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Professional Cards.
Dll, .1. A. CIIAPPIjTO,
u 3 ) TO NTAL HU M O N ,
1 range, Georgia.
omen OVfiV Dallls fc Cray, rooms
formerly occupied as Prophttt's gallery.
Charges very modorato. nO‘20t
DR. ENOCH CALLAWAY
All!
TITOS. ITT. WHITAKER,
Attorney at I-jhw,
LAGRANGE, GA<
Ofheo In T. 0. CrenHUaw’B Counting Room.
TiQtOMPT attention given to buslnoBH In Troup
adjoining counttes. Will lllo potltloiiB In bankrupt -
elurns lor Adin’rs and Guardluusln Ord'yBCourt.otc.
ctions spocdlly made. ,|an!8*ly
tine; Agent,
Georgia.
riLL practice in tho counties of tho Coweta circuit.
Hpoctal attention paid to tho collection ot claims of
bids.
or Btoro of Dallta & Cray. aplfl-ly
JAMES S. WALKER,
ORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, SOLICITOR
N CHANCERY AND PROCTOR IN ADMIRALTY,
18PECTFULLY offers fits sor\
all tho duties of his profossl'
nits to attond to all matte
ashlngton City as well as in tho District and Circuit
•ts of tho Unitod StuteB. Olllcc up stairs in Sterling
l. nr. ii a rims,
:>rney at Law & Colloc
West Point, - - - - - <
REFERENCES:
n, Harlow fc Co., Ke.Killop fc Sprague Co., Coehran.
•an .V Co., K. 8. .Taffray A Co., Now York; Darly fc
inltlmore, Mil.; Crane, Hoylston, fc Co., Charles-
C., W. 0. fc L. Lanier, West Point, Ga. may28-tf.
T. D. HIGHTOWER,
LAGRANGE, GA.,
s to tho public in
Ho has perfected
i in tho departments
A. V. llOHlHON SON,
ProUsssors of Dancing,
AC1I the latest styles of polite dancing. The
REVERSE” in a waltz t .light in a lew lessons,
ress the undersigned until the 1st of May at Ath-
«.; alterwurds, Madison, Gu.
0 f A. V. R01H80N fc SON.
Business Cards.
CHATTAHOOCHEE HOUSE,
West Point, Georgia.
IE TABLES are furnished, at all times, with the very
best the market affords. Comfortable rooms and good
lou to guests.
tho DINNER HOUSE for passengers on Hie East-
id Western Trains. mchlS If
W. J. Mo C DU HE,
OCIUt AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
EVANS fc RAGLAND.
K NEW SHOP IN LAGRANGE,
THE REPAIR OF WATCHLo AND JEWELRY.
(At 11. A. Watts’ Old Stand.)
IE subscriber respectfully bogs to inform the cilizei
hr'
VOLUME XXXIII.
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LAGRANGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING. JUNE 20, 1877.
NUMBER 20.
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dry prompt-
terms to suit
a triul, and 1
tin a part oi your
DORIC BALL.
NEW WOOD SHOP.
Watches and Jewelry.
TM M
.D JEWELRY AND FANCY STORE
Of La Grange, Georgia.
ALHEI1T JL.LfiMJttA.N
AS now, and will keep always on hand at his old
. stand, East nido of tho Public Square, u good and
WELL-SELECTED STOCK OK
[fi XV E L II Y AND FANCY GOODS,
Cousisdug, iu part, of
Gold and fclilver Watolies, ^9
Stem and Koy-Winders, of tho best make.
lend ill Gold and Silver Watch Chains,
CLOCKS,
of all sizes, makers and prices.
JQ" Solid Silver Table Ware, 'P
SILVER-PLATED WARE,
Of all kinds d styles;
>ckct, Table Cu lory . and Fine Razors,
:hL» St -B. m» :B. jib T
am still repairing all goods in my line. Too many of
cltitiwius of Troup and adjoining counties huVc testid
work to require a word from mo as to tho character
'it. I will, however, warrant all my work, if properly
icd, as I have always done, uud respectfully ask a share
patronage. (jaul7-lyj ALBERT LEHMAN.
GUOllGIA CONVENTION*
LIST OF Til® DELEGATES ELECTED.
First Distriot^A It Lawton, W T Thompson,
J RI Guemrd J$in Screvou, J f L Wurron, \Vur-
ing lliiRHcll, AH Smith.
Socoml District—W ltobcrfc Oignilliut, Ilonry
F IIowo, Wiri M Oonloy.
Third District—Seaborn Hill, 0 0 Graco.
Fifth District—J S Spence, W A McDonald.
Sixth District—D L Stephens, J D Kuight.
Sovcnth‘District—Jamos L Seward, Augustus
II llansoil; Bryant Crocch, lloury Gay.
Eighth District—J Ji Twitty, B E Russell,
John E Donalson, J S Clifton.
Ninth Distriot—It J Nisbot, J II Hand, P E
Boyd.
Tenth District—Nelson Tift, John A Davis,
W C Gill, 11 U Jennings.
Eleventh District—L 0 Hoylo, It E Konnou,
Arthur Hood, 11 A Crittenden.
Twelfth District—J L Wimborly, Isaac W
Stokes, T L Guorry, D B Hawaii.
Thirteenth Distriot—Goorgo* F Cooper, T M
Furlow, Josoph B Scott, A II Greer, J C Elling
ton, John II ltospass.
Fourteenth District—It W Anderson, D FMc-
Criinmou, David Sapp, O P Swearingen, Iliram
Williams.
Fifteenth District—M N Mcltao.
Sixteenth District—B L Stanley, Neil Mc
Leod, J D Meadows.
