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“Wobkk tilings roiglithnppen to the great
Stale o! New York than the election of
Chester Arthur to succeed Senator Miller."
No doubt about it. Miller might be elected
to succeed himself.
The recent cold snap in Florida is ac
counted for. Senator Jones of that State,
haa abandoned the constitution for awhile,
and haa gone up into Michigan on a matri
monial speculation.
Hr.i'iiEHENTATivE Hammond, of Georgia,
is not favorably impressed with the make
up of the rivers and harbors committee,
which be says is organized more in the in
terest of rivers than of harbors.
Some of the Itopuh’.icaiiR aro terribly •
alarmed over the fact that the chairman of
the naval committee is an Alabamian. The
word “Alabama" is sufficient to frighten the
average Northern llepublicun into the jim-
jams.
“X say, did you make any good resolu
tions this year?" “Bet yer life. I resolved
not to give a cent for whisky, tobacco, pool,
billiards or charity.” “Indeed! Broken
them all?" “No, not all. I don't give to
charity.”
It is said that when Senator Brow n's eye
extehes a complimentary notice of Senator
Ingalls in a newspaper, he calls a page and
sends his broad-gauge smile out to tho ante
room to be hung up along with his
goloshes.
"I r wouldn't take loug for an honest
committee to tell all tho good ltcpublicnn
party has done the 'colored race’ in the
past dozen year*," says the Boston Hor-
ald, taking its life in it’s hands for opin
ion’s sake.
It is thought among Democrats in Wash
ington City that the two parties are about
to split on fin uncial and economic ques
tions. Speculations aro rife aa to whether,
in that event, thore will be an allinnce be
tween tho South and Eaat, or the South
and West.
The London Lancet says that children
who aro allowed to go barefoot enjoy al
most perfect immunity from the danger of
“cold" from accidental chilling of the feet,
and they are altogether healthier and hap
pier than those who, in obodicnco to the
usages of social life, wear shoes and stoek-
>089-
The Iowa Legislature, which is Kopubli-
■cau of course, is in a fix. The Liontonant-
Goveruor has moved away, and cannot or
ganize the Senate. Tho President pro tem
pore has some little misunderstanding with
the cosh of a bank with which be was con
nected, and has found it convenient to step
over to Canada. And this in “trooly loil"
Iowa.
The man .who does not pity tho poor pro
hibitionist during the prevalence of such a
blizzard oa this, must have had hia bowels
of compassion frozen. As far as we ore
concerned wo shall aiwaya believe that the
prohibitionist who thaws himself out with
a “Tom and Jerry" when the thermometer
is hngging tiro zero notch is s better citizen
than the man who goes to bed cold and
shoves his wife's feet out of their warm
place.
The World, commenting upon Cleveland's
rebuke of a nephew, who wanted office,
says: “When we recall the scandalous way-
in which the public patronnge was used by
some of Mr. Cleveland’s Itepobllsen prede
cessors to give fat offices to blood relatives
of all degrees of kindred, we must heartily
commend the Prcsidei. for the position he
has taken. More especially if, in addition
to keeping his nephew, out of office, he will
sot appoint any moro brothers-in-law or
Republicans ”
This from the Cartersville Conrant: The
Now York World is our authority for say
ing the Kimball Honse owners effected a
compromise with its creditors at titty centa
in the dollar. The meeting was held on the
2nd in New York city, and after a full
statement of affairs the creditors accepted
the compromise. Col Howell, we under
stand, has sold out his interest, and Gen.
Toombs' estate is much entaugled : but we
hope there will be no serious loss to the
people who risked their honest money in it.
Says tho Courier-Journal: “It was the
whine of Fotaker, in his campaign for the
Governorship of Ohio last fall, that the
negro waa denied his rights in the South,
and, Jherefore, the Republicans should he
elected in Ohio. In speech after speech,
from the beginning to the end of the cam
paign, he dinned this charge into the ears
of bis auditors; but never a word said be
about the denial of the negro's rights in
Ohio. This week, however, Foruker was
’ i laugurated, and. in bit address never a
word said he about tho denial of the negro's
rigbin in the Sooth, while he grew excited
in protesting sgainst the denial of the ne
gro lights it) Ohio.”
