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ESTABLISHED IN’ 1843.
Iff. DWEHELL, Proprietor.
■/NO, MIX BASS, Associate Editor.
Rejected Communications we cannot uniler-
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: am for that purpose.
'vednesday Morning,—Sspt. 19,1877
An exchange says: ‘‘Aleck Stephens
ij as lively as a fiddle string, and about
as fat.”
Oar State exchanges ought to be in
teresting — they are full of Capital
matter. . ; - tj I '.
We haven’t heard of any George
Washington’s servants dying this year.
How’s that ?—Ex.
It is all owing to the present financial
distress. They can’t afford to die.
Writing of the battles at Schipka
Pass the correspondent of tho London
Daily Telegraph says: “Let this fact
be noted—that all tho Turks found
killed had their throats cut, clearly
showing that the men were wounded
first and slaughtered afterward.”
Tho N. Y. Tribune says: “Toombs
is aiming at the Senatorship. It is time
Georgia should aim a shotgun at
Toombs.”
Good thing for the Tribune—for
which it should be extremely thank
ful—that the fool-killer is not aiming
shotguns in its neighborhood.
When we read the persistent misrep
resentations of the condition of affairs
in the South that fill such bloody-shirt
organs as the Inter-Ocean, says the New
Orleans Times, we are reminded of
what the old Quaker lady said to the
importunate tradesman: “Friend, what
a pity it is a Bin to lie, when it is so
necessary to tby business.”
Georgia’s new Constitution seems to
be in accord with the views of the peo
ple of other States. Maine adopted two
of the provisions in the instrument as a
part of the organic law of that State.
In October Connecticut will pass upon
two more, amendments forbidding mu
nicipal aid to railways and prohibiting
extra compensation to public officers.
A Tarboro, N. C., negro, under trial
for larceny, made the following argu
ment in his own defense:
“Mister Jedge, I clare ’fore God I
never stole nothin’ in my life, ’cepten
a pig tail at hog killin’ time from my
ole missus, when I was a boy, and Mis
ter Jedge, I shall never forgit my pun
ishment. She sowed dat tail to my
breeches behind, an’ when company
would come she would make me come
out and shake myself so dat tail would
switch, and Mister Jedge, I felt so mean
an’ got so tired of dat pig tail dat I
never stole nothin’ since. Dat’s a fac.”
Three years in the penitentiary.
Tho Macon Telegraph learns that
Milledgeville now has four
nightly parade around £5""
capitol. They think that this is neces
sary, for fear some incendiary may at
tempt to settle the whole question of
the capital by burning the edifice. It
is said the public pulse beats anxiously
for their building, and the four vete
rans of capitol guarding fame will some
day be regarded as heroes of the past,
and the timo when they stood watch
over Georgia’s ancient temple of Jus
tice, Wisdom and Moderation will be
an era in their existence. Prezactly.
noows BRIGADE.
AH old soldiers of the army of North
Virginia doubtless remember Hood’s old
brigade. We learn from one of our ex
change! that he has started to raise a new
cue. A gentleman who was lately at
Alleghany Springs was asked if he had
seen Hood’s brigade, and on answering
in the negativo it was pointed out to him.
The gallant gentleman has nine children,
all under the age of eight years, and
three pairs of them twins. They are of
ficered by four nurses, a governess, his
wife and his mother-in-law,and the corps
present a fine appearance on dress pa
rade.
NVlLll'ICAnoN AHD SECESSION OF
I . NORTHERN ORIGIN.
In the “ Cradle of the Confederacy,”
Col. Joseph Hodgson has made contri
butions to the political history of the
country that will be highly appreciated
by every Southerner.
The.most important facts preserved
in this history are, that Nullification
and Secession were ideas of Northern
origin, and that as early as 179-1-5 many
of the most prominent men of New
England were avowed Secessionists,
among them Timothy Pickering, Roger
Griswold, Gov. Plummer, of Connecti
cut, and many others; and that in 1812
a nullification law was passed by Mas
sachusetts, while no less than twelve
Northern States nullified the Fugitive
Slave Law.
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POLITICAL NOTES*
The good people of South Carolina
take a deep interest in Georgia’s Sena
torial election, and the Charleston
News and Courier speaks out for Gor
don.
A writer in the Chronicle and Con-
titutionalist strongly recommends Her-
shel y. Johnson as the man to fill
Judge Davis’ vacant scat on the Unit
ed States Supreme Bench.
The Boston Herald says that Mr.
Blaine a short time ago disclosed his
Radical programme to a very promi
nent person in the service of the Gov
ernment. He said that it was a mis
take to suppose that he was looking to
the Presidency in 1S80. He was look
ing beyond 18S0. He hoped to see
Grant renominated by the Republi
cans in 1880, and believes he would be
beaten. Then, with Grant out of the
way, and an opposition President in
uower, he believes the Republicans
would be compelled to take him as a
candidate. He believes that the Re
publican party is destined to defeat in
1880, although he would not say so
openly.
COTTON FIGURES FOR THE PAST
SEASON.
They have been fcoted up at New
York and were telegraphed Friday by
the National Cotton Exchange. The
totals show as follows:
Receipts at all ports for the year, 4,-
035,193 bales.
Export to Great Britain for the year,
1,994,418.
Exports to France for the year, 461,-
oss.
Exports to the Continent and Mexico
for the year, 416,13S.
Exports to Channel ports for the
year, 126,492.
Total exports for the year, 3,023,136.
Stock on hand August 31, 1877,127,-
392.
Total overland, 627,714, including
312,903 direct to mills.
United States consumption, 1,428,-
095, including 125,966 by Southern
mills.
Total crop, 4,473,159 bales; total Sea
Island, IS,352.
The total shows a reduction of 200,-
000 bales from last year. It is exceed
ingly doubtful whether the present sea
son will equal that of the last, which
was the third largest crop ever market
ed in this country, and on a reduction
of yield farmers are basing their hopes.
