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Newspaper Page TextThe^Norcross Advance. 1 ÜBUSHED EVERY FRIDAY RY SIMMONS & VINCENT. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One copy, one year ------ $2.00 Vive copies “ “ ...... $9. 0 Ten “ “ “ ...... $15.00 —ADVERTISING RATES:— Space I w|2 wil m m!6 mjl2 m 1 inch 51 00 slso's 2 50$ 4 50 1 ? 600 $lO 00 2 “ 150 250 450 7 25110 00 18 00 3 “ 2.00 U) 500 9 00115 00 22 VO 4 “ 200 350 5150; 11 00i 18 00 27(p U Col. 300 436 650 14 00 25(50 35 W U “ 550 800 12 50 25 001 40 00 50 (X) 1 “ 110 00 15 00 15 001 22 00 62 00 100 00 f Advertisements Jests than one-tourth of a column to be charged lor by the square —for first Insertion $1 00 and for each sub sequent iusertion 50 cents, Special con tracts can be made where short advertise ments are Inserted for a longer period than three mouths. One inch shall consti tute a square. t Marriage mtices and obituaries, ex ceeding six lines, will be changed for as advertisements. •’ Personal or abusive communications wil! not be inserted at any price., i Communications of general or local tn ' terest, under a genuine signature, a respectfully solicited from anv source. SIMMONS & VINCENT, pub’s! Rail Road Guide, ATLANTA & WEST POINT R. R. WIGHT PASSKNGKR TRAlN—Outward. Leaves Atlanta - - - 1100 p m Arrives at West Point - - 855 a m MIGHT PASSENGER train—lnward. Leaves West Point - - - lOOXw Arrives at Atlanta . . - 650 am DAY PASSENGER TRAlN—Outward. Leaves Atlanta - - - -7 20am Arrives at West Point - --1136 am day passenger train—lnward. West Point - . .140 pm A rtlvu at Atlanta - . . 550 pm AIR-LINE RAIROAD. DAY passenger train—lnward. eavea Atlanta - - - 2 45am Arrive at End of Track . . - 12 KJ a m DAY PASSENGER TRAIN—OUTward. Leaves End of Track - -1 00 p m Arrive at Atlanta * . - 631 pm GO TO Geo. E. Ward & Co.’s, TO BUY YOUR Jb & &Bl I N IS / They have opened a splendid thing JRL. CENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS I In London Store. Marietta St. I LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE WORLD. A Family Journal which can be trusted, and is always foil tof interest, is n necessity of the times.— 8 nch an one is the CHRISTIAN UNION, An Unsectarian, Evangelical, Literary Family Newspaper, HENRY WARD BEECHER, EDITOR. Something for every member of the household, in Religion, Morals, Politics. Literature, Art. Science, Agriculture, Poetry, Nown, wholesome fiction for young and old, and truth for everybody. Mr. Beooher’s brilliant and characteris tic pen tn hie editorials and Star p*i>ere, and the verbatim reports of his Lecture Room Talks in the Plymouth Church Prayer Meeting*. are great attractions,- There is also a large and able editorial ntatf. A BPLENDID~UST OF CON TRIBUTORS Write for the Christian Union, inelud Ing many famous authors of England and America. TERMS Os SUBSCRIPTION ARE AS FOLLOWS • One Year Only $3.00. KverV subscriber for Three Dollars, nball receive the Christian Union for otic Vear and the choice between two picture bremtiims. viz.': th l . pAir and the oi.ko bß*rtt, Karsute plainly which premium pie yurv is desired, er better yet. send su7s for both, and the price for mounting aud the price for ntoihnrg and mailing:'also hthte whether it is a renewal or a new nubacai tH ion Good Ag'te Wanted Everywhere. J. R FORD a CO.. Pub's. 27 Park Place, New York. ; Job work neatly done at THE ADVANCE OFFICE. ■ BTYLE AND AT LOW CIICEB. THE NORCROSS ADVANCE. BY SIMMONS & VINCENT. GEORGIA. BY JACQUES JOUENET. Blessing on thee, Land of Beauty, Sleeping in a sunny clime— Blessing on thy hills and valleys— I invoke them in my rhyme ! Far and wide my steps may wander, Fairer scenes may meet my eyes, But my soul will cheerish ever Memories of thy glorious skies. Northwards, ’gainst the quiet heavens, Thy blue mountain barriers rise, Anil above thy foaming torrents Glow, the Iris’ radient dyes; There Tallulah dashes madly Through the sundred granite hills, And a sense of awful beauty All the gazer’s being fills, And Toccoa, haunt of fairies, And Nacoochee’s valley sweet, Where the shining Chattahoochee, Stars and sunshine love to greet; And Mount Yonah soaring proudly, Where the winds are pure and free, Wafts a greeting on their pinions, To bis neiglibdr ■of Currahee. Thine the Mountain Kock of Granite, Rising ’mid thy fertile plains— Nature’s everlasting witchtower, Looking o’er thy wide domains; Looking northward to the mountains, Southward o’er Savannah’s wide, Where, through dark lagoons and marshes Flows the Altamaha’s tide. Thine the lovely Forest City, Bonaventure’s wealth of shade— Classic Athens—seat of learning, And Augusta’s mart of trade; Macon’s thine, and fair Columbus, And Atlanta’s busy street, And the pride of Rome the western, Where the Coosa’s tribune waters