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VOL. XIII. NO. 4.
BOLIVAR, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1S77.
$1. 50 Per Annum.
Harieman County Directory.
Judicial.
CHANCER Y COUP.T. Chancellor L. J.
Livingston; Clerk and Master, Jamei Fen
tresa, jr.
CIRCUIT COUB --Jade, T.J. Flippin :
Clerk. J. M. Richardson; Attorney General,
J. J. Dupuy.
COUNTY COURT. Chairman, C. II. An
Hrrson; Clerk. W. C. Dorion; Register, K.
F. Aniroon; Sheriff, V. W. Ff.rley; Depu
tifH, W.J. Rlair, W.C.Crawford, Jeff. Hud
ioa; Surveyor, C. C. McDaniel; Standard
Keeper, I". A. Parran.
BOLIVAR.
Professional.
FRANCIS FENTRESS, Attorney at Law,
aril Solicitor in Chancery. Office north side
public iquare.
DR. P.'T. JONES. Office in rear of Dr. E.
A P. Moore's drug store. Calls answered at
office.
DR. J. J. NEELY, Jr. Office over Ilar
kinB & Durrett', where order for his service!
will receive prompt attention.
DR. D. C. DAY. Office at th old Metho
dist church
Mercantile.
R. M. IIAMNEIt. wholesale and retail
druggist, keeps constantly on hand oils,
paiuta, stationery and fancy articles. East
nide of public kquare.
E. D.MOORE, wholesile and retail drug
silt, kef p full supply of smokin;; and chew
in tobacco, oils, paint1, iajs, etc. South
fide public sauare.
GEO. T. INGRAM & CO., family grocers.
Full stock of uj;ars, meat, Hour, teas, coffee,
etc. South side public square.
T. P. CAMPBELL manuficturer of bots
and- shoes, makes gents' low-quartered
shoes a specialty. Repairing neatly done.
Over Moore fc Tate's.
AV. II. CARUTII, machinist, opposite Bol
ivar foundry, dealer in aids and V harrows.
Repairing dona.
' R. L. LIGIITFORT & CO., watchmakers
and jewelers, Complete stock on hand. Re
pairing neatlv anil cheaply done. Store at
D. J. Well's old stand.
Hotels and Saloons
EUROPEAN HOTEL, A. F. Yopp propri
etor. Meals at all hour. Main street, south
of the square.
CITY SALOON, J. P. Smith & Co., pro
prietors. R-st liquors kept constantly on
hand. South side public square,
TEMPEST SALOON. P. W. Austin, pro
prietor. Han on hand pure liquors, fine
cigars. South side public square,
GEM SALOON, A. S. Osburn, proprietor.
Full stock of flue wines and other liquors.
South side public square.
GrRAITP JUNCTION.
.
Professional.
PUS. N. II. & T. E. TREWITT, physicians
and regular practioners, Oflica over Capt.
Kail's store.
W. A. TURNER, Attorney at Law, prac
tices in Hardeman an. I adjoining counties.
Educational.
GRAND.! UNCTION MALE and FEMALE
Academy commences Sept. 1st, 18 7.
Edward Recton, Principal,
Hotels.
F. L. PLEDGE, Proprietor of the Stone
vail House; excellent fare ; cheap rates.
lMaBlBanIMHBIiBHaBhM
Mercantile.
J. G. KAESTLE, Grand Junction, boot
and stioi' maker. Work done in the latest
style and a fU guaranteed.
G. L. PEELER, Grand Junction, watch
maker and jeweler. Repairing and cleaning
done on short notice and at cheap -rates.
Work guaranteed.
WM, McK. HALL, Drugs and groceries.
New and lull stock, (roods sold at Memphis
prices.
W. W. HAWKINS, dealer in all kinds of
drygoodnand genreal merchandise. New
and complete stock.
IRWIN & MAULDIX keeps constantly on
hand a complete assortment of dry goods,
groceries, etc.
COLLINS & CO., druggists, have a full
stock of drugs, oils, paints, lamps, glass, etc.
STINSON. WELLS & CO., manufacturers
of glass monuments. Orders solicited. Work
Guaranteed. Office opposite depot.
DR. A. J. ADAMS, proprietor of the cele
brated Aslatid Flour Mills, Orders solicited
and promptly filled.
DENNIS FLANNERY, proprietor of the
National S iloon. Full supply of fine liquors.
Opposite Stonewall House.
J. M. PRE WITT, dealer in dry goods and
groceries. Give him a call.
TOON'S STATION.
Mercantile.
ANDERSON A BRADFORD keep con
stantly on nana a iutt assortment of dry
goods groceries, etc. Great bargains to
be had for cash.
T J. RUFFIN, dealer in family supplies,
hats, traps, boots and shoe.' Libera terms
offered to buyers.
MIDDLETON.
Professional.
DR. J. S. NEELY offers his professional
services to the public. Calls promptly at
tended to.
DR. J. D. NASSER offers his professional
nervices to the public. All orders left at his
office promptly answered.
DR. W. M. ALLEN may be found at his
office at all hours to attend to professional
calls.
A. M. LAMBETH, Esq.,
and Solicitor in Chancery.
Attorney at law
Mercantile.
J. K. P. LAMBETH has a large and as
sorted stock of dry goods, etc., which be
oflers very cheap for cash. Call and exam
ine his new arrival of merchandise.
g. C. WILSON, wholesale and retail drug
gist, dealer in slrngs, paints, oils, soap and
'ncy articles.
A. J. BAREUM. dealer in drugs, oils,
paints, glass and fancy articles, wholesale
and retail.
F. G. BARTLIFF, wholesale and retail
dealer in tine wines, liquors, groceries, ete.
SAULSBTJRY.
Mercantile.