Seventeenth District—II A Perry, Justin B
II6ath, W B Jones, J C Doll, W D Banner.
Eighteenth District—Charles J Jenkins, ltobt
II May, George It Sibley, Adam Johuston, J G
Cain, D. G Phillips, W G Brady.
Ninetoeutb, District-.*0*m 8. Johnston, G F
Bristow, M W Lewis, C N Hurd, D N Sanders.
Twontiolh District—It L Warthen, H N Holli-
field, G C Furman, Thomas Newell, A M Du-
Bosc, Geo F Pierce.
Twenty-first District—E 0 Grier, A S Hamil
ton, F Chambers, E J Coats, P W Edge.
Twenty-second District—W It ItosB, W A
Lofton, T J Simmons, A D Hammond, T A
Ponder, W II II Bush, J A Hunt, T J Barrett.
Twenty-third Distriot-B F Tharpe, J M Da
vis, John Troutman, W S Wallace, M S Stroud,
B W Sanford.
Twenty-fourth District-W A Little, Porter
Ingram, Francis Foutaino, J D Hewell, J D
Wilson.
Twenty-fifth District-13 A Flowelleu, John
Dickey, J M Alobley, W I Hudson, J T Willis,
W It Gorumn.
Twenty-sixth District - John II McCallum, F
D Dismlike, C S Westmoreland, It B llodgors.
Twenty-seventh District-Pope Barrow, An
drew Jackson, T A Gibls, J M Paco, O S Por
ter, E B llosser.
'wonty-eighth District—Augustus ltccse,
Joshua llill, T G Lawson, It B Nisbct, J C
Key.
Twenty-ninth District-ltobert Toombs, W m
M ltoese, J -M Meroier, Paul 0 Hudson, H It
Casoy.
Thirtieth Distriot-J D Matthews, W G
Johnson, tV W fiicott, Wm II Mattox.
Thirty-first District—Dr Underwood, S II
Moseley, J II Skelton.
Thirty-second District—AVicr Boyd, Mr Un
derwood.
Thirty-third District—Messrs. Sheppard, An
derson, Owen, Laugston.
Thirty-fourth District—B F Veal, James Polk,
Dr. Tyc, S G Howell, It D Wynn.
Thirty-fifth Distriot—J W ltohertson, L J
Gartrnll, N <1 Hammond, P L Mynntt, John Col
lier, B E Crane, J T Spence, A C McIntosh, G
W Roberts.
Thirty-sixth District—John J Glover, John T
Lougino, Hugh Buchanan, L H Featherston,
W A J Phillips, 11D Render.
Thirty-seventh District —W O Tuggle, N G
Swanson, L L, Hardy, tr., S W Harris, It L
Rowe, T M Awbrey.
Thirty-eighth District-N J Tumlin, W J
Hoad, Mr Denton.
Thirty-ninth District—A W Holcomb, James
R Brown, Elias Fields, Oliver Clark, — Haw
kins (Independent).
Fortieth Distriot—Mr. Wellborn, Dr. Ste-
plieua.
Forty-first District—Mr. Day, D. Garron, Mr.
Homy.
Forty-second District—W T Wofford, Jno II
Fitten, Abcln Johnson, A R Wright, D B Hamil
ton, Nathau Bass, S Hawkins.
Forty-third District—L N Trammell, Wm K
Moore, S M Carter, J C Fain.
Forty-fourth District—Mr McFarland, Mr
Paris, Mr Lowo.
A NICE DOT ICS OP JUDG12 UNDICRWOOD.
REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD OKOKCIIA LAWYER.
Judge Undorwood, liko Judge Dooley, had
his controversies with his landlords at tho tuv-
orns, but, uulike Dooloy, all in a good-humored
way. At a court, tbinkiug bis landlord was ro-
miss, he asked John Mabry if ho had taken tho
oath of tho Bpooial Bailiff.
“Because you have 'kept us without meat,
drink or fire—candlolight and wator only ex
cepted;’ and that is tho oath which is adminis
tered to tho Bailiff bcioro ho talcos chnrgo of tho
jury, John Mabry, nud from tho way you have
kopt up this oourt, I thought you mutjfc have
takon it. If you havo, John Mabry, I can cer
tify you liavo scrupulously observed it.”
IIo uovor forsook horseback and saddlo-bags,
whlio I know him, for buggies or railroads, and
always rodo a lino animal, about which ho felt
great anxiety. Stopping all night with Charter
Campbell, of Madison, when his bill was pre
sented next morniug bo said:
“Well, Mr. Campbell, do you really think I
owe you throo dollars for tlio ontertainmout of
mo and my groy horse, Cherokoe ?"
“Oh, yes, Judge, it is a fair and usual
charge.”
“Well, Mr. Campbell, if tho poot had stopped
with you, instead of saying, 'man wautB but
littlo hero bolow nor wants that little long,’ he
might havo said, 'if man has but little hero be
low, and stops with you, ho will not havo that
littlo long.” ’
During tho Know-Nothing campaign, a drum
mer recommending his tavern, said, “It was a
Know-Nothing house,” when Judge U. replied:
“Well, if the landlord knows less than Jim
Toney—his old landlord of tho tavern—I shall
not risk myself with him.”
“Having been asked the politics of a friend,
whom ho accused of fickleness, ho said: “I
can’t say for 1 havo not seen him since dinner.”
Judge Thomas, of Elbert, in which county
Underwood onco lived, meetiug him, said the
people of that county would liko to sec him
thore, and he (Thomas) thought ho could make
a pleasant visit to the old place.
“Yes,” said Judge U., “thero is an honest
stupidity about the people of Elbert which is
amusing, and which I rather like.”
