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W. VY. CLARK,
oct. 3 if M - I‘ACB~~ l ‘ ACB
~~ j. 0. M 0 RRIS,
a ;.torney a-t
CONYERS, GA.
~ L . B 7 ANDERS ON,
j% ttornoy a t Xja.w,
AND
SOLICITOR IN EQUITY
CO VIKG TON, GE OR GIA.
R. A. JOW E 8 ,
D E N T I fift TANARUS,
CONYERS, GEORGIA.
Will be fount prepared to put up work in his
line, which lie fee s confident from bis knowledge
es the late improvements will eive satisfaction
>o those who may favor him —3m3
JOHN S. CARROLL,
dentist,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
"hjaw Teeth Filled, or New Teeth Inserted,in
the best Style, and on Reasonable Terms
Office Rear of K. King s Store.—l ltt
.1 A M E S M . LEVY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
East side of the Square,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA,
Where lie is prepared to Repair Watches, Clocks
«ad Jewelrv in the best style. Part ictilar atten
tion given to repairing M atehes injured by in
coai etant workmen. All work warranted.
maos isira nm swmid.
..n IR " K " T! -'.‘AM FISHER will
Id, SATURDAYS to Tuning
II ? | j land Repairing Pianos. He will
visit ii Hies in the country, and convenient
;mi t.e ou the Rad Itoa I for that purpose, ills
■,:>£ experience will enable him to give satis
ra,' L*' * o liia «"* i-casouitble.
li« is permitted to to President (jit*.
Coringlon, Gn., Apri!B, 1868.—20 if
DRS. DEARINC * PRINCLE
HIVING ftssocia.tml themselves in the Piac
tice of MEDICINE and SURGERY, offer
their professional services to the citizens of
Nevton county. Ttrev hive opened on ofti eon
the East side of the Square, (next door to s-
Oiwai.d’s and ate prepared le attend to
all calls prompt I v They have also a carefully
selected assortment of the
Very Best Medicines,
and will give their personal attention to Com
pounding Prescriptions, for Physicians and
others.
Special attention given to Chronic Diseases
At ni'ht Dr. Dealing will be found at bis
residence, anil I >r. Prinolr at his rooms imme
diately over the Store of C. II Saxubrs & Bro.
may 16, 25tf
300 T & SHOE SHOP.
(would respectfully inform the citizens
of Covington and surroiinlingeouiitn s£s4
that I am now prepared to make toor,]er*
BOOTS AND SHOES
*f the finest quality. As 1 work nothing hut
tits Best Material, 1 will guarantee satisfaction,
'hop over R. King’s Store.
6 anily JOSEPH BARBER
H . T . IT E N R Y,
Resident Dentist.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
Ts prepared with all the latest im*
provements in Dentistry, to give sat
tTXT isfaction to all. Office north side of
bstiare, —1 22tf
J(>s E P II Y TINSLEY,
Watchmaker & Jo wo Ie r
l< tally prepared to Repair Watches, Clocks
•n I It-Wfdrv, in t.tie host Style, at short notice,
All W rl; Done at Old Prices, and Warranted.
2d door below the Court House.—6tf
saddle and harness shop.
I would respectfully inform the
J'SfijrnrdjO. citizens of Newton, and adjoining
counties, that I have opened a
SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP
in north side public square in COVINGTON,
"''ere I am prepared to make ' o order, Harness,
1 a,,(li cs , >or f,| )e j aRlO a * short notice,
and in the best stylo,
7,f JAMES B. BROWN,
C * H . & a . W . F O R C E,
holesale Dealers in
Boots db £3 t* oojs ,
Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga.
Ottr Goods arc purchased direct from
7n Eastern Manufacturers. We will
Ereighnidedi-fvyl Mdrch,,nts at N ' Y ‘ jriceß “
NEW FALL DRY GOODjT
I am now opening a carefully selected stock
of seasonable Goods, such as
DREss GOODS, PRINTS, FLANNELS,
Cassimcres, Shawls, Clonks, Hoop Skirts,
torsets. Fancy Cooils, Ac., &c.
