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2 OO PER ANNUM
M ORRIS,
.ttorneyat X*zx w,
tOA coNVKItS, GA.
f jTnTes m- l vY ’
(atc hmaker & Jeweler,
ratC Fa»Uide of the Square,
r ' GEORGIA,
,YIEOfO», re( i to Repair Watches, Clocks
he .‘® ’inthebeststyle. Particular fttten
ilJ«'» elr > “oairinu Watches injured by in
■gff "All work warranted.
TJsiTiTYTTT n s L E Y
f,® reparod to Repair Watches, Clock,
S‘l *lv i“ the best Style, at short nonce.
* JeW . at Old Prices, and W avrnnted.
W 2(l i below the Court Ho«se.-stf
u T I-'iS T ,
B* COVl>'°rON, GEORGIA.
. HAS REDUCED HIS PRICES, so
' [ all W l,„ have been so unfertile
Hate ns to lose their natural Teeth
gnnplied by Art, at very
S> h» ve lh Filled at reasonable* prices,
WorkVaithfoMy executed, Office north side
Bflqusre.— l 22 ' f _
|.nc DEARINC & PJISNCLE
■ associated themselves in the Prne-
AV U MEDICINR and SURGERY , offer
l ' Ce fpssionnl services to the citizens of
#r professional fc , dnn offi e on
m w t„ n county i > iare> ’ (next door to S-
Bj Mt . store,) and ft,e Prepared to attend to
fcita promptly- They have also a carefully
B'-ted assortment of the
lerv Best Medicines,
Bf m (rive their personal attention to Com-
Xnlilg PrescripUons, for Physician, and
Becial attention given to Chronic Diseases
R j-ur Dr. Deabino will be found at his
S otul Dr Pringle at his rooms imme
|So e ;er"lie Store of C. H. Sanoeks & Bao.
2 y 15, 25tf
B JOHN s! CARROLL,
% E NT I S T
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
Filled, or Hew Teeth Inserted,l
K^ lh « best Style, and on Reasonable Terms
I les Rear of B. King’s Store.—l _____
A X would respectfully inform the
i citiwna of Newton, and adjoining
counties, that 1 have opened a
Ipir SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP
I ninth side poblie square in COVING ION,
1 i«re 1«m prepared to make * o order, llarness-
I Idles, Ac , or Repair the same at short notice
B din the best stylo. r. DROWN
\\ OESSON & HUNTER
I • ”
Ars constantly reeeiving
|resh and Seasonable Good^l
J All of which they propose to sell at tlic
Bowest cash ea.cES,
M« al, n closing out several lines of Goods
I -At and Below Cost! —
AGENTS FOR
;■! iTicaltural Implements,
Clover and Draw Seeds,
0 And sever*! of the best
I rUDARD FERTILIZERS
1 i. 14, —4«tf
I CEO. J. HOWARD,
OCER AND COMMISSION MERChANT
Marietta street,
ania, Georgia.
ers for ail descriptions of Groceries fil ed
owest Market Frieda
lonsignme;it3 of Country Produce solicited
f“"ill make returns promptly.—lsmSO
* S IT4rs ;%
• M A N U F A C TjU R E
•Pe r i o’r GJo t t!o n Y a!r]n s,
No. oto 12. 4 Doz, No. 400 to 700.
A T T REBBESS
All sizes and qualities to suit orders.
1 a t t in s ,
I Os Waste or Good Cotton.
OOL CARDIN C.
Th« quality of tliejltolls unsurpassed.
b 0 U R and MEAL
HE GRIST MILL cannot be surpassed in
tha quality, nor the quantity of MEAL or
H-R turned. A supply es Meal or Flour
Stantly on hand. Flour of all grades to suit
a »te and price.
lnc y, Double Extra, Extra Family, Fanvly,
e rfine, and Fine. Graham Flour and Grits
Mer. SHORTS and BRAN, for Stock Feed,
kept, The patronage of the public is re
itfully asked. Satisfaction guaranteed.
■ -A splendid stock of •’
y Goods and Groceries
1 . for sale Cheap for Cash or barter
, * of Country Produce.
E! STEADMAN, Prop’r.
