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>\ VOL. XVII. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1875. THE OLD HOME. My thought* nil wnmler hock to-night To day* I mg |wt and goliu; ) I, a child, and long. That door old farnit a Runny spot— ’Twill live iu memory e*or; I’ll ne’er lorgot my childhood's homo Beside the restless river. As momory take* mo back, far back, All other days have tied, And I'm a little girl once more At play with brother Ned I Onca morn, throngh woods and meadows gruon Wo roam the long, long day; Or ’ueath the orchard’s fragrant shade We pass the hours iu play. Iu the old homo wo moot again With loved ones as nl yore; And the gay laugh aud music sweet Sound oa the air once more. Around tho table I can son Kach Well remembered face; They ull are there—a happy group— Kach lu his own old place. Thoso happy times! they could not Inst. Oue calm, sweet summer's day Tim golden gates were opened wide, And father passed awayt lie passed away—tho gates were closed; Hut ’long tho path lie trod A bright and shining light w as cast, To guide us home to Uod. The noble rivor still flows on I'mst that oh! homestead door, But strung irs stand within it now— We’ll moot there never uiorel For time* are cliauged—old friends aro gone— Aud childhood's lied forever; on gather home, 'vor. —Ballou's Monthly. THE DESERT OF ICE; A JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE. NO. 148 BY JULES VERNE. CHAPTER XXIII. TUE FLAG OF ENOLAND. A cry issuing from four hoarts succeed ed tbe first moment of stupor. “flatteras !” exclaimed the Doctor. “Disappeared! ” criod Johnson and Boll. “LoRtL’ Th^Jooked around thorn. Nothing appeared on the surfaco of tho swelling sea. Duke barked with a dospairing ac cent. He tried to jump iuto the waves and Boll could scarcely restrain him. “Take tho helm, Altamont,” said tho Doctor, and lot ns do all that it is possi ble for ns to do to find our unfortunato Captain!" Johnson and Bell resumed their seuts. Altamont grasped the tiller, and tho drifting launch was agaiu brought under oontrol. Johnson and Boll set to work rowing vigorously, and for an hour tho parly re mained near tho seone of tho catastrophe. They looked everywhere but in vaiu! Tho (lufortiinato Hattcras, carried oil by the tempos!, wor lost! Lost! So near tho Polo! So near tho goal of which ho had only caught a glimpse! Tho Doctor shouted, called, fired off his gnus. Duke added his lamenting barking to his noise; but no response was made to tho Captain’s two friends. Then a deep griof seized on Clawbonny. His head fell on his hands, and his compan ions heard him weeping. In fact, at this distance from the land, without an oar or a piece of wood of any kind to sustain him, Hatteran could not reach the shore alive, and if anything of him should at last reach this land ho long desired, it would bo only his swollen ■and bleeding body. After an hour devoted to the search they resumed the route to the north and •entered on their struggle with the expiring throes of the tempest. At 5 o’clock on the morning of the 11th of July Bio wind lulled, the swell de creased, tho sky resumed its Polar clear' ness and, less than three miles off, the land was seen in all its splendor. This new continent was only an island, or rather a volcano, reared like a light house at the Northern Pole of the world. The mountain in full eruption, vomi ted a mass of burning stones and frag ments of incandescent rooks; it seemed to shake under reiterated shocks like the breathing of a giant; tho moss projected rose into the air to a great height amid jets of immense flamo, and streams of lava unrolled themselves in impotuous torrents down its sideR; here, fiery ser- peuts glided between the rocks, there, glowing cascades foil amid a purplish va por, and lower, a great streurn of fire, formod of a thousand rivors of flame, emptied into tho sea through a bubbling month. Tho volcano soomod to havo but a sin gle crater whence escaped the column of fire, ribbod with transverse flashes, and it might have been thought that electricity played a part iu this magnificent phenom enon. Above tho panting flames floated an immense oloud of smoke, red at its base, black at itH summit. It rose with incom parable majesty and nnrolled in a wide radius in thick folds. The sky was clothed to a great height in an ashen color; tho gloom that had prevailed during the tempest, and which ilia Doolor had not been able to explain, evidently was caused by the columns of ashes which hid tho sun like an iwpouo- trublo curtain, lie then remembered that a similar circumstance had happened in 