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jß<idc €ountil o>;izctte. Cpo . 2 - G. W. M. TAIUM, Editor and Proprietor. volume iv. TOHCS OF THE HAT. Tue President has approved the Anti- Polygamy bill. Congress will probably not adjourn before the Ist of July. Congress baa decided that the China man oan be kicked out. Ex-Senator Conkling is to retire from politics for the present. Jay Gould is tired of business annoy ances, and is thinking seriously of re tiring. i The President is said to look favorably upon the matter of pardoning Sergeant Mason. Now', then, if the President has no objection, the Chinese will quit discov ering us. The first snow blockade of the winter, in the Northwest, occurred on the 22d of March. Guiteau has refused $350 for the suit of clothes he wore w'hen he Bhot the President. President Arthur entertained Gen eral and Mrs. Grant at a grand dinner a few days ago. The wheat crop in Indiana is reported to be 20 per cent, above that of an average year. Cadet Whittaker may go free, and now perhaps he will make it a point to take better care of his ears. England likes Moody and Sankey so well that she has invited them to a year’s engagement in the evangelical work. The press of Chili thinks that country could bounce the United States. Yes, bounce like a rubber ball, just about. Eashion is doing away with the long string of bridesmaids at weddings, for which many a fond pap)a will thank his stars. The good people of Chicago arc still fighting the Sunday theatricals. Mean while theatrical performances on Sunday move right along. We observe by our exchanges that contributions for Sergeant Mason’s “ Betty and the Baby ” have become general throughout the country. Bora the political parties in Cincin nati have nominated Judge Force for Judge of the Superior Court. This is forcing matters with a vengeance. Cincinnati carpenters have laid out to striko the Ist of May, if their de mand for an increase of wages is not ac ceded to. The carpenters are a striking set. Cardinal Manning’s doctor ordered him to drink wine, and the Cardinal re fuses to do so. It now stands the Cardi nal in hand to bounce the family physician. Statistics show that Mormons increase their numbers, annually by immigration, 2,000. Add to this the increase by births and you have something frightful to think about. The New York Sun says Sullivan has brought the prize ring into disrepute. Good! Will somebody now erect a momument to Sullivan ? His act should be ennobled. Fathionable swells in the East now wear but one eye-glass, as do the snobs of London. Well, we are glad the idea of wearing eye-glasses is at least half discarded, anyhow. Whittaker’s ultimate aim is to be come an officer in the army, whether permitted to finish his course at West Point or not. He will apply for the position of Second Lieutenant. The War Department has provided for issuing 600,000 rations for the suffer ers from the Mississippi overflow. Aid can not come too soon to the distressed people of that desolated valley. The House Appropriation Committee cut the tail off of tho Postoffice appro priation bill—the franking privilege— and it is now a question whether it will get back on again. The members of the House must feel pretty bad about it. Tnp, remarkable feature of Nicodemus, a negro colony of 367 families, in Gra ham County, Kansas, is the entire ab sence of money. There are churches, school-houses, and stores, but the trad ing has to be done by bartering the pro duce of the farms. The Louisville Courier-Journal says “ an Ohio man died after drinking a glass RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, LSS2. of water.” We are glad to know he didn’t die before drinking the water, be cause in the latter case he’d failed to carry out the traditional Ohio idea success. Better always to drink before you die. The apportionment bill requires most of the States to redistrict, and the thing that is most irritating to both political parties in the several States is, how it can be done to the best political advant age. There is little scruple as to how outrageous a figure the redistricting will cut on the Congressional map. Had Oscar Wilde come to this country in ordinary citizen’s clothes, there are very few people who would have ever heard of him. The secret of his fian cial success has been in the extensive advertising he received as a result of his outlandish way of dressing. His ideas, while they aro pronounced “fair to good,” are not new, and decidedly com mon-place for the times. “Betty and the Baby” constitute Sergeant Mason’s family, and in several eastern cities contribution boxes with these words upon them are located in prominent thoroughfares for the recep tion of nickels. Such a box in the Baltimore American office received 450 nickels in one day. It seems that “Betty and the Baby” will be taken care of, whatever may be the fate of the bad marksman. Excessive drink and malaria are said \ to be very similar in their effects upon the human system in Washington, and a Congressman who does not have an oc casional attack of malaria is looked upon as a very fortunate person. If the Potomac flats are drained as a means of abating malarial influences, statesmen who get sick from one cause, and doctor for the other, will have a delightful time explaining matters. “Monaco, whose 10,000 inhabitants live entirely on the profits of the gaming tables, has 164 priests to look after its spiritual welfare.” That statement sounds unreasonable, and we should refuse to believe ft had it corns from any otliu source than the Cincinnati Gazette. One hundred and sixty-four priests to the 10,000 inhabitants is a fraction over one priest to each sixty persons. And pet all these people excepting the priests—are gamblers ! Impossible ! Anthony Comstock is making anew move against the lottery companies, and lie says he will make a test case against two Brooklyn men who have drawn the 830,000 prize in the Louisiana lottery. Ho is said to have discovered a section of the New York revised statutes, pro viding that all money so won shall be forfeited to the poor in the county where the money is deposited. The money was in bank, but the lucky ones took fright, drew it out, and one of them is already on his way to Europe. Speaker Keifer has removed Mr. Henry S. Hayes, one of the official sten ographers of the National House, and appointed a Mr. Dawson, of lowa. This change has caused general surprise, as Mr. Hayes was one of the best sten ographers in the country, and bis work in committees and elsewhere about the Capitol for years past has always given great satisfaction. His synopses of de bates in Congress were unequaled, and his removal will prove a loss to Congress and the public. The escape of Nihilists from Siberia is becoming quite a common thing. The telegraph announces that a fresh lot i have recently escaped. As the geog- I raphy of the intervening country be comes better understood, the number of escapes will increase, and the alternative left for the Russian Governnent, if it desire to keep persons banished con fined on a territory, will be to secure some great island large enough for the purpose and build a great wall around it, upon which sentries may be placed. The Sanitary Engineer says the dan* ger that a midwife may carry contagious disease from one bedside to another was the subject recently of some remarks by a physician to the Cleveland Board of Health. He stated that recently, in his practice, a German wife had conveyed puerperal fever to three patients, all of whom had died. The physician had cautioned the w omen when she was at tending the original case of the fever, telling her she might be the means of conveying it to others, but his word was disregarded, and three lives, he believes, Bacrified in consequence. The Board of Health were sufficiently impressed by Hie statement to instruct the Health officer to cause her arrest under a Uw governing the conveyance of contagious diseases. The “rush for Texas” of a year ago nas now merged itself into a “rush for Dakota.” This is doubtless owning to “Faithful to the Right, Fearless .Against Wion^.” climatic influences. Tue incessant warm temperature of the Lone Star State un fits its water for drinking purposes—a most important item to be considered by the immigrant—while the soil is not un iversally good farming land by a long shot. It is, in point of fact, a grazing country. On the other hand the climate of Dakota is cool—-decidedly cool usu ally—but the winter just past it has been unusually mild in that section of the country. Farming there is proseouted with the greatest success, and taking all things together, there is doubtless no better section of country' for general purposes. Let the “rush” go on. Da kota is a vast Territory and there is plenty of room in it. BILL’S BLOOMS. Mr. Arp Laments flic Frost Nipping of llis Peaches. HE ALSO CONTINUES lIIS LAMENTA TIONS AND TALKS WISER THAN USUAL —HE TELLS SOME GOOD STORIES, TOO, ABOUT JUDGE LOCIIRANE, TEXAS RANGER AND THE INDEPENDENTS. [From the. Atlanta Constitution.] Nipped in the bud. It looks like there is no security from anything. Ours was no second-hand orchard : we planted it and the blooms for three years have looked so sweet and promising, and now this is the third year the fruit has been killed. I suppose we could have built little fires all about, but who knows when to build ’em ? It is poor comfort to build ’em when there i3 no danger. Reckon we will just have to keep the orchard for the flowers, like we do a crab-apple tree, for they are mighty pretty. One of my neighbors lives un der the western