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“ ~ ' • V- • • • jjpWlN MARTIN, Proprietor. Devoted to Home Interests and Culture. . - - --- - ----- - - 5 TWO DOLLARS A Ycar In Advan w, VOLUME IX. PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, (879. NUMBER 24> A JOAB STAB. ihomScbtonbu’s Maga- \je can recall no article the reading of which has caused ns more pain than Ibc leading editorial in the last Scribner. It has pained us for several reasons. In the first place Scribner’s has always bean kindly disposed to the South or ye have looked to this honse to balance in jome degree the venom displayed by the Harpers. In the next place, the slanders uttered by a voice that feigns friendliness, will convey more weight because of the source from which it is issned. And finally we regret to eee one of the foremost andmost genial and scholarly of our magazines descend to' scurrilous work of politics. Even the Harpers have held them magazine above fbis doubtful business and have cribbed their malignant sentiments in their week ly. But, without wasting any tears orer this monstrous and inexcusable slander, we proceed to discuss its mer its. The article is headed "Southern Civil- zation’ in Topics of the Time,” formerly a genial, amiable, suffusive department, edited by Dr. J. G. Holland. The arti cle contaius an untruth in its .prologue. It say: We understand in this quar ter perfectly well that the south has no great lovo for the national flag, and that ‘the lost cause’ is still very dear to its politicians and people.” This is not true either in a technical sense or the wider senso that the author would have it understood. The south quit fight ing after the war was over. When Lee surrendered at Appomattox he pledged the word of his people with un- ucltled sword. Our people have never gone back on that pledge. They were brave enough to fight—they have been heroic enough to accept in good faith the results of the rongh arbitrament to which they ap pealed. There is no more loyal section than the south—if wo use the word loy al in its honest sense. Twice in the four past years has the convcrsative and palriolism of southern members of congress, saved the country from an other war— that it might have been prolonged as the last one, would have been greatly more disgraceful and de moralizing. The south is ”lion?st and frank in its pretenses. Governor Col quitt sounded the key-note of southern icntiment when be said, "We want peace and harmony in the union and under the constitution.” But the main poiut of the article wi*b which wo have to deni is much more direct and unjust in its motive than what we have noted. He says: “Certain events have occurred in the south with astounding frequency that reveal a state of morals and society that makes every true friend of the south and every true American hang his head in shame.” Of course, the southerner who reads this paragraph, as soon as he recovers from his surprise at seeing so bold and wanton a slander in to respectable pe riodical as Scribner's will begin to im agine what these events are that have put a blot npon the escutcheon of Amer ica. The specific charge follows quickly. Here it is. Head it carefully: 1 ‘Murder after murder is perpetrated in high life with the coolest blood, and nobody is arrested for it, and nothing is done about it.” A more stuped, basefnl, inexcusable falsehood than this was never pat in print. The proof of what we say is at band. The three most notable homi cides of the past year are the killing of Elliot by Buford, of Alston by Oox, and of Porter by Cnrrie. In each and every ease, the slayers have been ar rested, and lodged in jail. To-day each one of them is in a celL One of them is under. the. highest sentence of the law, and lias appealed against the judgment. The others, beyond the reach of bail, are awaiting trial. Let ns look at the records in Atlanta- Of the last- six killings in Atlanta, every man who did the slaying has been ar rested. One is nnder sentence of death, two to imprisonment for life, and the others are awaiting trial. We do not mention these things to prejudice the case of any of the unfortunate men whose Hves or liberties are in Jeopar dy, bnt simply cite them as a part of the argument of rebuttal of this as sault. Within an hour of the writing of this the supreme court of the state has affirmed thefjudgmtnt of the superi or court of this city condemning cue man for murder. Many of these men have all the advantages of money and position, and yet nothing can save them from the operation of the law. What is true of Atlanta is equally frue of all other sections Thelaw m faithfully enforced without fear orfa- y°r, and no man is too high for its aveng es hand or too humble for its protec- fr°n. As if the mendacious writer was fi ot satisfied, however, with the simple statement of the slander, he reiterates fr in ampler and more offensive terns. He says; “Murder is commited