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5200 ; ! i-R AXNIDI
K . A . JOKES,
O 33 N T I S TANARUS,
CONYERS, GEORGIA.
*ll b« f.und pr epared to put up work iu his
i wliitlr he foe a oouft Jenl from iff* knowledge
L n '’u„u,e improvement* will glvo .antfucuou
l thbie wild m.ry favor him —»*■'»
' J UIIX S. CARR'>LL,
D ENt I S T
COVINGTON, OKOUGIA
Teeth Filled, or New Teeth Inserted,io
best Style, and on Reasonable Term,
fflee Rear of K. Mng’a Store.-1 ltf
JAM E S M . LEVY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
East sida of the Square,
GEORGIA,
VhVre he iVprepared to Repair WatoUes, Clocks
ii iiwrirvinM.ebe.t.tyle Pam.uLratWu
en given to repairing Watch., injured by in
2 detent workmen. All work warranted.
.JANOS TUNED AND REPAIRED.
mnww wif.MAM FISiIER will
| his SATURDAYS to Tuning
T I 1 jf land Repairing Pianos. lie will
i4t families in the country, and convenient
|oi „ u „n the Rail Roa 1 for that purpose. HI.
>n £ .xperienee will enable him to give satis
.firm to hi. employers. Charges reasonable,
e is n.rrnitted to refer to President Oir.
ovington, Ga., April 8, 1868. ‘dOit
~DRS. DEARINC fit PRINGLE
HAVING associated themselves in the Prae
tiee of MEDICINE and SURGERY, offer
ieir pi ofossienal services to the ciu.ens of
toil county. Tirev have opened an Olii eon
he Ea.t side of the Square, (neat door to S
).walk’s Store,) and are prepared te attend to
II calls promptly. They have also a carefully
ilccted assortment of the
fery Best Medicines,
nd will give their personal attention to Com
• unding Prescript ions, for Physicians and
there.
peoinl attention given to Chronic Disease.
At night, Dr. Dkakusg will be found at hi.
.sid nee, and Dr. Phinoi.k at his looms imm.*-
iatelv ov«r the Store of U 11 SasoEbs A Guo.
lay In, 251f
IOOT fit SHOE SHOP.
would respectfully inform the citizens
of Covington Bud surromiding ioiihwi m
hat I am now prepared to make tooidei
800 T S AND SH O F. 8
r the finest quality. As I work nothing hut
he Rest Material, I will guarantee satisfaction.
Shop over R. King’s Store
, a „4i y JO.aEPH UAK.BER
.1 o'S MP il V. 1' i NSI. EV .
Watchmaker fit Jeweier
I. fullv prepare Ito Repair at. lies, 100 ks
nd Jewilri, io »he best Style, at short no icu,
II Work Done at Oid Prices, and 'V arvan' and.
2d door below l-lie Court House. utf
SADDLE AND HARNESS SHOP.
.jjj&ji x* v “ a, Vi j*!
saddleami haiuT'*: ‘■•nop
Onnoiill side public squar, in COVINGTON,
ih«re I am prepai ed to m ke 1 n ord r, 11; rness
addles, Ac , or Repair the same a short notice
n in the best siy.e.
y J.VMEi TL 1 ROW.;
11. T. II E N It Y,
D 33 Xti T I B TANARUS,
COVI CTOS, GEORGIA.
«r~rs-v Has REDUCED II IS PRICI S,
who have been so union u-
naie as i«» ,ose tiieir u ilurnl Teeth
in have their places supplied by Art. ai very
■ ill cost. Teeth Filled at reasonanie prices,
ho Work faithfully cxe uted, Office north side
I B,|uaie. —1 221 f
FiUE IASIRAME AuEKY.
