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DR. TILMAUE AT HOME.
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**U>*r Trip.
Says the Augusta Evening Netva :
The Row. DeWitt Talmage, who lec
tured in this city oue evening last
week, arrived at his home in Brooklyn
(> n h riday, and at night gave the usual
Friday evening talk to his congregation.
After dwelling at some length upon the
Mardi Gras festivities, which he wit
nessed in that city, and extolling the
beauties of New Orleans, he goes on
to say:
The most cheerful city of the South
to-day is New Orleans. She is rejoic
ing in the from years of un
righteous government. Just how the
State of Louisiana has been badgered,
and her every idea' of self-government
insuMaft,- can be appreciated only by
thoijt wix} come face to face with the
fact*. While some of the best patriots
of the North went down with right mo
tives to mingle* in the reconstruction of
the .Stgte governjpents of the Sontb,
majly of these pilgrimists were the cast
off and thieving politicians of the
North, wlio, after being stoned out of
N\>b%horn waters, crawled up on the
beach l the South to sun themselves.
[Applause.] ¥*he Southern States had
Mi*igh dishonest men of their own
witk' 1 * lt an ) T hnpnrUlron, The day of
trouble* u 33 passed. and
South Carolina, the most part, are
free. Gov. Nichoi> of the one, and
Gov. Wade Hampton of the other,
have the confidence of the masses
of the people. There is only one word
that can describe the feeling of the
South to-day, and that word is “ hope.”
They have recovered from the first dis
couragement of ruined fortunes, and
are expecting better ones than they lost,
and will have them. My opinion is
that the largest fortunes are yet to be
made at the South, because there is
•more room to make them, greater
reaches of country to be developed,
and more genialty of climate ready to
smile *jpon great industries. So I
■change Horace Greeley’s famous advice
Go West,” and say to our young peo
ple, Go South.” [Applause.] Dur
ing my two weeks cl the South, min
gling with all classes of the people,
and is perpetual conversation —often
incognitas, he&id not one unkind
word towerß* the North or Northern
people, fAjqjJasse.J ‘ My^’opinion is
that if, to-day, a Northern min gets
hanged at the South, it is because he
deserves to be hanged3 [Applause.]
Those Congressional politicians who
. are enlarging upon the belligerent state
of the South must have some bad de
sign, or be President-making. There is
no spirit of fight in the South. I do
not speak of what I read—l speak of
what I know, My observation is that
there is not so much need Uiat the
South be reconstructed towards the
North, as that the North should be re- j
constructed towards the South, [Ap- i
planse.] No man on a lecturing plat'
form to-day, in the South, can make
any allusion implying loyalty to the
United States Government but his voice
will be drowned out by the uproar of
wild enthusiasm. There is no more
use for Federal military at New Orleans
than in Brooklyn. And yet there are
men hereabouts who are still cursing
President Hayes because he withdrew
the military, and have not found out in
the last fourteen years that the war is
over. Let our newspapers and our
platforms quit stirring up the old strifes.
There is now absolutely nothing to
fight about. Peace! from Passama
quoddy Bay to Lake Pontchartrain.
Let there be peace.
*****
I bring a message of greeting from
the churches of the South to the
churches of the North. They are
praying for you. Let 11s pray for them.
It is high time that in all our denomi
nations we had fraternization. If we
cannot agree—we Christians of the
North and South —God will kill us, and
raise up men with more large-hearted
Christian charity. We belong to a de
nomination that about eighteen years
ago broke apart with awful violence.
Since that day the two sections have
not been in brotherly correspondence.
They think we are Christians, and we
know they are, and we shall have to
spend ten thousand million years to
gether in heaven; and yet we cannot
ecclesiastically shake hands. Some of
us. North and South, who have a record
in the past to look after, are afraid that
either side will go more than half way
in the settlement. 0 pshaw! What
i? the use of our standing on our dig
nity P If I had my way I would reiach
across the line, and with one hand take
them by the beard, and with the other
I wv>uld take them by the girdle, and in
VOL. II—NO. 83.
that grip of hearty Christian brother
hood I would have this whole trouble
settled in three minutes. [Applause.]