THE aMACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1886.—TWELVE PAGES.
Settled at laat.
Washington society and governmental
circles have been in a great flatter of late
years os to an undecided social question.
The atatns has been at all times painful
and disagreeable, bnt occasionally violent
and threatening. There is not a greater
sham or humbug in existence than what is
called Washington society; yet from the
early dayB of tho Republic it has exerted a
powerful influence upon the Government.
Andrew Jackson's cabinet was wrecked'by
a purely social question, and the peace of
other administrations has been threatened
by similar questions. During the 1 am turn
days of the Arthur administration, when
the frolicking was furious and fast, there
was more than one scene, at thu White
House, between women who quarrelled
over their socisl rank and precedence
Fortunately Miss Cleveland, wti has
pa-sed the age of the debutante and now
approaches the tea-drinking era, haa a will
of her own, and she haa settled this long
mooted question. A Washington special
sayB:
To-day Mlaa Cleveland settled the vexed
qucetlon of precedence which, it la sold, the Preel-
dcut was not equal to, on New Year's Bay, by giv-
ins to Mra. Sherman the Unit place in tho line by
right ae the wife of the Vlco-President pro tempore.
Mra. Sherman takes precedence over the wives of
tho cabinet officers and tho wife of Ihe Speaker of
the House. Mlaa Cleveland's decision prevents
further discussion and places the wife of the acting
Vice-President as “first lady of tho land" before the
people.
This will be pretty rough on the society
dames, moro'especially the high flyers, hut
they will have to stand it. It has been offi
cially declared that Mrs. John Khermnn is
the first lady in the land, and will be wor
shipped and obeyed accordingly. The
matter is still not without embarrassment.
John Sherman, wov.waotn everything will
claim that he is tltfo first gentleman in the
land. This absurd claim cannot bo al
lowed. Possibly some good natured peo
ple, or even Washington society, might ad
mit that ha was the gentleuiun consprt or a
sort of brevet gentleman, but no more
than this.
Among the common folks, who bear the
burden of tho government, and make the
American name honorable and respectable,
there will bo a doubt if any of the Sher-
uinus aro gentlemen, nnd then some people
will never surrender the conviction that the
first lady in tho land is she who best keeps
her home, her children, hor heart and her
husband. However, as the question is
finally nettled, there can no longer bo any
reason why tho government should not now
proceed to the performance of its usual
fuuctious. Just one more suggestion.
Perhaps we can settle tho first gontleman
business by competitive oxnminaticn.
Tobacco,
Prior to the wnr .it was not an uncommon
thing to find in Georgia flourishing crops of
tobacco. Peopled largely by emigrantNorth
Cnrolinians and Virginians, the State gained •
from them a practical knowledge of the
methods necessary to tho growth of the
weed and its manufacture. In some sec
tions it wns grown for the market; in nearly
all for home consumption. Every planta
tion hod its little tobacco crop, and behind
the cabin of every thrifty negro was a little
patch. Even nntil now this latter feature
is observed in connection with the cabins
of old negroes who have survived the wrock
of old systems and tho change of condition.
But tho growing of tobacco cannot bo
said to have ever been a business in Geor
gia, unless we go bock to the peaceful
Indian tribes and the earliest days of Amer
ican discovery. The cotton fever swept
everything before it, after the gin and
improved machinery came into being.
Cotton oven overran tobacco and songbt to
drivo it from the Carolina hills, only falling
back into warmer latitudes when experience
and climato had settled the quostion of
adaptability.
