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200 lift ANNUM
U/lfl W. CLARK & J. M. PACE,
■ ,rr termed « i .artnawMp, and will trail*:.-.! all
■1 A' E ,o '' rlllr ,iHto4 10 them in the counties of
Rr r . ;*Ki.triUCourt ot tUe United
Kj ,t Atl**"*. Speahd nttuntion given to cases
yf w O i,AHI,
■ j' M. r.\tic.
' H . A . JONES,
■ -rr» X'aT I Q
W COXYKHS, GEORGIA.
1 , lm e .are lio pul lip worlc in lit*
-Mil be ' „ c , )U ii lent from hi* knowledge
whiel' he u • , w pf yivo satisfaction
|*;k'-
Wf" ' JOllvN s. CARROLL.
m, E N T i- ■
covisoroN, OEOKUIA
Teeth Filled, or Sow Tectl.ln-ei-le.l,in
■S&U'bee' style, and on ReasonaLk Tern,
q|Xrofß.
H j A m E S M • Llt V 'i .
ifatchirvaker & Jeweler,
Repair Watches, cU'Vs
■ ere I* l best Style. Particular alien
■ nag DEARINC 4 PRINGLE
MJosgoaiated themselves in the l’rac-
SPtiJ'of MKDICINi: and SI UGEKV, offer
K professional^^-
R:; t C s ?r y of (next, door to *•
■Ja.u’s Store,) and ate prepared to attend to
■ ealis promptly. They have also a ea,dully
Htcled assortment of the
■ r r sest Medicines,
:B| w i!| oive their personal attention to Oonr
Blading Prescriptions, lor Physicians ant
Kcial attention given to Chronic Disease.
K, n ; ,t,t Dr. Bearing will he found at Ins
■L ICC and 1 »r. Pringle at hi* room* 5.m.,-
BJ,>»;-'• "'<= sto « ° r 11 SAsuE ' ts * bho -
Zv 15, 2ot.f
Boot & shoe shop.
■ *Olll.l respectfully inform idle. c . im *" s ft£j
■of Covington and stirroiiu hngcountrt fg IJ
K r am now prepared to make to order
■ boots and shoes
Btiir finest quality- As I work noth,Jig but
li es t Mat,wi 11, I will guarantee salistaclion.
Khopover R. King'* Store BAliilEK
a 11 4 1 >
B jT> sk m! y. tTuTsT ev,
Watchmaker & Jeweler
■l. f illy prepare 1 t.. Repair Matches t lo ks
«: Jewel,-V, in the best style, at short no ice.
Work Done at Old Price*, and W arrant, and.
2il don, below the Court House. —ott
Saddle and harness shop.
1 would rcsp.-clfull/ inform the
citizen* of Newt.. ■. e«d adjoining
tiiat 1 have Opened a
8 AIHti.E and H ARNE'S "Ml OP
fluani tit side public square ill COVINGTON,
[ am prepared to make 1 o ord t. Harness
Ac, nr Repair tlts same a’ short notie t
nr the best si v e.
»ts JAMES fy Rll OWN
11. T. II ENIt Y,
W> 33 W T 2 © T 3 ,
| covroroN, gbokgia.
Has UEDLTEI) Ills PPTCKS, *••
mV that all y, ho hive been So u..t'.<r u
nale as to mso their natural Teeth
have their plane* *u;q> ied l.y ,vit, at very
■tail cost Teeth Fi led at ream, a 1 ■ popes,
work fai'ljfolly exotuted, office tiorili sid.-
j^Hsqume.— 1 —tit 1'
I Filtti mmXCE AuEXtV.
T K V4*jvrfcsci.it two FIRST CLASS Hire lu
auranee Companies,
■The Southern Mutual
l Os Athull*, Geirgis. aul
the Georgia Home,
of t’oluuibu-, Go' rgiu.
which have no Superiors, slid very
Br equal*, in the essentials of goui manage-
Mrntpaml good tuitr. IVeßr* prepared t o taL, ,
Ad invite the u£uai risks ui fi,ir v. t< *.
