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THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT. VOLUME 1. LOST. Lost! only a hone that erst-woetencl our life That baglitened its doml- and that calmed io* VharMften our faint, sinking heart*,’ made strong, To tx’ur the great sorrow* and cares that throng. !) l( . iong hwa word!' -', that died unheard, '1 hut never a ;tring or a zephyr stirred. j,it r wept all its torrent of music’mong our h> art*, and there died, unsung. L>,st! lost! is a poem, with Ijeuuties filled, That every pulse of otir being thrilled; Hut ore it was fashioned and penned in rhyme, In seeking to form it in measured time, The enchantment was broken-tlie vision lied, The brightness no longer wa* on us shed— The thoughts, like the foam which eludes oui clasp Dissolving, vanished within our grasp. Lost! only a day, yet ah 1 never tho same Again will we be as before it came; Life turns anew aspect, and diiPrent phrase, And brings us new pgrpo. -s with new days. The feelings, the plea* res, we had at nioft Have perished, like J’lnenix, as others were born, Hut shadows have fallen our spirits upon Which go not at setting or rising of sun. Vint! lost! the fair beauty that all things wore. The impress of novelty all things bore, Krc years had grown many, and Mystery IP'H fns'enedtho portal of Destiny— I IV lessons of doubt, of distrust and pain Were taught, till no faith on life’s page re main, A ml all tilings divested of charm, naught more The object of interest as of yore. 1 lost! that pure freshness of childhood days Ere yet hud been learned the world’s artful ways; That innocence, freshness again to find L AH soon seek the meteor’s course to bind. Or hack to the rose give the scattered dew, Or tli' Hint which tho grape o’er its purple drew, Which never again nor all art nor cost Can ever restore, thoy’ic lost, they’re lost. Lost! Lost! and life’s purpose the wail attends; From consciousness, mourning, the cry as cends— For wiifttc'cr its value, or what its cost From cv’ry hcart-caskot some treasure’s lost. ,H ATT IK (. “Ronnie I’.rook,” near Cassville, Ga. UKOOIXKCTIONS OF THK CIVIL SER VICE OF TIIE CONFEDERATE (JOVKRNM KMT. J!Y 11. D. CAriCRS. CHAI’TKK IT. While thus remaining tho sole occu pant of the executive building, and pass ing the short interval between the or ganization of the cabinet and the ava lanche of work which immediately there after bore upon every resource of mind and body, in arranging the appointments of tho department, I had the seclusion of my dignity disturbed by a visit, which, wlnle it brought my energies into play, uncovered tho then limited resources of the confederate treasury. i had just entered upon the routine du ties of the morning, when a b.’isk, Arm step in the hall, and a sharp, decided rap at the door, evidenced tho presence of some one on an earnest mission. To the provincial reply, ‘come mi,’ which sup plemented the absence of my office hoy, there entered a tall, soedy-looking per son, whose whole bearing indicated one accustomed to command. This person at once inquired for the office of the secro tary of the treasury. When informed that lu* was then in the place appointed as such, he scanned the room in a half skeptical manner and informed me that he desired to see the secretary at once, and on very important business. I sla ted to my visitor, who hadn’t so far made his name known to me, that Mr. Mem minger was engaged at tlie eapitol on very important business, and would not Ihj at the office during the morning. To the further suggestion that I might pos sibly serve him as the secretary’s repre sentative, lie at once unfolded his mis sion . •I atn Captain Peas, sir, late of the Uniled Slates army,’ was tiie formal an nouncement of himself. Handing me fi note, he proceeded about in this manner. ‘I have been instructed, sir, by the president, whose letter of introduction to the secretary 1 have handed to you, to provide blankets and rations for one hundred men, who have reported to him for duty in the army. I want the mon ey, sir, to carry out the order of the president.’ Returning the president’s note to Captain Peas, ‘late of the United States army,' I assured him that nothing would give nie more pleasure than to comply with his wishes and the request oi the president, but, Captain, said I, (drawing a lean purse from my pocket it.' I have been on a con- frolic in Montgomery for the ,*„sttwo weeks, and my finances are, at this moment, pretty low. Ascertaining that I had a sum, not over five dollars, I continued, ‘this, captain, is all the mon ey that 1 will vouch for as being in the treasury department of the confederate states at this moment.’ At first the dignified captain seemed provoked at what he might have thought was impudent, but when informed that I was hardly three days old in a depart i ment service that began its career with ~ my presence, his frowning brow relaxed, and he seemed to appreciate my position and to enjoy the joke. Something had to be done, however, to meet this first acouisition, as the gallant captain was determined to execute this, his first order. We were soon at the capltoi to interview Mr. Memminger. Congress was in secret session, but my position ona* led me to communicate witli my chief, who supplied me with a note of introduction to Mr Knox, presi dent of the Central Bank of Alabama, which opened a credit for the confeder ate treasury, based upon the personal obligation of the secretary. The relief of Captain Deas was as much a matter of pleasure to me as it could have been to him. We parted with each other at the J>ank with the understanding that he j would make the purchase and send the i bills to me for payment. In tin eve ning I visited the troops, in whose be- I half this first exercise of executive au ; thority had been made, and ascertained i them to be a company of one hundred ! men from fleorgia, who had tendered ; their services to President Davi . They | were under the command of an officer selected from among their number, who i bore the historic name of George Wash ington Lee. Captain Lee was from Pe j Kalb count}’, Ga., and his company was j the first body of troops who had enlisted \ to maintain the cause of the confederacy. t Within a week from the date of his ap pointment as secretary of the treasury, the legislation necessary to establish a credit for the confederacy had been com ’ pleted and Mr. Memminger.with the ear nest devotion which had characterized his history in private and in public life, was a cabinet officer, executing the pro visions of tho enactments of the provis ional congress. If from the necessity growing out of the incomplete character of this legislation, 1 had found, for tlie first day or two of my official life, but little to do, there were no moments of leisure when the secretary transferred liis energies and business experience from the deliberations of congress to the executive branch of the government over which he had been selected lo pre side. For many years Mr. Mempiinger had been justly regarded the leading com mercial lawyer of Charleston, and had been among the most prominent of the statesmen in formulating and in main taining, not alone the commercial char acter of tli is great ci(y, but the wise sys tem of economy which had preserved the credit and the financial standing of South Carolina, in America and in Europe. llis selection, from this fact, was gener ally approved throughout the country. Educated as a lawyer in the old schools of tho English training system, with the graces of culture incident, not alone to his college course, but also to the asso ciations of the best men of bis profession and the highest expressions of our pe culiar seaboard civilization of the South, Mr. Memmingcr was not alone a great lawyer, but under all circumstances, a representative gentleman. Ao one could nave been more scrupulously conscien tious, no one more devoted in the dis charge of laborious duties, no one more willing and ready to recognize tho rights of others or to discharge tho amenities of social life. In his youth he-had thoroughly learn ed the importance of labor as the neces sary means, not only of acquiring knowl edge and wealth, but a< the great agency for the development of the highest per sonal cnaracter. It is recorded by one of his historians that the great Bonaparte possessed such a wonderful vitality and was so minute in his details that he would exhaust the physical powers of more than one secretary in formulating the plans and devising of his military and civil administration, f know at least one secretary who would often leave the office of the confederate secretary of finance after midnight, utterly worn out with labors that had begun in the morn ing, and who would leave his weariless chief absorbed in some one of the many problems incident to his novel position, •To organize a department of finance for a government formed amid revolutionary surroundings, which would constantly derange the conditions of political econo my and disturb the proper basis of cred its, to moot promptly the financial exi gencies of such a government, growing as these were, day after day, into c .dos sal proportions, required not alone .the machinery of organization, but tho ut most skill, the resource of the best judg ment, and a sagacity which should antic ipate events yet to occur. To meet all the emergencies of the government, the provisional congress bad provided for a 103.n of fifteen mil lions of dollars; to the work of providing the representatives of this credit and ne gotiating tho same, the of the treasury had his attention at once drawn, when he assumed the duties of his office. It w ill appear strange to one who fol lows the history of subsequent events, that the