man brought us a bundle of tobacco which had been just sold for seventy dollars per hundred pounds. Intrinsi cally it did not seem to be worth one, dollar. It was without body, had but a/ trace of coloring matter and but th* slightest fragrance, but it was as yellow as gold and small-fibre. It was cu:Pd thus bright and solid by some patent- process r and, although very light," pro duced considerable money. Greenville (S. C.) News: A promi nent citizen of Anderson county lays he will give a fine hat to any man who will find a respectable mas in his sect/on who is opposed to the fence law after a thorough trial. When the law first passed the opposition there was of the most intense kind, and now if a man should talk of re-establishing the fences, he wauld be scalped forthwith. It will be the same in this county in less than twelve months. ZEPH PARKER’S STRATAGEM. Warrenton ( Va.) Index: It is ru mored and generally believed that the daughter of a wealthy Rappahannock farmer absconded the past week with an unprepossessing black man, taking with her $1,000 in money. The girl is about seventeen, the man of unknown age. He abandoned his wife and children for the erring girl, who has brought the gray hairs of an old father in sorrow to the grave. The Rev. C. v.. Pinckney, D. D., of South Carolina, is delivering a lecture embracing personal reminiscences of the late John C. Calhoun and an account of the" great debate between Calhoun and Webster in the United States Senate. Dr. Pinckney is the only man living in South Carolina who was present at the debate. His father was a neighbor and associate of Mr. Calhoun, and hence his knowledge and impressions of the great statesman are of unusual value. Drew has left-Savannah, Ga., after . CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. The Senate, January 19.—Bills were in troduced and referred as follows: By Mr. Ferry—A join t resolution proposing to amend the constitution so as to extend franchise to all citizens, without reference to sex By Mr. Pratt—To request the president to com municate with foreign .powers upon the sub ject of an inter-oCeunic canhl with a view to a mutual understanding as to route, neutrali ty, etc By Mr. Morgan—To grant certain public lands in Alabama in aid of the IV ar- rior and Tennessee Rivers railroad company. The morning hour having expired the senate took the special order for the day, which was a bill to. prevent cruelty to ani mals in their transportation. After a some what extended debate, in which Messrs. Da vis, (Ills.) McPherson, Davis, (W. Va.) Thnr; man and others participated, the bill went over till to-morrow. Adjourned. House, Jan. 19.—Bills introduced and re ferred as follows: Mr. Vance (North Caroli na) to repeal the duty of salt.... Mr. Cobb (Indiana) for the distribution of unappro priated monevs of the Geneva award Mr. Townsend (Illinois) proposing a consti tutional amendment in regard to the election of the president and viee president, provi ding for their election by a majority of the votes of the people and to the abolition of the electoral college By Mr. Tucker (Vir ginia), for the erection of a monument to General Daniel Morgan. ...By Mr. Bland (Missouri) repealing the laws restricting the sale of tobacco by the producers thereof. Hy Mr. wells (Missouri), incorporating in. inter-oceanic transit company. It makes J B. Eads and his associates a body corporate ; authorizes them to acquire the right of way bv negotiation or treaty; pledges the co-oper ation of the United States ; provides for the detail of two ships of war to assist in making surveys, and appropriates $200,000 for the expenses of such surveys After the pas sage of the bill appropriating $140,000 for the construction of a bridge across the Poto- ntnc river at Georgetown, the house adjourn ed. Sexate, January 20.—Mr. Jones (Florida) submitted a resolution calling on the sec e- tarv of the navy to inform the senate whether the interest of the country required the resto ration of the Pensacola narV yard to a state of efficiencv, and the probable cosy of such restoration: Adopted .... The morning hour having expired, the senate resumed the con sideration of special order, viz: A bill vela- tive to the transportation of animals. After extended debate in which Messrs. Thurman, Eastern, McPherson and Davis (West Vir ginia) took part, the bill was recommitted to the committee on commerce. Adjourned. House.