[ tell you it is the disgrace of this cen
tury that the Presbyterian Ci ~vii North
and South, are not in ecclesiastical cor
respondence to-day; and the greatest
shame t eVer suffered in all all my life
was When In this house, three years
ago, the attempt at fraternization was
very basely defeated. It was a solemn
scene when at the meeting of the Gen
eral Assembly bore, three or four years
ago. six hundred delegates present, on
this platform a great table was lifted,
and the long line of gleaming silver
communion vessels made a spectacle
never to be forgotten. The churches
of the different denominations of tbi
city sent in silver plates and chalices,
and the gleaming array that night on
the ' platform was overwhelming. God
hasten the better time when all the
churches North andAkmth shall send in
their chalices, and we shall sit down to
gether, consecrated men from Oregon
fotest and Maine lumber region with
men frora the savannas and lagoons of
Ine South, and tke ten thousand chali
ces shall be filled tv'ilh tbe 'new wine of
the kingdom, and Christ shall bend
over the Northern and SoYrthc**’* assem
blages, saying, “ My peace I gi\ e unto
you; not as the world giveth give I
unto you.” Roll on the day, God of
our fathers, God of our children. Roll
on the day ! j believe in the commun
ion of saints and in the life everlast
ing. Amen and amen.
The Modocs.
A gentleman just from the QfthpSiw
Indian Agency, Indian Territory, re
ports that the once famous Modoc In
dians, since being placed on their res
ervation by the Government, in No
vember, 1873, have advanced ve'v rap
idly in civilization. The Modocs own
in their own right 4,000 acres of good
tillabb* Hnd. on which they have sev
enteen log houses, built by themselves,
six double stables, eight corn cribs, be
sides pens, and houses for their stock,
chickens, etc. On this land they have
put within the last year a good rail
fence around 120 acres, which is sown
m wheat, which at present gives prom
ise of an abundant harvest next year,
and they have split altogether 25,000
rails, and have over eight arres of cul
tivated land for each man, woman and
child in the tribe. They have also 105
acres of corn, which will average from
forty to forty-five bushels per acre.
Fifty-nine of their children attend
school at the. Ottawa, Peoria and Wy
andotte Missions, and they have made
remarkable progress in all the branches
taught in a common school.
Among the most prominent mem
bers Of the tribe arfe Bogus Charlie,
Steamboat Frank, Shacknasty Jim,
Scar face Charlie, and Long Jim, Bo
gus Charlie is apparently about 35
years of Age, medium height, and very
fair complexion for a full-blooded Mo
doc. He has 500 bushels of corn in
one crib, and his partner, .Shacknasty
Jim, has as much more.
Steamboat Frank is a tall muscular
fellow, rather good looking, and is a
hard worker. His cribs contain about
1,300 bushels of corn, and he has a
plenty of hogs, chickens, turkeys,
ducks, etc., around him, and like every
one of his tribe, seems to like his new
way of living.
Long Jim has 1,500 bushels of corn
and is also a good farmer, as, in fact,
they all are,
They own in common 237 head of
cattle, of which eighty are cows, and
the farm is worked on the partnership
plan, two or three taking as much as
they can farm, and sharing the crops.
They have also cut 140 tons of hay the
past season, and in fact have plenty to
keep them, and the agent says they
can, after this year, do without any j
hired help to assist and show them how
to farm, or any assistance from the
United States.
Peaceful means for peace men, can
do what bullets and sabres cannot do.
This Quaker agent has tamed the most
desperate men the Indian race has pro
duced, without a guard-house, without
the aid of any power, other than what
God has given to God fearing men.
Cool weather for April.
Napoleon's Prophecies.'
