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SE.D N. WINN Q S. C TUEDOiY3 NO.E DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. --o-.-, rvERDAY LIFl OF TWE G$B,4T LE.X ICOU.45"HE$. MBe Savage Manners.-Love of Contra diction--A Warm Iear Under A . Boug, Hi de. Dr. Samuel Johnson was a singu~ lar compound of strength and weakness., of great vigor of mind, of strong appetites, of immense learning and eminent disregard of the courtesies, - as well as the deceneies, of life, lie was both eavage and tender, brutal and kiod. haearted. This will appear by further incidents of hig life. He often talked for the sake of being brilliant, or for gaining the svictory, not for the sake of arriving at the truth, and when worsted in .argument would ignore it.. He told Boswell when he was getting .the betster of him; Let us halve no .more of this. I'd rather you'd "w4istle a .Scoteh tune." He would ,say to his opponents : "You talk the langnags of ignoranco." A ,life-long friend said: "There's no .arguing with Johnson, for he will not hoar you, and haying the louder ,voice ' -ist roar you lown." He threw Garrick's elegantly bound Jooks to the Door and split the backs, saying; "I treat a paek of Billy plays in fops' dres.o, just as they deserve.; I see uo book." lie told Boswell when he defended the Americans on the .subject of the Stamp Act: "If your coInpany does not drive a man out of his house fothing will." Iu disputing with Beauelerk as to whether a man's having two pistols was proof that ,he meant to shoot two persons, leauclerk said:: "This is what you ,don't know and I do." Johunson replied: "One thing I know which -you don't seem to now-4;hat you are very uncivil." Ho . said after wards that he was thus rude be .cause there were two xtrangers present who might think they .could take liberties with him it Beauclork did. At anothor time Dr. Percy disagree:l with bim aIonut Pennant's trayelo in Scotlind and his accuracy, and Percy said to Johnson: "You are near-sighted and do not see as .well as I do." Whereup.,n Johnson retorted: "This is the resentwent of a narrow .mind." P,erey--"Sir., you may be as rede as you please." Johnson .. 'Hold, sir.1 D.n't .talk of rudone,; remember, sir, yotq told me (pufing hard with pasion, Atruggling. for a vent) I wis short.-sigited. We have done wirh civility. We are to :be as rude as we please." But the afterwards m.edo up. Johnson was .so accuttorued to contradiet that he often said "NQ, air," when he ,meant to agree with viat was .sid. When Bos.well said in Seothtnd: "Thiere's a woountai)1 lke .a cone," .Johnson replied.: "No., sir.. t ~would be.called so in a book, .but (though it is poieted aot .tke top, one .side is larger than the,.other." He almost always begani a <con.trosa..sy by remarking: -"Why, sir, I see no reason ;" "sir, if you mean to say.." After talkiing several hours wvithi an* eminent wnag he said.: "You have said but oce thing .for w.hih I .envied youk." He told Boswel-1 .once "if -yes can't talk better as a -man, T'd hare youi ibellow liks a Moore, who was ,Lattering hima more -than he liked: "Before yen Aatter, you should.consider whethe.r .or not your flattery is worLbth bo Ihaving." When he was in France, ~he met the Abbe Ronuffette. They, talked Aluently in Latin, and John-. son pronounced so glowing a eulogy on Milton that .tIe .4bbe< embraced him, wha.teupon Piozzi,a .on Johnson's account, invited the Abbe to -England. Johnson re.. buked him on the sp.ot for asking a man to visit him whom he knew1 .nothing about aud.the Abbe went i off disgusted. .A gentleman having , .said that drinking makes us forget what is disagreeable, .and asked :' "Would you no.i allow a man tor ,drink for that reason -" JQhnson Answered': -"Yes, sir, if hie 'sai uext 3 to you." Johnson beisag .a Tory, 1 jad a gr,eat dislike for Wilkes, the~ j Libe'aLl. ie met Wilkes' Inother, * .a man~ of very amiable character " land zofned taste. and who, as A amatter~of fagt, Was a Tory, .though I Jonsgegl~k not know it., irin~g I ithe dinet ilkes, being, about to a laake a remark, Johnsox stoppeda ,him wijh "I hoje hir .whtypr *narma tatt what wim hawaima . said." This rudeness shocked and spread a gloom over tho very die guished company present. When riding with him in Scotland Boswell, wishing to go on ahead and make proper preparations for him at tho inn, told him he must leave him for awhile. Although Johson hal Cwo attendants t,ith him, he raised a tremendous shout, got into a vio lent passion and said he would as soon think of picking a man's pocket as of doing so. Even after Boswell explained his motives he refused to be pacified, but said that if Boswell had gone on he would have parted with in and have never spoken to him more. When he was very ill he desired his friend Langton to draw up a paper telling him what he thought were his (Johnson's) great faults. He did so and mentioned his contradiction of people. John eon at this rebuked him in a loud and angry tone, and subspquently told Boswell no one was the worse for being harshly and roughly contra dioted, and that he knew no weak nerved people whom he had hurt by contradicting, A gentleman having quoted something from Johnson's own writings by way of reply to his arguments. he advised him, "after having drunk out that.. glasa not to drink another." Goldsmith said there was no use arguing with him ; "for if his pistol rpisses Aire he knocks you down with the butt end of it," $I6 INDIFFERENCP TO PEO.'T.E's FTT, Jwos. Johnson was arguing that a man could live very comfortably with another even if they disagreed strongly on some point. Goldsmnih suggested seme difficulties. "Sir, I am not saying," remarked John son, "Uhat you could live in friendship with a man from whom you dit'or as to some point ; I -am only saying that I could do it." A gentleman coming out of Lichfield Cathedral said : "Dr. Johnson, we have had a most excellent discourse to.-day." Johneon scolded B<well for shivering in the cold, and sr.id to an eminent gentlems.n who com~ plained of hoadachO ; "At your age sir, I h ad no headache." A young gentleman once asked him: "Dr. Johnson, woildi you adivise me to get married ?" ulnd hp answered, "I would advise no man to get married, sir, who is not likely to propagate undorstanding," and left the room chruptly. H:e told Mrs. Thrale w'hn ahe ,inforamed him of her ap proaching marriage, .that her intend en husband "was not only a eu 'id. ugly dog, but am old dog, too' When lir Joshus Reynolds got the btter of him in .argon:rent, he said : -"I won't argue with you any mnore, sir ; you are too f.tr granb," to whic) the other replie.l "I should baaWo thought so, indeetl, Sir, bad . made such a speech as yon hava !now dpse." Johnson bluhued and' said he did't moan to (tTedi(, which was his uinnal exouse for his injoleneo. 4 nob)lemnn, who wasentertaiing him at his house isked him what he thought of a seighboring peer. Johnson said to his host:: '"Ho is a dlult, conmnon. g~lace sort of a man, jus.t like yon and your br'other." e~arrick invited him to a seat on the stage when he played .LearL, and he talked so loud as ita interrupt him. When the actor afterwards reproached him ror disturbing his feelings, Johnson said : ."Don't ta.lk of f.eelings; Punch has no feelings." A friend bold.,Johnson that his wife's s.ister vas a very be,ppy woman and api. ealed to her to confirm it, w.heh she did. Johnson, who had a theo ry that nobody was really bn j~, AlX'ned to her and intimated that he ied.; for said lhe, "she is. happy sithout health, . wthout beauty, vithout money, and without under.' itanding:" On heing -after ward 'eproactied for his .brutality,, 11 Iefeededl M, saying "I tell you thie voman is ugly, sick, foolish and oor ; and would it not mnake a m~an' sang himself to hear such a creattire ~my it was happy.' A gentleman vas defending Berkley's theory that hinge de not exist except sas the nina presents themi. When h~ -wa going away, Johnson said to him, 'pray, sir, don't leave us, for we nay perhaps cense '4o think of yu nthen you will cease toexist.' A roungl man met Mr. and MigS. hralep, rham he knew and spoke .to, but )r. Johnson who was with them took Lo notice of him. Mr. Thirale said : Dr. Jph.pspn, here is Mkr. Oholmon eley" '(prmonered Ohihly). Dr ohnson did