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1. J, LUMPKIN, Editor and Proprietor
■VOLUME 1.
■II i ,ixi*■ > dispatch states that the
II r ()! ,< hdluird timiiel will be com-
IS j e , ,1 |>y ih( 1 . lid of the year. This
u ,.i ~| engineering skill was em
iHltal :a I Swit/rri mil, to furnish eon-
BK e{) ;.iil ;■<>a< 1 access from Northern
KSL v ; ml ami Western (lermany to
ll ta i ,'ic route being the most direct.
!■ tsi the railroad over Mont Simp
|j| *n aiopoli/.es the tradie.
ii known weed in the Eastern
-of ilie I’iiion which farmers call
Hhe I 'evil’s plant.,” produces a liber
|Hhas been discovered to be iar su
|S io jute for rope making, etc. Giti
m,, of New Jersey are now interesting
H(| K . rive- iii its cultivation for mechant
I|]J ii.- The annual importation of
|i;> into this country for similar pur
rs is estimated at $ 10,000,000, and if
“Devil's plant” can supercede it to
t amount, it deserves a better name.
1 now law against tramps enacted
bvftiio I’emisylvania legislature: Every
[■ i> to he arrested and imprisoned
tW< ve months in a county jail; every
Mft i'U entering a hoasc, or kindling a
fin mi a highway, or discovered with a
weapon which lie uses for in
tin elation, is to l>e imprisoned three
ycf i>. The act of begging is made prima
im- evidence that the person is a tramp.
which requires such a law as this
rnu-t l>c overrun with desperadoes, and
thit is what is the matter with Pfehnsyl
viiia. The tramps, under the pressure
of dm new law', arc already pouring into
Mlryland and New York.
■Vrilio annual meeting of the stock
}lMlet’s of the T exas Pacific railroad at
l iphia an issue of bonds not to cx
cc| and 820,000 a mile was authorized to
cii iplcte the road from Fort Worth
wj itoßa n Diego. The distance is 1,200
'-0i and the loan will therefore amount
000.000. There are now in opera _
liln M I miles of road, and the net in
ccLik* last year was $055,404.26. The
vr mw lever last year reduced the busi'-
the company about nine per cent.
'■ die company succeed in readily dispos
al 1,1 their bonds, it will not be long be-
W di c'i s. Jay ( build and Huntington
wi I iiml themselves confronted by a eomi
■tmg Inmseontinental line.
■ 1 M'liiu:!:<>rxi> ice is the natural cu-
new offered by a Minnesota
#aj!:p. Recently the governor of that
H ; ' tr 'O'pointeil eommissioners to appraise
silt lands in Breckinridge County,
dm course of their search they came
3"’ u a a, 'K c tract oi quaking bog land.
J don was a line of mounds from six to
d>! feet in diameter at the base and
lilteen to thirty icet high, of a con
■a> bnii, the slope being about forty-five
These mounds were a shaking
t<> their summits, where was found
■ ' uvular opening six to eight feet in di
iiim ! r, li lcd with clear, cold water, and
■ unknown depth, a pole eight feet long
H ri> ig iheir only means of testing the 1 at
■ Most singular of all, a few feet
11 I 'lese wells, upon digging from six
■ "ii to twenty-four inches, a solid body
0 ice was found.
\ vshington dispatch says of the
V " !,| \ h-dienes award: “The extrava
"t ihe award lias been very fully
' ,1( and by the figures now in the pos
<t the (b)vernment. The market
“• ali the fisli taken by American
!l “ n * ,n within the three-mile limit,
die treaty of Washington, July 1,
the Magdalen islands,
Y" hihradorcoast and that part of New
I ,!l ' in which we were entitled to
hue the treaty, was, as nearly as
1,(1 : $221,238. A report
1 °Jlector Babson, of Gloucester,
•urtlier that the entire catch in the
Lawrence in 1878, by 120
1 t|, "in Clouccstcr, was 30,448 bar
mackerel of all kinds, worth, ex"
■ l IISIV<I of packing, etc., $137,148. Of
B ‘ "iimherof barrels, 30,448, but 8,750,
Y, !l ' were taken within the
T 1,1 lli; le point of the shores of the Do
■tniiiiun,"
I h*>mnson’s recent letter to ex-
I 1 Seymour, on the exercise of the
lemoning power, should be made the
■ s X! c d every governor in the United
I ’''t< s. Ihe tendency has been to sym
j u n/ '' " ll h the forgers and defaulters,
" i ■msc they are usually intelligent and
I ll< h and men, and, when one of them is
I '' ;lu fc r “t, it is not difficult for his friends
| . 1 u i’‘ l petition tor his speedy release
I m t.u ignomingy of penitentiary con
"i( IK ‘- Gov. Robinson says he does
I (1 s hould make a distinction
in convicts. “Tf I should pardon,” says
he, “any or all of these fifteen negroes,
would if not inevitably bring reproach
upon the administration of justice?
