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§2 00 U H ANNUM
mofcssitnal CnrH
' WM. W.~CLARK & J. M. PACE,
n. vv formed partnership, tpid wllltransaet al
AuLew entrurted to them 1., the counties of
■ » Tanner Butts, Henry, Gwinnett, 'Vnlton,
M °| r Ston aiiJ i'i the District Court of theLmtiul
Btate»°at Atlanta. Special attention given to eases
In Bankruptcy. w. w cl auk,
ocl. 3 If
J c. M OlllllS,
Attorii e^' X**vWf
CUNVKRS, GA.
' K • A . JO W* B 5 *
v-j ■jr' *3? 31 O TANARUS,
CONYERS, GEORGIA.
, , me Hired to put up work in his
Will he ,0 ' f 1 g ' ol>n fi lent from his knowledge
SV, tou improvements will «i*e sat.sfacion
JOHN S. CARROLL,
DEHT » 3 T
COVINGTON, GEORGIA
Tast.li Filled, or Sew Teeth Inserted,ln
best style, and or. Reasonable Terms
gllceßear of R. King’s Store.—l ltf
J AM E S M . LEV Y,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
East side of the Square,
G ROKGIA,
prepared to Repair Watches, Clocks
ndJeNelrv in the best style Particular atten
,nd Jeweiry .n vVftU;ht . g injured by in
compete n't workmen. All work warranted.
' DRS. DEARING & PRINCLE
HAVING associated themselves in toe 1 rac
,ice of MEDICINE and SIJRGEKV , oiler
their professional services to thecr.zena of
Avion county. They have opened an ofh eon
.l. sw Ride of the Square, (next door to tv
Dswuo’s Store,) and are prepared to attend to
IlUaUs promptly. They have also a ea.efully
selected assortment of the
Very Best Medicines,
and will give their personal attention to Com
pounding Prescriptions, for Physicians an
others. . . _.
Special attention given to Chrome Diseases
At night Dr. Bkarlxg wil he found at. his
resid-nce, and Dr. Dm si; lb at his rooms imma
diatclv over the Store ot C. 11. sanobus & Bro
may 15, 25tf
BOOT & SHOE SHOP.
[would respectfully inform the citizens*;*j
of Covingt on and surrounding eonntrx
hat I am now prepared to make to order
boots and shoes
of the finest quality. As 1 work noth.tig hut
the Best Material, 1 will guarantee satisfaction.
. S ;:S""“' Ki,,S '' S "juSErll BAUM*
.1 OSF. 1’ II Y. TINSLEY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler
la fully prepared t.<> Repair Watches, Clo ks
and Jrwulrv, in the beat style, at short, not ice,
All Work Done at Old I’ric. s, and Warranted.
2d door below the Court House. —sit
SADDLE ANU HARNESS SHOP.
y\ I would reaped fully inform the
citizens of Newton, and adjoin rig
SADDLE and HARNESS SHOT
Onnorth side p ibfie square in COV INCI *N,
where I am prepared to m dre 'o ord •!•, Harness
saddles, Ac , or Repair t!m same a' short notice
in the best style.
J 7 |,f JAMES P. BROWN
11. T. II E N K Y,
DEN T I £3 e 3? ,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
rrr „ HAS REDL’GF.D 11 IS PRICFS, so
that all wlm have been s > nufor’. u-
unto :is to lose tlu-i. n itur.il Teeth
«n have their places supplied by Ait., at very
mall cost. Teeth Killed at rens'Cial-l' 1 prices,
and work faithfully exe. tiled, Office north sid ■
of Square. —1 221f
JIRE miRAKE mm.
WE represent two FIRST CRASS Eire In
surance Companies,
The So uTt hern Mutual
Os Athens, Georgia, and
The Georgia Home,
of Columbus, Georgia.
Companies which ha ve no Superiors, and very
few equals, in the essentials of goed manage
nient, and good faith. We are prepared to take,
and invite the usual risks at fair rates.
J. M. Pace. ANDKHSOX & PACE.
W. p. Anderson. dm2
ANDERSON & HUNTER
Are now ready for the
FALL AND WINTER TRADE!
