Newspaper Page Text
The
Advertiser
~ S U f 1 • v • ' :t ; f ;V’i
% ‘ U ; ■ ■:: , ■-—
iii om SERIES”VOL. VI NO. A-IMmK&.L.
CEDARTOWN, GA., FEBRUARY 12, 1880.
NEW SERIES--VOL. II. NO. 9.
Henry L. Clinton charges William
H. Vanderbilt $250,000 for defending
him ' against -Cornelius and Lord Scott
in the will ease, and in order to make it
more binding has furnished a bill of
particulars elaborately itemized.
There is a bill before the New Jersey
Legislature providing that hereafter the
officials now receiving fees shall have a
fixed salary and no fees. That is the
tendency all over the country. The fee
abuse is grievous and it should be abol
ished. •
The gold-bearing belt in Colorado is
now producing more gold than any area
of similar dimensions the world over
This belt extends from the northern part
of Boulder county, southerly through the
little county of Gilpin, and the north
eastern part of Clear Creek county—a
■distance of thirty or thirty-five miles,
fwith a width of several miles.
HiJ ingenious manager in Burlington,
the Hawkey says, has made a drop Cur
tain representing an enormous bonnet,
with sprays of flowers and drooping
plumes. This is let down on the play
early in the first scene, and is kept-down
all the evening, and the audience, see
ing about as much of the play as it is
accustomed to seeing, goes away de
lighted.
Three or four bills have been intro-
'ducefl. in the California Legislature to
regulate the operations of gas companies,
as to the quality and price of their pro
duct and requiring the greatest publici-
to be given, at brief intervals, to their
financial affairs. There is much feeling
against the gas company in San Fran
cisco, and the people are determined to
have light at a reasonable rate.
Among all the cities of Italy suffering
from famine and misery this winter Rome
bears the heaviest burden. The trade of
the city has declined sinGi the overthrow
of the Pope’s Government, gad the taxes
are a hundred fold what they were;
they were almost nominal under the
Popes, as the whole world' contributed
to enrich the city. Large Capitalists
from Turin and Milan have.monopolized
what has been left of the trade once po:-
sessed by Roman merchants.
A district has been selected in Cin
cinnati for a test of the Holly system of
supplying heat -by steam. Ordinances
granting permission to a company to lay
pipes have been approved by the Mayor,
but it is required that heat shall be sup
plied the public buildings at 80 per cent,
less than the cost for heating khem dur
ing 1878. The compapy also agrees to
furnish steam power where wanted at
reduced cost. If this system comes into
general use the old-fashioned “ fireside,”
about which so much poetry has been
written, and which makes home in win
ter look so cheerful, will be numbered
among the things that were.
Some interesting experiments of
ploughing by electricity took place the
other day at Noisiel, in France, in the
park of the well-known Deputy and
chocolate maker, M. Menier. The mo
tive power was supplied to the plough by
a Gramme machine, itself set in motion
by water power, which is abundant on
M. Menier’s estate. The plough did
about the same work as if it were drawn
by four oxen. It was a Fowler plough,
with six shares. -The motive power was
supplied by a wire at a distance of nearly
half a mi e. To a profane looker-on it
was amazing to see a plough propelled by
an unseen agency without teams or
steam. The Gramme machine employed
was the same that supplied M. Menier’s
manufactory with electric light.
The attention of Edison having been
called to the doubts of some Parisian
■critics concerning the stability of the
carborn horseshoe, and the claim that it
gradually wastes awav by decomposition,
he said: “A complete enswer to that
- is the actual result. I can state that the
oldest lamp in my laboratory, after
burning 505 hours, had its electrical re
sistance measured, and there was not a
difference of one-tenth of a hair from
the time when it, was originally put in
circuit. The surface of this carbon which
burned 505 hours is as bright to-day as
it was the day when first put in, where-
.as oxidization makes carbon blank.
-^Edison says he has not sold a share of
his stock.
Save the Rags.—The price ef paper
has advanced from 61 to 10 cents all OTe r
the country. If this price is maintained,
the public will be compelled to pay mere
for their newspapers. Many daily pa
pers have already increased their price
from SO to 30-cents per week, and weekly
papers from $1 50 $2 50 per year.
The advance in paper ean be stopped
if the people will- save and sell their old
paper and rags. Three months’ saving
of rags and old paper by the entire pop
ulation, and selling then! in the markets,
would cheek the advance in paper. Bags
are worth from 3 to 8f cents per pound.
Every newspaper in the land should
appeal to the people in this matter. And
they should also economize in the con
sumption as much as possible.
A new bracelet is made of a narrow
band of _gold, clasped with s small
golden OsH which has emerald eyes.
The engraving of the owl’s plumage is
very fine and the design quite novel. A
ring is made of a serpent coiled around
^fou times And with aturquiee set in his
'-uplifted-head.
"A Jtiy need only correct himself
with the so»e rigor that ha reprehends
others and excuse others with the
. same Indulgence that he shows to him-
. self.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Louisiana’s sugar crop will amount to
185,000 hogsheads.
Chattanooga is awakening to the im
portance of good sewerage.
Negroes are flocking in gangs to Tus
caloosa Ala., to see a faith doctor.
Wilmington, N. C., has one church
building for every 650 inhabitants.
The State Agricultural college of South
Carolina w J1 Be opened next July.
Seventeen car-loads of mules were
sold in Atlanta, Ga„ Wednesday.
The losses by fire at Charlotte, N. O.,
during 1879, did not exceed (2,000.
Robert P. Button, Grand Master of
the Odd Fellows of Virginia, is dead.
Seventy thousand hales of cotton have
been received at Rome, Ga., this season.
