Georgia Historic Newspapers

    PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
The undersigfed have this day
entered into a partnership forthe practice
of law in the town of Elberton under the name
and style of SHANNON & WORLEY.
Will practice wherever emyloyed, and prom
ise prompt attention to all business entrusted to
them.
Thankful for the patronage bestowed upon
them in the past, they ask a continuance of the
same.
JOHN P. SHANNON.
Jan’y 8, 18T6-tf JOSEPH N. WORLEY.
J. S. BARNETT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ELBERTON, GA.
JOHN T. OSBORN,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOE AT LAW,
ELBERTON, GA.
WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS
and Supreme Court. Prompt attention
to the collection of claims. nevl7,ly
L. J. CARTRELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ATLANTA, GA,'
PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES Clß
cuit and District Courts at Atlanta, and
Supreme and Superior Courts of the State.
elberton business cards.
J. A. WREN,
PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST
Has located for a short time at
PR. EDMUNDS’ GALLERY,
ELBERTON. GA.
WHERE ho is prepaied to execute every class
of work in his line to the satisfac
tion of all who bestow their patronage. Confi
dent of his ability to please, he cordially iuvites
a test of his skill, with the guarantee that if he
does not pass a critical inspection it need not be
taken mch24.tf.
' MAKES A SPECIALTY OF
Copying & Enlarging Old Pictures
T. J. BOWMAN & GO-,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
ELBERTON GA.
WILL attend to the business of effecting
sales and purchases of REAL ESTATE
as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS.
Ifejgr Applications should be made to T. J.
BOWMAN. SeplO-tt
LIGHT CARRIAGES & BUGGIES.
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J. F. jATILF
Carriage Wain ufacy r
ELBERTON, GEORGIA.
WITH GOOD WORKMEN!
LOWEST PRICES!
CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO
BUSINESS, AND AN EXPERIENCE
OF 27 YEARS,
He hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete
any other manufactory.
Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O
REPAIRING AND BLACKSMITHING.
Work done in this line in the very best style.
Tlia Best Harness
TERMS CASH.
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J. "(I. Il VIll'JKl.I).
the real live
Fashionable Tailor,
Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store,
ELBERTON, GEORGIA.
gSTCaII and See Him.
THE ELBERTON
DRUG STORE
H. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor.
Has always on band a full line of
Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines
Makes a specialty of
STATIONRY and
PERFUMERY
Anew assortment of
WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES
Plain and fancy, just received, including a sup
ply of LEGAL CAP.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO
of all varieties, constantly on hand.
F. A. F. SOBLETL
mmmii mason,
ELBERTON, GA.
Will contract for work in STONE and BRICK
anywhere in Elbert county [jel6 6m
CENTRAL HOTEL
MRS. W. M THOMAS,
PROPRIETRESS,
AUGUSTA GA
W. H. ROBERTS,
CARPENTER & BUILDER
BLBE&TGN; GA.
I HAVE LOCATED IN ELBERTON WHERE
I will be prepared to do all work in my line
a3 cheap as any good workman can afford. Con
tracts respectfully solicited.
Coffins Made to Order.
THE GAZETTE.
ISTew SeiuLes.
WHAT SHALL I DO FOR A LIVING?
There are multitudes of young men
who are asking to-day, with much solici
tude and anxiety, “What shall I do for
a living ?” We do not think that there
has ever been a time when it was more
difficult to answer this question. Socie
ty is divided into two classes—those who
work and those who do not. The work
ers are again divided into two classes—
those who work with their hands, and
those who work with their brains. The
latter distinction is not as clearly mark
ed as the former, for manual toil is gen
erally supplemented by some activity of
the mind, and mental labor by a certain
amount of bodily exercise. The man
who hammers stone must use his judg
ment in order to strike in the right
place ; and the man who hammers his
brain must use his hands in order to
record his thoughts.
In the choice of a vocation there are
five great mistakes to be avoided. The
firsc is crowding into what are called
“the professions,” or mercantile life, or
some other employment where there is
but little manual labor, on the supposi
tion that this must promise to the young
man a comparatively easy life. There
are none who work harder than some
who are supposed not to work at all.—
An aching brain may be more trying
than a weary arm.
The second mistake into which young
men are liable to fall—aad this is worse
than the first—is that of trying for a
place in some of those branches of busi
ness where there is the possibility of
not making a c.nt. This is simply
“running for lack,” with the prospect of
breaking your neck in the race. The
few, who succeed, every one hears of;
the multitude, who tail, pass out of sight
and are foigotten.
