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SOUTH GEORGIAN. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT NcVILLE, TELFAIR C0BNJY, f 6h W. T; MaeARIttU,*,! ’ r» Proprietor*. S. A. FAtKLER, J SITBSCHIPTIOK BATES. One Year............... *8S I’M Month. t Hum Mooch.. All l«H«m should bo Editor South Ocorpian, 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 ' 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. ' --■ - - 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 . > --nr- - 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 '■“* 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 » '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.