As these Goods are bought on'y for Ready
money, they of course will be Bold at Popular
£-■ _ H. L. A. BALK,
1 72 Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
PLANTERS
JGI BTA - GEORGIA.
ajE'VLy furnished and refitted, unsurpassed by
any Hotel South, is now open to tha Public,
late nn, „ T. S. NIc'kf.RSON, Prop’r. i
Skk, r s n n Ho T 0 '. Charleston, and Proprietor of 1
Dickerson 8 Hotel, Columbia, S. (J. I
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
DR. O. S. PRCPHITI
Covington Georgia.
Will still continue his business, where lie intends
keeping ou hand n good supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs,
Together with a Lot of
Botanic Medicines,
Ov'iicentrated Preparation-, Fluid Kxtricts, »$••.
lie is also putting up his
Liver Medicines,
FEMALE TONIC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL IT
Veriniftige, Anll-B*JlioiiN Pills,
and many other preparations,
J3g“Will give prompt attention to all orders.
PARTICULAR NOTICE.
Hereafter NO MEDICINE WILL HE DKLfV
ERED. or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
O A. S3 !
You nee not call unless you are prepared to
PAY (JaSII, fori will not Keep Books.
Oct, 11. 1867. O. 8. PRO PH ITT.
Dr. Prophitt’s Liver Medicine.
Certificate of Rev. M. W. Arnold, of Ga. Cun.
HAVING used this Medicine sufficiently long
to test its virtue, and to satisfy my own mind
that it is an invaluable remedy for Dyspepsia—
a disease from which the writer has suffered
much for six years—and h ung peveuaue i that
hundreds who now suffer fi-ont tiiisannoying com
plaint, would be signally benefited, as lie lias been
by its use—we deem it a dtt'y we owe to this
unfortunate c’ass, to recommend to them the cse
of this remedy, which has given not only himself,
but, several members of bis family the greatest
relief M. W. ARNOLD.
Rail Road Schedules.
Georgia Railroad.
E. W. COLE, General Superintendent.
Day Passenger Train (Sundays excepted,)leaves
Augusta at 6.00 am ; leave Atlanta at 7 ain ; ar
rive at Augusta at 5.30 p in; arrive at At lanta at 4.20
Night Passenger Train V: ve Augusta at 10.10
p.rn ; leaves Atlanta at 5.40 p ui r arrives at Augusta
at 3.00 a in ; arrives at Atlanta at 7.45 ■> til.
Passe.'get s for Milledgevillc, VA. sh-mtton and
Athens, Ga., must take the day pas enger train from
Augusta and Atlanta, or intermediate points.
Passengers for West Point, Montgomery, Selma,
and intermediate points, can take either train. For
Mobile, and New-Orleans, must leave Augusta on
Nigtit Passenger Train, at 10.10 p. m.
Pass.-p. 1 r- for Nashville, Corinth, Grand Junc
tion, Memphis, Louisville, and St. Louis, can take
either train and make close connections.
Through Tickets and baggage checked through
to the above places. Sleeping cars oti all night pas
senger trains.
MACON & AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
E. W. COLE, Gen’l Sup’t.
Leave Oamak daily at 2.40 i- m.; arrive at Mitledge
ville at 0.30 p. m.; leave Milledgevillc at 5.30 a. m.;
arrive at Camak at 8.55 v. m.
Passengers leaving any point on the Georgia R.
R bv Day Passenger train, will make close connec
tion at Camak for 'Milledgevillc. Entonum, and ail
intermediate noints on the Macon Augusta road,
and for Macon. Passengers leaving Milledgevillc
at .Y.. 50 A. M., reach Atlanta and Augusta the same
day.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
11. T. Peake, Generni Sup’t.
Special mail train, going North, leaves Augusta at
3.55 am, arrives at Kingsville at 11.15 a in ; leaves
Kingsville at 12.05 p m, arrives at Augusta at 7.25
P, m This train is designed especially for through
travel.
The train for Charleston leaves Augusta at 7 am,
and arrives at Charleston at 4 p m ; leaves Charles
ton at 8 am, and arrives at Augusta at 5p m.
Night special freight and express train leaves Au
gusta (Sundays excepted) at 3.50 p m, and arrives at
Charleston ai 4.30 a m ; leaves Charleston at 7.30 p
in, and arrives at Augusta at 7.35 a m.
WESTERN <fc ATLANTIC R. II
Campbell Wallace, General Superintendent.
Daily passenger train, except Sunday, leaves At
lanta at 8.45 am, and arrives at Chattanooga at 5.25
P m : leaves Chattanooga at 3.20 a to, and arrives at.