and the mur der shakes his bloody hands at the w everywhere, and walks the streets with entire freedom and impunity.” The men who have done the killing n the south for the past year or.two, gazing through the barred windows of their cells, can give reluctant but con elusive denial to this statement. “Who of them “Walks the streets in impuni ty and shakes his hand at the law?” Can the Scribner man point cut a single instance? If he cannot has he not the manliness to retract bis abominable and wanton statement? With his state ment disapproved everywhere by the facts—by accumulation of facts—will he net have the grace to withdraw it, and thns dear the character of his magazine? But, as if not satisfied with having reiterated this slander, he brings illus tration to intensify and emphasize it. Take this extract and read it word for word, and ponder well what it means. See if in utter and absolute mendacity in miserable venom and spleen—in wanton and outrageous recklessness, it has ever been"surpassed by any of the dirty radical organs, that with no pre tense to rspectable echaracter, live by pandering to the lowest passions of their readers, and inflaming the hearts of the bummqrs of their neighbor hoods: We read of the banditi in Italy, who make it unsafe for a traveler who has any money to get outside the lines of ordinary travel, and we wonder at the imbecility of a government that can give him no protection, and at the low civilization that renders such abuses and outrages possible. We Lave no longer any reason to look abroad for anoma lies of this sort. These southern mur ders give evidence of a lawlessness and a degraded civilization much more no table than anything thalj can be found among the Italian wilds and moun tains. They are abominable—beyond the power of an ordinary pen to .char acterize. There is nothing whatever to be said in apology for them. The American, when he reads them, can only hang his head in horror and shame, and groan over the fact that such fiend ish deeds can be perpetrated under tho national flag without punishment, and without even the notice of those who pretend to administer the law. Our new Titus Oates then goes on to refine his slanders with a sentence that looks miserably out of place in the heretofore amiable and scholarly Scrib- Tbis one sentence saves Dr. Hol- That is the land of the psalm-singing Bishop, who poisoned his own wife and the husband of his paramour, and then turned state’s evidence to save his dirty neck; of Hunter, who insured his friend Armstrong that he might coin gold from his life-blood; of Cove Bennett and Mrs. Jennie Smith, who clubbed to death the man they had dishonored; and of a hundred other similar bloody crimes.— In New England we find a fanaticism that leads to abnormal crimes—the right oatspring of the old Puritan roundheads that "abolished bear-beating, not be cause it hurt the bear, but because it pleased the people.” There is the Freeman fanatic, who sacrificed his own child in a fetish performance beyond the most degraded of our negro witch- er. If there is once in a while a flash of smoke and a death that is repented of as quickly as it is committed, we thank God that we have none of the slow-foiming and deliberately-planned, cold-blooded, sneak-tbief mnrders that characterize New England. We prefer the pistol, bad as it is, to the stealthy weapon of the poisoner. We have written the truth plainly and directly about this slanderer and his slanders. We now pronounce them wickedly and utterly untrue—wantonly and infamously issued—and we ask of the writer to either prove them or re tract them. If he is manly he will do one of these things. If ha is not, we hope the owners of the magazine will put their periodical beyond the reach of his hands. It is too respectable to avoid this infamy it has brought upon itself. Let it come to time! It has one of three alternatives—"proof, re traction, or infamy.”—Atlanta Constilu- iion. laDd, who is decent iD bis work at least, from the imputation of having written the article. That it escaped his eye and was slipped into the magazine through stealth is a calamity. The impassioned subordinate, warming well up to his business, says: “A man might as well live in bell as in a community where the law has no force and life has no sacredness.” We submit it, without anj’ desire to go into the discussion of this ques tion, that until the writer dies he will uot be fully capable of pronouncing upon the comparative comfort of a resi dence. in helL After that interesting event takes place, we shall be pleased to accord to any opinion be may trans mit to us, the value that attaches to an opinion based on a more or less limited experience. And then our author reproduces that stalest of stole political campaign lies, as follows: "Any man may commit a murder there, and if he be a man in high life, and do it for personal reasons, and have a white skin, with a great certain ty that