The future does not look dark for the
holders of the fleecy staple.
MR. llllX WITHDRAWS HIS RECOM.
MENDATIONS.
A press telegram from Washington to
the Nashville Banner, of Friday, says:
“Senator Ben Hill has been getting him
self into hot water by indiscriminately
signing the papers, of applicants for the
Georgia Marshalship. There are upward
of sixty applications for the place. Out
of these perhaps a dozen have Mr. Hill’s
indorsement saying that he is of the
opinion that the applicant will make a
good Marshal. None ef these applica
tions contain a direct recommends don,
but the Senator has just sent a letter t > the
Attorney General, asking that all his
recommendations be withdrawn, as he
has found out that in his indiscriminate
signing of papers he has put name to
those of some men who are wanting not
only in qualities necessary to the proper
administration of the affairs of the office,
but whose characters are, to put it mildly,
very black indeed.
A French statician has computed the
number of human beings killed in war
during the present century. He has
selected for his estimate the wars of the
French Empire from ,1801 to 1S15; the
Spanish wars of 1809 and 1810; our
war of 1812; the Greek war of 1822; the
civil wars of Spain since 1823; the Rus-
so-Turkish war of 1828; the French in
vasion of Algiers; the Franco-Belgic
war against Holland; the Polish insur
rections; the wars between Mehemet
Ali and the Sultan, and of the Swiss
Sonderbund; our war with Mexico; the
revolutions of 1848; the war between
Italy and Austria; the Crimean war;
aJS siSffi. mu t* n y> French expedi
te States, Franco-Italian war of
- J _^w^c,iyil war; the Danish war, the
Paraguayan war; the French invasion
of Mexico; the Austro-Prussian war of
1866; the Cuban insurrection; the
Franco-German war of 1870; and the
present Russo-Turkish war, and he
finds that 200,000,000 men have been
the victims of these struggles.
The Richmond Whig of last Wed
nesday says: “Yesterday afternoon at
the shooting gallery on Broad street,
near 9th, somo extraordinary feats of
marksmanship were executed by Mr.
John Hartman, jr., the proprietor of
the gallery, and Mr. W. H. Ralston.
The latter named gentleman held in
his mouth a hard pine block, seven-
eighths of an inch thick, and a third of
an inch wide, at a distance of about
thirty feet, standing face to face with
Mr. Hartman, who fired the shot and
pierced the center of the block without
the least injury to Mr. Ralston. Sev
eral other fine shots, though full of risk,
were made, among which was shooting
an apple off the head and from the
mouth, snuffing a candle, knocking
ashes from a cigar held in the mouth,
backward shots with looking-glass, and
several others.”
Personal Jottings,
The liabilities of Frank Leslie, the
well known publisher, are $320,000.
The Norfolk, Va., Landmark speaks
out strongly in favor of Senator Gordon
being re-elected Senator from Georgia.
Edward E. Dortic, formerly of Au
gusta, Ga., was accidentally shot and
killed at Ennis, Ellis county, Texas, on
the 26th of August ~ -•—
It is rather a remarkable coincidence
in connection with the recent sudden
death of Hon. Wm. Hope Hull, of Au
gusta, Ga., in New York, who at the
time was stopping at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, that Gen. Howell Cobb, once Mr.
Hull’s law partner, died very sbddenly
at the same hotel on the 10th of Octo
ber, 1S6S.
Mrs. Annie Gaines, of Hart county,
is 84 years old, has six children, forty-
nine grandchildren, eighty great-grand
children, and one great-great-grand
child. On the day she |was S4 she
planted twelve rows of potatoes, ten
rows of peas, and spun one cut of thread.
She has been a member of the Metho
dist Church fifty-four years.
Georeiacs.
Watermelons twenty-five cents for a
wagon load in Gainesville.
Fishermen near Alabuy havo die
covered flies that put out fires.
Mr. G. A, Ansley calculates that the
new Constitution will save the peoplo
annually $108,400.
There is a movement in Elberton to
change the name of the town to “Soon-
ertown”—all because the people break
fast at 7:30.
A dispatch from New York to Au
gusta, dated 14th instant, states that a
well dressed man, of Augusta, supposed,
from letters found on his person, to be
Wm. Hope Hull, was discovered at a
late hour the night previous in a dying
condition. He showed symptoms of
having been poisoned. It is thought
in Augusta he died from apoplexy.
“Deploribus mum” is the way a .Chi
cago printer put it up the ether day.
Getting Beady for School.
Detroit Free Press].
“The cause of education be hanged ?”
he muttered, as he sat down on the curb
stone on Shelby street yesterday.
He was a lad of thirteen. He spit
through his front teeth, and spit often.
His pants were supported by a piece of
wire clothes-line girted around his waist,
his hat was ancient and greasy, and his
big flat feet seemed to be waiting for
thunder shower to wash them clean.
“That’s what ails me!” be went on as
he pushed his toes into the wet sand.
“I dont believe in a feller dipping in add
learning all there isjto learn, and not
leitingotherfolkshaveachance. There’s
lots of other folks in this world besides
me, and I ain’t going to be a hog and
try to learn all there is to learn.”
After a minute he went on :
“Don’t I know ’nuff now ? Three time3
two are six, four times five are twenty,
and four and four are eight. That’s as
correct as I could get cm ’if I went to
school for a hundred years. And don’t I
know how to spell! C-a-t is ‘cat’ the world
over, and I'll bet on it every time. H-e-n
spells ‘hen,’ and I know it as well as if I
weighed a ton.”
He rose up to throw a stone at a dog
across the street, and after resuming his
seat he went on:
“ Jogerfy kinder wrestles me down, but
I don’t ge much on jogerfy. What do I
care whether an island is entirely
surrounded by water, or whether
there ain’t any water within ten
miles of it? S’pose I’m goinj
to buy and sell islands for a living ? .
don’t care which is the highest mountain
or the longest river, do I ? Ini going to
keep a feed store, and when I’m rolling
bales o’ hay around will I care about
rivers ? I’ve heard the boys go on about
exports and imports, and straits, and seas,
and capes, but what them to me ? If a
a feller wants a bag o’ oats, is he going to
wait and ask me when the Island of Mad
agascar was discovered ?”