Atlanta at 12.05 p m.
Night express passenger train leaves Atlanta at 7
p m, and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.10 a m : leaves
Chattanooga at 4.30 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at
1.41 a m.
MACON & WESTERN RAILROAD.
E. B. Walker. Gen’l Sup’t.
Day passenger train leaves Macon at 7.45 a m.and
rrives at Atlanta at 2 p In ; leaves Atlanta at 7.15
a :n, and arrives at Macon at 1.30 p m.
Night passi'ngcr train leaves Atlanta at 8,10 p m,
and arrives at Macon at 4.25 a in ; leaves Macon at
it.jO p in, and arrives at Atlanta at 4.30 a m.
Hotels.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER & SASSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Paasfcn
ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
AMERICA M HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Proprietors.
W. D. Wiley, Clerk.
Having re-leased and renovated the above
Hotel, we are prepared to entertain guests in a
most satisfactory manner. Charges fair and
moderate. Our efforts will be to piease.
Baggage carried to and from Depot free of charge
FARE REDUCED.
AUGUSTA HOTEL.
’THUS FIRST CLASS HOTEL is situated on
-L Broad Street, Central to the business por
tion of the City, and convenient to the Tele
graph and Express Offices The House is large
and Commodious, and has been innovated and
newly painted from garret to Cellar, and the
bedding nearly ail new since the war. The
rooms are large and airy ; clean beds, ami the
fare as eood as the country affords, and atten
tive and polite servants.
Charges. —Two Dollars per day.
Single Meals 75 Cents.
I bops to merit a liberal share of patronage
from the traveling public.
Give me a trial and judge for \ ourselves.
S. M. JON ES, Prop’r-
Georgia Railroad
Breakfast anil Dinner House,
At Berzelia. Ga.,
PERSONS leaving Augusta by the 7 o’clock
Passenger (Morning) Train, Breakfast at
Berzelia. All persuns leaving Arlania by the 6
o’clock (Morning) Train, Dine at Berzelia, Per
sons 1. . iug by the freight Trains can always
get geo i meals. Tables al ays provided with
the best the market affords,
E. KLBIIUT, Prp'r
COVINGTON, GA., OCT. 23,1868.
‘‘Consider the Lilies of the Field.'”
UNIVERSITY PRIZE POEM.
...... - .
BY IV. H. ELLIN, It. A.
0, weary child of toil and care.
Trembling at every cloud that lowers,
Come and behold how passing fair
[ Thy God hath made the (lowers.
From every hillside's sunny slope,
! From every forest’s leafy shade,
The flowers, sweet messengers of hope,
Bid tlieo “ Be not afraid.”
The Wind-flower blosoins in yonder bower,
All heedless of to-morrow’s storm :
Nor trembles for the coining shower
The Lily's stately form.
No busy shuttle plied to deck
With sunset tints the blushing Rose ;
And little does the Harebell reck
Os toil and all its woes.
The Water Lily, pure and white,
Floats idly on the summer stream
Seemifig almost tod fair and bright
For aught hut poet's dream.
The gorgeous Tulip, though arrayed
In gold and gems, knows naught of care ;
I The Violet in the mossy glade,
I Os labor hath no share.
They toil not —yet the Lily does
Phoenician fabrics far surpass ;
Nor India's rarest gem outvies
The little Blue eyed Grass.
For God's own hand hath clothed the flowers
With fairy form and rainbow hue :
Hath nurtured them with sunny showers,
And watered them with dew.
To-day, a thousand blossoms fair,
From sunny slope or sheltered glade,
With grateful irteense fill the air—
To-morrow they shall fade.
But thou shalt' live when sinks in night
Yan glorious sun, and shall not lie
Who hath the flowers so richlv flight,
Mu cl i rather care for tlice?
O. faithless murmuror ! thou niaycst read
A lesson in the lowly sod ;
Heaven will supply thine every need ;
Fear not, hut trust in God.
A Living Child Without a Head.
In the vicinity of Spoon river in Illinois, is
a child that was born and has lived five years
will out a head. Mrs. -——, the mother is the
w'nlov, of a soldier, formerly living in Mar
shall county, who enlisted in the Sixty-fifth
or Scotch regiment, and was killc*J tit the battle
of Dcvington, Mo. She was standing beside
'her husband during the engagement, when a
eat lion ball carried his head completely away,
his body fulling into her arms and covering her
with blood. The shock a fee ted her greatly.
