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$ A. HARP Publisher, V0LU31E Y. t 11 K jjyERS EXAMINER Polished every Friday, CONYERS, GEORGIA, Kf 50 per Annum in Advance. JOB PRINTING, Erery Description, Promptly and Executed, at Reasonable Rates, rf:s FOR ADVEKTISING Jrertisements [ will be tor insertedfor the first inser- ONE L4R per square, CENTS for [ and FIFTY per square 1 continuance, for one month, or less, a longer period, a liberal discount will :rOne inch in length, or less, consti is Ef a square. the loca] column will t be Notices in r tl q a t Ten Cents per line, each inser itiriages and deaths but obituaries will be published will be cm of news, ged for at advertising rates, ,tl.L AT THE iaiiroad restaurant. -Under the Car Shecl,) ATLANTA, GA. Ifliero all the delicacies of the season i be furniaqed in the best of style and [rheap byMcals as any furnished establishment at allhours jn the of city the Y BALLARD & DURAND. unej.20 hills’ (lot iing. phe lb’ (fuaint, and picturesque styles for fircsses .seen during the summer l 1 prevail throughout the demi-season. I, uimpo dresses of cotton satine, of Irkcyred general calico and and Scotch tho ginghams of white U use, e |iii', jr nainsook, colored made surah sufficiently and lace Irmfor nicer wear, are the autumn months by the lition of the long cloth pelisses of p color or rifle green so much in use f largo girls and misses, and the bright I, grei-n or electric blue cloth sacques [favor iil lr for very used .small he ch ldren. advances Colors more as 1 season p tiny have been for years. White feS'OS W iil hot be abandoned, but they II be covered with a dark coat, and i luff will match the coat in color. All iidus of light brown, such as almond, knit, tan and drab, will be used for of cloth that will be braided in jte<|ues ami wheel p diems with sou t'hu of a darker shad* The French pild- ior these coats lap on the clie.sfc, j! tall open below the waist; some of pm haw cross scams at the waist line, l) nil I a vo phots in Die back of tho |i". 'Vh ■ largo collar, coil's and hip fckete iwe covered with braid. Rii.e ■wn and garnet cloth garments are ■mhirlv ma la Cloth will also be used P' thr oihl little jackets that are worn P • 'k .Idren one rent' old and upward, Ml the caprice is to have this of the F-' 1 r rei/ (• otli now called Arabi red, oil ivliieJi is precisely the same shade r 1 die lucre familiarly known Turkey r 1 ’ * * 1 ' s si rnig’lit s:u:que reaches near I to the e Igi- of the dress skirt, is n.ffc breasted, with the broad French irk that lias but one seam; the nar r j' 01,11 ^ I:i t makes it tit to the figure r* n 8 s front rather than the r ° : !|! ‘ ii biffs directly under the f l,ls '. ill(1 are stitched, and Here is 11 NiTlil b turned-over collar; . [lima, , pi'cids sire on the sides. It is I, F'>|»:<'dous ".“''I ,!<m ’ u dm front closelv, is and its ornament three loops 7r u ‘ b' n h with a plaque at each „ math- , ot hi aid of a contrasting eol ... I' | biiice, 01 l * ls tho red cloth sample 1 1 ho ‘ “'A h ''iVul loops and plaques, while 11 l, ' l 'Jf or blue cloth have red £ i amy for bright red will hra-ik,. ,' :UTitul uut ' n the cashmere "nw*L ■ n (ffvs.ses. in doth for plaited t i° aK in Mother Hubbard . t • ; <i, .1 h said, . m gay velvet suits ,]„ r 7? a nd Mils. The red fez, ' 1 1 iirl.au , of red aslimere, i ' i and y llu 0 blunder cap of thick Vo , '-ne also j great favor, n and n ho M. Of Orient hat of felt with upward all around is 111 mis vivid red shade.— Bar «r t Torn Smut. S "’! 1 ‘ will be hand n soon on u ! “uuk of a few small matters U is the prevalent opinion that ‘ ' LOu l t , armers and veterinarians , t C f I ni smut "hen eaten bv eattin b injur and • thv2!n ous, is the cause Lul v; " es of death. Hence b'utl. l, when harvesting be taken v„ care of, \ be the corn, b i nil . ' ' " mn 'N hung into at the side, o. 1 be on < which all of the iff ‘ i lH tiitown by the buskers, and 1 V n oan be burned, it is evi q,. | amount of this smut corn eve '7 year, and it can be lr> ” ,' ;v in :I!UUI 'by burning it. Science I t - 11 mv thoo ies. It is claimed r ')gato(l unit or dark dust is the con s '!'tos seeds of plant till’ ,, lls or a or i 1 , i:U 'bese spores live through U, til.,,, | 111 l * u ' succeeding year attach Wh 'heir congenial element. di iio. ie trreen corn. How this is d, l:ot pretende to explain, of jhiugs plants about how the Qa not grow, that we niic ' ‘‘ml to know. But as the wise ff’ows contend that no plant or 41il except from its own seed, . c °n iu de that corn fungushas , eeds. ,t ” s and that it is important f ( 1( mld possible aninq i, as tar as be doubt l * es troyed. There is but little p ( orn smut is injurious to ani iiial, . n =■ l «nt. U . £ ns a poison and as an “ advise farmers to prepare a itch wagon in the corn-field a ‘ Mnu b Frequently part of the 1 °’ n °n it. and as the smut does i° ^' e disagreeable to the v u 1 'ill,.