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VOL. XL.—NO. 44—NEW SERIES
ATHENS, GA. JUNE BO, 1871
Miscellaneous.
thinking of asking you to
Miscellaneous;
“ No,” said the grocer, after see
equally confident of his reasons.
But the New Yorker only smiled
and laughed withal, telling us to
give reasons for our answers. The
very waiters carried it into the
pantry, bake-house, and galleys,
whence it went to the second-class
passengers and the forecastle, until
all-round the ship, in a circle from
lhe xed-Jiot funnel where mostly we
did congregate, was heard the fami
liar cry—“ What did the boots
maker lose?"’ Reader—What was
it, and why ?—
back !” exclaimed a voice, and tbe
sword-armed hand of the stout
ophicltide-player was laid upon my
arm. “It’*like rushing on death,
and—here, quick! down here,” he
shouted, hurriedly/; “those fellows
who have.been dogging us are clos-
|ing up.” jy ’ '
A glance revealed our position
plainly enough ; we were between
two fires, and, darting down a nar
row lane, * hastily pursued Its
windings. ■*-
“ Our pe? t ’}e must hear the noise
I soon, and town,” whisper
ed the corporal.tome, as he forced
bis arm under mine. “Hold up,
sir, you’re a bitweak—that’s the'
way. Now then, men, keep to><
gether; it’s our only chance."
The lane seemed as if it would
have no end; and all the time there
carry
me. ’ : . ‘TW
“I’m thinking, sor, that we may
just as well sit down in the shade
and wait, for the headquarters is
jist as likely to come to tiz, as we
are to get to it, A big place like
a map-maker."
A. B. .FAIIQUHAK,
Proprietor of Pootnyhrania Agricultural Works,
Manufacturer of li&prorcA t, JYORK, Pass'*.
mr.tr a BOMB STEEL SWEEPS,
DICKSON 8WESV3, gnd wgiwm
* . JB.. . ‘.STEEL PLOWS, SHOVEL
noaa*-Pow«H«, Till >-u-
i*o macuiukj,&>•.,!ic.
S«4 for IHwtriled Catalano.
Cabbage, Onion, ^.Squash.
T HAVE, WHITTEN THREE
-l-> works on tbe cultivation of tln*»e vrjictalil* »
The worktabound in enslaving*, and go into la
Ab Initio.
you to get back there. Home
down!"
“lv you plase, aor ; he’s lift the
grate gun on the other side,” said a
voice; and as I saw the grinning
face of Dennis, I recalled the whole
scene. 7 *.? 1
“ Back directl]
my instrument,’
Smith. oiR *j
The captain nodded, and after a
1 qnmute's climbing, Smith returned
Darling, when I loved thee first.
What wise angel can Impart ?
l was horn Into the world,
With this love within my heart.
this would puzzle
•“ L thought I’d tell you, stir, that j
there’s a couple of Chinese been
following us for the last five min
utes,” said another of the men, “ and
’t ain’t as if we had rifles.”
I looked uneasily back down the
long, harrow, sun-glared street, but
A, v -eed beneath the sod,
Waiting for tbe annny hours,
Day my Iotc, unUUts birth
Covered all my life with flowers.
Myiterioiu Poisoning.
sir. I’ve left
s?id Corporal
Nothing strange my cyo discerned,
When thy welcome presence came:
At thy touch tbe door flew wide,
And the hearth was red with flame.
A Large t*tock of AVnll I’nper—A'
(treat yarfetouf pattern* —w-hiefc wULbo*>i«l iLfM
low. I can mak« it cheaper t*» paper your hou»«**
than to paint them. T/A.ltritXE, ' "xa
/ . at the Book St-r...
Brought to Bay,
Set and ordered from the Brat,
■ Decked and warmed, and held apart, *
For thee, eole of aU the world,
Wee thy home within my heart.