Newton Cos., Qa., Feb. 19, 1869.-13
1 • C. & j. F. KISER,'
1 J Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
. I flu and Fancy Dry Goods, Yankee No
tions, Hoots and Shoes, Hats,'
Ia Caps, and Straw Goods,
II 1 A D Y MADE CLOTII IN G
j'j (Uld stand of Tal'ey, Brown, & C 0.,)
, Whitehall street, Atlanta, Ga.
IM. IOLLM AN, Itea'er in Watches, Clocks,
ine .lew*lry, Gold Fens, Spectacles, &c.,
'. n I B 'reet.. second door above M. I.vnohs
stnre ’ At, iuita. Ga; Repairing dope
00 1 st\l e and warrranted.—s. 1.
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
DR . 6V S . PROPHITT,
Covington Georgia.
Will still oontinue his business, where he intend
keeping on hand a good supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs,
Together with a I.ot of
Botanic Medicines,
Cl centrated Preparations, Fluid Extracts, Ac.
He is also putting up his
I,ivor Mod.icines,
FEMALE TONIC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL IT
Vermifuge, Anti-Bilious I’ills,
and many other proparatii
1^”Will give prompt attention to all orders
PARTICULAR NOTICE.
Hereafter NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELIV
ERED. or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
tro A S EC !*««
You nee not call unless you are prepared to
PAY’ CASH, for I will not Keep Books.
Oct. 11, 1867. O- 8 - PRO PH ITT-
Rail Road Schedules,
Georgia Railroad.
E. W. COLE, General Superintendent.
Day Passenger Train (Sundays excepted,)leaves
Augusta at 7 a in; leave Atlanta at 5 » m ! a ’
rive at Augusta at 3.45 p m ; arrive at Atlanta at 6.30
P Night Passenger Train leaves Augusta at 10
n.m ; leaves Atlanta at 5.40 p m ; arrives at Augusta
at 00 a Tii ■ arriveft at Atlanta fit <.45 am.
' Passengers for Mvlledgcville, Washington and
Athens Ga., must take the 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
Night Passenger Train, at 10 p. m.
Passengers for Nashville, Corinth, Grand .Tune
tioii, Memphis, Louisville, and St. Lonis, can take
either train and make close connections.
Through Tickets and baggage checked through
to the atiow places. Sleeping cars on all night pas
senger trains.
MACON l% AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
E. W. COLE, Gen’l Sup’t.
Leave Carnak daily at 12.40 P. M.; amve at Milledge
ville at 4.20 P. M.: leave Mtlledgeville at 6.A5a.m.,
arrive at Camak at 10.15 a.m. R
Passengers leaving any point on the Georgia n.
R bv Dav Passenger train, will make close eonnci -
lion at Camak for Milledgevillc, Eatonton and a 1
intermediate points on the Macon & Augusta road
and for Macon. Passengers leaving Milledgeville
'at 6.45 a. m., reach Atlanta and Augusta the same
day.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
11. T. Peake, General Sup’t.
Special mail train, going North, leaves Augustaat
3.55 am, arrives at Kingsville M 11.15 am ;
Kingsville at 12.05 pm, arrives at Augusta at <.-»>
p. in. Tills train is designed especially for through
' The train for Charleston leaves Augusta at 6 am,
and arrives at Charleston at 3.9 p m ; leaves Charles
ton at S a in, and arrives at Augusta at 5 pm.
Night special freight and express train leaves Au
gusta (Sundays excepted) at 3.50 pm, "rrßwi at
Charleston at 4.30 a m ; leaves Charleston at 7.W p
m, and arrives at Augusta at 6.45 a m.
WESTERN <fc ATLANTIC R. R-
Col. E. IItn.RERT, General Superintendent.
Dallv passenger train, except Sunday, leaves At
lanta at 3.15 am, and arrives at Chattanooga at 4.45
pm ; leaves Chattanooga at 4.40 am, and arrives at
train l™Atlanta atA45
p in, and arrives at Chattanooga at, 4AO a m leates
Chattanooga at 5.50 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at
3.35 am.
MACON & WESTERN RAILROAD.