Newbern, N. C., has a hat factory
and Hillsboro is to have a plow factory’
Vessels drawing seventeen feet of wa'
ter pass over the bar at Wilmington
n. cr r
A party from New Orleans is abont
to start a glass factory at Bay St. Louis,
Miss.
The city of New Orleans has appro
priated $200,000 for police purposes this
year.
Very large walnut logs are being ship-
red from Southern Virginia to Phila
delphia.
One orange tree at Bay St Louis, Miss.,
produced a crop of oranges which brought
the owner $80.
It is probable that there will be a re
organization of the Memphis Water
works company.
The school population of Tennessee is
514,643; the value of public school prop
erty in the State is $1,162,684 76.
The water-works of Knoxville Tenn.,
are involved in legal difficulties. The
contractors are financially embarrassed.
The citizens of Macon, Ga., have sent
$700 to the Irish suflerers. It was most
ly sent to Tuam, one of the most afflicted
districts.
Miss Lizzie Hammond, a pretty white
girl of eighteen years, has been sentenced
to the Virginia Penitentiary for horse-
stea'ing.
In selecting a jury for a trial at Clin
ton, Tenn. .last week, 491 men were ex
amined before twelve suitable persons
could be found.
One hundred shares of the Langley
Manufacturing Company’s stock, of Au
gusta, G»., sola recently in Charleston at
$130.50 per share.
One hundred telephones have been or
dered by citizens of Memphis, and the
system may be considered as thoroughly
organized there now.
A large number of the convicts sen
tenced to the Tennessee penitentiary are
employed in the Sewanee coal mines on
the Cumberland mountains.
The net earnings of the woolen mills
company at Charlottesville, Va., for the
past year, shows a return of over four
teen per cent, upon the capital stock.
A bill before the Senate of Mississippi
provides for the severe punishment of
iteoad employes or officials and ldgisla-
rs for giving or receiving free passes.
Vicksburg Herald: We heard a far
mer remark yesterday that the loss sus
tained by the spoiling of meat would al
most oflhet the benefit from the big pri
ces of cotton.
Donald McQueen, D.D., forty-three
years a minister of the Presbyterian
church at Sumter, S. O., is dead, after
an illness of many months. He was sev
enty years old.
Alex. H. Stevens is a puzzle to the
medical fraternity. He is stronger now
than at any time these fifteen rears, and,
it is saidj'will shortly discard his rolling
chair and crutches. jj|
The State Immigration society of Ar
kansas has decided to publish, for dis
tribution abroad, 100,000 copies of a
pamphlet of 200 pages descriptive of the
resources of the state.
Charlotte (N. O.) Observer: Almost
every farmer who comes to the city re
ports that his wheat crop is being badly
injured by the fly. Cold weather and
snow are being very badly needed.
The first locomotive crossed the new
and magnificent iron bridge of the Louis
iana Western railroad, over the Sabine
river, near Orange, Tex., Tuesday. The
bridge is 400 feet long, with a draw of
200 feet.
Atlanta Constitution: There is a
movement on foot to organize two good
base ball nines the coming summer. It is
the intention of those interested to take
these nines and go campaigning through
the South.
The State Superintendent of Educa
tion, of South Carolina, is endeavoring
to put in operation a plan by whieh the
public s hools can be kept open for a
longer period each year than they have
been heretofore.
The city council of Richmond, Va.,
has deposed William L. Smith, keeper of
Oakwood cemetery, as it is believed that
without his knowledge and permission
the recent work of the body snatchers
there would have been impossible.
Columbus ( Ga.) Enquirer-Sun: Sex
ton Odom exhumed the body of a yonng
white woman yesterday that had been
buried twenty-seven years. She was
buried in a metallic case. The body was
well preserved and looked quite natural.
Selma (Ala.) Times: We are afraid
that the planting community is going
wild on cotton. There is danger that
food crops may be neglected and every
thing devoted to cotton. If, in such an
event, the cotton erops should fail, our
people would be in a deplorable eondi
than.
Memphis Avalanche: It is a settled
fact that the East Tennessee and Vir
ginia road has secured the control of the
Memphis and Little Rock road. It is
stated that the new bosses intend to ex
tend the line from Fort Smith to Texar
kana, and then connect with the South
ern Pacific.
Shreveport (La.) Times: One ff the
notaries yesterday informed us that he
passed sales of five hill farms, ranging
from 160 to 200 acres each, at an average
of about $3 60 per acre. These same
lands could have been bought six months
f go at fully twenty per cent, below the
figures paid yesterday.
Memphis]Appeal: According to Sholes’
directory census, the population of the
city is now 40,927, as against 43,497 last
year, a lore of 3,000. Bat against this
wp are able to pat the fact of a greatly
increased trade, our receipts ^ef cotton
bang 50,000 hales more than last year
and 6,000 more than in 1878.
prising that our insectivorous birds
should have so deplorably decreased?
Charleston (S. C.): Hon, A. P. But
ler, Commissioner of Agriculture, gives
notice that he is ready to receive the
privilege tax of twenty-five cents on
every ton of fertilizer sold or offered for
sale in this state, and warns those con-
earned that failure to comply with this
law will subject them to immediate pen
alties.
Nashville American : The blue suit_
for all the employes in the passenger de
partment of the Louisville, Nashville
and Great Southern railroad arrived
hers and will he donned on the 2d of
February. The next thing will be the
uniforming of men in the same depart
ment on the Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis.
Atlanta Constitution : Plans are now
being drawn for a new court-house, to be
erected at the corner of Bast Hunter
and Pryor streets. The work of build
ing will, we hear, be commenced the
coming summer. The new courtrhouse
will be arranged in the ‘most complete
style, and will be one of the handsomest
in the south.