1812, at the Barbedoes, which, in broad daylight wore plunged in profound darkncHS by the mass of cinders thrown out of tho orator of tho island of St. Vin cent. The enormous fire-vomitiog rook before them, rising out of tho ooean, inoasurod a thousand fathoms in height, nearly the altitude of Heola. A line drawn from its summit to its base formed an angle of about eleven de grees with tho horizon. It seemed to emerge by degrees from tho bosom of the waves in proportion as tho launch approached it. Not a sign of vogtntion was visible on it. It ovon lacked a shore, and its sides descomled abruptly into tho sea. ‘Clan wo make a lauding?” naked tho Doctor. The wind is in our favor,” roplied Altamont. “But I do not boo a foot of beach ou which wo could stand!” “This spoils to ho ro from a distance,” replied Johnson, “but we shall find enough space whereon to laud our boat. That is all wo require.” “Lot us on then!” said Clawbonny sad ly* Tho Doctor no longer had any interest in this strange continent that rose boforo him. Tho land of tho Pole was there indoed, but not tho man who had discov ered it! At a distance of live hundred paces from tho rocks the sea builod under the action of subterranean fires. Tho island which it surrounded might have been eight or ton miles iu circumference, not moro, and according to their estimate it was situated very near tho Pole, ovou if tho world’s axis did not pass exaotly throngh it. On approaching tho island tho nnviga- tors observed a little fiord in miniature, which was sufficient to shelter their ves sel. They immediately mado for it, fear ing at tho same timo to find the Captain’s body thrown on the shore by tho storm. Yot it seemed difficult for a body to fiud lodgment there; there was no boach, and the sent bent against abrupt rocks; a thick bed of ashes, virgin of all trace of humanity, covered their surface beyond the roach of tho waves. At last tho launch entered by n narrow' entrance between two low rocks level with tho water, and thoro it was perfectly sheltered from the surf. Then Duke’s sorrowing howls redou bled. Tho poor animal callod tho Captain his sympathetic language. He asked him of ibis pitiless sea nud of these echoless rocks. His balking was in vain and tho Doctor caressed him with his hand, without being able to calm him, whou tho faithful dog, ns if he wished to iplnco his master, made a prodigious leap, nud tirat alighted ou tho rocks amid a cloud of ashes which arose around him. “Duke! here, Duke!” cried tho Doolor. But Dtiko did not honr him and disap peared. Then the party proceeded to dis embark. Clawbonny and his threo com panions lauded, aud the launch was firm ly tied. Altamont was about to clitub nn enor mous pile of stones, when Duke’s bark sounded at a short distance with an unu sual energy; it oxpressod not anger, but grief. “Listou!” said t ho Doctor. “lie has found some animal,” suggest ed tho boatswain. “No, no!” replied the Doctor, with a shudder; “it is a sorrowful bark! There aro tears in it! llatteras’s body is there!” At those words tho four mon hurried in Duke’s tracks amid the ashen, which blinded them; they roachod tho extremi ty of a fiord, at a distunto of ton foot, from which tho waves oscendod and died away in ripples. There Duko was barking near wliat soomed to bo a corpse, wrapped in tho English flag. “Ilatteras! Hattorap!” criod the Doctor, failing on his friend’s body. But immediately after ho uttorod nn exclamation which it would bo imppossi- ble to describe. This blooding body, in appearance lifeless, had moved umtor his touch. “Living! living!” he cried. “Yes,” replied feeble a voice. “Livinj on tho land of tho Bole,where tho tempest has thrown me! Living ou the Island of tho Queen!” “liurruh for England! cried tho five men with one accord. ‘And for America!” said tho Doctor, extending one hand to Ilatteras and tho other to tho American. Duko also criod “Hurrah!” after his fashion, which was worth any of tho oth ers. During tho first few moments these brave mon gave themselves up entirely to their happiness at again seeing their Gap- tain; they felt their eyes moisten with tears. Tho Doctor satisfied himself of Hatter- as’s condition. Tho latter was not seri ously injured. Tho wind had carried him as far as tho coast, where tho land ing was very dungeous. Tho bold sailor, several timed thrown back, succeeded finally by dint of ’energy in clinging to a fragment of rock, nud thus hoist*ng him self above tho waves. Thoro he lost cousciousuess aftor hav ing wrappod himself iu his flag, and it was not until ho heard Duke's barking and felt hid caresses that ho