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f-PROFESSIONAL CARDS. it?hTjoses^ ATTORNEY AT LAW, HLBER79N, Gft. Special attention to the collection of claims, [ly SHANNON & WORLEY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ELBERTOX, GA. W r ILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OP the Northern Circuitand Franklin county attention given to collections. J. S. HARNETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBBRTOBf, GA. JOHN T. OSBORN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, ELBEKTON, GA. TT7 IEL PRACTICE'IN SUPERIOR COURTS V V and Supreme Court. Prompt attention to the collection of claims. nevl7,ly A. E- HUNTER, M. I). PRACTICING PHYSICIAN Office over the Drug St^re, ELBERTON, GEORGIA. WILL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL cases. [Aug22,6m EEBERTON BUSINESS CARRS. uafiYcAßßiAOES&rmfirts. J. F. AULD Carriage TOanufact-r Elj IIE RTO N, GEO 31 G l A. WITH GOOD WORKMAN! LOWEST I'll ICES! CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE OF 27 YEARS, lie hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete any other manufactory. Good Buggies, warranted, - $125 to $l6O R EPAIRING AND RLACKSMITIIINO Work done in this line in t very best style. The Best Harness TERMS CASH. fc y22-lv “ J. M. BARFIELD, THE REAE LIVE Fashionable Tailor, Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store, ELDGRrON, GEORGIA. s€rCall and See Him. T. M. SWIFT. 3. K. SWIFT. TIIOS. M. SWIFT & CO., ceiiul ilicosm At the old stand of Swift & Arnold, HLBERTGK, GA. RESPECTFTLLY SOLICIT A CONTINU ance of the patronage hitherto awarded lie hous , promising every effort on their part to merit th* same. jan.s THE ELBERTON DRUG STROE H. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor. Has always on hand a full line of Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines Makes a specialty of STATIONERY An PERFUMERY Anew assortment of WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES' Tlain and fdney just received, including a sup ply of LEGAL CAP. CI GA R SAN I) T O BAG C O of all varieties, constantly on hand. NEW STORE! NEW GOODS! I. G. SWIFT. Will keep on hand FLOUR, MEAT, LARD. SUGAR, COF FEE, HAMS, CHEESE, CAN NED GOODS, &c.&c. And other articles usually kept in a first-class Provision Store, which will he sold Cheap for CASH and Cash Only. F. W. JACOBS, HOUSE S SIGH PAINTER Glazier and Grainer, ELBERTON, GA. Orders Solicited. Satisfaction Guaranteed CENTRAL HOTEL MRS. W. M THOMAS, PROPRIETRESS, AUGUSTA GA SEND 25c. to G P. ROWELL & CO., New York for Pamphlet of 100 pages, containing lists of 3,000 newspapers and estimates showing cost of advertising. ly THE GAZETTE. jNTew Series. For The Gazette.] EXAMINATION OF 00L0EED SCHOOL. In compliance with an invitation, some ten or twelve (white) gentlemen attended an-examina tion of the colored school at Bethel Grove, on Saturday, 21st instant. W. W. Morrison, principal teacher, has been a student in the Clarke University at Atlanta, and appears to be a modest, unassuming, polite gentleman, and he certainly has displayed an aptitude to teach and to control a school truly noticeable and praise worthy, especially when we consider the rough ness of the material upon which he has had to exert his powers and the palpable improvement and polish manifest. We confess to some misgivings—the thought of humbuggery, of farce, and of sham, annoyed us a good deal ; but like the traveler who many years ago found a stocking loom in operation in a mountain gulch in northern Georgia—we were surprised. The examination was opened w ith singing and prayer, and we were favored with songs as well as with music on the drum and fife at con venient intervals during the day. The negroes, like the birds of the air, were made to sing, and like the birds they sing with the untutored voice of nature —and they sing sweetly. The school numbers some fifty scholars, of both sexes, ranging from very small boys and girls to those who are nearly or quite grown. The classes were well arranged, and not to go into tedious and useless detail, we will say lst —the class in spelling spelled every word given them to spell by the teacher—every ques tion asked was correct'y answered. The class in arithmetic worked readily every sum on their slates and on the black-board, ani reported the answers, with a single exception, and he missed by an error in a single figure. The class in* geography answered every question, and in K-ig lith grammar the same result was reached. The reading class read well, and the definitions of all the important words in the chapters read promptly and correctly given, as well as all the punctuation marks or points. After the examination of the classes, we were regaled with a sumptuous dinner, spread on ta bles and on cloths spread on the ground in the beautiful grove. We had turkey and chicken, roast pig and lamb, cakes and pies in abundance, and without fear of successful contradiction, we record the fact that “we did eat and were filled.” Alter dinner we were entertained with at least fifty speeches. They were delivered fluently and