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IROFi:SSIO\.4L C ARDS. THUS. XV. TEASLY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HARTWELL, GA. Will practice in Superior Courts of Unit, El bert, Oglethorpe and Madison. Prompt atten tion to collection of claims. ly. R. 11. JONES, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBERTBA 1 , GA. Special attention to the collection of claims, [ly SHANNON & WORLEY, A T TORNEYS A T L AW, ELBERTON, GA. XX J LLL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF YV the Northern Circuit and Franklin county g@p‘Special attention given to collections. .1. $. BARNETT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELBERTON, GA. .10114 T. OSBORN,. ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, ELBERTON, GA. XXJ ILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS V and Supreme Court. Prompt attention to the collection of claims. nevL7,ly A. E. HUNTER, M. IX PRACTICING PHYSIC'IAN Office over the Drug Store, KLBERTO4, GEORGIA. WJ ILL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL VV cases. [&ug22,6m EEBERTON BUSINESS CARDS. LIGHT CARRIAGES & BUGGIES. .1. F. AIT.I) (^ARBIAdEMtASIJFACT’R EEBERTON, GEORGIA. WITH GOOD WORKMEN! LOWEST PRICES! 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CIGAItS AND TOBACCO of all varieties, constantly on hand. ■ NEW STORE! MEW 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 be sold Cheap for CASH and Cash Only. F. W. JACOBY, HOUSE & SIGN PAINTER Glazier and Grainer, ELBERTON, GA. Orders Solicited. Satisfaction Guaranteed OEM) 25c. to G P ROWELL & CO., New York Oibr Pamphlet of 100 pages, containing lists of 3,000 newspapers and estimates showin cost of advertising. ly TH ] GAZE TT E. ESTABLISHED 1859. !N~ew Series. A BBAVE GIRL. BY N. M. In the winter of 1842, a gentleman and his daugher, a young lady, while traveling through Canada, arrived about nightfall at an old-fash ioned tavern. The gentleman concluded to stop there instead of going on to the village ot S which was ten miles distant, and which they had thought to reach. The daughter—Carrie—expressed her willing ness, as the tavern presented a comfortable ap pearance, and they alighted, when it was plain ly to be seen that the gentleman was quite lame, so much so that he was obliged to use a cane. The landlord came out, and, calling a boy to take the horse and sleigh to the barn, he ushered Mr. Spencer and his daughter into a pleasant sitting-room, where a bright fire was burning on the hearth, which proved very acceptable to our travelers, who had been in the sleigh since morning. “Your room will be ready by supper-time, sir,’, said the landlord, as he left the room and went into the bar-room. Slipper was shortly announced, and after re freshing themselves, Mr. Spencer and Carrie re turnd to the cozy sitting-room, where they talked and chatted until half-past eight. They were then shown their room which was on the second story, in awing somewhat distant from the main portion. The room was very long, with a high ceiling. On one side was a window, and on the other a door. Just above the door was a bust of King George HI. The loom was very plainly furnished, ion taining two beds, a washstand, and a few ebai.s Carrie took in the whole room at a glance, and it must be confessed, had there not been a cheerful fire burning, she would nave felt nerv . ous about sleeping there. As it was the warm glow lit up the room into comparative cheerful ness. While she and her father sat by the fire, her eyes wandered to fhe bust above the door, when the noticed that the c\e*balls had evidently been knocked out, leaving two empty spaces. “Well, Carrie,” said Mr. Spencer, presently, “I think you had better lock the door. lam going to count my money. After Carrie had done so, he drew out a mon ey-belt heavy with bills, and proceeded to count them. While doing so, Carrie’s eyes involuntarily wandered again to the bust, when, to her horror and astonishment, in place of empty space were two glittering eyes, greedily watching every movement of her father. Theyouuggirl couid scarcely repress a scream; but, controlling herself, she looked towards the fire, while her father went on counting a large roll of bills. “I mutt h ve been mistaken,” thought’the fair girl. “What could make ms have such a strange fancy, though?” she contined, glancing again at the bust. The eyes were still there—two burning, sav age eyes, that brightened as Sir. Spencer went on countin'. “Good heavens !” thought Carrie, “what shall we do ! We are evidently in a den of thieves, and will get murdered for my poor fathers money 1” How to communicate their danger to her father without those terrible eyes noticing it, Carrie could not think. Suddenly a blight idea came to her. “Father,” she said, aloud, “let me take a card and pencil. I wish to make a memorandum of some items I want to purchase in the village.’ Her father handed them to her, after stowing away his belt. Carrie wrote, tremblingly, in a fine hand— “ Father, do not be frightened ; we are in a trap. Go in the opposite corner of the .loom, where your face will be in the dark, and look at the bust above the door. In it you will see two glittering eyes that have watched you count ing your money.” “Read it,” she said, aloud handing the card to her father. “I want you to see if you think I am too extravagant.” Her father betrayed no emotion as he read, bat said— “ You are pretty extravagant, Carrie. I sup pose you think your father is made of money and he arose and went to the washstand, which was iti a darkjeorner. Once there he glanced toward the bust, and that glance confirmed bis daughter’s extraordi nary statement. When he came back to his seat, Carrie saw that the eyes were gone. Then, leaning towards her father, she said, in a low tone— “ You see it is as I said. I have thought of a plan, however, by which we can both escape. You would be perfectly helpless in an affray of any kind on account of your lame leg, so I must try to save us both. Then followed a whispered consultation, dur ing which Carrie kept her eyes fixed on the bust; but the glittering orbs had not come back. As site concluded, Carrie went to the window, threw it up, and looked out. Beckoning to her father, who came, she said, or rather whispered— “ You see this shed, father? Well, they will probably come up on it and get in through the window Ido not think they will make the at tack before twelve, so I will get out of this win dow, jumo front the shed, go to the barn and take our horse, and go to S for help.” Flinging a wrap over her slight figure, she em braced her father tenderly, and bidding him not worry over her, she jumped lightly out on the shed and disappeared. Mr. Spencer watcli'ed her tor a while, then closing the window, took out a handsome watch, saw that it was nine o'clock, and proceeded to work. He first covered up the fire, blew’ out the light, and rolled up a blanket, with which he made a dummy. This he placed in the bed which his daughter was to occupy. Then he sat down and waited—oh, how anx iously ! Ten, fifteen, twenty minutes went by, and no sound came from the vicinity of the barn. Taking off his boot§, he crept noiselessly to the window' and peered out, but he could see nothing. Then creeping to the washstand he laid his money-belt in the drawer and closed it. He then threw himself on the bed, and once more waited. After an hour had apparently gone by, Mr. Spencer threw oil his coat and vest, tumbled up the bed, hobbled to the door, unlocked it, and stepped out into the hall. This was all in accordance witl^Carrie’s plan. 1 “Landlord! landlord!” he shout.d. ELUERTOX, GA., XOV’R 29,1376. He then went back into the room and noise h sslv threw’ up the window, all the time shout ing for the landlord. That worthy catne flying up the stairs, and, late as it was, he was still dressed. “Oh, landlord,” gasped .Mr. Spencer, rushing toward him, “I have betm robbed! my money is gone 1” “Gone!’’ echoed the landlord, in dismay. “Who could have stolen it!” groaned Mr. Spencer. “I had five thousand dollars in a 1 elt, and it is gone—stolen !” The landlord lit the candle and looked all around, chagrin depicted on every feature “Why don’t you wake your daughter, sir?” he questioned. Mr. Spencer hurried to her bed. “Carrie, Carrie!” he called, but no answer came; and the landlord, drawing near with the light, saw the dummy, and cried— “ Why, man, the girl isn't there 1” “What!” gas,>ed Mr. Spencer. “Oh, I see it all!” Tne wicked giri has robbed me while I slept, and run off to meet her lover, from whom I was taking her.” He ran to the window, followed by the land lord. “Yes, yes, here are footprints in the snow on the shed !” cried the landlord, while Mr. Spen cer groaned aloud. “How long do you think she has been gone, sir?” asked the landlord. “For an hour or more, tne deceitful jade !” replied Mr. Spencer. “Then there’s no use looking for her sir ” re joined tne landlord. “Oh, but I must!” cried Mr. Spencer, as he began to descend the stairway, followed by tte landlord, who had believed every word Mr. Spencer said. They proceeded to the barn, followed by the landlord’s confederates. They found the horse gone, and her mode of flight was easily explained “You may as well give her up, sir,” said the landlord, consolingly. “I suppose I may,” groaned Mr. Spencer, and they returned to the house. As they left the barn he heard the landlord whisper to one of his confederates— “ The job’s up, Jem ; we’d better let the old man alone.” Once more entering his room, Mr. Spencer threw himself on the bed, and awaited the re turn of his brave daughter. “God b!e-s her and bring her back in safety.” he murmured. Meanwhile all grew still, and the hours rolled by. The fire had been raked up and cracked mer rily. The eyes were not looking from the bust; they had evidently disappeared for the night. At last, after what seemed an age to the anx ious watcher, he heard a loud knock on the front entrance,and five minutes afterwards heard the landlord stumble to the door. Then followed a confused jumble of curses and struggles, then a rush of many feet up the long hall and stair way. The next minute the door was thrown open and his daughter rushed in, followed by the officers, who (Fagged in the landlord and his confederates. “Oh. tather!” shtferied, “you are safe, safe!” and throwing her arms arounu his neck the brffve girl burst into happy tears. The sheriff and his posse of men held the landlord and his confederates in a vice-like grasp, while Carrie related the adventure of her perilous ride. “After I left the barn I led Tommy to a fence, all unsaddled sprang on him, wound my arms lightly round his neck, and whispertd, ‘Go, Tommy !’ and away we went like wind. Up and down, over the frozen road we went 1 My arms felt like ice I thought I should certainly freeze, and after what seemed an age of cold and pain, and mise y, we dashed into the main street of 8 . .is we came up in front of the tavern the stage drove up, and tiie inmates sprang out and rushed to my assistance. I must have been almost inscns'ble, for I had to be ear red in by the landlord. I was given warm drinks until I fully recovered, and was able to relate mystery. I told them my suspicions and my fears, and ibu gentleman”—here Carrie paused, and turning to a fine-looking man near her, said, “Mr. James, by his ready belief in what I told, and his energy and spirit in arous ing llie sheriff and his men, has been the main cause in bringing assistance.” Mr. Spencer grasped the young man’s hand, and thanked him. “Your plan succeeded admirably, Carrie,” he said, and advancing to the washstand, he took out ihe money-belt, saying, “My money is all right, as you see.” The landlord quivered with rage as he saw how completely he had been defeated. As the men began to search the room, the landlord protested his innocence, declaring that they had no right to hold him or liis men pris oners, or to search his house. Breaking open the door, above which was the bust, the men rushed in. The room was empty, save for a long ladder, which reached a shelf above the door. A hole above the shelf disclosed the bust to be bioken in half, so that a man could easily climb up the ladder, get on the shelf, thrust his head in the bust, which was large enough for an ordinary sized man’s* head, and see all that was going on in the adjoining room. On returning to the room occupied by Mr. Spencer, they again searched every nook and corner. Suddenly, Carrie and Mr. James, who had been standing‘by the fireplace, gave a loud cry, foi on close examination they had found spots of blood on the bricks which formed the hearth. They began to pull up the bricks, which prov ed loose, when Carrie, feeling faint, gave way’to the sheriff and his nrPn, who soon had them all pulled lip, when a cavity was disclosed, contain ing the murdered body of a gentlemen whom Mr. Janie- and the sheriff remembered to have stop ped at S three days before. The evidence w s conclusive. The landlord and his confederates were well guarded through the night, and the next day they were lodged in jail, where in due time they were sentenced, and suffering the extreme pen alty of tiie law. — -a- Lengthened Sweetness. Dunber’s wife listened to a long political discus sion while riding down town yesterday morning and at dinner she remarked to her husband: “Well, eight days more wilFchc'.de this election.” “In a meas ure,” was his guarded reply. “I’m aw ful glad,” she continued “ you comrnen eneed going out o’ nights about the Ist of March, and you've kept it up ever since! I’ll be one happy woman about the Bth of November.” “Chars line,” solemnly interrupted the husband, “can’t you understand this thing! The election will occur on the 7th of No vember. ®cf course. After that date I must help count up returns, verify them, put our clubs in training for the next campaign, examine the lies of the op position. &c., and it may be next April before I get through. You must have patience, for everything is working all right.” Wat could she do but burst in to tears ? PRESIDENT TILDEN. ! New York Herald ] Governor Tilden presents an unique j picture as be stands there in bis magnifi- I ceDt borne listening to the effusive out pourings of his enthusiastic followers. He is a man whose modest, unobtrusive personalty is in singular contrast with the worship which he receives from men who tower above him in stature, and whose dress and manners are so infinite ly more pretentious and assertive than his. There stands the unpretentious man — Mr. Tilden looks smaller than he really !is by reason of his stooping carriage— j with bis small, smooth, boyish, round I head, bent with that sleepy droop in the left eye lid which is undoubtedly caused, at least partially, by ptosis, with his smooth face and his small, delicate, utterly unobtrusive features, dressed with a plainness which the prettiest clerk of a fashionable dry goods store would de | spise—there stands this man, apparent ly so weak, so mild, so selfless, so un combative, and yet around him crowd the colossal G.v’in, the burly Willis, the statuesque Wood, pompous Ward, the majestic Wickham, the great and preten