—Among the hills referred was one introduced bv Mr„ Culberson, of Texas, for the discontinuance of the national banking system The following bills were also in troduced and referred under the call of the states: Bv Mr. Cravens (Arkansas), for the settlement of the titles in the town of Hot Springs, Arkansas By Mr. Lormg (Mas sachusetts), to amend the constitution so as to extend the franchise to all citizens with out distinction By Mr. Warner (Ohio), to provide for paying the bonds of the united States maturing in lSSO-^l By Mr. Ellis (Louisiana), appropriating $500,000 for the relief of the destitute people of Ireland..... The house tb*n took up the bill requiring national banis to keep half their reserve in coin, and Mr. Crittenden, of New York, made along argument in its favor and against legal tendux treasury notes The morning hour having expired, the bill went over with out action. Tht house, in a committee of the wHoiC, then resumed consideration of the revision of the ? rules. Speeches in opposition to the various pro’posed rules were made by Acklcn* of Louisiana, House, of Tennessee, and Williams, of Wisconsin, and at 4:40 the houje adjourned. SENATE, January 21.—The senate took up th/ Bayard resolution for the withdrawal of • the legal tender quality of United States nptes Mr. Beck opposed the resolution. ,L...At 3 pjn. Mr. Coke obtained the floor, /but yielded to a motion to go into executive session, and when the doors were reopened the senate adjourned. House.—The house resumed the consider ation of the bill relative to the national bank reserves, and was addressed by Mr. Louns- berv, of New York, in favor of the withdraw al of the legal tender quality of United States notes. Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, followed in opposition to national banks, and to Mr. Crittenden’s speech of yesterday Mr. Crit tenden questioned the accuracy of some of Mr. Townshend’s quotations and deductions from his speech .tod an excited personal de bate followed, which was finally quieted by the speaker. . Mr. Townshend continuing, said he was opposed to the bill because it proposed to strengthen national banks and make them permanent institutions. He was in favor of retiring national bank circulation altogether Mr. Buckner closed the debate with a speech setting forth the objects of the pending bill. He said he, too, was opposed to the national banking system, but so long as that system was the institution of the country it should be improved. In conclu sion he moved the previous question Pending the vote on ordering the previous question, the morning hour expired and the bill went over The house then went into a committee of the whole on the revision of the rules, all general debate on which is to close to-morrow. After an extended discus sion the committee rose and the house ad journed. # says he has the data to clearly estab- 1m that there is more "old m Alabama ! gaining nearly- 2,500 signers toliis tern- idii there is in California, I peranee pledge, It is within the memory of “the oldest inhabitant,” if he chooses to ex ercise it, that a warehouse in New York was so loaded down with pennies that the floors gave way. Now they have become so scarce that the Phila delphia mint coined three millions of them in November, all of which were SDoken for. These is a German in Cincinntia named Hellenkamp, and whenever he gets full he raises nis own name.—Setu- benviUe Herald. A hotel keener in Leavenworth is named Pxzbylowicz. Tackle that, Mr. Herald.—Toueka (Kan.) Cbpifefa W<dflatl»T«t9,-y2ar9M BY LYDIA A. RICHARDS. The pole! What seek they at the pole? What prize for such as reach that goal? Is ivory massed on polar seas, Or silken seal in “ open seas?” Is empire sought, or pleasure, gold, Or paths for trade, with gains untold? Not these are sought through arctic main;. There’s good, unknown to vulgar gam. And Truth, as truth, has champions bray® . As any Mars or Mammon gave. The search of:trutb, and truth alone, Han rViarmSj to sordid minds unknown. To add one drop to human lore, To prove one truth unknown before, This, this is life—ambition, meet, Atones ior failure, sneers, defeat. An “ open sea,” they long have said, Has North Pole centering in ita bed; And, more, when shipsiar northward go, They pass the drift and iceberg floe, And reach a calm and open sea, From ice formations ever free. Yet none have passed this brumal line, Which‘‘open seas” begird, confine Is this illusion, false, untrue? Must we reject the olden view ? Shall youthful idols, one by one, Still fall, till age, alas, has none? And northward drift to polar skies; There sink as snow, to rise no more, Till earth i tself is toppled o’er. W hen north pole bows to kiss the sun, An era’s passed, a cycle’s run. « What seek they at the pole? What’s then, Save cold, starvation,- death, despair?” “ What seeks he there, heroic man? 71 He seeks the key to nature’s plan ‘ “We all grumbled, for we were —Inter■ Ocean. “ Sleepy, baby-faced set o’ people? Air they! Baby-faced enough, you bet; but I tell you, sirree, that I belieye they’re ’beout born with all their eye teeth cut in their celestial jaws; and yew’ye got to get up airly, sir, if you want to take in a Chinee 1” The Bpeaker was a hard-faced, hollow- jawed gentleman, in a glossy black suit, which fitted him very badly, and the remark was made in the smokine-room of the “Continental.” There he was to he seen daily, and he was supposed to have “ given the speckylaters fits in ile;” in other words, he was believed to have made a fortune in petroleum.