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PAIJj AT THE
railroad restaurant.
'Under the Car Shed,)
ATLANTA, GX.
Whero all the delicacies of the season
,11 be furnished in the best ©f style and
as cheap as any establishment in the city
*S S°Mea.ls furnished at allbours of the
' DURAND. unej.20
day. BALLARD &
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Sleeping Accommodations.
Cleanliness is Die great essential. Our
life is passive during the hours constantly, of sleep,
but our breathing goes on in sleeping
mid the demand for pure air
rooms is very important. There should
always be communication with the out¬
side air, and in warm weather, the
door, and windows may all bo wide open.
If currents of air can sweep through
the rooms in the day time (or in the
nglit without endangering the sleepers),
hi nui -h fh ' better. The ba t air that
originates in sleeping rooms— the waste
Hih':mice that escapes from human
boil ( 1), the inn; s and skin—settles
uml clings about Die carpets, curtains,
I Idiir; r.nd clothing, and taiming -them
with decomposing, it may be,
poisoner;, mat ter, unless tt constant
- ’.wing process is carried on by
pb'iilifri awing, and the action of light,
tseecially sunshii ia The room should
• iiiain as liulo drapery us possible.
liu .s are better than carpets, and no
I Iw.wy euvUuns should he used. The
tied should not be made up after using,
I nut:! the bidding lias been well aired,
I Mini t 1 <• mure i! rail be exposed to
bright ansliine. and out-door breezes,
Dm heder. J’jic room should be kept
, a lie ? ,|V giil " as clothing possible from all odors.
a - buiihl be well aired
during the <lnv, and I he day clothing bo
p a 'ed at plight whore it will got aired
heiore it is again worn.
rooms are >f(en much
* ! 0V 4 |, 4. L would be well, could each,
" ^ 11 ui( ! ‘'Hough, have a private room
ami a c;-an bed apiece. A great gain
in health would result from this arrange
merit. ln our present state of poverty,
v. Oran only insist that no more than
two ought to occupy the same bed. Tt
!'■ :ut entrage on infancy to wedge a
’ 1 >y in between two grown-up people.
■ Uui ' > is done to tire health and
be morals of children, by the
tTowiln-l sleeping arrangements infami-
1 / Hie practice is now becoming
common among careful people,
Miiriv ihere are several young children,
qi tli" parents to divide the care of the
OUOs * D>e mother taking the young
. '
! n u ' r ' h ' 6> and the father attending
, j’' Iu ‘ xt to the and
1 treed. youngest, It to otto
’ UT ‘‘ seems a pity
,ia | ttie | man of the house
oi Ms should be
test, but it is quite as bad
m:i«le ■ nip to have the children’s mother
sick and nervous from lack of
iqeep, tion and excess of care. Withatten
t 1 ! :uvs of health, especially in
_________ food and air, there need he
1 < 'UiGriiiM- fvom broken rest, as
toin children sleep soundly and
,l fi; :u 'J need little care.— American
Afinculturis* . .
inseet Life in Brazil.
Mr. Ernest Alorris, the young traveler
who has just returned
1 repeats the general observa
T ; n / '/plorers that
j r •■“t tlie exuberance of
nte i a the principal obstacle to
n i ‘'.^yment of a sojourn in that part
a l0 wor ld. Cockroaches swarm in
.
' ^ ‘L'U'ito the inroads of
arm c an
ev Sffiders which sally forth from
a™ tasretIS™ ? f u . P r ey upon them, scorpions
DgOTO " 8 ; " 8m " U red
•Table tha “ mecuirn is an intol
the annoyance; at certain hours of
1 10 air * 9 black with flies and
ftUtt ants are a universal
oi ’ A? baffle these last-named foes
n I ° ^ Morris obliged
keriV r : was to
iheL 8 ., 6Dtire l Elections of which on hanging soaked
in a ’ cor( s were
01 , Paiba. The de
itin co “ most
w ai d in Brazil,” Morris,
says Mr.
the!. 8an ba. It will strip trees of
manv m a sin 8l e night, and in
ni ! aces oran trees not be
l0r Diis . ge can
is a ‘ reason. The tocandeira
Dob» r,V sma11 ant, the bite of which is
waii'n 0118 rendered aru * ma hcs unable a painful work sore. for I
to a
re r, ’ m a bite received from one of
boh- Some species travel iu largfl
hotZ ! ma roliing in a straight line, and
to the right or left. If a
1 es m the track of one of these
Pletoto g bodies > uales3 the Y arecom
Yntik exterminated they pass through,
and g l >e injured, but every crack
wU1 explored, and not a
Citation. broach or spider will survive tlio
card* / i friends, . are . therefore, re
a f and their advent is
)m f, cb where you will in Brazil,
von / meet You live, sleep,
md 064 , . ants.
