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200 Fill ANNUM I grofcssianal garte. iH' —uTnT vv. CLARK & J. M. PACE, t iiartocrshlPi tuul will transact ul f " r,n ‘' , ‘ ,V U . ito tl.<m in tli. counties oi W n, A nVnrv, Gwinnett, Walton, Kn. Court of the United X Special intention given to ea-c-s ’ xv. w ct.ARK, f „ 3. M. PACE ■ret. 3 ■ Y. o. MORRIS, m* ttorn cy at I 5l . A . JOSit- S, TCI X3‘ “2? X £3 ■3?* J 3 C ONYERS. GEORGIA. , „ , a vol to put up work in his ■ft Y- i°he feels confident, from his knowledge ■t. which heftC u ,. will vive satisfaction JVthr late impl' ov ™^. _ 31113 JOHN s. CARROLL, ■d S N T IST * COVINGTON', QKOKGIA. ■ Teeth filled, or New Teeth Inserted,!.) ■£& lUel>M t Style, and or, Reasonable Terms Iceßear of R. King’s Store.-l Its * JAMES M • LEY Y, ’li otchmaker £t Jeweler, East side of l!ic S( l uare > OEORGTA, ■ and Jewelry in the best style. I’arlienla. atten n i, i Hnail ing Watches injured by in fcrtMien. work warranted. m d rs. DEARINC & PRINGLE ■ »IVING associated themselves in the I’rsC- of MEDICINE and SURGERY, oiler ■ ,; r professional services to the cri/.ens ol K> vton county. Ti-ey have opened m. oft eon KeEast side of the Square, (next door to S -1), waib’s Store, 1 an 1 are prepared to attend to ■ l calls promptly. They have also a caiefully ■Kleeted assortment of the K e r y Eest Medicines, Mtid will give their personal attention to Coin- Prescriptions, for Physicians and St hers. Special attention given to Chronic Diseases ■ At night Dr. Draping wil he found at his ■csid -r.ce, and Dr. Psinulk at his r- om« immc ■ i.telv over the Store of O. 11 Sanoers & Duo. |Bmiy 15, 25tf J 0S E V II Y. TINS LE Y , ■Watchmaker & Jeweler I u fully prepared to Repair W atches, (do ks ■nd Jewelry, in the best Style, a! short notice, ■ll Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted. 2d door below the Court House.—6tf ■SADDLE AND HARNESS SHOP. A 1 would respectfully inform the citizens of Newton, and adjoining counties, tlint 1 have opened a ■lptjJpsEC SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP Honnorth side public square in COVINGTON, ■ where I ,un prepared to in ,ke io ord o\ Harness ■sa -Idles, Ac , or Repair the same a - , short notice in the best s.y’e. ■l7 ts JAM ES 15. J 5 ROVV N | 11. T. II ENIt Y, «D ES Sir X , COVINGTON’, GEORGIA. UAS REDUCED HIS PRICES, SO that nil who have been so unfurl u nate ns to lose their n dural leeth an liavetlieir p’acos supplied by Alt. at very mall cost. Teeth Filled at reasonable prices, and work fai hfully executed, Office north side of Square.—l 22tf FIRE IXSIRAXCE AGKACY. YTTE represent, two FIRST CLASS Eire In \V surance Companies, The Southern Mutual Os Athens, Gmrgia, an 1 The Georgia Home, of Columbus, Georgia. Companies which have no Superiors, and very few equals, in the essentials of gold manage merit, and good faith. We aiv prepared to take, and invite the usual risks at fair r ites. J. M. Pace, ANDERSON & PACE, W. p. Anderson. 3ui2 ANDERSON & HUNTER Are now ready for the FALL AND WINTER TRADE! TUST OPENED, a laige and well selected stock of r y G- o o cl 9 , of every Description, Ready ft? ad c Clothing, IIATS & CAPS. BOOTS A SHOES, tvsry description of Gents’ Furnishing Goods. 1 GROCERIES, (ltd ware, Agricnltnrnl Implements, *And any and everything else that is ever kept i** ® First Class Store, Give us a call.—46t CEO. J. HOWARD, GROCER AND COMMISSION MERChANT Marietta street, Atlanta, Georgia. i Orders for all descriptions of Grocciies fil cd at lowest Market Prices. Consignments ~f Country Produce solicited make returns promptly. —ismßO Ccorgia Railroad Breakfast and Dinner House, PAt Berzelia. Ga., ERSONS leaving Augusta by the 7 o’clock Passenger (Morning) Train, Breakfast at Berzelia. All persons leaving Atlanta by the 0 ° clock (Morning) Train, Dine at Berzelia. Per son,, leaving by the Freight Trains can always get geod meals. Tables aU nys provided with the best the market affords. E. NEBIIUT, Proj.T OR, O, 8, PROPHITT, Covington Georgia. Will still continue his business, where he intend keeping on hand a g'-od supply of Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs. Together with a Lot of Dotanic Medicines, i v'entratc'l rreparntion*, flnitl Extracts »tc. He !s also uniting vp ‘*l s X-eltt-ojl’ MedLioincs, FEMALE TONIC, ANODYNE PAIN KIEL IT VorDtiritij’C, Anll-EHioitN Pills, and irany other preparations, Will give prompt attention to id! orders PtRTICUMn NOTICE, Her.after NO MEDICINF. WILL BE DELIV E’lE '. or SERVICE RENDERED, except for IWO -£L £3 XX !