He carefully examined the big toe of
his left foot and the heel of his right foot,
and gloomily observed:
“The old folks are making ready to
push me into school, and I’ve got to make
ready to keep out 1 can’t take to school,
somehow, I could sit here and study all
day, but the minute I git into a school-
house I’m nervous. Something’s going
to happen to me this week. I’ll be taken
home in a wheel-barrow a big gash in
this heel or this toe almost cut off. That
will mean four weeks on a crutch, and
they don’t allow lame boys to go to school
and crntch up and down the aisles. Or,
sposin I go home with palpitation the
heart ? The old lady had had it, and I
won't more than get into the house before
she’ll have me tucked up on the lounge,
the camphor bottle down, currant jelly
and sponge cake in the distance, and
she’ll call to the old gent:
“‘Father, it’s no use of thinking of
sending this boy to school. He looks
stout and healthy, buthe’s amereshadder.
The close atmosphere of the school-room
will kill him before snow flies.’ ”
The boy roseup. There was agrinail
over his face, and he chuckled:
“Palpitation is the key note! A sore
toe can be seen—a palpi tat ting heart is
hidden away under hide and fat and ribs.
Now then—oosh—Woosh, u-m-m-m—
hold yer breath, roll yer eyes, kick out
yer left leg and make her hop around like
a fly on a hot stove-cover.”
JoBh Billings’ Guide to Health
Never run in debt if you can find
anything else to run into.
Go to bed arly, and git up arly, and
be kareful what you dream about.
Eat fish twice a week, if you kant git
fieh eat herring.
Always be perlite. It kosts nothing,
and will convince more than logik
will.
Never say No, if you can help it; and
grease your boots regularly Saturday
nights.
Eat rhi bread and onions, and don’t
fale to chew them wall.
Be kind to your mother-in-law, and
if convenient, pay her board at some
good hotel.
Bathe thoroly once a week in soft
water and kastecl soap, and always
wear tite boots.
Exercise in the open air, but don’t
saw wood till you are obliged to.
Don’t fret and wurry; kare have
been known to kill a large size tomos
kat.
Laff every time yure tickcled, and
laff once in a while anyhow.
Don’t philosofizc tu much, philosofe
is one of the luxuries of life.
Eat hash on washing daze, and be
thankful if you have to shut your eyes
to do it
Don’t jaw back, it only proves that
you are as big a phule as the other fel
low. Never gossip, nor criticise your
nabors. The chances are they are fully
os good as you are.
Eat no biled lobster, nor biled owl
just before going to bed, unless you
want to see how your grandmother
likes you.
Bekind to everything. Better tliro
a bone to a stray dog than a paving
stone.
Don’t swear; it may konvince you,
but it is sure not to konvince others.
When you grease your, boots use
mutton taller, injun rubber, and rosin
biled together. r - -*i_.
Stay at home at night. If you kan’t
find anything else to do, play leap-frog
with your young uns. . V-rh
. Keep your head kool and your -feet
dry, and breathe through your noze as
much as possible.
Brigham Young’s Instructions
for His own Burial.
Naw JTprk Herald.
Nearly four years ago President
Young, in company with a number of
elders, wrote their instructions, which
they desired to have on record, concern
ing their funerals. It is hiB written re
quest that his instructions on this sub
ject should be read at the funeral. They
are as follows:
I, Brigham Y'oung, wish my funeral
services to be conducted in the follow
ing manner: When I breathe my last
I wish xpy> friends to put my body in as
clean and wholesome a state as can
conveniently be done, and preserve the
same for one, two, three, or four days,
or as long as my body can be preserve?
in good condition.
I want my coffin made of plain one
and a quarter redwood boards, not
scrimped in length, but two inches
longer than I would measure, and from
two to three inches wider than is com
monly made fora person of my breadth
and size, and deep enough to place me
on a little, comfortable cotton bed with
a good suitable pillow in size and qual
ity. My body dressed in my Temple
clothing and laid nicely into my coffin,
and the coffin to have the appearance
that if I wanted to turn a little to the
right or left I should have plenty of
room to do so, the lid can be made
crowning.
At my interment I wish all my fam
ily present that can be conveniently,
and the male members to wear no
crape on their hats or coats; the females
to bay no black bonnets or dresses nor
black veils, but if they have them they
are at liberty to wear them. And ser
vices may be permitted, as singing and
a prayer offered, and if any of my
friends wish to say a few words they are
desired to do so. And when they close
their services to take my remains on a
bier and repair to the little burying
ground which I have reserved on my
lot east of the white house on the hill.
On the southeast corner of this lot I
have a vault of mason work large
enough to receive my coffin, and that
they may place in a box if they choose
the same as the coffin—redwood—then
place rocks over the vault sufficiently
large to cover it, that the earth may he
E laced over it—as fine dry earth os can
e had—to cover it until the walls of
the little cemetery are hid, which will
leave me in the southeast corner.
This vault ought to be roofed over
with some kind of temporary reo£
There let my earthly tabernacle rest in
peace and comfort and have a good
sleep until the morning of the first res
urrection—no crying world mourning
with any one. I have done my work
faithfully and in good faith. I wish
this to be read at the funeral, provided
that if I should die anywhere in the
mountains I desire the above directions
respecting my place of burial should be
observed. But if I should live to get
back to the church in Jackson county,
Mo., I wish to be buried there.
Brigham Yousg,
President of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-Day Saints.
Salt Lake City, U. T., Sunday, Nov.
9, 1873.
