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W. F. SMITH, Publisher.
VOLUME VIII.
NEWS GLEftfilWBS.
Extensive smuggling is going on along
the llio^Grander
A Marietta, Georgia, boy has a collec
tion of 500 birds’ eggs-
There are thirty-two colored Baptist
churches in the District of Columbia.
Augusta, Georgia, will have a first
class theater.
Of the forty Generals furnished by
Texas to the Confederacy thirty are
dead.
The negroes of Wilkes county pay
taxes on 3,000 acres of land, and $12,-
000 worth of stock.
Cedar Key and Ocala, Florida, are
said to be outstripping any towns in the
State in growth and enterprise.
Alexandria, Virginia, has loaded a
bark with grain direct for Europe, and
sees herself invested with a halo of com
mercial glory accordingly.
Blind Tom is said, when at his home
in Georgia, to remain alone with his
piano and play day and night. He
plays about 7,000 pieces by ear, and picks
up new ones every day.
Paul Viallou, of Bayou Goula, La.,
has 500 stand of pure Italian bees. He
raises and sells many barrels of honey
at from seventy-five cents to ninety
cents per gallon.
The colored people of Nashville have
formed a society for the suppression of
miscegenation. It is said that the society
has so far caused the arrest of eight per
sons charged with this offense.
Hannah Faust, said to be 111 years
old, died in Columbia, S. C., recently.
She was born a faw miles above that city.
Her daughter, said to be near ninety,
lives in Columbia also.
Vicksburg is justly indignant at the
suspending by the National Board of
Health of the inspection station at the
Point. The station is a protection not
only to Vicksburg but the whole Missis
sippi Valley.
It is said there is not a mechanic or
workman in Macon who is idle for want
of employment. The rush of improve
ments and the demand for builders and
building material have never before been
equaled in that city.
Gold is found in Georgia in thirty-six
counties, silver in three, copper in thir
teen, iron in forty-three, diamonds in
twentv-six, whisky in all of them, and
the last gets away with ajl the rest.
The Mormon excitement is now abat
ing a bit in Western Coosa, Ala. Now
missionaries are daily expected, and
converts to the polygamous creed are
daily adding their names to the brutaliz
ing muster-roll.
A ’gator, weighing 300 pounds, was
caught in Pataula creek, Georgia, the
other day, which contained ‘‘a rock
weighing several pounds, a large soft
shell turtle and a beaver weighing fifty
or sixty pounds. The beaver was whole
except that one leg was missing.”
The pastors of all the churches in Al
bany, Georgia, without previous under
standing, prayed for rain last Sunday,
and a writer in the News says hardly
had their benedictions been pronounced
when a little cloud gathered over the
sweltering city, others gathered to it, and
a refreshing, plentiful shower descended.
A little girl named Maleomb, living in
the neighborhood of Doe Hill, Virginia,
went out to the woods to play, accom
panied by her dog, one day last week,
when she suddenly came upon a num
ber of wild turkeys. The dog gave
chase, and, in the affright, a very large
gobbler perched upon a fence. The lit
tle heroine seized it from below, dragged
it to the ground and bore it home in
triumph. The turkey weighed about
twenty pounds.
lu Walker county. Alabama, is a nat
ural bridge to rival that of Vir
ginia. It is in the sandstone called
millstone grit, which underlies the cora
formation. It spaus about 120 feet and
its height is about seventy feet. A small
bridge connects it with the bluff beyond.
The linesof stratification of the sandstone
give the structure the appearance of
having been artificially built up with
massive blocks. It is in the midst of a
region of wild and romantic beauty,
high escarpments of the same sandstone
being seen standing out in the face of
the hills around.
“What a rough fellow that Sniggins
is!" petulantly exclaimed the Hoped.de
girl after a struggle with the aforesaid
Buiggius at “Copenhagen.” “He near
ly smothered me!” “And did you kiss
him for his smother?” asked the other
uxha, naively.
Ptvokd to Industrial htortrt, th Mfei of Tntk. the Kstablisbnent f lattice, and thePreeenratien ef a feejlrt tenruent.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Grant's income is reckoned at SSO -
000 a year.
The French elections will be held
August 21.
Parnell, the Irish Home-Ruler, will
again visit this country in November.
