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TttRICS OF THE DAY.
Italy is about to sand a party of dis¬
coverers to the South Pole.
A blinding snow-storm prevailed at
Ottawa, One., on the 30th ult.
The public debt, during April, was
reduced twelve million dollars.
China manifests something of an
earnestness in her preparations for war.
Five Chinamen made application for
citizeDshipin New York the other day.
During the month of April 46,118
emigrants landed at Castle Gardsn,
New York.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Keeps cows
and sills milk to the Concord house¬
keeper.
The Montana valleys, where the snow
has melted, are alive with grass
hoppers.
The world-renowned publishing house
of Houghton, Osgood & Co., Boston,
has been d'ssolved:
f _ —jv- ^ * **f S -f» ■ y$
Edison is receiving gold “mailings”
from every part of the country for ex¬
perimenting J **-L5—--L -purposes. J J
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Baltimore is quarantined until No¬
vember 1 against all vessels, except
from ports north of Cape Henry. :
Jo a (at UN Miller* will read a poem
before . _
the Army of the Potomac, which
meets at Burlington, Vt., June 10.
The Czar of Russia celebrated the
sixty-second anniversary of his birth
by liberating six thousand prisoners.
The suicidally inclined of New Y’ork
hie them elves off to Central Park.
They can shuffle off there undisturbed.
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Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has
posed iu his 7th Regiment uniform in
seven different attitudes for photo¬
graphs.
The President has appointed Post¬
master General Ivey to fill the vacancy
on the bench in the United States Court
in Tennessee.
Forty two thousand acres of min¬
eral land in Soott County, Va., have
bfe*i purchased by aeompaay of North¬
ern capitalists.
A coat which President Andy John¬
son made for a customer in 1856 has
just leen preSmted to the Tennessee
Historical Society.
The Liberal majority over the Tories,
in the r.ew British Parliament, is 117.
Over Tories and Home Rulers together
the majority is 57.
All the summer resorts, it is an¬
nounced, will be opened this year ear
iter than usual. This announcement is
in the interest of summer resorts.
In Mississippi any Confederate who
lost a hand or a foot in the war, is per¬
mitted to peddle in any county in
the Sftate without a special license.
A gavel is to be made for the use of
the Chairman of the Chicago Conven¬
tion out of a piece of swamp oak taken
from a sill to the Lincoln mansion.
It is alleged that paying quantities of
gold and silver have been discovered
at two or three points in Wisconsin,
and there is some excitement in conse
quence.
For some time pasta serious conflict
has been expected in the Council Cham
ber in LeadVille between The two politi
cal parties. The members sit with
drawn revolvers, prepared for an emer¬
gency.
Daniel McFarland, the slayer of
Albert Richardson, of New York, and
once so wealthy and influential, is now
a friendie s* and penniless patient at a
Leadvijle wants to die. ftethglicjlldspi-tal. He only
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The Registrar of the Philadelphia
Board of Hea^h. fpsts,4p iysqp burial
permits unleis the physicians who sign
the certificates of, death can exhibjttii
lawful diploma, qualifying them for the
pinotice of medicine.
Miss Lai Sun, a Chinese woman edu
SgSUgtWscsmtfy, tain Anderson, of the has Chinese married Cap¬
Kwashitig. The gunboat
ceremony was per
scMwr kr ‘ h '' u? "
Ihis is the year for tho reappearance
of the seventeen year locusts. The last
visitation was in 1863, and if the theory
of the appearance at regular intervals
of seventeen years is correct, they may
be looked for in the coming month.
IT K’coi-' that during the present aes
sjpn Ihe Congressional of Congress, four hundred pages of
. Record have contained
“speeches ” that were never delivered in
Congress, but which members were al
lo wed to print for. distribution among
th eir constituents.
The targest hog in the country is a
Poland China, four years old this spring,
lately on exhibition at Junction City,
Kansas. HV length is seven feet, girth
pf neck 6j feet, girth of chest 7J feet,
SOUTH GEORGIAN.
VOLUME III.
girth of centre eight feet, width across
the hip 30 inches, and weighs 1,533
pounds.
IRONMASTERS say that their trade
has not been so dull for years as now
and the laborers at many mills are
striking. There seems nothing better to
do under the circumstances than to drop
iroi} for a while and go into politics for
a living. This year offers some unusual
opportunities.
A leading paper manufacturing house
in Massachusetts has reduced the price
on all grades of paper one cent a pound.
This example will probably be generally
followed. The paper men, like tbe iron
men, have pushed the boom*too fast
and the wisest are they who soonest rec¬
ognize that fact.