When her child was born there was not the
semblance of a head about it. The limbs are
perfectly developed, the arms Inn;:, and the
shoulders where the head and neck should be,
tire smoothly rounded off.
But the most surprising thing of all is that
the face is situated in the breast. Os course,
there being no neck, the power of turning its
head is wanting, except as the whole body is
moved: hut this difficulty is overcome by the
singular faculty it possesses of turning its eyes
in their sockets, enabling it to seo quite as
well on either side as those more perfectly
formed. The upper portion of its hodv is
white as the purest Caucasian ; from the waist
downward is blood red. This strange creature,
now an active boy of five years old, as if to
compensate for his deformity, possesses the
most bird like tones ever listened to, singing
with singular correctness everything it may
hear, and its voice at this early age accom
plishes two octaves easily.
Fun at Home.
Don’t be afraid of a little fun at home, good
people 1 Don’t.shut up your house lest the
sun should fade your carpets : and your hearts,
i lest a hearty laugh shake down some of the
! musty cobwebs there. If you want to ruin
your sons, let them think that all mirh and
social enjoyment must bo left on the thresh'
i old without, when they come home at night.
When once a borne is regarded as only a place
to eat, drink, and sleep in, the work is begun
| that ends in gambling houses and reckless
degradation. Young people must have fun
and relaxation somewhere ; if they do not
find it at their own hearthstones, it will be
sought at other and perhaps less profitable
places. Therefore, let the fire burn brightly
at night, and make the homestead delightful
with all those little arts that parents so per
fectly understand. Don’t repress the bonyant
spirit of your children. Half an hour of
merriment, round the lamp and firelight of
home, blots out the remembrance of many a
care and annoyance during the day ; and the
best safeguard they can take with them into
the world is the inlluence of a bright little
domestic sanctum.
A home with mirth and cheerfulness is one
of the dearest of earth's possessions.
During the war a woman went to a grocer shop
and found she was paying double for candlos,
so she a-ked what was the reason candles
were so dear. The grocer replied, ‘Oh it is
the war.’ ‘Dear me,’ said the w oman, ‘have
they got to fighting by candle light ?’
— — —— - «. — .. —.
Sam bo, why am dat nigger down dar in de
hole ob de boat like a chicken in de egg V ‘1
gibs um up.’ ‘Because he couldn’t get out if
it wasn't lor de hatch.’
Reconstruction.
On the question of reconstruction the De
troit Union says if the African race are quali
fied to exercise the elcctivo franchise for the
public good as soon as they have east off the
shackles of slavery, then slavery is the greatest
civilizer of modern times. The Africans, in
their history of two thousand years, with the
enlightened nations before them, surrounded
by civilization, almost in sight of Greece and
Rome, in the paliu of their greatness and glory
have nover risen above the condition of Indian
tribes. To bestow upon this unlettered race
the highest privileges of an American citizen,
the moment they are set free, before they are
educated or instructed in the first rudiments
of self-government is a solecism of the gross
est nature. The Radical mode of reconstruc
tion has disfranchised the white man, and
enfranchised the negro. The exclusion of
whites gives the balance of power to the Afri
can race. Twenty negro Senators from ten
Africanized States will counteract the vote of
the groat Middle and Northwestern States.—
Forty thousand negroes controlling Florida
would have as much power in the United States
Senate as four millions of whites in the State
of New York. The ignorant African is’fo he
made to rule over the Northern freemen by
the logic of events. The Constitution of Ar
kansas, as well as other reconstructed States,
declares that, to enable a person to vote, lie
shall subscribe to an oath which contains
among others the following test : “That I
will accept the civil and political equality of
all men. and agree not to attempt to deprive
any person or persons on account of race, color
or previous condition, of any political or civil
right, privilege or immunity enjoyed by any
other class of men.” This would exclude
every man in Michigan, and a majority of each
Northern State, who voted against enfranchi
sing the negro in the late elections, front voting
under these bogus constitutions. There is as
much sense in enfranchising the unlettered
Indians as the ignorant Africans. We can find
barbarians, natives of our own soil, to clothe
with the privilege of American citizens, with
out going to Africa for voters
Look at the principle involved in the issue.
If the white man does not swear that he will
make the black man his equal, raise him to the
highest dignity of state, make Senators, Gov
ernors, and Judges out of the ignorant, half
civilized African he is exc'ii led from voting.