The third mistake is that of rushing
from the country to the large cit es
without any reasonable prospect of find
ing remunerative occupotion. If all the
groans and sighs which come from the
stores and offices where our clerks, and
salesmen, and bookkeepers, congregate,
could be heard through our country
towns and villages, there would not be
the same eagerness to join the crowd
who haunt the city street->.• If there be
a fair chance of your attaining a com
fortable living in an honest way, stay
near home, and build upon a sure foun
dation, even though the structure rise
somewhat slowly. Wherever and how
ever they may begm life, as a general
rule, men will gravitate to their true ltv
el. If it be in you to burst the narrow
bound which at first restrict your steps,
you will be quite certain to do it, soon
er or later.
The fourth mistake to be noticed is
the prevalent notion that to work with
the hands can never be as honorable as
it is to work with the brain. If indeed
a man is nothing but a tool or a part of
a machine, he caimot expect to take an
elevated place in society. But suppose
the hand and the head to work together
as they always will to some extent,
just as soon as you rise out of the le
gion of mere servile toil—how does the
matter stand then ? Here is a practical
farmer, who is also a student of scien
tific agriculture, and brings his knowl
edge to bear upon the improvement of
land, the increase of crops, the perfect
ing of seeds, economy in labor—under
his skillful hand barren wastes are re
deemed, so that the earth will always
be more fruitful because he has lived
and labored, and his culture makis the
human race richer as well as his own
household—could any one ask for more
honorable employment f Here is a
young mechanic, who has learned his
trade thoroughly and well, and starting
in life as a skilled, accomplished work
man, he brings his mind to the watch
ful study of every progress in his work
contriving, experimenting, inventing,
and gradually rising from his inferior
position till he becomes a master work
man, a contractor, the head of a grand
establishment, “saying to this man, go,
and he goeth, and to that man come,
and he cometh,” is that not better and
more honorabla than to be a feeble advo
cate at the bar, v r an impecunious, half
starved member of any other learned
profession ?
And lastly, it is very pad when one
finds that he has chosen a line of life to
which he is not adapted. It works bad
ly, whether the peg is too large or too
small for the hole.
[Saturday Evening Post.
The Griffin News is preaching re
trenchment, and hits our legislators hard
when it says : “There is the mem 1 m l •
the Georgia Legislature gt seven
dollars per day for their services, while
skilled mechanics, the farm hand, and
every other occupation has been reduced
almost one-half, on account of the hard
times. The members of the Legislature
of the State of New York only get four
dollars per day, when the same men
would gladly work for three or four dol
lars. This is all wrong, and the people
should speak out in their public meet
ings, and let their representatives know
that they will nc longer submit quietly
to a wrong that is fast driving them to
ruin and bankruptcy; that they are de
termined these extortionate rates shall
be retrenched at home and abroad.”
Ex-President Jefferson Davis has just
lost a suit for seventy thousand dollars,
in a court at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The
ex-President put in a claim for that
amount against his brother’s estate, but
the court decided against him.
ESTABLISHED 1859.
ELBERTON, GEORGIA, FEB’Y 2. 137U^
HILL AND YANGEY.
Geo. Alfred Townseud, in his Wash
ington letter to the New York Graphic,
describing the exciting debate in the
House on the amnesty bill, between
Blaine, of Maine, and Hill, of Georgia,
states that the latter was “a rebel Sena
tor at the Richmond capital, and struck
Yancey on the back of the head with an
inkstand.” Asa historian—and Mr.
Townsend, we believe, aspires to that
distinction, with the late Mr. Macaulay
as his model—it is well enough to be
accurate. A memorable rencontre did
occur between Hill and Yancey at the
Richmond capital, but the wound receiv
ed by Yancey was not from an inkstand.
We remember that shortly after the war
it was mentioned that Win. L. Yancey
came to his end by violence. The cir
cumstances of his last illness and death,
with the occasion which suddenly con
vulsed a frame from perfect health into
a wreck and mere shadow, were written
and first published in this city by Mr.
Henry Watson, then a member of the
Nashville press. According to the first
published account of it, it was toward
the close of the second session of the
first Confederate Congress that Yancey
broke from the counsels and influence
of Mr. Davis, and become, with Henry
S. Foote, a leader of the opposition.
Mr. Ben. Hill, then Senator from Geor
gia, had likewise changed his front, and
was remarkable for the earnestness, per
sonal interest and persistency with
which he sustained the measures of an
administration to which his allegiance
had been given but late in the day. Mr.
