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The Sylvania Telephone.
C. H. MEDLOCK, Editor and Publisher.
YOU. I.
Going Home.
Kiss me when my spirit llies. *
Let the beauty of yonr eyes
Beam ulpng the waves ol death
While I draw my parting breath,
And am borne to yonder shore
Where the billows beat no moro,
And tho notes of endless spring
Through the groves immortal ring.
I am going home to-night,
Out of blindness into sight,
Out of weakness, war und pain
Into power, peaoo and gain;
Out of winter, gale and gloom,
Into summer breath and bloom!
From t he wand’rings of V past
I am o.'.in,. bx
Kiss m3' lips and let me go,
Nearer swells the solemn flow
01 the wond’rous stream that rolls
By the border-land of souls—
I can catch sweet strains of songs
Floating down from distant throngs,
And can leel the touch of hands
Reaching out from angel bands.
Anger’s frown and envy’s thrust,
Friendship chilled by cold distrust,
Sleepless night and weary morn,
Toil in fruitless land forlorn,
Aching head and breaking heart,
Love destroyed by slander’s dart,
Drilling ship and darkened sea,
Over there will righted be,
Sing in numbers low and sweet,
Let the songs of two worlds meet—
We shall not be sundered long—
Like the fragments of a song,
Like the brancees of a rill
Parted by the rock or hill,
We shall blond in tune and time,
Loving on in perfect rhyme.
When the noon-tide of your day's
Yields to twilight’s silver haze,
Ere the world recedes in space,
Heavenward lift j'our tender face,
Let your dear eyes homeward shine,
Let your spirit call for mine.
And my own will answer you
From the deep and boundless blue.
S witter than the sunbeam’s flight
I viill cleave the doom of night,
And will guide yon to the land
Where our loved ones waiting stand,
*■ ftL–s is ol the blest,
—They will km%jome you to rest- .
On the isle 01 VS yoiU'i «ves
When - ^
the parted streams of life
Join beyond all jarring strife,
And the flowers that withered lay
Blossom in immortal May—
When the voices hushed and dear
Thrill orce more the raptured eer,
We shall te> 1 and know and see
God knew bettor lar than we.
—Ja m es 6r. Clark.
A GIRL’S TRIAL.
“ My darling, this makes me realize
that in only two weeks’ time you will
be married, and I shall be without my
granddaughter.”
“Yes,” but you will have coined a
noble grandson,” softly whispered
Eleanor's sweet voice.
Mrs. Hamilton bent her gray head
fondly and kissed the speaker’s soft
cheek.
The old lady and her grandchild stood
before a lounge upon whose crimson
cushions lay Eleanor’s wedding dress,
which had just arrived, a delicate mar
vel of satin and hice.
Of course it must be tried on, and
with the assistance of Margaret, Elea
nor’s maid’s deft fingers, the young girl
soon stood before the mirror, blushing
at her own loveliness.
Just then a knock came upon the
door. It wag a servant with a letter.
Eleanor glanced at the superscription
without recognizing the writing.
“It is not from Ralph,” site said, in
reply to her grandmother’s questioning
look.
After the bridal costume had been
pronounced a perfect fit and entrusted to
Margaret to be replaced in its cedar
chest, Eleanor took up the letter and
broke the seal.
She read the first few lines carelessly;
then into the brown eyes a look of un
speakab’e horror sprang.
“What is it, Eleanor?” exclaimed
Mrs. Hamilton, as she saw her agita
tion, but, without speaking, the young
girl rapidly read on to the end. Then,
with a sobbing, long-drawn breath, she
threw herself into her grandmotlier ’3
arms.
“ Read !” she cried. ‘‘la this true that
is written here, or is it the plot of some
enemy to crush out my happiness ?”
As Mrs. Hamilton perused the letter
a polk” settled over her features. What
she had always dreaded had come at
last! Oh, ifit might have been only two
weeks latex! One glance at Eleanor’s
imploring face, and she saw that the
truth could be withheld no longer.
“Grandma, speak! Ami Randolph’s
promised bride—the child of-. 6h! for
pity’s sake, tell me I am dreaming!”
Then Mrs. Hamilton spoke.