no one connected with the law will take notice of his crime.” It begins to b6 tedious to remark this is utterly and absolutely false. The present solicitor-general of this cir cuit, Mr. Ben. Hill, jr., remarked to day that not a single white man tried for murder by him had escaped, and that the negroes had nearly always done so. There are white men hang in Geor gia every month or two. And two white men have lately been huDg for the killing of negroes. The truth is that the negroes h is just as much chance as a white man before any southern court, and a white skis does not avail one iota against a black crime. We need not foUow this man further in his article. Enough has been given to shock onr people—and intelligent people everywhere—with all sense of injustice and wrong, with a sorrow that a magazine, hitherto so reputable, im partial and candid, should have lent it self. to such despicable misrepresenta tion. It only aggravates the offense that the slanders are masked be hind an appe&Sance of sympathy, and conveyed in a current of advice. There is no blade so hatefnl as the bladejof Jo- ab. We have shown that violence is re buked by the law, and that the slay ers of men are sent to jail and locked up to wait inexorable justice. These things we can prove by the records. It is eqnaQy true that there is not as much crime in tho south in propor tion to population as in New England, The statistics will prove this, and the Scribner men may invoke them when ever they please. There is a difference also in the sort of crimes committed in the two sections. In the south there are sharp, passionate conflicts between high-strung men, inflamed beyond con trol. They usually come from a hastily- spoken insalt, an imputation upon wo men, or some such thing; or at most from drunkenness. In the New Eng land states we have the cold-blooded sneaks, the lecherous villians filled up their small amours against .human life —the avaricious thieves who murder with the deliberation and greed of a Theuardier. . a(A >r U’>t A KANSAS HORROR. The terrible cyclonic storm which vis ited portions of Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri on Friday night was one of the most destructive to life and proper ty that ever devastated that section.— The Philadelphia Record thinks the rap id increase of population is tho reason for this. Storms of equal or greater fury are not infrequent in many parts of the great tornado belt, bnt wben the country was more sparsely settled the whirlwind could vent its force without encountering many human Imbibitions. It is a sad thought, remarks the Record, that the frequency and violence of these cyolones are not lessening; Bor does there seem to be a natural reason why they should. The peculiar conforma tion of the country and the varying temperature of the air-currents insure conditions which are liable at auy mo ment to result in storms of terribly de structive force. As that country be comes more and more crowded with set tlements it will be well nigh ^possi ble for one of these air bolts to strike the earth without consequences awful to contemplate. We would be baldly justified in sus pecting that the negro exodns now being so zealously worked up by Gen eral Conway and his stalwart associates is only a diabolical plot to get rid of “the wards of the nation” by patting them in the track of the Western cy clones and tornadoes. Be that as it may, there is no disputing the fact that owing to the frequency of terrible tor nadoes, and the prevalence of horse thieves, grasshoppers and chills and fever, Kansas is not a desirable country in which to seek a permanent location —Savannah News. LEON (tAMBETTA. ] remarkable. The great speech of his 1 life before the war, was delivered be ar james pabtoh. ; fore 1870, when the imperial govern- The French people did wisely in notj ment * alarmed by the growing liberal electing Gambetta their president; for the head of a nation should not be a brilliant man. Let the cabinet and the legislature be brilliant and gifted; bnt the chief should be a great, strong, plain, prudent man, cf slow and sure judgment, one in whom the average good citizen naturally confides. Presi dent Grevy appears to be such a man. Bnt Gambetta is a young Hod, with s. romantic history, popular talents, com manding personality, who, at forty-one, still needs restraining influence. He was bom at the cathedral city cf Caliors, four hundred miles south of Paris; his father, as we arc told, a deal er in crockery-ware, and a good Catho lic. The easiest way in France for a poor man’s son to rise in the world is to enter a seminary for the education of priests,''Gambetta had an uncle in the priesthood who was exceedingly pleased at his nephew’s facility in learn ing Scripture history, and induced his father in conseqnence to send him to an institution in Cahors for the training of priests. But Gambetta was not made to serve at the altar, and the mode of life at the seminary was so little suited to his character that he was often a reb el, and, after two year’s’ residence, was expelled. 