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professional Carts,
J. C. M O H HIS,
Attorney at Xjaw,
CONVKRS, GA.
WM. W. CLARK A J. M. PACE,
Hi VF formad a partnership, and will iriuisaat ull
“truaied to than, in the •oimtiM of
n n t,s Henry, Gwinnett, Walton,
V^'?lwt J ooAn’(l l in the District Court of the Unit ad
ntZ * AtUt*. apeeial attention f»v«i to oases
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R . A . JQHJIJB,
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19 CONYERS, GEORGIA.
, i .ni-ad to put up work in his
Will be fee s'confident from his hnowladge
ta e in.provamentn will *ive sat,sfa o .,on
tl tJoae who - Btu »
~~~~~~ jo FIN S. CARROLL,
DETI ® T t
OOVtNOTOK, OEOHQIA..
T ., t l, FilloJ, or New Teeth Inserted,in
beat Style, and on Reasonable Terms
JAM E S M . LEVY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
’ nr East side of the Square,
GEORGIA,
to Repair Watches, Clocks
and Jewelry in tL best style. ParHoularatten
*“d J to repairing Watohes injured by in
X k"
imigs TUBE 9 AHB REPAIRED.
PIAS«J® WIIjL i AM FISHER will
*fiEjfeJ|dev«<e his SATURDAYS to Tuning
ifStit and Repairing Pianos. He will
-jit families in the country, and convenient
' einit on the Rail Hoad for that purpose. HI.
’ <>nf experience will enable him to give satis
fa#s»n to his employers. Charges reasonable.
H. permuted to refer torrw.dent O.r.
Covisgtsn, Ga., April 8, 18SS-— O.f
QEIS. DEARSWC fit P3INCLE
Having associated Uiemeelves in the Prao
tjCJ of MEDICINE and SURGEIO , offer
( (heir professional services to the citizens of
!f.wt.n county. They have opened an offi eon
the Fast side of the Square, (next door to S-
D.wald's Store,) uni are prepared to nttond to
Id calls promptly They have also a carefully
seLoted assortment of the
Very Best Medicines,
and will give their personal attention to Conv
pounding Prescriptions, for Physicians and
fIMtUI attention given to Chronic Diseases
At ni "lit Dr. Dram-no wili be fcnind at. his
resjd-r.ee, and Hr. Paxnolr at his rooms umne
dfatalv over the Store of C. H Sanukiis A I ro
may lh, 25tf
BOOT & SHOE SHOP.
I would respectfully inform the citizens g||j|
of Covington and surronn ling country
! hat lam now prepared to make to order V*-
BOOTS AND SHOES
ief the finest quality. As I wo.k noth,tig hut
An Best Material, I will guarantee satisfaction.
Shop over If. King’s Store.
, ,„41 V JOSEPH BARBER
■“ J o S~B pii T. tin sle y ,
Watchmaker &SEJewelor
I, fully prepared to Repair W stolies, Clo ks
end Jewelry, in the best Stylo, at short nonce,
All Work Done at Old Prices, and W arranted.
2d door below the Court Ilonas.—off
SADDLE AND HARNESS SHOP.
An I would respectfully inform the
citizens of Newton, and adjoining
IPIIPISk. counties, that 1 have opened a
SADDLE and TTARNF.SS SHOP
Onnorth side public square in COVINGTON,
where I am prepared to make to order, Harness
raddles, Ac , or Repair the same at short notice
and in the beet style.
47 ts JAMES_R. BROWN
11. T. HEN RY,
,X> 33 !BJ *3? I £3 T ,
COVI OIOS, GEORGIA.
HAS REDUCED HIS PRICES, so
H ,at all who have been so unfortu
| nate as to lose their n-tur;il Teeth
»n have their places supplied hy Art, at very
small cost. Teeth Filled at reasonable pric-s,
and work faithfully executed, Office north side
of Square.—l 22tf
ANDERSON & HUNTER
r
Are now ready for tlie
r ALL AND WINTER TRADE!
D UST OPENED, a large and well selected
stock of
Dry Car o o ands,
of every Description,
eady Made Clothing,
HATS & CAPS, BOOTS & SHOES,
'ery description of Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
GROCERIES,
nrdware, Agricultural Implements,
h i any and everything else that is ever kept
n First Class Store, Give us a call.—46tf
FIRE INSURANCE AGENCY.
