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T>evoted to Home Interests and Culture.
TTTO DOLLikRS A Year in Advance,
VOLUME X.
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL I
, iSSO.
NUMBER 13
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AND WHAT IT DID.
BY SYLVANUS COBB, JR.
I saw bun in his boyhood, a bright-
eyed, curly-headed lad, the pride of bis
father, his mother’s darling, his play
mates’ pet and sunshine.
I saw him m youth—saw him follow
to the grave the solemn hearse that the
mortal remains of his father,—saw him
him at home, later, his mother*s stay
and hope. And the years passed on,
and tho fond mother could never believe
that her darling could go wrong. I saw
her hang upon his neck and weep, and
pray, and beg of him that he would be
good, and riot curse himself with the
lire that might consume him.
I saw him in his- young manhood,
aloue i:i his grief, follow thatsamesom
bre hearse again; this time bearing to
the grave all that was mortal cf his
dearly loved mother. He was sad and
sorrowful then, and his grief wore upon
him, and made him weak. In his thought
lessness he resorted to the wine cup for
cheer, and ere long the dreadful habit
began to tell upon him.
I saw himiu full manhood, promising
that he would be forever true to the
dear girl whom he had loved since child
hood, arid who now loved him so fond
ly that she was .willing to give herself
to the work of saving him.
Bat. ill 's! tho terrible appetite had so
grown upou him that it had become
stronger ihitn wash is manhood. In the
days when his manhood had been his
own, he hal tampered with the demon,
saying: “When I find thee gaining
strength beyond iny will I will put thee
behind mi!” Ah! he hid forgot when
the evil habit lmd gained a strength be
yond his "•ill, lie would have no will at
his command.
I saw him when he was verging to
wards the middle age—the father of two
beautiful clrldreD--the husband 6i a
wife grief--trieKen and heart-broken I —
The poor cot to which be lmd gravita
ted, in the outskirts of the village, was
sadly shattered and broken, as was . his
own poor-body. Old rags, and hate,
and bits Of boards, stopped the hois
win re the glass had been broken away;
the rain leaked through the roof; and
the cliill blast of autumu and winter
blew through chink and crauriy in the
walls,and about the loosened doors and
rattling sashes. Misery!. Misery! Mis
ery !
One after another of liis old-time
friends dropped away} sick and tired of
trying to help a mau who would not
help himself. They droppe 1 away!—
dropped away [—dropped away I -uu:il
the only one of them all. beside his wife,
was the man who owned this poor lint
lie called a home; and that he owned
only because he had bought- the mort
gage of a landlord who would have
turned the-family out of doors And
this friend fuinted-at last. Said he t>.
the wife:
“I give the cot to yon. It.'is yours to
do with as you please,—but -1 should
rather you would leave him! Your
brothers will provide for you, aud for
your children, if you will but leave that
mau. Way should you endure longer?
You have suffered enough. Sarah By-
w rth, I have never advised you till
now. I have tried to uphold poor
Tom, and to lead him iuto a better life;
but you have seen the result.”
The stricken wife begged for time.—
She .could .not make up her mind then.
And the night of that very day T< m
Byworth come to his darkened, ram-
cursed, home aud struck his wife a
blow with his fist—struck her, aud
knocked her staggering away. It was
the first blow she had ever received
from him. Ho stumbled upon his bed,
and poor Sarah began to dress her chil
dren and to make ready to leave the
place now Become terrible. She would
go to her friends for the night, and on
the morrow seek her brother in a dis
tant town.
But when all was ready, she crept to
the bed-side to kiss fieri fiusband for tfie
last time—perhaps tfie last time on
earth—and her Leart failed her. She
removed tfie outer garments from her
self and children andsatdown.
Again'the friend came—came direct
from Mary’s brother—to ask her to go.
“He has strnck you?”
“Yes!—Yes! And—O, he must ask
me to forgive him. I cannot leave him
with that load upon Lis eonreieuce. 0,
Tom! Tom! if you only knew!"