\1 T K represent two FIUST CI.ASS Fire I i
durance Com/niiitß,
The Southern Mutual
Os Atlieu-, Go< rgia, and
The Georgia Home.
of Columbus, Georgia.
tompanii'3 which have no Superiors, and very
ew equals, in the essentials of gold manage
iient, and food faith. We nr- prepared to take,
nd invite the usual risks at fair r do*.
. M. Pace, ANDERSON & PACE.
I. T. Anderson. 3ni2
ANDERSON & HUNTER
Are now ready for the
ALL AND WINTER TRADE!
JUST OPENED, n large and wel! selected
R stock of
Or y <3r o o ands,
of every Description,
teady Made Clothing,
HATS & CAPS. BOOTS & SHOES,
'ary description of Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
lOROCERIES,
Sard ware, Agricultural Implements,
n 1 auy au<] everything else that id ever kept
i * Tirgt C I*Bsstore. Give us a call.—46t
V. C. COURTNEY, & CO.,
F ACTOR S
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
O. 9, Boyce’s Wharf, Cua ESTON, S. C.
C, COUHTNEY, ROUT. MURDOCK, JAB. S. MURDOCK
•Ut
CEO. J. HOWARD,
GROCER AMD COMMISSION MERChANT
Marietta street,
tlaiita, Georgia.
bder. lor all descriptions of Groceries filed
t lowest Market Prices.
Consignments of Country Produce solicited
riYAViI) make returns promptly.—ljtnso
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
DR.O.S. PROPH ITU
COVI NOTON (JfiORGIA.
P
Will still eentinur, hi t business, where he intend,
keeping on hand a good supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye StuflS,
Together with a I.ot of
Botanic Medicines,
Concent rated Preparations, Fluid Extracts, drc.
lie is also putting up liis
IjlvoS l ModLicinc®,
FEMALE TOXIC, ANODYNE TAIN KILL IT
and many other preparations,
|3g” Will give prompt attention to all orders.
PARTICi'MII NOTICE.
Hereafter NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELI V
ERF.D. or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
IfO SS II !"®a
You nee not call unless you are prepared to
PAY C.\Sn, for I ivi 1 not Keep Books.
Oct. 11. 1867. 0. 8. PRO PI I ITT.
Rail Ivon4 ?cliuflulos,
GeosftSa Railroad.
E. W. COLE. General Superintendent.
Day Passenger Tu vin (Sundays excepted,)leaves
Augusta at 7 am; brave Atlanta at 5 a nr
rive at Augusta at 3. i5 p in ; arrive at Atlanta at 0.30
1 Night Passcnoek Train leave. Augusta at 10
pm * leaves Atlanta at 5.40 pm;an iv .it Augusta
at 3 00 a m ; arrives at Atlanta at 7.45 a m.
Passeugers for MilledgeviUe, Washington and
Athens, Ga., must take the day passenger train from
Aimnuunl \tlanta, or intermediate pointe.
Pasrnngers for West Point, Montgomery, Selma,
and intermediate points, can take cither tntin. roi
Mot die, and New Orleans, must leave Augusta on
Ni'dit Passenger Train, at 10 p. in.
Passengers for Nashville, Corinth. Grand .Tnne
tion, Memphis, Louisvil'e, and St. Lmiis, can take
either train nird mak-d dose connections.
Tmtovoif Tkikhts and baggage checked through
to the above places. Sleeping cars on alt night pas
senger trains.
MACON AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
E. W. COLE. Gen’l feup’t.
Leave Camak daily at 1:2.40 n. w.: arrive at Milledge
ville at 4.20 p. m.; leave Millcdgevl.flo *t C.40 A. M.;
arrive at Camak at iO.VN A. M. ...
Passengers leaving any pmnt on the Georgia If.
R liy Dav Passenger train, will make close connec
tion at Cama' for MUledg- ville, Eatonton. and nil
intermediate point- on the Macon * Atignsta roafl
and for Macon. Passengers leaving Miiledgeville
at 6.45 a. sr., reacii Atlanta and Augusta tlio sai. o
SOUTH CA.IiOL XA R.MLRQ.AD
If. T. I’ftvKß, General Sup’t.