WRIGHT & DURDEN have a full stock
of lry goods, groceries and general mer
chandise. J. H. SANNONER has a full and assorted
stock of drugs, paints, oils, fancy articles, etc.
M. M. THURMAN; fall and complete
stock of genuine merchandise, dry goods and
groceries.
IRWIN, McFARLANE & CO. have a large
and well appointed saw mill. All orders
filled at short notice and upon reasonable
terms.
J. P. SMITH keeps constantly on band a
full line of desirable dry goods, groceries,
etc. Sells very cheap for cash. Call and
get bargains.
CRANESVILIiE.
Professional.
Dr. VM. THOMPSON, physician, can be
found at all hours in his office to respond to
professional calls.
Dr. D. S. WEBB offers his professional
services to the public. Orders left at ki
office promptly attended to.
HICKORY VALLEY.
Professional.
DR. R "W. PEGRAM offers his professional
services to the public. Calls promptly at
tended to.
Professional.
CIIAS. A. MILLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Bolivar. Tenn.
Office with Chancery Court Clerk.
Feb'v l.-tf.
S. H. WOOD. A. T. SIC'SIAL.
WOOD A McNEAL,
Attorneys at Law,
Bolivar. Tenn.
East side of Court Square, over J. II. Lar
will's Drug Store.
JEjSEK XllBJIKST, . A. J. BOATES.
NORMENT & COATES,
-A-ttorneys at Hiaw,
...AND ...
COLLECTING AGENTS,
BOLIVAR, TENN.
North sidejof public square. may3-tf.
JOHN JOHNSTON.
-. FOKD.
JOHNSTON & FORD,
Attorney at Law,
No.40 Madison St.,
MEMPHIS : : : TENNESSEE.
P. B. ROBINSON,
Attorney at Law,
Solicitor in Chancery, and
General Collecting Agents,
Will practice iu the Supreme Court.
JACKSON, : : : TENNESSEE.
april 20-Iy.
A..-M, LAMBETH, Jr.,
Attorney and Counsellor, at Law,
Solicitor inlCUanecry, and
General Collecting Agent,
FOR WEST TEXXESSEE.
MIDDLETON, : : TENNESSEE.
jany20-ly
UeorgaGant. Jnttaa Patterson. Too. C. Low.
Gant, Patterson & Lowe,
Attorneys at Law,
293 Main Street, MEMPHIS.
rsuSpecial attention to Bankrupt and in
urance cases. oct 6-ly
w.-w. PLEDGE.
W. J. EVANS.
PLEDGE & EVANS,
UNDERTAKERS,
GRAND JUNCTION.
Keep ou hand and made to order all kinds
of ready-made coffins. Caskets furnished at
short notice.
The Socratic method is thus irrever
ently explained by the New York Times:
S. "They tell me, O Alcibiades, that
you have cutoff your dojr's tail." A.
"It is true, O Socrates ; I did it with my
little battle-ax." S. " What is a dog?
Is it not an animal with four lees and a
tail?" A. "You say truly.' S.
" Then your dog is not a dog, for it is an
animal with fourlega, yet without a tail."
A. " I see that I must admit it." S.
"But you will also admit that neither
among Greeks, nor yet among barbarians,
is there any animal which, having four
legs, has no tail." A. "Againthou
sayest what nobody denies of." S.
" How then can you claim that you have
the very animal which does not exist?"
A. " By Zeus, I make no such claim."
S. " Then you see you have no dog."
" These are such small peaches," said
the man to the dealer. "Wal, ye-as,"
answered the dealer, "they are rather
little, but what else can you expect but
they Tould be stunned-like, takin' inter
'count the war this year, an' hard times,
an' the strike, an' what not, an " This
was all the other man stopped to hear of
the argument. Chicago Journal.
A gay bird is Khalid Pasha, the Turk
ish embassador at Paris. In fifteen years
he has squandered a fortune which
originally yielded him $250,000 a year.
Tae porte has re-called the pasha because
he was posted at a club for $80,000 which
he had loet at ecarte and was unable to
pay.
TKEASIHF.S.
& maiden sitting at the close of diy
Within the shadow of a rose-wreathel bower,
Dee p brooiing o'er a soul that's p isned away,
While fall her tears upon a fadei flower
That awaet furget-me-nei. thrice precious now,
binoa Death hits set his seal upon the giver's brow !
Yet though the floweret now has lost its blue,
Though dull and dead are Its once lustrous eyes.
It id Tea the maid a peace she never ttne
Voteven when 'twas pluckei 'neath summer skies;
It leads her from the darkness of the tomb
To him in that bright land wher flowers aie aye
in bloom.
A mother gazing on a curl of gold,
Or on two little shoes of brightest pink.
Which tell her of ths time sae did enfold
Close in her breast- her heart about to sink
Her blue-eyed boy the angels claimed one uiht ;
The Lord had need of hiaa There all is love and light.
But soon tbe fond one sees in her despair
That in His love and wisdom God hath riven
Her boy from her ; and that tbe golden hair
She treasures is her angel child's in Heaven ;
And that the little feet those shoes once shod
Are bound now wita the sandals of tbe love of God.
An aged man, with waving Bilver'd hair.
A rosy child asleep upon his knee.
Breathing with peace-throned smile a tender prayer,
When rapt in some ecstatic reverie;
A preciaus casket ef the by-gone years
Within his hand, and wan leaves wet with sacred
tears.
The child is all unconscious as he sleeps,
That he's a link in that great golden i haij,
W hlch joins each blessed one who vigil keeps
Around his grandsire. in the heavenly train ;
The old man knows not what his life may be,
Butfor thoje treasures. end that child upon his knee.
UP IX 3IARS.
Bnuona Tor Believing that the Planet is
Inhabited.