slope of a mountain and his fruit is never killed. He had plenty last year, but tlie sun don’t rise at his house till it’s about two hours high, and that w'ouldn’t suit my folks at all. Well, it might suit the folks but it w'ouldn’t suit my business. It would be dinner time before breakfast. The peach crop is very uncertain among these Cherokee hills but most everybody can have a few trees around the house where they are protected. We can’t expect to have all the good things in our place. My Irish potatoes were killed down the other morning, and that hurt my feelings, for I was a little proud that T was ahead of my nabors. But they will come out again, and so there is some comfort left and a good deal of hope. Hope says the peaches are not all killed, for a man can’t examine all the blooms, and may be there will be enough for the children. That is the main thing after all; enough for the children is what the world is working for ; enough money, or land, or food and clothing enough pleasure and happiness. How we do love ’em and worry over ’em by night and by day. If we had no children I think I would just quit work and toil right suddenly and —go a fishing. But there is not much time to frolic on a farm at this season of the year, for my almanac says, “About this time plant corn,” and we are doing it all around these parts. I can sit on my piazzer and look into five farms and see the darkies and the mules and hear ’em, too, and its gee and haw, and git along Pete, and whar you gwine, Nell, come round dar, I tell you; and there’s uo end to th’s kind of affection ate, one-sided discourse until the horn blows for dinner, and then the most knowing mules give a bray all round Its astonishing how much they do know and can be made to understand. I had a big mule who would never give but one pull at a root unless the darkey who Flowed him hollered out “ Rotteu root, tell you!” and then he would break that root or something else, for he had confidence in the nigger. It always aid seem like there ivas a kind of confiden tial relation between niggers and mules— a sort of treaty of peace and equality, for there is no other animal can stand the darkey, and there’s no other human can get along in peace with a mule. When they are alone together in a big field with long rows, the darkey talks to him all along the line, and the mule listens in respectful silence, but if two darkies are plowing together they talk to one another, and the mules are snubbed. There is a power of corn be ing planted this spring and not much more than half a crop of cotton so far as my observation goes. I hope we can make enough food for the country, for we can do with less clothing better than be stinted in vittels. There is a power of folks dependent upon the farmers and a great responsibility upon us. Politics raises a mighty rumpus and takes up a sight of room in the newspapers, but when you compare it with farming, it all seems sorter like a monkey show that is going on for amusement, and the farmers feel like doing like Stewart’s Texan Ran ger, who went to see an amateur musical performance in Rome one night during the war. He was a rough specimen, feet and two inches, and a hat like an umbrella and boots like stove pipes, and spurs that jingled like trace chains, a couple of navy pistols to set off his beard, and he paid his half a dollar and tooka stand behind an empty bench in the lear, and looked on with a lofty con tempt, and whenever the performers closed a piece and the cheering began the ranger rattled the bench most alarm ingly and exclaimed, “souy, souy, souy,” like he was driving bogs, and he kept it up until he monopolized the show and had it all to him-elf. These premature candidates for governor, and so forth, reminded me of Judge Lochrane’s story of the Irishman who thought he had a fast horse, and so he put him in the races and bet on him. He run pretty well, but seemed, to run better behind than before, and the Irishman clapped his hands with delight and exclaimed, “ Faith and St, Patrick,' just look how he drives ’em.” But its all right. I’m glad to see the independents waking up. Its all for the good of the people and will keep the old democracy on its good behavior. There’s nothing like having sentinels on the watch towers. Some times the party goes too fast, and these independents act like a balance wheel, a regulator, a brake—sorter like Tinny Rucker’s yearling, for they say' when Tinny was a boy he tried for an hour to drive yearling out of the pasture, and finally he got him by the tail and they run and run and bellowed and run until somebody hollowed to him and said: V You can’t hold that y'carling, Tinny; what are you trying to do ?” “ I know I can’t hold him,” said Tinny, “but I can make 3:lm go slow.” Jesso. That is all these independents are after. They