“Ho Vacancy-”
Hie late John C. Rivers, for many
years the partner, of Francis P. Blair in
the Washington Globe, was a remarka
ble man in various ways. To uncommon
common-sense and admirable business
and executive ability he added such per
sonal qualities, especially os a raconteur,
as rendered him a highly prized and
always welcome guest at the tables of
Presidents, cabinet ministers, and clever
men of all sorts at the capital. He used
to tell following story (sent to the Drawer
by a former high functionary at Wash
ington) of Major Selah H. Hobbie, who
on the accession of General Jackson to
the Presidency was made Assistant Post
master General, which position he held
until 1850:
Major Hobbie, like many of our pres
ent high officials, was ever with the fa
tal answer, “No vacancy,” to all appli
cants for office. Mr. Rives said the Ma-
i 'or had promised to appoint a friend of
lis to the first vacancy, and he had call
ed on him repeatedly to fulfill that
promise; but the invariable answer, “No
vacancy,” was the excuse, until ho had
about concluded to relinquish the matter
as a bad job. At length one day his
friend called on him, out of breath from
running, and told him that Mr. Paine, a
Post-office clerk, had just been drowned
in the canal, at the same time begging
that he would go with him to secure his
place from Major Hobbie. Thinking he
had a sure thing this time. Mr. Rives said
they both hastened to tho Major's office
and confidently renewed their applica
tion.
“No vacancy,” said tho Major.
“Yes, there is,” said the applicant;
“Paine is dead, drowned in the canal,
and I have jnst seen his body on the hanks
awaiting the coronor’s inquest.”
Whereupon Major nobbic sent imme
diately for his miscellaneous clerk, Mr.
Marr, and to the astonishment of all
present Marr confirmed the stereotyped
reply of “No vacancy.”
“But yes, thera is,” the applicant in
sisted. “Paine is drowned; I just saw
his dead body fished out of the canal.”
Said the Major, “How is this ? is poor
Paine really gone ?”
“Certainly,” said Marr—“drowned in
the canal; and his place was filled an
hour ago by the appointment of the man
who saw hbnfaUin—Editor’s Drawer,
in Harper's Magazine for October.
Love in a Graveyard-
Pigs and Snakes.
A farmer living on the west side of the
Ohio river, in walking about his farm,
discovered a nest a rattlesnakes in the
hollow bark of an old tree, about which
several large pieces of rock lay scattered.
Having heard that pigs were hostile to
snakes of all kinds, and not caring to at
tack the nest himself, he thought ho would
try the experiment and see a fight. He
drove several pigs in the vicinity, and
watched for the result. The pigs soon
seemed to scent tho reptiles, and com
menced rooting eagerly about the spot
In an instant half a dozen of the vicious
serpents emerged from tho hiding places
to attack the intruders, who manifested a
zealous disposition to give battle. A
snake would rear himself to the height of
the back of tho pig, shake his rattles, and
plunge his fangs into the animal with
lightning like celerity, and then dart
away, pursued by tho pig, who dexterous
ly received the sting upon the fleshy
part of the jaw. Over and Over again
this would be repeated until the pig got
his fore foot upon the snake, when he
would deliberately rip the reptile in twain
and the devour him. This slaughter
continued until all the snakes were dis
posed of, when the pigs granted content
edly, and without any signs of being dis
turbed waddled off in search of other
provender. The eye-witneaa to this ■sin
gular contest, which was not .'without; its
exciting features, declares himself con
vinced that a pig is impervious .to the
poisonous bite, of any kind of serpent.—
Carolina Farmer.
Fifty-three pall bearers took part in
the burial of Admiral Semmes at Mo
bile. Half-hour guns were fired all
day on the day of the funeral. Admi
ral Gamines left several works in man
uscript .1
HiB Only WlBh.
Detroit Froo Press.
Some months ago a fond Detroit fa-
er imagined that his only son, a young
man of twenty, was going into con
sumption. A doctor was coiAnltod,
and he advised that the' son. he put
through a course of gymnastic3raining.
The young man seemed to like the idea,
and for two or three months be m
daily attendance ata gymnasium. Then
he began to grow careless, and finally
quit it altogether. The father thought
he could see signs of failing health
again, and to induce the son to go back
to rings, bars and gloves once more, he
fitted up a private gymnasium in the
bam and began a course of exercise
himself. The other morning he re
membered that he used to be a boxer
in his younger days, and he remarked
that he’d give the son a few lessons. He
was balancing himself on his heel and
feeling out with both hands, when
something hit him, and half a minute
afterwards he dimly realized that some
one was bending over him and say
ing:
“Father, dear father 1 are you dead ?”
He sat up, looked around, and hoarse
ly inquired:
“Jim, what on earth happened ?”
“Why, father, I got in a love-tap on
your nasal—just a little feeler, to seo if
you were solid on your pins.”
Didn’t you strike as hard as you
could ?”
“No, not half, not a quarter. It was
what the boys call ‘feeling for claret’
Your nose will spring back into posi
tion in less than half a day.”
The father got up, let the gloves fall
from bis hands, and as he caught the
trapeze to steady bis legs, be said
“Jim, your mother and I thought
you were going into consumption, and
Dr. , he backed us up in it. That’s
Why I sent you to learn gymnastics.
Jim, I’m a fool, your mother is anawftil
good woman, and if we can get the
doctortq) here long enough to let you
feel for his claret, I do’nt care how soon
I die 1”
| Rom’s Work in Hew York.
A regular meeting of the New York
Temperance Union was held in Cooper
Union Sunday afternoon. Tho main
feature of the meeting was the present
ation of a report prepared by Colonel
J. G. Dudley with reference to the
number of recent crimes and casualties
produced in that city by the use of in
toxicating liquors.
The total number of arrests in . the
city for the' quarter was 1S.493L Of
these it is stated that the following were
directly caused by the Use of intoxicat
ing liquors: ,
Disorderly conduct 3,591
Delirium tremens 5
Habitual drunkards 17
Vagrancy 8
Drunk and disorderly—..;. 2,157
Reckless driving- 106
Vagrancy —. 1,123
Intoxication 5,697
Saratoga latter.