Eleanor, try and be calm, and I will
tell you the truth. You know that your
mother, my only child, died at the early
age of twenty; but you have not heard
that she died of a broken heart! When
SYLYANIA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1879.
the man whom she married against her
parent’s wishes abused ner, she bore it
without complaint, never letting us
dream of her unhappiness; but when,
after being his wife only three years,
she discovered that her husband was a
criminal—living upon ill-gotten gains—
then she left him, fleeing with her babe
to our protection. Not long after, your
father was arrested for a bank robbery,
and imprisoned. The shock was too
much for your mother’s frail strength,
and after lingering a short time she -
passed away, After her death your
grandpa saw your father and obtained
from iiim a promise never to disclose
himself to you. But alas', he has broken
it. Do not blame us, Eleanor, for
thus keeping you in ignorance of what
would have always clouded your life.
We thought we did it for the best.”
The young girl listened with bent
head and tightly-clasped hands. As her
grandmother paused, she looked up. A
woeful change had come into the round,
blooming face.
“ Grandma,’’ she said, and her voice
was low and strained, “ does any one
know of this?”
“ Only one—your friend Mr. Stearns,
your grandfather’s lawyer.”
“And Ralph—does he not know?”
“ I do not think he does.”
i ( Oil! (the young voice was very pite
ous) it was a cruel kindness to keep it
from me. Now I shall never be Ralph
Ogden’s wife.”
“Eleanor,” expostulated her grand
mother, winding her arms around the
drooping figure, “heneed never know.
You can go and see your father. He
says it will be the last time he will ever
send for you.”
Drawing herself away, Eleanor
looked firmly into the tearful face near
her own.
“Grandma, I will not bring a tainted
name to him I love. I can never marry
•Ralph Ogden.”
That evening Airs. Hamilton sent for
Mr. Stearns, and the two old friends
tiad a long consultation together. The
kind lawyer’s eyes moistened as he heard
of Eleanor’s grief.
‘ The- scoundrel ! ” he ejaculated,
“after ruining one life, could he not
tave held Iris pee.te-aud refrained from
£ mT'-M" he>*Ni,
“ I have fought against the longing to
•see you, my daughter, but I can no
longer restrain myself. I promise you
t hat if you come to me this once it will
be the last time you shall ever hear from
your poor wretched father.’ This looks
to me as if lie must be very sick—per
haps dying.”
“ So Eleanor thinks, and the noble
child persists in saying that she will go
at once to him. She declares it is her
duty. Poor, poor girl, I see now that
this concealment has been very wrong!”
“ Do not fret.jmy friend, you and your
good husband could not look into the
future. You did as you thought for the
best. So Eleanor has written about it
to Mr. Ogden? She is a noble cveatnre,
and if he is what he ought to be, it will
bring him on the wings of the wind.”
The next day a heavily-veiled, girlish
figure and an old gray-haired gentleman
were lead through a gloomy corridor,
and into a prison cell. Eleanor moved
as one in a dream. She was dimly
aware of a long, narrow, iron bedstead
upon which lay a prostrate, quiet form.
Two gentlemen, a doctor and a cler
gyman, were the only other occupants
of the room. The latter rose as she en
tered and came forward.
“Is this Miss Moore?” he said
gravely. “ My child, I fear you are too
late—your father has been in this un
conscious state for hours.”
Eleanor gave one long, earnest look
into the pale, drawn face with its closed
eyes.
This then was her father! An icy
hand seemed to clutch her heart. Her
father! and dying thus!
“Courage! my brave little Eleanor,”
whispered Mr. Stearns. With an effort
the girl looked up into her old friend’s
face, as if to gain strength from his sym
pathy; then she went steadily forward
to the bedside.
As Eleanor gazed down at the face
which still retained many traces of the
manly beauty. which had won her
mother’s love, and realized that she was
indeed his daughter, all the strength
and nobility of her soul rose to the sur
face. Stooping she laid her soft hand
upon his cold forehead.
“ Father!” The pitying tone pronoun
cing that word so sacred, and so wound
around the tenderest fibers of our human
natures, forced tears into all eyes.
“ Father, it is Eleanor!—your daughter!
—can you not speak to her?”
The call pierced the apathy of death.
The dying man’s eyes opened and fast
ened upon her face. A wave of con
sciousness swept over his features.