Some citizen of tho county, who took tho ro
mark of Underwood as offensive, meeting him
afterwards, rebnkiugly said ho ought to take it
back.
Well,” said tho Judge, “I will tnko part of
it back, and since tho county voted for Buchau-
11 will withdraw the word ‘honest.’”
For a long time ho was accused of beiug an
old Federalist, of the John Ailams school
which, in Georgia, then, was littlo short of a
charge ot theft, and having been taunted with it
by a politician, who said, “thero has always
been but two parties in tho country, and w
class you with tho Federalists, for all know that
is jour place.”
“Yes,” said Underwood, “thero havo always
boon two parties, Federalists and fools, aud I
havo never heard you accused of belonging to
tho Federalists.”
On being importuned to move to the town of
Marietta, ho said ho would not likotolivo there,
but thought it the best place to die iu that ho
know of, and gavo as tho reason that ho could
leave it with fewer regrets than any other place
in tho world. Aud what may seem a strange
coincidence, ho died iu Marietta.
HON. 1112X HILL.
OUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
I Rev. F. M. KENNEDY, D. D., Etlltor.
Uev. J. W. BURKE, Assistant Editor.
Hkv. A. G. IIAYGOOD, Editorial Correspondent.
THIRTY-NINTH VOLUME.
I^ 1 is 11cd* in i8J7."liuviug lor tho scope of its circulation
Jeorida, South Carolina, Florida and East Alabama,
naintaius tho position long hold by it as tho equal °f any
family newspuper in the country. Subscription rv\0
DOLLARS AND FIFTY CEFT8 per year, invariably in
advauce. l'ostage paid by the publishers. Ministers
furnished at hulf price.
To Advertisers.
As an advertising medium the Advocate has no superioi
in tho States above named—indeed it can hardly bo
otiuallcd in this respect—and tho attention of merchants,
manufacturers, aud othur ‘‘Men who Advkutise,” is
conildont.y called to Its supor.or merits. It will pay
them to try it. ltatoa ol’ advertising reasonable and iudiH-
Criminating. Address J. W. BURKE fc CO
A MATCH FOR THK MISSISSIPPI
MASSACRE.
Pittsbtjro, Pa., June 11.—A few weeks ago
Samuel MeMnsters, who had been acting Mayor
and for many years a leading Alderman, of the
oily, was tried and convicted of abortion. Tho
details of tho cose nrp the most revolting of any
iu our criminal annals. It was proved that bo
belonged to a club comprising somo ten or
twelve influential men, and perhaps as many
women, whose solo purpose was tho betrayal
aud ruin of young girls, sovernl of whom tell
into tlie'net thus spread for them, at least two,
dying under the bands of the club-abortionists.
To-day MeMaBters was sentenced by Judge
Ewing, of tbo Criminal court, to six years’ im
prisonment in tho Western penitentiary. Be
fore sentence was passed on him be made a tong
speoeb, to the efleot that bo was a martyr, an
-innocent, persecuted man, aud charging that
tbo judges on tbo bench had taken an active
part in tbo prosecution. Tho effect of the
speech was decidedly to bis disadvantage. An
effort will be mado to have tbo case reviewed by
the Supremo Court, but with littlo prospect of
success. Very littlo sympathy is felt (or Mc-
Masters, tbo almost universal expression being,
“Served him right.” Other members of tbo
infamous club will bo proscoute J ns soon ns evi-
denco can bo secured.
8-t
Macon; Ga.
Tho Brlglicat Littlo Paper Outl Noat, Sparkling, Ncwayl
SEND IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS AT ONCE
A WARNING.
Tho New York Herald does uot altogether like
IIou. B. II. Hill’s LuGrange speech, and por
trays the eloquent Georgian as having his “head
down and tail up.” Tho Herald man snorts be
cause Mr. Hill protests ugainRt a State constitu
tion that brands tho people of tho Common
wealth as rebels, aud declares that tho para-
mou t allegiance of every Georgian is due to
tho National Government. Mr. Hill simply as
sorts his self-respect, and calls upon lollow-citi-
zeus, thus branded, to assert theirs. Pursuing
this theme, however from its own peculiar
stand-point, the Herald says: “Mr. Hill is no
toriously the best talker to Buncombe in tho
whole of Georgia. Nobody need imagine that
he believes all be seems to be saying. He is at
tho bottom a very sensible man, nud ho knows
that tho late war was a rebellion, and that overy
Georgian, just as overy New Yorker, does owe
paramount allcgiauce to the Federal Govern
ment. But he wants a constitutional conven
tion, aud so he is giving those reasons for it
which ho imagines will carry his point. That
is all. Only is it quite right in so eminent a
man. so able a man, so seusible a man, to go
ubout among his fellow-citizens uttering balder
dash ? IIo has just been elected to tho Senate
for six years, aud no Presidential election is at
hand. What is tho use ? Mr. Hill made a good
deal of campaign thunder for the Republicans
in the Winter of 1875-G. Why not, as tho stroct
boys say, ‘give us a rest?’ ”
We dare say Mr. Hill can talk Buncombe su
perbly when tho occasion domauds it; but ho
spoke tho words of truth aud soberness at La-
Grange. Mr. Hill, beiug at bottom, and top
too, a sousiblo man, aud acquainted as his Her
ald critic probablj' is not, with the history of
tho formation of the Union, never could believe
that tho war between the States was a rebellion.