returned to life. After the first care which his condition required hud been given him, Ilatteras felt strong enough to rise, and taking the Doctor’s arm, to sot out for tho launch. “Tho Pole! tho North Pole!” he re peated as he walked. “You are happy!” said the Doctor to him. “Yea, happy! Aud you, my friend, do you not feel tho happiness, tho joy of be ing on this spot? This land which wo aro treadimg is tho land of tho Pole! This Ben which wo havo crossed is tho tho Pole! This air which wo breathe is the air of the North Polo* Oh, the North Pole! tho North Pole!” While thus speaking Ilatteras was tho prey to a violent exaltation, to a sort of fever, and tho Doctor in vain sought to calm him. His eyes shone with au ex traordinary light, and liis thoughts boiled in his brain. Clawbonny attributed Ibis state ovor-excilomcnt to tho dreadful dangers that tho Captain had just expe rienced. natteras evidently had need of repose, and they began to look about thorn for a camping ground. Altaiuont soon found a grotto made of rooks which, falling, hnd taken the shape of a cavorn. Johnson and Bell brought the provisions there and let loose the Groculand dogs. Towards 11 o’clock all was ready for a meal, tho tent-cloth served for a table cloth; tho breakfast, composed of pem- wienn, salt beef, tea and ooffee, was sproad on the ground and only asked, as it were to bo devotirod. But before this Ilattoras required that tho bearings of tho island should be taken, as he wished to know exaot ly regarding his position. The Doctor aud Altamont therefore took their instruments aud, after an ob servation, they found that the exact posi tion of tho cavern was 89 deg. 59 min. 15 soc. of latitude. Tbe longitude at this height was no lougor of importance, for all tho meridians became confounded a few hundred feet higher up. Therefore the island really was situa ted at the North Polo, aud the 90th do- greo of latitudo was but 45 seconds dis tant from Uio party—exactly three-quar ters of a mile away, in tho direction of tho summit of tho volcano. Whon Ilatteras was informed of this resnlfc, ho asked that it should bo so set down ia a written statement, of which a ilupliento should bo kept, and which should bo deposited in a cairn on the shore. Therefore, the party being all assem bled, tho Doctor took tho pen aud drew up tho following document, one of the eopios of which is now to bo soon in tbe ltoyal Geographical Society of Londou: “This llth of July, 1801, in 89 dog. 59 min. 15 soc. north latitudo, was discov ered ‘the Island of tho Queen,’ at the North Polo, by Captain Ilatteras, com manding tho brig Forward of Liverpool, who w ith liis companions, signs this. “Whoever may find this document is requested to despatch it to the Admiralty. ‘Hignod: John Hatter ah, commander of tho Forward; Doctor Clawbonny, Alta- mont, commander of tho Porpoise; John son, boatswuiu; Bell, ourpenter.” “Aud now, my friends, to breakfust!” said tho Doctor gayly. [to be continued.] I'KEnNINAN. Nevada has lots of muhogAny. Tho rattlesnake rarely Hhuta its eyea. Sewing machine oil is the best to use on a gun. —Raloigb, N. O., is callod the metrop olis of dead newspapers. —Noon organ concerts aro being given in Boston. —A Vienna maiden thinka nothing of a quart of beer for dinner. The papers record numorons light ning strokes but no sun strokes. —Tho Salt Lako papers urge Mrs. Liv ermore for Governor of Utah. —Adelaide Phillips is forming a now opera company for next fall. —A Lancaster lad who Rwallowed a tin wbistlo is none the worse. —The heat of tho Brooklyn court room is attributed to tho summers up there. —Joaquin Miller will represent a Lon don newspaper at tho Philadelphia cen tennial. —“From Now York to New Orleans in sixty-four hours” is tho latest railroad achievement. —Laporte, Ind., calculates on a }iel<l of 20,000 bushels of cucumbers this sea son. —A field of ice thirty miles in extent still exists on Lako Huron. —Bitfinarck chopped $07,000 worth of wood last year in his county of Lauen- burg, donated to him after the ; C(» cam paign by tho Wilheimish Majesty. —Families in Spain aro pretty well di vided ou the question of parties, of which no less than twenty-six manage to thrivo nud get ulong in the land. —Tho latest fasting phenomenon is in Folsomville, Iud., where a girl of four teen is alleged to have lived thirty-seven days without eating a morsel of food. —The once famous race-horse Kanga roo, for which the Marquis of Hastings oneo paid 12,000 guineas, now goes iu front of a London cab at sixpence a mile. —Statistics show that in the last ten years, ou an avorage, ten out