-®a Yon nee not cal’ unless you are prepared to PAY CaSII, for I will not Keep Rooks. Oct. 11 1867. O. S. PROPHITT. Pi nil IvOiul Schedules. Graridts RstlSfOtul. F,. W. COLF,, General Superintendent. Day Passf-Nuku Thai s (Sundays excepted,llenvcs Augusta at 7 a m leave Atlanta at 5 a m ; at riveat Augusta at 3.45 p m ; arriveut Atlanta at 0.30 * NinttT PASsr.NOF.u Tn <in leaves Augnstn at 10 p.m : leaves Atlanta at 5.40 p in ; arrives at Augusta at 0 00 a m ; arrives at Atlanta at 7.45 a in. Passengers for Milledgcvillc, Washington anti Athens, Ga., must take the day passenger train from \mnista and Atlanta, or intermediate points. Passengers for West Point, Montgomery, Selma, and intermediate points, can take e.tliet train, l-oi Mobile, and New Orleans, must leave Augusta on Xio-bt Passenger Train, at 10 p. m. Passengers for Nashville, Corintli, Grand Junc tion. Memphis, Louisville, and St. I.oui«, can take either train and make close connections. TuKOi Oli TK'Kt-srs and baggage cheeked through to the above places. Sleeping ears on all night, pas senger trains. MACON Sc AUGUSTA RAILROAD. E. W. COI.E, Gen'l Sup’t, Leave Cnmak daily at 13.40 r. M.; arrive at Mill edge villi; at 4.30 k m.: leave Milledgcvillc at 0.45 a.m.; arrive at Carnal, at 10.15 A. M. Passengers leaving anv point on the Georgia K. R |,v Day Passenger train, w ill make close coniiee ti«,n : it Cnmak for Mille.dgeville, Eatonton, and all intermediate points on the Macon Augusta road, i and for M.i-on. P; >“engcrs leaving Milledgeville j at 6.45 A. xr , reach Atlanta and Augusta the same day. SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD IT T. Peake. General Sup’t. Special mail train, going North, leaves Augusta at ft.ss’ am, arrives at Kingsville at 11.15 am; leaves Kina-sville at. 13.05 p in. arrives at Augusta at 7do p. in. This train ts designed especially for through travel. The train for Charleston leaves Augusta at 0 am, and arrives at Charleston atS.O ]i m ; leaves Charles ton at S am, and arrives at Augusta at 5 p m. Night special freight and express train leaves Au gusta (Sundays ,-xcegted) at 8.50 P lit. and arrives at Charleston at 4.30 a m ; leaves Charleston at 7.:50 p m, and arrives (it Augusta at 6.45 a m. WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R. Cut,. E. Hr i.KETrr. General Superintendent. Daily passenger train, except Sunday, leaves At lanta at 3.15 a in, and arrives at Chattanooga at -1.1.' p m ; leaves Chattanooga at 4.-10 a in, and arrives at Atlanta at 2 p m. . _ Night express passenger train leaves Atlanta at 6.45 p ul, and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.10 a m ; leaves Chattanooga at. 5.50 p m, an 1 arrives at Atlanta at 3.35 a m. MACON * WESTERN RAILROAD. F,. P>. AVai.ker, Gen’l Sup’t. Day passenger train leaves Macon at 7.45 a in, and arrives at Atlanta at 2 p m ; leave* Atlanta at 6.15 a.it. mid arrives at, Macon at 1.30 pm. Night passenger train leaves Atlanta at 6.10 p m, and arrives at Macon at 4.25 a til; leaves Macon at 8.30 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at 4.30 a m. Hotels. RLANTER3 HOTEL. JOt-STA. GEORGIA. mTEWLY furnished and refitted, unsurpassed hy lA anv Hotel South, is now open to the Public. T. 8. NICKERSON, Prop’r. hate of Mills House, Charleston, and Proprietor of Nickerson’s Hotel, Columbia, S. 0. United States Hotel. ATI. A ST A GEORGIA WIIITAKER ,fc BASSEF.N, Proprietors. Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passon ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets, A M E n I C AN HOTEL, Alabama street, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Nearest house to the Passenger Depot. WHITE * WHITLOCK, Pit /etors. W. D. Wiley, Clerk. Having re-leased and renovated ie above Hotel, we are prepared to entertain nests in a most satisfactory manner. Chare j fair and moderate. Our efforts will be to .case. Baggage carried to and from Depot ree of charge lilE BE DV C E D AUGUSTA HOTEL. THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL is situated at Broad Street, Central to the business por tion of the City, asd convenient to the Tele graph and Express Offices. The HoUi-o is large and commodious, and has been r. novated and