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Newspaper Page TextThe Norcross Advance. Rvej.Y j?uidaY &IMMONS & VINCE-NT SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 6«e copy, one year - - . . $2.00 I’ivc copies “ “ ...... $9.00 Te> » “ r ; sls-00 ‘“"'J- "■ ■. *—— • —ADV ERTISi NO RA I’ES z C:- 0- Space;! w 2 wp m. l if 1 , mis m ! oojf 1 §(•!< 2 5O ! ? 4 «os6 ooi $lO 00 2 “ 15</| 2 501 4 50» 72610 00 18 00 3 “ 2 Oft 800 o Co’ 9 00.15 001 22 00 4 “ 2 50: 350 5 50. 11 00* 18 Co| 27 00 fi col. 3 001 4 25, fi 14 tt»i 25 CO 85 00 U “ 5 Sv; 8 ot) 12 SO; 25 001 40 CW 50 00 1 “ 10 00’15 00 15 Ofti 22 00‘62 06* 100 00 , Advertisements less than onp-tourth of a column to be charged for by the square “for firet insertion $1 W and for each sub- EjHptent insertion w cents. Special con tracts can be made where short advertise ments are inserted for a longer period than three months. One inch shall consti tute a square. , Marriage notices and obituaries, ex- Veedhtjk six lines, will be charged for as advertisements. \ Personal or abusiye eommpnicatiqpg i inserted at.anyprior?" 1 Comwi«wteatious of general or local in C-?r?st, under a genuine signature, a r espectfullv solicited from anv source. SIMMONS & VINCENT, Pub’s. Rail Road Guide, ATLANTA A WEST POINT R. R. NICUT PASSENGER TRAIN- Outward. LoiVos Atlanta - . 1100 pm Arrives at West Point - - 355 am night PASSENGER train—lnward. Leaves West Point - - -100 am Arrives at Atlanta . . -660 am day passenger train—Outward. Leaves Atlanta - - - - 720 am Arrives at West Point - --1136 am day passkjkw tjiain—lnward. Leaves Werft Point - . - 140 pm Arrives at Atlanta - - - 5 50pm TAN YARD —AND — The undersigned is prepared to purchase raw hides at fair prices or to tan for cus tomers on shares, at his • one half mile from the depot on the Stone Mountain road. LEATHER IN VARIETY. end of the best quality constantly on hand and eold chean for cash. He will also keep a regular Beef Market during the season, and supply his custom ers at their doors, Tuesday and Wednes day of each week. V. C. SPARKS. July 9, 1878. EMPIRE STEAM PLANING MILL AND Sash, Blind and Door MANUFACTORY. 0 J. C. Peck & Co BUILDERS, MANUFACTURES AND DKALEKB IN LUMBER OF ALL KINDS, Laths, Shinqles. Hubs, Spores and Handles, Sash, Bunds. Doors, MofltDiNGS, Brackets, Contervs, Desks Tables, Show Cases Faints. Oils, Glass and Putty, Direct from Manufacturers at tub Lowest Rates. Witte our new and Improved maeeinery we can - sDLFX all competition. DOS T FORGET THE FLACK, Loyd St. and ,Geofgia IL R ppptwle Gen’l Passenger Dep.ot ATI ANTA, GEORGIA. * ■we. HKIt.SWORSH GtoU.tY H. HALL, BUFORD HOTEL, BY Man. M, R GARNER. la ever to her friends who may have ofswrinn to give her a call. |Ure f ocal and >?. urges u> derate, IhltorJ. <<».Amt l l l ** M ./'. ■»■■■.«■. I. ,II II ' / UV UKI'D AI & TEEN HOLM, / CKouaMMM at, rtlM A *€.»• TO*C •WJv.tir* w Uk« «»«*** «r «MMf aww* A'«u- •»; hy M BA ATI MORR NSW WHfUApE(.S>H»A. a»4 fVwteM Raw*. w» ’>-• rt* OcrkM. t; zwtoW-Ow* **>.?» «a«r«r* **■<»»«** LWB.ft*OOL 4sma« v.t wsuoa 4«a <S> 14UUJ M W*n •» » TSr’ tw«*a a» »nj -- ■ ; II II THE NORCROSS ADVANCE. ) • | BY SIMMONS & VINCENT. I ADDRESS OF AIR. HOWARD VAN EPPS OF ATL ANTA, I O THEGOR DONIAN SOCIETY OF NOR CROSS HIGH SCHOOL, i MAY 22, 1873. I • Ladies and Gentlemen, and Gentlemen J OF THE GOBDONIAN DEBATING SOCIETY : > I know not to what accident I am in -1 debted for mv place in these exercises. I . will at least preside that the motives that induced you to call me here, and that have ■ resulted in my being so prominently . bi ought before this intelligent assembly, arc kindly, and that I needfei.rno injury at your hands, nor elsewhere, unit ss 1 am so unfortunate as to injure myself in your re . membrances. And having advanced thus : far,- shall’ > say nsofe f The courte ous Request of your committee set no lim its to my caprice in the selection of a sub ject, The speaker is left free to impress his whim upon the hour. He might adopt friendship as his theme—that generous virtue whose fragile summer quality thrives under the genial warmth of our Southern sun, as I have never before observed its tendrils twine so solidly—growing eloquent in praise of the sweet amenities that bless, adorn, and that may ever inimortalise a life. Ambition might please him better, and as a clarion ringing through his thought you might bear this bugle of