■M Pace, ANDERSON* & PACE.
■S. 1Y Anderson. 3iii2
MnDERSON & HUNTER
* Are now ready fo* - the
•LL AND WINTER TRADE!
' TUNED, a large ard well selected
stock of
B** y Gr O O <3. Js* ,
of everyjlescription,
J§© ady Made Clothing,
B IATS & CAPS. BOOTS & SHOES,
Wtoy description of Gents’ Furnishing Goods.
HOCEK I E S ,
B r Aware, Agricultural Implements,
*ny and everything else that, is ever kept
Fir«t Class Store. Give us a eall.-4P>t
m CEO. J. HOWARD,
■ OCER AND COMMISSION MERChANT
Marietta street,
. Georgia.
’°r all descriptions of Groceries filed
Market Prices.
of Country Produce solicited
make returns promptly.-—Bmso
■■ c - COURTNEY, & CO.,
F ACTOR S
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
®> Joyce’s Wharf, Charleston, S. C.
»®. COUuTtSEr, lIOBT. MURDOCK, JAS. 8. MURDOCK
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
DR. O. S. PROPHITI
Covin uto n <>ri> hnt a .
m ■
Will gtill c triune hi. Inisiness, whe.c he intend
keeping on hand a good supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Ciis, Dye Stuffs,
Together with a Lpt of
Botanic Modici n c^p,
Concentrate 1 Fluid *l'e.
lie is tils,, nutting up his
LiTror P.>Eoc2.iclxi.cjs3,
FEMU.,E TONIC, ANODYNE PAIN KIM, IT
Tcrniifugc, V»li-!s!!|«us IT!!*,
and trauy nt'.er preparations,
iyWjll g»0 pm apt attention lo ul! orders
I» UITICIfI-tll KOTICE.
Hereafter NO MNDICINE M'lLI, EE DEM V
ERE ), or SERVICE RENDERS), ex.cpt, for
CW-O ASH S“«a
You nee not call unless you are prepared to
PAY CaSIT, for l wi 1 not Keep Rooks.
Oct. It. 1807. O. S. PRO PH ITT.
Kail Road Schedules.
Georgia ItolSrond.
F,. \Y. COER, General Supciintcndent..
Dvy Ps'SHNOKtiTnAtN (Stm lays exoej.ted,)leaves
Augusta at 7 a m ; leave Atlanta at n a. m ; ar
rive at Augusta at 3.15 pin ; arrive at Atlanta at 0.30
P NiuUT TassknokuThain leaves Augusta at 10
tun ; leaves Atlanta at 5.40 p m ; arrives at Augusta
at 3 00 a m ; arrives at Atlanta at 7.4a a ni.
Passengers for Milledgcville, Wanhiugton and
Athens, Go., must take the day passenger train from
Am-ust:v.altd Atlanta,,or iuternualiate p,oints.
?7ts.sim-ers for West Point, Montgomery, bclma,
and intermediate points, can take either tram. 1- or
Mobile, and New Orleans, must leave Augusta on
Nig'ht Passengi r Train, at 10 p. 111.
Passen'scrs for Nashville, Corinth, Grand .Tunc
tion, Memphis, Louisville, and fit. l.oui*, van bike
either train and make close, eomieeljov.s.
Tjibquqb Tickets ami liaggage eheeken througli
to the above places. Sleeping ears on at! night pas
senger trains.
MACON .t AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
E. IV. COLE, OcnT Bui'’t.
Leave Camak daily at 1-M0 v. m.: arrive ut Vi%dge
vide at 4.-id f. M.; leave_ Mille lgevUle al 0,4.) A. M.;
ai tive at Camak at It* !•"> a. m. , . _
lkusseugers leaving any point on L.ie Georgia K.
n by l)av Passenger train, will make close eo.nn.ee
tion at Camak for Miliedgeville, Fatoulon. ami a l
intermediate points m> tin: Miumn* Augwto mad,
and for Macon. Passengers leaving Midedgeude.
at (5.15 A. m., reaeli Atlanta and Augusta tlie same
day.
