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17 A T I HOADS.
Western & Atlantic R. R.
Change of* (Soiledtile.,
On and after Funday ; February 12,1871,
the Passenger tra’ns w ill run on the
Western and Atlantic Rail Road
AS FOLLOWS :
NIGHT PABSENGER TRAIN.
STATION*. —o TIME TABLE.
Leave Atlanta. 10:15 P. M.
Arrive at Kingjt n, 1 11 a. m.
Arrive at Tlalton. 3:20 a. m.
Arrive at Cliatta mog, 5:40 A. M.
Leave Chattanoo ,a, 5:20 r. m.
Arrive at Dalton, 11:11 P. M.
Arrive at Kingst >n, 1:51 a. m
Arrive at Atlanta, 1:42a.m.
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta, 8:15 A. M
Arrive at Kings! >n, 11:45 A. M
Arrive at Dalton 2:13 I’. M j
Arrive at Chattanooga, 4:25 r. M
Leave Chattanon <a, 5:50 A. M. !
Arrive at Dalton. 8:10 A. M. j
Arrive at Kingst >n, 10:30 A. M. 1
Arrive at Atlanta, 2:(X) r. >1- j
V, R. WALKER,
*pril6tf. blaster Transportation.
Quickest and Best Route
TO THE
NORTH. EAST&WEST
is
THREE Dai! Express Trains running |
through from N htillc to Louisville. mak
ing close connect m- with Trains and heats
for the NORT/, EAST AND WEST.
!N'o Cltnngt' of Ciit’N
F KX>n 1.08 ISVIIiIiETO
St. Low'*, Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
Chicago, Cleveland , Pitts
burg, Philadelphia
•ana New York.
ONLY ONE CHANGE TO
BALTIMORE W \SIU\GTOX & BOSTON
Quicker time by this route, and better !
accommodation), than by any otle r- Se- j
cure speed and comfort when traveling, by
asking for Tieke s
By the Wav of Louisville. Ky.
Through Tick ts and Baggage Checks
may be procured at the office of the Nash.'
villc and Chatta ooga Railroad at Cliatta
nooca. and at all Picket Offices throughout
the South. ALBERT FINK,
W. H. KING, Gen’l. Sup't
Gen'l. Passcn er Apt. Juneß.
Saint Lo lis, Memphis,!
NASHVILLE & CHATTANOOGA
RAILROAD LIAE.
CENTRAL SHORT ROUTE!!
—o —
Without Change of Cars to Nashville. Mc-
Kenste, TJni n City. Hickman, Co
lumbus. Humboldt, Browns
ville, and Memphis.
——~o—
Only Ones Changt* j
To .lackson, Tenn., Paducah, Ky., Little
Rock, Cairo, and St. Louis, Mo.
Mi HiE '1 11 AN
1 .*<> Hilt 1 * (shorter to
Saint Loitis
Than via Memphis nr Louisville, and from
8 TO 15 HOURS QUICKER!!
Than via Cos inth or Grand Junction.
ASK FOR TICKETS TO
MEMPHIS AND THE SOUTH
WEST VIA CHATTANOOGA
and McKenzie'!!
AND TO
St. Lonin and the Northwest via Nashville
and Colmnhus —all Rail; or Nash
ville ail Hickman —Hail
and Itiver.
the lowest special rates
FOR LUIGI! \NTS.
WITH MORE ADVAN
TA(.i i S. QUICKER
time: and fewer
CHANGES OF CARS
effi-TIIAN A NY OTHER ROUTE.-©*
Tickets for ale at all Principal Ticket
Offices in the South.
J. W. THOMAS, Gen’l. Supt.
W. L. HANLEY, G. P. & T. Agent.
Marcb23,tf. Nashville, Tenn.
BXJL K MEATS
titles!. Sh udders and Hams
l x Quantify at
DA 'OPR.NET T >j- SONS
Rome Railroad Company
Change ol'Scltedule.
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Rome 8:40 a tn
Arrive at Kingston * 10:30 a m
Leave Kingston 11:4s a m
Arrive at Rome 1:00 p m
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Rome 8:40 p nt
Arrive at Kingston 12:40 a m
Leave Kingston 1:18 am
Arrive at Rome 11:2l) m
BSft Connecting with trains on the Wes
tern k Atlantic Railroad at Kingston, and
on the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
at Rome.