VE represeut two FIRST CLASS Fire In
surance Companies,
The Southern Mutual
Os Athens, Gecrgia, and
he Georgia Home,
of Columbus, Georgia.
mpanies which have no Superiors, and very
r equals, in the essentials of good roapage
nt, and good faith. We are prepared to take,
and invite the usual risks at. fair rates.
M. Pack, ANDERSON & PACE,
• P. Anderson. 3m2
WM. H. GOODRICH ,
ASH, BUNDS, AND DOORS,
On hand, and made tp Order.
SBGm Georgia
cc.
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THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
DR. O. S. PfiOPHITI
Covington Georgia.
fit./
Will still continue bis business, where be intend
keeping on hand a good supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs,
Together with a Lot of
Botanic Medicines,
Concentrated Preparations, Fluid Extracts, Ac.
He is also putting up his
Xjilxtox* 3VI ©elicit ©is,
FEMALE TONIC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL IT
Vermifuge, Anil-Blllous Pills,
and many other preparations,
»gjr\VHl give prompt attention to all orders
particular notice.
Hen-after NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELIV
ERED. or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
tiro jSI. ® 3BC 2-©a
..You nee not call unless you are prepared to
PAY CASH, for I wid not Keep Books.
Oct. H 1867 . 0. 8. rROPIIITT.
Rnil Road Schedules,
Georgia Raiiroad.
E. W. COLE, General Superintendent.
* Dav Passenger Train (Sundays excepted,)leaves
Augusta at 7 a in; leave Atlanta nt Sam; ar
rive at Augusta at 3.45 p tn ; arrive at Atlanta at 6.30
P ViuTiT Passenger Train leaves Augusta at 10
p.m ; leaves Atlanta at 5.40 p m ; arrives at Augusta
at 3.00 a m ; arrives at Atlanta at 7.45 a in.
Pas—'iigers for Millcdgeville, Washington and
Athens. Ga., nmst take tin-day passenger train from
Au-rustn 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
Night Passenger Train, at 10 p. m.
Passengers 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 on all night pas
senger trains.
MACON & AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
E. W. COLE, Gen’l Sup’t.
Leave Carnak dailv at 12.4-0 r- m.; arrive at MPledge
villc at 4.20 p m.; leave Millcdgeville at 6.45 a.m.;
arrive at Cainak nt 10.15 a. m.
Passengers leaving nnv point on the Georgia U.
R„ by Day Passenger train, will make close connec
tion at Oamak for Milledgevilie, Eutonton. and all
intermediate points on the Macon -c Augusta road,
and for Macon. Passengers leaving Milledgevilie
at 6.45 a. m., reach Atlanta and Augusta the same
day.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
If. T. Peake. General Sup’i.
Special mail train, going North, leaves Augusta at
3 55 a 111, arrives at Kingsville at 11.15 a m ; leaves
Kingsville at 12.05 pm, arrives at Augusta at 7.25
p. m. This train Is designed especially for through
travel.
The train for Charleston leaves Augusta at 0 a in,
and arrives at Charleston atS.Op m ; leaves Charles
ton at 8 a in. and arrives at Augusta at 5 p m.
Night special freight and ex-press train leaves Au
gusta (Sundays excepted! at 3.50 p m. and arrives at
Charleston at 4.30 a m ; leaves Charleston at 7.30 p
m. and arrives at Augusta at 6.45 a in.
WESTERN A ATLANTIC R. R.
Cot.. E. IIutBEHT. General Superintendent.
Daily passenger train, except Sunday, leaves At
lanta at 8.15 a in, and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.45
pm ; leaves Chattanooga at 4.40 am, and arrives at
Atlanta at 2p tn.
Night express passenger train leaves At lanta at 8.45
p m. and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.10 a in ; leaves
Chattanooga at 5.50 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at
3.35 a m.
MACON & WESTERN RAILROAD.
E. B. Walker, Gen’l Snp’t.
Day passenger train leaves Macon at 7.45 am, and
arrives nt Atlanta at 3 p m ; leaves Atlanta at 8.15
a.m, and arrives at Macon at 1.80 p m.
