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CALL AT THE
(IIBOAD restaurant.
• Under the Car Shed,)
ATLANTA, G A.
iffo tho delicacies of the season
kdurnisqed ill tho best of style and
taas any establishment in the city
rftiis furnished at adibours of tbe
BALLARD & DURAND. unej.2 0
Weeds at the West.
Lbas not sat at weeds a car for window the varied and
thanked tho
jff fi’lhe they give to the landscape? gemmed In
fens, green-sward from Maine is to Minnesota, with
L the season advances, hundreds
weeds brighten the meadows,
nule beautiful tbe neglected
rows. The thistle in mid-sum
tbe cockle in and the ripening in the grain;
asters mel
fjutumn—how beautiiul they all
at the rear platform train of the car,
tlie breeze of the break
gossamer globes of the clande
"’IyH-I along the seed laden
which seem to chase and dodgre
for miles—this is in June.
1 dandelion is gone, and
prickly thistle fills the air with
Bra. Iks and upon the wings of the wind
fresh fields and pastures new.
like lilny East is full of weeds, and our
trains are carrying their seeds
iestard, [ear. fully gradually one-third but of surely, the labor every
fciy of
Eastern farms is weed-killing.
Ikis is a labor farms. barely There thought of
lost ffestern it is “one
Lthe L- things wdl you be read reality! about ’—but
soon it a There
re forms at the East, once weedy , now
nsrly clear; held, as we hold our free
as we should hold it—by eter
districts, very thoroughly public opinion—which done as yet. In is some not
thrifty to than those who make it—
s “ st0 ( ) u ’ etI y “agin the law,” In
others, the laws are in somo measure
up to, and gradually man gains
Ms foes, both in the fields and the
roa&ivays. There
is no joke about it. The weeds
trc in earnest. They wilt get into the
richest soil—the fairest heritage of the
fnest country the sun shines upon.
Lit they are vulnerable; they are nior
hi; and are, we can assure you, “foe
■iomlturist. men worthy of your steel.”—American
The “ Yankee Mnltuui in Parro.”
The Boston Journal gives an account
an article, or rather a collection of
articles, which it asserts is about to be
patented. It is called the “Yankee
Mnltnm in Parvo, or the New England¬
er's Anti-Atmospheric JEgis,” and con¬
sists of a valise, of a large, into which stout bag most in the ingeni¬ shape
ore
ously packed in folding sections a buffalo
overcoat and a mohair duster; a sealskin
osp^ou-wester and open-work grass bat;
coat, vest and trousers of extra heavy
hootch woolens and a complete set of
pomps seersuckers; a pair of cavalry boots,
and rubber fishing boots; a rem
* or SUD stroke and a handy manual
°‘ instructions for the resuscitation of
* Efrons es apparently r( 1° keep frozen the to dust death from ; gog- the
Te
eyes aud a pair of stilts for use in the
and.
Pass Out at the Rear Door.
A conductor of the fast train of the
Susquehanna division of the Erie Rail
has bis brakeman say, after an
touncing the name of each station,
“Passengers the will pass out the rear said door of
station." Much has been
jhe desirableness of uniformity in enter¬ it is
ing and leaving railway cars; but
prooable that it will never be secured
until trainmen adopt the plan of the Erie
conductor to whom reference is h ere
made. It noticeable that almost
without exception the request as to exit
nt the rear door of the car was observed,
reaving the front door of each car free
tot the entrance of passengers at each
station. The plan not only saves time,
tot it prevents the jostling which is so
^agreeable to everybody.—W- T- Mail
and Express.
The Oneida community, at Niagara
™ls, There is going to build a spoon factory. bridal
tefiples is so much “spooning ” by such
factory at Niagara falls that a
may be necessary there.— Mor¬
ristown Herald.
A BEAETifXL maid in Carlisle
On the back of her neck had a I We.
When her lover forgot,
And huggad the *ore spot.
Har screams could be heard for a misle , I
The Conyers 9
A APELE P OB ABE TO TEE
SEXTANT.
BT A. GASPER.
■ meetim wbU
And litea ti gas, unitimes leaves a sc
In which loose,
case it emcls orful-wus than lam
And wrings the Bei and toLes It, and sweeps
Ana for these servases trite *103 per annum:
«Ich them that thinks deer let om try it;
Gittm up before stariite in all wethers, and
Kindlin tiers when the wether is as cold
As zero^and like as not green wood for kin
(I wouldn’t be h erd to do It for no some;)
Bit o Sextant, there are one kennodity
Wuth more than gold which don't cost nuthtn;
w uth more than anything except the Sole ol
Man!
I mo an power Are, Sextant, I mean power
Are!