Would it not be said, and truly said, that
the state enforces two different rules of
justice, one a mild one in behalf of res
pectable and well-educated criminals,
who fully realize the nature of their
crimes when they committed them, and
another and far more severe one against
the poor, the friendless and the ignorant,
many of whom committed the crimes
for which they are suffering because
they knew r no better? Can this be con
sistently done by a government founded
upon the principle of ‘equal and exact
justice to all men?” ’ Jt is the continuous
exercise of “executive clemency” which
lias largely contributed to the promotion
of crime. A governor of a state should
really not be given the power he has in
the matter of pardons. There should be
a board of pardons, composed of the gov
ernor and half a dozen of the leading
citizens (not politicians), who, periodi
cally, shall take into consideration the
petitions sent in for the pardon of
offenders.
Kheredine Pasiia’s retirement from
the Grand Viziership at Constantinople
was due to the fact that the Sultan declined
to relinquish his prerogative of absolutsim
or personal government which inhered
in his predecessors. Kheredine desired
to introduce such administrative reforms
as would make Turkey least a tenta
tively free government. He proposed
the appointment of a cabinet to act inde
pendently until it was replaced by
another, and to be responsible not only
to the Sultan,but to a legislative assembly.
This programme the Sultan knew would
force him to abdicate his absolute powers,
and having referred it to the Shcik-ul-
Islam, the head of the church, of course
secured a decision to the effect that
Kheredine’s plan w r as a Violation of the
Koran, and Aarifi Pasha took Khered
ine’s place. This might have been ex
pected from the course of the Sul tat) with
regard to the parliament organized in
1877 at the suggestion of Midhat Pasha.
As soon as the members of the parliament
began to talk reform,the Sultan dismissed
them, and the parliament was wiped out.
Any form of liberal government in Tur
key involves the abandonment of Mo
hammedan traditions, and the Sheik-ul-
Islam is always ready to interpose his
ecclesiastical power to prevent the latter
eventually. It is reported that the Sul
tan is now' looking about for somebody
to “save the empire,” but it is beginning
to be very apparent that nobody can
“save the empire,” unless a complete
revolution takes place in the form of
government —and the house of Ottoman
is bitterly opposed to the abandonment
of the tradition of the Koran as- the
source of civil and religious law.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
Raleigh, N. C., has seventeen factories, j
The population of Texas is estimated;
at 1,920,400.
Mormon missionaries are at work in
Bland county, Va.
One ward in New Orleans has 11,000
colored Catholics.
Coal has been discovered in South
Carolina, near Augusta.
There are forty-four doctors at the
flot Springs of Arkansas.
The South Carolina sea island cotton
crop promises a good yield.
Anew and rich vein of gold has been
discovered near Washington, (Ja.
The Atlanta Dispatch advocates the
employment of Chinese labor in the South.
Around Knoxville, Tennessee, there
arc 150 acres devoted entirely to grape cul
ture.
’Phe farmers of Pamlico county, N. C.,
are getting mad because the bears are eating
up their corn crop.
The two daughters of Gen. R. E. Lee,
Misses Mary and Mildred, are spending the
summer in Norway.
It is estimated that the impeachment
of tin* Georgia controller-general will cost
from SIO,OOO to $30,000.
The Memphis Appeal says that every
block of the Nihcolson pavement must he de
stroyed after the fever is over.
