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THE LINCOLNTON NEWS
J. D. COLLEY & CO.,
VOL. I.
WASHIN GTON ADVERTISEMENTS.
IW. Sanders,
WASHINGTON, GA.,
■ ;■ Hardware.
Manufacturer of all kinds of
Tin & Sheet Iron Ware i
DEALER IN
COB ID HEATING
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STOVES.
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dv TM®|i Cool! fitm.
Crockery,
GLASSWARE.
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Housefurnishiag Goods.
OILS, PAINTS,
Brushes,Varnishes,Etc.
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Special Attention
Is oalled to the
WHITE 11 DOMESTIC
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K Sewing Machines,
Which I A! ways Keep in Stock
C. M. v MAY,
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WASHINGTON, GA.,
GROCER m
AND DEALER IN
The liberal patronage which 1 have ob¬
tained from the people of Wilkes and adjoin¬
ing counties, I intend to hold by continuing
to seil my goods at the very lowest prices,
and by fair dealing in all things. Also
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C. M. MAY & CO.
Will carry on a General Mercantile business
at Double Branches, Lincoln Co., Ga.
MERCIERS STORE
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A First-Class Store in Every
A Respect,
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A full stock of General Merchandise always
on hand.
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•T. N. Mercier.
T. H. REMSEN’S
STORE!
Fill fip ni WHISKIES.
OSH TOTE MONOGBAM,
THE AUGUSTA, ELBERTON AND CHICAGO RAILROAD.
Henry Cordes so
JEWELER,
WASHINGTON, - GA.
A FINE STOCK OF
WATCHES,
CLOCKS,
Jewelry and Spectacles
Uways on hand. Prices as low as Augusta
or Atlanta.
CLOCKS COSTING OYER FiYE DOLLARS
Warranted for Two Years.
Watchwork Done in the East
of Style.
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AUGUSTA ADVERTISEMENTS.
ROBT. H. MAY. A. B. GOODYEAB
ROBT H. MAY & CO.’S
GRAND EXHIBITION
OF
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And PLANTATION WAGONS.
ALL SIZES.
The largest and most complete assortment
in this section. All first-class work, and will
duplicated.
Do not lose this opportunity. On exami¬
nation this work will prove to you that it
cannot be purchased elsewhere at the prices
we offer.
Also, a large stock of Saddles, Bridles
Harness, STSteffiTtSftSS; Umbrellas, Lap Robes, Blankets,
£“
Hubs, Spokes, Reins, Axles, Trace Lowest Chains,
Harness, Gash Peioes. Wagon Harness, etc., at
THE ROAD CART
(PATENTED.)
The safest, lightest and most easy riding
two-wheeled vehicle ever and produced. experience Of has all
the road carts made, use
demonstrated these to be the best. The
Adjustable Balance is a most valuable fea
ture of our Hoad Carts. Buy no other. Price
$ 50 .
N. B.—We warrant all the vehicles we sell.
Remember our prices are the lowest.
_ ROD __ Hi mAY manat a UUij f\g%
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BROAD STREET,
Opposite Georgia R. R. Bank
AUGUSTA, GA.
ORDER TOUR
Saw Mills, Cane Mills
Grist Mills,
and Plantation and Mill Machinery
Engines and Boilers, Hangers, Cotton Journal Screws,
Shafting, Boxes, Mill Pnlleys,
Gearing, Gudgeons,
Turbine Water Wheels,
Gin Gearing, Circular Judson’s Governors, Diss
ton’s Saws, Gammers and
Files, Belting and Babbit Metal
and Brass Fittings, Globe
and Check Valves and
Whistles,
Guages, Iron and Brass Castings, Gin Ribs,
Iron Fronts, Balconies and Fence Rail¬
ing.
Geo. E. Lombard & Go.,
FOREST CITY
Foundry and Machine Works,
NEAR THE WATER TOWER,
1014 to 1026 Fenwick Street,
AUGUSTA, GA.
|3f“Repairing promptly done at Lowe*
prices.
CENTRAL HOTEL,
AUGUSTA, GA.
MRS. W. M. THOMAS, Pbopbietbess
This hotel, so well known to the citizens of
Linooln and adjoining counties, is located
in the center of the business Poetofiioe, portion Tele¬ of
Augusta. Convenient to
graph office and Depot, and other induce¬
ment* to the public aueh as only first-class
hotels can afford.
LINCOLNTON, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 2. 1883.
Dear Banda.