TnE Arabs are entertaining the French
in Tunis and Algiers to their hearts’
content.
I)b. Tanner has settled down at Corry,
Mich. His lamp didn’t burn very long,
poor man.
Tennyson and Huxley delights in clay
pipes. This is encouraging to the cor
ner loafer.
Mary Andbrson, it is stated, dislikes
sea bathing. Well, an occasional ablu
tion will do her good, anyhow.
In California unskilled labor is in
demand at $2.50 a day. Times have
changed somewhat since Kearney was at
the helm.
The inventor of the toy pistol may
not be a common murderer, but then he
is accountable for a good many little
boys prematurely becoming angels.
It is rare for the fruit market to be as
scantily stocked as to quantity and so
poorly as to quality. But fruit of all
kinds is scarce, and there is no deny
ing it.
George William Curtis is of the
opinion that to raise a fund for Mrs.
Garfield while her husband is alive and
remains President would be eminently
improper.
A temperance petition 600 feet long,
and containing 50,000 signatures, was
presented to the Georgia Legislature
the other day. The members turned
pale as death.
There are now more British troops in
Ireland—3o,ooo —than there are men in
the United States army. In addition to
these regulars, there is a strong force of
armed constabulary.
Lovers of genuine imported Havana
cigars will be pained to learn of a pros
pective shortage in their favorite luxury.
The tobacco crop of Connecticut will be
almost a total failure.
Donn Piatt has been twiced caned,
three times horsewhipped and twice
shot at, outside of several small affairs
in which he was knocked down and left
for dead. Yes, he is a newspaper man.
The London papers are advising their
English maid-servants to emigrate to
the colonies, where they get better pay
and finally a farmer husband. A farmer
husband is a great snap for English
gh’ls.
Palatine, N. Y., is the richest village
of its size in tne world. It has about
500 inhabitants, and it is said that over
thirty of these are worth from $5,000,-
000 to $20,000,000, while sax are said to
bo worth over $20,000,000.
The Cincinnati Gazette, openly and
badly advises the female sex to hang a
limb on either side of thei bicycle and
ride to health and glory. If the editor
of the Gazette were not a deacon, we
should feel shocked.
Adulterated beer has so stirred up
the State Board of Health of New York
that a crusade is to be made against it.
The analyst of the Board intends to
manufacture some pure beer as a stand
ard for comparison.
Says that exceedingly modest pa
per, Harper's Bazar : “The bathing
dresses worn by the little boys along the
wharves are very simple. They consist
of a stone bruise on the heel.” Isn’t
that just too awfully awful.
Rev. T. H. Tebbles, who has so long
championed the cause of the Ponca In
dians, needs offer no explanation why he
was so zealous in their behalf. His mar
riage to Bright Eyes, the accomplished
and beautiful Indian girl, is excuse
enough.
Tttb sign, “No Dogs Admitted,’ in
the Cincinnati street cars has produced
considerable confusion. Men get up
an leave the car without just thinking
what they are doing and only discover
when it is too late that the thing is a
dead give away.
Among the dispatches of congratula
| tion received by Senator Lapham was
j the following from relatives :
“ Chicago, July 22.
“Three cheers and congratulations of the
family. J. F. Barnard,
j “• Me too.’ Jank Latham Barnard.”
It is proposed to issue anew species
I of postal money order, whereby small
amounts may be sent by mail as conven
iently as in the days of paper fractional
INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA
Qtirrency. When Congress authorizes
such a step, the blessings of the whole
country will be showered down upon it.
, Robert Ingebsoll says that Mexico
looks “as though the devil had pur
chased it at a tax sale, and the Almighty
had used it as a backyard to his work
shops to throw the shavings and refuse
into, after he got through with the rest
of the world. ” Bob is an awful man.
The church people of Texas are mak
ing it decidedly unpleasant for Governor
Roberts. The Governor does not think
it his right to call upon the public to re
turn thanks to the Lord for the Presi
dent’s recovery, and firmly maintains
his belief by a persistent refusal to issue
a proclamation for such observance.
Mme. Louisa Montague, Forepaugh’s
alleged SIO,OOO beauty, is lying danger
ously ill at Galena, Hlinois, and the
physicians in attendance are fearful that
she will not recover. Those who have
seen this so-called famous beauty, have
not gone in ecstacies over her. Fore
paugh seems to be about the only ad
mirer she has.