But.tho kindliness with which tobacco
adapts itself to this section, now that cot
ton is no longer king and men are seeking
to diversify crops, is attracting attention
on all sidea. In South Carolina tho tobacco
movemont Is strong and widespread, and
only ignorance as to methods checks tho
deveio pment of interest in It here. There
seems no reason for doubting that these
hills and valleys of Middle and North Geor-
gU can be mido to produce ; d tubu'- 'o
and u fair profit upon investments in that
direction. It ia stated upon good authori
ty that the tide-water sections of North
Carolina ore beginning to abandon the cul
tivation of cotton for tobacco, and it is well
known that Middle anil Upper Georgia ap
proach much nearer in quality and climate
to the old tobacco countriea, than these.
It is desirable that all the counties well
suited for tobacco crops should be thor
oughly tested by growth and analysis of the
weed, and that the value of the grades
should bo determined, anil the results made
known. North Carolina's splendid progress
is largely attributed to her tobacco crop.
If the old North State can make money off--
of one crop Georgia ought to be able to
combine her two advantageously. Is the
agricultural bureaif’in Georgia able to sup
ply seed and information now ?
A Gallant Georgian Dereads the Ladles and
Assaults the Queen's English.
While engaged in billeting his own poor
kin and those of General Gordon upon the
government, Colquitt put Hugh A. Haral
son, Esq., of Atlanta, and a brother-in-law
of the General in the Treasury Department.
It appears that Colonel Haralson has
come to the defense of the treasury girls
albeit it ia well known that the average
treasury girl will give you the start and pro
tect herself.
The Washington Capitol has unearthed
two of the late orders of the gallant Georgia
Colonel. The first runs after this fashion:
“The registers in that'section of the sixth
auditor's division now at work in Marini's
building, on E street, were much mortified
to find that the following curious circular
had been sent in a sealed envelope to the
ladies of the draft and transfer room:
“ To the Lodiea ot the Draft Room—It
becomes my duty as well as my pleasure to
inform you that I will fully and thoroughly
protect you from even a look of insult or
disrespect on the pert of any clerk in this
building, if reported to me. While I do
not anticipate anch, yet I desire you to
know that I am ready to protect you if
necessary. Very respectfully,
H. A. H.’
“The ladies who received this missive
were at first inclined to believe that it was
a joke, and that the signature waa a for
gery, but the peculiar construction of the
sentences convinced them that tbs chief of
division from Georgia had in good fsith
constituted himself tbeir unsolicited cham
pion against imaginary foea. So far as can
be discovered no one of the ladies has ever
complained of insult or disrespect from tho
gentlemen employed in the division. As
for the registers and other gentlemen who
are brought into daily contact with the
buries of the draft room, they are indignant
at the circular, and denounce it totally
gratuitous and uncalled for."
Ah! how this breathes in every word and
line the well known chivalry of Atlanta.
The young man treasury clerk, hod best
look about, when he goes to ogle and mash
the treasury girl. If caught in this* nefari
ous act, the gallant Georgian will be found
ready and able to lick him.
It is a pity that so gallant a Georgia col
onel, who is ready and willing to protect
the females in his department, knowing that
tho Queen's English is in hourly danger
from John Logon, Bhould have consented
to attack it himself. This is the other or
der refered to.
“Hereafter you will direct each clerk in
tho draft room when they are late to report
to me, or if I am not in my office, to Mr.
Patteiaon, so that the time of arrival may
he noted, both for tho information of the
chief clerk and the chief of iliviaion. Also
when a clerk is absent for a day or more for
any crubc whatever, when they do return to
duty to report both to the chief clerk nnd
chief of division. These rules are absolute
and will be carried out to the letter.”
“Registers nnd clerks, draft room, will
therefore work with that r nd in view. Any
one who may get behind in their work, and
thereby endanger the success of this pur
pose, will certainly be reported to the prop
er authorities.”
If thcro is really any sincerity about tho
civil service business, it would appear from
this that the commission should be over
hauling tho bends of divisions in the Treas
ury Department.
A Great Mistake.
The ecclesiastical court, which has just
assembled in Atlanta for the trinl of Dr.
Armstrong, upon charges of gross immoral
ity, has committed a great mistake in de
ciding to sit with closed doors.