The conditions which favor the blief
in the existence of life in the planet
Mars present the clearest possible evi
dence ot being one in origin and structure
with our own earth. We cannot tell
wnat the nature of the soil of Mars may
be, but its generally ruddy tince so
well marked that, though the telescope
shows an almost equal part of the surface
to be greenish in hue, the red prevails,
giving to the planet, as seen by the naked
eye, its obvious red color eee'ms to show
that it resembles the red sandstone of
our own earth. This, we know, is one of
tne oiaer geological tormations, and if we
could safely compare terrestrial with
Martian geology, or, let us say, geology
with aerology, we might almost be
tempted to find in the present prevalence
of a tint belonging to one of the earlier
of our terrestrial formation an argument
in favor of the theory that Mars passed
through fewer stages of development
during its life bearing condition than
on r earth, and that thus the later forma
tions of our earth's surface are wanting
in the surface of Mars. This reasoning
would not be very safe, however, it im
plies a resemblance in details which is
not likely, the observed rule of nature
seeming so far as we can judge, to be
similarity in generals, variety in details.
We may well believe that the ruddiness
of the soil of Mars is due to the same
general cause as the ruddiness of our
red sandstone the general prevalence of
certain organisms but neither the actual
character of this particular formation,
nor its position in the territorial series of
strata can be safely predicted of the
ruddy formation constituting the chief
part of the visible land surface of Mars.
Few will now suppose with a French
writer that the ruddiness of Mars is due
to the color of the vegetation there. A
certain support is given to the idea by.
the circumstance that the degree ot rud
diness is variable, and is somewhat
greater during the Martain summer than
in spring and autumn. In this sense we
may say of the summer of Mars with the
poet Wendell Holmes :
The snows that glittered on the disc of Mars
Have melted, and the planet's fiery ob
Bolls in the crimson summer of its year.
But the ruddiness of the planet's sum
mer which will be well marked this
year, for on September 18, only eleven
days after its time of nearest approach
and greatest splendor, it will be mid
summer's day lor the southern half of
Mara can be otherwise and better ex
plained than by supposing that the
Martian forests glow with fiery foliage
during the summer days. We can see,
as the summer proceeds, the white mists
which had hidden the planet's lands and
seas breaking up, and the features of the
surface being gradually revealed with
more and more distinctness. It is to the
disappearance of these mists and clouds,
not to the red leaves of Martian trees,
that the change in the plant's color must
most probably be referred. We have less
reason for doubt as to the nature of the
greenish markings. The spectroscope, as
we have already explained in "Life in
Mars," shows that the air of Mars is at
times laden heavily with the vapor of
water. We can no longer, therefore,
follow Wbewell in doubting the real na
ture of the green parts of the planet, or
refuse with him to accept explanation of
the white polar marking long since ad
vanced by Sir W. Herschel. Undoubt
edly wide seas and oceans, with many
straits and bays and inland seas, exist on
Mars. Snow and ice gather in the win
ter time about his polar regions, dimin
ishing gradually in extent as summer
proceeds, but never entirely disappearing.
Thus we are not left doubtful as to the
general resemblance of Mars, so tar as the
structure of his surface is concerned, to
the earth on which we live. He has a
surface of earth, probably in large part
formed by deposition at the bottom of
former seas and subsequently raised
above the sea level by subterranean forces,
or rather caused to appear above the
surface by the effects of the gradual
shrinkage of the planet's crust. Cornhill
Magazine.
Retaliation Scenes in Sistova.
Every other house lies open to inspec
tion, for the Bulgarians finished the work
of destruction commenced by the Musco
vite soldiery. It was natural enough, too ;
tbe latter came in with their blood up
from the fight, and; the ravaps. as libe
rated slaves, sought to vent their fury
upon their former masters. The negroes
aid it at San Domingo, and there is no
negro fresh from the shores of the Congo
whom I would insult by comparing him
socially or intellectually with a home
bred Bulgarian. There were some horrid
scenes, they tell me, in Sitaova on the
morrow of the assault, and for days after,
and Turks were hunted out or their
hiding-places aud shot down like dogs,
and rape and murder and pillage and
every foul deed which lust and brutality
could imagine was perpetrated, under
the eyes of the Ilu.sian officers, until
there was nothing left wherewith to ,
reproach the Osmanli for last summer's
atrocities, except, it may be, in the
number of the victims. But this was
not the fault of the Bulgarians, and they
will do better when the field for the
exercise of their reprisals fhall have
become more extended. And when
human victims w.re wanting to their
vengeance, they wreaked it upon inani
mate things ; every house, from cellar to
roof, has been gutted ; chimney places
and walls have teen demolished, floors
torn up in search of concealed treasure.
Handfuls of wool, bundles of rags of
every sort and color, the accumulations
of generations of Osmanli for the tufiing
of their traditional divans, are scattered
about the rooms like a thick carpet, or
lie in heaps in the streets and gardens,
i where even the fiuit trees have been
1 chopped and hacked simply because they
were onr.fi ripsr tr t.hfi !inslf:m. i don t
think that this wanton destruction of
property caused me any very painful
feelings; it brought its own punishment
with it, for these unreasoning brutes
might have occupied the comfortable
dwellings of their old tyrants with no
one to say them nay; and the soldier,
even of the most civilized people, ia
inclined to " loot" when the fighting is
over. But it was sickening to gaze upon
the shattered and upturned tombstones
around the desecrated mosques, for there
is something sacred in the repose of the
graye, and respect for the dead is written
in every conscience. N. Y. Times.
INSURANCE MATTERS.
An Interesting Letter on the.SabJeet from
Victim.