tious men of the party, and bow before the modest, quiet little man with the cold, passionless, sagacious face. It re minds one of Utile Napoleon receiving the homage of Soult, Bernadotte, Murat and all his great generals. Tilden’s I face, however, has none of the wonder ful imperiousness of Napoleon—it is one of the most unobtrusive, gentle, harmless faces you could pick out in a crowd. His clear blue eyes are some what paled by age ; his complexion, though tolerably fresh for a man of ' ii age, does still betray the wear of study and mental labor, and the wrinkles round bis eyes deepen the impression of a character formed by a severe strain of intellectual activity during a busy life. The pleasantest part of Mr. Tilden’s face, as he stands there listening to his friends, is his mouth—a pleasant, small mouth, utterly wanting in sensual warmth, but indicative of much decision and firmness. The nose, too, which is small, thin, but with an inclination to a bugle at the end, is clearly drawn, and the expression of the entire face has more of this charac ter of firmness than of anything else It has been said that Governor Tilden’s individuality is all absorbing in all his relations of life, that he towers over all his associates and advisers, and shapes his policy to suit himself and nobody else. There is certainly no indication of this in his appearance, which is that of a man who cares but little /or self. Yes terday Mr. Tilden was, in addition, rath er in a mood of abstraction. It is nat | urally somewhat tiresome for a man who stands on the very brink of the I’residen | cv, within an inch of the greatest ambi | tion of an arduous life, and also within j an inch at the same time of ruinous de | feat, to have to entertain an increasing stream of visitors—many of them entire strangers into the bargain—whose main obje ct is to have a good stare at him and to shake his already aching hand. While listening to these people and doing so in an attitude of patience and resignation, if not of cheerfulness, he was evidently cogitating over the great result shaping itself now among the everglades of Flor ida. But Mr. Tilden has wonderful self-con i trol, and his severe mental training ena- ! bled him to entertain all these visitors and send them away satisfied, even while his mind was busy with figures of elee toral majorities. Besides this expression of abstraction, of immense mental ab sorption, little that was unusal was to be noticed in his face. There was not a vestige of anxiety, of painful suspense in it. If he felt these emotions he very effectually concealed them. All yon could notice, was that he was perhaps a tiifie less elated than on Wednesday! morning, when his election was regarded as beyond all doubt. — THE PRESS ON THE DI PUTED STATES. Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind) Whatever the State laws may technic- j ally allow the returning boards to do, | we doubt if the country will acquiesce in a President chosen by their changes in the local returns of the votes cost. Without knowing which candidate will j be chosen by the rule, we believe the | great bulk of both parties are ready to agree, in advance, that the one who has received the majority of the actual votes put into die ballot boxes of any single State should have the vote of that State. To go behind the ballot baxes and change their recond, and, by such change, to change a President, is so delicate and so dangerous a proceeding that we doubt if any plausible grievance will be accepted as justifiying it. < liicago Tribune, (Rep.) It is claimed by the Democrats that their party will have a majority (;of the whole vote in the in State over and above their vote in these parishes, but while this ought to settle the mat ter it may not do so, if the counting of the non-polled vote be insisted iqion by thc-ether side If, however, the Demo crats do not have a majority except by cc unting the votes in these five parishes and the result in the State depends on their being counted or not counted, then the issue will be a direct one upon which the country will promptly reach a judgment, and no Canvassing Board will dare attempt to put the judg ment of the nation at defiance, and the American people will never engage in a civil war to uphold the counting of votes Yol. V.-jSTo. 31. never cast, or to reject lawful votes legel’s cast and recorded on the poll lists. SOUTH CAROLINA. The board of State canvassers on 21st made a report to the Supreme Court, stating the persons who had received 1 the highest number of votes for the of fice for which they were candidates. Ap pended to the report of the results was a memorandum of the board, stating that in their opinion that certain irreg ularities which affected some of the Lie publican candidates should be corrected; and also that the vote of Laurens and Edgefield counties, which gave a large ; Democratic majority, should be excluded j on account of frauds and intimidations. On the 22d the court parsed an order I commanding the board to issue certifi cates of election to all the persons