Right near the gravo of Chancellor
Walworth sat two of the loveliest lovers
in Saratoga—young, sentimental and
pishing. They have been engaged the
ast two weeks. Passing behind the
monument with Mr. Palmerston, the
venerable sexton, I heard the following
conversation from these melting lovers,
almost too full for utterance. I give it
literally:
“Angel, pet” - .
“What, Charley ?”
“What awfol poetry on the grave
stones, lovey.”
“What, sweetie?” '■
“I said what dreadful vcrse3 on the
gravestones, darling.”
“Oh, did you—my own?”
“Yes, duckey, listen—
‘“Hero lies the wifo of Robert Rocular;
She walked tho ways of God perpendicular.*
“Oh, my 1”
Then came a long pause. He was
holding her hand in one of his, while
the other whipped his pantaloons leg
with a cane. Then tho pause wo9 in
terrupted by:
“Oh, sweetie I”
“What Charley ?”
•TSuen queer gravestones I
“Such queer what, darling?”
“I said what queer poetry on tho
gravestones.”
“Ob, did you, pet?”
“Yes, angel, look at that one:
“40 years a maiden,
1 yoar a wifo;
2 months & mother,
And that took her life.**
“Oh, Charley 1”
That is just what these lovers said.
Where Andrew Johnson Follow
ed His Trade and Got
His Wife.
Baltimore Gazette.
Laurens Courthouse, S. C., Aug.
31.—It is not generally known that this
town was once the home of the late cx-
President Andrew Johnson. lie re
moved here from his native place in
South Carolina, and followed the trade
as a journeyman tailor fur several years.
He went from Laurensville to Greene-
ville, Tenn. While a poor, struggling
tailor here, he offered his heart and
hand to one of tho fair daughters of
Laurensville, Miss Sallie Wood, but
the course of true love” ran against
the future President, and he was re
jected. The lady who thus lost her op
portunity to preside at the White House
a still living here at an advanced age,
and has grown grandchildren to com
fort her decling years. She married a
saddler named Hance, a highly esteem
ed citizen. He was a native of New
York, and was pointed out when his
rival had become famous as the man
that had succeeded where Andrew
Johnson had failed. It was thus that a
romance ill real life had its origin in a
quiet country town, and separate paths
were marked out by the hand of for
tune for those with whom she played.
A Careless Man.
Burlington Hawkcyo.
Yesterday morning a careless man
out on South Hill threw a mug of hot
shaving water out of a second story win
dow. Instantly the pale air was streak
ed with shrieks, and looking out, he
saw he had emptied the treacherous
element on the head of his wife, who
was digging in the geranium bed with
a pine stick. He leaned out of the
window to laugh in hollow accents,
when tho sash fell with frightful veloci
ty, shutting off his wind. His wife, dis
mayed at her unexpected shower-bath,
and appalled at her husband’s situa
tion, turned to run into the house and
release him, and in her haste ran against
the baby’s cab, upsetting it and hnrl-
ing the baby upon a cactus plant The
domestic, up stairs, hearing the shrieks
in the front yard, and doubting not that
the baby had been devoured by a tramp,
sprang down staire to the rescue with
such alacrity that she only touched two
steps, the first and last one,—touching
tho fiist ono with her feet, and the last
one with her head. A neighbor, run
ning to the general rescue, stepped on
a broken plank in the sidewalks, and
fell a distance of one hundred and one
feet, spraining his ankle so badly that
he won’t walk for three weeks. By this
time, the man, with a violent effort,
which Ecalped the entire back portion
of hi3 head, got out of the window,
having previously dropped his razor,
which fell on tho edge of a flower pot
and nicked itself worse than a coach
horse, and comparative order was soon
restored. But the man says he will
never again tempt the anger of the im
mortal gods by shaving himself.
Story of a Tramp.
Saratoga Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
We fell in with a Colonel of the late
Confederate unpleasantness, the other
day, who gave us a curious story of a
romantic and interestingexprience. The
overflow of the levees on the Mississip
pi drowned out his store and goods, and
reduced him in a shoit half hour from
independence to poverty last spring.
Then he came North, a3 to a land of
promise, where he would find the friends
of his prosperity, and obtain assistance.
He got as far as Baltimore, and from
there became a tramp and walked to
New York. When he arrived in that
city he had thirteen cents, which he
invested in a clean paper collar and
had his boots blacked. Having known
Baldy Smith in better days, he called
on our police commissioner, aad, poor
and seedy as he was, met with a fine
reception and got some money, after
other friends had refused to recognize
him, or give him a cold potato. For
some weeks he wandered about New
York seeking for something to do, and
one of his friends (Miss Kellogg) re
membering him .in the days of old as
her entertainer and patron, presented
him with a suit of clothes. At last he
met accidentally a gentleman formerly
of the South, who is a Wall street
broker, who gave him a “starter” in
stocks, and to-day the Colonel is at
Saratoga with a fast horse and several
thousands in cash. Such are the ups
and downs of life. Let us look care
fully at a - tramp before we kick him
out.
gBBHWI
The Tom of Fortune.
