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jjUWIN MAKTIN, Proprietor.
Devoted to Home Interests and. Culture.
TWO DOTiT.ARS A Year In Adrauc««
VOLUME IX,
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1879.
NUMBER 32.
BOW A PAPER IS MADE.
«Pi»y. kQW is a paper wade?”
Tbe question.is easy to ask,
But to answer it fully, my dear,
■Were rather a difficult task; . .
And yet in a bantering way,
A* tlie wlilppoor-will.Bings in tlio glade,
I'd venture a bit of a lay.
To tell bew a paper is madri.
An editor sitf at his desk,
And pondeis the things that appear
jo be claiming thu thoughts of the world—
Things solemn, and comic, and queer—
And when he has hit on a theme
He judges well to parade,
He writes, and he writes, and ho writes,
And that's how % paper is made.
An editor sits at bis desk,
And puzzles his brain to make but
"Telegraphic” so squabbled add mixed.
It is hard to tell what it’s about.
Exchanges are lying around:
While waiting" dispatches delayed,
He dips, and he clips, and he clips,
And that's how a papor is made.
An editor out in the town,
In search of things that are new—
The things that the people have done,
Tho things they're intending to do—
Goes peering and prying about,
For items of many a grade;
Ho tramps, and.he tramps, and he tramps,
And that’s how a paper is mhde.
And all that those workers prepare,
Of every conceivable Btripo,
la sent to tho printer, and ho
Proceedeth to stick it in type.
His lines, all respecting his will.
In slow-moving columns parade—
And he sticks, and he sticks, and he sticks,
And that's how a paper is made.
In short, whon the type is all set,
And errors cleared up more or less.
Tie “locked in a form," as they say.
And hurried away to tho press.
The pressman arranges his sheets.
His ink gives tho requisite shade,
Then he prints, and he prints, and be prints
And that's how a paper is mado.
JOHN SHARPE.
John Sharpe was an attorney, who
lived in my younger days, in the vil
lage of Sanderton.
Tho reader need not turn to any map
slid look for Sanderton. The incidents
lam about to relate being true, and
some of the parties yet aliye, I have
given false names both to persons and
places, in order to baffle impertinent cu
riosity.
In a story of English life when an at
torney is mentioned, you are to under
stand n man who draws up pleas, and
does everything about a case of law, ex-,
cept speaking. The oral pleading is
done by what the English call a barris
ter. But in the American courts, with
one exception, the office of attorney
and barrister are combined in one per
son, It was certainly, so here. John
Sharpe not only prepared the written
pleadings in his cases, but he addressed
the court and jury also, taking charge
ol the chse from the issue of the pre
cipe to the final judgment by the
tbecourt. He was accounted to be an
excellent advocate, He was fluent,
I impressive. He never rose
to eloquence under any cirotl instances,
d that about him which com
manded attention and respect, and he
™ possessed of a coolness not to be
overcome by any train of vexations oc-
r By long labor and perse
verance he acquired a. competence, and
it the time of which I speak he"had re
eved from the duties of his profession,
*od lived in a neat little framed house
oothe outskirts of" the village, sur-
voonded by a handsome little garden,
staining about ten acres of ground.—
o was then an old man, with a bald
md, withered face, and thin but active
f^n; and used to walk smartly up
down the main street of the
ton every day about noon. This was
for exercise, and to create an ap-
Wite for dinner. Gold or hot, rainy
e mnny as the day . might be, you
msld see John Sharpe leave the front
**>r of his house exactly at two o’clock,
i his umbrella, great coat or cane, as
nmstances seemed to indicate the
of either. Three times down the
and three times up—thus often
no more—and then John Sharpe
sld re-enter his dwelling and prepare
at
sat alone at
'er. He was by no means social in
habits and invited no gaests. Nor
he usually visitors, but liyed alone
6 a lazy spider, which is the best sim-
can find, for a retired lawyer. But
last after he had finished his meal,
with the cloth removed, a single
lit, the fire blazing cheerfully,
he blinds darkened, after his ens-
lust as he commenced to .sip the
. °t his three after-dinner glasses of
JT a knock at the door annonneed
•A™ 1, As he supposed the comer
^ ^it awhile without great damage,
^ °n sipping his wine, and paid
tiofi to the summons. Tho
i re peated rather more violent-
In a couple of minutes or so af-
-*oA Hett T* his bIfl ck maid of-
3 oh’ - l> y> Hetty was a wilh-
widow), tapped at the door, and
j, 6t • *ke signal with the upper half
I ®haipe,” said Hetty, "here’s
: ot no ^i t s Swan to see von, wed-
%
I Hetty ushered the visitor in, and clos-
iing the door, left the two together.