- they cat both together. 1 wujister. l0JJ * said a lady patient, “I 1 F 1 ' 0 at deal with eyes.” The , ad j usted my liis'spectacles, ai'd Dat’q,,,,, 1 1 .^° ti “Ido / lIS cra c air, replied, ought uut / my ; but t ¥ 11 y° u ‘Q'eatdAo 0 you would Suffer a deal more without them.” The Conyers H xammer. v NEWS GLEANINGS. A colored lawyer has been admitted to the bar at Macon, Ga. Mount Vernon, Alabama, is to be made a permanent military post. The Ben Hill monument fund ba reached a total of $3,142.25. Savannah, Ga., has sent $1,813.25 to the Pensacola fever sufferers. The South sends $8,000,000 worth of cotton-seed oil to Great Britain an nually, Mr. Bearden, aged 104 years, has just tbeen married to Mrs. Lee, aged forty years, at Bibb, Ala. lohn^York, for the [murder of his step son, in Whitfield county, Ga., goes to the penitentiary for life. A Blackshear, Georgia, farmer still uses a wagon made fifty years ago, and which has never teen repaired, 1 earce county, Ga., is seeking legisla¬ tion that will increase the cost of license to sell liquor in that county to $10,000 per annum. The mace and sword of State, used in South Carolina in colonial times, are still preserved. They were brought to. this country in 1729. I lie cotton crop of Texas is so large and pickers so scarce and hard to get that a great deal of the staple will re¬ main ungathered, thereby entailing heavy loss, A company organized at Atlanta will mport and slaughter cattle, run stock yards and make oleomargarine and but terine. The company has a cash cap ital of $500,000. Macon, Ga., bees have religious in clinations. The steeples of the Presby ierian and Wesleyan churches were each invaded by a swarm on the same day, which remain and are at work. A curious bird, bronze colored, with a long, keen beak, long slender legs and and talons and similar in many respects to the English bittern, has been cap tured near Nashville. It is a stranger to this country. Newspapers are pubiished in seventy three of the ninety four counties in Tennessee at eigUty-seven amerent towns and cities, of which number sixty-nine are county seats.f^There are 180 papers in the state. Pickens county, Alabama, is so over whelmingly in debt that property has decreased in value until it is now almost impossible to give it away. A few days ago 365 acres of fine timber land and a mill in good condition brought hut $210, the effects of the condition of affairs in the county. Elizabeth Malley, convicted of illegal¬ ly living with S O Prentiss, ex-city editor of the Nashville World, and sentenced to a term of two years in the penitentiary, has been granted a new trial; the motion for a new trial in the case of Prentiss has not yet been acted upon. The Nashville and Chattanooga rail¬ road will build a belt railroad around Cumberland mountain. The Chatta¬ nooga Times says the result of the grand plan cannot be estimated. The new road will pierce the heart of the finest coal country in the state, and will aid more in theindustrial development of our states, than anything done in years. Mobile Register: The McAllister gun, invented and patended ov Dr. A. H. McAllister, of Union oouuty, Miss., has twenty-four rifle barrels, and discharges 500 cartridges a minute, greatly exceeding the Gatling gun in execution and reliability, The entire work of construction was done at the blacksmith shop on his plantation by Dr. McAllister and a machinist of his own neighborhood, Chattanooga Times : One would think that in the Tennessee penitentiary would be found hoary-headed old men, who had been there for thirty or forty years; yet, strange to say, though the penitentiary was erected fifty-four years ago, never during all that time, has a prisoner sur vived over seventeen years, though have been sent there under life sentence. There is no one there now who was n 1870. The ColumbuB, Georgia, Enquirer says the worth of cotton seed is not, as yet, appreciated by the planters of the South. The linters taken from the seed sell at from five to six cents per pound after the oil is extracted the meal is a remarkable fertilizer and stock feed ; the hulls make good fuel, and the ashes are rich in potash. Besides this, a beautiful rich dye, an analine purple, can be pro¬ duced from the seed, Atlanta