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Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-12-20
EARLY MARRIAGES.

Some one has truly said that at no
time do young men feel so much the
inspiration of virtuous love as when
beginning the battle of life. Early
marriages are permanent moralltles.
and deferred marriages are tempta-
tions TO wickedness. And yet every
year it becmes more and more difficult,
concurrent with the reigning ideas OF
society, for young men TO enter upon
that matrimonial state which is the
proper guard Of their virtue, as we'll
as the source of their courage and en-
terprise. The battle of life is almost
always at the beginning. There it is
that a man needs wedlock- But
wicked and ridiculous public sentiment
puts a man who is in society, or out
of society, for that matter, largely on
the ground of condition. and not OF
disposition and character. The man
that has means wherewith he can Wis
IDLY live amply, is in good society, as
general rule. The man that has
virtue and sterling manliness, but has
nothing withal external to show, is
not usually considered in good socie-
ty. Ambitious young men VIII not,
therefore, marry until they can
meet their expenses; but that is
deferring for years and years the in
dispensable virtue. Society is bad
where two cannot live cheaper than
one and young lhen are under bad
influences who, when in the very
morning of life, and better fitted than
at any later period to grow together
with one who is their equal and mate,
are debarred from marrying, through
scores of years, from mere prudential
considerations and the heart and the
life are sacrificed to the pocket. They
are tempted to substitute ambition
for love, when at last, over the ashes
ard expiring embers of their early
romance, they select their wife.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26
CENSUS OF THE WORLD IN /,

CENSUS OF THE WORLD IN 1876.
The London Times recently published
an abstract of an account of the popula-
tion of the world, annually prepared by
Drs. Behn and Wagner, and published by
Perthes, from which it appears that the
population in 1876 may be taken at l.,
423, 900 of whom nearly one-ffth, or
309, 17S,000 reside in Europe, and prob
ably 400, 100000, or less than one-third,
belong to the European civilizations.
Four-sevenths of the worlds people, or
S24, 1000, 900, reside in Asia, and half of
these are Chinese.
The population of America, natives in
cluded, in both divisions of the continent,
is only S5,OOO,O 900, of which we imagine
about half are pure blooded European
descent. The population of Africa, ar
rived at, of course, by more or less care
full guessing, is set down at 1873, 800, 900,
of whom scarcely one per centum can be
fairly set down as civilized men, and
little more than ten per centum are semi
civilized.
The Turkish Empire is estimated at
$4,000, 900, including 10000, ,OOOin Egypt
and its dependencies, with Tunis and
Tripoli; but the population in Europe is
only 100000, and in Asia 100000.
Half the European population of Turkey
at least is Bulgarians, and if we add the
Greeks and Sclayes we shall find that the
dominant class does notexceed one fourth
of the whole, to whom the other three
fourths are sacrificed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26
The Effects of HallucinatiOn.

1t is curious to note the slight point
upon which human hangs in the bal
ance of reason. Persons having all the
appearance of perfect sanity have been
known as suddenly as flash, to develop
traits of lunacy. In other instances, a
chance assumption of rank, kept up
from day to day, has marked veritable
belief. The fiction worked upon the
brain until it became fact, most diff
cult to reconcile with hallucination.
A remarkable instance of such imag-
ination is recorded in the life of Curran,
the Irish barrister, who with his gay
companions, was in the habit of spend
a day in the Dalkey Islands, and indulg-
ing in the frolic of electing King of
Dalkey and the adjacent Islandsp A
gentleman of middle station in life, a
genial, whole-souled, and convivial man,
was elected to fill the throne. He en-
tered into the joke and enjoyed the
pastime. A journal was kept called the
Dalkey Gazette, in which all public
proceedings were recorded, and which
was source of constant amusement to
its supporters. But at length the mock
pageantry, the affected loyalty and as
sumed homage began to tell upon and
ex ite the Imagination of King john" !"
as he was styled. Fiction became real
ity and he fancied himself every inch
a King" His family and friends, in dis
may and grief saw the delusion assume
such hold upon him that nothing could
shake it. He-spoke on no other subject
save his Kingdom and its government,
and delighted to dwell on the various
projects he had formed for the benefit OF
his people. He never could divest him
self of his regal pomp, and exacted the
utmost Difference to his royal authority
When his last hours drew nigh no re
turning CLEANS of reason broke upon his
mind; to the moment of his death ht
believed himself King, and all hi
cares were for his subjects. He SPOKE
in high terms of the officers of his mimi,
court, recommending the care of hi
kingdom to them until his successor wa
chosen, and demeaned himself with
dignified calmness well becoming tn
last hours of a puissant monarch. Whel
he came to relinquish his crown, he sait
with tears: al leave it to my people
whom l have so loved" His feeling
were gratifed, up to his death, b,
thinking of the good of his fellow-crea
lures, which seemed, in his madness a
in his saner life, to be prominent featur
of his disposition.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26
THE EUROPEAN WAR.