O it is plenty out o dores, so plenty it doant no
What on airth to dew with itsolf, but flize
about
Fcaterin leaves and bloin off men’s hats;
In short its jest as freo as Are out dores;
But O Sextant! in our church its scarce as
Scarce piety, bankbils
as when ajunts beg for m s
Wich hung,
sum say is purty often, taint nothing to
What I give alnt nothin to nobody; but O Sex¬
tant!
tfou shet 500 men, women and child
gpeshily Somo has tbe bad latter, broths, up in none a tite place, alnt too
or era
Sum is sweet, fevery,
sum Is scroflua, sum has bad
And teeth,
But sum hatntnone, and gum aint over clean;
evry one of em brethes in and out and out
and in
Say 50 times a minnet, or 1 millon and a half
Now breths an hour;
how long will a cherch full of Are last at
that rate?
I ask you; say 15 minuets, and then what's to
be did?
And Why thou they must brethe it all over agin,
then agin and so on, til each has took it
down
At least 10 times and let it up agin, and whats
The more. indivisible doant
same hav the privilege
(if brethin bis own Are and no ono’e else. i©,
Each one must take wote come *s to him.
OSextant! doant you know our lungs is bel¬
iusses
To bio the tier of life nnd l keep it from
Goin out: ut; and an h< owcan beliusses bio without
wind?
And aint wind Are? J put it to your konsbons.
Are is tho same to us as miik to babies,
Or water is to fish, or pendlums to c!ox,
Or roots and airbs unto an Injun Doctor,
Or little pills unto an oraepaih,
Or Boze to gurls. Are is for us to brethe.
What signifies What's who preaches ef I cant brethe?
What’s Pol? ’ol? Pollus to sinners who
are ded ?
Ded for wan t of broth? why Sextant when wo
Its only coz we canttirethenomor re—thatfs all.
And now o Sextant! let me beg of you
0?e let a leetlc eetl Are into our cherch;
(Fewer Are ro fs i sertfn proper for the pews,)
And dew it week days nnd on Sundys tew—
It aint much trubbie-oniy make a hoal
And then the Are will come iu of Itsolf,
(It lores to come in where it can «-it warm.)
And Ann o bow it will the rouze preecher, the people and up
And eperrit up fijjits effectool stop garpB
yorns ana as
A g wind on the dry Bo.ing tbe Profit tels
Of.
—Mrs. Arabella Willson, in Christian Weekly.
l’DSH AND I'LUCK.
“Push—push—push! Yes, it’s got to
be push all the time with me if and I’m ever I’m
going bound to 1 will!” amount to anything,
Jim Brand drew as close as he could
to the little end window of the garret in
which be slept, trying to catch the last
rays of light on his worn book.
“It’s a tussle!” he presently dark ex¬
claimed, looking off into a corner
of the room, with a face which showed
a mind hard at work over some knotty
problem. “If I only had some one to
show me a bit! The words are all
straight enough —F ve got them pat, but
where the sense conies in’s more than I
can see. 'The square of the hypothe
nuse of a right angle triangle sides.’ is equal To to
the squares of the other two
be sure, but how to get at it is what
beats me."
Jim closed Ihe book, one he had dip¬
ped into because he had exhausted
everything else within his reach. But
the expression o; full determination to
conquer some day what now baffled him
was fixed on his bright, homely face
and seemed to extend to every stout
limb of his stubby frame. Tbe boy’s
sturdy resolve to obtain an education
grew and throve under what night be it
considered great disadvantages, were
not that it has been abundantly proven the
by many brilliant examples ihat to
best order of minds obstacles seem only
to furnish stepping-stones to higher suo
cess. widowed mother in
He lived with his
a small country village, and for the last
two years had worked for a farmer—
hard work, poor pay and a scant taste
of schooling in the winter. His aspira¬
tions now were tor something better in
the way of instruction than the country
school afforded. Four miles away, in a
larger town, was a good teacher, and
Jim wanted now to stay at home, study
harder and recite to this man, but how
lo accomplish this he could not see, for
he must still cam his living and help his
mother. carried
A triweekly mail was ea
through their village, it being off ny
remilar routes. The earning of this
hacl been offered to Jim and had exeit
ed him greatlv, for the same road would
take him to the teacher he was anxious
to reach, thus enabling him to kill two
bi-ds with one stone. But difficulties
in the way. A scrubby pouy had
were his disposal for a very
been price-his placed at carefully hoarded sav
low it—but its keep was a
iD<rs would cover Jim had been chensh
serious matter. for year past.
ishino- another project a
Last summer he, in company with an
Irish farm-laborer, bad been dnving an
teething 'appeared’ both. 1 ’^*^vhe°ebstanoe It wassurely
which astonished dog. I< ^me
neither man, horse nor speed, and
toward them with marvelous
as it drew near developed a human, something yet
inhuman, aspect which had
"" S Juj’2iTO*inft'the ll profeo"on oil*.
ferven untold number o«
Virgin Mary and an faith
saints, showed his lack of
efforts in his behalf bv immediately
tumbling himself over the hedge, where
he lay concealed. to the
As the thing came near it ran i
Jim
of. well-looking, blne-flanneled boy,
ra ^‘Oh— horaes?
did I frighten your
he all “Wel^rmsorry^lougbritoffisve wTere I U thehon-g stopped
but and xffidntthm,
^tting used to them
error ceases TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE truth IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT."