Marietta Journal.] '
We read the other day how in 1848
unfortunate banker, Ralston, of Cal
ifornia, in poverty borrowed $500 from a
banker, named Martin of St. Louis; bow
afterwards the men lost sight of each
other for fourteen years. Ralston became
a millionaire in San Francisco, and Mar
tin a bankrupt in New York. Ralston
at last heard of Martin and his lowly
condition and sent him a check for ten
thousand dollars. This reminds us of
an incident that happened in Geo;
since the war. < A'g^njlenuAKfM^isI .
left Atlanta and went to Savannah and
after stopping ° l, V"lrYi , iVhfiMM‘Tn|
ey was exhausted, and no remunerative
employment, the husband became dis
couraged and drank to excess. This made
matters worse and the landlady demand
ed her money due for hoard, and on fail
ure to pay was about to dispossess of them
of a place to bulge. A gentleman, for
merly of Marietta, stepped forward and
paid the bill, vli.vu in.-pired new courage
in the unfortunate it usband. He resolved
never to drink again, rented a small cot
tage and began to keep house on an eco
nomical plan and found employment at a
market stand ; the pay wa3 small, but he
stuck to it, saved some money, which en
abled him to enlarge his business. .He
prospered and to-day he is worth $20,-
00°. _ 2 “
The won! “pamphlet” is derived from
the name of a Greek authoress, Pamphy-
lia, who compiled a history of the world
into thirty-five little books. “Punch and
Judy” is a contraction from Pontius and
Judas. It is a relic of an. old “miracle
play,” in which the actors were Pontius
Pilate and Judas Iscariot “Bigot
from Visigoths, in which the fierce and
intolerant Arianism of'the Visigoth con
queror of Spain has been handed down
to infamy. “Humbug” is from Ham
burg; “a piece of Hamburg news” was
in Germany a proverbial expression of
false political rumors. “Gauze” derives
its name from Gaza, where it was first
made. “Tabby cat” is all unconscious
that her name is derived from Atab, a fa
mous street in Bagdad inhabited by the
manufacturers of silken stufis called
atabi or taffety, the wavy marking of the
watered silks resembling pussy’s coat.
“Old Scratch” is the demon Skratti, who
still survives in the superstitions of
Northern Europe. “Old Nick” Is none
other than Nikr, the dangerous water
demon of Scandinavian legend. Hie
lemon takes its name from the city of
Lima. '
Total 12,604
Add to these the crimes probably
caused by drink, such os assult and
battery, 1,219; cruelty to children 11:
felonious assault, 114} homicide, 11: and
131 cases of insanity, .and it makes a
total of arrests caused ]>y the use of The Presidency to be Abolished
liquor of 14,090. This leaves the total
number of arrests from all other causes
at only 4,403.
The Happy Mother of Bounc
ing Babies*
Lebanon (Mo.) Journal, - r
Last Friday night Mrs. Milton Barr,
who lives twelve miles south of town,
jave birth to a pair of babies, and on
Saturday gave birth to another pair.
The first two-ware bom just before 12
o’clock at night, and the latter tow just
after 12 o’clock the some night, which
l jives two of them Friday, the24fh, for
.her birthday,'and the other two Satur
day, the 2oth, for their birthday. Two
of the new comers are boys weighing
four and a half pounds each, and the.
other two are girls—one weighing four
] jounds and the other three and a half.
Tne news of this marvelous child-birth
spread rapidly through the county, and
large numbere of Mr. and Mrs. Barrs’
friends hastened to their residence to
see four babies alive. Sunday 150 or
200 persons visited Mr. Barr’s residence
to see the babies. The mother is doiDg
welL The children are all perfect in
shape and healthy to all appearances.
. i The Buddhist religion is the one most
extensivelyacccptad in the world, having,
U J 3,400,000,000 adher-
than the Greek,
people in the world,
are not Christians,
iut, with the exception of the. 6,00$GGG
Jews, ore what are called-beathens. It
will be observed from this that there is
still a great field left fqr'fhe spreqd of
Christianity,-
Maori and Courier.]
Several nuipcrously signed memorials
will be presented to Congress next
month proposing amendments to the
Constitution abolishing the Presidency,
an executive council of State or Cabi
net to be substituted therefor, to be
composed of the seven secretaries with
out any superior .officer, all to have
authority; that fa, simply strike out the
President and authorize the secretaries
to .havo the execution of all the lawB
and general supervision of the govern
ment, four of the council to ho elected
by the Houso and three by the Senate,
from members of their respective
Houses, for two years, ono or all to be
removed at any time by the House
electing them, and all to have the rights
of members of both Houses.
Singular Attachment of Eels for
a Man. ■:
The following is from the Boston
Globe: “There is a curious case at Reek-
port of the singular attachment some
times instituted between man and the
lower ontmoio 4 hi. Kale *—• *
for a long time accustomed to throw bits
of food for some eels in a little brook
that runs along back of his lot Latterly
he observed that they seemed to be
waiting for his visits, and with a little
training they wero induced to eat food
directly from his hand. Then they
learned to play fondly about his fingers
held in the water, and enjoyed his ca
resses. More recently the largest one of
the four, a huge old fellow over two feet
long and very large around, allowed Mr.
Hale to take him entirely out of the wa
ter, slide him about freely from band to
hand, apparently enjoying the novel
gymnastics. When Mr. Hale goes to the
irook bo calls them with a peculiar
whistle, and they soon come rushing
briskly from down stream. Not lonj:
ago he brought them his usual lunch oJ'
fish and mackerel, and only the large one
came. The eel waited a few moments,
then turned down stream, and soon came
back, bringing hi3 tardy family to sup
per.”
That Disease Breeds Disease
. Is a notorious fact It is therefore of
vital importance to check maladies in
their birth, ere they havo a chance to
develop others and more dangerous dis
orders. As a means of checking com
plaints which, if allowed to proceed,
finally disorder tho entire system, Hos-
tetter’s Stomach Bitters is a medicine
the use of which cannot be too strongly
urged upon the rick and feeble. The
physical functions are regulated by it,
it insures the acquisition of vigor by
the debilitated, and it substitutes a
cheerful condition of mind for gloom
and despondency. Dyspepsia, consti
pation, liver complaint, and kidney and
bladder troubles yield to its remedial
influence; it counteracts a tendency to
gout and rheumatism, and invigorates
the nerves. Moreover, it is derived
from purely botanical sources, and
this, as in every other respect, is supe
rior to the mineral remedies of the
pharmacopoeia.
How He Startled Her.
Detroit Frco Proas.