OrESTEP, a large ar«i well selected
stock of
15 r y G- o o cl s,
of every Description,
Ready Made Clothing,
HATS & CAPS, BOOTS & SHOES,
every description of Gents’ Furnishing Goods,
GROCERIES.
Hardware, Agricultural Implements,
And any ami everything else that, is ever kept
in a Tirst Class Store, Give us a call.—4fit
CEO. J. HOWARD,
GROCER AND COMMISSION MERChANT
Marietta street.,
Atlanta, Georgia,
Orders for all descriptions of Groceries til ed
at lowest Market Prices.
Consignments of Country Produce solicited
&*y“>Vil! make returns promptly.—;>uioO
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
DR.O.ft. PROPHITI
Covington Georgia.
nt
Will still continue his business, wheid he intend
keeping on hand a good supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stufls,
Together with a Lot of
Botanic PJJedicines,
f\ "entrated Preparations, Fluid Extract*, <lc.
lie is also putting up liis
Liver Modicino®,
FEMALE TONTC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL IT
Vermlftigfe, An*i-ESilSous
and many other preparations,
LlT'Will give prompt attention to all orders
P 4RTKUL t K NOTICE.
Hereafter NO MEDICINE WILL HE DELIV
ERED. or SERVICE RENDERED, except, for
BTO J 5 IOC
You nee not call unless you are prepared to
PAY CASH, for I wi.l not, Keep Book*.
Oct. 11. 1807. O. S. PROPHITT.
Rail Road Schedules.
Georgiit Railroad.
F,. AY. COLE, General Superintendent.
Day Passenger Tiiain (Sundays excepted,)tcaWs
\ mnista at 7 a in; leave Atlanta M A a ttt. ar
rive at Augusta at 3.15 p m ; arrive at AtlantaatO.3o
Ntr.irr Pissexgeh Timin' leaves Augusta at 10
p.m ; leaves Atlanta at, 5.40 p in ; arrives at Augusta
•it 3 00 a m ; arrives at Atlanta at 7.45 a m.
PasRCUTrs for Milledgeville, Washington and
Atliens Ga.. must take, tlie day passenger 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
Ni'dit Passenger Train, at 10 p. m.
Passengers for Nashville, Corinth, Grand Junc
tion, Memphis, Louisville, and St. binds, can take
either train and make close connections.
Through Tickets and Luggage checked through
to the above places. Sleeping ears on id! night pas
senger trains.
MACON AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
E. W. COLE, Geu’l Snp't.
Leave Camak daily at 12.40 i>. m.; arrive at Milledge
ville at 4.30 p. M.; leave Milledgeville at 6.4.i A. M.;
arrive at Camak at 10.15 v. M. • t>
Passengers leaving any point on the Georgia It.
R hv Dav Passenger train, will make close connee
tion at Camak for Milledgeville, Fatonton, and all
intermediate points on the Macon * Augusta road,
and for Maeon. Passengers leaving Milledgeville
at 6.45 A. M., reach Atlanta and Augusta the same
day.
SOUTH CAROL'XA RAILROAD.
If. T. Pkakf.. General Snp’r.
Special mail train, going North, leaves Augusta at
3.55 a in, arrives at Kingsville at 11.15 am; leaves
Kingsville at 12.05 pm, arrives at Augusta at < 2->
p. m. This train is designed especially lor through
travel. „
The train for Charleston leaves Augusta at 0 am,
and arrives at Charleston .it3.il p m ; leaves Charles
ton at 8 am, and arrives at Augusta at 5 p til.
Night special freight and express train leaves Au
o-ustn (Sundavs excepted)at 3.50 p nt. and arrives at
Charleston at 4340 am ; leaves Charleston at 7.30 p
nt, and arrives at Augusta at 6.45 a m.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R-
Col. E. lift,BERT. Genernl Superintendent.
Daily passenger train, except Sunday, leaves At
lanta at 815 am, and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.45
p in ; leaves Chattanooga at 4.40 a in, and arrives at
Atlanta at 2pm.
Ni'dit express passenger train leaves Atlantaal «.»•>
n m, and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.10 am ; leaves
Chattanooga at 5.50 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at
3.36 a m.
MACON At WESTERN RAILROAD.
E. If. Walker. GenTSiip’t.
Day passenger train leaves Maeon at 7.45 am, and
arrives at Atlanta at 2 p m ; leaves Atlanta at 8.15
a.m, and arrives at Maeon at 1.30 p m.