CONYERS, GA„ FRIDAY JANUARY 19 18 S 3
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them, and the well-moaning creatures
looked an immediate recognition of the
friendly voice and touch.
W hat have you got there?” asked
Ji m, looking m great curiosity at the
thi m S leaning against the fence.
A bicycle—havn’t you seen an}'? I
guess there arc not very many about yet,
but my father's a machine man and that’s
how I came by the luck of getting one.
tVe re boarding at Farmer Merrivale's
down there, ami I can make the distance
out here in loss than no time.” This was 'as
m lefmite, but it was three mil nines, a; ud
dim had seen for himself how like I
thing of life the wonderful skeleton
steed moved. He examined it with
thoughtful doesn't eves.
“It have to oat, does it?”
“No,” said the boy, laughing, “only
a little oil once in a while.”
But its cost was beyond that of a
Pony. Jim watched in delight and
longing spinningdown as it, with its owner, were
the road, while Pat crept
from his hiding-place with many an ex¬
clamation over the “wan-legged wheel
barry.”
1 rom that hour Jim had never given
up tho idea of possessing a bicy lo,
and in dreams had scon nioro than
one picture of himself flying over the
roads carrying on his back a bag ol
mail-matter and a sachet of school
books.
“I think Til go down to the State
Fa’r next week, mother.”
“To the State Fair, Jimmy? 1 she said,
in surprise. Ho did not often n go on a
frolic.
“Yes, I’m going to try if I can’t make
a little money there.”
“How, my boy?”
“ I’m told the fair-grounds are more
than a mile out of the city, and that
there’s always a great demand for teams
to carry passengers to and from it.
I’ve been talking to Deacon Granger,
and he’s willing to trust me with his
pair of grays, and I’m go ng to hire
Brown’s big new spring wagon, and I
believe I can make a good deal over
what I shall have to pay for team and
wasron.”
AnJ their keep, and your own—?”
this mother and son were use t to very
close calculating.
“ Yes, I think I can do it.”
Ho was on the alert for passengers
early on tho first morning of the fair,
Exhibitors only were arriving on that
day, but he found plenty to do among
those who desired the carna ge of light
articles and fan y wares. On the sec¬
ond day the people o oI came pouring in
trom all directions, and tl tho a commo
stepping dating boy with the well-governed, demand light
grays was in constant
The third day was brilliant in sunshine,
and city and seemed fair-grounds alike an overflowing 1 the space
intervening the chattering crowd.
with busy, merry,
About the middle of the forenoon
came a lull in Jim’s work, the arriving
stream having about ceased and the re¬
turning one not yet begun. J im went
for a look at the machinery, much of
which had arrive I sin e ho had been
aroun 1 that way before, the lie ga/.ed for
a while awe-struck at great power
eng no, quietly moving fearful, its ponder
arms an 1 wheels in such master¬
ful strenglh for goo I or for ill. He was
then examining with intelligent into im¬ est
proved the beautiful farming perfection implements of some when his
attention was drawn to something which
moved in and out among surroundi •if?
ondookors with almost the swiftness
and lightness of a sunbeam. It was a
graceful, boyish tig re mounted on a
bicycle which gleamed and shone in
polished sieel and nickel-plating. And
as he came nearer and sprang beamed lightly with to
the ground, Jim’s face
surprise and pleasure as he perceived he had
that it was the same boy whom
seen more than a year before.
“Halloo!” he said, as Jim m destly
appr. ached to look at the somewhere? bicycle,
“ilavn't I seen you 1 efore
I hav e, I know; why yes, don’t yon re
mem ’ or the time I frightened your
horses:”
Jim was charmed by tho cordial rec¬
ognition, and the two toys were soon in
eaine-t discussion over tlie merits of
the different machines. Harvey Glenn
was a’ le to point out to Jim many ex
cellencies he had not before ap preci
nted, laying his hands familiarl iy on
s me of the swift, moving intri cacies
with a daring which made Jim tremble;
imp essing nira deeply, to ', by the in¬
formal in that his father represented which had
the great machine company nificent
sent a mmler of these m az
things on exhibition. The bicycle, bic adapta¬ a
m del in 1 cauty. strenglh and
tion to the use for which it was intend
ed, came in for its full share of admir
ing attention.
“This is an exhibition machine,” ex¬
plained Harvey. “Most of these made
for sale are a little heavier built, for
greater strength, and a e not got up
quite s > finely.” Jim
And in the course of ebat con¬
fided to Harvey his hopes and inten¬
tions as to himself own ng a bicycle his
someday. And Hairey insisted on
mounting this one giving him m,truc
tions in the « ay of managing it, wmen
his fairy steed, or both, had aken
wintts, the big wheel t egan to wa itite
unreasona’ ly and Jim to incline wildly
first to • one side and then the other.