Night passenger train leaves Atlanta at 8.10 p m,
and arrives at Macon at 4.25 a m ; leaves Macon at
8.30 p in, and arrives at Atlanta at 4.30 a m.
Hotels.
PLANTERS” HOTEL.
JGCSTA, GEORGIA.
O'EWLY furnished and refitted, unsurpassed hy
LI anv Hotel South, is now open to the Public.
T. S. NICKERSON, Prop’r.
ijitc of Mills House, Charleston, and Proprietor of
Nickerson’s Hotel, Columbia, S. 0.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER & SASSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passen
ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
AMERICAN HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot,
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Proprietors.
W. D. Wiley, Clerk.
Having re-leasel 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 please.
Baggage carried to and from Depot free of chnrge
FAR E R E D UC ED
AUGUSTA HOTEL.
THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL is situated on
Broad Street., Central to the business por
tion of the City, and convenient to the Tele
graph and Express Offices. The House is larg
and commodious, and has been renovated and
newly painted from garret to cellar, and the
bedding nearly all new since the war. The
rooms are large ami airy ; clean beds, and the
fare as good as the country affords, and atten
tive and polite servants.
Charges.—Two Dollars per day.
Single Meals 75 Cents.
I I ope to merit a liberal share of patronage
fiom the traveling public.
Give me a trial and judge for vourselves.
S. M. JONES, Prop’r.
pAVI L 1 O R HOTEL
Ckar’eston, S. C,
BOARD I*ER DAY, 83.
A, Bittteuuki.d, Mrs 11. L. BuTTKnFiKLn,
Superintendent- Troprit tress
COVIXGTON, GA., DEC. 4,1868.
A Lay Sermon.
JIT I'll I 4I.ES C. TH’FTV.
Brother, do yon love your brother?
Brother, are you all yn seem ?
Do you live for more than living?
Has your life a law and scheme?
Arc you prompt to bear its duties
Asa brave man may beseem ?
Anchor in no stagnant shallow —
Trust the wise and wondrous sen,
Where tho tides are fresh forever,
And the mighty currents free ;
There, perchance, oil! young Columbus,
Your New World of Truth may be.
Favor will not make deserving—
(Can the sunshine brighten clny ?)
Slowly must it grow to blossom,
Fed by labor and delay,
And tho fairest bud of promise,
Bears the taint of quick decay.
You must strive for better guerdons ;
Strive to he the thing you'd seem ;
Be the thing that God hath made you,
Channel for no borrowed stream ;
He hath left you mind and conscience ;
See you travel in their beam !
See you scale life's misty highlands
By this light of living truth I
And with bosom braced for Labor,
Breast them in your n anly youth ;
So when age and care have found you,
Shall your downward path be smooth.
Fear not, on that rugged highway,
Life may want its lawful zest;
Sunny glens are in the mountain,
Where the weary feet may rest,
Cooled in streams that gush forever
From a loving mother’s breast.
41 Simple heart and simple pleasures,”
So they write life's golden rule ;
Honor won by supple baseness,
State that crowns a cankered fool,
Gleam as gleam the gold and purple
On a hot and rancid pool.
Wear no show of wit or science,
But the gems you've won and weighed ;
Thefts, like ivy on a ruin,
Make the rifts they seem to shade ;
Are you not a thief and beggar
In the rarest spoils arrayed ?
Shadows deck a sunny landscape ;
Making brighter all the bright;
So, my brother ! care and danger
On a loving nature light,,
Bringing all the latent beauties
Out upon tiie common sight.
Love the things that God created,
Make your brother's need your earc ;
Scorn and hate repel God's blessings.
But where love is, thfv are there ;
As the moonbeams light the waters,
Leaving rock and sand-bank bare.
Thus, my brother, grow and flourish,
Fearing none and loving all;
For the true man needs no patron,
lie shall climb and never crawl ;
Two things fashion their own channel—
The strong man and the waterfall.
A Jumping Match.