[Lippi neon's Magazine, for July.
there' wa5 not a sou i visible. 3M
was still as death, save for a distant
shot or two, which seemed to come
from quite another part of the town,
and to indicate that the fighting
was not entirely at an end. The
houses on either hand were closely
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M’MMKV A NEWTON.
We find the following humorous
yarn in Col. McCrea’s Lost Amid
the Fog:
A New York gentleman at dinner
on board a Cunard steamer laid a
wager with the captain that he
could not give him a correct an
swer, within a minute, to the fol
lowing question:—“A Yankee
rushed into a bootmaker’s store, in
Broadway. “ Here, look sharp l 1
cried he, ‘just off for California—
ship sails in half an hour—want a
pair of boots—look alive!’ Down
tumbled the boots off tbe shelves;
from which he was soon fitted.
‘IIow much?’ ‘Five dollars.’
‘ Give me change for this fifty-dollar
bill—sharp— quick.’ The boot
maker, not having change, rushed
to a money-changer. “ Quick, give
me change for this fifty-dollar bill
—passenger just of!’ to California !’
and in a few minutes away ran the
Yankee with his boots and his
change—off to California, of course.
Id about an hour afterward the
money changer came down to the
bootmaker. ‘ Halloa! see,’ quoth
he,’ ‘ this is n bad bill; pay me
down fifty dollars at once; which
the poor fellow, much disgusted,
had to do. Now, how much did the
bootmaker lose?”
“ Come. Captain, answer, quick
—no thinking about it. Eh, sir.
How much did he lose?”
“ Why, one hundred dollars, of
course.”
There was a shout of laughter
round the table, and cries of
“right,” “wrong," in all direct
ions.
•‘ Why, you forget,” cried one,
“ that the boots were paid for.”
“ What's that to do with it?’’ said
another; “ didn't the Yankee carry
them oft', and wasn’t the bill bad?’
“ Of course it was, said his neigh
bor, “ the Captain’s right.” “ Bet
you a sovereign he’swrong.” “Done;
what do you say it is?” “Why,
fifty dollars anti the boots. Am I
right, sir?”
But the New Yorker only laugh
ed, and the chorus with him be
came louder. The question spread
from table to table right down,
round the stern, and up the port
side, •* What did the boot-maker
lose?” until our ears were deafened
with the answers and bets.
At length it reached a great big
Boston man, who had setup among
us as a sort of oracle, for he wore
long, straight black clothes of a
clerical cut, and above his grey
head and huge fiappiugears a mon
strous shovel hat We had all
taken him for a superannuated
bishop, until his friends let out that
he bad been at the head of a great
insurance office all bis life, deep in
all the mysteries of policy and pre
mium ; so that verily it was thought
assurance indeed, when a pert en
sign said, “ Now, I’ll tell you what,
old buck, bet you that you don’t
tell right off—What did the boots
maker lose ?’’,
“ Sir,” said the big man with
much gravity, “ I decline the bet,
but I shall be happy to answer
your question if you will put it.”
So he was told, and then the pert
ensign said again, “ Now tell us
quick, old boy. What did the boot
maker lose ?” “ What did he lose,
sir? Why, he lost, of course, fifty
dollara.on the one hand, which he
returned to the money-changer, and
i lie loriy-five which he gave the
rogue—lie lost, sir, of course, ninety-
five dollars and the boots.” But,
alas for the bishop-looking brother,
a ludicrous shout of derision from
some one who had found it out
greeted his reply, upon which he
rose with a heavy frown and went
on deck. Then again rose the ciy,
“ What did the boot maker lose ?”
from all parts of the table. “ Fifty-
five dollars,” cried a venturesome
guess. “ Forty-five,” cried another,
Perhaps you may laugh, but,
nevertheless, it is perfectly true;
and this is how it happened.
As you may be quite sure, being
only nineteen, I was most tremens
dously anxious to get my commiss
sion, and when at last I was gazet
ted to the 204th Foot, I did not
give my tailor much rest till my
uniform and the paraphernalia of
my outfit were sent home.