- At all events, he had plenty of money, and was very generous in the spending of it. The conversation had turned on the vexed Chinese question, and he struck into the discussion. “I reck’lect,” he Baid, “there was Zeph Parker. He was ’long o’ me and a few more up to Nevada, jus’ ’beout the time of the eilver craze. The boys had been washing for gold; honest-like, neow gittin’ it out o’ pockets, neow outer lie stream; and when done they’d with a hit o’ wash out, and gone off to another claim, Mister Washee Washee Chinee would come and go over the dirt after them and be satisfied with what he got. Then comes the silver craze. AU o’ us goes off and loses all we’d made in gold, gits no silver, and comes back disappointed to try after the gold again. “ Guess we might try and try again, but no gold could we get; and all ’beout us was them smooth-faced, pig-tailed Chinamen, gettin’ on prosperous and contended. “ ‘ I tell yew,’ said Zeph, ‘ I shall go and murder one o’ them smilin’ teapots, I can’t stand it much longer 1’ “ This here was in our hit of a tent, when we was trying to make ourselves happy, playin’ poker on credit and keepin’ no account. "" " What for?’ I sez. What for?’ cries Zeph. ‘Dew yew think that I, an enlightened sitter- zen of a free country am gwine to set down and be robbed o’ my mess o’ golden pottage by a pack o’ smilin’, washer- women-faced, opium-smokin’ celestial Jacobs? No, sirree, this dog’s gwine to bite I’ “ ‘ But I don’t kinder see what this dog’s gwine to bite fur,’ I sez. ‘ Teapot ain’t done nuthin’ to you.’ •“ < Mateys,’ sez Zeph,’ gettin’ on the barrel as had been his seat, ‘ things has come to a purty pass with ns, haven’t they?’ “‘Right, old hoss, sez some one. hammerin’’ the chest lid as had been our table. “‘Haz any man here got any to bacco ?’ sez Zeph. No!’ Haz any man here got any old bourbon whisky?* No!’ Haz any man got any dust? 1 No!’ . , . ‘Any flour, or pork, or boots, or new blankets?’ . “‘No, no, no, n.!’ “ ‘ Then them Chinese haz,’ continued Zeph; ‘ and what I sez is this—as it is a sin and a shame to let a pack of heath enish curses like them teapots, as never goes to churches nor listens to par sons ’ “ * I say, Zeph,’ sez some one, did you go to meetin’ last? 1 “ ‘ Never you mind,’ sez Zeph, ‘ and don’t yon interrupt a man as wants to give you Buthin’ to eat. A set of cusses, I sez, as never goes to meetin’, and b’lieves in nothin’ but joss-houses. I say, it’s a sin to let ’em be gittin’ fat on oni land, wnile we're as turn anu starved- °°“ ‘As*^ Zeph Parker himself,’ sez T °™ WeSfez thin ez I am, if you like,’ sez Zeph. “ ‘ This is all very purty,’ I sez, ‘ hut we can’t ge and take a claim from the teapots, Zeph; nor we can’t rash ’em and annex the dust and nuggets they’ve washed out.’ “ ‘ No,’ said Zeph, ‘ winkin’ one eye, ‘but we kin strategise ’em.’ “ ‘ Sow? I sez. ‘ Don’t kinder see it. They’re too deep to be done.’ “‘Yah!’ sez Zeph, ‘ they’re’bout ez deep ez a two-cent plate. Give me the means and I’ll sell the lot and put a good poexettui o' dollars or dust in every man’s pocket—six o’ ns!’ “ ‘ But what means d’yer want ?’ I sez. “ ‘One handful o’ dust,’ sez Zeph. “ ‘ And where are we to get it?* sez Tom Paggins. “‘This how,’ sez Zeph. ‘’Morrow mornin’ every man hyars to go ronnd the camp and cadge. Tell the boys we’re hard up, but we got a good thing on. They’ll subscribe a Little all reourd. Yew see if they don’t.’ “ ‘ Well, we’ll try,’ sez we; and we went to sleep hungry and got up rav enous. “ There was nothin’ for it but to go to work, and off we went, gittin’ back to our tent about eleven o’clock, when five out of the six had got a little good duBt. I was the unlucky one, bein’ a.bad beg gar, and had got none. “‘Now, then!’ sez'.Tom Paggins, as soon as the dust was all put together— about a big spoonful of all glitterin’ stuff; ‘ let’s ge up to the store and get a drink.” “ ‘ That yew jes’ won’t,’ sez Zeph, grinnin’. ‘ I’m kinder gwine to throw all this here dust away—I’m gwine to 1121 ft. boj*. i<>J 8 SLOP ft Cfiffij up,’ twelve o’clock now, So let’s go round «ndgit a mouthful where we can. Let’s.go up to Billy Belly’s store and ask him to give us a square meal, and stick it up,’ I sez, ‘ he’ll trust us.’ “Think ht( Wofildf'sez Zeph. '“Sartin, 1 I - sez,-■'-•‘‘if you show him that gold, and tell him there’s somethin’ good on.’ . . i 1 ‘‘And,so it was; Bill, on,seeing that gold and hearing as we'd,had some thing good' on, gave us a right square meal, and taste round of Bourbon, Hidin' with the cheerful remark; ' I shall 1 take it out o’ some o’ yon if this here ain’t squared up.’ - “ That didn’t make a nice dessert, for Bill was a wonderful clever fellow, and would think nuthin’ o’ pluggin’ a man; so we kinder sneeked outer that store, feelin’ Uncomfortable. “ ‘ It’s all right,’ sez Zeph, laughing. ‘ Come on boys and get yewr tools.’ “ We took our tools then and went off up the gulch to where a strong party of Chinese was at work, and they watched U3 curiously as we began prospectin’ about, washin’ a bit o’ dirt here and a bit there, and always goin’ off discon tented and sour-like, till we came to one place close up to the rocks, where it ran sheer up 400 or 500 feet, and, after working with our picks a bit, we began to wash the soil in a pan, gatherin, round it afterward, and knowin’ all the time that one or the other of the teapots had an eye on us. “ Then washed a bit more earth— gravely, quartzy stuff it was—and col lected again, and then we grew excited and began to dig faster, and to wash more and to examine what we had done each time after pickin’ over the pan, throwin’ out the rubbish; and when this fell yew could see a few specks o’ gold dust in the sun, while what we got went into a leather bag what Tom Pag gins held. “ ‘ We marks out this claim as our’n!’ sez Zeph out loud; and takin’ a shovel he-chops out a hit of rough trench, just "to show the extent we meant to hev; and; as ho did so, first one pigtail and then another comes up to watch us, and I saw them to look at the specks o’ gold in among the refuses we had thrown over the side beyond our claim. ‘Nogoodee, washee washee, Melican man!’ sez one round-faced smilin’ cuss. No golee, no goleel’ “ 1 Oh, no; none at all, Mr. Teapot,’ sez Zeph. ‘ Just yew keep a bit farther off, or ’ “ He touched his six-Bhooter, and the Chinaman scurried back a little ways, while one of ns fetched some water, and we began to wash another shovelful of earth. “ ‘ It pans out fine!’ sez Tom Pag gins out loud, as we all gathered round once more, and the top refuse, with snecks o’ gold in, was thrown away again. “ We kept on at that for two hours, and with Zeph to manage, we washed out that little lot o’ gold we had bor rowed about four times: but it was a good deal less at the last than when we started, for some on it was sprinkled in each o’ the holes we made, and half a teaspoonful o’ dust was lyin to waste in the refuse. “All this time the Chinese were corn in’ up from their bit of a camp, about » hundred yards away. Zeph was awfully jealous, an’ kep’ drivin’ ’em away—not as we were skeered of ’em, for they’re a quiet, sheepish lot, but to keep up the play. “ Then half on us went down below and got our tents and odds and ends, and set ’em up as we meant to stay, while the others went on washin’ and pickin’ steadily, getting four Chinese vo fetch water and do a few rough jobs in movin’ quartz blocks outer the way. “ Somehow or other there were a few specks o’ gold under each o’ these blocks that the Chinese carried oft"; and when that was done Zeph gave the smilin’ chaps a hit o’ gold each, and sent one of ’em with some dust to buy tobacco. “ ‘ It’s a workin’,’ sez Zeph to me. “‘Think so?’ I sez. “‘Wait a hit, old hoss, and you’ll see.’ “ That night, after we’d been a bit nssty and threat’nin’ to the teapots, who kep’ leavin’ their work, we could hear a good deal o’ chatterin’ goin’ on, and bime-by a kinder deppytation o’ six of ’em comes up, headed hy a smilin’ cuss who looted like a big, fat boy. “ Now, then,’ sez Zeph, ‘ tell you what, ef yew don’t make yerselves scarce ther’l! be holes threw some on yew!’ ‘“Poor Chinaman!’ sez the big, fat fellow, and he puts his head on one side and smiles his head half off. Then the other five sez. in a sort o’ whinin’ sing song chorus, ‘Poor Chinaman! and all half smiled their heads off. “ ‘ Don’t want any to-day,’ sez Zeph. ‘Hook it!' “ We all sat smokin’ and lookin’ on- and every man with his hand on re volver and bowie, as ef we was supic, ions. “ ‘ Poor Chinaman!’ whines the big ’un again. “ ‘Don’t want any, I tell you again!’ roars Zeph, savagely, and the deppv- tation riily holds their head on one side and smiles. “ ‘Will we fall'You TJWTVl _-^_ hundred dollars?’'-fcays-ZeWi'/ • -*‘-*1 '’t*. rrrf4nua.j jr- “ They all" nodded tlR ' V ^h^'^rMeswrf’Hfdetor. EHtegwf .thought their beaded oomeiofc • ^tewstitione of the ilUltick ©f Mr** And dainty “ ‘ Cut!’ sez Zeph, catch(toyRiS^t-Mderpikings dateB bapk fodJ inMientjooU - *— t-i-t-t-j-i.: 1 I i|r|in>tV-1tirrl r~"Tr( iW<hisl*friure,on t.^ t^e -pe^gioai pf astronomy ;» s4qrf» rime fore k was dark and made Ires! advancin’.a hundred dollafs «acl and we swore at ’em andtsaidtaejanh! not sell, and if .they warn.’