Aud her friend went away, leaving
her to give her firfeband the;; one more
chance, ■' -'o
.That evening Tom Byworth came to
his poor horae and fqtirid his wife and
- children gnthered'ifpon thoonly bed
sound asleep.- Bong and.anxious watch
ing, and wearing-toil airil care,' were
tel 1 ing*ipjfn S-ir.: h ’a frame. She slept
from she wexhaustion.
Poor Tom wasliri a^-dreadful stater-
lej* almost verRirig UjS&ifcdfeiili'im for want
of rum. He.stgigd^uiidTthOught, By
-#ith A clolk^siTafnng of his
it paling v of his
ala the little room where
»wont to’sleep,and j
i took a-D ;ok.
] grassy walk of the door-yard, and pres-
“Here, give me rum for that! It is j ently there was a rap upon the door,
worth it. Give mo a full bottle.” And; “Who is there?”
Tom By worth laid the parcel in the tat- : “It is I—Mary Clayton.”
tered paper upon the tavern bar. j “O! my husband! What of him?”
It was late at night, and they two It was her first thought ns she open-
wi-re alone in the barroom. The laud- ; ed the door.
lord untied the bundle and took out the
book. His face paled. He opened it
and read what was written upon a fly
leaf.
“Ha! Let me tear that leaf away! I
forgot ill I forgot!”
The landlord kept his hold upon the
book, and bis face grew more pale. His
hands shook and drops of sweat stodd
upon his brow. At length, with a gasp,
he hoarsely sa.d;
Me ciful Heavens! Tom—ills your moth
er’s Bible!”
Aud the poor druukard,| giggling up
Lris hands as if to shut cut the terrible
thing, cried fiercely;
“Give me rum! Give me rum! How
oan it serve me better?”
Just then the landlord’s little daugh
ter came in by a rear door, aud stood
within the bar. She was of the same
age as Tom’s daughter, aud bad sunny
hair like his owu little Pet.
“What is it, Papa? Let me see.”
And she reached uo lor the book.
“Shall I show it to her, Tom?”
“O! my soul!—No! no! no!”
The landlord sunt liis child away, and
Be not alarmed Sarah, bat sit and
listen. ...
Half an hour later Mary Clav-toD, car
rying a child in her arms, and Sarah
By worth leading- her little Pet by the
baud, were on their way to the tavern,
where the •rife sat down to be her hus
band’s nurse. Aud while she sat there,
she thanked God that she had waited.
“O!” she prayed; “save my husband!
Save him, good Father in Heayen, aud
give him back to me!”
On the next day George Clayton came
iuto the chamber where the patient lay,
with a new light upon his face.
“Tom,—old boy! I’ve taken down
my sign. Will you stick, if I will?”
“While I live. George! Le t me put
my hand on my mothers Bible!—”
“Let me put mine by its side, Tom.”
Atul so they promised, upon tfie Sa
cred Book, that they would keep the
faith!
And they have kept it. That was be
fore the late war. They were both sol
diers—both rose from the ranks to po
sitions of command—xud to day they
are as prosperous and happy as moit..l
enjoyment
And that is what
DID.
HIS MOTHER S BIBLE
then came out and led Tom to a seat; m in need to be for rational comfort aud
and then he. sat down by Tom’s side,
and so remained for a long time buried
m thought. Bj- aud by he got up, and
went aud locked his front door and
drew the curtains over the windws. Af
ter that he resumed his seat.
“Tom,” he said, huskily, and with a
bright, drop trickling.down either cheek,
“do you remember, vour mother and
my mother were like sisters. My moth
er gave inn a bible like this; aud I re
member what she said when she gave it
to me. She kissed uo, and said to me,
‘George, I hope aud pray, when I am
dead aud gone, that yon mnv not be in
the business which your father follow
ed. O! my sou, I have seen so much—
so much—of its evil. Don's carry the
load on your conscience, my sou.’—
Those were my mother’s words; and now,
Tom, they come back to me. And now
—here—from this time—I’ll pledge my
word with yours. If you will stop
drinking, I will stop selling. Tom—
they have been frying to persuade your
wife to leave you. They say—you struck
her! But she hangs cn. She hopes to
be happy with yon once more, Tom!