ROUT!I' CAROL XA Ii \iLROAD.
11. T. Peake. General B‘iip’t.
Special mail train, going North, leaves Augusta at
3 55 a til, arrives at Kingsville at 11.15 a in ; leave*
Kingsville at.fci4fijl Kb .irrivtf.sit .Atitaigia ,U T.io
p. in. This train is designed especially for through
travel.
The train for Charleston leaves Augusta at (> a m.
and arrives at. C'tiarh-tnn at3.o pin : leaves Charles
ton at Sa m, and arrives at Augusta at t> »'•
v briit rpeeia! freight and express train leaves Au
,rwt a '(Sundays excepted) at 3.50 pm. and arriver-at
Charleston at 4.30 am; leaves Cluirleston at <..30 ]>
tn, and arrives at Augusta at 0.15 a in. •
WFSTKI.’N & ATLAXTIO R. R
Coi.. E. I!u.BF.KT. General Superintend,mt.
Daily imssenger train, except Sunday, leaves At
lanta a't 8.15 am, and arrives at Chattanooga at t.4.>
|, m ; leaves Chattanooga at 4.40 a v.i, and arrives at
Atlanta at p tn.
Ni'riit express passenger train leaves Atlanta at t>.4.>
p in" ami arrives at Chattanooga at 4.10 am; leave*
Chattanooga at 5.50 p m, and arrivo* tit Atlanta at
8.35 a m.
MACOX ,fe VYFSTKRN RAILROAD.
E. H. Wai.keb, C.eu’l Sup’t.
Dav passenger train leaves Macon at 7.45 a m.aml
arrives at Atlanta at C y tn ; leaves Atlanta at 8.15
n.t\, ntid orrivc r P Ma<*on i\t I.SO p rii.
Nijrlit pMsscivjDr tniin Atlanta at S.lO p m,
and jTniv«w,ot Macon at 4.25 \ni r. lißn Ma<*on at
S.:>o p in, and sjrfivw at Atfinta af am.
Hotels. .
PLANTERS HOTEL.
JOt" 8T .V O EO R OIA.
furnished and refitted, unsurpassed by
iX anv Hotel South, is now open to the Public.
T. S. NICKERSON, Prop's,
bate of Mills House. Charleston, and Proprietor of
Nickerson’s Hotel, Columbia, S. C.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA OROIMHA
WHITAKER A SASSEEN, Pvoprielors.
Witliin One Hundred Yards of the General Pasicn
gm- ])e|)oß corner Alabama and Prior streets,
AMERICA?* HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Neat est, house to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Pro ictors.
W. D. Wiley, Clerk-.
Having re-eascl and renovated ,e above
Hotel, we are prepared lo entertain it, Mama
most snlisfac'ory manner. Cliarlt i fair and
moderate, ('nr efforts will be to .ease.
Baggage carried to and from Depot ree of charge
fare re and u c¥d
AUGUSTA HOTEL.
rnHAS FIR NT CLASS I.IOTEL is situated on
X BroadMri'et,'Central to the business pn r .
lion of the City, and convenient to the Tele
graph and Express Offices The llpuse is lar
and commod'n us, and has been in novated and
newly painted from garret to Cellar, and the
bedding nonrfv all new since the 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 pa ronage
fiom the tr iveting public.
Give me a trial and judge for lotirselve
S, M. JONES, l’rop'r.
I» AVII* IO N HOTE L.
Charleston, S. C,
BOARD PER day, *3.
A Btrrrrtritm, Mrs H. L. Buttkrf, k,
Sujiti iuei.deut Proprietr.
COYIXGTOX, GA., DEC. 25, 1808.