The tenches of her hands are like the fall
Of velvet snow flakes; like the touch of
down
The peach just brushes ’gainst the garden
wall;
The flossy fondlings of tbo thistle wisp
Caught in the crinkle of a leaf of brown
The blighting frost has turned from green
to crisp.
Soft as the falling dusk at night,
The touches of her hands, and the delight—
The touches of her hand!
The touches of her hands are like the dew
That falls so softly down no one e’er knew
The touch thereon save lovers like to one
Astray in lights where ranged Endymion.
Oh, rarely soft, the touches of her hands,
As drowsy zephyrs in enchanted lands;
Or pulse of dying day; or fairy sighs;.
Or—in between the midnight and the dawn,
When long unrest and tears and fears are
gone—
Sleep, smoothing down the lids of weary
eyes.
— J. W. Bileu.
A BAG OF RAGS.
The keen autumn air blew sharply
into the room, as pretty Agatha For¬
sythe threw up the sash and leaned out.
A deep voice below coming from a
form almost hidden by the syringa
bushes, said, softly:
“Is that you, ’Gatha?”
“Yes,” was the reply, given softly.
“Can’t you come down ?” said Dick
Reynolds, rather impatiently, looking
up at the smiling face.
“In a little while, Dick, just as soon
as Grannie is asleep. She has just
gone to her room. You must be pa¬
tient, Dick, dear,” and the window
closed.
“Dick, dear,” was not very patient,
however, and paced the walk for fif¬
teen minutes before Agatha’s blue
dress appeared at the door,with Agatha
in it. After a very ardent greeting,
Dick said:
“I declare it’s too bad I can’t come
and see you like other fellows come to
see their sweethearts. I wonder what
makes your grandmother dislike me
so. I've never done her any harm,only
I want her one grandchild. I am not
a bad character, have a good position,
and why she will not let you marry
me, and vet is willing to give you to
that Dalford fellow, IS a mystery.
«“ * Betting old, you
know, Dick, and she fancies you are
exactly like your grandfather was,
who was her lover, and who almost
broke her out.
“ And she ’ s afraid 111 break ? 0UrS ’
darling? "Well, we’ll see,” and then a
1 °»* ™T ‘“““‘tog conversation
frliowed. At last Agatha declared she
nulst , t 6° m .
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“Don’t fail, me ’Gatha,” Dick said,
as he gave her his farewell kiss.
“Never fear,” said ’Gatha, blushing
in the darkness, and she quickly dis
, in . the ,, house,
The nejt day Grannie seemed to
be particularly provoking, and tried
Agatha’s patience sorely.
“What makes you look so happy,”
she asked sternly, as ’Gatha sang, and
blushed and smiled to herself as she
went about the big drawing-room,
dusting and arranging the many
knick inacKS.
’Nothing,” said Agatha.
“I know bettoc replied her grand¬
mother sharply. “It’s that Dick Rey¬
nolds. Have you been writing to
him?”
“No.”
“Has he written to you ?”
“No.”
“Well, you’ve seen each other then?”
‘Gatha blushed guiltily, and then
lost her temper, which was such an
unusual thing for her to do, that her
grandmother was quite startled.
“I should think, Grannie, you’d be
ashamed of yourself. I love Dick
Reynolds, and I always shall. If you
could give me just reason why I
should not marry him. I would never
disobey you. But you cannot. You
say he will surely prove treachorous
like his grandfather. Am I like you
because I am your granddaughter?
No, Therefore I intend, as soon as
opportunity offers, to run off with
Dick, since there is no other way. I
tell you, frankly, I am sorry to be
rude. But I do not see why I should
allow you to break my heart, and
Dick’s too!”
. ’Gatha stopped. Two red spots
burned on her cheeks, her clear gray
eyes blazed with anger and love.
Grannie recovered herself.
“So this is the respect I get, after
twenty years of toil for you. Go to
your room instantly. You shall never
marry Dick Reynolds. Do you hear,
never!”.
This did not not strike terror to the
girl’s heart, for she possessed much of
;he obstinate will of her grandmother,
and, as Betsy often said, “When her
mind was sot. it were sot, and ’twere
io us* toag’in her.” So when she was
idered to her room she went quietly,
ill a! ready her pretty, curly head was
for escape.