Little Rock is to he a distributing
depot for coal oil. In other words, an
enterprising firm has arranged to have
coal oil shippod to that point in special
iron tank cars and emptied into a mas
sive tank with a capacity of 30,000 gal
lons. Here it will tie barreled and dis
tributed; the saving effected being in the
transportation of the oil.
Memphis AppealThere is in Elm
wood Cemetery a great curiosity , a very
lusus n a tune, a tree half oak and half
elm. The trunk is about two and a half
feet in diameter, and for the distance of
five feet from the ground is, to all ap
pearances, an oak; above that have
sprung two large branches, one of which
is oak and the other elm.
An act to prevent and punish the in
termarrying of races, passed at the last
session of the South Carolina Legisla
ture, provides that any person so offend
ing shall be subject to a fine of not less
than $500, or imprisonment for not less
than one year, or bath, at the discretion
of the court. Any clergyman or magis
trate who shall unite in the bonds of
matrimony persons of different races is
subject to the same penalty.
Cartersville (Ga.) Express: Middle
Tennessee is rapidly regaining her old
time prestige as a mule market. Maury
county 4s in the lead of all others in this
respect, arid her county seat, Columbia,
is one of the largest markets in the
world. Over $100,006 worth of mules
alone have been shipped from that point
South within the past ten days or two
weeks, not counting many droves that
have been driv&si South on foot.
New Orleans Picayune: The monu
ment to Stonewall Jackson, to be erected
in Metairie Cemetery, on the grounds of
the Washington Artillery, is now on its
way to this city by rail. The unveiling
and dedication ceremonies will take
place on February 22. Hon. B. J.
Semmes will be the orator of the day.
T. L. Bayne, Presidentof the association,
will make the presentation, and Col.
Owen will respond. The ceremonies
will be the occasion of A-large military
turn-out.
New Orleans Democrat: An estima
ble and well known young lady of this
city is about to lose her right arm as a
result of the boisterous and rude conduct
of one of her boy friends. In exhibiting
his superior strength during a recent
visit, he twisted her right arm in such a
maimer that one of the larger blood
vessels near the elbow was ruptured.
Two days after, the arm began to swell,
and as mortification is now rapidly set
ting in, amputation has been declared
New Orleans States : One of the most
important measures that will come be
fore the Legislature now in session will
be the reorganization of our present sys
tem of municipal government. The
adoption of the new constitution has
entailed the necessity of a complete re
construction of the State Government
The great reduction in the number of
offices and curtailment of salaries as well
as the limited rate of taxation, are the
salient features of the new constitution.
The poverty of the people, the burden of
an oppressive debt, and an extravagant
system of government entailed upon us
by the constitution of 1867, forced the
people, in their sovereignty, to demand a
revision of the organic law.
Augusta, Ga., has six cotton factories
in operation, one is in course of building,
and capital is being raised for still an
other, the last to have 24,000 spindles
and to cost $500,000. The six factories
used last year 40,000 bales of cotton,
products being worth $4,000,000. Cotton
mill stocks there are quoted at $1.20©
1 30. Last year the mills paid ten to
twelve per. cent, dividends, and put away
handsome sums in their sinking funds
for extensions. The new 24,000 spindle
factory will add to the population of the
oity at least 6,000 souls, and will pay to
employes $175,000 annually. .These
mills make, besides what they consume,
a market for 175,000 hales of cotton,
whieh requires $8,000,000 annually to
handle.
Learn About the Pulse.
Every intelligent person should know
how to ascertain the state of the pulse
in health; then, by comparing it with
what it is when he is ailing, he may
have some idea of the urgency of his
case.
Parents should know the health pnlse
of each child—as now and then a per
son is horn with a peculiarly slow or
fast pulse, and the very ease in hand
may be of that peculiarity. An infant’s
pulse is 140; a child of 7, about 80; and
from 20 to 60 years, is 70 beats a minute,
declining to Be at four-score. A health
ful grown person’s pulse beats 70 times
a minute; there may be good health
down to 60; but if the pulse always ex
ceeds seventy, there is a disease; the
machine is working itself ont, there is a
fever of inflammation somewhere, and
the body is feeding on itself; as in con
sumption, when the pulse is quick, that
i; over 70, gradually increasing, with
decreased chances of cure, until it
reaches 110 to 120, when death comes
before many days. When the pulse is
over 70 for months, and there is a slight
cough, the lungs are affected. There
are, however, peculiar constitutions in
which the muse may be over 70 ii
health.
“ Contmccmt I Guns it U yon ean,
And tell me, John, the answer*-
Wherein a clumsy printer man
Is like an honest dancer!” I
u I bare it. Jane!” “ You haven’t though
u Td make a dozen beta—
One of them sets the forms, you know,
The other forms the sets!’’
“ Sharp answer, dear, but not the one
Wrought by my mental caper—
One of them pay the piper, John,
The other pfec the paper!”
old army iriusket-and fr> to kill off svsiy
little bird about t he place, and he has,
kept up the* practice. Is it, then, sor-
IHE FATTED OF THAT SHHSLE.
When the angry passion gathering in my mother’s
face I see,
And she leads me la the bedroom—gently lays me m
her knee:
Then I know that I will catch it, and my fleah in
fancy itches,
Aa I listen for the patter of the shingle on my
breeches.
Every tinkle of the shingle has an echo and a sting,
And a thousand burning fancies into active being
spring,
And a thousand bees and hornets ’neath my coat-tails
seem to swarm,
As I listen to the patter of the shingle—Oh! so
warm.
In a splutter comes my father—whom I supposed had
gone—
To surrey the situation and tell her to lay it on;
To see her bending o’er me as I listen to the strain
Played by her and by the shingle in a wild and
weird refrain.
In a sudden intermission, which appears my only
chance.