provisional congress should not have anticipated the gigantic war in which the cradle of the young govern ment was not only rocked but which, in the end, exhausted its powers. The rea- ' son tor this was tote found in the declar ation of right upon which the secession movement was based. Granting the right secession was of nec ssity, a peace able remedy for the wrongs which the Southern states had so long endured.' it never entered into the minds of the very large majority of the Southern democrats, and was only entertained by a minority of the North, called “National Demo crats,"’ that the states had not the right to resume their sovereignly ar pleasure. Even among those at the North who held contrary views, there was a pre vailing opinion that the federal govern ment, or more properly the federal party, would not attempt to coerce the seceded states by a resort to arms. TO BE CONTINUED. Thousands Say So. Mr. T. W, Atkins. Girard, Kan., j writes: “l never hesitate to recommend ; your Elqftric Bitters to my customers, j they give , entire satisfaction and are rapid Electric Bitters are the ‘ purest and best medicine known and will positively cure Kidney and Liver com plaints. Purify bleed and regulate the bowels. No faulty ean aflon.l to be without them. They will save hundreds of dollars in doctor’s bills every yesr. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by D. W. Curry. 3 (Of and Herbs,) LIVER, STOMACH AN t. >Ol > DIBKAS9BB. In 50c Packages, SI.OO bottles CARTERSYILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1685. TEN DOLLARS A MONTH. I How a rroinlnent Detroit Merchant Got a Start In the Berness World. Detroit Free Press.’} “I made up my mind more than thirtj years ago that he would be something more titan a *lrone in this community, and I never had occasion to change mv mind,” remarked an old citizen who had le.irei from business several years ago, to a reporter as a prominent and influential merchant drove past with ids wife and daughters in his private carriage. “He probably wouldn’t care to have tne tell about it much; but.he used to rake care of uiy boss for $lO a mojitluand his board. That was away back before the war. I’ll tell you about it. “I was in wholesale liquor business then, and I want to remark to you right here that there was more money then in a barrel of whisky at a half a dollar agai lon than there is now at $’2.00. One morning I was sitting in my store-door reading the Free Press —1 ye read it every morning for more than forty years —when a man stopped in front of me and j asked if I wanted to hire any help. I looked him over carefully and liked his appearance. He was probably about nine teen or twenty years old, tanned almost black, and had evidently just come in from a farm —had on a pair of farm boots and a pair of farm breeches, and there’s no mistaking them. He looked rough, but he didn’t look tough, and lie had a good, bright eye in his head.” “ ‘Farm boy, I reckon,’ said I. “ ‘Yes,’ said he. “ ‘Know how to take care of bosses?” “ ‘Yes.’ “I took him out to the barn, where I had a boss that needed cleaning if ever one did. I’d ’round calling on some of my customers the night before,' had been out late, and had driven hard, had thrown a blanket over the boss when I got home, and I’d been dreading the job of cleaning him up all the morning. “ ‘Clean that one?’ said I. “lie took the currycomb and brushes and went to work, and I watched him aw hile —long enough to see that lie knew his business, and then 1 went back into the store. Rirueby he came in. “ ‘Do you want to take care of that boss, keep the buggy and harness clean, sweep out the store and make yourself generally useful?’ said I. “ ‘Yes.’ “ ‘llow much do you want?” “ ‘Ten dollars a month and my board.’ “‘And how much whisky?’ “ ‘I don’t drink whisky,” said he. “ ‘Leok-a-here, young man,’ said I, ‘you’re just a-changing your whole life. Hereafter you’re going to wear boots that haven’t got-any mud or manure on ’em; you’re going to get some of that tan ofl’un your face and hands; you’re going to have somebody to cut your hair who knows how; you’re going to wear store clothes and try and forget when you used to hoe potatoes and work the dasher in your mother’s churn. You’re going to learn to swear and chaw tobacco, and wear boots about two sizes smaller than your feet. You’re going to learn to be a city boy just as fast as you can. You’re honest and square, arid have got a heart in you now, but you’re probably get over all tliat within a year and be so pizen mean your old mother will be ashamed of you. “Now take an old man’s advice. If you want to see how quick vou can get rid of all tiiat’s decent in you, go to drink ing whisky right away. It’ll help you along faster than any thing; else I know of. What’s more it won’t cost you a cent. There’s a barrel of it right therg, the bung ir out, there’s the test-glass,and