Nashville has a colored people’s co
operative emigration club, an association
formed to encourage emigration to Kansas.
A man in Baltimore, Md., lias invented
a suit of flying clothes. You put them on,
and by working your arms the flight heaven
ward begins.
The enthusiasm about “Pinafore”
seems unabated in New York. '1 he other
night it was given at the Aquarium, in that
city, to a crowded house.
There is hut one republican newspaper
published daily, throughout the Southern
states, and that is a German one, in San
Antonio, Texas. This may be mortifying to
Northern republicans, but very gratifying to
the Southern people.
Compressed air has been experimented
with, of late, in the Second venue line of
cars, in New York, with such success that
the company is' seriously considering the
wisdom of adopting the system instead of
horses, as at present.
RISING FAWN, DAI)E COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1879.
‘ Faithful to the Fight, fearless Against the Wrong.”
Some one in Atlanta asked General
Toombs, the other day, if he would he a
candidate for governor. “No, sir!” was the
emphatic reply; “I have not a single qualifi
cation—never made an agricultural speech in
mv life, and don’t know' a single Sunday
school hymn.”
The amount of water now used in New r
York is so great that the superintendent of
the w ater works has issued mi order compell
ing all manufacturers to place gauges upon
their hydrants, so that the exact amount they
use can be ascertained. It is thought that
tliis will prevent the outrageous waste that
now exists.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun : There
is in Sandersville a totally blind negro man
who is a professional well-digger. He not
only digs and cleans out wells, but can rive
boards and shingles, and nail them on a
house in as straight a line as though he had
perfect sight.
The branch of the United States Home
and Dower association, which was estab
lished by one E. A. Whitcomb in Atlanta
some months since, and advertised “ money
to loan,” has proven to he a swindle, and Mr.
Whitcomb lias disappeared with some $6,000
of the citizen’s money.
Shipping shells front the coast to the
interior and the North seems likely to bo
(piite an industry in Florida. Mr. S. Jones,
of Tampa, will soon ship on two schooners
thirteen car-loads, among which will be a
quantity of paving shells sufficient for six
miles of a roadway at Chicago.
Some fishermen have invented a novel
wav of capturing fish at Seneca lake, N. Y.;
they have dammed oft’ a small portion of the
lake, and in this dam are several gates. At
times they are opened for the fish to run in,
and then quickly shut them down, by means
of a small engine, the water is then pumped
out, and there are a quantity of fine trout,
bass and pickerel.
St. Augustine (Fla.) Press: It is re
ported that an English company of capitalists
will attempt to build a Florida ship canal in
opposition to the French company, and over
a slightly different route. Mr. Reid, member
of the British parliament, will, it is stated,
soon come to this country in behalf of the
British company.
Abingdon (Va.) Standard : Colonel A.
M’Donaid, fish commissioner of Virginia, and (
W. F. Page, were in town on Wednesday,
with a view of establishing a station at or
near Abingdon, for the purpose of propagat
ing mountain trout and other fish with which
our Southwest Virginia, steams are to be
stocked.
Columbia (8. C.) Register: Copt. Toby,
while on a recent visit,to North Carolina,
discovered in the mountains a quantity of
very fine-grained white nyuble. It had a
very beautiful red vein running through it,
resembling a fern leak Some of the rock
projected twenty-five or thirty feet out of the
ground, and there seemed to be' do end To
the deposit there. In the same neighborhood
h found - o of the some kind of rok
having a buff* color with similar streaks
through it.
Cartersville (Ga.) Express: Mr. John
L. Moon stepped aboard the accommodation
train at Allatoona with a large stone in his
hand which glistened with silver. He had
just made a blast from the cut of the railroad
track one and a half miles below Allatoona,
and discovered that he had struck the richest
silver vein yet found in that locality. Many
tests have been made of specimens taken
from that vein, which show that they contain
forty-one and a half per cent, of lead, and
silver to the amount of $42.50 to the ton of
ore.
