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ATLANTA “GOD REQUIRES NO MAN TO BELIZE WHAT IS UNREAONABLE." VOLUME II. Bataa of AdvertJsiag, 1 fqsan tir*lT9 montht, 2 I'OSnStwtle imooths. calnnB twtlTp month! Th« above r»tee will, ol act proportion aa the tlma ta iLL lis oo 30 M 86 00 «6 M „ 100 00 > ■ >o modified in a * wa than twelve month.. Local. 10 cent, a IM '(S’amTrawuin” «»d » «|i aline tor rack aob, ^STSSSS^ Subscription, I®,00 Per Anum. St [fnlered in the Post-office <U Atlanta, Ga v tecond-clau rwMl matter. ] THE UMV3GR8ALS1ST CO.MFBSSION OF FAITH. Adopted at Winchester, 5. H.,180*. Art. I i-We believe that the Holy Scr /ptures of the Old and New Test aments contain a revelation of the charaot e r of God, and of the duty, iuterf ,gt and final distination of man kind,. Abt . II.—We believe that there is one God, whose nature is love, re vealed in one Lord Jesus Christ, by one Holy Spirit of Grace, who will finally restore the whole family of mankind to holiness and happiness. Art. III.—AVe believe that holiness and true happiness are inseparably connected, and that believers ought to be careful to maintain order, and practic'd good works; for these things are good and profitable unto men. NEWS GtEANiNGS. Selma has fifty fine artesian wells. The tobacco crop of Virginia will be short this year. Vegetation is frightfully parched in Middle Tennessee. Real estate is on the up grade in Baton Rouge, Aa. The blackberry crop of Pulaski coun ty this year was worth $3,500. Arkansas has 2,500 miles of navigable rive's. ping a large amount of lumber to Hayti. Selma, Alabama, has fifty-five over- flowing bored wells affording a plenty of good water. Mississippi produced the largest amount of cotton in 1880, the number of beles being 955,808. The Mississippi river commission will build ninety barges, and will have five steam tugs. A live oak tree in Miconopy county, Florida, measures twenty-two feet in circumference. A North Carolina colony is talked of which shall be free from “beer saloons, churches, ministers and lawyers. Nashville wants to be the iron center of the South. It is now the next thing to it—the rock center. Railroads, railroads, railroads, is the cry from one end of the South to the other. Southwest Georgia is happy in tho success attending the boring of artesian wells. Wator in abundance has been obtained at a depth of 530 feet. J. B. Morrison, of McClellansville, South Carolina, has raised three hun dred pounds of excellent Malaga grapes his season. The Fort Smith oil-mill and cotton compress is about completed. It is one of the largest in the country, and cost $75,000 Pleas Harper, a negro, bought a plan tation on Broad river, in Georgia, pay ing for the same $32,000: It comprises 2,100 acres. One of the Cotton Exposition’s at tractions will be an “ ensilage cattlery” in full operation. The pits are being dug, and the multitude of horses, sheep, hogs, cows and mules will be fed in the ensilage during the exhibition. The main object of the system is to save la bor and time. The Georgia Legislature has passed a bill making a complete change in the management of the State penitentiary. By it the office of Principal Keeper or Warden is abolished, anti, a board of three Commissioners elected, clothed with unlimited power to control the operation of affairs. This power was formerly in the hands of the Governor. The thirty-eight States of the Unien contain 2,299 counties. Texas leads off, having 151 counties, followed closely by Georgia’s 137. After Georgia in the table comes Kentucky with 117 coun ties; Missouri, 115; Virginia; 105; II linois, 102; Ibws, 99; Tennessee and North Carolina, each 94, and Indian '92. Asa rule, the Southern States have more counties than the Northern States. The Charleston Courier comes to the defense of the Southern girls who are charged with being unwilling to work. It says that “it is only necessary to look at Columbus or Augusta in Georgia, or at Greenville or Spartanburg in this State, or wherever manufacturers are established in the South, to prove the falsity of this charge. Charleston will be no exception to the rule now that favorable opportunities are gives to the people.’’ There seeens no longer any doubt that there are Southern cotton mills that can sell cloth below the Eastern mills, and make better dividends. Mr. Francis Cogin, manager of the Augusta (Ga.) cotton factory, says : “Southern mills can sell cloth one-half cent less per yard than the New England mills, and still make more money than they do. Mr, Bussey, of the Eagle and Phoenix mills of Columbus, Georgia, says the South ern manufacturer has one and nine tenths cents per pound over the North ern.” Tne ex-Confederates Association of Virginia, at a recent meeting, adopted the following resolution: “That our organization being purely social, we have rejected the harsh allusions made by one of the speakers of yesterday to the President of the United States. We declare that the United States is our country, its Government is our Gov ernment, and we deprecate every at tempt, no matter from what source, to revive the bitterness of the past.” They are after the alligators lively in Louisiana. The New Orleans Democrat says : -‘Times seem to be growing bad for the alligators. Within the last year, or exen less, there his sprung up a de mand much greater than ever before for their skins, and now the negroes, with old muskets and rifle in hind, 'ar launching their pirogues in eve; v > / ou As Louisiana is the headquarters of these ATLANTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31.1881. =- ■ NUMBER 15. ated quite a stir, and many people have engaged in hunting them for a living. The skins are taken off and sent to this city, from whence they are shipped to Europe and the North.” The Wounded Horse. Pity and kindness have a wider range of subjects than the sufferers of our own race and kind. Touching pictures like the following will meet and appeal to every observer more than once m a life time: In the year 1870, during the sad war between Franco and Germany, a news paper correspondent was visiting the town of BazeUlee, in France, which had just been the scene of a battle. Among many other distressing sights suggestive of the miseries of war, which were to be found on every hand, he particularly mentions the following interesting story, which teaohes its own lesson: In the fields, just outside the city, there was a miserable-looking horse, standing motionless, with his off fore leg poised in the air. We went up to him, when, without moving in the least, the poor beast turned his neat blue orbs from one to the other of us, saying, as plainly as looks could do, “ For mercy’s sake, gen tlemen, help me if you oan.” One of us examined the leg, and soon found that a bullet had lodged in the crown of the hoof, which was very much swelled and sore, and the dies had been dreadfully busy with it. Of course, to cut it, and remove the cause of a month’s agony, was but the work of a few minutes; and if you could have seen how grateful the old fellow was when he put his hoof to the ground and found that he could once more limp along, you would have believed, as I do, that horses can speak with their eyes al most a* well as human beings. It is terrible to think what that wretched animal must have suffered dur ing his long days and-wiights of agony since first that stinging throb oame in his foot and he was left alone in his mis ery.— Youth's Companion. That Man Venn or. Henry G. Vennor, the Canadian weather prophet, who has gained a wide spread reputation for the accuracy of his predictions, takes exceptions to state ments published concerning his early life, (a so-called biography) and ad dresses a letter to the editor of the Wash ington Republic in which he says : “I was bom In 1841, at Montreal (not 1840,) and my parents are English. My early life was spent, not in poverty, but in ease and luxury, my father being a head partner in the leading wholesale hardware establishment of “ Budden & Vennor,” with houses both at Montreal and Liverpool. My mother was a Pat terson and was connected with some of the oldest, families in Scotland. My ed ucation was not “obtained wholly through his own exertions,” but with my brothers at two of the leading sohools in Montreal, and after these at the University of McGill, where I was immediately under the tuition of Princi pal Dawson, Dr. T. Sterry Hunt and other leading Professors. Before leaving the University I took two years of civil engineering and two honor courses in science. I also attend ed the ohemistry classes of our Medical College. After spending about five years in the wholesale hardware firm of Messrs. Frothingham & Workman, of Mon treal, (during the whole of which time I was a great colleotor and student of birds and animals,) I reoeived an appoint ment, througn the late Sir Wm. E. Lo gan, Government Geologist, on the geo logical survey of Canada, and spent my first season (1865) in a survey of the Grand Manitouiin Island, Lake Huron. Here I made a very large collection of birds. In 1866 I continued my geologi cal investigations in Hastings County, Province of Ontario, and thence year af ter year explored eastward until Ottawa was reached. From this center and be tween the years 1875 and 1880 I exam ined the whole of Ottawa County and traversed the rivers Gatenian, Lieveire and Rogue to their source iu the “un known wilderness” to the northward. In 1881 I conoluded my geographical re searches in connection with the Govern ment and have opened a general mining agency in this city. “ I have only further to state that my " Birds of Prey ” cost me some $2,600, and as the work was too expensive for