This language of the prosecuting counsel
in opening the case covers tho whole ground
nnd is unanswerable:
"Mr. Charlton said it was duo tho public
nnd the Episcopul Church that there he no
star chamber proceedings in the case. ,If
Dr. Armstrong he innocent, let him be ac
quitted in a public trial and thereby vindi
cated; if he bo guilty, let the proceedings
he published daily that the church bo ac
quitted of any unfairness. Under «■ ery
phase of tho case, it would be best that tha
trial be heard in public so far os admitting
the press."
Dr. Armstmog may afford to have a se
cret investigation, but the Episcopal
Church cannot. Closed doors raise a sus
picion in the public mind, nnd no really in
nocent man would accept n technical ac
quittal ar n condonation of wrong doing
for the flake of the chnich. If he is
guilty tho public should be given tho testi
mony, not to satisfy n prurient curiosity,
but that all suspicions and infcrencos
should be stopped. If he is innocent, the
further the quicker this fact can be spread
wi th the testimony upon which it is based,
the hotter for the church and for the ac
cused. The matter has passed in a meas
ure beyond mere church circles nnd au
thority, to the great public, a portion of
which worships according to tho Episcopal
form and another portion does not.
This pnblic has refused to accept the ex
planation of the vestry of Dr. Armstrong's
hnreh. It will refuse to accept any ver
dict made up in secret, by a court, that
organizes for business under rulings that
do not strike it pleasantly.
A Scotch verdict of “not proven" cannot
restore Dr. Armstrong, although it may
save him from punishment.
An ecclesiastical court is the last body
that should think of sitting in tho dark.
W'Jien tlie court convenes again, it will
have opportunity to correct this mistake,
and it should be desf to the curbstone chat
of Atlanta, if it desires to do its full duty.
Negro Emigration.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat is not
alarmed as the negro emigration movement,
but takes a practical view of it. The
present movement it is, says is more intel
ligible than that which took place some
years ago.
“The negroes are settling mainly in the
southern portion of Arkansas, in a country
well adapted to them in every respect, os is
shown by the fact that it already maintains
a large negro population. It is the centre
of the cotton belt of tho country, very ter-
tile, and yet with mnch land open to settle
ment, damage from overflows having some
what retarded its growth. In this country
the negro will encounter none of the hard
ships he met with in Kansas.
"While a movement of this kind always
creates some littlo excitement among plant
ers who fear lest it may result in drawing
off their labor, it cannot altogether be pre
vented, nor is it altogether injurious. It is
natural for msny negroes tc desire to estab
lish themselves in new lands, and as the
whiles of the central Southern belt are
moving to Texas it is not to bo wondered at
th“t the negroes should move West also.
They make as a rule, it is true, poor emi
grants, having no exact idea of where they
want to go, or what they will do when they
get there, and possess scarcely any properly,
but still they are, like the whites, constantly
tending Westward.
“Instead of such a movement being injuri
ous to the States from which these negroes
move, it is advantageous in several respects,
if in moderation. If thousands of the
whites of South Carolina, for instance,
move to Georgia, Alabama, Florida and
Texas, and there is no corresponding emi
gration among tho negroes, that State will
find itself every year with a greater negro
majority. Tho proportion of the negroes
in its propnlation has been increasing rap
idly from year to year, and some measure
is needed to prevent a further increase.
This, the negro emigration toward Ar
kansas and Texas will accomplish,
at the same time there is no danger that
it will in the least affect the large pre
ponderance of whites in the latter States.
Unless it is desired to condemn certain sec
tions of the South to the negroes, to make
them absolutely black nnd free from the in
fluence of Caucasian civilization, a move
ment such ns bos started toward Arknnsas
should be encouraged within legitimate
grounds rather than opposed and prevented.
It is only when it takes the form of the
Kansas exodus, when it leaves plantations
vacant, and brings misery nnd suffering
upon the negroes themselves who embark
in it without knowing what they are doiog,
that it becomes injurious and dangerous."