*hh them—and eat them, too.”
ont *? 1!ta ti°upinkpcarl8 are now carved
re ,■! ! \ Cr V * esemb l )ale ~tiuted le the coral, and these
the ^ real pearl that
the diflerenoa, 6 *^ 61 * needed to detect
NEWS GLEANINGS.
The first thing the English veterans
asked on getting ashore at Alexandria
“W’ere’s Cleopatra ?”
No fewer than two German expedi¬
tions will come to this country to ob
serve the transit of Venus next Decem¬
ber.
A California young man, hugging his
aged grandmother, forgot that it wasn’t
his sweetheart, and brolce four of the
old lady’? ribs.
John Sullivan, the Boston slugger,
who pounded Ryan and Ellsott, offered
“Tug” Wilson, the English champion,
$500 to stand up under his soft-glove
blows four rounds, and to Sullivan’s
disgust, Wilson went through the ordeal
and walked off with the money.
An American bv tiie name of Living¬
stone, who has lived in Florence during
the past thirry years, is seen almost
avery day driving twenty horses—ten
spans attached to an ordinary wagon—
and he manages them with perfet ease.
The harness is quite curious in its adap¬
tion to the purpose of driving so many
horses at once.
The appropriation for the signal K>r
vice has been cut down about $65/00,
New stations have been established,
special reports for to! aceo, cotton and
sugar growers have been commenced,
the telegraph hills have of course in¬
creased with the extention of the ser¬
vice.
At last a man has beat a bank cashier
at his own game. A janitor in a bank
at Elizabeth, N. J., fixed a piece of lead
with shoemakers wax, and a string, and
arranged it in a money drawer so he
could jerk out a bill every few minutes.
He got about ninetten hundred dollar
all told, and then (he cashier got onto
it. The janitor should lave given
chromo, but i.e will probably be given
three years.
Mrs. Lincoln was torn December 13,
1818, in Lexington. Kentucky, and was
the daughter of Hon. B. g. and Eliza
both P. Todd. She came to Springfield
in 1830, and was married to Mr. Lin¬
coln, November 2, 1842. She died in
the same house ^in which she was mar¬
ried. She leaves three sisters, residents
of Springfield, Illinois, Mrs. C. M. Smith,
Mrs. N. W. Edwards and Mrs Dr. Wal¬
lace.
Troubulous times are upon the lottery
men. In St. Louis three of them were
sent to jail for six months; in Louis¬
ville Justice Matthews decided that
there was no jurisdiction to enjoin the
postmaster from refusing to deliver let¬
ters to a lottery, and a Washington spe ¬
cial says Postmaster General Ilowe,
whenever the question is brought before
him, will decide that letters containing
money or money-orders directed to a
lottery, shall not pass through the mails.
The receipts of the post office depart¬
ment for the quarter ended March 31,
1S82, were $10,956,235 86; payments
$9,976,307,81 excess of receipts $979,
927 99; probable profits on money or¬
ders $75,000 ; total f 1,084,827 99. To
get the whole amount of expenditures
there should be added to the amount
paid the amount withheld from subsi*
dized Pacific railroads, about $250,000,
and the amount due railroads unascer¬
tained but estimated, $200‘000; total
?450,000. This makes the net receipts
for tlie postal service for the quarter,
alove all expenditures and j liabilities,
more than $600,000.
Art effort is making in Congress to have
Washington Territory admitted into the
Union, but it is probable that tlie ambi¬
tious Washingtonians will have to wait
f.while. The Territory is a very beau¬
tiful piece of country. In 1880 the
lumbermen cut 250,000,000 feet; about
150,000 tons of coal are produced; the
manufactured products are valued at
$6,129,762; the wheat product last year
was nearly 2,000/00 oushels; taxable
values aggregate $14,000,000, and the
population 75,000. Many immigrants
are going to Washington Territory this
year, but it will be some time before the
$tate can show enough people to give a
would-be congressman a chance. The
required ratio is 151,000.