Isay: “ Strike gently, mother, or you’ll split my
Sunday pants:” ’
She stops a moment, draws her breath, the shingle
holds aloft, J
And says: “I had not thought of that—my son juf%\
take them off.” ^
Holy Moses! and tne angels, cart thy pltyfngglan£a|.
down; ufc#
And thou, family doctor, put a good soft poulticd^i|
And may I with fools and dunces everlastingly c»
If ever I say ’another word when my mother wieHjr
the shingle.
—Burlington Hawkey«.
A NIGHT IN NEW
ORLEANS
A Detroit man wa* astonishd the
other day to And the telephone could
talk French, He said ke tiougittt wai
an English tnyention.
There were two of us chatting and
smoking cigarettes at the corner of
Canal and St. Charles streets in that
quaint and strange old city, New Or.
leans—a city of never-ending charms
and queer phases of iife and mysteries
withoutnujnber; a miniature Paris, with
its bijou theaters in the French quarter,
where the play is in French and the
English language is a foreign tongue,
and where the men wear their hats and
the ladies sip absinthe and puff dainty
rings of cigarette smoke from pretty
months.
“ Where shall we go to-night?” Mor-
Ian asked me.
“Grand Opera-House,” I suggested.
“Aren’t you tired of Janauschek’s
diamonds yet?”
“ Well, say the Varieties.”
“ Nothing there hut frescoing in the
lobby.”
“ Academy.”
“Bah!”
We smoked awhile in silence, and
finally decided to see Mile. Mathilde at
Le Petit Theater Francaise, away down
on Chartres street. “ If Golson is in the
crowd,” said Morlan, “ we’ll appropri
ate him. Aha! there he is now. Gol
son, come hither 1”
A number of the young men had
crossed Canal, street, and were passing
up St. Charles toward Common, others
continuing their way aloug Canal to
Baronne. A handsome, small, delicate
student emerged from the crowd. He
had hands as white and small as a
woman’s, long black hair, a pale,
thoughtful face, and large, calm, ex
pressive eyes. I was introduced to him,
and he grasped my hand warmly and
firmly.
“ Have you anything to do to-night;
Golson?”
“ Anything to do? Oh, yes, some im
fernal thesis, I believe; but hang thir
thesis—and by Georeei the dissecting
too. Where are you going?” ,
To La Petit Francaise, we we$/l I
thinking.”
“What! the absinthe and the head
ache? Come with me to the college.
My little girl will do the tight-rope
from the roof, and I’ll introduce you’ ’
We turn up St. Charles street to
Common, down Common to Baronne and
the college. Crowds were beginning to
gather at this point. We threaded our
way through the throng that pressed
against the railing around the college
yard, and entered a Bmall door at the
side. We climbed four flights of dark,
diamal stairs, and stumbled at the turn
ings. We felt our way along a hall,
pervaded by a stifling blackness and a
musty smell, from the dissecting-rooms.
The light from the street belowstreamed
meagerly through a window, and showed
us the dim outline of a perpendicular
ladder near the extremity of the hall.
Wa climbed the ladder and crawled
through a hole in the ceiling. Here
the darkness was intense. We found
another close at hand, and by feeling
for the rungs, gained the top and
emerged upon a steep roof covered with
slate. We looked around. New Orleans
lay at our feet in ail the glory of a
starry night. On the south we could
trace the river winding in a crescent
form around the city, and reflecting the
colored lights from the shipping. Away
to the northeast couid be seen the dark,
flat surface of the lake. To the south
east lay the French Quarter, with its
tall, old-fashioned houses and its nar
row streets. To the westward Upper
Town stretched its wealth and grandeur
over a large area Under our feet was
the glare from Chnal, St. Charles, Camp,
Common, Caiondelet, Tchoupitoulas
jnd Baronne streets.
A parapet about twelve inches high
was all that could have preserved us
from the morgue, if the treacherous
slate had broken, or the foot slipped an
inch. Three persons were standing in
the gutter agiinst the parapet. Of
these, two wen rough looking men; the
third was a w»man in tights and short
skirts, and covered with Bpangles and
stars and goli lace. The men were en
gaged with certain pulleys and cords
in dravnrgto a greater tension the wire
cable thatstretched from the parapet of
the collete to the building opposite.
The womm was standing in the shade
of the pirapet, and looking down ab-
stractefy upon the thousands of human
beings vho packed the street, and whose
upturned faces, expressive of anticipa
tion, ste seemed to he studying atten
tively.
“ A ready here, Zoe?” asked Golson,
in hi; soft, smooth voice.
Ti« woman started and turned
quiclly, an expression of intense happi
ness. ighting up her face.
“I was looking for you below,” she
sail. “ I was afraid, but I am strong
nrw. You don’t think I’ll fall do you ?”
“ Certainly not. You are very foolish
b ask such a question.”
He introduced us as his friends, and
he shook our hands pleasantly. She
[had a rather agreeable face, though we
’could not see distinctly, the only light
being that of the stars and the faint
f low from the lamps and torches below,
n any event she had a pleasan: voice,
and that was sufficient. She also was
small, and delicate and young. 1 shawl
was thrown over her bare shoulders and
arms, hut her little hands were cold and
She shivered in the sight air.
“I was thinking, Goldy,” she said,
“that if!should fall,” and a more de
cided shivering shook her delicafe frame
—“ I wonder what they would think,
and how they wonld feel down tlere?”
“ Nonsense, little Zoe 1”
She laughed softly and put her arm
through Golson’s, and looked up into his
face with a touching tendermss and
reliance. She again scanned theerowd,
and was thinking.
“ Well, but suppose I should. Do you
think they would eare? Or would they
say she was a little fool, and it served
her right?”