Then t he little wheel grew skittish, and
as it rose o'streperouslv t ehind Jim
went down defore, amid shouts of good
humored laughter. hushed all of sudden,
But it was a
lor there came a loud anil ternoie
sound wh ch struck fear to every heart
—a stunning report, then quick rend
ing—tearing—crashing. Ana as Jim
gathered himself up. dazed, deafened
and bewildered, cries of alarm and sut
ferieg arose on the one moment or
dread silence which had followed the
shock. It was some little lime before
th ose who gathered frantically around
couuld understand that a steam-boiler
bad exploded with awful violence, deal
in<r destruction and death among the
assembled multitudes, but it was
breathing time be'ore a wau or
a from stricken ones
inimish went up smitten down at
whose own had been
th jmwls = bfiuded by quick coming
team as he ^nt over the apparently
£nn of h s
omptt* ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Jim turned half faint as ho saw blood
gathering about under li'ni on the grass. Ho
was to raise a cry for help when
a tall man knelt down by the bov with
a white face and trembling hands.
Tearing ear t o his open chest his coat ho applied h : s
“ I am a a physician.” said another
man, liu rrying ing up, and together they
made a hasty examination of injuries
wh'cli were found to be serious but not
probably “What fatal. shall I do?” said
father, looking Harvey’s
about him in distressed
perplexity, “I ought to take him to
the hotel at once—and then again, I
ought to bo seeing after more of these
poor souls and the mischief my wares
have worked.”
,,If you will trust him with me,”
said the physician, “1 will go and take
care of doctors him. than See, there here.” are already
more pat ents
Harvey “Yes--I opened ll father. his eyes. Dont bo
go, anx¬
ious—I’M soon bo all right.”
Mr. Glenn asked Jim to run for a
hack which stood little distant from
the m. But as he he pointed to the
woi .rnded boy with a few eager words
the driver stood stolidly and shook his
head.
“No—I can’t have my carri ago
spoiled couldn’t with it that again sort to-day and work, 1 can’t
use
afford it.”
With a face ablaze with indignation with
Jim hurried to another driver much
the same result.
“I’m here withaparty—can’t do any¬
thing else.” Some drivers quietly
nioied their vehicles to another part of
the grounds to avoid being called on to
assist in Uio removal ol wounded amt
dead.
“I’ve got a light wagon,” said Jim,
going back to the doctor, almost choked
with anger. “May 1 bring that?”
“Yes—quick.” with little
The scats were torn out
ceremony. Straw was placed in the bed
of the wagon, upon which Harvey was
tenderly laid. Then tho horses were
led round to where other sufferers lay
and tw ore were added to the load.
Again j 3 heart bodies grew sick and at anxious sight of
torn, ng
friends i... ' to improvise comforts and
bring sonic retief, and ho turned his half
dizzy head the other way as they passed
a building in which he knew were ly ymg
those suddenly called out of the sun
shine and the summer air and tho busU
r.css “Comeback,” and the pie: IfU whispered «■. Mr. Glenn
ns Jim took his slow way to the town.
“There’s hardly one of these heathen
drivers will hear a hand.”
Jim came back and carried two more
injured men, unknown by any TI one <
there, so far as he could learn. ten
again for others whose mourning friends
followed in a carriage. At through night , which ovor
excited by the sad scenes
he had given such ready, feeling self-forgetting if lie
aid, he went to his bed, as
never could close his kindliness eyes again. But tbe
sweet sleep watches in on boy i
steps of such, and the country s
rest was unbroken by dreams of the
day’s tragedy. When he awoke the
sun was beaming as benignly as if it
had not last shone on hearts shadowed
while time should last on what it had
then witnessed.
lie first went to the hotel at which ho
had left Harvey, and was cheered by
hearing fair accounts of his condition
and that his mother had come to him.
Then he turned his attention to his
wagon, spattered and dripped with the
marks o. his fearful loads of the day 1 ) 0 -
fore. It took him hours to wash it, in¬
quiring such an amount of energetic
scrubbing that he soon would perceived be that a
thorough in repainting condition to return necessary to its
to put it
owner. It was not lit to offer for pas¬
sengers now. He drove out to the fair
grounds, thinking he might did, indeed, see some¬
thing of his seats, and spy
wliat looked like them in a huge they pile of
ruins from the disaster, but were
quite beyond reach. He caught sight of
Harvey’s father, who turned at his ap¬
proach and gave him a warm shake of
the hand, but his attention was instant
]y claimed again by those who passed
about him.