A young man of our village, (he relates the
story himself.) who fought but did not die, at
Antietnm, and Gettysburg, went into Province
on foot, with some small articles for sale. One
night, just as the sable curtains of the evening
were being lowered upon him, he applied at a
very respectable looking bouse for entertain'
ment. He was very kindly received by a
young lady, who happened to be the only one
of the family at home, with whom ho partook
of the evening meal, and everything seemed
to our hero to bo going ‘‘merry as a marriage
bell.” It seems, however, that the young lady
began to suspect that in “entertaining a stran
ger,” she had not entertained “an angel.”—
But how to get rid of him was the trouble !
At length she asked him if he could jump well,
saying that she could jump further than any
Yankee living. This was ft ‘stump' which tho
hero of a dozen battle fields was not disposed
to take, and they arrayed for a trial of leap
frog. The young lady placing herself against
tho wall, at throe jumps reached the door.
Our Yankee now took his station for trial. At
two bounds he nearly reached the door, when
Miss Bluenose, with all feminine fascination
imaginable, said she would open tho door for
him, so that he might have a chance to see
how much he excelled her, and he took the
third leap which landed him outside of the
house.
The young lady instantly closed and fasten
ed the door, took hat, mittens, overcoat and
valise of merchandise into the chamber, threw
them out of the window to him, and told him
there was a tavern about seven miles below,
where, no doubt, he could be entertaiaed. He
went on his way meditating on the inysterios
of woman.— Exchange.
She Never Grows Old. —Years may pass
over the head, but. if benevolence and; virtue
dwell in her heart, she is cheerful as when the
spring of life opened, to her view. When we
look at a good wcji>an we never think of her
age. She looks charming as u htp the rose of
youth first blooaied on her cheek. That rose
lias not faded yet—it will never fade. In her
neighborhood she is the friend and benefaQtor.
Who does not respect and love the woman who
lias passed, her days in acts of kindness
mercy? We repeat, such a woman can never
grow oldv She will always be fresh and bouys
ant in spirit, and active in humble deed 4 of
benevolence.
“This fvohlc Animal.”
STINK AT A CINCINNATI HORSE AI'CHON.
Auctioneer on tlre block shouts, “Bring forth
the horse!” Enter two attendants, leading,
or more properly supporting, a dilapidated
equine specimen, too weak an l emaciated to
possibly walk in without assistance. He has
a head like a bass viol, his backbone is too
sharp for even chickens to roost on, and not
hairs enough in his tail to make a fiddle bow.
There arc hunches as big as watermelons on
his knees, and gutters down his sides to catry
off the rain water.
Auctioneer—“Ah! gentlemen, hero wo have
a fine specimen of that noble atiimai. the hor*#.
I sometimes think that the horse is in a way
related to man. [Bystander—“This horse is
a devili'h poor relation.”} Talk of the sagac
ity of the dog I that of the horse far surpasses
it. Look at him. See how he pleads for sym
pathy. [Bystander—‘‘Pleads for oats, more
like.”] What shall 1 hear for this noble ani'
mul ? [Rude “Hear the bell# tolling in
* day or two.”] A direct descendant from
Ib cephaluS he was sired by Lexington, Ken
tucky, and darned by—[Bystander —”Evory«
body that has owned him,”] —his maternal
ancestor. Come, gentlemen, make a bid. If
you want a family horse, of a gentle and af
fectionate disposition, not disposed to run
away—[Bystander—“Or walk away either”)
—this is your animal. Any gentleman, by
leaving a deposit of five dollars for security
against fast driving, is welcome to take and
try him. [Bystander: “For soap grease?’]
He is warranted not to pull while hitched in
the stable—[Hostler —“Or when hitched in the
wagon”]—and can go single or double—[By
stander—“He would go better with a horse on
each side of him to hold him up.”] Gentle
men, do I hear an offer? If you don't want
him, you could easily dispose of him for a
cavalry horse in the next war. lie may be
considered the ne plus ultra of a horse. [By
stander —“Yes, the knock-knee plus ultra.” | —
What am I offered?”
A voice—“ Seventy-five cents.”
Auctioneer— “Sold 1”
The bidder cries “sold,” end then all the
people taise up their voices and cry “sold”
also.— Cincinnati Times.
—o .. --*>►
Alarm and Chagrin of the Party.