This is exceedingly fine. Rarely indeed
litts that little island “ rounded with sleep'’
been so gloriously illuminated by the sunlight
of genius :
Life! Death!
nr REV. \\ . It. PLATT.
I
Life is a mystic woof
Piled by n spindle drear
TV caving the threads of care
Wet with affection's tear.
Rut Death mutely stops the spindle's swift
flight
And severs our knotted thread ;
While the tears of earth’s millions are dried at
the tomb
Where angels watch over the dead.
Life is a bioken hope,
Life is a weary sigh,
Life is a faded dream,
Life i* a dread to die.
Rut Death near us glides, with a dark veiled
filed!'
And waves us in silence away,
Where hope is fruition and sighs arc sweet
shngs,
And dreams are the wings of the day.
Lifo is a shadowed light,
Life is a Pilgrim's hymn,
Life is an echo strange
Heard in the twilight dim.
But Death soon unveils man's shadowless day
And shelters the traveler lone ;
The echoes of eartli are all lost in the strains
That swell from the Master's Throne.
Life is a thought worked out
Worked on a stage sublime—
Worked ‘neatli the Angels’ eyes—
Worked in the tasks of Time.
Rut Death early ends l>oth the thought and the
tasks—
Ends both in a rapture sublime,
While the Angels bend o'er him in jubilant
hands,
And crown the True Worker of Time.
Life is the breath of God,
. Life is his smile or frown,
, Life is the victim's cross,
Life is the victor's crown.
Rut Death takes the breath from earth hack to
God ; ,
On guilt bends his withering frown ;
While the smile of lit* love, in radiant glow,
Lights the way from the Cross to the Crown.
Life is r.n endless curse,
Life is ffn Cndfe-s bliss,
Life ill tin: other world
Is sis we choose in this.
O Death, which of these? In awe we must
wait,
And list Tor thy summoning call ;
With hands crossed on breast and eyes closed
in sleep,
We ll rest 'nenth thy dark flowing pall.
Louisville. Oct. .2, 18<!8.
A Singular Case.
A good deal of talk lias Lcvn excited in
Houston, Texas, l.y the following singular t ir.
mini stance which occurred in that vicinity
On Tuesday night at an early hour, a carpen
ter, who had been in ill heath for home time
past, to ail appearance died. There was not a
sign of animation left; he was pronounced
dead by his attending physician, was dressed
in iiis grave clothe* and laid out for burial.
llis friends in Galveston were telegraphed to
attend his funeral. It vvas about Bp. in. when
ho was pronounced dead, and preparations
began for his burial.
About daybreak the following morning he
suddenly rose up in his bed, without giv
ing, up to that time, a siiule indication oflife.
lie was unable to speak, pulseless, cold, and,
with the exception that he was able to sit
up right and move his arms and hands, still
appeared a corpse. Not the faintest respira
tion could he discovered, nor did the eyes,
though open, give any indication of anything
but death. Ilis physician was immediately
sent, for, who, on entering the . room, vvas u*.
terly befuddled at the singular case. Restora.
tives, stimulants, and everything else likely to
he of service were applied; hut the breath
refused to return, the pulse to heat, and the
body to grow warm. The muscular power to
rise in the bed and move the limbs continued,
and was exercised frequently during the five
hours,when that also apparently ceased for
ever, and the carpenter was left as perfect a
specimen of a eor|ise a* could possibly he.
Has such a case, as above related, ever been
hoard, of before? About mid day lie was bur
ied. IVas ho alive when lto lose in his bed?
Probably not. — Ex.