The Dayton Journal does not believe
in supporting common butchers at the
expense of the Government, and in this
connection, speaks of the Apache In
dians in the following positive terms :
“ There is nothing to be done with these
wild beasts but to exterminate them. If
the Mexicans who protect them do not
do it, the United States should. They
are wild beasts, and nothing else.”
A Southern philosopher says that
millions of pistols are manufactured;
that infantry in war do not use them;
that cavalry can not use them; that
hunters find them of no service, and
they are used only to make an infernal
noise on the ith of July or to commit
murder all the year around. That is
truth with a golden rim tacked onto it.
Two Italians closed their candy store
at Savannah, Georgia, paid the rent
three months in advance, told the owner
that they were going to Italy to get a
stock of goods, and cautioned him to
let nobody enter the premises hf y
returned. They had murdered a ped
dler, taken his $2,000, and hidden his
body in the store; but their ingenious
way of covering their flight prevented
the discovery until the three months had
elapsed.
The New York Home Journal in an
article on rich American land-owners,
says there is a group of seven estates in
Islip which comprise in all nearly 13,000
acres. Mr. William H. Vanderbilt has
over 2,000 acres, Christopher Roberts
has 1,400, George Lorillard has 1,000,
General William Ludlow has 800, Fred
erick Nelson has 450, and Wiliam
Nicoll has 6,000. Near Islip is a
ful little church built by Williiun H.
Vanderbilt.
Mr. Redpath’s letter from Dublin
gives an interesting, if sorrowful, pic
ture of the situation aiid condition of
the Suspects in the jail at Kilmainham,
detained under the provisions of a law
which is effective only by the abrogation
of the holiest rights of humanity. In
“free Britain ” the law of might is of
far more weight than the guarantees
of the Magna Charta. “They can’t
put a man off a railroad train for not
paying his fare,” once said a tramp,
“but they do.”
The London Truth remarks that it
may not, perhaps, be known that a man
wearing dark clothes is more liable to
infection from contagious diseases than
he who wears light-colored garments,
because particles which emanate from
diseased or decaying bodies are much
more readily absorbed by dark than by
light fabrics. This is easily proved.
Expose a light and a dark coat to the
fumes of tobacco for five minutes,, and
it will be found that the dark one smells
stronger than the other of tobacco
smoke, and it will retain the oder
longer.
James Parton says : “ There is no
work in the world which expends vitality
so fast as writing for the public. It is a
work which is never done. It accom
panies a man upon his walks, goes with
him to the theater, gets into bed with
him and possesses him in his dreams.
If he stoops to kiss the baby, before he
has reached the right angle a point oc
curs to him, and he hangs in mid-air,
with vacant face and mind distraught”
Parton ought to fully understand the
subject matter. He is ® prodigious
writer, and has spent a long life at news
paper work.
A Fiji Island newspaper is responsi
ble for the extraordinary story that
comes from the Tino or Drummond
Islands. This is to the effect that a
Sandwich Islander went as a missionary
to Taputcona, one of the Tino Islands.
He was so successful as to prevail upon
the natives to give up all their weapons
and to live peaceful lives. There were
many backsliders, however, and after
trying in vain to have these return to his
fold, he ended by preaching a crusade
against them. Arming his own followers,
he encouraged an attack upon the apos
tates, and it is reported that nearly a
thousand men, women and children were
murdered. The island where all this is
said to have occurred is thickly populated,
and Sandwich Island missionaries have
been working among the people since
1857. The roundabout way in which
the story reaches the public gives it a
fishy character.
Miss Dickinson has determined never
to return to the lecture platform, be
cause if she did her audience would
say: “We told her she would come
back from the stage, and our prophecy
has come true. ” She has long believed
that she could become a successful
actress, and all her ambition lies in that
direction. She made a great deal of
money by lecturing, at one time as much
as $75,000 a year, but was not careful in
hoarding it, and lost heavily in stock
speculation. One venture in Philadel
phia and Reading cost her SIOO,OOO. She
is now in moderately comfortable cir
cumstances. Her first attempt upon
the stage, she thinks, failed on account
of the unfavorable conditions, and it
was to guard against a second experience
of that kind that she broke her engage
ment last winter. She will begin her
next tour in November, with a fine com
pany, appearing in plays of her own
authorship, and in female parts only.