The Radicals have succeeded in electing
Gen. Grant President, hut they already begin
to feel uneasy with reference to his policy.—
They snarl at Democrats because they express
the hope that Grant will adopt a course that
will fulfill his promise of “peace.” But this
is just what the Radicals do not want. They
must have “agitatiou” or they cannot exist.
The result in New York and other States
gives to Democrats cheering hopes for the fo'
ture, anu it is their desire that Grant shall take
measures to follow' out his policy of “peace.”
But lie is already distrusted by the Radical
leaders. The New York Tribune opposes the
repeal of the Tenure-of-Office act, and also,
indirectly, other reccDt legislation which has
had tLe effect to abridge and qualify the Pres
idential prerogatives. This is quitesignificant,
and demonstrates that the Tribune philosopher
is yet affected by the mistrust of Gen. Grant,
which he expressed prior to the General’s
nomination at Chicago. Grant is not to be
trusted, and Congress is to continue to reign
supreme.
Wendell Phillips sounds the alarm. lie sees
danger ahead ; but, instead of cowering before
it, be is, as usual, uefiaot. lie says:
The Times, the Post, the Herald, and the
“conservatives” for whom they speak, already
exultant at what they deem the eclipse of Rad
icalism, reckon without their host in supposing
it to be within the power of General Grant, if,
as they allege, it be his disposition, to materi*-
ally obstruct the progress of Radical reformat
tion in national politics. If tho Republican
party consents to be the instrument of that
beneficent reformation all will be well with both
the party and the country. If it refuses, it will
only be the wotso for the party.
For fear that General Grant will prove to be
conservative, Phillips proposes that impeach
ment shall be revived immediately on the re
assembling of Congress, and that Johnson be
summarily disposed of by the first of January.
That between tlmt time and the fourth of March
Ben. Wade can carry out the whole revolution
ary scheme of the Radicals. In this way the
“irrepressible conflict” is to be continued.
If this wild scheme is not consummated,
agitation will be, kept up in seme form, and if
Grant really aims at “peace” no effort will be
spared to harrass him. —Albany N. Y., Argus.
Keel the Feet Dry.— We notice in our ex
changes nnmerous recipes for making shoe
leather water proof, most of them compounds
involving considerable trouble in preparation
and more or less expense, and none of them
half so good as the simple article castor oil,
which can be bought at the drug stores for 25
to 50 cents a pint, according to your locality.
Apply it to tho'boot when dry, and heat it till
the leather is saturated. Treat the soles in
tho same way, being careful to dry it well so
they will not grease the carpets. Wo once
treated a pair of calf boots in this way, and a
few days walked five miles in satura
ted snow and water from six to ten inches in
depth at every step, and came out with feet
perfectly dry. Castor oil will keep tho leather
soft, pliable and black, though not glossy, and
quite impervious to water. — Exchange.
“Bridget, I told you to let me have my hot
water the first thing in the morning.” “Sure,’
replied Bridget, “and didn't I bring it up and
lave it at the duro last night, so as to be in
time, Sir?”
Wicked men stumble over straws in the way
to heaven, hut climb over hills in the way to
destruction.
Alas forsaiubo.
It is amusing to read Greeley's latest utter
ances concerning Liberia. Ex-I’resident Rob
berts is now in this country. lie is of course
a negro, lie seems to be a candid one ; for
while soliciting from the northern people aid
fur the Liberia College and claiming that his
Government has made conquests of so much of
the interior ol Africa as to have now a popula
tion of six hundred thousand, only some eigh
teen thousand, of whom emigrated from this
country, he also admits, according to Greeley,
that his Government has permitted the “co»-
iiuuance of slavery on a very extensive scale"
among the conquered tribes. “Efficient steps,”
says the Tribune , “should be taken to res
cue Liberia from “this lapse into a slavebold
ing province.” “Liberia” was sojnamed be
cause it was to be the home of freedmen. —
There are none but negroes there. Mr. Rob
erts does not seem to consider that an objec
tion to his plan of governing the oonquered
tribes or he would probably keep it in reserve
while soliciting money. lie is likely a sensi
ble fellow, and knows that the negro slaves are
in a better condition as such than they would
be free. But Greeley, the philanthropist
forthwith issues an order for the destruction of
a system that he knows nothing about. The
name of “slavery" is enough to enrage him
He asks no question as to why this kind of
servitude is allowed, ne seeks no information;
but commences at once a crusade against the es
tablished institutions of a country on the other
side of the world. Such is fanaticism.— Rich.