Agatha was not a bad or a willful i
girl. Sh.e possessed good, common- !
sense. why As she she would said, if there were just |
cause never have dis- .
obeyed her grandmother. She had
met Dick at one of the few parties
given in the neighboring town. Their
acquaintance had ripened into love, and
Dick, after obtaining Agatha’s consent
asked her grandmother for her in
manly words. He received a decided j
and cold “No,” and was told never to
show himself at the farm again. Dick
did, however, manage to occasionally
see Agatha, who openly rebelled at such j
treatment. And both had devised a
plan, ting, their which interviews had cost weeks being in held concoc- j
gen
erally in the manner described above.
* * * * *
A week passed after their last inter¬
view'. ’Gatha was kept under strict
surveillance by her grandmother.
It was twelve o’clock at night.
’Gatha, W'ho slept with her grand¬
mother now, the better to he watched,
rose softly from her bed, very softly,
for fear of waking the old lady, who
was a very light sleeper. A stone had
been thrown at the window. With
noiseless hand she let a white note,
taken from about her neck, down into
the ,, garden . , beneath.
.
“What are you up for, ’Gatha,” said
, her grandmother , suddenly, ,, , sitting .... up
m • iA bed. in vistus ,L st&rcu* t ,
“O, _ nothing, . „ she , said, ., . out
' pouring 1
a glass , of „ water, , and, , after drinking , . , .
’t r • h h t J '
Dick, below . in the garden, , caught , .
the ,, note, . opened 3 it • i and j read: |
‘•Darling Dice—
“Grandma has made me sleep with
her. Our plan, of course, falls through,
but I have thought of another. To¬
morrow morning, at six o’clock, Mr.
Tidle is coming for the large bag of
sewed rags Grannie has made for a rag
carpet. Betsy will substitute me tor
the rolls of rags, and lean be carried
out into the wagon, placed on my
back and driven to town, and Grannie
be none the wiser,for I am (?) to spend
all morning until noon shucking corn
in the barn. The only thing for you
to do is to let Mr. Tidle into the se¬
cret and get his assistance. Don’t fail,
or my heart will break.
“Yours in haste,
“ ’Gatha.”
Dick pasted down to Mr. Tidle’s
weaving shop, roused the old gentle¬
man, and unfolded his plans.
“Rather pesky business Dick, rather
pesky; and the old lady’s powerful sharp
but I’ll do my best for you lad,” he
said, when Dick concluded. And so
they arranged for the next morning!
Dick was to be at the turnstile with
a fast team, and ’Gatha was to be un
bagged and given into bis care at that
point.
* * * * * *
Six o’clock came. ’Gatha had been
up for two hours, and had breakfasted,
and betaken herself presumablo to the
barn, but was in reality in the upper
hall, attired in a neat, gray traveling
dress, with a most bewitching bonnet,
on the side of which drooped two
dainty pink roses.
“There comes Mr. Tidle Betsy,” said
the old lady, from the kitchen window,
You go to let him in, and be sure he
takes the right weight of them balls,
and don't break the balustrade
ing the bag down. I’ll stand at the
window and see it safe in the wagon,
There’s no telling where these men
folk will bring up too.”
“All right ’urn,” said Betsy,” her
heart in her mouth,for fear the old lady
would take it into her head to come up
stairs. Coming down, not an hour ago,
she had pounded and felt every ball in
the bag, and ’Gatha thanked fortune
shewas not in it.
Betsy went up stairs, and let Mr
Tidle in. The bag was quickly emptied
The balls were thrown helter-skelter
into Betsy’s room, and ’Gatha, smil
ing, trembling and blushing, was sent
swiftly and deftly in to take their place,
gray dress, pink roses, and all.”
“La sakes!” exclaimed Betsy, “she
don’t no way fill the thing up. Hold
the top, Mr. Tidle, while I get a ball
or two to give it a lumpy look.”
Three or four balls were placed about
’Gatha.
“That’s enuf,” said Betsy, the bun
net’il look like another,” and soon.
’Gatha, shaking with suppressed laugh¬
ter, was born down stairs by the faith¬
ful Betsy and Mr. Tidle. On the way
out to the wagon, Grandma’s voice
from the raised kitchen window called
out:
“Mr. Tidle!”
“Well, ma'm?”
“Wait a moment. I want to tell
you about the weaving.”
“All right, ’urn, “soon’s I get this
pesky bag inter the waggin.”
’Gatha’s heart beat again, as she felt
herself lifted from Mr. Tidle’s shoul¬
der and laid safely on her back in the
bottom of the wagon. Mr. Tidle
took his penknife and cut a small
breathing place aud then hurried
back. His conversation lasted ten
minutes, and then ho was off at a
sturdy trot down the road, his pre
cions burden safe,
“Betsy,” said old Mrs. Forsythe, re
turning to the kitchen, “sure’s you live,
i heard rats jumping about overhead
while you were up stsirs. Don’t for¬
ge t to let the cat in ta night.”