AST. PETERSBURG dispatch says the Rus
SLAMS from Sistova made an assault in heavy
force upon and captured Nikopolis on
July 16.
THE Porte officially declares that the Rus.
slams have burned alive the inhabitants of
Jonis, near Tirnova, who had taken refuge
in mosque.
TwENTYTHREE members of the leading
Kurdish families, inhabiting the Russian
territory, have been court martialed and
hanged by the order of General Melikof.
THE Turks seem to be laboring under the
notion that by dismissing their commanders
and Minister of War, and courtmartialing
the Mayors of the captured towns, they can
stay the Russian advance. The tactics have
not succeeded well.
WE gather from few rambling remarks
of the Earl of Derby that it is the purpose of
the English Government to preserve a
passive attitude until the two combatants in
the East have exhausted each other with
fighting, and then step in, fresh and vigorous,
to dictate the terms of settlement.
THE British Consuls in Bulgaria confirm
the reported atrocities committed upon the
Mussulman population by Bulgarians in
Khanbagaz defile. Old and young were
massacred without remorse, while women
and girls were terribly mutilated. The
Porte charges the Cossacks with sacking vii
lagos near Rustchuk, numbering males and
violating females.
A CORRESPONDENT at Turnu Magurelli,
who processes to have been an eye witness
of portion of the operations by which the
Russians surrounded Nikopolis, and cut off
the retreat of the garrison, says: E" The
garrison of six thousand men and forty guns
surrendered to the Russians, who also took
prisoners Hassan and Achmet Pashas, COM
manding the garrison, and took two moni-
tors" All other accounts represent that
the Turks evacuated Nikopolis before the
Russians entered the town. A Simnitza
special particularly reports that they m an
aged with no little skill to carry off forty
guus, which constituted the armament of
the fortress.
FROM Trnova, July II, We learn that
General Jourka, with an advance guard of
cavalry, infantry and artillery, has crossed
the Balkans. On July IA, he surprised and
defeated the Turkish battalion which
guarded the outlet of the pass near the vii
lage of Khankhoi. General Jourka is now
July 17) marching upon Kasanlik, in the
rear of the enemy, who occupy the fortified
shipka defle. Two Satrias of Cossacks
have arrived at Yeni Sagera and cut the
telegraph between that place and Nanigagra
and Kloro. On Sunday an engagement was
fought near the village of Orzazare, between
a Cossack force and some detachments of
Bashi- -Bazouks and Circassians, supported
by Turkish infantry. The enemy held their
ground until the arrival of the dragons and
battery of artillery sent by General Jourka
On perceiving the approach of these re-en-
forcements, the Turks fled. A flag, several
standard bearers, and quantity of arms
were captured.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26
BUSINESS FAILURES.