I dare say, to the old and sage, it
is very ridiculous; but to me it was
glorious, that first putting on of
military garments. The bedroom
door was locked: I was quite alone.
There was a tall cheval glass by the
bedside, and what was there to pre
vent me from strutting about, as
scarlet in the face almost as my
tightly buttoned tunic ? It did not
fit ine perfectly, I knew ; but hav
ing it altered would necessitate its
being taken away, and that idea
was insupportable. So I kept my
things just as they were, and in the
hot stage of scarlet fever in which
I then was, the fact of my regiment
being ordered out to China did not
give me much uneasiness; for even
in a Chinese war there did not seem
much cause for discomfort, since I
believed that the Briti-h could
chase tho barbarians by the thou
sand.
I will not trouble you with the
account of our long journey out,
and our lauding in the Celestial
Empire. Let it suffice when I tell
you that upon our arrival it was to
find hostilities in full progress, and,
boy as I was, I had to take my
turn with the rest, smelt powder,
heard the whiz of bullets, and saw
my smart uniform soiled with mud
and filth.
shuttered, and presented the most were our enemies yelling and shout-
blank of aspects, and though we ing in full pursuit. If we were I I don’t know of any Business
scanned the windows above, not a overtaken, we knew what our fate more bettersome than the tavern
watching face was visible. must be—instant death, or else some business. ‘There don’t seem to be
I could not help owning that, horrible torture, for in their eyes any thing to do but to stand in front
should we be attacked by some de- we were so many foreign devils, 0 f the register with the pen behind
tached body of the Braves, our I looked back twice, each time to the ear and see that guests enter the
chances would be very Biuall; and see the fierce faces of the yelling house, yank the bell rope six or
I should have blamed myself for mob panting in pursuit, and once I seven times, then tell John to show
want of care, had not the difficulty grew giddy with dread; bnt I was the gentleman to 976, and then
of finding one’s way through such pressing on the next moment, my take four dollars and fifty cents
a wilderness become more and more heart leaping with joy as Corporal next morning from the poor devil
evident at each stride we took. Smith exclaimed “ Hold up, sir, I of a traveler, and let him went.
“ It ’s my bclafe, sor, that Cor- we’ll stand by you to a man; and, This seems to be the whole thing
poral Smith’s lading us intirely I look! there’s the end of it at last.” l(and is the whole thing) in most
wrong,” said the Irishman, speak- The end of the lane was indeed cases.
ing again. there; but, to our horror, we saw You will discover the following
“ Lead yourself, then,” said the that it was blocked up by the ruins description a mild one of about nine
corporal, gruffly, as he tucked his of a couple of houses, evident^ too hotels ont of ten between the
large ophicleide beneath his arm, near the wall, which had been Pacific and Atlantic oceans, across
and paused to wipe the perspiration knocked down by our boat-guts. the United States in a straight line,
from his forehead. “It’s all up now, me boys,” said Your room is thirteen foot five
“I tell you what, sir,” said an-. I the v Trishman, with a howl; “but I inches by nine foot seven inches
other man (our best cornet player), let’s die game for the honor cf tbe I parallelogramie.
“ we had better make a dash for it; ould ridgment I’ll give 'em a call Your room is on the uttermost
I don’t like the look of this at all. thou^fl, anyhow," he exclaimed, I floor.
Will you order a retreat?” “it may bring help;” and as we The carpet is ingrain—ingrained
“ Wh}*, what’s wrong?" said I faced round, he put his cornet to with dust, kerosene oil and ink
testily, for all the time there was a his lips and blew a loud rallying spots of four generations,
dizzy sensation in my head, and call; and there, in the face even of There is two pegs in the room to
the street looked misty before my a horrible death, so. great was the hitch coats on to; one of them
eyes. ... .. ... force of .hgjbU»J&&i.- the. other five I broke off, and the other pulled ont
“We are being dogged, sir, and bandsmen involuntarily raised their and missing,
no mistake; and if we take refuge I instruments to their lips. There is one towel on the rack,
in one of these houses, we shall per- “ Here, what a fool I am!’, roar-1 b ut wet - The rain water in
haps only be burned out.” ed Smith, lowering his huge bell-
Trt ing to rouse myself, I bur- mouthed brass piece the next mo-
riedly took a glance at out position, ment, for the Chinamen were with-
We were evidently in one of the in half a dozen yards, and rushing
lower parts of the town; and the | at us with lowered spears,
street wherein we were was one of
the narrowest I had seen since in first. Fire, sir, fire!”