not-speak or move, and - Thra1e . epeated the: rensrk giln and then thrice. Thoes Johm. omanswered : "Well, simt, and wh,at there ie Mr. OQhnondolog t" overal; years afWrwr Johnson laehp*)b@g yology, thoughho claimed to have forgot ton it. THE ALLEGED CAUSE OF is UJ 'T4TaTY' His friends explained his rough noss by saying that it was partly due to his (eafness and slort-sghtedness d malking him unsgnsitive to those t signs and hints wlhich regulate Y people's behavior in good society. ? When somebody called him a bear, GoldEimith se,id : "No inan has a a :more tpnder hoart. He has nothing U of the bear it his skin." e 11 WIY 1' Y D8 It UF11IlC.SI, b The question is often asked : Why do so many papers live so brief a tiige in tliea eautiful world ? Some persons ofeven accute minds, who do not push investigation to . i the wall till it screams out its t secrets, insist that it is because the subscription'is too long on the road. But the reason i$ not there ; nor a will it be found in the fact that edi-, tors have to take a position in thiir t columns either for one party or the other in every dispute which m y arise betwoon four old raaids atd one widpw at a tea party. Not there. But it is found in the odito rial coltmnns of the papers tl}em solyos. The first blow is began in this way : "'Dhe editor (?) of the Basswood Paulpry concisely (1) and clearly (?) states his forcible (1) h reasons (7) for advocating (?) the building of 4 storm shed to c"r county jail (f)." The editor of the Paulpry, under the withering sar C ,sm of seven intei rogation marks I retorts as follows : "We see that the manly (?) ink-slinger of the Puplartown Patript (?)-that ablest(?) of newvspapers (?)-is -disposed to question our sinc3rity I We would toll the n:an (?) that if bis sublime 1 power-. (?) which are of the high- a est (?), and most (noble (1)," etc. 4. this the Patriot man rises Up, itnd in his next woek's issue has a piragraph with twelve interroga tion umrks in it. The fight then sets in with the cry : "Let no in terrogation n;ark eacapo 1" and war follows until one of the editors sle. pumbs to a broadside of thirty (?) in one sentonco. Then he "regrets to announce that awing to a laek .of support the publiction of the Basswood Paulpry ceases with this nomber." Then he goe.e into a country where he can't understand the language spoken, and finally dies. It must not be supposed that this solution has been *rrived at hastily. It is bed on careful and t prolwnged watching of over a thous and weekly papers, and the result ought to advance the cause of sei. ence materially. To-day it is anotber jpwa ro mance. It may be recorded briefly after this nannpr : Ci tpter 1.--4 young man, a nwerchant at Waverly., Ia., in packing eggs for shipment East, wrote his name and residence on one, with the request that theo person who .e.)iuk) finally bvy it J would write t1) him and advise him of the fact. Chapter I.-4 young j Jady of Nowv York oeuutuilly becanae e be owneor of the egg, and con>pIied I -with the request written .th9ygg. Chapter III.-Then. ensued a cor respondence, an exchange of p)hoto graphs, cC id genus omne. Chapter IY.,-A wedding. It -is to be hopedt they are egga-eatingy happy. From the report of the )|ie~Ylork . Comnimissioner of Emigration we notice that, during the year 1878, .U there landed at JJew York 121,8691E passengers fi-om foreign countries, l there being among them, 75,847 / aliens, which is an increase of 20,-- I 811 as cpmnpared~ with 1.877. Of this number, 32,658 went to the I] WVestern and Northwestern States ; 80,5$6 remained in lNew York ; e 7,855 went to the Middle States ; t, 4,92. to the Eastern States ; 1,666a to the Southern States ; 1,011 to a Canada, anid 97 to South Aeia It was .a Clifford, Ind. A revival g iis the Methodist church was in pro- E greas. An eldgr pf the Christian c.hurch wvas invited to pray. He j, toQk advantage of theo opporttn~ity -k to itroduce a piece of 1rehgious en~ i, terprise o,f ip owp. J:nto his pray- f, er he incorporated his views on hap- A4 tism as contra4ietinguished from y~ the Methodists. Whereupon the 0 alert minist,9r in. charge propbly .i invited him to halt. He thought be heard -"the angels i' s,ing" but At proved to b~e ga chorns ~ of yells froni fAe neyt debre obil ~ dren. eHte j desperate, ro oured a bottle of ;Dr. lull's Bb ' By. p and .s84t% t s.