you can help yourself just as often as you want to. But there’s one thing I want to impress upon your mind. There’s no use in your trying to drink up all the whisky I've got, for you can’t do it. Two or three young fellows like you have tried it and failen. They’re dead, and I’ve got whisky left—lots of it. If you drink up that barrel there I shall get another one right up out of the celler and pull the bung out ready for you. Now, go out to the barn and go to work and see how fast you can make a loafer out of yourself! “That boy stayed with me two years, and a better boy I never saw, never. My old hoss never came out of the stable without his hair was shining like a glass bottle, the barn was always as clean as the kitchen, and I never saw liitn hang ing around the whisky barrel.” “How did he happen to get a start in the world and work his way up to his present station?” “Well, one day I was sitting here watching that voting fellow sweep out the store, and thinks I to myself, ‘That’s too good a boy to he hanging arouud here, doing chores for little or nothing. There’s the making of a man in that fellow, if he's oniy started right, and I’ll try and start him ;’ so l put on my hat and went down to ’s store —old was a par ticular friend of mine—and says I, ‘l’ve got a boy that you want here in your store. I don’t know whether you want a boy or not, nor I don’t care; you want this one, and I know it.’ “He took my word for it, set the chap to work, and that's liira who just rode by. : He’s got more dollars than I have cents, Sand I’m gitul of itl” WIT.TI CHEHBV AND TAK. Everybody knows the virtues of Wild Cherry and Tar as a relief and cure for any affections of the Throat and Lungs, combined with the e two ingredients are a few simple healing remedies in the composition of Dr. B*Wanko’s Cough and Lung Syrup, making it just the article you should always have in the house, for Coughs, Colds, Croup and Bronchitis. Price 50 cents and SI.OO. Bold by D. W. Curry. 3 East year it %v&s so dry you didn't have turnips, and you didn’t have spring salad. Get Buist’s fine seed, plant early, and enjoy a dish of pork and turnips in October.' Call at Curry's at once. JO SLEEP Y TOWS. Johnnie Hunt Brisbane.] “Oh? Fairy Sleep, I beg an 4 pray You give my child a pass to-day Unto your lovely land of dreams, With golden skies and sunny streams; For fever minis my little girl. And makes her baby senses whirl. Se, Fairy Sleep, I beg and pray You give the child a pas to-day! “Angels that guard the land of sleep With patience long and vigils deep, Unbar your gates of rose and pearl, And enter in this little girl. Lift her across vour sill of snow To where the sweet dream-ilowers grow; Her eyes are blue, her hair is brown; Now pass the child to Sleepy Town.” Slowly unbarred the gates of pearl, And then I saw my little girl. With breathing soft and lashes low, Lifted across the sill of snow; I knew she stood in lovely lands, With sweet dream-flowers in her hands; She smiled—her mothtr seemed to weep. And blessed the Fairyland of Sleep. THE DREADED SCOURGE. Up to last Sunday there had been 01,521 deaths from cholera in Spain, since the beginning of the epidemic, out of a total of 150,077 cases. At the present rate of its ravages, the deaths in that country will reach 70,000 by tlie end of this week, and tiie total number of the attacks near ly 200,000. Marseilles, Toulon, and oth er parts of southern France the scourge maintains its foothold. Thus it is clear that while last year tho excitement and terror over the presence of cholera in Europe may have been greater, the present year has been far more terrible in its ravages. The deaths from this pestilence in Italy during 1884 were computed at 10,000; but already during the present season those of Spain have been six times as many. It is fur ther evident that in spite of modern ex perience and appliances to present visita tion of cholera in Europe is one of the most destructive ever known. The persistence of the epidemic and its greatly increased fury during the present season are very suggestive. The notion that because cholera did not reacli En gland and America last year, and has thus.far not reached these countries dur the present year, there is now less likeli hood of its attacking them,is not in accor dance wkn historic facts. The concep tion of its progress as being like that of a fire on the prairie, which swiftly passes and leaves its ruin wrought, is wholly erroneous. When it once gains a foot hold in a country it invariably occupies it for several years, breaking out again and again in the same or some fresh quarter. Before several of its visits to America it had first ravaged Europe dur ing several successive years. Thus the epidemic of 1332, the first that afflict*! America, had been raging in Eu rope nearly two years before itcrosedthe Atlantic. It appered first at Moscow