Nay, he has, over and over again, in loltieBt
language aud with relentless logic, demonstrated
exaqtly tho reverse. Of course, what Mr. Hill
knows to be truth on this subject, the Herald
man deems, in his prejudice or ignorance,
“balderdash.” Mr. Hill was speaking at La-
Grange as an-earnest man to earnest men, and
not as a “street boy” to tho readers of the Her
ald. We shall have a convention nud it will do
justice to all classes, branding none. It will bo
called by a popular vote nud tho fundainonta 1
law shall havo about it no hedge of bayonets
and no smell of fraud. Mr. Hill would have
been false to himself, to bis people, and to his
common country bad bo not spoken as he did.
—Augusla Chronicle.
HOW TUB UllEAX MONOWUl WILL liE THANHFOBTED
ACROSS HKAH.
Thero is now a reasonable probability that be
fore mnny woolcs olapso Cleopatra’s Needle will
bo eu routo for England. The monolith has
been handed over to Mr. Dixon's agent, whoso
men havo commenced tho noccssavy work for its
removal.
Tho * 'Needle” is sixty-uino foot long rnd eight
foot square—not uniformly, hut at tho base. It
weighs about two hundred and twenty tons, and
lies in tho sand ftftoon foot abovo high water
lino. To got this mass safely into tho sea and
across tho sea, it iB intended to build up around
it on shore a cylindrical iron case, or ship, and
then to roll tho entire mass, nearly three hun
dred tons, into the Mediterranean,and when the
necessary ballasting and additions havo been
mado to tho ship in dry dock, to havo her towed
to England Tho iron vessel is now being made
at tho Thames Iron Works, and when ready will
bo sont out here in pieces, to bo built around the
obelisk, under tho superintendence of Mr.
Wuynman Dixon, brother to Mr. John Dixon,
tho enterprising designer nud contractor. Tho
vossol must bo considerably longer than tho ob
elisk, becauso of the shape of tho stono. It will
bo 02 feet long and 15 feet iu diameter, with
plates g of an inch thick. It will bo divided into
nine water-tight compartments by eight bulk
heads; total weight of iron seventy-live tons. To
lilt the end of tho obelisk jacks of immense
power will havo to bo sent from England, and
after the cylinder is built tremendous tackle will
be required to roll it into the sea. It will float
in water nine feet deep, and to reach this depth
it must bo rolled 400 feet. Onco afloat und in
the dock it will bo fitted with bilge keels, rudder
and steering gear. It will be cutter rigged,with
one mast and two sails, and will havo a deck
house for Mr. Carter, who will have charge of it
on the voyage; for, although it will be in tow of
a steamer, it will bo iu every respect a ship, and
able to take care of itself for a timo in case ot
accident or breaking away from the tow-lines,
which are to be of steel wire. There will be
four or five men on board to make sail, pump
bilge-water, trim lights und make signals in case
of need.
In tho opinion of eminent engineers the plan
proposed is admirably adapted for tho work to
bo done, and Mr. Dixon’s confidence is shown
iu the fact that should ho fail to complete his
work ho will receive nothing for his outlay and
trouble. If, however, tho undertaking is a suc
cess, tho entire expense will bo borne by Mr.
Erasmus Wilson, tho eminent surgeon. Im
mense care and nicety will have to be exercised
iu obtaiuing tho necessary strength and rigidity;
tho obelisk must be so packed, forming with the
iron cylinder one solid mass, as to avoid any
strain from rolling iuto the water, or from the
heavy working of the ship afterward. I pre.sumo
tho most anxious part of the work will be to get
the vessel aud her precious cargo into tho sea.
Once afloat other difficulties will he mastered.
Threo thousand five hundred years ago this
obelisk formed ono of the pillars iu front of tho
great Temple of Turn (tho setting sun) at Heli
opolis, near Cairo, and was brought to Alexan
dria during the reign of Cleopatra. No accounts
exist of tho appliances used; but if this and
larger monuments could be safely moved about
sixteen hundred years B. C., it is not possiblo
to doubt pur ability to do likewise iu the nine
teenth century, A. D.
TRICKS OF A JUGGLER.
M ISS ANNIE M. BAJtNES (“Cousin Annie”) for a long
timo In ehargo of tbo “Childron’B Corner” in thu
Hunny South, will iBfiuo about tho llrBt of March, a littlo
naner to he devoted to the amuHomont and instruction of
tho young, as well as to the entertainment of tlioso who
° l lCvoryhody from grand-mothor clown to “Littlo Tot,”
"'ll wm -1™-
o-'y ’8 cent. . year, or CO
every 'litUJ Ooy nnit girl B ot ,5 “.“.'u^Mbsorlb'
.rod for “ioUHlu Anulo'B" l>.lieri or set four .ubscrib-
ers 00(1 <(3, and rocolvo n copy free for on year.
A beautiful picture will be given to th “
girl who send. In the first BobBOrlptlon. lie qutoV, HtUo
iullin. Address, MISB ANNIE It. BABNEB,^
VUJJC’B l'ToOXlvVl. GUIDE.
Iu almost every paper may bo read tho adver
tisement, “Your name ■ neatly printed on filty
cards for ten ceuts, postage paid,” etc. Every
printer knows that the cost of the cards furnish
ed, which are of fiuo hoard, together wrth tho
work and postage, will cost ten times ton cents.
How then-cau they make thin traffic pay ? Tho
answer is simply this, these chaps thus gather
iu tho,names of thousands of boys and girls
throughout the country. These names are sold
to dealers in obscene books aud pictures, who
then send circulars advertisihg their fiithy goods.
And sometimbs tho men who print these cheap
visiting' cards are in tho obscene booic and
picture busiuoss themselves. Parents should
look out for suqk things aud koep an eye on tho
mail matters received by their children.