} The stranger,was a man if appearances
j told the truth, somewhere about forty
years of age. He was tall, stood qmte
erect, and had a swarthy face on which
a few wrinkles seemed to have bnrnt in
by exposure to the sun of some tropical
climate. His small and glittering black
eye glanced at everything around, and
finally fixed itself upon John Sharpe
himself, in an intense and by no means
friendly gaze. The attorney did not
feel quite comfortable under that steady
and Btern gaze; but as the intruder
spoke.no word, he begged him to be
seated, and filling a glass shoved it over
to the opposite side of the table, by way
of invitation to drink.
The-stranger sat down saying—“I
shall not drink with you, sir. I sit be
cause I do not choose to stand while I
transact business. You have a nephew,
I believe?”
The attorney nodded assent,
‘‘He is engaged in business as a silk
importer in New York?”
“Yes.”
“And you have endorsed for him to a
very large amount?”
“Yes—hut I feel safe enough about
that. James is a prudent trader-and a
thorough business man. I know him
well. But why do you ask?”
“Simply because your prudent trader
and thorough business man has been
gambling of late, and has utterly ruined
himself. Some of his notes have not
been paid, and are protested. The
others will not be, for be has not the
means.”
‘ ‘I don’t believe it, I have received
no notice.”
“You will to-day. I know, for I have
bought up and hold all those notes. I
come to- see if you are ready to pay
without a suit,”
“Perhaps. What is tho amount?”
“Between sixty and seventy thousand
dollars. Yon ought to know well
enough.”
“Why, thotismore than I am worth,”
ejaculated Sharpe, starting up.
“I knew that when I bought them. I
can afford to lose the surplus, so I can
make a beggar of you.”
John Shaipe felt dismayed, for the
look of hatred gleamed in the stranger’s
eye showed that he would have no mer
cy on his debtor; but his coolness re
turned in an instant.
“You have some strong motive for
this,” said he. “Mere business views
could do nothing that I know of to pro
voke it, but this seems to be a revenge.”
“Sit down again, John Sharp,” said
the stranger, “and I will tell you a sto
ry. It is very short, but it will explain
all.
The attorney-resumed his seat, and
leaning on his folded arms, prepared to
listen.
“Some years ago,” said the stranger,
“a short time before you retired from
practice, you were engaged in the case
of Bunbury against Ashford. The de
fendant was a widow lady who had a
son and daughter. She lived in a splen
did mansion, which, with its accompa
nying estate, had been left to the son
with the provision that if he died with
out providing by will, otherwise the es-
state should go to his cousin, Andrew
Bunbury. The son placed his mother
there and travelled to South America.
Among other places he visited Brazil,
and roamed up the Para. While there
he was captured.by a roving baud of
wild natives and killed. His effects at
Bio de Janeiro were in charge by the
American consul, and evidence of his
death sent home. His cousin brought
snit for the property and gained it.—
Yon, merely the lawyer in the Case,
volunteered to act as the sheriff 'You
went to visit and insult that lone wo
man—then snffering with what was pro
nounced an incurable disease. You de
manded and obtained an Interview.”
“All true so far, except the purpose
imputed,” said Sharpe, with the ntmost
coolness.
“You told that woman she must leave
that place, although you knew all her
personal property had been exhausted
by the suit, and that she was at any mo
ment liable to die. You stood before
her with your hand upon a copy of the
writ by which she was to he disposess-
ed, and while she, and her danghter,
who leaned upon her chair-back and
looked deprecatingly at you, pleaded
for a little time, you coldly told ‘ them
that the law was inexorable. This it
was that hastened her death. If it had
not been for the pity of your client she
would have been turned out of doors'
then and there. She died, and the
daughter went no one knew whither.”
“All of which is not true;” replied
John Sharpe, as coolly as before^
•‘I have good evidence.' Your con
versation was overheard by a -prying
servant, and yonr client lias told me the
rest. But the son was not' dead. He
had been taken prisoner, but not killed.
The cacique or the tribe adopted him as
his son, hut still forbid Ms escape.