Messrs. Dun, Barlow & Co., of the
Mercantile Agency, are promptly out
with their quarterly circular of bust
ness misfortunes in the United States
and Canada, from April l to June 80,
to which they append tables for the first
six months of the year. The facts thus
authenticity presented are not reassur-
ing. The liquidations by bankruptcy
continue on very large scale through
out the country, and, singular to say,
show no signs of diminution in the
agricultural States of the West. For
the half year the great cities exhibit
somewhat contradictory reports. New
York falls off two millions, as COM
pared with the first half of 1876. The
Philadelphia bankruptcies have in
creased in number and amount. In st.
Louis, also, the amount runs up from
million of dollars to three and half
millions, and San Francisco from less
than two to nearly six millions. On the
other hand, the Rhode Island troubles
have fallen off from five to two mil
lions, and Boston from seven and half
to two millions. The State of Massa-
chusetts outside of Boston is also doing
better. The City of Chicago shows an
improvement in amount, but not in the
number of failures. Cincinnati is
about stationary. The State of Mary
land, including Baltimore, shows an in
crease of failures over 1876 in amount,
but the number is about the same. The
aggregate in the United States is $780,,
100000 in the six months of 1877,
against s4OS, 400, 900 in the correspond
ing months of 1876. In the Dominion
of Canada there is sensible improve
ment, s7,5OO,OOO to s15,1OO,OOO in 1876.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

July returns of the condition of cot
ton, as received in the Department of
Agriculture, cover an area of 961 coun-
ties, producing six-tenths of the cotton
of the United States. The average con-
dition of the whole area is SO 40 per
cent, 4 per cent. less than the July
average of last year. 1t is less by Z per
per cent. than the average for rs, but
better than the condition for IA or '73.
Only Louisiana gives higher average
than in July of last year. The State
averages are as follows: North Carolina,
SS; South Carolina, 81; Georgia, go;
Florida, 95; Alabama, "a: Mississippi,
90; Louisiana, 102; Texas, 81; Arkansas,
"a; Tennessee, 96. The crop is from one
to two weeks late.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

"A RAILROAD in the Clouds " is the
title of an illustrated article by J. E.
Montgomery, in the Midsummer Holiday
number of Scribner's Monthly, describing
the great railway built by Henry Meiggs,
up the Andes from Lima. 1t is said that
SO many detours had to be made that
five parallel tracks may be seen from al
most any point in the valley of the
Rimac, up which the road is built. Be-
sides innumerable bridges, there are
sixty-one tunnels, aggregating twenty
thousand feet in length, and more than
half of them are built upon curves of a
minimum radius. 1t is computed that
ten thousand persons have died thus far
in the progress of the work. The highest
point of the road is ninety-seven miles
from Lima, and only one hundred and
thirty-six feet lower than the top of
Mont Blanc.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26
TURNING a DESERT INTO A SEA.

TURNING 4 DESERT INTO a SEA.
Scientific opinion in France is by no
means unanimous as to the desirability
of creating an inland sea in Algeria,
after the project brought forward by
Captain Roudaire, who has been
strongly supported by NJ. de Lesseps.
NJ. Dumas, the eminent chemist, and
NJ. Daubree, have urged several OBJ
jections to the scheme, and they agree
with NJ. Naudin, who read paper on
the subject at the last meeting of the
Academy of Sciences, that its sanitary
effects would be deplorable. They are
all three of opinion that to fill the shall
low basins of the region which it is pro-
posed to convert into a sea. with salt
water would be equivalent to repro
ducing in Algeria all the worst features
of the Tuscan and Pontine marshes.
Captain Roudaire admits that even in
the center there would not be more than
eighty feet of water, and the whole
coast line would have so little water
that it would be little better than a
sand bank, with an admixture of salt
and fresh water, upon which the strong
solar light and tropical heat would act
in the most deleterious manner for two
thirds of the year, causing a rapid de-
composition of organic matter, and
spreading eontagion for miles in every
direction. NJ. Naudin denies that there
is any similarity between this district
and Egypt, the climate of which coun-
try has been much improved by the
creation of the Suez Canal and the
plantation of trees; for, according to
him, while Egypt lies between two seas,
and is traversed by an immense river,
which has periodical overfows, the
Algerian district is far from the sea and
is bounded by arid deserts. NJ. Naudir
believes that the real remedy for i'm
proving this, the worst region in Africa
will prove to be in the planting of tree:
the Australian eucalyptus, if it car
be made to grow, or, failing that, the
ordinary trees and shrubs of tn,
country.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26
M. Thiers.

