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' ': '"''"' l s different n of l'i l;.1 r heat and h iir propor r»u-ui p.11''""1 whicli ha.giv.n>michgen ofiir i°n u "'' exp«c lo donble our hit r,-,.r r:!'"1 l,is wa 1 '- will have iil:,;',m'v!,lll'i ii of ihevalley c,,1 '»•'.«. lhvn.lv r por term c .. bernhardt bros agents fvd mlilv tim e n ' ptibscb?1 watchman i poetry for the watchman ! falling hear tin ripe nuts rattling falling all the autumn woodlands round see the brown leaves whispering calling fluttering slowly to tin ground acorn feasts the oak is spreading mingled with the hickory's mast flocks ot s ine wood ways are threading racking loud the rich repast full-eared coin-fields down are turning cotton patches white as snow for the gathering bands are yearning sweeping falling down below falling falling all things calling nature's fruitage loads the tields ; where the merry brook is brawling von wild festooned vineyard yields crapes and muscadines abundant hazel siinon and papaw luscious bountiful redundant treasures which the sunbeams draw to thy full lap fairy woman ; filling child thy tiny hands man's strong garner crowding human hearts rejoice for fruitful lands october 1830 e p ii for the watchman organ church cemetery one lovely morn in early may i passed the iron gate while every sprouting twig was gay in nature's lirst estate and here vv ith granite walls enclosed i un u inhered graves are laid : i f tottering age they are composed — of youth the boy and maid here infants from their mother's breast and masters trained at york are laid in silence down to rest with jracher lynn and storck in distance tar from east to west they came iu one by one — a father wile a sisler blcss'.l a brother and a sou willi vernal life the eye is turned l'n \ i.w artistic skill and trace the hope divinely learned lint these are living still mid scented how ers that cheer the sight dressed by a careful hand vou see on parian marble white the name of heilig stand augustus young and george not old — kind brothers lived and died and now beneath the grecu turf cold they're sleeping side by side her familv mimes iu order tell tin ivcaiiu 1 the past as when they rose and bow they fell while slate and marble last two m ou u ments together stand with cross and pendants dressed they point beyond the stormy strand to mansions of the blessed tbey bring to mind two sister's graves two spirits round the throne ; the fir 1 who passed where jesus saves her work on earth well done tl.e second shaft with virgin grace to earthly visions lend ■ while high it stands to mark the place where grace and beauty end | close by a little child is laid and o'er its sleeping dust a human form of tumble made guards well the sacred trust soon all vv ill hear the angel's voice an i move iu grand array : then how — will every grave rejoice iu that great rising day ? c.vi.vix two fishers oue morning when spring was iu lie teens a niorning to a poet's wishing all tinted in delicate pinks and greens miss hes.de and i went fishing i iu my rough and easy cloths willi my lace at the sun tan's mercy ; she with her hat tipped down to lie nose and hei nose tipped vice vevsa i with my rod my reel and my hooks and a hamper for lunching recesses she with her bait ot her comely looks and lhe seine of her golden tresses so we sat down on the sunny dyke where the white poiid-lillies teeter and 1 went to fishing like quaint old ike and she like simon peter all the noon i lay in the light of her eye and dreamily watched and waited mut the lish were cunning ami wouhl noi i ise and the baiter alone was baited and when the time for departure came my bag hung flat as a flounder but hessie had neatly hooked her game a hundred and fifty pounder thf hancock cock this is the cock that crows this morn and wakes the rads with clarion horn nnouciiig thcdawn.assiire'syou reborn hurrah for hancock ! this is the cock that crew last night and woke up early for the fight was spurred and eager by daylight hurrah for hancock ! this is tbe cock that crew in maine and signaled democratic gain cod's justice showered like the rain — hurrah for hancock ! this is the coek tells garfield's doom and heralds the democratic boom ;'' de golyer stand aside make room ! ii uriah for hancock ! this is the cock whose crow blends tears for southern dead with northern cheers and welds a wrong of twenty years hurrah for hancock ! — evansvitle courier political judge buxton the republican candidate for gover nor endorses fully the candidate of his party for the i eeidency and is in full accord with the party he represents the judge was always regarded as an honest conscientious christian gentlemen ; but since his acceptance of the nomination for the governorship at the hands of the republican party these attributes as ap plicable to him have been questioned the press of the state and tho democra tic speakers have by the records convict ed bim on several occassions evaded the demands of justice in charging his juries sitting in judgment upon cuscs.