“ What is the matter, pet?”
“ Oh, nothing—nothing whatever,”
and she langhed again musically, “ I
was simply thinking. I remember that
a long time ago, when I was a child,
and my father was letting me stand on
his head while he rode two horses_ bare-
back around the ring—and I was
terribly frightened once when the
horses became wild with fear or some
thing, I don’t remember what—and he
caught me strong and close in his arms
as 1 was falling, and kissed my lips, my
cheeks, and eyes, and forehead, and held
me in his arms quite a while, and called
me hi% dear, precious baby. What was
I going to tell you? Oh, yes; about
the man who fell from the tight-rope.
That was terrible I One end of the rope
was passed over the roof of a house,
carried down the side, and made fast to
a wooden block underneath. It had so
happened that the block had rotted off
next the ground, and there was no
weight npon it whatever. Well, any
how, they tied the rope around the
block, and the professor was half-way
across the street when he began to give
an exhibition of jumping. Suddenly
we saw that the rope was giving way.
The jerking had pulled the block from
under the house, and was dragging it
up the side. The professor turned quite
pale, and stood and waited. He came
down slowly with the rope- It seemed
as if it would never stop slipping over
the roof like a long ugly snake. It soon
became slack, and it was, of course,
much harder to balance on it; but he
never lost hiB presence of mind, and
stood perfectly calm and straight.
When the block had nearly reached the
roof—it was a two-story house—the
rope slipped off, and I heard the block
drop to the ground. I hid my face and
crouched down against a wall, and I
heard him strike the ground like some
thing dead. Oh, it was so horrible 1 ”
She peered around into the darknes and
shuddered. “Poor fellow I he fell flat
on his face. It was the cruelest thing
that ever happened.”
She sighed, and still gazed at the
crowd below.
“Did it kill him?”
“No, not quite, but he was delirious
for several weeks. When they picked
him up the blood gashed from his
nose, his eyes, and his ears, and a
bioodv froth came from his mouth. I
was a little child then and I dreamed of
him every night for two or three years.
I dreamed of him again last night for
the first time in a great while. I though t
I went to pick hfm up, and couid feel
his poor broken bones grating against
each other, and his poor bloodshot eyes
stared wide and cold at me.”
“ You are not well to-night, Zoe,”
said the man of science, examining her
pulse attentively. He became thought
ful. “ I don’t think you ought to risk
it,” he said.
“ Oh, I am not afraid now that you
are here,” she replied in her charming
way.
“ I think you had better wait.”
“ Now, don’t get naughty. I must go.
I want to go. Why, there’s two hundred
dollars in th,at crowd, any ir.y manager
would be crazy if I didn’t walk. Beside,
I contracted to do one street walk every
two weeks in addition to the lofty centre-
pole walk every day. Why, I’ve done
tke loftv five hundred times and never
lost my head, and why is there danger
now?”
“But it’s more difficult to see the
rope at night.”
“ I never look at my feet, anyhow,
when I walk.”
“ You are feverish and nervous.”
“ It will make me all the more care
ful.”
“ Well, walk then,” said Golson, with
a shrug or the shoulders.
“ Now, Goldy, don’t look that way.”
He became cheerfu land beaming in a
moment. The manager appeared on the
opposite roof and beckoned the girl to
proceed. The attendants at both ends
examined the fastenings of the rope to
see that they were properly secured.
They produced trays in which to burn
colored fires, and heaped lumps of the
combustible material upon the parapet.
Zoe mounted the parapet with an elastic
step, and threw kisses at the Bhonting
crowd below as the red fires brought out
her frail form. She looked very charm
ing and pretty, standing, smiling, in the
intense red glare of the light.
“ Give me the pole,” she demanded,
smilingly, of Golson, holding out a
small hand and dimpled arm.
He picked up the cumbersome balanc
ing pole and placed it in her hands. She
found the center, shook hands with Gnl-
son, threw us a smile, rained a shower
of kisses upon the crowd and stepped
firmly upon the rope. She soon found
a safe pose, took a few steps, and halted.
She glanced back at the attendants, and
regarded the pile of fire.
“ Yon are burning it too fast,” she
said. “ Good-by, Goldy,” and she picked
her way over the narrow bridge that
spanned the yawning chasm beneath.
She was graceful and walked with con
siderable ease apparently, stopping oc
casionally to shift the pole and steady
herself.
“ She is walking slow and shaky to
night,” said one of the men.
“ She is not walkiDgas well as usual?”
asked Golson, hurriedly, and looking at
her steadily. His glances never left her
a moment.
“ No; she can beat that. I think she’s
in the sulks.”
Golson paid no attention to the insult,
and watched her with fascinated gaze.
His face was somewhat paler than usual,
in spite of the red glare. He did not
move a single muscle. Zoe had passed
the middle of the street—the most dan
gerous place—and continued her walk
toward the other end. She toiled up the
incline, the rope depressing under her
tiny, nimble feet, and at last jumped
safe and sound upon the opposite roof.
A tremendous deatenlng snout arose
from the mob, and the plucky girl threw
a bunch of kisses at Golson. The color
had returned to his face with unnatural
intensity, and the look of absorbing
anxiety had passed away. His chest
was broader and his eyes brighter. He
simply smiled at Zoe, and did not even
applaud her.
The shouting below continued. The
men made no preparations to remove
the rone, but Golson started for the
ladder.’
“ She’s cemin’ back,” -said one of the
men.
Golson stopped as if he had been shot
through the brain. The hard, anxious
look returned, and the deathly pallor
came hack all in an instant.
“I didn’t know that,” he said, calmly
and resignedly. He resumed his old
pb ition, and watched the girl with
intense interest—with a gaze in which
were concentrated his soul and heart
and mind and strength—a look in which
was expressed the profoundest reelings
of a strong nature.