Tuesday’s Memphis Appeal: When it
is remembered that there were no cases otfi
eiallv reported at this time last year, and
that the weather during the past few days
has been unusually cool and pleasant, the
situation must be considered very discourag
ing. With less than live thousand whites in
the city, and most of these exempt on ac
count of previous attacks, the list of new
cases is very large. The fever is rapidly
spreading among the negroes, and four of
yesterday’s deaths were among that class of
citizens. The official report, since July 10,
shows four hundred and twelve eases, and
one hundred and eight deaths.
YELLOW FEVER NOTES-
The Appeal says that it is a protection
to a Memphis house from the burglar* to
have a yellow flag in front of if.
One hundred deaths occurred from
yellow fever at Havana for the week ending
Aug. l(i, an increase of seven over the pre
vious week.
The schooner Susan Stetson, from Mira
goane for Providence, K. J., lost the Cap
tain’s wife at Hayti, and two seamen on the
voyage, from yellow fever.
From the 9th of July up to Sunday,
531 eases of yellow fever have been reported
at the office of the Memphis Hoard of Health;
263 were whites, and out of that number 115
died, while out of the 236 black cases only
twenty died.
Memphis Ledger: Our colored brethern
are likely to have an up-hill business with
their relief and free ration project. The
honesty and fair dealing of those who have
the meagre fund in hand is openly discussed,
and leading people among fne colored folks
express doubts as to the scheme ever reach
ing respectable proportions.
FOREIGN.
There is in London a “society for pre
venting street accidents and dangerous driv
ing.”
A recent storm in Denmark destroyed
over one hundred farm-houses, killed fifty
persons and did incalculable damage to
crops.
In consequence of the active American
demand, every large iron-making district in
the Kingdom is showing unmistakable signs
of revival.
The new Austrian ministry will main
tain the army at its present strength, Avill
pfultill the occupation project, and strengthen
the tendencies toward protection. A change
in the ministry of Hungary is probable.
England has but 250,000 land holders.
France has 6,000,000. According to reliable
statistics she has 5,000,000 small farmers. It
is estimated that England has 1,000,00 pau
pers. In France the pauper population is
very small.
At Para, in Brazil, 14,000 people are
dependent upon charity. Lately the supplies
were stopped to them, and the citizens of the
town were very apprehensive, for fear tlie.se
hungry mortals would seek it. The militia
was called out.
Col. Olcott writes from Bombay that
some of the Par See merchants, who were
bankrupted by Lee’s surrender, imagined
that our war was between the people of
North. America and those of South America!
And many of them think so to-day.
Ti e state department says Germany is
disposed to regard favorably the proposals of
this government for a further joint consider
ation of the bimetallic subject, and hopes the
present effort will result in a Bimetallic con
gress in which all the leading states of Europe
will ] articipate.
Some of the victims of the Glasgow*
bank swindle, pine and die, and papers
occasionally refer to those who have gone to
an- ii timely grave. R. Callwcll of Inverness,
was a year ago worth •4550,000. His thirty
shares in the bank made him penniless at 70
years of age, and lie was lately found dead in
Jl is bml.
Two of the principal cotton manufac
turing firms of the Dale district, Glasgow,
have given notice of a five per cent, reduc
tion 'since the beginning of the depression.
These are the only mills running on full time.
It is feared the rest of the mills, running
only four days a week, will follow, reducing
operations to the lowest condition.
The heavy failures in Montreal do not
present a strong argument in favor of the
new < anndian policy of “protection of home
industry.” That policy is growing very un
popular, especially among farmers and rail
road md vessel owners. The latter find that
they already have to face a falling off of
$ 18,(HiO,000 in the handling of American pro
dime, and smuggling over the border has be
come a regular business.
The United States Consul at Manches
ter, England, says the failure of the crops is
much more serious than generally supposed
abroad. The demand in England for meats
and grains from the United States will be
enormous. Business is greatly depressed.
Last year more than 80,(KM) persons were sup
ported in Manchester by the public. The
coming winter will probably witness still
greater destitution.
MISCELL AN EOUN.
Preparations are making for a direct
steamship line between New Orleans and
Havre.
t Over 40,000 pounds of glycerine are
, used annually in the United States for mixing
with beer.
The cultivation of sugar in the south
ern provinces of Cuba lias greatly increased
this year.