About the Itaxor.
The New Y'ork Sun inquires why tho gen-
ternnn from Africa always uses a razor as
his weapon of offense and defense.
This is a hard question. Perhaps the
gentleman from Africa cannot answer it
intelligently and satisiactorily himself.
The first time this novol weapon in the
hands of the gentleman from Africa ar
rested pnblic attention, was when Wash
ington city was infested with a mob of very
unruly “intelligent contrabands.” When-
ever a row sprung up which was very fre
quently, these “contrabands" were all
tound to be armed with razors, which they
immediately whipped out nnd with which
they proceeded to “cyarbe” each other up,
or the police, as the cose might be. Cer
tain it is, that the razor in the hands of
the gentleman from Africa is a very ready
and dangerous weapon. Possibly it came
into use on account of its cheapness, and
the ease with which it can be concealed.
May be, because the gentleman from Af
rica was largely engnged in the barbering
business and found a barbarous weapon
closo at hand.
It is no more curious than tho fact that a
white man cannot use a razor successfully
as a weapon against anything but a stiff
beard. Let n wbito man slash around with
a razor,.and be would, in all probability,
slash himself to pieces.
That the getlemnn from Africa uses the
razor with great deftness in brawls is estab
lished. The real reason why may never be
discovered, hut every ono of them enught
with one on his person or attempting to uso
it should be immediately forwarded to the
nearest chain-gang, after having been
knocked down and disarmed.
One Way to Settle the Liquor Question.
Bismarck has undertaken to Bcttle the
liquor question for Germany, and has in
duced the Kaiser to give his consent nnd
signature to the bill. The papers devote
several columns to tho draft of the bill and
comments on the measure. Tho bill pro
poses to compensate those deprived of a
livelihood through its operation on the basis
of a two years' income to each person ten
years in the trade. The traffic will be con
trolled by a monopoly ministry, which will
appoint agenta to do the wholesale vending
of the refined spirits, the federal States ap
pointing the retailers. Restaurateurs, etc.,
by special favor will bo allowed to sell spir
its obtainod from the monopoly without re
gard to prices enacted by the State retailers.
Possession of braontweiu by private per
sons above a specified minimum ^ill be ft
penal offonse; also import ttlon of raw or
refined spirits. Communes will be empow
ered to add 60 per cent, to the monopoly
selling price.
“Young Mu*--oners."
Every grown-up boy in thin section will be
glad to hear that preparations for the re
production of that gem among books of ad
venture, "The Y’oung Marooners," are be
ing made and that in course of time a splen
didly illustrated edition will be laid before
the public. Few works of the kind have
nttained such popularity. It has been in
every household here, has crossed the ocean
nnd been translated into several languages,
and has everywhere run through
many editions. Its author, Rev. F. W.
it. Gouiding, is dead, but the
work which was popular before the war,
during the war and now, rises to even
greater popularity, is a fitting memorial
Written in very graceful, simple English,
true in description and thrilling in many of
its situations, it yet conveys to a very im
pressionable class many valuable lessons.
“The Young Marooners” will remain with
ns for many years. The publishers are
Messrs. J. W. Burke & Co.
A Washington special says: “A rather
amusing incident occurred at the office of
the public printer the other day. Mr.
Rounds, the father of the public printer,
who is here visiting bis son, was sitting in
the office when Senator Brown, of Georgia,
came in and was introduced to him. ‘Ah,
yes,' he said os he shook the Senator's
hand warmly, 'I remember meeting you at
the Republican National Convention in
186ft, when we nominated Genera] Grant
for President. I remember that you mode
a very good speech at that convention, tell
ing them why you thought Grant should be
nominated. It was a good speech, sir, a
good Republican speech. I hope you are
atill as ardent a Republican, Senator,as you
were then.’ The Senator was somewhat
taken aback by Mr. Rounds's sally, and af
ter spending an hour trying to explain to
Mr. Rounds why be was not a Republican
yet, left with some apparent doubt aa to
whether he had succeeded in making his
explanation quite satisfactory to the Illinois
gentleman.”