Iu copying the above from tho Big Lick News
wo tnko ocddsloti (d say tha't wo exposed this in
famous trick threo years ago, .and aro glad to
eoo that our sprightly namesake is resolved upon
lnyiug.the matter before ita readers.—lynchburg
News.- j .
A BEAUTIFUL Quarterly Jourunl, fluoly hlustrutcX
aud containing uu elegant colored F lower Plate with
tbe first number. Price only CGets fur llio yeur. Tlf
first number for i,*17 juat Issued iu German aud English.
VICK'S FLOWER it VEGETABLE GAltDEN.iu paper
,Tiie beauty of tholadies qf Baltimore has lie-
come tho standard of comparison tho world over.
They ihnintaiu that peculiar clearness and rich-
Ufa- with elegant olotb covers, *1. , | ness of complexion by the occasional use (as re
nnets C.vrALUUUE-SOMimsirationa only ^centa. | pf jj r , Bul p 6 Blood Mixturo.
The General Assembly of tbo Presbyterian
Churoh South, at their recent session in New
Orleans, Bquaroly condemned all kinds of danc
ing. One of tho resolutions says: “Some forms
of this amusement are moro mischievous than
others, tho round dance than the square, the
public ball than tho private party, but none of
them are good, but all of them are evil and
should bo discountenanced, and wo affection
ately urge all our Christian parents not to send
their children to dauoing schools, where they
acquire a fondness nud an aptitude for the dan
gerous amusement.”
A very singular feature in the mariue land
scapes between Terra del Fuego and the con
tiguous mainland is the floating gardens of sea
weed. The plant frequently grows to a lehgth
of between 300 and 400 feet. It gives cover
and pasturage to every species of Crustacea,
great aud small, whilo tho entangled mass sway
ing like a ponderous curtain iu the water, ef
fectually breaks tho shock of tho most tremen
dous rollers.
Some one wrote to “Greeley” inquiring if
guano was good to put on potatoes. He said it
might do for thoso whoso tastos had beeu viti
ated by tobacco and rum, but he preferrod gravy
and butter.
Tho far-famed Robert Heller cannot be satis
fied with his legitimate-triumph before au audi
ence, aud occasionally does a neat thing for his
own amusement, very much to tho surprise of
those who happen to bo present.
Recently, while passing an itinerant vender of
cheap provisions, Mr. Heller suddenly paused
and inquired:
“How do you sell eggs, auntie?”
“Dem eggs,” was tho response, “day am
worth a picayuno apiece; fresh, too, the last one
of era; biled era myself, and knows dey’s fust
rate.”
“Well, I’ll try one/’ said tho magician, laying
down a bit of fractional currency. “Have you
pepper and-salt?”
“Yes, sir, dero dey is,” said the sable sales
woman, watching her customer with intense in
terest.
Leisurely 7 drawing out a littlo penknife, Mr.
Heller proceeded very quietly to cut tho egg ex
act in half, when suddenly a bright new twenty-
fivo cent pieco was discovered lying imbedded
in tho yolk, apparently as bright as when it
came out of tho mbit. Very coolly tho great
magician transferred the coin to his pocket, and
taking up another egg, inquired :
“IIow much do you ask for this egg ?”
“Do fact am, boss, dis egg am wort a dime,
shuab.”
“All right,” was tho response, “hero’s tho
dime; now give mo tho ogg.”
Separating it with an exact precision that tho
colored lady watched eagerly’, a quarter eagle in
it was most carefully picked out of tho egg and
placed in tho vest pocket of the operator as be
fore. Tlio old woman is thunderstruck, as well
she might have been, nud her customer had to
ask the price of tho third ogg two or threo times
before he could obtain a reply.
“Dar’s no use talking, mar’s,” said tho bewil
dered old darkey,. ‘ ‘I can’t let you hab dat egg
no how for less than a quarter, I declare to tho
Lord I can’t.”
“Very good,” said Heller, whoso imperturb
able features wore as solemn as an undertaker’s,
“there is your quarter and here is the egg. All
right.”
As he opened tho last egg a brace of five-dol-
lar gold pieces w’ero discovered snugly deposited
in the heart of the yelk. Jingling them merrily
together in his palm, ho coolly remarked :
“Very 7 good eggs, indeed. I like them, and
whilo I am about it will buy a dozen. What is
the price?”
“I say price !” cried the astonished daughter
of Ham. “You couldn’t buy dem eggs, mar’s
for all the money you’s got; no, dat you could
n’t. I’s gwiue to take them eggs all home, that
I is; an’ dat money in dem all belongs to me. It
does dat. Could not sell one more of dem eggs
nohow.”
Amid the roar of the spectators, tho benight
ed darkey started to her domicile to “smash
dem eggs,” but with what success we are unable
to relate.
CHIPS AND WIIKT8TONEH.
Cun any one defluo the oxact width of a nar
row escape.
Better to bo upright with poverty than un
principled with plenty.
Tho host of riches is contentment; tho worst
of poverty low spirits.
In tho country they blow a horn before diuuor;
iu town thoy lake one.
What popular cry fully describes an incipient
moustache? “Down in front.”
Tho man who cuu invent n lazier amusement
than croquet will make his fortune.
Most mon love littlo women, and by a recip
rocity, littlo women love most men.
The man who puts on a spring coat with the
most satisfaction is tho house-puinter.
Almost every young lady is public-spirited
enough to have her father’s house a court house.
Tho bread of life is love; tho salt of life is
work; sweetness of life, poetry; tho water of
life, faith.
If you lot trouble sit upon your soul like a
hen upon her nest, you may expect thu hatch
ing of a lftrgo brood.
Men lire guided less by oonscienco thiin by
glory, and yet tho shortest way to glory is to be
guided by conscience.