-wliero tkfci subject was a member of the republican party in numerous instances lie has imposed heavy hues upou democrats con victed before him of misdemeanors while at the same term of the court he released republicans guilty of the same offenses upon the payment of a penny and costs in many other ways too he has exercis ed his judicial prerogatives in favor of republicans and in the oppression of j those who differed with him politically then again duriug the holden kirk war when an organized banditti was called out for the ostensible purpose of suppressing alleged violence in certaiu counties but really for political effect when joshia turner then the leading democratic journalist of the state was arrested and incarcerated iu a loathsome cell application was made to judge bux ton displaying a most revengeful vindi ctive partisan spirit indicating thereby a disposition to oppress a fellow citizeu j j for no other apparent reason than that ; his suffering subject had denounced the ! j vandal horde of cut-throats then abusing ; the state and her people by their lawless depreciations iu the face of these facts can the judge be considered impartial ? upon everyst iimp judge buxton extolls the virtues of garfield and is to his faults a little blind and he also prays his auditors to elect iiim garfield is the man who sold his influence in congress to the dcgolyer pavement company for 85,000 and also suffered himself to bo bribed by the northern pacific railroad company a distinguished union jeneral on hancock addison na v advertiser jen w w averell said in response to an invitation to take puit£iu a grand democratic demonstration at hath new york the apprehension is expressed by some that geu hancock if president would be manipulated or intlueiieed by politicians of whom the people distrust to this let me say i have known jen hancock for twenty three years his character has been a growing model with the vigor that comes from perfect health he has been au ardent student and a close observer his mind is constantly on the allert and ho gives to his well-formed opinions a prompt and clear expression an excellent and experienced judge of cliaracter he is the last man to be de ceived or deluded and i know of nothing in life or death that could change his resolutions or purposes with regard to his duty he is a thorough democratic gentleman fond of cultured social in tercourse but in different to the bright est arts of fashion aud despising the fiivalous allurements which the al mighty dollar enables gifted snobs to occasionally set forth in american so ciety no one represents him but him self and when president he will execute the will of the american people undei the constitution and the laws through an administration such ns thoso living have not seen a singular coincidence a new jersey paper the patterson guardian in the following article di rects attention to a rather striking coin cidence : garfield admits that he borrowed money from oakes ames what a queer coincidence it was to be sure that sever al other members of the house borrowed exactly tho same amount of oakes ames at a period when he was putting out money where it wonld do the most good here is the little list : john v logan 329 william d kelley 329 james a garfield h2 wc have noticed that this queer cir cumstance has not yet been explained by any garfield stump orators nor is likely to be armfield says iu his speeches that no man in the world ever borrowed just 32f and that if he could get an indictment against oar field lie could convict him on these figures before any petit jury iu the country axdensox oct 11 — the old re.i.>nccof john c calhoun in the southern portion of pickeus county was burned last night this residence was one of the oldest in the county the place now belongs to dr c m doyle of toccoa oa xo insurance loss nliout 3,000 thc fire was thc result of ac cident j from the speech of lion av s grog-beck at pittsburg already we hear again tlie campaign cry that if we change the administration rebel claims will be paid it is express ly forbidden by the constitution and what is not so forbidden is burred by the stat ute of limitations it wouw be suicide in either party again we hear ifwe change . the administration the rebel soldiers will be pensioned this is the very dttninx of absurdity open the constitution and ' select any article you believe safely anch j ored ; that article is jiot more safely j anchored than these amendments the ; \ speaker quoted general hancock's la ng j uage concern ing the constitutional amend 1 ments as to the grceulmmgk policy who brought it into lifo but the republican j party ? this party is now boasting that ■ wo have resumed specie payment and - claims the credit of it resumption such t as it ie must be ascribed wholly to the scanty harvest abroad and tho abundant i harvest here if we are prudent we will without further delay make better preparation than we have yet made for a crisis that must ere long occur lavish grants to corporations prior to 18»i9 there had never been the donation of an acre of laud directly to a railroad corporation according to land office estimates the republican party since 18(31 , has granted to railroad corpo rations more than 137,000,000 acres about one-twentieth ot the whole united states larger in extent than new vork new jer sey pennsylvania indiana ohio and kentucky larger than the german em pire including