:New York, May 31, 1877. Mr. ,
Vice President, etc. Dear Sir: I am in
receipt of a postal card advising that my
next annual premium (policy No. 43,369)
is $147 93. Thereby I am reminded
that the life insurance business, as man
aged by your company, is, like the prov
idence of God, "past finding out." I
began paying $80 cash and $52 note on
this policy in 1867. It seemed an inex
pensive luxury. It would have been if
I had died. 1 unhappily survived, and
and now for ten years have been
struggling as much to keep the policy
as myself alive. But the appetite of the
policy, I ob?erve, does grow by what it
feeds on, and the danger is that it will
shortly exceed its demands and my ability
to answer, and I shall see it die on my
hands. The steady and constant increase
in the amount of premium on this policy
be;an to excite my curiosity, not to say
my admiration, several years ago. The
agent to whom I applied for enlighten
ment I have passed through the hands
of five or six.'each'of whom have amassed
a fortune and '.retired s overwhelmed
me with mathematics of the most
mixed and abstruse character that I fell
back from the investigation greatly hu
miliated at my own ignorance, and pro
foundly impressed with the resources
of either the company or the
agent, I could not decide which. I
think I realize, and I hope I appreciate
gratefully, the beneficent operation of
this steady progression in cost of the
policy. It makes one contemplate death
with resignation, and to look upon that
consummation as a checkmate to the
company. Did you ever think how Booth
or John McCullough might improve
Hamlet's soliloquy and thrill any ordi
nary audience by just holding up one of
your life insurance policies as suiting the
action to the word, at the passage :
" There's the respect that makes calamity
of so long life V
But I fear I trespass on your time, is it
true that insurance officials, notwith
standing the meagerness of their salaries,
are overworked ? I will come at once to
business. I need not trace the steady,
upward progress of these premiums.
Sufficient that last year I paid 112.75,
and this year you call for $147.03 npon a
policy, the annual premium on which
was $ 1 32 ten years ago. At this rate of
increase, and with my discouragingly
sound health, I cannot undertake to com
pete with the company. I am aware, of
course, that a policy holder who has paid
ten annual premiums can hardly expect
the consideration due those who, not be
ing insured, seek information. Being a
fish in the basket, I do not expect the con
sideration due one in the sea, and yet I
would like to know whether policy No.
43,369 has any surrender value? (?an
you give any information on the sub
ject? I am already in possession of a
considerable accumulation ot tracts,
pamphlets, circulars, almanacs, calen
dars, and extracts from religious news
papers which afford abundant knowledge
&a to the facilities and methods for get
ting into life insurance ; what I seek now
is information to get out.
"Pardon me, sir, if I have used too
great a familiarity in addressing a man
whose acquaintance with logarithms and
mortality tables, and the differential
culculus entitles him to the name of
benefactor and the salary of actuary. I
am not ignorant of what is due therepre
tative of $27,000,000, if that's the figure,
of assets. I address you because your
name appears on the seductive postal
card which invites me to add $147 03 to
the $27,000,000. I presume you are no
stranger to the complaints of disappoint
ed policy holders, and it is not improba
ble that you dismiss them all with the
remark of the Apostle Paul on returning
a box of Dr. Ayer's celebrated compound j
cathartic pills to the elders otthc church
at Ephesus, 'None of these things move
me.' But there may be some in your
employ who can show me the cheapest
way out. Will you please refer me to
him, that I may present my policy and
receipts and things wth the conundrum
which at one time staggered the intelli
gence of such a statesman as Daniel
Webster: 'What is all this worth ?' But
then, Webster knew scarcely anything
about life insurance.
"Yours, very respectfully."
School and Church.
Next year's tuition ia the university
of Mississippi will be free. The state
appropriates $30,000.
The English House of Commons has
refused, by a vote of two hundred and
four to one hundred and forty-three, to
abolish church rates in Scotland.
The plan of an international Catholic
league has been sanctioned by the pope,
and is now in course of elaboration at
Vatican. Rome is to be its headquarters.
Archbishop Bailey, of Baltimore, an
nounces, from Vichy, France, that
Bishop Gibbons, of Richmond, has been
appointed his coadjutor, with the right
ol succession.
The Baptist church of Manchester,
Va., has solemnly resolved to exclude
from its membership every member that
is able and refuses to help pay the ex
penses of the church.
Shuje Isawa, a young Japanese, lately
graduated at the Bridgwater (Ct.) Nor
mal school. In his graduating essay he
gave statistics showing the condition of
education in Japan and thanked Ameri
cans lor efforts made in that direction.
There are over 20,000 common schools,
nearly 2,000,000 children receiving edu
cation in them, and 35,866 instructors in
Japan.
Affaele young man, who is smoking
his after-supper ciar on the roof of a
Broadway stage, aks the driver why the
check-trap is like conscience; intending,
of course, to amuse him with tbe time
honored explanation that it is an inward
check on the outer man. But tht char
ioteer's answer, " Because it stretches."
showed a more thorough knowledge oi
the practical workings of both elements
of the comparison.
LAM) OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN.
Within the Aretic C'irele Peculiarities or
The Norwegian 'oot and of (he
People.
The Rochester Union makes the follow
ing extracts from a private letter dated
at Tromsoe, Norway, July 3 :
He steamed into this pretty Arctic
town night before last, and shall make
our home here a week longer while a por
tion of the party finish "their northern
trip around North Cape to Vadsoe. We
crossed the mountains by means of horses
and carriages, using 120 for our ride of 200
miles. The law reauires every station
from six to ten miles apart to furnish
travelers with fresh horses within half an
hour of their arrival. We are now two
days into the Arctic Circle, and where
we now live the sun shines brightly at
midnight from May 20 to July 22.