The New Y T ork directotv appears this
year with 1302 pages and 289,724 names,
an increase of 4,5/7 names over last
year. It begins as it has done for many
years with Elizabeth Aab and ends with
Jacob Zypress. Among the noted names
which disappear this year are Henry AY.
Bellows, LoreDzo Delmonico, whose
rime first jjjus in tl <dinth jy’of
982 ; Fletcher U. Harper, one of the
original firm, George Law. Clarkson
N. Potter, Samuel B. Buggies, J. Cotton
Smith, E. AY. Stoughton, Moses Taylor
and James B. AVood. The first directed
ry of New Y”ork made its appearance
in 1786, a paper covered pamphlet of
eighty pages. Since then there has
been one regularly with one interval —
1788—when the changes are deemed too
light to need a new book. The shortest
name in the present directory is Ox, and
the longest is Pfeiffentchneider.
—The ruby, sapphire and topaz are
simply modifications of one substance,
alumina, which, as clay, forms a great
uut of the earth’s surface.
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”
CONYERS, GA„ FRIDAY AUGUST 4, 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
James Redpath has purchased jj/c*
Gee's Weekly.
The Prince of Wales’ individual in¬
debtedness is $3,000,000.
The Fitz John Porter ease will come
up in the Senate next December.
The King of Siam has determined to
establish a legation at Washington,
A Russian colonel was exiled to Si¬
beria for being too lenient to Nihilists.
Susan B. Anthony is going to Texas
to lecture, and perhaps, grow up with
the country.
Olive Logan says Bernhardt’s hus¬
band is “highly kissable,” and nobody
knows how she found it out.
General Newton announces that he
will be ready in a few days to blow up
another section of Hell Gate.
The completed report of the Depart¬
ment of Agriculture on the condition of
crops for July is encouraging.
Anarchy is spreading in Egypt, and
meantime Arabi Pasha is marshaling his
forces and getting ready to fight.
Governor Cornell is the champion
vetoer. He has refused to sign 123 bills
passed by the New York Legislature.
It is stated that visitors to the Mam¬
moth Cave, in Kentucky, were never so
scarce as they are at the present season.
A Canadian - widow, some two weeks
ago, married her daughter’s widower
eleven weeks after her husband’s death.
Long Sing, the Chinese survivor of
the Jeannette party, has opened a
laundry and tea store in Washington.
Friends of the River and Harbor bill
hope to get it down to $18,000,000, but
even then they fear the President’s veto.
It is stated that the American Presby¬
terian missionaries stationed at Alexan¬
dria during the bombardment, were not
harmed.
Michael Davitt, who sailed for Eu¬
rope a few days ago, collected about
$20,000 for the Land League during his
stay here.
Vennor, |he weather man, is at Ferry
B9ach, on the Maine coast, and still his
predictions call for cool weather and
plenty of rain.
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At Fremont, Ohio, the home of Mrs.
Hayes, the great female temperance ad¬
vocate, the Sunday closing law is ignored
by saloon-keepers.
A Miss Alsatia Allen, of Montgom¬
ery, Alabama, is “the most beautiful
young lady in the United States,” so
Oscar Wilde says. Don’t forget the ad¬
dress.
Mr. Geo. L. Seney, the Brooklyn
philanthropist, has given another check
for $25,000 to the Wesleyan Female Col¬
lege of Georgia, making his total gifts to
that institution $125,000.
Mrs. Scoville is still indignant. It
aggravates her to think that a stranger
may realize money on the remains of her
brother while she is denied that privi¬
lege and is in a destitute condition.
Detroit Free Press fashion note:
“Crushed banana” is no longer a popu¬
lar shade. The woman who crushed it
came down with such force that she
hasn’t been out doors since that date.
“Christian Reed,” the Southern
novelist, is Miss Frances C. Fisher. Her
father fell at the head of his regiment at
Bull Run, and is reported to have been
tbe first Confederate killed in the war.
Several ministers are preaching on
the Egyptian war, and advancing the
theory that the Egyptians of these days
are being punished for the hard hearted¬
ness of Pharaoh to God’s chosen peo¬
ple.
A letter of Queen Anne at a recent
sale in London sold for $150. One from
Queen Henrietta Maria to Cardinal
Mazaron went for $105. Another of
Henry II., Prince cle Conde, sold for
$400.