Constitution: The commits tee in charge of the fund raised for the erection of a memorial to the late Sen¬ ator Hill, find that the cost of the stat¬ ue will be very much less than was at first expected. By correspondence they find that a.bronzo statue, seven or feet in height, a perfect portrait and model of Mr, Hill, and done by an tist of world wide fame, can be had a sum varying from $8,000 to ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.” CONYERS. GA., FRIDAY NOVEMBER in, 1882. TOPICS OF THE DAY. Connecticut now has but one active gin distillery. Mr. Labouchere says that France is now one gigantic gambling establisli ment. There are nearly 300,000 tons of last season’s ice in the houses on the Kenne¬ bec Biver. An English financial critic says signif¬ icantly that England never hawks her wares abroad. The Boston Herald estimates that there are not more than 6,300 German voters in Massachusetts, and 47,000 Irish voters. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts-Barfclett owns the smallest pony in the world. It stands thirteen inches high, and is five years of age. -« ♦ • - Both branches of the Legislature of Oregon have ratified the proposed wo¬ man’s suffrage constitutional amend¬ ment. It now goes to the people. A certain drawing-room on Fifth avenue, New York, has a ceiling of ca¬ thedral glass, said to have cost $5,000. It is one of the oddest ideas of a very odd year. Walter Nevegold, a lad fifteen years of age, living in Bristol, Pennsyl¬ vania, has patented important improve¬ ments in rolling mill machinery. He is said to be the younge st inventor on the records at Washington. A merchant in Tallahassee, Florida, lately received an order for one hundred pounds of dried fig leaves of a bright color. As the order came from a large tobacco manufactory, the use to which the leaves will be put is easily surmised. Mr. Barry Sullivan, the actor, is to run for an Irish constituency as a Home Ruler. He is yet a young man of fifty eight, though he has been upon the stage for more than forty years, and starred it in America before the civil war. Mrs. Mallonee, of New York, who was killed at the recent railroad accident at Syracuse, was a contributor to tho OonUi* a< ’Afnnnyime and rvno r\f 1 a f Ast, poems was entitled “The Whistles.” The last sound she heard before her terrible death was the warning whistle of the lo¬ comotive. A young man started for a drive of twenty miles with his sweetheart through an uninhabited tract in Minnesota. At a point about midway of the lonely route the pair had a bitter quarrel. Tha fellow unhitched the horse, mounted it, and rode away, leaving the girl alone in the wagon, where she remained all night, and next day walked home. -*> Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has resigned the Park man Professorship of Anatomy in the Medical School of Har¬ vard University at Boston. The retire¬ ment of Dr. Holmes from an office he has held for thirty-five years is induced by a desire to give attention hereafter more particularly to literary pursuits. Ex-Governor Abner Coburn is the richest man in Maine. He is worth al¬ most $7 ,000,000. He lives near Skowlie gan, and he drives about the village in a two-seated phaeton showing evident marks of usage. The horses are strong and clean-limbed, but their trappings and grooming evince a disregard of appear¬ ances. There are no heirs to Mr. Coburn’s property but two nieces. Simon B. Paige, of Oskosh, Wis., of¬ fered $5,000 for the rescue of his wife, dead or alive, from a burning hotel. The body was saved by C. Beif, but Paige refused to pay him, and was sued. The County Court decided in favor of Paige, on the ground that the rescuer was a fireman and in duty bound to save anybody without reward. The Supreme Court has now reversed this decision. Mr. Herbert Spencer says tfiat lie has been a good deal annoyed by state¬ ments which have been made in the newspapers concerning him, and de¬ clares that he never expressed any opin¬ ion whatever concerning Oscar Wilde. He does not believe in “interviewing,” and regards the American appetite for personalities as the blamable cause of hnsty and incorrect statements regard¬ ing individuals. Paul H. Hayne, the Southern poet, is a man of medium size—perhaps five and a half feet tall—with a well-proportioned figure, olive complexion, dark, pene¬ trating brown eyes, and a full, massive forehead. He has highly polished man¬ ners, cordial address, and so much natural eloquence in conversation as to remind everyone of the fact that he is a nephew of Robert Hayne, Daniel Webster’s famous opponent. The