C M. PENNINGTON,
Eng. and Sup’t.
AIISC'ELLANEOUS
THEPLUNDEROFELEVENSTATES
BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY-
Speech of Hon. Daniel W. Vorhees, of
Indiana. Delivered in the H-uise of
Representatives, March 23, 1872.
GEORGIA.
Let the great State of Georgia speak
first. The preparations which she un
derwent were prolonged, elaborate and
complete. The work of her purifica
tion was repeated at stated intervals
until she was radiant and spotless in
your eyes. One reconstruction did
not suffice. You permitted her to
stand up and start in her now career,
but seeing some flaw in your own han
diwork, you again destroyed and again
reconstructed her State government.
You clung to her throat, you battered
her features out of shape and recog
nition, determined that your party
should have undisputed possession and
enjoyment of her offices, her honors,
and her substance. Y our success was
complete. When did the armed con
queror ever fail when his foe was pros
trate and unarmed? The victim in
this instance was worthy of the con
test by which she was handed over
bound hand and foot to the rapacity
of robbers. Sho was one of the iin»
mortal thirteen. Her soil had been
made red and wet with the blood of
the revolution. Hut she contained
what vas far dearer to her d“spoilers
than the relics of her fame. Ibr pro
lific and unbounded resources inflamed
their desires. Nature designed Geor
gia for the wealthiest State in this
Union. She embraces four degrees
of latitude, abounding with every va
riety of production known to the earth.
Her,borders contain fifty-eight thous
and square miles; eleven thousand
more than the State of New York,
and twelve thousand more than the
State of Pennsylvania. She has one
hundred and thirty-seven counties.—
The ocean washes a hundred miles of
her coast provided with harbors for
the commerce of the world. Ilivers
mark her surface, and irrigate her
fruitful valleys from the boundaries of
Tennessee and North Carolina to the
borders of Florida and the waves of
the Atlantic. All this vast region is
stored with the richest and choicest
gifts of physical creation. The corn
and the cotton reward the tiller of the
soil, and coal and iron, tin, copper,
and lead, and even the precious metals,
gold and silver, in paying quantities,
await the skill and the industry of the
miner. This is not a picture of fancy.
The statistics of her products even
heighten the colors in which I have
drawn it. Georgia was tlfo fairest and
most fertile field that ever excited the
hungry cupidity of the political pirate
and the official plunderer. She was
full of those mighty substances out of
which the taxes of a laboring people
are always wrung by the grasping
hand of licentious power. She was
the most splendid quarry in all history
for the vultures, the kites, and tits
carrion-crows that darken the air at
the close of a terrible civil war, and
whet their filthy beaks over the fallen;
and they speedily settled down upon
her in devouring flocks and droves.
Sir, let us refresh ourselves at this
point with some reminiscences of the
former history of Georgia, and in that
way fix a basis for comparisons bet
tween her condition in the past and
the present deplorable state of her af
fairs. When the calamities of war
broke upon the country in 1861 she
was free from debt. If sho had any
outstanding obligations at all, they
were for merely nominal amounts.—
Her people felt none of the burdens
of taxation. The expenses of her
State government were almost wholly
paid by the revenues of a railroad be
tween Chattanooga and Atlanta, which
was constructed and owned by the
State. Taxes throughout all her wide
spread borders were trifles light as air.
The burdens of government were easy
upon her citizens. Her credit stood
high wherever her name was men
tioned; and when the'war closed she
was still free from indebtedness. If
she had incurred any during the four
years of strife, she was required by
the Federal Government to repudiate
it upon the advent of peace. Now
look at her to-day, after six years and
a half of supreme control by the Re-
SUMMERVILLE, GA. APRIL 20, 1872.