don’t expect office, but they have more abounding patriotism than 'anybody, and are holding on to the tail of the concern just to make it go slow. Some of ’em, I reckon, are a little disappointed because the train went off and left ’em, and it don’t do any good to laugh at ’em no matter whether they didn’t run fast enough or started too late. Let’s be tender with ’em, for may be their turn will come after while, and they will be tender with us. There are a power of ups and downs in this world, and in politics they are mostly downs— especially down south. Bill Arp. The Duke’s Death. “Kneel here by my side, Lurline,” and in obedience to the summons, a beautiful girl flung herself in an aban don of grief near the bed on which lay the eighth Duke of Twenty-second street, Rupert Rollingstone. Rupert was dying —dying away out on the West Bide. A cold had developed into a quick con sumption. The dreaded disease bad made known its presence while Rupert was at the house of a friend on Lafliu street. * ‘ You can not live more than a week,’’ the doctor had said. “But my people, ’ cried the sick man, in an agony of fear; “they are on Twenty-second street, and too poor to hire a carriage. How si? *ll I see them?” and be wrung bis bands in an agony of despair. “It cannot be done, my lass,” said the street-railway superintendent lock ing down kindly into Lurlindc race. “I would gladly do aught might ease the last moments of a dying man, but I can not accomplish impossibilities. A car from Twenty-second street to the corner of Laflin.jnd Van Buren in five days? By my halidom, you jest brave ly,” and, picking up a pair of shears, he again resumed liis occupation of cutting coupons from government bonds. When Lurline had knelt by tlje dying man, he turned to her and spokt? “Lurline, my darling,” he said, “lam dying down. I shall soon be in the sweet pretty quick. But ere I start, I taant you to make me one promise—a Slcred one, that you will keep forever.” “Name it,” said the girl, iu a sob-choked voice. ‘ ‘ When ever you are in a hurry, avoid the street car.” “I promise,” was the reply. Rupert’s face lit up with a sweet, peace ful smile. “Good-bye, my angel.” “ Bung soir,” was tlie faint response, as the girl’s head fell on bis breast amid a storm of sobs. “I see heaven,” mur mured the dying man. “I know it is heaven, because there are lots of street cars, and they run every three minutes. ” Rupert was dead. —Chicago Tribune. A New Church Beneficiary. Anew scheme has broken out among the Eastern churches to provide for “ God’s poor.” Each church is buying a farm, to which poor people are sent to work out their salvation in fear and tur nip patches. This combination of re ligion and rutabagas is certainly a happy one, and ought to come into general practice. Steady work on a farm cannot but be far more preferable to the poor of a church than good advice and fine conversation, that is now lavished upon them - regardless of cost. There is always something on a farm that any body can do, and do well, aud that will be worth good wages, if the laborer is fairly remunerated, and a church society would be sure to do this. Then, in the fall, when the golden harvest was gath ered, the church members would of course give their patronage to their own farm aad lay in their winter supply of potabies, carrots, beets, onions, etc., from their own vines and figtrees, so to speak. The report of the Superintend ent would show whither the farm was drifting financially, and if it needed any fertilizing top-dressing in the way of a mortgage. Ministers whoso health is poor, from hard study and overwork, instead of being sent on an expensive tour to the Holv Land, could be trans planted from the stifling atmosphere of the study to the beautiful air of the balmy, breezy country, and set to rais ing cucumbers on the farm. The exer cise would do them good, even if they did not raise enough cucumbers for a mess, and what the church lost on cu cumbers it would more than save on traveling expenses. It seems to us as though the true plan of salvation has been struck at last. It is not through any of the five hundred different plans advocated by the five hundred different churches, but through the modest cauli flower, the lowly ouion and the golden crookneek summer squash.