who were shown by the report of the board to have received the highest number of votes for members of the Legisleture, including the counties of Edgefield and Laurens. The court also took up the case of the electors and issued a rule on the board to show cause why they si ould not correct the statement of the county canvassers by the precinct returns in their possession. Pending these proceedings ! of the cc urt, and notwithstanding their ' own resolution that they would take no action until their powers and duties had been defined by the court, the board held | a session without the knowledge of any of the parties on the Democratic side, and issued certificates to all the members of the Legislature except for Laurens 1 and Edgefield counties thus securing a majority of the legislature to the Repub lican side and securing the defeat of Hampton and the election of Chamber lain, and also issued certificates of elec tion to Hayes and Wheeler electors, and to ail the Republican State ticket, cor recting the errors which defeated their own candidates, and ignoring all errors of the same character which would have elected the Democrats. The board then adjourned sine die. This action of the board has created much excitement, but the citizens are determined to rely upon the courts, and exhaust all legal means of redress. it is currently believed that the action of the board was taken under directions from Washington, and rumors on the the street credit a prominent judicial of ficial who has recently arrived here with being the organ of the authorities at 'Washington. HAMPTON TO THE PEOPLE. General Hampton has just issued the following address: Columbia, S. C.—To the people of South Carolina : The board of canvass ers have by their unprecedented action to-day shown not only their contempt and defiance of the Supreme Court of the State, ! ut their utter disregard of their own official integrity. While the grave questions determining the result of the recent election were pending be fore the Supreme Court, composed of three judges belonging to the Republican party, and in direct violation of the or ders of this tribunal, the board have is sued certificates of election to the Re publican Presidential electors and to the Republican State officers and have re fused to give ceitificates to the Demo cratic members of the legislature, shown by the same board to have been elected in the counties of Edgefield and Laurens. This high handed outrage is well calcu lated to arouse the indignations of our long suffering people, but I assure them that this daring and revolutionary act of the board can have no legal force what ever. I appeal to ycu therefore in the fullest confidence that the appeal will not be unheeded, that you will main tain even under that provocation your character as an orderly and iiuv abiding people. During the past exciting can vass you have studiously avoided even the semblance of a purpose to disturb the public peace, or to transgress the law Your cause—and it is the cause of the constitutional government of the country—has been carried to the highest court of the State, and we are willing to abide by its decision, feeling assured that this tribunal will see that the laws shall be enforced and justice secured. Wade Hampton. GEN. JOHN B GORDON HAS CONFIDENCE THAT ALL WILL YET BE EIGHT. General Gordon, of Georgia, expresses a determination to stay and see the con test ended. He says the question now is, whether the State court of South Carolina can enforce its own mandates, or whether the State board can take the law into its own hands in utter dis regard of the highest court of the State. The fight is now between the supremo court and the State board. He reposes with confidence on the issue he says and is sure that the American people will not countenance such revolutionary pro ; ceedings. He is also confident the supreme court will not permit itself; defied by a set of desperadoes. New York, Nov. 22—10 i>. m. —Great j indignation among conservative men here ! at the conduct of the returning board in ! South Carolina. It is believed here to be a preconcerted scheme on the part of the worst men in the Republican party ; to have all the doubtful States announc | ed for Hayes, and that Gen. Grant is in j full accord, and that the movement and concentration of troops at Washington is part of the plan. Some Republicans insist that the troops are gathered at Washington because there are in the South armed organizations that may try to interfere with the government, or that may try in some way to interfere with the administration. Business men are more earnest in their protests against tho present political status and are begin ning to clamor for some settlement that will bring peace and restore trade to a healthy channel. The Democrats are determined and will insist on their rights. Despatches received from all parts of tho country urge vigilance and determina tion. SILLY-GILLY AND HIS 00 UONSPIRA TORS. Kilpatrick is reported to have said “If Samuel J. Tilden is elected, before he is inaugurated