Sharp County record., 1885-06-18

There is an old, blind negro, named
Dave Murray living in Lincoln County,
Georgia who gains livelihood by max
ing baskets. He can go into the woods
and by sheer sense Of touch tell white
oak trea from any other kind.
A Clergyman. Of St. Louis says that
the aggregate church attendance in that
city on Sunday is 10000, while on a re-
cent Sunday 10000 people witnessed a
cowboy exhibition, 10000 attended base
ball games, 10000 spent the day in beer
gardens and 5000 heard Bob" Ingersoll.
The Bartholdi statue will be lighted at
night by electric lamps at the base, the
rays being cast upwards by means Of
strong refectors. From the upifted
torch there will be thrown vertical
beam of light, reaching the lower cloud
stratum, from which it will be reflected
far out to sea. The idea Of rays stream
ing from the diadem has been abandon
ed.
In connection with the revival Of silk
culture in South Carolina, it is recalled
that silk was successfully and prOhtably
raised IN the colony for export nearly 900
years ago. A pretty tradition has it that
Queen Anne, in order to encourage the
cultivation Of silk in this country wore
gown on the occasion of her coronation
that was made Of silk grown in South
Carolina.
About o'clock one afternoon lately a
colored man toiled up the steps Of the
White House portico with box about
two feet square and said it was for the
President. On one side was: "Grover
Cleveland, President of the United
States" and on the other. From the
Fort Worth Grocery Company, Fort
Worth, Tex" Through the aperture be-
tween the boards could be seen & massive
cabbage. Itweighed twenty one pounds.
The latest phase OF French fashion is
the invention by society leader Of what
he calls TIE Tricola Quadrille. OF the
eight couples composing the qu2dril.e
half the gentlemen wear led coats, and
the other half wear blue coats and all Of
them white knee breeches while all the la
dies are in white This presents per.
fectly prisnatic. picture, which the quad
rifle movement makes Kaleidoscope. 1t
is proposed to get up cosmopolitan ball
where the dancers shall represent the na-
tlonal colors Of every government in Ea-
rope.
4 good old Kent1nl-y- -'0aaorIas' WHO
bo : ban.. So.~ r.,ssl1g III twenty-five years for
nostofhce, owns fine dog which is his
constant companion. The other day the
dog had been having a run in the sun
shine and was resting on the porch with
his tongue banging out, "That's a boss
dog" said travelling man, who had
been selling the old man bill Of goods
You're right be is" said the old man,
proudly. "Nhat makes him stick bis
tongue out that way?" politics"
"Politics How" Why, sir, that dog
knows Cleveland is elected, and be knows
want postofice and he's got his
tongue out, ready to begin licking
stamps"
Many years ago. over the door of an
inn, in London, hung a sign representing
the four ruling elements Of the govern
ment. 1t was q picture of four men
standing upon the shoulders of each
other. At the top stood the king-on
his breast was the legend, "Igcvern allj"
under him stood the soldier, and on his
breast the motto, 81 fight tor all" under
him stood the clergyman,and OF his breast
the motto, II pray for alE' at the bot
tom stood the laborer, with brawny SIN
ews, every nerve strained to support the
burden resting upon him, and On his
breast was the motto, Il pay for al"
The London Times says: Immensely
IS the literature has increased in this
the Bible now occupies larger
space in that literature than
ever it did. No book raises SO many in
ouiries or touches so many interests. The
Bible sends the student to libraries and
archives. To the Bible we owe much Of
the intense and spreading interest IN Ian
guages and in the originals of customs
and of people. It directs the traveller to
buried cities, to the tombs Of kings, to the
records of states once great, and well-nigh
forgotten. Wherever the battle Of opinion
is now the liveliest, wherever the earth
at last reveals her buried history, it is to
ada IN our knowledge of the sacred story,
and to our understandings Of the sacred
volume.
The Pacific and Great Eastern rail-
road is progressing nicely, The force
has been increased from the day work
commenced until now the number of
men employed is more than one hundred.
Each days work has telling effect in
the smooth valley south of town. The
grading is completed and ready for the
Ties from the foot of the hill below the
Jobe place TO Hunts field and in places