A bill has been introduced in Con¬
gress proposing the taxation of oleomar¬
garine at the rate of ten cents per pound.
Should the measure prove successful,
according to the published statistics of
the sale of this article, the annual in¬
come from this source alone would not
be less than $10,000,000.
In Behring island the Sweedish
Arctic explorers claim to have discov¬
ered the future dairy farm of the re¬
mote East, and say that anglers who
have used up the European rivers may
there find excellent Bport. The rivers
abound in trout and salmon too unac
customed to human enemies to be afraid
of them.
It is rather singular that such an
enormous sudden atmospheric disturb¬
ance yhould have given no sign
by which the Signal Service
might foretell its approach, It
shows that the patient and systematic
study of meteorology which has been
going on for a number of years past has
made small headway.
A singular case has occured in Iowa.
A man wanted an office and told the
people if they would elect him he would
serve for less than the usual salary paid
and turn the difference into the public
treasury. He was elected, but has been
turned out of office on the ground that
he bribed the free aud enlightened citi¬
zens who voted for him.
An insidious worm called the fluke is
causing losses among tbe sheep in Great
Britain, actually exceeding, its Th'efke
the cost of any of the wars
which have figured in the indictment
upon which the Tory Misistry is said to
been found guilty. In some ■rts
England, chiefly in the Southwestern
provinces, whole flocks have perished,
not a sheep is sound.
MR? jr Gladstone, m — since his : triumph,
got into a charming taental condi
His speeches breathe nothing save
Beaconsfield included. He has even, for
first time in his career, essayed the
of humorist. But his efforts have
very clumsy, and in most coarse
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and irony, cold and polished as a
Damascus blade, of Beaconsfield. Seri
business is the new Premier’s forte,
Charles Bradlaugh, of England
known as the publisher of a
pamphlet some years ago in con¬
with Annie Bessant, which gave
both considerable trouble—at the
election in England was elected a
of Parliament. As he doesn’t
in God or the Crown, he could
swear nor affirm, as required of
new member of Parliament before en¬
upon the discharge of his duties.
consequence the seat will be declared
Mr. Bradlaugh will miss
grand opportunity of his life.
The latest Yankee idea is described
by the dignified English papers as a
“played with fifteen little disks of
wood marked consecutively from one to
fifteen, which are placed constructed indiscriminately
a shallow box, to hold
Sixteen, and th‘\is allowing room for one
to be moved at a time. The game,
which is in principle something like
called solitaire, consists in bringing
all the disks into numerical order, the
row counting one, two, three, four,
and so on, until the the fifteenth is at
ained.” The puzzle is not appreciated
in England. It is condemned as the
most senselessly unprofitable method of
wasting time which has ever been de¬
vised.
A neat little story is toid about the
way in which Mr. J»y Gould makes use
of the lew social opportunities he enjoys.
Being invited to a private dinner upon
his recent return from tbe West, he de¬
clared in a post-prandial effusion to the
dozen or so of gentlemen present that
he had made more money than he could
possibly find use for, and that the great
object of his life henceforth would be to
improve the great consolidated concerns
which he now controls and to place them
On the basis of solid, dividend-paying
securities. He suggested indirectly
that Union Pacific would be the first to
benefit by the new consolidated
arrangements. Upon bearing this,
an old gentleman present went
next morning to his broker and bought
one thousand shares of the stock at
ninety-three and a fraction. He had to
sell It out a few days later at eighty
eight,
MAUVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1880.
AN EAST TENNESSEE ROMANCE.
How I a Young ■- f-«--- Avenged | YTer - ' t X*»Yer f 0
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'sfiirder.
[Correspondence lu Chattanooga Times.]
Tn Overton County, Ten nt L ,, s ee, during
the war, there lived a n ttv petite
slend®*>. Hie gfeyHwed Jtefew lady named
Mary ‘ popular was Detrot] led t0 a young 1
an d physician ( ,£ her neighbor
Cn nZds “nfXte i-’ n* Cr W h l d A left t n the r ' heT j J Z
n nd m rking.n • the recessis olMhe
Prr^r d f r ° U ?, ta, * n , S 1 f rr,ed °- n - a
Pndi r g the
L Ua a bad ° thG n " e ? u ° lb . er ^ to 8
the command O , known as the 1 Louisiana
Tigers. His lawless conduct made him
a terror to the country where he oper
* e ± T* 1 - Saddier by some means be
and c me an day object of the Tiger s hatred,
one meeting the Doctor, without
anv known provocation he shot and
kdled him Mary’s only brother was
away in the Confederate array, her
father was an aged and feeble man and
could not avenge the wrong: that had been
done in the death of her devoted Inwr
she resolved that the murderer of Dr.