“No, ’urn,” answered Betsy. “Rats
j s a great trouble, an’ the cat ’ll soon
clear them out.”
Late that night Betsy gathered up
the poor offending balls, whose rolling
about as they were quickly thrown
into the room that morning, had caused
the old lady to think them rats, and
putting them into a sheet, placed them
i nto the hand of Mr. Tidle who was
waiting at the turnstile for them,
“Pesky business that, pesky business,
Miss Betsy,” he said. “But, la
sakes! didn’t they get off nice. She
came out o’ that bag as spink an’ span
as she went in, and would yon believe
it, the pink roses in her bunnet weren’t
crushed at all. I guess they’re mer
ried by this time. I wonder,” softly
“if we’d have such a time, Miss Betsy,
if we jined hands? And what do you
think—I saw a bunnet like Miss
Gatha ’ s do ™ to Jake Pra11 ’ 3 ’ an ’ rU
8* * for you if you 11 agree.
Isetsv agreed, got the “bunnet, and
" aa , e ' er ter
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Old Mrs. Forsvth never could find
out , , how ,,, Gatha ,, got away. In time , she
partly .. forgave » « her, « but , for .» she ,
° vears *
would not design , . to . notiee , her
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Gatha .. was very happy, and . never . had,
cause to rue the dav she substituted
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Strength end Health.
It is quite a common idea that health
keeps pace with strength. I know in¬
telligent persons who really think that
you may determine the comparative
: health of a company of men bv rneas
| uring ° their anns-that he whose arm
j mea - ures tnel-. e inches . , is twice as
j j healthy six. This as he strange whose and arms thoughtless measures mis- but
; apprehension has given rise to nearly
all the mistakes thus far made in the
physical-culture movement. I have a
friend who can lift 900 pounds, and yet
is an habitual sufferer from torpid
liver, rheumatism, and low spirits.
Ther'e are many similar cases. The
eartmen of cur cities, who are our
strongest men, are far from the health
I iest class, as physicians will testify. On
the contrary I have many friends who
would stagger under 300 pounds that
j are in capital trim. But I need not
i elaborate a matter so familiar with
physicians and other observing people.
! No rest of health would prove more
faulty than a tape-line or a lift at the
scale-beam,
Suppose two brothers—bank clerks—
in bad health. They are measured
round the am.. Each marks exactly
ten inches. They try the scale-beam,
The bar rises at exactly 300 pounds
with each. Both seek health. John
goes to the gymnasium, lifts heavy
dumb-bells and kegs of nails until he
can put up 125 pounds, and lift 900,
and his arm reaches fifteen inches.
Thomas goes to the mountains, fishes,
hunts, spends delightful hours with the
young ladies and plays cricket
Upon measuring his arm we find it
scarcely larger than when he left town,
while he can't put up sixty pounds nor
lift 500. But who doubts Thomas will
return to the counter the better man
of the two ? John should be the better
man, if strength is the principal or
most essential condition of health.—
Health.
Batfc’s “Grand Crash.-’
Balfe, the composer, was born in
1803, and very early developed an un
mistakablo talent for music. There, is
a characteristic story of his childhocd
preserved by his surviving relations,
and quoted by Mr. Barrett. “He had
recently heard an orchestral band por¬
form Haydn’s ‘Surprise Symphony,’
and his lively imagination exaggerated
the crash which Haydn introduced
upon the half-close of the first move
ment, to make, as it is said, the ladies
jump. A simple arrangement of the
themes was one of the pianoforte les¬
sons he had to practice. His mother
and sisters were engaged elsewhere in
the house, when suddenly they heard a
fearful crash, and, as the mother
thought, the screams of her child. In
terrified haste they rushed into the
room in which he had been at work, ex¬
pecting to find the place in ruins and
the boy a corpse. The mother's fright
yielded to surprise, her surprise to
anger, as she saw the child dancing
and crowning with delight. In order
to make this ‘grand crash’ at the proper
point of the music he had piled the
fender and fire-irons upon a chair, and
had fastened a cord to them Jill in such
a manner as to make them fall with a
clatter, and so realize Haydn’s design
most completely.
The difference between a tree and a
dog is that the bark of the latter is
more than skin deep. That is the
reason why so few people find any
beauty in it.