The rapid march of events during
the past year in Hasten) Europe ivalls
to mind the prophecy of NapoVm, I
that in fifty years Europe wouldW
Cossack fr republican, and j
some curious verification. The convert
sations which he held with the English
man O’Meara, as he paced back and
forth in his restricted quarters at St.
Helena, have been preserved by the
latter nnd recorded in book form. We
cite a few of them, as showing how
closely the great Emperor looked into
futurity. Upon one occasion he said
to O’Meara:
“ Iu tlic course Of a few years Rnssia
wlTl have Constantinople, the greatest
part of Turkey, and stU Greece. This
I hold to be as certain as if it. had
already taken place. Almost all the
cajoling and fluttering Which Alexan
der ‘practiced toward me Was" tff gain
my consent to effect this object. I
would not consent, ®e?tng that the
equilibrium of Europe would be de
stroyed. In the natural course of
tilings, in a few years Tu r l tOsisl fkTl'
to Russia. The greatest' part of her
population are Greeks who, you may
say, are Russians. The powers it
would injure, and who could oppose it,
are England, France, Prussia and Aus
tria. Now, as to Austria, it will be
very easy for Russia to engage her as
sistance by giving her Servia and other
provinces bordering on the Austrian
dominions, reaching near Constantino
ple. The only hypothesis upon which
England and France will ever form an
alliance with sincerity will be in order
to prevent this. But even this alliance
would not avail. France, England and
Prussia united cannot prevent-it. Rus
sia and Austria can at any time effect
it. Once mistress of Constantinople,
Rnssia gets all the commerce of the
Mediterranean, becomes a great naval
power, and God knows what may hap
pen. She quarrels with you, marches
off to India an army of 70,000 good
soldiers, which to nothMg, and 100,000
canaille, Cossacks, and others, ami
England loses India.”
In another conversation O’Meara
asked Napoleon if it was true that
Alexander once intended to seize Tur
key, to which Napoleon replied :
“ All his thoughts are directed to the
conquest of Turkey. We have had
many discussions about it. At first I
was pleased with his proposals, because
I thought it would enlighten the world j
to drive those brutes, the Turks, oitt of
Europe. But, when I reflected upon
the consequences and saw what a tre
mendous weight of power it would give
to Russia, in consequence of the num
bers of Greeks in the Turkish domin
ions, who would virtually join the Rus
sians, I refused to consent to it, espec
ially as Alexander wanted to get Con
stantinople, which I Would not allow,
as it would have destroyed the equil
ibrium of power in Europe.”
On a Long Furlough,
Carthage Republican.
Col. George W. Flower wag standing
in the square at Watertown, the other
day, when he spied a farmer 4lm, some
weeks ago, had sold him some very
“ crooked ” hay. The party in ques
tion is an active professor of religion,
and a most zealous worker for his own
pocket. The man’s profession and
j practice being in such marked contrast,
caused the Colonel to eye him with
| dislike. When he came up the Colonel
j charged him with deception in the mat
ter of hay. The skinflint stoutly de
! nied the charge. Thc # Colonel drew
himself up to his full height and dis
dainfully observed: “I am a soldier,'
sir, not a liar!” “Soam Ia soklier,”
whined the promoter of “ crooked ” ;
hay. “You ?” ejaculated the Colonel, \
in a tone of disgust, “ What kind of a
soldier are you ?” “ I’m a soldier of
the Cross,” said the skinflint, with a de-;
testable flourish of the hand. “ That
may be,” said the Colonel, dryly, “ but
you've been on a furlough ever since I!
knew you.”
A Syracuse boy seven years old
broke open a warehouse and stole a
barrel of flour to give to a poor but
worthy widow, while thousands of great
big men in this country wouldn’t even
steal a ham for an orphan.
HARTWELL, G\, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10,
General Harney’s Foot-Kace,
SL Louii Globe Democrat,
General William 8. Harney, of this
city, when a young man, had the repu
tation o J ‘ being the swiftest runner in the
army, as well ns the best Indian fighter.