Zoe rested a moment, and again
stepped upon the rope. She had pro
ceeded about ten feet, when one of the
men remarked:
“She’s scared.”
Golson noticed it; we all saw it. Hei
teeth were so tightly compressed that
in the dazzling light we could see
ridges in her cheeks. Her nostrils were
expanded, and she stared fixedly ahead
at the rope. Her breathing was short,
and a tremor appeared in her arms and
knees. Instead of her usually erect
carriage, there was a perceptible lean
ing forward. When she had made but
a dozen steps she stopped and appeared
to be in doubt. She then apparently
made an effort to walk backward, but
was evidently afraid to undertake it.
She stopped again, mustered her cour
age, threw a quick glance at Golson,
and recommenced her dangerous jour
ney. The rope trembled and swayed
under her feet, and in this way caught a
swinging motion that tries the nerve of
the most experianced balancers. When
she had reached the middle it was im
possible to proceed. She might have
crossed safely, hut the fire on our side
was exhausted. She had walked more
slowly than usually, and the fire was
consumed too soon. She could not see
the rope distinctly enough. She stood
still for several seconds. The light be
hind her continued to burn, but it was
of no assistance to her, and Immediately
afterward it was also exhausted. We
could distinctly see the poor frightened
girl by the light from below, but her
face was obscured. The crowd sent up
hisses and groans. The rope-walker at
tempted to take another step, tsne suc
ceeded. She tried a second and failed.
Her foot suddenly slipped, but she was
active and alert, and caught upon her
knee. Her fright increased, and in the
terrible excitement of the moment she
dropped the pole. It Btruck the rope,
balanced a moment, and slipped off
upon the crowd below. There was a
great scattering, and the crowd realized
that the young girl was falling. Every
sound was hushed. The child steadied
herself wildly and instinctively a mo
ment with her arms as she knelt on the
rope, and then fell.
Golson's appearance was painful and
pitiable. Great cords stood out upon
his face, which was overspread by an
agony of ghastly pallor. His mnscles
swelled with ridges and knots, and his
hands assumed the appearance of on
eagle’s claws. He gazed at the rope
where the girl had a moment ago stood.
She had caught by the right hand, and
hung suspended over the cobbles. In
another moment she grasped the rope
with the other hand, and hung per
fectly still. Golson waited but a few
seconds, when he saw that fright had
taken the strength from her arms, and
that 6he could not climb upon the rope.
He dashed off his hat, and grasped the
rope with both hand, and threw one leg
across it. He crawled along carefully,
that the shaking might not cause the
f irl to lose hold. The crowd watched
im in breathless silence. The rope
swung lower under the double weight,
and the fastenings creaked and groaned.
“ Hold tight, my child/’ we could
hear him say to the fainting girl.
“ Hold on, for God’s sake, and I will
for a moment, and then dropped it
again between her arms. He ap
proached her slowly and painfully, for
he was a stranger to the situation, and
was afraid of shaking her off. At
length he reached her. He whispered
something to her, and she looked him
full in the face. He allowed his right
knee to remain across the rope, threw
his right arm over it at the elbow, and
twisted the right hand around under
neath to secure a firm hold, and passed
his left arm around the girl’s waist.
The strength of six men was in those
supple limbs and clean-cut muscles.
He drew her toward him. She released
her hold, her head drooped, and she
fainted.
“Pay out at the college end I” he
shouted.
His feet were in that direction. It re
quired four of us to let it out. It slip
ped over the parapet slowly, and the
suspended pair began to be lowered.
“ Pay it out!” he shouted again.
We let it go more rapidly, and he ana
his swooning charge were against the
building across the street. He let him
self slide gradually down until he
reached the sidewalk, where be was met
by the manager. The latter toot the
girl to her home.
The crowd gathered around him with
wild shouts, but he slipped away, and
met us at the door of the college.
“ Where is that scoundrel who said
she was sulking ?” he demanded, with
an angry look.
We pointed him out.
Golson walked up to him, explained
his business and gave him a stinging
Mow in the face that sent him rolling in
the gutter.
I met the dear old fellow on California
street the other day, and his little wife
was with him, charming and pretty as
ever. She langhingly remarked that
she liked to see the circus as much as
ever, but that she always feit a horror
for rope-walking. I almost believe that
her dimples are as pretty as on the
night she threw kisses to a great crowd
in thestreet.
Met with His Match.
The clever Dr. Ritchie, of Edinburgh,
met with his match while examining a
student:
He said: “ And you attended the
class for mathematics?”
“ Yes.”
“ How many sides have a circle?”
“ Two,” said the student.
“ What are they?”
What a laugh in the class the student’s
answer produced when he said, “An in
side and outside.”
But this was nothing compared with
what followed. The doctor having said
to this student, “And you attend the
moral philosophy class also ?”
“ Yes.”
“ Well, you would hear lectures on
various subjects. Did you ever hear one
on cause and effect?”
“ Yes.”
“ Does an effect ever go before a cause F’
“ Yes.”
“ Give me an instance.”
“ A man wheeling a barrow.”
The doctor then sat down and pro
posed no more questions.
Ministers are paid to work, and
originality in sermon writing is the
leading part of their work. H a con
gregation merely wished to listen to an
old sermon there are thousands of ad
mirable ones in print which could be
read by any good elocutionist in the
congregation, and the minister’s salary
be entirely saved for distribution among
the poor or other uses.—N. Y. Com. Adv.
STAGE AND ROSTRUM.
EYEBT-DA* SFTCEBIES.
Mbs. Scott Siddoms is an Indian by
birth.
R. E. Stevens now manages Fanny
Davenport.