rapidly. The speakers for the most part knew their speeches well, and they seemed to have nothing to do bat to open their mouths and out they caute, some weie more deliberate, enun ciated well—more distinctly—these spoke well. I noted one thing in the speakers, they never break down, they will not stop if they forget, and get bothered, they supply out of their own resources or skip to where they do know, and on they go. We white folks get choked and re tire from the stAge. But the negro, like the mur dered ghost of Banquo,“wont down,” lie goes on and goes through. Take the examination all in all, it was cer tainly a success The negro can learn, he can be educated, he lias a mind susceptible of en largement, expansion and of improvement. Dr. Langston who was present made some congratulatory remarks that were encouraging and truthful, and were well received by the large assemblage. Every right feeling man in the country wishes the.negro success in every wor thy eiiterprize and effort. Let him prosper. It ill befits your correspondent to be otherwise than the negro’s friend. In the years gone by be bore the heat and burden of the day tor my benefit, he withstood the willing heat of the summer solstice as well as the chilly blasts of winter for my comfort. I have enjoyed the usufruct of his labor tor more than sixty years. I repeat, let him prosper—let him emerge from the long night of mental inanity, of imponder able uihilit’ to a position in the body politic where lie may he weighed and felt. Let him buckle on the armor of manhood, and let him prove to the world that freedom is not a disaster to him, nor to the country in which he lives. Education will make him a better citizen, a better laborer, a better mechanic and a better man ; it will qualify him to fill any and all of the departments of valuable life. Education in its tendencies makes us modest and distrustful of our abilities. The more we know, the more visi ble becomes the surrounding sphere of darkness, the more we know, we discover more certainly how much remains unknown, and the more we learn, the more we discover how much is still unlearned ; hence education has a tendency to make us humble, docile and tractable In a late interview between Gen. Gordon and the correspondent of the New York Herald, the General truthfully said, that in his late tour of political speech making in South Carolina, that he discovered the fact that ail the most intelli gent negroes in that State had allied themselves w : th the Democratic party. This :s the result of education, of intelligence —the negro is enabled thereby to reason, to think for himself, and cannot be twisted about like a nose of wax, by carpet-baggers and seal awags. Mr. Editor. I am glad that I attended the ex amination —I am glad that my eyes are open. “I no longer see men as trees walking.” We believe W. \V Morrison to be a good teacher, tut honorable, upright man, and deserves the confidence of the public; and is entitled Cos his pro rata share of the funds appropriated by the government for educational purposes. Cuftos. * jp, * OLD MAN. Bow. low the bead, boy ; do reverence to tbe old man, as be passes slowly along. Once like you, the vicissitudes of life have silvered tbe hair and chang ed the round face to tbe worn visage be fore you. Once that heart beat with aspirations co-equal to any you have felt; aspirations crushed by disappoint ment, as yours are perbads destined to be. Once that form stalked proudly through tbe gay scenes of pleasure the beau ideal of grace ; now the hand of Time, that withers the flower of yester day, has warped that figure and destroy tliat noble carriage. Once, at your age, he had the thousand thoughts that pass through your brain—now wishing to accomplish something worthy of a nook in fame ; anon imagining life a dream j that the sooner he woke from the better. \ But he has lived the dream very near ! through. The time to awake is very ! near at hand; yet his eye ever kindles |at old deeds of daring, and his hand ; takes a firmer grasp of the staff Bow j low the head, boy, as you would in your 1 old age be reverenced. ESTABLISHED 1859. ELBERTOX, GA,, XOY’R 1,1876. A GRANGER AT THE CENTENNIAL. Many strangers at the centennial are not yet aware that they can’t get out even for a moment, and get back on tbe same entrance fee. I saw an old man, evidently a granger try it the other clay. He says to the man who kept the gate : “1 want to go out for a minute. You will know me when I come back, won’t you ?” “Gateman—Yes, I’ll know you by a fifty cent stamp. Granger—What did you say! Ain’t the money that I paid you good for all day f Gateman—Yes, it’s good for all day, if you stay in all day. Granger— But you see I want a bite of somethin’ teat. It'll cost me fifty cents in here. Gateman—That’s the rule, old man, and you’ll have to stand it. But Id tell you what you can do. You can go down by them pailiags, and there’s some boys outside will give you a sandwich for 20 cents. I followed the old gentleman down by the pailings to witness his investment. Sure enough he found an auburn-haired boy