She expects to appear in London next
spring. “ I have set myself the task of
succeeding on the stage,” she says,
“ and I mean to accomplish it before I
do anything else.”
Good Manners.
A rudeness is worse than a crime; it is
a blunder, because it is so easy to be
polite.
The last injury which a man forgives
is a wrong to his amour prop re.
“Letters which are warmly sealed,”
s&ys Jean Paul Richter, “are often coldly
opened.” When writing remember the
character of the person you are address
ing, and don’t waste your sweetness
upon desert air.
Don’t “cut” anybody; that is, take
care not to know” anybody whom you
will be obliged to “cut.”
Always present the person of lower
rank to the person of higher, a gentle
man to a lad; the young to the old.
Never make introductions unless you
have good reason to believe that both
parties are agreeable.
Never seal a letter of introduction.
The bearer ought to know on what terms
to approach a stranger.
No business is well done that is done
through any other agency than your
own.
If you pass an acquaintance with a
lady on his arm, do not nod; take off
your hat, so that your salute may seem
to embrace both your friend and the
lady. .
An adherence to etiquette is a mark of
respect; if a man be worth knowing, he
is surely worth the trouble of approach
ing properly. It will likewise relieve
you from the awkwardness of being ac
quainted with people of whom you
might at times be ashamed, or be obliged
under any circumstances to “cut.”
Never give letters of introduction
unless you are prepared to be responsi
ble for the persons to whom they are
given. Why shoulci you trust upon the
society of a friend those whom yolk
would not admit to your own? Or why
ask his good services for individuals
whom you do not know to deserve ;
them? . ...
The holder of a letter of introduction
should not take it in person, but should
send it with his card of address. The
receiver, if he be a gentleman, will call
upon you without delay. At all events,
you are bound to give him an option;
whereas, by taking your letter in person,
you force yourself upon him wliethms ht
will or not.
A Speaking Machine.
Anew and most ingenious speaking
machine has lately been exhibited by
Herr Faber before the Physical Society,
London. It is designed to more per
fectly imitate, mechanically, the utter
ance of the human voice, by means of
artificial organs of articulation made on
the human model, and it is worked by
keys like a musical instrument. A bel
lows made of wood and India rubber
serves for lungs; a small windmill is
placed in front of the vessel to give trill
ing sounds; the larynx is made of a sin
gle membrane of hippopotamus hide and
India rubber; and a month with two
lips, a tongue and an India rubber nose
complete the organs of the apparatus.
Fourteen distinct sounds are uttered by
it, and, by combining these, any word in
any language can be produced—also
laughing and whispering.
Fenderson was at the theater the
other night. “It was a btuiesque, a
take-off, wasn’t it?” asked Smith.
“Yes ’’ said Fenderson, “that’s what it
was I guess. They had taken off about
everything they ‘dared to.”— Boston
Transcript*
In the Church of the Madeleine.
Sauntering along the Boulevard Capu
cines, I came in front of the grand
church of the Madeleine. The gigantic
bronze doors were liung with black
dfotlx. I pressed my way through the
crowd and entered. The wax lights
burning, the coffin covered with flowers,
in the center innumerable priests
gesticulating and praying, tile low words
in Latin of one of the holy fathers, the
occasional notes sad and solemn from
the great organ above, told too well the
nature of the ceremony. It was the
funeral service of a late admiral in the
French navy. Out of doors were more
than two thousand soldiers, ahorse and
on foot, who had attended his remains
from his apartments in the Rue de la
Paix to the Madeleine. The church it
self was packed with persons most of
them distinguished in politics, literature,
science and art. Grand commanders and
chevaliers of the Legion of Honor, field
officers and sous officers from the army;
foreign ambassadors in tlieir gold-fringed
garments, and members of the Institute
wearing their famous livery of green;
parsons in priestly robes and sad faced
nuns in their ugly frocks and hideous
white bonnets; professional gentleman
in evening dress, and working men in
their blue blouses—all present—who
came out of curiosity to assist at the sad
rites. I had never before taken notes of
this very singular edifice. King Louis
XY started to build this structure. The
work was suspended at the revolution,
was remodeled by Napoleon for the erec
tion of a temple of glory in honor of the
grand army, then changed again to its
original purpose by Louis XVIII, and
finally completed by Louis Philippe.