As Jim turned his horses homeward
he was ashamed of himself that he felt
much depressed at realizing how utter¬
ly his expedition had been a failure in a
money point of view. Ashamed that
his heart, which had so stood still be¬
fore the woe of others, could give a
thought to his own light loss, in his in¬
nocent respect for the afflicted he had
not for what for a moment justly thought his due, of and applying would,
was
of course, have been willingly in paid for
his most valuable services a time of
such a need. The loss would throw
him back a year, perhaps more, in liis
pursuit of learning. But he was made
of the stuff which occasionally log cabin sends a
boy from tho prairie or the to
the White House -more of them to high
p aces in civil and military life, and,
perhaps, better, sends boys al 1 over the
length and breadth of the iand to fill
wohh y p accs as exemplars of all that
is ne ble and honorable in American
manhood he made for
Arrived at home terms
” little j, he had made at
„ more t aD
j f a j r p, e { ore the accident occurred,
——
“Halloo, here—Jim? „ v Yon , re Jim
Brand, ain’t said you?" Jim, thus hailed by
•• \>s,” moth- a
farm-hand who drove up to his
cr’s gate and spied him at work in the
garden, He turned
•• Well, here then.” away
a<j j im took a bulky letter from his
•• Anv answer?” shouted Jim.
“Guess not. Not as I was told of.”
j im caiT ; e d it in the house and sat by
mother as he opened it This was
ac#r ]„ 3 m0 nth after his venture at the
J
fair sheets of headed each
Several pape er, and
w |,jj the device of a ste am-Dower
business-like lettering, were covered on
onfc s jd,, w ;th boyish-looking hand
writing- From among these fell a
8rn all pieee of paper. Jim had never
Been man y like it, but h s hand shook
as> b rs t looking at it, be passed it to his
“xhtewas tbe letter:
“
w
oeard £rom u£ before. Fatter expected to s <3
yon njmi'i at th> fair, but couUn't find yon.
Other j> 'oployv.mtod you, too. Tiiov s iM you
tit !n t go tor your pay I'm* holjYinir FalhuFs folks. NVhv had
didn’t you? Von were a go >so.
quite a time finding out how to address you,
but tho Mcrrlvales fold 1 him. but
*• I’ve boon brought h
ilon t liko it tit all, but m >ther suya it's sure to
be all rigrht somehow or it wouldn't be so. Mr
mother’s thut sort. I'm tria l she is. 1 think
that s >rt is tho bed to have, when you’re in
troubl ‘and when you’re out of trouble, too.
“lint whnt 1 want to tell you in st of all is
that the Co.-that means, you know, ah tho
folks of the machine works, think you did the
rignt up nnu down square tntnpr by tnom ana
by everybody else that day of th* explosion.
So they send you this two hundred d liars just
to make sur ** you didn’t lose anythin}? by it,
mid father hopes its enough, and ho says you
behaved admirably, and if yon over want ft
friend you’re to come to him, find lots more of
that kind of 1 hin}?. reaches ll
“ By the time th s letter you railroad you
find my If cycle wa tinj? for you at the
station, ao you’d bettor go and got it. Father
was going to s nd you one Mmsolt but-——
now you needn't mind about it at nil, tor l
don’t believe it's going: to be so at all but somo
of the doctors think perhaps I won’t ever ride
ft bicycle any more, and l’n\ fond of mine and
don’t want any other boy should have it but
5< ™\Vo'll nil l)' Morrivale’snext summer
up tn
mid (hen i ll see you. Mother says she'll nev¬
er pc s.Kisfled till she sees .1 ini’s mother leant to tell
her hmv you atom! by us (hut time,
write any more now. You write lo mo ana I il
wr 1 1 again. Hakvey Glenn.
“IIo! Bother it, mother,” said Jim
with a great assumption of indifferene
“ they must bo the queerest folks—mak¬
ing such a fuss over wliat you’ve done
when you haven’ tdone anything at all!”
lu t “Jim’s mother” was crying as
she kissed him and lhouglitof the moth¬
er whose boy might never again ride a
bicycle, and Jim went out into a corno.•
of tho garden and looked very hard at
nothing for a long tin c.
Less than a year a’terivard Jim, fly¬
ing swi tly along with a mind intent
upon a knotty Latin construction, was
sen rcely aware of being overtaken and
li as sed'by something which then ran
into the side of Hie road, where a bicy- sud
cle fell into the grass and its rider
denly confronted him. in his over¬
whelming mg astonishment r Jim vehicle, entirely and
lost control mtrol of his own
went down in Die dust with it Pick ng
himself up, hardly deceive knowing him, hi whet 1 hands 1i<t
h seves ( lid not s
were warmly grasped, and two happier
boy-faces never, surely, looked into each
other.
“Jim!” “Harvey!
Jim stopped to gather liis books in
the littio silence which followed.
“Begging at them yet?” said Harvey,
“Y es, pushing away—but it’s slow
wo rk.” chap
“Ah, but mother says you i’rc a
that’s sure to go skiting don’t straight lip to
the very top notch—I moan, you
know, that she says just those words,
but”—his face grew grave at the
memory of tho circums.anees under
which ho had last seen Jim, “she says
when folks push with their
lieavts' oth they’re sure to win and
she says you’re Standard. that sort .”—Sydney
Duiire. in Chicaao
The Gold Product of California.