meet. But thy proudest treasure, Georgia, Are thy Sons, so brave and true, And tby gentle, bright eyed Daughters, Who with love our souls imbue; Thine the valient and the lovely— Mai hood’s strength and woman’s charms, And thy homes adorned by beauty, Guarded are by valor’s arms. ( Richard’s Weekly Gazette. IS IT WRONG TO DRINK STRONG. DRINK? Messrs. Editors —“ There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”—Prov. 14: 12. There are thousands of persons in the world, who are professors, too, and yet who say it is no harm to drink strong drink. They in sist that the harm is all in the per son who drinks, it and the mean ness he does was in him before and while sober, and that the whisky he drinks only gives him courage enough to do it. This argument is only suppor ted by the fact that all who drink do not commit any outward crime, but I contend that drinking is an evil in itself, and that it is wrong to drink ardent spirits as a bev erage. We are taught in the words of eternal life to shqn the very appearand of evil, and I fin satis fied satisfied such habit is an evil. It is destructive and de ceiving in its very nature. — It makes a man think he is rich when he is poor, large when he is small, strong when he is weak, wise when he istfoolish. It causes more deaths than all the diseases and wars together, and yet they say it is a good thing. How it is that a good man can have his eyes and mind so darkened when there is so much light upon the subject, is aston ishing to the writer. D. L. P. THE NAUGHTY TENDENCY OF YOUNG NATURE. Below we present our readers a very sensible and opportune arti tftle from Sunday's Atlanta Con stitution* It is a gennful article, and strikes at the very root of so cial and moral crimes. Poison the youthful mind and you poison the stream of thought thut will in the next generation control our institutions. Children who read and love Police Reports. Day's Doings, and illustrations of vile passion, will make the men and women who will act in the recor der's courts, station houses and State Prisons. He curses the world most who corrupts the youthful mind. He is humanity’s greatest benefactor, who niitifies and ennobles the youthful nature. The other day we nt?tie«d a couple of boys* somewhere near thirteen or fourteen years of age, looking at a batch of weekly il- ! lustrated papers. They were very intently engaged, and scanned the piehires with an eager atten tion. Feeling some curiosity to see the direction of their study we quietly and unobserved watch ed them tor a few moments. i One was buried in the folds of the Police Gazette, while the other became absorbed in the ‘ Day’s Doings. Both of these in- ■ famous publications deal in crime and sensational criminal incident and adventure. The illustrations | are gotten up so as to pander to ; every passion. With intense! avidity these youths slowly gazed through the filthy pictures, and I imbibed the deadly mental poi-1 son there furnished. fhvir whole faculties were en I grossed in the injurious business. Representations of half-dressed women, cuts of brutal fights, and pictures of sensational adventure, in succession were dwelt upon arid stored in memory for prurient reflection, and as a silent but po tential stimulus in the future to evil thought and wicked act. We looked especially to see if these now innocent young boys would bestow the same study up on the better class of illustrated papers in their observation. Har per’s and Leslie’s picture publica tions were lying in close and prominent proximity, with their fine photographs of distinguished men, their admirable copies of works of art 2 their illustrations of life, and science and discovery, and their other attractive, inno cent and instructive embellish ments. Yet but a casual and has ty glance was bestowed on these journals. The appetites of the youthful readers seemed to crave differently seasoned mental food. The tainted flavor of lascivious • illustration appeared to have de stroyed the relish for the simpler and healthier and purer pabulum. We could not but reflect how prone is nature to depravity, and what exceeding care should be used in preserving youthful intel ligence from impure knowlrdge. One fact stood out imperiously arid that is the sad one that the ! young mind of itself will choose the evil before the good, the pru rient before the beautiful, the polluting before the instructive. And with this fact, the duty as imperiously stands out that the, bad literatdrie ‘Of the day should be vigilantly kept away from the growing intelligence of our chil dren. It is a subject of deep gravity and importance. It is a matter that the parents should take in I hand. Let the effort of honie and scholastic education be directed to engendering a high taste that; will be repelled