It is said the plans were taken from a
heathen temple, and certainly it has
none of the appearance of a Christian
church. More than one tourist has
asked me “Wliat bank is that?” or
“What public building is yonder?”
pointing at ths same time to tlio Made
leine. There is something exceedingly
imposing in its external aspect. Without
dome, towering or side windows, it
stands on an elevated base, majestically
supported on every side by a lofty range
of massive Corinthian columns. Inside
colossal statues of countless saints stand
in niches in the walls. There are
splendid paintings, many marble altars
and over-much of gilding.
The sad service progressed but I was
too busy noting the spectators to pay at
tention to the ritual. Suddenly, how
ever, in a pause in the service the im
mense organ played till the vaulted roof
appeared fairly to tremble and the deep
bass notes seemed like the reverberations
of half suppressed thunder. They yielded
to the flute-like cadences of a lovely
duetto. Then from an invisible source
there stole on the earth plaintive silverly
notes of one of the sweetest solos to
which I even listened. It seemed like
the voice of a pure spirit interceding in
behalf of the dead admiral and for the
sins of all of us living ones. Now it
grew fainter and fainter, and presently,
as soothingly as the last tones of a harp,
it was gently hushed. It was the voice
of M’Ue Isaacs, prima donna at the opera
comique and mistress of one of the
Rothschilds; but, oh, it seemed like
that of an angel. The services were
short and the remains were hurried
away into the country. The black cloth
was hastily taken down, the crowd dis
persed, and then as I lingered I saw a
bridal couple entering through the very
doors they had just borne the body of
the dead sailor. There were orange
blossoms and white satin and fragrant
flowers, and the same grand organ pealed
forth the wedding march, and all was
bright and glorious, where, only a few
minutes before, gloom and great distress
prevailed among a multitude of mourners.
—Paris Cor. Kansas City Times..
A Plucky Bride.
Once upon a time a spinster lady
lived in Airth who could count as
many golden guineas as ever “ Tibby
Fowler ” did. Beside this spinster
lived a bachelor of somewhat parsimoni
ous habits, and passionately fond of the
yellow Geordies.” The two made it
up and agreed to get married. Before
the wedding, however, the man opened
his mouth too wide, and boasted what
he would do after he got possession of
his wife’s tocher. A good-natured Mend
—there are always plenty about—con
veyed this information to the bride, who
opened her eyes and at once made up
her mind how to proceed. When the
minister came to perform the ceremony,
and at the usual stage requested the
couple to join hands, what was the as
tonishment of both clergyman and com
pany to see the bride offer her pocket
instead, of her hand. Thinking there
might be some mistake, they were again
requested to join hands, but this, as well
as a third request, met with the same
pantomimic reply. The reverend gen
tleman was at last under the necessity
of asking for an explanation, to which
the bride at once replied :
“ It’s not me he wants, it’s the pouch.
He can marry it if he likes, but he’ll
never marry me.”
Then she slowly curtseyed and left
her astonished bridegroom in a state of
complete bewilderment. Some of the
spectators expressed themselves in words
akin to those of the Glasgow bailie when
he said :
“My oonscienoe 1 but women are
itrange customers.”
She was decorating her room with pic
tures, and she perched his photo up on
the topmost ljfptl, then she sat down to
admire her work and
“Now everything is lovely, and the
goose hangs high!”
It is stated by. eminent naturalists
that the very rats come creeping mit of
the woodpile and laugh like Aflions
when a woman tries to saw <j#
wood.
sußsnßiPTum~gi.su.
NUMBER 51.
HUMORS OF THE DAY.
oai) spectacles—Broken glasses.
Men who are born equal—twins.
Opening a boil—taking off the tea
kettle lid.
A civil engineer-One who gives a
tramp a free ride in a caboose. •* f
Speaking of avarice and generosity,
is the bee as stingy as the wasp?—Steu
benville Herald.
Riches may have wiugs, but they
don’t seem to fly in this direction.— Yon
kers Statesman.