Yancey, it will be remembered, had re
turned from an unsuccessful mission to
Europe, and was representing Alabama in
the Confederate Senate. The question
of a navy was under discussion in secret
session. The debate ranged beyond par
liamentary limits, and Messrs. Yancey
and Hill became animated over the ab
stract doctrines of State Rights and the
divinity of sla\ery. High words passed
and finally the lie was given by Mr. Hill.
leaped forward, and g,s he
aimed a blow at his adversary was
caught in the arms of the latter and vio
lently thrown back over a desk. Mi-
Hill is a man of wonderful muscular de
velopment. Mr. Yancey was never very
heavy, though lithe and active. In the
fall his spine was seriously injured, and
when the bystanders rushed upon the
two, and dragged the one from the oth
er, the great fire eater lay unconscious
upon the floor, with a little trickle of
blood oozing from his lips. He was car
ried to his hotel, a vote of secrecy was
passed, and the ( rencontre hushed up. No
one in Richmond, except that body of
men, knew of the circumstances for six
months after. Meanwhile the victim did
not recover. He drooped from day to
day. He become listless, hopeless and
vacant. He was transferred to his own
home, where his convulsions ceased for
a few weeks before his death, which was
tranquil and calm. He died without a
hope of the success of the Southern Re
public lie had aspired to found aud.gov
ern, and for which he had labored day.
and night for twenty-five years
[Nashville American.
ELECTRICITY INSTEAD OP THE GAL
LOWS.
The Scientific American discusses
hanging as a mode of capital punish
ment, and proposes a substitution of
electricity for the gallows. The light
ning stroke causes the most certain and j
painless death known to science- A
powerful discharge of electricity into I
the body of the condemned from a bat- i
tery and Rumhkorff coil would amount
to the same thing in extinguishing life. j
This is the way in which the Scientific
American would htve executions con
ducted: the battery and coil should be
of sufficient strength to deliver an 18 |
in#h spark. In case of there being more
than one person to execute, all of the j
condemned would be conducted with
all due ceremony to the place of execu
tion, the left hand of one man hand
cuffed to the right hand of his neighbor,
and the conducting wire fastened to j
bracelets on the disengaged wrists of
both criminals, if only two are to be ex
ecuted, or to the two wrists of the outer
men, if only that number are to suffer.
The culprits being seated so as to be
seen by the legal witnesses, the sheriff
presses a button. The current is in
stantly established from the coil, passes
through the bodies of the men, and all
over. The same ignominy which at
taches to the gallows would be transfer
red to this mode of destruction, when
the peculiar death by lightning, which
among the ignorant of all nations and
ages, has been the subject of profound
superstition, would, without doubt,
through its very incomprehensibility and
mystery, imbue the uneducated masses
with deeper horror.
Democratic Convention.— Hon. Au
gustus Schell, of New York, Chairman
the National Democratic Committee,
announces that a meeting of this commit
tee will be held at Willard’s hotel,
Washington city, on Tuesday, the 22d
day of February next, at 12 o’clock, at
which meeting a call will be issued for
holding a National Democratic Con
vention to nominate candidates for
President and Vice President of the
United States.
As weeds grow rankest in richest
ground, and fruits ripest in hottest
climates, so do sins grow to the greatest
height where the Gospel sun climbs
1 highest.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE CP MESMER
ISM IN SCOTLAND.
Much excitement and not a little in
dignation were occasioned in Go van on
Wednesday afternoon by the conduct of
a mesmerist, and there is some talk of a
civil action being raised against him for
injuries inflicted on a respectable young
married man residing in Burndyle street,
who was allowed to lie on the cold,
damp ground on Napier street for about
twenty minutes in a state of mesmerism,
and had to bo conveyed on a barrow to
the police office, and the services of a
medical man obtained before he was
brought to his senses. The mesmerist
gave an entertainment iu the burg on
the previous evening, and the young
man, who is a fitter in one of the ship
building yards, was mesmerized along
with several others, and while in that
state the mesmerist commanded him to
come to the corner of the above street at
a quarter to two o’clock on the follow
ing day and share with him the half of
his dinner. The fitter went to his work
in the morning all right, but just as he
w j as in the act of taking his dinner, he
suddenly left the table carrying a little
jug full of broth, and made bis way
down Govan road in an excited manner
to the place where the “professor” was
to meet him. A large crowd soon col
lected round the poor fellow, who ’was
as if pinned to the wall, holding on te
naciously to his little jug containing
the broth. He eventually slid down up
on the cold ground, however, and lay
there for about twenty minutes. The
police arrived on the scene, and the
man was conveyed to the office on a bar
row. His limbs were by this time per
fectly stiff, and with the exception of a
slight movement of the heart and pulse,
the body showed very little signs of life.