^ Weli,” replied Sharpe, who There he remained for years. While
rat undo. , and who 1 there, in his wanderings, lie discovered
helped hinaself to a second i that diamonds in considerable numbers
wants so bad to Fee * were found upon a certain branch at
j the head-waters of the Para. With the
hope of an ultimate escape, he accumu
lated a large amount of the finest of
these, and kept them concealed about
his person. The old cacique died child
less, and the American succeeded in
command of the tribe. He used his
authority to make an opportunity for
escape; and with his diamonds, got safe
ly to Bio. From thence he came . to
New York—from thence here. I am
George Ashford.”
John Sharpe quietly helped him
self to another glass of wino and
said:
“I saw your father twice. I think
you look like him.”
“Scoundrel!” cried George, spring
ing to his feet, “yon shall not mock me
alwaj s. I have the power to make you
a beggar, and I will exercise it.”
“Possibly,” said Sharpe. “But if
you do you will be sorry for it. If you
are George Ashford, here is a letter for
you. Your mother to the very last per
sisted in the belief that you were alive
and would return some day. Before
she died she wrote that letter, and
made, me promise to keepit for’you un
til you retained. Take it aud read it.”
Sharpe, fta he was speaking, had ta
ken a letter from his desk, which he
now handed to Ashford. He then sat
down and paid close, attention to his
wine, He had already drank three
glasses; but his coolness was probably
feigned, as he now attacked a fourth—a
thing unprecedented with him, -
George, in the meanwhile, read the
letter through, and then over again.
He then turned it, looked at the hand
writing again and said;
“This is a base forgery.”
“Nothing of the sort, sir,” said the
attorney looking through the wine
glass with a self-satisfied air. “That
letter was written by your mother the
the day before her death. I do not
know the contents. All I had to do
was to seal it for her, direct it, and at
her request, act as its custodian. I did
so, though I never expected to deliver
it to its owner.”
“If this be true, where is my sister?
answer that.”
“Very easily answered. Y ur sister
is married, and lives with her husband
and a couple of fine children in an ad
joining county. Her house is but a
three hours’ drive, and if you don’t ob
ject to riding alongside of a man yon
have called ‘scoundrel’ and abused
slightly, tho ‘scoundrel’ aforesaid will
get out his buggy and whisk you over,
at the tail of two fast horses, before
night. I am always welcome there, and
you will be, of course; though I shall
be expected and you not.”
George read the letter over again—this
time with tears in his eyes. ' . .
“I will go,” said he, “but I don’t be
lieve a word of it.”
However, before many hours, he did
believe every word of it.
It appeared that Bunbury had lied
in the premises, and that the prying
servaat had been mistaken. The cli
ent had ordered Mrs. Aihford’s instant
expulsion, bat Sharpe had taken the
responsbility of her retaining ossession.
He bad not only caused the lady to be
carefully attended in her sickness, but
had cheered her dying moments by
promising to take care of her danghter
—a promise he faithfully kept. Mary
Ashford, at her own desire, had been
removed from the scene of so many
painful recollections to another town.
There a wealthy and worthy young
gentleman fell in love with her, and
she, with Sharpe’s, approval, became
Ms wife. Her brother found her a
blooming matron, who welcomed Sharpe
with almost reverential gladness, j and
her newly-recovered brother with the
utmost delight.
As the ruin of James Sharpe had been
effected by professional gamblers, paid
for the work, the merchant found him
self again Jn business, this time with a
caution, and John Sharpe was never
summoned to pay those notes.
My story has no moral 'except to
show the folly of judging too hastily;
and no merit, may be; but the inci
dents it has presented are strictly
true.
Cotton Wonus.
It seems now that cbtton worms have
made their appearance in Mississippi
and Texas as well as Alabama. If is
true,, their numbers as yet are not large,
but the fact that they have, appeared at
all and so early in the season, will
canse no little uneasiness throughout
the cotton belt. Fortunately the poi
sons that Rave been used for their de
struction, particularly Paris green,
have proved effectual in the destrnci
tion of the terrible pest. And to such
conservative forces our planters, in
time should begin to have an eye. It
is. we believe the third crop of them, if
left to multiply without molestation,
that “plays the wild” with everything
green on the stalks. In the third gen
eration they. become an -innumerable'
army, as destructive as the voracious
locusts of the East or the terrible grass
hopper of tae West, only the - cotton
worms confine their destruction to their
favorite—the cotton stalk.—Montgomery
Adveitiser.