Baddler should die.
Not many_ months^ ela rased. when one
f-iw .he Was informed that tWe desperate
iger was then ;»t a neighbor s house.
attmg on her sun-bonnet and taking a
had nav y become pistol, with the use of which she
familiar, preparatory to the
hostile meeting, she repaired to the
place- When she arrived the Tiger had
eft the house and was in the yard with
his pistols buckled around him. > he
accosted him; tofd him that he was the:
murderer of Dr. ‘ -addler and she had
come to kill him. Before the steady
gaze .of her resolution impressive gray be mistaken, eyes ex
pressing a not to
the Tiger fled, irhe began firing. Three
Bhots from her pistol made as many bill
let holes in his person, and he fell a
corpse. After walking fifty or sixty
steps, the d'stance ot the last shot to the
place self that where he he lay and satisfying her
the neighbor was and dead, she announced hatfeotae to
of the house family, who
out on hearing the fir ng
that she was avenged for the death of
Dr.-add ler, She recaptured some
small artudes of personal property which
the Tiger had taken from tbe person of
?ome ^ aB ‘ ' 1UU ' t y retl,rDed to }ier
A few months after the occurrence
the writer happened to meet with Mary;
being in good practice, and thinking
my self a good pistol shot, I bantered the
young lady for a match. The result
was an inglorious defeat for your humble
servant.
transacting A few days businessYindtiiiTding ago at Kingston, after
my all
good-bye, with I took my seat in the hack
the driver and a strange lady
dressed in mourning, to return to Emory
Gag, driver for and the train. John was a new
Thoughts of being not a left very by Hie good. train one. in
me to offer my services as a Jehu,
which was accepted. After having gone
some distance 1 drove too near the brush
and one of them struck the bonnet of the
sf *’»nge !at ty- I ventured an apology,
,lc " was accepted. A conversation
srsswmbs
slew the Tiger. Many years had
passed, but from conversation I learned
was still the victim of misfortune;
et she was on another errand prompted
in the Emory River, and she had
from the i-tate of Kentucky, still
the weeds of mourning, t > place
tomb-stone over his last resting place.
Time had changed Mary’s appearance
in many respects; but the gray eye
denotes as much resolution gs
ever possessed, is bright and
and if she were to toll you
that she had come to kill me, 1
have no hesitation in believing
word she said. 1 inquired if she
giving kept up direct her jiistokpractice?* she intimated With
a answer,
she could still use one if nece
Changes of Life.
Change is the common feature of so¬
all life.
The world is like a magic lantern, Ten or
the shifting scenes of a panorama.
convert the population of schools
men and women, the young into
and matrons, make and mar for
tunes, and bury the last generation but
one.
Twenty years convert infants into
lovers, fatheis and mothers, decide men’s
fortunes and distinctions, convert active
men and women into crawling drivelers,
bury all preceding generations. generation
Thirty years raise an fascinating active beau¬
from uonenity, change
ties into bearable old, WOUlftP,. ,G0%J| rt
lovers into grandfathers,, and: bury ti. e
active generation, or reduce them to de¬
crepitude and imbecility. the face of
Forty years, alasl change old, the
all society. Infants are growing passed
bloom of youth and beauty has
away, two active generations have been
swept from the stag of life; unsuspected names once
cherished are forgotten,
candidates lor fame have started from
the exhaustless womb of nature.
And in fifty years—mature, tremendous ripe fifty
years—a half century—what Time writes her
changes occur. How
sublime wrinkles everywhere, villages, hamlets, in rock, in
river, forest, cities, and the destinies and
the nature of man
aspects of all civilized society.
Let us pass on to eighty in years—and world
what do we desire and see the
to comfort us? Our parents are gone;
our into children all have the passed worlil away jti^ftghJ. from the us
parts of '’orTTfBT tJur
grim and desperate battle
old friend*—where are they? We be¬
hold a world of which we know nothing
for lovers, for parents, for children, for
friends in the grave. We see everything
turned upside down fry the fickle band
of fortune and the absolute despotism
of Time. In a word, we behold the
vanity of life, and are quite ready to
lay down the poor burden and be gone.
3 he Examination £ystcm in Education.
lilu [.Willapl should Brgwn i n the Ai|antic.Tt
insight, ation be a of training thought, to pro¬
mote power and
facility in acquiring knowledge. I’er
ception, not memory, should be culti
vated. and as the student cut advance
? n -f by his* own endeavors, he should
led through such a course of labor
out -thorough‘scholar, aTTnXpendefrt tinker? aT^lTs
a. in such branches
of education as he has inclination for.