It was hot work in both senses of I the country. Every here and there I had already taken aim at the
the word. Now we were wading \ alleys ran off at right angles, but nearest man with my revolver, and
in a river-bed or creek, with the! each apparently ended in a cul-de^ was in the act of drawing the trig- j any; you can’t see out, and who
blazing sun above us, and the rank, | S ac, and to enter one of them might ger, when, as Smith lowered the can see in ?
. j ’ °l I mi- L»11-
steamy heat rising from the slime; j have been like running into a gin, great ophicleide, the foremost
now we were storming a mud fort, j f r0 m which there was no means of Braves saw its huge belching mouth
or chasing the enemy over the j extricating ourselves. To make directed full upon them, stopped
swampy rice-fields or through cane-1 matters worse, too, there was at one short, yelling now with horror—
brakes; while the next day, per- j en d G f the street, the glint of arms; turned, and’ in i moment there was
haps, we were accompanying some an d a moment after four or five a regular stampede, the frightened
Braves showed themselves for a wretches trampling one another in
moment, and then disappeared. their hurry to escape.
Fortunately, the peril that threat “ Be<;adshrieked Denni9 > “ tho
ened our little party seemed to clear div1 ' 3 are of th ® wind instl.ru-
mM
as?
■-
I the pitcher cainc from the well.
The soap is as tough to wear ss
the whetstone.
There are three chairs, cane set-
j ters, one is a rocker, and all three
"Quick, my boys! a man apiece J are bursted.
There is a match-safe-^empty.
There is no curtain on the win-
I dow, and there don’t want to be
looting expedition.
At lost, after making pretty good
progress up the country, we storms
ed a town, which I will call here
Ling-Po. It had been a pretty
tough job, for the mud walls haJ
been held by a strong party of
Braves. However, at last, the day
was ours; the Braves were supposed
to be driven out, and we had taken
possession, the men distributing
themselves pretty well over the
place, and I was along with half a
dozen of the bandsmen, who were
on their way to tho place chosen for
head-quarters, there to deposit their
instruments previous to going upon
ambulance duty ; the helping of the
wounded being, as perhaps you are
my head from the misty sensation ; r ents ' i Blow me boys, blow !-
The bell-rope is come off about
six inches this side of the ceiling.
The bed is a modern slat bot
tom, with two mattresses, one cot
ton and one husk, and both harder
and about as thick as a sea biscuit
You enter the bed sideways, and
can feel evety slat at once as easy
as yon could the ribs of a grid
iron.
The bed is inhabited.
You sleep some, but roll over a
Ofi Thursday, June 6, Mr. Giant,
the ticket agent of the Des Moines
Valley railioad. was married at Fort
Dodge, to a young lady named Miss
York. Numerous invitations were
extended to the leading citizens and
their femilies to be present at the
feast. In the evening the house of
Mrs. York,-the bride’s mother, wa?
thrown open, and about nineo’clock
no less than two hundred ladies and
gentlemen sat down to partake of
the elegant repast which bad bteu
prepared. The affair proceeded
pleasantly tili shortly after ten
o'clock, when some of the visitors
were taken ill quite suddenly and
had to be removed. Others were
similarly affected in rapid succes
sion, and presently the horrible
suspicion flashed across the minds
of all that they had been poisoned
The bride and groom became ill,
and were taken to thpir room.