'Ton will never make a priest of him, ” wrote the superior to his parents, “he has an utterly undisciplinable character. ” His father next thought of making a doctor of him, and sent him to an acad emy with that view. But one day as he was playing in a carpenter’s shop near his father’s honse, his companion, thrust ing at him with a pointed stick destroy ed one of his eyes. As a doctor is sup posed to need two eyes, the young man’s next proceeding was to study law, in which he took his degree in 1859, just twenty years ago. It was three years be fore he had a case, and even then be was only employed to defend a certain Grep- po, one of fifty-three persons arraigned for conspiracy against the usurper, Lonia Bonaparte. The public prosecutor, it is said, was much struck by the ability shown in the young man’s speech, and advised him to pnt his talents to use on^ ^ame a great camp, and ifc-is the. opin- Rojiance.—A beautiful young gentle man had his ears boxes by a very pretty girl in tbe streets of Home last winter. As soon as the girl looked at him she blushed, begged ten thousand pardons, and said she was mistaken—she had boxed the wrong man. Now the gen tleman could not forget the box, the blush, the apology, and all the rest, and he determined to see the girl again, if possible. He did see her—she was a shop girl; nevertheless, he fell so much in love with her that he offered her his heart and hand. She refused both, saying she was engaged. This time he tried to forget her, and had nearly succeeded in doing so when he received a letter from her asking him to go and see her at a hospital He found tbe poor girl dying, and from her lips he he heard her stoTy—the old one— "Love and abandonment!” Sbe asked him not to let her baby die of hunger. He promised, andfwhen the girl died he took the child and placed it with proper people. He did mere—he sent a chal lenge to the girls seducer, fonght him, and, though he did not kill Mm, disa bled him for life. —We are sore a modest Christian statesman like Gov. Colquitt must feel intense grief when he sees Ms good words and works paraded by the secu lar papers with such disgusting frequen cy. He is not the man to want to make political capital of his piety. —Gaunt, of the Oglethorpe Echo, has seen wild in that county spotted rabbits, wMte rats, cream-colored crows, hay monkeys and bine jim-jams. He should be dosed with cinchonarubra at once. The State Sunday School Convention wMch met in Macon last Friday week had s most interesting session. They were entertained with by the citizens. the other side. “The days are passed,” said thisoffi- cer. "when a lawyer could make his way by truckliDg to the mob.” And, indeed, his progress at the bar was very slow. In 1867. when he bad been eight years a Paris lawyer, he was only known as promising young man, or, ns a friend describes him, "a jovial, leather-lunged, brazen-voiced fellow, who would tread in the steps of Danton if occasion served, and yet never let himself be guillotined by anew Robes pierre.” But his opportunity came at last. One of the things a bad govern ment is surest to do is to attempt to muzzle the press, and its so doing is one of the surest signs of approaching destruction. If Bismarck were a truly able governor, he would kill socialism in thirty days, as Horace Greeley did free-love. And bow was that? Publishing verbatim reports of free-love meetingsl In 1868 the editor of a Paris paper was prosecuted by Louis Bonaparte’s government for advocating a subscrip tion to raise a monument to the repre sentative, Bandin, kiHed Dec. 2,1851, in defending the freedom of his country against the usurper, The second of December was the memorable day upon which the bogus Napoleon seized the government. Gambetta defended the prisoner, and he made a point against the government from which it never re covered. He contended that the ob ject of the prosecution was to get from the judges a legal sanction for what had been done on the second of December by the Bonapartists, which would, of course, pnt in the wrong those who had perished at the barricade. If Louis Na poleon was right, if what he had done was in harmony with public moralitv, then the 'men who fonght against Mm were rebels or traitors, and were justly put to death, Gambetta finished this part of Ms speech thus: "For seventeen years you have been the masters of France. You have never dared, with all your boasting, to cele brate the second of December as a na tional anniversary, though all eovern- ments make a festival of the day of their accession. Two anniversaries alone are exceptions: the eighteenth Brumaire (the day of the first Napoleon’s usurpa tion) and the second of December. Be it so. This anniversary, wMch you have not desired, we accept as the day of the great national expiation in