To obtain,such a training * examinations
8]lould be means not ndg . For cx .
ample, instead of the student in polit
icar economy, history, philosophy, or
mathematics being obliged to work, as
now, with an examination, perhaps of
catch questions, 4 might consist ever in in view original the exam
ination essays
in the first three subjects, and the per
formance of a paper T in great severity in
the , astj all be ng done at the student’s
i e j sure and with such assistance as he
can fi t f rom books . Here ig a training
gimi ar to that in actual life; the best
qualitieg in mind are brovlg l it out) while
recitations can furnish tbe students with
[ pra ctice in answering questions, and the
n . tructor with opportunity of guiding
the gtudents and cor re Ring their errors!
xhe same principle should be extended
as f ar as , ossible schools. in all studies, It has and also
in preparatory recently
been tried at Harvard with signal sue
ceyg j n t j ie examinations for second-year
j lonors in mathematics, while in political
economy and history there is a tendency
in tbe fillne direction. School The adoption, also,
in the Harvard Law of the "case
system A, .> which is based on the princi
ol * letting the student do his own
thinking in law, has caused independent
thought to be more necessary than re
search for success in recitations; has in¬
fused extraordinary vigor into the school;
and made its recitation training unsur
passed
Itmaybeobjectedthatbvsuchasys- would
tem as j have proposed a prize be
p ] aoed 0 n deception. Even if some ob
tain illegitimate assistance, it is not per
tinent to the real issue, which is, What
i s the best method for those who wish to
x mpro fe? Natural shirkers will not re
ceive much improvement by any method,
Forcing a man to work does not improve
j,; ln , as with the removal of the pressure
he will return to his old condition. What
we want is not to lift young men up to
a be jght and hold them there, but to en
able them to rise by their own exertions.
* As Good as Old Wheat.”
J Richmond Dispatch.]
The Elizabeth City (N. C.) neighbor¬
hood is in a state of great excitement
over the recent sensational elopement
and marriage of a gushing young couple.
Jonathan Ivy has for some time been
courting respected the handsome daughter of a
and well-to-do citizen. The
young girl's Hvr name was Florence Fey
mark. parents did not approve of
young Ivy s advances, and finally for¬
bade him the house. The lovers, how¬
and ever, had managed made to meet clandestinely,
up their minds to
elopement, which was to have occurred
one night. Old man Fey mark, by some
means or other, got wind of the proposed
escapade, Jonathan. and went gunning that day
for Coming up with the gay
young lover, he blazed away at him,
shooting him in the left shoulder and in¬
flicting wound. a painful but not dangerous
Florence was overwhelmed with
grief by her father’s hasty conduct, but
her passion for her wounded lover was
intensified a thousand fold. She sent
hint a letter telling him she would fly
with him that night if he would come
for her. So that night young Ivy put in
appearance with a lose carriage, about
one o’clock. Miss Florence was in a
terrible dilemma, for her cruel parents,
to insure against any escapade, had not
only locked the girl in her room, but had
also taken every st'ch of her clothing.
But she was not to be baffled. She made
a rope out of the sheets of her bed and
let herself down to the ground, with no
other garment but her nightdress
covering her blooming charms.
She told the coachman “to look
the other way ” and after her lover
had helped her into the carriage arid
covered up her shivering form with the
carriage robes, she made him sit on the
box with the coachman. They drove
to the house of a friend, where Florence
was attired in propergarments, and they
proceeded preacher, to the house distance of a from sympathiz¬
ing the lovers some speedily town,
where were uni' * .n
wedlock.
A King as a Bootblack.
/Pall Mall Gazette.]
minds Speaking of a Bernadette, this life re¬
me of an incident in the of
the founder of the present dynasty.
Taken prisoner, when sti ! a private, at
the himself capture of Pondichery, batch of he found
among a 1,200 or
1,500 p risoners, all suffering more or less
from fever and dy sen try. General Von
W—in passing through the camp, no¬
ticed the intelligent face of the young
soldier, and, taking an interest in tiie
youthful prisoner, he took him into his
house as an extra orderly, and for sev¬
eral months Bernadotte performed the
humble office of brosseur; however,
homesick, he begged to be included in
an exchange of prisoners and he left
for France. Years after, General Von
W— was in command of a small Ger¬
man fortress besieged by lie the had French;
after an heroic resistance to cap¬
itulate. One msy imagine his surprise
when, on delivering his sword to tbe
Prince of Ponte Gorvo, the French Mar
ha 1 threw himself into his arms, ex¬
claiming : “ Vous brosseur!” ne reconnaissez dbnc
pas when votre called jeune the throne of Later Sweden, on
to
the King invited General Von W—re¬
peatedly to his capital, and never failed
to relate that he (the King) had gallant once
been cleaning the boots of his
guest.