*g' .wit hpce.0mplimeptp. 15was as eo eacheloxu . / - ). d A CUTJR f'ITYCOQKTA IL. lquor That Took Hold Qgiok and gold on LQpg, (Chicago 2'ribui.1 Tact and politeness obviate many iffcultios. A returned nii}or fronm he Blaclk Hills arrivecj in town osterday, and went to a saloon and sked for so4o Qf the bgst whiskey a the house, and when . it was arved to lb}r spat it out with un. ttera blo loathing, and said, "I ailed for whiskey, yQgnq man ; obbe you didn't hear n)e ' Tho arkoepQr said that he had heard im and that l;e had given him vhiskoy, The gentleman from )eadwbod proceedd with more eadly calmness, though his hand istinotively sought his bip-pockot. I called for the best whiskey in he house, young man; mobbe you id not catch the full significance if my language ?" Now, many uothor barkeeper under similar ircuulstanges would lave resented he insinuation as to his liquor by ouring it into the sink, and say 3g, "You dou't know good whiskoy rhen you see it," or words to that ifoct, or have offered the man 500 if he could find as good 1iekoy a that anywhere on the ootstool, or in some other manner o herein specified have led the an from the Black Hills to draw is revolver or hurl a chair through he mirror. But this barkeeper was a man of quite another sort, o he said, kindly: "I beg your ardon, Capt.Lin ; so many people ome round that don't know what rhiskey is, but I might have seen vith half an eye that you knew the lifference." $o he unbanely but murriedly mixed in p bpttl some lcohol, kept fqr pleaiig the airror, and spirits of turpentine nd Jamaica ginger, and Perry )avis' pain-killer, and when the tranger said "Yes" in reply to his luestion whether he liked some >itters i4 t, shook half a gill of oeppersattcQ into t tumbler and nushed the bottle towards him. ,he stranger h lle4 a hoaping tum >lerfpil and passed it off, and when te ha4 recoverd his breath said to ie jar, oojOt "Cttng Mn, that's he whiskey. I haven't tasted iothing like that since I left Custer ]ity two wneks ago to--day. That's eal genuine liguor ; hinder a cross )otween a circular saw and a vildeat. That takes hold quick nd holds on long. Just you go to )esdwood apd open a saloon with hat -whiskey, and you might charge n ovneo a glass for it and people rouldn't kick. Sq lon; take this a remembrance of me,' and, press rig an $800 nugget upon the bar :oeper, lp was gone. A GENTLE Hn'r.-Tn our style of limate, w:ith its sudden changes of emperatnre.-.-rain, wind and sun hino, often intermingled in a sin 'le dap-it is no wonder that our hildren, friends and relatives are o frequently taken from us by eglected colds, half the deaths re ulting directly from this cause. A ottle of Boschee's German Syrup opt about your home for imme inte use will prevent serious sick ess, a large doctor's bill, and per aps death, by the use of three or )ur doses. For curing Consump ion, Hemorrhages, Pneumonia, evere Gonghs, Croup, or any dis% ase of the Throat or Lungs, its necess is simply wonderful, as your ruggist will tell you. German yrup is now sold in .every 'town nd village on this continent. anmule bottlee for trial, 10c.; regu ir size, 75ets.* PJANoS AND -OreANs AT FACToR L ArE.-Gran<l Introdntory~ &ale, ommeneing Nov. 1, 1,000 Maignifi ent Instruments from best makers ) be placed, for introduction and Ivertisement, in Southern hQmes t Agents'WhV?olesale rates, 4!legant Oct. Pianos only $1-25. Magnifl ant Square Grands,, catalogue price 1,000. only $250. Handsome 9 top Organs, $58:.; 18 Stops, $71 ; [irror Top, 18 .Stops, $86. Ohoice itruments at lowest prices ey,.r nowp. Six yqars written guaran.' se. FIfteen days test trial. Write >r 1gtrod~netion .Sale circu.lar. .ddlress LUDDEN ,& BATES' Southern [usI4 flouse, Savannah, Ga. The Freaf Wholessle Pio,no .and Organ lepot of the South. ~Nov 12-x8m Th~e Pullinan" car people are wilIding a special car for a party of tle4 Englishinen, who propose -a mnting excursion