prussia saxony audjill the dutch principalities larger than france and belgium and much larger than great britain and ireland it be longed to the people it was given to a few individuals who for convenience or ganized themselves into corporations is there in all history such an example of waste the government loaned to six of these railway corporations more than 64,01)0,000 when the bonds mature the loan principal aud interest will amount to 390,000,000 this large loan was made a first lien upon these railways but its priority has been surrendered lt may be considered ns lost and should be charged to the republican ynrty our aggregate expenditures the last nineteen years omitting what was paid as interest have been more than 5^800 900,000 the aggregate expenditures the preceding seventy years were 1,000,000 100 the last nineteen years we spent say 84,200,000,000 more than during all the balance of oui national life the av erage civil and miscellaneous expendi tures of the republican party the last nineteen years have been 5*2,000,000 a year in the nineteen years before they were less than 14,000,000 theaggregatc indian expenditures the last nineteen years amounted to 97,000,000 for the preceeding nineteen years 44 000,000 i will say nothing of our war nnd naval expenditures or pensions and interest fur they aro not fairly the subject of com parison twenty years ago onr railroad interests were managed exclusively in the states ; now these interests are lobbying in wash ington twenty years ago education was acknowledged to be a home concern and left exclusively to the states ; the theory now asserted and beginning to prevail is that the general government must see to the education of its children — alining a rgits gov vance on matters of stati — one of the most effective parts of senator vance's speech night before last was that in which he spoke of state affairs in refer ring to the sale oftho western north caro lina railroad he said that a!<ide from the material relief it afforded the people ofthe state it was his profound conviction that the road itself would have proved _ cause of dissent ion more deplorable than that which divided the people of virginia causing us as it had caused them to entirely lose sight ofthe great issues of the present campaign it was the wisest thing gov jarvis ever did — charlotte olsertcr grant now says ihat hancock is a vain weak ambitious man that he was no soldier during tlio war and will be a mere plaything in the hands of the politicians on page 300 of j russell young's book grant express ed himself a year ago as follows hancock is also a fine soldier at the time he was named major gener al we were not very good friends ami my personal preferences were forsebo fiekl but i felt hancock had earnd the promotion and gave his name to stanton he wrote ine a beautiful letter on the subject and onr relations have always remained on the most cordial footing i have great respect for hancock as a man and a soldier — ral ncics ii observer in speaking of general grimes as sassins the wilson adance says the negro who admitted his complicity states that he cut the road and par ker did tho killing vice alters the count enancc of man and quickly destroys the beatify of women miscell am eous houie talk a good many men and womem cov et and perhaps have the reputation of charming conversationalists who never appear in the role in their own homes there their talk is confined to humdrum topic to meregorsip or to enforcing quiet while they cultivate their precious intellects or settle their nerves to fit them for amiability in public yes aside from the pleasure which cheerful and worthy conversa tion diffuses over a home circle its educative force can hardly be over estimated the bright and interest ing girls who surprise and delight you with their ready fund of informa tion quite outside of the conventional topics and the well-posted boys who know much more than books could have a father or mother who is wise enough to visit with them and who do not keep their best mental and social gifts for outside friends show us a father who saves his new stories or jokes to delight the family circle after supper — who has an eye out for new facts of travel discovery science literature art or religion with which to stimulate conversation at home who talks with the little chaps about their studies and plays and the older ones about their duties ambi tious and labors — who keeps before his daughters an edeal ofa gentleman who treats ladies with sincerity rev erence and as equals and does carry his small talk in a separate package from the rest of his knowledc strict ly for their use and we'll show you a rare man wc are afraid if a home i.s to be something more than a board ing house a mere convenience or so cial necessity it ought to draw out the best gifts of each inmate into the fund of common enjoyment and mutual in i ii ist rations — golden rule night life of young men one night often destroys a whole life the leakage of the night keeps the day forever empty night is sins harvesting lime more sin and crimes are committed in one night than in all the days of the week this is more emphatically true of the large towns and cities than those of the country