Women can friend’s keep secrets. solemnly A Worees
ter girl, on tell, a told that she .promis
ing to liave not to four dresses costing was six going dol¬
new
lars each. The friend religiously kepi
her promise not to tell and the first
mentioned young lady doesn’t speak
to her uow.
SDN SPOTS.
ill manners or Commotions on (few Son's
Snrftiee to be Expected t-.,r the Xext Two
Years.
The sun for several years has been in
i quiescent condition, his surfac * being
dmost free from spots. The great !u
ninary lias been passing through his
ninimum period, for the spot-p oducing
ictivity H’hich the of close the sun is governed by laws
observation of the last
ibservres lentorv >s beginning to formu'ate, while
he effort are comprehend still groping in the dark in It
to the Cause.
takes about eleven years to complete the
jircuit, though the intervals arc some
ivhat irregular. As the la t maximum
incurred in 1870, it is time to anticipate
i recurrence of solar activity, and re¬
sent observation substantiates the
theory. A commotion is being stirred
ap in the sun, and iarge spots are diver
iiiying icribes his double disc. A recent observer de
tbe a the larger triangle of spots visible
in sun, one marked out
by of the spots solar including, disc, perhaps, onesseveBth
as sasuming the form
of a right-angled triangle, with an ob¬
long purplish spot at each angle A
more recent observer records the appear
ance of a spot large enough to be visible
to the naked eye This is a fine speci¬
men of its class, with a vast hole in the
center, and with broken and jagged
sdges. The penumbra, too, is broad and
(veil marked, and surrounds th* darker
portion with a frame-work of grayish
hue.
We are just entering upon the maxi¬
mum period ofi sun-spots, and for two
years to come we may expect all manner
of commotion on the solar surface.
Spots will will millions be numerous, of Some mile', of them and
cover square
some of them will remain for months.
Auroras wilt flash their flames in our
skies, and magnetic disturbances will
reach their extreme point. Then, the
gradually period having disappear, passed, the spots will
and apparent qui
esence will reign on the surface of the
great solar orb until the approach of an¬
other maximum period like the one on
which we are now entering.
Astronomers have puzzled their
brains in vain thus far in determining
the causes of these wonderful phenom¬
ena. There is little doubt that the
greatest oscillations of the magnetic
needle, the most brilliant displays of
aurora and the most powerful currents
of electricity occur when there are the
most sun sjiots, and piain’y po int to
some yet undiscovered relation be tween
them. Borne astronomer of the present
age may have tbe good fortune to touch
upon the solution of the important ques¬
tion. If the sun’s heat and light are
lessened when his disc is partially cov¬
ered with spots, then this per od exerts
a direct influence on tbe products of the
earth and affects the market price of
rereals. Herscliel advanced the theory
that the greater the number of spots, the
less favorable were the solor rays to the
growth of corn. Observation has, how¬
ever, failed to affirm this assertion, or
to prove the direct connection of the
sun-spot period with the amount of rain
The question of sun spots is one,
therefore, of universal interest. Intel¬
ligent the observers can study the signs of
times as well as trained astronomers.
For two years to come there will be
Bpota on tbe sun visible to the naked
eye, the great planets will approach to
their least distance from the sun, mag¬
netism will reach its greatest point of
oscillation, and electricity take on its
most brilliant manifestations, while the
crops rainfall raav fail, and the abundance of
in the solar give evidence of a participation
disturbance. Fortunate is
it for mortals that the succeeding calm
is as sure as the approaching commot on.
For ages to come, sun and earth will
hold their present relations, diversified
by these changes, which, while they
give stimulus variety to human experience, afford
a to human intellect to fathom
the incomprehensible, and to rejoice
in even a slight glimpse into the secret
and symmetrical laws that control
the seemingly erratic movements of the
solar brotherhood, and of the grand cen¬
tral orb which is the source of light and
heat.
Pleased With His Sentence.