as 4ar, West as iey can go. The ear contains bed'. >owa,'ktlieie dining.4oom1 and atne compartments, and will -cost 15,060. The suggestion of the (ew Took' Mail that a great deal of ama could ba bonght ore that stu XE: -.r' E I) .1 .. Tho li;ghting of llinas by oloc tricity has b.muii (ucc fullyt ried in England. A bill granting the right of auf. frage to the womon of )alota has been introduced in the Logislaturo of that Territory. A revolution has broki out in Hayti, and negro disturbances of an Llarming charactor have occurrod in the Island of St. Vincent. Capt. Dingley, of f,ho hhip (mz oerdown, at New Orleans, going )board his vessel on Thursday night roll from the gangway into the river ind was drowned. He was a native of Nova Scot,ia. J. W. S. Parker, a merchant at Greensboro', N. C., was knocked down and robbed near his home on Thursday night, and died from his injuries. Joe Mondenhall has been arrested on suspicion of the murder, and is threatoned with lynching. Chas. McGill was hanged in Clevo. land, 0., on Friday for the murder of Mary Kelley on the 2d of l)ocem. bor, 1877. The only words the con denned man said on the scaffold were : "Don't make any mistake about that rope." The next President of the United States, according to the St. Louis Iost Despatc4, "cannot bo a West ern nian, but will be Thomas Fran cis Bayard, the bi,gget Seu.tor from the smallest State." The ronantic story that the plague wats broulght into A.rtchin in at silk hatndkerchief, the dying bequest of a plguo-stilcken Cos. sack to his sweethe:,rt, is suid to be a "maliciaus and si;ly ho..x." A German doctor has prop-unded the doctrine that vegetarians and meat -eaters are both wrong, and that the real means to health and life nre to oat all food raw, whether animal or vegetable. A bill has been introduced into the Legislature of the Island of Jamaic- in which the cat. o' nine tails is the punishment allotted for nearly every eeiau ofoi cc,.incicd ing libel. The bill is likely fo 1Uh coie ia law. The prosecution of the corrupt Russian army contractors, Cohan, Gregar and Horwitz, has been aban doned by order of the Czar, becauso the proceedings threatened to com promise so many personls in high oJlicial position. John Edwards, who murdored Hader J. Balard, a pe(able citizen of J1ohnston county, N. C., on the )th of October last, was hanged Fri day in Snithilold, Johnston county, N. C. 1-is execution was ordered for January 17th, but i respito had been obtained. Jefferson DatviR has declined an invitation to deliver the annual address at the next Commoncemont of the Mississippi ~niversiity, be cause of the precarious condition of hsis health. and Senator Gordon has been soiectod as the orator in his .stead. Prince Louis Na-pQleon ic report - ed to be lying chiangerously ill at his roother's reside1nce, Chisolhurt. It is said that ho hias., for somne time, led an irregular and dissipated life, and has been wholly regardless of the admonitions of his mother and M. Rouhr, and other devoted adhere,nts .of the Imperial family. JamesiBeck, a baggnge m)astor on the S.t. Liouis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, between St. Louis, AIo., and .Columbus, Ky., was arrested last week for robbing the mails. He p)eaded guilty and was sentonced to three years in the poniteptiary, the entirme busi ness being accomplished within four hours. Wilmingston is eviidently iired of elections. Trhe Demnocraxje votere ,iu four out of five wards of the city unani:pously adopted a resolution to re,quest the Legislature to continue the present board of aldermou imn existence for two years, and the dissenting wvard atppoinlted a com.. mittee of three to confer with the executive committee as to the best measures to be adopted. Mary D. Hooper, who shot Au. gustus Phillip (Oofty Gooft), was arraigned at J effeorson Ma (rkot Cou rt., New York, last week. Phil.lips in an affidavit claimed thait tbo shoot.. ing wvas not wilful and1( retracted the statementa to the dontrary, which ho' said weore mnide while he was under the influence of mecdical narcotics. The woman was beld to bail in $2, 000, Pbhip furnishing' $500 of flwy