Marriage and Death.'}
Why is it that the marriage announcements
at e immediately followed by obituary notices
in our papers? Does death lollow so close on
the footstep* of mnrringe ? Is grief the page
that carries the train of happiness? Does the
tomb open wide its dark and ponderous jaws
beside the nuptial couch? ’Tis the plan of
life. The .gleeful songs of light and merry
henrts to day, to-iiiorrow will turn to funeral
chants, and sobbing and lamenting he heard
instead of glad, pealing laughter! We rend
to day of our friends' marriage, and wish them
joy ; tu-morrow we see their deaths recorded,
and say “peace to their ashes.” Our merriest
songs arq timed to footfalls of death, and
the “silver chord” is as fragile as a spider's
thread ; and the “golden bowl ” is more brittle
than glass.
Thackeray speaks of a place in Ireland
where the sense of elegance was so keen that
the servants brought up the coals for the par*
lo.* grate on a clean plate.
The Age ot Bribery.
Judging from the Erie railroad war and
other coriapt scheme* for plundering the poo
pic, the a-e of bribery has conic. I’liu late
Dean Riclim aid, a prominent leader of the
New York Penn,era y, vvas nnoe asked by a
director of the Ceutial Railroad if lie was not
going to use money to carry the election of
certain Democratic Assemblymen which in
view of certain changes was necessary. “No:
it is ad- and sight easier to buy members of
the Legislature than to elect them.” Ever
since the utterance of this rough observation,
the members ot the New York Legislature,
whether Djraocrntic or Republican, have had
the disgraceful stigiua fastened on ull their
legislative acts. This system of bribery is
more extensively earned out m those European
nation* where State Churches art pensioned by
the governments. Thus France bribe* both
Protestants and Catholics. Geneva bus her
public fund* for the Roman priest as well as
for the Unitarian parson. In this late effort
England claim* pre eminence, and with great
pecuniary liberality (for she Ims a prodigal
passion for pay) she pension* Episcopalians,
Presbyterians, Maynooth and Oxford. We
believe she also pays MaliommeJhu* and Hin
doos. To England it matters not whether a
man \«fl'*iiips one God or twenty, providing he
is loyal, and shoots with the swinish multitude
“God save the Oueen," Rribery has always
been the first step in the decline and fall of
nations. When ancient Rome began to bribe
her invaders, her glory was iuid her
gifts w ere the means ns well as the omeus of
her ruin. The peace of the Republic, the
concord of citizens, the liberty of conscience,
prosperity of her institutions, the development
of humanity, all summon American citizens to
the grand and noble determination of scour
ging this crime from the State and national
governments. —[N. C. Standard,
Wants Not to be round iul Our Ten Cent
Columns.
Sumner wants to ho Secretary of State.
Wade wants Cassius M. Clay's place at St.
Petersburg.
Washlmrne, of Illinois, wants to he Secre*
tarv of the Treasiiry.
Stanton wants to supersede Ueverd vMohnson
at St. James.
Forney wants to he Post-master Genersil.
Rill tlihson, of Ohio, wants to be Commis
sioner of the Inttrnal Revenue.
Sehenek want* to be Speaker of Congress
after Colfax.
Bor. Rutler wants it to bo understood that
he is wearing old Thud Stevens' bout*.
Jim Ashley want* his services recognized
by a foreign mission.
Ben Eggleston wants to he the next Govern
or of Ohio,
The Chronicle wants the “ring” of which
Eggleston is the solitaire diamond, kept hid
den under the sands until his return.
The Bond-holders want an immediate re-
sumption of specie payments.
Grant wants peace—from the office-seek
ers.
The Tax-colleciars want the people to pay
up ; and
Tiro l’cople want Letter time*.
[Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Poor Printer in Luc*.—ln a spirit of
unfeigned congratulation, we announce that
Mr. William McMahon, a poor lithographic
printer at the establishment of Mefctttk German
Jc Bro., on Third street, has, by the decease of
a relative in Manchester, England, fallen heir
to eight thousand pounds sterling, or forty
thousand dollars in gold. Sonic two or three
weeks ago his father arrived in Philadelphia
from Manchester, and not succeeding in hear
ing of the whereabouts of liis son, advertised
for him in the Philadelphia papers, and gave
notice of the handsome bequest. A friend of
Mr. McMahon's, chancing to see the advertise
ment, clipped it, inclosed it in a letter of ex
planation, and transmitted it to the lucky heir.