God will not let any apparent evil come into
our lives from which wo cannot wring somo
good to ourselves or others.
Be what you are. Ape no greatness. Be
content to pass for what you are worth. A good
nickel is better than a counterfeit dollar.
A coroner’s verdict in Arkansas: “Wo find
that he came to his death from trying to cut out
Joe Willis iu courting Sue Jackson.”
“That portable stove saves half tho fuel,”
said an iron monger. “Failb, thin, I’ll take
two of them aud save it all,” teplied the cus
tomer.
“Isn’t there an awfully strong smell of pigs
in the air ?” uskod Smith of Jones. “YeB,” re
plied Jones; ‘‘that’s because tho wind is from
the sou’-west.”
Let us not judge a character hastily, for in
the web of life a golden thread twiuetb, unseen
by mortal eye, but which in tho upper world
shall bo woven into a crown of glory.
A spinster lady of fifty years remarked lately
that sho could go alone at six months old.
“Yes,” said her hatelul half-brother, “and you
havo been going alone ever since.”
“Why, Sammy,” said a lather to his little sou
lately, “I didn’t know that your teacher whipped
you Friday.” “I guess,” replied Sammy, “if
you’d been iu my trowsers you’d kuow’d it.”
When a woman makes up her mind that a lien
shall not set, and tho hen makes up her mind
that she will, the irresistible meets the immova
ble, and every law of nature is broken or per
verted.
A matronly lady asked one younger in years
why she did uot require of her companion to
teach her the French lunguage. To which in
terrogation she replied that one tougue was
enough for auy lady.
Of all the modifications of manner which aro
to be met with in society, perhaps the most gen
erally pleasjng is simplicity, even as that water
is tho purest which has no taste; that air tho
freshest which has no odor.
A pious young man went to serenade his girl
iu Cincinnati the other night, and as he struck
up, “Angels met him at tho gate;” the gate
swung open and u big dog bulged through aud
met him near tho seat of his pantaloons.
Jones has discovered the respective nature of
a distinction and a difference. He says that “a
little difference” frequently makes many ene
mies, while “a littlo distinction" attracts hosts
of friends to the one on whom it is conferred.
The most important lesson of life is to know
how to be happy within ourselves, when home
is our comfort, aud all in it, even to tho dog aud
cat, share our affections. Do uot repine away
happiness by thinking that which is good may
bo better.
A boy five years of age having stolen a can of
milk, his mother took him t) task with moral
suasion, and wound up her discourse by exclaim
ing, “Whnt in the world wero you going to do
with the milk?” “I was going to steal a dog to
driukit.”
“Jake,” said a blushing damsel to a lover that
her father had forbidden in the house, “I don’t
cave if your feet are big, I love you just as
much.” “Well, Sally, I don’t mind the size of
my feet, but I wish your dad’s were a little smal
ler; I should feel more confident, you know,
about staying.”
Brown, who was in lovo with a lady, asked
permission to call her by the explicit name of
some animal, which was granted on condition
that she should have the sumo privilege. Leav-
Browu said, “Good night, deer.” “Good
night, bore,” sho said. Brown is disgusted with
figurative courtship.
Thero was only ouo cigar left iu tho box, aud
thero wero two young hopefuls struggling for it.
Tho first little boy clutched it, but the other 6aid
consolingly to his brother, “Never mind, Dick,
I’ll smoke it till I get sick, and then you can
finish it.” And tho heart of the other little boy
was comforted,
“AS OTHERS SEE US.’’
COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON.
A few Soraps of Testimony, which go
to show that the LaGrange Re
porter ought to be read by
every person in this
Section.
BEAD mid SUnsritlHE-or gUDBCUIItK Slid BEAD
Tho premium offered at tlio Htate Fulr for tho hewt
weekly newHpaper, wiih nwurded to the JsaOriuitfo Report
er. For once in the hlHlory of Bitch tiwurdH, there will bo
no two opluloUH In regard to the Justice of tho doclfliou of
tho committee.—tiuvunnah Newt, Auv. 2,187.').
LaGbanok Repohtrii.—This pplendid weekly wnn
awarded tho premium, luat week, at the State Fair. We
congratulate J3ro. Waterman iu tlila, bin hour of triumph.
WhilHt we would have hud it otliorwino, yet wo havo no
complaint to offer; und are rather of the opinion that the
awurd wuh juat aud proper.—Monroe Advertiser,Nov.ll,'78.
Tho LaGrnngo Reporter in one of tho niopt popular
Weeklies iu the State, ami neeila no commemlatlon
from ua.—Darien Timber Gaxctte, Sept. 24, 1870.
Tho LaGrange Reporter is ono of tho beat eatabliHlied
and host edited papora iu the State, and 1h worthy of tlio
liberal putruuuge it receives.—Newnan Herald,iV<n\ll,'76.
Tho LaGrange Reporter ia iu tlio. 32nd year ot itB cxiat-
once, and ia one of thu beat weekliea iu the State.—Ham
ilton Visitor, Jan. 14,1H70.
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Tho LaGrange Reporter atlll beara off tho palm r
.at country paper iu the State—or in the South, bo
e have Been.—Atlanta Herald, Oct. 24, 1876.
bright, and well filled. Mr. Waterman, the editor, ia a
practical printer, a “truined journaliat,” und a moat vig
orous writer—not a particle of “guah” in hiacoinpoaition.
Wo aro pleuaod to sec that tho Reporter liua a good local
patronage, which ia the beat evidence of ita merita, and
without which no paper can aucceed.—Franklin News.
Tho LaGrange Reporter la edited with core and ability,#
and is in our opinion the neaU-at paper, typographically,
iu the State.—Carroll County Times, Oct. 8,1875.