publican party. She had been a mem
ber of this Union more than seventy
years when the war came, and found
that she owed no man anything. Her
rulers in the olden times doubtless had
faults in common with the imperfect
race to which we belong, but larceny
of the public money was not among
them. You took her destiny into
your hand, a few brief years ago, in
cumbered by no liabilYns, and you
now presput her, to the amazement
and horror of the world, loaded with
debts which reach the appalling sum
of at least $<">0,000,000. A large
portion of these debts are officially
ascertained and stated, and the re
mainder arc sufficiently well known to
warrant the statement 1 make. The
mind recoils, filled with wonder and
indignation, in contemplating this fear
ful and gigantic crime. It had no
parallel in the annals of all the na
tions and the ages of mankind until
the ascendency of the Republican par
ty and its inauguration of State gov
ernments in the South. Now all the
seven vials of the Apocalypse have
been opened on that great and beau
tiful, but unhappy region; and the
crime against Georgia is hut one of
many otlieis of kindred magnitude
inflicted by the same party on other
States.
The authors of this stupendous bun
den, however, arc not even entitled to
the benefit of the full time since the
incoming of peace for its creation.—
It was mainly the work of only about
three years. In 1868—a year wore
fatal to the interests of the peopde of
that State than the scourge of pesti
lence, war. or famine—the most venal
and abandoned body of men ever
known outside of the boundaries of
penal colonies, State prisons, or South
ern reconstruction, chosen as the Leg
islature of Georgia; not by the peo
ple, but by virtue of the system which
you enacted and put in force. It con
tained a large majority of your po
litical adherents, men who vote your
ticket, support your candidates, and
with whom you embrace and affiliate
on all political occasions. They were
the leaders and the representatives of
the Republican party.
\\ itL thorn, too, came into oftiee one
who speedily secured a national repu
tation, and became a controlling power
in your national councils. At one
time Rufus R. Bullock dictated the
legislation of Congress and the ac
tions of the Executive in regard to
the gee it and ancient Com .ion vealtii
that w; ■ cursed by hie presence. It
was Iris potent finger that pointed out
the pathway which led to your second
assault upon her State government;
and it was his voice and his presence
in and about these Halls that com
manded and cheered you on to the
breach, lie was mentioned in many
quarters as the probable candidate of
his party for that exaltod place now
held by a distinguished citizen of my
own State, the second highest in the
gift of the American people. He was
a successful, conspicuous, and brilliant
specimen of your system. His ad
vent into Georgia was as the agent of
some express company. He had no
permanent interest there. I have been
reliably informed that his poll was his
entire tax when he was elected Gov
ernor. He neither knew nor cared
for the people or their wants. He
was there as an alien and a stranger,
spying out the possessions of a land
that was at his mercy, and embracing
every opportunity .to seize them. He
is now a fugitive from justice, a pro
claimed and confessed criminal, with
stolen millions in his hands. He went
into the South on that wave of recon
struction which bore so many eager,
hungry, and inhuman sharks in quest
of prey; and, having in a few years
glutted his savage and ravenous utaw,
he now retires into the deep waters cf
the North to escape punishment on
the or.e hand, and to enjoy the com
forts of his plunder on the other.
With such a Governor and such a
Legislature in full and perfect sympa
thy and harmony with other,
morally and carc-cr cf
villainy at once opened on the soil of
Georgia which will go down to pos
terity without a peer or a rival in the
evil and infamous administrations of
the world.
The official existence of the Legis
lature lasted two years, commencing
in November of 1868. The Governor
was elected for a term of four years,
and served three before be absconded
with his guilty gains. Pirates have
been known to land upon beautiful is
lands of the sea, and with cutlass,
dirk, and pistol proclaim a govern
ment, pillage and murder their inhab
itants, and from the shelter of their
harbors sally forth on all the unarmed
commerce that the winds and the waves
brought near them. Bandits have
been known to rule over the secluded
wilds and fastnesses of mountain ran
ges, and with bloody hands extort e
norinous ransoms for their prisoners;
but the pirate and the bandit have not
been worse or blacker in their spheres
than the Republican Legislature and
the Republican Governor of whom 1
am speaking were in theirs.
Sir, 1 hold in my hand the official
statistics on which I make this charge.