Special mail train, going Xortfi, leaves Augusta at
355 am, arrives :! t Kingsville at 11.1a am ; batjes
Kingsville at 1?,05 p m. arrives at Augusta at
p. ni. Tills train i* dcsijpicil especially lor
travel. . 4 . 0
'flic train for Clmvleston leaves Augusta at h a in,
and arrives at Charleston a(3.9 p m ; Vaxest .nines
ton at 8 a ill. and arrives at Augusta at 5 p ill.
Night special freight and express train leaves Au
gusta (Sundays excepted! at 3.50 i> m, and arrives at
t liarleston at 4.80 a ni ; leaves t'liarleston at i..jO ;■
ill. find arrives at Augusta at f*.4a a ill.
W-ESTEUN A ATI, AXT '0 R. R.
Cm,. E. llri.nsisT. 1 Atmer'iil 'hiperinteiident.
T»iillv iSUiinger train. oxccpt Sunday, leaves At
lanta n't 815 am, mvl arrive- at fthM-tanonga at 4.45
~ n ,; leaves Chat fanAoge at 4.40 a lit, ami arrives at
Atlanta at 'l pm. , , ....
KMit express passenger train leaves Atlanta at 6.4a
]| np ami arrives at Chattauopga at +.lO a in: leaves
Cliattnnonga at 5.50 ]i in, and arrives at Atlanta at
3.35 a in.
M A CON A WESTERN tIAiI.ROAi).
E. IV Walker, Oen’l Snp’t.
Dav passenger train leaves Macon at 7.45 a to, and
arrives at Atlanta at ‘3 pin leaves Atlanta at 8.15
a.n, and arrives at Mb eon at 1.30 p tit.
Nitjht passenger train leaves Atlanta, at 8.10 p ni.
and arrives at Maeon at 4.*3T> a in 1 , leaves Maenn at.
8.30 P 111, and arrives at Atlanta at 4.30 a m.
Hotels.
PLANTERS HOTSL.
JOUST A. GEORGIA.
.7EWLY furnished and refitted, unsurpassed by
A nnv Hotel South, is now open to the Public.
T. S. NICKERSON, Prop’r.
Late of Mills House, Charleston, and Proprietor of
Nickerson’s Hotel, Columbia, S. 0.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER A SASSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passcn
iter Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
AM£RICAN M O T E L,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE * WHITLOCK, Prc letors.
W. D. Wiley, Clerk.
Having re-leased and renovated ie above
Hotel, we ate prepared to entertain ties** m a
rnoßt satisfactory "miner. Chare > fair and
moderate. <iur efforts will be to .ease.
Baggage carried to and from Depot rec pf charge
FA BE REDUCE, D
AUGUSTA HOTEL.
Tins First CLASS HOTEL is situated on
Broad Street, Central to the business por
tion of the City, asd convenient, to the Tele
graph and Express Offices The House is lar
and commodious, and has been renovated mid
newly painted from garret to cellar, and the
bedding nearlv all R*‘w since tlm war. The
rooms are large and 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 1 ope to merit a liberal share of pi ror.age
flomthe traveling public.
Give me a trial and judge for \ ourselves.
S. M. JUNES, Propr.
p iYII. I O S II O T EL.
Charleston, S. C,
II OAIt J> PER DAY, S3.
A. lit rTKm iKi.li, Mrs. 11. L. Butterfield,
Kvipci iutoi.dciU Propria tr..
COVINGTON, GA., DEC. 18, 1808.
From tho Cliureli of England Magnzine.
The Loved and Lost.
The loved and lost! Why Jo tve call them lost ?
Beenuse wo miss them from our onward rond?
God’s unseen angel o’er our pathwny crust.
Looked on us nil, :\nu Lying them the most,
Stiaightwny relieved them from life’s weary
load.