The punishment of death, it is often
asserted, hardened lias but little terror for the
criminal, who usually prefers
ending gering his existence life on the gallows to a lin¬
within the walls of a
prison. hardened, By criminals, however, who are
not and hanging is viewed with
repugnance, this point afforded some striking evidence
on is by a scene which
took p'ace in the sheriff Court, of Dun¬
dee, Scotland. A deaf and dumb man
was whom charged slightly with an asssalt on his aunt,
he wounded in the neck
with a knife that he snatched from a
table in a fit of passion. The substance
of the evidence having been interpreted
to him, he admitted its truth, but would
not persisting plead in guilty. his innocence His doggedness, it in
ascertained, from the arose, that was la¬
fact be
bored under the impression that he was
being be hanged. tried for The murder, and was sure to
Snerifl found the charge
proven, and parsed a sentence of thirty
days’ imprisonment. On the sentence
being communicated to the prisoner by
means of the finger alphabet, he could
not at first realize the fact that he was
being not going to be hanged after all; but on
assured by the interpreter that
his life would be spared, his joy knew
no bounds. Leaping to his feet, his
face radiant with delight, he danced in
the dock, kissed his hand several times
in rapid succession to the Sheriff, in¬
sisted on shaking hands with the inter¬
preter, and was led out cutting the most
grotesque intense happiness. capers as au expression of his
“ Post no bills under Penalty.”, 'Thus
read the sign, without the sign of point
or comma. Three stories above at a
window, sat an old man, smoking.- A
boy, in passing, read the sign, and look
ing Penalty above, told his chum“That’s Ol/
up there, on the watch.”
Two hundred years ago in Massachu¬
setts the ordinary fine for a plain drunk
was £2. In Virginia, in 1863, a “ com¬
mon swearer” was fined sixty pounds of
tobacco, that commodity befog a substi¬
tute for money.
NUMBER J9.
Alleged Atiqunrian Discovery.
A curious sto*y coip.es from
by way cf Rome avaricious as to the old finding hermit- !!} the the
grotto of an at
bill of Gethsemane of a manuscript 'St. said
This to be in hermrtj the hnndivritihg who had of 'Peter.
old the
of great'sanctity, left no kins oik, and
when the authorities took possession of
his grotto they found it luxuriously
carpeted with tiger skinq the coucli
Bencpth being composed of the costliest* underground furs.
the floor in an
room an iron-bound oaker chest wan
found, which, gold on being and opeued, was found
to contain silver of a total
value of $40,000—supposed to be the
total of alms and ob’ations which he had
received from the credulous people
listened to his appeals. In thebottom
of this chest the manuscript was discov¬
ered, wrapped, first; in an bid and rotting
♦newspaper, shawl then undoubted in a magnificent cqsh- Anti¬
mere of great
quity, and then in an inner covering of
green silk, so- old that it erumb'ed. to
pieces on being touched. This inscrip¬
tion was upon tbe MS.: “J, Feter the
fisherman, in the name of God, finished
writing of the’word of love in the fiftieth
year of my age, the third Easter after
the death of my Saviour and Master
Jesifs Christ, £dn of Mary, in the house
of Belierl the Scribe, near the Temple of
the Lord.” The papyrus of the manu¬
script while the is described ink is as strong Black. and Scholars
ft very of this
who have seen say that no man
age could write old Hebrew of such
pure style and with such knowledge of
the meaning of many obsolete words and
forms which belong to the period in
which the epistle purports to baveheon
written. It is also urged. that, as the
since papyrus ceased of the manuscript has mak- long
"to be made, that aDo s
for the authencity of the document. It
is said that the Bible Society of London,
on being a3ked to do so, sent out a com¬
mission to investigate and pronounce
upon the matter. The membe s pro¬
nounced it the veritable work of St.
Peter, and offered £20,000 for the frag¬
ment, which was refused, though the
authorities were willing to allow photo¬
graphic which reproductions of it to be made,
was done.
It must be remembered that there is
no aC proof hurch of festival Easter being in existence as
so eany as tbe year 60
A. D., every Sunday being kept by the
early Church as the day consecrated to
the memory of the Resurrection. Again,
St. Peter would never have styled him¬
self “the fisherman,” that being a term
not used tid long afterwards by the
Roman pontiffs. Nor would he have
called our Lord the “ Son of Mary,” the
titles of Christ for long after the year
50 “Son being “Son of God,” “Son of Man,”
of David.”
•To th® thinking mind it docs seem s.littie
strange just how St. Peter managed to get
hold of an “old newspaper” in which to wrap
np his manuscripts. Newspapers are a com¬
paratively dislike new thing nnder tbe sun. Althongh
valuable we document, to question tho authencity of so
a tho originator of this
story seems to have inadvertently missed con¬
nections in its preparation.