A whoop-hang sort of a boy, with
feet as broad and as; flat as a pie-tin,
trotted through the Central Market yes
terday till he reached a stall kept by a
single woman about thirty years old.
Halting there, he yelled out: : >dr
“Say! say! Your little boy has been
run over and killed, up by the City
Hall 1”
“Oh! oh 1 Heavens!—oh! oh 1”
She screamed os she made a dive un
der the counter, came np on the out
side. and started to follow the boy.
After going ten feet she halted, looked
very foolish all of a sudden, and re
marked :
“What a goose I am! Why, I ain’t
even married 1”
Hayes and Hampton.
President Hayes and party will visit
Louisville, Ky., on the 17th instant,
where extensive preparations are being
made for his reception and entertain
ment. Gov. Hampton, we learn, has
accepted an invitation to be present.
At the-suggestion of several South Car
olinians, in Louisville, a handsome Pal
metto flag was sent yesterday by Preri-
Tnppcr, of the-Chamber of Commerce,
to tne Mayor of Louisville,] to add
to the deoorations on the occasion.
The flag is a large one, measuring eight
by ten feet, and was made gratuitously
by Capt. G. .F. Trescot, of this cit y. The
ffeld is of blue bunting, withYvhite Pal
metto and Crescent.—Macs and Courier;.
We know a shrewd farmer who ixnade
a fortune cultivating weeds. Tjrtgrjrqrg
a widow’s. :
New Advertised
PUNOSiigiisaBss
OT«r.S»50, only $55. loiw*2P hr0 «S2
■enton 15 days tost trial. y, P „ nce i
•o cheap? I reply Hard Tim P , Uk t> * 1 7l5
over 1,000,001 annually. War r
monopolists. Bawaro
Write for explanation. Battfs 0001 . ~
Particnlars froo. Addrais DAXtet'p’
Washington, Now Jersey. "P-Bl
1 90
For ramphictsaddres: Dr. SAXFogrgKewYrav
» woek iff own
y? l> * ontfi* free. H. HALU^*
Portland. Maine.
O Extra Fine Jlixcd CardSjTrkhnr^l
Mothers who Dose their Darling t - !
drastic purgatives incur a fearful rapoj&bftji
The gontlo, moderato (vet effective), luS!
alterative and anti-bilious operation ot Tuiir
Satstza* AraniEXT peculiarly adantx ittoT
disorders of children. *
$5 S $20 M trV 0 ^-^
Portland, Maine.
froe. Btiiso* k (£;
DAVIDSON
COLLEGE,N.C,
PREPARATORY CUSS
Taught by the Professors of Latin, Greek h
Mathematics. Session begins Sept 27. ig*
*6end for catalogue to J. R. BLAKE, CUL-u-'
of Faculty.
Q1 O a day at home. Agents wanted, i
vl-v and terma free. TEUE A CO.,
ROUE FEMALE COLLEG!
How Sdmson Slew the Philis
tines. '• - J ’
_ When I traveled, in ,1871, in Pales
tine an old servant from the monastery
of Ramleh, about fifty miles west from
Jerusalem, showed me the supposed
place where Samson killed 1,000 Phil
istines with the jaw-bone of an ass
When I expressed my doubts as to the
length and strength of a jaw-bone, con
sidering the great number of surround
ing enemies, the good .man explained
the case in the following manner:
“Well he took hold, of fthe ass by the
tail and swimg the animal against the
PhislistineB in such a manner-that .only
its head, and of this especially the jaw
bone struck the Philistines, keepidg'off
in this way the surrounding warriors,
and giving the blow the necessary fence
to MIL I affirm that in this manner
Samson could have slain a. million Phil
istines, provided the tail of the ass did
notbreak.” :t '■ ’
Two Feet Boad.
me l.CQ*, 3rd
(Mass.) two-feet guage railroad, the first
cf the Mnd in this country, has been
completed, and the first trips, which
were made Saturday, showed that the
road is inferior to none in speed,
smoothness and safety. The road,
which is eight miles long, has cost bat
$50,000, including buildings, bridges
and equipments. The latter consist of
two locomotives and eleven cars, the
former weighing but eleven tones each
while the passenger cars, carrying half
the number of the standard cars, cost
but one quarter as much.
A gambler in Deadwood is so super
stitious that he avers that he is always
lucky when he wears a certain shirt, and
so fearful is he of a change of fortune
that he will not send the garment to be
washed. He says he does not know
bnt the luck might wash out and the
shirt lose its power for good. He
has won 810,000 in one day while wear
ing it
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson, who
presided at tho White House in the
reign of her uncle, Mr. Buchanan, is
said to be still, although forty-five or
more, a very pretty womrfn. She has
white hair, regular, highbred-features,
sparkling blue eyes, dimpled chin, anc
is a charmTng. poKshed talker. v
Major Moore, a miner, reports he will
have a mill in Atlanta -wbwjl [will grind
out $100 of gold per ton of dirt aronnd
the pity, which he' has engaged to be
brought from the neighboring country.
He says his mill wfll 'gM aboui ninety
per cent of particles, while the brdinas
ry one gets ten per cflpw , r ,y r v £
In 1S70 there were! in the United
States 140,000 licensed' ■ liquor salooiiSL
If formed into a street^with teddMaeiofi
each ride, allowing twhntt feet to etrfb
saloon, they would .make.;#, street, two
hundred and sixty-five miles Ipng.
There is a woman at Eureka, Califor
nia, who a dozen years ago was manied
in a dress coating two thousand dollars.
Now she takes in washing to, support a
drunken husband and three pairs of
twins.
—■.. ..mm
There is notlung so sweet in life as
love’s young dream, Mr \Vj|!fpqi Shan
non, of Barren county, Ky., was recent-
ly married toianwidw affehriinooT
It is announced that James T. Farley,
of San Francisco, will bo the Democrat^
ic successor of Sargeant as United States
Senator from California. n ■ ,
There hasn’t been a saloon ip)S(ark-
ville, Miss., for the last ■ twenty-jive
years. But listen—sh-h-h,—yon can get
it at the druggist’s.