Nielit passenger train leaves Atlanta at H.lO p m,
mid arrives at Maeon at 4.25 a ill; leaves Macon at
5.30 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at 4.30 a ni.
Hotels.
PLANTERS HOTEL.
JOUST A GEORGIA.
xTEWLY furnished and refitted, unsurpassed by
1 > ~,iv Hotel South, is now open to the Public.
T. S. NICKERSON, Prop r.
hate of Mills House, Charleston, and Proprietor of
Nickerson’s Hotel, Columbia, S. C.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER & SASSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passen
ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
AMERIC AN HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest, house to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Pro ictors.
W. T>. Wiley, Clerk.
Having re-leased and renovated ie above
Hotel we are nrepared to entertain nests in a
most, satisfactory manner. Cham- » fair and
niodsratc. Our efforts will ho to .ease.
Baggage carried to and from Depot rcc of charge
fare reduced
AUGUSTA HOTEL.
rpHIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL is situated on
I Broad Street, Central to the business por
tion of the City, and convenient to the Tele
graph and Express Offices The House is lar
and commodious, and has been r. novated and
newly painted from garret to Cellar, andjthc
bedding lteurlv all new since the war. The
rooms arc large and airy ; clean beds, and the
fare as good as the country affords, and atten
tive and polite servants.
Charges. —Two Dollars p_cr day.
Single Meals 75 Cents.
1 l ope to merit a liberal share of patronage
fiom the traveling public.
Give me a trial and judge for voursclve
S. M. JONES, Propr.
WM. H. COODRICH ,
SASH, BUNDS, AND DOORS,
On hand, and made to Order.
Augusta, d&tiin or.n.s
COVINGTON, GA., JAN. 8, 1809.
doing Home.
Mourners, weeping o’er the slumber
Os a man with silver hairs,
* Did you sue his spirit going'
Up the angels’ starry stabs?
Did you hear the angels calling,
‘‘Weary pilgrim, oenseto main !’’
Weep not o’er his peaceful slumber,
He is only going home?
Mother, bei iding o’er the cradle,
Where your little one was laid,
I)o you know the transformation
That the sleep of death has made ?
Think ! his feet had only started
In the path beset by sin,
When the gates of heaven opened,
And they let your darling in.
Wife, upon the grasses kneeling
Where they hid away front sight
Him who won your love, oh, tell me,
Do you see no gleam of light ?
He is waiting o’er the river,
On the sunset Ferry’s shore,
Till the pale and silent boatman
Comes to row your frail boat o'er.
Children, longing for the sunshine
Os a loving mother’s smile,
She has only gone before you—
Tjnry vet a little while,
S<von for you the sunset Gateway
Shall at day’s decline unclose,
And you’ll pass beyond its portals
To a long and sweet repose.
Maiden, is your pathway lonely ?
Do yow miss a pleasant voice ?
Do you listen for a footstep
That could make your heart rejoice ?
Oh 3 the patli of peace unending
Is bef«re your loved one's feet
And he’ll gladly hid you welcome
When you reach the golden street.
W 1 icn we see nur loved ones dying,
ll.iw our hitter teardrops fall!
And we fain would keep them with us,
Though we hear the angels call.
Yes, we kiss their lips at parting.
While the angels whisper “Come!”
And forget, in human sorrow,
That they'ie only going home 1
Frankness— Ho frank with the world.—
Fiankness is the child of honesty and courage.
Say just what you mean to do on every occa
sion, and take it for granted that you mean to
do what is right. If a friend asks you a favor,
you should grant it, if it is reasonaldo; if it
is not. tell him plainly why you cannot. You
will wrong him arid wrong yourself by equivo
cation of any kind. Never do a wrong thing
to make a friend or keep one ; the man who
requires you to do so is dearly purchased, and
at a sacrifice. Deal kindly and firmly with all
men, and you will fin l it ihe policy which
wears the liest. Above all, do not appear to
others what you are not. It you have any
fault to find with any one, tell him, not others,
of what you complain. There is no more dan
gerous experiment than that of undertaking
to do one tiling to a man’s face and another
behind his back. We should live, act and
speak out of doors, as the phrase is, and say
and do what we arc willing should be known
and read by all men. It is not only best as a
matter of principle, but as a matter of policy.