Canada, a great deal of money was lost on it. I have given away a very large num ber of copies through the United States. “ My almanac I hope to make a me dium for the exchange of meteqrologioa’ America. Gain is not my object, and hitherto publishers and agents have made all the profits. I attribute my present position or reputation entirely to my close study of the course of storms in years gone by, and a comparison of these with those” of to-day in every sec-, tion of country. I have carried the pen* pie along with me. not so much by one general strikingly accurate forecast (such as that of the winter of 1881 as a whole), but by numerous well directed local predictions, unostentatiously pub lished, but telling in their effect upon the people included.” .I Preventton Better Thau Cure, rot £. G. Jane way leotured ^before tin Young Men’s Hebrew Association ah' irl t the prevention of disease, advising that great attention should be paid to it cur- come. HHHB. ■■rait of sickness, involving the ekpenae of m Aioal attendance and, loss of Airne, wc rk and wages, but jauay were igno rant of how to prevent if A man should fir, 'ifleam if p 'e was »1- v'd w „ , hi ' hia ohoioe of an ocotn d> Ding-place, ete. Ai K^ ewliat hpon the tendeifer? to com tendencies, and writ disease, he itbyhia: Incident ef Ltifcutfs Murder. “Those are not cfieqrtil-looking lings, are they?” said Oouns&tetjlf. A. cDonald, as he sauntered into floe of the United States Majshal, an! pointed to a pair of handcuffs jftioh were' lying upon the table. T ‘Jujl “Not especially enlivening,” feplied a deputy, picking up the roguVs bracelets and examining them thought- There was a time when I thought they were the most oheerl«ss.and terrible things in the world.' of , The- deputy looked fi F ft “Yo« ,r XI Better Yet. On a Canada Southern train a Detroit er had a seat behind a couple who got on at a little station near St. Thomas, and he thought he had seen the man’s face before. He was looking at him sharply and trying to remember where he had met him, when the man turned and asked : "Aren’t you Thomas , of De troit?” “Yes; and aren’t you William , of Buffalo?” “Yes.” “I thought so when you oame in. And ain’t you running away with old Judge Blank’s daughter, of St. Thomas ? ” “ I’ve got a better thing than that,” whispered William, as he leaned over the seat, “ I’m running away with his wife I ”—Detroit Free Press. child ,, care should be taken from the earliest infancy —; trst to develop the body. Ashe grew older he should be trained to avoid worry aijT anxiety. Action was desirable for sc ih a person rather than undue reflec ts ■£. All mental shocks should be avoid ed It was bad for him to be wrapped up in one idea, sneh as the acquisition of money or power. He should choose a congenial pursuit and by no means be forced by his parents intp a distasteful oi p. There were good reasons-why he sl’onld not marry, but, if he did, he should carefully choose a congenial wife.. The lecturer then spoke at great length on the necessity for pure air, water and milk, giving several instances ofi the deleterious effects of bad air, a.Aong others that of the passengers on tie ship Londonderry in 1848, 150 of whom were shut up by the Captain dur ing a storm, in the steerage, an apart ment .18x12x7 feet. Seventy of them died in an inoredibly-short time, having Ci ,*u 'ulsions and bleeding at the eyes and esrs. Speaking of the danger of lm- i joperair in dwelling-houses, the lect urer described a house he had examine., 1 il which he found the cold-air box of the ffhiace oonneoting directly with the slwei;. In another house he knew of trnee cases of malaria where the tenant, •■>n mining a drain that the owner had Vyaranteed to be all right, found a cess pool under the house. He had also Inown people to put their garbage bar- mis under the cold-air box of the fur- j ace. People should examine the ■ Jnmbing in their houses for themselves Ad not be satisfied when a plumber dd it was right Whenever it was isible, a tenant, builder or purchaser a house should insist that the plumb j Yes," eon' 1 had -them, both on my Band# .once for a number of,hours, rtieu- crou they are not plei /dtHA t wear.”