“The editors of popular magazines,"says
the Critic “Lounger,” “are constantly in
recept of curious letters, but I doubt if any
one of them ever received such a one as
come to the editor of Harper's the . other
day. It was from a lady who wrote that
she was dying, and that her physicians told
her she would be dead before the conclu-
tion of Mr. Howell's story, 'Indian Som
mer.’ She was very much interested in it,
and did not want to die until she knew how
it was going to end, and she begged the ed
itor to let her read the advance sheets, that
she might die happy. The writer was ap
parently in earnest and the editor had no
rensou to doubt the genuineness of the hit
ter."
John PorE's recent attack upon Fitz-John
Porter has brought out again the letter
written by General Franklin to this effect:
“During the trial I thought it proper to
inform Porter that General J. F. Reynolds,
George H. Thomas and myself would, if
requested, go before the court and swear
that we would not believe Popo or Roberts
(Pope's Inspector General and the nominal
prosecutor) under oath. I had consulted
General Reynolds before I wrote tho prop
osition. Ho consented to go himself, and
thought General Thomas would have no
hesitation in giving such evidence. I was
myself well convinced of General ^Thomas’
opinion of Pope’s veracity from what I had
often heard him say before the war.”
Porter declined to call in these witnesses,
GH thj ground that PVflTvt.hlnrr KOPTvorl rrning
well, and it would he impolitic, under the
circumstances, to attempt to break down
the evidence of the principal prosecutors.
“TnE dying Congressman, Raking,” says
tho Washington correspondent of the Cleve
land Leader, "though he knows he cannot
live moro than a month or two at the fur
thest, keeps up his spirits very well indeed.
Daring the choice of the seats he was one of
the unlnckiest ones, and got one near the
back of the chamber. As he took it he
turned to his next-door neighbor nnd said:
‘Not a very good seat, it's tme; but it will
not create so much attention back hero
when it is draped after my burial' Not
long ago the doctors told him he was safe
ns long as his feet did not begin to swell,
but when that change took place he might
know that death wns approaching. Said
ho: ‘Of late my feet havo been swelling
considerably. 1 can atand it well enough
nn long ns the daylight shines and I do not
have to face death; but if I nwako in tho
night with that sensational swelling in my
feet, the thought of passing away makes
me nervous, and I wish the doctor.had not
told mo.'"
The New Y'ork Star says: “There are but
two ways of dealing with the standard sil
ver dollar. One way is to trout it as a port
of the subsidiary ooinage, giving it a limit
ed legal tender faculty. If this were done,
nnd the small notes retired, a large amount
of silver would go into uso—precisely how
much cannot be foretold. The other way
of dealing with the silver dollar is to in
crease its weight and make it equal in value
to tho gold dollar, as it usod to bo. It is
idle to discuss whether gold has gone up,
or silver has gone down. That is a matter
of no conseqnencc. The gold dollar and
the silver dollar are no lunger of the samo
value. The government cannot make them
so. All tho resolutions or laws that Con
gress can pa«« will not change the value of
either gold or silver tho fraction of a cent.
All that tho government can do is to recog
nize the facts that exist, and stamp the
motal at its vulne, neither more nor less.
To pay any part of the debt in dollars worth
only eighty centa will injure tho credit of
the country. The best money is the cheap
est. It is cheaper to borrow gold at two
and one-half cent. than to borrow sil
ver at five per cent. How will it help tho
Bilver men if the credit of the government,
is impaired?"
Dropped Stitches.
Four snakes were recently removed fronl
the stomach of a Western woman. Girls,
this is a terrible warning. Y’ou cannot he
too careful about kissing men who drink.—
Pittsburg Telegraph.
“Oh, yes, Lizzio and I were made one in
Naw Y'ork," exclaimed a newly married man
to a friend on the cars. “Traveling West?”
“Yes, going to Chicago.” "Ah! going to
be made two again. My congratulations."—
Tid Bits.