The marring* of Miss Clara Ne’ta Lc Vert,
dnughte-of the well known authoress, Madame
Le Vert, to Mr. Higail Renb, of Augusta, Ga.,
took place at Trinity Chapel, New York, on
Wednesday evening. The bride appeared in a
trousseau made and presented to her by an old
negro nurse, who was formerly a servant of her
mother. IV hen this old negress heard of the
approaching marriage, she bought with her
own earnings the finest muslin she could find
in the South, and with her own hands made
up the bridal dress. She also procur 'd the
veil, and twined the wreaths of orange flowers.
Eaeh one of the sevvants contributed somo ar
tide of clothing, or a present, and then with
many good wishes they paeked them in a trunk
and sent them to New Y’ork. The bride elect
at once set aside her more costly trousseau and
accepted the gift which had been ten
dered to her. There was a large and fashiona
ble company present, both at tho ceremony and
at the reception in the Colman House. The
bride and bridegroom started for the South im
mediately after the reception.
An Eloquent Passage.
Probably of all tho beautiful and eloquent
passages ever written by the inimitable George
P. Frentice, the following is the finest:
“It cannot be that earth is a man’s only
abiding place. It cannot be that our life is a
bubble cast by eternity to float a moment
upon its waves and sink into nothingness.—
Else why is it that the high and glorivius aspis
rations which leap like angels from the temple
of our hearts are forever wandering unsatis
fied ? Why is it that the rainbow and cloud
come over us witli a beauty that is not of
earth, and then pass off to leavo us to muse on
their loveliness? Why is it that the stars
which ‘hold their festival around the midnight
throne' are set above tho grasp of our limited
faculties, forever mocking us with their unap
proachable glory? And, finally, why is it
that bright forms of human beauty are pre
sented to our view and taken from us, leaving
the thousand streams of our nffection to flow
back in an Alpine torrent upon our hearts?
There is a realm where the rainbow never
fades ; where the stars will be spread out be
fore us like the islands that slumber on the
ocean, and where the beautiful beings which
pass before us like shadows, will stay forov -
cr in our presence. ’
The richer a man makes his food, the poorer
he makes his appetite.
Liberal Bequest.
The late Thomas 0. Moore, an old resident
at Williamsburg, N. Y., in a codicil to his will
revokes a devise of bis estate to his sister Mar
tha .Tune, comprising bonds, mortgages, scrip,
certificates of bond stock, money, etc., for the
reason that he desires to set apart a moderate
fund for the relief of the suffering and desti
tute widows and children of Southern soldiers
whodied or were killed in the late war, in the
Eastern part of South Carolina, North Caro
Una and Georgia. lie, therefore, bequeathes
to James and Francis S. l’orelear, Louis 1).
DeSitusscttr ami E. Henry Frost, of Charles
ton, S. C., and Rev. John Rumley, bonds in
trust Tor that purpose amounting to t-2! ,000.
Idie proportion to be distributed in South
Carolina to be more than one-fifth of the whole
amount with interest, to be distributed in the
course of seven years. All the residue of the
bonds and mortage*, with few exceptions, lie
sets aside for the rebuilding or repairing of
churches, without regard to sect or denomiua
tion, injured by the late war, within the dis
tricts of the Southern States aforesaid.
—*.<->•♦ •
A Beautiful Figure.
Life is like a fountain fed by a thousand
streams that perish if one be dried. It is a
silver chord twisted with a thousand strings,
that parts asunder if one be broken.—
Thoughtless mortals arc surrounded by innu
morablo dangers, which make it more strange
that they escape so lorig, than that almost
all pcrisli suddenly at last. Wo are encom
passed with accidents every day to crush the
decaying tenement which we inhabit. The
seeds of disease are planted in our constitution
by nature. The Arth and atmosphere whence
we draw the breath of life, are impregnated
with death ; health is made to operate its own
destruction.
The food that nourishes contains the ele
ments of decay, the soul that animates it by
vivifyingjffrst and to wear it out by its own
action. Death lurks in ambush along the
path. Xotwitloyiinding tliis.tnitli is so palpa
bly confirmed by the daily example before
your eyes, how little do we lay it to heart.—
We see our friends and neighbors die; but
how seldom does it occur to us our knell may
give the next warning to the world.
