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The Advertiser. " Published every Thursday by D. B. FR/R EJYt^V iNT. Terms: $1.50 per annum, in advance. OLD SERIES-VOL. VII-NO. 24. CEDARTOWN, GA\, JULY 15, 1880. NEW SERIES—VOL. II-NO. 31. Bu fluff Drop From MFOilWR Main St Cedartown Ga., 17 TOU WANT THEM PURE AND FRESH. C. G. JANES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CEDARTOWN, GA. tr office 111 the Conrt House. febn-iy JOSEPH A. BLANCE, attorney at law, CEDARTOWN, GA DBS. LIDDELL & SON, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OFFICE CAST SIDE OF MAIN ST. CEDARTOWN, GA JAHHT W. G. ENGLAND, Physician and Surgeon. CEDARTOWN, GA OFFICE over J. A. Wynn’s where he may be found ready to attend calls either day or night. Janl5-iy DR. C. H. HARRIS, Physician and Surgeon, Cedartown. ----- Ga. B. FISHER, Watchmaker & Jeweler. CEDARTOWN, GA Haying just opened out a shop at the store of a. D. Hogg * Co., respectfully requests the public to call on him when needing work In his W. F. TURNER, Attorney at Law. CEDARTOWN, GA will pr ctlce In the Superior Courts of Polk, Pau ding, Haral on. Floyd and Carroll counties, special attention given to collections and real estate business. marll-ly DR. L. S. LEDBETTER, DENTIST, CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA. All Dental work performed In the most skill ful manner. Office oyer J. S. Stubbs k Co.’s, flebit-iy F. M. SMITH. Attorney at Law and KEAL ESTATE AGENT, CEDARTOWN, GA Particular attention given to the selling or rent ng of city property. Buying and selling wild lamia a specialty. Parties owning wild 1 • nds in Georgia would do well to correspond with me. as I nave app lcatlons for thousands of acres whose owners are unknown. No tax fl. fa. or other bogus title need apply. Look np y< ur beeswax and write me. Terms: Ten per cent, commission on sales. For locating and ascertaining probable value, $1 per lot. For searching records lor owners, so cents per lot. For ascertaining If land Is claimed or occupied by squatter. $1 per lor. Always In advance. To m.Mire at'ent on enclo e a S-cent stamp. Parties owning wild lands should look to their interests, as many of these wild ands are being stolen by squatters under a bogus title. All coramunlca- t„,promptly answered. Satisfaction guar- f to all honest men. JanM-ly LIVERY FEED, AND SALE STABLE! Wright & Johnson Prop’rs. CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA. i with new Horses, N prepared to meet the Being supplied with new Horn cies. k we axe ] ~ the public in our New Vehl- wants of jans-ly JAMES H. PRICE, CEDARTOWN, GA Keeps on hand and manufactures to order MATTRESSES! My work recommends itself wherever need, and Is guaranteed to render the moet perfect satisfaction. No flimsy material used, no work slighted. I ask a trial. JAMES. H. PRICK tebie-ly. CALHOUN Livery and Sale Stable. FOSTER & HARLAN, Props, CiLHOVIT, GEORGIA. line of new Vehicles, we are prepared to meet the wants of the traveling public in our line. Parties wishing vehicles sent to any of the trains on the Selma. Rome and Dalton Railroad or to any other point, may telegraph us, and have their wants promptly ana properly at tended to. FOSTER * HARLAN, Calhoun, Os. JadS-U ISAAC T. CEDARTOWN, GA.. —DEALER IN- STOVES TINWARE, Hardware and Hollow-Ware, OF ALL KINDS. House-Furnishing Goods A SPECIALTY. variety of lob work in my line neatly done, l iaspect ul:y solicit the patronage nf the public, and would be pleased to have all i uir puuuu, auiA nuuiu aw pioascu uj uavc au mj frienda and customers call and see me when In town. 1.T.MBE Jans-ly "BEAR YE ONE ANOTHER’S BURDENS I” file Mi Protection of Our Loved Ones at Net Cost CEDARTOWN SCHOOL, J. C. HARRIS^ Principal. continues 4M months. Rates of tuition a, cus- TUe school-room Is convenient and eomfort- ab e; training thorough and discipline nrm. The Principal oilers his thanks lor past favors, and conddentlT ask fora liberal share or patron age In the tutor*. Retereaoe as to discipline, etc., 13 made to the (onuer patrons or this school. norsr sm The People's Mutual Relief Association Is issuing certificates of membership in amounts from $1,000 to $5,000 or strictly healthy persons, male and female. The plans are SAFE. CHEAP AND PERMANENT. Applications for membership will be received by . JNO. W. RADLEY, Cedartown, Ga. Partial list of members in and around Cedartown: F. M. Right, A. A. Read, John W. Bracken, P. J. Bracken, Wm. R. Craig, Geo. H. Leake, J. W. Barr, Dr. C. H. Harris, J. B. Crabb, W. H. H. Harris, D. R. Monroe, Dr. W. G. England', Jno. W. Radley, J. W. Kilgore, Daniel Walker, D. B. Freeman, Mrs. Nancy Powell, Aiex. Dougherty, Mrs. Francis Dougherty, Dr. E. H. Richardson, Captain N. S. Eaves. apl5-6m A- J- YOUNG, DEALER IN Corn and Rye Whiskies, Wine, Gins and Brandies. Noyes Warehouse - - CEDARTOWN, Ga. SOLE AGENT FOR COX, HILL t THOMPSON’S STONE MOUNTAIN WHISKIES In Cedartown. I keep such Liquors as may be used as a beverage or for medical purposes with perfect safety. tW~ Give