- * '■ “Were About 7,000,000,000 pins are made in the United States every year, just about enough to hold aevsn women’s toileta in poriDon. Austrian Dogs. In Austria, while the large dogs are made to work, and make themselves use ful in various ways, the little fellows are taken to the bosoms of the ladies, and treated as if they were veritable angels. It is not uncommon, when traveling, to see almost every lady with a dog in her arms, and occasionally a footman or maid, whose sole duty in traveling with the mistress is to take care of the dog, and see that he has water and food on the route. The doctors tell many amusing anec dotes of baring been called np at mid night and finding that their services were needed for a poodle that had been over fed in »he effort to kill them with kind ness. They could make heavier charges, with the assurance of prompt payment, in such cases, than if the patient had been a child or a husband. “Love me, love my dog,” seems to be the sentiment of these ladies; and on one occasion the writer saw a finely-dressed lady, who had her dog in her arms, take off her gloves while standing in a railway sta tion, and diligently pursue and kill a flea which she had discovered depredat- ~ W* ing among the fleece of her favorite. It well-i is quite common to see them led tender ly along with ribbons, and in some cases to see a gold chain attached to a lady’s belt, and at the other end of the chain a poodle dog traveling by her side or re posing in her arms. Signs in the shop windows tell you that “Dog soap is sold here,” and that various patent compounds that will in duce canine health and longevity are on sale. A lady walking in any of the pub- lio grounds with a dog is sure to be ac costed by a number of seedy-looking in dividuals, who will draw out of their pockets pups, which they oiler for sale. The offering for sale of anything in the publio grounds being prohibited, they thus keep them concealed in their pock ets. In the upper grades of life a moth er trusts her children to servants and g overnesses, but her poodle dog she eepe under her own eye; and a scream from the nursery might pass unheeded, but a yelp from the drawing-room or tho boudoir would startle “her Ladyship” from the soundest sleep. Of oourse there are exceptional cases, but it in cludes most of those who aspire to fash ionable life. We see dogs oaressed mnoh more than children are, and their oqmfort studied with jealous care. HUMORS OF Auntie, lam ai me piumot ib-v.:- aijW walls. If people would all insist on it houses would soon be built so. t if the plumbing is in the walls the peppermint test should be applied. A 'considerable quantity of the essence of peppermint should be poured into the highest trap in the house, and if there was a break anywhere the peppermint odor would betray it. Bad odors in a house were like the rattles of a rattle snake. They meant bad plumbing and danger. Ho then spoke earnestly in regard to Vaccination, saying that 100 years ago ton deaths in every 100 were caused by small-pox. Now, by vaccination and (eolation, the prevalence of the disease was cheeked. By being vaccinated in infancy and once in fifteen or twenty years afterward a person was compara tively safe ; but, by being vaccinated about once in seven years he was as safe as he could be. He then conoluded 6y put on to keep ybu a prisoner ?” queried the deputy, wonder ing if his friend could have done any thing criminal.” “ You would have thought so had yon been in my place. I was arrested by officers who thought I was J, Wilkes Booth.” * v ' “No!” ejaculated the deputy, more as. an expression of surprise than an in-, tentional reflection upon the veracity of Mr. McDonald, A " “It came about in this way,” began tha^wyer, whose dark hair and eyes, even now that sixteen years have passed, bear a striking resemblance to the assassin of Lincoln : ‘' Lincoln had beeh murdered but a few days, and the en tire'conn try, plunged in grief, was wild with desire for revenge upon the murderer. My home was in Titusville, Pa., and I was on the way to it from Washington, where my father was then a Government con tractor. The route was by way of Erie. The train had left Erie and gone perhaps a dozen miles, when a couple of officers surprised, me by put ting me under arrest and clapping hand cuffs on my feet. , In vain I protested. They would not belies e that I was not Wilkes Booth. To add to ther unpleas antness of the thing, and a fact which also gave oolor to tne belief that I was the President’s assassin, it' was well known that Booth had interests in the oil regions of Pennsylvania; and had been there a number of times. The men who arrested me did so, upon the strength of my great resemblance to a picture of Booth which they had in their possession. When it became known on the train that the assassin of Lincoln had been arrested and was on that very train, the excitement was intense. • The officers who were guarding me had all lo to prevent the, refumfe;! fromaomgTne bouity liariffl with a few directions in regard to disin- feoting and nursing in oases of infec tious diseases.—New York Herald. It has been ascertained that the rea son for placing lumber yards near to railroad depots is to enable travelers to get a board easy.