The public debt of Egypt is $590,
000,000, and the greater part of it is
held in England. She also pays £750
009 tribute to Turkey annually. That is
why the natives are making a kick for
repudiation.
Just before he stepped aboard the
steamer for Europe, Michael Daritt raid
that imprisonment hi England would be
better than the treatment he had receiv¬
ed here from some of those whom he had
formerly counted as his friends.
From information received at the of¬
fice of the Ohio State Board of Agricul¬
ture, it seems that the apple crop is
going to be nearly or quite a failure, how¬
ever unreasonable the statement may
sound.
The action of the Senate in placing
the tobacco tax at twelve cents is very
unsatisfactory to the tobacco men at
Washington. What they wanted was
that Congress would leave the tax alone
at sixteen cents, or reduce it to eight
cents.
Small snakes have been discovered
in the proboscis of flies. They are about
one-twelfth of an inch in length, and
two-thousandths of an inch in diameter.
It is suggested that the iiy may carry
d sense germs, and scientists are invest¬
igating the question.
A Mormon elder of Suit Lake has had
bis thirteen wives photographed, both
in a group and separately. The pictures
have been placed in an elegant album,
and under each woman is engrossed a
quotation of sentimental poetry sugges¬
tive of her best quality.
•O'
Kate Claxton, the actress, who is
summeriug at Patchogue, L. I., was en¬
joying a sail in her boat, tlie Coquette, a
few days since, when the craft, was upset
by a squall. She was thrown into the
water, but rescued without injury, arid
having passed through both fire and
water, may consider herself safe.
The New York Sun is receiving com¬
munications giving remedies for snake
bites. This is the heroic for rattlesnake
bites :
Stop the circulation above tbe bite; suck
it if your puns are all right; put three
drachms .of gunpowder in the wound, and
set it off with a match. Sure cure. An¬
other remedy for bites is pounded raw
onions applied as poultice.
In dealing with the Mormon question,
the Salt Lake Tribune says :
in Polygamy is a disgrace which is realized
every Morman borne. In every Morman
home the plural wives and their children
are looked upon as tainted. That this is
true is made evident by the auxietv of all
such women and children to pass them¬
selves off as the first wives or the children
of first wives. And it is further made evi¬
dent by the quarrels which constantly
occur in such families, and by the epithets
which first wives and children bestow upon
tbe others.
Uaunibalism in 1 iji.
It was only people who had been
killed that were considered good for
food. Those who died a natural death
were But it certainly never eaten—invariably is wonder buried.
a that the isles
were the not altogether depopulated, owing
to number who were killed. Thus,
in Namena, in the year 1851, fifty bodies
were cooked for one feast. And when
the men of Bau were at war with tlie
men of Verata they carried off 260 bodies,
seventeen of which were piled on a
canoe and sent to Leva, where they
were received with wild joy, dragged
about town and subjected to every
species of indignity ere they finally
reached the ovens. Then, too, just think of
the number of lives sacrificed in a coun¬
try where infanticide was a recognized
institution, and where widows were
strangled as a matter of course! Why,
on horrible one occasion, when there had been a
massacre of Namena people at
Viwa, and upward of 100 fishermen had
been murdered, and their bodies carried
as bokola to the ovens at Bau, no less
than eighty women were strangled to do
honor to the dead, and corpses lay in
every direction about the mission station.
It is just thirty years since the Rev.
John Watsford, writing from here,
described how twenty-eight victims had
been seized in one day while fishing.
They were brought here alive, and only
stunned when put into the ovens. Some
of the miserable creatures attempted to
escape from the scorching bed of red-hot
stones^ but only to be driven back and
buried in that living tomb, whence they
were taken a few hours later to feast
their barbarous captors. He adds that
more human beings were eaten on this
little isle of Bau than anywhere else in
Fiji. It is very hard, indeed, to realize
that the peaceful village on which I am
now looking has really been the scene
of such horrors as these, and that many
of the gentle, kindly people around me
have actually , taken part in them.— At
Home in Fiji.
Understanding Men’s Natures.
About mid-afternoon yesterday a citi¬
zen who pulls down the scales'at 196
pounds descended Die first flight of
stairs beyond the post-office in just the
same manner that a bag of oats' would
have chosen, and when'he brought up
at the foot he was in no frame of mind
to chip in anything for the heathen in
Africa. The first citizen who arrived
on the spot knew what liis duty required
of him on such an occasion, and he smil¬
ingly “I don’t remarked:
believe you can improve on
the old way!”