newly painted from garret to Cellar, and the bedding nearly nil ne-.v since the war. The rooms are large and airy ; clean beds, and the hire a* good as tho country affords, and atten tive and polite servants. Charges. —Two Dollars per day. Single Meals 75 Cents. I I ope to moiit a liberal share of pt ronago fiom the traveling public. (sive me a trial and judge for yourselves S. 11. JONES, l’rop'r. wwi. N. GOODRICH , | SASH, BLINDS, ASJD DOORS, On hand, and made to Order. I AugusU*, dtjbui oria.s COVINGTON, GA., JAN. 15, ISG9. Over nttd Over Again. I Over ami over again, No matter which way I turn, I always find in the Dank us Life N mie lessons I have to leurti. I must lake my hum at tlio mill, I must grind out the- golden grain, 1 l must work at my task with n resolute will, Over and over again. We cannot measure ti c need Os oven the tiniest flower, Nor check the flow (if the golden sands, That runs t: r ugh the single hour. But the morning dews must fail And the sun and the summer min Must do their part and perform it nil Over and over again. Over an 1 over again, ’1 lie brook through the tueilov flows. And over at;d over again Tho ponderous mill wheel goes. One doing will not suffice, Though doing be not in vain, And a blessing, failing u» onco or twive, May come if we try again. The path that has once been trod I- never so rough to the feet; And the lessons we once have learned Is never so hard to repeat. I hough sorrow ful tears may fall, And the heart to its depth be driven With storm and tempest; we need them all To render us meet for Heaven. I’oliteness in Business. There is a good deal of sound philosophy in the billowing which we extract from the col umn of ‘‘Wall Nuts” iri the Christian Register : “IVhut a pleasant thing it is to deal with pleasant men 1 llow much a tone helps a trade, reconciles you to a price, and sends you off w ith n nearer feeling of an equivalent for your outlay. A smile and a ‘thank you’ go a great way, and when they are so cheap, cost so little, and go so far, one wonders that they are so dear, and that so little us minor courtesies en ter into the intercourse utid interests of men. it is a very pleasant thing to go out of a store with the sonso of a favor conferred. Indeed one stands a little pretty evident cheating with a placid complacency, only the cheater adds the suavity of manner and of tone to his art. And what ail art that is which makes you buy when you had determined r.ot to, and recon ciles you to a [nice you know to Ire not only ulsiininablc, but one you ought not to pay ! Is there a harder tiling to face than that very insidious store-phrase, ‘ls there anything else to day ?' Only let a man get the right tone ami mnnnet, and You have more moral courage than most people if you don’t begin to be rather, ashamed of the smallness of your order or yi nr purchase, hi..!: about and remember that there is something else, and so run up your Li 11 or deplete your p-xi-et Isa h from want of cou-uge to meet a stereotyped business pbrase—the moral hi try of which your t >rmentor perfectly understand*. llow mean a man feels when, walking home, he realizes the little trick of trade to which he has suc cumbed !” DuntocD.Uc CowarJice. Now that Grant is elected President, (says the N. Y. Democrat.) it is humiliating to know that here and there in all parts of the country are men who have professed to be Democrats, plotting umJt planning for place or position under him in any capacity. They wish to be pa,s!masters, clerks, agents, c.-usuls, collectors, anything to hold some office. Ami they say they were original Grant men, or they did nothing to make Democratic votes, or they in fluenced Democrats to stay from the polls, or to voie for Grant. •‘The Democrat who would apply for office under Grant, or during his administration, deserves twenty months in pillory, and a hun dred lashes a month. We are disgusted with such political dend-bcats. Grant is to be Pres ident. lie has a little job on band. Let him succeed if be can—let him try; and when be gives up, as ha will, cut loose from the des'ruc tionists, openly proclaim himself a Democrat and fall back to constitutional Democratic prin. ciples- theu will bo time enough fur Democrat# to offer their services. If Grant appoints Democrats to office, ho deserves hanging in effigy by tho Republicans who elected him.” Knocking