Dr. Barras was sent for, and, after con
siderable difficulty, succeeded in bring
ing the young fellow out of the mes
meric sleep, after his wife and brothers,
who had come to the office had been
greatly alarmed about his condition.—
the man’s health must have suffered
considerably by the exposure, as he
shivered like an aspen leaf on awaken
ing, and had to be taken home in a cab.
[North British Mail.
DEATH OF THE QUEEN’S OHAMPION.
Mr. Henry Lionel Dymoke, of Scriv
elsoy Court, near Horncastle, Lincoln
the Queen’s champion, died on
December 28, at the age of forty two.—
The office of royal champion is a very
ancient one, and has been attached since
1377 to tbs manor of Scrivelsby, then
held by the Marmion family. This man
or came by marriage to the Dymoke
family. The gentleman just deceased
was the nineteenth of his line who had
held the office. The duty of the cham
pion is, at the coronation of the Kings
or Queens of England, when the sove
reign is at dinner, to ride, armed cap-a
pie, into Westminster Hall, and by the
proclamation of a herald make a ckal
lenge that “If any man shall deny the
King’s or Queen’s title to the crown he
is there to defend it in single combat,”
&c, and he throws down his gage.—
This being done, the King drinks to
him, and sends him a guilt cup with a
cover full of wine, which the champion
drinks, and has the cup for his fee. At
the coronation of George IY. the
Rev. John Dymoke, prebendery of
Lincoln and rector of Scrivelsby, the
champion, being prevented by his cler
ical office from performing service, had
to act by deputy, and he therefore ap
pointed his son, the late Sir Henry Dy
moke, Bart., who fulfilled the duty,
which he likewise did in his own right
at the coronation of William IY. and
Queen Victoria. The office is not he
reditary in the Dymoke family, but is
attached to the lord of the manor of
Scrivelsby, which is held by the ancient
tenure known as grand serjeantry—i. e.,
where one holds lands of the King by
service which he has to perform in per
son, the service by which Scrivelsby is
held being “that the lord thereof shall
be the King’s champion.”
A fellow out in California, of an in
genious turn of mind, has discovered
anew way of employing steam as mo
tive power of street cars. He has labor
ed hard for two years to devise a loco
motive which would not frighten horses,
and he thinks he has fully accomplished
his purpose. The new steam horse as
he calls it, resembles the ordinary style
of animal, so far as the head and shoul
ders are concerned. It has no legs, for
which are substituted wheels, just visi
ble at the foot of an iron petticoat.—
Where the hind quarters of the animal
should be located, the inventor has plac
a cab. The steam horse is supplied
with a cow catcher, headlight and bell.
How this hideous machine is to succeed
in rolling along a car track without
frightening carriage and truck horses is
beyond our comprehension. While apart
of it resembles a horse, the larger por
tion looks like something of a grotesque
character. We are inclined to think
that while the California man has suc
ceeded in inventing anew steam ma
chine, he cannot justly apply the term
of steam horse to it, but must consider
it as belonging to the “what is it” class
of machines.
"Rarely have two better appointments
been made than that of Mr. Peeples to
the Bench of the Atlanta Circuit, and
that of Hon. Richard H. Clark to the
Atlanta City Court Judgeship. South
appointments reflect credit upon the
Exeutive making them-
Vol. IV.-ZSTo. 40.
The Canton Georgian approvingly
mentions Dr. Haygood’s articles on good
roads, and adds:
Good roads are a convenience and a
blessing to any country, and every man,
woman, child, mule, ox and horse in the
land will owe a debt of gratitude to the
man who shall propose, introduce, and
have passed in the present legislature, a
bill which shall cause the State couvicts
to be put to work on our public roads,
under skillful overseers, and kept thus
employed until our highways shall be
made as broad, as smooth, and as level
as is necessary. What a vast amount of
time, money, and worry might be thus
saved to all the people; and what a
comfort it would be, when we start to
market, to town, or anywhere else, to
have a good smooth road to travel on.