by obscenity and crime. Let young boys be taught that it is a wrong itself to read evil books and papers. Let them understand how the mind and morals are injured by evil infor mation. Once inculcate a love for pure, chaste, refined pleasure and information, and half of the victory is gained. The young mind thus instructed, and thus elevated will of its own morion reject the impure. ROMANCE OF A POOR YOUNGMAN. The freaks of fortune are unac countable. One of the latest whims the fickle goddess has seen fit to exercise upon her sub jects nearly concerns A former Indianapolitan, and the history of his vicissitudes are as strange and dramatic as the imagination of a novelist can invent. The name of the lucky favorite of fortune who is about to enter upon a large fortune in this city is Henry Page. His history is as follows: In 1858 his father, a worthy me chanic, removed from this city to St. Joseph, Mo. In the new and growing West, Page hoped to ac cumulate a larger store of spare cash than he had ever been able to get hol4 of here. It would seem, however, that the case was iust the opposite, and so far from becoming a Croesus, Page lost what little he had taken from here, and shortly after his remov al fell sick and died in poverty. He left a wife and three children by a former marriage, aqd as a last resort they were forced to take quarter in the county poor house. The little ones, as they grew up so as to be able to earn their own livelihood, were taken out by citizens. Some time ago it was discovered that the first wife of Page had been the owner of an estate in this city, when, though comparatively valueless at the time of her death, has since grown into a splendid for tune in itself. A gentleman of this city, thinking trial he could discover the rightful heir, went from here to Missouri some time ago, and after much trouble suc ceeded in finding the survivor of the family* The missing heir, Henry Pike, the sbn of the un lucky carpenter, he found in the family of Sir. Penny, of Platte county, and brought him before Judge Pettigrew, of the Bachanan Probate Court, where his identity was fully established, and the in formation given that lie was heir to eighty acres of land within a mile and a half of Indianapolis, and several thousand dollars in money, which had been left on interest by his mother. The prop erty is understood to be worth about $50,000. The young man, who has been in a good family and well educated, is now twenty one years 1 old, and started on Monday last from his Western home to enter upon his fortune | and assume formal possession of I his wealth near this city. , [lndianapolis Sentinel. Better than Fighting the Rail ; roads.— During the last year spec {ulators have carried out of the ; Arkansas valley thousands of cat | tie to the farms of Illinois, lowa : and Missouri, for the purpose of I eating up the grain raised bv the : fanners there, which they gladly i sold at twelve and fifteen cents a ! I bushel. I NORCROSS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1873. MAX ADLER ON DUELS. We never fought more than one duel. It was with a man named Blood, who was • determined to make us fight whether we wanted to or not. When we got on the ground our sooond said to us: “Do you want to kill your man ?” “Os course not,” we replied. “Be cause if you do,” urged our se cond, “aim at that tree three hun dred yards to the right of Blood. I have seen you shoot. I know your style.” “But we don’t want to kill him,” we sajd. “Oh, all right, then,” exclaimed the second “aim directly at his heart. You are deadly with a pistol when you want to be. I and Blood’s second are going down to the bottom of the hill to be out of the way. Both of you fellers scatter 100 much for us. Call us when you are through.” Then Blood and his enemy be gan. It was seven in the morning, and the battle raged until noon. Seven hundred and thirty-four shots were fired, and the bullets hit all the barns in the neighbor hood, killed stray pigs, perfora ted several cows in the surround ing fields, lamed a plowman in the left leg, barked the trees in woods to the right of us, brought down a mule in the towpath close by, riddled the fences until there was hardly a whole board on them and flattened themselves against the rocks, but neither Blood nor we had a scratch, excepting a slight wound Blood got by shoot ing himself in the calf with h s twp hundred and forty-fourth bul let. Then we began to get hungry, and asked Blood if he didn’t con sider his duel almost too monoto nous. Ife said he did, and pro posed that we should both stop shooting and go and jump off a precipice together. We urged that precipices always made us dizzy, but promised to see him buried comfortably if he wanted to take the exercise alone. Then the seconds came