What a test oath tc pervert honest convictions!
It stupefies a man's conscience, and abridges
the freedom of the elective franchise. What
an impossibility to make the inferior racs
equal to the superior by test oaths. Attempt
ing to repeal nn ordinance of the Creator to
make the ignorant barbarian equal to fill the
places that have been honored by statesmen,
sages and philosophers that have gone before
us. The elective franchise lias hitherto been
confined, with few exceptions, to the male por
tion of the Anglo-Saxon race in good repute.
This graduation of political privileges has
proved a wholesome safeguard to civil and
religious liberty. Why should we overturn
customs of a century's standing, that have
secured an enlightened government which has
protected the people in person and property
by the fundamental law? Why experiment
with ignorance and barbarism upon Iree insti
tutions? Suffrage has never been universal
in this country or any other.
o:ir women, intelligent, cultivated nnd re
fined. have never enjoyed the freedom of the
elective franchise. Why should we depart
from the practice of our government and the
experience of mankind? Shall we pander to
demagogues who tiro canvassing for African
votes at the risk of destroying our free insti
tutions : if we suffer ambitious leaders to con
trol the ballot box with ignorance and vice,
three generations will not pass away, nor the
cycle of one hundred years roll around, before
our successors shall witness the downfall of
the republic. It will die from the loss of the
virtue and intelligence of the people. It will
follow other republics in the war-path of an
archy, to be destroyed by tyrants. Coirup
ti"ii in the rulers will demoralize the people,
and ballots and bayonets will be the stepping
stones for military chieftains to rear over the
ruins of immolated liberty a military despo
tism. It is an ill-omened crisis that clothes
the commander-in chief with the civil power.
What has tho military to do with the civil
laws. Were constitutions made with cannons,
or courts created by bayonets? They were
creatures of law and emblem3 of peace. Mil
itary dictators have made law with soldiers
and enforced their mandates for the precepts
of courts. The findings of a court-martial
have been passed off for the verdict of a jury,
and the hangman's order for the decision of
judges.
Dramatic.— On a certain occasion, at a cer
tain dramatic temple, a larce was in the course
of representation, and had reached the scene
where a lover enters, seeking, almost distracted,
his lady love, who had concealed herself (in
full view of the audience) in the garden, be
hind some cunva i, representations of bushes.
‘Where. 0 heaven! where is my Julia fled ?'
exclaimed the actor in despairing accents, look
ing everywhere but in the right place.
A specimen of the genus Yankee, in the pit,
who had hitherto been all attention now exhib
ited symptoms of impatience, and as the actor
repeated his impassioned ir.quity, he was an
swered by our excited Yankee w ith—
'Right behind yer, you gol darned fool ; in
the tater patch !”
It is unnecessary to say that the applause
which followed was tremendous.”
llow docs that look? said Mr. Cramp, hold
ing out his brawny hand. ‘‘That,’said Amos
looks as if you w ore out of soap.
The October elections.
Democrats may justly cherish an honorable
pride in the vigor, courage, steadiness, loyalty
to principle and patriotism, <.f the groat party
which has made so gallant a fight in the Octo
ber elections. Considering that, two or three
years ago, the Democratic party was proclaim
ed “dead” by its opponents; that every Re
publican newspaper predicted for it the fUte of
the old Federal party after the last war with
England ; considering that Congress and all
the State governments wero controlled by its
hitter foes ; that it was overborne by calum
nies; that its statesmen were buried in the
obscurity of private life, and that four-fifths of
the most widely-circulated journals have daily
labored to bring it into disrepute and odium ;
that I lie money interests are arrayed and em
ployed against it,;.considering all these adverse
and depressing circumstances—it is a signal
proof of enduring vitality that the party Ims
been able, in the lute elections, to contest every
inch of ground against its opponents, and, in
spite of their most strenuous efforts, to come
within a few votes of beating them in an enor
mous poll of many hundreds of thousands!
Indiana we have either redeemed from the
Republicans or have come so near it that there
is scarcely any perceptible margin in the
strength of the two parties, although the Re
publicans had a large majority in that State,
and although it is the home of the candidate
for Vice President, one of the most popular
men in the party. In Pennsylvania, we carri
ed its chief city, next to Now York, the most
populous in the country, and a change of a
few thousand or even hundred votes would
have given us that great State. In Ohio, the
Republican majority is but a trifle compared
with what it used to be a sow years ago. For
a party that was so confidently and so jeering
ly pronounced “dead,” this is a very handsome
show. But our gains were not as great as the
party desired and deserved.— Exchange.