E. B. YValker, Gen’l Sup’t.
Dav passenger train leaves Macon at 7.45 a nn.and
arrives at Atlanta at 2pm; leaws Atlanta at 8.1-»
a.-n, and arrives at Macon at L3O pm. in
Night passenger train leaves Atlanta at 8.10 p m,
and arrives at Macon at 425 am ; leaves Macon at
8.30 p m, and arrives at Atlanta at 4.00 a m.
Hotels.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER & BABBEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of Uie General. Passen
ger Depot, corner Alabama and 1 rioi streets,
A fV? E 3 I C AH HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Pro letors.
W. D. YViley, Clerk.
Having re-leased and renovated ie above
Hole! we are prepared to entertaiD uests in a
most ’satisfactory manner. Charg i fair and
moderate. Our efforts will be to .ease.
Baggage carried to and from Depot ree of charge
YA RE REDUCED!
AUGUSTA IHOTEL
THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL is situated on
Broad Street, Central to the business por
tion of the City, and convenient to the Tele
graph and Express Offices. The House is large
and commodious, and has been renovated and
newly painted from garret to cellar, and the
bedding nearlv 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.
Chaboks.—Two Dollars per day.
Single Meals 75 Cents.
I tope to merit a liberal share of patronage
from the traveling public.
Give me a trial and judge for yourselves
S. M. JONES, Propr.
PAVILION hotel.
Cl ar’eston, S. C,
BOARD PER DAT, »3.
A BrrrKßFtKLn. Mrs 11. L. BnrrKßFiK,
Supeiir. ten dent Fropnttr.
WM. H. GOODRICH ,
SASH, BUHDS, AMD DOORS,
On hand, and made to Order.
Augusta 3t6:n G.orgia
COVINGTON GA., MARCH 26, 1569.
The Sweetest Word.
Ono struct word ot holy meaning
Cometh to mo o’er and o’er,
And the echoes of its music
Linger ever—evermore ;
■ Trust—no other word \vc utter
Can so sweet and yireeious be,
Turning all life’s jarring discords
Into heavenly harmony.
Clouds of thickest blackness gathered
O’er my soul’s dark sen of sin,
And the port of heaven was guarded
From my guilty entering in ;
Then entile Jesus, walking to mo,
O'er the surging waves of sin,
Calling, clear above the tempest,
‘lie that trusteth, heaven shall win 1’
Now through all the sacred pages,
YVhere my woe and doom had been,
Glean these golden words of promise
“He that trusteth, heaven shall win!”
Blessed, suio, and blood bought protni>o
Let Ine drink its sweetness in—
He that trusts his soul in Jesua,
“lie that truateth, heaven shall win 1”
Trust—oh, Saviour, givo its fullness
To mo at thy feet in prayer,
Grant my dying lips to breath* it—
Leave its lingering sweetness there :
Sweetness ther*. to stay the breaking
Os the hearts that love me so,
YVhispering from my silent coffin,
“Trust the hand which lays mo low.”
Loved ones, ns yc rear the tnarldo
Pure above my waiting duet,
Grave no other word upon it
But th« holiest, sweetest—Trust;
For this password know the angels,
Guarding o’er the pearly door,
Password to his blessed presence,
Whom I tiust forevermore.
God Knows.
Tho secrets of the guilty heart,
Far hidden from the sight of those
Who, knowing them, would shrink and start,
God knows 1
However hid by saint-like face,
The current of the life that fl >ws
Aw«v from Heaven, away from graco,
God knows 1
The ills of lifs—its sad distress,
Its many secrets, unknown woes,
Its wrongs that soeui without redress—
God knows 1
The acts which banish peace and rest,
Though hidden both from friends and foes,
Though buried in a silent breast,
God knows 1
The dark deceit, the subtle smile,
The slander, dealing hidden blows,
The malice cloaked beneath a smile,
God knows 1
God knows ! Aod in his own good time
AVill atrip from men their whitened clothes
And crush in shnme ihc sons of crime :
The masks will fall, the truth he known,
And honest men stand forth alone,
God knows'
—
The Man on Horseback in Sight.