La/.v Bovs. —An exchange says; A la/.y
boy makes a lazy man as sure as a crooked
sapling makes a crooked tree. IVho ever
saw a boy grow up in idleness that did not
make a shiftless vagabond when he became a
man, unless he had a fortune to keep up ap
pearance? The great mass of thieves, crimi
nals and paupers hare come to what they are
by being brought up in idleness. Those who
constitute the business part of the community
—those who make our great and useful men
—were taught in their boyhood to bo industri
ous. 15oy, take that pipe out of your mouth
and think of this.
A clerk in a New York mercantile estab
lishment relates a colloquy from which a
sprightly youth in the same store came out
second best. A poor boy came along with his
machine, inquiring : “Any knives to grind ?”
“Don't think wo have,” replied the young
gentleman, facetiously ; “but can you sharpen
wits?” “Yes, if you've- got any,” was the
prompt response, leaving the interrogator at a
loss to produce the article.
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Ruffianism at the North. —The Boston
Post makes the following frank confession :
“The murder of Mrs. Hill, in Philadelphia;
of Warren George, in Maine; the Kingston,
Worcester and Charlestown tragedies, iu Mas
sachusetts : the death of Kilton, at Canaan,
N. 11., and some dozen other similar crimes,
perpetrated within a few weeks at the North,
outstrip offences in other portions of the coun
try, which have excited so much attention
lately.”
Parties from Salt Lake city report that the
grading of the Central Pacific railway has
been completed one hundred and ten miles
west of that place. The remaining eighty
miles to the end of the track will be graded in
three weeks. No interruption to the laying of
the track has occurred thus far, and none is
expected during the winter until the road
reaches the Wassach mountains east of Salt
Lake.
A Portland lady attempted to kill a rat that
had incautiously invaded her-parlor, when the
animal sought refuge by running up her gar
ments upon her back. This so alarmed the
woman that she Hod shrieking front the room
and tumbled down stairs, turning a complete
somersault, landing on her back and effectually
despatching the rat.
Several different experiments in feeding corn
to hogs, shows that two bushels of corn in the
ear, or one bushel of shelled corn, made nine
and seven-tenth pounds of pork, while tho
same amount ground into meal and mixed with
water made eleven and one eighth jiouuds of
pork.
Thero is nothing purer than honesty ; noth
ing sweeter than charity ; nothing warmer
than love, nothing brighter th.w virtue ; and
nothing more steadfast than faith. These,
united in one mind, the-purest, the sweetest,
the richest, and brightest, the holiest and the
most steadfast happiness.
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The notorious guerilla, Capt. Ed. Terrill,
died in the City Hospital in Louisville, last
Saturday fortnight, from the effects of wounds
received in the celebrated raid on Shelby
ville, Kentucky.
Grief and discontent have generally their
foundation in desire, so that whosoever can
obtain tho sovereignty over his desire, will bo
master of his happiness.
I*Hy Your Small Debts.
Pav your small debts. You do not know
how much good is frequently accomplished by
adopting this principle. It was honest old
Ren Franklin, wo believe, who as a matter of
experiment followed up a small amount he
paid to a tradesman. In a very little while
ho ascertained that the money paid had passed
from hand to hand until the number of bills
of nearly similar amount settled with it reach
ed some fifteen or twenty. It may not bo pos
sible to do as Franklin did, and tracts up the
history of a small amount of money in the
way of debt paying ; but it may bo set down
as a fact that the prompt payment of small
debts is the initiative 9tep toward paying cash
for everything. Generally speaking, tticse
small debts are due to persons who need all
tho little capital they can command. To such,
they are of immense importance ; and it may
be said of the person who allows these trifling
obligations to remain unpaid while having
the means to discharge them, thqt he is not,
in the true sense of the word an honest man,
unless, by express contract a time for pay
ment lias been fixed, and that not arrived.—
l’ay your small debt* and big ones too. If you
would be happy and comfortable, sleep sound,
eat heartily, and enjoy the pence of mind
which only men with good consciences ure
supposed to enjoy, pay your small debts.—
Exchange.
Money.