Jehovah call ing the soul to duty, while on some lone ly, silent field of Haran, under the search ing glare of the orient moon, the speaker paints some youthful Jacob, resting by the wayside as he. journeys to the world of ac tion, hw dreaming form reposed upon a stone, his face turned from the happy home of h’s childhood, a ladder slanting from heaven to his feet with “angels as. cending and descending on it,” from his God. O, then, subjects wjthqut number might be mentioned. There is one subject, how ever, which I think particularly interesting to the young men of this day, and it is the . true estimate of the forces turned loose in • our midst by the throes of our recent rev olution. The old civilization, with what ever in it was virtuous or vicious, is ended, and a new, tvith sentiments and opinions, manners and customs peculiarly its own, is inaugurated in its stead. THE OLR OiyjLIZATICN AND THE NEW ! I shall endeavor toelaboiate this thought as it may be specially applicable to cur own situation and affairs, deriving from it some encouragement to the toiling youth of this age, and an exhortation to make the most of the period, which hag its be ginning in these present times; a period which, in my opinion, is destined to form the grandest era in the hi-tory of America, and especially of thy States South—a pe riod full of inspiring hopes, coupled with . alarming dangers—a period full of the weightiest responsibilities and, at the same time, of the loftiest incentives to action. I shall undertake first a brief r view of the time, anterior to the great popular up rising of the Jiberty-loving masses. 2. 1 shall sketch the violence and magnitude of that struggle, whose virulent strength swept the continent between the two oceans bcai ing away on its hot pestilential breath the flower and chivalry of the States; from the land “where Phoebus fires scarce thaws the icicles,” to the far-off fragrant Savannas and citron groves of the South, bathing the land in blood, intrqverting the ancient order, and chaining to the throne of pow er a mighty people, whose only crimes was their patriot spirit and private virtues. I shall allude to our present situation, show ing how new ideas have sprung up with us in the traejk of wa»’i and what ideas, as exhibited in the disposition of tlie people; in their determined cnerg) ; in their tastes and habits; in their expansion of mind; in their efforts in liehalf of education painting the field as it appears, now that the storm is over and nature with renewed energy expands her petals—now that the “fiery cycle” has passes] and new grass leaps forth in the blistered swath, witlj power ful virility putting forth its blades to catch refreshing dew-drops on whose sinning surface rain-liows sit tremulous with mes sages of a new-born promise—of a bright er, grander expectation 1 2. What of our past! Wiithin the mem ory of the youngest here present, we were a happy people. The home of liberty, the downtrodden of every nation found here a refuge, the oppressed of every creed found here a sanctuary. We were Uiriftj’, and tjie monuments of our industry n rre the wonder of the world. We were im pulsive, and eloquence was a national vir tue. We were generous, and hospitality was our distinguishing characteristic. We were chivalrous, and fame had gone forth of our courage ebrytalized by the dripping of an humlred field* of blood into quartz so clear that ita pure r»y dazzled while it consumed our enewries. We were united; and the voice of harmony hovered round th? Appallaehian Slopes, or, caught up in ' brt.'th *>f the Atlantic, broke in sqc- * creslvc wave.’rts against the barren brows f Of the Roekj- sinking to rest in the slumberous surges of the Pacific.— j Tnuwriblng a sentiment of our sunny land, “stood erect among the nations fearless and unfettered; her brow bloom- • ing wbh the wreath of science* and i her path strewed with the offerings of i art; the breath of heaven blessing her flag, the extremities of the earth ac- • knowledging her name, her fidds waving witli the fruits of Agriculture, her ports alive with the contributions of commerce, > and tew tempkw vocal with unrestricted ;utty." It was tiie laud of ouraasocia tioas and our sytnpatiuea. Our loved ones slmnben'd bcueath the ita sod. Here Washington was laiA Ay, laid in the very soil of the slandered South; amid the j thuudere of artillery, and