A Washington letter says: “The order of
General Sherman, designating his staff, creates
considerable e minent, not only in army, but
also in other circles hero. For the first timo in
Hie history of this Government, the military
commander of the army has taken the heads of
several bureaus of the YVar Department, and
made them members of his general staff.—
Heretofore, the adjutant general, inspector
general, quartermaster general, etc., have
been under the direct orders of the Secretary
of YVar, and tho genet al commanding the
armies has had hi* own separate and distinct
general staff. But General Sherman has placed
them under his own complete control, and thus
made a perfect military consolidation, for all
orders to the quartermaster general, adjutant
c-eneral or other head of a War Department
bureau, must pass through the General of the
army, and the Secretary ©f YVar is thus left
with but little power, control or authority. In
fact he is a more figure head—an official with
a title, and not much else. The fact, too, that
Get>eral Sherman has located hishoad quarters
in the YVar Department, excites some comment.”
Time as a Preserver.
Air slaked lime has been frequently recom
mended as a preserver for vegetables when
stored in cellars or pits. Recently we heard
a gentleman state that ho was in the habit of
sprinkling it among his apples in barrels and
bins, and he thought delicate fall varieties
could thus be kapt much beyond their season.
The lime dust could be easily removed from
the apples by using a cloth or brush, and it
imparted no flavor to the fruit. The use of
lime in the cellar, as a preservative agent is a
good idea. It acts by absorbing moisture, and
if one individual in the mass decays, the lime
arrests the spt ead of the disease to others. It is
well to hint to our readers that cellars should
be overhauled at this season, and all decaying
matter removed ; the “sweating” stage with
stored vegetables is over, and specimens moat
prone to rot have developed disease. Sort
them out, sprinkle some lime on the remainder,
and purify your cellar from dangerous auxilia
ries of the disease.—[Rural Now Yorker.
Twenty one murders in ten days in Indiana,
and only ten arrested. For a State barren of
Ku Klux, filled with “trooly loil” people and
enjoying a Radical government, this exhibits a
most lamentable deaith of high moral ideas.
New England should send out its missionaries
immediately.
Change Apprehended.
The Washington correspondent of the Bat*
tiinore Gazette, says: The intimations from
this point of a contemplated change in tho
form of our Government are by no menus
sensational. They are tho effect of tho uni
versal apathy of the people under flagrant
usurpations of power. YVhen Cffl.sar crossed
the Rubicon, the people of Rome had already
become imbecile, luxurious and corrupt. The
form of Government ceased to be a question in
which they felt they had tho slightest concern.
The contest was narrowed down to an issue
purely between two rival militaty chieftains.
It is the deliberate opinion of thoughtful men
here, of both political parties, that we are
upon the eve of a fundamental political change.
The peojde of the United States aro at this
moment in a condition more favorable to the
ambitious views of a daring man than wore
the Romans when they differed only iu the
choice of a master —ranging themselves on the
side of Ciß:ar and Puinpey respectively.
Doubtless the present supinoness and docil
ity of the people is to be attributed mainly to
tho tremendous conflicts through which tho
country has passed. The mero idea of the
possibility of another is quite sufficient to
throw a vast majority of them into a paroxysm
of terror. It is also felt tlmt, with the popular
suffrage diluted as it now is, and will further
be. the right to vote is next to no right at all,
and that being tho only one left, its surrender,
together with the now unmeaning and expen
sive forms of a Republic, would boa sacrifice
amply compansated by the security to life and
personal liberty and property, toe assumed
fruits of kingly authority.
A master is therefore wanted! An npathetic
nation invites a yoke for its people to save
them from an imaginary danger I YVlio will
the King be? Undoubtedly Grant might,
without a blow, have assumed and maintained
regal power, Had he the nerve? Nol The
thing was unquestionably in his head, and
hence the original programme of his Cabinet
and his other appointments. But he cowered
at the first symptoms of revolt on the part of
a faction in the Senate who would have sur
rendered at discretion upon the summons of a
single Orderly Sergeany People, although
without courage, admire that virtue in leaders,
and are marvelously quick iu discivering tho
white feather. General Grant, by his surrender
to Wilson and Sumner in the appointments of
B -utwell to the Treasury and Motley to the
English mission, has forever broken the spell
that might have enthralled a great people.—
The substitution of Boutwell for Stewart is
the more astounding since the latter was a
declared free-trader, (and therefore acceptable
to the President's own section ) while the for
mer is an avowed protectionist, and generally
inimical to the interests of the YVest. Os the
appointment of Motley I hear no special com
plaint from any quarter. The reason is so
obvimis that it need not be referred to. In
other respects the new President has lost moral
power. The very small piece of malice dis
played in the removal of General R’air from
merely an honorary position, at so early a time
as to impart to the act character of mere spite,
is quite sufficient to show that the Prasidcnt
will prove harmless, except as the willing tool
of the Radical faction.