me a call. Good treatment guaranteed. mr!8-ly NEW HOUSE! NEW MERCHANTS! New Goods and New Prices. A. D. HOGG & CO., MAIN Street, CEDARTOWN, Georgia, Have just opened a select stock of General Merchandise in their new store, and want all their friends and the public generally to call and let them show their goods and prices. Their stock was 'bought before the recent rise In prices, and they feel confident of having goods at bottom figures. They have beautiful Dress Goods, Calicoes, Corsets, new styles; Bleach- ings, Flannels, Cassimeres, Kerseys, Kentucky v Jeans, Hosiery, Gloves, Hardware, Notions, etc., etc. Extra nice Gentlemen’s Underwear Very Low. Remember the place—last Brick Jartore on South MAIN Street, west side. nov6 ly 4 4 H. C. CROWLEY, 4 4 DEALERIN STOVES AND TIN-WARE, EAST SIDE OF MAIN STREET, Opposite Philpot & Dodds, - - - CEDARTOWN, Ga. Keeps constantly in stock the LATEST and BEST brands of STO.YES, a'nt can now supply customers with the unequalled Times, Souther i linker and Iron City. Keeba it all times a lull line of Tinware, and does all kinds of tinner’s work—Roofing, guttering, <fcc. Splenrtld assortment or Crookery and Glassware will be kept constantly instock. ml>25 ly ED. E. BRANNON, Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries. C hickens, Eggs aid Batter a Specialty I HAVE ALSO A first-class bar in connection with the Store, which is stocked with the finest Liquors in town. jan8-tf CHEAP GOODS! J. S. STUBBS & CO., Have just moved into their elegant new Store Rooms on East Side of MAIN Street! Where they are now opening an extensive stonk of GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Their goods were selected with great care and with an eye to the needs of their customers, and were bought for Cash. They will be sold at the loweit figures. Go and examine their stock and prices before making yonr purchases. ang7-tf J. P. DUEFEY, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IK BUGGY AND WAGON HARNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES, &C. (Daugherty’a-OId Stand,) CEDARTOWIV, Georgia. All Work Guaranteed to give satisfaction. AU he asks is a trial. jan8*ly DAWK. O whispering breath of tha Morning! Float up bum the iaaguiA South, And kiae the Mousoas adanrng The Earth with your eoented month; Careee-with your tender fingers The bed where the lilies sleep ; Sigh where the violet lingers. And the eed-oyed peneieo weep; Awoken the roee from ite dreaming, Pley with the daffodil's heir: Flit where in dew-drops streaming The star-crowned daisies stare. O breath of the breezy gloaming! Sweep from the Eastern sky | lows gathered up there in the country. ■ | “We are all invited.” ] “And, of course, we will all go!” was j the prompt and unanimous response. As for apple-paring and cutting, it was scarcely anything more than an introduc tory ceremony, resorted to for the purpose of place-boring the old people and getting the free use of the house for dancing. Before the end of an hour the old lady told the young people very plainly that the apples they were wasting were worth more than the work they were doing, that they had better remove the baskets and pans, clear up the rooms and go on with their danc ing. As for Edgar Hartland, he did not pare Hath let o'er the riven lie; Snatch from her shadowy garment. The glories of purple and red— Scatter them over the mountaina. To tell na the Night hath fled. O breeze of the Dawning tender I Cell np from ite dreamless rest. With yonr tale of the Morning's splendor, Each bird from its mossy nest. Fill np tha woodlands and asedows With the music of a wallow end thrush ; Sweep the gray mists from the vslleye; Loosen the streams with a rnab. Then beckon with loving fingers, O breath of the Summer sweet! To the Dawn that so coyly lingers O'er the mountain, with laggard feet, She will come with her round cheek flush ing. To brighten the waiting werld : And the sombre Nig't, at her blushing, Shall into dark void bo burled. The oiooda that the iMi-ht m her roaming. * dozen a PP le8 that evening, nor did he K ^ join in the dancing. Formal introductions had not been heard of in that Egypt, and Mr. Hartland was therefore simply observ ing the customs of the country, when, soon after entering the room, he approached a strange young lady and said : “I am much pleased to meet you here. My name is Edgar Hartland. ” “And mine,” was the frank reponse “is CVra Ogden.’ i We are expected to pare some of the apples, I suppose,” said Edgar. “I will pare until I find a good one to eat, and then divide it with you, n said his companion with a merry laugh. Half a dozen were pared, cut, cored and thrown into the tray before one just right was found, the seeds of which were taken carefully out and used in telling their for tunes. By these trifles those young stran gers were opening the way for the conver sation that soon followed in regard to their homes in New England. Mr. Hartland had paid only two visits to his home during the four years he had been out there, while Miss Ogden had been there only three months, having come out with the Rev. Mr. Birdsell, a missionary, ac companied also by the young wife whom the minister had been home to marry and bring out. “As for me,” said Miss Ogden, “I came here on a land speculation. ” Then she went on to relate that her father, who had died two years before, had Found in Egypt. There was nothing remarkable in Edgar Hartland’s starting out in the world. He was simply a bold, earnest and persevering young man, who intended to make bis life’s visit to this world a fact worth re membering. Young Hartland was twenty-two years | left among his effects some old land war- old when he finiahed his collegiate course, | rants, issued to soldiers for services in the in his preparation for which, aa in all his war of 1812. There were thirteen of these studies, his constant effort had been to make thorough work of whatever he at- temped to learn, and not simply to put his warrants, each entitling the holder to select and receive eighty acres of government land. In settling the estate she had re- real or imaginary attainments to the best | ceived those warrants as a part of her di- use in making a sensation on public occa sions. And now the young man was looking out into the world for something to do. As for the triangular professions—law, medi cine and divinity—there were as he thought, too many already m them. He thought it would be difficult to make a good use of his head or his hands, while obliged to be using his elbows at the same tune, in crowding other poor fellows out of the way. So he concluded at last to take bis compass, level, and measuring line, and go West. Forty years have passed since the events to which the reader is now turning hi8 at tention, occurred, and yet even then the watchword: “To the West I to the West!” was an old, familiar and Btirring appeal. Hartland repaired to the land office and applied for an appointment as surveyor of government lands. “You are quite a young man,” said the commissioner, ‘ ‘to be assigned to so arduous and responsible a duty; and besides yon do not look as if yonr constitution could stand the fatigues and exposures of camp life.” “I was strong and healthy,” said Hart land , “when a boy, being accustomed to spend a good deal of the time on the farm with my father. He died about seven years ago, and since then I have been studying until lately. A few months in the open air will bring me all right ” “Well, my young friend,” said the com missioner; “yon appear to hare the right spirit, and a man who has a soul in him can soon put a body around it Your tes timonials as to character and attainments are good, and we will give you a place in our corps of surveyors. It may be a month or six weeks before you will be ordered into service. In the meantime, here is a small book of instructions, which it will be well for you to look over. Your salary dates from to-morrow, and you will receive a remittance for outfit with your order to report, which will be sent as soon as we determine where yonr services will be re quired. Here is your commission. Where shall I address you ?” The place named was the home of his mother, to which Edgar Hartland imme diately repaired to bear the good news. But to her it was also sad news for she now realized that her beloved son must soon leave her for some distant field of labor. “I am ordered to Egypt, mother,” said Edgar, as he opened and read a letter from the commissioner. But the alarming an nouncement was turned into a pleasant and gratifying surprise when the lady learned that the Egypt referred to waa no further off than the western part of Illinois. Every department of business has ways of its own; and the old saying, that “there are tricks in all trades but ours,” would be nearer the truth if ours also were includ ed. To survey, map out and describe the public domains has been a work of enor mous dimensions; but Edgar Hartland, and the men who were with him, soon discov ered that most of the maps with which they were furnished, purporting to show old surveys to be verified and traced, had been made by imaginary field-notes. The act ual work which these maps professed to record had never been done. The rivers, mountains, rocks, valleys and trees—min utely described—black oak, red beech, hickory, maple and sycamore were not there and never had been. The wooodland waa an open prairie; and as for the mountains and rivers so carefully described in the re ports, they had never been seen-by the old est inhabitant. Bat those maps and reports had been received and paid for a long time ago, and the men who made them had gone to receive another reward. The only thing the new surveyera could do was to begin therr work and go on with it exactly as if those old maps had never been made. The people out there, counted by thous ands, and sometimes not counted at all, were scattered here, there and everywhere, and knew lrttle or nothing in regard to the grounds on which the government rested its claims to those lands. As for the