TOPICS OP TUP DA S’.
Women are now eligible to school
offices in Illinois, Iowa, Kan >.s, Vir¬
ginia, Massachusetts, Michigan, Min
nesota, Pennsylvania, a'nv Vermont, Wvom
ing, and to office in Wisconsin <*:
cept State Superintendent. Mississippi
has a State Board of Education, which
includes the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor and eight other persons, one
of whom is a woman.
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In Dallas connty, Texas, lives J. L.
Shirley, who is probably the only man
in the United States who has used
greenbacks for gunwaddieg. He went
duck hunting with $300 in currency in
his pocket, and jiot having any
wads, he used paper in loading. lie
became so engrossed with the sport
that he forgot all about his cnrrency,
and had shot about $50 of his wad be¬
fore he discovered his mistake. He,
however, killed tbirty-seven ducks,
which cost him a tri_.e over $1.25
each.
The area planted to potatoes in
land, in 1882 was 57,000 acres less than
in 1881, and the total deficiency in the
crop as compared to last season is 500,
000 tons. In Germany the o«ieial re
ports of the potato crop estimate a de
ficiency of fifty per cent, or equal to
11,750,000 tons, while in some of the
other continental countries the
crop was almost a complete failure,
The prices of potatoes in Englaad are
fifty per cent, higher than at the same
time last year. It is evident no Euro
pean potatoes will be shipped here
during the next six or eight months at
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An establishment has been opened
in London called “The Health Home,”
by a Doctor Quentin, who proposes to
cure all diseases by a dietary system.
The patient is handed by a servant in
black and goid a card specially pre¬
pared, on which he will find his soup,
if soup is allowed ; his fish, if it is
permitted; lus joint, if it suits his con¬
dition, and so oa to the coffee. There
also will he find inscribed the mineral
unter suitable to the state of his live?,
with directions respecting the dessert,
which will consist of a digestive pill or
2_
According to a comprehensive sta
tistieal retnrn lately published in Ger
many, there are in Europe ninety-two
cities with more than 100,000 inhabi
tants, out of which four capitals
show each a million population, as
lows : London. 3,832,440; Paris, 2,225,
910; Berlin. 1,122,500; Vienna,
110, Out of the ninety-to-eities and
towns referred to, England claims 26,
Germany 16, Italy 11, France. 10, and
RussiaS. The others are divided among
the smaller States. There were in the
United States in 1880 twenty cities
having 100,000 inhabitants and upward,
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A young man of Providence has
been t ra» cling in the Yi est and South
west for two years, riding for the most
part on express trains which coaid not
afford to stop to put him off between
tne principal stopping places. He made
itaruleneverto“sass” the conductors
who let him alone until they reached a
suitable putting off place. In this way
he sav ed enough money to pay for his
board and lodging. Now and then he
suffored hardship, as when he was put
on on an uninhabited island in the
Mississippi and nearly starved to death,
but generally he fared well, and expe
rienced no discomfort,
A curious sale is held annually at a
store-house in the Rue des Ecoles.
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Paris. The articles , sold are ot two
classes, , such , as the garments ° , of „ a mur
deredman - the with which , . ,
or weapon *
a murder , was committed, , which .... have
been , offered „ , as evidence .. in the trial
•
and , are sold ., at . the expiration of six .
months ...... it thev remained , unclaimed: , .
and , such , articles . , as . have , belonged , . to
deceased , , prisoners, . or have , , been found ,
and , delivered , . to . the ., police .. ..
and , , have not , , been churned , . . ... bv their .
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It ... said ...... that large .
owners. is “ f prices
are otten ,, paid ., for . property , that , has
belonged . . . to . notorious . . criminals. . . ,
The old Mormon temple in the little
village of Kirtland, O., twenty-three
miles east of Cleveland, is undergoing
repairs, and is, according to the Cleve¬
land Leader, to be rededicated on the
6th of next April in the presence of a
thousand Mormons from the West, to
the propagation of the faith once
livered to Smith, A few members of
theold Kirtland community remained
behind when their brethren departed to
a new field, and still survive, faithful
to the tenets of Mormonism, minus,
it is said, the polygamy doctrine. The
creed of the rejuvenated Church is ex
peeted to make a vigorous declaration
against plural marriages, and in that
case its deCiples will be tolerated in
Northern Ohio.
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The superintendent of the Yellow-
PUBLISHERS.