of every bund rod thousand inhabitants in the beautiful country of Dante were forcibly ejected out ol' tlluir skins. “Accidente!” —A Hartford architect says that build ing iu that city is r>s active as over, and promises to continue so, but tho day for lavishing great sums in private houses or business has passed away. —A small woolen manufactory has been discovered among tho ruins of Pom peii. Several charred fragments of tap estry wore found, besides various ma* chinos for cardiug and weaving wool. —Some miscreant is found to have sawed almost in two tho ladder leading iuto tho deepest part of n silver mine near Eureka, Nov. It is supposed that tho object of tho deed was revenge for past bad troatiuent. —A memoir of Gen. Burgoyne, from the pen of Mr. Barrington do Fonblanquo, nephew of Albany Fonblanquo, will shortly appear. It will contain many un published letters of the most eminent English and American statesmen of the time. —A rattlesnake with thirty-ono rattles was killed n fortnight ago on the Kowoun Rivor, iu Tuloro county, Cal. It meas ured thirteen foet in length, and is said to havo been tho largest rattlesuako over killed on the California coast. —Lowis Miller, of St. Louis, a Goman who, having been “snow-blinded,” had to abandon his occupation as a sailor, arose ono morning recently with vision as good ns ever. Neither he nor bia oculist can aooountfor it. Tub Kind of Lead in Pencils.—The ‘lead” in pencils is not lead at all,though it is called “black lead.” The weight, if nothing else, tells you that -It ii a,win- oral called graphite, (from the Greek word to write, and is more nearly relatod to coal than to load. You hove learned that both coal and the diamond are forms of the element carbon. Graphite is still another shape in whioh carbon is fouud; it usually contains a very little iron. Plumbago is another name for it. It cannot bo melted, but at a vory high heat will burn. Tho fine kinds are very soarce. Burning Ikon —A Berlin experimenter has demonstrated the combustibility of irou in a peculiar nmnnojf. Ho takes a straight bar magnot of Borne power, and sprinkles iron filingH on one of its poles. These filings urraugo themselves iu accor dance with tho lines of magnetic force; aud however closely they- may appear to bo placed, of coutso no 'two of the mo- tallio filaments are parallel, aud conse quently, a certain amouU| of air iuclosod iu a motalic sponge. Tho flame of any ordinary spirit lamp or gas burner readi ly ignites the fiuely divided iron, aud it continues to burn brilliantly for some time, the combustion being, apparently, as natural and easy as thut of auy ordina ry .substance. If tho oxperimeutor with this operation stauds on a slight olovation ntid waves tho magnot to aud fro whilo burning, a magnificent rain of fire is said to bo produood. Explosive Force or Volcanoes.— Thero has recently been an eruption of of tho groat volcanoes of Iceland, and it is interesting to note that some short time afterwards a heavy rain of ashes or sand took placo from the west coast of Norway to tho Hwedish frontier; the whole of tho country was covered with gray dust to such an extent that from a pint of snow more than a tablo- npuon|«f of *utA«a WAa US ftltof the snow had molted. Homo chemists of Christiania have examined tbe ashes, audL oue of them, Prof. Wuage, states tnat' the dust consists of little, irregular, but sharp.edgod grains, almost all colorless— some few are of brown color, and they consist principally of sillicatos. Acids extinct Homo lime, iron aud alumina Iron' their powder. Tho professor thinks it likoly that the dust originates from the eruption in Iceland. This view is con firmed by a miueralogical investigation made on another samplo of the dust at the Christiania University by Prof. Kje- rulf and Foarnloy; they recognized tho dust to consist of fragments of pum ice-stone which is identical with the llec- la pnmico-stoce. According to Hwedish newspapers some traces of tho dust fall were observed even iu tho vicinity of Stockholm. Tbe dihtanco from tho Ico- laiul volcanoes to the Hwedish frontier is about tbe snmo as that from Mount jEtna to tho Baltic. —Tho utilization of Rower rofnse for gas—an industry originating with M. Hendormaun, a Swiss ongineor—has now provod so successful as to yield nn excel, lent illumination, and this, it is stated on a scale sufficiently great to warrant the belief that tbe plan might be extend ed to moot the requirements of large communities. The apparatus employed for this purpose, aud which is built un dorgrouud, consists in a large reservoir in which the material is collected