M. Theirs "at home" in the new
palace built for him by the government
in place of the house destroyed by the
Communists, is sketched at length in the
London World. NJ. Theirs descends
from a MarseiIlaise family of cloth mer-
chants, who were ruined by the first
Revolution. Fate owed the family some
compensation and made the son the sue
cessful historian of the event which
wrecked their fortunes. Fame in letters
and in craftsmanship, and wealth also, has
come to NJ. Thiers out of the throes and
convulsions of revolution; and he is now
in his old age securing superb retreat,
covered with honors, consulted by kings;
albeit ex-President, with more influence
over political events than the great gend-
arme at the Elysee, because he has always
been cunning enough to avoid the re-
sponsibility of the revolution he helped
to make, and has managed to re-appear
again and again as at once the champion
of freedom and society. In 1920 the
Academy of AK offered prize for a
panegyric on Vauvenargues. Thiers's
paper was deemed the best; but the ma
iority of the Judges being royalists, and
the writer being regarded as Jacobin,
the competition was declared to be ad-
iourned to the following year. The
Judges had their match in Adolphe
Thiers. He not only sent in his original
paper a second time, but he wrote an
other, which he caused to be posted in
Paris in order to hide the authorship
effectually. This new paper gained the
first prize, and the old one the second.
1t was on this success he went to Paris,
and within a year became marked man
and star of the Constitutional. From
that time to the present he has been seen
and known and acted with everybody
worth seeing, knowing and acting with
during the last half century. With
short intervals of power, he has passed
his life in opposition. There is not q
living Frenchman of whom all France
is prouder.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

PARIS Letter: Some days ago two
young men and fast girl went to La
Grande Tatte, an island in the Seine, to
breakfast, and, to give the cook time to
prepare it, they hired boat and rowed.
They had not gone far when the boat
broke in two pieces and all were thrown
into the water. Only one of them
could swim. Ropes were thrown to the
man who could not swim, and he was
saved. The swimmer dived to save the
girl, but instead of bringing her up he
brought up the corpse of woman (he
made sure it was the girD which had
been three weeks in water. Meanwhile
the rapid current bore the poor girl far
away, and she was drowned.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

WORCESTER Press: This is the sea-
son of the year when hopeful youths
wend their way to college halls, there to
learn wisdom, and are met by graduates
making their way back to the outside
world, holding in their hands parchment
certificates of deep potations at the
fountains of lore. And one great differ
ence between the hopeful youth and the
learned graduate is that the mind of the
former has but faint conception of the
possibilities in his pathway, while the
latter has learned that pair of pants
with cords tied around the bottoms of
the legs is an excellent substitute to
take along instead of bag when the
student makes a nocturnal descent on a
professors grapeyines.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

THE wool clip ofthe United States for
1876 was about 100000, 900 pounds; of
England, Ireland, and Scotland, about
162, 1000, 900, mostly combing;, of the
Continent of Europe, about 1853, ,OOO, 900 !;
of. Australia, about 55O,OO0,OOO; of
Buenos Ayres and River La Plata, about
POI, 100000 pounds. These are the
principal wool-growing countries of the
world, and produce 1885,, 100000 out of
the estimated 1,419,OOO, ,OO0 produced by
the entire globe. The selling value of
the total clip would probably aggregate
S450, 1000, 900. Out of $4,000, 900
pounds of wool (the estimated clip there
would be fully a loss of 567, 100000
pounds in securing, making the net yield
of clean wool about S52, 100000 pounds.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26
The bloated bondholders of constan

THE bloated bondholders of Constan-
tinople are seeing hard times. Many
wealthy families used to live entirely on
the dividends of Turkish stock; the in
comes derived from this source, by inhab-
itants of Constantinople alone amounted
to about 100000. These families are
entirely ruined, and others though not
absolutely destitute, have suffered i'm
mense losses. People go about from bank
to bank with coupons of the nominal
value of several hundred pounds, and
can nowhere get cash for them. There are
also in Constantinople twenty-five thou
sand officials, most of them with families !;
their united salaries amount to about
$4,000, 900, and they have not received
any pay since the beginning of the war,
not even in paper money, on which there
is loss of eighty per cent.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

The Japanese Government presented
a lot of the young carp of that country
to the California State Fish Commits
sioners. Of the number shipped, eighty
eight passed the voyage in fine condition,
and were placed in the tank with the
goldfish at Woodward's Aquarium in
San Francisco, to be nursed until old
enough to spawn. An attempt will be
made to introduce them into all the la
goons of fresh water in the southern and
middle portions of the State.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