Church Stealing in Virginia.
The Y’irginia Radical Church Conference at
Alexandria adjourned a few days since. A
paper signed by Phelps and Mitchell says :
‘ • We have been denounced as house stealers
and robbers, hut this will not divert us from
our purpose, if possible, to possess them. Those
who contributed to build them gave their means
in good faith to provide places for the worship
of God. to he conducted under the authority of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and an at
tempt to divert the trust is, if successful, a
breach of the contract. We cannot consent
that this contract shall bo broken. YV e have
driven no one from thoso temples, and those
w ho have left voluntarily have no right to take
the property that according to all just princi
ples we are entitled to use. YYedoubt not that
when the season of passion shall have passed
away, reflecting and just men will accord our
claim to tho property that, under the plan of
separation, passed to tha Methodist Episcopal
Church South,”
[Tho whole claim is just this : The houses
were deeded to the “M. E. Church tho peo
ple in them joined tho M. K. Church South,
and Phelps would cheat them because of the
change of name.] —Macon lei.
YValter N. Haldeman, who i» a live nevrs
pajier man, full of energy and tact, has obtained
entire control of the English newspaper press
of Louisville. He first consolidated the Jour
nal with the Courier, and next bought the
Democrat. The latter is to bo publisbod as an
afternoon pnper, while the Courier-Journal has
the field as a morning paper. Thus wo have
one large city where one concern has a com
plete monopoly in the newspaper lino. No
new paper can be supplied with the Associated
Press dispatches without the consent of Mr.
Haldeman.
Tho counterfeit swindler* aro now located in
Illinois. They send a note to their victim,
inclosing a genuine twenty five cent piece of
postal currency as a “sample,” and offer to sell
the same at counterfeiter’s prices. The victim
tries it at a hank, and finds it a sure thing and
safe. He sends on $lO or S3O for four times
the amount in counterfeits. That is the last
he hears of the matter.
A smart thing—a mustard plaster. Tho
best drawing lesson—drawing a salary. llow
to manage old bachelors —Mismanage them.
High ma.seA —a bricklayer on a five story build
ing.
The States and the 14th Amendment.
The amendments to the bill enforcing the
Fourteenth Amendment, proTido for proceed
ing* by quo waTTQitlo, with precedence over all
cases on thedoekets of the United State* Courts.
The penalty is not more than ono yoar’s im
prisonment or a fine of one thousand dollars
and a perpetual disqualification from Federal
offices.
This is a bill which substantially abolishes
the Stato Governments for all practical purpo
ses of defense to the citizen. The first sec
tion of the Fourteenth Amendment reads os
follows :
“ All persons born or naturalized in the
United States, and subject to tho jurisdiction
thereof, are citizens of the Unitod Status, and
of the State wherein they reside. No State
shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of Citizens
of the United States, nor shall any State de
prive any person of life, liberty or property,
without due process of law, nor deny to any
person within its jurisdiction the equal pro*
tcction of the law.”
Section 3d reads, “No person shall boa
Senator or Representative in Congress, or
Elector of President or Vice-President, or hold
any office, civil or military, under tho United
States, or under any State, who, having pre
viously taken an oath as a moinborof Oongres*
or as an officer of the United States, or as a
member of the State Legislature, or as an ex
ecutive or judicial officer of any State, to sup
port the Constitution of the United States, shall
have engaged in insurrection or rebellion
against the same, or given aid or support to
tho enemies thereof. But Congress may, by n
vote of two-thirds of each House, remove *tlch
disability.”
Soction 4th enacts, “ Tho validity of the
puhlio debt of the United States, authorized by
law, including debts incurred for payment of
pensions and bounties for service* its snppress
ing insurrection or rebellion, shall not bo ques
tioned."