library of Cornell University re¬ ceived, not long ago, by the will of a friend, an estate which, at the tame, was believed to be only of moderate value. It was found, however, to be chiefly in¬ vested in Wisconsin pine lands, and turns out, at the present price erf such property, to be worth something over *•2.000,0001* barf money. Tide ie in addition to the $5,000,000 that Cornell 1 has derived, wiil derive, from the sale or of her scrip pine lands in the same State. A correspondent writing from Egypt of the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, says : “ Arabi had, it dubbed the Scotch seems, solders Old women, ’ to the surprise of his men who, later on, were more in¬ clined to call them demons, Two ill omens occurred to chill the ardor of the Egyptians before the battle. Firstly, in the fight previous, one man was shot through the breast by a bullet which pierced the Koran he carried and took part of it into his body. Secondly, the young crescent of the moon encircling a star, sank below the horizon before the fight, and being emblamatic of their crescent and star, conveyed to them a bad impression.” Secretary Lincoln evidently does not share the views which prevail among a few military officers in regard to what is necessary to constitute an offense under the article of war relating to ‘con¬ duct unbecoming an officer and a gentle¬ man.” He has raised the question whether an officer who persistently re¬ fuses or neglects to pay his debts does not render himself amenable to trial under this article. In this position he is quite at variance with the General ol the Army, who, not long since, main¬ tained that an officer might even make a blackguard of himself without' being subject to trial for “conduct unbecom¬ ing an officer and a gentleman,” provid¬ ing the act was not done while the offi¬ cer was in the discharge of a military duty. Eminent Shoemakers. Perhaps it was Coleridge who first re¬ marked upon the great number of shoe¬ makers that have become eminent in various walks of life ; and certain it is that magazines and newspapers have found in men who sprang from this em ployment to higher things many sub¬ jects for and interesting special articles, sketches, obituary notices There was a man some years ago in Portland—probably a shoemaker, but, at all events, -too modes-:fc to give liis name—who published a book which lie called “Eminent Shoemakers,” and the recent news that John Mackintosh, a shoemaker of Aberdeen, has written two .volumes in of a “History of Civiliza¬ tion Scotland” will give iukiv.-t lo some of the celebrated names which the Portland shoemaker succeeded in bring¬ ing together. long wuiiom the editor, Gifford, hie the trondon V“ Quart ~ and rly Review , and than whom probably no shoemaker ever had “ one sutor ” thrown at him more often or with better effect, toiled, we are informed, he six long years at the trade which said himself he “hated with a perfect hatred.” George Fox, has whom, Celebrated by the way, Carlyle noblest as one of the men in England, “mak¬ ing himself a suit of leather,” divided his time between making shoes and caring for sheep until he began to preach those sermons of his, and to do that Christian work which finally gave unto the world the first organization of the Society of Quakers. Robert Bloomfield, the poet, made shoes, and of him it was once said that he was “the most spirit¬ ual shoemaker that ever handled an awl. ” Hans Sachs, the friend of Luther, who wrote five folio volumes in verse that are printed, and five others that arc not, was a most diligent maker of shoes in quaint old Nuremberg, and, for all ho wrote, never made a shoe the less, ho said, and virtually reared a large family by the labor of his hands, independent of Lis poetry. Among others, this author mentions no less a name than Noah Worcester. Roger Sherman, too, is on his list, and Thomas Holcroft. Others might be— Henry Wilson one of them. Indeed, it should not be forgotten that the father of John Adams, our second President and the father of our sixth, made many a shoe in his day during the leisure which his farm life gave him .