The second citizen passing was in a
hurry; but he knew that he^must halt
and inquire:
••Like that any better than coming
down the way the rest of us do?”
The third citizen had business at the
post-office, but he turned aside, cleared
his throat, and remarked:
“Evidently fell down stairs? Curi¬
ous how it sets the blood to circulating!
Some of you had better see if his nose is
broken— good-bye ?’ ’
There was a fourth spectator, and he
slowly entered the door-wav, bent over
the victim, and remarked:
“Ud have given a dollar to see him
come down! He’s one of the sort who
bump every stair!”
The fifth man was about to add his
mite when the victim rose up. His
elbows were skinned, his nose barked,
his coat torn and his back sand-papered
the who whole had traveled. length, but he was a man
He knew that ev¬
erybody in the crowd was hoping to see
. im jump tip and down and shake his
fists and paw the air, and to hear him
ie are that lie would lick all the men
who could be packed in a ten-acre lot,
and therefore he brought a sweet smile
to Lis face, lifted his hat like a perfect
the •en tie bland man. remark: and limped up stairs with
“Stubbed my toe as I came in the door,
you know, and came near falling in a
heap.”— Detroit Free Press.
“Gentlemen of the jury,” said an
Erish lawyer, “it will be for you to say
.viietlier the defendant shall he allowed
o come into court with unblushing foot
cops, with a cloak of hypocrisy in his
louth, and draw three bullocks out of
uiy client’s pocket with impunity,”
A TALE OF A SHIRT.
Tbe Length or Time ll*e OreM IowJl
Klalcmiin Wore One.
[Denver Tribune.]
Apropos of General Sherman’s visit to
Denver, a story is told of the General’s
experience twrhadbLn with fLnds Henrv L Clay yelrs^ Dean The
two had. been inenas ior years, and ana\\nen when
Sherman became General and Dean
happened to beta Washington, the later,
naturally enough, felt a desire to renew
house and was
received with open arms. They talked
tatD ‘‘§"ner$ antaTtsHy to°d‘n“fr
husband's remonstrated Mrs.
Sherman in her ear, “ I can’t
have such a dirty looking him man at my lit
tabta; can’t you spruce up a
The General said he’d fix that, and so
at an opportune moment he hustled Mr.
Dean up stairs, ransacked a bureau, and
produced a clean shirt for him to put on.
Mrs. Sherman was mollified, and the
dinner was really a charming affair, for
there is no more delightful, entertaining
and instructive conversationalist than
Henry Clay Dean.
One year after this event General
Sherman was at the Lindell Hotel, St.
Louis, with his family. A card was
brought up bearing Henry Clay Dean’s
name.
Mrs. Sherman was much pleased.
“ He is such a charming talker, we
must have him to dinner. Only you
must see that he looks presentable.”
These were madam’s words to the
warrior.
So Sherman welcomed Dean, and,
just before going to dinner, slipped him
into a side room and gave him a clean
shirt to wear. Dean doffed his coat and
vest, and, after several desperate efforts,
succeeded in divesting himself of the
shirt he had on—a soiled, grimy, black
thing, that looked as if it had seen long
and hard service. Then they all went
down to dinner, and Mr. Dean was more
charming in than ever, and Mr. Sherman
was ecstacies.
The next day, as Mrs. Sherman was
getting her husband’s duds and clothes
together, preparatory to packing them
for the onward march, she gave a sort
of a wild, hunted scream.
“What is it, my dear,” called the
General from the next room.
“Just cotne in here for a minute,”
replied Mrs. Sherman, between faint
gasps.
The General went in. There stood
Mrs. Sherman holding in her left hand
the begrimed shirt Henry Clay Dean
had left. With her right hand she
pointed to certain initials on the lower
edge of the bosom. The initials read
“ W. S. T.”
It was the identical shirt General
Sherman had loaned Henry Clay Dean
in Washington twelve months before l
Personal Beauty.
The first principle of beauty, as prac¬
ticed in this progressive town, is, “ How
to be beautiful.”