YVe will not undertake a construction of tb#
Fourteenth Amendment. It seems to have
been drawn so as to cover, if desired, almost
the whole range of questions at issue between
the States an<! Congress upon Ethiopian rights
and immunities—even this very question of
negro office holding—what are tho “ privileges
and immunities” of citizens of tho United
States? What would be considered an
abridgement? The amendment assumes to
declare who are citizens of the States, and who
may not he members of a State Legislature or
State officers. Does it not prohibit an abridge
ment of “ privileges and immunities” which
it inflicts upon one class in respect to all others ?
We think the amendment is so drawn as to
leave these questions to judicial construction
and interpretation.
Again : YVhat means this amendment by
declaring that the validity of the national debt
“ shall not be questioned ?” Does it prohibit
popular, or State, or judicial, or Congressional
question of the validity of the public debt? or
does it prohibit all questions ? Tlera, too, is
quite a wide realm for tho range of interpre
tation.
Now, the bill before Congress enforcing the
Fourteenth Amendment provides for the most
summary proceedings, in the United States
Courts, against all citizens of the States who
violate the Fourteenth Amendment. It super
cedes tho whole business of thoso courts until
violation* of this Fourteenth Amendment are
tried and punished by imprisonment or fine
and perpetual disqualification.
In view of the premises it seems to boa
needless business to say that, under this act of
Congress and the amendment together, the at
titude of tha citizen in respect to the Federal
Government is totally changod. The amend*
■luent* seems to be worded so as to create a class
of mere political offenses, which shall, if need
he, subject a citizen to summary punishment
for even wagging his tongue indiscreetly, and
the State Legislator for legislating in disre
spect to nr denial of any of tho standing dog
mas of tho Republican paaty so-called. The
most extreme construction of the Fourteenth
Amendment we have ailudod is the construc
tion given to it by Senator Sumner and his
followers, and henee ho proposed to reinstate
the negroes in the Georgia Legislature by act
to enforce the provisions of the Fourteenth
Amendment. The Amendment, we rapeat, is
couched in language so vague and general that
it will mean whatever it* friends determine to
make it mean.
Th* gigantic progress of the Federal Govern
ment in the destruction of the independence
of tho. States, and through it, of the liberties
of the people, must very speedily bring on a
grand crisis in America, in which the decisive
battle ot Republican liberty will be fought
and the question settled whether we are to
have any Constitutional securities at all, or the
last vestige of them is to bo swept away and
the Government is to sink into an absolutism
of whosoever holds it in posession.—[Macon
Telegraph.
1 a ♦
Tus Pardons Revoked by President Grant.
—The YVajhington correspondent of the Bal
timore Sun writes as follows:
It will be recollected that President Grant,
immediately upon his taking office as Presi
dent, dirocted that certain pardons issued by
President Johnson should be revoked, or
withheld from the persons intended to bo par
doned in ceitain cases in New York, Massa
chusetts and elsewhere. Attorney General
Iloar has had this subject under consideration,
and it is understood he decides that the revo
cation of the President will not stand in law ;
that the not of the Executive was complete
when ths warrant of pardon was placed in the
hands of tire United States Marshal or other
officer, and that if tho persons intended to bo
pardoned shall not be released, that, upon
Habeas Corpus, tho courts would release them.
VOL 4. NO. 19
A Rttnaway Husband.
At an early hour yesterday morning, a very
protty young lady, announcing herself a* re
cently from Springfield, LI., called oh tho
Chief of Police to make inquiries about her
husband, who she said was some sort of agci&
in this city, and was named Janies Flower.
ohe said he invariably inado a Southern tour
in the winter, and although she could nov*r
understand just exactly what his businosg
was, she was sure it was a profitable one, aa
he had suppliod her with money far exceeding
her modest requirements. Not having heard
from him for*severul months, she had b*com«
uneasy and had determined to seek him.
Her modest, lady-like demeanor, her exceed
ing prcttinwss, interested tho Chief—who ever
has an eye to female beauty—and he bsgged
to be given a description of her husband, that
he might ascertain if ho was still in the city.