with sandwiches, and taking one through the slats, passed out fifty cents. Then he held his hand through for his change “This is 1870,” says the brick top Arab. Granger—Well I guess 1 knowed that before. Gim my charge. Arab—This is centennial year. Granger (snapping his fingers nerv ously through the crack)—Here, boy ! I don't wan’t no foolin’. Gim my money right away. Arab—Don't you know this is centen nial year? Granger—You cussed, infernal, red headed, low-lived brat of Satan, if you don’t hurry and gim me thirty cents I’ll come out there and get a policeman hold of you. Arab—Now, mister, that wouldn’t be business You wouldn’t come out here and pay fifty cents to get back—just for thirty cents—and if you were to do it for spile where’d I be when you got out ? You see, my old friend, tins is centen nial year. Have to make our jack this year. Now you go along nice and qui et and it’ll be all the same next centen nial. Finale—Arab performs a short war dance and yells: “Run here, run here, Jimmy ! I've done it to another one of ’em !” Granger walks off, rubbing his both ered brow, ana muttering : “Well, I’ll be eternally dig blasted in tew gourdseecl if this ain’t the skippinist place I ever struck.” [New Y'ork Clipper. A TEXAS COURT SCENE. Baltimore American.] Waco. Texas, Sept. 11. —The court was in session ; the presiding judge occupied the chair of slate with all the becoming dignity ; the pris oner at the bar, arraigned for alledged cruelty to animals, sat with bowed head w hile the pros ecuting attorney hurled his thunderbolts, and gave to the case and tbe prisoner tbe darkest coloring. The jury nodded until the speaker commenced berating the council fur detente— using expression not over complimentary, and then ihe six pricked up their ears and listened. The counsel for the defence reminded the speaker that he was not in the habit of receiv ing such high compliments in open court. But the prosecutor, not noticing the interruption, continued to send his shalts of sarcasm and abuse with a liberal hand. A table stood be tween these two loving disciples of Kent, and the much abused counsel mounting it, began to lay bis cane about the broad shoulders of the speaker with a touch which showed how much he was in earnest. “Lay on, Mac,” cried a voice from the crowd, “Whatsoever thy bands find to do, do is with all thy might,” shouted another. The belabored ntternc-y seizing a chair hurled it at bis opponent, but it missed its mark and went crashing against the wall opposite. The cries of the judge on the bench for “Order! order!” were drowned in the confussiou. “Arrest the combatants,” cried the judicial functuary. One of the attendant officers started for the hero of the cane, but hadn’t quite reach ed hint when a friend of the lawyer knocked the officer down, The judge, seeing the turn ot af fairs, descended from his lofty seat, and, taking a six-shooter from the floored officer, said that he would restore order to the court, at the same time waving the deadly weapon over his head. The crowd knew’ the judge too well to doubt for one moment that he meant what lie said, and stood not upon the order of their going, but went at once. When the < loads (created by the pass ige of musty law books, &c., through the air durihg the conflict) began to clear up, and somewhat of the dignity of the court was re stored, the judge said th t he regretted such a thing should happen in a Texas court, and re gretted it the more that his court should be the scene of -ncli a disgraceful affair, that in the future when lawyers could not control their tempers in the court he would give them an op portunity to repair to a more suitable field, where they might satiate their thirst for blood. The attorneys were fined twenty-five dollars, each, and the gentleman who floored the officer was called on to pay SIOO as bis share in the entertainment. The bank of England covers five acres of ground, and employs nine hundred clerks. There are no windows on the street. Light is admitted through open courts ; no mob could take tbe bank, therefore, without cannons to batter the immense walls. The clock in the center of the bank has dials attached to it. Large cisterns are sunk in the court, and engines in perfect order are always ready in case of fire. The bank was incorpora ted in 1691. Capital ninety million dol lars. “How [sweet but how bald for one so young!” is what a young lady re marked about an infant. THE DEMON OF DRINK. The following is an extract from one | of the lectures of J. J. Talbott, who died ; lately at Elkhart, Ind., from the effects | of a drunken debauch: But now’ the struggle is over, I can j survey the field and measure the losses, i I had position high and hely. The de | mon tore from around me the robes of |my sacred office and sent me forth | churchless and Godless, a very hissing : and byword amoug men. Afterward I i had business large and lucrative, and my j voice in all large courts was heard plead ing for justice, mercy and the right. But the dust gathered on my open books, and no footfall crossed the the threshold of the drunkard’s