On receiving it yesterday, Mr. MeMahon was
delirious with joy, and at once quit work. Af
ter receiving the felicitations of his fellow
workmen, he hastened home and imparted the
glorious news to his wife. Is it possible to
describe the exuberant jnyjfelt and displayed
by these humble people on tbeir transition
from poverty to wealth and independence ?
Mr. McMahon left by tho first train for Phila
delphia to meet hi* father and arrange for his
wife's coming, and the speedy departure of the
whole party for Manchester. We heartily wish
them the fullest enjoyment of their, happily
acquired riches.
Mr. McMahon was wholly dependent upon
liis labor as a printer to support himself and
wife and child. lie lias been in this country
several years, the past two of which he lias
spent in this city and Chicago.— [Louisville
Courier-Journal.
A terrible steamboat collision took place on
the Ohio River on Friday night, resulting in a
fearful loss of hie. The regular passenger
boats America and United States, plying be
tween Cincinnati and Louisville, came in col
lision near Warsaw, owing to false signals
having been sounded. Immediately upon
coming together, a quantity of petroleum on
board of the United States caugut fire and en
veloped both vessels in flames. A scene of
horror ensued among the passengers, many
of them jumping overboard to escape the
flames. A scene of horror ensued among the
passengers, many of them jumping overboard
to escape the flames. It is thought that be
tween seventy and eighty persons, many of
them being ladies, were either burned to
death or wero drowned. Both vessels ore re
ported as entirely destroyed.
A Richmond Romance.
A Virginia Maiden is Bov’s Attire—all
i'or Love.
Commission houses and their counting rooms
have little of romance about them, ami conse
quently they are the last places where the
world look* lor the romantic. Rut very recent
developments in a Richmond establishment
have very beautifully illustrated that line of
Sir Walter Scott’s that
“Love rules the camp, court, grove end mart,”
and sheds its influence niitrummeled ns the
sunshine, investing with its warmth and bright
ness the darkest and most uninviting places.
Two months or more ago, a vacant clerkship
in the house referred to, was applied for and
filled by a youth, apparently about sixteen
years of age. lie applied in response to an
advertisement of the firm—
“Wanted—A youth, who can write a good
hand, aDd come well recommended.”
Out of sixty odd applicants our hero ('*
heroine) took the purlin for the neatness, legi
bility and legularity of his ohirogmphy ; was
sent for, presented himself, and was installed
in the position of entry clerk. lie displayed
remark,role aptitude for business ; was quick
and accurate at figures, ever ready to run an
errand or lend a hand at anything that was to
he done. In manners he wn» polite, blushed
when looked at or spoken to ; wept when chided
by *bis employers, or chafed by his fellow
clerks because of bis peachy cheeks, feminine
figure, and general girlishness of appearance.
Time wore on. The busy seasou came, and
brought with it a gentleman from beyond the
Blue Ridge, who iiud occasional dealings w ith
the house. Desiring to examine the stock, the
entry clerk was called from his stool and in
structed to show the gentleman over the floors.
Their eyes met, those of the strango gentle
man and the entry clerk—the gentleman
stammered, “Great God!” and staggered into
a seat; the clerk blushed scarlet to his ear tips,
then hurst into tears. Then came the denoue
ment. The gentleman explained that be re
cognized in the clerk the lost daughter of a
citizen of I,is county ; that she rttu awiy in
August last, and had since been mourned by
her parents and friends as dead, as they could
gain no tidings of her whereabouts or fate,
though all the considerable towns of the State,
including Richmond, had bceH searched by the
father in person, uided by the police.