Even two days before reaching this point
the sun was so sUii0 midnight that
the ladies wanted shades. This coast is
perfectly beautiful, or, I should have
said, grand, as well as wonderful. For
nearly 2,000 miles the islands are so
thick so close together that it is like
sailing up a liver which expands into
lakes. The whole distance is over
shadowed with snow-capped mountains
from 3,000 to 5,000 feet in height, rising
abruptly from the water, while in the
distance are to be seen those which are
much higher. We were, exposed only
once or twice to the open sea, and then
only two or three hours at a time.
Ihe air here is veiv exhilarating.
Yesterday the children picked wild
nowers as we were walking, and within
a iew ieet maae snowoaiis. it is a
wonder that in so short a season anything
can oe grown in tnis latitude, and yet
grass springs up rapidly, often growing
an inch in 24 hours. They have but
two seasons really ten months of winter
and two of summer. Although the
season is so long yet the fords never
freeze, and I think we often have as
cold weather in New York. The occu
pation of the place is fishing, mostly
herring and codfish. All are well to do;
no rich and no poor. The people are
intelligent, the masses receiving a fair
education. But what a queer place and
what queer customs! From the belfry
of the church between the hours of eight
at night and six a. m. a man shouts the
time of night through a large tin horn
at intervals of every half hour. The
clergymen wear large wide ruffs. We
have just been to see the Laps, some
three or four miles from town. They
were notified the day before, and for a
small sum spent the whole day among
the mountains gathering their reindeer,
wnicn tney drove down lor us to see
some 400 of them in number. It was
such a novel sight to see them coming
down the steep mountains. They will
not live low down, as they eat only rein
deer moss which grows where it is very
cold. Cows will not eat where tney have
been as the scent of the little hair they
shed is very offenseve to them. We go
from here to the fords around Molde
and Berjren and puriKse srwnding a few
weeks there; from thence we go t Ham.-
burjr, th rough fierrrMuiy - io JGenara
reaching r ice about the 1st of JSovem
ber. The trip so far has been one of
great pleasure. "
How the Uallas Kill the Black Panther.
Wonderful stories are told of how the
Galia hunters capture it, for they dare
not meet it face to face with their spears,
and therefore resort to straU-gy. It is
said that, when the Galla hunter has dis
covered the haunt of a black panther, he
digs a round hole in the ground some
six feet deep, and just large enough for'
him to stand upright in. He then gets
into his hole, and, placing his round buffalo-hide
shield on the top of it, so as to
cover him entirely, calls to the panther
in a mocking voice, daring it to come
out of the jungle where it. is concealed.
The panther, who is naturally a very,
passionate beast, on hearing this defiance,
immediately rushes out nd tries to get
at the hunter by gnawing at his shield,
which covers the top of the hole where
he is ensconced; but the Galla holds
tight, and tnen ensues a dialogue, or
rather a monologue, for, though the
panther is supposed to understand Galla,
he only answers by growls. The hunter
first abuses the panther, and then ridi
cules it, calling it all sorts of names,
until the unfortunate panther gradually
works itself into such a frenzy that it. at
last fairly dies with rage, and the hunter,
emerging from his ho'e, secures its skin.
In confirmation of this story, the Abys
sinians declare that when the black pan
ther skins are brought to market they
never have any mark of lance-thrusts
or swerd-cuts upon them, as have the
skins of other animals which are killed
in the chase. I fancy the truth is that
the panthers are snared by a .device
which they often use in Abyssinia for
catching the spotted Jeopard. A running-noose
is firmly tied to the branch of
a tree, and the branch is then bent down
and attached to a stake iu the ground in
such a way that anything moving the
noose will set it free; a kid or piece of
meat is then placed behind the noose,
which is carefully concealed among the
leaves and placed in such a way that the
leopard, in springing at its prey, will
pass through the nooe; of course, he
becomes entangled in it; the movement
sets free the branch, which flies up, and
the leopard, instead of eating the poor
little kid (whose feelings must be any
thing but pleasant), suddenly finds him
self suspended in the air, where his strug
gles soon cause the running-noose to
tighten round him, and he ia easily killed
by the hunters.
The Dangers of tther.
It has always seemed to us the height
of folly to declare there could be no danger
in any anaesthetic. The lesson taught by
the late death from nitrous oxide has, it
is to be hoped, been well learned, and we
shall in future hear less of the abnolute
Bafety of any agent capable of depriving
a person of ail sensation. Some caes in
which ether has been followed by alarm
ing symptoms haye lately been accorded.
They have been termed syncope, but the
word ia not appropriate, as the heart con
tinued to beat after respiration ceased.
This is what should have been antici
pated. When death is produced by ether
the animal's heart continues to beat long
after the arrest of respiration. The pulae
is quickened by ether and maintains its
force through a loDg state of aca-theiiia.
In these facta lies the safety of ether.
But it should never be forgotten that
there is darger at a certain stage, and the
danger is from thesideof the respirations
which at lencth ceaes. Stertorou,
breathing proceeds from paresis of the
muscles of the palate, and should lead
v, ti,ar wai suspended. So respi
ration growing more and more shallow !
and less frequent is a warning and should !
i.ot be overlooked. It u very rare that marches round mm, rcsimWitijr cabaustic
the heart fails perhaps never. Pallor j word. This we-ms to be a kii.d of exor
israre too and should excite attention j ci-m, and would indicate a belief that the
if it occur! But, we repeat, the danger ; illnecs is cau-d by witchcraft, or demo
is from the side of respiration; that of niaeal po-esion.
chlorof jrm from the heart ; and this fact
goes far to explain their relative safety.
In chloroform narcosis the daDger is
much more sudden. Ether gives warn
ing.
A Little Delay Fatal.
It is well known that Julius Cfe3ar
might have escaped assassination in the
senate chamber if he had read deliber
ately a letter put in his hands by one
informed of the conspiracy. The same
fact is true of one or two of the French
monarchs who perished by the assassin's
knife. But the delay of a few hours to
open these important letters rendered
escape impossible.