sur veying companies that were passing occa sionally through their fields, and driving stakes near their cabins, they did not place a high estimate on them, and occasionally expressed their want of confidence in them by giving one or more of those men a cheap funeral. Edgar Hartland and his companions soon discovered that a cheap and easy way to get along with those settlers was to avail themselves of their services and adopt their manners and modea of living aa far as they could. When invited to a husking, apple paring, or even a quilting, to be closed with a break-dpwn, they were pretty cer tain to be there. “There is to be an apple-bee at Tom Blnrer’s, to-night;” said Edgar Hartland to his companions, among whom were half- a-dozen axemen and chainmun—young fel- visory portion, and had come out there in company with her friends, hoping to find some one who would select and locate the lands for her. That little service would be just in the line of the work the young surveyor was accustomed to do. He would gladly select the lands and obtain for her the full and specific titles which she required from the government. For this service Miss Ogden would, of course, be greatly obliged, and as soon as this business was arranged would retnrn to her home. The people with whom she had been stopping, and whom she had never heard of until she came there, had been very kind to her, and she had suffered no inconveniences that would not be more than paid for by securing those lands, which her dear deceased father had left her the means of obtaining. On parting Mr. Hartland remarked that he would call again within two or three weeks, and might, perhaps, be ready te re port progress in the selection of the lands. Of course not a word had passed between those young people suggestive of any spec ial or per.onal interest in each othei; nor do well-bred persons talk of love, court ship, or marriage the first time they meet. “Youare in danger of bemg killed;” was the startling announcement that Edgar Hartland heard from a friend two days after that interview with Miss Ogden. While conversing with the young lady he had noticed a repulsive loooking man, whom he had occasionally seen, and knew to be a rough and coarse fellow, glaring at him with the fierceness of a tiger. His manner seemed strange and unaccountable, but he did not think best to make any allusion to it. Now, however, he knew that the coarse, but bold and daring young man, had been boasting of his ability to woo, win and marry Miss Ogden, who had spoken to him civilly a few times. But his love demon strations had not yet been sufficiently ag gressive to awaken in her mind a suspicion that he was preparing to lay siege to her heart and hand. Now, however, all the forces of his wild, uncultured mind were aroused, and entirely unconscious of what propriety and delicacy required, he was openly boasting of his determination to marry the young lady, or rather, “that ’ere gal,’’ as he called her. “As for that surveyor, he would put him under the leaves if he didn't move out of his way.” “Better go an’ see the gal at once and ask her to marry you,” was the advice Joe Blanson received from several of his com panions. And Joe did, “Really, Mr. Blanson. you surprise me,” said Miss Ogden. “I can not entertain an offer of marriage from you,” “And I know,” said the ambitious lover, “just why you don’t want me. You’ve got your eyes on that fellow, Hartland. I seed him makin up to you at the apple-bee, and if he cornea near you again I’ll lay him out cold I” The fierce and murderous expression with which that threat was accompanied, aroused in the mind of Miss Ogden serious apprehensions for the young surveyor’s safety; and a message from her soon reached him, warming him of the danger impend ing. The result was that Edgar Hartland soon called on Miss Ogden to allay her fears for his safety, assuring her that they were groundless. “I will see,” said he, “JoeBlanson imme diately, in company with a couple of my friends. I will tell him that X was simply talking with you about our old homes and in regard to Borne matter of business, and will tell him also that it is not honorable nor fair for him to be pressing his atten tions on you. I have been among these men a long time and know just how to deal with them. He will give you no further trouble; and as for his killing me, there is not the least danger of it” Mr. Hartland did very soon quiet poor Joe Blanson, and he subsided entirely. But to control and subdue certain emotions that had been awakened in his own heart, waa not so easily done. Tho-e quarter sections were carefully selected and located, four of which, ad joining each other, took in some valuable improvements that were pud for at satis factory prices. Meantime Miss Cora Ogden concluded not to return just then to her old home in New England, a happier and much more desirable home ha ring been found oat there i“ Egypt- , Joe Blanson, strange as it may seem to the reader, was among the guests who were invited to the