IsO. 20.
s' one National park, California, com¬
plains to the Secretary of the Interior
of the vandalism of visitors to that
re S 10!! - “What are we to think,” ha
a ’°^ a man ^•* ia * ; bring long
as heav - v “ he can carr >% a ^a t
distance ’ for the P«*pose of thrusting
* keln iR -° *-^ e cones an ^ down the
throats of these great geysers, when
the only possible effect must be to ob¬
struct their flow and mar their beau
tv?” Perhaps the great American
traveller carves his name on the poles.
He must carve it somewhere, and he
could not carve it on the columns of
spouting water. “The cones of the
geysers,” the superintendent goes on,
“are already badly defaced. Besides,
vast tracts of beautiful forests that
adorn this wonder-land are laid waste
by fire annually through the wanton
carelessness and neglect of visitors.”
Another cause of complaint is the
depredation of hunters, who disregard
all game laws,
The executive committee of the
board of directors of the Western
Union Telegraph company at a meet
ing in New York, adopted a series of
resolutions upon the charge of tamper
ing with and reading the contents of
telegrams passing through the hands
of the employes of the company. Th cv
declared it to be “a cardinal principle
with the company to guard the sacred
privacy of telegraphic correspondence,”
and that they have always done ‘ so,
even at an expense of many thousands
of dollars, in resisting the inquisitions
of courts, juries and legislative commit
tees. The committee then proceeded
to resolve “that the imputations that
officials or other persons connected with
this company have tne privilege to in¬
spect messageg passing over its wires
or through its offices is without fouBda
tion in fact.” They further resolved
that any employe of the company be
summarily dismissed in case any mes¬
sage is divulged by him, and called
attention to the new Penal Code of
New York, making it a misdemeanor
to divulge any message or to open any
letter or telegram addressed to another
Blenheim spaniels—in spite of their
tearful beseeching eyes, their trailing
ears, their blunt black noses, their silky
coats, and the glories of their bushy
tails and feathered legs, have under
gone unmerited neglect. Nor has the
Italian grayhound, for all the grace
and beauty of its slender form, its
taper, almost transparent limbs, and
the elastic agility of its movements,
ljeen prized as once it was. Fashion
has turned its approved eyes rather
upon the fluffy white Pomeranian, with
-ts fox-like picked ears, and pointed
clack nose; the Dandie Dinmont,
brought into vogue by Sir Walter
Scott’s ‘Guy Mannering;” the Skye ter
r ipr. ?ave the turnspit the longest of
all dogs in proportion to its height,
w ith its flocculent door-mat coat, its
masked eyes, and obscured nose; and
the Maltese terrier, a duodecimo fed L*
ti oa 0 f the Skye, shorter of back, how
ever, and with a whiter and silkier
jacket. The pug, too, has recovered
the favor it had lost so completely that
between 1836 and 1S46 the breed was
almost extinct in England; it has re
turned to society in the retinue of
Queen Anne, as it were, one of the em
blems and seenie pr0 perties of her
re ign, its tastes, m*les and foibles,
Happily the cruel mutilation of the
ears of the animal which once Polled
a * a means of wrinkling and pucker
ing its forehead and muzzle has been
abandoned. . , , The rp . poodle ,, has , never , been
esteemed ,* m England as the land ,
so in
of , its nativity. .. Of , ,, the _ Dalmatian, .
spotted .. , or carnage . dog—popularly , , ,
known , as ,, the “plum „ , pudding , ,, —there ..
°
. nas , been some vanishing ... of „ late. The
creature, perhaps, was ahvavs.regarded , '
as more ornamental . . than .. useful, and
then, , with ..... the circus . horse, , ’ , he , became
the object . . of . .. Could ,. . he not,
suspicion.
unlike ... .. the leopard, , . change ° his spots —*
upon A occasion? . , Were they ,, not some
times due , rather ....... to art than to nature? . n
stories . were told , ,, of „ carriage . dogs , that ,, .
had gone out spotted and had returned
home pure white. Heavy rain had
fallen, and the footman had neglected
to hold the'earriage umbrella over tho
carriage dog.
The great popularity enjoyed just at
resent by the Scotch collie, or Iligh
land sheep dog, has to be reckoned
among the striking events or “land
marks” of canine history. To the collie
have been sacrificed almost the entire
spaniel family, and even that former
favorite of acquatic romance, the New
foundland dog, so long famous as a
savior of children from watery graves,
and in such wise as a member of the.
Royal Humane society .—London
Graphic.
Tho capitalists of the- world have
sunk $202,000,000 in ocean cables.