Cleburne county, Texas., can produce
s,U<¥> barrels of .mustang wine which, at $1
per is worth $200,000. The Austin
Statesman says that it is an infinitely better
table wine than the best imported claret.
Cfeorge Mclntosh, a notorious Arkansas
mftrderer, ha* at last been captured, after
lying in the forest of the Cache river bottom
sifice 1873, iit’defianee of all officers of the
law. Ile.was.tak'eu through the strategy of
J i in.
A collision on the Atlantic City Nar
row-guage railroad between an excursion
train of nine cars and a freight
Atlantic City resulted in the (Math mtiw
persons and the slight two others.
The temperance movement which be
gan in Ireland a year or two ago, and re
sulted in the early closing of all the saloons
in the country aud cities on Sunday, lias ex
tended to England. Already petitions, con
taining nearly 259,000 signatures, have been
presented in parliament for closing public
houses in England qkd Wales on Sundays.
Anew variety potato is being
cultivated in Kern county the extreme south
eastern corner of California. They call it
ocean queen. Ricked specimens weigh from
fifteen to eighteen and twenty-two pounds.
The yield is so we at that they are fed to
hogs, which thrivPaniazingly and make extra
pork. Recent tests suggest that they will
make better and cheaper sugar than beets.
The Mormon Question.
While the killing of Standing, the
Mormon elder, was a casual incident in
the run of events, it has done much to
wards hurrying on what promises to be
a very severe struggle—probably a final
one —between the Mormons and the
monogamists. We see signs of disturb
ance in various quarters. In North
Carolina there are rumors of a local dis
turbance that may become a very serious
riot—in Salt Lake City, Delegate Cannon
and several leading apostles are in jail be
cause of their contempt of Judge Bore
man —and in Illinois an elder has just
been shuffled out of a neighborhood. Al
together the sky is rather lurid for the
polygamists.
The growing restlessness of the public
sentiment on this subject shows very
clearly that vigorous efforts will be made
to stamp out the polygamic abomination,
and that decided and repressive steps will
be taken. On the other hand, the pros
perous condition of the Mormons, their
ability to make an ugly fight—the stern
ness of their fanaticism and the hopeless
ness of ready submission —the defiant
tone of the Mormon press |and leaders —
all these things combine to show that the
sons of Dan will not be wiped out with
out a struggle. Already they are arming
themselves and preparing for resistance
to the decrees that they believe to he un
just. It is not at all unlikely that we
shall see very soon as a* variation to the
monotonous Indian wars of the Western
frontier a Mormon war in Salt Lake val
ley.—]Atlanta Constitution.
The Man Who Deserted Lulu.
It is asserted in all military circles
that the sentence of the court martial
upon Captain Carey was death. This
explains very naturally why Lord
Chelmsford did not give effect to it.
That unlucky General has been guilty of
many blunders; but he has, at least,
escaped the worst of all. But more than
this. The Duke of Cambridge, who has
been very bitter against Carey from the
first, is loath that the unhappy man
should escape scot free. The story goes
that he has urged the Queen to use the
royal prerogative and dismiss Captain
Carey, as she can, from the service. To
this her Majesty is most decidly opposed.
Rumor has it that her august sympathies
were never withheld from him from the
first, and that since the Empress wrote,
begging that he might not suffer any
punishment, the Queen lias been quite
resolute in his favor. —[London World.
Hoetry.
THE EMPTY CRADLE.
Sad is the heart of the mother,
Who sits bv the lonely hearth,
Where never again the children
Shall waken their songs of mirth;
And si ill through the painful silence
She listens for voice and tread,
Outside of the heart—there only
She knows that they are not dead.
Here is the desolate cradle,
The pillow* so lately pressed,
But lar away has the birdling
Flown from its little nest.
Crooning the lullabies over
That once were her babe’s delight,
All through the misty spaces
She follows its upward (light.
Little she thought of a moment
So gloomy and sad as this,
When close to her heart she gathered
Her child for its good-night kiss.
She should be tenderly cherished,
Never a grief should she know;
Wealth, and the pride of a princess,
These would a mother bestow*.
And this is the darling’s portion
In heaven —where she has tied ;
By angels securely guarded.