—Peck’s Sun. Under the laws of Wisconsin a hotel not supplied with tiro escapes cannot collect a bill of a guest, HUMORS OF THE DAY. A half loaf is better than a whole loafer. Never too late to mend —A torn ten dollar note. A real estate transfer—moving a cart load of dirt. A lover has all the qualities a bus band has not. A fool and an aocordeon are both easily drawn out. What is sauce for the turkey is cran berry for the dinner guests. Man wants but little here below, and that’s just about what be gets. Bank cashiers are generally smart fel lows, but they are frequently flighty. Of all shares, plow shares are tlie most reliable. They always turn out some thing. Thebe are people who will buy any thing on sight if they can be allowed to pay for it on time. — JSew Orleans Pica yune. “Its scold day when I get left,” Zan tippe remarked w’hen Socrates went off to the circus without her. —Burlington llawkeye. A Derby doctor killed a fox, and the Derby Transcript sardonically remarks; “The doctor means business when lie gets after ’em.” “ My daughter,” exclaimed a fashion able mother, “is innocence itself. You can’t say anything iu her presence that will mako lier blush.” Solomon is said to have bad some nine hundred wives of all sorts. Wliat it must have cost him for fries in boxes when he stayed out late. Hens scratch up flower beds only when they are barefooted. That’s why women run out and “shoo” the hens to keep them from doing damage. Hail to the thief who in triumph advances, The more he steals the more renown, The bigger his pile the more he prances, Arul cash keeps him up, while others go down, i — Lampion. I If some religious people* we know would prey on their neighbors less and their knees more, the worlcP would be 1 better off. —Baltimore Every Saturday, j “ Mamie,” said lie, and liis voice was ; singularly low', “will you be my wife? Will you cling to me as tlie tender vine | clings to the ” “Yes, I catch on,” | said she. A New York tourist who ate an alli gator for a beefsteak in Florida didn’t got. t,h< tasta out. of his month until ho had eaten half a peck of onions and four dozen herrings. A preacher who had turned specu lator and bought a lot of hogs on a ris ing market, telegraphed his agent : “Hold the pork, for lam coming.”— Steubenville Herald. Shakespeare asks, “What’s in n name?” Well, it is a good thing, some times. Not necessarily for publica- [ tion, but merely as a guarantee of good faith. —Detroit Free Press. “I call that very rare,” said Jones to a workman who had done some work for him. “Ah?” answered the w r orkman, highly tickled. “ Yes,” went on Jones, “rare, very rare—not half done.” That cooked the workman, and he retired.— Steubenville Herald. A fashionable lady witness fainted dead aw’ay while giving lier testimony, and the doctor who was summoned said it resulted from her corset being too tight. The incident was very properly entered upon the minutes of the case as “a stay in the proceedings.” A prominent citizen, whose idiosyn crasy is that of becoming intoxicated and goiug to bed with his clothes on, was surprised with the following the other morning, from his wife : “You were not as drunk as usual last night, Henry, dear, were you?” “Well, I don’t know,” said he ; “what makes you think so ?” “ Why,” she replied, “ I see you took your overshoes off before you w'ent to bed.” • m The Cannibals’ Good Points. * Since everybody, including Judas and Nero, have their apologists, the Feejee cannibals are now declared not to be so black as they are painted. In the fii st place, they had, in the way of flesh, nothing but each other to eat. Except flying foxes and rats, there were no four footed animals on the islands. The pres ent names of their domestic animals be- | tray a European origin, collie, for dog; pussi, for cat; ose, for horse ; secpi, for mutton; goti, for goat; and bullama how, for beef. The wooden spoons for human broth, and cannibal forks, eight een inches long, with four or five prongs, are still in existence. A berry, resem bling a tomato in shape and color, was the special and proper vegetable to bo eaten vith “long pig.” One of the chieftains lately said he would like to see a woman who would not eat her full share, and declared that human flesh was ever so much better than pork “ Long pig” was sometimes made into puddings. When a friendly neighbor ing tribe visited another, the chief of the latter would make a raid among his enemies, and bring back women enough to make a feast for Ins visitors. Fifty and eighty people were served at some |of these feasts. 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The Mexican Mustang Liniment always cures and never distippotete; and it is, positively, THE BEST OF ALL UNI DENTS FOR MAN OR 835A3T. Almost every State in tne Union has been compelled, at one time or another, to overhaul its lunatic asylum for the purpose of correcting outrageous abuses. • It is the State of Maine that is undergo ing the experience at present. It is the old story, apparently. Unwatched offi cials became autocratic, arrogant and tvrannical, and the unfortunates suf fered. When will the people learn that no man or body of men can safely be trusted to the hardening influences of prison and asylum life without the ever present consciousness that the publi# has a watchful eye upon them ? N UMBER 17.