The wife of an army officer accompa¬
nied her husband many years ago to his
post in a distant frontier town. Among
the acquaintances she formed there was
a lady who, if remarkable at all, was
noted for being exceedingly homely,
awkward, and commonplace. She had
a waist like a barrel, shoulders pitched
forward, black a rough, thick skin, coarse
hair, large, bold eyes, great feet;
and besides all these physical defects
she was dreadfully demonstrative in
manner. She was the senior by several
years of the officer’s wife. After a time
the fortunes of war retired the son of
Mars, who settled his family in Wash¬
ington. In the meantime the lever of
politics had lifted the husband of the
homely friends lady into Congress, and the two
met in society last winter. Mrs.
Mars could not believe her eyes, so great
was the transformation in the appear¬
ance of her old acquaintance. Mrs.
Congress looked ten years younger than
the junior lady. The many ripples of
soft auburn hair; a complexion smooth
and white ; a fashion of drooping the
darkly shading fringed eyelids, with a faint
on the under lid, gave to the
eyes a marked expression of shyness
and languor. Her manner was full of
repose, aud strikingly graceful; her feet
the perfection of symmetry, in French
boots; the hands had the refinement of
pink nails and taper fingers, and even
her voice had changed and dropped into
those sweetly modulated tones which
pass good current for thorough breeding in
Mars society. Poor, mystified Mrs.
looked and wondered, pondering
on all this, asking herself and ethers,
“ How in the world did she accomplish
such a metamorphosy?” How? How
does the winning horse lap and pass
others and reach the last quarter pole?
Through training. JMoney and time are
the great factors to success, and the way
to succeed is to succeed. Mrs. Congress
has both. Money purchased her beauti
ful hair, paid for Turkish baths and
cosmetics, secured the service of a maid
who could give proper shading to her
eye-lids and teach her the art of droop
ing lids. It brought her graceless
chiropodists figure into shapely proportions. her It paid
to treat feet and mani
cures to polish her finger nails, while
time and thimbles tapered the fingers,
It employed dressmakers and milliners,
ealaried a master, who instructed her
how to enter the room, bow ? pose, seat
herself and manage her train, all with
the poetry of motion. The moral neces
sity to be beautiful puts incipient wrin
kies under the embargo of emulsions,
sent her to bed with her face buried in
poultices of Irish oatmeal and milk,
bandaged foet and pinioned hands in
ointment-lined gloves, and put the
brakes on a too expansive waist. Men
pursue ambition, wealth, and that bub
ble, reputation ; women march up to the
cannon’s mouth of physical torture and
welcome martyrdom solely to be beauti
tuL--Washington Free Pres$.
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The tram-boy, ^ . , says Progress , has
—
,
become a dandy. He is dressed in a
neat uniform, and if you catch a glimpse
of him a few moments before the train
starts you will see him carefully arrang
ing his hair before one of the looking- ad
glass panels of the car. He is still
dieted to prize packages, but he peddle?
them now with graceful dignity.
Testimony of Experts.
An action was brought by an attor
TC. vJZ ^services, Mt V*® dient and in to recover
he proving
Ti sa as "finesses services fellow-attor- put upon
Vho , live
“? ^ y ?’,n estimated their value from
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value of tirnfe principle H (r„m™ch 1 e".„«
differ in
as to the value of labor in other de¬
partments of business, or as to the value
of property. So far from laying aside
their general knowledge and ideas, the
jury edge should and have applied that knowl¬
those ideas to the matters of
fact in evidence in determining the
weight pressed, to* be given to the opini oils ex
and it was only in that way
that they could arrive at a just conclu¬
sion. While they cannot act in any
case its disposition upon particular facts material to
knowledge, but resting should in their private
be governed
by the evidence adduced, they may,
and to act intelligently they must,
judge that evidence of the weight and force of
knowledge by their own general
of the subject of inquiry.
If, for example, the question were as to
the damages sustained by plaintiff from
a fracture of his leg by the carelessness
of a defendant, the jury would ill per¬
form their duty, and probably come to
a wrong conclusion, if, controlled by
the testimony of the surgeons not
merely damages as to the injury inflicted, but as
to the sustained, they should
ignore their knowledge ’
own and ex¬
perience of the value of a sound limb.
Other persons beside professional men
have knowledge of the value of pro¬
fessional services, and, while great
weight opinions should of those always be given to the
familiar with the sub¬
ject, they are not to be blindly received,
but are to be intelligently examined by
the jury in the light of their own gen¬
eral knowledge; they should control
only as they are found to be reason¬
able. ”— Bradstreet.
The Whip-Poor-Will,
As the dusk gathers I hear the first
welcome notes of the whip-poor-will.