“ My child!” he exclaimed, brokenly,
“ then you did come. God will—bless
—you!” His voice sank, while into his
eyes sprang a look of entreaty as he
tried to finish, but with the words,
“My child—forgive—” his breath failed,
and, with a long, fluttering sigh, all was
over/
Tender hands led Eleanor from the sad
scene. Several days passed, and no re-
“ONWARD AND UPWARD.”
ply had as yet come from llalpli Ogden
to the letter Eleanor had written, and in
which she had disclosed the story, the
knowledge of which had brought her
such sorrow.
In it she had told him in few but
tender words the pain it gave her to look
forward to a life unshared by his pres
ence; but though in her ignorance of
the disgrace upon her name, she had
promised to be his wife, she could not,
knowing all, expect him to take to his
home a convict’s child. Still another
trouble wrung the poor, girl’s heart.
Before long the invitations to the wed
ding would have to be countermanded,
and then the broken engagement would
be the comment of ail. She heard in
imagination the remarks which would
be passed, and shrank from the curious
words and looks she knew would follow
her wherever she went.
“Had I not you, grandma, and my
Bible,” she said, despairingly. “I should
surely die. It is almost more than I can
bear.”
Mrs. Hamilton kissed the quivering
lips; she knew caresses would help
where words might only wound.
Thursday morning arrived, and with
it Ralph Ogden. Instead of the expected
letter he had come himself. Eleanor
received his card, and read the penciled
request that she would see him, and for
a moment a film came before her eyes,
and all grew dark before her; then,
white as death, but very calm, she went
down into the library, where he awaited
her.
She had always known the intense
love of family which filled the
hearts of all the Ogden race, and
of their pride in a name which had
never been sullied by aught dishonor
able; and till only a short time before
she had thought she bore a name as
stainless as theirs. Now she knew dif
ferently.
The library door swung back on its
hinge* to give entrance to the slender,
black-robed figure which lalteringly
went forward.
A moment passed, and the nexj F. lea
nor found herself clasped in a close cm
b ace.
“My precious Eleanor!” Ralph
exclaimed; in a low ifflee. Ob.;;
with rv
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I ’ c " ln ?
I wor-hip you know. Wi-sn
letter I lost no time in coming you;
as if anything could make you less dear
tome! and beside, my darling, all that
”011 wrote in that letter I knew long
age.”
Then Eleanor found her voice:
“You knew long ago ?”
“Yes, when your grandfather first sur
mised that I loved you, he told me all
under promise of secrecy. Now, is my
Eleanor content?”
With a long sigh of perfect happiness,
Eleanor suffered herself to be diawn
once more into her lover’s arms, and in
Iter lustrous eyes, uplifted to his face, lie
could read the depth of the love which
filled her heart, and which had only
been intensified by the trials she had
undergone.
Although Eleanor’s sensitive nature
shrank from the idea of a joyful wedding
festivity so soon after the sad death scene
she had witnessed, she could not with
stand Ralph’s lovirg entreaties; and no
one ever guessed that the sweet face be
neath the bridal vail (withal it was a lit
tle pale), had lately been clouded by a
depth of anguish such as few in a long
lifetime ever know.
“ Did I not tell you, Mrs. Hamilton,”
said old Mr. Stearns, “ that if young
Ogden was what he ought to be, how it
would end? I see he is of the right
stuff. Let me congratulate you, my dear
friend, on the surety of your grand
daughter’s future happiness.”
The Longevity of icebergs.
Karl Weyprecht, in his work on the
Polar sea, discusses the longevity of ice
bergs. Icebergs are subjected to disin
tegration after somewhat the same man
ner as rocks. They are full of crevasses,
into which the water formed by melting
penetrates; in winter this water freezes,
and by its expansion all through l the
glacier a rupture of the mass cm sues.
“ It is highly probable,” he says, “ that
most of the icebergs afloat in winter are
in such a condition that a very slight
cause is sufficient to make them burst
because of their state of internal tension.
Every polar traveler can tell how a shot,
the driving in of an ice-anchor, or
any other sudden vibration has brought
about the catastrophe; cases have
even occurred in which the sound
of the voice alone was sufficient.
An iceberg is always an un
pleasant neighbor.” So many are the
causes which tend to destroy icebergs
that the author concludes that “no berg
exists which could withstand them more
than ten years, and that commonly the
life of a berg is much shorter." How
ever this may be, doubtless the much
larger Antartic bergs last very much
longer, as must necessarily occur be
cause of the greater uniformity of the
climate to which they are exposed. The
ice >erg into which the Arizona ran re
cently must have been an unusually
solid one.