We have never seen the following in
cident before, but it is vouched for by
Dr. McChesney, of Trenton, a reliable
authority.
The success of Washington at Trenton
has been generally considered as the
turning point in the war of independ
ence. Yet few persons are aware upon how
slight an event this critical action was
made to hinge. On the Christmas eve,
when Washington crossed the Delaware,
Col. Rahl, the commander of the Hes
sians, sat in a private room near lrenton,
engaged in drinking and playiDg cards.
A Tory, who had discovered the move
ments of the American troops, sent a note
by. a special messenger to the colonel,
with orders to deliver it into his own
hand 8.
The messenger found the way ta the
house, and a negro opened the door but
refused him admittance, took the letter
and delivered it to the colonel, who was
just shuffling for a new game.
Supposing the letter to be unimpor
tant, or not stopping to thiok at all, he
went on with his play. The reading of
the letter would have thwarted the de
8is;n ot Washington ; but the love of
play conquered the cornel's prudence
and gave success to a worthier cause,
involving the loss of his life and army,
and intimately the freedom of the
colonies. Little did the colonel think,
when he was shuffling those cards, that
he was losing the greatest game that was
ever played among the nations of the
world.
How She Served two Masters.
The sweetest oratory that I have lis
tened to on the cliff or in the forest was
when I awoke from a twilight dream
which had overtaken me as I sat leaning
against the base of a monster tree. They
were upon the opposite side, and I could
not run. Said she: "Since we were chil
dren I have felt a deep interest and
friendliness in vour welfare, and since I
came to know the blessedness of hope, I
have longed to share my joy with you.
Will vou give your heart to your
Maker?"
He said: "I can't do that, Molly. I
would if I could, because you wish it.
I gave it to you last winter during our
nieeting:-of the 'Jeu d' tresprit,' and if you
really don't want to keep it yourself, if
you really dou't in the least care for it,
you may give it to whoever you .like,
XorI never have anv use for it. I
would like, you know, to share a blessed
ness of hope very lively much the same
as yours if you would only arrange
things so that I mia;ht have you all the
time to divide the joy with which 1 hope
you mean; can't you, Molly?"
She said, "O, John!" and then there
was a fumbling, and if he didn't kiss her
and she didn't kiss him, why "Katy did,"
and the woods are full of them. Then
hhe said, "You must tell pa how you
feel," and he said:
"Isn't it too soon after getting a new
heart to tell a fellow's experience?" and
she said, "Not at all. It is proper, and I
am very happy."
He said: "Not as happy, Molly, as if
I had given my heart to the lxrd, are
you?" He aked his question in a pathe
tic and apprehensive tone, and she repli
ed, "It is all the same, John. I'll see
that the good Lord gets it at last."
Then they went off to inform pa, and
get an earthly blessing from him, for
John is in the leather business, and
very prosperous.
The Lost Found.
Fifty or sixty years ago, it
custom for gentlemen wishing
to visit emigrant ships as soon
arrived in port. Selecting the
win the
servants
as they
man or
woman who pleased them, they would
pay his or her passage money, about sev
enty ar eighty dollars, to the captain,
agreeing to give the servant clothing and
board, and at the end of three years' ser
vice, twenty or thirty dollars.
One day, a gentleman, a man of for
tune, residing in Philadelphia, went on
board the emigrant ship to hire a girl,
or " purchase her time," as it was then
called. He selected one, and was shown
her father. The old man was anxious to
go with his daughter, and after some
persuasion the gentleman purchased his
time. " Well, now," said the old man,
" there's my old wife ; take her also."
There was something so attractive in the
countenance of the old woman that the
gentleman bought her time.
Going together to the register's office
to complete the bargain, the gentleman
was surprised to find that the name
which the emigrants gave was spelt and
pronounced like his own Inquiries
ended in discovering that he had bought
the time of his own father and mother
When six years old, a s"n of the old
folks had been taken to Ani-'ica by a
gentleman, and they had luni all knowl
edge of him; itid.-t-d they had lniot
forgotten they had a son iu America.
They recollected, however, that their
boy had a figure of a cubumber on one
of his ehouiders. Tbe newly found wn
was stripped in the office, and, to the
deli2ht of the aged couple, there was
the birth-mark.
Medical Science In Servia.
Doctors do not flourish in Servia. Up
to a very recent date their place was sup
plied by 'a wise worren," called " babas."
These "babaa" profess to have an intu
itive knowledge of medical plants ; but
that intelligent being, the Servian peas
ant, placed much less trust in their med
ical man than in their magical skill.
Their performance in this lioe was re
markable, and their rustic patients had
every faith in it. The most commonly
fatal di-ieases in Servia are consumption
and congestion of the luDgs. The fctaple
remedy for the latter ailment is to ad
minister three apples grown on the same
I. n wn cii,,tvW1m1 1 1 h 9 m A TY1 VBf .
rious connection with the Trinity, the pa-
t eut feels no better, tnen, uut not tin
then, the wise woman adopts more vigor-1
ous measures.
lit H 11 1 v ' 1 vuiiaiK; UidlHUt: J
Is laid on the ground on hishtomacb; the
wise woman scatters salt over him, and j
The Solar System.
That group or system of celestia
bodies called the solar system is composed
of nine principal planet, with their
moons, and a large number of imall
planets or asteroids. They may be
divided into
1. A central body, the Bun, compara
tively immovaoie in tne group, much
larger than all the others, and self-lu
minous.
2. The planets, situated at different
distances from tbe sun, revolving arund
it in nearly circular orbits, and receiving
light from it. Iheee may be dividea
into three groups :
(a.) The inferior planets, so called on
account of their size. These are situated
the neaaest to the sun. and in order of
dace are : Mercury, Venus, the Earth,
Mars.