—New York World. Benevolence to Animals. Almost all boys are fond of dogs, and ■at nearly all will persecute cats, rob ilrd’s nests and pelt frogs. There are exceptional boys who delight in cruelty, and they frequently grow up with their evil propensities strengthened by age and exeroisa. There arc also men of brutal disposition who have acquired their ruffianism after passing through the juvenile stages of their existence, and they are at once the plagues and the puzzles of society, defying its punish ments and resisting its benevolent en deavors. Cruelty to animals is partly the work laftees.-fclKbfsfvrtly perpetrated ■meaning people, under the in fluence of bad habits; and if we could estimate the total quantity of cruel in fliction imposed upon birds, beasts, rep tiles and fish, be should probably find that by far the larger proportion resulted from the ill-regulated action of good and even benevolent persons. Mnoli of ill treatment of animals comes out of the ordinary proceedings of trade. It has been the oustom to bleed calves, to cram sheep and poultry into the smallest possible apparatus of transport, to drive oattle for long distances without permit ting them to drink and to slaughter them without sufficient avoidance of pain. Each little circle in whioh these malpractices ooour forms its own theory of cruelty and benevolence, and laughs scornfully at outsiders who objeot to its wavs. The fox-hunter thinks a man a passengers It had been telegraphed along the line of the road that Lincoln’s murderer was under arrest, and would pass through on his way to Titusville. At every station the train was met by infuriated men who climbed upon woodpiles to get a glimpse of me, and many times on that journey I feared that the mob would get posses sion of me. When the train reached Curry there was a man boarded the train who knew me. But the officers would not listen to him, and it was not until Titusville was reached, where every man, woman and child knew me, that the handcuffs and manacles were removed from my wrists and ankles, and I was allowed my liberty. I have the photo graph wh'ch furnished the clew to the officers wno arrested me in my posses sion now.”—Denver Tribune. A Wkstkbh desperado recently shot dead a man .because he wouldn’t pray. How very dangerous Western life would be for many of ns. —New Haven Reg ister. ■■ ,• , i, > „.* “ ** : “How could you think of calling auntie stupid? Goto her immi " and telt her you are sorry.! goes to auntie and savii, “Ai sorry you are so stupid.’' Emm/ Abbott haa invented a new kiss. :If she. desires to dispose of the old lot at cost she can learn of something to her advantage by calling at his office out of business hours.—Lowed Citizen, “Xwbntv.years ngo,’”# colored ^philosopher, “ niggers wiv' wpf a thou sand dollars apiece. Now d, v would be deah at two dollars a dozen. It'* 'ston- ishing’ how de race am depreciatin'.” . “Your husband is not in to-day, ma’am,” said a collector who called at the door. “No, he is not.” “Do you know where I can find him ? ” “I guess he’s gone fishing. He enrried a glass bottle with something he called bait.” Atrar Matilda—“And do you study geography, * Janet?’ 1 Janet—Geogra phy? I should think jjo, indeed I” Aunt Matilda—“Where’s Glasgow?” Janet—“Glasgow? Oh, we haven’t got so far as that. We’ve only got as far aa Asia.” • ■ , Now that elephants’ milk haa been analyzed and found to be superior to cows’ milk, of oourse it will beoome fashionable. And as it will be sold at a high prioe, dealers can afford to make it of a fine quality of chalk and very pure water. “Sam, you srf not honest. * Why do you put all tliq good strawberries on the fop of the measure.' an$ the little ones below?” “Same reason, sah, dat make* de front , of your'house marble and de back gate chiefly slop bar’l,.sah.”—Rx- change. .. » Uncle Mose asked Gus De Smite why it was that the weather was so muoh warmer in summer than in winter. “ I thought every darned fool knew that,” growled Gus. “ So did I, boss. That’s why I puts’ de question to you on pur- paae‘■Texas Siftings. “But do yon know, farmer’s daughter, when h' about the addresses of his' son, “you know, pa, ma marry a man of culture.” “ So do I, my dear, so do I; and there is no better cul ture in the country tkaa<&griculture. ” “The Bible savs. ‘Love your neigh- • s? said the je to her Shbor’s me to fool who reminds him of the unbenevo- lent oharaoter of his sport, and the fine ladies who flock to aristocratic pigeon matches have no more oompunetion at witnessing the suffering of the poor birds than the Spaniards have for the gored horses and tortured bulls in their disgusting national recreation. It may be affirmed that the cruelty of custom or indifferenoe does not lead to the de moralization whioh inevitably results from a deliberate ohoice of action that inflicts unnecessary pain, and yet all familiarity with needless and useless suffering must tend to damage charac ter,-unless it exeites strenuous resistance to the evil and efforts for its cure. Some Familiar Sayings. Shakspeare gives us more pithy say ings than any other author. From him we mill, “ Count their chickens ere they are hatched.” “ Make assurance doubly sure.” “Look before you leap.” “Christmas comes but once a year.” Washington Irving gives ns “ The Al mighty Dollar.” Thomas Norton quer ied long ago, “What will Mrs. Grundy say ? ” while Goldsmith answers, “Ask me no questions and I’ll tell yon no fibs. ” Thomas Tasser, a writer of the sixteenth century, gives us, “ It’s an ill wind that turns no good,” “ Better late than nev er," “Liook ere thou leap,” and “The stone that is rollingwill gather no moss.’ “All ciw and no wool ” is found in But ler’s “Hubibras.” Dryden says: “None but the brave deserve the fair,” “Men are but children of the larger growth,” “Through thick and thin/’ “Of two evils I have chosen the least,” and “The end must justify the means,” -are from Mathew Prior. We are indebted to Col ley Cibber for the agreeable intelligence that “Richardis himself again,” Cow- S er tells us that “Varietyis the spice of fe.” To Milton we owe “The Para dise of Fools.” From Bacon comes “Knowledge is power,” and Thomas Southerns reminds us tint “ Pity’s akin to love.” Dean Swift thougnt that “ Bread is the staff of life.” Cnmpbell found that “ Coming events cast their shadows before,” and “’Tis distance lends enohantment to the view.” “A thing of beauty is a joy forever,” is from Keats. Franklin said “ God helps those who help themselves,” and Lawrence Sterne comforts us with the thought that “ God tempers the wind to shorn lambD So fab from persistence being an as sociate of weakness and inferiority, it is itself a power whioh underlies and up holds all others, and without which they oould never develop into value or effi ciency. The feeble, inefficient, inferior man Is he who, whatever may be his latent abilities, laoks the foroe necessary to make the most of them. It is a remarkable foot that the centre of population of the United States has advanced in a sk i.ight line since 1790, due west from Baltimore. Good nature extracts sweetness from everything with which it comes in com tact, as the bee extracts honey from every flower which it visits. but of course we must not take this lit erally. If you manage to love your neighbor one-huudredth part as muoh as ou do yourselves, many of you, it will ie all that oan be reasonably expeoted of you.”—Boston Transcript. Mamma—“Did you enjoy your ride, EliBe?” Elise—“No, mamma, and rea son enough, for Connie James says the Van Smiths are going to give a dance, and we’re not asked.” Mamma—“Well, my dear, your poor aunt’s death was providential—of course we oan’t go.” It is said that death lurks in oheap colored stookings.—New Orleans Pica yune. Sho! We’ve known death to lurk iu the toe of an enraged parent’s boot, but didn’t suppose he could kiok a man to death iu his stocking feet. We wouldn't go there auy more if we wers in your place.—New Haven Register. Laughing Away a Duel. Laughter is an antidote to anger. Even duel has been prevented by some amusing answer which turned wrath into mirth. A man holding both his sides ean’t hold a pistol. A Georgia Judge named White, who wore a cork leg, once challenged a brother of the bench. Dooly by name, and a wag, to mortal oombat. At the appointed hour both appeared on the field, but Dooly was alone. White sent his friend to ask where his an tagonist's second was. “Gone into U> e woods,” replied the humorous Dooly, “to get a bit of a hollow tree to put one of my legs in, that we may be even.” The answer was too much for Jadg# White; he laughed and so did his second, and the challenge was with drawn. An Irsh lawyer, who had neves fired a pistol, was challenged by a famous duelist whom he had offended by severe comments upon his testimony in court. The duelist, having been orippled in one of his duels, oame limping upon the ground. He had one favor to ask, permission to' lean against a mile-stone, as he was unable to stand without sup port. . The request was granted, and, just as the word “ Fire 1 ” was about to be given, the lawyer said he also had a request to make. He asked the privi lege of leaning against the next mile stone. A hearty roar of laughter from seconds and ohallenger dissipated all thought* of a duel. The great orator of the Revolution, Patriok Henry, once reoeived the follow ing note, preliminary to a challenge from Gov. Giles, of Virginia: "Sib: I understand you have called me a ‘bob-tail’ politician. I wish to know if it be true; and, if true, you! meaning.”' Mr. Henry replied in this style: “ Sib : I do not recollect having called yon a ‘ bob-tail ’ politician at any time, but I think it probable I have. Not recollecting the time or oooasion, I oan’t Bay what I did mean, but, if you will tell me what you think I meant, I will say whether you are correct or not." Of course there was no duel—Youth's Companion.