By angels securelv led.
Brooding in sorrowful silence
Over the empty nest,
Can you not see through the shadows
Why it is all for the best?
Better the heavenly kingdom
Than riches of earthly crown,
Better the early morning (light
Than one when the sun is down ;
Better an empty casket
Than jewels besmirched with sin;
Safer than these without the fold
Are those that have entered in.
LEE’S BATTLES.
Ouo of His Private Letters on Gettys
burg; and Fredericksburg.
Southern Historical Papers for Sep
tember contain the following private let
ter from General R. E. Lee:
“As to the battle of Gettysburg, I must
again refer you to the t^fikdal,accounts.
Its loss was occasioned by a condonation
of circumstances. It was commenced in
the absence of correct intelligence. It
was continued in the effort to overcome
the difficulties by which we were sur
rounded, and it would have been gained
could one determined and united blow
have been delivered by our whole line.
As it was, victory trembled in the bal
ance for three days, and the battle re
sulted in the infliction of as great an
of injury as was received, and in
mtsming the Federal campaign for the
season.
I think you will find the answer to
your third question in my report of the
battle of Fredericksburg. In taking up
the position there it was with a view of
resisting General Burnside’s advance
after crossing the Rappahannock, rather
than of preventing the passage.
The plan of Fredericksburg is com
pletely commanded by the heights of
Stafford, which prevented our occupying
it in the first instance. Nearly the
whole loss that our army sustained dur
ing the battle arose from the pursuit of
the repulsed Federal column into the
plain. To have advanced the whole army
into the plain for the purpose of attack
ing General Burnside would have been to
have insured its destruction by the fire
from the continued line of guns on the
Stafford hills. It was considered more
wise to meet the Federal army beyond
the reach of their batteries than under
their muzzles, and even to invite repeated
renewal of their attacks. When con
vinced of their utility it was easy for
them, under cover of a long, dark and
tempestuous night, to cross the narrow
river by means of their numerous bridges
before we could ascertain their purpose.
I have been obliged to be very brief in
my remarks, but I hope I have been able
to present to you some facts which may
be useful to you in dnnGng dßrect con
clusions. I must ask tlua ylm will con
sider what I have said as intended solely
for yourself. Very respectfully and
truly yours, R. E. Lee.
Lechery and Cowardice,
Referring to the Colliding-Sprague
affair, the New York Graphic pointedly
remarks: The story of the Naira ean sett
Pier scandal, as the details arc made pub
lic, places Senator Roscoe Conkling in an
extremely awkward position.. Unless he
can clear himself he will stand convicted
of having stolen into another man’s house
with the intention of destroying the
peace and happiness of that home. His
conduct when confronted by the bereaved
husband bears the stamp of cowardice.
Lechery and cowardice can not be for
given in a person assuming to occupy a
high public position. We very much
believe that in the State of Rhode Island
lies the grave of Roscoe Conkling’s poli
tical future.
An Ugly Mess.
It is stated that four of the consuls of
the principal nations having commercial
connection with this port have, since the
inauguration of the quarantine, taken
careful data of the detention of vessels
sailing under their flags, which were pro
vided with clean bills of health, together
with the value of their cargoes, and an
estimate of the loss entailed by this ille
gal detention. It is asserted that a bill
of damages the aggregate loss which
this entails'"’ill be presented to the
United States Government, and claims
made under the commercial treaties with
those nations. —[New Orleans Times.
It requires about as long to get a
girl well out of her 10th year a* for a
horse to get beyond “8 years old this
spring.”
TT RMS SI.OO per Annum, in Advance
NUMBER 43.
HEAL A\l> MIMIC.
Dora seated at the play*
Weeps to see the hero perish—
Hero of a Dresden day,
Fit for china nymphs to cherish;
Oh, that Dora’s heart would he
Half .so soft and warm for me!
When the flaring lights are out
llis heroic deeds are over,
Gone his splendid strut and shout,
Gone his raptures of a lover,
While my humdrum heart you’d find
True, though out of sight and mind.
HI ails and
A sociable man is one who, when he
has ten minutes to spare goes and bothers
somebody who hasn’t.