.tj1Jp ft’ti in the mornin’ to see about the wat . they shouldn’t be allowed, tp wash the dirt.- • “ Fust thing next mornfn*" theta iiXj fellers were up again, just vee" had got a good panful o! stuff in nctahrse b 1 ' $bOT«^HWn|.W)pNi a ted in opposition tairisthaj'bf Robert siiuW^pwlo BeBerted'lhat ifris«’Chris- ■tssaas5^ ! aar»-S5t-- -aimsesm^- ■ - “‘Areyou gwine to ent?’ sez Zeph, seizir’ number one by the tail, when he goes down on his knees, and the others the same, rabbin’ their chests and wag glin’ their heads from side to side. “‘Why don’t you speak out?” sea Zeph. “ ‘ Mellicanman let poor Chinaman washee, washee?’ says the fat fellow, p’intin’ to the heap o’ rubbish. “‘You want to wash that dirt over again ? sez Zeph. “ The whole party began to nod their heads fast. “ ‘ Oh, no!’ sez Zeph; ‘ we don’t want you here—eh, ladsU * No, no!’ we all growled. “ ‘ Send ’em off!’ sez Tom Paggins. “ But they wouldn’t go, only smiled, ind at last Zeph seemed to be straek with a notion; and the long and short of It was that, if we’d allow’em to wash our refuse over agen, the Chinese’d make a hit of a stream to lead water up to our claim. “ ‘ Well, that’s no good, Zeph,’ I sez, is soon as they were gone. “ ‘Wait a hit, lad and yew’ll see,’ sez Zeph, with a wink; and we sat there, in the pleasant' evening, smoking, while there was evidently a mighty commo tion in the Chinese camp, and before long the deppytation came back. “ ‘ Poor Chinaman.!’ sez the fat chap again. “ ‘ Oh, yes; we Know all ’beout that 1’ sez Zeph. ‘Now, what is it ? 1 “ ‘Mellcanman seilee claim two hun- der dollars?’says the fat-headed chap, and all the others nodded their beads, we’d shoot’em if they’d coum come they did, and offerei the mornin’ went on, seven, ei] —$1000. " “ ‘Take it’,-we said, as they came this' last time. “ ‘ They’ll give $2,000; I tell yew. I’m sure they will,’ says Zpph. “ ‘ But $1,000 is enough to chipel the beggars out of,’ sez I. “ ‘ Yes,’ sez Tom Paggins; ,* anti it’ll take this time to-morrow sure to get up to the $2,000. ‘“If I warn’t so ’taraal hungry, I'd hold out,’ sez Zeph, hesitating} ina then turnin’ to the six Chinese as waitin’'f nr our answer: ‘ Look hyar, yop eheatip’ cusses,’ he sez, • takin’ up a shovelful of earth, in which the dust were a-aparklin’ in the sun, ‘ this claim’s worth $20,0001” “ ‘ No; only worth $1,000,"’ said fatty shakin’ his head. “! Shall we let ’em have it, hoyeP sez Zeph, turnin’ to us. ‘“ Yes, let ’em have it,’ J sez; .‘ We can find plenty more.’ « “ * Come on, then,’ sez Zeph.; and he and two more went back with the dep pytation to the tent of theirTiead man, and a thousand dollars worth o’ dust and nuggets was weighed out into a bag; Zeph put his mark to a kind of dockv- ment in Chinese, and half an’ hour afterward we went back to catnp, leavin’ the smilin’ Chinamen to their; purchase. “ ‘ It’s a darned shame to cheat the poor, innercent babie3 like that,’ I “‘Not it!’ sez Zeph; ‘it’s only like playin’ poker with ’em and winnin’. Let’s go and liquor.’ “ We didn’t expeck any row, for them Chinesese had to keep very quiet for fear o’ bein’ sent off; and Zeph sed they’d put up with their loss, clear oat and go to some other gulch. “ But they didn’t; for the next day Tom, who went up to see what they was a’doin’, said they moved their camp up round the hole, and were, workin’ away like a swarm o’bees. “ That night, as we were sjttin’ smok in’ at Bill’s store, some chaps strolls in, and one of ’em says, to a bit of a temper: “ ‘ Call this here a free country ? “‘Yes, stranger, I dew,’ sez Zeph, rattlin’ some nuggets to his pocket; ‘ who sez it ain’t?’ “ ‘ 1 dew,’ sez the new comer. ‘ Here are we workin’ like slaves for a few dol lars’ worth o’ dust, and a pack o’ heathen - cusses "comes and settles down and grabs all the best on it.’ “ ‘ Dew they ?’ sez Zeph, winkin’ at us. “‘Yes, he sez, ‘they dew. There’s that pack of Chinese moved up higher in the gulch, and they've hit on a big pocket. They got a two-pound nugget out on it tiiis very afternoon.’ “ ‘What!’ roared Zeph, with his eyes starin’ out of his head like a lobster’s. ^ “ ‘A two-pound nugget, and the stufl’p panning out awful. I ssy it’s a shame, and the government ought to stop it.’ ‘Soldi’groaned Zeph. Next day it was the talk o’ the place. The Chinese were pannin’ out gold at a tremendous rate frpm the claim, and some were for .driving the heathens away, hut the party of order was too strong, and they know’d that if the rowdies was to get the upper hand here, they’d be just as likely to seize anybody else’s claim; so it was decided to temporize with the heathen and try to buy the claim. “They were two hundred strong up there; and when we went up to see the place—which we did to a kind O’ des perate feeling—the fat chap smiled and clapped his hands and gave Zeph a little round nugget as big as a pern “ A meetin’ was held and we cop- cluded to make a company and buy the claim. Twenty thousand was the most as was to he offered. “ ‘ Twenty thousand dollars 1* groaned Zeph. ‘ Oh, boys, what fools wa-was! But I did not want to hold otft for $2,000.’ “ ‘ It’s no use to growl,’ spz Tom; How much ha’ we got now?’ “ ‘ Bout $900,1 guess,’ sez Zeph. , “‘Wal, then,’ sez Tom, j let’s go in for shares as far as onr niofifey goes.’ “ ‘ The money was nearly all sub scribed; hut we got on for $800,. and could ha’ sold our shares the next hour for $1,000. “ Next mornin’ the party settled to do the business, went up to the Chinese camp, but they wouldn’t, take the money. They said they : d begun work, and meant to have the proceeds of the day; but the hoys looked dangerous, so the heathens finally said they’d settle up that night, take the money, and give possession. “This made the gulch worse yiau '•’ll reuse ton swuiw ■ . n {cAftan lAiotittOfdosrteA; * Vf*»f8 bi Ch%r» nitell* hair ... , rr The protoplasmic hUiiiiI iIM^Vi “ Foraw weaTinafr And _ fact AhM, Gol limbus .sailed, on .Friday ' h New World are some, evi- [t it could, hqt have been luSdd -among sailors to Ins _ jftnwhsbly known ai the Spanish irtj wissked whether ProfessorPrac- tor'wan. cite au-example from times be-., fore Columbus of asy eminent man who was dominated by it jikq Lord Byron and, Pripce .Bismarck to onr own Century)', Moritz Busch, m hismemoirs Of Bitarrarck, repeatedly alludes to his hero’s 'superstitions, and examples of flyrorfs are abundantly recorded hy his contemporaries. Southey says that “ if uytbtag .of the slightest importance in which Lord Byron was concerned was commenced gn Friday he was seri ously JisconcerTed.” Now a scholar in Tennessiee, misconstruing the limit if our inquiry of Professor Proctor, sends .us ripassage from Chaucer in proof that Frid^weather was mentioned in lit erature before the time of Columbus as partaking of the inconstancy ascribed to its. tutelar goddess in classic ages. In the French Vendredi this dedication of the day to Venus is still preserved. Our Friday-:is derived from Frija, a somewhat similar deity in Scandinavian mythology. If our correspondent will taJte the pains he can detect literary laliiwipBs of; thus kind much further back than, Chaucer in many other Ian- griapfhs thajf English. Butthat is not the-pTOcideipoint at which we are aim ing. Gur desire is to identify the time when ,tlie. Friday superstition first began to dominate’the lives of clear-headed- and .usually sceptical men of classes of which Byron and Bismarck are ex amples. If either Professor Proctor or the Tennessee scholar will communicate faction tbatpoin t they will enlighten ‘a very curious and obscure hranch. of, archaeology. Our suspicion is that this suporstiMon as mOre potent in its influ ence upon the practical conduct of the most intelligent classes of mankjnd at the present day than to any former era notwithstanding all the lights of modern science. A Monkey Story. Rather a eood monkey story for little folks this: There lives in the Boufh qf Frascs a man of wealth whose chateau or,country place of residence has around it Very tall trees. The cook of the cha teau mss a monkey—a pert fellow, who kno.ws ever so many tricks. The mon key often helps the cook to pluck the feathers -from fowls. On the day that interosfa us the cook gave the monkey two partridges to pluck, and the mon key, seating himself in an open window wen tto work. He bad picked the leathern from one of the partridges and placed it on the Outer ledge of the window with a satisfied grant, when, lo! all at once a hawk flew down from one of the tall trees near by and bore off the plucked bird. Master Monkey was very angry. He "shook his fist at the hawk, which took a seat on one of the limbs not far off and began to eat the partridge with great relish. The owner of the chateau saw the sport, for he was sitting in a grape arbor, and crept up to watch the ena of it. The monkey picked the other partridge, laid it on the ledge in the same place, and hid behind the window screen on the inside. The hawk was caught, in • this trap, for when it flew down after the ^partridge, out reached the monkey and caught the thief. In a a moment the hawk’s neck was wrung, and the monkey soon had the hawk plucked. Taking the two birds to the cotrk.the monkey handed them to him as if' to say, “ Here are your lwjt> anjnaoto^TortlMni^. • ■*5£iS!li^^SlSSSSSSSm ; If -wandering ’mid that *enti* seen*, , - Be diauaed to ono beneath onx ngM BV irroepw of Worn*. , j '' We’ll recognize,- wjtli A tjjre of bur prospective MM. rjw i Oh dearer thon by far to me In thf BWWl ufifflinly estate q any. »*Yenty-fifth conld 1%, . T -*v ! aperture however ffrtat! * 1 A man has no more right uncivil thing thjn to act one’; no more right to say a rlJe thing to another than to knock him dMvi.’