and thence run off to retorts located at a still lower level. Tho gas is hero generated in the usual way, and conducted to a tar cistern and then to a condenser. The purmcutlun in oiioctod by milk of limo, and finally by passage through clean wa ter. Tho gas thus obtained is said to burn with ovon a brighter flame than that made from coal, aud its odor, though slightly acid, is not at all disagreeable. Tbe common residues, such as coke, tar, and fatty matter, aro inodorous and per fectly utilizable. Tbe cost of tho appa ratus does not exceed that of tho ordina ry description, while the expense of the product is necessarily less than that of coal gas. wrap themselvoH thoroughly in .warm clothing thAt the evaporation from tho body might not be condensed, in which case it would full at once in the shape of spikolets of ice. There, doubtless, is some particular fascination whioh induoes enterprisiug travelers to visit the Arctic regions, but when we road such accounts as that of Lieut. Payor, wo feel quite reconciled to our lot, albeit we are writing with the •t 94 deg. iu the shade. He Didn't Advertise In the New aim- per*. Bj the Fat Coutribntor. ho, he said, he didn’t believo in adver tising in the newspapers. Didn’t think it did him auy good—money thrown away. “But don’t you advertise in auy way?” wo asked. “Oh, you,” ho replied. “I spend a good deal of tnouey iu advertising. Now, here is a good thing I havo invested in to-day. It is a tooth-pick with my nauio and business stamped on it. I havo paid a man fifty dollars to havo iny business card stamped on every tooth-pick used nt the hotels iu this city for oue year. “How does he mauage it?” “Easy enough. He keopn au agout sta tioned at each hotel, day and night, furn ished with a stamp, and whon a man steps np to tako a tooth-pick ho dexter ously stamps ono for him, and there is on the tooth-piek: *: i! ’ PUNKINHEAD.' ”7 • GROCERIES AND THINGS, j Very Cold Weather. Lieutenant Payer, tho well-known ex plorer of the Arctic regions, lately deliv ered, before the Geographical Hocioty of Vienna, a lecture which is vory refresh ing reading down here with the thermom eter high up in the nineties. On the 14th of March, 1874, Lieuten ant Payer and bis companions were at Francis Joseph’s Land, tho thermometer exhibiting n temporature of 122 degrees below tho zero of Fahrenheit’s scale. Thoy wore obligod to pour rum iuto their mouths, for if their lips had touched tbe rim of their metal cups tho same effect would have booh produced os if they bad touched red-hot motul; the rum itself had lost its strength and had acquired tho thickness of oil. It was impossible to smoke a cigar or a short pipe, tho saliva iu tho mouth being at onco formed into ico. Mr. Payer assorts that such an intense cold paralyzes tho will, nud that a man subjected to it feels nil tho symptoms of drunkenness, his movements becoming irregular, his spcoch very thick aud his mind w&udoring. Another effect of tho cold, resulting from the evaporation of moisture from the body, is a most tor menting thirst. Hnow should bo avoided then, as it creates inflammation of the throat, the pnlnto and the tougue, and it then tastes like molten metal. Meat bad to bo chopped with axes, and mercury bo- camo as hard as iron. Tno senses of taste and HtneU wore considerably weak ened, and tbe eyelids when closed be came frozen together. If they stopped walking their feet becamo^totally numb ed. Their only effectual protection was to “I am informed,” ho continued, “that four hundred thousand eight hundred and seventy-two tooth-picks are used l>y tho Cincinnati hotels every year, which iH equal to that many business cards of mine diatributed to tho public. Now fif ty dollars wouldn't buy that numhor of business cards and insuro their distribu tion. “Certainly not. Bat this inscription on the tooth-picks ninst be very small; I don’t boo how it can bo read.” “Nothing easier, my dear sir. Yon sec each agent carries a .small microscope to assist people in making it out. But thnt isn't the only advertising plan 1 am in with. Yon see Ihii pinco of rag with my «JV«I printed on it? Yes; well you prob- «onldn’t guess what it is for. I ll toll yon. Its for ao.