away Drops. “See father,” said a lad, who was walking with his father, “they are knocking away the props from under the bridge. What are they doing that for ? iVon’t the bridge fall?” “They aro knocking them away,” said the father, “that the timbers may rest more firmly upon the stone piers, which are now finished.” God often takes away our earthly props, that we may rest more firmly upon him. God some' times takes away a man’s health, that he may rest upon him for his daily bread. Bcforo his health failed, though, he perhaps, repeated daily the words, “Give us this day our daily bread :” he looked to his industry for that which he asked of God. That prop being taken away, he rests wholly upon God’s bounty. When ho receives hig bread, he receives it as a gift of God. God takes away our friends, that we may look to him for sympathy. Wheu our affec tions were exercised upon objects around us, when we rejoiced in their abundant sympathy, we did not feel the need of Divine sympathy. Rut when they were taken away, we felt our need of God’s sympathy and svpport. We are brought to reulize that he alone could give support, and prove an adequate protection for the soul. Thus are our earthly prop# removed that wo may rest firmly and wholly upon God. Why is a weathercock liken loafer? Be cause he is always going round, doing nothing. Small vs. Large Fftrius. Yy e have seen tho annexed anecdote of Iiako «el! more than onco, and possibly it may not be new to many of our readers, but it is so applicable to many of our Southern friends, that yve republish it at the risk of it# being thought somewhat stale. Robert Bakewoll, the celebrated EngLth used to tell the fol lowing nncodoto of a farmer in Leicestershire: “This farmer, who owned and occupied 1,000 acres of land, hud three daughters. When his eldest daughter married lie gave her one quar ter of hi* land for her portion, but no money : and bo found by a little in ire speed, and a lit tle Letter management, the product of his farm did not decrease. lie then act to work, and liegati to grub? up his fu>za and fern, and ploughed up what he called Ids poor dry lurze, cm> ng in some placer nearly half the land. After giving half bis land away to two of his dittigb ers, to lib great su p;i-e be found that the ptvduet inerca-cd : be nmde m >ro money, because his new, broken up furze land brought excessive ciups, uc.d at the same time lie farm ed the whole of Ids land better, for he employ ed more laborers upon it; be roso two hours sooner in tho morning, had no more dead fal lows once in three year# ; instead of which he got two green crops in one year, and ate them upon the land. When the third and last daughter married, be gave her 250 acres, or half of what remained, for her portion, and no money. lie then found that ho had the same money to farm one quarter us the land that be had at first to farm the whole.” — Rye unit Sandy Soil* Rye seem# to bo the only grain which im pvores in quality by being grown on sandy soil. If grow non strong soil the product, per acre, will be much greater than on a thin sandy one, but the quality for bread-making purposes, will be much inferior to tho other, AVe have seen bread made of flour from rye, grown on sandy soils in New England, which would compare favorably, in appearance, with that made from the flour of good wheat. Such bread is not bad to take, while it is reputed to be more healthful than the wheeten articlo.— There are many acres of sandy land in all the States given over to mullens and sorrel, which, if sown to rye, would return from seven to ten bushels to the acre with very little cost. Rye will grow where nothing edible but the run ning blackberry will, and though the yield be small, the quality is good, and the cost of pro duction comparatively light.——[Rural New- Yorker. Wouldn’t .Marry A Mechanic. A young man commenced visiting a young woman, and appeared to be well pleased. One evening be called when it was quite late, which led the young lady to inquire where be had been. “I had to work tonight.” ‘What! do yon work f>r a living?’ she in quired, with astonishment. Certainly, replied (he young man, I am a mechanic. I dislike the name of a mechanic, and she turned up her nose. That was the 1.