Atlanta being the capital of the State,
an l the great center of trade for our
people, the principal roads leading
thereto should first receive attention,
and then the roads leading to the differ
ent county towns and market places
should be put in good order. A road
reform is a necessity, and who can esti
mate the great advantages which would
result to the country if it could be
brought about ? It would stimulate the
people to greater industry in producing
the necessaries of life, it would encour
age immigration, enhance the value of
lands, and be productive of more good
to the whole country than anything that
could bo done for it. We ask the So
lons and Lycurguses of the Georgia leg
islature to give this subject special at
tention, and if they will adopt measures
to accomplish the end desired they will
be entitled to the thanks of all the peo
ple.
The following was a part of a young
attorney’s peroration on an argument of
demurrer in a court recently:
May it please your honor, this is a
stupendous question. Its decision by
you this day will live in judicial history
long after you and I have passed from
this scene of earthly glory and subluna
ry vanity ; when the tower of Pisa shall
be forgotten ; when Waterloo and Boro
dino shall grow dim in the distant cy
cles of receding centuries ; when the
name of Eugene, Marlborough and Na
poleon are no longer remembered ; when
the Pyramids of the Pharaohs shall. Lave
crumbled into dust; when the hippopot
amus shall cease to inhabit its native
Nile ; even then your ruling upon this
demurrer will still survive in the vol
ame of legal lore, as fresh, green and
imperishable as an antique big Thomp
son grasshopper or a Colorada pototo
bug.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
Mr. Editor ; In a recent issue of your
journal, we observed an editorial stating
that mmors unfavorable to the condition
of tne University of Georgia, especially
with reference to its discipline, had
reached you-
We beg leave to say that nothing has
occurred in the present collegiate year,
which is at all unusual in the history
of colleges. ludeed, the conduct of the
young men has been so exemplary that
no case of discipline has been necessary.
We write you this in the confidence
that you would not intentionally do in
justice to the University.
By order and in behalf of the Pruden
tial Committee.
Wm. L. Mitchell, Chairman,
Athens, Ga.
[Watchman.
An Irish Monster. —An extraordinary
monster was seen a few days ago at Fo
dera, near Loophead Lighthouse, which
is situated on the most western part of
the County Clare, in Ireland. It is thus
described: Its head and neck resemble
a horse, and are of a reddish hue; it lias
short, ro.nd ears and flowing mane, and
from the poll extend two branching horns
like that of a stag, underneath which
were eyes glacing and protruding. It
made directly for the narrator, who was
on the side of the steep rock. He at
once ran out of reach of the monster,
whose approach looked anything but
friendly. It then rose high out of the
water and plunged with such force as to
cause tlie water to fly so far and in such
quantities as to drench the observer to
the skin, he standing forty feet back
from the water at the time. It remained
near thirty or forty minutes, never dis
appearing a moment from view, but rear
ing its huge body partly out of the water
and giving a chance for further observa
tion. It was observed to have the toil of
a porpoise and two large fins from the
shoulders, and on the breast were two
largo fatty lumps, which shook with
every motion of the body. It then
shaped its course westward, still keep
ing its head and neck well elevated.
Its bulk far exceeded that of the largest
porpoise ever seen on the coast-
♦
Thomas Simmons and wife, residing
near Jemison, Chilton county, have
twenty four children buried in one
graveyard. This aged and childless
couple live by themselves and do their
own work.
“Andcanst thou always love thus, Al
fred ?” she murmered, “even when age
has crept on me and left his traces here?”
There was a pause on his part but ’twas
only momentary, when he replied, in a
toue of deep remonstrance, “Can a duck
swim ?”
A whaling expedition—Robbing an or
chard and getting caught at it.
ONLY GOOD FARMING IS PROFITABLE.
The best way is to look facts square
ly in the face. This is one of them.
Poor farming docs not “pay.” "We
cannot isolate ourselves, if we would.
We work in competion with the world.