the soba a | grief -stricken people, 'ihe dust of a , 1 thousand patriot benefactor* empesuried : : her wnrecraled sod. Nestinc under the i imperial argh of those great spirits «e hail 1 ; been taught to love the Constitution of the i country, to venerate its framers, to cherish the recollection of the difficulties through which it was obtained, to guard its limita tions, to value above home and kindred, ay, and life itself, the immunities it con ferred. Historians treasured, public prints applauded, and orators commemo rated the virtues of the patriotic persons, who, scorning the pretensions of England, the cajolities of a corrupt and corrupting ministry, the promptings of self-interest, and considerations of personal danger, wrested from the clutch of a greedy and growing tyranny the charter of American liberty, until a La Fayette* a Putnam, a Greene and a Washington were enshrined as household at every fireside, and we recognized in the faces of each the feat ures of a tried and familiar friend. And thus we lived on, loving peace and delighting in her walks, faithful to our allegiance, fond of established institutions —institutions under which we hail pros pered, mounting with rocket-like rapidity, to a place of dignity whose height invited the. envy, the'admiration and alarm of every nation of the earth—to a degree of glory before whose blazing sun even the ea gle eye of England drooped sightless. 2d. But a change eame, unexpected, sudden violent! Secure in the splendor of our possessions, and the plentitude of our pow er against foreign aggression, we were not proof against domestic jealousy. I do not propose, however, to discuss the origin and nature of the passions that found a vent and victim in the throes of the second revolution. The issues are past —the purposes of this address are pacific. It came I It comes 1 Its breath is upon us I The somphonies of the hills are hushed. The air lays still and dead upon the meadows. The pulse of the great world stands paused with exjiectancy.— Lo 1 See where comes the darkling por ent of |Jie North! That cloud that now swells to such ominous shape, that drifts Southward so swiftly, nestled, unregarded for years, no bigger than a man’s hand up on the horizon. And now the skies are overcast. Fierce lightnings flash hither and thither in the roaring, sulphurous air. The heavens reverberate peal on peal of quivering convulsive sound. The moun tains are shaken, the earth ro.CKS. The fountains of the great deep are moved. The spirit of the fltorm is abroad in the world.—Let no one misinterpret my mo tive. I' have no refrains to offer. I have no tears to shed. That struggle visited calamities upon us. It enshacklcd our wrists. But, Oh ! God we give 'I bee thanks; it unfettered our minds. And now the armies meet. The nude eagle of war shrieks from his perch amid the cliffs, or winging his flight to the valley, circles destruction round the land. Battalions writhe amid the roar of cannon and tlte clash of contending strokes. The valiant stagger to the ground as leaves in autumn blast. An eager, anxious, lircathless mo ment, and the chivalry of the States, pro tectors and defenders of the ancient civili zation of the South falters, faints, falls— is prostrate on the field! 3d. The st inn spent, what aspect did nature wear 1 I witness a spectacle unexampled by any with which lam acquainted. I behold a people bred to every luxury of a wealthy estate, lifted by instinct and culture to the enjoyment of every benevolent emotion, trained by habit tq the exercise of every ennobling virtue, suddenly hurled down from her proud height of individual and national prosj>erity by the harsh hand of an internecine hate, which no contempla tion of her happiness could restrain, or of her patriotism alleviate, or of her virtues appease. I behold a people possessed of a vast territory teeming with every’ fruit that dew drops can refresh or sunbeam embel lish ; of an atmosphere fragrant with the breath of every flower; with scenery as variant and sky as fair as anywhere nature treads iu her most generous mood; with a past as sacrad as any where greatness has toiled or grandeur reposed—every rock some holy memory; every oak custodian of some treasured chartei ; •every hillside Westminster of some — Such a people, such a possession, such a past become an Irish dependency to a worse than English tyranny; her fields