office. I had moneys ample for all necessities, but they took wings and went to feed the coffers of the devils which possessed me. J had a home adorned with all that wealth and the most.exquisite taste could suggest. The devil crossed its threshold and the light faded from its chambers ; the fire went out on the holiest of alters, and leading me through its portals, despair walked forth with her, and sorrow and anguish lingered within. I had children, beautiful, to me at least, as a dream of the morning, and they had so entwined themselves around their father’s heart that no matter where it might wander, ever it came back to them on the bright wings of father’s undying love. His de stroyer took their hands in his and led them away. I laid a wife whose charms of mind and person were such that to see her was to remember, and to know her was to love. * * * For thirteen years we wa’lced the rugged path of life together, rejoicing in its sunshine and sorrowing in its shade. "This infernal monster couldn’t spare me even this. I had a mother who for long, long years had not left her chair, a victim of suffer ing and disease, and her choicest delight was, in the reflection that the lesson which she had taught at her knee had taken root in the heart of her youngest born, and that he was useful to his fel lows and an honor to her who bore him. But the thunderbolt reached even there, and there it did its most cruel work. Other days may cure all but this. Ah ! m<is; never a word of reproach from her lips; only tender caresses; onlyashadow (of a great unspoken grief gathering over the dear old face ; only a trembling hand laid more lovingly on my head; only a closer clinging to the cross ; only a pite ous appeal to Heaven if- her cup at last were not full. And while her boy raved in his wild delirium two thousand miles away, the pitying angels pushed the golden gates ajar and the mother of the drunkard entered into rest. And thus I'stand : a clergyman with out cure; a barrister without brief or business; a father without a child ; a husband without a wife; a son without a parent; a man with scarcely a friend ; a soul without hope—all swallowed up in the maelstrom of drink. NEWSPAPERS AT**THE CENTENNIAL. The Special Correspondent of the London Times says it would be difficult to find an apter illustration of the big way in which the Ameri cans do things than that furnished by the‘-Cen tennial Newspaper building,” in the Exhibition grounds. Here you may see any one, or, if you like, all of the 8,129 rewspapers published regu larly in the United States, and see them, one and all. for nothing! You are not only permitted as a favor to see them, but invited, nay, pressed, to confer the favor ot entering the building and calling for what paper you likp. It is about as coo! and agreeable a place—quite apart from its iitterary attractions—as a visitor to the Exhibi tion could wish to he offered a chair in. He may at first wonder how, among 8,000 papers, among themsueh mighty sheets as theNcw York Herald, he is to get at the small, loved print of his home, i thousands of miles away, it may be, over the Rocky Mountains. But the management is so simple that, by consulting the catalogue, or even without the aid of the catalogue, and one can at once find whatever paper he wants. They are pigeon-holed on shelves in the alphabetical order of their State or Territories and their towns, the names of which are clearly labelled on the shelves. The proprietors of the Centen nial Newspaper Building are advertising agents, the largest in all Ametica—Messrs. G. P. Rowell & Cos., of New York. Their enterprise will cost altogether about $20,000, or £4,000, including the building and the expenses of “running” it for six months. The 8,000 and odd American newspapers are declared by the same authoiity, to exceed “the combined issues of all other na tion of the earth.” A EASTIDIOUSWIFE HUNTER. A man entered the Chicago Tribune office and left the following advertise ment : Personal.— The advertiser desires to make the acquaintance of a lady of re finement and good looks, 5 feet iuch es high, and weighing about 136 pounds; bust measure, 39 inchesj; waist measure, 28£ inches; size of boot glove, s£; complexion, pronounced bru nette, deep hazel eyes, with a view to matrimony. Address W., 1,708 Tribune office. “Seems to me you are mighty partic ular about the size and kind of the wife you want,” observed the advertis ing clerk. “Well, perhaps I am, but you see my wife died before we bad been married long ; and she hadn’t begun to wear out her clothes, and her father gave her an awful sight of ’em, so it seems to me kinder like flying in the face of Provi dence when silk and things are so dear and the country laboring in the throes of financial convulsion to take another mate, and let the moths break through, and rust and corrupt all them duds.— So I just want a wife to match them things.” Vol. V.