the street lamps like a file of soldiers with torch in had stretched away in long lines on either sidewalk the gay colored transparencies are ablaze with attractions ; the saloon and billiard halls are brilliantly illuminated music sends forth its enchantment ; the gay company begin to gather to the haunts and houses of pleasure ; the gambling dens are aflame with palatial splendor the theatres are wide open ; thc mills of destruction are grinding health honor happiness and hope out of thousands of lives the city under the gaslights is not the same as under god's sunlight thc allurements and perils and pitfalls of night are a hun dred fold deeper and darker and more destructive night life in our cities is a dark problem whose depths and abysses and whirpools make us start back with horror all night long tears are falling blood i.s streaming make a record ofthe nights of one week put in the morning paper the names ofall young men their habits and haunts who are on the street for sinful pleasure would there not be shame and confusion some would not dare to go to their places of busi ness some would not return home at at night ; some would commit suicide rememberyoung men that in the reti na ofthe all eeing eye there is noth ing hid but shall be revealed on the last day 1 ri the epizootic — the new york telegram says it was estimated that there are 6,000 horses suffering from thc epizooty in that city and the im pression prevails that the distemper will continue until every animal has been affected the horses in brooklyn and jersey city are also affected not a single death has so far occurred among the diseased animals the dis temper has cxtented as far north as st john's new brunswick it pre vails along the hudson river has appeared in philadelphia and seems to be getting g't eral j love like thc smallpox is most dangerous when it cones late emancipation of women in the east there are many single indications which may be fairly accepted as marks of the comparative progress and civil ization of various nations none is more significant than the position which is assigned to women in social life and the measure of influence they exert directly or indirectly in public affairs the israelites were distin guished among the nations of antiqui ty for the free and honorable part home by their women in the social and public life of the people the true religion as a redeemkig^geney has tended alike under the old testa ment and the new to remove the curse which the mother of our race drew upon herself and her daughters by her first transgression in mod ern times the history of christianity contains the history of the emancipa tion of women where the quicken ing words of him who talked with the woman of samaria and released mary of magdala from her thralldom have not been heard there has been no real amelioration of woman's con dition these considerations lend gre<it interest to the following facts concerning the condition of women in the distant east : as time progresses the condition ofthe women of the orient rapidly improves japan has taken the lead in this respect and to-day japanese women occupy a position and exert an influence that few of them would have dared dream ofa quarter of a ceutury ago china is being taught the les son though more slowly than japan and women are entering to a limited exteut into the world of business and politics merchants of canton who would have secluded their wives with the utmost care a decade or two ago now permit them to be seen and what is more they allow them to con verse with other men they travel with them on the steamers that nava gate the chinese rivers and the waters along the coast and it is said that some of them have gone so far as fo allow their wives to sit with them st the public tables similar progress is observable among the siamese and other eastern nations the world still moves an enormous concern krupp's steel and iron works at essen germany pay 2,000,000 in wages annually an average of 311 80 per hand or on a basis of 300 working days in a year 70 3-5 cents per day for the whole force the av erage daily wages are really 69 cents per man the most skillful forgers and puddlers receiving about double this average while unskilled laborers re ceive only 2.88 a week the work ing men at essen have a considerable offset in the way of very cheap living wliich the proprietor guarrantccs them there is an immense bakery in con nection with the works where 15,000 loaves of bread arc made every day and supplied the workmen at cost there are stores to supply clothing dry goods groceries and provisions at cost schools reading-rooms a theater etc and thc workmen when sick are cared for in a hospital without cost receiving half wages also the work men also lodge in houses owned by krupp at a nominal rent and in these several ways the wages of the essen laborers are said to be about double in effective value the white horse perhaps the biggest horse iu the world is thc white horse of berk shire england it is one hundred and seventy yards long t the end of the tail it is a figure cut in the side ofa hill a long way off it looks as though drawn in chalk lines hut the outlines are really deep ditches in the soil and kept clean and free from grass by the people who take great pride in it the ditches are six yards wide andtwo feet deep the eye ofj the horse is four feet deep the eye j of the horse is four feet across and i the car is fifteen vanishing it can j be seen for sixteen miles when the ■ time comes to clean out the ditches ; the people make a sort of picnic of it j day all sorts of rustic games and j have fine times who made thc white horse or what for is not known it is very old a rattle snake fourteen feet long with orty-eight rattles wn reoent.v kimed in en,o„ntn.