A HAND UNTRODDEN BY MAN, THE READ STALWART-
In one of Ms voyages, while Captain
Tripp was master of-the bark Arctic, he
reached as high as latitude 73 degrees.
In 1870 Wrangel’s Land was dear of ice,
and in 1871 Ms ship was within a mile
of the shore of that land which no hu
man being has ever stepped upon so far
as history tells. This desolate island
lies to the northwest of Behring’s Straits,
ana nearly in latitude 74 degrees and
west longitude 180 degrees. It may be
aa large as Gnba, or far larger; bnt un
like that tropic island, it is given over
to icy desolation—and possibly to seals
and polar bears. Parry, in "1827, work
ing northward away to the east of this
unknown land, made his way about 8
degrees farther north; and Bane went
up, on the Greenland side, to about 80
degrees; but, though the Pacific side is
evidently the right way for a voyage to
the Pole, this latitude of 80 degrees has
never been achieved in the neighbor
hood of Wrangel’s Land, unless by
whales, who could not land. Of this
unknown land Captain Tripp saw some
thing, in that favorable ice season of
1871. With the aid of a splendid glass
he got a good view of the land, but was
unable to see any human habitations or
evidence thereof. No animal life was
visible save sea-birds, that flitted in
mid-air along the shore. The earth was
green, no snow being visible anywhere.
A coast-range is visible from the ocean,
wMch resembles the coast regions along
our own Pacific shore. Shrubs were
plainly visible, but Captain Tripp was
unable to discover any large trees or
forests. Wrangel’s Land runs north
west, and, so far as known, extends in
definitely into regions never penetrated
by man, unless it be the Esquimaux,—
The Indians inhabiting that portion of
Alaska bordering on the North Pole
haye no traditions that any people have
ever been seen on Wrangel’s Land,
though they state that deer, of a varie
ty unknown to Alaska, have been found
on Herald Island, in the heart of the
Arctic, and from which the land named
can be distinctly seen. It is supposed
that the animals made their way across
the ice from the mainland of Wrangel’s
to the island. No clothing, canoes or
relics of any kind have drifted from
Wrangel’s Land to Alaska, as an indi
cation that another race of human be
ings existed in the unexplored regions
of the Arctic. Still it is believed by
those sea captains who have taken close
observations that the mysterious coun
try alluded to is habitable. The fact
that no snow was to be seen, that vege
tation looked green and .vigorous, and
that mountains loomed up in the dis
tance, as sheltering fortress for the val
leys, are so many proofs that humanity
could find a foothold there. It seems
that no whaling captains have ever at
tempted to land on Wrangel’s Land, bnt
it must be remembered that they visit
the Arotic regions as business men, and
not as explorers. Captain Tripp says
that if the North Pole is ever to be dis
covered the discovery will he made from
the Pacific side, as navigators can reach
many degrees farther north on the .Pa-
cigc without snffering the inconveniences
from climatic rigors that beset explor
ers on the Atlantic. At Kotzebue
Sound, at the month of Buckland river,
Captain Tripp saw land 600 feet Ligh,
beneath' which a stratum of ice was dis-
.tinctly visible. At Point Barren the land
is only about six.feet above the ice, - all
beneath being a stratum of congealed
water. How deep tMs stratum is re
mains unknown, but it is certain that
the earth has gradually formed itself
non the ice. There is reason to believe
that Wrangel’s Land is of like forma
tion, at least along the shore. There is
no telling how far the ice body extends
inland as a sub-stratum.
Two convicts in the Gwinnett county
chain-gang ran away with a widow aud
her daughter.
He has turned np in Iowa, the Gib
raltar of Republicanism. He is the
knight of the qnilL He runs the news
paper know to fame aa the Lemars Sen
tinel, and taking np the text, “We are
a Nation,” upon which so many of the
Republican platforms and politicians
are harping now-a-days, he tells ns
what it means in vigorous and unmistak
able language. Hear: him:
“Step to the front, stalwarts, and
show what it means to be a nation.
“Change the name—call the nation
America or Columbia.”
“Then abolish the States,,’ x
“The moral and political revolution
that preceded the war declared this re
public a nation—not an Aggregation of
States.”
“The war confirmed it.”
“If this is a nation there are no
States.”
“If therq are States, then there is no
nation.”
“The two cannot co-exist.”
“Bat this is a nation, therefore the
States have ceased to exist.”
“Whatever recognition the former
States receive from the nation is a na
tional menace.”