-ISTo. 27. TEE BABY'S BED. The baby should never be allowed in bed between its parents. Several good objections must occur to every one; 1 need not name but one. It must, when thus placed, constantly inhale the pois onous emanations from the bodies of the adults. It should sleep in a crib by the side of its mother’s bed. The best at all season of the year is one of oat straw. The straw should be changed, and the tick (washed as often as once .in two weeks. This gives little trouble, and in volves little or no expense, while the perfect cleanliness and sweetness con tribute not a little to the baby's health. During the cold season a woolen blanket should be spread over the straw bed to increase the warmth. For covering the little sleeper woolen blankets should be used, and all the blankets should be fre quently washed. Does he kick up the bed-clothes? Then fasten them on the side of the crib with little tapes or little knobs. The little chap may then kick ever so obstinately, he can’t uncover himself The pillows should be straw. I for got to speak of this in connection with the bed. The proximate if not the orig inal cause of a large proportion of deaths among American babies is some malady of the brain, when we suppose tim death to result from dysentery or cholera in fantum. The immediate cause of death is an affection of the brain supervening upon the bowel disease. The heads of American babies are, for the most part, little furnaces. What mischief must come from keeping them buried twenty hours of every t'venty-four in feather pillows ! It makes me shiver to think of the number of deaths among these pre cious little ones which I have myself seen, where I had no doubt that cool straw pillows would have saved them. The hair pillow is inferior to straw, because it cannot, like straw, be made perfectly clean and fresh by a frequent change. Do not fail to keep their little heads cool.—[Dio Lewis. HONEST FOR*A PURPOSE. One day about three weeks ago a strange customer came into a Gratiot avenue grocer. He wanted some goods, and lie paid the cash down. The next day lie made another purchase and paid cash, and as the days went by his face and cash seemed familiar. One day he returned with the change given him and said . “I believe lam an honest man. Yes terday you paid me twenty cents too much.” The grocer received it and was much pleased. Two days after that the stranger returned from the curbstone to say: “Another mistake on your part; you overpaid me by forty cents.” 'The grocer was glad to have found an honest man, and puzzled to know how he should have counted so far out of the way. Three days more and the strang er picked up a dollar bill in the store and said : “This is not my dollar. I found it on the floor, and you must take charge of it.” The grocer’s heart melted, and he wondered if the world was not progress ing backwards to old-time honesty. A skip of one day, and then the honest man brought down a wheelbarrow, or dered eighteen dollars’ worth of grocer ies, and would have paid cash had he not forgotten his pocket-book. He would Land it in at noon as he went past the store, he said, and it was all right with tbe grocer. That was the last of the honest man ; morning fades to noon, and noon melts away into darkness, but he comctb not. There is|no morejmistakes’in change • —no more dollar bills on the floor, and the grocer’s eyes wear a way off ex pression as if yearning to see someone about two minutes and a half. [Fret Press. EASHIOIT NOTES. Hats of every kind are to ho worn off the forehead. Fancy feathers are to take the place of ostrich plumes. Velvet bonnets will take place of felt ones this winter. Turbans will be the fashionable round hat this season. Greenish tinted cream is the new shade of this popular color. Colored beads in thick cable cords are shown for hat trimmings. Undressed kid gloves of very dark shades are now the go. Parisian ladies are wearing low, loose coiffures held in nets of wide silk braid. E 077 THOUGHTFUL. He was three and twenty and she was two dr three years younger, and they had been married only two or three days. They were standing at tfie coiner of Broadway and Canal street, New York, waiting for a car to Central Park, when, all of a sudden, the bride laid her hand on his arm and whispered: “Darling, s’posen you should get killed and I should be left in this great city all alone!” “Never thought of it before,” he re plied, backing away from the curbstone a little. Then, pulling a long, red wal let out of his hind pocket, he counted out four ten-cent shinplasters and hand ed them over with the remark : . “You are right. In the midst of life we are in death, and you might as well be prepared in case anything happens to me.” GOOD LIVING AND DYSPEPSIA. Good living is said to cause dyspepsia; but the most healthy people we have ever known have been among those who lived well—who ate freely several times a day of the most nutritous food. By some it is said that tobacco, snuff, tea, coffee, butter, and even bread cause this com plaint; but whoever will make inquiries on the subject throughout the community will find that this is seldom true In fact dyspepsia prevails, according to my ex perience, altogether the most among the temperate and careful—among those who are careful