What close observers of the seasons are
the birds! I doubt if the man who has
an acceptance in bank is better posted
in the calendar. As far back as my
bird register extends I find a record of
tbe arrival of the nocturnal songster as
occurring May. between the 8th and 10th of
Dr. Brewer claims never to have
heard these notes later than August ; but
in through late September, the hidden glories in a night’s the walk
of liama
po Valley, I have been cheered by his
song. No other American bird is so
shy and retiring as the whip-poor-will,
and where is the happy ornithologist
who has found his apology for a nest?
I once spent portions of each day of the
entire month of June in searching for
such a nest, and in the end was unre¬
warded. The habitual walker of the
woods will, sooner or later, stumble on
their noonday retreats, but it is difficult
to get into close proximity. They ily
noiselessly and rapidly and have that
protective plumage upon which Mr.
Darwin laid so much stress. All day
long, when undisturbed, they will rest
on the lower branches of some em¬
bowered tree,and only when forth the gloam¬
ing deepens do they come in search
of nocturnal insects. Nightly one used
to come and sit on a large stone near
the farmhouse. I have stolen softly out
to within a few feet, and watching him,
as he would dart out and catch an in¬
sect, returning to the stone to enjoy his
tidbit, after the manner of the phoebe.
His note is found preceded his by a sort he of camped cluck.
Audubon song, as
in the solitudes of the forest, one of the
most delightful sounds of nature, sweet¬
er to him than that of the nightingale,
Burroughs describes a nest stumbled
upon—two elliptical, whitish, spotted
eggs lying upon ctrv leaves—and though
he returned to it day after day, it was
always a task to separate the bird from
her surroundings, though he stood with¬
in a few feet of her, and he knew just
where to look.— Independent.
Let the Strawberries Alone.
That a donkey, by his winter brows
ing of a vine which yields originated superior
grapes the next season, the
art of priming, is an old story. I stum
bled by some such accident upon a very
successful,simple overcrowded way of growing bed stravv- had
berries. An
yielded such poor returns of small, dry,
inferior berries that I hoed it up before
all the fruit was off, intending to let
some current bushes have all the benefit
of the soil. Later in the season a few
plants were found to have escaped, with and
they made such a handsome start
the fall rains that where there was p'.en
ty of room some were spared. These
became very strong, and looked luxuri
antly green and vigorous in the spring cul
and yielded splendid fruit. This
ture wa3 so nearly no culture at all, but
a mere accidental permission to a few
plants to grow, that I have condensed
my practice into the mere dictum: “Let
them alone.” I find that this fills the
bill of requirements as to culture if we
have given the soil for them to grow in
food that is not charged with weed
seeds, asd water enough while swelling
their fruit. Winter shelter is useful, but
is afforded by their leaves if the autumn
growth has been as strong as it should
be, and it will be strong if they are
properly let alone. This consists in not
only letting them alone one’s self by
avoiding bruising or trampling letting the or weeds cut
ting of roots, but also
letriiem alone by keeping every vestige
, ve ed away, and making them let
other alone, too, by preventing
t he beginning of overcrowding. To
prevent the white grub something from interfering be
j s not so easy, but can
q on . to arrest his de3toying all work, too,
an (j q ; us “let alone” around they are
ga f e for productive prosperity.— Cor. N.
F. Tribune*
$1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 25),
PITH AM) POINT.
Tt costs a man move to be mi-ora
ble than it does to make his family
happy.
1 he mother-in-law does not remem¬
ber that she was once a daughter-in-law.
—Spanish Proverb.
—Minnesota has just exhumed the
skeleton of a woman who must have
stood nine feet high and had a foot as
long as a nail keg. Anybody missing
from Northern Indiana?— Detroit Free
Press.
— The Rector (to Irish plasterer on
ladder pointing a wall): “That mortar
must have been very bad.” Pat (with a
grin): good Roman “Faix, ye can’t expict the likes o’
cimint to stick to a Protest¬
ant church, son*!”— Punch.
takes —A journey around the world now
about ninety days, and the cost
can be reduced to $800. And in going
round in that time and at that expense
you can have about as much fun as you’d
get in sitting all night in a rainstorm on
a picket fence listening to a bull-dog
bark at a eat in a barret .—Boston Post.
—They were courting: “Whatmake*
the stars so dim to-night ?” she said,
softly. “Your eyes are so much bright¬
er,” he whispered, pressing her hand.