-st time be visited that young lady. He is now a wealthy man and ha# one of the best women in the country for his wife. The lady who disliked the name of a me chanic is now the wife of a miserable fool—a regular vagrant about grog shops, and the soft verdant silly, miserable girl is obliged to take in washing iu order to support herself and her children. You dislike the name |of a mechanic, eh! Yon whose brothers are but well dressed loaf ers. We pity the girl wito has so little brains, who is so verdant, so soft as to think loss of a young man for being a mechanic—one of God's noblemen—tho most honorable and dig nified personage of heaven's creatures. Beware, young ladies how you treat young men who work for a living, for you may ono day be menial to one of them yourself. Far better to discharge the well-fed pauper with all his rings, jewelry, brazouncss and pomposity, and take to your affection# the callous handed, intelligent and industrious mechanic. Thousands have bitterly regretted their folly who have turned their backs to honesty. A few years have taught a severe lesson. John C. Slreckearidge. John C. Breckenridgo is nut rich. lie i« poor ; but is not a seeker of office. It is quite possible that he might have returned-home any time during the last eighteen months without much risk. He was urged to do so by many ; and on one occasion, at Paris, in the autumn of 1865, th# Governorship of Ken tucky happened to be suggested, when he said, “I would not accept any office within tho gift of the people, if I could get one. I could not hold ono outside of Kentucky; but if I could be returned to my old place ia the Senate, and should bo permitted by Congress to take my #eat, I would not consent to go back to Wosbiugton, I am growing ill years, and have been losing in fortune. My family is increas ing—l need money, and look to my profession, not, only as the surest, but as the most suita ble and available and agreeable means of pro viding it.” Iti speaking thus we doubt not ho wassineem. His enemies will give him credit for a keen, discriminating judgment, lor the strictest personal integrity, and for remarkable prudence.—[Lou. Cotir Jour. Baron Bramwell, in a trial at Leeds, Eng., instructed the jury to give moderate damage, for a ease of breach of promise of marriage.— He said it was a mo«t mischievous thing “to frighten a man into marrying a woman he did not like by heavy damages. It was much bet ter for the girl that he should find out his dis like before than after.” SetniLble Judge that. Disagreeable Women. t A disagreeable woman is iike a vacuum ; | there is no place for her in nature, Sbo is a j parody upon herself. If there is n touch of bounty ebo'ut her, she gives tlio so she meets the sort of shock ono would feel on ta king whnt one would call wine, and it is really vinsgnr. Fortunately r.he Very seldom is beau tiful, in the true sense of the word. Nature does not lend itself to shams. It is pitilessly exacting. iJwecUK's of face must result from i eweetness of disposition. The face is not tv nm-k, but a mirror. It reveals everything with terribh) ingenuousness. Amiability is j not to be simulated to the observant eye. You ! cannot stamp the marks, the lines, the flowing curves of the agreeable on your face, unless you have the quality iu your breast. For this reason the disagreeable woman is never really beautiful. Her features at their best, remind you of etchings ; the effect* have been 'bit in' by acids. The form# of the disagreeable in woman tire infinite, tmt the effect of all is tho same. In place of atlractiou there is repul sion ; in place of happiness, sour discontent. The disagreeable woman is irksomo to every created thing, including herself. There is positively only oneway to deal witlj her— turn her into a joke. In that wny she may be made tolerable, like tho Frenchman’s slippers, —useless as slippers, but just available as the basis of a ragout. Au Houest Man’s Opinions. A gentleman who knows his business, says the N. Y. Democrat, and who writes impar tially, writes from Washington on business, and sdd#: Grant is here, as you know. There is one queer thing about this over-estimated man that indicates one of two things—his total in dependence or his complete subjection to bis party, 110 i# pursuing a course now in these visitations that seems l o express his total dis regard of show and party exhibition and dril ling, n desire to keep aloof from entangling pledg •# and expressions, or he is following cut a project of Lis leaders, v.