as regards what they eat and drink, and the labor they put upon the stomach, but exceedingly careless how much labor they put upon that most delicate organ, the brain. Such people often eat nothing but by the advice of the doctor, or some treatise on dyspepsia, or by weight; nor drink anything that is not certainly harmless; [they chew every mouthful until they are confident, on mature reflection, that it cannot hurt the stomach. Why, then are they dys peptics? Because, with all their care fulness, they pay no attention to the ex ciment of the brain. They continue to write two or three sermons or essays every week, besides reading a volume or two, with magazines, reviews, newspa pers and etc., and attending to much other business calculated to oxcite the mind. It is not strange that such per se,ns have nervous and stomach affections, the constant excitement of the brain sends an excess of blood to the head, and therefore other organs are weakened, and morbid sensibility is produced, which renders the stomach liable to de rangement from very slight causes. THAT OAR WINDOW. It requires six men, according to the San Francisco News Letter, to put up a car window. A young lady gels in, and having humped around in her seat for about live minutes, she turns and re quests the gentleman just behind her to perform that service. This is a near sighted individual, who peers around the window frame some time for the catch, and then—of course the window sticks— jerks his linger half off and sits down witn a red face, amid the giggling of the schoolgirls opposite. Next, the man in the front seat puts his lavender colored knee on a paper of cherries beside him, clutches and yanks at the knob, and fin ally falls over into the young lady’s lap. The cause of all this misery now remarks that “it doesn't matter,” and then smiles sweetly at a pale young man with long hair. This martyr turns white, rises, and buttons up his coat for tho death struggle. On the eleventh pull he bursts a blood vessel somewhere, and goes into the toilet compartment to bleed. A simple minded mechanic'now comes for ward with his tool bag, from which ho takes a crowbar. Just when he is about to use this tho conductor happens by, and slides tho window airly up with a gentle twist of the wrist. — A Man’s Age —ln Monroe county, Ohio, some Republicans started a report that Tilden is 77 years old, and tho la dies stopped working for him. One of the leading Democrats of tho county wrote to the World about it, and that paper replies : “We beg to remind our friends in Ohio that there is no rumor a Radical will not circulate about Mr. Til den. The only economy the Radicals have ever learned to practice is economy of tho truth. Gov. Tilden is neither 77 nor 67 years old. Ho was born March 16, 1814, and he will therefore be inau gurated as President of tho United States before reaching his grand climateric. Ho comes of a stout old stock of the yeomen of Kent, and is younger in fact and in costitution at 62 than President Grant, who, by tho calender, is ten years his juniour. He is a bachelor, but so was Senator Christiancy when he went to Washington, and he is a great favorite with the young ladies and children. If the ladies of Monroe county are as bril liant as they are beautiful, they will go to work like one woman to electioneer for ‘Tilden and a wedding in tho White House !’ ” Plain oit Otherwise.— -Old Middlerib came home the other night and ordered a light lunch before going to bed. “Just a mouthful of tea and a bit of bread,” he explained. “Do you want just plain bread ?” asked Mrs. Middlerib, with re ference to the presence or absence of butter. And the old reprobate said ho would take one piece plain and the other with a looped overskirt, shirred down the gores with tho same, and hold in place with knife pleating of grape jelly. Ho got the heel of the loaf. [Burlington Hawk Eye. “I always did love to gave on tho children in their sports,” said Potter, as he pensively coutemplated a crowd of urchins; “I am carried back to”—-just then the baseball came over his way and tried to get into his vest pocket and double him up. When his breath came back he shouted: “You young ragmuffln, you, if I catch you playing ball on the street again 111 get the police after you-” The New York Herald, far from being frightened at a “solid South," favors it implicitly. It says : “That the South is to-day a unit, or very nearly so, for the Democratic party is the fault of Republi can mismanagement at Washington. Ev ery man, no matter whether he is Dem ocratic or Republican, who desires to see the Southern States honestly ruled, must wish that they shall be carried this fall by the Democrats.” This not only an exciting but a very interesting political campaign. Women as well as men have a duty to perform to their country, and they should not shrink from it. They cannot vote or ap pear in procession, but they can cut the wood and bring up the coal, and thus leave the men more time to talk up matters. Stokes, the murder of Fisk, came out of tho penitentiary last Saturday, his time having expired.