The daughter in clerkly disguise,, then ex
plained a* best she could between sebs, and it
was “the old story told again.!’ Shu had loved
and seen her love thwarted by parental oppo
sition, the most relentless and unfeeling. Her
lover, youthful as she, being also opposed by
bis parents, left his home soon after, and came
to Richmond, where he was not long in obtain
ing employment. A secret correspondence was
opened between tbe two, aided by other parties.
This lasted for some time, and strengthened
their affection, drawing the twain nearer each
other, though separated by the misty mountain
and many miles of cruel space. At last, in oue
of those fatal moments of a girl’s weakness,
she resolved to give up all for love—home, and
heaven, too, if weed be—and left the house
one ovil night when the family were absent,
equipped in hor brother's Sunday suit, deter
mined to join her lover in Richmond. This
she did d", and though he—timid boy—was at
first frightened at the step liis sweetheart had
taken, she, by artful stories if her treatment
at home, iutused into him a manly spirit, and
he—hold hoy—resolved to become the protector
of innocence while he buried the secret of her
sex in his own bosom. He took her to his
boarding.house, procured fur her a room sep
arate and apart from liis or n. It was agreed
between them that shq[ should preserve her
incognito, and sink her sex and identity in
male apparel. Thus, with his assistance, in
this disguise, she had sought and obtained the
positiun of entry clerk in the establishment
where she wns discovered, as was related.
Well, having told her romantic story, the
girl, who shali be nameless, gave tbe address
of ber lover; a messenger was dispatched for
him, and he came. He nindo a clean breast of
ir, confessing all. They had been industrious,
working hard each in their situation, with the
one object in view, and that was marriage, so
soon as they had accumulated enough money
to procure a bridal trosseau, rent chambers
and set up housekeeping. The respective pa
rents of the truant lovers Were informed by
telegraph of the situation of affairs, and they
telegraphed back at once, “Marry them aud
send them homo.”
One day last week witnessed the return and
reconciliation beyond the mountains. May the
couple who have attained the fruition of earth
ly bliss through such tribulation, have scores
of children, and live to celebrate their golden
wedding.
A New York special to the Louisville Cou
rier-Journal says : “It is believed here that
the Supreme Court will declare the legal tender
act to be a war nica*ure, and that on the
proclamation of peace it ceased to bo in
force.”
A few days ago, Mr. James Callahan, of
Bourbon county, died cear Lowe’s Station, at
the residence of bis grandson, Mr. S. J. Colo,
Mr. Callahan was born in South Carolina, in
17t>3, and was one hundred and five years and
eight months old at the time of liis death, —
lie had two brothers vvholost their lives in the
revolutionary army. Although too young at
the beginning of the war to become a soldier
he took tin active part on the side of the pa.
triots. lie moved to Kentucky when lie was
thirty years of age, and lias lived here ever
since. lie was a consistent member of the
Bapti.st church for seventy-five years, and was
a lif* long democrat.
VOL. 4, NO. 7
Sum Vegetable lli.vlory,
BY JOSH mi,LINOS.
The strawberry is one of natur's sweetest
pets.
She makes them worth fifty cents the ft.*s
she makes, and never allows them to be sold
at a mean price. *
The culture of the s'rawherry is like the
setting sttn fftidef’a thinelotnf, with a defi, 4c?
dash of the 'rainbow in if; its fragrance is
like the breath of a baby when it fust begins
to eat winter green lossengess; its flavor is
like the nectar which an old fashioned goddes*
used tew leave in the bottom of her tumbler,
when Jopiter stood treat on Mount Ida.
There is many breeds of this delightful
vegetable, but not a mean one in tiie whola
lot.
I thiuk I have stolen them lying around
loose, without any pedigree, in somebody’s
tall grass, when I was a lnzy schoolboy, thaf
eat dreadful easy, without any white sugar on
them, and even a bug mixed in wnth them in
the hurry uv the moment. Cherry’s arc good,
but they are too much like suckin a marble,
with a handle to it. Beeches are good, if you
don’t get any of the pin feathers into your lips.