John B. Godgh makes $20,000 ■
year.
Mapleson thinks of engaging Brig
noli to take Aranburo’B place.
“ Enchantment ” had a run of 111
nights at Niblo’s, New York.
Miss Bijod Heron will probably
visit this country during the coming
summer.
It is currently believed that a woman
is a hard thing to see through. And bo is
her hat at the opera.
An Australian correspondent in as
insane moment attributed Unde Tom')
Cabin to Henry Ward Beocher.
Mapleson had to piank up (10,000
with the Rothchilds to induce Mile.
Mari men to come over here.
“ Mv children,” says Sara Bernhardt,
“ your mother can go no father in this
business."—New Orleans Picayune.
Miss Hattie Richardson did not
join the Weathersby-Goodwin Froliques,
after all, though she was offered a sea
son’s engagement at a liberal salary.
Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan con
template, it is said, a permanent resi
dence in America, as the managers of s
vaudeville theater.
Mr Ferdinand Dulcken, the pian
ist, has severed his connection with the
Carlotta Patti Company, and returned to
New York.
Write it on your heart that every
day is the best day in the year. No
man has learned anything rightly until
he knows that every day in the year is
doomsday.
Wu. Seymour, present stage man
ager at the Boston" Museum, will prob
ably take a similiar position under Law
rence Barrett, at the California theater
commencing June 1st, 1880.
Mr. Maurice Stkakosch has en
gaged Teresa Singer for next year, and
in spring will take the Italian Opera
Company to London for a season of two
months.
The celebrated Townley collection of
sculpture, for which Parliament paid
(100,000, has remained for twenty-five
years in the cellars of the British
Museum, and has only been viewed dur
ing that time, by lantern light, by a few
people who insisted on seeing it
Josh Billings has engaged to read
his lecture, “ The Probabilities of Life,”
(perhaps rain, perhaps not), one hun
dred night the present winter, between
Eastpart, Maine, and Pittsburg, Pa.,
and has already filled forty of the
nights.
Miss Minnie Cummings of New York
has written a play entitled Suspected.
The plot, we imagine, is constructed
upon the idea of a woman With two
healthy boys, whe suspect the rats of
being the authors of the mysterious
lowering of her doughnut-jar’s contents.
Emmie Young, the daughter of Brig
ham Young, who forced the executors
of her father’s will to hand over to the
heirs about $76,000 more than they first
intended to, is soon to open at the Bella
Union, a minor theater in San Fran
cisco, Cal. She has married the man
ager, W. C. Orosbie.
Mr. Carte has altogether five opera
companies now playing “Pinafore”—
one in London, three traveling in the
provinces in England and one in New
York, and he gave with these different
troupes Saturday no less than ten per
formances of the work, morning and
evening—two in New York, two i»
London and six with these three trav
eling companies.
Boucicault has evidently recovered
for the Boston Herald tells ns that Man
ager Field, of the Museum, has closed
negotiations for a long engagement with
that gentleman daring which an entirely
new comedy from the author-actor’s
pen will have its initial production, and
The Shaughraun, will be performed for
the first time at this bouse. Mr. Bouci-
cault has just completed the comedy,
and will give the rehearsals the benefit
of his assistance.
Underlining.
The use of italics in letter writing—or,
to speak more properly, the practice of
underlining w&rds—to which, as every
one knows, the fair sex are particularly
addicted—has been treated in every
variety of style by critics of a more or
less hostile order. The ladies—or, at
least, the English ladies, who, of all
others, seem to be most devoted to that
species of eccentricity—have been lec
tured and langhed at, exhorted and
satirized, in so many publications that
now no caricaturist who ventures to
imitate a lady’s letter can afford to do
so without embodying in it a handsome
sprinkling of italics. Equally certain
is it, and equally well acknowledged,
that the failing, if it be a failing, is
not shared to any great extent by the
sex which grammarians call more
worthy. Thus much we all admit, and
have for years admitted. But the rea
son of such a distinction between one
sex Mid the other is less obvious and in
telligible; and the most acute philoso
phers are not all agreed in accounting
for the phenomenon. Probably the
most generally accepted theory is that
women, endowed as they are with so
much more than their fair share of
“feelings,” are constrained by a natural
instinct to allow the afflatus of them to
express itself in dashes, and to transmit
to the reader by such means, imperfect
as they are, the emphatic meanings
which, if they were speaking alond to
him, they would convey by the aid of
looks or gestures. According to this
doctrine, the underlining in letters
would be a mild form of hysterical affec
tion not altogether dissimilar from the
nervous tendencies to which the sex is
prone. Nor is this explanation very
much out of harmony with the much
more rude and startling theory that has
just been enunciated by a French jour
nalist of distinction. Aurelien Schoil
advances the original proposition,
founded, as it is said, on medical argu
ments and observation, that the practice
of underlining is a sign of incipient
madness. We will assume, of course, as
in gallantry hound, that the practice
mentioned here is referred.to only when
indulged in by men; but still the opinion
will, no doubt, be interesting to letter-
writers both of the one and the other
sex.
He glanced into her eyee snd thought,
There was no fair rebutter.
She rent beck a reeponai re tmile.
He knev at once he’d found hv,
A mutual recognition came.
And forthwith anirejolnaer.
They atroQ along the shady walk,
TMr beluga with fond lore elate,
ysjfcme,
_n ucUnt wrl$ironT ;a5ruS?’
Should jta «sa7 to ent^ there,
You’* beer the old nss&tnuu."
—Keetatk Gate OH.
Honesty is tha bestpolioe, see?
A matter of course—the lecture.
Cannibals don’t like to eat a coward,
because the bravest are the tenderest.—
Cincinnati Saturday Night. '•
“ This is a high-banded outrage,” as
the boy remarked- when he found that
his mother had put thei cookies on the
upper shelf.