New sub, on market cases: “How do you
spell whisky?" Old rounder, on slug nine,
joyously, "By the phonetic system, all la
bials and gutturals. Let’s go analyze some."
(They go out and expand their intellectual
horizon.)—Burdette.
“Boys," said a dying Kentuckian to his
weeping sons, "when you go down the
river to New Orleans you keep clear of a
game called ‘yucker,’ whero the jack takes
the ace; it’s nn-Christisn," and he laid bock
and died in peace.—Philadelphia News.
It is noted that “just when the English
dandy is learning the American formula of
*Give me a hoist with my overcoat, bub,’
the New York dude ii practicing the dis
carded Englishism of ‘Give me a lift of me
topcoat, me deah fellah.’ "—New York
World.
“This is a pretty time of night for you t
be coming home. Where have you been?"
“Been down—" “Now, don’t tell me you’ve
been watching the old year out, air; I’ve
heard that atoiy for twenty yean." “No,
m’ dear. Jes’ stayed down to greet th 1 new
year.” “Oh, nonsense!" “No nonsense
’bout it, iu’ deer. How’d yon like to be a
Dew year an’ come in, an’ not have a soul
on sight t' welcome ye?"—Chicago News.
GEORGIA, CsAwrnsD l ocarr.—To all whom it
mar concern. I ban in ilna form applied to Geo.
L. Sawyer, onlina-y of raid county, for leave to
aeU thelanda lying is Monroe county, da, belong-
ins to lay ward Mary Lockte Holmes, said applica
tion will be beard by said ordinary an tbe am
Monday to February nett This noth da/ ot De
cember. IMS,
I'suiwU Z. T. HUOCLZY. Guardian.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
“Tbe tear fella gently from ber eye,
Aa they are parting at ibe door;
Her bosom heaves with many t sigh,
She thinks abe ne'er will see him more."
Hia brow la dark, and in bis eyoa
A wild and angry light appears;
He docs not heed tbe maiden's sighs.
He doee not heed tbe maiden's tears.
For while to-night they billed and cooed—
From seven o'clock fill half-peat ten—
While be tbe liaabfnl maiden wooed.
And kissed ber red, ripe lips—ah, then
Her Utile dog-0 dire mishap!
How quickly woea up round na spring!—
Chawed up hlB new and glossy cap
Of fur into a shapeless thing.
Omaha is said to have more of its surface
devoted to streets and alleys than to build
ing space.
Bbooklyn is exercising a gentle pressure
on Congress to buy more ground for tie
new government building in that city.
It is the experience at Harvard that “ivlr
stand as well in the classes os boys,'but
in economic and philosophical studies they
lag.
The Hill-Shnron case in San Francisco
got two witnesses into the penitentiary for
perjury, and several others have been in
dicted.
A bailuoai) station is to be erected on the
rite of ancient Babylon, nnd patent medi-
cine advertisements will be the handwriting
on the wall.
Loan SiiAFTKsnrnv is credited with har
ing said, “if London did not have its 400
city missionaries, it would require 40,00u
more police."
The first volume of Victor Hugo's post
humous works will appear next month. It
is entitled “Le Theatre en Liberie," and
will contain dramatic pieces in verse.
The New York Telegram wonts million
aires to keep physicians constantly near
them in order that there may bo no ques
tion as to tho cause in case of sudden death.
Di'bino the convulsions nnd tidal waves
which attended the earthquake at Batavia
year before last manse a -ji curui weighing
from thirty to fifty tons were carried several
miles inland.
Of New York’s thirty-six representatives
in Congress, eight are college graduates.
Among tho Senators John Alexander Logan
is recorded on having taken a degree at
Louisville university.
The yacht Brunhilde, which is carrying
nn American pleasure party around the
world, has already been mistaken for a
pirate in the Indian ocean. All American
ships are war-like in appearance.
A two per cent, feo is paid tho surrogates
appraisers in New Y'ork appraising estates.