entertainment that followed the marriage of Edgar Hartland and Cora Ogden. Joe waa there in his best clothes, and behaved as well aa he knew how. It is true he stood back in some nnconspicuous position most of the time, for he could not keep out at his thoughts the remembrance of the foolish and wicked threat he bad To one man, who knew how absurd and improper his conduct had been, ha said: “I’d die now for Hartland, sooner than I’d kill him! 1 wasn’t tha man to be courtin’ that gal; and he is the right one to have her. But it was me that started him for her. If he had showed or talked fight the day he come over to see me, I’d a killed him as sure as ray name is Joe Blanson; but it took the murderin' feelin’ right out o’ me when he come to me on the square an’ talked good common sense. ” Trying to Drive a Baa Did you ever undertake to drive a hen anywhere? If not, then never say “Where there’s a will there’s a way,” or “Ail things are possible to him who observes, ” because you don’t know anything about it. Driving a hen properly, and decorously, and successfully, requires more skill than capturing a herd of buffalo. The hen you want to drive js always a strong-minded hen. If she had been a woman she would have wanted the ballot long ago, and her husband would have had to keep quiet when she ‘ got set” on any thing. But being only a hen, all she can do is to cackle, and be contrary, and thwart you at every turn. If you want her to go in somewhere she’ll be sure to want to go out, and vice versa. Yon want to drive her mast when she gets out of the coop, and gets into your garden, to the total destruction of your pet bulbs, and roots, and seeds, and everything else. One smart, active hen will do more harm in one hour than a cow would in half a day. A hen la bom with an instinct to get at the root of the matter, and she follows out her nature. When your hen gets out of confinement she makes straight for your choicest flower bed, and she stays there for an hour before you discover her. By that time she has dug out everything that you cared anything about, and has buried herself up all but her head, and there she lies in the sun with happiness and triumph in her speaking countenance. How mad you are 1 You feel as if you could sever her joints and make her into a pot-pie with a will—no matter if she is one of the trio that cost $10. You go for her with energy, and scream out “shoo!” at her, and flourish your apron, and make wild gestures in her direction, and call your husband, and the children, and the hired girl, to help drive her into her quarters. Now, it is never any use to call a man to help drive a hen. We are willing to admit that the lords of creation can do quantities of things that the weaker sex cannot, but there is one things man can never do—and thit is drive a hen. He’ll break the rake-handle, and get hung in the clothes-line, and lose his hat, and fail down over the croquet wickets, and burst off two or three of his suspender buttons, and the hen will fly up on the top of the bam, or take refuge io the tallest The Manly Art. Prize fights have been steadily loosing countenance for years, even with the ruf fianly class that has hitherto supported them, and the end of them in this country seems very near. They are essentially un- American and have never met with any degree of encouragement from the native population, unless of direct British or Irish descent. Professional pugilism is of Eng lish origin, and has been tolerated, even advocated, in Britain, by men of position and title. The earliest account on record of systematic British boxing was in 1750, when public displays of the “manly art' attracted general attention. Up to that time self-defense with fists had mads but little progress, strength and endurance be ing the only recommendations of the bruisers at Smithfield, Moorfield and South- wark fairs, where boxing booths and rings had long been seen. In the year aforesaid, Broughton, who pronounced himself cham pion of England, built a theatre for exhi tions, and they were well attended and stubbornly fought. He also introduced gloves for sparring with various rules miti gating the savageness of the practice. Jackson, the champion of 1785, made the business so popular that half the men of rank and fashion of the day were proud to be his pupils. Shaw, the Life Guardsman, who so distinguished himself at Waterloo, was Jackson’s disciple, and his achieve ments on the battle-field were owing as much to training as to strength. Belehner, Guily and Cribb were also famous Cham pions of the period. From the time of George IV. pugilism has steadily declined, on account of the diehonesty and meanness of its principal participants, who gradually became common roughs, blacklegs and thieves. The last fight that drew any no tice from any decent people was that be tween Sayers and Heenan, and that be cause it had assumed an international character. In the United States pugilism has never touched the outermost circle of respectability. It has from the first