—New York Tribune. Capacity for Bleep. Public men, subjected to severe men¬ tal strain by exhausting duties, learn to sleep anywhere and at auy time. Napo lean once slept for an hour in the middle of a battle, with the roar of artillery about him. Brougham slept for twenty four hours at the clorje of au exciting week in the court-room. A story told of William Pitt, when Prime Minister of England, exhibits this facility: had broken ship A mutiny out on a of war, and the mutineers had imprisoned Admiral Colpoice, their and threatened him with death unless grievances were redressed. It was feared that the exam¬ ple would become contagious, and the mutiny become general. Several members of the Cabinet, led by Lord Windham, went in dismay to Pitt’s house for counsel. He was asleep, but they forced their way to his chamber and roused him. The great statesman sat up in bed, heard their exciting story, and wrote calmly: Colpoice is not given “ If Admiral up. fire upon the ship from the batteries un¬ til she is destroyed.” 'down his pillow, and He then lay on was snoring before his surprised col¬ leagues had left the room. They could not understand how sleep was possible in such an emergency. —One of the best modes by which to pro ect tree-from cattle is to soil the cattle. The idea of pasturing an or¬ chard and then of putting a guard of stakes about eaeh tree and barbed wire about the stakes, is a poor commentary on i lie enterprise of the farmer who prac ices it SL Louis Globe. t — 1 be committee appointed to eon . ®ftiqii substituting '* l V T u oi a j 233S tavor of nickel, whiels has already %een adopted. ^Germany «nd Belgians Effects of Drought. It v/as once believed by manv think evs and observers, that one of the good Buch movements of the moisture con tamed m the soil may, to some extent, a,d the growth of crops in years subse quent to those of excessive drought. If soluble substances are carried down with moisture when ,t settles through the soil, it would seem reasonable to expect them to be brought up when the moisture again works upward. Recent experiments have, however, shown that in our climate feSiS? there is ‘carted not a &wn o-reat amount * plants through during the soil out of reach of growing the growing .season. The examination of water that has passed aown through two or three feet of soil in our cultivated fields, seldom shows any traces of fertilizing elements that have been drawn from the soil dur¬ ing its descent. If water carries little bring ®r nothing but little down, it can of course, back. It would seem that in a season like the present, when the soil is excessively dry, and vegetation actually stops the growing, land that the fertilizers applied to must to a considerable extent remain in the soil ready to be applied to the growth of the next crop, so that the loss from small crops this year will not be all loss. Where land has been well manured this year, but prevented by the extreme drought from producing a full crop, we shall expect to see next year, provided the season is favorable, an extra luxuriant growth. This will be the case especially on clayey land, vvhich does not readily part with its plant food “ soil, underlaid by leaching. A thin, sandy lose its by coarse gravel, must influence fertility more readily under the of winter rains, but this is not the general character of the majority Of farm lands in New England. We shall look for bountiful crops of spring gram next where the ” season, corn was well manured, but dried up this year, and without the application of very On mowing lands that have suffered the Severely from long continued droughts past two or three months, the case may be different, Where the soil is thin and naturally dry, and the roots have been getting old and feeble, and the fertility exhausted, there will be little reason to expect much grass or hay large next year. The pity is, that a verv England proportion of the land of New farms is in exactly this condi¬ tion a great deal of the tittle—old mow¬ ing fields that tteed ploughing up and what we have hacf the past 1 c si?mlifer woi*ks very disastrously against the farmer who owns such lands. Could we get in the way of working our land often,er, even though perhaps we re¬ duced the size of our farms, we should certainly feel the loss less from such a season as we have had this year. In short, however unfavorable the weather may seem to be, it is almost in¬ farmer variably than more favorable to the good to him who cultivates poorly and manures light. The culti¬ vator of the soil should endeavor to learn how to secure a crop, whatever the weather Way be. '1 he best farmers and gardeners do this to a considerable extent and so find less cause to com pla'n than those who depend almost wholly upon good Weather to help them along ;.