A youngster who had been stun
bee told his father ibat he
kicked a bee that had a splinter in hfa
toil. : 1 ;* V : :
At Mobile. 'V •
-iiiif
T he regular winter sessioh op
this institution will comnraaca on tbs 14tb
of NoTembor.and closo 14 of AptiL ISIS.
The preliminary conns wm Men abohtlho
middla of October, at which time tho diaasetiag
.wjllboopeji.:.'' L ,n: add 9ilmn oS el
ffSEStfct 1
many rradi
“ farti
AngqqtUlSt7
Daanaf tkoJ’aetitjt'
» »*»•*! x'i~, to
o;V
?3i v op-ta
7>R0M AND AJTERTHIS DATE. NO! WORK
BAiPectfallr. ' •* *' :>•
r a laTZ*®®*8»°f *CO.
lomc, Ainl 1«, 1377. : - .
T HE SCHOLASTIC TEAR WILL Ban
first Monday in BoptemW, within*,
qaato corps of experienced tesdtx
An Academy of Muiic will ba opaj
*kat time. If will Be deiigrei £*
tho benefit of ladles who deeire jrn.
arations for teaching or lnxtne&a
>crior to those they can secaroin theorfcn
ools of the co untry. They ean obtain bed.
ing in the college or with Profl Hints, sis rj
be its director. TJ Q( ^ er his instruction the t
pill in the college classes will enjoy maw
advantages which cannot be surpassed atm
place in this country, North or Sooth.
The Art* Department, with Miss FairelilHs
Its head, will continue to merit the attention ci
commendation it has received. Free hand <bn.
ieg, recently introduced and taught to the vufa
school with wonderful success, will beeontinad
1 a regular exercise for onr pupils.
Much earnest attention is given to wrifis|
and compositions.
. The institution, though founded by the tjzi
of Georgia, has not beer nnder ecdesiiidal
control for fourteen years. At all timet tad a
dcr all circnmatMncea its management iui bet
indicated and directed by Christian prindpk*
and jet H never was, it is not now, and it cum
be sectarian. J ^
• The purpose of those who are identified vti
its life and usefulness is to maintain its Ink
character as an educational home, wheretya
wisest methods of instruction and diieip&s
the most healthful and permanently admit
gsotts results, may be produced.
While inferior to no similar initititios, t
is cheaper than any of tho best schools
: . . REV. J. M. M. CALDWELL,
jnnel2,w8m. * * ■ Rome, Gi,
LOW PRICES!
117 £ OFFER the following goods at vary Wt
* ® prices. Money saved by buying of ui:
Ladies* Cloth Shoos,
Gent's Summer Shoes,
Gents* Hand-Made Gaiters,
Intents’ AnXlo Ties, 50cts;
Miles* Cloth Shoes, $2.26.
^^-Shoes ond Boots made to order.
M. F. GOVAN & CO.
2w6m-jnelltwtf 21 Broad St, RomaGa
Cherokee Baptist Female Cote
: : Rome, Gel*
T HE SCHOLASTIC YEAR BEGINS 05
September 3,1S77, and ends June 21,1S73,
Two weeks* vacation at Christmas.
Board and Walking—For 10 scholastic »oith
(40 weeks) $160.00. Boarders required to farnisk
iwUnm? except towols, table-napkini and toDd
soap.
^ Payments—Half m~ September, batsne* it
Fobruaryj jor monthly, if preferred. Ifoaer
boekt, etc., should be left with the President
Tailum, per^month, $2.00, $1.00 or !«•,«►
cording to department entered.
•<i Apply for circular to
. JLD. MALLARY, PreA
Or, JOSH -W. JANES, Sec’y of Board.
ag4,tw-w2m
* NOTICE.
TVtanCE-IS HEREBY GIVER THAI j®
X1 'Advertising pertaining to the office of Siff'
iff! Of Horolaon comity will be done in tie Bon
Coosira doling «mj tern of office, aatow USX.
ia published to the contrary. - . ’
T-i-:* '»"!/-_• ECWlUfnr,Stool.
Buchanan,’ March 29,1377. «
TVTOIICE IS HEREBY GIVER THAI)®
J v Adrertiaidg pertaining to the office «
of H.ralxm county will bo Jon. >A.W
Rohe Oocnm dating my term of offer,
votico fa givon to tho contrary.
,B H BAYRRPORT, Ordiaw*
HaiahonCounty;March23, 1577. u -_
*; • ^;^OT*CdE. : -" Spd
|e advemisirg a '6f* ra? sribiJJ
tola* of toaltor’cohnty will t» Jon* ggj
B< Codbick during my tom ’of oSa$,
no ice is given 1o the contrary. - -—
.JOEL.WITIIES8, Sheriff-
jMtftibzsAifli nuiDir *
r pHEAJ?7'ERTiSING rERTAIHISGTOWj*
A Ordinary*. oGce of Walker eonnty *tj*
after bo duno. in tho Roue Coi-oio*
present term of office, unless notice, i. I***®
tho contrary. MILTON RUSSBlh
loj . Orta«T-
; lapqyotie. Go., Eobrnarr 27. >377.
ATLANTA MEDICAL
' j ’ ' r ATLANTA, GA.
'THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL OOUBSl 0*
1 Lector.! will commence October IKK. ““*
ah* eloao March lit. 1S78. „ . wte-
lActarr-rJ; G. Wortmoreland, W L r -
moralaad, W. A. lore, V. H.
Thai. Jobnron; A. W. Calhoun, J.
Ti Binfcif, Domonatrator of Anatomy, *»
ZT- • jSSfiSato?
ongU.wlm .,.t
m Moot for Boys
-i-iV-.T V . ■
Spring,
FOR. KENT.
office, KnguiroAt.thii office.
Jjosia, August 1.
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