TIMELY TOPICS.
'The difference, says the Philadelphia
Ledger, between the condition of the
trade of Great Britain and that of tho
United States during the first half of
the present year is remarkable. There
the failures have largely increased,
wages {have been 'reduced in many in
stances twenty per cent., and in other
cases more hours of work have been re
established; food has advanced, the
foreign trade has decreased, and the
times have been decidedly hard. With
us, on the other hand, the first half of
the year has been noticeable for a gen
era 1 improvement in business and prices
and a decrease of failures. So intimate
are our connections with Groat Britain
that our interests are in a great measure
mutual, and it is to be hoped that the
mother country will soon revive from
her present depressed condition, for,
notwithstanding all the talk concerning
the decay of England’s greatness, it is
for our interest that she should con
tinue not only a great manufacturing
nation, but our best customer, as she is
at present, so that any revival of her
prosperity can but react favorably upon
our own.
General Francis A. Walker, superin
tendent of the census, reports to the
secretary of the interior that special in
vestigations have been instituted into
the numbers and condition of the deaf
and dumb, the blind, insane and idiotic,
the paupers and the criminals, with ref
erence to the institutions established
for their confinement, relief or restora
tion;'into the social, industrial and san
itary condition of cities: into the min
ing operations of the country; into the
fishing industries and fishing popula
tions; into the character and extent of
the power and machinery employed in
manufactures; into certain branches of
manufactures, such as cotton, wool,
iron, glass, and the lumber and .quarry
ing industries and the forest wealth of
the United States.
Mr. Alexander, of riencoe, Missouri,
who wrote an essay t.i prove that Homer
^j^ruxisted, liadjjti ox converted into
on Kansas J’acitii
.1 :t violations of tin
__ loeomotiv whistle
s to on
crossing a road. Thirty-seven injunc
tions were issued against the company
and as many judgments of $20 each ob
tained. Half of the penalty going to the
inf inner, Mr. Alexander was naturally
well pleased at the price he got for his
ox. The judge decided that the suits
could have all been embraced in a single
suit, an (Tthat the gentleman was liable
for the costs in all but one of them.
These amounted to $360, leaving him
$10 profit. The ox was worth $50; his
time watching the trains, $10; his scr
vices in the court, $100; leaving him
out of pocket, $150.
Charles Cartwright, who recently died
in Chorlton workhouse, England, had
run through two fortunes, one of $200,
000 and one of $400,000. He was an
educated man of refined tastes, had no
vulgar vices, did not go in for style, and
kept no expensive establishment. He
simpiy couldn’t refrain from spending
money when he had it. His friends
tried every method to help, him keep his
money, and again and again paid his
debts after he had run through his prop
erty. But it was of no use, and lie was
allowed to spend the last of his sixty
four years quietly and contentedly in
the workhouse, where lie supplied him
self with little luxuries by writing ser
mons for clergymen and contributing to
country newspapers.
Notwithstanding his occasional de
feats, Parole may be said to have scored
a brilliant season on the English turf.
Out of eleven starts he won five—the
Newmarket handicap, City and Sub
urban, Great Metropolitan, Cheshire
handicap and the Epsom gold cup—
and the net value of his earnings is put
at 4,000 English pounds, or about $20,
000. As Geraldine also captured one
stake and ran second lor another, mak
ing her earnings 1,080 pounds, and Pap
poose had a place in three races, with
earnings amounting to 387 pounds, Pierre
Lorillard’s first season abroad must be
set down as extremely fortunate.
A musical bed has been produced in
Germany. It is so constructed that by
means of a concealed piece of mechanism
the pressure of the body produces the
softest harmony, which lasts long
enough to lull one to sleep. At the
head of the bed is a dial with a hand
which can be placed at whatever hour
a person wishes to awake; and at the
time fixed the bed plays a march of
Spontini, with drums and cymbals
loud enough to awake the soundest
sleeper.
It is estimated that Dr. II. J. Glenn,
of California, has this year raised 65,000
tons of grain on his ranche in Colusa
county. The crop is worth about $2,
210,000,
X Baity Officeholder who Became a
Governor.