The appraisers arc casting wistful eyes on
tho Vanderbilt property, but Mr. Do Pew
says their services nre not needed.
A contbact has been lot for the construc
tion of three crematories in the Fere k
Chaise cemetery for the incineration of the
debris of 4,000 subjects annually dissected
in the hospitals of Paris. The price is $43,
000.
The largest, price by the squaro inch ever
paid for a painting was lately given to the
Duo d'Aumale for the “Three Graces,” by
Caphaol, from Lord Dudley’s gallery. The
pnee wns $125,000, or, ns tlio picture is only
seven inches square, $2,500 per inch.
At a recent meeting of the London An
thropological Society, a modern philoso
pher rend a paper on the game of liop-
scotch, iu which lie traced the origin of the
game to a period anterior to tho introduc
tion of Christianity, and showed that in
early Christian times children had some
rough idea of representing in this gamo the
progress of tho soul through tho future
world, and that the division of the figure
into seven courts was on account of the be
lief in seven heavei s.
Some of tho cruelties which are still
£ racticed iu the prisons of Franco
nve just been brought to light by the trial
of a soldier for insubordination. In the
defense it was shown that in tho prison of
Barnaul, whore the prisoner haa lain in
solitary confinement for twenty-five days, s
prisoner was allowod'iu the way of fooabut
a pound and a half of bread a day and a jug
of water. Twice a week ho had a plate of
soup. Wlmt with this semi-starvation, the
prohibition of any kind of work and tbe
ubsence of daylight from the cells, prison
ers not Infrequently became temporarily
insane.
Tho Sumo Human Nature.
Many vatu attempts are made to repeat the re
markable success of Hannon's Caprine Fleeter.
This splendid remedy Is known, sold and used
everywhere, and Ha prompt action and unrivalled
curative powera havo won for It hosts of friends.
Imitations have sprung up under similar sounding
names, audios "Capsldu," "Capsicum." eto.. In
tended to deceive the careless and unwary. These
articles posaeaa none of tho vlrtuoa t>f Uie genuine.
Thoreforo we hope the people w*'.l assist ui to pro
tect what are atonce tbeir euterests and ours. Ask
for Henson s i 1 Aster, STul examine what it given
you, and wt/e sure that ths word “Caprine" is cut
in the middle of tho plaster Itself, and ths “Three
nealt" trademark is on tbe face cloth. Any repu
table dealer will show you these esfeguards with
out beoitatlon. If you cannot remember the name
—Henson’s Caprine Plaster—cut this paragraph
from the paper.
MOTHERS’
FRIEND.
makes CHILD-BIRTH **.
Tbe time hu come at but
when tbe terrible agony in*
* ciilent to tble very crit
ical. period in a woman'* life
can be avoided. A distin
guished physician, who
passed tbe greatest portion
of his life (forty year*) in
this branch of practice left a
child bearing mother tbU
priceless legacy and life-sav
ing appliance, "The Moth
er*' Friend," and to-day
there are thouaand* of tbe
bc«t women of our land who
having uaed tbi* remedy be
fore confinement, rise up
and call bi* name blessed.
We receive letters from
every section ol tbe country
’.tanking us tv placing this
preparation iu the reach of
suffering woman. One lady
from North Carolina writew
us that she would like to
thank tbe proprietors on her
knees for briuging it to her
notice, as in a previous con
finement she bad two doctors
and tbev were compelled to
use enhruform. instru
ment*, etc. And *he suffer
ed almost death; but this
time she used Mothers'
Friend, and ber labor was
short, quick and almost like
magic. Now, why should a
woman suffer when she can
avoid it? We can prove all
we claim by living witness*#
and any one interested can
call or nave tbeir husbands
do so, at our office, and see
tbe original letters, which
we cannot publish.
This remedy is one about which we cannot pub
liah certificates, but it ia a wonderful liniment to be
need after the first two or throe months.
Send for treatise on the health and happiness of
woman* mailsd free, which given all particulars
^ BOX M. ATLANTA, OA.
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