(b.) The superior planets, situated
farther from the sun Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, Neptune.
(c.) The asteroids, a large number of
verv small planets, revolving in a ring
between Mara and Jupiter.
3. Twenty-two moons belonging to the
different principal planers, Jupiter bav
in? four, Saturn ei-nt, Uranus eiirht.
Neptune one or two, and the Earth one.
4. A nebulous ring, the zodiacal light,
the position of which is not exactly de
termined, and also one or two rings of
aerolites shooting stars and meteors.
5. Several comets, or bodies revolving
around '.he sun in very elliptical orbits.
Some ot them have well-defined orbits,
but of many the paths are still unknown,
some of them probably never reaching
our system but once.
The sun, the planets, and the moons
are of a sperieal shape, slightly flattened
at the poles in most instances. Most of
them are known to have a revolution on
their axes similar to that of the earth.
The planets revolve around the sun and
the moon or satellites around the planet
to which they belong, in the same direc
tion ; that is, if an observer be eupposed
to be placed at tne center of the system,
the sun, and facing the north, the planets
would pass in front of him from right to
left, or in a direction opposite to that of
the hands of a watch. They have a
revolution on their axe from right to
left also.
The curves described by the planets in
their revolution around the eun are el
lipses, which are almost circular, and
they are nearly in the same plane, called
the ecliptic. The angles they make with
this plane are very small in the case of
the true planets, being only seven degrees
for Mercury, and averaging about two
and one-half degrees. The asteroids differ
more from this plane, the angles of some
of them being as much as thirty degrees.
So that, looking at them from the earth
they seen to "revolve in a belt or zone
called the zodiac.
If, then, we look at the solar system in
the plane of the ecliptic, we see a bright
point, the sun, in the center, and various
little sparkling points moving from one
side of it to tbe other. Looking at the
syitem from above we see the central
luminous point and. tne emaUer points
going around it in nearly circular eclipses
at various distances.
From analogy, since the satellites re
volve around the planets and the planets
around the sun, we would imagine that
the sun and its satellites would be found
to revolve around some other and larger
sun. Such seems to be the case, but the
exact location of the central point must
remain conjectural for many yean t
come.
Living- Without Food.
It is true that many chronic diseases
all the world over arise from eating too
much. But it is possible, on the other
hand, to eat too little; and we doubt
whether many could maintain a healthy
existence on the meagre diet of such
medical philosophers as the celebrated
Cornaro. How long one could contrive
to live without eating anything at all, is
a question of which lew will be inclined
to undertake the practical solution.
Unfortunately, it has been solved over
and over again in the case of many an
accident and many a deed of cruelty.
Without something to eat cr drink, man
wdl not live beyor.d a few days, or at
most a week. Access to water, however,
makes a difference. There is a well
known case of an Ayrshire miner who
lived twenty-three days, buried in a coal
mine, without swallowing anything but
small quantities of a chalybeate water
sucked through a straw. He had the
advantage of being shut up in a con
taminated atmosphere, which, by dim
inishing nervous sensibility, lefsened the
cravings of hunger. Even more remark
able examples of prolonged abstinence
might be given. Persons, indeed, have
been found in coal-pits and mines, and in
other situations where thtre was not a
mouthful of food, but where water was
to be had, as long as six weeks after
their seclusion, still alive, though of
course in a very feeble state ; and a small
daily allowance of food has supported lile
longer even than that, as in some cas
of shipwreck and other accidents at a.
Berard quotes the example of a convict
who died of starvation after eixty-three
days, but in this case water was taken.
Cases of alleged fasting longer than this
are certainly in mot cases due to im
posture. The insane appear to bear
fasting better than those in their nober
senses, and in some morbid conditions of
the lody nourL-hm"nt may certainly ba
done without for a surprising length of
time. A iiiii.als have au advantage over
man, to tar living without food is
concerned liitil-snakes exist many
months without eating anything, and
retain nil th er vigor and fierceness; and
many creatures voluntarily spend four,
five or six months in every year without
eating or drinking. The tortoi.-e, bear,
dormouse, and other animals retire at
their seasons to their renpective cells and
hide themselves home in caverns o' rocks
and ruins, others dig holes under-ground,
while some get into woods and lay them
selves up in the clefts of trees. What a
fine piece of economy it would le if man
in dull times could just curl himnelf up
and take a long nap like these inferior
creat u re !
A IMXOEE threatens the American
meat transportation. Charles Brat in, a
Liverpool butcher, has been arrested and
fined ten dollars and costs for having ou
his premises four hundred weight rf
American beef unfit for human fA.
The meat was part of a consignment by
the steamer Germanie. Brabin had been
fined twice belore, and was this time
warned that fpr another effense he would
probably be sent to prison. This hows
jii.-tt great care should be made in ship
ment, otherwise a lasting injury will le
onicted on what promises t' ba perma-
nent and ever increasinc trade tetween
V I ' I ' vyvuubf j anu J -Ji. i out .
Fair charmer
(who thinks that she
knows everythir
alout college juiairc)
"Is it possible, Mr. ThoirAin, that j
vou are not acquainted with my brott-er
Rt Harvard? Whv he sinrrf. r cowl .
base in the university base-ball ciew
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Ter the Sen-
I cannot hear thee, for tbe wind r monlcg;
1 cannot hear thee, for in wave are high :
1 cannot hear thee, for the good bip groaning.
Seaward doth li y.
And yet my fond heart listen ia the singing ;
And yet metuinks I clasp thee ocoe again ;
I hear thy voice, as if I weie not winjlDg
Across the main.
So he it ever 1 It the world torment roe.