on the 28th of September, 1830. During the entire year 1331 it swept all Europe east of the Rhine, causing probably 100.000 deaths in Germany alone. In 1822 it spread over Great Britian and France, and the deaths in the la'ter country were estimated at 120,000. It was during this second year ot its European course that it found its way to America. In like manner our second epidemic, that of 1818, had broken out half a dozen years earlier in India, and thence had spread through Persia between the Black and Caspian seas to Russia, and then, like its predecessor, was carried to Berlin, Hamburgh, Bremen, and Havre, as well as to the cities of southern Europe, and so found its way to this country after years of destruction in the Old World. The epidemics of 1854 and 18(15, on the contrary, were fully developed in this country not many months after their ap pearance in Europe. That of 1873 reach ed this country after ample warning, there having been 70,009 cases of cholera in Germany alone during tiie preceding year. Of the present epidemic, we know that it began its westward march four years ago; that it was in Egypt in 1883, and and in France and Italy in ISS4. Instead of relaxing efforts to keep it away from America on the false theory that it would have reached this country before had it been coming at all, we should remember that cholera has repeatedly harassed Eu rope for years in succession before eross ing the Atlantic. Even iu this country, while wc habit ually speak for convenience of the epidem ics of 1832, IS4.S, 1873, and so on, as if these were the only years of their contin uance, the unifoi m rule is that they have raged from three to five years successive ly, and occasionally much longer. The first epidemic in this country did not sub side until the lapse of five years; and two years after its first appearance it raged furiously. Some authorities have declar ed that in New York city there was scarcely a year from 1832 to 1854 without well-defined eases of cholera. But the first year is the one of terror and excite ment; and if a season iu which 50,000 victims perish is followed by others In which the losses are only 5,000 or 10,000 these latter are apt to attract little notice. This unfailing quality of persistence and reappearance through successive seasons should be a warning to continued vigil ance against the pestilence. The pro gress of cholera is not only a march, as it is often called, but a conquest and a prolonged occupation. Encouragement, it is fair to add. is al forded by the success which has hitherto attended the corralling of the pestilence in the southwestern corner of Europe. It is really astonishing that for two years the disease, in spite of its horrible rava ges, has been kept, save tor unimportant scattered eases, confined in Italy, Spain, and the extreme of France. It is almost too much to expect that it can be held and stamped out there. If. this should be done, through vigorous quar antine systems, the triumph would be memorable. THE FUNERALS OF CONGRESSMEN. i Some Outspoken Remarks on A Growing and Expensive Abuse, Washington, Aug. 26.—A member of Congress dies of malaria fever or of pneumonia. In either case the fault is laid to the climate of Washington, to the Potomac fiats, or to the piercing winds which sweep the broad avenues. In early times, when members were paid six dollars a day, and while Congress sat at Yew York and Philadelphia, the fam ily of the deceased paid the funeral ex panses without a murmur or a thought that Congress ought to foot .the bill. It was impossible for the framers of the Constitution, and for those who were contemporary with that event, to imag ine that they had authority to vote tiie money of the people to any private pur pose. They let the dead bury their dead, and the most they felt authorized to do was to pass a resolution of respect and attend the funeral. But in this age tiie funeral expenses of Congressmen and of ficials cost as much as the whole civil service in Washington’s day. It is said in no invidious spirit, but the fact is worthy of mention, that the illness, the funeral expenses, and the gratuity to the family of Mr. Garfield cost the Govern ment $75,000. It was with more reason that those expenses were assumed than in ordinary cases. Still, there was no constitutional warrant for the expendi ture. The funeral expenses paid out of the public treasury for members of a re cent Congress—the forty-fifth or forty sixth —were quite equal to the pay of the first Congress. It is now the rule, also, for each House to assume payment of the funeral expenses of its employees, clerks, doorkeepers and messengers; and three or four years ago a messenger was buried at an expense of S4OO, a sum equal to a year’s salary of a clerk in Washington’s time. Now, if employees of Congress are entitled to the honor of burial at the public expense, why