A Search for Thirty Years.
Light that has has at been last been thrown on a mys¬
tery inexplicable for over
thirty years. The developements a® gre of
a named startling nature and concern man
Griffith, sexton of the First
Presbyterian Church, Alleghany, Penn.,
who disappeared about that time. He
was addicted to habits of intemperance,
and it was supposed had run away from
his family and gone to parts unknown.
After these many years it has been re¬
vealed that he was murdered. The
strange story, which comes from what is
con sidered a reliable source, is as Hol¬
lows:' 11 Two butchers, when going to
Pittsburg hour of the with their meat in the dead
graveyard night, Point in passing an old
gheny, on dim light ot Hill, in Alle¬
saw a in it. Thev ap¬
proached quietly, and saw Griffi'th in
which the act of he lifting a body out of a grave
had opened. One of, them
took in his hand a piece of board and
struck him a blow, the edge hitting him
on dead the bead, the body splitting he the sku'l. Be fell
alarmed on at what they was stealing. had donq, Beirig
concluded to fill the they
up grave on the
two, holding be that the murder would
never known. In course of time one
of the butchers left for some other parts
and there died. The other became dis¬
sipated, and once while under the in¬
fluence of liquor, stated these facts to
some frieuds, who concluded to keep the
matter secret, as the occurrence toot
place trouble many years ago, and nothing but
could be made out of it at this
late date. This man died a few years
ngo, the friends keeping the secret until
the present time.
Registering Woman Voters in Boston.
[Harper’s Magazine.]
We are indebted to a “staff' corres¬
pondent ” for the the following anecdote
concerning in Boston, recent registration its of fe
ma’e voters seen racy is
vouched for by distinguished an eminent artist - o:;q !
of the most stone-cutters
of the Hub:
Enter old iady of.a certain age.
“I wish to register, sir.”
“Your name, p'ease?”
“Almira “Yourage Jane ? ’ Simpson."
"Beg pardon.” age?”
“Your
“Do I understand that I must give my
age?" “Yes, miss, the
law requires it.”.
“Worlds, sir, would not tempt me to
give it! Not that I carC, no, I had a*
lief wear it on tay bonnet, as a hack mail
does his number; but Pm a t win, and if
dislikes n y sister has reference a weakness, it is. 5 tbajPske
any made to her age;
aud 1 could not give my own because 1
don’t wish to offend her.”
Kkcent statistic* show that the
gal suicide. and thrifty In 1878 Swiss there are greatly
to were 642
ons who out their thread of life,
540, two years earlier; anl the
number died in the summer, which
lovely among the Alp, doleful instead of
atudents winter, which is there.
of natural science and
in insanity hypothesis will perhaps be able the to steady make
upa to account for
increase of Jelo de te in tbe oldest Re
public of Europe.
PASSING SMILES.
Cows hare an original taste for
music but they hook too many bars.
t as any one improve his condition by
wlmiiLg? If not, whine not.
“ Mx burden is light,” remarked the
li tie man carrying a big torch in the
procession.
We are told that liars shall not pros¬
per, yet Jules Verne has made $250,000
oat of his original books.
You’re a man after my own heart,”
as the blushing maiden confessed when
her lover proposed marriage.
It's twice as much work to spade up
ground for garden purposes as it is to dig
it over for bait.
Jr ixi I so from the tone of the Chi¬
cago papers the St. Louis girl is obliged
to Kars'. go up stairs, sideways. —Danbury
Taken,, together all the beauties of
art and nature do not begin to interest
tlia inquisitive female so much as the
.view she gets through a keyhole.
honorable .“Please to understand,” said the
sjicfi Billy, the other ".No,” day, ‘‘I'm said
not a foot as 1 look.”
Bob, 11 that would be too much.”
A MAN* has invented a chair which can
be adjusted to 8,0:0 different positions.
It is designed for a boy to sit in when
having his hair cut.
k. ll They have women tramps out in
lowd.” and soon they’ll be monopolizing
that biwinass, and poor man will be
obliged to work-, for a living. —Oil City
Demel',. . s%*i|
wife A New* Jersey colored man, whose
"had left him, said: “She would
coriie back if I froved her some sugar;
but I ain’t frowin’ no sugar, do you
heah?”
It is a time-honored custom in
Quincy, couple by Fla., firing to salute a newly This married
a cannon. is to re¬
mind those present that the battle of life
has fairly begun.