Happy in thee and in the pan I'll reet :
To Bleep upon thy memory will content me
As't were thy breast.
Shakspeare's chair fold at auction in
England, recently, for $225.
The communist wants to earn hie
bread by the Bweat of some ether lellow'i
brow.
Tbe New York Times says that the
idea of teaching every girl to thump &
piano and every bey to be a book-keeper
will make potatoes worth $4 per bushel
in twenty years from now.
Tavo ostriches, harnessed to a wagon,
can pull a load of a thousand pounds,
and all the care they need is a pail of
water, two or three old bones and hod
of brick. Send in your orders early.
It has been decided by eastern doctors
that it isn't the surf bathing nor the
mineral water which does a fashionable
young lady good, but it's getting a good
square meal three or four times per day.
Some men can never take a joke.
There was an old doctor who, when
asked what was good for mosquitoes,
wrote back : " How do you suppose I
can tell unless I knew what aila the mos
quito ? "
If the czar wishes to perfectly anni
hilate the Turks, he should arm hia sol
diers with firearms " eupposed to be
empty." They do more damage now-a-days
than any other weapon. Philadel
phia Bulletin.
Tekstans can borrow a cooked ham
for .the family table, and when it is re
turned the dealer weighs it and charges
for the amount that has been uped. The
plan wouldn't work in this Yankee landt
the borrower would fill the hollow bono
with shot and make out that the dealer
owed him for two pounds and a quarter
of meat. Worcester lress.
Twelve hundred persons 'are em
ployed in the New York city posteffice,
ot whom only four hundred and eichty
two were appointed by Postmaster James.
Charles Forrester, head of the register
ing department, has been fifty years in
the office, and there are a large number
of employes who have served thirty,
twentv-five and twenty year. The
postollice has twelve branch offices and
four hundred and twenty-nine letter
carriers. One cent ou the dollar is the settle
ment which John F. Chamberlain, the
fashionable gambling house keeper, of
Washington and Iyoug Branch, has made
with his eighty-one creditors. The
debts included those of gambling, his
personal, household, and every manner
of bills. Other claims are pending
airaiiiKt him by August Belmont and the
Lorillarda for purses on races.
Ajt actual Philadelphia advertisement
"A refined gentleman, who does not use
tobacco in any form, but does have family
prayers and vocal blecsings at table, with
a genteel wife (none others in their
family), tan have five or six rooms,
partly furnished; every convenience,
underdrainage, water cn each floor, and
give table board to two ladies for rent ;
our superior house girl can be retained,
if wanted."
Perhaps one of the most cruel things
ever said wis contained in Foot's advice
to the duke of Norf.dk of that day. On
a masquerade night his grace consul ted
the famous actor as to what character he
should appear in. " Don't go disguised,"
said Foot, "but assume a new character
go sober." It was the successor of tbe
duke of Norfolk in question who con
sulted Abernethy for some ailment, and
was asked wneiher he ever tried the rem
edy ot a clean shirt. Cornhill Mnqazinf.
The travs-Atlantic sparrow gets the
following notice from the Boston Adver
tiser: " All our little American young
sters are harassed by the savage Entrli'lt
pest, which makes up in pugnacity and
numbers what it lacks in size. It is
driving them away, and giving in its
stead its own untuneful cries and the
chatter of its constant bickering under
our windows. It is piolilic to a marvel,
and if delicately favored, as in the pat,
will soon suggest the frogs of Egypt.
At a New Orleans hotel bar an eager
controversy was pending 'twixt various
generals, majors, etc., when a quiet fel
low obrcrved, " I happened to be there,
gentlemen, and possibly may be able to
re'resh your memories." Thereupon he
proceeded to give a succinct account
of a small action. " What might have "
been your" rank, sir ? " asked the hotel
keeper. ' I was a private." About to
start the next day, he demanded his bill.
" Not a cent, sir; not a cent. You're
the first private I ever met.'
Questions of importance by a ft nr-year-old:
"How do they get our souls
out of our bodies when we die cut 'em
out?" " Why don't we see the yellow
embelopes the telegraphs come in goin
long the telegraph wires?" "If thf
Bible calls bad old folks goats, bad chil
dren are kids, ain't they?" "Is it too
late for me to have a twin brother?"
"Any rate, me and Billy fJreen is twin
cousins, ain't we?" "If you was me
when you was a man, would you drive a
hearse or join a circus? "
The Indianapolis Sentinel says quite
a dramatic scene occurred at a liockville
temperance meeting lat week. A
tramp who had been notified to leave
town stepped upon the platform and be
gan to sjeak to the utter amazement of
the audience. His outward appearance
was so hopelfK that when he betrayed by
his jierfect rethoric and eloquence tbe
evidence of a fine education, his hearers
were astonished. The people were ho
delighted with the speech Gf the poor
fellow that he was invited to speak the
next night, and a subscription waB taken
up for his benefit. In early days he
studied iu the office of aTerre Ilaute law
yer, and he was on his way to that place
in search of employment.
A MAN out on Westllill was grievously
tormented with a Thomas cat. And he
determined to s.lay tbe same, bo he
caught the cat, put it in his basket, cov
ered it with a board, intending to sit
down on it, intending to fill the bucket
with water, and thus drown the T. C.
But as he sat down, the active prisoner
pushed away the board, and when the
ma:i aro-e and sauntered into the house
to look for tbe "extract of witch hazel,"
he could cot telr whether he had ret
down on a stove lid, or merely slid down
a shellhark hickory tree and lit in a goose
berry bush. Act that ci'hl, a worn,
uttering man, lying on his lace tryirg to
sleep, sighed us he listened to the mock-
in MiuirH oi a twelve pound cji, peitiDg
ih lambent moonlight on the woodshed
rwt.llawhfye.