—New Enuland Farmer. The Law’s Uncertainty, i 4 The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science,” savs an old play, “and the glorious uncertainty of it is of more use to the professors than the justice of it.” An incident in the olie al life of Lord Chancellor Eldon illustrates the truth¬ fulness of the dramatist’s remark. He once referred a certain case to three courts below, in sueees-ion, to decide what a particular document was. Not one of them agreed legal with either of of the the other tvyo as to the name document. The lease Court of King’s the Bench Com decided it was a in fey; mon Pleas, that it was a lease in tail; the Exchequer, that it was a lease or years. When the document came > aek to the Lord Chancellor, he decided that it was no lease at all. An anecdote, which an Irish Judge used to tell with great glee, illustrates the law’s uncertainty', when adminis tered by attorneys, and its certa nty when a plain man decides complained the ease on this its merits. A suitor to Judge that he was “ruinated,” and could go no further with his ease. “ Then you had better,” said lvs Hon or, “leave the case to be decided by reference.” “To be sure I will,” answered the man; “I’ve been now at law thirteen years and can’t get on at all, at all. I’m willing to leave the case to one honest man , or to two attorneys, whichever your lordship pleases.” for that.” “ You had better toss up said the Judge, laughing. appointed, lvw Two attorneys were ever, and in a year’s time they' reported that they could not agree. The matter was then left to an honest farmer, and in a week the parties came into court and said that the plain, un professional referee had settled the < ase to their satisfaction. — Youth's Comp a ion. —Mrs. VV. K. Vanderbilt, who was a Miss Smith, and whose sister married a brother of Lady Mandeville. g are an “old-fashioned country dance” at her summer-house on Long Island the other night, at which Gotham’s moneyed aris¬ tocracy was strongly if not brilliantly represented. expense” entertainment, It was a “regardless-o the - and when last carriage drove away with its weary dancers the sun was peeping out and the farmers were is driving nothing their cows to pasture. There prettier linn a modern pastoral scene. — N . Y. He. (. ly — Somebody in New York is evident col trying ed to introduce a new fashion. A > man, clad in full evening dress, day rode last about week in an delivering elegant wedding equipage invi- one tations to the aristocratic residents of Murray Hill.—Chicago Herald. Kentucky Mules. s ‘me days ago a caro-o of 400 Ken. tucky mules was shipped from this nort w m hare convince been any the one that this* could not case. Sir Garnet ™g had ailnounC not ed later his than intention of t nis Septem? thi war the 15th of ber a , ld as we a „ k h has hive kent his word. Why, ’ then, should “iff. “ he j e m .d PIW i nin ; pt , f ho = t * ^ dr ?7 ( qthe r ’ fhat* artil j erv when he knew 6 °, not Y 1 reac[1 reac h B?ypt Fo-vni until m il after the L^^Aor c dmftt l\a 7 ,?'’f eS he Se ,£ d ovent has nrovefl he v, „f burden that l e needed» utAl ' Furthermore, „ the , British General is he an intelligent would and well-read man, and never dream of employing Kentucky mules in connection with bat¬ teries. The experiment was tried dur¬ ing disastrous our civil war, and with the most results. In the rare eases where a battery drawn by mules lasted long enough to reach a position assigned to it on the battlefield it never proved to be of any service. The mules, the moment they were detached from the guns, the entire invariably battery. began an assault upon of the mules at Alexan¬ dria will unquestionably strike terror to the Egyptians. The former animals have brooded over the wrongs they have endured during their confinement on shipboard, and they will land in a more than usually gloomy and vindictive frame of mind. The Arab donkey boys will crowd around them, regarding them as a improve new style of donkey, and the mules will the occasion. The 4,000 donkey boys will sail simultaneously throucrh the air, and the mules, whose appetite will merely have been whetted by the trifling exercise of kicking ten donkey ready boys each, will roam through the city heel—whenever to take a hand—or rather a ing Egyptian an opportunity of kick¬ an presents itself. The 400 Kentucky mules, under the dnvers, guidance of a dozen Kentucky mule wiil constitute the force with which Mr. Gladstone proposes to hold Egypt place in subjection. Marching from they will to place throughout the country, reduce the Egyptians to a state of abject terror. British troops or Brit¬ the ish gendarmes will not be needed, and mules will suppress the Chamber of Notables and check the spirit of nation¬ ality in the disbanded army with more ease and certainty than could the entire contingent of East Indian troops. It