He was a strict disciplinarian, but not
Vic of ’he (‘stuck up” kind so common
ntwadnfts, lie would often mingle with
his men then not on duty, and laugh
and j|kc with them on terms of famil
iarityiuod went so far at times ns to
compde with them in the exciting sport
of footracing. An impression prevailed
at onoTihio that almost any Indian
could titnin a white man ; but General
relieved that he could outrun
any nd rascal that wore moccasins,
wbone4'r*he met a warrior who boasted
of his Iciness of foot, lie took great
plcasojt in giving him n trial, and al
ways ejime out ahead, Only once did
he failed reach the winning post before
his adf isary, aud that was by a“ foul.”
Thejiftrir occurred at Fort Winne
bago, ijrthe winter of 1840, when Fox
river 4c frozen over and the weather
was cold. An Indian had com
mitted tome breach of the rules of the
for which Harney, then a cap
tain, (included to administer a flogging.
He always believed in giving every man
a fair (banco, or red, and on this
occasion he conducted the Indian some
distant up the river, and giving him n
hundtil yards the start, told him if he
reaelit 1 a certain point without being
overturn, he would escape the flogging.
The ri re was on the ice, which at some
! placesf was thinner than at others on ac
countfif the formation of ” uir holes.”
Both 'men wore moccasins, nnd both
were gripped and belted for the race,
Handy swinging a cowhide in his hand,
with $ hich lie confidently expected to
accelerate the inovehients of the Win
nebago on overtaking hifan At the
word “ go,” both started at full speed,
the ludiin doing his best to save liis hide,
and white ninn anxious to save his
j reputation as a runner. Harney gained’
rapidly on the warrior, and was getting
ready to swing his cowhide, when the
cunning savage made an oblique move
ment award a spot w here the ice was
thiu. Being of much lighter weight
than 1 is pursuer, he passed over the dan
gerous place in safety, but as soon as
Harney stepped upon the thin ice it was
shivered like glass, and down went the
tall captain, sinking into the cold water
like a sea lion. Being a good swimmer,
a few strokes brought him to the edge of
the thick ice, and clambering upon it
made his way to his quarters, spangled
with icicles, and as mdd as a buffalo
bull. He lost his cow hide in the water,
but it was ft small matter, as the Indian
never returned to the fort while the cap
tain remained there. Captain Harney’s
foot-race afforded "oldTw igg” occasion
for many a joke, and it was a long time
before he heard the last of it.
What Washington Knew.
We don’t want to be irreverent, but
would like to ask, what did our fore
fathers know? What, for instance did
George Washington know? He never
saw a steamboat; he never saw a fast
mail train ; he never held his ear to a
telephone ; he never sat for his picture
in a photograph gallery; he never re
ceived a telegraph dispatch; lie never
i sighted a Kruppgun ; lie never listened
I to the “ fiz ”of an electric pen; he never
I savy a pretty girl run a sewing machine,
he never saw a self-propelling engine go
down the street to a fire; he never heard
:of evolution ; he never took laughing
I gas; he never had a set of store teeth ;
lie never attended an International Ex
! position ; he never knew Old Probs ;
[ lie But why go on? No; when
he took an excursion it was on an old
flat-boat; when he went off on a trip it
was a mule train ; when he wanted to
talk to a man in Milwaukee he went
there; when he had his picture taken it
was done in profile with a piece of black
paper ami a pair of shears ; when lie got
the returns from the back counties they
were brought in by a man in an ox
cart ; When he took aim at the enemy
he had to trust crooked barreled old
flint locks; when he wrote it was with a
goose-quill; when he had anything to
mend his grandmother did it with a
darning needle; when he went to a fire
he stood in line and passed buckets;
when he looked at a clam he never
dreamed it was any ration of his.