When a boy falls and peels the skin
off his nose the first thing he does is to
get hurts’h^hSe'ir up an yell, badly Whe,na the girl tumbles thing and
first she
does is to get up and look at her a ress
“I don't wish to say anything against
the individual in question,” said a very
polite remark, gentleman, in the “ but would merely
that him truth language is of ihe than poet, fic¬
to stranger
tion.”
That was a triumphal appeal of th e
lover of antiquity, who, in arguing the
superiority of old architecture over the
new, said: “Where will you find any
modern ancient?” building that lasted so long ai
the
The Whitehall Times is mean enough
to tell this: “When the professors at
Vassar good, College and desire the young ladies
to be prepare to become
angels, they tell theta that all female
sunbeams.” angels’ are permitted to slide down on
A young horse man and in lance Maryland and battle-ax started
out with
to champion damsels in distress. He had
not gone five miles when a red-headed
school ma’am pulled him off his steed
and rolled him in the mud.
When t :e youug and te»der school girl isn’t think*
ing, Isn’t thinking,
01 the ti me when she will be allowed to vote,
’Lowed to vote,
The c’hafices are that she is coyly bliuking,
In zebra Coyly blinking
At some young man a overcoat,
Overcoat.
—Kew Haven Register .
A young gentleman in a lager beei
restaurant up town is known to be to
love and to have placed given up eating. A
sausage being he before him the
awhile, other day, and was he seen to asked tov with it
when was what he
was doing he said he was carving her
name on the bark.
Tiie mule stood on his off fore leg,
W hence all but him had fled,
And'kieked a fierce gun cotion keg,
ltight on its bottom head.
The keg it hurst with grievous sound,
The mule, oh! where, was he?
Go And ask him, kicks for he mulefully. stood his ground,
still
—Brooklyn Eagle.
“Pa, will you get me a pair of skates
if I prove that a dog has ten tails!”
“Yes, my son.” “Weil, one dog has
one more tail than no dog, hasn t he?”
“Yes.” “Wel 1 , no dog has nine tails;
and if one (log has one more tail than no
dog, then one thq dog must please.” have ten tails.
Hand over skates,
It is wonderful what fools boys are.
A Charming widow of our city owns a
nice boy, and a man from St. Paul wants
to lie appointed deputy Sunday father to the
lad. St. It was Paul only last strolling that down while
tire man was
Chestnut street with the lad, he asked.
“Bnb, does yourmammabangher answered, hair?”
and that foolish boy “O, no,
but you Guess‘the ought to minister see her didu“t*know bang dad’s
lieijd. told
everything Prepare! when whv lie he pa to prepare to
die; was aching to
die.” < : .
Talking Across tlie Country.
really rii'J.BuSette.J
It is pleasant to note as you
travel across the republic topic from Maine to
Colorado, how the of conversation
changes at State lines, just as the ex¬
of faces and style of clothes
gradually undergo an a’teration. Down
in Maine, when I got away from the
coasts, 1 heard lumber and “ the woods”
all the time. The men were “in the
woods,” or the men who talked to you
had just come out of the woods. Then
you got to the coast and everybody
hake fished and and haddock you dreamed and things ot dorys that and
you
never heard of before. When you go to
tbe bath you begin to pick up ail manner
of ship carpenter's slang. Then you
came nearer Niew York, and commercial
travelers filled the air with mercantile
argot, arid as you held your way west¬
ward, you got into the oil regions of
Pennsylvania, and for a while Bradford
and Oil C'Hty, Franklin and Titusville
talked bull wheel and pipe lines and dry
holes and heavy oil refinery, and tank,
and drill, and rigs, walking beam, and
derrick and pump until you could taste
o ; l every time you talked. Then you
moved along and heard through about Johnstown blasts, and and
Pittsburg hearth and crucibles and
open furnaces, and
begsemer process and rails, wire
ingo*, untu you left them behind, and
Indiana was talked to you about staves
And heads and hoop poles and veneers
and hal'd woods and quinine and by and and bent by
wood and wagon timber, ’
Illinois got.yoqr ear and said ‘ c-o ; r-n,
and you gcj across the Mississippi and
out in Nebraska, and heard a man say
teva neighbor, “ Ben, Where is that tim¬
ber claim of Johnson’*?” and you heard
kwv nd thiit f^L^wcre^R eighties and quarterusections, clunky of land!
a
*„d timber claims and homestead*, and
pre-emptions were to constitute your
conversational pabulum for the next two
or tbrec weeks, until vou reached
Colorado and began to hear assay, and
dips and lead, angles, spurs and sinuosi
ties, and claims, and carbonates, and and
that is as far west as I have been, beyond l
don *t know whatthey talk about
there. But I do know they talk land
here.