Tom,—..Id boy—what say yon?”
Tom By worth sank down like a d ad
man. The dreadful weakness of body,
followed by this terrible ordeal of mem
ory, was more than he could bear, aud
the poor, shattered system ltluxed and
fell.
George Clayton called his wife, aud
in a few words told her the whole story,
and than left Tom to her care while he
went for the doctor,
What a joyous note was that for Mary
Clavion. She felt like the saving of
Tom would be the saving of George,
Aud she bathed the heated brow aud
moistened the parched lips as she would
have done it for i brother.
“Doctor,” cried George, “bring him
out ot this, and I wLl do the rest.”
It was close upon midnight when Tom
By worth came to himself, and found
George aud Mary Clay ten. aud Dr. Mil-
ton, by his bedside. Aud he was on a
soft bed, aud in a furnished room.
“Where am 1? Where is my moth
er?”
“Tom! Don’t you know m. ?”
“George?”
“Yes.”
And then Tom closed his eyes and
thought over a dream which had visit
ed.him. And by aud by, he came to
remember what had goue before.
“George,—where is—that—book?”
“I’ve got it, Tom.”
“I didn’t sell it?”
“No.”
“Thank God!”
And then he closed his eyes again.
The medicine of the good physician had
done, much towards, quieting his shatter
ed nerves.
By and by—
“George, did yon mean it.”
“Mean what?”
“That—if I’d stop, you would.”
“Yes, Tom,—from the bottom of my
heart.”
“Give me your hand, George! And
now,—God help me.
Tne clock struck twelve just as the
words fell from his lips, aud the bell of
the vi.lage church struck in unison with
it.
„ And .at that hour—with the deep
voice of the chnrch-bell breaking the
solemn stillness of the night—Sarah
By worth awoke with a low murmur of
rapture upon her lips. She had been
dreaming, A celestial vision had been I
unfolded to her gaze, and an angel, in
ihe form and sembltuce of a loved one
A JHTZXi AND NO FOOLISHNESS.
It affords us immense pleasure to read
the f i.ll particulars of a real duel in Yir
ginia, in which there was some real
bloodshed a few days ago. These farci
cal and pompus parados of dueling
which have recently been so common iu
different; sections of the country, have
been laughable, because it was uuiver
sully the case that nobody wad hurt.
But the Virginians who went through
the performance actually shot to draw
blood and the alfi dr had all the aspects
.of ri-.uhty. Two young men named
Rainey, and Jolly quarreled ou politics,
one called the other a liar, ami, there
was almost, a fisticuff. Jolly sent Rai
ney a challenge to light, which did not
admit of any apology. The terms of
combat were agreed upon, and at sun
rise tile parties met. Ten paces, regu
lar nine-inch pistols, and a shot apiece.
Jolly was hit in his right arm, and Ra
ney had a hole shot through his hat, cut
tiug off a lock of hair and grazing his
scalp. Jolly was seen t > stagger, then
his pis ol droppe l from his fiugers and
he tell to the ground, while a pool of
blood soon surronuded him. The spec
tators rushed up, but Jolly rose to bis
feet and said “I am only stunned—-I am
uot hurt; I demand a second five.”