-ho would not have him exposed to the expression of an an nouncement of their future purposes, and by that means alarm the country of its prospec tive danger. Though as far as the country is ocnctrncd it is dead, without bravery, without the possibility of a political restoration ; and have you not been surprised at the fact that while the opposition to the Radicals is larger in numbers, still they submit to the rule of the minority, knowing that so many States are un represented in the electoral college, and yet debased enough to yield the rights of those States into the hands of a weaker party, and that weaker party held to be the direct plot ters of ruin and military despotism ? One line in Grant's report, published two days ago, expresses ' his theory of administration.— “Troops are still needed in the Southern States.” That’s the text of his administra tion, and in one phrase announces the degra dation of that section and perpetual subjuga tion. War alone will save the people—not foreign, but a civil war—in which such men ns Grant, Colfax, Butler, Greeley, Stun ton. Seward, and devils of that stamp will be de livered over to the last quiver of a distended rope. rounder In ilofscs. A certain cure for founder in a horse, some think, is to stand him in water up to his belly. I have known it practiced for fifty years; and swathing the legs in hot water, vinegar and sugar of lead, are all good to som* extent; but a founder must bo relieved suddenly, or the horse will show stiffness in his action and liuve deformed and callous, tender hoofs. Water applied to the legs I do not consider a positive cure ; the disease must be attacked at the root, by bleeding and purging ; a few drops of blood taken from below the fetlocks will hasten his recovery. But the most cer tain and quick remedy that I have ever known is a green gourd. Take a large green gourd, cut it up ; put it into a gallon of water, and boil it <Lwn to a quart. Strain tho liquid and drench—in twenty-four hours tho horse will be perfectly himself. In 1822, I traded for two fine young mares iu Augusta, Ga. I rode one of them to Kentucky, and my servant the other. Early one morning, at the crossing of Clinch river, we found one cf the mares so badly foundered that she could not be led out of the stable. I procured a green gourd and drenched her as directed above, and directed the servant to remain until she was able to travel, expecting that he would roach home , three or four days after me ; lie came nextday with the mare in as good plight as if nothing had happened.—Cor. Rural IVorld. For many years tho French Government haTB held out a large reward to any one who would discover and communicate a satisfactory test, other than thut of actual decomposition, by which death may be infallibly indicafed. The following method, recently given to the French Government will probably take the prize: Hold a lighted candle to any portion of the body ; a blister will soon rise. If on pr.neturo it gives out a fluid substanco, death has not taken place, if it emits air oaly it is perfectly certain that life has become entirely extinct —— «>> ■ DEtTtTUTioN ik New Y'ork. —It is estimated that no less than two hundred thousand poisons aro now residing in New York city who have no work, no real homes, and no means which insure them a livelihood. Some of them beg or steal outright; but a large number eke out a miserable existence by running into debt for lodging and board, or hy borrowing from week to week of whomsoever will lend them, or by quartering themselves on reluctant relatives or friends. The result is reported to he an aggre gate of want, squalor, misery and degradation fearful to contemplate YOL. 4, m 9 Hints* Tho way to live happy, is to mind your own business anu let others mind theirs. Will tho old scandal mongators profit by this? or do they want moic ; if they do we will give theirt some more. Plant tansy around the roots of peach trees. The peach worm will not tronble them after ward. To kcop negroes from stealing lock them up. In all your associations, keep constantly in view the adage, “too much freedom breeds contempt.” Will the fellow that borrowed our umbrella make a note of this ? The essential ;>nrt of good breeding is the practical derive to afford pleasure, and to avoid giving pain. Ar,y man possessing this desire requires