not the ten or twelve thousand clerks in the depart ments here, the employees in the custom houses, in the internal revenue service, and the army of fifty or sixty thousand postmasters ? We are now an the green tree; why shall we not be dry ? It is only neees sary to set the ball in motion. Some fervid orator will appeal to the sensibili ties of Congress in behalf of the distress ed family of a collector or a postmaster —it may be here in Washington, and the appropriations will be made. The prece dent will be set; the wedge will be in serted. To object will be to throw doubt upon the practice as regards Congres sional employees, and aa regards Con gressmen. This vicious system cannot be arrested by objecting to an appropriation in a particular case. The proper thing to be done is to adopt a declaratory resolution, when no case is appealing to the sympa thies, to the effect that no such appropri ation will be made in future. The right of Congress to pension dis abled soldiers and sailors and their wid ows would seem to be a legitimate in ference from the authority given to raise those arms of the service. It were cruel and oppressive to call upon a citizen to sacrifice his health or life, and leave him a disabled wreck to perish. But there can be no excuse and no authority for pensioning stalwart men who go out of service in perfect health, or who are “re tired” on rates of pay which are equiva lent to large fortunes, for life. The in justice of such acts i5 the more conspicu ous when they are made in favor of offi cers, to the exclusion of the private men. There js no constitutional authority for them, nor for pensioning civilians. Tiie acts of Congress in this direction are fla grant abuses, and show that we are fol lowing in the footsteps of England and other monarchies which have no written constitutions, in which the will of the Legislature or of the sovereign for the time being is the supreme law. It may seem cruel to say it, but it is true that the grant of a month’s leavemf absence, with pay, to an official of any grade is an abuse unwarranted by the Constitution. It is giving away the pub lic money, and, in view of the fact that officials are paid 50 to 100 per cent, high er than persons in private employment, tiie abuse is all tho more flagrant. HOW A RAT SAVER HUNDREDS OF POUNDS. Work at Home.} The telegraph wires in London are not all above ground, but many being to the underground system. The main wires are laid through the big tunnels in which are the gas and sewer pipes. The tun nels are big enough for a man to walk through easily. The branch pipes, con taining the side wires running off from the main line for several miles, are much smaller, of course, and the workmen must be very careful not to lose the con nections between the larger and smaller wires. Not long ago, however, some men who were repairing one of those lateral wires failed to attach it to a leading line by which the wire could be drawn back to its place. The blunder seemed to involve great loss, for it looked as though the whole side pipe would have to be dug up to replace the wire. In this dilemma a remarkable step was taken. A rat was caught, and one end ot & fine steel wire was tied around him. He was placed in the pipe; but, after run ning a few yards, he stopped. Then came another curious step. A ferret was put after the rat. As soon as the rat heard the ferret coming behind, the fine wire began to play out. It was feared that the rat would show fight, but It did not, and the complete circuit was made by both rat and ferret. When tiie rat came out of the other end of the pipe he was caught, and, by means of the oue wire, the telegraph wire was drawn through, so the rat saved the tele graph company hundreds of pounds. j DID GRANT RELIEVE THAT TILDEN WAS ELECTED? T George Wiwhlngton Ch!l(l0 Pays So. Gen. Grant was staying with me dur ing tho canvass of the election between Tilden and llayes, and on the morning of the momentous day he accompanied me to my office. In a few moments an eminent republican senator And one or two other loading republicans walked in, and they went over the returns. These leaders said “Hayes is elected,” an opin ion in which the othoVs coincided. Gen. Grant listened, but said nothing. After they had settled the matter in their own minds lie said : “Gentlemen, it looks to me as if Mr. Tilden was elected.” He afterward sent for me in Washington, and said ; “This matter is very compli cated, and the people will not be satis fied unless something is done in regard to it which will look like justice.” “Now,” he continued, “I have spoken of an electoral commission, and tiie lead ers of the party are opposed to it, which lam sorry to see. They say that if an electoral commission is appointed you might as well count in Mr. Tilden. I would sooner have Tilden than that the republicans should have a president who