The surgeons ascertained that Raiuev’s
ballet had struck Jolly in the right arm,
inflicted a serious wound. Ihe sur
geon’s sai l the wound was not of the
nature that required immediate utten
tion. “Never mind that—I shall have
a second five, arid I call npon the seconds
to load the pistols,” said the man. His
friends tried in vain to make him de
sist in his demand, and the seconds ar
gued that nnder the code he had no
right to demand a second fire. He in
sisted that lie would not leave the
grout'd until shots had again been ex
changed. When t'dd that- be would
have to shoot with bis left arm, he said
“it riikes no difference, my left shall
be my pistol arm. I came here to fight
this matter out.” They were forced to
recede to his demands. The pistols
were loaded, and as the men were placed
iu position Constable J. B. M-dlovy,
with a strong posse, appeared upon the
scene, surrounded and arrested the
whole party
Gov Colqutt told a Cincinnatti En
quirer reporter that only a few colored
delegates will go to Chicago from Geor
gia. The negroes, he says, are settling
into more peaceful aud profitable way
than politics since the white republi
cans have monopolized the government
offices. The colored men he thinks fa
vor Grant, while the white radicals, be
ing office-holders and owning the pres
ent administration a sort of mercenary
allegiance, are for the administration’s
candidate. This allegiance, however,
Gov. Colquitt thinks, will last only as
long as their positions last.
Woman S n FEBAGEiN Wisconsin.—The
Legislature of Wisconsin has passed, by
an almost unanimous ' vote, amidst
‘thunders of applause“ a resolution
declaring that women are fully entitled
to exercise the right of suffrage in that
State. The resolution, however, does
not seem to be more than a declaration
of opinion. It- does uot carry with it
the right to vote, since the constiution
stands in the way, and ou the question
of amendment the people might uot be
IS AN EPIDEMIC COKING?
In an article entitled “Sun Spots and
Epidemics” in the current number of
the International Review. Mr. E. W..
Cushing advances the rather startling
theory that ‘‘It is not improbable
that the gathering forces of cholera,
plague and yellow fever may, with the
advent of the next maximum (of solar
energy,) burst the feeble. Bargers with
which civilization' is trying to restrain
them and again desolate empires as
former epidemics did in other centuries.
The maximum to which Mr. Cushing
refers is due in 1881-2, and his predic
tion that it may result in a great epi
demic is based upon a careful and most
interesting examination of the history
of epidemics in connection with the the
ory of solar influence. It is well known
that spots of varying shape and size oc
cur at intervals on the sun’s disk aud
that they are simultaneously with chang
es iu solar activity as felt on the earth.
These variations are periodical and re
cur in cy cles of eleven years aud and a
fraction. They differ as to amount in
different cycles aud they are coincident
with cycles of variations on the earth in
temperature, wind disturbances, such as
hurricanes and cyclones, and terrestrial
magnetism and electrical activity.
When the solar heat is greatest mild
but stormy winters and dry. summers
are experienced, with sudden and vio
lent atmospheric disturbances. This
sort of season is invariably productive
of disease, and history shows that the
great pestilence and famines have been
coincident with the maximum periods
of solar energy In the recurrence and
development of cholera epidemics, for
example, the writer finds the strongest
confirmation of the theory that “terres
trial epidemics depends largely on the
disturbances in the economy of nature
caused by the cyclical variations in the
solar enegy which coincide with the
vast disturbances in tbe sun, appearing
to us as spots in its disk.” The lnstsuri
"spot miuimum occurred in 1878 and
the maximum is due, as stated, in
1881- 2. Already withiD this period we
have had great famines in India, China,
Brazil, Silessia arid now in Ireland,
while excessive rains, volcanic erup
tions, wet summers ifnd cold' winters
have been the distinguishing features
of the atmospheric condition.of Europe
for several seasons. The unprecedent
edly mild winter whieh we have passed
through in this country strengthens tbe
theory, indicating as it does, an ab
normal condition of the elements. It
is to be hoped that science in this case
is at fault, but the array of facts pre
sented by Mr. Cushing is very strong and
sinister.—Baltimore Gazette.