They are not lost; they are within tho door
That.shuts out loss, and every hurtful thing—
With angels bright, and loved ones gone before,
In their Redeemer’s presence ever more,
And God himsell their Lord, and .Judge and
King.
And this \te call a loss! 0! selfish sorrow
Os selfish hearts 1 Owe of little faith !
Let us look rpuml some argument to borrow
Why wo in patience should await the*inurrow
That surely must succeed this night of death.
Aye ! look upon this dreary desert path,
The thorns and thistles whereso’er we turn :
What trials and what tears, wlmt wiOngs and
wrath,
What struggles and what strife the journey
hath ;
They have escaped from these and Io ! we
mourn.
A poor wayfarer leading hy the hand
A liillfl child, had halted by the well
To wash from off his feet tiie shining suud,
And tell the tired hov of that bright land
Whore.kiiis lon* journey past, they longcd.to
dwell;
When lo! the Lord who many mansion, had,
Drew near and looked upon the suffering
twain,
Then pitying, spake, “give me the little lad ;
In strength renewed, and glorious beauty clad,
I’ll bring him with me when I cmnoagain.”
Did she make answer, selfi. hly and wrong—
-11 Nay, hut the woes I feel he too must
share ?’’
Or rather, bursting into grateful pong,
She went her way rejoicing.md made strong,
To struggle on since he was freed from care.
We will do likewise. Death hath niude no
breach
In love and sympathy, in hope and trust;
No outward signs or sounds our ear can reach
But there’s an inward, spiritual speech,
That greets us still though mortal tongues
he dust.
It bids us do the work tlm: they laid down—
Take up the song where they broke of the
strain ;
So journeying til! we reach the heavenly town,
Where arc laid up our treasures and our crown,
And pur lost bued ones will he found again.
- •• -.<£>»- ..
-Uon’t Crowd.
Don't crowd ; this world Is broad enough
For you ns well as me ;
The doors of art are open wide—
. Tiie realm of lluuu'.t is fre« ;
Os ail e ifth-V places, yqii are light
To choose the best you can,
PfovM'etl that you do net try
To erov, and soine other man.
What matter though you scarce can count
Your piles of golden ore;
V.Tdlc he ean hardly strive to keep
Gaunt finline from his door?
Os willing hands and honest heart
Alone should man he proud;
Then give him all the room he needs,
And never try to crowd. _ ~
Go.m Ain u r..—A Mississippi editor having
given notice that lie would,., inform, free of
charge, enterprising young men how to make
a’forty no without capital, replies to several
anxious inquirers ; “Every one of you pull
off your coats, leave off your army sixes, quit
w hisky, go to work, make a crop of corn, cot
ton, peas and potatoes ; house them up, then
marry an enterprising girl.”
A newspaper at Salem. Oregon, says it is
called upon to deny “the rumor that tiie sienm
b'-at Owners bad employed a street sprinkler
to lay the dust in the bed of the Wilafnet river.
One of the company had dampened his feet in
walking from shore to shore in woolen socks.”
Whisky was Sheriff us Chicago last year.—
The sheriff of Chicago was Gen. Beverage,
and tiie general beverage of Cliicngo is Wltisx
kv. Eri/o, whisky was sheriff.
What sort of a drum is tflat which is best
when it cannot be beaten? Why a connn
drum 1 of course.
A negro policeman shot a little boy twice
in the city of Montgomery, a few days since,
lie was arrested taken before the Radical
Mayor, and discharged without a repri
mand.
A preacher, discoursing about Daniel in the
lion's den, said ; “An tliar he sot, all night
long, looking at the show for nothin’, un it
didn’t cost him a coat.”
A party of Federal cavalry obbed the store
of Messrs. House & Bush, near tiie Jug Tav
ern, in Jackson county, of S6O in money, and
several hundred dollars’ worth of goods.