eouid Vai stigmatized as a fraud. If I were Mr. Hayes I would not have it un less it was settled in some way outside of tho senate. This matter is opposed by the leading republicans in tiie house and .senate and throughout tiie country.” President Grant invited the leading senators to dine with him that day to get their sentiment, lie said to me: “You see tiie feeling here. I find them almost universally opposed to anything like an electoral commission.” I named a leading democrat in the house who was, p'erhaps, one of the most prominent men in tiie country, a man of great influence and of great integrity of character, whom it would be well for Gen. Grant to see in the matter, and the suggestion was acted on. I sent for this gentleman, and put the dilemna to him in President Grant’s name as follows : “It is very hard for the president and yery embarrassing as to men on his own side that this matter does not socm to find favor with them as well as to have democratic opposition. Republicans all think you might as well count Tilden in, but as tho feeling throughout tho coun try demands as honest a count of the thing as possible, this electoral commis sion ought to be appointed.” The an swer at once was that the democrats would favor it, and it was through him and Gen. Grant that the matter was car ried through. Grant was the originator of the plan. He sent for Mr. Conkling and said with deep earnestness: “This matter is s serious one, and the people feel it very deeply. I think this electoral commission ought to be appoint ed.” Cockling answered, “Mr. Presi dent. Senator Morton (who was then the acknowledged leader of the senate) is opposed to it, and opposeu to your ellorts, but if you wish the commission carried, I can do it,” He said, “I wish it done.” Mr. Conkiing took hold of tiie maiter and put it through. Tho leading demo crat I have spoken of took tiie initiative in the house and Mr. Conkling in the senate. Gen Patterson, of Philadelphia, who was an intimate friend of Gen. Jackson, and a life-long democrat, was also sent for. lie had large estates in the South, and a great deal of influence with tho democrats, and particularly with Southern democrats. Gen. Patter son was upward of eighty, but he came down there and remained one or two weeks, working hard to accomplish tiie purpose in view. After tiie bill had passed and was waiting for sigmture, Gen. Grant went to a state fair in Mary land the day it should have been signed, and there was much perturbation about it. General Grant acted in good faith throughout the whole business. It has been said that the changing complexion of the court threw the matter into Hayes’ hands, and if the court had remained as it was, Tilden would have been declared president. Gen. Grant was the soul of honor in this matter, and no one ever accused him or even hinted that lie was untruthful in any way. I, for one, don t believe that he could toll a lie or act de ceitfully. ODD TRICKS. If you want to see curious sliglit-of hand performances, you must go to India. No jugglers in the world can compare with those who practice their curious art in that far-away land. They have neither curtains nor tallies, boxes nor drawers, nor do they wear loose embroidered mantles with large sleeves, as Western wizzards usually do. An Indian juggler is clothed only with a strip of muslin fastened around his body. His limbs are bare. He stands in an open courtyard without a tree, a grass plot or the shelter of a tent; and in the midst of a ring of spectators, all gazing at him with intense watchfulness, he calmly performs tricks which look like miracles. For instance, he extends to you his empty hands. He stoops down, pick3 up two or three pebbles, rubs his hands together and presently there is a shining silver rupee. Again he shows }'ou hi* bare hands, picks up the rupee, breaks it in two, or pretends to do so, and there are two coins. He breaks these again and again until he has ten or a dozen, and where the money has come from or where he had it hidden, no mortal can tell. An all Steel Axe, at Y. L. Williams & Cos. C. L. C. restores the secretions and speedily relieves nervous prostration. Cholera is In Spain, but c. L. c. will cure cholera in Cartersvillc and Georgia. Number 32. TRUSTING IN THE LORD, A Couple Destroy a Paid-up Insurance Policy. Louisville Courier-Journal.! v The peculiar effects of the recent “faith cure’’ revival in this city appear in vari ous ways. A few clays ago a very strange outcome of the belief in the now doctrine eauic to light in the office of a life insur ance company in this city. Mr. Francis Lloyd and wife entered the office and presented to the cashier the fragments of an insurance policy which Mr. Lloyd had taken out several years ago. The policy 1 was for SI,OOO and was paid up, and the family were drawing a small dividend from it yearly. Mrs. Lloyd seemed