“Therefore, States, as such, must
disappear from the nation and the Na
tional Legislature.”
“The National Senate must either be
abolished or transformed.”
“The Senate is infinitely more dan-
gerons to oar national existence than
the mere name, United States.”
“The Senate is a tangible concern,
and even formidable recognition of
States and of State sovereignty.”
“So long as it exists in its present
form it is a threat against national sov
ereignty,”
“The great work of Centralization,
or nationalization, which is the same
thing, imperatively demands the instant
suppression of the State as a represen
tative of equal rights.”
“If we are to be a nation we must
dare to be logical-and Stalwarts are log
ical.”
“With Grant in the White House we
would show the Rebel brigadeirs what
it is to be a nation.”
“After abolishing or so changing the
Senate that it did not represent States,
we should lengthen the Presidential
terms to ten years aEd let Congress elect
the President.”
“We would abrogate all the so-
called constitutions in all the so-called
States, change the names to provinces
or departments, and permit them to
conduct their aflairs under charters
granted by the nation.”
“No charter would he granted to any
State that had participated in the rebel
lion during the present generation,”
“AH laws passed by these provinces
or departments would be subject to ve
to by the president and his Cabinet.”
“In other words, this great republic
would be a nation, with all that that
implies.”
TMs kind of political doctrine may
sound a little odd; but, then, Iowa is a
very stalwart State. Repnhlicau party
thought advances no faster or farther in
Iowa than in many other States, but
the Iowa Republicans are an eminently
plain spoken people. It will not do for
more timid organs in the East to say-the
Lemars Sentinel is an insignificant pa
per, or that it does not represent pub
lic opinion, in its section. The Sentinel
is one of the ablest papers in the north
west. It has long been a leader of re
publican sentiment. It is the month-
piece of the party. When, therefore, it
proposes to blot out State lines, to re-,
duce the .States to the condition of
Turkish provinces, to abolish the
Senate of the United States, and to
make this country really a nation, it ex
presses no more than the ill-concealed
purposes of the republican leaders. Its
aim is identical with that of the other
stalwart organs; it differs from them on
ly in being more logical, more coura
geous and more honest.—Charleston
News and Courier.
‘‘Smoko In Asjr Room You Please.’
A lady writes thus very handsomely
to a Westem.Paper:
* ‘Make jour home a home, and make
it one in every sense of the word. My
husband is a great smoker; he loves to
play cards, dominos and chess; he is at
perfect liberty to smoke in any room in
the house, and I am always ready and
willing to join him in any of the differ
ent games. I endeavor in every way to
be not a helpmate, bnt a companion to
hicq, and the'result has been that I ie minstrel was known from one end of
have and enjoy Ms—society^- T' caHriot t * ie country to the other. The same
understand why women will run the
risk of losing their husbands’ society
and love, merely for the gratification of
an over-fastidious taste. If they do not
like tobacco, did they object to Ms using
it during the. days of courtsMp? And
if they objected and failed, then why
did they marry? If men will not- give
up such habits at the solicitations of
their sweethearts, it is not likely that
they will he persuaded out of them by
their wives; therefore, I-think itjunwise
for a woman to risk her happiness by
quarrelling with tier husband over a ve
nial fault, the existence and extent of
which she knew and perfectly under- ner.
stood before she took upon herself the
duties of a wile.”
The Origin of Dixie.
Some years ago, long before the war,
a very musical family by the name of
Dixie lived in Worcester, Mass. One of
the brotjjiefs WaiSfomDixie, we believe,
decided to apply his taleqt in the negro
minstrel line. EEft*sooff the'famous Dix-
founder of the troupe wrote the cele
brated song “Dixie’s, Land,” which at
tained such popularity." It was verily
the land for him, as he found in the
Southern States the germs of the quaint
negro song which he had brushed np
and placed in liis programme. The
South adopted the song and hence- al
lowed this gifted minstrel of Massachu
setts to give that section of the country
a new name which will always stick.
Many songs were adopted and section-
alized in that way. Oar "own “Yankee
Doodle”- was written by an^Englisbinan
a3 a satire, but our ancestors picked it
up and gave it a home.—Cleveland Ban-
The Middle Georgia Argus says there
is a young lady at Indian Springs who
is so bashful that she fsstens down her
window enrtains at night to keep the
1 man in the moon from seeing her. ■
PENAL COLONIES.