The reports of the Comptrollers Gen
eral of Georgia show that for eight
years, commencing with 1855 and
ending with 1862, there was expended
for the pay of members and officers of
all her Legislatures during that entire
period the sum of $866,385 53. This
is the record of her administration
under the management of her own cit’
izens. During the two years’ exist
ence of the Republican Legislature
elected in 1868 the report of the Comp
troller General shows that there was
expended for the pay of its members
and officers the startling sum of $979,•
055, only a fraction less than $1,000,-
000. One Legislature is thus discov
ered to hat e cost $112,669 47 more
than (lie Legislatures of eight previ
ous years in the single matter of its
own expenses. There has been no
increase in the number of members.
On the contrary, there are fewer now
than under the former apportionment.
In earlier times the clerk hire of
the Legislature of that State did not
average over SIO,OOO per annum.—
That item alone reached the sum of
$125,000 for the one Legislature
whose conduct 1 am discussing, more
than equal to the expenditures on that
account of any ten years of the pre
vious history of Georgia. Iler Gen
eral Assembly consists of one hundred
and seventy-five representatives and
forty-four senators, making two hun
dred and nineteen, taking both branch
es together. The record discloses
one hundred atul four clerks in the
employ of this body while the Repub
lican party had the a> tendency there.
One clerk for every two legislators is
a spectacle which I commend to the
consideration of iho American tax
payer and voter everywhere. IFho
can doubt that shell a body was or
ganized for the purposes of robbery
and extortiin ? Thci eis another high
handed outrage, however, in cornice
•iion with the payment of its members
ar.d officers which surpasses H-.c deed<
of wen x~ ■ f .. | vyn.-n.
The children f thnV-t-'.e 76.1 -|->t
cape, i'y the r. nstiurion of Geor
gia the f oil to : of its pent !•• is made
a port rfi I '. o t o m,n oriit.ol fund,
and set a. id* tut r-d to the cat’..-'' of
education. T.vo i,- mired and fifty
th ills..mi doll had .:•• re; and from this
o x- when Etc ijl-ou.-jiird Le- ;;!:)-
two <>i l;v(>8 convened. Before it ii
ually adjourned this whole amount
provided for the cause of learning and
human progress was swept away.—
N;t p. single dollar was left. An ap
propriation for their own expenses
placed it all in the pockets of the menu
hers, clerks, and other officials. They
took this money, belonging to children
white and black, as pay for their own
base services in the cause of universal
destruction, bankruptcy, and misery.
They robbed the riiing generations of
both races, deprived them of school
houses and seminaries, and left them
to grope their own unaided way out
of the realms of ignorance.
Tha hand of the spoliator at times
in the history of the world has taken
consecrated vessels from the altar and
plundered the sanctuary of God.—
Even the hallowed precincts of the
grave have sometimes been invaded
and the coffin rifled of its contents;
hut human villainy has sounded no
lower depth than was here fathomed,
in stealing the very books of knowl
edge from the youth of the land.
Having given these evidences of in
herent depravity, this most memora
ble Legislature proceeded naturally to
its work of more gigantic peculation,
fraud ami corruption. The limits of
tny time on this floor will permit me
to bring forward only a few of its
deeds, but lile the specimen ore of
the minor, they will satisfy the ex
plorer that strata, veins, lodes, and
layers of rascality lie under the sur
face beyond. The Treasurer of Geor-
gia, in his recent report, informs the
public that prior to the year 1808,
and since reconstruction commenced,
there were issued in State bonds $5,-
9 J 2,500. He further states that he
has ascertained the amount of $13,-
756,000 to have been issued since the
year 1868, ar.d then proceeds to say:
“Governor Bullock had other largo
amounts under the same-act engrossed
and sent him. But this officer does
not know what has become of them.”
The Treasurer lias pushed his dis
coveries to nearly twenty millions, and
then finds that large amounts of other
bonds Lave been issued which are not
registered, and whjph are now in un
known hands. The extent of these
floating, vagrant liabilities may fairly
be estimated by the character and con
duct of .those who created them. Let
us, however, examine one transaction
which key to the whole
history of thatiXcgisJature. A char
ter was granted to construct what was
to he known as the Albany and Bruns
wick Railroad, a distance cf two hun
dred and forty-five miles. For this
work the Governor was authorized to
issue the bonds of the State to the
extent of $23,000 per mile, making a
subsidy in money to one railroad cor
j ppration of $5,639,000. The bonds
j have been issued, put upon the mar
■ ket, the money realized for them, and
| their redemption will fall upon the tax
; payers of the State. In the mean
j time, the road has not been built, and
the proceeds of these bonds have gone
into the coffers of private individuals.