„ B „ Hor „ “What has a sore finger cot to do with advertising?” “Everything, my dear sir, everything. Thero are over a million soro fingers in AuiorioA every yenr. At a vory moderate expense an advertising firm in Philadel phia prints my cards on rags like these and furnishes them to victims of sore Angora Luo of chorgo, so they will use them in preference to all others. A million of theso rags aro sent to all parts of the Unitod Hiatus, and I am only required to pay one hundred and fifty dollars for tho privilege of having iny name on them. ” “And you paid it?” “Certainly 1 did. I had to, in order to prevent any other man from getting tho chance abend of me.” “A sore finger, thon, you consider a botter advertising medium than an estab lished and popular newspaper?” “Well, yos, in this onse. Been travel ing lately?” “Yes; made a trip to Minuenotn and Iowa not long ago.” “Then you must have seen my business card painted in black letters on a white board and nailed to tho telegraph poles?” We hadn’t seen anything of tbe kind, “Singular if you didn’t. A man t amo along last fall aud collected one hundred dollars of me for nailing such a hoard on every telegraph pole in tho Uuited States. That was his contract, and I paid him tbe money on his affidavit that the work MP& done. But perhaps you wmu'I liutluiug telegraph polos. No, I dont’t believe I will put any advertiso- ment in your paper this week. You Ree 1 am advertising a good deal now. ” Just thou a man came in and collected a bill for sticking Punkinhead’s caul on every balloon that weut up during 1874, and effuoted a new contract for 1875,with what ho called tho “diving bell supple ment,” agreeing to attach a card to all diving bolls that go down in 187/! without extra charge, a compliment, as he said, to their regular advertisers. When we left •another advertising agent was laying before Punkinhead the great advantage of investing in a patent stamp to bo attached to the seats of boy’s pants THE ItEANON WHY. ft was not that I lovori her overmuch Tlint outdo our purling hitler; » not for the imttaon of her touch, Orlter eye*’ alitler. All fl t WHS 1 We Mill 11 (1 t for the cunning hit she wore, 'era nml luce mill h-nther, tlmt, though temperance to then ’ ‘ 'gather. Did not that when we parted her small hand ed mi adieu—\ did not to discern it; that she borrowed my umhiolln, ami —A run of luck—Winning a race. —A distant relation—Your nnt-Ipodos. —To signal a bark—Pull a dog's tail. —Farewell porformancos—Good meals. —A stamp act—Trouding on pooplo’s toes. —Most disinterestedly good—Good for UVf nothing. —If you want to bo a “swell” of the llrfit water, got tho dropsy. —Mrs. Partington says she prefers tho Veuus do Modioiuo to any statute she knows of. —Advertising for a wifo is just ns ab surd as it would bo to get measured for an umbrella. —Hint to young Bachelors—Pay your hills before you pay you addresses. —The woman who was filled with emo tion luuln’t room for lior dinner. —A man cannot expect half a loaf whou ho loafs all tho timo. —A placard in tho window of a Centre street painter's shop says: “Paint your black eye whilo you wait.” —What is everybody doing at tho name timo?—Growing old. —Tho most pompous Holdior ever known—General Importance. —“Two Roles that beat as ono,” re marked (ho boy to his mother, ns she wi\h dealing with him for bis sins with both slippers at once. —McCulloch Rays forty millions of Fronchmon could subsist on what forty mill ions of. A nioriuarin thrnvr nmny —For Dinner—A queer old gontloinan being asked what he wished for dinner, replied: “An nppotito, good company, something to eat, and a napkin.” —District visitor, blandly: “Well, dame, nnd how do you find things now?” Crusty old cottager: “llow do I find thiugs? Why, by looking nrtor ’em to bo —“I am having myself taken in oil,” said a well known physician, complacent ly looking round. “Cod-liver, 1 sup pose, ” growled an oxperienood patient. —“Your son, madam, persists in doing nothing,” says the master. “Then,” re plies tho woman, by no means ilisaon- oorted, “you should give him tho prize for persovoronoo.” —Half a dozen horso thieves hanging in a row formed a pleasing spoetnclo that met tho oyo of a rocent Boston visitor in Western Arkansas. “Six hempor tyran- uis,” was his fooling remark. —“Why, Jennie, yon look good enough to oat,” said a loving husband to bis wifo ono morning nt breakfast. “Well, I'm eating an fust as I can, ain’t I?” —“Here, boy, hold ray horso,” said n gentleman who hnd driven u wretchedly lean animal up to tho door of a village pin. “Hold him!” oxclnimod tho boy. “Hold him!