•vl.eii ho had a tooth pulled Ik MfU down ’
■aver left offyclliug; when ~
out of U j JO £ Uljme d* his victim..
when hew.DK, k ttow anything .bout
the weather
or the goose bone. Whai i;,j suc .|, „
man know? Who wai he, anyhCr^s
A Good Joke on a Savannah Drummer.
Among the numerous drummers who
have been in Tlioraasville this winter
was one from tbo city of Savannah.
This gentleman is representing an ex
tensive tobacco house, lie concluded
on his last trip to turn an honest penny
by buying otter skins, which command
ed from $2.50 to $5.50 in Savannah.
Stepping into Mr. M. Isaac’s, lie noticed
a coon skin hanging on the wall. He
was in for a trade at once, nnd asked
Charlie Rhineur what lie would take for
that otter skiu. Now, Charley is too
polite to enter into a dispute with a
commercial traveler as to the difference
between a coon nnd otter skin, so he
blandly told the gentleman that about
three dollars would be the right figure.
After considerable badgering the skin
was bought by the drummer for fifty
cents (good price that for a coon skin)
and nicely wrapped it up and packed
it away in his trunk. Rhineur heard
nothing from his friend or his specula
tion until a day ortwo since. He wrote :
” I have sold the otter (coon) skin for
ten cents.” The drummer is now en
gaged in studying the difference be
tween coon nnd otter skins. As an in
centive to his search for knowledge on
this point he balances his cash account
on his last trip to Thomasvllle and
finds forty cents minus.
The Business Prospect.
There is, says the Bridgeport Farmer,
every indication that a revival of busi
ness is near. New York city, which
always feels the earliest symptoms of
such a change, already reports its ppr
, tial arrival. But while it is good policy
for business rnen to make some prepar
ation for a return of prosperity, it is
the part of true wisdom to make haste
slowly in the matter. It is better to
do a little less business than is possible
than to hazard all. We certainly be
lieve that a revival of business is at
hand, but are not inclined to believe
that it will come With a rush and fairly
overwhelm every one with prosperity.
A country does not entirely recuperate
from a serious financial depression in
so brief a time. The complete revival
of trade at the present time, so san
guinely believed in by many, cannot in
the nature of things be permanent.
Otir return to general prosperity, to be
licathful and permanent, must be ac
complished gradually and naturally,
and not spasmodically.
Jack's Bet.
A Georgia negro was riding a mule
along, and came to a bridge, the mule
stopped. “ lil bet you a quarter,”
said Jack, “ I’ll make you go ober dis
bridge,” and with that struck the mule
over the head' which made him nod
suddenly. “ You take de bet, den ?”
said the negro, and he contrived to get
the stubborn mule over the bridge. ‘*l
won dat quarter anyhow,” said Jack.
“ Hut how will yon get the money ?”
asked a man who had been close by
unperceived.
“To-morrow,” said Jack, “Massa
gili mo a dollar to get corn for de mule,
and I’ll take a quarter out.”
Japanese Method of Cooking Rice.
letter from Japan says : “ They
know how to cook rice here ; only just
enough cold water to prevent the rice
from burning to the pot, which has a
close-cutting cover, and is set on a mod
erate fire. The rice is steamed, rather
than boiled, until it is nearly done;
then the cover of the pot is taken ofr,
the surplus steam and moisture are al
lowed to escape, and the rice turns out
a mass of snow-white kernels, each sep
arate from the other, and as much supe
rior to the soggy mass we usually get
in the United State? as a fine mealy po
tato is to the water-soaked article.”
The Philadelphia Times desires to
have murderers privately sutrocated by
turning some fatal kind of gas into
their cells, ro that the execution may
be seen by nobody, and revolting scaf
fold exhibitions prevented.
WHOLE NO. 85.
HE WAS INQUISITIVE.
She sat opposito him irt tho street
car, aud she looked as if she thought
he was about as hard looking onstomor
as she had seCn fills season, and ah.
drew her dress closer and oyod hit.
suspiciously. *!.