Every physician in the city was
summoned, but as many of these
were at tbe feast, they were also ill,
and unable to even properly attend
to themselves. The victims were
removed to their homes, and groans
and moaning were heard in almost
every household. The pain and
sickness are almost beyond descrip
tion. Up to Saturday at noon 147
persons had undergone agonies
worse almost than death, and a
number of others were becoming
ill. Dr. Greason, a physician, after
having done all in his power to res
1ieve forty of the sufferers, was
taken down himself. The effects
were certainly those of poison. In
many cases the suftereiswere afflict
ed, with temporary paralysis, losing
all power oyer their limb-. Almost
all of them underwent a. relt
from which some may never re
cover. Various theories as to the
cause of the poisoning are afloat.
The most probable theory is that-
the cause was the ice cream. The
cream was secured by Mia. York,
and given to a confectioner to freeze
In performing the work the con
fectioner had no idea, probably,
that the refrigerator had not been
properly cleaned, for he partook of
the ice cream himself, and became
sick.—Dubuque (Lo.) Telegraph.
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and I tried to devise some plan for ? ive ’eta the big notes corporal; ^
imm^ieioeTuaaiinn let out at ’em, Tom, with the throm- 8 _ , ' .
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“They will come upon us sud- L fraid Ut g0 wit h the clarinet,,
denlyfiromoneofthenarrowstreete Tim;that , llgi ,, e . emthetoothache ter, fried potatoes which resemble
if they mean to attack us,” I Arrab, if only Micky Blane was the clli P s that a two inch augur
thought, and, giving the signal to I herc wid t ^ e pj pe3 makes in its journey through an
my men, I turned of sharply to the l have heard men leading, and <» k tog-
right, and we walked rapidly in a U have heard the practice in the Bread soiled, beefsteak about as
new direction, in the hope that it band-room; but never before, I am thick as & blister plaster and as
might bring us to where some of I con fi den t, did such a roaring bray tough as a hound’s ear.
our own men were collected. issue frotG tbe mouths of instru- Table covered with plates, a few
That we were in danger I felt | menta 0 f brass as was now sent alter I ^red to death pickles on one of
aware, the duty of the bandsmen
in time of war.
We were rather indifferently
armed, the bandsmen having only
those short, Romau»looking swords
—veiy blunt ones too—and though
I had my sword and a revolver, I
had received a nasty thrust through
the right arm from the spear of a
Brave,—a hurt which necessitated
the wounded limb being carried in
a sling, and made me feel more sick
and faint than I cared to own
amongst men who would have look
ed upon my injury as a mere
scratch.
The town was evidently a large,
densely populated place, full of
crooked lanes, streets, and blind
alleys, among which we kept wan
dering for qnite an hour before we
were compelled to own that we bad
lost our way.
“If ye’ll be kind enough to take
the lade, Mr. Grey, we’ll folly ye, r
said one of the bandsmen, turning
suddenly round upon me and
scratching his puzzled pate.
“Fm ready enough to lead, Den
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JJ s thorough knowledge of the duties of Count
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Hon. Horace Greeley says:
” I wish every man bad such an education—ercry
young man especially. And If cither of my hops
had uVed, and I had trained him, as I sh.
houlrjI Lay
■r. I siioul.
tried to do, to be a great and t
have wanted to aend him at least slx months^ui a ,
rougn business men." ,
ta may enter at any tf
classes. Circulars mailed on a]
My men knew it, too; but the retreat i ng Braves.
Servant girl with hoops on bangs
around yon earnestly, and wants to
know if you want another cup of
coffee. ,
You say, “"No ma’am, I thank
them, and a few fly-indorsed crack-
all the same, in a light-hearted, I GFj re »|raF n , me boys!” shouted I era on the otber
reckless fashion, I Could hear them Dennis, W he saw in the distance A pewterinknm castor with three
joking together. some half-dozen men pause, as if to bottles in it, one without any peps
“ I tell you what,” said one, “ the 8ee how many had been slain by P er in ik - one without any mustard,
band’s as good os broken up, if we t h e fearful weapon that put them to and one wi,h two inches of drown-
don’t get back. What do you say, flight «. A big one this time, cor-1 and *>me vinegar in it.