They are married now. “I wonder how
many telegraph poles it would take to
reach the stars from here?” she said,
musingly. growled. “One, “Why if it was long enough,”
he don’t you talk com¬
mon sense?”
—An old peasant on the south shore
of Long Island was telling his visitor
how pleasant it was. “But,” asked the
friend, slapping his face with his hand¬
kerchief, “don’t you have a great manv
mosquitoes and sand-llies?” “Ya-as,”
said the man, “but then we sorter like
them.” “How can that be?” “Wa-al,
you see, we feel so kinder good when
they go away.”— N. J. Tribune.
—The King of Bavaria has announced
that he will not read books printed in
quarto size. We shall remember this
when we issue our book—provided the
promises 1,000-edition. to buy eight hundred
copies of a This would
leave only two hundred volumes on our
hands as dead stock, which would he
doing pretty well, considering the quali¬
ty of the book .—Norristown Herald.
—Pat borrowed some money of a
friend, and was unable to pay it back
when lie came for it; and the friend be¬
came very angry, and said: “Now,
Pat, if you don’t pay me that money by
next Monday, I shall give you a thrash
ing.” The'next dav, as Pat was stroll
j n g along the street, he jostled a man,
who cried out, “Look out what you are
doing, or I will knock you into the
middle of next week.” .“Bejabers! then an’
I wish ye wud, sorr; for I wad bo
over Mundy.”— N. U. Sun.
—It is a very cold day when a new
agony isn’t forthcoming. It is now
quite*the idea Japanese for a young parasol lady to kind¬ send
a miniature to a
ly disposed gentleman friend. It is a
small matter, but fraught is with coming this deep
significance: “Summer by
and by. Will you carry my sun um¬
brella The by the gentleman shimmering, immediately shining seaP”
young pro¬
ceeds to bank his cigar and beer mon¬
ey, that he may have enough on hand,
for a shore dinner for two .—New Haven
Register.
A Sad Story of a Wrecked Life.
The most thrilling and sadly sugges¬
tive temperance lecture is the sight of a
once noble, talented man, loft in ruins
by intoxicating drink. A Washington
paper tells of a ragged beggar, well
known in the streets of that city, who
once held an important command in the
army, having been promoted for personal
bravery, from a cavalry Lieutenant to
nearly the highest rank iu military ser
vico. One night, not long ago, when lie
had been too successful in begging
liquor to sate his craving, and while*
lying help! ssly drunk in the rear part
of a Third street saloon, some steal¬ men
thought to play a joke on him by strip
ing his shirt, and proceeded to
him.
Underneath his shirt, and suspended small
by a string from his neck, was opened a and
canvas hag, which the men
found it contained his commission as
Brevet Major Genaral, two congratu¬ and
latory letters—one from Gen. Grant
one from President Lincoln—a photo¬
graph of a little girl, and a curl of hair
—a “chestnut shadow” that doubtless
one day crept over the brow of some
loved one.
AVhen these things were discovered,
even the half-drunken men who found
them felt a respect for the man’s for
mer greatness, and pity for his fallen
f condition, and quietly returned the bag
end its contents to where they found
them, and replaced the sleeper’s clothes
upon him. the
When a reporter tried to interview
man and endeavored to learn something
of his life in the past few years, he de
dined to communicate anything. told how
He cried like a child when
his right name and former position trickling were
ascertained, and, with tears
do wn his cheeks, said :
“ For God’s sake, sir, don’t publish
my degradation, or my name, at least, if
you are determined to say something
about it. It is enough that I know my¬
self how low I have become. Will you
promise that much ? It will do no good,
out will do my friends a great deal of
harm, as, unfortunately, they tlxink 1
died in South America, where I went at
the close of the war.”
Intemperance and the gaming-table, _
he said, had wrought his ruin.
Too Sin ait.
Some men, and boys also, are so
smart as to think they can dispense wish
” usually overreach them¬
bonestv. Such referred to here
selves; as did the boy by his parent to :
\ votings ter was sent
take S a letter to the postoffice and pay
postage on it. The boy returned
highly elated, and said. Father, I seed
lot of men putting letters in a little
a looking.
Diace ; and, when no one was ^
slipped yours in for nothing,
—The person who stands and holds the
sprinz-screen-door half open is ad
in the land. We trust the
the lest of him sometime, cw
•
Register.