“ Madam," said the suspicions Took.’
ing individual, reaching over and touch
ing Her on the knee, would you mind
telling me confidentially how much you
paid for them teeth, and where you got
tiiein ? Jugt give one the dentist’,
name and I’ll put it down so's not to
<>rget it. 1 want to have my old snags
t'.'isl 1 - ° £*** a ncv,r
pulled 3t.‘l ue9tion ' i* settled,” and ho
pencil to taktf and becr cheek and a lead
She gave hiiiiTi 1 Oie address,
froze, the polar beaY.that would havo
Zoo, but it was lost on hunt the Zoo
on smilingly: l| e wont
“ Well, if you don’t want to teh,
of course I’ll not inquire any mou
about it; but just to satisfy my curi
osity, what does a good glass-eye cost ?
I notice yefn handle yours pretty well,
but it’s a little lighter than the other,
but tlicp that don’t hurt. I like to see
a* contrast; was it made to order, or
did you buy it second-hand ?”
She told him he was an old brute,
and that she would hit him over tha
head with her umbrella if he didn’t
shut up; and for a few moments it
looked as though she had settled him,
but his indomitable inquisitiveness ros.
above tho storm and he continued :
“ Have you ever found paints injuri
ous ? My girl wants to use it, but I
heard it injured the skin, nnd I want
to get the opinion of some older per
son who has had experience. How
long have you used it P”
“ You are an insulting old vagabond
and need a horse-whipping; and I’ll
have you put off the ear if you say an
other word, you old heathen, you !”
lie looked quito crest-fallen for a few
■minutes, and then the same old look of
confidence and trust lit up his face
again, Rnd he replied apologetically :
” There's no use of getting mad, I
didn’t mean any harm; it’s just my
disposition. I’m naturally inquisitive,
and just to satisfy my curiosity I’d
give you a trado dollar to see you move.
I’d like to see how you manage your
cork limb, my brother has one and it
don’t work well, it flops up at the wrong
time; would you mind walking up and
down the ear a couple of times to show
how it works ?”
She hit him over the head with her
umbrella, and as tho conductor dragged
him towards the door lie shouted :
“ There is no use of you having red
hair all your life—scaring babies and
making the boys call yon sorrel-top.
Just use a couple of bottles—”
The conductor gave him a shova off
the steps jnto the mud, and tho re
mainder of the sentence was lost.
The first thing to observe in judging
of a horse, so far as his back is con
cerned, is the length of it. A long
back is a weak back the world over,
and in every instance. By superior
excellence of structure in other re
spects the weakness of the back may
be, in some measure, made up ; but the
horse can never be the horse he would
have been had his back been a shorter
one. We do not care how short a
horse's back is, for it is a sure evidence
that lie can carry or drag a heavy
weight a great distance and npt tiro;
neither, if he be speedy, will two or
three seasons of turf experience break
him down, as is the case with so many
of our long-backed horses. —Golden
llule.
A little grandnephew of Prince Bis
marck was sitting on the Prince’s knee
the other day, when he suddenly cried
out, “ Oh, uncle, I hope I shall boa
great man like yon when I grow up f’
“ Why, my child ?” asked his uncle.
“ Because you are co great, and every
one fears you.” “ Wouldn't you rather
every one loved you ?” The child
thought a little, and then replied, “No
uncle; for when people love you they
cheat you, but when they fear you they
let you cheat them.”
Governor Colquitt has nearly threo
years yet to serve, and it will be a waste
of plaudits to nominate too many can
didates at this early day. Wo move to
lay the subject on the table or under the
table, or anywhere else where it will bo
lost sight of for twelve months. And
on the motion move the previous ques
tion.—Lumpkin Independent.
The residents and land-owners in
Dalton, and its vicinity, have inaugu
rated a movement to attract immigra
tion to Georgia.
The average boy diggeth fbr bait;