—Jos’ loan him up ngin that young tree there, that’ll hold him!” —A gentleman in addressing tho charm- Jnff J tuly X, who % vn« just remarried in Paris for tho third timo, Raid reproach fully. “You do not coiuo to Londou any longer?” “Oh, 3’os,” she replied in a most natural manner, “I always pnss my widowhood thore. ” —On Monday evening his wifo asked him whore ho was going, as she observed him putting on his ovorcoat. “I’m go ing to sally forth,” ho replied; and she warmly rejoined,” “Lot mo c&toh you with Hally Forth!” —“No, goutleman of tho jury,” thun dered an eloquent advocate the other day in n Denver court, “lhis matter is for his Honor to decido, who sits there sleeping so beautifully.” liis Honor Hotel. CENTRAL HOTEL, 140 And 143 Itrond Nt., Colnmbm, tin. Mas. 8. E. Woldripob, ap21 Proprietress. Lawyers. LIONEL €J. LEVY, Jtt., Attorney and Counsellor nt lew. OounalBslunor of Denis N. Y. and otfyrr Staton. SAMUEL II. UATC'HCU, Attorney at Law. Ofllc* over WJttieli A KImrI'i Painters. WM. 8NOW, JR.7 A O0„ House and Sign Painters. Old Oglethorpe comer, (Jnst north ef poetoffloe) Columbia), Georgia. Will contract for Iloaito and Sign Painting at asouablo pricoe, aud guarantee latiifactiou. Holer to win. Buow, Hr. (aprfi A. A. DOZIER, Attorney and Connaollor at Law, l'rui tinea In State and Federal four In In Georgia Jnli Doctors. DR. JAS. ’*. WARNOOK, Surgeon and Physician. Offlco at Slaughter's Drug Store, Railroad street. Maek II. RuNuroan. Louis F. Uakkakd. HLANDVORD St GARRARD, Attorney* and Connaollor* at Uw. Ofllce No. 07 Broad ntroot, over Witticli A Illn- eel'e Jewelry Store. Will practice In tbe State aud Federal OourtK. Hotels. A DAMN HOIJNE. When yon go to Opolika, bo Bare to ftop at the A iliinm Ilousr, opposite Paaaonger Depot. L. T. DOWN I NO, Attorney and Solicitor. I'om'r and Register in llauk rtiptoy. Oflh uovvJO) over Brooks' Drug Store, Columbus, ia. H. J. MOMEK, Attorney aud Couuaellor nt Law . ieorgla Hums luMurance Company building, h ■ out/ Iy.J nml story. HINES D0ZIEB, Attorney at Law, 11AMIBXOH, UA., W ILT, practice in the Chattahoochee ClrcnjJ or any where elec. All kind of pollection* PUHiiKi). “Pay me or run away.” novlt tf Grocers. • DAN’l.K. HIKE, Family Groceries, ou Uryau hi rent, be Dealer lu Family (weeu Oglethorpe * Jack* Lr No charge lor Urayago. dec J. II. HAMILTON, Wholoaule aaid Retail Grorer, Junction nr Franklin, Warren A Oglethorpe I N e charge for dray age. ..-pi Watchmakers. C. II. LKUU1N. Watchmaker, 1:14 Dread street, ColinubUH, Ga. HU and OlockH repaired lu the bent i warranted. ju Tin and Coppersmiths. WM. VKK, Worker In Tin, .boot Iron, < opp-r. Orilur. frum .bruKd .irumiitly .1 l». 1-7 No. 171. Ilm.J M ri‘nt. HIDES. M M. HIRSCH HAS 4PMOVED TO HIS OLD STAND ON Crawford Street, Near Alabama Warehouse, Where lie will ooutinno to PAY the HIGHEST PBIOEP for Rags, Hides, Furs and Wax, 13 JUWdXT Dentists. REAL ESTATE AGENTS. JOHN Next to Proor, lllgoB k. Co., 8t. Columbus, Go. Real Estate, Brokerage COLCMHI/M DENTAL ROOMS, W • Y. PouL, Prop'r, Georgia Homo Building, Columhns Georgia. Tailors. O. A. KOSIINE, Merchant Tailor and Culler. A full stock of French nnd KugliMh Broadcloths GaSHitiieri'M and Vest loan, aprlfl No. m Brand Street HENRY BELLMAN. Cutting, Cleuulug and Itapnirlng Done iu the best style, aprili) <;»»rn»r Crawford and Front Pm, Dress-Making. MINS M. A. llOLLINMNWOKTH, )reuH-Maklug, Gutting aud iltiug. 'J'ei ms cheap. Ileniih nee atidnhop in flrownovillo. noviu Plano Tunln<tv&c. E. W. BLAU, Repairer and Tuner of l’lauoes, Organs AccordeoiiB. Sign Fainting also iloue. Oidom may bo 1m* left at J. W. Feaso A Normau'n Hook Mi or.-«« “ when they go skating. Whon thoy got j opouoil both his eyes and his mouth, and a fall his nuiue and business will bo boat- “All cwiug to your narcotic speech, ly stamped upon the ico, ho that all who fi ir.” ukate may road. When it comes to judicious advertising the race of Fuukiuhoads is vory numer ous. To Ornament » .Firrplace. —A doaf and dumb man in Texas felt in his pocket for a pencil, to write his utterances to a stranger, but the stranger, who had seen that motion iu othors, shot _ . . ,. . him dead boforo ho could draw the ex- Lace curtains would vory rood become , , .. , , . - , . ., .. peoted pistol. And now, what to him roiIo.1 boforo o fire place; be-Klex, they ‘ would be too transparent unless lined with red silk. If lined or of red velvet, they might he drawu across. The fonder should be removed; but a pretty fonder stool might he left, aud would not look | aro tho storied urn or auinmtod hunt?' —A Chicago man mot General Hhori- dan last week, and said: “Cheer up, Phil.—the war’s over.” “Ain’t too sure 1 of that,” Phil, said with u twinkle iu his amiss. A looking glass, with narrow gold j ‘V 0, molding to fit at the part inside the man telpiece, looks very well, and in that cose tho curtainfl should he draped an before a window. Wo have also seen a very pretty arrangement of plants, tho shelves for them being wooiloo boxes, into which tho pots wero sunk, and flllod np with inosn, the upright part hohiud each row of plants looking glass. Tho stauil had three sides to it, and gradual!