The arrests of participants in revolu
tionary movements in foreign countries
has been so great in ’number that the
prisons cannot retain them alL This
fact and the wonderful success of Eng
land’s colony in Australia, is calling the
attention of all Earopean nations anew
to the question of penal colonies. Aus
tralia began its civilized life in 17S8,
with a band of seven hundred and fifty
English criminals, of the most deprav
ed and dangerous character, and to nd
herself of whom she adopted the sys
tem. One hundred years later the
country thus peopled is inviting the
world to attend a universal exhibition,
and to accept her hospitality.
The English people were agreeably
disappointed when, a short time after
the first criminals were transported,
they learned that the new settlers had
turned over a new leaf, and had set out
to establish for themselves a new home.
So successful were these exiles that in
very many instances after their^erm of
transportation had expired they de
clined to leave, and were more energet
ic rivals of voluntary comers in their ef
forts to achieve success. In striving to
establish a reputation that would blot
out the record of their past fives, many
of them became the most honored and
reliable men of the colony in commer
cial transactions.
In justice to the character and enter
prise of the country, the transportation
of criminals to Australia was suspended
in 1840. Tho result of this action has
been entirely satisfactory. The social,
political and moral choract :r of Austra
lia are little different from that of the
mother country, and the percentage of
crime is not greater than in England it
self.
England bos not given np the system,
however, and when Australia was aban
doned it was transferred to the Anda
man Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The
number of criminals sent there np to
the present time is abont ten thou
sand.
The French Government; by the law
of June 27, 1848, designated Lambessa,
in Algeria, a penal colony, bnt it was
abandoned some years ago. In May,
1854, Guiana was selected as the home
for her deported aud transported crimi
nals, and in Ma-cb, 1872, New Caledo
nia was added to it, From 1852 to
1870 there were shipped to Guiana over
nineteen thousand conyicls of both sex
es. It is not reserved for Arabs and
prisoners of African and Asian birth.—
Two establishments the Government
was compelled to abandon, because the
influx of prisoners was not sufficient to
repair the wastes by death and escape.
There are now only four convict stations
in that colony—1’ilet la mere, .Les Ilea
de Saint, Kourov and St. Laurent de
Maroni. At Kouroy there are produc
ed, besides cereals and cotton, vast
quantities of ground nuts, the oil of
which is used in lighting the peniten
tiaries. At Maroni, the principal set
tlement, are large sugar factories^ and
cane plantalions. The convicts have
continually Kept the roads in repair,
erected all the public buildings, made
nearly all the articles they consume,
and created an export trade of abont
9160,000 a year.
The climate of New Caledonia is de
lightful and healthy, and the popula
tion is steadily and rapidly increasing;
the average annual death rate is about
twenty-five to the thousand. At Ya-
hove there is a model fort; at the Bay
of Prony a great lumber yard for getting
oat ship timbers and building lumber;
a camp at Faita, Faebo and Foint des
Francais. I here are, or were recently,
at New Galedonia, abont eight thonsand
prisoners.—Cincinnati Commercial.
CALIFORNIA POLITICS.
The latest mails received in Wash
ington from Califonia confirm the sto
ry that Mr. Geo. C. Gorham is support
ing the Demociatic nominee for Gov
ernor in that State. Mr. Gorham it
will he remembered, was Secretary of
the Senate for ten years under republi
can rule, and was Secretary, cf the re
publican Congressional Campaign Com
mittee daring the Hayes canvass, and
a!°o in the canvass of last falL' He has
always been classed as a stalwart-fearfer
in his patty, and his present course
amazes Ms Republican friends there. In
explanation, Mr. Gorham says that his
support of the Democratic Gubernatori
al nominee in no way impairs his stand
ing in the republican party in national
afiairs. He says he will support the
republican nominee for Congress in his
district, and that ho is for either Conk
ling or Grant for President, He be-
lives that"ihe republican party-of Cali
fornia is the friend of monopoly, and
the creature of the railroad magnates
who are oppressing the people of the
State. As between the railroads and
the people he is for the people, and as
the Democratic nominee is the foe of
the railroad monopolists, lie will sup
port him. Ex-Governor and Ex-United
States Senator Cole, another Republi
can leader in California, Las taken the
same course as Gorham. This news is
a great damper to the Republican Cam
paign Committee, and they, fear, as a
result, a total defeat of their partv in
California in the September elections.
DEAF PEOPLE’S TROUBLES.