devastated; her skies darkened under national eclipse; her toml»s degeqtated, apd her dead despised. This is the dark side of the picture. I have purposely painted the colors strong. There is another—thank God! there is another! Rejoice, Ob! my countrymen in the return of a happier estate. You were too brave to repine; too strong to succumb; too generous to cherish the un availing memories of your wrongs. How changed the spectacle! I behold a people stung by the sharpenril barb of every suffering that ingenuity coujd devise, or < jealomur point, or envy, poison, or malignity ' patient under their calamities ; ardent, earnest, industrious, determined a . moral bulwark lifting itself amid the | decay ing gjmpleur of an effete past, I towering grandly amid the graves of a I murdered soldiery; giddy in its elevation; ; sublime in its simplicity; the thunders of ] earth rumbling at its liase; the electric fires iof heaven blazing from its summit 1 A ; people who, in their captivity, refused to hang tbeir harps upon the willows, refused to sit idly weeping al! the day long remem-1 bering their live past. Ere the smoke i unveilwl the hills, the artisan returned to his bench, the mechanic went back to his • wheel, the student renewed sgsfa his mid night lamp, the farmer warrior pressed again his battled stained hands to the plow. Kmrv&ted. of ancient glory, indifferent to the present, reckless of tbe future, we might havu yielded to our mis fortemes, onr hands drooping Wtimly in the cottipieror's clutch while he with artis- : j tic cruelty fadiiowd and filled our chains. = and Italy Rad furnished an example. ■ NORCROSS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1873. Chafing under our inflictions, irritated by calumnies, writhing under cunningly de vised tortues, our weak resistence might have invoked yet other and intensified tors ments, and Ireland had continued our compassion. Abandoned by our friends, disregarded by our enemies, lost to our selves, our star might have flickered, pal ed, passed from the galaxy, and poor, bankrupt, unpatriotized, Poland sup plied us a parallel. O, my countrymen, I reflect upon the evils into which the South was plunged by the event of her struggle, and my heart kindles with the eloquence of her misfortunes, I consider her fortitude and the oppressions of her darkest hour; her stern self-assertion in defeat; her manly vindication amjd chains of her God-given title to her liberties ; and my soul swells with the sentiment of my nativity! •ith. Thus have I hurriedly traced the pre vious condition of the States the violence of contest, and the events that suc ceeded. It remains to show how new ideas have come to us in tbe track of war, how that a revolution in thought is im pending and imminent, as a revolution in arms is past and determined—to show this new issue of thought, this inaugura tion of a new civilization, as it appears in the determined energy of the people; in their change of tastes and habits; in the expansion of their intellects; and in their efforts in behalf of education. I might cite an hundred examples of the vigorous rapid growth of arts, of lit era* ture and learning, of manners and mor als, in the swat!} of war—from the age where the democracy of Greece, having dethroned her nobility, and ostracized her rank in the persons of Cimtfh ’and Thrucydides rose in blood from tlie p< s : - tion of “chief among allies” to the mistress of innumerable tributaries ani feeders of Athens. From the period where Octavii fought his way by unex ampled violence, prosciptions and murders to the mastery of the Roman World ; to to the title of Augustus ; the election of Caesar proconsal of the provinces; per petual tribune of the people; and su preme census of religion and the public morals! From the time when the true heated free thinking yeomannry of Eng and, deploying in the fields of Marston- Moor, hurled their disciplined hosts against the tyranny of Charles, and crush ed into powder his? coronal claims to op pression I But I do not propose to argue a truth about which historians so well agreed. It is enough that t he Master has made mis fortune, individual or national an incen tive to action. It is enough that a free dom-loving people, manacled in limb, their mental energies aroused by bodily tor tures, consolatiofi in that liberty of thought and aspiration to which the hand of oppression