Darien Timber Gazette.
We aro always glud to get hold of tho Reporter; tho
print ia good, the matter ia good, und the paper is good.
What more can wo auy? It deserves to be known as tho
Rrizo Weekly.—Savannah Register, Sept. 25, 1875.
Tho LaGrange Reporter is a splendid weekly—both in
u.nkc-up und editorial ability. Mr. Watermuu wields a
trenchant pen, and is fully ubreast of the times.- -Stat>
Line Dress, Sept. 25, 1875.
The LaGrange Reporter ia proverbial for saying the
right thing at tho right time. — Warrenton Clipper, Oct.
7, 1875.
sides of the people of Meriwether.—Meriwether Vindicator
The LaGrange Reporter ia one of tho very beat pub
lished, and ia tho beat printed paper in tho South. It
took the gold medal in 1873, at the Georgia State Fuir, for
being the beat printed aud best edited paper in the State.
' isiriug a iirst-claas paper iron* Georgia,
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Tho LaGrange Reporter ranks among the foremost
weekly papers of tho State. Mr. J. T. Waterman is an
editor of culture, who is conscientiously aud successfully
endeavoring t" Keep the Reporter up to tho standard of a
; lrst-clas8 Southern weekly.—Christian Index, Sept.2d,"ii.
Educational.
SOUTHERN
FEMALE
COLLEGE*
LAGHANGK, GA.
FACULTY;
I. F. COX, A.M., President, Mathematics and Ancionl
Languages.
Rev. A. R. CALLAWAY, Relies Lcitrcs and Natural
Science.
1 Physiol-
Mna. Jit. C. COX, Botany and English Brandies.
Miss A. M. COX, Modem Languages.
Miss KJ.IZA II. TOOLK, Primary Department.
MUSIC DKVArtTMKNTi
Mias 8ALIJE C. COX, Piano, Organ and Violin.
Miss ALICE M. CUX, Piano, Guitar, aud Vocal Music;
ART LKl’AllTMKNT.
J. M. TOMLINSON, Portrait I'uinting, Theory of CoN
Mias M. E. BTAKELKY, Drawing, Painting in Oil, Water
Colors, etc.
This institution has been under its present m&nape-
incut lor nearly twenty years. 2 ho teachers in all tlio
departments have long held tlielr present positions, and
have practically demonstrated their fitness for the pi ccif
they Ml.
The department of Natural Sciences la supplied with
au excellent mineral eubiuet, charts, chemical and philo
sophical apparatus.
The Music department is famished with eight pianos,
charts, fcc.
The art facilities arc ample for thorough art culture;
Druwirjg, Vocal Music and Caliathcnics/rre of charge.
Unusual advantages are offered In penmanship; and
the training in uli departments is thorough and practical;
The pupils of this College liavo repeatedly borne *11 pre-
Tuilion, literary or music, per annum, $50. Painting,
$25 to $50. Board, per annum, with washing, lights and
luel, $155. The collegiate year of nine aud a hall mouths
opens the lust Wedn sdoy In September and cIgbcb tho"
20th of Juno. No deduction lor lost time except for pro-'
traded sickness. For catalogues containing particulars'
U 14 88 I. F. COX, President.
SMOR7 COXiLEGtE—1877
OXFORD, GEORGIA.
One mile from Covington depot, between Atlanta and
Avgusta—Georgia Railroad.
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1877.
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information upon tho great events in contemporaneous
history, und contain masterly criticisms on all that is
lresh aiul valuable iu literature, us well us u summary of
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essays uud sketches of the highest literary merit.
TERMS, INCLUDING POSTAGE:
Payable strictly iu Advance.
Four large aud well uppoiuted buildings, besides tho
two Society Hulls, afford umple facilities lor all the work
of the College.
The Faculty has been strengthened by providing fully
for the chair of English Language und Litcratnro.
EXAMINATIONS.
There will be three examinations of all the classes cacil
year. Tho lirst will be held at tho closo of the Fall Term,
the second at the middle of the Spring Term, aud tho
third at tho closo of the Spring Term.
Iu addition to the regular studies of tho course, these
examinations will embrace the elementary studies, Geog-
FACULTY:
Rev. ATTICU8 G. HAYGOOD, D. D., President and
Professor of Mental and Moral Science.
Rev. GKO. W. W. STONE, A. M., Vice-President afld
Professor of Mathematics.
Rev. OSBORN L. SMITH, D. D., Professor of Latin
Language.
Rev. ALEX. MEANS, M. D., D. D., LL. D., Professor
Emeritus of Natural Science.
Rnv. MORGAN CALLAWAY, D. D., Professor of English
Language aud Literature.
A. SCOMP, A. M., Professor of Grtck Language and
Literuture, und of Hebrew.
JOHN F. BONNELL, A. M., Professor of Natural Science.
R. M. MclNTOSH, Professor of Vocal Music.
RUFUS W. SMITH, A. M., Principal of Academic De
partment.
TERMS:
Tuition, Spring Term, iu College Classes, $35. .
Tuition, Spring Term, in Academic Department: Pn-
tary Classes, $20; Academic Classes, $31.
Board, iu good lainilies, including all expenses for fuel;
lights, etc., from $10 to $20 per month.
A year’s tuition in College may be awarded by the
Principals of the Academic Department, and of Collins-
worth Institute, ut Tulbotton, to thu beBt scholar in those
schools. Two free scholarships are offered to local
preachers aud laymen in each Presiding Elder’s District
of the North Georgia, South Georgia aud Florida Confer
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of four or more persons. Thus, four copies of Black
wood or of ono Review will be sent to one address for
$12.80, four copies ot the four Reviews and Blackwood
for $48, and so on.