This fact is not disputed; it stands
confessed; and no words of mine can
darken the hues of its infamy or in
crease the horror and indignation with
which it will be regarded by the Ameri
can people.
Other railroad schemes followed in
rapid succession as the easiest method
of plunder. The Macon and Bruns
wick .Railroad, tlic South Georgia and
Florida Railroad, the Cartcrsville and
Van Wert Railroad, the Georgia Ait-
Line Railroad, the Cherokee Railroad
and many others, were all made the
recipients of subsidies from the State,
by which unaccounted millions were
stolen from the tax payers. The tra
ces of vast sums of squandered money
can be found on every hand, except
upon the railroad lines themselves, in
whose names the work of fraud and
plunder was conducted.
Hut while the Legislature of Geor
gia was thus engaged in its unparall
eled career of crime, the Governor in
his sphere was also busy, and by bis
individual deeds proclaimed to the
world that a perfect harmony, not only
of political faith but of official prac
tices, prevailed between the Executive
and Legislative branches of the Stale
government. He ranged in his pecu
lations from the smallest to the great
est objects and amounts; from the
petit to tile grand larcenies of this
now era of Monies. From a bill of
$76,132 Ho paid for extra printing to
partisan newspapers without warrant
of law and without consideration in
work actually performed, up to the
lVaiiduLiit issue of State bonds by the
million, nothing seems to have been
too s'-: -ill or too great to escape his
eager eye or hi; rapacious hand. He
h. ' lilt »’ e i:i:pr-.-s8 of Itis grasp ovc
ryv! . . . Hut Ids exploits in connec
i’on wiil, t: c !‘t;-.te Railroad will more
;':q ,-oially be remembered by the peo
ple o'' Georgia. This road, as.l have
' ctctofore stated, tvaa built by the
State of Georgia nearly twenty years
ago, man the city of Atlanta to Chat
t uionga. It connects the regions of
ihe Tcani-f: c-c river anil the lines of
travel descending through them from
the North with the cotton belt of the
South, and with hive railroad routes
which come up through it and com
centnite at Atlanta. It is one hun
dred and thirty-seven miles long, and
there is not a road of equal length on
this continent which is more important
in its trade and connections, or which
is more valuable to its owners under
an honest and competent management.
We have seen that before the war its
proceeds paid into the Treasury al
most defrayed the entire expenses of
the State government, and in an offi
cial report made July 1, 1867, Colo
nel Jones, the Treasurer of the State,
and who had for eight years received
the earnings of this noble public work,
estimated its net products for tho fol
lowing year at $600,000.
In February, 1870, Governor Bul
lock appointed one Foster Blodgett,
recently a claimant for a seat in the
United States Senate, superintendent
of this road. He held that position
eleven months. During the entire
term of his superintendency he paid
into the State Treasury only the sum
of $15,000; less than the net pro
ceeds of one month before he took the
place. The repairs which the rava
ges of war had made necessary had
been completed at a heavy expense
under the administration of Governor I
Jenkins. The road was in good con
dition, and but few expenditures out
side of the regular course of business
were needed when Blodgett assumed
his ruinous control. Its freight and
travel were greater than ever before,
yet its earnings, as accounted for,
were comparatively nothing. In 1867
we find it paying all expenses and
yielding besides $50,000 per month.
At the same rate there are $500,000
now regained in the hands of Blodgett
and his accomplices. B liat answer
can he made to this? Will any one
pretend that such a vast sum was prop
erly expended in equipping a road al
ready equipped, in repairing a road
already repaired, in stocking a road
already stocked? I find one item of
expense which may, however, indicate
the character of them all. Twenty
one thoutand dollars were paid as law
yers’ foes to partisan favorites for al
leged legal services in behalf of this
peaceable corporation during these
disastrous eleven months of it3 exist
ence. It might, perhaps, more prop
erly be said that there was a division
of a general plunder under the head
of expenses incurred. But the work
of spoliation did not stop with the
close of Blodgett’s management. A
law was obtained from the Legislature ‘
of which I have spoken, authorizing
the road to be leased in tho interest
of Bullock anti his friends. Under
that law it has been leased for $25,-
000 per month, about one-half of its
real value. One of the lessees under
this most valuable contract is a mem
ber of tho present Cabinet, and was
so when the lease was made; and an
other is a distinguished Republican
member of the other branch of Con.
gross.