All a Setting.
Old farmer Gruff was one morning tugging
away with all hie might and main at a barrel
of apples which lie, was endeavoiing to get up
the cellnr stairs, and calling at the top of hie
voice for his boys to lend a helping hand, but
in vain. When he had, after an infinite amount
of puffing and sweating accomplished the task,
and just when they were not needed, of course,
the boys made their appearance. “Where have
you been and what have you been about, I’d
like to know; couldn’t you hear mo call?” in
quired the farmer, in an angry tone, address
ing the eldest. “Out in the shop setting the
saw,” replied the youth. And you, Dick?—
Out in the barn setting the hen.” “And you.
sir? “Upin Granny’s room setting the clock.”
“And you, young man?” “Up garret settin’
the trap.” “And now, master Fred, where
wero you setting?" asked the old fanner cf his
youngest progeny, the asperity of his temper
being softened by this amusing catalogue of
ans wers. “Come let us hear I” On the door
step, sottin’ still,” replied the young hopeful#
seriously. “A remarkable set, I must confess,”
added theanmsod sire, dispershg the grinning
group with a waive of his hand.
It will Soon Be Too Late.
By the army, whole States in this Union have
been compelled to submit to be governed by
negroes ! Ten years ago, says the Pittsburg
Post, who would have believed that such an
unnatural, horrible abuse could be perpetrated
in this enlightened land of the free! This
scene of shame nnd disgrace was enacted while
the people were confused and “stupefied with
the wild proceedings of their rulers, and tinies t
it is arrested and abrogated, themilitary power
so improperly used, will become a perpetual
establishment —a permanent instrument of des'
pot'sm set up within the limits of the Republic,
without the consent of the people, contraryjto
the policy as well as the letter of the Constitu
tion, and contrary to the declaration of rights
in all the States. Should it bo permitted to
continue, the liberties of the people must by it
be inevitably swept away along with their su
preme authority —and both linked together
from the beginning, must together perish for
ever !
“The Empire is Peace.” —The Paris Temps
tells the following story :
In a well knowu Parisian saloon the conver
sation turned, thq other day, on the question
of peace or war. Someone remarked that the
Emperors language is very pacific, that there
is nothing to justify the supposition that it
does not express his real thoughts. Upon this
a certain dignitary, who played an important
part in the Italian war, rejoined : My dear
sir on the day before war was declared against
Austria I was at the house of the Princess
Stefanie, of Baden, the aunt of the Emperor
Napoleon. This lady read to me a letter she
had received the day before from her imperial
nephew, in which he assured her that he sin
cerely desired peace, and that there would be
no war. I instantly telegraphed to my banker
to purchase some Austrian stock for me. The
French army entered Italy two days after.”
Acocstics. —A good deal has been said of
the relative swiftness of sounds. Here is the
result of one experimenter :
The sound of a word of no particular mean
ing moves at the rate per second of 340 yards ;
Praise, at the rate of 1,500 yards ; Flattery,
more rapid still, at 1,800 yards ; Good Coun
sels, only 15 yards; Bad Counsels, at 1,250;
Calumny, outstrips the wind, 2,000 yards ;
Truth, scarcely exceeds 2 yards ; An appeal to
Charity is also very slow, 3 yards.
A newspaper in Cleveland having advertised
that they would send a copy of their paper
gratis fur one year to the person sending them
“a club of ten,” received the ten spot of clubs
from a young lady in the country.
VOL. 3. NO. 48,
Died from Grief.
About three weeks ago Jimmie Johnson, a
lad some sixteen years old, loft MtOon for Co
lumbus, in search of employment, lie is rep
resented to us as a sprightly and active lad,
and left hero td make a support for himself and
mother. Ho failed to get work in Columbus,
and sent word to his mother that he would go
on to Montgomery. Soon after his departure,
which was a most grievous one to his mother,
sho began to pine and languish, and when she
heard that her sort was still out of employment
and going still farther away, she began to sink
rapidly, and actually died from excessive grief,
on Monday last. Jimmie was her only boy,
and around him she had interwoven all those
affectionate tendrils, which alone reach them
selves forth from the mother’s heart. In sep
arating himself from her, Jimmie, undOdscious*
ly, sundered those tendrils which clung to him
for life, and they withered and diod. Oh, tho
depth, purity, fondness, and affection of a moth
er's love! Tho infinite plummet of Odd him
self can alone measure it.— Macon Tel.