AVatermellons will suit anybody who is satis
fied with a half sweetened drink ; but the
man who kiu eat strawberries besprinkled with
crusted sugar, and bespattered with sweet
cream, (at Bum body clse’s expense,) and not
lay his hand on liis stuntuk, ar.d thank tho
author of straw berries and stumuks, and the
fellow who pays for tho strawberries, is a man
with a worn out conscience—a man who**
mouth tastes liko a holo in tho ground that
don’t caro what goes down it.
*##****••
Kokernuts is grown np in the air, in a hot
climate way over the oshen, about 30 feet from
the ground—on the top of a tree.
They are generally plekcd up by the mon
keys in that neighborhood, who throw them at
the natives in exchange for the stones that the
natives throw at tho monkeys.
They grow as a nigger’s head duz, with a
good deal of skull to them.
A kokernut, after it has been serapt, resem
bles an old ten pin ball, only a little more
round one way than tutlicr.
On the end of the nut toward yu is 2 eyes
fast asleep Th* kokernut is opened by break
ing the skull and this brings them tew their
milk.
The milk in the kokernut has never bin
explained yit, and the reason iz, because no*
body has asked me to do it.
Whenever the philosophers give it up I
shall reply to tho conundrum.
Az an article of diet, the kokcr is about on
a level with the French raw turnip, and iz az
hard to digest az one of Secretary Seward’s
letters of State.
Biled koker might possibly be good if it
warn't a great deal letter when it wns raw;
and raw kokernuts iz only good for children
and young grey houns to cat, whose stumieks
are like a nutmeg grater.
The only good thing about this foreign nutis
its ttktill; they kan be kut in 2, and made into
drinking kuns, and I must konfess they do
look kind, when laid on a flat stun in the side
of the meadow spring ; but I knn’t drink out
ov one ov them myself, without thinking that
if they hadn’t been kut in 2, what a kapital
thing they would be to'build a y’onnjf dar
ky to.
Rut this iz only a phoolish notion of mine,
and probably it couldn't be did anyhow.
Female Clerks.
From the official report of General Spinner,
Treasurer of the United States :
The experiment of employing females as
clerks has been, so far as this office is con
cerned, a complete success. Indeed, in many
kinds of oflico-vYork. like the manipulating of
fractional currency, and in kbKfcfof counting,
and in detecting counterfeits, they excel, and,
in my opinion, arc to be preferred to mole
clerks.
“There is ns much difference in point of
ability between the female clerks as there is
between the several classes of male clerks.—
Some of tbe former incur great risks, being
responsible for all mistake,* in oount, or in
overlooking counterfeits. ('Restitution for these
errors sometimes takes, during a month, more
than one-hnif of tho month's salary. It not
(infrequently happens that a number unite to
make up the loss of the unfortunate one*,
tfius detracting something from the salaries
of each. Ail such as are subject to these
risks should be paid accordingly.
“These and other considerations have satis
fied me that all should be better paid than
they now are, and thatthc female clerks should ;
be brought up nearer to the pay level of the
male clerks.
“The truth is, that many of the former bow
do a* much work, if not more, and do it ar
well, if not better, for $iKkJ per annum, than'
some of tho latter are able to do, who receir*
a yearly salary of just twice that amount.
“It is truo that these remarks apply more
especially to one kind of work that must be
doae so long as the issue of paper currency
shall be continued.”
God Forbid! —A Washington correspondent
intimates that Simon Cameron is likely to be
made Secretary of the Treasuiy under Grant.
God save the mark! What an appointment
that would be! The man who laid the
foundation of his fortune by palming off
Middletown bmik notes upon the Winne
bago iuiiian*—the man whom Lincoln had
to turn out of the War department to stop the
wholesale plunder of the public treasury—the
man whom Thuddcus Stevens described in his
grimly humorous way by declaring he “would
nut steal a red hut stove”—such a man for
Secretary of the Treasury. “Angels and
. ministers of grace,-defend us.”