The gold pre xluct of California, from
the discovery of the pre cions nielal by
Janies W. Marshall, in the tail-race of
Sutler’s Mill, Janua: ry 19, ) 1848, to
June 80, 1881, amou. inied . to $1,170.
000,000. Of this sum $900,000,000
estimated to have been extracted from
ihe auriferous placers. '1 he remainder
represents which ihe yield tho of State gold-qua contains vtz
mines, of
man}’. The yearly product of gold in
California is from $1.1,000,000 to $20,
000,000. From the date of discovery lo
1861 inclusive, the gold product of Cal¬
ifornia aggregated $700,000,000. derived
chiefly from ihe modern river-beds and
shallow placers. A largo proportion of
the remaining $200,000,000 has been ob»
tame d in the deep gravel deposits, by it
the hydraulic n lethod. Strange as
may appear, an industry try which hascon
ti'ibuted so 1 argely to the the wealth of the
world, and 1 las been tlie means of tlie
settlement and dovelo pm ent of Ca’ifor
nia, has reached a iOll in its liistor '■y
when it is claimed by a large portion of
the community y to be a greater evil than
blessing, and the tho question of suppress¬
ing the hydraulic method of of gold-min¬ dis¬
ing has been tho subject earnest legis
cussion in and out of the halls of
lation. The law has been invoked to
suppress or control it. Even the State,
through its Attorney-General, has it. com¬ Tho
menced a su t to snppre s
trouble grows out of the immense
amount of debris which the hydraulic
miners are discharging constantly into
the water-courses of the State.- —The
Cent nr i/.
A Liit'e ( lure, Perhaps.
Sam Egly is not precisely a close
man, but he is a little frugal about his
personal expenses.. He lives out in the
country, but be comes to Austin every
once in a while to collect his rents, and
such occasions lie makes an earnest
effort to reduce He liis personal in exp< enses few to
a minimum. was towt i a
days ago. and Giihooly met him. He
looked very ill, as if ho had been run
ning for o.Ece and been defeated.
“What’s the matter. Bill?”
“Matter enough. 1 haven’tbeen able
to eat a bite they put on the table at
the hotel I am stopping at, and at
night tin bed-bugs nearly pounds eat in me three up
alive. I’ve lost ten
da fifth
“Well, what do you put up at a
rate hotel for when you come to
Austin?” don’t where there
“Because I know
is any sixth-rate hotel. Now, Giihooly,
if you know where there is a
hole!, just let me know, and I’ll patron¬
ize it. I can’t afford to spread rnys
at a fifth-rate hotel if there is asixth-n ate
hotel in the place.” — Texas Siftings.
—A writer on domestic economy in
the London Queen lays it down that one
very great mistake which young mar¬
ried peeple often begin with is paying
too high a rent. “ house rent should
never exceed a tenth of one’s income."
'There are few New Yorkers who could
gay that In the same paper another
writer says that $375 a year is a 1 arge
gjic e to take for rent out would, of an be in thought con re of
lut $2,260. Here it
quite moderate. More is paid this tor rent city
in proportion io other things world in St.
than anywhere in the save
Peter-burg. —N. Y. Sun.
flic Burglar Question-English Law
of Self-Defense.
The annually recurring burglars?” question,
“Wliat is to be done with our
presses itself on the attention of timid
householders. It is alleged law in affords some
quarters that protection the oxisting vig
insufficient to orous acts
of self-defense, and much dissatisfaction
is expressed with its assumed defects,
while in others the notion sceuu to pre¬
vail that it is no crime to take summary
vengeance with the pistol or the poker
against any nocturnal trespasser. It
may, therefore, not be unreasonable to
point out what are the limits of 1110 im¬
munity which the self-defense, law in England when gives
to measures of per¬
son or property is suddenly or violently Jes
attacked. There underlie are two of prineip the rules
which seem to most
which are laid down in text-books and
judicial decisions on this subject. The
first is that a man is justified in repel¬ the
ling forco by force. The sages of
Common Law appear always to have the
treated the Gospel injunction to turn
otner cneek to the smiter as a counsel
Of perfection. Thus it lias long boen a
good plea to an action of assault that
the plaintiff first assaulted the defend¬
ant, who, “thereupon complained necessarily com¬ his
mitted nut the assault of, in
own own defense.” defense But hero, as elsewhere,
tho law requires that there should bo
some proportion between provocation
and retaliation; and, if the return blow
were excessive in violence, or mali¬
ciously repeated, tho party giving it
would be liable both civilly and in dam
ges to the original assailant, and
criminally to the public for a breach
of tho peaco. Tho rules which
defino excusable homicide rest upon
tho same principle. Except in some
special cases assailant, of felony, a I10 man may himself not
kill his unless was
at the moment in imminent danger will of
being killed. Even then, tho act
amount to manslaughter, unless ho can
further show that “retreated before delivering far ho
mortal blow he as as
conveniently or safely could to avoid the
violence of the assault,” and did so, to
adopt the quaint language of an old
authorit t.y, “not fictitiously, or in order
to watch his opportunity, but from a
real tenderness of shedding second his principle, broth
cr’s blood.” Tho
which is commonly embodied in tho old
legal maxim that a “man’s house is his
castle,” justifies a man, although no
violence has been offered to his per
in taking the aggressive, when a tress¬
pass has been committed on his liouso
or lands. All necessary and reasonable
force may bo used to eject the intruder,
although here again the law, in her anx¬
iety to discourage breaches of tho peace,
requires that, before stronger measures
are resorted to, tbe wrongdoer shall be
jus requested to leave; and it is only inferred upon
refusal, expressed, or to do, bo that the
from his conduct, so to
right to expel him by violence arisos.