in its utmost Teachings can set no boundaries. The energy exhibited by the South and the gigantic achievements of her indus try during the incredibly short space of six years, elapsed since tlie war, are more than equal to her accomplishments in the prec<«ding half century. When it is considered how great distress was in the public mind, how disastrous the results entailed, how complete the resolution wrought in her labor system—the one great peculiarity of her constitution—no eulogy is apt to be deemed extravagant. It was a season of proscriptions, of has ty ‘constructions,’ and more hasty ‘recon structions,’ of aggressions and violence, that can fipd jiq paraell outside of military despotism. The operations of the general government for the first three years of this period were ridicu lous : and they would have been laugha ble, had they not been accompanied with such suffering s to the victims of the gov ernmental joke. The great federal ele phant not having at that time Captain Jack and his sixty-three bug-eating mo doc warriors to overtax his powers; was solely imployed in pulling straws over what he was pleased to call the rebel States 1 The time honored and laudable ceremony of redressing a private injury with a round or two of blows could not be celebrated in a quiet community, es pecially had “the burnished sun unluckly chanced” to hang his shadowed livery on the cheek of one of the contestants, but that congress must be instantly caught with legislative griping, serve to result in a new-call for ku-klux reports, and the quartering of a standing army in the dis tressed neighborhood. Bat greater diffi culties opposed the expendition of our energies. The war bad been prosecute d with a sword in one hand and'a torch in tne other. Estates of eloqaence and ease evaporated in flame, villages disappeared, cities crumbled into ashes. Under that section of the constitution declaring that the property of this citizen shall not be taken away save by due process of law and the judgment of his peers, the la boring capitol of the wealthy planters of the South vanished into air by the sol emn determination of the High Court of tlie Nation the Honorable, the disposing Lords of the Realm in judicial Congress assembled. But the people did not hesitate. They went forth into “ the vineyard” to build ! up their fortunes, to repair their I wasted estates, to develope the powers | with which God had so richly endowed j them, diverted by no calumnies, awed by no dangers, impeded by no difficulties. Waste places liave been made to rejoice wilh tl;e glad humming sound of indus trious wheels. Estates have been jrepair ed, mansioiis rebuilded- -supassing their predecessors in grandeur. Brighter domes and lofter spires revel in the morning sun- I beams of the new civilization. The mock i ingbirfi’s unmolested melody and the voice • of the dancing spindle, choiring with the • happy whistle of the plough boy homc- ■ ward returning at eventide, furnish the : appropiate Marseilles of the new risen na- • tion. The tastes and habits of the people have changed. Possessed of vast estates, ■ redundant in their native fertility, our homes elegant, our coffers full, no need was unsatisfied the gratification of no craving beyond our reach. As we were luxuriant, we were hospitable; and the heart of the stranger grew happy as he approached our hearth. As we were lux uriant, we had ease; and ease Brought morals, manners, manhood! But while we were luxuriant, we were yet progres sive in the ere beginning of our nation al and individual growth, and hence we were luxuriant too soon. The corn was full in the year before the stalk was ma tured to support it. The patrimony descended to the South while gbe was as yet a mere child before her ripe wisdom to know how she should employ it. It is well known that the patronage of arts the. encouragement of letters, the devel opments of science, happen to a nation in the period of its greatest financial pros perity. But with every nation except ours, the accumulations of her wealth have come by gradual accretions of cen turies, and these accretions have been at- imperceptible corresponding pro gressions in arts and literature.. Her rich est point only supplied ample occasion to their fullest best expansion only nourish ment, genial and necessary, to the plant which had grovfu along with her growth. But we had soared with