The clown who got caught in a heavy
raiu without an umbrella, Was a damp
fool, wasn’t lie?— Stuebenville Herald.
It has been established at last that
the only disease to which you may not a
second time be liable, is the one that
kills first.
Teacher to small boy—“ What does
the proverb say about those who five in
glass houses ?” Small boy“—Pull down
the blinds.”
“Do you drink brandy?” “No, I do not
drink brandy, but my brother Andy,
who is quite a dandy, drinks brandy,
mixed with rock candy. "—Steubenville
Herald.
She was sweet sixteen when she re
ceived a box of caramels from her dear
Claude Augustus, and she was sweet
sickteen when she turned her tired eyes
upon its emptiness.
War history: “What is the greatest
charge on record?” asked the professor
of • history. And the absent-minded
student answered: “Seventeen dollars
for hack hire for self and girl for two
hours. ”
There is a good deal of gush over a
driver on one of the street cars in Kan
sas City, who was formerly a lawyer.
This is all wrong. If the man is trying
to do right now, why bring up his past
life against him ?
“Will the coming man use both
hands?” is a question asked by a scien
tific exchange. We do not see how the
coming man can use both hands unless
the coming woman drives the horse.—
Peck's Sun.
“How came you to fail in your ex
amination?” asked the tutor. “I thought
I crammed you thoroughly.” “Well,
you see,” replied the student, “the fact
was you crammed me so tight I couldn’t
get it out.— Yale College News.
“Do you know, Mr. Smith,” asked
Mrs. S., in a reproving way, “that that
cigarette is hurting you; that it is your
enemy?” “Yes,” replied Smith, calmly
ejecting a fleecy cloud; “yes, I know it,
and I’m trying to smoke the rascal
out.”
My only books
Were women’s looks,
And folly’s all they taught me.
—Moore.
I read them through,
What could I do?
Their pretty bindings caught me.
—SteubsTwille Herald.
Now look at me
And you shall see
3 The awful change they wrought me.
—Detroit “Chaff.”
Blind as a bat,
Poor as a rat,
To this sad state they’ve brought me.
—Sunday Capital.
A boy was eating away at a big cocoanut
that had been cracked open with a brick
bat, when a pedestrian felt it his duty
to halt and remark: “Boy, don’t you
know that too much of that stuff may
give you the colic ?” “I guess so,” was
the reply. “Then why do you eat it?”
“Well, if my chum, who lives next door,
can stand the small-pox for six weeks, I
guess I can put up with the colic for
three or four hours!” was the reply as he
bit off another big hunk.
I heard two damsels collaborating fc
produce a piece of poetry to a bunch
of dandeloins. With their eyes intent
upon the source of inspiration they
achieved two verses:
“ Dandelion of golden hue,
What a lot there are of you.”
Hew York Letter.
A sewing machine agent in Litchfield
proudly flings the following to the
breeze:
Domestics
For Sale and Repaired Here.
—Danbury News,
From the Australian Bush.
While fifteen cents was paid in
Queensland, Australia, for a kangaroo
scalp, they came in at a great rate,
35,890 scalps being paid for in a year
and a half. A reduction of the rate to
twelve has made all the difference in
favor of the kangaroos. It is estimated
that a kangaroo eats as mudh grass as a
sheep, and destroys as much as it eats by
the skill with which it picks out the
most succulent herbage.
The bush of Australia is so overfed
by the multiplying of wild horses that
they have to be shot down in common
with rabbits and kangaroos. In one
district an Arab stallion got away some
thirty years ago, and was never recap
tured. He was a chestnut, and took a
couple of thoroughbred colts with him,
and it has been remarked tTiat a large
proportion of the wild horses of the dis
trict are of his color. Horses believed
to be very old are occasionally seeD far 1
away in distant ranges. One man has
shot 3, (XX) horses in two years.
A house painter falling from the third
story of a house in Maine, where the
prohibition law is enforced, and being
given a glass of water to revive him,
piteously asked : “ How far has a fellow
got to fall before you let him have brandy
in this
At the conclusion of the ceremony at
a marriage in this city, a sweet innocent
satrflown to the piano and thoughtfully
struck up, “What Shall the Harvest be?”
and couljf not understand what the
others were laughing Bowling
Green Democrat, +