Com) We ather in Florida.—The Gaiuesvil* e
(Fla.) New Era, of the Oth, says the leaves of
the banana plants, iu that sectiou, were killed
during the Irostof lust week. It is lioped that
the trunks have escaped very seriuus injury.
The Troy Times notes a medical consultation
at the bedside of a sick lady, of two allopathic
and thiec homoaopathic physicians; and, strange
to say, the patient recovered.
Good nature, like the bee, collects sweetness
from every Rower ; while ill nature, like the
spider, finds only poison.
AVhnt Kind of Land should be Ploughed
in Autumn t
Wo clip the following from the New York
Tim cm :
There is nothing gained, but a great loss
sustained, in many instances, by ploughing
land in autumn. For this reason a funner
should know without experimenting, whether
it will be better to speed the plough in the fall
than to defer it till spring. The following
suggestions may be off some service to begin
ners, in aiding them to determine whether to
plough in autumn:
Light, sandy limnis which rest on a porous
subsoil should never be ploughed in either
early or late autumn when grain is not to be
put in. There is nothing gained by ploughing
light him! of any kind in autumn, Asa gen
eral rule, ploughing such land in autumn or
winter does riot exert uny ameliorating effect
upon the productiveness of the land. When
there is so much sand in the soil that it
may be ploughed, even without any fear
that the surface w ill bake nnd become cloddy,
the-land should never be ploughed in autumn.
On tiie contrary, when the soil has only a limi
ted proportion of clay and 1 ime in it, by plough
ing iaautumn the productiveness may bo large
ly increased. In many instances, if land be
ploughed up neatly aud deep iu Into autumn,
the ameliorating influence of the alternate
frosts aud rains us winter will be so marked
that the laud which was ploughed in lute au
tumn will frequently produce quite ns large
crop without the application of any fertilizers,
as the same ground would yield if a dressing
of manure were applied when the ground is
ploughed in the spring. All heavy laud will
be greatly iinproyed by autumn ploughing, as
the frost w ill break up the solidity ot thefurrow
slices and lumps. Most of the heavy laud ou
(he slopes us lakes uud livers, if ploughed at
any time before the ground freezes up, will not
require a second ploughing next spring, pro
vided the ploughing is performed in a neat
and workman-like manner. If the land is in
sod, unusual pains should be taken to run fur
rows an inch or two deeper than the plough
bus heretofore run, so us to turn up a little of
the subsoil that has never been brought to the
surface. Speed the plough.
How to Select a Fowl.— A young turkey
bus a smooth leg nnd a solt bill and the eyes
will he bright and the feet moist. Old turkeys
have scaly, stiff feet. Young fowls have a ten
der skill, smooth legs and the breast bone yields
readily to the pressure of the finger. The best
are those that have yellow legs. The feet and
legs of the old Fow ls look as if they had seen
hard »ei vice in the world. Young ducks feel
tender under the wing, and the web is transpa
rent. Tho best are thick and harden
Young geese have yellow bills, and the feet
are yellow and supple ; the skin may be easily
broken h) the head of a pin, the breast is plump
and fat white. An old goose is unfit for tho
human s'c iti.ich.
The Boston Courier thinks that a man witli
thirtv or forty millions of official patronage to
distribute, like Gen. Grant, cannot fail to be
followed, odvised, lured, adored, "button-holed,
lieksoittled, annoyed, hunted,bored, nnd driven
to the verge of desperation, or thrown into a
chronic dialrl.oca.
Mere tulgar wealth is the only social test of
respectability in this country. We have got
rid of rank to Low before the golden calf—
money. Human nature among us lias lost all
its dignity and self-respect in the vulgar scram
ble for wealili. It is a humiliating spectacle.
Business is our real religion, and our thoughts,
like these us Milton’s Muloiber, are downwaid*
bent. But why moralize ? Every age and
country has its peculiarity and peculiar ten
dency .