unprecedented rapidity, and chiefly in one direction—in the direction of wealth. The greater part of our time devoted to the amassing of our fortunes, we were eminently a practical push-ahead, thrifty people, and arts and literature had not the patronage at our hands to which their importance, and our means seem to have entitled them, and which they would certainly have received of our generosity at a later period. I sin cerely believe that the instant recupera tion of the wasted, lanquishing South; the inventive server digplqyed in every channel of her industries; the activity in her mineral and mechanical pursuits; the new thoughts that stimulate, her aggricul tmal efforts; the lively forces busy in her literature ; her evidently growing ap preciation of architectural beauty and of every branch of art, are outworkings of that subtle spiritual power of progress, that has crept far behind in the track of her physical advancement, —first lights of the dawn of a brighter day, a more glo rious heritage! The Expansion of the Southern mind consequent upon the misfortunes that made activity absolutely necessary, has al ready appeared in several particulars. It is susceptible of another and a diff r nt illustration, The change of the laboi system, by whatever malice actuated or wrong enforc ed, has opened up the arena of legislation, fully and broadly to the Southern mind, now no longer trammelled by the pecu liar and sectional institutions of Slavery. The forces of Southern Statesmen have hitherto been wholly engaged in the de fensive, in protecting the institution that envy and jealousy, perhaps unmingleel with any other sentiment,caused the North ern mind to regard so unfavorably. Again. Tlie abandonment of the sla very system has absolutely thrust science, willing or Lnwilliug, into pastoral pur suits. That is the highest operation and soundest policy whose product is attended by the slighest employment of muscular force, and the smallest waste of the raw material. The farmer must harness the mechanical agencies of nature to his car, or he will be left behind in the race of progress. He must now economize his muscle—he nairat now spare his land. In heriting from his ancestors a rich virgin soil, whose bounding vitality yielded frait to his band upon the most casual and acci dental culture —possessed of innumerable slav?s whose boundless facilities of labor made wholly unnecessary the employment of economy in its application—the ex travagant. waste of soil, under the slave sys tem a system of brute force, was great ly diminishing, and if pursued a few years longer, would have a’wolutely destroyed the productive capacity of the states. Laying unskillfulne«B aside, the fanner must now bring the tight of science to bear on his labors, first; because his fields are poor, second, because he must economize his muscle. Who can estimate the destined develop ments of the new system now become essential in the South? Who can esti mate its brightness of tlie promise, when a sound policy of education, and research es of science the most thorough and ex haustive, have visited tbeir blessings upon this extensive and sterling class of the com munity ’ In the field of Education we have found but victory in defeat The records of conquest disclose one fact if they dis close no other, that the chivalry cf a peo pie. is lodged in the educated minds of I her masses. Tlie Etenrtees of a State are Iwtt reputed in her institution* of learns ing. France! before whose terrific sweep i the allied legions of Europe were once beaten back, bruized, disorganized, sbiver -1 led —has in her turn drooped, dis;>aired, fal i en, before the too hot blaze of Germans i niumination. Georgia feels to-day, as ] she has not appreciated before the neves' ritks of a wide-spread, thorough, and exhaustive system of culture. The sen timent pervades every channel of indus try, permeate every branch of society. :! Our schools are multiplied beyond the most sanguine expectation. Our Colleges are becoming the ornament and glory of the States. Teachers are appointed to the . • re.-ponsibie duties of. the class room for VOL. I.