ECCENTRIC EVANGELIS1
New York was taken by surprise last
week by the arrival of the “salvation
army,” from London. The band con
sists of George Railton, “high commis
sioner,” andfseven yOUDg women, one
of whom styles herself “captain” and
the others “lieutenants.” All wore Ihe
regulation uniform of the “salvation ar
my.”' High Commissioner Railton had
on a suit of dark blue and a high peak
ed hat. The women—all about thirty
—wore short blue dresses; blue ulsters
trimmed with yellow braid, and derby
hats, marked “salvation army” in gilt
letters. The new comers evidently in
tend to adapt the words of their hymn s
to more or less national airs. A few
moments after they were settled in the
Castle Garden, Railton proposed to hold
religious services, and a solemn hymn
was sung to the. tunc of “Way Down
Upon the Swanee River.” They pro
pose to biro a hall in the city, Commis
sioner Railton exhibited to tbe crowd
his blue aud red flag, with a large yel
low star in the centre, and said: “The
red star denotes' the blood of. Christ,
and the blue the Purity of our Savior.”
He continued, that the salvation ar
my consisted of pure men and women,-
who were devoted to Christ and had
agreed to sacrifice their lives to making,
converts. He averred that that a my
had the approval of the Arelibish >p of
Canterbury, the Earl of Shattbuvy,
TAKINGS OATH UPON XT.
The Loudon Spotting Times tells this
good story:
A clergyman wbo'Tately'Ieft /Livsr-
pooi in one of the large^oeean/st earners
A “REBEL’S” CONTRIBUTION.
A. curious incident happened late on
the eve of St. Patrick’s Dav. Some
body dropped into a Herald collection
box a carefully folded bill, purporting
to be of the denomination of §50, As' began feeling rather uncomfortable
it was plainly visible through the glass j soon after leaving the month cf the riv-
side of the box, it attracted no little at- or,Jand having had J an introduction
tention, and speculation became rife as to learn ifjtberc was any danger. jThe
to whether it was a genuine emission of captain did not answer immediately;
Mr. 'Shnrmari’s printing press or a coun
terfeit joke. It bad been folded so of
ten and so tight that nothing of iis
inscription was to be seen beyond the
“fifty” and the adjacent latlie work.
but led his passenger to the forecastle
and told him to. Jisten at! what was go-,
ing on. The clergyman was shocked; to.
hear a party of sailors? swearing yigo-.
ronsly aud expressed his horror-to liis
Its color was not disputed but as it conductor. Tno captain merely re-
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proved to be a blue treasury note, the
defective vision of the average observ
er especially at night, with reference
to the distinction between blue and
green, was striking evidence of the ex
istence or more or less color blindness
in most men. While a Confederate
bill, it was, however, not a jest- at suf
fering humanity. It was the gift of a
sad and cynical philosopher and bank
rupt, wbo explained its contribution in
a letterr. Doubtless once a lawyer
(judging from tbe reversal of the writ
ing, as he turned over the sheet) and a
resident of the south, he had been
ruined by the war, aud it was all he
had. He “expected to sleep standing
in the street” that night, but “(bank
God be was not hungry,” Some one
might like to buy the lull and so “fill
marked: “Do you think these men
■would swear in such a manner if there
was any real danger?’ whereupon the-
parson seemed satisfied and retired;
A day or two afterwards, when they en
countered rather a severe storm, the
clergyman remembering £wliat he had;
be6n shown before, managed«.to make
bis way with great difficulty to the.
forecastle, and was overheard by the.
captain, aa he came away, exclaiming to
himself: “Thank God, they’re swear
ing yeti”
New York Herald.
tweuty-tnree Mayors, seventeen Bupe.-. the belly of one hungry Irishman.”—
inteudants of Police and one bandied
und twenty-nine clergymen. The cap
tain of the Women 6aid that the “salva
tion army” was founded in 1875 by the
Genebal Pieboe Young has secured
a buttery, four twelve-pound brass liow-
Rev.Wrn. Booth' of Lond"ou~ who”wiZ- itzers - witb carrriages and caissons from
ed to reach the classes who never at
tended church. He therefore organiz
ed outdoor services all over England.