Goon News For Literary Men.—There is
an eccentric gentleman in this city, who, it is
rumored, intends to bequeath his large fortune
after his death, for the erection of an asylum
for decayed wits, who are to he taken in a.
soon as they grow dull, at whatever time of
life that may happen. A branch of this ;n
--stitutfon is to take charge of careless writers
who omit quotation marks, and the library of
those addicted to word mongcring and Carly
lisms is to consist of the “Jack the Giant Kil
ler scHes,” and other purist works, Those in
the habit tis wrapping up threadbare thoughts
in hard words and ponderous adjectives, will
he compelled to deliver lectures suitable to the
comprehension of Fourth Ward audiences. It
is anticipated that the admissions into this in
stitution will he very numerous. —New loci
Democrat.
Extravagance and Waste.
Tho New York Tribune thus exposes the
wasteful system nnd cost of collecting the re
venues under the legislation of its own party:
“Os 41,0()0 officers of the Government, upward
0fT9,000 are appointed through, and are under
the order, of the Secretary of the Treasury.
We do not think it ought to require two officers
lo collect and pay out the money necessary to
pay the other three for the service* they per
form. But jt ia true that two fifths of the
officers of the United States are doing only this
and nothing more. This shows that our laws
for collecting public revenue are less wisely
adapted to the end than our rules for transact
ing private business.!’-
A contract has been signed to finish the rail
road between Selma and Montgomery hy the
first of November, 1869. The completion of
this link of forty-four miles, with that of the
air-linc from Charlotte to Atlanta, will form an
unbroken and very direot line of railway from
Vicksburg to New York.
A great poet says “the mountains stand fixed
Urover.” We know, however, that it is no
uncommon thing for them to slope !
Remarkable Geological Discoveries.
Wo find the following very interesting nos
count of remarkable geological discoveries in
the Buffalo Courier, of the 9th ult.:
There arc now on exhibition at the rooms of
the Society ol Natural Sciences, in this city,
two of the most remarkable discoveries record
ed in the annals of science. That is, of course,
if a critical examination by the leading savatts
of the scientific world shall pro.e them to be
wlmt their discoverers claim. One is the fossil
imprint of the foot of a man, or rather the cast
of such nn imprint. It was discovered by a
workman in a colliery in Western Fennsylvaia,
in the shale overlnying a run of coal, and un
derlaying two other veins which wore being
worked by the oompnny.
The spot where it was found is nearly a mile
from the pit’s mouth, and some three hundred
feet from the surface. The rock in which it
was embedded belongs to the paleozoic age,
and the imprint, if snch it be, was made mil
lion. of years before the present geological era
commenced. It is the cast of tho left foot of a
man of ordinary size, and is perfectly defined.
The foot was evidently protected by a sandal
or moccasin ; the heel, the arch, and the bull of
the foot, and slighter depression made by the
toes are perfect, and whether produced by the
foot of a man, or a freak of Dame Nature, the
cast is as perfectly defined as if it were the
work of a sculptor.
By a curious coincidence, the siwietv, a few
days before this donation, received the second
specimen from the Rev. S. Cowles, ofGowanda.
It is a large slabof sandstone, on which, stamped
in the solid rock, can be seen the imprint of
liorsos’ hoofs, as perfectly presented as though
they were formed but yesterday upon a muddy
bank of a sluggish stream. There are at least
half a dozen of these impressions, varying in
size from the track of a full grown horse to that
of a young colt.
They point“in different directions, as though
the animals were leisurly walking about crop-
ping the luxuriant grasses of that tropical pe
riod, some of them being partially obliterated
by the more perfect form of a fresher imprint.
Mr. Cowles has sent similar specimens to the
professors of Yale and other colleges, und we
look with interest for the theories of those high
authorities respecting the nature and character
of the tracks, by what formed, and the condi
tion of the earth at tho date of their formation.