It is estimated that the people of the
United States consume three thousand
barrels of liver-pills a year, and vet there
is occasionally a man left to reach his
end by a railroad collision.
No comedian can make as laughable a
face as that made by a small boy when be
brings a jelly jar down from the closet
shelf and discovers it to be full of ten
pennv-nails.
“No, I can’t stay,” replied a gentle
man who was invited to stay all night at
the house of a friend. “ Before morning
my wife would be out with a lantern,
like Diogenes, hunting for an honest
man.”
A YOUNG lady pupil of a high school
put on a mass of false hair, penciled her
eyebrows, rouged her cheeks, etc., and
then went to the commencement and
read her essay, entitled, “Deception a
Prevailing Folly.”
Drink is healthy, if you believe the
New York Dispatch, ‘it says: “He
had a beer-breath with gin borders and
whisky trimmings, and the most healthy
town wouldn’t have given ten cents for
him if it were crazy to start a grave
yard.”
The New York Commercial Adverti
ser says : “ The young ladies that you
see at Coney Island are not the rich and
ugly kind you see at Saratoga. They
are dashing actresses, flirting shop girls,
and the handsomest women in the
world.”
George Hager and Dave Hutchin
son, of Kentucky, had a quarrel about a
female, and Hager fired a charge of beans
from a shot-gun into Hutchinson, with
out injuring that person in the slightest.
Mr. Hutchinson was lately from Boston,
and rather enjoyed it.
Minister Lowell finds his position a
very unpoetical one. He says his chief
business at Madrid is to tell people when
the museums aretrpen, what theatres to
go to, who are the best millliners and tai
lors, and when presentations are to be
made at court.
The discomforts of church pews is
commented upon by the Christian at
Work, which say: “ Concerning pews
and chairs, why is it that modern inven
tion fails to furnish even a comfortable
pew or chair? The bench of the ordinary
church pew is fourteen inches wide,
whereas it should be eighteen. 1 ’
“ I was once very shy,” said Sydney
Smith, “but it was not long before I
made two vefy useful discoveries: First,
that all mankind were not solely em
ployed in observing me (a belief that all
young people have); the next, that sham
ming was .of no use; that the world was
very clear-sighted, and soon estimated
man at his just value. This cured me,
and I determined to be natural and let
the world find me out.”
A VESPER PRAYER.
The day becomes more solemn and serene
When noon is past; there is a harmony
In autumn and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or
seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been.
Thus let thy power, which like the truth
Of nature on my passive youth
Descended, to my onward life supply
Its calm, to one who worships thee,
And every form containing thee,
Whom, spirit fair, thy spells did bind,
To fear himself and love all humankind.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley.
An (dd fellow, living on the West
Side, who is a flirt, and who has a son
just entering juvenile society, made a
terrible mistake the other night. A note
was laid on his plate which said : “ Miss
pany Tuesday evening.” He combed
his bald head and went there. A little
girl ushered him into the parlor. “Is
Miss in?” said he. “ Yes, that is
my name,” said the girl. “ Isn’t Johnny
coming to-night?” Johnny was his son.
It all occurred to the old man in a mo
ment. He thought Miss was an older
sister. He wiped his bald head, took his
hat and said, “No, Johnny has the cholera
infantum. Just called to toll you he
wouldn’t be here.” And the old party
went out and kicked himself. —[Mil-
waukee Sun.
Of the English writer and lawyer
Judge Talfourd, a very delightful story
is told. At one corner of Russell square,
near his house, an old woman had for
several years kept an apple stall where
he frequently made a small purchase.
Standing at his parlor window one very
wet day, Talfourd observed the poor did
creature in her usual place, and crouch
ing down wet through with the pelting
rain. The sight aroused all his kind and
pitying nature. He tried in vain to pur
sue his literary or legal labors; again
and again he went to the window to see
the same distressing sight. At last he
threw on coat and hat, rushed off into the
rain, purchased an enormous gingham
umbrella, and brought it back triumph
antly and placed it over the old woman.
“ Wasn’t it a glorious thought ?” he was
heard to ask. “The thing actually cov
ered her and her apple-stall, too,”