}' decreased in size as it asoonded, and the top or third, row only held ono pot of fonts. Ferns will grow quite well in the shady cool retreat of an empty fireplace. —A man in Crawford county, Kansas, while digging a well noino days ago dis covered a bod of shells, apparently of oyntors, at a depth of t wenty foot below the surface. The bod measured tliroo foot in thickness, and the shells wero al most ft solid mass. “Ah long as a man’s siuglo he can keep out of a fight, hut when he marries bo’s got to take his chances.” —A clergyman being applied to in less than a year after his appointment to put a stove hi tho church, naked how long bin predecessor had been 11- ro, and when answered twelve yearn, he -aid: “Well, you never hud a fire in tho church during liis timo?" “No, Hir,” replied tho appli cant, “hut wo had fire in tho pulpit thon.” —A young lady was standing on tho wharf, waving her handkerchief at n schooner lying in the stream. “Know anybody aboard?” queried her companion as he cuino along. “No, I don’t but they’ro waving thoir handkerchiefs at me,” she replied. “Hand (ha!) kor (boo) chiefs!'’ ho exclaimed, dropping his bas ket and leaning against a woodpile; “why, them’s tho moil’s blurts hung up to dry.” Bbo waved into a warehouse. Cun and Locksmiths. PHILIP EIPLER, Mini IjnckkWltli, Orawlord ntroot, next JoIiiihoii'h comer, Uoliimbim, Uu. Ji WILLIAM ICUOBKK, Gun Mild Lockmuitli aud dualor in Gunning Mu- torialx. Kimt of StrupFur'n Uoufoutioimry JalB Fresh Meats. J. W. PATRICK, Stalls No. 16 and 18, Market House. J. T. COOK. Preah Meat* of All Kind*, I St«l 1m Nod. IA Mild Barber Shops. ED. TERBY, Barker, Builders and Architects. J. U. CHALMKRft, House Carpenter and Builder. JohbiuK donu »t abort notice. Finn* and N|»ocillcutionM Airuiflhed for ull HtyluM if lillillliU^N (trend Btroot, uoxt to 0. Vf. Br<v Jm9 iotuiul.il . Gm Livery and Sale Stables. ROBERT THOMPMON, Livery, Stile and Eaeliaiigo Nflablea- OoLiTUoupi, North or ?UNm>i.rK Ftb., «»ct30 Uotiiitil.n., (-in Tobacco, Cigars, Ac. MAIEH BOB*. Tf yen wuiit to enjoy a good .nioko, po to hi* JifOir Miiiiutiictorjr, Itatwi-nn GiMirxiii I loan* ami Mubcokm* 11«*i Cotton Factories. COLUMliIJN MANUFACTURING CO. MmiiiractiirtM'i* of SliMdliiRN, Slilrt!ng*. Mini 8<‘wlrtfr Knitting Thread. Cards Wool and Grinds Wln*Ht % mi Coin- Office in rear of Wlttich A KinaidX Ibtndolph at. JulK It. II. OF. If.TuN, I'n sldunt, MtM'UUKi: MANITPAUTUKISU CO, Mur .ifucturors of SIIKKTING8 siltRTlNGS, YARN, KOFN, A*. COLUMBUS, GA. 0.1*. SWIFT, President. W. A. SWIFT, Boor t. . y Treasurer. octal ly. Doctors. ns. *. h. u«. Boot and Shoemakers OPELIKA DIRECTOaV. LAWYERS. BOOTS AND SHOES. Seasonable Spring Goocls. Durable, fln. - fitting, l«w - priced Dress and Walking Boots for Ladies, Misses ond Children. Children and Infants’ Ankle Ties and Slippers, In all doslrabla color*. Gentlemen’s Fine Shoes—stylish, du rable, comfortable. A S1-I.KNUID ASSORTMENT. Substantial Work for Plantation Wear, AND A Full Stock of all tha desirable styles attrac tive to all classes of buyers. WELLS & CURTIS, No. 73 Broad St., rl4 tt - Sign of t.ha Big Boot. HERRING’S, Patent Champion Safin, ESTABLISHED MORE THAN A THIRD OF AUENTURY, REDUCED IN PRICE. ALSO TWO HUNDRED SECOND-HAND* SAFES FOR SALK AT VERY LOW PRICES. HERRING & CO., son nu.i 231 it no A i> wat, New Twrk 00 and 00 HUUBUMT *T., Ha.*—• r.bll Mods* W. W. SHARPE A 00., Publisher*’ Agents No. 2fi l’urk Bow, New York, Are authorised to tiasttad Par Ad vertising lu «sr —*• my 14 tf CHARCOAL! Charcoal, Best Quality, For Sale at GAS WORKS' At Three Cents per Bushel. npVifj tf J. W. PEASE & NORMAN, 70 Uroiul Sb, Oolntnkss. Urn. DSALSSS IS Music, Musical-Instruments, Pianos OrsAna, Chromoo, PICTURES • AND FRAMES Books, Statiqnery. Newspapers, Periodicals, Magazines, eto., eto. A Supply or all Bind* or Re*dl*ff Mutter, Papers, Mnwle, Ae., on linitd immediately »f. ter l’nlrttentlon. ' Order* for PeriodiOAIn, or aoythhM; portainintf to tho tuMinosi will bepruiautiy idled, ('ail anti L’xamfne »or Stock. YouMfty neu ptmu'tliinn; that you need. i —„■*&«. Commercial Hotel, tmtlU, ALABAMA. D edicated to tho Oommereiat Travelers of tha United States, amialljporaons trav- cling on buMiiioM* or pleoauriL - f i iNOISTfAKT PMMF Ofllce rumor Broad and Randolph Burras building. Residence oa Forsyth, three door* below fit. Clair. rv*m*eam*nftfl .UNasble. Oir. u novlft tf llUXIkJL-' Uajrtalauita.i»ut—. Pstwi Mti«Aov.ui*t. A-idfsw m. u. unw r do., AtUota, US. “