up, and didn’t seem a bit surprised to see us un hurt. Then they proposed we should settle the matter with a game of poker, to ascertain whether we were wrong or Blood. Blood held four jacks and wop. So we apologized and went home. The next day Blood called to say that he was sorry of the Rflair, and to ask us to lend him Seven ty-five dollars, which we did, and have never seen him since. And now we regret that we didn’t aim at that tree three hundred yards to the right ol‘ blood ami kill him. BIBLE AND NATURE. The God of Nature and the Bible is one* He who inspired histories, and psalms, and prophe cies, and epistles, was He who made stars and flowers; and the works of His hands never look so fair as when studied in the light of his word. Nature is not so much a book by which we can find out God as a book from which we may gather illustrations of what God is, having learned His perfections from His revealed truth. It is said of Archbishop Usher, when he grew old, and spectacles could not help his fail ing sight* that a book was dark except beneath the strongest light of the windows. And the aged man would sit against the casement, with his outspread vol ume before him, till the sunshine flitted to another opening, when he would change his place and put himself again under the bril liant rays; and so he would move about with the light till the day was done aud his studies ended. And truly, we niay say our weak eyes will not suffice to make out the inscription on the page of Na ture, unless we hold up in divine light—unless we get near the window of Scripture, where God pours in upon us the radiance of His spirit. And wherever it shines let us follow’ it, knowing that nowhere but in its illumina tion can we study the spiritual meanings of nature so well.— J. Stoughton. A LOVELY BRIDAL PARTY. A bridal pair, making a tour of *Switzerland, came to a crow’ded hotel, and were informed by the landlord that there was but one unoccupied rooni in the house, (the bath room), and that a cou ple of beds might be made in the two baths, which it contained. The youthful couple were w r ell pleased to secure even this sh .4- ter, after a fatiguing journey, and retired to rest An hour or tw r o later the stillness of the night w’as suddenly broken by shrieks of dis tress issuing from the bath-room. The lady wishing to summon a servant, had pulled what she pre sumed w r as a bell rope suspended over her head in the bath, when suddenly she was inundated by a shower of cold water* The gen tleman, roused by her cries, and not quite comprehending her po sition, pulled, as he supposed, a bell-rope, which he felt dandling over his bath-bed, to bring him a domestic, but brought instead a shower of hot water over himself. It was quite dark and neither bride nor bridegroom cculd grope their way to the door. By the ; time succor came they were both ; ;up to their knees in w ater. — t>wr| i Home Journal. JEFF. DAVIS’ SPEECH. Richmond, Va., 18, 1873. Hon. Jefferson Davis to-day addressed the Southern Historical Convention, in session at Montgomery White Sulphur Springs. He was introduced by Governor Letcher, and received standing with great applause. He returned thanks for this welcome to Virginia, where he always felt welcome, and whose brave men were only excelled in their deeds by the bravery and DEVOTION OF THE WOMEN, whose zeal and heroism throughout the Whe highly praised, He spoke of the object of the Historical Society, and said that to write true history it must be done by Southern men who knew the facts, and that all the material must be gathered foi the purpose South. THE ACTION OF THE SQUUH. In the war and the causes that brought it on, might be fairly laid before manxind. He spoke of old Jubal Early as one who was ever faithful throughout the war, and as being the proper man to carry out this great object. He said we had been more cheated than conquered by the declarations of the Federal President, Congress and Government, for there never could have been *. surrender had we anticipated what followed, and we could to-day have been free. He STILL HAD HOPE OF THE SOUTH, because whatever the men might be, he never yet had seen a reconfitincted woman, And while the men of the day might yield the principles for which they had strug gled, he yet hoped the children who suc ceeded therq would grow up to maintain them and perpetuate them, and redeem all that we had lost. Mr. Davis’ remarks contain no sentiments of hostility to the Federal Government, but evinced an earn est devotion to liberty, for which the South had struggled so long. He was listened to with deep interest and frequently applauded. A resolution was offered by Admiral Sernmes, that his Excellency, President Grant, be requested to permit the Secre tary of this Society to examine