Money is a queer institution. It buys prov
ender, satisfies justice, and heals wounded
honor. Everything resolves itself into cash,
from stock-jobbing to building churches.—
Childhood craves pennies, youth aspires to
dimes, manhood is swayed by the mighty dol
lar. The blacksmith swing* his sledge, the
lawyer pleads for his client, and the judge
decides the question of life and death for his
salary. Money makes the man, therefore the
man must make money if he would be respect
ed by fools ; for the eye of the world looks
through golden spectacles. It buys Brussels
carpet, lace curtains, gilded cornices and rich
furniture, and builds marble mansion;*. It
drives us to church in grand rigs, and pays the
rent of the best pew. It buys silk and jewelry
for my laaly. Ik commands the respect of
gaping crowds, and secures obsequious atten
tion. It enables us to be charitable, to send
Bibles to the heathen, nnd relieve domestic
indigence. It gilds the rugged scenes of life,
and spreads over the rugged path of existence
a velvet carpet soft to our tread ; the rude
scenes of turmoil are incased in a gilt frame.
It bids care vanish; soothes the anguish of the
bed of sickness, stops short of nothing save the
grim destroyer, whose relentless hand spares
none, but levels all mortal distinctions, and
teaches poor, weak humanity that it is but
dust. Thus wealth pauses on the brink of
eternity, the beggar and the millionaire rest
side by side beneath tlie sod, to rise in equali
ty to answer the final summons.
The Difference. —One young lady rises
early, rolls up her sleovss and goes into the
kitchen to get breakfast, or insists upon doing
so, and afterwards, with cheerful, and sunny
smiles, puts tho houso in order without the
assistance of .“mother.” She will make a
good wife and render home a paradise. Young
man, “get her!”
Another young lady is a parlor beauty,
pallid from company, dissipation and want of
exercise, reads novels and almost dies of lazi
ness, while her poor old mother does her
washing. She is a useless piece es furniture,
an annoyance to her own household, and a
curse to tho husband she may eliance to “rope
in,” and will go whining to her grave. Young
man, “Let her alone !”
Advantages of a Pure Lise. —ls you look
into the early years of truly hopeful men,
those who make life easier or nobler to those
who come after them, you will almost invaria
bly find that they lived purely in the days of
their yout[i. In early life the brain tho’
abounding in vigor, is sensitive and very suss
ceptiblo to injury—and this to such a degree
that a comparatively brief and moderate in
dulgence in yicious pleasures appears to lower
the tone and impair both the delicacy and the
efficiency of the brain fur life, t his is not
preaching, boys—it is the simple truth of
science.—[Packard's Monthly.
A Beautiful Thought. —The sea is thelarg
est of all cemetoms, and its slumberers sleep
without monuments. Allother graveyards, in
other lands show some distinction between the
great and small, the rioh and poorf but in the
ocean cemetery the king and the prince and
the peasant aro all alike undistinguished.—
The same wave rolls nvor all—the same requiem
by the minstrels of the ocean is sung to their
honor. Over the remains the same storm beats
and the same sun shines, and there, unmarked
the weak and powerful, the plumed and un
honored, will sleep on until awakened by the
same trump.
A school teacher near Chattanooga, Tenn.,
was assaultod some days ago for having whip
ped one of his pupils, and in the affray that
ensued, four persons, including the school
teacher, wore killed, the only person in the
party who escaped unhurt being the school
boy who originated the trouble.
A Yankee farmer got a lot of rats and shut
them up in a single cage ; they devoured one
another till only a single ono was left. He
then turned this one loose, when,, excited with
the blood of his fellow rats, and' having be
come a genuine caunibal, it killed and ate all
the rats it could find on the premises.
Josh Billings says he believes in the fin: J
salvation of men ; but he wants the privilege
of picking tho men.
•VOL. 4, NO. 8
Origin of the Florida WqunbMc.