„sne.un,ovvnvvooi texas t»h pi-ohable one of the latest of iu kind in the world the snpreu.e co^rt of massacinweh ■ »-•■». i t affirmed he principle asserted old.s„itedeeimo0.st,mtllinailtrave g on sunday cxeept to and fro chureh cannot reeover damages for injuries ». eetved on the highway owing to defect ire bridges or roads the murdered missionary atoigbd . constantinople oct 11 one of the murderers of dr par sons ami.rieau niiwioi^rv has been condemned to death andtwo others sentenced to fifteen years of penal servitude reidsville times aunt polly wray de parted tins life the kjth of last month in wentworth at the gbodold age of 110 she remembered well hea the pun at the battle of gnilford court house and at the time of her death she had in her possession a cai n ball that was nsed in that hattie aunt pollv has over 175 children grand-children and great grand-children and what is a little re markable she was never tvventy-ltvo miles from where she was bom and rais ed a horse owned by mr thos h camp bell a prominent citizen of page county ya deliberately committed suicide by drowning himself in tin llawskill river a stream running near the house of his owner a son of mr campbell drove the horse to the river to water him and while in the stream the animal laid down and permitted himself to be drowned nltho strong and apparently well the animal resisted every effort to rescue him and as fast as he was driven out of the river he would return till he was finally per mitted to end his days in the manner in whicli he seemed to desire the owner of the steed says that for some time he had suffered from a form of indigestion which in human beings wonld probably have been designated dispepsia wheth er this affected the animal and finally led hin to take his life i.s not of eourso known the ease altogether is a very remarkable one the intensity of arctic cold i'he chronicler of lieut schwatka's re cent expedition in search of the remains of sir john franklin records some int r iug facts regarding the great cold of the arctic regions the lowest temperature met with by the company was 103 degrees below the freezing point or 71 degrees lielow zero fahrenheit a degree of cold almost impossible to imagine by the pea pie of more temperate clime the effects of such intense cold upon the human system wen not so marked in the case of the lieutenant and hie companions as might be supposed anil even during a month to which the average temperature was 63 degrees below zero the healih of the party remained unimpaired the men adapted themselves as much as pos sible to the habits ofthe natives feeding upon blubber and fat meal by which the vital heat was sustained plenty of game was found by the adventurers who were able to se.-uie with their repeating rifles enough reindeer at otic time to last them for several days the difficulty of ap proaching ihese animals was often very great for ill the still cold air the step of a man upon the snow eould be heard two miles away and the grating f the sledge runners resounded like the clothing of tempered steel it was not an easy mat ter to keep guns in working order iu this climate for at 60 degrees and 70 degrees below zero strong oak and hickory would break like icicles and all lubricants har den and interfere with the working of the locks when tin guns wen brought into the warm atmosphere of the huts to be cleaned they would at once become coated with moistnre and every part had to he carefully dried ami wiped lest lhe hunter on stepping into the cold air again would find a useless block of ice in his hands a buttle nf whiskey wliich was in the stores was cougealed to the consistency of thick syrup by the intense cold and the cup from which one of the travelers essayed to dunk actually froze to his lips the low tempera me of this latitude permitted some of thc esquimaux in the party to pracliccn terrible revenge upon some wolves whicli had attacked them thev sat upright in thc ice sever al keen knife blades and covered them with blood these the wolves licked slicing their tougnes but being prevent ed bv the cold from feeling the wouudsat the time and their own warm blood tempted them to continue until their tongues were so scarified that death was inevitable the natives also bound up long strips of wlwleboue with pieces of meat and after allowing them to fieeze dropped them into the animals1 way these pills would hold together until they had passed into tin intestines ofthe wolves when the meat having thawed the whalebone would spread open and produce an agonzing death hunters be lieve that nothing is bad enough foi wolves but these devices of tltef.s.iii mans ought to satisfy any one «