all the papers in the archives of the Government captured by the Federal forces from the Confederates during the war, and to make copies of such of them as he may think fit, was adopted. The Convention then ad journed, aqd the Historical Society met. A resolution was adopted admitting ladies who had lost relatives in the war to mem bership. The Society then adjourned, to meet in Richmond at the call of the President. GEORGIA SCENES. NOTES OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELER GEOR- GIA CELEBRITIES —MACON—THE COMING BTATI? Correspondence of Union and American.] Macon, Ga., August 17, 1873. I am, as you see, safely housed in Macon, and according to the surveyors, almost in the mathematical centre of the State, I traveled through fields of wheat and corn from Chattanooga to Atlanta. The green grain and hills covered with trees are very beautiful as they pass swiftly by the win dow, and are pleasantly relieved now and then by a white cottage in the distance. This part of the State is not as thickly populated a? lower Georgia. It is devoted to ex-dovtYimr Joseph E, Brown, a man said to have warmer friends and bitterer foes than any other man in the State. It was my good fortune to meet, while in Atlanta, the most promnent men in the State. Joe Brown is no longer en gaged in the law. He is looked upon as the great advocate of the new order of things. 'lliere are still many of his anti wafr friends who hate him as bitterly as ever, qnd look qpon his of the Chief Justiceship from the “Radical run away Governor Bullock,” as an evidence of his yearning after the flesh-pots of Egypt. He is, perhaps, the ablest politician jn Georgia. He looks very much more like a third-class Methodist preacher than a politi cian, though. I saw him, not long ago, walking along the street with as stiff aud precise a manner as a drunken man trying to walk a chalk line. Add to this that he was dressed in black alpaca paiits, a black coat, coming down to his heels, a white cravat and rusty beaver, and you have some idea of the ablest man in Georgia. Alexander H. Stephens is too well known as the Vice President of the Confederacy to need any notice here except to say that he resembles the old fellow in Greek his tory, who had to w'eai - leaden soles in his shoes, to prevent his being blown over by the wind. He weighs, it is said, on’y 90 pounds, and is six feet high. He goes en tirely on crutches, and would look like a dead man if it were not for his eyes, which sparkle in his head like polished diamonds. Bob Toombs looks the great man all over. He attracts attention everywhere and is the magnet of all eyes. He wears hiq hair in long, curly, gray locks, hanging in provision aroupii his head, in a manner not ungraceful to him. When be is quiet, and that is very rarely, there is such a look of calm repose on his features as to remind one of aome old majestic column, whose simple dignity it is refreshing to rest upon wlien the eyes are wearied with common humanity. I have seen a crowd follow him aliout the sidewalk in front of the Kimball House in Atlanta, to hear him talk. W hen he is in the humor, and pei hape mellowed by a drop or two, his mind throws out the most brilliant witt cisms, which are duly appreciated by his convuls ed audience. He is a great lawyer, but too hot-headed ever to have the confidence of the people as a safe statesman. Ben Hil\ tlie author of “Notes on the Sitqatiop,” is a Udi, stout man. He goes along with hjg head hung on one side as if half asleep. Mr Hill ia considered the fin. est stnmp orator in the State, and his pow ers of sarcasm and invective arc unsurpassed At last, I bude Atlanta good-bye, and cutting through many a green corn and cotton field, arrived at Macon. lu my opinion it is a beautiful place. Macon has a population of ten or eleven thousand, and is rapidly increaring ip commercial im portance . It seems just the place a gen tlenun with a smal] fortune would like to settle down to the enjoyment of a pleasant home and attractive society. Macon has five rft lroads running into it, and is the place where the insatiable jaws of South western Georgia are filled with tn-ovisions. She is at present preparing for the Geor gia SU‘e Fair, to be held here in the fall. Among other premiums on their list, I. notice one of $750 to the best drilled com pany of volnnteera, open to the world. Ev try city in the State will rend one or more companies to compete for the prize. One of the Atlanta companies has offered an addi tional premium of SSOO. It is reported that Jim Fisk’s celebrated regiment will be here. I am satisfied a Tennessee company would stand a fine showing. Statistics show the m?n of Kentacky and Tennessee to be the larg> si and finest looking men in the Uni i ted States, and a superior martial appearance I will go far towards obtaining the prize. Lux. VOL. I.