If the theories of the discovert rt be correct, tl •
result will be to entirely overthrow the present
geological system and to further complicate
that terrible question, the effort to solve which
has cau-ed learned men so many soul-disturbing
doubts and fears, and whicli brought Hugh
Miller to so tragical an end—that is, whether
the geological nnd scriptural records of the
world’s creation are reconcilable ?
The fossil foot print was presented to the so
ciety by John Magee, Esq., now in Europe.
Nobly Said.
lion. J. B. Henderson, a republican Sena
tor from Missouri, out of favor with his party
for voting on tho side of the President in the
impeachment trial, in a recent letter to his
colleague, Mr. Drake, thus deprecates the pol
icy of disfranchising the white people of the
South in order to strengthen the Radical
party :
A perfect system of morality will not sanc
tion wrong that good may come of it. Good
never comes from such a course. Men do not
gather grapes of thorns nor figs of thistles.
Sweet waters do not spring from bitter foun
tains. The enslavement of the white man is
not likely to bring about the liberty and hnb
piuess of the negro. Freedom is a fruit that
does not grow on the stock of oppression, graft
and bud it as you will.
Rather than place our party in tho attitude
which you indicate, let us try the amendment
to-day, and if defeated let us then enfranchise
our own race nnd try it again. People will
believe that we are actuated by a true love of
liberty when they find no cause to suspect us
of a wish to enfranchise those who vote for us
and to disfranchise those who vote against
us.
I propose to secure the negro’s rights by an
appeal to reason, and not by tho permanent
enslavement of a large body of our own race,
who tire as loyal and deserving as either
of us.
A Weston in North Carolina. —lt is said
to be a fact that Johnnie McDonald, although
employed every day in Raleigh, as an officer of
th« Legislature, takes but one meal per day in
lhat city. He walks to his home, in Chatham
County, forty miles from Raleigh, every
evening, and back the next morning; nnd still
we hear, he complains very much of his se
dentary habits.— CK. Cbu.
The editor of the Uynthiann (Ivy.) News, in
making an appeal to his subscribers, who ure
in arrears, to pay up, says: “We hope they
will settle without delay. Not that wo need
money—oh, no! Our ink is given to us, we
steal our paper, and we win our printers’ wages
at ‘seven up.’. So it costs us, nothing to carry
on our business. Nevertheless, as matter of
accommodation, and to case our consciences,
we will take what they owe us if they will send
it immediately.”
Never allow misfortune to make you selfish,
but imitate the example of Fenelon, who when
his library was on fire exclaimed, “God bo
praised that it is not the dwelling of a poor
man.”
The world looks with cold respeck upon nn
ackt ov justiss, but heave up their hats at a dis
play ov metsey. Yet the one is the strength
ov virtue, while the other iz most olten its
greatest weakness.— Josh Billings.
A good wife exhibits her love for her husband
by trying to promote his comfort constantly.
VOL 4, NO. 6
The Coining Girl.
She will vote, will ho of some use it! tho
world, will cook her own food, will earn her
living, and will not die nn old maid. The
coining girl will not wear the Grecian heml,
.lance the Gorman, ignore all possibilities of
knowing how to work, will not endeavor to
break the hearts of unsophisticated vounginen,
will spell correctly, understand English beforo
she affects French, will preside with equal
grace at the piano and the washboard, will
spin more yum for the bouse than for tho
street, will not despise her plainly elad mother,
her jieor relation!*, or the hand of an honest
worker, will wear a bonnet, speak good, plain,
unlisping English, will darn her own stock,
ings, will know how to bake doughnuts, and
will not read the Ledger oltener than she does
her Bible.
Tho coming girl will walk five milos a day,
if need be, to keep her cheeks in glow, will
mind her health, her physieal development and
her mother, will adopt a costume hath senjihle
and conducive to comfort and health ; will not
confound hypocrisy with politeness ; will not
practice lying to please instead of frankness ;
will have the courage to cut an unwelcome
acquaintance; will not think that refinement
is French duplicity, th'nt assumed hospitality
where hate dwells in the heart is bet
ter than outspoken condemnation ; will not
confound grace of movement with silly affec
tation, will not regard the end of her very be
ing to have a beau, will not Bniilo nnd smile,
and he a villian still.