THE young ladies of Newark, N. j.,
who belong to temperance organizations,
pledge themselves not to associate with
young men who use intoxicating drinks
These young ladies belong to wealthy
families, and their influence is being felt
by the young men, some of whom have
signed the pledge rather than lose the
society of the fair TEMPERANCE advocates.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

TRAVELLERS in Turkey describe two
different ways of shoeing horses in
Turkey and Russia, which may seem
very awkward compared with the simple
methods of the American smiths. In
Turkey and Servia the horses head is
held by one man another holds the leg
on his arm, the third operates on the
foot. In Russia the horse is placed in a
square cage, made of rough planks of
wood, and is strapped around the belly
with wide leather straps attached to
cross-bars of the frame work; his head
is also tied safely; the foot is fixed to a
stake in the ground, and held by an
assistant while the smith places the
shoe on.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

A CURIOUS incident recently occurred
at Blatchington Battery, Sussex, En-
gland, during a thunder storm. A sol
dier was sitting in his room with table
knife which he had just before been
using lying before him on the table,
when the lightning entered the apart
ment, cut the knife completely in two
and threw the pieces about the room,
while the soldier, though much fright
ened, remained unframed.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

The amount of mail service under
contract on the list of July was SIS, ,751,-
639.2S per annum, distributed geograph-
ically as follows: New England, 81, 49,
3Sl.S9; Middle States, (including Vir-
ginia and West Virginia), sS,25O, ,SO41l; !;
Southern States, $2,7S2, ,49S.42; Western
States (including Missouri), s5,S66, ,57S.-
.72; Pacific States and the Territories,
$2,7SS, ,4S1. .O9.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

WILLIAM CARR, well-known to the
people of Detroit, Mich, as the learned
barber, man of much scholarship, and
who enjoyed in his prime the friendship
of William H. Seward and other promi-
nent men, died. there, July 10, of
paralysis, aged seventy years. His
library was one of the most carefully
selected in the West, being especially
strong in metaphysical works, and his
dialectical skill was universal. To the
last he continued business in his little
Jefferson Avenue barber shop.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26
EDITORIAL 0LIO.

THE yearly review of trade issued by
the British Customs Commissioners
shows that the United States has resumed
the position of the chief source of cot
ton supply, much to the detriment of
India, which sent nine hundred and
sixty-fye thousand hundred weight less
in 1876 than in 1876.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

vices not interfering with the discipline
of the institution; and any convict to be
allowed such religious instruction, not
paid for by the State and not interfer-
ing with the prison discipline, as he may
desire. The drafting of. the law was
intrusted to DR.. Peirce.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

THE Rev. DIR. johnson, of Cambridge,
Mass, Professor Hovey, of Newton, and
the Rev. DIR. Peirce have been appointed
a committee of Congregationalist,
Baptist, and Methodist ministers to
draft law to be presented to the next
Massachusetts, Legislature providing for
the appointment of teacher of moral
ity" to take the place of the present
prison chaplain. This officer will give
no sectarian instruction; all convicts
are to be required to attend regular
services conducted by him; any denom-
ination or sect to be allowed to hold ser
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

BROTHER MOODY says that in religious
work he has no time for controversies.
This is the best sermon he has preached
in a good while.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

THE residence of Mrs. Washington,
the mother of George, near Fredericks-
burg, Virginia, is offered for sale at
auction.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

AN envious paragrapher remarks: 1t
has been observed that the lady with a
diamond ring will scratch her nose, in a
given period, four times as often as any
other woman,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

Business cards Of five linfs or less, So per annum
Local notices 10 cents per line each insertion.
Simple announcements Of marriages and deaths,
and church and benevolent society notices inserted
free. Any additions TO obituary notices will be
charged FIVE cents per line.
Favors must be handed in as early as Tuesday
morning to insure insertion the sime week.
Communications upon subjects of general or local
interest are solicited.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

WHY is cats tail like the end of
time? Because its fur to the end of it
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-26

MAN glories in his strength; woman
glories in her hair. Butter glories in
both.