is Gift, inlei’fist.. q t fair chance at one of the pyramids. There are scientific persons in this coun¬ try who are ready to bet kick large odds that a Kentucky mule can the largest pyramid into ruins in less than twenty four hours, and although the pyramids ought not entirely to be wantonly destroyed, it would be proper to devote one of them to the purpose of settling the question whether thei'e is anything on earth that a Kentucky mule can not overcome. No fault can be found by Europe with the proposed method of occupying Egypt. Kentucky mules could are be not urged open to the objections which against an occupation by British troops, a d even M. de Lc-seps, jealous as he is of his international relations, will never think of finding fault with the landing of a few hundred alleged draught ani¬ mals. It is the genius of Mr. Gladstone which has devised this brilliant solution of the Egyptian problem, it and next to his pacification of Ireland, will be his grandest title to immortal fame.— N. Y. Times. Romance of a Violin. The history . of . . and 1 . musicians smgers . often and dizzy ascent is a romance a from the depths of poverty to the heights of wealth and luxury. One of these mu sicians, already on the first rounds o H' 3 golden ladder, is Theresa hia, a young Italian girl, taxen bhe is the 13 years first old, ar.d yet has already prize for the violin at the Pans Conservatory, She had twenty-four competitors from 16 to 25 years of age, but received the prize by the unanimous consent of nine of the nest masters in Paris. The success of this musical prodigy is due chiefly to her father, a bricklayer of Turin. He earned 50 cents a day, but out of this sum, by laying aside 1 cent daily, saved $2 and bought an old violin. Without in struction, and with only his natural love of music to guide him, he finally succeeded in playing a number of tunes, The long evenings after his daily toil were passed thus in digging, as it were, from the violin the melodies that he re¬ membered. At last, music mad, he placed the violin and the bow in the hands of his little daughter 6 years The old. and said: “Do as I do.” child obeyed, and was soon able to play far better than her father. The inde fatigable bricklayer then said to his wife, “You must learn the guitar.” “But I have no guitar, and I cannot play.” These objections were useless, and the mother, urged on by her inex¬ orable and music-loving husband, could a t last the" play a discreet accompani ment to violin of Theresa, The three then went from city to city playing in the cafes and hotels, and the father saved money enough to take them to Paris. A lady of Nice gave Di¬ him a letter to Monsieur Massart, rector of the Conservatory, who immedi¬ ately perceived the astonishing talents of the child. Here begins the romance of the story, for the father had no more money, and how was the little family for to live during the four years Monsieur necessasy Mas¬ Theresa’s instruction? sart, like Aladdin in the story, rubbed his golden lamp, and ten obedient gen¬ tlemen responded by giving bim each $6 monthly for his proteges. The re¬ sult of their liberality and of Monsieur Massart’s instruction is that the ex bricklayer Tua has been offered by an enterprising American the expenses of himself, Ins wife and the young violinist, for a period of five years, and $40,000 beside. He, however, thinks it is not enough, and hesitates to $ the offer.—Letter from Rome. $1.50 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE NUMBER 43. PITH AND POINT. —A mite of oVof the^vffidow Mass., while looking of his home, saw a fan-tailed pigeon alight in tront of the house, “Oh, mother, come here,” he cried, ‘<and see a best pigeon silk! with a trail on as long as y 0ur '—Louisville Journal. T 1 * is ver Y comforting to a man who . just 13 recovering from a lingering ill ness and has managed to crawl out to the gate on a warm, sunshiny day to get air, to have a neighbor come alone* and shout cheerily: “Hello! Been away haven’t you? Had a good time? You are looking well.” just —“Well,” remarked a youno- m p> from coHege, “I suppose the next thing will be to hunt a good location, and then wait for something to do, like ‘Patience on a monument.’ ” “Yes,” said a bystander; “and it won’t be lono after you begin before the monuments will be on the patients.” —The N. Y. Graphic prints pictures of “the great diamonds of the world.” There are about thirty of these precious s(one3, and the most surprising thing about them is the fact that not a sin Me one is_owned did by an editor. Newspaper men never care much for jewelry anyhow.