Wo find in an exchange tho following
interesting sketch of one New York’s
earlier governors: During Lite admin
istration of Governor Clinton, Colonel
Charles Clinto.n, a respectable farmer re
siding in the precinct of Little Britain,
in the then county of Ulster (now
Orange), had occasion to call on his ex
cellency to receive his directions in re
gard to some oflicial matter, he then be
ing governor-general of the colony.
The governor being pleased with his
intelligence and gentlemanly deport
ment, detained him after the business
on which lie had called was dispatched,
to converse with him on general subjects
relating to the county and precinct (such
the towns were then called) inarmed in which
the colonel resided. Being by
the colonel that he had a son named
George the governor expressed much
pleasure in the information and, de
claring that he would do something for
his namesake, immediately conferred
upon him by patent under the great
seal of the State the office of clerk of
the county of Ulster; and (as George
was then a child, not more than four or
live years of age) appointed a deputy to
discharge the duties of the office until
George should be educated and of suffi
cient age to attend to them in person.
George grew up a fine, sturdy, en
terprising boy, receiving such education
as he could get in the common school of
the neighborhood and from the instruc
tion of his father, until he reached the
age of thirteen or fourteen, when his
father inrodueed into his family
as an instructor lor his children
an Irish insurgent, a man of
classical learning, who, being too
poor to pay his passage from
Ireland to New York, was sold for a
limited time as a servant by the captain
of the vessel in which he came, either
in pursuance of some colonial regulation
then in force or under a contract made
with the captain before embarking.
George was put under the tuition of
this servant. Under his instruction he
acquired a pretty good knowledge of the
Latin language and mathematics, and
this completed all the school learning
he ever received.
He remained with Lixefather, laboiing
£.‘2! •ti'flj, I,| j nf 1 j j|» fi tro iron the fr-i-rr,
be Wii.o-g?xte< 2 Of j vat 8
of age, when, becoming uneasy ani dis
contented, he resolved to seek his for
tune, and, without the consent or
knowledge of his father, left his home
in Little Britain found his way to New
York and went to sea as a common
hand. How long he pursued this busi
ness or was absent I do not recollect,
but in process of time lie got back to
Now York, and landed without a penny
in his pocket, and. as he supposed, with
out a friend there to afford him succor.
Providence, however, had provided for
him. The first person he saw on the
wharf when he landed was a house car
penter and joiner by the name of Parks,
who, a little older than George, had
served iiis apprenticeship in Little
Britain, and had been hi* playmate and
intimate friend from childhood. From
him he borrowed a small sum of money
sufficient to take him to Esopus, where
the office was of which he was made
clerk, as before stated, was located.
Thither he immediately went, took pos
session of his office, and continued in
the performance of its duties and in re
ceipt of its emoluments a number of
years.
lie become very popular in Ulster
county, was appointed a brigadier-gen
eral in the revolutionary war, and un
der the constitution of 1777 was elected
governor of the State, holding the office
for five successive terms.
X (lure for Beer Drinking.
Dr. Duncan, of Chicago, writes the
following ietter to the Inter-Ocean of
that city: Knowing your deep interest
in anything that benefits humanity, I
send you a fact. A man to whom I gave
medicine to Help him break off his to
bacco habit came in to-day and said:
“ What was that medicine yougave me?
It has taken away all my appetite for
beer and whiskey. I have no more han
kering after beer than I have after milk,
and not so much; and as for whiskey or
alcohol, it is simply disgusting to me.”
1 have known this man for over
twenty-five years (in fact he was for
merly my school teacher, but not what
he once was through this weakness),
and I have no occasion to doubt his
word. The remedy is a hommpathic
preparation from nicis v. saech alb.
(glob. 30 3 deg. zjj.). I hasten to tell
you of this fact, for it is something I
have been seeking for years for the bene
fit of the temperance cause. With it we
may control the ante-natal, involuntary
hankering for liquors, especially beer.
Under such circumstances it is a disease,
and should be, and is, amenable to treat
ment.
I have given this fact to the temper
ance women, and hope it will be wide
spread.
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The organ rolled its notes from tho growling
diapason to the gentle flute; and the congre
gation accompanied by deep sepulchral ooughs
to conghs scarcely audible, because they had
rot yet heard ot the wonderful efficacy of Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrup.
TERMS— 1 1 60 per Year.
NO. 22.
ITEMS OP INTEREST.
Httrd w ar—Tight boots.
Does the maternal codfish call its
voutig wit It a codfish bawl?