PREMIUMS.
New subscribers (applying early) for tlio year 1877 may
have, without charge, the numbers for the last quarter ol
187G oi such periodicals as they may subscribe for.
Neither premiums to subscribers nor discount to clubs
can be allowed unless tho money is remitted direct to the
publishers. No premiums given to clubs.
FARMERS’ HIGH SCHOOL.
MALE AND FEMALE. CLASSICAL AND COMMERCIAL:
Located two miles northeast of Houston, Ga.
THE ONE PRICE SCHOOL.
-J^XEBCISES BEGIN first Monday in Feb-'
gruary, 1877. Six^nonths, first session; four
r months, second.
LEONIDAS JONES, Prof. Mathematics, Principal.
Mbs. EMMA T. HENLEY, Music and Primary De
partments.
B. H. MATHEWS, Penmanship and Book-keeping.
TERMS, PAYMENTS, kc.
1. Each pupil will be charged $2.50 per scholastic
month, regardless of age dThrauches studied.
2. When tuition is paid iu advance only two dollars per
month will be charged.
3. Patrons not paying in advance, will be required to'
give their notes payable at tbo clqse of the session; said
notes subject to credit for sickness protracted ono Week
or longer.
4. No deduction for abscuco will bo made except for
sickness protracted one week or longer.
5. Music on piano with use of instrument, $3.60 per
month. .
Board, in good families near the school, can be bad
reasonable rates.
other particulars address
LEONIDAS JONES, Prin..
jan!8-3m Houston, Ga;
Gladstone—“Doctor, your Longfellow is a
great favorite here in England. I suppose you
know him very well.”
Doctor Grant—“He’s a (puff) wonderful ani
mal, no mistake. He’s not running (puff) any
mole, though. They’ve got him up there iu
Kentucky improving tho stock.” (Puff, puff.)
Astonishment of Gladstone. Tfle conversation
changes.
“Aro Bister Sal aud Nance resources, pa?”
“No, my sou; why do you ask that question?’’
“Decause I heard nuclo Josh say if yon would
only husband your resources you would get
along n great deal bettor than you do, that’s
all, pa.”
A Kentucky physician was on the witness
staud the other day, and was badgered by the
defendant’s lawyer for a long time, being com
pelled to go over the same ground repeatedly.
At length the latter asked him if it were not tiuo
that somo men’s skulls were harder and thicker
than others. Tho doctor looked straight at his
interlocutor for a moment, aud thou replied
with great vehemence: “Yes, sir; I think some
men’s skulls are much thicker than others.”
MAN’S INCONSISTENCY.
It is a difficult thing for womeu to discover
what men really like aud admire. Here is a mau
wildly in love with a helpless little spendthritt,
while he has all his life despised frivolity and
vanity, aud declared that “his” wife should be
a model of feminine wisdom 1 Men fly from
“womtn of brains,” and, at tbe same time, long
to know a woman of intellect. Again, they pine
for their grandmothers who darned stockings and
made pies, and, at tho sa’mo time, fall in love
with white hands that cau’t sew on a button!
They moan over our weakness and ridicule
strength, calling it masculine. We hear them
loudly declaring against fashion, and firmly as
serting that they do not admire women for their
dross; but wo understand them, aud know bet
ter than to give up the art of adornment, for if
wp did, we should find ourselves minus beaux and
husbands (a calamity we could uot survive)
Men rave and write about sensible womeu; but,
queer to relate, their admiration aud reverence
for them is so great that they studiously refrain
from troubling them with practical attention
Men despise “pink and white” women ; but,
atrango to day, they always marry them if they
can'. We cau’t help laughing a little when
read a “sonnet to women divine,” as we re
member that the poet is only writing of an idea 1
woman, for his experience has been that the
“whole sex is a nuisance.” Oh, inconsioteucy •
thy dofiuitionis—a man.—Selectedt
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Moral 8cicuce aud Mathematics.
rev. G. G. Smith, A.M., Profossor of Rhetoric and
Geology. ,
HERMAN SOniRMACHER. ProfcMot of French anii
Gorman.
Mi«b JENNIE McFAIL, Teacher of Calisthenics, snj
Assistant in Lutiu, etc.
Miss LUCY CARPENTER, Assistant Tcncher of En-
glish Literature;
Mbs. FANNIE J. MAYSON, Matron.
HERMAN SCHIKMACUER, Professor of Music.
Miss LUCY CARPENTER, Teachet of Art Department;
Assistants will be procured when the neccsslffoft 6f the
College demand their services. . ^
This institution graduated its first class in 184C, and
since that time has sent forth kundrodB from its classic
walls to mould and bless society.
LOCATION.
Tho College Is located on a high eminence overlooking
the beautiful city of LaGrange and the surrounding
country; remote from the «tlr of tho city aud vet suffi
ciently near to chtrreh afid tho conveniences of business.
MUSIC DEPARTMENT.
e happy to aunounco that the services of Prof. II.
Schirmachcr have been secured as tho head of this de
partment. His name is enough in a country where his
reputation is so well kuowu. If you desire to learn
music thiB is tho placo.
BOARDING.
Board iu tho College, including lights and fuel, $13.60
per month. Washing will cost $1.50 per monUi^ ObMges
lor board and tuition c * ’* J
uwui'u aJ! uuuuu vw-half iu advance and balance at
middle of the term, Each pupil boarding in the Col-
will bo required to furnish ono pair sheet*, one palf
tho
piUow cases, one coverlet, aud half dozen towels.
•* further information address,
Rev. J. R. MAYSON. President.
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