—NO. 9- MR. DAVIS AND THE SCULPTOR VALENTINE. Our gifted sculptor, Mr. Valentine, had a host of visitors last week at his studio, including General John C. Breckenridge and ex-President Jefferson Davis. The latter spent considerable time on Saturday in conversation with the artist, and in examining his works of art. He was par ticularly struck with the beauty of a stautette of General Lee, and commended the martial bearing of the figure. The recumbent figure of the great Confederate General, for Lexington, seemed to impress him greatly, and he pronounced it a splendid work of art—remarkable for its fidelity of portraiture and naturalness of position. The Confederate ex-President, standing thoughtfully over the figure of Lee, was in itself a picture for au artist, He said it reminded him, in posture, of the old crusaders in Westminster Abbey, but the artist had relieved it of its stiffness which characterizes some of these. The fact tfiftt ope of the hands of the dead hero lies across his breast While the other-rests carelessly on the hilt of his sword was commended for the fine effect it produces. The simplicity of the drapery emblematic of the grand simplicity of the man, did rot escape favorable comment. In fact, the figure strikes every critip as representing calm repose after an eventful life. He took the measurement of Mr. Davis’ features with a view of making a bust of him at an early day. The distinguished subject will, however, in the meantime give him several sittings. [Richmond Whig. SAVING CRAB GRASS HAY* A Texas correspondent wishes to know if crab grass hay can be saved in the field. I answer, just as easy and readily as any other straw, grain or hay ttmt is stacked. So says my experience. I did nbt stack in the field, but hauled in a wagon near my lot, and there I made a stack s ; xtecn feet high, measuring five feet from the ground fifty-five feet around. 7 his wa« some hay you will say. We had a very wet fall; the grass grew finely; sent my hands in the com with weeding hoes. I saved about four bales a day, pat up m tfie fields into cocks of good size, and when fiuffldenUy cured, hauled and stacked. After your get your stack the desired size, finish off with cap of fodder or hay—fodder the best— take a so-k and comb your stack all around and to the bottom, until smooth; then at the bottom outer edge of the stack, pull < out all around all the loose hay until you get the bottom edge a little under or round ing, and my word for it, you will not lose one pound of hay. Another good plan, where room is scarce, is to cure your hay in the field as you cut, in small cocks. When you are prepared, haul to your screw and bale it, using white oak splits or hickory withs to band it. No danger of loss, and Lut little trouble to save hay in co ks in the field, as I'ong as you desire. I know nothing <sf prairie hay, but am sure the above plan Will save grass in the field or elsewhere, but. requires work done with care.—Southern ’Cultivator. Cheap Vinegar.—l take a quantity of common Irish potatoes, and wash them until they are thoroughly clean* and then place them in a large vessel and boil them until dppe. I now drain off carefully the watch that I cooked tiieiU in, straining it if necessary, in order to remove every particle of the potato. Then I put this potato water into a jug or keg, which 1 place into the stove, or in some place where it will be kept warm, and acid ofte pound of sugar to about two and one-half gallons of the water, some hop yeast, or a small por tion of whisky. Prepared in this way, and letting it stand three ttr folir iveek’s, you will have most excellent vinegar. Indeed, it is the only vinegar that will preserve cucumbers cut fresh from the viifte* without the aid of salt.—Canada Farmer. An old fanner at Harrisburg, Pa., lias a wagon piled with lumber standing in his shed, which has stood in the same position for sixty-one years. He was engaged to be married, and building a home for his bride, but, on his return from an ex pedition to buy lumber, found a rival had married his lady love. He thereon made a vow that his wagon, laden as it was with lumber, should stand just aa it waa for all time. A man about fifty years of age, accom panied by a wife who looked still older, applied at the ticket office ot the Central Railroad recently for tickets to JalCksow When told the price he detohirred, and asked for second class accommodations. There were none to be had, and after with drawing for a conversation, he returned to the window and asked : “Well, won’t yen knock off a dollar if the old woman will ride on the platform?” “Yc-s, take her and welcome,” responded an Illinois farmer, when a young man asked for his blushing daughter. “She’s runaway with a schoolmaster, eloped with a showman, shot a wildcat, and whipped her mother, and the sooner you take her the better. ” Not long since a young Kentuckian paid his undivided atteutioii to one of the fair sex, and concluded to pop the question. After much stammering and hesitation, the young lady exclaimed: “I am partially engaged, lut my mother wants td marry.’’ A yoqng man named Mores Pelton, Br ing near Hillsboro, Ohio, was on fare waj to be married, when he Was sthibk by lightning and m?tanfly killed. Two years ' ago hiz ramtber was thrown frpm his holse ■ and killed while going to the same : lady. A passenger on the early tra|n, coming I out on the platform and catching a sniff of ' {Hire air, enthusiastically < kclnimed to the (brakeman, “Isn’t this exhilarating?’’ “No, ■ sir,” calmly replied the erudite brakeman, I “it’s Napoleon.” It is noticeable that, in thp United States j in 1870 th re were 1,345 deaths by suicide, while there were only 202 by lightning; in other words, an individual is six turns as likely to kill himself as lightning is to kill him. A Pennsylvania paper employs a calico I foreman, two dimity compositors, and a | pink muslin devil, and does a bustling * business. A Mrs. Clark, at Keokuk, subscribed j four dollars toward building a church, and ■ not being able to raise the money she ! worked foui days at lathing. Thirty-rix pages is the least b l of love letter that will be accepted cy the Nash ville belle. What is the worst seat a man can sit on ? Self-conceit. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Promptly and Nmatly Executed a THE ADVANCE JOB OFFICE, At Reasonable Prices, CTTGIVE US A CALL, PROSPECTUS. o - THE NORCROSS ADVANCE IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, At Norcross, Georgia, BY SIMMONS & VINCENT. TEE Al One copy one year $ 2 00 One copy six months 1 00 One copy three months 50 Tp clubs of five one year.. 8 50 To clubs of ten one year.. 15 08 To Ministers of’ the gospel half price. o THE ADVANCE Is designed to promote all tho great interests of our readers especially, and of our country and race generally. To do that we promise to give them each week the most important news, both Foreign and Domestic ; the Market Re ports and Atlanta Prices Current; she Legal Sales of Gwinnett and q few ethet counties, etc., and such Literary, Political, Agricultural and Religious reading mat ter as we may from time to time think most interesting and profitable, In Politics the ADVANCE must be Democratic, to be honest, as wo are both Democrats in pfificipfr ; but it will not bo partisan, nor do injustice to any party, or individual, knowingly. Add’, As We hon estly believe, that the first and chief care of all Christians should be to defend our holy religion against the wiles of Satan— his hosts and tlfoir Arms, We will discharge this sacred duty, as best we may, under the guidance of lUta who is able to direct and keep us in the way of truth. Wfe will also studiously tyvoid gMng cause of offense to any professed-Cliriatian on account of difference of opinion, and will not, through this medium, attempt tq build up any one branch of the UhUreh more than others, nor to injure any one of them-. W. M. PENDCETON & CO., WHITEHALL STRfefeT. Are receiving And dpfenfog dally a fine as sortment of Blank Bdoks, initial Paper, Writing paper, Wrapping paper, Chalk Crayons, Bill Files, Letter Files, Invoice Files, kYelopes l , ifoncllh, Ink, Ink Stands, Steel Pens, Visiting cardfr, Gold Pen? Mucilage, Dominoes Playing Cards, Bill trends. Copying Books, Copying Presses Bopying Ink, Letter Hoads, Printers Cards, FlAt Pspors, Slates, Lack Gammon Boards And everything usually kept in A Firss-Class SrATfoifEHY House, As we make a specialty of Stationery, of course we are prepared’ to sell as cheap as any house hodtfi, adfl giiqratltee to d 0,.,. Orders for job Priqtjijg, Ruting and Binding of every description solicited, guaranteeing work to be as good and prices low as ahy floUse South. M. Fendleton & co., «« Whitehall St., Atla LAND FOR. SALE. the undersign offers for sale a valuable plantation, only a quarter of a pjHe fpoin Norcross depot, and one hjludred yards from the Nchvtobs High School, on the Air-Line Rail Road, containing 129 Acres, 25 of which is first class bottom land, mostly in the woods, and well drained and in good condition. There is about 15 acres of fresh land, a good dwelling and out'hoiises on the place, excellent water and plenty of timber to keep yp the plan tation. About one-half of gajd plantation lies inside of the incorporation of Nor cross o thriving town of upper Georgia Parties desiring to purchase a good home, will find it to their interest to confer with the undersigned. Terms reasonable. Wm. R NASH. Norcross, Georgia.