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ea ESTABLISHED IN’ 1843. Iff. DWEHELL, Proprietor. ■/NO, MIX BASS, Associate Editor. Rejected Communications we cannot uniler- i.ce to return unless the postage is sent with : 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. ■»—o 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. twtf