’ seek to defend his
If the trespasser
wrongful possession by force, tho right¬
ful owner may retaliate upon him, and
to avoid death, may even kill him, with¬
out being obliged, as in other cases,
first to retreat; for, as Halo says, “lie
has I he protection of his house to excuse
him from flying, as that would be to
give up the protection of tits house to
his adversary." But unless and until
his own life is in danger, the killing occupier
of a house is not justified in an
whether ho enter
by night or by dav. theory of tho
Sucli being tne general though there
law, it might the seem complaint as that it leaves were
ground for householder
tively the respcctablo powerless in tlie compara¬ of
presence resolution. a
burglar of average skill and
Tho burglar will, for obvious reasons,
not, as a rule, attack unless ho is first
attacked, and to shoot him in cold blood
would clearly not bo an act of excusable
homicide within tho ordinary hand, meaning
of the term. On the other it
would be a mere farce to commence
proceedings house, by politely and requesting follow him his
to leave the to up
refusal and by conducting “gently laying him hands” the upi front on
him, to
door. Accordingly, tbe law, recogniz¬
ing the peculiar atrocity of the crime of
nocturnal housebreaking, nnd sanction¬
ing the universal instinct which has led
all civilized codes to regard it as justi¬
fying extreme measures of self-defense,
has always treated this as a somewhat
exceptional case. As tong ago as tho
reign of Henry VII f., an act of Parlia
ment was passed by which it was pro¬
vided that, “if any person attempts to
break open a house in the night time,” of
and is killed in the attempt by one
tlie inmates, “the slayer shall bo ac¬
quitted.” This statute has since been
repealed, but the bjtteropinion appears
to do that it simply embodies the com¬
mon law, and that in substance the rule
which it lays down is still in force. It
must be remembered, however, that
the protection is only given in cases
where it is clear that a burglary is ac
tuallay being committed or attempted, while
and when the criminal is slain
engaged in the act. The law in no way
countenances the notion that any chance
nocturnal trespasser may be safely shot
at, on the suspicion, however well
founded, that ho is present with a fe
lonous purpose. But provided it were
perfectly plain that a burglary was be
ins perpetrated, the courts would doubt
less still hold that the slaughter ol the
burglar was an act justified by t he cir¬
cumstances. Upon the whole the law
in the matter seems, as tho embody English
criminal law usually does, to
the common sense view of the care, and
to steer a judicious middle course be¬
tween two equally perilous extremes. To
restrict the householder who finds him¬
self suddenly at the dead of night in the
presence of a nurglar to the same meas¬
ures of self defense which he could em¬
ploy against a mere trespasser, would
be to treat an exceptionally atrocious
crime with strangely misplaced tender¬
ness. To permit him, on the other
hand, to take away with impunity the
life of anv uninvited intruder whom he
lound on Ins premises, after eight in the
evening, on tne mere suspicion that his
victim was contemplating lead or engaged in
a frdony, would to a constant recur
renee of tragic mistakes, and would ex
pose such useful servants of the public
as policemen and firemen to intolerable
dangers .—London Spectator.
$1.50 PER ANNUM IN AD/ANCE
NUMBER
FiCTS AFT) FTTiCKES.
—One vessel was lost nt sea every
four English hours Nautical during 1881, i»si, Gazette. according accorumg In 18 to 79-80 the
there were 400 stoamboat collisions in
the North Atlantic Ocean.
—Switzerland has 1,237 cotlon mills,
employing 55,754 per rsons. There aro
182 silk factories, woolen factories, employing with 17,394 per¬
sons: 45 2,447
hands; and 7 linen Svorks, with (578
hands.
—The Massachusetts Society for the
Promotion of the Agriculture named awarded
prizes during years in for re¬
markable uno-acre potato crops Mas¬
sachusetts as follows: 1817, 402 bush¬
els; 1818, 498 bushels; 1819, 535 bush¬
els; 1820, 070 bushels; 1821, 55U 088'j bush¬
els; 1822, 547 bushels; 1823, bush
els.