Dispatch.
Corned Beef.
At the risk of being laughed at, we propose
to tell tbs readers of ths Farussr how to cere
beef. The pickle should be made as follows:
To six gallons of water, nine pounds of pure
sugar, one quart of molasses, three pounds of
saltpetre, and one ounce pearlash. Let these
ingredients be boiied and carefully skimmed,
as impurities from the sugar and salt continue
to rise to the surface.
“Knickerbocker pickle, jast what everybody
knew before,” you say. But wait a moment,
and see if we don’t tell you something you did
not know before. When the water is ready to
receive the rest of the material, put in the salt
petre only, and when dissolved, and the water
boiling, dip your beef, piece by piece, into the
boiling saltpetre water, bolding it for a few
seconds only in the hot bath. When the beof
has been thus immersed, and becomes quite
cold, pack it in the cask where it is to remain.
Proceed with your pickle, as at first directed,
and when perfectly cold, pourit upon the meat,
which should be held down by a cover stone.
The immersing of beof in hot saltpetre wa
ter contracts the surface by closing the pores,
and prevents the juices of the meat from go
ing out in the pickle. The saltpetre absorbed
by the contracted or cooked surface will modify
the salt that passes through it, the whole pro
ducing the most perfect result.
Beef cured in this manner will perserye its
color, and cut almost as juicy and inviting as a
fresh roast. It is unlike the hard, blue, briny,
knotted substances sold at markets, and fre
quently cured at home, miscalled ‘corned beef,’
as a surloin differs from a steak cut three inch«
es back of the horns, and sold for Porter House.
Try it and see.— New England Farmer.
Things that I Have Seen*
I have seen a farmer build a house so lnrge
that the sheriff turned him out of doors.
I have seen a young man sell a good farm,
tarn merchant and die in an insane hospital.
I have seen a farmer travel about so much,
that there was nothing at homo worth looking
after.
I have seen a rich man’s son begin where
his father left off, and end where his father
began, penniless.
I have seen a young girl marry a young man
of dissolute habits, and repent of it as long as
she lived.
I have seen the extravagance and folly of
children bring their parents to poverty and
want, and themselves into disgrace.
I have seen a prudent, industrious wife, re
trieve the fortunes of a family, when her
husband pulled at the other end of the rope.
I have seen a young man who despised the
counsel of the wise and advice of tho good,
end his career in poverty and wretched
ness.
I have seen a man spend more in folly than
would support his family in comfort and inde
pendence.
I have seen a man depart from the truth,
when candor and veracity would have served
him a much better- purpose.
I have seen a man engage in a law suit
about a trifling affair that cost hitn more in
the end, thnn would have roofed all the build
ings on his farm.
The question, “Shaii we ever leatn to fly ?”
according to the statement of Ruisiaryjournal
ists, is about to be solved. In a letter addressed
to the Lemberg Slavo, he mentions the inven
tion of a ne#ehinefor navigating the air. The
motive power ie steam, and the inventor esti
mates the attainable speed at eighty miles per
hour. Patents have been granted him by sev
eral European Governments.
A singular case has come besom-the French
tribunals. A young girl, IJ, years of age,
attempted successively the. life of her mother
and sister, for the sole purpose of drinking
their blood. child has been examined by
competent physicians, ajid proved vt be attack
ed by the £(rai>ge mania of anthropophagy.
Her extreme-youth leads her physicians to
that her cure may be accomplished.
The personal expenses of the Spanish Queen
Isabella during the thirty-five years of her
unworthy reign were $89,500,000 in gold.
VOL. 4, NO. 4
A Toutm Case. —Elder Knapp bad been
holding a protracted meeting in Arkansas, and
on a certain Sunday was to have a ‘ bnjjt'.zing’
of converts in the river, in the secluded locality
in which the revival had taken place. As In
advanced into tho water with a wiry, sharp
eyed old chap, he asked the usual question,
whether any person knew any reason why the
ordnance of baptism should not be admipister
cd. No one answered for a few mojncqjs, but
atdength, a tall, straight, and powerful (poking
chap, with an eye like*a blaze, who was lean
ing upon a long rifle and quietly looking on,
remarked : (
“Elder, T don't want to intcrforc-in this yere
business, any way, but I want to say I know
that thar old cuss you've gpt hold uv, qind I
know that ono dip wont do him any good. Es
you want to get the sin out of bin, ant] save
him, you'll have to anchor him out in deep
water over night."