been surrendered to the vilist creatures in the community, and really reputable Americans have never countenanced it. The main argument in its behalf, that it discouraged the use of deadly weapons, has loDg been refuted, for pugilists of a professional sort are continually employing knives and re volvers without the slightest justification. The one thing which they might be ex pected to have is physical courage; but most of them have proved themselves, whenever opportunity offered, wholly de void of it. The cincerest, most active sup porters of prize-fighting are not only low scoundrels, but arrant cowards, equally ready to pick a pocket or stab an enemy in the dark. Human Flesh as Food and Medicine. “Miriam cures wound, -and Pharaoh is sold for balsams, ” wrote Sir Thomas Brown tree on the premises, and there she will J two hundred years ago, and it ia an stay and laugh at him until she is ready to undoubted fact that evendown to the come down. And all the men in creation > time of Sydenham “mummy” was cannot drive her down, for she knows that held to be a drug of great curative she has got things her own way. Your hen that you are going to drive generally cackles aril the time you are try ing to drive her. It gives her courage, perhaps, to defy you. It is like the music of a martial band when the troops are marching into battle. It is as inspiring as the strains of “Yankee Doodle” to the hen’s ear. You try gentleness first. “Shoo, biddy! shoo, biddy! shoo, there!” and she plunges off m the direction con trary to th« one you wish her to go in; and then you draw off your forces and execute a flank movement, and “pen” her np, but presto 1 just as you think you have got her, Bhe squats and gives a scoot right out under your skirts, and away she goes free as air. Then you get some corn and try and bribe her. Oh, no, she doesn’t want any corn, thank you. She is above bribery. She doesn’t take any stock in your “chicky! chickyl chicky!” delivered in your most cajoling of voices. Still she cackles. All the roosters cackle, too, evidently tickled with her spunk. A few hens who are not curious join in. All the neighbors will be looking out to see “what on earth are you making them hens screech so for.” Your husband gets a pole and makes a dive for that hen. He’ll fix her cackle for her, he says; she’ll go into that hen-honse or he’ll know the reason! And by the time he has chased her all over the premises, and torn his pants, and knocked a piece of skin off his hand, and run over little Charley, he does not find out the reason. It is because she is not of a mind to go into that hen-house. And he sayB that hens are a nuisance, and that he’ll kill the whole of ’em, and he wishes there never had been one invent ed. By'this time you are tired of his help, and you request him to go away and you’ll drive that hen. Then you begin, and the hen begins too. Bhe flies over the fence, and op on a neigh bor’s woodshed, and down into somebody’s pig-pen, and the pig takes after her with a vim, and she flies out with a screech, and runs under the barn, and there she stays till night and then if you will leave open your hen-house door aha will find her way thither, aa meek and innocent looking aa yon please—far “chickens and curses come home to roost.” Courtship in Greenland. There is something exceedingly mel ancholy in the accounts which are given of the custom of courtship in Greenland. Generally women enter upon the blessed estate with more willingness and less solici tude than men. The women of Greenland are an exception to this rule. A Green lander, having fixed his affections upon Borne female, acquaints his parents with the state of his heart They apply to the parents of the girl, and if the parents are thus far-agreed the next proceeding is to appoint two female negotiator* whose duty is to broach the subject to the young lady. This is a matter of great tact and delicacy. The lady ambassadors do not shock the young lady to whom they are sent by any sudden or abrupt avowal of the awful subject of their mission. Instead of doing this they launch out in praises of the gentleman who seeks her hand. They speak of the splendor of his houae the, aumptnousneaa of his furniture, of his cour age and skill in catching seals, and other accomplishments. The lady, pretending to be affronted even at these remote hints, runs away, tearing the ringlets of hair as she retires, while the ambassadresses, hav ing got the consent of her parents, pursue her, take her by force to the houae of her destined husband and there leave her. Compelled to remain there, she sits for days with dishevelled hair, silent and de jected, refusing every kind of sustenance, till at last, if kind entreaties do not prevail, she is compelled by force, and even by blows, to submit to the detested union. Ip some cases the Greenland women faint at the proposals of msniage; in others they fly to the mountains arid only return when compelled to do so by the hunger and cold. If one cuts off her hair it is a sign