The home organization of the “salva
tion army” consists of twenty-two corps
in uniform, under the direction of one
hundred and ninety-five officers. Com
missioner Railton traveled all over the
city this afternoon, trying to get some
printing establishment to print his pos
ters free. Meantime the captain and
lieutenants sang hymns in Casile Gar
den, wm
for the surrender of the city, which
occasioned great merriment, and caused
many fine jokes.
the ordinance department. Two of the.
guns are those captured from the Geor
gia military institute (hiring the war.
They will b» shipped to the governor.
General Young hopes the governor will
tarn them over to the Cherokee artil
lery at Rome, as Dr. Felton’s bill to
supply them has uo earthly chance of
passage.
A Scene in a Newspaper Office.—-
Mr. Watkins, the husband of Mrs. Alice'
Oates, the opera bonffe singer, feeling
aggrieved at a jocular article in the Cin
cinnati Enquirer, in which bis name was
mentioned, armed himself with a revol-r
ver and went to the office of that journal,
on Wednesday last with the expressed
intention of “cleaning it out.” Mr. J,."
B. McComick, the city editor, proved,"
however, moro than a match for liim. ’
Watkins, something after the manner"
of John Phoenix, found himself stop
ping his antagonist’s- blows with his'
head, and at List, it is asserted by the "
Enquirer, fled down stairs, leaving bo-
hind him a portion of his watch chain;
a sleeve button and a cane, as mcniezi-'
toes of his visit.
The Telegraph and 'Messenger has a
piece of steel case knife which was dug
in 1876 from the bottom rf un old mica
This army made a formal demand. mine in HalI comitv , -f w „ TO ,tes from
Gainesville, and from beneath a mass <»1
urea and debris forty-four feet thick.
The mine had not been worked until
that year, within the memory of man-
“D. J. Erreric, late W. Greaves & sou,”
appears upon it.
Conflagration in the House of
Death.—In Montreal, Canada, on
Thursday morning, a fire broke out in
the house occupied by the late Recorder
Sexton, who died ou Wednesday, the.
drapery in the room where the remains
were laid out catching from burning ta
pers around the catafalque. Although
two policemen were in the room at the
time; the flames baffled their efforts tp
subdue them, and the whole intenoi
of the dwelling was completely gutted.
Mrs. Sexton, Mrs. Fair, Mrs. Bella
Chase and a servant girl who had been
sleeping in an upper story, were lower
ed from a balcony in the rear, fifty-
feet, in their night clothes, by means ol
a rope, their hands being much lacera-
by the operation. Mr. Bigueli, wbo
lived in the house, ascended to the roof
and was rescued by firemen. Mr. Sex
ton’s remains were saved by the salvage
corps with only a slight, ringing.
A Lively scene occurred in the House
Friday while discussing in committee of
the whole the deficisncy appropriation
bill. When the subject of the pay of
United States Marshals and Dedaty
Marshals at elections were reached, a
spicy debate ensued, in which Garfield.
Hawley, McMahon, and others partici
pated, and in which the Republicans
were badly worsted and became greatly
demoralized. Finally Garfield’s amend
ment to the amendment offered by Mr.
Springer, of Illinois, in regard to the
appointment and pay of such _ officials,
was agreed to as a compromise of the
vexed question offered by the Republi
cans. The committee then rose, and
the bill was passed, not, however, nntil
Mr. Garfield had stultified himself by
voting against bi3 own proposition.
W. E. Sawyer, tbe inventor of the
Sawyer-Maun electric light-, hae either
got ahead of Edison or secured a more
able-bodied corps of puffers than tho
latter. Unless these puffers are deceiv
ing the public, which can hardly be bus
pected, be has succeeded in subdividing
electrio current so effectively that he
makes tbe light perfectly adaptable to
the illumination of private houses. In
the experiment tried, the inventor’s
double parlor was lighted with six
lamps burning pencils of carbon in glass
inclosures of nitrocen hermetically seal
ed, the electricity being brought from a
a generator a quarter of a mile distant.