One of the saddest features of exces
sive deafness is the unhappy mental ef
fect it is apt to leave on those "troubled
with it.- So frequently is this tho case
that it has been said that persons of
morbid dispositions are peculiarly liable
to this way of looking at the matter^
canse and„effect are ^transposed into
something wholly different from their
former selves by being deprived of the
ordinary powers of hearing.
This change is not difficult to under
stand when one takes into .account the
many trials and deprivations a human
person whose hearing is greatly impair
ed is called upon to bear. lie is out
wardly in no way differed from other
people and unless has with him at all
times some ugly symbol of bis infirmi
ty, like an ear trumpet, strangers can
not know and friends are likely to for
get that he is wanting in one of the
most used powers of sense,*- Of courser,
when something is said to him which
he does not understand, in consequence
of |,the fight careless way in wbich-
the gwords are* (.uttered, or because
the sounds aro lost to him in the jarring"
hum of a generalJ»c onversatkm, it is
easy to explain M one’s helplessness and
and ask to haveja question or statement
repeated. Bat to he thus perpetually
acknowledging one’s weakness is exceed
ingly distasteful to most persons; the
more so as the confession rarely brings
with it any satisfactory return.
The prevailing belief of those who
have not associated mnch with deaf peo
ple isjthat to make them hear it is only
necessary to raise the voice. This in
most instances, is a complete mistake,
few men,£and still fewer women,Twho
are not professional vocalists, speak
plainly when they speak with a load
voice, and henee it often^happens that
the victim of their kind effoxts is in {no
way assisted in the task of understand-*
ing them wMle all those who may be
near are made aware of his misfor
tune. -
The proper way is to’^speak slowly
and distinctly, for with the deaf the
recognition of volume of sound exists,
just as a nearsighted man has a percep
tion of an object, only in one case aslin
the other, .the outlines and divisions are
uncertain and^confused. As this is
rarely understood, those who are troub
led with deafness soon find that attempt*
at general social intercourse bring with
them more discomfiture than pleasure,
and the natural result is to force the
sufferer into a kind of mental insola
tion,—New York Times.
BRIC-A-BRAC.
A correspondent says that abroad on
the Edinburgh and* GInsglow Railway,
at almost every station the station-mas
ter has a Btaring or parrot, so trained
that whenever^ train draws^.up at the
platform it commences calling out tho
name of the station most distinctly, and
continues to scream it ont until the
train.starts. This is found an economi
cal mode of informing the pasBengera
where they are.
The wild English Earl of Rochester,
who was nevertheless^ man of genius,
oncejfor a wager maintained himself roy
ally as a doctor on Tower Hill and made
money by some vile compound. Not
only citizens and jpoor people came to
the noble quack, hut his court compan
ions, and it is said hi3 own countess,
who consnlted for a lovephilter to re
gain her husband’s affections, and -yet
failed to recognize Mm under the paint
and patches in disguise.
Some Chinese fans are hot fans at aiL
The “steel fan” is simply a bar of met
al, shaped and painted to resemble aa
ordinary closed fan and carried some
times as a life-preserver, by the roughs,
swells, mobsmen and rowdies of Chins,
to be used at close quarters with mur-
dnrderons effect. Of the same species
is the well know “dagger fan,,” which
consists of an elegant imitation in lac
quer of a common folding fan, hut is
really a sheaht containingjwifhin its fair
exterior a deadly blade, short and sharp
like a small Malay kris,
A dust contractor in the days of
George IV leftinstioctionBthatthe pro-
cessionfollo wing him to the grave should
comprise twelve boys carrying links;
twelve men carrying dustman’s whips
and shovels reversed; a favorite horse,
provided with cloth spatterdashes; a
dnst cart covered with black baize, the
coffin in the cart snrmounted by a very
large plume of white feathers; twahre
dustmen and brick-makers as pail bear
ers, all clad in wMte flannel jackets and
leather breeches; the whole wound up
by along string of carts filled with dust
men, cinder sifters, and chimney sweep-
Stcxxisg Success op Talmao*.—A
Glasgow, Scotland, dispatch says the
enthusiasm for Rev, Dr. Talmsge con
tinues unabated. Daring the past three
weeks he has let t ired to thousands, and
on Snndays he has preached to tees of
thousands, in St. Andrew’s Hall. To
day he preached to six thousand wor
shipers in the City HalL
N ec f as in- may be the mother of i
tion, bnt laziness is certainly the father
of it.