she ia determined to racist to death. The Green land wife is the slave of her husband, doomed to a life of-doil, drudgery and privatioo. power, and was extensively administered in cases of fever and ague. But what should be said of the “exhibition” to a pa tient of a piece of human flesh freshly taken from the living subject ? This ex ceptionally appalling medicament seems to have been made use of under very singluar circumstances in China. A recent number of the Pekin Gazette ■published an appli cation to the Emperor from the Governor General of the Province of Kwane-Tung for permission to erect a memorial structure in honor of the filial devotion of a young lady twenty-one years of age, the daughter yf a magistrate of Canton. She is describ ed as having be. n “brought up by her father from childhood well educated and deservedly reputed for virtue and intelli gence. ” In the spring of last year her papa fell ill, and was most tenderly nursed by dis devoted daughter. At the end of six mouths the old gentleman became much worse, whereupon the young lady cut a piece of flesh from her arm and mixed it with his medicine. This remedy proved fatal to the patient,and his daughter, whohad vowed to sacrifice her life for his, poisoned herself on the same day that her father (lied. This melancholy story of heroic filial piety, mingled with the most barbarous ignor ance and superstition, may be instructively read in juxtaposition with a letter received in Shanghai from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Shansi. Says Mgr. Monagatta, who is a resident of Tai Yuen, the capital of a province in which famine is just now raging with the most fearful severity: “Until lately the starving people were con tent to feed on the dead; but now they are slaughtering the living for food. The hus band eats his wife; parents are eating their children; and in their turn sons and daugh ters eat their dead parents. This goes on almost every day.” Cannibalism has in a more or less marked degree been an atten dant horror on the majority of great famines, but the systematic eating of ha- man flesh in a time of scarcity is hardly to be wondered at in a country where young ladies of rank, education and intelligence grow up to be twenty-one in the belief that a piece of human flejih can be beneficial as an inward medicament. It may be men tioned that the Imperial Government has sanctioned the erection of the memorial to the daughter of the Canton magistrate, but that only very languid steps have been taken to alleviate the ravages of the fa mine. Afhhan Etiquette. Afghan etiquette forbids paying visita m the off-hand unceremonious way usual in Europe, and is customary and also con- veniet in many ways to send a few hours’ notice ot the intention to call upon an Af ghan. The visitor is received at the door by tome confidential retainer or retainers, and conducted through an open courtyard to the foot of a rude, winding staircase, which leads first to an uncovered landing, and thence to the ordinary reception room or balcony of the proprietor. Here he ia received by the host in person, and con ducted with every mark of courtesy and respect to a small row of chairs, the use of which article of furniture seems to be gen eral in good society in Cabul, and to have quite superseded the carpets and felts which satisfied an older generation. After a few words of welcome and inquiries in a set formula after health on both sides, a tray of fruit usually appears and ia placed upon the carpet at the feet of the visitors. The conversation is then carried on with more or leas spirit on the ordinary topics of the day, and here, if the visit is merely a formal one, the interview comes to an end and the visitor is conducted to the door with the same formality and courtesy with which he was received. It is not, how ever, unusual for the host to ask that the at tendants, who have been seated a respect ful distance all this time, shall withdraw, in view to the introduction of more con fidential topics. Those who look for more than the mere interchange of civilities at these meetings will gladly acceed the this proposal, and it is then that the on- venation often becomes deeply important ioJ interesting. NEWS IN BRIEF. —Levy gets $500 a week for blowing his cornet. —Water is worth as much as whisky in Carson, Nevada. —Queen Victoria’s companions are nearly all widows. —The exodus of negroes from the South still continues. —There is a Boston Bible elass with a teacher on a salary of $1,000 a year. —The Florida orange crop of 1880, promises to be larger than ever before. —There are now 97,000 miles of sub marine telegraph cable in working order. —Only one of the late Brigham Young’s daughters was a thorough blonde. —The demand for heavy horses, not only for breeders, but for work, con tinues. —Twenty-three thousand quails trom England have been set at liberty in Pennsylvania. —The eldest son of Professor Alex ander Agassiz will enter Harvard Col lege this year. —The rice crop of South Carolina