The light givsn was of twenty-seven
candle power and cost mnch less than
half what the same light produced by
gas would.
A Fact Not Generally Known.—
It is a fact not generally known that
silver coins with holes bored or punch
ed in them will not be received into
the treasury. By punching a hole in a
silver, dollar from five to thirteen cents
worth of silver is taken ont. Individu
als rarely ever refuse these mutilated
coins, as they pass readily. Manufact
urers who obtaiu large quantities of
silver suffer the most by the mutilation
of coin, as the defective pieces cannot
•be exchanged for certificates or green
backs at the office of the treasury or sub-
treasury. The penalty for fraudulently
mutilating coins is a fine of not more
than two thousand dollars and imprls-
ment of not more than two years.
redeemed, had beat over her and wins- qnite so'unanimous as the gallant legi-
lators were.
pered into her earosweet words of love
and cheer. '*
She lay there, with the pale;
be«ms_slanting in upon the
erltjr, ju-t sinking back
w.ien she b thought of
.did- Where was he?
More Geobgia Ports.— Bills ara be-
Congress, with a fair prospect of
The New Orleans Bemocrat says the
loss of mules and other stock in the
Ouachita valley section of that State,
from a disease produced by the bite of
myriads of gnats that invaded that coun
try lately, will be considerable. The
loss has been heaviest in Ouachita, Cald
well and Morehouse parishes, where six
hundred animals, worth fully abundred
thousand dollars, have died. This how
ever, does not represent the full loss, in
which mu-1 lie included the interference
with'planting due.to an insufficiency of
animals toparry-it on. Tbe general be
lief in ^
produced bpfd^ies of gnat or fly | dZ
ger appeared there before.
The London Times, speaking of the
Panama.ship canal, says the Monroe
doctrine, even in its most restricted
shape, has never been admitted into
the law of nations, and that the the ex
treme interpretation attempted to be
given it in Mr. Hayes’ canal message
has never before been attempted. It
also says that Europe, and particularly
Great Britain, desire that the United
States, by furnishing tliemnney, shonld
obtain the right to control the work,
but the world is entitled to a3k the Uni
ted States to make up their mind either
to. allow M. de Lesseps to do the thing
himself bjr fbe resources at his corn-
command, or to charge themselves with
tbo task.
King Grant's Royal Progress.—The
Grant reception committee at Galveston,
Texus, have received a dispatch from
General Ord.accepting an invitation to
be present, with his staff. The revenue
cutter McLean has been placed at the
disposal of the committee. A special
train will be tendered to General Grant
to convey himself and party to San An
tonio and St. Louis.
Young Japanese children scarcely ever
cry because great care is taken to keep
oat of their way every possible cause of
irritation. It is probably in consequence
of this that the Japs are, as a race, al
most exasperatingly good humored, so
that a servant severely scolded will of
ten merely reply by a beaming smile.
A Constantinople dispatch states that
a man dressed as a dervish stabbed Ihe
Grand Sherief of Mecca, ou the 14th
inst., and that officer had died from the
wound on the 2ist. The Mussulmans
are greatly excit 'd over the assassina
tion. The assassin is said to be a Per-
slari fanatic.
The ice factory in New Orleans has
introduced a new way of shipping fish,
particularly red Snappers. They arc
frozen in cakes of ice, or rather cakes
of ice are frozen -around tlie fish, and
in tbi9 coulition they are for wan cd to
all sections of the country.
A Oabul dispatch says the communi
cation delivered by the British envoy to
the native chiefs at Ghnznee has been
happily responded to, and peace nego
tiations are (xpected soon to be inaugu
rated.