to do most of the talking. She handed the mutilated paper to the cashier with the remark that they would have nothing more to do with it, but would henceforth “trust in the Lord.” The cashier was very much surprised and undertook to reason with the^n, but it was impossible. The policy had been made payable to Mrs. Lloyd, with a re version to her children, and the cashier assured her that although she had torn the policy to pieces that did not alter the contract, and that the company would give her a certificate of its destruction which would answer every purpose of the original policy. The couple replied that they would have no certificate; they were done with the policy and the premiums, and would never again touch a cent of the money. They were again assured that should Mrs. Lloyd, the beneficiary, refuse to accept the money on the death of her husband it would be Daid to her children, and that a guardian would bo provided for the purpo.se; that the money did not belong to the company,and would be in some manner paid to the proper parties. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd aro apparently 40 and 38 years of ago respectively, and aro people of average intelligence, Mrs. Lloyd being particularly a bright and in teresting talker. They live in Portland and are in moderate circumstances finan cially, Mr. Lloyd being a laborer. Since the advent of the evangelist, Bulklcy, they have brooded over their insurance policy day and night, and boing unable to understand tho insurance business by any rules of arithmetic, they consequent ly place it in the domain of superstition, and, under tho influence of tho faith euro craze, they decided to end it. Among tho fragments of the destroyed policy were other bits of papor showing that the parties had treated in a similar man ner another policy. The amount of the second policy was unknown. A FEW LITTLE ONES. Little six-year-old was obliged to take a dose of medicine that left an unpleasant taste in the mouth. When asked how he liked it he said : “It’s good enough; all but the end of it.” A bright little girl who lives in Ilyde Park asked for a second saucer of ice cream the other evening. “I don’t think it’s good for you; ask your father,” said her mother. The girl went into the li brary and put the question. “Not much,” said her father, emphatically. “Papa says I can have a little,” she reported to iter mother, with truthful and innocent eyes.—Chicago Tribune. “Now, Willie,” said a coaxing mother, “I don’t like to take medicine any more than you do; but I just make up my mind to do it, and then do it.” The child look ed up through his tears, and replied: “And, mother, I just make up my mind that I won’t, and then don’t.” Fond Mamma—“Why, I thought you and little Flossy Brown were great friends.” Little Miss Fashion—“So we are; but you wouldn’t have me play with a little girl who dresses her dolls in last year’s fashions, would you mam ma?” Bobby is carrying an umbrella open when it is not raining or the sun shin ing. He is asked why he does so. ‘Cause when it rains pa wants it, and when the sun shines rna wants it, an’ its only this kinder wedder that I kin git ter use it at all.”* . • “What do you expect Santa Claus to bring you down the chimney next Christ mas?” asked old Mrs. Docking of her grapdehild Tommy. “Grandmothef, I am surprised that a person of your age should still believe in such childish things,” was the reply of the little fel low, who will bo five years old on his next birthday. * “John,” said a schoolmaster, “you will soon be a man and will have to at tend to business. What do you suppose you will do when you have to write let ters, unless you learn to spell better?” “Oh, sir,” answered John, “I shall put easy words in them.” Little Sammy was looked upon as quite a prodigy in the Fair family. It was customary to have him show off for the entertainment of guests. One morn ing Mr. Fair said: “Now, Sammy, get your bible and read to us, beginning with the verso at which you chance to open.” This was,to convince the hear ers that Saminy had not been made fa miliar with certain chapters only. Hav ing opened the book, Sammy read in loud and measured tones: “Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bustle, etc.” A Walking Bkelet*n. M.r. E. Springer, of Mechanics i burg, Pa., writea: “I was afiHet ! e d with lung lever and abscess on lungs, j ail d reduced to a walking skeleton. Goc I a free trial bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption, which did me so much good that I bought a dollar bottle. After using three bottles, found my3elf once more a man, completely re stored to health, with a hearty appetite, and a gain in ftesh of forty-eight lbs. Call at D. W. Curry’s Drug Store and get a free trial bottle of this certain cure tor ail Lung diseases. Large bottles Jl. Plenty of Millyfile and Mason Jars on hand at Curry’s.