Deunis?” po°al!”
“ Spoiled intirely,” was the reply; Pliump!—plmmp!—phump!—
“ and, bedad, I’m glad I haven’t phump! went the ophicleide; the
got to blow now, for I’ve no more trombone grunted, snorted, and cut
wind left than would put out one and slashed in all directions, high
of Widdy Flanaghan’s dips, and and low, sending forth volley after I y° u * ’ and P u ® k back your chair,
they were twenty-four to the pound. I volley of minims and semibreves I You haven’t enough to pay for
How are you, corporal ?” worthy of the pedal pipes of a large P^tog your teeth.
Blown,” was the gruff reply, j organ; while tho other instruments Tit fob Tat.—A merchant came
Then we went on in silence for a brayed, roared, howled, and made into a printing office one day, and
short distance, but only to stop such discords as would have sent a seeing a pile of papers lying on the
short as we turned a corner, for professor mad. But it was not in table, it being publication day, un-
there was a burst cf yells in the vain, for this second discharge had ceremoniously helped himself to a
distance, and the clangor of a gong, the effect of seuding the last tail copy and said:
and we became aware of the fact flying rdund the corner, and their “I suppose you. don’t take any
that about thirty Braves were in the place seemed once more to swim pay for just one paper?”
closepurauitofa couple of our men, round me, and l fainted. _ Shortly afterward the printer enn
who were evidently hard pressed. I When I recovered it was to find tered the merchant’s store and call-
“ Come on!” I shouted, with my that my men had carried me by ed for a pound of raisins, which
blood seeming to boil; but long be- some means over the ruins, and that was quickly weighed out to him.
fore we could reach the spot, wc a company of another regiment had The printer took tbe raisins say-
saw the two poor fellows overtaken, just marched up. tog:
w . and fall pieroed with a score of “Better, Grey ?” said the captain, “I suppose you don't charge
nis,” I said; “ but Fm about done J spear-wouuds. I kindly. “They tell me you’ve had when a fellow don’t take but one
up for wantof a little water. I was “Come back, sir, quick, come | a narrow escape. I suppose there | pound ?”
Make Manure and Apply it.
There is a continual demand on
the soil for those ingredients which
are necessary to build up the vari
ous crops which are raised in it,
and unless a compensation, in the
shape of manure, is made, the soil
will become exhausted and inqx>v-
erished, and unable to produce a
crop of any kind. Everything cal
culated to sustain tbe fertility of
tbe soil should be collected and
applied to it No inanurial liquid
or solid should be allowed to go to
waste. Muck and mar! and rotted
turf, when piled for some time, and
thoroughly mixed, furnish a com
post which is very beneficial to the
soil. Weeds rob the ground of the
ingredients which are required for
the crops; they should be'collected
and added to the heap to be turned
into manure. The best time for
tqjjlpnjg.inanure of weecj$ is. before
the plant? have blossomed, for then
tbei$ is no danger of the seeds be
coming ripe and mixing with the
manure. Every shovelful of man
ure that can be scraped together
from the stables, byres, sbeepsbeds,
hog pens, or any part of the barn
yard, should be collected and put
out for root crops. Every farmer
should have a liquid manure tank
in which all the inanurial liquids
from the dwelling-house and barn
yard should be collected and made
available for saturating mack,
moistening dry barnyard manure,
or applying directly to grass or
root crops.
It is said that, to a noble-hearted
woman, there is hardly anything
more touching in this life than -to
see a poor but virtous young man
struggling to keep a feeble rnouss
tache alive.
Builneu College; to give him tlto aptitude,
la
- 4 led on application.
B. F. MOORE, Principal.
Wilkie Collins’ Novels.
A RMADALE; iiaper,. 81 60 .
LA. doth, 82. Man and Wife; paper, fll doth, -
St 50. The Moon-Stone; paper, tl 50: cloth, S?.