the name of French liberty." The French are very anscepiible to happy turns like ibis. They are not merely applauded at the time, but -re peated and remembered. It was indeed an impressive fact that neither of these odious Bonapartes dared to celebrate the day of their accession to power; for both those days were marked by perju ry and the massacre of-the innocent— From this time Gambetta was the favo rite lawyer .of that small and noble band whom history will honor by the name wMch Gambetta gave them—the “Ir- recondlables.” From the descriptions we read of Gambetta’s speaking, we j ” ^ mast conclude that his oratorical talents \ are very great spirit, made some accessions to it Gambetta was not deceived. "No, no,” he cried, "I do not desire a sham repubUc. I wish a real repub lic. Yon (the new ministry) are only a bridge between the republic of 1848 and the republic of the future, and we shall cross the bridge.” It was in the course of this great speech that the incident occurred which showed how completely liis audience was enthralled. On the ledge before Mm. as be stood on the tribune, or platform, in fall view of the audience, there was a bowl of beef tea which had been piaced there to enable him to snpport the fa tigue of his speech. Toward the close, when every eye and ear were intent np on Mm, with a sweeping gesture he knocked ofi this bowl npon the heads of two ushers standing beneath him, who were well soused with the liquid. Not a man in the honse laughed. Not a titter was heard. The ushers wiped their ears and coats, with gravity and decorum, and the orator continued his speech triumphantly to the end. One secret of his power is his fine physical proportions, An American la dy describes him as a man of Hercu lean breadth of shoulders, with a mas sive, shaggy head, shaded by long, dis hevelled locks. He has a voice, too, like a lion, A man thus constituted exerts a kind of magnetic influence over a nervous and susceptible Freuce audi ence. Gambetta was in Paris when tho news came of Louis Bonaparte’s contempti ble surrender >t Sedan. He instantly moved to depose the imperial govern ment. During the rest of that disas trous war he was the only conspicuous Frenchman who rose to the height of the occasion. He was miuister of the interior when the German armies gath ered about Paris, and he was prompt to discover that Paris was no longer France, and that the city could only be defended from without. He escaped from Paris in a balloon. He established himself at Tours, and took charge of the great' business of delivering bis country. All that part of France be- lon of Germans opposed to him that Gambetta alone of the French leaders showed genius for the conduct yf affairs. A respectable German author has late ly published a work npon that part of the war, relating Gambetta’s proceeding in great detail, from which it appears that, bnt for Bazaine’s surrender at Metz, Gambetta would have been able to make far betrer terms of peace for France than surrendering two provinces and paying an enormousindemnity. Gambetta is still to be tried by the awful test of success. He is now rich, powerful and almost universally ad mired. So far, he appears to have borne the test well. He does not talk like a demagogue. He is in favor, for example, of the public servants being permanently appointed and rising by merit alone. He is an ardent promoter of the new public school system of France, and urgently recommends that girls shonld be educated as well at boys. He demands complete severance be tween politics and the army, as also be tween church and state. He ttonksthai theological students ought to be no more exempt from military duty than medical students or law students. He seems to be sincerely opposed to every measure which gives one class of people a better chance than the rest. He ap pears to be a prudent man, and one who desires to promote harmony be tween parties, sects, and orders. He has also the good sense not to over value popularity. A few weeks ago, at a banquet given in his honor, he spoke of this happily and wisely: "I am,” said he, “deeply moved by the sympathetic reception I have met with among yon. I have nothing bnt words of gratitude to address to you; bnt allow me to remind you of a thing I have always dwelt npon—that you must beware of the prestige of personal ity, and that there is nothing more dangerous than idolizing a man. Yon will always find me the enemy of exces sive worship of personalities; I have ta ken my place in Democracy to serve it, and not to held myself above it. I have never been desirous of widening the breach wMch separates the Republican party from the rest of France, and my strength among yon is in my spirit of concord and conciliation.” It was well spoken. Let ns, however, call no man happy before Ms death, If he is sound and sterling he will be the first man in Europe before he is sixty. If there is a flaw ia him—if be is any thing less than a patriot—if he wants to be president—or if he di inks too much Burgundy—he may turn out a failure, after all.