the streets will rim with blood.” Blaine inquires; “If Sam J. Tilden is elected will you allow him to be inaugurated ?” In the face of returns which rightfully give Tilden a popular majority, a majority of the States, and electoral majority, Grant says: “Hayes' will be elected.” John B. Alley (M C.,) of Massachusetts, during the campaign, called upon his hearers to stand prepared to prevent, by force if necessary, the in auguration of President Tilden. Sena tor Patterson, of South Carolina, re peatedly used similar language. United States District Attorney Badger, at New born, asserted “that the United States Senate would refuse to declare Tilden elected if he received a majority of the I votes of the Electoral College, and would j most assuredly reject tho returns from South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida, provided those States voted for Tilden.” General Harrison, late Republican can didate for Governor of Indiana, on the- Saturday prior to the Presidential elec tion, said: “Will ycu allow Tilden to take the chair occupied by Washington and Lincoln if elected by frauds in New York, ns, if elected, he will bo ?" Wo might multiply quotations, all going to show that if the returns from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana cannot bo secured by fraud that force will bo resorted to, and it has been more than intimated that Grant will bring the army and navy to the support of the conspir ators. These threats are vain, and are only referred to to show the extent’whicli the vile desperadoes are willing to go.. We have an abiding faith in the honest election of Tilden by a majority of eigb teen electoral votes, and we have not tho slightest fear that Mr. Tilden will not bo inaugurated, and that without bloodshed or even a notable breach of the peace. DO THE RADICALS MEAN WAR. Just at this time the declarations of ! Senator Booth, of California, may ho | opportunely produced. These declara tions were communicated to a reporter of the San Francisco Chronicle a few weeks ago. Here is the report. Senator Booth—ln the way matters stands at present, if the final declara tion of the choice for President depended upon the acceptance of tho vote of ono of the Southern States to which troops had been sent, the House would inevita bly refuse to allow it to bo counted in, and an appeal to force would be necessa. ry to settle the matter. Reporter—What do you mean by force 7 Senator Booth—Physical force—war. Reporter—But don’t you suppose that in order to save the country from the visitation of another war the Demo crats would be willing to concede a little in the event of matters coming to such a crisis ? Senator Booth —I do not. They havo a united South, while they have a divided North, and they would feel they held the power and would refuse any concessions, and I think it is remarkably fortunate for the country that, wo liavo a Republican President, who is also com mander in chief of the army, so that, in the event of any serious complications the Government has a man at its back who will protect it. There are a good many reasons why the Democrats should not be suffered to gain control of the Government. GOOD ADYIG'E TO BOYS. The boy who spends an hour of each evening lounging idly on the street con ners wastes in the course of a year 805 precious hours, which, if applied to study, would familiarize him with the rudiments of almost any of the fatnilliar | sciences. If in addition to wasting an hour each evening he spends 10 cents j for a cigar, which is usually the case, the amount thus worse than wasted would pay for ten of the leading periodicals of the country. Boys, think of these things. Think of how much time and money you are wasting, and for what “? The grati cation afforded by the lounge on the ! corner or the cigar is not only temporary but positively hurtful. You cannot in dulge in them without seriously injur ing yourselves. You acquire idle and wasteful habits, which will cling to you with each succeeding year. You may in after life shake them off, but tho pro babilities are that the habits thus formed inearly life will remain with you to your dying day. Be warned then in time, and resolve that as the hour spent in idleness is gone forever you will im prove each passing one and thereby fit yourself for usefulness and happiness. [Pittsbury Gazette. ♦ —- It is a curious fact that the admission of Colorado into the union as a State has kicked up all this excitement. If Col orado had not been admitted Tilden would have had a clear majority will out the doubtful States and one to spare. There was no good reason for the admission of Colorado. Its popu lation is not sufficient to entitle it to a a member of Congress. But the Demo cratic House of Representatives went in for admitting her and probably for political reason. —Boston Herald. • —- According to the World's table, Til den’s popular majority is 308,500 ; his gains over Greeiey were 1,139,000. Hayes gained over Grant only 2,000 and that in a single State, Rhode Island. Popularly, it was a tremendous sweep.