only opportunity and observation to make him a gentleman. Peanut mnnehers at a theatre of course arc excepted, under the general rule of classifications. Never introduce vr.ut- own affairs for tho amusement of a company, it shows a sad want of mental cultivation, or excessive weakness of intellect; rooollect also, that such a discus sion cannot be interesting to others, and that the probability is that tha most patient listen er i# a complete gossip, laying tho foundation for some tale to make you appear ridiculous. This hint is particularly applicable to office loafers. To Make Cows Give Jf ilk. A writer, who says his cow giveti all the milk that is wanted in his family of eight persons, and from which was made two hun dred and sixty pounds of butter this last year, give# tho following as hi# treatment: “If you desire to get a yield of rich milk give your cow, three times a day, water slight ly warm, slightly salted, in which bran lu.s been stirred, at the rate of one quart to two gallons of water. You will find, if you have not tried this daily practice, that your cow will give twenty-five per cent, more milk im mediately under the effect of it, and she will become so attached to the diet as to refuse to drink clear water unless very thirsty; but this mess she will drink almost any time, and ask for more. The amount of this drink necessa ry is an ordinary water pail full each morn ing, noon and night. Four hundred pounds of butter aro often obtained from good stock, and instances aro mentioned where tho yield was even at a higher figure. Cak Such Tnixos Be? —Strange reports reach us from Tallapoosa county, to the effect that a man named Lightfoot, who ha* been in a trance for thirty days, has awakened with the power to cure every manner of disease by simply touching the nffliotsd person with his hands. He has already worked several mirac ulous cures, and his house is thronged daily with applicants for relief from the ills that flesh is heir to. Report says that hundreds, perhap* thousands, are camped round his house waiting their time to come, and the crowd has been so largo that numbers have been eompolled to return to their homes without seoing the great physician. Hitherto he has positively refused to receive any compensation for his services, but we understand that his family are now re ceiving donations from those whom ho has cured.—[Chambers (Ala.,) Tribune. The Boston Journal has found the following about its ancestors in an old book printed in the year 1099: “The inhabitants seem very religious, show ing many outward and visible signs of an in ward and spiritual grace. But, though they wear in their faces the innocence of doves, you will find them in their dealings as subtle ns serpents. Interest is their faith, money their god, and largo possessions the only heav en they covet.” Scarcity of Coin. —Utah likes filthy lucre, but is fond of amusements. A magician late ly received domestic goods enough, as admis sion fees to hie entertainment, to set up a re spectable variety store. He refused a wheel barrow full of bricks for a ticket, not inten ding to build an opera house there. A polite young lady recently asserted that she had lived near a barn-yard, and that it was impossible for her to sleep in the mor ning on account of the outcry made by s gentleman hen. Do not think of knocking out nnother per son’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock your self on the head because you differ from your self ten years ago. An ardent youth in Chicago was poisoned the other day by the cosmetic bloom which his lips absorbed from the cheek of his sweet heart. A method ot sewing boots and shoes with oopper wire instead of the common thread has been patented, the advantage being that at a very small increase in expense the strength and durability of the work are much improved. Young surgeons should not grumble be cause they find it difficult to get into prac tice. They will be certain to succeed if they only have patients. Vermont, it is claimed, will first grant wo men suffrago.— -Ex. Vermont is the first State that burnt a wo man fur witchcraft. She leads in all great questions, —[N. Y. Dem. A man turned his son out of doors, lately, because he wouldn't pay him house rent —a striking proof of pay-rental affection. Can a watch be said to be perfeotly dry when it has a running spring insido?