The Cumming Clarion states that on
Tuesday, the 16th inst., Jane Bailey,'
colored living on the farm of M. Elisiia •
Tatum, iu Barker’s district, of Forsyth •
county, went away from home, leaving'
her two children, neither of whom could '
w fiic, alone in the house. While ,tehe
was ibseut the youngest caught on firfi
and crawled to the door, where it was
found dead. The other one had crawl
ed out of the house and was some dig"'
tanee away.
A girl at Washington, Ind., was dis
liked by her lover’s family, and so they
did their courting out of doors. The'
weather being cold ou an evening that'
they met, they built a fire of brushwood
and sat down by it. The girls clothes
took fire and she screamed. The fellow
might easily have put out the blaze, but
he feared that her cry would be heard by-
his parents and so expose his disobedi
ence; therefore ho ran away and left her'
to be burndto death. •-
A western minister told the trustees
of his church that he must have Lw 4
money, as his family was suffering. -
“Moneyl” said one af the trustees, “you
preach for money? I thought you
preached for the good of souls.” The-
minister replied, • ‘I can’t eat souls, and' « ' ■ :
if I comd it would take a thousand such- - ' -
as yours to make u meal/
Butler Herald: Mr. B. F.- McCrary ■'/ -
had a sheep to die leaving a very your r ;
and tender lamb. Having also a houU' / Z> *
dog with two young puppies, this la;/""
at once, took up with the dogs andST v
now being nursed and raised by i «.-
mother of the pups; a circuwst/
rarely ever heard of, yet it is
dog nursing a sheep, j *
« yt,
Q lit man Free Press: A full . r-Ataw
green orange was laid on our table >1
terday by W. J. Moore.* It grew ini '
northwestern portion of tho county a
must have been in bloom in Novemb
This is another evidence
ness of the winter through which
hare just passed.
-r
%
of the nul(U
It is stated that 335,000 have been
subscribed to the railroad from Talbot-
ton to Geneva. Mr. Wadley will give
the irou asu equip the road if tho citi
zens will, grade it.
The total number of tons of fertili-
Eold in Georgia this season win not 1 e
far short of 120,030, and the State will
receive §00,000 as inspectors’ fees.
An old lady whose son was abont to
proceed to the Black sea, among her!
parting admonitions gave him strict in
junctions not to bath in that sea, for j
she did not want him to como home a. *
nigger.
“My dear boy,’" said an Oil Oity f .-
tiler to his son, “Washiugfon could
not tell a lie.,” “Humph!” said tho
young philosopher, “I guess he didn’t
try very hard, I could tell one.”
A few mornirgv ago tho ground in
m my parts of Charlotte. N. C-, was
covered with worms crawliug abont.
The phenomen attracted a great deal of
Representative Persons, of Georgia,
ntroducel a bill iu the House to make
Columbus a port of delivery iu the cus
toms district of Savannah.
It is stated that th- fi s£ patch of rice
ever raised iu Georgia was planted on
attention, some suggested that they fell j the marsh just sou' h of the old church
with tbe ruin the Observer thinks that j a 1 ' Frederica, St. Simons,
it was a repetition of the occurrence in j A T<iUN - G iadycrfNmT York, wh . s
Baltimore Liteiy, but that in bpth cases'p art ,- a iiy deaf, is iu the habit of a li
the werms corns ont of the ground, and I siveiiog “yes” to evt rytl’ij when a
no: out of the clouds. Towards even-1 gentleman-is ta k ng to hir, for fear he
.* i«riu«h'e are 'never'st---..' a I might piattso to she not Lear
WiT'j ,Q S has a red wax seah
N Kansas burglar sued a blacksmith
wlo refused to to make him certa'n
tools to open a safe “ hereby damaging-
faid plaintiff in the sum of §10,000.”
These bl-icksmit a must be taught a les
son.
Mb. Rob b s, who killed his conrin in
Macon the other day, has been commit
ted for trial for the crime of murder.
Uc will have to remain in jail, as bis
case is not bailable.
There
is some hope for the connfrv
yet. The Kentucky Legi.-Liti re baa
refused the nse of the Slate Hou e lot
to before in.