Sir, there was but one thing more
to be done by this shameless adven
turer whom your policy had made
Governor of Georgia against the con
sent of her people. lie completed
his record and finished his Work by
corrupting the channels of justice.—
Ho rendered the Courts powerless to
enforce the laws and punish criminals.
The emissaries of convicted felons
crowded his ante-ehambers and traf
ficked- with him for his pardoning'
power. The record shows that the
verdicts of juries wore thus wiped out,
.the doors of the prisons opened, and
the guilty turned loose to prey again
upon the peace of society to an ex
tent never before known in American
history. lie pardoned three hundred
and forty-six offenders against the
law out of four hundred and twenty,
six who made application to him!
His amnesty for crime was almost
universal. Indeed, his zeal in behalf
of those under indictment was so
great that his grace and clemency was
often interposed before the trial .of the
culprit. lie granted seven pardons
in advance of trial to one man in the
county of Warren who pleaded them
to seven separate indictments when
he was arrested and brought into court.
This special object of favor is one J.
G. Norris, who haunts committee
rooms and swears on all occasions to
fabulous outrages and the imperfect
administration of the law in the South.
Asa spared monument of Bullock's
mercy, with manifold villainies un
atoned for, he is always to be seen
lurking around investigating commit
tees, and pouring into their ears tho
black and concentrated malice of an
apostate against a people whom lie
hates because he has betrayed.
Other instances like this might he
cited, hut onough is here shown to ac
count for even greater disturbances
than any that have taken place in
Georgia. The confidence of all classes
in tho supremacy of the law was de
stroyed. They saw the will of one
unscrupulous man supplant all its au
thority. It afforded them no security
for life or property when its most sol
emn decisions were set aside everyday
in the year. Its uplifted hand was
arrested in the court room before their
indignant gaze, and the judicial blow
was averted from the guilty head of
the law-breaker at the bar. If the
violence of the mob thereupon ensued,
the curse came from those who wero
charged with the execution of the laws,
and who, instead of doing their duty,
interposed to shield villians both be
fore and after their conviction. If
this is not the true philosophy of man'
kind, 1 have studied its motives and
its conduct ail in vain.
And now, Mr. Speaker, at this
point I must take leave of the State
of Georgia, her plundered treasury,
her oppressed tax,payers, her rail
road schemes of robbery, her squan-.
dered school funds, and her mocked,
insulted, and baffled courts of justice.
Others impoverished fields cry to us
in piteous tones for redress, and have
long cried in vain.
Teach Your Children Music.—
You will stare at a strango notion of
mine; if it appears even a mad one,
do not wonder. Had I children, my
utmost < iinenvors should be to make
them inusica-.is. Considering 1 have
no car, ncr even thought of music,
the preference seems old, and yet it is
embraced on frequent recolletions.—
In short, as my aim would be to make
them happy, I think it the most prob
able method. It is a resource which
will last them their lives, unless they
srow deaf; it depends upon them
selves, not on others; and of all fash
ionable pleasures, is the cheapest.—
It is capable of fame without tiiuilan
ger of criticism—is susceptible of en
thusiasm without being priest-ridden,
unlike mortal passions, is sure of being
gratified in lleaven. —Horace Wal
pole.