Is estimated at 43,000 tierces, and of Geor gia at 26,000 tierces. —The New Jersey Fish Commission ers have deposited 5000 trout in the Passaic and Saddle rivers. —New Orleans boasts of blocks of ice with natural flowers frozen into them at its own ice manufactories. —A Providence woman, admiring a bust in a shop window, stepped in to inquire who Terra Cotta was. —Pearl millet which has not gen erally succeded in Massachusetts is grown with good results in Kansas. —Rye straw is now extensively used in the manufacture of paper, and is worth as much as the best timothy hay. —Professor Huxley will deliver the inaugural address at the opening of the Science College at Birmingham on Oc tober 1. —One or more large sorgum sugar re fineries are to be established in Minne sota, ready for working the crop of next fall. —The British Mercantile Gazette re ports an increase of 649,200 acres In four years devoted to the culture of beet roots in France. —The Canadian Senate lately reject ed, by 32 to 31, the bill legalizing mar riage with a deceased wife’s sister or a deceased brother’s wife. —Stonewall Jackson’s widow and her daughter, Miss Julia Jackson, unveiled a monument to Stonewall Jackson at Winchester, Va., on the 9th of June. —General Grant is reported to have sent to the Emperor of Japan several handsome horses, and the Eastern po centate frequently uses them in liis rides. —The will of Lewis, the Hoboken (N. Y.) miser, bequeathing $1,700,000 to the Government toward payment of the National debt, has been admitted to probate. —Minnesota fruit growers are look ing to some varieties cf apples in Rus sia with the hope of finding some that will endure the severity of the winter climate. —It is stated that there projected this season in Ohio twenty-one new roads, hirteen of them narrow-gauge and the prospects are good that fifteen of them will be built. —The Rev. Phillips Brooks, of Bos ton, will soon visit Europe, to be absent several months. He will go to Eng land with Dean Howson, of Chester, as his companion. —Strauss, the musical composer and director, still lives in Paris. He is 74 possessed of a competency. Strange to say, his ruling passion is not music, but bric-a-brac. —Alsop, the brewer, who has just secured a baronetcy, is discovered to be . descended, on his mother’s side, from Richard Piantagenet, father of Edward IY. and Richard III. —In England the marriage rate was lower in the last quarter of 1879 than m any since civil registration was es tablished In 1837. The birth rate was was lower than in 1850. —M. Henri Say’s new yacht, now being built in Maryland is to cost nearly $300,000. It Is expected to reach speed of eighteen miles au hour, and it will be finished in the autumn. —Horatio Seymour, on the fid of June, which was his seventieth birth day, planted two trees on his broth er’s lawn, in Utica. His Albany ad mirers sent him a handsome library clock. —Mrs. Polly Jerome died in New London, Conn., recently, at the age nf 102 years and 5 months. She was born in Ney London and has always lived there, except a brief period during the war of 1812. —The Tennessee Historical Society has presented a gold-headed hickory cane to Clark Mills, and increased his delight by informing him that it is the first testimonial ever given to any man by the society. —Garibaldi, who is in excellent health, is at present repairing and en larging his house on the island of Cap- rera. The engagement is made in view ot his recent marriage with the nurse of his children. —It is said that Gov. Andrew, of Connecticut, has appointed a Stare de tective to make a further effort to solve the mystery of the murder of Mary Stannard, for which the Rev. H. H. Hayden was tried. —The rank of distinguished Generals in the late war at the time they were graduated from West Point is officially given as follows: Sherman 6, Rosecrans Gilmore 1, McPherson 1, Grant 21, Sheriden 34, Custer 34. —The old car shops near Borden- town, N. J., formerly occupied by the Camden and Amboy Railroad Com pany, have been leased, it is said, by parties from Wilmington:, Del, who intend starting a new car manufactory. —What is said to be the first pound of coffee raised in the United States has been grown by a Mrs. Atzeroth on her plantation on Indiana river, Flor ida. The plants were furnished by the Agricultural Department in Washing ton. —Great Britain and Ireland sent out 217,163 emigrants last year, against 147,663 in 1878, and received 53,973 im migrants; 91,806 of last year’s dc- larturea came to the United States, .7,953 went to Canada, and 40,958 to Australia. These changes in popula tion have an important sanitary bear ing. —In the Paterson (N. J.) Ironworks there has jnst been iorged the heaviest piece of iron ever forged in that city. It is a stern frame for the steamer W. A. Shotten, now being repaired in New York. It is 32x37 feet, and weighs eleven tons; with the rudder, it weighs sixteen tons. It could not be taken through the Erie tunnel, and waa drawn to Jersey city by fourteen horses.