Strong Drink. —Alcoholic liquors are strong
in their power to‘ weaken. Rev. T. L. Cuyler;
D. D., says of £. P. Weston, the pedestrian:
“lie tells me that both while in practice, and
during his wonderful feats of walking he nev
er touched a drop of alcoholic liquors 1 lie
says: ‘I find wine or brandy the most weak
ening liquid 1 can drink; during my twelve
hundred miles from Portland to Chicago, I
only took a few spoonfulls, and then as a cor
rective of billious laxity. I drink cold tea or
coffee, and sometimes molasses and water.’—
He also says that all the men who are most
successful in muscular feats now-a-dtiys, are
rigid’abstainers from ardent spirits. This is
but ajconfirmation of that divine declaration :
‘wine is a mocker ; whoso is deceived thereby
is not wise.’ ”
Man is strong—woman is beautiful. Man
is daring in conduct—woman is diffident and
unassuming. Man talks to convince—woman
to persuade and to please. Man has a rugged
heart—woman a soft and tender] one. Man
prevents misery—woman it. Man has
science—woman has taste. Man has judg
ment-woman sensibility. Man is a being of
justice—woman of meicy.
Odds and Ends*.
A young gentleman, residing in Culpapper
county, Va., recently caught a catfish weigh
ing four and a half pounds. Inside the fish
was found a gold badge about the size of an
old-fashioned silver dollar, which had inscribed
on it “Major R.”
Wo once heard a witty woman commenting
upon Mormonism, exclaim: 'How„absurd !
four or five wives foY one man : when the fact
is, each woman in these times ought co have
four or five husbands—it would take about that
number to support her decently.’
Agricultural Jokes. —Tho Ohio Farmer lets
off the following:
Large horses are generally most admired by
farmers and sporting men, but farmers arc
most admired who “pony" up.
Because a man who attends a flock of sheep
is a shepherd, makes it no reason that a man
who keeps cows should be a “ coward.”
Farmers are like sow Is,[neither will get full
“crops ” without industry.
WoTike'to seeja farmer increase the’grow-th
of useful plants and'shrubs arousi ,his borne,
but do not like to see him use rails, poles and
beards to “ prop-a-gahe” with.
The the plantain, thejkinfi having a
red stalk, is .eakLto Bea certain cur® [for the
“hankering” after tobacco. Should there be
any of the few who “chaw” anxious to be
cured, let them masticate a little'plantain loaf
a day or two they will find relief.
Mr. Gripes the usurer, to whom a sixpence
always looks as large as a cartwheel, is in the
habitof holding his breath while the tailor meas
ures him so that his garments will require less
cloth,
A contract for tho construction’of an under
ground railway in New York has been conclu
ded with English Engineers.
New York has a clock that runs by electricity
from tho earth, without works.
One by one the steps are being taken which
mark the march of despotism. Regularly
drilled and organized Radical regiments are
common to the public eye in the Western
States: but it has been left to St. Louis to
introduce five pieces of artillery as apromine n t
feature of a recent Republican displ .y.
For more than a century, it is said, such heat
has not been known in Paris in the month of
September, as On the Bth the ther
mometer indicated ninety degrees Fahrenheit.
An old maiden lady in New York has left
all her property for the purpose of building a
church, on condition that her body and bones
shall be made into mortar in which to lay the
corner stone.
There is a steam engine in New York that
runs one hundred and twenty-five presses,
prints fifty different newspapers, makes hoop
skirts, binds books, and runs a mile of shafting.
There are now about forty-eight wells at
Pleasantville, Pennsylvania, and the oil pro
duction is between twenty-five hundred and
twenty-six hundred barrels per day.
An observant sexton says that the remains of
thos6 who are buried with flowers in tho Ooffin
iuvariably decay sooner than the bodies of those
who are buried without them.
A teacher said to a little girl at school; “If
a naughty girl should hurt you, like a good
girl you would forgive her, wouldn’t you?”
“ Yes, inarm,” she replied, “if I couldn’t catch
her.”