“My darling,” said he “ what a de
licious taste your lips have.” Then she
sprang np and yelled, “Goodness, John,
have you been eating my iip salve?”
There is a county in Texas in which
there is no saloon, and in which a
murder was never committed. Its only
existence is on the map.—Chicago Tones.
Young men, if your girl keeps look
ing at your feet every time she meets
yon, don’t let it embarrass you in the
least; she is simply taking your measure
for a pair of slippers.
It has been demonstrated in Paris
that when a man pounds his thumb
with a hammer he is twice as mad as
when be strikes his elbow on the door
frame.—Detroit Free Press.
The effect of jet on satin is very
elegant.—Bangor Commei cial. Thiadoes
not refer to a jet of water.—Boston Post.
Why not? Watered silk is considered
very handsome, and when made into a
dress, is frequently sat in.
“Bully” is not'an Americanism.
Some of the streets of Paris have been
called Boulevards for a long time.—Seth
Spicer. And yet any New York politician
can post you on the bully wards.—
New York News.
Some wise man remarked, “ No man
is hurt but by himself.” Did that
man ever visit a dentist? Did he ever
play shinny with a mule? Finally, did
he ever “sass” his wife?—Oil Oity
Derrick.
John Bright’s son is hunting out
West. His aged father is hunting in
England—for office.—Free Press. A
good many people down this way are
suffering from Bright’s disease.—Rich
mond (Fix.) Baton.
A woman who was called as a witness
in an assault case tried in the Edinburgh
police court recently, on being asked
by the magistrate what was the profes
sion of her husband, answered, prompt
ly, “Mv husband is a bankrupt, sir.”
He looked aa wise as an owl, did he,
His tricks were well adjusted,
He declined to advertise, you see.
And in a year he busted.
—N. T. Hotel MaiL
Ebenezer Stone and his wife Flora,
out West, were divorced not long ago,
hut afterwards they came to an under
standing, were remarried, and are happy
together as far as we know. It was a
case of Eb and Fla, it would seem; at
any rate, they are tide now.
One of our Boston preachers eaid
Sunday afternoon: “The little good
any of us can do must be done with our
hearts thumping against the hearts of
•ur fellow man.” And every young*
woman in church looked at every other
yonng woman and smiled approvingly.
“Maria,” observed Mr. Holcomb, as
he was putting on his clothes, “there
aia’too patch on my breeches yet.'’ “1
can’t fix it sow, no way. I’m too busy."
“Well, give me the patch then, an’ Til
carry it around with me. I don’t want
people to think 1 can’t afford the cloth.”
Matron, to her boy, screaming:
“Willie, how long are you going to keep
nay toothbrush?” “I’m through with
it. mammy; Sallie’s using it now.”
“Tell Sallie to bring it here immedi
ately; that girl won’t have any teeth
left if she keeps on scrubbing them.”—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Professor—“What does that expres
sion represent?” Student—“That is the
sum of the moments of the elements.”
Professor—“Saj it again.” Student re
peats. Professor—"‘TLat’a it. I’m
going to have yon say that
until I impress it on your mind as they
brand U. S. on a mule.—Acta Columbian.
They met, ’twas on the street—
“ Ob! such a bonnet!” thought the one—
^'ne other thought; ** What feet!”
Yet they did talk-
Together walk—
And kissed each other’s cheeks, and chalk.
—Detroit Free Frets.
A professor of the Iowa University
is charged with placing eighty kegs of
beer where they would do the most
good in electing him to the State
Senate.
Fashionable head gear seems to be
divided between the large beaver hat
and the small feather or beaded bonnets.
The hats are worn mostly by such young
ladies as sported the Gainsborough, the
bonnet by such young women as do not
like the hat, and women who are no
longer young. There is nothing more
to be said of the bonnets than has been
said already.
Still another cheap lace appears as
a rival for Breton, and it calls itself
Languedoc, a name which will be a
worse trial to the salesmen than that
which they called Brettoong. The
Langnedoc has its large figures darned
in with cord and shaded with fine
thread, and is made on imitation Valen
ciennes and thread grounds in dead
white and several shades of cream.
A very beautiful yonng lady was
hurrying through the streets of Balti
more, turned, and in pathetic accents,
asked a gentleman walking beside her
to knock a pickpocket down who wa*
following her. The gentleman oblig
ingly complied. As soon as she saw the
fight fairly began, she chuckled gayly
and skipped away. The man knocked
down was her husband.
The First Banks.
We are generally told in histories of
banking, as, for instance, in that of GU-
bart, that the first National Bank was
that of Venice, founded in the year 1157,
bat I agree with Mr. McLeod, that this
institution was not at first in any sense
a true bank. The State being deeply in
volved in debt, its creditors were torened
into a corporation, and the debts made
transferable, like our consols. It was
not until 1587 that the institution began
to take money on demisit. The de
positors received a credit on the hank’d
books equal to the actual weight of
bullion placed there, which the bank
undertook to keep intact in its' vanlts,
and to repay the depositor at any time,
or to transfer to any (me else. The
earliest real bank was that of Barcelona,
founded in 1401. In this case, the city
funds were made responsible for any
moneys intiusted to the bank, which not
only received deposits, but exchanged
money and discounted bills. The Bank
of Amsterdam was founded ini 1809. The
so called Bank of Bt. George, at Genoa,
dates back to 1407, but does not appear
to have done genuine banking business
until 1675. The Bank of Stockholm,
which commenced in 1668, was the first
bank in Europe to issue bank notes,
wltRh, until that time, were totally un-
known in the WesA although, as we
have seen, they had long been in use in
China.