Advertising Aphorisms.
If you dou’t mean to mind yoor business, it
will not pay to advertise.
Bread is the staff of human life, and adver
tising is the staff of life in trade.
Don’t attempt to advertise unless you have a
good stock of a meritorious article.
Newspaper advertisements are good of their
kiud, but they cannot take the place of circu
lars and handbills.
Handbills and
kind, but they cannot take the place of news
paper ad vertiscinenD.
No bell car. ring so loudly as a good adver
tisement. People will bcliovo what they see
rather than what they hear.
Bonner, for severalJsuceessive years, invos*
ted in advertising all the profits of the pre
ceding year. Now see where he is !
Quitting advertising in dull times is like
tearing out a dam becauss the water is low.
Either plan will prevent good times from ever
coming.
The wise man of Scripture evidently did
not refer to advertising when he said, “Cast
thv bread upon the waters and after many
days thou shalt sec it again,” or he would
have added, “with interest.”
If you would mid to your business, put
your “ad,” into our list. —lnside 7'rack.
Bad Bargains. —A tuaclier in a Sunday
School once remarked that he who buys the
truth makes a good bargain, and inquired if
any scholar recollected an instance in Sorip
turc of a bad bargain.
“ I do,” replied a little boy. “ Esau made
a bad bargain when he sold his birthright for
a mess of pottage.”
A second said that “Judas made a bad bar
gain when he sold his Lord and Master for
thirty pieces of silver.”
A third observed that “ Our Lord tells us
that be makes a had bargain who, to gain the
whole world, loses his soul,”
Be and continue poor,'.young' man, while
others around you grow rich by fraud and dis
honesty ; be without place or power, while
others beg their way upwards; bear the pain of
disappointed hopes while others gain the ac
complishment of theirs by flattery ; forego the
gracious pressure of the hand for which others
cringe and crawl. Wrap yourself in yonr own
virtue, and seek a friend in your daily bread.
If you have in such a course grown gray with
unblemished honor, bless God and die.
Tt may not known that the
bodies of trees grow only in tho fall of the
year. The sap commences to run down into
the trunk from the upperjbranchcs when the
first frosts come]upon us, thus giving a fresh
impetus to the body of the tree.
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Gen. Grant was impartial in bis distribution
of favors in New York. He dined with
Pierrepont, war Democrat ; —breakfasted with
Greeley, Republican, and dined again with
Hoffman, Domoerat, at a dinner given in hon
or of Evarts, Johnson Republican.
It is said that the total amount of the claims
presented to the Court of Claims at Washing
ton is upwards of Four Thousand Millions
most of which are beyond question valid, ant!
will be allowed. “As well die for an ol(f
sheep as a lamb.”
The office-hunters’ raid upon the President
elect brings to mind Mr. Lincoln’s complaint
under a similar affliction. “I am like a land
lord,” said lie, “ who is so busy renting rooms
at one end of the building that he has no time
to nttend to the fire that is raging at the other
end.”
One of our exchanges says : ‘‘An eminent
physician has discovered that the nightmare,
in nine cases out of ten, is produced by owing
a biii for a newspaper.” If all who are troub
led with this eomplaint, will call at our-offioe,.
we will give them an excellent receipt. -
The daughters of the lato Chief Justice ’
Taney earn their living in Washington by
copying reports and papers for the Secrotary of
the Interior.
The Ilona relates a story of a monk by day
land a brigand at night. lie is said to be a ve
ry. holy friar and a very bold robber, so that it
>is difficult to say in what role he most excels,.
Gen. Grant will have control of 53,000 offiee*
and officers, whose annual compensation
amounts to thirty million dollars.
j The English language, for all the ends and
wants of human speech, has not been surpassed »
any language upon earth.
Tbe papers Brownlow “is ill again."—
There was never a time sinco the old brute was- ,
born when he was pot ill—ill as siu itself.