Enlarged Spheres for Women-
Tt is wonderful how much the field
of feminine labor and usefulness has
been widened within tho past decade,
and it is encouraging to know that
tho process is still goingon. Several of
the great banking and insurance com
panies in England havs entered upon
the employment of a special cla»3 of
lady clerks. The Prudential Assur
ance Company, which has the largest
stafl of clerks of any London office, has
created a department of famale serv
ice, for which only the daughters and
widows of professional men, merchants
and gentlemen engaged in public offices
I NO. 16
are eligible. The restriction is made
with a view to securing ladies of first
class education who, without inc'-in-*-
tion and particular qualifications for
teaching, are compelled by sheer neces
sity to offer themselves for ati employ
ment which, above all others, requires
the entire devotion of the heart as well
as the head. In France ladv clerks
are very generally employed in batiks
and other places of buisness, particu
larly in the great Parisian shops. In
London, within the last two or three
years, the employment of women as
clerks in the telegraph and post offices
lias become general, and so far the re
sult has been satisfactory. They have
been found prompt, reliable, and effi
cient. In journalism they have been
eminently successful; indeed, so useful
have they been found that all the prom
inent Eastern papers have from one to
five women regularly employed. May
the good work go on. —Pittsbnrg Dis
patch.
The Bible Grows With One.
If you come to the Holy Scriptures
with growth in grace, and with aspira
tions for yet higher attainments the
book grows with you. grows upon you.
It is ever beyond you and cheerily
cries: ‘Higher yet; Excelsior!’ Many
books in my library are now behind
and beneath me; 1 read them years
ago with considerable pleasure; I have
read them since with disappointment.
I shall never read them again, for they
are of no service to me. They were
good in their way once, and so were the
clothesl wore wlion I was ten years o rl;
but I have outgrown them—l know
more than these books know, and i
know wherein they are faulty. No
body outgrows Scripture; the book
widens and deepens with our years.
It is true, it cannot really grow, for
it is perfect; but it does so to our ap
prehension. The deeper you dig int-i
Scripture, the more you will find that
it is a great abyss of truth. The be
ginner learns four or five points o 1
orthodoxy, and says: 6 I understand
the Bible; I liavegraaped all the Bible.’
Wait a bit, and when his soul grow
and knows more of Christ, he will
confess: Thy commandment is exceed
ing broad’—‘l have only begun to
undererstand it.’-— Spurgeon.
Hog Cholera.
Preventive. —A correspondent of
the Department of Agriculture, in
Dooly county, Georgia, where hog
cholera has prevailed, and no remedy
has been found, writes:
“We believe that it is contagious;
nnd the best preventive I have found
is the free use of spirits of turpen
tine, mixed with tar and a small quan
titity of camphor. It can he used
either externally or internally. I pre
fer the latter, by soaking corn in it
for ten or twelve hours. I have never
failed in arresting the disease.
Remedy. —R. H. Worthington
says:
“Take ten grains of calomel and
ten grains of tartar emetic, and make
them into a pill. As soon as it is
known that the hog is sick give the
pill. If there is no change for the
hetter by the next day, or within
twenty-four hours, repeat the dose.”
Mr. Worthington says he his never
known a second dose of the medicine
fail to effect a perfect cure and restore
the hog to health. Mr. Worthington
himself has cured more than one hum
dred hogs which have been afflicted
with cholera, by this medicine. — -Ru*
ral Southerner.
An Irishman who hail boon employ
ed in the Federal Cemetery at Cub
peper Courthouse Y u., wont to Wash
ington city to draw his wages. He
called on tho payuffister and received
his money and was about leaving, when
observing a sabre cut across his face
the paymaster asked him to “whose
command he belonged during tho war?’
“Fitz Lee’s,’ was tho reply. “Then
why in the d—l are you employed at
a Federal Cemetery?” “I helped to
kiil ’em,” replied Pat, “and 1 thought
it right to helji bury ’em.”
Two men hawing arranged to fight
a duel in Rhode Island, tbe Govenor
issue la proclimation forbiding it,
whereupon one of the parties sent him
a note saying that one of them would
stand in Connecticut and the other in
Massachusetts, and shoot over his
miserable little State.
The lawyers fees in tho notorious
Tichbornc case amount to $600,006.
The jurymen were paid five dollars a
day, aid for the one hundred and
three days during which the trial last
ed, received $6,180.
A sensible shoemaker, who made a
princely fortune by the sale of an ex
tensively advertised shoestring of his
own invention, wrote this stanza,
which now adorns Ids crest:
“If you are wise and wish to rise,
Then pitch right in and a l .c. tiso; t
If you are nm, then sit down sot,
And let your business go to pot ”