Governor Reed, of Florida, “at the earnest
request of leading colored men ’ in Jackson
ville, as we learn from the Florida ( Jiion,
addressed a public meeting in liia own defense
last Monday. In his speech Gov. Reed ac
counts for the “milk in tho cocoanut’ of Uve
Florida impeachment, in part ns follows:
The Legislature had authorized the issue of
bonds to tho amount of -300,000, and the/
wore anxious to control these bonds. Glcasotf
went to Washington and arranged the following
programme with a party there. This party
was to take all the bonds at 70 cents —or rather
they were to bo pledged to him in advance a
that price ; that lie was to buy up Stue scrip
at 50 or GO cents, or as low as he could get it,
and pay for the bonds in this scrip. In this
way he would actually got the bonds at about
30 cents on the dollar, making nit immense
profit out of the transaction, and Gleason pro
posed to me that the bonds should bo disposed
of in this way and that the profits should be
divided between us. I refused to sanction
such robbery upon the people, and so I must
be removed in order to enable Gleason to get
the bonds under bis own control, to dispose of
for the profit of the ring. And how had I
offended Senator Osborn ? I lmd refused to
make appointments at his dictation, and to
allow him to control the State, regardless of my
own judgment; but worse than this, I had
blocked one of his schemes for plunder. Sen
ator Osborn proposed to me that we should
obtain from the United States Government the
grant of a large tract of land at Pensacola, for
the State, and that I should then influence the
Surveyor Goneral no that this land might be
sold at a more nominal price to Senator Osborn.
I refused to countenance this scheme, aud *o I
must be removed that a more pliant tool might
take my place, and tho ring might plunder to
its heart’s content.
Advantage of being Poor.—A poor man
never has any taxes to pay. He can sit down
and langh assessors to scorn, and read of the (
big appropriations made by councils with a
feeling of indesoribable cjhileration.
A poor man can enjoy life. lie lives in a
rented house, and it needn’t worry him to see
it abused, and bis equanimity need not be dis«
turbed if it burns down. ,*
A poor man can repose in the bosom of hi*
family and know that there are no avariciou*
young men prowling around after rich daugh**
ters.
Nobody wants tho poor man to die; nobody
is laying around in misery and impatience
waiting for him to die, so as to absorb his
funds.
Another thing— no poor man is ever worried
by debt, for nobody will ever trust him, and
when he does see a greenback, lie hoartily
enjoys it—he does.
Advertising Ai*horisms.— If you don’t mean
to mind your business, it will not pay to adver
tise.
Bread is the stuff 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.
Newspapers advertisements are good of their
kind, but they cannot take the place of eifeu**
lars and handbills.
Handbills and circulars are good of their
kind, but they cannot take the place of news
paper advertisements.
Bonner, for several successive years, invest
ed in advertising all tfceprofits of the preceding
year. Now see where he is I
Quitting advertising in dull times is like
tearing out a dam because the water is low.—
Either plan will prevent good times from ever
coming.
A remarkable feat of “hurdle jumping' by
a train on the Erie Railroad is announced,.--
Recently the day express for Buffalo, when
going at tho rate of twenty miles an hnur, was
thrown from the track by a misplaced switch,
and dashing along over the sleepers for two
hundred feet, struck an iron frog and was vio
lently placed again on the track. No ono was
injured.
A native Boston youth accosted a boy of de
cided African lineage a few days since, and
inquired of the sable lad why he has so short
u nose. The reply w as. “I spccts so it won t
poke itself into other people's business.”
Smith and Brown running opposite ways
around a corner, struck each other. “Oh, dear!
how you made my head ring,’’ said Smith.
“That’s a sign its hollow,” said Brown.
“But didn’t yours ring?”
“No.”
‘That’s a sign its cracked,’ replied his friend-.-
A little boy, four years old, was bcingVpnfr
to bed ono night, by a young lady, who tucked
him up nicely and kissed him. He returnedl
the kiss, and then said: ‘‘Bo the big boys ever
kiss you? lie was, of course, answered in the
negative, but he added, “I reckon I know the
reason, you won-’t let them 1”
A waggish apprentice, one day after dinner,
deliberately stepped up to his master and ask
ed him what he valued his services at per day.
“Why, about six cents,” said the master.
“Well, then,” said the boy, putting his hand
into his pocket and drawing out somo coppers
“hero’s three cents. I’m off for half a day !”
Many flowers open to the sun ; but only one
follows him in his course. Heart, be thou the
sun-flower; be not only open to thy God, but
obey him, too.
The editor who “ did not mind his stops”
introduced some verses thus: “The poem
published this week was composed by an es
teemed friend who has lain in his grave many
years for his own amusement.”