Tha description was furnished, and in addition
a photograph of the party of whom she vu
in search. Imagino the surprißo of the Chief
and his officers when it was recognized as th*
picture of a well known thief. Surprise held
them spell-bound. It was evident the wife
knew hotiiing of her husband's oecupa/100
and to tell her was an offico that no one eared
to undertake. Tho man had been in tb«
Workhouse for several months, which accoun
ted for her not hearing from him. It was a
sad duty to porform, but the Chief felt that
she ought to know the truth, and as tenderly
a* he could the intelligence was imparted.
Her look of horror and the cry of bitter an*
gnish that came from her lips, attested how
little she had known of the truth. [N. O.
Picayune.
A Columbus, Mississippi, paper relate* that
a pompous old negro lately rodo up to th*
home of a citizen of that plac*, and asked th*
favor of a word at the gate, as he couldn’t well
leave his steed.
YVell, what is, it?” quoth the man of th 6
house.
“Mornin’ sah I I come to ax if you ow*d
enything to Moses Dunn, 'ceased. Pm d*
moderator oh de ’state now, and wishes to set*
tie up ali hi* 'fairs. I can find plenty folk*
dat he owe*, but its hard work to find any dat
owe* him.”
The gentleman didn’t owe anything.
A Valuable Discovery.
A process has been discovered for the pre
vention of the decay of wood. As the result
of a five years' experience, a paint is recom*
mended whieh at tha sam* time possesses
tho advantago of being impervious to water.
It is oomposed of fifty parts of tar, forty part*
of finely crushed chalk, five hundred parts of
fine white, hard sand, four parts of linseed oil,
one partof the red oxide of copper in its native
state, and finally, one part of sulphuric acid.
In order to manufacture tho paint from thi*
multiplicity of materials, the tar, chalk, sand,
and oil, are first heated in an iron kettle, th*
oxide and sulphuric are then added with a
groat deal of caution. The mass is very care*
fully mixed and applied while hot. YVhen
thoroughly dry, this paint is a* hard as a
stone.
‘
Y ain Man.— YY hilst thou art building cas
tles, the carpenter is building thy coffin.
YVhile deceitful illusions are gilding thy future
prospects, the painter i* leisurly putting the
varnieh upon the casket that is being fitted for
thy reception. YVhile thou art striving hard
to distinguish thyself among thy fellows, the
marble worker is fitting the slab that shall
mark thy gravo. YVhile you aro querying as
to the wherewithal you shall be clothed, mate
rials for your burial suit are upon the trades
man s shelf. You add field to field, and anx
iously reach out for more ; but go to the gravo
yard and stake out the lot which death shall
soon assign you. “ Then whose shall those
things be whith thou hast provided?"
The Wars Coming. Two wars are said to
be coming, for the reasons following:
1. A war with England, because, as is al
leged, she interfered in behalf of the Southern
rebels against tho United States.
2. A war with Spain, because the United
States are going to interfere in behalf of th*
Cuban rebel* against Spain.
The eauses of th© wars, you will observo,
are perfectly harmonious and consistent. The
object is to teacli the nations of the earth to
let each other’s concerns alone when the Uni
ted States wants them to do so, and to “ make
rebellion ojous.”—Macon Tel.
Fifty-nine democrats in the Indiana Legis
lature resigned the other day so as to prevent
a quorum, and thus stave off the ratification of
the fifteenth amendment to the Federal Consti
tution recently passed by Congress in favor of
universal suffrage in all the States. Good
Democrats, these.
The be«t thing to give to‘ your enemy is
forgiveness ; to your opponent, tolerance ; to
a frisnd your heart; to your child, a good ex
ample ; to a father, deference ; to your moth*
cr, conduct that will make hor proud of yoa }
to yourself, respect; to all reeti, charity.
Thirty-five years ago forty days were con-'
sumed in a journey from Philadelphia to Chi
cago—nine hundred miles ; but now we reach
the Pacific a distance from Philadelphia of
over three thousand miles, in a little more
than a week.
The New York Revolution exhorts the “girl*
to stand by each other and by the men who
stand by you.”
A Mobile editor was arrested by a negro
policeman and fined SSO the other day, for
showing a country editor tho practical work-*'
ing of the fire alarm telegraph by giving a false
alarm of fire.