— Norristown Herald. —First Russian Officer -“Do you think the coronation will pass off peace¬ fully?” Second ditto—“Think? lam sure it will. The Czar never was more popular than he is at this moment. Why, the people are ready to exalt him to the skies.” First officer—“I know, but they may do it with dynamite.” hair —“Why, how odd you look with your parted in the middle!” exclaimed Mrs. Brown. “I used to part mine on the side,” said Mrs. Jones. Then the conversation became general. Each lady had to tell how she parted her hair all but Edith’s mother. She said noth¬ ing. Suddenly little Edith’s voice was heard. “My mamma parts her hair in her lap .”—Indianapolis Journal. —A Parisian, having advertised for a coachman, was called upon by a candi¬ date, who referred him to a celebrated physieian for information in regard to his qualities. The gentleman called on the physician, who simply took his pen and wrote on a piece of paper that his former servant was a reliable, punctual, and polite coachman. Taking the paper in his hand and thanking the writer for it, the man turned to leave; but the physician called him back: “I beg your pardon, sir, but my terms for a consultation are forty francs .”—L eFig¬ aro. ’J* Snow Bound In Switzerland. Owing to the weather (September more melancholy condition tmm been for many years. The whole of Northern Italy is more or less under water, the Simplon and that Splugen has fallen, are blocked latter by the snow deep in all and the lies a foot the Swiss eantons, excepting only those of Yaud and Geneva. Travelers intend¬ ing to go over the former pass from Switzerland to Italy have, on that arriving there at Visp and Brigue, been told is no longer a ;y possibility of their crossing it this year, and have been forced to discharge their traveling- Culoz, car riages, and take the railway to and thence accomplish the journey bv way of the Mount Cenis. One English gentleman and his wile, who had in¬ tended crossing the Simplon last week, were resolved to go over it if possible, in¬ and by means of a heavy payment the duced their vetturino to attempt pas sa: e from the Swiss side. They got as far as the fourth “refuge,” impossible when proceed it was found absolutely still to to any further, or, what was worse, return to the starting-point. In these cii\ umstances they were forced tore main in their carriage for three days, and to subsist, on what food and wine they had with them; and on the fourth day, when at their last resource, to de¬ scend on foot, at considerable risk, to Brigue. Meanwhile, the amount of misery and loss that has been entailed by the month of rain (and that the harvest month) dead is incalculable. The cattle are immediately lying on the hills, the wine crop north and south of the Alps will have no actual existence this year, and what would have been the winter’s hay is in¬ jured beneath the snow. Wolves have appeared on the outskirts of several Swiss-towns, and bears (small and not formidable! are reported in the Enga dine. In the Tyrol things are as bad, if not worse. At Innspruok and in < the Pusterthal people who have been caught there are prevented from entirely leaving. ceased The trains have almost to run, and several bridges have been carried away by the floods. At Bru neck even worse than this has occurred, as houses have had their foundations washed away, and the little town of Trent is entirely under water. At th* last moment came the joyful tidings that the eighty' snow-bound and impris¬ oned visitors to Zermatt have seen a rift of blue sky in the clouds above them, and that, before long, they hope to be able to struggle across the St. Nicholas Pass to the Valais and freedom. — Lon~ don World. _Xhe lar^e, unique and valuable library left by the late George P. Mai ->h, United States Minister to Italy, has been sold by the executors of Mr. Marsn s estate to Frederick Billings, who e resi¬ dence at Woodstock, Vt., is the place where Mr. Marsh was born. It is said to be the intention of the Mr. University Billings to of present this library to Vermont, at Burlington. Mr. Maim was for some time one of its trustees. Mr. Mar-h had at one time made a will by which he left his library to the Uni¬ versity of Vermont, but later his cir¬ cumstances were so impaired by that what he he spent in the public service his original in¬ was unable to ea*Ty out tention.—N. Y. Herald. _The committee appointed to con¬ sider the question of substituting a nickel circulating coinage for France, the bronze has deemed coinage now in in favor of nickel, which Belgium. been adopted in Germany and