—New York Ledger. The worst mistake a presidential as pirant ever made was that of Thomas A. Hendrix, when he said he would not accept the nomination for vice- president next year. The Louisville Courier-Journal calls the Boston Herald a republican paper, wMch will be news to the Herald and CONDITION OF LIBERIA. , The Department of State is indebted to the Navy Department for very inter esting reports of the condition of Libe ria. Ike flagship Ticonderoga is now cruising on the coast of Africa. Com modore Shufeldt bas assigned to Pay master Thompson , the duly of preparing the commercial reports, “Liberia,” says Mr. Thompson, "occupies the nat ural gateway to the rich lands of the in terior The Liberians are naturally proud of the richness of the countiy. The Mils are full of minerals and met als. Coffee grows naturally and re quires very little care and cultivation. It fiuds a ready market at good prices. But important as these considerations are, the great opportunity of Liberia lies in her geographical position —the key to the immense commerce of the interior.” Among the ports of en try already established on the coast are Monrovia, Robertsport, Marshyll, Buchanan, Edma, Greenville and Har per. Tbe trade with the aborigines is conducted by the Liberian merchants at various points on tbe coast and np the river, and to a great extent is simply a system of barter. Not only all kinds of fruits, grain etc., that belong to a tropis cal country thrive in Liberia, but many of the plants and vegetables of thetem perate zone. Physicians, teachers and clergymen receive fair salaries. The professors and teachers in the college are paid by mission societies in the United States. The Liberian Govern ment pays the salary of the principal of the preparatory deportment. Paymaster Thompson’s glowing ac count of the attractions of Liberia is not corroborated by those emigrants who, after making (he experiment of a settlement in that country, have return ed in disgust to their old home in the South. While they do not deny that coffee and all kinds of fruits grow there, they represent the climate as exceed- n gly unhealthy, living expensive, and an opportunity for making a comfortable support extremely discouraging. BISMARCK ON RELIGION. I cannot conceive how a man can live without a belirtf in a revelation of a God, who orders all things for the best, in a supreme judge from whom there is no appeal, and in a future life. If I were not a Christian, I would not re main at my post a single hour. If I did not rely on God Almighty, I should not put my trust in princess, I have, enough to live on and am sufficiently genteel and distinguished without the Chancel lor’s office. Why shonld I go on work ing indefatigably, incurring trouble and annoyaricc. unless convinced that God has ordained me to fulfill these duties. If I were not persuaded that this Ger man nation of ours, in tbe Divinely- appointed order of things, is destined to become something great and good, I should throw up the diplomatic profes sion at this very moment. Orders and titles have to me no attraction. The firmness that I have shown in combat ing all manner of absurdities for ten years past is solely derived from faith. Take away my faith and you destroy my patriotism. Eut for my strict and literal belief in tbe tenths of Christian ity, bnt for my acceptance of tbe mirac ulous ground-work of religion, yon would not have lived to see what kind of Chancellor I am. Find me a succes sor as firm a believer as I am and I will resign at once. But I live in a genera tion or pagans. I have no desire to make proselytes, bnt I am constrained to confess my faith. If there is among us any self-denial and devotion to king and country, it is a remuant of religious belief unconsciously clinging to our peo ple from the days of our sires. For my own part, I prefer a rural life to any other. Sob me of the faith that unites me to God, and I return to Yarzin to devote myself industriously to the pro duction of rye and oats.—Berlin Corres pondence London News. ^ Judge Bbaddex has decided the Florida railroad cases against the rail road companies and ia favor of the Dutch bondholders. The verdict against the Florida Central is tor one hundred and ninety-seven thousand dollars, with interest for about nine' years, and that against the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Bailroad is for about two mil lion seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with like interest. Appeals will be taken. Decrees ordering the sale of the roads are in course of prepara tion. A majority of the Supreme Court at Jackson, Tenn*. Saturday morning de cided that the previous charter cf the city of Memphis has been validly repealed by the late Legislature, and that the same people and same terito- tory lias been constilntionally reiheor- porated under a general law providing for the reorganization of municipal corporations. A minority of the court held that the repealing act was valid, but the law creating a taxing district is unconstitutional and void. . The- man who waits to get three cr.ia ^ decorated reUc3 , ‘In a line before he shoots will some day find the poor honse waiting for him. sSfl; i. i.ft; ‘--'a TERRIBLE-AWITH. Tecs.