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|3 00 PEE ANNUM THE ENTE R P RIS E IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY DELANEY & ANDERSON. TERMS OY SUBaiCRIl'Tl' K. On* Copy, Three Moutlis, $j 29 One Copy, Six Mouths, f* i? One Copy, One Year, - - 00 To Clubs, Six Copies One Year - - - sls 00 ' ADVSHTISIKG RATKB One Square, (10 lines of Brevier, or 8 of Minion ) (one inch space,) one insertion, *1 00 For each eubsequent insertion, l 0 Permanent advertisements taken by contract. Advertisements inserted without speeilieation os to the number of insertions, will be published until ordered out, and charged accordingly. Terms —Cash on demand. Job Printing. are nrepared to do all kinds of Job Work, such ..rards Circulars, Hand Bills, Posters, Ac-., &c., on V ~,,’tice and at the very lowest prices, ihort notice, anu JAMES DELANEY, JAMES W. ANDERSON. VM. W. CLARK & JAM. PACE, HAVF formed a partnership, ami will transact all business entrusted to them in the counties of „ laHl , ur Butts, Henry, Gwinnett, Walton, Newton and in the District Court of the United States at Atlanta. Special attention given to eases in Bankruptcy. 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.”