N« Name: paper, gl 50; cloth: 2.- Tin-Woman in
-hito; i - -
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Chalybeate Springs,
Meriwether County, Ua.
r PHE undersigned, having secured
-L thie delightful place, beta to announce to
tho public that it 1« in THOROUGH REPAIR,
and wlU be In perfect readinea* for tbe reception. *T
guests by the first of June, 1X71.
To the old patrons of the “ C1IA1.A YBETE” it
it is needless to speak of its merits. To others we
wlU state, that the main Spring is pronounced bv
competent judges to be the UucstChalylteate Spring
in tbe United rttatos—Ust)Ing.teem the north „ld.*
of Pino Mountain, and discharging5,600gallons per
hour. It ia remarkable for tho wonderful cures it
has effected. We hare throe other spring*—Bel-
phur. Magnesia, Freestone—the whole embracing,
a moat valuable combination of mineral waters..'
The place is handsomely lighted with gas.
Every species of innocent amusement . will >«•
provided, embracing a line
SKATING RINK,
One of the greatest attnu timix, and one (lutt we-
t hink will give the most ptauure, t bo large nes* '
Ladies 1 Swimming Bath,
built in a beautiful sparkling stream, riixhingfroni
, tbe mountain.' It Is seventy-five feet long, ten fc.t
wide, and a depth to be regulated hy the bather* -
well enclosed, and provided with plenty of dvers
ing rooms.
A. beautiful lovel OJf/FA' constructed alnnf?the .
summit of the mountain, ahoundiug in picturesque
views, will afford pleasure to those who like that
cerclsc. A LIVERY STABLEon the place trtlk
s prepared to furnish fine horse* and carriages. .,
A PISE RASP OF MUSIC will be In consfotib.
attendance.
The table will be Supplied with thehe.-tj amt {(K
ilmaelf to make
proprietor will exert
comfortable and happy ; and In view of the r
gency of the times, he has determined to reduce
the price of board to 835 per month.
Washing done at reasonable aqd uniform rate*
While every amusement will be provided for
thoMUto^btmVtbi the kindest attention will 1st paid
at Geneva, «i. W. U_ R. .A.
C. B. ROWARII, Prop ietor
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LOOK OUT!
JUST ARRIVED,
A letter from Texas states that
N. J. Long, John Mullins and two others
were killed by the Indians near For
Griffin. One named Elliott was burnt
alive » ’ t fits*!" 1
SHOES’ HA TS, CAPS, i
AND EVERYTHING KEPT IN,
A VARIETY STORE
Tbmhighest cash prices paid for produce, cotton, .
Ac! I roapectfollv solicit a liberal share of the
patoonageof my friend* and tho public, and as I „
LOWEST GASH PRICES,
an 16-3m Under Newton House, Gollego Aueimi/
Berkshire Pies for Sale/ ;
K KENTUCKY WE HAVE ~
■led the various breeds of 'hop.-. Including the
White Chester and Essex, and repaid the Berkshire
as superior. The Berkshirestnnd* unrivalled with d
onrhog breeders, and at our fairs, a* a fine hop. il
am prepared to furnish pigs to those wishing to or
der from me, at as reasonable rate? a- a
■■■■L . , , PfiWIPpR QO|L _ J ,
can furnish them by tlic single pig'or the pair,
fromjhc. very best stock in the
from those almost pure.
cw - D ‘ r ^sa^H
. . re, up to the i-nre-t thoroi. D ..
bred, with pedigree. 1 wld box .nut deliver a pair ,
of pigs at the railroad depot ready fur shipment?’’
with their pedigree accompanying.' showing Hoc!.
ley wm be from |s
and weigh from 50 to 100 lh... eai h. Address '
dccO-ly. Ukv. W. T, .WOiiii, Ferryv
Tootli Ache An odync,
"WILL RELIEVE INSTANTLY 1;
II thu worst ease of toothache. Prepared l-yln.
Dr. KING,at NEW DRUG bTOlti..