—NO- 11. ■Hl— Il 1 ||r||| | _ , __ _ - the soundness of their views, the ability 2 of their intellects, and tie purity of their - morals. The profession is no longer re garded as a provision for those who can i find no other employment. Here iu this very midst, young as your destined city, • a school system devised by heads of I profound wisdom, and promoted by hands > of unexampled ge ierosity, is the boast of 1 this assembly. Here in this very State : many hearts anxiously crave, and some 1 confidently expect, a Grand Central Uni versity heavily endowed and thoroughly equipped. Welcome thou brightest day for Geor gia ! The old civilization is over. It is ended. It had its peculiarities. We love it for its generous virtues, but it is gone! A new one is upon us, whose vigor is as a flower : whose fragrance is thought; whose rare form and exquisite coloring will one day rivet in admiration the gaze of the world ! The contest henceforth is to be of mind \;'ith mind, of enlightenment -with enlightenment!—“Fatritiism could not wreathe the laurel round the brow of free dom, genius must raise it—will raise it over her ashes! ” Girls love their own stockings better than any article of dress, though they are the least appre ciated. Sitting in their own room they will discuss them for hours, there is a sense of elevation and calm superiority in wearing a tine unbleached Balfcraggan that noth ing else can give; this seems to be greater from the fact that no one is the wiser; it partakes of the attitude of stern devotion to principle, and bears proportionate fruit. A dainty clocked stocking above trim slippers induces a re pose of soul, and halt the charms of croquet lie in the secret con sciousness ol striped stockings. Mr. Reese, a well-known street preacher in Cincinnati, was ac costed by a would-be wag the oth er day, and questioned as follows : “Do aou believe what the Bi ble says about the prodigal son and the fatted calf?” “ Certainly I do.” “ Well, can you tell me wheth er the c.ilf that was killed was a male or female calf ?” “Yes, it was a female calf.” “ How do you know that ?” “ Because, said Beardy, looking the .chap in the face, “ I see the male is alive now.” An old gentleman went out -1 one day"with his gun'to shoot par ! tridges, accompanied by his son I Before they approached the place | where they expected to find the ’ birds, the gun was charged with j a severe load; and when*at last the old gentleman discovered one of the birds, he took rest and blazed away, expecting to see the game fall, of course; but not so did it happen, for the gun kicked with so much force as to t knock him over. The old man got up, and while rubbing the sparks out of his eyes, inquired of his son. “ Alphy. did I point the right end of the gun at the birds?” “ How is it you came home from your party so early last night, Susan ? Didn’t you enjov your self?” “Yes, ma’m. But the young man as took me to supper insul ted me.” “ Insulted you, Susan I. Why,, what did he say ? “He asked me if my program was full; and I’m sure 1 never had nothing but a sandwich and “a glass of lemonade ; so Icome away home.” » I A man in Germantown pur chased a suu-dial last week, and 1 set it up his yard according to I the printed directions. He is so fascinated Nfith it that he goes 1 out every night before retiring, and examines the dial with a candle, so as to set his watch by the correct time. He wants to trade that watch now, because he says it loses as much as thir ty or forty hours every night , since he got the sun-dial. { w The Christian Union has a de partment devoted to answering ’ “ inquiring friends.”. To a corre spondent who asked the editor’s 1 opinion of croquet playing was ‘ returned; “We think it is amu sing to women, agreeable to men 1 and fascinating to ministers. — , For all persons who need gentle i exercise, it is even better than billiards; indeed, it is a kind of I field billiards—-‘billiards gone to grass? ” ‘ A woman offering to sign a } deed, the Judge asked her wheth t er her husband compelled her to . sign. “He compel mesaid the ■ s lady, “no nor twenty like him. IIIII I. I ; I mu nr—mi OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Promptly and Neatly ‘Executed at THE ADVANCE JOB OFFICE, At Reasonable Prices, WGIVE US A CALL, PROSPECTUS, o the NORCROSS APVOCE IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, At Norcross, Georgia, BY SIMONS & VINCENT. TER MS: One copy one year $ 2 oq One copy six months 1 00 One copy three months 50 To clubs of five one year s 50 To clubs of ten one year 15 00 To Ministers of the gospel half price. 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