The coming girl will not look to Paris, but
to reason for her fashion : will not aim to fol
low a foolish fashion because milliner, and
dressmakers have directed it; will not torture
her bodv, shrivel her soul with puerilities, or
ruin it w ith wine and pleasure. In short; the
coming girl will seek to glorify her Maker, and
to enjoy mentally his works. Duty will be
her aim, and her life a living reality.
An Vlteetiug Scene.
The Richmond Enquirer, of a few days
since has the following :
“An affecting scene took place a few day.
since at the police station, which melted more
than one heart to tears. A young man of most
respectable connections had been arrested fi r
drunkenr e sand disorderly ci a luct, and wi •
raving like a maniac in his cell, when his aged
mother attired in widow’s weeds, entered the
station house, and requested to be allowed an
interview. The request was granted, and shs
stood face to face witli her erring son. The
surprise almost sobered him for amoment, and
he greeted her with manly tenderness, but the
demon soon broke forth in fresh ravings. The
mother endeavored to calm and soothe him,
but without avail ; his dulled ear was deaf
even to the tones of natural love, and retiring
from the cell she sank into a seat, while the
sobs so Jong choked down, burst forth with
passionate veheinonoe for her son—her failed
son, her fond hope and pride, the prop and
stay of her old age—for whom she would wil
lingly have laid down lier lifo. For two hours
her uncontrollable agitation had full sway and
then, with an effort of calmness, she depar
ted.
It|was a scene which nonocould view with
out emotion and spoke in thunder tones of the
evils of strong drink. For your own sake,
for God’s sake, spurn the intoxicating bowl.
It is fraught with ruin to body and soul; it is
a liquid fire; distilled damnation, the strong
est of all the devil’s potent enginery. Don’t
drink. The ruby bowl may invite, but there
is death in every sparkle ; tears and sighs in
every glowing drop. It will deprive you of
health, fortune, reputation and friends; mar
your every prospect, blight your every hope,
bring down the gray hairs of your parents in
shame and sorrow to the grave, and finally
consign you, a poor, bloated, disgraced wretch
to a panper’s’ trench in Potter’s Field. Boy’s
don’t drink."
Wise men arc instructed by reason; men
of less understanding by experience ; the most
ignorant by necessity; and beasts by na
ture.
A good thing is worth till the pain it costs; a
bad one is to bo rejected, let the struggle be
wliht it may. On a good thing there is no
discount, but on a bad one there is nothing but
discount; those who have tried both will en
dorse what we say.
Katiier llaro on tub Meades.— Columbus
Sun, speaking of the alleged insanity of Com
modore Meade, now in the Insane Asylum at
Bl'iuiuiiigduie, New Yaik says: “The insani
ty of this Meade is no new thing. He has
been considered crazy for u long time. If
friends of the family will undertake the case,
we will furnish the proof necessary to put the
brother, in this State, in a public institution of
a different character. "
Would the editor put him in a “sweat box?”
Recently in Paris a girl eleven years old
stole a meerschaum pipe from a shop window,
and was detected in the act. Being asked what
she wanted with such an article, she replied s
“My lover wished one, and I determined to
gratify him.”
The idea that an editor is only a poor devil
of a fellow is all wrong. lie makes public
opinion, he makes money, and he often makes
men ; and, therefore, he is some consequence.
—Mobile fllgister.
There is a tailor in New Orleans named
Stitch, a shoemaker named Kick, a dentist
named Gumpert, a gunsmith named Lock, and
a carpet-bag clergyman named Satchell,
Kinder is the looking-glass than the wine
glass: for the former reveals our defects to
ourselves only—the latter to our friends.