—"The man that will take a newspaper for a lenghth of time, aad then send it back “refused”, and un paid for, would swallow a blind dog’s dinner, and then stone the dog for being blind.”—Times. “He would do worse than that Hb would marry a-girl on trial, and send her back with the words “don’t suit” chalked on her back, after tho honey moon.”—Sun, “Worse than that. He would steal the chalk to write it with, and after- _ wards he would use it on Ms shirts, tci save the expense of washing, and theri sue his wife’s father for a month’s boarding.”—Standard. “Worse yet. He’d chose a sick rat ten miles over a corduroy road, and in stitute a post mortem examination after he had caught him, in order to recover a stolen grain of com.”—Moryantoicn Star. He would steal rotton acorns from n blind pig. He would steal all the win ter meat of an editor.—Somerset Herald, He would sponge a living from the hard earnings of Ms poor old father un til the poor old gentleman became una ble work, and then let Mm . die in the poor house and afterwards sell his re mains to the medical students for anat omical pnrposes.—Blufflon Banner. Ho would dig up the bones of his ; mother and make dice of them, and play “chnck-a-luck” on Ms grandmoth er’s tombstone for a copper cent which a horse thief had stolen from the eye of a dead fifteenth amendment.—Quitman, Banner. A puppy’s eyes open in nine day£ We have waited that time in the vain endeavor to add something else to this mans character, bnt to use the expr0$ sion of a Georgia Judge, “the English language is insolvent.”—Americas Re*-' corder. Still worse. No man in America* would trust him with the anchor of the “Great Eastern” and that too in the middle of the desert of Sahara. He would stick pins in a blind and crippled orphan baby two weeks old.—Atlantal Dispatch. -A-CO —Tbe Bainbridge Democrat says that Mr. H. F. Gaulding has a little daugh ter eleven years old to whose nerve and courage he is indebted for the life of his three year old boy. The circum stances were briefly these: The boy was playing by the cistern in Mk G.’a yard. There was a plank off, and through this apertnre the little fellow fell. He caught a plank, however, in falling, and held for some time before he was discovered. Bnt Ms hold weak ened and with a splash be fell into the cistern. His sister saw and appreciated the situation. Most girls would have screamed and mn off in quest of help. Notso with tMs little girl. Thescreams and straggles for life of her baby broth er gave her the courage and strength of a man. She saw a ladder, and with, all her might she dragged it*to and placed it in the cistern, and then went down into the water, reached out and caught her brother jnst in time'tc save Mm from a watery grave. By this time help arrived and both were landed safe ly from their periloHS position. All honor to this little heroine! May she live long to illustrate the true no bility of womanhood. The Methodist ministers at Chicago have adopted a declaration presented by Bishop Merrill in regard to what they style the “civil Sabbath.” The delara- tion disclaims all designs of creating any religions establishment contrary to the Constitution, and all expectation of po licing men into tbe performance of moral or religions duties, but urges that the preservation of the “the civil Sabbath*" substantially as regulated by law, is in dispensable to the moral, social, and physical welfare of all classes, “and es pecially of the industrial populations.” The closing resolution denounces the prevalent lethargy in regard to the non enforcement of the Sunday laws. Conjugal felicity depends largely np on mutual confidence. “I make it a rule,” said a wiseacre to Ms friend, "to tell my wife every thing that happens. In that way we. manage to avoid any misunderstanding.” Not to be outdone in generosity the friend replied, “Well, sir, you are not so open and frank as I am, I tell my wife a great many things that never happen.” Most of the wine nsed in England fox 1 the holy communion in Roman Catholic churches comes from the vineyards of the English colleges of Lisbon and Val- Iacelid, and is wMte; bnt elsewhere red wine is usual. Roman Catholic an d Episcopal ehurelsb have no rule as to the color, bnt demand pure juice of the grape. A party of colored men in excavating a mound in Major Fielder’s plantation near Union Springs, Ala., discovered the skeleton of an Indian wamor bu-« ied sitting erect on a skeleton horse. Large lumps of gold and sheets of isin- —The Atlanta telephone exchango