- ‘ G * 1* is said that the ; Bureau of Engrav ing has not a single ten dollar bill m.its reserve" stock. Singular comCMence. Neither have we.-r-Jtoelda»i Cout&ut When the bee stung the Professor*of entomology, he remarked, ,l WelLI like Entomology/but I can’t say that- Pftd- mire these end-to- roe-logical jokes,”— tteal/eurillf Hp-aid.-gv kotak'S? Some persons are capable of.making great Sacrifices, but few are- &pabh?of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it fa this concealment that constitutes their value. . The powers' of the mind, When they are .unbound and, expanded, hj the sunshine of_ felicity, more frequently luxuriate,fnto follies"Ihan^lossoj^ into 6 Do not'carry on.a iConvematiopuMith another in company qbotit matfars which' the general company- kitcfws nothing of. It is almost as impolite"-5ia to whisper: Ipw yc ,vr- if The New .Orleans picayune hotes that amonf the merit 'cuMbus things to he seen to the city is an ulster with % .cig arette,- standing in front of theatres on matinee days. A womak-s-newspaper has teen .started, in Paria JUis- called - Woman, .and is designed to promote.the interests ■of working' women, particularly in the direction of moral and phyeidal The reason why we object to woman suffrage is because they would vote in discriminately. They would,, join neither party; all they would wahfis plenty of candidates: '* Women are naturally suspicious. You mayhave got a, long- hair on your shoulder from holding -a' six-year-old girl, but your nmttrer-iir-lnw will back your. wife in doubting the statement every time. ■ . 4 The two most important events in the life of man arc when he examines Bis upper lip and sees the hair coming, and when he examines the top of his. head and sees the hair going. Mountains never shake hands- Their roots may touch, they mjy kfeep together some Way up, hut at length they part company, and rise fnto iria:- vidual, isolated peaks. 60 it is with great men. u‘ V- The katydid does "all Her singing with her legs. Now if the young man wno sits Dehind you at the concert and hums the fanor softly, were corjjelled to do all his singing hy rubbing fhe soles of hH ieet'togtaher, how bappV you wotfld be. And he? , Oh, he wouldtsing abfmt partridges, master.” The cook thought ^ ^ h e does now, and ( the musftal that one of the birds looked.queer,. but wor id wouldn’t miss him Sft all.' he serVed them on the table. The owner of the house shook his head when he saw the dish, and telling the cook of the trick, laughed heartily. • Cigarette Smoking in Psrfc. i'Paria Cor. Nmwark Advertiser.! Numerous persons go along the bou levards in the vicinity of the cafes and restaurants at night, and pick up the fragments of cigars which are there thrown away, and sell them tp the Gov- ertaent officials, who manufacture from them all these choice (and expensive) cigarettes.which we smoke. For fifteen' cents one can buy a pretty fair cigar at the high toned restaurants—about sOch a cigar as sells for eight to ten cent* $t retail in Newark. Boxes of cigars which have been imported are always marked. '‘Imported by M. , for his personal use/’ (?) and when you order a fine cigar in a restaurant yon will al ways-find -such an inscription upon the cover, next to the revenue stamp. Al most every one in Paris smokes, and it is'iio uncommon sight to see a lady in front -of a cafe holding a cigarette be tween her thumb and index finger, in a j jaunty fashion, and taking a delicate pntl in the intervals between her sips of Chartreuse or cafe r.oir. The cocattes es- pecially, incline to smoking almost with- ou| exception. Still there are many . vwiy resectable women -fib* do thq ever7*and shares changed hands at a The revenue to the Government fine’rate, men failin’ theirs' and then from this scource is enormous. Aeon- fine rate, men gettin’ so excited that they bought hack again. “ ‘ I snail never forgive myself, boyB, sez Zeph, the next mornin,’ as we sat over some fried bacon and biscuit. ‘ 1 throwed away a fortune!’ “Hallo! What’s the row?” sez I, ]U “ ! f' 1 he S re was sUthin’ afloat outside, for there was a heap of excitement, but no one kinder seemed to know what it W *“ Arter a while we got to know that there wasn’t a single 'Chinee in the gulch; they’d gone off, no one knowed where, in the meht. “ 1 They’re darned artful,’ sez Zeph; and he was right, for we soon knowd just what had happened. “ We six had cheated the Chinese by retail; they’d cheated us by wholesale, for there wasn’t, and never nad beet, a grain o’ gold in fhat claim that wasn’t put there first. It was only a small show that we had made; bnt the heathens had clubbed together their dust and nuggets to make a big show. That day they had packed it all up agen, and when they d got the $20,000 they sneaked out from th® camp. I -■ — 1 ich would ha’ massacred guess the gulch would ha’ massacred the world looxs more oeauiuu:, them; but the heathen hadn’t left behind long—oh, how I long to stay. ' ev e, L 80 much as a trail. , J “Yes, gents, yew’ve got to get Up airly to take in a Chinee. Waiter! whisky and seltzer—and ice.” Emma Abbott’s managers say that hpv Grand English Opera Company is < luccess. •'. - j siflerable number of Russian and Ger man cigarettes are also sold in Paris, though, because of the duty en them, thp price is higher than that of the French make. “Ma Ferme”' cigarettes are liked here, bnt are not the great £a- vrorites that they are among American smokers. I often hear Americans ask: “ Where can I buy a good cigar ?” The r lera! answer is: “ I don’t know; not Paris.” " A Sad Scene. A man falls from a scaffold. Die re porter hastens to the spot- and pushes nfa way to the man’s side. “My life voyage is nearly ended,” whispered the dying man, as he held the reporter’s hand. “ My soul, like an un finished craft, is being swept from from its earthly mooring, and carried out into the great pathless ocean of eternity. Oh, how unprepared I am for this jour ney ! How my spirit shrinks from em banking Upon that silent, solemn sea! I have a wife and beautiful child who vftll-mourn my absenoe; and now that I see nofnture, nothing but the dark, impenetrable shadow of death, which wiU soon hide me from earthly eyes, the world looks more beautiful, and I ay. Good- 0 , prepare for —.” His head dropped. “ Cour age, courtage,” -whispered the reporter, while tears as big as hickory nuts chased each other down his nose; “ but, busi ness is business. Courage,” he whis pered ; “ how—how do you spell your name?” world wouldn’t miss 1— Man Btbakosch says this ms pre miere. artiste is,“the g^eateat- living dramatic prima donna,” Jhd that she >as had “the entinHsway of the dra matic repertoire in Europe for the last five vear?,” whatever" that may mean, arrrf r tfiat “ she is now rh thezenrtlrof hsr power, aed.unites with the -must magnificent voice the talent- o£ a. superb af A^ French lady, who had been a widow three times, was in the h$bifa-o£ referring to her Irinite de defuncts in a perfectly nonchdlSct 'aniT numerical way. Some .on® eomplained of this to his friend, and remarked that a v-"o;no n who could do sirth a'thing was-CertiMlv an euiema. --“ Not-exactly an caigrttt,' was the roP 1 ?. / “ rati *5 r * ®kang! e, for she constantly refers to my first, my second and mV ttara.” 9 ’ Jcet as everybody was settling down to enioy themselves a* a party the other eveuimr, Master Jimmie appeared in the room WitB, “Ain’t yatr -folks hungry? Guess you haven’t been swing up.s§ur appetites for two days as I and motii— The broad and generous hand or his mother suddenly stopped Bis convema- tion trap, and he had to save his appe tite until morning, when it Was satisfied with broken hit* of jelly cake leftover. The man who can- devour a dogen and a halTraw oysters at one sitting, fa thdniin fiirrightriA ate %e. (W*at ho, witirodt‘titered ; «wiael»i» and hfcrl him from the loftjest battiementeof the donjon deep into the foaming port cullis that flow* 1®sr the postern gate.) It is done. Tha iinyhd xippfas of tne silently flowing current close above v the eddring salg port, and all is oriSR- JBurlmgton Bmihyc. “ Constant dropping will wear the hardest rock.” A chap who Bad forirot- ten this was considerably astonisheulhe other day while -walking up strsefa.to feel a pound weight strike him on jthe heel. He had loaded his" coat tail pocket with it to keep tile blnsleitng fall winds from, showing a patch con cealed beneath, and it had finally worn through. He will carry sand herewWer. — Wheeling Leader. : V Prince Napoleon, .the Ggwtori says," waited on the Emp'ress Enggnie during her short stay in Paris. On learning of her arrival, he sent tqnpsk at wjiat hour he could be receivat to which the Empress- fapKed:' “ Iimne- diately!” On being inlrodoceWd he kissed her Majesty’s hand. Thftjon- versation turned solely "on the painful bereavement of the Empress. *iThe Prince had no timfl to bring his sonjtith him, and expresfad his regrets. 'Jhe Empress replied: “If'I return through France, I shall see your sons:with f leasure 1!’ The interview was marked y extreme cordiality; but the Empress, alter the departure ef the Prineef x%as greatly affected by; the recollectionssre- vived, and was in prayer before the portrait of her sou when the PritfBess Mathilda arrived. The Princess 're spected the griei of her cousin and withdrew without seeinif ber.