Seven students out of .’125 in Yale Col
lege were found to be color blind.
There are in California 150,000 goats
and in the Pacific territories 50,000,
making a total of 200,000 on the Pacific
slope.
In Westphalia, apples and potatoes
arc separately boiled, afterward drained
and then mashed together, with butter
and salt.
Late carriage manufacturing statistics
show that there is a carriage for every
thirty-eight persons in the United
States.
A butcher in York county, l’a., while
cutting rounds from a slaughtered steer,
recently, found in the beef a gold dollar,
dated 1852.
“ If I punish you,” said mamma to her
little girl, “ you don’t suppose I do so
for my pleasure, do you?” “Then whose
pleasure is it for, mamma?”
Mr. Dwight Whiting, a citizen of Bos
ton, has gone to South Africa to pur
chase one hundred ostriches for his farm
in the San Joaquin valley in California.
The St. Gothavd tunnel through the
Alps makes steady progress, no less than
3,000 workmen being engaged upon it.
Nearly ten tons of dynamite are used per
month.
The baby of the mayor of Stafford,
England, is rocked to sleep in a solid
silver cradle, but it wakes in the night,
kicks off the covers, rattles the old man
with his howls, and makes him take up
his son and patrol the floor with him
until 2 a. m., all the same as though it
went to rest in an old trunk-lid on slab
rockers.
A Lyons (la.) lawyer, interrogating
a sharp young juroa at the district court
tlie other day, made the remark, in re
ply to something the young man had
said, that “ chickens always come home
to roost.” T he young man retorted that
the chickens taken by the interrogator
from his father’s roost had never
turned.
The lords jythe Br.'t, M u.„‘ raity
have Win' titters ing of a
g«°n o ifnisnj
. * ■ - - c~
timbers of the old Aiytfc exploring *mp
Resolute for presentation to Mis. Grin
nell, the widow of the late Henry Grin
neli, of New York, who fitted out at his
own expense two expeditions for the
search of Sir John Franklin.
Supply in the United States of Gold and
Silver.
Tlio recent report of Hon. II. C. Bur
chard, director of the United States mint,
contains some very interesting figures at
the present moment, It in the first
place shows a largely increased coinage
for the year, aggregating over $68 000,
000 in gold and silver. It also shows
that the stock of coin in the treasury had
increased $100,000,060 during the year,
or $142,000,000 within the two last years.
In regard to the yield of the precious
tnetaft in the country for the past year,
the following comparative table will
show a large decrease for 1879.
Domestic production of gold andsilver,
1871 to 1879:
Gold. Silver. Total
1874.. $33,490,902 #37,324,594 $70,815,496
1875.. 33,407.356 31,727,530 65 195,416
1876.. 39.929,166 38 783,016 78,712,182
1877.. 46,897,380- 39,793,573 86,690,903
1878.. 51,25.1,360 45,281,385 96,487,744
1879.. 38,899,858 40,812,132 79,711,990
$243,891,532 $233,722,260 $497,613,792
The decrease in last year’s production
of gold and silver is attributable to the
falling off in the yield of the Nevada
mines, whicli are placed at $28,000,000
leas than the year previous. The Com
stock min"g are now at a great depth,
and the question of their future yield is
an economic probing of no mall im
portance. The increase in the yield of
the newly discovered mines in Colorado
and Dakota, have in a measure compen
sated for the smaller productions of the
mines of Nevada.
Mr. Burchard estimates that the an
nual consumption of gold and silver in
the arts, sciences and manufactures is
from five to six millions of dollars. It is
otherwise estimated that the annual
consumption for the above purposes is
full $10,000,000 in this country, and $50,
000,000 in all other countries, excepting
Asia.
The actual amount of gold and silver
in the country, Nov. 1,1879, is estimated
at $427,205,852, of which $305,750,497 is
gold and $121,456,358 silver. In addition
to the above there were in the mints apd
at the assay office awaiting coinage $4,555?l£
931,035 in gold bullion and 82
silver bullion. This makes a total of
coin and bullion in t^e country, Nov. 1,
1879, $481,691,000 or $88,000,000 in ex
cess of any former period. The director
of the mint estimates that if the present
inflow of gold and silver continues to the
end oi the present fiscal year, the total
amount of metallic currency in the
United States will reach the enormous
figures of $600,000,000; but such arc
suit is not anticipated.