—The City Government of Now York
is an expensive thing. There are 5,981
persons in tho service of the corpora¬
tion, who receive salaries amounting to
$7,511,013.71, employed not including Hoard 3,151 per¬
sons by tho of Educa¬
tion, with salaries aggrog- :, ig $2,718,-
257.92, and a hostol day t. rors and
temporary clerks.— N. F. Mail.
—I alo accounts from California no
tico tho groat incroa c in the size of tho
vineyards there. bo A considered plantation of 200
acres u-cd to a large
vineyard; now vineyards of 500 and 60s)
acros are not uncommon, and one of
1,500 Angeles. acres was It recently is expected planted that near
Eos in
three years or so California will possess
vineyards of 5,000 or 6,000 acres in ex¬
tent. The total number of acres at
present devoted to vine culture is esti¬
mated at about 100,090, all of which
will be bearing in about four years’ fifty
time, and producing about forty or
million gallons annually.
—Dr. J. Woodland writes to tho Lancet
that, having had his attention directed
to sever.! oases of great irritation of tho
feet :n I legs, causing small pustules to
arise and tho skin to subsequently fastened ex¬
foliate. and suspicion being
upon rod stockings which tho patients
wore, he carefully analyzed them. Ho
found a tin salt which is used as a mor¬
dant in fixing tho dye. lie suecoo led
in obtaining as much as 22.3 grains of this
metal in tho form of tho dioxide, and as
each timo tho articles are washed tho
tin salt is rendered more easily soluble,
the acid excretions from 1 ho feet attack
tlie tin oxido, thus forming an irritating
lluid.
—Tho record of Montanifor 1882 will
show an increase of sonic 250 miles of
railroad, an increase of 15,000 perma¬
nent residents, and the establishment of
peace among the rod men. The bullion
product will aggregate $8,000,000 in
value, while 50,009 head of cattle and
8,000,000 pounds of wool will be mar¬
keted. Tno harvests have boen abun¬
dant and prices bettor than foryo irs, and
some 50,000 acres have been added to
tho cultivated tiro a. Nearly 100,000
head of cattle and 150,000head of sheen stock
have been put upon the vast
ranges in addition to the regular and in¬
crease from herds formerly there,
over and above these evidences of) iros
perity is the prediction of a geologist
that Montana will one day in be the the Union. great¬
est coal-producing State
RELIGIOUS AM) EDUCATIONAL.
— Tho late Samuel L. Hill, of North
aropton. Mass., had given directly to
that town for educational purposes
more than $100,000.
—By a decision of a Virginia court been
tbe school fund of that State lias
increased by $500,000, one-fifth of
whi ch sum is to bo devoted to tho main¬
tenance of a colored normal school.
- During (ho past year only 108 per¬
sons joined, by (onfossion of faith, the
Protestant churches of Bpringfiold. in
Mass. Tho churches are eleven
number, and tho city contains 35,000
inhabitants.
—Tho Chicago Board of Education
has voted to do away with the morning
recess and dismiss school a quarter of
an hour before noon. This will home give
tho pupils tiieir an dinners opportunity without to hurrying. go
and get
— The, Advance.
—New Jersey has 343,626 children of
school age. The average attendance
upon tho public schools is 113.532; schools. ^4,-
560 children are in tho private during
The school receipts of the State
tho past year wore $2,140,701.84. Of
the 3,508 teach era 2,594 are women.
ber Tlie have longest reported pastorate is we that remem¬ of Hr.
to seen Episcopal
John Brown, of St. George’s nety
Chur, h, Newburgh, who is now n
one, and has bean settled with the New
burgh church for sixty-seven years.—•
N. F. Examiner.
—Bishop Huntington, of Central
New York writes to a friend; “My son
James lias gone to New York to throw
himself into a ministry to a class oven
lower and harder tiian he served here.
He has oined the order of the Holy self
Cross, a band of very devoted and
sacri(icing young clergymen tho ‘slums’ who bo
training themselves in t to
evangelists in the church at largo deny- by
arid bv. 'They livo as the poor,
ing thomselves all luxuries and somo
comforts for Christ’s sake.”
—Rev. J. 1). bbaw, of tho Methodist
Episcopal Church South, associate edi¬
tor of the Texas Christian Advocate,
has withdrawn from both church and
paper on account of heretical views on
inspiration, tho divinity of Christ, vi¬
carious atonement, and future punish¬
ment. He does not reject all these
dogmas, but is in doubt as to certain
aspects of them. He bolds that Christ
was tlie Soil of God by adoption and
shared ihe divine nature ly conjunction.
He believes that the Scriptures ought to
be interpreted only by rational pro
cesses. As to future punishment ho
accepts the idea of restorat tion.
standing in the church has 1 eon such
that in the last, general conference he
received a num! er of voles for Bishop.
Chicaao Ti mcs.
—The Wheeling Beyisler assures us
that “there is no valid reason years.’’ why a
man should not live a hundred
True enough. It is the invalid reasons
which reduce the average longevity—
LowJl Courier.