Rude, antiquated methods, mere plod
ding, unskilled labor, worn out, unfer
tilized soils will servo us against
science,) skill, labor saving implements
and heavy manuring. On fertile,
virgin soils the old, rude, wasteful
system iray, for a while, give the
farmer a liviug by robbing posterity
but in all the older parts of the coun
try we have got beyond.that. If wo
cannot manure our lands, adopt thd
best and most economic methods of
working them, train and skillfully di
rect our labor and use, wherever
practicable, improved labor saving
implements, we shall go under in “the
struggle of life.” Five bushels of
corn to the acre, or ono fonrth or oue
third of a bale of cotton is not a re
munerative crop, at any price for our
products that we are likely to get. If
we cannot do bettor we may as well
“lay clown the shovel and the hoe” at
once. It is the same elsewhere. In
New England, in New York, in Penn
sylvania, and even in the great fertile
West, there is the same complaint—•
“farming don’t pay.” But good farm
ing does “pay” there, and it “pays”
still better here. Make a bale of cot
ton to the acre—a great deal better
than that can be done, and from
twenty to forty bushels of coni—
which is setting the figures very low,
again,—and other crops in proportion
and farming will no lo.iger beunre
muncrative.— [Rural Carolinian.
Man and Monkey. —The London Echo
of January 4 says: “The wonderful re
semblance of so-Tie of the larger apes to
human creatures is especially remarkable
when they aro suffering from illness, or
from what, so great is intelligence,
we must acknowledge to bo borrow. Au
ape of no common merit having lately
died in the zeological gardens at Dresden,
an account has been published of its last
moments, which gives an extraorindary
idea of the almost human dignity and
pathos of its behavior on the occasion.
A few weeks of the destroying malady,
says a sorrowing friend, had been suffi
cient to change this being, so full of life,
strength, courage—this magnificent pro
totype of all quadrumana—into a specta
cle of misery. The most complete
apathy had taken the place of exuberant
freshness and vivacity. Mafuka, as this
interesting creature was called, appeared
to suffer under a dim consciousness that
she could expect no relief, but only the
alleviation of her pains, from those about
her. This state of things lasted till
within a few hours of her death. Then,
as Director Schopf, (the director of the
gardens,) leaned over his favorite, the
ape drew him toward her, placed her arm
around the neck of her kind friend, and
looked at him for some time with clear
and tranquil eyes ; she theu kissed him
three times, with short intervals between
each salute, motioned to be laid upon her
couch, gave her hand to Schopf—as
though bidding farewell to a companion
of many happy years—and slept never to
wake again. Thus died the quasi-human
Mafuka, fortified not indeed by “the rites
of the church,’’“but by those common to
the wider brotherhood of trusting and
affectionate hearts.”
DEFINITIONS OF BIBLE TERMS.
A day’s journey is about twenty-threo
and one-fifth miles.
A Sabbath day’s journey was about
an English mile.
Ezekiel's reed was nearly eleven feet
A cubit was nearly twenty-two inches.
A hand’s breadth is equal to three and
five-eights inches.
A finger’s breadth is equal to ono
inch.
A shekel of silver was about fifty
cents.
A shekel of gold was SB.OO.
A talent of silver was $538,32.
A talent of gold was $13,809.
A piece of silver, or penny, was thir
teen cents.
A farthing was lliree cents.
A mite was less than a quarter of a
cent.
A gerah was one cent.
An opah, or bath, contains sevon gal
lons and five pints.
A bin was one gallon and two pints,
A firkin was seven pints.
An omer six pints.
A cab was three pints.
It is a Colorado girl who is speaking
in the Laramie Sun to her bashful lover:
‘Nobby, you’ve bin foolin’ ’round this
claim for mighty nigh a year, an’ havo
never yit shot oft' yer mouth on tho mar
ryin’ biz. I’ve cottoned to yer on the
square clean through, an’ hev stood off
every other galoot that has tried to chip
in i an’ now I want yer to come down to
business or leave the ranch. If yer on
the marry, an’ want a pard that’ll stick
rite to ye till ye pass in yer checks, an’
the good Lord calls ye over the range,
just squeal and tve’ll hitch ; but ef that
aint yer game draw out an’ give some
other feller a show for his pile. Now,
sing yer song or skip out.” You bet he
sang.
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The Cost of Our Generals.— Tho
General, Lieutenant General and threo
Major Generals of tho United States
army cost tho country over $200,000 a
year. The aggregate, as shown by tho
Army Register, is as follows: Three
Major Generals, $28,416 ; nine Captains
A. D. C., $30,024; add rent of head
quarters, Clerks, orderlies, fuel, station
ery, etc., 830,000; total cost of three
Major Generals, 888,440; total cost of
one Genera!, 870,000; total cost of one
Lieutenant General, $42,791. Total,
s2ol,23l.—[Cincinnati Commercial.
There is a kind of grim humor in tho
address of a devout deacon to his newly
settled pastor, as he gave him the
usual welcome: “The Lord keep you
humble, and wo will keep you poor,"